Date,News
2016-07-01,"A 117-year-old woman in Mexico City finally received her birth certificate, and died a few hours later. Trinidad Alvarez Lira had waited years for proof that she had been born in 1898."
2016-07-01,IMF chief backs Athens as permanent Olympic host
2016-07-01,"The president of France says if Brexit won, so can Donald Trump"
2016-07-01,British Man Who Must Give Police 24 Hours' Notice of Sex Threatens Hunger Strike: The man is the subject of a sexual risk order despite having never been convicted of a crime.
2016-07-01,100+ Nobel laureates urge Greenpeace to stop opposing GMOs
2016-07-01,Brazil: Huge spike in number of police killings in Rio ahead of Olympics
2016-07-01,Austria's highest court annuls presidential election narrowly lost by right-wing candidate.
2016-07-01,"Facebook wins privacy case, can track any Belgian it wants: Doesn't matter if Internet users are logged into Facebook or not"
2016-07-01,"Switzerland denies Muslim girls citizenship after they refuse to swim with boys at school: The 12- and 14-year-old will no longer be considered for naturalised citizenship because they have not complied with the school curriculum, authorities in Basel said"
2016-07-01,"China kills millions of innocent meditators for their organs, report finds"
2016-07-01,"France Cracks Down on Factory Farms - A viral video campaign has moved the govt to act. In footage shared widely online, animals writhe in pain as they bleed to death or are dismembered, in violation of rules requiring they be rendered unconscious before slaughter."
2016-07-01,Abbas PLO Faction Calls Killer of 13-Year-Old American-Israeli Girl a Martyr
2016-07-01,Taiwanese warship accidentally fires missile towards China
2016-07-01,"Iran celebrates American Human Rights Week, mocks U.S. rights record"
2016-07-01,U.N. panel moves to curb bias against L.G.B.T. people despite fierce resistance from Muslim and African countries.
2016-07-01,"The United States has placed Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Sudan and Haiti on its list of worst human trafficking offenders."
2016-07-01,S&P revises European Union credit rating to 'AA' from 'AA+'
2016-07-01,India gets $1 billion loan from World Bank for solar mission
2016-07-01,U.S. sailors detained by Iran spoke too much under interrogation: Navy
2016-07-01,Mass fish kill in Vietnam solved as Taiwan steelmaker accepts responsibility for pollution
2016-07-01,"Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte urges people to kill drug addicts | Duterte, 71, won power in a landslide after a campaign dominated by threats to kill tens of thousands in a war on crime"
2016-07-01,Spain arrests three Pakistanis accused of promoting militancy
2016-07-01,"Venezuela, where anger over food shortages is still mounting, continued to be roiled this week by angry protests and break-ins of grocery stores and businesses that have left five dead, at least 30 injured and 200 arrested, according to various news reports."
2016-07-01,"A Hindu temple worker has been killed by three men on a motorcycle, local police have said. More than 40 people have been killed in attacks blamed on Islamist militants in Bangladesh since February 2013, including secular bloggers, academics, gay rights activists and members of religious minorities."
2016-07-01,"Ozone layer hole seems to be healing - US & UK team shows it's shrunk & may slowly recover. ""If you had to have an ozone hole anywhere in the world, it'd be Antarctica because its not teeming with life. It showed us if we didnt back off with these chemicals, wed have a crisis."""
2016-06-30,Jamaica proposes marijuana dispensers for tourists at airports following legalisation: The kiosks and desks would give people a license to purchase up to 2 ounces of the drug to use during their stay
2016-06-30,Stephen Hawking says pollution and 'stupidity' still biggest threats to mankind: we have certainly not become less greedy or less stupid in our treatment of the environment over the past decade
2016-06-30,Boris Johnson says he will not run for Tory party leadership
2016-06-30,Six gay men in Ivory Coast were abused and forced to flee their homes after they were pictured signing a condolence book for victims of the recent attack on a gay nightclub in Florida
2016-06-30,Switzerland denies citizenship to Muslim immigrant girls who refused to swim with boys: report
2016-06-30,Palestinian terrorist stabs israeli teen girl to death in her bedroom
2016-06-30,Puerto Rico will default on $1 billion of debt on Friday
2016-06-30,Republic of Ireland fans to be awarded medal for sportsmanship by Paris mayor.
2016-06-30,Afghan suicide bomber 'kills up to 40' - BBC News
2016-06-30,"US airstrikes kill at least 250 ISIS fighters in convoy outside Fallujah, official says"
2016-06-30,Turkish Cop Who Took Down Istanbul Gunman Hailed a Hero
2016-06-30,"Cannabis compounds could treat Alzheimer's by removing plaque-forming proteins from brain cells, research suggests"
2016-06-30,"Japan's top court has approved blanket surveillance of the country's Muslims: 'They made us terrorist suspects, we never did anything wrong,' says Japanese Muslim, Mohammed Fujita"
2016-06-30,CIA Gave Romania Millions to Host Secret Prisons
2016-06-30,Groups urge U.N. to suspend Saudi Arabia from rights council
2016-06-30,Googles free wifi at Indian railway stations is better than most of the countrys paid services
2016-06-30,"Mounting evidence suggests 'hobbits' were wiped out by modern humans' ancestors 50,000 years ago."
2016-06-30,"The men who carried out Tuesday's terror attack at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport were from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, a Turkish offical said."
2016-06-30,Calls to suspend Saudi Arabia from UN Human Rights Council because of military aggresion in Yemen
2016-06-30,More Than 100 Nobel Laureates Call Out Greenpeace For Anti-GMO Obstruction In Developing World
2016-06-30,"British pedophile sentenced to 85 years in US for trafficking child abuse images: Domminich Shaw, a kingpin of sexual violence against children, sent dozens of images online and discussed plans to assault and kill a child while on probation"
2016-06-30,"US permitted 1,200 offshore fracks in Gulf of Mexico between 2010 and 2014 and allowed 72 billion gallons of chemical discharge in 2014."
2016-06-30,We will be swimming in ridicule - French beach police to carry guns while in swimming trunks: Police lifeguards on Frances busiest beaches will carry guns and bullet-proof vests for the first time this summer amid fears that terrorists could target holidaymakers.
2016-06-30,UEFA says no minutes of silence for Istanbul victims at Euro 2016 because 'Turkey have already been eliminated'
2016-06-30,Law Enforcement Sources: Gun Used in Paris Terrorist Attacks Came from Phoenix
2016-06-29,Explosion At Airport In Istanbul
2016-06-29,Yemeni former president: Terrorism is the offspring of Wahhabism of Al Saud regime
2016-06-29,UK must accept freedom of movement to access EU Market
2016-06-29,"Devastated: scientists too late to captive breed mammal lost to climate change - Australian conservationists spent 5 months obtaining permissions & planning for a captive breeding program. But when they arrived on the rodents tiny island, they they were too late."
2016-06-29,British Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn loses a no-confidence vote but refuses to resign
2016-06-29,A Muslim Shop in the UK Was Just Firebombed While People Were Inside
2016-06-29,Mexican Authorities Sexually Torture Women in Prison
2016-06-29,UK shares and pound continue to recover
2016-06-29,Iceland historian Johannesson wins presidential election
2016-06-29,"99-Million-Yr-Old Bird Wings Found Encased in Amber - Finding things trapped in amber is far from rare. But when researchers in Burma found a pair of tiny bird-like wings frozen inside, they knew they had something special."
2016-06-29,"A chatbot programmed by a British teenager has successfully challenged 160,000 parking tickets since its launch last year."
2016-06-29,"The Philippine president-elect said Monday he would aggressively promote artificial birth control in the country even at the risk of getting in a fight with the dominant Catholic church, which staunchly opposes the use of contraceptives."
2016-06-29,Former Belgian Prime Minister ridicules Nigel Farage and accuses Ukip leader of lying in EU referendum campaign
2016-06-29,"Brexiteer Nigel Farage To EU: 'You're Not Laughing Now, Are You?'"
2016-06-29,Islamic State bombings in southern Yemen kill 38 people
2016-06-29,"Escape Tunnel, Dug by Hand, Is Found at Holocaust Massacre Site"
2016-06-29,"The land under Beijing is sinking by as much as four inches per year because of the overconsumption of groundwater, according to new research."
2016-06-29,"Car bomb and Anti-Islamic attack on Mosque in Perth, Australia"
2016-06-29,Emaciated lions in Taiz Zoo are trapped in blood-soaked cages and left to starve for months due to the Yemeni civil war
2016-06-29,Rupert Murdoch describes Brexit as 'wonderful'. The media mogul likened leaving the EU to a prison break and shared his view of Donald Trump as a very able man.
2016-06-29,More than 40 killed in Yemen suicide attacks
2016-06-29,Google Found Disastrous Symantec and Norton Vulnerabilities That Are 'As Bad As It Gets
2016-06-29,"Extremist violence on the rise in Germany: Domestic intelligence agency says far-right, far-left and Islamist radical groups gaining membership in country"
2016-06-29,BBC News: Labour MPs pass Corbyn no-confidence motion
2016-06-29,Tiny New Zealand town with 'too many jobs' launches drive to recruit outsiders
2016-06-28,"2,500 Scientists To Australia: If You Want To Save The Great Barrier Reef, Stop Supporting Coal"
2016-06-28,"The personal details of 112,000 French police officers have been uploaded to Google Drive in a security breach just a fortnight after two officers were murdered at their home by a jihadist."
2016-06-28,S&P cuts United Kingdom sovereign credit rating to 'AA' from 'AAA'
2016-06-28,Huge helium deposit found in Africa
2016-06-28,CEO of the South African state broadcaster quits shortly after negative news about president is banned.
2016-06-28,"Brexit cost investors $2 trillion, the worst one day drop ever"
2016-06-28,Hong Kong democracy activists call for return to British rule as first step to independence
2016-06-28,Brexit: Iceland president says UK can join 'triangle' of non-EU countries
2016-06-28,"UK's Osborne: 'Absolutely' going to have to cut spending, raise taxes"
2016-06-28,'Do not let Scotland down now' : Scottish MEP Alyn Smith has urged members of the European Parliament to stand by his country following the UK referendum on EU membership.
2016-06-28,British pound could hit history-making dollar parity by end of 2016
2016-06-28,"Merkel vows to strengthen EU, tells UK no 'cherry-picking'"
2016-06-28,"""Ryanair will not deploy new aircraft on routes to and from the UK [United Kingdom] next year [2017], following the Brexit vote, and will instead focus on the European Union [EU]."""
2016-06-28,"People, ever more greedy and stupid, destroy the world - Stephen Hawking to Larry King"
2016-06-28,Siemens freezes new UK wind power investment following Brexit vote
2016-06-28,"US, Canada and Mexico pledge 50% of power from clean energy by 2025"
2016-06-28,"There is increasing evidence that Australia is torturing refugees, medical experts claim"
2016-06-28,"Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, said Tuesday that the company has lost about a third of its value since the U.K. voted to leave the European Union last week."
2016-06-28,"37,000-yr-old skull from Borneo reveals surprise for scientists - Study of the ""Deep Skull"" - oldest modern human discovered in SE Asia - reveals this ancient person was not related to Indigenous Australians, as originally thought. ""Our discovery is a game changer."""
2016-06-28,Palestinians stone Western Wall worshipers; police shut Temple Mount to non-Muslims
2016-06-28,Jean-Claude Juncker asks Farage: Why are you here?
2016-06-28,"""Romanians for Remainians"" offering a new home to the 48% of Britons who voted to stay in the EU | Bucharest newspaper's app connects loving Romanian families with needy Brits, allowing people to offer to help would-be immigrants apply for a Romanian ID"
2016-06-28,Brexit: Gibraltar in talks with Scotland to stay in EU
2016-06-28,8 Suicide Bombers Strike Lebanon
2016-06-28,"Mexico's security forces routinely use 'sexual torture' against women: Rights group Amnesty International has compiled testimonies of sexual violence used as torture by Mexican security forces. Despite thousands of complaints, only 15 probes have led to criminal convictions since 1991."
2016-06-27,Barclays and RBS shares suspended from trading after tanking more than 8%
2016-06-27,Pope says Church should ask forgiveness from gays for past treatment
2016-06-27,Poland 'shocked' by xenophobic abuse of Poles in UK
2016-06-27,"There will be no second referendum, cabinet agrees"
2016-06-27,"Scotland welcome to join EU, Merkel ally says"
2016-06-27,Sterling dips below Friday's 31-year low amid Brexit uncertainty
2016-06-27,No negative news about South African President allowed on state broadcaster.
2016-06-27,Surge in Hate Crimes in the U.K. Following U.K.s Brexit Vote
2016-06-27,"Weapons shipped into Jordan by the CIA and Saudi Arabia intended for Syrian rebels have been systematically stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, according to American and Jordanian officials"
2016-06-27,Angela Merkel said the U.K. must file exit papers with the European Union before talks can begin
2016-06-27,"In a birth offering hope to a threatened species, an aquarium in Osaka, Japan, has succeeded in artificially breeding a southern rockhopper penguin for the first time in the world."
2016-06-27,Sky News Journalist Left Speechless As Leave MP Tells Him 'There Is No Plan'
2016-06-27,Giant panda in Macau gives birth to twins
2016-06-27,Get out now: EU leader tells Britain it must invoke Article 50 on Tuesday
2016-06-27,Sea turtle 'beaten and left for dead' on beach by people taking selfies: Loggerhead sea turtle receiving treatment after it was beaten with sticks and stepped on in Lebanon
2016-06-27,German lawyers to probe Erdogan over alleged war crimes
2016-06-27,"Boris Johnson says the UK will continue to ""intensify"" cooperation with the EU and tells his fellow Leave supporters they must accept the 52-48 referendum win was ""not entirely overwhelming""."
2016-06-27,Richard Branson is calling on the UK government to hold a second EU referendum to prevent 'irreversible damage' to the country.
2016-06-27,Turkey 'sorry for downing Russian jet'
2016-06-27,Edward Snowden lawyer vows new push for pardon from Obama
2016-06-27,"Brexit opinion poll reveals majority don't want second EU referendum: ""half (48%) of British adults say that they are happy with the result, with two in five (43%) saying they are unhappy with the outcome."""
2016-06-27,"Conservative MP Leave Campaigner: ""The leave campaign don't have a post-Brexit plan..."""
2016-06-27,"Economists predict UK recession, further weakening of Pound following Brexit."
2016-06-27,"New EU 'superstate plan by France, Germany: Creating a European superstate limiting the powers of individual members following Britains referendum decision to leave the EU"
2016-06-27,Pakistani clerics declare transgender marriages legal under Islamic law
2016-06-26,Authorities raid 14 Scientology offices in Russia in money laundering probe
2016-06-26,Pope Francis uses the term 'genocide' to describe Armenian massacre during visit to memorial: Pontiff veers off prepared speech to directly refer to the massacre as a genocide
2016-06-26,Vladimir Putin Says Brexit Caused by British Politicians 'Arrogance'
2016-06-26,Poll puts support for Scottish independence at 59%
2016-06-26,Brexit: Expats denied say in EU referendum due to missing postal votes demand re-run after scandal is revealed
2016-06-26,The petition to redo the Brexit referendum that now has over 3 million signatures was actually started by a Leave backer who thought Remain was gonna win
2016-06-26,Historian Gudni Johannesson has claimed victory in Icelands presidential election. The new president said his first job would be to fly to France to support his country's team against England on Monday.
2016-06-26,"Nigel Farage has said Britain is heading for a mild recession but says it has nothing to do with Brexit. The victorious Leave campaigner rejected warnings that leaving the European Union would have dire consequences for the UK economy, even as markets were rocked by Thursdays result."
2016-06-26,Iraq takes 'last IS bastion in Falluja'
2016-06-26,Liberal Democrats pledge to ignore referendum result and keep Britain in the EU
2016-06-26,Nigerian Army announces rescue of 5000 Boko Haram hostages
2016-06-26,The United Nations issued a strongly worded statement on Friday warning that any attempt by the European Union to bypass national parliaments to push through controversial trade deals would violate international human rights norms and standards.
2016-06-26,"UK food prices set to rise after Brexit vote - Plunging pound and Britains reliance on imports will mean higher prices, says farmers leader"
2016-06-26,"Prices have increased by 14,000%-19,000% in four years in Venezuela"
2016-06-26,"No chance of a second referendum, says Britain's top elections expert"
2016-06-26,Nicola Sturgeon says Scottish Parliament could veto Brexit after EU referendum
2016-06-26,"Labour MP David Lammy has called on Parliament to ""stop this madness"" and to vote against the referendum decision to leave the EU."
2016-06-26,"Peru's state energy company has reported an oil spill in a tributary of Amazon, third major one this year and 21st in last five years, raising fears of yet more pollution of the water and fish on which indigenous villages and riverside communities depend."
2016-06-26,HSBC 'to move jobs to Paris if UK leaves single market'
2016-06-26,"A coral reef plea letter was sent to the Prime Minister of Australia by an international group of coral reef scientists on Saturday, concerning the health of the Great Barrier Reef, and the fossil fuel consumption of the country."
2016-06-26,Post Office in Northern Ireland reports 'unusually high number of people' seeking Irish passports
2016-06-26,"""I don't believe it is right that I should carry on as the British commissioner as though nothing had happened,"" Britain's representative on the EU executive in Brussels, Jonathan Hill, resigns"
2016-06-26,Remains of a mammoth uncovered near Mexico City
2016-06-26,Sturgeon says pre-referendum UK 'no longer exists'
2016-06-26,Thousands of London banking job cuts to start next week as contingency plans kick in
2016-06-25,"Six weeks before the Rio Olympics, the lab handling all drug testing for the Games has been suspended by world anti-doping officials"
2016-06-25,Global stock markets lost $2 trillion in value after Britain voted to leave the European Union
2016-06-25,Brexit: How to move to Canada trends in U.K. after European Union vote - National
2016-06-25,Brexit: Anger over 'Bregret' as Leave voters say they wanted 'protest vote' and thought UK would stay in EU
2016-06-25,"Petition for second EU referendum reaches 1,000,000 signatures."
2016-06-25,Worlds 400 Richest People Lose $127 Billion on Brexit
2016-06-25,Iceland is voting in a presidential election which a historian with no experience of public office is favourite to be win.
2016-06-25,Dozens of bomb sniffing dogs 'killed by American security company in Kuwait after its contract with oil firm ended'
2016-06-25,Thousands sign petition for London to become independent and rejoin the EU
2016-06-25,Scotland to begin talks with EU 'immediately' as plans for second independence vote underway already
2016-06-25,Brexit: Most Young voters where pro-EU but never got around to voting.
2016-06-25,"""France today told Britain to appoint a new prime minister within 'a few days' and to immediately quit the EU [European Union] by soon triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty."""
2016-06-25,"Election in Iceland today, 10% of population is in France"
2016-06-25,"Scotland will likely seek independence for a second time this decade after the historic vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said Friday."
2016-06-25,Nigel Farage Admits 350m Saving For NHS In EU Contributions Slogan Was A Mistake
2016-06-25,London markets lose $164B in 600 seconds
2016-06-25,Cornwall votes for Brexit but doesn't want to lose its millions in EU subsidies
2016-06-25,Pope Francis describes mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as 'genocide'
2016-06-25,German foreign minister urges EU not to 'go looking for revenge' on UK: 'We have to accept the decision that was made'
2016-06-25,Thousands rally in Australia for same-sex marriage
2016-06-25,Cornwall votes for Brexit and then pleads to keep EU funding
2016-06-25,Brexit: Moody's downgrades UK's credit outlook from 'stable' to 'negative' | Business News | News
2016-06-25,Brexit: Britain's most senior EU official resigns after UK vote to leave
2016-06-25,The murdered Labour M.P. Jo Cox's constituency voted to leave the European Union
2016-06-25,Brexit will turn Berlin into 'Europes startup capital'
2016-06-24,David Cameron to Resign as PM After EU Referendum
2016-06-24,BBC forecasts UK votes to Leave the European Union
2016-06-24,"Nicola Sturgeon says a second independence referendum for Scotland is ""now highly likely"""
2016-06-24,It's official. Britain votes to leave the European Union.
2016-06-24,World's Largest Tibetan Buddhist Institute Ordered to be Demolished by Chinese Government
2016-06-24,Not a single place in Scotland voted to leave the EU...
2016-06-24,"Rich Getting Richer at the Expense of the Poor, Oxfam Warns"
2016-06-24,Spanish minister calls for Gibraltar to be returned to Spain on back of Brexit vote
2016-06-24,British Pound drops nearly 5% in minutes following strong results for leave campaign in Newcastle
2016-06-24,J.K. Rowling leads the charge for Scottish independence after UK votes for Brexit
2016-06-24,"Buenos Aires zoo to close after 140 years: 'Captivity is degrading' - Mayor Horacio Rodrguez Larreta said that the zoos 2,500 animals will be gradually moved to nature reserves in Argentina which can provide a more suitable environment."
2016-06-24,Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister calls for poll on united Ireland after Brexit
2016-06-24,Polls close | Brexit polling day as it happened
2016-06-24,Brexit: Petition for second EU referendum so popular the government site's crashing | UK | News
2016-06-24,"North Korea printing massive amounts of fake Chinese currency, defectors say"
2016-06-24,Sinn Fein calls for a referendum on Irish reunification after Brexit
2016-06-24,$70 billion wiped off the Australian sharemarket as a result of Brexit.
2016-06-24,Nigel Farage disowns Vote Leave '350m for the NHS' pledge hours after result
2016-06-24,Top EU leader: we want Britain out as soon as possible
2016-06-24,"Nigel Farage: 350 million pledge to fund the NHS was a 'big mistake'.Captions such as ""Let's give our NHS the 350 million the EU takes every week"" and ""We send the EU 350 million a week, let's fund our NHS instead"" were stamped on Vote Leave campaign material."
2016-06-24,Thousands of London banking job cuts to start next week
2016-06-24,Google says there was a large spike in searches for Irish passport applications as news broke
2016-06-24,EU referendum; Gibraltar backs Remain with 94% in first result of the night
2016-06-24,"After Brexit, U.K. Residents Google 'What Is The EU?'"
2016-06-24,A Turkish man has been found guilty of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for depicting him as the Gollum character from the Lord of the Rings. A court in the south-western Antalya province gave Rifat Cetin a suspended one-year jail sentence and stripped him of parental custody rights.
2016-06-23,"Today The United Kingdom decides whether to remain in the European Union, or leave"
2016-06-23,"E-cigarettes should not be banned in public, medical experts warn: 'A ban on using e-cigarettes in public places could be damaging, as it may put off smokers from using e-cigarettes to help them quit,' says Rosanna O'Connor from Public Health England"
2016-06-23,Report: China is still harvesting organs from prisoners
2016-06-23,"Man opens fire at cinema complex in Germany, several people wounded  report"
2016-06-23,"Erdoan: Europe, you dont want us because were Muslim"
2016-06-23,"Asian millionaires now control more wealth than those in North America, Europe and other regions"
2016-06-23,"A Japanese porn industry association has apologised and promised reform, amid allegations women are being forced to perform sex acts on film."
2016-06-23,"University students are being warned when classes contains graphic or sensitive content, including sexual abuse, rape and transgenderism, to protect their mental health. Australian academics are issuing so-called ""trigger warnings"" for confronting material in classrooms."
2016-06-23,Afghan interpreters 'betrayed' by UK and US
2016-06-23,"Contagious cancer cells are spreading between different animals and even different species in the sea, according to new research which raises the prospect of the disease becoming infectious in humans."
2016-06-23,51 Killed in China by Powerful Tornado
2016-06-23,Teacher Killings Ignite Calls for Revolution in Mexico: Police crackdown on rural educator protest spurs wide rebuke of government privatization and repression
2016-06-23,Solar plane lands in Spain after three-day Atlantic crossing
2016-06-23,Brexit supporters urged to take own pens to polling station amid fears of MI5 conspiracy
2016-06-23,"Cities forge world's largest alliance to curb climate change | More than 7,100 cities in 119 countries formed the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, a network for helping exchange information on such goals as developing clean energy, organizers said."
2016-06-23,"Colombia, FARC announce full ceasefire, 'last day of the war'"
2016-06-23,"Gunmen kill Sufi devotional singer Amjad Sabri in Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility"
2016-06-23,India launches 20 satellites in single mission
2016-06-23,F-16s to be manufactured soon in an assembly line in India
2016-06-23,"Australia's gun laws stopped mass shootings and reduced homicides, study finds."
2016-06-23,French cement company in Syria buys oil from ISIS  Documents
2016-06-23,Pope to visit Armenia after irking Turkey with 'genocide' label
2016-06-23,Merkel says NATO must be strengthened
2016-06-23,"China cracks down on online comments, click-bait stories, foreign TV content as Xi reshapes media landscape"
2016-06-23,"The prime minister of India is set to get a brand new Air India One aircraft, will be more advanced than Air Force One."
2016-06-22,German government agrees to ban fracking indefinitely
2016-06-22,"Teenage recruits were raped by staff and forced to rape each other as part of initiation practices in the Australian military going back to 1960, a public inquiry heard on Tuesday"
2016-06-22,"Pakistan is selling nuclear materials to N Korea and China knows it, US sources say"
2016-06-22,Amazon jaguar shot dead at Olympic torch ceremony
2016-06-22,Mexican flags raised around Donald Trump's golf course - Ahead of Trump's visit to Scotland this week
2016-06-22,EU smashes 2020 emissions target six years early | Greenhouse gas emissions in 2014 were 4.1% lower than the previous year and 24.4% below the 1990 baseline. The 2020 target is a 20% cut.
2016-06-22,Police kill eight striking Mexican teachers as Activists Denounce Police Killings & Crackdowns on Teachers in Oaxaca
2016-06-22,Pro-choice activists have delivered abortion pills to women in Northern Ireland using a drone.
2016-06-22,"A French football fan shoved an 18cm-long flare up his rectum in order to smuggle it into a Euro 2016 game. He then pulled the device out and set it off in the crowd, burning himself and two others in the process, before being charged over the incident by French police."
2016-06-22,"Indian space agency ISRO launches 20 satellites in a single launch, setting a new record for the agency"
2016-06-22,Japanese power company TEPCO admits it lied about meltdown after Fukushima
2016-06-22,Murdoch's News Corp buys 72 regional newspapers for $37 million
2016-06-22,"""Europe's growing army of robot workers could be classed as 'electronic persons' and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to address the realities of a new industrial revolution."""
2016-06-22,Intel Fights Record $1.2 Billion Antitrust Fine at Top EU Court for bribing computer makers to not use AMD
2016-06-22,Russian security service conducts raids on Church of Scientology Federal Security Service raid over a dozen locations in Moscow and St Petersburg as part of investigation into alleged illegal business dealings
2016-06-22,"Turkish students and graduates from 370 schools issue statements against AKP government's Islamization of education, student protests continue"
2016-06-22,"Japan Election Campaign Kicks off, Voting Age Lowered to 18"
2016-06-22,"Moscow has signed an agreement with Los Angeles-based company Hyperloop One to explore building a futuristic, high-speed transportation system known as a Hyperloop in the Russian capital."
2016-06-22,TEPCO admits meltdown cover-up - The president of Tokyo Electric Power Company has admitted the company concealed the reactor meltdowns at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant immediately after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami
2016-06-22,Indian State Grants Jews Minority Status - India Real Time
2016-06-22,Canadian Rescue Plane successfully reaches South Pole Research Outpost.
2016-06-22,The Swedish parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of tough new asylum and residency laws.
2016-06-22,French police teargas migrants trying to board trucks to the UK
2016-06-22,"Qawwali musician Amjad Sabri was shot dead in Pakistan. In 2014, the Islamabad Hight Court had issued a notice in a blasphemy case to two private TV channels. The show had mixed a mock wedding with a qawwali sung by Sabri related to religious figures, and was considered offensive."
2016-06-22,N. Korea launches what appears to be Musudan mid-range missile from east coast
2016-06-21,An Australian athlete who has competed in six Paralympic Games has been robbed at gunpoint in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Liesl Tesch said a man brandishing a gun pushed her off her bicycle and stole it on Sunday.
2016-06-21,Russian state television accidentally broadcasts evidence that Moscow uses cluster bombs in Syria
2016-06-21,"In 2015, 50 environmentalists were killed in Brazil  more than a quarter of those killed worldwide  and last year marked deadliest year for environmental activists, with 185 total murders across world. Out of the 10 deadliest countries in world for environmentalist, seven were in Latin America."
2016-06-21,"China's plan to cut meat consumption by 50% cheered by climate campaigners: New dietary guidelines could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 1bn tonnes by 2030, and could lessen countrys problems with obesity and diabetes"
2016-06-21,"Coral bleaching event now biggest in history  and about to get worse: 'Coral in every major reef region has already experienced severe bleaching. About 93% of the reefs on Australias Great Barrier Reef have been affected, and almost a quarter of the reef on the 2,300km stretch is now dead.'"
2016-06-21,Super-rich quaff champagne in Venezuela country club while middle classes scavenge for food
2016-06-21,Hong Kong bookseller refuses to be silenced after harsh detention in China
2016-06-21,Chinese prosecutors have successfully sued a county environmental agency for inadequately punishing a sewage firm that produced dye without appropriate safeguards  the first such public interest case against a government department.
2016-06-21,"A London-based advocacy group says it has documented the killings of 185 environmental activists in 16 countries last year, nearly 60 percent more than in 2014."
2016-06-21,Erdogan loses appeal against German media boss
2016-06-21,Chinese supercomputer is the world's fastest  and without using US chips
2016-06-21,"7-Eleven operator handed record penalty of more than $400,000 for systematically exploiting staff"
2016-06-21,A Honduran military unit trained by US was ordered to kill environmental activist who was slain in March
2016-06-21,African Union plans to introduce single passport to create EU-style 'continent without borders'
2016-06-21,"More refugees became citizens of Canada than any other country last year, UN says"
2016-06-21,Turkey charges Reporters Without Borders press freedom representative with 'terrorist propaganda'
2016-06-21,Brussels: Bomb alert at shopping centre sparks anti-terror operation | Europe | News
2016-06-21,Australian Paralympian Liesl Tesch robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro
2016-06-21,China issues orders to demolish Buddhist 'towns' (religious communities) with intensive 'instruction' for leaders and members of religious orders. Only a tiny fraction of the existing communities will be allowed to remain at each site.
2016-06-21,Gazans squeezed by triple taxes as Hamas replaces lost income
2016-06-21,US and Russian fighters in dramatic showdown over Syria: American pilots scramble to confront Putin's jets as they bomb Pentagon-backed Syrian rebels
2016-06-21,"Rising Tide of 'Politically Acceptable' Killings Spells Danger for Environmentalists Worldwide: More than three people were slain each week in 2015 for 'protecting the land, forests, and rivers,' a new report reveals"
2016-06-21,Mexico teachers protest: Six people are dead and more than 100 are injured following a weekend of violence between members of a teachers union and police in southern Mexico.
2016-06-21,Canada is set to launch a paid whistleblower program.
2016-06-21,"Russian football fan leader Alexander Shprygin has been detained in France, two days after being expelled from the country, French officials say."
2016-06-20,A staggering 87 percent of Venezuelans say they do not have money to buy enough food
2016-06-20,Two corporate whistleblowers may enter into plea bargain deal that would tie 30% of Brazilian lawmakers to corruption cases.
2016-06-20,"Poland, together with Russia, Iran, and several Gulf states successfully removed decriminalization of homosexuality from UN resolution."
2016-06-20,"Three environmental activists were killed per week last year, murdered defending land rights and the environment from mining, dam projects and logging"
2016-06-20,"Ontario funeral business dissolves the dead, pours them into town sewers"
2016-06-20,"New Declassified Documents Reveal How CIA Abused, Tortured Prisoners [Graphic]"
2016-06-20,"Tens of thousands of people gathered in sweltering heat on Japan's Okinawa island on Sunday in one of the biggest demonstrations in two decades against U.S. military bases, following the arrest of an American suspected of murdering a local woman."
2016-06-20,"Japan's dementia crisis hits record levels as thousands go missing. National Police Agency reports more than 12,000 patients going missing in 2015, with hundreds of those later found dead"
2016-06-20,"Icelands Hekla volcano, a very popular tourist destination, now ready to blow"
2016-06-20,Corbyn pledges to kill TTIP if elected
2016-06-20,Venezuelans Ransack Stores as Hunger Grips the Nation - 4-year-old girl was shot to death as street gangs fought over food.
2016-06-20,Rome elects first female mayor
2016-06-20,"Saudi Arabia and Kuwait angry about Hillary Clintons claims that they 'fund terrorism': The two embassies in Canberra, Australia denounced the presidential candidate's remarks and said they also suffer from terrorism"
2016-06-20,Professor Dismissed for Insulting Turkey's President
2016-06-20,Russian soldier dies in Syria after preventing car bomb attack on aid distribution point
2016-06-20,"Three dead, 45 injured as labor union clashes with police in Mexico"
2016-06-20,"Indonesia vows to stand firm after skirmishes with Chinese ships.China claims most of the South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei have overlapping claims."
2016-06-20,A study of ocean plankton has shown that an increase in the water temperature of the worlds oceans of around 6C (10.8F)  which some scientists predict could occur as soon as 2100  could stop oxygen production by phytoplankton by disrupting the process of photosynthesis.
2016-06-20,"Australia taxes foreign home buyers as affordability bites - Sydney is imposing new taxes on foreigners buying homes as concerns grow that a flood of mostly Chinese investors is crowding out locals and killing the ""Great Australian Dream"" of owning property"
2016-06-20,Paris isn't happy about Amazon's one-hour delivery service
2016-06-20,"Australian man pleads guilty to making sexual threats on social media, in a landmark victory for opponents of online harassment. ""When her friends defended her online, Alchin wrote more than fifty posts, including rape threats, and saying that women should 'never have been given rights' """
2016-06-20,Trudeau condemns killing of 14 Canadian Embassy security guards in Kabul
2016-06-20,Vladimir Putin is considering selling part of Russias corporate crown jewels to China and India as the president struggles to meet spending commitments before his possible re-election bid in less than two years
2016-06-20,An elephant has survived being shot in the head by suspected poachers in Zimbabwe. It was found by vets in Mana Pools national park and is believed to have had the bullet lodged in its head for up to six weeks.
2016-06-20,Wikileaks founder Julian Assange marks 5 years holed up in Ecuadorean embassy
2016-06-19,Canada Legalizes Physician-Assisted Dying
2016-06-19,"""There is no need for anyone else to engage in politics. Our duty is to support the leader in this country."" No one should do politics in Turkey except Erdoan, says chief adviser."
2016-06-19,Egypt just sentenced two former Al Jazeera employees to death
2016-06-19,"Turkish police use tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons to disperse protesters against radical Islamists' assault on Radiohead fans. Over 500 people had gathered in Cihangir Square with beers in hands."
2016-06-19,Microsoft avoids paying 100m a year in UK corporation tax
2016-06-19,Canada willingly makes tax deals with tax havens. Billions of dollars are moving out of Canada  nearly all tax free  with 92 tax treaties signed.
2016-06-19,3 International Space Station astronauts return safely to Earth
2016-06-19,Pakistan Province Grants 300 Million Rupees To 'University of Jihad'
2016-06-19,Refugees should have to 'accept Kiwi values': The government is being told it should make refugees sign up to New Zealand values before they allowed are into the country.
2016-06-19,Firemen in Sicily are battling dozens of forest blazes which they believe were lit by the island's mafia or their collaborators.Authorities have pointed the blame at mafia mobsters allied with unscrupulous developers who hope to build villas and holiday homes on the torched land
2016-06-19,"Norway's parliament approves radical proposal to become climate neutral by 2030, 20 years earlier than planned"
2016-06-19,"Russian aircraft bombed US backed rebels near the Jordanian border, forcing US to send aircraft to the area."
2016-06-19,"Hundreds of academic, religious, popular, student, human and social rights organizations around the world signed a document Friday that condemns the brutal repression exerted by the Mexican government against teachers who reject the education reform by President Enrique Pea Nieto."
2016-06-19,North Korea Steals U.S. Fighter Blueprints
2016-06-19,Vladimir Putin says that Russian will work with whoever is elected US president
2016-06-19,Thousands of people in Poland march to defend abortion rights
2016-06-19,Angry Julian Assange starts fifth year cooped in London embassy
2016-06-19,Thai government is planning on legalization of methamphetamine
2016-06-19,Thousands protest U.S. bases on Okinawa after Japan woman's murder
2016-06-19,"In a show of strength before an international courts ruling on Chinas claims in the South China Sea, US Navy sails 2 Aircraft carriers in western Pacific"
2016-06-19,UK government suspects many of those who attacked England supporters are in Russias uniformed services
2016-06-19,German minister warns NATO of 'saber-rattling' against Russia
2016-06-19,IMF says EU exit 'largest near-term risk' to British economy
2016-06-19,Rio Declares 'State Of Calamity' Ahead Of Games
2016-06-19,Turkish troops kill 11 Syrians trying to cross border: monitor
2016-06-18,"Rio declares financial emergency, requests funding for Olympics"
2016-06-18,It's official: May is now Earth's hottest month on record
2016-06-18,"Thomas Mair, charged with MP Jo Cox's murder, gives his name as ""Death to traitors, freedom for Britain"" to UK court"
2016-06-18,Iraqi forces take back Fallujah from ISIS
2016-06-18,"Norway says it will boost defences against unpredictable Russia: We have an increasingly unpredictable neighbour to the east which is strengthening its military capacity, and showing willingness to use military force as a political tool,"
2016-06-18,"Exxon Has No Free Speech Rights to Commit Fraud, say Climate Groups: Exxon's ""preemptive strike to shut down the investigation before it is completed should not be countenanced,"" says Union of Concerned Scientists"
2016-06-18,"Large number of Turks in Germany put Islam above the law: Germany may be home, but many don't feel accepted - new study reveals what ethnic Turks think about religion and integration, with many putting Islam above the law and some even justifying violence to expand Islam"
2016-06-18,Radiohead Listening Party in Istanbul Attacked by Islamists
2016-06-18,Belgium Police Arrest 12 Suspected of Planning New Terror Attack
2016-06-18,"Shattered records show climate change is an emergency today, scientists warn. Unprecedented temperature levels mean more heatwaves, flooding, wildfires and hurricanes as experts say global warming is here and affecting us now"
2016-06-18,U.S. says it will stay in Black Sea despite Russian warning
2016-06-18,Canada's PM Justin Trudeau announced a possible commitment of troops to Europe following intelligence suggesting that Moscow is retooling for the possibility of war.
2016-06-18,China has ordered an apparent media blackout on mainland coverage of a Hong Kong booksellers claim he was abducted by Chinese agents amid outcry in the territory and internationally over the case.
2016-06-18,'We shall not take anyone in'. Angry Hungarian ministers hit back at EU migration quotas - Hungarian politicians have said the country will not accept any migrants because the country does not need immigration.
2016-06-18,Kenya allows anal probes to detect homosexuals.
2016-06-18,Bulgaria set to ban niqabs and burqas in crackdown on the face veil: Bill tabled by the nationalist Patriotic Front party backed by 108 MPs to eight against
2016-06-18,"China has signed an agreement with the United Nations to open its future space station to spacecraft, science experiments and even astronauts from countries around the world"
2016-06-18,"Victoria Police failed to act on complaints about a policeman who sexually brutalised nine children during his 12 years in the force, the County Court was told on Friday."
2016-06-18,China must get better on human rights before Canada will sign a trade deal: Trudeau
2016-06-18,Canada's assisted-dying bill is now law after clearing final hurdles.
2016-06-18,Radical Islamists attack Radiohead record store event in Istanbul
2016-06-18,American man commits suicide by slashing his throat in Taiwan courtroom drug trial
2016-06-18,The Russian track and field team will not compete at the Rio Olympics after world athletics governing body upheld a ban imposed for state-supported doping. A handful of Russian athletes may be able to compete under a neutral flag if they can demonstrate they have lived and trained outside Russia.
2016-06-18,"Pakistan has banned an actor from hosting a TV show, for discussing the rights of minorities in the country. The host earlier remarked that the state shouldn't discriminate against its citizens based on their sect & religious affiliations. Later, an Islamic cleric has called for murder of the host."
2016-06-18,Lawmakers call for defunding UN schools after film shows Palestinian kids praising ISIS
2016-06-17,MP Jo Cox dead after shooting attack
2016-06-17,Saudi Arabia upset after Hillary Clinton links oil kingdom to terrorism
2016-06-17,"India may be building an underwater wall of microphones to keep track of Chinas submarines, Hydrophones can record and listen to underwater sounds"
2016-06-17,"Ex-Auschwitz guard Reinhold Hanning, 94, sentenced to 5 years for being accessory to murder in 170,000 deaths."
2016-06-17,"The annual Gay Pride Parade in Istanbul is under threat from ultra-nationalist and conservative groups who have pledged to do ""what is necessary"" to stop the event."
2016-06-17,Russian athletes to remain banned from international competition
2016-06-17,Israel seeks life plus 60 years for gay pride stabber
2016-06-17,Brazil's tourism minister resigns weeks before Olympics
2016-06-17,"A rare, risky mission is underway to rescue sick scientists from the South Pole"
2016-06-17,"China behaving like 'gangster' state with bookseller kidnap, say Hong Kong politicians"
2016-06-17,Putin: Today USA is the only superpower.
2016-06-17,"Report shows young people today in Australia are overqualified, underemployed and swimming in debt"
2016-06-17,Alleged killer of British MP was a longtime supporter of the neo-Nazi National Alliance
2016-06-17,Taliban use 'honey trap' boys to kill Afghan police - The Taliban are using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan
2016-06-17,"COGAT: Israel water supply to Palestinians increased, not decreased"
2016-06-17,"Deaths, arrests as looting erupts in Venezuela"
2016-06-17,"Elderly Japanese, among the world's richest retirees, are flocking to inheritance advisers, tackling historical taboos on discussing death and providing a rare avenue of growth for the country's brokerages and banks."
2016-06-17,Russian hooligans attack Spanish tourists outside cathedral - Independent.ie
2016-06-17,Boko Haram shoot dead 18 women at funeral in northern Nigeria
2016-06-17,"ISIS Committed Genocide Against Yazidis in Syria and Iraq, U.N. Panel Says"
2016-06-17,Greece wants to send thousands of migrants back to Turkey in coming weeks
2016-06-17,Missing Hong Kong bookseller: I was kidnapped - One of five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing in late 2015 said he was kidnapped after crossing the border into mainland China
2016-06-17,Kim Jong-un destroys model village in North Korea built by his 'despicable human scum' uncle: Sources claim the theme park made the North Korean leader uneasy
2016-06-17,"Turkey Bans Gay Pride Parade in Istanbul, Citing Security"
2016-06-17,"One dead, others injured in mass stabbing at Calgary medical clinic."
2016-06-16,Decriminalisation Call As 'War On Drugs' Fails. Top public health experts say illicit drug use should be treated as a health issue rather than punishing those who need treatment.
2016-06-16,"Germany to end unofficial tolerance of polygamy: 'No one who comes to us has the right to put their cultural roots, or their religious beliefs, above our laws,' says justice minister"
2016-06-16,"Killing of non-Muslims and minority groups forbidden in Islam.Bangladeshi clerics have issued a fatwa against the killings of minorities and secular campaigners in the mainly Muslim country, where police have arrested over 10,000 people in a crackdown on militancy."
2016-06-16,"Once Islamic State is defeated, Iraq should be divided into three separate entities to prevent further sectarian bloodshed, with a state each given to Shi'ite Muslims, Sunnis and Kurds, a top Kurdish official said on Thursday."
2016-06-16,LEGO donates 600 million DKK (90.7 million USD) to new children's hospital in Copenhagen
2016-06-16,Physicists have detected ripples in the fabric of spacetime that were set in motion by the collision of two black holes far across the universe more than a billion years ago. The event marks only the second time that scientists have spotted gravitational waves
2016-06-16,Obama meets Dalai Lama in spite of China protest
2016-06-16,A chilling call: Police to contact 151 Canadians on ISIS 'kill list'
2016-06-16,BBC News: EgyptAir wreckage found in Mediterranean
2016-06-16,"Norway Kills More Whales than Japan and Iceland Combined, Report Finds."
2016-06-16,India aims for a record by launching 22 satellites on a single rocket
2016-06-16,"The World Has Gotten More Peaceful, Except the Middle East"
2016-06-16,"Catholic orders take their lead from the pope and divest from fossil fuels: Four Australian Catholic orders are jointly and publicly divesting from coal, oil and gas: We believe the Gospel asks no less of us"
2016-06-16,Undercover police officer 'recorded Muslim extremists calling for gay people to be thrown from a building during secret ISIS support meetings in back garden'
2016-06-16,'El Chapo' prison guard killed; Mexico deploys 300 troops to guard prison
2016-06-16,"Employee of Panama Papers Law Firm, Mossack Fonseca, Is Arrested in Switzerland"
2016-06-16,"$40 billion aid to Israel is 'largest ever' to any country, says Susan Rice"
2016-06-16,"Lam Wing-kee, bookseller who went missing for nearly eight months and only returned to Hong Kong from the mainland this week, described on Thursday his harrowing detention at a border crossing and sustained efforts by authorities there to extract information from him."
2016-06-16,"Poliovirus detected in water sample in India, state declares global emergency"
2016-06-16,"One in four deaths of young men aged from 15 to 39 in Ireland is due to alcohol and drink is a factor in half of all suicides.Alcohol is also involved in more than one third of cases of deliberate self-harm, peaking around weekends and public holidays."
2016-06-16,Prince William Becomes First Royal to Pose for LGBT Magazine - Speaking out on homophobic bullying
2016-06-16,LIGO Has Detected Gravitational Waves for the Second Time
2016-06-16,Walmart Canada says it would stop accepting visa cards because of unacceptably high fees. Visa accuses Walmart of using customers as Pawns in battle over fees.
2016-06-16,"$28 bln invested in cluster weapon producers in 4 years - Report finds 158 financial institutions involved in funding production of weapons, despite intl law banning cluster bombs"
2016-06-16,A Kenyan High Court has dismissed a case challenging the legality of anal tests as proof of homosexuality
2016-06-15,ISIS Twitter accounts have been hijacked with gay porn
2016-06-15,"Dalai Lama grows quite skeptical about the effects of prayer, stating that serious actions are required for real changes"
2016-06-15,Nearly 400 international scientists called on Barack Obama to rule out further expansion of oil and gas exploration in Arctic waters under US control.
2016-06-15,"A gay couple has been detained by Moscow police in Russia after leaving flowers and a sign with ""Love wins"" written on it outside the US embassy. Russian law bans protests over gay rights, and LGBT people in the country suffer severe discrimination and homophobia."
2016-06-15,Scotland beats climate emissions reductions target six years early. Down 46% since 1990.
2016-06-15,Scientists have discovered the first complex organic chiral molecule in interstellar space.
2016-06-15,Israel cuts water supplies to West Bank during Ramadan
2016-06-15,Avocado shortage fuels crime wave in New Zealand
2016-06-15,"Catholic teenager hung on cross at work left 'ashamed', four men are accused of religiously aggravated assault by beating."
2016-06-15,Justin Trudeau considers European troop commitment as Canadian Intel warns Russia is 'mobilizing for war'
2016-06-15,"Obama risks angering 1.3 billion Chinese people by meeting the Dalai Lama, warns Beijing"
2016-06-15,The UN [has] ruled that Ireland's abortion ban violates human rights
2016-06-15,"Young Australians are more educated than previous generations, but they are struggling to turn higher qualifications into paid work."
2016-06-15,"Malnutrition is sweeping the world, fuelled by obesity as well as starvation, new research has suggested"
2016-06-15,"China warns U.S. against meetings with Dalai Lama, and Taiwan president"
2016-06-15,"Mexico's first independent governor: ""No one likes fat girls"""
2016-06-15,"Brazil's giant dams risk destroying heart of the Amazon, says Greenpeace: Construction of 40 dams in the Tapajs river basin would severely affect indigenous people and is not justifiable economically, says new report"
2016-06-15,Justin Trudeau Refuses to Stop Giving Canadians Criminal Records Over Weed
2016-06-15,"Raqqa: Elderly Christian forced to convert to Islam, cannot afford ISIS minority tax"
2016-06-15,"Islamophobia on the rise in Germany - study. Islamophobia has risen markedly in Germany, a study published on Wednesday showed, underscoring the tensions simmering in German society after more than one million migrants, mostly Muslims, arrived last year."
2016-06-15,"A morsel of never-before-seen alien rock has been dug up in a limestone quarry in Sweden, where it had lain deeply buried for about 470m years, scientists said Tuesday."
2016-06-15,"Chinese children at five are 8-cm taller than 40 years ago, according to government surveys over 161,774 healthy children"
2016-06-15,"May Was Planet's Hottest Month on Record, NASA"
2016-06-15,Former No. 2 at Argentinas Public Works Ministry was arrested burying millions outside convent
2016-06-15,"Five Die in Attack on Gay Club, Shootout in Eastern Mexico"
2016-06-14,Gay Chinese man sues mental hospital for trying to cure him with drugs and beatings
2016-06-14,Goldman Sachs hired prostitutes to win Libyan business
2016-06-14,'Man holed up in Paris suburban home with hostages after killing policeman'
2016-06-14,"A group of Pakistani clerics has issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, declaring ""honour killing"" over perceived damage to a family's reputation against the teaching of Islam, and anyone who carries out such an attack a heretic"
2016-06-14,"Animal Welfare Institute Report: Norway is now the worlds leading whaling nation, killing more whales in the past two years than Japan and Iceland combined."
2016-06-14,ISIS leader al-Baghdadi killed in air strike: Report
2016-06-14,"Leaked secret audio recordings of Brazils most powerful figures have sparked a series of explosive scandals in the nations ongoing political crisis. Now, Brazilian lawmakers are trying to outlaw publication of such recordings"
2016-06-14,US with 5 percent of the world's population has nearly third of world's mass shootings
2016-06-14,London's mayor has banned 'unrealistic body images' from transport advertising
2016-06-14,University of Toronto under lockdown after report of armed man
2016-06-14,French police have started the process of deporting almost 50 Russia fans following violent clashes with England supporters that marred the opening days of Euro 2016.
2016-06-14,The Pirate Party charges back to the top of polls in Iceland with only four months until elections
2016-06-14,The atmosphere has hit a grim milestone  and scientists say well never go back within our lifetimes
2016-06-14,Barrier Reef rodent is first mammal declared extinct due to climate change
2016-06-14,Unprecedented 11 million supporters sign petition calling for the end of China's Yulin dog meat festival
2016-06-14,"Bollywood is celebrating a rare court decision to overrule the country's chief censor, who had sought to censor a controversial film about drug problems in the state of Punjab."
2016-06-14,"ISIS militants massacres 40 civilians in Ghandoura, north Aleppo"
2016-06-14,Muslim villagers donate money to build church for Christian community in Pakistan
2016-06-14,Australia reviews visa of Islamic scholar over homosexuality comments
2016-06-14,"Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases. The system, developed by a British startup, identifies 9-square-meter spaces anywhere on the planet with just three words."
2016-06-14,"Non-praying people 'animals', Turkish academic says on state TV"
2016-06-14,ISIS claims responsibility for killing of French police officer
2016-06-14,Laser technology reveals huge medieval cities hidden in the Cambodian jungle
2016-06-14,Canadian Hostage Robert Hall Beheaded by Abu Sayyaf Militants
2016-06-14,First Muslim Gay 'Imam' Says Quran Doesn't Call for Punishment of Homosexuals
2016-06-13,A Dutch woman who alleged she was raped after being drugged in an upscale nightclub in Doha was convicted of having sex out of wedlock by a Qatari court on Monday and given a one-year suspended sentence.
2016-06-13,Islamic State claims responsibility for Orlando nightclub shooting
2016-06-13,Muslim students in Denmark banned from praying during school hours
2016-06-13,Turkish website reports 50 perverts killed in a bar
2016-06-13,"The New Democrat Party of Canada is introducing a motion on Monday, calling on the liberal government to decriminalize simple possession of marijuana for personal use immediately."
2016-06-13,5 Delhi Hospitals Fined $125 million For Refusing Free Treatment To Poor
2016-06-13,German MP calls for a travel ban on Erdogan - Sevim Dagdelen has urged action after receiving death threats over the Armenian genocide vote in Germany's parliament. She said she wants Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to be prevented from entering Germany.
2016-06-13,Exclusive: Edward Snowden leaks reveal secret Scottish spy system
2016-06-13,Microsoft to buy Linkedin for $26.2 Billion
2016-06-13,"Irish Prime Minister ""I'll meet Donald Trump and tell him why his views are racist and dangerous"""
2016-06-13,Islamic decree terms honor killing un-Islamic act
2016-06-13,Reports of powerful explosion in Beirut
2016-06-13,India Is Building a $60 Million Monsoon-Predicting Supercomputer
2016-06-13,Ukraine Holds Its First Major Gay Pride March in Kiev
2016-06-13,Cleric who preached death for homosexual acts and toured Orlando visits Sydney
2016-06-13,"Greece will soon recognize Palestinian state, ruling party says"
2016-06-13,Bangladesh arrests over 100 Islamists in crackdown after killings
2016-06-13,"Russian hooligans were savage and organised, say England fans."
2016-06-13,The Australian government will establish a special $1 billion fund to protect the Great Barrier Reef from the ravages of climate change and declining water quality.
2016-06-13,"Goldman Sachs hired prostitutes to win Libyan business, court told: Wall Street Bank also accused of paying for travel and five-star hotels by Libyan sovereign wealth fund, as UK high court hearing gets under way"
2016-06-13,Ukraine holds its first large-scale LGBT pride parade
2016-06-13,May Broke A New Record For Arctic Sea Ice Loss
2016-06-13,Oscar Pistorius to be sentenced for murder of Reeva Steenkamp; the former athlete faces 15 years in jail after appeal court rejected culpable homicide verdict in shooting death of Steenkamp in 2013
2016-06-13,At least 12 released Guantanamo detainees implicated in attacks on Americans
2016-06-13,Thousands flee Falluja using first safe exit route secured by Iraqi army
2016-06-12,Pakistani Senator Threatens Activist With Rape on Live Television
2016-06-12,ISIS 'will target' the Rio Olympics 2016 says Brazil's anti-terror chief
2016-06-12,"Germany: Thousands Surround US Air Base to Protest the Use of Drones: Over 5,000 Germans formed a 5.5-mile human chain to surround the base"
2016-06-12,"MH370: Debris discovered off south Australian coast means missing planes wreckage could span 10,000 km"
2016-06-12,Two-Thirds of the World to Suffer Water Scarcity in 10 Years
2016-06-12,"NSA Looking to Exploit Internet of Things, Including Biomedical Devices, Official Says"
2016-06-12,"Walmart Canada to stop accepting Visa, says fees too high"
2016-06-12,Eleven German MPs under police protection in 'genocide' row
2016-06-12,"Drug traffickers burning down Guatemalan forest to make clandestine landing strips for planes carrying US-bound cocaine have razed an area twice the size of Manhattan this year, officials say."
2016-06-12,"Nuuk, Greenlands capital, was warmer than New York City soaring to 75 degrees (24 Celsius) Thursday, marking the warmest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic country during June."
2016-06-12,"Tel Aviv mayor links terror attack to occupation, sparking outcry"
2016-06-12,Revenge porn threats could be made a crime in England and Wales
2016-06-12,"Chinas Dog Meat Festival Is Again at Hand, and Opponents Are Lining Up"
2016-06-12,"Japan, U.S., India kick off key joint naval exercises amid growing Chinese maritime assertiveness | The Japan Times"
2016-06-12,ISIS terrorist executes his own brother in charge of apostasy
2016-06-12,England and Russia could be thrown out of Euro 2016 if there is more violence | Football
2016-06-12,"Marseille erupts into chaos as English, French & Russian hooligans exchange violent attacks"
2016-06-12,Oil-rich Norway is taking a big step in saving tropical rainforests that are crucial to absorbing the world's carbon emissions. The Scandinavian country has become the first in the world to pledge not to use products that contribute to deforestation.
2016-06-12,Explosion in Shanghai Pudong Airport
2016-06-12,Elated women in Syria have removed their niqabs - the face-covering veil made compulsory by Isis - after their village was liberated from the jihadists.
2016-06-12,"Bounty war: Drug lords raise offer for Philippines leaders head to $1,000,000"
2016-06-12,Turkey's Jews host Ramadan iftar at restored synagogue - Turkey
2016-06-12,S. Korea to resume crackdown on Chinese fishing boats
2016-06-12,"Bangladesh police have arrested 3,155 people in 24 hours following a spate of gruesome murders."
2016-06-12,ISIS Claims Responsibility for Blasts Near Syrian Shiite Shrine That Killed at Least 20
2016-06-11,"Vandals burn 220 hives containing 250,000 bees in Malta"
2016-06-11,"Exclusive: Studies find 'super bacteria' in Rio's Olympic venues, top beaches."
2016-06-11,Nigeria busts ISIS recruiting cell as U.S. dismisses group's affiliation with Boko Haram
2016-06-11,"Milky Way no longer visible to one third of humanity, 60% of Europeans and almost 80% of North Americans, light pollution atlas shows. Scientists describe cultural loss of unprecedented magnitude."
2016-06-11,"Hundreds Of Thousands Of People Have Been Enslaved In Eritrea, A Totalitarian African Dictatorship"
2016-06-11,U.S. Approves 6 Airlines for Direct Flights to Cuba
2016-06-11,Global ad provider Google has come out in favor of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
2016-06-11,"Japan gives its first element a name, and it's nihonium"
2016-06-11,Dutch woman held in Qatar after making rape complaint
2016-06-11,"Under Israeli pressure, Facebook and Twitter delete large amounts of Palestinian content"
2016-06-11,Physicists Confirm There's a Second Layer of Information Hidden in Our DNA.
2016-06-11,"BBC investigation has found young migrants, including teenagers,are resorting to prostitution in the Greek capital, Athens."
2016-06-11,"The United States has condemned Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime, accusing it of bombing starving civilians just hours after they received a long-delayed UN aid shipment."
2016-06-11,"England-Russia fans could be explosive mix, warns France sports minister | Euro 2016 buildup marred by trouble involving England fans  Opening game with Russia in Marseille identified as risky"
2016-06-11,"Crowds steal flour, chicken and underwear in looting spree in Venezuela"
2016-06-11,Bounty offered to kill Philippine president elect Rodrigo Duterte
2016-06-11,US college exam cancelled in South Korea and Hong Kong after leak
2016-06-11,"The Syrian military has reportedly attacked the besieged, rebel-held town of Darayya, dropping about thirty crudely-made bombs on it from helicopters.This came just hours after the government had finally allowed the United Nations to make a food aid delivery to the area - the first for four years."
2016-06-11,China Restricts Ramadan Fast For Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang
2016-06-11,'Lost' Medieval City Discovered Beneath Cambodian Jungle | Angkor Wat & Temple Cities
2016-06-11,US-Backed Forces Cut All Routes To IS-Held City
2016-06-11,"Syria: Twin bombings rock Damascus suburb Sayyida Zeinab | The Damascus district is home to Syria's holiest Shia place, the Sayyida Zeinab shrine."
2016-06-11,"The night sky is vanishing, with the Milky Way no longer visible to one third of humanity including 60% of Europeans and nearly 80% of North Americans due to light pollution."
2016-06-11,Canada tells South African firefighters to leave 'as soon as possible' after they went on strike over a wage dispute
2016-06-11,Eritrean accused of being people smuggling kingpin says he is innocent | Man in custody in Italy after being extradited by Sudan tells lawyer he is not Medhanie Mered but Medhanie Berhe
2016-06-10,U.N. Chief Admits He Removed Saudi Arabia From Child-Killer List Due to Extortion
2016-06-10,German public pool bans the burqini
2016-06-10,Trans people in UK could face rape charges if they don't reveal gender history
2016-06-10,"Hindu ashram (monastery) worker hacked to death in Bangladesh: There have been systematic attacks in Bangladesh in recent months on minorities, secular bloggers, intellectuals and foreigners"
2016-06-10,Naked & afraid: German nudist colony protests refugee shelter over safety concerns
2016-06-10,"Carbon dioxide has been pumped underground and turned rapidly into stone, demonstrating a radical new way to tackle climate change. The unique project promises a cheaper and more secure way of burying CO2 from fossil fuel burning underground, where it cannot warm the planet."
2016-06-10,AIDS deaths in India down 55% since 2007 ;HIV infections down by 66% since 2000
2016-06-10,"Kurdish Group Claims Responsibility for Istanbul Attack - Kurdistan Freedom Falcons warns tourists ""Turkey is no longer secure for you."""
2016-06-10,"U.S. widens war in Afghanistan, authorizes new action against Taliban"
2016-06-10,"UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he faced ""unacceptable"" pressure to remove the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen from a blacklist over child casualties. Mr Ban said a number of countries had threatened to cut off vital funding for many UN programmes."
2016-06-10,Refugee camp in Duesseldorf burned down by migrants
2016-06-10,Russia: We will respond to entry of U.S. naval vessel into Black Sea
2016-06-10,"For the first time ever, India has crossed a major milestone in the use of renewable energy; Total capacity of renewable energy projects(wind and solar energy) expanded to 42,850 MW, overtaking hydropower at 42,783 MW, out of the country's total capacity of 300,000 MW on April 30"
2016-06-10,Justin Trudeau defends deal to sell armored vehicles to the Saudis  Were not a banana republic
2016-06-10,"The United States has wasted billions of dollars in reconstruction aid to Afghanistan over the past decade, and now a renewed Taliban insurgency is threatening the gains that have been made, the U.S governments top watchdog on Afghanistan said"
2016-06-10,67% Increase in Mexican Multi-Millionaires Under Pea Nieto.Mexico is the second largest economy in Latin America and also one of the most unequal countries in the world. An estimated 61 million live in poverty
2016-06-10,"Years before Big Oil began sowing doubt about the science of climate change and fighting efforts to cut dangerous emissions, the fossil fuel industry sought to muddle the research around smog"
2016-06-10,Japan and India consider a joint Earth sciences space mission
2016-06-10,First freight train from India to Russia will start running in August
2016-06-10,The former attorney-general of Papua New Guinea has called for Australians to help investigate the police shooting at student protesters that left as many as a dozen wounded.
2016-06-10,Israel temporarily barring all Palestinians from entering Israel after Tel Aviv attack.
2016-06-10,"Bog Butter Found in Irelands County MeathThe 2,000 yrs old waxy lump was 12 ft below bog. Butter, placed in wooden casket or animal hide, was buried in bogs to preserve it. This lump was not covered. It is at the juncture of 3 kingdoms, like a no-mans land."
2016-06-10,U.S.-backed forces cut off all routes into IS-held Manbij: Syrian Observatory
2016-06-10,Military frees 225 hostages held by Boko Haram
2016-06-10,"Mumbai has 25 days of water left in reservoirs.A 50% water cut has also been imposed on shopping malls, star hotels, factories and stadiums."
2016-06-09,"Vandals Destroy 8,000-Yr-Old Aboriginal Artworks in Tasmania - The priceless rock art is damaged beyond repair"
2016-06-09,"China plans massive sea lab 10,000 feet underwater"
2016-06-09,Assisted Suicide Is Now Legal in Canada  And One Province Is Providing Free Drugs to Do It
2016-06-09,Shootings reported at food and retail center in central Tel Aviv
2016-06-09,Miners find 500-year-old shipwreck filled with gold coins in Namibian desert
2016-06-09,Sir Tim Berners-Lee: Internet has become 'worlds largest surveillance network'
2016-06-09,The 4 newest elements on the periodic table have just been named
2016-06-09,Migrant numbers plunge as Norway now 'less attractive' - Integration Minister Sylvi Listhaug says her moves to make Norway a less sought-after destination for migrants have worked.
2016-06-09,ISIS defectors asking Western governments for help returning home
2016-06-09,"Thousands of Walmart China workers organise online to oppose new working hours system.Walmart Workers Network, which usually fluctuates between 100-200 members, grew to 10,000 in just a few weeks, according to Wang Shishu, the groups co-founder."
2016-06-09,"Threaten one MP and you're attacking the whole parliament, Lammert tells Turkey. Germany's speaker of parliament has sharply criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following threats against German-Turkish MPs. Norbert Lammert said top Turkish politicians had fuelled the fire."
2016-06-09,Bundestag urges Angela Merkel to stand up to Turkey
2016-06-09,"BlackBerry hands over user data to help police 'kick ass,' insider says"
2016-06-09,"Israel Suspends Ramadan Entry Permits for 83,000 Palestinians"
2016-06-09,"Physicists confirm there's a second layer of information hidden in our DNA - ...the researchers have shown that there's more than one way that DNA mutations can affect us: by changing the letters in our DNA, or simply by changing the mechanical cues that arrange the way a strand is folded."
2016-06-09,Three Syrian Hospitals Bombed in Just Three Hours
2016-06-09,Germans get richer while southern Europe lags: study
2016-06-09,"India truly aligned with America now, Indian Prime Minister Modi hints in his address to US Congress; common ojectives and collaborations being securing world peace to science technology and defence cooperation"
2016-06-09,"Palestinians celebrate terror attack in Tel Aviv, Saudis strongly condemn"
2016-06-09,Germany: Family Reunification Could Double Number of Syrians
2016-06-09,Erdogan's rage brings death threats to German MPs: German MPs of Turkish origin faced death threats from people loyal to Turkish President Erdogan at the weekend after voting to declare Ottoman masacres of Armenians a genocide.
2016-06-09,"Peru's forced sterilization trauma haunts election: The doctors told Victoria Vigo her third child must be born by Cesarean. Without telling her, they also tied her fallopian tubes. She would have no more children."
2016-06-09,"Irelands abortion laws violated woman's human rights, says UN: Landmark ruling finds countrys restrictive abortion legislation subjected Amanda Mellet to emotional and mental suffering"
2016-06-09,Spacex plans the first relaunch of one of its rockets in September or October of this year
2016-06-09,Nasa to map coral reefs from the air to show impact of climate change: Scientists hope large-scale maps will offer new insight into effects of warming and pollution as previous studies have almost always been done up close in the water.
2016-06-08,"UN Removes Saudi Arabia From Human Rights Blacklist After Just A Week, Faces Backlash - Rights groups accuse UN of flip-flopping & giving into political manipulation."
2016-06-08,Journalists Are Backing Out of the Olympics Over Zika
2016-06-08,A United Nations whistleblower who was suspended for exposing the sexual abuse of children by peacekeepers has resigned over the organisations failure to hold senior officials to account.
2016-06-08,Long jump champion freezes sperm ahead of Olympics as Zika fears swirl
2016-06-08,"Despite 'Moral Angst' About Inequality, World's Richest Just Keep Getting Richer: 'Unless companies rein in executive salaries, pay their fair share of taxes, and invest in decent jobs the yawning gap between the haves and have-nots will continue to grow'"
2016-06-08,World's wealthiest people just got 5.2% wealthier | Business
2016-06-08,Denmark strips man of citizenship after terrorism conviction
2016-06-08,China Approves $15 Billion of Green Debt in Pollution Fight
2016-06-08,German and Swiss authorities have carried out raids seizing documents after learning a German private detective had investigated the MH17 air disaster.
2016-06-08,North Korea restarts plutonium production for nuclear bombs - U.S. official
2016-06-08,Saudi Arabia Threatened to Break Relations With U.N. Over Human Rights Criticism in Yemen: Riyadh warned Turtle Bay it would pull hundreds of millions of dollars from U.N. programs if it was singled out for killing and maiming children in Yemen
2016-06-08,"The list of the rich and powerful attending this year's Bilderberg Conference has been released - it includes bankers, prime ministers and former heads of the CIA and MI6."
2016-06-08,"Israel honors Japan's ""Schindler"" who saved thousands of Jews in WWII"
2016-06-08,Around 35 percent of Russians believe the government poses no threat to free speech and does not infringe on the activities of the independent media.87 percent of respondents said they never access news information from foreign sources.
2016-06-08,Kenya nationwide blackout caused by rogue monkey
2016-06-08,"Migrants linked to 69,000 would-be or actual crimes in Germany in first three months of 2016: police"
2016-06-08,Thailand eliminates mother-to-child HIV transmission
2016-06-08,Erdoan's draconian new law demolishes Turkey's EU ambitions
2016-06-08,"Asylum seekers' ages a guessing game for case workers - An internal report from the Migration Agency has found widespread uncertainty among staff when it comes to determining the age of refugees, who often arrive in Sweden without identification."
2016-06-08,"Federal government orders Canada Post to stop delivering Toronto newspaper, calling it hate propaganda"
2016-06-08,Time to make India Muslim-free: Sadhvi Prachi
2016-06-08,"UK bankers increased lobbying efforts in 2016, spending over $38 Million a year to influence EU lawmakers: Report"
2016-06-08,Israeli Air Force attacked Syrian weapons facility over weekend
2016-06-08,"Russia deploys troops westward as standoff with NATO deepens: building an army base near its border with Ukraine, the latest in a chain of new military sites along what the Kremlin sees as its frontline in a growing confrontation with NATO"
2016-06-08,British police accused of helping to train Saudi 'torturers' | Home News | News
2016-06-07,Five Men in India Have Been Convicted for the Gang Rape of a Danish Tourist
2016-06-07,"A biologist has accidentally discovered that electric eels can make leaping attacks that dramatically increase the strength of the electric shocks they deliver and, in so doing, has confirmed a 200-year-old observation by famous 19th century explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt."
2016-06-07,"US returns over 200 artifacts worth more than $100 million to India ; Included in the collection is a bronze sculpture of the Hindu god Ganesh estimated to be 1,000-year-old"
2016-06-07,"Ramadan: The Chinese government has banned civil servants, students and children from taking part in fasting."
2016-06-07,"For The First Time In India, Male Students Can Now File Sexual Harassment Complaints Against Women, Men And Transgenders"
2016-06-07,"Earliest evidence of controlled fire making in Europe found - Charred bone, heat-rippled stone in Spanish cave date back 800,000 yrs. Cave has 2,300 heated or charred bones. Fossils of extinct animals also found with the tools. Some argue the the tools are some 600,000 yrs old."
2016-06-07,"India's space agency (ISRO) creates biggest ever space coalition, over 60 space agencies involved including NASA, to establish an international system to centralise data to fight climate change."
2016-06-07,Explosion rocks Istanbul district near bus stop
2016-06-07,"30 Fukushima kids diagnosed with thyroid cancer in second check, upping total to 131 but radiation 'unlikely' cause"
2016-06-07,"Hindu priest shot, hacked to death in Bangladesh"
2016-06-07,Israeli cabinet set to vote on decriminalizing cannabis within a week
2016-06-07,'Alarming' rise in ransomware tracked
2016-06-07,Doctor-assisted dying about to become legal in Canada
2016-06-07,Recall of Monsanto's Roundup likely as EU refuses limited use of glyphosate
2016-06-07,Stephen Hawkings finally published a solution to the black hole information paradox
2016-06-07,NATO allies launch largest Military exercise since end of Cold war in clear message to Russia
2016-06-07,Hagia Sophia: Protests over Ramadan prayers held at Turkey's historic cathedral
2016-06-07,"Christian fundamentalist schools teaching girls they must obey men, that homosexuality is unnatural and favouring Creationism over evolution - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk"
2016-06-07,Israel finds artifacts hidden in Norwegian diplomatic car
2016-06-07,Open-air toilet: Police clear out migrant shantytown in Paris after locals complaints
2016-06-07,"X-Rays Reveal ""Hidden Library"" on the Spines of Early Books - The words of the 8th-century St Bede are among those being found by detecting iron, copper & zinc, contents of medieval ink, without damaging the printed books."
2016-06-07,Free Wi-Fi coming all over Ho Chi Minh city
2016-06-07,"Documents reveal feds' effort to discredit Snowden, reveal CIA ties"
2016-06-07,"UN asks governments for 2050 plans to phase out coal, oil and gas"
2016-06-07,Zimbabwe: Thousands March Against Mugabe
2016-06-06,Nearly 60% of Qatar population live in 'labour camps'
2016-06-06,UK pedophile Richard Huckle given 22 life sentences for serial sex abuse in Malaysia
2016-06-06,"Neo Nazi who planned to kill Muslims and Jews in Euro 2016 terror attacks arrested by Special Forces, had massive arsenal of explosives and rifles"
2016-06-06,Death threats sent to German MPs amid Erdogan anger at Armenia genocide vote - Turkish president says MPs who backed motion to recognise slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians are 'terrorists' with 'impure blood'
2016-06-06,"Erdogan: A woman who rejects motherhood is ""deficient"" and""incomplete"", urging women to haveat least three children"
2016-06-06,"Arctic sea ice to disappear for first time in 100,000 years"
2016-06-06,"U.S. Navy bans 18,600 sailors from drinking in Japan."
2016-06-06,ISIS publicly burns alive 19 Kurdish women for rejecting sex slavery
2016-06-06,"ISIS extremists burn 19 Yezidi girls to death in Mosul: ""They were punished for refusing to have sex with ISIS militants."""
2016-06-06,"Hours before the Federal Reserve Bank of New York approved four fraudulent requests to send $81 million from a Bangladesh Bank account to cyber thieves, the Fed branch blocked those same requests because they lacked information required to transfer money"
2016-06-06,China restricts Ramadan fasting in Muslim region: Govt websites
2016-06-06,Scientists grow human organs for transplant inside pigs
2016-06-06,"In Honduras, a kidnapped gay rights activist has been found dead"
2016-06-06,"Stonehenge was dismantled in Wales and moved to Wiltshire, scientists claim | The Welsh connection isnt just about stones its likely to be a long term movement from west to east at this particular time, says archaelogist Mike Parker Pearson"
2016-06-06,"UK | Christian fundamentalist schools are teaching girls they must obey men. Former pupils reveal that homosexuality is being taught as unnatural, while Creationism is favoured over evolution in science lessons."
2016-06-06,Critically endangered Rhino who was given the royal seal of approval before being released back into the wild in Africa from UK has given birth to a healthy baby calf.
2016-06-06,Jaguar Land Rover sues Chinese automobile company for copying Evoque
2016-06-06,"Anxiety disorders 'need more research', says global study"
2016-06-06,Panama Papers Show How Rich United States Clients Hid Millions Abroad
2016-06-06,Brexit Won't end european project- European parliament Vice-Chief
2016-06-06,Taiwan says won't recognize Chinese air defense zone over South China Sea
2016-06-06,South China Sea dispute: China is trading aid for support for claims
2016-06-06,Five Jordanian officers killed in attack at Baqaa camp near Amman
2016-06-06,Bangladesh Minister suggests Israeli behind spate of killings of secular bloggers and minorities in Bangladesh
2016-06-06,"German right-wing leader blasts 'dictator' Merkel: A German right-wing populist politician has attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel as a ""dictator"" who is trying to ""replace the German people"" with migrants, a Sunday newspaper reported."
2016-06-05,Pope Francis reveals new church law to deal with paedophile priests: Catholic bishops who fail to sack paedophile priests can be removed from office
2016-06-05,"""Shoot him and I'll give you a medal"" - Philippine president encourages citizens to shoot drug dealers"
2016-06-05,Switzerland rejects proposals for unconditional basic income by overwhelming majority
2016-06-05,ISIS kills dozens of own members amid spy scare
2016-06-05,NSA whistleblower Snowden says U.S. government carrying out mass surveillance in Japan
2016-06-05,BBC News: Six hurt as shots fired at tourist bus in France
2016-06-05,Christians in Nigerias mainly Muslim north demanded Saturday that authorities do more to protect them after a woman was stabbed to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.
2016-06-05,A British ex-serviceman abandoned his Mount Everest climb some 500m from the summit to save a fellow mountaineer
2016-06-05,Chile Producing So Much Solar Energy Its Giving Electricity Away for Free - The countrys central grid has increased four-fold to 770 megawatts since 2013.
2016-06-05,"German music festival ""Rock am Ring"" cancelled after more than 80 injured by lightning strikes"
2016-06-05,Quebec Has Worst ER Wait Times In The Western World: Report
2016-06-05,"Chinese lawyer Wang Yu, facing a possible life sentence in China, was on Saturday awarded the prestigious Ludovic Trarieux Prize for her work defending human rights, organisers announced in Athens on Saturday."
2016-06-05,"Dozens of gunmen in shootout with police, taking hostages in Kazakhstan"
2016-06-05,"Bus carrying 75 Czech tourists from Spain to the Czech Republic hit by gunfire in southeastern France, six tourists injured says prosecutor"
2016-06-05,Iran says U.S. ally Saudi the real 'terrorism sponsor' : Tehran on Sunday dismissed its renewed blacklisting by Washington as a state sponsor of terrorism charging that it was U.S. allies including Riyadh that were the real culprits.
2016-06-05,Value of eco crimes soars by 26% with devastating impacts on natural world Environmental crime is now the worlds fourth biggest crime and is a growing threat to security and natural resources
2016-06-05,Austrian foreign minister suggests 'refugees should be held offshore'
2016-06-05,Top Bangladesh policeman's wife killed by suspected Islamists
2016-06-05,"Tiger temple scandal exposes the shadowy billion-dollar Asian trade: 'There are more than 7,000 tigers being bred in captivity in 240 farms in SE Asia. China has 5,000 captive tigers, Thailand 1,450, Vietnam 180 and Laos around 400.'"
2016-06-05,China says it will ignore South China Sea lawsuit decision
2016-06-05,We do not fear you: Chinese admiral asserts Beijings right to South China Sea
2016-06-05,US vows 'actions' if China builds new South China Sea structures
2016-06-05,"Russia, China Ready to Invest in Bolivia Amid Economic Stability  Morales: The president pointed out that Russia and China never imposed conditions for their investments, as opposed to the United States that offered loans in exchange for privatization of Bolivian companies and natural resources."
2016-06-05,"The United States warned its citizens on Saturday of possible attacks by Islamist militants on U.S. facilities or shopping malls in South Africa during the upcoming month of Ramadan, but the South African government said the country was safe."
2016-06-05,US Asks Russia to Not Hit Al-qaeda in Syria
2016-06-04,Broadband access to be made a legal right in Ireland
2016-06-04,Norway becomes first country in the world to commit to zero deforestation
2016-06-04,"One in three young South Africans victims of sexual abuse, report finds. Boys at higher risk than girls, with few safeguards in place to protect them"
2016-06-04,Norway reportedly agrees on banning new sales of gas-powered cars by 2025
2016-06-04,Pope Francis gives Vatican authority to initiate removal of bishops who don't act on sexual abuse cases
2016-06-04,"Jeremy Corbyn: I Would Kill TTIP: In speech campaigning against Brexit, Labour leader vows to reject corporate-friendly EU-U.S. trade deal"
2016-06-04,"Sudden appearance of crater dubbed the Gateway to the Underworld in Siberia is a warning to our warming planet: Such slumps have been increasing in extent and intensity in the frozen north, scientists say"
2016-06-04,"Democracy is nothing to fear, Taiwan tells China on Tiananmen anniversary"
2016-06-04,"Thai police have charged 22 people, including three Buddhist monks, with wildlife trafficking and removed more dead animals including a bear and a leopard from the infamous Tiger Temple, authorities said on Friday."
2016-06-04,"The British Government is creating a secret database by stitching together all of its records on the public (including passports and ANPR cameras), and doing so without informing Parliament"
2016-06-04,"Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and two other top officials gave themselves annual raises and World Cup bonuses totaling nearly $80 million over the past five years, according to attorneys working for soccer's governing body."
2016-06-04,India's PM Modi inaugurates $290m dam in Afghanistan
2016-06-04,"Cancer is entering a ""new era"" of personalised medicine with drugs targeted to the specific weaknesses in each patient's tumour, say doctors."
2016-06-04,US Launches Raids On IS From Aircraft Carrier
2016-06-04,"Philippines police given more than $4,000 for killing drug traffickers  the first such rewards since president-elect Rodrigo Duterte promoted bounties for criminals."
2016-06-04,Iran's Top Leader Rules Out Cooperation With US Against ISIS
2016-06-04,"Sepp Blatter and Deputies Arranged Huge Payouts After Indictments, FIFA Says: FIFA said three former top officials arranged to pay themselves more than $80 million over the past five years."
2016-06-04,Activists openly mark Tiananmen crackdown on Chinas streets
2016-06-04,US vows 'actions' if China builds new S. China Sea structures
2016-06-04,Many gas stations in Canada are experiencing a gas shortage due to the Fort McMurray wildfire continuing to spread
2016-06-04,"Siberia's tattooed princess revealed: 2,500-year-old mummy to go on public display, but will be draped in fur to hide her modesty"
2016-06-04,Mexican officials exhume 117 corpses from common grave
2016-06-04,Thousands protest violence against women in Argentina after 3 girls slain
2016-06-04,U.S. says has information on plans for terrorist attacks in South Africa
2016-06-04,U.S. fails to revive Iraqi army
2016-06-03,"A seven-year-old boy who went missing in bear-inhabited forests in northern Japan after his parents said they abandoned him as punishment, has been found alive, according to local reports."
2016-06-03,Families of victims murdered by Colombian paramilitaries are one step closer to achieving justice for their loved ones as a United States judge gave the green light for a federal lawsuit against former executives of the U.S. fruit company Chiquita.
2016-06-03,"Young fish become hooked on eating plastic in the seas in the same way that teenagers prefer unhealthy fast food, Swedish researchers have said"
2016-06-03,Cyclist died after three ambulances could not find Olympic velodrome: London Ambulance Service took 27 minutes to reach venue because satnavs had not been updated since 2012 Games
2016-06-03,"President Obama defended his declining military budgets and reluctance to use military force in Syria Thursday, saying the U.S. made mistakes when it overreached in Vietnam and Iraq."
2016-06-03,Thailand Creating Forests By Dropping Millions Of Trees Out Of Aircraft
2016-06-03,"Mysterious ""boom"" sounds heard throughout north-east of Romania"
2016-06-03,"Poland plans paramilitary force of 35,000 to counter Russia"
2016-06-03,Angola president appoints billionaire daughter boss of state oil firm
2016-06-03,"Ankara to Berlin: You burned the Jews in ovens, and accuse Turkey of genocide"
2016-06-03,"A high-profile, Putin-backed campaign to protect the habitat of Persian leopards has been quietly abandoned, clearing the way for Russia's richest man to expand his ski resort."
2016-06-03,North Korea ballistic missile explodes on launch fourth straight time
2016-06-03,Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have discovered that the universe is expanding 5-9% percent faster than expected.
2016-06-03,30 more tiger cub bodies have been found at the Thai Buddhist temple accused of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.
2016-06-03,Officials say 499 Islamic extremists pose threat in Germany
2016-06-03,Taiwan holds first Tiananmen commemoration in parliament
2016-06-03,"the Swiss will on Sunday vote on a radical proposal to provide the entire population with an unconditional, basic income to fight poverty, inequality and provide ""a dignified"" existence to all, according to campaigners."
2016-06-03,Paris shuts Louvre museum to evacuate artworks as flood waters rise
2016-06-03,Documents reveal how Ayatollah Khomeini was talking in secret with US before and during Iranian revolution.
2016-06-03,The Philippines Giant Fish Are Disappearing - Overfishing has almost wiped out 59 reef fish species.
2016-06-03,U.N. adds Saudi coalition to blacklist for killing children in Yemen
2016-06-03,"A giant panda cub has been born at a zoo in Belgium, an event so rare it is being described a ""true miracle"". The healthy male cub was born at a wildlife park outside Brussels to six-year-old Hao Hao and her mate Xing Hui, both on loan from China."
2016-06-03,Stanford researchers stunned by stem cell experiment that helped stroke patient walk
2016-06-03,Arrests For Social Media Posts Surge In London
2016-06-03,Canada wants answers as Russian rocket set to fall into Arctic waters
2016-06-02,Germany recognizes the Armenian Genocide
2016-06-02,"Media Is Ignoring The Most Important Part Of Stephen Hawkings Comments On Trump: Hawking said he didnt believe Trump was the greatest threat facing America, or even the world. The greatest threat is human-caused climate change."
2016-06-02,"Germanys second largest supermarket chain, Rewe, will stop using plastic bags. This will save Germany from 140 million plastic bags landing in the garbage every year."
2016-06-02,"Elon Musk says he plans to send rocket to Mars by 2018, manned mission to planet by 2024 ."
2016-06-02,Isis terror plot in Germany: Four Syrian men arrested for allegedly planning suicide bombings in Dsseldorf
2016-06-02,"Ignoring Turkey, U.S. backs Kurds in drive against ISIS in Syria"
2016-06-02,Jeremy Corbyn promises to try and kill TTIP
2016-06-02,"Foreign-connected PACs spent $10 million on the US election so far: It isnt only American companies and unions that spend money on the US election, subsidiaries of European firms also make themselves heard. The biggest spenders so far are a Swiss bank and a British defense company"
2016-06-02,"Brazil's government has sprung a leak, and a flood of secrets is gushing out"
2016-06-02,British Special forces play Bollywood music to annoy ISIS
2016-06-02,"The colorless coral corpses of north Queensland will soon be blanketed with mats of algae, and the hard skeletons will begin to crumble. It may take decades for the submerged wonders of what had recently been unspoiled reefs to resprout and recover from the wipeout, if they ever do."
2016-06-02,20-year-old sentenced to 5 years in prison for plotting a terror attack on Swedish soil.
2016-06-02,'Universal cancer vaccine breakthrough claimed by scientists
2016-06-02,"Big Pharma and governments are 'turning a blind eye to corruption', report claims: Transparency International says corruption is making a few rich and wrecking the health of some of the world's poorest people"
2016-06-02,Scottish parliament votes narrowly in favour of ban on fracking
2016-06-02,Turkey recalls Germany ambassador after genocide vote
2016-06-02,India rises past the US to become the internet's second biggest user
2016-06-02,Police Crack Down on Poor Venezuelans Protesting Food Shortages
2016-06-02,"Military kills five Boko Haram terrorists, rescues 248 hostages"
2016-06-02,"Chinas foreign minister berates Canadian journalist, calls question on human rights irresponsible"
2016-06-02,Italian man suffers brain damage and now speaks and reads French
2016-06-02,"Environmentalists plan fierce battle against Bayer-Monsanto merger Critics fear the takeover of Monsanto by Bayer would create a GMO juggernaut too powerful for Europe to resist, while conveniently ""disappearing"" a tarnished brand. Concerns abound over concentration in the seed market."
2016-06-02,Study says long-term pot use causes poor gum health  but not much else
2016-06-02,Saudi scholar issues fatwa against stealing your neighbours Wi-Fi
2016-06-02,Twitter Unblocks Putin Parody Account After Free Speech Outcry: @DarthPutinKGB celebrated his return to Twitter
2016-06-01,Forty tiger cub bodies have been found in a freezer at a Thai Buddhist temple accused of wildlife trafficking and animal abuse.
2016-06-01,"Forced contact with Amazon people would be 'genocide', tribe warns: Survival International says other tribes, who have themselves experienced the dangers of 'first contact', are protecting uncontacted groups against the plans of 'some anthropologists in another country'"
2016-06-01,"Sweden: Fewer than 500 of 163,000 asylum seekers found jobs"
2016-06-01,"Philippine president-elect says 'corrupt' journalists will be killed: ""Just because youre a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if youre a son of a bitch."""
2016-06-01,Cars registered before 1997 will be banned in Paris as of July 1st.
2016-06-01,North Korea praises Trump and urges US voters to reject 'dull Hillary'
2016-06-01,"Walmart, Gap, H&M Called Out for Global Worker Exploitation and Abuse: Reports find tens of thousands of laborers in Bangladesh are still making garments in buildings without proper fire exits, while pregnant workers in Indonesia and India face discrimination and wage theft."
2016-06-01,The families of those killed during the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown have accused Beijing of subjecting them to nearly three decades of white terror in a bid to stop them speaking out about the massacre.
2016-06-01,"Anti-vaccination protesters shut down Australian immunisation seminar, call doctors liars"
2016-06-01,"World's longest and deepest rail tunnel to open in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work. It runs 35 miles (57 kilometers) and connects northern and southern Europe by passing under the Swiss Alps. Switzerland says it will revolutionize European freight transport."
2016-06-01,"Dozens in Russia Imprisoned for Social Media Likes, Reposts"
2016-06-01,Erdogan threatens Merkel and German parliament to not recognize the Armenian Genocide by Turkey
2016-06-01,Almost all of Israels 32 women in parliament have been sexually harassed or assaulted
2016-06-01,Black Box From Crashed EgyptAir Jet Found
2016-06-01,Saudi Arabia on course to execute more than 100 people.
2016-06-01,Angela Merkel strikes deal with German states to put brakes on green energy. Pact addresses concerns that burgeoning output from renewables is putting strain on electricity grid and pushing up prices
2016-06-01,Residents challenge council on sale of 40 billion litres of aquifer water.The battle over just who owns our water is being fought across the country. Water ownership is also an in issue in Hawke's Bay. Regional councillor Peter Beaven says everyone should own the precious resource.
2016-06-01,Twitter suspends @DarthPutinKGB account mocking Vladimir Putin: A number of accounts spoofing Russia and its leaders have been banned from the social media site.
2016-06-01,"More than 45 million people are living in modern slavery, with Asia accounting for two thirds of the victims, a new report says. About 3,000 children from Vietnam alone are thought to be working in British cannabis farms and nail bars."
2016-06-01,"Developing world invests more in renewable energy than rich countries for first time, new study says"
2016-06-01,The new president of the Philippines says many slain journalists deserved it
2016-06-01,Israel on Wednesday freed a Jewish extremist detained 10 months ago following an arson attack in which a Palestinian toddler was burned to death.
2016-06-01,David Cameron's former advisor admits downloading images of girls as young as 10 - but denies they're indecent
2016-06-01,BBC News: Renewable energy surges to record levels around the world
2016-06-01,Former Miss Turkey given prison sentence for insulting president Erdogan on Instagram
2016-05-31,Every reference to the Great Barrier Reef removed from UN report on impact of climate change after intervention from Australian government.
2016-05-31,"Denmark to stop paying salary to royal family grandchildren: 'Simple mathematics dictate that there needs to be some sort of limit. Otherwise within a few generations there will be several hundred princes and princesses who need an annual salary,' says a ruling party spokesman"
2016-05-31,Mass sexual assault reported at music festival in Germany: The attacks are similar to those reported in Cologne and other cities on New Year's Eve.
2016-05-31,North Korea tries and fails to launch missile
2016-05-31,"In the last 17 months, 2234 Indians get HIV via blood transfusions"
2016-05-31,"Chinese Official: China has no interest in any form of cold war, nor are we interested in playing a role in a Hollywood movie written and directed by certain US military officials"
2016-05-31,Egypt in shock at first female circumcision death reported in 3 years
2016-05-31,France bans work emails outside office hours
2016-05-31,"Australia to lift minimum wage by 2.4%, an increase to $17.70 per hour"
2016-05-31,EU court adviser: Employers can ban Muslim headscarf
2016-05-31,"Several NSW Police officers have been savaged in court for allegedly grabbing the breasts and neck of an anti-Reclaim Australia protester, then covering their actions up by deleting evidence, making up a false charge against her, lying under oath and attacking her in court."
2016-05-31,"Angela Merkel's 'hasty' approach to TTIP trade deal condemned by the German Vice-Chancellor: 'If the Americans hold fast to this position, we don't need the free trade treaty. And TTIP will fail,' says Vice-Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel"
2016-05-31,"Syphilis, gonorrhea cases up among all ages in Canada - Health"
2016-05-31,Egyptian President pledges justice for Christian mother beaten and stripped by mob
2016-05-31,S. Korea detects signs North preparing missile launch
2016-05-31,"Nearly 46 Million People Trapped in Modern Slavery, Report Finds"
2016-05-31,"A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced a member of an independent human rights organization to eight years in prison in the latest guilty verdict to be issued against the group's members, rights group Amnesty International said"
2016-05-31,"Malaysia just established a one million hectare marine park: off the northern tip of Borneo it's a region containing the second largest concentration of coral reefs in Malaysia as well as other important habitats like mangroves, sea grass beds and productive fishing grounds"
2016-05-31,Sausage-Wielding Extremists Attack Vegan Cafe In Tbilisi
2016-05-31,"Solid gold, diamond-encrusted, $5,000,000 Maltese Eagle stolen in Vancouver"
2016-05-31,Sweden struggles with first gender balance shift in 267 years
2016-05-31,Migrant crisis is fueling sex trafficking of Nigerian girls to Europe
2016-05-31,ISIS slaughters 12 more Real Madrid fans in Iraq during Champions League final
2016-05-31,"G7 nations pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025: Leaders of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the EU urge all countries to join them in eliminating support for coal, oil and gas in a decade"
2016-05-31,Hundreds of undamaged Fort McMurray homes declared unsafe due to toxic ash
2016-05-30,"'Huge wake up call': Third of central, northern Great Barrier Reef corals dead, scientists say"
2016-05-30,IKEA vows to be net exporter of renewable energy by 2020 - Worlds biggest furniture retailer says its going all in to have a net positive impact on the climate through renewable energy investment
2016-05-30,"Harvard Scientist Engineers Superbug That Inhales CO2, Produces Energy"
2016-05-30,Disabled people who cannot work must be given minimum wage - Prime Minister of Malta
2016-05-30,Turkey's Erdogan: No Muslim family should engage in birth control
2016-05-30,Japan 'alert' for possible North Korea missile launch
2016-05-30,Four young Egyptians in custody for video making fun of the government
2016-05-30,"Israeli police recommended bringing criminal charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife on suspicion of misuse of state funds and inflated household spending, Israeli media have said."
2016-05-30,Revealed: cancer scientists' pensions invested in tobacco
2016-05-30,Philippine troops kill 54 Islamist militants in the south
2016-05-30,Australia covered up UN climate change fears for Tasmania forests and Kakadu
2016-05-30,Zika virus: expectant mothers advised to avoid Rio Olympics
2016-05-30,"Canadian special forces on the front lines with Kurdish forces aiming to retake Iraqi city from ISIL, U.S. says"
2016-05-30,Lufthansa halts service to Venezuela
2016-05-30,"British people are not demanding more transparency from the intelligence services as loudly as Americans, the former director of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA has said."
2016-05-30,Mexico footballer Alan Pulido rescued after kidnapping
2016-05-30,FIFA president found $2 million pay 'insulting' report shows
2016-05-30,Malaysia's government throws support behind Islamic penal code that includes amputations and stonings
2016-05-30,ISIS Gunmen kill 12 Real Madrid fans as they watched the Champions League Final in Iraq
2016-05-30,Former Chad dictator Hissane Habre found guilty for crimes against humanity
2016-05-30,"Iraqi terrorists attack another soccer fan club - 12 dead, 8 injured"
2016-05-30,"A 27-year-old American man has been given preliminary charges of attempted murder in an exceptionally violent attack on police in their patrol car that drew national attention, the Paris prosecutors office said Sunday."
2016-05-30,Turkey's Erdogan 'alarmed' by French crackdown on protests
2016-05-30,Turkish artillery and US jets heavily hit ISIL in Syria
2016-05-30,Armed squad kills 11 people in Venezuela
2016-05-29,"France will ""go all the way"" to ensure that multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes and more cases could follow after Google and McDonald's were targeted by tax raids, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said"
2016-05-29,"Super-rich Swiss village opts for 200,000 fine instead of accepting 10 refugees"
2016-05-29,Iranian students get 99 lashes for attending mixed graduation party: Around 35 men and women were sentenced to 99 lashes each after being found 'dancing and jubilating' by the country's notorious Morality Police
2016-05-29,"Britain is the most corrupt country in the world, claims mafia expert Roberto Saviano: 'Its not the bureaucracy, its not the police, its not the politics but what is corrupt is the financial capital'"
2016-05-29,Canadian Conservatives vote to end official opposition to gay marriage
2016-05-29,Pakistan withdraws ban on condom ads after public backlash
2016-05-29,Chinese backlash over Windows 10 upgrade push - unauthorized upgrades
2016-05-29,"The UK is selling record quantities of arms  including missiles, bombs and grenades  to countries listed by the Foreign Office as having dubious human rights records. Several have been accused of war crimes or suppressing popular protest."
2016-05-29,WHO rejects call by scientists to postpone Rio Olympics due to Zika virus outbreak.
2016-05-29,Tony Blair has suggested that he will refuse to accept the verdict of the Chilcot inquiry if it accuses him of committing Britain to invading Iraq before he told parliament and the public.
2016-05-29,"Venezuela Drifts Into New Territory: Hunger, Blackouts and Government Shutdown"
2016-05-29,Israel Police recommend indicting Sara Netanyahu over irregularities at PM's residence
2016-05-29,All scientific papers to be free by 2020 under EU proposals. Results of research supported by public and public-private funds set to be made freely available to all
2016-05-29,Comet 67P dust discovered to contain building blocks of life
2016-05-29,"Some 20 people living in the ""Jungle"" refugee camp in the northern French port of Calais were injured in a brawl between around 200 Afghans and Sudanese on Thursday"
2016-05-29,Children fight to live after lightning hits 11 in Paris park
2016-05-29,Jordan's King Abdullah II has issued a royal decree formally dissolving the Jordanian House of Representatives
2016-05-29,Lufthansa suspends flights to Venezuela amid the country's ongoing economic crisis
2016-05-29,Philippines: 22 dead in 3 days of clashes with military
2016-05-29,UN: 700 Migrants May Have Drowned In Mediterranean
2016-05-29,"H&M is being criticised for widespread labour rights violations and the ""painfully slow"" progress of safety renovations at factories: report, based on 251 interviews with workers from 17 H&M supplier factories in Cambodia and India, found women were being routinely fired during their pregnancy."
2016-05-29,Iran: Hajj Pilgrimage to Be Called Off for Iranians This Year
2016-05-29,"""British researchers have found a way to use a natural protein to repair damaged heart tissue."""
2016-05-29,Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asks doctors to treat pregnant women for free
2016-05-29,"Mossack Fonseca to close offices in Jersey, Gibraltar and Isle of Man: The law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers is closing its offices in the British-dependent territories with great regret"
2016-05-28,All European scientific articles to be freely accessible by 2020.
2016-05-28,Zika crisis: Rio Olympics 'should be moved or postponed'
2016-05-28,Child rapist ISIS fighter who laughed about buying sex slaves is captured by Kurdish Peshmerga
2016-05-28,"Gay sex causes earthquakes and 'disgusts' Allah, says Muslim cleric in Ghana"
2016-05-28,North Korea Linked To $81 Million Bangladesh Bank Heist
2016-05-28,Sex Pistol John Lydon: Blowing whistle on Jimmy Savile got me banned from BBC
2016-05-28,SpaceX successfully lands Falcon 9 rocket at sea for the 3rd time
2016-05-28,El Salvador - where women are jailed for 40 years for the 'crime' of having a miscarriage - Woman just released after spending only 5 years in jail for miscarrying.
2016-05-28,China is encouraging its citizens to eat less meat  and that could be a big win for the climate
2016-05-28,Okinawa base imposes curfew on US troops after woman's death
2016-05-28,A 9-year-old US-UK citizen has launched a legal action against the British government for refusing to request her fathers return after he was kidnapped by Ethiopian security forces and renditioned to Ethiopia to face a death sentence for being an opponent of that countrys government
2016-05-28,"China to replace school children's 2,625 foot ladder with stairs"
2016-05-28,North Korea threatens retaliation after South Korean warning shots
2016-05-28,China says Nanjing more worthy of remembrance than Hiroshima
2016-05-28,Brazil 'mass rape' video: President calls crisis talks
2016-05-28,"Indian Muslims Resilient Against Overtures By Terrorist Groups, Says US.""There's a lot of reporting about some major investments being made by the Saudis, by the Wahhabi Clerical Movement to set up a large network of schools and madrasas throughout India,"""
2016-05-28,"Argentinas last military dictator, 88-year-old former general Reynaldo Bignone, was today sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in Operation Condor, under which an international death squad was set up by six South American military dictatorships during the 1970s and 80s."
2016-05-28,"Austerity policies do more harm than good, IMF study concludes"
2016-05-28,"U.S. panel launches trade secret theft probe into China steel: ""The steelmaker alleged hackers stole research on techniques for a new generation of high-tech steel now favored by automakers, accelerating competitor Baosteel's ability to replicate the product which took a decade to develop."""
2016-05-28,The World Health Organization (WHO) has rejected a call to move or postpone this summer's Rio Olympic Games over the Zika outbreak.
2016-05-28,U.S. Blocks Sale of Cluster Bombs to Saudi Arabia
2016-05-28,"Pakistan has banned advertisements for contraceptive products on Tv and radio over concern that they expose inquisitive children to the subject of sex, local media reported on Saturday"
2016-05-28,"300 South African firefighters deployed to fight wildfires in Alberta, Canada."
2016-05-28,China says extremely dissatisfied with G7 statement on South China Sea
2016-05-28,Netherlands gives green light for growing human embryos
2016-05-27,"Thailand has shut down 10 popular diving sites in a bid to slow a coral bleaching crisis, an official said Thursday, in a rare move to shun tourism profits to protect the environment"
2016-05-27,South Korea fires warning shots after boats from North cross sea border
2016-05-27,Refugees at Nauru who are gay or attempt suicide can no longer be jailed and men are now outlawed from raping their wives after the island republic updated its antiquated criminal code.
2016-05-27,All references to Australia have been removed from a United Nation report on climate change after the Australian Governments Environment Department expressed concerns it could cause confusion and negatively affect tourism.
2016-05-27,"The 51C heatwave that's melting India. The impact of the heat has been devastating, and increasingly fatal, particularly for the hundreds of people dying of starvation due to withering crops in their remote fields."
2016-05-27,"""The Right to Disconnect"": Weekend Work Emails Are Now Illegal In France"
2016-05-27,Sharia courts in UK face Government inquiry over treatment of women: Home Office to examine claims sharia courts  or councils  may be working in a discriminatory and unacceptable way
2016-05-27,Australia scrubbed from UN climate change report after govt intervention - All mentions of Australia were removed from the final version of a Unesco report on climate change and world heritage sites after the Australian govt objected on the grounds it could impact on tourism
2016-05-27,War on Fat: Chile Bans McDonald's 'Happy Meals' and Kinder Eggs
2016-05-27,"New boa constrictor species discovered on remote Caribbean island - Silver snake, with distinctive metallic appearance, discovered in Bahamas & confirmed as previously unknown species"
2016-05-27,"71 years after the first atomic strike, Obama calls for the end of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima"
2016-05-27,A French company that was awarded the right to build Australia's $50 billion submarine fleet is tied up in a deadly multi-million dollar bribery scandal.
2016-05-27,Caught on camera: US Special Forces on ISIS frontline in Syria
2016-05-27,Police hunt Brits who Hitler-saluted in concentration camp: Authorities in Germany are searching for two British men who took a picture of themselves performing a Nazi salute in a torture chamber in Buchenwald concentration camp.
2016-05-27,The U.S. aviation lawyer who won compensation for victims of the 1988 Lockerbie aircraft bombing is now seeking $330 million from Russia for the downing of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in 2014
2016-05-27,"Indian women sold for 4,000 in Saudia Arabia and Bahrain, minister claims"
2016-05-27,Around 2.8 million people in three Central American countries need food aid after two consecutive years of severe drought decimated crops and exacerbated hunger among the poor.
2016-05-27,Ukraine bans Gorbachev over support for Crimea annexation
2016-05-27,"Mars emerging from ice age that ended around 370,000 years ago, scientists say | Science | News"
2016-05-27,"Photos have emerged of American special operations troops in Syria wearing uniform insignia affiliated with a Kurdish rebel group known as the YPG, whose connection to Turkish terrorists could could fuel tension between the U.S. and a key ally in the Islamic State fight."
2016-05-27,"Stonehenge, Easter Island, Venice: Climate Change Will Destroy Human History | An international team of scientists, anthropologists, and economists have identified 31 cultural and natural UNESCO World Heritage sites across 29 countries that are directly threatened by climate change."
2016-05-27,Chinese News Media Censors Taiwans Flag
2016-05-27,An ancient Polish forest is coming down - Poland says a portion of the Bialowieza forest must be logged to curb a bark beetle outbreak but environmentalists disagree.
2016-05-27,Last Soviet leader Gorbachev banned from Ukraine
2016-05-27,Riot police crack down on Paris protests against labour reforms: Thousands of protesters turn out on streets of French capital as refineries and nuclear power stations across the country come to a halt
2016-05-26,Greek news sites are reporting that Aristotle's tomb was found.
2016-05-26,India to install panic buttons on public buses to curb sex attacks
2016-05-26,Switzerland: Muslim students must shake teacher's hand
2016-05-26,France's 19 nuclear plants have voted to go on strike tonight at 8pm for 24 hours.
2016-05-26,"Drones over North Korea: USB cards, flash drives dropped"
2016-05-26,Retired U.S. commander: North Korea collapse not far off
2016-05-26,"Foxconn replaces '60,000 factory workers with robots'"
2016-05-26,"Indonesia introduces death, chemical castration for Pedophiles"
2016-05-26,"ExxonMobil CEO: ending oil production 'not acceptable to humanity': The world is going to have to continue using fossil fuels, whether they like it or not."
2016-05-26,Panama Papers confirm Canadian billionaire and university benefactor as mystery man in global bribery case
2016-05-26,China to send nuclear-armed submarines into Pacific amid tensions with US
2016-05-26,"EU turned blind eye to Turkeys human rights violations: Amnesty secretary-general Europe particularly has double standards. Now that they want something from Turkey, they have turned a blind eye to human rights problems inside Turkey,"
2016-05-26,Amnesty International asks for decriminalisation of sex work
2016-05-26,"Singapore: Teenage blogger Amos Yee faces 8 new charges: for allegedly wounding the religious feelings of Muslims, and one for allegedly wounding the religious feelings of Christians"
2016-05-26,"Has a Hungarian physics lab found a fifth force of nature? - A laboratory experiment in Hungary has spotted an anomaly in radioactive decay that could be the signature of a previously unknown fifth fundamental force of nature, physicists say  if the finding holds up."
2016-05-26,"Canada's oil sands are a major source of air pollution, study says"
2016-05-26,China says its people will never stand for Taiwan independence
2016-05-26,Horrific end for majestic white lions: Poachers poison the animals then decapitate them and chop off their paws for use in black magic rituals in South Africa
2016-05-26,Pakistani religious body CII proposes bill that allows husbands be allowed to lightly beat defying wives
2016-05-26,HIV/AIDS: Togo to distribute over 10m condoms to fight disease
2016-05-26,"Sweden, With Eye On Russia, Agrees To Give NATO Greater Access"
2016-05-26,"German prosecutors investigate neo-Nazi edition of 'Mein Kampf': A German paper has published an e-mail from a far-right group claiming it will publish a version of Hitler's book free of ""tedious"" scholarly commentary. This could possibly violate laws against spreading Nazi ideology."
2016-05-26,State of emergency in Peru over mercury poisoning from illegal gold mining
2016-05-26,Legal highs ban comes into force across the UK
2016-05-26,Harrowing scenes of Venezuela on the brink of collapse
2016-05-25,"Adidas shoe manufacture returns to Germany, fully automated instead of relying on human labour in Asia"
2016-05-25,Tony Blair: Britain and US profoundly underestimated chaos brought about by toppling of Saddam Hussein | People | News
2016-05-25,"""We Truly Believe They Kill Animals"": Famous Sloth Sanctuary Is A Nightmare For Animals, Ex-Workers Say"
2016-05-25,Israel: Hamas stealing 95% of civilian cement transferred into Gaza
2016-05-25,"Poland starts logging primeval Bialowieza forest despite protests: More than 180,000 cubic metres of forest to be cut down in area that is home to Europes largest mammal and tallest trees"
2016-05-25,South Africa Just Lifted Its Ban on the Rhino Horn Trade
2016-05-25,Sweden refuses to revoke Assange arrest warrant
2016-05-25,"Thousands of children working in Indonesia's tobacco fields are being poisoned by handling the leaves of the toxic plant, an international investigation has found."
2016-05-25,"Grizzlies & polar bears are now mating - ""I hate to say it, but from a genetic perspective, its quite likely grizzly bears will eat polar bears up, genetically."" Warming Arctic allowing the 2 species to come into contact more often."
2016-05-25,Citibank to pay $425 million over attempted benchmark manipulation
2016-05-25,Sweden phases out fossil fuels in attempt to run completely off renewable energy: Sweden's prime minister announced his country will work towards becoming 'one of the first fossil fuel-free welfare states of the world'
2016-05-25,British restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman has been jailed for 6 years for manslaughter due to customers allergic reaction to peanuts ending in death. Zaman's conviction sets a precedent in the UK food industry.
2016-05-25,"Jeremy Corbyn is prepared to call for an investigation into Tony Blair for alleged war crimes during the Iraq War, according to reports.The war, launched by the US with strong UK backing, lead to the deaths of between 150,000 and 600,000 Iraqis over four years."
2016-05-25,Found off Sardinian Coast: WW11 submarine with 71 bodies inside
2016-05-25,Japan passes anti-hate speech law as Koreans targeted by racism
2016-05-25,ISIS Destroys Russian and Syrian aircraft in attack on military base
2016-05-25,14 Russian athletes failed Olympic doping retests
2016-05-25,Bridgestone abandons Venezuela
2016-05-25,Corporate Beer Overlords Will Soon Own 1 Out of 3 Beers Made on Earth - Budweiser's owner eyes a major merger& better access to markets in Africa & South America.
2016-05-25,A Brazilian Cabinet member was just caught on tape plotting to take down the president
2016-05-25,ExxonMobil tried to censor climate scientists to Congress during Bush era - Exclusive: 2001 intervention adds to evidence that oil company was aware of the science and its implications for govt policy & the energy industry
2016-05-25,Pakistan condemns US drone strike that killed Taliban leader Mansoor
2016-05-25,Palestinians reject Netanyahu's direct talks proposal
2016-05-25,"Whether out of conviction or convenience, thousands of migrants in Europe are converting to Christianity"
2016-05-25,Dutch Police Use Eagles to Take Down Illegal Drones
2016-05-24,Colombia has fired more than 1000 police officers in a massive crackdown on corruption
2016-05-24,The average city dweller in Kenya pays 16 bribes a month
2016-05-24,"Sixteen of the worlds largest banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. must face antitrust lawsuits accusing them of hurting investors who bought securities tied to Libor by rigging an interest-rate benchmark, a ruling that an appeals court warned could devastate them"
2016-05-24,Cuba to legalize small and medium sized businesses
2016-05-24,Japan: Employment rate at 97.3% for new University graduates - record high
2016-05-24,Atheist academic calls for religion 'to be offended at every opportunity': Dawkins says it's ridiculous to be accused of racism when you criticise Islam
2016-05-24,Japan: Plan to make programming mandatory at schools a step to foster creativity
2016-05-24,People of no religion outnumber Christians in England and Wales  study
2016-05-24,"Venezuelans on Tuesday woke up to discover that the government-controlled price of corn flour - used to make corn patty arepas, a staple of local cuisine - has risen by 900%. The Superintendent also said that the price of chicken would rise, up 13 times from 65 bolivares a kilo to 850 bolivares."
2016-05-24,Brazil minister ousted after secret tape reveals plot to topple President Rousseff
2016-05-24,Paris Google HQ raided in tax probe
2016-05-24,"Australian Premier makes official state apology to people convicted under ""unjust laws against homosexual acts"""
2016-05-24,U.S. Embassy in Venezuela halts new visas because of overwhelming demand
2016-05-24,"Chinas Solar Prices Can Fall 38%, Become Competitive With Coal"
2016-05-24,"Human remains retrieved from the crash site of EgyptAir flight 804 suggest there was an explosion on board that may have brought down the aircraft, an Egyptian forensics official has told Associated Press. The official, one of the Egyptian investigative team, examined the remains at a Cairo morgue."
2016-05-24,"""Frequent flyer"" - Taliban most senior leader Mansour used to fly out of Pakistani airports to Iran and Dubai on Pakistani passport"
2016-05-24,"Arctic sea ice melt ""like a train wreck"" says US scientist.Artic sea ice levels are on course to hit a new record low as warming at the North Pole accelerates.Temperatures in Alaska hit 11C above average this winter."
2016-05-24,"The controversial leader of Chechnya, Kremlin-backed Ramzan Kadyrov, has engaged John Oliver in an unlikely online spat, after the British comedian mocked the hardman leader for posting an online appeal about a lost cat."
2016-05-24,India to invest $500 million in Iran port
2016-05-24,Fracking approved in Northern England despite massive opposition
2016-05-24,"Rise of the robots: 60,000 workers culled from just one factory as Chinas struggling electronics hub turns to artificial intelligence. Kunshan, in Jiangsu province, undergoes makeover as 600 companies look to trim their headcount"
2016-05-24,Over 100 bodies dumped in a mass grave in Mexico
2016-05-24,Barack Obama has said Washington supports Vietnams territorial claims against Beijing in the South China Sea and promised it greater access to security equipment.
2016-05-24,"Chinese and Russian warplanes have been increasingly aggressive intercepting U.S. military aircraft and patrolling near Americas West Coast, prompting the Air Forces top combat officer to label their provocations one of his top worries"
2016-05-24,"Greek authorities began an operation at dawn Tuesday to gradually evacuate the countrys largest informal refugee camp of Idomeni on Macedonian border, blocking access to the area and sending in more than 400 riot police."
2016-05-23,"'It keeps happening,' rape survivor says: Protests against American military presence in Japan continued on Saturday, as the countrys defense minister lodged a formal complaint over the latest case of alleged murder and rape of a young Japanese woman by a US military base employee"
2016-05-23,"Obama will not apologize for Hiroshima attack, he tells Japanese TV"
2016-05-23,Austria rejects 'far-right president'
2016-05-23,"Climate denial arguments fail a blind test: In a Pepsi challenge test, economist and statisticians find mainstream climate arguments accurate and contrarian arguments wrong and misleading"
2016-05-23,"Operation to retake Fallujah has begun, Iraqi prime minister says"
2016-05-23,India's First-Ever Indigenous Space Shuttle Launched Successfully
2016-05-23,"Chinese and Russian warplanes have been increasingly aggressive intercepting U.S. military aircraft and patrolling near Americas West Coast, prompting the Air Forces top combat officer to label their provocations one of his top worries."
2016-05-23,"Isis threatens attacks in India. Isis mocked Muslims living in harmony with Hindus and urged them to travel to Isis-held territories.India, a Hindu-majority country, is home to more than 160 million Muslims, but only a handful of them have joined the Middle Eastern group"
2016-05-23,Turkey's prime minister formally submitted his resignation on Sunday.
2016-05-23,Samoa Considering Amending Constitution to Become a Christian State. Churches Push for a Ban on Islam
2016-05-23,"The German drugs and chemicals group Bayer has pounced on Monsanto, the worlds biggest seed company, with an unsolicited takeover offer likely to be worth more than $40bn (27bn)."
2016-05-23,"Reuters: ""U.S. to completely lift Vietnam lethal arms embargo"""
2016-05-23,31 possible Rio Olympians 'failed drug tests' in Beijing
2016-05-23,Austria election: far-right candidate and rival tied at 50% in exit poll
2016-05-23,"Turkey shifts to presidential system, even without constitutional change"
2016-05-23,Hamas to publicly execute criminals in Gaza
2016-05-23,EU Survey: 64% of Europeans in Favour of Basic Income
2016-05-23,At least 17 girls killed in school dormitory fire in Thailand
2016-05-23,Vietnam hopes its voice is heard as Obama visits - Vietnam seeks US backing in its dispute with China over contested islands in the South China Sea. It seeks access to US military technology.
2016-05-23,"Brazil, you are next ISIS issue serious threat to 2016 Rio Olympics"
2016-05-23,India successfully test launches their first-ever indigenous space shuttle
2016-05-23,Farmer suicides soar in India as deadly heatwave hits 51 degrees Celsius | India has set a new record for its highest-ever recorded temperature  a searing 51 degrees Celsius or 123.8F  amid a devastating heatwave that has ravaged much of the country for weeks.
2016-05-23,Falluja assault: Iraq PM announces beginning of military operation
2016-05-23,Pakistan says U.S. drone strike violated its sovereignty
2016-05-23,"Across Africa, the worst food crisis since 1985 looms for 50 million"
2016-05-22,"Oil company records from 1960s reveal patents to reduce CO2 emissions in cars: ExxonMobil and others pursued research into technologies, yet blocked government efforts to fight climate change for more than 50 years, findings show"
2016-05-22,Women in Iran are cutting their hair short and dressing as men in a bid to bypass state 'morality' police who rigorously enforce penalties for not wearing a hijab.
2016-05-22,US releases Guantnamo prisoner after 14 years and no conviction
2016-05-22,Poland last week dismissed 32 of 39 scientific experts on the State Council for Nature Conservation after they criticized the logging plan of Bialowieza Forest
2016-05-22,"1.4 billion yen ($12.7 million) stolen from 1,400 convenience store ATMs across Japan in the space of two hours"
2016-05-22,Schoolchildren in Russia will soon be taught a variety of military skills such as maintaining firearms as part of a new drive by the country's defence ministry.
2016-05-22,50 million Africans face hunger after crops fail again
2016-05-22,"Anti-corporate activists, organic farmers, Indigenous peoples, environmental groups and others took to the streets across 6 continents and over 400 cities on Saturday in a global grassroots march against Monsanto"
2016-05-22,"Vegetarianism on the rise in Germany, but schools draw the line at veganism - Tofu schnitzel, tofu bratwurst, tofu kebab. It all exists in Germany. Popular as vegetarian options may be, a German court has ruled that veganism is too risky as a school meal option."
2016-05-22,"Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour 'probably killed' in US air strike on Afghanistan, US officials say"
2016-05-22,Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour had been killed in an attack by U.S. drones
2016-05-22,"EgyptAir crash: Internal blast 'tore right side' of jet, pilot says"
2016-05-22,"Israel defense chief quits, warns of extremist rise under Netanyahu"
2016-05-22,"Islamic State threatens attacks in India. Islamic State mocked Muslims living in harmony with Hindus who worship cows, trees and the sun, and urged them to travel to IS-held territories in the Caliphate."
2016-05-22,Venezuela To Hold Military Exercises Citing Imminent US Invasion
2016-05-22,The long-awaited Chilcot report into the Iraq war is reportedly set to savage Tony Blair and other former government officials in an absolutely brutal verdict on the failings of the occupation.
2016-05-22,"Police, soldiers swarm Mexico's Acapulco, killings continue"
2016-05-22,Outrage in Japan as U.S. Marine veteran arrested in connection with death of woman on Okinawa
2016-05-22,"Microplastics in the sea a growing threat to human health, United Nations warns: More than a quarter of fish in markets in Indonesia and California contain plastic particles"
2016-05-22,UK trains soldiers for majority of regimes on its own human rights abuse watchlist | Sixteen nations on the Foreign Office watchlist for use of torture and sexual violence benefit from military and security support
2016-05-22,China denies selling human flesh as tinned corned beef in Zambia in Africa
2016-05-22,Church of Scotland votes to allow gay marriages for ministers
2016-05-22,Georgian Shot Dead by Russian troops Near Breakaway Abkhazia Region
2016-05-22,First 'Made in India' space shuttle to lift off tomorrow
2016-05-22,Two zoo lions shot and killed after mauling 'suicidal' naked man
2016-05-21,Coke Has Suspended All Production in Venezuela
2016-05-21,"Magic mushroom compound psilocybin can reduce symptoms of treatment-resistant depression: ""This is the first time that psilocybin has been investigated as a potential treatment for major depression, says lead author Dr Robin Carhart-Harris, Imperial College London"
2016-05-21,EgyptAir Flight 804 black boxes located
2016-05-21,"The world's largest cruise ship and its supersized pollution problem: each of the Harmonys three four-storey high 16-cylinder Wrtsil engines will, at full power, burn 1,377 US gallons of fuel an hour, or about 96,000 gallons a day of some of the most polluting diesel fuel in the world"
2016-05-21,"Australias Great Barrier Reef will be in a terminal condition within five years, according to scientists. ""If something is not done in this election cycle then we may not see good coral again within our childrens lifetime."
2016-05-21,Paris Will Start Swabbing High Schoolers to See If They're Smoking Pot
2016-05-21,Vladimir Putin and the Russian state are being sued by families of those who died on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 when it was shot down over Ukraine.
2016-05-21,'We are like a bomb': food riots show Venezuela crisis has gone beyond politics
2016-05-21,Mexico approves extradition of Joaqun El Chapo Guzmn to U.S.
2016-05-21,"Chiles Worst Ever Red Tide Kills 20 Million Fish, Prompts Investigation of Salmon Farms"
2016-05-21,"EU Data Protection Chief Calls for No Backdoors and a 'Right to Encypt'.Much more so than our homes, our mobile devices now contain revealing and sensitive data on almost every aspect of our lives, private and professional,"
2016-05-21,"Israel Has Been Infected by the Seeds of Fascism, Says ex-Prime Minister Ehud Barak"
2016-05-21,"80% of the worlds megacities are now in Asia, Latin America, or Africa"
2016-05-21,Sweden and Finland upgrade Nato relations
2016-05-21,"Cannes: With 'Risk,' Laura Poitras Ignites Demand For Julian Assange's Release ""In the U.S., most of the journalists are propagandists and stenographers for the state."""
2016-05-21,Mexican Government Fires a Staggering 3000 Striking Teachers.Federal Police forcibly removed teachers from their protest camp in the middle of the night.
2016-05-21,"A court in western Germany said on Friday that there was no legal obstacle to the practice of shredding male chicks shortly after they are hatched, in a big setback for animal rights activists."
2016-05-21,Fatal EgyptAir flight suffered on-board fire minutes before crash
2016-05-21,Cameron forced into 'major climbdown' over NHS TTIP deal. Tory rebels and Jeremy Corbyn form unlikely alliance to protect NHS from transatlantic trade deal
2016-05-21,French festivals ditch Eagles of Death Metal over singer's comments: Jesse Hughes alleged he saw Muslims celebrating during Paris attacks and that Bataclan staff were involved in assault
2016-05-21,Bangladesh village doctor hacked to death in attack claimed by Islamic State
2016-05-21,Russia proposes joint airstrikes on Syria rebels with U.S.-led coalition.
2016-05-21,"Reports of bathroom smoke alerts suggest an electrical fire on EgyptAir MS804 flight, which could have caused it's crash on it's Paris to Cairo route."
2016-05-21,"Turkey Moves to Prosecute Most Pro-Kurdish Party Lawmakers. Kati Piri, Turkey rapporteur for the European Parliament, called Fridays amendment an ""historic mistake."""
2016-05-21,US rejects Russian proposal for joint air strikes on Syria
2016-05-20,LinkedIn just revealed that the 2012 breach that compromised the accounts of 6.5 million users actually hit more than 100 million users.
2016-05-20,"The Chinese government is fabricating almost 490m social media posts a year as part of a massive secretive operation designed to distract the public from criticising or questioning its rule, according to a study."
2016-05-20,"EgyptAir Flight 804: Wreckage found, airline official says"
2016-05-20,Morocco starts blocking access to Steam and other popular computer games
2016-05-20,"Humans damaging the environment faster than it can recover, UN finds - Radical action is needed to combat increasing rate of environmental damage to water sources, land, biodiversity & marine life, report shows"
2016-05-20,Egypt military says finds EgyptAir plane debris 290 km from Alexandria
2016-05-20,"Jihadist website profiting from online advertising, including U.S. companies"
2016-05-20,NATO just added a new member: Montenegro
2016-05-20,"Auschwitz museum finds inmate's gold ring, necklace in false-bottomed mug"
2016-05-20,"Israeli defense minister quits, citing poor faith in Netanyahu"
2016-05-20,India records its hottest temperature ever: 123.8 degrees Fahrenheit (51 degrees Celsius)
2016-05-20,"Alberto Nisman, who investigated Argentinas worst terrorist attack before he was found dead in his home last year, may have been forced to kill himself, a prosecutor who was formerly in charge of his case has said."
2016-05-20,Australian scientists achieve a 2050 solar efficiency benchmark 34 years early
2016-05-20,Seychelles decriminalizes same-sex relationships
2016-05-20,"EgyptAir Flight 804: Greece official says debris not from plane, report"
2016-05-20,"Russia sends 2,400 tons of food to North Korea"
2016-05-20,High pay for bosses hurting economy says senior Bank of England official
2016-05-20,"Erdogan has 'autocratic ambitions' for Turkey: The Bundestag president has criticized the Turkish regime's push to strip legislators of parliamentary immunity. Turkey's president has ""autocratic ambitions."""
2016-05-20,China says more than 40 countries support its stance on South China Sea dispute
2016-05-20,97 Women and children freed from Boko Haram by Nigerian armed forces. Two of the kidnapped girls from Chibok were among them.
2016-05-20,China says it's ready if US stirs up any conflict in South China Sea
2016-05-20,An Attempt to Crack Down on Boycotting Israel in Canada Has Failed
2016-05-20,Uber drivers accused of 32 rapes and sex attacks on London passengers over the past year: New statistics reveal one assault every 11 days last year by drivers on popular car-hire app
2016-05-20,Bull spearing outlawed by Spanish regional government.
2016-05-20,U.S. investigators leaning toward possibility of terrorist attack (EgyptAir flight)
2016-05-19,EgyptAir Flight MS804 disappears from radar during Paris-Cairo flight
2016-05-19,McDonald's fish: Row over sustainability 'cover-up'- The document shows that the government was aware of made-up data and illegal practices such as the dumping of vast quantities of unwanted fish. There are also concerns that unlawful fishing in NZ waters is threatening the world's rarest dolphin
2016-05-19,"Pope condemns ""bloodsuckers"" who exploit poor workers: Pope says making ""slaves"" out of workers and setting unfair contracts is a mortal sin"
2016-05-19,"India just proposed an oil-for-drugs deal with Venezuela, Country is facing severe shortages of even basic supplies such as food, water and medicines, desperately short of medical supplies, lacking as much as 80 percent of what it needs to treat its population"
2016-05-19,"Portugal runs for four days straight on renewable energy alone: Zero emission milestone reached as country is powered by just wind, solar and hydro-generated electricity for 107 hours"
2016-05-19,Bayer offers 42 Billion to purchase Monsanto. Agricultural mega merger looms.
2016-05-19,Authorities shut down secret Islamic school in Brussels: report
2016-05-19,"Iran tells Hezbollah to stop attacking Israel, turn attention to Saudi Arabia"
2016-05-19,Egyptian officials confirm that EgyptAir flight crashed with 56 persons on board
2016-05-19,Ninety-two children and three teachers were poisoned in northern Peru when a plane fumigating nearby fields sprayed a weed-killer too close to their school.
2016-05-19,"Robin Hood hacker donates $11,000 of stolen bitcoin to help fight ISIS"
2016-05-19,Mob burns Venezuelan man alive over $5 as rule of law fails
2016-05-19,Boris Johnson wins most offensive Erdogan poem contest
2016-05-19,A Secret Tunnel Found in Mexico May Finally Solve the Mysteries of Teotihuacn
2016-05-19,"Superbugs will 'kill every three seconds': Superbugs will kill someone every three seconds by 2050 unless the world acts now, a hugely influential report says"
2016-05-19,Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Accused of Elbowing Opposition Member of Parliament in The House of Commons.
2016-05-19,Englands chief medical officer warns of antibiotic apocalypse
2016-05-19,Venezuelan opposition tells military that it's time to choose
2016-05-19,"New Zealand Customs will lose the automatic right to examine people's smartphones and electronic devices at the border, under a government proposal."
2016-05-19,"Banks Sued by Investor Over Agency-Bond Rigging Claims.Depending on the securities that are included, the market could range from $9 trillion to $15 trillion.""Defendants scheme was driven by greed and opportunity,"""
2016-05-19,Venezuelans are having to trade pharmaceutical drugs on social media as the country runs out of medicine
2016-05-19,French security chief warns Islamic State plans wave of attacks in France
2016-05-19,Russia under suspicion after sabotage of Swedish telecom mast
2016-05-19,Large Azerbaijan plane crashes in Afghanistan
2016-05-19,"Boris Johnson wins 'most offensive Erdoan poem' competition: Ex-London mayor wins 1,000 prize for limerick about Turkish president in contest challenging crackdown on free speech"
2016-05-18,Scientists Find A Weak Spot In HIV That May Pave the Way to a Vaccine
2016-05-18,Muslim states block 11 LGBT groups from attending UN Aids meeting
2016-05-18,Caribbean islands warned as Venezuela collapses
2016-05-18,US raises China steel taxes by 522%
2016-05-18,German court bans public recital of anti-Erdogan poem
2016-05-18,Mexican President Proposes Legalizing Gay Marriage
2016-05-18,Iran wants U.S. to pay for 63 years of 'spiritual and material damage'
2016-05-18,Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes western Ecuador
2016-05-18,"Dutch researchers are learning how to grow food on Mars and the Moon -- ""Especially in the Martian soil, plants were growing very fast and very good. They even started to flower, something that we never anticipated"""
2016-05-18,"Muslim states block gay groups from U.N. AIDS meeting: A group of 51 Muslim states has blocked 11 gay and transgender organizations from attending a high-level meeting at the UN next month on ending AIDS, sparking a protest by the US, Canada and the EU."
2016-05-18,"One of the missing Chibok girls has been found in Nigeria, activists say - the first since they were taken by Boko Haram militants two years ago."
2016-05-18,Russia to revive missile trains as U.S. launches European missile defense system
2016-05-18,"Zika virus could spread to Europe in coming months, says WHO"
2016-05-18,Russias new FindFace app identifies strangers in a crowd with 70 percent accuracy
2016-05-18,"Last stand for Europe's remaining ancient forest as loggers prepare to move in | Government plans to fell Polands Biaowiea forest have divided families, led to death threats against green campaigners and allegations of an environmental coup by government and state timber interests"
2016-05-18,"Google may face a fine of around 3 billion by the European Commission (EC) for manipulating search results to promote its own shopping comparison service,"
2016-05-18,Four in ten Australians admit they have drunk so much they've vomited - half want alcohol taxes increased to pay for alcohol-related treatment.
2016-05-18,"GM food is generally safe for humans and the environment, report says"
2016-05-18,"Mexico's President, Enrique Pena Nieto, has proposed constitutional reform to legalise same-sex marriage across the country."
2016-05-18,"Violence against labor activists remains rampant in Colombia since U.S. trade deal took effect, U.S. watchdog says."
2016-05-18,Spain's debt now worth more than value of the economy
2016-05-18,Obama to Lift U.S. Sanctions Against Myanmar
2016-05-18,Australia has laid off a prominent scientist as part of cuts to its national science agency that are mainly aimed researchers studying global sea rise and climate change.
2016-05-18,"Rodrigo Duterte says he's killed 1,700 crooks; pledges 100,000 dead in 1st 6 months as president."
2016-05-18,TTIP's definition of Feta cheese is getting more attention than saving the NHS: French President Franois Hollande threatened to veto TTIP if products made in specific regions cannot retain exclusivity over their names
2016-05-17,"After almost 18 years of circling Earth, the International Space Station completed its 100,000th orbit on Monday."
2016-05-17,"Pakistans Billion Tree Tsunami gains momentum, hopes to achieve target of One Billion new saplings plantation by end of next year."
2016-05-17,The new Brazilian presidents first pick for science minister was a creationist. He chose a soybean tycoon who has deforested large tracts of the Amazon rain forest to be his agriculture minister. And he is the first leader in decades to have no women in his Cabinet.
2016-05-17,Syria Army killed over 200 ISIS militants in 3-day long offensive in Deir Ezzor
2016-05-17,Israel Antiquities Authority announces the biggest archaeological find in 30 years -- A 1600-year-old Roman shipwreck filled with bronze statues and coins bearing the face of Constantine the Great.
2016-05-17,"The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has outlined plans to quadruple the proportion of affordable housing being built in the capital.There is no point in building homes if they are bought by investors in the Middle East and Asia, I want to give first dibs to Londoners."
2016-05-17,Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity
2016-05-17,"Australian Energy Boss Emails Climate-Change Skeptic Handbook.Prominent businessman and donor to the Australian Liberal Party, accidentally emailed hundreds of politicians and elites a 16-page handbook.The handbook explains how to argue that climate-change is not human-made."
2016-05-17,Prominent Oceans Scientist Fails to Disclose Funding From Fishing Industry
2016-05-17,Revealed: Saudi Arabia owns $117 billion of U.S. debt
2016-05-17,North Korea is last place Americans should travel to warns US State Department
2016-05-17,New Snowden Leak Reveals Key NSA Role in Guantanamo Torture
2016-05-17,Pirate Party set to be kingmaker in next Icelandic parliamentpolls
2016-05-17,"ADL to recognize Ottoman Empires massacre of Armenians as genocide: We believe that remembering and educating people about any genocide  Armenian, the Holocaust, Bosnia, Rwanda and others is a necessary tool to prevent future tragedies"
2016-05-17,"Bell offers $1M settlement to Yellowknife man, northern customers over 911 fees. a class-action lawsuit against the company in 2007 over its 75-cent monthly fee for 911 emergency phone service  a service that doesn't exist"
2016-05-17,US scientists have cloned the Zika virus - an important step towards fast-tracking a vaccine against the disease.
2016-05-17,"Panama Papers reveal George Soros' deep money ties to secretive weapons, intel investment firm"
2016-05-17,"Pope criticizes West for trying to export own brand of democracy to Iraq, Libya"
2016-05-17,Court condemns tobacco giant Philip Morris over secret bid to sue Australia over plain packaging laws
2016-05-17,[Russia] Cossacks beat up anti-corruption leader Alexey Navalny and others as police are slow to intervene
2016-05-17,Denmark pushes ahead with hate preacher blacklist
2016-05-17,Turkish police seal off hotel to halt dissident opposition congress
2016-05-17,Australian teen accused of plotting terror attack in Sydney
2016-05-17,Venezuela gives sweeping 'emergency' powers to security forces
2016-05-17,"World Health Organization study: ""during the last five years, unmarried women were less likely to have an abortion than married women. Roughly 73% of abortions were obtained by married women."""
2016-05-16,Iran is arresting models who pose without headscarves on Instagram
2016-05-16,"April breaks global temperature record, marking seven months of new highs. 2016 will be hottest year on record"
2016-05-16,Erdoan pictured as Hitler on Turkish Embassy in Berlin
2016-05-16,"Venezuelan President decrees emergency, seizes factories"
2016-05-16,New move to impeach Tony Blair over Iraq War gains cross-party support
2016-05-16,"Divers Discover 'Spectacular' Cargo of Ancient Shipwreck in Caesarea Harbor - Includes bronze statues & 1000s of coins bearing the images of Roman emperors Constantine & Licinius. 1,600 yr old wreck discovered by divers in ancient harbor of Caesarea."
2016-05-16,Thousands of South African gold miners launch a multi-million-dollar class action lawsuit against mining companies over deadly lung diseases.
2016-05-16,"An online al Qaeda magazine is calling for jihadis to damage the US economy by killing business leaders and entrepreneurs, according to analysts."
2016-05-16,"Half of fish caught in New Zealand waters not in official records. Reconstructed marine catch totalled 38.1 million tonnes between 1950 and 2010, which is 2.7 times the 14 million tonnes reported to the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)"
2016-05-16,Former CIA agent admits involvment in Nelson Mandela's arrest
2016-05-16,"Police in Colombia seize more than 8 tons of cocaine in ""largest ever"" drug bust"
2016-05-16,Luxembourg prosecutors seek jail time for whistleblowers
2016-05-16,India successfully test-fires indigenously developed supersonic interceptor missile
2016-05-16,North Korea releases Russian yacht - detention was a misunderstanding North Korean officials said
2016-05-16,"Car fires turning into a Dutch plague, 100s torched in recent months"
2016-05-16,"More pupils than expected in 'illegal schools' across UK, mainly Islamic and Jewish, Ofsted reports."
2016-05-16,"Duterte vows to kill criminals and reintroduce hanging in Philippines - What I will do is urge Congress to restore (the) death penalty by hanging, Duterte, 71, told a press conference in Davao on Sunday. He also said he would give security forces shoot-to-kill orders against organised criminals"
2016-05-16,China waging war against ancient superstitions that convinced a man to steam his wife to death
2016-05-16,"Magnitude 5.6 / Shindo 5 earthquake shakes Ibaraki, Japan. No tsunami warning issued."
2016-05-16,"China cyber probes show electronic warfare focus, Pentagon says: China's military conducted cyber probes and intrusions against US networks to support intelligence collection and electronic warfare even as it continues an ""extraordinarily rapid"" expansion of long-range precision strike capabilities"
2016-05-16,"Google (GOOGL.O) faces a record antitrust fine of around 3 billion euros ($3.4 billion) from the European Commission in the coming weeks, British newspaper The Sunday Telegraph said. The European Union has accused Google of promoting its shopping service in Internet searches"
2016-05-16,"Al Qaeda Turns to Syria, With a Plan to Challenge ISIS"
2016-05-16,Scientists Seek To Bring Dead Brains Back To Life
2016-05-16,Police are facing severe terror threat from IRA: Rank-and-file officers in Northern Ireland on a high state of alert with 52 bomb attacks over the past 12 months
2016-05-16,"Police sealed off a hotel in Ankara on Sunday, preventing dissidents in Turkey's nationalist opposition from holding a party congress that could jeopardize President Tayyip Erdogan's plans for more power"
2016-05-15,Iceland's Pirate Party secures more election funding than all its rivals as it continues to top polls: 'We don't care. Democracy doesnt revolve around getting loads of money from the government. We funded our campaign at a flea market before the last elections and that was fine.'
2016-05-15,Monsanto Linked to Tax Havens in Panama Papers Leak
2016-05-15,"Protesters take over German coal mine, block coal power plant: ""We are taking the exit from coal into our own hands and closing down one of the largest climate killers in Europe."""
2016-05-15,Radio-backed campaign pushes for FM access on your smartphone
2016-05-15,"India's top court ordered state governments to provide free meals to schoolchildren during summer break as country reels from impact of one of worst droughts on record. Free lunches are offered to some 120 million students in what is world's largest school feeding program, but not during holidays."
2016-05-15,ISIS burns family of 5 with 3 children alive in public for trying to flee terrorist-occupied land
2016-05-15,Manchester United's Old Trafford ground evacuated
2016-05-15,"A fake terror attack has panicked guests of several Hollywood stars at the Cannes film festival | The publicity stunt, by a French Internet company aimed at the super rich, saw a speedboat full of men in helmets and military style uniforms attempt to storm the dock of the Hotel du Cap."
2016-05-15,"Sinkhole discovery suggests humans were in Florida 14,500 years ago: Knife, bone, and dung cast doubt on Bering Strait theory and indicate humans spread through Americas 1,500 years earlier than thought, researchers say"
2016-05-15,"Heat wave hits Egypt, temperatures reach 45 degrees"
2016-05-15,Suicide bombing in Yemen kills 25 people
2016-05-15,NASA data shows last month was hottest April on record - The April figures continue the remarkably warm start to 2016
2016-05-15,Judge in Iran tells prisoner: 'If you're innocent you'll go to heaven after you're hanged'
2016-05-15,"Venezuela: Maduro orders seizure of closed Venezuela factories, jailing of owners"
2016-05-15,Student in Turkey accused of terror propaganda for speaking Kurdish
2016-05-15,Mark Zuckerberg claims 'no evidence' of political bias at Facebook
2016-05-15,"Pro-life marches across Poland: Demonstrations in over 140 cities, signatures collected for a so-called citizens bill calling for a complete ban on abortion."
2016-05-15,Pope to Visit Genocide Memorial During June Trip to Armenia
2016-05-15,"South African court allows landmark silicosis suit against gold firms: Up to 500,000 miners may be eligible to seek damages for lung diseases, a decision that could cost the industry millions"
2016-05-15,Police found a pig's head bearing a written insult against German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the entrance to her constituency office in the northeastern town of Stralsund
2016-05-15,Leaks Show Senate Aide Threatened Colombia Over Cheap Cancer Drug
2016-05-15,Turkey has agreed to modernise the Pakistan Air Forces fleet of F-16s at a cost of $75 million amid the controversy surrounding the purchase of new jets from USA
2016-05-15,Scientists believe they have an uncovered an evolutionary throwback in a rare deep ocean whale that washed ashore on a South Australian beach.
2016-05-15,"Germany to abolish provider liability law, open path to more free WiFi: a law that makes hotspot providers responsible for users' activity has long limited public WiFi and is set to be scrapped."
2016-05-15,"Militants kill two police in Russia's Dagestan, Islamic State claims responsibility"
2016-05-14,"Next Friday, the United Kingdom will join Australia and become the second country in the world to introduce ""plain packaging"" to cigarettes, removing all brands, logos, and colors and replacing them with standardized dark green packages with graphic health warnings."
2016-05-14,"Venezuela president declares emergency, cites U.S., domestic 'threats'"
2016-05-14,"Nearly 45,000 sign up to support call for Netflix to stop VPN blocking"
2016-05-14,North Korea detains Russian yacht
2016-05-14,U.S. intelligence warns of Venezuela collapse
2016-05-14,"Russia begins imposing transport, banking restrictions on North Korea, complying with United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang"
2016-05-14,Women in Saudi Arabia face flogging and imprisonment if they check their husbands phone without his permission.
2016-05-14,Erdoan says West cares more about gay and animal rights than Syria
2016-05-14,ISIS executes 11 Iraqi civilians for using cell phones
2016-05-14,Russian Doctor Explains How He Helped Beat Doping Tests at the Sochi Olympics: The director of Russias antidoping laboratory during the 2014 Winter Olympics revealed to The New York Times how Russian agents used an elaborate scheme to swap out tainted urine samples from Russian athletes.
2016-05-14,BBC News: Lightning strikes kill 50 in Bangladesh
2016-05-14,Judge tells man 'if you're innocent you'll go to Heaven' after sentencing him to be hanged for a crime he denied in Iran
2016-05-14,"Moscow wanted to eradicate the risk of domestic terror attacks, so intelligence and police officials turned a blind eye to Islamic militants leaving the country. Some sources say officials even encouraged militants to leave"
2016-05-14,Iran re-arrests Christian pastor once sentenced to death
2016-05-14,Leaked wiretaps of ISIS agents show Ankara routinely ignores terrorist cross-border activity
2016-05-14,"Venezuela looters target chicken, flour amid worsening shortages"
2016-05-14,"German MPs vote to block North African asylum claims: Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria classified as ""safe countries of origin""  meaning that asylum applications will only be accepted under exceptional circumstances"
2016-05-14,"ISIS declares state of emergency in Raqqa, ISIS's self-declared capital"
2016-05-14,"India announced a new intellectual property policy on Friday, speeding up the online registration of patents & trademarks, but resisted pressure from US and other Western countries to amend its patent laws"
2016-05-14,Prince Charles: I use homeopathy in animals to cut antibiotic use
2016-05-14,Belgian police: Don't use Facebook reactions if you value privacy
2016-05-14,China Is Not Celebrating Cultural Revolution's 50th Anniversary
2016-05-14,"World's Biggest Cruise Ship Sets Sail | The world's largest cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas  which cost US$1 billion to build over 32 months  has been finished and was delivered to owner Royal Caribbean International"
2016-05-14,Uganda has launched a total social media blackout for the second time in three months
2016-05-14,IDF general: ISIS fighters training with Hamas in Gaza
2016-05-13,"Declassified documents detail 9/11 commission's inquiry into Saudi Arabia, Chilling story of the Saudi diplomat who, many on the commissions staff believed, had been a ringleader of a Saudi government spy network inside the US that gave support to at least two of the 9/11 hijackers"
2016-05-13,Ontario parents who object to vaccines could be forced to take a class in science of immunization.
2016-05-13,Scientists have found a microbe that does something textbooks say is impossible: It's a complex cell that survives without mitochondria.
2016-05-13,"The Kremlin is considering whether or not to release some 20,000 hacked Clinton emails reportedly in its possession; Russian security services apparently obtained the emails as part of their investigation into the Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar"
2016-05-13,"Nearly 90,000 Gallons of Crude Oil Spill Into Gulf of Mexico"
2016-05-13,ISIS massacre 14 Real Madrid fans at supporters club in Baghdad
2016-05-13,Chinese Cops Are Temporarily Patrolling the Streets of Rome & Milan - A new experimental program put international police at Italy's tourist hubs to help the influx of Chinese travelers
2016-05-13,Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation divests entire holding in BP: Worlds largest health charity sells its $187m stake in the oil giant in a move welcomed by fossil fuel divestment campaigners
2016-05-13,"Luxembourg Is Set to Become the Most Animal-Friendly Country in the World - Proposed new animals rights legislation  which states animals are sentient beings with certain rights, who can experience anguish  has been described as the most progressive in the world."
2016-05-13,Chinese province has ordered kindergartens to enforce a ban on religious activity after a video was posted online of a little girl reciting part of the Koran at a nursery school
2016-05-13,"Dutch professor renounces Turkish award, brands Erdogan 'de-facto dictator'"
2016-05-13,"Venezuela: Countless Wounded after 5,000 Loot Supermarket"
2016-05-13,British astronaut Tim Peake has sparked an orbital kerfuffle after he tweeted a picture showing a crack in the International Space Station's window. It was caused by space debris.
2016-05-13,"Germany Says It Will Rescind Convictions for Homosexuality: The justice minister, Heiko Maas, said the government would put forward legislation that would overturn the convictions and allow for financial compensation to the men who suffered under the legislation"
2016-05-13,"Dozens of Russian athletes at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, including at least 15 medal winners, were part of a state-run doping program"
2016-05-13,Brazil's acting president used to be US intel informant - WikiLeaks
2016-05-13,Fears grow as temperatures double at massive New Zealand volcano featured in Lord of the Rings films
2016-05-13,Merkel warns of return to nationalism unless EU protects borders
2016-05-13,Russia to ban all Turkish fruit and vegetable imports next week: Interfax
2016-05-13,Egypt 'in denial' over hidden chambers in Tutankhamuns tomb - Scientists accuse government of suppressing data disproving claims that burial site contains Nefertitis remains
2016-05-13,N.Korea deploying ICBMs near Chinese border
2016-05-13,Child sex abuse victim in 20s euthanised after suffering irreparable PTSD
2016-05-13,Chinese state-owned firms claim 'sovereign immunity' in US courts with foreign ministry's backing
2016-05-13,MPs vote against 'emergency' use of banned bee-harming pesticides - National Farming Unions application for banned pesticide use on oil seed rape crops is rejected as govt rules against neonicotinoids for the first time
2016-05-13,"12,000 people trapped in Palestinian refugee camp in Syria by bombs, shells and bullets: Save the Children says camp cut off by heavy shelling, with supplies of food and medicine running out"
2016-05-12,"India has slashed prices of 54 essential medicines by up to 55%, including commonly used drugs for cancer, hypertension, diabetes and other heart disorders."
2016-05-12,"Rio Olympics could spark 'full blown global health disaster', say Harvard scientists"
2016-05-12,Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is to face trial after the Senate voted to impeach and suspend her.
2016-05-12,"Saudi officials were 'supporting' 9/11 hijackers, commission member says"
2016-05-12,"60% of Brazilian Senators Participating in Todays Impeachment Vote Have Pending Legal Cases Against Them, Watchdog Says."
2016-05-12,"Italy says 'yes' to gay civil unions in historic vote, after a long and bitter debate that has pitted the Catholic Church against PM Renzi. Italy is the last major western European country to recognize civil unions for same sex couples."
2016-05-12,MP recites explicit Erdogan bestiality poem on live TV
2016-05-12,"Venezuela Unleashes Tanks as 4 Killed, 1,200 Arrested"
2016-05-12,Almost 400 companies listed on the London Stock Exchange with a collective market capitalisation of 225bn are based in offshore havens connected to the UK. Research shows that 389 companies trading their shares in London are registered in British overseas territories or crown protectorates.
2016-05-12,"A federal judge has sharply rebuked the Pentagon for the process by which it concealed hundreds of Bush-era photos showing US military personnel torturing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, suggesting Barack Obama may have to release even more graphic imagery of abuse"
2016-05-12,Catholic Diocese in India Reinstates Priest Who Admitted Child Sex Abuse
2016-05-12,"US missile defense site goes live in Romania, angering Russia as NATO bolsters defenses"
2016-05-12,Plane Debris Confirmed As Being From MH370
2016-05-12,US government suspends aid programs in Turkey
2016-05-12,"'Lord of the Rings' Volcano Has Become Active, Warns NZ"
2016-05-12,Tokyo Olympics: 1.3m payment to secret account raises questions over 2020 Games
2016-05-12,Islamic State yearly oil revenue halved to $250 million: U.S. official
2016-05-12,"U.S. activates Romanian missile defense site, angering Russia"
2016-05-12,"Brazil prepares to roll back green laws - Amidst the turmoil of the presidential impeachment process, members of Brazils Congress are set to dismantle environmental protection laws."
2016-05-12,"Suspects in the disappearance of 43 Mexican college students have claimed that they were tortured into making confessions, according to court documents obtained by the the U.S. international news agency Associated Press."
2016-05-12,11 Tons of Bomb-Making Chemical Found Under Fruit Crates
2016-05-12,"U.S. cities on Mexican border prep for 3,000 Cubans"
2016-05-12,Middle East U.N. slams Turkey for alarming reports of human rights abuses
2016-05-12,Londons Muslim mayor reaffirms plan for Israel trip
2016-05-12,Brutal justice of the mob in Venezuela: Venezuelan Mugger is beaten to the floor and burned alive by lynch mob after stealing from people
2016-05-11,"New Zealand Prime Minister John Key thrown out of Parliament for disobeying the Speaker during an exchange about the Panama Papers, which have revealed links between Mossack Fonseca and New Zealand's secretive foreign trust industry"
2016-05-11,Former Brazilian soccer star: Don't come to the Olympics
2016-05-11,Two-thirds of Germans want Merkel out at next election: A poll published on Tuesday shows that just under two-thirds of Germans do not want Chancellor Angela Merkel to run for office again in elections next year.
2016-05-11,Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull named in Panama Papers
2016-05-11,"Mayor Jokes About Rape, Brags About Death Squads, Gets Elected President of the Philippines"
2016-05-11,Queen says Chinese officials were 'very rude' during Xi Jinping's state visit
2016-05-11,"Ex-N. Korea army head, who Seoul said was executed, is alive"
2016-05-11,David Cameron calls Nigeria and Afghanistan 'fantastically corrupt'
2016-05-11,Italy: ISIS Fighters Are Posing as Refugees in Our Camps
2016-05-11,"Drones will take $127bn worth of human work by 2020, PwC says"
2016-05-11,"The world is hurtling towards an era when global concentrations of carbon dioxide never again dip below the 400 parts per million (ppm) milestone, as two important measuring stations sit on the point of no return."
2016-05-11,Kepler telescope discovers 100 Earth-sized planets
2016-05-11,French government to use special powers to invoke labor reform: hotly contested pro business measures pushed through lower house without vote
2016-05-11,British Hacker Wins Court Battle Over Encryption Keys
2016-05-11,"Scientists suspect that chunks from the bottom of the North American tectonic plate, which is the upper portion of the mantle, are peeling off and sinking."
2016-05-11,Central banks are loading up on gold
2016-05-11,"New era of 'super fires' as climate change triggers hotter, drier weather.The six worst fire seasons since 1960 have all occurred since 2000, according to the U.S. report. Since 2000, many Western states have experienced the largest wildfires in their state's history."
2016-05-11,"Zeenat Shahzadi is believed to be the first female journalist ""forcibly disappeared"" in Pakistan. Her family and human rights groups say she was abducted by security agencies who have been accused of illegally detaining thousands of people under the guise of anti-terrorism operations."
2016-05-11,"Two major media companies in New Zealand have announced they are in merger talks, raising the prospect that the entire country could be left with just one newspaper group."
2016-05-11,France studying possible ban on import of U.S. Shale gas - minister
2016-05-11,"CEO of Russia's leading Oil Company Rosneft, Igor Sechin: Say Goodbye to OPEC"
2016-05-11,"Global warming milestone about to be passed and there's no going back: Cape Grim, Tasmania monitoring site jointly run by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology will witness the first baseline reading of 400 parts per million (ppm) of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere"
2016-05-11,"Proposed Internet surveillance will give dictators ideas, claims campaign.Each advert in the campaign shows how the group imagines a dictator would react favourably if the IP Bill, which has been nicknamed the ""Snooper's Charter"", becomes law"
2016-05-11,"Chinas total wind power generation to triple by 2030, increase from approximately 149 GW in 2015 to over 495 GW"
2016-05-11,Erdogan says Europe a safe haven for political wings of terrorist groups
2016-05-10,Panama Papers include dozens of Americans tied to financial frauds
2016-05-10,President Obama will visit Hiroshima later this month: The trip will mark the first visit by a U.S. president to the site since American forces dropped atomic bombs on that city and on Nagasaki at the end of World War II.
2016-05-10,Knife attacker 'shouting Allahu akbar' seriously injures four at Munich train station
2016-05-10,"Russia Builds a Tunnel to Save Endangered Amur Leopards, Tigers: The Narvinskii Pass tunnel allows the endangered big cats to avoid a deadly road as they move between Russia and China"
2016-05-10,China scrambles 2 fighter jets and 3 warships as U.S. sails warship near Chinese-claimed reef
2016-05-10,UK Police apologise for making fake suicide bomber shout 'Allahu Akbar' in Trafford Centre counter-terror exercise: Greater Manchester Police said it was unacceptable to use a phrase 'which so vocally linked the exercise with Islam'
2016-05-10,"""Our people"" planned 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks: ex-chief of Pakistan's intelligence service ISI"
2016-05-10,Scientists warn 21% of plants at risk of extinction
2016-05-10,"World Cup Winner, Rivaldo: I advise everyone with plans to visit Brazil for the Olympics in Rio  to stay home."""
2016-05-10,"Trudeau turns down Russian, U.S., Mexican offers to help battle Fort McMurray wildfire"
2016-05-10,Rousseff impeachment vote 'annulled'
2016-05-10,"Londons New Mayor: I Wont Be Able To Visit The U.S. If Donald Trump Wins: Ill be stopped from going there by virtue of my faith, Sadiq Khan said."
2016-05-10,15yo discovers an hidden maya city by analyzing Mayan constellations
2016-05-10,"Christian refugees in Germany fear violence by other migrants, report says"
2016-05-10,"Tens of thousands of protesters took to the Roman streets Saturday to protest against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). Holding signs that said ""Stop TTIP"" and ""Not capital, but people,"""
2016-05-10,Self-harm the 'biggest killer of people in their early 20s' in the UK
2016-05-10,Mexican judge rules drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman can be extradited to US
2016-05-10,New Milestone: 95% of German electricity provided by renewables on Sunday at 11 AM
2016-05-10,"An unnamed former Facebook employee told Gizmodo that workers ""routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers,"" according to Gizmodo, while ""artificially"" adding other stories into the trending list."
2016-05-10,"Two Afghan terrorists arrested in Bari (Italy) were planning attacks in London, Rome and Bari"
2016-05-10,Looming catastrophe in South Africa as unemployment climbs to more than 26 per cent
2016-05-10,A German court has rejected a bid by Turkeys president for an injunction against the head of one of Germanys biggest publishing houses in a standoff over a satirical poem.
2016-05-10,Jean Chretien says criminal records for pot possession 'completely unacceptable'
2016-05-10,Rodrigo 'The Punisher' Duterte claims victory in Philippines election | The pugnacious 71-year-old surged from outsider to the top of surveys with cuss-filled vows to kill tens of thousands of criminals
2016-05-10,India Wants To Kick Its Dirty Coal Habit: The countrys power ministry plans to shut down aging coal-fired power plants with a combined capacity of 37 gigawatts of power
2016-05-09,"Tax havens have no justification, say top economists, calling for their abolition | More than 300 economists are urging world leaders at a London summit this week to recognise that there is no economic benefit to tax havens, demanding that the veil of secrecy that surrounds them be lifted."
2016-05-09,Russia offers water bombers and specialists to help fight Fort McMurray forest fires
2016-05-09,CBS report: Russian gold medalists used steroids at Sochi Olympics
2016-05-09,Panama paper trail goes online with massive searchable database
2016-05-09,"About a fifth of homes have been destroyed in Fort McMurray, a Canadian city ravaged by a huge wildfire, the local MP has told the BBC."
2016-05-09,Israel seizes Palestinian family's land by secretly altering documents
2016-05-09,"After the Pacific Ocean swallows villages and five Solomon Islands, a study blames climate change: The study is the first time anyone has concretely analyzed the loss of Solomon Island shoreline in the context of global warming, they say."
2016-05-09,Panama Papers Source Wants Whistleblower Immunity to Aid Law Enforcement
2016-05-09,"North Korea's Leader Just Announced He's Getting a Promotion, Nukes Are Ready"
2016-05-09,Lightning kills four elephants in Sri Lanka - Elephants are venerated in the mainly Buddhist country and they are a highly protected species. Elephant deaths must be investigated and death certificates issued before disposing of the carcasses.
2016-05-09,"Japanese court rules vagina figurines 'pop art', not obscenity"
2016-05-09,US struggles to convince Iraqis it doesn't support IS
2016-05-09,Nasa Releases Dozens of Patents Into the Public Domain
2016-05-09,"Turkish President Accuses Europe of 'Dictatorship,' Cruelty'"
2016-05-09,Philippines investigates Shell and Exxon over climate change | A legal case will consider if the emissions of 50 fossil fuel companies violate the human rights of those hit by extreme weather
2016-05-09,"Morning after pill: British women forced to pay five times more than European peers for contraceptive: 'As a society we embrace sex for pleasure, but expect women to march a walk of shame, and pay through the nose,' says the British Pregnancy Advisory Service"
2016-05-09,Austrian chancellor steps down
2016-05-09,"In its minority report, the Labour Party expressed strong opposition to the TPP, saying the Government had failed to effectively represent the long-term interests of New Zealanders"
2016-05-09,Panama Papers reveal middlemen between Canada and offshore secrets
2016-05-09,Offshore finance: more than 12tn siphoned out of emerging countries
2016-05-09,"Nearly half of Europeans in poll want own votes on EU, like UK"
2016-05-09,66 Activists Arrested in Climate Change Protest in Australia
2016-05-09,NASA Releases First-Ever Global Topographic Model Of Mercury
2016-05-09,Top palm oil producer sues green group over deforestation allegations: Malaysian palm giant lost business after it was suspended from the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oils certification scheme over deforestation allegations in Indonesia
2016-05-09,Red Cross: Curaao is ready for possible Venezuelan refugees - Curaao Chronicle
2016-05-08,Huge Panama Papers search database goes public Monday
2016-05-08,Pakistan police arrest 13 for burning girl in honor killing
2016-05-08,Scientists invent silk food wrap that's biodegradable and could replace plastic cling film - Bananas & strawberries kept at room temperature for more than a week did not go off after they were coated with a near-invisible film made from silk
2016-05-08,Russia is offering free land to citizens in hopes of getting people to develop the remote Far East part of the country from Siberia to the Arctic. A household of five will receive over 12 acres.
2016-05-08,Man rescued after 2 months adrift in Pacific
2016-05-08,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed on by others with nuclear arms and it is willing to normalize ties with states that had been hostile towards it, state media reported on Sunday."
2016-05-08,"Despite intense opposition from the drinks industry, the Australian NSW government has chosen to support a community-backed recycling scheme for drink containers, as it seeks to reduce litter by 40 per cent by 2020, voting to adopt a 10 container deposit scheme to start in July next year."
2016-05-08,A tanker has mysteriously washed up on shore in Liberia with no sign of the crew
2016-05-08,"A molasses spill in a river in El Salvador from a sugarcane processing plant has caused authorities to issue an alert. 3.4 million liters (900,000 gallons) of sludgy, hot molasses was released into the La Magdalena river"
2016-05-08,Canada's 'Out Of Control' Fire Doubles In Size
2016-05-08,"Africa's Great Green Wall could halt youth migration, extremism - The planned Great Green Wall would see a 7,000 km strip of vegetation reaching from Senegal to Djibouti, designed to trap the sands of the Sahara, halt the advance of the desert and restore 50m hectares of land."
2016-05-08,"Re-using graves means UK cemetery will never run out of space - Re-use of spaces is the sustainable solution to overflowing graveyards, if done sensitively, says one of Britains biggest cemeteries"
2016-05-08,"Egypts Interior Ministry, in Error, Releases Memos on Restricting News Media. One document proposed a rule to stop all coverage related to Giulio Regeni, the Italian graduate student whose brutalized body was found on a Cairo roadside in February."
2016-05-08,Iran is facing a 'wide-scale armed uprising' as Kurdish insurgents have started targeting the Revolutionary Guard
2016-05-08,"Fort McMurray wildfire reaches 156,000 hectares in size, expected to double Saturday."
2016-05-08,Turkish airstrikes kill 55 ISIS fighters
2016-05-08,Leading Pakistani human rights activist gunned down in Karachi hours after Facebook post hailing London for electing first Muslim mayor
2016-05-08,"The Saudi King Fires the Guy Who's Been in Charge of the Country's Oil for 20 Yrs - Faced with plummeting oil prices, King Salman wants to revamp Saudi Arabia's economy & consider a future that relies less on petroleum sales."
2016-05-08,"Pro-Corporate TTIP on the Ropes as Top French Officials Lambaste 'Bad Deal': ""At this stage, France says 'No,'"" says president Franois Hollande"
2016-05-08,"Two people dressed in Afghan military uniforms killed two NATO service members on Saturday, according to the NATO-led mission there."
2016-05-08,"Tens of thousands of Poles waving national flags staged a huge protest march through Warsaw on Saturday, accusing the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party that took power last year of undermining democracy and putting Poland's European future at risk"
2016-05-08,Camron under pressure to end tax haven secrecy: PM faces call to force British territories to adopt anti-corruption laws after Panama Papers scandal
2016-05-08,"Aung San Suu Kyi Asks U.S. Not to Refer to 'Rohingya' -- ""The Rohingya, Muslims in a Buddhist land, are reviled by the majority. They have lived in Myanmar for generations but are denied many basic rights."""
2016-05-08,Swaziland: King 'Steals From Children' to Buy Jet
2016-05-08,Panama Papers leaker targets NZ Prime Minister John Key
2016-05-07,"The EU won't sacrifice its high food safety standards for better US auto market access in a transatlantic trade deal being negotiated, German Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt said Friday."
2016-05-07,London elects its first Muslim mayor.
2016-05-07,Panama Papers source breaks silence over 'scale of injustices'
2016-05-07,"Labatt Breweries Halts Production & Ships 200,000 Cans of Clean Water to Fort McMurray Residents Impacted by Raging Fire"
2016-05-07,"Saudi Prince Urges American Voters To Make The Right Choice On Donald Trump: For the life of me, I cannot believe that a country like the United States can afford to have someone as president who simply says, These people are not going to be allowed to come to the United States"
2016-05-07,Egypt official blames Tom and Jerry cartoons for violence in the Middle East
2016-05-07,"ISIS terrorist's wishlist revealed after wife arrested, luggage seized at airport"
2016-05-07,"Islamic State executes a 7-year old boy for ""insulting divinity"""
2016-05-07,U.S. reveals troops on the ground in Yemen
2016-05-07,Kazakhstan calls for nuclear free world by 2045
2016-05-07,Iranian filmmaker sentenced to 233 lashes for documentary about graffiti in Tehran
2016-05-07,Australia quietly adds 49 species to threatened and endangered lists
2016-05-07,"'Stop resetting your password so often', says British spy agency"
2016-05-07,A New Zealand man has pleaded guilty to possession of extremist Islamic videos and is set to be the first person in the country to be sentenced for such offending.
2016-05-07,"More than 8 million in UK struggle to put food on table, survey says: 4.7 million thought to be regularly going a day without eating"
2016-05-07,More than 50 mass graves found in former Isis territories in Iraq as evidence of genocide mounts
2016-05-07,Leopards have suffered a 75% range loss worldwide
2016-05-07,Bangladesh Sufi Muslim hacked to death in suspected Islamist attack
2016-05-07,Fort McMurray wildfire before and after satellite images
2016-05-07,Man who leaked Panama Papers targets New Zealand Prime Minister in new data dump
2016-05-07,Pakistan rejects US conditions attached to sale of F-16s
2016-05-07,Canada's Fort McMurray wildfire 'to double in size'
2016-05-07,Saudi prince: Getting nukes an option if Iran breaks deal
2016-05-07,The wildfire that destroyed the Fort McMurray region in Canada's Alberta province is expected to incur the largest insured property losses from a single disaster in Canadian history.
2016-05-07,Oil tanker washes up on Liberia beach with no crew or lifeboats
2016-05-06,'We need a revolt against the fossil fuel industry': Tesla chief says educating the public on climate issues is essential in countering oil and gas lobbys influence over big political decisions
2016-05-06,Fort McMurray wildfire grows 8 times larger as battle continues
2016-05-06,"Pope Francis urges Europe to return to postwar principles: What has happened to you, the Europe of humanism, the champion of human rights, democracy and freedom?"
2016-05-06,"Over 70% of Germans doubtful on EU-US TTIP pact. Merkel, meanwhile, reiterated her government's official position Wednesday, saying that she would ""do everything to conclude the negotiations"", preferably by the end of 2016."
2016-05-06,"Fort McMurray fire now too large, too fierce to stop without rain"
2016-05-06,"The targeting and killing of people with albinism in Malawi has a reached a crisis point after two more people were killed and their bodies mutilated, a leading acivist has said, just days after the UN said the community faced systematic extinction"
2016-05-06,"German report: Bailout has saved banks, not Greece"
2016-05-06,35 tons of dead fish wash up in China lake
2016-05-06,Oil prices surge above $45 amid Canadian wildfire
2016-05-06,Turkish journalist Can Dndar escapes attempted shooting outside court
2016-05-06,"Plans for coal-fired power in Asia are 'disaster for planet' warns World Bank | Experts have offered stark warnings that proposed power plants in India, China, Vietnam and Indonesia would blow Paris climate deal if they move ahead"
2016-05-06,Most of Greek bailout money went to banks - according to new study by the European School of Management and Technology
2016-05-06,U.S. To Ship Peanuts To Feed Haitian Kids; Aid Groups Say 'This Is Wrong'
2016-05-06,Venezuela accuses US of conspiring to topple Nicolas Maduro
2016-05-06,"Dozens reported killed and wounded by air strike on Syrian refugee camp near Turkish border, activists say"
2016-05-06,Palmyra hosts Russian concert after recapture from ISIS
2016-05-06,Blanket ban on psychoactive substances in England and Wales to begin on 26 May
2016-05-06,Firefighting plane crashes in Northwest Alberta while combating the fires in Alberta
2016-05-06,Bulgaria t return migrants to turkey from June 1 | Bulgaria has become the first EU member state to sign a protocol with Ankara to set in place procedures for sending illegal migrants back to Turkey starting from next month.
2016-05-06,Haiti had Zika months before Brazils 2015 outbreak. A fever epidemic in 2014 in Haiti wasnt chikungunya but Zika. University of Florida scientists tested cultures from Haitian schoolchildren. Funding needed to determine impact of mosquito-borne Zika virus.
2016-05-06,US sets deadline for Assad's transition from power to August 1st
2016-05-06,Saudi forces engage and kill suspected ISIS fighters near the holy city of Mecca.
2016-05-06,"Go your own way, Erdogan tells EU"
2016-05-06,Spain reports 1st case of Zika-linked microcephaly
2016-05-06,"Amazon and eBay hosting ads for banned invasive species - Unregulated traders are using the sites to sell some of the worlds most invasive plants, with potentially devastating impacts on ecosystems"
2016-05-05,India plans to spend $6 billion on creating new forests
2016-05-05,Isis members can now be stripped of Australian citizenship
2016-05-05,"David Cameron has no intention of withdrawing his claim that Donald Trump was divisive, stupid and wrong to call for a ban on Muslims entering the US, Downing Street has said."
2016-05-05,Kenya May End Forced Anal Exams of Suspected Gays
2016-05-05,US spent $1.4B+ on abstinence programs in Africa over 12 yrs. Study finds programs failed.
2016-05-05,Top Saudi cleric: Homosexuals should not be punished
2016-05-05,Turkeys prime minister resigns amid high-level rifts and deepening crises
2016-05-05,"A Colombian sailor has been rescued after spending two harrowing months lost at sea, witnessing the deaths of his three shipmates and forced to eat seagulls for survival, U.S. Coast Guard Honolulu says."
2016-05-05,"Thousands of Tons of Dead Creatures Hit Chile's Beaches.Heaps of dead whales, salmon and sardines blamed on the El Nio freak weather phenomenon have clogged Chile's Pacific beaches in recent months."
2016-05-05,Scientists uncover 71 million year old dinosaur fossils during Antarctic expedition
2016-05-05,Royal Navy fires warning shot at Spanish patrol boat hassling US submarine near Gibraltar
2016-05-05,Italy rules that stealing food not a crime if desperately hungry
2016-05-05,UN official to Israel: You must criminalize torture
2016-05-05,Most of Greek bailout money went to banks: study
2016-05-05,A Sydney woman who mistakenly had $4.6 million transferred into her bank account has been arrested at Sydney International Airport while attempting to leave the country
2016-05-05,Danny Healy-Rae labelled 'Ireland's Sarah Palin' after telling Dail climate change debate 'only God controls the weather'
2016-05-05,105 female students escape abduction in Nigeria
2016-05-05,"Brazil top court suspends parliament speaker Eduardo Cunha, who led impeachment drive against President Rousseff"
2016-05-05,IDF general in bombshell speech: Israel today shows signs of 1930s Germany - Israel News
2016-05-05,Sisi says Western human rights values dont apply in Egypt
2016-05-05,"Muslims in Punjab, Pakistan funded the construction of a Catholic church"
2016-05-05,Bangladesh Islamist party leader to hang for war crimes
2016-05-05,Germany gives go-ahead to relax rules on medical marijuana. Paraplegics and MS patients can heave a sigh of relief: doctors will soon be able to prescribe medical marijuana to relieve pain or symptoms. Berlin gave the go-ahead to relax rules on therapeutic cannabis use.
2016-05-05,"Mdecins sans Frontires to pull out of World Humanitarian Summit stating that the summit has become a fig-leaf allowing systematic violations, by states above all"
2016-05-05,"Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkeys Prime Minister, Is Expected to Be Replaced"
2016-05-04,"Wildfire destroying Fort McMurray, most of city evacuated"
2016-05-04,"Self-proclaimed ""Sharia Police"" in Germany to stand Trial on the grounds of violating laws against wearing uniforms with political messages"
2016-05-04,Doubts rise over TTIP as France threatens to block EU-US deal
2016-05-04,Seven of the world's biggest banks have agreed to pay $324 million to settle a private U.S. lawsuit accusing them of rigging an interest rate benchmark used in the $553 trillion derivatives market
2016-05-04,Jewish man handed life in prison for grisly murder of East Jerusalem teen. The Israeli ringleader in the killing of a Palestinian teenager who was abducted and burned to death in 2014 has been sentenced to life in prison.
2016-05-04,"King Felipe of Spain dissolves parliament, clearing way for a rerun of national elections, for the first time since the countrys return to democracy in the late 1970s."
2016-05-04,Clashes in Paris as police try to remove migrants occupying empty school
2016-05-04,Australia's first openly gay Muslim Imam has started a support group for gay Muslims
2016-05-04,Suicide bomber taken down by poisoned arrow
2016-05-04,Kenyan police bust ISIS cell plotting large-scale biological attack
2016-05-04,Israel stops four tons of rocket chemicals from being smuggled into Gaza
2016-05-04,"Attacks on Hospitals Are 'War Crimes,' UN Chief Says"
2016-05-04,Millions of dead fish on Vietnam's shores raise industrial pollution fears
2016-05-04,"Iran will close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a passageway through which a third of the world's oil is transported, unless the US and its allies stop ""threatening"" it, a senior Iranian military commander has said."
2016-05-04,Apple no longer has exclusive rights to the iPhone name in China
2016-05-04,"Senior Egypt Official Blames Tom and Jerry, Video Games for Violence Across Middle East"
2016-05-04,"As Asia's rice crop shrivels due to drought, food security fears resurface.A heatwave is sweeping top rice exporter India, while the No.2 supplier Thailand is facing a second year of drought."
2016-05-04,Islamic State kills U.S. Navy SEAL in northern Iraq
2016-05-04,Iranian cartoonist jailed for insulting members of parliament released
2016-05-04,Number of children in Japan declines for 35th straight year to hit record low
2016-05-04,"Norway's $872-billion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said it would press U.S. oil majors ExxonMobil and Chevron to do more to report on the risks of climate change."
2016-05-04,"European Commission says EU states refusing to take refugees will have to pay 250,000 euros per person"
2016-05-04,Scientists win $3 million for detecting Einstein's waves
2016-05-04,"The founder and leader of the German anti-Islam movement, Pegida, has been convicted of inciting racial hatred. Lutz Bachmann escaped a prison sentence but was fined 9,600 (7,600; $11,000) for calling refugees ""scum"""
2016-05-04,A company owned by Google has been given access to the healthcare data of up to 1.6 million patients from three hospitals run by a major London NHS trust.
2016-05-03,"France will press its G7 partners this month to launch an ""irreversible"" process to control the prices of new medicines, part of a global drive to make life-saving drugs more affordable"
2016-05-03,Iceland president's wife linked to offshore tax havens in leaked files | News
2016-05-03,The United States has told Pakistan it will have to finance the purchase of U.S. F-16 fighter jets itself after members of the U.S. Congress objected to the use of government funds to pay for them
2016-05-03,Nine years of censorship - Canadian scientists are now allowed to speak out about their work  & the govt policy that restricted communications.
2016-05-03,"It's not a crime if hungry poor steal food, Italy says"
2016-05-03,The Super Rich Were the First to Bail During the Financial Crisis - Bloomberg
2016-05-03,Three Earth-like planets discovered orbiting dwarf star
2016-05-03,Turkish journalists accuse Erdoan of media witch-hunt
2016-05-03,"Berta Cceres murder: 4 men arrested for Honduran activist's death - 2 are linked to company building hydroelectric dam which Cceres was fighting. Cceres, who last yr won the Goldman environmental prize for her work opposing the Agua Zarca dam, was shot dead at her home 2 months ago."
2016-05-03,Mass brawl erupts in Turkish parliament over constitutional amendment
2016-05-03,French journalist infiltrates jihadist cell for six months
2016-05-03,Kenyan President personally sets fire to huge ivory stockpile to show countries commitment to combating poachers.
2016-05-03,EU may fine countries for rejecting refugees
2016-05-03,India's hottest town reaches 48.5 C (120 F) in a heat wave.
2016-05-03,"Zika Virus Birth Defects May Be 'Tip of the Iceberg', Experts Say"
2016-05-03,EU to grant Turkey visa-free travel
2016-05-03,"Climate to inspire exodus from Middle East, North Africa in coming decades.Temperature and sea level aren't the only things expected to rise as a result of climate change. As heat becomes more extreme in some parts of the world, scientists expect a significant rise in the number of climate refugees."
2016-05-03,A Copenhagen art exhibit planning to portray two of the Brussels suicide bombers and one of the Paris Bataclan attackers as martyrs has been reported to police for encouraging terrorism.
2016-05-03,An investigative economist has crunched 45 years of official statistics to discover just how much kleptocrats have plundered from 150 mostly poor nations.
2016-05-03,Cheering Cubans greet first cruise ship from US in decades
2016-05-03,Monsanto Set To Fight Argentina Over Royalties Owed By Farmers
2016-05-03,New Zealander William Trubridge breaks the world record for deepest freedive at 122 metres
2016-05-03,Hamas says its ties with UK Labor's Corbyn 'painful hit for the Zionists': Hamas praise of Corbyn coincides with a media firestorm in the United Kingdom surrounding recent revelations of extremist anti-Israel and anti-Jewish expressions by Labor members
2016-05-03,Labour suspends three councillors over Israel comments
2016-05-03,"Brazil judge orders WhatsApp blocked, affecting 100 million users"
2016-05-02,Puerto Rico says it will default on Monday
2016-05-02,Bitcoin's elusive founder reveals himself as computer scientist Craig Wrightand publishes info needed to verify claim
2016-05-02,Leaked papers allege US intimidating EU over TTIP free trade deal: German media say secret documents reveal the US is pressuring the EU to approve a transatlantic free trade deal. The reports say Washington may block easier car exports if the EU doesn't open up its agricultural market
2016-05-02,Leaked TTIP documents cast doubt on EU-US trade deal
2016-05-02,Berlin Brandenburg airport corruption 'whistleblower poisoned'
2016-05-02,"Looting On the Rise As Venezuela Runs Out of Food, Electricity: Food Producers Alert They Have Only 15 Days Left of Inventory amid Rampant Inflation"
2016-05-02,Health experts believe Australia is on the brink of virtually eradicating cervical cancer because of vaccine and testing breakthroughs
2016-05-02,Overfishing puts $42bn tuna industry at risk of collapse
2016-05-02,Former Catholic priest John Farrell sentenced to minimum 18 years for sexually assaulting 12 children
2016-05-02,"Some 30,000 people took part in a yearly May Day rally in Tokyos central Yoyogi park, protesting against the controversial TPP trade deal among other issues, national work unions federation Zenroren said in a statement on Sunday."
2016-05-02,Puerto Ricans leaving island for U.S. in record numbers
2016-05-02,Pakistan: Blasphemy case registered against six for desecrating Sikh man's turban
2016-05-02,"Deadly heat wave is shattering all-time records in Southeast Asia and India. The temperature in Sukhothai, Thailand spiked to 44.3 degrees Celsius, or 111.7 degrees Celsius"
2016-05-02,"Buses set on fire after Saudi Binladin Group 'lays off 50,000 foreign workers'"
2016-05-02,UAE to build artificial mountain to improve rainfall
2016-05-02,Massive oil theft by pirates costs Nigeria $1.5 billion every month
2016-05-02,"Israels controversial roof knocking tactic appears in Iraq. And this time, its the U.S. doing it."
2016-05-02,"Tips should go to workers, not employers, says government report | Charges on gratuities in restaurants, hotels and bars should be scrapped or limited, according to a review of tipping practices"
2016-05-02,"44 claimed dead, maybe more. Others missing, injured, and feared to be captured, after suicide bombers attack soldiers in Somalia."
2016-05-02,"British firm's Korean unit apologises over poison deaths: Most of the victims were found to have used Oxy Ssak Ssak, a liquid humidifier disinfectant sold by Reckitt Benckiser in South Korea from 2001, that has been blamed for around 103 deaths -- mostly women and children"
2016-05-02,Greenpeace publishes leaked TTIP documents #TTIPLeaks
2016-05-02,"The mosquito-borne Zika virus may be even more dangerous than previously thought, scientists in Brazil say."
2016-05-02,China Is Reportedly Training a 'Maritime Militia' to Patrol the Disputed South China Sea
2016-05-02,No TTIP if agriculture is threatened: France
2016-05-02,"Turkish artillery, US drones kill 34 ISIS militants in northern Syria"
2016-05-01,Iran's new parliament has more women than clerics
2016-05-01,Report: Germany considering stopping 'unconditional support' of Israel
2016-05-01,Colombia legalizes same-sex marriage.
2016-05-01,"A virulent strain of herpes virus will be released into Murray-Darling river system in bid to eradicate European carp, in what Science Minister Christopher Pyne has dubbed a ""carp-aggedon"". Australian Government estimates the $15m project will kill 95% of carp in river system over next 30 years."
2016-05-01,"Munich Oktoberfest to get first-ever entrance checks - Revellers hoping to join in the carousing at Munich Oktoberfest will have to pass through a security check before entering the festival grounds this year, Munich authorities have said."
2016-05-01,US military finds itself not guilty of war crimes in Afghan hospital bombing
2016-05-01,"German right wing party(Alternative fr Deutschland, AFD) calls for ban on minarets and the burqa"
2016-05-01,"Spanish Ditch Diggers Unearth 1,300 Pounds of Roman Coins - Workers find hoard of 19 amphora with mint-condition coins from the 3rd & 4th centuries. Find is remarkable, not only in size, but because it appears uncirculated, making them some of best-preserved coins ever discovered."
2016-05-01,72-year-old man pulled from rubble 2 weeks after Ecuador earthquake
2016-05-01,"Cambodia's prime minister has ordered a million hectares of forest be included in protected zones as the country faces one of the world's fastest deforestation rates. The move will bump Cambodia's conservation zones up by a fifth, bringing more than a quarter of the country's land under protection."
2016-05-01,Vietnam Dead Fish Crisis: Critics Blast Taiwanese Corporation Formosa Plastics As Environmental Disaster Devastates Region
2016-05-01,Royal Cambodian Turtle Population Plummets 95%; Just 10 Left in the Wild - Attempts to save this revered species in the rivers of Cambodia appear to have failed
2016-05-01,Farmers nationwide have threatened to organise protests against the government if it decides Thailand should take part in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.
2016-05-01,UK Hospitals Are Feeding 1.6 Million Patients Health Records to Googles AI
2016-05-01,Kenya Burns Elephant Ivory Worth $105 Million to Defy Poachers
2016-05-01,Thousands of Brits who refused to do unpaid work in return for Jobseeker's Allowance may be due compensation after the Government lost a legal battle.
2016-05-01,State of emergency declared in Baghdad
2016-05-01,Crisis-hit Venezuela pushes clocks forward to save power
2016-05-01,Nissan recalls 4 million cars over seat belt and airbag safety fears
2016-05-01,Colombia's illegal mining linked to malaria outbreak
2016-05-01,Video appears to show the moment a Syrian hospital was destroyed by an airstrike
2016-05-01,"Saudi builder Binladin terminates 50,000 jobs: newspaper"
2016-05-01,Rescued circus lions flown from Peru to South African refuge
2016-05-01,Google AI gains access to 1.2m confidential NHS patient records
2016-05-01,Ecuador earthquake: Rescuers pull 72yo survivor from rubble two weeks after disaster
2016-04-30,Body of Russian soldier who called in an airstrike on himself after being surrounded by IS fighters has been recovered. He was posthumously awarded the Hero of Russia medal.
2016-04-30,"Exxon sees smallest profit in 16 years, Chevron posts loss"
2016-04-30,"A Hindu tailor has been hacked to death in a district of central Bangladesh | Police said Nikhil Joarder had been arrested in 2012 for allegedly making derogatory comments about Islam, then released."
2016-04-30,Illegal Muslim prayer hall blown up in Russia after police find explosives inside
2016-04-30,"Pirate Bay hit by malvertising attack, drops Cerber ransomware"
2016-04-30,"Hundreds of protesters storm Baghdad's Green Zone, enter parliament"
2016-04-30,"Airbnb drops almost half of Berlin listings as city cracks down on short-term rentals imposing a fine of 100,000 on property owners who rent vacation homes without a permit"
2016-04-30,"Fracking in the US causing global surge in dangerous gas, study finds"
2016-04-30,"Ken Livingstone stands by Hitler comments saying he was ""not sorry for telling the truth"", amid anti-Semitism row"
2016-04-30,"Malawi's estimated 10,000 albinos face ""extinction"" if they continue to be murdered for their body parts for use in witchcraft, a UN expert has warned."
2016-04-30,A suicide bomber driving a car has killed at least 19 people and wounded 48 others 30 in an attack claimed by ISIL on a group of Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in a southeastern suburb of Baghdad
2016-04-30,"The Egyptian government has launched a smearing campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood, describing them as aids and calling for Egyptians to boycott them."
2016-04-30,ISIS begs for foreign donations as its oil sales plummet
2016-04-30,German police arrest 400 protesters outside far-right party meeting | Riot police use pepper spray to disperse activists blocking entrance to Alternative fr Deutschland conference in Stuttgart
2016-04-30,Russia defends intercept of U.S. reconnaissance plane over Baltic
2016-04-30,Russians 'barrel roll' over another U.S. Air Force plane
2016-04-30,Debt Collectors Adopt Mob Tactics as Russians Struggle to Pay Bills (including sexual assault)
2016-04-30,Price Of Using Mobiles In EU 'Drops 75%' Today
2016-04-30,"India has declined to issue visas to two Chinese activists hoping to attend a conference on promoting democracy, days after it revoked a visa for an exiled ethnic Uighur leader who China says backs militant violence."
2016-04-30,"Botswana could be malaria free by 2020 WHO estimates. Statistics show that Botswana has over the past 14 years reduced the incidence of malaria from 42 cases to 0.23 cases per 1,000 of the population."
2016-04-30,Kim Jong-un Brings Back Pleasure Squads Of Teenage Girls To Serve Him
2016-04-30,"24 killed, 38 wounded in Baghdad car-bombing"
2016-04-30,Obama: US 'setting up a shield' to block North Korean missiles
2016-04-30,Daytime cooking ban in India as heatwave claims 300 lives | Authorities try to prevent accidental fires amid scorching temperatures that have destroyed crops and killed livestock
2016-04-30,"Obama-Netanyahu rift impedes U.S. offer of record $40 billion aid deal for Israel: ""American officials have balked as their Israeli counterparts insisted on more generous terms for a new 10-year military aid package"""
2016-04-29,VW and Shell try to block EU push for electric cars
2016-04-29,Teens who bombed Sikh temple in Germany were ISIS sympathisers
2016-04-29,"Helicopter firms are carrying out unauthorised sightseeing flights over the upper reaches of Mount Everest, Nepalese officials say. Sherpas have expressed concerns that vibrations caused by the helicopters could trigger avalanches."
2016-04-29,Green Beret who beat Afghan official over alleged child assault to stay in Army
2016-04-29,More than half a tonne of ancient Roman coins unearthed by Spanish construction workers
2016-04-29,Norway moves to bar entry to 'hate preachers'
2016-04-29,SpaceX breaks Boeing-Lockheed monopoly on military space launches
2016-04-29,"Woolly Wolf Spotted in Nepal Is Likely a New Species - By analyzing the animal's poop, scientists provide more evidence it's not a subspecies of the gray wolf."
2016-04-29,"About 16 U.S. military personnel, including one general officer, have been disciplined for mistakes that led to the bombing of a civilian hospital in Afghanistan last year that killed 42 people"
2016-04-29,"South American Catholic country, Colombia, legalises same-sex marriage"
2016-04-29,"Australia's PM says ""We can't afford to let the empathy that we feel for the desperate circumstances that many people find themselves in to cloud our judgment"" as an Iranian Asylum Seeker burns himself to death in an Australian detention Centre on Nauru"
2016-04-29,Turkish embassy wants Swedish channel to withdraw film on Assyrian & Armenian genocide
2016-04-29,"Mosques in Germany should be placed under state supervision, according to a leading parliamentarian"
2016-04-29,"Geoblocking: Consumers not breaching copyright by circumventing with VPN, says Govt agency"
2016-04-29,Belgian police knew since 2014 that Abdeslam brothers planned irreversible act Damning report into Belgian response to Paris attacks shows sloppiness and lack of resources
2016-04-29,Helicopter carrying at least 13 people crashes near Bergen in Norway
2016-04-29,SpaceX founder Elon Musk announces company plans to send capsule to Mars in 2018
2016-04-29,"US aircraft carrier denied entry to Hong Kong, American consulate official says - by China"
2016-04-29,"Up in smoke: Kenya to torch millions of dollars worth of ivory; 105 tons of elephant ivory, 1.35 tons of rhino horn, exotic animal skins and other products such as sandalwood and medicinal bark"
2016-04-29,Chinese Investors Reeling After Wealth Management Firm's Collapse
2016-04-29,"Two journalists in Turkey have been sentenced to two years in jail for ""insulting religious values"" after they reprinted a controversial cover from the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo above their columns."
2016-04-29,"Saudi Arabia 'not ready' to let women drive because of culture, not religion - prince"
2016-04-29,British Labour member suspended for saying Hitler supported Zionism
2016-04-29,Peruvian Farmer Wins Monumental Battle Against U.S. Mining Giant
2016-04-29,Tony Blair courted Chinese leaders for Saudi prince's oil firm
2016-04-28,"Airstrike destroys Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, killing staff and patients"
2016-04-28,"People are increasingly identifying themselves as global rather than national citizens, according to a BBC World Service poll."
2016-04-28,"Paris terror suspect is a little jerk, his lawyer says - In an interview with the French daily Liberation, Sven Mary, Abdeslam's Belgian attorney, heaped opprobrium on his departing client, whom Mary described as having ""the intelligence of an empty ashtray  an abysmal emptiness."""
2016-04-28,"Cheap red meat is helping kill off Glasgow's poorest men 30 yrs early - ""You need to afford to buy quality food. If you cant get quality red meat, youre going to have an issue."" Glasgow is notorious for astonishing gap in life expectancy between rich & poor. Now researchers think they know why."
2016-04-28,"Women protest in Nigeria, insisting we cannot be Islamised"
2016-04-28,100 days before 2016 Olympic games and Brazil is unraveling
2016-04-28,"Denmark considers tax on beef, other red meats to combat climate change"
2016-04-28,Iran calls for global destruction of weapons of mass destruction
2016-04-28,South Korea becomes 1st Asian nation to sign space pact with US
2016-04-28,North Korea launches missile; test fails
2016-04-28,Austria votes to reject most migrants and refugees. The Austrian parliament on Wednesday adopted one of Europe's toughest asylum laws.
2016-04-28,SpaceX is sending a Red Dragon Spacecraft to Mars in 2018
2016-04-28,Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully placed the seventh and last satellite of Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation into the orbit
2016-04-28,"'Let the Rich Pay More Taxes': Thousands Take to Streets in Costa Rica. Public sector workers have a long list of demands that includes salary increases, higher taxes on the wealthy, and land rights for peasants."
2016-04-28,Germany to give 1bn subsidy to boost electric car sales.
2016-04-28,'All Belgians to get iodine pills' in case of nuclear accident
2016-04-28,Oxygen Rates in Oceans are Falling
2016-04-28,"China successfully tests nuclear-capable hypersonic missile  Pentagon sources: US intelligence fears that Beijing may use DF-ZF, capable of reaching speeds of over 11,000 kilometers per hour, to deliver nuclear weapons bypassing even the most complex of missile defense systems"
2016-04-28,"Taking a stance sharply at odds with most American public health officials, the British Royal College of Physician urged smokers to switch to electronic cigarettes, saying they are the best hope in generations for people addicted to tobacco cigarettes to quit."
2016-04-28,"Turkish police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse people protesting a call for the country to adopt a religious constitution, chanting ""Turkey will remain secular!"""
2016-04-28,India activates eight laser walls along border with Pakistan
2016-04-28,"Myanmar has banned lucrative logging operations as the newly-elected government of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi steps up a battle on deforestation, an environment official said on Thursday."
2016-04-28,Philippine presidential frontrunner Rodrigo Duterte vows to pardon himself for murder
2016-04-28,Syrian army seizes Israeli-made weapons on their way to ISIS
2016-04-28,Colgate and Unilever operating detergent cartel in Australia to extort profits from consumers
2016-04-27,"A 1.4GB leak of internal documents from Qatar National Bank gives data on al-Jazeera journalists, the ruling family and British 'spies'"
2016-04-27,Toddler's meningitis death nets guilty verdict against Alberta parents
2016-04-27,"Kim Jong Un orders missile launches when angry, source says"
2016-04-27,"Saying that climate change is an ethical problem, the Danish Council on Ethics (Det Etiske Rd) has called for a climate tax on red meat."
2016-04-27,Australia is buying 12 new submarines from France for $39 billion
2016-04-27,'Largest ever lion airlift' flies 33 big cats back to Africa - Thirty-three lions rescued from circuses in Peru and Colombia are being flown back to their homeland to live out the rest of their lives in a private sanctuary in South Africa.
2016-04-27,Venezuela orders 2-day work week to stave off power crisis
2016-04-27,"Bangladesh: A court has jailed two teachers in southern Bangladesh for making derogatory comments about Islam and the Prophet,the case began when students complained that the assistant teacher of a science class dismissed Quran as the word of God and said there was no heaven."
2016-04-27,UK Labour MP Naz Shah claimed Israeli Jews should be relocated to America in a series of social media posts
2016-04-27,Xi Jinping calls for greater tolerance of criticism online about Chinas government ... and comments about his remarks are barred or censored
2016-04-27,A Canadian tribunal has ruled the Victoria Police Dept violated an officer's rights when they prevented him from advocating for drug legalization
2016-04-27,Islamic State: Up to $800m of funds 'destroyed by strikes'
2016-04-27,Sweden's Green Party 'infiltrated by Islamists'
2016-04-27,Trudeau says Canada 'does not and will not pay ransom to terrorists' - Politics
2016-04-27,Supreme Court allows 12-year-old Queensland girl to have abortion
2016-04-27,"Internet traffic to Wikipedia pages summarizing knowledge about terror groups and their tools plunged nearly 30 percent after revelations of widespread Web monitoring by the U.S. National Security Agency, suggesting that concerns about government snooping are hurting the ordinary pursuit of"
2016-04-27,"Iran's Deployment of 7,000 Plainclothes 'Morality Police' Prompts Criticism."
2016-04-27,Ofsted warns of Muslim school staff gender segregation
2016-04-27,UN rejects Israel's claim over Syria's Golan Heights
2016-04-27,[Germany] Computer virus found in Bavarian nuclear plant
2016-04-27,"The South African government has banned four country's sporting bodies (cricket, rugby, netball and athletics) from bidding to host global events because there aren't sufficient black players in national teams."
2016-04-27,Reports: 11 found dead at military barracks in Cape Verde
2016-04-27,Venezuela will have a 2 day work week until further notice
2016-04-27,EU rejects Greek request for emergency summit.
2016-04-27,Chinese Navy in South China Sea Draws U.S. Admiral's Praise: Rear Admiral Marcus Hitchcock says his ships have been engaged on almost a twenty four-seven basis with a completely professional Peoples Liberation Army Navy
2016-04-26,England's Doctors Walk Out of Emergency Wards in First Ever All-Out Strike
2016-04-26,Russia Arrests Scientologist for Stealing $2 Million and Giving to Church
2016-04-26,"Watchdog says press freedom in decline, 'new era of propaganda'"
2016-04-26,We are a Muslim country: Turkeys parliament speaker advocates religious constitution
2016-04-26,8 bombers killed as their suicide vests went off prematurely in Kunduz - Khaama Press (KP)
2016-04-26,Islamist militants behead Canadian man in southern Philippines
2016-04-26,Hillsborough disaster: Police errors led to deaths
2016-04-26,Sweden examining 'Islamic State threat' to Stockholm
2016-04-26,Massive fire destroys Delhi's National Museum of Natural History
2016-04-26,John Kerry condemns 'barbaric murder' of gay rights activist and US Embassy worker in Bangladesh
2016-04-26,Mitsubishi fuel tests errors since 1991
2016-04-26,"Report: Rouhani requests removal of ""Death to Israel"" from Iranian missiles"
2016-04-26,Russia and Syria sign deals worth $850 million to restore Syrian infrastructure
2016-04-26,"ISIS pay scale revealed: Documents show salaries based on number of wives, sex slaves"
2016-04-26,"Prions, the misfolded proteins that are known for causing degenerative illnesses in animals and humans, may have been spotted for the first time in plants."
2016-04-26,French mayor seeks to block Saudi-funded mosque
2016-04-26,ISIS-linked jihadis publish hit list targeting US State Dept. personnel
2016-04-26,"Tories vote against accepting 3,000 child refugees (U.K)"
2016-04-26,"'Coat Hanger Rebels' Battle Bid to Outlaw Abortion - Proposed law to ban abortion sends 1000s of Poles onto the streets, coat hangers held aloft & drawn on posters. Activists have long decried abortion laws in Poland, which are among the most restrictive in Europe."
2016-04-26,"The city of Medellin, Colombia has been awarded the Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize 2016 for its transformation from a violent city to a model of urban innovation."
2016-04-26,"U.S. official: ISIS has cells in UK, Germany, Italy"
2016-04-26,Elephant dies from exhaustion after decades carrying tourists to Cambodia's Angkor Wat
2016-04-26,Rise in CO2 has 'greened Planet Earth'
2016-04-26,Japan warship visits the Philippines in sign of deepening security ties as row over South China Sea festers
2016-04-26,Mexico's president proposes legalising medical marijuana (and up to 28 grams for recreational)
2016-04-25,"Missing Mexican Students Suffered a Night of Terror, Investigators Say: An international panel has provided details of the night in 2014 when Mexican police and gunmen abducted 43 students who have not been seen since."
2016-04-25,TTIP: UK Government did just one assessment of trade deal and found it had 'lots of risks and no benefit'
2016-04-25,Revealed: nearly all new diesel cars exceed official pollution limits - Health experts lambast deceitful carmakers as data suggests 97% of vehicles fail to meet NOx emissions standards in real-world conditions.
2016-04-25,Australia May Take in African Rhinos to Prevent Extinction
2016-04-25,Elephant poachers killed three rangers in Congo's Garamba wildlife park and wounded two other people including the Swedish park manager.
2016-04-25,"Australian MP sets river on fire, blames nearby fracking - An Australian MP is blaming seeping methane from a nearby fracking site for making it possible for him to set Queensland's Condamine River on fire."
2016-04-25,Saudi Arabia just announced its plan to diversify away from oil
2016-04-25,Bangladesh LGBT editor hacked to death
2016-04-25,"US President Barack Obama has dismissed North Korea's proposal to suspend nuclear tests if the US ends its annual military exercises with the South. On Sunday Mr Obama told reporters that the US did not take such a proposal seriously and that Pyongyang would ""have to do better than that""."
2016-04-25,Far-right 'comes top in Austria vote'
2016-04-25,"Brazil has said it repatriated $125m (86m) last year siphoned off to foreign bank accounts by corrupt officials, politicians and businessmen."
2016-04-25,"Japan says China's maritime expansion making the world 'greatly worried' - Foreign Minister, speaking ahead of Beijing visit, said China is making the world worried with its military buildup & maritime expansion in the East & South China Seas."
2016-04-25,ISIS Chief India recruiter killed in US drone strike.
2016-04-25,"Victims of a New African Massacre: Gorillas - With conflicts abating some in jungles of Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers finally have an updated gorilla head count  one that confirms their fears. They've plummeted 77%. Less than 3,800 remain."
2016-04-25,Australian politician sets river on fire to protest fracking
2016-04-25,Indonesian navy impounds Chinese trawler for illegal fishing
2016-04-25,Malta Prime Minister associate found selling Maltese (EU) citizenship through secret company in British Virgin Islands
2016-04-25,"Carbon Pricing Becomes a Cause for the World Bank and I.M.F. - And to our economists, who have been studying this for quite some time, there is an equally obvious consensus that putting a price on carbon pollution is by far the most powerful and efficient way to reduce emissions."
2016-04-25,"Bangladesh Bank hackers compromised SWIFT software, warning to be issued"
2016-04-25,China's Xi warns of foreign infiltration through religion
2016-04-25,A Philippine presidential candidate who joked about raping a murdered Australian missionary widens his lead over his rivals despite backlash
2016-04-25,"Marguerite Barankitse, Burundi humanitarian who saved 30,000 lives, awarded inaugural Aurora Prize in Armenia worth $1.1 million."
2016-04-25,A panel of international experts investigating the disappearance of 43 Mexican trainee teachers in 2014 says the government of President Enrique Pena Neto has hampered its inquiries.
2016-04-25,Poland's ex-leaders say new govt is demolishing democracy - Prominent former leaders accuse right-wing govt of demolishing countrys democracy & its international standing. Urging lawmakers to disregard what they call the draconian new legislation the govt is proposing.
2016-04-25,India revokes passport of tycoon who owes $1 billion
2016-04-24,"After being released the head of the Berlin branch of Germanys Pirate Party, who was arrested for citing an insulting poem about Turkish President Erdogan, has told RT people should expect to lose their freedom of speech when their government ""signs deals with dictators."""
2016-04-24,Dutch journalist arrested in Turkey for criticising Erdoan
2016-04-24,"Police sweep away Brazils street children ahead of Olympics. As Rio prepares for the spotlight the Games will bring, advocates for homeless youth say children are being detained arbitrarily by policeor in some cases simply vanishing."
2016-04-24,India Accuses US Of Double Standards On Solar Trade
2016-04-24,"Europe is now malaria free for the first time in years. Malaria cases in Europe have dropped from a peak of over 90,000 in 1995 to zero in 2015, according to the World Health Organization."
2016-04-24,Investigators Say Mexico Has Thwarted Efforts to Solve Students Disappearance
2016-04-24,"China to increase high-speed rail network to 30,000 km by 2020: By the end of 2015, the length of high-speed railway (HSR) lines in operation in China exceeded 19,000 km with nearly 10,000 km under construction"
2016-04-24,London cat killer mystery deepens as charities investigate 100 animal deaths
2016-04-24,Prominent Sikh Figure Gunned Down In Pakistan
2016-04-24,"U.N. torture watchdog urges Saudi to halt flogging, amputations"
2016-04-24,"S Africa: 49 starving monkeys rescued from cages - Starving, dehydrated monkeys were rescued from garden nursery near Johannesburg Saturday, kept for the entertainment of those buying plants. Some heads were disproportionally large for their bodies & bones protruded. Many had rickets."
2016-04-24,"A bioethics panel of the Japanese government on Friday approved gene modifications of fertilized human eggs for basic research purposes, while rejecting the technology's clinical use due partly to the unknown impact on the next generation."
2016-04-24,North Korean official: We'll stop nuclear tests if US halts military exercises
2016-04-24,"Germany is seeking the creation of ""safe zones"" to shelter refugees in Syria, Chancellor Angela Merkel says, an idea Turkey has long championed in the face of UN caution. Keeping refugees on the Syrian side of the border would help Brussels and Ankara stem the flow of migrants to European shores."
2016-04-24,Saudi human rights activist sentenced to 9 years in prison
2016-04-24,Russia threatens to use 'all necessary measures' after US destroyer sails close to border
2016-04-24,"India, France launch $1 trillion potential solar programme for developing countries"
2016-04-24,"Ruined Chernobyl nuclear plant will remain a threat for 3,000 years"
2016-04-24,Islamist student arrested over machete murder of Bangladeshi university professor
2016-04-24,"Australian MP sets river on fire, blames nearby fracking"
2016-04-24,Norwegian fighter jet pilot fires at control tower during training flight
2016-04-24,"Ecuador quake death toll jumps to 646, one week on"
2016-04-24,Turkey warns EU: Visa deal or no migrant pact
2016-04-24,N. Korea says it will send restaurant defectors' families to Seoul
2016-04-24,Japan OKs recognizing virtual currencies as similar to real money
2016-04-23,Websites that detect ad-blockers to stop their users from reading webpages could be illegal under European law
2016-04-23,"Coral reef discovered in murky waters of the Amazon river, covering 3600 sq. km."
2016-04-23,Thousands of Germans Protest TTIP Trade Deal Before Obama Visit
2016-04-23,Pirate Partys leader detained in Germany for citing poem about Erdogan
2016-04-23,"A university professor has been hacked to death in Bangladesh, in an attack police say is similar to a number of killings of secular bloggers and atheist activists in the past months"
2016-04-23,"A former undercover C.I.A. agent will be handed over to Italy, where she was convicted of taking part in the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in one of the renditions ordered by the George W. Bush administration"
2016-04-23,China official says film 'The Martian' shows Americans want space cooperation
2016-04-23,North Korea seen to fire submarine-launched ballistic missile: South Korea
2016-04-23,Emission cheating costs VW $18 billion
2016-04-23,"Climate deal won't stop Great Barrier Reef from getting 'cooked', say Greens. Australias lack of action on pollution reduction targets has made the country a laughing stock on the international stage, according to senator Larissa Waters"
2016-04-23,Great Barrier Reef: 93% of reefs hit by coral bleaching
2016-04-23,China stopped from buying cattle ranches the size of Ireland from Australia
2016-04-23,Brutal heat wave in India puts 330 million people at risk.
2016-04-23,"Turkish border guards shoot eight Syrian refugees dead, including women and children trying to reach safety."
2016-04-23,Mexican voter database containing 93.4 million records leaks online
2016-04-23,Blindfolded and beaten: Palestinians decry PA torture. Rights groups cite lack of accountability among PA security forces as a factor in persistent torture allegations.
2016-04-23,"Nicaragua undergoing most severe environmental crisis in recent history: drastic reduction or disappearance of 34 rivers, near-complete evaporation of at 4 lakes, loss of nearly 6,000 hectares of pine forest, reduced rainfall and advance of agricultural frontier are some of the challenges it faces."
2016-04-23,US to buy 32 metric tons of Iranian heavy water to fulfill nuclear deal terms
2016-04-23,Australian river set on fire after Greens member of Parliament lights bubbling methane gas.
2016-04-23,China denies reports of massing troops at North Korea border
2016-04-23,Merkel admits 'mistake' in Bhmermann satire case
2016-04-23,[Russia] Controversial new Human Rights Commissioner says human rights are a Western blackmail tool
2016-04-23,Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than 1.1 million cars and SUVs worldwide because the vehicles may roll away after drivers exit.
2016-04-23,China to Develop Floating Nuclear Power Plants
2016-04-23,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Delivers Statement on Armenian Genocide
2016-04-22,The Netherlands to decriminalize insulting heads of state
2016-04-22,Iranian women call on Western tourists to violate headscarf law to fight against oppression
2016-04-22,"Swiss army ready to act in worst case migrant scenario - Switzerland has said it is ready to mobilize up to 2,000 soldiers at border crossings should migrants continue to arrive into the country."
2016-04-22,Russian engineers have used dogs and robots to successfully clear the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra of nearly 3000 explosive devices left behind by Islamic State.
2016-04-22,"2,400 year-old Roman-era mosaic found in southern Turkey says be cheerful, enjoy your life"
2016-04-22,Edward Snowden to sue Norway in a bid to secure free passage in Norway without being extradited to the US. He wants to come to Norway to accept a freedom of speech award.
2016-04-22,Norwegian fighter jet helps save dying patient: Hospital staff call on air force F-16 to transport vital equipment from Trondheim hospital to patient 280 miles away
2016-04-22,"US Army captain foils Denmark school attack - A US Army captain in Iraq helped crack a plot to bomb a Danish school after gleaning crucial details from documents recovered from extremists, the Pentagon said on Wednesday."
2016-04-22,Olympic bike lane collapses in Rio; at least 2 die
2016-04-22,Boris Johnson suggests 'part-Kenyan' Obama may have an 'ancestral dislike' of Britain
2016-04-22,Barcelona Police Raid Arrests 39 Chinese Mafia: Frees 30 Trafficked Chinese Women
2016-04-22,U.S. charges woman for exporting underwater drone technology to China
2016-04-22,'Kindly send us names and quotes insulting our president': Ankara's Consulate asks Dutch citizens
2016-04-22,"Decriminalize all drugs, business and world leaders tell UN"
2016-04-22,U.S. soldier helps foil plot to blow up school in Denmark
2016-04-22,"Brussels bomber identified as jailer of foreign Isis hostages: Najim Laachraoui was Islamic State guard known as Abou Idriss, according to lawyer of former Syria hostage Nicolas Henin"
2016-04-22,Hong Kong bars may offer 'men's nights' after court deems ladies' night promos discriminatory
2016-04-22,Mexico to Consider Cannabis Legalization
2016-04-22,Turkish hotline for Erdogan insults angers Dutch
2016-04-22,6.0 quake strikes Ecuador amid recovery efforts
2016-04-22,Germany arrests two teenagers suspected of bombing Sikh temple
2016-04-22,DE - Teen 'Salafists' arrested over bomb attack on Sikh temple
2016-04-22,The UK has been using massive datasets to spy on innocent civilians for years
2016-04-22,Blow for Pope's reforms as audit into Vatican finances forced to halt
2016-04-22,Russian forces fired on Israeli military aircraft in Syria
2016-04-21,Declassified memo shows multiple Saudi connections to 9/11 plotters: flight certificate of Al Qaeda operative found in envelope from the Saudi Embassy in DC
2016-04-21,Canada to introduce pot legalization legislation in 2017
2016-04-21,IS executes 250 women for refusing sexual jihad: report
2016-04-21,"Referendum on abolishing monarchy must be held when Queen dies, republicans demand"
2016-04-21,Islamic face veil to be banned in Latvia despite being worn by just three women in entire country
2016-04-21,Watchdog says press freedom in decline in 'new era of propaganda'
2016-04-21,Super rich who hide money in tax havens to be unmasked
2016-04-21,Scientists resort to advertising to get Great Barrier Reef crisis in Queensland paper
2016-04-21,David Cameron will not be investigated over off-shore trust and tax affairs by parliamentary watchdog
2016-04-21,China deploying thousands of troops along North Korea border
2016-04-21,Wall Street Journal Runs Full-Page Ad Denying Armenian Genocide
2016-04-21,Jamaica Foreign Minister tells UN that scheduling cannabis as a dangerous drug with no medical use is outdated & out of touch & that the UN to needs to get its act together on weed
2016-04-21,Private US firms are opposing India's space program from launching US satellites into space.
2016-04-21,"Iran's president criticized the use of thousands of undercover morality police in Tehran to report on young women who are not wearing a full Islamic hijab or those who play loud music in their cars. Some 7,000 men and women officers began reporting such violations in Tehran"
2016-04-21,"Obama Blasts Saudi 9/11 Bill, Says It Opens U.S. to 'Being Continually Sued': If we open up the possibility that individuals and the United States can routinely start suing over governments, then we are also opening up the United States to being continually sued by individuals in other countries."
2016-04-21,U.K. Issues Travel Warning About Antigay U.S. States
2016-04-21,"""China's President Xi Jinping has assumed a new U.S.-style joint role as commander in chief of the military, state media and analysts said Thursday, signaling the buildup of his authority as the country's most powerful leader in decades."""
2016-04-21,"Failed N.K. missile launch damages launcher, causes human casualties: report"
2016-04-21,The Fallout From the Panama Papers in Hong Kong - The timing of an expos in a Hong Kong newspaper & an editors firing has angered some journalists.
2016-04-21,"Saudi government has vast network of PR, lobby firms in U.S."
2016-04-21,"VW to pay US customers $5,000 each to settle suit; VW would pay each customer affected by the carmaker's use of emissions test cheating software $5,000, in addition to paying to repair their vehicles"
2016-04-21,"Confirmed as Oldest in World: Message in bottle, promising finder a shilling, bobs up - Thrown into North Sea in 1906 by marine biologist & found by German woman She followed note's instructions & mailed it to Marine Biological Assn. We found an old shilling & sent it to her."
2016-04-21,Colombian president: prohibitionist drug policies have been a 'failure'
2016-04-21,Philippine's presidential frontrunner tells US and Australia to cut their ties if he becomes president.
2016-04-21,Hundreds of Palestinians march in support of Jerusalem bus bombing suspect
2016-04-20,Pacific Bluefin Tuna: Population Drops 97% Due to Overfishing
2016-04-20,"France bill McDonald's $341 million for unpaid taxes on profits believed to have been funneled through Luxembourg, Switzerland"
2016-04-20,'Insult Turkey's Erdogan' contest set up by UK magazine
2016-04-20,"Great Barrier Reef: Half of natural wonder is dead or dying and it is on the brink of extinction, scientists say"
2016-04-20,Mexican marines forced captured cartel bosses to wear women's lingerie and kiss each other
2016-04-20,"Fidel Castro, almost 90, gives rare speech saying he will soon die."
2016-04-20,Britain has exported 2.8bn of arms to Saudi Arabia since it started bombing Yemen in 2015
2016-04-20,"S. Korea covered up mass abuse, killings of 'vagrants' before 1988 Olympics"
2016-04-20,"India says it still wants back British queen's crown jewel; India has repeatedly demanded that Britain return the 105-carat diamond, which was presented to Queen Victoria in 1850 and today sits on display as part of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London."
2016-04-20,Mitsubishi also admits cheating fuel efficiency tests
2016-04-20,"Muslim preachers appointed by the Ministry of Justice distributing Islamist material to inmates | Extremist material was found in more than 10 prisons, condemning homosexuality, urging attacks against apostates, and advocating a hard line interpretation of Sharia law."
2016-04-20,Mexico's president says he is open to legalizing medical marijuana
2016-04-20,3 men in line for Brazilian presidency accused of corruption
2016-04-20,Australian ranch the size of Ireland sold to Chinese investors
2016-04-20,More Than Half of Russians Want the Soviet Union Resurrected
2016-04-20,NY Times: Workers from two rival construction companies in China clashed using heavy machinery
2016-04-20,Norwegian court rules mass killer Breivik's rights violated
2016-04-20,Saudi Arabia takes out $10bn in bank loans
2016-04-20,Saudi Arabia Deploys US Public Relations Army Against 9/11 Bill
2016-04-20,At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul
2016-04-20,Hong Kong politician: Beijing will send in troops if Hong Kong declares independence
2016-04-20,"Intel to cut 12,000 jobs globally - approximately 11% of its workforce."
2016-04-20,61 endangered species facing extinction in N. Korea due to deforestation: World Bank
2016-04-20,Drones and kites banned from flying over London during Obama visit
2016-04-20,Some drug cartels now make more money from gold than cocaine
2016-04-19,"British govt poo-poos winning 'Boaty McBoatface' name for ship - After Internet users overwhelmingly voted to christen Britain's new $300 million research ship ""Boaty McBoatface"" in an online naming poll, a govt official suggests the name won't be used."
2016-04-19,"A fifth of people with advanced melanoma have no sign of tumours in their body after treatment with a pair of immunotherapy drugs, a study shows."
2016-04-19,7-Year-Old Boy Hit and Killed by UN Ambassador's Motorcade in Cameroon
2016-04-19,At least 20 reported wounded in Jerusalem bus blast
2016-04-19,"At least 413 people are now known to have died in the earthquake that struck Ecuador, the country's government says."
2016-04-19,German spies imply Snowden leaked files for Russia
2016-04-19,Almost 500 Students Fall Ill at Posh Chinese School From Toxic Waste Dumped Nearby
2016-04-19,60 Minutes crew facing more time in Lebanese prison on kidnapping charges
2016-04-19,Why super-gonorrhoea is spreading & may soon be untreatable - Englands public health agency has launched an incident response after discovering more cases of gonorrhoea that are resistant to nearly all antibiotics.
2016-04-19,"Solar is now cheaper than coal, says India energy minister"
2016-04-19,State of Un-dress: North Korean dictator bans jeans and piercings in latest crackdown on Western fashion
2016-04-19,Africa Sees 10-fold Increase in Number of Children Used for 'Suicide' Bombings
2016-04-19,Brazil president says she won't quit after impeachment vote
2016-04-19,Sea Shepherd Announces the Destruction of an Illegal Antarctic Fishing Fleet
2016-04-19,Riot erupts in Cairo after policeman kills man over cup of tea
2016-04-19,"US, Germany: Golan Heights not part of Israel; The United States and Germany both criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus declaration that the Golan Heights will forever remain part of Israeli sovereignty."
2016-04-19,"Vice President Joe Biden says the U.S. has an obligation to push Israel toward peace with Palestinians despite a sometimes ""overwhelming frustration"" with Israel's government"
2016-04-19,Unprecedented global warming as 2016 approaches 1.5 C mark
2016-04-19,"Lausanne, Switzerland is joining the growing list of places looking to experiment with a universal basic income"
2016-04-19,"In groundbreaking move, Europe bans 2 endocrine-disrupting weedkillers - Use of Amitrole & Isoproturon, herbicides that have been linked to cancer, infertility & birth defects, is prohibited from Sept 30"
2016-04-19,IDF discovers two-kilometer-long Hamas tunnel in Gaza border area
2016-04-19,Cuba calls Obama visit 'an attack' as Communists defend ideology
2016-04-19,"Over 1,000 Leaders Worldwide Slam Failed Prohibitionist Drug Policies, Call for Systemic Reform"
2016-04-19,Mexican volcano spews ash two miles into the air over Puebla
2016-04-19,"Egypt floods Hamas tunnel, seven Palestinian trapped"
2016-04-18,Brazilian congress votes to impeach president Dilma Rousseff
2016-04-18,"Ethiopia attack: 200 people dead, 100 children missing"
2016-04-18,UK Home Secretary Theresa May 'tried to alter drug report because she didnt like its conclusions' | UK Politics
2016-04-18,More than 400 refugees drown in Mediterranean after boats capsize crossing from Egypt to Italy
2016-04-18,Georgia detains six it says were trying to sell $200 million worth of uranium-238
2016-04-18,"Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel backed his outspoken interior minister over comments that a significant number of Muslims had cheered the Brussels bombings, and said supporters of terrorism were a cancer that needed removing"
2016-04-18,US says it will respond strongly in event of another North Korea nuclear test.
2016-04-18,"Pharmaceutical company manager busted with $300 million worth of ephedrine, illegally used for production of methamphetamine in India ."
2016-04-18,"Castro, 84, says Cuba's leaders are too old, proposes limits"
2016-04-18,Chinese Parents Outraged After Illnesses at School Are Tied to Pollution
2016-04-18,"Europe can't take in millions of migrants: ex-chancellor Kohl - Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has warned that Europe can't become ""a new home"" for millions of migrants, in a veiled criticism of incumbent Angela Merkel's liberal asylum policies."
2016-04-18,"Hands off our cherished BBC, say older voters - The government is not trusted by a majority of voters to protect the BBC. Labour has recently accused ministers of trying to intimidate the BBC as part of a wider attempt to limit scrutiny of [the government's] activities."
2016-04-18,Germany's AfD takes overt anti-Islam stance: The right-wing Alternative for Germany has called for a ban on minarets and burqas ahead of its party congress
2016-04-18,Pilot flying into Heathrow airport says 'drone hit plane'
2016-04-18,"Decriminalising Cannabis Would Hurt Islamic State, Mafia-Italy Prosecutor."
2016-04-18,Sweden's housing minister quits after extremism row. Swedish minister Mehmet Kaplan resigns over dinner with Turkish fascist and comments about Israel
2016-04-18,Brazil leader's ally admits impeachment defeat
2016-04-18,Video of soldiers torturing woman prompts apology from Mexican defense chief
2016-04-18,"Hacking Your Phone - CBS News 60 Minutes - They were able to do it by exploiting a security flaw they discovered in Signaling System Seven -- or SS7. It is a little-known, but vital global network that connects phone carriers."
2016-04-18,England's last remaining golden eagle feared to have died in Lake District
2016-04-18,One of Italy's 100 most dangerous criminals has been arrested by detectives disguised as pizza boys who delivered food to his home as he was watching a football match.
2016-04-18,UK firm 'employed former child soldiers' as mercenaries in Iraq; Former director acknowledges Aegis Defence Services may have recruited former child fighters in Sierra Leone
2016-04-18,China releases dam water to ease SE Asia drought
2016-04-18,Tusk says 'alarming' numbers of migrants in Libya
2016-04-18,Trudeau: Respecting Saudi deal a 'matter of principle'
2016-04-17,"Man accidentally discovers ""perfectly preserved"" Roman villa in his backyard - Luke Irwin came across a well preserved Roman villa dating back 1,400 yrs which may have been home to an emperor"
2016-04-17,"Apple recovered 2,204 pounds of gold from broken iPhones last year"
2016-04-17,Ed Miliband says Panama Papers show wealth does not trickle down
2016-04-17,Ecuador earthquake: Powerful M7.4 tremor near Pedernales prompts tsunami alerts.
2016-04-17,"Anti-austerity protest brings 50,000 to the streets of London to demand David Cameron's resignation"
2016-04-17,Putin revealed to have told Assad: 'We will not let you lose'
2016-04-17,"Thousands of people gathered for a fifth consecutive night in the center of the Macedonian capital of Skopje to protest President Gjorge Ivanov's decision to grant pardons to dozens of politicians, including a former prime minister, accused in a wiretapping scandal"
2016-04-17,"Earthquake kills 77 in Ecuador, devastates coastal area"
2016-04-17,9 Guantanamo Bay detainees moved to Saudi Arabia
2016-04-17,Ethiopia: Armed men 'kill 140' near South Sudan border
2016-04-17,Palestinian who filmed Israeli soldier shooting disarmed man dead in Hebron receives death threats
2016-04-17,Netanyahu vows Golan Heights will remain part of Israel forever
2016-04-17,Doctors fear 'super-gonorrhoea' will spread across UK
2016-04-17,Nearly half of British public think all tax returns should be made public
2016-04-17,Rodrigo Duterte: Philippines presidential candidate jokes about rape and murder of Australian missionary
2016-04-17,Explosion Injures 3 at Sikh Temple in Western Germany
2016-04-17,How the Panama Papers revealed Nazi-looted art
2016-04-17,"Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said Saturday that a ""significant"" part of the Muslim population celebrated attacks, blaming the country's policies for failing to integrate migrants into society."
2016-04-17,Three million residents in the Chilean capital Santiago have been left without clean water after landslides caused by heavy rains polluted the rivers supplying the city.
2016-04-17,Sacred North Korean Volcano at Risk of Possible Eruption
2016-04-17,"A United States Air Force reconnaissance plane was barrel-rolled by a Russian jet over the Baltic Sea during a routine flight in international airspace, U.S. European Command said Saturday."
2016-04-17,Congress to vote on impeaching Rousseff in divided Brazil
2016-04-17,"Anti-Isis coalition 'preparing to launch final assault on Raqqa stronghold', US official says"
2016-04-17,Massive Investment Fund Drops Eleven Companies Linked to Destructive Environmental Practices
2016-04-17,War on drugs: UN challenged by Colombian president
2016-04-16,"Saudi Arabia has told the Obama administration that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks."
2016-04-16,Powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake hits southern Japan
2016-04-16,"BP CEO to get $3.3 million raise after 12,000 layoffs"
2016-04-16,"Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster conducts legal wedding in New Zealand - A pastarafian couple in New Zealand has become the first to ""tie the noodly knot"" in a legally recognized ceremony officiated by an ordained ""ministeroni"" from the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
2016-04-16,"Global Temperature Averages In February Broke Records and Was Deemed ""Shocking"" By Scientists. March has just surpassed It."
2016-04-16,"The supreme Court of Canada has ruled that two key ""tough on crime"" measures brought in by previous conservative government are unconstitutional, including mandatory minimum sentencing of 1 year in prison for drug offenses."
2016-04-16,Iran govt. disqualifies female politician for allegedly shaking hands with a man
2016-04-16,"Japan earthquakes: 29 dead and 1,500 injured after second quake in two days"
2016-04-16,Germany's Merkel criticized for allowing prosecution of comedian who mocked Erdogan
2016-04-16,"Millions Face Starvation As Haitis Drought Stretches Into Its 3rd Year - ""Weve had droughts before, but never like this."""
2016-04-16,Pope takes 12 migrants with him back to Vatican from Lesbos
2016-04-16,"Ancient mass graves discovered in Greece - They're from 675-650 BC, ""a period of great political turmoil in the region"". 80 found lined up, some on backs & others on stomachs. 36 had their hands bound with iron. May have been followers of ancient would-be tyrant Cylon of Athens."
2016-04-16,"UK government sets up an international Olympics of e-sports - First two-day ""eGames"" competition set for Rio alongside the actual Olympics."
2016-04-16,Growing wealth inequality 'dangerous' threat to democracy: experts
2016-04-16,Safety checks faked at German nuclear power stations
2016-04-16,Belgium minister resigns after airport security lapses leak
2016-04-16,Protesters who blockaded London arms trade fair acquitted after judge sees evidence of illegal weapons on sale
2016-04-16,Russia is running out of money
2016-04-16,Protest against Egyptian President: 100 arrested over islands given to Saudi Arabia
2016-04-16,U.S. Report on Saudi Arabia Downplays Civilian Casualties in Yemen
2016-04-16,Carbyne: Scientists create 'holy grail' strongest material in the world that's tougher than graphene
2016-04-16,The World Health Organization approves world's first-ever vaccine for dengue fever.
2016-04-16,Young French people have been staying up all night for two weeks to protest labour reforms & social inequality
2016-04-16,"Leaked Email: ABA Cancels Book for Fear of Upsetting the Chinese Government: The American Bar Association insists the move was market-driven, but an employee email says otherwise."
2016-04-16,Brazil Supreme Court upholds Rousseff impeachment vote
2016-04-15,"A witness to the disappearance of 43 Mexican students in 2014 has told investigators that federal and municipal police were present when the youths were forced from their bus, according to the countrys national human rights commission."
2016-04-15,N. Korea's early morning attempt to fire ballistic missile ends in failure: military
2016-04-15,"Putin admits Panama Papers 'accurate,' blames US"
2016-04-15,"Greenland is melting so quickly, scientists thought they had made an error."
2016-04-15,Half of all jobless in Sweden are foreigners
2016-04-15,"Nasa calls out climate change deniers on Facebook - Nasa had to tell a climate change denier that actually, fossil fuels aren't cooling the planet"
2016-04-15,Jamaica Weighs Replacing Queen Elizabeth and Legalizing Pot
2016-04-15,Norway's $860 Billion Fund Drops 52 Companies Linked to Coal
2016-04-15,Welcome to Czechia: Czech Republic adopts one-word name
2016-04-15,"A single Iraqi M-1 Abrams tank tears through Islamic State in Hit, earning the name ""Beast"""
2016-04-15,Russia FSB raids offices of billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov whose newspaper published 'Panama Papers'
2016-04-15,The Worlds Only Tiananmen Massacre Museum Is Being Forced To Close
2016-04-15,Spanish Minister Resigns After Alleged links to Panama Papers
2016-04-15,A never-before-seen galaxy has been spotted orbiting the Milky Way.
2016-04-15,"Leonardo Da Vinci's living relatives found: painter, engineer, Oscar nominee"
2016-04-15,Saudi Arabia said on Thursday that $681m (479m) transferred into Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razaks personal bank account was a genuine donation.
2016-04-15,"China blasts US human rights in tit-for-tat report: money corrupting politics and calling U.S. airstrikes in Syria and Iraq a ""gross violation of other countries' human rights."" Also cited gun crime, excessive force by police and touched on prison system corruption, homelessness, racial conflict"
2016-04-15,Mexico's President Is Skipping the Big UN Drug Meeting That Mexico Demanded
2016-04-15,"Fossil fuels could be phased out worldwide in a decade, says new study."
2016-04-15,"Average house price in Canada jumps 15% to $508,567 in March"
2016-04-15,EU trade law could criminalise whistleblowers
2016-04-15,"The charity GiveDirectly has just announced it will begin testing universal basic income by spending an estimated $30 million on providing it to 6,000 Kenyans."
2016-04-15,Fast food workers and union members have held a protest at a McDonald's restaurant at Disneyland Paris to demand higher wages and an end to the use of tax havens by multinational corporations
2016-04-15,Indian tigers may replenish Cambodian forests
2016-04-15,Second Canadian Province To Offer Free University Tuition to Low Income Students
2016-04-14,Saudi Arabia strips religious police of arresting power
2016-04-14,"Putin praises Obama for admitting mistakes in Libya: ""Firstly, this fact confirms once again that the current US president is a decent person"""
2016-04-14,"US corporations have $1.4tn hidden in tax havens, claims Oxfam report"
2016-04-14,"Netherlands looks to ban all gas, diesel car sales by 2025"
2016-04-14,Oil industry knew of 'serious' climate concerns more than 45 years ago
2016-04-14,"In Macedonia after a wiretapping scandal the president pardons all politicians, protesters break into president's office"
2016-04-14,"97% of scientists believe climate change is caused by humans, study finds"
2016-04-14,"Over 1,000 Leaders Worldwide Call for End to ""Disastrous"" Drug War, Ahead of UN Special Session"
2016-04-14,"The use of sniffer dogs at Manchester Airport has been criticised after dogs there failed to discover any Class A drugs in a seven-month period. But one dog, trained to detect illegal animal products, often found ""small amounts of cheese or sausages"" carried by holidaymakers, a report said."
2016-04-14,Canadian government under fire over $12bn arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
2016-04-14,A world-famous sports stars charity backed by Princess Beatrice and David Beckham is under investigation after the Mail found less than 1 per cent of the cash it raised in the UK has gone to good causes.
2016-04-14,"In a world first, a quadriplegic man can once again move his fingers after a chip was implanted in his brain."
2016-04-14,"Canada's new assisted suicide law will only apply to Canadians and permanent residents, precluding the prospect of suicide tourism."
2016-04-14,USS Donald Cook buzzed again by Russian jets in Baltic
2016-04-14,Germany Islam: CSU head Scheuer calls for German in mosques. The senior German conservative politician has said German must become the language of the country's mosques and that foreign funding from Turkey and Saudi Arabia must stop.
2016-04-14,Canada's Liberal government accused of lying about $15-billion Saudi arms deal
2016-04-14,Zika confirmed as a cause of microcephaly: CDC - Health
2016-04-14,"Islamic State destroys 2,000-year-old ancient gates of Nineveh near Mosul."
2016-04-14,BP CEO to receive 20% pay rise to $20m/14m
2016-04-14,"US accuses Israel of using excessive force against Palestinians. Annual US report on human rights says nearly half of Palestinians killed by Israel were not carrying out attacks, and many times did not pose a threat to life"
2016-04-14,Swiss banking whistleblower claims the CIA are behind the Panama Papers leak
2016-04-14,Canadian Police Obtained BlackBerrys Global Decryption Key. A high-level surveillance probe of Montreal's criminal underworld shows that Canada's federal policing agency has had a global encryption key for BlackBerry devices since 2010.
2016-04-14,"The worlds first museum dedicated to Chinas Tiananmen Square crackdown is to close its doors in Hong Kong, with organisers saying they believe they are being targeted for political reasons."
2016-04-14,IMF warns of fresh financial crisis
2016-04-14,NASA: Global warming now changing how Earth wobbles
2016-04-13,First Interstellar Probe Mission Announced: Breakthrough Starshot Will Accelerate Tiny Probes to Alpha Centauri 20 Years After Launch
2016-04-13,UK Jeremy Corbyn found to have overpaid tax... after the Sun newspaper tried to smear the Labour leader
2016-04-13,Thailand to Punish Drunk Drivers by Sending them to Work at the Morgue
2016-04-13,Sugar addiction 'should be treated as a form of drug abuse'
2016-04-13,Uber says they gave U.S. agencies data on more than 12 million users
2016-04-13,"Wide Majorities of Young Arabs Despise ISIS, Want More Rights for Women, See U.S. as Ally"
2016-04-13,7.2 earthquake hits Myanmar-India border
2016-04-13,"Graduates earning less than those who did not go to university, research reveals : Those studying the creative arts and mass communication go on to be among the lowest paid graduates"
2016-04-13,David Cameron says it is 'unfair' to criticise British-controlled tax havens
2016-04-13,Police Raid Mossack Fonseca headquarters in Panama
2016-04-13,Greece sells countrys largest port to China
2016-04-13,"Its only April, and scientists are already stunned by Greenlands melting: The Danish Meteorological Institute reported that although its only April, nearly 12 percent of the ice sheets surface is covered with a layer of meltwater of a depth of at least a millimeter."
2016-04-13,Kinder chocolate banned in Palestine because it contains alcohol
2016-04-13,"Swedish Turkish leader resigns after ""death to Armenians"" speech"
2016-04-13,Amsterdam airport evacuated for security threat
2016-04-13,Ecuador's President Demands Release of All the Panama Papers
2016-04-13,Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay more than $5 billion to settle charges it sold mortgages it knew were likely to fail during the housing bubble heydays of 2005-2007
2016-04-13,Germany train crash: Controller 'distracted by computer game'
2016-04-13,India's Supreme Court: Some Hindu temples/mosques ban on women is unacceptable and undermines the fight for gender equality.
2016-04-13,Worlds largest coal company files for bankruptcy
2016-04-13,Merkel stresses commitment to free speech in row over Erdoan poem
2016-04-13,"""Amid ominous warnings about threats to pollinators and the food crops they make possible, garden-care giant Ortho said Tuesday [12 April 2016] it will stop using a class of chemicals widely believed to harm the most important pollinators of all: bees."""
2016-04-13,"IMF: Inflation in Venezuela is projected to increase 481% this year and by a staggering 1,642% next year"
2016-04-13,Malik Jalal asks to be taken off the Kill List.
2016-04-13,"Shanghai: People Who Fail to Visit Parents Can Be Sued, Will Have Credit Scores Lowered"
2016-04-12,"Air France's gay stewards refuse to go to Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death"
2016-04-12,Scientists have for the first time scanned the brains of people using LSD and found how brain in a psychedelic drug state mimics mind of a baby: free and unconstrained.
2016-04-12,Victoria has become the first state in Australia to legalise the use of medicinal cannabis
2016-04-12,Muslim woman prevented second terror attack on Paris by tipping off police about whereabouts of ISIS mastermind
2016-04-12,"EU unveils plan to force Facebook, Google and Amazon to pay their fair share of tax"
2016-04-12,Global Fisheries are collapsing. Some stocks depleted already by 85%
2016-04-12,"CIA middlemen and other spies used Panama Papers law firm to hide activities, report says"
2016-04-12,Most of World Bank's Private Investments Linked to Tax Havens
2016-04-12,Canadian Government offers up to $5 Million for whistle blowers after the release of the Panama Papers.
2016-04-12,A top African (Nigerian) prophet and televangelist - T.B. Joshuas shell company in offshore tax haven revealed in PanamaPapers
2016-04-12,"U.S. Drone Strike Kills 17 Civilians, Including First Responders In Afghanistan"
2016-04-12,President Obama: Libya aftermath 'worst mistake' of presidency
2016-04-12,"Number of wild tigers in the world rises 22%, For the first time in almost a century, there has been an increase in the global tiger population."
2016-04-12,"Some people appear to be born with 'superhero DNA' that cancels out genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis, say researchers."
2016-04-12,Saudi Arabias top Islamic cleric says women would be exposed to evil if allowed to drive
2016-04-12,Panama Papers: HMRC chief was partner at law firm that acted for David Cameron offshore fund
2016-04-12,First air passengers land on China's blacklist for 'uncivilized behavior'
2016-04-12,Television crew of the Australian edition of 60 minutes to be charged with kidnapping 2 children in Beirut.
2016-04-12,Norway's Lutheran church votes in favor of same-sex marriage
2016-04-12,An impeachment committee of Brazil's lower house of Congress voted 38-27 on Monday that there are grounds to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on charges of breaking budget laws to allegedly favor her re-election in 2014
2016-04-12,"One in every five suicide bombers used by Boko Haram in the past two years has been a child, a report by UNICEF says."
2016-04-12,"Brazil Deploying Troops, Barricades Before Impeachment Votes"
2016-04-12,U.S. to China: Abide by International Ruling on Disputed Islands
2016-04-12,U.S. sources: N. Korea may be preparing mobile ballistic missile launch
2016-04-12,UK - Dennis Skinner kicked out of Commons for Cameron jibe over tax
2016-04-11,Fifty four large investors managing 1 trillion pounds ($1.41 trillion) in assets have launched a campaign to curb the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry.
2016-04-11,A man has been arrested for trying to assassinate the chief forensic expert in MH17 probe
2016-04-11,China Says 80% of Tested Wells Had Water Too Polluted to Drink
2016-04-11,Half of British Muslims 'think homosexuality should be illegal'
2016-04-11,"Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for publishing a liberal blog, is to be awarded the International Publishers Associations Prix Voltaire for his contribution to freedom of speech."
2016-04-11,N Korea senior intelligence officer 'defects to South'
2016-04-11,Turkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian for insulting Erdogan
2016-04-11,"Despite ban, women take part in I run Iran marathon"
2016-04-11,"HSBC, Coutts & Rothschild: British banks help the 1% evade tax, Panama Papers suggest"
2016-04-11,World's Wild Tiger Count Rising for First Time in a Century
2016-04-11,The leaders of every major Scottish political party publish their tax returns
2016-04-11,"Law firm at the center of the Panama offshore accounts scandal routinely usurped the name of the Red Cross and other charities to help obscure the origin of millions of dollars in questionable funds, two newspapers involved in the investigation reported Sunday."
2016-04-11,"Police station attacked in S. Russia, suicide bombing feared"
2016-04-11,Canada's Attawapiskat First Nation declares state of emergency over recent spate of suicide attempts - 11 attempts on Saturday night alone
2016-04-11,"In Hiroshima, Kerry will not apologize for atomic bombs dropped on Japan"
2016-04-11,World's smallest diode created out of an 11 base pair DNA molecule by joint American and Israeli research team.
2016-04-11,"A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered the first inflatable room for astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday, two days after launching from Cape Canaveral."
2016-04-11,The world's count of wild tigers has gone up for the first time in more than a century.
2016-04-11,Fukushima students reach out to tell truth about radiation
2016-04-11,Swede arrested in Brussels 'brainwashed' by militants
2016-04-11,"Panama Leaks Demand Coordinated Regulator Response, Denmark Says"
2016-04-11,At least 18 soldiers were killed and more than 50 wounded in a gun battle in the southern Philippines between government forces and the militant group Abu Sayyaf
2016-04-11,"Top North Korean intelligence officer defected to South, Seoul says"
2016-04-11,"Conspiracy theories abound six years after Polish plane crash in Russia: Poland's right-wing government has launched a new investigation into the crash. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, brother of the late president, says the plane broke up in mid-air and that then Polish PM Tusk was behind the crash"
2016-04-11,"Greenland and Antarctic melt isnt just raising seas  its changing the Earths rotation: In other words, even as the Earth spins on its axis in a west to east direction, completing a full rotation every 24 hours, that axis itself is also moving."
2016-04-10,"Top secret ""28 pages"" may hold clues about Saudi support for 9/11 hijackers"
2016-04-10,Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk has just resigned
2016-04-10,Huge turnout as thousands attend Downing Street protest calling for David Cameron's resignation
2016-04-10,"Cameron's 70,000 tax dodge revealed: PM received 200,000 gift from his mother in a bid to avoid death duties, new figures released by Downing St show"
2016-04-10,"Temple in Kerala hosts a fireworks competition after being denied permission, fire breaks out, 85 confirmed dead, hundreds injured"
2016-04-10,"Scientists have added a one-atom thick layer of graphene to solar panels, which enables them to generate electricity from raindrops"
2016-04-10,Congo expels American researcher after he published a report linking soldiers to the massacres of civilians.
2016-04-10,Migrant crisis: Macedonia repels migrants with tear gas at Greece border
2016-04-10,Strong earthquake jolts Pakistan
2016-04-10,"The Lancet: Half of all maternal, child, and newborn deaths could be prevented for $4.70 per person. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded study has found that for only $4.70 each 4 million lives could be saved each year. Spending on family planning alone could save 1.5 million lives annually."
2016-04-10,"Islamist militants kill 18 soldiers, behead 4, in Philippines clashes"
2016-04-10,Obama may visit nuclear ground zero: Hiroshima
2016-04-10,Egypt gives Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia
2016-04-10,Venezuela energy crisis: President tells women to stop using hairdryers and go with 'natural' style to save electricity
2016-04-10,"Bomb explodes in Istanbul, Turkey"
2016-04-10,Syrian prime minister says Russian air force and Syrian army preparing joint operation to liberate Aleppo
2016-04-10,Cameron releases tax returns information in unprecedented move following row over his financial affairs
2016-04-10,The world looks away as blood flows in Burundi | World news
2016-04-10,U.S. needs up to 18 more Russian rocket engines: Pentagon
2016-04-10,"India in talks to buy U.S. Predator drones, has eye on China, Pakistan"
2016-04-10,Officials: Group that hit Brussels planned 2nd France attack
2016-04-10,"David Cameron faces questions over 200,000 gift from mother"
2016-04-10,Russia's Patriarch Kirill: Some Human Rights Are 'Heresy'
2016-04-10,"Melting ice sheets changing the way the Earth wobbles on its axis, says Nasa"
2016-04-10,"Report: Hamas taps over 1,000 terror operatives to dig Gaza tunnels, using building materials and paying hundreds of thousands of dollars per month for the tunnel-building"
2016-04-09,SpaceX successfully lands its rocket on a floating drone ship for the first time
2016-04-09,Corbyn says David Cameron has 'misled the public' and lost their trust
2016-04-09,"Taxpayer 'pays for Samantha Cameron's 53,000-a-year fashion adviser'"
2016-04-09,Uganda's only radiotherapy machine for cancer treatment breaks: thousands will not be able to get life saving treatment
2016-04-09,The U.S. Air Force has deployed B-52 long-range bombers to the Middle East for the first time since the Gulf war ended over 25 years
2016-04-09,"North Korea: ICBM engine test succeeded, North's official KCNA says it would ""guarantee"" an eventual nuclear strike on the US mainland."
2016-04-09,Cameron admits he mishandled Panama Papers row
2016-04-09,"One Third of Iraqis Think US Supports Terrorism, ISIS"
2016-04-09,"Al Qaeda affiliate says it killed Bangladeshi blogger, group says: ""Machete-wielding attackers in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka killed Samad, 26, the sixth secularist writer or publisher to be killed in the city in the last 14 months."""
2016-04-09,"China Blocks Economist and Time Websites, Apparently Over Xi Jinping Articles"
2016-04-09,"1 in 50 British men are unknowingly raising a child which isn't theirs, research suggests"
2016-04-09,Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini arrested
2016-04-09,Norway won't take any more refugees from EU
2016-04-09,"UK government goes on confiscation spree of mobility equipment from the disabled. Since 2013, more than 17,000 disabled people have had their mobility cars, powered wheelchairs, or scooters taken away. By 2018, it is predicted that 90,000 motability vehicles will be repossessed."
2016-04-09,Police raid El Salvador branch of Panama Papers law firm
2016-04-09,Former Governor of Iceland's Central Bank now named in the Panama Papers
2016-04-09,German migrant coordinator calls for doubling deportations
2016-04-09,Every Voter in Philippines Exposed in Mega Hack
2016-04-09,"Two-thirds of voters do not trust the new Icelandic government, sworn in yesterday"
2016-04-09,First freight train links Wuhan in central China and Lyons in France
2016-04-09,Trudeau says he has no money in offshore accounts
2016-04-09,"Sex tape scandal was work of Putin, says Russian political activist exposed in video"
2016-04-09,"Police operation & evacuation in Brussels, emergency vehicles at scene - report"
2016-04-09,"TransCanada estimates that about 16,800 gallons of oil leaked into a field in South Dakota as part of a spill that has shut the Keystone pipeline down while officials investigate."
2016-04-09,"European storks become couch potatoes and junk food junkies: Instead of migrating to Africa, storks are spending their winters feeding at landfills in Spain and Portugal. Storks across Europe are staying put due to availability of food waste at dumps - which causes some problems."
2016-04-08,David Cameron admits he did have a stake in father Ian Cameron's offshore investment fund
2016-04-08,"Big oil spent $115m obstructing climate laws in 2015, NGO says"
2016-04-08,Edward Snowdens David Cameron Tweet Tells Public to Rise Up and Force PMs Resignation
2016-04-08,"David Cameron facing calls to resign after finally confessing he did profit from 30,000 stake in his late father's offshore fund"
2016-04-08,Pope tell catholics to be more open toward gays and lesbians
2016-04-08,Thousands protesters to descend on Downing Street over PM's offshore links
2016-04-08,"After Australian ISP offers free data day to make up for widespread outage, customers use 2686 terabytes of data. This includes a single user downloading nearly a terabyte of data in 24 hours, including all of wikipedia, 24 seasons of the simpsons, 14 seasons of mythbusters, and backing it up."
2016-04-08,"Malawi Chief Annuls 850 Child Marriages, Sends Kids To School."
2016-04-08,"In an unannounced move, David Cameron has decided not to replace former climate change envoy, forfeiting his promised fight against climate change"
2016-04-08,Canadian PM Trudeau calls for global co-operation to crack down on offshore tax evasion in wake of Panama Papers scandal
2016-04-08,China's Great Firewall inventor forced to use VPN live on stage to dodge his own creation
2016-04-08,UK chancellor George Osborne benefited personally from a 6m tax dodging scheme
2016-04-08,"A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition used bombs supplied by the United States in an attack on a market in Yemen last month that killed at least 97 civilians, including 25 children, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Wednesday."
2016-04-08,Panama Papers leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca uncover the exclusive club that lines the pockets of Palestine's political and financial elite
2016-04-08,13 North Korean workers at overseas restaurants defect to S. Korea
2016-04-08,David Cameron accused of 'completely undermining' Tory claims to be tough on tax dodgers
2016-04-08,"The U.S. Treasury Department intends to soon issue a long-delayed rule forcing banks to seek the identities of people behind shell-company account holders, after the ""Panama Papers"" leak provoked a global uproar over the hiding of wealth via offshore banking devices"
2016-04-08,Disgraced former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter to serve on panel on how to fix FIFA
2016-04-08,Female police officers subjected to 'attractiveness' inspections in Mexico
2016-04-08,"Global warming may be far worse than thought, cloud analysis suggests. Researchers find clouds contain more liquid  as opposed to ice  than was previously believed, threatening greater increase in temperatures."
2016-04-08,17+ Civilians Killed in U.S. Airstrikes
2016-04-08,Terror suspect Mohammed Abrini arrested
2016-04-08,Saudi Arabia's king announces a bridge is to be built over the Red Sea to Egypt
2016-04-08,"9,000 Ethiopian Jews to make aliyah in June"
2016-04-08,Denmark arrests four suspected 'Islamic State' returnees
2016-04-07,David Cameron personally intervened to prevent tax crackdown on offshore trusts
2016-04-07,Panama Papers reveal London as centre of 'spider's web'
2016-04-07,Edward Snowden says Panama Papers show whistleblower role is 'vital' - British Columbia
2016-04-07,A record 43% of Icelanders would now vote for the Pirate Party
2016-04-07,"Linking to Pirated Content Is Not Copyright Infringement, Says EU Court Adviser"
2016-04-07,China ramps up Panama Papers censorship after leaders' relatives named | World news
2016-04-07,Sarah Ferguson (the Duchess of York) and Simon Cowell named in Panama Papers
2016-04-07,David Cameron left dangerously exposed by Panama Papers fallout
2016-04-07,"Panama Papers only a glimpse into 'astonishing' wealth stashed offshore; Tax Justice Network, an international research and advocacy organization estimates that as of 2010, there was between $21 and $32 trillion kept in offshore holding representing between 8-13% of total global wealth."
2016-04-07,Beijing says North Korea has become an increasing threat to China
2016-04-07,"Secular Activist in Bangladesh Is Killed After Criticizing Militant Islam: Men armed with machetes surrounded the activist, Mohammad Nazim Uddin, and slashed his head, then shot him, a police official said."
2016-04-07,German comedian could face jail for insulting Erdogan
2016-04-07,"Polish women are trolling anti-abortion Prime Minister Beata Szydlo with updates on their periods, inspired by similar actions in Indiana"
2016-04-07,UK Banks must declare links to Panama Papers law firm by next week
2016-04-07,CEO of Austrian bank resigns because of Panama Papers coverage
2016-04-07,Dutch say 'no' to treaty with Ukraine and 32% vote: Nos exit poll
2016-04-07,At least three of the seven people on the Chinese Communist Politiburo named in Panama Papers
2016-04-07,"President Putin denies ""any element of corruption"" over Panama leaks"
2016-04-07,Venezuela Declares Every Friday a Holiday to Save Electricity
2016-04-07,France passes law making it illegal to pay for sex
2016-04-07,WikiLeaks: US Govt Behind Panama Leaks to Attack Putin
2016-04-07,South Africa considers legalizing rhino horn trade; live harvesting of horns and selling them touted as way to stave off possible extinction because of increasing illegal killing
2016-04-07,Vladimir Putin says the Panama Papers leak is part of Western efforts to weaken Russia | Europe | News
2016-04-07,Terrorists behind Pakistan Easter bombing vow more attacks on Christians
2016-04-07,"4 ISIS suspects arrested, weapons seized in Denmark, police say"
2016-04-06,The Prime Minister of Iceland has resigned
2016-04-06,Panama Papers: British Banker Funded North Korean Arms
2016-04-06,Tigers declared extinct in Cambodia
2016-04-06,"Iceland PM did not fully resign, merely asked deputy to take over ""for an unspecified amount of time"""
2016-04-06,Panama Papers: WikiLeaks calls for data leak to be released in full
2016-04-06,"Panama Papers firm linked to over 1,000 U.S. companies"
2016-04-06,Fifa president Gianni Infantino pulled into corruption scandal by Panama Papers
2016-04-06,Saudi Arabia passes Russia as worlds third biggest military spender
2016-04-06,Sperm Whales Found Full of Car Parts and Plastics
2016-04-06,German Officials: Suspects In Cologne Attacks Mostly Foreign
2016-04-06,Syrian rebels massacre Kurdish civilians in Aleppo
2016-04-06,Google offers Cubans free computer and Internet use
2016-04-06,France places Panama back on list of tax havens
2016-04-06,First Time Ever: Canadian bank fined $1.1M by anti-money laundering agency
2016-04-06,Iceland: PM Sigmundur Dav Gunnlaugsson Wavers On Resignation
2016-04-06,Israel tears down seven Palestinian homes in 24 hours
2016-04-06,"Jackie Chan, Pedro Almodovar among celebrities implicated by Panama Papers"
2016-04-06,Poverty in Russia Rising at Fastest Pace Since 1990s Turmoil
2016-04-06,"ISIS video game encourages players to ""Shoot Obama"""
2016-04-06,"After F-16s, US to give nine AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters worth $170 million to Pakistan"
2016-04-06,"Two members of French far-right leader Marine Le Pens entourage moved hundreds of thousands of euros by way of offshore companies in recent years, according to France's daily Le Monde"
2016-04-06,Chile's head of Transparency International resigns after 'Panama Papers'
2016-04-06,"2,000-year-old bronze artifacts tied to temple unearthed near Sea of Galilee"
2016-04-06,"A 6.9 event has occurred off the coast of Vanuatu, just a few days after another 6.9 event. No Tsunami warning."
2016-04-06,Cops hacked the Police National Computer to unlawfully retain suspects' biometric data
2016-04-05,China announces sanctions on North Korea
2016-04-05,BP to pay US government $20.8 billion for Gulf oil disaster
2016-04-05,The 19-year-old who started a massive protest movement in Hong Kong says HSBC won't let him open bank accounts for his new political party
2016-04-05,Iceland's PM asks president to dissolve parliament after allegations he concealed investments in offshore company
2016-04-05,"World figures deny wrongdoing as ""Panama Papers"" turn spotlight on tax evasion"
2016-04-05,"A trove of leaked documents casts HSBC Holdings into a harsh light, as a consortium of investigative journalists said it found the bank was among the most active in registering shell companies that move money around the world on behalf of rich and politically connected clients"
2016-04-05,Panama Papers Live Update Discussion Thread
2016-04-05,The entire Turkish citizenship database has allegedly been leaked online
2016-04-05,"600 Israeli companies, 850 shareholders listed in Panama data leak"
2016-04-05,Thousands demand PM's resignation in front of Iceland's parliament - Tomorrow's session has been cancelled after Panama Papers revelations
2016-04-05,"US-based McClatchy Washington Bureau, one of the few American publication to receive the Panama Papers, has begun releasing US citizens named in the files"
2016-04-05,"Renewed calls for Yahoo! to ban ivory sales - A recent investigation revealed that 93% of 6,000 advertisements on Yahoo! Japan on a single day in 2015 were for ivory name seals."
2016-04-05,'Suspicious activity' at N. Korea nuke site
2016-04-05,"Helen Clark, the former prime minister of New Zealand, has entered the race to succeed Ban Ki-moon as secretary general of the United Nations in a bid to become the first woman in the role of worlds top diplomat."
2016-04-05,Air France said it would allow female cabin crew and pilots to opt out of flying routes to Tehran after some staff said they did not want to be forced to cover their hair when in Iran.
2016-04-05,Panama Papers Causes Chile Head of Transparency International to Resign
2016-04-05,"PM Modi steps in: Income Tax, RBI panel to probe Panama Papers trail"
2016-04-05,ISIL uses mustard gas in Syria
2016-04-05,"The worlds largest primate is being wiped out by war: Back in 1998, a team of researchers estimated that 17,000 Grauers gorillas, also known as eastern lowland gorillas, lived in the forests of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, the population of Grauers gorillas has dropped by 77%"
2016-04-05,Two more Chinese political leaders found to have links to offshore firms - Panama Papers leaks
2016-04-05,Federal funding for Australia's largest Islamic school stopped after review
2016-04-05,US Navy ship seizes thousands of weapons from Iranian ship bound for Yemen.
2016-04-05,Physicists just discovered a new state of matter called quantum spin liquid
2016-04-05,Azerbaijani soldiers behead Yezidi from Armenia
2016-04-05,"IMF fears Greece ""disaster"" in leaked meeting revelation"
2016-04-04,"2.6 terabyte leak of Panamanian shell company data reveals ""how a global industry led by major banks, legal firms, and asset management companies secretly manages the estates of politicians, Fifa officials, fraudsters and drug smugglers, celebrities and professional athletes."""
2016-04-04,China censors Panama Papers online discussion
2016-04-04,David Cameron's dad and Tory MPs named in leak about tax haven firm
2016-04-04,Iceland PM: I will not resign
2016-04-04,Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin
2016-04-04,#Panamapapers see Iceland's Prime Minister faced with calls for a snap election. The Icelandic Pirate Party have an overwhelming lead in the polls.
2016-04-04,"New report claims 'war on drugs' has ""harmed public health"""
2016-04-04,Panama vows to cooperate if legal fallout from 'Panama Papers' leak
2016-04-04,Laundered cash from Britains largest gold bullion robbery was hidden with the help of an audacious plan hatched with advice from Mossack Fonsecas co-founder.
2016-04-04,Mossack Fonseca warns customers of unauthorised Panamaleaks data breach that is set to be revealed in the news
2016-04-04,Half of Scotland's energy consumption came from renewables last year | 57.7% of Scottish electricity consumption came from renewables in 2015 - 7.7% ahead of the 50% target.
2016-04-04,Interpol head detective in Venezuela charged with smuggling 769lbs of cocaine to the Dominican Republic
2016-04-04,Vietnam's coast guard in a rare move has seized a Chinese vessel for allegedly intruding in its water
2016-04-04,"Japan is witnessing a record number of compensation claims related to death from overwork, or karoshi, a phenomenon previously associated with the long-suffering salary man that is increasingly afflicting young and female employees."
2016-04-04,Panama Papers - FIFA official Damiani under suspicion
2016-04-04,Australian Tax office investigating 800 Australians identified in financial record leak
2016-04-04,"""Privacy is a fundamental human right that is being eroded more and more in the modern world. Each person has a right to privacy, whether they are a king or a beggar,"", says Mossack Fonseca founder."
2016-04-04,Official Silence In Russia Over Putin Allegations In Panama Papers: State-owned Russian media was silent Monday over documents allegedly showing a multi-billion dollar money-laundering scheme run by close associates of President Vladimir Putin
2016-04-04,Germany Spied on Both U.S. and Israel: Report
2016-04-04,Charlie Hebdo criticised for calling Brussels attacks tip of Islam 'iceberg'
2016-04-04,Tax authorities begin probes into some people named in Panama Papers leak
2016-04-04,Australian tax office probes hundreds for possible tax evasion after Panama Papers leak
2016-04-04,IS rocket expert 'killed by drone' - US
2016-04-04,The United Nations' internal investigations office has uncovered serious lapses and due-diligence failures in the world body's interaction with organizations tied to an alleged bribery scheme involving a former U.N. General Assembly president
2016-04-04,Interpol head detective in Venezuela charged with smuggling 769lbs of cocaine to the Dominican Republic
2016-04-03,Cyprus criminalizes denial of 1915 Armenian genocide by Turks
2016-04-03,Tsunami warning after Magnitude 7.2 earthquake off Vanuatu
2016-04-03,Kenyan Muslim man who died protecting Christians in terror attack awarded top honour
2016-04-03,Air France cabin crew angered by ruling to wear headscarves in Tehran
2016-04-03,Brazil's government sounded the alarm Saturday over meager sales of Olympic tickets and public apathy just five months before Rio hosts South America's first Summer Games.
2016-04-03,"Iraqi forces free 1,500 ISIS prisoners from underground dungeon"
2016-04-03,"After an 18-month battle, the Federal Court has ruled that Valve was in breach of Australian consumer law."
2016-04-03,Star of David found engraved into an ancient Temple arouses bustle in Egypt
2016-04-03,At least 30 soldiers and a boy were reported killed as heavy fighting erupted on Saturday between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
2016-04-03,Taliban app removed from Google Play Store following investigation by The Foreign Desk
2016-04-03,Turkish president: We stand with Azerbaijan to the end. Erdogan has vowed to back Azerbaijan in the conflict with Armenia over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh
2016-04-03,"Potential Viking site found in Newfoundland, Canada"
2016-04-03,"100 GW solar capacity by 2017, 5 years ahead of schedule- India"
2016-04-03,"After WikiLeaks Revelation, Greece Asks I.M.F. to Clarify Bailout Plan"
2016-04-03,U.S. F-15s deployed to Iceland
2016-04-03,"Indian priest who was reported to have been crucified on Good Friday by ISIS, still alive and 'could be freed soon'"
2016-04-03,A British doctor has been secretly filmed describing how he prescribed banned performance-enhancing drugs to 150 elite sportsmen
2016-04-03,Bahraini citizens protest for human rights ahead of Formula One race
2016-04-03,"4,000 millionaires left India in 2015"
2016-04-03,Fire rips through Russian defense ministry building in Moscow
2016-04-03,Mass grave found in Syria's Palmyra
2016-04-03,Illegal Jewish schools: Department of Education knew about council faith school cover-up as thousands of pupils 'disappeared'
2016-04-03,Obama Warns of Nuclear Terrorism Threat
2016-04-03,Surgeons save Brazilian man's hand from amputation by sewing it into his belly : 'Its a really weird feeling trying to wiggle my fingers inside my body'
2016-04-03,Delta: Atlanta to Brussels service suspended
2016-04-02,Bill Gates is investing $2B to renewable energy technologies
2016-04-02,Heavy fighting has broken out between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces along the front lines of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region
2016-04-02,A hacker rigged elections across Latin American countries in favor of right-wing candidates for almost eight years
2016-04-02,Russia accuses Turkey of smuggling weapons to ISIS
2016-04-02,"The White House Censors French President over using ""Islamist Terrorism"""
2016-04-02,Wikileaks reveals conversation between the Director of IMF in Europe and IMF mission chief in Greece
2016-04-02,Russian Economy Shrunk 3.7 Percent Last Year
2016-04-02,"The number of migrants entering Germany from Austria fell more than seven times in March to below 5,000 due to the introduction of border controls by countries along the Balkans migrant route, an interior ministry official said on Saturday."
2016-04-02,French troops accused of 'forcing girls into bestiality' in CAR
2016-04-02,"10,000 millionaires left France last year - CNN"
2016-04-02,Citibank And HSBC Worked With Firm At Center Of International Bribery Scandal
2016-04-02,"Forests still large enough to double the world's tiger population, study finds. Satellite maps show tiger habitat is being lost but still adequate for meeting international goal of doubling tiger numbers by 2022."
2016-04-02,N. Korea denounces UN Security Council for rejecting call for sanctions against USA
2016-04-02,"Ontario, Canada troubled by US plan to draw water from Great Lakes"
2016-04-02,GlaxoSmithKline to 'drop patents in poor countries for better drug access'
2016-04-02,India furious as China blocks U.N. blacklisting of militant chief
2016-04-02,"The Philippine National Police opened fire to farmer protesters who demanded the release of aid after the city is in state of calamity from drought for 3 months (Kidapawan, Philippines)"
2016-04-02,"The threat from terrorists trying to launch a nuclear attack that would ""change our world"" is real, President Barack Obama has said."
2016-04-02,Russia claims Turkish NGOs are 'main supplier' of extremists in Syria
2016-04-02,"Experts have found evidence of a large fire in which at least 17 bodies were burned at a dump in southern Mexico, a member of the investigating team said Friday, in the latest twist in the case of 43 missing teachers' college students"
2016-04-02,"Amid Clashes, Greece Presses On With Plan to Deport Migrants"
2016-04-02,For the first time in more than 40 years a Sumatran rhino has been found in Indonesian Borneo
2016-04-02,"Finland, Russia agree to close Arctic border for migrants"
2016-04-02,Saudi Arabia 'on course to double number of beheadings this year'
2016-04-02,"Obama says US avoids hitting women and children in drone strikes, but acknowledges, 'Civilians were killed that shouldn't have been' in the past"
2016-04-01,Reddit deletes surveillance 'warrant canary' in transparency report
2016-04-01,The headquarters of the Monaco-based oil company Unaoil and the homes of its executives have been raided by police in the wake of revelations in recent days that it has systematically corrupted the global oil industry.
2016-04-01,"Daily NK reports North Korea declares China an enemy and threatens a ""nuclear storm"" against them"
2016-04-01,World's Richest Banker Charged With Bribery
2016-04-01,"Rural Canadians Want the Govt to Fix Their Shitty Internet, Survey Says"
2016-04-01,"North Korea has officially announced it is blocking YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and South Korean websites in a move that underscores its increasing concern with the spread of information available on the Internet."
2016-04-01,Indonesian government threatens to deport Leonardo DiCaprio for palm oil criticism - Immigration chief Ronny Sompie says Oscar-winners visa could be revoked after comments made on environmental campaign visit  but DiCaprio appears to have left the country already
2016-04-01,"Discovery Could Rewrite History of Vikings in New World: Archaeologists have unearthed a stone hearth that was used for iron-working, 100's of miles away from the only known Viking site in N.America suggesting that Norse exploration of the region wasn't a limited undertaking."
2016-04-01,"Protests erupt during Erdogan visit to Washington, D.C."
2016-04-01,Obama meets with Japan and South Korea today to discuss growing tensions with North Korea.
2016-04-01,Hacker claims he helped Enrique Pea Nieto win Mexican presidential election; claims he and other hackers installed malware to monitor opponents during 2012 campaign as part of black propaganda operation
2016-04-01,British Columbias Carbon Tax Has Been So Successful That Businesses Want To Increase It - It's reduced fuel usage by at least 16% & emissions fell 3.5 times faster per capita than in the rest of the country.
2016-04-01,"Right-wing, anti-Islam protest in Brussels' Molenbeek district banned"
2016-04-01,Saudi Arabia Plans $2 Trillion Megafund for Post-Oil Era: Deputy Crown Prince
2016-04-01,Norways Whaling Program Just Got Even More Controversial: A new document shows meat from whale hunts going to a company that makes feed for animals on fur farms.
2016-04-01,"A British Islamic extremist is found guilty of planning a terrorist attack on American military personnel in Britain. Delivery driver Junead Khan, 25, used his job with a pharmaceutical firm as cover to scout United States Air Force (Usaf) bases in East Anglia, his trial heard."
2016-04-01,"Amid North Korean Threat: South Korea will develop a Devastating Graphite Bomb called The Black Out Bomb; Carried by cruise missiles, the bomb explodes above its target, releasing fine carbon filaments which float down in a cloud melting electrical grids.They will develop it on a massive budget."
2016-04-01,North Korea says its attacks will be worse than September 11 | NK News - North Korea News
2016-04-01,"World's obese population hits 640 million, according to largest ever study"
2016-04-01,A man on the Egypt Air flight rang his wife to tell her about a secret bank account and one man slept through the hijack
2016-04-01,"North Korea jamming GPS signals in South; can affect planes, cellphones"
2016-04-01,North Korea nuclear tests: US and China to co-operate
2016-04-01,China Unveils Proposal for $50 Trillion for Global Electricity Network
2016-04-01,Frustration erupts in three-hour brawl between Afghans and Syrians at Greek refugee camp
2016-04-01,North Korea fires another missile into sea
2016-03-31,"Amnesty Int. has accused Qatar of using forced labor at World Cup stadium. Amnesty says workers are forced to live in squalid conditions, pay huge recruitment fees, have wages and passports withheld. It accuses Fifa of ""failing almost completely"" to stop the tournament ""built on human rights abuses"""
2016-03-31,"The FBI, US Department of Justice and anti-corruption police in Britain and Australia have launched a joint investigation into revelations of a massive global bribery racket in the oil industry."
2016-03-31,"Norway's integration minister: We can't be like Sweden - A tight immigration policy and tougher requirements for those who come to Norway are important tools for avoiding radicalisation and parallel societies, Integration Minister Sylvi Listhaug said on Wednesday."
2016-03-31,"French minister compares veil wearers to 'negroes who accepted slavery': France's women's rights minister has sparked fury by comparing Muslim women who choose to wear the headscarf to ""negroes who accepted slavery""."
2016-03-31,Pirate Bay allowed to continue operating by Sweeden Court
2016-03-31,ISIS forbids remaining Christians from leaving Raqqa
2016-03-31,"Government surveillance has 'chilling effect' on free speech, study finds"
2016-03-31,"A US based advocacy group says 98 girls in Central African Republic reported they were sexually abused by international peacekeepers and three girls told that they were undressed, tied and forced to have sex with dogs by a French military commander in 2014."
2016-03-31,"ISIS Threatens Germany, Calls For Attack On International Airport - An official Islamic State media wing launched a campaign urging ISIS supporters: ""Do what your brothers in Belgium did!"""
2016-03-31,South Africa's President Zuma ordered by constitutional court to repay costs of upgrading house with public money
2016-03-31,Massive Weapons Haul Intercepted By French Navy
2016-03-31,Electric Vehicle Sales Continue To Be Unstoppable In China  Up 170%
2016-03-31,50 years of military rule over in Myanmar
2016-03-31,Poland Set to Demolish 500 Soviet Monuments
2016-03-31,U.S. to deploy armored brigade combat teams to Europe
2016-03-31,"British, Australian and American police launch investigations in global oil bribery scandal"
2016-03-31,"A wing of a far-right party in Germany is readying a proposal to ban the ""construction and operation"" of mosques."
2016-03-31,North Korea Sends Drones to Infiltrate South's Airspace
2016-03-31,Modi in Brussels: Define terrorism or UN may become irrelevant
2016-03-31,"EgyptAir hijacker arrested in Cyprus; officials call him an 'idiot,' not a terrorist"
2016-03-31,Japanese regulators on Wednesday approved the use of a giant refrigeration system to create an unprecedented underground frozen barrier around buildings at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant in an attempt to contain leaking radioactive water
2016-03-31,"Global sea levels could rise by more than double the current best estimate, according to a new analysis of climate change in Antarctica."
2016-03-31,"Ex-wife says Egyptian hijacker abusive, beat her and their kids"
2016-03-31,"North Korean Citizens told to get ready for famine: ""get ready to eat plant roots"""
2016-03-31,"UK plans to track all internet connections could cost 1bn, campaigners warn. Home Office is told its plans in the snoopers charter to retain web browsing history of all British citizens for 12 months would cost in excess of 1bn"
2016-03-30,Hundreds of thousands of leaked emails reveal massively widespread corruption in global oil industry
2016-03-30,"Using Adblock Plus to block ads is legal, rules German courtfor the fifth time"
2016-03-30,Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Bernardino killer's iPhone
2016-03-30,"'War on Drugs' has made no difference to number of users & actively harms public health, major study concludes - Report authors call for ""scientifically grounded"" policies, including regulated markets for cannabis"
2016-03-30,Fracking Triggers 90% of Large Quakes in Western Canada
2016-03-30,Turkey 'demands deletion' of German video mocking Erdoan
2016-03-30,90% of Indigenous in Brazil's Amazon Suffer Mercury Poisoning
2016-03-30,Satire spat: Germany tells Turkey free speech not negotiable: A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says German diplomats told their Turkish counterparts Tuesday theres no chance the government will intervene over the song Germanys position on freedom of the press and expression isnt negotiable.
2016-03-30,Chinese government is arresting the families of Chinese critics and journalists abroad.
2016-03-30,"Mass surveillance silences minority opinions, according to study"
2016-03-30,BBC Says Russias Troll Factory Faked a Video Showing a US Soldier Shooting at a Quran
2016-03-30,"Costa Rican men convicted for killing conservationist & raping volunteers - 4 of 7 men sentenced for murder of Jairo Mora, who worked to protect sea turtles with 4 female volunteers. Savagery of attack dealt severe blow to the countrys image as a safe, eco-tourist-friendly destination."
2016-03-30,U.S. orders military families to leave parts of Turkey
2016-03-30,"Scientists say a 305 million-year-old fossil is the closest relative to ""true spiders"" ever discovered - but is not itself a spider. Easily pre-dating the dinosaurs, the 1.5cm creature lived alongside the oldest known ancestors of modern spiders but its lineage is now extinct."
2016-03-30,The politicians voting to impeach Brazil's president are accused of more corruption than she is
2016-03-30,"Former Canadian minister Jean Lapierre, his wife and three of his siblings killed in plane crash on way to father's funeral"
2016-03-30,Brazil president closer to impeachment as coalition partner quits
2016-03-30,Saudi authorities reportedly seek death penalty for coming out
2016-03-30,"Chinese journalist denounces president Xi Jinping in resignation letter: ""Ive been kneeling so long I cant bear it. Id like to change posture"""
2016-03-30,$600 Million Worth Smuggling Operation Nailed by US and Hong Kong Authorities
2016-03-30,Obama administration to allow Atlantic oil prospecting despite threat to marine life
2016-03-30,FBI warned Dutch about El Bakraoui brothers week before attacks
2016-03-30,Several loud explosions followed by heavy gunfire were heard over Tripoli in the early hours of Wednesday
2016-03-30,"German prosecutor: Hard to convict 'Islamic State' returnees - Germany's top state prosecutor says often nothing can be proven against members of terrorist groups returning from war zones. ""Islamic State"" returnees can rarely be convicted on murder charges."
2016-03-30,"Child labor rises sharply in Gaza: In the past five years, the number of working children between the ages of 10 and 17 has doubled."
2016-03-29,"EgyptAir Domestic Flight From Alexandria to Cairo Hijacked, Lands in Cyprus"
2016-03-29,Israel passes law to cap bankers' salaries: Israel has introduced one of the worlds toughest curbs on bank executives salaries in an effort to narrow a big pay gap between bosses and workers. It was approved in parliament overnight in a 56-0 vote and will take effect in six months.
2016-03-29,U$1bn poured so rapidly into Malaysian PM's personal bank accounts that it rang money-laundering alarms
2016-03-29,"Many millions of Muslims 'fundamentally incompatible with the modern world', says Tony Blair"
2016-03-29,ISIS planning imminent attack on Jewish schools and kindergartens
2016-03-29,North Korea Tells Citizens To Prepare Themselves For Famine
2016-03-29,Canada has imposed sanctions on North Korea.
2016-03-29,"Palestinian fabricated 'Jewish terror attack', now faces charges."
2016-03-29,2nd major skyscraper fire in 3 months - UAE residential tower engulfed in flames
2016-03-29,"Falkland Islands lie in Argentinian waters, rules UN commission"
2016-03-29,"Indian Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a Muslim woman's petition seeking to declare 'Triple Talaq' and polygamy in Islam unconstitutional, despite strong opposition from influential Islamic bodies of judicial scrutiny of Muslim personal law practices"
2016-03-29,Japan's retirees turn to crime for a better life in prison
2016-03-29,Egypt's state-run news agency says the president has dismissed the country's top auditor who earlier had said corruption has cost the country billions of dollars
2016-03-29,CIA used nude photos as sexual humiliation on post-9/11 terror suspects: report
2016-03-29,"""Saudi Arabia's largest dairy company will soon be unable to farm alfalfa in its own parched country to feed its 170,000 cows. So it's turning to an unlikely place to grow the water-chugging crop -- the drought-stricken American Southwest."""
2016-03-29,China editor resigns over media censorship
2016-03-29,Russian weapons exports expected to receive $6bn-$7bn boost as result of marketing effect of bombing campaign in Syria
2016-03-29,"Putin Faces Information Attack on Wealth, Friends, Russia Says:The Kremlin accused a group of international journalists of preparing an information attack on President Vladimir Putins wealth and his ties to billionaire oligarchs"
2016-03-29,"Terrorists who targeted park filled with children are 'cowards', says Pakistan PM"
2016-03-29,"North Korea Fires Another Missile, Just as Obama Prepares for Trilateral Meeting"
2016-03-29,Turkey summoned German ambassador over satirical report: Spiegel
2016-03-29,Saudi Economy Shows Deepening Signs of Strain as Spending Drops
2016-03-29,"Arctic sea ice sets wintertime record low thanks to global warming. Arctic temperatures this winter were up to 15 degrees higher than average, according to NASA."
2016-03-29,ISIS executes 12 of its members relatives over intel links
2016-03-29,Brussels attacks: 'Fight the westerners' text sent to youths in Molenbeek
2016-03-28,An aerial survey of the northern Great Barrier Reef in Australia has shown that 95 per cent of the reefs are now severely bleached and about half of the corals are expected to die in the coming month.
2016-03-28,Top medical experts say we should decriminalize all drugs & maybe go even further - Their report comes ahead of a special UN General Assembly Session on drugs to be held next month
2016-03-28,Japan Loses Contact With New Space Telescope
2016-03-28,"Saudi Arabia Cracks Down On Peaceful Dissent, Sentences Journalist To 5 Yrs In Prison - over a series of tweets, in what human rights organizations are calling the latest crackdown on free expression by the oil-rich kingdom."
2016-03-28,"Saudi Arabia doesn't need elections even though Syria does, ambassador claims: Elections are unnecessary in Saudi Arabia because its people are happier with the current system of government than almost any other country in the world, the kingdom's UN ambassador has claimed."
2016-03-28,"Most British workers are spending longer at their workplace for little or no gain in productivity, according to a landmark study being released this week. More than two-thirds of employees say they are working longer hours than two years ago, but only 10% believe they are more productive."
2016-03-28,"Turkey is deliberately 'unleashing' Isis terrorists into Europe, says Jordan's King Abdullah"
2016-03-28,"Palmyra ruins mostly intact, Syria antiquities chief reports after regime forces recaptured the desert oasis from the Islamic State group."
2016-03-28,Fidel Castro to Obama: We don't need your 'presents'
2016-03-28,"Preserved ice age puppies recovered from Siberian permafrost awe scientists - dating back 12,460 years has mobilized scientists across the world."
2016-03-28,Belgium releases terror murder suspect
2016-03-28,"Russia is considering building a naval base on islands off northern Japan, an area that includes territory at the center of a long-running spat between Tokyo and Moscow"
2016-03-28,"Thousands of protesters have clashed with police near parliament in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, against the execution of a man charged with murdering a governor for his criticism of blasphemy laws."
2016-03-28,Brazil seizes abortion drugs sent to women living in fear of zika virus
2016-03-28,Chinese Scientists Say They Have the Ability To Clone Humans
2016-03-28,Unemployment in France reaches new high
2016-03-28,Israel urges citizens to leave Turkey ASAP
2016-03-28,Scores killed in blast at family park in Lahore aimed at Christians
2016-03-28,London Priest loses 500K meant for refugees gambling
2016-03-28,"Another Nation Trims Meat From Diet Advice: ""The Netherlands Nutrition Centre says it is recommending people eat just two servings of meat a week, setting an explicit limit on meat consumption for the first time."""
2016-03-28,NSA director made secret visit to Israel last week
2016-03-28,Dutch arrest Frenchman suspected in planning attack
2016-03-28,"Taliban faction says carried out suicide bomb attack on Pakistan park, says Christians were target"
2016-03-28,Moldova: Thousands march for reunification with Romania
2016-03-28,Suspect arrested in Honduran activist Nelson Garca's murder: Environmentalist was killed near his house just days after colleague Berta Cceres was fatally shot but critics are accusing government of a cover-up
2016-03-26,"Ten dead, 30 injured in blast outside park in Pakistan's Lahore"
2016-03-26,Secret archive of paedophile crime kept by Catholic Church's insurers
2016-03-26,Syrian army 'recaptures city of Palmyra from ISIL'
2016-03-26,German food minister stands up for pork on public menus: I am worried about pork being taken from school and canteen menus
2016-03-26,Riot police brought in as tensions rise at Place de la Bourse Brussels memorial
2016-03-26,Ireland marks centenary of uprising that led to independence
2016-03-26,Soldier who shot disarmed Palestinian attacker facing murder charge
2016-03-26,"Illegal mining companies in the Brazilian Amazon are poisoning local indigenous communities, as high quantities of mercury have been found in the water and food sources of over 19 Yanomami and Yekuana communities."
2016-03-26,"Thousands line the streets in Dublin, to commemorate the centenary of the 1916 Rising with the largest military parade in the history of the State."
2016-03-26,Al-Qaeda used surface-to-air missile to bring down Emirati fighter jet
2016-03-26,Japan executes two death row inmates
2016-03-26,"Saudi Arabia Cracks Down On 'Peaceful Dissent,' Sentences Journalist To Five Years In Prison"
2016-03-26,'Ruthless' Poachers Butcher South African Rhino
2016-03-26,Beijing has rebuffed a Japanese request that the Chinese government contribute financially to a greenery foundation that supports tree-planting projects in China.
2016-03-26,An eye for an eye: Iran's Supreme Court orders removal of man's eye
2016-03-26,"Kremlin: No Russian troops in Ukraine's Donbass, but there are Russian 'citizens' - RIA"
2016-03-26,"Grounded Ship Splits in 2, Causes Massive Oil Slick in Taiwan - Engines stopped running March 10. Cracks began appearing Thursday, before it split off New Taipei City. Officials haven't been able to work on stranded ship since March 23 due to bad seas & don't expect to resume til next Monday."
2016-03-26,Migrant arrivals to Greece slow to a trickle
2016-03-26,$1.7B Giant Arch to Block Chernobyl Radiation For Next 100 Years
2016-03-26,"Brussels attacks raids uncover ""alarming"" evidence of Europe-wide jihadist cell"
2016-03-26,Italy arrests Algerian suspect wanted in Belgian attacks probe: Italian police have captured an Algerian national suspected of aiding both the Paris and Brussels attackers
2016-03-26,German pacifists protest war and refugee policy in Easter marches: Thousands have demonstrated against war and for a more welcoming refugee policy in 60 marches and vigils across Germany. The rallies were first held during the Cold War to protest the build up of atomic weapons
2016-03-26,"Google was fined 100,000 euros ($112,000) by Frances data-protection authority for failing to remove right-to-be-forgotten requests from global search results."
2016-03-26,Cargo ship reaches space station on resupply run
2016-03-26,Toshiba completes solar-powered hydrogen production/storage system at hotel
2016-03-25,"Suicide bomber hits stadium in Iraqi city, killing 29"
2016-03-25,North Korea releases propaganda film showing Washington under nuclear attack
2016-03-25,ISIS Appears to Be Close to Collapse: Front-line commanders no longer speak of a scarily formidable foe but of Islamic State defenses that crumble within days and fighters who flee at the first sign they are under attack.
2016-03-25,US Navy captain jailed over massive bribery scandal in Pacific; Man who oversaw operations in the US Pacific Fleet provided classified information to a Malaysian defense contractor in exchange for prostitutes
2016-03-25,"Daughter of dead ISIS commander and mother of four, who married to a physician, surrenders to Iraqi Kurds"
2016-03-25,Death toll climbs to 41 in Iraq stadium bombing
2016-03-25,Indian priest 'kidnapped by ISIS' may be crucified on Good Friday
2016-03-25,Muslims vow to fight terrorism in Belgium
2016-03-25,N. Korea threatens to take military action unless S. Korea complies with ultimatum
2016-03-25,Snoopers Charter: Only amendment politicians have submitted to controversial bill is to stop MPs being spied on
2016-03-25,Google to warn Gmail users of government backed attacks in new warnings as tech industry backs Apple in privacy fight
2016-03-25,"Parents in Uganda who fail to vaccinate their kids, will face a six-month prison sentence, according to new law"
2016-03-25,"The US just whacked the guy who handles ISIS's paychecks: ""We are systematically eliminating ISIL's cabinet,"" says the secretary of defense"
2016-03-25,"Sir Richard Branson is hoping to bring back supersonic transatlantic passenger flights, and this time they will be affordable."
2016-03-25,Endangered African rhinos are being relocated to Australia for protection against poachers
2016-03-25,"Obama Apologizes to Argentina for CIA's ""Early Dark Days"""
2016-03-25,"Vladimir Putin has nominated Chechnyas controversial leader Ramzan Kadyrov for a new term in office, despite claims that the Chechen had links to the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov last year."
2016-03-25,Teen [Surrended suicide bomber] in North Cameroon Says She Is a Missing Chibok Girl [Nigerian abductee schoolgirls]
2016-03-25,"British Govt to Repeal Animal Welfare codes - Conservatives are repealing an array of official guidance on standards, starting by putting the code on chicken-farming into the hands of the poultry industry. Other sectors to control their own rules include cattle, sheep & pig farming industries."
2016-03-25,CT Scan Shows Pharoah Ramesses III Murdered by Multiple Assassins - Missing toe reveals more than one plotter. There must've been an assailant with an ax/sword attacking him from the front & another with a knife or dagger attacking him from his back at the same time.
2016-03-25,"Australia's F-35 jet acquisition has hallmarks of Ponzi scheme, inquiry told"
2016-03-25,US govt gives up the internet to California's ICANN. The Govt Advisory Committee was unable to reach 2/3 consensus. A French minister says States will be marginalized by the private sector (GAFA). Some govts feel the 2/3 pre-condition led by the internet community gives too much power to GAFA.
2016-03-25,Poland to ban prescription-free emergency contraception
2016-03-25,"Israeli and Jordanian jets confronted Russian warplanes on Syrian border, king says"
2016-03-25,Man Faces Prison Sentence For Circumventing UK Pirate Site Blockade
2016-03-24,Russian soldier surrounded by ISIS calls in airstrikes on himself
2016-03-24,ISIS's Second-in-Command Killed in Raid
2016-03-24,France arrests man in 'advanced stages' of attack plot
2016-03-24,"Pope washes feet of Muslim migrants, says We are brothers ""In his homily, Francis said: 'We have different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and we want to live in peace.'"""
2016-03-24,Imam at Scotland's largest mosque praises extremist killer
2016-03-24,16 people are missing after a Chinese news site ran a letter asking Xi Jinping to resign
2016-03-24,UN gives Qatar a year to end forced labour of migrant workers
2016-03-24,Brussels attacks: 'Explosion and gunfire heard' during police operations in Schaerbeek
2016-03-24,"The Ukrainian lawyer of captured Russian soldiers has been kidnapped, robbed, shot dead and buried"
2016-03-24,"Islamic State video calls for jihad after Brussels blasts - ""Every Muslim who is well aware of the history of Islam, knows that the holy war against infidels is an integral part of Islam, and those who read history would know."""
2016-03-24,"Car bomb hits Turkey, multiple casualties"
2016-03-24,"A U.N.-backed report says global investments in solar, wind and other sources of renewable energy reached a record $286 billion last year. For the first time the developing world accounted for the majority."
2016-03-24,International medical experts call for global drug decriminalisation
2016-03-24,Two students convicted for London terror plot
2016-03-24,Blasphemy cases rise in Egypt and Christians bear the brunt
2016-03-24,"Intel: North Korea ""Probably"" has a Miniaturized Nuclear Warhead"
2016-03-24,Israeli soldier arrested after being caught on video fatally shooting wounded Palestinian attacker
2016-03-24,"In Twitter blitz, Dubai security chief opposes Palestinian state, urges coalition with Israel"
2016-03-24,FlyDubai crash pilot 'was due to leave job over fatigue'
2016-03-24,Paris terror plot: Man arrested in 'advanced stages' of plan to attack French capital | Europe | News
2016-03-24,Clean energy is winning the race against fossil fuels  but the planet is still losing
2016-03-24,Russia's special forces officer killed in Syria: Interfax
2016-03-24,"Scotland Just closed its Last Coal Plant - Longannet ceased operations Thursday. Once was largest in Europe, it shut down before those gathered in the main control room. Ok, here we go, said a worker pressing a red button that stopped the turbines that generated electricity for 1/4 of homes."
2016-03-24,"Hungary proposes ""temporary"" totalitarianism during high terrorist danger levels - anti-terrorist package proposed by cabinet includes altering constitution, army on streets, surveillance of any suspect, ISP record-keeping and forced decryption, absolute eminent domain rights, closed borders."
2016-03-24,Brussels attacks: Belgium fears Isis seeking to make dirty nuclear bomb
2016-03-23,Japan's whaling fleet returns from Antarctic with 333 minke whales including pregnant females
2016-03-23,Brazil descends into chaos as Olympics looms
2016-03-23,"Rockefeller Family Fund divests from fossil fuels, which built family's fortune | It will eliminate holdings of Exxon Mobil Corp, saying the oil company associated with the family fortune has misled the public about climate change risks"
2016-03-23,One of the attackers in the Brussels suicide bombings was deported from Turkey twice last year and the authorities warned their European counterparts that they suspected him of being a militant fighter
2016-03-23,Poland refuses to accept refugees after Brussels attack
2016-03-23,Karadzic jailed for Bosnian genocide. 40 years.
2016-03-23,Flag referendum: New Zealand to keep current flag
2016-03-23,Archeologists who scanned the grave of William Shakespeare say they have made a startling discovery: His skull appears to be missing.
2016-03-23,"With cross-party support in the nations Parliament, Denmark may strip radical imams of their citizenship"
2016-03-23,Nearly half of Englands teachers plan to leave in next five years
2016-03-23,"Turkey had previously deported one of the Brussels terror attackers, notified Belgian authorities, Pres. Erdoan says"
2016-03-23,"What were doing to the Earth has no parallel in 66 million years, scientists say If anthropogenic emissions rates have no analogue in Earths recent history, then unforeseeable future responses of the climate system are possible, the authors write."
2016-03-23,Turkish people are sharing a cartoon asking where the sympathy was for Istanbul and Ankara for their recent terror attacks
2016-03-23,"In a trash can in Brussels, police found a computer with a document suggesting that the attackers acted out of a sense of urgency and desperation after the capture on Friday of Salah Abdeslam, the last surviving direct participant in the Paris attacks."
2016-03-23,"Obama announced the declassification of new documents from the period of the Argentina's Dirty War, when as many as 30,000 Argentines were killed or disappeared. Thousands of records were previously declassified, but for the first time military and intelligence records will be declassified as well."
2016-03-23,Russia to lose Olympic and World Championship gold medals: Russia will lose two World Championship gold medals and an Olympic gold after the Court of Arbitration for Sport upheld an appeal by the IAAF over selective doping punishments imposed by the countrys anti-doping agency
2016-03-23,ISIS trains 400 fighters to attack Europe in wave of bloodshed
2016-03-23,Chinese Buy One-Third of Vancouver Homes: National Bank Estimate
2016-03-23,MH370 search: Mozambique debris 'almost certainly' from missing plane
2016-03-23,"Operation to retake Mosul from the Islamic State is currently underway, according to Iraqi army officials"
2016-03-23,Poland PM Szydlo says migrants cannot be settled in Poland now
2016-03-23,Dutch shut diplomatic post in Istanbul after threat
2016-03-23,France detects first case of mad cow since 2011
2016-03-23,"Argentine court: Death of Alberto Nisman, who accused Pres. Kirchner of cover-up in AMIA bombing, to be investigated as political murder"
2016-03-23,China plans to more than triple solar power capacity by 2020 to as much as 143 gigawatts to help reduce carbon emissions
2016-03-22,The International Criminal Court Recognises Rape as a War Crime
2016-03-22,Former Controversial Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Has Died
2016-03-22,"Tony Blair on extremism ""one of the problems with the West is that it constantly can be made to feel guilty about itself"""
2016-03-22,"U.S. strikes al Qaeda training camp in Yemen, killing dozens"
2016-03-22,IS claims responsibility for Brussels attacks.
2016-03-22,IS flag and bomb found during a house search in Schaarbeek linked to the Brussel attacks.
2016-03-22,ISIS threatens UK with 'harder and more bitter' attack than Brussels after claiming responsibility for bombings which killed 34 people
2016-03-22,"Scientists Warn of Perilous Climate Shift Within Decades, Not Centuries"
2016-03-22,Rare Sumatran rhino sighted in the wild for the first time in 40 years
2016-03-22,"Massive Bleaching Event Hits the Great Barrier Reef: Warm ocean temperatures have impacted large swaths of the Great Barrier Reef in the last month, part of a worldwide coral die-off"
2016-03-22,Terror suspect on the run after 34 killed in Brussels attacks
2016-03-22,"Protesters from some of the poorest communities in Ecuador took to the streets and to social media Tuesday  World Water Day, in order to demand that multinational Veolia stops dumping raw sewage into the Saldo Estuary of the littoral city of Guayaquil where they live."
2016-03-22,"The worlds tallest building the Burj Khalifa in Dubai lights up in black, yellow and red to show solidarity with Belgium amid terror attacks."
2016-03-22,Australia's spending $3.3 million to study 'wind turbine sickness' - despite no evidence it exists
2016-03-22,Chile Harvests First Legal Marijuana Crop
2016-03-22,Hydrogen car smashes world records in six-day demonstration around London's M25
2016-03-22,Obama to Castro: Cuban embargo is going to end
2016-03-22,Millions more Russians living in poverty as economic crisis bites. Nearly 20 million now surviving on wages which are below the poverty threshold according to latest state statistics
2016-03-22,Ash tree set for extinction in Europe.
2016-03-22,"British state TV BBC reporter forced off air amid disability rally in parliament - people protesting against disability benefit cuts, chanting Cameron killer"
2016-03-22,"ISIS goes global: 75 attacks in 20 countries have killed 1,280 people - CNN"
2016-03-22,"The German far-right NPD party has taken the highly unusual step of praising refugees for their humanity, after a group of Syrian asylum-seekers administered first aid to one of its candidates involved in a car crash."
2016-03-22,Police find nail bomb in Brussels anti-terror raids
2016-03-22,Trudeaus first budget aims to spur growth with $29-billion deficit
2016-03-22,Netanyahu 'willing' to discuss two-state solution now
2016-03-21,Netherlands will once again need to close prisons due to falling crime rate and lack of prisoners.
2016-03-21,Reports of explosions at Brussels airport
2016-03-21,Two explosions at Brussels airport
2016-03-21,Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called on Muslims across the world to unite and fight against terrorism posing a threat to the region and the globe.
2016-03-21,Belgian nuclear plant evacuated
2016-03-21,"Turkey says 3 ISIS suspects planning ""sensational"" attack"
2016-03-21,"By 2025, some 1.8 billion people will face absolute water scarcity, and an estimated two-thirds of the world's population could be living under water-stressed condition"
2016-03-21,"Ship carrying 331kg of weapons-grade plutonium, enough to make 50 atomic bombs, leaves Japan for US"
2016-03-21,"Russia says it will unilaterally start using force against those violating the partial truce in Syria, if the US does not agree to joint rules by Tuesday."
2016-03-21,Ethnicity bias - French Canadian referees call significantly more penalties on English Canadian players: university study
2016-03-21,1.8m vip paedophile ring probe closed without single arrest
2016-03-21,"Scientists think lead ink from scrolls may unlock library destroyed by Vesuvius - 100s of scrolls, part of classical worlds best-surviving library, have tantalised scholars since found in Herculaneum in 1752. About 200 have never been read. X-raying begins in July."
2016-03-21,"Flashdrives for freedom? 20,000 USBs to be smuggled into North Korea"
2016-03-21,"Astrophysicists detect ultra-fast winds near supermassive black hole: ""We're talking wind speeds of 20 per cent the speed of light, which is more than 200 million kilometres an hour. That's equivalent to a category 77 hurricane."""
2016-03-21,South Korea confirms first Zika case
2016-03-21,Brazil descends into chaos as Olympics looms
2016-03-21,"The mayors of 20 European cities including Madrid, Paris and Copenhagen, but excluding London, have called for more stringent regulations to be put in place across the continent to tackle the deadly levels of air pollution caused by diesel vehicles"
2016-03-21,"Corrupt European countries costing EU nearly 800bn a year, says study"
2016-03-21,"Castro urges return of Guantanamo land, after meeting with Obama"
2016-03-21,Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko given 22-year sentence
2016-03-21,Thousands protest in Okinawa over alleged rape of Japanese tourist by U.S. serviceman
2016-03-21,LGBT festival in Ukraine abandoned after clash with far-right activists
2016-03-21,"Seeking better ties with Egypt, Hamas removes Muslim Brotherhood billboards in Gaza"
2016-03-21,Alibaba to soon overtake Wal-Mart to become worlds No.1 retail platform
2016-03-21,Scientists remove HIV-1 from genome of human immune cells.
2016-03-20,"North Korea fires short-range projectiles, South Korea says."
2016-03-20,"Obama Arrives in Cuba, Heralding New Era After Decades of Hostility"
2016-03-20,"U.S. Navy officer arrested after allegedly groping and punching a Japanese woman on an airplane, the second high-profile arrest of a U.S. serviceman for sexually related offenses in Japan in less than a week"
2016-03-20,"February was the warmest month in recorded history, climate experts say. From Alaska to Australia, an unprecedented heating of planet Earth is underway with rising temperatures across huge swathes of land mass and oceans"
2016-03-20,Scans of King Tuts Tomb Reveal New Evidence of Hidden Rooms - Second round of radar scanning will look for more clues to what lies behind the walls of Tuts burial chamber. One theory: the tomb of famous Queen Nefertiti.
2016-03-20,Biden says Israel settlements raise questions about commitment to peace
2016-03-20,"UN envoy warns of environmental activist murder 'epidemic' | At least 116 environmental defenders were killed in 2014, according to NGO Global Witness, with 40% of whom were indigenous."
2016-03-20,"After 'shaming' by Israel, Time corrects story that depicted terrorist as victim"
2016-03-20,"A remarkable archaeological discovery in a Co. Clare cave has pushed back the date of human existence in Ireland by 2,500 years. This discovery re-writes Irish archaeology and adds an entirely new chapter to human colonisation of the island  moving Irelands story into a new era."
2016-03-20,Joy as the first rhino calf is in 25 years born in Samburu-based (Kenya) sanctuary
2016-03-20,US sends in Marines to join ground fight against Isis in Iraq | Middle East | News
2016-03-20,"Ireland finally has a Palaeolithic period, moving back the earliest evidence of human occupation on the island by 2,500 years"
2016-03-20,"Russian spies pose as diplomats in Sweden; The most significant intelligence risk against Sweden comes from Russian spies, often posing as diplomats or business people, according to the Swedish security service Spo, which has just released its annual report."
2016-03-20,Spain bus crash kills 13 exchange students; 34 injured
2016-03-20,"Google set to expand Wifi, broadband access in Cuba, Obama tells ABC"
2016-03-20,"Cancel latest tax cuts for the wealthy to protect disability benefits, Jeremy Corbyn says"
2016-03-20,Missing Nigerian Chibok schoolgirls found by western intelligence
2016-03-20,"Istanbul bomber tailed Israeli tourists from hotel to scene of attack, Turkish media reports"
2016-03-20,Israel 'rescues' 19 Jews from war-torn Yemen in covert operation
2016-03-20,"In 2015 almost 2 million foreigners came to Germany, making it the year with the highest levels of inward migration in the history of the Federal Republic."
2016-03-20,Hezbollah vows to attack US forces 'defending ISIS' in Iraq
2016-03-20,"Britain's potential European exit could cost 100bn and nearly 1m jobs, CBI warns"
2016-03-20,Dozens of Cuba dissidents arrested hours before Obama arrival
2016-03-20,Morocco expels over 80 members of UN mission in Western Sahara
2016-03-20,Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam 'had planned to target Brussels'
2016-03-19,2 Chinese poachers jailed 30 yrs for slaughtering 226 elephants
2016-03-19,"Tigers 'starved to death' to make $500 aphrodisiac wine with their bones. Growing demand has led to an increase in tiger farming, even extending to neighboring Laos and Vietnam."
2016-03-19,"Video of weeping Indian goes viral, Saudi government jails him for 'spread of misinformation'"
2016-03-19,U.N. says Saudi-led bombing of Yemen market may be international crime
2016-03-19,"A cyber crime expert has disappeared after talking to police and the media about an attempted $951 million cyber heist from Bangladesh's central bank, his wife said on Sunday"
2016-03-19,"Norway's healthcare ministry on Friday proposed allowing people to legally change their gender without the need for any surgery, hormone treatment or sterilisation, a move hailed by Amnesty International."
2016-03-19,"U.S. soldier killed in Islamic State rocket attack in northern Iraq, military says"
2016-03-19,South Korea Forms Spartan 3000 Unit To Attack North Korea In Case Of Contingency
2016-03-19,China on yellow alert as heavy pollution chokes several cities
2016-03-19,"Emmy-Winning Iraq Polls May Have Been Tainted By Fabrication, Researchers Say: The U.S. company in charge of data collection threatened to sue if researchers disclosed their findings."
2016-03-19,Turkey blames Islamic State for Istanbul bombing
2016-03-19,"Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam 'backed out of blowing himself up', changed his mind at the last minute."
2016-03-19,"Soyuz capsule blasts off toward space station | A Russian rocket has blasted off from Kazakhstan, carrying three crewmen bound for the International Space Station (ISS). The crew is aboard for a six-month mission."
2016-03-19,Hong Kong Students Call for Territorys Independence From China
2016-03-19,"Scarlet fever: Once-feared Victorian disease infecting 100s of children a week in England - Illness associated with the Victorian era now back for no apparent reason for its return. Symptoms include rash, sore throat, flushed cheeks, swollen tongue & a pinkish red rash on the chest & stomach."
2016-03-19,Suspicious pizza order 'led police to Paris attack mastermind's hideout' at Brussels flat
2016-03-19,"Caribbean nations are at the vanguard of international efforts to eliminate plastic waste: On April 1, a ban on Styrofoam products will come into force in Guyana. Dominica is working on banning Styrofoam this year, too. Antigua and Barbuda is hoping to phase out plastic bags by July."
2016-03-19,Russia to Allow Morocco to Train Russian Imams in Attempt to Stop Spread of Extremism
2016-03-19,Tasmania abandons World Heritage Area logging plans on UNESCO advice
2016-03-19,Canada expands sanctions over Russias stance on Ukraine
2016-03-19,Mexico governor floats idea of medical opium growing to reduce drug violence
2016-03-19,Chinese military space station in remote Argentina shrouded in mystery
2016-03-19,"Russia's new disability rules prompt outrage as 500,000 lose benefits"
2016-03-19,Exiled Tibetans vote to elect political leader to succeed Dalai Lama
2016-03-19,"More than 100 women from the left-wing movement Marcha Patriotica took over one of the main cathedrals in the Colombian capital Bogota Saturday, demanding that the Catholic church condemn the violence against activists in the country."
2016-03-18,Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam shot and wounded in Brussels anti-terror raid
2016-03-18,Passenger Boeing From Dubai Crashes in Rostov On Don
2016-03-18,Russia: Those guilty of insulting Vladimir Putin face six years in prison under proposed law
2016-03-18,'Shots fired' in new Brussels raids.
2016-03-18,"British Prime Minister David Cameron will postpone publication of the Iraq war inquiry report until after the European Union referendum, leading to accusations that he is deliberately delaying controversial announcements."
2016-03-18,Heinrich Himmler's stash of books on witchcraft is discovered in Czech library after being hidden for 50 years
2016-03-18,Australia: No jail for mum and midwife found guilty of female genital mutilation of young girls
2016-03-18,US Military Personnel To Be Punished For Bombing Doctors Without Borders Hospital In Afghanistan - I can tell you those individuals most closely associated with it are suspended from duties & referred for administrative action. spokesman for US central command.
2016-03-18,France moves towards full ban on pesticides blamed for bee losses
2016-03-18,"Security Researcher goes missing after investigating Bangladesh bank cyber-heist -- Zoha met with a friend at 11:30 PM on Wednesday night, March 16. While coming home, a jeep pulled in front of their auto-rickshaw, and men separated the two, putting them in two different cars"
2016-03-18,Vatican Will Replace Archbishop Who Set Up Kim Davis Meeting With Pope
2016-03-18,"UK Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has resigned citing pressure to make cuts to disability benefits. It comes after mounting controversy over 4bn of planned cuts to Personal Independence Payments, expected to affect 640,000 people"
2016-03-18,US officials: 1 North Korean missile blew up shortly after launch
2016-03-18,Pentagon chief: Obama wants to defeat ISIS by end of his term
2016-03-18,Turkey: Academics Jailed For Signing Petition
2016-03-18,Brazil judge strips Lula of office amid mounting political crisis. Supreme court justice Gilmar Mendes says Lulas appointment appeared designed to prevent him being charged with corruption.
2016-03-18,Assisted Dying Canada: First Person In Ontario To Get Legal Permission Dies
2016-03-18,Former UN official accuses world body of 'colossal mismanagement'
2016-03-18,"The Saudi Coalition Killed More Than 100 Civilians in a Yemeni Market, Says the UN"
2016-03-18,"Australia's emissions rising and vastly underestimated, says report. Land clearing surge in Queensland since 2012 could create emissions roughly equal to those saved by the federal governments emissions reduction scheme"
2016-03-18,Toothfish poaching vessel Viking blown up by Indonesian authorities
2016-03-18,"As recession bites and land disputes hit Brazil's agricultural heartland, indigenous people face land grabs and assaults by violent gangs."" .Tauli-Corpuz called for immediate measures to be taken to protect indigenous leaders, 138 of whom were killed in 2014"
2016-03-18,"Denisovan DNA Found in Pacific IslandersThey've traces of it from Neanderthals & Denisovans, the only species of archaic humans we know less from fossil evidence & more how their genes show up in modern humans. So far, their DNA has only been found in those from Oceania."
2016-03-18,Brazil Supreme Court Justice Blocks Ex-President Lula's Cabinet Appointment
2016-03-18,Bahrain: Alarming spike in expulsion of citizens arbitrarily stripped of their nationality
2016-03-17,"TTIP: secrecy around talks is 'profoundly undemocratic', MPs say. A German MP said she was given only two hours to read 300 pages"
2016-03-17,China's 'Man-made' sun produces longest plasma pulse at 50 million degrees
2016-03-17,One of the worlds largest advertising agencies has been accused of helping Saudi Arabia whitewash its record on human rights following the kingdoms largest mass execution for more than 30 years.
2016-03-17,"Brazilian judge blocks appointment of ex-leader Lula as chief of staff, hours after he was sworn in to the post"
2016-03-17,"Ukraine tears down giant Lenin statue, live on YouTube"
2016-03-17,Obama Sends Letter on the First Mail Flight to Cuba in More Than 50 Years
2016-03-17,"Scientists discover secret chambers in the Tomb of King Tut. Scan reveals the chamber contains metallic and organic material which archaeologist Nicholas Reeves believes could be the remains, and possible grave goods, of Queen Nefertiti."
2016-03-17,Pizzeria owner who tried to recruit for ISIS gets 22 years
2016-03-17,Russian Sanctions to Remain Until Crimea Returned to Ukraine  U.S.
2016-03-17,"February shatters heat records. Worldwide, February was warmer than 125 of the last 136 Marches, when temperature records first started being kept."
2016-03-17,"TTIP: Big business & US to have major say in EU trade deals, leak reveals - Exclusive: Document obtained by campaign group shows legislation will be influenced before it reaches European Parliament"
2016-03-17,German Spy Found Guilty of Treason and Sentenced to 8 Years for Selling Classified Documents to CIA
2016-03-17,North Korea Releases Footage of 21-Year-Old Captive's 'Crime Against the State'
2016-03-17,Cameroon sentences 89 Boko Haram members to death. First terror related death sentences since new law passed in 2014 allowing it.
2016-03-17,Invasion of the American lobsters: Sweden asks EU for help - Swedish environment ministry says Maine lobster could wipe out European species with deadly diseases
2016-03-17,Italy Will Adopt New Law Requiring All Unsold Food to Be Donated to the Needy
2016-03-17,Ebola outbreak: Guinea confirms two new cases
2016-03-17,The Saudi Aramco Oil Company now owns 100% of the biggest refinery in the US.
2016-03-17,The US Postal Service has restored direct mail to Cuba
2016-03-17,Scientists find evidence that Alzheimers lost memories may one day be recoverable.
2016-03-17,"ISIS claims to have killed five Russian soldiers near Palmyra, displays captured bodies"
2016-03-17,Chinese City Publicly Shames Migrant Workers Who Protested Unpaid Wages
2016-03-17,EU calls for more countries to impose sanctions over Crimea
2016-03-17,Japan strongly condemns North Korea's missile launch - PM Abe
2016-03-17,"Gay sex not a crime, says RSS, raises hopes of govt rethink - Times of India"
2016-03-16,"US State Dept declares ISIS is committing genocide in Iraq, Syria"
2016-03-16,Brazilian Federal Police releases tapped phone call between Rousseff and Lula
2016-03-16,"Muslim-majority Pakistan set to declare Holi, Diwali and Easter as public holidays in a landmark decision"
2016-03-16,Russia reveals plans for 2018 test of nuclear engine that could get cosmonauts to Mars in six weeks
2016-03-16,"Feel Free To Leave India, Says Government to Monsanto In GM Cotton Row"
2016-03-16,"Hiking on New Zealand glaciers banned because of rapid melting. Fox and Franz Josef glaciers have been melting at such a rapid rate that it has become too dangerous for tourists to hike onto them from the valley floor, ending a tradition that dates back a century."
2016-03-16,More than a dozen U.S. military personnel have been disciplined  but face no criminal charges  for mistakes that led to the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital that killed 42 people in Afghanistan last year
2016-03-16,Nigerian lawmakers voted down a women equality bill citing the Bible and Sharia law
2016-03-16,The Kurds Are Planning to Declare Their Own Autonomous Region in Syria
2016-03-16,Protests erupt in Brazil after Lula appointed minister
2016-03-16,Syrian Kurds declare federal region in the north
2016-03-16,Brazil's Lula takes Cabinet post in bid to save Rousseff
2016-03-16,"Coke, Pepsi plan to fight Montreal on a possible plastic water bottle ban"
2016-03-16,"The Vatican is replacing its controversial ambassador to the U.S., who arranged the meeting between Pope Francis and antigay Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis last fall."
2016-03-16,Dugong mother and calf found chained in ocean cage
2016-03-16,"[Israel] Knesset pushes stiff limits for bank CEOs' pay - would limit CEO pay to NIS 2.5 million ($641,000) a year, or 35 times the salary of the lowest-paid worker, whichever is lower."
2016-03-16,"Russian Military 'Killed No Civilians In Syria', Ambassador Alexander Yakovenko Says"
2016-03-16,Australian golden orb spider blows over the Tasman Sea to land in a New Zealand town
2016-03-16,Drug cartels are taking over the tortilla business in Mexico
2016-03-16,Magnitude 2.2 artificial quake detected in N. Korea
2016-03-16,Migrants arriving on Greek islands to be sent back to Turkey within days if deal goes through
2016-03-16,US urges immediate release of student sentenced to hard labor in North Korea
2016-03-16,"2 out of 3 Indians drink milk laced with detergent, urea and paint"
2016-03-16,"Ukraine could be a month away from becoming the only country in the world without protection from polio because of delays in licensing a new vaccine, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO)."
2016-03-16,New North Korea sanctions issued by President Obama
2016-03-15,"FIFA admits to World Cup hosting bribes, asks U.S. for return of money"
2016-03-15,President Erdogan wants to change definition of terrorist to include journalists and politicians
2016-03-15,North Korea Sentences US Tourist to 15 Years in Prison
2016-03-15,"The world's first solar airport no longer pays for electricity; 45 acres of panels supply approximately 50,000 kilowatt hours"
2016-03-15,"Argentina sinks Chinese vessel, cites illegal fishing"
2016-03-15,"Puppy frozen in time for 12,400 years is thawed by scientists in remarkable footage"
2016-03-15,"Germany bans neo-Nazi group, carries out sweeping raids"
2016-03-15,"Denmark world's happiest country, Burundi least: new report shows"
2016-03-15,Israel seizes 234 hectares of West Bank land
2016-03-15,Netherlands votes to ban weapons exports to Saudi Arabia
2016-03-15,"NSW, Australia: Anti-coal seam gas protesters could be jailed for seven years under laws described as a crackdown on democratic rights"
2016-03-15,"More than 40 civilians killed in Yemen market by Saudi-led coalition air strike, health officials say"
2016-03-15,"Chinese website publishes, then pulls, explosive letter calling for President Xis resignation"
2016-03-15,Rescuers: Female suicide bombers kill 22 at Nigerian mosque
2016-03-15,Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi accused of treason for suggesting his team gets a warmer welcome in India
2016-03-15,"Blood Lions documentary exposes controversial canned lion hunting industry in South Africa within which captive-bred, often hand-reared lions are placed in enclosed spaces on private hunting reserves guaranteeing a kill for a trophy hunter for $50,000"
2016-03-15,"A powerful Syrian Kurdish political party is planning to declare a federal region in northern Syria, a model it hopes can be applied to the entire country"
2016-03-15,NASA will intentionally start a fire on a cargo ship in space
2016-03-15,Saudi Arabia-led coalition kills 41 civilians in strike on market in Yemen
2016-03-15,"400,000-year-old fossils from Spain provide earliest genetic evidence of Neandertals"
2016-03-15,Belgian police hunt gunman after Brussels anti-terror raid - Shots fired during raid on house by officers investigating Novembers terrorist attacks in Paris
2016-03-15,Canadian woman who successfully sued province for wrongful sterilization when she was a teen dies.
2016-03-15,"Brazil's ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is likely to accept a position in his successor's cabinet, according to media reports, in order to protect himself from prosecution in a corruption case involving the state-run oil company, Petrobras."
2016-03-15,British academic detained in Turkey accused of 'making terrorist propaganda'
2016-03-15,Saudi Arabia 'planning Nato-like military alliance of Muslim states'
2016-03-14,Italy changes law to make all supermarkets give unsold food to needy
2016-03-14,Putin orders most troops out of Syria
2016-03-14,Google's AlphaGo AI beats Lee Se-dol again to win Go series 4-1
2016-03-14,"Israeli hiker finds 2,000-year-old gold coin  the second of its kind to ever be found: The coin, from the year A.D. 107, bears the image of Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. It was minted as part of a series of coins honoring Roman rulers."
2016-03-14,'Shoot-out' during Brussels raid - following anti-terror raid
2016-03-14,"Mother Teresa to be made a saint, Pope Francis announces"
2016-03-14,"Two Canadian Soldiers Stabbed in Toronto, Possible Terrorist Act"
2016-03-14,"China will release water from a dam in its southwestern province of Yunnan to help alleviate a drought in parts of Southeast Asia, including Vietnam."
2016-03-14,Turkey's Erdogan wants to broaden definition of terrorists to include supporters
2016-03-14,"Citing the murder of Indian journalist Karun Misra, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said every time a journalist is killed anywhere in the world and the press is silenced, the rule of law and democracy get weaker."
2016-03-14,"Iran's legal vetting body has approved a bill that will see female victims of road traffic accidents paid the same compensation as men, in a small step toward gender equality in the conservative Islamic country."
2016-03-14,Drug Cartels Are Taking Over the Tortilla Business in Mexico
2016-03-14,Prison Officer in Belfast bomb attack dies. Attack claimed by the New IRA
2016-03-14,Military 'invisibility cloaks' could breach Geneva conventions
2016-03-14,Royal Brunei Airlines' first all-female pilot crew lands plane in Saudi Arabia - where women are not allowed to drive
2016-03-14,Macedonia sends back refugees who pushed their way in
2016-03-14,Shipwreck Discovered from Explorer Vasco da Gama's Fleet: A 16thcentury shipwreck found off an island in Oman is the earliest-known example from Europe's Golden Age of Exploration
2016-03-14,Damning report reveals Church of England's failure to act on abuse
2016-03-14,Whistleblower lawsuit says there is evidence Volkswagen deleted documents for three days after initial EPA allegations
2016-03-14,[India] From 1050 Tonnes Of Plastic Garbage A Day To Zero: Bangalore To Introduce Plastic Ban
2016-03-14,"Extreme temperatures in Brazil are causing desertification and drought in certain parts of the country, threatening the lives of over 35 million people. Since 2012, more than 1,000 municipalities have asked the federal government for help to deal with the extreme drought."
2016-03-14,New dinosaur species in tyrannosaur family discovered
2016-03-14,February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' amount
2016-03-14,"Antarcticas ice is being carved up from below - The warm ocean water thats undermining West Antarctica from below may also be weakening its ice shelves. It appears to be slowly carving deep channels into their bases, cavities ranging from 50 to 250 meters in vertical extent."
2016-03-14,Iran says US court order on 9/11 compensation 'ridiculous'
2016-03-13,Montreal wants complete ban on plastic water bottles
2016-03-13,Bomb-sniffing dog discovers 2 Hellfire missiles bound for Portland
2016-03-13,"Wealth of super rich soars as the worst-off lose out, report says | UK"
2016-03-13,"Explosion hits central Ankara, wounded reported"
2016-03-13,Denmark cuts food waste by astounding 25%. Grocery stores sell 'expired' food for cheap
2016-03-13,UN Calls for Kim Jong-un to Be Prosecuted for Crimes Against Humanity
2016-03-13,Brazil: nation wide protests call for President to resign
2016-03-13,"Shooting at Ivory Coast beach resort - casualties unclear, French media say"
2016-03-13,"German state elections: Success for right-wing AfD, losses for Merkel's CDU"
2016-03-13,Active Fault Line Discovered Directly Below Japanese Nuclear Power Plant
2016-03-13,"Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp are all planning to increase encryption"
2016-03-13,"Foreign born students 'weaken' school results: Record immigration to Sweden has played a ""small but not insignificant"" role in national school test scores tumbling, according to Skolverket, the Swedish National Agency for Education."
2016-03-13,Women secretly film inside ISIS stronghold
2016-03-13,Olympics ticket sales fall off a cliff in wake of Zika virus
2016-03-13,Saudi Arabia proposes a NATO-like military alliance of Muslim nations
2016-03-13,Mars methane mission lifts off
2016-03-13,Bermuda Triangle mystery solved by 'enormous gas blowouts' on ocean floor
2016-03-13,Kurdistan gets $200 million from Turkey
2016-03-13,"February obliterated global heat records, NASA confirms.Whether one looks at a 12-month running average, 5-year average, or better yet, 30-year trends, all show stark increases in global average surface temperatures"
2016-03-13,"Daesh commander Al Shishani clinically dead, monitor says | He is not able to breathe on his own and is using machines"
2016-03-13,Brazilians return with force to streets to demand Rousseff's exit
2016-03-13,Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant PKK camps in northern Iraq: army
2016-03-13,"Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has led thousands of supporters in a protest against the renewal of US sanctions | Unlike the US, we have never killed innocent children nor bombed hospitals, he said at the rally in the capital Caracas, vowing to fight imperialist intervention."
2016-03-13,February breaks global temperature records by 'shocking' amount
2016-03-13,Palestinian wins $1m global teaching prize
2016-03-12,Tesco to give all unsold food to charity after finalising deal - Supermarket giant says it aims to eradicate all food waste at its stores and distribution centres by 2017 (Tesco are the world's 2nd largest retailer and the largest in Europe)
2016-03-12,Go champion Lee Se-dol strikes back to beat Google's DeepMind AI for first time
2016-03-12,"Bhutan Celebrates Newborn Prince by Planting 108,000 Trees"
2016-03-12,Russian government confirmed Turkey have invaded Syria
2016-03-12,"Thousands gathered in Paris to condemn France's continued implementation of state of emergency laws, which they described as a government ""coup"". The state of emergency cannot become permanent because it effectively means citizens giving up their rights,"""
2016-03-12,Ex-Kremlin aide found dead in DC hotel 'departed US 40 days after his own death'
2016-03-12,Saudi Arabia to build Worlds largest Solar Powered Desalination Plant
2016-03-12,Refugee Shelters Set on Fire in Sweden Overnight
2016-03-12,Emergency Biscuits Flown Into UK Due To National Shortage
2016-03-12,South Africa has banned the leopard hunt for the 2016 season - the first time in decades
2016-03-12,India Rejects Joint Naval Patrols with US in South China Sea
2016-03-12,North Korea claims it could wipe out Manhattan with a hydrogen bomb
2016-03-12,Doctors Without Borders opposes Pfizers pneumonia vaccine patent in India
2016-03-12,"ISIS chemical weapons attacks kill child, wound 600"
2016-03-12,Thousands rallied in Warsaw and other Polish cities Saturday to protest the conservative government's refusal to accept a constitutional court ruling that strikes down government changes that have paralyzed the court
2016-03-12,"India will test a small aeroplane-shaped vehicle this year as part of its programme to develop a reusable space launch vehicle, a senior official of Indian Space Research Organisation said."
2016-03-12,Saudi Arabia due to 'complete' January mass executions with four more deaths | Middle East | News
2016-03-12,Top French Cardinal Hid Scouts Pedophile Scandal
2016-03-12,"Australia, Canada, NZ and UK support EU-style free movement, new poll says"
2016-03-12,"To Maintain Supply of Sex Slaves, ISIS Pushes Birth Control"
2016-03-12,North Korea Fires Projectiles after UN Approves Pyongyang Sanctions
2016-03-12,Japan advertising for full-time ninjas in tourism push
2016-03-12,Nurse banned after disabled victim blinks 'evidence of sexual abuse'
2016-03-12,Tibets more than 1.2 million dead remembered as 57th uprising anniversary marked
2016-03-12,Indian drinks mogul Vijay Mallya leaves country owing $1bn
2016-03-11,U.S. says North Korean submarine missing
2016-03-11,AlphaGo beats Lee Se-dol again to take Google DeepMind Challenge series
2016-03-11,Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday a constitutional court ruling that led to the release of two detained newspaper editors was a step against the country and warned the court that repeating such actions could bring its very existence into question.
2016-03-11,"Irans Supreme Leader: We Must Have Relations With Whole World, Except America and Zionist Regime"
2016-03-11,"Before her murder, Honduran activist Berta Cceres singled out the former U.S. Secretary of State for criticism of her support for the Honduran military coup government."
2016-03-11,US zoos secretly fly 18 elephants out of Swaziland ahead of court challenge
2016-03-11,'You've completely failed' angry Macedonia tells Berlin
2016-03-11,Russia minister: Rio Olympics ban would be 'no tragedy'
2016-03-11,"'Distracted' David Cameron helped turn Libya into a 'mess', Barack Obama says"
2016-03-11,"More than 8m UK adults have problem debt.8.2 million adults, or 16.1% of the population, live with problem debt  with younger adults, larger families, single parents and renters particularly at risk."
2016-03-11,"Former Latin American leaders urge world to end war on drugs 'disaster' - Former presidents of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico write op-ed on outdated drug policies and denounce UN for secrecy ahead of special assembly on drugs."
2016-03-11,Paris attackers 'named in IS files'
2016-03-11,"Ten Years  the Hong Kong movie, that Beijing wants obscured, disappears from cinemas"
2016-03-11,Zimbabwe's Mugabe Goes Missing After Cancelled India Trip
2016-03-11,"Ethics watchdog for Norway's $830 bln wealth fund sees increase in bans on firms.""Most of the corruption cases come from the industry studies within defence, telecoms and energy. Those three (sectors) seem to keep us very busy,"""
2016-03-11,Arab League officially designates Hezbollah 'terrorist' organization
2016-03-11,UK supermarket giant Tesco to give all its leftover food to charity by 2017
2016-03-11,EasyJet flight aborted after passenger spots spanner wedged into wing
2016-03-11,China Will Build an Extensive Port City in Sri Lankas Capital
2016-03-11,Canadas unemployment rate creeps up to 7.3% in February
2016-03-11,Food labelling and product safety laws in jeopardy under TPP says Choice
2016-03-11,Irish call for reunification poll should British leave EU
2016-03-11,"ISIS declares war on UAE, reports"
2016-03-11,Report: Turkish Airstrikes in Iraq Kill 67 PKK Militants
2016-03-11,Turkey provides Kurdistan Region with $200 million emergency fund
2016-03-10,"The robots sent into Fukushima have ""died"". As soon as they get close to the reactors, the radiation destroys their wiring and renders them useless,"
2016-03-10,South Sudan lets fighters rape women in place of wages: UN
2016-03-10,China Has Unblocked Internet Searches That Refer to Kim Jong Un As a Pig
2016-03-10,"Prof Stephen Hawking and 150 other scientists have called for Britain to stay in the EU, saying that a Brexit would be a ""disaster for UK science""."
2016-03-10,"It is ""outrageous"" to describe people who are worried about the impact of migration as racist, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said"
2016-03-10,Scientists have found a species of bacteria that eats the type of plastic found in most disposable water bottles. The discovery could lead to new methods to manage the more than 50 million tons of this particular type of plastic produced globally each year.
2016-03-10,Spelling mistake prevented hackers taking $1bn in bank heist
2016-03-10,Former Putin aide died of 'blunt force trauma'
2016-03-10,"Night-Flying Drones Fight Poachers in Africa - unmanned aerial drones to expose illegal hunting and help re-establish stability in the tourism industry, gravely impacted by the deaths of wild animals."
2016-03-10,"Mikhail Lesin, Ex-Putin Aide And RT Co-Founder Died Of ""Blunt Force Injuries To The Head"""
2016-03-10,Myanmar is quietly experiencing its largest uprising in years
2016-03-10,Report: Abbas rejected new U.S. peace initiative presented by Biden
2016-03-10,"China strongly rejected U.S.-led criticism of its human rights record at the U.N. Human Rights Council, saying the United States was hypocritical and guilty of crimes. ""The U.S. is notorious for prison abuse at Guantanamo prison, its gun violence is rampant, racism is its deep-rooted malaise"""
2016-03-10,India cuts Monsanto cotton seed royalties despite threat to quit
2016-03-10,Gas pipeline from Israel to Jordan to begin operating in 2017
2016-03-10,"Carbon dioxide levels 'exploded' last year to reach record highs not seen since end of Ice Age, scientists warn.The last time there was such a sustained increase in carbon dioxide concentrations was at the end of the last Ice Age, between 17,000 and 11,000 years ago."
2016-03-10,"The first comparison of foetal abnormalities between Zika-positive and Zika-negative pregnant women has been published. Of those who tested positive, abnormalities were detected in 29% of foetuses. No abnormalities were detected among women without the virus."
2016-03-10,Zero-hour contracts banned in New Zealand
2016-03-10,Russia plans to close U.N. rights office in Moscow
2016-03-10,57 Different Pesticides Found In Poisoned Honeybees
2016-03-10,"Fossil fuels 'probably dead,' says Canadian Pacific Railway's CEO"
2016-03-10,"Gujarat Nuclear Plant Shut Down After Major Leak, All Workers Safe"
2016-03-10,"Manitoba First Nation declares state of emergency over suicide epidemic - 6 suicides in 2 months, 140 attempts in last 2 weeks."
2016-03-10,Finnish farmers protest new legislations by driving over 300 tractors to Helsinki Senate Square.
2016-03-10,"Refugee crisis: Balkan route 'permanently' shut -- Minister says refugees should not be fed false expectations, as thousands are stuck in squalid conditions in Greek camp."
2016-03-09,Apple: 'FBI could force us to turn on iPhone cameras and microphones'
2016-03-09,America has captured ISIS scientist in charge of chemical weapons
2016-03-09,Google's DeepMind beats Lee Se-dol again to go 2-0 up in historic Go series
2016-03-09,Isis files leak will throw group into 'crisis mode' as thousands of fighters' names and personal details revealed | Middle East | News
2016-03-09,"Chinas solar and wind energy capacity increased by 74% and 34%, respectively, in 2015, while coal consumption dropped by 3.7%"
2016-03-09,Irish economy grows at fastest pace since 2000 at 7.8%
2016-03-09,"A deadly algal bloom has hit the world's second biggest salmon exporter, Chile, where nearly 23 million fish have already died and the economic impact from lost production is seen soaring to $800 million."
2016-03-09,One of ISIS's top commanders that the US likely just killed was a 'star pupil' of US-special forces training
2016-03-09,"Australian Prepaid mobile plans are increasingly expiring after 28 days, not 30 days, meaning customers pay for a 13th ""month"" in a year."
2016-03-09,$81M stolen from Bangladesh central bank in online heist (additional $870M transfer blocked)
2016-03-09,China signals interest in denuclearization talks without North Korea
2016-03-09,Former paid agent of Swedish Security Police dictated Amnesty Swedens stance against Assange - celebrated Swedish activist turns out to be government spy
2016-03-09,Migrant crisis: Macedonia shuts border
2016-03-09,The Saskatchewan government bought one-way bus tickets to Vancouver B.C. for homeless men denied funding to stay at a homeless shelter
2016-03-09,Nearly 500000 migrants reached Greece in quarter four - EU border agency
2016-03-09,"Iran Told to Pay $10.5 Billion to Sept. 11 Kin, Insurers"
2016-03-09,Paris withdraws threat to recognize Palestine if peace confab fails
2016-03-09,"US to employ bank fraud law in VW emissions probe: The US Justice Department has reportedly issued embattled German carmaker Volkswagen a subpoena under a financial fraud law, which observers regarded as an escalation in the VW emissions cheating probe"
2016-03-09,Climate change contributes to worst drought in Middle East in over 900 years
2016-03-09,Record number of African rhinos killed in 2015
2016-03-09,"Finnish physicists tap into the dark state, produce 'qutrits' for a promising alternative approach to quantum computing"
2016-03-09,Coca-Cola has spent $1.7 million funding Australian health groups over five years
2016-03-09,N. Korea fires two short-range missile into East Sea
2016-03-09,Biden criticizes PA for not condemning terrorism
2016-03-09,Peru Indigenous Group Releases Officials Over Oil Spill Demands.The Peruvian government recently declared a state-of-emergency after 16 Amazon rainforest communities were adversely affected by extreme environmental damage following a series of major oil spills
2016-03-08,Russia has warned North Korea that threats to deliver preventive nuclear strikes could create a legal basis for the use of military force against the country
2016-03-08,Egypt drafts bill to ban burqa and Islamic veils in public places
2016-03-08,Google's DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in historic victory
2016-03-08,China to block North Korea ships from returning home
2016-03-08,Australian scientists found a new spider that can swim and catch fish
2016-03-08,Danish 16-year old girl charged with planning to bomb Jewish school
2016-03-08,Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau to join forces on climate change | Environment
2016-03-08,"Saudi Arabia is seeking a bank loan of between $6 billion and $8 billion, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, in what would be the first significant foreign borrowing by the kingdom's government for over a decade"
2016-03-08,"Almost half of Israeli Jews want ethnic cleansing, 'wake-up call' survey finds - Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called the findings a 'wake-up call for Israeli society'"
2016-03-08,3 Israelis hurt in separate terror attacks in Jerusalem and Petah Tikva
2016-03-08,"Under pressure, India agrees to stop issuing licences for making cheap drugs - Firstpost"
2016-03-08,Palestinian attacks surge during Biden visit to Israel
2016-03-08,"France votes to penalize companies for refusing to decrypt devices, messages"
2016-03-08,Kim Jong-un says North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warhead
2016-03-08,"North Korean Cargo Ship Turned Away From Rizhao, China Following New Sanctions"
2016-03-08,Islamic State's de facto 'minister of war' possibly killed: U.S. officials
2016-03-08,"1,000-year-old 'lost' medieval village found under highway"
2016-03-08,NGO wants right to toilet as a fundamental right
2016-03-08,Murdered Honduran activist Berta Cceres buried as others vow to continue fight: A total of 991 land and environmental defenders were killed from 2002 to 2014
2016-03-08,"Press freedom in Turkey is 'under siege', says watchdog group"
2016-03-08,"Poland's Constitutional Tribunal has ruled that a raft of new laws regulating the court are unconstitutional. With its ruling Wednesday, the county's top legislative court weighed in on a legal crisis that has upended politics in the country"
2016-03-08,"China is building a big data plaform for precrime; Using online profile and movements, government aims to catch ""terrorists"" in advance."
2016-03-08,Court Orders One of Japan's Two Operating Nuclear Plants to Shut Down
2016-03-08,The US' Top International Drug Official Has Said That Countries Have Every Right to Decriminalize Drugs
2016-03-08,Hong Kong Bookseller Voiced Fears About China Agents Before He Disappeared
2016-03-07,"An indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon took at least eight public officials hostage to demand help from the central government after an oil spill polluted its lands, authorities said Monday."
2016-03-07,Cannabis legalisation in the UK 'would raise 1bn a year in taxes' - Study calls for UK to follow lead of some US states & allow the sale of cannabis to over-18s in licensed retail stores
2016-03-07,Netanyahu declines offer to meet with Obama: White House
2016-03-07,More than 150 killed in Deadly US drone strike in Somalia
2016-03-07,International Women's Day: Russia topped ranking of countries with the highest percentage of women in senior business roles
2016-03-07,Turkish authorities have seized control of another opposition news agency
2016-03-07,Hong Kong Home Sales Tumble 70% as Slowdown Intensifies
2016-03-07,"Venezuela: 28 miners apparently kidnapped, murdered and disappeared by government-related forces"
2016-03-07,"One of Chinas most respected current affairs magazines has lashed out at Communist party censorship of its work, just weeks after the president, Xi Jinping, demanded absolute loyalty from his countrys media."
2016-03-07,"The United States wants to regularly rotate long-range heavy bombers through Australia, as concerns grow over China's military expansion in the Asia-Pacific region."
2016-03-07,"Thousands of refugees see border effectively closed: EU leaders said Monday said they had reached the outlines of a possible deal with Ankara to return thousands of migrants to Turkey, and also said that irregular flows of migrants along the Western Balkans route have now come to an end."
2016-03-07,U.S. builds two air bases in Kurdish-controlled north Syria: Kurdish report
2016-03-07,"'Exceptional' woman's 2,500-year-old seal unearthed in Jerusalem"
2016-03-07,China exports plunge 25% from a year ago
2016-03-07,"While the rest of the world's glaciers are shrinking, Pakistan's glaciers are growing. A phenomenon called ' The Karakoram Anomaly '"
2016-03-07,China hints at global military bases
2016-03-07,The Egyptian government has barred journalists from reporting on events in the troubled Sinai peninsula.
2016-03-07,Iraqi migrants return after Europe disappoints
2016-03-07,Almost 16 million people face hunger in Southern Africa because of a drought exacerbated by an El Nino weather pattern and that number could climb to almost 50 million
2016-03-07,"China Feb exports slump 25.4 pct, worse fall since May 2009"
2016-03-07,White House 'surprised' Netanyahu spurning offer to meet Obama
2016-03-07,"Actors and a production company are under investigation after creating ""It's just a prank"" videos where actors pretended to be suicide bombers."
2016-03-07,Tunisia bloodied: 53 dead in clashes near Libyan border
2016-03-07,Malaysian deputy PM says Daesh attempted to kidnap prime minister
2016-03-07,One in three Arab women fears violence within family
2016-03-06,"Revealed: the 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Ys income. Exclusive new data shows how debt, unemployment and property prices have combined to stop millennials taking their share of western wealth."
2016-03-06,Canada plans to experiment with giving people unconditional free money (universal basic income)
2016-03-06,Nearly 2000 AK-47 rifles seized by Australian sailors from Somalia-bound fishing boat
2016-03-06,"6% Water Left In Marathwada Dams, Farmers Blame Government For Suicides.""We feed the entire nation and we ourselves are starving. The entire nation eats what we grow and here we die. No actually we don't kill ourselves, the government is killing us."""
2016-03-06,"North Korea threatens pre-emptive nuclear strike on South, US"
2016-03-06,"Israel will soon begin to deploy one of the most sophisticated missile defense systems in the world, with US help."
2016-03-06,"Over 31,000 women are currently pregnant within the so-called Islamic State, new report reveals - ""Theres a systematic creation of the next generation of mujahideen... the next generation of fighters"""
2016-03-06,"Climate change is destroying the world's coral, which are now in the midst of their 3rd global bleaching event."
2016-03-06,Death of Chinese Woman Trapped in Elevator for Month Stokes Uproar
2016-03-06,India's big move into solar is already paying off
2016-03-06,Sewage analysis shows methamphetamine use soaring in Queensland
2016-03-06,"""Scientists at the University of Cambridge have for the first time shown that it is possible to derive from a human embryo so-called 'nave' pluripotent stem cells -- one of the most flexible types of stem cell, which can develop into all human tissue other than the placenta."""
2016-03-06,"Underground network of tunnels discovered in UK was a druid temple dating back more than 2,000 years, claims historian"
2016-03-06,World's oldest chameleon found in amber fossil: 100 million years old
2016-03-06,Perfect weather conditions are causing a spider boom in Sydney Australia
2016-03-06,Women march in Warsaw for greater accessibility to abortion
2016-03-06,"New ISIS Video Shows Execution Of Alleged Russian Spy, Threatens Attack On Vladimir Putin"
2016-03-06,French parliament votes to penalise smartphone makers over encryption
2016-03-06,North Korea threatens to beat up the US
2016-03-06,"U.S. builds two air bases in Kurdish-controlled north Syria (""The Syrian Kurds have established control over wide areas of northern Syria since the country erupted into civil war in 2011, and their YPG militia has become a major partner in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State"")"
2016-03-06,"Scientists to Drill Dinosaur-Killing Impact Crater for 1st Time - Expedition off Yucatn coast to drill Chicxulub impact crater, where a 6-mi-wide space rock collided with Earth 66M yrs ago. It killed 1/2 of life on Earth & led to the ascendence of birds & mammals."
2016-03-06,A scientific paper on the anatomy of the human hand has been retracted by a leading scientific journal following criticism of references it made to a creator.
2016-03-06,International Women's Day Rally in Turkey Turns Violent
2016-03-06,"Suicide truck bombing by ISIS kills at least 61, Iraqi officials say"
2016-03-06,New IRA Claims Responsibility for Belfast Bomb Attack
2016-03-05,"""Shameful Day for Free Press in Turkey"" last headline for Zaman newspaper, largest newspaper in Turkey, as government seizes control"
2016-03-05,President Putin has suspended the transfer of S-300 to Iran in light of Tehrans violation of an earlier pledge not to provide Russian-made weaponry to Hezbollah
2016-03-05,"Donald Trump A Threat To Peace And Prosperity, German Vice Chancellor Says"
2016-03-05,Isis 'studied Nazi methods' to create own version of Hitler Youth and train child killers from birth - As many as 50 children from the UK are said to be among the 'future mujahideen' forced to hold up decapitated heads and carry out brutal executions
2016-03-05,Police have found a second bomb in a residential street in west Belfast.
2016-03-05,99m-year-old lizard trapped in amber could give clue to 'lost ecosystem'
2016-03-05,China bans North Korea money transfers
2016-03-05,"Fukushima: Tokyo was on the brink of nuclear catastrophe, admits former prime minister"
2016-03-05,Former US military adviser David Kilcullen says there would be no Isis without Iraq invasion
2016-03-05,"Ruling Party Wins Slovakia's Election, Neo-Nazis Gain 14 Seats"
2016-03-05,Russia stoking refugee unrest in Germany to topple Angela Merkel
2016-03-05,"Billionaire Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani sentenced to death on corruption charges, justice officials say"
2016-03-05,"In a First, Pakistan warns India of terrorist attack, High alert issued across the nation"
2016-03-05,Us Returns Historical Documents Stolen From Russia In 90's
2016-03-05,Afghanistan ruled safe enough to deport asylum-seekers from UK
2016-03-05,99 sexual abuse cases against UN peacekeepers
2016-03-05,High alert sounded after tunnel found on India-Pakistan border
2016-03-05,"Gold miners infected with lung diseases brought on by repeated exposure to the dust of South Africa's mines have won a multimillion dollar out-of-court settlement. Anglo American South Africa and AngloGold Ashanti have agreed to pay the equivalent of $32,595,800 to claimants affected by silicosis"
2016-03-05,Turkey warned that seizure of Zaman newspaper 'jeopardises' accession to EU as press freedom crackdown continues
2016-03-05,Electricity returns to Aleppo for the 1st time since October 2015
2016-03-05,Civilians rise up against ISIS rule in Raqqa City: government
2016-03-05,Refugee crisis: Greek governor urges state of emergency
2016-03-05,Driverless lorries to be trialled in UK
2016-03-05,"Christian missionary, filmmaker arrested in Sudan"
2016-03-05,Expert: Meager food allowances leaving Qatar workers hungry
2016-03-04,"China bans depictions of gay people, adultery, one night stands, cleavage and reincarnation on television"
2016-03-04,"Peanut allergy risk reduced by up to 80% by consuming peanuts as an infant, research suggests"
2016-03-04,Philippines seizes North Korean ship
2016-03-04,"Refugee children at Calais 'Jungle' camp are being raped, aid workers claim"
2016-03-04,"Italian City Bans New Ethnic Restaurants - Verona, home of Romeo & Juliet, stopping new eateries from opening that mainly serve kebabs, gyros & fried food. Mayor has tried to justify ban by saying its the best way to preserve the citys culture & traditions."
2016-03-04,South Koreans kick off efforts to clone extinct Siberian cave lions
2016-03-04,'El Chapo' entered US twice while a fugitive: report
2016-03-04,Gunmen Kill Honduran Indigenous Environmentalist Leader Berta Cceres
2016-03-04,Pakistan Admits Taliban Leaders Are Living There
2016-03-04,Europes harsh new message for migrants: Do not come
2016-03-04,Dairy Farm Accused of Beating Cows Finally Faces Charges After Two Years
2016-03-04,Report: North Korean diplomats smuggling luxury goods through Mongolia
2016-03-04,Gunmen Kill 14 at Nursing Home in Yemen Started by Mother Teresa
2016-03-04,"Crows and parrots have sophisticated thinking skills on a par with those of apes such as chimpanzees, researchers claim."
2016-03-04,"Malawi police chief issues shoot-to-kill order against albino killers - Criminal gangs, nicknamed albino hunters, have embarked on a reign of terror across Malawi, often killing albinos in broad daylight without mercy or remorse"
2016-03-04,A Turkish court has put Zaman newspaper - a vocal critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan - under state control
2016-03-04,Tibet boy who set himself on fire to protest China's occupation dies
2016-03-04,UK to spend $900 milllion more on nuclear sub program
2016-03-04,"Reports: Fessenheim nuclear accident played down by French authorities - Reactor had to be shut down by adding boron to the pressure vessel, an unprecedented procedure in Western Europe"
2016-03-04,Terrorist Anders Breivik 'inhumane treatment' claim rejected by Norway
2016-03-04,Loonie above 75 cents US for first time since November
2016-03-04,The four largest Chinese banks have stopped yuan and dollar cash transfers to North Korea: The reported measure is part of rising international pressure on Pyongyang following its latest nuclear test and rocket launch earlier this year
2016-03-04,Syrian Army defeats ISIS at the Deir Ezzor Military Airport
2016-03-04,"SpaceX rocket successfully delivers a commercial satellite into orbit, but couldn't quite manage to stick the landing during an audacious attempt to touch down on a drone ship at sea"
2016-03-04,Attack on Indian Consulate in Afghanistan; originated from Pakistan: Former President Karzai
2016-03-03,Kim Jong-un orders nuclear weapons to be made ready for use
2016-03-03,Mexican Officials Pass Proposal To Ban Donald Trump From Their Country
2016-03-03,Tens of thousands of Nigerian fishermen and farmers were given the green light to sue energy giant Shell in a British court on Wednesday for a series of destructive oil spills in the Niger delta over the past decade.
2016-03-03,"BP chief receives 20% pay package hike despite record loss and 7,000 axed jobs. At time of crisis for oil company Bob Dudley earned 14m last year, an amount the High Pay Centre describes as out of contact with reality."
2016-03-03,"UK, Facebook forced to pay millions more in tax after widespread controversy of only paying 4,327 in taxes last year."
2016-03-03,"Refugee crisis puts truckers lives at risk, says road transport lobby"
2016-03-03,"World food prices fall 14.5%, even as Canadian food prices climb - Business"
2016-03-03,Monsanto has threatened to pull out of India if the government imposed a big cut in royalties that local firms pay for its genetically modified cotton seeds
2016-03-03,Average temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere have breached the 2 degrees Celsius above normal mark for the first time in recorded history
2016-03-03,Scientists 'find cancer's Achilles heel'
2016-03-03,"Pakistani police rescued a nine-year-old girl from being married off to a 14-year-old boy to settle a family dispute on Friday and arrested four village elders who had ordered the ""compensation wedding""."
2016-03-03,French bill carries 5-year jail sentence for company refusals to decrypt data for police
2016-03-03,The U.S. just sent a carrier strike group to confront China
2016-03-03,"Spain seizes 20,000 ISIS military uniforms"
2016-03-03,Russia's military intelligence chief killed in secret operation in Lebanon
2016-03-03,"Japanese women are being exploited and abused in Japans multi-billion dollar pornographic film industry, rights advocates said on Thursday, calling on authorities to strengthen laws to protect them"
2016-03-03,Brazil Petrobras scandal: Police raid former president Lula's home
2016-03-03,NASA's Scott Kelly grew 2 inches while in space.
2016-03-03,"Labour Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, in favour of decriminalising the sex industry."
2016-03-03,"Honduran Indian leader Berta Caceres, who won the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize for her role in fighting a dam project, was murdered Thursday. Caceres, a Lenca Indian activist, had previously complained of receiving death threats from police, soldiers and local landowners because of her work"
2016-03-03,"Spain Seizes 20,000 Military Uniforms Bound for ISIS"
2016-03-03,Gulf nations declare Hezbollah a terrorist group
2016-03-03,'Huge drop' in civilian deaths after Syria truce: monitor
2016-03-03,Kremlin: Russia concerned by North Korea's readiness to use nuclear arms
2016-03-03,Singapore Owner Recounts How Singapore Classified a Tesla as a Gas-Guzzler Equivalent and taxes him accordingly.
2016-03-02,North Korea launches short-range missiles into Sea of Japan hours after UN Sanctions
2016-03-02,"A powerful Pakistani religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam on Thursday declared a new law that criminalizes violence against women to be ""un-Islamic."""
2016-03-02,"Two of the worlds biggest coffee companies, Nestl and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, admit that beans from Brazilian plantations using slave labour may have ended up in their coffee"
2016-03-02,"Argentine Nobel Prize winner to Obama: Don't visit March 24, because it's the 40th anniversary of a coup that installed a military government that had U.S. backing"
2016-03-02,NASA: Drought in Middle East is the worst in 900 years
2016-03-02,A TV ad aired by the Church of Scientology in the UK has been banned for misleading viewers with a claim the church gives aid to tens of millions of people.
2016-03-02,"Blackout hits Syria, leaving entire country without electricity"
2016-03-02,"In Sydney, Australia, the penalties for cyclists who don't wear helmets or run red lights have gone up by 600%."
2016-03-02,"African elephants 'killed faster than they are being born': The new data, released on UN world wildlife day on Thursday, shows about 60% of elephant deaths are at the hands of poachers, meaning the overall population is most likely to be falling."
2016-03-02,A senior Pakistani official has admitted publicly for the first time that the Afghan Taliban's leadership is living in Pakistan.
2016-03-02,"Internet ""trolls"" could face criminal charges for creating fake profiles, according to guidance being considered for prosecutors in England and Wales."
2016-03-02,"Berta Cceres, Honduran indigenous leader and Goldman Prize winner, assassinated in her home"
2016-03-02,"Russia and Syria 'weaponising' refugee crisis to destabilise Europe, Nato commander claims"
2016-03-02,Problematic fossil turns out to be oldest known example of life on land - This 440 million-yr-old fungus helped life take root outside the oceans.
2016-03-02,China set to surpass its climate targets as renewables soar
2016-03-02,"Digging into Dieselgate: EU parliament looks into emissions cheating -- It's not just Volkswagen: it's all car manufacturers that are cheating on emissions, if activists are to be believed. European parliamentarians now want to get to the bottom of what's been coined 'Dieselgate'"
2016-03-02,Islamic State (ISIS) is exploiting national banking operations in Iraq and could be making up to $25 million a month in Middle Eastern money markets
2016-03-02,US Delivers 8 Black Hawks to Jordan for Its Anti-IS Battle
2016-03-02,Egypt parliament expels MP for dining with Israeli ambassador
2016-03-02,Nanny Who Says Beheaded Russian Child to Avenge Syria Strikes 'Mentally Unsound'
2016-03-02,"Adblocking is a 'modern-day protection racket', says culture secretary"
2016-03-02,Gang burns seven people to death over witchcraft claims in Malawi
2016-03-02,"Brazil reports 5,909 Microcephaly cases since October 2015 Zika virus outbreak"
2016-03-02,"Only Russia wants Britain to leave the EU, says Philip Hammond"
2016-03-02,Debris in Mozambique Is Thought to Come From Malaysia Airlines Plane
2016-03-01,"""A young British woman has become one of the first cancer patients to be injected with a new vaccine designed to stimulate the immune system so that it destroys tumours wherever they have spread in the body."""
2016-03-01,Magnitude 8.2 Quake Measured 763 Miles Southwest of Malaysian Capital
2016-03-01,Mormon leader: 'There are no homosexual members of the church.'
2016-03-01,Pentagon to sell $683 million in weaponry to Turkey in deal signed today
2016-03-01,Russian Faces Up to Year in Prison for Denying Existence of God
2016-03-01,Nato commander: Isis spreading like cancer among refugees
2016-03-01,"Mosul dam engineers warn it could fail at any time, killing 1m people"
2016-03-01,"Study: British need to retire at 81 to get parents standard. The report says without significantly higher levels of engagement in pensions, we may be witnessing the death of retirement."
2016-03-01,ISIS now deploying women in combat roles
2016-03-01,"South Korean opposition lawmakers have ended a parliamentary filibuster that lasted 192 hours, which is believed to have set a new world record. They were trying to block an anti-terrorism bill which they said threatened personal freedoms."
2016-03-01,"Hamas Commander, accused of theft and gay sex, is killed by his own"
2016-03-01,"Anti-immigrant 'Soldiers of Odin' expand from Finland to Nordics, Baltics"
2016-03-01,"Turkey: 1,845 cases opened for insulting Erdogan"
2016-03-01,Hamburg Is the 1st City to Ban Single-Use Coffee Pods - You wont find them in its govt buildings
2016-03-01,"China takes Philippine atoll: The Chinese have taken over another traditional Filipino fishing ground near Palawan where they have stationed up to five ships to keep local fishermen at bay, sources said."
2016-03-01,UK spying laws: Government introduces law requiring WhatsApp and iMessage to be broken
2016-03-01,Modern slavery widespread among East Asia migrant domestic workers - researchers
2016-03-01,Gay Iranian poet seeking Israel asylum gets visa extension
2016-03-01,Osama bin Laden's hand-written will reveals he left $40 million fortune to jihad instead of family
2016-03-01,ISIS Burned Alive Their Own Fighters Who Didn't Fight To The Death After Lossing Ramadi Battle
2016-03-01,19-mile razor wire fence built on Macedonia's border to stop a human tide of migrants as Greece is told it faces being 'sacrificed' to save the EU
2016-03-01,Russian prosecutors say that a nanny accused of killing and then decapitating a 4-year old girl in Moscow was not acting on her own. Prosecutors told the court that they believe that individuals who incited her to carry out the slaying are still at large.
2016-03-01,Rotherham child abuser's son guilty of witness intimidation
2016-03-01,"Russia and Syria are ""weaponising"" migration as an aggressive strategy towards Europe, the senior Nato commander in Europe has said"
2016-03-01,February Shatters Global Temperature Records
2016-02-29,China just announced one of the largest single layoffs in history. 1.8 Million people will lose their job.
2016-02-29,More than $1bn deposited in Malaysian prime minister's account  report | World news
2016-02-29,Children sacrificed to bring luck in Uganda elections
2016-02-29,Isis kills eight Dutch members for desertion | World news
2016-02-29,ISIS hackers target the wrong Google: Caliphate Cyber Army hack small Indian firm 'Add Google Online' in apparent case of mistaken identity
2016-02-29,Leaked plans reveals German intent to close borders on refugees unless EU leaders agree on a strategy
2016-02-29,"E-cigarettes are estimated to have helped 16,000-22,000 smokers in England to quit in 2014"
2016-02-29,"Argentine prosecutor: Alberto Nisman, who died after accusing then-President Fernndez de Kirchner of covering up Irans role in the bombing of a Buenos Aires community center, was murdered"
2016-02-29,Sweden accuses Daily Mail of running anti-refugee propaganda campaign
2016-02-29,India to pump almost $13bn into rural development
2016-02-29,Bolkovac: 'UN tries to cover up peacekeeper sex abuse scandal': The UN have promised to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by peacekeepers in the CAR. Human rights investigator and whistleblower Kathryn Bolkovac tried to investigate similar cases in Bosnia - and lost her job.
2016-02-29,Mysterious bright flash and bang seen above Scotland
2016-02-29,Final warning to Facebook by Frances data watchdog
2016-02-29,Germany to lure more skilled foreign workers: Germany began testing a points-based immigration system on Friday in a bid to attract more skilled foreigners and end a chronic shortage of workers plaguing Europe's biggest economy despite a record influx of asylum seekers.
2016-02-29,Dutch find 10 Syrian war crime suspects among migrants
2016-02-29,Migrants break down Macedonia fence on Greek border
2016-02-29,"France: Rioting Breaks Out as Country Begins Clearing Refugee Camp in Calais, Officials Say"
2016-02-29,China deletes Weibo account of critic of President Xi Jinping
2016-02-29,"The Iraqi government and the US embassy in Baghdad have both issued urgent warnings about the possibility of the Mosul dam collapsing and sending a 20-metre-high flash flood coursing down the river Tigris, putting more than a million people at risk."
2016-02-29,Cologne Airport evacuated after major security alert
2016-02-29,Right-to-die report will call for prior consent in dementia cases.The Supreme Court ruled last year that the century-old law banning physician-assisted death was unconstitutional and that Canadians with unbearable and irremediable suffering could be eligible to end their life with a doctors aid.
2016-02-29,"Russian TV Silent Over Child Killed by Nanny in Moscow: The channels themselves decided to not show crazy people, Peskov was quoted by RBC as saying. But we support them."""
2016-02-29,"Calais refugee camp evicted by police with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon"
2016-02-29,Chilean Attacked in Poland After Being Mistaken for Arab
2016-02-29,"Financial cost of major weather events rising for Canadian taxpayers.The costs related to cleaning up devastating floods, the carnage from hurricanes and the damage left in the wake of intense winter storms has exploded to nearly $900 million annually"
2016-02-28,"Pope Francis' top advisers acknowledged that the Catholic Church ""has made enormous mistakes"" in allowing thousands of children to be raped and molested by priests over centuries"
2016-02-28,Woman arrested in Moscow after reportedly being seen outside metro station with decapitated child's head
2016-02-28,"The Nigerian government has removed nearly 24,000 workers from its payroll after an audit revealed they did not exist, the Finance Ministry has said."
2016-02-28,Mexico issues alert after theft of radioactive material
2016-02-28,"Four Hong Kong booksellers who went missing in October appeared on Chinese television confirming for the first time they'd been detained for ""illegal book trading"""
2016-02-28,Swiss voters have clearly rejected - by 58.9% to 41.1%  an initiative to automatically deport foreigners who commit certain crimes.
2016-02-28,"Our missile can turn enemy tanks 'into boiled pumpkin', says North Korea's Kim Jong-Un"
2016-02-28,British Muslim girls being forced into marriage via internet
2016-02-28,Germany petitions North African states to take more migrants back
2016-02-28,"""Monarch butterflies have made a big comeback in their wintering grounds in Mexico, after suffering serious declines, experts said Friday [26 February 2016]."""
2016-02-28,SodaStream lays off last Palestinian workers after permit row
2016-02-28,Mexico police rescue 87 women forced to work as prostitutes
2016-02-28,Pakistan hangs Islamic extremist for assassinating official who had defended Christian woman accused of blasphemy
2016-02-28,"Two government surveys suggest a portion of the public remains unaware of the social hardships still faced by the indigenous Japanese who once occupied much of Hokkaido. In one survey for the native Ainu, about 72 percent said discrimination and prejudice are still directed against their race"
2016-02-28,"Polluted Milan wants to pay commuters to bike to work - With its serious pollution problem and notorious driving styles, Milan is hardly renowned as a cycle-friendly city  but a radical new scheme aims to change that"
2016-02-28,Protests As Pakistan 'Hero' Assassin Is Hanged
2016-02-28,A new one atom-thick flat material that could upstage the wonder material graphene and advance digital technology has been discovered.
2016-02-28,At least 59 killed in double bombing at Baghdad market
2016-02-28,Japanese police add 10 more to list of possible North Korea abduction victims; total rises to 886
2016-02-28,Rights group: Saudi Arabia used U.S. cluster bombs on civilians
2016-02-28,George Pell: church made 'enormous mistakes' in dealing with paedophile priests
2016-02-28,"China expects to lay off 1.8 mln workers in coal, steel sectors"
2016-02-28,Former Tepco execs indicted over Fukushima nuclear disaster: media
2016-02-28,"Netanyahu to visit Africa, first Israeli PM to do so in 50 years"
2016-02-28,Police Use Tear Gas At Greece-Macedonia Border
2016-02-27,Landslide victory for the reformists in Iran: Reformists win all 30 Tehran seats in parliamentary election
2016-02-27,"Another financial crisis is certain and will come sooner rather than later, the former Bank of England governor has warned.Mervyn King, who headed the bank between 2003 and 2013, believes the world economy will soon face another crash as regulators have failed to reform banking."
2016-02-27,Rare Breed Of Giraffe Hunted To The Brink Of Extinction -- With Just 38 Left In Reserve
2016-02-27,"Iran executed the entire male population of a village for drug trafficking, says Irans Vice President for Women and Family Affairs"
2016-02-27,"Canada reaches resettlement goal as 25,000th Syrian refugee arrives in Canada"
2016-02-27,Thousands march in Moscow to honor slain Kremlin critic Nemtsov
2016-02-27,TPP Threatens Indigenous Land Rights Says the UN
2016-02-27,US says China will be bound by maritime arbitration ruling
2016-02-27,Sikh group calls for politicians and media to stop using term 'Asian' to describe Rotherham grooming gang
2016-02-27,Thousands of South Koreans marched in the capital on Saturday to protest what they say are setbacks in personal freedoms and labor rights under conservative President Park Geun-hye
2016-02-27,"Basic Income: Ontario To Introduce Pilot Program Aimed At Improving Efficiency, Eliminating Poverty"
2016-02-27,China is building the largest waste-to-energy plant in the world: It will turn a third of Shenzhen's trash into energy every single day
2016-02-27,"Investigatory Powers Bill: Theresa May accused of rushing snoopers' charter into law to avoid scrutiny .Bill would give government unmatched rights to invade privacy.It all keeps with their strategy, which is to rush everything through. They know when they engage with experts they lose"
2016-02-27,Two former presidents of Mexico compare Trump to Hitler
2016-02-27,Turkey's Erdogan says does not respect court ruling on journalists
2016-02-27,Algerian authorities have jailed a man with dual Algerian and Belgian citizenship for links with the ringleader of the Paris attacks
2016-02-27,Saudi air strike on market 'kills 30 people'
2016-02-27,UK's biggest energy lobby starts supporting green energy and the phasing out of fossil fuels
2016-02-27,ISIS suspect released from custody because court says it's too busy
2016-02-27,"Local German governments demand 'politician stalker' law: Local politicians have experienced more and more personal threats from the far right for carrying out their legal duty to house refugees. Now municipalities want the law to recognize ""politician stalking"" as a crime"
2016-02-27,Japan to supply Philippines with military equipment
2016-02-27,Switzerland votes on expelling foreigners for minor crimes
2016-02-27,"China plans to launch first micro-gravity satellite: It will perform a total of 19 experiments involving micro-gravity, micro-gravity combustion, space material, space radiation effects and space biotechnology during its 15-day mission"
2016-02-27,"President Hassan Rouhani won a resounding vote of confidence and his reformist allies won 29 out of the 30 seats reserved for the capital Tehran in parliamentary elections that could speed Iran's post-sanctions opening to the world, early results released on Saturday showed"
2016-02-27,US DARPA successfully collects data from animals using 'brain modem
2016-02-26,"Saudi man gets 10 years, 2,000 lashes over atheist tweets"
2016-02-26,Ex-Mexican President Vicente Fox: Donald Trump reminds me of Hitler
2016-02-26,Germany deems passports issued from IS territory invalid
2016-02-26,Trade Officials Promised Exxon That TTIP Will Erase Environmental 'Obstacles' Worldwide. EU trade officials soothed the oil giant as it fretted about new regulations popping up in Global South
2016-02-26,Japan Census: Population Fell Nearly 1 Million in 2010-15
2016-02-26,Hussain brothers jailed for sexual exploitation of 15 teenage girls in Rotherham
2016-02-26,"Danish environmental catastrophe kept quiet | A massive fire in Fredericia Harbour earlier this month released thousands of tonnes of liquid fertiliser into the Little Belt strait but authorities didnt acknowledge it for three weeks, Metroxpress reported on Friday."
2016-02-26,One of the highest-ranking Vatican officials is being compelled to testify this weekend in a public hearing about clerical sex abuse in an unusual demonstration of holding even the most senior Catholic bishops accountable for the scandal
2016-02-26,Turkey turns off independent TV channel on 'terrorist' charge
2016-02-26,Paul Sheehan apologises for failing to check story of gang-rape by Arabic-speaking men
2016-02-26,Mining Director Busted for Elephant Poisonings - Getting to the bottom of gruesome elephant killings in Zimbabwe.
2016-02-26,Afghan woman kills Taliban commander over privacy breach
2016-02-26,Tony Blackburn fired after being critized for allowing stars like Jimmy Savile to abuse women and children for nearly 50 years.
2016-02-26,Doctors Without Borders blasts $1700 price tag of Otsuka TB drug
2016-02-26,S Korean terror bill filibuster in 5th day
2016-02-26,Gianni Infantino elected Fifa president
2016-02-26,EU shelves plans to ban kettles from homes amid fears of the U.K. leaving the EU
2016-02-26,"Monarch butterflies have made a big comeback in their wintering grounds in Mexico, after suffering serious declines. The area covered by the orange-and-black insects in the mountains west of Mexico City this season was more than three and a half times greater than last winter."
2016-02-26,Dead pig found at German mosque building site: The animals corpse had the words Mutti [Mom] Merkel written on it in red letters
2016-02-26,A diverse team of scientists have traced the origins of mysterious pockets of high ozone concentrations and low water vapor in the air above the western Pacific Ocean near Guam to fires burning in Southeast Asia and in Africa.
2016-02-26,Rape sentences in landmark Guatemala trial
2016-02-26,European Parliament calls for Saudi arms embargo
2016-02-26,"Canadian Court Says Some Can Grow Marijuana at Home, With a Prescription"
2016-02-26,"US to go ahead with F-16 sale to Pakistan, state department says"
2016-02-26,Swiss hold divisive referendum on deporting petty criminals
2016-02-25,"770,000 names deleted from voter register in change to registration rules as critics claim Tories are rigging the system"
2016-02-25,Ontario makes college tuition free for low income families making 50k or less a year. Increases grants for those making 83k or less a year.
2016-02-25,"Arctic warming: Rapidly increasing temperatures are 'possibly catastrophic' for planet, climate scientist warns | Dr Peter Gleick said there is a growing body of 'pretty scary' evidence that higher temperatures are driving the creation of dangerous storms in parts of the northern hemisphere"
2016-02-25,ISIS suddenly trapped as Syrian Army pushes to recapture Aleppo supply route
2016-02-25,"An 11,000-year-old pendant has been found, the earliest known piece of Mesolithic art in Britain, and it may have been worn by a shaman"
2016-02-25,"Greenland: 'Ice sheet is now losing about 8,000 tons every second, year-round, day in and day out'"
2016-02-25,Coptic Christian teenagers sentenced to 5 years in egyptian prison for video mocking muslim prayer
2016-02-25,UBS charged with tax fraud and money laundering in Belgium
2016-02-25,The US Said India's Solar Power Plan Discriminates Against American Companies  And the WTO Agrees
2016-02-25,"North Korea's state media has called for an attack on South Korea and the United States, as the allies gear up for their biggest ever joint military drills."
2016-02-25,Report: thousands of refugees 'disappear' after registering in Germany
2016-02-25,Islamists match Odins soldiers with Soldiers of Allah
2016-02-25,Australia's biggest banks pump billions into fossil fuels despite climate pledges
2016-02-25,"Europe's free travel will end unless Turkey halts migrant flow, officials say"
2016-02-25,Obama Bans Imports of Slave-Produced Goods
2016-02-25,David Cameron boasts of 'brilliant' UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia on the day the European parliament voted for an arms embargo
2016-02-25,Jimmy Savile dressed as a Womble to rape 10-year-old boy
2016-02-25,Saudi Arabia is reeling from falling oil prices. And it could get much worse.
2016-02-25,"Hundreds of thousands of Shiite Muslims, supporters of the influential cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, have taken to the streets of Baghdad to protest corruption in the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi."
2016-02-25,"Social media helps fuel China's illegal craze for 'thumb monkeys' - Year of the monkey has sparked a trend for pygmy marmosets, the worlds smallest monkey, as pets. But conservationists warn the animals rarely survive in captivity."
2016-02-25,"Royal Malaysian Air Force plane crash-lands in shallow waters, only fatality was a fisherman who drowned while trying to help"
2016-02-25,Hitlers Mein Kampf is now a best-seller in Germany
2016-02-25,"The French government's plan to clear part of the Calais migrant camp known as the ""Jungle"" has been approved by a court in Lille."
2016-02-25,A teenage recruit ordered to have sex with fellow soldier the night before she was discovered shot dead in Britains controversial Deepcut barracks
2016-02-25,"A Belgian judge charged Swiss bank UBS on Friday with money laundering and ""serious and organized tax evasion,"" saying it directly sought clients in the country to help them skip taxes"
2016-02-24,Beijing now has more billionaires than New York
2016-02-24,"Brazil is building $250m-worth undersea cable linking directly Europe to avoid US espionage  Tech giants like Google, Facebook likely to support"
2016-02-24,MH17 report identifies Russian soldiers suspected of downing plane in Ukraine
2016-02-24,Pope suggests contraceptives could be used to slow spread of Zika
2016-02-24,"PSA Peugeot-Citroen, ninth largest car manufacturer in the world made a net profit of $989 million in 2015. It gave its employees a 2,000.00 pays bonus but no dividends to its shareholders."
2016-02-24,"A gay Iranian poet is seeking asylum in Israel. Homosexuality is illegal in the Islamic Republic and those found guilty of the crime face tough punishments, including death."
2016-02-24,Canadian Federal Court allows medical marijuana users to grow their own cannabis
2016-02-24,"BBC TV host Jimmy Savile sexually abused 72 victims  many under 16 years old  at hospitals, stations premises for decades"
2016-02-24,China Stocks Plunge 6.4%. Down 47% last 8 months.
2016-02-24,"Polish scientists protest over plan to log in the ancient Biaowiea Forest - Researchers suspect motives for a planned increase in felling are commercial, but forest administration cites pest control. Govt claims there's no commercial benefit to leveling it."
2016-02-24,Jihadis selling U.S. weapons intended for Syrian rebels on Facebook
2016-02-24,Indian armed forces to open all combat roles to women
2016-02-24,Italy asks US to explain NSA spying report
2016-02-24,"Hungarys Orban slams Germany for rude tone over refugees: ""The quotas will change the profile of Europe from an ethnic, cultural and religious point of view,"" he said, warning that an uncontrolled migrant influx brought the risk of ""terrorism, criminality, anti-Semitism and homophobia."""
2016-02-24,Indian Police Silence Survivors Of Mass Rape - Women were dragged out of their vehicles and allegedly raped in fields near National Highway
2016-02-24,"Serious failings at the BBC allowed Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall to sexually abuse nearly 100 people without detection for decades, according to two damning reports published on Thursday, which insisted that the corporation still had lessons to learn from the affair."
2016-02-24,"Russia, With Turkey In Mind, Announces Deal To Provide Armenia with $200 Million Credit to Buy Equipment: Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems, Anti-Tank Missiles, Handheld Antiaircraft Missiles and Tank Upgrades."
2016-02-24,ISIS Is Losing Its Capital
2016-02-24,France seeks 1.6 billion euros in back taxes from Google
2016-02-24,"US Passes Bill Banning Goods Produced by Child ""Slave Labor"" in Southeast Asia and Central Africa."
2016-02-24,Russia seeks joint manned flight to Mars with India
2016-02-24,China Warns U.S. After Trump Wins Nevada Caucus
2016-02-24,"Greece 'won't be Lebanon of Europe', says migration minister"
2016-02-24,Reports of hostage taking in London restaurant
2016-02-24,Germany deports Afghan refugees in effort to deter new arrivals
2016-02-23,Fuel has gotten so cheap that ships are now choosing to take the long way around Africa rather then pay the fees to transit the Suez Canal.
2016-02-23,Female student injures eight people in Canada school stabbing
2016-02-23,Medical Marijuana Now Legal in Australia
2016-02-23,It's official: Native Americans and Siberians are cousins
2016-02-23,Puerto Rico Freezes Condom Prices To Prevent Zika Profiteering
2016-02-23,"Google, Red Hat discover critical DNS security flaw that enables malware to infect entire internet"
2016-02-23,Hungary will call referendum on EU's refugee quotas. Prime minister says planned quotas are an abuse of power and that Brussels has no right to redraw Europes cultural and religious identity.
2016-02-23,"Refugee arrivals in Greece exceed 100,000 in less than two months"
2016-02-23,ISIS captures Libyan port city used by refugees heading to Europe
2016-02-23,"Russia gives a gift of 10,000 automatic rifles to Afghanistan"
2016-02-23,India agrees to give landlocked Nepal secure transit to Bangladesh by road and rail
2016-02-23,"Ramon Castro, Cuban President's Older Brother, Dies"
2016-02-23,Explosion & Collapse at British Power Station
2016-02-23,Former footbal star Hakan Sukur faces up to 4 years in jail for insulting Erdoan
2016-02-23,Netanyahu asks for 'Israeli apartheid' tube posters to be removed from London underground
2016-02-23,Germany blasts countries that won't take back migrants
2016-02-23,"UK downgrading of human rights sets dangerous precedent, says Amnesty"
2016-02-23,A controversial new study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics says nicking the genitals of young girls is an acceptable compromise for the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the West
2016-02-23,"Tunisian museum security guards failed to search two heavily armed gunmen before they shot dead 22 people including a British woman in a terrorist attack, an inquest heard."
2016-02-23,South Africa will relax some of its tough rules on genetically modified crops so it can ramp up maize imports from the United States and Mexico to avert a potential food crisis amid a severe drought.
2016-02-23,NASA is devising plans for a human outpost near the Moon
2016-02-23,South East Asian plane goes missing in mountains with 69 on board
2016-02-23,Syria conflict: Warring parties accept US-Russia truce plan
2016-02-23,Kurds rescue Swedish teen from ISIS-held territory in northern Iraq
2016-02-23,Latest Wikileaks documents: Irish citizen working for the UN Refugee Agency was targeted by the NSA
2016-02-22,"WikiLeaks publishes docs showing that the NSA bugged meetings between Ban Ki-Moon and Merkel, Netanyahu, Berlusconi, between key EU and Japanese ministers discussing their secret trade red-lines at WTO negotiations, as well as details of a private meeting between Sarkozy, Merkel and Berlusconi"
2016-02-22,Montreal to ban plastic bags as of 2018
2016-02-22,Zimbabwe park warns it may shoot 200 surplus lions now that big game hunters are staying home
2016-02-22,Anti-vaccination campaigners blamed for measles outbreak in Melbourne suburb of Brunswick in Australia
2016-02-22,Peacocks in China zoo die from shock after tourists pluck out their feathers
2016-02-22,"We can say with 95 percent probability that the rate of global sea level rise in the 20th-century was faster than any of the previous 27 centuries, and it's continuing to accelerate."
2016-02-22,Israeli who burned Palestinian teenager alive ruled sane by psychiatrist
2016-02-22,"Egyptian four-year-old's life sentence a mistake, military says: ""Spokesman Col Mohammed Samir said the court should have sentenced a 16-year-old with a similar name instead."""
2016-02-22,Brazil to fight Zika by sterilizing mosquitoes with gamma rays
2016-02-22,"On February 6th Nasa reported a huge explosion of seven meter space rock over the Atlantic ocean. It released energy equivalent to 13,000 tons of TNT, which is the same as the energy used in the first atomic weapon that leveled Hiroshima in 1945."
2016-02-22,Russia requesting to fly reconnaissance aircraft over the US using Open Skies Treaty
2016-02-22,"Colombia's Search for the Disappeared Unearths 28,000 Bodies.The search is part of a government initiative to locate disappeared persons after tens of thousands have gone missing, or been forcibly disappeared, in the over 50-year internal conflict in the country"
2016-02-22,DOD Opens Afghan Child Sex Abuse Probe
2016-02-22,More than 800 Islamists leave Germany to join IS in Syria and Iraq
2016-02-22,Syria ceasefire 'to start 27 February'
2016-02-22,Kurdish special forces rescue teenage Swedish girl from Islamic State
2016-02-22,"People-smuggling gangs netted up to 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) last year, most of it from the traffic of migrants into Europe."
2016-02-22,"The DOD Has Finally Launched an Investigation of Pedophilia by Afghan Soldiers -""The Department of Defense inspector general's office is launching an investigation into the way that US military officials handled repeated allegations that Afghan security forces and police were sexually abusing boys."""
2016-02-22,Denmark opens first food waste supermarket selling surplus produce
2016-02-22,"Peru pipeline leaks in Amazon; Two rivers polluted, agency says"
2016-02-22,"Muslim militants attack Filipino troops, more than 20 dead"
2016-02-22,"Mexico's missing students: international investigators say they are being obstructed. Experts claim the government is limiting their access to new information, including videos, about the 43 teaching students who disappeared in 2014"
2016-02-22,India has overtaken China's air pollution levels in 2015 : Greenpeace
2016-02-22,ISIS release the last 40 hostages of 230 Assyrian Christians kidnapped in Syria
2016-02-22,Portugal wants more refugees to help revive dwindling population
2016-02-21,Oil is now so cheap even pirates arent stealing it any more
2016-02-21,Prime Minister of India bows down to touch a 104 year old woman's feet who built toilets to stop open defecation
2016-02-21,US authorities have asked the German carmaker Volkswagen to produce electric vehicles in the United States as a way of making up for its rigging of emission tests.
2016-02-21,"TTIP deal poses 'real and serious risk' to NHS, says leading QC. Unite union set to present law experts advice to government, who they believe have kept Britain in the dark over deals potential impact on health service."
2016-02-21,"China is racing to get its Mars mission ready for the 2020 launch window, including instruments to detect signs of life"
2016-02-21,Ocean acidification expected to cause skeletal deformities in 50% of juvenile corals
2016-02-21,"France's far-right National Front party has asked Russia for a 27-million-euro ($30 million) loan, claiming that the party needs it to finance its election campaigns in 2017"
2016-02-21,Saudi prince: Muslim nations must lead in counterterrorism
2016-02-21,Austria Cancels Event Including Holocaust Survivor Who Compared Israel to Nazis
2016-02-21,"ISIS is marketing to Justin Beiber fans, tricking them into viewing ISIS propaganda videos with Beiber hashtags"
2016-02-21,"Queensland's land clearance is costing Australia and its wildlife - The state is destroying well over 100,000 hectares of native vegetation a year, and rising"
2016-02-21,"Thousands of protesters broke out into dance at a rally against Sydney's lockout laws, hours after emergency workers called for the laws to stay.Opponents say the laws are killing off the city's nightlife with venues being forced to close and hundreds of jobs disappearing along with patronage."
2016-02-21,"London Mayor, Boris Johnson to campaign to leave European Union."
2016-02-21,Egypt jails author for two years over sexually explicit novel
2016-02-21,"Israel preparing plan to boost Palestinian economy. Finance officials from both sides propose new cooperation in medicine, tech and construction, among other areas."
2016-02-21,The Australian government will now have the power to force multinational companies to sell Australian assests if they avoid paying tax
2016-02-21,Senior scientists have denounced a potential move to muzzle colleagues whose findings are disliked by the government.
2016-02-21,"Rip Curl has been exposed for using North Korean slave labour to make its clothing, and it seems its not the only surf brand whose supply chain remains under wraps."
2016-02-21,"Hindu priest killed in Bangladesh, Isis claims responsibility"
2016-02-21,"Radioactive water leak found at Takahama No. 4 reactor, posing restart delay"
2016-02-21,Refugees weep as they are welcomed in Germany by mob shouting 'go home'
2016-02-21,India caste unrest: 'Ten million without water' in Delhi
2016-02-21,Planned refugee shelter in eastern German town of Bautzen catches fire
2016-02-21,Homs and Damascus bomb blasts kill 140.
2016-02-21,Truce Unravels as Fighting Picks Up in Ukraine
2016-02-20,Homeopathy found to be effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses: a systematic review concluded the controversial treatment was no more effective than placebo drugs
2016-02-20,"Australian government's 'no jab, no pay' law sparks run on vaccines as parents fear missing out on welfare benefits"
2016-02-20,Pope calls for worldwide ban on death penalty
2016-02-20,"Salman Rushdie: Iranian state media renew fatwa on Satanic Verses author with $600,000 bounty"
2016-02-20,Rip Curl clothes produced in North Korean factory with 'slave-like' conditions
2016-02-20,"3,000-Yr-Old Egyptian Fingerprints found on Coffin Lid"
2016-02-20,Missing radioactive material found dumped in south Iraq
2016-02-20,"Banning homosexuality fosters hate crime and homophobia, says UN report"
2016-02-20,NASA Reveals Astronauts Heard Unexplained Music At The Moon
2016-02-20,"Syrian army, allies advance against Islamic State in eastern Aleppo"
2016-02-20,"ISIS Begins Mass Evacuation: Russia Destroys Another 1,593 Targets in Past Week"
2016-02-20,"EU police chief warns that 5,000 jihadists returned from Middle East  and new attack is likely"
2016-02-20,Explosives found in front of French government buildings in Corsica before a huge demonstration
2016-02-20,US becomes Germanys top trading partner
2016-02-20,Late Russian anti-doping agency boss was set to expose true story
2016-02-20,"More than 10 million people are in need of food aid in Ethiopia amid a drought worse than the one that triggered the haunting 1984 famine, the U.N. has warned."
2016-02-20,"Twitters Account Suspensions Are Surprisingly Effective Against ISIS - ""Frequent pruning has hobbled terrorists ability to get their message out."""
2016-02-20,Thousands in Japan rally against U.S. base on Okinawa
2016-02-20,Pentagon: US kept nukes on Okinawa
2016-02-20,Mexican woman with Zika gives birth to healthy child
2016-02-20,Egyptian writer Ahmed Naji sentenced to two years for 'sexually explicit text'.
2016-02-20,Thousands of protesters formed a human chain around Japan's parliament Sunday in protest at the planned construction of a new US base on the southern island of Okinawa.
2016-02-20,Al Qaeda Has Seized Another City and Now Controls a Swath of Southern Yemen
2016-02-20,Britain and Saudi Arabia lobbied UN to whitewash Bahrain police abuses
2016-02-20,"Syria conflict: Homs car bombings kill 46, says monitor"
2016-02-19,Britain will vote on whether to remain in the EU on the 23rd of June
2016-02-19,Venezuelans face a 6000% hike in gasoline price from $0.01 to $0.60
2016-02-19,ISIS Terrorist Cell Dismantled in Morocco 'Planned to Use Biological Weapons'
2016-02-19,"Warming waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans have increased the prevalence of diseases that are turning sea stars to mush and killing lobsters by burrowing under their shells and causing lesions, two new studies say."
2016-02-19,Kurdish militant group claims responsibility for suicide bombing in Ankara that killed 28
2016-02-19,First case of Zika virus confirmed in Canada
2016-02-19,Russia warns Assad on vow to retake all of Syria
2016-02-19,The German government has asked its intelligence agencies to investigate whether Russia is conducting a propaganda campaign in Germany
2016-02-19,Germany migrant bus surrounded by protesters
2016-02-19,"500,000 Sign Petition Calling For National Animal Cruelty Register After Worst Ever Attack On Dog"
2016-02-19,Google moved over 28bn through Irish in tax scheme
2016-02-19,A South African university had to shut down its campuses Friday after violent protests over the use of Afrikaans as an official teaching language  a demonstration that echoed students' demands during apartheid decades ago
2016-02-19,Saudi minister says Syrian rebels should get surface-to-air missiles
2016-02-19,Scientists are floored by whats happening in the Arctic  where temperatures are 4 C above average
2016-02-19,Calais 'Jungle' migrants ordered to vacate by Tuesday or face being forcibly removed
2016-02-19,Scientists studying mysterious boiling river straight out of Amazonian legend
2016-02-19,Hollande's Attack On 35-Hour Workweek Angers French Socialists
2016-02-19,"Islamic State faces new trouble in Fallujah as Sunni tribesmen revolt--""Sunni tribesmen have attacked Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the Iraqi military and local officials said Friday, overrunning and burning one of their headquarters as resentment against the group grows."""
2016-02-19,Arabic Version of Saturday Night Live Hits the Middle East
2016-02-19,Abbas's Fatah declares would-be attacker a 'heroic martyr'
2016-02-19,"3,000-Year-Old Wheel Dug up from Mud in the UK"
2016-02-19,South Africa Confirms First Zika Virus Case
2016-02-19,"Stanford scientists have found that chronically low levels of oxygen throughout the oceans hampered the recovery of life after the Permian-Triassic extinction, the most catastrophic die-off in our planets history. Global ecosystems collapsed as 90 percent of species perished 250 million years ago."
2016-02-19,Lithuania President Says EU Deal Reached With United Kingdom
2016-02-19,"Iran will not tolerate Kurdish independence, ISIS and Israel benefit only"
2016-02-18,Obama Going to Cuba; First Visit by U.S. President in 88 Years
2016-02-18,David Cameron blocks compulsory sex education in classrooms across the UK
2016-02-18,Uganda shuts down social media; candidates arrested on election day
2016-02-18,"Japanese TV anchors lose their jobs for lack of ""fairness"" reporting"
2016-02-18,"Cairo court sentences 4-year-old boy to life in jail for murder, disturbance of the peace and damaging state property. Crimes that the boy alledgedly commited two years ago - Middle East"
2016-02-18,Finland starts non-stop flights from Helsinki to Baghdad for refugees who want to go back
2016-02-18,Jerusalems Zion Square to be renamed for teen fatally stabbed at gay pride parade
2016-02-18,"Ocean levels in the Philippines rising at 5 times the global average - Globally, sea levels are going up, but there are big regional differences."
2016-02-18,Pope: Bishops Who Reassign Suspect Pedophiles Should Resign
2016-02-18,"The Canadian government on Thursday delayed for a second time a ruling on whether waste from nuclear power plants can be permanently stored underground less than a mile from Lake Huron, a proposal that has drawn fierce opposition on both sides of the border"
2016-02-18,Jewish group attacks York University over anti-Semitic move to divest from weapons manufacturers
2016-02-18,Australian Court rules Shenhua (a Chinese coal mining company) may destroy koala habitat for huge coalmine
2016-02-18,150 allegedly 'burned alive by Turkish military' during crackdown on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK)
2016-02-18,"Venezuela raises gas prices 6,200%, still has the lowest gas prices in the world"
2016-02-18,Virgin Galactic is set to reveal its new space plane Friday
2016-02-18,Seouls spy service says North Korea preparing attacks on South
2016-02-18,"On the Run from the Islamic State, Assyrians Are Trying to Save Their Heritage"
2016-02-18,U.S. Spurns Turkey Demand to Cut Kurdish Ties After Bombing
2016-02-18,"Isis sending children to die at unprecedented rate, report warns: Analysis of 89 deaths of minors finds 39% drove vehicles laden with explosives, while a third died as foot soldiers"
2016-02-18,The Hubble Space Telescope has given scientists their sharpest-ever look at a known galaxy containing an enormous black hole.
2016-02-18,U.S. stationing tanks and artillery in classified Norwegian caves
2016-02-18,First known sexual transmission of Zika virus in U.S. was eight years ago
2016-02-18,Colombias top cop resigns amid male prostitution scandal. The Inspector General has vowed to investigate allegations that senior police officers were also pimping young cops to members of Colombias congress.
2016-02-18,Kurds Warn Turkey of Big War With Russia If Troops Enter Syria
2016-02-18,UN: Hamas tunnel threats not helpful for Gaza reconstruction
2016-02-17,Colombian prison drain pipes yield over 100 dismembered corpses
2016-02-17,"Scientists warn of coming global disaster because of water inequality.We are revealing a global disaster in the making, yet we are seeing very little coordinated response."
2016-02-17,Blast hits Ankara military building
2016-02-17,ISIS beheads 15-year-old Iraqi boy for listening to pop music
2016-02-17,N. Korea prepares for terror attacks on S. Korea: intelligence unit
2016-02-17,"Huge explosion hits Turkish Centre, Stockholm, Sweden"
2016-02-17,"Fast-growing tumbleweed called hairy panic blows into Australian city - Dry grass piles up around homes in Wangaratta, north-east Victoria  at times reportedly reaching roof height"
2016-02-17,"New LSE report recommends 'War on Drugs' is replaced by the Sustainable Development Goals.The question now is not, whether to end the war on drugs, but what to replace its failed policies with,"
2016-02-17,"Obama to travel to Cuba President Barack Obama is planning to travel to Cuba within the next month, becoming the first U.S. president to do so since Calvin Coolidge."
2016-02-17,Vatican says abortion is 'illegitimate response' to Zika virus
2016-02-17,Italy names Turkish president's son in money laundering investigation allegedly connected to political corruption | Europe | News
2016-02-17,Syrian rebels say reinforcements get free passage via Turkey
2016-02-17,Panasonic to recognize same-sex partnerships in rare step for conservative Japan
2016-02-17,Former Dutch PM Balkenende smuggled beer into Arab palace
2016-02-17,"Our 1st sex with Neanderthals happened 100,000 yrs ago - It was a 2-way street. Many carry Neanderthal DNA due to cross-species liaisons. Now it seems some Neanderthals carried our DNA too. 1 chunk of modern DNA found in Neanderthals was inside a gene linked to language development."
2016-02-17,Six soldiers killed in southeast Turkey bomb attack
2016-02-17,"Swine flu: Three hospital wards closed in Leicester, UK after 14 cancer patients diagnosed with virus"
2016-02-17,"Pentagon: North Korean special forces 'highly trained, well-equipped'"
2016-02-17,"Lockheed Martin ready to manufacture F-16 jets in India, Lockheed supplied six C130J Super Hercules planes to India in 2011 and will be delivering another six helicopters in 2017"
2016-02-17,Ankara blast: Turkey PM says Syria Kurds to blame
2016-02-17,"Venezuela president raises fuel price by 6,000% and devalues bolivar to tackle crisis"
2016-02-17,"El Nio has passed peak strength but impacts will continue, UN warns"
2016-02-17,Explosion hits another Turkish military convoy one day after Ankara attack
2016-02-17,"Pakistans parliament becomes first in world to run entirely on solar power | The seat of the government in the countrys capital, Islamabad, is now wholly powered by the sun"
2016-02-17,Cash for Life: Guaranteed Annual Income Gaining Steam in Canada
2016-02-16,"Faced with a cash shortage in its so-called caliphate, the Islamic State group has slashed salaries across the region, asked Raqqa residents to pay utility bills in black market American dollars, and is now releasing detainees for a price of $500 a person."
2016-02-16,According to NASA data this January was the warmest January on record by a large margin while also claiming the title of most anomalously warm month in 135 years of record keeping
2016-02-16,US stealth jets flying over S. Korea amid N. Korea standoff
2016-02-16,"A piece of Mozart music considered lost for more than 200 years has been performed for the first time since being rediscovered. It was co-written by him and Antonio Salieri, usually considered a rival, as well as an unknown composer, Cornetti."
2016-02-16,"Iranian Heavy Metal Band 'Confess' Reportedly Arrested for Blasphemy, Could Face Execution"
2016-02-16,Paedophile who led child sex grooming ring using human rights laws to try to block deportation
2016-02-16,"800 Bataclan survivors get to ""finish the concert"" last night in Paris with Eagles of Death Metal"
2016-02-16,"Eagles of Death Metal perform again in Paris to honour victims - starts concert by performing ""Paris s'veille"""
2016-02-16,"In a first, new Egyptian schoolbook teaches peace deal with Israel"
2016-02-16,"Nine out of 10 Britons on modest incomes under the age of 35 will be frozen out of home ownership within a decade, according to a study from a leading thinktank that lays bare the impact of surging property prices on the young."
2016-02-16,UK government to force all online porn users to identify themselves
2016-02-16,"Child abuse survivors raise $90,000 to see Australia's most senior Catholic official, George Pell, give evidence in Rome after he avoids flying to Australia and testifying in person to a child sexual abuse Royal Commission."
2016-02-16,"Young Saudis See Cushy Jobs Vanish Along With Nations Oil Wealth: For younger Saudis  70 percent of them are under age 30  the oil shock has meant a lowering of expectations as they face the likelihood that they will have to work harder than their parents, enjoy less job security"
2016-02-16,"As India prepares to import corn for the first time in 16 years, it plans to import only GMO-free corn"
2016-02-16,"TTIP could block Governments from cracking down on tax avoidance, study warns. Similar trade agreements have been used to facilitate apparent tax avoidance in the past"
2016-02-16,Germany will normalize ties with Iran after it recognizes Israel  Merkel
2016-02-16,China sends missiles to contested South China Sea island
2016-02-16,Turkey's Erdogan: no intent to stop retaliatory shelling of Syrian Kurdish YPG
2016-02-16,"French ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation in a probe into his campaign funding, prosecutors say."
2016-02-16,"Iran invites Indian investment in projects worth $8 billion, offers stake in Imam Khomeini airport"
2016-02-16,Iranian banks reconnected to global payments network
2016-02-16,Saudi Arabia Launches unprecedented Military Exercise 'Thunder of the North'. Tensions rise in the area.
2016-02-16,"Hong Kongs popular, lucrative horror movie about Beijing has disappeared from theaters"
2016-02-16,Russian vodka exports slump 40% because of sanctions
2016-02-16,"The overconsumption of meat will inevitably push global temperatures to dangerous levels, a recent study has warned.""Global consumption of meat is forecast to increase 76% on recent levels by mid-century. A protein transition is playing out across the developing world"
2016-02-15,"The Obama administration has approved the first U.S. factory in Cuba in more than half a century, allowing a two-man company from Alabama to build a plant assembling as many as 1,000 small tractors a year for sale to private farmers in Cuba."
2016-02-15,"'Extraordinary' Cancer Breakthrough Revealed (94% of terminally ill patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia went into remission, study finds)"
2016-02-15,Hacker unleashes 17.8GB trove of data from a Turkish national police server
2016-02-15,"'Hobbits' found on Flores island are not Homo sapiens, but mystery remains"
2016-02-15,"The first train to connect China and Iran arrived in Tehran, loaded with Chinese goods, reviving the ancient Silk Road"
2016-02-15,France orders Facebook to stop monitoring Facebook visitors who don't sign up
2016-02-15,"Sea Shepherd says it can't find Japan's whaling fleet, asks Australian government to kindly provide the coordinates."
2016-02-15,UN Expert: Kim Jong Un Could Be Held Accountable for Crimes Against Humanity
2016-02-15,"Most Cologne New Year's suspects are refugees, says Cologne prosecutor Ulrich Bremer"
2016-02-15,VW: ex-CEO 'Knew About Defeat Device in Early 2014'
2016-02-15,"Isis stones to death four women for adultery 'after they were raped by militants', activists claim | Middle East | News"
2016-02-15,Ikea accused of dodging $1.1 billion in taxes
2016-02-15,"Saudis, Russia agree oil output freeze, talks with Iran to follow"
2016-02-15,Russia Killed More Syrian Civilians than Assad or ISIS in January: Report
2016-02-15,50 Civilians Feared Dead in Syria as 5 Hospitals Bombed
2016-02-15,"Germany expects 500,000 refugees this year: newspaper"
2016-02-15,Lasers are offensive weapons and must be banned' - pilots' union
2016-02-15,Global Water Shortage Worse Than Predicted
2016-02-15,Turkish warplanes violate Greek airspace 22 times within 24 hours
2016-02-15,Mexico Seizes Load of Meth Lollipops Headed for Nebraska
2016-02-15,Coca-Cola India shuts 3 plants citing inadequate demand
2016-02-15,Bosnia-Herzegovina applies for membership in European Union
2016-02-15,Turkmenistan president rewrites constitution to let him rule for life
2016-02-15,Russia rejects Syria war crimes claim over hospital attacks
2016-02-15,Sex assault: Vatican pardons Indian priest convicted of rape
2016-02-14,Goldman Sachs banker embroiled in massive overseas money scandal
2016-02-14,Student worker paid just 47 cents an hour by 7-Eleven
2016-02-14,$1billion dollars worth of meth hidden in bra inserts
2016-02-14,"Its legal for GCHQ to break into computers and install spyware, tribunal rules"
2016-02-14,"Israel boycott ban: Shunning Israeli goods to be criminal offence for [UK] councils, public bodies and student unions"
2016-02-14,"Saudi Arabia begins massive military drill in volatile Middle East - 2,500 warplanes, 20,000 tanks and 350,000 troops to take part"
2016-02-14,Exclusive: Samples confirm Islamic State used mustard gas in Iraq - diplomat
2016-02-14,New species that causes Lyme Disease discovered at Mayo Clinic
2016-02-14,Brazilian state suspends larvicide which doctors have linked to Microcephaly
2016-02-14,"Turkey shells Kurdish positions in northern Syria for second day, Damascus urges UN intervention"
2016-02-14,"Death toll in Syria adjusted to 470,000 deaths"
2016-02-14,Merkel isolated as EU partners slam door on refugees
2016-02-14,George Osborne's family business 'has not paid corporation tax for seven years'
2016-02-14,Israel to Appoint Muslim Arab in Second Highest Rank in Police Force
2016-02-14,US-registered aircraft impounded by Zimbabwe after body and millions of Rand found on board
2016-02-14,North Korea took 70 percent of Kaesong wages for weapons program: South Korea
2016-02-14,"More than 200 sailors, some of them still serving, have joined a class action against the Royal Australian Navy alleging they were tricked into signing up for four years under false promises they would leave with a trade."
2016-02-14,Condamine River's mysterious bubbling 'intensifying'
2016-02-14,Norway to sentence some drug addicts to treatment rather than prison | Europe | News
2016-02-14,Hamas leader: We will remove the Jews from our land
2016-02-14,"Suspected Russian airstrikes hit MSF-backed hospital in Syria, 9 dead, including a child"
2016-02-14,350 armed rebels enter northern Syria through Turkish border
2016-02-14,Turkey transfers 500 Islamist rebels to northern Aleppo
2016-02-14,Obama to Russia's Putin: cease air campaign on moderate Syrian opposition
2016-02-14,China to provide Iran with $20bn finance
2016-02-13,Indian govt asks banks to pitch in to build toilets and make India open defecation free.
2016-02-13,ISIS continues massive retreat as Syrian forces advance towards Tabaqa
2016-02-13,Leaked report reveals scale of crisis in England's mental health services. Damning confidential report reveals suicides are rising and 75% of those needing help are not receiving it
2016-02-13,"Christchurch New Zealand, has been hit by a 5.9 earthquake. Sirens and evacuations underway following severe shaking."
2016-02-13,Turkish forces shell Syrian air base captured by Kurds
2016-02-13,"Canadians crack down on guns, alarmed by flow from U.S."
2016-02-13,Norway: Criminals/Drugabusers can now be sentenced to treatment instead of jail
2016-02-13,"Assad 'will be removed by force' if peace talks fail, Saudi Foreign Minister says"
2016-02-13,U.S. missile inadvertently shipped to Cuba has been returned
2016-02-13,"North American countries sign first-ever climate accord - Canada, the United States and Mexico broke new ground Friday, signing the first-ever climate change and clean energy agreement in North American history"
2016-02-13,US urges Turkey to stop shelling Kurdish and Syrian forces
2016-02-13,"Alarming new research has found that 4 billion people around the globe  including close to 2 billion in India and China  live in conditions of extreme water scarcity at least one month during the year. Half a billion, meanwhile, experience it throughout the entire year."
2016-02-13,Syria Civil War: Turkey confirms military strikes against Assad regime troops
2016-02-13,"AI 'could leave half of world unemployed', says Expert | The Guardian"
2016-02-13,"South Korean lawmaker calls upon assassinating North Korean ""Hitler"""
2016-02-13,Chinese nuclear fusion scientists achieve temperatures three times hotter than the sun - The temperatures were roughly equal to a 'mid-sized thermo-nuclear explosion'
2016-02-13,Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi rejected the Roman Catholic Church's interference in a parliamentary debate on legislation that offers homosexual couples legal recognition and limited adoption rights.
2016-02-13,"Former Isis Yazidi sex slaves take up arms for revenge, to win back Mosul and 'bring our women home'"
2016-02-13,Russian PM Medvedev says new cold war is on
2016-02-13,New Zealand Prime Minister John Key booed off stage and glitter bombed by anti-TPP protestors at gay music festival in Auckland
2016-02-13,Canada's first transgender judge officially sworn in
2016-02-13,Pope calls out drug trade in Mexico
2016-02-13,"Earth's rarest minerals catalogued - None of 2,500 species is known from over 5 locales & for a few of them the total global supply could fit in a thimble. But it's important to hunt down these oddities as they hold basic info about construction of our planet."
2016-02-13,"Saudi Arabia, Turkey may launch ground operations in Syria: Turkish media"
2016-02-13,South Korea says North Korea's government took 70% of money paid for Kaesong Industrial Complex workers.
2016-02-12,"150,000 penguins killed after giant iceberg renders colony landlocked"
2016-02-12,U.S. to restore commercial air travel to Cuba
2016-02-12,India 'disappointed' as US decides to sell eight F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan-I News - IBNLive Mobile
2016-02-12,Medieval trading ship raised to surface 'almost intact' after 500 yrs on riverbed in Netherlands - The ship even has an oven and glazed tiles still preserved onboard
2016-02-12,"Four billion people face severe water scarcity, new research finds. Water shortages affecting two-thirds of worlds population for a month every year and the crisis is far worse than previously thought."
2016-02-12,Pope meets Russian Orthodox head after 962-year split: Church reconciliation and the welfare of Christians in Middle East and Africa in the agenda of historic talks held in Cuba.
2016-02-12,"More than 5,000 pregnant women in Colombia have Zika virus, 31,555 total infections, country's national health institute says"
2016-02-12,Turkey spent 20 times more than international aid agencies on refugees
2016-02-12,Saudi Arabia moves troops to Turkey as 'base for Syria invasion'
2016-02-12,"GCHQ hacking phones and computers is legal, including remotely activating microphones and cameras."
2016-02-12,France says Facebook must face French law in nudity censorship case
2016-02-12,"British teen Allegedly Behind CIA, FBI Breaches"
2016-02-12,Exclusive: U.S. Allies Now Fighting CIA-Backed Rebels
2016-02-12,Short story collection smuggled out of North Korea sparks global interest
2016-02-12,"Mysterious armed groups are on the prowl, targeting migrants in night attacks in Calais and elsewhere in northern France, sowing fear among the displaced travelers living in squalid slums and deepening concerns the city is becoming a tinderbox of anti-migrant, anti-Muslim rage"
2016-02-12,"U.S., UK likely to charge multiple banks in Libor rigging: WSJ"
2016-02-12,Turkey says ready to join ground operation with Saudi Arabia against ISIL in Syria
2016-02-12,"Syria's President Assad vows to retake ""the whole country"""
2016-02-12,"Computer and smartphone hacking by spying agency GCHQ is legal, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal has said.Equipment allowed to be hacked includes -- but is not limited too -- computers, servers, routers, laptops, mobile phones and more."
2016-02-12,US military deploys more Patriot missiles in South Korea
2016-02-12,India just ruled that its ok to cut internet access when necessary
2016-02-12,"Israel, India to sign weapons deal"
2016-02-12,Syria's Assad: Europe Must Help Refugees Return.Syria's president says the West is responsible for the massive movement of refugees.
2016-02-12,"Newly invented Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation procedure wins Brain Preservation Prize: ""Using a combination of ultrafast chemical fixation and cryogenic storage, it is the first demonstration that near-perfect, long-term structural preservation of an intact mammalian brain is achievable."""
2016-02-12,Saudi Foreign Minister says removal of Assad is crucial to defeat ISIS.
2016-02-11,Gravitational waves from black holes detected
2016-02-11,"Teen girl sent by Boko Haram rips off suicide vest, refuses to bomb refugee camp"
2016-02-11,"South Korea cuts off power, water into Kaesong zone in North Korea"
2016-02-11,Families of Americans killed by Mexican cartels sue HSBC for laundering billions
2016-02-11,"Netanyahu's wife abused household staff, Israeli court finds"
2016-02-11,The European Union has given Greece three months to fix its border controls or face suspension from the border-free Schengen zone for up to two years.
2016-02-11,"Agreement reached at international talks on nationwide Syria ceasefire, US's John Kerry says."
2016-02-11,Afghan Taliban flogs woman in public for going out with her brother-in-law to visit doctor
2016-02-11,"China now the world leader in wind power production: According to statistics released by the Global Wind Energy Council, China installed 30,500 megawatts of new wind power last year, compared to the world total of 63,000 MW"
2016-02-11,"One of oldest cemeteries in Europe discovered, with graves dating back some 8,500 yrs. - Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered the bodies of children & 1 adult man who was buried, strangely, standing upright. Its rare for the Mesolithic to find multiple graves in 1 place."
2016-02-11,Indonesia bans gay emoji and stickers from messaging apps
2016-02-11,China Could Have a Meltdown-Proof Nuclear Reactor Next Year
2016-02-11,School shooting in Saudi Arabia: teacher kills 6 colleagues
2016-02-11,Argentine and Brazilian doctors suspect mosquito insecticide as cause of microcephaly
2016-02-11,"Scientists Discover Hidden Galaxies Behind The Milky Way: ""Despite being just 250 million light years from Earth--very close in astronomical terms--the new galaxies had been hidden from view until now by our own galaxy, the Milky Way."""
2016-02-11,UN official says Hamas has prevented a senior UN employee from leaving the Gaza Strip
2016-02-11,Britain accuses China of serious breach of treaty over 'removed' Hong Kong booksellers
2016-02-11,Bernie Sanders' British brother Larry Sanders appointed UK Green Party's health spokesperson
2016-02-11,"Britains biggest Roman structure uncovered  120-metre-long arcade provided a frontage to the Temple of Claudius. Archaeologists have known about it for 60 yrs, but demolition of office block shows it to be largest in Roman Britain. Closest rival in size is in France."
2016-02-11,U.S. and Russia Announce Plan for Humanitarian Aid and a Cease-Fire in Syria
2016-02-11,"New report estimates 470,000 dead so far in Syria's Civil War and that more than 1 in 10 Syrians have been injured or killed"
2016-02-11,GSK fined after paying millions to inflate the price of anti-depressant Seroxat
2016-02-11,"A five-storey building has collapsed in central Istanbul, with fears that people may be trapped inside, Turkish media report."
2016-02-11,"Bahrain's king hands 'sword of victory' to Putin after Syria talks. He said ""This [sword] was made under the kingdoms orders. Made from Damascus steel. We called it the sword of victory. For imminent victory, God willing."
2016-02-11,Report: Iranian Official Says GOPers Tried To Stall Prisoner Swap For 2016 Election
2016-02-10,British ISIS fighter who called himself 'Superman' but returned to the UK because Syria was too cold is jailed for seven years
2016-02-10,Animals reduced to cannibalism in Egyptian zoo after neglect
2016-02-10,"Grow a thicker skin, Germany tells Poland: The German government reminded Poland on Wednesday that it doesn't control political speech within its borders, after Warsaw complained about a Dsseldorf carnival float which mocked the leader of its governing party"
2016-02-10,"At least 50 killed in a prison riot in Monterrey, Mexico"
2016-02-10,North Korea accuses South Korea of 'dangerous declaration of war' over Kaesong industrial complex dispute
2016-02-10,"Catholic bishops not obliged to report clerical child abuse, Vatican says"
2016-02-10,'British child' blows up Isis prisoners in new execution video
2016-02-10,Saudi Arabia may deploy troops in Syria to counter Russia
2016-02-10,Female suicide bombers kill over 60 people in northeast Nigeria: officials
2016-02-10,Australia set to legalize cultivation of medical cannabis.
2016-02-10,"In rare admission, Pakistan recognises growing presence of Islamic State"
2016-02-10,A mammal's brain has been cryonically frozen and recovered for the first time - What the 21st Century Medicine team are trying to perfect is 'synthetic revival'
2016-02-10,Asylum seekers given priority for hospital visits: An admission by Austrian health officials that asylum seekers have been given priority for hospital visits has been greeted by angry reaction.
2016-02-10,Indian Soldier who was rescued after being buried under the snow passes away
2016-02-10,Report on Syria conflict finds 11.5% of population killed or injured
2016-02-10,UAE names female cabinet member as minister of happiness to make the Gulf State happiest in the world
2016-02-10,"Oil prices crash below $27 a barrel, 13-year low"
2016-02-10,Facebook board member Marc Andreessen offends India with colonialism tweets
2016-02-10,Master forger arrested in Thailand over fake passports for migrants to Europe.
2016-02-10,"Scandinavias first women-only mosque with women imams is opening in Copenhagen, Denmark"
2016-02-10,Turkey's Leader Blames U.S. for 'Sea of Blood' in Region
2016-02-10,N. Korea starts to feel neighbors' wrath over rocket launch
2016-02-10,"Pope Francis despatches 1,000 'super-confessor' priests"
2016-02-10,"North Korea Expels South Koreans From Joint Park, Cuts 2 Hotline Ties"
2016-02-10,UK Junior doctors' contract set to be imposed
2016-02-09,"Australia introduces ""Netflix tax"" legislation to parliament. With hopes of placing a tax on all foreign digital goods."
2016-02-09,Disbelief as Egyptian president rolls out four kilometre red carpet for austerity press conference
2016-02-09,"A smartphone application aimed at helping users avoid morality police units in Irans capital city, which became an instant hit just hours after its release yesterday, has been blocked in Iran."
2016-02-09,"Turkey detains 34 people with explosives, suicide vests at Syrian border - media"
2016-02-09,Physicists say theyve finally confirmed the existence of a 'four neutron-no proton' particle - ...were going to have to make some serious changes to current understanding of nuclear forces.
2016-02-09,North Korea: Kim Jong-un 'executes chief of military on corruption charges' | Asia | News
2016-02-09,Saudi Arabias Rosa Parks faces torrent of abuse over social media
2016-02-09,Zimbabwe pleads for $1.5bn in food aid to prevent mass starvation - 25% of entire population is at risk of starving to death
2016-02-09,Japan announces new sanctions on North Korea after satellite launch
2016-02-09,"Iraqi troops fully capture Ramadi, reopen road to Baghdad"
2016-02-09,IMF warns Ukraine it will halt $40bn bailout unless corruption stops
2016-02-09,French plan advances to strip passports from those convicted of terrorism
2016-02-09,India busts child trafficking racket to US
2016-02-09,China confirms first imported Zika case: Xinhua
2016-02-09,Stocks close slightly lower as oil plunges below $28 a barrel
2016-02-09,No evidence that EU's illegal timber policy is working - Leaked review shows that EU law is failing to prevent $100bn a year trade in illegal timber - or that rules are even being implemented
2016-02-09,"Teenager finds gold bars in German lake, revives mystery of Nazi gold"
2016-02-09,Pregnant woman diagnosed with Zika in Australia
2016-02-09,Music publisher agrees to pay $14m to end Happy Birthday song lawsuit
2016-02-09,Documents indicate chemical leaks at U.S. base that were unreported to Japanese authorities have polluted Okinawa water supply
2016-02-09,Several large nations consider levies on sweetened food and drinks to battle obesity and fatten government coffers.
2016-02-09,"North Korean satellite 'stable' in orbit after launch, US official confirms"
2016-02-09,"Top Intel Official Confirms ISIS Made, Used Chemical Weapons"
2016-02-09,Israeli Parliament Suspends Arab MPs Who Met Attackers' Kin
2016-02-09,Stock market rout intensifies amid fears central banks are 'out of ammunition'
2016-02-08,"North Korea satellite 'tumbling in orbit,' U.S. official says: The satellite North Korea fired into space on Sunday is ""tumbling in orbit"" and incapable of functioning in any useful way"
2016-02-08,North Korea has restarted plutonium reactor and could have stockpiles in weeks - US spy chief
2016-02-08,Hong Kong riot happening right now
2016-02-08,Mexico won't pay a cent for Trump's 'stupid wall'
2016-02-08,"Two passenger trains have collided in the German state of Bavaria, with reports saying several people have been seriously injured."
2016-02-08,"Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs: Because the science is settled there is no need for more basic research, the government says"
2016-02-08,Dow drops over 300 points as oil drops below $30
2016-02-08,Colombia's constitutional court has banned mining and oil projects in the country's ecologically delicate moorlands.
2016-02-08,Mexico: Sikh actor barred from flying to US 'because of turban'
2016-02-08,Turkey's Erdogan threatened to flood Europe with migrants: Greek website
2016-02-08,Experts say almost all species in the Mediterranean are still overfished despite decades of seeing stocks dwindle  and that is forcing the European Union to consider creative solutions like using drones or space technology to catch fraudulent fishermen.
2016-02-08,'This is hell': British man held in Myanmar for 14 months without charge pleads for help
2016-02-08,Gunshots fired as Hong Kong police clash with hawkers and crowds in Mong Kok on first day of Chinese New Year
2016-02-08,2008 Mumbai Attacks Plotter Says Pakistans Spy Agency Played a Role
2016-02-08,"Canada's prime minister on Monday announced that the country will end airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq by Feb. 22, saying that ""the people terrorized by ISIL every day don't need our vengeance, they need our help."""
2016-02-08,"Australian environment minister Greg Hunt named ""best minister in the world"" (He approved dredging near Barrier Reef)"
2016-02-08,UAE creates ministers for happiness and tolerance
2016-02-08,Murdered Cambridge student 'was killed by Egyptian secret services'
2016-02-08,Exclusive - U.S. athletes should consider not attending Olympics if fear Zika: officials
2016-02-08,At least 21 Hutus killed in 'alarming' east Congo violence: U.N.
2016-02-08,Zurich police used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to break up a group of around 100 Kurdish activists holding an unauthorized demonstration outside the Turkish consulate in Switzerland's financial capital
2016-02-08,"Global oil surplus will be bigger than thought, IEA says"
2016-02-08,Ex-JPMorgan Executive Fined $1.1 Million Over `London Whale'. JPMorgan was fined 138 million pounds in 2013 after a trader nicknamed the London Whale incurred $6.2 billion in losses.
2016-02-08,Indian Soldier pulled out alive after being buried in ice for 6 days in Siachen - the highest battlefield
2016-02-08,Ministers wined and dined by arms trade hours after MPs demand ban on selling weapons to Saudi Arabia
2016-02-07,South Korea fires warning shot after North Korean boat crosses border.
2016-02-07,"Indian telecom Regulatory Authority says no to content-based differential tariff offers, supports net neutrality"
2016-02-07,Indian man could be first recorded human fatality due to a meteorite | Ars Technica
2016-02-07,Family claims US lesbian couple were jailed for 25 years in Kuwait for being gay
2016-02-07,Man sells British fresh air to wealthy Chinese elite for 80 a jar
2016-02-07,Another Islamic State jailer who held Western hostages identified as Londoner
2016-02-07,Oil-rich Venezuela is now importing U.S. oil
2016-02-07,Russia is now China's biggest oil partner  and it's a huge problem for Saudi Arabia
2016-02-07,Hamas hospitals treating ISIS operatives in Gaza
2016-02-07,"Tokyo's mile-high skyscraper set to be world's tallest & twice as tall as the Burj Khalifa - To be 5,577ft tall & host 55,000 people. Part of city's flood-defence plan."
2016-02-07,Mexican Indigenous Ask Pope to Apologize for Massive Genocide
2016-02-07,"Assange says weak French intelligence bowed to US after spying leaks | France is a weakened country that relies too heavily on its subservient intelligence relationship with the United States and the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told French radio"
2016-02-07,War on ISIS: Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov claims his special forces are on the ground in Syria
2016-02-07,North Korea Missile Launch 'Strongly Condemned' by United Nations Security Council
2016-02-07,Tipping Point in Syria as Russian Air Power Turns Tide for Assad
2016-02-07,Hamas Kills Its Own Commander for Unnamed 'Violations'
2016-02-07,Haiti president steps down without successor in place.
2016-02-07,Russia shuts down two more banks as economic troubles mount
2016-02-07,"Detainees held by the Syrian government are dying on a massive scale amounting to a state policy of ""extermination"" of the civilian population, a crime against humanity, U.N. investigators have said."
2016-02-07,Somalia plane blast: airport worker 'handed device to bombing suspect'
2016-02-07,"Murders in Spain, and a Dublin attack with AK-47s: the deadly 20-year war of Irelands drug cartels"
2016-02-07,"Over 25,000 infected with Zika Virus in Colombia"
2016-02-07,Iran wants India to pay oil dues in euros
2016-02-07,"Saudi jets target's Yemen reservoir, dam"
2016-02-07,Merkel urges better protection of EU external borders
2016-02-06,North Korea fires long range rocket.
2016-02-06,Thousands take part in anti-Islam Pegida protests across Europe
2016-02-06,Oil cans as filler material spotted in walls of collapsed Taiwan building may reveal shoddy construction.
2016-02-06,A case of female genital mutilation (FGM) is reported in England every 109 minutes
2016-02-06,"Most Australians Want Customs Ship to Monitor Japanese Whaling, Poll Finds - 76.9% of 1,002 people want the federal govt to ""send a ship to oppose the whaling."""
2016-02-06,Attackers torch refugee center in Prague
2016-02-06,Iran wants euro payment (not USD) for new and outstanding oil sales
2016-02-06,"Headley confesses Pakistan's ISI, Army's hand in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks"
2016-02-06,"South Korea and U.S. will begin talks about possibility of deploying U.S. missile defence system, after North Korea's rocket launch"
2016-02-06,"Lithuania pledges to publish names of 1,000 suspected Nazi collaborators"
2016-02-06,Luxembourg Just Announced Plans to Take Mining to Space and extract mineral content from metallic asteroids
2016-02-06,340 Brazilian Companies Fined for Modern Slave Labor Conditions
2016-02-06,NATO plans biggest build-up against Russia since the Cold War: but it will reject Polish demands for permanent bases
2016-02-06,Erdoan to US: Choose either Turkey or the [Kurdish] PYD as your partner
2016-02-06,"One dies as meteorite falls in Vellore(Tamil Nadu, India)"
2016-02-06,Report on Mass Graves of Yazidis in Sinjar
2016-02-06,"More than 3,100 pregnant women in Colombia have Zika virus: government"
2016-02-06,Airport workers seen with laptop used in Somalia jet blast
2016-02-06,N. Korea will make a special announcement at midday
2016-02-06,"""Woohoo"" email stokes more rumors of gravitational waves' detection"
2016-02-06,IDF censor requires bloggers to submit posts for review: Israeli censors are increasingly requiring bloggers to submit posts for prepublication review. The military has been reaching out to bloggers on Facebook - opening a new social media frontier for an old media law
2016-02-06,Japan PM Abe calls N.Korean launch 'absolutely intolerable
2016-02-06,Meteorite hits Denmark
2016-02-06,Taiwan investigates building toppled in quake after oil cans spotted in its pillars
2016-02-06,Haiti : Armed men in military fatigues marched in the capital
2016-02-05,Denmarks justice minister admitted on Friday that the US sent a rendition flight to Copenhagen Airport that was meant to capture whistleblower Edward Snowden and return him to the United States
2016-02-05,UN Demands Zika-Infected Countries Give Women Access To Abortion And Birth Control
2016-02-05,First abortion in Colombia possibly as result of Zika: A woman struggled to find a doctor willing to provide an abortion after it was discovered her fetus suffered from microcephaly.
2016-02-05,"Muslim women ""blocked from seeking office by male Labour councillors"" - Muslim Women's Network say the national Labour party is ""complicit"" in local male Muslim councillors' ""systematic misogyny"""
2016-02-05,Pirate Bay Transforms into The World's Biggest Streaming Site
2016-02-05,China confirms it's holding three missing Hong Kong booksellers
2016-02-05,Magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Tainan in Taiwan  residential block close to collapse
2016-02-05,"Ric O'Barry, the star of an Oscar-winning documentary that shows how dolphins are hunted in a Japanese village was deported to the U.S. on Friday after Tokyo airport officials barred his entry and he was held in detention for more than two weeks."
2016-02-05,Cardinal George Pell 'too ill' to travel from Rome for child sex abuse inquiry
2016-02-05,Russian prosecutors have begun considering whether media coverage of the unexpected friendship between a male tiger and goat at a safari park in the countrys far east counts as gay propaganda.
2016-02-05,"New Law In London Would Fine Homeless 1,000 For Sleeping Outside Or ""Loitering"""
2016-02-05,NASA Warns That Closest-Ever Asteroid Will Pass Earth Next Month (17000km)
2016-02-05,"Number of Syrian refugees heading for Turkey border nearly doubles, 35,000 in past 24 hours, Turkish official says"
2016-02-05,Gunfire reports at boxing event in Dublin
2016-02-05,The British want to come to America  with wiretap orders and search warrants
2016-02-05,Nearly 200 images released by US military depict Bush-era detainee abuse
2016-02-05,Julian Assange: 'sweet' victory soured by British and Swedish rejection. No release in sight despite UN panel deciding WikiLeaks founder is being arbitrarily detained at Ecuador embassy.
2016-02-05,"Pope to meet leader of Russian Orthodox Church for first time in nearly 1,000 years"
2016-02-05,Australia guts government climate research
2016-02-05,One of America's oldest stock exchanges has just been sold to China: The 134-year-old Chicago Stock Exchange reached a deal on Friday to be acquired by a Chinese-led group of investors.
2016-02-05,"Syria warns Saudis against incursion, says will be resisted"
2016-02-05,"The Pentagon on Friday released 198 photographs linked to allegations of abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, many of them showing close-ups of cuts and bruises to arms and legs of prisoners held in U.S. facilities"
2016-02-05,"NATO: Soldiers lives can be saved by renewable energy | Transporting fuel to war zones is extremely risky, often leading to casualties. Around 3000 American soldiers were either killed/wounded in Afghanistan while protecting fuels and water supplying convoys between 2003 and 2007"
2016-02-05,"Taiwan Warned of Fishery Collapse  Number of species drop 75% in 30 yrs. It's headed for greatest marine ecosystem collapse on planet. Illegal & overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution & invasive species add to drop. Most dominant fish at a nuclear plant now rabbitfish instead of mullet."
2016-02-05,Brazil Health Researchers Say Zika Virus Is Active in Saliva and Urine.
2016-02-04,"France has become the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks."
2016-02-04,Man Ejected From Somali Plane in Midair Was Suicide Bomber
2016-02-04,German spy agency says ISIS sending fighters disguised as refugees
2016-02-04,"Swiss bank Julius Baer, facing a criminal charge, has agreed to pay $547 million and cooperate for three years with American authorities to shut down accounts that enabled wealthy Americans to evade taxes"
2016-02-04,Cologne Carnival: Police record 22 sexual assaults
2016-02-04,Russia: There are a growing number of signs that Turkey is preparing a military incursion into Syria
2016-02-04,"DNA discovery unearths 'unknown chapter in human history' in Europe 15,000 yrs ago - Scientists studying the DNA of ancient Europeans found evidence of a 'major population upheaval' at the end of the last Ice Age"
2016-02-04,European Parliament Unanimously Recognizes Islamic State Attacks on Yazidis and Assyrians (Christians) as Genocide
2016-02-04,FGM (female genital mutilation): number of victims found to be 70 million higher than thought - Half of girls and women cut live in just three countries as Unicef statistics reveal shocking global scale of barbaric ritual
2016-02-04,"Morocco to switch on first phase of world's largest solar plant | Desert complex will provide electricity for more than 1 million people when complete, helping African country to supply most of its energy from renewables by 2030"
2016-02-04,At least 87 people trapped in South African gold mine after building collapse
2016-02-04,TPPA Protester throws and hits MP with sex toy in New Zealand
2016-02-04,Spain confirms case of Zika virus in a pregnant woman - the first in Europe
2016-02-04,"U.N. panel rebukes Iran for allowing sex, execution at nine years old"
2016-02-04,Berlin has signed a deal that will lead to further integration of German naval forces with the Dutch military. The move is being hailed as an important step in the creation of united European armed forces.
2016-02-04,Australia considers strict screening of Muslim refugees
2016-02-04,President Abbas' party: Palestinians who killed Israeli policewoman became role models
2016-02-04,Protests Erupt as Trade Ministers Sign 'Toxic' TPP Agreement
2016-02-04,"Woman who turned in Paris attack ringleader also said he had travelled to Europe with 90 others, including Syrians, Iraqis, French, German and British citizens."
2016-02-04,"Sakurajima volcano erupting this evening (near Kagoshima, Japan)"
2016-02-04,Ecuador says it should be compensated for housing Julian Assange in embassy
2016-02-04,"Chinese police have confirmed for the first time that three of five Hong Kong booksellers who went missing were being investigated for illegal activities in China, according to a letter sent to Hong Kongs police on Thursday."
2016-02-04,"North Korea drops propaganda leaflets, trash, cigarette butts on South Korea"
2016-02-04,China saw a 60 percent annual increase in its new wind generating capacity in 2015 as the country seeks to expand the use of clean energy to reduce air pollution and lower carbon emissions
2016-02-04,"Italian Police Seize 85,000 Tons of Olives Covered in Copper Sulfate To Make Them Greener"
2016-02-03,Nuclear fusion device's 1st test with hydrogen declared a success
2016-02-03,UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour'
2016-02-03,World is about to eradicate the first human disease since smallpox - the gruesome Guinea worm
2016-02-03,Woman assaulted by cop who lost his job found dead in Holloway prison cell
2016-02-03,A 10-year-old Afghan boy who was declared a hero after fighting the Taliban has been shot dead by insurgents while on his way to school.
2016-02-03,TPP protesters shut down central Auckland as ministers sign controversial deal
2016-02-03,"Johnson & Johnson, Viacyte testing possible diabetes cure: ""If it works as well in patients as it has in animals, it would amount to a cure, ending the need for frequent insulin injections and blood sugar testing"""
2016-02-03,"Gorbachev: ""I am ashamed by Putin and Medvedev"""
2016-02-03,Finnish president: Migrants pose challenge to western values
2016-02-03,"Morocco to switch on 1st phase of world's largest solar plant - Desert complex will provide electricity for over 1 million people when complete, helping African country to supply most of its energy from renewables by 2030"
2016-02-03,"Support for Merkel at four-and-a-half year low, doubts grow over refugee policy"
2016-02-03,Missing Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni found dead 'with signs of torture' in Egypt
2016-02-03,"Hiker Finds 3,500-Yr-Old Egyptian Seal in IsraelCarved in the shape of a beetle, the scarab represents Pharaoh Thutmose III (1481-1425 BC) sitting on his throne. He set up govt in Canaan & waged wars, including battle of Megiddoa victory documented on Karnak Temple walls."
2016-02-03,"TPP has been signed in Auckland,New Zealand"
2016-02-03,Julian Assange says he will 'accept arrest' on Friday if UN rules against him
2016-02-03,"Police arrest 'IS' suspects as Carnival celebrations kick off in Germany - Several men said to be linked to the ""Islamic State"" militant group have been arrested at the start of Carnival. Police have increased security in the wake of the Paris attacks and sexual assaults committed in Cologne."
2016-02-03,806 people died by falling off trains in 2015 in Mumbai
2016-02-03,Israel considers revoking press cards of outlets that give 'distorted headlines'
2016-02-03,"Archaeologists from the Charles University in Prague have unearthed a 4,500-year-old 59-foot boat at a site in Egypt"
2016-02-03,"Israel: Abu Khdeir killers get life, 21 years"
2016-02-03,Germany moves to make country less attractive to migrants
2016-02-03,Four charged with helping gunman attack Copenhagen synagogue
2016-02-03,"U.S., 11 nations formally sign largest regional trade deal in history"
2016-02-03,1st orangutan murder seen as pair team up to kill female - Female orangutans are normally solitary & very rarely engage in fights. Its also unusual for females & males to form coalitions. The area is more crowded because of habitat destruction.
2016-02-03,At least 45 killed in blasts near Shiite mosque in Damascus
2016-02-02,"TPP ""fundamentally flawed"", should be resisted - Human Rights Expert"
2016-02-02,"Stop refugees or we'll stop aid, Germany tells Afghans"
2016-02-02,Women barred from entering Starbucks in Saudi Arabia
2016-02-02,"BP is to cut another 7,000 jobs after reporting an annual loss of $6.5bn (4.5bn), the worst in its history"
2016-02-02,Goldman Sachs Says It May Be Forced to Fundamentally Question How Capitalism Is Working
2016-02-02,UK scientists get cancer cells addicted to drugs that will kill them
2016-02-02,NASA's New Horizons team discovers vast reserves of H2O ice on Pluto
2016-02-02,"Scientists in Germany are poised to begin an experiment they hope will advance the quest for nuclear fusion. Researchers plan to inject a tiny amount of hydrogen and heat it until it becomes a super-hot gas known as plasma, mimicking conditions inside the sun."
2016-02-02,Japan readies to 'destroy' North Korea rocket
2016-02-02,Terror stabbing attack at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem.
2016-02-02,The Hyderabad company has now developed the world's first vaccine against the Zika Virus
2016-02-02,"Smokers in Italy hit with new fines to protect the young: Smokers in Italy are now facing fines of up to 500 euros ($600) if they light up in a car with a child or pregnant woman, or if they toss a cigarette butt on the street"
2016-02-02,World's largest offshore windfarm to be built off Yorkshire coast - DONG Energy given go-ahead for 1.2-gigawatt project that will power more than a million UK homes
2016-02-02,Dutch Defence Minister wants to extend military service to women
2016-02-02,"Asylum seekers as young as 11 come to Norway married - At least 61 minors were married when they sought asylum in Norway last year, figures from the Norwegian authorities show. The youngest was an eleven year old girl."
2016-02-02,"Nasa hack: AnonSec attempts to crash $222m drone, releases secret flight videos and employee data"
2016-02-02,90% of Russian Regions Hit by Flu Epidemic
2016-02-02,British Columbia unveils historic agreement to protect a massive swath of rainforest along its coastline.
2016-02-02,"""President Obama plans to substantially increase the deployment of heavy weapons, armored vehicles and other equipment to NATO countries in Central and Eastern Europe, a move that administration officials said was aimed at deterring Russia from further aggression in the region."""
2016-02-02,Condoms compulsory in German sex industry under new law
2016-02-02,"Saudi Arabia says 375 civilians killed on its border in Yemen war. ""Now our rules of engagement are: you are close to the border, you are killed"""
2016-02-02,Berlin Senate negotiates transformation of 22 hotels into refugee shelters
2016-02-02,Australia's offshore asylum policy ruled legal by High Court
2016-02-02,"Chinese military aircraft trespass into Japan, Korea airspace, Japan scrambles jets"
2016-02-02,Zika virus forces India's Tata motors to rename its new car
2016-02-01,"Canada moving ahead with plans to ditch first-past-the-post electoral system. ""FPTP suited for fledgling democracies, mature democracies can do better,"" says minister in charge of reform."
2016-02-01,Zika virus declared global emergency by WHO
2016-02-01,"Maori leaders in New Zealand's Far North have voted to block Prime Minister John Key from visiting the site where the country's founding document was signed, with one saying ""I don't understand why we'd want to welcome a Prime Minister when he has already signed away our sovereignty"" (with the TPPA)"
2016-02-01,Hidden population of up to 200 lions found in remote Ethiopia.
2016-02-01,Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc. must pay $10 million in fines and penalties for telling U.S. officials the timber for its wood flooring came from Germany rather than the actual source -- the habitats of endangered Siberian tigers in southeast Asia
2016-02-01,"Ponzi Scheme In China Stole $7.6 Billion From Investors, Police Say"
2016-02-01,ISIS-run 'Voice of the Caliphate' radio station silenced by air strikes in Afghanistan
2016-02-01,"The commander of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group dismissed calls to carpet-bomb the jihadists. ""Indiscriminate bombing where we don't care if we are killing innocents or combatants is just inconsistent with our values."""
2016-02-01,Japanese firm to open worlds first robot-run farm - Spread says it will open the fully automated farm with robots handling almost every step of the process
2016-02-01,Canada Admits Theres No Chance Itll Reach Its Climate Change Targets  Not Even Close
2016-02-01,Driver deliberately runs over 17 kangaroos on 100m-stretch of road outside Brisbane in Australia
2016-02-01,"North Korea blames U.S. for 'H-bomb test', says it's capable of making unlimited hydrogen bombs"
2016-02-01,DEA uncovers major drug trafficking by Hezbollah to fund global terrorism
2016-02-01,"There is no chance that the Rio Olympics will be cancelled because of a Zika virus outbreak, Brazil has said."
2016-02-01,Secret Motor Found On Cyclist's Bike At World Championships
2016-02-01,Vancouver set to approve first legal marijuana shops
2016-02-01,Alphabet- Google's parent company- has surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company after its latest earnings report.
2016-02-01,"Budget smartphones from Lenovo, Huawei, and other largely Chinese brands contain an accidental backdoor that grants intruders root access."
2016-02-01,BP is expected to announce a near 70% collapse in underlying profits on Tuesday as low oil prices continue to take their toll.
2016-02-01,United Nations human rights expert Alfred de Zayas called on Governments not to sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) without reaffirming their human rights treaty obligations and their recent pledges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
2016-02-01,Dutch Police Trained an Eagle to Attack Illegal Drones
2016-02-01,King Abdullah : Jordanians 'at boiling point ' over refugees
2016-02-01,"Canadian Great Bear Rainforest Agreement: ~3 Million Hectares preserved as ""A gift to the world"""
2016-02-01,Egyptian Christian Students Stand Trial for Insulting Islam
2016-02-01,ISIL suicide bomber kills at least 18 Iraqi soldiers near Ramadi
2016-01-31,Nestl admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in Ivory Coast
2016-01-31,The lifeless body of Yemen's top Salafi cleric in the southern port city of Aden was found disfigured on Sunday hours after he was abducted following an anti-extremism sermon
2016-01-31,"Earth made up of two planets after 'violent collision' with Theia 4.5 billon years ago, UCLA scientists find - UCLA-led team reveals event also created the moon"
2016-01-31,UK scientists get permission to genetically modify human embryos for the first time.
2016-01-31,Norway to disarm its police force after officers ordered to carry guns for just one year
2016-01-31,HSBC fights to stop money-laundering report going public
2016-01-31,Historic day in Myanmar as Aung San Suu Kyi takes power
2016-01-31,"A massive, abandoned freighter is drifting toward the French coast and will run aground in days"
2016-01-31,Goldman Sachs Banker With Ties To Malaysian Scandal Goes On Leave
2016-01-31,Yazidi ex-slave girls subjected to traumatic virginity tests to prove ISIS abuse
2016-01-31,"France, India To Jointly Explore Mars And Venus"
2016-01-31,"Russian Fighter Jet Came Within 15 Feet of US Air Force Plane, US Officials Say"
2016-01-31,"Israel,Turkey sign gas deal worth $1.3 billion"
2016-01-31,British Woman who Took child to Join ISIS Jailed for 6 Years
2016-01-31,'Mein Kampf' Banned From Publishing in Brazil
2016-01-31,"ISIS executed 2,114 civilians in 19 months"
2016-01-31,"Hollande frees abused murderer Jacqueline Sauvage - Sauvage's husband was a violent alcoholic who, she said, had raped and beaten her and her daughters for decades"
2016-01-31,Turkish police recover stolen Picasso painting in stanbul
2016-01-31,China police arrest 21 over $7.6 bln online financial scam
2016-01-31,ISIS beheads Syrian teenager on charges of apostasy
2016-01-31,"More than 10,000 migrant children may have disappeared after arriving in Europe over the past two years, the EU's police intelligence unit says."
2016-01-31,Seoul criticizes Japan for sending denial of forcible recruitment 'comfort women' report to U.N. committee | The Japan Times
2016-01-31,Israeli Cabinet approves liberal Jewish prayer at holy site
2016-01-31,Historic Israeli ruling allows men and women to now pray together at section of Western Wall
2016-01-31,France welcomes Cuba's Castro in historic visit
2016-01-30,"British helicopter pilot, Roger Gower, working for conservation organization in Tanzania dies after poachers open fire on his helicopter, ""fatally wounding"" him."
2016-01-30,Boko Haram burns kids alive in northeast Nigeria: A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children among people burned to death in the latest attack by Nigerias homegrown Islamic extremists.
2016-01-30,"Switzerland will be the first country in the world to vote on having a national wage of 1,700 a month: If the plans go through, it will become the first country in the world to provide a basic unconditional monthly income, and they are already the first country to vote on the matter."
2016-01-30,"Group of Brazilian lawyers, activists & scientists asking govt to allow abortions for women with Zika virus, since women are advised not to get pregnant due to risk of birth defects. Abortions are illegal in Brazil, except in emergencies, rape or when big part of brain & skull missing."
2016-01-30,"'NAFTA on Steriods': National Mexican Union Protests TPP - ""We say no because it was negotiated without consulting us, but also because it will bring serious consequences for Mexico, United States, Chile, Canada and Peru"""
2016-01-30,China Just Released True Color HD Photos Of The Moon
2016-01-30,"Zika virus has infected 2,100 pregnant Colombians, health officials say - Health"
2016-01-30,Pirate Party Support Exceeds 40 Percent (Iceland)
2016-01-30,Turkey says Russia violated airspace
2016-01-30,Canada to Remove Visa Requirements for Mexican Citizens
2016-01-30,"UN chief 'alarmed' at Hamas vow to keep building Gaza tunnels, rockets"
2016-01-30,Hamas has officially announced that it is rejecting Frances new initiative to convene an international conference to renew negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians
2016-01-30,"Babylonians used geometry to track Jupiter 1400 years before Europeans: ""Astronomers discovered how to calculate Jupiter's position with geometry between 350 and 50 BC, predating work of European scholars by 14 centuries"""
2016-01-30,"World Heritage-listed forests whose origins pre-date the age of the dinosaurs are being destroyed by raging Australian bushfires, with conservationists increasingly fearful they could be lost forever."
2016-01-30,Europe Is Building a Space Data Highway With Lasers - It'll transmit data back to Earth about 90 times faster than your typical earthly internet connection.
2016-01-30,"10,000 refugee children are missing, says Europol"
2016-01-30,NATO confirms Russian jet violated Turkish airspace
2016-01-30,"Despite abuses, Saudi Arabia aims to recruit 15000 Somali maids"
2016-01-30,Bribery allegations against Japan's lead TPP negotiator have sparked public concerns that corruption may have influenced the corporate-friendly deal.
2016-01-30,"Marshall Islands sue Britain, India and Pakistan over nuclear weapons"
2016-01-30,British Mao cult leader who sexually abused followers and kept daughter as a slave is jailed
2016-01-30,Snow has been falling in Saudi Arabia for the last 2 days. Snowed first time in Kuwait.
2016-01-30,"One of six men who left Australia to join the terrorist group Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria in 2013, has returned from the Middle East and is living in western Sydney. Mehmet Biber has warned of more local attacks, saying he would voluntarily leave again if the government handed his passport back."
2016-01-30,Thousands march in Paris rain to protest state of emergency
2016-01-30,"At least 30 people killed in double blast near Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of Damascus"
2016-01-29,"A 13-year-old girl from a Russian-speaking community in Berlin was not kidnapped and sexually assaulted by immigrant men as previously reported, but simply spent the night with an acquaintance."
2016-01-29,Two jailed for handing out Isis leaflets on London's Oxford Street
2016-01-29,Mobs of 'hundreds' of masked men rampage through Stockholm central station beating up refugee children
2016-01-29,Russia Will Not Allow Exclusion of Kurds From Syrian Peace Talks
2016-01-29,"India, Egypt say no thanks to free Internet from Facebook"
2016-01-29,Snow falls in Kuwait for 'first time ever'
2016-01-29,Mexican cops again at center of mass disappearance
2016-01-29,Church of England members back same-sex marriage
2016-01-29,"France: If new peace initiative fails, we'll recognize Palestine"
2016-01-29,"Mali's elephants, one of just two remaining desert herds in the world, will be gone in three years unless the government does more to protect them, a conservation group said on Thursday."
2016-01-29,"IED found on Mumbai-bound train, defused"
2016-01-29,France to build 1000km of road with solar panels
2016-01-29,Egypt jails prominent writer for insulting Islam
2016-01-29,Proton beam cancer therapy 'effective with fewer side effects'
2016-01-29,"Number of TPPA protests held around New Zealand, ahead of the official signing next week"
2016-01-29,"Israel rejects French peace bid, saying threat of recognition incentivizes Palestinians not to negotiate"
2016-01-29,Suicide Attack on Shiite Mosque in Eastern Saudi Arabia Kills 3
2016-01-29,7.0 quake strikes Russias far eastern Kamchatka
2016-01-29,"Spain: Princess Loses Legal Battle to Avoid Tax Fraud Trial - ""Spain's Princess Cristina has lost a legal battle to avoid being tried for tax fraud and is expected to testify next month in a corruption trial also featuring her husband and 16 other defendants, a panel of judges ruled Friday."""
2016-01-29,Anti-GMO research may be based on manipulated data
2016-01-29,"Fukushima nuclear crisis far from over, Kan says | The Japan Times"
2016-01-29,"UK mother Tareena Shakil, who took son to Syria, guilty of Islamic State and encouraging terror"
2016-01-29,Chinese Billionaire Zhang Xin: 'The Old Model Doesn't Work Anymore'
2016-01-29,Russian fighter came within 15 feet of U.S. Air Force jet over the Black Sea this week.
2016-01-29,"Egypt minister of justice calls for killing 400,000 Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters"
2016-01-28,Young people in England have 'lowest literacy levels' in developed world says OECD
2016-01-28,Volunteer who claimed a migrant had dropped dead outside Berlin registration center after waiting outside for days admits he lied in a bid to win sympathy for asylum seekers
2016-01-28,Man 'held with guns at Disneyland Paris'
2016-01-28,Microsoft co-founder's yacht tears up protected coral reef in Cayman Islands. Paul Allens 330ft vessel destroys 80% of reef in protected zone
2016-01-28,Forty percent of Germans want Merkel to resign over refugee policy
2016-01-28,An EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's skies in late October
2016-01-28,BBC News: Migrant crisis: Dutch plan for migrants who land on Greek islands to be immediately ferried back to Turkey.
2016-01-28,Japan adopts negative interest rates in surprise move
2016-01-28,Zika virus: Activists in Brazil to petition court to allow abortions
2016-01-28,The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is launching an encryption technology to protect whistle blowers.
2016-01-28,"Finland expects to expel 20,000 failed asylum seekers"
2016-01-28,Italy Claims Google Dodged $248 Million in Taxes
2016-01-28,New docs confirm CIA had rendition flight lurking in Europe to catch Snowden
2016-01-28,Irans supreme leader airs Holocaust denial video on international Remembrance Day
2016-01-28,One-Third of Ecuador's Rainforests to Be Auctioned Off to Chinese Oil Companies
2016-01-28,'Deadly' attack rocks mosque in Saudi Arabia
2016-01-28,"Zika virus at ""pandemic"" level, National Institutes of Health says"
2016-01-28,"Fungi Survive Mars-Like Conditions Aboard Space Station: Some hardy Earth organisms may be able to survive on Mars, a new study suggests"
2016-01-28,"Spies in the Sky: Israeli Drone Feeds Hacked By British and American Intelligence | Under a classified program code-named Anarchist, the U.K.s GCHQ, working with the NSA, systematically targeted Israeli drones from a mountaintop on Cyprus"
2016-01-28,Yemeni forces seize three Saudi bases
2016-01-28,"Saudi Arabia Conducted 119 Airstrikes Against Civilian Targets In Yemen, UN Panel Finds"
2016-01-28,"Egypt ""disappeared"" hundreds of activists in advance of Tahrir Square Jan 25 anniversary"
2016-01-28,Zika virus found in New Zealand
2016-01-28,"HIV becoming resistant to key drug, study finds"
2016-01-28,Russian whistleblower's death 'like Litvinenko murder
2016-01-27,"The ISIS encrypted messaging app, widely reported in the media as a tool for plotting terrorist attacks, does not exist"
2016-01-27,Zika Virus May Have Spread To Common Mosquito
2016-01-27,"A Chinese firm has purchased the rights to the Tiananmen Square ""Tank Man"" photo from Bill Gates"
2016-01-27,"The 50 most violent cities in the world are revealed, with 21 of them in Brazil... but Venezuela's capital Caracas is named the most deadly"
2016-01-27,US: Call for life sentences for journalists raise serious concerns about Turkey's commitment to democracy
2016-01-27,Gates Foundation accused of 'dangerously skewing' aid priorities by promoting 'corporate globalisation': Controversial new report calls for Bill Gates' philanthropic Foundation to undergo an international investigation
2016-01-27,"Germany bans far-right Internet platform, arrests 2"
2016-01-27,Greece warned: control your borders or you will be out of Schengen. Athens furious at being scapegoated by rest of EU over refugee crisis and fears effect of being expelled from passport-free zone.
2016-01-27,Zika virus: Disease may spread to Britain after experts find virus-carrying mosquitoes in Kent and Sussex | Home News | News
2016-01-27,"3-D Scanners Race to Monuments before Terrorists Blow Them Up - Advances in 3D scanning technologies, drone use and even tourists' online posting of images are giving preservationists a new set of tools to prevent the permanent loss of cultural artifacts."
2016-01-27,"The top U.S. general in Iraq has warned of the potential collapse of Mosul Dam, saying that such an event could prove catastrophic, despite preparations already in place. A report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2006 called Mosul Dam the most dangerous dam in the world"
2016-01-27,Iran's Khamenei releases video denying Holocaust on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2016-01-27,Belgium said 'push migrants back to sea' - Greek minister
2016-01-27,Zika in Europe: Danish man tests positive for virus
2016-01-27,Top Japanese official in charge of TPP accused of graft
2016-01-27,Eritrea 'appalled' by hoax forced two-wife minimum story
2016-01-27,Japan Will Not Join War Against ISIS for Foreseeable Future
2016-01-27,Documentary on radical Islam raises hackles in France
2016-01-27,"Venezuela doctors fume at official silence on Zika, could already be facing an epidemic"
2016-01-27,Hamas militants 'die in Gaza tunnel collapse'
2016-01-27,"Germany's domestic intelligence agency says the number of Islamic extremists heading to Syria and Iraq continues to grow, raising concerns over trained fighters returning who could carry out attacks in Europe."
2016-01-27,ISIS retreats after sustaining heavy losses in Deir Ezzor
2016-01-27,"The German cabinet endorsed measures on Wednesday that would make it easier to deport many noncitizens convicted of crimes, responding to outrage over the sexual assault of hundreds of women by foreigners on New Years Eve"
2016-01-27,"A British woman has become the first person in the world to have a pancreas transplant because of a severe needle phobia, her doctors have said."
2016-01-27,French Jews appalled by Iranian presidents visit on Holocaust remembrance day
2016-01-26,"United Nations panel finds evidence that Saudi-led coalition has conducted widespread air strikes against civilian targets, in violation of international law"
2016-01-26,"Most fleeing to Europe are not refugees, EU official says: Dutch commissioner Frans Timmermans says 60% of arrivals are economic migrants"
2016-01-26,"8 dead, over 610 injured as heavy snowfall continues in Japan"
2016-01-26,"""Pope Francis is taking direct aim at the wealthy and powerful of the world, saying in his message for Lent that they are often 'slaves to sin' who, if they ignore the poor, 'will end up condemning themselves and plunging into the eternal abyss of solitude which is hell.'"""
2016-01-26,"Giant Turtle Dies, Leaving Only 3 Alive on Earth - The recent death of Cu Rua pushes the Yangtze giant soft-shell turtle to the brink of extinction"
2016-01-26,Isis fighters 'virtually impossible' to detect as group continues to use fake passports to exploit refugee crisis
2016-01-26,Putin denounces Soviet founder Lenin
2016-01-26,"U.S. pastor freed by Iran says he was tortured in prison, saw Sunni cellmates executed for their faith"
2016-01-26,Rouhani says Iran didn't request statue cover-up
2016-01-26,"Greece has ""seriously neglected"" obligations to control external borders, European Commission says in draft report"
2016-01-26,Moscow accuses Germany of hushing up Russian girl's rape
2016-01-26,Russia Will Not Accept Deported Refugees from Norway
2016-01-26,"Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Wednesday that if China failed to do more to curb North Koreas enhanced nuclear capacity, Washington would take steps that China has strongly opposed, including deploying defense systems to protect American allies in Asia."
2016-01-26,"Denmark named least corrupt country; Somalia, North Korea the most: report"
2016-01-26,Germany warns Moscow not to exploit teen 'rape' case
2016-01-26,Russia: Syria peace talks must include Kurds despite Turkish 'blackmail'
2016-01-26,Family planning is 'critical link' in eradicating poverty - Reproductive health experts want more access to modern contraceptives to prevent population bulge that would undermine efforts to tackle global poverty.
2016-01-26,Russia may ban American corn and soybeans
2016-01-26,Two Cases Suggest Zika Virus Could Be Spread Through Sex
2016-01-26,"World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania | Devastating long-term prognosis for ancient Gondwana ecosystem as bushfires turn trees more than 1,000 years old to tinder"
2016-01-26,"Hundreds Vanishing in Egypt as Crackdown Widens, Activists Say"
2016-01-26,China warns Soros against declaring war on its currency
2016-01-26,Person In Denmark Tests Positive For Zika Virus
2016-01-26,"Poland sending 46,000 troops to border with Russia as fears grow over Putin expansionism"
2016-01-26,Israeli PM Netanyahu says UN Chief Ban Ki-moon 'encourages terror'
2016-01-25,Sri Lanka destroys huge illegal ivory haul - Govt publicly destroys biggest ever illegal ivory haul in bid to show poachers it will not tolerate the violent trade. Sri Lanka also becomes worlds 1st country to apologize for complicity in the illegal killing of elephants.
2016-01-25,First Monkeys with Autism Created in China | They spin in their cages and dont interact. The scientists who created autistic monkeys say theyll now try to cure them
2016-01-25,"Mahatma Gandhi statue defaced in India and scribbled ""Long Live ISIS"""
2016-01-25,Rome's nude statues covered to spare Rouhani's blushes
2016-01-25,Japan is building the Worlds largest floating solar power plant
2016-01-25,The caste system has left its mark on Indians genomes - A group of researchers has identified exactly when Indians stopped intermarrying.
2016-01-25,"ISIS Has Whole Fake Passport 'Industry,' Official Says"
2016-01-25,Swedish Prime Minister visits site of fatal stabbing at asylum centre
2016-01-25,"Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday criticized Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, accusing him of placing a ""time bomb"" under the state, and sharply denouncing brutal repressions by the Bolshevik government."
2016-01-25,Malaysia's attorney-general says $US681 million ($A976 million) transferred into Prime Minister Najib Razak's personal bank account was a gift from the royal family in Saudi Arabia and there are no criminal offences or corruption involved.
2016-01-25,"Thousands of Brits have been left in pain after being fitted with hip implants in incorrect or ""mismatch"" sizes, a report has claimed."
2016-01-25,Malaysia attorney general: Saudi royal family gave Najib $681M 'personal donation'
2016-01-25,"Cars blaze in Dresden as PEGIDA demonstrates nearby: Thousands of PEGIDA demonstrators have once again protested in the eastern German city of Dresden. Local media have reported that 10 cars, thought to belong to PEGIDA supporters, were set alight"
2016-01-25,South Africa bans leopard trophy hunting for 2016 because of excessive legal shooting and poorly managed trophy hunting
2016-01-25,Lifesavers forced to watch 31 refugees drown because they were 'not allowed to intervene' in international waters
2016-01-25,Hong Kong freezes over in ice as Guangzhou experiences first snowfall since 1949
2016-01-25,Direct Flights Between U.S. and Iran to Resume After 36 Years
2016-01-25,China Stocks Plunge to 13-Month Low Amid Capital Outflow Concern
2016-01-25,Israeli 'spy vulture' captured in south Lebanon - Middle East
2016-01-25,Walmart Canada introduces five cent charge for plastic bags
2016-01-25,"Brazilian army declares war on Zika, mobilizes troops"
2016-01-25,"""Putin is Corrupt"" Says US Treasury"
2016-01-25,"10 Afghan Police Officers Poisoned by Colleague, Then Shot by Taliban"
2016-01-25,Plan to bomb ISIS in Syria wins Netherlands MP majority support
2016-01-25,Boosting Middle East economy is way to beat extremism: Iranian president
2016-01-24,Explorer Henry Worsley dies after suffering exhaustion and dehydration during solo Antarctic crossing attempt
2016-01-24,"Zika virus: Outbreak 'likely to spread across Americas' says WHO - The infection has already been found in 21 countries in the Caribbean, North & South America."
2016-01-24,"By 2050, our oceans will hold more plastic than fish"
2016-01-24,Scottish police accidentally publish secret counter-terrorism report on their website
2016-01-24,El Salvador Urges Women Not To Get Pregnant Till 2018 To Combat Spread Of Zika Virus
2016-01-24,"Five years after the uprising, activists are claiming state repression in Egypt is worse than its ever been"
2016-01-24,Pakistan 'can and must' dismantle all terror networks: Barack Obama
2016-01-24,"Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera, and Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson, have announced that Stockholm and Tallinn in Estonia will be the first cities to have new wireless mobile technology, 5G, rolled out in 2018."
2016-01-24,Europol: ISIS planning large scale attacks in Europe
2016-01-24,"Asylum seekers in Cardiff are being issued with brightly coloured wristbands that they must wear at all times, in a move which echoes the red door controversy in Middlesborough and has resulted in their harassment and abuse by members of the public."
2016-01-24,Animals are starving at Gazas zoos under Hamas
2016-01-24,ISIS releases video of Paris attackers committing atrocities in Syria.
2016-01-24,New Zika Virus Cases Confirmed in the U.K.
2016-01-24,Disquiet grows over French state of emergency
2016-01-24,"European Union interior ministers on Monday urged Greece to do more to control the influx of migrants, some threatening to exclude it from the continent's prized passport-free travel zone as the crisis increasingly divides the bloc's members."
2016-01-24,Asia-Pacific: TPP backers face opposition almost everywhere
2016-01-24,"China to ban CO2 auditors from carbon trading in new rules | To improve the credibility of the verifiers, the NDRC also said they should not hire staff who have worked in companies being audited at any time during the previous five years."
2016-01-24,Germany follows Switzerland and Denmark to seize cash and valuables from arriving refugees
2016-01-24,"Polar vortex hits Hong Kong: record low temperatures close schools, hospitalise 45, injure 111, trap 130 on Kowloon Peak"
2016-01-24,ISIS Video Appears to show Paris Assailants Earlier in Syria and Iraq
2016-01-24,Iran announces 100 arrests over attack on Saudi embassy
2016-01-24,"Switzerland made secret deal with PLO to prevent terrorist attacks on Swiss territory. In return, Switzerland would offer diplomatic support to the PLO."
2016-01-24,Twenty-five dead in suicide bomb attack on north Cameroon market
2016-01-24,"Inmates in one of Brazil's roughest prisons used explosives to destroy a wall and escape en masse into surrounding streets, prompting a frantic manhunt. Media footage of the brazen breakout on Saturday in the northeastern city of Recife showed the blast ripping a hole in the main wall"
2016-01-24,Rocket fired at southern Israel near Gaza border - Israel News
2016-01-23,South America Takes to the Streets Against TPP
2016-01-23,"Child Porn Sting Goes Global: FBI Hacked Computers in Denmark, Greece, Chile"
2016-01-23,Thousands gather in Poland to protest internet surveillance laws
2016-01-23,"Christian refugees from Syria claim they saw a former Islamic State member living in Frankfurt, and that this is not an isolated case."
2016-01-23,Merkel: Anti-Semitism more widespread than we imagined
2016-01-23,"Bacteria that resist last-resort antibiotics were found in China two months ago, now they're everywhere"
2016-01-23,Berlin Residents Protest Near Merkel's Office Against Migrant Violence
2016-01-23,S Africa girls given student grants to remain virgins
2016-01-23,Muslim doctor and sister helped convict pro-ISIS hate preachers on Oxford Street
2016-01-23,Russian general Igor Sergun dies suddenly after being 'sent to Syria by Vladimir Putin to ask President Assad to step down' | Middle East | News
2016-01-23,China Has 'Reached Consensus' With Djibouti on Military Base: First International Military Bases to be Built
2016-01-23,Jordan kills 12 infiltrators attempting to cross borders from Syria
2016-01-23,'Plane wreckage' found in Thailand fuels talk of missing Malaysian jet
2016-01-23,Iran finalises purchase of 114 Airbus planes but wants 400 more passenger jets
2016-01-23,Migrants storm French port of Calais and board British ferry
2016-01-23,Vienna Says Violence Outbreak Possible Over Measures to Reduce Migrant Flow
2016-01-23,Biden Says U.S. Is Prepared to Use Military Force in Syria
2016-01-23,Worst cold in 30 years grips China with temp below -30 degrees Celsius
2016-01-23,"Russian air strikes kill over 1,000 civilians in Syria"
2016-01-23,Scores of medical experiments on primates are being conducted in secret at a number of Sydney hospitals and universities including an apparent cover-up of a kidney transplant from a pig to a baboon.
2016-01-23,Palestinians in Gaza fire rocket towards Israel
2016-01-23,"Thousands of Poles have taken part in marches in Warsaw and other cities to protest new surveillance law, which they say will curtail privacy and freedom"
2016-01-23,"Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday called for closer economic and security ties with China, saying Iran had never trusted the West, as the two countries agreed to increase bilateral trade more than 10-fold to $600 billion in the next decade."
2016-01-23,"UK Should Process Calais Migrants, Says Corbyn"
2016-01-23,Tutankhamun: Egypt museum staff face trial over botched beard job
2016-01-22,Pregnant women are being warned not to travel to the Olympics in Brazil after a virus causing thousands of babies to be born with unusually small heads swept through the region.
2016-01-22,Toronto man found not guilty in Twitter harassment trial widely viewed as a Canadian first
2016-01-22,"Japan accepts 27 refugees last year, rejects 99%"
2016-01-22,"5 dead, 2 critically injured in Sask. school shooting, Trudeau says"
2016-01-22,U.S. to ask China to ban oil exports to North Korea
2016-01-22,'We will recover our land from the invaders': ISIS issues chilling threat to launch terror attacks in Spain to reimpose Muslim rule after 500 years
2016-01-22,No German  no money: Austria to fine refugees for refusal to integrate
2016-01-22,Iraqi Kurdistan president: time has come to redraw Middle East boundaries
2016-01-22,Mass evacuation alert: Popocatpetl volcano near Mexico City spewing ash
2016-01-22,"As Zika virus spreads, El Salvador asks women not to get pregnant until 2018"
2016-01-22,Europe could suspend passport-free travel for two years under emergency measures as leaders warn the migrant crisis could destroy the European Union.
2016-01-22,France To Try Seven Jihadists Including Paris Bombers Brother
2016-01-22,German police have said they do not have enough resources to carry out interior minister Thomas de Maizires plan to extend border controls as long as the refugee crisis continues.
2016-01-22,Migrants torch Calais camp in violent protests after police move in to evict hundreds from slum
2016-01-22,Violent crime rises by 27% after killings hit a five-year high in the UK
2016-01-22,Islamist gunmen kill 17 in Somalia beach restaurant attack
2016-01-22,Footage shows devastation in Yemen as Saudi 'double tap' strike hits rescuers
2016-01-22,"Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space transportation company, Blue Origin, successfully launched and landed a suborbital rocket for a second time, a key step in its quest to develop reusable boosters, the company says."
2016-01-22,Norways largest bank calls for total end to cash
2016-01-22,Erdoan says Turkey will not allow Russia to build a base north of Syria
2016-01-22,"Canada Wants Drones to Bomb Terrorists, Track Pirates, and Spy on Protesters"
2016-01-22,Russia's AIDS Epidemic Reaches Crisis Levels
2016-01-22,The Latest: Macedonia shuts border with Greece to refugees
2016-01-22,Problem drinkers account for almost 70 per cent of alcohol sales
2016-01-22,15 countries in UN lose voting ability due to lapse in UN payment dues.
2016-01-21,"A Danish city has ordered pork to be mandatory on municipal menus, including for schools and daycare centers, with politicians insisting the move is necessary for preserving the country's food traditions and is not an attack on Muslim"
2016-01-21,"HIV infections in Russia have reached record levels, with the number of people registered as HIV-positive passing the one million mark."
2016-01-21,"Migration crisis can destroy Europe, says French Prime Minister Manuel Valls | Europe | News"
2016-01-21,"Independent economists: TPP will kill 450,000 US jobs; 75,000 Japanese jobs, 58,000 Canadian jobs"
2016-01-21,Top Japanese official in charge of TPP trade deal is accused of graft
2016-01-21,"Bill Gates has told the the BBC that the United States ""should set a better example"" by taking in more refugees. Speaking to the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Gates said his home country ""had the capacity"" to follow the examples of Germany and Sweden, who were ""to be congratulated""."
2016-01-21,North Korea arrests US student
2016-01-21,Alexander Litvinenko accused Vladimir Putin of being a paedophile four months before he was poisoned
2016-01-21,More European nations are barring the door to migrants - A host of European nations are taking new steps to curb migrant arrivals amid rising security concerns.
2016-01-21,Chinese president declares support for Palestinian state
2016-01-21,"Australia's largest solar plants are open for business | will generate enough power to serve more than 50,000 homes. The two plants cover more than 375 hectares (927 acres) in total, making them the largest in Australia and potentially the Southern Hemisphere."
2016-01-21,The US Will Cede Control of the Internet for the 1st Time - Globalization has made it impossible for the US to maintain its oversight of internet governance organization ICANN.
2016-01-21,French police fire tear gas at hundreds of migrants trying to jump onto UK-bound trucks after a night of rioting at The Jungle refugee camp
2016-01-21,"Pope Francis opens foot-washing rite to women in gesture of inclusion - In a change that quickly set the Catholic world buzzing, Pope Francis allowed priests to wash women's feet & anyone else in the community on Holy Thursday & not just men, as church law previously decreed."
2016-01-21,IMF: Refugees Cost Greece 300 Million in 2015
2016-01-21,Israel dismantles West Bank terror cell directed by Hezbollah chiefs son
2016-01-21,"A pregnant woman with her hands and feet bound. A man with an obsidian blade embedded in his skull. Men and women with arrow wounds to the head and neck. That's the grisly scene archaeologists describe at Nataruk, in modern-day Kenya, where they say they've uncovered unique evidence of violence"
2016-01-21,"Thirty five restaurants across China have been busted using opium poppies to illegally season dishes, authorities say."
2016-01-21,Montenegro WWII concentration camp island to be turned into luxury resort with nightclub
2016-01-21,Report reveals clandestine Swiss deal with PLO to avert further terrorist attacks against the country in exchange for diplomatic support
2016-01-21,"Long Thought To Be Extinct, Bizarre Tree Frog Surfaces In India"
2016-01-21,U.S. Tightens Visa Rules for Some European Visitors
2016-01-21,"Israeli Holocaust survivor, 112, likely oldest man in the world"
2016-01-21,Israeli forces evict settlers a day after they illegally move into Hebron homes
2016-01-21,"Extremely Likely Germany To Limit Number Of Refugees, Says President Gauck"
2016-01-20,"The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptunebut as yet unseenorbits the sun every 15,000 years."
2016-01-20,"Less than 1% of the wealth created since 2000 has gone to the poorest 50% of the world's population, new research has revealed."
2016-01-20,"Over half of the world's supply of Cobalt, a primary element used in lithium batteries, is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo by child miners."
2016-01-20,UK inquiry finds Putin 'probably' approved Litvinenko assassination in 2006
2016-01-20,Head transplant has been successfully done on a monkey
2016-01-20,"Tajikistan shaves 13,000 men's beards to end radicalism"
2016-01-20,Russia's currency collapses to lowest level ever
2016-01-20,"China busts child trafficking ring, recovers 15 infants: Xinhua"
2016-01-20,"Two brothers hunting for ichthyosaur fossils along the coast of the United Kingdom came across something far more astounding: The bones of what may be the earliest known dinosaur from the Jurassic period in the U.K., and possibly even the world, a new study finds."
2016-01-20,Saudi Arabia Minister Avoids Questions On Acquiring Nukes From Pakistan
2016-01-20,"China to allocate $4.6 bln to shut 4,300 coal mines"
2016-01-20,Denmark considers moving migrants to camps outside cities
2016-01-20,Afghanistan is setting up its first-ever women-only university in Kabul
2016-01-20,"US wasted millions on Afghan reconstruction, says watchdog"
2016-01-20,"1,175 rhinos killed by poachers in S.Africa last year. Fewer than 100 rhinos were poached in 2008, since when numbers have rocketed."
2016-01-20,"Jimmy Savile raped children as young as nine' while working at BBC, leaked report finds"
2016-01-20,People are afraid these 'zombie ships' are the first sign of global economic collapse
2016-01-20,Fears grow of repeat of 2008 financial crash as investors run for cover
2016-01-20,"Vietnam is mourning an ancient turtle revered as a symbol of auspiciousness, whose death has shocked the country. Thought to be one of only four living Yangtze giant softshell turtles, it was found floating in the Hanoi lake where it lived. Cause of death is unclear."
2016-01-20,Austria Limits Asylum to 1.5 Percent of Population
2016-01-20,"Oil price: fall to $10 a barrel 'not impossible', admits BP boss"
2016-01-20,"A New U.K. Law Says Non-E.U. Migrants Must Earn 35,000 or Face Deportation"
2016-01-20,IMF recommends paying refugees below the minimum wage
2016-01-20,"Sierra Leone Records Another Ebola Case, Days After Africa Was Declared Ebola-Free"
2016-01-20,Merkel says Austrian cap on refugees 'not helpful' for European solution
2016-01-19,"ISIS destroys Iraq's oldest Assyrian Christian monastery that stood for over 1,400 years"
2016-01-19,Oceans running out of fish as undeclared catches add a third to official figures
2016-01-19,Chemistry Teacher opens fire on Taliban Militants in valiant effort to protect students
2016-01-19,Isis cuts soldiers pay by 50%
2016-01-19,"Leonardo DiCaprio has launched a ferocious attack on the greed of the worlds energy industry at the World Economic Forum in Davos. DiCaprio used an awards ceremony to demand more action on climate change, decrying those who deny it is a problem."
2016-01-19,Terrorist Attack on Bacha Khan University
2016-01-19,Muslim man who protected Christians during Kenyan terrorist attack dies in hospital
2016-01-19,"Jews welcome in Russia, Putin tells Europes Jewish leaders"
2016-01-19,Inside the worlds saddest zoo: Horror pictures show starving bears and lions abandoned by billionaire oligarch
2016-01-19,Swedish Police Instructed to Withhold From Public Suspects Skin Color and Ethnicity to Avoid Being Labeled Racist
2016-01-19,Freed Iranians in Prisoner Swap Choose to Stay in United States
2016-01-19,"Norway to bus the first 60 out of 5,500 migrants from ""safe countries"" back to Russia"
2016-01-19,India's internet regulator just called Facebook's Free Basics campaign 'crude' and 'dangerous'
2016-01-19,"OBarry, star of oscar-winning dolphin-killing film 'Cove', refused entry in Japan, detained at airport"
2016-01-19,"The UK government's official voice encryption protocol, around which it is hoping to build an ecosystem of products, has a massive backdoor that would enable the security services to intercept and listen to all past and present calls, a researcher has discovered."
2016-01-19,ISIS confirm Jihadi John was killed in Raqqa air strike
2016-01-19,Gauck: Limiting refugee numbers not 'unethical'
2016-01-19,"Plastic to outweigh fish in oceans by 2050, study warns"
2016-01-19,"Israel Defense Minister: In Syria, if the choice is between Iran and the Islamic State, I choose the Islamic State."""
2016-01-19,"For the next month, Earthlings will be treated to a spectacular sight, with all five planets visible to the naked eye lining up together, stretching from the horizon to the moon. But just dont call it a planetary alignment."
2016-01-19,"According to Human Rights lawyers, Thai ""prosecutors love Microsoft as they give them all the information they ask for."""
2016-01-19,"49th Mersenne prime discovered, largest prime to date."
2016-01-19,"Obama, Erdogan speak by phone, vow cooperation against terrorism: sources"
2016-01-19,'Patriots' distribute pork sandwiches during protest against praying Muslims
2016-01-19,"A simple spelling mistake has led to a 10-year-old Muslim boy being interviewed by British police over suspected links to terrorism. The boy, who lives in Accrington in Lancashire, wrote in his primary school English class that he lived in a terrorist house. He meant to write terraced house."
2016-01-18,Barrel of Oil now cheaper than an actual Barrel to put the oil in.
2016-01-18,German police make first arrest in Cologne New Year's Eve sexual assaults
2016-01-18,"No. of suicides in Japan drops below 25,000 for first time in 18 years"
2016-01-18,"Donald Trump branded a 'fool', 'buffoon' and 'wazzock' by British MPs"
2016-01-18,"Take back migrants or lose aid cash, Berlin tells North Africa: Germanys Vice-Chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, has threatened to withdraw aid from north African countries if they dont cooperate on taking back rejected asylum seekers."
2016-01-18,"UK Terrorism Act incompatible with human rights, court rules in David Miranda case - His judgment came in the case of the detention of a man detained at Heathrow airport for carrying files related to information obtained by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden."
2016-01-18,Facebook Begins Merkel led banning on hate speech and xenophobic comments for European users
2016-01-18,"Bavarian conservatives want national burqa ban: The conservative Christian Social Union (CSU), ruling party in Bavaria, want to pass a new law making it illegal for anyone to wear a burqa in Germany."
2016-01-18,"EU has ""no more than 2 months"" to get migration crisis under control - EU's Tusk"
2016-01-18,Largest ever longitudinal twin study of adolescent cannabis use finds no relationship between heavy use and IQ decline.
2016-01-18,New riot in Dutch town against refugee centre
2016-01-18,Irans petroleum production forecasted to increase to 3.7 million barrels per day by the end of 2017.
2016-01-18,"Austria suspends Schengen, imposes Border Controls"
2016-01-18,"Germany must soon close borders to refugees, transport minister tells Merkel"
2016-01-18,Alleged Paris attacks suspect arrested in Morocco
2016-01-18,Tearing down the Calais jungle: Bulldozers move-in despite migrant backlash
2016-01-18,North Korea: We have invented hangover free alcohol
2016-01-18,Vladimir Putins Internet Adviser Owns a Torrent Site
2016-01-18,Greek police forced a smuggler to kneel before the body bags of the children before sending him to prison
2016-01-18,961 foreign ISIL members from 57 countries caught in Turkey in 2015
2016-01-18,"Iran nuclear deal 'satisfies everyone except extremists', says president Hassan Rouhani"
2016-01-18,"As the crash in commodities prices spreads economic woe across the developing world, Europe could face a wave of migration that will eclipse todays refugee crisis, says Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum."
2016-01-18,MI5 named UK's most gay-friendly employer after survey
2016-01-18,Canada not invited to anti-ISIS coalition meeting in Paris - Politics
2016-01-18,ISIS 'halves salaries for fighters in Raqqa' as US-led coalition air strikes continue to target oil and revenue streams
2016-01-17,UN whistleblower who exposed sexual abuse by peacekeepers is exonerated
2016-01-17,Muslim women in the UK 'must integrate and speak English' says David Cameron
2016-01-17,"Just 62 people own as much wealth as the poorer half of the global population, a new report reveals, as the widening of the gap between the rich and poor accelerates."
2016-01-17,"UK doctors say patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are showing ""remarkable"" improvements after receiving a treatment usually used for cancer. About 20 patients have received bone marrow transplants using their own stem cells. Some patients who were paralysed have been able to walk again."
2016-01-17,ISIS commits largest massacre since Syrian conflict by dumping 280 dead in the river and taking 400 hostages
2016-01-17,New world record: Danish windmills produced 42.1 percent of all electricity used in Denmark last year
2016-01-17,Police arrest 40 immigrants in Dsseldorf raid.
2016-01-17,"Women Forced to Work in Wartime Brothels Were Not Sex Slaves, Japans Foreign Minister Says - He prefers the term 'comfort women'"
2016-01-17,Terrorist kidnaps sole surgeon for 2 million poor citizens of Burkina Faso
2016-01-17,French president declares economic emergency
2016-01-17,Helium balloons from North Korea have scattered around one million propaganda leaflets in South Korea
2016-01-17,"US imposes sanctions on Iranian companies and individuals over missile programme, after lifting of nuclear sanctions"
2016-01-17,Hong Kong Bookseller Who Disappeared From Thailand Held in China
2016-01-17,Germany plans expulsion centres for Algerians and Moroccans
2016-01-17,Three Americans reportedly kidnapped by militia members in Baghdad
2016-01-17,SpaceX rocket explodes after landing
2016-01-17,Tennis investigation reportedly uncovers evidence of match-fixing by core group of 16 professional players
2016-01-17,US to pay Iran $1.7 bn in debt and interest: Kerry
2016-01-17,Ontario court rules police cellphone data collection violated human rights
2016-01-17,Somalia received Saudi aid the day it cut ties with Iran - document
2016-01-17,"Iraqi city of Ramadi, once home to 500,000, lies in ruins"
2016-01-17,Five million jobs will be gone by 2020 in 15 leading countries
2016-01-17,UN Reports Gang Rapes And Mass Graves Amid Growing Violence In Burundi
2016-01-17,Chinas Haier buys GEs appliance business in $5.4 billion deal
2016-01-17,"Ethiopia drought 'as bad for children as Syria's war': 400,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition and 10 million more need food aid."
2016-01-16,Middle East stock markets crash as Tehran enters oil war
2016-01-16,International sanctions against Iran lifted
2016-01-16,"Turkmenistan president outlaws all sale of tobacco products, effectively banning smoking altogether"
2016-01-16,"David Cameron has authorised an investigation into the foreign funding and support of jihadi and extremist groups in the UK, a development that could lead to a potential standoff with the governments key Gulf ally Saudi Arabia."
2016-01-16,German officials: 'Algeria and Morocco must take back deportees'
2016-01-16,"Shock figures to reveal deadly toll of global air pollution - air pollution now kills more people a year than malaria and HIV combined, and in many countries accounts for roughly 10 times more deaths than road accidents"
2016-01-16,Indian villagers destroy toilets that the government had built for them.
2016-01-16,"Crimes at refugee homes on the rise, say German Criminal Police"
2016-01-16,"Netanyahu calls for banning of ""unbearable noise"" - otherwise known as Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer. Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu said that Adhan (Islamic call to prayer) violates Israels interior laws as it causes unbearable noise."
2016-01-16,Shipwreck from 1800s found during search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
2016-01-16,NASA Has Opened a Planetary Defense Office to Protect Earth from Cosmic Collisions
2016-01-16,"One earthquake is recorded on average each day in a western Canadian region where companies extract oil by fracking, according to statistics published by the Canadian province's energy regulatory agency"
2016-01-16,"Taiwan must abandon 'hallucination' of independence, warns Chinese media"
2016-01-16,Iran to reclaim oil market from Saudi Arabia
2016-01-16,"Oil price woes deepen as Iran vows to add 500,000 barrels a day"
2016-01-16,OPEC's oil basket price drops to $25 a barrel
2016-01-16,Australian surgeon and his wife kidnapped by jihadists in Burkina Faso
2016-01-16,"SpaceX to launch ocean satellite, try water return Sunday"
2016-01-16,German minister proposes EU extra levy to finance refugee costs
2016-01-16,"Venezuela declares Economic State of Emergency. The measure, which will last for 60 days, involves a restriction of constitutional guarantees"
2016-01-16,Russian deputies want to ban public displays of affection between gay people
2016-01-16,Men who aroused suspicions at mall were in Vancouver for vision treatment
2016-01-16,Iran to Buy 114 Airbus Planes after Removal of Sanctions
2016-01-16,Austria temporarily suspends Schengen
2016-01-16,"E.U.s Open Borders Are in Danger,German Minister Warns"
2016-01-15,China to participate in UN sanctions against N.Korea
2016-01-15,Bill aiming to ban child marriages shot down in Pakistan as anti-Islamic and blasphemous.
2016-01-15,Tsai Ing-wen elected Taiwan's first female president
2016-01-15,Schoolgirls report abuse by young asylum seekers
2016-01-15,"Four US prisoners freed in Iran. Prisoners include Washington Post Reporter, Jason Rezaian."
2016-01-15,More people in Europe are dying than are being born
2016-01-15,German town bars asylum seekers from pool after harassment complaints
2016-01-15,Female Jihadis Attack Tourist Hotel in Burkina Faso; 23 Killed
2016-01-15,Burkina Faso attack: 'At least 20 dead' in Ouagadougou hotel
2016-01-15,"Gunfire, explosions heard at major hotel in Burkina Fasos capital  reports"
2016-01-15,North Korea said it could stop its nuclear tests in exchange for signing a peace treaty with the U.S. and a stop to annual military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea.
2016-01-15,Swiss Muslim-convert mother is stopped at Turkish border trying to take her four-year-old boy to Syria to join ISIS after she was brainwashed by jihadists online
2016-01-15,Former Dutch soldier may face charges for killing IS jihadis
2016-01-15,Netanyahu slams 'stupid' Swedish minister's probe call
2016-01-15,Ecuador said Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can leave his hideout in its London embassy and go into exile in the South American country if Swedish prosecutors do not charge him after questioning him.
2016-01-15,Crude oil at $29
2016-01-15,Migrants feel chill as Europe tightens frontier checks
2016-01-15,Venezuela's President Maduro declares economic emergency; claims powers to rule by decree for two months
2016-01-15,At least 18 academics in Turkey have been arrested for denouncing military operations in the country's south-east.
2016-01-15,The Wall Street banks that financed the U.S. shale boom are facing growing losses as oil falls below $30 a barrel.
2016-01-15,"Facebook outsources fight against ""racist posts"" in Germany"
2016-01-15,Gunfire and explosions heard at Burkina Faso hotel
2016-01-15,"Burkina Faso: Security forces raid besieged hotel, free hostages"
2016-01-15,Julian Assange to be questioned by Swedish prosecutors in London
2016-01-15,Adolf Hitlers Mein Kampf sells out after week on German bookshelves
2016-01-14,No. of crimes in Japan falls to postwar low in 2015. 933 murder for a 127M population. Teenage crimes numbers lower than 65yo+.
2016-01-14,"Danish 15yo girl who converted to Islam arrested for possessing explosives, sanctioning terror"
2016-01-14,Apple may be on the hook for $8 billion in taxes as a result of a European Commission investigation.
2016-01-14,New Ebola case emerges in Sierra Leone
2016-01-14,Reefer madness debunked as major UK study finds marijuana does not reduce IQ in teens
2016-01-14,"TPP trade deal will expand Australia's economy by less than 1%, World Bank reveals"
2016-01-14,Hollande: 'Intolerable' that French Jews feel need to hide religion
2016-01-14,Colossal star explosion detected
2016-01-14,Survey: Most young Muslims in Middle East believe ISIS perverts Islam
2016-01-14,"Ancient people conquered the Arctic at least 45,000 years ago"
2016-01-14,Forget $20 - Oil Prices At $8 Per Barrel In Canada
2016-01-14,Turkey 'kills 200 Isis militants' in wave of revenge attacks for Istanbul bombing
2016-01-14,Israel: 4 charged in 'lynching' of Eritrean migrant mistaken for terrorist
2016-01-14,"A Japanese lawmaker Thursday said wartime sex slaves forced to work for Japans Imperial Army were professional prostitutes, before he was forced to retract the remarks and issue an apology."
2016-01-14,"Several in critical condition - one in a coma - after clinical trial of new drug in France, health minister says"
2016-01-14,"Twitter Sued For Enabling ""Explosive Growth Of ISIS"""
2016-01-14,Germany's highest court rules Facebook 'friend finder' is unlawful
2016-01-14,Pentagon: U.S. sailors made 'navigational error' into Iranian waters
2016-01-14,Isis has abducted up to 400 Yazidi children and could be using them as suicide bombers
2016-01-14,"U.S. Health Officials Consider Travel Warning As Zika Virus Spreads: ""there's no vaccine against Zika, a viral cousin of dengue fever, and no treatment for it."""
2016-01-14,Calais Jungle clearing: Tensions mount as refugees prepare for clash with police and government bulldozers
2016-01-14,Islamic State takes credit for shootings and suicide bombings in Jakarta
2016-01-14,French drug trial halted after one person falls into a coma and five others become critically ill
2016-01-14,"Footage of elephants in Cambodia raises hopes for Asian species in the wild - A camera trap captured pictures of a herd roaming through the remote Cardamom mountains, spelling success for 14-yr conservation effort"
2016-01-14,"Iraqi Kurds, who field one of the most effective ground forces fighting Islamic State militants, are urgently asking the U.S. to help ease their budget crisis made worse by slumping oil prices and 1.8 million people who have fled fighting in Iraq and Syria"
2016-01-13,"Explosions heard in Indonesian capital - in Jakarta, with reports of casualties."
2016-01-13,"Wearing black jackets adorned with a symbol of a Viking and the Finnish flag, the ""Soldiers of Odin"" have surfaced as self-proclaimed patriots patrolling the streets to protect native Finns from immigrants, worrying the government and police."
2016-01-13,"Denmark is poised to pass a law requiring newly arrived refugees to hand over valuables, including gold or jewelry, to help pay for the costs of lodging them."
2016-01-13,"In Huge Win For Elephants, Hong Kong Finally Vows To 'Phase Out' Ivory Sales"
2016-01-13,London breaches air pollution limit for the whole of 2016 in just over seven days
2016-01-13,Scientists say humans have canceled the next ice age
2016-01-13,"Istanbul suicide bomber entered Turkey as a refugee, less than a week before his attack killed 10 tourists"
2016-01-13,A local politician in Bavaria is following through on a threat he made to Angela Merkel in October - by sending a bus full of refugees on a 550km journey to her office in Berlin
2016-01-13,"As Oil Crashed, Renewables Attracted Record $329 Billion - These figures are a stunning riposte to all those who expected clean energy investment to stall on falling oil and gas prices, said Michael Liebreich, founder of the London-based research arm of Bloomberg LP."
2016-01-13,Car bomb at Turkish police station kills 5
2016-01-13,"Francois Hollande has called the idea French Jews would hide their religion out of fear ""intolerable"", after an anti-Semitic attack in Marseille."
2016-01-13,NASA: Planetary Defense Office Set Up to Save Earth
2016-01-13,"Anger in Haiti over misspent aid, six years after the 2010 earthquake"
2016-01-13,Israel to bar Sweden from any role in future diplomatic process with Palestinians
2016-01-13,Kerry Thanks Iran for Quick Release of U.S. Sailors
2016-01-13,Bomb blasts and gunfire in Jakarta
2016-01-13,Suicide Attack on Pakistan Polio Vaccination Center Kills 15
2016-01-13,Norway to send refugees back to Russia - by bike
2016-01-13,"[Developing in Sydney, AUS] Police clearing Opera House, ferries cancelled"
2016-01-13,"Canada officially welcomes first 10,000 Syrian refugees"
2016-01-13,African lions are set to gain greater international protection this year in the wake of the killing of Cecil by an American dentist in Zimbabwe in 2015. The number of lions in Africa has declined by half since the 1990s.
2016-01-13,French MPs wear Jewish kippot to National Assembly in show of solidarity
2016-01-13,"Taiwan's pig farmers threaten large-scale protest over US pork containing ractopamine, a drug fed to promote rapid weight gain"
2016-01-13,"Prominent Putin Critic Vladimimr Pribylovsky, Co-Author of The Corporation, Found Dead in Moscow"
2016-01-13,New Charlie Hebdo cartoon suggests dead 3-year-old refugee Alan Kurdi would have become sexual attacker
2016-01-12,Oil Falls Below $30/Barrel for First Time Since December 2003
2016-01-12,Migrant crisis: Coach full of British schoolchildren 'attacked by Calais refugees'
2016-01-12,"Saudi Arabia arrests human rights activist Samar Badawi who was the first woman to sue her guardian for preventing her from marrying the man of her choice, and also sued the Saudi government for the right to vote in municipal elections"
2016-01-12,"Putin says Russia has no interest in ""costly,"" ""meaningless"" role as superpower"
2016-01-12,"Calais Jungle: 2,000 refugees 'given three days to leave as bulldozers move in'"
2016-01-12,Iran frees US sailors
2016-01-12,Canadian dollar drops to 69 cents US - Business
2016-01-12,ISIS burns its fighters alive for letting Ramadi fall
2016-01-12,Seoul media: South Korea has fired warning shots after North Korean drone seen across border
2016-01-12,"Istanbul Bomber identified, Saudi national, member of ISIL, entered Turkey via Syria"
2016-01-12,Pakistan army officers involved in attack on Indian Consulate: Afghan police
2016-01-12,"Archaeologists have uncovered Britain's ""Pompeii"" after discovering the ""best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found"" in the country."
2016-01-12,"Israel blasts Swedish FM for ""supporting terrorism, encouraging violence"""
2016-01-12,Gaza Journalist Says He Was Tortured in Hamas Jail
2016-01-12,Mexico moves El Chapo randomly from cell to cell to avoid fresh escape.
2016-01-12,Putin's Alleged Son-In-Law Is Russia's Latest Billionaire
2016-01-12,A Fallen Russia Oligarch Sends Warning to Rest of Putin Insiders
2016-01-12,"Private messages at work can be read by employers, says court"
2016-01-12,North Korea faked missile test footage: U.S. experts
2016-01-12,Iranian Official Denies That Nuclear Reactor Was Sealed
2016-01-12,Iran seizes 2 US Navy Boats -- will return boat and sailors promptly.
2016-01-12,Head of Marseille Jews urges them not to wear kippa after attack
2016-01-12,"Irish intelligence units monitor 40 suspected Isil supporters - Garda and Army intelligence units are monitoring upwards of 40 individuals who have been identified as either Isil supporters or jihadi fighters, the Irish Independent has learned."
2016-01-12,Sierra Leone receive $90 billion in funds from China
2016-01-12,Australia rejects US call for more troops to defeat Islamic State
2016-01-11,"Iran removes core of Arak heavy water nuclear reactor and fills it with concrete, fulfilling one of its key obligations in the nuclear deal"
2016-01-11,"In an extremely unusual airstrike, the U.S. dropped bombs Sunday in central Mosul, Iraq, destroying a building containing huge amounts of cash ISIS was using to pay its troops and for ongoing operations"
2016-01-11,U.N. says some of its peacekeepers were paying 13-year-olds for sex
2016-01-11,"Explosion in Istanbul's Sultanahmet, injuries reported"
2016-01-11,Nestle the world's largest food producer is to be sued over allegations that it used child slaves to harvest cocoa in the Ivory Coast in Africa.
2016-01-11,Scientists may have detected gravity waves for the first time ever
2016-01-11,Germany sends migrants back to Austria
2016-01-11,More than 200 children were abused in choir run by Pope Benedicts brother
2016-01-11,Qatar bans film The Danish Girl about a transgendered Danish artist for 'moral depravity'
2016-01-11,Most of Istanbul blast victims are German citizens - sources in Turkish PM office
2016-01-11,"ISIS gunmen, suicide bombers, and car bomb kill 17 at Baghdad mall"
2016-01-11,"Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has advised clients to brace for a ""cataclysmic year""..""Sell Everything""..Oil may touch US$ 16/brl"
2016-01-11,"Today junior doctors in the UK go on strike for the first time in 40 years after the government has tried to sell an 30-40% salary pay cut as an 11% pay rise, and make them work longer hours than they currently do"
2016-01-11,Bankers charged in euro rate-rigging case: Nearly a dozen former top bankers have been charged with colluding to rig a key euro benchmark borrowing rate. But almost half the defendants didn't appear in court
2016-01-11,Merkel Says Europe Is Vulnerable in Refugee Crisis
2016-01-11,GoPro Footage from Arrest of El Chapo
2016-01-11,"A teenager who attacked a Jewish teacher in the French port of Marseilles said he did it in the name of the so-called Islamic State, according to the city prosecutor."
2016-01-11,Former French President Sarkozy: We Did Not Fight Nazis to Force Jews to Run to Israel
2016-01-11,Egyptian President Al-Sissi attends Coptic Christmas Mass in Cairo; apologizes for extremists who burned down churches and promises to rebuild them.
2016-01-11,US bombs 'millions' in ISIS currency stock
2016-01-11,RBS tells investors sell everything
2016-01-11,Beijing to end coal usage by 2020 to reduce smog
2016-01-11,Western sanctions 'severely' harming Russia: Putin
2016-01-11,"Russia Is Arming Hezbollah, Say Two of the Groups Field Commanders"
2016-01-11,Putin Says Sheltering Assad Would Be Easier Than Snowden Asylum
2016-01-10,Swedish police accused of covering up rampant sexual abuse at music festival
2016-01-10,"Canadian pastor held in North Korea labor camp digs holes alone for eight hours a day, has not seen any other prisoners"
2016-01-10,Largest manmade 4.6 magnitude earthquake by fracking; new world record in Northern B.C.
2016-01-10,Body found at Dyatlov Pass where 9 hikers mysteriously died in 1959
2016-01-10,Muhammad cartoons censored at Charlie Hebdo exhibit in Tel Aviv
2016-01-10,"China Discovers 470-Ton Gold Mine, Worth Over $16.4 Billion, 2000 Meters Undersea"
2016-01-10,The Only Bridge Linking Eastern and Western Canada Splits in Cold Weather - Effectively Separating the Country in Two.
2016-01-10,"Filipino terror groups pledge allegiance to ISIS, form 'Islamic State satellite'"
2016-01-10,Meat targeted for theft as food prices soar across Canada
2016-01-10,Isis: Paris attacks planner Abdelhamid Abaaoud 'met jihadists on UK visit'
2016-01-10,"Delhi's air quality improves after 9 days of odd-even formula, pollution levels drop sharply"
2016-01-10,HIV Cure Hope - Two JHU scientists believe they can destroy infected cells - human clinical trials to begin within 3 months
2016-01-10,Putin says he wants global cooperation against terrorism: Bild
2016-01-10,Shanghai stocks close down 5.33% on economic gloom
2016-01-10,"Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Yemen Bombed, Leaving 4 Dead, 10 Injured"
2016-01-10,The biggest sea-dwelling crocodile ever found has turned up in the Tunisian desert. The whopper of a prehistoric predator grew to over 30 feet long (nearly ten meters) and weighed three tons.
2016-01-10,Pakistan Says It Will Respond to Any Threat to Saudi Arabia
2016-01-10,Swedish minister says bringing back conscription (draft) could help in refugee crisis
2016-01-10,"Turkey plans to offer Syrian refugees work permits in order to encourage fewer of them to migrate, minister says"
2016-01-10,"Tuberculosis outbreak in Papua New Guinea worsens, as health workers plead for promised funding"
2016-01-10,Isis 'ran sophisticated immigration operation' on Turkey-Syria border
2016-01-10,"India biggest exporter of doctors, nurses to Europe: report"
2016-01-10,"As Iraq battles Islamic State in the northwest, violence and crime surge in south.Fear has become part of daily life amid a surge of violence in Basra, where rampant crime, kidnappings and extortion have become commonplace."
2016-01-10,"""Only 22 cases of Guinea worm disease were reported worldwide in 2015, an 83 percent reduction from the 126 cases reported in 2014, the greatest single percentage reduction in human cases in the history of the global campaign"""
2016-01-10,NATO Report Slams Afghan Army As Mission Incapable
2016-01-09,2015 was the first year since 1974 in which no climber successfully made it to the top of Mount Everest.
2016-01-09,"Mexican Politician: 'They Can Find El Chapo, But Not 43 Students"
2016-01-09,British woman jailed for trying to kidnap her children and place them under ISIS rule in Syria
2016-01-09,"ISIS urges UK jihadis to cut beards, shun mosques and wear crosses to blend in"
2016-01-09,Mexico will be extraditing El Chapo to the United States
2016-01-09,Hong Kong: Thousands rally over missing booksellers. Suspected to have been abducted by mainland Chinese security forces.
2016-01-09,"Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on all Iranians, even those who oppose the Islamic Republic, to participate in next month's elections to parliament and to the assembly that will choose his successor."
2016-01-09,New edition of Hitlers Mein Kampf is an instant sellout in Germany
2016-01-09,"The Catholic Church has spent millions of dollars providing pensions, housing, and private medical insurance to convicted paedophile priests despite branding them ""evil"" and having most defrocked."
2016-01-09,"40,000 starving Syrians trapped by Assad regime forced to make soup from grass because theyve 'eaten every stray cat and dog in the city' | Middle East | News"
2016-01-09,Paris police station attacker lived in German refugee shelter: police
2016-01-09,"As Ottawa prepares to legalize recreational marijuana, the 27 companies licensed to grow and sell medical pot in Canada are getting ready to cash in."
2016-01-09,Fire breaks out at Kosovo government HQ as protests flare
2016-01-09,Sean Penn did an interview with El Chapo at his hideout in Mexico before he got caught.
2016-01-09,Merkel proposes tougher migrant laws
2016-01-09,Germany and US revive joint intelligence surveillance
2016-01-09,Egypt policemen shot dead in Giza in IS-claimed attack
2016-01-09,India to save $6 billion per annum after switching to LED by 2018: Piyush Goyal
2016-01-09,Police Discover Paris Bomb Factory In Brussels
2016-01-09,"Foreign 'super students' told to leave Denmark for working 1,5h per week too much"
2016-01-09,Britain's intelligence services tried to recruit new Jihadi John: report
2016-01-09,"Rocket hits Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic in Yemen, killing three: MSF"
2016-01-09,Anti-migrant protest turns violent as German welcome cools
2016-01-09,Emirati sentenced to death for joining Islamic State
2016-01-09,China is going to invest at least 3.8 trillion yuan ($538 billion) in new railway construction in the country's 13th Five Year Plan (2016-2020)
2016-01-08,El Chapo' Being Taken to Same Prison He Escaped from Six Months Ago
2016-01-08,El Chapo has been caught
2016-01-08,At least 231 children abused at Catholic boys choir run by Pope Benedicts brother
2016-01-08,"North Korea has defended its latest nuclear test, saying the fate of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Moamer Kadhafi in Libya showed what happened when countries forsake their nuclear weapon ambitions."
2016-01-08,"A group of United Nations' experts have warned of a ""chilling effect"" on freedoms of speech and expression, should the UK's draft surveillance bill become law.The bill has proven controversial among the public and tech companies alike."
2016-01-08,"Gunman opens fire on hotel popular with western tourists in Hurghada, Egypt"
2016-01-08,French Proposal to Strip Citizenship Over Terrorism Sets Off Alarms
2016-01-08,"Hungary will never support EU sanctions against Poland, says Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban"
2016-01-08,"Inside Delhi's gadget graveyard where the West's e-waste ends up: Indian men, women and children process discarded technology for as little as $2.10 a day and it is slowly poisoning them."
2016-01-08,North Korea says South Korea's propaganda broadcasts push situation to 'brink of war'.
2016-01-08,"A blast in a crowded market in India's northeast has wounded at least eight people, three of them seriously, police say."
2016-01-08,Great White Dies After Three Days In Aquarium
2016-01-08,"Carter Center: 22 Guinea Worm Cases Reported in 2015. The human rights organization founded by former President Jimmy Carter in 1986 began targeting the painful parasitic disease for eradication. At that time, an estimated 3.5 million cases occurred annually worldwide."
2016-01-08,French daredevil falls to death while preparing for tightrope stunt
2016-01-08,"In bid to win back tourists, Brussels wants visitors to dial random locals - After a yr of terror plots & alerts, lockdowns & raids, the city's hit upon a new idea: Curious foreigners can call & talk to locals. Anyone can visit #CallBrussels website, click a button & wait for someone to pick up."
2016-01-08,"Swiss missionary has been kidnapped from her home in Timbuktu nearly four years after she was abducted by Islamist militants from the same house, the Malian army and a local resident says."
2016-01-08,NASA's Fermi satellite completes map of the sky; finds mysterious source of gamma rays
2016-01-08,US condemns Israel expanding West Bank settlement bloc
2016-01-08,Hundreds of Syrians Are Turned Back at Beirut Airport
2016-01-08,Iranian Soccer Player Jailed Over Photos With Unveiled Women
2016-01-08,Saudi Arabia executions: Philip Hammond condemned by rights campaigners for 'excusing' mass killings
2016-01-08,"Venezuela's Economy Czar: ""Inflation Does Not Exist"""
2016-01-08,"Seychelles, in a first-ever debt restructuring for climate adaptation, is swapping nearly $30 million of its debt in exchange for the protection of 30 percent of its ocean territory with an area larger than the size of Germany."
2016-01-08,"A Germans Video Likens Mao to Hitler, and China Wants Him Punished"
2016-01-08,"Cereal harvests across world ""fall by 10% in 50 yrs"" - Impact of droughts stronger recently, especially in developed countries like N America, Europe & Australia, that are even more strongly affected than the developing world, with average production cuts of 20%."
2016-01-07,"Reports of sexual assaults on women across European cities, including Cologne, Hamburg, Zrich, Salzburg, Helsinki during NYE festivities"
2016-01-07,"Shelter forcibly converted children to Christianity, raided by police Emmanuel Group in India. Busted by police.Children hung from wrists ,starved and beaten for failing to recite Bible passages post conversion"
2016-01-07,Iran Has Banned Its Citizens from Making Pilgrimages to Mecca
2016-01-07,"Gaddafi warned Blair his ousting would 'open door' to jihadis. ""They want to control the Mediterranean and then they will attack Europe."
2016-01-07,A Turkish firm has been selling fake life vests - they soak up water - for refugees at sea
2016-01-07,German minister says deportations possible in Cologne sexual-assault case
2016-01-07,Mao statue in China 'pulled down by authorities' after 120ft gold giant is mocked online
2016-01-07,A poacher-hunting dog in South Africa has been awarded a medal for his heroic work in helping save endangered rhinos. K9 Killer's tracking skills have led to the arrest of 115 poachers in Kruger National Park over the last four years.
2016-01-07,Police 'used terror powers to spy on officers blowing whistle on racism' | Exclusive: Cleveland constabulary faces claims it used officers' confidential emails to defend against employment cases
2016-01-07,Iran Bans All Imports from Saudi Arabia
2016-01-07,UK has sold $8bn of arms to Saudi Arabia in five years: Report
2016-01-07,Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico says migrants can't be integrated
2016-01-07,U.S. Tells China That Soft Approach to North Korea Has Failed
2016-01-07,"5,300-year-old Iceman had the stomach bug that causes ulcers; also had arthritis, spinal damage, tooth decay, and lactose intolerance, but died from a murderous arrow wound to the shoulder"
2016-01-07,New Jihadi John milked the benefit system before leaving to join ISIS
2016-01-07,Charlie Hebdo anniversary: free-speech groups unite in defence of 'right to offend'. PEN International leads organisations around the world calling for awareness of intense repression of writers and increased government surveillance in wake of atrocity
2016-01-07,Polish president signs bill putting state media under government control
2016-01-07,Mein Kampf hits stores in tense Germany
2016-01-07,"Morocco Bans WhatsApp, Skype, Viber and Other Services Providing Mobile Internet Calls"
2016-01-07,"The UN library announced its most-checked-out book of 2015: ""Immunity of Heads of State and State Officials for International Crimes"""
2016-01-07,"One third of the worlds freshwater fish are at risk if dozens of large hydroelectric dams are built in the Amazon, Congo and Mekong basins, aquatic ecologists have warned."
2016-01-07,"Nuclear weapons risk greater than in cold war, says ex-Pentagon chief.""The probability of a nuclear calamity is higher today, I believe, that it was during the cold war, Perry said. A new danger has been rising in the past three years"""
2016-01-07,"North Korea Claims That It Tested the ""H-Bomb of Justice"""
2016-01-07,UK - DWP told woman she was not ill enough for benefit on day she died
2016-01-07,Venezuela's new parliament removes pictures of Hugo Chavez
2016-01-06,China shuts down stock market after 15 min 7% loss.
2016-01-06,Armed suspect shot dead after trying to storm Paris police station
2016-01-06,Oil price falls below $35 a barrel to fresh 11-year low
2016-01-06,Germans outraged by mayors advice for women after raft of harassment
2016-01-06,German public broadcaster ZDF has apologised for delays in reporting on a wave of sexual assaults blamed on men of Arab appearance amid accusations Wednesday of media self-censorship of the inflammatory issue.
2016-01-06,"Iran accuses Saudis of bombing their embassy in Sana'a, Yemen"
2016-01-06,Protesters demand Canada cancel $15B Saudi contract
2016-01-06,"'Snooper's charter' will cost British lives, MPs to be warned | Former NSA security chief-turned-whistleblower says plan for bulk collection of communications data is 99% useless"
2016-01-06,"Islamic scholars from Malaysia and Indonesia issue a fatwa against poachers, declaring wildlife poaching a sin"
2016-01-06,Turkish workshop employs Syrian minors to produce fake life jackets that often absorb water and drag the user down
2016-01-06,"100 murdered Christians who were gang-raped, disemboweled or burned alive when they refused to convert to Hindus could be canonised by the Pope"
2016-01-06,South Korea to restart propaganda loudspeakers on North's border
2016-01-06,Egypt asks Israel to keep Turkey away from Gaza
2016-01-06,"Reducing sugar content in sugar-sweetened drinks by 40 percent over 5 years could prevent 1.5 million cases of overweight and obesity in the UK and 300,000 cases of diabetes"
2016-01-06,Scientists Discover Meteorite 'Older Than Earth Itself' in Australian Outback
2016-01-06,Rio Olympic stadium has no water or electricity because of unpaid bills.
2016-01-06,Saudi-led air strikes in Yemen hit centre for blind people
2016-01-06,Truck bomb kills 65 at Libyan police training center
2016-01-06,Israeli Tourists on Tour Bus Attacked by Masked Gunmen at Cairo Hotel
2016-01-06,"Israel and China have signed a document of understandings expanding their cooperation in energy technology research and development, including the establishment of funds for renewable energy"
2016-01-06,Donald Trump threatens to pull 700m investment from Scotland
2016-01-06,Israel busts Hamas terror cell planning abduction and murder
2016-01-06,"A working hospital in central China was demolished by force this morning, doctors and patients inside were nearly buried."
2016-01-06,Paris to close Champs Elysees to cars one Sunday a month
2016-01-06,TransCanada Corp files US$15-billion lawsuit against U.S. government for rejecting Keystone XL
2016-01-05,"Dutch government backs strong encryption, condemns backdoors"
2016-01-05,ISIS Militants Strap Bomb on 4 Year-Old Boy and Blow Him Up after Killing the Childs Father
2016-01-05,Canada proceeding with controversial $15-billion Saudi arms deal despite condemning executions
2016-01-05,Brazil is heading for its worst recession since 1901
2016-01-05,British ISIS militant's desperate plea for doctors to join the terror group as he admits many fighters are dying due to poor treatment in latest sign of the group's collapse
2016-01-05,Malaysia's schools will start holding anti-ISIS talks for kids
2016-01-05,Saudi Arabia omitted from UK death penalty strategy 'to safeguard defence contracts' - Kingdom is only major death penalty state missing from document setting out UK strategy to curb executions
2016-01-05,ISIS executes first female journalist. One of her last posts complained of limits on wifi
2016-01-05,The U.S. Justice Department has sued Volkswagen for up to $90 billion for allegedly violating environmental laws - five times regulators' initial estimate and a reminder of the carmaker's problems nearly four months after its emissions scandal broke.
2016-01-05,Leaked memo shows Saudi Arabia was fully prepared for executions backlash  and went ahead anyway | Middle East | News
2016-01-05,Sister of British extremist fighter says she will 'kill him myself' if he is new Jihadi John
2016-01-05,Mexico first country to approve Israeli drug that cures early-stage prostate cancer
2016-01-05,"Jihadi Junior - 6 or 7 year old boy in new Islamic State video, identified by grandfather in London"
2016-01-05,"Nuns claim they were forced to brand themselves with fire, eat out-of-date food and write orders of obedience in their own blood in Mafia-style initiations at Italian convent"
2016-01-05,"Malaysia Airlines temporarily bans checked baggage for flights to Europe due to 'safety, strong head winds'"
2016-01-05,'Fat cat Tuesday' as top bosses pay overtakes UK workers
2016-01-05,"""The United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories, Makarim Wibisono, submitted his resignation to the president of the Human Rights Council on Monday, citing Israels refusal to grant him access to the West Bank and Gaza."""
2016-01-05,"Merkel rejects Bavarian bid for refugee limit: Amid ongoing tensions with her allies in Bavaria, Angela Merkel has refused their plan to place a cap on incoming aslyum seekers. The proposed upper limit of 200,000 for 2016 was ""not the chancellor's position."""
2016-01-05,Yemen centre for blind 'hit in Saudi coalition air raid'
2016-01-05,"Mass murderer Anders Behring Breiviks court case against the Norwegian state over his prison conditions, which he likens to torture, will take place in the jail where he is being held.Breivik killed 77 people because he was opposed to Norways multiculturalism."
2016-01-05,"Kuwait has recalled its ambassador to Iran in the latest episode of a regional diplomatic crisis following the execution of a prominent religious leader in Saudi Arabia, the official Kuwait News Agency reported."
2016-01-05,Britain set for first mass strike by doctors in 40 years
2016-01-05,First known hacker-caused power outage signals troubling escalation
2016-01-05,Kuwait becomes latest Saudi ally to downgrade ties with Iran
2016-01-05,"'Do Your Cars Emit Oxygen?' Indian Supreme Court to car manufacturers including Toyota and Mercedes, who want ban on their larger diesel cars in Delhi to be revoked"
2016-01-04,Saudi Arabia breaks off ties with Iran - Amid row over Saudi execution of Shia cleric
2016-01-04,Exclusive: UK Government urged to reveal its role in getting Saudi Arabia onto UN Human Rights Council | Liberal Democrat and Green Party leaders call on David Cameron to reveal whether British government supported Saudi bid
2016-01-04,China halts trading as stocks fall 7%
2016-01-04,Earthquake measuring 6.8 magnitude strikes India
2016-01-04,A virus linked to shrinking newborns brains is spreading rapidly beyond Brazil (epidemic of Zika virus suspected)
2016-01-04,"New photos of SpaceX booster show sooty, but undamaged rocket"
2016-01-04,Indian consulate in Afghanistan under attack by gunmen
2016-01-04,Iran calls off Major Hajj
2016-01-04,"Denmark responds to Swedish border checks with own controls. ""If the European Union cannot protect the external border you will see more and more countries forced to introduce temporary border controls."" - Danish PM"
2016-01-04,David Cameron criticised for turning 'blind eye' to mass executions in Saudi Arabia
2016-01-04,Denmark introduces temporary controls along German border
2016-01-04,Israel Retaliates to Hezbollah bombing at Lebanon Border - IDF currently firing artillery at Hezbollah and Lebanese army positions
2016-01-04,"China Aims to Build 40 Nuclear Power Plants in Upcoming 5 Years, Generating 88 Gigawatts"
2016-01-04,"According to obtained documents, after rape and forcing inmates to do oral sex, British Soldiers could face charges for possible War Crimes committed in Iraq"
2016-01-04,Western Australian rooftop solar systems producing more energy than its biggest turbine
2016-01-04,Iranian leaders website posts controversial image comparing Saudi Arabia to Isis
2016-01-04,"After Bahrain, Sudan expels Iranian ambassador from Khartoum"
2016-01-04,"Saudi Arabia to cut off all air traffic with Iran, Saudi FM"
2016-01-04,Hezbollah sets off large border bomb targeting IDF heavy vehicles
2016-01-04,Iranian diplomats given 48 hours to leave Saudi Arabia
2016-01-04,BBC News: Migrant crisis: Sweden border checks come into force
2016-01-04,Teachers claim the politics of austerity is leaving Scottish schoolchildren so hungry they have to steal from their classmates just to be able to eat.
2016-01-04,"The Aftermath of a Muslim Cleric's Execution in Saudi Arabia - Al-Nimrs death, which al-Nimrs brother told the Associated Press came as a surprise to even their own family, was seen by some as a warning to individuals, particularly Shiites, against seeking political reforms."
2016-01-04,Iran: 40 arrested for attack on Saudi embassy
2016-01-04,"Oil prices jump over 2 pct on Saudi Arabia, Iran tensions"
2016-01-03,"Despite ban, Iranians consume 60 million litres of alcohol each year"
2016-01-03,"Protesters storm Saudi embassy in Tehran, set it ablaze"
2016-01-03,"A Week After India Banned It, Facebook's Free Basics Shuts Down in Egypt"
2016-01-03,Mexican Mayor Murdered One Day After Taking Office.A newly installed mayor in a municipality close to Mexico City was shot and killed outside her home by four gunmen.
2016-01-03,Calls for calorie labels on alcoholic drinks to help fight obesity
2016-01-03,"a group of city Muslims launched ""Muslims against ISIS"" campaign on Friday, denouncing the jihadist terror organization's brutalities and chalking out steps to stop Muslim youths from becoming IS recruits"
2016-01-03,Hong Kong unsettled by strange case of missing booksellers
2016-01-03,Nigel Farage's car wheels 'were sabotaged in an assassination attempt': Ukip leader lost control of Volvo when wheel fell off on motorway...police confirm foul play
2016-01-03,"Britain is to create a marine reserve only slightly smaller than the UK in the waters of Ascension Island. The waters have a host of extraordinary species including some of the largest marlin in the world, one of the largest populations of green turtles, tropical seabirds and a unique frigate bird."
2016-01-03,Isis releases video showing execution of five 'British spies' and warning to 'imbecile' David Cameron
2016-01-03,Israel indicts Jewish extremists in deadly arson attack
2016-01-03,Angela Merkel tightens Germanys rules for migrants - Automatic refugee status will be replaced by individual hearings to establish identity
2016-01-03,"ISIS oil trucks cross into Turkey every day, captured terrorist admits"
2016-01-03,"In New Year's address, Kim Jong Un vows to raise living standards"
2016-01-03,Iran's leader warns Saudis of 'divine vengeance' over execution of Shia cleric
2016-01-03,Pathankot: Fresh gunfire and blast at India military base
2016-01-03,Canadian fighter jets in the Middle East engage in air campaign against Islamic State
2016-01-03,France quarrels over revoking citizenship of terrorists
2016-01-03,Refugees find dizzying freedoms and unexpected dangers in Brazil
2016-01-03,French Soldiers Shoot Attacker Who Drove Car At Them
2016-01-03,US shuts down drone operation in Ethiopia
2016-01-03,Man Who Drove Car at French Troops Had Jihadi Propaganda in Computer: Prosecutor
2016-01-03,EU commissioner: Poland's new state media law conflicts with EU values
2016-01-03,British Hikers Rescued Three Times in Iceland
2016-01-03,"Iran wins world record for most executions per capita; Tehran hanged at least 694 people between Jan. 1 and Sept. 15, the highest rate of executions in the Islamic Republic in some 25 years, according to a report by a U.N. human rights monitor"
2016-01-02,The seventh row of the periodic table is officially full
2016-01-02,Coffee Just Got Cheaper - A global surplus of coffee is causing bean prices to bottom out
2016-01-02,Another Hong Kong worker at anti-Beijing bookshop 'disappears
2016-01-02,Switzerland signs deal to end international banking secrecy
2016-01-02,Al-Qaeda affiliate group uses Donald Trumps anti-Muslim rant in recruitment video
2016-01-02,Militants have attacked an Indian air force base near the country's border with Pakistan.
2016-01-02,All BBC Websites went down after a major DDoS attack
2016-01-02,"Tel Aviv mayor: Shooting appears to be terrorist attack - 2 dead, 4 wounded"
2016-01-02,King Amenhotep III statue was found by chance during a raid on weapons and drugs traders.
2016-01-02,"Wind, solar power soaring in spite of bargain prices for fossil fuels"
2016-01-02,"Saudi beheadings soar in 2015 under discretionary rulings: Saudi Arabia carried out at least 157 executions in 2015, with beheadings reaching their highest level in the kingdom in two decades, according to several advocacy groups that monitor the death penalty worldwide."
2016-01-02,"According to scientists, a storm the likes of which few have ever seen is about to raise north pole temperatures to as high as 40 degrees Fahrenheit"
2016-01-02,Over 800 cars set ablaze in France on New Year's Eve
2016-01-02,Kim Jong Un warns: I'm ready for war. Also expressed a willingness to work toward reconciliation with South Korea
2016-01-02,"Nimr al-Nimr execution: Former Iraq PM al-Maliki says death will ""topple Saudi regime"""
2016-01-02,"Saudi Arabia says 47 executed on terror charges, including Shi'ite cleric"
2016-01-02,"French academic defies Anne Frank Fund, publishes diaries online"
2016-01-02,Hand grenade attack kills two at Ethiopian university: police
2016-01-02,Renowned Animal Trainer Caught On Film Beating Life of Pi Tiger
2016-01-02,China Says It Is Building Its Second Aircraft Carrier
2016-01-02,Two injured as man runs car into troops protecting mosque in southern France
2016-01-02,"Roundup: Russia takes restrictive measures against Ukraine, Turkey"
2016-01-02,Dubai's residents rally together and launch social media campaign to offer their homes as shelter to those displaced by the large hotel fire.
2016-01-02,Contamination from Brazil mining spill spreads to ocean
2016-01-02,"Isis in Raqqa: Undercover activists do what they can to fight back against Islamists.Part citizen journalists, part resistance movement, members of Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered secretly document Isiss barbaric punishments and strict social regimes"
2016-01-01,"A free-standing, waste-trapping floating dam could revolutionize ocean cleanup. In a few months a giant floating dam in the form of a 100 metre long barrier segment will be set up in the North Sea off the coast of The Netherlands. Its ambition: to cleanse the worlds oceans of plastic forever."
2016-01-01,Today China begins its 2-child policy
2016-01-01,Fire engulfs 63-story Dubai hotel near world's tallest building
2016-01-01,Turkish politician jailed for almost three years after 'insulting president Erdogan on Twitter'
2016-01-01,Munich police warn of terror threat - Ask people to avoid crowds
2016-01-01,SpaceX's first reusable rocket is back in its hangar
2016-01-01,ISIS are preparing for a final battle against the West over loss of key towns
2016-01-01,Kabul bomb: Huge blast targets French restaurant popular with ex pats on New Year's Day in Afghanistan capital
2016-01-01,"Poachers using science papers to target newly discovered species - Journals begin withholding locations after warnings the data is helping smugglers drive lizards, snakes & frogs to near-extinction"
2016-01-01,Russia starts delivery of S-300 missile systems to Iran
2016-01-01,Dubai bought 20 jetpacks to battle skyscraper fires  but they won't arrive until 2016
2016-01-01,Japanese research team earns right to name Element 113
2016-01-01,Nepalese women trafficked to Syria and forced to work as maids: Unscrupulous agents lure women into conflict zones with promises of employment abroad only to leave them working long hours for little or no pay.
2016-01-01,"Britain's ""Crosby flap"" has developed into a national cringe over its royal honours system, which is being denounced as ""borderline corrupt"" cronyism that rewards friends and donors to the Conservative party."
2016-01-01,Dubai New Year's fireworks will go on despite blaze: Official
2016-01-01,"Merkel thanks Germans for helping 1 million refugees.""Thank you for the overwhelming and really moving wave of spontaneous helpfulness that we experienced this year"""
2016-01-01,"China arrests 11 for deadly landslide, death toll now 12"
2016-01-01,"Unearthing Roman 'nerve centre' in Spain - Archaeologists begin uncovering remains of what could be one of the most important Roman settlements in Spain, under town of Jimena de la Frontera. Drawings reveal some of the most significant & virtually untouched Roman remains in the region."
2016-01-01,"China, the worlds biggest clean energy investor, plans to increase wind and solar power capacity by more than 21 percent next year as it works to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by cutting its reliance on coal"
2016-01-01,"Pope: Now's the time to end indifference, 'false neutrality'"
2016-01-01,"Russian President Vladimir Putin has endorsed a new security strategy, which points to NATO expansion as a threat to the country."
2016-01-01,Kim Jong-un Talks of Reconciliation in New Years Speech
2016-01-01,Terror bombing at Eilat hotel thwarted
2016-01-01,"Remains of over 4,500-yrs-old shepherd's hut found on Google Earth in South Wales Argus - A man was looking for signs of a WWI firing range when something else caught his eye. The landowner knew of the site but had been told it was of no importance."
2016-01-01,Voice of the Caliphate radio broadcasts anti-Taliban propaganda in Afghanistan
2015-12-31,Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it will begin warning users of its Outlook.com email service when the company suspects that a government has been trying to hack into their accounts.
2015-12-31,Greek Orthodox Church: Homosexuals are God's creation - the church doesn't reject people.
2015-12-31,"Vladmir Putin officially dissolves Roscosmos, the Russian Space Agency and will restructure it as a state-run corporation starting January 1, 2016."
2015-12-31,Donald Trump could be refused entry to the UK after the Home Secretary Theresa May said she will ban people that are non-conducive to the public good. The petition to ban him has over half million signatures.
2015-12-31,"Saudi Arabia says its ready to meet any additional oil demand. We will satisfy the demand of our customers. We no longer limit production. If there is demand, we will respond. We have the capacity to respond to demand, Saudi oil minister said."
2015-12-31,"New Year fireworks and festivities have been cancelled in the Belgian capital, Brussels, because of terror alert."
2015-12-31,"New species of human may have shared our caves - & beds Controversial bone discoveries suggest we even interbred with & cannibalised these mystery hominins. This could overturn what it means to be human. If true, this would make the finds of truly global importance."
2015-12-31,Egypt becomes second nation to shut down Facebook's free internet service
2015-12-31,Polish government takes control of public media with new law. All current managers and supervisory board members fired with immediate effect.
2015-12-31,"From Jan 1, UK to stop financial aid to India - Times of India"
2015-12-31,"The rise of antibiotic resistance is a global health crisis, and governments now recognize it as one of the greatest challenges for public health today."""
2015-12-31,US sued over donations for illegal Israeli settlements - Lawsuit targets US Treasury Department for allowing billions in tax-exempt donations to support Israel's landgrabs
2015-12-31,"Giant squid that swam into Japanese bay guided back out to sea by diver - Toyama Bay dive shop owner joins 3.7-metre-long creature in the water, where it was lively, spurting ink and trying to entangle his tentacles around me"
2015-12-31,"In Tanzania, a Horrific Fishing Tactic Destroys All Sea Life - It's the only country in Africa where fishermen widely use homemade bombs to increase their catch. 'Blast fishing' popular off the coast, where its been outlawed since 1970."
2015-12-31,Paris Scales Back NYE Event Amid Terror Fears
2015-12-31,Ramadi residents fleeing ISIS: 'They wanted to use us as human shields'
2015-12-31,Israeli Gov't approves NIS 15-billion plan to invest in Arab municipalities
2015-12-31,Russia denies 'absurd' claims that air strikes in Syria are killing hundreds of civilians
2015-12-31,Web attack knocks BBC websites offline
2015-12-31,Iran says any U.S. sanctions on missiles illegal
2015-12-31,Maternity Benefits: Indian Government plans to allow new moms to work from home for two years
2015-12-31,'Rat on a plane' forces Air India flight to turn back
2015-12-31,Philippines to join China-backed AIIB infrastructure bank
2015-12-31,ESPN invites five FIFA presidential candidates to TV debate
2015-12-31,"Hamas to keep Palestinians from ringing in New Year, says New Years Eve ""contrary to our traditions and an imitation of the West."
2015-12-30,Tech companies face criminal charges if they notify users of UK government spying
2015-12-30,Mexican marijuana farmers see profits tumble as U.S. loosens laws.
2015-12-30,A would-be suicide bomber and his wife have been found guilty of planning an attack in London to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 atrocity.
2015-12-30,"The rich will get richer while two million more children slide into poverty, 2030 economic forecast suggests"
2015-12-30,The North Pole will have above freezing temperatures this Wednesday.
2015-12-30,South Australia - New sexting laws to spare children from facing child pornography charges.
2015-12-30,ISIS militants burn 20 media activists to death in Mosul
2015-12-30,Italy fines Apple over misleading tax conduct
2015-12-30,Body of notorious Mexican drug cartel founder dumped on highway with bullet holes
2015-12-30,"Morocco to deploy 100,000 armed officers to protect the country on New Year's Eve after ISIS threats"
2015-12-30,8 survivors found 5 days after Chinese mine collapsed
2015-12-30,German states to spend around 17 billion euros on refugees in 2016
2015-12-30,'Ramadi Is Liberated': Key Victory Over IS: The capture of Ramadi is the first major triumph for the Iraqi Army since it fled in the face of an assault by IS 18 months ago.
2015-12-30,Cuba Vows to Keep Socialism 'Intact' Despite US Investment
2015-12-30,Assassination of third Syrian journalist raises fears of Islamic State activity in Turkey - ABC News
2015-12-30,Norway to turn back asylum seekers on Swedish border
2015-12-30,"Islamic State Suffers Double Blow As Ramadi Falls, Leaders Killed"
2015-12-30,Journalist reveals Erdoan imprisoned him for exposing Turkey's hand in the 'Syrian conflict'
2015-12-30,Russian Moon base plan falls victim to budget cuts
2015-12-30,"Belgium, Netherlands to exchange territory  without a fight: almost two centuries after the 1843 border posts were set. And all with a smile on everyones face, even though Belgium will get only a tiny part around a lock that has been built to promote traffic between the two nations."
2015-12-30,North Korea says top official Kim Yang-gon killed in car crash
2015-12-30,Putin's Son-in-Law Boosted by $1.75 Bln Russian State Loan
2015-12-30,An orgasm a day could cut prostate cancer risk
2015-12-30,"Germans claim Belgian nuclear reactors are ""falling to bits"""
2015-12-30,UK Sperm Bank Doesn't Accept Donors with Dyslexia and Asperger's
2015-12-29,Pentagon thwarts Obama's effort to close Guantanamo
2015-12-29,Rare Footage of Giant Squid in Japan
2015-12-29,Muslims tell ISIS they'd rather see Star Wars than fight in Syria
2015-12-29,"Syrian Journalist Who Documented ISIS Atrocities Is Killed in Turkey. His death came a day before he and his family were to fly to France, where they were seeking asylum"
2015-12-29,"North Korea's second most-powerful man sent to work in mine for ""ideological reeducation"""
2015-12-29,Austria Turns Away Hundreds of Migrants for Lying About Nationality
2015-12-29,Saudi Grand Mufti calls ISIS part of the Israeli army
2015-12-29,"'What has war yielded, neither land nor heaven'- Indian PM Modi to Pakistan PM Sharif"
2015-12-29,Ancient arch attacked by ISIS to be rebuilt in London using world's largest 3D printer
2015-12-29,"Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when ""owners"" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females."
2015-12-29,A new type of basaltic rock has been discovered on the surface of the moon by the Chinese Jade Rabbit moon rover.
2015-12-29,Belgians arrest 2 accused in New Year's terror plot
2015-12-29,Germany gives green light to bicycle highways
2015-12-29,"""Chinese companies that helped fuel the global hoverboard craze are unraveling rapidly, after Western retailers like Amazon demanded new safety and legality standards earlier this month [December 2015]."""
2015-12-29,Five years in jail for men who 'emotionally bully' wives: New law will target bullies who control partners with 'coercive and controlling behaviour'
2015-12-29,"Iran Hands Over Stockpile of Enriched Uranium to Russia... to soon be allowed to ""sell oil and operate in global financial markets"""
2015-12-29,Registrar Shuts Down All Pirate Bay Domain Names
2015-12-29,"The Irish Government has taken unprecedented action to deport a man it claims is Islamic State's ""main recruiter"" of extremists in the Republic."
2015-12-29,Saudi Arabia to raise domestic petrol prices by 'up to 40%' as low oil price hits home
2015-12-29,Saudi Arabia hikes petrol prices by 40% at the pump
2015-12-29,"World Health Organization declares Guinea Ebola-free after more than 2,500 deaths"
2015-12-29,Hacker group Anonymous is helping the 'Making a Murderer' convict and says it'll release critical new documents
2015-12-29,Russia 'has removed uranium from Iran'
2015-12-29,China threatens to shoot down Australian aircraft.
2015-12-29,Israel warns Brazil to accept its settler ambassador
2015-12-28,"Germany recruits 8,500 teachers to teach German to 196,000 child refugees"
2015-12-28,"Almost 23,000 people have signed an Italian porn star's petition for sex education to be taught in Italian schools."
2015-12-28,"Japan apologizes to Korea over sexual enslavement of Korean ""comfort women"""
2015-12-28,"Milan and Rome ban cars as pollution rises. Milan is banning cars, motorcycles and scooters for six hours a day over the next three days. In Rome, cars with odd-numbered plates have been banned for nine hours on Monday. On Tuesday, cars with even-numbered plates will be restricted."
2015-12-28,Saudi posts record $98 bn deficit in 2015
2015-12-28,"The United States, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are at odds over which Syrian fighters they'll be able to shoot as terrorists  and which will be labeled moderates."
2015-12-28,"Vladimir Putin has achieved his central goal of stabilizing the Assad government and, with the costs relatively low, could sustain military operations at this level for years, U.S. officials and military analysts say."
2015-12-28,Noted Syrian journalist who uncovered ISIS Aleppo atrocities murdered in Turkey
2015-12-28,Criminal gangs are contaminating democracy in Mexico by funding political campaigns and even buying public debt to launder their dirty money
2015-12-28,ISIS leader threatens to strike Israel
2015-12-28,"Schools do not have to teach non-religious world views and should let students know Britain is ""in the main Christian"", the Government has said."
2015-12-28,Iraqi army declares first major victory over Islamic State in Ramadi
2015-12-28,Syrian journalist & filmmaker who exposed ISIS Aleppo atrocities assassinated in Turkey
2015-12-28,"Train carrying 200,000 litres (44,000 gallons) of sulphuric acid derails in Australia"
2015-12-28,"Stoner Sloth was $500,000 well spent, insists firm behind PR disaster"
2015-12-28,Saudi Arabia Plans Subsidy Cuts as King Unveils 2016 Budget
2015-12-28,Syria anti-ISIS documentary maker 'assassinated' in Turkey
2015-12-28,Denmark wants Geneva Convention debate if Europe cannot curb refugee influx - Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen called on Monday for debate on possible changes to the Geneva Convention on the rights of refugees if Europe cannot soon curb an uncontrolled influx of asylum seekers.
2015-12-28,David Cameron is heckled during visit to flood-hit York as angry residents demand action to stop disaster happening again
2015-12-28,British Army Is Deployed as Flooding Submerges Northern England
2015-12-28,Brazils reluctance to accept an Israeli ambassador who is a West Bank settler has led to a standoff with Israel now warning it could downgrade diplomatic relations.
2015-12-28,Russian GDP down 4.0 percent year-on-year in November: Economy Ministry
2015-12-28,Syria and Iraq: Ethnic cleansing by Sunni and Shia jihadis is leading to a partition of the Middle East
2015-12-28,Deadly car bomb explodes at Kabul airport
2015-12-28,Experiment in Germany tests the idea of an 'emancipatory basic income'
2015-12-27,"Theresa May wants to see your internet history, so the independent thought it was only fair to ask for hers | UK Politics | News"
2015-12-27,Italy to fine smokers 300 for tossing cigarettes
2015-12-27,China officially ends three-decade-old one child policy
2015-12-27,Iran's Rouhani says it's up to Muslims to correct Islam's image
2015-12-27,"American weapons sales rose to $36.2 billion in 2014 from $26.7 billion the year before, bolstered by multibillion-dollar deals with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and South Korea. Those deals and others helped the United States control just over 50 percent of the market"
2015-12-27,"Dutch city plans to pay all citizens a basic income, and Greens say it could work in the UK"
2015-12-27,Czech leader calls migrant wave in Europe an 'organised invasion'
2015-12-27,ISIS loses key supply route to U.S.-backed rebel alliance (YPG/SDF)
2015-12-27,Swiss bank tax evasion fines to US reach $1 bn
2015-12-27,"Japan teacher who paid for sex with 12,000 filipino women, some as young as 14, gets suspended sentence over child pornography pictures."
2015-12-27,France has officially banned 'excessively thin' models from working and will send people who hire them to jail
2015-12-27,Police in Vienna have stepped up security around the city after a warning to several European capitals about a possible attack between Christmas and new year
2015-12-27,"Serbia arrests 80 in anti-corruption sweep, including ex-minister"
2015-12-27,"Guantnamo Bay lawyers call bluff on Obama's promise to close prison Obama blames Republican Congress for stalled efforts to make good on campaign promise, but detainees lawyers say fault lies within his administration"
2015-12-27,"Israeli Defense Minister: Israeli Right Must Do Some Soul-searching Over Jewish Terror. The ongoing Duma case, in which a group of extremist Jews killed multiple members of the Palestinian Dawabsheh family, as well as a recent video of wedding celebration of right-wing extremists with rifles"
2015-12-27,Chinese mine owner kills himself as 17 miners remain trapped
2015-12-27,"Wrestling With God & Taxes - In Iceland, a group find a way to game& protestthe govt's ""church tax."" Opinion polls that show Icelanders are increasingly in favor of the separation of church & state"
2015-12-27,"UK Home Secretary defends controversial surveillance bill, says it will stop cyberbullies"
2015-12-27,Canadas marijuana industry lights up as legalization looms
2015-12-27,John Beeden becomes first non-stop solo Pacific rower
2015-12-27,Istanbul airport explosion: Kurdish militant group claims responsibility - and says more attacks are on the way
2015-12-27,Iraqi forces 'enter Islamic State Ramadi stronghold'
2015-12-27,An Islamic airline has begun operations in Malayasia. Rayani Air offers flights that adhere to Islamic rules. The idea for Rayani Air grew out of demands by conservative Muslims who believed that two major air disasters for the national Malaysia Airlines were caused by Allah's wrath.
2015-12-27,Belgian College's Concerns Over Paris Attacker Were Ignored By Education Authorities to Whom They Were Reported
2015-12-27,Prince Charles can legally set off nukes: UK study
2015-12-26,"Anonymous takes credit for massive cyberattack on Turkey. ""The attack left more than 400,000 websites down in Turkey"". The government eventually had to cut off all foreign Internet traffic coming to .tr websites, the domain for Turkey, to mitigate the assault"
2015-12-26,"U.S. Pours Millions Into Fighting Poachers in South Africa - The Obama administration is stepping up efforts here to combat wildlife poaching, an expanding criminal enterprise in South Africa that has driven several animal species toward extinction and fueled the growth of international gangs."
2015-12-26,Breakaway Muslim rebels kill nine people in southern Philippines on Christmas eve
2015-12-26,ISIS allows taking organs from a living captive to save a Muslim's life
2015-12-26,"Scientists have developed a new reusable polymer that can remove pollutants from flowing water within seconds, just like air fresheners trap invisible air pollutants in the home and remove unwanted odours."
2015-12-26,"Chile is carrying out a feasibility study for the construction of a permanent pier at one of its bases in Antarctica. The move, being explored by the Ministry of Public Works, would facilitate access to the far-flung area for both scientists and tourists."
2015-12-26,"The IMF has taken Russia's side and recognized Ukraine's debt as sovereign, meaning Kiev would have to declare default if unable to pay."
2015-12-26,French Protesters ransack Muslim prayer hall
2015-12-26,Putin steps up military presence in Arctic in claim for region's oil
2015-12-26,Japan says armed Chinese vessel enters Japan waters
2015-12-26,Rome plagued by starlings
2015-12-26,China 'expels' French journalist over Uighur article
2015-12-26,"Iran shocked by high casualty rate, pulling elite forces out of Syria"
2015-12-26,"Russian Intelligence Spots, Destroys Oil Tankers on Iraq-Turkey Border"
2015-12-26,"Record number of gold coins found in 2,000-yr-old Chinese tomb"
2015-12-26,Bangladesh signs $12.65 billion deal with Russia for nuclear power plants
2015-12-26,"Turkish Internet servers are suffering a powerful cyber attack, slowing banking services and fanning fears that it could be a politically motivated attack from abroad"
2015-12-26,Iran calls on China to step up contribution to anti-Daesh fight
2015-12-26,"Earthquake shakes Islamabad, Peshawar measuring 6.9 on richter scale"
2015-12-26,"'German emissions scandal threatens to engulf Mercedes, BMW'...""Amidst this new scrutiny, the German government is maintaining a stony silence. In response to a DW request, the Transport Ministry did not offer any other explanation for the test discrepancies."""
2015-12-26,Journalists to be tried for 'insulting Erdoan'
2015-12-26,Islamic State conflict: Iraqi forces push deeper into Ramadi
2015-12-26,"Russian Orthodox church sacks ultra-conservative senior priest: Father Vsevolod Chaplin, who recently referred to Russian intervention in Syria as a holy war, relieved of his duties"
2015-12-26,Germany's foreign minister says Europe needs to regain control of its borders
2015-12-26,UK flood warnings: Homes evacuated amid heavy rain
2015-12-25,China's moon rover is alive and analyzing moon rocks
2015-12-25,Report: All Major Oil Companies Knew of Climate Change by 1970s
2015-12-25,Russia warming '2.5 times quicker' than global average
2015-12-25,Indian doctor from Bangalore designs less than 1$ device to give patients their lost voice back
2015-12-25,Shin Bet: Jewish extremists seek to overthrow Israel's gov't and crown a king
2015-12-25,Saudis to return 3 Indian workers who filmed their employer's brutal treatment
2015-12-25,First Indian Prime Minister to visit Pakistan today after a gap of over 11 years
2015-12-25,Tea containing cocaine accidentally being sold in Italian shops
2015-12-25,Turkish Internet servers reeling under huge cyber attack
2015-12-25,French immigration to Israel at all-time high
2015-12-25,Russia Asks Erdogan to Keep Promise of Resignation
2015-12-25,The governor of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago has been fired after releasing the names of companies that have bought one-third of the foreign exchange sold in the last three years
2015-12-25,U.S. held secret communications with Syrian government; explored ways to encourage a military coup in 2011
2015-12-25,"Somali Minister: No Ban on Christmas, New Year's Parties"
2015-12-25,"Indian and Russian leaders signed defence, energy and other deals."
2015-12-25,Tajikistan bans Christmas and New Year Celebrations
2015-12-25,Dozens Reported Dead in Nigeria Gas Plant Explosion
2015-12-25,Visa and MasterCard block Russian banks under US sanctions
2015-12-25,Six civilians wounded in cultural center bombing in Turkeys southeast
2015-12-25,Iraqi forces to retake Mosul from Islamic State after Ramadi secured: PM
2015-12-25,The US just bombed the taliban
2015-12-25,Chinese Rover Yutu Finds New Type of Lunar Basalt
2015-12-25,"MSF refuses U.S. apology, demands investigation after 'shocking' attack on Afghan hospital"
2015-12-25,Pope Francis in his Christmas homily denounces materialism
2015-12-25,Serbia rejects US idea for Kosovo's UN membership
2015-12-24,"Brazil declares emergency after 2,400 babies are born with brain damage, possibly due to mosquito-borne virus ""This is an unprecedented situation, unprecedented in world scientific research,"" Brazil's health ministry said in a statement on its website"
2015-12-24,"Scientists find big 1500-yr-old Viking settlement under new airport site - Midden, or garbage, materials of this age have never been found before in Norway. What's emerging is a rare look at a culture that's long gone, along with the lost coastline that once nourished it."
2015-12-24,Paris attacks: Belgian police arrest ninth suspect
2015-12-24,Wiretapping reveals communication between Turkish officers and Islamic State
2015-12-24,Russia airstrikes: Hundreds of Syrian civilans killed
2015-12-24,Pakistan changes neutral position on Syrian Civil War; now against any attempt to remove Assaad
2015-12-24,"North Korean diplomat arrested in South Africa, expelled over rhino horn trade"
2015-12-24,German teachers want 'Mein Kampf' on syllabus
2015-12-24,North Korea slave force earns Kim Jong Un regime $300M
2015-12-24,"50,000 Yemeni Forces Preparing to Attack Saudi Arabia, a Military Source Says"
2015-12-24,Irish government rules out fracking in the Republic of Ireland
2015-12-24,Americans in Beijing warned of terrorism threat; parts of city locked down
2015-12-24,"Shin Bet arrests Nazareth area cousins, ISIS operatives who planned attacks in Israel"
2015-12-24,Baghdad holds Christmas celebrations out of respect for Iraq's persecuted Christian community: Fireworks will illuminate the Tigris river every night of the week and a 25-metre Christmas tree has been set up in Zawraa public park.
2015-12-24,French cabinet backs plans to embed emergency anti-terror laws in constitution: The French government has outlined proposals for constitutional amendments which would shield state-of-emergency measures from legal challenges. Some French nationals could be stripped of their nationality
2015-12-24,Report on sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers and United Nations staff of the very people they are meant to be protecting.
2015-12-24,Baby girl dies after X-president's son's staff denies entry to hospital - Pakistan
2015-12-24,China smog sparks red alerts in 10 cities
2015-12-24,"US planned East Berlin's 'systematic destruction': The US Air Force planned to drop 91 atomic bombs in and around East Berlin in the event of the Cold War turning hot, documents released on Wednesday showed."
2015-12-24,Qatar World Cup 2022 workers 'earning as little as $1.50 per hour'
2015-12-24,Thai Court Sentences Two to Death for Killings of British Backpackers
2015-12-24,Germany Pays to Halt Danish Wind Power to Protect Own Output - Germanys wind farms are now producing so much electricity one of its grid managers is paying generators in neighboring Denmark to shut down to keep its network from overloading
2015-12-24,"Egypts President Sisi Urges Islamic Scholars to Send Christmas Greetings, Calls for Reform in Islamic Discourse"
2015-12-24,"Russia Rejects Amnesty Internationals Report on Syria Raids, Calls total lies"
2015-12-24,"Cameron, Osborne and Murdoch back together at mogul's Christmas knees-up: Party at magnate's London flat saw half the Tory cabinet and Rebekah Brooks in attendance and marks Rupert Murdoch's return to the centre of political power"
2015-12-23,"New law in India would try teens as adults for rape, murder"
2015-12-23,Colombia legalizes medical marijuana
2015-12-23,"Anonymous has declared cyber-war on Turkey: ''Turkey is supporting Daesh [ISIS] by buying oil from them, and hospitalizing their fighters. We wont accept that Erdoan, the leader of Turkey, will help [ISIS] any longer,"
2015-12-23,"Research reveals five major banks, JP Morgan, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Nomura and Morgan Stanley, paid no UK corporation tax in 2014"
2015-12-23,Terror attack foiled in French region of Orleans
2015-12-23,New Zealand Judge rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to US
2015-12-23,German court ruling: you can force your ex lover to destroy your naked photos
2015-12-23,"The Pirate Bay Co-Founder Makes Kopimashin Music Piracy Device,Device creates $10m daily music loss"
2015-12-23,"Kenya: Muslim Women gave hijabs to Christians as Muslim men confronted gunmen, witness says"
2015-12-23,More Than Exxon: Big Oil Companies for Years Shared Damning Climate Research - New investigative reporting exposes a task force headed by the American Petroleum Institute also knew about global warming since the 1970's
2015-12-23,North Korea Blasts Canada for 'Daring to Pick a Quarrel' Over Life Sentence of Pastor
2015-12-23,Africa: Zambia pardons singer who raped 14 year old - makes him ambassador against sexual violence
2015-12-23,"Jordan rejects Hamas leader's request to visit, calling him 'unwelcome' in the kingdom"
2015-12-23,US Intercepts Cyanide-Laced Chinese Pharmaceuticals - FDA
2015-12-23,Russian bombing kills 70 Civilians on Sunday.
2015-12-23,Air pollution in India now worse than China
2015-12-23,Saudi Arabia 'jails reformist writer Zuhair Kutbi'--A Saudi writer who has called for political reform is reported to have been sentenced to four years in prison.
2015-12-23,Ginger extremist who fantasized about killing Prince Charles so Harry could be king detained indefinitely
2015-12-23,Germany withdraws Patriot missile defense systems from Turkey
2015-12-23,"Russia's lower house of parliament has approved a bill letting Federal Security Service (FSB) officers shoot at crowds, as well as at women and children under certain conditions."
2015-12-23,Hamas leader expelled from Turkey
2015-12-23,Twenty-three companies fined for causing forest fires leading to Indonesia haze: Twenty-three companies have been fined or had licenses revoked after causing forest fires that spread thick haze across Southeast Asia. The Indonesian government said it was still investigating scores of other firms
2015-12-23,Miss Iraq pageant held for first time in 43 years
2015-12-23,Sex tape row: German court orders man to destroy naked images
2015-12-23,Brazilian president rejects settler leader as Israeli envoy
2015-12-22,SpaceXs Falcon 9 rocket successfully lands upright.
2015-12-22,Drunk people account for 70% of weekend emergency room visits in UK city
2015-12-22,New ruling means US big game hunters won't be able to bring home African lion parts as trophies
2015-12-22,Zimbabwe to make Chinese yuan legal currency after Beijing cancels debts.
2015-12-22,"Qatar Rejects 7,000 workers have died on 2022 tournament projects despite trade union allegations of modern slavery"
2015-12-22,ISIS beheads ten of its own militants for escaping battlefield in Mosul
2015-12-22,Six U.S. troops killed outside U.S. airbase by suicide bomber on a motorcycle
2015-12-22,ISIL Leaders Mobile Phone Shows Turkeys Support
2015-12-22,Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA
2015-12-22,Greece Parliament votes and approves recognition of Palestine as a state
2015-12-22,'Almost too late': fears of global superbug crisis in wake of antibiotic misuse
2015-12-22,"In leaked tape, ex-Argentine FM says Iran bombed Jewish center"
2015-12-22,Bacteria that resist the antibiotic of last resort - colistin - have been discovered in the UK.
2015-12-22,Islamic State chief Baghdadi claims he's global leader of Muslims; Pakistan's Taliban says no
2015-12-22,"Ford, Google to build self-driving cars together"
2015-12-22,Japan to install anti-aircraft and anti-ship missile batteries on 200 islands in East China Sea to check Beijing's influence
2015-12-22,One of World's Largest Coal Ports Approved for Great Barrier Reef area
2015-12-22,"Sky switches on 'porn filter' by default. Broadband giant Sky will block ""adult content"" by default for all new customers, the company has announced."
2015-12-22,Apple warns UK surveillance bill would 'spark serious international conflicts'
2015-12-22,Hungary accuses Austria of 'stupidity' in refugee crisis
2015-12-22,Iraqi army to start attack on ISIS-held Ramadi city in coming hours: Commander
2015-12-22,"Toshiba cuts 7,800 jobs following accounting scandal"
2015-12-22,Paris attacks suspect 'got past three police checks'
2015-12-22,"A Syrian artist who was accused of being an opposition activist and tortured in a detention centre has drawn pictures of his experiences - and described how he became numb to death, as dead bodies were piled up in the cell he shared with dozens of other naked prisoners."
2015-12-22,Boko Haram Forces More Than 1 Million Kids Out of School
2015-12-21,Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa boss Michel Platini have been suspended for eight years from all football-related activities following an ethics investigation.
2015-12-21,"A group of Kenyan Muslims travelling on a bus ambushed by Islamist gunmen protected Christian passengers by refusing to be split into groups, according to eyewitnesses. The bus was travelling from the capital Nairobi to the town of Mandera."
2015-12-21,"African lions will be added to the endangered species list, activists say"
2015-12-21,Nigerian Army killed thousands of Shia Muslims & burried them in mass graves
2015-12-21,Stoner sloth anti-drug campaign gets reality check as medical experts walk away
2015-12-21,Minority killings by IS 'should be recognised as genocide
2015-12-21,Chinese censors ban North Korean music group over anti American lyrics
2015-12-21,Venezuela frees Pepsi workers it arrested for not making enough Pepsi
2015-12-21,"Australian woman, known for her generosity, leaves an amazing legacy by donating her $4.3m fortune to the homeless in her will."
2015-12-21,Russia says black box from warplane downed by Turkey unreadable
2015-12-21,"Juniper Warns Of Spying Code In Firewalls: ""Juniper, a major manufacturer of networking equipment, said on Thursday [17 December 2015] it found spying code planted in certain models of its firewalls, an alarming discovery that echoes of state-sponsored tampering."""
2015-12-21,China names and shames five badly behaving tourists
2015-12-21,Greece to recognize Palestinian state
2015-12-21,"New 'super condom' will fight HIV and increase sexual pleasure, scientists claim"
2015-12-21,"Landslide of construction debris and earth destroys 33 buildings in China, 59 people missing"
2015-12-21,"Spain's ruling conservatives win election, fall short of majority"
2015-12-21,"Check travellers IDs or be fined, Sweden warns - Infrastructure Minister Anna Johansson has warned public transport companies that failing to check traveller identities before they enter Sweden could result in fines of up to 50,000 kronor."
2015-12-21,Joint Operations calls citizens to evacuate Ramadi within 72 hours - Iraqi News
2015-12-21,Study reveals that the majority of Syrian rebels are sympathetic to ISIS
2015-12-21,Pakistani Taliban calls Isis 'un-Islamic' - snubs Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is merely a local gang leader and not 'caliph'
2015-12-21,"Nature Index: Since 2012, China's total contribution in high-quality science has risen to become the second largest in the world, surpassed only by the United States."
2015-12-21,Turkish offensive kills over 100 Kurdish fighters
2015-12-21,An American woman was shot dead in her Kabul apartment building on Sunday night
2015-12-21,Suspected Russian warplanes kill scores in Syrian city
2015-12-21,Slovenia rejects same-sex marriage law by large margin
2015-12-20,99% of Costa Rica's electricity came from renewable energy in 2015
2015-12-20,"India to make available all textbooks online, for free"
2015-12-20,"Australia to provide $100,000 hepatitis C 'miracle' drug for $37.70 for general patients and $6.10 for concessional patients."
2015-12-20,Secret Code Found in Junipers Firewalls Shows Risk of Government Backdoors
2015-12-20,Over 110 ISIS militants killed in Iraq in Two Days
2015-12-20,Toxic mud reaches Atlantic in Brazil's worst environmental disaster
2015-12-20,"Most smuggled ISIS oil goes to Turkey, sold at low prices  Norwegian report"
2015-12-20,"Turkey kills 70 Kurdish militants, vowing to prevent 'chaos'"
2015-12-20,"Beijing choked under a thick layer of toxic smog Saturday, after the Chinese capital issued its second-ever red alert and put its emergency response plan into action."
2015-12-20,China accuses U.S. of serious military provocation
2015-12-20,Lebanese Hezbollah leader killed in Israeli raid in Syria
2015-12-20,"Arrested Pune girl reveals Islamic State planning to attack India by 2020. The 16-year-old girl, who was arrested by the Anti-Terror Squad before she could join the Islamic State in Syria, has revealed that the terror group is planning to launch a massive assault on the Indian sub-continent by 2020."
2015-12-20,"Russia ready to increase military role in Syria, Putin says"
2015-12-20,US Airstrike Mistakenly Kills Iraqi Security Forces
2015-12-20,State Dept. issues 'urgent' message to Americans about possible terror attack in Pakistan capital
2015-12-20,"Iran will export most of its enriched uranium to Russia in the coming days as it rushes to implement a nuclear deal and secure relief from international sanctions, Tehran's nuclear chief was quoted as saying on Saturday"
2015-12-20,Canadians expect transparency on TPP
2015-12-20,Damascus Residents Build Gardens To Feed Themselves
2015-12-20,Al-Jazeera blocks article slamming Saudi Arabian human rights record
2015-12-20,Lord Janner dead: Former Labour peer found unfit to stand trial for child sex abuse dies aged 87
2015-12-20,Red alert sounds in northern Israel
2015-12-20,Turkey's Erdogan meets Hamas leader Meshaal in Istanbul: sources
2015-12-20,Melbourne 'bomb scare prank' sparks outrage across Australia
2015-12-20,Burundi rejects African peacekeeping force
2015-12-20,Afghan official warns Helmand province may fall to Taliban; 90 members of the security forces killed over the past two days
2015-12-19,Two countries had no idea they were in Saudi Arabia's Muslim coalition to fight terrorism
2015-12-19,"Europes oldest lake faces destruction to make way for tourists - Lake Ohrid is most biodiverse lake of its size in world, home to over 350 novel species & a UNESCO World Heritage Site & a Holy Grail for world's biologists. Its marsh is threatened to be destroyed with luxury apts."
2015-12-19,UN: 177 countries vote in support of the right of Palestinians to self-determination
2015-12-19,The Tokyo Olympics 2020 will cost the host organizing committee six times more than their original estimate: $14.85 billion
2015-12-19,"Lake Poopo, Bolivia's 2nd-largest lake has dried up"
2015-12-19,"Nuclear leak at St Petersburg, Russia"
2015-12-19,UK: Richest one per cent 'have as much wealth as the poorest 57 per cent combined
2015-12-19,Only 18 FGM (female genital mutilation protection) orders issued to protect UK girls since launch: Health professionals urged to be braver in applying initiative to safeguard thousands of children.
2015-12-19,India is ready to fight ISIS only if UN adopts resolution to counter the jihadist extremists in the Middle Eastern countries.
2015-12-19,Marine reserve habitat of world's rarest dolphin approved for oil exploration and seismic testing
2015-12-19,UK government cuts solar subsidies by 64%
2015-12-19,UN's Ban Ki-Moon accuses Israel of breeding Palestinian terror attacks
2015-12-19,Tobacco company Philip Morris loses bid to challenge plain packaging laws in Australia--claimed breach of foreign investment protections that the Australian Government guaranteed in its trade deal with Hong Kong
2015-12-19,UK weather: Daffodils bloom in December as London temperatures reach June average.
2015-12-19,US airstrike may have inadvertently killed Iraqi soldiers
2015-12-19,"More than 103,000 children 'homeless at Christmas' in England"
2015-12-19,Briton stabbed to death by Canadian during 'bad trip' in Amazon spiritual ceremony
2015-12-19,Isis bans 'corrupt' foreign television and calls satellite dishes the 'machinations of Satan'
2015-12-19,"Peruvian Women who were Forcibly Sterilized in a Scheme Unveiled in 1995, Might Finally see Punishment Handed Down to its Perpetrators"
2015-12-19,Biggest mystery in mathematics in limbo after cryptic meeting
2015-12-19,Brutal torture and luxury trips of Libya's ruling family: Hannibal Gaddafi's iPad reveals how dictator's sons revelled in the regime's violence while treating their family to lavish holidays and shopping
2015-12-19,"Refugee crisis warnings to eastern EU nations from Germany, Austria. Eastern EU nations that refuse to accept refugees risk funding cuts and legal sanctions, according to two German cabinet ministers."
2015-12-19,"Israeli security forces thwarted another attempted ramming attack by a Palestinian motorist in the West Bank, the second within two hours on Saturday afternoon"
2015-12-19,Dutch Court: Shell to Be Held Accountable for Nigeria Oil Spills
2015-12-19,"Hamas seeking to orchestrate suicide bombings, PA says"
2015-12-18,"Models must have doctor's note to prove they are not too thin, France rules"
2015-12-18,"Canadian dollar tumbles to close below 72 cents US, the lowest in nearly 12 years"
2015-12-18,Cuba and U.S. agree to resume commercial flights
2015-12-18,Norway wants to give a mountain to Finland as an Independence Day present
2015-12-18,Germany shuts down mosque over ISIS sponsoring & recruiting
2015-12-18,"A Ukrainian Website Is Outing Russian Soldiers, and Moscow Wants Canada to Stop It"
2015-12-18,France votes for plain cigarette packaging from 2016
2015-12-18,Shashi Tharoor: India MP's bill to decriminalise gay sex defeated in the lower house of the Parliament
2015-12-18,Fossil found in China reveals that ancient species of mankind may have existed alongside us for far longer than was previously thought.
2015-12-18,Ukraine Defaults on $3 Billion Bond to Russia
2015-12-18,"Biochip identifies cancerous cells, 'washes' blood clean of cancer in dialysis-style treatment"
2015-12-18,Australia wins international legal battle with Philip Morris over plain packaging
2015-12-18,Kuwait Airways cancels New York-London route rather than letting Israelis fly
2015-12-18,Isis: Former German militant claims group is planning co-ordinated terror attacks in Europe
2015-12-18,Poland installs new NATO training centre head in the dead of night
2015-12-18,Muslim family 'denied boarding' on flight to US from Gatwick
2015-12-18,A Turkish government official says authorities at Istanbul's main airport have detained two people suspected of attempting to smuggle 148 blank European passports concealed in pizza-making equipment.
2015-12-18,Closure of Kellingley pit brings deep coal mining to an end in Great Britain
2015-12-18,Russian air strikes in Syria kill 34 civilians including '6 children and 11 women'
2015-12-18,A contingent of Canada's elite commandos were thrown into a day-long battle alongside Kurdish Peshmerga fighters as the Islamic State launched its biggest offensive in Iraq since western troops arrived in the region 18 months ago.
2015-12-18,'Super-Earth' discovered only 14 light-years away
2015-12-18,Jordan has begun deporting Sudanese asylum seekers
2015-12-18,"Beijing grinds to halt as second ever 'red alert' issued over severe smog | Four days of heavy pollution in Chinas capital means restrictions on vehicle use, school closures and bans on fireworks and outdoor barbecues"
2015-12-18,"Turkey mistreated scores of migrants, says Amnesty"
2015-12-18,Researchers Who Uncovered VW Dieselgate Are Now Accusing Mercedes and BMW - The companies deny the allegations.
2015-12-17,Martin Schkreli - Turing CEO who increased the price of Aids drug by 5000% - has been arrested
2015-12-17,Saudi Arabia about to behead a teenage boy for attending a protest when he was 15
2015-12-17,New Earth like planet spotted just 14 light years away: Wolf 1061c
2015-12-17,"Teen punches Spanish PM in face during a campaign appearance, breaks his glasses"
2015-12-17,"Cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors and not largely down to bad luck, a study suggests."
2015-12-17,Solar panel subsidy cuts branded 'huge and misguided: UK government has decided to cut subsidies to householders installing roof top solar panels by 65% just days after agreeing to move swiftly to a low-carbon energy future at the climate change conference in Paris
2015-12-17,Putin says democratic elections must be the only path to replacing Assad
2015-12-17,"Google enlisted members of the US congress, whose election campaigns it had funded, to pressure the European Union to drop a 6bn antitrust case which threatens to decimate the US tech firms business in Europe."
2015-12-17,US announces $1.8B arms sales for Taiwan
2015-12-17,Brazil judge orders WhatsApp banned for 48 hours
2015-12-17,Turkish MP who claimed sarin gas was delivered to Isis in Syria through Turkey faces treason charges
2015-12-17,"Putin pours fresh scorn on Turkey for downing Russian jet: ""The Turks"", Putin said, ""decided to lick the Americans in a certain place""."
2015-12-17,Riot in Dutch town over plan for asylum-seeker centre
2015-12-17,"Peshmerga repulsing ISIS attacks for 15 hours now, on multiple fronts."
2015-12-17,"Unusual heatwave to rip through Aussie capitals.Temperatures were not normally seen until the height of summer, late January and early February."
2015-12-17,"4,000 'slave' child workers removed from cocoa plantations"
2015-12-17,Norwegians campaign to give Finland a mountain
2015-12-17,"A New Study Shows Humans Caused a Major Shift in Earth's Ecosystems 6,000 Years Ago."
2015-12-17,Ukraine banned the Communist Party
2015-12-17,China launches worlds most sensitive dark matter probe
2015-12-17,Two Paris attack link suspects arrested in Austria refugee centre
2015-12-17,Rules from Israeli Medical Association require that terrorists be treated the same as victims in the event of a terrorist attack
2015-12-17,Putin: Russia did have people in Ukraine doing 'certain military tasks'
2015-12-17,U.S. helping West African troops fight ISIS-linked Boko Haram
2015-12-17,"Denmark wants to seize jewelry and cash from refugees | ""Now, the country is debating another and even more extreme step: The government is considering a law that would allow authorities to confiscate jewelry from refugees entering the country. The proposal is almost certain to pass parliament."""
2015-12-16,Donald Trump loses Scottish windfarm appeal
2015-12-16,North Korea sentences Canadian pastor to hard labor for life
2015-12-16,"Brazil downgraded to junk status by 2nd risk agency, with negative outlook for further downgrades."
2015-12-16,"No 'regime change' in Syria: After talks in Moscow, Kerry accepts Russian stance on Assad"
2015-12-16,"A moderate Muslim group says that a Singapores Penal Code section, which covers actions done with deliberate intent to wound the religious or racial feelings of any person, curbs freedoms in Singapore and contradicts with secularism."
2015-12-16,Members of Qatari Ruling Family Kidnapped in Iraq While Hunting
2015-12-16,Report: Arctic temperatures hit record high
2015-12-16,"November was Earths warmest such month on record by a huge margin - 1.05 degrees Celsius, or about 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit, warmer than the 1951 to 1980 average. Its also the second month in a row that Earths temperature exceeded 1 degree Celsius above average."
2015-12-16,Taliban Join Global Effort to Kill Off Polio in 2016
2015-12-16,"Hamas political leader: Stabbers are 'the most exalted, noblest of people'"
2015-12-16,"Iran seizes more than 40,000 cars over womens veil offenses"
2015-12-16,"Iran violated a U.N. Security Council resolution in October by test-firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of sanctions monitors said, leading to calls in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday for more sanctions on Tehran."
2015-12-16,"After the Syrian Kurds failed to receive an invitation to the Syrian opposition conference in Riyadh, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister has stated that Russia is against excluding the Kurds from the Syrian peace negotiations"
2015-12-16,"Two teams of physicists working independently at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, reported on Tuesday that they had seen traces of what could be a new fundamental particle of nature."
2015-12-16,China is continuing to commandeer islands in the South China Sea
2015-12-16,Two Palestinians on trial in Germany for targeting Israeli embassy
2015-12-16,"European teenagers face having to secure parental permission to join the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat before the age of 16, under new EU data protection proposals."
2015-12-16,"Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves: ""More than 2,000 trapped fishermen have been freed this year as a result of an ongoing Associated Press investigative series into slavery in the Thai seafood industry."""
2015-12-16,Hamas: Jerusalem car-ramming terrorist was a member.
2015-12-16,Revealed: Rupert Murdoch and top News Corp bosses' meetings with government ministers
2015-12-16,"US Not Seeking 'Regime Change' in Syria, John Kerry Says After Meeting With Russian President"
2015-12-16,Germany: armored truck robbed by group using anti-tank rocket launcher and automatic weapons. Police still searching for suspects
2015-12-16,"Germany makes Facebook, Google, and Twitter remove hate speech within 24 hours"
2015-12-16,Peru is planning to sanction Kimberly-Clark for allegedly conspiring with a competitor to set prices for toilet paper and other products
2015-12-16,"Pope Francis is urging governments to consider granting a Holy Year amnesty to prisoners, find alternatives to incarceration and at the very least abolish the death penalty, in his annual peace message released Tuesday."
2015-12-15,"Just miles from the US border, Lexmark fires 90 long-term employees who asked for their pay to be increased by 6 pesos to 120 pesos ($7) a day."
2015-12-15,IS Has Lost 40% Of Its Iraqi Territory
2015-12-15,French teacher invented school attack
2015-12-15,Putin signs law allowing Russia to overturn rulings of international rights courts
2015-12-15,Pope refuses to wear bullet proof vest for Christmas speech amid ISIS threat...
2015-12-15,"Burundi: Help us, the world needs to know that a genocide is underway"
2015-12-15,Germany arrests Islamist preacher on charges of recruiting militants.
2015-12-15,"Decline in over 3/4 of UK butterfly species is 'final warning', says Chris Packham - Conservationist calls for urgent research into disappearance of British butterflies after survey reveals dramatic declines in common species over last 40 yrs"
2015-12-15,"An increasing number of asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo are returning to their countries, saying that they had expected better care and a shorter asylum process in Austria."
2015-12-15,"Never Mind $35, The World's Cheapest Oil Is Already Close to $20"
2015-12-15,"The FBI has arrested a Maryland man who they say received about $9,000 from IS to carry out an attack in the US | Mohamed Elshinawy, 30, is being held on a number of charges."
2015-12-15,"Egypt must immediately release a 14-year-old boy who says he was sexually abused in detention by police using a wooden stick and bring his alleged torturers to justice, Amnesty International said."
2015-12-15,Romanian lawmakers vote to ban medicine ads to stop self-diagnosis
2015-12-15,29-year-old arrested and two are held over January Charlie Hebdo massacre
2015-12-15,Shrimp sold by global supermarkets is peeled by slave labourers in Thailand
2015-12-15,NZ confirms Silver Fern as flag referendum candidate
2015-12-15,Teacher who allegedly made up ISIS knife attack in Paris 'could face prosecution'
2015-12-15,Two unpublished investigations show that the United States has consistently overlooked killings and torture by Iraqi government-sponsored Shi'ite militias.
2015-12-15,Saudi Arabia forms coalition of 34 Islamic countries to fight terrorism
2015-12-15,"China and Israel boost science research ties: The joint research will be conducted in the fields of brain sciences, nanotechnology, 3-D printing, biomedicine, renewable energy, computer sciences, the aging of the population, smart cities and more"
2015-12-15,UK Astronaut Tim Peake begins his landmark flight to the ISS
2015-12-15,U.S. tech firms that don't adequately warn users in Europe how their information is going to be used could face fines in the billions of dollars under a new European privacy protection directive expected to be agreed upon on Tuesday.
2015-12-15,"There is no Nazi gold train, Polish scientists say: Scientists reject claim by amateur treasure hunters that a train laden with gold, jewels, weapons and stolen art is hidden in railway embankment."
2015-12-15,Le Pen acquitted of inciting hatred
2015-12-15,Maternal exposure to anti-depressant SSRIs linked to autism in children
2015-12-14,Saudi Arabia elects up to 17 female councillors in historic election
2015-12-14,Drug giant Reckitt Benckiser ordered to pull painkillers off Australian shelves after admitting products for specific types of pain were identical - but sold at double the price of its standard painkiller
2015-12-14,Maltese ships owned by Turkish presidents son being implicated in ISIS oil trade
2015-12-14,"Fracking no longer viable, says UK government advisor"
2015-12-14,Deadly bomb rips through Pakistan market killing at least 20 people and wounding 40 others
2015-12-14,Denmark passes law to seize jewelry from refugees to cover expenses
2015-12-14,Merkel wants to 'drastically reduce' refugee arrivals in Germany
2015-12-14,French far right Front Nationale 'routed' in key vote
2015-12-14,"The September stampede during the hajj in Saudi Arabia killed at least 2,411 pilgrims, a new Associated Press count shows, three times the number of deaths acknowledged by the kingdom three months later."
2015-12-14,Car ramming attack in central Jerusalem. 4 people injured.
2015-12-14,"725,000 People Evacuated as Typhoon Slams Into Philippines"
2015-12-14,Gaza rocket lands in Israel
2015-12-14,Tokyos drone squad will deploy 10-foot drones armed with nets to police the sky: Squad will patrol no-fly-zones and order unlawful operators to land their drones
2015-12-14,Turkish troops start to leave Iraqi camp after Baghdad orders them out
2015-12-14,President Yahya Jammeh has declared The Gambia an Islamic state
2015-12-14,Turkey says its patience with Russia 'has a limit'
2015-12-14,A judge in Mexico City has sentenced two men to 520 years in prison for the kidnap and murder of 13 young people at a bar in the city two years ago.
2015-12-14,Crude falls below $35 per barrel for first time since 2009
2015-12-14,Websites 'Stirring up Social Strife' to be Blocked Within 5 Days in Russia
2015-12-14,About 30 dead after Argentinian border staff's bus crashes into ravine
2015-12-14,France's National Front shut out of regional elections
2015-12-14,Rare Forest Elephants Seen for the First Time in South Sudan - A recent camera trap survey also spied a wealth of other species thriving in remote forests despite the young country's civil unrest
2015-12-14,AP: Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves
2015-12-14,Thousands (35000 estimated) march in support of Poland's new government.
2015-12-14,"Many women in Stem fields expect to quit within five years, survey finds."
2015-12-13,Two Saudi men removed from Jeddah book fair after protesting against allowing a woman to recite a poem in the hall. Much to their surprise the rest of the audience sided with the poet.
2015-12-13,Lombardy in Italy bans burqas and Islamic veils following European terror attacks: Whoever wants to enter a hospital in Lombardy must be recognisable and present themselves uncoveredThe burqa [and the] niqab are therefore banned.
2015-12-13,World agrees landmark climate deal
2015-12-13,BP faces Mexican class action lawsuit over Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Oil giant faces potentially huge compensation bill for environmental damage. BP paid $20.8bn settlement in US but so far nothing in Mexico for Gulf oil spill.
2015-12-13,Man faces up to 32 years in prison for insulting the king of thailand after liking a Facebook post
2015-12-13,"Abdallah, Egyptian teenager, was tortured by administering electric shocks to his genitals, beating him and raping him multiple times with a wooden stick, according to Abdallahs family and lawyer. Amnesty reports."
2015-12-13,Scientology faces ban in Belgium amid fraud allegations
2015-12-13,"Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has lifted Tony Abbott's controversial ban on government investment in wind power, in his first major break from the former regime's environmental policy"
2015-12-13,Montreal bans single-use plastic bags as of 2018
2015-12-13,Barbados to Remove Queen Elizabeth II as Titular Head of State
2015-12-13,ISIS set to Destroy Ancient Roman Site near Tripoli
2015-12-13,69 police officers injured in clashes in eastern Germany
2015-12-13,Russia fires Turkey boat warning shot
2015-12-13,"Czech President Milos Zeman: 'Barbarian' Turkey Acts Like ISIS Ally, Not Welcome in EU"
2015-12-13,Ecuador and Sweden have signed a pact that would allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be questioned at Ecuador's embassy in London where he has been for more than three years.. The legal agreement was signed in the Ecuadorean capital after half a year of negotiations
2015-12-13,A Jordanian woman who came close to joining the ISIS described a sophisticated 14-month recruitment process by the extremists that she said landed her in a secret compound in Turkey with dozens of other women
2015-12-13,"Saudi Arabia bombing Yemen's schools, Amnesty International claims | The UN has described the humanitarian situation inside Yemen as 'critical'"
2015-12-13,Woman who nearly joined ISIS reveals extremists' sophisticated recruitment process - Middle East News
2015-12-13,Shaker Aamer: Extremists 'have no right to live in the UK'
2015-12-13,Kamlesh Tiwari row: Muslim community's protest turns ugly with pro-Islamic State slogans (India)
2015-12-13,"ISIS Terror Plot uncovered names Geneva, Chicago & Toronto as potential targets"
2015-12-13,ISIS chemical weapon plot foiled as two Syrian terror suspects arrested in Geneva
2015-12-13,LAX-to-Cuba charter flights take off for first time
2015-12-13,"Climate Deal Requires $16.5 Trillion Investment to Cut Pollution: To accomplish that, governments will have to offer incentives for clean energy production, scale back support for fossil fuels like oil, make emissions more costly, and reduce deforestation"
2015-12-13,'Anything but Le Pen': French turn to tactical voting to stop far right
2015-12-12,"Mexico issues first permit to grow and use marijuana: Authorities issued Friday the first permit allowing four individuals to grow and use their own marijuana for recreational purposes, following a landmark Supreme Court ruling"
2015-12-12,"""It was satire, faux news"" - Reports that Mexican drug leader El Chapo declared 'war' on ISIS as run by NY Post, Forbes and Fox News have been proven false"
2015-12-12,"Japan slammed for fueling illegal ivory trade - Its inaction abetting slaughter of elephants as demand rises, study finds"
2015-12-12,Gun linked to Paris attacks traced back to Florida arms dealer implicated in Iran-Contra scandal
2015-12-12,"Over 50,000 of people gathered today in capital of Poland to protest against recent decisions of government."
2015-12-12,Prime Minister Justin Trudeau personally greets 160 Syrian refugees as they arrive in Canada.
2015-12-12,Giant salamander measuring 4ft 7in discovered in remote cave in China
2015-12-12,"President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia has provided air cover, weapons and supplies to the Free Syrian Army, the leading Western-backed opposition group in Syria and called for closer coordination with the U.S.-allied coalition"
2015-12-12,Mexico issues first permit to grow and use marijuana
2015-12-12,"Former Chilean soldier charged with murder after stunning radio confession in which he admitted to 18 killings under the countries ex dictator, Augusto Pinochet"
2015-12-12,Paris attacker was French army reject - He was turned down by the French army and possibly also by the police before Islamic State took him on to fight for them.
2015-12-12,Facebook User in Thailand Facing 32 Years in Prison for Liking Something on Facebook
2015-12-12,"Chinas top bankers who disappeared, were detained, or died unnaturally this year"
2015-12-12,"James Hansen, father of climate change awareness, calls Paris talks 'a fraud' - The former Nasa scientist criticizes the talks, intended to reach a new global deal on cutting carbon emissions beyond 2020, as no action, just promises"
2015-12-12,Canadian dollar drops below 73 cents US as oil sinks under $36 - lowest in 11 years
2015-12-12,"Two Syrians Arrested in Geneva, Traces of Explosives in Their Car-Swiss Media"
2015-12-12,Julius Caesar battlefield unearthed in southern Netherlands
2015-12-12,300 ISIS fighters trapped after tactical mistake
2015-12-12,Donald Trump in Twitter spat with Saudi Prince Alwaleed
2015-12-12,Putin vows to 'immediately destroy' any target threatening Russia in Syria | World news | The Guardian
2015-12-12,"The Swiss Federal Court has rejected a ban on wearing Muslim headscarves, or hijabs, in school."
2015-12-12,"Gambia now an Islamic republic, says President Yahya Jammeh"
2015-12-12,"At least 22 killed,over 70 injured in massive blast near hospital in Syria's Homs"
2015-12-12,Restored Photos From Shackletons Antarctic Wreck Reveal New Details - Photos taken during Shackletons Antarctic expedition have been digitally restored for the 1st time
2015-12-12,"Sunken haul of Roman fish sauce found off Italy - Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman vessel laden with 3000 jars of Roman fish sauce  or garum  on the seabed off the coast of Italy. ""It's an exceptional find that dates to the 1st or 2nd century AD."""
2015-12-11,"France will not ban Wi-Fi or Tor, prime minister says: ""Internet is a freedom, is an extraordinary means of communication between people, it is a benefit to the economy,"" Valls added"
2015-12-11,"Man wanted for planning the execution of 20,000 people during the 1994 Rwandan genocide arrested by Interpol after 21 years on the run"
2015-12-11,Mysterious hackers attempting to bring down entire internet by DDoS-ing critical servers
2015-12-11,"Eighty children get chickenpox at Brunswick North West Primary, a school that calls for 'tolerance' of vaccine dodgers"
2015-12-11,"Make cannabis consumption legal; ban is turning people alcoholic: Tathagata Satpathy, Indian Member of Parliament"
2015-12-11,"Beijing continues to suffer from pollution, but Delhi's air quality is one-and-a-half times worse"
2015-12-11,"Turkey acts like ISIS ally, should not be EU member Czech president"
2015-12-11,The first plasma: the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device is now in operation | On 10th December 2015 the first helium plasma was produced in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald
2015-12-11,Russian nuclear power plant in Beloyarsk which was created to recycle nuclear waste and minimize risks of nuclear disasters produced its first electricity.
2015-12-11,IS finance chief 'killed in air strikes'
2015-12-11,Israel one of the main buyers of ISIS oil
2015-12-11,3rd Paris Attacker Identified as a French Citizen
2015-12-11,Carbon footprints dont lie: Worlds richest 10% release 50% of its CO2
2015-12-11,"At Least 9,115 Killed in Ukraine Conflict, U.N. Says"
2015-12-11,"Saudi Arabia more of a threat to Britain than Russia, says Ken Livingstone"
2015-12-11,Russian production of T-shirts with anti-Turkish slogans has been delayed by disruptions in fabric imports from Turkey.
2015-12-11,China to Give Rights to Millions of Unregistered Citizens Born in Violation of One-Child Policy
2015-12-11,"New Zealand selects a new preliminary flag, featuring a fern and the southern cross. The decision to choose a new flag has been backed by Prime Minister John Key, who has said the current one is too similar to Australia's and that it is time to remove the Union Jack from the flag."
2015-12-11,"Pearl Harbor ceremony unites former U.S. and Japanese pilots: Former U.S. airman Jack DeTour, 92, and Japanese fighter pilot Shiro Wakita, 88, sworn enemies during World War Two, together poured whiskey from a battered canteen into Pearl Harbor to commemorate the 1941 attack on the U.S. naval base."
2015-12-11,Fighting breaks out in Ukrainian parliament
2015-12-11,"Electron lifetime is at least 66,000 yottayears"
2015-12-11,Bombing of Yemeni schools by Saudi-led coalition leaves thousands out of education: Amnesty
2015-12-11,Oil hits new seven-year low on glut warning
2015-12-11,"Save the Planet. Eat Ugly. - The efficiencies in farming, packaging and transportation that could come from consuming such fruits and vegetables, instead of throwing them away, could eliminate one billion tons of carbon emissions a year"
2015-12-11,Islamic State has made $1.5bn from looting banks and selling oil
2015-12-10,"""The US State Department has approved a $1.29 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, which includes as many as 13,000 precision guided weapons or smart bombs. The sale comes as Human Rights Watch charges that Saudi airstrikes in Yemen 'have indiscriminately killed and injured civilians.'"""
2015-12-10,"Trump cancels trip to Israel after Netanyahu releases statement about Trump's proposed Muslim ban, saying Israel ""respects all religions and strictly guarantees the rights of all its citizens."""
2015-12-10,"Mina stampede deaths three times higher than acknowledged by Saudi authorities, up to 2,411 compared to 769 official figures"
2015-12-10,"A Canadian ISP has received a public backlash after posting a list on its Facebook page of 25 subscriber names who had not paid their overdue bills, in order to publicly shame them into paying"
2015-12-10,Nicola Sturgeon removes Donald Trump as business ambassador for Scotland
2015-12-10,Kim Jong-uns uncle admits he defected to U.S. due to fears of being victimized during power struggles
2015-12-10,Two detained in Finland over ISIS executions - suspected of murdering 11 on video
2015-12-10,Fukishima Radiation Off West Coast of North America Continues to Increase and Spread
2015-12-10,"Saudi women face off against men for first time in elections: Not only can they run in a government election for the first time, it is the first time they are permitted to vote at all"
2015-12-10,Japanese PM's website hacked by whaling protesters.
2015-12-10,Nurseries in Qatar have canceled childrens festive concerts for Christmas following a directive from authorities reminding them not to hold non-Islamic rituals.
2015-12-10,"Anonymous declares this Friday ""Troll ISIS Day"""
2015-12-10,A 15-year-old and a 20-year old have been arrested in counter-terrorism raids in Sydney.
2015-12-10,"Refugee crisis could lead to Britain leaving EU, David Cameron says"
2015-12-10,Mars moisture-farming mission gets approval for 2018 launch
2015-12-10,Iran's Rouhani to Erdogan: in Iran there is democracy and sometimes media publish such articles. referring to Erdogan's criticism of articles published in Iran about him.
2015-12-10,UK has 'lost world climate leadership role' by axing domestic green policies - Leading scientists and former ministers say the country has undermined its record as a world leader on climate change and is moving backwards
2015-12-10,"Ammunition, IS propaganda found after France mosque closure"
2015-12-10,"Kim Jong Un says N. Korea has hydrogen bomb, becomes powerful nuclear state"
2015-12-10,An anti-corruption documentary is gaining momentum in Russia  and the government is taking notice
2015-12-10,"A brazen Taliban assault on an air base outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar triggered a 24-hour gunbattle that killed at least 37 people and was still underway. Also Wednesday, the Taliban seized a district in another southern province, Helmand, killing 14 Afghan security forces"
2015-12-10,Swiss police raise alert level in Geneva acting on intelligence of terror suspects in city or wider region
2015-12-10,"Two servicemen have told Congress that American special forces called in an air strike on a hospital in Afghanistan because they believed the Taliban were using it as a command center, contradicting the military's explanation that the attack was meant for a different building."
2015-12-10,Toronto Taxi Drivers Are Comparing Uber to ISIS And Hanging on to Moving Vehicles in Protest
2015-12-10,Japanese authorities make another grim 'ghost ship' discovery
2015-12-09,"Saudi Arabia accused of trying to wreck Paris climate deal - One of the worlds largest oil producers is getting in the way of a deal and making implausible objections, say delegates and campaigners"
2015-12-09,"Kazakhstan has passed a law that would require citizens to install a certificate on all their personal devices allowing the government to capture all the web traffic, passwords and financial details of the population."
2015-12-09,"Nearly 70,000 clerics came together and passed a fatwa against terrorist organizations, including IS, Taliban and al-Qaida. These are ""not Islamic organizations,"" the clerics said to a sea of followers, adding that the members of these outfits were ""not Muslims"""
2015-12-09,An undercover sting by Greenpeace has revealed that two prominent climate sceptics were available for hire by the hour to write reports casting doubt on the dangers posed by global warming.
2015-12-09,"Thousands Sign 'Ban Trump From UK' Petition. ""The UK has banned entry to many individuals for hate speech"""
2015-12-09,"There is no internet censorship in China, says China's top censor"
2015-12-09,Angela Merkel is Time person of the year
2015-12-09,Icelanders flock to religion revering Sumerian gods and tax rebates - Ancient Zuist movement enjoys revival as thousands join as part of protest against requirement that citizens pay taxes to state church.
2015-12-09,Hundreds of Muslims marching against terrorism in London 'ignored by British media'
2015-12-09,"India accounted for $12.3 billion, or 40%, of the total of $31 billion of globalized engineering and R&D in 2015"
2015-12-09,2000 Sex Workers From Indian State Maharashtra Skipped 2 Meals A Day To Gift One Lakh Rupees To Chennai Flood Relief
2015-12-09,"Australia's ex-Prime Minister Tony Abbott declares: 'Islam must change, not us'"
2015-12-09,"Historians say that in all likelihood they have found the remains of the tomb of Suleiman the Magnificent, who died in 1566 while his troops were besieging the fortress of Szigetvar in southern Hungary."
2015-12-09,Angela Merkel's deputy accuses Saudi Arabia of sponsoring extremism
2015-12-09,S. Korean Navy fires warning shots at Chinese ship in Yellow Sea
2015-12-09,Oil producers prepare for prices to halve to $20 a barrel
2015-12-09,"5 Arab Israelis arrested for IS support, planning terror attacks"
2015-12-09,"London Metropolitan Police - ""Mr Trump could not be more wrong"""
2015-12-09,Amnesty report: ISIS armed with U.S. weapons
2015-12-09,NHS rationing 'is denying patients care' as cash crisis deepens
2015-12-09,"Germany, UK to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by 2050"
2015-12-09,President Vladimir Putin: Su-24's Black Box to Reveal Truth About Jet Shot Down by Turkey and it should be opened only in the presence of international experts.
2015-12-09,Taliban attacks Kandahar airport and US-NATO base
2015-12-09,"Canada launches inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women - Justin Trudeau promises total renewal of relationship with aboriginal people with investigation of nearly 1,200 murders and disappearances in three decades"
2015-12-09,"A generation of Syrian children are facing ""catastrophic"" psychological damage with one in four inside Syria at risk of developing a mental health disorder from witnessing traumatic events, a global children's charity said on Tuesday."
2015-12-08,Resistance to last-resort antibiotic has now spread across globe
2015-12-08,US confirms death of top ISIS leader in Libya
2015-12-08,"Arnold Schwarzenegger has got his sights set on vanquishing another peril: Climate change | Speaking at the United Nations conference on climate change in Paris, he said that the world had to unite to tackle climate change, rather than pointing the finger at the largest polluters."
2015-12-08,U.S. Agent Gets Six Years Prison for Silk Road Bitcoin Theft
2015-12-08,"""Private American donors have pumped more than $220 million into Jewish West Bank settlements in recent years through tax-deductible donations, effectively subsidizing a policy opposed by U.S. administrations for decades, according to an investigation published in an Israeli newspaper on Monday."""
2015-12-08,"The price of raw, illegal ivory has almost halved in China in the past 18 months because of growing public awareness, a promise from President Xi Jinping to ban the trade, a far-reaching anti-corruption drive and a slowing economy, according a new study by Save the Elephants."
2015-12-08,"A 16-member panel, paid for by Monsanto, is disputing a World Health Organization report published earlier this year that concluded glyphosate, the world's most widely used weed killer, is probably carcinogenic to humans."
2015-12-08,"Totally antibiotic resistant Salmonella has reached Denmark meat, at least one human case known."
2015-12-08,3 injured in blast at Moscow bus stop  reports
2015-12-08,"A 64-year-old albatross named Wisdom, believed to be the oldest known tracked bird in the wild, has returned with a mate to a large nesting colony on Midway Atoll to lay An egg"
2015-12-08,Humans are draining even more of earth's freshwater than previously thought
2015-12-08,Japan defends scientific value of new plan to kill 333 minke whales - claims it wants to study how many whales can be harvested sustainably
2015-12-08,"Bibi the lion, made famous from her appearances on the BBC's Big Cat Diary from 1996 to 2008, has been discovered dead after being poisoned, a BBC wildlife crew has confirmed."
2015-12-08,"The use of antibiotics in agriculture is fuelling drug resistance and must be cut back or even banned where they are important for humans, a new report has warned."
2015-12-08,"Muslim thrown off Coach in Bristol after passenger said they felt ""uncomfortable"".."
2015-12-08,Beheaded for practicing magic; ISIS executes two sorcerers in Libya
2015-12-08,"Vancouver startup, G-Kup, launches 'world's first' 100% compostable coffee pod, aims to tackle single-cup brewer waste that circled the globe 11 times in 2014"
2015-12-08,Eagles Of Death Metal Appear In Paris Less Then 1 Month After The Attack.
2015-12-08,A Russian activist has been sentenced to three years in prison under a new law that tightens punishment for taking part in unauthorized protests. The verdict was strongly condemned by Amnesty International
2015-12-08,"Islamic State going broke? As airstrikes target oil revenue, ISIS slashes salaries, imposes new taxes (report from London-based analysis firm IHS)"
2015-12-08,"Russians Are Joining ISIS in Droves | Jihadists from Russia and Central Asia are pouring into the caliphate, 300 times more than a year ago."
2015-12-08,"Iran tested ballistic missile, breaching U.N. council resolutions"
2015-12-08,4 female students who went to Syria to join ISIS attended Mississauga school
2015-12-08,Iran and India to Build $4.5 Billion Pipeline
2015-12-08,Cyprus To Give Russian Warplanes Emergency Landing Rights
2015-12-07,"Beijing has issued its first ever Red Alert over smog, and the city is going into complete shutdown"
2015-12-07,"Ten african countries vow to recreate 100 million hectares of lost jungle, twice the size of Europe. World bank & Germany announces funding"
2015-12-07,"After Paris Attacks, Proposed French Law Would Block Tor and Forbid Free Wi-Fi"
2015-12-07,Chile removes marijuana from list of 'Hard Drugs' takes steps towards legalization.
2015-12-07,"NATO has ruled out sending ground troops to fight against Islamic State militants in Syria.""Muslims are on the front line in this war. Most victims are Muslims, and most of those who fight against the IS are Muslims. We can not carry on this struggle for them,"""
2015-12-07,Nearly 100 people in Turkey have been arrested after being charged with insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the past 10 months
2015-12-07,"Britain no longer a Christian country, and its time to rid public life of Anglicanism, panel says"
2015-12-07,The Isis papers: leaked documents show how Isis is building its state
2015-12-07,"Killing whales: Let's 'agree to disagree', says Japan"
2015-12-07,Venezuela opposition claims victory in legislative elections
2015-12-07,"Wreck of legendary Spanish galleon is finally found, Colombia says. The value of its cargo  believed to include gold, silver, emeralds, and other precious cargo  has been estimated at more than $10 billion"
2015-12-07,"French Regional Elections : far-right party ""Front National"" ahead with over 30% of the votes"
2015-12-07,Egypt destroys 20 newly found tunnels along border with Gaza
2015-12-07,FBI investigating Sepp Blatter in $100M ISL bribes scandal.
2015-12-07,Bacteria containing mcr-1 gene resistant to all known antibiotics found in Denmark
2015-12-07,"China is forecast to become the world's biggest electric car market this year, with sales estimated at 220,000 to 250,000 vehicles"
2015-12-07,Argentina arrests Syrians traveling on false Greek passports
2015-12-07,"Assad says Britain's Syria strikes 'illegal', will only fuel terror"
2015-12-07,Kerry angers Israel with talk of 'binational state'
2015-12-07,Russia loses advanced military satellite on launch
2015-12-07,Venezuela Opposition Says It Won Congress as Government Silent
2015-12-07,Opec bid to kill off US shale sends oil price down to near seven-year low
2015-12-07,EU to press ahead with plans to suspend Schengen rules
2015-12-07,China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.
2015-12-07,"The new Liberal government has promised to act quickly to legalize marijuana for general use, which would make Canada the first G-20 country to end cannabis prohibition on a national level."
2015-12-06,German Vice Chancellor Gabriel:'Saudi Arabia must stop financing Wahabi Mosques throughout the world. They are a breeding ground of Terrorism. In Germany many extremists considered dangerous persons emerge from these communities. I say to them that the time of looking the other way is over.'
2015-12-06,Uruguay is now generating 95% of its electricity from renewable energy
2015-12-06,Passengers on the flight Frankfurt - Belgrade stopped a Jordanian who wanted to get into the cockpit
2015-12-06,France shuts down three mosques in security crackdown
2015-12-06,"Yazidis Get Revenge On ISIS In Sinjar: Obama went back to war in Iraq in 2014 to save the Yazidis of Sinjar from ISIS. Now, after retaking their homes, theyre killing the neighbors they think betrayed them"
2015-12-06,"U.S. Officials Admit a Mistaken Identity Case at Guantanamo Bay, Held for 13 years"
2015-12-06,Finland plans to give every citizen 800 euros a month and scrap benefits
2015-12-06,India to criminalize marital rape
2015-12-06,Gay refugees placed in separate accommodation after attacks in the Netherlands
2015-12-06,"Ford Recalling Up to 452,000 Cars Because Fuel Tanks May Crack"
2015-12-06,Major Italian catholic magazine ask for Tony Blair to be put under trial for war crimes
2015-12-06,"Tamil Nadu(India) Floods, 270 Dead"
2015-12-06,"ISIS threatens Modi, Vows to expand War to India"
2015-12-06,World's Largest Bakery To Stop Caging Hens For Eggs
2015-12-06,Kuwait Airways pilot loses licence for inviting porn star into cockpit
2015-12-06,"In Australia, $300 million will be invested in the drug treatment sector as part of a new national plan that shifts focus from policing to prevention."
2015-12-06,UK jets hit ISIS oilfield as Typhoons fly first missions
2015-12-06,"Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the Internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that they are helping the authorities police the Web."
2015-12-06,"Croatian police debunks The Sun journalist lies: It is not true that he managed to smuggle himself from Turkey to France, he didn't pass through Croatia without showing any papers we registered him and we have scan of his passport"
2015-12-06,"Tree by tree, more than a dozen African governments pledged to restore the continent's natural forests at the United Nations climate talks on Sunday"
2015-12-06,Report: Russia begins delivery of S-300 missiles to Iran
2015-12-06,Patriot Act author warns EU against dragnet response to terror
2015-12-06,Scientists find out a way to store electricity in paper
2015-12-06,Google Patents Needle-Free Blood Draw System
2015-12-06,"Syria row: No 10 admits '70,000 fighters' figure made up of disparate groups"
2015-12-05,Iraq orders Turkey to 'immediately' withdraw troops sent across border
2015-12-05,Canada to become first G7 nation to legalize marijuana: government
2015-12-05,Iran ready to present proof on ISIS oil trade to Turkey: Official
2015-12-05,"Sharia courts in Britain lock women into 'marital captivity', study says: Academic with unprecedented access to Islamic divorce hearings says courts fail to report domestic violence"
2015-12-05,"Thousands of South Koreans, many wearing masks, marched in Seoul on Saturday against conservative President Park Geun-hye, who had compared masked protesters to terrorists after clashes with police broke out at a rally last month"
2015-12-05,Defense Contractors Cite Benefits of Escalating Conflicts in the Middle East
2015-12-05,"Isis spreads to Afghanistan as 1,600 militants pledge allegiance to terror group."
2015-12-05,OPEC Unity Shattered as Saudi-Led Policy Leads to No Limits - OPEC abandoned all pretense this week of acting as a cartel. Its now every member for itself.
2015-12-05,"More than half of Indian scientists self-identify themselves as religious and almost a third believe that religion and and science can not only co-exist but be used to help each other, reveals a worldwide survey of how scientists view religion."
2015-12-05,Lake Chad suicide blasts 'kill 27'
2015-12-05,Porsche Is Building a Tesla Competitor
2015-12-05,Brutal new ISIS video puts child soldiers through Hunger Games-type training
2015-12-05,"Big Oil Faces Historic Human Rights Inquiry for 'Complicity in Climate Change': 'Climate change interferes with the enjoyment of our fundamental rights as human beings. Hence, we demand accountability.'"
2015-12-05,75 Voters In Argentine Soccer Federation Election Somehow Produce 76 Votes
2015-12-05,Protesters demand to stop stoning of Sri Lankan maid in Saudi Arabia
2015-12-05,Saudi Warplanes Drop Cluster Bombs on Own Soil to Prevent Yemeni Forces' Advances
2015-12-05,World's Largest Islamic Organization Tells ISIS To Get Lost
2015-12-05,NASA releases clearest images of Pluto world might see for decades
2015-12-05,Mexico arrests 'gang members' over Australian surfers murders
2015-12-05,'Two new suspects' in Paris attacks
2015-12-05,Merkel Pledges to Confront Anti-Semitism Among German Refugees
2015-12-05,"Responding to a complaint filed by typhoon victims, a Philippines human rights commission agreed Friday to look into whether large international fossil fuel companies are violating the human rights of its citizens by driving climate change."
2015-12-05,"Volkswagen scandal might force it to sell luxury brands - Bentley, Lamborghini and Ducati could be on the chopping block."
2015-12-05,Former prime minister Tony Abbott pocketed taxpayer-funded travel allowance on a day he attended a birthday celebration for a mining magnate and Liberal Party donor.
2015-12-05,"'Ghost ship' mystery grips Japan as rickety boats with corpses, skeletons continue to wash ashore"
2015-12-04,"World's largest Muslim group, Sunni movement launches anti extremism campaign"
2015-12-04,U.S.-led coalition is finding and killing a mid- to high-level Islamic State leader every two days
2015-12-04,Mount Etna has errupted
2015-12-04,"Uruguay makes dramatic shift to nearly 95% electricity from clean energy: In less than 10 years the country has slashed its carbon footprint and lowered electricity costs, without government subsidies"
2015-12-04,ISIS Dumping Dead Bodies On Syrian Streets Causes Deadly 'Flesh-Eating' Disease To Spread
2015-12-04,Exxon could lose 'billions' in climate change lawsuit
2015-12-04,'Enough's enough': Former deputy prime minister of Australia calls for travel warnings after US shootings
2015-12-04,Denmark 'votes No' on adopting EU rules
2015-12-04,"Turkish jets, two armed, violate Greek air space | News"
2015-12-04,"Latin America's ""Largest Ever"" Legal Marijuana Crop Planted in Chile: Medical marijuana advocates won a huge victory in Chile in November as the regional agriculture authority approved a 6,900-plant marijuana farm and a team of volunteers planted 20 strains of high-potency marijuana seeds"
2015-12-04,"The number of Muslims attacked each week in London has more than tripled since the Paris attacks, figures show. The Met said in the week prior to the attacks on 13 November there were 24 recorded Islamophobic incidents. Two weeks after there were 76."
2015-12-04,Australia Passes New Law to Strip Jihadists of Citizenship
2015-12-04,Israel Arrests Young Jews Suspected of Terrorism Against Palestinians
2015-12-04,"With average speed of 16.1 Mbps, Lithuania offers best public WiFi in the world"
2015-12-04,Turkey gives the cold shoulder to US proposal to seal Syria border
2015-12-04,"Egypt: 12 Killed, 5 Hurt in Firebomb Attack at Nightclub"
2015-12-04,"How the Toxic Trade Deal You've Never Heard Of Could Kill the Climate: TiSA seeks to place 'corporate handcuffs' on government attempts to steer away from fossil fuels, says Global Justice Now"
2015-12-04,Russia just successfully tested an anti-satellite missile
2015-12-04,"Bhutan has most ambitious pledge at the Paris climate summit: Himalayan kingdoms forests absorb three times more CO2 emissions than its population create, helping to make it the worlds most carbon negative country"
2015-12-04,Research finds rich nations' fossil fuel subsidies exceed climate aid 40 to 1
2015-12-04,Former Isis hostage says airstrikes on Syria are a trap
2015-12-04,"Paris attack fugitive posed as refugee at Budapest railway station in September, Hungarian government claims"
2015-12-04,Saudi Arabia Spends over $60bln in war on Yemen
2015-12-04,German government agrees to participate in Syrian war
2015-12-04,Japan defies world as 'research' ship embarks on minke whale kill
2015-12-03,UK Parliament Vote in Favor of Airstrikes in Syria
2015-12-03,Oscar Pistorious guilty of murder.
2015-12-03,"The Pentagon lavished nearly $150m of taxpayer money on villas with private security, flat screen TVs and three course meals for special events for US government staff in Afghanistan, an official watchdog has found"
2015-12-03,No jail for 2010 BP oil disaster white collars
2015-12-03,"Turkey has proof of Russian involvement in Daesh oil, President Erdoan says"
2015-12-03,"Canada: Ontarians paid $37-billion above market for electricity over eight years, Auditor-General's report says"
2015-12-03,"Saudi Arabia 'destabilising Arab world', German intelligence warns"
2015-12-03,Paris attacks: France 'to extend state of emergency indefinitely' - reports
2015-12-03,Facebook accused of blackmail after Belgian court rules it can no longer track non-users
2015-12-03,Friend of Paris suicide bomber arrested at Brussels Airport
2015-12-03,FIFA Corruption: Top Officials Arrested in Pre-Dawn Raid at Zurich Hotel
2015-12-03,"UN on wrong track with plans to limit global warming to 2C, says top scientist. Climate change scientist James Hansen says current half arsed plans to reduce emissions will lead to dangerous climate change and calls for an honest carbon price to cut fossil fuel use."
2015-12-03,Brazil speaker Cunha opens impeachment proceedings against president Dilma Rousseff
2015-12-03,"New Report Details TPP's 'Panoply of Threats' to Climate - The 12-nation pact would be 'raw deal for communities & our climate,' Sierra Club says"
2015-12-03,Russian TV host Pavel Lobkov announces HIV positive status live TVHe is the first public figure in Russia to be openly HIV positive
2015-12-03,"Iraqi Kurds refute Russias claims on Turkey-Daesh oil trade, say tankers belong to KRG"
2015-12-03,Mexico to debate marijuana legalization in January
2015-12-03,"A Dominican cardinal upset over comments that the U.S. ambassador made about corruption in his country has said the openly gay diplomat should focus on homemaking. ""Let him focus on housework, since he's the wife to a man."""
2015-12-03,ISIS Releases Video Purportedly Showing Beheading of Alleged Russian Spy
2015-12-03,"Photos: The scene in Chennai, the Indian city suffering its most devastating rains in 100 years"
2015-12-03,"Turkey guilty off 'treacherous war crime' after shooting down Russian plane, warns Vladimir Putin: ""And evidently Allah decided to punish the ruling clique in Turkey, by depriving it of any reason or logic."
2015-12-03,United Arab Emirates threaten to destabilize Tunisia for not repressing moderate Islamists ala Sisi in Egypt
2015-12-03,A Chinese artist vacuumed up Beijing's smog and made a brick from what he collected
2015-12-03,"NATO Unveils Plans to Grow, Drawing Fury and Threats From Russia"
2015-12-03,"A dream team of tech giants  Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Richard Branson, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Jack Ma from Alibaba, along with a host of international tech leaders  have announced they're coming together to combat climate change: Breakthrough Energy Coalition"
2015-12-02,"Quebec Judge issues $1 fine for possessing 30 cannabis plants, calls marijuana laws obsolete"
2015-12-02,Turkish doctor faces 2 years in jail for sharing meme that likens president Erdogan to Gollum in LOTR
2015-12-02,"Cameroon army 'kills 100 Boko Haram fighters, frees 900 hostages'"
2015-12-02,"Zuckerberg, wife pledge to donate 99% of their Facebook shares, about $45 billion, to charity"
2015-12-02,Russia says has proof Turkey main consumer of Islamic State oil
2015-12-02,France shuts three mosques on grounds of radicalization
2015-12-02,Four Arrested In Italy For Planning ISIS Attack On Pope
2015-12-02,"Man held at Guantnamo for 13 years a case of mistaken identity, say officials"
2015-12-02,"Young people who question the Government or media may be extremists, officials tell parents"
2015-12-02,Kim Jong-un's Aunt (who lives in the US) will sue North Korean refugees for defamation in South Korean courts
2015-12-02,World's richest 10 per cent produce 50% of CO2: report
2015-12-02,David Cameron calls Jeremy Corbyn a 'terrorist sympathiser' for opposing Syria air strikes
2015-12-02,"Researchers: Exxon, Koch Family Have Powered the Climate-Denial Machine for Decades"
2015-12-02,Istanbul metro blast and injuries reported
2015-12-02,German nuclear fusion reactor 'stellarator' cleared for first test on 10 December 2015
2015-12-02,Turkey YouTube ban violated freedom of expression: European court of human rights
2015-12-02,"China clone factory claims it can replicate humans, is only holding off for fear of public reaction"
2015-12-02,Bill Gates teams up with Mark Zuckerberg to create multi billion dollar fund for clean energy technologies
2015-12-02,"Hitler's words to return to German bookshelves. For the first time since the Second World War, Adolf Hitler's ""Mein Kampf"" will be printed in Germany in January"
2015-12-02,"No, Mark Zuckerberg is not giving 99% of his Facebook shares to charity - Times of India"
2015-12-02,Russia building new military bases on islands claimed by Japan
2015-12-02,A major Indian city has been underwater for almost a month now
2015-12-02,Venezuela has bigger oil reserves than Saudi Arabia  yet there's no toilet paper in stores
2015-12-02,"Beijing is shrouded in a cloud of smog 25 times the ""safe"" level of toxic particle PM 2.5"
2015-12-02,337 whales dead in Chile in one of history's biggest beachings
2015-12-01,"Amnesty International says Qatar has done ""almost nothing effective to end chronic labour exploitation"" since it was chosen five years ago to host the football World Cup in 2022."
2015-12-01,#SueMeSaudi: Twitter users taunt Saudi Arabia
2015-12-01,Erdoan: I will resign if any oil purchase from Daesh is proven
2015-12-01,Pope says fundamentalism is 'disease of all religions'
2015-12-01,Australia: MP says 'tyranny of political correctness' stops debate on Islam and extremism
2015-12-01,"Wales has become the first nation in the UK to introduce a ""revolutionary"" new system to increase organ donors: adults will be regarded as having consented to organ donation unless they have opted out."
2015-12-01,North Korea violates UN resolution with submarine missile launch that failed to make it above water
2015-12-01,"11,571 Norwegians have registered for licences to kill 16 wolves, although the country may have only 30 in the wild"
2015-12-01,Yemen crisis: Sanaa resident describes Saudi-led bombing as like 'being at the centre of an earthquake'
2015-12-01,Putin makes 99-year-old daughter of Tsarist general a Russian again
2015-12-01,Thai printer replaces International New York Times article with blank space instead of critical piece on stagnant Thai economy
2015-12-01,Schools shut in Beijing as air pollution reaches hazardous levels | CTV News
2015-12-01,World headed toward 'suicide' if no climate agreement: pope
2015-12-01,"The Chinese renminbi will join the dollar, euro, yen and pound as one of the worlds main reserve currencies"
2015-12-01,"The ocean is filling up with a mysterious life form and scientists don't know why: Phytoplankton, micro-organisms that float, as opposed to swim, are rapidly thriving in the North Atlantic, suggesting an environmental shift that defies previous scientific predictions."
2015-12-01,Dubai to make solar panels on rooftops compulsory by 2030
2015-12-01,US Marine Found Guilty of Killing Transgender Filipino
2015-12-01,Top US Intelligence Chief Calls Iraq War A 'Huge Mistake'
2015-12-01,BlackBerry leaves Pakistan following government backdoor demands
2015-12-01,Germany to join military action against Islamic State in Syria but won't participate in air strikes
2015-12-01,"Global warming could suffocate life on Earth as oxygen levels fall, research shows"
2015-12-01,Big Data Predicts Centuries Of Harm If Climate Warming Goes Unchecked
2015-12-01,ISIS is preparing a 'backup' capital in case its major center in Syria falls
2015-12-01,Express Scripts Covers $1 Alternative to $750 Pill Daraprim
2015-12-01,The International Monetary Fund has officially designated the Chinese yuan a global reserve currency.
2015-11-30,"Air pollution reached hazardous levels in Beijing on Sunday, prompting the city to upgrade to the second-highest alert for the first time in 13 months on the same day that the Chinese government said it has met pollution-reduction targets for the year"
2015-11-30,"China Is Building a Giant Animal-Cloning Factory to Feed the Masses - While the rest of the world sorts out its feelings about the safety & ethics of cloning animals for food production, China is charging ahead & building the world's largest animal cloning factory, set to begin operations in 2016."
2015-11-30,Japan stuns world by announcing it will resume whaling in Antarctic Ocean despite ban
2015-11-30,"Newspaper draws piggy bank to show ISIS funding, Muslim groups attack it as pig is unislamic"
2015-11-30,"Russia hits back at Turkey by changing Syria 'game' - Kurds get Russian help, talks about a union of secular forces."
2015-11-30,Kurdish fighters say US special forces have been fighting Isis for months
2015-11-30,Obama demands that Turkey close stretch of frontier with Syria
2015-11-30,"Prince Ali vows to open the books if elected FIFA head. Salaries, finances, what have you, that should all be open. Why not? People want it to be open."
2015-11-30,Hamburg votes against hosting the 2024 Olympics in referendum
2015-11-30,Russian plane escorted from Israeli airspace without incident
2015-11-30,White House Releases Details of Bill Gates's Climate Research Plan
2015-11-30,El Salvador's anti-abortion law makes criminals of mothers who miscarry
2015-11-30,Blair and Bush went to war in Iraq despite the assurances of South Africa that Saddam did not possess WMDs
2015-11-30,French police fire teargas to disperse climate protest
2015-11-30,Negative interest rates in Switzerland have started a bizarre debate among economists over whether cash should be abolished
2015-11-30,Lakes are forming on top of Mount Everests glaciers
2015-11-30,Migrant crisis: Turkey to get 3 billion and possible EU membership as part of migrant deal
2015-11-30,Russian football clubs banned from signing Turkish players
2015-11-30,Iraqis find 3 more mass graves in formerly ISIS-held Sinjar
2015-11-30,"50,000 people without drinking water after reported Russian airstrike"
2015-11-30,"Declaring 'new beginning,' EU and Turkey seal migrant deal - Turks to benefit from visa-free travel to Europe's Schengen zone within a year if Turkey meets conditions on tightening its borders and reduces departures to Europe."
2015-11-30,Refugees with infectious diseases will not be denied entry into Canada: Health minister
2015-11-30,Christmas is cancelled: Italians outraged over school decision to ban festivities
2015-11-30,"Corporate tax cuts contributed to slower economic growth, Canadian study finds"
2015-11-30,Merkel faces call to resign amid migrant crisis criticism
2015-11-29,"Two prominent journalists in Turkey face charges of espionage after publishing video that allegedly showed trucks, belonging to the state intelligence agency, carrying ammunition to Syrian militants"
2015-11-29,"Australia slams Japans decision to resume Antarctic whaling - Environment minister says Tokyo cannot ""unilaterally decide"" to ignore scientific advice & international court of justice ruling to hunt & kill 333 minke whales"
2015-11-29,ISIS mocked with rubber ducks as internet fights terror with humour
2015-11-29,"Ban On Tuna Labeled Dolphin-Safe Shows How TPP Will Crush Consumer Rights: ... dolphin-safe labeling of tuna managed to reduce annual deaths of the mammals from over 100,000 to only 3,000 but the World Trade Organization just effectively nullified this critical program"
2015-11-29,Putin orders sanctions against Turkey
2015-11-29,Turkish human rights lawyer shot dead during press conference.
2015-11-29,Mystery ghost fleet washes up in Japan: Eleven ships containing 20 dead sailors are discovered off the coast... and nobody can explain why
2015-11-29,Russian air strike hits busy market in Idlib province
2015-11-29,"Iran orchestra barred over women musicians: A high-profile performance in Iran by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra was cancelled at the last minute because it was due to feature female musicians, its furious conductor said on Sunday."
2015-11-29,Turkey Arrests Generals for Stopping Syria-Bound Trucks 'Filled With Arms'
2015-11-29,Thousands Protest Arrest of 2 Turkish Journalists on Spying Charges
2015-11-29,Brazil to sue miners BHP and Vale for $ 5.2 billion following bursting of dam
2015-11-29,Syria army says Turkey increases arms shipments to rebels
2015-11-29,"Spain Approves 'Sun Tax,' Discriminates Against Solar PV"
2015-11-29,"Oman has scored zero in the global terrorism index, which reflects well on its safety and security against terrorist threats, according to the Global Terrorism Index 2015 released recently by the Economics and Peace Institute. Meanwhile, no Omani has joined ISIS, according to a monitoring group"
2015-11-29,"""Migrants attack Macedonian police as construction of Greek border fence begins"""
2015-11-29,British war planes 'could be bombing Isis in Syria within 72 hours'
2015-11-29,Hrriyet columnist faces up to five years in prison for insulting President Erdoan
2015-11-29,"Eyewitness: No IS group in Aleppo, so who is Russia bombing?"
2015-11-29,Turkeys President Erdogan says Putin has not returned his phone call
2015-11-29,Probe begins after Arabic graffiti found on four easyJet planes in France
2015-11-29,Hong Kong's 'pink' dolphins under threat from airport and Macau bridge: Conservationists fear Hong Kongs unique dolphins are at risk of disappearing due to loss of habitat and pollution from two major construction projects.
2015-11-29,Russia-Ukraine row over Crimea escalates as Moscow cuts coal to Kiev
2015-11-29,Kremlin says Putin 'fully mobilized' to tackle threat from Turkey
2015-11-29,Bill Gates to pledge $1 billion for 'clean energy'
2015-11-28,Exposed: 'Full Range of Collusion' Between Big Oil and TTIP Trade Reps: new documents reveal that EU trade officials gave U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil access to confidential negotiating strategies considered too sensitive to be released to the European public
2015-11-28,Putin: Commercial scale oil smuggling into Turkey to become a priority target of Russia's anti-ISIS strikes
2015-11-28,Bill Gates will invest as much as $2 billion in new clean energy partnership with US and India
2015-11-28,Nestle landed in more trouble late on Friday after a Uttar Pradesh laboratory alleged that samples of its pasta were found to have lead beyond permissible limits.
2015-11-28,Pope Francis: God must never be used to justify hatred and violence
2015-11-28,Researches are now 90% sure there is a previously undiscovered chamber hidden in King Tutankhamun's tomb
2015-11-28,UK could be prosecuted for war crimes over missiles sold to Saudi Arabia that were used to kill civilians in Yemen
2015-11-28,"China is crushing the U.S. on renewable energy - According to new data, China's clean energy investment over the last year outpaced that of the U.S., the U.K., & France combined."
2015-11-28,Syrian Turkmen commander who 'killed' Russian pilot turns out to be Turkish ultranationalist
2015-11-28,France puts 24 climate activists under house arrest ahead of UN talks
2015-11-28,"Vladimir Putin accused Turkey of allowing ISIS jihadists to run a ""living oil pipe"" across its border as he upped the ante in the row over the downing of a Russian jet."
2015-11-28,"Austrian Foreign Minister openly criticized Saudi Arabia over its human rights record, citing ""inhuman punishment"". Also urged Saudi Arabia to create more opportunities for the relocation of the Syrian refugees in the Middle East, saying the kingdom has not done enough"
2015-11-28,"A booby-trapped mass grave containing the bodies of at least 110 people from the minority Yazidi sect has been found in northern Iraq, officials say."
2015-11-28,"Eighteen village councils in northern India are demanding a local Coca-Cola bottling plant be prohibited from extracting water from the ground, claiming its over usage has led to water scarcity in the area"
2015-11-28,Prominent Lawyer Shot Dead in Turkey
2015-11-28,France accepts Russian replacement for police dog killed in Paris attack
2015-11-28,"Belgian Physicists Calculate that Everyone Is Lying About the Downed Russian Jet. Using video of the incident and the maps provided by Turkish and Russian officials, they show in a post on a blog run by KU Leuven that what went down couldnt possibly have happened as both parties present it."
2015-11-28,"Nearly 1,000 'security risks' denied entry to France since Paris attacks"
2015-11-28,Cruelty of the Tokyo 'euthanasia centre' for stray dogs where animals suffer for fifteen minutes before they die from suffocation in canine 'gas chamber'
2015-11-28,Putin Says Israel and Russia Will Continue Sharing Intelligence on Anti-Terrorism
2015-11-28,The president of Paraguay has fired the head of the country's indigenous affairs office after he apparently kicked an indigenous woman.
2015-11-28,"Five days after saboteurs blew up power lines in southern Ukraine plunging Russian-annexed Crimea into an energy crisis, all four damaged pylons are out of action and engineers say they need a political decision to restore supplies"
2015-11-28,Martin Shkreli Breaks His Promise To Lower The Price Of HIV Drug
2015-11-28,More that 700 people were killed in jihadist attacks worldwide in three weeks
2015-11-28,"Suicide bomber kills at least 21 people in attack on Shia Muslim procession in Nigeria's Kano state, officials say"
2015-11-27,Saudi Arabia just promised to sue anyone who compares their justice system to Isis
2015-11-27,Coca-Cola's chief scientist and heath officer leaves after being caught setting up a nonprofit which downplayed the role of sugary drinks in the obesity epidemic
2015-11-27,"Swedish court: 'We cannot ban Pirate Bay': After deliberating for almost a month on the closely-watched case, the District Court of Stockholm ruled that copyright holders could not make Swedish ISP Bredbandsbolaget block Pirate Bay."
2015-11-27,Two journalists arrested in Turkey for story on weapon loaded Turkish intelligence trucks bound for Syria
2015-11-27,Turing's $1 a pill Daraprim competitor sells well; Impris considers producing cheap versions of other price gouged drugs
2015-11-27,French ban on Muslim headscarves is upheld by human rights court after woman sacked for refusing to remove hers loses appeal
2015-11-27,Saudi Arabia is planning to execute more than 50 people in a single day
2015-11-27,Turkish fighter jets violate Greek national air space | News
2015-11-27,HSBC whistleblower jailed for five years over biggest leak in banking history
2015-11-27,"Turkey violated Greek airspace more than 2,000 times last year"
2015-11-27,Medical marijuana users get OK from Ontario government to vaporize anywhere
2015-11-27,"Putin on working with U.S-""Why did we give the Americans this information? Either they're not controlling their allies or they're leaking this info all over the place."""
2015-11-27,"2,700 yr-old sarcophagus of high priest of God Amun unearthed in Luxor"
2015-11-27,Turkey's Erdogan warns Russia not to 'play with fire'
2015-11-27,Amazon Deforestation increases by 16% in 2015
2015-11-27,26 Turkish businessmen taken into police custody in Russia
2015-11-27,Russia deploys advanced S-400 air-defence missile system in Syria after Turkey downed one of its jets
2015-11-27,"Artist says his death sentence results from a personal dispute, not atheism"
2015-11-27,800 Belgium-Bound Shotguns Seized by Italian Police: Official
2015-11-27,"Russian jet incident planned, Turkish opposition member says"
2015-11-27,US accused of covering up death of six children in Syria air strike [includes video]
2015-11-27,"Russia raiding Turkish firms and sending imports back. Moscow also preventing Turkish tourists from entering Russia, businessmen say, in apparent response to downing of plane"
2015-11-27,"Russia ""Wipes Out"" Syrian rebels in area where its plane was brought down"
2015-11-27,Germany arrrests man who may have sold guns to Paris attackers
2015-11-27,"China said on Thursday that it planned to establish a military facility in Djibouti, a strategically important country on the Horn of Africa, which would apparently be the first permanent presence overseas for Chinas military and a sign of the growing reach of its navy."
2015-11-26,Turkey's Erdogan says Russia should apologise after jet downing - CNN
2015-11-26,Turkish army releases audio of warnings to downed Russian plane
2015-11-26,"Turkey won't apologize for downing Russian jet, Erdogan says."
2015-11-26,Russia holding up Turkish goods at border as relations sour - Reports of hundreds of trucks bringing Turkish goods stranded
2015-11-26,ISIS releases video claiming war on over 60 nations.
2015-11-26,Turkey moves 20 tanks to its border and sends 18 fighter jets on patrol as Russia crisis continues
2015-11-26,"Iraqi forces cut last ISIS supply line into Ramadi by retaking bridge | News , Middle East"
2015-11-26,"The United Arab Emirates has secretly dispatched hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to Yemen to fight in that countrys raging conflict, adding a volatile new element in a complex proxy war that has drawn in the United States and Iran."
2015-11-26,Russia accuses Turkey of 'hypocrisy' after Erdogan admits airspace violation 'does not justify attack'
2015-11-26,Islamic State riles China by recognizing Taiwan in new propaganda video
2015-11-26,Canada's PM Trudeau refuses to point finger at Russia over tensions with Turkey
2015-11-26,Russian jets hits aid trucks in Syria
2015-11-26,"India's poverty rate falls to 12.4%, electricity plays big role"
2015-11-26,Venezuelan opposition politician shot dead
2015-11-26,Eagles of Death Metal will finish their Bataclan set in Paris
2015-11-26,TTIP talks: EU alleged to have given ExxonMobil access to confidential papers - Documents and emails obtained by the Guardian reveal collusion between Brussels and industry over the fossil fuel push in free trade negotiations
2015-11-26,"In the Italian countryside, not far from Pisa, a vast experiment is about to be switched on. If it's a success, one of Albert Einstein's greatest predictions will have been directly observed for the first time. If it fails, laws of physics might have to be reconsidered"
2015-11-26,"The Islamic State group (ISIS) is on its last breath in the city of Ramadi, where it is blowing up homes to punish young men who have fled and joined the Iraqi Army, an Iraqi officer and the government said."
2015-11-26,Brazilian police on Wednesday arrested the government's leader in the Senate for allegedly obstructing the investigation into a corruption scandal at state-owned oil company Petrobras
2015-11-26,Britain offers France use of airbase in Cyprus to support air war on ISIS in Syria
2015-11-26,Ukraine has banned all Russian planes from using its airspace and exports of Russian gas to Ukraine have been halted by state-controlled giant Gazprom.
2015-11-26,A painful chapter in Quebecs history has concluded with the release of a detailed report on how corruption infiltrated every corner of the provinces multibillion-dollar public construction industry and seeped from the biker gangs and the mafia into bureaucracy and politics.
2015-11-26,Turkish newspaper editor in court for 'espionage' after revealing weapon convoy to Syrian militants
2015-11-26,Russia fully suspended from world athletics after accepting an indefinite ban from the sport
2015-11-26,"$750/pill pharma company reverses decision to lower drug price - Turing will offer hospitals and patients discounts, but high list price stands."
2015-11-25,I gave the order myself  Turkish PM on downing Russian plane
2015-11-25,'Severe blow': Al Qaeda suicide bomber takes out leadership of key ISIS brigade
2015-11-25,Depressed Elephant Has Been Living In A Concrete Cell For 61 Years
2015-11-25,Hackers knock out ISIS's Dark Net propaganda site
2015-11-25,BBC: Downed plane pilot denies Turkey warning
2015-11-25,"Iranian Authorities Overrule Husband, Allow Female Soccer Captain To Travel To World Cup Event"
2015-11-25,"All Russian tourist agencies stop selling Turkey trips, cancel charter flights"
2015-11-25,Turkey downed Russian fighter jet to protect ISIS oil sales: Putin
2015-11-25,Russian lawmakers submit bill to hold to account anyone who denies Armenian genocide: RIA
2015-11-25,Syrian and Russian special forces have rescued the second pilot of a Russian warplane shot down by Turkey and he is now at a Russian air base in Syria
2015-11-25,Turkish military release radar image tracking Russian fighter jet over Turkish territory before attack. Radar shows Russian jet only over Turkey for 10 seconds.
2015-11-25,All Russian bombers in Syria will now be escorted by fighters.
2015-11-25,Russia bombards Syrian rebels near site of downed Russian jet
2015-11-25,Gambia bans female genital mutilation
2015-11-25,Greece Agrees With Russian Assessment of Turkey's 'Unfriendly' Actions
2015-11-25,"""No war with Turkey"" - Russia condemns ""planned provocation"" and expresses disappointment over Ankara prioritizing contact with NATO"
2015-11-25,Syrian military source says rebels making heavy use of U.S.-made anti-tank missiles paid for by Saudi Arabia and supplied via Turkey
2015-11-25,Flight data released by Russian Ministry of Defense shows that the Su24 never entered Turkey.
2015-11-25,Erdogan: We didn't know warplane was Russian
2015-11-25,US says it cannot coordinate with Russia until they stop killing so many civilians and moderate rebels.
2015-11-25,Russia to stop air communication with Turkey
2015-11-25,"Europe should take no more refugees, says French prime minister"
2015-11-25,NATO backs Turkey over Russian aircraft
2015-11-25,Over 1/2 the world's primates on brink of extinction - International experts call for urgent action to protect mankind's closest living relatives. Highlight threat to lesser-known apes & monkeys from large-scale habitat destruction & illegal wildlife trade
2015-11-25,"Archeologists in Croatia announced their discovery of a 3,500-year-old sunken town in Adriatic Sea near Zadar, a southern coastal city."
2015-11-24,Putin calls Turkey 'accomplices of terrorists' after Russian jet shot down
2015-11-24,Fighter jet goes down in flames near Syrian border: Turkey's Haberturk TV footage
2015-11-24,Nestl admits slavery and coercion used in catching its seafood
2015-11-24,"France's leading Muslim body called Tuesday for imams to require a permit to preach and for a new religious body to fight back against jihadist propaganda. The country's imams should be given a certificate -- ""like a driving licence"" -- that ensured they promoted a ""tolerant and open Islam""."
2015-11-24,Reports of Russian helicopter downed during search for fighter jet pilot.
2015-11-24,Vladimir Putin warns of 'serious consequences' following Turkey shooting down Russian jet
2015-11-24,"West should learn from Iraq and Libya, says Russian envoy Vladimir Morozov.""We can remember Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In both cases, it was said that if you remove the dictator, the country will prosper. The result as we can see is quite different,"" he said"
2015-11-24,Russia to cut off natural gas to Ukraine
2015-11-24,Secret cell of British Muslim women encouraging others to join Islamic State exposed
2015-11-24,US issues worldwide travel alert
2015-11-24,"Eating less meat only way to save planet, warns climate think tank: ""We cannot avoid dangerous climate change unless consumption trends change."""
2015-11-24,NATO calls 'extraordinary meeting' after Turkey downs Russian jet
2015-11-24,Young 'to be poorer than parents at every stage of life'
2015-11-24,Taiwanese beauty queen kicked out of Miss Earth pageant for refusing to change 'Taiwan ROC' sash to 'Chinese Taipei'
2015-11-24,New chemical attack fears as Paris health authority reports protective suits stolen from hospital
2015-11-24,"Boy dies of Ebola in Liberia, first such fatality in months"
2015-11-24,Government is ignoring ISIS recruitment in Ireland says top Muslim cleric
2015-11-24,More Mexicans leaving US than arriving
2015-11-24,Russia's Lavrov cancels scheduled visit to Turkey
2015-11-24,French police: Explosive belt without detonator found in southern Paris suburb of Montrouge
2015-11-24,Putin: Russia will not tolerate such crimes as attack against its Sukhoi-24 plane
2015-11-24,Bomb explodes outside Greek business federation offices in Athens: police
2015-11-24,Sweden set to tighten asylum rules for refugees
2015-11-24,"Israel nuclear weapons arsenal includes 115 warheads, according to a new report by the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington, DC-based think tank"
2015-11-24,Norway to raise taxes to pay for refugees
2015-11-23,Russia Bans Scientology
2015-11-23,Australia passes law banning anti-vax parents from childcare benefits
2015-11-23,"Russian sailor drinks half a litre of rum before crashing 7,000-ton ship at full speed into Scotland"
2015-11-23,Only 3 northern white rhinos left on Earth
2015-11-23,Third Paris stadium suicide bomber identified as refugee who came via Greece
2015-11-23,New hacker group (Ghost Security Group) 'Spying' on Islamic State instead of hacking them. Calling Anonymous tactics 'unsophisticated'
2015-11-23,"Canada's Syrian refugee plan limited to women, children and families"
2015-11-23,"Plot to 'explode three bombs in German football stadium' foiled after game cancelled at last minute | The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said: 'Security officials took a responsible decision'"
2015-11-23,Paris attacks: Fugitive Salah Abdeslam frequented gay bar in Belgium
2015-11-23,Cult's potentially lethal bleach 'cure' for Autism spreads to Britain. Parents giving children sodium chlorite and hydrochloric acid on the advice of Genesis II Church of Health and Healing
2015-11-23,"An ex-CIA director claims Snowden should face the death penalty because he has French blood on his hands. Some experts cast doubt on that claim, with one saying the Paris attacks are being used as a good crisis by those in power"
2015-11-23,Chinese police use a flamethrower on 'Muslim terror suspects'
2015-11-23,People in Belgium are flooding the hashtag #Brusselslockdown on twitter with cat pictures after the police officially asked them not to communicate on social media about their whereabouts.
2015-11-23,"More than 1,200 Europeans who flew out to join Islamic extremists have returned home"
2015-11-23,Iraq: 300 ISIS Militants Surrender to Peshmerga
2015-11-23,Turkey has summoned Russias ambassador following intensive bombing of ethnic Turkish people in Syria | The Turkish foreign ministry warns that the Russian attacks could lead to serious consequences. Turkey has already warned the Kremlin that it will shoot down its warplanes.
2015-11-23,Five Finger Death Punch cancel show in Milan following reported terrorist threat.
2015-11-23,Russian thieves made off with a full bomb's worth of highly enriched uranium | GlobalPost
2015-11-23,Brussels alert 'stays at highest level'
2015-11-23,"The election of a lesbian as president of the student body at Koreas super-elite Seoul National University has made front page news, exposing the generation gap between Koreas increasingly liberal younger generation and older people still imbued in the nations conservative traditions."
2015-11-23,Belgian police arrest six terror suspects after raids across country
2015-11-23,Argentine opposition wins presidential election
2015-11-23,Israeli woman killed as more violence hits West Bank
2015-11-23,Report: Russia Starts Ground Operations in Syria
2015-11-23,Russian strikes blamed for 400 Syrian civilian deaths
2015-11-22,China declares war on ISIS after terrorists 'execute Chinese hostage'
2015-11-22,"Paris city police commissioner arrived at Bataclan before special forces. Ran in alone, took out one of the gunmen."
2015-11-22,state of emergency as Crimea loses electricity.
2015-11-22,Pope Says Christmas Will Be A Charade Because Whole World Is At War
2015-11-22,"Thanks to Russian strikes, our troops advancing on nearly every front, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says"
2015-11-22,The French military has seen a surge in applications after the Paris attacks
2015-11-22,"Putin never said ""To forgive them is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me"""
2015-11-22,US rock group Pearl Jam donated proceeds from a concert in Brazil to victims of a toxic mining spill that killed 12 people and was the country's worst environmental disaster
2015-11-22,Around 100 ISIS militants killed by Syrian army on Saturday
2015-11-22,"A volcanic island which was formed in 2013 has grown to 12 times its size, according to Japan Coast Guard officials. New aerial film footage of the remote Nishinoshima shows eruptions are still taking place from a crater in the islands center, and continuous lava flows."
2015-11-22,"Japan is running out of people to take care of the elderly, so it's making robots instead.To address the issue, Japanese companies are leading in the development of Carebots."
2015-11-22,"Vladimir Putins massive, triple-decker war room revealed"
2015-11-22,2 Deaths Reported After Missiles Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital In Syria
2015-11-22,U.S. vets return to Iraq to fight ISIS
2015-11-22,"""A tiny Swiss bank specialised in financing social and environmental projects will on January 1 go where no retail lender has gone before, applying negative interest rates on individual clients."""
2015-11-22,Suicide Attack in Cameroon Kills 10
2015-11-22,The ISIS bombs hidden inside dolls and toys to kill CHILDREN: Iraqi military reveal IEDs placed in toys by Islamists
2015-11-22,Iranian court sentences Washington Post reporter Rezaian to prison.
2015-11-22,Authorities missed many 'red flags' before Paris shootings
2015-11-22,"Merkel berated over refugee policy by key ally, who says Germany must end ""welcome culture"" for refugees - Independent.ie"
2015-11-22,Liberia monitors over 150 Ebola contacts as virus re-emerges
2015-11-22,Russia kills 10 militants who had sworn allegiance to ISIS
2015-11-22,"U.S. and Chinese troops connect in first-ever exchange at JBLM. ""first time Chinese troops have been invited to train in the continental United States"""
2015-11-22,'Not in my name' - Italy's Muslims rally against terrorism
2015-11-22,"Entire northern border of Syria to be shut off by US/Turkish force. ""75 percent of it has now been shut off. And we are entering an operation with the Turks to shut off the other remaining 98 km (61 miles)"""
2015-11-21,Saudi Arabia Sentences Poet to Death for Atheism
2015-11-21,"Anonymous said Saturday it has uncovered information about Islamic State group attacks in Paris as well as on locations in the U.S., Indonesia, Italy and Lebanon, all apparently set for Sunday"
2015-11-21,"Belgium raised its terror alert level to the highest level in the capital Brussels on Saturday, warning of an ""imminent threat"""
2015-11-21,Anonymous takes down the main messaging forum used by ISIS
2015-11-21,"Cable and satellite providers in Canada must provide a $25 basic cable package or channel pick-and-pay system by March 1, 2016"
2015-11-21,Russians inscribe 'For Paris' on bombs destined for Syria
2015-11-21,Paris attacks: Terrorist arsenal found in Brussels suburb
2015-11-21,US urged to reject bomb sales to Saudi Arabia
2015-11-21,War on Isis: UN in rare unanimous vote calls on world to unite against jihadist group
2015-11-21,Pakistanis views on ISIS showcase worrying trend: 62% of the individuals revealed that they did not hold a definite opinion about ISIS while 9% even showed support for the group.
2015-11-21,Russian cruise missiles hit ISIS from Mediterranean & Caspian; 600 killed in one strike
2015-11-21,No problem. I will talk to my boss: B.C. man learns he will be next king of Ghana tribe
2015-11-21,"Putin Blasts Syria With New Stealth Missileand Shows the World He Can Strike From 1,700 Miles Away"
2015-11-21,SpaceX gets mission to take NASA crew to space station
2015-11-21,Turkey seizes 11 million pills of 'Syria war drug': reports
2015-11-21,Turkey seized 11 million pills of a stimulant that's helping to fuel the Syrian civil war
2015-11-21,"Nurse thought Paris attack was gas explosion, started giving CPR, then discovered injured man was suicide bomber, his bomb not fully exploded."
2015-11-21,Syria secretly sentenced free software developer Bassel Khartabil to death.
2015-11-21,Japan Considers Sending Navy to Aid U.S. in South China Sea
2015-11-21,"Egypt's top Muslim cleric issued an impassioned appeal Saturday to disassociate Islam from extremist attacks, saying Muslims themselves had suffered most from ""the catastrophe of terrorism."""
2015-11-21,"'Nearly impossible' to find jihadists among migrants, Greeks warn"
2015-11-21,UN Approves Resolution Urging Action Against Islamic State
2015-11-21,Mali hotel attack: 'No more hostages' after special forces raid
2015-11-21,British rescue 347 French near Falklands Islands after cruise ship catches fire and loses power.
2015-11-21,"Canadian City Becomes The First In The World To Implement Climate Change Warning Stickers At Gas Stations: North Vancouver, BC passed a law that mandates climate change warning stickers be applied to gas pumps"
2015-11-20,"Fighters in Syria are on steady doses of an amphetamine called Captagon. This allows them ""stay up for days, killing with a numb, reckless abandon."" Side effects include ""psychosis and brain damage"""
2015-11-20,"Shots fired at Radisson Hotel in Bamako, Mali (French)"
2015-11-20,British police still shun guns despite Paris attacks: We are an unarmed force  were proud of that
2015-11-20,US Approves $1.29 Billion Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia
2015-11-20,"Czech Republic to deliver 10 million rounds of ammunition and 5,000 grenades to Peshmerga forces fighting ISIS"
2015-11-20,"Gunfire, explosions, hostage situation as jihadists attack luxury Radisson hotel in Mali - reports"
2015-11-20,Saudi court sentences Palestinian poet to death for apostasy
2015-11-20,"U.S. criticizes Israel's punishment of 6 weeks community service for policeman filmed beating Palestinian-American teen. US says ""says evidence of excessive force is 'clear' and the sentence doesn't promote accountability"""
2015-11-20,Ukrainian President supports replacing Russian with English on all passports
2015-11-20,"A leaked Malaysian police report alleges there could be at least ten ISIS suicide bombers in Kuala Lumpur, where leaders from 18 countries, including the US, Russia, Japan and China, are set to gather this weekend for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit"
2015-11-20,28 terrorists killed in Chinas Xinjiang province
2015-11-20,King Abdullah of Jordan: We Are Facing A Third World War
2015-11-20,"""Bataclan concert hall will reopen despite Paris attacks"""
2015-11-20,Now that TPP agreement has been reached - theres plenty of time for public debate: Obama responding to a question from a Malaysian youth who said the TPP was elitist and excluded most voices
2015-11-20,"By extending state of emergency, France can now block websites"
2015-11-20,China Has a $1.2 Trillion Ponzi Finance Problem
2015-11-20,"Boko Haram, responsible for the Nigeria explosion this week and kidnapping 300 girls last year, is the now world's most dangerous terrorist group - not ISIS (Daesh)"
2015-11-20,World powers are poised to forge a single resolution at the United Nations Security Council to declare a common war against Isis and eradicate jihadists in Iraq and Syria
2015-11-20,On the run from Isis: Jihadists targeting Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam for chickening out of killings
2015-11-20,U.S. Releases Convicted Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard After 30-Year Prison Term
2015-11-20,"The Islamic State group is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region, according to Iraqi and U.S. intelligence officials."
2015-11-20,"Loud explosion after security alert, evacuation at London tube station"
2015-11-20,(France) Army recruitment inquiries triple since attacks
2015-11-20,Swedish Jews close synagogues after terror threat raised
2015-11-20,"A new study shows that the most widely used insecticides in the worldneonicotinoidsturn bumblebees into more bumbling pollinators, leading to lower yields for apples and perhaps other plants that they visit."
2015-11-19,Paris attacks ringleader dead - French officials
2015-11-19,355 ISIS targets in Syria destroyed by Russian air force in last 48 hours:
2015-11-19,Putin Puts $50 Million Bounty on Heads of Metrojet Bombers
2015-11-19,Syrian man kills judge at ISIS Sharia Court for beheading his brother
2015-11-19,Paris attacks: The eight terror suspects named so far are not refugees and all have EU passports
2015-11-19,Jeremy Corbyn calls for economic sanctions against banks and countries funding Isis: The Labour leader has previously said the UK should be asking questions about Saudi Arabia's involvement
2015-11-19,China vows justice after ISIS executes national
2015-11-19,Three people stabbed in south Tel Aviv in suspected terror attack
2015-11-19,British Muslims take out a full page advert in the British press to condemn isil
2015-11-19,The pot-smoking Paris suicide bomber: Ex-wife reveals 'blood brother' terrorist was a jobless layabout who spent his time taking drugs and sleeping... and never went to the mosque
2015-11-19,White House vows to veto any bill limiting the amounts of Syrian refugees into the US
2015-11-19,ISIS Calls Anonymous Idiots as Cyber War Heats Up
2015-11-19,Honduras detains 5 Syrians heading for U.S. with stolen Greek passports-police
2015-11-19,Man 'shot through window by stray bullet' in Paris attacks found dead in flat
2015-11-19,"Obama's drone war a 'recruitment tool' for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers - Four former service members  including three sensor operators  issue plea to rethink current airstrike strategy that has fueled feelings of hatred toward US"
2015-11-19,Nigeria's Boko Haram kills 49 in suicide bombings
2015-11-19,Bosnia: Gunman kills two soldiers and blows himself up in Sarajevo 'terror' attack
2015-11-19,Beijing vows justice after Islamic State executes Chinese captive
2015-11-19,"Swedish PM Stefan Lfvn in live press conference: ""Sweden has been naive a long time about possible terror threats"", he reveals that up until 2015 ""there was practically nothing on the table in terms of counter-terrorism measures"" in Sweden"
2015-11-19,"A 1,111 carat ""high quality diamond"" has been discovered at a mine in Botswana, said to be the biggest find in more than a century"
2015-11-19,"The fearless father who threw himself on a suicide bomber, saving hundreds of lives in Beirut"
2015-11-19,North Korea executes 3 women for recording South Korean TV drama
2015-11-19,Former Mexican president says country will legalise all drugs within a decade
2015-11-19,Alarming ''superbug'' gene discovered in China. Highly resistant to antibiotics with a chance of becoming an epidemic.
2015-11-19,US Offers $5M Reward for IS Leader
2015-11-18,"Reports of gun fire, possible explosions near Saint-Denis area of Paris, France"
2015-11-18,"France Rejects Fear, Renews Commitment To Take In 30,000 Syrian Refugees"
2015-11-18,Paris attacks: Mother died using her body to shield her five-year-old son from bullets
2015-11-18,"Despite Paris attacks, Hollande says erecting walls and fences ""would be the end of Europe""."
2015-11-18,Indian Government starts offering up to 90% discount on cancer drugs and reduces costs of cardiac implants by 50 to 60 percent.
2015-11-18,Russia hits 206 ISIS targets in Syria after confirming bomb downed passenger plane over Sinai
2015-11-18,"French Police Kill Three, Arrest Three in Saint-Denis Raid"
2015-11-18,Obama presses Canada for quick TPP approval
2015-11-18,"Anonymous is crowdsourcing #OpParis, publishes noob guide to hacking"
2015-11-18,"A British couple was found guilty Tuesday of keeping a Nigerian immigrant enslaved for more than two decades, forcing him to work for no pay and threatening him with deportation if he tried to escape, prosecutors said."
2015-11-18,Montreal police arrest man in mask who vowed to kill Muslims in Quebec
2015-11-18,"No explosives found and no arrests made in Hannover, Germany"
2015-11-18,Turkey detains 8 Europe-bound IS suspects 'posing as refugees'
2015-11-18,Sweden raises terror threat level to second highest citing 'concrete information'
2015-11-18,"Britain wants to close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025 and lower their output from 2023, the government said on Wednesday, making it the first major economy to put a date on shutting down polluting coal plants to curb carbon emissions."
2015-11-18,"About 24,000 Colombians filed a class action lawsuit against government agencies after a study revealed the residents in the outskirts of Medelln have been drinking water contaminated with feces for more than 20 years."
2015-11-18,ISIS says it smuggled bomb onto Russian plane after finding security loophole - shows photo of improvised Russian plane bomb.
2015-11-18,Nigerian Soldiers Arrest Boko Haram Kingpin and Destroy IED Factory
2015-11-18,"Paris Plans Defiant Night of Food, Drink and Cafe Life in Wake of Attacks"
2015-11-18,"All 129 victims of the Paris attacks have been identified, a French government spokesman says"
2015-11-18,Japanese whalers fined $1 million by Australian court
2015-11-18,Man in Joker Mask Vows to Kill 'One Arab a Week' Across Quebec
2015-11-18,Boko Haram overtakes Isis as world's deadliest terror organisation
2015-11-18,Putin Says France Now Ally in Syria as Russia Steps Up Strikes
2015-11-18,India's Largest Muslim Organisation To Lead Protests Across The Country Against ISIS
2015-11-17,"The Dalai Lama on terrorist attacks: ""We cannot solve this problem only through prayers. ... I believe in praying. But humans have created this problem, and now we are asking God to solve it. It is illogical. So let us work for peace ... and not expect help from God, Buddha or the governments."""
2015-11-17,Justin Trudeau has officially ordered Canada's Justice Minister to start the weed legalization process
2015-11-17,Anonymous identified 900 ISIS-related Twitter accounts and now they've been suspended
2015-11-17,Video showing 'London Muslims celebrating terror attacks' is fake. The footage actually shows British Pakistanis celebrating a cricket victory in 2009.
2015-11-17,"World leaders have taken to calling ISIS Daesh, a word the Islamic State hates."
2015-11-17,"Russia's security chief says a ""terror act"" brought down Russian plane in Egypt killing all 224 people on board"
2015-11-17,"Anonymous takes down 5,500 ISIS Twitter accounts"
2015-11-17,Three syrians arrested in St. Marteen airport with false greek passports
2015-11-17,Russia launches cruise missiles at ISIS targets in Syria
2015-11-17,"All of the attackers from Fridays massacre in Paris so far have been identified as European Union nationals, according to a top EU official. The announcement further casts doubt on the validity of a Syrian passport found near the bodies of a slain attacker."
2015-11-17,Russian Warplanes Destroy 140 Terrorist Targets in Syria
2015-11-17,"Charlie Hebdos post-Paris cover: 'Fuck their weapons, we have Champagne'"
2015-11-17,President Hollande calls for laws that give authorities the ability to strip French born terrorists of their citizenship
2015-11-17,"After ISIS Paris Attack, Saudi Arabia's King Salman Donates $110M For International Anti-Terrorism Center"
2015-11-17,Hollande calls for U.S. and Russia to join France and fight this terrorist army in a single coalition
2015-11-17,Pregnant Woman Dangling From A Paris Window During Attacks Is Safe
2015-11-17,Russia offers $50 million reward for help detaining Egypt plane bombers: TASS
2015-11-17,"Assad is Not the Enemy of France, ISIS is - Hollande"
2015-11-17,"German police arrest two women, one man in operation linked to Paris attacks"
2015-11-17,US approves $1.29 bn sale of bombs to Saudi Arabia
2015-11-17,Five rescued in Tanzania after 41 days trapped in gold mine
2015-11-17,Spain Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Senior Israeli Officials
2015-11-17,"Syrian refugees should be trained into an army to fight Isis, Poland's foreign minister says"
2015-11-17,Stocks of the leading weapons manufacturers have soared following Paris Attacks
2015-11-17,Anti-migrant mood deepens in Central Europe after Paris
2015-11-16,France Drops 20 Bombs On IS Stronghold Raqqa
2015-11-16,"French Interior Minister: We will start the ""dissolution of mosques where hate is preached."""
2015-11-16,"French police are using new powers under the state of emergency to question people in the ""radical jihadist movement"". Over 150 searches executed, multiple arrests, and a rocket launcher discovered."
2015-11-16,"Putin: ISIS financed from 40 countries, including G20 members"
2015-11-16,Same-sex marriage is now legal in Republic of Ireland
2015-11-16,ISIS executes 73 of its own militants for fleeing battle
2015-11-16,Anonymous declares war on ISIS
2015-11-16,G20: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin agree to Syrian-led transition
2015-11-16,"France ""is at war"" after Friday's attacks on Paris, President Francois Hollande tells the national assembly."
2015-11-16,"Sikh man wrongly depicted as Paris attacker, faces online fury"
2015-11-16,"Syrian Refugee Puts Paris Attacks Into Perspective In One Simple Sentence - Whats happening to them is happening every day in Syria, 100 times per day for five years, so we know what that means, he said."
2015-11-16,The world's largest nuclear fusion reactor is about to switch on
2015-11-16,Bataclan attackers corralled wheelchair spectators on the first floor balcony and shot them each individually
2015-11-16,"Have you seen this man? Police hunt Salah Abdeslam, suspected to have taken part in the Paris terror attacks."
2015-11-16,Turkish ban on Reddit has been lifted
2015-11-16,Obama rules out putting U.S. troops on the ground to fight Islamic State
2015-11-16,Canadian mosque deliberately set on fire last night according to police
2015-11-16,U.S. warplanes strike hundreds of ISIS oil trucks in Syria
2015-11-16,Polish minister says Syrians can return to fight and 'liberate' homeland
2015-11-16,"Egyptian pyramids illuminated with the colors of the Russian and French flags, in a show of solidarity with Moscow and Paris"
2015-11-16,Islamic State vows to 'strike America at its center in Washington' in new video
2015-11-16,Troops find bodies of 78 elderly women in Islamic State mass grave
2015-11-16,6 days before the Paris attacks - ISIS commanders evacuated headquarters in Raqqa.
2015-11-16,Turkey says notified France twice about Paris attacker -senior official
2015-11-16,Japan's economy falls back into recession again
2015-11-15,U.S. Kills Leader of ISIS in Libya
2015-11-15,Syrian passports found at Paris attacks scene fakes made in Turkey
2015-11-15,ISIS: We'll hit Russia 'very soon'
2015-11-15,"The Turkish government has officially blocked access to Reddit. Users first reported last night that they were unable to access the social media site, and as of Saturday the ban still appears to be in effect. It's not clear how long the block will remain in effect."
2015-11-15,Eagles of Death Metal Merch Manager Nick Alexander Killed in Paris Attack
2015-11-15,Paris Attacker With Explosive Vest Was Blocked From Entering Paris Soccer Stadium
2015-11-15,The German National Team Slept In The Stade de France Stadium Last Night After The Paris Attacks - France players also slept in the stadium as a gesture of camaraderie
2015-11-15,Mass grave of Yazidi women killed by 'IS' found in Iraq: Iraqi Kurdish forces have discovered a mass grave containing the bodies of women who were executed by the 'Islamic State' (IS). The UN has described the brutal campaign against the Yazidi minority as a possible genocide
2015-11-15,Several Kalashnikovs have been found in an abandoned car believed to have been used by some of the Paris attackers
2015-11-15,"Hezbollah Leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah condemns the Paris and Beirut attacks on innocent civilians, vows severe retaliation against ISIS"
2015-11-15,"Suspected ISIS Terrorist Blows Himself Up in Turkey, 4 Cops Injured: Reports"
2015-11-15,"A father's split-second heroism saved countless lives in another terror attack, in Beirut"
2015-11-15,Schools' religious assemblies 'should be scrapped'
2015-11-15,Muslim security guard prevented bomber from entering Stade de France saving thousands of lives
2015-11-15,"Lebanon arrests five Syrians, one Palestinian suspect in Beirut bombings: security source"
2015-11-15,Official says 7 people detained in Belgium are linked to Paris attacks
2015-11-15,"South Korea police clash with 70,000 protesters at anti-government Seoul rally"
2015-11-15,250 ISIS militants killed and headquarters destroyed in Albu Hayat of Iraq
2015-11-15,"Iran president says Paris attacks are ""crimes against humanity"""
2015-11-15,Police Arrest Members Of Paris Attacker's Family
2015-11-15,Sikh Gurdwaras in Paris opened their doors for refuge the night of the Paris attacks
2015-11-15,Dutch PM: Netherlands Is in State of War with IS
2015-11-15,[Paris attacks] Bataclan survivor Isobel Bowdery has written down her account of Friday night's massacre. She pretended to be dead for over an hour to not get shot.
2015-11-15,Paris attacks: severed finger found at Bataclan theatre identifies attacker | Omar Ismal Mostefai has been named in France as one of the attackers with a number of others now being identified through documents
2015-11-15,Islamist militants behead Tunisian 16-year-old shepherd accused of spying for the army and send his head to his family
2015-11-14,'Shootings' reported in central Paris: Reports of shooting and casualties in central Paris
2015-11-14,Paris attacks were 'act of war by IS'
2015-11-14,Death tolls reach 158 in Paris.
2015-11-14,Poland says cannot accept migrants under EU quotas after Paris attacks
2015-11-14,China's Xi says willing to join France in combating terrorism
2015-11-14,Obama says U.S. stands ready to aid France after attack
2015-11-14,Man arrested in Germany linked to Paris attacks
2015-11-14,"Magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits off the coast of Japan, tsunami warnings issued"
2015-11-14,France Closing Borders
2015-11-14,"The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for the catastrophic attacks in the French capital, calling them the first of the storm and mocking France as a capital of prostitution and obscenity"""
2015-11-14,"Muslims all over the world condemn terrorism, express solidarity with French"
2015-11-14,Colombia to legalize commercial sale of medical marijuana
2015-11-14,"Fury as Turkey axes raki festival amid alcohol crackdown: Event celebrating national drink scrapped after complaints by Islamic groups, sparking outrage among secular Turks"
2015-11-14,Iran's Rouhani brands Paris attacks 'crimes against humanity'
2015-11-14,'Five dead' as French trail derails
2015-11-14,Day of mourning in Lebanon after deadly Beirut bombings | A national day of mourning was held Friday after two suicide bombers on motorcycles killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 200 others in a predominantly Shia area of southern Beirut.
2015-11-14,People are queuing in the streets of Paris to give blood after deadly attacks
2015-11-14,Gatwick Airport North Terminal evacuated after security alert
2015-11-14,Colombia to legalize commercial sale of medical marijuana
2015-11-14,Victims of slavery on salt farms in South Korea claim police and official negligence prolonged their ordeal.
2015-11-14,Paris changes everything on refugees: Bavaria
2015-11-14,"French President Hollande declares state of emergency for all of France, closes borders, says several dozen killed"
2015-11-14,"Frustrated European officials alerted the US to Volkswagen's emissions cheating scam after the European Commission failed to act on the intel for years, German media reported on Friday."
2015-11-14,"German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on the defensive Friday saying she would stick to her open-arms policy approach, Reuters reported. Merkel vowed to fight for her vision of how to deal with the refugee crisis as resources are stretched thin and a Europe-wide solution is still being debated"
2015-11-14,Josh Homme's band Eagles of Death Metal escape off stage before 100 killed in Paris concert hall.
2015-11-13,"Brazil Seeks To Copy U.S. Gun Culture ""to allow embattled citizens the right to defend themselves from criminals"""
2015-11-13,US officials confirm Jihadi John is dead
2015-11-13,"Homeopathy 'could be blacklisted' - Ministers are considering whether homeopathy should be put on a blacklist of treatments GPs in England are banned from prescribing, the BBC has learned."
2015-11-13,Dubai Is Giving Its Firefighters Jetpacks To Use During Skyscraper Fires
2015-11-13,Lost ancient island found in the Aegean: A lost island where the ancient city of Kane was located has been found by geo-archaeologists in the Aegean province of zmirs Dikili district. The island was mentioned in ancient sources.
2015-11-13,"At least four people were killed and 40 wounded in two suicide explosions in a busy area in Beirut's southern suburb, a stronghold of Lebanese Hezbollah, on Thursday, a medical official said."
2015-11-13,Ukraine Just Passed Protections For LGBT Employees
2015-11-13,"""Jihadi John"" of ISIS targeted in American drone strike; officials working to confirm whether or not the British militant who beheaded hostages is dead."
2015-11-13,UK NHS Considers Rule Banning Doctors From Prescribing Homeopathy
2015-11-13,"Russians are to see a new banknote commemorating Moscow's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, in what could appear to be an act of defiance against world opinion."
2015-11-13,People Come to Sleep and Die in Hong Kongs 24-Hour McDonalds
2015-11-13,Largest-ever dark-matter experiment poised to test popular theory
2015-11-13,Facebook says governments demanding more and more user data
2015-11-13,"Peshmerga forces wrest Sinjar from ISIL, raise Kurdish flag in town"
2015-11-13,Protesters carrying coffin of beheaded Hazara girl storm Afghan presidential palace
2015-11-13,Brazil dam burst: at least 15 feared dead after disaster at BHP-owned mine. 300k with no drinking water.
2015-11-13,G20 Countries Spend $452 Billion a Year Propping Up Fossil Fuel Companies
2015-11-13,Russia's economy keeps getting smaller
2015-11-13,"200,000 Refugees Enter Slovenia As Authorities Warn Of Humanitarian Crisis"
2015-11-13,EU council president Donald Tusk says the EUs open border system could be about to collapse
2015-11-13,"Hundreds of workers at a Hong Kong-owned toy factory in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen have been protesting since last week after the owner ""disappeared,"" leaving their wages unpaid."
2015-11-13,"Indonesia's national narcotics chief wants to build an island prison for death row inmates surrounded by crocodiles, tigers and piranhas"
2015-11-13,"Myanmar's army is backing militias that make a fortune off of meth  Myanmar is now soaking up international praise for holding elections that could end decades of tyranny. All the while, its government is quietly fueling the meth trade."
2015-11-13,Jailed Saudi blogger's wife says he's not well
2015-11-13,Scientists say Greenland just opened up a major new floodgate of ice into the ocean
2015-11-12,"UK becomes only G7 country to increase fossil fuel subsidies - Tory government is giving billions in ever increasing handouts to oil and gas majors at the same time as cutting support for clean energy, report reveals"
2015-11-12,"Vladimir Putin has ordered an investigation into claims the country's athletes have been part of a systematic doping program. ""The battle must be open,"" he said. ""A sporting contest is only interesting when it is honest."""
2015-11-12,"ISIS committed genocide against Iraqs Yazidis, U.S. Holocaust Museum report says"
2015-11-12,"Norway says Russian spies are ensnaring its politicians in sex traps - Norwegian authorities say that Russians are blackmailing govt workers, MPs into revealing state secrets by tricking them with duplicitous gifts like vodka and attractive women, a well-known strategy from the Cold War era."
2015-11-12,"Pacific trade deal could limit affordable drugs - World Health Chief.""If these agreements open trade yet close the door to affordable medicines we have to ask the question:is this really progress at all,"""
2015-11-12,Islamic State video threatens attacks in Russia 'very soon': site monitoring group
2015-11-12,Military Concedes Election to Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar
2015-11-12,Malfunction at North Korea zoo suffocates dozens of animals
2015-11-12,"Seven Italian firms probed in olive oil scam - including Bertolli, Sasso and Carapelli, are being investigated over allegations that the firms falsely sold olive oil products as extra virgin"
2015-11-12,Christians and Muslims fight to protect ancient Christian town against ISIS
2015-11-12,Russia's nuclear torpedo plan to bypass Nato missile shield revealed after broadcaster forgets to blur out secret document
2015-11-12,"Crickhowell: Welsh town moves 'offshore' to avoid tax on local businesses, using the loopholes used by multinational giants to avoid paying UK tax"
2015-11-12,Underwater Vertical Seaweed Farm Restores Our Oceans While Providing Food and Fuel Source
2015-11-12,Female Genital Mutilation: mother and retired nurse guilty of mutilating two sisters in Australia's first prosecution
2015-11-12,David Cameron complains about constituency cuts caused by his own policies in leaked letter.
2015-11-12,Sweden to introduce temporary border controls
2015-11-12,New Research Shows Electric Cars 50 Percent Cleaner Compared to Gasoline Over Their Lifetime
2015-11-12,Montreal's Massive Dump (of Raw Sewage into St. Lawrence) Begins
2015-11-12,"A small eel photographed by accident on a Caribbean coral reef is the first green fluorescent fish ever recorded, a new study says"
2015-11-12,"Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city and economic hub, on Monday imposed emergency water restrictions as supplies deteriorated due to a drought, the worst to ravage the country in three decades."
2015-11-12,"Two relatives of the wife of President Nicols Maduro of Venezuela have been arrested on United States federal drug charges in Haiti and are expected to appear in court in Manhattan on Thursday, a person with knowledge of the case said on Wednesday night."
2015-11-12,"India could push world into climate change danger zone, warn scientists"
2015-11-12,"According to the UN, over 50 million people could move from the desertified areas of sub-Saharan Africa towards North Africa and Europe by 2020."
2015-11-12,Video Shows Mexico Police Violently Attacking Teacher Students
2015-11-12,"The European Union Will Now Explicitly Label Israeli Settlement Goods | EU today approved new guidelines for labelling products from Israeli settlements on occupied land, a move Brussels says is technical but Israel branded ""discriminatory"" and damaging to peace efforts with the Palestinians"
2015-11-11,"What the Internet hates about the TPP trade deal: After years of warning that the secretive TPP would be devastating for Internet freedom, intellectual property experts have finally gotten to look at the final draft of the proposed treaty. And they say its as bad as they feared"
2015-11-11,"Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species has been voted the most influential academic book ever written, hailed as the supreme demonstration of why academic books matter and a book which has changed the way we think about everything."
2015-11-11,France wont dine with Iran unless wine is served
2015-11-11,Germany to start using the dublin regulation again - syrians will be sent back to the country they initially arrived in
2015-11-11,"Interns protest at the UN to get paid, but Security breaks it up and tells reporters to delete their photographs"
2015-11-11,Two countries get 75% of all U.S. spending on foreign military aid
2015-11-11,Pope urges Catholic church to disavow conservatism and fundamentalism
2015-11-11,"Scientists confirm their fears about West Antarctica  that its inherently unstable ""The result of this study is an ifthen statement, saying that if the Amundsen Sea Sector is destabilized, then the entire marine part of West Antarctica will be discharged into the ocean."
2015-11-11,Facebook faces fines of $268K per day for tracking non-users in Belgium
2015-11-11,Germany's refugee bill to top $22 billion
2015-11-11,Ethnic British Minorities more likely to go to university than their White British peers
2015-11-11,"Thousands of Afghan women joined a protest march in the streets of Kabul on Wednesday morning, in one of the biggest demonstrations of the past 15 years"
2015-11-11,EU Moves To Label Products From Israeli Settlements
2015-11-11,An entire town in the UK has moved 'offshore' to avoid tax on local business
2015-11-11,Canada's Miss World entry claims China is trying to block her from final
2015-11-11,"Britain loses top energy rating after green policy U-turns: UK downgraded from AAA to AAB in World Energy Councils trilemma index, after Conservatives scrapped onshore wind subsidies and cut solar subsidies."
2015-11-11,Poland to sue Russia over withholding 2010 plane crash wreckage
2015-11-11,"El Nio, one of three strongest recorded, brings high drought risk for Australia"
2015-11-11,"Worlds most elusive shark found & tagged for 1st time - Lurking in murky tropical rivers, no live adults had ever been seen before. The speartooth sharks (Glyphis glyphis) tagged & released. Tags will beam back data to satellites in 2 months, revealing details about the endangered species."
2015-11-11,"There's a Long-Lost Paleo-River Beneath the Sahara Desert Nobody Knew Existed - As if the Sahara wasnt mystical enough, now it has hidden river systems."
2015-11-11,Netanyahu asks Obama for $50b in military aid
2015-11-11,27 pupils collapse at North Yorkshire school
2015-11-11,Thailand mystery: 2 detainees suspected of insulting monarchy die in custody
2015-11-11,"Carbon emissions fall in 11 of G20 members, in turning point | per capita carbon emissions over the five years to 2012 was down in Australia, the United States, Canada, Japan, Germany, Britain, the European Union, South Africa, Italy, France and Mexico."
2015-11-11,"Man declared dead after 20 years missing, found alive living in Tuscan nature reserve"
2015-11-10,"Belgium Tells Facebook to Stop Storing Data From Non-Users - Facebook faces a fine of 250,000 euros ($269,000) a day if it doesnt comply"
2015-11-10,Indonesia is planning to build a prison island guarded by meat-hungry crocodiles for drug convicts. The reason for using the deadly reptiles as prison guards is that crocodiles cannot be bribed unlike human guards.
2015-11-10,Turkey's only atheist group launches petition to stop automatically registering all babies as Muslim
2015-11-10,"Helmut Schmidt, former West German chancellor, dies aged 96"
2015-11-10,"Former Calgary judge investigated for comments made to alleged sex assault victim - Camp asked the complainant during trial, such as: Why didnt you just sink your bottom down into the basin so he couldnt penetrate you? and Why couldnt you just keep your knees together?"
2015-11-10,"Chevron Australia's US parent company paid income tax of only $248 last year despite earning an estimated $1.73 billion profit on interest charges to its Gorgon LNG development, documents filed with the Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance show."
2015-11-10,A Moroccan actor who starred in a controversial film about sex workers says she has fled the North African nation for France after being savagely beaten.
2015-11-10,China recently conducted a flight test of a new missile capable of knocking out U.S. satellites as part of Beijings growing space warfare arsenal
2015-11-10,"Nothing can compete with renewable energy, says top climate scientist | ""This is not sheer optimism  it is based on analysis of how incumbent systems implode."
2015-11-10,U.N. officials claim that 13% of Japanese girls engage in compensated dating angers government
2015-11-10,Former British soldier arrested over 1972 Bloody Sunday shootings
2015-11-10,"Crimes against the environment  such as illegal deforestation, wildlife trafficking and toxic waste dumping  now bring in as much as $213 billion a year, but Interpol officials say the problem is not getting enough attention."
2015-11-10,Russia hits back at ISIS by destroying 448 targets in just three days
2015-11-10,Two possible ice volcanoes have been identified on the surface of Pluto.
2015-11-10,"Four Months after Pluto Flyby, NASAs New Horizons Yields Wealth of Discovery"
2015-11-10,Sicily police arrest convicted terrorist Ben Nasr Mehdi who entered Italy on migrant boat
2015-11-10,Karzai calls al-Qaida a 'myth' and denies 9/11 attacks were plotted in Afghanistan
2015-11-10,China decries Shenyang pollution called 'worst ever' by activists
2015-11-10,Toxic fumes from the Indonesian fires have spread a choking haze across Southeast Asia; scientists warn of health damage
2015-11-10,Myanmar ruling party concedes defeat as Suu Kyi's party heads for big win
2015-11-10,"China's Dirty Air Just Hit 'Doomsday' Levels | The amount of dangerous, small-particle air pollution in Shenyang was more than 50 times what the World Health Organization says is safe for humans."
2015-11-10,More misery ahead for Greeks as economy set to shrink again
2015-11-10,"Israel: Netanyahu government approves 2,200 new settlement homes amid rising violence"
2015-11-10,6 Ethiopians Burned to Death in Latest South Africa Xenophobic Attacks
2015-11-10,"UK surveillance bill could bring 'very dire consequences', warns Apple chief | Any back door is a back door for everyone, says Tim Cook of proposals to allow authorities to track citizens internet use without requiring warrant"
2015-11-09,Catalan parliament votes to secede from Spain by 2017
2015-11-09,TPP deal worst thing that Harper government has done for Canada: Balsillie
2015-11-09,Turkish Atheism Association starts petition calling for 'equal treatment': Group calls for the removal of the automatic registration of Turkish children as Muslim at birth
2015-11-09,"World Anti-Doping Agency says Russia 'sabotaged' London Olympics, Recommends Bans"
2015-11-09,Thousands of unopened letters dating to the 17th century where hoarded away by a postmaster and only recently discovered by academics hoping to shed light on the period of history
2015-11-09,A new Taliban breakaway group claims support for peace and womens rights
2015-11-09,Myanmar elections: ruling party concedes defeat to Aung San Suu Kyi
2015-11-09,World Bank warns climate change could add 100 million poor by 2030
2015-11-09,"Villagers attack orangutan mother and baby trying to escape forest fires in Borneo: To escape the out-of-control forest fires burning in Borneo, an orangutan with baby by her side attempted to take refuge in a village only to be attacked by frightened villagers, an animal rights group reported"
2015-11-09,"Rangers in Congo's Garamba park fight, die in skirmishes with heavily armed elephant poachers"
2015-11-09,"'Life on planet at stake', France warns as climate ministers meet"
2015-11-09,A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced three young men to 75 days in jail and to 50 lashes after they were found guilty of harassing two girls in public
2015-11-09,CNN: Israeli Intel led to bomb conclusion for Sinai crash
2015-11-09,Saudi Arabia will not stop pumping to boost oil prices
2015-11-09,"English signs must be taken down in Gasp hospitals, language watchdog rules"
2015-11-09,Newly declassified documents reveal just how extremely close USA and Russia were to atomic attacks during the Cold War [Nov 1st]
2015-11-09,Paralympian 'dragged self' from Qatar Airways flight
2015-11-09,"Chinese spies try to hack Australian submarine bidders plans in Japan, France and Germany"
2015-11-09,"A dam holding back waste water from an iron ore mine in Brazil that is owned by Vale and BHP Billiton burst on Thursday, devastating a nearby town with mudslides and leaving officials in the remote region scrambling to assess casualties"
2015-11-09,"Germany's capacity to take in refugees is limited, Schaeuble says"
2015-11-09,Warming set to breach 1C threshold
2015-11-09,"Canadian Doctor At Sunnybrook In Toronto First In World To Break Blood-Brain Barrier, Successfully Treat Brain Tumor"
2015-11-09,"Israel, US to initiate huge arms deal"
2015-11-09,Australia Deploys Sheepdogs to Save a Penguin Colony
2015-11-09,Australia Tries to Halt Unrest at Immigration Detention Camp
2015-11-08,A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could come to an end
2015-11-08,Muslims are dangerous: Myanmar Buddhist monks threaten democracy with support for anti-Muslim laws
2015-11-08,France lifts ban on gay men as blood donors - CNN.com
2015-11-08,India sues the Queen for return of 'stolen' 100m Koh-i-Noor diamond
2015-11-08,Pakistani college hires transgender staff in an effort to promote acceptance
2015-11-08,Peru is creating a national park to protect a vast territory in the Amazon basin that is vulnerable to drug trafficking and illegal logging and mining
2015-11-08,"VW engineers have admitted manipulating CO2 emissions data -- ""VW engineers tampered with tyre pressure and mixed diesel with their motor oil to make them use less fuel, a deception that began in 2013 and carried on until the spring of this year"""
2015-11-08,First women to stand for election in Saudi Arabia
2015-11-08,"""Germany 'systematically spied' on own allies on grand scale"""
2015-11-08,"Russia has returned 11,000 of its tourists from Egypt in the last 24 hours in response to the plane crash in the Sinai Peninsula a week ago, RIA news agency said on Sunday, but tens of thousands more are waiting for flights home."
2015-11-08,'Nazi gold train' investigators start excavating site in Poland
2015-11-08,U.S. official: '99.9% certain' bomb felled Metrojet flight
2015-11-08,"A report into claims of doping cover-ups, extortion and money-laundering in athletics will show ""a whole different scale of corruption"" even compared to FIFA"
2015-11-08,"Thousands march in Berlin anti-refugee demo: Some 5,000 supporters of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) have protested in Berlin against Germany's refugee policy. The demonstrators called for Chancellor Angela Merkel to step down"
2015-11-08,South African president says political party comes before country...
2015-11-08,"Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) managers are worried about traveling to the United States, a German newspaper reported on Saturday, saying U.S. investigators have confiscated the passport of an employee who is there on a visit."
2015-11-08,"Day Before Deadly Bombing, U.S. Official Asked if Any Taliban Were Holed Up At MSF Hospital | A report released today by the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says a U.S. gunship killed doctors and medical staff as they fled from a burning hospital"
2015-11-08,"The Moment This Orangutan Knew She And Her Baby Would Be OK: Volunteers recently came to the rescue of a desperate orangutan and her baby  victims not only of the blaze, but of human cruelty as well"
2015-11-08,Iraqi Army Killed Over 900 ISIS Terrorists During the Liberation of Baiji
2015-11-08,Russia sending 44 planes to Egypt to repatriate tourists
2015-11-08,Street celebrations as Sierra Leone declared Ebola-free
2015-11-08,New Zealand Spy Watchdog Investigating Countrys Ties to CIA Torture
2015-11-08,"Sharm el-Sheikh airport officials reveal porous security; faulty scanner, bribes for guards"
2015-11-08,"More than 50 people were killed in Yemen in the past two days in fighting pitting an Arab coalition against Houthi fighters backed by troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, medical sources and residents said on Sunday."
2015-11-08,Chemical weapons watchdog believes Syrian insurgents used mustard gas
2015-11-07,Sierra Leone has been declared officially Ebola free.
2015-11-07,"Muzzled Canadian scientists now free to speak with media: ""For years, scientists who worked for the federal government were silenced by strict rules that made them seek departmental approval before speaking to the press."""
2015-11-07,"Obama rejects Keystone XL project, citing climate concerns"
2015-11-07,Russian plane crash black box 'confirms bomb explosion brought down jet'
2015-11-07,UK government says fast broadband is a fundamental right like water or power and pledges all businesses and households will have it by 2020
2015-11-07,Illegally planted palm oil already growing on burnt land in Indonesia
2015-11-07,"China emits nearly 1 billion tonnes more CO2 a year than it discloses, report claims"
2015-11-07,Presidents of China and Taiwan Shake Hands in First Ever Meeting
2015-11-07,"Satellite pictures of a remote and treeless northern steppe reveal colossal earthworks recognizable only from the air and the oldest estimated at 8,000 years old."
2015-11-07,Anti-capitalism rising in UK as Million Mask March spurs violence in London
2015-11-07,"Mikhail Lesin, Putin associate and creator of Russia Today (rt.com), found dead in D.C. hotel room."
2015-11-07,LDS church bans children of same-sex marriages from membership.
2015-11-07,"An underwater vessel containing undetonated explosives has been found near the Russian underwater gas pipeline Nord Stream, just off the Swedish coast."
2015-11-07,India orders Greenpeace to shut down over fraud
2015-11-07,"A plane carrying British holidaymakers to Sharm el-Sheikh came within 300 metres (1,000ft) of a missile as it neared the Egyptian airport in August, the government has confirmed."
2015-11-07,"Britain, U.S. intercepted 'chatter' supporting theory bomb took down Russian jet - officials"
2015-11-07,Iranian President Criticizes Iran's Free Speech Crackdown
2015-11-07,Attacks on refugees in Germany double in three months
2015-11-07,Infrared Scans Show Possible Hidden Chamber in King Tuts Tomb
2015-11-07,UAE told UK: crack down on Muslim Brotherhood or lose arms deals. Files reveal plans for crown prince to demand David Cameron act against Islamist group in return for BAE Systems and BP deals.
2015-11-07,"NATO Was 'Praying' for MSF as the US Attacked Its Hospital in Kunduz | Doctors Without Borders reveals that, while US airstrikes were killing patients in an Afghan hospital, the alliance was being warned via text that it was hitting civilians -- and that it replied with prayers"
2015-11-07,25 minutes to escape: Brazilian village destroyed in dam deluge
2015-11-07,Russian plane crash: French 'rule out technical failure'
2015-11-07,Greenpeace India Says It Has Been Ordered to Dissolve.
2015-11-07,UK Set to Ban Internet Companies from Providing Total Encryption to Its Users
2015-11-06,Mexicos Supreme Court rules that smoking pot is a fundamental human right
2015-11-06,"The United States takes offense at comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new communications director accusing President Barack Obama of anti-Semitism and suggesting that Secretary of State John Kerry had the mental abilities of a 12-year-old, the State Department said"
2015-11-06,Maldives impeaches its Vice President by 61-0 vote for plotting to kill its President
2015-11-06,"""We got Pizza and Wings"" Interactions between rival US and Chinese navies are now so frequent in the South China sea that crews have begun to share weekend stories and plans for the holidays."
2015-11-06,Putin suspends Russian flights to Egypt after Sinai plane crash
2015-11-06,NASA just announced key findings that explain how extreme climate change transformed Mars into a lifeless desert
2015-11-06,"Members of the UK parliament could be forced to debate a vote of no confidence in David Cameron, after a petition passed 100,000 signatures"
2015-11-06,Uber in Egypt to teach drivers how not to sexually harass women
2015-11-06,"Coal not so 'amazing', public say, as mining industry advertising backfires - New polling suggests the net approval rating for coal among Australians fell by 9% during the course of Little Black Rock advertising campaign"
2015-11-06,McDonald's French Fries Now Selling for $133 in Venezuela
2015-11-06,"'Designer cells' reverse one-year-old's cancer - The first person in the world to receive a pioneering genetic therapy has had her cancer reversed, say Great Ormond Street doctors."
2015-11-06,"Protonmail (encrypted email service provider) under sophisticated DDOS attack, official statement suggests state-sponsored actors."
2015-11-06,"A chemical that could potentially be used in eye drops to reverse cataracts, the leading cause of blindness, has been identified by a team of scientists."
2015-11-06,British intelligence has uncovered evidence suggesting the Russian airliner was blown up by an onboard bomb
2015-11-06,"Unnoticed mining waste dam collapse in Brazil: operated by BHP and Vale accident caused at least 15 deads, 500 people lost their houses and the environment is expected to take 20-30 years to recover"
2015-11-06,China releases nearly a billion more tons of carbon dioxide annually than previously thought
2015-11-06,"US knew Afghan hospital was safe from Taliban  but bombed it anyway, say MSF | Accounts from the organisation claim there was no military justification for the US air strike on 3 October that killed 30 medical staff and patients"
2015-11-06,"China opens drone schools as demand for pilots soars: It is estimated the country's maintenance, mapping, filming and agricultural industries will need more than 10,000 drone pilots this year"
2015-11-06,China overtakes Canada as largest trade-partner of US | Business Standard News
2015-11-06,More Oil Companies Could Join Exxon Mobil as Focus of Climate Investigations
2015-11-06,Ex-JPMorgan broker pleads guilty to stealing $20 million to gamble and trade with
2015-11-06,US now sees Taliban as reconciliation partners: Pentagon
2015-11-06,"Unions, lawmakers promise closer scrutiny of Pacific trade pact - ""It's worse than we thought, Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch"
2015-11-06,Canadian veteran John Gallagher killed in fight against ISIS.
2015-11-06,Police have used anti-terrorism powers to detain UK volunteers taking aid to Calais refugee camp | British volunteers on a humanitarian aid run to refugees in Calais were detained by police under legislation meant to be used against suspected terrorists
2015-11-05,Full text of the TPP has just been released.
2015-11-05,Child born out of rape has inheritance rights on assaulter's property rules Indian High Court
2015-11-05,Man Dies After Tapeworm Inside Him Gets Cancer - This is the first known report of a person becoming sick from cancer cells that developed in a parasite.
2015-11-05,Kim Dotcom is building his own fully encrypted internet -- a non-IP based internet called MegaNet.
2015-11-05,"Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, took office on 4 November  and as one of his first acts, created the post of Minister of Science. Canadian election brings hope for science Kirsty Duncan, a medical geographer at the University of Toronto, will be the first to hold the job."
2015-11-05,Iranian actress who posted photos online not wearing a hijab forced to flee country
2015-11-05,Mexican Supreme Court has opened the door to legalizing Marijuana use
2015-11-05,"Climate change missing from full Trans-Pacific Partnership text, confirming the ""worst nightmares"" of environmental groups"
2015-11-05,U.S. intelligence: Bomb likely brought down plane
2015-11-05,"Doctors Without Borders Staff Shot While Fleeing Kunduz Hospital, Report Finds"
2015-11-05,"Iraqi, Turkish businessmen directly involved in funding $2B to ISIS by buying oil."
2015-11-05,"MI5 secretly collected Britons' data for 'more than a decade,' Theresa May says"
2015-11-05,"Thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets today in over 670 cities across the world wearing Guy Fawkes masks, as part of the anti-establishment Million Mask March."
2015-11-05,Saudi hand-chopping incident: No exit visa for Indian maid if 'assault' is mentioned
2015-11-05,The Mexican Supreme court ruled Wednesday that individuals should have the right to grow and distribute marijuana for their personal use.
2015-11-05,"Irish Government To Decriminalize Heroin, Cocaine, And Marijuana"
2015-11-05,Canada's new PM Justin Trudeau appointed the most diverse and gender-equal cabinet in history
2015-11-05,Greek refugee island running out of space to bury the dead
2015-11-05,Sharm el-Sheikh flights to UK delayed amid bomb fears
2015-11-05,Cause of Russian plane crash looking like explosion- source close to investigation
2015-11-05,Erdogan demands Turkish constitution change to gain sweeping powers
2015-11-05,Colombia court rules same-sex couples must be allowed to adopt children.
2015-11-05,India-born former soldier sworn in as Canada's new defense minister
2015-11-05,US officials: Israel requesting $5 billion in annual defense aid
2015-11-05,"The Communist government in Vietnam has agreed to American terms to grant potentially far-reaching labor rights to the countrys workers, including the freedom to unionize and to strike, in return for expanded trade between the former adversaries."
2015-11-04,NASA set to announce another big finding on Mars this Thursday.
2015-11-04,Rupert Murdoch recently acquired National Geographic and has just laid off 10% of the staff.
2015-11-04,Cuba achieved food security without destroying its environment and the rest of the world has taken notice: Cuba is presenting several of its original biotechnologies at an international business fair this week.
2015-11-04,41 dead as Russian plane crash lands in South Sudan  reports
2015-11-04,Add Porsche To The List Of Cars Involved In VWs Massive Emissions Cheating Scandal
2015-11-04,Justin Trudeau sworn in as new Canadian Prime Minister
2015-11-04,"2,000-year-old Maccabean-era fortress unearthed in Jerusalem after century-long search | One of the 'great archaeological riddles in the history of Jerusalem' is solved"
2015-11-04,"China Burns Much More Coal Than Reported, Complicating Climate Talks - China has been using up to 17% more coal a yr than reported. By some estimates, that means almost a billion more tons of carbon dioxide released annually."
2015-11-04,Romania's PM Ponta to resign after mass protests - ruling party
2015-11-04,China offers free higher education to poor students: Says by 2020 it will provide free senior high education to all students in the country
2015-11-04,Zimbabwe journalists arrested for linking police with elephant poisonings - Amnesty condemns shocking attempt to threaten freedom of the press as trio from state-run Sunday Mail face slander charge
2015-11-04,Secret Wife Of Saudi King Awarded $40m By UK Court
2015-11-04,"The worlds only wild orangutansalready besieged by logging, hunting, pet trading and the steady expansion of palm-oil plantationsare now threatened by forest fires that have burned for months on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra in southeast Asia."
2015-11-04,"Trial of former HSBC banker Herve Falciani, the 'Snowden of tax evasion,' starts in Switzerland | The trial has begun in Switzerland of banker Herve Falciani, whose leaks helped uncover the HSBC tax evasion scandal. The French-Italian national is accused of financial espionage, among other charges"
2015-11-04,"Sunken Ruins of Alexandria Set to Become Worlds First Underwater Museum - the associated 270,000 square foot area of Alexandria Bay includes the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world"
2015-11-04,Syrian Army recaptures key oilfield from ISIS
2015-11-04,UK- Scotland Yard is to deploy thousands of extra police officers and impose tough public order restrictions over fears that a Bonfire night protest in London against austerity and increased state surveillance will turn violent.
2015-11-04,"Proposed UK surveillance laws sates internet firms must store details of all ""internet connection records"" for 12 months. After government dropped plans to store everyone's browsing history."
2015-11-04,"25,000 people protest in Bucharest against corruption"
2015-11-04,"Volkswagen says 800,000 cars may have false CO2 levels"
2015-11-04,"A 'huge milestone': approval of cancer-hunting virus signals new treatment era - Treatments such as Imlygic have two modes of action: first, the virus directly attacks the cancer cells; and second, it triggers the bodys immune system to attack the rogue cells too"
2015-11-04,Iran Arrests U.S. Resident for Espionage; Man Had Been Invited to Tehran by Irans VP
2015-11-04,Saudi Wells Running Dry  of Water  Spell End of Desert Wheat.
2015-11-04,"Norway wealth fund drops 29.4bn amid market rout. The worlds largest sovereign wealth fund, which is Norwegian, has posted its biggest loss in four years, just as the government is preparing to make its first ever withdrawals to plug budget deficits"
2015-11-04,Canada ranks first in world for personal freedom and social tolerance.
2015-11-03,Airport Security in the Philippines Have Been Putting Bullets in Luggage to Extort Passengers
2015-11-03,"The Department of Defense (DoD) spent nearly $43 million to build a gas station in Afghanistan that should have cost no more than $500,000 according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR)."
2015-11-03,NASA reveals that Antarctica is actually gaining more ice than it is losing
2015-11-03,"Lawyers without Borders findings about the Raif Badawi trial: An unfair trial, an incompetent court, a crime which is not one and a punishment that constitutes torture: Saudi Arabia has violated its own laws in addition to its international obligations."
2015-11-03,"""More than 10,000 crocodiles are starving to death on a farm in Honduras after the wealthy family owning them had their assets frozen because of US accusations they laundered money for drug traffickers."""
2015-11-03,"In a six-month period, 70% of detached homes sold in Vancouvers west side went to Mainland China buyers"
2015-11-03,"Amnesty International says oil giant Shell's claims of cleaning up spills that have destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of Nigerians are ""false"""
2015-11-03,Satellite detected heat flash at time Russian jetliner went down
2015-11-03,Iran Ayatollah: 'Death to America' Refers to US Policies
2015-11-03,"ISIS Protection Tax Found Among UK Inmates In High-Security Prisons, Report Says. Investigation uncovers scheme to make non-Muslim prisoners py a tax for their protection from radical Muslim prisoners"
2015-11-03,"Tomb Tells Tale of Family Executed by China's 1st Female Emperor - 1,300-yr-old tomb, discovered in cave, holds bones of a man who helped the only female emperor rise to power. The epitaphs describe how she then executed him & his entire family."
2015-11-03,Money Flooding Out of Canada at Fastest Pace in Developed World
2015-11-03,"Syria conflict: Russia softens support for Assad, saying it is not crucial for him to remain in power."
2015-11-03,TransCanada suspend its US permit application for the controversial Keystone XL pipeline
2015-11-03,Shopkeepers revolt has mafia on the run in its Sicilian heartland.
2015-11-03,"Vatican financial investigators suspect a department of the Holy See which oversees real estate and investments was used in the past for possible money laundering, insider trading and market manipulation"
2015-11-03,Big solar storm means chance to see Northern Lights in across most of the US and Europe
2015-11-03,Iran Says It May Quit Talks on Syria Over Saudis' Role
2015-11-03,"Espionage is fueling China's development of high-end weapons systems. China has already created prototypes that are remarkably similar to some of the US's most advanced weapons systems, such as the F-35, USNI reports."
2015-11-03,"Ecuador said Monday a World Bank arbitration panel has ordered it to pay $1 billion to US oil firm Occidental Petroleum for cancelling a contract. Occidental sued Ecuador in May 2006, after the cancellation of a contract granting it the right to extract 100,000 barrels of oil a day"
2015-11-03,VW emissions scandal widens to include Porsche claims
2015-11-03,"Guinness to pour vegan-friendly pints from 2016, after the company revealed it will remove fish guts from the brewing process."
2015-11-03,"China and France agreed Monday that an international deal to tackle climate change to be negotiated in Paris should include checks on compliance, in what visiting French President Francois Hollande called a ""historic"" step forward"
2015-11-03,Sharp increase in Golan Druze seeking Israeli citizenship as Syria war rages
2015-11-03,Black U.S. citizen Kyle Lydell Canty seeks refugee status in Canada: A U.S. citizen has argued before Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board in Vancouver that he should be granted refugee status over fears that he will be killed in his home country by police because he is black.
2015-11-02,"Ireland plans to decriminalise the possession of small amounts of drugs, including heroin, cocaine and cannabis"
2015-11-02,A Huge Fire in the Amazon Likely Caused By Illegal Loggers Threatens Thousands of Indigenous People and an Uncontacted Tribe
2015-11-02,Sweden to become worlds first fossil-fuel free nation
2015-11-02,"Pacific Islands Make Last-Ditch Plea to World Before Paris Climate Change Talks - ""Unless the world acts decisively in coming weeks, the Pacific as we know it is doomed,"" said Fijian prime minister Frank Bainimarama."
2015-11-02,'External factor' caused Sinai crash
2015-11-02,"Saudi Arabia will raise the price of water for non-residential consumers, local media reported, a sign the government is cutting back an expensive system of subsidies as low oil prices strain its finances."
2015-11-02,Flight recorders show crashed Russian jet not struck from outside: investigator
2015-11-02,Erdogan's AKP set to win majority in critical Turkey vote
2015-11-02,Details Revealed in Chilling Plot to Execute Anti-ISIS Activists in Turkey
2015-11-02,Syria rebels using caged captives as 'human shields': monitor
2015-11-02,"Singapore ranked world's healthiest country, UK fails to make top 20"
2015-11-02,"For the first time since 1948, Egypt votes for Israel at UN"
2015-11-02,At least 550 wounded in horrific market-bombing in Damascus besieged area
2015-11-02,China just unveiled its first large passenger plane
2015-11-02,"Xu Xiang, boss of China's largest local private fund has been arrested due to insider trading and market manipulation"
2015-11-02,Japan and China agree on moves to mend ties further
2015-11-02,"Iran starts taking nuclear centrifuges offline | Under the July 14 agreement, Iran is to curb its nuclear programme under United Nations supervision to ensure it cannot be used to make a nuclear weapon, in exchange for the removal of sanctions that have isolated Tehran and hobbled its economy."
2015-11-02,China Sends Armed Jets Over Disputed Waters In Response to U.S. Naval Presence
2015-11-02,"Jihad is a lot of fun, said German rapper turned ISIL pitchman. Now hes reportedly dead from air strike"
2015-11-02,Majority of Northern Ireland MLA's vote for gay marriage but motion fails for the 5th time in 3 years due to a 5th motion of concern by the DUP.
2015-11-02,Living Wage in London rising to 9.40 an hour
2015-11-02,Official: Afghanistan will accept deportees from Germany
2015-11-02,"The worlds largest and the UKs first floating offshore wind development approximately 25 kilometres off the coast of Peterhead has been granted consent, the Scottish Government has announced today."
2015-11-02,Ban Ki Moon: It is up to the Syrian people who have to decide the future of President Assad.
2015-11-02,Male rape now a crime in China
2015-11-01,"Report: UN Staff Transported 380 Pounds of Weed, Watched and Shared Child Porn, and Tried to Bring a Chainsaw onto a Plane"
2015-11-01,A man held for 14 years without being charged at Guantanamo wants an independent UK inquiry
2015-11-01,"Denmark's Prime Minister says ""I know that some people in the US associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism, ... therefore I would like to make one thing clear. Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy"""
2015-11-01,Burger King could become the first fast food chain to sell alcohol in the UK
2015-11-01,"Germany is about to start up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy: the Max Planck Institute has completed the worlds largest nuclear fusion machine of its kind, called a stellarator"
2015-11-01,A rare intense tropical cyclone has formed in the Arabian Sea and is forecast to dump eight years of rain in about 48 hours on typically arid regions of the Arabian Peninsula.
2015-11-01,Seized Turkish Media Outlets Turn Pro-government Overnight
2015-11-01,Controversial plans to allow the police and security services full access to everyones internet browsing history have been abandoned by ministers in UK.
2015-11-01,Venezuela is running out of cash and selling its gold
2015-11-01,German frustration builds over TTIP secrecy from US: German parliamentarians are demanding access to documents that contain the US position on transatlantic trade negotiations. TTIP supporters in the US argue that Washington shouldn't lay all of its cards on the table
2015-11-01,"Muslim children should not be forced to sing national anthem, says Hizb ut-Tahrir"
2015-11-01,Co-Pilot's Wife: He Complained About Plane - Says that daughter called co-pilot of the Russian plane that crashed & he complained before the flight that the technical condition of the aircraft left much to be desired.
2015-11-01,"Scientists and nuclear experts from around the world gathered in southwestern Japan on Sunday to push for the abolition of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction, with this year marking the 70th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japanese cities."
2015-11-01,"At least 129 refugees have been found in a refrigerated truck on the Bulgarian border with Turkey, according to a Bulgarian state news agency report. The refrigerated truck driven by a Turkish citizen attempted to enter Bulgaria at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey"
2015-11-01,Cambridge chemists make breakthrough with ultimate battery which can power a car from London to Edinburgh
2015-11-01,Saddam-style: ISIS oil exports worth $500m a year 'conducted through Turkey'
2015-11-01,Blair denies ministers were told to 'burn' Iraq war legal advice
2015-11-01,"Lufthansa, Air France avoid flying over Sinai after crash"
2015-11-01,"UN & Red Cross issue rare joint rebuke, scold world leaders over 'conflict paralysis' - Urge immediate concrete steps to ease plight of civilians in places like Afghanistan, Nigeria & Syria. 1st time they've issued a joint warning. ""Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing."""
2015-11-01,Islamic State claims video shows it blowing up Russian plane over Egypt
2015-11-01,"Sinai plane ""broke up in mid air"""
2015-11-01,Greek Banks Face $15.9 Billion Bill After Economic Debacle
2015-11-01,"Small, dim stars could still support life"
2015-11-01,U.S. pledges nearly $100 million to support Syrian opposition as anti-ISIS offensive begins
2015-11-01,"Somalia threatened by illegal fishermen after west chases away pirates | Nato came because of the piracy, but the cause of piracy is the illegal fishing, says Wais, the Eyl official. If Nato can chase away the pirates, then why not the illegal fishermen?"
2015-10-31,Russian airliner carrying more than 200 passengers missing on flight over Egypt's Sinai peninsula
2015-10-31,"At least 21 dead, 80 wounded in blast at Bucharest nightclub - BNONews"
2015-10-31,Islamic State claim responsibility for today's plane crash over Egypt
2015-10-31,publisher of secular books hacked to death in Bangladesh
2015-10-31,"A Pfizer Inc. plant in China that was being inspected by Food and Drug Administration regulators in order to ship drugs to the U.S. kept a second set of quality and manufacturing records that didnt match official ones, according to an FDA review of the facility"
2015-10-31,"Researchers have developed a blood test that can accurately diagnose, from a single drop of blood, if a person has cancer with 96% certainty for most common types of cancer"
2015-10-31,Indian air force on high alert after repeated sightings of 'UFOs' at Delhi airport
2015-10-31,"The Devil, most wanted ivory trafficker in Tanzania, arrested"
2015-10-31,Canadas national police force is demanding VICE Canada turn over all notes and communications between the journalism outlet and a suspected Islamic State fighter
2015-10-31,Mysterious Ancient Earthworks in Kazakhstan Spotted by NASA
2015-10-31,Ozone Hole over Antarctic hits Record Size
2015-10-31,Innocent Guantanamo Bay Inmate Finally Released After 14 Years
2015-10-31,"A Nasa spacecraft that dived through a geyser plume on one of Saturns moons, closer to the surface than ever before, has delivered the first images and data from its taste of an underground ocean."
2015-10-31,S&P just downgraded Saudi Arabia
2015-10-31,Netanyahu Retracts Assertion That Palestinian Inspired Holocaust
2015-10-31,New Lords revolt looms over plans to allow police to view everyone's internet browsing history in UK.
2015-10-31,"Scientists have designed microscopic ""grenades"" that can explode their cancer-killing payload in tumours."
2015-10-31,"A new species is evolving right before our eyes  an ultra-successful mix of wolves, coyotes & dogs - The interbreeding began up to 200 yrs ago, as European settlers pushed into Ontario & cleared the animals habitat for farming, killing a large number of wolves who lived there."
2015-10-31,"Charities working in immigration detention centres were asked to pay multimillion-dollar bonds that could be forfeited if they spoke out against government policy, as the Coalition sought to maintain secrecy over border protection."
2015-10-31,"Four UN employees have been fired for storing child pornography on their UN computers, while another was sacked for transporting marijuana in a UN vehicle and another for threatening to kill a UN mission head"
2015-10-31,Egyptian authorities once again flood Gaza tunnels with sea water
2015-10-31,"Russia has again thwarted attempts to create the worlds largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctica, the final country opposing the protection of a vast swathe of rich waters from fishing, after a revised international plan won support from China"
2015-10-31,China plans to double the entire world's nuclear power plant count by 2050. They plan to build 400 nuclear power plants.
2015-10-31,Pentagon Opens Probe Into Sexual Abuse by U.S. Allies in Afghanistan | The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan
2015-10-31,Nasa tracking asteroid 'coming close' to earth
2015-10-30,"Isis shuts down all women's clinics, threatens male gynaecologists with death"
2015-10-30,German rapper who joined ISIS killed in U.S. strike
2015-10-30,Syrian anti-ISIS activist who blogged about terrible conditions in Raqqa is found decapitated in Turkey alongside beheaded corpse of his friend
2015-10-30,The police want to see your entire internet history
2015-10-30,"Every child left behind in the Islamic States new elementary schools. ""Math, music, philosophy, history, French and geography were all banned."""
2015-10-30,"Brazil, which has one of the highest murder tolls on the planet, could soon end most restrictions on gun ownership, risking what one critic called a ""Wild West"" scenario: draft law stripping away current limits has been approved and is due to go to the lower house of Congress in November."
2015-10-30,Sweden's outspoken foreign minister says 'In the long run our system will collapse'
2015-10-30,UK Prime Minister Apparently Last To Realize New EU Net Neutrality Rules Mean No Porn Filtering
2015-10-30,"Egyptians are turning on a TV host who justified a sexual assault and said that a victim wore ""revealing clothes""."
2015-10-30,"Qatar plans to spend $200 billion on infrastructure related to World Cup| Foreign workers making up nearly 90 percent of the population, still need permission to leave the country, keeping them at the mercy of their employers,said the Int'l Trade Union Confederation"
2015-10-30,More than 50 leading international media editors have written an open letter to President Recep Tayyip Erdoan raising profound concerns about the deteriorating conditions for press freedom in Turkey in the run up to the elections this weekend
2015-10-30,Polish court rejects US request to extradite Roman Polanski.
2015-10-30,Pentagon: 'We're in combat' in Iraq
2015-10-30,Tanzania is planning to supply a million homes with electricity using solar power
2015-10-30,Pakistan sold nuke technology to Iran in 1980s says former president Rafsanjani
2015-10-30,Hole in the ozone layer expands to near record levels. Southern part of Australia to be hit with high levels of UVR.
2015-10-30,NASA spacecraft plunges through Saturn moon's icy spray
2015-10-30,"Snowden slams UK government over encryption 'backdoor' plans | The UK government wants backdoor access to communications for ""everything people actually use"", Edward Snowden has claimed"
2015-10-30,Russia says no country can use military force in Syria without government approval
2015-10-30,China Scores Dead Last in Latest Internet-Freedom Survey
2015-10-30,Saudi Arabia Can't Get Its Story Straight on the MSF Hospital Destroyed in Yemen
2015-10-30,Germany to deport thousands of Immigrants
2015-10-30,Obama orders US special forces to 'assist' fight against Isis in Syria
2015-10-30,Deadly Betrayal: Elephants Lie Slaughtered And Mutilated By The Men Paid To Protect Them
2015-10-30,"Former president of Uruguay Jose Mujica, who is known for his humble character, was hosted modestly, in accordance with his wishes, with a 73 VW as his official car and a three-star hotel in Istanbul."
2015-10-29,"By 285 votes to 281, MEPs decide to call on EU member states to ""drop any criminal charges against Edward Snowden"""
2015-10-29,China to end one-child policy
2015-10-29,Nepal elects first female President
2015-10-29,"22 Shipwrecks Found in Single Location in Greece - ""Surpassing all expectations, over only 13 days we added 12% to total of known ancient shipwrecks in Greek territorial waters."" They span from the Archaic Period to the Classical & Hellenistic through Late Medieval Period."
2015-10-29,Japan urged to ban manga child abuse images: UNs child protection envoy says extreme child pornographic content in comics should be banned but artists call it an attack on freedom of expression
2015-10-29,"Denmark wants foreign fighters jailed for life: The Justice Ministry on Thursday announced plans to punish Danish foreign fighters as traitors, allowing for life imprisonment."
2015-10-29,"EU Toughens Against TTIP as Top German Lawmaker Blasts Anti-Democratic Deal: the president of the German Bundestag, or parliament, has threatened to vote against the so-called ""trade"" agreement due to its lack of transparency and democratic legitimacy"
2015-10-29,"Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, who has been sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for insulting Islam and for cyber crime, was awarded the European Union's Sakharov prize for human rights and freedom of thought"
2015-10-29,Automatic porn filters to be made 'law of the land' (UK)
2015-10-29,Rosetta finds oxygen on comet 67P in 'most surprising discovery to date'
2015-10-29,Google believes it is on course to have enough internet-beaming balloons in the stratosphere to form a ring over part of the world next year.
2015-10-29,Russia Announced It Is Sending Humans To The Moon
2015-10-29,Bitcoin CEO spent embezzled funds on prostitutes: reports
2015-10-29,"Refugees refusing to leave bus in 'too cold' Sweden to be removed Fourteen people have stayed on the bus since it reached Limedsforsen three days ago, saying the village is too cold and isolated"
2015-10-29,Police used the Terrorism Act to seize a Newsnight journalist's laptop
2015-10-29,"China to start work on super, super-collider by 2020. The facility is expected to generate millions of Higgs boson particles, far more than the capacity of Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), helping scientists to answer some fundamental questions about how the universe works."
2015-10-29,A prominent Iranian official recently suggested a new drug policy for the country that includes taking steps toward the legalization of cannabis and opium
2015-10-29,Brazil officials evict families from homes ahead of 2016 Olympic Games
2015-10-29,"An international team of scientists discovered that solar storms can be much more powerful and devastating than we know. By analyzing traces of solar storms in ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, researchers concluded that Earth was hit by two extreme solar storms over a thousand years ago."
2015-10-29,Pope says denying Israel's right to exist is anti-Semitism
2015-10-29,"4,400 Dead Cows Are Decomposing on Brazilian Beaches"
2015-10-29,France to ban vaginal exams without consent
2015-10-29,"UK- A private company has made thousands of pounds by targeting smokers who drop their cigarette ends in the town centre. The company are paid their commission by the council every time they give out a fine, regardless of whether the culprits cough up or not."
2015-10-29,"Syrians living tragedy and despair barely imaginable five years ago, says top UN relief official"
2015-10-29,"North Korea believed to earn a fortune from sending forced labor overseas, U.N. says"
2015-10-28,The star witness in a case pitting rainforest villagers against a multinational oil giant has admitted to lying under oath in an effort to help Chevron avoid paying a $9.5 billion judgment for deliberate pollution of the Ecuadorian Amazon
2015-10-28,"Toronto on brink of a mob war, Italy warns"
2015-10-28,Two children face two years in jail for tearing down Erdoan poster
2015-10-28,"African Union reports mass graves, cannibalism in South Sudan"
2015-10-28,"Saudi Prince busted smuggling two tons of amphetamines out of Beirut, and some cocaine."
2015-10-28,"Another MSF (Doctors Without Borders) Hospital Destroyed by Airstrikes, this time in Yemen."
2015-10-28,"Turkish authorities are seizing two major opposition TV stations, trying to shut it down, police attacking journalists"
2015-10-28,"Roman Polanski should be deported from Poland to the US to face sentence over a conviction for having sex with a minor in 1977, according to the leader of Polands newly elected Law and Justice party."
2015-10-28,"Malnutrition and other 'Victorian' diseases soaring in England 'due to food poverty and cuts' | Cases of Victorian-era diseases including scurvy, scarlet fever, cholera and whooping cough have increased since 2010"
2015-10-28,500 billion dollars stolen under Maliki rule in Iraq: official
2015-10-28,United Nations votes 191-2 to condemn U.S. embargo against Cuba
2015-10-28,This Could Be the Worst Climate Crisis in the World Right Now: Indonesia's deforestation nightmare is choking thousands and making climate change worse
2015-10-28,Iraq: We Didn't Ask for U.S. Ground Operations
2015-10-28,"Oxytocin spray improves social skills in some children with autism, world-first study shows"
2015-10-28,"About 1,000 Bikini islanders have applied to relocate to the United States as rising seas threaten their adopted home."
2015-10-28,Nasa opens discussion on where to land humans on Mars
2015-10-28,"Asthma drug could rejuvenate ageing brains, study suggest - Researchers found that a six week course of the drug, montelukast, improved memory and learning in older rodents, with their performance in cognitive tests nearly matching that of much younger animals."
2015-10-28,Scientists confirm that East Antarcticas biggest glacier is melting from below.
2015-10-28,"20,000 orangutans in danger of burning due to fires in Indonesia"
2015-10-28,Austria to Build Border Fence to Control Flow of Migrants
2015-10-28,"1,000-year-old Bible recovered in central Turkey"
2015-10-28,US will fly and sail where 'international law permits' despite rebuke from China
2015-10-28,93% of deaths and injuries in Yemen are civilian
2015-10-28,"Iran Is Invited to Join U.S., Russia and Europe for Talks on Syrias Future"
2015-10-28,Exxon is denying it deliberately downplayed global warming
2015-10-27,Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago - A new investigation shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation.
2015-10-27,Rape Victims Are Being Jailed Under Extramarital Sex Laws in the UAE
2015-10-27,Greenland Is Melting Away
2015-10-27,Belgian Scientologists go on trial for fraud and extortion - church could face ban if convicted
2015-10-27,"China say's US warship ""illegally"" entered its waters."
2015-10-27,"As large animals disappear, the loss of their poop hurts the planet"
2015-10-27,Whistleblowers in Canada could receive awards in excess of $1.5 million when a formal policy is unveiled Wednesday by the Ontario Securities Commission to encourage those in the know to help ferret out corporate wrongdoing.
2015-10-27,"Intolerable Heat May Hit the Middle East by the End of the Century - ""By the end of this century, areas of the Persian Gulf could be hit by waves of heat and humidity so severe that simply being outside for several hours could threaten human life"""
2015-10-27,Poachers kill another 22 elephants with cyanide in Zimbabwe
2015-10-27,Change of heart for peace: Top Pakistani hardliner cleric says I am a Pakistani and I do not hate India
2015-10-27,"Worlds largest concentrated solar power plant, powered by the Moroccan Saharan sun, set to help renewables provide almost half the countrys energy by 2020"
2015-10-27,343 UK scholars pledge boycott of Israeli universities
2015-10-27,"German Jews Warn Merkel That Refugees May Spread Anti-Semitism: Jewish leaders told German Chancellor Angela Merkel theyre concerned that refugees streaming into the country may foment anti-Semitism, underscoring the risk of social conflict as her government struggles to contain the migrant crisis"
2015-10-27,"Sec. Carter: U.S. to Begin 'Direct Action on the Ground' in Iraq, Syria"
2015-10-27,Troops Who Sought Strike On Afghan Hospital Knew It Was A Hospital: The Army Green Berets who requested the Oct. 3 airstrike on the Doctors without Borders trauma center in Afghanistan were aware it was a functioning hospital but believed it was under Taliban control
2015-10-27,U.S. Navy to send destroyer within 12 miles of Chinese islands
2015-10-27,Yemen hospital hit by Saudi-led airstrikes
2015-10-27,"Skeleton of ancient warrior & hoard of treasure found in 3,500-yr-old tomb - US archeologists found the wooden coffin of the unknown soldier on the Peloponnese peninsula, with jewellery, a bronze sword & ivory combs inside"
2015-10-27,"Around 700 of the 4,000 refugees who have been housed in Lower Saxony over the past week have gone missing and authorities mostly have no idea who or where they are. The astonishing number was revealed in a survey of local authorities in the north-west German state by the Neue Osnabrcker Zeitung."
2015-10-27,Emperor Palpatine takes City Council seat in Ukraines Odessa
2015-10-27,Kurds Say Turkey Shot at Its Forces in Northern Syria
2015-10-27,European Parliament votes in favour of 'two speed' internet
2015-10-27,"Last-surviving cracker from Titanic is auctioned for 15,000. Most valuable biscuit."
2015-10-27,Parts of London have higher TB rates than Iraq or Rwanda
2015-10-27,Out Of The Closet & Straight To Jail: New Plan To Punish Coming Out In Russia - A proposed law would extend the countrys ban on gay propaganda to cover simply publicly identifying as gay.
2015-10-26,"College applications in UK to become anonymous ""to prevent unconscious bias against candidates from minority groups"""
2015-10-26,"Saudi Arabia to run out of cash in fewer than 5 years, IMF says"
2015-10-26,Saudi Prince Arrested in Beirut on Drug Smuggling
2015-10-26,Strong earthquake jolts Islamabad
2015-10-26,UK accused of doing China's bidding after police raid home of Tiananmen Square survivor over peaceful protest
2015-10-26,WHO: Processed meats cause cancer.
2015-10-26,Dutch court revokes Scientology's tax-exempt status
2015-10-26,"A Chinese biotechnological company announced that it has developed the world's first 3D blood vessel bio-printer, which makes it possible to produce personalized functional organs"
2015-10-26,Activists urge Trudeau to defend Canadas copyright regime from TPP changes
2015-10-26,Poland has returned their government to the right as exit polls show 39% for Kaczyski's PiS party.
2015-10-26,Google invests in Africas largest windfarm - Internet giant to acquire 12.5% stake in Lake Turkana windfarm in Kenya.
2015-10-26,Venezuelas central bank has filed suit in the US against a website widely used to track the plummeting black market value of the countrys currency
2015-10-26,"Saudi relationship with UK 'at risk', warns ambassador. An ""alarming change"" in Britain's attitude towards Saudi Arabia could lead to ""serious repercussions"", the Saudi ambassador has warned."
2015-10-26,"Indonesia's fires labelled a 'crime against humanity' as 500,000 suffer | Haze has caused havoc, with schools in neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia shut down, flights grounded and events cancelled"
2015-10-26,Israeli ministers approve mandatory Arabic studies from first grade
2015-10-26,Scientifically validated anti-diabetes herbal drug launched in India. Cost- 0.077 USD per tablet
2015-10-26,Muslim leader condemns beheading of South Sudanese Christian by IS in Libya
2015-10-26,Red meat cancer risk to be revealed by WHO
2015-10-26,Pakistan uses Taliban to counter India: CIA chiefs hacked emails
2015-10-26,"Tour boat carrying 27 passengers sinks off Tofino, B.C."
2015-10-26,"China to supply fuel to Nepal after protesters block deliveries from India: Beijing is set to send about 100 tanker trucks of gasoline to fuel-starved Nepal, officials say. The move comes after protesters from Nepal's Madhesi minority blocked off the key border crossing with India"
2015-10-26,Europe is starting to shut down the free flow of refugees
2015-10-26,"Nine killed in gun battle between Turkish police and ISIL suspects.The shoot-out in Diyarbakir erupted just six days ahead of elections in Turkey, with tensions running high following the countrys worst ever bomb attack and a resurgence of the conflict with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels."
2015-10-26,"Guatemala's jailed former president, Otto Perez, says he regrets bowing to U.S. pressure to extend the work of an anti-corruption unit that then toppled him from power and that it was U.S. Vice President Joe Biden who forced his hand"
2015-10-26,Plane's Undercarriage Collapses During Landing
2015-10-25,Pastor in Singapore found guilty of using $37 million in church funds to boost wife's failing pop star career
2015-10-25,Tony Blair apologises for 'mistakes' over Iraq War and admits 'elements of truth' to view that invasion helped rise of Isis.
2015-10-25,"Japan's Yakuza Cancels Halloween - On Halloween, Japans largest organized crime group used to allow children to extort mobsters. But event called off this yr due to a possible gang war."
2015-10-25,"Lockheed Martin, Boeing rally around Saudi Arabia, wave off humanitarian concerns"
2015-10-25,"Chinese demand for forest turtles is threatening an endangered species found only on one Philippine island, wildlife officials said Sunday. The Philippine Forest Turtle, found only in the western island of Palawan, is one of numerous freshwater turtles being taken by poachers for sale to China."
2015-10-25,Pope Francis scolds Catholic bishops over their attitudes towards gays and the divorced
2015-10-25,Portugal is in the midst of a constitutional crisis after President Anibal Cavaco Silva refused to allow a coalition of left-wing anti-austerity parties to take power even though they have a majority in parliament.
2015-10-25,"Anger at David Cameron who uses 100,000 from taxpayers for trip to honour dead Saudi King."
2015-10-25,Egypt has developed a game-changing low-power water desalination technique
2015-10-25,"UK nuclear deterrent to cost 167 billion pounds, far more than expected"
2015-10-25,Russia Poised to Criminalize Coming Out
2015-10-25,"1 in 4 Australian students fails to complete a year 12 certificate or vocational equivalent, and 30 % of year 7 students are falling behind international benchmarks in reading: Landmark national study has also exposed an alarming discrepancy between advantaged and disadvantaged students."
2015-10-25,Journalist pays for reporting the truth about ISIS with his father's life
2015-10-25,Helmet camera footage shows joint US Delta Force-Kurdish raid to rescue Islamic State hostages
2015-10-25,ExxonMobil Targets Journalists and Activists After Climate Change Investigation
2015-10-25,Pirate Party storms to success in Icelandic polls
2015-10-25,Larger employers will have to publish the amount men and women are awarded in bonuses as part of proposed legislation to reduce the gender pay gap.
2015-10-25,Iranian government slams US jailing of engineer for trying to send sensitive military documents to Iran
2015-10-25,"Severe weather hits Middle East, causes fatal flooding, downed power cable in Egypt"
2015-10-25,Chinese Investment Company to Buy Texas Oil Fields for $1.3B
2015-10-25,"British Army Enlisted Indian Children as Young as 10 in World War 1, Claims Book"
2015-10-25,"Russian airstrike hits Syrian hospital, aid group says"
2015-10-25,Jordan and Israel agree to take steps to help quell violence
2015-10-25,European leaders to hold summit over migrant crisis
2015-10-25,China communist party paper says country should join U.S.-led TPP
2015-10-24,"U.N. Report Calls on Governments to Protect Whistleblowers Like Snowden, Not Prosecute Them | Confidential sources and whistleblowers are a crucial element of a healthy democracy, says the U.N. Special Rapporteur for free speech."
2015-10-24,Somebody Is Carving Select Cuts from Canadian Cows & Leaving Their Corpses in the Field
2015-10-24,"Hurricane Patricia roars into Mexico early this morning, then quicky crumbles and dies off from the mountainous terrain."
2015-10-24,ISIS is making up to $50 million a month from oil sales
2015-10-24,"Isis earns $50m a month from oil sales | Isis reportedly earns up to $50 million (32.6 million) each month from oil sales, allowing the group to maintain its rule over their self-declared caliphate stretching across large parts of Syria and Iraq."
2015-10-24,"Palau creates marine sanctuary the size of California | The sanctuary will take up 80 percent of the Pacific nation's waters, and will be the world's sixth-largest area to be fully protected from fishing or drilling."
2015-10-24,Ai Weiwei banned from using Lego to build Australian artwork - toy company told artist it cannot approve the use of Legos for political works
2015-10-24,"Initial reports indicate no major damage, deaths from Hurricane Patricia"
2015-10-24,American Delta Force and Kurdish commando team raided ISIS prison after word leaked that executions were imminent; US Delta operator killed in firefight was a father of four.
2015-10-24,"""When you say, I need a wife, you can first consult your parents and, God willing, they will find you a suitable one. If they dont, you can come to us"", says Turkish islamist AKP prime minister Davutoglu"
2015-10-24,Iraq authorizes Russian airstrikes against Daesh (ISIL)
2015-10-24,Indian Government approves induction of women fighter pilots in Air Force
2015-10-24,"Czech Republic under fire for ""stripping refugees to take their money to pay for their involuntary detention"""
2015-10-24,Saudi Arabia: Eight of the 12 surviving sons of country's monarch support move to oust King Salman
2015-10-24,"A boat carrying 560 Egyptian child migrants, all aged 11 and younger, has reached Italian shores, where the children have now been provided with residence and shelters."
2015-10-24,"Boris Johnson calls for halt to planned solar aid cuts - Mayor of London warns that thousands of jobs are being put at risk, in letter sent to the energy minister on final day of govt consultations on the proposals"
2015-10-24,"Common asthma drug reverses aging in rat brains, human trials starting soon"
2015-10-24,ISIS publishes first-ever video in Hebrew: 'Not a single Jew will remain in Jerusalem'
2015-10-24,Suicide bomber kills 16 at procession for Shi'ite holiday in Pakistan
2015-10-24,"Giant Squid: juvenile monsters of the deep captured off Japan - Marine biologists capture 3 young giant squid in what's 1st confirmed catch of very young juveniles of the elusive creature. Spitting image of their gigantic parents  if nearly 1,000lbs & 50ft smaller"
2015-10-24,Iranian-born man is sentenced to 8 years in prison for sharing information on advanced US fighter jet engines
2015-10-24,Iraq authorises Russia to strike Islamic State inside country
2015-10-24,"For the first time, EU regulators have recommended approval for a viral immunotherapy drug. The drug uses a modified Herpes simplex virus (cold sores) that only infects melanoma cancer cells, causing them to rupture and die."
2015-10-24,Erdogan Says Turkey Won't Let Kurds 'Seize' Northern Syria
2015-10-24,"Brazil Supreme Court seized $2.45 million in Swiss accounts allegedly belonging to the speaker of Brazil's lower house of congress, a powerful political figure who can largely determine whether widely sought impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff are introduced on the chamber floor"
2015-10-23,Hurricane Patricia is now measured to be the strongest Hurricane we have ever seen
2015-10-23,At least 39 people feared dead in traffic accident involving truck and bus in south-west France
2015-10-23,Gay Sex Is Now Punished With 100 Lashes in Indonesias Province of Aceh
2015-10-23,"WikiLeaks emails from head of CIA reveal he 'consulted a mental health expert', suggested US spying on own citizens may be illegal and that his own security firm had been 'disingenuous' to win contract"
2015-10-23,Survivor of alleged elite paedophile ring including former Australian prime minister speaks out
2015-10-23,"Pope Franciss enemies inside the church leaked false story that he had a brain tumour, enraged Vatican says"
2015-10-23,"Putin accuses US of backing terrorism in Middle East: ""No need to play with words and split terrorists into moderate and not moderate"""
2015-10-23,Teen Arrested for 'Insulting' President Erdogan on Facebook.Insulting the president of Turkey is punishable under the law and those guilty face up to four years in prison.
2015-10-23,Many Antidepressant Studies Found Tainted by Pharma Company Influence
2015-10-23,Islamists recruiting at Norway asylum centres
2015-10-23,Cisa amendment would allow US to jail foreigners for crimes committed abroad
2015-10-23,"Peru's Indigenous Women Demand Justice for Forced Sterilization.More than 300,000 women and 20,000 men were subjected to forced steralization to reduce births among Indigenous peoples."
2015-10-23,The MP tricked into condemning a fake drug called cake has been put in charge of scrutinising drugs policy in the UK
2015-10-23,"Putin says Assad could work with rebels against IS, specifically mentioning the Kurdish forces"
2015-10-23,"After massive student protests, South Africa freezes tuition hikes"
2015-10-23,Cycling to Norway: Hundreds of migrants have cycled into Norway from Russia after finding a new route into Europe that avoids the deadly Mediterranean crossing.
2015-10-23,Germany arrests suspected anti-refugee plotters: German officials have arrested three far-right extremists and seized explosive material that could be used in attacks on migrants. The authorities say right-wing groups plan to intensify their anti-refugee violence
2015-10-23,"Stun grenades and water cannons used on South African university students, as tuition protests continue around the country"
2015-10-23,The Obama administration is cutting aid to the Palestinians by $80 million in an apparent message to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
2015-10-23,"Refugees 'look like an army', says Hungarian PM Viktor Orban Rightwing leader says the flow of people consists of economic migrants and fighters along with refugees as Hungary offers trains for people to return to Turkey"
2015-10-23,"The World Health Organisation is reportedly planning to declare that bacon, sausages and other processed meat cause cancer. Red meat is also expected to be listed as being probably carcinogenic to humans."
2015-10-23,"47 Percent of Nigerians Don't Wash Their Hands With Soap After Defecation, UNICEF Finds"
2015-10-23,"Greece has seen a record 48,000 migrants and refugees land on its shores in the space of just five days, the International Organization for Migration said on Friday."
2015-10-23,2015 Likely to Be Hottest Year Ever Recorded
2015-10-23,Human trafficking crackdown on sex trade across Canada yields 47 people charged
2015-10-22,"Canada's move to legalize marijuana would be the most high-profile rebuke of international drug treaties to date, exposing ""a huge hole in the treaties, making more nations comfortable with the idea of legalization."""
2015-10-22,"WikiLeaks obtains CIA chief's hacked emails, says will publish them 'shortly'"
2015-10-22,Mexico supreme court to discuss legalizing recreational marijuana
2015-10-22,Iceland does what the US wont: 26 top bankers sent to prison for role in financial crisis
2015-10-22,"Astronomers announced today that they have spotted a large, rocky object disintegrating in its death spiral around a distant white dwarf star. ""This is something no human has seen before,"" says lead author Andrew Vanderburg. ""We're watching a solar system get destroyed."""
2015-10-22,Egyptian Facebook User Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Putting Mickey Mouse Ears on Sisi
2015-10-22,U.S. soldier killed during special ops hostage rescue in Iraq
2015-10-22,"The Chinese Communist Party has banned all 88 million of its members from joining golf clubs, in its latest update of party discipline rules. Extravagant eating and drinking, and abuse of power, are also formally banned, said Xinhua news agency."
2015-10-22,"Hiker Discovers Viking Sword in NorwayA hiker sits down to rest finds 1,200-yr-old sword in very good condition, missing only its grip. When the snow has gone, we will check where the sword was found. If we find several objects, or a tomb, perhaps we can find the story behind the sword."
2015-10-22,Justin Trudeaus first move as prime minister is to take Canada out of the fight against the Islamic State.
2015-10-22,Canada dumps $135 Million Jet
2015-10-22,Ai Weiwei accuses David Cameron of sacrificing UK's human rights record for Chinese cash
2015-10-22,"Syria has warned Qatar of a harsh response after Doha threatened that it may intervene militarily in the Arab country.On Wednesday, the Qatari foreign minister said his country would consider launching a military intervention against the Syrian government with our Saudi and Turkish brothers."
2015-10-22,"U.S. to Iraq: If Russia helps you fight ISIS, we can't"
2015-10-22,"Europe failing to stop illegal logging, report warns - Plan to tackle $100bn trade in illegal timber is poorly designed, badly managed & ineffective. Illegal logging thought responsible for 1/5 of man-made greenhouse emissions  more than worlds ships, planes, trains & cars combined."
2015-10-22,Mass graves of ISIS fighters found by Iraqi Army
2015-10-22,Singapore Megachurch Founder Guilty of Pilfering $36 Million to Bankroll Wife's Pop Music Career
2015-10-22,Spanish unemployment falls to 21.2%
2015-10-22,"In a landmark study, scientists at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands reported they have conducted an experiment they say proves one of the most fundamental claims of quantum theory  that objects separated by great distance can instantaneously affect each others behavior."
2015-10-22,"Three Syrian hospitals bombed since Russian airstrikes began, doctors say"
2015-10-22,Canadian Liberals map swift overhaul of anti-terror law.
2015-10-22,"The Weight is Over, The Kilogram is Settled"
2015-10-22,"Global temperatures are running far above last years record-setting level, all but guaranteeing that 2015 will be the hottest year in the historical record  and undermining political claims that global warming had somehow stopped."
2015-10-22,"Russia is pushing for early presidential elections in Syria that may give President Bashar al-Assad a fresh mandate, hardening opposition to demands for his ouster from the U.S. and its allies."
2015-10-22,Russian official called out after image of terrorist turns out to be from Harold & Kumar
2015-10-21,Europe Already Beat Its 2020 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Target
2015-10-21,Scientists have found fossil-like hints that some kind of life existed on Earth 4.1 billion years ago  when the planet was a mere volcanic toddler. That's 300 million years earlier for life to pop up than previously thought.
2015-10-21,"Sunscreen contributing to decline of coral reefs, study shows | UV filtering chemical is killing off baby coral around tourist resorts, particularly in the Caribbean and Hawaii"
2015-10-21,"New Canadian PM Tells Obama Withdrawing Fighter Jets From Syria, Iraq"
2015-10-21,A group that documented Nazi war crimes is now investigating whether massacres committed by Islamic State jihadists against Iraq's Yazidi minority amount to genocide. The Yazidis are neither Arabs nor Muslims and have a unique faith which IS jihadists consider to be heretical and polytheistic.
2015-10-21,"A Saudi activist has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and barred from travel abroad for another decade, a human rights lawyer said Tuesday.He was considered among the most vocal critics of religious extremism and militancy."
2015-10-21,"N. Korea asks US for peace treaty, US has no interest"
2015-10-21,"Four con artists spend 200,000RMB building a fake interrogation center to extort money from corrupt Chinese officials"
2015-10-21,"Canada's Liberals Sweep to VictoryWith a Marijuana Legalization Platform: ""We will remove marijuana consumption and incidental possession from the Criminal Code, and create new, stronger laws to punish more severely those who provide it to minors..."""
2015-10-21,Oslo just declared that it will become the first major city to ban cars
2015-10-21,Number of London's 'working poor' surges 70% in 10 years
2015-10-21,Camerawoman plans to sue one of the refugees she kicked at Hungary border
2015-10-21,US Navy F18 jet crashes in Cambridgeshire Fens.
2015-10-21,"Benjamin Netanyahu blames Holocaust on Palestinian leader at World Zionist Congress, says Hitler only wanted to expel Jews"
2015-10-21,"British spies will soon have the right to hack into smartphones and computers | Tory lawmakers are planning to pass new laws giving MI5, MI6 and GCHQ a  dizzying range of electronic surveillance, reports suggest"
2015-10-21,Migrants 'torch tents' in Slovenia camp
2015-10-21,"Chemicals In Sunscreen Are Harming Coral Reefs, Says New Study"
2015-10-21,Carbon nanotubes have turned up in the lungs of children living in Paris  the first time they have been detected in humans.
2015-10-21,Keystone & TPP under question as Canada elects Liberal PM
2015-10-21,"Australia continues its strong opposition against lethal commercial whaling activities, with Minister for the Environnment Greg Hunt releasing a statement this week condemning Japan's whaling program and attempt to exclude itself from the ICJ in matters relating to future whaling activities."
2015-10-21,Refugee crisis: Nine-month pregnant 14-year-old goes missing amid anger the Netherlands is allowing child brides from Syria to seek asylum
2015-10-21,Singapore Mega-Church Head Guilty of Embezzling $35 Million
2015-10-21,Wave of Violence in Israel and Palestine
2015-10-21,Assad in surprise visit to Moscow
2015-10-21,"Dalai Lama joins spiritual leaders calling for ambitious Paris climate agreement | ""This is not a question of one nation or two nations. This is a question of humanity. Our world is our home,"" the Dalai Lama said. ""There's no other planet where we may move or shift."""
2015-10-20,Canadians elect Liberal majority. Ending Stephen Harpers 9 year rule.
2015-10-20,US approves $11.25 billion warship sale to Saudi Arabia
2015-10-20,Scientists are about to use the Large Hadron Collider to try and discover a parallel universe
2015-10-20,"Israeli hummus cafe gives Jewish-Arab tables 50% off | Owner offers free refill to Jews and Palestinian guests dining together, to show that ""we're all human beings""."
2015-10-20,"UK's largest online pharmacy fined 130,000 for selling patients' personal data to scammers"
2015-10-20,"Aer Lingus passenger who died after biting fellow traveller 'had 41,000 worth of cocaine in his stomach"
2015-10-20,"Each Syrian refugee is set to cost the taxpayer up to 23,420 in the first year of their relocation to the UK, figures seen by BBC News suggest."
2015-10-20,Stephen Harper resigns as Conservative leader
2015-10-20,"Fourth asylum home on fire in west Sweden - Housing for asylum seekers near Munkedal in western Sweden is on fire, in the fourth suspected arson attack on refugee accommodation in just over a week."
2015-10-20,"2/3 of Germans still trust Volkswagen after emissions scandal - Polls shows 65% of respondents think the scandal has been exaggerated, & 63% expect it to be forgotten in a year"
2015-10-20,Muslims condemn Britain's plans to combat extremism
2015-10-20,UNESCO Will Vote on Plan To Declare Western Wall a Muslim Site
2015-10-20,First Fukushima worker diagnosed with radiation-linked cancer
2015-10-20,U.N. May Recommend Decriminalizing Drug Use. The U.N.s Office on Drugs and Crime would recommend decriminalizing drug use as well as possession of all drugs for personal consumption.
2015-10-20,Christian churches in Indonesia province to be closed over Muslim groups pressure
2015-10-20,"Gay marriage: 15,000 same-sex couples marry since law change"
2015-10-20,"The Saudi government, under increasing criticism over civilian casualties from its airstrikes in Yemen and a harsh crackdown on political dissidents at home, has just hired a powerhouse Washington, D.C., lobbying firm headed by a top Hillary Clinton fundraiser"
2015-10-20,Russian secret service to vet research papers: A biology institute at Russias largest and most prestigious university has instructed its scientists to get all research manuscripts approved by the security service before submitting them to conferences or journals.
2015-10-20,Bomb-sniffing Labrador thwarts possible terror attack in E. Jerusalem
2015-10-20,NASA predict huge asteroid will just miss Earth as it zips past this Halloween
2015-10-20,The new head of customs at one of Europe's most notoriously corrupt ports is a 26-year-old YouTube star with no experience.
2015-10-20,"Norway's oil-rich capital first to divest from fossil fuels | Oslo takes responsibility for climate in ridding $9 billion pension fund of coal, oil and gas investments say surging Greens"
2015-10-20,Third Russian air strike on Syrian rebel group kills leader
2015-10-20,Islamic State Unleashes Propaganda Blitz Calling for Attacks Against Jews
2015-10-20,"Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Front, went on trial Tuesday on charges of inciting hatred after comparing Muslim street prayers to the Nazi occupation."
2015-10-19,"Japan furious at UNESCO listing Nanjing Massacre documents | Japan may halt funding for UNESCO over the organization's decision to include documents relating to the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in the latest listing for its ""Memory of the World"" program."
2015-10-19,"Saudi Arabia Hajj Disaster Death Toll at Least 2,110"
2015-10-19,"TTIP Already 'Rewriting the Rule Book' for EU Food Standards, New Report Finds: Campaigners say that corporate lobbyists, buoyed by the pending trade agreement, are already lobbying against key food safety measures"
2015-10-19,"5 hurt in terror attack at Beersheba, Israel central bus station"
2015-10-19,Swiss Anti-Immigration Party Wins Big in Elections
2015-10-19,Report: Taliban at their strongest since 2001
2015-10-19,Eritrean mistaken for Palestinian shot; beaten by mob in Israel
2015-10-19,Japan rejects international court jurisidiction over whaling
2015-10-19,UN draft urging member states to decriminalise possession and use of drugs worldwide foiled by at least one country
2015-10-19,"Court rules Uber's app legal in London: The ruling is a victory for the ride-hailing service, which has faced significant opposition from London's established cab trade, but taxi drivers already are challenging the decision."
2015-10-19,"When we told them we were Jews from Israel, they kissed us:Amid tragic circumstances, Israeli boaters save 11 Syrian and Iraqi refugees."
2015-10-19,India is planting trees along it's railway system across the country to combat environmental issues
2015-10-19,Australia Approves Coal Mine That Environmentalists Call A Complete Disaster For Coral Reef
2015-10-19,"British journalist who worked for BBC found dead at airport in Istanbul | It is not yet known how Ms Sutton, 50, died. Friends questioned Turkish media reports that she killed herself after missing a connecting flight to Erbil and not having the money to buy another ticket."
2015-10-19,"Researchers accidently find industrial waste, orange peel material sucks mercury out of water"
2015-10-19,'Convert or die' ISIS graffiti jihadis declare first European 'caliphate'
2015-10-19,"Women working for international aid agencies are facing a hidden threat of sexual violence and harassment which their employers routinely ignore or sweep under the carpet, according to testimonies gathered by the Guardian."
2015-10-19,Colombian government has acknowledged that crime and smuggling have gone down since Venezuela deployed thousands of troops along their common border two months ago
2015-10-19,"'My cousin made me do it,' 13-year-old Palestinian stabber tells police"
2015-10-19,ISIS Media Blitz Urges Palestinians To Slaughter Jews
2015-10-19,Russia aims to increase missions in Syria by '300 a day'
2015-10-19,Russia takes out 49 ISIS targets 24 hours of ferocious bombing in Syria
2015-10-19,"Hamas making efforts to carry out suicide attacks against Israel, officials say"
2015-10-19,Israeli Bedouin leaders condemn despicable Beersheba attack: Heads of minority community in Negev urge calm after Bedouin man carries out fatal attack in bus station.
2015-10-19,"China economy grows 6.9 percent in Q3, weakest since 2009"
2015-10-18,Smoking gun emails reveal Blair's 'deal in blood' with George Bush over Iraq war was forged a year before the invasion had even started - despite claiming he wanted peace. Leaked White House memo shows former Prime Minister's support for war at summit with U.S. President in 2002.
2015-10-18,North Korea reportedly willing to sign peace treaty with US to end conflict
2015-10-18,70 Tunisia hotels closed since attacks on tourists. Unemployment in Tunisia is almost 30 percent as the country suffers from the impact of deadly militant attacks on tourists.
2015-10-18,German mayor candidate stabbed in the neck over her support of refugees
2015-10-18,"Germany's police union chief has called for a fence to be built along the country's border to stem the flow of migrants. Rainer Wendt told the ""Welt am Sonntag"" newspaper that other countries would then follow suit."
2015-10-18,"The Australian government has secretly flown a pregnant refugee out of the country to escape a court injunction before it could be heard, chartering a jet to take her back to Nauru and the immigration detention centre where she was raped."
2015-10-18,"With the discovery in southern China of human teeth dating back at least 80,000 years, the history of human migration is set to be rewritten"
2015-10-18,"German hunter kills one of the largest elephants in Africa for $60,000"
2015-10-18,El Chapo wounded but not caught after Mexican armed forces operation
2015-10-18,"Tower of London staff 'used magic to repel forces of the Devil' & witches - Archaeologists find dozens of ritual protection marks literally burnt into timbers holding up roof. These are hugely significant, revealing hopes, fears & desires of the everyday occupants."
2015-10-18,"Russia reportedly looking to remove itself from Internet. Russia has reportedly run tests to see if it can remove itself from the World Wide Web to stem the flow of information to and from foreign countries, according to a top industry official."
2015-10-18,"Kissing scene brings Iranian Kurdish director six years imprisonment, 223 lashes."
2015-10-18,"Four Israeli cities, citing security, ban Arab workers from schools"
2015-10-18,"Prospect of TTIP already undermining EU food standards, say campaigners | Opponents of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership say EU negotiator has admitted to approving entry of banned goods"
2015-10-18,UN's Blue Helmets to defend world heritage sites from IS attacks
2015-10-18,"An air strike by the U.S.-led coalition has killed Sanafi al-Nasr, a Saudi citizen and the leader of an al Qaeda offshoot called the Khorasan Group, a Pentagon spokesman said on Sunday."
2015-10-18,Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a French proposal for placing international observers at a Jerusalem shrine that has become a flashpoint spurring a wave of Palestinian attacks.
2015-10-18,Nuclear deal with Iran officially takes effect
2015-10-18,French police raid Volkswagen offices in emission scandal
2015-10-18,"Few in Venezuela Want Its Currency as Economy Struggles: Venezuelas currency, the bolvar, has crashed along with its economy. But the official exchange rate is unchanged, leading to economic absurdities like a movie ticket that costs $60 at the government rate, or 54 cents at the black-market rate"
2015-10-18,Iraqi forces retake key oil refinery from IS militants
2015-10-18,"Israel and the United States signaled on Sunday they were putting disputes over the Iran nuclear deal behind them, announcing resumed talks on U.S. defense aid for Israel as it hosted Washington's top general and a joint air force drill"
2015-10-18,Germany offers Turkey $3.4 billion to stem migrant tide
2015-10-18,Saudi air strikes mistakenly kill 30 pro-government troops in Yemen
2015-10-18,Rash of Palestinian stabbing attempts continues over weekend
2015-10-17,"The Origins of the King James Bible - A handwritten draft of the world's most famous bible has been discovered in England. It contains handwriting of dozens of authors from 1604-1608. That handwriting is a crucial find, because it reveals how they translated & assembled the text."
2015-10-17,China warns Britain not to bring up human rights during Xi Jinping's visit because he would be offended
2015-10-17,Canada's ruling Conservatives facing criminal investigation over election law violation for the 4th election in a row
2015-10-17,Saudi police try to shift blame onto Indian maid
2015-10-17,Ebola is now an STD - First case of sexual transmission of the viral disease documented in Liberia.
2015-10-17,"Hundreds of Israeli Jews and Arabs rally for peace: Around 700 people form human chain in north of country, call for coexistence and condemn violence"
2015-10-17,Australia to lift ban on medical cannabis
2015-10-17,China plans to build 110 nuclear power plants by 2030 with an investment of over $78 billion
2015-10-17,"Erdogan slams Nobel prizes as biased, saying:""Someone [Merkel] says, We will receive 30-40,000 refugees,' and then they are nominated for the Nobel [prize]. I wonder how it happens. We are hosting 2.5 million refugees at the moment. Nobody cares about that."""
2015-10-17,"Rich nations are spending $250 billion annually subsidizing their agricultural sectors to the detriment of poor farmers as they artificially lower prices for some crops and block market access for growers from poor countries, a new study said."
2015-10-17,"A group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers of Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal and several other news publications, and stole information to trade on before it became public.The FBI, Secret Service and the Securities and Exchange Commission are leading an investigation."
2015-10-17,"Smoking bans in Australian prisons sees packets of cigarettes trade for $320 | Since smoking was banned in August, the price of a pack of cigarettes has sky-rocketed from $28 on the prison buy-ups scheme to $300 on the black market. Matches and papers, once sold for $3 now fetch up to $90"
2015-10-17,"The World Is Not As Hungry As You Might Think: Deaths due to mass famine have plummeted, according to data from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide."
2015-10-17,Germany reportedly bribed FIFA for 2006 World Cup
2015-10-17,The richest 1% of Indians own 53% of the countrys wealth while top 10% have 76.3% of the country's wealth
2015-10-17,"Islam was 'never part of Europe': Hungary's Orban | Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended his hardline stance against refugees, the vast majority of whom are Muslim, saying in an interview published Friday that Islam ""has never been part of Europe""."
2015-10-17,"Sleep researchers observed tribal groups living pre-industrial lives. After 1,165 days collecting data,they found the avg sleep time among the tribes was 6.5 hrs a night. In industrial societies, the average is 7.5 hrs a night. They barely suffered insomnia, which is prevalent in 20% of our society."
2015-10-17,Europe and Russia planning space mission to assess Moon settlement
2015-10-17,Obama Says Israel Will Only Be Secure With A Two-State Solution
2015-10-17,"Cologne mayoral candidate Henriette Reker seriously hurt in knife attack - An independent candidate to be mayor of Cologne has been severely injured in a knife attack. Police said four other people were hurt at the scene, and a suspect was taken into custody."
2015-10-17,U.S. confirms Iran tested nuclear-capable ballistic missile
2015-10-17,More than 400 dead in southeast Congo measles outbreak: U.N.
2015-10-17,Politicians panic after law change could leave them open to surveillance
2015-10-17,Migrant crisis: Slovenia braces as Hungary shuts border
2015-10-17,"Victims of modern slavery hidden in Britain's brothels, farms and private homes must be found and protected, the country's anti-slavery commissioner said on Friday"
2015-10-16,"Over 100 anti-TTIP Protesters Arrested in Brussels.Demonstrators said the TTIP is death, claiming it will lower standards of living and damge the environment, while benefiting huge multinationals."
2015-10-16,Salman Rushdie warns of new dangers to free speech in West: Violence against writers and a misplaced sense of political correctness pose new dangers to freedom of speech in the West
2015-10-16,Earth just had its warmest September on record  by a long shot
2015-10-16,Croatia Legalizes Use of Medical Marijuana
2015-10-16,Palestinian disguised as a journalist stabs Israeli soldier near Hebron
2015-10-16,Turkey 'downs aircraft on Syria border'
2015-10-16,"The United Kingdom and Sweden are clearly violating international law for refusing to grant Julian Assange medical attention outside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London without arrest, a lawyer for the WikiLeaks founder told RT Thursday."
2015-10-16,Aussies get behind proposal to change currency to dollarydoos
2015-10-16,"Germany spied on the United States, as well as on several embassies and administrations of ""European states and allies"", including France"
2015-10-16,"Bubble plumes off Washington, Oregon suggest warmer ocean may be releasing frozen methane"
2015-10-16,"This Iranian Cartoonist Was Subjected To A Virginity Test For Shaking Her Lawyers Hand - She was also charged with having ""illegitimate sexual relations."""
2015-10-16,India- 11 Indian nuclear scientists died mysteriously from 2009-2013.
2015-10-16,Adolf Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' to Return to German Bookstores
2015-10-16,Game changing breakthrough in solar energy cuts material losses in half and reduces fabrication costs by 80%
2015-10-16,Conservatives withhold timeline for revealing full text of TPP deal
2015-10-16,India's forest cover steadily increasing
2015-10-16,Few Russians Believe Separatists Shot Down MH17
2015-10-16,Malaysia arrests a hacker who provided stolen personal information of U.S. service members to ISIS
2015-10-16,Hungary to Seal Border With Croatia to Stem Flow of Immigrants
2015-10-16,Aboriginal activists vow to fight nuclear waste shipment destined for Australia
2015-10-16,Islam was 'never part of Europe': Hungary's Orban
2015-10-16,"After decades of study, scientists are about to agree on how much a kilogram weighs"
2015-10-16,"Uber ride-hailing app does not break law, High Court rules"
2015-10-16,"Incredible Discovery of Fossilized Teeth Show Humans in Asia Long Before Europe - Found in a China cave, they date 80,000-120,000 yrs ago. This is tens of 1000s yrs older than oldest human remains found in Europe & Mediterranean. May be earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa."
2015-10-16,Snowden and Ellsberg hail leak of drone documents from new whistleblower
2015-10-15,"Turing Pharmaceuticals, the drug company that jacked up the price of AIDS and cancer drug 5,000%, is now facing an antitrust probe."
2015-10-15,New Edward Snowden? Whistleblower leaks documents on drones and Obama's assassination program
2015-10-15,"Sweden opens world's first male rape centre - A hospital in Stockholm is understood to be first in the world to set up an emergency department specifically for male rape victims. The clinic at Sdersjukhuset opened on Thursday as part of a strategy to ensure ""gender equal"" patient care."
2015-10-15,The Philippines Is Still Pissed Off That Canada Is Using It as a Giant Garbage Bin - The island nation is demanding Canada take back its shipping containers full of rotting food & adult diapers.
2015-10-15,Trans-Pacific Partnership text won't be available before election
2015-10-15,"""Dead"" 13 year old terrorist is alive and being treated in Israeli hospital contrary to claims by Abbas that he was executed by Israel (pictures/article)."
2015-10-15,"Toyota to Phase Out Gas-Powered Vehicles, Doubling Down on Hydrogen"
2015-10-15,US President Barack Obama has announced that US armed forces have been deployed to Cameroon to help fight against the Islamist militants Boko Haram.
2015-10-15,"Obama to delay withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan - Officials say Obama to outline plans to keep 5,500 troops in Afghanistan in 2017, having previously promised to end war on his watch"
2015-10-15,Queensland makes coding and robotics compulsory in schools
2015-10-15,Iran Nuclear Deal has been approved
2015-10-15,"Canada is preparing to embark on a far-reaching program of financial surveillance of senior public officeholders, from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Governor-General David Johnston and Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin down to thousands of elected politicians and senior bureaucrats."
2015-10-15,The United States' Deceptive Anti-Abortion 'Pregnancy Centers' Are Going Global
2015-10-15,Eritrean football players have refused to return home after playing a World Cup qualifying match in Botswana and are now seeking asylum
2015-10-15,UK denies Julian Assange medical attention
2015-10-15,"UN: Brazil's Police Kill Kids to ""Clean Streets"" for Olympics"
2015-10-15,"'13-year-old was executed,' Abbas claims falsely - PA chairman's speech decries 'execution' of teen terrorist who is being treated in Israeli hospital"
2015-10-15,Ebola lingers in semen for nine months
2015-10-15,Cuban Troops Join the Russian Offensive in Syria
2015-10-15,2 Indian Engineers Sued Apple For Copying Their Patent Technology & Won.
2015-10-15,Israeli police arrest four Jewish settlers following clashes with Palestinians
2015-10-15,Experts astonished by British nurse's deterioration to Ebola - Pauline Cafferkey's rapid decline after being 'cured' leaves experts staggered & expressing astonishment at the deterioration of her condition
2015-10-15,France says Iran missile test 'worrying' violation of UN resolution
2015-10-15,Former Moldova PM Filat arrested over $1 billion bank fraud
2015-10-15,"Nordic police break up refugee smuggling ring - Swedish and Finnish police have together smashed a network believed to be responsible for smuggling more than a hundred refugees, mainly Iraqi nationals, across the border."
2015-10-14,Palm oil company caught destroying primary forest in endangered ecosystem
2015-10-14,"China says Russia, U.S. must avoid fighting proxy war in Syria"
2015-10-14,ISIS Confirms That US Killed Its Number Two Leader
2015-10-14,Half of world's wealth now in hands of 1% of population  report
2015-10-14,"If You're Young, The Job Outlook Is Grim No Matter Where You Live"
2015-10-14,Thousands of Iranian troops amass for all-out assault on Syrian city of Aleppo | The attack is set to backed by Russian air strikes.
2015-10-14,Columbus Statue in Venezuela replaced with one of indigenous leader who led resistance against Spanish colonialism.
2015-10-14,"In a secret meeting in Russia with President Vladimir Putin, Saudi Defense Minister said that his country and Qatar stand ready to pay $300 billion to Russia to topple the Assad regime."
2015-10-14,"Putin complains about US cooperation: We have offered the Americans: ""Give us objects that we shouldnt target on Syria. Again, no answer"""
2015-10-14,"NASA, Israel Space Agency Sign Agreement To Expand Space Cooperation For 'Peaceful Use'"
2015-10-14,"""Osama was a guest of Pakistan"", says the Pakistani Defence Minister at the time of the U.S. operation to kill Osama Bin Laden."
2015-10-14,Partys over for striped legless lizard in nation's capital - One of the last populations in Australia of this near-extinct reptile being moved from Canberra to 75km south in a do-or-die operation. Their habitat is being flattened to create a caravan park & tourist site for up to 480 people.
2015-10-14,China is rapidly emerging as star of the show just six weeks ahead of the Paris climate talks thanks to its promised deep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions and pledges to ramp up renewable energy investments.
2015-10-14,"China's middle class is now the biggest in the world, and growing much faster than America's"
2015-10-14,"Russia has hit 86 'terrorist' targets in Syria including command posts, ammunition depots, and convoys transporting fuel and ammunition, in past 24 hours"
2015-10-14,Top Leaders Knew About Osama bin Laden's Presence: Ex-Pak Defence Minister
2015-10-14,"Pacific nations beg for help for islanders when 'calamity' of climate change hits - Coalition of Fiji, Kiribati, Tuvalu & Tokelau ask wealthy nations to help their people migrate & find work if they have to flee because of rising sea levels"
2015-10-14,"A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran."
2015-10-14,"41 writers return Indian award, cite climate of intolerance: novelists, essayists, playwrights and poets had returned the awards they received, saying they cannot remain silent about numerous incidents of communal violence or attacks on intellectuals across the country over the past year."
2015-10-14,"Israel's new security steps: IDF to guard buses, surround Arab neighborhoods, ""to counter the ongoing wave of violent attacks that has left nine Israelis dead and dozens more injured"""
2015-10-14,"New tally shows at least 1,621 killed in Saudi hajj tragedy"
2015-10-14,Netanyahu to Abbas: Palestinians will bear responsibility for escalating violence
2015-10-14,"Goldman Sachs analysts have warned that the financial crisis has moved into its third phase, caused by slower growth in China and other emerging economies.This follows the International Monetary Fund's recent warning that companies in emerging markets have over-borrowed by nearly 2tn ($3tn)."
2015-10-14,Panda on loan from China gives birth to twins at the Toronto Zoo. The first Canadian born pandas.
2015-10-14,Gunmen Are Holding Some 300 Tunisians Hostage in Coastal Libyan Town
2015-10-13,CIA torture survivors sue psychologists who designed infamous program
2015-10-13,"Legalising cannabis in the UK 'would raise hundreds of millions and produce huge savings for the justice system,' Treasury study finds"
2015-10-13,U.S. gives 50 tons of ammunition to Syria rebel groups
2015-10-13,Russia made missile that downed MH17: Dutch
2015-10-13,"Subject PM Harper to criminal investigation over offshore tax haven scandal, 3 out of 5 Canadians say"
2015-10-13,Rockets hit Russian embassy in Damascus just hours after Nusra leader Golani called Russian intervention in Syria a 'crusade'.
2015-10-13,India: Government may bar pharmaceutical companies from giving gifts to doctors
2015-10-13,"A third of all young men in China will die from smoking cigarettes, a study shows"
2015-10-13,"UN: lack of whistleblower protection has 'chilling' effect on exposing wrongdoing | Report by UN special rapporteur David Kaye says, unlike Edward Snowden, many national-security whistleblowers struggle for attention and response"
2015-10-13,Surveillance whistleblower Edward Snowden draws attention to new Australian metadata laws
2015-10-13,World poverty rate to fall below 10% for the first time ever.
2015-10-13,"Bolivia's President Morales blames capitalism for climate change - Leader calls for tribunal to prosecute those who commit crimes against nature. The Paris conference will bring together 196 states, including largest emitters of greenhouse gases & those most effected."
2015-10-13,Multiple stabbings in Israel
2015-10-13,Iran's parliament formally approves nuclear deal with world powers
2015-10-13,German protesters set up mock gallows to hang Angela Merkel for her pro-refugee stance
2015-10-13,Bernie Madoff investors seek $100M from Ernst & Young
2015-10-13,Poland Opens LNG Terminal to End Russian Dependence on Gas
2015-10-13,Australia begins mass data retention under new law
2015-10-13,Mortar Shells Strike Near Russian Embassy in Syria
2015-10-13,"Islamic State is prime suspect in Turkey bombing, as protests erupt"
2015-10-13,"Warehouse explosion rocks Tianjin, China, 2 months after deadly blasts"
2015-10-13,UK Pensioner Faces 350 Lashes In Saudi Arabia
2015-10-13,Saudi-led Coalition Accused of War Crimes
2015-10-13,Bombed Afghan hospital rejects US funds for damages
2015-10-13,Palestinian Rock-Throwers Injure UN Official Monitoring Palestinian Worker Safety
2015-10-12,"Facebook paid 4,327 of UK corporation tax in 2014"
2015-10-12,South Korea's government has announced controversial plans to control the history textbooks used in secondary schools. The government has argued that current history textbooks are too left-leaning and encourage anti-American and pro-North Korea feelings.
2015-10-12,Turkish police use tear gas to prevent mourners from laying flowers at site of bombings
2015-10-12,Indian government plans to sell solar power at record low price of $0.07 per unit.
2015-10-12,The Chairman of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has donated all $554 million (USD) of his cash dividends to fund bio-medical research at National Taiwan University.
2015-10-12,Police stop guarding Assange embassy
2015-10-12,Chinese investors flooding billions into the Australian real estate market prompt money laundering fears
2015-10-12,Thousands rally against Erdogan as Turkey mourns deadliest attack
2015-10-12,"5-Hour Energy creator to donate 10,000 stationary bikes to power homes in India"
2015-10-12,Greenpeace is planning to buy four coal-fired power plants and their corresponding mines in Eastern Germany for $2.2 billion to shut them down.
2015-10-12,"Cecil the lion: No charges for Walter Palmer, says Zimbabwe"
2015-10-12,"Exxon Arctic Drilling Benefitting From Global Warming: Oil Company Denied Climate Change Science While Factoring It Into Arctic Operations, Report Shows"
2015-10-12,This Tiny Country Is Going 100% Organic - Bhutan is only country in world that rejects gross domestic product (GDP) as a measure of progress.
2015-10-12,"Deleting certain genes could increase lifespan dramatically, say scientists after 10 years' research - American scientists exhaustively mapped the genes of yeast cells to determine which affected lifespan"
2015-10-12,Syria conflict: Assad forces make 'significant gains'
2015-10-12,"Three injured in stabbing attack near Hadera,Israel."
2015-10-12,Saudis tell Russia its actions in Syria will have 'dangerous consequences'
2015-10-12,China enters the search for alien life with the construction of the world's biggest radio telescope
2015-10-12,Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee says it has arrested group of people preparing a terrorist attack in Moscow
2015-10-12,"Sweden sees highest asylum levels in history - More refugees have sought asylum in Sweden so far in 2015 than in any other year in the Nordic nation's history, new figures released by the country's Migration Agency have revealed."
2015-10-12,"El Nio could leave 4 million people in Pacific without food or drinking water - Papua New Guinea drought has already claimed 2 dozen lives & looming El Nio weather pattern could be as severe as in 1997-98, when 23,000 people died"
2015-10-12,Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey 'in serious condition'
2015-10-12,RAF given green light to shoot down hostile Russian jets in Syria
2015-10-12,Syrian rebels decry Russian airstrikes: 'we have not had Isis here in over a year' Residents in areas hit by Russian airstrikes describe widespread destruction of civic buildings and housing while Free Syrian Army largely shelters itself
2015-10-12,Swedish university shut down over threats of mass-shooting.
2015-10-11,China arrests hackers of US government on behalf of the US
2015-10-11,"For just the third time on record, scientists say they are now watching the unfolding of a massive worldwide coral bleaching event, spanning the globe from Hawaii to the Indian Ocean."
2015-10-11,"""Queen of Ivory"" arrested in Tanzania, charged with smuggling at least 706 elephant tusks worth about $2.5 million"
2015-10-11,A Canadian start up has opened a pilot plant to take CO2 out of the atmosphere in the form of pellets. Company plans to scale it up on a Global scale enabling countries to suck more CO2 from the atmosphere than they dump in.
2015-10-11,Syrian Christian leader tells West: 'Stop arming terror groups who are massacring our people'
2015-10-11,Fate of Isis leader al-Baghdadi unknown as his convoy 'struck by Iraqi air force'
2015-10-11,Ankara terror attack: Turkey censors media coverage of bombings as Twitter and Facebook 'blocked'
2015-10-11,ISIL Threatens to Execute 180 Assyrian Christians unless $14 million ransom is paid.
2015-10-11,Nobel Peace Prize committee accused of ignoring what Alfred Nobel wanted
2015-10-11,"A mysterious Russian military satellite parked itself between two Intelsat satellites in geosynchronous orbit for five months this year, alarming company executives and leading to classified meetings among U.S. government officials."
2015-10-11,Researchers at the University of Utrecht find that Dutch cyclists live longer than non-bikers. They say the evidence proves that cycling is not just good for your health but adds about an hour to your life for every hour spent this way. People in the Netherlands average about 74 minutes per week.
2015-10-11,"Canada Caves on Copyright in TPP: Commits to Longer Term, Urge ISPs to Block Content"
2015-10-11,Indigenous Peoples of Yaigoj Apaporis Victorious as Court Ousts Canadian Mining Company
2015-10-11,"Merkel's deputy expects Germany to get over a million refugees in 2015: More than a million refugees will come to Germany this year, Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy said on Sunday, as a poll showed almost half of Germans believe she is handling the influx of asylum seekers badly."
2015-10-11,Shell & Exxon's 5bn problem: gas drilling that sets off earthquakes & wrecks homes - Groningen has been 1 of Europes richest gas fields for 30 yrs & 1000s of people say homes are damaged by tremors by drilling. Now class action may bring compensation  & force a rethink of energy security.
2015-10-11,Right-wing anti-immigrant party poised to win Vienna vote
2015-10-11,Australia's Royal Children's Hospital doctors are refusing to return asylum seeker children to detention
2015-10-11,Turkey hit by protests over government response to suicide bombings
2015-10-11,Sabah police gets report claiming plane wreck with Malaysian flag found on Philippine island
2015-10-11,U.S. and Russia are trying to hash out flight procedures to ensure that there are no collisions or other incidents as both countries conduct bombing operations in Syria
2015-10-11,Russia using electronic warfare to cloak its actions in Syria from Isis and Nato
2015-10-11,"Suicide Bombings at Chad Market, Refugee Camp Kill 38 | A military official said the extremist group Boko Haram is suspected."
2015-10-11,Turkey enters mourning after Ankara blasts killed almost 100
2015-10-11,48 Million Year Old Horse Remains Found In Germany
2015-10-11,Japan lashes out at UNESCO's decision to archive documents on the Nanjing Massacre.
2015-10-10,Four rangers that protect elephants in Africa killed by poachers.
2015-10-10,'Stop TTIP' activists hand EU 3mn signatures
2015-10-10,Blast hits rally in Turkish capital
2015-10-10,NASA confirms ancient lakes existed on Mars 2 to 3 billion years ago
2015-10-10,#StopTTIP: Tens of thousands protest trade deal with US in Berlin right now
2015-10-10,Boeing Says It's Made the Lightest Metal Material in the World - Boeing has created a structure that is 99.99% air.
2015-10-10,India moves to stop flow of housemaids to Saudi Arabia.
2015-10-10,British Guantanamo Bay inmate who was given 1 million pound compensation set off to join ISIS
2015-10-10,"Privacy ends October 13, 2015: a new law requires that every one of the 400 Australian telcos and ISPs keep a record  not a recording  of every phone call, text, email, and download you make"
2015-10-10,Russian military bombs ISIS 64 times in 24 hours
2015-10-10,Internet Providers Would Be Forced to Block Filesharing Sites Under TPP
2015-10-10,'Rape of Nanjing' inscribed in UNESCO Memory of the World register
2015-10-10,"Turing Pharmaceuticals: ""We've agreed to lower the price of Daraprim."" But we haven't done it."
2015-10-10,Saudi Arabia delivers 500 TOW antitank missiles to the Free Syrian Army
2015-10-10,Ninety of Malis 300 remaining desert elephants have been killed during the past year as ivory poachers exploit a security vacuum created by an Islamic insurgency in the deserts near the city of Timbuktu.
2015-10-10,Iceland completes pay-back of IMF loan
2015-10-10,Nasa reveals its three-phase plan for putting people on Mars
2015-10-10,"Second Saudi juvenile faces beheading, a day after Cameron's questioned over 'squalid' human rights deal"
2015-10-10,"Jordan parliament accuses Israel of 'state terrorism' - The Jordanian parliament Saturday accused Israel of ""state terrorism"" against the Palestinian people after its forces shot dead seven Gazans and wounded more than 140 others in the coastal strip."
2015-10-10,"Conquistador Convoy Found in MexicoIn 1520, some 550 people were captured by Aztec. They decapitated them, even making figurines of them & beheading those. Hearing Cortez was coming, they hid it all in wells & split town. Cortes conquered the Aztecs the next yr."
2015-10-10,Amnesty International has mounted pressure on the UK to stop supplying weapons to the Saudi-led coalition in an effort to ease the conflict in Yemen.
2015-10-10,"Europe Begins Massive Deportation Of 400,000 Illegal Immigrants"
2015-10-10,Violence escalates as Palestinian militants 'fire rocket into Israel'
2015-10-10,More than 80 dead in Ankara blasts
2015-10-10,D.A.R.P.A. researching devices to help human body self-heal
2015-10-09,"Today, 9 October, 2015 WikiLeaks releases the final negotiated text for the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP encompasses 12 nations representing more than 40 per cent of global GDP."
2015-10-09,"Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda and Mitsubishi have been found to be part of the diesel emission scandal."
2015-10-09,"2 weeks after controversial pharma CEO Martin Shkreli announced he would lower the price of Daraprim, it's the exact same price"
2015-10-09,New study finds children living near the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns have been diagnosed with Thyroid cancer at a rate 20 to 50 times that of children elsewhere
2015-10-09,Obama Issues Rare Apology Over Bombing of Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan
2015-10-09,"Claims that Russian missiles hit Iran are lies and part of psychological war, says Iranian general Musa Kamali"
2015-10-09,"Parramatta shooting: 'If you don't like Australia, leave', Muslim leader tells worshippers"
2015-10-09,Saudi Arabia is responding to the recent Russian air strikes on Syria by stepping up its supplies of lethal weaponry to Syrian rebel groups
2015-10-09,"The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 was awarded to National Dialogue Quartet ""for its decisive contribution to the building of a pluralistic democracy in Tunisia in the wake of the Jasmine Revolution of 2011""."
2015-10-09,Australian mosque leader tells violent Muslims to leave country
2015-10-09,"Hamas leader declares 'intifada' in the West Bank, says Gaza is prepared for confrontation, violence the only path to liberation."
2015-10-09,"Saudi Arabia Continues Hiring Spree of American Lobbyists, Public Relations Experts"
2015-10-09,Obama administration ends $500mn program to train Syrian rebels  report
2015-10-09,The Hajj Stampede Was Twice As Bad As Originally Thought
2015-10-09,Bavaria threatens to take German government to court over refugees: The state of Bavaria threatened on Friday to take the German government to court if it fails to take immediate steps to limit the flow of asylum seekers to Germany.
2015-10-09,"Norway to limit asylum grants to five years - Norways right-wing government is to limit grants of asylum to a five-year term, after which refugees will be automatically sent home if the situation in their country has changed for the better."
2015-10-09,Ebola detected again in Scottish nurse who first contracted the virus in December last year.
2015-10-09,Russian air strikes 'hit three medical facilities' in Syria
2015-10-09,"Ancient Mars harbored long-lasting lakes, boosting the odds that life could have existed on the Red Planet billions of years ago, a new study suggests."
2015-10-09,Ali Mohammed al-Nimr crucifixion: Defiant Saudi Arabia rejects international 'interference' in protester's crucifixion
2015-10-09,"China said on Friday it would not stand for violations of its territorial waters in the name of freedom of navigation, as the United States considers sailing warships close to China's artificial islands in the South China Sea"
2015-10-09,HIV vaccine human trials to commence
2015-10-09,"""Queen of Ivory"" Infamous Poaching Mastermind Nabbed in Africa"
2015-10-09,Manned Russian jets are stalking US Predator drones in Syria
2015-10-09,Syrian Kurdish leader: Moscow wants to work with us
2015-10-08,Saudi Arabia: Employer chops off hand of Indian maid for trying to escape torture
2015-10-08,Ebola countries record first week with no new cases
2015-10-08,"Donald Trump goes to Scottish Supreme Court to fight the placement of a wind farm near his golf course because the 11 turbines would ""spoil the view."""
2015-10-08,"Amnesty tells the US to stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia- The group cites ""damning evidence"" of war crimes involving American-made weapons in Yemen."
2015-10-08,New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
2015-10-08,Lake in India so toxic that it froths over and occasionally bursts into flames
2015-10-08,Chinese woman with no medical degree or a PhD wins a Nobel Prize for her work in creating an anti-malaria medicine
2015-10-08,Russian Offer to Share ISIL Targets With US-Led Coalition Gets No Response
2015-10-08,Volkswagen's US boss has admitted he was aware early last year of the emissions cheating affecting millions of the company's vehicles.
2015-10-08,Israeli Yeshiva student critically injured after being stabbed by a young Palestinian in fourth incident in 24 hours.
2015-10-08,"Calling Protesters in Chile Dumb, Pope Francis Sets Off Uproar - ""Pope Francis, called people in Osorno, a city in southern Chile, dumb for protesting against a bishop accused of being complicit in clerical sexual abuse."""
2015-10-08,British SAS soldiers use mannequins to lure dozens of ISIS into an ambush.
2015-10-08,British prime minister David Cameron vows to shut down Islamic schools that teach hate
2015-10-08,Pentagon Says North Korea Capable of Nuclear Strike on U.S.
2015-10-08,FBI has foiled 4 attempts by gangs to sell nuclear material to ISIS through Russian connections
2015-10-08,"Fifa: Sepp Blatter, Michel Platini & Jerome Valcke suspended"
2015-10-08,Hundreds of thousands of migrants will be deported from the EU within weeks under secret plans intended to 'deter irregular migration
2015-10-08,Mexico army boss will not allow questioning of troops in student massacre
2015-10-08,Scientists say a dramatic worldwide coral bleaching event is now underway
2015-10-08,Saudi Hajj disaster: Photos suggest true death toll in thousands
2015-10-08,Italian Priest Dismissed After Blaming Children for Sexual Abuse
2015-10-08,Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL secures Moon launch for 2017
2015-10-08,Islamic State 'used mustard gas' against peshmerga
2015-10-08,"At least 30 killed after airstrikes hit wedding in Yemen, officials say"
2015-10-08,Canadian and US generals discussed the possibility of fully 'integrating' the two countries' militaries
2015-10-07,Norwegian Air CEO Says $69 Flights From U.S. to Europe Coming Soon
2015-10-07,4 Russian warships launch 26 missiles against ISIS from Caspian sea
2015-10-07,"Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies."
2015-10-07,"Paedophile bishop escaped charges after MPs and royal family intervened, court told"
2015-10-07,"Teslas Hit by 180% Danish Tax on Cars as Green Goals Ditched. ""The three-month old government has already said it is abandoning ambitious CO2 emissions targets and dropping plans to become fossil-fuel free by 2050."""
2015-10-07,"Images of Pluto and Charon continue to captivate Nasa: 'This world is alive' - Every week I am floored, Stern said. Nasa wont let me tell you what were going to tell you on Thursday. Its amazing."
2015-10-07,3 scientists just won a Nobel for discovering the genetic mechanisms that explain why we dont all have cancer
2015-10-07,Doctors Without Borders Wants Independent Inquiry Into U.S. Attack On Hospital
2015-10-07,Italian priest Don Gino Flaim defends paedophiles and blames 'love-seeking children'
2015-10-07,Emails show Qadaffi son offered talks  but Clinton ordered top general to 'not take the call'
2015-10-07,Obama: We Won't Turn Syria Into 'Proxy War' Between U.S. And Russia
2015-10-07,"Toyota, U.S. unsure how ISIS got brand new pickup trucks"
2015-10-07,Drone Drops Anti-Spying Leaflets Over NSA Facility in Germany
2015-10-07,Doctors Without Borders airstrike: US alters story for fourth time in four days
2015-10-07,Saudi prince now owns 5% of Twitter
2015-10-07,"3,500 ft High Glass Skywalk Cracks Under Visitors' Feet In China"
2015-10-07,Landmark High Court ruling on BRCA1 gene patent as pensioner wins legal case - A 69 year-old pensioner from Australia has succeeded in a David-and Goliath battle against a multinational corporation that claimed a patent over her genes.
2015-10-07,"Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday banned any further negotiations between Iran and the United States, putting the brakes on moderates hoping to end Iran's isolation after reaching a nuclear deal with world powers in July."
2015-10-07,U.S. Investigating How ISIS Got All Those Toyota Pickups
2015-10-07,Canadas PM Stephen Harper: Human Rights Issues Won't Derail Arms Sale to Saudis
2015-10-07,"The world's oceans are under threat from both illegal and mass industrial fishing, in which millions of fish are caught and discarded, experts warned Tuesday"
2015-10-07,Study finds that 500 biggest US companies stash $2.1 trillion in overseas tax havens; government losses $620 billion in potential taxes.
2015-10-07,David Cameron challenged over UN Human Rights deal with Saudi Arabia
2015-10-07,Zimbabwe: 14 Elephants killed by cyanide poisoning
2015-10-07,"Breast cancer gene BRCA-1 cannot be patented, Australian High Court rules"
2015-10-06,BP fined a record $20.8 billion for oil spill disaster
2015-10-06,Big U.S. firms hold $2.1 trillion overseas to avoid taxes: study
2015-10-06,"Former NSA boss Michael Hayden tells the BBC about Edward Snowden: If youre asking me my opinion, hes going to die in Moscow. Hes not coming home."
2015-10-06,Doctors Without Borders calls US bombing of its hospital a war crime
2015-10-06,Scientists to nudge asteroid off course as practice for protecting the Earth
2015-10-06,"NASA has released almost 10,000 never-before-seen images from the moon landings"
2015-10-06,"Your smartphone can be taken over with just a text, says Edward Snowden, and it could be happening right now"
2015-10-06,"The 2015 NobelPrize in Physics to Takaaki Kajita and Arthur B. McDonald for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass."
2015-10-06,"Wildlife thriving around Chernobyl nuclear plant despite radiation - High numbers of elk, deer, boar and wolves show long-term effect of worlds worst nuclear accident is less damaging than everyday human activity, say scientists."
2015-10-06,European Court of Justice ruled Safe Harbor Agreement invalid
2015-10-06,"A new species of rat has been discovered on an island in Indonesia. Scientists consider the rat so exceptional that they have described it not only as a new species but a new genus - a step up from the ""new species"" label."
2015-10-06,"Ireland- Millions of fish have been washed ashore on a beach in west Kerry. Peculiarly, no birds or scavengers have eaten the bodies that have been just lying on the shore, rotting, since Thursday."
2015-10-06,China is building the world's largest radio telescope to detect signs of life billions of light years away
2015-10-06,Snowden: I'd go to prison to return to US
2015-10-06,Hamas suspects arrested for murder of couple in front of their children
2015-10-06,'Hundreds' of Yazidis killing themselves in ISIS slavery
2015-10-06,"China wants to speed construction of a national network to charge electric cars, to help reach an ambitious goal of 5 million green vehicles on its roads by 2020"
2015-10-06,"Email to Hillary Clinton shows the US tried to cover up a WikiLeaks story on Turkey, PKK"
2015-10-06,US Troops Weren't Under Fire in Afghan Hospital Airstrike: Army Gen. John Campbell contradicts previous reports by his own Afghanistan command
2015-10-06,"Thousands form 'living border' against refugees - People across the eastern state of Saxony took part in demonstrations against refugees being taken into Germany at the weekend, with thousands gathering on the Czech frontier to form a ""living border""."
2015-10-06,"Russian station says weather forecast ""excellent for bombing Syria"""
2015-10-06,Kremlin Says Russian Volunteer Forces Will Fight in Syria; A senior Kremlin defense official told Russian news agencies on Monday that military veterans who had fought in eastern Ukraine would likely start showing up as volunteer ground forces in Syria.
2015-10-06,"Drone Flies Over NSA Complex in Germany, Dropping Leaflets"
2015-10-06,Russian Air Force Strikes ISIS in Al-Raqqa and East Aleppo: Terrorists Suffer Heavy Casualties
2015-10-06,"""Saudi clerics called on Muslim countries to back holy war against Syria and its Iranian and Russian backers."""
2015-10-05,Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached
2015-10-05,Previously Unknown Lines to the 'Epic of Gilgamesh' discovered in stolen cuneiform tablet - A serendipitous deal between a history museum & a smuggler has provided new insight into one of the most famous stories ever told
2015-10-05,Montreal to dump 8 billion liters of sewage in the St. Lawrence River
2015-10-05,"Human rights are no longer a 'top priority' for the UK Government, says Foreign Office chief"
2015-10-05,ISIS militants blow up ancient Arch of Triumph in Palmyra
2015-10-05,"Obama has ordered the Pentagon, to directly provide ammunition and weapons to Syrian opposition forces on the ground."
2015-10-05,"Snipers have been pictured in Manchester city centre as thousands march in protest to cuts, coinciding with the Conservative Party conference. Armed police can be seen on the roof of the Great Northern complex in images that have been widely shared on social media."
2015-10-05,The World Bank has said that for the first time less than 10% of the world's population will be living in extreme poverty by the end of 2015.
2015-10-05,BBC admits faking impressive volcano footage for Patagonia TV documentary that went viral
2015-10-05,"Nigerian Governor promises to return money he stole, but only if he is re-elected"
2015-10-05,"Chile to create one of world's largest marine parks around Easter Island. Plans put forward by the local people will ban fishing in over 600,000 sq km of the Pacific ocean"
2015-10-05,Australian Doctors Successfully Reattach Baby's Internally Decapitated Head Following Serious Car Crash
2015-10-05,"France moves closer to passing controversial surveillance law.Despite firm criticism from civil liberties groups, the bill has faced minimal opposition from the public and the political classes."
2015-10-05,Holocaust historians criticise Austrias plan to jail Jewish author who inventoried property stolen from Jews in Vienna
2015-10-05,"Australia- The government called in the Federal Police to investigate information leaks from the Nauru detention camp six times in as many months, prompting claims it is pursuing whistleblowers instead of those who allegedly assaulted and raped asylum seekers."
2015-10-05,Air France bosses attacked by angry workers after announcing huge job losses
2015-10-05,Syrian rebels call for regional alliance against Russia and Iran
2015-10-05,German authorities now expect up to 1.5 million migrants in 2015: newspaper
2015-10-05,Defiant Chinese reporter claims police work with propaganda machine to sway public opinion. Liu recounted how the police try to draw out confessions and then air them on state television to shame suspects and sway public perceptions ahead of their trials.
2015-10-05,Nato warns russia over syria strikes
2015-10-05,England's shoppers say goodbye to free plastic bags
2015-10-05,Tens of thousands protest against UK government
2015-10-05,Iraqi prime minister says he would welcome Russian airstrikes in Iraq
2015-10-05,"Dozens of Islamist Saudi Arabian clerics have called on Arab and Muslim countries to ""give all moral, material, political and military"" support to what they term a jihad, or holy war, against Syria's government and its Iranian and Russian backers."
2015-10-05,"Germany needs to limit refugee influx, close borders: Merkel allies"
2015-10-04,"Medical aid group Doctors Without Borders denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at NATO forces before a US air strike killed at least 19 people. ""In any case, bombing a fully functioning hospital can never be justified."""
2015-10-04,UN says U.S. military's Afghan hospital bombing may be 'war crime'
2015-10-04,"'Marijuana is infinitely worse' than tobacco, Harper says as he encourages pot debate to go up in smoke"
2015-10-04,"10,000 protest in Moldova over missing $1.5 billion"
2015-10-04,Turkish journalist who acknowledged Armenian Genocide beaten by Turkey ruling party members
2015-10-04,Palestinian Authority condemns Israel for killing of Palestinian attackers
2015-10-04,Doctors Without Borders Leaves Afghan City After Airstrike
2015-10-04,Russia plans to ramp up Syria bombing.
2015-10-04,Most of H&Ms best factories in Bangladesh still dont have working fire exits
2015-10-04,Egypt says Russia's intervention in Syria will counter terrorism
2015-10-04,"Palestinian stabber shot dead after killing 1, wounding 4 in Jerusalem's Old City"
2015-10-04,Hopes Fade As 350 Still Missing After Landslide
2015-10-04,Patients were burning in their beds: Witnesses recall horrific Kunduz hospital airstrike
2015-10-04,Bashar Assad: I would leave office if it would help
2015-10-04,"Taller people more likely to get cancer, say researchers - Swedish study sheds new light on link between height and disease  but smoking, obesity and poor diet are still greater risks."
2015-10-04,"Kunduz charity hospital bombing 'violates international law': Mdecins Sans Frontires decries horrific loss of life, as US airstrike revives questions over whether enough is done to protect civilians in Afghanistan"
2015-10-04,"Typhoon ""Mujigae"", known as Kabayan in the Philippines, was rapidly intensifying before it hit southern China early Sunday, October 4, 2015. Mujigae was bringing powerful winds and heavy rain. The storm left 120 fisherman missing in the Philippines."
2015-10-04,TPP negotiations likely to be concluded this weekend.
2015-10-04,China and Russia to jointly develop new heavy helicopter
2015-10-04,Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Urges Global War Against ISIS
2015-10-04,TPP talks bogged down over pharmaceuticals
2015-10-04,Merkel: Iran's stance on Israel 'unacceptable'
2015-10-04,"Russian Air Force hits 50 ISIS targets in Syria over 3 days, significantly damaging militants"
2015-10-04,"Canada creates tip-line, to report ""Barbaric cultural practices"""
2015-10-04,Hundreds of Mauritanian women trafficked to Saudi Arabia trapped in 'slavery'
2015-10-03,Coca-Cola calls for FIFA President Sepp Blatter to step down immediately.
2015-10-03,Priest and theologist of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith comes out as gay and with a partner
2015-10-03,Corporate tax dodging is 'corruption': World Bank chief
2015-10-03,Medical charity MSF says three of its staff were killed in a US airstrike on a clinic in the Afghan city of Kunduz
2015-10-03,Russia accuses US of 'pretending' to bomb Isis
2015-10-03,"The fatal aerial bombardment Saturday of a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz went on more than 30 minutes after officials in Washington and Kabul were informed, Doctors Without Borders said"
2015-10-03,Russia finally blitzes ISIS: At least 12 jihadis killed after Kremlin strikes targets near Raqqa - as fanatics hit back with 'Death to Putin' tweet and image of Moscow in flames
2015-10-03,"Migrants break into Channel Tunnel, rail services disrupted"
2015-10-03,McDonald's calls for FIFA President Sepp Blatter to step down immediately
2015-10-03,"Saudi Arabia sinks UN war crimes probe in Yemen, Washington stays silent"
2015-10-03,"Mumbai Play Called off After Catholic Bishop's Conference of India and others ask for a ban on its performance, claiming it hurts their religious sentiments. ""If this play could be tolerated 25 years ago in India and there are issues now, what are we saying about India today."" said the director."
2015-10-03,"16 Dead, 600 Missing in Guatemala Landslide"
2015-10-03,Merkel urges Europe to protect external borders amid refugee crisis
2015-10-03,"'This is a major world event': The Syrian war is now fueling a 'global cold war': One day after launching a campaign of airstrikes in Syria, Russia announced that it was considering going into Iraq."
2015-10-03,Neural lace has been invented to organically connect your brain with a computer
2015-10-03,"Saudi Arabia demands Russia end Syria raids, criticizes Iran"
2015-10-03,The Coca-Cola called on Friday for FIFA's President Sepp Blatter to step down immediately following Swiss authorities saying they were opening a criminal investigation into the head of the world soccer body
2015-10-03,Cattle farmer finds Iraqi refugee crossing illegally into Canada
2015-10-03,"Arab MK: Temple Mount should be Jews free, Jews have no historical connection to it"
2015-10-03,"US-Flag Cargo Ship M/V El Faro, 33 Crew Missing off Crooked Isl, Bahamas after reporting to have ""lost propulsion and a 15-degree list""."
2015-10-03,Taliban militants committed gang rapes and mass murders in Kunduz
2015-10-03,India pledges 33-35% cut in carbon emission intensity by 2030.
2015-10-03,Ukraine rebels have powerful new Russian-made rockets
2015-10-03,Most of Europe will now be free of genetically-modified crops
2015-10-03,Eight Of Iran's Women's Football Team Are Actually Men
2015-10-02,"Saudi Arabia insists UN keeps LGBT rights out of its development goals - ""The Saudi Foreign Minister says LGBT rights are 'counter to Islamic law' """
2015-10-02,Hamburg has become the first German city to pass a law allowing the seizure of empty commercial properties in order to house migrants
2015-10-02,Five Brazilian policemen have been arrested after mobile phone footage appeared to show an officer placing a gun in the hand of a teenager they had shot dead in a Rio de Janeiro favela.
2015-10-02,Canadian Feds penny-pinched on science libraries while lavishing funds on religion and oil
2015-10-02,Passenger plane reported as missing in Indonesia
2015-10-02,Belfast City Council wants people who are convicted of for animal cruelty to be registered in the same way that sex offenders are.
2015-10-02,Pope did not give unconditional support to clerk in gay marriage row: Vatican
2015-10-02,Amsterdam brothel owners must speak sex workers' language
2015-10-02,Indian government built 8.9 Million (89 lakh) Public toilets in just a year
2015-10-02,Israeli couple shot dead in West Bank
2015-10-02,"Half of World's Coal Output Is Unprofitable, Moody's Says"
2015-10-02,"Fearing Russian air strikes, Islamic State didn't hold Friday prayers, report says"
2015-10-02,Fatah armed wing claims responsibility for terror attack | Abdel Qader al-Husseini Brigades says deadly shooting of Eitam and Naama Henkin was a necessary action
2015-10-02,"European Union countries can imprison migrants who re-enter their territory after being expelled, the EU's top court ruled on Thursday in a judgment likely to be closely watched across the continent as it struggles to cope with a migration crisis."
2015-10-02,CIA pulls staff from China after US government hack
2015-10-02,Images Suggest China Is Building 1st Indigenous Aircraft Carrier
2015-10-02,"Amnesty condemns Taliban's 'reign of terror' in Kunduz: Mass murder, gang rapes and house-to-house searches by death squads: Based on civilian testimonies, Amnesty International has catalogued a number of atrocities attributed to the Taliban in the embattled city of Kunduz."
2015-10-02,"Russia's Lavrov on Syria targets: 'If it looks like a terrorist, walks like a terrorist if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist, right? '"
2015-10-02,Cairo University Bans Teachers From Wearing Face Veil
2015-10-02,Anti-abortion activist Troy Newman to be deported after losing court bid to stay in Australia
2015-10-02,"US Spent a Year Bombing Syrian Desert, Not ISIL  Russian MP"
2015-10-02,Vote Compass: Majority of Canadians support softer marijuana laws
2015-10-02,Netanyahu stares down UN in intense moment of silence
2015-10-02,India is teaming up with Google to have free WiFi at 500 railway stations
2015-10-02,AP: At least 997 people died and 600 people remain missing in Saudi hajj disaster | Iran death toll rises to 464
2015-10-01,"France threatens to walk away from TTIP negotiations saying a ""total lack of transparency"" in TTIP talks poses a ""democratic problem""."
2015-10-01,It's now illegal in England and Wales to smoke in cars with kids inside
2015-10-01,"Russian air strikes in Syria - They didn't hit Isis', US and France say as emergency talks planned"
2015-10-01,ISIS cell uncovered in northern Israel
2015-10-01,Saudi King Salman Orders the Seizure of all CCTVs in Mina
2015-10-01,Palestinian flag raised at UN for the first time ever
2015-10-01,Syrian Rebels Say Russia Is Targeting Them Rather Than ISIS
2015-10-01,US warns Russia against striking non-ISIS targets in Syria
2015-10-01,US anti-abortion activist Troy Newman still managed to fly to Australia but has been detained by border force in Melbourne
2015-10-01,Liberals 'committed' to legalizing cannabis: Trudeau
2015-10-01,Putin: Claims Russian jets killed civilians in Syria emerged before airstrikes started
2015-10-01,Abbas says Palestinians are no longer bound by the Oslo Accords with Israel
2015-10-01,"Organic? No guarantee Indian organic products free from pesticides, says study: Samples of veggies, fruits and organic food collected from across India show high level of contamination."
2015-10-01,Poland moves to take in ethnic Poles from former USSR
2015-10-01,"Nigerian football fans set up alternative Premier League  on Twitter: It started as a joke, but popularity of local tournament has grown to rival that of English Premiership"
2015-10-01,"Veil debate becomes big issue in Canada election, putting Conservatives into lead"
2015-10-01,Iraq says would welcome Russian air strikes against IS in Iraq
2015-10-01,"Record El Nio set to cause hunger for 10 million poorest, Oxfam warns"
2015-10-01,"Jamaica should 'move on from painful legacy of slavery', says Cameron"
2015-10-01,Thai government websites hit by denial-of-service attack
2015-10-01,US Department of Transportation: Kuwait Airways must sell tickets to Israeli travelers if is wants to operate in the US
2015-10-01,"The UN refugee agency expects at least 1.4 million refugees to flee to Europe across the Mediterranean this year and next, a sharp rise from initial estimates of 850,000."
2015-10-01,Underwater Mining in the Philippines using children
2015-10-01,"Lieutenant of 'El Chapo' Guzman killed in Mexico, U.S. prosecutors reveal"
2015-10-01,"Half of the European Unions 28 countries and three of its regions have opted out of a new GM crop scheme, in a blow to biotech industry hopes. Under new EU rules agreed in March, 14 countries have now told Brussels they will send territorial exclusion requests to the big agricultural multinationals"
2015-09-30,"Germany has translated the first 20 articles of the country's constitution, which outline basic rights like freedom of speech, into Arabic for refugees to help them integrate."
2015-09-30,Man Killed by Hindu Mob in India because they suspected he ate Beef.
2015-09-30,Japan says it must look after its own before allowing in Syrian refugees
2015-09-30,Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe shouts 'We are not gays' during UN address
2015-09-30,"Diesel cars made by Renault, Nissan, Hyundai, Citroen, Fiat and Volvo among others emitted far more NOx in more rigorous tests, research shows"
2015-09-30,"Russia has conducted its first airstrike in Syria, near city of Homs, senior U.S. official tells CNN"
2015-09-30,An Iranian man who was on death row for allegedly insulting the prophet Muhammad has had his sentence commuted to reading 13 religious books and studying theology for two years.
2015-09-30,"A British nursing home offers its residents strippers and prostitutes, sparking a debate over sexual rights of the disabled."
2015-09-30,"Young New Zealander took his own life while awaiting deportation from Australia, he had lived in Australia since the age of 4. He was placed in indefinite detention in Goulburn jail and denied mental health support. Currently 200 New Zealanders are in indefinite detention awaiting deportation."
2015-09-30,Iron Dome intercepts rocket over Ashdod
2015-09-30,"Tractors, cows take over Canadian Parliament Hill as dairy farmers protest TPP"
2015-09-30,UK and Saudi Arabia made a 'secret deal' to secure each others' UN Human Rights Council seats
2015-09-30,"The Russian parliament on Wednesday unanimously granted President Vladimir Putin the right to deploy the country's military in Syria, a move a top Kremlin aide said related only to the air force."
2015-09-30,Montreal to dump 8 billion litres of sewage into St. Lawrence River
2015-09-30,US court dismisses 9/11 lawsuit against Saudi Arabia
2015-09-30,Chinese city hit by multiple explosions at public buildings
2015-09-30,Saudi Arabia insists Assad must go or be overthrown
2015-09-30,"For the first time ever, there are now more people in Canada age 65 and over than there are under age 15"
2015-09-30,A German scientist is revoking the license to his bioinformatics software for researchers working in eight European countries because those countries allow too many immigrants to cross their borders.
2015-09-30,"First of its kind study: No serious adverse effects from long-term MMJ use. ""No evidence of harmful effects on cognitive function, or blood tests among cannabis consumers and we observed a significant improvement in their levels of pain, symptom distress, mood and quality of life"""
2015-09-30,Antikythera Shipwreck Yields New Cache of Ancient Treasures
2015-09-30,"Norwegian terrorist and mass murderer, Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, pledges to hunger strike until death as a protest against prison conditions"
2015-09-30,"Quebec-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals is suspected of using the same business model as former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, as the price of two heart drugs is increased."
2015-09-30,"Volkswagen staff acted criminally, says board member"
2015-09-30,"King Tut's tomb likely has hidden chamber, Egyptian official says"
2015-09-29,"Canada tries to cut cost of US drug, gets sued"
2015-09-29,Elon Musk Says Climate Change Refugees Will Dwarf Current Crisis. Tesla's CEO says the Volkswagen scandal is minor compared with carbon dioxide emissions.
2015-09-29,British doctors hail 'cure for blindness' with successful treatment of age-related macular degeneration | The groundbreaking operation was carried out be surgeons at Londons Moorfields Eye Hospital
2015-09-29,An app which tracked US drone strikes through text notifications and maps has been removed from the App Store by Apple due to excessively crude or objectionable content
2015-09-29,"New Zealand has revealed plans to turn an area of the South Pacific about the size of France into a marine reserve. The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary lies 1000km north of the mainland and includes a chain of islands and underwater volcanoes. It is a vast 620,000 sq km (239,400 sq miles) area."
2015-09-29,Putin: Do you realize what you have done? Putin speaks to UN about middle east situation.
2015-09-29,"The death toll from a suspected air strike on a wedding party in Yemen on Monday has risen to at least 131, the United Nations and local medics say."
2015-09-29,"""A senior Saudi prince has launched an unprecedented call for change in the countrys leadership, as it faces its biggest challenge in years in the form of war, plummeting oil prices and criticism of its management of Mecca, scene of last weeks hajj tragedy."""
2015-09-29,Edward Snowden promotes global treaty to curtail surveillance - Accord would require countries to reduce domestic snooping and provide asylum to whistleblowers
2015-09-29,"Putin: ""We can no longer tolerate the current state of affairs in the world"" (speech at UN on IS)"
2015-09-29,"China will contribute 8,000 troops for a United Nations peacekeeping force, China's President Xi Jinping told the United Nations General Assembly, a move that could make it one of the largest players in U.N. peacekeeping efforts."
2015-09-29,"Hajj crush: Saudi Arabia issues over 1,000 images suggesting death-toll rise -- Authorities in India and Pakistan say photographs of dead released to diplomats for identification mean hundreds more killed than originally thought"
2015-09-29,"U.S., Russia agree Syria must be united and secular: Kerry"
2015-09-29,"Hitachi says it can predict crimes before they happen: called Hitachi Visualization Predictive Crime Analytics, gobbles massive amounts of datafrom public transit maps, social media conversations, weather reports, and moreand uses machine learning to find patterns that humans cant pick out."
2015-09-29,U.S. gives up effort to train Syrian opposition forces
2015-09-29,A vast stretch of New Zealand's exclusive economic zone is being turned into an ocean sanctuary in a landmark deal to preserve one of the most pristine and unique environments on earth.
2015-09-29,KGB defector: Russia killed the British spy found in a duffel bag
2015-09-29,"The Taliban captured the northern Afghan city of Kunduz in a massive assault Monday involving hundreds of fighters, and now control a major urban area for the first time since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion."
2015-09-29,China opens terrifying glass-bottomed bridge in Shiniuzhai park
2015-09-29,"Saudi royal calls for regime change in Riyadh, The king is not in a stable condition"
2015-09-29,"Obama willing to work with Iran, Russia to end Syria conflict"
2015-09-29,Harper Conservatives hope to have TPP agreement this week
2015-09-29,"Three dead as Peruvian farmers and police clash at $7.4bn Chinese mine | As well as the deaths 17 were injured, three critically, when officers reportedly shot at protesters after they entered the Las Bambas copper mining project"
2015-09-29,"The Australian share market has lost around $41 billion in morning trade, as BHP Billiton shares tumbled below $22 for the first time since the global financial crisis."
2015-09-29,Counter to Islamic law: Saudi diplomat refuses to discuss gay rights at UN
2015-09-28,NASA announces discovery of flowing water in Mars
2015-09-28,"Mount Everest to be declared off-limits to inexperienced climbers, says Nepal"
2015-09-28,China will cancel debts to the world's least developed nations.
2015-09-28,Audi says 2.1 million cars have 'cheat' emissions software
2015-09-28,Dead woman emerges 31 years after she disappeared and 28 years after a man confessed to killing her
2015-09-28,Pirate Bay Founder Finally Free After Three Years
2015-09-28,"UN says world waited too long to act on refugee crisis.""Unfortunately only when the poor enter the halls of the rich, do the rich notice that the poor exist"""
2015-09-28,"Top Australian universities call for end to ""every child gets a prize"" approach and funding of mediocre research"
2015-09-28,French minister: 'TTIP talks are not transparent'
2015-09-28,"Iraq agrees to share intelligence on ISIS with Russia, Syria and Iran, catching Obama administration off guard"
2015-09-28,"India successfully launches its first space observatory Astrosat into orbit along with six other satellites (4 American, 1 Canadian, 1 Indonesian)"
2015-09-28,A Mexico City judge has sentenced three men to 520 years in jail each for their roles in the kidnapping and murder of 13 young people two years ago.
2015-09-28,Canada revokes citizenship of ringleader using new anti-terror law
2015-09-28,Yemen says war wipes out decades of development
2015-09-28,President Putin: US-Led Coalition Must Understand. Only the Syrian People Are Entitled to Decide Who Should Govern Their Country
2015-09-28,Moldovan protesters call on government to resign over the disappearance of $1.5 billion
2015-09-28,"El-Sisi: ""Egypt's Nearly 40-year Peace With Israel Should Include More Arab Countries"""
2015-09-28,Swiss competition authorities have said they've opened an investigation into whether a number of banks have been involved in the illegal fixing of precious metals prices.
2015-09-28,Paris goes car-free for a day to fight pollution
2015-09-28,"Creator of VW's software ""cheat"" warned them that it was only to be used for testing and not for road vehicles"
2015-09-28,"On Sept. 27th, 2015, nearly 2 billion people worldwide will be treated to a skywatching event not seen seen 1982. The 'Supermoon', which appears up to 14% larger in diameter due to its proximity to Earth, will also turn a reddish hue as a result of a total lunar eclipse."
2015-09-28,Pope: Workers Have 'Right' to Refuse Gay-Marriage Licenses
2015-09-28,Switzerland may ban Volkswagen diesel car sales.
2015-09-28,"After canceling a U.S. tour, the Dalai Lama, 80, checks into the Mayo Clinic for evaluation."
2015-09-28,Iran earns more from tax than oil for first time in almost 50 years
2015-09-27,"Russian President Vladimir Putin branded U.S. support for rebel forces in Syria as illegal and ineffective, saying U.S.-trained rebels were leaving to join ISIS with weapons supplied by Washington"
2015-09-27,No mercy: Video of weeping homeless man losing dog to activists sparks online outrage
2015-09-27,"30% migrants are fake Syrians, says Germany"
2015-09-27,Anonymous targets Saudi websites as teen awaits crucifixion for anti-govt activities
2015-09-27,Poll confirms Australians don't agree with the Government's proposal to strip Environmental groups of charity status.
2015-09-27,Saudi-led coalition helicopter attack kills another 25 civilians in Yemen
2015-09-27,Thousands turn out for anti-immigration protests in Poland
2015-09-27,"Despite western efforts, ISIS/ISIL has gained 30,000 recruits in the last 12 months"
2015-09-27,"Italy's Berlusconi says that Crimea split from Ukraine ""was democratic,"" hails Putin as ""world's greatest political leader"""
2015-09-27,Volkswagen warned about illegal emissions tricks years ago: Report
2015-09-27,"Japanese universities are cutting humanities and social sciences in favour of practical subjects, sparking global concern"
2015-09-27,Israel to penalize IDF soldiers for assaulting journalists in West Bank
2015-09-27,Catalan Vote Seen as Referendum on Secession From Spain
2015-09-27,Iran to buy $21 billion in Russian space equipment and aircraft
2015-09-27,"""The well-known preferential treatment Syrians receive within the German and Swedish asylum system has turned their passports into desired accessories for other immigrants who otherwise would not be likely qualify as refugees."""
2015-09-27,"Suspects forced to stand on anthills, made to eat raw chili peppers and stripped naked and whipped in public - Mass Facebook vigilante movements are going viral in Peru, prompting civilians to punish alleged criminals for petty crimes."
2015-09-27,"The leader of the British Labour Party has reiterated his support for a united Ireland at the start of his party's annual conference in Brighton.""There is that kind of sense that there is one island of Ireland."""
2015-09-27,"Russia, Iran, Iraq & Syria setting up joint information center to coordinate anti-ISIS operations"
2015-09-27,"Haj death toll rises to 769; Iran denounces ""crime"""
2015-09-27,Saudi Arabia and al-Qaeda Unite in Yemen
2015-09-27,Vladimir Putin bids for major world role as his forces move into Syria
2015-09-27,2000 civilians dead in Yemen.
2015-09-27,Saudi Arabia has refused Iran's request for a diplomatic meetng
2015-09-27,"Bangkok Erawan Shrine bomb: Main suspect is in custody, police say"
2015-09-27,"Pope Francis met with sex abuse victims, will celebrate outdoor Mass on his last day in U.S."
2015-09-26,NASA Will Announce A Major Mars Discovery On Monday
2015-09-26,Poles furious after Russia blames them for starting WWII (from @AP)
2015-09-26,German nurse shocked after being forced out of flat to make way for refugees
2015-09-26,US and China ban ivory trade
2015-09-26,"One of Europe's largest mosques on fire, 70 firefighters battling blaze."
2015-09-26,"Fukushima, Up to 100% of No. 2 reactor fuel may have melted"
2015-09-26,"German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on world leaders to tackle the root causes of a global surge in refugees by pushing back on war and terror.""We have to work against the source that causes people to flee or be driven out."
2015-09-26,TPP talks to resume in Atlanta this weekend
2015-09-26,U.S.-trained Rebel Surrenders Ammunition to Al Qaeda Affiliate in Syria
2015-09-26,"Fearing loss of TTIP deal, car industry buried U.S. safety report"
2015-09-26,Catalonia goes to the polls in an 'incredible moment for democracy' - A regional election  billed as a referendum on Catalan independence  could throw Spain and the EU into uncharted waters
2015-09-26,"The Thai captain of a seized cargo ship carrying an estimated $2 million worth of seafood has been arrested in Indonesia on suspicion of illegal fishing, in the latest development linked to an Associated Press investigation that uncovered a slave island earlier this year."
2015-09-26,Switzerland bans sale of Volkswagen models
2015-09-26,Anonymous leaks another high-level federal document as part of vendetta against government
2015-09-26,Germany's Giessen asylum centre rife in rape and child abuse as refugee crisis grows
2015-09-26,"CENTCOM Admits US-Trained Syrian Rebels Gave Their Supplies, Ammunition and Trucks to Al Qaeda Affiliate"
2015-09-26,Islamic State gaining ground in Afghanistan: UN
2015-09-26,"Saudi Mufti: Hajj stampede beyond human control. Says authorities not responsible for deadly crush, adding that ""fate and destiny are inevitable""."
2015-09-26,People smuggler who 'transferred thousands to Europe' killed in shootout in Libya
2015-09-26,Support for Merkel falls over handling of refugee crisis
2015-09-26,Hajj stampede: Saudi mufti says deaths 'beyond human control'
2015-09-26,"'New activity' detected at N. Korean nuclear test site: Amid concerns that Pyongyang may conduct a nuclear test to mark the 70th anniversary of the ruling party, US analysts say they have spotted a greater number of trucks and excavation activity at the Punggye-ri test site"
2015-09-26,Australia set to abandon opposition to Assad as part of Syria settlement
2015-09-26,Student union blocks speech by 'inflammatory' anti-sharia activist
2015-09-26,Canadian mining company who spilled 1mn litres of cyanide resumes operations after 2 days.
2015-09-25,U.S. drug company sues Canada for trying to lower cost of $700K-a-year drug.
2015-09-25,S. Korean court rules that any politician that receives bribe over $900 will be removed from office
2015-09-25,A 19-year-old who plotted a massacre at his former college has been jailed for life with a minimum term of eight years.
2015-09-25,40% more people are homeless than when David Cameron swept into Number 10
2015-09-25,"Boko Haram leader cant read Quran, nor perform Islamic prayers"
2015-09-25,"9 mega-companies, including Walmart, Nike, and Starbucks, commit to 100% clean energy"
2015-09-25,Cannabis 'forest' discovered in south-west London
2015-09-25,The stampede was caused by a Prince and 200 guards
2015-09-25,Iran has led growing criticism of Saudi Arabia after at least 717 people died and 863 were injured in a stampede near the holy city of Mecca on Thursday.
2015-09-25,"Pope's climate push is 'raving nonsense' without population control, says top US scientist"
2015-09-25,Swiss officials to start formal proceedings against Fifa President Sepp Blatter
2015-09-25,GCHQ surveillance has been tracking browsing history of every web user from porn visited websites to mobile locations
2015-09-25,65% of Taiwanese feel they are an independent nation apart from China
2015-09-25,"Renewable energy outstrips coal for first time in UK electricity mix. Wind, solar and bioenergy surge to supply a record 25% of the countrys electricity for a whole quarter"
2015-09-25,Tax on sugary drinks favored by most New Zealanders
2015-09-25,"Uber banned in belgium, gets 21 days to cease operations rules court"
2015-09-25,"Volkswagen rigged tests on 2.8 million cars in Germany, Berlin says"
2015-09-25,Russian fighter jets enter Syria with transponders off
2015-09-25,U.N. Agencies Told to Leave East Ukraine
2015-09-25,Finland demonstrators attack refugees with stones and fireworks
2015-09-25,"The third recorded global coral bleaching event may be underway. It's like watching a slow-motion train wreck, and were waiting for the cars to pile up on this side of the track, says Mark Eakin, the coordinator of NOAA's Coral Reef Watch"
2015-09-25,Saudis Blame African Pilgrims For Deadly Stampede Near Mecca
2015-09-25,15 tons of sulfuric acid intercepted en route to Gaza
2015-09-25,UK Chancellor George Osborne praised for 'not stressing human rights' by Chinese state media during visit
2015-09-25,"China, Worlds Largest Polluter, to Announce Program to Limit Emissions"
2015-09-24,Canadian mining company Barrick Gold leaks a million liters of cyanide into river in Argentina
2015-09-24,"Nigerian troops free 241 women, children in Boko Haram camps, arrest kingpin."
2015-09-24,Hajj: 100 dead and 390 injured in Mina stampede
2015-09-24,"The Associate Press will no longer use the term ""skeptic"" for those who deny climate change."
2015-09-24,"German commander in charge of anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq has been found dead in his hotel room in Irbil. ""This incident is under investigation and further information will be released as appropriate,"""
2015-09-24,"UK, France and Germany lobbied for flawed car emissions tests, documents reveal. Countries publicly calling for investigations into VW emissions rigging scandal have privately fought to keep loopholes in car tests for carbon emissions"
2015-09-24,Car industry 'buried report revealing US car safety flaws over fears for TTIP deal'
2015-09-24,India to supply generic cancer drug to US
2015-09-24,Volkswagen CEO Likely to Get $32 Million Pension After Leaving
2015-09-24,"Radicalisation Awareness Kit: The Australian Government's new booklet for schools links green activism, 'alternative music' to terrorism"
2015-09-24,Vladimir Putin plans air strikes in Syria if no US deal reached: Report
2015-09-24,"British National Health Service uncovers 1,000 female genital mutilation cases in England"
2015-09-24,Ali Mohammed al-Nimr crucifixion: UN issues urgent call for Saudi Arabia to stay execution of juvenile offender
2015-09-24,"ISIS Defectors claim ISIS teaches ""The Principles of the Islamic State, not the principles of Islam."""
2015-09-24,Student 'accused of being a terrorist' for reading book on terrorism
2015-09-24,"After Volkswagen Revelation, Auto Emissions Tests Come Under Global Scrutiny - ""In the United States, automakers conduct their own emissions tests and submit the results to the government. In Europe, automakers pick who conducts the tests and where they are done."""
2015-09-24,BMW Drops on Report That X3 Diesel's Emission Exceeded EU Limit
2015-09-24,Pope Warns Of 'Critical Moment' On Climate
2015-09-24,Syrian forces pound ISIS with new Russian aircraft:At least 38 Islamic State fighters were killed over the last 24 hours as Syrian jets continued to pound the extremist group's strongholds in the ancient city of Palmyra
2015-09-24,China to prosecute three over butchered panda
2015-09-24,Turnbull government considers blocking singer Chris Brown from entering Australia because of his domestic violence record
2015-09-24,"Europe has the worlds highest rates of drinking and smoking, and more than half its people are too fat, putting them at high risk of heart disease, cancer and other deadly illnesses"
2015-09-24,Explosion hits mosque in Yemen capital
2015-09-24,The Syrian war has caused the first-ever withdrawal from the 'doomsday vault' - Svalbard Global Seed Vault
2015-09-24,Dalai Lama says female successor must be attractive 'otherwise not much use'
2015-09-23,"Pharmaceuticals CEO who raised HIV drug price by 5,000% 'also hiked cost of pill taken by children with incurable kidney disease'"
2015-09-23,Norway rewards Brazil with $1 billion for keeping the Amazon full of trees
2015-09-23,Volkswagen hires BP oil spill lawyers to defend emissions cases
2015-09-23,Turing to roll back pricing for Daraprim amid controversy
2015-09-23,Ginger extremist convicted in royal death plot so Prince Harry can be king
2015-09-23,Martin Winterkorn resigns as Volkswagen CEO
2015-09-23,Pope Francis to Dine With Homeless Rather Than Lawmakers Thursday
2015-09-23,This 16-year-old won the Google Science Fair with a cheap and easy way to detect Ebola.
2015-09-23,"The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday he expects U.S. personnel to report to military superiors any allegations of sexual abuse of boys by Afghan forces. He added that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has assured him the government ""will not tolerate abuse of its children"""
2015-09-23,"The professional hunter, who helped American dentist kill Zimbabwes popular lion Cecil, re-arrested Monday on new charges of planning to smuggle 29 rare sable antelope out of the country"
2015-09-23,Indigenous site 'older than pyramids' in Perth freeway's path taken off heritage register
2015-09-23,Indigenous activist who helped close polluting Guatemala palm oil factory shot dead
2015-09-23,Pissed-Off UN Interns Protest Unpaid Internships Outside UN Headquarters
2015-09-23,"After 60 million years of extreme living, seabirds are crashing - A new study finds that the worlds seabird populations have plummeted by almost 70% in just 60 yrs."
2015-09-23,"Iran has given permission for five Americans to study in a Tehran University masters program  a 'breakthrough,' the department head says. Others are enrolling in Persian language classes."
2015-09-23,"91 Year Old Woman To Be Charged With 260,000 Counts Of Accessory To Murder At Auschwitz Nazi Death Camp"
2015-09-23,"Putin opens the biggest mosque in Russia , praises Russian Muslims for rejecting extremists ."
2015-09-23,World's largest 3D mud printer makes dirt cheap homes at public debut in Italy
2015-09-23,"Hillary Clinton comes out against Keystone XL pipeline project - Breaks months of silence & says it's not in the best interests of ""what we need to do to combat climate change"". Pipeline would move crude from Alberta tar sands to Texas Gulf Coast."
2015-09-23,"The Israeli secret service is suspected of being behind a series of mysterious yet highly sophisticated cyber-spying attacks on decisive negotiations over Irans nuclear programme held at luxury hotels across Europe earlier this year, Swiss media has reported."
2015-09-23,"Canadians eating less meat, taking a bite out of food industrys margins"
2015-09-23,David Cameron says Europe must get better at sending migrants home
2015-09-23,Eight Million Tons of Plastic Dumped in Ocean Every Year
2015-09-23,A civil lawsuit against Volkswagen was filed Tuesday in Sao Paulo accusing the company of allowing the torture and detention of employees opposed to Brazil's former military dictatorship
2015-09-23,"Diesel ""worse than the black plague"" and responsible for 50,000 premature deaths a year in the UK alone - Skoda and Seat models in the UK were also fitted with the EA189 engine VW used to cheat US emissions tests"
2015-09-22,"Another drug Cycloserine sees a 2000% price jump overnight as patent sold to pharmaceutical company. The ensuing backlash caused the companies to reverse their deal. Expert says If it weren't for all of the negative publicity the original 2,000 per cent price hike would still stand."
2015-09-22,"Hedge fund trader Martin Shkreli who raised the price HIV drug by 5,000% asked how he sleeps at night. His reply ""You know, Ambien"""
2015-09-22,American soldiers told to ignore sexual abuse of boys by Afghan allies
2015-09-22,An engineer who once worked for Russia's military intelligence has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for seeking a job at a Swedish company
2015-09-22,VW emissions scandal hits 11m vehicles world wide
2015-09-22,Israeli Police Can Now Use Snipers Against Teenagers Throwing Stones
2015-09-22,"Fewer than one in 20 lobbyists are covered by the governments new lobbying register, according to a report warning that the public are being left in the dark about those trying to influence UK policy."
2015-09-22,Seeds removed from doomsday seed vault as a result of Syrian civil war
2015-09-22,Archaeologists have discovered a Pre-Roman era tomb in perfect condition at Pompeii
2015-09-22,IS executes 10 people accused of being gay in Syria: monitor
2015-09-22,US-trained Division 30 rebels 'betrayed US and hand weapons over to al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria'
2015-09-22,"Disputed EU migrant plan voted in - EU ministers approve plans to relocate 120,000 migrants, with Hungary and Czech Republic among four voting against"
2015-09-22,Scientists release 'complete' tree of life which shows how 2.3 million species are related
2015-09-22,Report: Israel tells Jordan that it's breaching Temple Mount status quo - Channel Two reports that Israel has sent messages to Jordan that armed rioters were being allowed to sleep in al-Aksa
2015-09-22,Russia launches drones in Syria
2015-09-22,"China's cyberespionage putting ""enormous strain"" on relations, U.S. says"
2015-09-22,Facebook accused of spying on Belgian citizens like the NSA
2015-09-22,"German Stocks Fall More Than 3%, Pulled Down by Volkswagen"
2015-09-22,Midwife in the Indian state of Assam registered herself as pregnant 85 times in 6 months to get monetary benefit from a state-sponsored scheme.
2015-09-22,Exxon Confirmed Global Warming Consensus in 1982 with In-House Climate Models. The company chairman would later mock climate models as unreliable while he campaigned to stop global action to reduce fossil fuel emissions.
2015-09-22,Syrian asylum-seeker in Germany filmed boasting of having killed for ISIS
2015-09-22,Syrian refugee tripped over by Hungarian journalist was part of Al Qaeda's Nusra front according to PYD
2015-09-22,"Land Degradation, Desertification Might Create 50 Million Climate Refugees Within A Decade.Desertification also threatens water availability and quality that is believed to have played a key role in pushing Syria toward a brutal, protracted civil war that has cost nearly 300,000 lives."
2015-09-22,"European Union officials will forge ahead with a controversial plan to begin labeling products produced in Israeli settlements in the Occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights"
2015-09-22,"German police conduct raids in Berlin's Islamist scene: German police say they have carried out several raids in Berlin targeting people suspected of recruiting for ""Islamic State"" in Syria. Hundreds of officers were involved in the operation."
2015-09-21,"Volkswagen has admitted to using software on VW and Audi branded cars to cheat U.S. diesel emissions tests, shares plunge more than 20 percent."
2015-09-21,Saudi Teenager Ali Mohammed al-Nimr Has Been Sentenced to Death by Crucifixion
2015-09-21,"German woman, 91, is charged with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder as prosecutors accuse her of being a Nazi SS radio operator who served in Auschwitz"
2015-09-21,New Zealand Zoo Won't Euthanize Tiger That Killed Zookeeper
2015-09-21,"Hungary passes law allowing govt to use army in asylum seeker crisis. According to the law, the army would be allowed to use rubber bullets, pyrotechnical devices, tear gas grenades or net guns"
2015-09-21,"Hungary places ads in Lebanese press warning off migrants...""Do not listen to the people smugglers. Hungary will not allow illegal immigrants to cross its territory."""
2015-09-21,Ruble fall causes wage parity between Russia and China: The devaluation of the ruble has put average salaries in Russia on par with those in China
2015-09-21,"The Obama administration will increase the number of refugees the United States is willing to accept to 100,000 annually in 2017, a significant increase over the current worldwide cap of 70,000, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday."
2015-09-21,"PYD: ""Syrian refugee tripped by Hungarian journalist was member of radical al-Nusra Front"""
2015-09-21,"SodaStream offers 1,000 jobs to Syrian refugees in Israel. Company, which was targeted by BDS over its West Bank plant, says it could employ refugees in southern Israel"
2015-09-21,Saudi official: We wont cooperate with Israel as long as Palestine is occupied
2015-09-21,Russian embassy in Damascus comes under mortar fire  foreign ministry
2015-09-21,No European country `can be exempt` from taking in refugees: Hollande
2015-09-21,"Attempts to protect Australias Great Barrier Reef are failing: report | Australia's Great Barrier Reef is still being damaged by the effects of climate change and farming, a report says. It says efforts to improve water quality are falling far short of the targets that have been set"
2015-09-21,Pirate Bay: What Raid? Police Never Got Our Servers
2015-09-21,"Pacific Islanders Plead for Urgent Climate Action as Seas Rise - The village where Anote Tong attended school some 40 years ago is no longer there. As the Pacific Ocean encroached on the settlement, the villagers left for higher ground."
2015-09-21,ISIS Defectors Reveal Growing Disillusionment
2015-09-21,Ministry of Defence condemns serving army general behind Jeremy Corbyn 'mutiny' threat - Some Conservatives also expressed disquiet with right-wing MEP Daniel Hannan describing the general as an 'idiot
2015-09-21,Apple's App Store infected with malware in China
2015-09-21,Islamic rebels free 2 American hostages held in Yemen
2015-09-21,"Israel to bring in 20,000 Chinese construction workers"
2015-09-21,Reports: Russian troops refusing deployment to Syria
2015-09-21,At least 55 people killed by three bomb blasts in Nigeria
2015-09-21,Climate Change Will Boost Arctic Mosquito Population
2015-09-21,"Greece opposition concedes defeat, Syriza poised to retain power"
2015-09-20,Anger after Saudi Arabia 'chosen to head key UN human rights panel'
2015-09-20,"Taxi drivers snarl up Brussels in anti-Uber protest. Belgian deputy PM says ""Improve customer experience. Invest in technology. Innovate the business. All things the taxi sector could do instead of strike"""
2015-09-20,"South Korea, host of the 2018 Winter Games, has been accused of bulldozing a 500-year-old virgin forest to make room for an Olympic ski slope."
2015-09-20,Egyptian billionaire: I found the island I want to buy for refugees
2015-09-20,"British Army 'could stage mutiny under Corbyn', says senior serving general"
2015-09-20,Parents protest forced circumcision of children: At least 25 children at Uganda school subjected to forced genital mutilation without parent's consent
2015-09-20,"Rouhani: Iranian 'Death to America' chants aimed at US policies, not American people. Rouhani listed the US backing of Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War as one of the historical instances that Tehran holds against Washington."
2015-09-20,Anti-migrant demo in Finnish border town over refugee influx
2015-09-20,Man killed 6 people in Japan found out to be Brother of Prisoner for Killing 25 citizens in Peru
2015-09-20,Volkswagen could face $18 billion penalties from EPA
2015-09-20,"MI5 pays UK Muslims to spy on terror suspects. UK intelligence agency has paid up to 2,000 for reports on alleged radical activity"
2015-09-20,Nepal passes secular constitution amid protests
2015-09-20,"Glyphosate harms bees' spatial learning - study shows not just neonicotinoids impair bees' ability to navigate, glyphosate has been found to have the same impact even at very low levels"
2015-09-20,"Canada to accept 10,000 Syrians within one year"
2015-09-20,Reykjavk to Cancel Boycott of All Israeli Products
2015-09-20,One Of Princess Diana's Charity Missions Completed 18 Years After Her Death
2015-09-20,German interior minister calls for limits on migrants to EU.
2015-09-20,The US and China are secretly negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace
2015-09-20,"Indonesia arrests seven company executives for illegal forest fires - A senior executive of plantation company Bumi Mekar Hijau is one of those held for suspected environmental crimes, as part of a wider drive to combat the pollution haze crisis"
2015-09-20,"Taliban gunmen attack Pakistan air force base, 42 killed"
2015-09-20,Egyptian military floods vital Gaza supply tunnels on Palestinian border
2015-09-20,Finland Imposes Migration Controls at Swedish Border
2015-09-20,"Syrian Refugee Crisis: Albania Says It Will Take 75,000 Seeking Asylum"
2015-09-20,Pakistan bombs Taliban hideouts after deadly raid on military base
2015-09-20,Germany redirects flow of migrants to avoid Oktoberfest Festival
2015-09-19,Elephants Shot With Poison Arrows Travel To Humans For Help
2015-09-19,Japan passes law allowing troops to fight abroad
2015-09-19,"Croatia says it can take no more migrants: ""They will get food, water and medical help, and then they can move on. The European Union must know that Croatia will not become a migrant 'hotspot'. We have hearts, but we also have heads."" -Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic"
2015-09-19,A WikiLeaks document appears to show US plans to destabilize Syria back in 2006
2015-09-19,"The president of Canada's largest private sector union says the Trans-Pacific Partnership could have ""catastrophic effects"" on the nation's economy."
2015-09-19,"Operation Smile in India saves 19,000 missing children from Slavery, abuse"
2015-09-19,"UK- new counter-extremism bill, which will ban non-violent extremists, risks provoking a backlash in Britains Muslim communities a government watchdog has warned. Cameron have defined extremism as as vocal or active opposition to fundamental British values."
2015-09-19,"Russia Warns Poland After WWII Monument Pulled Down: Russia has threatened Poland with ""most serious consequences"" for pulling down a monument to a Soviet World War II general"
2015-09-19,"Advanced Ligo labs in the US, designed to detect ripples in gravitational waves permeating through the universe, are up and running: ""It's sort of like we've been deaf to the Universe until now, and turning on these detectors is like turning on our ears."""
2015-09-19,'Bad news on ISIS wasn't welcome': We know more about how US officials reportedly cooked ISIS intel
2015-09-19,Witnesses: Egypt flooding tunnels to Gaza Strip
2015-09-19,"500,000 Children Forced To Flee Boko Haram"
2015-09-19,"Hungary seizes migrant train from Croatia, disarms 40 Croatian police and arrests train driver"
2015-09-19,Germany's Oktoberfest kicks off in Munich - Golden days have come again in Germany for keen beer-drinkers and sausage-eaters: the 182nd Oktoberfest has begun in Munich after the tapping of the first keg. The festival is expected to draw 6 million visitors.
2015-09-19,Three Guatemalan activists working in the northern part of the country have been kidnapped following a landmark court ruling against palm oil manufacturer Repsa
2015-09-19,"UN officials have openly criticized the the virtual silence with regards to civilian suffering in the Yemeni conflict from the world community, warning that unless violence on the ground is stopped via political compromise more people will suffer."
2015-09-19,A group of British aviation enthusiasts committed to seeing Concorde fly again has revealed it has the funds to purchase one of the supersonic jets and bring it back into service within the next four years.
2015-09-19,Hungary's Foreign Minister Warns of Up to 35 Million Migrants Coming to Europe
2015-09-19,Claims a 240-year-old bottle of wine was uncorked in Crimea for former Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi and Russian President Vladimir Putin have sparked a probe in Ukraine.
2015-09-19,"The researchers from Sunshine Coast University (SCU) and the University of New England (UNE), Australia have discovered that the Aboriginal people keep the oral tradition story passed on for generations about the sea-level rise dating back to over 7 000 years ago."
2015-09-19,The worlds largest Delta 3D printer can print nearly zero-cost housing out of mud
2015-09-19,"1,100 crossing-border refugees apprehended by Slovenian police"
2015-09-19,Migrant crisis: Croatia will 'force' Hungary to take migrants
2015-09-19,"Iranian crowds chanting 'death to America' don't mean it personally, says president Hassan Rouhani"
2015-09-19,"China Calls On North Korea To Halt Planned Space Launch, Nuclear Test."
2015-09-18,Brazil's Supreme Court has banned corporate contributions to political campaigns and parties
2015-09-18,"Investigation finds Exxon knew about CO2's effect on the climate since 1977, but ignored internal research and warnings"
2015-09-18,Islamic extremist shot dead in Berlin after stabbing police officer
2015-09-18,Man sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia will be crucified
2015-09-18,"Finland has a strike - over 30 000 people have gathered in the rain to protest against the government, no public transport working, stores closed"
2015-09-18,Cameron gives top environment policy job to oil man ahead of major climate talks
2015-09-18,India is not an 'IT-superpower' but an 'IT-labour contractor' as it lacks innovation : Indian Minister
2015-09-18,Bid to inspect Israeli nuclear site blocked
2015-09-18,Burkina Faso just had a coup that put the military junta into power. Protests have begun.
2015-09-18,Ukraine bans journalists who 'threaten national interests' from country
2015-09-18,Refugee Kicked By Camerawoman Gets Job as Soccer Coach in Spain
2015-09-18,Skeletons of 200 Napoleonic troops found in Germany
2015-09-18,"First 'zero-emissions' hydrogen filling station opens. ""It uses electricity generated by a wind turbine to split water into its constituent parts: hydrogen and oxygen."""
2015-09-18,"For the second time in two years, a captive snake in south-east Missouri has given birth without any interaction with a member of the opposite sex."
2015-09-18,A new report ties the Russian government to a seven-year malware campaign
2015-09-18,"Germany seeks stricter limits on migrants, rolling back welcome mat"
2015-09-18,One million Yemenis ready to invade Saudi Arabia according to Iranian Press
2015-09-18,Israeli police could use live sniper fire against Palestinian rock throwers under Benjamin Netanyahu plan
2015-09-18,"Japan passes new military bill, Scuffling ensues."
2015-09-18,Russia says ready for talks with United States on Syria
2015-09-18,Farmers in northern France have been ordered to destroy this year's produce because of pollution caused by World War One armaments left in the soil
2015-09-18,'Super-gonorrhoea' outbreak in Leeds
2015-09-18,"In egalitarian Sweden, richer regions reluctant to share refugee burden"
2015-09-18,China Is Building The Mother Of All Reputation Systems To Monitor Citizen Behavior
2015-09-18,"Half a million children have fled attacks by the Islamist group Boko Haram over the past five months, the UN children's agency says."
2015-09-17,"Efficiency up, turnover down: Sweden experiments with six-hour working day | World news | The Guardian"
2015-09-17,7.9-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes off the Coast of Chile
2015-09-17,"HPV vaccine should be free for boys, says mother who paid $340 The vaccine is free for girls in Grade 6, but costs more than $300 for boys"
2015-09-17,"US priests accused of sex abuse get a second chance by relocating to South America  The Catholic Church has allowed priests accused of sexually abusing children in the United States and Europe to relocate to poor parishes in South America, a yearlong investigation has found."
2015-09-17,BBC News: A Russian prank caller has said he and a colleague tricked Sir Elton John into thinking President Vladimir Putin had called him to discuss gay rights
2015-09-17,Nobel director regretted Obama peace prize.
2015-09-17,Saudi Arabia: Juvenile prisoner faces 'death by crucifixion' after appeal is dismissed
2015-09-17,University of Sydney Student Smashes NASA Record For Fuel Efficiency; Mars and Back on a Tank of Fuel
2015-09-17,Iceland's capital declares boycott of Israeli goods
2015-09-17,Tsunami alert as Chile hit by powerful 7.9 earthquake
2015-09-17,Final push for TPP set for end of September
2015-09-17,School ordered to pay student $1 million for sex abuse by female principal of ultra-orthadox Jewish school. Principal fled to Israel and is fighting extradition.
2015-09-17,Migrants break through police lines on Croatia-Serbia border
2015-09-17,"""I am racist and my racism based on Islam"", says supreme council member of Malaysia's ruling party"
2015-09-17,Czech President: Refugees from Ukraine should be included in EU's refugee quotas
2015-09-17,Rising number of employees reporting mental health issues. More than two fifths of employers have seen increase in workers reporting conditions such as depression or anxiety
2015-09-17,"UK Judge gives Asian pedophile harsher sentence when victims were Asian because ""Asian sex crime victims suffer more than whites""."
2015-09-17,"Exxon Believed Deep Dive Into Climate Research Would Protect Its Business | 1979 memo: ""It behooves us to start a very aggressive defensive program in the indicated areas of atmospheric science and climate because there is a good probability that legislation affecting our business will be passed."""
2015-09-17,Jewish Man Dies as Rocks Pelt His Car in East Jerusalem
2015-09-17,"World Wide Fund for Nature says nearly half the world's marine animals wiped out in single generation: ""The emergency edition of WWF's Living Blue Planet Report revealed a 49 per cent decline in marine vertebrate populations between 1970 and 2012. For some fish this figure was almost 75 per cent."""
2015-09-17,"Threatened, starved: Cook reveals life at Saudi Diplomat's house"
2015-09-17,Global study reveals soaring antibiotic resistance in India
2015-09-17,Burkina Faso 'coup': Presidential guard dissolves government
2015-09-17,"Malicious Cisco router backdoor found on 79 more devices, 25 in the US"
2015-09-17,Russian Authorities Close Down American Center in Moscow: The Russian government has shut down the U.S. Embassy's American Center in Moscow after 22 years in operation
2015-09-16,"Tuna and mackerel populations suffer catastrophic 74% decline, research shows"
2015-09-16,"Australian Government introduces ""No Jab No Pay"" legislation, preventing parents of unvaccinated children from receiving childcare benefits."
2015-09-16,"Norway will soon pay Brazil the final instalment of a $1bn payment for slowing the rate at which the Amazon rainforest is cut down, and is in talks about a further scheme."
2015-09-16,Air Canada pilot diverts international flight to save dog from freezing.
2015-09-16,"Nepal to stay secular, proposal for a Hindu nation rejected"
2015-09-16,"'If you are worried about refugees, stop supporting terrorists' - Assad interview"
2015-09-16,"Exxon's Own Research Confirmed Fossil Fuels' Role in Global Warming Decades Ago | ""Over the past several years a clear scientific consensus has emerged,"" Cohen wrote in September 1982, reporting on Exxon's own analysis of climate models."
2015-09-16,"Scared By Russia, Sweden And Poland Make War Pact"
2015-09-16,Netherlands bans wild animals in circuses
2015-09-16,"Hungary convicts migrant for illegally crossing into country, first conviction under new law"
2015-09-16,Germany can stop cash for jobless EU migrants - The European Court of Justice ruled on Tuesday that Germany can deny basic welfare payments to European migrants - even if they've previously had a job in the country.
2015-09-16,"The Leap Manifesto, ""an ambitious plan to end fossil fuel subsidies, increase income taxes on corporations and the wealthy, cut military spending and implement a progressive carbon tax"", signed by at least one hundred notable Canadian personalities"
2015-09-16,David Attenborough backs huge Apollo-style clean energy research plan
2015-09-16,Google to raise $11 million for refugee crisis in Europe in 1:1 donation-matching campaign
2015-09-16,"UK drops out of top 10 renewable energy ranking for 1st time - Conservative govt has sentenced renewable energy to death by 1000 cuts & left investors puzzled, says EY report. ""Weve entered a really weird phase where weve almost got govt energy policy being set in a vacuum."""
2015-09-16,"Pope warns religious orders: Take in refugees, or pay property taxes."
2015-09-16,Iranian Female Soccer Star Faces Husband-Imposed Travel Ban
2015-09-16,WWF - Failing fisheries and poor ocean health starving human food supply. Their report shows a decline of 49 per cent of marine populations between 1970 and 2012.
2015-09-16,"Jeremy Corbyn has said Labour can win the 2020 general election by creating a radical grassroots movement.They call us deficit deniers; they spend billions cutting taxes for the richest families and for the most profitable businesses. What they are is poverty deniers,"
2015-09-16,Croatia says it will allow migrants to travel on to northern Europe - opening up a new route a day after Hungary sealed its border with Serbia.
2015-09-16,"Flying Korea's farmed dogs to safety - ""Our goal is to end the dog-meat industry in Korea,"""
2015-09-16,Turkish presidents office says insulting president not within freedom of expression
2015-09-16,Saudi suspends Binladen group over Mecca crane crash - royal court
2015-09-16,"Anheuser-Busch InBev, the maker of Budweiser and Corona, said Wednesday it has approached rival SABMiller Plc for a potential takeover that would combine the world's two biggest brewers"
2015-09-16,China stocks resume sharp slide as economic worries mount
2015-09-15,"Egyptian Billionaire who wants to purchase private islands to house refugees, has identified potential locations and is now in talks to purchase two private Greek islands"
2015-09-15,The UN Says US Drone Strikes in Yemen Targeting al Qaeda Have Killed More Civilians Than al Qaeda
2015-09-15,Saudis Accused of Not Taking Refugees Despite 100K Empty Tents
2015-09-15,"Denmark has said it will not participate in the EUs plans to resettle some 160,000 refugees."
2015-09-15,US troops return to Iraq to battle Islamic State
2015-09-15,West 'ignored Russian offer in 2012 to have Syria's Assad step aside'
2015-09-15,Hungary Declares Emergency As It Blocks Migrants At Border
2015-09-15,"Whales to gain 'long-sought protections' as navy limits sonar use, activists say"
2015-09-15,Thousands of refugees may lose right of asylum under EU plans - Brussels meeting is expected to call for establishment of refugee camps in Italy and Greece and for detention of irregular migrants
2015-09-15,"Two decades of frontier-free travel across Europe unraveled on Monday as countries re-established border controls in the face of an unprecedented influx of migrants, which broke the record for the most arrivals by land in a single day."
2015-09-15,"According to a new study, half of the sea turtles on the planet have ingested some form of plastic. This comes just days after another study (with some of the same researchers involved) reported similar findings in seabirds -- some 90 percent of which have consumed plastic."
2015-09-15,"Tens of thousands of people have already left Central America for the United States, fleeing violence and poverty.Extreme weather could drive further migration from the Central American countries, particularly Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador."
2015-09-15,Tourists interrupt endangered turtle reproduction season in Costa Rican beach
2015-09-15,FOIA Reveals TPP Has Immigration Chapter
2015-09-15,Australian mother on trial for genital mutilation
2015-09-15,Hundreds quarantined as Ebola returns to north Sierra Leone district
2015-09-15,"They are calling it the great Indian gold rush. Within months, Indian officials are expected to auction licences for new gold mines across the country, and abandoned colonial-era mines are set to be revived."
2015-09-15,"Okinawa governor to block construction of new US airbase: Takeshi Onaga says he will revoke permits for offshore base in Henokos pristine waters, opposing Japans central government"
2015-09-15,Ex FIFA adviser: Blatter should face a criminal investigation for TV rights deal
2015-09-15,"City officials have suspended the mayor of Bucharest who is under arrest on suspicion of taking bribes worth 25,000 euros ($28,000) from companies working for the city hall."
2015-09-15,Canadian banks helping clients bend rules to move money out of China
2015-09-15,Poland & Sweden agree to intensify military cooperation
2015-09-15,North Korea 'restarts nuclear operations' | BBC
2015-09-15,Teen Arrested for Planning Alleged ISIS-Inspired Attack on Pope
2015-09-15,'Syria Is Emptying'
2015-09-14,Malcom Turnbull becomes Prime Minister of Australia after Tony Abbott rejected by Liberal party
2015-09-14,El Nino set to be strongest ever. The most powerful weather pattern of its type in the past 65 years will have huge impacts on weather around the globe.
2015-09-14,12 Mexican Tourists and Egyptians Killed After Security Forces Misidentify Them As Terrorists
2015-09-14,Police drop VIP Westminster paedophile ring murder probe over lack of evidence
2015-09-14,"A Chinese woman suspected of stealing a $300,000 (195,000) diamond in the Thai capital, Bangkok, has had the jewel surgically removed from her intestines."
2015-09-14,"Iran's President Rouhani sends message for Jewish new year - ""May our shared Abrahamic roots deepen respect and bring peace and mutual understanding. L'Shanah Tovah."""
2015-09-14,Australia- A former teacher from one of Australia's most distinguished families of judges has avoided jail after being convicted of filming up the skirts of his students and possessing ( over 9000 images) child abuse material.
2015-09-14,"In a remarkable technical feat, researchers have sequenced DNA from fossils in Spain that are about 300,000 to 400,000 years old and have found an ancestoror close relativeof Neanderthals."
2015-09-14,"Don't return, a Sydney uni student is told after his father 'disappears' in China"
2015-09-14,Bolivia proposes commercialization of the coca leaf
2015-09-14,Japan's Mount Aso volcano erupts
2015-09-14,Historian understood to have found first use of word f*** in 1310 English court case
2015-09-14,Two suspected terrorists linked to Boko Haram are charged with horrendous acid attack on holidaying British teenagers
2015-09-14,El Nino could make 2015 'the hottest year on record'... and 2016 will be even hotter. The findings will demolish claims by climate sceptics that the slowdown in the rate of global warming over the past 17 years proves that scientists concerns are exaggerated.
2015-09-14,"Goldman Sachs report: Oil headed to $20 a barrel. Economist says it's unlikely because ""There are too many big financial players that have been buying up oil they would just start buying up the companies and shutting down production themselves"""
2015-09-14,Iran's President Wishes Jews a Happy Rosh Hashana
2015-09-14,Egypt Begins Digging Moat To Protect Itself from Hamas: The moat is intended to prevent the Muslim-Brotherhood affiliate in Gaza from digging smuggling tunnels into Egypt.
2015-09-14,Vivienne Westwood drives tank to David Cameron's house in anti-fracking protest.
2015-09-14,"Three critically endangered Javan rhinoceros calves where spotted on camera in an Indonesian national park, much to the excitement of staff and rhino lovers."
2015-09-14,Obama Administration Accused of Ignoring Geneva Conventions in Refusal to Release 74-Pound Guantanamo Detainee
2015-09-14,"Taliban storms Afghan jail with suicide bombers, releases over 350 prisoners"
2015-09-14,NASA Launching 4K TV Channel
2015-09-14,The Egyptian army announced it has killed 64 alleged Islamic State (IS) militants in North Sinai Saturday
2015-09-14,"Oxfam: Increasing inequality plunging millions more Europeans into poverty.Between 2009 and 2013, the number of Europeans living without enough money to heat their homes or cope with unforeseen expenses, known as severe material deprivation, rose by 7.5 million to 50 million people"
2015-09-14,Czech PM insists migrant quotas 'won't work'
2015-09-13,A 200 yr old tree in Ireland is blown over during storm to reveal an early medieval skeleton within the roots
2015-09-13,"Sweden wants Russia to explain threats over NATO Entry: Sweden has called in Russia's ambassador to explain comments by a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman who said any Swedish decision to join NATO would have ""consequences"" that would compel Russia to respond"
2015-09-13,"Climate change talks in Paris our 'last chance', say Pacific islands: 'This is not politics, it's survival'.The Pacific island nations whose very existence is threatened by rising sea levels have issued a desperate plea to Australia and New Zealand."
2015-09-13,"Some 20,000 people are protesting against Moldova's government for the eighth straight day, demanding a probe into the estimated $1.5 billion that disappeared from three Moldovan banks"
2015-09-13,Germany 'to start border controls'
2015-09-13,Twelve major banks have tentatively agreed to pay $1.87 billion to settle allegations that they colluded to fix prices and lock out competitors
2015-09-13,"Nations using child soldiers are invited to British arms fair | New figures reveal that of the 23 countries listed by the UN for grave violations against children or where child soldiers are used, the UK sold military equipment to 19 during the past five years."
2015-09-13,"Munich has run out of space for refugees, says mayor, as crisis pushes German city to 'the limit"
2015-09-13,Norwegian politicians propose putting refugees on Svalbard  remote Arctic islands with more polar bears than people
2015-09-13,"Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Is A 'Threat To National Security', David Cameron Claims In Tweet"
2015-09-13,"Leader of Al Qaeda Belittles Leader of ISIS as Not Worthy: ""In a blistering new message, [Ayman al-Zawahiri] denounces [Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi] as the illegitimate leader of a phony caliphate."""
2015-09-13,"A Man Found a Chunk of Whale Vomit Worth $10,000 - The vomit contained ambergris, a substance produced inside whales' stomachs, which can be used to create the musky smell in perfume."
2015-09-13,Woman On Alan Kurdi Boat Claims Drowned Toddler's Father Is A People Smuggler
2015-09-13,Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has called on young Muslim men in the United States and other Western countries to carry out attacks within their countries and urged greater unity between militants.
2015-09-13,"Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that beginning next week, immigrants found crossing into the country illegally will be arrested"
2015-09-13,Hungary has accused the Austrian chancellor of making comments unworthy of a 21st century leader after he described the country's asylum seeker policies as reminiscent of Nazi-era Germany.
2015-09-13,Germany's Merkel sees need to cooperate with Russia on Syria
2015-09-13,A UK-funded memorial to Kenyans killed and tortured by British forces during the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s has been unveiled in the Kenyan capital.
2015-09-13,Belgium 'Ready' To Send Troops To Syria After Order Is Restored
2015-09-13,"""Scottish nationalists will propose holding a new referendum on independence from the rest of Britain, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday [13 September 2015]."""
2015-09-13,First confirmed double meteorite crater discovered in Sweden
2015-09-13,Knife and Car Attacks on Kurdish Rallys in Germany and Switzerland Leave Many Injured
2015-09-13,"Federal government will match up to $100 million for Syria aid, while Ontario hopes to resettle 10,000 refugees"
2015-09-13,Thousands flock to anti-migrant demos in E.Europe
2015-09-13,French consul in Turkey suspended for boat sales to migrants
2015-09-12,52 People Killed After Crane Falls in Mecca's Grand Mosque
2015-09-12,"Obama says that Chinese cyberhacking is 'unacceptable'. The White House said he will no longer stay at New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel, which was bought by a Chinese company last year. Obama also said that China should fear confrontation online: ""I guarantee you we will win if we have to."""
2015-09-12,Germany houses asylum seekers at former Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald
2015-09-12,"The premier of British Columbia, Christy Clark, has advised Miley Cyrus to stick to what she knows, twerking and provocative dancing, rather than getting her followers up in arms about a wolf cull in that province, which Clark says is to help protect endangered caribou."
2015-09-12,"The Trans-Pacific Partnership would kill Canadian auto jobs says Unifor, the union that represents thousands of autoworkers in this country."
2015-09-12,"Hungry, aggressive polar bears lay siege to Russian weather station"
2015-09-12,"Vodafone illegally accessed the mobile phone records of Fairfax investigative journalist Natalie O'Brien to find the sources of her story, according to a leaked email."
2015-09-12,"Russian cosmonaut sets new record in space | Russia's Gennady Padalka has returned from his fifth space mission spending a cumulative 879 days in space, a new record. The three-person crew touched down safely in Kazakhstan."
2015-09-12,At least 60 killed in Indian restaurant gas explosion
2015-09-12,"$11mn, 36-hour historic head transplant to be carried out in China in 2017"
2015-09-12,"Egyptian prime minister, cabinet resign"
2015-09-12,Hundreds of Tunisians have gathered in the heart of the capital under heavy security to protest against a law which offers amnesty for those accused of corruption
2015-09-12,"A Strong El Nino Is Here, and Likely To Last Through Winter and Spring, NOAA Says"
2015-09-12,India To Buy Attack Drones From Israel For $400 Million: Report
2015-09-12,"New Canadian study analyzing 35 years of US General Social Survey data, finds no empirical link between growth pornography availability via the internet, and aggressive behavior against women."
2015-09-12,Russia to U.S.: talk to us on Syria or risk 'unintended incidents'
2015-09-12,FBI says The famous Australian 'IS jihadist' is actually a Jewish American troll named Joshua Ryne Goldberg.
2015-09-12,"A former French minister stirred up controversy Friday after saying Germany ""took our Jews and gave us Arabs"" as France began taking some of the thousands of refugees arriving in Germany"
2015-09-12,"More than 430,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean to Europe so far in 2015, a record number that is more than double the total for the whole of last year"
2015-09-12,"Fleeing war, Syrian refugees bike across Arctic border"
2015-09-12,U.S. Drops Charges That Professor Shared Technology With China
2015-09-12,New wave of refugees possible due to cuts in UN aid | International aid to Syrian refugees is drying up. The emergency could mean that soon more and more longterm refugees living in Arab transit countries will come to Europe.
2015-09-12,China Tells U.S. to Stop 'Groundless' Hacking Accusations
2015-09-12,"Accused Canadian terror suspect tries to convert a prisoner, earns a jailhouse beatdown"
2015-09-12,Militant group in Gaza (Jaish al-Islam) pledges allegiance to ISIS in communiqu
2015-09-11,Child poverty in Scotland is now so severe that teachers are being sent advice on how to spot if a child in their class is going hungry
2015-09-11,Muslim radicals in Germany are trying to recruit some of the growing numbers of asylum seekers reaching the country
2015-09-11,Al Qaeda Leader Al-Zawahiri Declares War on ISIS 'Caliph' Al-Baghdadi
2015-09-11,Cereal banned from Zimbabwe schools after pupils brewed beer
2015-09-11,Palestine flag to fly at UN headquarters after majority vote
2015-09-11,"Hundreds of thousands of Catalans gather in Barcelona, calling for secession from Spain"
2015-09-11,Citi's Chief Economist Says China Is 'Financially Out of Control'
2015-09-11,Black Mamba female rangers awarded for anti-poaching efforts - A mostly female anti-poaching unit known as the Black Mambas in South Africa won the United Nations top environmental prize this week.
2015-09-11,"Saudi diplomat case: Waive immunity, Delhi tells Riyadh. There is prima facie evidence of abuse, sodomy and rape by the diplomat and his father-in-law"
2015-09-11,"North Korea says defectors are liars and that people who stay behind are ""happy"""
2015-09-11,"Obama Directs Administration to Accept 10,000 Syrian Refugees"
2015-09-11,U.S. government officials have blocked the release of 116 pages of defense lawyers' notes detailing the torture that Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah says he experienced in CIA custody
2015-09-11,Researchers at Alexandria University in Egypt have unveiled a cost-effective desalination technology which can filter highly salty water in minutes.
2015-09-11,Australia: Peter Dutton overheard joking about rising sea levels in Pacific Island nations
2015-09-11,Europe migrant crisis: Hungary 'will arrest illegal migrants'
2015-09-11,UK: MPs reject 'right to die' law
2015-09-11,TPP protesters occupy Prime Minister's office
2015-09-11,World nuclear capacity set to grow by 45% by 2035
2015-09-11,"Scientists: Poorer nations outdo wealthier ones on climate pledges - Developed countries ""ought to be embarrassed."" ""Ethiopia & Morocco have been considerably more transparent than China & Canada. Mexico was really better than US or EU"" in terms of plans."
2015-09-11,Turkish Teen Gets Suspended Sentence for Insulting Erdogan
2015-09-11,Female cartoonist on indecency charge for shaking man's hand: Thousands petition to free Atena Farghadani
2015-09-11,"US intelligence chief says Iraq, Syria may not survive as states, could split along ethnic, sectarian lines"
2015-09-11,50 kg of gold stolen from Egyptian Mint Authority.
2015-09-11,Russia: World must arm Syrian government against IS
2015-09-11,Astronomers resort to crowdfunding to save Australia's Mopra Radio Telescope
2015-09-10,National Geographic sold to Fox
2015-09-10,French court confirms Monsanto guilty of chemical poisoning
2015-09-10,Top female student takes on corruption in Egypt after scoring zero on exams
2015-09-10,"A new species of human ancestor found, Homo naledi, has been found in South Africa"
2015-09-10,Female cartoonist could have 12 year prison term extended for shaking her lawyer's hand
2015-09-10,"Travelling to work 'is work', European court rules"
2015-09-10,"The Amazon tribe protecting the forest with bows, arrows, GPS and camera traps - With authorities ineffective, the 2,200-strong Kaapor, in the Brazilian state of Maranho, are taking on the illegal loggers with technology & direct action"
2015-09-10,People climbing onto rooftops to stay alive - Japan is experiencing extreme flooding
2015-09-10,Finland to raise taxes on the wealthy to cover refugee costs
2015-09-10,The European Commission and Big Tobacco accused of cover-up after heavily redacted documents released.Documents back up fears that TTIP will allow tobacco giants to take legal action against the UK and other European governments who attempt to tighten smoking legislation
2015-09-10,"UK govt calls environmental controls on fracking ""unnecessary red tape"" - Added its weight to a behind-the-scenes lobbying drive by oil & gas firms including BP, Chevron, Shell & ExxonMobil to persuade EU leaders to scrap series of environmental safety measures, according to leaks."
2015-09-10,"A judge in Iran has started sentencing criminals to buy and read books instead of handing down jail terms to avoid ""irreversible physical and psychological impact on convicts and their families"""
2015-09-10,Thailand introduces first law to protect LGBT people
2015-09-10,German Lawmaker: At the Root of Refugee Crisis are Wars Led by the United States in the Middle East
2015-09-10,"More Than 1,000 Indian Muslim Clerics Sign Fatwa Against ISIS"
2015-09-10,Number of Russians Living in Poverty Nears 22 Million
2015-09-10,"China to explore 'dark side' of the moon. China has confirmed it plans to send a spacecraft to land on the moon's ""dark side"" before 2020..."
2015-09-10,ISIS claim to be holding Norwegian and Chinese men hostages
2015-09-10,"Karachi 'water mafia' sucking city's pipelines dry. Officials say 30 percent of Pakistan city's water supply is wasted or stolen, worsening an already chronic shortage."
2015-09-10,"Saudis protest ""intrusion"" into diplomat's house as Nepalese women recount horror."
2015-09-10,"Sudan's security forces killed, raped and burned civilians alive, says rights group. Human Rights Watch report catalogues appalling acts carried out by Sudans Rapid Support Forces during two military campaigns in Darfur."
2015-09-10,"UN: 96,000 children are starving and close to death in the port city of al-Hodeidah in Yemen"
2015-09-10,Egyptian researchers developed a cost-effective method for cleaning saltwater in just minutes
2015-09-10,"Non-EU countries Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein will have to agree to relocate asylum seekers in the latest EU scheme or face possible penalties"
2015-09-10,Russian troops join combat in Syria
2015-09-09,"Sometimes, 7-8 men raped us in one daywe thought we were going to die, says woman rescued from Saudi diplomats home in India"
2015-09-09,"Japanese group sues to stop TPP talks - A group of citizens has sued the Japanese government, arguing that the Trans Pacific Partnership agreement would violate that nation's constitution"
2015-09-09,"UK Parliament to debate ""making the production, sale and use of cannabis legal"" on October 12."
2015-09-09,Saudi Arabian diplomat accused of raping Nepali maids claims diplomatic immunity
2015-09-09,"S. Korea dedicates $100 million to help poor countries fight infectious diseases including Ghana, Ethiopia, Jordan"
2015-09-09,Indian police say they have rescued 2 Nepali women kept as slaves from a Saudi diplomat's residence.
2015-09-09,Hungarian nationalist TV camera operator filmed kicking refugee children
2015-09-09,"Frankenvirus Emerges From Siberia's Frozen Wasteland: ""Scientists said they will reanimate a 30,000-year-old giant virus unearthed in the frozen wastelands of Siberia, and warned climate change may awaken dangerous microscopic pathogens."""
2015-09-09,Camerawoman sacked for tripping up refugee father carrying his child
2015-09-09,Opening Syrian refugee 'floodgates' too risky for Canada: Prime Minister Harper
2015-09-09,"More than 107,000 sign UK petition for arrest of Netanyahu"
2015-09-09,Queen Elizabeth II becomes Britain's longest-reigning monarch later when she passes the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria.
2015-09-09,Saudi Arabia Bans National Geographic Issue Featuring Pope Francis For Cultural Reasons
2015-09-09,"Khamenei: Israel wont survive next 25 years - ""Taking to Twitter, Iranian leader says Zionists wont find serenity until destruction, calls US Great Satan and rejects any talks with Washington beyond nuke deal"""
2015-09-09,Danish police close motorway as refugees march to Sweden
2015-09-09,Germany promises 50 Mbps broadband for all.
2015-09-09,"Australia to accept additional 12,000 Syrian refugees and provide $44 million financial aid"
2015-09-09,"Chinese imports drop 13.8%, casting more doubts about its economy"
2015-09-09,New law allows Irish transgender people to get updated birth certs
2015-09-09,Huge Russian military planes land in Syria
2015-09-09,"Europeans allowed to sue over privacy breaches in new EU-US data agreement | EU citizens will now be able to sue over data misuse in American courts, as part of a new agreement on data security between the EU and US. It follows years of concern over the reach of the US National Security Agency"
2015-09-09,National Geographic put a GPS tracker inside a fake ivory tusk  heres where it went
2015-09-09,Czech far-rightist calls to put refugees in former concentration camp
2015-09-09,"Syria: Abbott wants Christians, not Muslim refugees"
2015-09-09,"Palestinian detainee freed after two days, finds home razed"
2015-09-08,Homeopathy conference in Germany ends in chaos after delegates take hallucinogenic drug
2015-09-08,"Germany to Spend $6.6 Billion on 800,000 Refugees and Migrants"
2015-09-08,"Two months after Cecil, outrage arises about South African hunt massacre. Hundreds of antelope, wildebeest, baboons, and other animals will be herded along a narrow track while hunters shoot at them from elevated platforms."
2015-09-08,"Until the 1970s, Western Australia stole the wages of thousands of Aboriginal workers. Its been waiting for them to die rather than pay back."
2015-09-08,"Islamist vigilantes face trial for 'Sharia police' who declared that they would ""patrol the streets to police morals"" - The Local Germany"
2015-09-08,New Zealand politician says that country should only take women and children refugees from Syria and that men should be told to go back and fight
2015-09-08,"A former Dragons' Den star has been charged with child sex offences. Doug Richard, who acted as an adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron, is accused of three counts of sexual activity with a child and one of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, the Press Association reports."
2015-09-08,Russian Prime Minister orders all gas stations to install EV charging stations
2015-09-08,Canada clears way for case against Chevron over 'Amazon Chernobyl' - Ecuadorians seek billions of dollars in compensation from energy giant over mass contamination of rainforest
2015-09-08,Palestinian man gets death threats for saving US Jewish students from Palestinian mob
2015-09-08,Syrian refugees in Uruguay say they want to move elsewhere
2015-09-08,Austria says fight against Islamic State needs Syria's Assad
2015-09-08,"Germany could take 500,000 refugees each year for several years, the countrys vice-chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, has said"
2015-09-08,"700 Germans are fighting for ISIS and the number of women joining keeps growing - Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) fears a growing number of women have gone to Iraq and Syria to fight alongside Islamic State militants, its chief said on Wednesday."
2015-09-08,"Left for dead in the Aegean, Syrian teen refugee swims 16 hours back to Turkey"
2015-09-08,Philippines to Roll Out Nationwide Free Wi-Fi Service by 2016
2015-09-08,"Lesbos 'on verge of explosion' as refugees crowd Greek island - Greeces interior ministry says island of 85,000 inhabitants is currently hosting as many as 17,000 refugees in its capital alone"
2015-09-08,Bulgaria denies air access for Russian supply flights to Syria
2015-09-08,IKEA's 'Better Shelter' refugee housing units heading to Iraq | MNN
2015-09-08,"David Cameron reveals Islamic State plot to kill the Queen, royals"
2015-09-08,"Hit by new wave of refugees, Germany warns EU partners: ""if countries in eastern Europe and elsewhere continued to resist accepting their fair share of refugees, the bloc's open border regime, known as Schengen, would be at risk."""
2015-09-08,"Two days after killing 16 soldiers, another bomb attack by PKK in eastern Turkey kills at least 10 police officers"
2015-09-08,Defector: Kim Jong Un's days are numbered - CNN.com
2015-09-08,"World is running out of one of the most effective snakebite treatments, putting tens of thousands of lives at risk, warn experts"
2015-09-08,"Romania says can take maximum 1,785 refugees, rejects EU quotas"
2015-09-07,Mosul: Iraqi woman kills senior Isis commander after forcing her to act as sex slave
2015-09-07,"Israel plans to demolish up to 17,000 structures, most of them on privately owned Palestinian land in the part of the illegally occupied West Bank under full Israeli military and civil rule, a UN report has found."
2015-09-07,Majority of French against easing rules for migrants asking for refugee status
2015-09-07,Mining industry's new 'coal is amazing' TV ad labelled desperate. Green groups criticise ludicrous Minerals Council of Australia ad which claims coal creates light and jobs and can now reduce its emissions by up to 40%
2015-09-07,Greek authorities have seized a freighter carrying an undeclared shipment of weapons en route from Turkey to Libya
2015-09-07,"Opposing gay marriage, the Australian leader Tony Abbott faces opposition from his party and family, including his gay sister, Christine Forster"
2015-09-07,Fake Rice made of paper found in China
2015-09-07,"UK to accept 20,000 refugees from Syria by 2020"
2015-09-07,"Giant 'Stonehenge' more than 4,500 years old found buried a mile from ancient stone circle"
2015-09-07,"Scientists in Germany have come up with a method for extracting germanium from plants. Nowadays, silicon-germanium alloy is indispensable to modern life, crucial in making computers, smartphones and fiber-optic cables."
2015-09-07,"The European Central Bank has refused a request to appear before a parliamentary probe into the Republic of Ireland's banking crisis. The inquiry, set up after the country suffered a catastrophic financial crash in 2008, had asked the ECB to give evidence on its role in the crisis."
2015-09-07,Israel finds Palestinians with Israeli army uniforms and guns in West Bank counter-terror raids
2015-09-07,"Dalai Lama can't deny China central government's role in reincarnation, says China"
2015-09-07,"Austria to close borders again after 12,000 refugees enter from Hungary in 48 hours. The Austrian chancellor, Werner Faymann, says emergency measures will be lifted"
2015-09-07,Quebec doctors can now prescribe exercise
2015-09-07,Huge meteorite falls on earth in Thailand
2015-09-07,France to prepare for IS air strikes
2015-09-07,[Canadian] Conservative candidate Jerry Bance caught in CBC sting urinating in homeowner's coffee mug
2015-09-07,Fire in refugee apartment block in Germany's Ebeleben: Yet another settlement for migrants in Ebeleben in central Germany has caught fire. Prosecutors are looking into political motives behind the disaster that occurred shortly after another blaze in a Bavarian refugee home.
2015-09-07,UN agencies 'broke and failing' in face of ever-growing refugee crisis
2015-09-07,Russia: We never concealed giving arms to Syria
2015-09-07,Blast reported at chemical plant in eastern China
2015-09-07,"""As thousands of refugees arrive every day in Germany, calls are growing louder from business leaders in Europe's biggest economy to offer them jobs."""
2015-09-07,RAF killed Briton in Syria strike - PM
2015-09-07,Russian Orthodox Extremist Takes Credit for Destroying Mephistopheles Sculpture in St. Petersburg
2015-09-06,Pope Francis calls on every Catholic parish in Europe to host one migrant family
2015-09-06,Urban Myth Confirmed True as Archaeologists Discover Hidden Tunnels in Mexico
2015-09-06,Large Hadron Collider Produces State of Matter Existing at Birth of Universe. Researchers at the University of Kansas working with an international team at the LHC produced quark-gluon plasma with fewer particles than previously thought possible
2015-09-06,": A young Tibetan who vanished two decades ago after he was chosen by the Dalai Lama as the second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism is ""living a normal life"" and does not want to be disturbed, a senior Chinese official said on Sunday."
2015-09-06,"Massive wildfires are burning around Russia's Lake Baikal - world's largest and oldest freshwater lake - for the last month and a half, and the situation is now close to catastrophic."
2015-09-06,"Alberta government bans logging, mining, and oil and gas expansion in Castle area"
2015-09-06,"U.S. Warns Russia Over Military Support for Assad: ""... such a move might even lead to a confrontation with the American-led coalition"""
2015-09-06,Egyptian belly dancers jailed for 'inciting debauchery'
2015-09-06,Putin proposes new common currency among former Soviet states to replace the dollar
2015-09-06,"Munich mayor: I don't think about numbers, only refugees' safety | Southern German city has become a gateway for people arriving via Austria from Hungary and expects to have received 10,000 this weekend"
2015-09-06,"Psychedelic drug emergency at seminar near Hamburg Germany. In what may have been a mass experiment by enthusiasts of 'naturopathic medicine', a synthetic form of methamphetamine sickens 29 people and several had life-threatening symptoms."
2015-09-06,"Israel working to prevent the next Gaza offensive through 'Palestinian relief' - Israel will add power lines in Gaza, help establish many acres of solar farms in the northern Gaza Strip, and more"
2015-09-06,"Japan, US agree to conclude TPP early"
2015-09-06,"Snowden attacks Russia's online restrictions, curbs on rights"
2015-09-06,Star pupil who scored zero in all her exams - potential case of injustice and corruption.
2015-09-06,US concerns over Russia 'building military base in Syria' reports
2015-09-06,Germany seizes fake Syrian passports in asylum inquiry
2015-09-06,Teen is paraded down the street by police after 'recruiting other women to fight for ISIS'
2015-09-06,"Israel demolished 143 Palestinian structures in August, the highest such total in five years. The wave of demolitions came amid severe heat waves and has left children homeless as they start the new school year"
2015-09-06,10 million in silver bullion still not recovered after massive heist in Montreal Canada
2015-09-06,India Muslim Leaders Condemn ISIS: Religious Scholars Endorse Fatwa Lambasting Islamic State Ideology As Un-Islamic
2015-09-06,Edward Snowden attacks Russia over human rights and online freedom
2015-09-06,In pictures: Thousands show support for migrants at Paris rally
2015-09-06,Anti-Muslim Buddhist group moves toward Myanmar's mainstream
2015-09-06,"Immigration News Today: Mexico Deportation Rate Outpaces US, Most Deportees Are Not Criminals : US News"
2015-09-05,Putin confirms Russian military involvement in Syria's civil war
2015-09-05,"The BBC plans to propose doing a daily news broadcast into North Korea and a satellite TV service in Russia as part of a drive to counter state propaganda worldwide, reports said."
2015-09-05,El Chapo's son forgets to switch off location data in Twitter picture
2015-09-05,A 22-year-old anti-Nazi song tops German charts again  to welcome refugees
2015-09-05,"A crater in Russia, which emerged 10 months ago has tripled in size to become a 120m-wide sinkhole."
2015-09-05,"Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Europe's migrant crisis is payback for the EU ""blindly following U.S. orders"" in the Middle East."
2015-09-05,The Supreme Court of Canada on Friday dismissed an attempt by oil giant Chevron to block Ecuadorian villagers from using an Ontario court to collect billions in damages over rainforest pollution
2015-09-05,Finland's prime minister says he will share his house with refugees
2015-09-05,Japanese group sues to stop TPP talks
2015-09-05,"Norway's security services have confirmed that Hassan Dhuhulow, a Norwegian man of Somali decent, was one of the terrorists behind a brutal attack on a Nairobi shopping centre in 2013."
2015-09-05,The leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPO) has blamed the United States and the NATO Western military alliance for triggering the refugee crisis that has overwhelmed Europe.
2015-09-05,Snowden Accepts Norwegian Prize via Video Link From Russia
2015-09-05,German Chancellor Angela Merkel says there is no legal limit to the number of asylum seekers her country can receive.
2015-09-05,"Saudi Arabia is satisfied with assurances from U.S. President Barack Obama about the Iran nuclear deal and believes the agreement will contribute to security and stability in the Middle East, a senior Saudi official said on Friday."
2015-09-05,New solar-power device can conserve ancient texts in India
2015-09-05,Supreme Court of Canada rules Ecuadorean villagers can pursue a multi billion pollution lawsuit against Chevron Corp
2015-09-05,Deadly missile strike launched by Houthi rebels kills 83 coalition troops in Yemen.
2015-09-05,"Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Plane 'Landed' On Water, Not Crashed, Investigators Suggest"
2015-09-05,Thousands of refugees take to motorway to walk to Austria from Hungary
2015-09-05,China backs Putin's idea of developing Russia's Far East
2015-09-05,Argentina: doors are open to welcome Syrian refugees
2015-09-05,EUs Mogherini fed up with calls to act emotionally to drowned Syrian refugee toddler photo
2015-09-05,A Palestinian man saved Jewish students from a mob in the West Bank
2015-09-05,Anti-corruption police target more than 20 foreign politicians. British police are targeting more than 20 of the worlds most corrupt politicians involved in laundering millions of pounds through the City in a major expansion of the UKs international anti-graft operations.
2015-09-05,France Confirms Wing Part Found on Reunion is from Missing Malaysian Plane MH370
2015-09-04,"Jordan has a population of 6 million, but have taken in 1.5 million refugees. All with little protest or mass global coverage."
2015-09-04,Egyptian billionaire wants to buy island to house migrants.
2015-09-04,People would rather live near wind turbines than fracking wells.
2015-09-04,"Canadian Prime Minister candidate Justin Trudeau promises to legalize marijuana ""right away"" if elected"
2015-09-04,Edward Snowden says Hillary Clinton 'ridiculous' to think emails were secure - Snowden said in Al-Jazeera interview that ordinary government workers would very likely face prosecution for sending classified emails over personal server.
2015-09-04,3 Indians get 20 years in jail for raping Japanese student
2015-09-04,The U.S. is finalizing a $1 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia
2015-09-04,"Amid refugee crisis, Hungary prime minister says Muslims not welcome: Viktor Orban says history of Ottoman rule means Hungarians will not accept large-scale Muslim immigration"
2015-09-04,"More than 1,000 tractors have rolled into Paris as farmers attempted to clog up the capital's roads in protest of their falling incomes."
2015-09-04,Syria civil war: Russians filmed fighting alongside President Assad's forces
2015-09-04,"Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says the ""very sad"" images of a Syrian boy lying lifeless on a Turkish beach demonstrate the need for countries to adopt tough policies to stop asylum seekers arriving by boat."
2015-09-04,Netlfix Has Apparently Reduced Piracy In Australia
2015-09-04,I want a blue-eyed Yazidi - A teenager describes what it's like on the ISIS sex-slave market
2015-09-04,300 girls hospitalized due to mysterious gas (Afghanistan)
2015-09-04,"Migrant Smuggling in Europe Is Now Worth Billions - With thousands of migrants pouring out of Afghanistan and the Middle East, the business of smuggling them across the Balkans into the European Union has grown even larger than the illicit trade in drugs and weapons"
2015-09-04,"Canada gets a C on innovation report card, corporate R&D lowest of 16 countries"
2015-09-04,Drowned Syrian toddlers' family had not applied for Canada entry
2015-09-04,"More than 100,000 asylum seekers enter Germany in August"
2015-09-04,Nice but dim: Posh but stupid children do better than poor yet gifted
2015-09-04,"Canadian Forces have no role to play in Syria, Iraq: Mulcair"
2015-09-04,One of the Indian women sentenced to be gang-raped speaks of her fear
2015-09-04,South Korea on the Brink of Becoming a Multicultural Country
2015-09-04,Russian spy ship off the coast of US sub base Georgia
2015-09-04,"Iranian police to confiscate cars of poorly veiled women, says the head of Tehrans traffic police, Gen. Teymour Hosseini"
2015-09-04,Peru: Indigenous Seize 11 Oil Wells Demanding Spill Clean Up
2015-09-03,"The Democratic Republic of Congo has banned a film about Congolese surgeon Denis Mukwege, who has treated thousands of women raped during conflict. ""There is a clear intent to harm and sully the image of our army."""
2015-09-03,Turkish daily exposes transfer of weapons to ISIS
2015-09-03,"Exactly half of Germans are concerned that the strong increase in the number of asylum seekers is overwhelming them and German authorities, a survey showed on Thursday."
2015-09-03,"Australia wants to join India, the United States and Japan in joint naval exercises in the Indian Ocean, widening participation in multilateral drills as China's influence in the region grows."
2015-09-03,Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned after Congress stripped the leader of immunity over corruption allegations and a warrant was issued for his arrest.
2015-09-03,"Plane Debris Found on Reunion Island Definitely from MH370, French Investigators Determine - French investigators confirmed plane debris found on Runion Island is indeed from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which went missing on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board."
2015-09-03,Earth has 3 trillion trees but they're falling at alarming rate.The number of trees has fallen by about 46 percent since the start of human civilization and each year there is a gross loss of 15 billion trees and a net loss of 10 billion
2015-09-03,"Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' visits tar sands: 'extraordinary exploitation' of environment. Everybody says they feel like the tipping points been reached. Everyone we speak with, where enough is enough kind of thing."""
2015-09-03,Two poachers in Kenya sentenced to pay US$1 million each or else face life in prison
2015-09-03,"Ukraine outbreak brings polio back to Europe, 2 kids paralysed"
2015-09-03,The Pentagon is monitoring Chinese navy ships off the coast of Alaska  right as Obama is wrapping up a trip there
2015-09-03,Venezuela's Unofficial Inflation Rate Is 808%
2015-09-03,Flesh-eating disease on rise in Japan : International
2015-09-03,Unsheared sheep found wandering in Australia was so wooly he nearly died  ended up having 93 pounds of wool sheared
2015-09-03,HIV Prevention Drug Appears to Work in First Real-World Test.
2015-09-03,Gaza schools expel girls for leaving hair uncovered
2015-09-03,"Italian road authorities disown man to build street. But state doesn't recognise he isn't owner any more. Now he declares his own ""principality""."
2015-09-03,SodaStream leaves West Bank as CEO says boycott antisemitic and pointless.
2015-09-03,Bali police see tourists as ATMs: 'kick them and they spit out money'
2015-09-03,"The Catholic Church in India is supporting some 150 million workers on a nationwide strike Sept. 2 that shut down factories, banks, traffic and government offices across India: ""The Church is in solidarity with striking workers because we are concerned about their welfare."""
2015-09-03,Isis profits from destruction of antiquities by selling relics to dealers - and then blowing up the buildings they come from to conceal the evidence of looting
2015-09-03,PA officials reject Netanyahus call for renewal of peace talks
2015-09-03,Hungary will send back economic migrants
2015-09-03,Hungarian PM: Migrant crisis 'is a German problem'
2015-09-03,India has added 52 million Internet users in first six months of the year
2015-09-02,"Pakistan allows Taliban to meet, choose leader: Defying warnings from Washington and the fury of Afghanistan's government, Pakistani authorities are turning a blind eye to a meeting of hundreds of Taliban supporters in Quetta."
2015-09-02,Obama secures Iran nuclear deal with Barbara Mikulski vote
2015-09-02,"Scientists claim to have discovered the first new human prion in almost 50 years. Prions are misfolded proteins that make copies of themselves by inducing others to misfold. By so doing, they multiply and cause disease."
2015-09-02,Bill Gates calls for more funds to help world's poorest farmers. Billionaire philanthropist puts focus on protecting small farmers saying they are likely to suffer the most from climate change
2015-09-02,"Australia, Victoria to ban protesters from harassing women at abortion clinics"
2015-09-02,Three arrested in Paris over 'devil's breath' drug that turns victims into willing 'zombies'
2015-09-02,"Hugo Chvez daughter is the richest individual in Venezuela, worth over $4 billion."
2015-09-02,"A Japanese vertical farming company has begun construction on a vegetable 'factory' that is smaller than a football pitch but could produce 30,000 heads of lettuce daily"
2015-09-02,"Four months after quakes, Nepal fails to spend any of $4.1 billion donor money"
2015-09-02,"150 Million workers from 10 unions goes on strike today, in India"
2015-09-02,N.Korea would have 'no chance' in a conflict with South: US
2015-09-02,"Iceland Caps Syrian Refugees at 50; 10,000 Icelanders Respond by Offering Up Their Homes"
2015-09-02,'Isis' weapon shipment intercepted by Greek coastguard off Crete
2015-09-02,"Mongolia in for double whammy: drought now, ""dzud"" next. The drought has wiped out up to 80 per cent of its wheat crop and up next could be the worst winter in six years."
2015-09-02,German police forced to ask public to stop bringing donations for refugees arriving by train
2015-09-02,Prime Minister Cameron Rejects Call For Britain To Take More Refugees
2015-09-02,Iran official: We'll bolster our military until Israel is overthrown
2015-09-02,Hundreds of Eurostar passengers stranded by migrants trying to get through tunnel
2015-09-02,Guatemalan Congress strips president's immunity - Vote clears way for President Otto Perez to be prosecuted over allegations he masterminded a massive corruption scheme.
2015-09-02,"Migrants using fake Syrian passports to enter EU: border agency - A market in fake Syrian passports has sprung up, particularly in Turkey, to help migrants and refugees enter the EU, the head of Europe's border agency Frontex said on Tuesday."
2015-09-02,"Pakistan's ISI Gave Shelter To Mullah Omar, Hillary Clinton's Email Dump Reveals"
2015-09-02,Yemen crisis: Two Red Cross staff shot dead in Amran
2015-09-02,"Gaza could be uninhabitable by 2020, says United Nations development agency"
2015-09-02,"US To Impose Sanction Against More Russian Individuals, Companies Over Ukraine Ceasefire"
2015-09-02,London clinic accidentally reveals HIV status of 780 patients. The 56 Dean Street clinic apologises after sending newsletter disclosing names and email addresses of patients with HIV.
2015-09-01,Canada officially in recession
2015-09-01,"Cuba goes all in on English, amid closer US ties - Now that Cuba has restored diplomatic ties with the United States, teaching English in schools will be a priority"
2015-09-01,"11 years in a row, South Korea is No. 1 in suicide rate followed by Hungary and Japan"
2015-09-01,Obama on Climate Change: Act Now or Condemn World to a Nightmare
2015-09-01,MI6 spy Gareth Williams who was found dead in locked bag had 'hacked secret files about US president Bill Clinton'
2015-09-01,"Up to 90% of seabirds have plastic in their guts - Australian scientists updated estimates & say plastic in the ocean is increasing. ""It's pretty astronomical. In the next 11 yrs we will make as much plastic as has been made since industrial plastic production began in the 1950s."""
2015-09-01,"On September 15, a group of activists affiliated with the Show Us Ya Text campaign will converge on New Zealand's Parliament in an attempt to seize the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)"
2015-09-01,"More than 11,000 Icelanders offer to house Syrian refugees to help European crisis"
2015-09-01,Did India village council really order rape of two sisters? Local police and officials say no such order was given
2015-09-01,"Russia has opened a laboratory in Siberia devoted to the study of extinct animal DNA in the hope of creating clones, it's reported."
2015-09-01,"A rare celestial event is scheduled for September 28, 2015 - a total lunar eclipse and the closest supermoon of the year. This full Moon is also known as the Harvest or Blood Moon, because it ends the current lunar tetrad."
2015-09-01,Three Category 4 hurricanes form over Pacific Ocean for first time in recorded history
2015-09-01,"65% of Europes electronic waste is stolen or mismanaged - Something stinks about Europes trash. A 2-yr investigation into Europes electronic waste found most of it is stolen, mismanaged, illegally traded, or just thrown away."
2015-09-01,Police raided the offices of a Turkish media group after the Bugn daily ran a story exposing the transfer of weapons and explosives to ISIS from Turkey to Syria
2015-09-01,ISIS Shows Off Its American-Made M16 Rifles
2015-09-01,"If We Rescued the Banks We Can Save Refugees, Merkel Says.Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany must respond to the European refugee crisis with the same resolve it showed in rescuing banks and her government will spend billions of euros to handle the tide of migrants."
2015-09-01,ISIS affiliate in Gaza claims responsibility for early morning failed rocket attack on Israel. Rocket fell in gaza.
2015-09-01,China made a journalist 'confess' to causing the stock market chaos
2015-09-01,Israeli doctors restore sight to 90 Kyrgyzstanis in marathon initiative
2015-09-01,Top Chinese hedge fund manager 'disappears'
2015-09-01,"More than 10,000 Icelanders ready to welcome Syrians"
2015-09-01,"China stock probes send shivers through investment community: If I dont come back, look after my wife"
2015-09-01,"Boko Haram on horses kill 79 in 3 attacks, locals say - CNN.com"
2015-09-01,UN satellite imagery confirms 2000-year-old Palmyra's Temple of Bel destroyed by ISIS.
2015-09-01,Thai police give cash reward to themselves after making Bangkok bombing arrest without any help
2015-08-31,"Mysterious Wooden Idol Found in Russia is 11,000 years old, The Shigir Idol is twice as old as the Pyramids and Stonehenge - and is by far the oldest wooden structure in the world. Covered in a code no one can decipher."
2015-08-31,"India virtually eliminates tetanus as a killer of newborns and mothers, a year after it eliminated polio"
2015-08-31,"Russian fighter pilots will begin arriving in Syria in the coming days, and will fly their Russian air force fighter jets and attack helicopters against ISIS and rebel-aligned targets within the failing state."
2015-08-31,Corporate Developers Seize Indigenous Lands in Brazil and Hire Hit Men to Murder Residents
2015-08-31,Saudi Arabia is the Great ISIS - says Yemeni army spokesman
2015-08-31,"Nestle says ""forced labor has no place in our supply chain"" following a U.S. class action lawsuit that alleges the Swiss food company knowingly supported a system of slave labor and human trafficking to make its Fancy Feast cat food"
2015-08-31,"France will ban cars from the streets of Paris for one day next month, turning the city over to pedestrians and cyclists - the move is timed to coincide with the upcoming United Nations climate conference"
2015-08-31,A new era? Iranians erase 'Death to America' graffiti from wall of former US embassy in Tehran
2015-08-31,VICE News crew facing terrorism charges in Turkey on Monday.
2015-08-31,ISIS blows up biggest temple at Palmyra
2015-08-31,MI6 spy found dead in holdall 'hacked into secret data about Bill Clinton'
2015-08-31,"Nearly 100 Afghan schoolgirls fell sick on Monday, prompting officials in the western city of Herat to investigate whether they were poisoned by Taliban militants."
2015-08-31,Singapore lifts ban on HIV-positive visitors: Foreigners with HIV will be able to visit for up to three months but will still be prevented from staying long term or working in the city-state.
2015-08-31,"Bin Laden should have been tried, not killed - UK opposition party leader frontrunner"
2015-08-31,A loud explosion shook central Kiev near the countrys parliament building Monday as lawmakers voted for constitutional changes to give its eastern regions a special status.
2015-08-31,"Slashing household solar subsides will kill off industry, government told"
2015-08-31,Tony Blair 'tried to save Colonel Gaddafi' just before bombing of Libya
2015-08-31,Sierra Leone: Officials confirm new Ebola death
2015-08-31,Brazil mayor who ran town via WhatsApp wanted for corruption
2015-08-31,US considering sanctions over Chinese cyber theft: Report
2015-08-31,"Hezbollah enlisting West Bank youth to carry out terror attacks against Israel: ""Tehran will continue to strengthen the axis of resistance in order to deal with the Zionist entity."""
2015-08-31,"Migration crisis: Germany, France and Britain demand urgent EU meeting"
2015-08-31,Thousands urge help for Indian sisters ordered raped
2015-08-31,"Red Sea stinging jellyfish 'invading' Mediterranean through Suez Canal - The newly-enlarged canal is forming a superhighway for invasive species. Expansion did away with natural barrier. ""We have this corridor pushing in alien species."" Some, like devil firefish, are beautiful but deadly."
2015-08-31,"Borussia Dortmund offers 220 Syrian refugees free tickets to watch their match, which means a football club has welcomed more Syrian refugees than the entirety of the Syrian refugees welcomed by the UK"
2015-08-30,'Illegal' mass protest across Malaysia calling for prime minister's resignation and fair elections after revelation he took $700million in state funds
2015-08-30,"BMW: All Models Electric Within Decade - intends to convert all its vehicles to some configuration of plug-in hybrid. New range of cars could be driven by separate electric motors powering the front/rear wheels, with small gasoline engine to generate electricity to extend the range of the batteries"
2015-08-30,Ukraine just published detailed intelligence of Russian troop movements and equipment
2015-08-30,"Massive gas field discovered off Egypt is potentially 'one of the world's largest' - 5.5 billion barrels of oil equivalent, says Italian energy firm Eni."
2015-08-30,"Picture of desperate man selling pens in Lebanon's streets with daughter inspired online fundraiser that has gone viral raising over $130,000"
2015-08-30,"Conservationists appalled at illegal killing of 25m birds a yr in Mediterranean | Glued, poisoned, trapped, shot  a shocking report reveals enforcement failure at a colossal scale as hunters across southern Europe & the Middle East kill birds with impunity"
2015-08-30,Only 16 female voters registered in Saudi municipal elections
2015-08-30,"A road accident in Swaziland has killed 38 girls and seriously injured 20 others who were on their way to a traditional ceremony where King Mswati III can choose a new wife, pro-democracy activists reported."
2015-08-30,"Large Hadron Collider: Subatomic particles have been found that appear to defy the Standard Model of particle physics. The scientists working at CERN have found evidence of leptons decaying at different rates, which could be evidence for non-standard physics"
2015-08-30,"Tens of thousands protest defense bills outside Japan's diet. ""No to war legislation!"" ""Scrap the bills now!"" and ""Abe, quit!"" they chanted during the demonstration in the government district in Tokyo, filling the street outside the front gate of the parliament"
2015-08-30,"Marine Le Pen calls for end to legal immigration to France - French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has called for an end to all immigration to France, legal and illegal"
2015-08-30,"The Netherlands is set to toughen its asylum policy by cutting off food and shelter for people who fail to qualify as refugees. Failed asylum seekers would be limited to ""a few weeks"" shelter after being turned down, if they do not agree to return home."
2015-08-30,U.S. Official: Saudis Have Used Cluster Bombs in Yemen
2015-08-30,"Sweden's far-right Sweden Democrats, which recently topped an opinion poll for the first time, want a referendum to be held on the country's generous immigration policy, its party leader said Saturday."
2015-08-30,"Migrant traffickers open fire on Greek coast guard, 1 dead"
2015-08-30,"Mexican opium production has risen to meet heroin demand in U.S. Production is predominantly in the south-western Guerrero state, which its governor, Rogelio Ortega Martnez says is now on par with Afghanistan in terms of heroin production"
2015-08-30,Amari says TPP may be halted if no deal is reached before Canada election in October
2015-08-30,"Poaching increasing, 749 rhinos poached in 2015"
2015-08-30,"Spanish authorities have arrested a American man on charges of enslavement and diamond pillaging during Sierra Leone's civil war, a victims' association said on Saturday"
2015-08-30,Smugglers who drove migrants to their deaths were part of a vast web
2015-08-30,"The oil and gas producer Nexen Energy, a Canadian subsidiary of China's CNOOC, was forced to suspend operations Saturday at 95 pipelines after a major leak last month"
2015-08-30,"Egypt sentences 3 Al-Jazeera reporters to 3 years in prison for broadcasting ""false news"""
2015-08-30,Europe's open-border policy Schengen may be nearing its end
2015-08-30,French gypsies block major motorway to Calais with burning tyres in demonstration after shooting at camp
2015-08-30,About That Airplane Part That Was Supposed to Solve the MH370 Mystery...
2015-08-29,7-Eleven Australia has been found to be systematically paying its workers half the minimum wage at stores around the country.
2015-08-29,"Julian Assange 'told Edward Snowden not seek asylum in Latin America' because he could have been kidnapped and possibly killed there | WikiLeaks founder says he told the NSA whistleblower he could be kidnapped or killed, and that he was better off sheltering in Russia despite negative PR"
2015-08-29,"The most rigorous test of quantum theory ever carried out has confirmed that the spooky action at a distance that the German physicist famously hated  in which manipulating one object instantaneously seems to affect another, far away one  is an inherent part of the quantum world."
2015-08-29,"Canada government suspends scientist for folk song about prime minister - The song was written by Tony Turner, who worked at govt agency Environment Canada & is a mainstay on the Ottawa folk music scene"
2015-08-29,"NASA begins year-long 'Mars isolation' experiment | A crew testing how a small group of humans might cope with a trip to Mars has started their 12-month mission. They will have to eat, communicate, and live exactly as they would on Mars - in a tiny dome in Hawaii."
2015-08-29,Former Catholic archbishop found dead ahead of child sexual abuse trial
2015-08-29,Zimbabwe to Ship 100s of Elephants to China  24 already sent & 170 on the way. Deal is all the more controversial since demand for ivory among Chinese consumers is propelling poaching to historic levels. They're to be in a park where wild animals appear in circus-style performances.
2015-08-29,Japanese high school students form labor union for protection in part-time jobs
2015-08-29,"2015 will be the hottest year on record 'by a mile', experts say"
2015-08-29,Several Belgian police officers to be given special protection after pictures of them and their family members found on the phone of a suspected terrorist
2015-08-29,Malaysian government bans the color yellow hours before peaceful rally for cleaner elections
2015-08-29,El Salvador records 51 violent deaths in single day
2015-08-29,Tens of thousands of Malaysians wearing yellow T-shirts and blowing horns defiantly held a major rally in the capital Saturday to demand the resignation of embattled Prime Minister Najib Razak
2015-08-29,"Middle East faces water shortages for the next 25 years, study says - Rising population & dwindling water supplies will affect millions of people & exacerbate conflict in the region"
2015-08-29,"Bryce Casavant, who refused to kill bear cubs, removed from Conservation Service"
2015-08-29,Chad executes 10 Boko Haram members by firing squad: sources
2015-08-29,Bangkok bomb: Thai police arrest man over Erawan blast
2015-08-29,Finland detains Russian citizen accused of computer fraud in U.S.
2015-08-29,"Snowden may get freedom prize at border | The Norwegian academy which gave Edward Snowden a free speech prize is planning to hold a ""symbolic ceremony"" for the whistleblower at the country's far-northern border with Russia"
2015-08-29,Hereford (UK) couple married for 45 years separated over visa row. Mrs Summers (Dutch by birth) has been forced to fly to her home in Canada leaving her husband alone in hospital as he recovers from a cancer operation.
2015-08-29,"The U.S. military confirmed on Friday that a British hacker who was one of the Islamic State movement's top computer experts and active in encouraging people abroad to carry out ""lone wolf"" attacks was killed in Syria by a U.S. air strike."
2015-08-29,Malaysia braces for major protests against PM Najib Razak
2015-08-29,""" Switzerland expressed regret on Friday after its ambassador to Iran displayed a cartoon depicting two doves defecating on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus head"""
2015-08-29,"Polish official says gold train ""99%"" likely to exist"
2015-08-29,FBI demanded Scandinavian countries arrest Edward Snowden should he visit
2015-08-28,"Canada will not sign a Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal that would allow Japanese vehicles into North America with fewer parts manufactured here, says Ed Fast, the federal minister of international trade."
2015-08-28,An unelected all-male village council in India has ordered that two sisters be raped as punishment for their brother eloping with a married woman. They also ordered for the sisters to be paraded naked with blackened faces.
2015-08-28,Pirate Bay Founder Released From Jail But Immediately Re-Arrested
2015-08-28,USA asked Norway to arrest Edward Snowden
2015-08-28,German sailor Erik Heil has required surgery for a serious skin infection after competing in a test regatta for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
2015-08-28,Hamas just released a video showing off their rebuilt Gaza tunnels.
2015-08-28,A lawyer who represented Christian churches that had their crosses torn down by the Chinese government has disappeared
2015-08-28,"China likely to drag the world into global recession, Citibank says"
2015-08-28,4.4 magnitude earthquake in northern B.C. caused by fracking
2015-08-28,Canadian whooping cough cases soar over last year; only 72 % kids in affected area are vaccinated
2015-08-28,"TTIP deal: Business lobbyists dominate talks at expense of trade unions and NGOs: ""This is a corporate discussion, not a democratic one"""
2015-08-28,Japanese police bracing for gang war as Yamaguchi-gumi mafia group splits: Reports Japans biggest crime syndicate is about split with potential outbreak of violence between breakaway group and those loyal to leader Tsukasa
2015-08-28,"Turkish police have detained two British journalists from Vice News for reporting from the predominantly Kurdish southeast without government accreditation, security sources said on Friday."
2015-08-28,Coca-Cola to Replenish 100% of Water It Uses 5 Years Ahead of Schedule
2015-08-28,Fury as archaeological site ruined and replaced with picnic table
2015-08-28,Brazil's economy enters recession
2015-08-28,Israel makes video to thank Shanghai for helping Jews during Holocaust
2015-08-28,"Australian Border Force recieves new military uniforms, ordered to stop citizens and ask for their papers in Melbourne this weekend"
2015-08-28,"Swiss envoy says: invest in Iran, Middle East's ""pole of stability"" as Europeans race back to Iran"
2015-08-28,European Commission officials have held hundreds of meetings with lobbyists to discuss the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) treaty - yet only around one in ten is with public interest groups.
2015-08-28,"As shoals of anchovies and sardines have migrated south into cooler waters, the population of African Penguins that feeds on the fish has plummeted by 90 percent since 2004 along South Africas west coast - the continents only species of the flightless bird  are at risk of extinction."
2015-08-28,Australian 'Border Force' to patrol Melbourne CBD as part of anti-social behaviour operation
2015-08-28,"HIV particles do not cause AIDS, the body's own immune cells do: researchers revealed that the HIV 'death pathway' -- how 95 percent of cells die from the virus -- is only initiated if the virus is passed by the hosts own immune system, not if cells are infected by free-floating viral particles."
2015-08-28,Wikileaks hacker turned FBI informer pleads guilty to sexual assault charges against nine boys in Iceland
2015-08-28,Wife of a former Afghan translator for the British Forces loses baby after being punched in the stomach by a Taliban commander for refusing to reveal her husband's whereabouts.
2015-08-27,India just turned off mobile internet for 63 million citizens amid protests in Ahmedabad
2015-08-27,Germany hands over citizens metadata in return for NSAs top spy software
2015-08-27,"German Justice Minister criticizes Facebook's double standards: German users are struggling to understand why Facebook is quick to ban nudity, but often fails to ban posts that constitute the criminal offense of incitement to hatred."
2015-08-27,Confirmed:Long-Lost Nazi loot train found in Poland
2015-08-27,Up to 50 refugees found dead in truck in Austria: Newspaper reports initial indications were that they suffocated.
2015-08-27,"Delta governor(Nigeria) scored more votes than number of voters, INEC confirms"
2015-08-27,"Mystery as rare saiga antelopes drop dead in their thousands. The world population of saiga antelope has halved in less than two weeks after 140,000 animals perished on the Kazakhstan steppes without any obvious cause."
2015-08-27,Diamonds Worth Millions Vanish from 'Russia's Fort Knox': Rough diamonds worth millions of dollars have reportedly disappeared from Russia's supposedly impenetrable repository created by the Bolsheviks to store the tsar's jewels.
2015-08-27,"According to the 23-year record of satellite data from NASA and its partners, the sea level is rising a few millimeters a year -- a fraction of an inch. If you live on the U.S. East Coast, though, your sea level is rising two or three times faster than average."
2015-08-27,Muslims not doing 'enough' to fight Islamic State: Jordan's Queen Rania
2015-08-27,Denmark cuts benefits for asylum seekers - Danish lawmakers on Wednesday approved cutting welfare benefits for new asylum seekers in a bid to curtail arrivals.
2015-08-27,Israel: Professor Uri Shanas launches crowdfunding campaign to buy 1.4% of earth for conservation
2015-08-27,First female prime minister for Greece announced
2015-08-27,Fake Goldman Sachs bank found in China
2015-08-27,TTIP controversy: The European Commission and Big Tobacco accused of cover-up after heavily redacted documents released
2015-08-27,Ethiopia has launched the first space program in East Africa
2015-08-27,"Knut the polar bear's cause of death revealed - They analysed samples of Knuts cerebrospinal fluid and found high levels of an antibody known to attack a glutamate receptor in the brain. In humans, this is a sign of a disease called autoimmune encephalitis, the first ever reported in a non-human."
2015-08-27,Drunk Gunman Fires 30 Shots and Kills Four at Traveler Camp in North of France
2015-08-27,Saudi Arabia is set to break its own record of 192 beheading as the country has executed 102 condemned prisoners
2015-08-27,"Tajikistan Steps Up Fight Against Islamic Radicalization, bans the sale of hijabs and niqabs."
2015-08-27,British-born Isis hacker killed: US drone strike in Syria kills Junaid Hussain
2015-08-27,North Korea's shiny new airport falls short of expectations
2015-08-27,"Sea levels are rising around the world and the latest satellite data suggests that one metre or more is unavoidable in the next 100-200 years, NASA scientists have said."
2015-08-27,"The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit by Water Shortages by 2040 - The nations most likely to be hit by severe and continuous water shortages by 2040 include Bahrain (which will be the single most water-stressed), Israel, Palestine, Spain, and Chile."
2015-08-27,"China warehouse explosion in Tianjin leads prosecutors to detain government officials, company executives"
2015-08-26,"Switzerland has completed the construction of the 57 km long Gotthard Base Tunnel, connecting Milan to Zurich"
2015-08-26,Ancient Greek palace unearthed near Sparta dates back to 17th century BC.
2015-08-26,"Nearly a billion monarch butterflies have vanished. Now their haven in Mexico is also disappearing: More than 52 acres of a haven where the butterflies hibernate over winter has been degraded, mostly by deforestation from illegal logging, with drought helping the decline."
2015-08-26,Secret 'dark net' operation saves scores of children from sexual abuse
2015-08-26,Rare Nautilus Sighted For The First Time In Three Decades
2015-08-26,"ISIS Brutalizes Boys to Create an Army of Child Soldiers, Victims Say."
2015-08-26,Israeli NGO accused of subsidizing Jewish extremists with US money
2015-08-26,North Korea's 50 Missing Submarines Have Apparently Reappeared Following Truce
2015-08-26,Canadian dollar slips below 75 cents for first time since 2004
2015-08-26,Hungary may use army to secure border against migrants.
2015-08-26,"Poland drought: Jewish tombstones and fighter plane uncovered as rivers run dry. Prolonged drought has seen rivers fall to record lows, throwing up archaeological remnants and relics of Polands wartime past"
2015-08-26,"The mayor of Venice, who this month had a public row with British rock star Elton John over family values, has said he never wants to see a Gay Pride parade take place in the lagoon city while he is in charge"
2015-08-26,"New Milestone: 2.5Mln Europeans Sign Online Petition to Stop TTIP, CETA"
2015-08-26,"US to welcome 5,000 to 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016"
2015-08-26,"By 2050, an area of forests the size of India is set to be wiped off the planet if humans continue on their current path of deforestation, according to a new report. Thats bad news for the creatures that depend on these forest ecosystems for survival, but its also bad news for the climate"
2015-08-26,Snowden of the Sea: Researchers Name New Crayfish After NSA Leaker
2015-08-26,Canada has engineered bacteria that send a remote signal when water sources get polluted
2015-08-26,Migrants crisis: Germany's Merkel booed at Heidenau centre
2015-08-26,Thailand destroys ivory stockpile in ceremony amid junta crackdown on illegal trade
2015-08-26,"A pioneering procedure has led to a baby being born from the same womb that nurtured his mother. The Swedish mother, who lost her uterus to cancer in her 20s, said it was unimaginable that she now had her own child thanks to her mothers donated womb."
2015-08-26,Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement: Potential damage to global public health
2015-08-26,"Germany has reportedly begun taking steps towards banning the use of all genetically modified crops. New rules will allow individual member states to block farmers from using GM organisms, even if the variety has been approved on an EU-wide basis."
2015-08-26,"Senior Iran aide: Israel should be annihilated, and this is our ultimate slogan"
2015-08-26,Italy hits back at Merkel in migrants row - Italy's foreign minister: Asking Greece and Italy to do their duty on immigration is like asking a country hit by floods to step up the production of umbrellas
2015-08-26,Court orders Russia to pay compensation for Greenpeace ship seizure. A court in the Netherlands has ordered Russia to pay compensation for seizing the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise during a protest against an offshore oil platform two years ago
2015-08-25,The first UN privacy chief has said the world needs a Geneva convention style law for the internet to safeguard data and combat the threat of massive clandestine digital surveillance.
2015-08-25,"Israeli President: Israel has 'right' to settle in West Bank ""For me, our right to this land is not a matter of political debate. It is a basic fact of modern Zionism"""
2015-08-25,"China censoring Black Monday on countrys biggest search engine, Baidu, stopping citizens looking for information about financial chaos"
2015-08-25,"North and South Korea reach agreement to ease tensions. NK to apologize for landmines, SK to stop propaganda broadcasts."
2015-08-25,Russia lifts ban on Wikipedia
2015-08-25,50 North Korean Submarines Have Reportedly Vanished in an 'Unprecedented' Deployment
2015-08-25,Ukrainian film-maker Oleg Sentsov sentenced to 20 years in jail in southern Russia on terrorist charges
2015-08-25,"Koreas end marathon talks aimed at defusing tensions, reach agreement"
2015-08-25,ISIS throws 9 homosexuals from tall building in Mosul
2015-08-25,Shanghai stock market opens down 6.1%
2015-08-25,"Over 2,000 Russian troops killed during Ukraine invasion"
2015-08-25,Russia bans Wikipedia
2015-08-25,"26 Japanese universities to abolish humanities, social sciences"
2015-08-25,UNESCO calls ISILs destruction of ancient Roman temple a war crime
2015-08-25,World's greatest ever haul of supersize cave lion bones found in Urals - They also found a cave bear skull pierced with an ancient spear. Weapons also found.
2015-08-25,"Germany opens its gates: Berlin says all Syrian asylum-seekers are welcome to remain, as Britain is urged to make a 'similar statement'"
2015-08-25,"Only 3 of 116 Guantnamo detainees were captured by US forces: There is great reason to disbelieve claims that detainees are the worst of the worst, including the fact that many were sold to the US for a bounty, not based on any real quality intelligence the US had gathered"""
2015-08-25,North Korea: Seoul learned a lesson about 'provocations'
2015-08-25,Court tells Russia to pay damages to Netherlands
2015-08-25,'Thousands' of political heavyweights hold Swiss accounts: official
2015-08-25,A new Hindu temple in UAE's Abu Dhabi is getting Saudis riled up
2015-08-25,"Sweden Democrats gain in another record poll - The Sweden Democrats scored record support in another poll on Tuesday, backing up previous surveys suggesting that voters are abandoning mainstream parties in favour of the nationalists."
2015-08-25,Japan delivers whiskey to space station_ for science
2015-08-25,The Richest Guy in Asia Loses $3.6 Billion in the Market Rout
2015-08-25,"I know what apartheid was, and Israel is not apartheid, says S. African parliament member"
2015-08-24,"Twitter has forced 30 websites that archive politician's deleted tweets to shut down, removing an effective tool to keep politicians honest"
2015-08-24,"The police officer who leaked the footage of the surfers paradise police brutality, where the victims blood was washed away by officers, has been criminally charged for bringing it to the publics view. Officers who did the bashing get nothing."
2015-08-24,"The Australian Stock Market has plunged 2.5% in the first 20 minutes of opening for the week, losing $20 billion. The Chinese Stock Market has dropped 7% just an hour after opening, and the ripple effects are starting to be seen worldwide as markets open"
2015-08-24,Chinese troops head to border with North Korea
2015-08-24,Two Ashley Madison clients reported to have taken their lives after hackers published their details - Canada police
2015-08-24,South Korea vows not to turn off its loudspeakers at the border unless North Korea apologizes
2015-08-24,"Russia fined $115,000 for snubbing Canadas anthem at world hockey championships"
2015-08-24,S. Korea Detects Unusual Submarine Activity From North as Envoys Meet
2015-08-24,"Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politicians deleted tweets in 30 countries"
2015-08-24,Multiple explosions reported at US military facility in Japan
2015-08-24,Earth is on track to lose an India-sized chunk of its tropical forests by mid-century
2015-08-24,"Train gunman's lawyer: He only meant to rob people, found Kalashnikov in a park near train station"
2015-08-24,"Boy stumbles, leaves hole in valuable painting at Da Vinci exhibit in Taipei."
2015-08-24,Pokemon World Championship: Police seize firearms and arrest two men who promised to 'kill the competition'
2015-08-24,South Korea resumes loudspeaker operations Moday morning
2015-08-24,No Sign of End to Korea Talks as Kim Steps Up Force Mobilization
2015-08-24,"World's fastest-melting glacier loses massive chunk in 2 days. ""This glacier alone could contribute more to sea level rise than any other single feature in the Northern Hemisphere,"" NASA stated on its website."
2015-08-24,Protests reject TPP as corporate power grab
2015-08-24,U.K. Orders Google To Forget 9 News Articles About The Right To Be Forgotten
2015-08-24,Russian ruble collapses to 7-month low on weak oil prices
2015-08-24,"'I'm very scared': Russians brace for a ban on medical imports - The proposed ban has sparked dismay in Russia, where many hospitals are woefully underequipped"
2015-08-24,Tension grows over 'lost' North Korean submarines as South Korea searches for vessels
2015-08-24,Kim Jong-un snubs China's invitation to military parade
2015-08-24,U.S. confirms that Islamic State used mustard gas in a mortar attack on Kurdish forces in Makhmour on August 11th
2015-08-24,"Chances Of Agreement From Inter-Korean Talks Not High, S. Korea, US Raise WATCHCON to Level 2"
2015-08-23,"Thousands of prehistoric mammoth tusks are being dug out of the melting permafrost of the Arctic. They are then shipped to China for the ivory-carving industry, causing some scientists to question whether this perfectly legal trade should be banned."
2015-08-23,Dresden riots: Protesters in Germany attack refugee buses shouting 'foreigners out'
2015-08-23,"N. Korean 'subs out for operations, artillery doubled,' talks with South resume"
2015-08-23,Tianjin Officials: All Those Dead Fish Are Nothing to Worry About - Chinese authorities deny deaths of 1000s of fish near scene of a catastrophic industrial disaster are linked to last weeks chemical explosions in Tianjin that killed at least 114 people.
2015-08-23,"Swiss army ends 31-day cow rescue mission - Crew airlifted water to thirsty cows during drought, delivering 1,840 tons of water July 20th-Aug 19. The mission suffered a minor diplomatic incident when the Swiss army took water from lakes in the French Jura."
2015-08-23,"Australia, New Zealand firefighters head to US western states to battle blazes."
2015-08-23,A Million North Koreans Volunteer To Fight
2015-08-23,"Islamic leaders join growing religious outcry over climate change - Call on faithful, urging Muslims to phase out greenhouse gas emissions & commit to renewable energy. Scholars from 20 countries issue Islamic Declaration on Climate Change, asking worlds 1.6 billion Muslims to do their part."
2015-08-23,How AT&T Helped the NSA Spy on Millions | United States of Secrets | FRONTLINE
2015-08-23,31 Police Officers Injured as Anti-Immigrant Protesters Riot in Germany | VICE News
2015-08-23,South Korean spokesman says high-level talks with North Korea have adjourned until Sunday afternoon
2015-08-23,United Arab Emirates special forces frees British hostage held by Alqaeda Yemen
2015-08-23,Worlds oldest message in a bottle ever found finally washes up after 108 years
2015-08-23,Romanian city offers free rides on public transport if you're reading a book
2015-08-23,"Belarusian President Frees All 6 Political Prisoners: ""Freeing political prisoners was a condition set by the European Union and United States for improved relations with Belarus"""
2015-08-23,Chinese mock claims Beijing is most liveable city in the country
2015-08-23,Millions Of Dollars Worth Of Dissolved Gold and Silver Found in Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand
2015-08-23,Kurds Fighting the Islamic State Enraged at Turkey Over Brutal Killing of Female Fighter
2015-08-23,S. Korea's six fighter jets return home ahead of schedule from Alaska drills
2015-08-23,"Russia, China start joint air, navy drills"
2015-08-23,"Italian navy rescues 4,400 migrants off Libya coast"
2015-08-23,"World's largest solar power station to come up in Madhya Pradesh, India"
2015-08-23,Protest in Lebanon against corruption and the garbage problem leads to clash with the police.
2015-08-23,India-Pakistan peace talks collapse hours before start
2015-08-23,Hundreds of migrants crossed unhindered from Greece into Macedonia on Sunday after overwhelmed security forces appeared to abandon a bid to stem their flow through the Balkans to western Europe following days of chaos and confrontation.
2015-08-22,A group of US Marines foiled a potential terror attack on a French train
2015-08-22,North Korea warns it 'will attack South at 8.30am Saturday' as Kim Jong-un declares state of war
2015-08-22,Explosion at chemical warehouse in China's Shandong province
2015-08-22,U.S. confirms Islamic State use of chemical weapons
2015-08-22,"Magnetic Wormhole Created in Lab - ""This device can transmit the magnetic field from one point in space to another point, through a path that is magnetically invisible,"" said study co-author Jordi Prat-Camps, a doctoral candidate in physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in Spain."
2015-08-22,North Korea Official: Kim Jong Un Approves Final Attack Operation On South Korea
2015-08-22,"S. Korea, U.S. fly 8 combat jets in show of force against N. Korea"
2015-08-22,"Poverty-stricken people are being encouraged to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit out of fear they will face crippling costs imposed by new financial penalties, leading lawyers, magistrates and campaigners have warned."
2015-08-22,"London schoolgirl 'radicalised' by parents' IS propaganda must be removed from home, judge rules"
2015-08-22,Nasa has confirmed  after rumours swept the internet about an imminent asteroid strike expected between 15 and 28 September  that the two-week period in question will be entirely free of Earth-destroying space attacks.
2015-08-22,DPRK has positioned artillery inside the DMZ and moved additional forces to the lines.
2015-08-22,China stocks crash 11% in a week
2015-08-22,DPRK and ROK still in high level negotiation well after midnight in an apparent move to end escalation.
2015-08-22,Ashley Madison faces $578M Canadian class-action lawsuit
2015-08-22,"Islamic State is systematically destroying heritage sites, says UNESCO chief"
2015-08-22,Plane crashes at airshow in West Sussex
2015-08-22,Slovakia Will Only Take Christian Migrants Because Muslims 'Won't Like It Here'
2015-08-22,White House: ISIS No. 2 killed by US strike
2015-08-22,Koreas to hold talks amid tension
2015-08-22,"Indias obesity problem is so huge, officials want to ban junk-food sales to students - A government committee recommended a prohibition on vendors of high-fat and high-sugar treats within 656 feet of campuses."
2015-08-22,South Korea ready to respond to further 'provocations' as North's deadline looms. Seoul says it will continue border propaganda broadcasts unless North accepts responsibility for landmine explosions that wounded 2 South Korean soldiers earlier this month
2015-08-22,North Korea suffers Internet outages in lead-up to potential war
2015-08-22,"Asylum 'could cost Germany 10bn' in 2015 - Based on new projections for the number of asylum seekers expected to arrive in Germany this year, the country may have to find 10 billion to fund its already creaking system."
2015-08-22,Malaysian politician: Jews and white people are out to destroy Malaysian Muslims by turning them against the Prime Minister Najib Razak
2015-08-22,Thousands of migrants rush past police into Macedonia
2015-08-21,Kim Jong Un orders North Korea military to prepare for war (from Friday at 5 PM)
2015-08-21,Zurich cops 'won't report' on criminals' ethnicity - Zurich communal authorities have instructed city police to stop releasing the nationality of criminals to the media to avoid stigmatization.
2015-08-21,"Greek PM Alexis Tsipras announces his resignation, triggering snap elections."
2015-08-21,Pakistani Terrorist Gets a Film Banned Because It Makes Him Look Bad
2015-08-21,Russia Wants Composer Rachmaninoffs Remains Back - A Russian minister sparks an international debate by announcing his intention to reclaim Rachmaninoffs remains from a cemetery in New York state. He received American citizenship shortly before death. His music was banned in Soviet Russia.
2015-08-21,"Chinese police arrest 15,000 for Internet crimes that ""jeopardized Internet security"". China launched a six-month program last month, code-named ""Cleaning the Internet""."
2015-08-21,Russia threatens to block Wikipedia over cannabis page
2015-08-21,"Victoria to fast-track the construction of 50 new wind turbines worth $200m - Premier Daniel Andrews has moved in an opposite direction to Tony Abbott over renewable energy with a plan he says will create 1,000 jobs for regional Victoria"
2015-08-21,Park orders military to sternly deal with any N. Korean provocations
2015-08-21,Refugee center in Germany set ablaze following rioting over torn Koran
2015-08-21,North Korea says preparation for military action is complete
2015-08-21,"BP lobbied against EU support for clean energy to favour gas, documents reveal - BP was part of oil & gas lobby that successfully undermined EU renewable energy targets & subsidies in favour of gas as a climate fix in 2011"
2015-08-21,"S. Korea, U.S. raise their WATCHCON alert level after N. Korea's shelling"
2015-08-21,Sumatran Rhinos Now Extinct in Malaysia
2015-08-21,"Religious instruction to be scrapped from curriculum next year in Victoria, Australia"
2015-08-21,Turkey accuses BBC of supporting terrorism over PKK female fighter report. Turkey called on the BBC to treat the PKK the same way they did the Irish Republican Army during bombing attacks on Northern Ireland
2015-08-21,"Antarctic scientists have confirmed the existence of cosmic neutrinos  ghostly particles that have traveled from the Milky Way and beyond. These particles carry messages from distant galaxies, and could potentially help solve several cosmic puzzles."
2015-08-21,"The Wikipedia page of things banned in Russia may soon include Wikipedia itself | Russias media regulator, Roskomnadzor, is threatening to ban Wikipedia due to an entry about that contains a recipe for charas, a form of hashish"
2015-08-21,China plunders Zimbabwe wildlife
2015-08-21,All goods bought from overseas (Amazon etc) into Australia will face a 10 per cent goods and services tax from July 2017 under a landmark deal agreed to by state and territory treasuries.
2015-08-21,Queensland kills 621 sharks in a yr under protection program - State fisheries minister denies the program is a cull but is merely aimed at catching sharks near popular beaches
2015-08-21,"Peru, against US opposition, approves shooting down of small planes suspected of carrying drugs"
2015-08-21,New study finds that Humans are 'superpredators' like no other species in history
2015-08-21,Romanian workers in Berlin say they are being exploited.
2015-08-21,Israel hits Syria with air and artillery fire after 4 rockets land near Lebanon border
2015-08-20,"ISIS beheads 81-year-old pioneer archaeologist and foremost scholar on ancient Syria. Held captive for 1 month, he refused to tell ISIS the location of the treasures of Palmyra unto death."
2015-08-20,A Police Officer in New Zealand used excessive force during an arrest. The three other officers at the scene immediately reported the incident to their supervisor and appeared as witnesses against the officer in court.
2015-08-20,North Korea fires shells at South Korean military along western border
2015-08-20,Cyanide levels at Tianjin explosion 356 times the limit
2015-08-20,"Narcolepsy medication modafinil is world's first safe 'smart drug' - They concluded that the drug, which is prescribed for narcolepsy but is increasingly taken without prescription by healthy people, can improve decision- making, problem-solving and possibly even make people think more creatively."
2015-08-20,"Mexicos government on Wednesday slammed US presidential hopeful Donald Trumps proposals to deport undocumented immigrants en masse and make Mexicans pay for a wall separating the two countries as absurd, racist and ignorant."
2015-08-20,Ashley Madison leak confirmed to be real and worse than originally thought.
2015-08-20,"""Russians are experiencing the first sustained decline in living standards in the 15 years since President Vladimir V. Putin came to power."""
2015-08-20,"MPs and peers state that drug use is a ""human right"" and call for drug policy reform and human rights legislation that could be used to decriminalise possession, purchase and growing of drugs."
2015-08-20,"Alberta man fined for ""Fuck Harper"" sign"
2015-08-20,"July 2015 was the warmest month ever recorded for the globe, according to records dating back to 1880"
2015-08-20,Journalist from The Beijing Daily sneaked into the Tianjin site and provided an account of what he saw
2015-08-20,Migrants crisis: Slovakia 'will only accept Christians'
2015-08-20,Half of Jerusalem Arabs want to be Israelis
2015-08-20,"Global banks are facing a threat of lawsuits worth billions of dollars following a landmark settlement in New York over rigging in currency markets.Lawyers warned the victory opens the floodgates for an even greater number of claims in London, the largest foreign exchange trading hub in the world."
2015-08-20,South Korea orders evacuation of residents from border area after exchange of fire with North Korea
2015-08-20,"People who work 55 hours or more per week have a 33 percent greater risk of stroke and a 13 percent greater risk of coronary heart disease than those working standard hours, researchers reported on Wednesday."
2015-08-20,"Islamic State (IS) militants are destroying satellite dishes and television receivers in civilian homes to prevent people from watching ""dangerous"" foreign channels that air anti-IS reports"
2015-08-20,Germany refugee riot injures 15 after Koran defaced
2015-08-20,Nazi gold train 'found in Poland'
2015-08-20,Indictment: Palestinian Authority money used by terror cell to kill Israeli civilian. The money was provided as a monthly stipend to the cell's leader after his release from Israeli jail in a prisoner exchange
2015-08-20,Renewables supplied 49.8% of Scotland's 2014 electricity demand
2015-08-20,47% of Taiwan's poulation lacks alcohol-metabolizing gene
2015-08-20,"Germany expects refugee numbers to quadruple to record 800,000"
2015-08-20,"Hepatitis C sufferer imports life-saving drugs from India, takes on global pharmaceutical company"
2015-08-19,Paris shooting survivor suing French media for giving away his location while he hid from shooters
2015-08-19,"Vaping is 95% safer than smoking and could lead to the demise of the traditional cigarette, Public Health England (PHE) has said in the first official recognition that e-cigarettes are less damaging to health than smoking tobacco."
2015-08-19,"TIANJIN, China  The son of a former police chief is one of two silent owners of the warehouse in Tianjin where explosions killed at least 114 people, and used his connections to help obtain licenses despite the hazmat facility violating safety rules, Chinese state media reported Wednesday."
2015-08-19,Beheaded Syrian scholar refused to lead Isis to hidden Palmyra antiquities
2015-08-19,TPP protest draws thousands
2015-08-19,English children among the unhappiest in the world at school due to bullying
2015-08-19,"Spanish police are looking to fine a woman who photographed officers parking in a disabled spot under a controversial new ""gag law"". New public security laws allow for fines for a number of offences, including unauthorised protests and photographing police without permission"
2015-08-19,"An almost fully-formed human brain has been grown in a lab for the first time, claim scientists from Ohio State University. The team behind the feat hope the brain could transform our understanding of neurological disease."
2015-08-19,"Isis beheads elderly chief of antiquities in ancient Syrian city, official says"
2015-08-19,First rainfall since Tianjin explosion leaves city covered in mysterious white foam
2015-08-19,Russia jails Estonia border guard Kohver for 15 years
2015-08-19,Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak
2015-08-19,20 million-year-old salamander discovered trapped and intact in amber in Dominican Republic
2015-08-19,"Australia has denied environmental approval to just 18 projects since 2000 - Fundamentally, the laws arent set up to protect the environment, they are set up to facilitate development."
2015-08-19,Qatar postpones promised labor reforms: The World Cup 2022 host has been under pressure to ensure migrant workers are paid on time. But trumpeted reforms due to go into force this week have been pushed back until November 2
2015-08-19,Hackers finally post stolen Ashley Madison data
2015-08-19,"Twin Typhoons to reach ""super"" status by Thursday marching towards S.E. Asia"
2015-08-19,Gun Shots Heard in Istanbul Tourist Site
2015-08-19,"Thai Police release sketch of Bangkok bombing suspect, offer 1 million baht reward for info"
2015-08-19,"1,000 sq miles of England to be opened up for fracking - Large areas of Yorkshire, north-west and east Midlands earmarked for oil and gas exploration as government announces it will offer licences for 27 new sites"
2015-08-19,A Thai motorbike taxi driver who believes he picked up the chief suspect in the bombing of Bangkok's Erawan Shrine shortly after the blast said the man appeared calm and spoke an unfamiliar language on his cellphone.
2015-08-19,Muslim Clerics Call for a Phaseout of Fossil Fuels. Islamic leaders from 20 nations called for the phaseout of greenhouse-gas emissions from burning fossil fuels and for 100 percent of energy to come from renewables
2015-08-19,Jewish groups protest as Spain festival drops US singer
2015-08-19,"House of cash: Police find $31m inside home of municipal engineer in West Bengal, India"
2015-08-19,"Isis lost more than 7,000 fighters in past year, says Australian defence chief"
2015-08-18,Afghan military interpreter who served with British forces in Afghanistan and was denied refuge in Britain has been executed
2015-08-18,Bangkok bombing: Backpack man officially confirmed as suspect (VIDEO)
2015-08-18,"Another bombing attempt in Bangkok, no injuries"
2015-08-18,China is trying and failing to censor citizens who want answers over the Tianjin explosion
2015-08-18,Mapping the invisible scourge - Breathing Beijing's Air Is the Equivalent of Smoking Almost 40 Cigarettes a Day
2015-08-18,"Amazon 'regime' making British staff physically and mentally ill, says union"
2015-08-18,Russia To Introduce Obligatory Fingerprinting For European Tourists:
2015-08-18,Chief executives earn '183 times more than workers'
2015-08-18,Saudi Arabia sees first female voter registrations
2015-08-18,Norways Health Minister Blasts U.S. Chamber of Commerce Lobbying for Big Tobacco
2015-08-18,Humans of New York (HONY) helps raise 1.2 million dollars to end bonded labour in Pakistan
2015-08-18,"Scientists find evidence of prehistoric massacre in Europe - ""What is particularly interesting is the level of violence. Not just suppression of a rival communityif that is what it wasbut the egregious & systematic breaking of the lower legs."" This culture likely turned on each other."
2015-08-18,"Germany may receive up to 750,000 asylum seekers this year: paper"
2015-08-18,United Nations demands NSA respect its privacy amid AT&T spying report
2015-08-18,Shell gets final permit for Arctic oil drilling
2015-08-18,"Melbourne named world's most liveable city, for fifth year running"
2015-08-18,India's Cochin International Airport becomes the first in the world to run fully on solar power
2015-08-18,Firefighters' use of water on volatile chemicals fueled Tianjin explosions that killed at least 114 people
2015-08-18,"The Race to Save the Vaquita, the Worlds Most Endangered Marine Mammal - There are 50-100 left. They're found only in Mexico. ""The vaquita will be extinct, possibly by 2018, if fishery bycatch is not eliminated immediately."""
2015-08-18,"Bangladesh says Briton arrested over murders of secular bloggers - ""Security forces claim a UK citizen of Bangladeshi origin, Touhidur Rahman, was main planner of fatal attacks on Avijit Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das"""
2015-08-18,Tianjin explosions: warehouse 'handled toxic chemicals without licence'  reports
2015-08-18,"After Palestinian asks for water and stabs Israeli soldier, Israeli envoy asks UN Chief to condemn terror attacks"
2015-08-18,DNA-testing dog poo: Spanish city on the scent of owners who don't pick up - Tarragona has threatened to use a DNA database of registered dogs to match droppings found on the street to dog owners.
2015-08-18,Cuba put its civil defense system on alert on Monday due to a year-long drought that is forecast to worsen in the coming months and has already damaged agriculture and left more than a million people relying on trucked-in water.
2015-08-18,Pentagon Plans to Increase Drone Flights by 50 Percent
2015-08-17,GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route
2015-08-17,Explosion rocks central Bangkok
2015-08-17,From 1 October 2015 it will be illegal to smoke in a car (or other vehicles) with anyone under 18 present in UK.
2015-08-17,Bulls kill seven at Spain summer festivals
2015-08-17,New pictures reveal scale of devastation caused by Tianjin explosion  officials warn rain could turn 100 tons of sodium cyanide into toxic gas
2015-08-17,"After Germany, US declares it is pulling missiles out of Turkey"
2015-08-17,Bloggers ridicule Chinese film placing Mao Zedong at key wartime conference with Churchill and Roosevelt in 1943
2015-08-17,"North Korea promises ""retaliation with tremendous muscle"" as a Western military operation in South Korea begins."
2015-08-17,Australian laws forbidding people working in the country's detention centres from speaking out about what they see have raised grave concerns in the medical community
2015-08-17,Anti-Government Protests Sweep Brazil
2015-08-17,Jewish Schindler rescues Iraqi girls from slavery | Toronto Star
2015-08-17,Isis crucifies headless corpses and burns down hospital as battle for Sirte rages on
2015-08-17,India's Mars orbiter sends stunning canyon photo
2015-08-17,"Topics such as acid rain, evolution and global warming are at risk of information ""sabotage"" on the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, a study has found. Authors said topics considered controversial are at greater risk of ""vandalism and other shenanigans"" to the ""detriment of scientific accuracy""."
2015-08-17,China Shutters 50 Websites for 'Inciting Panic' Over Tianjin Disaster
2015-08-17,"South Korea, US begin military drill despite North Korea threats"
2015-08-17,The UK is trying a new road surface that charges your electric car as you drive.
2015-08-17,Olympics chief vows to swim in Rio's 'sewage-riddled' waters after venue blasted over hygiene concerns
2015-08-17,"Unemployed young people will be sent to work boot camp, says minister. Matt Hancock says plan for jobseekers between 18 and 21 to be placed on intensive activity programme is not a form of punishment"
2015-08-17,Japan: Evacuation warning as Sakurajima Volcano near nuclear reactor ready to erupt
2015-08-17,"Seagulls Have a Gruesome New Way of Attacking Baby Seals - Kelp gulls are eating the eyeballs from newborn Cape fur sealsa behavior never before seen in nature, a new study says."
2015-08-17,U.S. military cancels hearing for September 11 suspects
2015-08-17,Australian lawmaker introduces legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage
2015-08-17,Police Raids On Islamic State Supporters in Europe After Secret Land Purchases
2015-08-17,"'Hamas-Israel deal imminent,' to the dismay of Palestinian factions"
2015-08-16,Coca Cola gave $1.5 million to scientists who say soft drinks dont cause obesity
2015-08-16,"Government to ban un-vaccinated preschoolers from childcare, kindergarten (Victoria, Australia)"
2015-08-16,BBC News: Indonesian plane missing over Papua
2015-08-16,North Korea threatens war if the United States continues with its scheduled military exercises this Monday.
2015-08-16,AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
2015-08-16,"China silences netizens critical of ""disgraceful"" blast coverage"
2015-08-16,More explosions rock the Chinese port city of Tianjin
2015-08-16,Fidel Castro Admits Turning to U.S. For Financial Help in the 1980s
2015-08-16,"Volcano alerts issued in Ecuador, Japan. "" Japan's meteorological agency issued a level 4 emergency warning, which urges residents to prepare to evacuate. """
2015-08-16,Russia's newest T-90A tanks spotted in Ukraine's Luhansk region (photos)
2015-08-16,"A rare space weather phenomena caught on camera: Gigantic jets outbursts on top of the Hurricane ""Hilda"""
2015-08-16,"Athletics' governing body suppressed a study which showed as many as a third of the world's top athletes admitted violating anti-doping rules, according to the Sunday Times."
2015-08-16,"Thousands March Against TPPA in Christchurch, New Zealand"
2015-08-16,Booming Wind and Solar Power Has Slashed Europes CO2 Emissions
2015-08-16,Canadian/Gaza doctor invents stethoscope which is 'Better than world's best' but costs only 30 cents
2015-08-16,Pakistan's Punjab home minister assassinated in suicide attack
2015-08-16,China says US summit next month should not focus on human rights
2015-08-16,Russian Publisher Rewrites Books on Putin Without Western Authors Consent
2015-08-16,"German army to withdraw Patriot missiles from Turkey border: Germany has announced plans to withdraw its border protection mission in Turkey. Reports suggest the move is because of high staff and material costs, not a political reaction to Turkey's attacks on Kurds"
2015-08-16,Rhino mutilated by poachers treated with elephant skin in South Africa
2015-08-16,Ecuador declares state of emergency over Cotopaxi volcano activity
2015-08-16,Neo-Nazi protest in Liverpool UK cancelled after anti-fascist counter-protest. Six arrests made.
2015-08-16,Food production shocks 'will happen more often because of extreme weather' Poorer countries will be hit most by falls in production for major crops but UK and and US will also be exposed to resulting instability
2015-08-16,"The death toll from massive explosions in China's port city of Tianjin has risen to 112 and 95 people are missing, the official Xinhua news agency said on Sunday"
2015-08-16,"US to withdraw its Patriot missile system, deployed near Turkey's border with Syria, when its mandate expires in October. Decision comes a day after Germany said it would pull Patriot missles & troops when the mandate for their air-defense mission ends next year"
2015-08-15,"Legal scholars warn against 10 year prison for online pirates - The proposed extension is disproportionate, ineffective and puts casual file-sharers at risk of long jail sentences, they argue."
2015-08-15,"The European Commission is making the secret Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal even more secret, introducing a new rule that means politicians can only view the text in a secure 'reading room' in Brussels."
2015-08-15,"South Korea's president pardons 6,500 criminals including CEOs convicted of embezzlement because of their ""contributions to the national economy"""
2015-08-15,"ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Sexually Abused American Hostage Kayla Mueller, Officials Say"
2015-08-15,Thousands march against TPPA in rallies around New Zealand
2015-08-15,Fireman pulled alive from China blast zone
2015-08-15,"Norways government wants to dump 1,200 tons of radioactive waste on an island an hour south of Oslo, even though the waste company which owns the site believed it is too dangerous."
2015-08-15,World Bank rejects energy industry notion that coal can cure poverty
2015-08-15,New explosions and fire in Tianjin send smoke into the sky
2015-08-15,Netanyahu appoints Danny Danon who opposes a Palestinian state and says that the Palestinian people don't exist as U.N. ambassador.
2015-08-15,Anti-Nazi couple's barn burned down in eastern Germany
2015-08-15,"North Korea on Saturday threatened South Korea with ""indiscriminate"" military strikes unless it halts cross-border propaganda broadcasts, and issued fresh nuclear weapons warnings against the United States."
2015-08-15,"Were predicting that this El Nio could be among the strongest El Nios in the historical record dating back to 1950, Mike Halpert, the deputy director of the Climate Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said during a press teleconference."
2015-08-15,"Mass evacuations underway in Tianjin as fires reignite, causing further blasts"
2015-08-15,Oscar Pistorius being released after only 10 months in jail
2015-08-15,142-Million-Year-Old Dino Footprints Found in Germany
2015-08-15,Company in Canada gets U.S. patent for space elevator
2015-08-15,"Bin Laden: Osama's son Hamza 'issues al-Qaeda message'. In the message, shared by al-Qaeda supporters on Twitter, Hamza Bin Laden urges attacks on the US and its allies."
2015-08-15,North Korea has threatened to attack South Korean loudspeakers that are broadcasting anti-Pyongyang propaganda messages across their shared border.
2015-08-15,Japan raises warning level on volcano not far from nuclear plant
2015-08-15,Horrific moment two gay men are thrown off tall building by ISIS then stoned by baying mob including children
2015-08-15,China Evacuates Tianjin Blast Site As Sodium Cyanide Found
2015-08-15,Kayla Mueller: US hostage 'refused chance to escape from Isis to save Yazidi girls'
2015-08-15,Vets use bandage made of elephant skin to treat rhino mutilated by poachers who hacked off its horn
2015-08-15,"Russia is ready to send S-300 long-range, surface-to-air missile systems to Iran and is working to have the sanctions against Tehran removed as soon as possible."
2015-08-14,"CNN & CBC Sued For Pirating 31 Second YouTube Video - In addition to claims of copyright infringement, the media giants face allegations that they breached the anti-circumvention measures of the DMCA."
2015-08-14,Ireland Refuses to Extradite Man to US Because Prison System is Too Inhumane
2015-08-14,American flag raised in Havana for first time in 54 years
2015-08-14,"Humans definitely killed off mammoths, giant armadillo, sabretooth tiger, scientists claim - New research settles argument about whether whether humans or climate change was responsible for the end of megafauna, it is claimed, and debunks the myth of early humans living in harmony with nature"
2015-08-14,Facebook cancelled a student's internship after he highlighted a massive privacy issue
2015-08-14,"Australias federal court rejects US studios claims for piracy damages, saying it may invoice downloaders for the cost of a legitimate copy only"
2015-08-14,John Kerry: I write emails assuming that Russia and China are 'very likely' reading them
2015-08-14,US warns citizens not to attend Auckland TPP rally
2015-08-14,"25,000 Farmers Seek Presidents Permission To Hang Themselves On Independence Day (Aug 15)"
2015-08-14,Reports: ISIL used mustard gas against Kurds
2015-08-14,Gene therapy cures blindness by replacing vision cells in eyes.
2015-08-14,"Jimmy Carter: Zero chance for Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution - Netanyahu decided 'early on to adopt a one-state solution, but without giving the Palestinians equal rights,'"
2015-08-14,"Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov mutters ""fucking morons"" as Saudi counterpart talks during press conference"
2015-08-14,"Air pollution in China is killing 4,000 people every day, a new study finds"
2015-08-14,"Sea creature called ""Flying Spaghetti Monster"" found beneath ocean."
2015-08-14,Palestinian rights group sues PA over prison torture: Plaintiff says he was detained and beaten for five days after criticizing local government on social media
2015-08-14,Marines who removed flag from U.S. embassy in Cuba return 54 years later to raise it again
2015-08-14,PM: Japan can't keep apologizing
2015-08-14,Tianjin explosions so huge they were visible from space
2015-08-14,"China silences netizens critical of ""disgraceful"" blast coverage. Posts suggesting that authorities restricted international media reporting on the incident removed."
2015-08-14,Fidel Castro to US: you owe us millions
2015-08-14,Team from International Atomic Energy Agency has been sent to scene of blast in China
2015-08-14,Calais mayor threats to open France's borders and allow thousands of migrants into Britain
2015-08-14,"The United States believes Islamic State militants likely used mustard agent in an attack on Kurdish forces in Iraq earlier this week, the first indication the militant group has obtained a banned chemical weapon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday."
2015-08-14,A-level results 2015: UK exam board OCR admits it 'estimates' hundreds of pupils' grades after papers 'go missing'
2015-08-13,Huge explosion reported in Chinese port city of Tianjin
2015-08-13,Sweden drops sexual assault probe against Julian Assange as deadline expires
2015-08-13,Russia bans Reddit
2015-08-13,"Trans-Pacific Partnership could pose risk to public healthcare, leaked draft shows"
2015-08-13,37% of British workers think their jobs are meaningless
2015-08-13,The Dutch basic income experiment is expanding across multiple cities
2015-08-13,"Kiribati president calls for moratorium on coal mines. There is no plausible scenario in which a world that is tackling climate change is a world that needs more coal mines, said Oquist."
2015-08-13,Muslim Scholars Prepare Call for Action on Climate Change. Islamic scholars and religious leaders are preparing a call for action on climate change that will say its the religious duty of the worlds 1.6 billion Muslims to fight global warming.
2015-08-13,IOC rules out viral testing in sewage-laden waters being used for 2016 Olympics.
2015-08-13,"U.S. allocates $500,000 for Baltic journalism programs to combat Russian propaganda"
2015-08-13,"The elusive octopus genome has finally been untangled, which should allow scientists to discover answers to long-mysterious questions about the animal's alienlike physiology: How does it camouflage itself so expertly? How does it controland regeneratethose eight flexible arms"
2015-08-13,Kiwi UN intern living in tent has resigned. His mum is proud he sparked unpaid UN internship debate
2015-08-13,"15th-Century Sea Monster Lifted from Baltic SeaFigurehead of Denmarks King Hans' warship is creature carved at end of 11-ft-long beam, with lion ears & crocodile mouth holding a person. No similar item from the 15th century has ever been found anywhere in the world."
2015-08-13,Greek economy grows by 0.8% in second quarter
2015-08-13,China's military wants the ability to create large modular artificial islands that can be repositioned around the world as necessary
2015-08-13,Russia's parliament supports mandatory HIV testing before marriage
2015-08-13,"Underwater gas pipeline explodes in Moscow, Russia"
2015-08-13,"Seen from above, the Amazon resembles a huge billiards table -- a field of intense green pockmarked by brown stains. These are the sites of illegal mines, and they reveal the scope of a gold rush that threatens the lungs of the planet"
2015-08-13,Market truck bomb kills at least 60 in Baghdad's Sadr City
2015-08-13,Puerto Rico's Representaive in Congress Pleads For Drought Aid.The drought in Puerto Rico is affecting more than 2.5 million people and has led to extreme water restrictions as well as complete water cutoffs across the territory.
2015-08-13,South African conservationists are warning of a new potential threat to Africa's wild lion population: The increasing use of lion bones to replace tiger bones in traditional medicine in parts of Asia
2015-08-13,"Earth overshoot day  the day each year when our demands on the planet outstrip its ability to regenerate  comes six days earlier than 2014, with worlds population currently consuming the equivalent of 1.6 planets a year"
2015-08-13,Switzerland lifts sanctions against iran
2015-08-13,Israel would lift Gaza blockade for truce -- report
2015-08-13,China's government wants workers to be given longer weekends during the summer in order to boost the tourism industry. The State Council is urging employers to give their staff Friday afternoons off so that they can travel more easily.
2015-08-12,India sues Nestle for nearly $100m because lead shouldn't be in noodles.
2015-08-12,Russia threathens to block Reddit in Russia if thread about a drug-producing plant is not removed
2015-08-12,Oil prices have reached a 6 year low today
2015-08-12,"If the United States walks away from the nuclear deal with Iran and demands that its allies comply with U.S. sanctions, a loss of confidence in U.S. leadership could threaten the dollar's position as the world's reserve currency, the top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday."
2015-08-12,Amnesty International endorses decriminalizing sex trade
2015-08-12,Teen finds 17.6-ounce gold bar while swimming in German Alpine lake.
2015-08-12,Harper says Canadians dont want marijuana legalized
2015-08-12,Arctic Ice Loss Is So Bad National Geographic Has To Keep Redrawing Its Atlas
2015-08-12,Journalist beaten by football fans after Facebook post dies from his injuries in a hospital
2015-08-12,"An archaeologist says he may have found evidence that Nefertiti, the former Queen of Egypt, is secretly buried inside Tutankhamun's tomb."
2015-08-12,"Swedish prosecutors have been accused of ""victimising"" Julian Assange after it was revealed they had interviewed 44 people in the UK but were refusing to question the WikiLeaks founder in the London embassy"
2015-08-12,Even the Taliban is disgusted by the Islamic State's latest video that appears to show militants blowing up bound and blindfolded Afghan prisoners with explosives
2015-08-12,"On Monday, news broke that a father had let his 20-year-old daughter drown off a beach in Dubai because he did not want her to be touched by a strange man. The story, according to one source, is nearly two decades old."
2015-08-12,Tony Abbott warns colleagues not to vote for same-sex marriage
2015-08-12,"Greece at 'risk of bloodshed' as latest spike in new Afghan, Syrian arrivals hits Kos island"
2015-08-12,Isis claims beheading of Croatian hostage Tomislav Salopek in Egypt
2015-08-12,"WikiLeaks offers $110,000 reward for documents on 'monster' trade deal"
2015-08-12,Julian Assange set to be cleared as sex allegations expire
2015-08-12,Mexico bans giveaways of baby formula at hospitals
2015-08-12,About 300 people descended on Parliament this afternoon to protest against New Zealand joining the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
2015-08-12,"Pentagon needs to rethink calling war journalists 'belligerents', says watchdog: Open letter from Reporters Without Borders calls on US defense secretary to revise manual containing disturbing language on treating reporters like spies"
2015-08-12,Chinese currency devaluation puts North American stock markets in a tumble
2015-08-12,"Leaked documents show the UK is pushing for watered-down EU air pollution laws to be weakened further, arguing they would cause the closure of coal pits leading to substantial job losses and the need to import coal."
2015-08-12,Ex-Japanese PM kneels to apologize before a memorial monument in Korea.
2015-08-12,John Kerry - dollar may cease to be the world's reserve currency if the United States walks away from Iran deal
2015-08-11,Google to reorganize into new company called Alphabet
2015-08-11,'Missile parts' at MH17 crash site
2015-08-11,A 22-year-old New Zealand man hired as an unpaid intern by the United Nations in Geneva has been forced to live in a tent
2015-08-11,"Ikea to Replace All Lighting on Shelves With LED Bulbs. Beginning Sept. 1, the company said Monday, it will sell only LED bulbs, part of its overall sustainability efforts."
2015-08-11,Pacific trade deal puts profit over people: Labor activists
2015-08-11,Russian GDP Plunges 4.6%
2015-08-11,Canadians pull the plug on renewable energy scheme - Canadian province of Nova Scotia cancels a successful project which rewarded people for generating renewable energy.
2015-08-11,Pope Francis declares annual Catholic environment day. 1 September chosen for day of environmental awareness; Vatican calls for faithful to adopt appropriate lifestyles
2015-08-11,"Tasmanian devils on Australian mainland would reduce feral cats & foxes, study finds - Reintroducing devils after 3,000-yr absence would be huge boon for native wildlife. Humans wiped out dingoes in regions, leaving foxes & cats as primary predators. Govt to kill 2 million cats by 2020."
2015-08-11,Malaysia Prime Minister suspected of manipulating MH370 plane crash news to save himself from the worst financial scandal in Malaysian history.
2015-08-11,UK dairy farmers take live cows into supermarkets in protest of low milk prices. Milk is currently cheaper than bottled water.
2015-08-11,"Arrested Hamas fighter reveals tunnel attack plot, shifting strategies"
2015-08-11,Malaysian Education Minister openly claims Jews and Christians have a hidden agenda in splitting Malays.
2015-08-11,Ukraine vows to use 'entire arsenal' against pro-Russia rebels
2015-08-11,The UN has blasted Thailand for imprisoning a man for 30 years after he insulted the monarchy
2015-08-11,"China to Increase Iran Oil Imports in Event of Congress Rejection: If Congress scuppers the nuclear accord, China will conclude that diplomacy has not worked out and as a result it will increase Iranian oil imports"
2015-08-11,China builds huge solar power station which could power a million homes. The proposed power station will measure 10 square miles and generate 200 megawatts of solar energy
2015-08-11,Puerto Rico Intensifies Water Rationing as Drought Worsens.Citizens are limited to two days of water use every week as Puerto Rico's debt-ridden government struggles to aid its country through extreme drought.
2015-08-11,China devalues yuan currency to three-year low
2015-08-11,"A wave of violence has engulfed the Afghan capital over the past few days, killing at least 50 people, mostly civilians. According to the UN, 2015 is on track to be the bloodiest year of the war for Afghan civilians  worse than 2014, when 3,000 civilians were killed."
2015-08-11,"Fastest Neutrino Ever Detected Has 1,000x the Energy of the LHC"
2015-08-11,Man charged by Australian Federal Police for attempting to fly to Syria to fight alongside Kurds against ISIS.
2015-08-11,"Migrant Crises Alarms Britain But Fears Clash With Facts.The U.N. refugee agency says Britain received just over 31,000 asylum claims in 2014 - a fraction of the 173,000 refugees who went to Germany, and fewer than Sweden, Italy, France or Hungary."
2015-08-11,Japan Takes Step Toward Reviving Nuclear Industry as It Restarts Reactor
2015-08-11,"Police raid Uber Hong Kong office, 3 taken away amid crackdown on illegal taxis"
2015-08-10,Mexican missing student activist who led search parties after the disappearance of 43 students is killed.
2015-08-10,"China, Russia and the U.S. are developing and testing controversial new capabilities to wage war in space despite their denial of such work"
2015-08-10,Zimbabwe lifts ban on lion hunts
2015-08-10,"South Korea on Monday accused North Korea of planting landmines that maimed two soldiers on border patrol, sending military tensions on the Korean peninsula soaring as it threatened to make Pyongyang pay a ""harsh price"""
2015-08-10,Scientists discover cannabis in tobacco pipes excavated from William Shakespeares garden - Scientists from South Africa have excavated 400-year-old tobacco pipes from Shakespeares garden and found them to contain cannabis residue.
2015-08-10,"TPP Almost Ready but Stalled in Hawaii, Leaks Tell us More"
2015-08-10,Dutch survivor of Japanese concentration camp calls for recognition of history
2015-08-10,"Scotland bans GMO (genetically modified) crops to protect the nation's 'clean, green' brand"
2015-08-10,"Germany, which has taken a tough line on Greece, has profited from the country's crisis to the tune of 100 billion euros, according to a new study Monday. The sum represents money Germany saved through lower interest payments on funds the government borrowed amid investor ""flights to safety"""
2015-08-10,Disney apologizes for 'congratulations' tweet on Nagasaki anniversary
2015-08-10,Jaffa luxury apartment complex is 'for Jews only'
2015-08-10,"Cuban internet delivered weekly by hand - Cubans are getting round lack internet access by delivery of content by hand. It consists of a terabyte of data with latest music, Hollywood movies, TV series, mobile phone apps, magazines & classifieds like Craigslist."
2015-08-10,Attackers open fire on U.S. consulate in Istanbul: CNN Turk
2015-08-10,British Library asks for help deciphering a medieval sword
2015-08-10,Man gored to death filming Spanish bull run on his mobile
2015-08-10,Stephen Harper vows to make it illegal for Canadians to travel to terrorist hotspots
2015-08-10,NASA crew to eat space-grown veggies for the first time
2015-08-10,Germany drops treason inquiry into Netzpolitik journalists
2015-08-10,China Just Declared War on Amateur Sex Videos
2015-08-10,A third of medals awarded in the Olympic Games and world championships between 2001 and 2012 were won by athletes who recorded suspicious doping tests
2015-08-10,A firing squad of the Islamic State terrorist group on Saturday executed at least 300 civil servants who worked for the Iraqi Supreme Electoral Commission at a military camp in Iraqi city of Mosul.
2015-08-10,Israeli extremist leader Benzi Gopstein calls on Jewish students to burn down churches
2015-08-10,Indian govt shortlists 1500 yoga asanas to prevent them being patented abroad
2015-08-10,China to build highway for Liberia as part of Ebola recovery aid
2015-08-10,"After murders, Bangladesh police blames bloggers, asks them not to 'cross limit'"
2015-08-09,"29 leading U.S. nuclear scientists praise 'unprecedented' Iran deal - ""In letter to Obama, scientists - among them 5 Nobel laureates - say deal can serve as 'guidepost for future nonproliferation agreements.'"""
2015-08-09,Obama: Netanyahu only foreign leader I can recall forcibly interfering in US policy
2015-08-09,"Enormous monolith, carved 9350 years ago, found under Mediterranean Sea."
2015-08-09,Five women accused of witchcraft lynched by India mob - Villagers drag middle-aged women from their huts and beat them to death around midnight in eastern Jharkhand state.
2015-08-09,"New Zealand to be coal-free by 2018, 90% renewable by 2025"
2015-08-09,Israel Cracks Down on Jewish Extremists With New Arrests
2015-08-09,Whale Shark sawed to pieces at Chinese market whilst still alive.
2015-08-09,"Activists in Uganda have held a gay pride rally, a year since a law requiring homosexuals to be jailed for life was overturned."
2015-08-09,"Germany to ban re-entry permits for 94,000 migrants  RT News"
2015-08-09,"Ukraine Bans Films Featuring Blacklisted Russian Actors. 14 Russian actors, singers and other cultural figures on the blacklist pose a threat to national security according to Ukraine."
2015-08-09,Cutting down on working hours could increase UK productivity.Research has found that a focus on shorter working hours and an increase of sleep could help the the UK improve its lack of productivity.
2015-08-09,Threat of 'lone wolf' attack by radical young Islamists in Ireland surpasses threat from 'republican' terrorism
2015-08-09,ISIS threatens to kill the Queen during 70th anniversary of VJ Day
2015-08-09,"Eye shape reveals whether an animal is predator or prey, new study shows - A close look at the eyes of 214 types of animal has revealed a relationship between the shape of the pupil and the animals ecological niche."
2015-08-09,Singapore marks 50 years since independence. The former British colony has transformed itself into one of the world's wealthiest countries but its critics say the rapid development has been accompanied by a strict control on free speech and politics.
2015-08-09,"Thousands of Iraqis braved the scorching summer heat to stage a huge protest in central Baghdad on Friday, calling on the prime minister to dissolve the parliament and sack corrupt government officials.This is the second Friday of protests in Baghdad and across Iraq"
2015-08-09,"Ukraine blacklists Russian artists including French-born Gerard Depardieu, whose work will be banned from TV, radio and cinemas"
2015-08-09,U.S. Puts Russian Gas Field Off Limits as Sanctions Tighten
2015-08-09,Several thousand people marched Saturday through the western German city of Cologne in protest at continued Turkish air strikes against Kurdish separatists
2015-08-09,Indian Woman Who Was Married Off At Just 11 Months Old Fights Against Child Marriage
2015-08-09,China Jails Engineer For 12 Years Over 'Tank Man' Hack
2015-08-09,Norway camp opens four years after mass shooting tragedy
2015-08-09,Australia's only cassowary rehabilitation centre to close
2015-08-09,At least 12 people were killed during a nearly 24-hour siege of a hotel in central Mali seized by suspected Islamist gunmen that ended on Saturday as security forces stormed the building and released some of the United Nations workers trapped inside.
2015-08-09,Russia's Lavrov says U.S. must work with Assad to fight Islamic State
2015-08-08,"Pakistans biggest child pornography ring exposed by journalist. 280 minors were sexually abused and filmed over a decade, the videos were sold for 50 cents each, sometimes to pedophiles in the West over Skype"
2015-08-08,"The United States has secured commitments from a dozen countries to accept nearly half of the 52 Guantanamo prisoners already cleared for transfer, U.S. officials said on Friday, as the Obama administration tries to accelerate efforts to close the military prison"
2015-08-08,Hyperinflation looming in Venezuela: nearly 82% say they can't afford food
2015-08-08,Bangladesh blogger killed by machete gang had asked for police protection.
2015-08-08,Palestinian baby's dad also dies after settler arson attack
2015-08-08,"Oil prices are now near a six-year low, moving down earlier today to about $44 a barrel"
2015-08-08,"Twenty-four submarines that belonged to the former Imperial Japanese Navy have been found at the bottom of the sea near the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, the Japan Coast Guard said Friday."
2015-08-08,"Powerful storm hits Taiwan, millions without power, four dead"
2015-08-08,"Italy arrested five North African men on Friday on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking in the presumed drowning of more than 200 people, saying they used clubs and knives against migrants."
2015-08-08,"Massive Solar Power Plant Going Up in China, constructing a 10-square-mile facility expected to have a capacity of 200 megawatts, enough to supply one million households"
2015-08-08,"More than 2,000 believed to have died this year trying to cross into Europe by sea."
2015-08-08,Israeli Defense Minister hints Israel may assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists. Ya'alon also didn't rule out the possibility that Israel would bomb Iranian nuclear facilities
2015-08-08,"Royal Dutch Shell cuts ties with Alec over rightwing group's climate denial - Shell joins BP in corporate exodus from membership of the conservative, free-market lobbying group, which continues to deny the science of climate change"
2015-08-08,"'Religious Zionism taking over Israel,' ex-Shin Bet chief warns"
2015-08-08,"Canada would have to massively overhaul its Copyright Act just a few years after the last round of painstaking amendments, critics warn, if a secret trade and investment deal the government is negotiating is adopted with the terms outlined in a leaked draft from May that was made public this week."
2015-08-08,Israeli Justice minister backs death penalty for terrorists who killed Palestinian baby
2015-08-08,Indian rapper 'overwhelmed' by success of protest song against Unilever
2015-08-08,Thousands of Ebola Survivors Face Persistent Joint Pain and Other Problems
2015-08-08,'Almost quarter of a million people' dead in Syria war
2015-08-08,Israel destroys Palestinian homes after announcing new settlements
2015-08-08,ISIL 'kidnaps scores of Christians' in Syria's Homs
2015-08-08,"Germany is facing its hottest temperatures on record, with some in the south exceeding the countrys all-time high of 40.3 C (105F), which was only set last month."
2015-08-08,"Mexican anthropologist Nadia D Vera, murdered along with 3 others in Veracruz"
2015-08-08,Student decapitated by helicopter blade as she approached Peruvian PM
2015-08-08,Cancer-detecting dogs approved for NHS trial - Animals at specialist charity will undergo evaluation at Milton Keynes hospital after proving 93% effective in detecting odour of prostate tumours.
2015-08-07,Brazilian radio host famous for exposing corruption in his city murdered while broadcasting live on the air by two gunmen.
2015-08-07,John Kerry: Vietnam war was result of 'profound failure of diplomatic insight'.Im reminded of conversations Ive had recently with people who talk almost casually about the prospect of war with one country or another. Im tempted to say: You dont have the first idea of what youre talking about
2015-08-07,Al Qaeda blow up 700 year old mosque in Yemen
2015-08-07,"Bangladesh blogger Niloy Neel hacked to death, 4th blogger to get killed in recent months."
2015-08-07,"North Korea to push back its standard time by 30 minutes, calls it 'Pyongyang time'"
2015-08-07,Man jailed for 30 years in Thailand for insulting the monarchy on Facebook.
2015-08-07,"Tens of thousands of Russians have joined a protest petition to President Vladimir Putin after vast quantities of foreign food are bulldozed, buried, or burned. For the past year, Russia has banned most fresh produce from countries imposing economic sanctions against Russia over Crimea."
2015-08-07,"Canada Proposes A Ban On Tiny Plastic Microbeads, Citing Environmental & Health Concerns"
2015-08-07,"Archaeologists have discovered a mysterious Stonehenge-style monolith in the deep sea off the coast of Sicily, shedding new light on the earliest civilizations in the Mediterranean basin. Its features leave no doubt that the monolith was man-made some 10,000 years ago."
2015-08-07,"British VIP Pedophile Scandal: Nationwide police corruption inquiry is looking into alleged witness tampering to stop child abuse claims, including against a former Tory Prime Minister"
2015-08-07,Russia hacks Pentagon computers
2015-08-07,An amateur radio enthusiast managed to get a quick chat with the International Space Station (ISS) after a month of trying to get through from his shed
2015-08-07,Palestinian religious leaders  both Muslims and Christians  signed a declaration stating that Jews have no right to enter the Temple Mount at a press conference in east Jerusalem on Wednesday.
2015-08-07,"New Zealand Made Trolling Illegal Last Month - Law states that anyone who causes ""harm by posting digital communication,"" a.k.a. trolling, is liable to conviction & could face up to 2 yrs in prison & be subject to $50,000 NZD ($32,570 USD) in fines."
2015-08-07,"Nuclear test refugees from Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands are now fleeing the effects of climate change as their second home, Kili Island, is suffering from sea level rise. Appealing to the US for financial help with relocation."
2015-08-07,Swiss find remains of 2 Japanese climbers missing since 1970
2015-08-07,Yazidi Child Soldiers Take Revenge on ISIS
2015-08-07,El Nio Conditions Are Growing Stronger
2015-08-07,"Russian whistleblower may have been victim of 'reprisal killing', court hears - Alexander Perepilichnyy was found dead outside his home in Surrey in 2012. In May it emerged he may have ingested a deadly plant poison."
2015-08-07,"Senior Russian Official praises the proposal of import restrictions on condoms, stating they ""have nothing to do with health"" and suggesting it would make people more ""disciplined"""
2015-08-07,"More than 240,000 people, including 12,000 children, have been killed in Syria's conflict which broke out in March 2011."
2015-08-07,Sky News' Live Stream Shut Down By Fox News DMCA Notice - The official live stream of Sky News has been pulled from YouTube after a copyright complaint from competing news outlet Fox News.
2015-08-07,Lord Janner told to attend court over child abuse charges
2015-08-07,"Its common knowledge that some frogs secrete toxins from special glands in their skin. But according to a paper published today in Current Biology, an international team of researchers report for the first time ever that two frog species are actually venomous."
2015-08-07,South China Sea dispute: John Kerry says US will not accept restrictions on movements in the sea
2015-08-06,"iTunes is illegal under UK copyright law - The Intellectual Property Office today explains that ripping a CD in iTunes is no longer permitted, and neither is backing up your computer if it contains copyrighted content."
2015-08-06,"Turkish couple feed 4,000 Syrian refugees on wedding day instead of wedding"
2015-08-06,"TPP Copyright Chapter Leaks: Website Blocking, New Criminal Rules On the Way"
2015-08-06,Debris found from Reunion Island confirmed to be from MH370
2015-08-06,"Sea animals are dying off in massive numbers along the Pacific Coastline from Baja, Mexico all the way to Alaska.A combination of man-made and natural causes are killing off bottlenose dolphins, sardines, sea birds, plankton, krill, salmon, sea lions, starfish, and brown pelicans in record numbers."
2015-08-06,Indian oncologists want cannabis legalised to help fight cancer
2015-08-06,Canada Changed Its Election Rules So It Could Negotiate the TPP
2015-08-06,"Russia marks 1 year of sanctions by destroying Western food - despite 250,000 signatures on a petition to donate that food to the poor. The lower supply of food also serves to drive consumer prices up, pushing more citizens below the poverty line."
2015-08-06,"Rejecting Iran nuclear deal is a vote for war, Obama says"
2015-08-06,"Pharmaceutical firms Pfizer and Flynn Pharma have been accused by the UK's competition watchdog of charging ""excessive and unfair"" prices for an anti-epilepsy drug."
2015-08-06,"China willing to work with US to contribute to world peace, stability.China is ready to step up cooperation with the United States in the fields of investment, military, climate change, finance, economy and trade, energy, hunt of corrupt officials, justice and public health."
2015-08-06,Australian spy agency says a junior Defence staffer allegedly took home a secret intelligence report and posted it on 4Chan
2015-08-06,"Pope Francis says even after divorce, you can remain in the church"
2015-08-06,Norway feared terrorism in Oslo after security guard claimed he was shot and a suspected bomb was found at University of Oslo. Now the security guard admits that he was behind the shooting and the fake bomb himself.
2015-08-06,"Windfarm 'wing nuts': Public health expert takes aim at activists. ""Infrasound generated by mere walking has been shown to be louder than the noise of wind turbines ... I assume your committee is not concerned about walking noise health impacts?"""
2015-08-06,Nasa says Congress cuts mean $490m is needed to buy rides on Russian rockets
2015-08-06,More Dutch cities may join in 'basic income' experiment
2015-08-06,"You taught our students, so we are releasing you: Islamic State to Indians abducted in Libya"
2015-08-06,Survey suggests strong popular support for Jew-free Romania
2015-08-06,British truck driver radios international space station from garden shed
2015-08-06,Loss of world's rarest ape charted - Decline of the Hainan gibbon - worlds rarest primate - has been revealed by a trawl through historical Chinese documents. There are only 26-28 left in the wild. Old govt documents helping reveal when & how the numbers fell.
2015-08-06,"Scientists in Iran clone endangered mouflon  born to domestic sheep: Poaching has driven the Isfahan mouflon close to extinction in Iran, where scientists are hailing the rare successful example of interspecies cloning."
2015-08-06,Hamas warns of new violence unless Israel lifts blockade
2015-08-06,Newfoundland and Labrador eliminates student loans
2015-08-06,MH370: Debris Of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 'Was Faked' Claim Relatives Of Victims
2015-08-05,"China says TPP should be transparent, open"
2015-08-05,Palestinians shield Israeli policewoman from rocks thrown by Jewish extremists
2015-08-05,Approval for world's biggest coalmine overturned by Australian federal court
2015-08-05,"Frequent spicy meals linked to human longevity - Seven-year study of adults in China matches regular consumption of spicy foods, such as chilli peppers, to 14% reduced risk of death."
2015-08-05,India nixes online porn ban following intense public outrage on social media
2015-08-05,Saudi-led coalition invades Yemen with ground forces.
2015-08-05,Claims of child sex abuse against ex-British PM Edward Heath
2015-08-05,"'I came to kill Hindus, it's fun doing this,' says captured Pakistani terrorist Naved"
2015-08-05,The proportion of people [in Russia] who think religion does more good than harm to society has slumped from 61% to 36% while the share detecting more harm than good has risen from 5% to 23%.
2015-08-05,"ISIS horror: Girls get peddled like petrol barrels, says UN envoy"
2015-08-05,Snowden leaks confirm existence of ECHELON
2015-08-05,"Tony Blair could face trial for 'illegal' Iraq war, suggests Jeremy Corbyn Corbyn, the Labour leadership frontrunner, claims Chilcot report may lead to consequences for former PM over decisions made during 2003 invasion"
2015-08-05,"While other airlines ban hunting trophy shipments, UPS says it wont bow to controversy"
2015-08-05,"Islamic State sex slave price list authentic, $165 for a child - UN"
2015-08-05,ISIS has threatened to kill a Croatian hostage if Egypt does not meet its demands in 48 hours
2015-08-05,Bonobos Apes Found To Communicate Verbally Much Like that of Human Babies
2015-08-05,Israel jails Jewish extremist for 6 months without trial.
2015-08-05,German justice minister demands sacking of chief prosecutor over treason investigation into two journalists.
2015-08-05,"Anti-corruption protests have gripped Honduras and Guatemala in recent weeks.Thousands have been taking to the streets weekly for three months now to demand an end to impunity, and there are no signs that the demonstrations will soon die down."
2015-08-05,"Israeli archaeologists say they are trying to decode ancient inscriptions written in Hebrew script discovered at a dig in Jerusalem. The writing was found on the walls of a room containing the remains of a Jewish ritual bath, or mikveh, believed to be about 2,000 years old."
2015-08-05,"Bomb scare at University of Oslo, Guard shot - Police cordoned off a large area of the campus Wednesday morning and called in specialists to examine an object feared to be a bomb. The major operation was unfolding after a security guard was shot in the same area during the night"
2015-08-05,Israel jails suspected Jewish militant without trial
2015-08-05,"Russia, Putin Held in Low Regard around the World: Outside its own borders, neither Russia nor its president, Vladimir Putin, receives much respect or support"
2015-08-05,"Catholic bishop in ""death to gays"" storm -- Vitus Huonder, the controversial Catholic bishop of Chur in eastern Switzerland, has once again attracted criticism for quoting homophobic Bible passages including Leviticus 20:13, which calls for homosexuals to be executed"
2015-08-05,"China appeals for U.S. help to fight ""Islamic militants"" in Xinjiang"
2015-08-04,Iraq is rushing to digitize its national library under the threat of ISIS
2015-08-04,Zimbabwe bans lion hunting after international outcry
2015-08-04,"Delta bans shipment of lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, buffalo trophies"
2015-08-04,Saudi ministry: 'Free expression is an abuse of religious rights'
2015-08-04,New Study from Finland: People would be happier living near a drug rehab center than living near a mosque.
2015-08-04,"After having praised the friendliness of the sport, the president of a bullfighting club was gored by a bull after it jumped out of the ring and attacked him viciously."
2015-08-04,"8 Eight suitcases full of ivory seized at Zurich airport - Elephant tusks with estimated black-market value of about 265,000 were being transported from Tanzania to China via Switzerland. The tusks had been sawed into pieces to fit into the luggage."
2015-08-04,Russia makes a new claim for the Northpole
2015-08-04,"Stop burning fossil fuels now: there is no CO2 'technofix', scientists warn - Researchers have demonstrated that even if a geoengineering solution to CO2 emissions could be found, it wouldnt be enough to save the oceans"
2015-08-04,Airbus patents jet to fly London-New York in 1 hour
2015-08-04,Bitcoin deemed regular currency by Australian Senate Committee
2015-08-04,"It is worse than Hitler, worse than AIDS, cancer or any other epidemic. It is more catastrophic than nuclear holocaust, and it must be stopped. -Creator of the list of the banned Indian porn sites"
2015-08-04,"Canada, a resource economy, is the only G7 country in a recession"
2015-08-04,United Joins Delta Banning Big-Game Trophies After Cecil Killing
2015-08-04,Obama says no challenge greater threat to U.S. future than climate change
2015-08-04,"A massive gate unearthed in Israel may have marked the entrance to a biblical city that, at its heyday, was the biggest metropolis in the region."
2015-08-04,"G20 countries pay over $1,000 per citizen in fossil fuel subsidies, say IMF Worlds leading economies still paying trillions in subsidies despite pledges to phase them out, new figures show"
2015-08-04,"China is demanding that the Obama administration return a wealthy and politically connected businessman who fled to the United States, according to several American officials familiar with the case. Should he seek political asylum, he could become one of the most damaging defectors"
2015-08-04,7.5 year prison sentence sought for 18 Turkish journalists for reporting on alleged covert arms shipments by the Turkish government into Syria.
2015-08-04,Isis 'price list' for child slaves confirmed as genuine by UN official Zainab Bangura
2015-08-04,Women Killed Alongside Mexican Photojournalist Were Tortured & Raped - 3 of the 4 women with Ruben Espinosa were assaulted before being shot in the head after an all-night party among friends in a middle-class section of Mexico City
2015-08-04,Russia calls for international cooperation to fight Islamic State
2015-08-04,"Speed of glacier retreat worldwide 'historically unprecedented', says report. Researchers have recorded rapid rises in meltwater and alarming rates of glacial retreat, which are accelerating at a pace double that of a decade ago."
2015-08-04,Israeli president flooded with death threats for condemning 'Jewish terror'
2015-08-04,More than 450 civilians killed in US-led airstrikes against the Islamic State
2015-08-03,'Ultimate Frisbee' recognised by International Olympic Committee
2015-08-03,Israel approves use of harsher measures against 'Jewish terrorists'
2015-08-03,2000 year old termite mounds in Africa confirm that insects can sustain a millennia in the same home
2015-08-03,"Photojournalist found dead in Mexico City after he fled harassment in his home state Veracruz, where 11 journalists have been killed there since 2010"
2015-08-03,"Japanese Heat Wave Kills Six, Leaves Over 3,000 Hospitalized - A heat wave in Japan caused the deaths of six people over the weekend, almost 40 Japanese nationals were killed by heatstroke since June."
2015-08-03,"Colombia aims to buy land from private owners and redistribute it among the poor after its 50-year-old war ends, the government said Sunday, addressing the root cause of the conflict.The conflict has left more than 200,000 dead and forced some six million people from their homes."
2015-08-03,"Canadian PM Stephen Harper dissolves Parliament, calls general election for October 19"
2015-08-03,Nigeria's military has rescued 71 girls and women in firefights that killed several Boko Haram fighters
2015-08-03,Former City trader Tom Hayes has been found guilty at a London court of rigging global Libor interest rates.
2015-08-03,Ex-British prime minister named in child sex abuse investigation
2015-08-03,"Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline , which was fined a record 3 billion yuan ($483 million) for corruption in China last year and is examining possible staff misconduct elsewhere, faces new allegations of bribery in Romania."
2015-08-03,Indonesian foundation defends awarding Kim Jong-un peace prize
2015-08-03,Illegal immigrants to UK face eviction without court order under new plans - Landlords who fail to check tenants immigration status face five-year jail terms as part of government crackdown to reduce UKs appeal as a migrant destination
2015-08-03,Landlords who fail to evict migrants who do not have the right to live in Britain could be jailed for up to five years under measures to be included in the Immigration Bill.
2015-08-03,Japan calls US spying allegations 'deeply regrettable'
2015-08-03,Saudi king cuts short controversial holiday in France - BBC News
2015-08-03,Al-Qaeda Militants Accuse Islamic State Of Being A Con
2015-08-03,Healthy British nurse ends her life in a Swiss clinic because of fear of getting old
2015-08-03,"Dutch crane collapse demolishes houses, injuring at least 20."
2015-08-03,Vladimir Putin's Deputy Prime Minister owns a secret 12million apartment just a short walk from Downing Street
2015-08-03,"Venezuela supermarket looting leaves one dead, dozens detained"
2015-08-03,"Greek stocks plunge, banks hammered, after five-week crisis shut down  Reuters"
2015-08-03,"Clinton mails reveal US impression that UK PM David Cameron was 'unsure, inexperienced, oblique, and largely uncommitted' while London Mayor Boris Johnson was 'clown prince'"
2015-08-03,Danish architecture firm BIG has a plan to turn four 300-foot smokestacks atop London's Battersea Power Station into the world's tallest Tesla coils
2015-08-03,Two alleged 'IS' returnees to Germany go on trial
2015-08-02,"""I drank the water & ate the fish. We all did. The acid has damaged me permanently"" - In villages near Africas biggest copper mine, you can taste pollution. Legal battle against metals giant Vedanta/KCM reaches London."
2015-08-02,"A 16-year-old girl who was stabbed during Jerusalems Gay Pride Parade on Thursday died Sunday after succumbing to her wounds, hospital officials said."
2015-08-02,"After recent death, only 4 Northern White Rhinos Remain. 1 Male and 3 Females. The male is 41 years old and has a low sperm count."
2015-08-02,"Cecil's brother Jericho 'alive and well,' says researcher, after reports lion was killed"
2015-08-02,"Distillers in China added Viagra to thousands of bottles of spirits and told customers it had ""health-preserving qualities"", food safety officials say."
2015-08-02,Uproar as India 'bans' porn sites
2015-08-02,"Thousands of Israelis rallied Saturday night in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem against ""incitement and violence,"" following attacks by Jewish extremists targeting Palestinians and homosexuals"
2015-08-02,"Australian speaker of the house, Bronwyn Bishop, forced to resign after a lengthy expenses scandal."
2015-08-02,"'Heat Dome' In Iran Sees Heat Index Of 165 Fahrenheit, Nearing World Record"
2015-08-02,800 top athletes suspected of doping
2015-08-02,Israeli President Rivlin receives death threats from Jewish extremists following his plea for peace in light of Palestinian baby's murder
2015-08-02,An Australian coal mine that was bought for $624 million three years ago has just been sold for $1
2015-08-02,Two Turkish security troops killed and 24 wounded in suicide attack by Kurdish PKK militants - governor's office
2015-08-02,Africa wealth report 2015: rich get richer even as poverty and inequality deepen
2015-08-02,China to expand medical insurance in bid to reform healthcare | President Xi Jinpings government unveils latest step in plan to deliver universal affordable treatment to population of 1.4 billion people
2015-08-02,"Hackers find vulnerabilities in Industrial Ethernet Switches used in hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants"
2015-08-02,"Brazils resettlement of farmers has driven Amazon deforestation - Over 1 million people given land to farm in the Amazon since 1970s. Turns out, govt still organizing large-scale migration of farmers who've been wrecking the rainforest."
2015-08-02,Calais migrant crisis: UK and France urge EU action
2015-08-02,Media coverage of terrorism leads to further violence
2015-08-02,Puerto Rico will default
2015-08-02,Canada election 2015: Stephen Harper confirms start of 11-week federal campaign - Politics
2015-08-02,ISIS offshoot leader killed in shootout with Egyptian armed forces
2015-08-02,Volcano in Papua New Guinea Fires Off a 12-Mile-High Plume
2015-08-02,Thousands of civilians in South Sudan's Upper Nile state face starvation after the government blocked aid groups from using the Nile River to deliver relief food.
2015-08-02,"Syrian Kurds Accuse Turkey Of Attacks, Ask U.S. For Explanation"
2015-08-01,TPP Delegates Fail to Reach Final Deal
2015-08-01,Trade Minister Andrew Robb confirms Australia will not sign Trans-Pacific Partnership deal
2015-08-01,A fleet of at least 30 fishing trawlers crewed by slaves is being hunted off the coast of Papua New Guinea as the true extent becomes apparent of the trafficking of Burmese men by a massive Thai-run criminal syndicate operating throughout the East Indies.
2015-08-01,"Three Girls Steal $3,300 from ISIS."
2015-08-01,Iran has confirmed that a meteor has hit somewhere in the northern part of the country.
2015-08-01,"WikiLeaks publishes ""Target Tokyo"", 35 Top Secret NSA targets in Japan including the Japanese cabinet and Japanese companies such as Mitsubishi"
2015-08-01,Legal challenge to be lodged surrounding TPP | A legal challenge will be lodged in the New Zealand's High Court next week over the secrecy around the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations
2015-08-01,Child Marriages Form 15% of All Marriages in Egypt
2015-08-01,Japan arrests MtGox Bitcoin head over missing $387m
2015-08-01,Cables show Hillary Clinton's State Department heavily involved in TPP negotiations.
2015-08-01,Sex workers around the world aren't taking lightly to a celebrity campaign against decriminalizing prostitution.
2015-08-01,"Temperatures soar into the 50s in Middle East, feels like it's in the 70s in some parts."
2015-08-01,"Cecil the Lion's cubs to likely survive, protected by Cecil's brother, Jericho who may have fathered some himself."
2015-08-01,Migrants trying to sail from Turkey to Greece are increasingly reporting being attacked by gunmen trying to prevent them from reaching Europe.
2015-08-01,"TPP negotiations threaten to forcibly commercialise state-owned bodies | The ABC, SBS and Australia Post could lose special regulatory treatment under trade measures being pushed for by the US"
2015-08-01,Two journalists at the prominent German news website Netzpolitik are under investigation for treason after publishing details about the planned expansion of the German Secret Services Internet surveillance program
2015-08-01,"Now that Iran has agreed to curb its nuclear program, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif says its time for Israel to follow suit and abandon its long-rumored nuclear arsenal."
2015-08-01,Disneyland Paris probed for charging Brits and Germans more than the French
2015-08-01,Jerusalem gay pride attack suspect lashes out in court
2015-08-01,Eight slaves rescued from impounded Thai-owned cargo ship in Papua New Guinea
2015-08-01,Windows 10: Microsoft faces criticism over privacy
2015-08-01,Saudi Arabia Asks To Be Dropped From 9/11 Lawsuits
2015-08-01,Russia 'may ban gay emojis' under 'propaganda' law
2015-08-01,"Secret NSA Map Shows China Cyber Attacks on U.S. Targets | A secret NSA map obtained exclusively by NBC News shows the Chinese government's massive cyber assault on all sectors of the U.S economy, including major firms like Google and Lockheed Martin, as well as the U.S. government and military."
2015-08-01,"Talks on a Pacific Rim free-trade pact are unlikely to end in a final deal, sources involved in the talks said on Friday, with a dispute between Japan and the United States over autos, New Zealand digging in over trade in dairy products and no agreement on monopoly periods for next-generation drugs"
2015-07-31,"The Canadian government has announced it intends to ban microbeads used in personal care products, after a scientific review found that the tiny particles pose a potential risk to the environment."
2015-07-31,"A leaked document from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks indicates the CBC, Canada Post and other Crown corporations could be required to operate solely for profit under the deals terms."
2015-07-31,Zimbabwe wants the killer of Cecil the lion extradited
2015-07-31,Supreme Court of India in a landmark ruling allows 14 year old rape survivor to terminate her pregnancy. She was 24 weeks into her pregnancy.
2015-07-31,"18 month old Palestinian baby burned to death after two houses were burned in Duma village in occupied West Bank, with graffiti left on the walls reading ""revenge"" in Hebrew."
2015-07-31,"German government accuses news website of treason over leaks - For the first time in more than 50 years journalists are facing treason charges, which is being denounced as an attack on the freedom of the press"
2015-07-31,"2022 Winter Olympics Awarded to Beijing, becoming first city to host both winter and summer olympics"
2015-07-31,Saudi Arabia asks to be dropped from 9/11 lawsuit
2015-07-31,Successful Ebola vaccine provides 100% protection in trial
2015-07-31,US ally Turkey found to be funding Islamic State while bombing them and the Kurds combating ISIL.
2015-07-31,NASA confirms the discovery of a rocky exoplanet just 21 light years away
2015-07-31,"HIV can be flushed out of its hiding places in the body using a cancer drug, researchers show."
2015-07-31,"Spains Google tax has been a disaster for publishers, new study shows: Traffic to small publishers dropped 14 percent, and some local news apps shut down"
2015-07-31,"Environmentalists, union members protest Pacific trade pact being negotiated at Maui resort: ""We are calling on elected leaders around the world, all 12 countries, to recognize that the public interest in this situation is higher than the corporate interest."""
2015-07-31,"Huge underground lake found in desert of Xinjiang, China"
2015-07-31,"Iran city hits suffocating heat index of 154 degrees, near world record"
2015-07-31,Serbia's state lottery is facing an investigation after one of the winning numbers appeared on television before being drawn.
2015-07-31,China removes crosses from churches across the country - Chinese Christians start making their own in protest.
2015-07-31,"Hundreds of villagers in an east China county have written a letter to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, hoping for the return of a 1,000-year-old mummified buddha believed to be stolen from their village in 1995."
2015-07-31,Six Jerusalem Gay Pride marchers stabbed by ultra-Orthodox Jew
2015-07-31,David Cameron is to give pornography websites one last chance to produce an effective voluntary scheme for age-restricted controls on their sites or he will introduce legislation that could see them shut down
2015-07-31,Italy youth unemployment jumps to a record-high 44.2 percent.
2015-07-31,"Litvinenko inquiry: Vladimir Putin 'ordered killing'- Russian President Vladimir Putin ""personally ordered"" the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the inquiry into the former spy's death has heard"
2015-07-31,Tokyo Electric executives to be charged over Fukushima nuclear disaster
2015-07-31,Farm employers 'manipulate' female backpackers into sexual acts in return for Australian visa sign-off: Travellers are being coerced into performing sexual acts in return for farm employers signing off on backpacker visa applications.
2015-07-30,Rio's waters are so filthy that 2016 Olympians risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete
2015-07-30,Russia vetoes bid to set up tribunal for downed flight MH17
2015-07-30,An entire Palestinian village that has received Australian aid money to help improve living conditions is facing demolition by Israeli authorities.
2015-07-30,Possible MH370 wing part washes up on African Island
2015-07-30,"We will access, disclose and preserve personal data, including your content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or files in private folders), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to. - Microsoft"
2015-07-30,Spanish man fined up to 600 under new gag laws for calling police 'slackers' in Facebook post
2015-07-30,"Only one percent of Kenyan government spending can be properly accounted for, according to a report by the country's auditor-general released just days after US President Barack Obama warned corruption was holding the country back"
2015-07-30,"Germany Just Got 78% Of Its Electricity From Renewable Sources - The new record exceeds the previous May, 2014 record by as much as 5 percentage points."
2015-07-30,World Bank rejects energy industry notion that coal can cure poverty
2015-07-30,Jehovah's Witnesses hid over 1000 sex abuse cases.
2015-07-30,"Shut up as a woman, Turkish Deputy PM Arn tells female MP"
2015-07-30,Canada Just Bought Israel's Iron Dome Radar Technology
2015-07-30,Facebook ordered to allow fake user names in Germany
2015-07-30,Cats in Australia could soon be banned from going outdoors 24/7
2015-07-30,"U.K. released hundreds of Nazis after the Holocaust, says leading historian | Dr. Dan Plesch of SOAS, London, says that the the former Nazi officers were released under pressure from the U.S., which wanted Germany on its side in the Cold War."
2015-07-30,"1000s of Animals Saved in Nepal as Mass Slaughter Is Canceled - World's largest animal sacrifice called off in landmark victory for activists. At 2009 religious event some 500,000 water buffalo, goats, chickens, & other animals were killed. ""The time has come to transform an old tradition."""
2015-07-30,Facebook profit falls 9 percent
2015-07-30,The world's population is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050 before hitting 11.2 billion people by the end of the century
2015-07-30,Women Screw Islamic State out of Thousands of Dollars by Posing as Potential Brides
2015-07-30,153 Chinese get life sentences for illegal logging in Myanmar
2015-07-30,Dentist who killed Zimbabwe's Cecil the lion hires PR firm amid global backlash
2015-07-30,"Defense Department is ""already observing the impacts of climate change in shocks and stressors to vulnerable nations and communities,"" including in the United States, the Arctic, Middle East, Africa, Asia and South America."
2015-07-30,"U.S. says 'deeply concerned' about Israeli building in West Bank. Deputy Spokesperson said ""Settlement expansion threatens the two-state solution and calls into question Israel's commitment to a negotiated resolution to the conflict"""
2015-07-30,China is stripping crosses from Christian churches
2015-07-30,FedEx no longer to transport bioterror germs in wake of anthrax lab mishaps
2015-07-29,"Dentist who killed Cecil the lion faces calls for prosecution - US uproar over death of protected animal forces Walter Palmers practice to close, as two others attend Zimbabwean court to face poaching charges."
2015-07-29,US bans cilantro imports from Mexican farms littered with feces & toilet paper - 5 of 8 Puebla farms found with objectionable hygiene conditions have been linked to recurrent outbreaks of cyclosporiasis in US since 2012
2015-07-29,Saudi Arabian royals who annexed an entire public beach for their stay on the French Riviera 'ordered local police not to allow female officers near them'
2015-07-29,A US-led raid on the compound housing the Islamic States chief financial officer produced evidence that Turkish officials directly dealt with ranking ISIS members
2015-07-29,Iran has completely cut off its financial aid to the Palestinian militant group Hamas
2015-07-29,Obama tells African leaders no one should be president for life
2015-07-29,British Police admit giving up enforcing cannabis laws
2015-07-29,"Northern white rhino dies, leaving only 4 left on Earth: Nabir, a 31-year-old female northern white rhino, died of a ruptured cyst, leaving only three females and one male of this subspecies alive."
2015-07-29,"For 110 days and across two seas and three oceans, Sea Shepherd crews stalked a fugitive fishing ship considered the worlds most notorious poacher."
2015-07-29,"Secrecy around TPP trade deal fuels suspicions, worries. ""Higher costs for needed generic drugs. Longer copyright protections than the global standard. Foreign investors empowered to overrule governments. A more tightly-regulated internet."""
2015-07-29,Senior Western official: Links between Turkey and ISIS are now 'undeniable'
2015-07-29,"Tony Abbott wrong on coal being good for humanity, Oxfam report finds - Report says Australia must embrace renewables & coal exacts an enormous toll on health, drives climate change & is ineffective in delivering electricity to worlds poor"
2015-07-29,Former Kremlin banker: Putin 'is the richest person in the world until he leaves power'
2015-07-29,"ISIS preparing to attack India to provoke confrontation with the US, says report"
2015-07-29,Trans-Pacific Partnership: TPP Trade Deal Hits Stumbling Blocks In The Final Lap Of Negotiations
2015-07-29,Secret TPP Talks Continue at a Luxury Hotel in Hawaii as the Deal Grows More Controversial
2015-07-29,"Curved London 'Death Ray' skyscraper, previously blamed for igniting fires with reflected solar heat, now stands accused of creating urban wind tunnels and blowing over pedestrians"
2015-07-29,"Some 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais on Monday night in an attempt to reach the UK, operator Eurotunnel has said"
2015-07-29,"The Entire Country of Sri Lanka is About to Get Balloon-Based Internet, Thanks to Google"
2015-07-29,"Two students have found a human tooth from about 560,000 years ago in a famous prehistoric cave in southwestern France, a discovery praised by archaeologists as the oldest human body part ever discovered in the country and being rare from that period in Europe"
2015-07-29,Supreme Court of India : 24 weeks pregnant rape victim can undergo abortion if doctors permit.
2015-07-29,China adds 9.16 GW of grid-connected wind power in H1
2015-07-29,Taliban leader Mullah Omar 'is dead' - BBC News
2015-07-29,"As Yemenis Starve, Saudi Arabia is Accused of War Crimes in the Country"
2015-07-29,PKK blows up two bridges in Turkey
2015-07-28,American dentist named as the hunter that killed beloved Cecil the lion.
2015-07-28,"Billionaire hedge fund managers have called on Puerto Rico to lay off teachers and close schools so that the island can pay them back the billions it owes. It accused the island, where 56% of children live in poverty, of spending too much on education"
2015-07-28,U.S. drops bid for 2024 Olympics in Boston
2015-07-28,"Porn websites visited 250,000 times on UK parliament computers"
2015-07-28,Canadian Conservative MPs block their own Finance Minister from presenting a report about the Canadian economy.
2015-07-28,Prime Minister John Key has admitted that New Zealand will have to pay more for medicines if it signs up to the Trans Pacific Partnership but he says this was unlikely to affect consumers.
2015-07-28,DNA discovery: Modern Amazonians linked to indigenous Australians
2015-07-28,"Killing of Cecil the lion prompts calls for EU ban on importing lion trophies: Zimbabwes famous lion was lured out of a national park, killed, beheaded and skinned. Over 200 lions are legally killed and turned into trophies and sent to Europe every year"
2015-07-28,Jehovah's Witnesses did not report 1006 alleged sex abusers to police
2015-07-28,"Apple, Microsoft, Google and other US firms to commit $140bn to address climate change"
2015-07-28,"Facing corruption scandal, Malaysian PM fires officials investigating him"
2015-07-28,950 million Android phones can be hijacked by malicious text messages
2015-07-28,Swiss officials have issued a formal apology after it emerged army helicopters had crossed the border with France on Thursday in an unexpected incursion to draw water for thirsty Swiss cows.
2015-07-28,"Senior London Shia scholar declares jihad against extremism, against the forces misusing the name of Islam; against ISIS"
2015-07-28,"Anonymous releases hacked CSIS document after members death, threaten to leak stunning secrets"
2015-07-28,Insulting statues of 'rat bankers' have appeared in London
2015-07-28,Members of an isolated indigenous group made contact over the weekend with villagers in Peru's Amazon basin seeking food and supplies
2015-07-28,Philip Morris sues Australian Government over plain packaging laws
2015-07-28,North Korean authorities going house-to-house in search to destroy 'banned' music CDs and tapes
2015-07-28,40 Percent of the World's Adults Have Never Heard of Climate Change
2015-07-28,LGBT hate speech to be outlawed in Poland for the first time
2015-07-28,Obama condemns African leaders who won't give up power
2015-07-28,NATO holding rare emergency meeting at Turkey's request
2015-07-28,The UK government spent 13 times more bombing Libya than securing peace in the years afterwards - 450m versus 35m
2015-07-28,Libya: Moammar Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam sentenced to death
2015-07-27,"Musk, Wozniak and Hawking urge ban on AI and autonomous weapons: Over 1,000 high-profile artificial intelligence experts and leading researchers have signed an open letter warning of a military artificial intelligence arms race and calling for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons."
2015-07-27,Search for 43 missing students in Mexico turns up corpses of at least 129 other people
2015-07-27,"Marijuana legalization petition hits enough signatures for UK parliament debate - A petition for the full legalization of marijuana in the UK has gathered more than 130,000 signatures in just four days"
2015-07-27,"No excuse for female genital mutilation, says Obama"
2015-07-27,"A girl aged about 10 has carried out a suicide bombing in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 16 people"
2015-07-27,Half of Cuba men's hockey team defects
2015-07-27,Deputy Speaker of House of Lords resigns after being filmed snorting cocaine with two prostitutes
2015-07-27,Europe just invested over $380 million in an alien-hunting space mission to Jupiter
2015-07-27,"Medical marijuana to be sold in pharmacies, says Israeli deputy minister of health"
2015-07-27,"Only 100 tigers left in Bangladesh's famed Sundarbans forest - The population in the mangrove forest is far less than believed, officials say, after a census uses cameras hidden in trees to record numbers"
2015-07-27,Renewable energy expense attacked as Australia gifts $41 billion to fossil fuels
2015-07-27,Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam Passes Away: Collapses During Speech in Shillong
2015-07-27,Turkey asks NATO for extraordinary meeting next week
2015-07-27,"China stocks plunge, suffer biggest one-day loss since February 2007"
2015-07-27,"Victoria shuts down Yellow Giant underground gold mine in northwestern B.C. for spilling pollution on land and into creeks, lakes, and a wetland."
2015-07-27,"Young Hondurans Lead Unprecedented Anti-Corruption Movement.A Honduran spring is happening, led by young people mobilising over the social networks, who are flooding the streets with weekly torch marches against corruption and impunity."
2015-07-27,"Over a thousand French farmers have blocked roads from Spain and Germany to stop foreign produce entering the country. The protest follows a week of action against a fall in food prices, pushing them towards bankruptcy."
2015-07-27,Turkey Drops Bombs on Kurdish Group That Fought Islamic State in Iraq
2015-07-27,Russia to give away land to populate its far east.
2015-07-27,"Leader of Russian neo-Nazi group sentenced to life: Moscows highest court sentenced a leader of a militant neo-Nazi group to life in prison Friday after he was convicted of ordering five brutal killings, including that of a prominent human rights lawyer."
2015-07-27,"The remains of 97 human bodies have been found stuffed into a small 5,000-year-old house in a prehistoric village in northeast China, researchers report in two separate studies."
2015-07-27,1881 document suggests Palestinian ownership of village destroyed by Israel several times
2015-07-27,Radical Israeli Sheikh calls to conquer Temple Mount with violence
2015-07-27,"At least 10 people have been killed in a bomb blast which has hit a hotel in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu."
2015-07-27,Dawn of deep-sea mining alarms conservationists as UN body issues exploration contracts.Conservationists are warning that the deep oceans fragile biodiversity must be protected and not nearly enough is known about the risks of extracting minerals from seabeds.
2015-07-26,Australian senators give medical marijuana the green light
2015-07-26,"Iran offered Iraq an 'open cheque' to help them battle Isis.The Iraq ambassador to the US says of Iran. ""They offered us literally anything we wanted, troops and everything else"""
2015-07-26,More than 1.2 million trees were planted across Australia on Sunday during National Tree Day. This year's tally brings the total number to over 22 million trees planted by more than 3.5 million participants since the annual event began in 1996.
2015-07-26,Barack Obama tells African states to abandon anti-gay discrimination
2015-07-26,"Skeletons Of Napoleon's Soldiers Discovered In Mass Grave Show Signs Of Starvation - Archaeologists find over 3,000 men who died during Napoleons retreat from Moscow in 1812. Now, new chemical analyses are revealing where these soldiers hailed from & how little there was to eat."
2015-07-26,Human Traffickers Arrested at Delhi Airport; 21 Nepalese Girls Rescued
2015-07-26,"""We were all in awe"": Over century-old shipwreck found in Nova Scotia harbor - ""This is 1 of the nicest wrecks in Nova Scotia. It's never been touched. Being on a newly-discovered shipwreck is something that sometimes only happens once in a divers career, or maybe never."""
2015-07-26,"Zimbabwean authorities hunt Spaniard accused of killing Cecil the lion: European allegedly paid 50k for chance to kill tourist attraction, who was found headless after being shot with a bow and arrow"
2015-07-26,"Pakistan Tried to Create 'World's Most Powerful Surveillance System' by Illegally Tapping Undersea Internet Cables. The report by Privacy International found that ISI was being provided spying tools by companies such as Atis (Germany), Ericsson (Sweden), Nokia and Huawei"
2015-07-26,"Australia is on the cusp of joining a huge new United States-led trade deal which will ""set the rules"" for doing business in the region at the expense of China."
2015-07-26,The Taliban took control of a large police base in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan after some 100 police and border guards joined the insurgents following three days of fighting
2015-07-26,FBI: China the most predominant economic espionage threat to US
2015-07-26,"Signs of worlds 1st pictograph found in Turkey - Site of worlds oldest temple holds scene etched into obelisk. It depicts a human head in a vulture's wing & a headless human body. There are cranes & scorpions. ""This is the portrayal of a moment. They are not random figures."""
2015-07-26,"The White House has backed Turkey's right to ""take action"" against Kurdish militants, after waves of air and artillery strikes put a fragile ceasefire between separatists and the Turkish forces in jeopardy."
2015-07-26,TPP Trade Deal May Wrap Up This Week
2015-07-26,"A medical school admission examinations scandal in India has turned into a veritable whodunit with thousands of arrests, mysterious deaths and the suspected involvement of top politicians and bureaucrats"
2015-07-26,Petition as French Riviera beach closed for Saudi king
2015-07-26,Professor claims scientists investigating melting Arctic ice may have been assassinated
2015-07-26,"At least 19 people have been killed and 64 others injured in a suicide bombing in the Cameroonian town of Maroua, just three days after twin bombings were suspected to have been carried out by militant group Boko Haram."
2015-07-26,"Delhi's cheap food war: Street vendors fear city's canteen scheme will threaten their livelihoods. The so-called common man canteens promise freshly cooked, nutritious meals prepared in hygienic kitchens for the citys bulging ranks of the poor and needy."
2015-07-26,"Ian Cobain, a reporter with The Guardian, is one of very few people who know why a student arrested by armed British police officers in 2013 was finally acquitted this year of terrorism charges. Problem is, he cannot report what he knows."
2015-07-26,IOC urged to reject Beijings 2022 Olympic bid amid lawyer crackdown
2015-07-26,"West Africa's alarming growth industry: Meth.Local and international officials say West African criminal groups are now producing and exporting hundreds of millions of dollars worth of methamphetamine - or meth - every year, most of it shipped to Asia."
2015-07-26,Justice for sale: Big companies could soon escape prosecution for corporate corruption - by paying their way out
2015-07-26,"Turkey and U.S. will create 4000 km ISIS-free ""safe zone"" in northern Syria to resettle refugees"
2015-07-25,"Former Gitmo detainee who wrote a book about being ""Innocent in Guantanamo"", is arrested in Belgium for recruiting for al Qaeda"
2015-07-25,New Horizons Finds Nitrogen Glaciers and Hazy Air on Pluto: Astronomers astounded by the dwarf planet's active geology and atmosphere
2015-07-25,"Mexico poverty rate hit 46.2% last year as 2 million more join ranks of poor.The poverty rate increased by 0.7 percentage point to 46.2 percent last year from 45.5 percent in 2012, equivalent to 55.3 million people in the nation of nearly 120 million"
2015-07-25,"Cannabis petition forces MPs to consider debating legalisation: More than 100,000 sign appeal calling for total legalisation hosted on governments official e-petitions website."
2015-07-25,"An independent Mexican commission said on Thursday it found serious flaws in an investigation into the apparent massacre of 43 students last year, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto over a scandal that has battered his administration."
2015-07-25,"""US and Pakistan cannot have a true strategic partnership until Pakistan cuts all ties with terrorist organisations and renounces its use as an instrument of state policy"": US lawmakers tells Pakistan"
2015-07-25,"House prices pushed up by foreign gangsters: Investigators warn the London property market is being ""skewed"" by international criminals seeking to hide their ill-gotten gains."
2015-07-25,A United Nations watchdog urged Canada on Thursday to investigate alleged human rights abuses by its mining companies abroad and launch an inquiry into the high number of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.
2015-07-25,U.S. troops to train regular Ukrainian military troops later in 2015
2015-07-25,Taxi drivers block streets of Rio de Janeiro in protest against Uber
2015-07-25,"Nigeria marks a year without polio, with hopes high for eradication from Africa"
2015-07-25,Kerry says Israeli action against Iran would be 'huge mistake' - NBC -
2015-07-25,Illegal migration clearly linked with terror threat: Hungary PM
2015-07-25,Saudi Airstrikes In Yemen Kill Over 120 Civilians In Southern Taiz Province
2015-07-25,"Foreign criminals are laundering billions of pounds through the purchase of expensive properties, which is pushing up house prices in the UK, the National Crime Agency has said."
2015-07-25,Turkey extends bombing campaign to PKK targets in Iraq
2015-07-25,Denmark to run anti-refugee advertisements
2015-07-25,Amnesty Blasts 'Staggering' Iranian Execution Spree; Nearly 700 People Killed So Far This Year
2015-07-25,Kerry to talk with Russia on Islamic State fight and role Iran might play
2015-07-25,"Turkey arrests hundreds of suspected ISIS, PKK militants"
2015-07-25,First ships cross Egypt's New Suez Canal in test run
2015-07-25,Australian arrested after acting as ISIL medic in Syria. Nurse appears in court after handing himself in to authorities in Turkey and voluntarily returning to Sydney
2015-07-25,"Brazilian prosecutors, declaring war on what they called a culture of impunity, presented charges on Friday against the CEO of Latin America's largest engineering firm as part of a landmark investigation of a kickback and bribery scandal"
2015-07-25,NASA's New Horizons spacecraft discovers flowing Ices on Pluto
2015-07-25,Turkey Condemns Belgium Over Armenian Genocide Resolution
2015-07-24,"NASA discovers another Earth like planet in the Milky Way galaxy - Planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun."
2015-07-24,World's first malaria vaccination approved
2015-07-24,Indian court rules that 14-year-old who was raped by her doctor is not allowed to terminate pregnancy.
2015-07-24,Shoplifting in Russia soars as economy crumbles under sanctions
2015-07-24,French court backs mass surveillance: France's top court has given the green light for security services to hack people's computers and phones even if they aren't suspected of any crime.
2015-07-24,"NASA: Returning To The Moon Is Ten Times Cheaper Than Thought, And It Could Lead To Mars - In 10 to 12 years, it says that a four-person industrial base on the Moon could be operational, costing $40 billion (26 billion), less than $4 billion (2.6 billion) a year."
2015-07-24,"Shell Just Got the Green Light to Drill in the Arctic | The Obama administration gave Shell the go-ahead to drill in the Arctic, but put limits on how deep the company can drill until better spill response technology arrives."
2015-07-24,Moscow's highest court has sentenced a leader of a militant neo-Nazi group to life in prison after he was convicted of ordering five brutal killings including that of a prominent human rights lawyer
2015-07-24,"Ukraine bars Communist Party from elections, political party which regularly got >10% of the votes in national elections"
2015-07-24,"China has started assembling the world's largest radio telescope, which will have a dish the size of 30 football pitches when completed, state media reported as Beijing steps up its ambitions in outer space"
2015-07-24,India earns $100 million launching 45 foreign satellites
2015-07-24,"Iran falsified the number of executions in the country to hide the fact that in the last six months, it killed as many as 694 people, Amnesty has claimed in its latest report"
2015-07-24,"Rep. Rosa DeLauro: ""[The] legitimacy and moral authority on the issue of human trafficking is being undermined in an effort to smooth the path for the TPP"""
2015-07-24,Chinese company builds 3D-printed villa in less than 3 hours
2015-07-24,Turkish warplanes pound Islamic State in Syria as Ankara steps up to front-line
2015-07-24,Massive Pod of Pilot Whales Slaughtered in the Faroe Islands - Footage shows bloody slaughter
2015-07-24,Report: Israel Gave Jordan 26 Cobra Choppers to Fight ISIS
2015-07-24,Russia bans Jehovah's Witness literature and website
2015-07-24,"Russian austerity: Putin fires 110,000 officials"
2015-07-24,"Submarine volcano near Grenada going active, may erupt within hours and pose tsunami threat for Caribbean"
2015-07-24,British teen accused of plot to commit college massacre
2015-07-24,Oil price collapse warning issued by Morgan Stanley
2015-07-24,Turkey to Allow Use of Key Air Base for U.S. Warplanes to Bomb ISIS
2015-07-24,The UK wants online pirates to face 10 years in prison
2015-07-24,Sweden to Introduce Meat Tax
2015-07-23,Dolphins are struggling to reproduce because of industrial chemical pollution in European waters that can linger in the animals' bodies for a lifetime
2015-07-23,"Tibet monk dies in custody, China cremates him to avoid probe, and then seizes his ashes to avoid shrine"
2015-07-23,White House Finalizing Plan to Close Guantanamo Bay Prison
2015-07-23,Spain raises marrying age from 14 to 16
2015-07-23,"European Union opens antitrust case against 6 major US movie studios - Sky UK, Disney, NBC, Paramount, Sony, Fox, and Warner Bros named in Statement of Objections."
2015-07-23,"Australia's climate change stance is ""incomprehensible"" and ""profoundly un-conservative"", said a leading UK MP."
2015-07-23,The Canadian government says it will not be bullied as the United States ratchets up pressure on Canadas heavily protected dairy sector ahead of what could be the final round of talks for a Pacific Rim trade deal spanning 12 countries.
2015-07-23,"China starts building its largest solar plant: spread over 2,550 hectares in the Gobi desert"
2015-07-23,Turkish tanks on Thursday opened fire on targets controlled by Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria after a Turkish soldier was killed by shots from the Syrian side of the border
2015-07-23,India's grand solar plans ruin Abbott's coal export strategy
2015-07-23,"Scientists: we are 'condemning' forest elephants by ignoring evidence - As the ivory trade threatens to obliterate forest elephants, conservationists & govts fail to recognize them as a distinct species despite rising genetic & physical evidence."
2015-07-23,Video of Tycoon Stomping on Woman's Head Reveals the Dark Side of Cambodia's Elites
2015-07-23,World's Most Famous Climate Scientist Issues Bombshell Sea Level Warning
2015-07-23,Myanmar jails 153 Chinese illegal loggers for life
2015-07-23,China may adopt 'two-child policy' this year as demographic timebomb looms
2015-07-23,"Thirty-seven people were killed in three days in the Brazilian city of Manaus, and one hypothesis being considered is a coordinated wave of attacks involving police, an official said"
2015-07-23,Ukraine: Thousands of far-right supporters rally in Kiev calling for impeachment of President Poroshenko
2015-07-23,The BRICS countries just launched a rival to the IMF and the World Bank
2015-07-23,"Seventy years after the end of the Second World War and the liberation of Nazi death camps by Allied troops, Germany is establishing its first-ever professorship devoted to the study of the Holocaust."
2015-07-23,"The United Nations office in Guatemala said Tuesday that a major river in the countrys northern region had been contaminated with pesticides used to produce African palm oil, affecting thousands of people."
2015-07-23,"Chile's salmon farmers are using record levels of antibiotics to treat a virulent and pervasive bacteria, driving away some U.S. retailers including Costco Wholesale Corp, which is turning to antibiotic-free Norwegian salmon"
2015-07-23,Tehran turns down Berlins request to recognize Israel - Middle East
2015-07-23,"India, China And Iraq Become Biggest Russian Weapons Importers Amid Western Sanctions"
2015-07-23,Rushdie says 'wrong lessons' learned from his Iran fatwa ordeal
2015-07-23,Earth records hottest June since records began
2015-07-22,Leaked emails between Italian spyware vendor Hacking Team and Boeing subsidiary Insitu revealed that drones carrying malware to infect targeted computers via Wi-Fi by flying over their proximity is close to becoming a reality.
2015-07-22,"ISIS convoy triggers their own mine planted earlier in the year, 2 of its local leaders killed"
2015-07-22,"""Today's publication indicates that the NSA has been used to help the CIA kidnap and torture with impunity. For years the CIA was systematically abducting and torturing people, with the tacit complicity of European governments,"" WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in a statement."
2015-07-22,"Poland will not pay a penny for Greece: Poland will not spend a penny from its own budget to help Greece, Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz told a press conference in Warsaw"
2015-07-22,"Russia Disowns Soldiers Captured in Eastern Ukraine in May: In videotaped interviews after they were captured, Alexandrov and Yerofeyev said they were part of a Russian special forces' spying mission in eastern Ukraine"
2015-07-22,"Romania bans Holocaust denial, fascist symbols"
2015-07-22,"The UAE introduces new law criminalising all forms of discrimination on the grounds of religion, caste, creed, doctrine, race, colour or ethnic origin."
2015-07-22,NASA releases Epic New View of Earth; 1st image of the entire sunlit side of Earth at once since Apollo 17 astronauts captured the iconic Blue Marble photograph in 1972.
2015-07-22,Mexican poachers ignore fishing ban as the worlds most endangered porpoise nears extinction: A Greenpeace vessel patrolling the Gulf of California finds that vaquita porpoisekilling gill-net fishing continues despite a government moratorium.
2015-07-22,"After Four Years, Chinese Dissident Artist Ai Weiwei Gets His Passport Back."
2015-07-22,"32 boys dead in South African circumcision initiation season. 400 died last year, and 500,000 hospitalised with complications & infections between 2008-2013."
2015-07-22,Access to Twitter blocked in Turkey... again.
2015-07-22,"Russia using North Korean 'slave labour', say human rights groups"
2015-07-22,The scientist leading Australia's efforts to find signals from intelligent life on other planets warned on Tuesday we should think twice before replying.
2015-07-22,Finnish unemployment at 10% and youth unemployment at 22% with no signs of improvement
2015-07-22,Saudi Prince Threatens 'Military Action Without American Support' Against Iran
2015-07-22,"Outdoor cinema for homeless people opens in Moscow - Throughout the summer, Russian capital's invisible population will be able to watch Soviet comedies and enjoy hot meals."
2015-07-22,Air strike kills al Qaeda leader in Syria: Pentagon
2015-07-22,"Greenland's glaciers flowing into the ocean are grounded deeper below sea level than previously measured, allowing intruding ocean water to badly undercut the glacier faces. That process will raise sea levels around the world much faster than currently estimated"
2015-07-22,Scientists find first drug that appears to slow Alzheimer's disease
2015-07-22,Erdogan's Daughter Heads a Covert Hospital to Help ISIL Injured Members
2015-07-22,"European court forces Italy to recognize same-sex couples, putting pressure on Russia and others to liberalise"
2015-07-22,Kyrgyzstan tears up cooperation accord with US
2015-07-22,"NSA tapped phone calls involving top German officials for years, recent WikiLeaks docs reveals; the group alleged that its revelations showed the NSA, which had been spying on German officials since at least 1998, helped the CIA outmaneuver Europe on torture at CIA black sites in Europe"
2015-07-22,DNA uncovers mystery migration to the Americas
2015-07-21,George Clooney seeks to expose those who fund and profit from wars in Africa: The Oscar winner has launched a project with US human rights activist John Prendergast to investigate the flow of money in and out of conflict zones
2015-07-21,Cecil the lion was skinned and his head removed. Hwange - A well-known and much-photographed black-maned lion affectionately named Cecil was killed by sport hunters just outside Hwange in Zimbabwe last week.
2015-07-21,"5,000 naked anti-gay protesters to greet Obama in Kenya"
2015-07-21,Bankers the real terrorists: Occupy attacks London police for labeling protesters extremists
2015-07-21,Cluster bombs made in the USA and sold to Saudi Arabia are being dropped on Yemenis
2015-07-21,"NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has urged the world's leading group of internet engineers to design a future 'net that puts the user in the center, and so protects people's privacy."
2015-07-21,"Monster El Nio Makes Record-Hot Year Look Inevitable.In more than 135 years of global temperature data, four of the five hottest months on record all happened in 2015: February, March, May, and now June."
2015-07-21,Binyamin Netanyahu's household spending under criminal investigation
2015-07-21,An 18-year-old French woman is in remission from HIV - despite not having taken any drugs against the virus for 12 years.
2015-07-21,A village in Kazakhstan is being evacuated as scientists grapple with the cause of a mysterious sleeping sickness.
2015-07-21,"College librarian in China admits to stealing more than 140 17th-20th Century paintings, selling them for $17m, and replacing them with fakes"
2015-07-21,Huge crude oil spill in Siberia.
2015-07-21,"New study shows King Phillip II of Macedonfather of Alexander the Great, is buried in Tomb I - Most striking evidence comes from a leg bonean upper thigh fused to a shin at the knee with a hole in itit aligns with historical texts that describe Philip as suffering a wound from a lance."
2015-07-21,Isis Executed German Kickboxing Champion Valdet Gashi for Trying to Flee: Monitoring Group
2015-07-21,"Romania, a country where only 1.7% of people donate blood, is offering free concert tickets in exchange for their blood"
2015-07-21,"Rhinos With Spy Cams in Their Horns Will Catch Poachers in the Act - A big problem has been that anti-poaching teams find out about incidents too late, leading to low arrest & conviction rates at the scene of the crime. ""All this tech has existed for a long time, weve just put it together."""
2015-07-21,Russian sports club airbrushes Putin critic and chess great Kasparov from history book
2015-07-21,2 Giant Israeli Solar Plants Will Soon Provide Nearly 2% Of The Countrys Electricity
2015-07-21,EU member states agree to ban toxic substance widely found in clothing because it poses an unacceptable risk to the environment - Hormone disrupting chemicals found in imported clothing
2015-07-21,Russia makes rival U.N. move on MH17 probe after dismissing tribunal bid
2015-07-21,John Kerry 'disturbed' by Iranian leader's criticism after deal
2015-07-21,"Former President Hu Jintao's top aide has been arrested on corruption charges, stripped of his party membership and removed from all government positions"
2015-07-21,The Philippines and Vietnam are refurbishing key military bases used during the Cold War and bolstering cooperation with Washington to counter Beijings maritime expansion in the South China Sea.
2015-07-21,Australia to earn $1.5bn a year from China cattle exports
2015-07-21,"Israel halts medical treatment for members of Syria's Nusra Front ""The officer responded to complaints voiced by some members of the Druze community in Israel that security forces are assisting the Al-Nusra Front"""
2015-07-20,Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life
2015-07-20,"US, Cuba restore full diplomatic relations after 54 years"
2015-07-20,Dozens dead after terror attack in Turkey - CNN.com
2015-07-20,India blocks Colgate patents for spices that are commonly used at homes
2015-07-20,"Marijuana could be used to treat fractured bones, new study finds. The bones not only healed quicker, but were also stronger and more resilient against a repeated fracture"
2015-07-20,"Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman, a vocal supporter of Athens in their long-running bailout saga, said Sunday that he ""may have overestimated the competence of the Greek government"""
2015-07-20,Cuban flag will be raised over what is to once again become Cuban embassy on Monday
2015-07-20,North Korea reports 99.97% turnout in local elections
2015-07-20,Australia's 60 Minutes makes 'special' on UK's VIP paedophiles
2015-07-20,Australia's war on wind farms threatens biggest renewable project
2015-07-20,Banknotes thrown at Sepp Blatter during news conference
2015-07-20,Town Shames ISIS Chief Cersei Lannister-Style -- and Then Executes Him
2015-07-20,Report: ISIS steps up use of chemicals on battlefield
2015-07-20,Ikea to pay UK workers more than living wage in 2016
2015-07-20,"New UAE Anti-Discriminatory Law criminalises acts that insult religion through speech, written word, books, pamphlets or online media. 10 years jail time for discrimination crimes."
2015-07-20,Frances President Hollande calls for Eurozone Government
2015-07-20,Australian mining companies linked to hundreds of deaths across Africa
2015-07-20,"Almost 9,500 people in London had their lives cut short by air pollution in 2010, accounting for a fifth of all deaths in the city that year."
2015-07-20,Japanese pensioners are committing more crimes than teenagers
2015-07-20,Climate change found to increase human conflict and violence.Changes in temperatures and precipitation patterns systematically increase the risk of both inter-personal violence .
2015-07-20,"A former Yugoslav general was arrested in Montenegro on Sunday on suspicion of having committed war crimes in the 1990s. Serbian Borislav Djukic, 66, was arrested, on a warrant issued by Croatia, at Tivat airport as he was about to board a plane for Belgrade"
2015-07-20,US 'friendly fire' kills up to 10 Afghan soldiers
2015-07-20,"Russia Orders 'Submarine-Killer' Be-200 Amphibious Aircraft For Production By 2020, Official Says"
2015-07-20,UN Security Council unanimously endorses Iran nuclear deal
2015-07-20,ISIS destroys Ramadi Stadium in Iraq
2015-07-19,"A Japanese salmon and trout fishing boat from Hokkaido was seized by Russian authorities Friday for breaching the fishing quota, the Hokkaido government said Saturday."
2015-07-19,"Police Shoot Protester Wearing Anonymous Mask, Hacktivist Group Vows to Avenge His Death"
2015-07-19,"Tension builds between Canada, U.S. over TPP deal"
2015-07-19,Rich Chinese Leaving China
2015-07-19,"In Myanmar, Garment Factories That Source Popular Brand-Name Clothing Retailers Aim To Defeat A 40-Cent Hourly Minimum Wage"
2015-07-19,UK Wants 10 Year Prison Sentence For Online Pirates
2015-07-19,Iraq: 115 Killed In IS Car Bomb Attack
2015-07-19,Gaza City hit by at least four explosions
2015-07-19,"Eritrean translators are intimidating and deliberately mistranslating the testimonies of refugees during asylum hearings, say dissidents' groups in Germany."
2015-07-19,"The United Nations Working Group on business and human rights this week urged Governments across the world to ensure that corporations do not undermine sustainable development, and called for greater transparency and accountability for how businesses address human rights risks and impacts."
2015-07-19,"Colombian authorities have announced work will begin on July 27 to unearth what they say is the world's largest urban mass grave, located in a garbage tip in a sprawling mountainside slum known as Comuna 13 in western Medellin."
2015-07-19,"ISIS Offensive in Al-Hasakah Ends Miserably: 1,200 Militants estimated trapped in the city, surrounded by Syrian Armed Forces and YPG fighters"
2015-07-19,Palestinian refugee girl allowed to stay in Germany after crying footage goes viral
2015-07-19,Queen launches massive hunt to find source behind leaked footage of her doing a Nazi salute as a kid
2015-07-19,Royal Palace upset after a British tabloid published video of a young Elizabeth giving the Nazi salute
2015-07-19,Women top Taiwan presidential race
2015-07-19,Islamists kill five at Egypt's Sinai checkpoints
2015-07-19,Honduras Outraged Movement Marches On Against Gov't Corruption.Honduras' popular outraged movement took to the streets with tens of thousands of supporters for the eighth week straight
2015-07-19,ISIS executes journalist in Iraq's Mosul.
2015-07-19,Royals told: open archives on family ties to Nazi regime
2015-07-19,"ISIS Plants Land Mines In Christian Civilian Homes, Ancient Ruins Across Iraq, Syria"
2015-07-19,"Over 150,000 drafted into Russian armed forces during spring campaign - Defense Ministry"
2015-07-19,"Ayatollah Khamenei, Backing Iran Negotiators, Endorses Nuclear Deal"
2015-07-19,"Christians Grow Weary Over Rising Threat of Kidnapping in Syria, Iraq"
2015-07-19,Hamas military members captured. Responsible for the murder of Israeli citizen Malachi Rosenfeld on June 29.
2015-07-18,"Sponsor Coca-Cola demands third-party reform of FIFA, possibly starting a trend of sponsors applying pressure to the organisation in order to force reform"
2015-07-18,"More than 200,000 Germans formally left the Catholic Church in 2014, accelerating the downward trend in the Catholic proportion of the countrys population."
2015-07-18,Obama praises South Korea for paying teachers the way they pay doctors
2015-07-18,An Australian TV Reality show smuggled a group of participants across the Syrian border to IS territory. They had a narrow escape as they came under heavy artillery fire from IS as filmmakers took them within half a mile of the front line.
2015-07-18,"Uk's first genital mutilation protection order obtained, stopping 2 girls from being taken abroad"
2015-07-18,Drone that Pakistan shot down was made in China: Chinese media
2015-07-18,Security forces in Saudi Arabia arrests 431 suspected members of the Islamic State militant group.
2015-07-18,"China Ends Mystery of Gold Hoard to Top Russias Holdings. China ended six years of mystery over how much gold its hoarding, revealing a 57% jump in reserves and overtaking Russia to become the country with the 5th-largest stash of the metal."
2015-07-18,"Archaeologists Find Assyrian Tablets in Turkey, Some About Women's Rights"
2015-07-18,"ISIS Has Fired Chemical Mortar Shells, Evidence Indicates"
2015-07-18,"Spy agency employee found dead, information on hacking program in will: police"
2015-07-18,"'Drop Israel nuke program double standards, get IAEA to supervise' - Arab League"
2015-07-18,"Fed up with the daily blare from mosque loudspeakers calling the faithful to prayer, Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla has set up a team to monitor the volume of cacophony that begins from dawn. Based on data collected in several urban areas will implement measures to regulate mosque speakers."
2015-07-18,"A South Korean government spy was found dead Saturday in an apparent suicide alongside a note that seemed to comment on the recent revelation that the spy agency had acquired hacking programs capable of intercepting communications on cellphones and computers, police said."
2015-07-18,"Iran lauds Indian assistance during period of Sanctions, promises preferential treatment to Indian investors"
2015-07-18,"The Canadian military's new top commander has delivered a clear, tough message, saying bullies and abusers have no place within the ranks and, where they exist, they'll be weeded out."
2015-07-18,"Chinese-built zero-emissions electric bus prepares for service in London - Fully electric doubledecker bus with new compact battery to launch in autumn, as London prepares for ultra low emission zone, reports China Daily"
2015-07-18,Israeli PM calls Palestinian President in goodwill gesture marking Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr
2015-07-18,International report confirms: 2014 was Earths warmest year on record
2015-07-18,A space rock worth $5.4 trillion is flying by Earth this weekend
2015-07-18,"Khamenei: Deal or no deal, Iran won't stop opposing US, supporting people of Palestine"
2015-07-18,"UK Mass Surveillance, The power was used in around 16,000 such cases last year to prevent death or injury in an emergency situation, the Home Office said."
2015-07-18,China to deport foreign tourists apparently after some of them watched a documentary on Genghis Khan in their hotel room
2015-07-18,France estimates the economic costs of air pollution.The Senate committee estimated the annual cost of air pollution in France at 101.3 billion.
2015-07-18,60 media workers killed in first half of this year for doing their job .France named as deadliest country for journalists after Charlie Hebdo attack
2015-07-17,Saudi royals illegally close off French public beach
2015-07-17,"Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS | Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that drones do more harm than good."
2015-07-17,"If humans continue destroying plants at the current pace, the lack of irreplaceable biomass may soon endanger present human civilization and make it unsustainable - according to a paper published recently by University of Georgia researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
2015-07-17,"Australia tops the world for climate change denial, study finds"
2015-07-17,"Warming of oceans due to climate change is unstoppable, say US scientists"
2015-07-17,"Despite deep cuts to public services and welfare, the UK's 650 MPs are to see their annual pay rise to the equivalent of 106,000 euros."
2015-07-17,"Australia actually declares war on cats, plans to kill 2 million by 2020"
2015-07-17,Indian workers have won a $20m claim against a US company for defrauding and exploiting them while repairing damaged oil rigs after Hurricane Katrina
2015-07-17,High court rules UK data retention and surveillance legislation unlawful
2015-07-17,UK government gags advisers over refusal to support bee-harming pesticides
2015-07-17,Kidnapping in Mexico Increased by 30% in June.Mexico holds first place worldwide in kidnapping. Over 90 percent of the cases go unreported.
2015-07-17,Mass protests in Tokyo as Japan moves to ditch pacifism
2015-07-17,New video shows the moment Russian-backed rebels realized they shot down a civilian airliner in eastern Ukraine
2015-07-17,Polar bears are unable to adapt their behaviour to cope with the food losses associated with warmer summers in the Arctic. Scientists had believed that the animals would enter a type of 'walking hibernation' when deprived of prey. But new research says that the bears simply starve.
2015-07-17,Nexen pipeline leak in Alberta spills 5 million litres - Edmonton
2015-07-17,Knesset votes down death penalty for terrorists 94-6 - Israel News
2015-07-17,China's debt is now twice the size of its gross domestic product
2015-07-17,"With fraud rife in conflict and disaster zones, aid charities are under pressure to be open about corruption but one third of the world's 25 biggest aid charities declined to make their fraud data public"
2015-07-17,"Isis in its latest execution video released ahead of the popular muslim festival Eid al fitr has used for the first a child soldier for beheading a Syrian Army captain. The child, before decapitating the Syrian soldier, announces that Isis will one day hoist its flag over Jerusalem and Rome."
2015-07-17,British pilots 'taking part in airstrikes in Syria'  despite government vote against military action
2015-07-17,"British Pilots Have Been Conducting Airstrikes in Syria, Defense Ministry Confirms...even though Parliament voted two years ago against military action there."
2015-07-17,Saudi use of cluster bomb in Yemen breaks U.S. rules. Followup on Human Rights Watch report.
2015-07-17,Greeces Prime Minister May Have Just Sacrificed His Government for a Deal He Barely Supports
2015-07-17,High Court rules UK data retention and surveillance legislation unlawful
2015-07-17,"Casablanca mosque stampede blamed on mouse: A mouse is responsible for triggering a stampede in a mosque in the Moroccan city of Casablanca which left more than 80 people injured, officials say."
2015-07-16,"British Columbia has a strong appetite for marijuana reform with more than 70% of respondents to a new poll urging either legalization or decriminalization. The Insights West survey found 67% said they support outright legalization, 28% opposed it and 5% were undecided."
2015-07-16,Japan: Elderly overtake teenagers in crime figures
2015-07-16,Canada ranked as 'most admired' country in the world
2015-07-16,Stop Everything: Theres a New Seaweed That Tastes Like Bacon and Is Better for You Than Kale
2015-07-16,"Cuba is prepared to break with the contentious past and peacefully coexist with the United States, Cuban President Raul Castro said on Wednesday as the two former adversaries are set to restore diplomatic ties"
2015-07-16,Ireland passes law allowing trans people to choose their legal gender: Trans people should be the experts of our own gender identity. Self-determination is at the core of our human rights.
2015-07-16,Greek Parliament passes austerity bill
2015-07-16,Angela Merkel tells sobbing asylum seeker why she cannot stay in Germany
2015-07-16,"""A trove of thousands of Saudi documents recently released by WikiLeaks reveals in surprising detail how [Saudi Arabia's] goal in recent years was not just to spread its strict version of Sunni Islam  though that was a priority  but also to undermine its primary adversary: Shiite Iran."""
2015-07-16,Chinese workers go faceless for a day to avoid stress of faking facial expressions
2015-07-16,North Korea Has Invited Every Member of Congress to Tour Its Alleged Anthrax Facility.
2015-07-16,"US says it is ready to engage North Korea in authentic, credible negotiations after Iran Nuclear Deal"
2015-07-16,Never-before-seen footage reveals Russian-backed rebels arriving at the wreckage of MH17
2015-07-16,Rich countries rejected an international plan to let the UN help fight tax evasion: Transparency advocates tell Quartz that the US was particularly responsible for blocking the provision; Treasury Department officials in Washington and with the delegation did not respond to requests for comment.
2015-07-16,"Rome ""is on the verge of collapse,"" says the city's chamber of commerce president. ""It is unacceptable that a major city which calls itself developed can find itself in such a state of decay."""
2015-07-16,"Greeks take to streets against barbaric bailout armed with petrol bombs, in most violent protest in two years"
2015-07-16,"Too young to wed: Malawi chief sends married children back to school -- A Malawi chief took bold steps to address child marriage in her community, reflecting the slow but steady progress against the practice in Malawi and worldwide."
2015-07-16,Steel is now cheaper than cabbages in China.
2015-07-16,2 million feral cats to be killed in Australia
2015-07-16,Major pharma and finance corporations dramatically boosted lobbying efforts to support TTIP
2015-07-16,"Putin tells Dutch PM on the anniversary of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 crash that an international tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down the plane would be ""counter-productive"""
2015-07-16,Iran nuclear deal: '99% of world agrees' says Obama
2015-07-16,"Huge explosion at petrochemical plant in Shandong, China"
2015-07-16,"Italy takes step toward legalizing pot: Even members of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's party voted for the measure, a first step toward full legalization."
2015-07-16,Obama: Its My Iran Deal or War
2015-07-15,EU law that could make UK internet porn filters illegal is heading for a vote
2015-07-15,Japan finally bans possession of child pronography.
2015-07-15,People with HIV live almost 20 years longer than in 2001
2015-07-15,Angela Merkel: Marriage is 'a man and a woman living together'
2015-07-15,Saudi Arabia borrows $4B as oil price reality hits home
2015-07-15,NSA file reveals Israel behind 2008 assassination of Syrian general. Israeli naval commandos shot Muhammad Suleiman before escaping via the sea.
2015-07-15,Solar power industry vows to step up campaign to topple Abbott government
2015-07-15,"In a huge U-turn, the UK government now says it is NOT going to try to ban encryption"
2015-07-15,Teenager who planned to join ISIS in Syria and said 'all gay people should be killed' is jailed for more than three years
2015-07-15,Weedkiller suspected of causing cancer deemed 'safe': A best-selling herbicide that the World Health Organisation suspects causes cancer could get a new lease of life in Europe after being deemed safe by a key assessment based largely on classified industry reports.
2015-07-15,"Viking Sword Discovered in NorwayBattle ax with shaft coated in brass also in grave. Charcoal dates to AD 1030, coinciding with coins found. Its quite possible the dead man was 1 of King Canutes men for battles with King Ethelred of England."
2015-07-15,Outrage as 9 Sudanese women face 40 lashes for wearing trousers
2015-07-15,"Google accidentally reveals data on 'right to be forgotten' requests: Data shows 95% of Google privacy requests are from citizens out to protect personal and private information  not criminals, politicians and public figures"
2015-07-15,"Americans,Europeans and Middle Easterners see ISIS as the greatest global threat; rest of the world sees climate change as the greatest threat."
2015-07-15,"Tens of thousands of pilgrims taking part in a Hindu religious bathing festival surged forward and triggered a massive stampede on a riverbank in southern India, leaving at least 27 dead"
2015-07-15,Urdu to Replace English as the Official Language in Pakistan
2015-07-15,South Korean activist launches 'The Interview' DVDs by balloon toward North Korea
2015-07-15,"Australia- Speaker of house, Bronwyn Bishop has charged taxpayers almost $90,000 for a two-week European trip partly aimed at securing her a plum new job."
2015-07-15,Pluto probe calls home after flyby
2015-07-15,Pirate Bay 'Hydra' Loses Another Domain Name
2015-07-15,"Mexican kingpin El Chapo photographed drinking beer, flying in plane"
2015-07-15,Snapchat's decision to live stream Mecca praised by thousands of Muslims online
2015-07-15,Iraq's antiquities minister says the Baghdad National Museum has gotten back nearly 500 artifacts recovered by U.S. Army commandos during a recent raid in Syria targeting the Islamic State group.
2015-07-15,"German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that although she favoured measures to curb discrimination against same-sex couples, and that the case of LGBTQ+ rights had been advanced greatly, she did not think that marriage licenses should be offered to homosexual couples."
2015-07-15,"Hammond: Israel doesnt want any deal with Iran, it wants a permanent state of stand-off"
2015-07-14,Hadron collider discovers new particle the pentaquark
2015-07-14,"Germany encourages pedophilies to sign up for confidential treatment, even if they have abused a child, and doctors are hailing it as a success."
2015-07-14,"Kim Jong Un phasing out worship of father, grandfather and stripping military of power, analysts say"
2015-07-14,Why was Oscar-winning Snowden documentarian detained 50+ times in US airports?
2015-07-14,"Iranian diplomat: Iran, major powers reach historic nuclear deal."
2015-07-14,Thousands of people in Bangladesh are demanding justice for a teenage boy who was beaten to death by a group of men who filmed themselves laughing and jeering as they carried out the attack.
2015-07-14,"The goal to get HIV treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has already been met, says the United Nations Aids agency. The landmark figure was reached in March - nine months ahead of schedule."
2015-07-14,"A project to build a $200 DIY Wi-Fi router to help whistleblowers hide online just disappeared under ""bizarre"" circumstances"
2015-07-14,Australia has asked the United Nations to set up an international criminal tribunal to try those responsible for shooting down the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.
2015-07-14,"JAPAN- Nangka is a powerful typhoon, heading for Japan and is expected to continue to strengthen over the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean through midweek, approaching super typhoon intensity."
2015-07-14,"An Australian judge has accused WikiLeaks of ""a clear and deliberate breach of the law"" with its online publication last year of a suppression order issued to prevent world leaders being named in a corruption case."
2015-07-14,Kuwait has passed a law making it mandatory for all its 1.3 million citizens and 2.9 million foreign residents to have their DNA entered onto a national database.
2015-07-14,"Two Morocco women have been acquitted of indecency charges after they went on trial for wearing short skirts, their lawyer says."
2015-07-14,"3,000 killed in Yemen in first 100 days of Saudi-led bombing, half civilians"
2015-07-14,An Australian state is considering banning tobacco sales to anyone born after 2000.
2015-07-14,Google maps updates name of disputed South China Sea shoal; removes Chinese name for the reef following online petition
2015-07-14,New Horizons: Probe sends detailed view of Pluto
2015-07-14,"""News about an imminent mini ice age is trending - but its not true"""
2015-07-14,"Burka ban: In wake of market bombing, Chad warns anyone in full veil will be arrested on sight"
2015-07-14,"Liberia confirms new Ebola case as outbreak spreads, nearly two months after declared Ebola-free by the UN"
2015-07-14,'Pope of the Poor' Francis apologizes for overlooking middle class woes
2015-07-14,Italy's public debt hits new record
2015-07-14,"China says 75 percent of cities failed to meet air standards in June. Last year, nearly 90 percent of China's 74 big cities failed to meet air quality standards."
2015-07-14,Israel: Five senior officers under investigation over Gaza war
2015-07-14,UN calls on Palestinians to provide information on missing Israelis
2015-07-13,"Beijing effectively bans Tibetans and other ethnic minorities from obtaining passports, Human Rights Watch said Monday, amid a surge in Chinese tourists travelling abroad"
2015-07-13,"Climate change must be taken as seriously as nuclear war, says UK foreign minister"
2015-07-13,"Russia advances 2km into Georgian territory: ""a portion of the BP-operated BakuSupsa Pipeline in Georgia now ... under Russian control"""
2015-07-13,Israel arrests Jewish suspects over torching famous church
2015-07-13,Lithuania to remove remaining Soviet-era statues in capital
2015-07-13,Eurozone 'agreement' on Greece debt
2015-07-13,Chad police: Anyone wearing face veils will be arrested
2015-07-13,Doctors demand a 20% tax on sugary drinks to fight UK obesity epidemic
2015-07-13,"Thundersnow, the rarest phenomenon in Australian weather, just happened."
2015-07-13,"An anti-Islam nationalist group that has aligned itself with neo-Nazis and other far-right organisations says it will hold Australia's biggest ever ""patriot rally"" at Melbourne's Parliament House next weekend."
2015-07-13,"Kurdistan Worker's Party declares end of ceasefire with Turkey, mobilizes guerrillas"
2015-07-13,"""President Vladimir Putin says Russia is interested in using national currencies with other BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa] members after agreeing on such an arrangement with China."""
2015-07-13,"Sea bass stocks on brink of collapsing - The stock is in rapid decline, & much more needs to be done - & urgently - to prevent this iconic & important fishery from collapsing. Call for temporary fishing ban if EU agreement to manage critically low stocks cant be reached."
2015-07-13,Your gun laws are a mistake: National Rifle Association to Australia
2015-07-13,Mexican president expropriates indigenous land for highway: Activists expressed outrage and launched an online campaign after government trucks and construction vehicles entered this weekend protected lands of one of Mexico's indigenous communities in order to build a highly controversial highway.
2015-07-13,"Greek crisis: surrender fiscal sovereignty in return for bailout, Merkel tells Tsipras"
2015-07-13,Greeks Face 'Humiliating' Demands As Twitter Says #ThisIsACoup
2015-07-13,Kuwait announces mandatory DNA database for its citizens
2015-07-13,Ukraine government in armed standoff with nationalist militia
2015-07-13,Successful Icelandic Pirate MP resigns from Parliament and goes back to mixing asphalt
2015-07-13,"Scientists use nanoparticles to shut down mechanism that drives cancer growth. ""shutting down Twist expression enabled cancer cells to overcome their resistance to cancer drugs"""
2015-07-13,High-Profile Tibetan Monk Dies In Prison In China
2015-07-13,Ethiopian LGBT Activist Banned by Facebook Under Real Name Policy
2015-07-13,Six Tropical Cyclones At Once in the Pacific Ocean on July 12
2015-07-13,Orangutan escapes from zoo by using blanket as a leverage to break its enclosures.
2015-07-12,Mexican top drug lord Chapo Guzman escapes from maximum security prison for 2nd time
2015-07-12,Tony Abbott has been warned he is putting international investment at risk after ordering the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation not to finance new wind power.
2015-07-12,Thursday Denmark managed to produce 140 % of its electricity needs through wind power.
2015-07-12,Abbott government extends renewable energy investment ban to solar power - Clean Energy Finance Corporation banned from investing in small-scale solar projects in move industry claims is revenge politics that will strangle the sector
2015-07-12,Man disguised as woman wearing burqa kills 15 in Chad capital bomb attack
2015-07-12,U.S. may cut Canada out of TPP
2015-07-12,US-led warplanes are pummeling the de facto ISIS capital like never before
2015-07-12,Doctors call for repeal of laws preventing them from speaking out about detention centres (Australia)
2015-07-12,Japan is converting an abandoned golf course into Kyoto's largest solar power plant
2015-07-12,Pope Francis demands end to Christian 'genocide' in Middle East
2015-07-12,Foreign students will be banned from working and forced to leave the UK when their course ends
2015-07-12,"Dozens of Russian troops 'flee unit, fearing Ukraine deployment'"
2015-07-12,"Eurozone leaders refuse to continue talks with Greece unless wave of reforms are passed this week, with second wave of reforms soon after"
2015-07-12,Kosovo shuts off capital's water supply after alleged ISIS poison plot
2015-07-12,"2,000 Moldovans and Romanians call for reunification, scatter flowers over river border."
2015-07-12,"Finland's parliament in favour of forcing Greece out of the euro, says report"
2015-07-12,US psychology group colluded with govt 'torture' program: report
2015-07-12,"Angry at demands, Greeks rail at German 'humiliation' | Kathimerini"
2015-07-12,"Typhoon Pounds China With Heavy Rains, 1.1 Million Evacuated. Possibly the strongest typhoon to hit China since 1949."
2015-07-12,"World entering era of global food insecurity with malnutrition and obesity side by side within countries, says leading food expert"
2015-07-12,Australian Navy Cancels Order for the F-35B Joint Strike Fighter
2015-07-12,Woman dies in new H5N6 case.
2015-07-12,Meeting on Greece Debt Breaks Up With No Deal
2015-07-12,"More than 10,000 fish died in temporary holding tanks in Brazil during construction of what is being touted as the world's largest freshwater aquarium"
2015-07-12,Tunisias non-NATO ally status confirmed by US
2015-07-11,"More than 865,000 evacuated as super typhoon approaches China"
2015-07-11,"Researchers confirm: The Largest Pyramid in Mexico has been found - according to initial measurements, is larger than the Great Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan - we can confirm that this pyramid exceeds in height the pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan which measures 65 meters"
2015-07-11,Vatican Sex Abuse Trial Halted: Ex-Archbishop falls ill hours before he was due to appear in Vatican Court. Accused of paying for sex with children in the Dominican Republic from 2008-2013.
2015-07-11,US torture doctors could face charges after report alleges post-9/11 'collusion'
2015-07-11,Earth heading for 'mini ice age' within 15 years
2015-07-11,Pope attacks capitalism as 'dung of the devil' in speech
2015-07-11,Former ExxonMobil Scientist Says the Company Has Long Known of Its Climate Change Impacts
2015-07-11,High Heat Measured under Antarctica Could Support Substantial Life - Nearly a kilometer below the ice scientists have found a Yellowstone-like geothermal glow that could create life-rich subglacial lakesand lubricate Antarctic ice loss
2015-07-11,Cairo blast hits Italian consulate
2015-07-11,"Uighurs from China's Xinjiang are being given Turkish identity papers in Southeast Asia by Turkish diplomats and then taken to Turkey where some are sold to fight for groups like Islamic State as ""cannon fodder"", a senior Chinese official said."
2015-07-11,"More than 11,000 cases of so-called honor crime were recorded by UK police forces from 2010-14: The crimes are usually aimed at women, and can include abductions, beatings and even murders."
2015-07-11,Second Tunisia terror attack foiled: Five ISIS extremists are shot dead in Islamic stronghold as thousands of British tourists are evacuated
2015-07-11,Serbian PM Vucic attacked by mob during Srebrenica anniversary
2015-07-11,U.K. Loses A City-Sized Area Of Green Space In Six Years
2015-07-11,Vietnamese protests over land grabs in Hai Duong Province crushed by bulldozer.
2015-07-11,Boko Haram attacks northern Nigeria town: military sources
2015-07-11,"World Poverty Drops, With China Leading the Way: Pew Research Center data shows a decrease in global poverty. China largely drove the rise of the global middle class, increasing its share of middle class by 15 percent or by 203 million people"
2015-07-11,Report: Indonesian pilots may have been radicalized by ISIS
2015-07-11,Africa Takes First Step Toward $2 Trillion Free-Trade Bloc
2015-07-11,"Tracking chips will be installed on the feet of 1,600 terror suspects in Pakistan to monitor their movements."
2015-07-11,"Nearly two months after Liberia was declared Ebola-free, five new cases have raised questions about the programme to eradicate the disease."
2015-07-11,Syrians Race to Save Ancient City's Treasures from ISIS
2015-07-11,Designation of Tunisia as a Major Non-NATO Ally
2015-07-11,Russia working to relaunch production of Tu-160 supersonic nuclear bombers
2015-07-11,Greek MPs back bailout reform plan
2015-07-10,Pirate Bay Founders Acquitted in Criminal Copyright Case
2015-07-10,BMW has just put the first 100% all electric 18 wheeler out on the road in Germany
2015-07-10,"Pope Francis warns against new forms of colonialism: ""Human beings and nature must not be at the service of money. Let us say no to an economy of exclusion and inequality, where money rules, rather than service. That economy kills. That economy excludes. That economy destroys Mother Earth."""
2015-07-10,71% of the world's population lives on less than $10 a day
2015-07-10,Pope begs forgiveness for sins and 'offences' of church against indigenous of America
2015-07-10,UK to ban WhatsApp under 'snoopers charter' law.
2015-07-10,Pope accuses world leaders of 'cowardice'
2015-07-10,Wind power generates 140% of Denmark's electricity demand
2015-07-10,Bodies of WWII US Marines recovered in Pacific.
2015-07-10,"Its too late to stop the seas rising at least 5 metres and only fast, drastic action will avert a 20-metre rise"
2015-07-10,"""Cant stop an adult from watching porn in his room"": Supreme Court of India"
2015-07-10,BBC documentary translates Gaza children saying 'Jews' as saying 'Israelis'
2015-07-10,"Ethiopia has been voted the worlds best tourism destination for 2015, for its excellent preservation of humanity landmarks such as the ruins of the city of Aksum, and Fasil Ghebbi, which served as the residence of the Ethiopian emperors during the 16th and 17th century."
2015-07-10,"UK urges Britons to leave Tunisia as ""further terrorist attack is highly likely"" - BBC News"
2015-07-10,Fossil fuel companies have been lying about climate change for more than 30 years.The fossil fuel industry has waged a campaign to obfuscate and mislead the public on the science surrounding climate change
2015-07-10,"Chanting 'Death to Israel,' millions march in Iran on al-Quds Day"
2015-07-10,Greek Plan Accepts Austerity to Get Debt Relief
2015-07-10,"Even if world manages to limit global warming to 2C  the target number for current climate negotiations  sea levels may still rise at least 6 meters (20 feet) above their current heights, radically reshaping the worlds coastline and affecting millions in the process."
2015-07-10,"First Sighting of Drachma in the Wild, Via Credit-Card Mystery"
2015-07-10,"Australian law enforcement and intelligence services have been in secret talks with an Italian-based surveillance company notorious for helping repressive states like Sudan spy on their own citizens, according to leaked emails published by Wikileaks."
2015-07-10,Exclusive: Japan interested in joining NATO missile consortium
2015-07-10,"""Two heads are better than one, and three monkey brains can control an avatar better than any single monkey. For the first time, a team has networked the brains of multiple animals to form a living computer that can perform tasks and solve problems."""
2015-07-10,Ukraine offers huge state firms to foreign investors
2015-07-10,7.0 Earthquake strikes offshore of the Solomon Islands
2015-07-10,"Pope calls for new economic order, criticizes capitalism"
2015-07-09,"FIFA imposes lifetime ban on former member, informant, and whistle blower, Chuck Blazer"
2015-07-09,Saudi comedian gets death threats and huge ratings for TV show that mocks ISIS
2015-07-09,"Exxon knew of climate change in 1981, email says  but it funded deniers for 27 more years"
2015-07-09,Pluto has a heart! NASA reveals most detailed photograph of the former planet
2015-07-09,"Hit by drought and seawater, Bangkok tap water may run out in a month"
2015-07-09,London's Underground system at standstill due to biggest strike in more than a decade
2015-07-09,Poorer than Greece:the EU countries that reject a new Athens bailout
2015-07-09,"Surveillance company loses control of flagship spy program: Hacking Team - ""We believe this is an extremely dangerous situation"""
2015-07-09,"Microsoft hangs up on Nokia business, to cut 7,800 jobs"
2015-07-09,"Irans Revolutionary Guards: ""Destruction of Israel"" is Islamic Worlds Top Priority"
2015-07-09,"Malaysian government pulls phoenix from MH370 search. Currently 50,000km2 of seafloor has been searched of the proposed 120,000km2."
2015-07-09,"Pakistan warns India, says can use nuclear weapons if needed"
2015-07-09,Russia unveils straight pride flag
2015-07-09,More than four million Syrians have now fled war and persecution
2015-07-09,ISIS Leaders Reported Killed in Drone Strike in Afghanistan
2015-07-09,Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has been found guilty of bribing a senator in 2006 in an attempt to bring down the then centre-left government.
2015-07-09,"Hamas has been holding an Israeli citizen captive, against his will, in Gaza for nearly a year"
2015-07-09,The Rapid Action Battalion  described by Human Rights Watch as a death squad that has perpetrated systematic abuses over more than a decade  wanted to see a practical demonstration of Hacking Teams surveillance equipment
2015-07-09,Duma Approves Construction of $4 Billion Kerch Bridge to Crimea
2015-07-09,Ukraine Banks Seek Compensation From Russia for Crimean Losses
2015-07-09,"Declassified UK documents reveal Greece planned Cyprus invasion in 1983. The concerns were great enough for the foreign secretary of the time, Geoffrey Howe, to instruct British diplomatic missions to lobby six Muslim-majority countries against recognizing the new state."
2015-07-09,"France says 'No' to Greek euro exit, Prime Minister Valls"
2015-07-09,The forgotten war on Yemen has left 80% of the population without basic survival needs like food and water
2015-07-09,A titanic row between Samsung and a hedge fund run by an American Jew sparks anti-Jewish assault in South Korean media
2015-07-09,Ancient Ritual Bath Found Under Unsuspecting Family's Floorboards
2015-07-08,"Teen Guilty Of Hacking PlayStation Network. A teenager who helped to ruin Christmas for millions of children by shutting down the PlayStation and Xbox networks has been convicted of 50,700 offences."
2015-07-08,New poll finds two-thirds of Irish people want abortion decriminalised.
2015-07-08,"Belgian town 'opts out' of EU-US trade treaty (TTIP): To make sure the people who live there are aware of the motion's defiant content, it sent out a press release titled St. Gilles - Zone outside the TTIP market!."
2015-07-08,Chile lawmakers approve marijuana decriminalisation bill
2015-07-08,"Pope: Duty to protect planet, calls for 'social justice' on resources. He appeared to be making a clear reference to climate change doubters when he said: ""It is wrong to turn aside from what is happening all around us, as if certain situations did not exist or have nothing to do with our lives."""
2015-07-08,China Bans Stock Sales by Major Shareholders for Six Months
2015-07-08,"First female nominee fails to win seat on Afghan supreme court: Conservatives attacked nomination of Anisa Rassouli, with one MP objecting on grounds that menstruating women were not allowed to touch Quran"
2015-07-08,"""Turkeys national police force paid the controversial online security firm Hacking Team $600,000 to spy on its own citizenswhich scholars say is a likely illegal practice"""
2015-07-08,Astronomers have discovered a very rare system of five connected stars. The quintuplet consists of a pair of closely linked stars - binaries - one of which has a lone companion; it is the first known system of its kind.
2015-07-08,Nearly 25% of Chinese stocks have stopped trading
2015-07-08,Spain arrests woman for recruiting girls for Islamic State
2015-07-08,"Shanghai stocks plunge, over 1,200 Chinese companies halt trading"
2015-07-08,"Palestinian ambassador endorses Protocols of the Elders of Zion, says the ""Jewish people"" don't exist"
2015-07-08,"Religion In China Grows Among Young People, Islam Most Popular Among Followers Under 30: Report"
2015-07-08,"London Shopping Mall, Westfield Shepherd's Bush evacuated after construction workers find 'unexploded Second World War Bomb'"
2015-07-08,Sarkozy signs petition to protect empty churches from conversion to mosques
2015-07-08,"TTIP | Open Courts Demanded for EU-US Trade Deal | European Parliment says a proposed EU-US free trade deal must not give big firms the power to sue governments in private, secretive courts"
2015-07-08,Russia vetoes Bosnia genocide label
2015-07-08,Ottawa sidesteps questions from UN panel on human rights complaints in Canadian mining industry
2015-07-08,"Hate discourse against LGBTI reflected on street. A group, naming themselves as Young Islamic Defense, hashanged posters in Ankara streets, wanting LGBTI massacred."
2015-07-08,Muslim Protestors in Nigeria burn 2 Churches after Mosque Bombing
2015-07-08,Japan is building solar energy plants on abandoned golf coursesand the idea is spreading
2015-07-08,"Litany of atrocities in South Sudan as international community stands idle .Girls gang raped by soldiers then burned alive, boys castrated, armies of child fighters:"
2015-07-08,Spanish woman arrested for recruiting girls to Islamic State
2015-07-08,Anxious Greeks Buy Macs and PlayStations While They Still Can
2015-07-07,Report: 45 ISIS fighters die after eating 'poisoned' iftar meal
2015-07-07,'Hackers' give orders to German missile battery - German-owned Patriot missiles stationed in Turkey were briefly taken over by hackers
2015-07-07,ISIS has cut off water supplies to the Mesopotamia Marshlands after capturing dams along the Euphrates River destroying wildlife and the livelihoods of the local people.
2015-07-07,Over two dozen people with ties to Indias $1-billion exam scam have died mysteriously in recent months
2015-07-07,No alien life on Philae comet: A sensational claim that ESAs Philae spacecraft has landed on a comet teeming with life doesnt hold water
2015-07-07,Peshmerga stop 600-strong ISIS attack south of Kirkuk
2015-07-07,Hackers steal data from a company that...hacks people and sells hacking software to governments.
2015-07-07,"Two women on trial in Morocco on charges of ""gross indecency"" for wearing skirts"
2015-07-07,Cleric said to be behind Tunisian beach massacre is living on benefits in Britain
2015-07-07,"'Beach body ready' advert not offensive, rules watchdog: A weight-loss product advert featuring a bikini-clad model asking ""Are you beach body ready?"" was not offensive or irresponsible, the watchdog has ruled."
2015-07-07,"Thousands March in Toronto, Urge Canada to Turn Away From a Fossil Fuel Economy"
2015-07-07,"Hundreds of members of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community filed an unprecedented request Tuesday with the Japan Federation of Bar Associations (JFBA) in a bid to legalize same-sex marriages, saying Japans failure to recognize the practice constitutes a violation of human rights."
2015-07-07,"As many as 50 women have described harrowing tales of abuse they allegedly suffered while students at a Sydney girls' college, one claiming she was raped in the school's sandstone dungeon."
2015-07-07,Egyptians lambast 'ugly' new Nefertiti statue - Unveiling of an ugly copy of a famously beautiful bust of Queen Nefertiti causes Egyptians to mock authorities as well as current state of art in country.
2015-07-07,48 hours to keep Greece in euro
2015-07-07,Koreas first ever equal marriage lawsuit has begun
2015-07-07,Greece will not be getting any more cash from the ECB
2015-07-07,Greece arrives at Eurogroup meeting with no new proposals or requests
2015-07-07,"AUSTRALIA- Fast food giant McDonald's has introduced new menu boards that make it harder to see and compare the calories in its products, disappointing health advocates and potentially breaching food labelling laws."
2015-07-07,"Greeces growing political and economic problems have its small neighbor Macedonia sensing an opportunity to push hard for joining NATO, a move that has been stalled for years thanks to Athens opposition because of disputes over Macedonias name."
2015-07-07,Explosives stolen from French army base
2015-07-07,At least 14 killed in Kenya attack on a residential building.
2015-07-07,"Russians Rally in Support of U.S. Teacher Sentenced for Sex With Teens: ""Twenty-two years for a woman who helped three mature male students start their adult lives."""
2015-07-07,"A massive airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition targeting rebels hit a local marketplace in Yemen, killing over 45 civilians on Monday, security officials and eyewitnesses said."
2015-07-07,"Egypt killed 241 Sinai militants in five days, army says"
2015-07-06,Official: Greeks say NO to austerity measures
2015-07-06,"An Australian Mafia boss allegedly paid $2.2 million in bribes to NSW judges to get lighter jail sentences, top-secret police intelligence reports reveal."
2015-07-06,"Israeli Arab teachers arrested for joining ISIS, attempted to recruit children"
2015-07-06,"Australian Minister: ""Gay Marriage Could Damage Our Cattle Exports"""
2015-07-06,"16-year-old Amos Yee sentenced to 4 weeks jail for posting video in which he called late Singaporean PM Lee Kuan Yew a ""horrible person"""
2015-07-06,London is the worlds leading city for laundering drug money
2015-07-06,South African rail association orders $300m of trains that don't fit local railway lines
2015-07-06,"The majority of children living in areas of Gaza hardest-hit during last year's conflict are showing signs of severe emotional distress and trauma, including frequent bed wetting and nightmares, a global children's charity said on Monday."
2015-07-06,One of the world's biggest banks just admitted bitcoin could destroy existing finance firms
2015-07-06,"Uber does not require a licence because its smartphone app does not accept calls, a Superior Court judge ruled."
2015-07-06,"A Soviet double spy, who secretly defected to Britain 30 years ago this month, has revealed for the first time the details of his exfiltration by British intelligence in 1985. Oleg Gordievsky was one of the highest Soviet intelligence defectors to the West in the closing stages of the Cold War."
2015-07-06,Greek Finance Minister announces shock resignation.
2015-07-06,Iraqi warplane accidentally bombs Baghdad
2015-07-06,"Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India will start the process of joining a security bloc led by China and Russia at a summit in Russia later this week, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday, the first time the grouping has expanded since it was set up in 2001."
2015-07-06,Greek crisis: more than $30bn wiped off Australian stock market after no vote
2015-07-06,"Philae comet could be home to alien life, say top scientists - Features of the comet, named 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, such as its organic-rich black crust, are most likely explained by the presence of living organisms beneath an icy surface"
2015-07-06,"Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will launch its heaviest ever commercial mission on July 10. ISRO will be launching five British satellites, which weigh nealry 1440 kg, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota."
2015-07-06,"In Afghanistan, Canada and other donor countries may have paid for so-called ""ghost schools"" that don't even exist."
2015-07-06,China rolls out emergency measures to prevent stock market crash
2015-07-06,Hacking Team hit by breach; leak suggests it sold spyware to oppressive regimes
2015-07-06,8.9 million get addicted to drugs every year in Pakistan
2015-07-06,German calls for Grexit mount as EU stunned by 'No' vote
2015-07-06,"The city of Jos has been hit by two explosions believed to have been the work of Boko Haram. The attacks, which killed at least 44, followed an early suicide bombing at a church in another part of the country."
2015-07-06,"North Korea has carried out 1,400 public executions since 2000, report claims"
2015-07-06,The Turkish army has called a meeting of troop commanders stationed along its fortified border with Syria to discuss a possible intervention in Syria
2015-07-05,Mongolian shipwreck from Kublai Khan's 13th century invasion of Japan discovered by archaeologists
2015-07-05,Number of young homeless people in Britain is 'more than three times the official figures'
2015-07-05,"New leftist mayor of Madrid plans to rename plaza currently dedicated to Margaret Thatcher after a Socialist gay rights activist, saying it is not appropriate for a square to be named after a woman who ""enslaved the workers"""
2015-07-05,"Neo-Nazis try to hold rally in London, about five people turn up"
2015-07-05,Adidas Has Created A Shoe Made Entirely From Ocean Trash
2015-07-05,"Turkish nationalists protesting China's treatment of ethnic Uighur Muslims attacked a group of Korean tourists in the heart of Istanbul's old city on Saturday, mistaking them for Chinese nationals"
2015-07-05,"Brazil Officials Phones Monitored by US, WikiLeaks Says | The 29 phone numbers selected for intensive interception included those of Rousseff aides, members of finance ministry, diplomats and even the satellite phone on Rousseffs private jet, WikiLeaks said in a report titled Bugging Brazil"
2015-07-05,NSA conducted surveillance against German newspaper SPIEGEL
2015-07-05,Satellite photos show China rapidly adding solar panels in Gobi desert
2015-07-05,"German tech giant, Siemens, is attempting to circumvent Crimea sanctions."
2015-07-05,"Millennials Overwhelmingly Favor 'No' Vote in Greek Referendum: 71 percent of those between ages 18 to 24 support ""no,"" along with 59 percent of those aged 25 to 34"
2015-07-05,6 chapters of TPP pact still unresolved
2015-07-05,"Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy pressured the countrys football federation to vote in favour of awarding the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said in an interview with a German newspaper Sunday."
2015-07-05,Video from Islamic State group shows mass execution of Syrian soldiers at ancient site of Palmyra
2015-07-05,"Dutch intel bill proposes bulk interception powers for any form of telecom or data transfer, incl. domestic, plus required cooperation from providers of communication services"
2015-07-05,London The Global Moneylaundering Centre For Drug Trade
2015-07-05,Russian gay couple gets asylum in Finland
2015-07-05,"Hillary Clinton accuses China of hacking ""into everything that doesnt move in America"""
2015-07-05,"In twisted revenge, Syrian rebels execute Islamic State fighters in orange jumpsuits"
2015-07-05,The World Bank deleted a section of a report that slammed the Chinese government
2015-07-05,"Protesters in Britain urge cancellation of Greece's debts on eve of referendum - Rallies held in Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Liverpool and London in support of Greek people who are preparing to vote on whether to accept austerity package"
2015-07-05,Greek Riot Police Use Stun Grenades on Protesters Ahead of Pivotal Bailout Vote | Police in Athens clashed with thousands of anti-austerity protesters that gathered to support for the governments call to vote no in Sundays referendum
2015-07-05,"ISIS attacks Egypt, threatening to destroy pyramids and sphinx"
2015-07-05,Pakistan bans English for Islamic words
2015-07-05,Malaysia probe says it has found documents tied to alleged transfers to premier
2015-07-04,"Fifteen of the world's largest banks are under investigation on suspicion of rigging the Brazilian currency, antitrust watchdog Cade said on Thursday, the first such probe in one of the busiest foreign exchange markets globally."
2015-07-04,Leaked TPP paper shows US pushing drug company rights
2015-07-04,Arab tourist was arrested under the Terrorism Act and detained for three hours after filming himself on his mobile phone outside Brighton shopping centre
2015-07-04,Chinese stock market has lost 1.5 trillion in the last three weeks
2015-07-04,Papers from 1983 show diplomats knew of Iraq's chemical weapons before it was used against Iran but did not act because a British firm was involved in trade
2015-07-04,WikiLeaks Drops New Docs Detailing NSAs Hobby of Spying On Allies | The docs detail the systematic spying of the NSA on the economic institutions and officials of France and Germany; New intel discusses the NSA's and GCHQ's efforts towards bugging closed-door meetings incl. bailout plans for Greece
2015-07-04,Panic wipes 2tn off Chinese shares
2015-07-04,"Just Before Round of Negotiations on the Proposed 'Trade in Services Agreement' (TISA), Wikileaks Releases Updated Secret Documents"
2015-07-04,"New coal plants 'most urgent' threat to the planet, warns OECD head - Govts urged to rethink plans for new coal-fired power plants as study estimates they'll release over 500bn tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050"
2015-07-04,Mass arrests in The Hague as clashes over death in police custody continue
2015-07-04,Greek economy close to collapse as food and medicine run short.
2015-07-04,France charges soldier over Burkina child sex abuse
2015-07-04,World Health Organization recognises Cuba as first country to eliminate mother-to-baby transmission of HIV
2015-07-04,Russian President Vladimir Putin called for dialogue based on equal treatment and mutual respect with the United States on Saturday in a congratulatory message to President Barack Obama marking U.S. Independence Day.
2015-07-04,Over Hundred ISIS militants killed in Aleppo in one day by Syrian Army
2015-07-04,Amnesty International: Surveillance exploding in Europe
2015-07-04,This dome in the Pacific houses tons of radioactive waste  and its leaking
2015-07-04,Iceland's Pirate Party Wins Repeal Of Blasphemy Law
2015-07-04,Wikileaks founder Julian Assange rejects claims that he sought political asylum in France
2015-07-04,"The month of June saw 677 murders in El Salvador, more than in any other single month since the end of the country's civil war"
2015-07-04,"Wikileaks Reveals Secret Texts from TiSA Trade Deal | Wikileaks has released the secret April 2015 draft ""core text"" of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA)"
2015-07-04,"Signs of Water Ice Detected on Comet Surface - The Rosetta spacecraft, currently orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, has spotted 120 bright, reflective spots on the surface of the comet, for which water ice is a plausible explanation"
2015-07-04,Another polio case confirmed in Balochistan
2015-07-04,Glasgow says 'Oxi': Hundreds demonstrate in solidarity with Greek 'No' vote
2015-07-04,ISIL vows to demolish the pyramids and the sphinx amid wave of attacks on Egyptian forces
2015-07-03,"Meditating Portuguese actor mistaken for terrorist on Paris plane. He was released after 6 hrs of questioning during which police watched videos of him on the Internet showing that he is a theater and television actor, and checked his profile on Wikipedia, which states that he is a Buddhist."
2015-07-03,"North Korean scientist flees to Finland with gigabytes of data on inhumane experiments with biochemical weapons, will testify before European parliament later this month"
2015-07-03,Blasphemy decriminalised in Iceland. A bill submitted by the Pirate Party in aftermath of Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris approved in Icelandic parliament today.
2015-07-03,Germany: Police confiscate WW2 tank hidden in cellar
2015-07-03,Kurds intent on carving new state out of Iraq after ISIS fight whether the US likes it or not
2015-07-03,The House of Councilors in Japan passed a bill into law on Friday allowing companies to obtain patents on inventions by their employees  more than a decade after Nobel Prize winner Shuji Nakamura launched a lawsuit against his company over the invention of the blue light-emitting diode.
2015-07-03,"260,000 Austrians sign EU exit petition, forcing referendum debate in parliament"
2015-07-03,"Japans population fell 271,058 in 2014, the biggest drop on record and the sixth straight year of decline, to 126.16 million, according to the internal affairs ministry: census released July 1 also showed that 25.90 percent of the population were 65 years old or older."
2015-07-03,"Talk show host, guest to be tried for insulting Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah"
2015-07-03,Russian Progress rocket takes off to resupply ISS - CNN.com
2015-07-03,Doctors Without Borders temporarily closes Afghan hospital after special forces raid
2015-07-03,German Wind-to-Hydrogen Plant Takes Car-Fuel Battle to Tesla
2015-07-03,Greece debt crisis: IMF calls for 20-year grace period before debt repayments
2015-07-03,FIFA President Sepp Blatter says anyone who calls him corrupt should be sent to jail.
2015-07-03,IS says it destroyed archaeological pieces from Palmyra
2015-07-03,India is now a $2-trillion economy: World Bank report
2015-07-03,Thai navy approves US$1.1b plan to buy submarines from China
2015-07-03,Rainbow flag on West Bank barrier touches nerve for Palestinians
2015-07-03,"Shaken by executions, North Korean officials are using overseas posts as points of defection"
2015-07-03,Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak had close to US$700 million (448.55 million pounds) in deposits from troubled state fund 1MDB wired into his personal account.
2015-07-03,Rocket from Sinai explodes in southern Israel - Israeli officials believe launch came from Egyptian peninsula
2015-07-03,China's tycoons lose $45 billion as stock market tumbles
2015-07-03,Namibian Government 'strongly considering' Basic Income
2015-07-03,30 Infected Lab Monkeys Freed from Facility in Puerto Rico
2015-07-03,"In major crackdown, Palestinian forces arrest dozens of Hamas men in W. Bank"
2015-07-02,"Saudi prince to give away $32bn. He said he had been inspired by the Gates Foundation, set up by Bill and Melinda Gates in 1997. The money would be used to ""foster cultural understanding"", ""empower women"", and ""provide vital disaster relief"", among other things, he said."
2015-07-02,BP fined $18.7bn for Deepwater Horizon oil spull
2015-07-02,"New Zealand passes law making it punishable by fine or jail time for ""causing emotional distress"" on the Internet"
2015-07-02,"China says retired officials can be punished for pollution. Even officials who have retired will be held accountable and punished for pollution which occurred under their watch, state media said on Wednesday after a government meeting chaired by President Xi Jinping."
2015-07-02,Leaked TPP paper shows US pushing drug company rights
2015-07-02,"Spanish Government passes ""Gag Law"", restricting rights to assembly, free speech, and implementing possible individual fines anywhere from 100 up to 600,000 for protesting, despite widespread opposition from the Spanish people and EU governments."
2015-07-02,Syrian Christian leader tells West: 'Stop arming terror groups who are massacring our people'
2015-07-02,Egypt Officially Announces State Of War
2015-07-02,First Muslim Gay Imam Says Quran Doesnt Call for Punishment of Homosexuals
2015-07-02,U.S. seeks FIFA officials' extradition from Switzerland - CNN.com
2015-07-02,The humanitarian aid aboard a recent flotilla to Gaza fit in two cardboard boxes.
2015-07-02,Honduras' Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of the vice president of Congress and 15 other people accused of defrauding the country's health care system in a corruption scandal that has sparked large street protests.
2015-07-02,"""Wow, pulled back wrong throttle"" - Exact quote recorded in February 2015 from the captain of the crashed TransAsia plane."
2015-07-02,Greece defaults.
2015-07-02,"WikiLeaks Publishes More Docs Revealing Saudi Connection Against Syria And US | According to docs, a secret treaty among Qatar, Turkey and Saudi Arabia shows they intended to overthrow the Syrian government; Western powers like France, Britain and the US were also involved in the secret agreement"
2015-07-02,"Australia must cut carbon emissions by 30% by 2025, says Climate Change Authority - Government also urged to sign up to further cuts of 40-60% by 2030 ahead of Paris climate talks, in effort to catch up to other countries"
2015-07-02,US Reportedly Blocks Arab Allies' Attempts to Deliver Weapons to Kurds
2015-07-02,"GCHQ spied on Amnesty International, tribunal tells group in email"
2015-07-02,"We can't print drachmas, says Greece's finance minister: With speculation swirling that Greece might be forced out of the euro and have to print its own money after a weekend referendum, its finance minister on Thursday said the country no longer had the presses to make drachmas."
2015-07-02,Merkel admitted in 2011 Greek debt unsustainable
2015-07-02,Sir Nicholas Winton Dies at age 106. He saved 669 children from the nazis by sneaking them into the UK.
2015-07-02,An Afghan appeals court has quashed death sentences imposed on four men for their part in the mob killing of a young woman in Kabul in March. Farkhunda Malikzada was attacked at an Islamic shrine after being falsely accused of burning a copy of the Koran.
2015-07-02,"74 children executed by ISIS for 'crimes' that include refusal to fast, report says"
2015-07-02,"Syria's main Kurdish party warned Turkey on Wednesday that any military intervention would threaten international peace and said the country's main Kurdish militia is ready to face any ""aggression."""
2015-07-02,Varoufakis Says Hell Quit as Finance Minister After a Yes
2015-07-01,"Cuba first to eliminate mother-to-baby HIV transmission: World Health Organization hails 'one of the greatest public health achievements possible', five years into regional initiative"
2015-07-01,"Australia's largest woodlands 'will not be protected if it prevents mining' - ""Any sort of recognition which would put constraints on mining would be absolutely devastating,"" Western Australia mining minister Bill Marmion says"
2015-07-01,Greece becomes first developed nation to default on international obligations
2015-07-01,"Hillary Clinton was repeatedly pressured by Cherie Blair to meet a leading Qatari royal during her time as US secretary of state, according to newly released emails that raise fresh questions about the lobbying activities of all three political families."
2015-07-01,The Islamic State has expanded its reach to Russia after it declared a governorate in the country's North Caucasus region last week.
2015-07-01,Russia shuts off gas supply to Ukraine
2015-07-01,"Australian Border Force Act could see immigration detention centre workers jailed for whistleblowing - anyone working at detention centres who reports on child abuse, sexual assault or other abuse can be imprisoned for two years"
2015-07-01,"All children with cancer to be given free health care cards, starting tomorrow [ireland]"
2015-07-01,Cameron reaffirms there will be no safe spaces from UK government snooping
2015-07-01,Puerto Rico sales tax to increase by 4-and-a-half percent after US refuses bail out.
2015-07-01,U.S. and Cuba to announce embassy openings
2015-07-01,President Obama announces Havana embassy opening
2015-07-01,Norway wants $5.1m from Catholic church for fraud
2015-07-01,"Australia: Victorian state to ban smoking in all prisons, riots break out"
2015-07-01,Terror attack in West Bank: Four Israelis wounded in shooting. This is 6th terror attack in 10 days of Ramadan
2015-07-01,"The Intercept publishes 48 top-secret and other classified documents about XKEYSCORE which shed new light on the breadth, depth and functionality of this critical spy system  one of the largest releases yet of documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
2015-07-01,India reduces open defecation by 31 per cent: UN report
2015-07-01,Secret IMF documents: Austerity measures would still leave Greece with unsustainable debt. Secret documents show Greece would face an unsustainable level of debt by 2030 even if it signs up to the full package of tax and spending reforms demanded of it.
2015-07-01,The US Navy is testing a submarine hunting drone ship
2015-07-01,"Humans causing catastrophic ecosystem shifts, study finds"
2015-07-01,Up to 60 Soldiers Killed In Egypts North Sinai by ISIS Affiliated Militants
2015-07-01,"Australian asylum seeker detention staff challenge government to prosecute them under new draconian secrecy law ""despite threats of imprisonment, standing by; watching child abuse and gross violations of human rights is not ethically justifiable"""
2015-07-01,Hamas claims responsibility for West Bank attack.
2015-07-01,"The Great Barrier Reef will not be listed as endangered but will remain under watch, UNESCO has ruled."
2015-07-01,In a Bid to Modernize its Railways India will invest $120 billion in it over the next five years.
2015-06-30,US now has more Spanish speakers than Spain  only Mexico has more
2015-06-30,At least 116 feared dead in after Indonesian military plane crashes into a major city
2015-06-30,ISIS just executed its top official in Mosul for planning a coup
2015-06-30,"The remains of an unidentified sea animal with fur on its tail have been washed ashore in the Far East. Found near the airport at Shakhtersk, on Sakhalin Island, its appearance is unlike anything ever found in Russia."
2015-06-30,"1,000 runners get norovirus after French mud run"
2015-06-30,Saudi comedian gets death threats for satirizing IS
2015-06-30,ISIS executes women by beheading for the first time for 'sorcery' in Syria
2015-06-30,"South Sudan army raped and then burned girls alive, says UN"
2015-06-30,Australia bans 220 videogames in four months as Government adopts new classification model
2015-06-30,New WikiLeaks Documents Reveal NSA Spied On Top French Companies
2015-06-30,Russia to review 1991 decision to recognise independence of Baltic states
2015-06-30,"CIA photos of black sites could complicate Guantanamo trials | Military prosecutors this year learned about a massive cache of CIA photographs of its former overseas black sites while reviewing material collected for the Senate investigation of the agencys interrogation program, officials said"
2015-06-30,Liberia: 17 year old Boy dies of Ebola seven weeks after WHO declared Country Free of Virus
2015-06-30,"Tunisia hotel attack: Armed police were 'paralysed by fear' and let gunman run amok for half an hour, says witness"
2015-06-30,EU agrees to eliminate roaming charges but net neutrality rules disappoint
2015-06-30,"Almost a third of China's Great Wall has disappeared: Natural erosion, damage from tourists and people stealing bricks to build houses mean estimates of the walls length now vary from 9,00021,000 km"
2015-06-30,"South Sudans army raped then torched girls alive inside their homes during a recent campaign notable for its new brutality and intensity, a U.N. rights report said Tuesday."
2015-06-30,"China says wants Greece in euro zone, pledges EU infrastructure investment"
2015-06-30,Greece proposes 2 year bridge loan and restructuring of debt to Eurogroup
2015-06-30,Israel considering leaving UN Human Rights Council
2015-06-30,NSA wiretapped two French finance ministers: Wikileaks
2015-06-30,"Afghans Protest After U.S. Forces Carry Out Raid on Strongman - The raid demonstrated that American troops in Afghanistan, months after President Obama declared their regular combat mission over, are engaged beyond their publicly stated role of advising the Afghan forces..."
2015-06-30,Hamas Shuts Offices of Gaza's Sole Cellular Operator
2015-06-30,Mexico won't send candidate to Miss Universe over Trump comments-Televisa
2015-06-30,Russia Beats Saudi Arabia to Become China's Top Oil Supplier
2015-06-29,'Blind agreement' and closed-door deals: Report slams TPP negotiations
2015-06-29,Bill Gates to invest $2bn in breakthrough renewable energy projects
2015-06-29,Lego To Replace Oil-Based Plastics
2015-06-29,Japanese TV channel ran false subtitles in interviews with South Koreans in order to fan anti-Korean sentiment
2015-06-29,Greek banks 'to stay shut on Monday'.
2015-06-29,"Puerto Rico says it cannot pay its debt, setting off potential crisis in the U.S."
2015-06-29,"Activists Want To Know Why No One Is Investigating Libyan Human Rights Lawyer's Murder - Salwa Bugaighis was 1st woman to call for ouster of Qaddafi. After she cast her ballot in last yr's election, men in hoods & military uniforms stormed her home, shot & killed her. Her killers remain at large."
2015-06-29,Saudi Officials Linked to Jihadist Group in WikiLeaks Cables
2015-06-29,"Legislators in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, have banned the production and sale of foie gras, a delicacy made from the fatty liver of force-fed ducks and geese. City councillors said animals go through a great deal of suffering for the production of the pt."
2015-06-29,Uber managers arrested in France over 'illicit' taxi service
2015-06-29,"Mafia in Australia: Major drug trafficking group linked to senior politicians, investigation reveals"
2015-06-29,Putin: Nations must unite to fight Islamic State militants; Russia backs Syria's Assad
2015-06-29,"A young woman died on Monday, the first fatality among nearly 500 casualties from a weekend blaze at a Taiwan water park, officials said, as investigators focused on the coloured powder that rained fire as it was sprayed over revellers from a stage."
2015-06-29,Turkey is sending 18.000 soldiers into Syria
2015-06-29,Israel Intercepts First of Four 'Freedom Flotilla' Boats to Gaza
2015-06-29,Seniors going bankrupt in soaring numbers More Canadians are outliving their savings and spending their golden years in debt.
2015-06-29,"Greece, which may default on an International Monetary Fund debt repayment due on Tuesday after talks with creditors broke down, owes its official lenders 242.8 billion euros ($271 billion), according to a Reuters calculation based on official data."
2015-06-29,Monkeys break free in great escape from research facility in Puerto Rico
2015-06-29,Wikileaks reveals Saudi links with Haqqani Network
2015-06-29,"An historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church is ""getting closer every day"": would be a significant step towards healing the 1,000-year-old rift between the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, which split in the Great Schism of 1054."
2015-06-29,Hamas unveils new tunnel it says reaches into Israel - The attack tunnel is said to be 3.5 kilometers long
2015-06-29,ISIS executes over 3000 in Syria in year-long 'caliphate'
2015-06-29,Russian entrepreneurs have launched a toilet paper covered in text of Western sanctions
2015-06-29,Lord Janner faces sex abuse prosecution
2015-06-29,Ukraine to apply for EU membership candidacy
2015-06-28,"Military prosecutors discovered the existence of 14,000 CIA photos from 'black sites' in Aghanistan, Poland, Thailand, Romania and Lithuania--now defense attorneys want access"
2015-06-28,CNN confuses butt plug and dildo banner for ISIS flag at London gay pride
2015-06-28,"Spy Agency's Secret Plans to Foster Online ""Conformity"" and ""Obedience"" Exposed Internal memo from secretive British spy unit exposes how GCHQ and NSA used human psychological research to create sophisticated online propaganda tools"
2015-06-28,"More than 25,000 venomous spiders have descended on a small town in Australia and experts have no idea why."
2015-06-28,Greeks Are Emptying Their Bank Accounts After Last Night's Referendum Announcement
2015-06-28,Police use teargas and rubber bullets at Istanbul Pride
2015-06-28,"ISIS terrorist leader Caliphate officially declares war with Rome, India, China, Palestine (Israel), Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco."
2015-06-28,"SpaceX just failed at its third attempt to make history, and its 'reusable rocket' just exploded to bits"
2015-06-28,Tunisians march and carry British flags in protest at shooting that left 39 dead
2015-06-28,"Pakistani IT Company Axact Sold 1,918 fake degrees to Saudis"
2015-06-28,"From the Arabian Peninsula to northern India to Californias Central Valley, nearly a third of the worlds 37 largest aquifers are being drained faster than they are being replenished, according to a recent study led by scientists at the University of California, Irvine."
2015-06-28,Japan to invest 20 Billion dollars in Indian solar power
2015-06-28,French terror suspect took selfie with beheaded victim and sent the image via WhatsApp to a Canadian mobile phone number
2015-06-28,ISIS uses US-made anti-tank missiles in Hasakah offensive
2015-06-28,Turkey will 'never allow' Kurdish state in Syria warns Erdogan
2015-06-28,Swedish military moves after Russia worries
2015-06-28,France Adopts Extensive Surveillance Law
2015-06-28,European Central Bank to 'maintain Greek funding limit' at level agreed on Friday
2015-06-28,"Ecuador has released 201 tortoises on Santa Fe Island in the Galapagos archipelago, where a similar subspecies went extinct more than 150 years ago"
2015-06-28,Belgian doctors give 24-year old woman green light to die by euthanasia because of 'suicidal thoughts'
2015-06-28,"An Argentine judge ordered the seizure of assets of oil drilling companies operating in the disputed Falklands Islands on Saturday, as rhetoric heats up before October elections"
2015-06-28,"Islanders left drowning under a sea of waste :As thousands of tourists flock to tiny Koh Lan, they leave behind tonnes of rotting rubbish that locals are ill-equipped to handle."
2015-06-28,Armenian Police Target Journalists In Violent Crackdown
2015-06-28,"A construction worker has found a stash of ""Swiss Bank"" gold during demolition work in the Bavarian town of Passau. Authorities are investigating who can claim the gold worth nearly one million euros ($1.12 million)."
2015-06-28,Norways Prime Minister Erna Solberg has described Natos campaign to push member states to spend two percent of GDP on defence as nonsense.
2015-06-27,Greek bailout extension refused
2015-06-27,"Tunisia will shut down about 80 mosques accused of inciting violence, Prime Minister Habib Essid has said, after a beach attack that left 39 people dead"
2015-06-27,Australian Government Contractors Will Now Go to Jail for Reporting Child Abuse in Detention Centers
2015-06-27,Unvaccinated Six Year Old Boy Diagnosed With Diphtheria In Catalonia Dies | The Spain Report
2015-06-27,Seven Kaupthing Bank executives convicted and jailed in Iceland for market manipulation
2015-06-27,"Thousands of angry, torch-bearing Hondurans marched on Friday to call for the resignation of President Juan Hernandez and demand an independent probe into one of the worst corruption scandals in the country's history"
2015-06-27,Dutch sue their own government on climate change-and win-court orders government to action against climate change
2015-06-27,Greece set to default on loans
2015-06-27,"Police in China's financial hub Shanghai took away at least three busloads of environmental protesters outside the municipal government Saturday, preventing the latest rally that started with a rumor that a petrochemical plant could move into the area"
2015-06-27,'Majority' Of 38 Tunisia Terror Dead Are British
2015-06-27,Greeks Line Up at Banks and Drain ATMs After Tsipras Calls Vote
2015-06-27,"NSA Spied On Non-American Anti-Virus Companies | British and American intelligence agencies have spied on anti-virus companies and probed their software for weaknesses, as the snoops sought to enhance their offensive surveillance techniques, according to fresh Snowden docs released by The Intercept"
2015-06-27,Kurds drive IS jihadists from Syria's Kobane
2015-06-27,Father And Husband-To-Be Saves Fiancee's Life After Throwing His Body In Front Of Terrorist Attack
2015-06-27,Greek PM Alexis Tsipras calls referendum on bailout terms
2015-06-27,Greece has closed door on further talks -Eurogroup's Dijssebloem
2015-06-27,"Security crackdown launched in Tunisia targeting individuals described as extremists, after gunman kills 39 at resort hotel"
2015-06-27,Kuwait-Bound Plane Declares State Of Emergency
2015-06-27,"Lions will return to Rwanda for the first time in more than two decades, wildlife officials have said, after the endangered animal was wiped out following the country's 1994 genocide"
2015-06-27,"Germany's coalition government has approved several arms exports to the Gulf region, despite concerns about conflicts and human rights violations."
2015-06-27,BRICS Bank to be Operational by End of 2015: South Africa
2015-06-27,1/2 Half of Europes electricity set to be from renewables by 2030 - Leaked EU paper predicts fast renewables growth to around double current levels if countries meet climate objectives
2015-06-27,"Germany all but buried negotiations to keep Greece from default on Saturday, saying a surprise decision by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to call a referendum had left nothing to discuss but how to cope with failure."
2015-06-27,Cables Released by WikiLeaks Reveal Saudis Checkbook Diplomacy
2015-06-27,Greek PM Tsipras to call referendum on bailout deal
2015-06-26,"Man beheaded and Islamist flag raised in Grenoble, France"
2015-06-26,Attack On Tourist Hotel In Tunisia
2015-06-26,Vatican Formally Recognizes Palestinian State by Signing Treaty
2015-06-26,South Korea tells North Korea it cant have both guns and butter and urges nuclear talks
2015-06-26,Explosion hits Shia mosque in Kuwait during Friday prayers
2015-06-26,"Over 1,000 killed by Pakistan heat wave: ""There is no space left ... to keep the dead bodies"""
2015-06-26,German politicians sound alarm after weedkiller found in breast milk
2015-06-26,Islamic State kills at least 145 civilians in Syria's Kobani: monitor
2015-06-26,"33,000 Russian soldiers practiced a military takeover of the Baltic Sea and part of Sweden in March this year, a new report shows"
2015-06-26,Sir Tim Hunt's claims that remarks on girls in science were 'not sexist' are backed by leaked EU report
2015-06-26,India wants to build 100 smart cities. Residents just want water and power.
2015-06-26,"BBC publishes links ""forgotten"" by search engines"
2015-06-26,Brazilian police officer caught on camera 'shooting two fallen teenage suspects point-blank'
2015-06-26,"A British Neo-Nazi Tried To Kill A Sikh Dentist in ""Revenge for Muslim Attacks"""
2015-06-26,Exclusive: Saudi Arabia Is Thwarting the Distribution of Emergency UN Aid in Yemen
2015-06-26,Chinese market selling 40 year old meat. Police discovered 483 million worth in storage.
2015-06-26,Hackers Stole Secrets of U.S. Government Workers Sex Lives
2015-06-26,Putin Breaks Silence With Call to Obama Touching on Ukraine and ISIS
2015-06-26,"Yara Sallam, was arrested on june 21, 2014 for protesting against an anti-protest law. Yara is a 29-year-old womens human rights defender from Egypt."
2015-06-26,Sepp Blatter: I did not resign  Im not ready for the museum or a waxwork
2015-06-26,"Burundi vice president flees, students break into US embassy"
2015-06-26,"Scottish wind farms power almost a million homes in record first quarter. First three months of 2015 saw wind farms produce enough electricity to power 960,000 Scottish households for a year, but subsidy cuts threaten potential, minister warns"
2015-06-26,GCHQ monitored own staff excessively
2015-06-26,Great Barrier Reef water quality to be monitored in real time in pollution crackdown
2015-06-26,"Canada does not have right weapons to help Ukraine, defence minister reveals"
2015-06-25,South Korea says it will send aid to North Korea during its worst drought in a century under one condition -- just ask for it
2015-06-25,French taxi drivers lock down Paris in huge anti-Uber protest
2015-06-25,"Julian Assange on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secretive Deal Isnt About Trade, But Corporate Control"
2015-06-25,Aids-infected ISIS fighter is executed for donating blood to fellow fighters
2015-06-25,"TTIP a threat to EU chemical safety standards, German NGO says"
2015-06-25,A Dutch City Will Start Experimenting with Unconditional Basic Income This Summer
2015-06-25,New Species: Hairy-Chested Yeti Crab Found in Antarctica - The deep-sea crustacean lives near hydrothermal vents
2015-06-25,"Heat wave kills 1,017 people in Pakistan's Sindh province."
2015-06-25,Britain just gave the banking license to a bank with no branches and no website - just an app
2015-06-25,"Rotherham child exploitation inquiry: councillors among possible suspects. Suspects now stand at 300, possible victims at 1400."
2015-06-25,"Moroccan Director who's film addresses the Muslim countrys sex industry; has been summoned to court, on charges of pornography."""
2015-06-25,New Fatwa Allows Eating During Ramadan as Heat Wave Death Toll Hit 750
2015-06-25,Australia slashes its renewable energy target by nearly 20%
2015-06-25,Mother and infant son found alive five days after plane crash in Colombia
2015-06-25,Whistleblowers with dual citizenship who speak out on Australias national security  including those involved in allegations that Timor-Lestes cabinet room was bugged  could face having their citizenship revoked under proposed laws.
2015-06-25,"Germany: Beware Putin's Push For Brexit - Vladimir Putin could try to fund anti-EU efforts in Britain in an attempt to weaken Europe, a key ally of Angela Merkel warns."
2015-06-25,"Face of bizarre sea creature Hallucigenia revealed - Scientists finally have a complete picture of what 1 of nature's most bizarre animals looked like. Hallucigenia lived 500m yrs ago, but all fossils appeared to be without heads."
2015-06-25,"Zack Davies, a member of neo-Nazi group National Action, found guilty of attempting to decapitate an Asian man"
2015-06-25,Japan Says It Will Resume Whaling in the Antarctic | VICE News
2015-06-25,"Egypt is holding the highest number of journalists behind bars since record keeping began, using the pretext of national security to crack down on press freedoms, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on Thursday."
2015-06-25,ISIL re-enters Syrian Kurdish town Kobane
2015-06-25,FINLAND: New Government Commits to a Basic Income Experiment
2015-06-25,Genetically Modified Lamb with Jellyfish Protein Accidentally Sold as Meat in Paris
2015-06-25,Pakistan only country in the world where majority views Iran positively
2015-06-25,US Congress passes rare law targeting boycotts of Israel
2015-06-24,Alberta passes bill banning corporate and union donations to political parties
2015-06-24,Netherlands ordered by Dutch court to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 25% by 2020 in class action suit
2015-06-24,Most Germans say US doesn't respect freedom
2015-06-24,Russian 'troll factory' sued for underpayment and labour violations: The secretive Russian agency that hires people to write pro-Kremlin propaganda on the web stepped into the public spotlight for the first time on Tuesday as a former employee took it to court
2015-06-24,Germany marijuana legalization push revives debate over drug policy
2015-06-24,Dwarf planet Ceres reveals pyramid-shaped mystery
2015-06-24,"Renewables to Beat Fossil Fuels With $3.7 Trillion Solar Boom. Renewable energy will draw almost two-thirds of the spending on new power plants over the next 25 years, dwarfing spending on fossil fuels, as plunging costs make solar the first choice for consumers and the poorest nations."
2015-06-24,Council of Europe Calls on U.S. to Let Snowden Have a Fair Trial
2015-06-24,"Canadian cops issue apology after helicopter pilots broadcase over loudspeakers their private discussion about oral sex while flying over city, including Legislative buildings"
2015-06-24,"Child poverty figures set to rise in the UK for the first time in ten years, so the government plans to redefine child poverty."
2015-06-24,Anti-monarchy activists want Queen to move out of Buckingham Palace
2015-06-24,"Putins approval ratings hit 89 percent, the highest theyve ever been according to measurements from the Moscow-based Levada Center, the only independent polling organization in Russia."
2015-06-24,NSA spied on French presidents: WikiLeaks
2015-06-24,The mysterious Russian agency that hires people to write pro-Kremlin propaganda on the web stepped into the public spotlight for the first time Tuesday as a former employee took it to court
2015-06-24,"ISIS blows up ancient shrines in Palmyra, the 2000 year-old heritage site in Syria"
2015-06-24,NATO says won't be dragged into arms race with Russia
2015-06-24,China puts $6 trillion price tag on its climate plan
2015-06-24,"800 tonnes Of smuggled meat seized by Chinese Authorities, Including batches dated from the 1970's"
2015-06-24,Israeli High Court: 24 settler housing units in Beit El must be razed
2015-06-24,Pakistani Islamic scholar Tahir ul-Qadri launches anti-ISIS curriculum in British mosques and Islamic institutions.
2015-06-24,Comprehensive study shows there's no difference in children raised by same-sex couples
2015-06-24,Families say gravediggers overcharging after Pakistan heat wave kills at least 749.
2015-06-24,China arrests smugglers trying to sell frozen meat from the 1970s
2015-06-24,Egypt demands billions as compensation from Muslim Brotherhood
2015-06-24,World is on the brink of the longest oil glut in at least 30 years with no end in sight
2015-06-23,Doctors have voted overwhelmingly to urge the UK Government to remove health and social care services (the NHS) from a controversial trade agreement between the EU and United States (TTIP) | Doctors warned the deal would open up the health service to privatisation by US firms
2015-06-23,New Pentagon manual declares journalists can be enemy combatants
2015-06-23,Isis 'crucifies children for not fasting during Ramadan' in Syria - The extremist group's religious police force is reportedly brutally enforcing fasting for the Muslim holy month in its territories
2015-06-23,Australian land the size of England hits market for $325 million - the biggest property sale on Earth
2015-06-23,"Conditions So Bad at London Prison, Staff Doesn't Bother Cleaning Bloodstained Cells and Beds"
2015-06-23,Holocaust memorial vandalized two weeks after unveiling in Greece
2015-06-23,Turkey Reacts Angrily to Belgian Prime Ministers Recognition of Armenian Genocide
2015-06-23,UK parties paid for fake supporters during general election
2015-06-23,U.S. data hack may be 4 times larger than the government originally said
2015-06-23,Google eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission
2015-06-23,"The Demand for Sand is so High There are Illegal Sand Mining Operations - The clamor for sand is so great, that organized crime has sprung up around sand mining. The ""sand mafias"" in India are particularly prevalent. Only certain kinds of sand are sought & mining it causes problems."
2015-06-23,Kurdish forces announce capture of ISIS military base in Syria
2015-06-23,"Commercial fisherman catches a 6.5 Metre, 3 Tonne Basking Shark; Instead of selling the fins for profit, donates the whole specimen to Melbourne Museum."
2015-06-23,Egypt army digs trench along Gaza border to prevent smuggling
2015-06-23,"Yulin dog meat festival: Woman travels 1,652 miles to save as many dogs as she can."
2015-06-23,30 killed at crowded mosque by 2 young female suicide bombers in northeast Nigeria
2015-06-23,Officer who tazed and killed Polish immigrant in Vancouver airport sentenced to 30 months for perjury and collusion
2015-06-23,"Chiles largest city shuts down as smog causes environmental emergency Authorities have recommended Santiagos 7 million residents avoid outdoor activity, closed 1,300 businesses and ordered 1.7m vehicles off the streets"
2015-06-23,"The mighty lion, reclusive cave crabs and the world's rarest sea lion are among nearly 23,000 species at risk of dying out, a top conservation body warned"
2015-06-23,Nearly 700 people have died over past 4 days as a result of Karachi's heatwave
2015-06-23,60 million kids live without their parents in China.
2015-06-23,"To thwart and extract hacks from anti-virus software companies, the spy agencies reverse engineered software, intercepted email and spied on web traffic. Kaspersky Lab was a major target. The result was potentially a gold mine of exploits."
2015-06-23,"China aims to challenge U.S. air dominance: Pentagon - China ""quickly closing the technological gaps,"" developing radar-evading aircraft, advanced reconnaissance planes, sophisticated missiles and top-notch electronic warfare equipment"
2015-06-23,"Afghan Soldier Kills 6 Terrorists, Wins New Apartment"
2015-06-23,Medical technology that could eliminate need for animal testing wins design award | Revolutionary Organs-on-Chips could change the way pharmaceutical trials are conducted
2015-06-22,Poaching has reached an all-time high. 96 elephants are killed a day on average.
2015-06-22,"Fracking poses 'significant' risk to humans and should be temporarily banned across EU, says new report: A major scientific study says the process uses toxic and carcinogenic chemicals and that an EU-wide ban should be issued until safeguards are in place"
2015-06-22,"New Zealand scientists voice concern over gagging on climate change. ""When 40 percent of scientists say they are being gagged and can't speak out on issues of public importance, it's clear evident something is wrong,"" Labor science and innovation spokesperson David Cunliffe said in a statement."
2015-06-22,"Australian senate passes controversial anti-piracy, website-blocking laws"
2015-06-22,Afghan parliament under attack - BBC News
2015-06-22,Giant toxic algae bloom off West Coast may be largest ever:What may be the largest toxic algae bloom ever recorded on the West Coast is poisoning sea lions in Washington State and shutting down fisheries as far north as B.C.
2015-06-22,Spanish town 'Camp Kill Jews' officially changed name
2015-06-22,Pope asks: Why didn't Allies bomb railway lines to Auschwitz?
2015-06-22,India has trained dozens of German Shepherds to protect its tigers
2015-06-22,"German MP suggests country's army should have enough equipment - ""a tank battalion with no tanks is not a tank battalion"""
2015-06-22,Russia demonstrates first 'microwave gun' that can disable drones and missiles from up to six miles away at Army-2015
2015-06-22,Thousands of people formed human chains in cities across Spain's wealthy northern Basque Country on Sunday to call for the right to hold a regional referendum on independence
2015-06-22,Snapshot Sleuthing Confirms Russian Military Presence In Ukraine
2015-06-22,EU extends sanctions on Russia
2015-06-22,"UK government study: Society on course for collapse by 2040. Backed by Lloyds of London study showing possibility of ""acute disruption to the global food supply. in the near future"
2015-06-22,"China has opened a new, ""safer"" and ""more convenient"" route for Indians undertaking the arduous Kailash-Manasarovar Yatra as the first batch of pilgrims crossed the Indian border and entered Tibet via Nathu La, in the latest confidence-building measure between the two neighbours."
2015-06-22,"The United States and its allies won't let Russia ""drag us back to the past"", U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in an address in Berlin on Monday, as he accused Moscow of trying to re-create a Soviet-era sphere of influence."
2015-06-22,Australia bans more than 240 games in six months
2015-06-22,"Hamas praises 'heroic' stabbing, but avoids responsibility - 18-year-old assailant Yasser Tarwa shown on terror groups website brandishing its paraphernalia"
2015-06-22,Chinese woman pays to rescue 100 dogs from meat festival
2015-06-22,Germany frees al-Jazeera reporter Ahmed Mansour
2015-06-22,"After 3-year hiatus, Egypt appoints new ambassador to Israel"
2015-06-22,"Across Europe, protesters call for solidarity with Greece | Brussels and Amsterdam have joined London, France, Germany and Italy in hosting mass rallies in support of cash-strapped Greece. Demonstrators said the financial sector must take responsibility for the damage it caused."
2015-06-22,"Canadian mining company dumps toxic waste into Mexican river: While the company has denied the spill is toxic, a state environmental body says the corporation will face fines for contamination."
2015-06-22,"Lithuania hasn't decided on arms supply to Ukraine, prime minister says"
2015-06-21,"A biotech startup has managed to 3-D print fake rhino horns that carry the same genetic fingerprint as the actual horn. The company plans to flood Chinese rhino horn market at one-eighth of the price of the original, undercutting the price poachers can get and forcing them out eventually."
2015-06-21,"Saudi Arabia warns citizens about 'fake' information after Wikileaks release 60,000 secret documents giving an insight into Saudi foreign policy and the behaviour of the royals"
2015-06-21,Conservationists are hoping to prosecute two men who used a whale shark as a surfboard while being towed by a speedboat.
2015-06-21,"Iran's female vice president has launched a furious attack on ""sanctimonious"" hardline groups who forced a ban on women spectators during historic US-Iran volleyball match"
2015-06-21,"An estimated 250,000 people have descended on London to take part in a demonstration against government austerity measures."
2015-06-21,The Somali jihadist group al-Shabab has launched a major attack in the country's capital Mogadishu. A suicide bomb has exploded near the national intelligence headquarters
2015-06-21,World Bank to use Israels water expertise in developing nations
2015-06-21,Israel strikes Lebanon 'to destroy downed drone'
2015-06-21,Saudi warns citizens against sharing 'faked' documents after Wikileaks release
2015-06-21,A 62-year-old man in Guatemala has received a hero's welcome after a 200km (125-mile) march in protest against government corruption
2015-06-21,Saudi WikiLeaks memo reveals Iran bombed South Sudan
2015-06-21,"Thousands of revelers, new-agers and self-styled Druids descended on the ancient stone circle at Stonehenge on Sunday, catching a brief glimpse of the sun as they marked the summer solstice - the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere."
2015-06-21,Egyptian President invites Vatican Pope Francis to Egypt
2015-06-21,Israeli border policeman stabbed and wounded by an 18 y/o Palestinian at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem
2015-06-21,Italian prosecutors are seeking to indict 297 people and the Bank of China in connection with a massive money-laundering investigation
2015-06-21,Ukrainian President says Ousting of Ex President was Illegal
2015-06-21,Over 220 Central American migrants were violently attacked in two different instances in Mexico; 160 Feared Dead
2015-06-21,Death Toll From Tainted Liquor in Mumbai Reaches 94
2015-06-21,"Thousands of demonstrators march through Berlin over refugees, Greece | Thousands have demonstrated in Berlin for World Refugee Day, while calling for a solution in crisis talks with Greece. Protesters said Europe should adopt a more open and understanding approach to both issues."
2015-06-21,US official says British government undermined progress on tax avoidance
2015-06-21,Hundreds of thousands rally in Rome against gay unions
2015-06-21,Cambodia to start using rats to sniff out landmines scattered throughout country
2015-06-21,Nauru detention camp guards 'filmed themselves getting sexual favours from refugees' in return for showers and drugs according to a former case manager on the island.
2015-06-21,India blames heat wave deaths on climate change
2015-06-21,Islamic State militants plant mines and bombs in Palmyra: monitoring group
2015-06-20,"WikiLeaks says it's leaking over 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents, some files already online"
2015-06-20,"Terminally ill children in unbearable suffering should be given the right to die, the Dutch Paediatricians Association said on Friday."
2015-06-20,Bin Ladens son asked US for death certificate
2015-06-20,Mens rights group barred from Torontos Pride Parade
2015-06-20,"Bruce Schneier: ""I believe that both China and Russia had access to all the files that Snowden took well before Snowden took them because they've penetrated the NSA networks where those files reside."""
2015-06-20,"UK's legalization of CD ripping is unlawful, court rules -- ""anyone who transferred music from a purchased CD to an MP3 player was committing an offense"""
2015-06-20,Greece Debt Crisis: Despair as $1 Billion Withdrawn From Banks in a Day
2015-06-20,"The world is quickly running out of water, new NASA study says"
2015-06-20,"Norway denies Snowden entry for freedom prize | Norways government has refused to allow the NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden to cross over the border from Russia to to collect a freedom of speech prize, warning that he may be at risk of arrest."
2015-06-20,Putin says Harper will change his mind on Russia in G8 if U.S. tells him to
2015-06-20,South African President plotted with ministers to allow Omar Al Bashir to escape arrest for human rights crimes on an ICC arrest warrant
2015-06-20,"The world is embarking on its sixth mass extinction with animals disappearing about 100 times faster than they used to, scientists warned Friday, and humans could be among the first victims"
2015-06-20,Japan Says Hopes to Resume Whaling Later This Year
2015-06-20,"Japan plans unilateral restart to Antarctic whaling in 2015, says official - A resumption would defy the International Whaling Commission, which says Tokyo has not proven the mammals need to be killed for research"
2015-06-20,China and Russia to build new high-speed railway: Russia and China have announced plans to build a new high-speed railway line from Moscow to Kazan. Passengers will be able to travel some 800 kilometres in just three and a half hours
2015-06-20,"Moscow threatens Belgium with reciprocal measures over assets freeze | Russian President Putin has said that Moscow will ""defend"" its interests after Belgium and France froze Russian assets. The move comes after a court awarded claimants a record $50 billion over defunct oil company Yukos."
2015-06-20,Toyota's Top Female Executive Arrested In Japan On Drug Charges
2015-06-20,The United Nations took a step closer Friday toward crafting a major treaty that would protect marine life beyond territorial waters by passing a resolution at the General Assembly.
2015-06-20,David Cameron says Britain will accept just 'a few hundred' more Syrian refugees despite 4 million displaced by the war
2015-06-20,CIA did not know Yemen drone strike would kill al-Qaeda leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi
2015-06-20,WikiLeaks Releases Saudi Diplomatic Cables Revealing Political Intrigue And Lavish Spending
2015-06-20,"BDS movement seeks to empty Israel of Jews, former Spanish Prime Minister says"
2015-06-20,Brazil about to lower prison age
2015-06-20,"Cambodia is training an elite squad of rats, imported from Africa, to sniff out landmines and other unexploded ordnance in the once war-wracked kingdom"
2015-06-20,Israel and World Bank sign water tech deal
2015-06-19,"Germany agreed Thursday to turn more than 60 former military bases into nature preserves, with the aim of creating vast new green oases and sanctuaries for rare species of birds"
2015-06-19,"Man falls to his death in London after clinging to British Airways flight for 8,000+ miles; 2nd stowaway in critical condition"
2015-06-19,"Mexico to Donald Trump: You are one ignorant,' 'prejudiced' hombre  By just declaring his intention to run for president Wednesday, he managed to start a minor spat with Mexico."
2015-06-19,"A Gold Coast police officer who leaked video footage of his colleagues assaulting a handcuffed man could face charges and jail time, civil libertarians say"
2015-06-19,"North Korea Claims It Has Cure for MERS, Ebola and AIDS"
2015-06-19,"China is utterly and totally dominating solar panels: China has emerged as the worlds largest market for solar panels and in 2015 is expected to be home to a quarter of the planets new energy capacity from solar panels, according to a new report from GTM Research"
2015-06-19,"Trans-Pacific Partnership? Never heard of it, Canadians tell pollster"
2015-06-19,"Canada: controversial anti-terrorism bill, C-51, is now law."
2015-06-19,Israeli youths arrested after arson attack on Catholic church
2015-06-19,"Saudi Arabia, one the loudest voices against climate change action, blocks drive to tighten global warming cap."
2015-06-19,Officials: Chinese had access to U.S. security clearance data for one year
2015-06-19,Cuba to offer Wi-Fi at 35 public spaces for the first time
2015-06-19,"Renewable energy in numbers. Wind, solar, hydro and other renewable sources made up 59% of new power generation capacity installed in 2014."
2015-06-19,"Denmark takes a sharp turn to the right after anti-immigration Danish People's Party soars in parliamentary elections, vowing to support Britain's demands for EU reform"
2015-06-19,Three wounded in terrorist shooting attack north of Jerusalem.
2015-06-19,China stocks plunge as bubble fears grow
2015-06-19,"Jobless Afghan fighters say they were paid by the Iranian government to fight for Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, and promised passports and jobs if they survive."
2015-06-19,"Spain turns its back on the sun. Proposed legislation will stifle small-scale solar and wind energy production, critics warn"
2015-06-19,"300 arrested in global wildlife raids - Seizures include: Over 12 tons elephant ivory from Thailand, DRC, Kenya, Singapore, Mozambique & Uganda; 126 rhino horns from Mozambique, Vietnam, Namibia & Kenya; 10,000 dead sea horses, over 400 live turtles & tortoises in UK."
2015-06-19,"Armed Groups Reportedly Raped, Castrated, and Slit the Throats of Children in South Sudan"
2015-06-19,"UK Muslims helping jihadis, says Cameron: Communities must stop 'quietly condoning' barbaric ISIS, PM warns in blunt speech"
2015-06-19,"New DNA Results Show Kennewick Man Was Native American - Kennewick Mans genome also sheds new light on how people first spread throughout the New World, experts said. There was no mysterious intrusion of Europeans thousands of years ago. Instead, several waves spread across the New World"
2015-06-19,Euro zone announces emergency summit on Greece as money flees
2015-06-19,Pakistan suspends death penalty during Ramadan - BBC News
2015-06-19,Exclusive - Deposit withdrawals surge at Greek banks as debt noose tightens - 2bn withdrawn over the past three days
2015-06-18,Sweden announces first centre for raped men
2015-06-18,US says it will not provide food aid to North Korea during its worst drought in 100 years
2015-06-18,Russia warns of 'risks' should Sweden join Nato: A top Russian official has told a leading Swedish newspaper that the country would be likely to face military action if it were to join Nato.
2015-06-18,"Pork sold by several leading British supermarkets found to be contaminated with a strain of superbug MRSA linked to overuse of powerful antibiotics on factory farms - Some develop skin complaints & the bug can cause life-threatening infections, including pneumonia & blood poisoning"
2015-06-18,"Man in Dubai faces $68,000 fine for Swearing on WhatsApp"
2015-06-18,"All Systems Go for NASA's Mission to Jupiter Moon Europa - ""Observations of Europa have provided us with tantalizing clues over the last two decades, and the time has come to seek answers to one of humanity's most profound questions."""
2015-06-18,"India Just Upped Its Solar Target Five-Fold, Will Install More Solar This Year Than Germany"
2015-06-18,Anonymous responsible for massive cyber-attack on Canadian government websites due to the Harper government's controversial bill C-51
2015-06-18,"China, the United States and India were responsible for nearly 80% of global growth in the first three months of the year"
2015-06-18,"World Hasnt Had So Many Refugees Since 1945, Report Says"
2015-06-18,Israel Vows to Prevent Massacre of Syrian Druze After Islamist Rebels Surround Village Near Golan Heights
2015-06-18,Chad Burqa Ban: Islamic Face Veils Outlawed In Muslim-Majority State Following Boko Haram Suicide Bombings
2015-06-18,"Some African Countries Are Trying to Use Science to Make Homophobic Laws, Now African Scientists are Pushing Back"
2015-06-18,Hungary will build a 4 meter high fence along its border with Serbia to stop illegal migrants
2015-06-18,'Highly significant' Spanish Armada cannons discovered off coast of Ireland
2015-06-18,Fukushima power plant operator 'knew of need to protect against tsunami but did not act'
2015-06-18,Canadian Government Lambasted for Stifling Science and Dissent
2015-06-18,British Government dodges Freedom of Information act with automatic 3-month deletion of emails
2015-06-18,"$1bn has vanished from three of Moldova's leading banks, much of it passing through UK companies."
2015-06-18,Honduran soldiers are taking over public hospitals and medicine storage warehouses to guarantee the supply of drugs to patients after a recent fraud and graft scandal rocked the Social Security Institute
2015-06-18,France seizes the assets of Russian state-run media
2015-06-18,"For the first time in modern history, Asia is now richer than Europe. And it is catching up with North America too; by 2019"
2015-06-18,"Speaker of Greek parliament releases debt committee finding that debt is ""odious"" and should not be repaid. Prime minister is ready to ""say the great no"" and reject any unfair debt deal"
2015-06-18,EU agrees to extend Russia economic sanctions by six months
2015-06-18,Hong Kong Legislature Votes Down Beijing-Backed Election Plan
2015-06-17,"Wal-Mart Has $76 Billion in Overseas Tax Havens, Report Says"
2015-06-17,"Pope blasts global warming deniers - ""The poor and the Earth are shouting""."
2015-06-17,The water table is dropping all over the world: NASA warns were on the path to global drought
2015-06-17,"The fight is on to stop an annual Chinese event which is expected to involve the slaughter of more than 10,000 dogs, some of whom are burned or boiled alive."
2015-06-17,"Stop eating Nutella & save the forests, urges French ecology minister - Sgolne Royal says Nutella is made using palm oil, which is contributing to deforestation, & urges Ferrero to make the spread with ""other ingredients"""
2015-06-17,Palestinian government to resign within 24 hours
2015-06-17,Shock European court decision: Websites are liable for users comments
2015-06-17,"Robots to 3D-print world's first continuously-extruded steel bridge across a canal in Amsterdam, heralding the dawn of automatic construction sites and structural metal printing for public infrastructure"
2015-06-17,"The worlds largest underground aquifers  a source of fresh water for hundreds of millions of people  are being depleted at alarming rates, according to new NASA satellite data that provides the most detailed picture yet of vital water reserves hidden under the Earths surface."
2015-06-17,Snowdens lawyer says he witnessed Snowden destroy his copy of NSA documents before leaving Hong Kong; slams Sunday Times story
2015-06-17,The Dominican Republic is expelling all Dominicans of Haitian descent who can't prove residency.
2015-06-17,Child sacrifices continue to rise in Uganda; children are reportedly abducted by witch doctors and others who feel sacrifices will bring them wealth
2015-06-17,"Hezbollah killed the Leader of the Islamic State for Al Qalamoun, Syria."
2015-06-17,The Taliban Tells the Islamic State to Get the Hell Out of Afghanistan
2015-06-17,Gay men arrested in Morocco because they 'stood too close to each other'
2015-06-17,Scientist just created the coldest substance on Earth
2015-06-17,"Diseased fish confirm damage to Great Barrier Reef ecosystem, say scientists - New research into reef confirms sediment from coastal agriculture & industry development, such as the dredging for ports, is having an adverse effect on fish"
2015-06-17,New NASA data show how the world is running out of water
2015-06-17,"Israel makes historic Temple Mount concessions for Ramadan..easing security checks, hundreds of Gaza visitors"
2015-06-17,"4300 Sikh,Hindu Refugees from Afghanistan & Pakistan Get Indian Citizenship"
2015-06-17,"As Tensions With U.S. Grow, Beijing Says It Will Stop Building Artificial Islands in South China Sea"
2015-06-17,'Open Your Eyes': Israel Releases Cartoon Mocking Foreign Correspondents
2015-06-17,"Half of the worlds new power capacity came from renewables last year, with China leading the way: Last year, the global economy grew by 3% but emissions stayed flat. This was the first time in at least 40 years that such an outcome has occurred outside economic crisis, the IEA said"
2015-06-17,Swiss investigating 53 cases of possible money laundering at Fifa
2015-06-17,"Prosecute sexual offenders, says UN panel | Nations whose peacekeeping troops commit sexual abuse should be named and shamed, according to a UN panel. Its report also recommends that flouter nations be barred from contributing troops to UN missions."
2015-06-16,A rising tide does not lift all boats: IMF study shows wealth does not 'trickle-down' as many economists believe. IMF recommends countries should concentrate on helping the poorest 20% of citizens.
2015-06-16,Millionaires are expected to control nearly half of the world's personal wealth by 2019
2015-06-16,"Israel accused of 'war crime' over bulldozing of Palestinian olive groves. They didnt leave me anything, said Sabri Manasra, who said he and a cousin had lost 800 trees. This is damage no one will forget, not my children, or my childrens children. I dont understand how people can do this."
2015-06-16,"A police force has defended scanning the faces of 90,000 festival-goers this weekend and checking them against a list of wanted criminals across Europe."
2015-06-16,"16 year old blogger Amos Yee, jailed in Singapore for criticising the government is now the world's youngest prisoner of conscience"
2015-06-16,Edward Snowden 'smeared by UK officials'
2015-06-16,"""Accused of publishing government propaganda against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times is using copyright to hit back at its strongest critic."""
2015-06-16,"South Korea to install monitoring app in teenagers phones to block access to ""undesirable"" sites."
2015-06-16,"Russia will add 40 ballistic missiles to nuclear arsenal in 2015 - Putin: ""More than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defence systems will be added to the make-up of the nuclear arsenal this year,"""
2015-06-16,Bored London man pranks ISIS.
2015-06-16,"Israeli archaeologists have discovered a rare 3,000-year-old inscription of a name mentioned in the Bible. They said Tuesday it is the first time the name was discovered in an ancient inscription. It is one of only four inscriptions discovered from the biblical 10th century B.C. Kingdom of Judah"
2015-06-16,"Russia's 'Microwave Gun' Can Disable Drones, Warheads Up To 6 Miles Away, Official Says"
2015-06-16,Italy discovers biggest illegal waste dump in Europe
2015-06-16,"'Call me The Shadow, not Bromley Batman': anonymous London vigilante comes forward"
2015-06-16,A 15-yr-old UK schoolboy has discovered a new planet
2015-06-16,Lithuania and Poland are preparing to host US heavy arms as part of an American plan that could see the US station military equipment in Central and Eastern Europe for the first time despite opposition from Russia.
2015-06-16,Gap between rich and poor in advanced economies at its highest level in decades.
2015-06-16,"Pay low-income families more to boost economic growth, says IMF - Study indicates stagnating incomes of the poor and middle classes could have been instrumental in the financial crisis"
2015-06-16,Zimbabwe ditches its currency: Z$35 quadrillion is now worth US$1
2015-06-16,Kurdish fighters cut key supply line to Islamic State capital Raqqa
2015-06-16,Egypt Sentences Former President Morsi to Death for Escaping Prison
2015-06-16,Secretary says Air Force could send F-22s to Europe to counter Russia
2015-06-16,Former FIFA executive Chuck Blazer agreed to go undercover for the US government at FIFA in 2013 to avoid potential 75-year sentence
2015-06-16,Further research into the sophisticated computer virus used to hack into hotels where the Iran nuclear talks took place has found it took advantage of digital credentials stolen from the world's top contract electronics maker Foxconn
2015-06-16,"Vietnam fishermen 'attacked by Chinese boats', say reports"
2015-06-15,"Just minutes ago, a North Korean soldier walked across the border within the DMZ to defect to South Korea"
2015-06-15,France bans sale of Monsanto herbicide Roundup in nurseries
2015-06-15,"With Little Fanfare, Mexican Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage"
2015-06-15,"Senior diplomat dismisses claims that Snowden docs contained agents' names: ""Rule no.1 in both the CIA and MI6 is that identities are never, ever written down."""
2015-06-15,Stocks all over the world are dropping after Greek crisis talks fell apart in 45 minutes
2015-06-15,"Journalists slam article claiming Russia, China cracked Edward Snowden files. Reporters who worked with classified documents say Sunday Times piece is full of falsehoods."
2015-06-15,Russia says will retaliate if U.S. weapons stationed on its borders
2015-06-15,North Korea is planting landmines on its border to prevent its own soldiers from fleeing the country
2015-06-15,Ireland to remove 1c and 2c coins from circulation
2015-06-15,US and China sign an army cooperation agreement. US invites China to take part in joint military exercises.
2015-06-15,Scientists say pope may be the key player on climate change
2015-06-15,"President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan, who faced arrest on charges of crimes against humanity and genocide, appeared to have slipped out of South Africa on Monday morning, dealing a serious blow to the International Criminal Courts six-year campaign to bring him to justice."
2015-06-15,Erdoans friendly chat with mob boss at wedding sparks outrage
2015-06-15,"Israeli govt approves force feeding bill, says prisoner hunger strike is a ""suicide terrorist attack"" against Israel"
2015-06-15,It's Official: SpaceX Is Building Elon Musk's Hyperloop
2015-06-15,Chinas Stock Market Value Tops $10 Trillion for First Time
2015-06-15,Mexico Court Effectively Legalizes Same- Sex Marriage
2015-06-15,North Korea confirms Defense Minister Hyon Yong Chol's execution for napping during Kim Jong Un meeting
2015-06-15,North Korea Has Turned Off 3G Networks For Foreign Visitors
2015-06-15,Putin upsets Erdoan by making him wait for meeting: Report
2015-06-15,Huge fire engulfs France basilica
2015-06-15,Israel refuses entry to UN investigator reporting on human rights in the Palestinian territories
2015-06-15,"Asylum seekers face increasing violence in Germany - - Anti-immigrant sentiment is growing in Germany, where refugee housing is burned & asylum seekers are attacked"
2015-06-15,Taliban shadow governor among 15 killed in NATO airstrike
2015-06-15,"'Poshness tests' block working-class applicants at top companies: Study of recruitment processes at elite law, accountancy and financial firms found that 70% of jobs went to applicants from private or selective schools"
2015-06-14,Philae comet lander wakes up [After 7 months]
2015-06-14,Russia and China break encryption to gain access to NSA leaked files
2015-06-14,"Tigers, lions, wolves and bears are feared to be on the loose in Georgias capital amid chaotic scenes brought by devastating floods that have reportedly killed eight people"
2015-06-14,Italy threatens to 'hurt' Europe if no help with migrants
2015-06-14,Germany says Europe is losing patience with Greece
2015-06-14,"The historic Christian Syrian town of Maalula celebrated Saturday as a new statue of the Virgin Mary was erected in its centre, replacing the figure destroyed in rebel attacks in 2013."
2015-06-14,"Turkish border troops block Syrian masses fleeing ISIS - Water canons, warnings shots fired to turn back thousands seeking to escape fighting between Islamic State and Kurdish rebels"
2015-06-14,The New Zealand Defence Force has announced it will ban sugary fizzy drinks and deep fried food after official figures released show thousands of personnel tipping the scales at obese or 'severely obese' levels.
2015-06-14,Indias Railway Coaches Are Testing Solar Panels To Cut Fuel Emissions And Create Massive Amounts Of Energy
2015-06-14,Sepp Blatter reconsidering resignation from FIFA presidency - report
2015-06-14,U.N. Tightens Noose on U.N. Rights Official Who Exposed Abuses. U.N. expand investigation into veteran U.N. human rights official who disclosed abuses against children in the Central African Republic
2015-06-14,"U.S. appeals court strikes down Guantanamo conviction of bin Laden spokesman; Of the 8 convictions by Guantanamo military commissions, 4 have now been fully reversed"
2015-06-14,"European space chief suggests making room for India, China on station"
2015-06-14,Thousands march in Warsaw parade showing growing public support for gay rights in Poland
2015-06-14,Germany drops investigation into claims the NSA tapped Angela Merkel's phone | The Verge
2015-06-14,Siberia registers its warmest recorded spring sparking new fears for rapid climate change
2015-06-14,"China Launches First Harbin-Hamburg Freight Train: ""The China-Mongolia-Russia corridor is the biggest one among the six land corridors along the Silk Road Economic Belt"" It's expected the line is going to carry some 4-billion yuan worth of freight every year."
2015-06-14,"Britain pulls out spies as Russia, China crack Snowden files"
2015-06-14,U.S. Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in East Europe
2015-06-14,Theresa May keeps snoopers charter secret | Home secretary under fire for extraordinary refusal to share surveillance plans amid fears government will steamroller law through parliament
2015-06-14,"Last legs: the species with only a few remaining individuals - graphic The rate of animal extinction has rocketed in the past half-century, as hundreds - possibly thousands - of species disappear each year. Our graphic indicates some of the species whose numbers have dwindled to a vulnerable few."
2015-06-14,An Argentine federal oral court yesterday convicted the first judge for crimes against humanity committed during the 1976-1983 dictatorship
2015-06-14,Prominent leader of ISIS detained by Egyptian army in Sinai
2015-06-14,Erdogan says troubled by Kurdish advance in northern Syria
2015-06-14,"U.S. plans to store heavy arms in Baltic, E.Europe"
2015-06-13,"The Turkish Government is providing electricity to ISIS in the Syrian town of Tel Abyad, which is occupied by the Islamic State"
2015-06-13,"Island Nation Burns Boats to Deter Illegal Fishing - The president of Palau decries those who are ""raping our marine environment. In a fiery crackdown on illegal fishing burned a cluster of Vietnamese fishing boats off their coast Thursday, sending black smoke up flames over turquoise water."
2015-06-13,China has vowed to phase out domestic Ivory market and Crack down online ivory trade.
2015-06-13,The Obama administration is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago
2015-06-13,"Three of the poorest, most violent Central American countries want $20 billion over the coming years to lift their economies with new roads and better education to curb illegal migration into the United States."
2015-06-13,Pentagon: Price tag for war on ISIS is $2.7 billion
2015-06-13,Saudi pages on 9/11 report appear blank
2015-06-13,White House Weighs Sanctions After Second Breach of a Computer System
2015-06-13,U.S. 'recognizes' N. Korea as nuclear weapon state: North's media
2015-06-13,More Europeans settling in Latin America than Latin Americans in Europe
2015-06-13,"Euro Slides Vs Dollar as Merkel Bemoans Currencys Strength. A too-strong euro makes it tougher for countries like Portugal, Spain, Ireland, but especially Spain and Portugal, to harvest the fruits of their economic reforms, especially in terms of exports, Merkel said"
2015-06-13,Scuffles broke out at the end of the first day of a landmark pollution trial in China on Friday as families who sued a chemical plant over high levels of lead in the blood of their children confronted lawyers representing the company.
2015-06-13,"New planet, discovered by 15-year-old intern"
2015-06-13,Latvia arrests two Russians for entering military base
2015-06-13,Worlds First Successful Penis Transplant Patient to Become a Father
2015-06-13,"Australian PM Abbott on accusations of border guards bribing immigrant asylum ship captains to return home, What we do is stop the boats by hook or by crook,."
2015-06-13,Egypt temporarily opens Gaza border crossing in sign of thaw with Hamas
2015-06-13,"Australia would have stooped to a ""new low"" if reports that its navy paid people-smugglers bound for Australia thousands of dollars to turn back their boat are true, an Indonesian government official said on Saturday."
2015-06-13,Malaysia to free British tourist over naked mountain pose
2015-06-13,"The U.S. House of Representatives blocked legislation to ""fast-track"" trade bill despite last-minute plea from Obama"
2015-06-13,Chinese Hackers Stole Security Clearance DocumentsFilled with Deeply Private Datafor Soldiers and Spies
2015-06-13,Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality
2015-06-13,A Torture Survivor Drew These Pictures To Describe The Hell Eritrea Has Become
2015-06-13,"Canadian hacker, 22, gets 18 months in prison over US trade secrets theft"
2015-06-13,Saudi blogger lawyer wins human rights prize
2015-06-12,Newly-surfaced video footage corroborates widespread assertions that the Turkish government's intelligence agency has been ensuring ISIL terrorists safe passage into Syria
2015-06-12,France gives Google 15 days to expand right-to-be-forgotten worldwide or face sanctions
2015-06-12,"In a study of more than 5.7 million children in 5 countries, Autism was found to be linked to parental age."
2015-06-12,"As currency dies, Zimbabweans will get $5 for 175 quadrillion local dollars"
2015-06-12,"An Indian journalist who linked an official to corruption died of burns. On his deathbed, he said the official's associates and police officers had set him on fire."
2015-06-12,The U.N. surprises everyone with a breakthrough deal to slow deforestation
2015-06-12,"Over 90% of the world's population wants zero carbon emissions ""... more than 9 out of 10 people on planet Earth think we should stop burning the oil, gas and coal that have helped boost global temperatures to dangerous record highs."""
2015-06-12,"Nobel laureate Satyarthi says up to 500,000 child soldiers worldwide ""When I read that a five-year-old child is given a gun to kill an opponent of a militia group in Iraq... and the child could not handle that gun, he was buried alive... That makes me angry. I think this should make you all angry,"""
2015-06-12,Tony Abbott brags that he halted the spread of 'visually awful' wind farms
2015-06-12,INTERPOL suspends agreement with FIFA after receiving a 20 mil donation in 2011
2015-06-12,"Pope Francis: 'Let us modify our relationship with natural resources'. People must change their lifestyles and attitudes to help defeat hunger, Pope Francis said Thursday (June 11), a hint of what may be coming in his much-anticipated environmental encyclical next week."
2015-06-12,"New Charges of Climate Skeptics Undisclosed Ties to Energy Industry Highlight Journals Role as Gatekeeper. Soon accepted money from ExxonMobil Corp., the American Petroleum Institute, the Charles G. Koch Foundation and Southern Co., one of the largest electric utility companies in the US"
2015-06-12,Polar bears are seen eating dolphins for the first time as climate change pushes species north
2015-06-12,Solar power passes 1% global threshold
2015-06-12,"Well over 100,000 people celebrate Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade, regions biggest"
2015-06-12,Climate sceptic researcher investigated over funding from fossil fuel firms - Willie Soon from Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics probed over failure to disclose more than $1.2m from energy industry when submitting articles
2015-06-12,"The Worst of All Horrors | Psychologists in Iraq, a country long afflicted by violence, say theyve never seen more terrible trauma than that caused by the Islamic State."
2015-06-12,'Profits over public health': Secret TPP Healthcare Annex published by WikiLeaks
2015-06-12,Germany drops probe into U.S. spying on Merkel
2015-06-12,Malaysia Airlines plane fire forces emergency landing
2015-06-12,175 Quadrillion Zimbabwean Dollars Now Equals $5
2015-06-12,"Saudi blogger Raif Badawi sentence 'a slow death', says wife"
2015-06-12,"Hizbollah declares war on ISIL: The Shiite militant group has been fighting Al Qaeda-linked Jabhat Al Nusra and allied rebel groups for more than a month along the border between Lebanon and Syria, but its declaration of war with ISIL opens up a new front"
2015-06-12,Dozens of new Ebola cases reported in West Africa
2015-06-12,The Israeli military has cleared itself of culpability in one of the most controversial incidents in last summers Gaza war: a missile attack that killed four children on Gaza beach and injured a number of others.
2015-06-11,"Medical marijuana legal in all forms, Supreme Court rules (Canada)"
2015-06-11,"Elon Musk's SpaceX Plans To Launch 4,000 Satellites, Broadcasting Internet To Entire World"
2015-06-11,Global Diabetes Rates Are Rising as Obesity Spreads
2015-06-11,"Extramarital sex isn't adultery so long as you've paid for it, Japanese court rules"
2015-06-11,Rupert Murdoch is getting ready to step down as the CEO of 21st Century Fox
2015-06-11,Isis's deadliest atrocity: 600 bodies confirmed found following 'worst massacre' by jihadists
2015-06-11,"Under Kim Jong Un, North Korea Faces Historic Famine As Drought Threatens Crop Production"
2015-06-11,Corpse Elected Mayor in Mexico - A Dead Man Wins in Cartel Country Enrique Hernndez fought the lawless& the lawbefore he was shot to death at a campaign rally last month. But he wins election from the grave.
2015-06-11,Islamic State (IS) fighters have been targeted by other radical Islamist groups in Libya who have now declared a jihad against the extremist group.
2015-06-11,"With less than 500 dollars and an Internet-powered campaign, 25-year-old Mexican Pedro Kumamoto tapped into discontent with corruption-plagued political parties and makes history as the first independent candidate in Mexico to win an election by popular vote."
2015-06-11,"Russia is no longer strategic partner of European Union, say Members of the European Parliament (resolution passed by 494 votes to 135, with 69 abstentions)"
2015-06-11,Australian PM actively trying to reduce growth in renewable energy sector and limit wind farms
2015-06-11,Leaked trade deal terms prompt fears for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme - Documents on the Trans-Pacific Partnership revealed by Wikileaks have revealed draft rules for medicines provided by national health care schemes
2015-06-11,"Tony Abbott agrees windfarms may have ""potential health impacts"" - Bill Shorten accuses PM of hurting investment in renewables as Abbott says his government is working to reduce the number of ""visually awful"" turbines"
2015-06-11,North American scientists call for end to tar sands mining
2015-06-11,"Fake Mobile Phone Towers Found To Be ""Actively Listening In"" On Calls In UK"
2015-06-11,"Turkish President Erdogan:''Western countries are backing Syrian Kurds, but they are Terrorists''"
2015-06-11,Bid to block US military plans to turn Pacific islands into simulated war zone
2015-06-11,Spanish government to tax consumers who store their own renewable energy
2015-06-11,"Americans and Canadians, it says, were the only nationalities surveyed in which more than half of those polled believed that their country should take military action if Russia attacked a NATO ally."
2015-06-11,Azerbaijan bans The Guardian and other news outlets from reporting on Baku European Games
2015-06-11,TTIP vote postponed as European Parliament descends into panic over trade deal
2015-06-11,"reuters: ""Saudi Arabia ready to raise oil output further to meet demand"""
2015-06-11,Ancient Church Uncovered During Highway Project in Israel
2015-06-11,600 bodies exhumed at ISIL massacre site
2015-06-10,"Members of a U.N. peacekeeping mission engaged in ""transactional sex"" with more than 225 Haitian women who said they needed to do so to obtain things like food and medication, a sign that sexual exploitation remains significantly underreported in such missions"
2015-06-10,History Has Been Made. Female Genital Mutilation Banned In Nigeria.
2015-06-10,IMF data shows Iceland's economy recovered after it imprisoned bankers and let banks go bust - instead of bailing them out
2015-06-10,'The biggest leak in Polish history'. Thousands of pages of top secret documents from 'the tapes affair' published on Facebook by a Polish businessman relentlessly fighting with corrupt authorities.
2015-06-10,Richard Branson grants new fathers at Virgin up to 12 months paternity on full pay
2015-06-10,European Parliament TTIP vote cancelled because of huge public pressure.
2015-06-10,"Canadian Spy Bill C-51 passed by Senate, despite widespread public opposition"
2015-06-10,Humans to have sex in space for the first time
2015-06-10,Saudi Arabia is to lift laws that ban women from travelling without a man's permission
2015-06-10,Ontario first in North America to curb bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides
2015-06-10,"Australian and New Zealand medicine to cost more and healthcare will suffer under TPP, according to Wikileaks documents"
2015-06-10,"In 1951, 22 Inuit children were taken from their homes by the Danish government in order to serve in a social experiment. Decades later, they demand the apology they were never given."
2015-06-10,Isis's dirty bomb: Jihadists have seized 'enough radioactive material to build their first WMD'
2015-06-10,"In a major shift of strategy in Iraq, the Obama administration is planning to establish a new military base in Anbar Province and send hundreds of additional American military trainers to help Iraqi forces retake the city of Ramadi and repel the Islamic State."
2015-06-10,The Secretive Bilderberg Group is bringing together the world's financial and political elite this week
2015-06-10,NASA released a ton of data to help developing nations prepare for global warming
2015-06-10,Amnesty International Calls on Obama to Drop Charges Against Edward Snowden
2015-06-10,Fake Mobile Phone Towers Operating In The UK
2015-06-10,Glitch at the International Space Station on Tuesday caused its position in orbit to change
2015-06-10,'Overstretched' Russian air force suffers three crashes in five days
2015-06-10,"Ban women from male labs because they are too distracting and cry when criticised, says Nobel prize winner Sir Tim Hunt"
2015-06-10,FIFA Suspends 2026 World Cup Bid Process
2015-06-10,Poll finds half of Gazans want to leave...dissappointed with Hamas
2015-06-10,Chimpanzees found to drink alcoholic plant sap in wild
2015-06-10,"UK oil firm 'paid Congolese officer who offered bribe to Virunga park ranger' - Leaked documents appear to show Soco paid $42,000 to officer who was filmed offering bribes to opponents of oil exploration in DRC national park"
2015-06-09,British 'world-record sniper' says he can still see and smell the people he killed in his nightmares - Sgt Craig Harrison holds the longest confirmed sniper kill but developed post-traumatic stress disorder after his deployment in the Balkans
2015-06-09,"Nazi sympathiser and former King of England, the Duke of Windsor, 'wanted England bombed', archives reveal"
2015-06-09,"A Syrian pilot who did not want to be captured alive by Isis killed himself after he landed in an Isis held area. It is believed that the 29-year wanted to avoid the fate of the Jordanian pilot, who was captured by Isis and then burned alive."
2015-06-09,Obama lambasts Putin: you're wrecking Russia to recreate Soviet empire
2015-06-09,75 million-year-old dinosaur blood and collagen discovered in fossil fragments
2015-06-09,"Fifa crisis: Jack Warner ""stole Haiti earthquake relief money"""
2015-06-09,China has told Israel it will not allow migrant builders to work on settlements in the occupied West Bank
2015-06-09,"A Yemeni man whose relatives were killed in a U.S. drone strike nearly three years ago filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government Monday, seeking a declaration from a federal court in Washington, D.C. that the raid was unlawful."
2015-06-09,First Ocean Plastic Garbage Collector to Be Deployed in 2016
2015-06-09,Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying
2015-06-09,The worlds first artificial leg capable of simulating the feelings of a real limb and fighting phantom pain was unveiled by researchers in Vienna on Monday.
2015-06-09,Water cannon producers stock dips after Turkeys ruling AKP loses majority
2015-06-09,"In a historic shift, Turks elect Yazidis, Armenians and Roma candidates to parliament."
2015-06-09,After large public protest New Zealand Minister of Internal Affairs approves a one off use of medicinal marijuana for dying teen as a last resort.
2015-06-09,"Saudi lashing sentence for blogger 'medieval': Swedish FM ""My opinion is that it's a medieval sentence. It's a medieval method that does not have its place in a society that allows a free media and allows people to express their point of view,"" Wallstrom told Swedish Radio in Brussels."
2015-06-09,World's Richest Countries Decide to Take It Slow on Climate Change
2015-06-09,"WHO: To Avoid MERS, Dont Drink Camel Urine"
2015-06-09,Belgium with help from US authorities arrests 16 in terror raid triggered by whatsapp messages
2015-06-09,Nigerian Senate sets age of consent at 11 years old
2015-06-09,"A Light Projection Has Recreated Afghanistan's Destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas. A light projection has been used to shine an image of Buddha onto a cliff in Bamiyan in Afghanistan, where towering sandstone statues of Buddha were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001."
2015-06-09,73% of Japanese say South Korea untrustworthy
2015-06-09,The World Bank wants all corporate bidders on bank-funded projects to publicly reveal their true owners as a way of tackling fraud and cronyism in government contracts.
2015-06-09,"The US does not yet have a ""complete strategy"" for helping Iraq regain territory from Islamic State (IS), President Barack Obama has said."
2015-06-09,"'Germany saw dramatic increase in anti-Semitic, anti-Israel crimes in 2014'"
2015-06-09,Hamas: Armed resistance not negotiable in struggle against Israel
2015-06-08,"For the first time in Mexican history, a state will be governed by an independent candidate, without any party support."
2015-06-08,"Ed Snowden should be pardoned, thunders Amnesty International UK | Campaign launched to get Obama to drop espionage charges"
2015-06-08,G7 leaders agree to phase out fossil fuel use by end of century
2015-06-08,Vladimir Putin: I invite you to publish a world map and mark all the U.S. military bases on it. You will see the difference (between Russia and the U.S.).
2015-06-08,Saudi Arabia hosts UN-backed summit on religious discrimination while they sentence a blogger for insulting Islam
2015-06-08,"One of the naked tourists accused of causing Malaysian earthquake doubles down with ""F**k your culture"" statement"
2015-06-08,"Billionaire Cartier Owner Sees Wealth Gap Fueling Social Unrest We cannot have 0.1 percent of 0.1 percent taking all the spoils, said Rupert, who has a fortune worth $7.5 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Its unfair and it is not sustainable."
2015-06-08,Turkey ruling AKP 'loses majority'
2015-06-08,"Scientists show future events decide what happens in the past - An experiment by Australian scientists has proven that what happens to particles in the past is only decided when they are observed and measured in the future. Until such time, reality is just an abstraction."
2015-06-08,Russia And Qatar Could Lose World Cup If Investigation Finds Votes Were Bought
2015-06-08,Three Armenians Elected to Turkeys Parliament
2015-06-08,NASA: Pluto's Moons Are 'Tumbling In Absolute Chaos'
2015-06-08,First time ever: Scientists use Wi-Fi signals to power camera without battery
2015-06-08,Oscar Pistorius set to be released in August after serving just 10 months for shooting his girlfriend
2015-06-08,Iraq takes back city from ISIS
2015-06-08,Joy as Turkish election result puts pro-Kurdish party into parliament
2015-06-08,"Diphtheria bacteria detected in eight children in Girona who came in contacted with unvaccinated child who developed the disease, all were vaccinated and have not developed symptoms. Parents of the ill boy feel ""tricked"" by anti-vaccination groups in first such case in Spain since 1987."
2015-06-08,The Most Popular Eating Banana Might Soon Go Extinct - The Cavendish banana is succumbing to a disease that wiped out its predecessor
2015-06-08,About half of live dolphins caught in the Japanese coastal town of Taiji were exported to China and other countries despite global criticism of the hunting technique used.
2015-06-08,"MERS outbreak: 2,300-plus quarantined; 1,300 schools closed in South Korea"
2015-06-08,"Luxembourg rejects foreigner voting rights (87,2% against) despite 46% foreign population"
2015-06-08,A new study says that Israelis and Palestinians would gain billions of dollars from peace
2015-06-08,"Dual citizens, immigrants could lose Canadian citizenship under new law"
2015-06-08,"Hungary has become the first European country to sign a cooperation agreement for China's new ""Silk Road"" initiative to develop trade and transport infrastructure across Asia and beyond."
2015-06-08,POLITICS - Turkeys Christian minority sends four deputies to parliament
2015-06-07,"Swedish observers witness electon fraud in Turkey, thrown out of polling stations and threatened with weapons"
2015-06-07,"FIFA corruption scandal: Morocco, not South Africa, allegedly won 2010 World Cup vote"
2015-06-07,"A group of western tourists who stripped naked at the peak of Mount Kinabalu last month will be prohibited from leaving Malaysia, as their act of ""disrespecting the mountain"" could have caused the devastating earthquake that killed at least 13 people."
2015-06-07,"China boat death toll exceeds 400, victims mourned."
2015-06-07,Jury Acquits Ex-BP Exec Of Lying In Oil Spill
2015-06-07,"Putin Sends Message to the West: ""I would like to say - there's no need to be afraid of Russia.... The world has changed so much that people in their right mind cannot imagine such a large military conflict today."""
2015-06-07,Poland warns David Cameron not to fool voters that they can keep all the goodies and forget about the costs in EU referendum
2015-06-07,Smoking weed has halved in the UK
2015-06-07,"'Execution' of lawyer kills hope that residents can defeat Mafia. The brutal killing on 29 May of Mario Piccolino, in his office in Formia, south of Rome, has dashed such hopes. Piccolino, 71, was a lawyer with mobsters and corrupt officials in his sights."
2015-06-07,Israeli Generals Back Nuclear Deal With Iran  Split With Netanyahu
2015-06-07,"Mexico to vote amid violence, discontent with democracy"
2015-06-07,Turkey votes in crucial election: Turks are voting in a general election on Sunday which will determine whether the ruling party can change the constitution
2015-06-07,"Saudi Arabia's supreme court has upheld the sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years imprisonment on blogger Raif Badawi, despite a foreign outcry."
2015-06-07,Amazon stops selling ISIS magazine Dabiq
2015-06-07,What's giving bees dementia?
2015-06-07,"Iran deploys 15,000 troops to support Assad in Syria"
2015-06-07,"FIFA email connects Sepp Blatter to $10M, newspaper claims"
2015-06-07,Ancient gold trade route discovered
2015-06-07,Paraguay will invest extra $125 million dollars in the Program for the Development of Science and Technology
2015-06-07,"Germany deploys 22,000 police officers at G7 venue"
2015-06-07,A Japanese domestic flight was forced to make an emergency landing after white haze was seen in the Boeing's cockpit
2015-06-07,Korean Air Force member at U.S. base has MERS
2015-06-07,Opposition wins Guyana elections: The victory ended 23 years of ruling party governments in one of the poorest countries in South America
2015-06-07,"Copies of Islamic State's English-language propaganda magazine, Dabiq, are available to buy on the website of online retailer Amazon, it has emerged."
2015-06-07,Nestle India: spends 23 times more on advertising than on quality testing
2015-06-06,More than two-thirds of the Humvees the US supplied to Iraq to fight terrorists have ended up in the hands of Islamic State militants
2015-06-06,"Norways $890 billion government-pension fund, considered the largest sovereign-wealth fund in the world, will sell off many of its investments related to coal, making it the biggest institution to join a growing international movement to abandon at least some fossil-fuel stocks."
2015-06-06,"Sepp Blatter will be arrested and forced out of Fifa in a 'couple of months', says Greg Dyke"
2015-06-06,"Faith Leaders To Obama: Give Women Raped By ISIS Access To Safe Abortions - They're asking him to allow US to fund access to safe abortions for women & girls raped in foreign conflict zones, especially those forcibly impregnated by terrorist groups such as ISIS & Boko Haram."
2015-06-06,Egypt Confirms Top FIFA Official Demanded Bribe for 2010 World Cup
2015-06-06,Russia would attack NATO only in mad persons dream  Putin
2015-06-06,"Turkey's Erdogan says he moved into lavish 1,150-room palace because of 'cockroaches'"
2015-06-06,Bangladesh and India are to sign a historic agreement to simplify their border by exchanging more than 150 enclaves of land.
2015-06-06,"Kurds, in need of supplies, are starting to panic in war against ISIS."
2015-06-06,"With a series of major hacks, China builds a database on Americans"
2015-06-06,"Carbon emissions from Australia's main electricity network have jumped by an annual rate of 5.2 million tonnes since the Abbott government scrapped the carbon price in July last year, according to new report."
2015-06-06,"Pope Francis says the world is beset by an ""atmosphere of war"" and attacked those who are guilty of inciting and fomenting it: Many conflicts across the planet amount to ""a kind of third world war being fought piecemeal and, in the context of global communications, we sense an atmosphere of war,"""
2015-06-06,Two explosions hit Kurdish political rally in Turkey
2015-06-06,Clinton Foundation received money to ease Iran sanctions - Report
2015-06-06,Thousands of protesters marched through Honduras's capital demanding the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernandez over a corruption scandal that has seen growing calls for him to quit
2015-06-06,Deutsche Bank is looking into possible money laundering transactions by some of its clients in Russia which could exceed $6 billion
2015-06-06,Russian Oil Billionaire Invests $450 Million in Solar Projects to Aid the Countrys Grid
2015-06-06,Study warns African population will rise sharply. African population will increase to 1.6 billion by 2030 and will double by 2050
2015-06-06,Scientists suspect that poor hospital ventilation may have contributed to the rapid spread of MERS in Korea.
2015-06-06,The eldest son of Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe has been convicted of manslaughter and fined $800
2015-06-06,Thousands of demonstrators marched in the German resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Saturday to protest against a meeting of leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations that starts on Sunday at a nearby luxury hotel
2015-06-06,The US is moving towards restoring full military ties with Egypt and president Abdel Fattah El Sisi
2015-06-06,Saudi Arabia Shoots Down Scud Missile Fired From Yemen
2015-06-06,Hamas member killed in tunnel collapse near Israeli border - Terror group says incident occured during resistance-related activities'; two others moderately injured
2015-06-06,"U.S. Congress Should Have No Part In International Climate Deal, French Foreign Minister Says."
2015-06-05,"Navy halts live fire explosive exercises off Vancouver Island after being alerted to a pod of Orcas, including 3 calves, in vicinity; praised for being responsive"
2015-06-05,The Red Cross has defended its work in Haiti following a devastating earthquake five years ago after a media investigation found it had only built six houses despite raising nearly half a billion dollars in donations.
2015-06-05,Germany sent rocket-propelled grenades to Saudi Arabia to swing 2006 FIFA World Cup vote
2015-06-05,Finnish Customs seize ISIS-looted treasures en route to Russia
2015-06-05,"Trade agreements like TiSA, TPP and TTIP will sideline national laws: Wikileaks | Wikileaks has warned that gov'ts negotiating a far-reaching global service agreement are 'surrendering a large part of their global sovereignty' and exacerbating the social inequality of poorer countries in the process"
2015-06-05,"Mars One admits it has only received 4,227 completed applications, not 200,000"
2015-06-05,Snowden: balance of power has shifted as people defy government surveillance | Whistleblower says profound difference has occurred over past two years after leaking of NSA documents as public demands privacy
2015-06-05,Ontario Bans Conversion Therapy For LGBT Kids
2015-06-05,Israel slams Swiss funding of NGO's exhibit whose members are veteran combatants who testify about the abuses they have seen or taken part in during their military service in the occupied Palestinian territories
2015-06-05,The department that delivers programs for Canada's indigenous people has held back more than $1 billion in promised spending for social services over the last five years.
2015-06-05,"Malala Yousafzai attack: 8 of 10 reportedly convicted were actually released, police say"
2015-06-05,Chinese hackers breach US federal governments personnel office
2015-06-05,"Justice in Pakistan: ""The government is hanging people left, right and centre"""
2015-06-05,"A federal judge has struck down Guam's ban on gay marriage, making it the first U.S. territory to recognize same-sex marriages."
2015-06-05,FIFA Paid Ireland Not to Protest Costly Hand Ball
2015-06-05,"Israel doubles water supplies to Gaza, also to increase water to Palestinian west bank and Jordan"
2015-06-05,"Poll: More than 50% of Israeli youth identify as right-wing, less than 30% willing to condemn attacks against Arabs"
2015-06-05,"2,700-year old tomb of Hebrew prophet, guarded by Assyrian Christians, in danger from ISIS"
2015-06-05,WikiLeaks Publishes Secret TISA Trade Documents
2015-06-05,"Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez becomes first head-of-state to have meeting with Edward Snowden, doing so secretly around the time of her official visit to Russia"
2015-06-05,"Saudis consider Iran - not Israel - their top enemy, study finds"
2015-06-05,"Global warming has not stopped or even slowed in the past 18 years, according to a new US government study that rebuts doubters who have claimed that heating trends have paused"
2015-06-05,"50 Militants Attacked Army Convoy in India, Used US-Made Rocket Launcher, Say Sources"
2015-06-05,"Australian native mammals to be reintroduced to NSW after 100 yrs - Designated national parks will be fenced off and feral animals exterminated to allow Bilbys, Numbats, & Western Barred Bandicoots to flourish"
2015-06-05,Bolivia opens up national parks to oil and gas firms
2015-06-04,"US Official: Over 10,000 ISIS fighters killed in nine months but they have all been replaced."
2015-06-04,"IKEA, the world's biggest furniture retailer, plans to spend 1 billion euros ($1.13 billion) on renewable energy and steps to help poor nations cope with climate change, the latest example of firms upstaging governments in efforts to slow warming."
2015-06-04,Erdogan seeks life sentence against editor for video of Turkey smuggling arms to Syrian rebels
2015-06-04,Fifa corruption: England 'ready to host 2022 World Cup'
2015-06-04,Myanmar passes law to order women to wait three years between births as population control effort
2015-06-04,"Jack Warner goes rogue, says he will release documents and checks detailing FIFA corruption"
2015-06-04,WikiLeaks reveals new trade secrets | Highly sensitive details of the negotiations over the little-known Trades in Services Agreement (TiSA) published by WikiLeaks
2015-06-04,"U.S. President Barack Obama Defends Trans-Pacific Partnership, Suggests China May Join"
2015-06-04,Ukraine's Poroshenko warns of 'full-scale' Russia invasion
2015-06-04,Former Fifa official Chuck Blazer admits accepting bribes for France and South Africa World Cups in New York court
2015-06-04,"Almost a year after eliminating polio, India declared free of maternal and neonatal tetanus"
2015-06-04,India suspends sending workers to Saudi Arabia
2015-06-04,"Pulp & paper giant, April, to stop clearing Indonesia's rainforests 4 yrs earlier than planned - Firm announced it'd halted harvesting of all natural forest as of May 15 & will only use supplies from its own plantations. This moves forward its goal to end rainforest clearance by 2019."
2015-06-04,"Bans on legal highs will drive booming trade underground, drug experts warn - EU agency report says market is growing rapidly, with 2 new substances a week being identified, & is increasingly hard to control"
2015-06-04,"Plutos moons have been tracked closely for the first time, showing that they tumble unpredictably rather than keeping one face fixed on their host planet. Astronomers also observed that Pluto, whose status was downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006, might be better regarded as a binary dwarf"
2015-06-04,"More than 700 schools, from kindergartens to colleges, have shut in response to public fears over what has become the largest outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers) outside Saudi Arabia."
2015-06-04,"Canadians are stealing U.S. Netflix content, says head of largest media provider Bell"
2015-06-04,Italy arrests 44 tied to Rome's mafia garbage king
2015-06-04,Ecuador to Carry out Historic Audit of Chevron's Operations
2015-06-04,"Israel military, contradicting Netanyahu, optimistic about Iran nuclear deal, says ""reduces threat from Iran"""
2015-06-04,"To protest the new mandatory army draft, Lithuanians photograph drafted men crying"
2015-06-04,Air Force bombs ISIS HQ after terrorist posts selfie online
2015-06-04,"UK members of parliament mount legal challenge to surveillance laws, claiming breach of human rights"
2015-06-04,Orange says it plans to terminate contract with brand partner in Israel
2015-06-04,Merkel's New Instagram Account Gets Swamped By Russian Abuse
2015-06-03,Japan lowers voting age from 20 to 18.
2015-06-03,Sepp Blatter resigns. Calls for new election.
2015-06-03,US Officials announce Sepp Blatter under investigation for corruption
2015-06-03,"Malaysian flight 17 downed by missile, says Russian maker of Buk air defence missile system"
2015-06-03,"English test should be mandatory for people wanting citizenship in Australia, says government MP"
2015-06-03,Dairy giant Saputo to refuse milk from farmers who mistreat animals; one of largest dairies in world
2015-06-03,INTERPOL issues red notices for six former FIFA officials
2015-06-03,Obama: World does not believe Israel serious about two-state solution
2015-06-03,"Fracking is facing resistance in the UK, Germany has placed moratorium on it and there's ""no way"" it will take place in France. According to the International Gas Union president, there will be no US-style shale gas revolution in Europe"
2015-06-03,"Edward Snowden: Becoming an 'international fugitive' was worth it, claims NSA whistleblower | American says bringing the activities of global spy agencies to the public's attention has 'been a great experience' that he is 'actually quite grateful for'"
2015-06-03,"CIA sex abuse and torture went beyond Senate report disclosures, detainee says"
2015-06-03,"India's Minister for Earth Sciences: Its not just another unusually hot summer, it is climate change. Let us not fool ourselves that there is no connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing heat wave and the certainty of another failed monsoon."
2015-06-03,"New photos of Kim Jong Un show dictator's weight gain, raise health concerns"
2015-06-03,10 more billionaires join Buffett-Gates Giving Pledge
2015-06-03,Diphtheria Returns To Spain For Lack of Vaccination
2015-06-03,South Korea says it has successfully test-fired two domestically built ballistic missiles that can hit all of North Korea.
2015-06-03,"Russian-backed militants launched a major attack on the town of Marinka west of Donetsk at dawn on Wednesday, in one of the most serious outbreaks of fighting in eastern Ukraine since a ceasefire was supposed to have come into effect there on February 15."
2015-06-03,"I'd consider assisted suicide if I become a burden to my loved ones, says Professor Stephen Hawking"
2015-06-03,"Three doctors of Doctors Without Border and a pilot were killed in a helicopter crash in Nepal, while they were on a relief mission"
2015-06-03,Fully dressed and preserved 350-year-old corpse of French noblewoman found
2015-06-03,"Calls grow for full fossil fuel reckoning. From the International Monetary Fund to doctors, voices calling out the fossil fuel industry over its health costs are becoming louder - and more numerous."
2015-06-03,Odds of Qatar Hosting the World Cup Slashed After Blatter's Resignation
2015-06-03,"Kurds, again, not invited to anti-ISIS conference in Paris, France"
2015-06-03,"Nephew of King Felipe shouting""You shut up, you f***ing chino at theme park after trying to jump queue"
2015-06-03,"Fearing Repeat of Crimea, Baltic States Prepare for 'Hybrid War' With Russia"
2015-06-02,"Fifa corruption: Qatar says investigations are racist, anti-Arab and show 'ugly face' of countries who lost 2022 World Cup bid"
2015-06-02,Homosexuality Decriminalised in Mozambique
2015-06-02,"WikiLeaks announces $100K bounty for the TPP text | WikiLeaks announced an effort to crowd-source a $100,000 reward for the remaining chapters of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, after the organization published three draft chapters of the deal in recent years."
2015-06-02,Meth is now cheaper than a meal at Burger King in much of Asia.
2015-06-02,LSD: Trials underway in UK to see if it cures depression and addiction
2015-06-02,"Scientists Start $150 Billion Program to Cut Clean-Energy Costs. The 10-year plan, known as the Global Apollo Programme to Combat Climate Change, will fund research into renewables, power storage and smart-grid technologies to make them cheaper than fossil fuel"
2015-06-02,Chinese ship sinks with at least 400 on board
2015-06-02,"Charges against Edward Snowden stand, despite telephone surveillance ban"
2015-06-02,"Thanks to Vladimir Putin, Amur tigers are roaring back in Russias Far East"
2015-06-02,"The British security service MI5 shielded and blackmailed child sex abusers involved in a paedophile ring at a notorious Belfast care home, the High Court heard on Monday."
2015-06-02,A Yazidi teenager who was sold to an ISIS fighter has described how she was beaten and gang-raped and forced to recite verses from the Koran on a daily basis in a harrowing account of her nine month ordeal.
2015-06-02,Church of England 'one generation away from extinction' after dramatic loss of followers - UK - News - The Independent
2015-06-02,Brazil becomes 24th country to recognize Armenian Genocide
2015-06-02,Berlin becomes first German city to make rent cap a reality
2015-06-02,Snowden wins prize - invited to Norway
2015-06-02,Australia: Minimum wage increased to $17.29/hour
2015-06-02,Fifa corruption: Sepp Blatter's right-hand man Jerome Valcke 'sent' $10m payment to Jack Warner in letter from the South African FA
2015-06-02,"Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System:In a stunning discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching, researchers...have determined that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist"
2015-06-02,Isis Assassinates Senior Hamas Commander; Threatens to Kill More 'One by One'
2015-06-02,President Erdogan Vows To Quit If Gold Toilets Found in his 400m palace.
2015-06-02,Pirate Bay Co-Founder Fredrik Neij Released From Prison
2015-06-02,"Womans fight against genital mutilation, honor killing gets big boost from Google boss: Ayaan Hirsi Ali won over Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, along with his personal pledge of $100,000, in her fight to put a stop to female genital mutilation and honor killings."
2015-06-02,Russia Threatens to Deploy Nuclear Weapons in Crimea
2015-06-02,Australian MPs allowed to see TPP trade deal text but can't reveal contents for four years
2015-06-02,"10,000 Arabs driven out by Kurdish ethnic cleansing in Syria"
2015-06-01,Nigeria Outlaws Female Genital Mutilation
2015-06-01,"Petition asks US President, Congress, DoD not to bomb Tinian and Pagan islands for military training. The US Navy has plans to bomb these islands as part of a training exercise, obliterating their rare coral ecosystems, wildlife, and important historic artifacts."
2015-06-01,Obama Ordered to Release Guantanamo Force-Feeding Video
2015-06-01,"Erdogan threatens the journalist, who leaked the pictures of weapon delivery to Syria, : ""He will pay a heavy price for this, I will not leave go of him! "" . Journalist replies: ""The person who committed this crime (weapon delivery) will pay a heavy price. We (turkish people) will not let go of him"""
2015-06-01,Ex-Fifa vice president Jack Warner swallows Onion spoof; Football executive uses story from satirical website as basis for defending Fifa against US
2015-06-01,"The Canadian Bar Association, representing over 36,000 lawyers, calls on citizens to protest against Bill C-51, which is a ""threat to the rule of law"""
2015-06-01,Beijing bans smoking in public starting from June 1st.
2015-06-01,Saudi Arabia may face 65C (149 Fahrenheit) temperatures during Ramadan
2015-06-01,Fifa crisis: South Africa 'admits $10m football payout'
2015-06-01,"Scientists hail 'new era' for cancer treatment after 'spectacular' drug trials - The treatment, which harnesses the body's immune system to attack cancerous cells, could replace chemotherapy as the standard treatment for cancer within the next five years, it was suggested."
2015-06-01,"England should boycott the 2018 World Cup because someone needs to take a stand against corruption in Fifa and military aggression by Russia, Andy Burnham, the favourite to be the next Labour leader, has said."
2015-06-01,Nearly 60% of South Koreans view Japan as military threat: joint survey
2015-06-01,A pigeon has been arrested in India on suspicion of spying for Pakistan
2015-06-01,"Lion leaps through car window, killing American tourist in South African park"
2015-06-01,": Iraqi security forces lost 2,300 Humvee armored vehicles when ISIS overran the northern city of Mosul"
2015-06-01,"Qatar World Cup Now In Doubt, Sepp Blatter Re-Election As FIFA President Causes Major Rifts"
2015-06-01,Brussels: 30 Muslim girls denied entry to school for wearing long skirts.
2015-06-01,Tim Berners-Lee urges Britain to fight 'snooper's charter' | Inventor of world wide web also advised developing world to just say no to Facebooks Internet.org scheme
2015-06-01,Stone throwers could be jailed for 10 years under new Israeli bill
2015-06-01,"Spain to Permanently Host 2,500 US Troops at Moron Air Base"
2015-06-01,NSA says it will keep phone records even if surveillance program ends
2015-06-01,Russia is using fake satellite images to blame Ukraine for the downing of MH17 according to a forensic study by an investigative website
2015-06-01,"Under Cover Of Conflict, Hamas Killed Palestinians, Amnesty Alleges"
2015-06-01,"Japan Pension System Hacked, 1.25 Million Cases of Personal Data Leaked"
2015-06-01,Canada's justice minister quits in blow to PM Harper
2015-05-31,"Boy survives being trapped underwater for 42 minutes. Doctors used a technique called extracorporeal membrane oxygenation to extract oxygen-deprived blood, warm it up and add oxygen, before pumping it back in."
2015-05-31,Kazakhstan city's local council accidentally puts thousands of marijuana plants along city flowerbed
2015-05-31,"India heat wave kills more than 2,100"
2015-05-31,Jewish sect's ban on women drivers is 'completely unacceptable in modern Britain' says Education Secretary Nicky Morgan
2015-05-31,A team of U.S. scientists involved a project backed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has conducted (deep) exploration of the ocean floor off the coast of Puerto Rico and discovered previously unknown marine creatures.
2015-05-31,"French Constitutional Court rules unconstituional to cut water from people unable to pay, making it effectively unconstitutional to block water access to anyone"
2015-05-31,"6,000 aboriginal children died in 'cultural genocide' in Canadian residential school system, officials say"
2015-05-31,UK banks launch Fifa investigation into whether they were used for corrupt payments
2015-05-31,Stephen Hawking: money not there for students with my kind of condition
2015-05-31,"A deadly virus with no known cure  Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS  has infected 13 people in South Korea since mid-May. The fast spread of the disease, from the first case confirmed on May 20 to more than a dozen by Saturday, is prompting criticism of health officials"
2015-05-31,Seoul Police ban upcoming Korean LGBT Pride Parade
2015-05-31,Women barred from voting in elections in parts of Pakistan
2015-05-31,"ISIS militants complain of Saudi favoritism in suicide missions: Saudi friends, family members favored on suicide waiting lists letting others to get killed in battle - a less noble way to die."
2015-05-31,U.N. Report Asserts Encryption As A Human Right In The Digital Age
2015-05-31,Internationally-renowned scientist and biologist Ameenah Gurib-Fakim becomes Mauritius' first female President
2015-05-31,India afraid Islamic State may get access to Pakistans nuclear arms
2015-05-31,The sudden deaths of tens of thousands of endangered antelopes in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan over the past two weeks have left scientists scrambling for answers and conservationists worried about the animal's future
2015-05-31,"ISIS threatens more attacks against Shiites in Saudi Arabia; ISIS ordered its soldiers everywhere to kill the enemies of religion, especially the Shiites"
2015-05-31,Child Sex Abuse Claims Shake UN as Revelations Continue
2015-05-31,Isis Kidnaps Another 500 Children to Use Them for 'Suicide Attacks'
2015-05-31,"The French branch of the Red Cross could be facing a huge fine and compensation payout after falling foul of the countrys strict rules on working hours: some 3,800 violations of working hours regulations, involving 480 employees at its Paris headquarters."
2015-05-31,Greeks desert banks as country battles crisis
2015-05-31,"Irish Media, Fearing Lawsuits, Steers Clear of a Billionaire"
2015-05-31,China rejects US criticism of sea reclamations
2015-05-31,MP is caught watching porn on his phone during parliamentary debate... and even shares it with his colleagues so they can view it over his shoulder in Brazil
2015-05-30,FIFA president Sepp Blatter re-elected despite corruption scandal after opponent concedes.
2015-05-30,Paris to remove close to a million love locks left by romantic couples on Pont de Arts bridge
2015-05-30,7.8 magnitude earthquake shakes buildings in Tokyo
2015-05-30,"Germany Shines Light on Rape by Troops Who Beat Nazis - New research by a German academic alleges that rape by U.S., British, French and Canadian forces was more commonplace than previously believed."
2015-05-30,ISIS committed five million human right abuses in five months
2015-05-30,Two Saudi young men killed while stopping an ISIS suicide bomber from killing hundreds in Shia Mosque
2015-05-30,Fifa corruption: Sepp Blatter blasts US authorities over investigation
2015-05-30,UNESCO heritage experts decide not to list Great Barrier Reef as 'in danger'
2015-05-30,Germany passes Japan to have world's lowest birth rate - study
2015-05-30,US demands immediate halt to South China Sea reclamations
2015-05-30,Beijings About to Roll Out Its Harshest Smoking Ban Ever: Smoking will be banned everywhere from the Great Wall to Beijings bars starting June 1
2015-05-30,"Prince Ali after FIFA vote: ""I want to thank in particular all of those who were brave enough to support me"""
2015-05-30,US sent live anthrax to Australia in military shipment
2015-05-30,ISIS Sets Its Sights on Saudi Arabia
2015-05-30,"A Syrian Christian fighter has beheaded an Islamic State group (IS) militant to avenge people ""executed"" by the jihadists in northeastern Syria"
2015-05-30,Bill Nye's LightSail has lost contact with Earth
2015-05-30,Israel could join ISIS in a UN list of groups and states that harm children.
2015-05-30,"Majority of Irish people want to remain in EU, even if UK leaves"
2015-05-30,"Pakistan: Gunmen storm two bus near Mastung, butcher 19 passengers"
2015-05-30,Ecuador seizes huge illegal shark fin haul
2015-05-30,U.S. Bell helicopters to be assembled in Russia despite sanctions
2015-05-30,Russia bans 89 European politicians from entering the country
2015-05-30,US orders anthrax review after more live shipments discovered
2015-05-30,"IRS Criminal Investigation Chief on FIFA: ""I'm fairly confident that we will have another round of indictments."""
2015-05-30,Ukraine appoints Georgia ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili governor of Odessa
2015-05-29,"Video footage showing trucks belonging to Turkey's intelligence service carrying weapons en route to Jihadists in Syria were published Friday in a Turkish daily.The trucks were carrying a total of 1000 mortar shells, 80000 rounds of ammunition for heavy weapons and hundreds of grenade launchers"
2015-05-29,UN says encryption necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom
2015-05-29,The US removes Cuba from terror list
2015-05-29,"Solid gold bongs used by kings 2,400 years ago are dug up in Russia"
2015-05-29,Number of hungry people worldwide drops below 800 million for the first time since the UN started counting
2015-05-29,"Alberta creationist discovers rare fish fossils in basement dig - Paleontologist estimates fossils to be 60 million years old, but discoverer says it's more like 4,500 years"
2015-05-29,China is building sand islands in South China Sea in effort to claim hundreds of miles of sea from its shores creating tension in the region
2015-05-29,"New HIV Study Was So Dramatic, It Had To Be Stopped Early - New research has global implications for the way HIV-positive people receive treatment."
2015-05-29,ISIS destroys famous lion god statue at Syrian city of Palmyra
2015-05-29,"Bangladeshi blogger named on hitlist warned: 'You will be next' -- Ananya Azad is ""a writer critical of intolerance and religious fundamentalism, a career that has landed him on a hitlist containing the names of 84 atheist bloggers"""
2015-05-29,"WikiLeaks Releases 500K U.S. Cables from 1978 on Iran, Sandinistas, Afghanistan, Israel & More"
2015-05-29,US to Russia: Fifa corruption inquiry has nothing to do with you
2015-05-29,"Turkish daily probed over scoop on Syria-bound intelligence (MIT) trucks. The newspaper revealed the banned photographs of arms, which were claimed to be humanitarian aid to Turkmens, transported to Syria."
2015-05-29,German party exempts Muslim students from requirement to visit concentration camps
2015-05-29,"Britain's Secret Terror Deals: 'Truly disturbing' BBC Panorama allegations of British state colluding with terrorists must be fully investigated, says Amnesty International"
2015-05-29,"Swedish fathers to get third month of paid paternity leave:Country already offers 16-month parental leave which can be taken by either mothers or fathers, with two months set aside for dads"
2015-05-29,The United Arab Emirates's oil and gas supplies expected to dry up within 50 years. They are diversifying the economy with a focus on space research and aim to reach Mars by 2021.
2015-05-29,Erdoan publicly targets a Turkish journalist over Twitter post
2015-05-29,"Hamas forces in the Gaza Strip committed serious human rights abuses including abductions, torture and extra-judicial killings of Palestinian civilians, Amnesty International report says: The report says no-one had been brought to account for the abuses, suggesting they were officially sanctioned."
2015-05-29,"China, Russia vow to boost ties by linking development initiatives: Leaders agreed to boost strategic coordination and cooperation, and to link China's Silk Road Economic Belt with the development of the Eurasian Economic Union"
2015-05-29,Fifa bomb threat: Swiss authorities confirm a bomb threat has been made at the Fifa congress
2015-05-29,United Nations Official Pushing to Include Israel Defence Forces on Terror Blacklist
2015-05-29,"Suicide bomber, two people killed outside a Shi'ite Mosque in Saudi - witnesses. Three people were killed on Friday when a suicide bomber tried to enter a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, witnesses said, the second attack of its kind in a week."
2015-05-29,"Alleged Ukrainian nazi war criminal Vladimir Katriuk, wanted by Russia and Jewish groups but sheltered by Canada dies in Quebec"
2015-05-29,Female Jihadis In Syria Find Themselves Unable To Return To Their Home Countries
2015-05-28,Nike becomes suspected player in alleged $150 million FIFA bribery scandal
2015-05-28,Visa threatens to ditch FIFA as sponsor
2015-05-28,"Russia's army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week. Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed"
2015-05-28,"New Evidence Shows Police Did Massacre 42 in Michoacan, Mexico"
2015-05-28,Vladimir Putin suggests FIFA probe is a U.S. plot to take 2018 World Cup away from Russia
2015-05-28,"Its so hot in India right now the roads are literally melting: At least 1,100 dead in month-long heatwave"
2015-05-28,Cuban Life Expectancy Among the Highest in World at 78.45 Years
2015-05-28,U.S.-trained commander of Tajikistan's elite police force has defected to Islamic State
2015-05-28,"German court rules against Yemeni men whose innocent relatives were killed in a US drone strike, saying Germany had ""no obligation"" to stop US from launching attacks at German base"
2015-05-28,"Ireland worse than pagans for legalising gay marriage, says senior cardinal"
2015-05-28,U.S. IRS tax data hack traced to Russia.
2015-05-28,Norway's sovereign wealth fund accused of 'pretend divestment' - Worlds richest sovereign wealth fund has sunk more money into coal just 3 months after a high-profile pledge to dump fossil fuels as part of its commitment to responsible investing
2015-05-28,"Israel-Texas researchers win top desalination award - Winners of USAID Desal Prize will pay forward their $125,000 prize money and expertise to build water plant in Jordan"
2015-05-28,Moldova president: We prefer Europe to Russia
2015-05-28,"""Ecuador seized around 200,000 shark fins and arrested three suspected traffickers at the country's main fishing port,the government said Wednesday [27 May 2015]. Interior Minister Jose Serrano announced the seizure on Twitter, posting pictures of rows, piles and bags of the dark-colored shark fins"""
2015-05-28,Sepp Blatter holds emergency Fifa meeting
2015-05-28,Dutch ok partial ban on Islamic veils: The Dutch cabinet has approved a proposal for a partial ban on face-covering Islamic veils on public transport and in public areas such as schools and hospitals.
2015-05-28,Russia Sees U.S. Conspiracy Against World Cup Plans in FIFA Scandal
2015-05-28,Pentagon Accidentally Sends Live Anthrax to Nine States And South Korea
2015-05-28,Nigerian Army dismisses 200 soldiers for cowardice
2015-05-28,Mafia boss Pasquale Scotti arrested in Brazil after 31 years on the run. Former leader of Camorra syndicate in Italy who is wanted for more than two dozen murders detained by police while taking his children to school in Recife.
2015-05-28,Russia would be able to occupy Baltics in two days- Czech general
2015-05-28,'New species' of ancient human found
2015-05-28,Kurds liberate Christian villages from Islamic State in Syrian Kurdistan
2015-05-28,Like an ocean liner without lifeboats: HSBCs dire warning for global economy
2015-05-27,"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says the NSA whistleblower gave up his own life . . . to help the rest of us""."
2015-05-27,FIFA Officials Arrested on Corruption Charges; Face Extradition to U.S.
2015-05-27,Scottish Government: creationism banned from science class
2015-05-27,UK's biggest male rape charity Survivors UK has state funding slashed to zero despite 120% rise in men reporting sexual violence and seeking help
2015-05-27,Fifa 'took bribes for 2010 World Cup'
2015-05-27,Vatican says Ireland gay marriage vote is 'defeat for humanity.'
2015-05-27,A court in eastern China fined a manufacturer of weed killer 75 million yuan and imprisoned employees of the company and its contractors for discharging wastewater that severely polluted streams.
2015-05-27,Israel asking U.S. for 50% increase in next defense assistance package
2015-05-27,UK porn filters could be illegal under EU ruling
2015-05-27,Parliament in Greenland unanimously approves same-sex marriage
2015-05-27,"Psychedelic drugs should be legally reclassified, medical uses explored  academics  Psychedelic drugs such as magic mushrooms and LSD should be legally reclassified so researchers can investigate their potential medical uses"
2015-05-27,"""1,433 men  including 76 politicians, 43 music stars and 135 TV, film or radio entertainers  have been identified by abuse survivors."""
2015-05-27,"Erdogan's palace declared illegal by Turkish court: The Turkish Supreme Court has ruled that the construction of an 1,100-room palace by President Erdogan was illegal. The palace was constructed on protected land."
2015-05-27,U.N. Reports About 200 Million Fewer Hungry People Today Than in 1990
2015-05-27,"U.S. Accuses Soccer Officials of Decades of Rampant, Systemic and Deep-Rooted Corruption"
2015-05-27,Elons SpaceX Gets Certified For National Security Launches
2015-05-27,"Hamas used its 2014 Gaza war with Israel to settle scores with rival Palestinians, executing at least 23 and arresting and torturing dozens of others in possible war crimes, Amnesty International said Wednesday."
2015-05-27,AdBlock Plus secures another court victory in Germany
2015-05-27,Scientists are planning to ship ice to the Antarctic. They're afraid that mountain glaciers around the world are melting as a result of climate change and want to store samples of ice in a new vault in the coldest place on Earth.
2015-05-27,ISIS most dangerous sniper in Ramadi killed by Iraqi police
2015-05-27,Hamas Is Accused of Killing and Torturing Palestinians
2015-05-27,Over 70% of Everest glacier may be lost by 2100
2015-05-27,"Rocket sirens sound in southern Israel, at least one confirmed to not be a false alarm"
2015-05-27,"The world is sinking under too much debt and an ageing global population means countries' debt piles are in danger of growing out of control, the European chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management has warned."
2015-05-27,"Iraqi Militia forces capture 100's of ISIS fighters in Anbar, Ramadi after strategic trap (MIC)"
2015-05-26,"Wikipedia edits from inside Parliament removing scandals from MPs' pages, investigation finds."
2015-05-26,Ecstasy may soon be a treatment for social anxiety among autistic adults.
2015-05-26,Iran launches anti-Isis cartoon competition 'to expose true nature of Islamic State'
2015-05-26,ISIS kidnaps North Korean couple living in Libya
2015-05-26,Thousands of Mexico City taxi drivers snarled traffic in the mega-capital on Monday in a protest demanding that the government ban US ride-sharing service Uber
2015-05-26,"Huge and growing debt  and not enough young working people to pay it down  is threatening to crush the global economy, a Goldman Sachs executive is warning."
2015-05-26,"A Turkish MIT (Intelligence Agency) Operative fighting alongside ISIS captured in Mosul, Iraq by Peshmerga fighters."
2015-05-26,"If your country were responsible for only 0.05 percent of the world's climate-changing emissions, you might not think it worth making a plan to curb that pollution - especially when you still need to get electricity to much of your population. But the Gambian government thinks otherwise"
2015-05-26,"UN Officials Didn't Follow Up On Sex Abuse Claims For Months, But Whistleblower Was Punished"
2015-05-26,India rescues children from traffickers exploiting Nepal earthquake aftermath.
2015-05-26,"Poachers have killed nearly half of Mozambique's elephants for their ivory in the past five years, the US based Wildlife Conservation Society said Tuesday. A Mozambique gov't-backed survey showed a dramatic 48% decline in elephant numbers from just over 20,000 to an estimated 10,300."
2015-05-26,Irish Vote for Same Sex Marriage Blacked Out in Cuba
2015-05-26,"A volcano atop one of the Galapagos Islands has erupted for the first time in 33 years, threatening a fragile ecosystem that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution"
2015-05-26,India heatwave death toll reaches 800
2015-05-26,"Release of Orangutan Person from Zoo this Week Would be Unprecedented Worldwide - Court in Argentina decides whether to release Sandra, 29, from the Buenos Aires Zoo, after she receives nonhuman person status"
2015-05-26,Warning issued after New Zealand's Maui dolphin numbers drop below 50
2015-05-26,Two oil companies announced Monday the temporary shuttering of their Canadian oil sands mines and the evacuation of hundreds of staff as a massive forest fire creeped close
2015-05-26,Beheaded Corpses Said to be Lining Streets of Ancient Syrian City Seized by Islamic State
2015-05-26,"Turkey's ruling AK Party is seen losing its parliamentary majority in a June 7 election and may have to form a coalition government, according to the results of a survey by pollster SONAR seen by Reuters on Monday."
2015-05-26,Syrian Air Force kills more than 140 ISIS members in air raid on base in IS capital of Raqqa
2015-05-26,"IT chief at Bangladesh Coca-Cola unit arrested as Islamic State suspect: An IT manager at a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) was one of two men arrested in Bangladesh on suspicion of planning to fight for Islamic State in Syria, police and company sources said on Monday."
2015-05-26,South African man creates petition to EU to allow Whites to return to Europe
2015-05-26,New Zealand troops to remain in Iraq despite Islamic State advance
2015-05-26,Australian Parliament to vote on Same-Sex Marriage
2015-05-26,"Hezbollah seizes 2 hills (Qubaa and Naqar) from Al Qaeda in Syrias Quneitra Governorate, right on Israels doorstep, and killed dozens of Al Qaeda fighters"
2015-05-25,EU dropped plans for safer pesticides because of TTIP and pressure from US
2015-05-25,Man who forced French supermarkets to donate food wants to take law global
2015-05-25,"After Ireland's citizens voted overwhelmingly in favor of marriage equality in a historic referendum, members of Germany's Green party have called for the recognition of same-sex marriage in Germany as well"
2015-05-25,"One-third of endangered saiga antelope mysteriously die off in a few days, up to 85,000 dead"
2015-05-25,"David Cameron warned he faces backbench rebellion over plans to scrap Human Rights Act - He will face ministerial resignations and a large backbench rebellion if he pushes ahead with plans to dilute Britains obligations under the Convention on Human Rights, senior Conservatives have warned."
2015-05-25,Top Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani: US didnt do damn thing against IS in Ramadi and Only Iran is confronting Islamic State
2015-05-25,"Filmed on Skype... the chilling exchange between reporter posing as a child and Islamic State fighter from London who told her: 'When I pick you up, I am going to be picking you up as my wife'"
2015-05-25,Egypt says it has discovered 521 tunnels into Gaza Strip
2015-05-25,"Russias Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin publicly threatened EU: ""Tanks do not need visas"""
2015-05-25,"Leading Sunni Muslim body Al-Azhar said Sunday the world must unite in a ""battle of all humanity"" to prevent the Islamic State group from destroying Syria's ancient city of Palmyra"
2015-05-25,Russia Plans to Use Prison Labor for 2018 World Cup
2015-05-25,"BP would need to bring equipment from Texas to contain South Australia oil spill | Internal documents show BP would have to transport a containment response system 14,000km in the event of a spill in the Great Australian Bight"
2015-05-25,Chinese officials have been sent on prison tours visiting inmates including former colleagues as a warning against corruption.
2015-05-25,Newcomer Andrzej Duda wins presidental election in Poland
2015-05-25,"New method may bring fusion power out of ""always 50 years away"" rut, abandons donut shape/tokamak reactor"
2015-05-25,Erdoan blasts New York Times: Who are you? Know your place
2015-05-25,"Over 500 dead across India as heat wave sets in, Telangana's Khammam sizzles at 48 degrees"
2015-05-25,Christians Join Forces With Muslim Group Hezbollah to Fight ISIS in Lebanon
2015-05-25,"Spanish regional elections see a surge in left-wing parties in the widest political landscape since Franco's death. It now appears that Madrid and Barcelona, Spain's two largest cities, ""will be driven by the priorities of anti-establishment parties with roots in Spains indignado movement."""
2015-05-25,"Foreign taxpayers named by Switzerland | Switzerland has begun online publication of names of foreigners and foreign firms wanted in tax probes by their countries of origin, including Germany. American citizens are identified only by their initials."
2015-05-25,"Turtle gets a 3-D printed titanium jaw, now looks like a supervillain"
2015-05-25,France bans supermarkets from throwing away or destroying edible food.
2015-05-25,Malaysian police say 139 suspected migrant grave sites found along the Thai border
2015-05-25,"Young Pakistani men flee UK and flood into Ireland: Ten-fold surge in asylum applications from Pakistani nationals, mainly single males, has led to urgent talks between the immigration authorities here and the UK Home Office."
2015-05-25,U.S. Defense Secretary Blames Iraqi Forces for ISIS Victory in Ramadi
2015-05-24,Qatar refuses to let Nepalese workers return to attend funerals after quake
2015-05-24,Cuban ebola team nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
2015-05-24,"Isis burns woman alive for refusing to engage in 'extreme' sex act, UN says"
2015-05-24,Visa and Coca-Cola Respond To Human Rights Concerns About Qatar World Cup
2015-05-24,Li Hejun -- the Chinese billionaire who supposedly lost $15 billion in an hour -- actually bet on his company's stock failing. He short-sold more than 800 million shares just days before the stock plummeted.
2015-05-24,Saudi King Salman vows to 'wipe out' Islamic State after mosque attack
2015-05-24,Putin bans all 'undesirable' NGOs and sparks international outcry
2015-05-24,"Solar power's exponential growth: solar, battery developments soon to become the new black gold"
2015-05-24,Ukraine crisis: Rebel commander Alexei Mozgovoi 'killed' - BBC News
2015-05-24,"Mass graves believed to contain bodies of hundreds of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh have been found in Malaysia, media reported said on Sunday. Police discovered 30 large graves containing the remains of hundreds of people in two places in the northern state of Perlis, which borders Thailand"
2015-05-24,"Defense Secretary Ash Carter: Iraqis showed ""no will to fight"" in Ramadi"
2015-05-24,Norway Creates 'Bumblebee Highway'
2015-05-24,"The Australian government is considering introducing a ""jihadi watch"" programme in schools, which would keep tabs on pupils whose behaviour suggests they might have been radicalised"
2015-05-24,Australia: Liberal MP calls for referendum on same-sex marriage after Ireland vote
2015-05-24,"Choose Deutsche Telekom for all your bargain spying needs | Cable company helped NSA spy on Vienna for a decade, says Austrian MP"
2015-05-24,CIA shuts down program using spy satellites to track climate change
2015-05-24,"Six Months Later, Pentagon Admits (Maybe) We Killed Some Kids in Syria: While notable for admitting the possibility it killed two young children, admission called ""too little, too late"" by expert who says deathtoll of innocent people far exceeds Pentagon statement"
2015-05-24,British suicide bomber is fifth former pupil of same school to die waging Jihad
2015-05-24,Giant Sinkholes Continue to Grow and Multiply in Russian City
2015-05-24,A Somali member of parliament has been shot dead in Mogadishu in an attack by suspected Islamist militants
2015-05-24,Church in Ireland needs 'reality check' after gay marriage vote
2015-05-24,"Shiite militia, Iraqi army launch counteroffensive at Ramadi"
2015-05-24,Greece 'cannot afford IMF repayment' in June - minister
2015-05-24,China prepares to launch cutting-edge national carbon market to fight climate change
2015-05-24,PM: Greece will not accept 'humiliating' bailout terms
2015-05-23,Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing in Saudi Arabia's eastern province that killed over 20 people while they prayed at a local mosque. The bombing marks the first time IS has struck inside Saudi Arabia.
2015-05-23,"Ireland Says Yes: Early Results Indicate Win for Equal Marriage - Its a historical day for Ireland, Minister for Health Leo Varadkar told RT, adding that if any constituencies voted No, it would only be a handful."
2015-05-23,"Russia Threatens To Ban Facebook, Google And Twitter Unless Companies Turn Over User Data"
2015-05-23,"3,000 children enslaved in Britain after being trafficked from Vietnam"
2015-05-23,"Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed Nasty. ""rapidly aging star whose behavior has never been seen before """
2015-05-23,Norway overtakes Russia as western Europe's top gas supplier
2015-05-23,"Iran has entered the fight to retake a major Iraqi oil refinery from Islamic State militants, contributing small numbers of troops, including some operating artillery and other heavy weapons in support of advancing Iraqi ground forces"
2015-05-23,Four jailed for life after insulting UAE on Twitter
2015-05-23,UN nuclear talks fail after USA blocks plans that would make the Middle East a nuclear-free zone
2015-05-23,"Apple and Google Just Attended a Confidential Spy Summit in a Remote English Mansion | The three-day conference included current or former spy chiefs from seven countries, including the US and UK, plus academics and journalists to discuss government surveillance in the aftermath of Snowdens leaks"
2015-05-23,Bank of England secretly researching the financial shocks that could hit Britain if there is a vote to leave the EU: News of undercover project emerges after Bank staff accidentally email details to the Guardian including PR notes on how to deny its existence
2015-05-23,Dutch immigrant children take to street demanding 'white' classmates to aid integration
2015-05-23,India's Poor cannot pay for 150 years of pollution by West says india's coal minister as India ramps up coal production to reach its target of 1 Billion ton of coal by 2020
2015-05-23,Dutch cabinet approves partial ban on Islamic veil in public areas
2015-05-23,A Chinese App That Steals Wifi Passwords Just Raised $50 Million
2015-05-23,"New Zealand and its spying partners exploited weaknesses in one of the world's most popular mobile browsers and planned to hack into smartphones, according to a Top Secret document leaked this week."
2015-05-23,"Venezuelan young people choose ""parallel economy""(drug trafficking, smuggling) over higher education"
2015-05-23,The watchdog that would have scrutinised the end of the Human Rights Act in the UK just got quietly scrapped
2015-05-23,"Hezbollah shows off its tunnels, claims it is prepared for war with Israel"
2015-05-23,Bermuda Bans Monsanto's Glyphosate
2015-05-23,Dubais first solar-power and zero waste hotel consisting of 170 rooms will open doors in the first half of 2017 and will have solar buses to transport guests to different locations in the emirate.
2015-05-23,"Endangered species found in UK raid - Haul of taxidermy animals including a tigers head, monkey skulls, reptiles & stuffed birds of prey seized. The arrival from the US of a 'controlled' chameleon preserved in formaldehyde set off the raid."
2015-05-23,China's richest man didn't lose $15 billion in one hour as originally reported--he actually had a huge short position in his company's shares
2015-05-23,Oil companies are subsidized at 10 million a minute.
2015-05-23,NSA bulk phone records collection to end despite USA Freedom Act failure
2015-05-22,France to force big supermarkets to give away unsold food to charity
2015-05-22,"No more bad vision, bionic optics will help humans see 3x better than 20/20 vision"
2015-05-22,"EU moves to regulate hormone-damaging chemicals linked to cancer and male infertility were shelved following pressure from US trade officials over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade deal, newly released documents show."
2015-05-22,"Scientists on Thursday unveiled the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken of the world's ocean plankton, the tiny organisms that serve as food for marine creatures such as the blue whale, but also provide half the oxygen we breathe."
2015-05-22,This palm oil company just bulldozed a rainforest
2015-05-22,Obama: US must criticize Israel if it is to defend it
2015-05-22,Nigerian Muslims Set Court Ablaze Over 'Insult' to Muhammad
2015-05-22,The Large Hadron Collider smashes energy record with test collisions - 13 TeV is a new regime - nobody's been here before - The best thing that could possibly happen is that we find something that nobody has predicted at all
2015-05-22,Saudi Arabia Wants to Head UN Human Rights Council; Sparks Uproar
2015-05-22,"Saudileaks: Yemeni Group Hacks Saudi Gov't, Releases Thousands of Top Secret Documents"
2015-05-22,The Eiffel Tower closed to the public Friday as workers protested a rise in aggressive pickpockets around the Paris landmark that attracts thousands of visitors daily.
2015-05-22,Efficiency record for black silicon solar cells jumps to 22.1 percent; works exceptionally well on cloudy days
2015-05-22,"CIA torture report wont be released to public, judge rules."
2015-05-22,"Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister: ""This land is ours. All of it is ours."""
2015-05-22,"A man has been able to control a robotic limb with a mind-reading chip implanted in his brain, allowing him to sip a drink unaided for the first time in 10 years."
2015-05-22,"Two men captured by Ukrainian troops on Saturday have confessed to being members of the Russian armed forces, a report by European mediators says."
2015-05-22,"Ukraine's traffic police director steps down after an investigation reveals monthly salary of 1,000 euros - yet his family enjoys Porches worth $400,000"
2015-05-22,Voting in the Irish same-sex marriage referendum has begun
2015-05-22,Suicide bomber attacks Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia
2015-05-22,"Saudi oil minister sees eventual end of fossil fuels. ""In Saudi Arabia, we recognize that eventually, one of these days, we are not going to need fossil fuels, I don't know when, in 2040, 2050... so we have embarked on a program to develop solar energy,"""
2015-05-22,"UK Home Secretary to reveal plans requiring broadcasting regulator to pre-approve content for television, leaked memo reveals"
2015-05-22,Forced Sex Camps Train Girls For Child Marriage In Zambia And Mozambique
2015-05-22,"Top German spy: we're ""dependent"" on the NSA"
2015-05-22,"Gaza economy 'on verge of collapse', with world's highest unemployment - World Bank report says Israeli blockades, war and poor governance have left 43% of people out of work & the strip facing dangerous financial crisis"
2015-05-22,U.S General: Many Iraqis believe Washington aiding ISIS
2015-05-21,Brazil blogger known for reporting on corruption found decapitated
2015-05-21,China's richest man lost $15 billion in one hour
2015-05-21,India wants to know where the $100 billion climate change fund is
2015-05-21,Hundreds of tech companies line up to oppose TPP trade agreement
2015-05-21,U.S. and Cuba Nearing Deal to Fully Restore Diplomatic Ties
2015-05-21,NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones
2015-05-21,U.S. and Israel have worst inequality in the developed world
2015-05-21,Australia to Revoke Citizenship of Australian-Born Jihadis
2015-05-21,"ISIS forces overrun ancient city of Palmyra 2 days after being driven out. City has ""completely fallen""."
2015-05-21,"Sophisticated Tool Kit Predates Humans: The earliest known stone toolkit could write a whole new chapter in the book of human evolution, especially since the tools were not even made by our genus."
2015-05-21,Iran to UN: Israeli defense minister threatened to nuke us
2015-05-21,Qatar World Cup: Campaign To Boycott The 2022 World Cup Underway
2015-05-21,Leaked Shell Oil documents acknowledge Global Warming is at Twice the International Threshold
2015-05-21,Merkel- can't imagine Russia back in G8 until common values met
2015-05-21,Ukraine to honor groups that killed Jews in World War II - World
2015-05-21,"Saudi shells hit Yemen aid office, killing 5 refugees: local official"
2015-05-21,"Net migration to UK reaches 318,000"
2015-05-21,Mother seeks a groom for her son in India's first gay marriage advert
2015-05-21,"Photographs showing a North Korean missile launched from a submarine were manipulated by state propagandists and the country may be years away from developing such technology, analysts and a top U.S. military official said on Tuesday."
2015-05-21,"Pakistan opens 100MW solar plant, govt plans clean energy drive. Growing economic links with China are helping Pakistan tap into its enormous solar energy potential"
2015-05-21,China warns U.S. surveillance plane near man made islands
2015-05-21,Revealed: BP's close ties with the UK government | Documents show the extent of BPs influence on government policy and how their intimate relationship is at odds with UK commitments to reduce carbon emissions
2015-05-21,More than half of Syrias territory is now controlled by ISIS after its westwards advance into the ancient city of Palmyra
2015-05-21,Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded the timely repayment of all debts owed to it by Ukraine while criticising the latter's move to impose moratorium on state debt repayment.
2015-05-21,"Wages paid to illegal immigrants will be confiscated by the police, says David Cameron"
2015-05-20,Banks fined $5.7bn over foreign exchange rigging - live updates | Regulators are announcing penalties against some of the worlds biggest banks for their role in manipulating the foreign exchange markets.
2015-05-20,U.S. Central Intelligence Agency leaked propaganda material to the producers of 'Zero Dark Thirty' to build a positive spin on torture programmes
2015-05-20,Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered that all Afghan children in Iran be permitted schooling regardless of their residency status. This decision impacts hundreds of thousands of children and can help improve the precarious status of the approximately 3 million Afghans in Iran.
2015-05-20,"Obama is creating a 1,500-mile butterfly corridor to help Monarchs get from Mexico to Minnesota"
2015-05-20,"Japanese air bag manufacturer Takata Corp. will announce it is declaring an estimated 33.8 million vehicles defective, a move that is expected to lead to the largest auto recall in U.S. history"
2015-05-20,New Australian laws could criminalise the teaching of encryption
2015-05-20,"1,400 suspects in politician and celebrity child sex abuse inquiry - Officer leading Operation Hydrant inquiry says out of 1,433 alleged offenders 76 were politicians, 43 were from music industry and 135 were from TV, film or radio."
2015-05-20,Fossil Fuel Subsidies Cost $5 Trillion Annually and Worsen Pollution: The International Monetary Fund notes that subsides for burning fossil fuels enrich the wealthy and make air pollution worse
2015-05-20,Egypt Court Bans Pornography
2015-05-20,"China illegally fishing off coast of west Africa, Greenpeace study reveals: Number of Chinese fishing boats operating in Africa soared from 13 in 1985 to 462 in 2013, say environmental group, with ships taking advantage of weak enforcement and supervision"
2015-05-20,Grandson of Hamas Founder Says He Faces Certain Death if Canada Deports Him Back to the West Bank | VICE News
2015-05-20,U.S. charges six Chinese nationals with economic espionage
2015-05-20,Barclays fined 1.5bn over forex failings. The largest financial penalty ever imposed by the FCA
2015-05-20,Israeli prime minister calls off West Bank bus segregation
2015-05-20,Authorities seize 3.7 tonnes of illegal ivory headed for Vietnam
2015-05-20,"The 'Shocking' Cost of Letting Companies Pollute for Free. This year, the report estimates, fossil fuels are being subsidized to the tune of $5.3 trillion, or 6.5 percent of global gross domestic product."
2015-05-20,"Poll shows a third of Germans feel deceived by Merkel in spy row | One in three Germans feels deceived by Chancellor Angela Merkel regarding a row over spying on Germans, but almost half are not very interested in the whole affair, a poll showed."
2015-05-20,Irish bakery fined 500 after refusing to bake pro-gay cake
2015-05-20,Iran says it can no longer afford Ahmadinejad's cash handouts
2015-05-20,Facebook criticised for creating 'two tier internet' with Internet.org programme
2015-05-20,"After Mars, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) aims for Venus probe in 2-3 years | The Asian Age"
2015-05-20,Gaza police arrest and assault Al Jazeera journalist
2015-05-20,"Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday Tehran would not accept ""unreasonable demands"" by world powers during negotiations over its disputed nuclear programme, and ruled out letting inspectors interview its atomic scientists."
2015-05-20,Five banks to pay fines totalling $5.7bn over foreign exchange rate manipulation
2015-05-20,"Italy's 'eternally unfinished' highway enters final stretch - 50 years after construction began - Back in 1966, Lunar 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a controlled landing on the Moon, England won the World Cup, and Italy opened the first section of the Salerno to Reggio Calabria motorway"
2015-05-19,World Cup sponsors urged to bail over 'horrific' treatment of workers in Qatar
2015-05-19,ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se have been seized
2015-05-19,A US appeals court has ruled that YouTube should be allowed to show the uploaded film 'Innocence of Muslims' that sparked outrage in the Arab world in 2012.
2015-05-19,Child abuser sentence reduced because 6 year old victim had been already abused before
2015-05-19,"A Turkish woman who has been taking part in a talent show on national TV has been shot in the head while rehearsing at her home in Diyarbakir, a conservative region in south-east Turkey. Ms Kaya had reportedly received death threats for singing on the show, Sesi Cok Guzel."
2015-05-19,'Home-brewed morphine' made possible - Scientists have figured out how to brew morphine using the same kit used to make beer at home. They have genetically modified yeast to perform the complicated chemistry needed to convert sugar to morphine.
2015-05-19,"Campaigners say 3,000 workers will die before the 2022 World Cup in Qatar"
2015-05-19,"Bloody, nightmarish scenes: Between 100 and 200 killed in carnage aboard abandoned migrant boat, says survivors who made it to Indonesia"
2015-05-19,China is planning the first-ever landing on the far side of the Moon
2015-05-19,"Billionaire Russian businessman found dead outside UK, Surrey home could have been poisoned"
2015-05-19,"Retired Fisheries and Oceans Canada biologist says the muzzling of federal government scientists is worse than anyone can imagine: Steve Campana, known for his expertise on everything from Great white sharks to porbeagles and Arctic trout, says the atmosphere working for federal government is toxic."
2015-05-19,"Oxford University rules out investing in coal and tar sands. The university, one of the worlds oldest and most prestigious, follows over 200 other organisations who have banned some investments in fossil fuels because of their role in driving climate change."
2015-05-19,Moscow Admits Two Fighters Captured in Ukraine Are Ex-Russian Soldiers
2015-05-19,"Kerry: Internet 'Needs Rules to Be Able to Flourish and Work Properly', Calls for more international Internet laws"
2015-05-19,Surrogate father who abandoned baby with down syndrome in Thailand (while taking the healthy twin) tries to access charity funds donated to raise the abandoned boy in Thailand.
2015-05-19,"Saudi Arabia Is Hiring 8 New Executioners  Saudi Arabia is advertising for eight new executioners, recruiting extra staff to carry out an increasing number of death sentences, usually done by public beheading."
2015-05-19,Nigeria: Women and girls captured by Boko Haram subjected to mass rape
2015-05-19,Isis seizes Ramadi: Battle now is to defend the road to Baghdad
2015-05-19,"Trident whistleblower William McNeilly claims ""it is easier to enter sensitive nuclear weapons installations than 'most nightclubs'"""
2015-05-19,Cuba says conditions 'favorable' for restoring ties with U.S. The so-called interests sections in Washington and Havana would be upgraded to embassies if diplomatic ties were restored.
2015-05-19,South Korea's New Law Mandates Installation Of Government-Approved Spyware On Teens' Smartphones
2015-05-19,"Australian cattle being killed with sledgehammers in Vietnam. Vision obtained by animal activists allegedly shows cattle being hit repeatedly to the head to stun them before slaughter, or being killed directly by the sledgehammer blow."
2015-05-19,Computer Program to Trawl Social Networks for Russian Opposition Plans: A pro-Kremlin political center has unleashed a computer program that would trawl social networks for chatter about planned unauthorized gatherings and report its findings to Russian authorities
2015-05-19,Australian Islamic State recruits want to return to Australia; government has so far denied request
2015-05-19,"Two schoolgirls abused by 60 men in Aylesbury child sex ring, court hears"
2015-05-18,"Saudi Arabia had made the strategic decision to purchase a nuclear weapon from Pakistan amid the ongoing negotiations over Irans nuclear program, a former American defense official said said in a report today in The Sunday Times."
2015-05-18,"Danish jihadists cashed in on welfare benefits; Thirty-two Danes have collected nearly 400,000 kroner worth of unemployment benefits while fighting in Syria"
2015-05-18,"Fossil fuels subsidised by $10m every minute, says IMF ."
2015-05-18,"Fishermen in Indonesia's Aceh province say they have been told by officials not to rescue Rohingya migrants from boats off the coast, even if they are drowning."
2015-05-18,Prince Harry calls for U.K. to bring back national service because joining army helped keep him out of trouble
2015-05-18,Egyptian judges shot dead in Sinai hours after former president Mohamed Morsi sentenced to death.
2015-05-18,"Cheap blindness drug should be made widely available, says WHO"
2015-05-18,The Catholic Church will continue to use a controversial legal defence to block victims of clerical abuse from seeking compensation
2015-05-18,FIFA to investigate arrest of BBC journalists in Qatar
2015-05-18,Please give us water: The desperate cries of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants adrift on boat turned away from Thailand.
2015-05-18,Iran says Saudi Arabia should not be hosting Yemen talks since it's part of the conflict
2015-05-18,Carl Sagan's Solar Sail Is Ready For Its First Test Flight
2015-05-18,Charlie Hebdo accused of hypocrisy as it suspends journalist after death threats over her articles attacking Islam
2015-05-18,"US raid in Syria killed 32 IS members, including 4 leaders: monitor"
2015-05-18,"Thousands of people in Ecuador on Saturday planted a total of 647,250 trees in a single day."
2015-05-18,Hate preachers and terrorists could be stripped of citizenship under anti-terrorism proposal
2015-05-18,Two Russian servicemen arrested in east Ukraine: Ukrainian military
2015-05-18,"Angela Merkel under pressure to reveal extent of German help for US spying | German chancellor called on to divulge a list of targets, including the IP addresses of individual computers, tracked on behalf of the NSA"
2015-05-18,China Tells US That Both Countries Can Both Be Pacific Powers
2015-05-18,"Taiwan Ex-Workers Win Pollution Lawsuit  Taipei District Court rules for workers employed 1970-1992 at Radio Corp of America. It dumped toxic waste, polluting soil & water. Called worst industrial disaster in Taiwans history, it led to alarmingly high reports of cancer among its workers."
2015-05-18,Iraqi forces abandon posts in Ramadi
2015-05-18,"Rhino horn now more valuable than gold, diamonds and cocaine, at $60K a pound making poaching a ultra profitable business."
2015-05-18,Israel intercepts 40 diving suits headed for Gaza to be used to build up Hamas' naval force.
2015-05-18,Another Political Candidate Killed Ahead of Elections in Mexico
2015-05-18,US contests 'Islamic State' claim of full control in Ramadi: The loss of the key military base in the city would represent the biggest defeat for the Iraqi government since last summer.
2015-05-17,"Canada's police begin wearing body cameras. If an interaction with the public is not recorded when it should have been, the officer may be subject to a discipline process."
2015-05-17,"UK government quietly passed new legislation that exempts GCHQ, police, and other intelligence officers from prosecution for hacking into computers and mobile phones"
2015-05-17,It Only Took Four Months For China To Achieve A Jaw-Dropping Reduction In Carbon Emissions: ...a reduction in emissions thats approximately equal to the total CO2 emissions of the U.K. over the same period
2015-05-17,Chechnyas leader gives approval for 46-year-old police chief to wed 17-year-old girl in forced marriage
2015-05-17,"Saudi jets target and destroy 1200 year old historic mosque and 13th century castle, among other Yemeni heritage sites"
2015-05-17,"Ecuador breaks Guinness reforestation record, plant 6,47,250 trees in a day"
2015-05-17,"Trident whistleblower says nuclear subs are insecure, unsafe and 'a disaster waiting to happen'"
2015-05-17,"Wikileaks releases BND-NSA inquiry transcripts of 'unclassified sessions' | Wikileaks has published transcripts of ""unclassified sessions"" of the Bundestag inquiry into the BND-NSA colloboration. The leaked documents show discrepancies between public and private sessions of the inquiry."
2015-05-17,"Syria army pushes ISIS back from ancient Palmyra, ""There was no damage to the ruins"", says antiquities chief Mamoun Abdulkarim"
2015-05-17,French mayor expelled for claiming Islam will be banned from France by 2027
2015-05-17,US Christians bankrolling no campaign in Irelands gay marriage referendum
2015-05-17,"Ancient city of Palmyra is falling to ISIS. Large sections of the city have been seized. 2,000 year old temples, shrines and ruins are likely to be destroyed if ISIS takes the city."
2015-05-17,"NASA: 10,000-year-old Antarctic ice shelf will disappear by 2020"
2015-05-17,Six U.S. Marines Killed in Helicopter Crash Over Nepal Identified
2015-05-17,"Birds have fundamental rights, can't be kept in cages: Delhi High Court"
2015-05-17,India announces $1 billion credit line to Mongolia
2015-05-17,Spiders Rain Down On Australia: Millions Reportedly Descended
2015-05-17,"The United States slammed Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Saturday for ""unconscionable"" remarks, after the West African leader reportedly threatened to slit the throats of gay men in his country"
2015-05-17,Massive protests in Southwestern China over railway project. Videos and pictures show violent clashes with police
2015-05-17,Shellfish species shrinking as rising carbon emissions hit marine life: Biologists warn that hundreds of species could die or weaken as growing levels of CO2 make oceans more acidic and disrupt shell formation
2015-05-17,India and China sign $22bn-worth of deals as Modi ends visit
2015-05-17,"Emirates Airlines Joins Ban on Hunting Trophies of Lions, Rhinos, and more."
2015-05-17,Islamic State militants 'smuggled to Europe' - Libyan official tells the BBC News
2015-05-17,"Peru, Brazil, China Roll Ahead With Transcontinental Railway: will cut across the Andes and connect port cities in the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of South America. Expected to reduce the cost of exporting agricultural goods from Brazil to China, and bring new business to Peruvian ports."
2015-05-17,Ruthless $570-Per-Child Traffickers Exploit Nepal Tragedy
2015-05-16,Candidate with no votes demands recount because he voted for himself
2015-05-16,Over 1000 Japanese Citizens Band Together To Sue Their Government Over Participation In TPP
2015-05-16,"Moroccan King Mohammed VI has ordered that laws restricting abortion be loosened, allowing it in the case of rape, incest, danger to the mother's health or fetal malformation"
2015-05-16,Former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi sentenced to death.
2015-05-16,Turkey arrests 8 of its own soldiers after they intercepted trucks that were smuggling arms to Jihadists in Syria
2015-05-16,"Mysterious Caribbean Shipwreck Identified - Wreck full of sword blades, scissors & mule shoes turns out to be the 'Nuestra Seora de Encarnacin', a Spanish ship that sank in 1681 during a storm. Very few Spanish merchant naos have ever been found & even fewer found in such amazing condition."
2015-05-16,Venezuelan currency tanks; inflation seen near 100%
2015-05-16,Law changed to allow UK surveillance agency GCHQ to hack citizens' computers while GCHQ was hauled into court on those exact charges.
2015-05-16,New Zealand legally recognizes animals as sentient beings
2015-05-16,Trade Agreement Could Limit Access to Medicines: Leaked Draft Contains Language that Could Delay the Entrance of Generic Competition for Much-Needed Medicines and Keep Pharmaceutical Prices High [TPP]
2015-05-16,Nepal's rhino numbers rise steadily thanks to anti-poaching measures - Countrys population of endangered one-horned rhinos now stands at 645  up from 375 in 2005
2015-05-16,Investigation shows Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko may have used his presidential influence to shut down investigations into damage of a protected historic site caused by unauthorized construction on his private property in central Kyiv
2015-05-16,High Line for Seoul: South Korea's capital city will an convert an abandoned elevated highway in the heart of the city into a 55-foot high public park
2015-05-16,Putin statue hanged on a cross in front of former KGB headquarters in Riga
2015-05-16,Pope Francis calls Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas 'angel of peace.'
2015-05-16,Canada reneges on emissions targets as tar sands production takes its toll: A new pledge to cut greenhouse gases by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030 is less ambitious than previous goal and lags far behind US and EU targets
2015-05-16,Four teenagers suspected of stealing penguin babies in Norway
2015-05-16,"The Israeli government will pay $3,500 grants to African refugees to encourage them to leave the country, it has said."
2015-05-16,MIDEAST - Turkish F-16 shoots down Syrian regime aircraft
2015-05-16,"Chinas Amazonian railway ""threatens uncontacted tribes"" & the rainforest - Environmentalists sound alarm over plans to construct 5,300km route between the Atlantic & Pacific oceans to cut transport costs"
2015-05-16,Nepal Army: All 8 Bodies Found at Crashed US Marine Chopper
2015-05-16,Nearly half the dolphins in Japan's aquariums are caught using a controversial fishing method that sees dozens more slaughtered every year
2015-05-16,Russia's economy falls in first quarter as woes mount
2015-05-16,Russian rocket carrying satellite crashes in Siberia
2015-05-16,Tory MP avoided child sex abuse trial in 1970s
2015-05-15,NASA Finds Antarctic Ice Shelf a Few Years From Disintegration
2015-05-15,"ISIS leader, Baghdadi, says ""Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. It is the war of Muslims against infidels."""
2015-05-15,"Banks want assurances from U.S. regulators that they will not be barred from certain businesses before agreeing to plead guilty to criminal charges over the manipulation of foreign exchange rates, causing a delay in multibillion-dollar settlements"
2015-05-15,Scientologists are in Nepal trying to 'heal' trauma victims
2015-05-15,"Luxembourgs prime minister on Friday becomes the first serving leader in the European Union to marry someone of the same sex, and only the second worldwide  and all in a tiny, mostly Catholic country often considered rather conservative."
2015-05-15,"AIDS expert flays Kremlin, says Russia's HIV epidemic worsening and at least two million Russians are likely to be infected in about five years."
2015-05-15,Missing US Huey Helicopter found destroyed in Nepal
2015-05-15,"China reduces emissions equivalent to entire UK output over first four months of 2015. Coal consumption in China fell by almost eight per cent from the start of the year to the end of April, with CO2 emissions dropping five per cent during the same period compared to the same time in 2014."
2015-05-15,Medicine Hat becomes the first city in Canada to eliminate homelessness.
2015-05-15,"The car-tire-size opah is striking enough thanks to its rotund, silver body. But now, researchers have discovered something surprising about this deep-sea dweller: It's got warm blood. That makes the opah (Lampris guttatus) the first warm-blooded fish every discovered."
2015-05-15,"PayPal has blocked an account set up by Russian opposition activists to raise funds for a report alleging Russian military involvement in the Ukraine war, citing the political nature of the donation campaign"
2015-05-15,Peru reopens probe into mass sterilisations - A top law enforcement official in Peru has ordered the reopening and expansion of a criminal investigation into the alleged forced sterilisation of thousands of indigenous people
2015-05-15,Brazil beef industry pledges cut Amazon deforestation rate in half
2015-05-15,Facebook tramples on European privacy laws: Belgian watchdog
2015-05-15,Several Young men were put in jail for three months in Mosul; released with a warning that next time they will be beheaded...Isis says for Muslims shaving beard is Haram
2015-05-15,"Google to begin testing purpose-built self-driving cars on public roads - Small electric 2-seater pods will take to public roads  but must be fitted with a removable steering wheel and pedals, & limited to 25mph"
2015-05-15,"Palmyra is in danger. As Islamic State fighters clash with Syrian government forces around the historic site, it is worth considering what the loss of this wonder, dubbed the ""Venice of the Sands"", would mean for the world's cultural heritage."
2015-05-15,Russia to prosecute 'undesirable' foreign organisations.
2015-05-15,Indias Military Cannot Fight Wars Lasting Longer than 20 Days: A recent report by the Indian government points to an ammunition crisis in the India Army.
2015-05-15,THE US consulate in Melbourne has warned citizens that a terrorist attack in Australia is highly likely
2015-05-15,"Japan recognises Niue as a country with 1,611 inhabitants"
2015-05-15,"Ayatollah Speaks to Teachers, Who Chant: Death to America! Death to England!...Death to Israel!"
2015-05-15,Mozambique police seize 1.4 tons of poached rhino horn and ivory
2015-05-15,US and Cuba to hold talks on opening embassies
2015-05-15,Poland Makes Payout to Alleged Victims of CIA Renditions
2015-05-14,"Canada Aboriginals Reject $960 Million Petronas Gas Deal. An aboriginal group along Canadas Pacific Coast turned down Petroliam Nasional Bhd.s offer of C$319,000 ($267,000) for each member as compensation for building a natural gas export terminal on ancestral lands."
2015-05-14,North Korean defense chief NOT executed. South Korea redacts earlier statements about the execution.
2015-05-14,"A Navy nurse who refused to force feed prisoners on hunger strike at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is no longer facing an administrative discharge over his protest, his lawyer said Wednesday"
2015-05-14,House votes to stop NSA's phone data collection
2015-05-14,"Isis Proxy Leader Abu Alaa al Afri, who Stepped in for Injured Baghdadi, 'Killed in Airstrike'"
2015-05-14,"Malaysia and Thailand turn away hundreds on migrant boats: An estimated 6,000 Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis are stranded at sea as south-east Asian nations turn back refugees"
2015-05-14,Researchers estimate over 80% (16 million) of gay men in China marry women due to social pressure
2015-05-14,"Effective from tomorrow, Emirates SkyCargo will not accept any kind of animal Hunting Trophies for carriage on Emirates services"
2015-05-14,Female Indonesian military applicants receive 'two-finger' virginity tests to recruit 'best people'
2015-05-14,"Honeybees dying, situation unheard of"
2015-05-14,A Canadian Conservative Politician Was Actually a Performance Artist Playing a Decade-Long Prank
2015-05-14,French bar owner charged after man dies drinking at least 56 shots
2015-05-14,Ancient Palmyra under threat by IS
2015-05-14,Vietnam Goes Shopping for U.S. Military Hardware to counter China
2015-05-14,Thousands sign petition calling for north of England to be part of Scotland
2015-05-14,Saudi Arabia Promises to Match Iran in Nuclear Capability
2015-05-14,At least 45 killed in factory fire in Philippines - CNN.com
2015-05-14,Israel 'disappointed' after Vatican officially recognizes Palestinian state
2015-05-14,Experts demand end to immunity for UN peacekeepers over sex abuse.
2015-05-14,Ottawa wants Omar Khadr declared adult offender for throwing grenade in Afghan firefight - killing American medic - when 15 years old: case in Supreme Court
2015-05-14,"EU plans migrant quotas, Britain opts out - The EU announced a plan on Wednesday to distribute asylum-seekers more fairly around its member states and take in 20,000 more refugees, but Britain's newly re-elected Conservative leaders rejected any quota system imposed from Brussels."
2015-05-14,Philippine factory fire: Death toll rises to 72
2015-05-14,"Czechs stopped potential nuclear tech purchase by Iran: sources | The Czech Republic blocked an attempted purchase by Iran this year of a large shipment of sensitive technology useable for nuclear enrichment after false documentation raised suspicions, U.N. experts and Western sources said."
2015-05-14,"The three Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, will ask NATO leadership to deploy a permanent brigade in an effort to deter Russia"
2015-05-14,Indian government may block apps which violates net neutrality
2015-05-13,Japan struck by 6.7 magnitude earthquake. After shocks expected.
2015-05-13,President Barack Obama:''Palestinians deserve an end to occupation''
2015-05-13,Vatican officially recognizes 'state of Palestine' in new treaty
2015-05-13,"""Time has come to reexamine cannabis prohibition, Israel's police chief says"""
2015-05-13,"Developing reports claim that Pakistan's army not only knew where Osama bin Laden was hiding, but complicit in protecting him since 2006"
2015-05-13,Tory officials threatened BBC during election - senior BBC executives faced repeated threats of far-reaching reforms if they didnt change election campaign coverage
2015-05-13,Pope: God will judge you on whether you cared for Earth
2015-05-13,BBC reporting a coup in Burundi has effectively removed President Nkurunziza.
2015-05-13,40 shia muslims gunned down by gunmen in a bus in Pakistan.
2015-05-13,Chancellor Angela Merkel is set to face further political embarrassment over Berlins spy scandal following new revelations that US intelligence planned to obtain unlimited access to Germanys main internet cable networks in its attempt to achieve saturation surveillance.
2015-05-13,"A district of 5 million people in Chinas restive far west has demanded that residents hand in their passports to the police for indefinite safekeeping, the latest government crackdown in an area where Beijing has declared a peoples war on violent separatists."
2015-05-13,"David Cameron is to set out a string of new powers to tackle radicalisation, saying the UK has been a ""passively tolerant society"" for too long | The bill will include new immigration rules, powers to close down premises used by extremists and ""extremism disruption orders""."
2015-05-13,"More than 5,000 people have signed a petition calling for the north of England to secede from the UK and join Scotland"
2015-05-13,"Sea Level Rise Is Happening Faster Than Anyone Thought - The study, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, found that sea level rise has been speeding up over the past two decades compared to the rest of the 20th century. This contradicts previous satellite data dating back to 1993"
2015-05-13,"Letting Shell drill in Arctic could lead to catastrophic oil spill, experts warn | Lack of local infrastructure to undertake oil exploration will prove devastating, environmentalists say  there is one road, no rail system and limited air facilities"
2015-05-13,"Isis Jihadis using Passports Stolen from Westerners to Travel to Syria. An Illinois resident, claimed that she along with her husband was visiting Paris, when their passports were stolen. Her passport was found from an Isis safehouse in Syria"
2015-05-13,New York Times correspondent backs up Sy Hersh claim about how the US really found bin Laden
2015-05-13,"Former European leaders call for change in EU policy on Israel | Europe must hold Israel to account for the way it maintains the occupation, says letter from former prime ministers and diplomats"
2015-05-13,"Dawn Spacecraft Images Reveal ""Ice Rinks"" on Ceres - The presence of exposed ice on Ceres would be a surprise, because ice should be unstable on the dwarf planets airless surface, turning from a solid into a gas and drifting into space rather than sticking around."
2015-05-13,Iran summarily executed 98 people in a month: U.N. report
2015-05-13,Greece taps out its emergency IMF reserves  to pay back IMF
2015-05-13,Malaysia says it will turn away migrants stranded at sea unless boats are sinking
2015-05-13,Rights group: Human rights under Palestinian rule worsened
2015-05-13,"10 Chinese Arrested For Killing Giant Panda, Selling Parts"
2015-05-13,Strong 6.8-magnitude earthquake hits northeastern Japan
2015-05-12,Earthquake strikes again - felt in India and Nepal. 7.1 magnitude on richter scale.
2015-05-12,Colombia Will Stop Spraying Monsantos RoundUp On Their Cocaine
2015-05-12,"JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, other banks likely to plead guilty over manipulation of foreign exchange rates"
2015-05-12,Pakistani military officials name the ex-ISI officer who gave away Bin Laden's Location to CIA for $25 million
2015-05-12,[UK] David Cameron appoints anti-gay marriage MP to be minister for equalities
2015-05-12,Third secular blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
2015-05-12,"Ananta Bijoy Das, a Bangladeshi writer known for advocating science and secularism, was hacked to death by masked men wielding machetes while on his way to work Tuesday morning. This is the third fatal attack on secular bloggers this year."
2015-05-12,Families give their minor daughters to ISIS in exchange for protection in Libya
2015-05-12,"Sri Lanka to become the first nation in the world to protect all its mangroves: More than half the worlds mangroves have been lost over the last century but all of those surviving in Sri Lanka, one of their most important havens, are now to be protected in an unprecedented operation."
2015-05-12,"Pakistanis Knew Where Bin Laden Was, Say US Sources - NBC News"
2015-05-12,'Substantial' El Nino event predicted
2015-05-12,Utter nonsense': CIA and White House blast Seymour Hershs explosive Osama bin Laden raid story
2015-05-12,"""Greece has been invited to become a member of the development bank of the BRICS economies, including Russia and China, which is seeking to become a counterweight to the IMF, a government source said Monday [11 May 2015]."""
2015-05-12,"Kim Jong Un ordered his aunt executed, defector says"
2015-05-12,India suggests US set up National Human Rights Commission
2015-05-12,Gambian President Says He Will Slit Gay Men's Throats in Public Speech
2015-05-12,Man plotted cyanide attack because he felt 'belittled by society' for having ginger hair
2015-05-12,"Antibiotic-resistant typhoid is spreading across Africa and Asia and poses a major global health threat, warn experts."
2015-05-12,"Germany's BND intelligence agency sends mammoth amounts of phone and text data to the U.S. NSA each month. Citing confidential documents, Die Zeit Online reported on Tuesday that of about 220 million pieces of meta data gathered per day, some 1.3 billion pieces per month go to the NSA."
2015-05-12,Swedish neo-Nazi party dismantles as support drops
2015-05-12,Nemtsov report: 220 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine battles
2015-05-12,Ex-C.I.A. officer sentenced for leaking a secret operation to disrupt Irans nuclear program to a Times reporter
2015-05-12,Swedish Supreme Court rules against WikiLeaks' Assange
2015-05-12,EU asks U.N. to OK military action on migrant boats
2015-05-12,Honors for Ukrainian nationalists anger their victims  in Poland - CSMonitor.com
2015-05-11,"Pope Francis said Monday that ""many powerful people don't want peace because they live off war"". ""Some powerful people make their living with the production of arms. It's the industry of death""."
2015-05-11,Chinese government now blacklisting rude Chinese tourists from traveling abroad
2015-05-11,"Edward Snowden warns data retention laws are 'dangerous'. The former NSA contractor who lifted the lid on mass surveillance in the US has a message for Australians living with new data retention laws: ""You are being watched."""
2015-05-11,Powerful religious leaders in Afghanistan are growing uneasy about the challenge to their authority posed by rare civil rights protests in Kabul and widespread anger over the lynching of a young woman wrongly accused of burning a Koran
2015-05-11,"Unveiled in Milan, the world's first bio-digital Urban Algae Canopy can produce a forest's worth of oxygen a day - the equivalent of 400,000 square feet of natural woodland"
2015-05-11,"Australian government lobbying against UNESCO listing Great Barrier Reef as ""In danger."""
2015-05-11,Scientists say they have exposed a scandal at the heart of Ancient Egypt's animal mummy industry - A scanning project at Manchester Museum and the University of Manchester has revealed that about a third of the bundles of cloth are empty inside.
2015-05-11,Brazil plans to nationalise rainforest in pioneering plan to protect Amazon. Proposal to put all natural resources in the forest under state control faces legal wrangles - but if passed could enshrine environmental protection
2015-05-11,A drug rehabilitation centre with links to the Church of Scientology has been fined and ordered to remove unsubstantiated claims made online about curing patients.
2015-05-11,"Danish school fined $6,000 for forcing Muslim student to eat pork"
2015-05-11,Nepal earthquake victims' families prevented from leaving Qatar Fifa World Cup building sites to attend funerals
2015-05-11,Philippines' most wanted Islamist bomber 'slain by his own bodyguards for $1m bounty on his head'
2015-05-11,Moroccan F-16 goes missing in Yemen
2015-05-11,Rhino killers lay siege to Kruger Park
2015-05-11,"An American museum has returned a 10th-century sandstone statue of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman to Cambodia, decades after it was looted from a jungle temple when the kingdom was in the throes of civil war"
2015-05-11,"Russia, China unite with major cyber pact: The two have agreed not to hack each other and pledged to thwart technology that might destabilize the internal political and socio-economic atmosphere, disturb public order or interfere with the internal affairs of the state."
2015-05-11,"Tesla's low-cost renewable battery could revolutionize Africa's energy supply - Home storage unit is perfect for continent rich in solar & wind resources but short of reliable power sources, says Christine Mungai"
2015-05-11,Macedonia says five Kosovans led the armed group which was involved in clashes with security forces in the northern town of Kumanovo.
2015-05-11,Macedonian crisis ends with at least 22 dead. 37 officers were wounded. More than 30 people were arrested.
2015-05-11,Israel's new government is planning to legalise West Bank settlement construction
2015-05-11,Turkish ship attacked as it approached Libya's Tobruk - Foreign Ministry
2015-05-11,Dutch solar road makes enough energy to power household
2015-05-11,Greece has revealed it is to introduce a surcharge for all cashpoint withdrawals and financial transactions in a desperate attempt to prevent citizens withdrawing their money from the country's beleaguered banks.
2015-05-11,"North Korea announced on Saturday that it successfully launched an underwater ballistic missile from a submarine, further raising concerns about its military capabilities and raising tensions in the region."
2015-05-11,Oil rises towards $66 after China cuts rates
2015-05-10,"Chinese billionaire Li Jinyuan takes 6,400 staff on holiday to France."
2015-05-10,92% of Married Women in Egypt Have Undergone Female Genital Mutilation
2015-05-10,Skynet is real.The NSA named one of its top-secret programs Skynet.
2015-05-10,"New US fighter jet on course to becoming one of historys biggest white elephants - The UK considered buying 150 F-35s from the US, but not one plane is combat ready as costs soar."
2015-05-10,Cuban same-sex couples 'wed' in march for LGBT rights led by Castro's daughter
2015-05-10,"The last great regions of pristine wilderness  from Asia to the Amazon  are threatened by an unprecedented road-building programme financed by aggressive development banks with little interest in protecting the natural world, a leading environmental scientist has warned."
2015-05-10,"Raul Castro: ""This Pope's So Impressive, I Might Return to Church."""
2015-05-10,"Police Arrest President of Self-Declared Liberland, Newest Micronation"
2015-05-10,"Global CO2 level surpasses 400 mark, poses serious environmental threat: NOAA"
2015-05-10,NSA asked its German counterpart BND to spy on Germany's technology giant Siemens
2015-05-10,"Paraguay man arrested in rape of girl, 10, who became pregnant: Paraguayan law bans abortions except in cases where mother's life is in jeopardy. Health minister says girl's life isn't at risk, and that government will oversee her prenatal care"
2015-05-10,Protesters clash at Downing St gates during rally against new Tory government
2015-05-10,8-year-old boy smuggled into Spain inside suitcase found in 'terrible' condition
2015-05-10,"Ecuador ""Reforestation Day"" to Break Guinness Record for Tree-Planting"
2015-05-10,Slave Escapes After Being Chained At The Neck To A Desk In Mexico For More That Two Years
2015-05-10,"Tinnitus connected to multiple areas of the brain, scientists find"
2015-05-10,EU draws up plans for military attacks on Libya targets to stop migrant boats
2015-05-10,"Deaths in detention centres rise. Despite prosecution reports of inhumane conditions in police stations, detainees continue to die in custody"
2015-05-10,"China, Russia agree to jointly build hydropower plant"
2015-05-10,"Solomon Islanders kill more than 1,600 dolphins for their teeth - Residents of a village where dolphin teeth are used for currency killed 1,600 of the animals in 2013 alone, & researchers are calling for urgent monitoring"
2015-05-10,"Three fresh tremors hit Nepal as death toll crosses 8,000"
2015-05-10,"UN: Strikes on Yemen's Saada breach international law | UN envoy says ""indiscriminate bombing of populated areas"" violates international law, as coalition continues raids."
2015-05-10,"As U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, darkness falls on Talibans birthplace: A $300 million American military project to bring electricity to the Afghan strategic city is falling apart before it ends"
2015-05-10,"An armed group attacked special forces police Saturday in a town in northern Macedonia in a clash that killed five police officers and injured more than 30, officials said, amid a political crisis that has raised concern about the stability of the Balkan nation"
2015-05-10,"Indian Prime Minister Modi launches 3 mega social security schemes, says they are meant to empower the poor"
2015-05-09,An Indian court jailed 13 Islamists Friday over an attack on a professor whose hand was chopped off after being accused of blaspheming the Prophet Mohammed in an exam paper.
2015-05-09,The US is trying to create unipolar world says Vladimir Putin
2015-05-09,"The population of African elephants in Tanzania plummeted by 60 percent (65,000) in the past five years"
2015-05-09,Norways Were Sorry Monument to 91 Dead Witches
2015-05-09,Norway Ends Blasphemy Law
2015-05-09,Russia marks 70 years since victory over Nazi Germany with huge parade
2015-05-09,Mexican cartel members used an RPG to take down an army helicopter during a series of coordinated attacks in Guadalajara last week.
2015-05-09,Chile to Have Free Higher Education by 2016
2015-05-09,"Australia PM's adviser: climate change is UN hoax to create new world order - Maurice Newman, chairman of Tony Abbotts business advisory council, says UN is using debunked climate change science to impose authoritarian rule"
2015-05-09,"Syria, Iraq girls shipped naked after being sold at ISIL slave bazaars: UN"
2015-05-09,International inspectors have found traces of sarin and VX nerve agent at a military research site in Syria that had not been declared to the global chemical weapons watchdog
2015-05-09,Japanese government's debt swells to 1.053 quadrillion.
2015-05-09,Putin just dismissed nearly 20 generals
2015-05-09,"North American Moose dying in droves as climate warming fuels disease, pests"
2015-05-09,Chinese province to ban rooftop Christian crosses
2015-05-09,First three jailed under Norway's new Isis law
2015-05-09,"Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has donated 7 million euros (5m) to help the aid effort in Nepal, according to reports in France"
2015-05-09,Food wasted by consumers is an enormous economic problem and nations should ensure excess food is given to the hungry instead of being thrown away.
2015-05-09,US SKYNET program marks Al Jazeera journalist as Al-Qaeda
2015-05-09,"As Europe braces itself for a new deluge of refugees, the EU plans to introduce a quota system to distribute migrants across its member states. But some countries have already begun rejecting the scheme."
2015-05-09,Riot erupts in Iran's Kurdish capital over woman's death
2015-05-09,"The uproar over allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic spread on Friday, as the United Nations top human rights official accused France of delays in investigating its troops."
2015-05-09,"Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping sign infrastructure deals worth billions in Moscow"
2015-05-09,Liberia Ebola outbreak declared over after 42 days without new case
2015-05-09,'Dozens dead' and many escape in Iraq prison break
2015-05-08,"Video: After almost 1,000,000 votes for the UK Green Party and only 1 seat won, their elected Rt. Hon. Caroline Lucas calls for Proportional Representation voting in the UK"
2015-05-08,"For the first time, Ebola has been discovered inside the eyes of a patient just months after the virus was gone from his blood."
2015-05-08,Germany has stopped sharing internet surveillance info with the NSA
2015-05-08,"Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage and Ed Miliband have all quit their Leader positions"
2015-05-08,Tesla's Battery Grabbed $800 Million in Its First Week
2015-05-08,Edward Snowden says Australia undertaking 'dangerous' mass surveillance of citizens; criticises metadata laws
2015-05-08,"Six people, including Norwegian and Philippine ambassadors, killed in Pakistan military helicopter crash"
2015-05-08,Water similar to life-bearing Earth lakes found on moon of Saturn.
2015-05-08,First UK election shock as 20-year old becomes youngest lawmaker since 1667
2015-05-08,"Report: US drone strike kills man who claimed Charlie Hebdo, kosher market attacks"
2015-05-08,"UK election exit poll predicts Conservatives will be largest party in a hung parliament, with 316 seats to Labour's 239"
2015-05-08,Luxembourg Recognizes Armenian Genocide
2015-05-08,"Climate change a UN-led ruse, says Tony Abbott's business adviser Maurice Newman"
2015-05-08,"A rising number of people in Turkey believe that free speech and human rights are declining in the country, according to a new survey."
2015-05-08,Ecuador's President calls out Brad Pitt for purchasing the movie rights to a book that smears the campaign against Chevron's contamination in the Amazon
2015-05-08,Antarctica is melting faster than ever before
2015-05-08,Reuters bureau chief died of suffocation in Pakistan
2015-05-08,Controversial Bill C-51 (Anti-Terrorism Act) passes in Canadian House of Commons
2015-05-08,Election 2015: SNP wins 56 of 59 seats in Scots landslide
2015-05-08,Self-Driving Semi-Trucks Could Hit Highways Soon
2015-05-08,Climate change a UN-led ruse says Australian PM Abbott's business adviser
2015-05-08,"Chinese company Tiens Group treats 6,400 workers to four-day Paris holiday"
2015-05-08,Arrests of Palestinian students by Palestinian security forces over politics worrying: HRW
2015-05-08,'Captain Kidd's treasure' found off Madagascar
2015-05-08,Al-Qaida leader involved in Charlie Hebdo attack killed
2015-05-07,Someone stole $1 billion from Moldova. That's an eighth of its GDP
2015-05-07,"Egypt to Rebuild the Lighthouse of Alexandria, One of the Seven Ancient World Wonders"
2015-05-07,NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepal By Their Heartbeats
2015-05-07,"North Korea: ""We don't have political prison camps, because we have no political division."""
2015-05-07,"The discovery of a silver ring with an Arabic inscription in a Viking grave has added credence to the ancient accounts of Arab travellers in their encounters with the Vikings, and points to a fascinating trade and cultural exchange."
2015-05-07,Irans Capital Tehran swaps 'death to America' billboards for Picasso and Matisse
2015-05-07,United Kingdom Election 2015: Millions begin casting their votes
2015-05-07,"Saudi Arabia Beheads Five Foreigners, Hangs their Corpses from Helicopter"
2015-05-07,Canadian government passes new anti terror bill amidst much skepticism
2015-05-07,"Dolphins hunted to pay for brides - If you want a bride in a few Solomon Island villages, you need to pay with necklaces of dolphins teeth. And the price has shot up alarmingly since 2004, from $0.14 per tooth to $0.68as has the number of dolphins slaughtered for this purpose, scientists report"
2015-05-07,Selfie attempt by tourist shatters priceless sculpture in Italy
2015-05-07,Over 50 Thai police punished over links to human trafficking.
2015-05-07,Spy law passes in Canada
2015-05-07,Australia's supermarkets and farms engaging in labour exploitation; slave-like conditions found.
2015-05-07,Child pornography bust spanning 17 countries leads to 41 arrests
2015-05-07,Chinese tourist who sat on revolutionary statue becomes first person on country's National List of Uncivilized Tourist Behavior and will remain blacklisted for 10 years
2015-05-07,Four arrested in Germany for terror plot against Muslims: Three men and a woman held for possession of explosives and for planning attacks on mosques and leading Muslim figures
2015-05-07,"World headed for an El Nino and it could be a big one, scientists say"
2015-05-07,Global carbon dioxide levels break 400ppm milestone
2015-05-07,"4,400-year-old statue of Egyptian pharaoh unearthed south of Luxor"
2015-05-07,"Ivory Coast has banned skin-whitening creams, which are widely used in west Africa, because of fears they cause lasting damage to health"
2015-05-07,Turkey officials confirm pact with Saudi Arabia to help Islamist Insurgents overthrow Syria's Bashar al Assad
2015-05-07,"Denmark moves closer to a cashless society: The Danish government on Wednesday proposed getting rid of the obligation for selected retailers to accept payment in cash, moving the country closer to a ""cashless"" economy."
2015-05-07,Japanese zoo apologises for naming its new monkey Charlotte after the new royal princess
2015-05-07,Russia's new high-tech Armata tank just broke down in the middle of a rehearsal parade
2015-05-06,U.S. government has authorized commercial ferry service to Cuba
2015-05-06,"France just passed its own Patriot Act, and civil rights groups arent happy -- ""in the wake of the deadly Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, France has passed its own version of the Patriot Act, which could give a French government intelligence agency NSA-like powers in the country"""
2015-05-06,WHO report: 74% of men and 64% of women in UK to be overweight by 2030
2015-05-06,"After forty years of the Progressive Conservatives running the Canadian province of Alberta, a new party has been elected."
2015-05-06,"Macedonian protesters demand resignation of cabinet, because of long-running wire-tapping scandal, that includes covering up a murder of a 22y old."
2015-05-06,NASA will pay $US5000 for your best ideas on what you'd need to survive on Mars
2015-05-06,Police stop peaceful protest in Macedonia against brutality with brutality
2015-05-06,Germanwings co-pilot practised crash on another flight  report | World news
2015-05-06,"If Russia does not apply the Minsk ceasefire deals in full and return Crimea to Ukraine, the EU should step up sanctions and consider the possibility of providing Ukraine with defensive arms, say Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs in a resolution voted on Monday."
2015-05-06,"After 17 years of fruitlessly searching the galaxy, Australian scientists have discovered the source of mysterious radio signals hitting a telescope"
2015-05-06,"Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity logs sol 4000 -- ""This rover was sent on a 90-day expedition, with the mission success mobility objective of driving 600 meters. In March, Opportunity completed 42.195 kilometers or 26.2 miles"""
2015-05-06,"Nauru, one of the world's smallest countries, has banned Facebook"
2015-05-06,"Astronomers have discovered a baby blue galaxy that is farther away in distance and time than any galaxy ever seen. It's among the universe's first generation of galaxies, from 13.1 billion years ago."
2015-05-06,"There was less ice in the Arctic this winter than in any other winter during the satellite era, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists said on Tuesday."
2015-05-06,Dubai Police officers to start wearing cameras
2015-05-06,Another Mexican Journalist Found Dead With Signs of Torture
2015-05-06,F*** the king demonstrator taken to court for insulting the Dutch monarch
2015-05-06,Saudi Arabia beheads 79th convict this year
2015-05-06,Oil tops $60 a barrel for first time in 2015
2015-05-06,EU to investigate claims McDonald's avoided $1bn in tax
2015-05-06,A new blood test for ovarian cancer proved to be 86% accurate
2015-05-06,"Cambodias prime minister is refusing to pay a $5,000 bet he made on the Pacquiao fight"
2015-05-06,NSA Converting Phone Conversations into Searchable Text | Leaked documents reveal how the security agency converts speech into text as part of its Big Data collection program.
2015-05-06,US Places Bounties on Heads of Key IS leaders; Rewards for high-value IS targets up to $7 million
2015-05-06,Saudi oil chief: No one can set the price of oil  its up to Allah.
2015-05-05,"Qatar detained German reporters investigating FIFA World Cup | Journalists from Germanys biggest television networks were reportedly detained, questioned and not allowed to leave Qatar for days while working on a story about FIFA President & Dohas vexed nomination for the 2022 football World Cup."
2015-05-05,"7.4 quake hits near Papua New Guinea, tsunami warning issued"
2015-05-05,"Canada's Trudeau vows to cut middle-class taxes, hike taxes on rich"
2015-05-05,TransCanada Keystone 1 Pipeline Suffered Major Corrosion Only 2 Yrs in Operation - The cause of the corrosion is being kept from the public by federal regulators & TransCanada.
2015-05-05,Canada poised to pass anti-terror legislation despite widespread outrage
2015-05-05,$21m cocaine stash found in Aldi bananas
2015-05-05,IS claims responsibility for US Prophet cartoon attack
2015-05-05,Prime Minister of Singapore shares his C++ code for Sudoku solver
2015-05-05,"Facebook's Internet.org violates net neutrality, activists say"
2015-05-05,Philippines' Most Wanted Terrorist Killed by Bodyguard for $1 Million Bounty
2015-05-05,"The lower house of Frances Parliament overwhelmingly approved a sweeping intelligence bill that, if it wins in the upper house, would give the government broad surveillance powers with little judicial oversight."
2015-05-05,"Fertilizer, Also Suited for Bombs, Flows to ISIS Territory From Turkey"
2015-05-05,"China is using Shanghai as a testing ground for new rules which ban the families of government officials from running a business, investing in a non-listed company or working for a foreign firm. The new rules are part of President Xi Jinping's wide-ranging anti-corruption campaign"
2015-05-05,South African universities join academic boycott of Israel
2015-05-05,Boko Haram stoned captive girls to death as rescuers approached
2015-05-05,UN calls for suspension of TTIP talks over fears of human rights abuses
2015-05-05,The world needs to triple its investments in clean energy innovation if were to have a chance of keeping the world below 2 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels  a level beyond which truly dangerous climate change might set in.
2015-05-05,UN: More than 200 young women rescued from Boko Haram are pregnant
2015-05-05,Sexting could see teenagers branded as sex offenders
2015-05-05,U.S. warships accompany British commercial vessels in Strait of Hormuz: Pentagon
2015-05-05,Jewish students to protest violence by speaking Arabic on Jerusalem tram
2015-05-05,Jihadists destroy proposed world heritage site in Mali
2015-05-05,China overtakes Mexico as top sender of immigrants to United States
2015-05-05,ISIS in Gaza Says Hamas Worse Than Jewish Occupiers as Tensions Between Groups Rise
2015-05-05,Netanyahu: Israel will fight racism - Ethiopian Israelis are Israelis in every way
2015-05-04,Russian Official Severely Beaten After Reporting Electoral Fraud
2015-05-04,"25,000 Mexican Fishermen Sue BP over Environmental Disaster"
2015-05-04,"An estimated 250,000 Bangladeshis, lured with jobs in Malaysia, have been held for ransom in jungle camps by traffickers in Thailand over the last 8 years in a modern day slave trade. Authorities from the three countries are also reportedly involved in the trade."
2015-05-04,Puerto Rico's governor on Sunday signed an executive order authorizing the use of medical marijuana in the U.S. territory in an unexpected move following a lengthy public debate
2015-05-04,"Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their country may have helped"
2015-05-04,An Uphill Campaign in Norway to Promote LSD as a Human Right
2015-05-04,"'Our purity is above 99%': Chinese factories are mass producing novel psychoactive substances that mimic banned substances, destined for an eager market in the US and UK"
2015-05-04,WikiLeaks Anonymous Leak Submission Website Relaunched after 6 years
2015-05-04,"Pro-Putin bikers Night Wolves dwindle en route to Germany: German and Austrian officials say gang undertaking 3,700-mile second world war victory tour has been reduced to a handful of leather-clad men in rental car."
2015-05-04,74 largest terrestrial herbivore species on Earth on the verge of extinction
2015-05-04,"Changes in the Arctic Ocean are so profound that the region is entering what amounts to ""a new era"", according to Norwegian scientists."
2015-05-04,"Iran bans 'devil worshipping' haircuts: Hairstyles of a spiky and unorthodox nature have reportedly been banned in Iran because they imply devil-worship, while tattoos and other male bodily adornments also being outlawed."
2015-05-04,NATO starts anti submarine exercise in North Sea as tension with Russia rise
2015-05-04,Israeli soldiers cast doubt on legality of Gaza military tactics
2015-05-04,"A third of UK Catholics would make their lifestyle greener if Pope Francis makes an official statement on climate change, a new survey claims"
2015-05-04,"$300/KWh battery-powered electric vehicles hit total-cost-of-ownership parity with gas-powered cars 5 years ahead of schedule. A price of $150/KWh could cause a paradigm shift in vehicle technology, and it may arrive by 2020"
2015-05-04,"Climbing Mount Everest this season is ""almost impossible"" because the routes have been damaged by avalanches triggered by last month's earthquake, officials in Nepal say."
2015-05-04,Costa Rica issues alert over ammonium nitrate spill
2015-05-04,British grandmother prepares for execution in Indonesia for being coerced into drug trafficking
2015-05-04,Excavations reveal new terracotta army at ancient emperors tomb and are expected to uncover 1200 more of the life sized clay figures
2015-05-04,5 year old Israeli was killed by mortar fired from UN facility  ex-IDF chief
2015-05-04,Israeli soldiers reveal they were ordered to shoot to kill in Gaza  even if targets were civilians
2015-05-04,UN aid worker suspended for leaking report on child abuse by French troops | Anders Kompass said to have passed confidential document to French authorities because of UNs failure to stop abuse of children in Central African Republic
2015-05-04,"China says climate change threatens major projects. Zheng Guoguang, head of China's Meteorological Administration, told the weekly newspaper the Study Times that the uptick in recent weather disasters such as floods, typhoons, droughts and heatwaves had a ""big connection"" to climate change"
2015-05-04,"Thousands have protested against Moldova's government, saying it has failed to implement reforms to bring the country closer to the European Union. Protesters also called on the government to investigate the disappearance of $1.5 billion from the state-owned and two private banks"
2015-05-03,101 year old man pulled out of rubble alive one week after Nepal earthquake.
2015-05-03,Kim Dotcom Awarded Millions For Legal Bills and Living Expenses
2015-05-03,Dead Zones Without Marine Life Found in the Atlantic Ocean for the First Time
2015-05-03,"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not now and has never sincerely believed in a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine., former US president Jimmy Carter has said"
2015-05-03,"Chinese authorities installed 26 meter guard rails in front of Beijing Botanical Gardens to prevent people cutting the line, as part of government's effort to teach Chinese tourists good manners"
2015-05-03,"Ebola Survivors Should Use Condoms Indefinitely, CDC Says"
2015-05-03,Fury as Boris Johnson BANS bagpipes from streets of London
2015-05-03,Venezuela announces 30% increase in minimum wage
2015-05-03,"Lord Janner was director of his firm 3 weeks ago despite dementia, as dossier alleges police chief allowed peer to molest young boys"
2015-05-03,Philip Morris International Uses Copyright Claims To Quiet Marlboro Critics
2015-05-03,Global Jewish immigration to Israel jumps 40% this year
2015-05-03,Saudi Arabia used U.S.-supplied cluster bombs in Yemen
2015-05-03,Australia condemns killing of dolphins & seals by factory fishing trawler - Environment minister Greg Hunt says deaths of 8 dolphins & 4 seals are unacceptable & outrageous as ship returns to port
2015-05-03,"Ukraine Attacks Donetsk Peoples Republic With Tanks, Grenade Launchers"
2015-05-03,Italy: 3700 Migrants Rescued From Mediterranean in 1 Day
2015-05-03,"Police in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, have ordered residents and visitors to remain in their homes and hotels as reports of violence and roadblocks in Jalisco and Colima continue, US Consulate in Guadalajara warns -"
2015-05-03,"Antisatellite race heats up with China, Russia: Concerns have grown in the aftermath of Chinese antisatellite tests, most recently in July 2014, that demonstrated the capability to destroy military communications satellites, perhaps even those in geostationary orbits."
2015-05-03,The Islamic State Is Selling Enslaved Yazidis Back to Their Families.
2015-05-03,Turkish police 'thank' shopkeepers for beating May Day activists
2015-05-03,United States to allocate $200 million to provide training and weapons to Ukrainian army.
2015-05-03,Dozens of graves found in Thailand jungle
2015-05-03,Professor of physics named new leader of ISIS
2015-05-03,Venezuela to nationalize food distribution
2015-05-03,China detains 10 people for spreading online rumours 'damaging image of military'
2015-05-03,"Attack on May Day demonstration in Weimar, Germany results in 15 people injured including city's mayor and a member of German parliament"
2015-05-02,"Snowden, Assange and Manning statues unveiled in Berlin"
2015-05-02,Ecuador May Decriminalize All Illegal Drug Use
2015-05-02,5.1-magnitude quake hits Nepal again.
2015-05-02,ISIS militants execute 600 Yezidi hostages in northern Iraq
2015-05-02,Assange: More leaks to come: WikiLeaks is planning new releases of secret documents on controversial negotiations and intelligence agency operations
2015-05-02,"Nepal earthquake death toll exceeds 7,000"
2015-05-02,"Boeing 787 Dreamliners contain a potentially catastrophic software bug -- ""cause pilots to lose control of the aircraft, possibly in mid-flight...a signed 32-bit integer overflow that is triggered after 2^31 centiseconds (248.55 days) of continuous operation"""
2015-05-02,"Pilots brace for 5-day solar-powered flight from China to Hawaii. "" do it ... without a drop of fuel."""
2015-05-02,The Pirate Party the biggest in Iceland by far
2015-05-02,"Millions of Dollars in Ivory Sold on Craigslist - From kitschy trinkets to carved tusks, thousands of objects  possibly worth more than $15 million a year  are being sold on Craigslist in the US, according to report."
2015-05-02,Liberian woman appears to have contracted Ebola through sex with survivor
2015-05-02,"The electric car company Tesla has announced its entry into the energy market, unveiling a suite of low-cost solar batteries for homes, businesses and utilities, the missing piece, it said, in the transition to a sustainable energy world."
2015-05-02,US-led airstrikes 'kill 52 civilians in northern Syria'
2015-05-02,"Mars astronauts risk brain damage from cosmic rays, say scientists"
2015-05-02,Boko Haram: Nigerian army 'frees another 234 women and children'
2015-05-02,"Berlin Deleted '12,000 NSA Spying Requests': Report"
2015-05-02,"Top Iranian general: America was behind 9/11 attacks. The commander of Irans ground forces said that American officials planned and executed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to justify military intervention in the region."
2015-05-02,"Populations of some of the world's largest wild animals are dwindling, raising the threat of an ""empty landscape"""
2015-05-02,Dozens tried for mob killing of Afghan woman that sparked outcry
2015-05-02,"U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Says, Were All Blonde - The US ambassador to Turkey went blond this week in a post on Instagram that poked fun at the mayor of Ankara, Turkeys capital, who had made sexist remarks about an American government spokeswoman on Twitter, calling her a stupid blonde."
2015-05-02,"Church Of England Divests From Coal And Tar Sands, Citing Moral Responsibility"
2015-05-02,The Sinai's largest bedouin tribe 'declares war' on ISIS-affiliated militants in Egypt
2015-05-02,"Nepal government criticised for blocking earthquake aid to remote areas - Finance secretary denies material is subject to import duties, as police stop private aid trucks & state orders all overseas money to be paid into its fund"
2015-05-02,Banks and pension funds continue to bankroll deforestation and land grabs
2015-05-02,Turkey will begin to train and equip Syrian rebels on May 9: Turkish Foreign Minister
2015-05-01,"New Test Suggests NASA's ""Impossible"" EM Drive Will Work In Space - The EM appears to violate conventional physics and the law of conservation of momentum; the engine converts electric power to thrust without the need for any propellant by bouncing microwaves within a closed container."
2015-05-01,"China announces plan to seven-fold increase Antarctic krill catches. "" may leave Antarcticas whales, seals and penguins struggling to survive."""
2015-05-01,10-Year-Old Girl Raped by Stepfather Is Refused an Abortion in Paraguay
2015-05-01,North Korean diplomats storm out of UN rights meeting after shouting that Americans muder 'innocent black people'
2015-05-01,U.S. Navy warships will now accompany every U.S.-flagged commercial vessel that passes through the Strait of Hormuz due to concerns that ships from Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps navy could try to seize a U.S. cargo ship.
2015-05-01,Its Official: Rubella Has Been Eradicated From the Americas - Health officials confirm that rubella no longer originates in North or South America
2015-05-01,Schools in Japan to let transgender students use whichever locker room they prefer | The Japan Times
2015-05-01,Traumatically brainwashed Boko Haram captives open fire at rescuers
2015-05-01,M7.1 earthquake in Papua New Guinea
2015-05-01,Four Amazonian tribes have joined forces to oppose the construction of some of the 250 planned hydroelectric dams in their territory as the Brazilian government ramps up efforts to exploit the power of rivers in the worlds biggest forest
2015-05-01,"Coffee catastrophe beckons as climate change threatens arabica plant - Study warns that rising temperatures pose serious threat to global coffee market, potentially affecting livelihoods of small farmers & pushing up prices"
2015-05-01,Today the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic proclaimed the mass surveillance of citizens as unconstitutional
2015-05-01,Most Countries Have No Plans For When Antibiotics Stop Working - World Health Organization sounds the alarm on one of the biggest threats to the future of global health
2015-05-01,NASAs Messenger spacecraft crashes into Mercury
2015-05-01,Saudi Arabia Is Burning Through Its Foreign Reserves at a Record Pace
2015-05-01,Biggest anti-government protest in Maldivian history happening today.
2015-05-01,Pakistan must allow Afghanistan direct access to India or we will Block thier access to Central Asia: Ghani
2015-05-01,CIA-Backed Rebels Fight Alongside al-Qaeda Wing in Syria
2015-05-01,"Canada's Leader, Stephen Harper, will NOT be acting on Climate Change in his upcoming election platform."
2015-05-01,UN report: Iran arming Houthis since 2009
2015-05-01,Airbus to file complaint in Germany over alleged NSA spying
2015-05-01,"The leader of the Islamic State (Isis), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi remains incapacitated due to suspected spinal damage and is being treated by two doctors who travel to his hideout from the groups stronghold of Mosul, the Guardian has learned."
2015-05-01,"Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says it's time to ""move on"" from the 'Bali 9' executions, less than a week after they took place."
2015-05-01,Hundreds of students seek refuge outside U.S. embassy in Burundi
2015-05-01,"In Iran, Fatal Porsche Crash Unleashes Middle-Class Anger at Elites"
2015-04-30,Four month old baby pulled alive from Nepal rubble 22 hours after parents lost him during earthquake
2015-04-30,"The Italian army has unveiled its first cannabis farm, set up to try to lower the cost of medical marijuana in the country."
2015-04-30,"'Am I being executed?' - mentally ill Brazilian killed by Indonesia unaware until end, says priest"
2015-04-30,"Over 30,000 doctors and health professionals in Argentina campaign to ban Monsanto"
2015-04-30,Egypt has sentenced 69 Islamists to life in prison for setting fire to a church in a town near Cairo
2015-04-30,"HSBC Advises Clients Against Fossil Fuel Investment, warning that fossil fuel companies will become ""economically non-viable"
2015-04-30,Pakistan investing $150 million in planting a billion trees over the next 4 years
2015-04-30,Pentagon cant account for $1 billion in Afghan reconstruction aid
2015-04-30,Leaked Report: French Troops Raped Starving Children in Central Africa
2015-04-30,American Psychological Association Collaborated on Torture Justification Post 9/11
2015-04-30,Prince Charles on brink of ending all fossil fuel investments
2015-04-30,"Gaza Protesters Beaten and Detained by Hamas Security Officials, Witnesses Say"
2015-04-30,Malala Shooting: 10 Jailed For Life Over Attack A court in Pakistan sentences a group of men to 25 years each for the attack on a schoolgirl who went on to win a Nobel prize.
2015-04-30,Russia Seizes Ukrainian President Poroshenko's Candy Factory
2015-04-30,About 160 more hostages rescued from Boko Haram stronghold: Nigerian army
2015-04-30,"China, Russia to hold first joint Mediterranean naval drills in May: First time the two countries will hold military exercises together in that part of the world."
2015-04-30,White House omits Tibet from earthquake condolence list
2015-04-30,Afghan taliban commander gang-raped suicide bomber before attack
2015-04-30,6.8-Magnitude Quake Off Papua New Guinea
2015-04-30,"Solar power plant floating on wastewater hailed for multiple environmental benefits. ""We can get about 57 per cent more efficiency than a land-based solar system."""
2015-04-30,Kim Jong Un will not visit Moscow: Kremlin
2015-04-30,Germany spied on French and EU officials for US: report
2015-04-30,Pope Francis: Christians should support equal pay for women
2015-04-30,"Smallpox, polio, and now rubella. After 5 years of 0 cases in north and south America, epidemiologists have declared rubella extinct from the Americas."
2015-04-30,"With less pollution, Beijing's Olympic babies born heavier, says study. Women in the Chinese capital in the final stage of pregnancy during the 2008 Beijing Olympics  when officials strictly controlled air pollution  gave birth to heavier babies than in years when the city was smoggier"
2015-04-29,"""We've Just Rescued Over 200 Girls In A Daring Attack On Boko Haram Hideout In Sambisa""- Nigerian Army"
2015-04-29,Unmanned Russian spacecraft plunging to Earth: It has started descending. It has nowhere else to go... It is clear that absolutely uncontrollable reactions have begun.
2015-04-29,S. Korea spy agency says Kim Jong-Un executed 15 top officials
2015-04-29,"Isis Beheaded, Stoned and Shot 1,362 Civilians, including 9 Children in Syria since June 2014: Report"
2015-04-29,German government lied to parliament over NSA economic espionage
2015-04-29,Hungary PM: bring back death penalty and build work camps for immigrants. Rightwing nationalist Viktor Orbn threatens to defy EU law and launches anti-immigration manifesto calling for internment camps for illegal immigrants
2015-04-29,"Russian officials have cancelled the registration of the political party led by Alexei Navalny, the anti-corruption activist who is one of President Vladimir Putin's most adamant critics"
2015-04-29,"Suicide is leading cause of death among South Korean teens, says report"
2015-04-29,French Muslim girl banned from class for wearing long skirt
2015-04-29,"European Court of Justice: Ban on Gay men giving blood ""may be justified"""
2015-04-29,Indonesia executes 8 drug convicts; Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso of the Philippines was spared
2015-04-29,New Saudi King Sacks Younger Brother In Major Royal Shake Up
2015-04-29,"Congo-Brazzaville president burns five tonnes of ivory in fight against poachers. Poachers in Africa are using cyanide, night-vision goggles and AK-47 rifles to keep up with demand in Thailand and China, where one elephants ivory can fetch $18,000. About 20,000 elephants were killed in 2013"
2015-04-29,Forest fire breaks out near Chernobyl nuclear plant - BBC News
2015-04-29,"Ukraines Security Service Takes Down 30,000 Websites to Fight Pro-Russian Propaganda  Global Voices"
2015-04-29,ISIS pushes west: There are increased signs that the self-proclaimed Islamic State has sets its sights on expanding its caliphate to Tunisia next.
2015-04-29,"Maus Book About Holocaust Is Removed in Russia:with concern over the dangers of fascism in Russia on the rise, the booksellers appeared to decide it was better to be safe than sorry."
2015-04-29,Saudi king replaces crown prince in cabinet reshuffle
2015-04-29,"Latvian PM: If Russia attacks NATO, the treaty will be enforced"
2015-04-29,Australia to withdraw ambassador to Indonesia over executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran
2015-04-29,"China awards model workers, urges stronger labor unions"
2015-04-29,Russian Cargo Ship Spinning Out of Control in Orbit [Video] - The Russian space agency Roscosmos is scrambling to regain control of a robotic Progress 59 cargo ship that appears to have suffered a serious malfunction shortly after launching into orbit early today
2015-04-29,"Saudi Arabia foils U.S. Embassy attack, arrests 93 suspects"
2015-04-29,Scottish National Party (SNP) set to win all Scots seats at general election
2015-04-29,"Russia Invites China to Join in Creating Lunar Station: ""The question is being discussed with Roscosmos on bringing China in as the main partner in creating a lunar scientific station. We have told China of our plans on the possibility of creating a Russian national orbital station,"" - Rogozin"
2015-04-28,Russia cuts nuclear arms stockpiles to minimal levels fulfilling all points of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons... making a considerable contribution to the process of comprehensive and complete disarmament.
2015-04-28,Jamaica Just Planted Its First Legal Marijuana Plant
2015-04-28,Vatican climate change summit to highlight moral duty for action. Francis has already said that he believes global warming is mostly man-made and that a Christian who does not protect Gods creation is a Christian who does not care about the work of God.
2015-04-28,Kurds are openly recruiting U.S. ex-military to fight ISIS
2015-04-28,"Thai customs seize 511 pieces of elephant ivory - The Three-tonne haul, marked as tea leaves from Kenya, is the second massive seizure in less than a week of elephant tusks from Africa bound for Laos."
2015-04-28,City of Kathmandu shifted 10 feet by earthquake
2015-04-28,"A fascinating new simulation finds that self-driving cars will transform cities: 90 percent of cars will be eliminated, acres of land will open up, and commute times will drop 10 percent."
2015-04-28,"HIV self-testing kit goes on sale in UK - BioSure is first legally approved self-testing kit, with 99.7% accuracy rate."
2015-04-28,"Salman Rushdie chastises authors protesting Charlie Hebdo tribute. ""It has everything to do with the battle against fanatical Islam, which is highly organized, well-funded, and which seeks to terrify us all, Muslims as well as non-Muslims, into a cowed silence."
2015-04-28,UN: Israeli military killed 44 Palestinians at UN shelters
2015-04-28,"By 2020, South Koreans will have a better standard of living than the French"
2015-04-28,Iran leads calls for Israel to give up nuclear weapons
2015-04-28,Australian reporter fired after tweeting that soldiers raped and pillaged during storied Gallipoli campaign
2015-04-28,When the Netherlands legalized same-sex marriage the divorce rate went down
2015-04-28,"Earthquake slid India up to 10 feet northwards in matter of seconds, says US scientist"
2015-04-28,"Nine await mass execution in Indonesia - Security at the prison was heightened and religious counselors, doctors and the firing squad were alerted to start final preparations for the execution of the four Nigerians, two Australians, an Indonesian, a Brazilian and a Filipina."
2015-04-28,"Humpback whale population grows, animals proposed to be removed from Endangered Species Act"
2015-04-28,The number of women in England and Wales becoming nuns hits 25-year high
2015-04-28,ISIS leader Baghdadi is reportedly 'unable to move' after a spinal injury
2015-04-28,"Nepal Earthquake Death Toll Hits 5,000 as Aid Starts Flowing In"
2015-04-28,"Former chief of France's far-right Front National, Jean-Marie Le Pen, hid 2.2 mn euros in Swiss account: Le Pen ""kept a hidden account at HSBC, as well as the (private Swiss) CBH bank through a trust placed under the legal responsibility of his butler, Gerald Gerin,"" the investigative website said."
2015-04-28,Libya: 6 beheaded TV crew members' bodies found near Bayda
2015-04-28,PSA Pentagon confirms the vessel detained by Iran was flagged to the Marshall Islands and that no Americans were on board.
2015-04-28,"3,512 killed in Saudi offensive: Yemen NGO"
2015-04-28,Former Romania president admits allowing CIA site
2015-04-27,"At least 3,218 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday"
2015-04-27,Scientists are turning salt water into drinking water using solar power
2015-04-27,China is building a Great Wall of Trees to fight climate change and the encroaching Gobi Desert - Reforestation efforts in China have helped offset about 85% of the loss in above-ground biomass carbon lost to tropical deforestation since 2003
2015-04-27,"On the heels of the Nepal earthquakes, New Land is rising out of the sea in Hokkaido Japan  Rose 50 feet (over 1,000 feet long) overnight"
2015-04-27,"Humanity won't survive another 1,000 years unless it escapes Earth, physicist Stephen Hawking warns"
2015-04-27,Iranian general: 'The house of Saud will be toppled'
2015-04-27,"Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has died, claims Radio Iran"
2015-04-27,Iranian leader: US 'oppresses' its black population: Khamenei tells police in Tehran that American law enforcement uses cruel might to suppress minorities
2015-04-27,Recession rich: Britain's wealthiest double net worth since crisis
2015-04-27,F-35 Engines From United Technologies Called Unreliable
2015-04-27,Large-scale Egyptian army massed for operation to capture eastern Libya from ISIS
2015-04-27,First HIV home test kit goes on sale in UK. People can see results in 15 min
2015-04-27,"Cuba to Export Cancer Vaccine to US, New York Governor Confirms"
2015-04-27,"Jimmy Carter to arrive in Gaza on Thursday, Will Meet with Hamas Officials"
2015-04-27,"Malaysian police have arrested 12 people linked to the militant group Islamic State and seized explosives, foiling a plan to attack several locations in and around the capital, which is hosting the ASEAN summit"
2015-04-27,Mass poisoning in Egypt sends 761 to the hospital.
2015-04-27,Israel to airlift 25 babies born to surrogates out of Nepal
2015-04-27,Five billion people 'have no access to safe surgery'
2015-04-27,"Nepal earthquake death toll tops 4,000"
2015-04-27,South Korea's Park accepts PM's resignation in illegal funds scandal
2015-04-27,"Massive protests in Guatemala City demand president, vice president resign over corruption scandal"
2015-04-27,Terrifying Video Captures the Moment an Avalanche Wiped Out the Mt. Everest Base Camp
2015-04-27,"Erdoan engages in war of words with new Turkish Cypriot leader  We paid a price for northern Cyprus. We gave martyrs and we continue to pay a price, for Turkey, northern Cyprus is our baby."
2015-04-27,Over 1300 Indians rescued so far; Fresh tremor of 5.4 magnitude in Kathmandu
2015-04-27,"Guantanamo ex-inmates demand housing, payment from US"
2015-04-26,"Nepal earthquake: Over 1800 people killed, 4700 injured, next 72 hours crucial"
2015-04-26,Japan plans to land rover on moon in 2018
2015-04-26,"The City of Vancouver now has 80 cannabis dispensaries, with no plans to shut them down. Rather the city plans to further regulate the businesses in absence of a transparent federal regulatory framework."
2015-04-26,"Nepal earthquake: Death toll passes 1,000"
2015-04-26,Climbers trapped on Mount Everest are getting desperate
2015-04-26,Thousands Gather in Istanbul to Demand Turkey Recognize Armenian Mass Killings as Genocide
2015-04-26,Nepal Earthquake Discussion Thread
2015-04-26,Christian Iranian Armenians rally in Tehran to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
2015-04-26,'Privacy isn't dead' Snowdens South American legacy grows as Brazils crypto movement marches on
2015-04-26,"Crisis, what crisis? Britain's richest double their wealth in 10 years"
2015-04-26,"Sabeen Mahmud, the woman behind Pakistan's first hackathon, shot dead in her car"
2015-04-26,Lord Janner's child sex abuse police cover up revealed in new evidence
2015-04-26,Putin accuses US of having had direct contacts with North Caucasus militants in early 2000's.
2015-04-26,German spy chief faces calls to resign following NSA revelations | German politicians have expressed outrage following reports that the German Intelligence Service helped the NSA in spying in Europe. The opposition wants the organization's chief Gerhard Schindler to resign.
2015-04-26,"Boko Haram seize Lake Chad island in Niger, many soldiers killed"
2015-04-26,Iranian ambassador to Australia says Australian jihadis in Iraq will 'get what they deserve'
2015-04-26,"More than 10,000 Australians and New Zealanders have stood together on the shores of the Gallipoli peninsula at a formal ceremony to honour the Anzac troops who fought and fell in Turkey a century ago."
2015-04-26,"Indigenous People Occupy Brazil's Legislature, Protesting Bill's Violation of Land Rights."
2015-04-26,Russia just unveiled its new Armata battle tank
2015-04-26,Law chief who decided not to prosecute Labour peer Lord Janner over alleged child sex abuse was at the same legal chambers as him
2015-04-26,Turkeys Erdogan slams nations recognizing Armenian genocide
2015-04-26,Boko Haram changes name to Islamic State in West Africa
2015-04-26,EU-US trade deal to undermine education as public good
2015-04-26,Russian special services recorded contacts between Caucasian militants and reps of U.S. special services in Azerbaijan
2015-04-26,Russian hackers reportedly obtained Obama's emails
2015-04-25,"An archaeologist has discovered liquid mercury at the end of a tunnel beneath a Mexican pyramid, a finding that could suggest the existence of a kings tomb or a ritual chamber far below one of the most ancient cities of the Americas."
2015-04-25,"Big Bank 'Crime of the Century' Results in Guess What? No Jail Time for Anyone: Despite severity of offenses, 'the government concluded that these crimes should be punished only through a financial penalty,' says Public Citizen"
2015-04-25,"Massive 7.4 Magnitude Earthquake in Nepal, Tremors Felt Across Northern India"
2015-04-25,"ISIS 'posing as gay men' to set honeytrap, then stone their victims to death"
2015-04-25,Armenian massacre remembrance sparks rift between Turkey and Europe
2015-04-25,"The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) announced it has lost patience with Japans continued use of dolphins from the fisheries drives at Taiji, Wakayama Prefecture, and suspended its Japanese member from its roster."
2015-04-25,A US activist group that has received funding from energy companies and the foundation controlled by conservative activist Charles Koch is trying to persuade the Vatican that there is no global warming crisis ahead of an environmental statement by Pope Francis
2015-04-25,Woman who hit Venezuelan president with mango rewarded with house
2015-04-25,Avalanche triggered by Nepal earthquake on Mount Everest has killed 8 people
2015-04-25,State of Emergency Declared as Third Eruption from Chile's Calbuco Volcano Blankets Area in More Ash
2015-04-25,"Russia knows genocide well, Turkey fires back"
2015-04-25,Angelina Jolie slams UN paralysis on Syrian refugees. Syrian ambassador replies: 'She's beautiful'
2015-04-25,"""One of Greece's largest banks says it will wipe away the debts of clients who owe up to 20,000 euros ($21,600)"""
2015-04-25,German Parliament Votes to Recognize Armenian Genocide
2015-04-25,"Free Speech activist, Sabeen Mahmud, shot dead in Pakistan after conducting a controversial seminar regarding intelligence agency's misdoings within the country"
2015-04-25,German Intelligence Agency BND Under Fire for NSA Cooperation
2015-04-25,Canadian student activist convicted of harassment for posting to Instagram a photo of graffiti she didn't even paint.
2015-04-25,Drone dumps traceble amounts of radiation on to Japanese PM office. This is after government gives ok to reopen nuclear power plants
2015-04-25,Wales to become first British country to have opt out for organ donation
2015-04-25,"A man in Obama, Fukui Prefecture,(Japan) turned himself in and was arrested Saturday on suspicion of having flown a drone that was found on the roof of the Prime Ministers Office: I flew the drone to the Prime Ministers Office to protest nuclear power generation."
2015-04-25,Indonesia Announces the Two Australian Bali Nine Ringleaders to be Executed in 72 hours
2015-04-25,"Russias Foremost Environmental Activist, in Exile: Oil Is At Fault For Everything."
2015-04-25,Night train kills 14 migrants 'sleeping' on Macedonia tracks
2015-04-25,Fleet of Iranian ships heading to Yemen turns around after being tracked by US warships
2015-04-25,"Renewable energy officially just overtook fossil fuels - According to a report presented in New York last week, we're now adding more capacity for renewable energy each year than coal, natural gas and oil combined"
2015-04-24,Ireland set to examine possibility of decriminalizing cannabis
2015-04-24,No swooshing: ISIS reportedly bans Nike because it sounds like sex in Arabic
2015-04-24,"An international team of scientists has sequenced the complete genome of the woolly mammoth. Now, with the publication is the complete genome, it could be a step closer to resurrecting the animal."
2015-04-24,"Cuba has had a lung cancer vaccine for years. With a thaw in relations between the US and Cuba, CimaVax and other breakthrough drugs developed in Cuba may soon be available to Americans."
2015-04-24,"Major Greek bank, Bank of Piraeus, to wipe debts of poorest clients"
2015-04-24,"An Islamic college in Australia is under investigation after claims that its principal has banned girls from taking part in running competitions because they might ""lose their virginity""."
2015-04-24,German President called the Ottoman Turks massacre of Armenians 'genocide'
2015-04-24,Solar Costing a Third of Retail Power Emerges in Germany. Germanys cost of producing solar energy has shrunk to about a third of the price households pay for power after the nation made developers compete for subsidies.
2015-04-24,"Mass strip search of U.S. students by Canadian guards broke policy, documents show"
2015-04-24,Russian president Putin calls 1915 Armenian killings genocide
2015-04-24,"Switzerland is 'world's happiest' country in new poll; Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada round out top 5."
2015-04-24,Muslim chooses to die alongside Christians
2015-04-24,Indian upper house unanimously passes bill to protect rights of transgenders
2015-04-24,Missing MH370 'found' with wreckage in the ocean thought to be from plane; but expert wants 1.3 Million to Take it Out
2015-04-24,"70 years later, a Korean comfort woman demands apology from Japan"
2015-04-24,"Adam Gadahn, American mouthpiece for al Qaeda, killed"
2015-04-24,"Poland Will Not Allow Russian Bikers to Enter Country: The Polish Foreign Ministry said Friday that it will not allow a Russian nationalistic motorcycle group loyal to President Vladimir Putin to enter Poland, in part because Polish authorities would not be able to guarantee their security."
2015-04-24,Iran transferring large amounts of cash to Hamas military wing
2015-04-24,Rocket hits southern Israel
2015-04-24,"The EU is considering the creation of a new regulator with the explicit remit to oversee internet firms such as Google and Facebook, according to a leaked document. A lack of action, it warns, may lead to a point of no return, where the economy becomes irrevocably tied to a few major companies."
2015-04-24,Northern Ireland's Health Minister says children raised by gay parents are 'far more likely' to be abused
2015-04-24,Montreal woman found guilty of criminal harassment after posting anti-police graffiti on Instagram
2015-04-24,"Erdogan: ""Turkey's Ancestors Never Committed Genocide"""
2015-04-24,"Hundreds of McDonald's fast-food restaurants in China, Japan, and across Europe are set to close after sales slump"
2015-04-24,Eighty percent of Venezuelans unable to fully afford basic food items due to high infaltion
2015-04-23,"Worlds most powerful telescope set to launch in 2018 - NASA is building the biggest telescope the world has ever seen, and it will give scientists the opportunity to 'see' cosmic events that occurred 13.5 billion years ago - just 220 million years following the Big Bang"
2015-04-23,Chinese scientists just admitted to tweaking the genes of human embryos for the first time in history
2015-04-23,EU leaders to declare: 'We cannot take more migrants'
2015-04-23,"Saudi Arabia has beheaded a second Indonesian maid this week despite protests from the Indonesian Government, which is itself facing fierce criticism for its failure to heed calls for clemency for a number of foreigners on death row"
2015-04-23,"Pro-Russian rebels have shelled Ukrainian army positions east of the key city of Mariupol in breach of a ceasefire deal, the BBC has witnessed."
2015-04-23,"Bees may become addicted to nicotine-like pesticides, study finds. Bees have a preference for sugar solutions laced with the pesticides, scientists say, as a separate landmark field trial show neonicotinoids harm bee population."
2015-04-23,Australia pays $4 million for Bjrn Lomborgs flawed methods that downgrade climate change. Climate change contrarian Bjrn Lomborgs think tank methods have no academic credibility says leading climate economist
2015-04-23,AdBlock Plus defeats German publishers in court
2015-04-23,Putin and Austria name 1915 killings genocide
2015-04-23,Revealed: child sex abuse gang 'with tentacles that go round the world' | UK news
2015-04-23,"Sony executives were concerned about a news report that showed one of its cameras being used to guide Israeli rockets bombing Gaza, company correspondence shows."
2015-04-23,Red alert issued as Chile volcano erupts
2015-04-23,Deutsche Bank to Pay $2.5 Billion Fine to Settle Rate-Rigging Case: The record fine will be paid to U.S. and British authorities to settle accusations that the bank helped manipulate the benchmarks used to set interest rates on trillions of dollars in mortgages and other debt.
2015-04-23,Chinese experts say North Koreas nuclear arsenal is bigger than anyone thought
2015-04-23,"U.S. Operations Killed Two Hostages Held By Al-Qaida, Including American : The Two-Way : NPR"
2015-04-23,"Nigerian forces invade last known stronghold of Boko Haram | Nigerian forces backed by warplanes invaded Islamist group Boko Haram's last known stronghold, the Sambisa forest, on Wednesday, in an effort to finally defeat their six-year-old insurgency, two military sources said."
2015-04-23,ISIS replace injured caliph position with a former physics teacher who is said to be currently ruling over the group.
2015-04-23,Pagan church - now legally recognised in Northern Ireland - is branching out
2015-04-23,'We will destroy ISIS': Iranian militia vows to fight terror group
2015-04-23,European Parliament study: EU should finance key open source tools
2015-04-23,"Most migrants crossing Mediterranean will be sent back, EU leaders to agree"
2015-04-23,Chinese nuclear experts have warned that North Korea may already have 20 nuclear warheads and the capability to produce enough weapons-grade uranium to double its arsenal by next year
2015-04-23,"Parents of UK's youngest organ donor hope others will be inspired | He died within two hours of being born, but his kidneys were used to save the life of an adult patient with renal failure."
2015-04-23,Saudi Arabia Bombs Yemen Hours After Declaring Campaigns End
2015-04-23,A sexual harassment complaint has been filed against New Zealand Prime Minister John Key after a waitress complained about him repeatedly pulling her ponytail at an Auckland cafe
2015-04-22,Austria Recognizes Armenian Genocide
2015-04-22,"Man forms tiny European nation, 160,000 sign up to become citizens"
2015-04-22,Russia to close 40% of universities by the end of 2016
2015-04-22,President Barack Obama will not use the word genocide to describe the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians in his annual statement commemorating the historic atrocity
2015-04-22,International Poll Shows Millennials Have Positive Opinion of Snowden | ACLU released the results of a poll showing that majorities of millennials familiar with Snowden have an overwhelmingly positive opinion of him and believe that his disclosures will lead to greater privacy protections
2015-04-22,"Russia: IS group is 'Russia's greatest enemy', not U.S."
2015-04-22,"Czech President: Russia is unlikely to launch a military thrust against the Baltics because President Vladimir Putin ""is not suicidal"""
2015-04-22,60 girls commit suicide every month after being sexually abused by IS jihadists
2015-04-22,"Ex-Nazi 'bookkeeper of Auschwitz' asks for 'forgiveness' - 93yo Former SS on trial for 300,000 counts of ""accessory to murder"""
2015-04-22,Leading scientists say 75% of known fossil fuels must stay underground.
2015-04-22,Staff at Windsor Castle go on strike for first time in 900 years
2015-04-22,TTIP leak: EU member state legislative initiatives will have to be vetted for potential impacts on private business interests
2015-04-22,France police foil 'church attack plot'
2015-04-22,Mass surveillance practices endanger fundamental human rights and divert resources that might prevent terrorist attacks - Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
2015-04-22,"HSBC Warns Clients of Fossil Fuel Investment Risks. Analysts warn of the growing likelihood that fossil fuel companies may become economically non-viable, as people move away from carbon energy and fossil fuels are left in the ground."
2015-04-22,"Macedonia said on Tuesday 40 armed men in camouflage uniforms and speaking Albanian had crossed from neighboring Kosovo and taken several police officers hostage overnight, calling for the creation of ""an Albanian state"""
2015-04-22,Denmark bans bestiality in move against animal sex tourism
2015-04-22,China Plans to Build a Modern Version of the Silk Road and Transform Global Trade Routes through Pakistan and Beyond
2015-04-22,Right to privacy 'could be meaningless in 10 years under Tory and Labour plans' | Campaigners say both parties manifestos would extend powers of security agencies with pledges that are totally out of step with public opinion
2015-04-22,Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave the first official Russian estimate of the cost Western sanctions will exact on Russia's economy in 2015--$106 billion
2015-04-22,"""Fascist Erdoan"" said a lawyer and sent to jail for insulting him."
2015-04-22,"Over the past 450 million years, life on Earth has been devastated by five mass extinction events that are widely recognised by geologists. Now, an international team of researchers proposes adding a sixth mass extinction to the list"
2015-04-22,NZ Prime Minister apologizes for repeatedly pulling waitress' ponytail
2015-04-22,Former CIA contractor speaks out about interrogation techniques
2015-04-22,One-man home trader 'helped to trigger 500BILLION stock market crash from this Hounslow semi': London man held for causing 'Wall Street chaos'
2015-04-21,"Astronomers have discovered what they say is the largest known structure in the universe: an incredibly big hole. The supervoid, as it is known, is a spherical blob 1.8 billion light years across that is distinguished by its unusual emptiness."
2015-04-21,North Korean defector says 'The Interview' could push North Korean citizens to revolt
2015-04-21,Australian Universities are pressuring academics to pass international students despite poor English and plagiarism.
2015-04-21,Outage hits pumps at Fukushima plant; toxic water leaks into ocean
2015-04-21,China Adds Solar Power the Size of France in First Quarter: Chinas solar installations in the first quarter were almost equal to Frances entire supply of power from the sun. China connected 5.04 gigawatts of solar capacity
2015-04-21,"Newly Leaked TTIP Draft Reveals Far-Reaching Assault on US/EU Democracy:Mammoth deal an even greater boon to corporate power than previously known, warn analysts."
2015-04-21,Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record with 600km/h test run | World news
2015-04-21,Frances National Assembly shows support for legalization of Edward Snowden-style whistleblowing
2015-04-21,"Mexican cartel hitwoman 'La Flaca' found dismembered, stuffed in cooler"
2015-04-21,Russian Trade With the World Falls 30% as Economic Crisis Deepens
2015-04-21,France Won't Back Down After Vatican Rejects Its Gay Ambassador
2015-04-21,Former Egyptian President Morsi Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
2015-04-21,Saudi king issues a royal decree stating that the Saudi National Guard will participate in ground operations in Yemen
2015-04-21,Prime Minister Netanyahu refuses to meet Jimmy Carter over his 'anti Israel stance'
2015-04-21,The Pentagon has confirmed today that the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the cruiser USS Normandy have moved into the Arabian Sea because of the deteriorating security situation in Yemen
2015-04-21,"""Israeli bulldozers demolished homes in the Bedouin village of al-Araqib village in the Negev for the 83rd time on Monday"
2015-04-21,"Germany defies Turkey, calls Armenian massacre 'genocide': Germany abruptly shifted its policy Monday from a steadfast refusal to use the term ""genocide"" to describe the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turkish forces 100 years ago"
2015-04-21,"Japanese magnetic levitation train has broken its own world speed record, hitting 603km/h (374mph) in a test run near Mount Fuji."
2015-04-21,"Five men have been sentenced to prison in Norway for organising an illegal wolf hunt, in the country's first prosecution of such a case."
2015-04-21,Egyptian naval forces have reportedly opened fire on Palestinian fishing boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip
2015-04-21,"Chevron's Contamination in Ecuador ""Just Scratches the Surface,"" a New Report Finds"
2015-04-21,"Iranian authorities are charging The Washington Posts Tehran bureau chief, Jason Rezaian, with espionage and three other serious crimes, including collaborating with hostile governments and propaganda against the establishment"
2015-04-21,Rail gun tipped to alter Taiwans defense abilities against China
2015-04-21,India says it seized heroin believed to be worth nearly $100 million from boat
2015-04-21,China just let part of a state-owned company default for the first time ever
2015-04-20,"ISIS, Taliban announced Jihad against each other - Khaama Press (KP)"
2015-04-20,Mexican Police Capture Leader of Jurez Cartel
2015-04-20,Canadian insurer Grey Power denies flooded home claim for senior who was away for cancer treatment due to 'leaving the home unattended for more than 4 days'
2015-04-20,Germany plans for the first time to officially recognize the killing of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Turkish regime 100 years ago as genocide.
2015-04-20,Bell faces $750-million lawsuit over tracking of customers cellphone Internet usage
2015-04-20,UN: Slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians is not genocide
2015-04-20,Pesticide the likely cause of Nigeria 'mystery disease'
2015-04-20,Syrian Government:''We are ready to discuss Autonomy for the Syrian Kurds and Syrian Kurdistan.''
2015-04-20,"Prominent Russian Environmental Activist Flees to Estonia:""Above all I decided to take my main weak spot  my children  out of Russia,"" Chirikova was quoted ....""Russia is a country of resources, and environmentalists are the main enemy of the established regime of the natural resources oligarchy."""
2015-04-20,"Norway asks Moscow to explain visit from banned minister. Dmitry Rogozin posted pictures of himself on Svalbard island, despite being on list of people banned after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine."
2015-04-20,Bitter and unemployed officer under Saddam Hussein drew up Islamic State master plan
2015-04-20,Fury in Russia as Israel declines to send high-level official to WWII commemoration. Responses in Moscow have suggested that the decision was a reaction to Russia's sale of S-300 missile defense systems to Iran.
2015-04-20,Ukraine to rewrite Soviet history with controversial 'decommunisation' laws: The laws ban Nazi and Communist symbols and the public denial of the criminal nature of the Communist totalitarian regime 19171991; replace the Soviet term great patriotic war with the European second world war ...
2015-04-20,"M 6.8 Earthquake, 71km E of Hualian, Taiwan"
2015-04-20,Al Jazeera suspended for 5 days by India's Broadcast Ministry for not showing all of Kashmir as part of Indian territory
2015-04-20,Novelist Haruki Murakami: Japan must apologize for WWII until it is forgiven
2015-04-20,14-year-old boy from UK arrested over terror plot in Australia.
2015-04-20,Millionaire businessman wins Finland election
2015-04-20,Iran says won't accept forced deportees from Australia
2015-04-20,Tsunami warning after 6.6 magnitude quake in Japan
2015-04-20,"Report: high-ranking Hamas official arrested in Saudi Arabia | Terror organizations treasurer abroad accused by authorities of money laundering, smuggling"
2015-04-20,Oil companies' sponsorship of the arts 'is cynical PR strategy' | Campaigner says attempts by oil companies such as BP and Shell to artwash their image are done simply to gain prestige and nullify local protests
2015-04-20,Syrian President Bashar Al Assad:'' Our Intelligence Service and The French Intelligence Service are in direct contact with each other''
2015-04-20,Big tobacco quietly battling religious opposition to smoking in key Muslim markets: Canadian study
2015-04-20,"Thousands of dead fish have been rotting for a week in the 2016 Olympics' host's Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, where rowing and kayaking events will take place."
2015-04-19,76 people accounted for 41% of all individual and corporate donations made to the political parties and other political causes in Britain over the past five years
2015-04-19,"Thousands in Germany protest against TTIP | Thousands of people marched in Berlin, Munich and other German cities in protest against planned free trade deal between Europe and the United States that they fear will erode food, labor and environmental standards"
2015-04-19,Canada charges four British Navy sailors over 'gang rape'
2015-04-19,Ban on small screaming children by Canadian restaurant stokes outrage and support; barrage of hate and threats forces restaurant to reverse the policy and plea for forgiveness.
2015-04-19,Vaccination crackdown: Australia announces end to religious exemptions
2015-04-19,"Poland will summon the United States' ambassador in Warsaw over an article written by a top U.S. intelligence official on Poland's alleged responsibility for the Holocaust during World War Two, a foreign ministry spokesman said"
2015-04-19,"Canadians rally nationwide against Bill C-51; ""anti-terror"" bill up for final vote soon."
2015-04-19,Hundreds of people are feared to have drowned after a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea
2015-04-19,Norway to switch off FM radio in 2017
2015-04-19,Mexicos Supreme Court says laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are discriminatory
2015-04-19,Isis in new video Shows Libyan Militants Executing 16 Ethiopian Coptic Christians
2015-04-19,"The world's most polluted city, New Dehli; with air pollution as India's second biggest killer."
2015-04-19,"Canadian govt 'Strong Proud Free' slogan can't be explained because it's a secret; 149-page proposal labelled 'advice to Cabinet,' won't be revealed for two decades"
2015-04-19,"China cracks down on ""Sport of Millionaires"" closing golf courses nationwide"
2015-04-19,New evidence has shown that early Britons ate each other's remains and drank from skulls
2015-04-19,700 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean shipwreck | World news
2015-04-19,"Canadian ""anti-terror"" Bill C-51 opposition tweeted by celebrated author Margaret Atwood"
2015-04-19,Russian Archeologists Unearth 'White Walls' of Ancient Memphis
2015-04-19,Margaret Atwood & Sarah harmer-two prominent Canadians speak out against Bill C51 dubbed the 'Canadian Patriot Act'
2015-04-19,New Zealand Plotted Hack on China With NSA
2015-04-19,Chemical Weapons Used by Saudi Arabia in Yemen Kill Scores of Civilians
2015-04-19,Poland to demand apology after FBI chief accused country of Holocaust role
2015-04-19,World's top Holocaust deniers... filmed at secret race hate rally where Jews are referred to as the 'enemy'
2015-04-19,Germanwings Crash Exposes Industry Denial on Pilot Suicide
2015-04-19,'Isis' among names removed from UN list of hurricane names
2015-04-18,"French tourists fined after being found guilty of setting ""world's happiest animal"" quokka on fire"
2015-04-18,Game Hunter Ian Gibson Trampled To Death By Elephant
2015-04-18,Vaccination now mandatory for all children in Serbia
2015-04-18,"Japanese population falls to 15-year low. ""The number of people aged 65 or over ... now outnumber those aged 14 or younger by two to one."""
2015-04-18,Obama says no greater threat to planet than climate change
2015-04-18,Scotland sees 80% drop in plastic bag usage and >1m raised for charities since introduction of 5p charge 6 months ago
2015-04-18,The Gulf Oil Spill You Never Heard About May Be the Largest Ever: The AP charges that Taylor Energy Company 'has downplayed the leak's extent and environmental impact'
2015-04-18,Norway approves mine's controversial plan to dump waste into fjord - Activists promise protests after govt green lights plan for mineral mine to dump millions of tons of tailings at spawning grounds for cod & salmon
2015-04-18,"Egypt strikes Islamic texts from schools, angering Salafists"
2015-04-18,Japans Maglev Train Hits World Record 366 Miles Per Hour (590 KPH)
2015-04-18,Sixteen EU states have said products made by Israeli settlers should be marked in shops so that European consumers can decide whether to boycott them
2015-04-18,Russian opposition parties form anti-Putin alliance
2015-04-18,"The leader of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, launched his harshest criticism yet of Saudi Arabia on Friday lashing out at Saudi Arabia's strict ultraconservative Wahhabi brand of Sunni Islam, which has been adopted as the ideology of militant groups such as al-Qaida and the Islamic State."
2015-04-18,"Last month was the hottest March worldwide since record keeping began in 1880, and the first three months of 2015 also set a new heat record, US government scientists said Friday."
2015-04-18,Cuba's love for Obama swells as diplomatic relations with America normalizes
2015-04-18,A Ukrainian nationalist group has said it was behind the deaths of two public figures in Kiev earlier this week.
2015-04-18,"Four companies and five people have been charged with illegally exporting high-tech microelectronics, uninterruptible power supplies and other products to Iran through Taiwan and Turkey"
2015-04-18,A UK Green Party parliamentary candidate is facing a backlash after reportedly calling Israel a racist and apartheid state.
2015-04-18,Protesters vow to fight Spain's controversial 'gag laws' | Activists in Spain are drumming up support to fight a series of controversial laws aimed at curbing protests in the country. The UN and human rights groups say the laws violate fundamental rights and freedoms.
2015-04-18,[Graphic] Horrifying Videos Shown at UN Display Carnage of Suspected Chlorine Attacks in Syria
2015-04-18,Chimps in Senegal found to fashion spears for hunting
2015-04-18,HBO Now cuts off paying subscribers in Australia using geo-unlocking
2015-04-18,Indian Companies Turn Against Facebooks Scheme for Broader Internet Access: Zuckerbergs plan to make Internet access more widely available faces a public backlash in India
2015-04-18,Russian president Putin says he is ready to work with United States
2015-04-18,"'Where are Aborigines, where are Redskins,' Turkish PM asks West"
2015-04-17,"France wants to fight terrorism by spying on everyone - Prime minister says proposed surveillance law 'is not a French Patriot Act,' but civil liberties groups say it goes too far"
2015-04-17,"Italian police: Migrants threw Christians overboard | Muslims who were among migrants trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow passengers overboard -- killing them -- because the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday."
2015-04-17,Islamic State's Pakistan chief killed while planting bomb
2015-04-17,"UK Lord, Janner, will not be charged despite evidence of child abuse"
2015-04-17,US troops arrive in Ukraine for training exercises
2015-04-17,"Swedish robot that bought MDMA, passport and baseball cap is released by police"
2015-04-17,"New York University's own investigator has discovered that approximately 10,000 mostly foreign workers who built NYU's Abu Dhabi campus lacked the labor protections NYU had stipulated and many workers, had their passports confiscated and held by their employers"
2015-04-17,"Abbott govt gives $4m to help climate contrarian set up Australian center - Bjrn Lomborg given money to set up a consensus center. Says climate change is not a top-priority problem & is overstated, that subsidies for renewable energy make no sense."
2015-04-17,Israeli Supreme Court rules: Israel can confiscate Palestinian property in Jerusalem
2015-04-17,WikiLeaks republishes all documents from Sony hacking scandal | Julian Assange says data belongs in the public domain and says hacked files shed light on extent of cooperation between government and Hollywood
2015-04-17,Sony execs lobbied Netflix to stop VPN users
2015-04-17,Footage of Syrian gas attack deaths brings UN Security council to tears
2015-04-17,Not enough is being done to protect Christians in Middle East - Putin
2015-04-17,"Gibraltar: If Britain Leaves the EU, We Will Stay in it"
2015-04-17,"Izzat al-Douri, a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and a key aide of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been killed"
2015-04-17,Earthworms rain from sky over Norway
2015-04-17,Iranian mullahs call for emancipation of Mecca and Medina from Saudi Arabia.
2015-04-17,"Hamas official calls to abduct Israelis, swap for Palestinians"
2015-04-17,Russian police raid offices of Putin critic Khodorkovsky
2015-04-17,A Saudi citizen was executed Wednesday for drug trafficking. He was the 61st person executed in the kingdom so far this year.
2015-04-17,China's Defense Ministry complained on Friday that Japanese surveillance activities threatened the safety of Chinese ships and aircraft
2015-04-17,US Sends Mysterious 150 Tons of 'Diplomatic Mail' to Embassy in Kyrgyzstan
2015-04-17,"Shops set ablaze, looted as xenophobic attacks spread in South Africa"
2015-04-17,EU looks at mandatory breathalyzer fittings for all cars.
2015-04-17,Assyrian genocide memorial in Bonnyrigg Australia vandalised
2015-04-16,Japan overtakes China as top holder of US Treasury Debt
2015-04-16,Ousted Ukraine president's ally found shot dead in Kiev home | Oleg Kalashnikov was a member of Viktor Yanukovychs parliament; Six Yanukovych-era government officials have died over last two months
2015-04-16,"Ukrainian journalist Oles Buzina, a vocal critic of current Ukrainian govt, was murdered in Kiev."
2015-04-16,"A book on Islamophobia written by late Charlie Hebdo editor Charb, completed two days before he was killed in an attack on the weekly's Paris offices on January 7, is to be published on Thursday"
2015-04-16,BP dropped green energy projects worth billions to focus on fossil fuels
2015-04-16,European Parliament passes bill urging Turkey to acknowledge the atrocities committed against Armenians bewteen 1915-1917 as a Genocide
2015-04-16,A 250-year-old leather dildo has been discovered by archaeologists in an ancient toilet in Poland.
2015-04-16,Czech proclaims new sovereign state between Serbia and Croatia on 7 sq kms of no-mans land which was not claimed by either nation
2015-04-16,Malawi leader signs bill raising marriage age to 18
2015-04-16,World Bank breaks its own rules as 3.4 million people are forced off their land
2015-04-16,"Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu blamed the United States and its allies for the conflict in Ukraine, saying their drive to bring Kiev closer to the West was a threat to Moscow and had forced it to react."
2015-04-16,Japan scrambles fighters at near-unprecedented levels in response to foreign aircraft - mainly Russian and Chinese - approaching its airspace.
2015-04-16,Former IMF chief under investigation for money laundering
2015-04-16,Mexico Issues Alert In 5 States Over Stolen Radioactive Material Iridium-192
2015-04-16,Israel joins Chinese infrastructure bank despite US opposition.
2015-04-16,Municipalities across Canada drop public prayers the day after Canadian Supreme Court unanimously strikes down public prayer in Quebec ruling.
2015-04-16,The king of Spain receives a Game of Thrones DVD set as present from anti-monarchical politician
2015-04-16,"French government is currently passing a bill of ""global surveillance"" on internet."
2015-04-16,Greece in talks with Russia to buy missiles for S-300
2015-04-16,"Iran ready to cooperate with Russia, China, and India to oppose NATO expansion eastwards, says Iranian defense minister Hossein Dehghan"
2015-04-16,Ukrainian parliament recognizes militia that collaborated with Nazis - Diaspora
2015-04-16,France Stands Firm Over Gay Ambassador to Vatican
2015-04-16,Ukraine Security Chief Blasted for Targeting Jews
2015-04-16,"Pope Francis: Gender theory is the problem, not the solution"
2015-04-16,South African mobs with machetes target foreigners - CNN.com
2015-04-15,Obama Removes Cuba From State Sponsor of Terror List
2015-04-15,"Iran leader: We are in talks with the major powers, not the U.S. Congress."
2015-04-15,"After 5 billion km journey New Horizons probe sights Pluto and moon, captures the first colour image of distant dwarf planet."
2015-04-15,"Lobbyists threaten European democracy, anti-graft body says: Lack of control over lobbyists threatens to undermine European democracies, the anti-corruption pressure group Transparency International said on Wednesday, as it called for tight new regulation."
2015-04-15,Drone delivering asparagus to Dutch restaurant crashes and bursts into flames
2015-04-15,Seoul to adopt urban agriculture by introducing vertical farms
2015-04-15,Egypt: Gay foreigners can be banned from entry or deported
2015-04-15,Turkish President Erdogan says any decision by EU Parliament on the Armenian killings in 1915 will go in one ear and out the other ear.
2015-04-15,Israel May Send Arms to Ukraine if Russia Delivers S-300 to Iran
2015-04-15,"Chinese island-building in the South China Sea is causing ""irreversible and widespread damage to biodiversity and ecological balance,"" according to the Philippines; Manila accused China of disregarding the people who rely on the sea by destroying coral reefs to create new islands."
2015-04-15,"Fearful immigrants shut Johannesburg shops as anti-foreigner violence rages | Immigrants in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa's biggest commercial city, shut their shops as a wave of anti-foreigner violence that has killed four people near the city of Durban threatened to spread, police said"
2015-04-15,Saudi Arabia Beheads Indonesian Domestic Help who Killed 'Abusive Employer'
2015-04-15,Centuries of Italian history are unearthed in quest to fix a toilet
2015-04-15,Japan  first images released from inside a melted reactor at Fukushima nuclear plant.
2015-04-15,"SpaceX fails in third attempt to land reusable Falcon 9 rocket on barge - Rocket landed on droneship, but too hard for survival, tweets Elon Musk, CEO of the private space company, minutes after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida"
2015-04-15,"Prime Minister Modi says India must lead on climate change. Modi was an early advocate of solar technology, and his government has pledged to increase its solar-generated capacity to 100 gigawatts and its wind capacity to 60 gigawatts by 2022."
2015-04-15,Swiss Banks are Trying to Strong-Arm American Clients into Divulging Offshore Wealth to Avoid Massive Fines
2015-04-15,"Germany assures Estonia of NATO backing | Russia's annexation of Crimea has worried former Soviet satellite states. In a show of solidarity, Germany's defense minister has travelled to Baltic nations to pledge support."
2015-04-15,"Condom of the future? Scientists developing latex replacement that self-lubricates, delivers Viagra and feels better than nothing at all - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk"
2015-04-15,Russia tells Sweden that hunting for its submarines is a mindless waste of Swedish taxpayer money
2015-04-15,EU Files Antitrust Charges Against Google
2015-04-15,400 migrants dead in shipwreck off Libya
2015-04-15,'Marking bias boosts girls' maths in French schools'
2015-04-15,Facebook chat privacy and scans: CIA-backed company might spy on chats
2015-04-15,"34million hoard of silver coins sent to the bottom of the sea by the Nazis is discovered aboard sunken steamboat at a record depth of 17,000ft by British treasure hunters"
2015-04-14,A federal judge in Washington handed down a life sentence to the first of four Blackwater Worldwide guards to be sentenced in the 2007 shooting that killed 14 unarmed Iraqis and injured others in a Baghdad traffic circle.
2015-04-14,South Korean businessman commits suicide leaving behind a list of supposed brides he has paid to politicians. List includes current Prime Minister and two former Chiefs of Staff.
2015-04-14,Liquid Medical Marijuana Shows Promise Against Severe Epilepsy
2015-04-14,World's first cloned camel becomes six years old and pregnant
2015-04-14,Supreme Court of Canada declares Canadian legislation requiring mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes is unconstitutional.
2015-04-14,London gay cure event cancelled after thousands complain
2015-04-14,Israel among the least religious countries in the world
2015-04-14,Tumbling interest rates in Europe leaves some banks OWING money on loans to borrowers
2015-04-14,A former Blackwater guard has been sentenced to life in prison and three others to 30 years over the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007. Nicholas Slatten and three others were convicted last year for the killings in Baghdad's crowded Nisoor Square.
2015-04-14,Israel thwarts Hamas shooting attack plan
2015-04-14,Report: Greece is getting ready to default
2015-04-14,Panel deems Japanese Antarctic whaling plan unconvincing; lacks a convincing explanation of why it needs to kill the mammals.
2015-04-14,"A Demand For Net Neutrality Roils India, Campaign Reaches Crescendo: 400,000 emails in the past three days asking to safeguard internet neutrality have been sent to the countrys telecom regulator (TRAI), which is currently being bombarded at the rate of 10,000 mails per minute"
2015-04-14,German Chancellor Angela Merkel urges unified approach to removal of sanctions against Iran
2015-04-14,Kerry thanks Russia for its assistance in evacuating Americas from Yemen
2015-04-14,Radiation at Fukushima reactor measured high enough to kill a person within one hour
2015-04-14,"Chile's President Michelle Bachelet Signs Same-Sex Civil Union Law, starting in 6 months Same-Sex couples will be able to inherit each other's property, join a partner's health plan, and receive pension benefits"
2015-04-14,"A draconian cybercrime law is on the cards in Pakistan that can see internet users imprisoned and fined for sharing information that the government deems inappropriate, vulgar, or ""against the glory of Islam"""
2015-04-14,"Scrap fossil fuel subsidies now and bring in carbon tax, says World Bank chief"
2015-04-14,Turkish President Erdoan warns Pope Francis not to repeat mistake about Armenian claims
2015-04-14,"An IDF soldier from a West Bank settlement was indicted Monday for espionage, and is accused of passing information of future IDF actions to far-right settlers."
2015-04-14,Serious flaw found in nuclear plant under construction in France
2015-04-14,"Stung by Popes Remarks on Armenian Genocide, Turkish Minister Insults Argentina"
2015-04-14,UK opposes international ban on developing 'killer robots'
2015-04-14,Turkish hackers hit the Vaticans website after Pope Francis referred to the mass killings of Armenians by Turks as a genocide
2015-04-13,"IKEA Will Produce & Ship 10,000 Flat-Pack Emergency Shelters Around the World"
2015-04-13,"Russia has started supplying grains, equipment and construction materials to Iran in exchange for crude oil under a barter deal, worth up to $20 billion"
2015-04-13,UK ranked among least religious countries in world
2015-04-13,Nasa's Curiosity rover finds water below surface of Mars
2015-04-13,"China ranked least religious country in world at 7% (who consider themselves) religious and 61% convinced atheist, Thailand ranked first as most religious country at 94%"
2015-04-13,"In a Canadian first, mental health workers accompany police on emergency calls."
2015-04-13,"Obama meets Raul Castro in high level US-Cuba talks - The Cold War is over ... Cuba is not a threat to the United States, Obama later told reporters, pointing out that at 53, he wasnt even born when Castro and his brother Fidel seized power in the 1959 Cuban revolution"
2015-04-13,Some backpackers in Aus tried to set a quokka on fire.
2015-04-13,The NSA wants tech companies to give it 'front door' access to encrypted data
2015-04-13,Exclusive: Isis Sniper Guns Down 13-Year-Old Girl Fleeing Yarmouk Camp
2015-04-13,Russian navy ship evacuated 308 people of various nationalities from war-torn Yemen  including Americans
2015-04-13,Iran suspends Umrah Hajj pilgrimage after Saudi officials Sexually Assault two teen girls
2015-04-13,The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that women should give birth by Cesarean section only if it is an absolute medical necessity.
2015-04-13,"Russia detects spy satellites disguised as space junk, commander says | The Japan Times"
2015-04-13,Saudi Arabia lawyers deny kingdom helped 9/11 hijackers
2015-04-13,Polish Prince challenges UKIP's Nigel Farage to swordfight over Farage's views on immigraton
2015-04-13,Oldest DNA taken from Neanderthal who fell into well
2015-04-13,"Indians rally for Internet freedom, send over 1 lakh emails to TRAI for net neutrality"
2015-04-13,Mandarin to be introduced in South African schools
2015-04-13,RT: Putin lifts ban on delivery of advanced S-300 anti-air missile systems to Iran
2015-04-13,"China is keeping the door open for the U.S. to join its new development bank anytime, after the Obama administration failed to persuade most allies to snub the lender."
2015-04-13,Chess Grandmaster Used Phone In Toilet To Cheat
2015-04-13,Beijing to limit Hong Kong visits by mainland Chinese
2015-04-13,"China's reclamation work in the South China Sea had destroyed about 300 acres (1.2 sq km) of coral reef, causing annual estimated losses of US$100 million (S$ 1.36 million) to coastal nations."
2015-04-13,"Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared Sunday that anyone convicted of digging tunnels into Gaza from Sinai or of assisting in such activity would face a death sentence, according to a report on Israel's Channel 1 TV."
2015-04-12,"In a world first, Australia introduces 'no jab, no pay' policy. Those families who don't immunise will lose welfare benefits"
2015-04-12,"Russia has refused to hand over to Poland the wreckage of a Polish government airliner five years after it crashed in western Russia killing Polands president, Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and dozens of the countrys political, military and civil elite"
2015-04-12,"Turkey anger at Pope Francis Armenian 'genocide' claim. Turkey has summoned the Vatican ambassador after Pope Francis used the word ""genocide""."
2015-04-12,Fukushima Robot Dies Three Hours After Entering Radioactive Reactor Vessel
2015-04-12,Pope Calls Armenian Slaughter '1st Genocide of 20th Century'
2015-04-12,Islamic militants attack South Korean embassy in Libya
2015-04-12,"Raul Castro Says Cuba Blockade Not Obama's Fault - ""I apologize to him ... "" ""In my opinion, President Obama is an honest man,"" Castro said"
2015-04-12,Russia Apprehensive as Sweden and Finland Move Closer to NATO
2015-04-12,Bangladesh hangs top Islamist leader -- oversaw a massacre during the nation's 1971 independence war against Pakistan
2015-04-12,Pope Francis rejects gay French envoy Laurent Stefanini to Vatican
2015-04-12,IS Turns Ancient Assyrian City Of Nimrud Into Dust
2015-04-12,Nun Sets Herself on Fire to Protest Chinese Rule in Tibet
2015-04-12,Two French tourists charged after allegedly burning a quokka
2015-04-12,"Russian Media Made Up Story About Child Killed in Ukraine, Says BBC"
2015-04-12,Russian navy evacuates over 300 from Yemen
2015-04-12,"After deploying 3,000 troops and spending hundreds of millions of dollars, only 28 Ebola patients have been treated at the 11 centers built by the American military in Liberia"
2015-04-12,46 Ukrainian banks declare insolvency:Dozens of Ukrainian banks have reportedly gone bankrupt over the course of one year.
2015-04-12,More than 100 hand grenades and around a dozen automatic weapons on their way to Stockholm were confiscated on Friday when Bosnian police swooped down in on a weapons ring that had been on law enforcements radar since last year.
2015-04-12,German foreign minister rejects calls to invite Putin to G7 talks
2015-04-12,South African Author ZP Dala Reportedly Taken to Mental Institution After Refusing to Renounce Salman Rushdie Comments
2015-04-12,Raul Castro: The United States owes a historic debt to Cuba
2015-04-12,Saudi border guards killed in mortar attack
2015-04-12,Canada's biggest uranium producer Cameco to supply Nuclear Fuel to India
2015-04-12,ISIS fighters blindfold gay man and stone him to death.
2015-04-12,"Coast Guard, Ottawa defend Vancouver fuel spill response - 7 hrs after toxic fuel leak on English Bay was 1st reported, a boom was set up around the affected vessel  a response the citys mayor & B.C. Premier call inadequate, although the Coast Guard says it was exceptional."
2015-04-11,Australian government set to announce anti vaccination parents will lose social benefits.
2015-04-11,Whale & dolphin meat sold by Yahoo! Japan 'exceeds safe mercury limits' - Samples tested by Environmental Investigation Agency contained mercury levels up to 47 times higher than recommended safe level
2015-04-11,Irish company turns anti-gay pamphlets into confetti for LGBT weddings; 'Shred of Decency' campaign sells confetti made from '100% recycled lies'
2015-04-11,"Cops in Malawi ordered to shoot anyone attacking albinos, who are prized for their limbs as good luck charms."
2015-04-11,India's rich temples may open gold vaults for PM Modi : Treasure of gold worth an estimated $20 billion was discovered in secret subterranean vaults in the Sree Padmanabha Swamy temple in Kerala state
2015-04-11,Obama and Castro shake hands as U.S. and Cuba seek better ties.
2015-04-11,Peru Turns to Ancient Aqueducts to Prevent Droughts:One of the worlds driest cities is attempting to solve its water problems by reviving its ancient network of waterways
2015-04-11,"Pink Rikshaw launched as a women-only transportation service in Pakistan, where the country is notorious for sexual abuse of women"
2015-04-11,Obama says days of meddling in Latin America are past
2015-04-11,Kasparov: Vladimir Putin's Russia a virus that must be contained
2015-04-11,"In British election, nationalists may seize nearly all Scottish seats | A forecast showed Scottish nationalists could take nearly all the parliamentary seats in Scotland in the British election on May 7, potentially giving a party that wants to leave the UK huge influence at the heart of power."
2015-04-11,Egyptian court sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader to death
2015-04-11,"Russia's ruble is having a 'miracle' surge. The ruble has been on fire, gaining over 20% against the dollar and 35% against the euro in the last three months. The currency is among the best performing this year, after being the worst performer of 2014."
2015-04-11,Office of Naval Intelligence Reveals Massive Chinese Naval Buildup: China has deployed a new high-speed anti-ship cruise missile and is sharply expanding an armada of advanced guided-missile warships and submarines
2015-04-11,NASA scientists name asteroid after Malala Yousafzai
2015-04-11,UAE warns Pakistan of heavy price for ambiguous stand on Yemen
2015-04-11,"Ecuadorean president Rafael Correa tweets ""Heil Hitler!"""
2015-04-11,Germany to bring 100 mothballed tanks back into service
2015-04-11,Russia Wasting Millions of Tonnes of Oil From Leaking Pipes
2015-04-11,Gay orgies and 'murder' scandals engulf Vatican
2015-04-11,"Defying a government ban, hundreds of Iranians protested against Saudi Arabia on Saturday over the alleged abuse of two Iranian pilgrims visiting the Sunni kingdom"
2015-04-11,Egyptian Court Sentences Muslim Brotherhood Leader to Death
2015-04-11,'Jewish bookshop in Barcelona targeted for bombing by Islamists'
2015-04-11,No country should provide shelter to terrorists: PM Modi on Lakhvi's release
2015-04-11,First Hologram Protest in History Held Against Spain's Gag Law
2015-04-10,"The biggest extinction event in planetary history was driven by the rapid acidification of our oceans, a new study concludes. So much carbon was released into the atmosphere, and the oceans absorbed so much of it so quickly, that marine life simply died off, from the bottom of the food chain up."
2015-04-10,"Energy and climate change minister accepts 18,000 from climate sceptic. It says something that we have an energy and climate change minster who hates wind, loves fracking, and accepts large sums of cash from a central figure in a climate sceptic lobby group, Greenpeace director John Sauven said."
2015-04-10,"Vancouver has become the latest city to commit to running on 100% renewable energy. The city of 600,000 on Canadas west coast aims to use only green energy sources for electricity, and also for heating and cooling and transportation."
2015-04-10,Nordic nations agree on defense cooperation against Russia
2015-04-10,North Korea to Mexico: Give us back our ship - Mexico says it's within its rights to keep it. N Korea vows to retake it.
2015-04-10,"Nazi chants at Dutch soccer game: Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas...My father was in the commandos, my mother was in the SS, together they burned Jews, because Jews burn the best!"
2015-04-10,The most extensive genetic analysis of mountain gorillas ever conducted has found the critically endangered apes burdened with severe inbreeding and at risk of extinction.
2015-04-10,Amsterdam prostitutes protest closure of 'window' brothels
2015-04-10,Ukrainian KGB archives will be opened and information declassified
2015-04-10,Ukraine bans public display of Soviet symbols
2015-04-10,"Pakistani authorities have freed the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks on bail, sources said Friday, a move likely to further strain ties with India"
2015-04-10,American Airlines Will No Longer Ship Shark Fins
2015-04-10,"Kosher Copenhagen deli targeted in anti-Semitic attack. Vandals smash window, scrawl Jewish pigs on wall; police say they will give extra focus to incident"
2015-04-10,Japanese admit conducting wartime vivisection on captured Americans at Kyushu Imperial University
2015-04-10,NASA Names Asteroid After Malala Yousafzai
2015-04-10,"Facebook admits it tracks non-users, but denies claims it breaches EU privacy law | Social network claims privacy report commissioned by the Belgian privacy watchdog gets it wrong multiple times over what Facebook does with user data"
2015-04-10,Canadian woman defends officer charged for killing her abductor
2015-04-10,"Obama hints at Cuba breakthrough as he flies south for Ral Castro meeting: Havana expected to be dropped from list of state sponsors of terrorism, while John Kerry and Cuban counterpart sit down for highest-level talks in decades"
2015-04-10,"An Austrian man, along with 25,000 fellow plaintiffs, has sued Facebook for privacy breaches. He has criticized the lackadaisical approached US tech companies have towards European law"
2015-04-10,"Obama concerned China uses size to bully others in region: ""Where we get concerned with China is where it is not necessarily abiding by international norms and rules and is using its sheer size and muscle to force countries into subordinate positions,"""
2015-04-10,Leaked TPP investment chapter shows risks to Australias health
2015-04-10,Plane finishes 6000km flight after lightning strike leaves hole in it.
2015-04-10,"Kevin Crull, Canadian Bell Media president, replaced after attempting to interfere in journalism at Bell-owned CTV"
2015-04-10,"This week, 30-year-old Russian man, Valery Spiridonov, announced that he will become the subject of the first human head transplant ever performed, saying he volunteers to have his head removed and installed on another persons body."
2015-04-10,The Company Formerly Known as Blackwater Is Training Canadian Soldiers.
2015-04-09,U.S. Legalization of Marijuana Has Hit Mexican Cartels' Border Trade
2015-04-09,Anonymous released a list of ISIS supporter websites and companies in UK and US that are hosting them
2015-04-09,Tokyo thanks Beijing for evacuating Japanese tourist from Yemen
2015-04-09,"UN urged to ban 'killer robots' before they can be developed - Fully autonomous weapons should be banned by international treaty, says a report by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School"
2015-04-09,100 Billion barrels of Oil discovered in the UK
2015-04-09,"World oil prices could be $5 to $15 a barrel lower than forecast next year if oil-related sanctions against Iran are lifted, the US governments energy agency said on Tuesday"
2015-04-09,The Chevron Tapes: Video Shows Oil Giant Allegedly Covering Up Amazon Contamination
2015-04-09,India reduces 'out of school' children by 90 per cent: UNESCO
2015-04-09,Iran: No signing final nuclear deal unless economic sanctions are lifted on same day
2015-04-09,"US Admiral: Russian Bombers send a message, we do the same - it wouldn't surprise me if Russia sends bomber patrols through the Gulf of Mexico - ""If you have long-range aircraft, you want to exercise them. In order to exercise them you need to fly long-range missions"
2015-04-09,Chinese TV host suspended after privately mocking Mao
2015-04-09,"More Than 400,000 Elementary schools in China to be provided with 3d printers"
2015-04-09,Sweden to join US-led coalition against ISIS
2015-04-09,U.S. military to ask Canada to install better missile sensors in Arctic
2015-04-09,Malawi police are under orders to shoot anyone attacking albinos in the latest bid to crack down on a rising wave of violence against albinos in East Africa whose body parts are prized in black magic.
2015-04-09,"Nearly half of European jihadis known to have traveled to territory held by ISIS are French, a report by the countrys upper house Senate revealed Wednesday."
2015-04-09,ISIS takes control of French TV station.
2015-04-09,Lithuania to ban Russian TV channel for 'warmongering'
2015-04-09,Obama and Castro to break Cold War ice in person
2015-04-09,"The Islamic State group has lost control of ""at least three large oil fields"" in Iraq, depriving the jihadists of a crucial source of income"
2015-04-09,Poll shows vast majority of Cubans welcome closer ties with U.S.
2015-04-09,"Iran has urged Saudi Arabia to impose ""the most severe punishment"" on two Saudi police officers arrested on suspicion of sexually harassing two teenage Iranian boys at Jeddah airport."
2015-04-09,Turkey journalists face 4.5 years jail over Charlie Hebdo cartoon
2015-04-09,Sweden to send troops to Iraq to support fight against Islamic State
2015-04-09,"Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemns Saudi Arabia's military intervention in Yemen as genocide and vows that ""Riyadh will not emerge victorious in its aggression."""
2015-04-08,Easter vault raiders steal up to 200million: Hatton Garden gem thieves cut through roof and disabled alarm system before abseiling down lift shaft to loot 300 safety deposit boxes over four days
2015-04-08,US Officials say Russians have hacked the White House
2015-04-08,"India Pulls Off Great Escape in Yemen, 4000 Evacuated From War Zone"
2015-04-08,Judge orders Prince Andrew sex allegations struck from court record | UK news
2015-04-08,"North sea cod stocks bounce back - The fish that was once one of the most disastrous examples of overfishing could be certified as sustainable within five years, according to new research."
2015-04-08,U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades
2015-04-08,Thousands of Turkish Students Demand Jedi Temples On Campus
2015-04-08,"The United States and Japan are close to concluding a set of bilateral defense rules that if finalized would give Japans military new powers to act when U.S. forces are threatened by a third country, U.S. officials said Wednesday."
2015-04-08,"The Saudi budget deficit will be more than twice its own forecast, a leading research firm has said, forcing the kingdom into the debt market for the first time in more than a decade"
2015-04-08,"Archaeologists defy Isis by finding new antiquities in Iraq - They're making discoveries despite efforts by Isis to 'culturally cleanse' it. ""If the militants think they can 'erase history' we are helping to make sure that can't happen: it is the information that is important & not the objects."""
2015-04-08,Australian Treasurer steps in to protect suspected tax dodger multinationals from being identified
2015-04-08,"""I must tell you the individuals who say this deal provides a pathway for Iran to a bomb are being wholly disingenuous..."", says CIA director John Brennan"
2015-04-08,"Sydney Water has been revealed as the nation's biggest dumper of mercury into Australian waters, pumping 40 kilograms of the toxic metal out of its deep ocean outfall pipes at Manly and Malabar in the past financial year."
2015-04-08,Iraqi Prime Minister and Iraqi Kurdistan Region President agree on joint operation to liberate Mosul from ISIS
2015-04-08,An exhibition in Iran will mock the Holocaust.
2015-04-08,"U.S. Sanctions Block Crimeans From World of Warcraft, Diablo III"
2015-04-08,"Russian deputy who voted against reunification with Crimea stripped of immunity, faces embezzlement charges in Russia"
2015-04-08,"Afghan soldier opens fire and kills 1 American, wounds 2 US troops before being shot dead"
2015-04-08,Secret papers could reveal Frances role in Rwandan genocide
2015-04-08,$1 billion disappears -- and Moldova looks for answers
2015-04-08,Germany dismisses Greek demand for billions in WW2 reparations
2015-04-08,Shark Fins Being Shipped From Costa Rica to China Via the USA
2015-04-08,Irans Leaders Fall Into Line Behind Nuclear Accord
2015-04-08,Australian Government seeks immunity over use of force in immigration detention - Immigration officers  including contractors  would have greater powers to use force against asylum seekers and be exempted from liability under proposed laws
2015-04-08,"Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko may have accidentally killed himself after handling radioactive material, a key suspect in his death has said."
2015-04-07,Russian fighter's confession that he killed 15 Ukrainian prisoners of war may be considered evidence of war crimes
2015-04-07,The Greek government says Germany owes Greece nearly 279bn (204bn; $303bn) in war reparations for the Nazi occupation during World War Two. It is the first time Greece has officially calculated what Germany allegedly owes it for Nazi atrocities and looting during the 1940s.
2015-04-07,U.S. expected to remove Cuba from state sponsors of terrorism list.
2015-04-07,"China will keep records of ""uncivilised"" behaviour by its tourists for up to two years, the country's tourism agency said on Tuesday, to combat a spate of incidents abroad in recent years which it said reflected badly on the country's image."
2015-04-07,Child sex abuse victim Richard Kerr: I was molested by powerful people in London
2015-04-07,"A former spy has described the debate within the CIA over the arrest, rendition and torture of Canadian Maher Arar, saying multiple colleagues warned against it because they were convinced they were punishing an innocent man"
2015-04-07,Barack Obama rejects Benjamin Netanyahus call for Iran to recognize Israel
2015-04-07,Insecticide Blamed for Monarch Butterfly Decline
2015-04-07,"Police in India announce plans to deploy crowd control drones that, ""can be used to shower pepper powder on an unruly mob in case of any trouble."
2015-04-07,Boko Haram disguised as preachers kill at least 24 in Nigeria
2015-04-07,Islamic State brings down Syria's historical Virgin Mary Church
2015-04-07,Australian ISPs ordered to hand over the identities of thousands of people who allegedly shared a movie online.
2015-04-07,Yemen: Saudi airstrike hit school
2015-04-07,Former Israeli military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin says Iran deal isn't a bad agreement
2015-04-07,"Captain deliberately sank illegal fishing vessel, claim Sea Shepherd rescuers - Conservationist groups 4-month pursuit of Thunder ended off west Africa, with the captain cheering & applauding as the boat went down, say rescue crew"
2015-04-07,Reports of Russian Nuclear Submarine On Fire
2015-04-07,Italian Holocaust survivors to skip Liberation Day parade after Jewish group banned
2015-04-07,"Iraqi teams start exhuming mass grave of soldiers in Tikrit. Last year, ISIS captured around 1,700 soldiers as they were trying to flee Camp Speicher and killed them."
2015-04-07,'World's oldest person' dies after holding title for just six days.
2015-04-07,Russia Readying Up To $1.2 Billion For Tajikistan To Fight Against ISIS.
2015-04-07,Turkey Deports German Photojournalist Who was to Cover Armenian Genocide Article
2015-04-07,"More than 1 million Swedish Internet users' search patterns can be monitored through a 'spy code' within Webpage Screeshot program, IT security experts warn"
2015-04-07,Women from Sierra Leone 'sold like slaves' into domestic work in Kuwait | Pete Pattisson | Global development
2015-04-07,El Salvador sees most deadly month in 10 years as violence overwhelms nation
2015-04-07,Top nuclear experts endorse Iran deal
2015-04-06,Top ISIS leader who was once Saddam general killed in Fallujah
2015-04-06,"Turkish authorities have blocked access to Twitter, Youtube and Facebook over the publication of photos published on the three social media platforms, showing a prosecutor who was taken hostage by militants in Istanbul last week."
2015-04-06,Rupert Murdoch's US empire siphons $4.5 billion from Australian business virtually tax-free
2015-04-06,"French commandos free Dutch hostage in Mali, held for 3.5 years"
2015-04-06,"British law changed so nuclear waste dumps can be forced on local communities - Legislation rushed through in the final hours of parliament allows local planning laws to be bypassed, seriously alarming anti-nuclear campaigners"
2015-04-06,Poland to build Russia border towers at Kaliningrad
2015-04-06,Russian Journalist Reporting on Corruption Kidnapped in Dagestan
2015-04-06,Air India's 'unsound mind' co-pilot reportedly beats up captain inside cockpit
2015-04-06,UN official: Situation at Palestinian refugee camp in Syria 'beyond inhumane' - Middle East
2015-04-06,US ambassador barred from Prague Castle by Czech President
2015-04-06,Museum exhibits evidence of Japanese vivisection of US POWs during WWII
2015-04-06,US geologist freed after serving 8 years in China prison
2015-04-06,Pope to world: Don't ignore killing of Christians
2015-04-06,Israelis targeted UN peacekeepers in Lebanon: Spanish report
2015-04-06,"Protesters march in Rio after police kill boy, 10, amid clashes with gangs :Police shot Eduardo Ferreira last week, apparently thinking he had a gun."
2015-04-06,Bulgaria puts up a new wall along its border with Turkey to stem the flow of refugees
2015-04-06,"Boy, 14, And Girl, 16, Held By Anti-Terror Police"
2015-04-06,100 school teachers face the sack in UK extremist probe
2015-04-06,"Pope Francis prayed for an end to the persecution of Christians in his Easter Sunday address, commemorating the students massacred by Islamist militants at Garissa University in Kenya."
2015-04-06,"French special forces rescue hostage in Mali detained since 2011, capture militants"
2015-04-06,India launches air quality index to give pollution information
2015-04-06,"An al Qaeda offshoot in North Africa has claimed responsibility for an attack Monday in northern Mali on an International Red Cross vehicle that killed one aid worker and left one injured. A spokesman for the group claimed they succeeded due to ""the help of the hand of Allah"""
2015-04-06,Thailands Prime Minister Wants to Shut Down Media Outlets That Dont Praise the Government
2015-04-06,Abbas rejects Israel's partial transfer of Palestinian tax revenues; money had been deducted to cover debts to Israeli utility companies.
2015-04-06,"Islamist militants hit Egypt's two largest cities on Sunday with a bombing in Cairo and an attack on a church in Alexandria, leaving one policeman dead and seven people wounded"
2015-04-05,Dope to cope: One in 5 families admit to using sedative drugs on their children for road trips.
2015-04-05,"LHC restarts after long rebuild: The restart of the Large Hadron Collider is now under way, with protons making their way around its 27km tunnel for the first time since 2013"
2015-04-05,50 weeks shared parental leave takes effect in UK
2015-04-05,Francis Maude warned by scientists over 'chilling effect' of new media rules: changes to the UK civil service code threaten to stop thousands of publicly-funded scientists from expressing their views on some of the most pressing issues faced by modern society
2015-04-05,Former president Fidel Castro appears in public in Cuba for the first time in 14 month.
2015-04-05,Malta the first country to outlaw forced surgical intervention on intersex minors
2015-04-05,"The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150 at a university last week, the interior ministry said on Sunday, as Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations."
2015-04-05,ISIS thugs destroy walls and statues at UNESCO World Heritage site in Iraq
2015-04-05,"'India capable of developing ICBM beyond 10,000 kms range'"
2015-04-05,China Unveils Three New Nuclear-Powered Attack Submarines
2015-04-05,New research links pesticides to monarch butterfly declines
2015-04-05,"Trade unions and artists have condemned the conditions faced by migrant workers building a 17bn cultural hub in the United Arab Emirates, including new branches of the Louvre and the Guggenheim museums, as akin to an open prison."
2015-04-05,"Royal Navy nuclear submarine suffers 500,000 damage after 'hitting floating ice' while tracking Russian vessels"
2015-04-05,"More and more Russians are trading in vodka and cigarettes for gym memberships, according to a report released by the government on Sunday."
2015-04-05,"After a year at war, Ukraine's economy is in shambles."
2015-04-05,"'The seeds of neo-Nazism are germinating,' says Trglitz, Germany ex-mayor after arson attack: The arson attack at a housing block in Trglitz - where 40 refugees were to move in next month - has taken the recent xenophobia here to a new level"
2015-04-05,Malaysia: Helicopter crashes with MP aboard
2015-04-05,Indonesia Frees 300 Men Found Enslaved on Island.
2015-04-05,Iran announces: Women may now attend male sports  within limits
2015-04-05,"Hundreds rallied Saturday in the Gaza Strip in support of thousands of fellow Palestinians trapped in Syria's Yarmuk camp, which has been largely overrun by jihadist fighters"
2015-04-05,Muslim Community Leader Appeals to Double the Number of Mosques in France
2015-04-05,OSCE monitors declare humanitarian catastrophe in eastern Ukraine
2015-04-05,Malaysian helicopter crash kills PM's senior aide and former envoy to U.S.
2015-04-05,Australia surges to world's sixth-largest arms importer
2015-04-05,Lithuanian prosecutors restart investigation into CIA jail | Lithuanian prosecutors said they had restarted an investigation into allegations that state security officials helped the CIA run a secret jail in the Baltic state as part of the agency's global program to interrogate al Qaeda suspects.
2015-04-04,Hackers leak messages between Kremlin and Frances far-right party Front National
2015-04-04,Iran eases ban on women attending sports matches
2015-04-04,"Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen kills family of nine, including 6 children"
2015-04-04,"Warning over thousands of unqualified teachers 'jeopardising' children's education in Britain - The latest government figures show that 17,100 unqualified teachers are working in publicly funded schools across England"
2015-04-04,Survivor from Kenya massacre emerges after two days in wardrobe
2015-04-04,"Al-Shabab, the Somali armed group that carried out a deadly attack on a Kenyan university killing 148 people on Thursday, has threatened to stage more attacks in the country. In a statement issued on Saturday, the group warned Kenyans that their cities will ""run red with blood""."
2015-04-04,Cocaine instead of bananas found in Prague supermarket
2015-04-04,"After Obama's cybersecurity order threatens Snowden fund, bitcoin donations spike"
2015-04-04,"Poland thanks Russia, China for help in Yemen evacuation"
2015-04-04,"Hundreds rally against Islamic extremism in Australia - Organizers claim they are not anti-Muslim, while counter demonstrators say event motivated by racism"
2015-04-04,Venezuelan hotels are asking tourists to bring their own toilet paper due to shortage
2015-04-04,State Department rejects Netanyahu's call for Iran deal to affirm Israel's 'right to exist'
2015-04-04,"(Reuters) - A Chinese naval frigate has evacuated 225 foreign citizens from strife-torn Yemen, its foreign ministry said, marking the first time that China's military has helped other countries evacuate their people during an international crisis."
2015-04-04,"Islamic State has taken control of 90 percent of a Palestinian refugee camp on the Damascus outskirts where 18,000 civilians have suffered years of bombing, army siege and militia control, a monitoring group said on Saturday."
2015-04-04,"After Iraqi forces take Tikrit from ISIS, a wave of looting and lynching occurs."
2015-04-04,The Russian Government Runs a Troll Agency to Flood the Internet With Propaganda
2015-04-04,Romania will expel seven foreign nationals accused of recruiting members for the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda and propagating their ideas in the eastern European country
2015-04-04,"Now, drones to be used to disperse mobs in Lucknow"
2015-04-04,Kim Jong-un Assembles New Pleasure Squad of Young Women
2015-04-04,Benjamin Netanyahu Says Final Nuclear Deal Must Include Irans Recognition of Israel
2015-04-04,Russian ships in old Arctic NATO base set alarms bells ringing
2015-04-04,President Rouhani: Iran Will Honor Framework For Nuclear Agreement If World Powers Do
2015-04-04,US forces to hold exercises in Ukraine
2015-04-04,Islamic State takes 90 percent of Palestinian Damascus refugee camp: monitor
2015-04-04,Pakistanis campaign against new laws that may limit internet freedom
2015-04-03,Six people who hid in a supermarket refrigerator during January's Islamist attacks in Paris have sued French media for broadcasting their location live during the siege
2015-04-03,"Iran Nuclear Deal Reached. After eight straight days of high-level diplomatic negotiations between the six world powers and Iran, negotiators announced an interim agreement has been reached on the principles for dismantling Iran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting heavy economic sanctions."
2015-04-03,"Terror attack over, 147 dead at Kenya university"
2015-04-03,Tesla vehicle deliveries rise 55% in the first quarter
2015-04-03,"Earth receiving mysterious radio signals from outer space; alien life source a possibility, believe astronomers"
2015-04-03,"China helps Pakistan, Ethiopia, Singapore, Italy, Germany, Poland, Ireland, Britain, Canada and Yemen evacuate nationals from Yemen"
2015-04-03,Dutch company PlantLab has developed an indoor urban farming approach 40 times more productive than open fields. This technique could grow the world's vegetables and fruits in a space smaller than Holland.
2015-04-03,"Iran nuclear talks: Solutions found, says Javad Zarif"
2015-04-03,Second Germanwings black box confirms co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane
2015-04-03,Hamas arrests Gaza merchants for refusing to sell lumber for tunnels
2015-04-03,Saudi Arabia Tells Canada They Dont Accept Any Attacks On Their Human Rights Record Because Our Constitution Is Based On Islamic Law
2015-04-03,Google will no longer recognize digital security certificates issued by the Chinese government
2015-04-03,"Britain spied for several years on the Argentine government over fears of a fresh attempt to retake the Falkland Islands, documents released by American whistle-blower Edward Snowden have claimed."
2015-04-03,Russia to give Tajikistan multi-billion military aid to fight ISIS
2015-04-03,Joyful Iranians dance into night after nuclear breakthrough
2015-04-03,No Job? Pay Up. Belarus Imposes Fines for Being Unemployed
2015-04-03,Norway Reverts to Cold War Mode as Russian Air Patrols Spike
2015-04-03,President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner of Argentina has ordered the declassification of all secret documents on the 1982 Falklands war with Britain.
2015-04-03,Oil tumbles 5% after Iran reaches nuclear deal outline
2015-04-03,Large Hadron Collider set to resume operation this weekend.
2015-04-03,Brazil passed the United States as the largest buyer of pesticides.
2015-04-03,"Kenya: Religious leaders in Garissa disown attackers - ""We the Muslim Community of Garissa County condemn the heinous acts committed against innocents of Garissa University College; we sincerely send our heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of those killed."""
2015-04-03,"Artificial Sweeteners May Change Our Gut Bacteria in Dangerous Ways - In other words, artificial sweeteners may favor the growth of bacteria that make more calories available to us, calories that can then find their way to our hips, thighs and midriffs"
2015-04-03,Russia Ready to Sell S-300 Missiles to Iran If Sanctions Fall
2015-04-03,An Israeli air force jet allegedly bombed warehouses in Libya containing weapons purchased by Iran destined for Hamas.
2015-04-02,"With 1st Nationwide Fracking Law, Germany Approaches A Ban - ""As long as the risks cannot be fully evaluated, fracking will be banned."""
2015-04-02,"Johns Hopkins University faces a $1 billion lawsuit, 800 former research subjects and their families blame the institution for its role in government experiments in the 1940s and 50s in Guatemala that infected hundreds of people with sexually transmitted diseases"
2015-04-02,Dozens dead as Russian trawler with 130+ aboard sinks in Sea of Okhotsk
2015-04-02,Russia Is On The Dawn of a Prolonged Recession as Oil Prices Stay Low and Sanctions Remain in Effect
2015-04-02,Russian consulate in Yemen hit by Saudi coalition led airstrikes.
2015-04-02,Second flight recorder from Germanwings 9525 found
2015-04-02,Bodies of Japanese WWII soldiers believed to have been found in Palau cave sealed off for 70 years
2015-04-02,"37,000+ French tax dodgers admit owning secret accounts abroad: A total of 37,703 people have filed revised tax forms after admitting to holding secret bank accounts abroad, mainly in Switzerland, the finance ministry revealed on Wednesday."
2015-04-02,IS enters Palestinian camp in Damascus; Jordan closes border
2015-04-02,Ban against a single blog post leads Turkish ISPs to censor all of WordPress
2015-04-02,Istanbul police kill woman carrying bomb near police HQ
2015-04-02,"HSBC is 'cast-iron certain' to breach banking rules again, executive admits"
2015-04-02,India Greenlights $730 Million Supercomputing Grid
2015-04-02,Syria: Isis Destroys Tons of 'US-Made Halal Chicken' while Millions Go Hungry
2015-04-02,Explosion and fire on the oil platform in Gulf of Mexico  45 hurt and 300 evacuated
2015-04-02,"Nigerian prostitutes congratulate Buhari, declare nationwide free sex"
2015-04-02,"Cyprus criminalizes denial of 1915 Armenian genocide by Turks: The Cypriot parliament passed a resolution penalizing denial of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, modifying existing legislation, which required prior conviction by an international court to make denial a crime."
2015-04-02,"Malaysian party tries to pass law reinstating amputation, stonings and public beatings/execution as criminal punishment - journalist makes satirical video about it - gets death, rape threats and is being investigated by police"
2015-04-02,Germanwings Co-Pilot Had Researched Suicide and Cockpit Doors
2015-04-02,"Migrant laborers in jeans and flip-flops coerced into running a marathon in Doha, Qatar. Race officials were trying to set a world record for the most marathon participants but fell short by 17,000, even with the addition of the migrant workers."
2015-04-02,"Vietnamese firms urged to demand TPP transparency, spell out concerns"
2015-04-02,"Despite pressure from the government of Saudi Arabia, the Quebec government will not stop efforts to free blogger Raif Badawi the Minister of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion said."
2015-04-02,"An air strike that killed at least 40 people at a camp for displaced people in north Yemen was a violation of international law and those responsible should be held accountable, the United Nations said on Tuesday."
2015-04-02,"The 300-year-old skeleton of a camel used by the Ottomans to invade Vienna has been identified by Austrian researchers after its discovery in a refuse pit: was rescued from abandoned pit in Tulln, a Lower Austrian town on banks of the Danube in 2006, prior to the construction of a shopping centre."
2015-04-02,Russian Muslim leaders issue religious decree against ISIL
2015-04-01,"Indian Army team heads for Mt.Everest to bring down 4,000kg of trash left by climbers."
2015-04-01,ISIS loses Tikrit
2015-04-01,"Generous welfare benefits make people more likely to want to work, not less, new research suggests"
2015-04-01,Latin American countries propose to remove all US military bases in Latin America
2015-04-01,"Scottish Independence Figures: Majority of Natives voted YES, Immigrants voted NO"
2015-04-01,Calls and flights between Cuba and the United States are resumed
2015-04-01,"Nearly Five Years After the BP Spill, Animals Are Still Dying in the Gulf of Mexico"
2015-04-01,"Iceland's government said Tuesday it would consider a revolutionary monetary proposal removing the power of commercial banks to create money and handing it to the central bank. Under the so-called Sovereign Money proposal, the country's central bank would become the only creator of money."
2015-04-01,Former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari defeats incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan in the Nigerian presidential election
2015-04-01,Standing ovation as Irish Senate passes Same-Sex Marriage Bill
2015-04-01,US Navy: Beijing creating a 'great wall of sand' in South China Sea
2015-04-01,Palestine formally joins International Criminal Court
2015-04-01,The epicenter of the 21st-century oil boom acknowledges fracking is linked to earthquakes.
2015-04-01,Top UK MP Brands Netanyahu War Criminal as Palestine Joins ICC
2015-04-01,Poll: Americans Support Nuclear Deal With Iran by 2-1 Margin
2015-04-01,"Canadian consul general's son killed in Miami, younger son arrested for murder: report"
2015-04-01,Inside the A320 - Exclusive: The final moments before the crash
2015-04-01,No 'bad thing' if Greece leaves euro: Warren Buffett
2015-04-01,China rejects North Korea request to join AIIB
2015-04-01,Gambian woman forced into exile for posting video of police brutality
2015-04-01,Israel applies to join China-backed AIIB investment bank
2015-04-01,Former Blackwater gets rich as Afghan drug production hits record high
2015-04-01,"Iraqi troops aided by Shi'ite paramilitaries have driven Islamic State out of central Tikrit, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Tuesday, but the fight to retake all of Saddam Hussein's hometown continued."
2015-04-01,"BP steps up PR effort to insist all is well in the Gulf - Oil giant says area is making a rapid recovery but evidence mounts that wildlife is still struggling to rebound, 5 years after oil spill"
2015-04-01,"Council of Europe condemns Ukraine: ""Maidan violence investigations fail European human rights standards ... there was no genuine attempt to pursue investigations."""
2015-03-31,"Facebook 'tracks all visitors, breaching EU law' - People without Facebook accounts, logged out users, and EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking are all being tracked, report says"
2015-03-31,"A thousand-year-old treatment for eye infections, made with onion, garlic and part of a cow's stomach, is gaining attention after research at the University of Nottingham. Scientists were ""astonished"" to find it almost completely wiped out staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA."
2015-03-31,A massive power outage has hit Turkey. 24 regions and major cities are affected including Ankara and Istanbul.
2015-03-31,"Another list containing 25,000 ISIS supporter accounts is released to put pressure on Twitter to suspend them, this time without using hack methods"
2015-03-31,"Germany to end mass killing of male chicks by 2017 - Alternative egg sexing technique ""would add no more than two cents to the cost of an egg""."
2015-03-31,The photo of the little girl with her hands raised was actually genuine. BBC tracked the original Turkish photographer.
2015-03-31,"EU moves to unblock TV streaming services, no more Geoblocking"
2015-03-31,Muslim Mob Attacks Family of Coptic Christian Beheaded By ISIS in Libya
2015-03-31,"Shell cynically blocking action on climate change, says ex-diplomat - John Ashton accuses oil company and others of being narcissistic, paranoid and psychopathic & being unable to contemplate low-carbon future"
2015-03-31,About 70 percent of Australian strawberries are being grown on runners that have been fumigated with an environmentally damaging pesticide that has been banned around the world.
2015-03-31,A Secret Service agent and a DEA agent with lead roles in the investigation to take down the Internet drug bazaar Silk Road allegedly stole proceeds from the underground site and hid their booty in offshore accounts.
2015-03-31,"One of the Poorest Countries in the World Is About to Burn $7.6M Worth of Ivory - Ivory burns may seem symbolic, but they are a useful step towards ending poaching"
2015-03-31,NASA Denies It Will Build New Space Station With Russia
2015-03-31,Cruise Liner 'Costa Concordia' was Carrying Mafia Drugs When it Met its Fate
2015-03-31,"Alarm as Turkey backs new police powers: The police will have the right to conduct stop-and-search, detain people for up to 48 hours without court orders and use firearms against demonstrators carrying petrol bombs or other ""injurious weapons""... that could mean a firecracker or a simple slingshot."
2015-03-31,Indian Politician Under Fire For Suggesting No Link Exists Between Tobacco Use And Cancer
2015-03-31,Feds Demand Reddit Identify Users of a Dark-Web Drug Forum
2015-03-31,Iranian Man Burns Himself To Death In Government Protest
2015-03-31,Nearly half of all Russians think the sacrifices made under dictator Josef Stalin were justified
2015-03-31,"The US just dropped 60,000 propaganda leaflets on ISIS's Syrian capital in Raqqa. The leaflets show ISIS recruits being fed into a meat-grinder by militants."
2015-03-31,"Over the last 15 years, the organization that offered the most accurate Renewable Energy forecasts was... Greenpeace"
2015-03-31,UKIP's Keith Fraser says British teens who want to join ISIS should get FREE flights
2015-03-31,Armed leftists take Istanbul prosecutor hostage
2015-03-31,Palestinian factions Hamas and Islamic Jihad have launched a scathing attack on Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas for urging an Arab intervention in the Gaza Strip akin to the Saudi-led assault on Yemen.
2015-03-31,"Lufthansa To Immediately Compensate Germanwings Flight 9525 Victim's Families Up To 50,000 Euros"
2015-03-30,The president and CEO of The Associated Press has called for changes to international laws that would make it a war crime to kill journalists or take them hostage
2015-03-30,"Antarctica reaches 63F, highest temperature ever recorded."
2015-03-30,Australia Accidentally Leaked the Personal Information of All the G20 Leaders
2015-03-30,"Hidden camera investigation reveals chicken slaughterhouse practices: ""For six months, an employee of the animal rights group worked inside one of the largest chicken slaughterhouses in Canada, while using a hidden camera to secretly videotape what he was seeing."""
2015-03-30,"Chinese court jails Muslim for 6 years for growing beard from 2010, wife gets 2 years for wearing veil"
2015-03-30,"Singaporean police arrests Amos Yee, a 17-year-old boy because a YouTube video where he criticizes Lee Kuan Yew"
2015-03-30,"Major 7.7 quake strikes off Papua New Guinea, tsunami warning issued"
2015-03-30,"A blogger has been hacked to death in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, a month after a prominent atheist writer was killed in a similar attack."
2015-03-30,"Airstrike In Yemen Hits Area Of Refugee Camp, Killing At Least 45"
2015-03-30,"Assad Says US Airstrikes Have Made ISIS Stronger; Says ISIS, Saudi Arabia Of Same Ideological Bent."
2015-03-30,"Saudi Arabia accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of hypocrisy on Sunday, telling an Arab summit that he should not express support for the Middle East while fueling instability by supporting Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad."
2015-03-30,"70 women, including 9 schoolgirls, left Germany to join ISIS  report"
2015-03-30,Iranian Guard says US drone killed 2 of its advisers in Iraq; US says it only struck militants
2015-03-30,Another NSU case witness has been found dead in her apartment
2015-03-30,Strong evidence found of separatist involvement in downing of MH17
2015-03-30,Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert found guilty in retrial on corruption charges
2015-03-30,"""Methuselah"" Palm Grown From 2,000-Year-Old Seed Is a Father"
2015-03-30,"Organised crime groups are plotting to steal from Indigenous communities that survive on multi-million dollar mining royalties and land use agreements, an eight-year Australian Crime Commission investigation into isolated and trouble-plagued regions has revealed."
2015-03-30,"Foreign students have reportedly been banned from taking courses teaching nuclear, biological and chemical warfare at UK universities to control Terrorism"
2015-03-30,"Saudi-led coalition bombed a Yemeni refugee camp, killing 21."
2015-03-30,World Cup leaves Brazil with bus depots and empty stadiums
2015-03-30,"ISIS supporters are sending up to 100,000 messages a day on Twitter to plan attacks"
2015-03-30,Poland charges two Russian officials over Kaczyski crash (a 2010 plane crash which killed then Polish President Lech Kaczyski)
2015-03-30,"Denied salary for 6 years, Indian woman in Saudi awaits exit"
2015-03-30,Thousands Protest Belgian Austerity Reforms for 2nd Day - Braving hail & winds as they demand the right-wing govt change course & make sure the brunt of the austerity is borne by the wealthy.
2015-03-29,"A new chapter of TPP was leaked by WikiLeaks to Peruvian newspaper La Republica | The chapter specifies that companies will be able to sue the state when they lose profits, or the expectation of profits, due to social conflicts and changes in the public health or environmental codes of a nation."
2015-03-29,Air Canada flight crashes on runway in Halifax
2015-03-29,Kofi Annan: The War on Drugs Has Failed in West Africa and Around the World .
2015-03-29,The Director-General of the BBC is being protected by an elite squad of bodyguards after 'credible' death threats were made against him in retribution for the firing of Jeremy Clarkson
2015-03-29,"Indonesian cops burn 1,000 pounds of seized marijuana, fumes get whole neighborhood high"
2015-03-29,Arab League creates joint military force
2015-03-29,"Tens of thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital in a show of solidarity against Islamist militants, hours after the government said its forces had killed nine members of a group suspected of carrying out this month's deadly Bardo Museum attack"
2015-03-29,John Baird gets job with mining giant that got government subsidies when he was Canada's foreign minister
2015-03-29,Putin to Arab League: Palestinians have right to state with capital in east Jerusalem
2015-03-29,Ikea's flat-pack refugee shelter is entering production
2015-03-29,"Headmaster David Tuohy who molested boys in the 1970s is found dead in the Thames, UK"
2015-03-29,Iran and six world powers have reached provisional agreement on key parts of a deal sharply curtailing Tehran's nuclear programme
2015-03-29,"Turkeys Parliament Passes Draconian Security, Surveillance Laws"
2015-03-29,"Boko Haram kills, beheads with chainsaws 40 people to derail Nigeria elections"
2015-03-29,CIA document reveals that Ecuador  like many countries of the Southern Cone  was part of the U.S.-backed Operation Condor plan | The office of the attorney general in Ecuador is investigating if the death of former President Jaime Roldos was an assassination of Operation Condor.
2015-03-29,"The Canadian government is facing fierce criticism for increasing the countrys seal hunting quota from 400,000 in 2014 to nearly 470,000 this hunting season"
2015-03-29,Major publisher retracts 43 scientific papers amid wider fake peer-review scandal
2015-03-29,"700 higher graduate students from outside the European Union were barred from taking courses of chemistry, engineering, physics, biophysics, metallurgy and microbiology due to security concerns in the United Kingdom."
2015-03-29,Romanian ex-minister questioned over origin of 101 paintings | The former Romanian finance minister has been questioned over 101 paintings in his possession amid a corruption probe. They include three works signed by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
2015-03-29,Australia Bans Lion Hunting Trophy Imports  Govt is taking action to protect African lions from what Environment Minister Greg Hunt calls the barbaric practice of canned hunting by banning the import & export of trophies made from lions.
2015-03-29,All UK babies to recieve Meningitis B vaccine
2015-03-29,"U.S. drops 60,000 propaganda leaflets on ISIS stronghold Raqqa"
2015-03-29,"Mosul under ISIL: 'No internet, no shaving'"
2015-03-29,"Yemeni warplane fleet destroyed in raids, Saudis say"
2015-03-29,"A close media adviser to Iran President Hassan Rouhani has defected, and is seeking political asylum in Switzerland after traveling there to report on Irans nuclear talks."
2015-03-28,Russia & US agree to build new space station after ISS
2015-03-28,"73% of Australians believe that constitution should change to recognise Indigenous people, and remove clauses that discriminate on the basis of race"
2015-03-28,Kim Dotcom has lost an estimated $67 million worth of assets after the United States government wins a civil forfeiture case
2015-03-28,Russia to Help Palestine Become Independent State
2015-03-28,"Spain passes law allowing instant fines for taking photos of the police, being ""present"" in occupied areas."
2015-03-28,Japan whaling ships return home from Antarctic with no catch
2015-03-28,Pilot used an ax on cockpit door
2015-03-28,Italy's highest court overturns Amanda Knox murder conviction
2015-03-28,"WikiLeaks reveals local health and environment rules under threat | Australian health, environment and public welfare regulation, including plain tobacco packaging legislation, will be open for challenge from largely US-based corporations, if a new deal that is part of the TPP goes through."
2015-03-28,"Norwegian Police have found video clips of torture, mutilation, and executions saved on the mobile phones of those seeking asylum in Norway, the Police Immigration Service has told the countrys Dagsavisen newspaper."
2015-03-28,The Kremlin is cutting its initial production of the Sukhoi T-50 fighter by 75 percent amid cost overruns and rumored technical concerns  the same kind of issues that have plagued US development of the F-35.
2015-03-28,The U.S. Air Force and Navy rescued two Saudi pilots Friday after they ejected from their F-15 fighter over the Gulf of Aden during combat operations against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
2015-03-28,"Outrage at China treatment of activists: Five female protesters are being held for ""picking a quarrel"" after campaigning against domestic abuse and sexual harassment."
2015-03-28,"Al-Shabab siege at Somali hotel ends, 21 Dead: Blood spattered utensils, bullet-pocked walls and overturned chairs mark the reception area of a prominent hotel in the Somali capital following an attack by Islamic extremists that killed at least 21, including six attackers."
2015-03-28,"Destroyed Mosul artifacts to be rebuilt in 3D - It didn't take long for the scientific community to react. 2 wks after the sacking of 300 yr-old Mosul Museum by ISIS went viral, researchers launched Project MOSUL to virtually restore damaged artifacts & make them accessible from virtual museums."
2015-03-28,"Co-pilots's ex-girlfriend: He said he had a plan ""to make everybody remember his name"""
2015-03-28,Quebec Protester Shot In The Face With Tear Gas At Anti-Austerity Rally
2015-03-28,Inmate 'emailed own release order'
2015-03-28,Future shop closing all stores in Canada effective today
2015-03-28,Russia 'to join China-led development bank'
2015-03-28,"India successfully launches IRNSS-1D, fourth of seven navigation satellites"
2015-03-28,"'Liberal' Putin could be toppled 'like the tsar', warns Russian ultra-nationalist Igor Strelkov"
2015-03-28,France says will propose UN Security Council draft on Israel
2015-03-28,"A fossil site in the Canadian Rockies that provides a wondrous peek into life on Earth more than half a billion years ago has offered up the remains of an intriguing sea creature, a four-eyed arthropod predator that wielded a pair of spiky claws."
2015-03-28,"A Quebec's student protester lost an eye, claiming that he was struck by a rubber bullet fired by police in May 2012. He is now suing the force for $250,000 in damages."
2015-03-27,WikiLeaks Reveals TPP Proposal Allowing Corporations to Sue Nations
2015-03-27,"Australia's 140 top polluters will set their own limits for future pollution virtually penalty free, according to the Government's latest Direct Action policy paper."
2015-03-27,"The Pentagon has declassified a document that was once labeled top-secret, which goes into sophisticated detail about Israels nuclear weapons program."
2015-03-27,Astronaut Scott Kelly will return from a year in space both older and younger than his twin brother
2015-03-27,Alps crash co-pilot 'hid existing illness'
2015-03-27,"Boko Haram headquarters destroyed, Nigerian military claims"
2015-03-27,"Germanwings crash prompts airlines to introduce cockpit 'rule of 2,' including Norwegian Air, easyJet, Air Transat, Air Canada; rule is routine among US carriers"
2015-03-27,Spookception: US spied on Israel spying on US-Iran nuke talks
2015-03-27,Dutch capital of Amsterdam and surrounding areas have been hit by a major power outage.
2015-03-27,Several members of Pope Francis' sex abuse advisory board are expressing concern and incredulity over his decision to appoint a Chilean bishop to a diocese despite allegations that he covered up for Chile's most notorious pedophile
2015-03-27,Germanwings plane disaster: German police probe co-pilot. Police says they found evidence that may be a very significant clue to what has happened.
2015-03-27,1 in 20 students in UK worked in sex trade to fund living cost.
2015-03-27,"China's coal use falling faster than expected. Clean-fuel policies, as well as an economy growing at its slowest pace in 25 years, are driving lower coal use, with power companies using a greater mix of hydro, nuclear and renewable options, especially wind."
2015-03-27,An Ebola vaccine has been developed and shown successful in primates
2015-03-27,Arab states agree to form unified military force
2015-03-27,Cane toads by the million lined up for export to China as anti-cancer remedy - Researchers at the University of Queensland hope to send premium cane toads after discovering their venom has anti-cancer properties
2015-03-27,"Catholic priest Anthony McSweeney, 68, jailed for assaulting boy at children's home in west London between 1979-1981"
2015-03-27,DNA Tests Uncover Evidence Of Infidelity In Royal Family Tree
2015-03-27,"An estimated 4,000 foreign fishermen are stranded on a number of remote islands in eastern Indonesia, including men revealed in an Associated Press investigation to have been enslaved, an aid group said"
2015-03-27,Massive Underground City Found in Cappadocia Region of Turkey
2015-03-27,"The Chinese government has unveiled an initiative called ""Sky Net"" to better coordinate its fight against suspected corrupt officials who have fled overseas."
2015-03-27,"A major publisher of scholarly medical and science articles, BioMed Central, based in the United Kingdom, has retracted 43 papers because of fabricated peer reviews amid signs of a broader fake peer review racket affecting many more publications."
2015-03-27,U.S. Confirms It Is Supporting Saudi Military Operations In Yemen
2015-03-27,"Report: 3,508 children sexually abused in Pakistan"
2015-03-27,"Russia won't 'bend down' in standoff with West, Putin says"
2015-03-26,Germanwings Pilot Was Locked Out of Cockpit Before Crash in France
2015-03-26,Germanwings plane crash: Co-pilot 'started descent'
2015-03-26,GermanWings 9525 - Villagers in Alps show solidarity and are welcoming victims families in hotels and their homes for free. Have also set-up a temporary chapel in the school gym and offered to act as translators to the families.
2015-03-26,Both major Australian political parties pass sweeping mass surveillance laws. Phone & Internet records to be kept for 2 years
2015-03-26,U.S. Ready to Back Iran With Airstrikes Against ISIS: Iran and the U.S. say theyve been fighting parallel wars in Iraq. But those two campaigns appear ready to become one
2015-03-26,Chechnya Speaker Vows To Arm Mexico If U.S. Gives Weapons To Ukraine
2015-03-26,"A bomb blast ripped through the Istanbul offices of a radical, pro-ISIS magazine killing a writer and wounding its editor-in-chief as well as two other people on Wednesday night."
2015-03-26,"UK drew wrong conclusion from its neonicotinoids study, scientist says - Reanalysis of a Food & Environment Agency study may provide 1st conclusive evidence that neonicotinoids pesticides are a key factor in bee decline, despite it originally being used to support the opposite view"
2015-03-26,"Scotland is to ban smoking in cars with children, bringing it into line with forthcoming legislation in England and Wales to protect young people from secondhand smoke."
2015-03-26,Russia prepares to lease 12 bombers to Argentina
2015-03-26,Saudi warplanes bomb Houthi positions in Yemen
2015-03-26,US hands over 10 armored Humvees to Ukraine
2015-03-26,"Putin drafts another 150,000 men into Russian army"
2015-03-26,Armenia recognizes Assyrian and Greek genocides
2015-03-26,Amnesty International charges Palestinians with war crimes during Gaza conflict
2015-03-26,EU hopes to abolish Internet geoblocking - The European Commission has said it is resolved to do away with the common practice of the user IP-based blocking of some digital content on the Internet. It said geoblocking stood in the way of a modern digital market
2015-03-26,Falkland Islands Fear Russian Backed Attack
2015-03-26,Support for the death penalty among the British public has dropped below 50% for the first time despite it being suspended 50 years ago
2015-03-26,"Researchers say antidepressants have sexual side effects in teens too and the effects haven't been widely studied. ""We are essentially conducting an experiment on our kids""."
2015-03-26,Norway parliament approves new climate change law. Overwhelming majority of lawmakers back plans for country to draft tough legislation to address greenhouse gas emissions
2015-03-26,Germany bans Islamist militant group Tauhid Germany
2015-03-26,Iran asks for immediate halt to military operations in Yemen
2015-03-26,Egyptian security and military officials say Saudi Arabia and Egypt will lead a ground operation in Yemen against Shiite rebels and their allies after a campaign of airstrikes to weaken them.
2015-03-26,Israel suspends E.Jerusalem settlement building plan
2015-03-26,Ukraine crisis: Four dead as passenger bus hits landmine
2015-03-25,"There was no tape draped across a finish line, but NASA is celebrating a win. The agency's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed its first Red Planet marathon Tuesday -- 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers) - with a finish time of roughly 11 years and two months."
2015-03-25,Chinese scientists have built the worlds first hydrogen-powered tram and water is it's only emission
2015-03-25,"Costa Rica is now running completely on renewable energy: Costa Rica is running without having to burn a single fossil fuel, and its been doing so for 75 straight days."
2015-03-25,"Jeremy Clarkson dropped from Top Gear, BBC confirms"
2015-03-25,Kraft Foods to merge with Heinz creating worlds fifth-largest food group
2015-03-25,Motion To Legalize Cannabis In Italy Receives Bi-Partisan Support
2015-03-25,Russia proposes superhighway. London to New York City by car.
2015-03-25,Palestinians demonstrate after Egypt cuts power supply
2015-03-25,'Guilt-Ridden' Japanese Engineer Kills Self Harakiri-Style over Bridge Collapse in Turkey
2015-03-25,"UK 'involved in mass murder on British soil, colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in 80 deaths between 1972 and 1978'"
2015-03-25,"On Tuesday, President Barack Obama dismissed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus efforts to walk back his rejection of a Palestinian state and warned that the Jewish leaders comments could empower extremists and lead to violence in the region."
2015-03-25,Two Turkish cartoonists charged with insulting Erdogan face up to two years in prison for allegedly drawing one of the men making a certain gesture implying Erdogan was gay.
2015-03-25,"Venezuelan doctors say they are being forced to return to outdated treatments because the country's economic crisis. ""We're practicing medicine from the 1940s here"""
2015-03-25,Ultra-nationalist Ukrainian battalion gears up for more fighting
2015-03-25,EU: Dont use Facebook if you want to keep the NSA away from your data
2015-03-25,Iran says no to surprise inspections of nuclear sites
2015-03-25,China gives list to US of 'corrupt' officials it would like sent back | World news
2015-03-25,Saudi Arabia building up military near Yemen border
2015-03-25,NASA states that a 1000 metre wide asteroid will 'skim' the Earth on friday. An occurrence that happens once every 5000 years.
2015-03-25,"Russia Tries, and Fails, to Stop UN Same-Sex Staff From Getting Benefits"
2015-03-25,AP Investigation: Men forced to work as slaves to catch seafood for global supply
2015-03-25,"Wild animals can predict earthquakes several weeks before they strike, and motion-activated cameras that track their movements could be adopted in quake-prone countries as an affordable early warning system."
2015-03-25,"Japan's Maritime Self Defense Force on Wednesday took delivery of the biggest Japanese warship since World War Two, the Izumo, a helicopter carrier as big as the Imperial Navy aircraft carriers that battled the United States in the Pacific."
2015-03-25,UN thwarts Russia over gay staff rights
2015-03-25,"Boy, eight, on his way to join ISIS with his mother and sister had scrawled 'Jihad' on his garden shed before leaving"
2015-03-24,Airliner crashes in French Alps
2015-03-24,"White House chief of staff: 50 years of Israeli occupation must end- U.S. cannot pretend Netanyahu didn't say no Palestinian state would be established on his watch, Denis McDonough tells J Street conference in Washington."
2015-03-24,North Korea demands Obama to return Nobel Peace Prize
2015-03-24,Indian Supreme Court strikes down law that allowed the government to arrest people for posting offensive statements online
2015-03-24,Beijing to Shut All Major Coal Power Plants to Cut Pollution
2015-03-24,Cuba booming as tourists flock there before Americans come.
2015-03-24,US troops driving through Poland get warm welcome
2015-03-24,Report: Israel spied on US nuclear talks with Iran
2015-03-24,"Wild African elephants on verge of extinction, say experts - The African elephant population dropped by 80,000 from 2006 to 2013, largely because of poaching"
2015-03-24,"Snowden should be allowed a public interest defense, say European lawmakers | A call to extend whistleblower protection to those working in national security."
2015-03-24,The Swedish air force intercepted four Russian military jets flying without transponders along Sweden's east coast on Tuesday morning
2015-03-24,Huge unexploded WWII bomb found in London
2015-03-24,The Great Barrier Reef is under siege. About half of the reefs coral died between 1985 and 2012.
2015-03-24,Yemen 'on the brink' of civil war
2015-03-24,"British Royal family member was investigated as part of paedophile ring before cover-up, ex-cop says"
2015-03-24,"Top-secret documents obtained by the CBC show Canada's electronic spy agency has developed a vast arsenal of cyberwarfare tools to hack into computers and phones in many parts of the world, including in friendly trade countries like Mexico and hotspots like the Middle East."
2015-03-24,Australian Senator Scott Ludlam reveals Opposition Leader Bill Shorten's phone number in protest against new surveillance laws likely to be passed Friday
2015-03-24,"The Ukrainian government has given the private army of billionaire Dnepropetrovsk governor Igor Kolomoysky a day to lay down their weapons, after they occupied and erected a fence around the headquarters of the national oil company."
2015-03-24,Russia 'pouring' arms into Ukraine
2015-03-24,"Russia to cut down on 5th gen fighter purchases due to ""new economic situation"""
2015-03-24,Create unrest: Canadas CSE agency includes false flag operations as part of newly-revealed cyberwarfare scope
2015-03-24,Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered how to control heat with a magnetic field.
2015-03-24,Okinawa governor blocks controversial US marine base: Escalation in dispute poses diplomatic headache for prime minister Shinzo Abe and threatens to sour relations between Japan and the US
2015-03-24,Jupiter Smashed The Super-Earth Version Of Our Solar System
2015-03-24,Julian Assange demands rape case files before Sweden questions him
2015-03-23,U.K. Government rejects immunity for public officials who blow whistle on child sex abuse
2015-03-23,Ex-cop claims a royal was in paedophile ring but inquiry was closed to shield Buckingham Palace from scandal
2015-03-23,Scotland Yard Investigated for Protecting Pedophiles in U.K.
2015-03-23,Suspected Nazi hide-out found deep in Argentine jungle
2015-03-23,Singapores first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew dies aged 91
2015-03-23,Oil spills keep devastating Niger Delta: Amnesty International is blaming two oil giants for more than 500 oil spills in Nigeria's Niger Delta in 2014
2015-03-23,"Rhinos with poison-infused horns are roaming the bush in South Africa, frightening away poachers who dont want sell a toxic product to their clients"
2015-03-23,"Japan to build huge, costly sea wall to fend off tsunamis"
2015-03-23,Russian Official Tells London to 'Have a Twix' and Rethink Crimea
2015-03-23,Shell oil drilling in Arctic set to get US government permission
2015-03-23,Polish Army summons reservists
2015-03-23,Bronze Bust of Putin as Roman Emperor to Be Unveiled
2015-03-23,Oil price unlikely to rebound - Saudi official
2015-03-23,McCain: Congress could defund UN if US backs Palestine bid
2015-03-23,Documents Reveal Canadas Secret Hacking Tactics
2015-03-23,Paris ends smog-fighting traffic restrictions after one day
2015-03-23,Australian PM's Great Barrier Reef plan slammed
2015-03-23,"English 'car park king' Richard III gets final burial. The discovery was confirmed by a DNA match with Richard's closest living relative  Canadian carpenter Michael Ibsen, who fittingly has now made the monarch's oak coffin."
2015-03-23,UN warns world could have 40 per cent water shortfall by 2030
2015-03-23,"Afghan woman, Farkhunda, killed for burning Koran laid to rest; investigator says she was innocent"
2015-03-23,"The UK will no longer tolerate the behaviour of Islamist extremists who ""reject our values"", Home Secretary Theresa May has said."
2015-03-23,"A Sydney theatre has refused a booking from a Jewish cultural group in a potential breach of race-discrimination laws: ""Our policy does not support colonialism/Zionism. Therefore we do not host groups that support the colonisation and occupation of Palestine."
2015-03-23,Greek PM wrote to Merkel warning of impossible debt obligation
2015-03-23,"Saudi's Opec governor: ""Oil price unlikely to rebound"""
2015-03-23,New Zealand's GCSB spies monitored diplomats in line for World Trade Organisation job | Exclusive - Secret document reveals Five Eyes software used for surveillance on candidates for WTO job.
2015-03-22,Report: UK Selling billions in arms exports to countries on the human rights blacklist
2015-03-22,The US just confiscated a $180 million boat shipment of cocaine from Colombian drug traffickers
2015-03-22,Norway offers to increase EU gas supplies to reduce dependence on Russia.
2015-03-22,"The coffin of a woman, killed by a mob in Kabul on an apparently false charge, has been carried by women, marking a break with Afghan funeral customs."
2015-03-22,Attackers yelling 'we will kill you' storm synagogue in London suburb.
2015-03-22,Ukrainian Former President Yanukovych's Son Reportedly Found Dead in Lake Baikal
2015-03-22,China Introduces 70% Solar Subsidy For The Poor
2015-03-22,Costa Rica Has Gotten All Of Its Energy From Renewables For 75 Days Straight
2015-03-22,UK Governments Intelligence Services Allowed To Snoop Anywhere On The Internet For Any Reason
2015-03-22,Chinese national flag found mounted to wreckage of sunk WW2 era Japanese warship
2015-03-22,"Award known as ""the Nobel Prize for water"" given to an Indian campaigner who has brought water to 1,000 villages"
2015-03-22,Belgium is abolishing all prison sentences under one year
2015-03-22,Serbia Asks People To Please Stop Throwing Their Grenades In The Garbage
2015-03-22,"Icelandic Pirate Partys rapid rise may result in citizenship for Snowden -- ""The Icelandic parliament has the power to bestow citizenship on applicants by a simple majority vote"""
2015-03-22,President Obama: ''We take Netanyahu at his word when he said a Palestinian state wouldn't happen during his tenure''
2015-03-22,Maxi pads seized in Lebanon 35 times more radioactive than limit
2015-03-22,"Negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a potentially world-changing trade agreement, are close to completion after nearly a decade, people involved in the talks have told CNBC."
2015-03-22,Tens of Thousands Flood Dublin Demanding Abolition of Austerity Tax On Water.
2015-03-22,Tesla self-driving cars to be enabled through an AutoPilot update releasing soon
2015-03-22,"Swedens King Carl XVI Gustaf expressed concern over his countrys diplomatic row with Saudi Arabia, offering to help in resolving the issue. The spat was triggered when Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom launched an attack on Saudi Arabia and criticized its judicial system."
2015-03-22,"Turkeys top religious body says in vitro fertilization contains adultery elements, is not acceptable"
2015-03-22,Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans decision to change this years Gallipoli commemoration to coincide with Armenias marking of the 100th anniversary of the genocide was a cynical act.
2015-03-22,Pirate Party founder: 'We need to reconquer democracy'
2015-03-22,"Islamic State has posted online what it says are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its ""brothers residing in America"" to kill them."
2015-03-22,King Richard III of England and France returns to the battlefield where 530 years ago he was slain
2015-03-21,Paris will cut the number of cars on the road in half beginning Monday and is making public transit free to combat a spike in pollution that has obscured even the Eiffel Tower under a smoggy haze
2015-03-21,Monsanto weed killer can 'probably' cause cancer: World Health Organization
2015-03-21,"Danish warships could become legitimate nuclear targets, warns Russian ambassador"
2015-03-21,A record 38% of young Icelanders would now vote for the Pirate Party
2015-03-21,Putin calls for currency union with ex-Soviet allies
2015-03-21,"China Airlines stewardess possibly spreads rubella to over 1,000 passengers"
2015-03-21,"The Abbott government has pledged an extra $100 million as part of a long-term plan for the Great Barrier Reef that it hopes will prevent the international embarrassment of having the precious site declared officially ""in danger"" by the World Heritage Committee."
2015-03-21,"Ethiopia burns six tonnes of elephant ivory, vowing 'zero tolerance' to poachers"
2015-03-21,Islamic State Hacking Division Posts Names and Addresses of US Military Members: Behead Them in Their Homes
2015-03-21,"Judge orders release of military detainee abuse photos - The U.S. must release photographs showing abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, a federal judge has ruled in a long-running clash over letting the world see potentially disturbing images of how the military treated prisoners"
2015-03-21,UK Police Deem Snowden Leak Investigation a State Secret
2015-03-21,"100 Throat-Slit Corpses Left By Boko Haram: In what appears to be an execution site for the Islamist group, the partially mummified bodies were found beneath a bridge."
2015-03-21,Mexican woman who lived through revolution dies at 127
2015-03-21,Iran leader says all nuclear issues can be resolved in talks
2015-03-21,"Soldiers from Chad and Niger retook a major Nigerian town from Boko Haram; Nigerian soldiers didn't assist in the assault ""because they are afraid."""
2015-03-21,Aboriginal 'Lifestyle Choice' to Live in Australia's Outback Will No Longer be Supported .
2015-03-21,India approves rule requiring one-third of Delhi police to be women.Decision following 2012 Delhi gang rape aims to make police more gender sensitive as city grapples with widespread violence against women.
2015-03-21,The UK government provided hundreds of millions of pounds worth of support for a controversial energy project in Brazil that is now at the centre of a sprawling corruption scandal engulfing the countrys political and business elite.
2015-03-21,"German power net survives solar eclipse - ""An amount of power equivalent to the output of 10 nuclear power plants was coming onstream as the moon's disc gradually ended its occlusion of the sun's"""
2015-03-21,"Two months after the jihadist attack in which staff at the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo were murdered, a split has emerged in the newsroom over the nearly 30 million euros received since the killings"
2015-03-21,The European Union has produced an explosive new report recommending sanctions against Israel over its construction policies and security measures in Jerusalem
2015-03-21,"Afghan cleric and others defend lynching of woman in Kabul: An Afghan cleric and a police official on Friday defended the lynching of a woman in central Kabul after a mob was filmed stamping on the woman and smashing a brick on her head after she was accused of burning a Koran, Islam's holy book."
2015-03-21,'Things happen': Australian PM on sexual assault in immigrations detention
2015-03-21,"Biologists seek ban on human genome editing, which has recently become ""easy"" with a new technique"
2015-03-21,"Wild Bee Decline A Sign of Europe's 'Ecological Disaster': Nearly 10 percent of wild bee species in Europe face extinction, according to new study"
2015-03-20,France decrees new rooftops must be covered in plants or solar panels. All new buildings in commercial zones across the country must comply with new environmental legislation
2015-03-20,The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion
2015-03-20,The Australian government just passed a bill that forces ISPs to store and allow police warrantless access to the internet browsing history of all Australians
2015-03-20,Today there was an 98-99% solar eclipse in Iceland. Today they also started building the first pagan temple to be built in a 1000 years in Europe.
2015-03-20,"Fracking costs outweigh benefits for Germany and Europe, study says. For only a ten year supply of energy, fracking in Europe would contaminate drinking water, cause severe environmental damage and create vast industrial landscapes"
2015-03-20,US threatened Berlin with intel blackout over Snowden asylum.
2015-03-20,"1 in 10 wild bees face extinction in Europe - ""If we don't address the roots of the decline in wild bees, and act urgently to stop it, we could pay a very heavy price indeed"""
2015-03-20,Ex-Canadian astronaut on Mars One: Nobody is going anywhere in 10 years
2015-03-20,High-end Laos resort serves up illegal wildlife for Chinese tourists - Shocking undercover investigation finds restaurants offering live bear cubs to eat on request washed down with tiger bone wine in the lawless playground of Laos Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone.
2015-03-20,77 dead in Mosque bombings in Yemen
2015-03-20,"137 Killed, 345 Injured in Suicide Attacks on Yemen Mosques"
2015-03-20,"Crystal with ""Forbidden Symmetry"" Found in 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Meteorite - Based on experiments with X-rays, the newly discovered quasicrystal has a structure that resembles flat 10-sided disks stacked in a column. This 10-fold symmetry is an impossible structure in ordinary crystals"
2015-03-20,"A mob in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed a woman and set her body alight for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran."
2015-03-20,US President Barack Obama has told the Iranian people that a deal to transform the relationship between the two countries could be within reach.
2015-03-20,"Violence cost Mexico $233 billion, or 17% GDP"
2015-03-20,600 Indian Students Expelled for Cheating on School Exams
2015-03-20,"Conservationist murders threaten Costa Rica's eco-friendly reputation: The brutal murder of Jairo Mora, who was trying to protect endangered turtle eggs, was the latest in a string of crimes against environmentalists in the country"
2015-03-20,@the_intercept: New Zealand used NSA's surveillance system to target officials and an anti-corruption campaigner who published leaks
2015-03-20,Netanyahu to NBC: I want a peaceful two-state solution
2015-03-20,China to build $1bn solar power plant in Ghana
2015-03-20,Lithuania Reintroduces Military Conscription Amid Concern Over Russia
2015-03-20,"Three officials in China have resigned after an endangered Siberian tiger cub leapt to its death from an 11th floor apartment in Qingdao, eastern China, state media have reported."
2015-03-20,The Vatican announced Friday that a Scottish cardinal has resigned over allegations of sexual misconduct  the first time someone of that high office in the Catholic Church has resigned since the 1920s.
2015-03-20,"Reuters became the latest website blocked in China, joining the New York Times, Bloomberg News, and Wall Street Journal"
2015-03-20,"Pitcairn Islands to get world's largest single marine reserve - UK govt gives go ahead in the 2015 budget to a vast marine protected area in the Pacific thats home to more than 80 species of fish, coral and algae"
2015-03-19,New Alzheimers treatment fully restores memory function - Australian researchers have come up with a non-invasive ultrasound technology that clears the brain of neurotoxic amyloid plaques
2015-03-19,The Pirate Party is now measured as the biggest political party in Iceland
2015-03-19,US removes Iran and Hezbollah from list of terror threats
2015-03-19,A former ISIS militant has revealed that young Muslim women travelling to Syria to marry jihadists are being passed between men at the rate of one husband a week.
2015-03-19,BBC News: Indian students caught 'cheating' in exams - large-scale practice
2015-03-19,"Iran offers to ""reward"" US Oil Companies that position against GOP letter signed by 47 Senators"
2015-03-19,Russian treaty with South Ossetia breaks international law: NATO
2015-03-19,"UN: Mass Grave Found In Iraq, ISIS Suspected Of Genocide"
2015-03-19,"Pearson, the worlds largest maker of textbooks and academic materials, has admitted monitoring the social media use of students using its tests"
2015-03-19,"Greece adopts anti-poverty law despite alleged EU row: The legislation calls for households that were cut off because they could not pay their bills to be given a capped amount of free electricity. Up to 30,000 households would also get a housing allowance and 300,000 would receive food subsidies."
2015-03-19,Saudis halt Sweden visas in 'major escalation'
2015-03-19,Poland says it will match Russia's diplomatic hostility
2015-03-19,A US drone strike has killed the mastermind of the Westgate Mall massacre
2015-03-19,Twitter puts trillions of tweets up for sale to data miners
2015-03-19,White House 'Deeply Concerned' About Rhetoric from Netanyahu's Party
2015-03-19,New York to Cuba: first direct charter flight takes off
2015-03-19,The French parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of a law allowing terminally ill patients to cease treatment and enter a deep sleep until they die.
2015-03-19,"U.S. first lady Michelle Obama and her Japanese counterpart Akie Abe announced plans Thursday to deepen cooperation in helping girls in developing nations finish their educations, vowing to help them attain goals that many in wealthy countries take for granted."
2015-03-19,"As U.S.-led coalition forces confirm they shot down an ISIS drone this week, experts warn the extremists could soon adapt the technology for battle purposes."
2015-03-19,"Obama snubs Netanyahu and criticises Israeli PM's 'divisive rhetoric': President has yet to call Israeli PM to congratulate him on his election victory, as White House says it will have to re-evaluate its approach to peace talks"
2015-03-19,"Britain, France, Germany, and Italy have decided, over the objections of the United States, to join the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, a new international-development institution, set up by China, that is poised to become a potential rival to the World Bank."
2015-03-19,Amazon rainforest soaking up less carbon as trees die young
2015-03-19,"Israeli election still not completely decided - 200,000 ""double envelope"" votes are yet to be counted."
2015-03-19,"Australia's tobacco plain packaging laws successful, studies show"
2015-03-19,"""Ten companies directly responsible for third of Australia's greenhouse gas pollution, Australian Conservation Foundation report finds"""
2015-03-18,"Pentagon loses track of $500 million in weapons, equipment given to Yemen"
2015-03-18,Mexico Offered Sony $20M in Tax Breaks to portray country better in Bond film
2015-03-18,Egyptian woman who disguised herself as a man for 43 years in order to make a living was honored Tuesday by the government as the ideal mother
2015-03-18,"Vagina piercings to count as female genital mutilation in the UK, even if they are consensual"
2015-03-18,Britain's Shame: Evidence Mounts of Child-Abuse Cover-Up
2015-03-18,Canadas Largest Food Retailer To Sell Ugly Produce At Low Prices To Cut Food Waste
2015-03-18,"Gunmen attack Tunisian parliament, may have taken hostages"
2015-03-18,"Mexico Bans Animals From Circus - Searching for homes for 2,000 tigers, elephants, giraffes, zebras & other exotic beasts that'll be banned from circuses."
2015-03-18,France cut welfare benefits for 290 jihadists last year
2015-03-18,Germany riot in Frankfurt targets new ECB headquarters | Dozens of people have been hurt and some 350 people arrested as anti-austerity demonstrators clashed with police in the German city of Frankfurt.
2015-03-18,Almost a quarter of major Japanese companies are considering adopting the governments proposed merit-based pay system: the so-called white-collar exemption system to pay workers based on achievement rather than work hours.
2015-03-18,"Egypt is serious about abandoning Cairo as the capital, with a $45B city to be built from scratch"
2015-03-18,"Joe Biden: ""If you're wearing orange [a Protestant], you're not welcome in here"" - Democratic Unionist Party call on US Vice President to apologise for his comments"
2015-03-18,Netanyahu Defeats Chief Rival in Israeli Elections
2015-03-18,Netanyahu's shock re-election leaves Israel's pollsters red-faced
2015-03-18,"In Mexico journalists get as much respect from drug cartels as they get from the Mexican Government. What both don't want, both kill. Carmen Aristegui, a top journalist who exposed conflict-of-interest deals of Pres. Enrique Pea Nieto, his wife and their mansions, is now off the air."
2015-03-18,"Israel Elections 2015: Exit polls give Zionist Union 27, Likud 28 or in tie"
2015-03-18,"The EU plans to oblige member countries to share details of tax agreements made with big companies and end the practice of secret sweetheart deals: legislation would require countries ""to automatically exchange information on their tax rulings"" every three months."
2015-03-18,"Egypt demolishes 1,020 Rafah homes for Gaza buffer zone"
2015-03-18,Palestinians Say Election Results Prove Israel No Peace Partner
2015-03-18,Netanyahu says US money driving high Arab voter turnout
2015-03-18,"Nigerian army recaptures all but three areas from Boko Haram who is ""running with their tail between their legs"" according to Mike Omeri, the national security spokesman"
2015-03-18,Women with vagina piercings to be classed as suffering from FGM. [Even where the women is an adult and has consented]
2015-03-18,"Russia, India to join hands in space monitoring"
2015-03-18,"A 15-year-old's design for the new 1 coin has been chosen ahead of more than 6,000 entries"
2015-03-17,Irish no-frills airline Ryanair confirmed its board has approved plans to start flying low-cost transatlantic routes starting from $14 in the next five years.
2015-03-17,"Strip-searched girl can't return to her school, Quebec judge rules . In the strip search, the girl was asked to remove all her clothing, including her underwear. No drugs were found."
2015-03-17,"Netanyahu: If I'm elected, there will be no Palestinian state"
2015-03-17,France aims to criminalize advertising with anorexic models
2015-03-17,"Frenchman hides Russian wife in a suitcase to sneak her into EU - Polish border guards have detained a French citizen who packed his Russian wife in a suitcase, attempting to smuggle her over the Belarus border. Officials noted later that she would've been able to enter EU legally."
2015-03-17,"Canadian universal drug plan would save billions, UBC researchers say: $1-$5.4 billion annual public cost offsetting $8.2 billion annual private sector cost"
2015-03-17,South Korea reduces water supply to North Korea
2015-03-17,Ex Mossad head predicts dramatic improvement in US-Israel relations if Netanyahu loses election
2015-03-17,"ISIS Vows To Blow Up The White House, Big Ben And The Eiffel Tower"
2015-03-17,Spain finds Don Quixote writer Cervantes' tomb in Madrid
2015-03-17,"Germanys goal: Restoring Russia-annexed Crimea to Ukraine Its important despite, or because of, this to work for a peaceful solution and not rest until the full sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine is restored, and of course this includes Crimea, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday"
2015-03-17,"Russia says it would not hand back Crimea to Ukraine, despite warnings by the United States and European Union that they will not drop sanctions over the Black Sea peninsula's annexation a year ago"
2015-03-17,Mexico set to allow armed U.S. customs officials within its borders
2015-03-17,Alert after 200 metal balls coated in cyanide stolen in raid at UK industrial firm
2015-03-17,More coal plants are being cancelled than built. The number of cancelled coal projects across the world has outstripped those completed at a rate of two to one since 2010
2015-03-17,Myanmar court jails three over 'insult to Buddhism' -- The men had used a picture of Buddha wearing headphones for an online promotion
2015-03-17,"Saudi Arabia says it will want same enrichment rights as Iran if nuclear deal is done | Prince al-Faisal: ""I've always said whatever comes out of these talks, we will want the same."""
2015-03-17,"France, Germany, and Italy to join China-led Bank."
2015-03-17,"Adelaide, Australia Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson has been charged with concealing child sexual abuse"
2015-03-17,"In slow opening of Cuban Internet, govt allows a public Wi-Fi network: Less than two months after Netflix opened up its services to Cuba, the island nation now apparently has a new, free public Wi-Fi space"
2015-03-17,US to maintain Crimea sanctions until Russian rule ends
2015-03-17,Democratic Republic of Congo wants to open up Virunga national park to oil exploration - DRC government to consult Unesco to explore judiciously in Africas most biodiverse park and a world heritage site
2015-03-17,Latvia reports two Russian black hole subs and research ship on edge of territorial waters
2015-03-17,"Red Cross: People in Vanuatu 'desperate' for food, water and shelter"
2015-03-17,ISIS kidnaps 20 medical workers in Libya
2015-03-16,"Anonymous released 9,200 ISIS supporter Twitter account names to apply pressure on Twitter for suspending them"
2015-03-16,World waits to see if Putin turns up
2015-03-16,"Putin Orders Northern Fleet to Full Alert for Combat Readiness Exercise, include 38,000 military personnel, 3,360 pieces of equipment, 41 ships, 15 submarines, and 110 airplanes and helicopters"
2015-03-16,Russia's Putin appears in public for first time since March 5
2015-03-16,Islamic State fighters caught fleeing battlefield dressed as women
2015-03-16,Three teenagers who were stopped from travelling to Syria from Turkey have been flown back to the UK and arrested
2015-03-16,Montreal march against perceived police brutality declared illegal
2015-03-16,Tens of thousands of Brazilians are marching in cities demanding President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment and blasting what they say is deep government corruption
2015-03-16,Ukraine president calls on allies to boycott 2018 World Cup in Russia
2015-03-16,President Vladimir Putin has said he was ready to put Russia's nuclear weapons on standby during tensions over the crisis in Ukraine and Crimea
2015-03-16,Britain is likely to pass a tougher tobacco control bill on Monday that would bar cigarette makers from using their own logos on products and instead require all manufacturers to use a uniform design.
2015-03-16,ISIS fighters dress as women in desperate attempt to flee battlefield
2015-03-16,Ancient Statues Destroyed by ISIS were Fake - The ancient statues that Islamic State militants smashed in Mosul last month have been proved to be exact replicas of precious artifacts of Iraqi heritage. The real masterpieces of antiquity are said to be in Baghdad.
2015-03-16,Christians riot in Pakistan after attacks targeting churches kill 14 - Washington Post
2015-03-16,US Accuses Venezuela Oil Company of $2 Bn Money Laundering Scheme
2015-03-16,Hezbollah to send 800 of their most elite fighters to Iraq to fight the Islamic State in the decisive upcoming battle for Mosul.
2015-03-16,"The police watchdog is investigating alleged corruption in the Metropolitan Police, including claims it covered up child sex offences because of the involvement of police officers and MPs."
2015-03-16,Saudi beheading takes 2015 execution tally to 45
2015-03-16,Putin was surprised at how easily Russia took control of Crimea - Washington Post
2015-03-16,"A Chechen mother has kidnapped her two Dutch young children, aged 7 and 8, and has taken them to Syria to join Islamic State, Dutch prosecutors said on Monday, in the first known case in the Netherlands of kidnapping by one parent to join the militant group."
2015-03-16,Venezuelan president Nicols Maduro given power to rule by decree | World news
2015-03-16,"Cyclone Pam has ""wiped out"" development in Vanuatu, its president said, amid ongoing concern over residents of the Pacific nation's outlying islands."
2015-03-16,"An annual report delivered recently to the US Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, removed Iran and Hezbollah from its list of terrorism threats, after years in which they featured in similar reports"
2015-03-16,Turkish jets intercept Russian military plane near Turkeys airspace
2015-03-16,"Silk Road moderator Samesamebutdifferent pleads guilty, faces life in prison"
2015-03-15,"Canadian citizens across the country are gathering today to oppose the proposed anti-terrorist legislation (Bill C-51) in a country wide ""Day of Action"""
2015-03-15,"Chinese PHD expelled for 'illegal missile research' | Two academics expelled from a Norwegian University were suspected of carrying out secret research to help China build advanced high-speed missiles, Norways Police Security Service (PST) has claimed."
2015-03-15,"ISIS is attempting to lure Canadian girls to travel abroad to marry them, using tactics straight out of the playbooks of sex traffickers and pedophiles, says a new documentary to be broadcast this weekend."
2015-03-15,European Parliament Declares Gay Marriage and Abortion Human Rights
2015-03-15,C.I.A. Funds Found Their Way Into Al Qaeda Coffers
2015-03-15,Fox News Military Analyst Under Fire for Saying the U.S. May Need to Kill Some Russians (Video)
2015-03-15,UK VIP Pedophilia Scandal: Police pinpoint 'dungeon' flat linked to abuse parties and child murder
2015-03-15,World: Kurds Say ISIS Used Chemical Weapons
2015-03-15,"Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad as a dog has received a prize for courage from a free press group, at a heavily secured event in the Danish parliament."
2015-03-15,US shuts down Saudi embassy amid security fears
2015-03-15,The devil is punishing Mexico with violence: Pope Francis
2015-03-15,China is World's Largest Investor in Renewable Energy Resources
2015-03-15,Jupiter's Moon Ganymede Has Salty Ocean with More Water Than Earth
2015-03-15,Ex-NSA director: China has hacked 'every major corporation' in U.S.
2015-03-15,Cyclone Pam leaves 'most' of Vanuatu population homeless | The president of Vanuatu has told the BBC most of his people are homeless after the devastating cyclone that hit the Pacific island nation on Friday.
2015-03-15,Turkey blocks website of its first atheist association
2015-03-15,The Vice President of Sierra Leone has requested asylum at the American embassy
2015-03-15,New report provides revealing view into the so-called troll den that produces thousands of pro-Kremlin posts and comments every day
2015-03-15,Egypt to build a new capital the size of Singapore.
2015-03-15,European Parliament calls on EU member states to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide
2015-03-15,"Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel's Army Radio Sunday foreign powers have spent millions of dollars as part of an orchestrated campaign against him. He did not indicate which governments he was referring to, but said they were colluding with the media and leftist groups in a ""just not Bibi"" campaign."
2015-03-15,World: Ex-ISIS Hostage Says Jihadi John Played Lead Role in Mock Executions
2015-03-15,Thousands gather across Canada to protest proposed anti-terror legislation
2015-03-15,John Kerry says the United States will have to negotiate with President Bashar al Assad
2015-03-15,More than 100 Germans fighting for separatists in eastern Ukraine
2015-03-14,The Pirate Party is now measured as the second biggest party in Iceland with 22% in new poll
2015-03-14,"For the first time, the world economy grows while carbon emissions don't"
2015-03-14,"British Home Secretary Theresa May warns the public still do not grasp the scale of child sex abuse in Britain, saying it is 'woven into the fabric of our society'"
2015-03-14,Police Cover-up of Child Sex Abuse in Sheffield 'Bigger Than Rotherham'
2015-03-14,Russia ETF Falls As Kremlin Reportedly Prepares For 'Mysterious' Announcement
2015-03-14,Russian channel 'Rossiya 24' prematurely reports on Putin meeting which has yet to happen.
2015-03-14,"ISIS Has Lost 25 Percent of Territory It Once Held in Iraq, US Says"
2015-03-14,UK MPs propose that elective cosmetic genital surgery to create so-called designer vaginas should be outlawed under legislation designed to prevent female genital mutilation.
2015-03-14,Turkish President Erdogan dismisses claims that a new constitution would create dictatorship
2015-03-14,Buddhist monk calling for equal rights in Tibet arrested and disappeared
2015-03-14,"U.S. Army sending armored convoy 1,100 miles through Europe"
2015-03-14,"March is already one of the worst months for poaching in Kenya. Seven elephants have been killed in the last two weeks, followed by two rhinos on Thursday"
2015-03-14,"New draft policy to increase Japans flagging birth rate includes support for matchmaking, leave policies, and fertility centers in order to jump-start baby-making and address the countrys aging population. The national government will also support local governments sponsoring speed-dating events."
2015-03-14,"China has sent fighter jets to its border with Myanmar and lodged a diplomatic protest after a Myanmar warplane reportedly dropped a bomb on its territory, killing four civilians."
2015-03-14,"A Man Working for an ""intelligence agency of an unspecified country that is part of the coalition against IS"" has been caught smuggling 3 UK girls for IS"
2015-03-14,ISIS Destroyed Iraqi HQ and killed 40 soldiers
2015-03-14,Pope Says He May Retire From Vatican Soon
2015-03-14,Pakistani political party spent 125 billion rupees from tax payers money to purchase law makers loyalty
2015-03-14,"President of Leipzig University: Internal review of e-mail exchange with rejected Indian student confirms ""the published e-mail has obviously been faked""."
2015-03-14,Satellites Will Beam One-Way Internet to the Earth's Most Remote Areas - A grant from the UK Space Agency will enable the Outernet project to launch a constellation of 24 satellites by the end of next year.
2015-03-14,Putin drops his American PR company
2015-03-14,"Covert police unit spied on trade union members, whistleblower reveals"
2015-03-14,"Putin Involved in Drug Smuggling Ring, Says Ex-KGB Officer"
2015-03-14,McCain calls Germany a Russia 'appeaser'
2015-03-14,3 Million Whales Were Killed in the 20th Century: Report
2015-03-13,"German anti-vaccer wagers  100,000 to anyone proving the existance of the measles virus. Researcher sends him articles proving the virus' existance and takes him to court where he's ordered to pay the full amount."
2015-03-13,Iran: The letter by American senators indicates the collapse of political ethics in the United States
2015-03-13,The Euro and the US Dollar are now worth the same amount
2015-03-13,Canadian school takes 21 students out of school as parents refuse to vaccinate them while a measles outbreak reaches 119 cases
2015-03-13,Penis transplant declared successful for the first time in history
2015-03-13,"NASA Finds Warm Underground Ocean Beneath Ganymede, Jupiter's Largest Moon (pictures/in-depth resources)"
2015-03-13,"South African mercenaries--seen as relics of apartheid after officially being banned in 1998--are now back in action in Nigeria, where they're covertly ""whacking"" Boko Haram in nighttime raids"
2015-03-13,"German FM: US Republican Iran letter 'not helpful' an 'understatement'. ""It is creating the advantage for the Iranians. It is hurting our position in the negotiations."
2015-03-13,Statues destroyed by Islamic State in Mosul were copies
2015-03-13,Finland: Two-third of parliament candidates favor basic income
2015-03-13,"Chilling Syrian numbers: 83% of electricity cut, life expectancy drops 20 years"
2015-03-13,"New mystery 'suicide' in Ukraine - A former regional governor has been found dead in Ukraine, the latest in a series of deaths involving allies of deposed President Viktor Yanukovych."
2015-03-13,"Australia bans hunting 'trophies' from lions entering or leaving the country - Lion body parts used as trophies from hunting will no longer be allowed to be imported or exported, environment minister Greg Hunt says"
2015-03-13,Canadian soldiers didn't fire back when Kurds Kurdish allies suddenly and unexpectedly swivelled their weapons away from ISIS targets to shot at the Canadian troops
2015-03-13,"Nearly 13,000 tortured to death in Syria"
2015-03-13,"Cuba allows launch of first known free, public Internet service at Havana cultural center"
2015-03-13,Spain puts 'gag' on freedom of expression as senate approves security law
2015-03-13,Greek PM says Germany owes Greece more than $170bn for atrocities committed during the Nazi occupation
2015-03-13,Banned BBC documentary on Nirbhaya gang rape in shown by activist in slum where four of the convicts in the case used to live
2015-03-13,Egypts New Capital City Revealed
2015-03-13,Indian man responds to documentary on Indian rape with his own documentary on British rape
2015-03-13,Islamic State 'using chlorine gas' in Iraq roadside bombs
2015-03-13,"Remains of a necklace or bracelet made by Neanderthals have been found in Croatia. The artifacts, described in the latest issue of the journal PLOS ONE, add to the growing body of evidence that Neanderthals had their own rich culture and meaningful symbols long before Homo sapiens came to Europe."
2015-03-13,First Active Hydrothermal System Found beyond Earth
2015-03-13,Swedish prosecutors offer to question Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in London on sex assault allegations.
2015-03-12,A 42-year-old woman running for mayor in a violent southwestern Mexican state has been kidnapped and decapitated.
2015-03-12,"More than 200 witchdoctors and traditional healers have been arrested in Tanzania in a crackdown on the murder of albinos for their body parts. The latest victims include a one-year-old albino boy, killed in north-western Tanzania a few weeks ago."
2015-03-12,Richest man in US Congress would be 166th richest in China's congresses
2015-03-12,Boko Haram Surrounded on All Sides by United-Military Forces
2015-03-12,"The Wikimedia Foundation believes it can win its case against the NSA because it has evidence that mass surveillance had caused it harm, co-founder Wales said | ""We have proof that it's actually impacting us from the Snowden documents. Wikipedia was specifically targeted for upstream surveillance"""
2015-03-12,"Town in Canada bans spitting, swearing, and gathering in groups larger than 3; Lawyers' group claims law unconstitutional, will defend those charged for free."
2015-03-12,Second ex-Mossad chief joins chorus criticizing Netanyahu
2015-03-12,"Dalai Lama says he may not reincarnate. China: ""Decision-making power over the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama... resides in the central government of China."""
2015-03-12,World: Putin Responsible for Murder of Boris Nemtsov Says Daughter
2015-03-12,"Alzheimer's memory loss reversed by breakthrough treatment using ultrasound, scientists in Australia discover."
2015-03-12,"Scientists will be reopening the LHC after increasing its energy output by 62.5%. They're hoping it will show evidence for Supersymmetry, a theory that fills in gaps with the standard model that were previously not possible to achieve."
2015-03-12,"New Iran laws reduce women to ""baby-making machines"" - Amnesty"
2015-03-12,An Afghan artist has been forced into hiding after receiving death threats for dressing in a metal suit featuring exaggerated breasts and buttocks. Kubra Khademi wore the unusual armour in a performance on the streets of Kabul to highlight the problems of sexual harassment faced by women.
2015-03-12,"The U.N. torture investigator accused the United States on Wednesday of stalling on his requests to visit its prisons where 80,000 people are in solitary confinement and to interview inmates at Guantanamo on his terms."
2015-03-12,Norwegian Researchers Are Crowdfunding to Make Psychedelics and MDMA Free for Global Medical Use | VICE News
2015-03-12,New Zealand Witnesses Protests Against Trans Pacific Pact: Critics Allege TPP Is Harmful To Common Man
2015-03-12,250-Year-Old Pretzel Unearthed by German Archaeologists
2015-03-12,The main suspect in the murder of Nemtsov says he confessed under torture
2015-03-12,30 Feared Dead in Shopping Center Fire in Russian City of Kazan
2015-03-12,"A number of British intelligence staff have been sacked for inappropriately accessing personal information, it has emerged. The revelation came as the results of a long-awaited report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) were published."
2015-03-12,Google algorithm changes allow company press releases to top news searches
2015-03-12,Reporters Without Borders Unblocks Banned News Websites
2015-03-12,"U.S.-trained and armed Iraqi military units, the key to the American strategy against ISIS, are under investigation for committing some of the same atrocities as the terror group"
2015-03-12,Czech secret services have found three russian spies
2015-03-12,"China interested in Athens Airport - Plans to make it main ""Gateway"" of China into Europe with 50+ million Chinese entering per year"
2015-03-11,Pope Francis has called for greater transparency in politics and said elections should be free from backers who fund campaigns in order to prevent policy being influenced by wealthy sponsors.
2015-03-11,Britain may broadcast Putin's financial secrets to Russia
2015-03-11,"Homeopathy not effective for treating any condition, Australian report finds"
2015-03-11,"The Euro has lost 35% of its value since last May, and is continuing to drop"
2015-03-11,Russia says has right to deploy nuclear weapons in Crimea
2015-03-11,"India Launches Its First Indigenous Rotavirus Vaccine. At $1, It Is The Cheapest In The World"
2015-03-11,"Boeing 3d prints 20,000 aircraft parts and files a patent for their 3d printing method."
2015-03-11,"State Dept. hack the 'worst ever': ""Russian hackers, likely working for the Russian government, are suspected in the State Department hack."""
2015-03-11,Somali families living in Britain and the United States are bringing their daughters to Kenya to secretly undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) as their home countries crack down on the internationally condemned practice.
2015-03-11,New Island emerges in Pacific Ocean
2015-03-11,ISIS sympathizer arrested after plotting to bomb U.S. consulate in Toronto: CBSA
2015-03-11,"About 80 children rescued from a Boko Haram camp in Cameroon cannot remember their own names or origins, according to an aid official who visited them."
2015-03-11,Varoufakis unsettles Germans with admission Greece won't repay debts
2015-03-11,"Greece's justice minister on Wednesday warned that German property could be seized in compensation for wartime atrocities, in an escalating war of words with Berlin over Athens' current EU loan deal."
2015-03-11,Bibi in big trouble: New poll shows Israeli PM in danger of losing bid for fourth term
2015-03-11,ISPs block Pirate Bay proxy sites in battle against online piracy
2015-03-11,Newfound Egyptian Tomb Has Colorful Murals of Man and Wife
2015-03-11,"The world's strongest teenage girl, 15-year-old Russian powerlifter Maryana Naumova, asks 'Terminator' to save Russia-U.S. ties"
2015-03-11,As many as 15 attackers have stolen millions of euros' worth of jewels from two high security vans at a French motorway toll booth
2015-03-11,Jeremy Clarkson 'punch': Top Gear episodes to be dropped
2015-03-11,Iran aims to ban vasectomies and cut access to contraceptives to boost births
2015-03-11,Greece to demand WWII reparations from Germany
2015-03-11,Athens threatens to seize German assets over WWII reparations
2015-03-11,Gang suspected of using forced labor & illegally dumping tens of thousands of tons of rubbish across England arrested
2015-03-11,Obama Said to Resist Growing Pressure From All Sides to Arm Ukraine
2015-03-10,"The White House on Monday sharply rebuked nearly four dozen Republican senators who sent a letter to Iranian leaders just as nuclear negotiations reach a pivotal moment, characterizing the correspondence as an illegitimate interference in President Obamas foreign policy."
2015-03-10,U.K. Parliament says banning Tor is unacceptable and impossible
2015-03-10,"Ecstasy, ketamine and crystal meth are currently legal in Ireland due to a ruling in the Court of Appeal on the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 this morning."
2015-03-10,"Qatar should be stripped of the 2022 World Cup in order to rectify the mistake of awarding them the tournament, the outgoing Fifa executive committee member Theo Zwanziger has said."
2015-03-10,"CIA hacked iPhone, iPad and Mac security  Snowden documents reveal extent of privacy invasion"
2015-03-10,"ISIS call for demolition of Egypts Sphinx, pyramids"
2015-03-10,"Time to 'move on' from Snowden surveillance revelations, says UK foreign secretary - Foreign secretary says debate sparked by US whistleblower Edward Snowden cannot be allowed to run on forever"
2015-03-10,President Vladimir Putin awarded a state honor to a man suspected by Britain of using radioactive polonium to poison Kremlin critic Alexander Litvinenko in London
2015-03-10,Iran's Foreign Minister To U.S. Senators: 'The World Is Not The United States'
2015-03-10,Putin Signs Amendments Lowering Penalties For Bribes
2015-03-10,"Britain's divided decade: the rich are 64% richer than before the recession, while the poor are 57% poorer"
2015-03-10,"Ten dead, including French sporting stars, in helicopter crash in Argentina -- Olympic gold medalist swimmer Camille Muffat and Olympic boxer Alexis Vastine among those killed as reality TV show filming ends in disaster"
2015-03-10,"President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Monday declaring Venezuela a national security threat, sanctioning seven individuals and expressing concern about the Venezuelan government's treatment of political opponents."
2015-03-10,Bank Records Reveal Saudi Elites Gave Millions to Boston Marathon Bombers' Mosque
2015-03-10,US army tanks arrive in Baltics amid mounting Russian invasion fears
2015-03-10,"Earth entering period of fastest climate change seen in last 1,000 years"
2015-03-10,"Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that runs free online encyclopedia Wikipedia, will file a lawsuit against the National Security Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice, challenging the government's mass surveillance program."
2015-03-10,China warns Canada not to allow Hong Kong democracy leader to speak to Canadian parliamentary committee
2015-03-10,"Pakistan: Jampur Police torture rape victim, family for protesting"
2015-03-10,"Parents who praise children too much may encourage narcissism, says study. Researchers following more than 500 children say parental warmth may be a better strategy than inflating the ego"
2015-03-10,"A blaze at a mosque in Eskilstuna in central Sweden that injured five people on Christmas Day was caused not by a firebomb but by an overheated deep fryer, a police source told a local newspaper."
2015-03-10,NZ Prime Minister John Key Retracts Vow to Resign if Mass Surveillance Is Shown
2015-03-10,Report: Saudi Arabia accuses western media of attacking its sovereignty
2015-03-10,"Pro-Russia fighters have withdrawn weapons, says Ukraine president"
2015-03-10,Amnesty International warns anti-terrorism bill could target activists
2015-03-09,"Indian news channel NDTV left its screen blank for an hour on Sunday evening in protest of the ban on Indias Daughter, a documentary about the 2012 Delhi rape."
2015-03-09,Two California Tourists Arrested For Engraving Their Names In Rome's Colosseum And Taking A Selfie
2015-03-09,Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed he planned the annexation of Crimea four days before unidentified gunmen appeared in the region.
2015-03-09,India wants global ban on gang rape documentary
2015-03-09,"Giant tomb of a Iron Age Celtic prince discovered just 100km from Paris in Champagne, contains exceptional archaeological treasures fitting for one of the highest elite of the end of the first Iron Age"
2015-03-09,"Of Canada's ""anti-terror"" bill C-51, BC Premier Christy Clark says: ""When you give up personal freedoms, it's very hard to get them back."""
2015-03-09,Unidentified gunmen kill more than 12 Islamic State militants in eastern Syria
2015-03-09,"German professor cites rape culture in India to refuse student internship : India, News"
2015-03-09,Liberia's last ebola patient is out of the Hospital.
2015-03-09,"'He Stabbed Me, Darling,' Indian Techie Killed in Sydney, Told Husband on the Phone"
2015-03-09,German Teenager Dies Fighting ISIS in Syria
2015-03-09,Report: German Official Says Saudi Arabia Top Terror Exporter In Middle East
2015-03-09,Swedish Minister 'Silenced' by Saudis at Arab League
2015-03-09,Russia jails five Chechen men in killing of Putin critic Boris Nemtsov
2015-03-09,"All Canadians would be trapped in anti-terror legislations web, warns privacy commissioner, saying it is excessive, and safeguards against abuse are seriously deficient."
2015-03-09,"Students of the Technical University of Crete have built a hydrogen car that has won international awards, yet Greek legislation prevents production of the vehicle"
2015-03-09,"Canada bringing back Buffalo to Banff National Park, a species that once roamed the plains of Western Canada by the millions."
2015-03-09,Putin describes secret operation to seize Crimea
2015-03-09,"Over 2 Million Migratory Birds Killed in Cyprus - to feed an illicit taste for the delicacy. Study shows ""a dramatic situation of this illegal activity sadly taking place,"" with number of nets used almost doubling in 2014. Lime sticks trap birds, leaving them to dangle helplessly."
2015-03-09,Saudi Arabia rejects human rights criticism after flogging of blogger Badawi
2015-03-09,North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un has been attempting to show off his feminist credentials - by handing out make-up during an airbase visit on International Women's Day.
2015-03-09,"Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman: ""Those [Palestinian citizens] who are against us deserve to have their heads chopped off with an axe."""
2015-03-09,"Facebook atheist risking jail seeks to flee Egypt: Karim al-Banna, who on Monday could hear an appeal court uphold his three-year jail term for ""insulting"" Islam with his atheism, wishes he could live anywhere but his native Egypt."
2015-03-09,"Over 25,000 test positive for Swine Flu in India, 1370 deaths so far"
2015-03-09,UN report says Australia's treatment of asylum seekers breaches torture convention
2015-03-08,MH370's underwater locator beacon expired more than a year before it vanished.
2015-03-08,Boko Haram 'joins Islamic State'
2015-03-08,Tens of thousands fill Rabin Square in Israel for anti-Netanyahu rally
2015-03-08,"Suspect in Russian Politicians Killing Blows Himself Up, Report Says"
2015-03-08,"NSA Global Spy Stations Revealed: 'Sniff It All, Collect It All, Know It All, Process It All, Exploit It All': Latest documents leaked by Snowden offer new insight into mysterious 'domes of Waihopai' and the global spy network of which they represent only a part"
2015-03-08,Shipment containing 221kg of lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries on Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Flight MH370 was not screened before being loaded
2015-03-08,"The Israeli navy opened fire on boats off the coast of the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing one Palestinian fisherman, Gaza hospital officials said."
2015-03-08,"Venezuela will begin installing 20,000 fingerprint scanners at supermarkets nationwide in a bid to stamp out hoarding and panic buying"
2015-03-08,"Occidental Petroleum has agreed to compensate Perus Achuar tribe for polluting its territories deep in the Amazon rainforest, concluding seven years of litigation and handing the indigenous group a hard-fought victory against a U.S. oil giant"
2015-03-08,Canadian soldier killed by friendly fire in Iraq
2015-03-08,"Indonesian clothes company sorry for 'sexist' labels -""Washing instructions: Give this shirt to a woman. It's her job"""
2015-03-08,"Indonesia got 189 of its own citizens off death row internationally, but still insists on executing two Australian citizens"
2015-03-08,Pornography vs art: Facebook loses jurisdiction battle in France over case of French teacher who got his account banned for posting a picture of a 19th-century painting
2015-03-08,Russia Says Security Cameras Weren't Pointing at Nemtsov Shooting  But Blogger's Photo Suggests They Were
2015-03-08,"Young Canadians conversion to radical Islam leaves family devastated: Father gives up hope of changing his son, who has become a cheerleader for the Islamic State terrorists and has landed himself on the radar of CSIS"
2015-03-08,Australia imposes Arabic ban at maximum security jail
2015-03-08,ISIS is a bunch of crazy people: Jordan's Queen Rania
2015-03-08,Support for Putin Among Russian Voters Doubles
2015-03-08,"Canada's ""Anti-Terror"" Bill Allows Intel Obtained By Torture, Says Green Party Leader, says it throws out Canada's well-established rules that prevent police from using illegally-obtained information."
2015-03-08,Isis vandalism has Libya fearing for its cultural treasures
2015-03-08,"Indian Railways Plans 1,000 Megawatts of Solar Energy Projects"
2015-03-08,Berlin Alarmed Over NATO Aggressive Stance on Ukraine
2015-03-08,"While the ban on female nationals watching live sports games seems set to remain, Foreign women may be allowed to attend football matches in Iran, an Iranian Official says"
2015-03-08,Saudi Arabia has passed India to become the world's biggest arms importer
2015-03-08,"Federal agents raid 20 suspected 'maternity tourism hotels' in California; Chinese women pay up to $50,000 to have their children gain US citizenship."
2015-03-07,"NASAs chief confirms it: Without Russia, the $140 billion space station would be lost."
2015-03-07,"Electric car sales in Norway continue to break records, increase by 130% in one year."
2015-03-07,Lenovo only earned $250k to infect customers with Superfish
2015-03-07,Chinas wind farms can now produce more energy than all of Americas nuclear plants
2015-03-07,"World's first LSD brain imaging study seeks funds through crowdfunding. The study is looking to reveal how LSD can heal illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and addiction."
2015-03-07,Two men have been arrested over the murder of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov
2015-03-07,IS destroying another ancient archaeological site in Iraq
2015-03-07,"British internet troll sued for 100,000 after leaving scathing review of a Colorado-based law firm on google maps."
2015-03-07,"US government still hunting WikiLeaks as Obama targets whistleblowers | The Department of Justice and the FBI are pursuing a multi-subject long-term investigation of the open-information website, court documents reveal"
2015-03-07,"230 kilo of ""meth"" found on Chinese travelers at Russian Airport, turned out to be tofu"
2015-03-07,"ISIS 'bulldozed' ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, Iraq says"
2015-03-07,Denmark: Calls for Muhammad cartoons in school textbooks
2015-03-07,Syrian Air Force kills ISIS commander and destroyed an ISIS convoy of military vehicles.
2015-03-07,China rocked by former state TV news anchor linking her baby's tumour to the country's terrible air pollution in hard-hitting film seen by more than 200 million
2015-03-07,North Korean diplomat stopped with nearly $1.4m in gold at Dhaka airport
2015-03-07,Pope faces unprecedented opposition from within the Church for his appointment of a Bishop in Chile who covered up for Chile's most notorious pedophile. Holding Bishops accountable is one of main priorities of Pope's Sex Abuse committee.
2015-03-07,Greece to pass anti-austerity bill to guarantee food and electricity to thousands in poverty
2015-03-07,"An Afghan artist walked through the streets of Kabul wearing metal armour in a bid to denounce sexual harassment, a courageous performance that nearly got her lynched."
2015-03-07,Porn Filmed At Egypts Pyramids Sparks Outrage
2015-03-07,The Czech Constitutional Court has confirmed that the Ministry of Health can determine that certain vaccines are mandatory and fine parents for non-compliance
2015-03-07,IS bulldozing of ancient city condemned as war crime
2015-03-07,Thousands rally against TPP
2015-03-07,"'Sweden shouldn't end controversial Saudi deal' | Prominent business leaders, including the chairman of Swedish fashion brand H&M, have called for Sweden not to end a controversial military arms deal with Saudi Arabia, in an opinion piece in the Dagens Nyheter newspaper."
2015-03-07,Georgia slams Russias military exercises on Georgian occupied land
2015-03-07,"Dollar picks up to 11 years high, Euro struggles"
2015-03-06,Lockheed Martin Claims Sustainable Fusion Is Within Its Grasp
2015-03-06,Nasa finds evidence of a vast ancient ocean on Mars
2015-03-06,Astronomers Observe Supernova and Find They're Watching the Same Star Explode Over and Over Again
2015-03-06,"Nasa, has confirmed that its Dawn probe has gone into orbit around Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter."
2015-03-06,"Indian mob breaks into jail, beats rape suspect to death"
2015-03-06,Ex-Mossad chief calls Netanyahu's Iran speech 'bullshit'
2015-03-06,"A Russian official has accused US fast food giants McDonalds and Coca Cola of waging ""war"" against citizens by aggressively marketing ""unhealthy"" products to them"
2015-03-06,New study says SSRI antidepressants need to be added to list of drugs that induce withdrawal symptoms upon discontinuation. SSRI withdrawal symptoms include depression and anxiety which are being confused with relapse of original illnesses and causing people to stay on drugs longer than needed.
2015-03-06,Quebec resident Alain Philippon charged at Halifax airport for not giving up phone password
2015-03-06,"Snowden says he'd like to return to Geneva. Edward Snowden has made a public appeal for Switzerland to grant him asylum, saying he would like to return to live in Geneva, where he once worked undercover for the Central Intelligence Agency."
2015-03-06,U.S. ambassador gets 80 stitches after knife attack
2015-03-06,"ISIL commander treated in a hospital in western Turkey, Governors office confirms."
2015-03-06,Dutch jihadists should die before returning to Netherlands: Prime Minister Rutte
2015-03-06,New Zealand Customs propose that it be given blanket authority to force people to disclose passwords to their computers and smartphones at the border. Failure to do so without a reasonable excuse would result in up to 3 months prison.
2015-03-06,NASA Spacecraft Set for Historic Arrival at Dwarf Planet Ceres Today
2015-03-06,Chemistry teacher jailed 6 years for trying to join Islamic State
2015-03-06,Iran blinds acid attacker in 'eye for an eye' punishment. Man has eye gouged out by medics in first known case of retribution five years after he blinded another man.
2015-03-06,Adidas is Closing 200 Stores in Russia
2015-03-06,"Police Chief says of tunnel near York University that stoked unfounded ""terrorist"" fears: ""Maybe this is just the coolest fort ever"", as man comes forward to say it was just a mancave built to chill and have bbq in."
2015-03-06,Syrian warplanes kill 13 senior leaders of al Qaeda affiliate
2015-03-06,ISIS fighters bulldoze ancient Assyrian palace in Iraq
2015-03-06,"Nisman former wife: Alberto Nisman did not commit suicide, he was murdered"
2015-03-06,"Tajik opposition leader Umarali Kuvatov, who had been living in exile in Turkey, was killed by a single shot to the head in the Turkish city of Istanbul, opposition sources"
2015-03-06,Suspected terror attack in Jerusalem; 3 officers hurt
2015-03-06,French Authorities ID 3 Palestinian Suspects Responsible for 1982 Terror Attack in Paris' Jewish Quarter
2015-03-05,Study Confirms That Abstinence Education Has Utterly Failed At Preventing AIDS In Africa
2015-03-05,"The father of a woman who died after a savage gang-rape in Delhi said he thought everyone should watch a documentary about the attack broadcast by the BBC but banned in India ""If a man can speak like that in jail, imagine what he would say if he was walking free,"" said the father of the victim"
2015-03-05,The car used in Putin critic's killing belongs to an 'in-house security service'.
2015-03-05,"The Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has reacted to Binyamin Netanyahus speech to the US Congress by saying that the world and the American people are too intelligent to take advice from an aggressive and occupier regime that has itself developed an arsenal of nuclear weapons."
2015-03-05,India's government has asked YouTube to remove all links to a controversial documentary about the gang rape and murder of a woman in Delhi after banning its broadcast.
2015-03-05,Iran: We saved the Jews three times; Netanyahu should learn history
2015-03-05,"A report outlining the extent of Russia's military involvement in Ukraine, which was being prepared by Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov before his murder a few days ago, will be completed and published, opposition activists say"
2015-03-05,The Green Party in Germany is proposing a draft law to legalize cannabis
2015-03-05,Snowden says U.S. not offering fair trial if he returns
2015-03-05,"Scientists have unearthed the jawbone of what they claim is one of the very first humans. The 2.8 million-year-old specimen is 400,000 years older than researchers thought that our kind first emerged."
2015-03-05,Jihadi Johns Father Says His Son Is A Dog And Can Go To Hell
2015-03-05,"China tries to ditch its coal addiction, reduce energy intensity. Country would aim to raise wind power capacity to 200 gigawatts (GW) and solar to around 100 GW by 2020, up from 95.8 GW and 26.5 GW respectively at the end of 2014."
2015-03-05,"#snowdenNZ : Leaked documents show New Zealand spies on its Pacific friends and sends the data to the US | GCSB collects phone calls, emails and internet data from NZ's closest and most vulnerable neighbours, secret papers reveal"
2015-03-05,Chemical fire in Vancouver port. People told to close windows and stay home as far away as Burnaby.
2015-03-05,UK Police Admit Their Money Laundering Investigations Only Hit the 'Tip of the Iceberg'
2015-03-05,Britain's advertising watchdog banned an Israeli government tourism advert for suggesting that the Old City of Jerusalem was part of Israel on Wednesday.
2015-03-05,India threatens BBC over rapist interview
2015-03-05,"Remains of First Known Human Found in Ethiopia: The 2.8-million-year old remains consist of a fossil lower jaw and teeth. They were unearthed at the Ledi-Geraru research area at Afar Regional State, Ethiopia."
2015-03-05,A court in Moscow has convicted a Russian police officer on charges of spying for the United States and sentenced him to 15 years in prison
2015-03-05,"US ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert injured by armed attacker while giving lecture, local media report."
2015-03-05,"Putin Sounds the Alarm Over Budding 'Color Revolutions' in Russia: President Vladimir Putin urged Interior Ministry officials on Wednesday to focus on smothering budding color revolutions, thus bolstering the current political climate by reinforcing a widespread fear of domestic enemies"
2015-03-05,Edward Snowden says Canadian spying has weakest oversight in Western world
2015-03-05,"The US military's top officer, General Martin Dempsey, told lawmakers on Wednesday it was possible special operations forces could eventually be sent to Syria to back up American-trained rebels"
2015-03-05,"300 staff working for lawmakers have lobbying interests, analysis reveals"
2015-03-05,Iran's supreme leader has terminal cancer
2015-03-04,"UK should begin decriminalising drugs, say Richard Branson and Nick Clegg"
2015-03-04,Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi asks Indonesian President and heavy metal fan Joko Widodo to stop execution of Australian drug smugglers
2015-03-04,Paraguay Next to Legalize Marijuana Says President of Congress
2015-03-04,"Putin has called for an end to ""shameful"" political killings in Russia"
2015-03-04,"UK: Sex gangs may have abused hundreds of girls; children have suffered on an ""industrial scale"" says PM"
2015-03-04,"Some 12,000 Russian soldiers in Ukraine supporting rebels: U.S. commander"
2015-03-04,"American billionaire Paul Allen has announced the discovery of the famous World War Two Japanese battleship, the Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by US forces"
2015-03-04,Benjamin Netanyahu didn't offer 'viable alternatives' during Iran speech: Obama
2015-03-04,"Harper government won't let former Prime Ministers testify on ""anti-terror"" bill C-51 in Canada, but will hear from US Homeland Security's Jeh Johnson."
2015-03-04,"An ancient tomb belonging to Amenhotep, guard of the temple of Egyptian deity Amun, has been discovered in the southern city of Luxor, the Egypt's antiquities ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said the tomb probably dates to the New Kingdom's 18th Dynasty (15431292 BC)."
2015-03-04,A European first: Ireland passes laws banning branded cigarette packets
2015-03-04,A sign of the times: References to Stalin's crimes removed from Soviet Gulag prison museum
2015-03-04,"The leader of one of Mexico's most notorious drugs gang, the Zetas cartel, has been captured by security forces, officials say"
2015-03-04,A Delhi court has banned a documentary film about the December 2012 fatal gang rape of a woman over concerns about derogatory comments made by one of the rapists but its filmmaker has said it will be released as planned.
2015-03-04,"German NSA inquiry chief's phone hacked, then interfered with in transit by 'persons unknown'"
2015-03-04,A former Royal Marine has become the first Briton to be killed while fighting alongside Kurdish forces against Islamic State in Syria
2015-03-04,"US Soldiers Readying for Ukraine Deployment: The US Army is preparing to send approximately 300 troops at a time to train Ukrainian forces in western Ukraine, according to documents posted on a government contracting site."
2015-03-04,TASS: Russia - Car tied to Nemtsov killing belongs to enterprise serving government bodies
2015-03-04,"An Al Jazeera journalist has been fined 1,000 (725;$1,120) for flying a drone in Paris last week in the midst of a security alert sparked by unexplained drone sightings across the city."
2015-03-04,Afghan Army lost 40000 personnel to desertions and casualties in first year after NATO left
2015-03-04,Canadian government pushing First Nations to give up land rights for oil and gas profits
2015-03-04,Illegal elephant tusk vendor convicted with help of radiocarbon dating: Toronto company fined after dating technique used for 1st time.
2015-03-04,509 essential drugs get cheaper in India
2015-03-04,"Indian state bans the possession and sale of beef, imposing fines and up to five years in prison for violations."
2015-03-04,Afghan army suffers heavy combat losses: US
2015-03-03,American jailed in United Arab Emirates for Facebook posts made in the USA
2015-03-03,France wants companies to make appliances that last longer
2015-03-03,"Islamic scholar Zakir Naik, who said Muslims can have sex with female slaves, gets Saudi Arabia's highest honour"
2015-03-03,Snowden ready to go to US if he gets fair trial - whistleblower's lawyer
2015-03-03,Court lets child porn MP Edathy off with fine
2015-03-03,India: 400 men cut off their testicles to 'get closer to God' following advice from 'guru'
2015-03-03,Britains Elite Still Enjoying a Tax Break 100 Years Old.
2015-03-03,"World: Too Much Human Poo on Mount Everest, Says Nepal"
2015-03-03,"Nasdaq closes above 5,000 for 1st time in 15 years"
2015-03-03,Russia's Gulag Museum Shuts Doors Amid Mounting State Pressure: A museum commemorating the victims of Soviet-era political repressions is closing down after months of government pressure
2015-03-03,Russians to Spend More Than Half of Their Income on Food
2015-03-03,Lost City Discovered in Honduran Rain Forest
2015-03-03,"Obama: ""Netanyahu made all sorts of claims. This was going to be a terrible deal. This was going to result in Iran getting $50 billion worth of relief. Iran would not abide by the agreement. None of that has come true."""
2015-03-03,Canadian Conservative MP James Lunney tweets against evolution: Member of Parliament advises on Twitter to just 'stop calling evolution fact!'
2015-03-03,"The chief witness in the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, the Ukrainian model who was girlfriend, was able to leave Russia and is now on her way to Kiev"
2015-03-03,Russia Prepared To Give China 50% Stakes in Oil And Gas Fields
2015-03-03,Iran rejects US demand for 10-year freeze on nuclear program
2015-03-03,Ukraine's central bank raises key interest rate to 30% from 19.5%
2015-03-03,"Plastic garbage is being eaten by coral mistaking it for food in the Great Barrier Reef, raising alarm over possible ecosystem damage"
2015-03-03,The Syrian Army captures more than 20 villages and towns from The Islamic State in Northern Syria
2015-03-03,"Venezuelan government has responded to increased pressure from Washington by revoking visa rights for former US politicians such as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, described by President Nicolas Maduro as terrorists against the peoples of the world"
2015-03-03,Officials: Mom Knew Her Son Mohammed Emwazi Was 'Jihadi John'
2015-03-03,"The Argentine government officially nationalized the countrys railway system today, a measure announced by President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner yesterday. The private concessionaries will not be compensated"
2015-03-03,"ISIS will carry out '9/11 in Europe within two years', claims Gaddafi's exiled cousin"
2015-03-03,"Christian militia in Syria defends ancient settlements against Isis -- Fighters try to protect last pockets of Assyrian Christians after Islamic State kills dozens, captures 300 hostages and forces thousands into exile"
2015-03-02,Thousands in Moscow chant Russia without Putin
2015-03-02,Charlie Hebdo now has 25 times as many subscribers as before deadly attack
2015-03-02,PayPal stops accepting payments for Kim Dotcom ' s Mega service because it uses encryption
2015-03-02,Russian chessmaster Kasparov: Now there's 'no chance' for a peaceful transition beyond Putin
2015-03-02,"Africa's medicine men key to halting Ebola spread in Guinea: ""More and more patients are coming to health facilities after a referral from their healer,"" says World Health Organisation."
2015-03-02,"Even at $10/barrel, oil cant match solar on cost. The report from the National Bank of Abu Dhabi says that while oil and gas has underpinned almost all energy investments until now, future investment will be almost entirely in renewable energy sources."
2015-03-02,"2012 Delhi bus rapist blames his victim, says it was accident"
2015-03-02,"Bush, Cheney, former CIA director and several congressmen banned from Venezuela"
2015-03-02,"Ukranian pilot Savchenko, detained in Russia for over 8 months without trial and on hunger strike for over 80 days, could ""die within days"""
2015-03-02,"The Svalbard ""doomsday"" vault - widely known for protecting global food crop seeds - has accepted its first delivery of forest tree species seeds."
2015-03-02,Top Hamas general says group prepping for war with Israel
2015-03-02,Exclusive: King Abdullah calls ISIS 'outlaws' of Islam
2015-03-02,Pro-NATO Reform Party beats pro-Russian Centre Party in Estonian elections
2015-03-02,"UK plans to generate electricity from the world's first series of tidal lagoons. The six lagoons will capture incoming and outgoing tides behind giant sea walls, and use the weight of the water to power turbines."
2015-03-02,"Killing of yet another journalist in Ukraine a gruesome reminder of alarming safety situation for journalists, OSCE Representative says"
2015-03-02,"""Let them slash their wrists"". Undercover footage shows conditions in immigration detention centre"
2015-03-02,"Riot police sealed hundreds of Myanmar student protesters inside a monastery on Monday in a tense standoff, activists said, blocking their planned march to Yangon to call for education reforms."
2015-03-02,More than two hundred skeletons discovered in mass grave beneath Paris supermarket
2015-03-02,"North Korea fires two missiles into the sea, South Korea reports."
2015-03-02,"Toronto ""mystery tunnel"" builders identified"
2015-03-02,One of the main US-backed Syrian rebel groups just admitted defeat
2015-03-02,Australia bans travel to Iraqi city of Mosul under new law. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said the Mosul district in northern Iraq had been declared a designated area under a section of the Criminal Code created in October last year.
2015-03-02,Saudi Arabia gives top prize to cleric who blames George Bush for 9/11
2015-03-02,Kerry: Anti-Israeli bias is undermining the UN Human Rights Council
2015-03-02,"Report: Obama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets, forcing Israel to abort 2014 strike on Iranian nuclear facilities"
2015-03-01,"Boris Nemtsov: 'I'm afraid Putin will kill me,' Russian opposition politician said weeks before being shot dead"
2015-03-01,Over 73 percent of Russians admit crisis in Russia
2015-03-01,"Known for his push to legalize cannabis, spartan lifestyle and devotion to his three-legged dog, Uruguay's outspoken President Jose ""Pepe"" Mujica will step down Sunday more popular than ever"
2015-03-01,Thai temple to build separate toilets for non-Chinese visitors because of the state that Chinese tourists were leaving the toilets in.
2015-03-01,Lithuania signs US deal to replace Russian gas .
2015-03-01,"Methane Found on Mars, Indicates Life May Once Have Existed There: Nasa"
2015-03-01,Thousands in Moscow at Nemtsov march
2015-03-01,"Saudi blogger Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes over accusations he insulted Islam, could now be facing the death penalty"
2015-03-01,Top adviser to Chancellor George Osborne filmed smoking crack cocaine in drugs den
2015-03-01,Norway arrests radical Islamic preacher who praised Charlie Hebdo killers
2015-03-01,"Robert Mugabe celebrates 91st birthday with million dollar bash; decries American safari hunting, serves elephant at feast."
2015-03-01,World: Crowd Kills Girl Suspected to Be Suicide Bomber in Nigeria
2015-03-01,Lebanon opens borders to Assyrians fleeing ISIS
2015-03-01,"Profit-driven hospitals scandal in India: ""One doctor said that in monthly meetings with the hospital chief executive, he is reprimanded for having only a 10 per cent ""conversion rate""  a reference to how many outpatients seen by a doctor are advised to undergo surgery"""
2015-03-01,"Despite U.N. Treaties, War Against Drugs a Losing Battle: As the call for the decriminalization of drugs steadily picks up steam worldwide, a new study concludes there has been no significant reduction in the global use of illicit drugs since the creation of three key U.N. anti-drug conventions"
2015-03-01,Russian supermarkets freeze prices for inflation-weary shoppers
2015-03-01,Mass anti-immigration rally in Rome
2015-03-01,Alleged mastermind of Mumbai 2008 attack living comfortably in jail in Pakistan
2015-03-01,"Turkey and U.S. to start training 5000 Syrian rebels on March 1, in Kirsehir, Turkey"
2015-03-01,ISIS to release 29 Assyrian Christians
2015-03-01,"Mohammed Emwazi, the Islamic State extremist known as Jihadi John, was able to flee Britain and the scrutiny of the security services, despite being a member of a terror cell that was known to have links to the failed 21/7 attacks on London in 2005, the Observer can reveal."
2015-03-01,Venezuela president Maduro announces diplomatic sanctions against US
2015-03-01,North Korean leader tells army: 'prepare for war'
2015-03-01,"""Pope Francis launched a fresh attack on economic injustice on Saturday [28 February 2015], condemning the 'throw-away culture' of globalization and calling for new ways of thinking about poverty, welfare, employment and society."""
2015-03-01,Ukraine's new US-born finance chief enduring baptism by fire
2015-02-28,Russian opposition politician and former deputy PM Boris Nemtsov shot dead on Moscow street
2015-02-28,Egyptian court rules Hamas a terrorist organisation
2015-02-28,"Israel said to seek additional $300 million from US for missile defense: Officials reportedly turn to Congress to make request, bypassing White House amid spat over PMs upcoming speech."
2015-02-28,"The European Union, Japan and other nations hunting for eastern Atlantic Bluefin tuna are fearful that Turkeys unilateral decision to exceed catch limits agreed upon last year is threatening the stocks recovery and the organization regulating its conservation."
2015-02-28,"Putin condemns the ""vile and cynical"" murder of Boris Nemtsov, calling him a ""principled person"" who ""acted openly, consistently and never betrayed his views""."
2015-02-28,Norway arrests radical preacher who praised Charlie Hebdo killers
2015-02-28,US Spy Chief:''Turkey does not place a high priority on fighting The Islamic State and as a result foreign fighters are able to travel through the country into Syria''
2015-02-28,"17 years after acquisition from the UK and with only 1 sub able to fire torpedoes, Canadian pre-owned submarine fleet declared ready for operations"
2015-02-28,"Stolen Picasso worth $2.5 Million (""The Hairdresser"") Found by US Customs in Newark, after it disappeared from a Paris storeroom in 2001"
2015-02-28,Saakashvili hints Putin may be behind Nemtsov murder
2015-02-28,"35,000 individuals have reportedly signed up to join Ukraines information army - the new project drafted by the countrys Ministry of Information Policy which seeks to combat the Russian occupation on the information front."
2015-02-28,"Massive Fireball Explodes Over Kochi, India, triggers panic in city."
2015-02-28,Good news: China's latest survey finds increase in wild giant panda population
2015-02-28,Putin cuts staff's salaries by 10%
2015-02-28,Japan to create a CIA-esque intel agency within the year
2015-02-28,South African teen kidnapped at birth found at same school as biological sister 17 years after kidnapping
2015-02-28,"Jews, Christians and Muslims in Israel unite to repair Mount Zion cemeteries"
2015-02-28,Former Mossad head urges Israeli voters to oust Binyamin Netanyahu
2015-02-28,"Hungary's premier rejects immigration, multicultural society"
2015-02-28,Life 'not as we know it' possible on Saturn's moon Titan
2015-02-28,Quebec Court supports judge who refused case unless hijab removed
2015-02-28,The United Nations has asked Austria for an explanation after a British woman complained that her 25-year-old disabled son has been left stranded in their home every time there is bad weather because of bureaucratic red tape.
2015-02-28,Alcoholic Russian bears to move to Romania to sober up
2015-02-28,One of CNN's aviation experts thinks Putin stole missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370
2015-02-28,"Poland to Pay $262,000 to Inmates Held at Secret C.I.A. Prison"
2015-02-27,France wants imams to learn secular values as part of new anti-radicalisation push: the French government will push imams to take university-level civics classes.
2015-02-27,American atheist blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh
2015-02-27,"The big melt: Antarctica's retreating ice may re-shape Earth. Over at NASA, ice scientist Eric Rignot said the melting ""is going way faster than anyone had thought. It's kind of a red flag."""
2015-02-27,German tank battalion to be activated amid russia crisis | Germany plans to activate a tank battalion that exists only on paper as it seeks to increase the country's military capability. The DM spoke of a changed security situation amid the conflict in Ukraine.
2015-02-27,"Outrage over a school strip search of a 15 year old girl causes Education Minister who said such searches are OK if done ""respectfully"" to quit."
2015-02-27,14 year old girl with cystic fibrosis pleas to Chile's President to be euthanized.
2015-02-27,"Islamic campaigner who today defended ISIS executioner Jihadi John as a 'beautiful, kind young man' was filmed calling for jihad outside U.S Embassy"
2015-02-27,"Rare Intact Roman Tombstone Found in England: Made from Cotswold limestone, the 1,800-year-old inscribed stone was found in a grave -- directly above an adult skeleton. Its the sort of thing archaeologists only find in places like Pompeii, the archaeologists, Neil Holbrook, told reporters."
2015-02-27,Argentina: President Cristina Fernandez case dismissed
2015-02-27,"Under U.S. Pressure, PayPal Nukes MEGA For Encrypting Files"
2015-02-27,Al-Jazeera retracts and apologizes for false story on Gaza flooding
2015-02-27,Russia's Khodorkovsky: Putin is a 'naked king' facing economic ruin
2015-02-27,"Islamic State destroys 8th Century B.C. statue, among many other ancient and priceless ones."
2015-02-27,Dozens of new craters suspected in northern Russia: Satellites show giant hole ringed by 20 'baby craters'
2015-02-27,FIFA strips Qatar of the 2021 Confederation Cup
2015-02-27,Press Digest: EU unveils new Energy Union to avoid Russian gas blackmail
2015-02-27,"Assyrian Christians crowdfund an army to reclaim homeland from ISIL -- Financed by a vast diaspora and trained by US vets, the Nineveh Protection Unit wants to 'cleanse' homeland of ISIL"
2015-02-27,Saudi Arabia to allow Israel use of its airspace to strike Iran  report
2015-02-27,Argentine Judge Rejects Criminal Case Against President
2015-02-27,Russia to tap $50 billion from Reserve Fund as deficit balloons
2015-02-27,Suspected Israeli nationalists torch Christian seminary in Jerusalem
2015-02-27,Worlds first grid-connected wave power station switched on in Australia
2015-02-27,Quebec judge refuses to hear single mother's case: You are not suitably dressed'
2015-02-27,The Siberian crater saga is more widespread  and scarier  than anyone thought
2015-02-27,Colombian police confiscate 3.3 tonnes of cocaine and flaunt it for the cameras
2015-02-26,The HSBC bank is accused of systematic involvement in tax evasion and money laundering to the tune of more than 100 billion euros.
2015-02-26,Actress Emma Thompson and her husband refuse to pay 'a penny more' in taxes until HSBC tax evaders go to jail
2015-02-26,HSBC bosses reject calls to quit after 'terrible list' of problems
2015-02-26,IS militant 'Jihadi John' named as Mohammed Emwazi from London
2015-02-26,"One in three Germans say capitalism to blame for poverty, hunger | The survey found that more than 60 percent of Germans believe there is no genuine democracy in their country because industry has too much political influence and that the voice of the voters plays only a subordinate role."
2015-02-26,China bans ivory imports for 1 year to protect elephants
2015-02-26,Kerry Reminds Congress Netanyahu Advised U.S. to Invade Iraq
2015-02-26,McDonald's accused of avoiding 1 billion euros in taxes in Europe
2015-02-26,Apple ordered to pay $533 million for patent infringement
2015-02-26,ISIS losing ground to Kurds -- Fears for 150 Christians abducted by the group grow as an ISIS supply line cut
2015-02-26,"The death risk from smoking may be much higher than previously thought - tobacco kills up to two in every three smokers not one in every two, data from a large study suggests."
2015-02-26,"U.S. deserter needs Iraq war crimes evidence to be refugee: A U.S. soldier who deserted because he thought the Iraq war was illegal could have grounds for seeking asylum in Germany but only if he can show he would have been involved in war crimes, Europe's highest court said"
2015-02-26,Poland to Send Troops to Help Train Ukrainian Army
2015-02-26,"India calls for UN Security Council reforms this year: ""It is ironical that calls for democracy and the rule of law are being made in a Council that itself embodies the undemocratic stranglehold of the privileges of a few, forged by a wartime alliance that no longer exists."""
2015-02-26,ISIS Kidnaps 150 Christians in Northern Syria
2015-02-26,"Adultery is no longer illegal in South Korea; 5,500 people formerly arraigned on charges in the past six years."
2015-02-26,Islamic State is selling looted Syrian art in London to fund its fight
2015-02-26,TTIP: Transatlantic trade deal text leaked to BBC
2015-02-26,Catholic diocese raided in Oslo by police. Bishop suspected of wrongfully claiming as much as USD 13 million.
2015-02-26,US gifts military equipment to Poland
2015-02-26,The first Australian fighting with the Kurds against ISIS has been killed.
2015-02-26,"ISIS militants destroyed 3,000-year-old Iraqi artifacts with sledgehammers"
2015-02-26,"British schoolgirls are sneaking off to Syria via Turkey in pursuit of fun, adventure and the possibility of becoming wives of IS fighters"
2015-02-26,After NSA Hack China Stops Buying Major US Tech Brands
2015-02-26,"NATO commander warns about deteriorating situation in Ukraine: fighting is ""getting worse everyday""."
2015-02-25,ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
2015-02-25,"Satellite image research proves Russian artillery strikes into Ukraine, a fact previously denied by the Russian government"
2015-02-25,NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden didnt mince words during a Reddit Ask Me Anything session on Monday when he said the NSA and the British spy agency GCHQ had screwed all of us when it hacked into the Dutch firm Gemalto to steal cryptographic keys used in billions of mobile SIM cards worldwide.
2015-02-25,"Jamaica passes act decriminalizing possession of up to 2 oz of pot, paves way for medical marijuana"
2015-02-25,"Canadian PM Harper urges swift passage of ""anti-terror"" bill; says public strongly supports bill, so little scrutiny of it is needed"
2015-02-25,UK stuns Europe by sending troops to Ukraine
2015-02-25,U.S. military vehicles paraded 300 yards from the Russian border
2015-02-25,"The majority of British Muslims oppose violence against people who publish images depicting the Prophet Muhammad, a poll for the BBC suggests. The survey also indicates most have no sympathy with those who want to fight against Western interests."
2015-02-25,A-10 Warthogs return to Germany as situation in Ukraine deteriorates
2015-02-25,"A prominent bishop accused Turkey of preventing Christians from fleeing Syria while allowing jihadists responsible for their persecution to cross its border unchecked. ""it allows through lorries, Daesh fighters, stolen oil, wheat & cotton: all of these can cross the border but nobody can pass over"""
2015-02-25,"First ever baby woolly rhino unearthed: 18-month-old 'Sasha' is found in the Siberian ice after being buried for 10,000 years"
2015-02-25,Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' Reprinted in Germany for First Time Since WWII
2015-02-25,First day with no troops killed under Ukraine truce
2015-02-25,Brazil's environmental agency says it's detained a land-grabber thought to be the Amazon's single biggest deforester.
2015-02-25,"Workers got a shock when they unearthed a rusted can labeled ""Zyklon B""  the deadly poison gas used by the Nazis in Auschwitz"
2015-02-25,"McDonalds avoided paying over 1 Billion in European corporate taxes between 2009 and 2013, the report 'Unhappy Meal' released Wednesday by a coalition of trade unions and civil society organizations shows."
2015-02-25,Sec. of State John Kerry: Russia is lying to my face about having troops in Ukraine | Russia has engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that Ive seen since the very height of the Cold War
2015-02-25,Radioactive Fukushima Water Leak Was Unreported for Months: Official.
2015-02-25,Iranian cruise missiles blow up life-size replica of American aircraft carrier
2015-02-25,British Infantry to train the Ukrainian army and provide tactical intelligence In training mission
2015-02-25,Swedish Police Mistake '21' Birthday Balloons for ISIS Initials
2015-02-25,Report: Saudis might help Israel attack Iran in exchange for progress in peace process
2015-02-25,Pentagon will be deploying a small number of troops to Ukraine to provide combat medical training to forces there who have been battling Russian-backed separatists
2015-02-25,Egypt Interior Minister tells security forces to machine-gun protesters in new leaks
2015-02-25,France says Russia would face more sanctions if Mariupol attacked
2015-02-24,"The city of Edmonton is considering adding an eleven kilometer (seven mile) 'freezeway' that will allow residents to skate to work, with a pilot project planned for as early as next winter."
2015-02-24,New Zealand to enter the war against ISIS
2015-02-24,"70 firms ""named and shamed"" after refusing to pay their worker the minimum wage"
2015-02-24,Kim Jong-un calls for full combat readiness for war with US
2015-02-24,Turkey paid Muslim Brotherhood $1 million dollars to eliminate Armenian Genocide documents.
2015-02-24,Japanese crown prince says country must not rewrite history of WW2 -- Naruhito makes rare statement on importance of correctly remembering Japans role in war as right wing attempts to downplay issue of sex slaves
2015-02-24,"Al Jazeera Leaks: Spy Cables reveal Mossad concluded that Iran was not producing nuclear weapons, after PM sounded alarm at UN in 2012."
2015-02-24,Nine killed in Czech Republic shooting
2015-02-24,NSA director defends plan to maintain 'backdoors' into technology companies
2015-02-24,HSBC worlds 2nd largest bank apologizes for helping wealthy elite break domestic laws to evade taxes.
2015-02-24,Turkish Men Are Wearing Miniskirts to Fight for Womens Rights
2015-02-24,ISIS kidnaps 90 Christians in Syria
2015-02-24,"CIA attempted to contact Hamas despite official US ban, spy cables reveal"
2015-02-24,"A US court in New York has found the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority liable for attacks in Israel, the jury awarded victims of the attacks more than $218m."
2015-02-24,"Canada's proposed ""anti-terror"" bill raises alarm bells with former Prime Ministers and Supreme Court justices; PM Harper refuses to budge on lack of oversight of sweeping new powers."
2015-02-24,"NSA chief declines comment on spyware reports, says program are lawful"
2015-02-24,Putin: War with Ukraine 'unlikely'
2015-02-24,National Security Officials Have Been Notified of Suspicious Tunnel Found Near 2015 Pan-Am Games Venue (Toronto)
2015-02-24,"New Charlie Hebdo issue (Headline: ""Here We Go Again!"") marks return to business as usual"
2015-02-24,Amur Leopard Doubles in Population. Now number at least 57 cats (up from just 30 cats in 2007)
2015-02-24,One fifth of Germans want revolution: report
2015-02-24,"A 94 year old SS Medic has been charged with 3,681 counts of murder in connection to Auschwitz."
2015-02-24,More Siberian methane blowholes found in permafrost
2015-02-24,Russia offers Iran modern missiles despite UN embargo
2015-02-24,Inside an ISIS Handbook for Foreigners Running to the Islamic State
2015-02-23,"The family of the codebreaker Alan Turing will visit Downing Street on Monday to demand the government pardons 49,000 other men persecuted like him for their homosexuality."
2015-02-23,"There's a massive new leak of confidential spy files from MI6, Mossad and the FSB"
2015-02-23,China to credit Ukraine for $3.6 bln to reduce dependence on Russian gas
2015-02-23,Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour wins Oscar
2015-02-23,Report: ISIS leader gunned down in Mosul.
2015-02-23,Egypt's President: It's time for an Arab coalition against ISIS
2015-02-23,Reuters bureau chief found dead in Islamabad
2015-02-23,Measles kill toddler in Berlin
2015-02-23,"The vice principal of a Turkish high school who raised eyebrows after suggesting the formation of harassment teams to prevent female students from wearing short skirts, has been relieved from administrative duty and reappointed to another school as a plain teacher"
2015-02-23,Israel is to purchase 14 F-35 stealth fighters from US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin at a cost of around $110 million each
2015-02-23,Thirty Jihadis return home to Australia after being foreign fighters
2015-02-23,Indias Largest Bank Commits $12.5 Billion For Renewable Energy Funding
2015-02-23,Homeless Britons Are Turning To The Sikh Community For Food
2015-02-23,Grand Imam of Egypt's top Islamic Institution has called for a radical reform of religious teaching to tackle the spread of islamic extremism.
2015-02-23,Large Hadron Collider scientists gear up to discover new particle with a recent upgrade--a new particle could be detected this year that is even more exciting than the Higgs boson.
2015-02-23,Girl as young as seven kills herself and five others in Nigeria suicide bombing by Boko Haram
2015-02-23,Ukraine's army refuses to start withdrawing heavy weapons. A Ukrainian military spokesman told reporters on Monday that the move will not start before rebel attacks stop completely.
2015-02-23,"The leader of an ISIS brigade in Qalamoun was shot dead by a senior official of his own group, in a disagreement over allegiances and relations with the Nusra Front."
2015-02-23,Putin approved Ukraine invasion before Kiev government collapsed: A Russian newspaper claims to have an official government strategy document outlining the invasion of Ukraine that was prepared weeks before the Ukrainian government collapsed last year
2015-02-23,ISIS Destroy Virgin Mary Church and Central Library of Mosul
2015-02-23,Great Britain: Baroness Warsi gave official roles to people with links to extremist groups
2015-02-23,France deployed an aircraft carrier in the Gulf as part of the US-led military campaign against the Islamic State
2015-02-23,Israel asks UN to condemn Iran Holocaust cartoon contest
2015-02-23,Hindus urge Pope Francis to discipline Derry priest who warns of risk involved in yoga
2015-02-23,"'Hamas-Fatah rift hindering efforts to rebuild Gaza,' Arab League says"
2015-02-22,Leading Climate-Denier Harvard Scientist Caught Accepting Bribes from Fossil-Fuel Corporations as well as the Koch Brothers.
2015-02-22,"Australia's Prime Minister admits ""the system let us down"" as the government releases the first report into the Sydney siege: A national security hotline received 18 calls about the self-styled cleric Man Haron Monis just days before he took 18 people hostage at a cafe in Sydney."
2015-02-22,"Deadly bomb blast hits peaceful rally in Kharkiv, Ukraine"
2015-02-22,"19 aircraft were refused use of Irish airspace or airports in 2014 over concerns they were carrying indiscriminate military hardware like cluster bombs | The mainly US planes, classed as civilian, were rejected on advice from the Department of Foreign Affairs and forced to re-route."
2015-02-22,"Fresh nuclear leak detected at Fukushima plant in Japan. Sensors, which were rigged to a gutter that pours rain and ground water at the Fukushima Daiichi plant to a nearby bay, detected contamination levels up to 70 times greater than the already-high radioactive status seen at the plant campus."
2015-02-22,"Plastic waste from Pacific Ocean found in trout returning inland to spawn had ""perforated its stomach and shredded its anus"" raises concern over pollution levels decimating fish stock in future."
2015-02-22,Turkish men wear skirts in protest for victimized women
2015-02-22,Ancient fountain in Rome permanently damaged by rowdy Dutch soccer fans
2015-02-22,Saudi female TV presenters urged to dress more modestly - BBC News
2015-02-22,"Modi bets on GM crops for India's second green revolution. Allowing GM crops is critical to Modi's goal of boosting dismal farm productivity in India, where urbanisation is devouring arable land and population growth will mean there are 1.5 billion mouths to feed by 2030 - more even than China."
2015-02-22,"Malta rejects Irish navy ship gift, calling it junk"
2015-02-22,Filthy India air cutting 660 million lives short by 3 years
2015-02-22,"Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, set to get first female mayor, Zekra Alwach will be the only female mayor of any Arab League capital."
2015-02-22,US Chevron quits shale gas operations in Romania.
2015-02-22,"Bangladesh ferry capsizes after collision, at least 33 dead"
2015-02-22,Pakistani and Indian doctors set up joint medical facility in Karachi
2015-02-22,"Thailands military-dominated parliament has passed a law banning foreigners from paying Thai women to be surrogates, which threatens to push the countrys booming fertility tourism industry underground. The move follows a string of scandals involving Australians and Japanese who hired Thai women."
2015-02-22,"""Coldest Night of the Year"" homelessness fundraiser events cancelled...due to the cold"
2015-02-22,Charlie Hebdo cartoonist receives online death threats from jihadists
2015-02-22,Coca-Cola bottler suspends operations in Mexican city following attacks on its workers and its trucks.
2015-02-22,CNN: Kerry threatens more sanctions over Ukraine
2015-02-22,"Turkey evacuates troops at historic tomb in Syria, one soldier killed"
2015-02-22,[Unconfirmed]Turkey moves military into Syria
2015-02-22,"Russia cut to 'junk' by Moody's; says Russia's economy is headed for a ""deep"" recession in 2015."
2015-02-22,"India's Petroleum ministry leak: 5 executives arrested for corporate espionage in what is being called a Rs 10,000 crore scam (~ US$1.6bn, GBP1bn, supporting link in comments)."
2015-02-21,US judge rejects BPs bid to decrease $13.7bn fine for 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill
2015-02-21,No one killed in Torch skyscraper fire in Dubai
2015-02-21,"Fire rips through Torch skyscraper in Dubai, one of the tallest residential buildings in the world"
2015-02-21,Obama said everyone wants secure mobile communications. But the NSA worked to undermine that.
2015-02-21,"North Korea has 100,000 labourers working abroad in a state-sponsored slavery scheme"
2015-02-21,"Critically endangered pangolins rescued, then sold as food - Vietnamese officials illegally trade 42 protected pangolins, placing a spotlight on the creatures, which are the most trafficked wild mammals in the world"
2015-02-21,A parliamentary motion asking for an inquiry into the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) activities inside Turkey has been rejected by the votes from President Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP).
2015-02-21,US Judges will soon be able to issue worldwide warrants
2015-02-21,Copenhagen shooting: 500 gather for gunman's funeral
2015-02-21,Tokyo is on high alert ahead of the annual city marathon on Feb. 22 following the recent hostage crisis where two Japanese nationals were held captive and killed by the Islamic State militant group.
2015-02-21,A civil war is brewing in Yemen
2015-02-21,Moody's downgrades Russia sovereign debt to junk
2015-02-21,Libyan chemical weapons 'seized by extremists'
2015-02-21,"Russian Soldiers Were In Debaltseve Fighting Against Ukrainian Military, Claims Russian Newspaper"
2015-02-21,Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday other countries should not have the illusion that they can attain military superiority over Russia
2015-02-21,"Scattered across the ocean floor in the cold waters of the Arctic are nuclear submarines and reactors dumped by the Soviets up until the early 1990s. Now, as energy companies are seeking to drill in those same waters, the Russian government has shown an interest in cleaning up its nuclear waste."
2015-02-21,"""Russian expansionism may pose existential threat, says Nato general"""
2015-02-21,"US, Iraq preparing a 20,000 man spring offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS"
2015-02-21,"Scared By Russia, Sweden And Finland Make War Pact"
2015-02-21,Zambia's top prosecutor on Friday stunned a magistrate when he refused to prosecute himself on charges of abuse of office and declared himself a free man
2015-02-21,Stolen statue of Irish sea God Manannn mac Lir has been found
2015-02-21,"French Carrier Enters Persian Gulf, ISIS Strike Missions Could Start Soon"
2015-02-21,Isil suicide bombing kills at least 45 in Libya
2015-02-21,Fistfight breaks out in Turkeys parliament over controversial bill to increase police powers
2015-02-21,"Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered the first ever Arabic language advanced persistent threat (APT) group. Dubbed Desert Falcons, the group of thirty or so attackers"
2015-02-20,"Everest College, a U.S.-owned chain of 14 private career schools, shut down in Ontario, Canada by provincial government after allegations of falsified job placement and grade data"
2015-02-20,Another atheist sentenced in Egypt. University reported disbelieving student to the authorities
2015-02-20,"NSA/GCHQ hacked into world's largest manufacturer of SIM cards, stealing encryption keys"
2015-02-20,Family of girl strip-searched at Quebec school to sue school board
2015-02-20,Finnish President Signs Same-Sex Marriage Law
2015-02-20,"Drug-resistant malaria has been detected at the Myanmar-India border and now poses an ""enormous threat"" to global health, scientists have said."
2015-02-20,"Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine have broken a days-old ceasefire more than 250 times since it went into effect earlier this week, a US official said Thursday"
2015-02-20,"President Zuma to white South Africans : ""We're a rainbow nation and nobody will chase you away. We'll fight against those who will say so, so there must be no fear at all"""
2015-02-20,"US Military Reveals Massive Plan To Attack, Retake Mosul From Islamic State"
2015-02-20,"Israel 'crucial and loyal ally in fight against Boko Haram,' says Nigerian gov't spokesperson"
2015-02-20,"Thousands of cats smuggled from China buried in Vietnamese cull. First reports suggested that many of the cats were buried alive but Hanoi police later issued a statement denying this happened, insisting they were crushed to death with a dump truck before being buried."
2015-02-20,"German academics wait till Hitler's copyright expires to publish annotated version of ""Mein Kampf"""
2015-02-20,"Ireland has just given Malta a naval ship, instead of selling it: The Irish Government has donated the recently-decommissioned L AOIFE to Malta to help the Mediterranean country deal with the ongoing refugee crisis in the region"
2015-02-20,Iran has stopped questionable nuclear centrifuge testing: IAEA
2015-02-20,"Georgia condemns Russia, South Ossetia deal as step toward annexation"
2015-02-20,"US Embassy: Turkey, US sign deal to train, arm Syrian rebels"
2015-02-20,"Thailand bans foreigners from paying Thai women to be surrogates, after high-profile cases spark debate - Case of boy with Down's syndrome put its surrogacy industry in the spotlight. His Thai surrogate said his Australian parents abandoned him, but took his healthy twin sister home."
2015-02-20,"Israel increases Gaza exports and exit permits for merchants - COGAT increases quota for Gazan merchants traveling to West Bank, eases travel restrictions, and expands agricultural exports."
2015-02-20,Obama rejects as 'ugly lie' notion that West at war with Islam
2015-02-20,Venezuelan Opposition Leaders Say Caracas Mayor Arrested
2015-02-20,"Tel Aviv bus stabber who injured 17 indicted: Palestinian terrorist wanted to become a martyr, kill as many Israelis as possible, court documents show"
2015-02-20,2 Strong Cyclones Hit Remote Parts of Northern Australia
2015-02-20,NATO Urges Russia To 'Withdraw All Its Forces' from Eastern Ukraine
2015-02-20,The Islamic State caliphate is in danger of losing its main supply route
2015-02-20,"Belarusian President Lukashenka, the last dictator of Europe, says his country is ready for a constructive dialogue with NATO | said the fighting in Ukraine has shown that Belarus must have an army capable of protecting ""its national interests"""
2015-02-19,Lenovo Caught Installing Adware On New Computers
2015-02-19,"Israeli Prime Minister Candidate Isaac Herzog says in an interview the country's people are ""fed up"" with Benjamin Netanyahu's ""politics of fear."" If elected, he says he wants to ""reignite"" the peace process and is prepared to negotiate with the Palestinians."
2015-02-19,Netanyahu humiliated after he tries to play down wealth with video recorded in his decrepit home... which is revealed to be his servants' quarters
2015-02-19,Poverty in Germany at its highest since reunification. Some 12.5 million Germans are now classified as poor.
2015-02-19,Tens of thousands of people demanding justice marched Wednesday despite pouring rain in Buenos Aires to mark a month since the suspicious death of a prosecutor who was ready to accuse the Argentine president of a massive cover-up.
2015-02-19,Germany rejects Greek loan request
2015-02-19,"Uk defense minister: ""Mr Putin is as great a threat to Europe as Islamic State"" | ""You have jets being flown up the English Channel and you have submarines in the north sea, it looks to me like the cold war it's warming up"""
2015-02-19,"UK admits unlawfully monitoring legally privileged communications - Intelligence agencies have been monitoring conversations between lawyers and their clients for past five years, government admits"
2015-02-19,"So Paulo Is Running So Low on Water People Might Be ""Warned to Flee"""
2015-02-19,Cheering for the Islamic State on Facebook can get you jailed in the UK.
2015-02-19,"Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said that Mecca and Medina are the main targets of IS, not Jerusalem, pointing out that its caliphate cannot prevail without the Two Holy Mosques. Calls on Saudia Arabia and Kuwait to end the Sectarian rifts and to join forces to combat IS"
2015-02-19,Google warns of US government 'hacking any facility' in the world.
2015-02-19,Hamas prevents Arabic fiction award finalist from leaving Gaza
2015-02-19,Australian David Hicks held at Guantanamo says he was tortured for five years.
2015-02-19,NATO urges Russia to 'withdraw all its forces' from eastern Ukraine
2015-02-19,There was another star in the solar system when humans first spread from Africa
2015-02-19,Germany's army under-equipped; Europe's armies only have one tenth of the strength of the U.S. Army
2015-02-19,Kyrgyzstan detains imam for 'encouraging followers to fight for Isis
2015-02-19,UK: Russia's most advanced anti-aircraft artillery system is being used in Ukraine
2015-02-19,RAF jets scrambled after Russian aircraft seen off Cornwall
2015-02-19,"During the trial of the Islamic State militants who attacked Turkish forces at Nigde last year, court files revealed that Turkey, beyond supplying opposition forces with weapons and ammunition, had also given artillery support to Al Qaeda affiliated groups that captured Kassab in Syria last year."
2015-02-19,Nearly A Third Of Canadian Netflix Users Pretend To Be American
2015-02-19,"ISIS threatens to send 500,000 migrants to Europe as a 'psychological weapon'"
2015-02-19,"Hundreds of thousands march in argentina, to honour the death of prosecutor nisman and to protest the goverment"
2015-02-19,"Pope Francis strongly criticizes gender theory, comparing it to nuclear arms"
2015-02-18,"Malawi bans child marriage, lifts minimum age to 18"
2015-02-18,"Ineffective homeopathic alternatives to vaccines should be taken off the market because they are a dangerous distraction, Canadian public health officials urge as infectious diseases such as measles make a comeback."
2015-02-18,"15 year old girl strip searched at Canadian school; Education minister defends practice, says it is OK if done ""respectfully""; girl feels ""violated and destroyed""."
2015-02-18,Thailand To Give Chinese Tourists Etiquette Manuals
2015-02-18,Norwegian Muslims volunteer to protect synagogue
2015-02-18,Nigeria kills 300 Boko Haram militants in recapture of 11 towns: military
2015-02-18,"Four members of a polio immunization team have been found murdered after being kidnapped in southwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday."
2015-02-18,Italy Fears ISIS Invasion From Libya
2015-02-18,UK parliament calls for Internet to be classified as a public utility
2015-02-18,"After searing tragedy, Everests deadliest route is now off-limits. The mountain has been deteriorating rapidly the past three years due global warming and the breakdown in the Khumbu Icefall is dramatic"
2015-02-18,"France Is Getting More Intolerant and Racist, According to Human Rights Report"
2015-02-18,Germany's army is in very bad shape: Soldiers painted broomsticks black to replace missing machine gun barrels during Nato manoeuvre in Norway.
2015-02-18,"Using nanoparticles to simulate the way the sky diffuses sunlight, an Italian company has developed a new type of artificial lighting that is indistinguishable from natural daylight to the human eye, cameras or computers"
2015-02-18,The massive plume on the surface of Mars no one can explain
2015-02-18,Claims ISIS are now organ harvesting after shallow mass graves contained bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys
2015-02-18,Ukraine retreating from siege town
2015-02-18,"Study finds 'the principal drivers of political violence are rooted not in poverty, but in experiences of injustice: discrimination, corruption and abuse by security forces.'"
2015-02-18,CNN/ORC poll: Majority of Americans oppose Netanyahu invite
2015-02-18,Polands complicity in CIA torture programme confirmed as European Court rejects Warsaws appeal
2015-02-18,Putin tells Kiev to let troops surrender as Ukraine ceasefire unravels
2015-02-18,U.S. says 'proxy war' with Russia not in Ukraine's interest
2015-02-18,"Suicide Bomber Kills Up to 8 in Xinjiang, China"
2015-02-18,Peter Oborne Quits The Daily Telegraph Over Newspaper's 'Fraudulent' Coverage Of The HSBC Scandal
2015-02-18,ISIS launches major assault on Kurdish front
2015-02-18,Quebec education minister says students can be stripped search in schools without police present
2015-02-17,An Australian learner driver who stitched his own chainsaw wound and drank gin for the pain before driving to hospital has lost a Supreme Court appeal against a drink-driving charge.
2015-02-17,Ukraine Truce 'Broken 139 Times' On First Day
2015-02-17,"Magnitude 6.9 earthquake recorded in Northern Japan, tsunami warning issued"
2015-02-17,71% of Chileans Approve Legislation to Decriminalize Abortion
2015-02-17,Mexican Marijuana Production Slumps in Face of US Legalization
2015-02-17,Japans conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday his government would uphold Tokyos official apology for the damage and suffering it inflicted on its neighbors during World War II.
2015-02-17,"Major war likely in Ukraine, says Prime Minister of Slovakia."
2015-02-17,"CIA Bought and Destroyed Iraqi Chemical Weapons: CIA purchased nerve-agent rockets from sellers part of an undisclosed effort to ensure remaining chemical weapons did not fall into terrorists hands. The arms purchase plan, known as Operation Avarice, began in 2005 and continued into 2006."
2015-02-17,Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq'
2015-02-17,"Robert Mugabe's birthday party cooks up elephantine storm before it starts -- Donation of meat from elephants, buffalo, sables, impalas and a lion for Zimbabwean presidents 91st angers more than just conservationists"
2015-02-17,A Palestinian rap band has threatened to take legal action against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party for releasing a campaign ad in which their song is associated with ISIS
2015-02-17,All 6000 of Jodrans mosques to run on solar energy.
2015-02-17,China: Reporters attacked for snapping police chief feasting on rare giant salamander
2015-02-17,Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Islam has ordered Muslims to treat the followers of other religions with fairness and justice.
2015-02-17,France debates ban on Muslim veils in universities
2015-02-17,"Greece rejects EU bailout offer as ""absurd"""
2015-02-17,Scientists identify drug that could block multiple sclerosis
2015-02-17,Vicente Fox Stumps to Legalize All Drugs Worldwide
2015-02-17,5 French teens held for vandalizing Jewish graves
2015-02-17,"The president of Egypt has called on the UN to authorize an international coalition to fight ""Islamic State"" in Libya. El-Sissi said the coalition that fought Moammar Gadhafi.had ""abandoned the Libyan people."""
2015-02-17,At least 18 dead in Haiti Carnival accident
2015-02-17,Russian Prosecutors Seek 10 Year Sentence for Putin Critic Alexey Navalny
2015-02-17,"Turkey women share harassment stories after grim murder -- Women dress in black, take to streets and post stories of harassment online after murder of student"
2015-02-17,"Hezbollah leader denounces mass beheading of Egyptian Christian hostages in Libya, says Israel's Mossad and CIA behind Islamic State"
2015-02-17,Putin Fires Medvedev Ally as Kremlin Rift Grows
2015-02-16,64 ISIS Members Killed As Egypt Launches First Foreign Strikes In 24 Years
2015-02-16,ISIS in Libya releases a video of beheading 21 Egyptian Christians.
2015-02-16,Croatia Has Its First Female President
2015-02-16,"Former intelligence officer says PM Harper of Canada is using ""fascist"" techniques to fast track his anti-terror bill, and it will cause more terrorism, not less."
2015-02-16,Bill Clinton Apologizes To Mexico For War On Drugs
2015-02-16,Hundreds of Jewish tombs damaged in northern France
2015-02-16,"MI5 is facing allegations it was complicit in the sexual abuse of children, the high court in Northern Ireland will hear on Tuesday. Victims of the abuse are taking legal action to force a full independent inquiry with the power to compel witnesses to testify"
2015-02-16,Poland kicks off unprecedented military spending spree
2015-02-16,Heavy shelling hits Ukraine town where rebels reject ceasefire
2015-02-16,"The United States has stopped updating Israel about developments in nuclear negotiations with Iran in response to Netanyahu's planned congress speech, after Boehner admits he failed to tell administration he had invited PM."
2015-02-16,India to build worlds largest solar power plant
2015-02-16,EU acknowledges 'Russian forces in Ukraine'
2015-02-16,Japan 'pledges $15m to fight armed groups' following murder of Japanese citizens
2015-02-16,"The man who is suspected of having shot two people dead in Copenhagen was 22 years old and born in Denmark, Copenhagen Police said on Sunday."
2015-02-16,"Egypt says they have found a 2.5-kilometer smuggling tunnel leading into the Gaza Strip, the longest such passageway discovered in their crackdown on cross-border smuggling. The tunnel was operated by the military wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, which Egypt says is a terrorist organization."
2015-02-16,Experts call for return to human intelligence after Snowden
2015-02-16,Israeli hospital rebuilds injured Syrian man's face
2015-02-16,Egypt 'bombs IS targets in Libya'
2015-02-16,Thai officials tell teens to buy smaller condoms -- A Ministry of Public Health spokesman said teenagers feel pressured to buy larger condoms to avoid being mocked by their friends for having a small penis
2015-02-16,"Spy agencies fund climate research in hunt for weather weapon, scientist fears - Alan Robock raises concern over who'd control climate-altering technologies if research is paid for by intelligence agencies. I think this should be out in the open & it has to be international..."
2015-02-16,Ukraine says won't pull back heavy weapons because of rebel fire.
2015-02-16,Air France jet makes emergency landing in Russia -- Boeing 777 bound for Paris lands safely in Yekaterinburg in the Urals
2015-02-16,Moscow Ready to Squeeze Out Migrants If Unemployment Surges
2015-02-16,Nicaraguans demand action over illness killing thousands of sugar cane workers: Families say government failing to address concerns that harsh working conditions are behind chronic kidney disease epidemic.
2015-02-16,A trafficker who raped and attacked young migrant girls he had led through the desert to Libya to make the perilous crossing to Italy was sentenced to 30 years by an Italian court.
2015-02-15,"Resentment has mounted so much in South Korea against what has come to be known as ""gabjil"", high-handedness by the rich and powerful, that parliamentarians are proposing legislation to punish some of the worst abuses."
2015-02-15,Anonymous hacking group shuts down over 800 Islamic State Twitter accounts
2015-02-15,Shots fired near Copenhagen synagogue
2015-02-15,"U.S. Drops to 49th in World Press Freedom Rankings, Worst Since Obama Became President: The countries immediately ahead of the U.S. are Malta, Niger, Burkino Faso, El Salvador, Tonga, Chile and Botswana"
2015-02-15,Inside the ISIS plot to attack the heart of Europe -Wiretaps of phone conversations and listening devices indicated the cell members were in the final stages of preparing a major terrorist attack in Belgium
2015-02-15,Copenhagen shootings: Police kill 'gunman' after two attacks
2015-02-15,Braunschweig Carnival parade canceled over 'Islamist' terror alert
2015-02-15,Montreal borough cancels Muslim groups reservation at community centre after learning two fundamentalist imams were hosting the event
2015-02-15,Majority of Canadians appear to back mandatory childhood vaccination
2015-02-15,Sifting Ukrainian Fact From Ukrainian Fiction: Video of Senator James Inhofe presenting photographs to the Senate on Wednesday of what he said were Russian tanks in Ukraine. Two of the images were in fact taken in 2008 during Russia's war with Georgia
2015-02-15,The Islamic State Inches Toward a Showdown With the U.S. Marine Corps
2015-02-15,"Over 700 artists announce a cultural boycott of Israel. They say they will not accept invitations to Israel, or funding from institutions linked to its government."
2015-02-15,"Greek Minister (Syriza) pledges to shut immigrant detention centers:''I'm here to express my shame, not as a minister but as a human being,"" he said. ""I couldn't believe what I saw. I really could not believe it. This must change and it must change immediately."""
2015-02-15,"The Japanese and U.S. governments are making arrangements to issue a joint statement that will set forth a stronger Japan-U.S. alliance, based on their bilateral relationship over the 70 years since the end of World War II."
2015-02-15,"Second Argentine prosecutor renews probe of President: there is enough evidence to continue investigation into whether President Cristina Fernandez hid Iran's alleged role in a deadly 1994 bombing, a probe that paused after a different prosecutor died mysteriously last month"
2015-02-15,"Denmark contradicts Netanyahu, urges Jews to stay put despite terror attacks"
2015-02-15,"Japanese officials cried alarm on Sunday as Chinese patrol ships entered the waters of the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands, and Chinese officials vowed to increase their presence in the area."
2015-02-15,"Isis threatens to attack France, Belgium"
2015-02-15,"American AH-64 Apache helicopters attack ISIS base; attack helicopters equipped with numerous heavy weapons, including 30 mm machine guns, Hellfire air-to-surface anti-armor missiles and in some cases Hydra 70 rockets."
2015-02-15,"Georgias ex-President Saakashvili who is wanted in his home country, has been appointed an aide to the Ukraine President to help the war-torn country on its path to reform."
2015-02-15,"Gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying a polio vaccination team in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing the driver and wounding a health care worker, according to police officials."
2015-02-15,Ukrainian leader says ceasefire in effect
2015-02-15,One of the worlds largest airlines makes its flight attendants ask permission before getting married
2015-02-15,"Boko Haram plans massacre of 200,000 Christians"
2015-02-15,Binyamin Netanyahu in climbdown over prize judges: Israels PM has been ordered by the countrys attorney general to reinstate three judges he removed from the Israel prize because of their leftwing views
2015-02-14,Protests across Pakistan to denounce Taliban.
2015-02-14,Shooting at Danish blasphemy seminar
2015-02-14,Canada's 'Fox News North' Sun TV Network closes due to poor ratings
2015-02-14,Canadian Police Say They've Foiled Valentine's Day Mass Shooting Plot
2015-02-14,HSBC whistleblower: There are 'more revelations'
2015-02-14,Apple CEO Tim Cook challenges Obama with impassioned stand on privacy
2015-02-14,Angela Merkel says sanctions on Russia scheduled for Monday will come into force
2015-02-14,"At least 500 classical books, which were stolen from Italian libraries three years ago, were returned by German authorities on Friday. Polish Renaissance mathematician, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Italian physicist, Galileo Galilei, authored some of the books that are worth over 2.5 million euros."
2015-02-14,"TPP protects rights holders, not consumers, says Senator Ludlam"
2015-02-14,Kurds recapture more villages in Kobani from ISIL
2015-02-14,North Korea cancels mass games for 2015
2015-02-14,1 billion people are expected to tune into India vs. Pakistan World Cup cricket match
2015-02-14,"Doctors Worldwide Blast TPP's 'Chilling Effect' on Health, Climate Protections: While US corporations have been involved in negotiations, 'health agencies have been forced to rely on leaks,' physicians point out"
2015-02-14,ISIS releases video claiming to show 17 Kurdish fighters: Paraded in cages 'to be burned alive' like Jordanian pilot
2015-02-14,Isis chops off women's hands 'for using mobile phones' in northern Iraqi city of Mosul
2015-02-14,198 Whales stranded on a New Zealand Beach.
2015-02-14,ISIS Fighters Sneak Into Iraqi Base Wearing Iraqi Army Uniforms
2015-02-14,"Hillary Clinton thinks Europe 'too wimpy' with Putin, London mayor says"
2015-02-14,US: Russia Resupplying Pro-Russian Forces as Cease-Fire Nears
2015-02-14,ISIS to be banned in India
2015-02-14,Millions in Ebola funds unaccounted for in Sierra Leone
2015-02-14,Poroshenko Will Impose Martial Law If Cease-Fire Fails
2015-02-14,Israeli house strikes killed mostly civilians
2015-02-14,"Govt remove Greenpeace activist Priya Pillai's deplaning from UK-bound flight, to prevent her from testifying against the Indian government's Mining project's that are destroying Forest land."
2015-02-14,"HSBCs Swiss branch must repatriate the US$3 billion deposited in the 4,040 undeclared accounts held by Argentine citizens and companies, AFIP tax bureau chief Ricardo Echegaray said"
2015-02-13,'Operation Death Eaters': Anonymous Wade Into Child Sex Abuse Scandal And Threaten To Expose High Profile Abusers
2015-02-13,Google waited six months to tell WikiLeaks it passed employee data to FBI | Tech giant facing renewed questions about user data as WikiLeaks lawyer says The question I have is: what caused this six-month delay?
2015-02-13,Every ocean now has a massive plastic garbage patch
2015-02-13,Isis: Eight would-be suicide bombers killed while entering Iraqi base hosting US forces
2015-02-13,Vatican mulling new department to tackle environmental issues. Pope Francis has said that man is destroying nature and betraying God's calling to be stewards of creation.
2015-02-13,"Revenge porn, posting sexual images without consent, outlawed in Britain - CBC News"
2015-02-13,Chess to be taught in Spanish schools: Spains government is set to add chess to the school curriculum after politicians of all stripes unanimously agreed on the proposal.
2015-02-13,Iceland jails former bank bosses; Four bosses of fallen bank Kaupthing sentenced to 4 - 5 1/2 years in prison for market abuse after failed appeal.
2015-02-13,One year in prison for Korean Air heiress whose tantrum over macadamia nuts delayed flight
2015-02-13,"Canadian Prime Minister vows to appeal court ruling allowing women to wear niqab during citizenship oath, calls it offensive"
2015-02-13,Elderly woman filmed confronting ISIS militants and branding them 'devils'
2015-02-13,Scientists at a US science conference have said it is now time to actively try to contact intelligent life on other worlds.
2015-02-13,"Unemployment Is Killing 45,000 People Each Year - The number of suicides related to unemployment remains stubbornly high despite the improving economy, according to a study published this week."
2015-02-13,Study: World dumps 8.8 million tons of plastics into oceans
2015-02-13,"Brazilians Hoard Water, Prepare for Possible Drastic Rationing"
2015-02-13,Turkish police use water cannon on protestors decrying religion in schools
2015-02-13,"Kill Dolphins, Whales To Reduce Competition For Fishermen, Suggests Mayor Of Beachside Town In Philippines"
2015-02-13,Ukraine: Provenance of Photos Showing Atrocities Questioned [NSFW]
2015-02-13,Rosetta stone-style stele unearthed in the Mediterranean coast
2015-02-13,"Fracking will be allowed under national parks, UK decides"
2015-02-13,Woman linked to Paris attacks appears in ISIS propaganda
2015-02-13,Saudi Arabia engineered oil crisis: Dallas Fed chief
2015-02-13,United Nations Envoy: 'President Bashar Al Assad of Syria is part of the solution'
2015-02-13,Boy flogged 60 times in town square for calling ISIS the wrong name
2015-02-13,Islamic State Claims To Have Abducted 21 Coptic Christians In Libya
2015-02-12,England bans smoking in cars containing children.
2015-02-12,Ukraine: 50 Russian tanks and 40 missile systems rolled into the country while Putin talked peace
2015-02-12,Russian President Vladimir Putin announces ceasefire for eastern Ukraine to start on 15 February
2015-02-12,Paris Votes To Sue Fox News
2015-02-12,King of Spain takes 20-per-cent salary cut in push for modest monarchy
2015-02-12,"Two Sydney Men With Islamic State Flag Give Terror Threat In Video, Get Arrested Minutes Before Attack"
2015-02-12,Lawyer moved Halliburton subsidiary bribes through secret Swiss HSBC accounts: Files open new window on $182 million Halliburton bribery scandal in Nigeria
2015-02-12,Turkish parents complain of push towards religious schools
2015-02-12,Dominik Hasek will give his olympic gold to whoever will return czech children taken by norwegian authorities to their mother
2015-02-12,"Vietnamese police catch poachers with endangered Pangolins. The poachers were fined, but the live animals were then sold to local restaurants"
2015-02-12,Beating heart cells created in Simon Fraser University lab
2015-02-12,Kim Jong-un urges N. Korean troops to get combat-ready
2015-02-12,Toxic orange cloud spreads after chemical blast near Barcelona
2015-02-12,SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches
2015-02-12,10 people from Quebec who contracted measles from the Disney Land outbreak were all unvaccinated
2015-02-12,European Parliament to investigate CIAs torture and rendition operations in EU
2015-02-12,70% of Kuwait has just been hit with an electrical power outage.
2015-02-12,Ex-Korean Air executive gets 1 year in prison over 'nut rage'
2015-02-12,Pro-Russian Rebels Refuse to Sign Peace Agreement
2015-02-12,US weapons to Ukraine 'would be matched by Russian arms to rebels' -- International Institute for Strategic Studies warns that Moscow could arm separatists more quickly than US could reinforce Ukraines forces
2015-02-12,"Network of 250 Spanish butchers and phone shops funding jihadists in Syria - ISIS sympathizers using hawala system to secretly transfer money to terrorists, say police; Spanish police conducting 368 investigations into Islamist terrorism"
2015-02-12,ISIL executes 23 of its members in north Iraq
2015-02-12,"Japans nuclear regulator on Thursday cleared a second set of reactors for restart, another step toward returning the country to nuclear power after the Fukushima disaster of 2011 led to the shutdown of all units."
2015-02-12,Israels Intelligence Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz warns that Israel might act unilaterally against Iran if Nuclear Deal goes ahead
2015-02-12,"Over 100 neolithic cult sites containing sexual carvings, graves and human-like figures, and dating back roughly 8,000 years, have been found in the Eilat Mountains in southern Israel."
2015-02-11,Obama sends Congress draft war authorization that says Islamic State 'poses grave threat'
2015-02-11,Puerto Rico considers fining parents of obese children up to $800
2015-02-11,Meteor explodes over New Zealand
2015-02-11,Pagan 'Sea God' statue to be replaced and reinforced after global support
2015-02-11,"Tesla only sold 120 cars in China in January, CEO Elon Musk Threatens to fire Executives"
2015-02-11,"Sharia4Belgium trial: Belgian court jails members. The judge called the organisation ""a terrorist group"" and sentenced leader Fouad Belkacem to 12 years in jail."
2015-02-11,"Turkey investigating computer game Minecraft for being ""too violent"""
2015-02-11,USA: Guantnamo 9/11 military hearing halted after defendant claims court interpreter worked at CIA black site
2015-02-11,French govt allowed to block sites featuring terrorism with no court order
2015-02-11,"Italy To Supply Kurdish Peshmerga with Advanced Weapons, Including Kurdistan's First-Ever Military Helicopter"
2015-02-11,Pakistan likely sheltered Osama Bin Laden: Ex-ISI chief
2015-02-11,"The Palestinians will open an embassy in Stockholm Tuesday night, cementing closer ties just months after Sweden became the first western European Union country to recognize Palestine as a state."
2015-02-11,"US army to start training Ukrainian troops, commander says"
2015-02-11,US plans to establish military base in Kurdistan
2015-02-11,"Thousands of Muslims protest Charlie Hebdo cartoons in London. 100,000 British Muslims sign petition against drawing of Mohammed"
2015-02-11,"Watching Assange is sucking our resources, U.K. chief says as police weigh costs"
2015-02-11,Poachers kill rare Mali elephants - 19 Gourma elephants have been killed in the past month. There are estimated to be just 350-500 elephants left.
2015-02-11,Sweden has announced a 1.5 billion kronor ($180 million) Palestinian aid package.
2015-02-11,"The leader of the French conservative UMP partys youth wing has stepped down after a newspaper revealed his residency permit had expired, and that he was therefore an undocumented immigrant in the country"
2015-02-11,"Australian mammals on brink of 'extinction calamity' - It's lost 1 in 10 of its native mammals species over the last 200 yrs in what conservationists describe as an ""extinction calamity"". No other nation has had such a high rate of loss of land mammals over this time period."
2015-02-11,US Deploys A-10s to Europe Amid Debate to Arm Ukraine
2015-02-11,"More Israeli aid set to reach Kurdish Yazidi, Christian refugees of Islamic State"
2015-02-11,"Pakistan's main intelligence agency probably knew where Osama Bin Laden was hiding and hoped to use him as a bargaining chip before he was killed by US forces in 2011, a former spymaster has said."
2015-02-11,"Unemployment causes 45,000 suicides a year worldwide, finds study :Researchers say unemployment linked to more suicides than recession and that risk among jobless is stronger where more people are in work"
2015-02-11,U.S Closes Embassy in Yemen.
2015-02-10,Mugabe falls: '27 bodyguards punished' after Zimbabwe president stumbles on carpet
2015-02-10,Twitter says Russia repeatedly tried to erase tweets by critics of Putin.
2015-02-10,Israeli who placed bomb at Palestinian girls' school released from prison early.
2015-02-10,The Indian Supreme Court Just Told Muslims They Can't Have Multiple Wives
2015-02-10,"Young girls who choose to get the HPV vaccinewhich helps prevent genital warts, cervical cancer and a host of other deadly diseasesdo not suffer from higher rates of sexually transmitted infections, according to a new study."
2015-02-10,"American ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller Is Dead, Family Confirms"
2015-02-10,"Retired Master Cpl. Paul Franklin, who lost both legs in Afghanistan to a suicide bomber in 2006, says every year he has to prove to Canadian Veterans Affairs that he still has no legs and needs a wheelchair."
2015-02-10,Jordan Moves Thousands of Troops to Border With Iraq
2015-02-10,India anti-corruption party routs BJP : Wins 95% seats in a historical win
2015-02-10,"ISIS recruiter, freed from Gitmo, killed in drone strike in Afghanistan"
2015-02-10,Obama Asks Germany to Stop 'Assuming the Worst' About NSA Spying
2015-02-10,"An original copy of the Magna Carta has been discovered in a scrapbook in Kent, England."
2015-02-10,Ukrainian soldiers seize Russian tank in nocturnal raid
2015-02-10,Ukrainian journalist faces 15 years in jail after calls to boycott the draft
2015-02-10,Aboriginals sue Canadian government over adoptions to white families during 1960s: Aboriginals who were adopted into white families during the 1960s Scoop are suing the federal government for the loss of their culture and emotional trauma.
2015-02-10,"Australia's Great Barrier Reef could be ""severely damaged"" if the government does not completely ban the dumping of dredge waste in the World Heritage-listed waters, a report commissioned by conservation group WWF say."
2015-02-10,Samsung warn consumers not to discuss personal info in front of its voice activated TV's
2015-02-10,"ISIS suspect: ''The Turkish Intelligence Agency, MT, helped us smuggle arms to radical groups in Syria''"
2015-02-10,UK spent 300 times more on fossil fuels than clean energy despite green pledge
2015-02-10,HSBC leak shows Venezuela among top clients in secret Swiss bank accounts
2015-02-10,Obama 'may supply arms to Ukraine'
2015-02-10,"The Justice Department is pushing some of the biggest banks on Wall Street  including, for the first time in decades, American institutions  to plead guilty to criminal charges that they manipulated the prices of foreign currencies."
2015-02-10,"Obama: If Putin Really Wanted Ukraine, He Could Take It"
2015-02-10,Obama Says Russia Has Clearly Violated Agreement On Ukraine
2015-02-10,Hong Kong-based bitcoin exchange MyCoin has allegedly shut its doors and stolen HKD 3 billion ($386.9 million) in the process
2015-02-09,Huge Explosion at Chemical Plant in Ukraine
2015-02-09,"Jordan: Approximately 7,000 IS members killed in strikes"
2015-02-09,HSBC files show how Swiss bank helped clients dodge taxes and hide millions
2015-02-09,India is now officially the world's fastest growing big economy
2015-02-09,"Report: Hooded gunmen fire on police in Marseille, France"
2015-02-09,"Plane carrying Chile soccer stars found, 50 years later"
2015-02-09,Germany rejects Greek claim for World War Two reparations
2015-02-09,"Tony Abbott wins spill vote, will continue as Prime Minister"
2015-02-09,Italian policeman who posed as a host on the Couchsurfing website has been charged with drugging and raping a 16-year-old Australian girl
2015-02-09,Russia is reportedly getting military bases in an EU state
2015-02-09,EU warns Greece: don't assume euro zone will accept your demands
2015-02-09,"Britain: Putin acting like ""mid 20th century tyrant"" over Ukraine"
2015-02-09,Thousands of British Muslims protest against Charlie Hebdo magazine for publishing cartoons of Prophet Mohammed
2015-02-09,Militants blow up Pakistan girls school
2015-02-09,"HSBC is in hot water in the UK and Europe after its Swiss arm was alleged to have helped clients evade millions of pounds in tax, with Belgium preparing to issuing a police warrant for the group's directors."
2015-02-09,"Australian Windfarms Face $13 Billion Wipeout from Political Impasse - Australia faces a $13.3 billion exodus of investment from its windfarm industry because of a political deadlock, threatening to kill hopes of meeting a self-imposed clean energy target"
2015-02-09,West 'caused Ukraine crisis' - Putin
2015-02-09,French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect: Law that allows blockade of offending sites without a court order criticised by free-speech groups as circumventing judicial power
2015-02-09,Palestinian illegally staying in Israel saved two Jews from a mob
2015-02-09,Canadian army loses expensive GPS-guided shells while leaving Afghanistan
2015-02-09,"Moscow & Cairo to drop USD, use national currencies in bilateral trade  Putin"
2015-02-09,Lithuanian president in Munich: To betray Ukraine would mean to betray ourselves
2015-02-09,Mass grave with 62 bodies found in Colombia
2015-02-09,Samsung Privacy Policy: Watch What You Say Around Your Smart TV.
2015-02-09,France can now block suspected terrorism websites without a court order
2015-02-08,"Ukranian President shows off to the world leaders the military ID of Russian soldiers and officers captured in Ukraine | ""Our neighbour has breached international law and annexed part of our territory.Today a former strategic partner is waging a hidden war against a sovereign state"""
2015-02-08,Jamaica Passes Landmark Marijuana Law On The 70th Birthday Of Bob Marley
2015-02-08,Jordan vows to completely wipe out ISIS
2015-02-08,Over 500 rabbis urge Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian homes. Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR) say Benjamin Netanyahu's stance is against international law and Jewish tradition.
2015-02-08,The woman who alleges that she was made to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 has told a court she believes US authorities hold video footage of her having underage sex with powerful associates of Andrews friend Jeffrey Epstein.
2015-02-08,ISIL burns 16 Iraqis to death for not pledging allegiance
2015-02-08,"Mass breakout from Brazilian jail after female inmates in fantasy police costumes seduce prison wardens - 28 prisoners escaped, including the boyfriend of one of the temptresses"
2015-02-08,"allied troops fathered 400,000 children in post-war germany"
2015-02-08,"WikiLeaks: ""Sweden Tells the UN that Indefinite Detention Without Charge is Fine"""
2015-02-08,Uber's plans to be cheaper than owning a car - Uber CEO explains his companys highly ambitious goal to end car ownership in the world
2015-02-08,Returned German jihadists reveal brutality -- SOME 200 German jihadists have returned from the fighting and one in five of them is co-operating with German security services and giving details of the time spent with IS
2015-02-08,"Lebanese Army receives US weapon shipment. The shipment included over 70 M198 Howitzers as well as 26 million rounds of ammunition including small, medium and heavy artillery rounds"
2015-02-08,Jordan: ISIS lost 20% of its military capabilities since the start of U.S.-led coalition air strikes in September
2015-02-08,Mexico's President Appoints a 'Friend' as His New Anti-Corruption Chief
2015-02-08,UAE Sends F-16 Squadron to Jordan to Wage Air Campaign Against ISIL
2015-02-08,First stars in universe were born 100 million years later than previously thought.
2015-02-08,Church of England may sell 3m stake in mining firm over fears for gorilla haven. Move follows film backed by Leonardo DiCaprio and pleas by environmentalists to protect Congos Virunga park.
2015-02-08,Alarm bells sound over 'unsustainable' household-debt levels in Canada
2015-02-08,ISIS in Mosul Orders Families to Give Up Sons to Become Jihadis
2015-02-08,An Egyptian court has set Feb. 24 as the date to consider a lawsuit demanding that Turkey be designated as a state that supports terrorism:''Turkey has adopted hostile stances against Egypt after it became a haven for Muslim Brotherhood leaders who face criminal charges in Egypt''
2015-02-08,"The Prime Minister of Iraq, Haider al-Abadi, has called on Turkey to step up border patrols and stop the flow of terrorists as the government in Baghdad is locked in fierce battle with ISIS terrorists"
2015-02-08,Australian Liberal MP's have 24 hours to decide whether Tony Abbott should remain Prime Minister.
2015-02-08,36 killed in Baghdad suicide bombings of supermarket/restaurant. Over 100 injured.
2015-02-08,Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of State John Kerry both met informally with Isaac Herzog  head of the Labor Party and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus chief rival in the Israeli elections
2015-02-08,Japan seizes passport of journalist planning Syria trip
2015-02-07,Top UN Official Says 'Global War on Terror' Is Laying Waste to Human Rights:Battling terrorism shouldnt justify torture or mass surveillance
2015-02-07,Germany is battling a measles outbreak that is 10 times worse than the one in the U.S.
2015-02-07,"Girls can marry aged nine, says new Islamic State guide for women"
2015-02-07,New law in Japan would force overachievers to take more vacation
2015-02-07,"Islamic State:""We will enter Bahrain by arms not passports, and we will behead the King"""
2015-02-07,"Pope says its okay to smack your children, says a good father is able to correct with firmness"
2015-02-07,"Tax havens such as Bermuda, Jersey and Guernsey will have six months to open their books or face international blacklisting if Labour wins the General Election in May, Ed Miliband has vowed."
2015-02-07,Niger forces kill 109 Boko Haram militants in battle: state TV
2015-02-07,"""I'm Muslim, I love Hindus"" campaign will destroy Islamic faith, ISMA claims"
2015-02-07,"Two American sisters have been arrested in Cambodia for taking naked photos of each other inside the countrys famed Angkor temple complex, officials said Saturday  the latest nude stunt by tourists to spark anger."
2015-02-07,Europeans warn Washington: arming Kiev will backfire
2015-02-07,"China seizes toilet rolls depicting Hong Kong leader CY Leung - Authorities grab 7,600 toilet rolls & 20,000 packets of tissue printed with his image. Hong Kong's Democratic Party, which planned to sell the novelty items at a fair, calls seizure a violation of freedom of expression."
2015-02-07,ISIS Claims American Hostage Killed by Jordanian Retaliation Bombings
2015-02-07,White House Considers Declassifying 28 Pages on Alleged Saudi Government Role in 9/11
2015-02-07,Kim Jong-un executes deputy for disagreeing with him
2015-02-07,"16 Year Old Girl Killed, 4 People Injured in Terrorist Bombing in Alexandria, Egypt."
2015-02-07,Mexican Social Activist Found Dead in 'Political Crime'
2015-02-07,CNN: Merkel: 'We want to shape security with Russia'
2015-02-07,World's biggest sovereign wealth fund dumps dozens of coal companies
2015-02-07,"In Historic Ruling, U.K. Surveillance Secrecy Declared Unlawful"
2015-02-07,"In Latest Vindication of Snowden, Court Rules UK Mass Surveillance Illegal: 'We must not allow agencies to continue justifying mass surveillance programmes using secret interpretations of secret laws,' said Privacy International director Eric King"
2015-02-07,U.S. and U.Ks Sharing of Mass Surveillance Intel Ruled Unlawful
2015-02-07,Explosion rocks Gaza in apparent assassination attempt: Vehicle of senior Hamas official blown up by Palestinian assailants in sign of increasing instability in the Strip
2015-02-07,Six residents of the United States were indicted Friday on terrorism charges involving the Islamist terror group ISIS
2015-02-07,Obama: U.S. should not 'overreach' in overseas conflicts
2015-02-06,Supreme Court of Canada strikes down ban on doctor-assisted suicide
2015-02-06,"ISIS bomb factory, compound in Iraq destroyed by Canadian fighter jets"
2015-02-06,Scientists have found a 10 million gallon 'bath mat' of oil on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico
2015-02-06,U.S. considers declassifying report on Saudi funding of al Qaeda
2015-02-06,"As a curfew is lifted, Baghdad is at long last partying again  Iraqi government abolished the nighttime curfew imposed on Baghdad by U.S. troops in 2003"
2015-02-06,"Chinese farmer finds 7.85kg gold nugget worth $250,000 on the ground"
2015-02-06,10 Million Taxpayer Pounds Spent on Assange Stakeout - More Than UK Spent on Iraq War Inquiry
2015-02-06,"The Worlds Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke"
2015-02-06,Australian Prime Minister Abbott could lose his position in leadership spill
2015-02-06,"""We are upping the ante. We're going after (ISIS) wherever they are, with everything that we have,"" Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh tells news agency CNN"
2015-02-06,"GCHQ mass internet surveillance was unlawful, rules UK's most secretive court. Access to intercepted information obtained by the NSA breached human rights laws, according to the Investigative Powers Tribunal"
2015-02-06,Amsterdam aims to give prostitutes shared ownership in brothels
2015-02-06,"2,089 billionaires in the world: Hurun Global Rich List releases list of who they are, where they live and how they made their fortunes"
2015-02-06,"Kerry on the war in Ukraine We want a diplomatic solution but we cannot close our eyes to tanks that are crossing the border from Russia and coming into Ukraine. We cant close our eyes to Russian fighters in unmarked uniforms leading individual companies of so-called separatists in battle"""
2015-02-06,EU set to Ban lion hunting trophy imports. Only about 400 lions left in the wild in west Africa.
2015-02-06,"Hundreds of children, forced to work in ""inhuman conditions"", have been rescued from factories in southern India. At least 350 children were removed during raids on leather tanning and plastic workshops in Hyderabad, over a 10-day period. They were working long hours in deplorable surroundings"
2015-02-06,Turkey pulls out of Munich security conference to avoid Israeli delegation
2015-02-06,Wales Says No To Fracking Until 'Proven Safe'
2015-02-06,Australian prime minister Tony Abbott may be deposed after party revolt. Liberal MP who wants change in leadership says knighthood for Prince Philip was final proof of prime ministers disconnection with the people.
2015-02-06,"Jordan, Unabashed, Announces Latest Bombing Raid on ISIS Targets"
2015-02-06,Even Al Qaeda Condemns ISIS burning of pilot.
2015-02-06,Russian taxpayers on the hook as oligarchs unload Sochi Olympics assets
2015-02-06,"""Fire Your Indonesian Maid Now"" declared the advertisement for a vacuum cleaner in Malaysia. The Indonesians are not happy. Their ambassador wants it banned, denouncing the ad as demeaning and insensitive to his countrymen."
2015-02-06,"Norway, one of world's richest nations, drops plan to ban beggars"
2015-02-06,Finnish Defence Minister: Russian jets not trustworthy Minister Carl Haglund says he does not trust Russia at all and that he could not back Finlands purchase of Russian fighter jets.
2015-02-05,"Jordan carries out air strikes in Iraq, killing 55 IS militants"
2015-02-05,Russian woman faces 20 years in prison for revealing Russian forces to be deployed to the Ukraine
2015-02-05,"No, Jordan's King Abdullah II is not personally flying planes against ISIS"
2015-02-05,Edward Snowden Is More Admired than President Obama in Germany and Russia
2015-02-05,"ISIS Treasurer Reportedly Steals $1M From Group, Flees To Turkey"
2015-02-05,"UN claim: ISIS selling, crucifying, burying children alive in Iraq"
2015-02-05,Kurdish president: we are ready to go into the final war against ISIS
2015-02-05,"Great Barrier Reef set for surprise electoral win. Labor opposition's pledges include a ""save the reef"" policy that would remove subsidies for coal mines in the Galilee Basin"
2015-02-05,"Scientists crack the code of viral replication, which may lead to erradication of the common cold."
2015-02-05,Half of Danes want to limit [the number of] Muslims in Denmark
2015-02-05,"Japan is considering making it compulsory for workers to take at least five days paid holiday a year, in a bid to lessen the toll on mental and physical health in a country famed for its long hours."
2015-02-05,"Norway planning to criminalize not only beggars, but also those who help them in any way."
2015-02-05,Pentagon 2008 study claims Putin has Asperger's syndrome
2015-02-05,"Argentina's President, Christina Fernandez, mocks Chinese for inability to pronounce ""R"" on her visit to China."
2015-02-05,Russian Inflation Soars to Staggering 15 Percent
2015-02-05,"4,000-Strong Christian Militia Formed to Fight ISIS in Northern Iraq"
2015-02-05,"It would take 100,000 ground troops to effectively respond to ISIS, says CIA insider"
2015-02-05,Westerners join Kurds fighting IS
2015-02-05,"ISIS Selling, Crucifying Children"
2015-02-05,"Isis ""dares"" Jordan to avenge their pilot"
2015-02-05,"Hamas leader calls for Lebanon, Syria branches to attack Israel"
2015-02-05,Pope Orders Bishops to Comply With Sex Abuse Commission
2015-02-05,"The ""Berlin Patient,"" first and only person cured of HIV, speaks out - Medical News Today"
2015-02-05,Ross Ulbricht Convicted of Running Silk Road as Dread Pirate Roberts
2015-02-05,Islamic State executes three of its Chinese militants: China paper
2015-02-04,Draft of Arrest Warrant for Argentine President Found at Dead Prosecutors Home
2015-02-04,New allegations of Saudi involvement in 9/11
2015-02-04,ISIS Burns Jordanian Pilot Alive
2015-02-04,Jordan executes two Iraqi militants in response to pilot's death.
2015-02-04,The US has lost control of 400 million dollars worth of weapons in Yemen
2015-02-04,Jets bomb Boko Haram in Nigeria's first major offensive
2015-02-04,Taiwan TransAsia plane crash-lands in Taipei river
2015-02-04,"ISIS captors 'didn't even have the Quran,' says former hostage"
2015-02-04,"Jordan to execute ""within hours"" jailed woman militant it had sought to swap for pilot killed by Islamic State"
2015-02-04,Isis set up giant screens in Raqqa showing Jordanian pilot burning to death cheered on by crowds
2015-02-04,Putin asks Ukraine to repay a $3 billion loan because Russia needs the money to fight its financial crisis
2015-02-04,"ISIS throws gay Syrian man seven stories; the man survives, but is then stoned to death"
2015-02-04,"The head of Sunni Islams most respected seat of learning has expressed his outrage over the purported burning to death by the Islamic State group of a captured Jordanian pilot, calling for the killing, crucifixion or chopping off the limbs of the militants."
2015-02-04,"Saudi prince to hunt rare bird in Chagai, Pakistan despite court ban ."
2015-02-04,Poland ready to sell weapons to Ukraine
2015-02-04,'Missing Oil' from 2010 BP Spill Found on Gulf Seafloor.
2015-02-04,"China to ban Internet parody accounts, enforce real-name registration."
2015-02-04,"Sheikh of Al-Azhar calls to kill, crucify and dismember 'satanists of ISIS'"
2015-02-04,North Korea Threatens US With 'Final Doom'
2015-02-04,Russia announces plans for joint military drills with North Korea
2015-02-04,"Moussaoui, former Al Qaeda Member, Calls Saudi Princes Patrons of Al Qaeda"
2015-02-04,Jordan will execute female failed sucide bomber on Wednesday
2015-02-04,"After ISIS execution, angry King Abdullah quotes Clint Eastwood to U.S. lawmakers"
2015-02-04,At least four people are reported dead after a shell hit a hospital in the rebel-held city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
2015-02-04,Hamas Claims Egypt Opened Fire on its 'Military Posts' in Gaza.
2015-02-03,"NASA is planning a mission to Europa, one of the best candidates for alien life"
2015-02-03,Two-year-old Indian boy's heart beats in that of a Russian child - India's first paediatric heart transplant performed
2015-02-03,Over 100 drugged and raped in Japan fake clinical study
2015-02-03,"CCTV footage exposes slaughterhouse cruelty: Sheep are punched, kicked and thrown in the secretly recorded video that has prompted an FSA investigation. Campaigners and MPs are calling for CCTV cameras at every abattoir after footage revealed extreme animal cruelty at a halal slaughterhouse."
2015-02-03,"Worlds most expensive drug  which costs up to $700,000 per year  too expensive: Canadas drug-price regulator has taken the rare step of calling a hearing into what is considered the worlds most expensive prescription medicine, accusing its manufacturer of exceeding the permissible price cap."
2015-02-03,"President Obama: ""US deploying all available assets to free 26-year old American woman captured by Islamic State"""
2015-02-03,Kim Jong-un Says N.Korean Poverty Keeps Him Up at Night
2015-02-03,French troops kill around a dozen Islamist militants in Mali
2015-02-03,"Their Relationships Are Criminal, But These Indians Still Marched In A Pride Parade: Hundreds of people took to the streets under rainbow flags for a pride parade in Mumbai, India on Saturday, despite a law that criminalizes homosexual sex"
2015-02-03,Norway banishes 'hate preacher' to remote village
2015-02-03,Russia Plans Joint Military Drills With North Korea and Cuba
2015-02-03,"Egypt 'Covering Up' Protest Deaths, Human Rights Group Says"
2015-02-03,"'If Ukraine conflict ends, EU might enter trade zone with Russia' - Merkel"
2015-02-03,Indian administration disconnects power supply to 98 tanneries stopped for polluting the Ganga river.
2015-02-03,Only 8 of 74 Chinese cities meet pollution standards
2015-02-03,Canada sends robots to Kurdistan to help clear ISIS mines
2015-02-03,Police alerted to planned march against Jewification of north London borough
2015-02-03,Head of U.N. inquiry into Gaza conflict to quit over Israeli bias claim
2015-02-03,Casualties in shopping centre explosion in Perth.
2015-02-03,US increasingly concerned that Russia is intent on partitioning Ukraine
2015-02-03,An entire city is going to be wiped off the map in Egypt  The city of Rafah is to be demolished to make way for a security 'buffer zone' in an attempt to stop militant activity and smuggling.
2015-02-03,"Barack Obama proposes over $1 billion civil, military aid to Pakistan"
2015-02-03,"Head of UN Gaza inquiry quits, cites Israel's bias claims over consulting work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization"
2015-02-03,"Suicides in Greece surged by a third after the country implemented an austerity programme in June 2011, health investigators said on Monday"
2015-02-03,Indian government launches its own low cost medicine brand - Jan Aushadhi (People's Medicine)
2015-02-02,Westminster child abuse scandal: KGB and CIA kept secret dossiers on Britain's VIP paedophiles; Both Russian and US intelligence knew about a group of powerful paedophiles operating in Britain and the KGB hoped to blackmail them in exchange for information
2015-02-02,"A new guard for Asgard: Iceland building first temple to Norse gods in 1,000 years"
2015-02-02,Pagan priest wants the theft of a statue of the Irish God of the Sea 'Manannn Mac Lr' to be treated as a hate crime
2015-02-02,"'Suppressed' EU report could have banned pesticides worth billions - Science paper recommended ways of identifying hormone-mimicking chemicals in pesticides linked to foetal abnormalities, genital mutations, infertility and other diseases including cancer"
2015-02-02,"The 4 surviving copies of the 1215 Magna Carta brought together for 1st time in London for 800th anniversary - It's one of the 1st steps towards parliamentary democracy & includes the principle that no one was above the law, including the king"
2015-02-02,Tech pioneer Phil Zimmermann calls David Cameron's anti-encryption plans 'absurd' - PGP inventor rubbishes Tory plans to ban encryption and says modern commerce depends on it: End-to-end encryption is everywhere now
2015-02-02,Thousands march for democracy in Hong Kong
2015-02-02,"ISIS getting 'desperate,' struggling to replenish fighters, says US-based advisory firm"
2015-02-02,"Deforestation of the Amazon linked to Brazil's worst drought in history, causing many cities to start enforcing severe water rationing"
2015-02-02,"Mugabe Dismisses Male-Female Equality: ""Its not possible that women can be at par with men,"" said the incoming chairman of the African Union, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe."
2015-02-02,Complaints against police reach a record high
2015-02-02,"American employee of Israeli defense firm Elbit mysteriously dies in Saudi Arabia. Saudi authorities say Chris Cramer committed suicide, but family insists he was murdered."
2015-02-02,South Korea Wants Japan to Apologize to WWII Sex Slaves
2015-02-02,"Less Than A Week After Failing Last Attempt, UK Lords Try To Sneak Through Snooper's Charter Once Again"
2015-02-02,ISIS Is Handing Out Stolen U.N. Humanitarian Aid With Its Own Logo
2015-02-02,"The pro-Russian separatist leader in eastern Ukraine's rebel hub of Donetsk vowed Monday to mobilize 100,000 fighters for their latest offensive against Kiev forces."
2015-02-02,"Obama: Greece needs growth, not more austerity"
2015-02-02,One of two Russian bombers carried a nuke while flying over the English Channel - British MoD source
2015-02-02,SpaceX and Google form joint partnership to bring Internet access to the world
2015-02-02,Tens of thousands of longtime Palestinian refugees in a camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital have been cut off from United Nations emergency aid for nearly two months by armed groups that are preventing access
2015-02-02,"Fire Guts Major Russian Library, Destroying Millions of Books, documents - Vladimir Fortov, president of Russian Academy of Sciences', compares it to a ""cultural Chernobyl"""
2015-02-02,"8,700 people file lawsuit against Japanese newspaper's articles on 'Sex Slaves' of World War II arguing that they ""damaged Japanese people's personal rights and honour"""
2015-02-02,Michelangelo bronzes discovered.
2015-02-02,"US considers providing arms to Ukraine as rebels step up attacks, says report"
2015-02-02,Syriza-led Greek parliament will never ratify TTIP
2015-02-01,Japanese hostage 'beheaded' by ISIL
2015-02-01,"Japan: 'We will never, never forgive' ISIS for apparent beheading"
2015-02-01,"Britons like Israel better only than North Korea, poll finds: Some 35 percent of Britons name Israel as their least favorite non-European country, a worse score than Iran's."
2015-02-01,Bill Gates: We Need A World Government
2015-02-01,"Israeli medical marijuana creates buzz but no high: the marijuana is coveted for life-saving medical benefits for epileptic children, doctors say  without the high"
2015-02-01,Chile's President Bachelet proposes end to total abortion ban: Bachelet has tabled a bill in Congress to legalise abortion in cases of rape or when there is a threat to the mother's or the baby's life
2015-02-01,African Union agrees to send multinational force to fight Boko Haram
2015-02-01,"Isis fighters explain why they've left Kobane | I swear by God, their planes did not leave the air, day and night; they did airstrikes all day and night. They targeted everything. They even attacked vehicles; they have not left a building standing."
2015-02-01,Muslim Brotherhood Gives Foreigners Ten Days to Pack Bags and Leave Egypt
2015-02-01,"Canadian workers have fundamental right to strike, top court rules"
2015-02-01,"Egypt bans Hamas' armed wing, lists it as terror group"
2015-02-01,Experts raise alarm as plague kills dozens in Madagascar
2015-02-01,Ukraine wants UN to label Russia as a sponsor of terrorism
2015-02-01,"'The greatest German friend Poland has ever had' -- Richard von Weizscker, the German president from 1984 to 1994, had a gargantuan task: the reunification of Europe. After his death on Saturday, Germany's eastern neighbor Poland was also mourning the former leader"
2015-02-01,Syria aims to 'flush out all terrorists' in 2015. Syria's prime minister said on Sunday the country wanted to drive all insurgents out of its territory in 2015 and was prepared to back any attempts to fight global militancy.
2015-02-01,Snowden files show Canada spy agency runs global Internet watch : Canada's electronic spy agency has been intercepting and analysing data on up to 15 million file downloads daily as part of a global surveillance programme
2015-02-01,In Ireland thousands join water charge rallies: Thousands of anti-water charge protesters have brought town and city centres to a standstill in up to 20 nationwide demonstrations
2015-02-01,Thousands of pro-democracy protesters will rally on Hong Kong's streets Sunday for the first time since mass demonstrations shut down parts of the city for more than two months
2015-02-01,Israeli arrested for fighting with Islamic State in Iraq
2015-02-01,"Kurdish forces beat back 'Islamic State' in Kirkuk, Kobani -- Kurds have retaken an oilfield in Iraq seized by the ""Islamic State"" (IS) on Friday. After beating back IS, the police and Kurdish forces freed 24 oil workers taken captive by the Sunni militant group"
2015-02-01,Footage has surfaced showing Israel's shelling of UNIFIL's Spanish contingent in southern Lebanon which killed one peacekeeper
2015-02-01,"Indian millionaire thrashes guard, tries to run him over with his Hummer"
2015-02-01,Saudi Arabia postpones flogging of blogger Raef Badawi for third week. Badawi is serving 10 years and to get 1000 lashes for 'Insulting Islam' in Blog.
2015-02-01,Analysis of Turkey's withheld tweets shows majority of censorship actively points out government corruption or makes fun of politicians
2015-02-01,Egypt President Sisi warns of 'long battle' with militants
2015-01-31,Venezuela legalizes use of lethal weapons by the national armed forces against protesters
2015-01-31,"Canada Unveils New Anti-Terrorism Bill That Moves for 'Unprecedented Expansion of Powers': ""This radical expansion of national security powers is not sound security policy and presents a real danger to Canadians,"" says civil liberties advocate"
2015-01-31,"The British Army is setting up a new unit that will use psychological operations and social media to help fight wars ""in the information age"""
2015-01-31,"The Vatican, which is still struggling with the effects of a worldwide paedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church, discovered two cases of possession of child pornography within its own walls last year, its chief prosecutor said on Saturday."
2015-01-31,North Korea introduces 'mandatory military service for women'
2015-01-31,The ideological leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) said Friday that France had surpassed the United States as the top enemy of Islam
2015-01-31,Iranian institutions to hold cartoon contest on The Holocaust
2015-01-31,Merkel rules out Greek debt relief.
2015-01-31,Westminster 'paedophile ring': Sir Peter Hayman named in secret file - report prepared for then prime minister Margaret Thatcher then buried until now
2015-01-31,End Blasphemy Laws campaign launched by international coalition
2015-01-31,"Queensland election result leaves Australian PM Tony Abbott terminally wounded, federal Coalition MPs say"
2015-01-31,"US, UK condemn latest Israeli plan for settler housing as 'illegal, illegitimate'"
2015-01-31,"Stephen Harper will unveil a new bill with measures to fight against terrorism, such as a Lower threshold of proof for arrests."
2015-01-31,Turkey's Erdogan: I want to be like the Queen of England
2015-01-31,Venezuela confirms it shot down plane near Aruba
2015-01-31,Indian Police Rescue Hundreds Of Child Slaves
2015-01-31,"Fighting rages in eastern Ukraine, 15 soldiers killed"
2015-01-31,NATO to deploy small units in 6 Eastern European nations
2015-01-31,ISIS Kills Kurdish Commander in Surprise Attack on Kirkuk
2015-01-31,AirAsia captain left seat to fix computer problem before jet lost control
2015-01-31,"Citing war on terror, Canadian government propose sweeping new powers for spies, police"
2015-01-31,"Paris market gunman recorded the attack on a GoPro camera, was able to use a computer at the market to email a copy of the video before he was killed by police: ""There is a strong probability that this video may have been transmitted to a recipient and not to a traditional media outlet."""
2015-01-31,Philippines: 44 police commandos killed in a botched anti-terror operation
2015-01-31,ISIS fighters say constant airstrikes drove them out of Kobani
2015-01-31,Report: Assassination of Hezbollah's Imad Mughniyeh was joint U.S.-Israeli operation
2015-01-30,A rare megamouth shark just washed up in the Philippines. zoologist estimated its only the 60th confirmed human encounter with one.
2015-01-30,Armed man demands airtime on Dutch broadcaster
2015-01-30,Taliban Arrests ISIS Leader for 'Anti-Islamic Activities'
2015-01-30,Jordan says it will hang its Islamic State prisoners if the terror group have killed pilot hostage
2015-01-30,"Britain summoned the Russian ambassador on Thursday and asked him to explain why two Russian Bear long-range bombers had flown over the English channel the previous day, a move that forced British authorities to divert civil aircraft."
2015-01-30,US Army General says Russian drones causing heavy Ukrainian casualties
2015-01-30,ISIS destroyed historic walls of the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq
2015-01-30,Singapore will be jailing people for 6 months for holding a mobile phone while driving
2015-01-30,Vice President of European Parliament: Kurds Deserve Independence
2015-01-30,"Scientists showed they can identify you with more than 90 percent accuracy by looking at just four purchases, three if the price is included - and this is after companies ""anonymized"" the transaction records, saying they wiped away names and other personal details."
2015-01-30,"Vatican to offer haircuts, shaves as well as showers to Rome's homeless"
2015-01-30,Mayor of London Boris Johnson: jihadis are porn-watching 'wankers'
2015-01-30,Prince Charles: business must stop blocking action on climate change
2015-01-30,Chad army retakes Nigerian town from Boko Haram
2015-01-30,50-foot-long 'dragon' dinosaur species discovered in China
2015-01-30,Bill Gates insists artificial intelligence is a threat to mankind - whatever Microsoft Research chief says
2015-01-30,White House to Cuba: No Deal on Returning Guantanamo Bay Base
2015-01-30,"The Svalbard Global Seed Vault has just received a series of 4 deliveries totaling over 100,000 new seeds, representing global crops as well as rare species from 100+ countries around the world."
2015-01-30,Russian spy cell in NYC 'plotted Wall Street meltdown' like 2010 'flash crash'
2015-01-30,"Boko Haram to use goats, cows, donkeys and camels as suicide bombers"
2015-01-30,"China says no room for 'western values' in university education: The party often brands concepts such as multiparty elections and the separation of powers as Western, despite their global appeal and application."
2015-01-30,Saudi King Salman fires sons of late King Abdullah
2015-01-30,"VICE Exclusive: CIA Interrogations Took Place on British Territory of Diego Garcia, Senior Bush Administration Official Says | VICE News"
2015-01-30,Indian Woman Sues Uber in the U.S. Over Alleged New Delhi Taxi Rape
2015-01-30,Gorbachev: West has 'dragged' Russia into new Cold War that could heat up
2015-01-29,"Boko Haram appears to have surrounded city of 2 million, threatening a 'big grave'"
2015-01-29,"Skull discovery suggests location where humans first had sex with Neanderthals. Skull found in northern Israeli cave in western Galilee, thought to be female and 55,000 years old, connects interbreeding and move from Africa to Europe."
2015-01-29,ISIS To Obama: 'We Will Cut Off Your Head In The White House'
2015-01-29,"Israel fires into Lebanon, killing UN soldier"
2015-01-29,New anti-terror bill could put chill on freedom of speech
2015-01-29,"Documents reveal Canada's electronic spy agency sifts through millions of downloads every day from global file-sharing sites to find ""terrorists."" ""Every single thing that you do  in this case uploading/downloading files to these sites  that act is being archived, collected and analyzed."""
2015-01-29,"Global democracy is at greater risk than at any time in the past 25 years, according to a landmark report by the independent watchdog Freedom House. Women are the main targets for repression, and that levels of brutality under authoritarian regimes are at an all-time high."
2015-01-29,Raul Castro: US Must Return Guantanamo for Normal Relations
2015-01-29,Huge blast at Hospital in Mexico City. 54 injured half of which are children.
2015-01-29,Typo causes collapse of 124-year-old family business
2015-01-29,Palestinians Attack Gaza UN Compound After Aid Suspended
2015-01-29,Greek PM: We will no longer submit to the EU
2015-01-29,Russia warns West support for Kiev could lead to 'catastrophe'
2015-01-29,"Samsung semiconductor workers: lymphoma, and no compensation"
2015-01-29,US nuclear scientist jailed for trying to sell secrets
2015-01-29,"Russia cuts spending, bails out banks"
2015-01-29,Russian mother of seven accused of treason over Ukraine
2015-01-29,IDF confirms Spanish UN peace keeper killed from one of the mortar shells that we launched
2015-01-29,"Tech firms will be ""considered complicit"" if they publish hate speech, says Francois Hollande"
2015-01-29,Chinas Yuan becomes the fifth most widely used payment currency. The currency also known as renminbi (RMB) has overtaken the Canadian dollar and the Australian dollar.
2015-01-29,King Salmans Shady History: The new king of Saudi Arabia has troubling ties to radical Islamists.
2015-01-29,"Malaysia today declared that flight MH370 was lost in an accident, killing all 239 passengers and crew members on board"
2015-01-29,"Ebola virus mutating, scientists say"
2015-01-29,"Sydney cafe siege hostage Katrina Dawson was killed by ricocheting police bullets, inquest confirms"
2015-01-29,"Canadas leading surveillance agency is monitoring millions of Internet users file downloads in a dragnet search to identify extremists, according to top-secret documents"
2015-01-28,"Key Hepatitis C Patent Rejected In India, Clearing Way For Generic Treatment Costing A Thousand Times Less Than US Price"
2015-01-28,Spain charges 12 priests with child sex abuse
2015-01-28,"Two weeks after Zuckerberg said je suis Charlie, Facebook begins censoring images of prophet Muhammad"
2015-01-28,"Ancient planets are almost as old as the universe: Five small planets orbit an 11.2 billion-year-old star, making them about 80 per cent as old as the universe itself. That means our galaxy started building rocky planets earlier than we thought."
2015-01-28,"Obama challenges India on women's rights and religious tolerance: ...every woman should be able to go about her day  to walk the street, or ride the bus  and be safe and be treated with the respect and dignity that she deserves."
2015-01-28,The Mormon church officially supports LGBT rights.
2015-01-28,"Putin ordered Alexander Litvinenko murder, inquiry into death told"
2015-01-28,"Scientists in Switzerland have figured out a way to utilize Graphene in solar panel design, raising its efficiency to an absolutely staggering 60%  a finally feasible amount."
2015-01-28,"Recording of Erdoan telling son to zero $1 billion in cash that was in their house is authentic, prosecutor says"
2015-01-28,3 tons of living cats caught on way from China to Vietnamese restaurants
2015-01-28,Two American-made M-41 tanks found in police raid on stolen cars in Brazil
2015-01-28,"ISIS & Japan agree on hostage swap, Japanese journalist to be freed 'within hours'"
2015-01-28,Anti-tank missile strikes IDF vehicle on Lebanon border
2015-01-28,Three more beheaded under new Saudi king
2015-01-28,"Rather than face ban in Turkey, Facebook blocks anti-Islamic pages"
2015-01-28,"Cuba has an illegal 'Internet' that connects thousands of computers - called SNet, short for streetnet"
2015-01-28,"South Korea, China warn Japan not to backtrack on apology over wartime past"
2015-01-28,Gorbachev blasts lawmakers suggestion to denounce Germany unification as rubbish
2015-01-28,"Kim Jong Un May Make First Foreign Trip to Russia, Interfax Says."
2015-01-28,Germany Set to Open Up Autobahn to Self-Driving Vehicles
2015-01-28,France wants to make Google and Facebook accountable for hate speech
2015-01-28,Two IDF soldiers killed in Hezbollah attack
2015-01-28,"Ukrainian Students Call On Russian Counterparts To End 'Information War': ""Check what you hear, doubt what you see."""
2015-01-28,"Greece says ""No"" to EU statement on Russia"
2015-01-28,"10,000 Palestinian teens graduate Hamas terror camp"
2015-01-27,Greece's new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis is Valve's former Steam Market economist
2015-01-27,Hershey's has blocked British-made Cadbury chocolate from entering the US.
2015-01-27,FBI arrests Russian spy in the Bronx
2015-01-27,Regin Malware Unmasked as NSA Tool after SPIEGEL Publishes Source Code
2015-01-27,Russia's Credit Rating Cut To 'Junk' By S&P
2015-01-27,"Anti-vaccination group encourages parents in Australia to join fake church to avoid ""no jab, no play"" childcare laws"
2015-01-27,Decapitation Marks the Beginning of Saudi King Salman Reign
2015-01-27,"MILF massacres 49 members of Philippine National Police - Special Action Force during an encounter at Maguindanao, Philippines"
2015-01-27,Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announces plans to dissolve country's intelligence agency
2015-01-27,Ukraine miners rescued after shelling left them trapped
2015-01-27,A Costa Rican court acquitted seven men Monday accused in the brutal murder of environmentalist Jairo Mora and the rape of four volunteers who worked with him to protect sea turtles
2015-01-27,Greeces new prime minister wants Germany to pay for Nazi war crimes
2015-01-27,Iran is ditching the US Dollar.
2015-01-27,"North Korea slams shamelessness of Israel,"" calling it a rogue group that poses a nuclear threat and commits terrorist attack[s] against neighboring countries."
2015-01-27,"Chinese officials feasted on endangered salamander, then beat journalists: report"
2015-01-27,Assad: Erdogan is personally responsible for Syrian chaos
2015-01-27,1.5M Lifted Out of Poverty in Ecuador under Correa
2015-01-27,Ukrainian rebel attacks on city of Mariupol are condemned by the UN as a war crime
2015-01-27,"U.S. 'Cannot Stop' Russian Nuclear Missiles  Deputy Prime Minister: Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who overseas Russia's military-industrial complex, boasted of unspecified breakthroughs in Russian military technology during a talk show on the state-run Rossiya 1 TV channel on Sunday night."
2015-01-27,"UK economic growth hits 2.6% in 2014, fastest growth since 2007"
2015-01-27,"Militants attack top Libya hotel, ISIS claims responsibility"
2015-01-27,Greece debt repayment in full 'unrealistic' - Syriza
2015-01-27,Greece's New Prime Minister Wants Germany To Pay For Nazi War Crimes
2015-01-27,Canadian forces engage in two (more) gunfights with ISIS on the ground in Iraq
2015-01-27,"Ukraine turns to International Criminal Court over terrorist killings - President Poroshenko said today that he will give the EU ample evidence of who is behind the recent shelling of the city of Mariupol, in which more than 20 people died, and that he would refer this case and others to the ICC"
2015-01-26,WikiLeaks demands answers after Google hands staff emails to US government
2015-01-26,Almost 500 cases of female genital mutilation identified in just one month in English hospitals
2015-01-26,"Malaysia Airlines site hacked, displays 404 - Plane Not Found"
2015-01-26,"Mass surveillance is fundamental threat to human rights, says European report: Europes top rights body says scale of NSA spying is stunning and suggests UK powers may be at odds with rights convention"
2015-01-26,Egyptian doctor sentenced to prison for female genital mutilation in landmark case after the death of a 13 year old
2015-01-26,ISIS forced out of Kobane after Kurdish fighters seize full control of town.
2015-01-26,"Argentine journalist flees in wake of prosecutor's death -- ""I am leaving because my life is in danger,"" Pachter said"
2015-01-26,"Pro-Moscow rebels, backed by what NATO says is the open participation of Russian troops, pressed on with their offensive on Sunday after restarting the war in eastern Ukraine with the first all-out assault since a truce five months ago."
2015-01-26,Russian Security Forces Raid Independent Crimean TV Station
2015-01-26,Russian ruble tumbles after violence in eastern Ukraine escalates and oil continues to drop
2015-01-26,Greek exit polls suggest Syriza win
2015-01-26,"Ukrainian army is foreign NATO legion, with geopolitical aims of constraining Russia - Putin"
2015-01-26,"Kurds fly ""flag of victory"" over Kobane"
2015-01-26,The British government has said it is reviewing security procedures after a hoax caller claiming to be the director of Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency was put through to PM David Cameron.
2015-01-26,"'We are going to destroy the Greek oligarchy system' Yanis Varoufakis, tipped to be Syriza's new finance minister, says what his party would do if it gets into government in Greece"
2015-01-26,Abducted Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez found dead.
2015-01-26,Syriza Rides Anti-Austerity Wave to Landslide Victory in Greece
2015-01-26,Canada to unveil new security legislation after 2014 attacks: PM
2015-01-26,"Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney reaffirmed Canada's commitment to fighting anti-Semitism and promised a ""zero-tolerance approach"" for any attempts to delegitimize the state of Israel."
2015-01-26,Parents in Taiwan are now legally obliged to limit their kids' computer time
2015-01-26,BBC executive Tarik Kafala: Do not call Charlie Hebdo killers 'terrorists'
2015-01-26,"Euro tumbles on Greek vote results, approaching an 11-year low versus the U.S. dollar"
2015-01-26,Journalist who broke the dead prosecutor story flees Argentina in fear for his life
2015-01-26,LIVE: India celebrates its 66th Republic Day
2015-01-26,Kim Jong Un to Visit Indonesia Marking First Official Trip Abroad
2015-01-25,"140,000,000 people without power in Pakistan after terrorist attack"
2015-01-25,"Kim Dotcom launches end-to-end encrypted voice chat Skype killer - New MegaChat promises secure, encrypted and private video chatting through a browser"
2015-01-25,World backs India against US bullying on patents.
2015-01-25,An Argentine prosecutor found dead shortly before he was about to make explosive allegations about President Cristina Kirchner took a bullet point-blank to his forehead
2015-01-25,A deadly rocket attack on the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been met with widespread international condemnation. This has led to renewed calls for Moscow to stop supporting the pro-Russia separatists.
2015-01-25,Obama on Russia: 'Large countries shouldn't bully smaller countries'
2015-01-25,'Hottest Year' Story Obscures Bigger News: Ocean Warming Now Off The Charts
2015-01-25,Where do the wealthiest 1% live? A report by Oxfam caused a stir by predicting that the wealthiest 1% will soon own more than the rest of the world's population
2015-01-25,Russia hit with mass layoffs as economy worsens
2015-01-25,30 Filipino police commandos killed in clash with MILF
2015-01-25,Leftist activist Shaimaa ElSabag shot dead today as black-masked officers fired on march to lay roses on Tahrir Square
2015-01-25,Islamic State executes women in Mosul for refusing temporary marriage
2015-01-25,Germany halts arms exports to Saudi Arabia
2015-01-25,Students who survived Mexicos night of bloody horror accuse army and police | World news
2015-01-25,Tributes to Saudi King spark rights criticism in Britain
2015-01-25,Japan calls apparent ISIS execution of hostage 'outrageous and impermissible'
2015-01-25,Just 5% of Kurdistan Remain Under Islamic State Control
2015-01-25,"Journalist covering Alberto Nisman's death flees Argentina for Israel, fearing for his safety"
2015-01-25,Ukraine crisis: Russia blocks UN attempt to condemn rebel rocket attack
2015-01-25,"Turkish President Erdogan announced that the EU must accept Turkey as a member to prove that they are not an Islamophobic ""Christian club."""
2015-01-25,Jeffrey Epstein: Judge may reveal Prince Andrews alleged bid to protect paedophile tycoon
2015-01-25,Anti-austerity party expected to win Greek election
2015-01-25,EU warns Russia that Ukraine conflict will hurt relations
2015-01-25,China: Fake bank swindles customers out of $32m
2015-01-25,Up to four subs feared in Stockholm waters [in October]
2015-01-24,"Kurds angered by anti-ISIL conference snub -- Iraqi Kurds disheartened that US and allies did not invite Kurdish reps to London, given their crucial role in fight"
2015-01-24,"More than three million Germans can barely make ends meet despite being in work, according to a German newspaper. Growing numbers of struggling workers are cutting back on heating and food."
2015-01-24,Jamaica is About to Decriminalize Ganja
2015-01-24,Snowden: iPhones Have Secret Spyware That Lets Govt's Monitor Unsuspecting Users. The NSA whistleblower's lawyer says the secret software can be remotely activated to watch the user
2015-01-24,"Teenager says he escaped North Korea and made it to Sweden, claims asylum. Maintaining he walked across a frozen river into China and traversed two continents in cars, the trans-Siberian railway and the back of a truck."
2015-01-24,Obama Tells Netanyahu To Stop Pushing Congress Toward New Iran Sanctions
2015-01-24,"Israel illegally demolishing Palestinian homes, UN says"
2015-01-24,"Cuban diplomats announced that in discussions with US officials they expressed their ""serious concerns"" over human rights in the United States citing detentions at Guantanamo Bay, to ""police abuse"" in Ferguson and New York to racial and gender inequalities"
2015-01-24,"Former Miss Turkey, 26, facing trial after being arrested for posting satirical poem that criticised President Erdogan"
2015-01-24,"Report: Islamic State executes Japanese hostage According to intelligence group, radical jihadists force one of two hostages to report his countryman's execution."
2015-01-24,Operation DeathEaters: Anonymous calls for activists to help expose international paedophile networks - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
2015-01-24,Scan finds new tattoos on 5300-year-old Iceman
2015-01-24,"The mysterious and majestic blue hue emanating from Hong Kong seas is cause for concern, scientists say"
2015-01-24,"Ukraine: 10 civilians, including children, killed in shelling"
2015-01-24,Biologists find fish over 2400ft below the surface of an Antarctic glacier
2015-01-24,Founder of Russian gay teen site convicted of 'propaganda'
2015-01-24,"Russians will 'eat less' for Putin: Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, on Friday warned the West against trying to topple President Vladimir Putin and said that Russians are ready to sacrifice their wealth in Putin's support"
2015-01-24,FIFA loses three World Cup sponsors in Castrol Continental Johnson & Johnson
2015-01-24,ISIS Hostage Video: Expert said it was more likely completed in an indoor studio with a false backdrop.
2015-01-24,"Ayatollah Khamenei Appeals to Western Youth on Islam and Prejudice  In a rare effort to reach out to the West, Irans supreme leader released a letter to youngsters in the U.S. and Europe imploring them to learn about Islam from original sources and not have it introduced to you by prejudices"
2015-01-24,Revealed: how Blair colluded with Gaddafi regime in secret - Libyan government papers pieced together by team of London lawyers show how UK cosied up to Tripoli over dissidents
2015-01-24,War Is Exploding Anew in Ukraine; Rebels Vow More
2015-01-24,"US spies have intercepted communications between the chief suspects in the murder case of Alexander Litvinenko, linking his poisoning to Russia | Alexander Litvinenko was a former officer of the Russian FSB and KGB, who fled from court prosecution in Russia and received political asylum in the UK."
2015-01-24,Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo are nearly out of water
2015-01-24,"Russia Denies Ending Nuclear Cooperation With US, Joint Effort To Continue In 2015"
2015-01-23,"Kurds Not Invited to Anti-ISIS Conference in London, Despite Leading the War against the Terrorist Organization"
2015-01-23,King of Saudi Arabia Has Died At 90
2015-01-23,"France admits soldiers have deserted to ISIS, including ex-elite special forces and French foreign legionnaires"
2015-01-23,Priest sentenced to 13 years in prison for pedophilia in Australia
2015-01-23,Americans Offer to Take 100 Lashes Each for Saudi Blogger
2015-01-23,Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi said Thursday that Muslims need to adapt their religious discourse to the present and eliminate elements of their rhetoric that could foster violence.
2015-01-23,"Russia has accused Poland of engaging in a ""mockery of history"" after the Polish foreign minister credited Ukrainian soldiers, rather than the Soviet Red Army, with liberating Auschwitz 70 years ago"
2015-01-23,Obama declines meeting with Netanyahu
2015-01-23,"Australian David Hicks, former Guantanamo Bay detainee who was tortured for five years, is innocent, United States government tells lawyer"
2015-01-23,US officials thank Australia for helping kill 6000 Islamic State fighters including half its commanders
2015-01-23,China is cracking down on VPNs After censorship system Upgrade
2015-01-23,Paris Announces Plan to Promote Secular Values
2015-01-23,"Thousands of protesters have gathered outside Argentina's government palace in Buenos Aires, demanding a full investigation into the death of a prosecutor who was looking into allegations against the country's President."
2015-01-23,Yemeni Government Collapses as President and Prime Minister Resign
2015-01-23,Scientists move doomsday clock closer to midnight
2015-01-23,France sees as many anti-Muslim acts in Jan as all of 2014
2015-01-23,"Portugal, which expelled Jews in 1536, are offering descendants of the local Sephardi community the right of return"
2015-01-23,Edward Snowden: Frances 'Intrusive' Surveillance Laws Failed to Stop Paris Attacks
2015-01-23,Japan pledges $100m to rebuild Gaza.
2015-01-23,Peshmerga forces captured several villages around Mosul from ISIS and shelled the city center for the first time
2015-01-23,NATO says detects signs of increased Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine
2015-01-23,"Doomsday clock reaches 3 minutes to midnight. Only other instances of it getting this far were 1984 during the peak of the Coldwar, and 1949 when the Soviet Union tested it's first atomic bomb."
2015-01-23,"U.S. officials say 6,000 ISIS fighters killed in battles"
2015-01-23,Russian Artists Ask Medvedev to Allow Swearing in Films Again
2015-01-23,"CNN: No truce with Ukraine, rebel leader says"
2015-01-22,ISIS Suffers Heaviest Defeat in Iraq in a Single Day
2015-01-22,"Separatists have taken over Donetsk Airport, killing dozens of Ukrainian troops. Such a loss would mark Ukraines most significant and bloodiest tragedy since the battle for Illovaisk in August 2014, in which hundreds of Ukrainian troops were killed."
2015-01-22,"Statue of Irish sea god Manannn Mac Lir stolen in Derry, Northern Ireland. Wooden cross and a note saying 'You shall have no other gods before me' left in its place"
2015-01-22,Meth-filled drone crashes in Mexican border town
2015-01-22,Secret negotiations were held to reach a deal in which Argentina would receive oil form Iran in exchange for shielding Iranian officials from charges that they orchestrated the bombing of a Jewish community center. Lead prosecutor found dead Sunday.
2015-01-22,Swedish envoy to Turkey: Criticizing ISIL does not equal Islamophobia
2015-01-22,Lawyers ask Prince Andrew to respond under oath about claims of sex with 17-year-old girl | Lawyers acting for the woman who alleges she was forced by a billionaire financier to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was 17 are formally requesting that he respond to her accusations under oath.
2015-01-22,Were running out of chocolate. Dry weather in West Africa and a nasty fungal disease have wiped out between 30 percent and 40 percent of global cocoa production. The gap between supply and demand is set to reach 1 million metric tons by 2020.
2015-01-22,"Italian Police Discover ""Biggest Ever"" Antiquity Collection - It's the biggest recovery in history, in terms of the quality & quantity. In fact, the size of the recovery is almost unprecedented."
2015-01-22,British Soldier accused of Raping 6 year old girl
2015-01-22,Group finds that punishments in U.S. ally Saudi Arabia nearly identical to those prescribed by U.S. enemy ISIS
2015-01-22,Norway: Doctors defy new circumcision law
2015-01-22,"Chinese President Xi Jinping gives government officials pay raise, his own pay rising 62%"
2015-01-22,"A network of anti-ISIS ""commando cells"" has carried out hundreds of guerrilla attacks in Mosul, a city seized by the Islamist militants, Iraq's vice president told NBC News."
2015-01-22,Oil export losses to reach $300 billion in Middle East
2015-01-22,White House Criticizes Netanyahu for Visiting Without Obama Invite
2015-01-22,Hamas calls on Hezbollah to unite fight against Israel
2015-01-22,"43 of 50 of this year's ""most dangerous cities in the world"" in Latin America, 19 in Brazil"
2015-01-22,UN: Nearly 100 Drug Users Died in Crimea After Russia Closed Methadone Program
2015-01-22,Ten Israeli tourists wounded in hours-long anti-Semitic attack in Argentina
2015-01-22,"Kim Dotcom releases Skype competitor MegaChat, but EU official backs plan to make firms hand over encryption keys"
2015-01-22,Former Miss Turkey arrested for criticizing President Erdogan online
2015-01-22,"ISIS gaining ground in Yemen, competing with al Qaeda"
2015-01-22,For five years Greece has been like a patient slowly bleeding
2015-01-22,"Dead Dogs Found Across Russia After Pup-Poisoning Campaign: After animal rights activists sounded the alarm over what was expected to be a nationwide campaign by ""dog hunters"" to poison stray dogs, reports have flooded in of dead dogs turning up in various cities"
2015-01-21,Ebola has killed off a third of the world's gorillas and chimpanzees
2015-01-21,"FIFA generated more than $4 billion in sales from the 2014 World Cup, and is Giving Brazil $100 Million After The Country Spent $15 Billion On The World Cup"
2015-01-21,Paris mayor: We intend to sue Fox News
2015-01-21,Punjab province of Pakistan bans any glorification of terrorists
2015-01-21,"Russia hits back at Obama over SOTU speech ""at the centre of the (U.S.) philosophy is only one thing: 'We are number one and everyone else has to recognise that' ... It shows that the U.S. wants all the same to dominate the world and not merely be first among equals."" Lavrov told a news conference"
2015-01-21,Documents show Islamic State & Saudi Arabia prescribe near-identical punishments for crimes
2015-01-21,Cuba Wants Off U.S. Terrorism List Before Restoring Normal Ties
2015-01-21,ISIS executing 'educated women' in new wave of horror says U.N.
2015-01-21,Irish Same-sex Marriage Referendum wording agreed by Cabinet: Marriage may be contracted in accordance with law by two persons without distinction as to their sex
2015-01-21,Several stabbed in Tel Aviv attack
2015-01-21,Ukraine forces come under attack from Russian troops: Kiev military
2015-01-21,"Founder of German anti-Islamization movement Pegida under fire over alleged posing as Adolf Hitler, describing immigrants as cattle and garbage, posting KKK picture along with quote Three Ks A Day Keeps Minorities Away"
2015-01-21,Isis flags seen at anti-Charlie Hebdo protest outside French Cultural Centre in Gaza Strip
2015-01-21,C.I.A. Report Found Value of Brutal Interrogation Was Inflated
2015-01-21,Israel ignoring deaths of Thai workers on farms- Human Rights Watch calls on Israel to enforce labour laws after Thai workers tell of 17-hour days and being treated like slaves
2015-01-21,Russia says Soldier who killed Armenian family will face trial in Armenia
2015-01-21,"If you fire on Canadian forces, they will fire back, Defence Minister says"
2015-01-21,35 economists urge cancellation of Greek debt and end of austerity program
2015-01-21,Japan won't give in to demands for hostages.
2015-01-21,Mystery radio signal picked up from beyond our galaxy: The Australian Parkes radiotelescope has given astronomers their only real-time view so far of the unexplained phenomenon known as the Fast Radio Burst
2015-01-21,Hamas: Tel Aviv stabbing attack 'heroic act'
2015-01-21,"Putin Says Russia Must Strengthen Army to Defend Itself: Putin's comments reinforced his commitment to an expensive program to modernize the Armed Forces, which the Finance Ministry has signaled will be excluded from any budget cuts forced on the government by a growing economic crisis"
2015-01-21,Ancient Scrolls Blackened by Vesuvius Are Readable at Last
2015-01-21,First Patient in world fitted with Artificial Pancreas
2015-01-21,NASA Spacecraft Closing In on Dwarf Planets Pluto and Ceres
2015-01-20,"Good News. Tiger Numbers in India up From 1,400 to 2,226 in 7 Years"
2015-01-20,Iranian newspaper shut down for showing solidarity with Charlie Hebdo
2015-01-20,Pope says birth control ban doesn't mean breed 'like rabbits'
2015-01-20,Kenya police tear-gas school kids protesting the removal of playground
2015-01-20,Hundreds of anonymous Wikipedia edits made every month by a UK Government computer
2015-01-20,Japanese government attempts to censor US textbooks that mention the Imperial Japanese Army's practice of keeping sex slaves
2015-01-20,Presidential Palace in Yemen is under heavy fire
2015-01-20,"Canadian soldiers have fired on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, in what is thought to be the first confirmed ground battle involving Western forces."
2015-01-20,No gunpowder traces found on Argentine prosecutor Nismans hands
2015-01-20,Pakistani minister holds Saudi Arabian gov't responsible for destabilizing Muslim world through distribution of money for promoting it's Wahhabi ideology
2015-01-20,"Isis executions: Terror group throws 'gay' men off tower, stones woman accused of adultery and crucifies 17 young men"
2015-01-20,"British intelligence intercepted emails from The New York Times, Reuters, BBC, and others"
2015-01-20,"Five Russian nationals of Chechen origin have been arrested in France on suspicion of planning an attack, a French prosecutor revealed on Tuesday"
2015-01-20,IS Hangs 13 Youths in Mosul For Watching Soccer Game
2015-01-20,Israel to allow sex change on ID cards without surgery
2015-01-20,US diplomats prepare for first high-level visit to Cuba in 35 years | World news
2015-01-20,Snowden refuses to use iPhone for security reasons
2015-01-20,Australia trying to opt out of protecting 5 shark species - Wants out of commitment to work with other countries to ensure the 5 do not become extinct. Govt says it already has protections. 'Humane Society Int'l' calls move unprecedented act of domestic & international environmental vandalism.
2015-01-20,The Russian Government is reportedly planning to supply modern and sophisticated weaponry to the Cameroonian Army to help it to better fight the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram.
2015-01-20,"Japan says jets scrambling at record pace to counter Chinese, Russian intrusions"
2015-01-20,New E.U. law lets nations ban gene-modified crops.
2015-01-20,"Iran sees no OPEC shift toward a cut, says oil industry could withstand $25 crude"
2015-01-20,AirAsia flight QZ8501 climbed 6000ft per minute before stalling: Indonesian Transport Minister
2015-01-20,"Russia outlaws films that 'threaten national unity' or 'defile culture': defiling the national culture, posing a threat to national unity and undermining the foundations of the constitutional order will not be allowed to be screened in cinemas"
2015-01-20,PEGIDA vows more anti-Islam rallies
2015-01-19,Argentine prosecutor Nisman who accused Pres. Kirchner of coverup in AMIA bombing probe found dead in his apartment
2015-01-19,"Half global wealth held by 1%: Billionaires and politicians gathering in Switzerland this week will come under pressure to tackle rising inequality after a study found that  on current trends  by next year, 1% of the worlds population will own more wealth than the other 99%."
2015-01-19,Man who filmed execution in Saudi Arabia is arrested under the countrys law against cybercrimes
2015-01-19,Pope Francis at a loss for words as street child asks: 'Why does God allow children to suffer?'
2015-01-19,"40% of British families too poor to play a part in society :8 million lacking required income level, says charity, as rising figure reflects cost of living and benefit cuts"
2015-01-19,"Corporate wolves will exploit TTIP trade deal, MPs warned :Commons debate told that Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership risks giving too much power to big US corporations"
2015-01-19,"'6 Iranians, including general, killed in Israeli strike'"
2015-01-19,"The Dutch opposition Christian Democratic Party (CDA) announced that it has confidential documents proving that Turkey had sent weapons to al-Qaeda militants in Syria and that it conveyed the documents to the Dutch government, according to a BBC Turkish report published on Sunday."
2015-01-19,"Charlie Hebdo editor Gerard Biard says faith should stay out of politics -- ""If God becomes entangled in politics, then democracy is in danger"""
2015-01-19,"Revealed: 1000s of Britons on benefits across EU - Over 4 times as many Britons obtain unemployment benefits in Germany as Germans do in the UK, while number of jobless Britons with benefits in Ireland exceeds their Irish counterparts in the UK by 5 to 1."
2015-01-19,EU appeals removal of Hamas from terror list - The EU will appeal a court decision ordering the removal of the Palestinian group Hamas from EU terrorism black list.
2015-01-19,Sources: 5 members of Hezbollah including son of Imad Mughniyeh killed in Israeli strike in Syria
2015-01-19,Battles rage in eastern Ukraine
2015-01-19,Zim to grab more land from remaining whites - Robert Mugabes VP
2015-01-19,"N.S.A. Tapped Into North Korean Networks Before Sony Attack, Officials Say"
2015-01-19,Papal Text Says Man Betrays God by Destroying the Environment
2015-01-19,Hundreds of thousands protest in Chechnya against Mohammad cartoons
2015-01-19,China calls Snowden's stealth jet hack accusations 'groundless'
2015-01-19,"Anti-Charlie Hebdo Rally Draws 5,000 in Pakistan"
2015-01-19,Children as young as four are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in Scotland and health experts admit they are struggling to deal with this tragic side effect of the countrys obesity crisis
2015-01-19,Ukraine Claim 700 Russian Troops Cross Border to Help Rebels
2015-01-19,Green party outlines plan for basic citizens income for all adults
2015-01-19,GCHQ intercepted emails of journalists from top international media
2015-01-19,Imams 'Must Do More' To Root Out Radicals
2015-01-19,U.S.-built Ebola treatment centers in Liberia are nearly empty as outbreak fades
2015-01-18,John McAfee: 'I know who hacked Sony Pictures - and it wasn't North Korea'
2015-01-18,Seven Christian Churches Up in Flames Amid Niger Charlie Hebdo Violence
2015-01-18,Israel lobbies foreign powers to cut ICC funding: Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories
2015-01-18,ISIS cell Busted in Israel
2015-01-18,"A team of scientists, in a new analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them."
2015-01-18,PEGIDA Cancels Anti-Islam Rally in Germany Over Death Threat From IS
2015-01-18,French flags torched as Charlie Hebdo protests erupt from Algiers to Zinder
2015-01-18,"David Cameron disagrees with Pope Francis on responding with violence - PM responds to comments on provoking others by insulting faith, saying in free society there is right to cause offence"
2015-01-18,CNN's Jim Clancy Steps Down After Anti-Israel Rant...He then accused a number of Twitter accounts as being part of a public relations campaign for Israel.
2015-01-18,Ukrainian troops have retaken most of the territory of Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine after launching a mass operation overnight to Sunday and wresting control of it from pro-Russian separatists
2015-01-18,New Snowden Docs Indicate Scope of NSA Preparations for Cyber Battle
2015-01-18,"6 people executed in Indonesia for drug trafficking, including 1 Brazilian. Brazilian President ""outraged"" and says ""Relations between the two countries have been affected""."
2015-01-18,ISIS frees over 200 Yazidi captives
2015-01-18,"Almost half of those in France believe cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed  like those printed by satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo  should not be published, a poll said Sunday, with a similar number in favour of limitations on free speech"
2015-01-18,Germany and Sweden to Send Troops and Increase Aid to Kurds Battling ISIS
2015-01-18,Prominent N. Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk admits parts of story are inaccurate
2015-01-18,"Beijing's Toxic Smog Measures ""Beyond Index"" Levels"
2015-01-18,Lebanese report: Israeli helicopters fired rockets at Syrian village of Quneitra
2015-01-18,Rio's Olympic waters blighted by heavy pollution
2015-01-18,Turkey Threatens to Block Social Media Over Released Documents Regarding a military police raid on Turkish Intelligence Agency trucks that were traveling to Syria. Turkish Officials deny trucks contained military aid for Bashar al-Assad and Al Qaeda
2015-01-18,Bulgaria says it will start talks to join the euro
2015-01-18,Moroccan authorities have arrested eight people suspected of recruiting fighters for the ISIS
2015-01-18,Syria: Isis crucifixion frenzy in revenge for wave of assassinations
2015-01-18,Thailand to Recognise 'Third Gender' in New Constitution
2015-01-18,Self-proclaimed 'ISIS chief of staff in Palestine' arrested
2015-01-17,"Patriot Act Idea Rises in France, and Is Ridiculed"
2015-01-17,"Under Bush presidency, C.I.A. provided Iran with nuclear schematics that were intentionally flawed. It is believed that the Iranians quickly discovered the flaws and worked around them."
2015-01-17,Turkish military says Turkey's national intelligence service (MIT) shipped weapons to al-Qaeda
2015-01-17,"Draft of new Thailand constitution offers protections for gay, transgender people"
2015-01-17,"Pope, in Philippines, says same-sex marriage threatens family"
2015-01-17,At Least Two More Planets May Exist Beyond Pluto (new study suggests)
2015-01-17,Fat 8bn bonus for Goldman Sachs bankers who helped create world financial crisis
2015-01-17,Saudi King steps in and delays second round of 50 lashes on health grounds amid the flogging clamour of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi
2015-01-17,A senior Russian diplomat says far more than 800 Russians are fighting alongside ISIS.
2015-01-17,"Halfway through the rainy season, the key reservoir for the hemisphere's largest city holds just 6 percent of its capacity, and experts warned Friday that Sao Paulo authorities must take urgent steps to prevent the worst drought in more than 80 years from drying it out"
2015-01-17,Turkish anchorwoman faces 5 years in jail for tweet
2015-01-17,Tens of thousands rally in Chad to back army move against Boko Haram
2015-01-17,Protesters burn French flag at anti-cartoon rally on Temple Mount
2015-01-17,"The entire Muslim population of Italy has been ""closely monitored"" while some 2,000 Muslims have been ""aggressively monitored"", according to WikiLeaks cables dated from 2005 and classified by the then-US Ambassador to Italy Ronald Spogli."
2015-01-17,$1 Billion Rocket Engine Deal Cements Russia's Place in U.S. Space Industry
2015-01-17,"Pope, on visit to Philippines, defends catholic ban on contraception"
2015-01-17,"The Drug Enforcement Administration has formally acknowledged that it maintained a sweeping database of phone calls made from the United States to multiple foreign countries. The program has since been discontinued, the Justice Department said Friday."
2015-01-17,"India builds solar plants atop canals to save land, water"
2015-01-17,Gunmen seize Yemen president's chief of staff.
2015-01-17,Belgium troops deploy to patrol streets
2015-01-17,French Cultural Center In Niger Set On Fire By Muslims Protesting Charlie Hebdo Mohammed Cartoons
2015-01-17,"Turkish police: 3,000 in Turkey linked to ISIL group"
2015-01-17,Isis has released photographs that show the final moments before a man is thrown from the roof of a building for being gay.
2015-01-17,"Boko Haram survivor told not to search for children, 'we killed them'"
2015-01-17,"Terror plan was to kill Belgian police on the streets, in stations, prosecutor says"
2015-01-16,Saudi Arabia publicly beheads a woman in Mecca
2015-01-16,Boko Haram Appears to Be Using Abducted Girls as Suicide Bombers
2015-01-16,"Imam says ""As it is clear that the cartoons are to be published again, Muslims will be hurt and angered, but our reaction must be a reflection of the teachings of the one we love & are angered for. Enduring patience, tolerance, gentleness and mercy was the character of our beloved Prophet."""
2015-01-16,Three deaths in Anti-Terror Raid in Belgium
2015-01-16,Guantanamo guard: CIA killed prisoners and made it look like suicide
2015-01-16,BPs maximum fine for Gulf of Mexico oil spill is cut by billions
2015-01-16,Woolly mammoth cloning attempt revives ethical debate
2015-01-16,"Protests flare in Armenia after family massacred: ""Hundreds of Armenians took to the streets on Wednesday and Thursday, demanding that a Russian soldier who confessed to killing six members of an Armenian family be turned over to the Armenian authorities"""
2015-01-16,"Top Russian Official 'Ashamed' Of Culture Crackdown, Quits Ministry"
2015-01-16,Scientists: Human activity has pushed Earth beyond four of nine planetary boundaries
2015-01-16,Items lost in the Stone Age are found in melting glaciers
2015-01-16,Lost Beagle2 probe found on Mars
2015-01-16,"Middle East is most violent area in the world for Christians, report says"
2015-01-16,"On Thursday, a local source in Nineveh province said, that the A-10 Warthog aircraft which belongs to the U.S. Air Force has carried out four air strikes that killed and wounded dozens of ISIS elements, adding that the aircraft sparked panic in the ranks of ISIS."
2015-01-16,Charlie Hebdo: Pakistani legislators chant 'death to blasphemers'
2015-01-16,"Rate of environmental degradation puts life on Earth at risk, say scientists :Humans are eating away at our own life support systems at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years, two new research papers say"
2015-01-16,Israel says Swedish foreign minister not welcome
2015-01-16,David Cameron seeks cooperation of US president over encryption crackdown | The Guardian
2015-01-16,"Tanzania has banned witch doctors after dozens of albinos were murdered for their body parts, which witch doctors believe bring good luck and wealth."
2015-01-16,Waiting in line for basic goods now a profession in Venezuela
2015-01-16,"Russia could soon run multiple Ukraine-sized operations. U.S. general: ""Certainly within the next four to five years they will have the ability to conduct operations in eastern Ukraine and pressure the Baltics and pressure Georgia and do other things, without having to do a full mobilization"""
2015-01-16,"Six Ukrainian soldiers killed, fighting rages at airport in Donetsk"
2015-01-16,Belgian government 'okays' deployment of army in cities because of terror threat.
2015-01-16,"Cuba opens up more to US travellers, trade starting tomorrow"
2015-01-16,"There is no chance that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be invited to the next meeting of G7 leaders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will host the summit, was quoted as saying on Thursday"
2015-01-15,Saudi man sentenced 10 years jail and weekly public canings for 5 months. He is guilty of setting up a public online forum for debate and discussion.
2015-01-15,Children caged to keep the streets clean for the Pope: Police round up orphans and chain them in filth during pontiff's visit to Philippines
2015-01-15,"Paris shootings: 200,000 sign petition for Muslim hero who hid hostages to get French citizenship and prestigious Legion d'honneur"
2015-01-15,Indonesia to revoke passports of citizens who join ISIS
2015-01-15,"A Malian described as a ""hero"" after he helped hostages at a Jewish supermarket to hide during last week's Paris attacks will be awarded French nationality Tuesday, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said."
2015-01-15,Swiss franc jumps by 30% against Euro as the SNB (Swiss National Bank) scraps the exchange rate limit of 1.20
2015-01-15,France sends aircraft carrier to battle IS
2015-01-15,Saudi Arabia Is Building A 600-Mile 'Great Wall' To Shield Itself From ISIS
2015-01-15,"Data Privacy should be a human right, says EU:Electronic communications should be more secure in Europe, not less, according to a report from the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA)."
2015-01-15,Baghdadi Executes 56 ISIL Members after Their Defeat in Southern Erbil by Kurds
2015-01-15,Gay italian cook forced to go with prostitute to prove heterosexuality or lose job
2015-01-15,Charlie Hebdo Writer Holds Up Muhammed Cover on Sky News; Network Cuts Away and Apologizes
2015-01-15,Hamas: New Charlie Hedbo cover is Zionist lobby plot
2015-01-15,Indian ruling party supports decriminalization of homosexuality
2015-01-15,"#JeSuisCharlie creator: Phrase cannot be a trademark - Millions have declared ""Je Suis Charlie"" on social media - but now over 50 people have tried to trademark the image in France alone, and the creator of the campaign is angry."
2015-01-15,Solar at grid parity in most of world by 2017. Collapse in the oil price will do little to slow down the solar juggernaut.
2015-01-15,International Space Station crew evacuated to Russian segment amid ammonia leak fears
2015-01-15,Paris motorist deliberately runs down policewoman outside presidential residence
2015-01-15,Muslims in Philippines march against Charlie Hebdo
2015-01-15,"Charlie Hebdo sells out, already on eBay for $117K"
2015-01-15,"Target Canada to close all stores, files for creditor protection."
2015-01-15,"Nasrallah: Hezbollah prepared for war deep into Israel, beyond the Galilee"
2015-01-15,Carlos Slim (Mexican billionaire) becomes top New York Times shareholder
2015-01-15,Ottawa Mosque concerned by sharp rise in young men converting to Islam
2015-01-15,Nigeria: Satellite images show horrific scale of Boko Haram attack on Baga
2015-01-14,Cameroon Army Kills 143 Boko Haram Fighters
2015-01-14,Air France hands out copies of Charlie Hebdo on flights
2015-01-14,Turkish president accuses 'the West' of being behind Charlie Hebdo attacks and deliberately 'blaming Muslims'
2015-01-14,French comedian Dieudonn arrested as apologist for terrorism after Facebook post
2015-01-14,"Turkeys main opposition party, CHP, has called on Islamic countries to adopt secularism in order to end the roots of terrorism, denouncing last weeks deadly Paris attacks and stressing that killing innocent people has nothing to do with Islam."
2015-01-14,Riding on the coattails of accusations that the international community has ignored African woes comes afriLeaks - a whistleblowing website dedicated to exposing corruption and abuses of power across Africa.
2015-01-14,"Internet an instrument for masses, so net neutrality is key: Indian telecom minister"
2015-01-14,"I am a Marxist, Dalai Lama says"
2015-01-14,Twitter and Facebook face closure in Turkey after anonymous accounts published documents revealing illegal arms shipments by Turkish spy agency to opposition groups in Syria
2015-01-14,"""Russia will not cut itself off from the world because any return to the past would be a 'monstrous mistake', Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday [14 January 2015]."""
2015-01-14,New ISIS video appears to show child executing Russian agents
2015-01-14,Turkish police raids daily newspaper Cumhuriyet to search and destroy possible Mohammed cartoons
2015-01-14,North Koreans walk across frozen river to China to commit murder
2015-01-14,Charlie Hebdo print run raised to 5m as copies in France sell out
2015-01-14,3 Poachers Killed by Forest Guards in India's Kaziranga National Park
2015-01-14,Peshmerga Kill Six Islamic State Leaders in 48 Hours
2015-01-14,"Mass Animal Die-Offs on Rise, Killing Billions & Raising Questions - Huge die-offs, with disease outbreaks & other stressors, happening more often. Mass die-offs are individual-events that kill at least a billion animals, wipe out over 90% of a population, or destroy 700m tons worth of animals."
2015-01-14,"Charlie Hebdo Muhammad cover goes global despite Muslim ire--Egypt's Islamic authority denounced the Charlie Hebdo cover: ""This action is an unjustified provocation against the feelings of 1.5 billion Muslims."""
2015-01-14,Mosques fire bombed and pelted with pig heads in aftermath of Paris terror attacks
2015-01-14,Oil prices below $50 per barrel will cost Russian budget $46 billion in 2015
2015-01-14,"A double agent reportedly stole a list which contained both the real and undercover names of 3,500 German intelligence employees. The Spy arrested last July on suspicions of working for the CIA. The stolen document could jeopardize more than half of some 6,500 agents of BND."
2015-01-14,Russian Troops Stationed Near Finnish Border as Putin Begins Move on Arctic
2015-01-14,Kim Jong-un Snubs China and Accepts Putins Invite to Moscow
2015-01-14,Belgian arms dealer confesses to supplying Paris attackers
2015-01-14,Fossil found by P.E.I. boy fills gap in reptile evolution
2015-01-13,China has just banned the burqa in its biggest Muslim city
2015-01-13,US and EU politicians use Charlie Hebdo attack to call for more Internet surveillance -- Fusion
2015-01-13,"Muslim Mayor of Rotterdam Tells Islamists To ""F*** Off"" On Live Television"
2015-01-13,This is Charlie Hebdo's first cover since the attack
2015-01-13,Nigeria 'needs same support as France' after Boko Haram attacks kill over 2000: archbishop
2015-01-13,UK may ban WhatsApp and Snapchat under new anti-terror laws
2015-01-13,British prime minister: Fox News security analyst is clearly a complete idiot
2015-01-13,"Lesbians kicked out of Vienna caf for kissing. Student organization starts a ""kiss-in"" campaign with more than 5 000 attending."
2015-01-13,6 Civilians dead as shell hits bus in Ukraine
2015-01-13,"Cameron says there should be no ""means of communication"" we ""cannot read"""
2015-01-13,"Russian Media, Turkish Politicians Suggest U.S., Israeli Involvement in Paris Attacks"
2015-01-13,"US Central Command Twitter, YouTube feeds hacked by ISIS"
2015-01-13,Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Newspaper Edits Female World Leaders Out of Charlie Hebdo March
2015-01-13,"Expensive cancer drugs pushed off England's NHS list - Changes to England's Cancer Drugs Fund mean that from April, new cancer patients will no longer be able to receive a number of expensive treatments that have been available on NHS."
2015-01-13,David Cameron wants to ban end-to-end-encryption for his surveillance plans
2015-01-13,Nick Clegg will today condemn calls for the revival of the so-called snoopers charter following the Paris terror attacks with the warning: We do not make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free.
2015-01-13,German 'anti-Islamization' march in Dresden draws record numbers
2015-01-13,Scientists including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have signed a letter pledging to ensure artificial intelligence research benefits mankind.
2015-01-13,Great Lakes teeming with tiny plastic microfibers - CBC
2015-01-13,Pope Francis blames Paris attacks on deviant forms of religion amid new worries he may be ISIS target
2015-01-13,People Starving in Eastern Ukraine as Humanitarian Crisis Unfolds
2015-01-13,"After attack, owner of Paris kosher market plans move to Israel"
2015-01-13,Anti-Islamist movement surfaces in Switzerland
2015-01-13,Interpol issues global wanted notice for former Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovich
2015-01-13,Number 2 on Al-Qaeda's Most Wanted List Sells French Fries in a Florida Mall Food Court
2015-01-12,"World's largest indoor farm in Japan is 100 times more productive than outdoor fields, uses 99% less water, 40% less power and creates 80% less food waste"
2015-01-12,Egypt student gets 3-year jail term for atheism -- An Egyptian court has sentenced a student to three years in jail for announcing on Facebook that he is an atheist and for insulting Islam
2015-01-12,Saudi prince: $100-a-barrel oil 'never' again.
2015-01-12,"Boko Haram massacre is so big, survivors give up counting bodies"
2015-01-12,Bomb threat at Belgian paper that reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons
2015-01-12,Benjamin Netanyahu ridiculed over appearance at Paris - He attended the Paris march despite Hollande's objection
2015-01-12,"At least one major oil company will turn its back on fossil fuels, says scientist. Oil companies are also realising it is no long morally defensible to ignore the consequences of climate change."
2015-01-12,"Nigeria 'needs same support as France' after Boko Haram attacks -- Archbishop Kaigama was speaking after another bloody weekend for Nigeria in which three female suicide bombers, including one thought to be as young as ten, killed at least 23 people in the restive northeast."
2015-01-12,ISIS Issues Mandatory Conscription for the Men of Syria and Iraq
2015-01-12,Oil hits a new five and a half-year low of $48.59/barrel
2015-01-12,56 people die after drinking poisoned beer in Mozambique
2015-01-12,Turkish imams in Germany to stand guard in front of media buildings in solidarity against terror
2015-01-12,Cuba has freed all 53 prisoners as agreed in U.S. deal
2015-01-12,Unpaid interns charged 300 for a job reference by thinktank
2015-01-12,Anonymous blocks jihadist website in retaliation for Charlie Hebdo attack
2015-01-12,"Burqua ban approved by lawmakers in Muslim Uighur region of Xinjiang last month is set to go into effect; report says ban part of ""effort to curb growing extremism"""
2015-01-12,"Female genital mutilation now being done in hospitals in Africa: Health care providers now perform up to 18 percent of FGM cases and the trend is growing, according to the World Health Organization."
2015-01-12,"Feel free to breastfeed here, pope tells mothers in Sistine Chapel"
2015-01-12,"Marching in Paris, yet blocking freedom of speech at home"
2015-01-12,London landmarks are lit in the colours of the French flag after crowds gather in Trafalgar Square in tribute to those killed in the Paris terror attacks.
2015-01-12,"After deadly Taliban attack that killed 132 children in Peshawar, Pakistan, Army Public School reopens"
2015-01-12,Boko Haram forces 10 year-old's to commit suicide bombings in Nigerian market
2015-01-12,"France to deploy 10,000 troops"
2015-01-12,Iran eclipses US as Iraq's ally in fight against militants
2015-01-12,There is a lava flow in Iceland the size of Manhattan
2015-01-11,Arson attack at German newspaper that printed Charlie Hebdo cartoons
2015-01-11,Huge crowds and some 40 world leaders have gathered in Paris for a unity march
2015-01-11,Teen in shock after being falsely accused of being the 3rd gunman in Charlie Hedbo incident.
2015-01-11,The Muslim Clerk At The Paris Kosher Store Risked His Life To Save Jewish Shoppers
2015-01-11,Islamic scholar threatens Irish publications with legal action if they publish offending cartoon
2015-01-11,Suicide bombing by 10-year-old girl in Nigeria kills 19 people
2015-01-11,"AirAsia QZ8501 black box found, say Indonesia authorities"
2015-01-11,"Cuba Rolls Out Wi-Fi as Censorship Begins to Crumble - Cuba, where Internet access is largely limited to government employees and pricey pay-by-hour public access, will start offering wireless service for 1st time. Anyone wanting a router needs permission from the Communications Ministry."
2015-01-11,Indian state plans 15Mbps broadband for households at a cost of $3 a month.
2015-01-11,15 anti-Muslim attacks reported in France in the last 48 hours
2015-01-11,"Police commissioner, who had been investigating the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine committed suicide with his service gun on Thursday night."
2015-01-11,"An estimated 700,000 took to the streets in cities across France Saturday to hold silent marches in memory of the 17 people who died in several terrorist attacks during one of the most traumatic and emotional weeks for the country in living memory."
2015-01-11,UK asks US for help in search for Russian submarine thought to be lurking off North Atlantic coast
2015-01-11,"Turkish Spy agency planning false-flag terror acts on its own people in crowded areas, whistleblower claims"
2015-01-11,"Flight from NY to London hitches a ride on the jet stream, hits record ground speed of 761 mph (1,217 km/h), arrives an hour and a half early."
2015-01-11,Wife of Al Qaeda recruiter who mentored the Charlie Hebdo murderers is appealing against her own terror conviction on human rights grounds while living on UK benefits
2015-01-11,"French police told to erase social media presence and warned that sleeper cells may have been activated, police source says."
2015-01-11,Suicide attack at Lebanese cafe kills at least seven
2015-01-11,Spain wants to modify Schengen rules to allow border checks
2015-01-11,Biggest Ship in the World Sails Into Britain: capable of holding 900 million tins of beans - The 'Globe's' maiden voyage began in Chinese city of Qingdao Dec 3
2015-01-11,Sierra Leone declares first Ebola-free district
2015-01-11,Jewish group names 4 victims of Paris kosher shop attack
2015-01-11,Islamic State kills 24 Kurds in surprise attack in North Iraq
2015-01-11,Heroic Muslim man saved Jewish hostages during Paris siege by hiding them in freezer
2015-01-11,"Russian credit rating cut to ""BBB minus"" and looks set to tumble back to junk rating, for the first time in a decade."
2015-01-10,"The boss of a hot New York modeling agency supplied Jeffery Epstein with underage girls for an orgy with Prince Andrew, court documents claim."
2015-01-10,Anonymous has announced that it will avenge the attack on Charlie Hebdo by rendering jihadist websites inaccessible.
2015-01-10,Suicide bomber dressed as woman kills 49 Muslims in central Yemen
2015-01-10,Australian newspaper publishes Mohammed cartoon
2015-01-10,"Dublin priest says he is gay during Mass  receives standing ovation -- Calling on his Dublin city congregation to support same sex marriage in the upcoming Irish referendum, set for the end May, Dolan said Im gay myself."
2015-01-10,"US to Ban Foreign Fish Caught by Killing Whales, Dolphins - This ""will force other countries to step up & meet US conservation standards  saving 100s of 1000s of whales & dolphins from dying on hooks & in fishing nets around the world."
2015-01-10,"Nigeria: 2,000 feared killed in Boko Haram's 'deadliest massacre' | Amnesty International calls the killings a disturbing and bloody escalation and a local defence group says its fighters have given up trying to count the bodies"
2015-01-10,"Hundreds in southern Afghanistan rallied to praise the killing of 12 people at the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, calling the two gunmen ""heroes"" who meted out punishment for cartoons disrespectful to Islam's prophet, officials said Saturday."
2015-01-10,Paris Hostage Situation Live Thread
2015-01-10,"French imams rally against Charlie Hebdo killing, call on all Muslims to take part in demonstrations"
2015-01-10,Kurdish Peshmerga Repel Huge ISIS Offensive Lead By Group's Leader Al-Baghdadi
2015-01-10,Germany's Spiegel news magazine: Intelligence suggests that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is building a secret underground plant with the aim of developing nuclear weapons.
2015-01-10,New hostage situation in France - Montpellier jewelry store
2015-01-10,"Charlie Hebdo gunmen's hostage freed and safe after police assault, several hostages at Jewish market freed | News , World"
2015-01-10,Hollande: Paris Attacks Irrelevant to Islam:French President Francois Hollande rejected any links between the perpetrators of the recent terror attacks around the capital Paris with Islam.
2015-01-10,Landmark Paris synagogue closes on Shabbat for first time since World War II
2015-01-10,"3,000 FSA Fighters Defect to ISIS in the Qalamoun Mountains"
2015-01-10,Radical imam Abu Hamza gets life in prison on US terrorism conviction
2015-01-10,"Two headless bodies were found in a village in Egypt's restive North Sinai region on Saturday, police said, the latest in a series of beheadings allegedly carried out by jihadists."
2015-01-10,"Marine Le Pen to Hollande: Suspend visa-free zone, strip terror suspects of French citizenship"
2015-01-10,US gag order on EU police agency stirs controversy
2015-01-10,Russia likely to demand early repayment of Ukraine's $3 billion debt.
2015-01-10,"Over 600 Islamist Fighters Return to EU from Syria, Iraq"
2015-01-10,Syrian Army Kills Over 30 Islamic State Jihadists in Northeastern Syria
2015-01-10,"Hong Kong's richest person, Li Ka-shing, has urged lawmakers to pass controversial reforms that will change how the territory's leader is elected. He said the damage to Hong Kong could be ""immeasurable"" if they were blocked"
2015-01-09,Muslim politician from India who offered $8M to Charlie Hebdo attackers has been booked for inciting violence.
2015-01-09,Russia has listed transsexual and transgender people among those who will no longer qualify for driving licences.
2015-01-09,French government donates $1.2 million to ensure Charlie Hebdo lives on
2015-01-09,Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah: 'The Actions of Takfiri groups like Al Qaeda and The Islamic State offended Prophet Mohammad more than the Charlie Hebdo Cartoons mocking him'
2015-01-09,Charlie Hebdo hunt: Shots fired as police chase car - possible hostages taken
2015-01-09,"Islamic State brags: We did Paris  ""tomorrow will be in Britain, America"""
2015-01-09,"In wake of Charlie Hebdo attacks, secularist groups to seek end of Canadas blasphemy law"
2015-01-09,"Saudi Arabia to flog man 1,000 times for insulting religion on Facebook"
2015-01-09,"Websites of towns near Paris hacked, replaced with ISIS flag"
2015-01-09,Indian Government fires employee who skipped work for 24 years
2015-01-09,Egypt's President Calls For A 'Revolution' In Islam
2015-01-09,The UK is now more religiously diverse than ever but at the same time the number of people with no religion is at an all-time high
2015-01-09,Britain's MI5 chief warns al Qaeda in Syria planning mass attacks on West
2015-01-09,"Top Iranian cleric condemns Paris shooting We strongly condemn the terrorist attack in France and believe that Islam does not allow the killing of innocent people, be it in Paris, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Paksitan or Afghanistan Ayatollah Seyyed Ahmad Khatami said"
2015-01-09,"The US will send its highest-level delegation in decades to Havana later this month, for talks on migration and normalizing relations between the countries after decades of cold war hostility."
2015-01-09,"Israel won't recognize Armenian genocide, says ambassador"
2015-01-09,Bodies littered on the streets after Boko Haram attack on Baga
2015-01-09,North Korea warns of 'war disaster' if US does not lift 'unreasonable sanctions'
2015-01-09,Danish newspaper says won't print Prophet cartoons
2015-01-09,"Boko Haram Kills 100, Destroys 16 Villages In Borno"
2015-01-09,Two Islamist newspapers in Turkey have drawn ire on social media with their headlines that justified the deadly attack on a French satirical newspaper.
2015-01-09,"The head of MI5, Andrew Parker, has called for new powers to help fight Islamist extremism, warning of a dangerous imbalance between increasing numbers of terrorist plots against the UK and a drop in the capabilities of intelligence services to snoop on communications."
2015-01-09,"More Than 1 Million Flee, Ukraine Close to 'Humanitarian Catastrophe'"
2015-01-09,A German nurse has admitted to killing 30 patients while working at a hospital in the German city of Delmenhorst from 2003 to 2005 and is under further investigation for the possible killing of another 60.
2015-01-09,"China: 30 tombs, 28 chariots and 98 horse skeletons dating back 2,800 years found in Hubei"
2015-01-08,"New Charlie Hebdo issue to come out next week: ""It's very hard. We are all suffering, with grief, with fear, but we will do it anyway because stupidity will not win."""
2015-01-08,"Ahmed Merabet, Cop Killed In Paris Attacks, Was Muslim"
2015-01-08,Youngest Suspect in Charlie Hebdo Attack Turns Himself In
2015-01-08,"Grenades thrown at a mosque in Le Mans, west of Paris"
2015-01-08,Danish newspaper to print Charlie Hebdo cartoons on Islam
2015-01-08,Muslim politician from India offers $8M to Charlie Hebdo attackers
2015-01-08,"Vladimir Putin has condemned a deadly terrorist attack in Paris, and confirmed Moscows readiness to continue cooperation with France in battling terrorism. Putin also expressed his condolences to the victims' families and wished the injured a speedy recovery."
2015-01-08,"Turkey is trying to hide any evidence that holds Turkish leaders responsible for the support of terrorist groups, especially the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Turkish media is reporting."
2015-01-08,Danish Paper That Published 12 Muhammad Cartoons Boosts Security
2015-01-08,Two Charlie Hebdo attackers located in north France
2015-01-08,French imam urges Muslims to protest over Paris attack
2015-01-08,Policewoman shot by gunman near Paris dies: police
2015-01-08,"Shooting heard on the outskirts of Paris, 1 officer severely injured"
2015-01-08,"Nobody was reported killed by fighting in Syria on Wednesday, the first day without casualties in three years, after a fierce winter storm quelled violence"
2015-01-08,"Time to crack down on 'Islamophobia', Turkey's Erdogan tells EU"
2015-01-08,Thousands in Europe hold up Pens in Solidarity after terrorist attack
2015-01-08,Journalists race to show solidarity with 'Charlie Hebdo' after terror attack
2015-01-08,Antibiotics: US discovery labelled 'game-changer' for world medicine
2015-01-08,"The Charlie Hebdo attack condemned by Saudi Arabia, Iran, Arab League, and many other Muslim states, as well as by Union of Islamic Organizations of France."
2015-01-08,"Brisbane man wearing ""I'm with stupid"" t-shirt stands with LNP election campaigners, arrested by 10 officers for public nuisance"
2015-01-08,Fourth Russian General Commits Suicide in Less Than a Year: it bears a startling similarity to at least three other recent cases of retired Russian generals committing suicide last year
2015-01-08,"Meteorite turns night into day over Bucharest, Romania"
2015-01-08,Israeli doctors implant Syrian man with titanium jaw in pioneering procedure.
2015-01-08,"Unusual Metal Recovered from Ancient Greek Shipwreck39 ingots found in 2,600-yr-old wreck. Metal is being called orichalcum, a legendary metal philosopher Plato attributed to Atlantis. Nothing similar has ever been found. We knew orichalcum from ancient texts & a few ornamental objects."
2015-01-08,Young mother let terrorists into Charlie Hebdo building after threat against daughter
2015-01-07,'Shots fired' at French magazine HQ
2015-01-07,90% of Bibi Netanyahus Campaign Funds From U.S.
2015-01-07,ISIS behead street magician for entertaining crowds in Syria with his tricks
2015-01-07,Denmark sets new world record in renewable energy production by covering 39% of the country's total electricity consumption in 2014 through wind power.
2015-01-07,"ISIS Closes Schools In Syria, Leaving 670000 Children Without Education: UN"
2015-01-07,The European Union wants Turkey to explain how human traffickers could have taken two cargo ships filled with migrants out of the country and towards the EU without the authorities noticing.
2015-01-07,10 people have died in a shooting at the headquarters of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo
2015-01-07,"Most Earth-like planet ever discovered could be a cosy home for alien life | The planet, named Kepler 438b, is slightly larger than Earth and circles an orange dwarf star that bathes it in 40% more heat than our home planet receives from the sun."
2015-01-07,New questions raised about U.S.-Saudi relationship. The 28 pages. U.S. legislators pushing to know more about alleged Saudi role in 9/11
2015-01-07,Massive hunt underway for gunmen in Paris terror attack
2015-01-07,2014 Was Officially the Hottest Year on Record. And all 10 of the hottest years on record have come after 1998
2015-01-07,Chinese authorities have isolated and separated families of Shanghai stampede victims to keep them from organizing; only allow them 5 minutes of mourning at the site and drag them away if they get too emotional
2015-01-07,German anti-Muslim protesters rally despite Merkel plea
2015-01-07,"China encourages environmental groups to sue polluters :Groups that work to fight polluters judicially will gain special status and have court fees reduced, Supreme Peoples Court says"
2015-01-07,United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says Palestine will join international Criminal Court on April 1st.
2015-01-07,"Discovery of witnesss mutilated body feeds claims of state killings in Kenya | The gruesome murder of a man who had been due to testify in the ICC trial of Kenyas deputy president, William Ruto, has fed accusations that the government is orchestrating the killing of witnesses."
2015-01-07,Radical Islam a growing threat to sub-Saharan Christians: report
2015-01-07,"Tony Blair may 'face war crime charges' over Iraq.The delay in the publication of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War has made people believe Tony Blair could face war crimes charges, ministers have been warned."
2015-01-07,Benjamin Netanyahu says settlements unlikely to be dismantled if he's elected again as Israel 's PM
2015-01-07,Tasmania moves to allow corporations to sue protesters for defamation
2015-01-07,Indonesia search chief: Tail section of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 found - Flight recorders inside Tail section
2015-01-07,"North Korean Defector: ""Bureau 121"" Hackers located in Shenyang, China."
2015-01-07,Female suicide bomber attacks police station in Istanbul.
2015-01-07,"IS to turn Syria schools into religious indoctrination centers | Over 670,000 children have been deprived of education after the Islamic State ordered schools to be closed. Schools will be reopened only after the curriculum is Islamicized, with religion replacing standard subjects."
2015-01-07,Ebola vaccine trials in Halifax so far a success
2015-01-06,US oil falls below $50 a barrel
2015-01-06,"Toyota gives away 5,680 fuel cell patents to build 'game-changing' car of the future"
2015-01-06,Young Indian couple who had been granted police protection because relatives did not approve are hacked to death when officers refused to carry out judges orders
2015-01-06,"A senior figure in Islamic States self-declared police force in Syria, which has carried out beheadings, was himself found decapitated in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor"
2015-01-06,Fukushima rice passes radiation tests for 1st time since disaster
2015-01-06,"Nearly all Spanish parties guilty of financial crimes, Audit Court finds"
2015-01-06,King Abdullah to abdicate Saudi Throne
2015-01-06,Taliban Commander Caught Networking On LinkedIn
2015-01-06,Mexican missing students: mayor's wife charged with organized crime and money laundering
2015-01-06,"New York Times reporter James Risen refused on Monday to answer all but a few basic questions in court about his book detailing a failed CIA effort to undermine Iran's nuclear weapons program, in a case that has become a flashpoint for press freedom."
2015-01-06,S. Korea sends sweet potatoes to N. Korea for nutritional aid
2015-01-06,Turkey: Dutch journalist Frederike Geerdink detained on 'terrorism propaganda' charges
2015-01-06,"KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 4  Islam prohibits its married men from being the homemaker in the family, the governments Malaysian Institute of Islamic Understanding (Ikim) has said"
2015-01-06,"Iraqi MP:'Iran and their Top General, Qassem Suleimani, saved Baghdad from falling to IS'"
2015-01-06,"Pakistan offers $100,000 bounty for Taliban leader"
2015-01-06,Thousands of Indians have fled from their homes as fighting between India and Pakistan spread along a 200-km (124 mile) stretch of the border in the disputed region of Kashmir.
2015-01-06,Turkey sacks judges who oversaw Erdogan corruption probe--accused of abusing their authority
2015-01-06,SpaceX Falcon 9 launch and recovery has been aborted. Next launch window could be as early as Friday.
2015-01-06,CNN: Americans charged in botched Gambia coup
2015-01-06,Islamic State 'Police' Official Beheaded.
2015-01-06,Libya bans Palestinians from country to prevent entry of terrorists
2015-01-06,"A judicial inquiry was opened in France on Monday into how inmates at one of the countrys most notorious prisons were able to take photos of themselves posing with drugs, money and other contraband and upload them onto Facebook"
2015-01-06,Video has captured the moment a cameraman was hurled backwards as he filmed an exploding fireworks factory in a small town in Colombia.
2015-01-06,"Syria has complained to the United Nations that U.S. Republican Senator John McCain, former French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and former U.S. diplomat Peter Galbraith entered the country without visas in violation of its sovereignty."
2015-01-06,"Tests over, India set to make the iris of biggest telescope ever"
2015-01-05,"Moscow->Beijing high speed train will reduce trip time to 48 hours, from the current 7 days"
2015-01-05,"Two ancient tombs were discovered in Egypt on Sunday, with one representing a symbolic burial site of the god Osiris while another is claimed to be a previously unknown pharaonic tomb."
2015-01-05,China complains to Pyongyang after N Korean soldier kills villagers | World news
2015-01-05,"Scotland Headed Towards Being Fossil Fuel-Free by 2030 - Renewable energy projects combined with energy savings could decarbonise the countrys power sector. ""We need to see the phasing out of conventional generation in Scotland."""
2015-01-05,Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday he will express remorse for Japans actions in World War II while highlighting the countrys bid to contribute more actively to world peace in his statement marking the 70th anniversary of the wars end in August.
2015-01-05,Sex slave at centre of Prince Andrew scandal fled to Australia as a teen
2015-01-05,"Gay relative of Hamas founder faces deportation from Canada: Christian convert, 24, whose five uncles were jailed in Israel for terror activity, says hell be killed if forced to return to West Bank"
2015-01-05,"The number of female drug addicts in Iran has almost doubled since 2007, with more than 50% starting between the ages of 15 and 19"
2015-01-05,"After Decades of Searching, the Causeway for the Great Pyramid of Egypt has been Found"
2015-01-05,India lost 64 tigers in 2014
2015-01-05,"Lizard Squad hacking of Sony was ""huge marketing"" scheme to launch ""Lizard Stresser"", a paid hacking service."
2015-01-05,Russia 'may face chaos' if extra sanctions imposed: Germany
2015-01-05,The Saudi air and land forces carry out an attack on ISIS within its territory
2015-01-05,ISIL is reportedly setting up a bank in attempt to 'legitimatise' itself as a nation state
2015-01-05,Israel to brand anti-assimilation group Lehava as terrorists
2015-01-05,"The Islamic State has approved a 2015 budget of $2 billion, with an expected surplus of $250 million and has opened an Islamic Bank in Mosul. The budget reportedly includes monthly wages for the poor, disabled and families of individuals killed in airstrikes carried out by US-led coalition forces"
2015-01-05,"Iceland To Withdraw EU Application, Lift Capital Controls"
2015-01-05,"Blackfield Capital Founder Goes Missing: The value of the ruble isn't the only thing that is vanishing in Russia. A Moscow hedge fund chief executive has disappeared, along with all the money in the firm's accounts"
2015-01-05,Rocket stage crashes back to Earth in rural Chinese village.
2015-01-05,2 Dead as Aircraft Bombs Greek Tanker in Libyan Port
2015-01-05,Belgian murderer Frank Van Den Bleeken to die at own request. A Belgian murderer and rapist serving a life sentence is to be allowed to die by lethal injection next Sunday following a ruling under laws in Belgium permitting people to request euthanasia.
2015-01-05,Czech President criticizes Ukrainian PM; says Yatsenyuk is 'prime minister of war'
2015-01-05,3 Vietnamese jets join search for 16 missing Filipinos in Bahamian cargo ship sinking
2015-01-05,France seeks end to Russia sanctions over Ukraine
2015-01-05,China scraps rare earths caps
2015-01-04,AirAsia plane engine dies just before takeoff from Surabaya. 90% of passengers refuse to re-embark plane for takeoff after problem was rectified
2015-01-04,Merkel prepared to let Greece exit eurozone: report
2015-01-04,"Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps thwarted a Mossad assassination attempt against one of its nuclear scientists, a senior Iranian security official said on Saturday."
2015-01-04,Chinese demand for tiger wine and skins puts wild cats in peril
2015-01-04,"France most notorious and internationally best-known novelist Michel Houellebecq insisted Saturday that his new book Submission, which envisions a future France ruled by a Muslim government, is not a far-right racist scare story"
2015-01-04,Taxpayers' bill for policing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's two-year stay in Ecuadorian embassy soars to 9MILLION
2015-01-04,"Ship collision causes 33,000 barrel oil spill off Singapore"
2015-01-04,Jews Leaving Europe For Israel In Record Numbers
2015-01-04,"Following ICC application, Israel freezes Palestinian tax funds"
2015-01-04,Thatcher confidant raped boy and police covered crime up - Telegraph
2015-01-04,"Less than 48 hours after the Coast Guard destroyed a boat it suspected was ferrying explosives and terrorists from Pakistan into Indian waters, new evidence has begun to emerge that those on board might have been liquor and diesel smugglers"
2015-01-04,"French mayor shows mercy after baby Roma girl denied burial spot | A French mayor has granted a burial place to a baby Roma girl, after the family were refused permission in a neighboring town. Staunchly conservative mayor Richard Trinquier said it was a question of humanity."
2015-01-04,Armenia Joins Russia-Led Eurasian Economic Union
2015-01-04,"A New Zealander is Facing Four Years in a Burmese Prison for ""Insulting Buddhism"""
2015-01-04,Boko Haram 'seizes Nigerian army base'
2015-01-04,"Iran says no to new law on hijab, saying it is unconstitutional"
2015-01-04,Israel won't let its soldiers be dragged to ICC
2015-01-04,Islamist militants have abducted 20 Egyptian Christians in Libya in recent days
2015-01-04,Many of Spains small businesses are being wiped out after New Years Day
2015-01-04,Major search after ship overturns off north of Scotland
2015-01-04,Iran must end isolation for economy to boom: Rouhani
2015-01-04,Intelligence agencies have warned that a Delhi-Kabul flight may be hijacked by terrorists. The input is 'quite specific' and also mentions that an Air India flight could be targeted. Indian airports on high alert
2015-01-04,Indian and Pakistani Guards Trade Fire on Disputed Border
2015-01-04,"Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, 90, hospitalised with pneumonia in Riyadh"
2015-01-04,Buckingham Palace 'emphatically denies' Prince Andrew sex claims
2015-01-03,"Two Rhino Poachers Killed at Assam's Kaziranga National Park - An Assam Home Guard, part of the force that guards rhinos at National Parks, was also killed by the poachers."
2015-01-03,Japanese student kidnapped and gang raped for 3 weeks in India
2015-01-03,Israeli settlers stone two cars belonging to US consulate staff
2015-01-03,"The Palestinians submitted documents to the United Nations to join the International Criminal Court on Friday, a high-stakes move that will soon enable them to pursue war-crimes charges against Israel."
2015-01-03,Metal Detector Enthusiast finds one of the biggest hoards of ancient coins in British history.
2015-01-03,"Firefighters in South Australia and Victoria are battling out-of-control bushfires, with warnings today's conditions in the Adelaide Hills are the worst since Ash Wednesday more than 30 years ago."
2015-01-03,People smugglers adopt new ghost ship tactic | People smugglers appear to be adopting more dangerous methods to transport migrants to Europe: abandoning ships loaded with people after setting them on a collision course for the coast.
2015-01-03,Record number of rhino killed in Africa. It is estimated than nearly 4 times more rhinos were slain for their horns in 2014 than in 2010.
2015-01-03,Argentina's highest court has approved the extradition of a former FEMA spokesman who claims the U.S. government helped frame him for murder because a video he took of Ground Zero after the 2001 terrorist attacks proves U.S. complicity
2015-01-03,An investigation into the disappearance of half a billion dollar's worth of bitcoins from the Tokyo-based exchange MtGox has found that 99% of the funds were stolen by someone within the firm.
2015-01-03,White House sanctions North Korea over Sony hack
2015-01-03,Evidence of What Killed off the Mayan Civilization thought to be present in the Blue Hole
2015-01-03,Archaeologists discover enormous ancient reproduction of the mythical Tomb of Osiris in Egypt.
2015-01-03,"Norse Corp, cybersecurity firm, cites specific evidence of insider job surrounding Sony hack."
2015-01-03,Judge hushes up Erdoans link to al-Qadi in hearing into bugging case
2015-01-03,"AirAsia flight QZ8501: airline was not allowed to fly route, says Indonesia"
2015-01-03,Swedish Mosque Plastered With Hearts In Show Of Solidarity With Muslim Community After Attack
2015-01-03,"More than 17,000 civilians killed in Iraq in 2014"
2015-01-03,"After more than a decade of development, China's first homegrown airliner has finally earned approval from the country's government to carry passengers."
2015-01-03,Motherhood not a career for men: Turkish health minister
2015-01-03,Egypt border guards shoot Gaza man dead
2015-01-03,Opponent of Nicaragua canal says he was badly beaten by police
2015-01-03,Bishop Calls On Catholic Church To Recognize Same-Sex Relationships
2015-01-03,Ukraine Nationalists March in Kiev to Honor Bandera
2015-01-03,Canadian ISPs and VPNs Now Have to Alert Pirating Customers
2015-01-02,"Most cases of cancer are the result of sheer bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles, diet or even inherited genes, new research suggests. Random mutations that occur in DNA when cells divide are responsible for two thirds of adult cancers across a wide range of tissues."
2015-01-02,"Iran dismissed United States efforts to fight Islamic State as a ploy to advance U.S. policies in the region: ""The reality is that the United States is not acting to eliminate Daesh. They are not even interested in weakening Daesh, they are only interested in managing it"""
2015-01-02,Poll: One in 8 Germans would join anti-Muslim marches
2015-01-02,UK royal family's Prince Andrew named in US lawsuit over underage sex allegations
2015-01-02,"Some 40 asylum-seekers refused to leave the bus when they arrived at their destination in rural northern Sweden, demanding that they be taken back to Malm or ""some big city""."
2015-01-02,"Pakistani boat blows self up after India navy chase. All four people on board the vessel from near the Pakistani port city of Karachi are believed to have been killed in the dramatic episode in the Arabian Sea on New Year's Eve, according to India's defence ministry."
2015-01-02,Sweden hit by third mosque arson attack in a week
2015-01-02,940 cars set alight during French New Year
2015-01-02,Salaries for top CEOs rose twice as fast as average Canadian since recession: study
2015-01-02,"Norway violated equal-pay law, judge says: Judge finds consulate employee was unjustly paid $30,000 less than her male counterpart"
2015-01-02,Imam wants radical recruiters of Muslim youth in Canada identified and dealt with
2015-01-02,"Saudi Arabia beheaded 83 people in 2014, the most in years"
2015-01-02,"'A living hell' for slaves on remote South Korean islands - Slavery thrives on this chain of rural islands off South Korea's rugged southwest coast, nurtured by a long history of exploitation and the demands of trying to squeeze a living from the sea."
2015-01-02,"Worlds 400 richest get richer, adding $92bn in 2014"
2015-01-02,"Rental Car Stereos Infringe Copyright, Music Rights Group Says"
2015-01-02,Ukrainian minister threatens TV channel with closure for airing Russian entertainers
2015-01-02,Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has entered into his most serious confrontation yet with Israel by signing onto the International Criminal Court. His decision on Wednesday gives the court jurisdiction over crimes committed in Palestinian lands.
2015-01-02,Israeli security center publishes names of 50 killed terrorists 'concealed by Hamas'
2015-01-02,"The year 2014 was the deadliest year yet in Syria's four-year conflict, with over 76,000 killed"
2015-01-02,"A Secret underground complex built by the Nazis that may have been used for the development of WMDs, including a nuclear bomb, has been uncovered in Austria."
2015-01-02,Restrictions on Web Freedom a Major Global Issue in 2015
2015-01-02,"Austrian journalist Erich Mchel delivered a presentation in Hamburg at the annual meeting of the Chaos Computer Club on Monday December 29, detailing the various locations where the US NSA has been actively collecting and processing electronic intelligence in Vienna."
2015-01-02,Thousands of Ukraine nationalists march in Kiev
2015-01-02,Chinas New Years Resolution: No More Harvesting Executed Prisoners Organs
2015-01-02,Authorities Pull Plug on Russia's Last Politically Independent TV Station
2015-01-01,"Putin sends New Years Greetings to Obama, saying the two countries share mutual responsibility to ensure world peace. Putin said the coming year will mark 70 years since the end of World War II when countries united against Adolf Hitler."
2015-01-01,North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has offered to hold talks at the highest level with South Korea
2015-01-01,Space Station Crew to Raise Toasts for New Years Eve 16 Times
2015-01-01,U.S spy released from Cuba to American authorities hasn't been heard from since the deal was announced despite the fact that he called his parents daily before his release
2015-01-01,Russia slashing vodka prices as economy reels
2015-01-01,Shanghai new year crush 'kills 35'
2015-01-01,Gunman opens fire on Turkish president Erdogan's office
2015-01-01,Fukushima contamination arrives off Canadian coast
2015-01-01,"Saudi Arabia's national airline plans to keep men and women apart after passengers objected to on-board gender mixing. Flight staff at Saudi Arabia's airports would be instructed to keep men and women segregated on board Saudia planes, unless they are close relatives."
2015-01-01,"Palestinians Move to Join International Criminal Court, Defying Israeli and U.S. Warnings"
2015-01-01,"Assad eats hummus with troops: No one is celebrating the new year, we are in war - Middle East"
2015-01-01,British police have reportedly arrested a Lizard Squad member
2015-01-01,India blocks websites for hosting ISIS content
2015-01-01,Kurdish forces seize 70% of Kobane
2015-01-01,Polish farmers threaten uprising over opencast coalmine | Heinz unites with farmers in rebellion against plan to build a vast lignite mine and power plant on farming land in western Poland
2015-01-01,"Bolivian President Morales accuses U.S. of ""economic terrorism"""
2015-01-01,Thirty-five people have been killed in a stampede during New Year's celebrations in downtown Shanghai
2015-01-01,Iraqi media says ISIS militants have contracted Ebola
2015-01-01,Creeping construction: Israel to build 600 new settlements in the West bank
2015-01-01,HarperCollins omits Israel from atlases sold to English-speaking Mideast schools
2015-01-01,"IDF probes into Gaza war conduct threaten to tear military apart from within - A bombshell has fallen within the ranks, turning military commanders and lawyers against each other on a possibly unprecedented level."
2015-01-01,"After border firing kills jawan, India retaliates by killing 4 Pakistani troops"
2015-01-01,"Turkey grants 1 million Syrian refugees secure legal status, with access to basic services like health care and education."
2015-01-01,Worlds top publisher regrets erasing Israel from atlas meant for Middle East customers
2015-01-01,Kim Jong Un wants high-level summit with South Korea
2014-12-31,AirAsia flight found at the bottom of the Java Sea
2014-12-31,North Korean defector details 'human experiments' -- use of mentally and physically handicapped children in chemical weapons tests 'the last straw'
2014-12-31,"Korean Air ex-executive Cho Hyun-ah arrested - earlier she ordered a plane to turn back on the runway in New York after nuts were served in a bag, not on a plate"
2014-12-31,"South Korean to drop Sony film ""The Interview"" in North Korea by balloon"
2014-12-31,"U.S. opening of oil export widens battle: The Obama administration has opened a new front in the global battle for oil market share, effectively clearing the way for the shipment of as much as a million barrels per day of ultra-light U.S. crude to the rest of the world"
2014-12-31,"FBI agents investigating the Sony Pictures hack were briefed Monday by a security firm that says its research points to laid-off Sony staff, not North Korea, as the prepatrator"
2014-12-31,"Indian Government Orders Blocking of 32 Websites Including GitHub, Archive.org, SourceForge"
2014-12-31,Russia annual inflation jumps to 11.4% as rouble falls
2014-12-31,"WikiLeaks claims employees Google mail, metadata seized by US government [Updated]"
2014-12-31,Militant mistakenly broadcasts his location
2014-12-31,Armed bandits rob 300 tourists on Venezuela beach
2014-12-31,"Venezuela confirms recession, inflation hits 63.6 percent in Nov"
2014-12-31,Palestinian UN resolution fails
2014-12-31,"More non-Mexicans than Mexicans apprehended at U.S. border in 2014, new study finds"
2014-12-31,Belarus eager to normalize relations with West
2014-12-31,Newly published NSA documents show agency could grab all Skype traffic
2014-12-31,Britain says it cannot support new Palestinian UN draft resolution
2014-12-31,Bolivias Morales: US 'Backs Drug Trafficking'
2014-12-31,"Euro zone politicians are not obliged to rescue Greece as the country is no longer of systemic importance to the single currency bloc, a senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party was quoted as saying."
2014-12-31,Greece Dissolves Parliament to Prepare for Early Elections
2014-12-31,"German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a New Year's address deplored the rise of a right wing populist movement, saying its leaders have ""prejudice, coldness, even hatred in their hearts""."
2014-12-31,Al Shabaab leader killed in U.S. air strike in Mogadishu
2014-12-31,New solar power material converts 90 percent of captured light into heat
2014-12-31,China launches website laying claim to Senkaku Islands
2014-12-31,At Least 33 Killed in Yemen Suicide Bombing
2014-12-30,China businessman jailed for 13 years for buying and eating three tigers
2014-12-30,"AirAsia live: Emergency slide, plane door seen in search for missing QZ8501"
2014-12-30,"AirAsia plane wreckage found, bodies being recovered"
2014-12-30,"Scotland confirms case of Ebola - Ebola cases hit 20,000, death toll nears 8,000: WHO"
2014-12-30,Pope Francis to Catholics: It's time to take action on global warming
2014-12-30,Oil hits five-and-a-half-year low below $57 on supply glut
2014-12-30,"""Lizard Squad"" members who ruined Christmas for Xbox and PlayStation gamers exposed after giving interview to BBC"
2014-12-30,Two students in Thailand face up to 15 years in jail for insulting the royal family after performing in a play that featured a fictional king and his advisor
2014-12-30,New Research Blames Insiders Not North Korea for Sony Hack
2014-12-30,Russian ruble drops 7 percent as economy shrinks
2014-12-30,Egyptian court permanently bans Jewish festival on moral grounds
2014-12-30,Turkish anchorwoman detained for tweet about corruption
2014-12-30,French Government Quietly Enacts Controversial Surveillance Law On Christmas Eve
2014-12-30,Bosnian Police Raid Top News Website: Police raided the countrys most popular news website Klix after it published a recording on which it alleged that the Bosnian Serb prime minister spoke about 'buying' electoral support.
2014-12-30,"Possible Case of Ebola in Glasgow, Scotland"
2014-12-30,"Turkey is being used as one of the primary routes for weapons smuggling to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and al-Nusra, according to a United Nations report."
2014-12-30,Swedish mosque set ablaze in second suspected arson attack in a week
2014-12-30,Cybersecurity Firm Identifies Six In Sony Hack  One A Former Company Insider
2014-12-30,The U.N. General Assembly voted unanimously Monday to ask Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to appoint an independent panel of experts to examine new information about the mysterious plane crash that killed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold on a peace mission to newly independent Congo in 1961
2014-12-30,"""The regime must be destroyed"": Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition leader, calls for mass protests in Moscow after convicted on fraud charges that are considered politically motivated"
2014-12-30,"Aleksei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, is convicted of criminal fraud charges and handed down a three-and-half year suspended sentence"
2014-12-30,"Search area for Air Asia QZ8501 expanded, still no trace of aircraft found."
2014-12-30,Ebola case confirmed in Glasgow | World news
2014-12-30,AirAsia plane carrying 153 people overshoots runway in the Philippines
2014-12-30,One of China's most industrialized cities has put a cap on sales of new cars with residents only permitted to acquire a new vehicle either by lottery or auction due to pollution
2014-12-29,Solar Power Storage Prices Drop 25% In Germany In <1 Year
2014-12-29,North Korea Hit Again By Internet Outage; Experts Now Doubt Its Hand In Sony Cyber Attack
2014-12-29,ARCHAEOLOGY - Massive ancient underground city discovered in Turkey's Nevehir
2014-12-29,Reopen investigation into Westminster pedophile whistleblower deaths  MP
2014-12-29,"Taliban declare 'defeat' of U.S., allies in Afghanistan."
2014-12-29,"British Falklands defence review after military deal between Russia and Argentina. Moscow will swap 12 Su-24 supersonic, all-weather attack aircraft for Argentinian beef and wheat"
2014-12-29,Virgin Confirms Fault On Plane Circling Over UK
2014-12-29,Photo of 'women murdered for refusing sex jihad is fake
2014-12-29,"The German chancellor's office has fallen victim to a hacking attack, according to a German newspaper. The Regin malware in question has been linked to British and US spy agencies."
2014-12-29,Thirty-seven children whose parents were killed in the recent Israel-Gaza conflict have been prevented by Hamas from visiting Israel on a trip organised by peace activists.
2014-12-29,"One Dead And 15,000 Stranded In French Alps"
2014-12-29,"IED blows up in Bangalore, high alert in India"
2014-12-29,Rise of Spanish populists overturns two-party system
2014-12-29,"Iran could become a ""very successful regional power"" if Tehran agrees to a long-term deal to curb its nuclear program, President Barack Obama said in an interview with NPR News."
2014-12-29,"Greek MPs have rejected the presidential candidate nominated by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, triggering a snap general election."
2014-12-29,"Islamic State executed nearly 2,000 people in six months"
2014-12-29,The leader of one of Mexico's first anti-crime vigilante groups was arrested along with 26 supporters over a shootout that killed his son and 10 others
2014-12-29,Gmail has been blocked in China
2014-12-29,Egyptian writer to face trial for 'insulting Islam'
2014-12-29,Reports reveal scale of destruction of Syrias world historic heritage
2014-12-29,Russia will supply coal and electricity to Kiev without advance payment
2014-12-29,ISIS executes more doctors in Mosul
2014-12-29,"Russia shows first sign of recession as GDP contracts: he Russian economy contracted by 0.5% in November,"
2014-12-29,"AirAsia plane likely 'at bottom of the sea,' says search chief"
2014-12-29,AirAsia Flight's Altitude Request Was Refused
2014-12-28,Air Asia flight loses contact with air traffic control
2014-12-28,U.S. Formally Ends War In Afghanistan
2014-12-28,"Nato reply to Putin ""It's Russia's actions, including currently in Ukraine, which are undermining European security, we would continue to seek a constructive relationship with Russia, but that is only possible with a Russia that abides by the right of nations to choose their future freely"""
2014-12-28,"St Petersburg residents hoard metro tokens, which are set to rise to 31 rubles this week, authorities have limited purchases to two per person. I get the feeling people are investing in metro tokens, said one passenger"
2014-12-28,ISIS loses ground to Kurds in Syrias Kobane
2014-12-28,North Korea Not Responsible for Sony Pictures Hacking: US Cyber Experts
2014-12-28,Passenger ferry catches fire off Greece
2014-12-28,Germany to Loan Morocco $796 Million for Two Solar Thermal Projects - The complex will supply electricity to 1.3 million people once its completed
2014-12-28,"Pakistan rejects UN, EU call of halting execution of terrorists"
2014-12-28,"Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse can be prosecuted for its role in the US housing finance meltdown, according to a court decision which dismissed the company's bid to halt a suit."
2014-12-28,Indonesian portal reports of plane crash in Belitung Timur - The Malaysian Insider
2014-12-28,A prominent environmental activist in Trinidad who claims to have passed the 100-day mark of a hunger strike said he will reject medical intervention and keep protesting a highway project he says could hurt wetlands and remote villages.
2014-12-28,Japan's newest island still increasing in size
2014-12-28,'Barbaric' Ethnic Massacre in Assam Province Shocks Indians
2014-12-28,Ukraine shuts down faulty nuclear power plant reactor
2014-12-28,Strict Sharia law forces gays into hiding in Indonesia's Aceh
2014-12-28,"Egypt's prosecutor has referred a female writer to trial for allegedly insulting Islam by criticising the slaughter of animals during a major religious festival. ""Happy massacre,"" Fatima Naoot wrote on her Facebook page in October during Eid al-Adha, the Muslim feast of sacrifice."
2014-12-28,Cuba's most prominent dissidents say they have been kept in the dark by U.S. officials over a list of 53 political prisoners who will be released from jail as part of a deal to end decades of hostility between the United States and Cuba
2014-12-28,"15,000 Cars Stranded In French Alps Snow"
2014-12-28,"An Egyptian appeals court reduced jail sentences given to eight men over a gay wedding video that went viral on the Internet to one year each, from three years."
2014-12-28,The Turkish man who shot and injured former Pope John Paul II in 1981 has laid flowers on the late pontiff's tomb in the Vatican.
2014-12-28,Women form 94% of pickpockets held in Delhi Metro this year
2014-12-28,"Lebanon hit hard by Syrian war, growing ISIL support"
2014-12-28,Greece on brink of new catastrophe as PM battles to avert snap elections: Antonis Samaras in desperate bid to prevent poll that could bring anti-austerity party Syriza into power
2014-12-28,Japans Savings Rate Turns Negative in Challenge for Abe
2014-12-27,"Boy, 14, escapes ISIS by volunteering to suicide bomb"
2014-12-27,Britain has surpassed France as the world's 5th largest economy since it included the amount Britains spend on prostitutes and illegal drugs.
2014-12-27,"N. Korea calls Obama 'monkey,' blames U.S. for shutdown"
2014-12-27,"""The DNA of every animal in world history will be collected in a massive scientific project, Russian researchers announced Thursday [25 December 2014]. Dubbed 'Noah's Ark,' the project will be a 'databank on all living species,' according to Moscow State University president, Dr Viktor Sadovnichy."""
2014-12-27,Sweden to scrap new election: confirmed
2014-12-27,"Google Reveals Content Governments Asked Be Removed in Latest Transparency Report: ""Overall, Google received 3,105 requests from world governments between July 2013 and December 2013 to wipe 14,367 pieces of content."""
2014-12-27,Erdoan: Nowhere in the world is media as free as in Turkey
2014-12-27,53% rape cases filed in Delhi proven to be false :Delhi commission for women
2014-12-27,"Visa, MasterCard stop supporting bank cards in Crimea"
2014-12-27,NATO force mistakenly kills three Afghan nomads
2014-12-27,Hamas: we will liberate Palestine & Jerusalem
2014-12-27,"Kidnapped Mexican priest found shot dead in Guerrero state: A priest who was kidnapped in Mexico's south-western state of Guerrero on Monday has been found shot dead, officials say."
2014-12-27,Erdogan tells Europe to stop criticising Turkey
2014-12-27,"Russia says to supply coal, electricity to Ukraine"
2014-12-27,Pakistans last self-declared Jew campaigns to save cemetery
2014-12-27,Egypt bans 'Zionist' film Exodus and cites 'historical inaccuracies'
2014-12-27,US-wanted Shabab leader with a $3m bounty on his head surrenders
2014-12-27,"North Korean Internet, 3G mobile network 'paralyzed:' Xinhua"
2014-12-27,"Worst Flooding In Decades Forces Evacuation Of More Than 100,000 Malaysians"
2014-12-27,"Fleeing their countrys civil war, Ukrainian Jews head for Israel"
2014-12-27,Israel orders outpost in West Bank to be demolished
2014-12-27,Femen activist who stole St Peters Square Jesus could face Vatican trial
2014-12-27,Israel: Court Says a Settlers Outpost Must Be Razed
2014-12-27,Paris: Three Jewish establishments come under attack in three days
2014-12-27,"Hoping to create a new society, the Islamic State recruits entire families"
2014-12-26,Saudis are eagerly awaiting the approval of a new draft law by the Shoura Council which prevents women under 18 from getting married. The draft law pending approval sets the age of adulthood at 18 and allows women under that age to marry only upon procuring a court order.
2014-12-26,"Due to the fall in oil prices, Saudi Arabia is now running a $39 billion deficit."
2014-12-26,Bill giving government the power to shutdown the internet for 24 hours to be voted in Turkish parliament.
2014-12-26,"A struggle for women's rights is brewing within Israel's deeply conservative ultra-Orthodox community, where women, largely shut out of politics, are beginning to demand greater representation in the country's parliament."
2014-12-26,Putin cancels New Year's Holiday for government workers because of the ongoing financial crisis
2014-12-26,Ireland is siding with Microsoft in its legal battle with the US over personal data stored on a company server in Dublin. Ireland says American justice should respect international law and national sovereignty.
2014-12-26,More than 80 people including women and children killed in a terrorist attack in India
2014-12-26,"The Syrian Army has killed nearly 5,000 Islamic State (IS) fighters in the last three months"
2014-12-26,ISIS governor of Mosul killed in airstrikes
2014-12-26,Court clears way for clinically dead pregnant Irish woman to be taken off life support.
2014-12-26,A court in Mauritania has sentenced a man to death for apostasy for criticizing the Muslim Prophet Muhammed
2014-12-26,"A group of four women, along with their 13 children and grandchildren, are at risk of being murdered in Papua New Guinea after being accused of witchcraft, a missionary says."
2014-12-26,"China has stepped up efforts to reduce the number of coal mines, as it plans to shut down more than 2,000 mines next year and limit the number to within 10,000 by 2016."
2014-12-26,"Archaeologists Have Dig Licenses Revoked After ""Million Mummies"" Claim"
2014-12-26,German fossil fuel consumption and emissions at a record low
2014-12-26,Senior UN officials expelled from Sudan following UN attempts to investigate a report that government troops committed mass rape of women and girls in a Darfur village
2014-12-26,Mauritania journalist sentenced to death for apostasy
2014-12-26,Kim Dotcom Makes Deal with LizardSquad to stop attacks towards Xbox Live and PSN
2014-12-26,Ukraine peace talks called off
2014-12-26,Tibetan protests reported in China's Sichuan
2014-12-26,New Study Adds to Skepticism Among Security Experts That North Korea Was Behind Sony Hack
2014-12-26,"US relocates 3,000 MRAPs, other military gear to Kuwait ahead of expected anti-IS offensive"
2014-12-26,Russia's new military doctrine names NATO as a key risk.
2014-12-26,Protesters in Mexico claim that German arms manufacturers exported rifles to a corrupt local police department implicated in the disappearance of 43 students
2014-12-26,"A leading Russian elected official on Thursday referred to as for an investigation of the United States' atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the course of World War II as a ""crime against humanity."
2014-12-25,A Nepalese World Cup Worker Dies Every Other Day in Qatar
2014-12-25,"UK: Police have arrested a 19-year-old man over an ""offensive"" tweet"
2014-12-25,U.S. Senate and CIA agree torture program was mismanaged
2014-12-25,Vodka Prices: Putin calls for cap amid economic crisis - Says high prices encourage consumption of illegal & possibly unsafe alcohol.
2014-12-25,"Uruguay Has Registered 1,200 Marijuana Growers"
2014-12-25,Turkish court arrests 16-year-old student for insulting President Erdoan
2014-12-25,ISIS launches new chlorine gas attack in Iraqs Anbar  report
2014-12-25,Two Saudi women detained for nearly a month in defiance of a ban on females driving were referred on Thursday to a court established to try terrorism cases
2014-12-25,"A 13-year-old says her father gave her to Boko Haram extremists and that she was arrested after refusing to explode a suicide bomb at a market in Kano, Nigerias second largest city in the north."
2014-12-25,"Former Pirate Bay operator Fredrik Neij is currently jailed in Sweden after being captured in Thailand last month. However, according to leaked emails, the MPAA believes that the Swede could also face hacking related charges - and it doesn't stop there."
2014-12-25,Revealed: Police using pre-charge bail to muzzle protesters
2014-12-25,"Brazil's 'Chainsaw Queen' Appointed New Agriculture Minister - Ktia Abreu is a leading figure in ruralista lobby. She's called for more roads through the Amazon, govt control over demarcation of indigenous reserves, & the approval of genetically modified terminator seeds."
2014-12-25,BBC News - Jordan jet 'not shot down by IS'
2014-12-25,South Korean prosecutors are seeking to arrest the former executive at Korean Air Lines Co. who forced a flight to return over a bag of macadamia nuts and a current executive for attempts to cover up the nut rage case.
2014-12-25,Japanese 'vagina artist' charged for violating censorship laws
2014-12-25,Footage reveals Hamas rebuilding military positions
2014-12-25,"US-led air strikes in Syria 'kill over 1,100 militants'"
2014-12-25,Indian separatist group kills more than 70 people in the north-eastern state of Assam.
2014-12-25,Likud comptroller disqualifies Netanyahu from leadership race over use of party funds
2014-12-25,Chinese university bans Christmas | University in Xian forces students to watch propaganda films and to pay more attention to Chinese holidays instead
2014-12-25,Pro-Kyiv battalions are increasingly blocking humanitarian aid into eastern Ukraine: Amnesty International
2014-12-25,"A Turkish play to be staged in Istanbul has had the role of a prostitute removed, reigniting the debate on state intervention in art, according to local media reports."
2014-12-25,German and British troops commemorate 1914 Christmas Truce football match
2014-12-25,Pakistan to Set up Military Courts for Terrorism
2014-12-25,Saudi women drivers sent to 'terrorism' court: activists
2014-12-24,Death toll among Qatars 2022 World Cup workers revealed | Nepalese migrants building the infrastructure to host the 2022 World Cup have died at a rate of one every two days in 2014  despite Qatars promises to improve their working conditions
2014-12-24,Fishing Supertrawlers to be banned permanently from Australian waters
2014-12-24,"Indian telecommunications company Airtel violates Net Neutrality, starts charging for VoIP calls(Skype, etc.) over 2G and 3G in India"
2014-12-24,North Korea's Internet is down again; second black out since last night's restoration of service
2014-12-24,Jakarta to ban virginity tests for female civil servants.
2014-12-24,"Workers at Chinese iPhone factories are pressured into working 65-hour weeks, made to sleep on plywood beds in bleak dormitories. The work is so exhausting that some of the estimated 15,000 workers choose to sleep through their lunch breaks instead of eating."
2014-12-24,"Thousands in Spain protest ban on demonstrations, burning national flag"
2014-12-24,"London activists occupy 5-storey former bank in London to provide shelter, clothing and food to Christmas homeless"
2014-12-24,"Russian Inflation Passes 10%, Indicates Pricing is Growing Faster than Expected due to Depreciating Ruble"
2014-12-24,"Australia records biggest emissions drop in a decade as carbon tax kicks in. Greens and conservation group say significant drop in annual emissions shows the carbon price, which was scrapped by the Abbott government, was effective"
2014-12-24,Elephant ivory smuggling 'kingpin' arrested in Tanzania
2014-12-24,Ireland: US courts need our permission to view emails stored on Dublin server
2014-12-24,Record numbers attend German anti-Islamization rally
2014-12-24,Erdogan slams birth control use as treason
2014-12-24,Gunman fires on Paris synagogue
2014-12-24,Scientists discover oldest stone tool ever found in Turkey
2014-12-24,ISIS claims capture of Jordanian pilot after plane shot down over Syria
2014-12-24,Russian prime minister warns of 'deep recession' in 2015
2014-12-24,Russia says France must fulfil Mistral contract or return money - agency
2014-12-24,"Secret flight linking Israel to the UAE reveals 'open secret' of collaboration - A private jet is covertly flying between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi, which are said to be engaging in high-level trade in the security sector"
2014-12-24,Ukraine temporarily cuts off power supplies to Crimea
2014-12-24,Coalition plane 'crashes in Syria'
2014-12-24,Across the world 'Silent Night' to honor WWI Xmas Truce
2014-12-24,Elderly Nigerians Rounded Up And Shot Dead
2014-12-24,Russia May Be Cut to Junk rating as S&P Says Its Considering Downgrade
2014-12-23,North Korea's internet is offline; massive DDOS attack presumed
2014-12-23,SAUDI OIL MINISTER: I Don't Care If Prices Crash To $20  We're Not Budging
2014-12-23,ISIL sex slavery has pushed women and girls from Iraq's Yazidi minority to suicide
2014-12-23,Ukraine votes to drop neutral NATO status
2014-12-23,"The United States on Monday slammed North Korea as a ""living nightmare"" for its citizens at the first-ever UN Security Council meeting on Pyongyang's dismal rights record. The unprecedented talks at the 15-member council opened after China, Pyongyang's ally, failed to block the meeting."
2014-12-23,"Oil spill sullies World Heritage Site home of the famous swimming Bengal tigers, some of the last of their kind in the world - The Sundarbans, part of world's largest mangrove forest, stretching across India & Bangladesh, have been tarnished by the 350,000-liter oil spill."
2014-12-23,"Russian diplomat: ""Ukraine's renunciation of its 'non-aligned' Nato status it's an unfriendly step towards us"""
2014-12-23,"$300,000 in gold missing from Ukraine Central Bank after swapped for lead bricks"
2014-12-23,Tunisia election: anti-Islamist party claims victory
2014-12-23,US Corporations claim billion in Assets in Cuba. And now they want it back.
2014-12-23,Google has now forgotten more than a quarter-million URLs agreeing to about 40 percent of the requested URL removals that it has received after EU's Court of Justice issued ruling that allowed EU citizens to have search results unlinked from their names online.
2014-12-23,Algeria kills leader of jihadists behind Frenchman's beheading: TV
2014-12-23,North Korea's Internet links restored amid U.S. hacking dispute
2014-12-23,"UN expert calls for prosecution of CIA, US officials for crimes committed during interrogations"
2014-12-23,"Rock found in Russian mine containing 30,000 tiny diamonds."
2014-12-23,Bedbug bait and trap invented by Simon Fraser University scientists
2014-12-23,"The police raids on Kim Dotcom's mansion were legal, the New Zealand Supreme Court has ruled"
2014-12-23,Kurdish group fighting Islamic State tells America: Stop calling us terrorists
2014-12-23,"NASA Takes Giant Leaps on the Journey to Mars, Eyes Our Home Planet and the Distant Universe, Tests Technologies and Improves the Skies Above in 2014"
2014-12-23,Iraq TV show makes 'terrorists' confront victims
2014-12-23,Coca Cola to open Gaza factory
2014-12-23,"UN: Satellite images show 290 heritage sites in Syria, whose history stretches back to the dawn of civilization, have been damaged by war"
2014-12-23,"A German author spends time with IS jihadists and sees how confident they are to carry out their brutal plan. ""It is terrifying that a group could be so enthusiastic about killing hundreds of millions of people."""
2014-12-23,Alibaba spent $161 million fighting fakes since 2013
2014-12-23,Top 500 companies' carbon emissions rise despite calls for cuts | Report on worlds biggest 500 firms by capitalisation shows emissions are not in line with UN calls to avoid dangerous climate change
2014-12-22,"Pirate Bay Domain Back Online, Waving a Pirate Flag"
2014-12-22,"Argentine Court rules: Orang Utans are ""non-human-persons"" with human rights and therefore need to be released from zoo"
2014-12-22,Peru Is Now Giving Free Solar Power To Its 2 Million Poorest Citizens
2014-12-22,"New York Times calls for Cheney, Bush officials to be investigated and prosecuted for torture"
2014-12-22,"Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from spiritual Alzheimers that has made them forget theyre supposed to be joyful men of God."
2014-12-22,Polio has Almost Been Completely Eradicated in African Countries - We're getting close to a huge global health milestone.
2014-12-22,CIA's how to be a travelling spy guide published by WikiLeaks | WikiLeaks has released two CIA documents offering tips to help spies maintain their cover while using false documents as they cross international borders.
2014-12-22,"NKorea threatens strikes on US, warned that its 1.2 million-member army is ready to use all types of warfare"
2014-12-22,North Korea Now Claims the US Government Made 'The Interview'
2014-12-22,UK officials named in pedophile dossier
2014-12-22,"Greek MP says he was offered 2 to 3 million euros to vote for Greek president. I had two meetings that were recorded. They gave me 700,000 euros in cash as a first installment and following this an agreement for bank loans, as well as contracts with an ad agency"
2014-12-22,"Reports that Sony will debut The Interview on Crackle are false, Mashable has learned."
2014-12-22,Six people feared dead after bin lorry crashes into pedestrians in Glasgow city centre
2014-12-22,Children are cleaning up a devastating oil spill in Bangladeshwith their bare hands
2014-12-22,"Australia's new Social Services Minister: Scott Morrison. His first act in new role, scraps funding for homeless and housing groups."
2014-12-22,Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott names carbon tax repeal as his top achievement as Minister for Women
2014-12-22,The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) has filed criminal complaints against the officials of former US President George W. Bushs administration for running a state-organized program of brutal torture against foreign suspects
2014-12-22,Report: India weighs dropping support for Palestinians at UN in wake of closer ties to Israel
2014-12-22,"Brown bears, wolves and lynx numbers rising in Europe | Environment"
2014-12-22,"Pakistan plans to execute around 500 militants in coming weeks, officials said Monday, after the government lifted a moratorium on the death penalty in terror cases following a Taliban school massacre."
2014-12-22,"South Korea nuclear plant operator says hacked, raising alarm"
2014-12-22,Czech Republic sends 5000 anti-tank missiles to Peshmerga Forces
2014-12-22,China sends first 700 strong infantry battalion to South Sudan for UN peacekeeping http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-12/22/c_133871006.htm  #Africa
2014-12-22,"Wikileaks has released two classified documents instructing CIA operatives how best to circumvent global security systems in international airports, including those of the EU, while on undercover missions."
2014-12-22,"First Western journalist granted access to 'Islamic State' returns to Germany, says IS is ""much stronger and much more dangerous"" than the West realizes."
2014-12-21,"An unexplained drone has been spotted flying over a Belgium nuclear facility, a day after one of the plant's reactors came back on line after a four-month closure caused by sabotage. Around 20 unidentified drones have been spotted over nuclear plants since October throughout France."
2014-12-21,"CIA experimented on humans in black sites : Report | As the United States struggles with the fallout of the recently disclosed CIA torture report, a new analysis reveals that human experimentation was a core feature of the spy agencys torture program."
2014-12-21,Barack Obama signs massive defence budget; $1 billion to Pakistan
2014-12-21,Cuba says U.S. must respect its communist system.
2014-12-21,Father claims Scotland Yard covered up son's murder by Westminster paedophiles
2014-12-21,A former local newspaper executive claims that he was issued with an official warning in the early 1980s against reporting on an allegedly powerful paedophile ring.
2014-12-21,"Facebook blocks Russian page supporting Navalny, Putin's biggest critic"
2014-12-21,"Ivory Coast builds 2,000 km fibre optic network, builds 5000 cyber centres throughout the country through a programme called 'One Citizen, One Computer'"
2014-12-21,French police shot dead a male terrorism suspect after he stabbed and seriously wounded two officers in a police station.
2014-12-21,Obama vows 'do everything I can' to close Guantanamo: CNN interview
2014-12-21,"Security forces in Sweden say two separate car bomb attacks have ripped through the Scandinavian countrys southern city of Malmo, with no immediate reports of human loss"
2014-12-21,Voters in Tunisia are choosing their first freely elected president in a run-off election seen as a landmark in the country's move to democracy
2014-12-21,"Michelangelo's renaissance masterpiece ""David"" is at risk of collapse and will be given an earthquake proof base. More than 250 minor tremors have rattled Florence over the past three days, sparking alarm in Italy over the national treasure."
2014-12-21,Saudi Arabia says won't cut oil output even if non-OPEC nations do
2014-12-21,Google Seizes on Sony Hacked Docs to Attack MPAA
2014-12-21,"Ebola death toll close to 7,400, says World Health Organisation: WHO figures show more than 19,000 people infected across west Africa, with Sierra Leone accounting for nearly half of total"
2014-12-21,Israel police arrest several members of the right-wing Lehava group | Israeli police have arrested several members of the extreme-right group Lehava. This was the second such swoop targeting the group within the past week.
2014-12-21,"Pakistan moves its soldiers off Kashmir border, pushes them to Waziristan"
2014-12-21,"Theresa May is to scrap the panel for the independent inquiry into child sex abuse, it has been reported. The home secretary wrote to each member of the panel to tell them she is considering turning it into a statutory inquiry, or setting up a fresh statutory inquiry or a Royal Commission."
2014-12-21,"UK must probe its role in CIA torture, says UN legal expert."
2014-12-21,Pakistan Army strikes back hard after school massacre by Taliban: Retaliation after the killing of more than 130 children in Peshawar targeted the Khyber tribal region along the border with Afghanistan. The Army claims at least 77 Pakistani Taliban were killed
2014-12-21,Sony Hackers Appear to Mock FBI in Latest Message
2014-12-21,"French Police Kill Knife-Wielding Man Who Attacked Them In Police Station, Yelling Allahu Akbar!"
2014-12-21,Thousands to Attend Unsanctioned Protest Outside Kremlin Against Putin-Critics Verdict
2014-12-21,German Human Rights group files criminal complaint to European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights agains architects of CIA torture plan
2014-12-20,"Sony blames cinemas for banning movie, says it WILL now try to release its comedy film about North Korean leader Kim Jong-un - after President Obama urged the firm not to bow to hackers' threats"
2014-12-20,Obama: I think Sony made a mistake by pulling 'The Interview'
2014-12-20,FBI formally blames North Korea for Sony hack
2014-12-20,BitTorrent Offers Distribute Sonys The Interview Via Its Bundle Service
2014-12-20,"Apple 'deeply offended' by conclusion of BBC's undercover investigation in Chinese factories; declines to comment but sends mass email to about 5,000 UK staff."
2014-12-20,"President Barack Obama has ordered a ban on the export of goods, technology and services to Crimea."
2014-12-20,US Considers Putting North Korea Back On Terror List
2014-12-20,North Korea denies responsibility for Sony cyberattack
2014-12-20,"Egypt Disputes 'Million Mummy' Discovery - Ministry of Antiquities orders work to stop at site, slams US team for making a 'million mummies' announcement. Says claims are false."
2014-12-20,"""Scientists at the University of Aberdeen have set a new record for the world's deepest fish, filmed in the Mariana Trench - the deepest place on Earth. The new finding was just one of several new species discovered, as well as the first footage of the mysterious 'supergiant' amphipod filmed alive."""
2014-12-20,A Japanese stem cell scientist at the heart of a scandal over false claims and fabricated research has resigned.
2014-12-20,"Approximately 1,000 paratroopers from the Armys famed 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Iraq early next year to help the Iraqi security forces take on the Islamic State, the Pentagon announced Friday"
2014-12-20,Pakistan hangs first pair of convicted terrorists
2014-12-20,North Korea warns of 'Grave consequences' if US refuse joint Sony hacking probe
2014-12-20,Tests confirm Cambodia HIV mass infection
2014-12-20,India to help Mongolia in modernizing weapons and tactics
2014-12-20,Israel rejects UN demand to pay Lebanon $850 million for 2006 oil spill: The United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution calling for Israel to compensate Lebanon for damages caused by an IAF strike during the Second Lebanon War.
2014-12-20,China has ordered a psychiatric clinic to pay compensation to a gay man who was given electric shocks in an attempt to make him heterosexual
2014-12-20,Offshore Fukushima hit by 5.8 quake
2014-12-20,"German Council of Jews condemns ""immensely dangerous"" anti-Islam movement in light of recent marches"
2014-12-20,"Castro could visit White House, says US"
2014-12-20,"Turkish Police disperse teachers protest to demand respect to secular education in Ankara, detain 100"
2014-12-20,Radical environmentalists who threw acid and smoke bombs at Japanese whalers were found in contempt of court Friday for continuing their relentless campaign to disrupt the annual whale hunt off the waters of Antarctica.
2014-12-20,Russia surpassed U.S. in production of new combat planes
2014-12-20,Russia to Seek 10-Year Sentence for Putin Critic
2014-12-19,Claims that boys were murdered by VIP sex ring are credible and true - British Police
2014-12-19,Kurds recapture large area from ISIS
2014-12-19,Sydney's chief Islamic funeral director yesterday declared no Muslim funeral home would accept the body of terrorist Man Haron Monis and authorities should just dump his corpse at sea or chuck him in the bloody shithouse.
2014-12-19,"Apple is failing to protect workers in Chinese factories, according to an undercover BBC investigation. Exhausted workers were filmed falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts at a Shanghai factory. One employee had to work 18 days in a row despite repeated requests for a day off."
2014-12-19,A suitcase-sized Canadian satellite whose funding has been eliminated by the Canadian Space Agency has co-discovered a new planet in another solar system
2014-12-19,Ukraine forms 'ministry of truth' to regulate the media
2014-12-19,"Archaeologists working on a site near Stonehenge say they have found an untouched 6,000-year-old encampment which ""could rewrite British history""."
2014-12-19,"Seabirds 'steer clear' of offshore wind farms. British Trust for Ornithology finds 99% of birds avoid wind turbines, easing fears over the impact of blades"
2014-12-19,"General Motor, Audi and Jaguar halt car sales in Russia on ruble's collapse |"
2014-12-19,80% of British Public Want Greens Included in TV Debate
2014-12-19,UN Identifies Israel as Top Contributor Per Capita in Fight Against Ebola
2014-12-19,Isis supporters 'offering cash to British girls as young as 14 to become jihadi brides in Syria'.
2014-12-19,"Boko Haram kidnaps 185 women and children, kills 32 people"
2014-12-19,"Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program ""Counterproductive"": ...clandestine drone and assassination program was likely to produce counterproductive outcomes, including strengthening the very ""extremist groups"" it was allegedly designed to destroy"
2014-12-19,ISIL decapitates man in Iraq on charges of sorcery
2014-12-19,Former Catholic brother Bernard McGrath will be extradited to Australia to face 252 child-sex abuse charges.
2014-12-19,Putin falsely calls out drunk journalist - who is really a 2x stroke survivor
2014-12-19,"The UN General Assembly has called for North Korea to be referred to the International Criminal Court over alleged crimes against humanity, in a landmark resolution adopted by a strong majority."
2014-12-19,Ireland Repays $11 Billion to IMF Years Early
2014-12-19,Russian shopping frenzy has become so intense everybody from IKEA to Jaguar has run out of stock | Muscovites rushed to the shops this week after a plunge in the value of the ruble brought fears that imported goods would soon soar in price.
2014-12-19,Gaza rocket hits Israel for second time since summer war
2014-12-19,Sony hackers leaked more than 50 scripts from Sony movies
2014-12-19,"Record number of states vote for UN resolution on death penalty moratorium: 117 states voted for international freeze on executions, leaving the US increasingly isolated with 'no' vote"
2014-12-19,Putin says Russia's military doctrine 'remains purely defensive'
2014-12-19,Pro-Taliban Cleric Now Wants Them Dead After Child Massacre
2014-12-18,"Iran this week unveiled a monument to Jewish soldiers killed in the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988 and saw both countries suffer millions of casualties and billions of dollar in damage. Jewish community leaders and a number of Iranian religious officials took part in the ceremony."
2014-12-18,Activists to Drop 'Interview' DVDs Over North Korea Via Balloon
2014-12-18,"Curiosity Rover Drills Into Mars Rock, Finds Water"
2014-12-18,"Vladimir Putin compares Russia to cornered bear, warning citizens to brace for recession that could last two years"
2014-12-18,"Qatar hires ""$8 fake fans"" to fill empty stadiums | Migrant workers in Qatar get one dollar an hour for sitting in the stadiums and pretending to have fun, to applaud and to do the wave"
2014-12-18,Pope Francis played key role in U.S.-Cuba deal
2014-12-18,"Belarussian President Demands Russia Trade Be Carried Out in Dollars, Euros: Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko has demanded that Belarus's transactions with Russia be settled in dollars or euros because of the slump in the value of Russia's ruble"
2014-12-18,Navajos reclaim sacred masks at Paris auction
2014-12-18,"Nearly 97 percent of the airstrikes against ISIL in Syria during December have been carried out by the United States alone, according to U.S. military data."
2014-12-18,"Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, the main accused in the Mumbai terrorist attack is granted bail by a Pakistani court only days after the Peshawar massacre."
2014-12-18,"Russian officials try to quell rising panic concerning a possible bank run. ""This is a very dangerous situation, we are just a few days away from a full-blown run on the banks,"" Russia's leading business daily wrote in an editorial Wednesday."
2014-12-18,Swedish far-right leader: Jews must abandon religious identity to be Swedes
2014-12-18,U.S. will bid for 2024 Olympics
2014-12-18,The Pakistani military has killed 57 terrorists in airstrikes since Tuesday's school shooting
2014-12-18,"The bodies of more than 230 people believed to have been killed by Islamic State (IS) have been found in a mass grave in eastern Syria, activists say."
2014-12-18,"Oil from a wrecked tanker is creating a disaster in the waters of Bangladesh's Sundarbans, the largest contiguous tidal mangrove forest in the world and a haven for a spectacular array of species, including the rare Irrawaddy and Gangetic dolphins and the highly endangered Bengal tiger."
2014-12-18,Dutch government officials have acknowledged the country's secret service sometimes taps the communications of lawyers who represent terrorism suspects.
2014-12-18,"Suspect in 2002 terrorist attack on Moscow theater, The Chechen Khasan Zakayev, has been detained while trying to cross from Ukraine to Crimea with a fake passport"
2014-12-18,North Sea oil industry 'close to collapse'
2014-12-18,Venezuela President Maduro hails Obama's 'courageous' Cuba gesture
2014-12-18,Swiss interest rates turn negative - Swiss National Bank cuts interest rate to minus 0.25%
2014-12-18,FIFA Investigator Michael J. Garcia Quits in Dispute Over Report
2014-12-18,Political opponent calls for Putin's exit as Russia slides into crisis
2014-12-18,Ethiopian rabbis accuse Israeli rabbinate of racial discrimination
2014-12-18,"Under Abbas, Majority of Palestinians Say They Can't Speak Freely"
2014-12-17,"The United States will normalize diplomatic relations with Cuba, open embassy in Havana"
2014-12-17,Iraq: 150 women executed after refusing to marry ISIL militants
2014-12-17,Foreign exchange in Finland no longer recognizes rubles for trade.
2014-12-17,"Russia says Sweden smokes too much Weed and that there never was a ""near miss"" with airplane or submarine in Swedish waters."
2014-12-17,"About 15,000 people show up for Anti-Islam march in German city"
2014-12-17,"Russians hurried to change their savings and pensions into dollars and euros while also stocking up on furniture and jewellery as the rouble's collapse accelerated | ""None of us know what's happening. We're all worried that the currency will keep falling"""
2014-12-17,Iran had warned that Sydney attacker was unstable and a con-artist but Australia refused to extradite him for fraud
2014-12-17,Pakistan Lifts Death Penalty Ban After Massacre
2014-12-17,Two Blasts Outside Girls College Near Peshawar
2014-12-17,Putin's cronies lose $50 billion
2014-12-17,Drone Footage Shows Extent Of Greenpeace's Damage To Peru's Nazca Site
2014-12-17,Nasa's Mars Curiosity rover has detected methane on Mars - A gas that hints at past or present life on the planet
2014-12-17,Russia grapples with shocking fall of the ruble: What happened yesterday is a catastrophe
2014-12-17,"Cuba frees American Alan Gross after 5 years in prison, radical change of US policy towards Cuba expected"
2014-12-17,Crisis-Struck Russian Stocks Now Worth Less Than Microsoft: The total value of all publicly traded shares on the Russian market is now less than the capitalization of U.S. software giant Microsoft
2014-12-17,Pakistan airstrikes kill at least 22 militants in retaliation to school shooting
2014-12-17,"On national television today in Pakistan, Hafiz Saeed, one of the world's most-wanted men, blamed India for the massacre of children at a Pakistan school and vowed revenge"
2014-12-17,"I may be the last, says Dalai Lama"
2014-12-17,Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud royal family are trying to adjust their relationship with the country's strict Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam as they increasingly view the teachings of some of its ultra-conservative clergy as a domestic security threat.
2014-12-17,Putin Named Russia's 'Man Of The Year' For The 15th Time In A Row
2014-12-17,Turkey announces national mourning over Pakistan attack
2014-12-17,"Sony hackers threaten terror at ""The Interview"" moviegoers"
2014-12-17,"UN: More Reports Of Children Crucified, Beheaded & Stoned To Death By IS"
2014-12-17,A fire at a West Bank mosque last month was most likely caused by an electrical fault and not the result of arson
2014-12-17,Italy says it'll oppose EU plans to scrap environment law - 11 member states signed letter opposing withdrawal of draft EU law on air quality & waste. EU plans to focus on jobs & economic growth instead.
2014-12-16,Pakistani Army school under siege by terrorists. over 35 injured and many dead. Over 500 students held hostages
2014-12-16,Police request attendance list for people at fracking debate. University refuses.
2014-12-16,Ruble Hits 100 Against the Euro As Currency Collapse Accelerates
2014-12-16,Taliban: We Slaughtered 100+ Kids Because Their Parents Helped America
2014-12-16,Russian Ruble Crashes to World's Worst Performing Currency
2014-12-16,"CIA torture: health professionals 'may have committed war crimes', report says - Physicians for Human Rights called for federal investigation on CIA torture program participation, calling rectal feeding technique form of sexual assault"
2014-12-16,"Russian governor ban the use of the word crisis in public | It is possible that the crisis exists, but we forbid the use of this word"
2014-12-16,Russian Bank Manager: 'This Is The End Of The Banking System'
2014-12-16,U.S. Fights to Stop Release of Photos showing Soldiers Abusing and Sexually Humiliating Prisoners in Iraq
2014-12-16,Same-sex Marriage now legal in Scotland
2014-12-16,"Three confirmed dead, including gunman, in Sydney siege"
2014-12-16,"In his first major speech on the subject of immigration, French President Franois Hollande blasted the scaremongers ""who dream of a smaller, more spiteful France"". He also insisted Europe would go backwards if countries closed their borders."
2014-12-16,Hostage hailed a hero in Sydney siege: Tori Johnson killed after he tried to knock gun from the hands of gunman
2014-12-16,"President Barack Obama:""We're going to destroy the Islamic State"""
2014-12-16,Russia Increases Key Interest Rate to 17% to Stem Ruble Decline
2014-12-16,India launches crackdown on Islamic State
2014-12-16,Russian public names Putin Man of the Year
2014-12-16,"Police raid homes of anti-Arab activists, 10 arrested - National Israel News"
2014-12-16,Erdogan tells EU to 'mind own business' in Turkey mass arrests targeting opposition media
2014-12-16,Food Prices in Russia Soar as Ruble Tumbles Further: Food prices in Russia have grown by 20 to 25 percent since the beginning of the year and are expected to rise even further in 2015
2014-12-16,Psychologist admits he waterboarded al Qaeda suspects.
2014-12-16,Russian Politician Raids Gay Club With Cameras and Riot Police
2014-12-16,The Sydney hostage-taker had fled Iran after a $200K fraud case
2014-12-16,North Korea is asking the United Nations Security Council to put the CIA's harsh treatment of terror suspects on its agenda for debate.
2014-12-16,Ruble hits 77 per dollar despite rate raise - BBC News
2014-12-15,"Lindt Chocolat Cafe hostage drama in Martin Place, Sydney"
2014-12-15,"Police storm Sydney Cafe, gunfire erupting, more hostages escape"
2014-12-15,"Sydney siege: Sydney commuters volunteer to ride by Muslims side, hashtag #illridewithyou trends on twitter"
2014-12-15,"High profile drug lord prisoners in Manila revealed to have hotel-like cells. Jacuzzis, home theater system, PS4, air conditioning, and a sex doll, among others, discovered."
2014-12-15,Anonymous hacks Swedish govt emails over seizure of Pirate Bay servers
2014-12-15,Chinese authorities vowed to severely punish Chinese travelers who threw hot water and noodles on a Thai flight attendant and threatened to bomb the plane after they became enraged over sitting arrangements.
2014-12-15,"Cheney says CIA interrogators were heroes | Ex-US vice-president insists CIA's enhanced interrogation techniques worked and says ""I'll do it again""."
2014-12-15,"Pope Francis Says Equating Islam With Violence Is Wrong. ""You just cant say that, just as you cant say that all Christians are fundamentalists. We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups,"" he said."
2014-12-15,Plastic-Eating Fungi Farm Turns Waste into Edible Treats: A team in Austria has created a system for using commonly uneaten parts of fungi to break down plastic while simultaneously producing a novelty food product
2014-12-15,"Scientist proposes basic evolution can be explained using physical laws, and the origin of life should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill."
2014-12-15,"Stupid US sanctions wont undo my government, says Venezuelas President Nicolas Maduro: Have you ever heard of such arrogance? Maduro asked angrily. As if we cared about visas to get in the United States.  Idiots! he roared"
2014-12-15,"Japan is working on doing for the hydrogen fuel cell what it accomplished with computer chips and cars in the last century, slashing costs to make them more appealing to consumers."
2014-12-15,Shin Bet thwarts planned suicide attack in Tel Aviv
2014-12-15,Mention of Israel banned at Irish national Holocaust memorial
2014-12-15,Sydney Opera House evacuated.
2014-12-15,Snowden Receives Human Rights Award in Berlin: Reports
2014-12-15,Merkel in dilemma as German anti-Islam marches gain support
2014-12-15,Palestinians say they will seek UN vote on resolution to end Israeli occupation
2014-12-15,"Hamas holds Gaza military parade, vows Israel's destruction"
2014-12-15,"Belgium risks coming to a virtual standstill Monday as the biggest national strike for years grounds all flights, halts public transport and severs international train links in protest at the new government's austerity policies."
2014-12-15,"Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada, accounting for more than a third of total workplace death claims approved last year and nearly a third since 1996, new national data obtained from the Association of Workers Compensation Boards of Canada."
2014-12-15,"Chechnya human rights office set on fire after it criticised the Russian republic's president, 2 activists detained by police"
2014-12-15,Ex-Mossad chief: Peace will elude us until we treat Palestinians with dignity
2014-12-15,Turkey arrests 27 journalists in media crackdown.
2014-12-15,"Germany 'sees rise in far-right extremism': Police note a significant rise in far-right extremism, as anti-Islam marches in Dresden draw high numbers."
2014-12-14,"For the second time this year, a Russian military aircraft turned off its transponders to avoid commercial radar and nearly collided with a passenger jet over Sweden, officials have said."
2014-12-14,Rangers Kill Three Poachers in South Africa
2014-12-14,"An Indian court has rejected German drug giant Bayer's bid to block a generic version of its blockbuster cancer treatment Nexavar by a local drugmaker, a move hailed by activists on Saturday."
2014-12-14,"Turkish police raid media outlets associated with Erdogan rival: Turkish police have staged ""anti-terrorism"" raids on a TV broadcaster and a newspaper, detaining several people. The media outlets have ties to a US-based Muslim cleric who is a bitter rival of the Turkish president."
2014-12-14,"Spain passes anti-protest bill, to considerable protest"
2014-12-14,"North Korea parades an American who denounces the U.S. system: a US citizen has shown up in the repressive state, appearing on television to denounce his home country as a Mafia enterprise and call American democracy an illusion"
2014-12-14,"China has offered to help Iraq defeat Sunni extremists with support for air strikes, according to Ibrahim Jafari, Iraq's foreign minister."
2014-12-14,A Turkish government whistleblower who claims to be in the inner circle of President Recep Tayyip Erdoan has exposed a government plan which he says aims to hold full control of the high judiciary
2014-12-14,Russia Warns May Send Troops To Ukraine After Congress Unanimously Votes To Give Lethal Aid To Kiev
2014-12-14,"Scottish government accused of abandoning wave power, including award-winning wave energy pioneer Pelamis"
2014-12-14,"Former CIA director Michael Hayden defended agencys use of rectal rehydration, calling it a medical procedure."
2014-12-14,"Daesh smuggling oil via Turkey, Iraq says"
2014-12-14,"Chinese hackers used tempting emails, malware and password theft to worm their way into Canadian National Research Council computers in pursuit of valuable scientific and trade secrets, a newly released federal analysis reveals."
2014-12-14,"British torture inquiry not afraid to embarrass PM, head says | Intelligence committee chief Sir Malcolm Rifkind says he will ask US for missing passages revealing any UK involvement in torture and rendition"
2014-12-14,"The judges rejected an appeal by Bayer on Friday that contested a March 2012 decision by India's patent controller, who had argued the price charged by Bayer for the liver and kidney drug -- $5,500-per-person, per month in India -- was far too costly for most Indians."
2014-12-14,Tories accused of trying to buy election with 23% hike to campaign spending - Huge increase quietly slipped through despite Electoral Commission objections over undue influence
2014-12-14,"IS beheaded 4 Christian children, says Vicar of Baghdad"
2014-12-14,Two Turkish TV producers detained as operation against media starts
2014-12-14,What shall we do with drunken sailors? Canada to ban booze on warships | The Royal Canadian Navy on Friday imposed an almost total ban on sailors drinking at sea after a warship had to be recalled from an international exercise because inebriated crew members got into trouble.
2014-12-14,Guantanamo general: Foolishness to say U.S. has lost moral high ground on human rights following the release of a Senate report detailing the brutal treatment of detainees by the CIA
2014-12-14,Spain passes tough new 'anti-protest' law
2014-12-14,"A trio of major industry players has submitted the highest-ever bid for oil exploration rights in the Newfoundland offshore. The partnership  comprising ExxonMobil Canada Ltd., Suncor Energy Inc. and ConocoPhillips Canada Resources Corp.  will pay $559 million for a 266,139-hectare parcel"
2014-12-14,Goldman Sachs CEO sees bright side of poverty in China
2014-12-14,Russia's Defense Ministry on Sunday denied Swedish claims that for the second time this year a Russian military aircraft had nearly collided with a passenger jet over Sweden
2014-12-14,"Vancouver being transformed by new wave of brash, rich Asians looking for safe place to park their cash"
2014-12-13,"Visa, MasterCard sued for blocking donations to WikiLeaks"
2014-12-13,Leak Exposes Hollywood's Global Anti-Piracy Strategy
2014-12-13,"US may have had black site in Romania, says ex spy chief"
2014-12-13,China used more cement in the last three years than the US used in the entire 20th century.
2014-12-13,"Taliban kill 12 landmine clearers - Taliban gunmen have shot dead 12 people working to clear landmines in southern Helmand province, Afghan police say."
2014-12-13,Russia says will react if U.S. imposes new sanctions.
2014-12-13,China tests hypersonic strike vehicle that can breach US missile shield
2014-12-13,A mother-of-six has been jailed for five years and three months for promoting terrorism on Facebook
2014-12-13,"There is now a direct freight train route between China and Madrid, Spain. The journey takes 21 days and covers 13,000 km through seven countries."
2014-12-13,Google will reportedly move engineers out of its Russian office to avoid the country's increasingly restrictive Internet freedom laws.
2014-12-13,"After 3 decades, Germany is re-investigating its most mysterious terrorist attack"
2014-12-13,India holds man running one of the biggest pro-ISIL Twitter account
2014-12-13,Protesters have set fire to several empty buildings allocated to house the increasing number of asylum seekers arriving in Germany.
2014-12-13,Today Swiss parliament passed bill that gives authorities power to investigate FIFA
2014-12-13,"Pope Francis refuses to meet with Dalai Lama, reportedly to avoid upsetting China"
2014-12-13,Mexicans search for bodies reveals a history of hidden deaths
2014-12-13,"Butt-Breathing Turtle Now Critically Endangered - Unfortunately, breathing out of your butt requires very specific conditions that no longer exist in the turtles only habitat, Queenslands Connors River and three nearby catchments. Dams, weirs, agriculture and mining have left the water sluggish."
2014-12-13,"Edward Snowden lawyer calls on Europeans to prosecute US torture architects | They need to know that theyll run into severe trouble if they enter Europe; Wolfgang Kaleck represented Khaled El Masri, who was tortured by the CIA"
2014-12-13,"Iran Extends Visas for 450,000 Afghan Refugees"
2014-12-13,"After U.S. torture report, Poland asks what its leaders knew."
2014-12-13,UN peacekeeping troops fire at protesters demanding resignation of Haiti's prime minister
2014-12-13,Denmark votes against recognizing Palestine
2014-12-13,Zen Temple In Japan Becomes First To Perform Same-Sex Marriage Ceremonies
2014-12-13,Leaked: EU Commission plot to ditch waste and air pollution laws
2014-12-13,"Hundreds of British troops are to be sent to Iraq next month to help win the fight against Isis militants, the Defence Secretary has said."
2014-12-12,Canada just made it legal for police to search your cellphone without a warrant upon arrest.
2014-12-12,Untrained CIA Agents Were Just Making Up Torture Methods As They Went Along
2014-12-12,A face-sitting protest is happening outside Parliament in the UK as people protest new laws banning many acts in pornography
2014-12-12,"ISIS releases horrifying sex slave pamphlet, justifies child rape"
2014-12-12,Notorious Islamic State Twitter propagandist revealed to be a Bangalore executive. He induced others to join ISIS but himself refrained from joining it due to family concerns.
2014-12-12,Catholic Church in Australia concedes celibacy may have contributed to child sex abuse
2014-12-12,"US Senator Carl Levin says a claim used in 2003 to justify the US-led invasion of Iraq was based on ""fiction""; claims an alleged al Qaeda-Iraqi meeting in Prague never took place."
2014-12-12,US hid UK links in torture report at request of British spy agencies
2014-12-12,"ISIS leader: ""If there was no American prison in Iraq, there would be no ISIS"""
2014-12-12,CIA attacks torture report; fears legal action around world
2014-12-12,"""The F-35 has no clear edge over three other fighter jets Canada is considering to replace its aging fleet, a declassified government-commissioned report says."""
2014-12-12,Dozens of shots fired at Israeli embassy in Athens
2014-12-12,China's Xinjiang to ban burqas in public
2014-12-12,"Finnish intelligence: Most who leave to join Isis are Finns - Half of the Isis recruits have lived their whole lives in Finland while two thirds hold Finnish citizenship, security officials said on Thursday."
2014-12-12,"More than $31 billion worth of food is wasted every year in Canada and when energy, water and other resource costs are factored in the true cost could be up to three times that much, a new report suggests."
2014-12-12,Island Nations Are Now Screaming It: Climate Change Will Sink Us
2014-12-12,"""For more than two years, a U.S. agency secretly infiltrated Cuba's underground hip-hop movement, recruiting unwitting rappers to spark a youth movement against the government, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press."""
2014-12-12,"Rhino horn trafficking surging out of control, say campaigners"
2014-12-12,London airspace closed by regulator
2014-12-12,Court rejects attempt to allow Edward Snowden into Germany: Opposition parties wanted Snowden to give evidence in person to a parliamentary committee investigating NSA espionage
2014-12-12,Food Prices In Russia Rise Considerably. Inflation has reached 9.4%.
2014-12-12,Abbas: 'I support Egypt's measures against Hamas'
2014-12-12,The most influential pro-Islamic State Twitter account to be followed by foreign jihadis - Shami Witness - is shut down after a Channel 4 News investigation uncovers the identity of the man behind it
2014-12-12,New Sharia-Compliant Islamic Doll With No Facial Features Launched In Britain
2014-12-12,"Youngest Nobel Peace Prize Winner Asks Why Giving Guns is Easier Than Giving Books - Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but so weak in bringing peace?"""
2014-12-11,"'Each time police shut Pirate Bay, well multiply other servers' | No matter how many times law enforcement cracks down on The Pirate Bay, it will find a way to re-open, the Berlin chairman of the Pirate Party said"
2014-12-11,World Wide Web inventor says Internet should be 'human right'
2014-12-11,Google is closing Google News in Spain and removing Spanish media outlets from the service ahead of new law forcing Google to pay for using publishers content
2014-12-11,A $104 million donation from Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has helped restore food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian refugees as winter approaches.
2014-12-11,"New Leak Reveals Luxembourg Tax Deals for Disney, Koch Brothers Empire"
2014-12-11,"New documents reveal Canadian Govt. opted out of nearly every resolution to protect endangered species at last CITES convention, filing more reservations in 2013 than Iceland, Japan, and the UK have over the entire 39-year history of the treaty."
2014-12-11,We found an ancient lake on Mars  a sign the planet may have once been habitable
2014-12-11,Brazil president weeps as she unveils report on military dictatorship's abuses. Dilma Rousseff was herself tortured; 191 people killed; 243 disappeared. US and UK trained interrogators in torture during 1964-85 military rule
2014-12-11,"Mass online surveillance and censorship of what people see on the web appear to be getting worse, according to the latest report from Tim Berners-Lees World Wide Web Foundation"
2014-12-11,ISIS throw man off roof for being gay
2014-12-11,"Full scale of plastic in the world's oceans revealed for first time - over 5,000,000,000,000 pieces."
2014-12-11,Peru indignant at Greenpeace stunt at ancient Nazca lines - Peru will seek criminal charges against Greenpeace activists who damaged the world-renowned Nazca lines by leaving footprints in the adjacent desert during a publicity stunt
2014-12-11,China urges U.S. to correct ways after torture report
2014-12-11,"India, the worlds third-largest polluter, will spend at least $100 billion on climate-related projects but isnt ready to follow China and the U.S., the top two emitters, in promising to limit its fossil-fuel emissions."
2014-12-11,Russia raises interest rates to 10.5%
2014-12-11,U.S. Navy says new laser weapon is ready for action
2014-12-11,Piles of bodies discovered in Sierra Leone as number of confirmed cases increases past 100 a day. - Ebola burial teams exhausted.
2014-12-11,Russian-Indian reactor deal | Russian President Putin and Indian Prime Minister Modi have announced a deal for Moscow to help New Delhi build more nuclear reactors
2014-12-11,"More than 100,000 people show up in Dublin to protest the water taxes being forced on the Irish people."
2014-12-11,US agency infiltrated Cuban hip-hop scene to spark youth unrest
2014-12-11,"A soldier in Somalia has avenged the killing of his wife by shooting dead five women related to militant Islamists, an official has said. He suspected that the women had colluded with the murderers of his wife, who was also a soldier, he added."
2014-12-11,"China's Urumqi bans Islamic veil, sparking rights concerns"
2014-12-11,Abe defends Japans secrets law that could jail whistleblowers for 10 years
2014-12-11,Mexican citizen interrupts Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Prize ceremony
2014-12-11,Palestinian minister autopsy reveals he died from heart attack
2014-12-10,UK: Porn protest to shock with mass face-sitting and fake sex
2014-12-10,"The CIA's harsh interrogations of terrorist detainees during the Bush era didn't work, were more brutal than previously revealed and delivered no ""ticking time bomb"" information that prevented an attack, according to an explosive Senate report released Tuesday."
2014-12-10,"C.I.A. Kept Bush Ill Informed on Interrogation Tactics, Torture Report Says"
2014-12-10,UN official wants CIA and Bush administration officials prosecuted for torture  and says any country can do it
2014-12-10,Ebola Fighters Are TIME's Person of the Year 2014
2014-12-10,Two psychologists who pushed torture program were paid $81 million for their work
2014-12-10,Russian Billionaire buys Nobel Prize and hands it back to scientist
2014-12-10,"Ex-CIA Operative Says Prison Was Punishment for Whistleblowing on Torture | John Kiriakou is the only CIA employee connected to its interrogation program to go to prison. But he was prosecuted for providing info to reporters, not for actions that todays Senate Intel Committee report calls torture"
2014-12-10,Income inequality slows GDP | Today's economy would be bigger if the richest 10 percent hadn't increased their share of total income.
2014-12-10,Greenpeace damages Nazca lines while setting up a banner.
2014-12-10,Pirate Bay sets sail for Costa Rica following Swedish raid
2014-12-10,CIA lied over 'brutal' interrogations.
2014-12-10,"Indian Government decriminalizes attempt to commit suicide, removes section 309"
2014-12-10,Extremists using immigrant gangs to intimidate in Denmark
2014-12-10,NASAs Curiosity rover finds evidence of 3.5 billion year old Water Lake in Gale Crater
2014-12-10,"The CIAs post-9/11 embrace of torture was brutal and ineffective  and the agency repeatedly lied about its usefulness, a milestone report by the Senate intelligence committee released on Tuesday concludes"
2014-12-10,"Gorbachev calls for U.S.-Russia summit to defrost ties ""This is extremely dangerous, with tensions as high as they are now. We may not live through these days: someone could lose their nerve,"" he wrote in a commentary entitled ""To unfreeze relations"" for government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta."
2014-12-10,North Korea asks a former detainee to pay the bill for his stay
2014-12-10,"New leaked documents reveal more firms, including Skype and the Koch empire, use Grand Duchy for favourable tax arrangements, putting pressure on European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker"
2014-12-10,One in five Australian households now use solar
2014-12-10,Pakistan's blasphemy laws backfire on religious groups
2014-12-10,"Kim Dotcom Is Not a Fugitive, Court Hears - In a new court filing Megaupload's legal team refutes the U.S. Government's claim that Kim Dotcom and his former colleagues are fugitives. The filing further reveals efforts to uncover the MPAA's involvement in the criminal investigation into Megaupload..."
2014-12-10,George W. Bush: The U.S. didn't use torture against suspected terrorists
2014-12-10,British windfarms set new power production record. 43% of Britains homes were powered by wind last Sunday
2014-12-10,Tanzania's albino community: 'Killed like animals'
2014-12-09,"Hackers tell Sony to halt the release of ""The Interview"""
2014-12-09,"Elephant Slaughter, Ivory Sales ""Out of Control"": Wild Elephants Could Disappear Within a Generation"
2014-12-09,Germany: Thousands join anti-Islam protest against European spread of ISIS and al-Qaeda
2014-12-09,NSA warrantless bulk phone metadata spying continues unabated | Metadata snooping re-authorized a fourth time despite Obama's reform pledge.
2014-12-09,"Hong Kong protesters given Thursday deadline to clear sites, building up to a final showdown between pro-democracy activists and authorities backed by Beijing"
2014-12-09,Revealed: how the wealth gap holds back economic growth (the concept of trickle-down economics dismissed)
2014-12-09,Oil drops $2 to five-year low on oversupply
2014-12-09,CIA torture report: US raises security ahead of release
2014-12-09,Hackers Dump Thousands of Rostov Police Documents on Internet; Evidence of Soldiers Wounded in Ukraine
2014-12-09,Indonesia plans to remove moral and religious education from curriculum
2014-12-09,Israel Indicts American Over Plot to Bomb Muslims
2014-12-09,Another Anti-Polio Worker Is Killed in Pakistan
2014-12-09,Maldives in crisis as water supply dries up: Tiny island nation enters fifth day without drinking water as government scrambles to repair desalination plant
2014-12-09,"IS militants use Australian recruits as 'cannon fodder': At least 20 Australians have been killed fighting alongside militants in Iraq and Syria, the Australian government has said."
2014-12-09,Russia is not the only country feeling the pain of a low price of oil. Canada is getting nervous.
2014-12-09,"Ebola is still spreading quickly in western Sierra Leone and deep in the forested interior of Guinea and more foreign health workers are needed to help tackle the epidemic, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday."
2014-12-09,World Bank Predicts Russian Economy Will Shrink 0.7 Percent Next Year
2014-12-09,"Estonia Imports Gas From Lithuania: Estonia imported its first natural gas from Lithuania, via Latvia, last week in a move that reduces its energy dependence on Russia"
2014-12-09,Islamic State Claims Radioactive Device Now in Europe
2014-12-09,Ecuador indigenous leader found dead days before planned Lima protest
2014-12-09,"Solar & wind energy backed by huge majority of Australians, poll shows - Renewables among top 3 energy choices and a separate review debunks fears of health damage from wind turbines"
2014-12-09,Moldova: 7 arrested suspected of uranium smuggling
2014-12-09,Israel Oil Spill 4 Times Worse Than Initially Thought - Country's worst-ever environmental disaster.
2014-12-09,Anger at plans to boost religious teaching in Turkey
2014-12-09,Goal to end fossil fuels by 2050 surfaces in Lima UN climate documents. Campaigners in Lima are eyeing an inevitable end to the fossil fuel industry by mid-century
2014-12-08,"Mass surveillance exposed by Snowden not justified by fight against terrorism - Report by Nils Muinieks, commissioner for human rights at the Council of Europe, says secret, massive and indiscriminate intelligence work is contrary to rule of law"
2014-12-08,The body temperature of Polish toddler rescued from severe hypothermia this week had dropped to 12.7 C (55 F). It is the lowest survived body temperature ever recorded in a human with hypothermia.
2014-12-08,Mexico says evidence proves missing students were incinerated
2014-12-08,Sixteen British police officers have been charged with criminal and disciplinary offences after they ignored cries for help from a disabled Iranian national before he was murdered by his neighbor last year
2014-12-08,"The best-known liberal TV channel in Russia has been asked to quit its rented studios in Moscow for the second time in as many months. Rain TV (Russian: TV Dozhd) is a digital channel whose output contrasts sharply with state-run media, providing a platform for alternative views."
2014-12-08,UBER banned in India's capital city New Delhi after a UBER driver was implicated in rape of a young girl yesterday
2014-12-08,"New Horizons robotic probe awakened, begins exploration of Pluto"
2014-12-08,"Uber, the U.S. online ride-hailing service, has been banned from offering service in the Netherlands. Uber could be fined up to 100,000 euros ($122,000), while drivers could face fines of 10,000 euros, the court found."
2014-12-08,Russia demands 'explanations' from Israel regarding alleged airstrike in Syria
2014-12-08,NSA's surveillance a 'trade barrier' for EU companies: EU official
2014-12-08,Merkel allies want immigrants to speak German at home
2014-12-08,Australian researchers achieve record level of efficiency in solar panels (40.4%)
2014-12-08,"Finland, Scandinavia falling short in fight against radicalisation, expert says | Yle Uutiset"
2014-12-08,Thirteen killed in failed U.S. hostage rescue bid in Yemen
2014-12-08,ISIS has released a video featuring an Ottawa man calling on his fellow Muslim countrymen to carry out lone-wolf attacks on Canadian targets.
2014-12-08,Mother Sues France Over Underage Son's Syria Trip
2014-12-08,EU parliament calls on Pakistan to abolish the death penalty for blasphemy
2014-12-08,"Turkish President Erdogan says that the new presidential palace has 1,150 rooms, not 1,000"
2014-12-08,"In Canada, More Jobs in Green Energy than Tar Sands: 'The global clean energy revolution isnt a future scenarioit is underway right now,' declares Clean Energy Canada"
2014-12-08,"Poland has long seen itself as stuck between the East and West, resulting in plenty of historical suffering. Russian aggression in Ukraine has many in the country fearing the worst."
2014-12-08,Rome Mayor Defies Mobster Threats and Refuses to Quit
2014-12-08,German Chancellor Angela Merkel accuses Russia of interfering in the affairs of Eastern European countries seeking closer ties with the EU
2014-12-08,6 Arrested For Looting Antiquities From Israel's 'Cave Of The Skulls'
2014-12-08,Ukraine to Allow Russian Electricity Imports After Coal Supply Falters
2014-12-08,"BC poultry farms have been placed under quarantine and more than 140,000 turkeys and chickens will be euthanized. At least seven countries have banned poultry products from either B.C. or all of Canada."
2014-12-07,"In an unprecedented move, Afghanistan hands over key Taliban commander wanted by Pakistan as ties between the two countries continue on their rapid upswing."
2014-12-07,Old laptop batteries could power slums: An IBM study analysed a sample of discarded batteries and found 70% had enough power to keep an LED light on more than four hours a day for a year
2014-12-07,"Syrian troops have repelled an attack by jihadists from the Islamic State group on a key military airport in the eastern Deir Ezzor province, killing more than 100 Islamic State Jihadists"
2014-12-07,Parthenon marbles: Greece furious over British loan to Russia | Greek prime minister says loan of statue from pillaged frieze puts end to British Museum argument that disputed antiquities are immovable
2014-12-07,Paris mayor announces plans to ban diesel cars from French capital by 2020
2014-12-07,"Superbugs are killing India's newborns, the New York Times reports -- and the entire world's at risk"
2014-12-07,"Former Vatican bank heads accused of embezzlement, accounts seized: Reports said they had siphoned off between 50 and 60 million euros ($61 and $73 million) while managing the sale by the bank of 29 buildings"
2014-12-07,Ecuador indigenous leader found dead days before planned Lima protest  Shuar leader Jos Isidro Tendetza Antn missing since 28 November  Activists believe death linked to opposition to state-Chinese mine project
2014-12-07,Irish government retroactively legalizes GCHQ surveillance revealed in Snowden docs.
2014-12-07,British workers suffer biggest real-wage fall of major G20 countries
2014-12-07,"Thousands riot in Athens as friend of teenager Alexandros, murdered by police in 2008, goes on hunger strike"
2014-12-07,"India to boost clean energy capacity 5-fold, but not ready to cut carbon emissions. India doubled its coal tax to 100 rupees per ton and will use the estimated $9.4 million generated for projects that would boost the country's solar power capacity to 100 gigawatts by 2020."
2014-12-07,Al-qaeda and Isis fight between themself near Lebanon border
2014-12-07,The Israeli Air Force bombed Syrian Army positions in Syria
2014-12-07,Bolivias Legislature Unanimously Recognizes Armenian Genocide
2014-12-07,"A secret legal regime that governs mass surveillance by the UK intelligence agencies does not breach human rights, tribunal rules: a govt document revealed that GCHQ does not need a warrant in order to receive bulk data from the NSA and other foreign agencies"
2014-12-07,Infestation of deadly South American red fire ants in Sydney
2014-12-07,"Mexico missing student ""identified"" from charred remains in Guerrero."
2014-12-07,Two members of Theresa Mays panel inquiring into child sex abuse are facing calls to resign after being accused of sending threatening or insulting emails to victims who had criticised the inquiry.
2014-12-07,Chechnya's Kremlin-backed strongman: the families of rebels who toke part in the raid that left 25 people dead will be punished by being deported and having their houses destroyed
2014-12-07,Artificial intelligence: Hawking's fears stir debate
2014-12-07,India will not back sanctions against Russia
2014-12-07,Vote for same sex marriage would be 'grave injustice': Irish church
2014-12-07,Kenya bus attack survivor: 'I played dead'
2014-12-07,UN reveals Israeli links with Syrian rebels- Reports by UN observers in the Golan submitted to 15 members of Security Council detail regular direct contact between IDF officers and armed Syrian opposition figures at the border.
2014-12-06,The 12 member Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) has taken a step toward creating South American citizenship and freedom of movement.
2014-12-06,"Nigerian Billionaire Tony Elumelu Commits $100 Million To Create 10,000 African Entrepreneurs In 10 Years"
2014-12-06,Orion spaceship makes splashdown
2014-12-06,Swiss Hostage Kills Guard And Flees Militants
2014-12-06,Al Qaeda kills American hostage during raid by U.S. forces in Yemen
2014-12-06,Pakistan military kills al-Qaeda leader wanted in U.S.
2014-12-06,Russia's elections head threatened on air to sue anyone who brought up an incident during the disputed 2011 parliamentary elections in which state TV showed voting figures that added up to 146 percent
2014-12-06,Iran has adopted a bylaw which calls for the release of and free access to public information without inquiring about the intention of applicants.
2014-12-06,India airlifts 200 tonnes of water to resolve national crisis in Maldives caused by a fire in its capital's lone water treatment plant
2014-12-06,Chief constable warns against drift towards police state | UK news
2014-12-06,China rejecting American corn
2014-12-06,Pakistani Islamic preacher (who supports blasphemy law) has been accused of blasphemy himself and has escaped the country.
2014-12-06,Two Britons who fought in Syria and were arrested upon returning to Britain after their families cooperated with the police
2014-12-06,"Morale poor among RAF crews in Cyprus doing raids against the Islamic State ""with broken jets and tired and fed-up people"""
2014-12-06,"Russia is ready to file a lawsuit against France for indefinitely suspending the delivery of two Mistral helicopter carrier warships to Russia, an official has said."
2014-12-06,Obama says he willing to defy Democrats on his support of Trans-Pacific Partnership
2014-12-06,Iran confirms it carried out air strikes against Islamic State extremists in Iraq.
2014-12-06,Nobel medal for DNA discovery brings more than $4.7 million at auction
2014-12-06,"Spying laws are not fit for purpose and need to be overhauled, a group of MPs have said. A report by the Home Affairs Select Committee said the laws have been used to spy on journalists, adding this was not acceptable and could stop whistleblowers from coming forward"
2014-12-06,Toronto police want board chair to quit over Facebook post
2014-12-06,"Ukraines electricity crisis deepens, as a plans to import South African coal collapses."
2014-12-06,"Over 7,000 ISIS fighters banned from entry into Turkey"
2014-12-06,"US embassy warns of terrorist attacks in Gaziantep, Turkey."
2014-12-06,"Russias Smartphone YotaPhone 2 Dual-Screened, Spy-Free, Putin-Approved iPhone Rival"
2014-12-06,"Free trade with U.S.? Europe balks at chlorine chicken, hormone beef."
2014-12-05,Orion deep space capsule launches.
2014-12-05,Dozens of Chinese held in Kenya accused of preparing to raid the country's communications systems
2014-12-05,Germany tries 20-year-old man who fought with ISIS in Syria and sentences him to 3 years 9 months.
2014-12-05,"Blame your boss, not China, for stagnant wage growth: ILO"
2014-12-05,France ordered to pay Somali pirates up to $5000 each for detaining them for 48 hours too long before appearing in a court.
2014-12-05,Chinese researchers report that a common pantry pest harbors bacteria that can digest plastic.
2014-12-05,China overtakes the US as world's largest economy
2014-12-05,Tony Blair says politicians are underpaid
2014-12-05,Snowden docs show NSA spied on global cellphone networks
2014-12-05,"An undercover police officer has been accused of encouraging and helping an animal rights campaigner to commit illegal acts which led to his being jailed for four years, according to legal documents"
2014-12-05,"Putin: Under No Circumstances Will Moscow Stop Cooperating With Europe, US"
2014-12-05,"Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday condemned the United Nations Security Council for being an unrepresentative ""Christian body,"" as well as the ""biased"" decisions of Norway's Nobel Prize Committee."
2014-12-05,Charity in France Is Accused of Being a Front for Financing Terrorism in Syria
2014-12-05,Land Mines Arent Killing As Many People As They Used To
2014-12-05,Turkish PM implies that gender equality triggers suicides
2014-12-05,"Scientists find ancient case of human cancer in man who died 4,500 years ago"
2014-12-05,"Corruption a 'problem for all,' latest global index shows"
2014-12-05,"Islamic Militants Attack Grozny, Chechnyas Capital, Leaving 19 Dead"
2014-12-05,"The new 42m Alan Turing Institute for Data Science, dedicated to the second world war Enigma codebreaker, is to be based at the British Library at the centre of a new Knowledge Quarter, George Osborne announced on Thursday."
2014-12-05,Cameroons National Assembly has voted into law a bill tabled by government prescribing death sentence on individuals who stage public demonstrations. - deliberately defines the word terrorism to include citizens who carry out public protest against the regime.
2014-12-05,"U.K. to Repay World War I Loan - The War Loan, a slice of perpetual debt with no fixed maturity date and a 3.5% coupon, was issued in 1932 to refinance war debt first sold in 1917 amid a patriotic campaign to fund the war effort."
2014-12-05,"UK mass surveillance laws do not breach human rights, tribunal rules - Rights groups brought case against GCHQ after Snowden revelations on extent of electronic surveillance in UK and US"
2014-12-05,Latvian politician forced to step down after tweeting Thank God Nazis shot gays
2014-12-05,Reports: Obama Mulling Sanctions on Israel
2014-12-05,Putin tells Russia: Hard times are coming
2014-12-04,"NASA officially announces Manned Mars Mission, test launch will begin tomorrow testing orbiter."
2014-12-04,Vatican finds hundreds of millions of euros 'tucked away': cardinal
2014-12-04,"16 Major Cruise Lines Released Over a Billion Gallons of Sewage Into the Ocean in 2014 - Beyond 3 miles from shore, the cruise lines may dump wastewater directly into the ocean, & many of them rely on old & antiquated water-treatment systems."
2014-12-04,"Isis recruits are begging to be allowed to return home | Foreign recruits have been writing to their parents with feeble excuses ""I'm fed up to the back teeth. My iPod no longer works out here. I have got to come home,"" one of the foreign IS recruits was quoted as saying."
2014-12-04,Angela Merkel speaks against net neutrality
2014-12-04,"President Vladimir Putin warned Russians of hard times and urged self-reliance, speaking to both chambers in the Kremlin, Mr Putin accused Western governments of seeking to raise a new iron curtain around Russia."
2014-12-04,Iran sentences blogger to death for insulting the Prophet Muhammad
2014-12-04,ISIS claims constructing dirty bomb after stealing 40kg of uranium
2014-12-04,Pentagon fears blowback from humane Guantnamo video release
2014-12-04,"Pacific Fishing Nations Agree on New Rules to Save Pacific Bluefin Tuna, a Species that's Nearly Fished Out Due to Sushi Trade - Tuna down to just 4% of their historic levels. Only a tiny breeding stock now approaching the end of its lifecycle is holding population together."
2014-12-04,"An Emirati woman has been arrested over the fatal stabbing of an American teacher and a foiled plot to bomb the home of another U.S. citizen, UAE authorities said Thursday."
2014-12-04,U.S. Army sending 100 tanks to Eastern Europe to deter 'Russian aggression'
2014-12-04,Gorbachev: US 'Triumphalism' Fueling New Cold War
2014-12-04,"Israel nature reserve oil spill ""one of country's worst environmental disasters"" - 3 people hospitalized after inhaling fumes from oil gushing out of a breached pipeline near Evrona reserve. Millions of litres of oil gushing out of a breached pipeline flooded a desert nature reserve."
2014-12-04,As many as 99% of Russian athletes are guilty of doping
2014-12-04,$100 billion climate finance goal 'a very small sum': UN climate chief. She said $90 trillion would be invested in infrastructure over the next 15 years.
2014-12-04,"Worlds Biggest Cave in Threatened by Cable Car - Vietnamese are protesting plans to build cable car to carry 1,000 visitors an hr to cave. Researchers fear building towers to support car could damage fragile network of caves & put pressure on already weak ceiling, triggering collapse."
2014-12-04,South Korea Will Build A Giant Christmas Tree On The DMZ To Annoy North Korea
2014-12-04,"U.K. Introduces the Google Tax: The government took aim at tech companies and other international firms, proposing a 25% tax on profits on economic activity that is shifted overseas"
2014-12-04,Cement Intended for Gaza Reconstruction Ends Up on Black Market
2014-12-04,A Japanese artist who made a kayak modelled on her own vagina has been arrested again in a case that has sparked accusations of censorship.
2014-12-04,Putin Vows to Punish Speculators Pushing Down Rubles Value
2014-12-04,NASA's Orion: first test flight for Manned Mars Rocket postponed for 24 hours.
2014-12-04,Iran has provided evidence to the U.N. atomic agency showing that documents on suspected nuclear bomb research by the country were forged
2014-12-04,"Life under ISIS Rule a 'Living Hell': Mosul (Iraq) Citizens Suffering from Lack of Clean Water, Medicine"
2014-12-03,"British man found with nailbomb, weapons cache, and plans to mass murder immigrants, not charged with terrorism"
2014-12-03,Israel must give up Nuclear Weapons: United Nations Resolution
2014-12-03,Ukraine PM discloses accident at nuclear plant: Reuters
2014-12-03,Russian state TV's latest attempt to persuade viewers of the moral depravity of the West has left it with egg on its face. What it presented as a child in the USA being exposed to lewd homoerotica was quickly shown to be a fake pornographic parody taken off the internet.
2014-12-03,DNA Confirms King Richard III's Remains Under Parking Lot
2014-12-03,An Indian state has halted mass sterilisations at health clinics after a doctor was found using a bicycle pump to inflate women's abdomens.
2014-12-03,North Korea Bans Name Jong-un for All but Leader: South Korean government officials said on Wednesday that North Korea had banned parents from giving their newborns the same name as the top leader. People who already have the name have been ordered to register with new ones
2014-12-03,"President Bashar al Assad of Syria says US-led strikes on Syria ineffective ""You can't end terrorism with aerial strikes. ''Troops on the ground that know the land and can react are essential.''"
2014-12-03,French parliament votes to recognize Palestine as a state
2014-12-03,"Rise of Turkish Islamic schooling upsets secular parents | Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms that President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defense against moral decay, but which opponents see as an unwanted drive to shape a more Islamic nation."
2014-12-03,Russian ruble in worst daily drop in 16 years
2014-12-03,"Global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars, planes, trains & ships combined, but global survey finds twice as many people think transport is bigger contributor - Fear of a consumer backlash is preventing action on getting people to eat less meat."
2014-12-03,"Soap, sunscreen and steroids found in Antarctic waters and wildlife | Range of pharmaceuticals found in fish, clams and sea urchins in waters around two research stations, says New Zealand researchers"
2014-12-03,Iran jets bomb Islamic State targets in Iraq - Pentagon
2014-12-03,"Sepp Blatter: Qatar World Cup workers welfare is not Fifas responsibility, companies are responsible for their workers - Hundreds have died on building projects"
2014-12-03,The UN General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved an Arab-backed resolution criticizing Israel for refusing to join an international treaty against nuclear proliferation and calls on Israel to join nuclear treaty
2014-12-03,Israel vents their fury with France after parliament votes to recognise Palestine as a state
2014-12-03,Indian forces kill 6 militants crossing into Kashmir to disrupt vote
2014-12-03,Melting Rate of West Antarctica Glaciers Triples: Study
2014-12-03,Green Energy Sector Jobs Surpass Total Oil Sands Employment in Canada
2014-12-03,Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood smuggling weapons into Israel
2014-12-03,"Questions raised over Queens ancestry after DNA test on Richard IIIs cousins - ""the present Queen may not be descended from John of Gaunt and Edward III, the lineage on which the Tudor claim to the throne originated."""
2014-12-03,"Topless Femen activist goes on trial in Cologne | Josephine Witt jumped up half-naked onto the altar of Cologne cathedral during Christmas mass last year, in protest against the Catholic Church."
2014-12-03,"West Antarctic Melt Rate Has Tripled: The total amount of loss averaged 83 gigatons per year (91.5 billion U.S. tons). By comparison, Mt. Everest weighs about 161 gigatons, meaning the Antarctic glaciers lost an amount of water weight equivalent to Mt. Everest every two years."
2014-12-03,"NASA has announced that a test launch of their Orion space capsule will take place on Thursday, in the first step of a mission that will take people to Mars by mid-2030."
2014-12-02,A long list of sex acts just got banned in UK porn
2014-12-02,Edward Snowden wins Swedish human rights award for NSA revelations | Whistleblower receives several standing ovations in Swedish parliament as he wins Right Livelihood award
2014-12-02,Sony Drops FIFA Sponsorship Amid Corruption Scandal.
2014-12-02,"A british oil company is cutting its new CEOs pay by more than half, in a rare win for shareholders who had opposed the companys initial proposal for compensating chief executive Helge Lund."
2014-12-02,"Russia will hit recession in 2015 because of oil and Ukraine, Kremlin admits"
2014-12-02,"Charles Darwin's notebooks in which he first jotted down his theory of evolution have been put online in one of the most significant worldwide releases of the naturalist's material - Over 12,000 images have been digitised by the University of Cambridge."
2014-12-02,Indian tycoon throws mass wedding for fatherless women.
2014-12-02,North Korea says U.S. created the Ebola outbreak
2014-12-02,2013 homicide rate in Canada lowest since 1966
2014-12-02,"In Senegal, desperate mothers kill their own babies due to strict abortion laws and heavy societal pressure. ""They leave the infants out in the middle of the forest to starve to death or get eaten by wild animals. Others strangle them or throw them in the septic tank,"" said one legal counselor."
2014-12-02,Experts say they have achieved a scientific milestone - creating enzymes out of artificial genetic material that they made in their lab
2014-12-02,The EU's top court has ruled that refugees who claim asylum on the grounds that they are homosexual should not have to undergo tests to prove it.
2014-12-02,Lebanese army has detained wife of Islamic State leader Baghdadi and one of his sons at border crossing with Syria: Lebanese officials
2014-12-02,"At climate talks, UN calls fossil fuels 'high risk' investment. Oil price volatility ""is exactly one of the main reasons why we must move to renewable energy which has a completely predictable cost of zero for fuel"" once wind turbines or solar panels were built, she told a news conference."
2014-12-02,Stephen Hawking warns artificial intelligence could end mankind
2014-12-02,Study finds that HIV may be evolving into a milder form
2014-12-02,"Iran Bombing Islamic State In Iraq, U.S. Official Confirms"
2014-12-02,Waterborne disease plagues ISIS occupied Mosul
2014-12-02,Costa Rica celebrates 66th anniversary of the abolition of its army  The Tico Times
2014-12-02,1.7m Syrian refugees face food crisis as UN funds dry up
2014-12-02,Putin cancels new natural gas pipeline to Europe in a surprise move
2014-12-02,Russian jet nearly hits Nato jet over Norway
2014-12-02,Iranian Phantom jet strikes the Islamic State in Iraq
2014-12-02,Japan to Launch Asteroid Lander Tonight: Watch It Live
2014-12-02,North Korean Government Thought To Be Behind Sony Pictures Hack
2014-12-01,Kim Dotcom walks Free After three days of hearings in Auckland
2014-12-01,"Iraqi army 'had 50,000 ghost troops' on payroll"
2014-12-01,"Alberta pipeline spills 60,000 litres of crude oil into muskeg"
2014-12-01,"'Picasso painting offered as kickback': A painting, believed to be a Picasso, was allegedly gifted to Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) president and FIFA executive member Michel Platini in return for his support for the eventually successful Russian bid for the 2018 global showpiece"
2014-12-01,Beginning of the end: AIDS is finally reaching a tipping point. The number of people newly infected with HIV over the last year is on the decline.
2014-12-01,Thousands of Russians have staged marches in Moscow and other cities in protest at health reforms which include plans to close hospitals and cut jobs
2014-12-01,Poland elects first openly gay mayor in elections
2014-12-01,"Arab-Jewish school, symbol of Jerusalem co-existence, torched"
2014-12-01,"ISIS may possesss nuclear material stolen from Iraq, report says"
2014-12-01,"Putin confirms support for independent Palestinian state; We believe that Palestines acquisition of national sovereignty on the common international legal base will be an important factor in ensuring a comprehensive, just settlement in the Middle East,"
2014-12-01,"Indian ISIS ""recruit"" returns home. His role was to clean toilets and give soldiers water while they fought."
2014-12-01,"Hard drives, other sensitive equipment discovered missing from Mistral warship originally destined for Russia on day the deal was suspended"
2014-12-01,Russia to give Iran grain in return for oil
2014-12-01,"Germany says 300 jihadists facing trial, anti-terrorism laws working"
2014-12-01,Nigeria Parliament: Shell Should Pay $3.6 Billion For 2011 Bonga Oil Spill
2014-12-01,Moody's cuts Japan credit rating
2014-12-01,Deutsche Bahn sues airlines over price-fixing | German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) is filing a billion-euro lawsuit against more than a dozen airlines over allegations of running a 'global cargo cartel.'
2014-12-01,Send our jihadis to Devil's Island! French politician demands Paris reopens 'Papillon' jail for terrorists
2014-12-01,China warns British MPs they will be denied entry to Hong Kong
2014-12-01,EUROPE - Dutch MP calls for removal of all mosques in Netherlands
2014-12-01,Netanyahu's government on verge of collapse over controversial Jewish nation state bill
2014-12-01,"Switzerland voters reject immigration cap | Final referendum results show 74 percent voted ""no"" on limiting net immigration to fewer than 17,000 people a year."
2014-12-01,Worlds Most Polluted City Urged to Close Schools on Bad Air Days - The rapidly worsening air quality in the Indian capital of Delhi has officials calling for drastic measures to address the growing public health emergency.
2014-12-01,Fire causes shutdown at Belgian nuclear reactor
2014-12-01,Oil hits five-year lows in longest losing streak since 2008 crisis
2014-11-30,"Bringing up the bodies: Mexico's missing students draw attention to 20,000 'vanished' others: The disappearance of 43 student teachers lifted the lid on the open secret of Mexicos many others whove disappeared amid drug-fuelled violence"
2014-11-30,An Egyptian court has designated ISIS and all of their affiliates terrorist organizations and banned them in the country.
2014-11-30,"Pope Francis: We must condemn those who use religion to violate human rights; he condemned the barbaric violence committed by ISIS, against religious minorities in Syria, and said that military action against the group was justified"
2014-11-30,"Facebook can gain direct access to your mobile and take pictures or make videos at any time, MPs warn - Telegraph"
2014-11-30,"Black Friday in Bangladesh on the second anniversary of a massive fire at the Tazreen factory: ""Walmart still hasnt paid any compensation to the victims..."""
2014-11-30,Tigers Are Dying in Record Numbers in India
2014-11-30,"Switzerland votes on ending mass immigration: The controversial Ecopop movement wants to slash the numbers entering the country from 80,000 a year to just 16,000"
2014-11-30,Russia Is Building A Network of Military Bases In The Arctic
2014-11-30,"Large, unauthorized convoy enters east Ukraine from Russia: Ukrainian military"
2014-11-30,China overtakes Japan to become worlds second largest stock market
2014-11-30,Report: Israeli-Canadian woman fighting Islamic State has been kidnapped by terror group
2014-11-30,UN anti-torture panel urges US to cease indefinite detention without charge
2014-11-30,"1.8 Ton World War II Bomb Forces Mass Evacuation in Dortmund, Germany"
2014-11-30,"UK Muslims face worst job discrimination of any minority group, according to research"
2014-11-30,Thailand crown prince strips wife's family of royal name after some her relatives were allegedly involved in corruption: until now the lese majeste law criminalising any critical comment about the monarchy meant that no Thai media had pointed out the family connection
2014-11-30,Hong Kong Protesters Charge Police at Government Offices
2014-11-30,Abbas accuses U.S. of blocking creation of Palestinian state
2014-11-30,"Bombs, gunfire kill 81 at crowded mosque in Nigeria's Kano"
2014-11-30,Venezuela prison overdose kills 35 |
2014-11-30,Malaysia to end oil subsidies
2014-11-30,Syria plagued by flesh-eating maggot disease
2014-11-30,"Egyptian security forces fire teargas, birdshot to disperse Mubarak verdict protest"
2014-11-30,"Airstrikes mark shift in coalition focus, to ISIS 'capital'"
2014-11-30,"The cause of large numbers of harbour porpoises washing up on the Netherlands coast was previously unknown and contested, but an eight year-long study concludes that grey seals have learned a new trick and are preying on them."
2014-11-30,"Until now, evacuation of at-risk volunteers/workers from ebola-affected regions has been extremely difficult and costly. Lufthansa and the German government have partnered to make an aircraft available to any country requiring its service."
2014-11-29,"Germany bids farewell to brave Turkish young woman - Thousands in Germany are saying danke to a Turkish young woman who was brutally attacked for trying to rescue two German women from being harassed, before her life support is turned off on her birthday."
2014-11-29,"U.K. police force accidentally admits it spied on journalists who had not committed any crimes, using anti-terror RIPA laws. Asks paper to delete article covering this once it realized what it had done. Newspaper refuses."
2014-11-29,"China bans wordplay. Officials say casual alteration of idioms risks nothing less than cultural and linguistic chaos, despite their common usage."
2014-11-29,New Snowden Documents reveal rather comprehensive tapping of Irish undersea cables by GCHQ
2014-11-29,"A Month After Mass Rapes Were Reported in Darfur, the UN Remains Silent"
2014-11-29,Thirteen Arrested as 500 Police Storm Mosques and Homes in Austria Counter-Terror Raids | VICE News
2014-11-29,Indian man who allegedly killed 55 people fighting for ISIS quit to return home because ISIS didn't pay him
2014-11-29,Kenyan lawyers demand the prosecution of men who publicly strip women
2014-11-29,Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak acquitted on all charges
2014-11-29,"Saudi Arabia's oil minister told fellow OPEC members they must combat the U.S. shale oil boom, arguing against cutting crude output in order to depress prices and undermine the profitability of North American producers."
2014-11-29,Tanzania's Prime Minister Implicated in Massive $120m Corruption Scandal; Allegations that the Government has Resorted to Cutting Country's Power so Citizens Cannot Watch Parliamentary Proceedings
2014-11-29,Russia's Sechin Says Oil Could Fall to Below $60 Per Barrel Next Year
2014-11-29,"Muslims discovered Earth is round, Turkey's Science Minister says"
2014-11-29,Russian Navy successfully test-fires new submarine-based intercontinental ballistic missile
2014-11-29,France to back Palestinian state if peace talks fail
2014-11-29,"Beijing Store ""Bans Chinese Customers"" - Clothes shop embroiled in racism row after posting a sign that reads: 'Chinese not admitted, except for staff'. An employee says Chinese customers are ""too annoying"" & ""Chinese women often try lots of clothes but end up buying nothing."""
2014-11-29,"Taliban fighters breach Camp Bastion, a former U.S. and British base handed over to the Afghan army last month, and exchange fire with troops"
2014-11-29,Turkish President Erdogan: The West Wants Muslims Dead
2014-11-29,"Switzerland to vote on capping immigration to 1/5th of current levels ""for the environment""; bilateral relations between the EU and Switzerland on the brink"
2014-11-29,35 killed in explosions in Nigerian mosque
2014-11-29,Filipina maid rescued after video plea showing abusive conditions in Saudi Arabia
2014-11-29,China: 15 killed in terrorist attack in Xinjiang
2014-11-29,"The Worlds Largest Animal Slaughter Festival Has Begun in Nepal - The previous festival saw about 300,000 animals slaughtered, while Indian news channel CNN-IBN reports that this yr that number is up to 500,000."
2014-11-29,"Kinder Morgan stops drilling, begins moving equipment from Burnaby Mountain. ""You can't build these mega fossil-fuel projects anymore without this kind of public opposition."""
2014-11-29,"Israel foils terror plot in West Bank, busts 30 Hamas terrorists"
2014-11-28,State of emergency in Ukraine as Russia cuts off coal
2014-11-28,Finnish Parliament approves same-sex marriage
2014-11-28,For the first time since 1969 Germany has balanced its budget
2014-11-28,Bavaria plans free wifi for 'whole state'
2014-11-28,German unemployment rate falls to a record low
2014-11-28,Mexicos President Announces Federal Takeover of Local Police Forces
2014-11-28,Mexico: eleven bodies found dumped in state where 43 students went missing
2014-11-28,Indonesia cracks down on deforestation in symbolic u-turn. Indonesias reforming new president is to crack down on the rampant deforestation and peatland destruction that has made the nation the worlds third largest emitter of climate-warming carbon dioxide.
2014-11-28,"Renewable Energy Overtakes Nuclear as Scotland's Top Power Source - Clean energy produced more power in Scotland than nuclear, coal or gas for 1st time, in 1st 1/2 of 2014 industry figures show"
2014-11-28,7 Mental Health Patients Died Waiting for Beds; 1 Killed His Mother - Investigation comes as mental health beds are being cut in England. Figures show over 2100 gone since 2011. NHS accused by many of failing to understand or prioritize mental health.
2014-11-28,The first known FBI informant inside Wikileaks has plead guilty to embezzlement and fraud amounting to thirty million kronas.
2014-11-28,Social Media sites like Twitter & Facebook are being told to simplify their terms and conditions because currently it's like reading hieroglyphics or shakespeare
2014-11-28,"Fracking risk compared to thalidomide and asbestos in Walport report. History presents plenty of examples of innovation trajectories that later proved to be problematic  for instance involving asbestos, benzene, thalidomide, dioxins, lead in petrol, tobacco, many pesticides..."
2014-11-28,World Health Organization: men recovering from Ebola should abstain from sex for three months to minimize the risk of passing the virus on in their semen
2014-11-28,Oil continues to collapse a day after OPEC stands firm on production
2014-11-28,Yemen's main oil pipeline blown up; $4.5 billion has already been lost in infrastructure attacks over the past two years
2014-11-28,French president announces 1.5-bln-euro fund to finance transition to green energy
2014-11-28,"TransCanada, the energy company behind controversial Keystone Pipeline, drops PR firm after a proposal to attack companys opponents leaked - Edelman planned for TransCanada to pressure its opponents by distracting them from their mission & causing them to redirect their resources"
2014-11-28,UN Torture Watchdog Urges US to Crack Down on Police Brutality - It's the panel's 1st review of the US record on preventing torture since 2006
2014-11-28,Support for Isis stronger in Arabic social media in Europe than in Syria
2014-11-28,Venezuela's representative storm out of meeting as Opec refuses to cut oil production. Prices slump to five-year low
2014-11-28,Hong Kong protest leader alleges police sexually assaulted him
2014-11-28,"""Saudis block OPEC output cut, sending oil price plunging"""
2014-11-28,"India has suspended the US entertainment channel Comedy Central for six days for showing showing women as a ""commodity of sex"" in two shows"
2014-11-28,Israel slams Turkey: This is no way for a NATO state to act
2014-11-27,Scientists predict green energy revolution after incredible new graphene discoveries - The breakthrough raises the prospect of extracting hydrogen fuel from air and burning it as a carbon-free source of energy in a fuel cell to produce electricity and water with no damaging waste products.
2014-11-27,Dutch move 122 tons of gold out of US to Amsterdam
2014-11-27,Bollywood actress Veena Malik sentenced to 26 years in jail for blasphemy after appearing in mock TV wedding scene
2014-11-27,Chinese businessman builds luxury flats for his old village for free
2014-11-27,Canada to dress Ukrainian soldiers for winter warfare
2014-11-27,"Banks Goldman Sachs, HSBC and Standard Bank and a unit of chemical producer BASF conspired to manipulate platinum and palladium prices, according to a US lawsuit filed this week"
2014-11-27,Three priests and a religious education teacher are arrested in Spain after former altar boy writes to Pope claiming he was molested by paedophile ring
2014-11-27,"EU Wants Google Right to be Forgotten Deletions to Apply Everywhere - European Union court decided that people should be able to get search results deleted, but ruling just applies within Europe for now"
2014-11-27,7 Hong Kong Police Officers Arrested in Beating of Protester
2014-11-27,"Deforestation dropped 18% in Brazil's Amazon over past 12 months | Levels fell to second-lowest level in quarter century, Brazils environment minister said, in wake of adoption of controversial bill revising the Forest Code"
2014-11-27,30% Women Quota in Germany - Merkel govt to introduce quota for women in senior corporate positions - The quota stipulates that 30 percent of members of boards of directors or supervisory bodies in around 100 shareholding companies in the stock market must be women.
2014-11-27,"Controversial mine water bill passed in Queensland, Australia - Miners in Queensland will no longer need a licence to take ground water and will be exempt from reporting requirements for ""low-risk"" activities."
2014-11-27,Kim Jong Un's younger sister named senior official
2014-11-27,Two brothers have become the first Britons to be jailed for terrorism training in Syria in 2013.
2014-11-27,OPEC Leaves Output Ceiling Unchanged at 30 Million Barrels
2014-11-27,Angela Merkel uses strongest language yet about Putin: German chancellor signals she is ready for long confrontation over Ukraine
2014-11-27,Waving the Palestinian Flag at Protests to Be Illegal Under Israel's New Anti-Terror Plan | VICE News
2014-11-27,Biologists disturbed to find seals in Britain seemingly killing porpoises for fun
2014-11-27,"Interpreters who worked with US forces in Afghanistan are being hunted down by the Taliban. Thousands have emigrated to the US but others have been blacklisted, refused a visa, and left in grave danger."
2014-11-27,Turkey bans reporting on corruption investigation of ex-ministers
2014-11-27,Germany Warns Wrecking Russian Economy Would Be Perilous
2014-11-27,A small village in Nepal is set to make the largest animal sacrifice in the world
2014-11-27,New Snowden docs: GCHQs ties to telco gave spies global surveillance reach
2014-11-27,Edward Snowden Receives Stuttgart Peace Prize 2014
2014-11-27,"Jian Ghomeshi charged with four counts of sexual assault, could face life in prison"
2014-11-26,"""Pope Francis condemned priests and laity who turn their parishes into a 'business' by charging for things such as baptisms, blessings and Mass intentions -- calling it a scandal that's hard to forgive."""
2014-11-26,Iraqi warplanes kill ISIS commander of Heet and 22 of his aides
2014-11-26,"Vietnam seizes over 1,000 dead endangered sea turtles - Record haul were bound for illegal export to China."
2014-11-26,India to raise smoking age to 25
2014-11-26,Israeli president opposes proposed law to give national rights to Jews only
2014-11-26,Rare Shakespeare volume discovered in French library | A rare copy of Shakespeare plays spent hundreds of years hiding in a public library in a small town in northern France before it was noticed. The 1623 volume is seen as one of the most valuable books in the world.
2014-11-26,"Putin says Russia is not a threat to anyone ""We pose no threat to anyone and do not intend to get involved in any geopolitical games or intrigues, let alone conflicts, no matter who tries to draw us into them or how they do so,"" Putin told a meeting with military chiefs"
2014-11-26,Four polio vaccinators shot dead in Pakistan
2014-11-26,"Sony set to end sponsorship contract with Fifa, becoming second major sponsor to cut ties - Telegraph"
2014-11-26,Qatar arrests workers for protesting over low pay
2014-11-26,"Scientist 'terrified' of own tech - A leading scientist investigating geoengineering solutions to climate change has admitted he is ""terrified"" of his own technology."
2014-11-26,Denmark to vote on male circumcision ban
2014-11-26,Kremlin Whistle-Blower: 'Putin Has No Option But To Stay In Power'
2014-11-26,"Grenoble bans street ads, to replace billboards with trees"
2014-11-26,Save the Children staff furious over global legacy award for Tony Blair - Internal letter signed by almost 200 staff members says award is morally reprehensible and endangers STCs credibility globally
2014-11-26,"Goldman, BASF, HSBC accused of metals price fixing: U.S. lawsuit"
2014-11-26,"The US and Turkey are headed for a showdown over Syria, as evidence mounts that Ankara is enabling groups that Washington is actively bombing."
2014-11-26,"Suicide attacks by two female bombers at a crowded market in northern Nigeria's Maiduguri city have killed 78 people, medical officials say."
2014-11-26,"Shakespeare First Folio, one of only 230 believed to still exist, found in French library."
2014-11-26,"Tunisian secularist wins first presidential round, heads for run-off"
2014-11-26,"French President's office formally announces indefinite suspension of delivery for Russia's Mistral helicopter assault ships, citing Ukraine situation"
2014-11-26,Archaeologists in Denmark have uncovered an incredibly rare find: a stone age axe held within its wooden handle -
2014-11-26,Article: Tanzanias Masai breathe sigh of relief after president vows never to evict them
2014-11-26,France suspends warships deal with Russia over Ukraine crisis
2014-11-26,Jian Ghomeshi faces five charges in sexual assault investigation
2014-11-25,Scientists urge governments to turn old TV frequencies into free super WiFi
2014-11-25,Afghan woman kills 25 Taliban rebels to avenge her sons murder
2014-11-25,"Only 36% of Canadians would call Ottawa shooting a terrorist attack, while 38% blame mental illness, survey finds"
2014-11-25,Russia funds French National Front and other far-right European parties
2014-11-25,"41 men targeted but 1,147 people killed: US drone strikes  the facts on the ground. New analysis of data conducted by human rights group Reprieve shared with the Guardian, raises questions about accuracy of intelligence guiding precise strikes."
2014-11-25,"Chinese tourists are flocking to Taiwan to see democracy in action, it's been reported. There's even a ""visitor's guide"" to the elections circulating online, with do's and don'ts for those wishing to get a feel for Taiwan's unique electoral culture."
2014-11-25,"Dangerous Levels of Global Warming are Unavoidable, Says the World Bank. A two degree increase could wipe out 90 percent of coral reefs, devastating coastal ecosystems and the economies and fisheries that depend on them."
2014-11-25,Icelandic bank manager involved in 2008 financial crash sentenced to prison
2014-11-25,German league chief tells Sepp Blatter to resign over Qatar World Cup
2014-11-25,"E-cigarettes to be restricted, flavoured tobacco to be banned in Ontario"
2014-11-25,We're Eating This Poisonous Fish ... to Death - Japanese dish called fugu is a puffer fish that produces toxins so deadly it can kill if prepared improperly. Yet the delicacy is so popular that overfishing is pushing 1 species of puffer to the brink of extinction.
2014-11-25,"Unidentified jet launches airstrike on Tripoli, Lybia airport"
2014-11-25,Egyptian president says his regime is ready to protect Israel
2014-11-25,South Pacific islands prepare to sue French government for $1billion over nuclear tests |Tests were conducted from mid-1960s and saw government approved detonated of nearly 200 nuclear tests off atolls in French Polynesia
2014-11-25,Sony paralyzed on a worldwide scale by serious hacking threat.
2014-11-25,ISIS abducting and indoctrinating children for active combat in a systematic manner: reports
2014-11-25,Ukraine 'will hold NATO referendum'
2014-11-25,France awards highest honour to modest WWII heroine living in New Zealand
2014-11-25,"Great Barrier Reef threatened by Queensland plan to let miners take billions of litres of groundwater, says Marine Park Authority"
2014-11-25,"Australian Cricketer ""Fighting For Life"" After Taking Bouncer To Skull"
2014-11-25,"Nicaragua Is Going Ahead With a Massive Canal That Will Bisect the Country: According to experts, the project will likely wreak havoc on both Nicaraguans and the country's environment"
2014-11-25,"Russia says it loses billions to oil slump, sanctions"
2014-11-25,Islamic State: Australian-initiated air strike kills up to 100 militant fighters in cave complex near Kirkuk
2014-11-25,"Cant keep waiting for stealth fighter, India tells Russia"
2014-11-25,"Anti-Slavery Campaigners Arrested in Mauritania, the Country With the World's Highest Slavery Rate"
2014-11-24,"Tourist fined $30,000 for tagging Colosseum"
2014-11-24,"After scrapping nuclear energy, Germany is pondering pulling the plug on coal too."
2014-11-24,Human Rights Watch calls on Indonesia to scrap 'virginity tests' for female police
2014-11-24,"The Alpine city of Grenoble is the first European city to ban all commercial street advertising. Instead, the French city will plant trees. From January to April 2015 more than 300 advertising spaces - 2,000 square metres - will disappear and 50 trees will be planted."
2014-11-24,North Korea warns of wiping Japan off world map over U.N. resolution
2014-11-24,Turkish President Erdogan says women and men cannot be equal in a meeting of an association promoting women rights.
2014-11-24,"Canada moving toward American-style inequality, U.S. economist suggests"
2014-11-24,Man Allegedly Tortured by UK and US for Nearly a Decade Wins Right to Sue Britain | VICE News
2014-11-24,"PUTIN: ""We're Stronger Than Everybody"""
2014-11-24,It Took 12 Trucks to Haul Away All the Cash This Corrupt Chinese General Hid in His Home
2014-11-24,Israeli policeman charged with manslaughter of Palestinian teen
2014-11-24,"Polar bear numbers in parts of Alaska and Canada dropped about 40 percent in the last decade, researchers at the U.S. Geological Survey say. ""Of the 80 cubs observed in Alaska from 2004 to 2007, only two are known to have survived."
2014-11-24,The gender pay gap has fallen to a record low
2014-11-24,Netanyahu Warns of 'Grave Mistake' if France Recognizes Palestine
2014-11-24,"The U.K. government is set to announce measures to force internet service providers to maintain records of which customers use which IP addresses, so as to make online anonymity more difficult."
2014-11-24,500 dead sea lions found on a beach in Peru
2014-11-24,"Wild duck tests positive for bird flu virus H5N8 in northeast Germany; Strain is highly pathogenic, officials say"
2014-11-24,Protesters Call for Mexican Presidents Resignation
2014-11-24,More Mass Graves in Mexican Search for Missing Students: Human bones were found by civilians and non-governmental organizations inside the four mass graves
2014-11-24,Finnish president says that now is not the right time for Finland to join NATO
2014-11-24,Mahmoud Abbas claims wild pigs are being released by Israelis to intimidate Palestinians
2014-11-24,"Britain is facing the biggest terrorism threat in its history and has foiled around 40 major plots since suicide bombers attacked London in 2005, Home Secretary Theresa May said on Monday."
2014-11-24,Nearly 800 people have been rescued from boats in distress in the Mediterranean Sea in the last 48 hours
2014-11-24,"New Zealand's Surveillance Laws Are Anti-People, Says Green Party leader Russel Norman"
2014-11-24,"Discovery Of Vast Canyon in Tibet, thousands of feet under sediment, was once carved out by a river 3-5 million years ago"
2014-11-23,Burger King axes 89 of its 688 franchises in Germany at once over ongoing scandals about poor hygiene and mistreatment of staff.
2014-11-23,SAS troops with sniper rifles and heavy machine guns have killed hundreds of Islamic State extremists in a series of deadly quad-bike ambushes inside Iraq
2014-11-23,Thousands evacuated after British WWII bomb found in French city of Rennes - Packed with 70 kilos of high explosives
2014-11-23,India tea workers kill boss over pay
2014-11-23,Switzerland Voting to Abolish 152-year-old Tax Break for Rich Foreigners
2014-11-23,"UK MP paedophiles ""were protected from police action"""
2014-11-23,"In a North American first, heroin addicts in Vancouver will soon receive prescription heroin outside of a clinical trial."
2014-11-23,"Thailand's Justice Minister has said martial law will remain in place ""indefinitely"", amid mounting protests of military rule."
2014-11-23,Extinct Spectacled Hare-Wallaby Spotted in W Australia - Conservationists thrilled after threatened marsupial seen in Kimberley region for 1st time in a decade
2014-11-23,"Putin says Russia not isolated over Ukraine, blames West for frosty ties"
2014-11-23,Germany to drop probe into US spying on Merkel: report
2014-11-23,Bomber 'kills 40' at Afghan volleyball match
2014-11-23,"Obama misinformed in 'unnecessary' Great Barrier Reef speech - ""I dont think others should be coming and lecturing us on climate change, Australian trade minister says of US presidents comments"""
2014-11-23,"""Humanity is under attack"": former Canadian soldiers volunteer to fight The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria"
2014-11-23,Mexico City protests continue following the alleged kidnapping and execution of 43 student teachers by corrupt police.
2014-11-23,U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said he and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan he had discussed a transition of power in Syria away from President Bashar al-Assad during a four-hour meeting in Istanbul on Saturday.
2014-11-23,"India Wants Energy That Doesn't Melt Glaciers, Modi Says"
2014-11-23,Syrian Christians: 'Help us to stay - stop arming terrorists'
2014-11-23,"2,000 Britons fighting for Islamic State: Labour MP says 2,000 jihadists have travelled to Syria and Iraq from the UK - a fourfold increase on official estimates"
2014-11-23,Boko Haram militants kill 48 fish traders in Nigeria attack.
2014-11-23,"The United States recovered thousands of old chemical weapons in Iraq from 2004 to 2009 and destroyed almost all of them in secret and via open-air detonation, according to a written summary of its activities prepared by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons"
2014-11-23,UK Conservative Party slams Anti-Environment Australian PM Tony Abbott on climate policy
2014-11-23,Top local cop arrested in 43 students' disappearance
2014-11-23,Serbia Refuses to Join Anti-Russian Sanctions Despite EU 'Blackmailing'
2014-11-23,Residents say hundreds of women have marched topless through a town in the Central African Republic to protest sectarian violence
2014-11-22,"Ukraine to cancel its non-aligned status, resume integration with NATO"
2014-11-22,Kenya bus attack: 28 non-Muslims killed after being unable to recite Koran in suspected al-Shabab attack
2014-11-22,Pope Francis says greed will 'destroy the world'
2014-11-22,Media gagged over bid to report MP child sex cases
2014-11-22,"6.8 Eartquake hits Japan, Nagano prefecture. Mild shaking in Tokyo"
2014-11-22,Human rights group Amnesty International released free software on Thursday that allows users to determine if their computers are bugged by government intelligence agencies.
2014-11-22,Radicalisation risk at six Muslim schools in London
2014-11-22,Madagascar plague outbreak kills 40
2014-11-22,"Egypt closes schools in Sinai towns as area inches toward open war - Army prepares to step up campaign against Islamist militants, who have started beheading army informers."
2014-11-22,European Parliament expected to push Google to break itself up.
2014-11-22,"Australia in breach of human rights obligations over imprisonment of two teenagers for life, says UN"
2014-11-22,Mexican military threatens intervention amidst mass protests over disappeared normalistas
2014-11-22,Egypt tightens closure on Gaza as Israel eases it
2014-11-22,Palestinian Authority faces $1 billion lawsuit from families of US terror victims
2014-11-22,European Parliament to vote on Palestine statehood
2014-11-22,Kenya's Catholic Bishops Claim Tetanus Vaccine Is Stealth Birth Control Project
2014-11-22,"Socrates arrested in tax case | Former Portuguese prime minister Jose Socrates has been arrested on suspicion of tax evasion. It's the second potential scandal to hit Portuguese politics in a week, after the interior minister's resignation last Sunday."
2014-11-22,"Ukraine crisis: Lavrov warns over Russia 'regime change' goal -- Western sanctions against Russia over its role in Ukraine are aimed at forcing regime change in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says."
2014-11-22,Israel begins controversial demolitions on Palestinian suspects' homes as deterrent.
2014-11-22,"Several former Canadian soldiers plan to join Kurds to combat Islamic State militants in coming weeks, Canadian media reported on Friday"
2014-11-22,Africa Nears Eradication of Polio - A rigorous vaccination campaign has nearly eliminated the crippling infectious disease from Nigeria & the continent at large
2014-11-22,Britain objects to Argentinian 'Falkland signs'
2014-11-22,Cancer Patients Driven to Darknet for Cheap Drugs
2014-11-22,Armed bandits steal Ebola infected blood raising fears of bio-terrorism.
2014-11-22,European Parliament reportedly wants Google to be broken up
2014-11-21,Mexico on the brink: thousands expected at mass protests over student massacre | Corruption and violence threaten to destabilise country after mass murder of students and scandal over presidential home
2014-11-21,A group of journalists has launched a legal action against Scotland Yard after discovering that the Metropolitan police has been recording their professional activities on a secret database designed to monitor so-called domestic extremists
2014-11-21,"U.S. meteorologists say the world in October continued to set heat records. They say despite a bitter U.S. cold snap, the globe is rushing toward its warmest year on record."
2014-11-21,Great Barrier Reef will be 'slaughtered': scientists dismiss Julie Bishop's claim reef not at risk
2014-11-21,"EU governments unanimously approved a new law to slash the use of plastic grocery bags on Friday, hoping to curb litter on land and a spreading ""plastic soup"" in the world's oceans."
2014-11-21,Lithuanian President calls Russia terrorist state
2014-11-21,Russia's Igor Strelkov: I Am Responsible for War in Eastern Ukraine | News
2014-11-21,New Snowden docs: UK spy agency had full-time employee inside Vodafone / Cable & Wireless
2014-11-21,"Gambia security forces insert objects into gay prisoner's anuses and vaginas to ""test"" their sexual orientation"
2014-11-21,"Canadian Police Arrest Protesters Blocking Proposed Path of Tar Sands Pipeline - The protesters are trying to stop the pipeline, which would carry tar sands crude from Edmonton, Alberta to Burnaby, British Columbia."
2014-11-21,"Molotov cocktails, clashes as Mexico City braces for massacre protests | Masked demonstrators threw Molotov cocktails and shot fireworks at police near Mexico City's airport as thousands prepared to protest President Enrique Pena Nieto's handling of the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers"
2014-11-21,New York-born London mayor Boris Johnson refuses to pay US tax bill.
2014-11-21,J-31 stealth jet gets bad reviews after Zhuhai Airshow flight - dark exhaust emitting from the jet's engine indicates the engine's poor efficiency in burning fuel.
2014-11-21,"Laser from Plane Discovers Roman Goldmines in Spain - Hidden under vegetation & crops is a gold mining network created by the Romans 2,000 yrs ago, as well as complex hydraulic works, like river diversions, to divert water to the mines."
2014-11-21,US President Barack Obama to be chief guest at India's 2015 Republic Day parade
2014-11-21,Senior ISIS figure killed in Mosul
2014-11-21,Mexican president burned in effigy as day of protest ends
2014-11-21,Ukraine president heckled at tribute to Kiev protesters as Biden visits
2014-11-21,"UK's first 'poo bus', powered entirely by human and food waste, takes to the streets today"
2014-11-21,Girkin says he and his special ops team started conflict in Donbas
2014-11-21,Venice is looking to ban wheelie suitcases.
2014-11-21,Nearly 30 per cent of world population is overweight: report
2014-11-21,"Russian Government says Wikipedia isn't ""reliable;"" plans its own electronic encyclopedia as ""counterweight."""
2014-11-21,Scotland Yard is investigating three 'possible murders' linked to a Westminster paedophile ring that was allegedly operating in the 1970s and 1980s
2014-11-21,Vladimir Putin: we must stop a Ukraine-style 'coloured revolution' in Russia
2014-11-20,"Pakistani family sentenced to death over ""honour killing"" outside court: Four relatives of a pregnant woman who bludgeoned her to death outside one of Pakistan's top courts were sentenced to death on Wednesday for the crime, their defence lawyer said."
2014-11-20,ISIS now controls territory in Libya.
2014-11-20,"Russians Might Use Reindeer to Battle Crime - Animals handle tundra better than snowmobiles, so theyre considering starting a reindeer police force"
2014-11-20,"Banking culture breeds dishonesty, scientific study finds"
2014-11-20,"Record 1,020 rhino killed in South Africa | 2014 eclipses 2013 poaching record as illegal wildlife trade continues to boom, threatening future of the species"
2014-11-20,"'World's longest railway' links Madrid and China as freight train service begins on the 21-day, 8,000 miles long route."
2014-11-20,Google Internet balloon crashes on farm in South Africa
2014-11-20,"For the first time, Israel refuses to return bodies of terrorists as a deterrent to future attacks"
2014-11-20,North Korea has threatened to conduct a nuclear test in response to a United Nations move towards a probe into the country's human rights violations
2014-11-20,Ancient Egyptian Handbook of Spells Deciphered
2014-11-20,"China to Place Limit on Coal Use in 2020 - Opponents of climate change regulation in the U.S. have long used Chinas emissions as an excuse for inaction on the U.S. side, he said. Last weeks joint announcement is the beginning of the end for this line of argument."
2014-11-20,"Acid Rain is Turning Canadas Lakes to Jelly - There is a war going on between 2 water flea species, & one of them is going down hard. A lot of things cant eat these jelly-clad fleas. They're 10 times bigger because theyre encased in this jelly."
2014-11-20,"Obesity rivals smoking and war, with $2-trillion hit to global economy"
2014-11-20,"PM: No room for discrimination against Israeli Arabs: Netanyahu, Livni, Lapid and Erdan lash out at Ashkelon mayor for banning Arab construction workers from vicinity of kindergartens in southern Israeli city."
2014-11-20,"""Unbearable"" stench after 5,000 bats suddenly drop dead"
2014-11-20,Russian singers and other celebrities are increasingly being banned from the big stage for disagreeing with the Kremlin's policy in Ukraine
2014-11-20,Police seize massive weapons shipment headed for Jerusalem.
2014-11-20,"Israeli president: We are not at war with Islam: Rivlin advises leadership to not raise issue of control over Temple Mount, says Israelis and Palestinians destined to live together in Jerusalem"
2014-11-20,10 civilians killed by mortar fired at homes near Gaza-Egypt border
2014-11-20,Birmingham City Council hid links between Asian cabbies and child sex victims for 23 years
2014-11-20,BBC - Fifa whistleblower Phaedra Al-Majid fears for her safety
2014-11-20,Top German Politician Slammed for Asking West to Recognize Crimea
2014-11-20,Swedish Court of Appeals rejects Assange appeal
2014-11-20,"ISIS is making millions per week, has enough weaponry to keep fighting for at least 2 years."
2014-11-20,Julian Assanges appeal to lift arrest warrant is rejected by Swedish court
2014-11-19,2 new subatomic particles discovered at CERN
2014-11-19,South Korea to raise $500 billion for unification
2014-11-19,"Man Tests Positive For Ebola In Delhi, India"
2014-11-19,"Religious extremism main cause of terrorism, according to report"
2014-11-19,North Korea refutes war crimes charge and says its human rights system is advantageous | Pyongyang goes into diplomatic overdrive as UN General Assembly votes to refer the Communist state to the ICC for prosecution.
2014-11-19,Five Thai students held for 'Hunger Games' salute at Prime Minister
2014-11-19,India is home to 14 million modern slaves.
2014-11-19,Turkey: RedHack deletes $670K in electric bills
2014-11-19,France 'blocks' Russian sailors from boarding warship
2014-11-19,"The United Arab Emirates has officially designated 83 groups as terrorist organizations, including two based in the U.S., the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society"
2014-11-19,Father claims police covered up son's murder by Westminster paedophile ring
2014-11-19,"China Takes a Historic Step in its Embrace of Western-Style Capitalism - opens its stock markets to the west, but caution is in order"
2014-11-19,Female Inmates in Notorious Indian Prison Say Guards Forced Them Into Prostitution
2014-11-19,"Ukraine is preparing for military assault on the east, Russian foreign minister says"
2014-11-19,Two bodies authorities believe to belong to Miss Honduras 2014 and her sister have been found buried
2014-11-19,Spains Congress votes in favor of recognizing Palestinian state
2014-11-19,Egypt Will Demolish a Town in its Expanded Gaza Buffer Zone
2014-11-19,Israeli PM Netanyahu orders the military to erect security checkpoints at crossings into East Jerusalem for the first time in decades.
2014-11-19,"The usage of Agent Orange and military defoliants in Okinawa is one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War, said Tokyo-based journalist."
2014-11-19,N. Korea Defectors Urge Switzerland to Freeze Leaders' Funds
2014-11-19,Muslim majority Indonesias capital gets Christian leader
2014-11-19,Erdogan slams ridicule of 'Muslims discovered Americas' claim
2014-11-19,India has quarantined a man who was cured of Ebola in Liberia but continued to show traces of the virus in samples of his semen after arriving in the country
2014-11-19,This huge blast lit up the whole sky over Russia's Urals
2014-11-19,"Four men, including the victim's father and brother, have been sentenced to death in Pakistan for the murder of a pregnant woman bludgeoned to death in the centre of the country's second-largest city for marrying against her family's wishes."
2014-11-18,Comet Landing 2014: Rosetta Probe Philae Discovers Organic Molecules: Report
2014-11-18,Sushi eaters pushing Pacific bluefin tuna to brink of extinction
2014-11-18,Putin claims west is provoking Russia into new cold war
2014-11-18,"I saw MP kill boy at paedophile party, says alleged victim"
2014-11-18,A group of doctors and nurses is urging the Ontario government to ban an agricultural pesticide blamed for the deaths of bees and other insect pollinators.
2014-11-18,"Cannabis extract can have dramatic effect on brain cancer, says new research"
2014-11-18,Five killed in apparent Jerusalem terror attack
2014-11-18,9/11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui has claimed that Saudi Embassy officials were involved in a plot to shoot down Air Force One to assassinate Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton during a trip to the United Kingdom.
2014-11-18,Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said he is dissolving parliament and calling an early election.
2014-11-18,Israeli Researchers: We Can Detect Breast Cancer With Simple Blood Test
2014-11-18,Spanish navy rams Greenpeace boat and injures activists
2014-11-18,"India Says No to Coal Plant After Inadequate Environmental Impact Assessment - Judges found the casual approach to the projects environmental impact patently unacceptable, citing faulty methodology as well as unreliable & inadequate data collection."
2014-11-18,Frankfurt becomes the first financial center in Europe to settle payments in Chinese yuan without converting to US dollars first.
2014-11-18,Toyota to launch hydrogen-powered car that runs on compressed hydrogen gas without emitting exhaust
2014-11-18,"Qatar, currently embroiled in controversy over the award of the 2022 World Cup, has now been chosen to host the 2019 World Athletics Championships."
2014-11-18,Palestinians in Gaza celebrate terror attack at Jerusalem synagogue
2014-11-18,Obama states that he would order US Troops into combat if ISIS got nuclear weapons
2014-11-18,Egypt to expand buffer zone with Gaza after finding longer tunnels
2014-11-18,"The Islamic State (ISIS) is being supplied with weapons through planes landing in areas controlled by the militants, the head of Iraqs security and defence committee said."
2014-11-18,Qatar country with fourth highest rate of slavery: NGO
2014-11-18,"Nearly 1,000 people took to the streets of Nairobi on Monday to protest against a series of vicious public attacks on women who were stripped naked and assaulted for wearing mini-skirts or other clothing perceived to be immodest"
2014-11-18,"More Than 1 Million People in Russia Live as Slaves, Study Finds"
2014-11-18,Swedish ISP protects customers from surveillance with free VPN
2014-11-18,"The Free Syrian Army (FSA), the recognized armed opposition group against the Bashar al-Assad in Syria, has ceased its resistance in Aleppo, Syrias second biggest city, withdrawing its 14,000 militia from the city"
2014-11-18,Pope: Kids have a right to both mums and dads
2014-11-17,Maasai told to leave historic homeland by end of the year so it can become a hunting reserve for the Dubai royal family | World news
2014-11-17,German village plays prank on neo Nazis
2014-11-17,Obama Puts Australia's Climate-Denying Prime Minister Tony Abbott on the Spot
2014-11-17,Recession declared in Japan
2014-11-17,"Modern slavery affects more than 35 million people, report finds"
2014-11-17,Israel to issue gay-friendly ID cards for children of same-sex couples
2014-11-17,"After 9 years, Israel resumes destruction of Palestinian homes"
2014-11-17,Ukraine crisis: Petro Poroshenko says country is 'ready for total war' with Russia
2014-11-17,Swiss army removes last explosives from border bridges with Germany
2014-11-17,"French government will not sign TTIP agreement in 2015  ""We have to preserve the right of the state to set and apply its own standards, to maintain the impartiality of the justice system and to allow the people of France, and the world, to assert their values."""
2014-11-17,Putin Denies He Fled From G-20 Summit Pressure
2014-11-17,"Police are investigating ""possible homicide"" linked to what has been described as a paedophile ring involving powerful people in the 1970s and 1980s in the UK"
2014-11-17,Obama Nears Calling Russian Actions an Invasion
2014-11-17,David Cameron warns that second global crash is looming
2014-11-17,Sarkozy vows to revoke marriage equality rights if re-elected
2014-11-17,Cuba Rejects Erdogan's Offer to Build Country's First Mosque
2014-11-17,Russia and Poland expel diplomats in tit-for-tat measures
2014-11-17,Pakistan test-fires 2nd nuclear-capable missile in week
2014-11-17,Canada breaks with Australia to contribute to Green Climate Fund
2014-11-17,Romanian PM Victor Ponta concedes victory in presidential election to Sibiu mayor Klaus Iohannis
2014-11-17,Tens of thousands of people went on strike and paralyzed dozens of cities across Italy on Thursday to protest sky-high unemployment and government plans to make it easier to fire workers. Violent clashes between police and protesters erupted in Milan and Rome.
2014-11-17,Germany government reiterates its ban on fracking
2014-11-17,Bird flu case in Holland turns out to be highly contagious H5N8 strain
2014-11-17,Secret EU document outlines sanctions to impose if Israel thwarts two-state solution
2014-11-17,Ex-pat romanians are prevented from voting by the Romanian government
2014-11-16,North Indian court says it's illegal for female students to be barred from a Muslim University's library
2014-11-16,US hostage Peter Kassig 'killed by ISIS'
2014-11-16,"U.S., EU override Australia to put climate change on G20 agenda"
2014-11-16,"Pharma firm has subsidiary in Luxembourg with 1 part-time worker, assets of 22.7 billion and a branch in Dublin, profit of 7.6 billion, tax of 82,000"
2014-11-16,"Pope denounces euthanasia as 'sin against God and creation': ""he also condemned abortion, in vitro fertilisation and embryonic stem cell research 'because this is a sin against the creator, against God the creator'"""
2014-11-16,Pakistan only country to spread polio virus abroad: WHO
2014-11-16,"Turkish PM Erdoan says America was discovered by Muslims, not Columbus"
2014-11-16,"Terror financiers are living freely in Qatar, US discloses"
2014-11-16,First person jailed for 'revenge porn' in Britain
2014-11-16,"In Blow for Tokyo & Washington, Okinawa Elects Anti-Base Governor -  Japanese prefecture of Okinawa set to elect new governor who vows to stop a new Marine Corps air station from being built. His campaign promise: no new US military bases & no new noisy Ospreys."
2014-11-16,"Tony Abbott tells G20 leaders he backs coal, despite pleas on climate change"
2014-11-16,"Suicide Bomber Attacks Car of Afghan Womens Rights Leader; 3 Killed: A suicide bomber attacked the car of a prominent Afghan womens rights leader and member of Parliament in Kabul on Sunday, killing three people and wounding 20 others, Afghan officials said."
2014-11-16,"Pro-western rebels in Syria surrender weapons, defect to Islamic State forces"
2014-11-16,"Chinese archaeologists found a new site of human activity dating back 300,000 to 500,000 years, roughly contemporary with Peking Man"
2014-11-16,Georgia fury at Russia-Abkhazia deal: Tens of thousands of Georgians have rallied in the capital Tbilisi against a planned agreement between Russia and Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region.
2014-11-16,Australia alone with Saudi Arabia on climate change
2014-11-16,"Zimbabwe's vice president, once seen as a possible successor to President Robert Mugabe, linked to plot to assassinate the 90-yr-old leader"
2014-11-16,Protests over 43 missing students in Mexico spread across the country
2014-11-16,ISIL 'beheads Syrians and US aid worker'
2014-11-16,G20 endorses India's stance on black money | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis
2014-11-16,Hamas says Abbas refusing to hold Palestinian elections due to fear of defeat
2014-11-16,Auschwitz bookkeeper may be last Nazi tried in Germany for war crimes
2014-11-16,Putin leaves G20 one day early amid questions over Russia's actions in Ukraine
2014-11-16,"After rabbi stabbed in Belgium, Jewish group calls for more safety of European Jews"
2014-11-16,Dutch ban poultry transport after finding dangerous bird flu strain
2014-11-15,Germany warns UEFA may quit FIFA if World Cup report is not published.
2014-11-15,"US president says every nation has a responsibility to do its part and overcome old divides, look squarely at the science and reach a strong global climate agreement next year"
2014-11-15,Syrian 'hero boy' video faked by Norwegian director
2014-11-15,British jihadists who fight with ISIS will be barred from returning home under new anti-terror laws
2014-11-15,David Cameron compares Russia to Nazi Germany on eve of Putin meeting
2014-11-15,Mexican mayor charged with murder linked to students disappearance
2014-11-15,U.S. Navy Deploys Its First Laser Weapon in the Persian Gulf
2014-11-15,Australia a 'blocker' in G20 fight against climate change
2014-11-15,Japan's levitating maglev train reaches 500km/h (311mph)
2014-11-15,Russia plans alternative version of 'Wikipedia'
2014-11-15,Harper tells Putin to 'get out of Ukraine' in G20 encounter
2014-11-15,DR Congo is declared Ebola-free.
2014-11-15,Hope fades for comet lander as batteries near depletion.
2014-11-15,Iceland - Minister of the Interior imposes a media blackout as her political attach is found guilty of leaking fabricated criminal charges against an asylum seeker. Minister refuses to step down. (grapevine.is)
2014-11-15,"Ukraine orders closure of all state services in rebel-held east, including schools, hospitals and emergency services as well as pension payments"
2014-11-15,"Canadian courts let family withdraw child from chemotherapy to seek their alternative treatment of ""raw vegetables and positive thinking"", because they have the right to choose aboriginal medicine."
2014-11-15,Great Barrier Reef: Queensland lobbies Unesco behind the scenes at G20 | Queensland government is furiously lobbying Unesco representatives behind the scenes of the G20 to stop the Great Barrier Reef from being listed as in danger by the UNs cultural and heritage body
2014-11-15,"HK protesters denied Beijing flight, told their travel permits were invalid"
2014-11-15,G20 summit: Tony Abbott laments to world leaders his failure to pass tax on GP visits
2014-11-15,"Sweden releases sonar image confirming 'foreign submarine': Sweden reportedly intercepted a distress signal in Russian, but Russia suggested it could have been a Dutch vessel, something denied by the Netherlands"
2014-11-15,Protesters In Mexico Vow to Burn 43 More Buildings Over Missing Students
2014-11-15,"Explorers Descend Into Siberia's Mystery Crater - It stoked many different theories earlier this yr, including a manmade hoax, the work of aliens from outer space, a meteorite or even a stray missile. This is 1st time it's been stable enough to enter."
2014-11-15,"Human rights organizations have attacked proposals by the British government to extend ""anti-terror"" powers in the U.K., with the head of one saying they risked turning the country into a ""police state"""
2014-11-15,Islamic State sets sights on Saudis
2014-11-15,Indonesia tsunami alert after quake
2014-11-14,Sweden has proof foreign sub entered its waters: report
2014-11-14,"Local hunters kill over 70 Boko Haram insurgents, recapture Adamawa town"
2014-11-14,ISIS releases a new speech of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in which he urges his supporters to attack Saudi Arabia.
2014-11-14,Russia says fleet of warships is off Australia for climate research
2014-11-14,"Unique 2,000-year old circular pyramid discovered in Bolivia"
2014-11-14,The Israeli government has announced that it is denying entry to members of the UN Human Rights Council commission charged with investigating war crimes committed during the summer Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.
2014-11-14,Supreme Court of Canada ruling makes honesty the law for businesses
2014-11-14,"The first jihadist to be tried in France after returning from Syria has been given a seven-year jail sentence -Flavien Moreau, 28, travelled to Syria and joined an Islamist militant group, but says he only stayed for a dozen days because he missed smoking - banned by the jihadist group he joined."
2014-11-14,Paedophiles Have Created A Deep Web Version Of Kickstarter To Crowdfund Child Porn
2014-11-14,"'Killer robots' should be strictly monitored, nations demand at UN: Countries warn of potential dangers of autonomous weapons systems they say are at risk of violating international and humanitarian law"
2014-11-14,Tony Abbot says Australia was 'nothing but bush' before white colonisation in a speech given at an international business breakfast.
2014-11-14,Russia may claim damages if France doesn't deliver Mistral warship: news agency
2014-11-14,France calls on Israel to immediately reverse the building of 200 new settlements in East Jerusalem
2014-11-14,"More than 400 protesters stuck their heads in the sand on Sydney's Bondi Beach on Thursday. The stunt was meant to mock the Australian government's reluctance to put climate change on the agenda of this weekend's G20 summit, being held in the country."
2014-11-14,Saudi beheads 7th Pakistani on drugs charges in one month
2014-11-14,Two Dutch F-16 fighter jets taking part in a NATO mission to protect the skies above the Baltics intercepted a Russian military transport plane on Thursday.
2014-11-14,Islamic State Reportedly Minting Coins as It Struggles to Function Like an Actual State
2014-11-14,Putin says Russia prepared for oil price collapse; regards sanctions over Ukraine as pointless and illegal
2014-11-14,US military considers sending combat troops back to Iraq
2014-11-14,12 Turkish protestors who attacked 3 US sailors have been released without questing or charges.
2014-11-14,"Norwegian doctor, Mads Gilbert, has been hit with a lifetime ban from entering Gaza by the Israeli government."
2014-11-14,"Canada under pressure after U.S., China agree to curb greenhouse gases"
2014-11-14,France Says Mistral Ship Won't Be Delivered To Russia; There Will Be No Handover
2014-11-14,"Genetically modified (GMO) food has to be labeled in Taiwan starting next year, continues ban from school lunches"
2014-11-14,Barack Obama to pledge at least $2.5bn to help poor countries fight climate change
2014-11-13,"European robot probe Philae has made the first, historic landing on a comet, after descending from its mothership"
2014-11-13,Comet probe Philae now stable
2014-11-13,Six of the largest banks in the world have been collectively fined over $4 billion by regulators for manipulating the world's foreign exchange rates
2014-11-13,The lawyer behind the Fifa report which clears Qatar of corruption for the 2022 World Cup bid says the report is 'inaccurate and incomplete'
2014-11-13,"The CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland told the BBC that he ""cringed"" when he saw copies of the chat room messages which talk of ""making free money"" and ""keeping numpties out of the market"". The groups of bankers colluded to fix foreign exchange rates for the advantage of their banks. And themselves."
2014-11-13,"'We crossed the line', US admits to UN anti-torture body"
2014-11-13,Germany warns anti-semitism rising on back of Middle East violence
2014-11-13,'Tiger on the loose' near Paris
2014-11-13,"Microsoft Open Sources .NET, Saying It Will Run On Linux and Mac"
2014-11-13,The man who led Russias winning bid for the 2018 World Cup has denied deliberately obstructing Fifas investigation into alleged corruption during the bid process after it emerged evidence had been destroyed.
2014-11-13,Mecca under threat: Outrage at plan to destroy the birthplace of the Prophet Mohamed and replace it with a new palace and luxury malls
2014-11-13,Russia plans long-range bomber flights near U.S. shores
2014-11-13,Northern European nations to boost military cooperation against Russia
2014-11-13,Genitalia replaced with ducklings and dolphins in Turkish schoolbooks
2014-11-13,"Chinese hack U.S. Weather systems, satellite network"
2014-11-13,"2030 the ""far distant future"" says Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott."
2014-11-13,"Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has reached a record high this year, a UN report has revealed, highlighting the failure of the US-led campaign to crack down on the lucrative crop."
2014-11-13,Protesters over missing students in Mexico burn state assembly: Demonstrators set fire to the local legislature building on Wednesday in the capital of the southwestern state of Guerrero in protests over the apparent massacre of 43 students by corrupt police and thugs from drug gangs.
2014-11-13,Iraqi Christian fighters retake town
2014-11-13,Israel announces it won't cooperate with UN Gaza probe
2014-11-13,Alberta fishermen land rare fossil of never-before-seen dinosaur
2014-11-13,Russian bomber patrols to reach Gulf of Mexico
2014-11-13,"Shell ignored internal warnings over Nigeria oil spills, documents suggest | Documents filed at London high court suggest Shell didnt act on advice to fix aged pipeline and underplayed magnitude of two spills in Nigeria in 2008"
2014-11-13,"India wins U.S. support for food scheme, ends WTO blockade"
2014-11-13,Russia denies NATO accusations over troops in Ukraine
2014-11-12,"Russian combat troops have entered Ukraine along with tanks, artillery and air defence systems, Nato commander says"
2014-11-12,"Study: Brazilian cops killed more than 11,000 people in 5 years"
2014-11-12,"Mormon leaders have acknowledged for the first time that the churchs founder and prophet, Joseph Smith, took as many as 40 wives, some already married and one only 14 years old."
2014-11-12,Nestle under fire in Mexico after tweeted joke about 43 missing students
2014-11-12,"Tony Abbott has confronted Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the APEC leaders' summit in Beijing, holding him complicit in the downing of flight MH17 and calling for Russia to apologise and consider restitution."
2014-11-12,"US and China reach historic climate change deal, vow to cut emissions"
2014-11-12,Four Russian warships bearing down on Australia
2014-11-12,Rotherham child sex abuse: Police 'ripped up files'
2014-11-12,"India: 11 women die, 62 more hospitalized after being paid to be sterilized"
2014-11-12,"As the Rosetta orbiter nears the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko 67P and prepares to fire the Philae lander at its surface, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) have been puzzled by an unexpected phenomenon: the comet is singing."
2014-11-12,Azerbaijan shoots down Armenian helicopter in Karabakh
2014-11-12,India's First Manned Space Mission in 2021: ISRO Chairman
2014-11-12,Video Appears To Show A Brave Syrian Boy Running Through Sniper Fire To Save A Little Girl
2014-11-12,Israeli officer arrested in Connection with killing of 2 Palestinian teenagers.
2014-11-12,French lawmakers to vote November 28 on recognizing Palestine
2014-11-12,Global watchdogs fine five major banks $3.4-billion in forex scandal
2014-11-12,"The last of the 888,246 ceramic poppies was planted today at the Tower of London on the 100th anniversary of WWI"
2014-11-12,Former CIA detainees claim US torture investigators never interviewed them
2014-11-12,Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday accused Ukraines government of interfering with the investigation into the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet in July that killed 298 people.
2014-11-12,"Moderate Syrian rebels defecting to ISIS, blaming lack of U.S. support and weapons"
2014-11-12,"Rudaw, the largest Kurdish media network, has been blocked from Facebook after placing a picture of the house of jailed PKK/YPG-leader Abdullah Ocalan. Facebook has not responded to this violation of press freedom."
2014-11-12,Turkish PM: Nothing will prevent us from protecting Jerusalem
2014-11-12,"The bill for closing down and cleaning up the worlds ageing nuclear reactors will exceed $100bn over the next 25 years alone, the International Energy Agency has said, warning that governments risk underestimating the cost."
2014-11-12,U.S. states' pot legalization not in line with international law: U.N. agency
2014-11-12,Hamas among richest terror groups worldwide  second only to ISIS
2014-11-11,"Geologists who didn't predict an earthquake aren't killers, Italian court rules--seven scientists are free after appeals court overturns manslaughter conviction"
2014-11-11,Don't forget - The Rosetta Mission. First ever Comet landing starting 0900 GMT 12 November
2014-11-11,Barack Obamas support for net neutrality sets precedent for the rest of the world
2014-11-11,Iran stripped of world championship volleyball tournament after jailing female spectator
2014-11-11,"Preach moderate Islam  or else: To counter rise of Islamic State, Jordan imposes rules on Muslim clerics"
2014-11-11,"Germany can deny benefits to jobless EU migrants, court rules"
2014-11-11,Norway deports record number of immigrants
2014-11-11,"Rich countries subsidising oil, gas and coal companies by $88bn a year. About four times as much money was spent on fossil fuel exploration as on renewable energy development."
2014-11-11,CNN International withdraws from Russia
2014-11-11,"After travelling 6.5 billion kilometers in space, Rosetta mission aims to land probe on comet"
2014-11-11,Protesters angry at the alleged massacre of 43 Mexican students clashed with police and besieged Acapulco's airport for hours Monday over a scandal shaking President Enrique Pena Nieto's administration.
2014-11-11,Iran signs deal with Russia for 2 new nuclear reactors
2014-11-11,Moscow shrouded in noxious gas
2014-11-11,U.S. says Iran has ceased controversial nuclear practice
2014-11-11,"Iraqi soldiers battling the Islamic State recaptured the heart of the town of Baiji, home to the country's largest oil refinery, state television and a military official said Tuesday."
2014-11-11,"NATO and Russia have faced each other in 3 ""high risk incidents"" that carry a ""high probability of direct military confrontation"". There have been nearly 40 total Cold War-like incidents since March that include close Russian flights over NATO ships and simulated Russian bombing runs."
2014-11-11,"PA president Abbas on Tuesday accused Israel of contaminating the Temple Mount, and said that allowing Jewish prayer at the site would result in a religious war"
2014-11-11,"Dark net raids were 'overblown' by police, says Tor Project"
2014-11-11,The European Court of Justice has ruled that unemployed EU citizens who go to another member state to claim benefits may be barred from some benefits.
2014-11-11,Catalan leader to step up independence push as 80% vote to split from Spain
2014-11-11,Kissinger: Putin Is Not Stalin
2014-11-11,Canadian-Israeli woman joins Kurds fighting Islamic State
2014-11-11,"Barclays, HSBC Sued by U.S. Soldiers Over Attacks in Iraq"
2014-11-11,"Israel gives Ebola detection equipment to PA and Hamas - Despite a string of Palestinian terror attacks on Israelis in recent days, which have resulted in dozens of injuries and two deaths, the Israeli government on Sunday transferred Ebola screening equipment to the Palestinian Authority and Hamas."
2014-11-11,"One dead, three wounded in Palestinian stabbing attacks: Israeli police"
2014-11-10,"Pope Francis has excommunicated a pedophile Argentine priest, who admitted to sexually abusing four teenagers"
2014-11-10,"'Too big to fail' bank rules unveiled - New global rules to prevent banks that are ""too big to fail"" from being bailed out by taxpayers have been proposed."
2014-11-10,Kasparov: Stop Putin now or pay the price later
2014-11-10,One of the VIPs who sexually abused boys at an apartment complex near Parliament has been identified as a former deputy director of MI6
2014-11-10,Five nuclear engineers murdered near Damascus
2014-11-10,"A Saudi oil firm paid former British prime minister Tony Blair a fee of about 41,000 a month and a 2 percent slice of each contract he helped arrange."
2014-11-10,"Blast at Nigerian school assembly: At least 47 students have been killed by a suicide bomber at a school assembly in the north-east Nigerian town of Potiskum, police have said."
2014-11-10,"Britain will not remain in Europe 'come what may', David Cameron says"
2014-11-10,"Turkish army bans Game of Thrones, requires officers take course on Islam"
2014-11-10,"Space Station Crew Returns to Earth, Lands Safely in Kazakhstan"
2014-11-10,Tape of Ronald Reagan apologising to Margaret Thatcher for Grenada invasion comes to light after FOI request
2014-11-10,Mexico's president left on a six-day trip to China and Australia amid angry protests over the suspected massacre of 43 college students by a gang allied with corrupt police.
2014-11-10,Virus That 'Makes Humans More Stupid' Discovered
2014-11-10,Israel gives Palestinians Ebola screening equipment
2014-11-10,"$400 Billion: Russian/Chinese Gas Deal secured - When the new supply deal begins, China will surpass Germany to become Russias biggest natural gas customer."
2014-11-10,Three Swedish Isis fighters killed in Syria
2014-11-10,"Catalonia vote: 80% back independence, say organisers - BBC News"
2014-11-10,Man stabbed in Tel Aviv in suspected terror attack
2014-11-10,"Australia 'giving up' on renewables | Investment into renewable energy projects in Australia has dropped by 70% in the last year, according to a new report by a climate change body."
2014-11-10,Assisted dying will be made legal in UK within two years
2014-11-10,Six out of 10 Indian men admit violence against wives - UN study
2014-11-10,Australia challenges unpaid internships
2014-11-10,"Libyan city becomes the first outside of Iraq, Syria to join Islamic State group's 'caliphate'"
2014-11-10,"Syria soon to have S300 Surface-To-Air Missile System from Russia, saying it does not trust the US especially after the Republicans took the majority of votes in the recently concluded U.S. mid-term elections."
2014-11-10,Report: Islamic State spokesman confirms leader Baghdadi injured in US airstrike
2014-11-09,ISIS leader critically wounded: reports
2014-11-09,'20th hijacker' Zacarias Moussaoui wants to testify in Oklahoma City federal court; says Saudi Prince aided his Jihad activities.
2014-11-09,"Pope Francis on Saturday demoted Cardinal Raymond Burke, an outspoken conservative American cardinal who has been highly critical of the pontiff's reformist leadership of the Roman Catholic Church."
2014-11-09,"Protests flare in Mexico after attorney general's 'enough, I'm tired' remarks | Ya me canse becomes a rallying call for anger over the governments handling of the apparent killing of 43 students"
2014-11-09,Elon Musk and Google want to develop satellites for global internet access.
2014-11-09,Four Islamic terrorists planned to kill the Queen of England this weekend  but British police foiled the assassination plot
2014-11-09,Catalonia holds disputed vote on independence from Spain today
2014-11-09,Protesters try to break into Mexico City's National Palace over apparent massacre of 43
2014-11-09,"Mexico Captures Fugitive Mayor, Wife Accused Of Ordering Students' Disappearance"
2014-11-09,"Instead of building new mechanisms and institutions of European security and pursuing a major demilitarization of European politics, the West, and particularly the United States, declared victory in the Cold War, Gorbachev warns, a blister has now turned into a bloody, festering wound."
2014-11-09,Israel says its ready and willing to share with India its technology for border protection
2014-11-09,"Study: Chinas reliance on coal costs over 600,000 lives in 1 year"
2014-11-09,Israel reportedly plans to take 3000 acres near Jerusalem
2014-11-09,"Somali scholar publishes book questioning the death penalty for apostasy, receives death threats"
2014-11-09,"China's Corruption Crackdown Pummels Macau Casinos: the city of 600,000 racked up more than $22 billion in UnionPay transactions last year due to the illegal flow of money coming out of Mainland China"
2014-11-09,"Shelling has resumed in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, just hours after an intense artillery bombardment throughout the night | An eyewitness said the overnight shelling was the worst in more than a month, lasting almost eight hours."
2014-11-09,Europe set to make Space History with Comet Landing
2014-11-09,"Beijing $40 billion offer to revive the historic Silk Road, starts Central-Asia geostrategic competition"
2014-11-09,Israel to recognize Aramaics as separate ethnic group
2014-11-09,India successfully test-fires nuclear-capable Agni-II missile
2014-11-09,"Putin, Xi Jinping sign second mega gas deal on new gas supply route"
2014-11-09,Supreme leader of Iran Ayatollah Khamenei: The Only Cure for Israel is its Annihilation
2014-11-09,"Prominent jihadis in Gaza distributed a list on Friday containing personal details of six Israeli lawmakers and urged all Muslims and Palestinians to ""ram them."""
2014-11-09,Saudi Arabia says the story released through Associated Press about a new law allowing women over 30 to drive is a fabrication.
2014-11-09,Australia told it should aim for 40% cut in greenhouse gases by 2025. Europe has already indicated a 2030 target of at least 40% below 1990 levels. China and the US have promised to unveil their pledges early next year.
2014-11-08,"Germany and Brazil have made alterations to a United Nations draft resolution on the issue of state surveillance, with the two countries calling for protection against government spying on communications and personal data"
2014-11-08,"Saudi women over 30 could drive until 8 p.m. but without makeup, council proposes"
2014-11-08,"Pakistani Christians Burned Alive Were Attacked by 1,200 People: Bibi, a mother of four who was four months pregnant, was wearing an outfit that initially didn't burn. The mob removed her from over the kiln and wrapped her up in cotton to make sure the garments would be set alight."
2014-11-08,Canadian pot activists celebrate U.S. votes to legalize marijuana
2014-11-08,"Istanbul's bid to become Green Capital of Europe 'is a joke' | City is cutting down forests and bulldozing green spaces in the name of development, say activists"
2014-11-08,Official: Men confess to killing Mexican students
2014-11-08,"North Korea releases Kenneth Bae, Todd Miller."
2014-11-08,"Britain and France to blame for Adolf Hitlers march into Europe, Putin tells young historians"
2014-11-08,US not confirming Russian incursion in Ukraine
2014-11-08,"UK Intel agencies spied on lawyers, clients in torture cases | GCHQ and MI-5 staff 'rigged the game' in torture cases against government by intercepting legally privileged information."
2014-11-08,Bering Sea Superstorm: Hurricane Force Wind Warnings Issued Around Alaska's Aleutian Islands: Models project this system may become one of the lowest sea-level barometric pressures ever observed on Earth outside of tropical cyclones and tornadoes
2014-11-08,"Ground water depletion driving global conflicts - NASA scientist. ""In 90 percent of the world where there are violent conflicts, there are water scarcity issues,"" he said. Water scarcity has been one component driving Syria's civil war, he said."
2014-11-08,Japan to restart nuclear reactors 4 years after Fukushima disaster
2014-11-08,Puxton Park: Single adults are banned - in case they are a paedophile
2014-11-08,"China will complete and put into service the world's longest quantum communication network stretching 2,000km from Beijing to Shanghai by 2016, say scientists leading the project | The quantum network is considered ""unhackable"" and will provide the most secure encryption technology to users."
2014-11-08,Mikhail Gorbachev warns of new cold war over Ukraine at an event marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall
2014-11-08,French MPs call for vote on recognition of Palestine
2014-11-08,New laws could hand miners 10% of Brazils national parks and indigenous lands
2014-11-08,"The European Union's new foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini Saturday appealed for the establishment of a Palestinian state, saying the world ""cannot afford"" another war in Gaza."
2014-11-08,British police foil plot to kill Queen of England
2014-11-08,"Poland, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, & Latvia Reject IPCC Target of Zero Emissions by 2100 to Curb Global Warming - I find this a disgrace, Dutch Green MEP says. ""After IPCC report, everyone again said it was shocking, we shouldn't delay action. Then... they step back from that."""
2014-11-08,"Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov said Saturday that US involvement in resolving the conflict in Ukraine would be a ""step in the right direction"", after meeting with his US counterpart John Kerry in Beijing."
2014-11-08,Ruble Rout Accelerates as Russia's Central Bank Stands Aside; The declines mean the ruble has fallen over 40 percent against the greenback since the start of the year.
2014-11-08,Canadian cops use of facial recognition technology expands north of the border. Calgary Police becomes first city in Canada to adopt surveillance technology.
2014-11-08,"Canada, China sign currency hub deal to boost trade. Transactions would be done using yuan, trimming current exchange costs"
2014-11-07,32 Tanks Enter Ukraine From Russia
2014-11-07,"Irish Teacher turned down for a job in South Korea due to ""Alcoholism nature"" of Irish people."
2014-11-07,"Latvia's foreign minister just came out on Twitter: ""I proudly announce I'm gay"""
2014-11-07,North Koreans working as state-sponsored slaves in Qatar
2014-11-07,"Pick-up artist Julien Blanc forced out of Australia after Immigration Minister cancels visa: ""This guy wasn't pushing forward political ideas, he was putting a view that was derogatory to women and that's just something that our values abhor in this country"""
2014-11-07,"Era of cheap fish is over, says expert, as industry forced to tackle slavery and overfishing"
2014-11-07,"The highest-ranking U.S. military officer said on Thursday that Israel went to ""extraordinary lengths"" to limit civilian casualties in the recent war in Gaza and that the Pentagon had sent a team to see what lessons could be learned from the operation."
2014-11-07,"The birthplace of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has been identified as Camp Bucca, a detention centre run by the United States during the Iraq war"
2014-11-07,"Shelling of high school soccer field kills two boys in Donetsk, Urkaine"
2014-11-07,"US dollar, euro surge to new record highs vs Russian ruble"
2014-11-07,"Brussels burns as more than 100,000 protesters clash with police during march against EU austerity measures"
2014-11-07,DNA evidence proves that early humans survived the last Ice Age
2014-11-07,"Ebola ""out of control"" in Guinea - ""The number of unreported cases is likely to be 10 times higher than the number recorded by the WHO."""
2014-11-07,NASA Tests Revolutionary Shape Changing Aircraft Flap for the First Time
2014-11-07,Obama wants $3.2 billion more for US air war on Islamic State
2014-11-07,"An ozone-destroying chemical long thought to be on the decline in Earths upper atmosphere is making an unexpected comeback, an international team of scientists has found."
2014-11-07,Three Malaysian transgender women have won an appeal against a religious law banning Muslim men from wearing women's clothing.
2014-11-07,India invites Israel to invest in strategic sectors
2014-11-07,"Pakistani 'blasphemer' killed by policeman: Axe-wielding officer kills Shia man in police custody, claiming he insulted the Prophet Muhammad."
2014-11-07,Israel to destroy homes of Palestinian Jerusalem car attackers
2014-11-07,"Uruguay president, Mujica, willing to trade his VW beetle for ambulances to an Arab sheik."
2014-11-07,"Elephant Ivory Price ""Spiked as China VIPs Snapped Up Thousands of Kilos"" - Beijing dismisses scathing EIA report on wildlife trade which claims ivory haul of Xi Jinping delegates in Tanzania doubled price on illegal market"
2014-11-07,"Gaza rocket misses Israel, as 'IS-backed' blasts rock Strip"
2014-11-07,"""Wannabe jihadists are taking cruises to avoid security checks while travelling to Syria and Iraq"""
2014-11-07,A Christian bakery firm in Ireland which refused to make a cake supporting gay marriage with a picture of the Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie has been warned it will be taken to court unless it apologizes and pays immediate compensation.
2014-11-06,"Pepsi, IKEA, FedEx and 340 other international companies have secured secret deals from Luxembourg, allowing many of them to slash their global tax bills while maintaining little presence in the tiny European duchy, leaked documents show. Companies saved billions of dollars in taxes."
2014-11-06,A Japanese court ordered a restaurant to pay more than half a million dollars damages to the family of a man who killed himself after being forced to work nearly 200 hours overtime a month.
2014-11-06,Japan beats Scotland to win worlds best whiskey title
2014-11-06,"Secret file may be opened, revealing identity of paedophiles at the heart of the British establishment"
2014-11-06,"Scotland Produced Enough Wind Energy In October To Power Every Home. Wind turbines generated enough electricity in October to power 3,045,000 homes in the U.K.  more than enough for all the homes in Scotland."
2014-11-06,Chinese Presidents delegation buys large amounts of illegal ivory during Africa visit
2014-11-06,"Chinese demand for ivory is devastating Tanzania's elephant population | Chinese criminal gangs are causing Tanzania to lose more elephants to poaching than any other African country, says a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency"
2014-11-06,"Hungary intercepts Dutch girl, 16, on way to join ISIS"
2014-11-06,Ukraine Prepares for War -- Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists have been mobilizing troops and weapons for another round of vicious fighting as the cease-fire fails
2014-11-06,Norway says terror attack 'likely' as result of joining U.S.-led alliance
2014-11-06,"Canada: Conservatives propose increasing legal marriage age to 16, say it will keep barbaric cultural practices out of Canada"
2014-11-06,Anti-Putin activist found dead in Moscow home
2014-11-06,Putin says there was nothing wrong with Soviet Union's pact with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany
2014-11-06,"The International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to officially declare that Israel is guilty of ""war crimes"" on Thursday for the attack on a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza in 2010,"
2014-11-06,Nasa image reveals surface of Saturn's Titan moon
2014-11-06,Student jailed for insulting King on facebook.
2014-11-06,French-Built Mistral Ships For Russia Could End Up In Canadian Hands
2014-11-06,Britain's big banks could be broken up after the country's competition watchdog launched a full-blown investigation into services for small business customers and personal accounts because of a lack of competition.
2014-11-06,"9,300-Year-Old Bison Mummy Found in Siberia"
2014-11-06,Thousands take part in London 'Guy Fawkes' protest
2014-11-06,ICC Says It Won't Investigate Israeli Raid of Gaza Aid Flotilla
2014-11-06,Poland Prepares For Russian 'Confrontation' In New Defense Strategy
2014-11-06,"Three Israeli soldiers wounded in suspected West Bank terror attack, hours after an attack in Jerusalem"
2014-11-06,President Vladimir Putin has urged Russian historians to combat what he called attempts to rewrite history based on geopolitical interests by providing their own interpretation of past events.
2014-11-06,Bill Gates Warns: The World Is Not Prepared For Epidemics
2014-11-05,"Guam Legalizes Medical Marijuana! 66.42% of voters choose ""Yes"" to Proposal 14A."
2014-11-05,Mass Rape of 200 in North Darfur
2014-11-05,"Canadian hospital, sick of US test monopoly, sues to stop gene patents"
2014-11-05,"Libyan Troops Go Wild in England, raping one man and assaulting strangers in Cambridge"
2014-11-05,Tony Abbott was booed as he arrives at the Great Australian PM Gough Whitlam memorial service
2014-11-05,"More than 40% of China's arable land has degraded, making it difficult to feed the world's largest population"
2014-11-05,"Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwos surviving pilot managed to parachute from 50,000 feet without an oxygen mask"
2014-11-05,University students in Mexico are holding a 72-hour nationwide strike in support of the 43 trainee teachers who disappeared in Guerrero on Sept. 26th
2014-11-05,A Christian University in Korea Declares 'No Job for Homosexuals.'
2014-11-05,Sir Richard Branson: My family and I will be the first to fly into space
2014-11-05,Driver plows into Jerusalem crowd in suspected terror attack
2014-11-05,"Lion falls in to 60-foot-deep well in India, gets rescued by local authorities"
2014-11-05,"Islamic State uses women to lure European Muslims with promise of ""utopia"" -report"
2014-11-05,"Foetal Damage Caused by Alcohol ""Equivalent to Attempted Manslaughter"" - Lawyers say mothers heavy drinking while pregnant constitutes crime of poisoning"
2014-11-05,"A German rapper-turned-jihadist has been identified in a video made by the ""Islamic State."" - he is seen holding a severed head and explaining in German that the victims had fought against IS and ""that's why they received the death penalty."""
2014-11-05,Canada's ISIS bomb attack destroyed heavy engineering equipment that was being used to divert the Euphrates River
2014-11-05,"Kerry: U.S., China should set example by agreeing on climate goals - The United States and China, the world's largest carbon emitters, have an opportunity to agree on ambitious targets to reduce climate-warming gas emissions and set the stage for a global deal"
2014-11-05,Ireland set to become fastest-growing EU economy
2014-11-05,Immigration from outside Europe 'cost 120 billion'
2014-11-05,"Pollution halves India's potential grain yield: Study. Up to 90% of the decrease in potential food production seems to be linked to smog, a mix of black carbon and other pollutants, the study said."
2014-11-05,Bank of Canada to Canadian youth: Work for free
2014-11-05,ISIS Militant Who Pledged to Chop Off The Heads Of The Americans Killed In Syria
2014-11-05,"Arab Israeli Citizen Joins ISIS, Jailed For 22 Months For 'Threat To Israel's Security' Upon Return"
2014-11-05,Ruble tumbles as Russia limits currency controls
2014-11-05,"Israeli minister: If Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel, Lebanon will be razed"
2014-11-04,New Zealand MP demoted after suggesting homeopathy use in Ebola fight
2014-11-04,France Just Fired The Guy In Charge Of Selling Warships To Russia
2014-11-04,The last Pirate Bay founder has finally been caught and arrested
2014-11-04,"Coal is the future, insists Australian PM Tony Abbott as UN calls for action on climate change"
2014-11-04,Brazil Building Internet Cable to Portugal to Avoid NSA Surveillance
2014-11-04,Top politicians wore feminist T-shirts made by women making less than $1 an hour
2014-11-04,"Police arrest fugitive mayor of Mexican town where 43 students went missing in September, media reports say."
2014-11-04,Canadian dollar sinks below 88 cents as Saudis cut oil to $77
2014-11-04,"The leader of the World Health Organization criticized the drug industry on Monday, saying that the drive for profit was one reason no vaccine had yet been found for Ebola."
2014-11-04,South Korean automakers Hyundai & Kia will pay largest fine in US Clean Air Act history because nearly 1.2 million vehicles sold will emit 4.75 million metric tons more greenhouse gases than companies certified to the Environmental Protection Agency.
2014-11-04,"Men find King Thutmosis III's 3,400-yr-old temple under their house in Cairo - Finds include 7 tablets, pink granite column bases & pink granite statue."
2014-11-04,Nasrallah: You will be forced to close your ports; our missiles will reach every inch of Israel
2014-11-04,"Privacy not an absolute right, says GCHQ director"
2014-11-04,China unveils drone-fighting laser cannons
2014-11-04,"Russia has failed to show up at meeting planning the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit, U.S and European officials said"
2014-11-04,Pakistan using militants as proxies to counter superior Indian Army: Pentagon
2014-11-04,US expresses 'unequivocal' opposition to new east Jerusalem housing plans
2014-11-04,ISIL reaches Egypt as most powerful militant group in the country pledges allegiance to the Islamic State
2014-11-04,Petrodollars leave world markets for first time in 18 years
2014-11-04,Hezbollah 'Fully Ready' for Israel Fight in Southern Lebanon Despite Syrian War.
2014-11-04,Israel to reopen Gaza border crossings this morning - Egyptian crossings remain closed
2014-11-04,"Brent crude tumbles as Saudi escalates Opec oil price war - Saudi Arabia slashes oil contract price to US, sending crude traded in London sharply lower"
2014-11-04,"Venezuela, with world's largest reserves, imports oil for the first time"
2014-11-04,"In Russia, an attempt to build its own Silicon Valley on the Moskva River"
2014-11-04,Gunmen killed a Mexican general sent by the government to tame violence in a northern state plagued by drug cartel crimes along the US border
2014-11-03,Chancellor Angela Merkel would rather see the UK exit from the European Union than compromise over the principle of free movement of workers
2014-11-03,"Europe has 421 million fewer birds than 30 years ago - Study finds about 90% of a decline in the most common bird species, including grey partridges, skylarks, sparrows & starlings"
2014-11-03,A town in Portugal makes Mandarin Chinese compulsory for 8- and 9-year old school children for future competition in the thriving Chinese market.
2014-11-03,Portugal Sees Chinese Do 90% of Bids at Property Auction
2014-11-03,Monument To Apple's Jobs Removed In Russia After CEO Comes Out
2014-11-03,"Dr. Godfrey George, medical superintendent of Kambia Government Hospital in northern Sierra Leone, has died from Ebola"
2014-11-03,Muslims in Canada mark holy day with anti-terror march
2014-11-03,Canadian warplanes drop first bombs against Islamic State in Iraq
2014-11-03,Suicide blast kills 52 near India - Pakistan Border (Wagah Border)
2014-11-03,Singapore joins coalition against ISIS.
2014-11-03,"South Australia completes largest wind farm to date: generates 1,350 GWh and offsets nearly 1 million tonnes of carbon annually"
2014-11-03,ISIS destroying Iraq's cultural heritage: UNESCO chief
2014-11-03,Argentina bans Procter & Gamble
2014-11-03,"106 retired Israeli generals, spy chiefs urge Netanyahu to push for peace - Diplomacy and DefenseIsrael News"
2014-11-03,"Police are using loopholes in UK surveillance laws to gain access to peoples voicemails, texts and emails, according to an investigation by The Times"
2014-11-03,Haaretz Refuses to Back Down in Storm Over Cartoon Depicting Netanyahu as 9/11 Hijacker
2014-11-03,Virgin Galactic will continue work on 2nd rocket plane despite crash
2014-11-03,India to develop an API for entire government
2014-11-03,"""Eleven arrested in eastern China for allegedly stealing women's corpses for use in ""ghost marriages"""
2014-11-03,France finally upgrades animals from 'furniture' status
2014-11-03,ISIS leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi orders bodies of all Kurdish fighters to be burned
2014-11-03,Russian supply underpins global oil glut
2014-11-03,Politicians and industry rise up against 'unjustified' metadata bill
2014-11-03,"After rapidly intensifying, Super Typhoon Nuri may be planet's strongest storm of 2014"
2014-11-03,"Public opposition has cost tar sands industry $17bn, says report"
2014-11-02,"South-africa arrests two vietnamese having 41 kilos of rhinohorns in their bags on their way to Hanoi, Vietnam"
2014-11-02,Pope Francis: 'Caring for the poor does not make you a communist'
2014-11-02,Australia to introduce legislation to track illegal downloads by forcing ISP's to store and make accessible all user metadata.
2014-11-02,"Lithuania enacts ban on energy drinks for minors, in global first"
2014-11-02,Egypt finds hundreds more tunnels from Gaza
2014-11-02,Canadian government blatantly Photoshopped U.S. images to include a non-existent Canada logo on the International Space Station
2014-11-02,Fossil fuels 'must go by 2100' - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2014-11-02,"Bangladesh power cut plunges millions into darkness: ""The national grid collapsed so the whole country lost power..."""
2014-11-02,Defiant Rome mayor refuses to invalidate same-sex marriages
2014-11-02,Saudi women's rights activist arrested for 'insulting Islam'
2014-11-02,This is apartheid! Israeli minister blasts bus segregation for Palestinians
2014-11-02,"In 2014, countries are still paying off debt from World War One"
2014-11-02,Chief Rabbi of Israel meets with senior Muslim cleric in joint call for an end to violence in Jerusalem
2014-11-02,Kiev claims 'intensive' movements of troops crossing from Russia
2014-11-02,"Smog Is Driving Tourists Away From China, Report Says"
2014-11-02,Sir Richard Branson admits future of space tourism project is in doubt. Dream will live on only if engineers can identify and overcome cause of fatal accident.
2014-11-02,Gaza cut off from the world as Israel and Egypt close border crossings
2014-11-02,"Putins Friend Profits in Purge of Schoolbooks: the number of approved textbooks for Russias 14 million schoolchildren had been slashed by more than half, threatening the livelihoods of many publishers. But one with close ties to President Vladimir V. Putin profited handsomely"
2014-11-02,"Organizers say at least 100,000 people are marching against Ireland's new tax on water, a charge imposed as part of the country's successful exit from an international bailout"
2014-11-02,Indian Supreme Court: Cut Power and Water Supply to Factories Polluting the Ganges River
2014-11-02,China to build airfield in Antarctica
2014-11-02,Canada wont issue visas to residents of countries with widespread Ebola
2014-11-02,"China & Russia stop international attempt to create worlds largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctica as both nations eye the regions rich reserves of fish & krill - China ""challenged almost every conservation mandate that was presented."""
2014-11-02,"Pay rise for 60,000 workers after surge in firms signing up to living wage | Rate to be increased on Monday while list of living wage employers passes 1,000, including Google, Barclays and ITV"
2014-11-02,UN report: Climate change has permanently ruined farmland the size of France
2014-11-01,Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Crashes During Flight Test
2014-11-01,China completes first mission to moon and back
2014-11-01,"Ebola situation in Sierra Leone is ""catastrophic"" and ""vastly under-reported"" - ""There are several villages and communities that have been basically wiped out. In one of the villages I went to, there were 40 inhabitants and 39 died."""
2014-11-01,"The Amazon rainforest has degraded to the point where it is losing its ability to benignly regulate weather systems, according to a stark new warning from one of Brazils leading scientists"
2014-11-01,"India to start destroying stockpile of illegal wildlife items such as tiger pelts, ivory to demonstrate country's commitment towards protection of the environment"
2014-11-01,The UK government has admitted for the first time that its intelligence agencies can access data collected by other international agencies about UK citizens without a warrant
2014-11-01,Three U.S. citizens last seen with police in Mexico are found dead
2014-11-01,"Russia warns its coming for Arctic oil, including an area Canada claims as its own"
2014-11-01,"Gaza Rocket Hits Southern Israel, Despite Cease-Fire"
2014-11-01,"About 80 suspicious fishing boats have been spotted in waters around Torishima island, one of islands which belong to the Izu Islands. These vessels are considered to be Chinese boats, poaching valuable jewelry coral."
2014-11-01,8 Convicted for Alleged Same-Sex Wedding in Egypt As Part of a Crackdown by Authorities Against Gays and Atheists. The campaign also targets liberal and pro-democracy activists and violators of a draconian law on street protests
2014-11-01,"More drones spotted over French nuclear power stations. French authorities detect drones over two nuclear power plants, the latest in a baffling series of incidents across the country"
2014-11-01,Scientists with the Mexican government announced Wednesday the discovery of three new chambers at the end of a tunnel under the ancient city of Teotihuacan.
2014-11-01,Portugal scrambled F-16 jet fighters for the second time this week on Friday to intercept Russian bombers in the international air space along its coast in a new sign of an unusual burst of Russian activity next to NATO's southern borders
2014-11-01,BBC refuses to make Top Gear apology over Argentina row
2014-11-01,Egypt court sentences eight men to three years in prison for appearing in a video alleged to be of a gay marriage.
2014-11-01,"51 countries declare banking secrecy obsolete, sign pact in Berlin"
2014-11-01,"40,000 illegal immigrants arrested or deported since start of 2014 by Greek Coast Guard - ""We are opposed to the concept of open borders"" as 2,500 Coast guards conduct patrols in the Aegean"
2014-11-01,Bulgarian Parliament Rejects Plan to Bail Out Corporate Bank
2014-11-01,Anti-corruption investigators in China have confirmed the reported seizure of the equivalent of $33m in cash at an official's home
2014-11-01,Afghan first lady backs French veil ban
2014-11-01,Missing Nigerian schoolgirls 'married off'. Boko Haram chief denies ceasefire claim and says kidnapped schoolgirls have converted to Islam and married.
2014-11-01,Chechen conscripts begin to be drafted into Russian army first time since 1990s
2014-11-01,Yen slides to 7-year low in London
2014-11-01,Slandering Tutankhamun? - Results of virtual autopsy trigger anger of Egyptian Egyptologist - His face is markedly different from the golden mask & statues. He was not a proud Pharaoh or strong leader as he was a young boy who was frail & weak.
2014-10-31,Hungary internet tax cancelled after mass protests
2014-10-31,"Indian government bars first class travel, five-star hotel meetings for bureaucrats and have been asked to use video-conferencing instead to reduce expenditure on them"
2014-10-31,"For 3 days starting in 1 week, 8,000 glowing balloons are being installed across 10 miles of Berlin - these floating orbs will follow the former path of the Berlin Wall, commemorating the 25th anniversary of its fall."
2014-10-31,"Eleven countries studied, one inescapable conclusion  the drug laws dont work"
2014-10-31,A Russian action film star is in hot water after he was caught on film wearing press gear while firing a machine gun toward Ukrainian lines with Moscow-backed rebels at Donetsk airport
2014-10-31,Israel foreign minister says sweden should understand that the middle east is more complicated that ikea furniture
2014-10-31,Report: Child sexual exploitation now a 'social norm' in parts of Greater Manchester
2014-10-31,Hundreds of Iraqi tribesmen opposed to Islamic State found in mass graves
2014-10-31,Russia simulated an attack on Denmark
2014-10-31,Israeli authorities say they have decided to reopen the Al Alqsa Mosque for Muslim worshippers on Friday.
2014-10-31,Egypt clears a neighborhood to create a buffer with Gaza
2014-10-31,"The Islamic State group is conducting a purge, killing dozens of former policemen and soldiers living in areas of Iraq under its control, in a campaign apparently aimed at preventing any uprising against its extremist rule."
2014-10-31,UK lawmakers debate drug policy as study backs decriminalization: crime prevention minister Norman Baker agreed that a new approach is needed to combating drug: I think the evidence personally is so overwhelming that the present status quo is not tenable.
2014-10-31,Israel recalls Sweden ambassador in protest of Palestine recognition
2014-10-31,US Military Sets New Record for World's Fastest Microchip
2014-10-31,700-year-old zombie virus shows climate change could unleash ancient diseases
2014-10-31,"""Islamic State militants drove 600 Shia, Christian, and Yazidi male prisoners into the desert, and executed them at point blank range."""
2014-10-31,'Scary clown' craze hits Spanish city
2014-10-31,"Middle East Goes Monty Python on ISIS: Arab standup comics, and even an Iraqi TV show, regularly mock ISIS mercilessly. It might get them killed, but it might be worth it."
2014-10-31,"Ozone hole layer remains size of North America, Nasa data shows"
2014-10-31,Spanish lawmakers annoyed Google on Thursday by passing a law that allows media organisations to charge the Internet giant for the right to reproduce their news content
2014-10-31,Burkina Faso's president declares state of emergency amid violent protests at his bid to extend his 27-year rule
2014-10-31,"50 nations, including China and US, back Modi's call for International Yoga Day"
2014-10-31,China to send elite army unit to help fight Ebola in Liberia
2014-10-31,"Regreening Program to Restore 1/6 of Ethiopia's Land - Tree & shrub-planting program has transformed degraded & deforested land across Africa, with Ethiopia planning to restore a further 15m hectares by 2030"
2014-10-30,Amelia Earhart Plane Fragment Identified
2014-10-30,Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm Found Guilty in Hacking Trial
2014-10-30,"Canadian Politician, Thomas Mulcair: Shooter was a criminal, not a terrorist."
2014-10-30,Number of global billionaires has doubled since the financial crisis.
2014-10-30,NATO Intercepted 19 Russian Military Aircraft Today
2014-10-30,"""DETAILS of every phone call, email and internet page visited in Australia will be stored for at least two years under the Federal Governments next round of counter-terror laws."""
2014-10-30,BBC refuses to include Green party in general election TV leader debates | Politics
2014-10-30,Finland flies alongside NATO missions to intercept Russian jets
2014-10-30,"Allegations of mass SAT cheating delay test scores in China and South Korea, a year and a half after the College Board canceled a scheduled exam in South Korea because of allegations of widespread cheating"
2014-10-30,"Ebola jumps to 13,703 cases. 30% increase in 4 days says WHO."
2014-10-30,"Drones Spotted Over 7 French Nuclear Sites, Says EDF - Drone activity was detected at 4 sites on the same day Oct 19."
2014-10-30,Turkish president Erdogan unveils his new palace of a thousand rooms
2014-10-30,"Brazil-to-Portugal Cable Shapes Up as Anti-NSA Case Study: The Telebras-planned cable, which will run 3,500 miles from the Brazilian city of Fortaleza to Portugal, shows how losses to U.S. technology companies from the NSA disclosures are now crystallizing."
2014-10-30,India plans second Mars mission in 2018
2014-10-30,"US official calls Netanyahu ""chickenshit""; Israeli lawmaker calls US a third world country"
2014-10-30,ISIS executes 50 local tribal leaders who had allied with the Iraqi government and were helping to organise anti-ISIS operations
2014-10-30,UN condemns Israeli settlement expansion
2014-10-30,Volkswagen to launch over 20 green vehicle models in China by 2018. China has set a target of putting 5 million green vehicles on roads by 2020
2014-10-30,"A Syrian army helicopter dropped two barrel bombs on a refugee camp in the northern province of Idlib, residents say, with footage posted on YouTube showing charred and dismembered bodies of women, children and burning tents while people scrambled to save the wounded."
2014-10-30,Syrian army helicopter drops two barrel bombs in 'massacre' of refugees
2014-10-30,ISIS Executed 600 Inmates From a Prison Outside Mosul
2014-10-30,China to Invest $1 Billion in Russian Solar Energy
2014-10-30,Poland to Shift Thousands of Troops to Eastern Borders
2014-10-30,Apple unable to use 'iWatch' name due to Irish trademark.
2014-10-30,"Ottawa shooting not terrorism, says (Opposition Leader) Thomas Mulcair"
2014-10-29,"For 23rd time, U.N. nations urge end to U.S. embargo on Cuba"
2014-10-29,Scientists Discover Huge Bathtub Ring Of Oil On Sea Floor From BP Spill
2014-10-29,"Mexico Is Ready to Explode: Fifty thousand marchers thronged Mexico City's main avenues last Wednesday, and demonstrations took place all over the country... protesters set fire to state headquarters in Chilpancingo, Guerrero's capital, and are sacking supermarkets and shopping centers"
2014-10-29,"Poor Countries Tap Renewables at Twice the Pace of Rich - Clean energy is the low-cost option in a lot of these countries, Zindler said by telephone. The technologies are cost-competitive right now. Not in the future, but right now."
2014-10-29,"Around 100,000 Hungarians rally for democracy as internet tax hits nerve"
2014-10-29,"Most Canadians Say Environment Trumps Energy Prices. And more than half, or 53 percent of respondents, said the government should impose a new tax on businesses based on their carbon emissions"
2014-10-29,Russia offers the US help with space station after rocket explodes
2014-10-29,"Tasmanias Anti-Protest Law is ""One of the Worst-Drafted Pieces of Legislation Ive Seen"", Former Supreme Court Justice Says - Mining, agriculture, construction, & forestry are being protected from protesters by the state govt"
2014-10-29,"'British Schindler' aged 105, who saved 669 children from the Nazi's, awarded White Lion honour in Prague today."
2014-10-29,German exports to Russia have collapsed by more than 25%
2014-10-29,"Germany develops 'smart factories' to keep an edge: Germany is building completely automated ""smart factories"" that require no human workers."
2014-10-29,"ISIS spotted with advanced antiaircraft missile systems, raising threat to US air campaign."
2014-10-29,India uncovers suspected plot to assassinate Bangladeshi PM: Security officials
2014-10-29,"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a chickenshit prime minister, a senior U.S. official has told Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic."
2014-10-29,"Pope says he's not Communist, just following Gospel."
2014-10-29,President of Zambia dies in London hospital
2014-10-29,Secular party set to win Tunisia elections
2014-10-29,"Abbot Point: Dumping Spoil in Wetlands Study Not Needed, Environmental Minister Greg Hunt Says - Environmental assessment will instead use paperwork from old plan to dump it on Great Barrier Reef. Accused of fast-tracking project in internationally significant Caley Valley wetlands."
2014-10-29,Up to 200 Syrian rebels from the Free Syrian Army have arrived in Kobane to help Kurdish fighters fight ISIS
2014-10-29,NASA's Antares rocket explodes shortly after launch
2014-10-29,"Egyptian authorities on Tuesday ordered residents living along the country's eastern border with the Gaza Strip to evacuate so they can demolish their homes and set up a buffer zone to stop weapons and militant trafficking between Egypt and the Palestinian territory, officials said."
2014-10-29,Egypt begins work on demolishing hundreds of homes to create Gaza buffer zone
2014-10-29,"Erdogan to unveil Turkey's controversial new presidential palace. An immense project built at a reported cost of $350 million, it has an area of 200,000 square metres, 1,000 rooms and architecture that is supposed to marry modernism and the traditions of the mediaeval Seljuk dynasty."
2014-10-29,"Fewer Russians Ready to Re-Elect Putin, Poll Shows"
2014-10-29,British Spies Allowed to Access U.S. Data without a Warrant
2014-10-28,Nobel Peace Prize Winners Want Barack Obama to Release Torture Report
2014-10-28,"Heroin use is so high in Myanmar that syringes now serve as currency  Along parts of the Myanmar-China border, where heroin addiction is appallingly common, fresh needles are now so coveted that shopkeepers dispense them as change."
2014-10-28,"Pope says evolution doesn't mean there's no God; In an address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, the Pope explains that God is not some sort of wizard."
2014-10-28,"North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un Purges 10 Officials From His Ruling Workers Party for Watching South Korean Soap Operas, Yonhap Says"
2014-10-28,90% of journalists' murderers across the world get away with it - report
2014-10-28,"ANYONE who forces a child to wear a burqa in public could be jailed for a year and fined $68,000, under a draft law to be introduced by Jacqui Lambie."
2014-10-28,Mexico unearths 'second mass grave'
2014-10-28,"US banks vow not to fund Great Barrier Reef coal port - US banking giants Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, & JPMorgan Chase are latest big financiers to rule out funding a major coal port expansion in Queensland, activists say"
2014-10-28,Five-year-olds learn coding as Britain eyes digital future
2014-10-28,Nigeria sues Coca-Cola for half-filled cans
2014-10-28,"In historic Ukraine election, the Communist Party fails to gain a single Parliament seat"
2014-10-28,Japanese scientists warn that volcano near a nuclear power plant is ready to erupt
2014-10-28,Irish politician to take abortion pill in Dublin in defiance of Republics ban
2014-10-28,U.S. says Israel's decision to push forward housing plan in East Jerusalem is 'incompatible with peace' EU says future ties with Israel hinge on engagement to peace based on two states
2014-10-28,Russia to recognize election results of separatist Ukraine regions
2014-10-28,"Ethiopia ruthlessly targeting and torturing Oromo people, says Amnesty | Damning report says thousands of people from countrys largest ethnic group subjected to abuse including rape and killings"
2014-10-28,"1,800 radical German Muslims now in Syria, Iraq"
2014-10-28,Three lawyers in Saudi Arabia have been handed prison sentences of up to eight years for criticizing the countrys judiciary on social media.
2014-10-28,Netanyahu: Israel will build in all of Jerusalem
2014-10-28,Protection plan 'will not save Great Barrier Reef'
2014-10-28,"John Tory elected as Toronto's new mayor, replacing Rob Ford"
2014-10-28,U.S. and Israeli defense chiefs agree on deal for second F-35 squadron
2014-10-28,Claims emerge of 'secret sex room' at top Jakarta school
2014-10-28,"Lloyds Bank confirms 9,000 job losses and branch closures"
2014-10-28,"4 Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over Cartel Behavior"
2014-10-27,Protest against the world's first internet tax in Hungary
2014-10-27,A disabled 12 year-old girl in the UK has been 'allowed to die' after a court case fought by her parents made legal history
2014-10-27,"Oil price will fall to $70 a barrel in 2015, Goldman Sachs says"
2014-10-27,"4 Banks, Including JPMorgan, Fined in Europe Over Cartel Behavior"
2014-10-27,"Last US Marines, British combat forces officially end operations in Afghanistan after 13 years"
2014-10-27,"The federal government is shamelessly exploiting last weeks extremist attacks to dismantle liberties and core principles of justice, says journalist Glenn Greenwald."
2014-10-27,Harper Named World's 'Worst Climate Villain' After Damning Report
2014-10-27,"Police cars overturned, Water-cannon used as 5000 Anti-Islamic Rioters take to Central Cologne"
2014-10-27,German spies warn ISIS has anti-aircraft rockets to shoot down passenger jets
2014-10-27,"Embedding Is Not Copyright Infringement, EU Court Rules - ""The Court ruled that embedding copyrighted videos is not copyright infringement, even if the source video was uploaded without permission."""
2014-10-27,The Vatican is digitizing thousands of its rarest texts | News
2014-10-27,Tesla boss Elon Musk warns artificial intelligence development is 'summoning the demon'
2014-10-27,Rwanda bans BBC over genocide film
2014-10-27,"Australian teenager in ISIL video an 'idiot', says family"
2014-10-27,New blotter test can spot Ebola in 30 minutes
2014-10-27,Dilma Rousseff re-elected Brazil's president
2014-10-27,Lithuania's first floating LNG terminal breaks Russian monopoly
2014-10-27,"Japan vows to continue its whaling program, despite an international ruling ordering it to stop"
2014-10-27,Israel okays over 1000 new settler units
2014-10-27,"Iranian President Rouhani says ""most severe punishment awaits"" perpetrators of acid attacks against Iranian women as government appoints probe chief to lead investigation"
2014-10-27,Woman beheaded for killing ISIS member who attempted to rape her
2014-10-27,Belarus Wants to Criminalize Unemployment
2014-10-27,"A 20-year old Spanish kid pretended to be a government official, infiltrated the Spanish political elite."
2014-10-27,Israeli president calls 1956 massacre of Arabs a 'terrible crime'
2014-10-27,Pro-Democracy Movements Vote in Hong Kong Abruptly Called Off
2014-10-26,"Panic as clown terror spreads to southern France - A wave of panic sparked by evil clowns stalking French towns has spread to the south of France where police on Saturday night arrested 14 teenagers dressed as the pranksters, carrying pistols, knives and baseball bats"
2014-10-26,Indigenous Communities Take Chevron to Global Court for 'Crimes Against Humanity': Chevron has repeatedly refused to pay the $9.5 billion ordered by Ecuadorian courts and even took the step of removing most of its assets from Ecuador in an apparent effort to avoid paying
2014-10-26,"President Vladimir Putin calls on Israel to halt the construction of settlements and he added that the ""humiliation of the Palestinian people and any other people is a source of danger and instability and must be removed with all means and ways acceptable to all parties."""
2014-10-26,Registered gun owners in the United Kingdom are now subject to unannounced visits to their homes under new guidance that allows police to inspect firearms storage without a warrant
2014-10-26,Family supper of deadly pufferfish leaves 11 paralyzed and fighting for life
2014-10-26,"Twenty-four European banks have failed stress tests of their finances, the European Banking Authority has announced. The banks now have nine months to shore up their finances or risk being shut down."
2014-10-26,India offers to help Pakistan eradicate polio infection
2014-10-26,Afghan mullah jailed for rape of 10-year-old girl
2014-10-26,Number of Islamic extremists growing in Germany
2014-10-26,The last UK military base in Afghanistan has been handed over to the control of Afghan security forces
2014-10-26,"Illusion over, France has lost unemployment battle, says Labour Minister - France"
2014-10-26,India likely to strike deal with Vietnam for oil exploration
2014-10-26,Powerful New Microscope Allows Scientists To View The World Like Never Before
2014-10-26,South Korea Activists Launch Anti-Kim Balloons Despite Pyongyang's Threat Of War
2014-10-26,Islamic State: Kurdish forces retake town near Mosul dam; Iraqi troops seize stronghold south of Baghdad
2014-10-26,Uruguay votes for new president to succeed Jose Mujica
2014-10-26,Australian surgeons perform first successful 'dead heart' transplants
2014-10-26,Army battles Islamist militants in Lebanese city of Tripoli
2014-10-26,One Million Protesters Gather in Rome Against Government's Labor Market Reforms
2014-10-26,Report: Egypt to create buffer zone with Gaza
2014-10-26,Three Turkish soldiers shot dead in 'terrorist' attack
2014-10-26,New South Wales principals are being urged to monitor students' actions and consider reporting anti-social behaviour to police amid heightened fears of teenagers becoming involved with terrorist groups
2014-10-26,Ruble and rial are going to replace the US dollar in bilateral transactions between Iran and Moscow.
2014-10-26,"Following attacks on its troops, Egypt indefinitely closes Rafah border crossing to Gaza"
2014-10-26,Critical NASA Science Returns to Earth aboard SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft
2014-10-25,Egypt has just suffered a terrorist attack resulting in the deaths of 25 soldiers.
2014-10-25,Indian Air Force asks personnel not to use Xiaomi phones as these are believed to be transferring data to their servers in China and could be a security risk
2014-10-25,Russia's clocks go back for the last time on Sunday as it adopts winter hours permanently
2014-10-25,'Darth Vader' goes to polls in Ukraine and wants to turn state into 'galactic empire'
2014-10-25,"Canada Parliament Shooting: Sgt-at-Arms Kevin Vickers ran to pillar that gunman was hiding behind, dove sideways around it, and shot gunman at point-blank range."
2014-10-25,Israeli Soldiers kill 14 year old American Teen in the West Bank.
2014-10-25,"Iran hangs woman, defying international campaign - Reyhaneh Jabbari is executed for killing a man she said attacked her and tried to rape her"
2014-10-25,"Peshmerga entered the strategic town (Zumar), Killing more than 80 IS militants"
2014-10-25,Missing students' classmates want Mexico governor 'behind bars'
2014-10-25,Google Executive Shatters Felix Baumgartner's Skydiving Record
2014-10-25,So Paulo running out of water as rain-making Amazon vanishes. South Americas biggest and wealthiest city may run out of water by mid-November if it doesnt rain soon.
2014-10-25,We Have A Deal: European Union Agrees To Cut Its Emissions 40 Percent By 2030
2014-10-25,India picks Israel's Spike anti-tank missile over U.S. Javelin
2014-10-25,London's electric car infrastructure falling into ruin
2014-10-25,Pakistan and Iran exchange mortar fire on border
2014-10-25,Secret files show MI5 spying on academics
2014-10-25,"ISIS Plants Flag On Hill Near Kobane, Coalition Airstrike Takes It Out"
2014-10-25,"""We won't pay,"" furious Cameron tells EU over surprise budget"
2014-10-25,'We did not start this': Putin accuses United States of damaging world order
2014-10-25,Russia 'helped Yanukovych to flee'
2014-10-25,16 killed in China coal mine collapse. Another 11 miners were injured in the disaster that struck just before midnight Friday in Tiechanggou township outside the Xinjiang regional capital of Urumqi.
2014-10-25,21 nations agree to set up China-led regional bank
2014-10-25,Freelance reporter Aung Kyaw Naing killed while in custody of Burmese military
2014-10-25,ISIS uses chlorine gas in battle after seizing the chemical from overrun water purification plants
2014-10-25,"Grave Robbers Plunder Ancient Danish Burial Sites Dating Back 4,000 Yrs - ""It's a disaster. Grave robbers have ruined part of Denmark's history."" Artifacts like stone axes, jewelry & pottery taken. Last time Denmark graves were robbed was in 1890s."
2014-10-24,U.S. threatens sanctions on buyers of ISIS oil
2014-10-24,Canada attack 'not linked to IS'
2014-10-24,Poll: 74 percent of Denmark's citizens want to outlaw circumcision
2014-10-24,"World's Longest Snake Has Virgin Birth1st Recorded in Species - ""We didn't know what we were seeing. We had attributed it to stored sperm. I guess sometimes truth is stranger than fiction."""
2014-10-24,"Lebanese MP Nicolas Fattoush repeatedly punches office worker, in front of many witnesses, after she refuses to let him jump a queue. He is being allowed to keep his job and no charges are to be brought."
2014-10-24,"""Since church ministers declared Ebola was a plague sent by God to punish sodomy in Liberia, the violence towards gays has escalated. They're even asking for the death penalty. We're living in fear,"""
2014-10-24,Sixty more women and girls reported kidnapped in Nigeria
2014-10-24,Canada to toughen terror laws
2014-10-24,Poland bans junk food in schools
2014-10-24,"A 45,000-year-old leg bone from Siberia has yielded the oldest genome sequence for Homo sapiens on record  revealing a mysterious population that may once have spanned northern Asia."
2014-10-24,"Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised on Friday what he called the United States' ""unilateral diktat"" in global affairs and said the ""so-called"" winners of the Cold War wanted a new world order that suited only them."
2014-10-24,"Microsoft Co-founder Paul Allen Donates $100M to Fight Raging Ebola Epidemic -- ""Paul Allen one-upped his good friend, co-founder and former CEO Bill Gates, with an even bigger donation"""
2014-10-24,The largest city in Brazil is running dangerously low on water
2014-10-24,Drug mule left to die in airport over Ebola fears
2014-10-24,"UK computer users who damage national security could face jail - Govt. plan for computer users deemed to have damaged national security, human welfare, the economy or the environment to face a life sentence has been criticised by experts who warn it could be used to target legitimate whistleblowers"
2014-10-24,"Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ""stonewalled"" Snowden story, says Greenwald"
2014-10-24,"ISIS School of Jihad trains small children how to behead, torture and use AK-47s"
2014-10-24,"Russian president Vladimir Putin says West to blame for Ukraine crisis, US trying to 'remake the whole world'"
2014-10-24,Heavy clashes between the Syrian Army and the Islamic State resulted in a defeat for the Islamic State in Eastern Reef Homs and the Syrian Army took over an Oil well
2014-10-24,World-first dead heart transplant at Sydneys St Vincents Hospital a game changer
2014-10-24,Muslim groups fear angry response from Canadian public
2014-10-24,China Launches First Privately Funded Moon Mission Today
2014-10-24,"Vitaly Churkin, Russias Permanent Representative to the United Nations has announced that Russia will back a resolution calling for a Palestinian state, if one is presented."
2014-10-24,"Russia still has troops in Ukraine, NATO says"
2014-10-24,"Queensland government passes legislation that will see people who attack nurses, doctors, and paramedics face a 14 year jail term"
2014-10-23,"'We are a proud democracy, a welcoming and peaceful nation, and a country of open arms and open hearts. We are a nation of fairness, justice and the rule of law. We will not be intimidated into changing that'. - Justin Trudeau - Canadian MP"
2014-10-23,North Korea has banned all tourism in the country in fear of Ebola outbreak
2014-10-23,"'Canada will never be intimidated,' PM Stephen Harper addressed the Nation."
2014-10-23,Former Blackwater guards found guilty in 2007 shootings of Iraqis
2014-10-23,"Suspected gunman in downtown Halifax, Canada. Schools and businesses on lockdown."
2014-10-23,A Saudi court has sentenced 13 people to prison for plotting an attack against U.S. forces.
2014-10-23,"Artifacts Dating Back Thousands of Yrs Destroyed by ISIS Militants in Iraq - What it hasn't destroyed, ISIS is selling on black market. 1000s of yrs before birth of Christ, people of Mesopotamia mastered 1st writing system, mathematics, astronomy, literature & law."
2014-10-23,"Mexican Prosecutor Says Mayor, Wife Ordered Attack on Students"
2014-10-23,Ottawa shooting: Sergeant-at-Arms Kevin Vickers hailed a hero for shooting rampaging gunman
2014-10-23,China furious after Kenny G appears to back Hong Kong protesters
2014-10-23,"Iran, Russia create joint operations headquarters to fight the Islamic State"
2014-10-23,"Mexico's government has ordered the arrest of the mayor of the southern town of Iguala, where six people died and 43 students disappeared after clashing with local police last month."
2014-10-23,South Sudan women suggest sex strike to end civil war
2014-10-23,Fighters scrambled as Russian spy plane violates Estonian air space
2014-10-23,Senior Al-Qaeda jihadist urges ISIS to free U.S. hostage who gave him medical treatment
2014-10-23,Chinas coal use is actually dropping for the first time this century
2014-10-23,"Facebook paid no UK corporation tax for the second year in a row in 2013, while employees received shares in the company worth tens of millions of pounds."
2014-10-23,"Hamas, Islamic Jihad salute Jerusalem terror attack"
2014-10-23,"US condemns 'despicable' Jerusalem terror attack that killed baby, injured 7 others"
2014-10-23,Saudi kings nephew admits to Riyadh support for ISIL
2014-10-23,U.N. rights watchdog calls for open elections in Hong Kong
2014-10-23,Boeing sells first parts to Iran since 1979
2014-10-23,Spanish Woman Who Beat Ebola Mourns for Her Slain Dog
2014-10-23,"Human Rights Watch releases fresh report detailing the 'Exploitation of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the United Arab Emirates.' With no labor law protections for domestic workers, employers can, and many do, overwork, underpay, and abuse these women."
2014-10-23,"Denmark provides an additional 10 million kroner, overall reaching 74 million kroner donated to the ongoing Ebola crisis in west Africa"
2014-10-22,Shots fired at Parliament in Canada
2014-10-22,"The Obama administration has until early December to detail its reasons for withholding as many as 2,100 graphic photographs depicting US military torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, a federal judge ordered on Tuesday."
2014-10-22,'Why is the world allowing a holocaust to happen again?' Brave North Korean shares harrowing story of escape - Independent.ie
2014-10-22,The Walking Dead's Laurie Holden goes undercover to fight against underage sex trafficking and helps to save 55 young girls.
2014-10-22,Hungary to impose internet tax in 2015 - as high as ~$0.6 per gigabyte
2014-10-22,"Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai to Obama: ...send books instead of gunschange the world..."""
2014-10-22,Italian police uncover 1.7bn corporate fraud.
2014-10-22,"Sweden gets two new sightings, as hunt for undersea intruder goes on"
2014-10-22,Russians Pull $5 Billion Out of Banks as Ruble Plummets
2014-10-22,Man Who Killed Canadian Soldier With Car Was Radical Muslim on the RCMP watchlist
2014-10-22,"Vatican Library Puts 4,000 Ancient Manuscripts Available Online For Free (500 manuscripts and 600 incunabula available now)"
2014-10-22,"Australian Government says, website blocking is not Web filtering."
2014-10-22,"Greek archaeologists made another find on Tuesday as they unearthed the missing head of one of the two wingless sphinxes guarding the large and mysterious burial site in Amphipolis, in Greeces northeastern Macedonia region."
2014-10-22,Polands speaker backs down from claim Putin proposed dividing Ukraine
2014-10-22,Spanish nurse with ebola has been cured and given all clear.
2014-10-22,Press freedom in the Americas has 'worsened'
2014-10-22,"Brazil Creates Amazon Rainforest Reserve Larger Than Delaware. The new reserve, called Alto Maues, has 6,680 square km (668,000 hectares or 1.65 million acres) of mostly untouched forests that are not known to have human presence, the Brazilian Environment Ministry said."
2014-10-22,"The Ukrainian military has used cluster munitions numerous times in its conflict with pro-Russian separatists, likely scattering deadly bombs that did not immediately explode and putting civilians at risk, Human Rights Watch said in a new report"
2014-10-22,"Russians More Afraid of U.S. Than Islamic Terrorism, Survey Shows"
2014-10-22,Cuban medics arrive in Liberia to fight Ebola: More than 50 doctors land in Monrovia as WHO officials say they hope to develop serum from recovered patients' blood.
2014-10-22,Hong Kong protests: government can't deny 'something huge has happened'
2014-10-22,About 50 young Cambodians have offered to join the fight against ISIS. In return they want US help to fight the Vietnamese and liberate an island off Cambodia that's been Vietnamese for at least 150 years.
2014-10-22,Hungarian goverment plans to introduce a ~0.5EUR/GB Internet tax next year for all ISPs
2014-10-22,Teenagers' heavy cannabis use 'impairs intelligence'
2014-10-22,"17th-C. Dutch Warship Discovered Off the Coast of TobagoHuis de Kreuningen, largest ship in fleet, sunk by the Glorieux March 3, 1677 battling invading French fleet in Caribbean. To find the Huis de Kreuningen undiscovered & untouched for over 300 yrs was an exciting moment."
2014-10-21,Australian Whistleblower who leaked a secret scholarship for Tony Abbott's daughter to be sentenced this week
2014-10-21,"Hong Kong has too many poor people to allow direct elections, leader says"
2014-10-21,"World-First, FDA-Approved, Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trial for Diabetes is Launched, After Diabetes is ""Cured"" in Mice."
2014-10-21,Oscar Pistorius receives a prison sentence of 5 years for the culpable homicide of Reeva Steenkamp
2014-10-21,"Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant - Geoff Raisman said: ""It would be my proudest boast if I could say that no patient had had to pay one penny for any of the information we have found."""
2014-10-21,"2 Biggest Tuna Fish Brands in UK Backtracking on Commitments - Leaked documents show they're likely to opt out of commitments to end FAD fishing methods. 'Thats unacceptable. It's a truly devastating method of catching tuna. It catches a huge array of species, including sharks, rays & turtles.'"
2014-10-21,Sweden ready to use force to surface sub
2014-10-21,Man stones daughter to death in Daesh video
2014-10-21,CEO of oil giant TOTAL dies in crash of private jet at take off in Moscow
2014-10-21,Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland - Polish ex-minister
2014-10-21,"The $103 million taxpayer funding of New Zealand's intelligence agencies is effectively a membership fee for joining the Five Eyes surveillance club with the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, according to a de-classified report."
2014-10-21,Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has hit an all-time high despite years of counter-narcotics efforts that have cost the US $7.6bn
2014-10-21,Former Australian PM Gough Whitlam who brought in sweeping changes that transformed Australia has died at age 98
2014-10-21,"Russia Prepares for Ice-Cold War with Show of Military Force in the Arctic - Vladimir Putin sends troops & jets to oil & gas-rich region coveted by Canada, US, Norway & Denmark"
2014-10-21,"The Ukrainian Army appears to have fired cluster munitions on several occasions into the heart of Donetsk, unleashing a weapon banned in much of the world into a rebel-held city with a peacetime population of more than one million"
2014-10-21,Poorly paid Nepalese porters found frozen in flip flops and trainers
2014-10-21,Japanese man gets 2 year sentence for making guns using 3-D printer
2014-10-21,"UK wind industry sets new generation record as it nears 25 per cent power share - wind power outperformed nuclear power throughout the whole weekend and into Monday morning, and allowed a number of coal power plants to be taken offline."
2014-10-21,John Kerry praises Cuban role in Ebola fight
2014-10-21,Russia Wont Accept Terms to End Sanctions Over Ukraine
2014-10-21,Russian artist cuts off earlobe in protest at use of forced psychiatry on dissidents
2014-10-21,Known terror suspect in Canada runs over two soldiers; is gunned down by police
2014-10-21,Palestinians file UN complaint accusing settler of killing schoolgirl
2014-10-21,"Sweden's Second AP Fund has just divested $116 million from oil, coal and gas companies - the first national pension fund in the world to do so"
2014-10-21,"South Sudan sexual violence 'rampant,' two-year-old raped: U.N."
2014-10-20,WHO Declares Nigeria Ebola-Free After 42 Days With No Cases
2014-10-20,Pacific islanders on canoes blockade Australia coal export terminal saying fossil fuels are contributing to rising sea levels that threaten their countries' very existence
2014-10-20,Israeli President Rivlin: Time to admit that Israel is a sick society that needs treatment
2014-10-20,Jack the Ripper: Scientists who claims to have identified notorious killer has 'made serious DNA error'
2014-10-20,"Britain is on the brink of becoming a nation permanently divided between rich and poor, poverty commission warns"
2014-10-20,Press TV reporter killed in suspicious car accident in Turkey  3 days ago Turkish intelligence agency had accused her of spying
2014-10-20,Spanish nurse who became first person to contract Ebola outside Africa tests negative for the virus
2014-10-20,Paris opera ejects woman in Muslim veil after cast refuses to sing
2014-10-20,Japan 'not ready' for invasion of redbacks as venomous Australian spiders reach Tokyo
2014-10-20,"U.S. tug boat rescues drifting Russian cargo ship, ending fears of an oil spill off the B.C. coast"
2014-10-20,Police move to clear Occupy protesters from Parliament Square
2014-10-20,Canada develops ebola vaccine that is effective on animals - 800 vials of the vaccine are being shipped to the WHO for further testing
2014-10-20,"Mass surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies is corrosive of online privacy and threatens to undermine international law, according to a report to the United Nations general assembly."
2014-10-20,Hamas claims it is rebuilding infiltration tunnels into Israel
2014-10-20,Confirmed: Israel to Supply Gas to Egypt in $4 Billion Deal
2014-10-20,Ebola: Liberias President writes moving letter to the world
2014-10-20,India set to become $2 trillion economy this year
2014-10-20,US airdrops arms and supplies to Kurdish opposition fighters in Syrian town of Kobani
2014-10-20,"Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals | Data indicates 190% rise in land clearance in August and September compared with same period last year"
2014-10-20,Fire exposes illegal Chinese factories in Italy
2014-10-20,Islamic State: Turkey to let Iraq Kurds join Kobane fight
2014-10-20,McDonalds Says Russia Inspecting More Than 200 Outlets
2014-10-20,Swedish Navy's Rear Adm. Anders Grenstad said it had no information about any emergency messages suggesting a Russian mini-submarine had run into trouble in Swedish waters
2014-10-20,Poll: 75% of Israeli Jews oppose Palestinian state on '67 lines
2014-10-20,Priests race to save manuscripts from jihadists in Iraq
2014-10-19,The Swedish navy is chasing what could be a damaged Russian submarine in Sweden.
2014-10-19,Grandmother starves herself to death after UK's assisted suicide laws left her with 'no alternative'
2014-10-19,German Intelligence Claims Pro-Russian Separatists Downed MH17
2014-10-19,Fidel Castro Offers Cubas Cooperation with USA to fight Ebola
2014-10-19,'Beijing is like a bonfire' as runners forced to complete marathon in gas masks
2014-10-19,China says it will punish carmakers by restricting their production and publicly naming them if they fail to meet fuel consumption requirements on passenger vehicles set for 2015
2014-10-19,"ISIS Releases Training Guide on 'How to Tweet Safely, Without Giving out Your Location to NSA'"
2014-10-19,German Motorcycle Club members join Dutch bikers in fight against The Islamic State
2014-10-19,South Korea fires warning shots against North Korean soldiers approaching military demarcation line
2014-10-19,"Kurdish official: ISIS and their flag gone from Kobane, Ypg units now are in control of the town"
2014-10-19,The last critically endangered northern white rhinoceros died in reservation Ol Pejeta in Kenya. It was probably the last male of the northern subspecies capable of natural mating.
2014-10-19,"The Russian defence ministry has denied reports that one of its submarines got into trouble off Sweden, sparking a military alert in the Baltic"
2014-10-19,"Germany plans tougher controls on would-be jihadists: Marking personal identity cards, considering withdrawing citizenship."
2014-10-19,Russians Lose Faith in Banks as Ruble Falls and Sanctions Bite
2014-10-19,Internet trolls face up to 2 years in jail under new laws
2014-10-19,A well-known citizen journalist who used the Twitter handle @Miut3 was reportedly kidnapped and killed Wednesday in the border city of Reynosa.
2014-10-19,Putin Offers WHO Experimental Ebola Vaccine
2014-10-19,Moody's downgrades Russia's debt
2014-10-19,35% increase in Iran's tourism earnings since the election of Hassan Rouhani; arrivals from Europe doubled
2014-10-19,"Doctor from Israel joined Islamic State, hospital confirms"
2014-10-19,Ebola deaths in Liberia are far higher than reported as officials downplay epidemic
2014-10-19,Cuba is leading the international fight against Ebola. A country of 11 million people are sending their best volunteers to Africa.
2014-10-19,"Under-30s being priced out of the UK, says Alan Milburn. Mobility tsar says Britain is on verge of being permanently divided between haves and have-nots as young miss out on recovery"
2014-10-19,Experimental Canadian Ebola vaccine to be shipped to Geneva for trials
2014-10-19,A majority of Irish Senators have signed a motion calling on their Government to formally recognise the State of Palestine
2014-10-18,All four suspected Ebola cases in Spain test negative for the disease
2014-10-18,Pope Ousts Top Vatican Judge Known For Incendiary Anti-Gay Comments.
2014-10-18,South Korea prepares for 10Gbps broadband; transfer 1GB file in 0.8 seconds
2014-10-18,Rome mayor defiantly registers 16 gay marriages within spitting distance of Vatican
2014-10-18,Military alert over 'foreign subs' off Stockholm
2014-10-18,Leaked details of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) negotiations reveal that Australia is pushing an approach to copyright enforcement in the region that appears to ignore broader public interest concerns in favour of the supporting rights owners
2014-10-18,"Humble Spud Poised to Launch a World Food Revolution - Dutch team pioneering development of crops fed by sea water. The salt-tolerant potato is a game changer. We dont see salination as a problem, we see it as an opportunity."
2014-10-18,"Finally, Nigeria's Kidnapped Schoolgirls Are Coming Home"
2014-10-18,Nasa telescope spots galaxy 13 billion lightyears away - Telegraph
2014-10-18,Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong have retaken streets in the Mong Kok district cleared by the authorities just a few hours earlier.
2014-10-18,Iran warns that it may send military forces to Pakistan
2014-10-18,"Secret space plane lands at US air force base after unknown two-year mission: Resembling a small space shuttle, the X-37B landed in southern California after a 674 days in orbit on a secret missio"
2014-10-18,Colombia only country to donate to UNs Ebola fund
2014-10-18,Iceland Is Experiencing Its Biggest Continuous Volcanic Eruption in Centuries
2014-10-18,Russian activist who investigated the deaths and disappearances of Russian soldiers in Ukraine has been jailed
2014-10-18,14% Of All The Cars Sold In Norway In September Were Electric Vehicles
2014-10-18,"At least 39 climbers died on a key Nepali hiking route after it was hit by major snowstorms and avalanches earlier this week, officials say."
2014-10-18,Ebola diagnosis delayed after Air Canada refuses to transport blood sample
2014-10-18,"India launches air quality index to warn over dangerous pollution events: Index will track eight major pollutants, after World Health Organisation said New Delhi was worlds most-polluted city"
2014-10-18,A Russian container ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of fuel has lost power and is adrift off the coast of British Columbia. There are concerns that high winds could run the vessel aground --- with the potential to cause an environmental disaster.
2014-10-18,South Korean safety official dies in apparent suicide after concert tragedy
2014-10-18,US was prepared 'to use nuclear weapons against North Korea' if troops crossed border
2014-10-18,Tens of thousands take to UK streets in pay protest
2014-10-18,"Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Friday called on his people to prevent Israeli settlers from entering Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque and use ""all means"" to protect the site"
2014-10-18,A Russian container ship adrift off Canada's west coast is being towed away from land
2014-10-17,Nearly 500 new female genital mutilation cases identified in England last month.
2014-10-17,Lithuania to ban sale of energy drinks to minors. WHO said Lithuania will prove to be an example for all other European Countries.
2014-10-17,"Britain may use a mediaeval law dating to 1351 to charge citizens with treason if they go to fight with Islamic State insurgents in Iraq and Syria, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said."
2014-10-17,Giant inflatable 'sex toy' sculpture in Paris is meant to be a Christmas tree
2014-10-17,"In a decision that could mark the end of Europes most violent neo-Nazi force, a Greek prosecutor has demanded that Golden Dawns entire parliamentary group stand trial for criminal offences"
2014-10-17,Jamaica imposes ban on travelers from Ebola-stricken countries
2014-10-17,Colombia cancels flights from West Africa because of Ebola
2014-10-17,Only 12% of drone victims in Pakistan identified as militants: report
2014-10-17,"Full horror of the Yazidis who didnt escape Mount Sinjar: UN confirms 5,000 men were executed and 7,000 women are now kept as sex slaves"
2014-10-17,Russian HIV vaccine ready for phase two clinical trials
2014-10-17,Glenn Greenwald: UN Report Finds Mass Surveillance Violates International Treaties and Privacy Rights
2014-10-17,"For the first time in its 500-year history, visitors will see the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo in full color. Starting this month, the Vatican is installing 7,000 LEDs to more vibrantly, fully and accurately illuminate the space than ever before."
2014-10-17,Nigeria and Boko Haram 'agree ceasefire' and are releasing the kidnapped school girls
2014-10-17,NZ is now in the UN Security Council
2014-10-17,"Spanish authorities reported four new patients with suspected Ebola symptoms on Thursday, including a feverish passenger who started shaking on an Air France flight to Madrid and a Spanish priest who had recently been in Liberia."
2014-10-17,BBC to publish Google 'right to be forgotten' removals list
2014-10-17,Dark matter may have been detected streaming from the suns core
2014-10-17,ISIS captured 3 Syrian fighter planes
2014-10-17,NASAs Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy through Cosmic Magnifying Glass
2014-10-17,Pakistan court upholds blasphemy death sentence of a Christian woman
2014-10-17,Crimeans given three months to voluntarily hand in banned literature [TRANSLATION]
2014-10-17,Police launch dawn raid to clear Hong Kong protest zone
2014-10-17,Russian Defense Budget to Hit Record $81 Billion in 2015
2014-10-17,"U.S. Calls for Probe Into Beating of Political Activist by Hong Kong Police-- ""In the video, Tsang is arrested before being taken around a corner and beaten while on the ground with his hands bound by a plastic tie."""
2014-10-17,Russia And China Want To Build The Longest High-Speed Railway In The World To Connect Them
2014-10-16,"Wind blows away fossil power in the Nordics, the Baltics next. The arrival of wind power on a large scale has pushed electricity prices down, eroding profitability of fossil power stations."
2014-10-16,Rhino horn demand in Vietnam drops by more than 33% in one year | Information campaign successfully changes minds of people who think rhino horn has medicinal value
2014-10-16,"""Don't threaten or warn us"", says India to China after unveiling plans to construct roads all the way up to Chinese border to match troop and infrastructure build up by the Chinese."
2014-10-16,"Doctors Without Borders: We've 'Reached Our Ceiling,' Maxed Out Ebola Aid Resources"
2014-10-16,Saudi Arabia to reward outstanding teachers with BMW cars and cash gifts
2014-10-16,A solar car built by Australian students has broken the electric vehicle world speed record
2014-10-16,"The Islamic State militant group has been driven out of most of the northern Syrian town of Kobane, a Kurdish commander tells the BBC. Baharin Kandal said IS fighters had retreated from all areas of the border town, except for two pockets of resistance in the east."
2014-10-16,"The Islamic State has seized three trucks with school textbooks for Iraqi schools at the country's border with Jordan and is demanding $108,000 for their passage"
2014-10-16,Colombian farmers sue BP for $29M over land degredation - Our water has been damaged by sedimentation since the pipeline was laid & I've lost cattle. I can no longer keep pigs or chickens. We have hope & faith the high court in London will deliver justice to us.
2014-10-16,Three Dutch members of the infamous motorbike gang No Surrender have gone to Iraq to help fight ISIL.
2014-10-16,France gives China 12m-high Fire-Breathing Dragon Robot to Celebrate Anniversary of Diplomatic Ties
2014-10-16,Lockheed: We'll Build Compact Reactor in a Year.
2014-10-16,Caribbean Island St. Lucia: No visitors from Ebola-stricken nations
2014-10-16,Isis 'behead their own fighters' for spying and embezzlement in Syria
2014-10-16,Kurdish Activists Stage ISIS Sex Slave Market in Central London
2014-10-16,Plane from Paris isolated in Madrid over potential ebola case
2014-10-16,A case in which 100 Colombian farmers are suing British oil giant BP for environmental damage opened in the High Court in London
2014-10-16,The Ministry of Health in Sierra Leone has announced that deadly Ebola has come to the last untouched district in the nation.
2014-10-16,Putin Vows to Protect Polar Bear Habitat as Russia Militarizes Arctic
2014-10-16,Muslim Leader Denied Entry To Jamaica In The Interest Public Safety
2014-10-16,US: Strikes near Kobani have killed hundreds of Islamic State fighters
2014-10-16,"Chinese medical research group claims to discover 'virological penicillin'. Plant microRNA, MIR2911, which is enriched in honeysuckle, directly targets influenza A viruses (IAV) including H1N1, H5N1 and H7N9."
2014-10-16,Hong Kong's top media official shared fake photo of beaten cop
2014-10-16,"Toronto child porn case triggers scandal in Britain - Toronto police sent the British authorities the names of about 2,000 men in July 2012 as part of a sweeping investigation spanning 90 countries"
2014-10-16,Officials: Egyptian warplanes are bombing positions held by Islamist militias in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi
2014-10-15,"The UN says the ebola outbreak must be controlled within 60 days or else the world faces an ""unprecedented"" situation for which there is no plan. The United Nations made the stark warning as it warned the disease ""is running faster than us and it is winning the race""."
2014-10-15,"Iconic 2,500 year old Siberian princess 'died from breast cancer', reveals MRI scan. Preserved by ice, the 25 year old ancient woman covered in tattoos used cannabis to cope with her ravaging illness."
2014-10-15,Hong Kong Police filmed beating protester
2014-10-15,There is an outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is unrelated to the outbreak in West Africa.
2014-10-15,"A millionaire couple who kept a girl from Pakistan as a slave in their Salford home have been ordered to pay her 100,000 in compensation"
2014-10-15,"Italy lifts out of recession thanks to hookers, drugs: Italy learnt it was no longer in a recession on Wednesday thanks to a change in data calculations across the European Union which includes illegal economic activities such as prostitution and drugs in the GDP measure."
2014-10-15,Lockheed Claims Breakthrough on Fusion Energy
2014-10-15,"Activists use GPS to track illegal loggers in Brazil's Amazon rainforest: Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon."
2014-10-15,"1/2 Earths Wildlife Gone, Govts Meet to Save the Rest - 1000s of representatives of govts, NGOs, indigenous peoples, scientists & private sector at Pyeongchang conference working to speed up a global 'Strategic Plan for Biodiversity'. Wildlife populations have declined by 52% since 1970."
2014-10-15,"Ebola cases now over 8900, death toll rises to 4,447, says WHO"
2014-10-15,Eccentric Billionaire Saudi Prince Warns Falling Oil Prices Could Be A 'Catastrophe'
2014-10-15,Victoria has become the first Australian jurisdiction to erase old criminal convictions of people who were prosecuted for engaging in consenting homosexual sex
2014-10-15,Planet Sees Warmest September Ever Recorded: NASA
2014-10-15,US-led airstrikes reduce Islamic State's oil production by 70 percent: strikes are frustrating the Islamic State's ability to both sell oil on the market and produce fuel for its tanks and vehicles. This has severely hurt the jihadists' finances.
2014-10-15,"US, Russia vow intel-sharing on Islamic State"
2014-10-15,None of the bodies found in five mass graves in southern Mexico belonged to 43 teachers college students who have been missing for nearly three weeks since a clash with police
2014-10-15,Marijuana to be grown by Italian army  in order to bring the price down
2014-10-15,Ebola outbreak killing 70 percent of victims - WHO
2014-10-15,Embryonic stem cells have been used to restore vision in a landmark study
2014-10-15,Japan Airlines flight turns back after an attempted rape
2014-10-15,US calls for major reinterpretation of international drug laws
2014-10-15,Mexico Bodies Do Not Match Lost Students
2014-10-15,Turkey Decides to Hit Kurdish Rebels Instead of ISIS
2014-10-15,France Says Will Recognize State of Palestine If Talks Fail
2014-10-15,"French FM: If peace talks prove impossible, we'll recognize Palestinian state"
2014-10-14,Doctors Without Borders loses 9 medics to Ebola
2014-10-14,Protesters burn state capital building in Mexico over the disappearance of 43 young people believed abducted by local police linked to a drug cartel.
2014-10-14,Reporter shot dead while investigating illegal logging
2014-10-14,ISIS Declares Itself Pro-Slavery
2014-10-14,Mark Zuckerburg donates $25 million to help fight Ebola.
2014-10-14,Netherlands says OK for biker gangs to fight Islamic State
2014-10-14,Kim Jong-Un makes first appearance in public since 3rd September
2014-10-14,"Two Air France pilots were asleep before fatal 2009 crash as one woke to say 'F**k, we're dead'"
2014-10-14,Ultra-secret 'White Shroud' group striking terror in ISIS militants
2014-10-14,"Richest 1% of people own nearly half of global wealth, says report"
2014-10-14,"Anger as wounded Syria Kurds die stranded at Turkish border ""He spent the next four hours watching them die, one by one, from what he believes were treatable shrapnel wounds, while Turkish border guards refused to let them through the frontier."""
2014-10-14,India plans to mine Helium 3 from Moon for developing hypersonic technology.
2014-10-14,7.4 earthquake off the coast of El Salvador.
2014-10-14,Turkish jets bomb Kurdish PKK rebels
2014-10-14,Google rejects 58% of 'right to be forgotten' requests
2014-10-14,India becomes first country in South Asia to ban import of animal-tested cosmetics
2014-10-14,"Mexican activist, who led Displaced Persons of Picachos group, killed on air during radio show in Mazatlan"
2014-10-14,"Survivors Describe Police Attack in Mexico: 'If You Moved, They Fired. If You Yelled, They Fired'"
2014-10-14,Ireland to close double Irish tax loophole
2014-10-14,"Joe Hockey ridicules suggestion Australia is among top emitters of greenhouse gases in the OECD, despite the fact it tops the OECD rankings of greenhouse gases per capita - Treasurer emphatically rejects comment from interviewer"
2014-10-14,Mexican activist gunned down during live radio broadcast
2014-10-14,Kissinger: Iran Is a Natural Ally of the United States
2014-10-14,Russian Sandworm Hack Has Been Spying on Foreign Governments for Years
2014-10-14,"The Ebola epidemic threatens the ""very survival"" of societies and could lead to failed states, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned"
2014-10-14,"""If we run and they kill us, so be it. But we have to run now."" The Nigerian schoolgirls who escaped Boko Haram."
2014-10-13,"Tony Abbott says ""coal is good for humanity"" while opening mine - ""Coal is vital for the future energy needs of the world, so lets have no demonization of coal"""
2014-10-13,Denmark to ban sex with animals
2014-10-13,Turkey OK's use of airbases for US airstrikes against ISIS.
2014-10-13,"Birth control pills in waste water can decimate fish populations, study warns"
2014-10-13,Secret space plane X-37B to finally land after record 667 days in orbit
2014-10-13,Edward Snowden: state surveillance in Britain has no limits | Whistleblower and former NSA analyst says UK regulation allows GCHQ snooping to go beyond anything seen in US
2014-10-13,German deputy speaker: NATO must stop Turkey support for ISIS
2014-10-13,"Directors 'earn 120 times more than average employee' - Directors of the top 100 listed UK companies now earn 120 times the average sum earned by their employees, according to a report by Incomes Data Services (IDS)."
2014-10-13,1000-year old Viking treasure hoard found in Scotland
2014-10-13,ISIS states its justification for the enslavement of women
2014-10-13,Millions of Voiceprints Quietly Being Harvested
2014-10-13,"China, Russia sign $25 billion local currency swap"
2014-10-13,"Hong Kong police remove barricades, say protesters can remain"
2014-10-13,The Australian government has been accused of bullying the Australian National University after criticising it for divesting from a number of fossil fuel companies
2014-10-13,UN chief Ban: Israeli occupation led to Gaza war
2014-10-13,Turkey denies allowing US to use bases for anti-ISIS strikes
2014-10-13,Kurds hold off Islamic State in Kobani
2014-10-13,Colombian farmers sue BP over pipeline's environmental impact: FT
2014-10-13,"Campaign to put ecocide on a par with genocide in attempt to curb environmental destruction - Although it was one of the five core crimes covered by the Rome Statute that set up the ICC, ecocide mysteriously vanished from negotiations at the United Nations."
2014-10-13,"Vatican Proposes Dramatic Shift In Attitude Towards Gays, Same Sex Couples"
2014-10-13,Australian PM Tony Abbott vows to 'shirtfront' Russian president Vladimir Putin at Brisbane G20 summit
2014-10-13,Toxic fallout from US war produces record child birth defect rates in Iraq
2014-10-13,"Turkish Government arms extremist groups including ISIL, AK Party founder says"
2014-10-13,Qatar pledges $1B for Gaza Strip reconstruction
2014-10-13,"Healthcare workers in Liberia, the country hit hardest by the Ebola epidemic, will go on strike from Monday to demand hazard pay for treating patients infected with the deadly disease, their union leader said"
2014-10-12,100000 march in Irish capital against water taxes
2014-10-12,Cure for Type 1 diabetes imminent after Harvard stem-cell breakthrough
2014-10-12,An al-Qaeda money man was employed by the Qatari government despite being officially designated a terrorist by the US.
2014-10-12,Russia has ordered thousands of troops stationed near the Ukrainian border to return to their bases
2014-10-12,Cult members face execution after guilty verdict for beating woman to death at McDonald's in China
2014-10-12,The nine justices of Canadas highest court gather in Ottawa Wednesday to hear arguments into whether terminally ill Canadians should be granted the constitutional right to a doctor-assisted death.
2014-10-12,Revenge porn to be criminal offence with threat of two years in jail UK News.
2014-10-12,Israel Starts Building 600 New Settlement Houses in East Jerusalem and seized land in the West Bank on Saturday.
2014-10-12,India evacuates 150000 people as it prepares for cyclone Hudhud to hit at 190 kilometres per hour
2014-10-12,Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab
2014-10-12,Study finds pay squeeze in UK worst since Victorian age ...and the government says we are in recovery.
2014-10-12,Ex-CIA Director Leon Panetta: Pakistani spy agency ISI having close ties with terrorist groups is an open secret
2014-10-12,"North Korea says that peace talks are ""all but scrapped"" after both sides exchanged fire and anti-Pyongyang leaflets were released by the South."
2014-10-12,Finland says Russian navy interfered with Baltic Sea research vessel
2014-10-12,ISIS Openly Recruits In Indonesia
2014-10-12,"Japan orders Google to 'forget' a user's past - A Japanese judge has ordered Google to remove search results of a man's unflattering past in an order the plaintiff's lawyer compared to Europe's ""right to be forgotten"" ruling."
2014-10-12,A rare Siberian tiger released into the wild earlier this year by Mr. Putin has strayed into China and may be in danger
2014-10-12,Seven witchcraft suspects burned to death in Tanzania
2014-10-12,"Bolivia votes in presidential election; easy win seen for Evo Morales, a former coca farmer whose brand of ""indigenous socialism"" has expanded the role of the state in a booming economy"
2014-10-12,"Hong Kong's Chief Executive CY Leung has insisted China will not change its mind on the format for elections in 2017, despite weeks of protests: In a TV interview, he said the protests had ""spun out of control"" and did not rule out the use of force to end them."
2014-10-12,"One in seven Australians living below the poverty line, survey reveals"
2014-10-12,"The UK should expect a ""handful"" of Ebola cases in the coming months, the chief medical officer has said."
2014-10-12,Pro-democracy protesters rallied for a second night in Hong Kong to maintain pressure on the government after it scrapped planned talks with student leaders.
2014-10-12,"Search for Missing Iraqi Cash Ended in Rural Lebanon: Between $1.2 billion and $1.6 billion in Iraqi funds were stolen after the American invasion and moved to rural Lebanon, a former United States investigator said for the first time, but the trail ended there"
2014-10-12,"Kurds repel ISIL advance into Kobane, but issue urgent plea for support"
2014-10-11,"""We are asking Canadians living in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia to consider leaving by commercial means while they are still available."""
2014-10-11,"Bones in Tomb Belong to Macedonian King Philip II, Father of Alexander the GreatHe suffered from frontal & maxillary sinusitis likely from old facial trauma. He was blinded when eye hit with arrow in siege of Methone in 354 BC. Woman warrior, likely daughter of Scythian King Ateas, is with him."
2014-10-11,David Cameron pushes for repeal of U.K.'s Human Rights Act
2014-10-11,Key Figures In CIA-Crack Cocaine Scandal Begin To Come Forward
2014-10-11,Canada's largest addiction and mental health center calls for the legalization of marijuana.
2014-10-11,"Officials admit a defeat by Ebola in Sierra Leone, will now shift focus to training families to treat their own stricken family members at home."
2014-10-11,ISIL 'publicly executes Iraqi journalist' | Relatives of cameraman Raad al-Azzawi say he was killed along with his brother and two civilians near Tikrit.
2014-10-11,German authorities track down more than 200 ISIL activists
2014-10-11,Three of UKs big four mobile phone networks are providing customer data to police forces automatically through Ripa
2014-10-11,"Ancient Greek shipwreck could be largest of its kind - The 2,000-year-old Antikythera shipwreck in Greece covers a far bigger area than previously thought, say marine archaeologists investigating the site."
2014-10-11,"Ebola outbreak deaths exceed 4,000"
2014-10-11,"Sixteen people were being monitored in a Madrid hospital for signs of Ebola on Saturday, with patient numbers rising as the Spanish government tries to contain recriminations over how it has handled the first outbreak of the disease outside Africa."
2014-10-11,"Core secrets exposed: NSA used undercover agents in foreign companies - To infiltrate foreign networks and gain access to sensitive systems, the NSA has deploying undercover agents in Chinese, German, South Korean and possibly even American companies"
2014-10-11,Australian government's counter-terrorism laws under fire by civil rights proponents
2014-10-11,"Ebola crisis: Death toll tops 4,000 as WHO reveals only a quarter of $1 billion financial aid target raised"
2014-10-11,"NSA may have undercover operatives in foreign companies, new documents show"
2014-10-11,First suspected Ebola case in Brazil
2014-10-11,Emirates chief Tim Clark reveals suspicions over true fate of missing flight MH370
2014-10-11,"Russia to Import Crocodile Meat to Replace Sanctioned Pork, Beef"
2014-10-11,"Reports of Witchcraft-Related Child Abuse On the Rise in London,"
2014-10-11,"36 rescued, 9 still missing after research ship sinks"
2014-10-11,Brazil says man under observation for Ebola tests negative
2014-10-11,Russia offers India stakes in Siberian oilfields: 49% share in Yurubcheno-Tokhomskoye and 10% share in Vankor
2014-10-11,UN had Qatar pay off Al-Qaida fighters for release of Fiji peacekeepers
2014-10-11,"Thousands of people ""will most likely be massacred"" if Kobani falls to Islamic State fighters, a U.N. envoy said on Friday. There are 700 elderly trapped in the city and 12,000 civilians who have not yet reached the border."
2014-10-10,4 ISIS militants were poisoned after drinking tea offered to them by a local resident.
2014-10-10,"Bulgaria Rejects Russia's Charge of Disloyalty For Wanting Western Jets - ""Bulgaria is a member of the EU and NATO and it does not owe explanations about its sovereign decisions to third parties."""
2014-10-10,"About 130 football fans have been detained in Belarus after the entire stadium joined in chanting a well-known song insulting President Vladimir Putin. After the match, they were taken to the local KGB station, on suspicion of using ""obscene language"", and are expected to receive 5-day sentences."
2014-10-10,"ISIS within 8 miles of Baghdad airport, and armed with MANPADs"
2014-10-10,"Elephants Worth More Alive Than Dead - Tourism revenue outweighs profits from poaching. New report finds they're worth about 76 times as much alive. Tusks sell for about $21,000 on black market, whereas a live elephant brings in over $1.6 million in ecotourism dollars."
2014-10-10,Nigerian hoax 'drink lots of salt water to avoid ebola' Results in Two Deaths
2014-10-10,First Ebola Vaccine Trial Starts in Africa
2014-10-10,Thousands return to Hong Kong streets in protest
2014-10-10,Koreas 'exchange artillery fire'
2014-10-10,"Liberia passes law restricting Ebola coverage, journalists can be ""arrested and prosecuted if they fail to get written permission before contacting Ebola patients, conducting interviews or filming or photographing healthcare facilities"""
2014-10-10,Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has claimed that he and his staff have received death threats from Isis
2014-10-10,Kim Jong-un absent at anniversary celebration of Worker's Party of Korea - an event he usually attends.
2014-10-10,Controversial Cold Fusion Reactor Seems To Work According To Third Party Researchers.
2014-10-10,Remember that video posted by Greenpeace with a message to Lego a couple months ago? The Lego company responded by not renewing its partnership with Shell and promising to find and use an alternative to plastic by 2030.
2014-10-10,Spain: Nursing staff resign from their posts to avoid treating Ebola cases
2014-10-10,'Our youngest martyr yet' - Isil boasts about death of 10-year-old - Telegraph
2014-10-10,Two police officers shot dead in Turkey as tensions rise with the local Kurdish population.
2014-10-10,Thousands in Mexico demand action over missing students
2014-10-10,Romania may nationalize Russias Lukoil refinery
2014-10-10,US Air Force Pilots Say They're Flying Blind Against the Islamic State
2014-10-10,Australian Ebola case found to be negative.
2014-10-10,"Teenage girls in the Kingdom of Swaziland, South Africa, will be paid 200 rands (11) per month if they refuse to have sex, according to reports."
2014-10-10,"Meat, Eggs Outlawed: Indian City Becomes First Vegetarian City in the World"
2014-10-10,"Four more mass graves have been found near the southern Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing last month, officials say."
2014-10-10,"Gorbachev hospitalised, 'determined to fight for life'"
2014-10-09,Estonia becomes first ex-Soviet country to legalize same-sex partnerships
2014-10-09,"Ebola Cases Reach Over 8,000"
2014-10-09,"Global response to Ebola has failed miserably, says World Bank chief"
2014-10-09,"Australian Federal Police (AFP) will now be allowed to secretly search a terrorism suspect's house, enter through an innocent neighbours property and impersonate people, under the governments anti-terror bill"
2014-10-09,14 wounded as Kurds and 'radical Muslims' clash in Germany
2014-10-09,"NASA is inviting the public to send their names on a microchip to destinations beyond low-Earth orbit, including Mars. Your name will begin its journey on a dime-sized microchip when the agency's Orion spacecraft launches Dec. 4 on its first flight, designated Exploration Flight Test-1."
2014-10-09,"Canada's largest mental health and addiction treatment and research centre is calling for the legalization of marijuana, with strict controls that would govern who could buy weed, from where, and in what quantity."
2014-10-09,"Phones held by police remotely wiped. All the data on some of the tablets and phones seized as evidence is being wiped out, remotely, while they are in police custody."
2014-10-09,Tokyo Electric Power Co. has warned its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant could be hit by tsunami as high as 26.3 meters and cause 100 trillion becquerels of cesium to escape
2014-10-09,Poland to honor Wikipedia with monument
2014-10-09,Chinese State-Run Media Has Started Attacking North Korea
2014-10-09,India among top 5 financial contributors to Ebola response.
2014-10-09,Hong Kong government says it has called off a meeting on Friday with student leaders of the pro-democracy movement
2014-10-09,At least 21 people were killed in riots in Turkey where Kurds rose up against the government for doing nothing to protect their kin.
2014-10-09,"Turkey - Former deputy PM defends ISIL in tweet, says ISIL does not torture"
2014-10-09,WHO says no signs spread of Ebola is slowing and says almost half of Ebola patients in West Africa have died warning the disease could spread
2014-10-09,"Most Russians Believe Foreigners View Country Favorably, Poll Shows"
2014-10-09,Lego ends Shell partnership following Greenpeace campaign
2014-10-09,"Masked voice of Islamic State war criminal restored, north American accent revealed"
2014-10-09,"China is on the hunt for a Siberian tiger released into the wild by Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media said on Thursday, after the animal roamed across the border, likely in search of food."
2014-10-09,Nigeria succeeds at containing Ebola
2014-10-09,"Queensland nurse hospitalised after showing symptoms of Ebola --Sue Ellen Novack, who has been working in Sierra Leone with Ebola victims, returned to Australia on Tuesday and this morning reported a low grade fever."
2014-10-09,"French archaeologists have discovered some 200,000-year-old Neanderthal human remains in Normandy in an extremely rare discovery in northwestern Europe. The remains are attributable to the Neanderthal lineage - in the Middle Pleistocene era - and are aged between 236,000 and 183,000 years."
2014-10-09,Venice plans to build $180 million island to keep giant cruise ships from invading historic city
2014-10-09,Turkey imposes curfew after 18 killed in pro-Kurdish protests
2014-10-08,North Korea acknowledges reform camps for first time - AP
2014-10-08,'I touched my face with gloves': nurse with Ebola
2014-10-08,"Burned bodies of 28 Mexican teaching students pulled from mass graves: ""Forty-three students went missing September 26 after they were attacked by police while commandeering buses to take them to a demonstration against cuts in funding for their school."""
2014-10-08,"Ugandan MP says Uganda is losing the fight against AIDS because ""condoms are too small for Ugandan men"""
2014-10-08,Japan and the United States are revising their mutual defense guidelines for the first time in nearly two decades to respond to China's military expansion and increase Japan's role in regional defense.
2014-10-08,"ISIS is Cutting Off Water to Uncooperative Villages - In parched Syria & Iraq, water is a weapon"
2014-10-08,"India strikes 37 Pakistani outposts, kills 15 in a severe escalation of hostilities along the border"
2014-10-08,"Russia's finance minister has said that the country could no longer afford a multi-billion-dollar revamp of the armed forces approved by President Vladimir Putin, stepping up a campaign to trim spending as sanctions over the Ukraine crisis bite."
2014-10-08,Banker admits Libor fraud conspiracy. A senior banker from a UK bank has admitted conspiring to defraud over manipulating the Libor lending rate.
2014-10-08,US Air Force fighter jet crashes in UK during exercise
2014-10-08,ISIS document discloses plans to seize Iran's nuclear secrets
2014-10-08,Spanish Ebola nurse reported symptoms many times before being quarantined: Teresa Romero Ramos says when she first told health authorities of her symptoms she was given only paracetamol
2014-10-08,"Hackers are stealing millions from ATM worldwide using a new malware called as Tyupkin. This malware, which once installed on an ATM, allows the criminals to steal huge amounts of money by simply entering a series of codes"
2014-10-08,Turkish Inaction on ISIS Advance Dismays the U.S.
2014-10-08,Russians attacked in Moscow for wearing 'Western' symbols
2014-10-08,"UN official statement ""The world, all of us, will regret deeply if ISIS is able to take over a city which has defended itself with courage but is close to not being able to do so. We need to act now"""
2014-10-08,Chile's Supreme court on Tuesday suspended the development of El Morro mine owned by Canada's Goldcorp after siding with indigenous groups that oppose it on environmental grounds
2014-10-08,The UK parliament will be voting on a motion to recognise the state of Palestine alongside the state of Israel on 13 October.
2014-10-08,"Demonstrations break out across Iran in support of Kobani Kurds. Iran op-ed calls for Qods Force commander, Qassem Soleimani, to intervene to defend Kobani"
2014-10-08,"Syria admits it has four more chemical weapons plants, says UN official. The disclosure heightens fears Damascus has not been open about its programme and that extremist groups could seize lethal chemicals"
2014-10-08,Spanish Ebola case: 'I am due to treat the patient. But I have no idea what to do'
2014-10-08,"Islamic State terror group identified its next target, a former U.S. Army Ranger who was captured in Lebanon last year during a relief mission to help Syrian refugees."
2014-10-08,News - Islamic State group flier claims responsibility for Gaza terror attack
2014-10-08,Canadian Parliament officially approves airstrikes against ISIS.
2014-10-08,Canadian-made Ebola vaccine moving ahead to trial stage
2014-10-07,"Scientists discover cancer-fighting berry on tree that only grows in Far North Queensland: ""in 75 per cent of cases, the tumour disappeared and had not come back"""
2014-10-07,"The Clorox Company voluntarily decides to disclose all ingredients in their cleaning products, which may act as allergens in certain people, despite a legal loophole allowing them to avoid doing so. ""We know people are interested in more sustainable products, and they want to know what's in them."""
2014-10-07,Nurse 'infected with Ebola' in Spain
2014-10-07,"North Korea declares 2015 year of unification, boosts readiness for all-out war"
2014-10-07,"Trojan Horse: ISIS militants coming to Europe disguised as refugees, US intelligence sources claim"
2014-10-07,Indian Student facing life imprisonment for refusing to stand up during National Anthem at a movie theater
2014-10-07,"Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for sweeping changes to Britain's ""idiotic"" policy on drugs | The Liberal Democrat leader said addiction should be treated as a health problem not a criminal issue."
2014-10-07,"Great Barrier Reef dredge approval ""suicide"" for reef authority - Scientist says 'Marine Park Authority' lost its credibility & budget cuts have gutted it. Weve lost our prime place in the world as leaders of reef research; were no longer able to provide the science needed to protect it."
2014-10-07,Value of Russian ruble crashing
2014-10-07,"About 100 Kurds storm into Dutch Parliament to ask attention for the ISIL advance into Kobani, Syria"
2014-10-07,"White House pushes back against Netanyahu, stands by rebuke of new Israeli settlements"
2014-10-07,Total lunar eclipse on Wednesday will be a rare 'selenelion'
2014-10-07,Sword removed in Australian Counter-Terrorism Raids turns out to be a common plastic ornament
2014-10-07,ISIS warns professors who left their jobs to return within 10 days
2014-10-07,"Eight cases Marburg, a Ebola-like illness that is 80% fatal, have broken out in Uganda."
2014-10-07,A South Korean naval ship fired warning shots on Tuesday after a North Korean patrol boat crossed a disputed sea border off the peninsula's west coast and fired shots back before retreating
2014-10-07,Putin Bans Protests at Night as Controls on Dissent Grow
2014-10-07,Survivor of Mexico Student Massacre: 'It Was Terrifying'
2014-10-07,NASA to put mars-bound astronauts on prolonged sleep
2014-10-07,"Goldman Sachs banker took Libyan fund staff on lavish trip, high court told"
2014-10-07,Bulgaria Plans to Ground Its Russian-Made Fighter Jets to Reassert Its Independence From Moscow
2014-10-07,ISIS just entered Koban
2014-10-07,Israel sending mobile clinics to Africa to fight Ebola
2014-10-07,"Vietnamese oil tanker carrying 18 crew and 5,226 tons of oil goes missing"
2014-10-07,Russia's hidden workers: the slaves of Dagestan | A man who claims to have been held as a slave labourer for 18 years in Russias Northern Caucasus region has reportedly escaped.
2014-10-06,"Mexico hit by student massacre: At least 17 anti-corruption protesters 'rounded up, murdered and dumped in a mass grave' - and another 26 are missing."
2014-10-06,Dubai Police Will Wear Google Glass With Facial Recognition Software to ID Crooks
2014-10-06,A female Kurdish fighter blew herself up at an Islamic State position killing a number of jihadists who have surrounded Kobane and are battling to seize it.
2014-10-06,"83,000 boo Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott at sporting event."
2014-10-06,100 disillusioned british jihadists abandon the Islamic State but they are stuck in Turkey because they are too scared to come back to Uk
2014-10-06,North and South Korea agree to talks
2014-10-06,"Madrid starts fining users of Uber 'taxi' app: After Barcelona announced plans to impound the vehicles of people caught using the app-based chauffeur service Uber, Madrid's regional government has launched a crackdown that will allow police to fine drivers and passengers up to 18,000 ($22,600)."
2014-10-06,"""Concubine"" with Ebola causes outbreak of Ebola with Liberian soldiers."
2014-10-06,Turkish police fire tear gas point blank into BBC news car setting it alight near Syrian border
2014-10-06,Norwegian woman infected with Ebola
2014-10-06,"New proposal would allow Australian intelligence agency to secretly detain citizens without charge, conduct ""coercive questioning"", and jail them for refusing to answer questions."
2014-10-06,"Mystery of 1,000-year-old child's jawbone found on beach near Sydney - The jawbone of a young child discovered on a beach in Australia has been matched to a 1,000-year-old skull which washed up on the same beach six years ago."
2014-10-06,No sign of Kim Jong-un as North Korea welcomes home Asian Games athletes
2014-10-06,"More than 200,000 Indians volunteer to join effort against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria"
2014-10-06,Russia Cancels Exchange Program After a Student Seeks U.S. Asylum
2014-10-06,"CDC director: To keep Ebola away, fight it in Africa"
2014-10-06,Mexican officials fear mass grave holds remains of 43 students allegedly 'slaughtered' by local police
2014-10-06,"Netanyahu: White House criticism of Israeli settlement construction ""is against American values"""
2014-10-06,Massive blast reported at suspected Iranian nuke facility
2014-10-06,"NATO can put troops wherever it wants, new secretary-general says"
2014-10-06,"2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine to John OKeefe, May-Britt Moser & Edvard Moser for discovering the brain's positioning system."
2014-10-06,"A group of Cuban migrants drank their own urine and blood after the engine of their homemade boat failed, leaving them adrift in the Caribbean for three weeks without food or water. Only 15 of the 32 passengers survived, making it one of the most tragic Cuban migrant disasters in decades."
2014-10-06,Goldman Sachs 'charmed Gadaffi-era sovereign wealth fund employees with girls and alcohol' in trip to Morocco
2014-10-06,"28 ISIS militants killed by Iraqi forces in Hamren, Diyali"
2014-10-06,ISIS Ammunition Is Shown to Have Origins in U.S. and China
2014-10-05,"A Swedish woman has become the world's first to give birth after having a womb transplant, opening up the possibility for thousands of infertile women to have babies."
2014-10-05,"A mass grave has been found on the outskirts the Mexican town of Iguala, where 43 students went missing on September 26th"
2014-10-05,"Huge majority thinks 'war on drugs' has failed, new poll finds"
2014-10-05,Yemen's capital fell to a rebel group and the world hardly noticed
2014-10-05,Thai scientists have announced the discovery of a new type of antibody against the Ebola virus and claimed that it is 'more effective' than those that already exist.
2014-10-05,British Imam says beheaded aid worker Alan Henning is a national hero.
2014-10-05,"Scientists have used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to predict a 75 percent chance the virus could be imported to France by October 24, and a 50 percent chance it could hit Britain by that date."
2014-10-05,Putin Among The Surprises On Nobel Peace Prize List
2014-10-05,86 senior executives of 2 recently nationalized Spanish banks step down after spending 15.5M euros with off-the-books credit cards given them by their banks.
2014-10-05,"Israel permits Gazans to pray at Jerusalem mosque -- Hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip prayed Sunday at Jerusalem's most important mosque, the first time Israel has allowed such visits from the coastal enclave since the Hamas militant group overran the area in 2007."
2014-10-05,"Somalia Islamists abandon last stronghold, after an assault by Somali and African Union forces"
2014-10-05,Germans set to send first troops to Ukraine since WW2
2014-10-05,Fatalities as suicide bomber sets off explosive outside concert hall in Russias Chechnya
2014-10-05,'Injured' ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Flees Syria to Escape From US Airstrikes
2014-10-05,"Italian Man Wins Cow Milking World Championship, Amid Scandal"
2014-10-05,"Some western leaders are turning their backs on the Dalai Lama, under pressure from rising power China"
2014-10-05,Germany considers sending soldiers to eastern Ukraine.
2014-10-05,"Air strikes against Isis are not working, say Syrian Kurds"
2014-10-05,"Washington will not be the one to decide Swedens policies, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrm said after the US criticized Stockholms plans to officially recognize Palestine as a sovereign state."
2014-10-05,Now a second Arab nation demands a 'formal clarification' a day after Joe Biden was forced to apologize for saying that key American allies in the Mideast gave weapons and cash to ISIS extremists
2014-10-05,"A strange green organism has spread around the globe, clogging up the world's rivers"
2014-10-05,"Italy to Shut Down Sea Rescue Operation that Saved Over 90,000 Migrants this Yr - Operation ""Mare Nostrum""  ""our sea""  is expensive & controversial, with opponents claiming it encourages smugglers, while Italy says it was abandoned by rest of Europe & left to deal with the problem alone."
2014-10-05,Russia Overtakes U.S. in Nuclear Warhead Deployment
2014-10-05,Islamic State document reveals plans to steal Iranian nuclear program data: reports.
2014-10-05,Canada to join anti-IS air strikes
2014-10-04,Banker who financed 9/11 mastermind now funding terrorists in Syria and Iraq
2014-10-04,Isis video reports to show murder of British hostage Alan Henning
2014-10-04,Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko risked further angering the Kremlin by suggesting that English lessons replace Russian ones in schools to improve the country's standard of living.
2014-10-04,"In rare alliance, Shi'ites join Sunnis to defend Iraqi towns"
2014-10-04,"Shipwreck Found Near Nagasaki Likely Part of Kublai Khans Invading FleetThought to date from Mongol attempt to invade Japan 700 yrs ago. Its well preserved, so we expect it to carry a significant load of cargo like porcelains & weapons."
2014-10-04,North Korea Sends No.2 to South Korea for Rare Talks
2014-10-04,"Violent mobs with triad links threaten Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters: ""Word spreading on social media, including Facebook, had seen supporters arrive in droves after work. Crowds swelled to the tens of thousands ... it was now the anti-Occupy agitators who had been surrounded"""
2014-10-04,Judge orders Guantnamo Bay force-feeding videos to be released.
2014-10-04,"Host, crew of popular BBC show ""Top Gear"" flee Argentina after being pelted with rocks by crowd"
2014-10-04,"Mystery 1000 year old skull washes up on Sydney beach, not of Aboriginal origin"
2014-10-04,Russian jet flew 'metres' from Swedish plane
2014-10-04,Netanyahu: No chance for peace deal if Israel sued for war crimes
2014-10-04,Pakistan polio cases at all-time high after Taliban banned immunisations and attacked polio vaccination teams across Pakistan
2014-10-04,ISIS losing hearts and minds in its heartland
2014-10-04,"WWF International, the world's largest conservation group, has been accused of ""selling its soul"" by forging alliances with powerful businesses which destroy nature & use the WWF brand to ""greenwash"" their operations."
2014-10-04,Ebola Healthcare Workers Are Dying Faster Than Their Patients
2014-10-04,"52 percent of planet's biodiversity vanished since 1970 - According to the Living Planet Report 2014, ""the number of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish across the globe is, on average, about half the size it was 40 years ago."""
2014-10-04,"China tests 10,000-km range nuclear missile"
2014-10-04,"New 'feminist' government with a Green tinge in Sweden: Sweden's new Social Democrat prime minister Stefan Loefven unveiled what he called a ""feminist"" government including Green Party ministers for the first time in the Nordic country."
2014-10-04,Canada Joins Battle Against ISIS
2014-10-04,Heavy fighting for Ukraine Airport
2014-10-04,Islamic State group downs Iraqi chopper
2014-10-04,"Haiti bans its citizens from UN mission against Ebola: Haitian volunteers have been banned from departing for African countries hit by the Ebola virus, the government said on Friday, citing other diseases that have devastated the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere."
2014-10-04,Egypt Seizes Newspapers to Censor an Article
2014-10-04,"Man says amnesia & permanent brain damage caused by police takedown in jail-cell, caught on video"
2014-10-03,Turkish President Erdogan: 'I am increasingly against the internet every day'
2014-10-03,Former Top Official Says Kim Jong-un Is No Longer in Control of North Korea.
2014-10-03,Russia adds 243 nuclear warheads to northern fleet near Norwegian border.
2014-10-03,Oslo Pulls Bid for 2022 Olympics. IOC Outraged.
2014-10-03,"Pro-Beijing protestors encircle, attack protestors in Hong Kong."
2014-10-03,Pope Francis Favored to Win Nobel Peace Prize for Poverty Focus
2014-10-03,"LIVE: Police struggle to keep order as street fights break out in Mong Kok -- ""...Several hundred anti-Occupy Central protesters broke through police lines and started smashing up protest tents and attacking students..."""
2014-10-03,Turkey OKs military hits on ISIS
2014-10-03,"Hackers are using Reddit to control 17,000 Apple computers"
2014-10-03,North Korea capital 'under lockdown' amid rumours of threat to Kim Jong-un
2014-10-03,NBC News Freelancer in Africa Diagnosed with Ebola
2014-10-03,Canada Is The Only UN Member To Reject Landmark Indigenous Rights Document
2014-10-03,"Archived samples of HIV's genetic code have traced the origin of the Aids pandemic to the 1920s in the city of Kinshasa, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, scientists say"
2014-10-03,ISIS beheads two of its own fighters
2014-10-03,Catalan government says it will hold vote for independence from Spain on November 9
2014-10-03,Judge rejects White House plea to keep Guantanamo force feeding hearings secret
2014-10-03,"After political dispute with Russia, Canadian satellite to be launched by India"
2014-10-03,Estonia arrests former KGB officers
2014-10-03,"Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner charged in an emotional address that domestic and US interests were pushing to topple her government, and could even kill her."
2014-10-03,Mysterious outbreak of hemorrhagic fever syndrome in Venezuela kills ten
2014-10-03,BBC News - Japan stocks rattled by $617bn 'fat finger' trading error
2014-10-03,"Anti-ageing drugs may have been developed - Biomedical science is evolving at an unprecedented rate, and a raft of modern drugs and technologies appear as though they may be capable of extending human life by 10 years."
2014-10-03,US criticises Israel over settlements; Washington says the move will distance Israel from even its 'closest allies'
2014-10-03,British parliament to vote on recognizing Palestinian state
2014-10-03,JPMorgan hacked: Personal information of 83 million customers exposed in cyber attack
2014-10-02,Germany Just Abolished College Tuition Fees | ThinkProgress
2014-10-02,"Hong Kong leader's daughter creates controversy with Facebook post saying that her diamond necklace was bought on ""silly"" tax payer's money."
2014-10-02,"The World Summit of Nobel Peace laureates, due to be held in Cape Town, South Africa, later this month, has been cancelled. Six of the peace-prize winners have already withdrawn from the event in protest at the South African refusal to grant a visa to Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama."
2014-10-02,"India, U.S. Agree to Joint Exploration of Mars"
2014-10-02,"Islamic State militants in Iraq have carried out mass executions, abducted women and girls as sex slaves, and used children as fighters, in systematic violations that may amount to war crimes, the United Nations said on Thursday."
2014-10-02,"Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's adviser believes that Australian meteorology scientists are involved in ""temperature manipulation"". He calls for a government-funded inquiry into climate change."
2014-10-02,Enough Ice Has Melted in Antarctica to Alter the Earths Gravity
2014-10-02,"The sharp rise in income inequality across the world is one of the most worrying developments of the past 200 years, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), said on Thursday"
2014-10-02,Russia halts student exchange program with US
2014-10-02,"Asian Games: Controversy taints home team victories as India, Thailand, Iran and Japan complain against South Korea"
2014-10-02,UK legalises music and film ripping
2014-10-02,Beijing Warns of Chaos if Hong Kong Protests Persist
2014-10-02,30 children killed in Syria school bombing  Two car bombs exploded in the central Syrian city of Homs in a neighbourhood dominated by minority Alawites
2014-10-02,Mexico captures top drug lord Beltran Leyva
2014-10-02,Muslim sheep slaughter to be banned in Moscow during Eid al-Adha feast
2014-10-02,Hong Kong Protests: Mainland Chinese media has blamed foreigners for Occupy Central protests as the city's massive protest movement for universal suffrage entered its fourth day yesterday.
2014-10-02,"Nude selfie celebs were 'dumb', EU commissioner says"
2014-10-02,Ebola outbreak: 'Five infected every hour' in Sierra Leone
2014-10-02,US OKs $1.75 billion arms sale to Saudi
2014-10-02,"94 to 9, Denmark votes yes to join the Anti-Is coalition, seven F-16 fighter jets took off for Iraq from the Karup Air Base and 160 advisers will be sent in Kuwait to train Iraqi and Kurds ground forces"
2014-10-02,"Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the countrys largest private newspapers in order to censor an article, just days after President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi vowed in an American television interview that there was no limitation on freedom of expression in Egypt."
2014-10-02,"Sudanese Women Mad Over Oppression, Food Costs - Their anger mounts as they bear brunt of increasing Islamisation. The govt is interested in controlling everything related to women Women are sent for trial on a daily basis, ranging from the dress they put on to the time they go to work."
2014-10-02,World Bank bonuses raise eyebrows amid austerity drive
2014-10-02,Burqa wearers banned from Australian parliament's open public galleries
2014-10-02,Argentinian opposition politicians have accused the countrys president of being completely out of touch with reality after she gave a rambling televised address in which she claimed the US may be behind a plot to overthrow her government and possibly even assassinate her.
2014-10-01,"An estimated 35,000 pacific walrus have been spotted ashore on a beach in north-west Alaska. Unlike seals, the mammals cannot swim indefinitely and are now coming ashore in record numbers as they struggle to find sea ice for resting in the Artic."
2014-10-01,Reuters: Australia passes new security law vastly expanding the government's power to monitor computers; journalists could be imprisoned for up to ten years simply for reporting on national security matters.
2014-10-01,Kim Jong-un is recovering from 'ankle surgery' after fracturing both ankles
2014-10-01,Hong Kong Police Chief Inspector Committed Suicide
2014-10-01,"Under a new Russian law, Google, Facebook and Twitter must register as ""organizers of information distribution,"" and store all data on Russian users in data centers on Russian soil"
2014-10-01,Hong Kong pro-democracy protests spread  live updates | Thousands defy call to leave streets on Chinas national holiday as protests spread to new front
2014-10-01,"Essen (City in western Germany) will start a controversial project today to employ alcohol and drug addicts to clean the streets in return for beer, tobacco, food and small amounts of cash."
2014-10-01,"Indian Female Boxer Sarita Devi Refuses to Wear Asian Games Bronze, Weeps on Podium after the controversial decision"
2014-10-01,"Germany will bulldoze a 500 year old village to mine fossil fuels, attempting bridge the energy gap created by planned nuclear shutdown."
2014-10-01,Chinese Hackers Are Targeting Pro-Democracy Protestors In Hong Kong Through Their iPhones
2014-10-01,Grindr urges LGBT community to hide their identities as Egypt persecutes nation's gay community
2014-10-01,Air Canada to come down hard on cockpit porn
2014-10-01,Deadly shelling hit playground in east Ukraine on first day of school
2014-10-01,Scores of students still missing after ambush by Mexican police and gunmen. The search continued on Tuesday for dozens of students missing since municipal police and unidentified gunmen opened fire on a convoy of buses in the southern Mexican city of Iguala over three days before.
2014-10-01,"The 10,000 pigeons released in a ceremony for China's National Day underwent unusual scrutiny, with each having its feathers and anus checked for dangerous materials, state-run media reports say."
2014-10-01,"LIVE - India can emerge as a major world power, says US President Barack Obama"
2014-10-01,"Cecilia Malmstrm, recently proposed as EU's Commissioner for Trade, and the one who will lead TTIP negotiations with US, has been helping US lobbying against the EU data protection/privacy law"
2014-10-01,Britons spend more on drugs and prostitutes than beer and wine
2014-10-01,White House exempts Syria airstrikes from tight standards on civilian deaths
2014-10-01,World's first microbe 'zoo' opens in Amsterdam
2014-10-01,"Erdogan: Turkey will fight ISIS, wants Assad gone | News , Middle East"
2014-10-01,Mexican Police Recover Burned Remains of Kidnapped Congressman
2014-10-01,India not to join coalition against ISIS
2014-10-01,First case of MERS virus confirmed in Austria
2014-10-01,Belgium launches its biggest Islamist extremist trial: Belgian prosecutors accused 46 members of Islamist group Sharia4Belgium on Monday of belonging to a terrorist organization and brainwashing young men in Belgium into fighting a holy war in Syria.
2014-09-30,"Iraq Kurds attack ISIS jihadists, retake villages"
2014-09-30,"""Extremists"" will have to get posts on Facebook and Twitter approved in advance by the police under sweeping rules planned by the UK Conservatives. They will also be barred from speaking at public events if they represent a threat to ""the functioning of democracy"""
2014-09-30,"Earth lost 50% of its wildlife in the past 40 years, says WWF | Species across land, rivers and seas decimated as humans kill for food in unsustainable numbers and destroy habitats"
2014-09-30,Sister of slain scientist says Iran killed him because he would not agree to help weaponize peaceful nuclear activities.
2014-09-30,MH370 search reveals vast underwater world with huge volcanoes and ridges deeper than the Grand Canyon
2014-09-30,ISIS has reportedly surrounded the Turkish territory in Syria the Tomb of Suleyman Shah. 36 Turkish soldiers are reportedly located at the tomb where they defend the territory.
2014-09-30,"Global Survey: We're Eating Better, But Our Diet is Unsustainable - More people eating local & organic foods, but it's not enough. India, ranking 1st in food sustainability, came out far ahead, thanks to its cultural eating habits. Nearly 1 in 4 Indians is a vegetarian."
2014-09-30,World's fourth largest sea dried up completely: NASA
2014-09-30,Indian Prime Minister ends Central Park speech with I salute you may the Force be with you.
2014-09-30,Apple faces billions in fines in tax avoidance probe
2014-09-30,Hong Kong Protesters Connect Without Cell or Wi-Fi Networks: Pro-Democracy Protesters Are Downloading a Fast-Growing App Called FireChat to Stay in Touch
2014-09-30,Facebook Will Sell Users' Data to Serve Ads on Sites Across the Web
2014-09-30,Indian Spacecraft Snaps Spectacular Portrait of Mars (Photo)
2014-09-30,Russian TV presents pictures from MH17 as mass graves of civilians killed by retreating Ukrainian troops
2014-09-30,Isis an hour away from Baghdad - with no sign of Iraq army being able to make a successful counter-attack - and US air strikes are making little difference
2014-09-30,"A former psychologist has been executed for heresy in Iran after eight years in detention, human rights groups said, in the latest example of what activists say is a worrying rise in the use of death penalty by the Islamic Republic."
2014-09-30,"Afghanistan signs pact to keep U.S. troops in the country beyond 2014, secure billions more in aid"
2014-09-30,"Drug use will spread if religion classes are not required, says Turkish President Erdoan"
2014-09-30,"Canada Demands Google, Netflix Data, Sets Deadline - Broadcast regulator on Monday gave American companies Google & Netflix 3-day deadline to turn over subscriber data or have their testimony expunged from a major public hearing."
2014-09-30,"Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, Chris Alexander, has asked Pakistan to stop supporting insurgency, stating that there were no doubts of Pakistan being a terrorist safe-haven."
2014-09-30,Hong Kong's mass protest is networked. Activists are relying on a free app that can send messages without any cellphone connection.
2014-09-30,Iran executes man for heresy
2014-09-30,Brazil's Silent Abortion Dilemma - The risks faced by Brazilian women seeking an abortion has been highlighted by the brutal death of a 27-year-old woman. It's only legal under the most exceptional circumstances in Brazil - a traditionally Catholic country. Yet 1 in 5 have an abortion by age 40.
2014-09-30,"Mining firm Vale sets up beehives housing 350,000 on a remediation site in Copper Cliff, Ontario, in order to promote pollination and accelerate the re-vegetation process. They have also pledged to plant 3.3 million trees around the Sudbury area."
2014-09-30,"Hong Kong: Fake Occupy Central app targets activists smartphones with spyware -- Suspicious behaviour by the application included recording audio and obtaining the location of the device. ""It's a malware with spy behaviour"""
2014-09-29,"Vatican Paedophilia Scandal: Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski Stored Over 100,000 Child Porn Videos"
2014-09-29,Makers of animals torture videos Crush Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
2014-09-29,Obama: 'They Don't Call Moscow' When There's Trouble In The World
2014-09-29,Woman saves three relatives from Ebola. Her protection method is being taught to others in West Africa.
2014-09-29,"Hong Kong citizens step up democracy protests as riot police withdrawn | Roads blocked, banks and schools closed, as thousands join unprecedented demonstrations disrupting daily life"
2014-09-29,China Warns UK: Don't 'Interfere' Over Hong Kong
2014-09-29,Saudi Pilot Arrested for Refusing to Bomb ISIS in Syria
2014-09-29,Instagram has reportedly been blocked in mainland China as protests in Hong Kong intensify
2014-09-29,Dutch seize passports of 49 suspected jihadists
2014-09-29,"Climate change is no longer viewed by mainstream scientists as a future threat to our planet and our species. It is a palpable phenomenon that already affects the world, they insist. And a brief look round the globe certainly provides no lack of evidence to support this gloomy assertion"
2014-09-29,Ukrainians in Kharkiv topple their square's statue of Lenin to cheers and anti-Russian chants.
2014-09-29,Philippines 'breaks world tree-planting record'
2014-09-29,Hong Kong's democracy protests turn violent; 26 hurt
2014-09-29,"India PM Narendra Modi wows 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden with a promise to transform India and declares removal of archaic laws and announces new visa laws. Slated to meet CEOs of Fortune 500 companies in the coming days"
2014-09-29,Beijing Blocks Reports on Hong Kong Democracy Movement
2014-09-29,Solar energy: a sunflower solution to electricity shortage and desalination. IBM says it will install its first two devices for free in 2016 and has asked towns around the world to put their names forward to be the first to have a solar sunflower erected on their land.
2014-09-29,Qatari Donates $2 Million for ISIS Suicide Bomber Program...
2014-09-29,Schools and banks closed as Hong Kong paralysed by protest
2014-09-29,Sepp Blatter tried to silence Fifa executive committee members who demanded release of 2022 World Cup corruption report
2014-09-29,Thai university hospital claims to have developed an Ebola vaccine
2014-09-29,"17 year old Hong Kong Democracy leader faces ""battle"" against Chinese government: ""Mainland China is a tinderbox that's been physically suppressed by the authorities, and Hong Kong is a seed of fire...maybe the Chinese government will one day send troops onto the streets, or even tanks."""
2014-09-29,"Iran set to execute Rayhaneh Jabbari, woman charged in killing attempted rapist"
2014-09-29,Ruble Sinks to Historic Low Against Currency Basket
2014-09-29,Spain government asks court to declare Catalonia vote illegal
2014-09-29,Statue of Lenin pulled down in Ukraine's Kharkiv
2014-09-28,Police fire tear gas as Occupy Central spreads and ranks of protesters swell
2014-09-28,Elderly Couple to Die Together by Assisted Suicide in First 'Couple' Euthanasia
2014-09-28,Inventor of World Wide Web warns of threat to internet
2014-09-28,"North Korea proposes one country, two systems reunification"
2014-09-28,Islamic State recruitment soaring in wake of U.S. bombing
2014-09-28,"Hong Kong police barricade streets, block in protesters"
2014-09-28,Hong Kong's 'Occupy Central' mass sit-in has been bought forward to today as thousands of students surround Gov't HQ.
2014-09-28,North Korea tells UN it's ready to discuss human rights
2014-09-28,"A major new declaration calling for a global price on carbon  signed by 74 countries and more than 1,000 businesses and investors  is missing a key signatory: the United States"
2014-09-28,"Brazil releases 'good' mosquitoes to fight dengue fever. The hope is they will multiply, breed and become the majority of mosquitoes, thus reducing cases of the disease."
2014-09-28,Ebola death toll surpasses 3000.
2014-09-28,Hong Kong protesters break into government headquarters
2014-09-28,Foreign doctors visit N. Korea to treat its leader; experts speculate he may be suffering from high blood fat levels or diabetes
2014-09-28,The amazing (and bizarre) homemade Kurdish armor fighting ISIS in Syria
2014-09-28,"Sharia Law Is Threatening LGBT Rights Across Muslim-Majority Southeast Asia: Harsh interpretations of Quranic law are being used to justify violence against transgender people in particular, activists say."
2014-09-28,Egypt sentences six men convicted of homosexuality to 2 years in jail
2014-09-28,"At UN, Cuba slams the US for unilateral sanctions -- five-decade US embargo on Havana"
2014-09-28,Liberias chief medical officer puts herself in quarantine after assistant dies of Ebola
2014-09-28,Iran threatens to attack ISIS deep inside Iraq
2014-09-28,Muslim Brotherhood condemns Jordon for joining US coalition on ISIL
2014-09-28,California protesters block Israeli-owned ship
2014-09-28,"Kenyan breaks world record at Berlin marathon | Kenyan runner Dennis Kimetto has broken the world record at this year's Berlin marathon. At a course known for producing fast times, he ran 26.2 miles a full 26 seconds faster than ever before"
2014-09-28,We are also pleased your province never separated from Canada': German President aggravates Quebec separatists
2014-09-28,Arab Twitter users dislike Iran even more than they dislike the US
2014-09-28,Boko Haram leader continues to threaten Nigeria after being killed repeatedly
2014-09-27,Hong Kong students storm government HQ to demand full democracy
2014-09-27,Hong Kong's 17-Year-Old 'Extremist' Student Leader Arrested During Massive Democracy Protest
2014-09-27,The Belgian city of Bruges has approved plans to build a pipeline which will funnel beer underneath its famous cobbled streets.
2014-09-27,"By 2025 Munich, Germany hopes to be running on 100% clean power"
2014-09-27,Catalonia Defies Spain by Calling Secession Vote
2014-09-27,"Fracking trespass law changes move forward despite huge public opposition | Ministers reject 40,000 objections to allow fracking below homes without owners permission"
2014-09-27,Row as Snowden wins Swedish rights prize | Sweden's foreign ministry has banned civil rights group from its premises after news leaked that this year's winner of the Swedish Right Livelihood Award would be Snowden; SVT reported that it was MFA Carl Bildt who had reacted strongly to the news
2014-09-27,"Volcano Erupts In Japan, Injuries Reported"
2014-09-27,Airstrikes kill 50 ISIL terrorists in Iraq
2014-09-27,Japans cabinet rocked by new claims of links to neo-Nazis who target the ethnic Korean population
2014-09-27,"Boko Haram leader is dead, Nigerian military says"
2014-09-27,Cuba to send hundreds of physicians to fight Ebola crisis.
2014-09-27,Number of countries fighting ISIS now tops 50.
2014-09-27,Richard Branson: Virgin staff can have as much vacation as they want
2014-09-27,"Lavrov: ""Russia has decided to join the fight against ISIS"""
2014-09-27,Islamists attack students protesting ISIL at Istanbul University
2014-09-27,"Montreal cops wrote less tickets this summer, union should pay difference, says mayor."
2014-09-27,"'Fifty dead' in Xinjiang violence in what police called a ""serious terrorist attack"""
2014-09-27,"The Seaton Down Hoard: Amateur metal detector uncovers 22,000 Roman coins | They range from late AD 260 to almost AD 350. Mr Horner said the coins bore a range of portraits, describing it as a family tree of the House of Constantine."
2014-09-27,Poland sells military drones to Ukraine
2014-09-27,"Iran's President calls airstrikes on ISIS 'theater,' says broader campaign needed"
2014-09-27,Apparent success against Ebola with HIV drug in Liberia
2014-09-27,Pentagon concerned over Russian bomber drills near US
2014-09-27,Islamists attacked students protesting ISIL at Istanbul University
2014-09-27,Hong Kong Student Democracy Strike Ends in Chaos
2014-09-26,"Anil Agarwal, the billionaire founder of Vedanta Resources, said he & his family decided to donate 75% of their wealth to charity after meeting Bill Gates, the worlds richest person What we earn must be returned for the greater good of society. Life is not only about wealth. the billionaire said"
2014-09-26,"Obama declares world's largest marine preserve. Measures almost 500,000 square miles, fishing, undersea mining, and other commercial activity will be banned in the protected area."
2014-09-26,No One Has Seen North Korea's Leader In Three Weeks
2014-09-26,Ultra-Orthodox Jews cause chaos on flight to Israel by demanding segregation of men and women
2014-09-26,"ISIS Overruns Iraqi Army Base Near Baghdad, Executes 300 Soldiers"
2014-09-26,"China removes more than 100,000 'phantom' government officials who were paid but did no work"
2014-09-26,North Korean TV acknowledges leader Kim Jong Un's health problems
2014-09-26,Russia Tells Iraq It's 'Ready' to Support Fight Against ISIS
2014-09-26,"The discovery of a branched carbon molecule 27,000 light-years from Earth suggests the building blocks of life may be ubiquitous throughout the galaxy"
2014-09-26,Mars Rover finds Ball
2014-09-26,Womens Rights Activist Executed by ISIS in Iraq
2014-09-26,"UN Climate Summit: A 'game-changer' for global warming? ""When the family that built the very first multinational oil company says it's time to get out of fossil fuels, this is an important moment,"""
2014-09-26,"China extends Japan a helping hand to resolve North Korea abductions: After the North backtracked on its promise to investigate within months the fate of Japanese abducted decades ago, an apparently impatient China said it would host a meeting next week between the two countries."
2014-09-26,Man found with 51 Turtles stuffed in his pants.
2014-09-26,"Islamists Destroy 7th Century Church, Mosque in Tikrit, Iraq"
2014-09-26,"More than 130 members of the Boko Haram terrorist group have surrendered to Nigeria's military. Mohammed Bashir, a man who had posed as the groups leader Abubakar Shekau in numerous videos, has also been killed in clashes."
2014-09-26,"More Scandinavians joining Isis: The number of Europeans fighting for the Islamic State has increased dramatically in the past month with fears that Danes, Swedes and Norwegians are among them."
2014-09-26,"Italy seizes assets of Putin ally and judo partner Rotenberg worth 30 million euros, including a hotel in the centre of Rome"
2014-09-26,Russian draft law would allow seizure of foreign property
2014-09-26,"Earliest Sign of Human Habitation in Canada May have been Found - Possible 13,800-yr-old fishing weir found in ocean near B.C.'s Haida Gwaii islands"
2014-09-26,"Hungary Suspends Gas Supplies to Ukraine ""Indefinitely"" - Ukraine has been receiving gas from Hungary, Poland & Slovakia since Russia cut off supplies to Ukraine in June in a dispute over unpaid bills"
2014-09-26,"Incest Is 'Taboo' but Shouldn't Be Illegal, German Experts Say"
2014-09-26,Canadian teacher suspended for slapping 'I'm gay' sticker on student
2014-09-26,Sierra Leone quarantines 2 million to fight Ebola
2014-09-26,Argentina uses drones to root out wealthy tax evaders - Drones deployed by tax inspectors near Buenos Aires found 200 mansions and 100 swimming pools that hadn't been declared
2014-09-25,"Terror laws clear Senate, enabling entire Australian web to be monitored and whistleblowers to be jailed"
2014-09-25,UAEs first female fighter pilot likely dropping bombs on ISIS militants in Syria [now confirmed]
2014-09-25,"The European Space Agency's satellite array dubbed Swarm revealed that Earth's magnetic field is weakening 10 times faster than previously thought, decreasing in strength about 5 percent a decade rather than 5 percent a century. A weakening magnetic field may indicate an impending reversal."
2014-09-25,16-Year-Old Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair 2014 With World-Changing Crop Yield Breakthrough
2014-09-25,"The son of the heir to the Saudi Arabian throne has personally put the royal seal of approval on the attacks against Isis, by taking part in bombing runs."
2014-09-25,"Turkeys turtle beach, saved from bulldozers in the 1980s, faces new threat from developers - The 91-yr-old Englishwoman who famously saved the beach  a key nesting site for loggerhead turtles  25 yrs ago, launches petition to protect it from new plans for tourist development"
2014-09-25,French Tourist Herve Gourdel Beheaded in Algeria by ISIS-linked Militants
2014-09-25,"Netherlands to send F-16s to fight Islamic State in Iraq, alongside the US and France."
2014-09-25,"Edward Snowden was among the winners Wednesday of a Swedish human rights award, sometimes referred to as the ""alternative Nobel,"" for his disclosures of top secret surveillance programs."
2014-09-25,Muslim Scholars Release Open Letter To Islamic State Meticulously Blasting Its Ideology
2014-09-25,"ISIS plot uncovered to attack New York, Paris subways, Iraq PM says"
2014-09-25,China to send 700 troops to South Sudan to assist UN mission - fighting has threatened Beijing's oil investments -
2014-09-25,"Holland and Belgium join fight against ISIS, send jets"
2014-09-25,India's spacecraft beams back first Mars photos
2014-09-25,Australian power company caught overcharging customers to recoup losses due to increase in residential solar.
2014-09-25,"Fatah, Hamas agree to cede control of Gaza to unity government"
2014-09-25,Bodies of Ebola Victims Being Thrown Into Rivers
2014-09-25,Dutch Military Personnel Told Not to Wear Uniform on Bus or Train For Fear of Radical Muslim Attacks
2014-09-25,Four Peruvian Anti-Logging Activists Murdered
2014-09-25,Nigerian military allegedly kills Boko Haram Cheif and over 260 of their fighters surrender.
2014-09-25,Kim Jong Un absent from second session of 13th Supreme Peoples Assembly
2014-09-25,One of the leaders of the Armenian Church is filing a lawsuit against the Turkish Government for all the property confiscated during the Armenian Genocide
2014-09-25,Ukrainian Army picks up random civilians for prisoner exchange.
2014-09-25,"Incest a 'fundamental right', German committee says: Anti-incest laws in Germany could be scraped after a government-backed group said relationships between brothers and sisters should be legal"
2014-09-25,"Over 1,000 arrested in unprecedented swoop: Europol"
2014-09-24,Native tribes from the U.S. and Canada signed a treaty Tuesday establishing an inter-tribal alliance to restore bison to areas of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains where millions of the animals once roamed.
2014-09-24,India's Mangalyaan has now successfully entered the Mars orbit.
2014-09-24,A Nervous China Is 'Interested' In A Possible Role In The Fight Against ISIS
2014-09-24,"China applauds India's Mars mission as ""pride of Asia"""
2014-09-24,Vatican arrests former archbishop on paedophilia charges
2014-09-24,"Canada formalizes joint space operations with Australia, U.S. and U.K."
2014-09-24,South Australia commits to 50 percent renewable energy target by 2025
2014-09-24,"Nato has observed a ""significant"" withdrawal of Russian troops from eastern Ukraine."
2014-09-24,"Woman secretly films life under Isil in Raqqa, Syria"
2014-09-24,Kim Jong-un missing from public view (xpost /r/NorthKoreaNews)
2014-09-24,400 ISIL militants killed in int'l alliance attacks
2014-09-24,Chinese radicals from Xinjiang join Islamic State
2014-09-24,Europe's Muslims stand up to IS: the continent's Muslims are hitting back with mass peace demonstrations and a Twitter campaign to say not in my name
2014-09-24,Brazil refuses to sign UN pledge to save the rainforests
2014-09-24,Bin Laden's son-in-law sentenced to life in U.S. prison.
2014-09-24,Elephant killings are now on an industrial scale in Mozambique
2014-09-24,People worldwide think CEOs should make a tiny fraction of what they do
2014-09-24,Journalist Michael Scott Moore Released in Somalia After Nearly Three Years as a Hostage
2014-09-24,A university professor who has become the most visible advocate of peaceful resistance by ethnic Uighurs to Chinese government policies was sentenced to life in prison
2014-09-24,"500 Chinese Fishermen Shut Down a Shipyard to Protest Pollution, Though Protesting is Illegal"
2014-09-24,Rise of Islamic Schools Causes Alarm in Secular Turkey
2014-09-24,"The United States informed Iran in advance of its intention to strike Islamic State militants in Syria and told Tehran that it would not target the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a senior Iranian official told Reuters."
2014-09-24,"Turkish electric car travels 2,500 kilometers for only $17"
2014-09-24,Indias Mars mission set for attempt to enter orbit
2014-09-24,"U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged North Korea Tuesday to close its secret prison camps: ""You should shut this evil system down."""
2014-09-23,Liberia to become 1st nation in Africa to completely stop cutting down its trees in return for development aid - Norway will pay the impoverished country $150m to stop deforestation by 2020.
2014-09-23,US Airstrikes Under Way in Syria
2014-09-23,"Google will stop supporting climate change science deniers, calls them liars"
2014-09-23,Netflix refuses CRTC demand to hand over subscriber data
2014-09-23,World Wide Web inventor slams Internet fast lanes: Its bribery.
2014-09-23,King Abdullah of Jordan offers the US to send Jordanian ground forces to attack ISIS in Syria
2014-09-23,"Germany will introduce caps on rent rises in densely populated areas in the first half of 2015, the government announced on Tuesday, in what it said was an attempt to keep homes affordable for people on average incomes."
2014-09-23,"CDC scientists predict there could be a staggering 550,000 to 1.4 million ebola cases by late January."
2014-09-23,"Turkey allows girls as young as 10 to cover hair at schools: Turkey has lifted a ban on the Islamic-style headscarf in schools, allowing girls from the fifth grade and up to cover their hair in a further easing of generations-old restrictions on the public expression of faith."
2014-09-23,ISIS kidnaps French tourist in Algeria and threatens to execute him within 24 hours if France intervenes in Iraq
2014-09-23,Man Bitten by Ebola Patient Flown to Switzerland
2014-09-23,France wont stop fight in Iraq despite kidnapping
2014-09-23,Russia will add 80 new warships to Black Sea Fleet: fleet commander
2014-09-23,"New Deep Web Service Will Leak Your Documents If You Get Killed, Jailed, Or Injured"
2014-09-23,German Muslims condemn Islamic State in nationwide day of prayer
2014-09-23,Over 1/2 the World's Population Still Can't Connect to the Internet
2014-09-23,Hong Kong students take to streets in mass strike over China's refusal to grant full democracy
2014-09-23,Xi Jinping asks Chinese Army to be ready for a regional war
2014-09-23,Israel approves Intel's $6 billion investment in chip plant
2014-09-23,"Coal has no future in the world's energy mix, UN warns, ahead of New York summit"
2014-09-23,Putin Considers Throwing Russia Into ISIS Fight: Report
2014-09-23,WHO: Ebola 'contained in Senegal and Nigeria'
2014-09-23,Ukraine will get drones and sniper rifles from the USA
2014-09-23,Australia will launch airstrikes against ISIS
2014-09-23,Rhino poaching kingpin arrested in South Africa
2014-09-22,Kids as young as 13 have left Germany to join ISIS
2014-09-22,"Scottish Independence: 70,000 Nationalists Demand Referendum be Re-Held After Vote Rigging Claims"
2014-09-22,"The worlds largest beaver dam, buried in the thick wildness of northern Alberta and once thought to be inaccessible, has been reached by an amateur explorer from the United States."
2014-09-22,Ebola outbreak: Collapse of three African states possible
2014-09-22,Over 340 global investors who represent more than $24 trillion agree that aggressive climate action will help the global economy
2014-09-22,"""For some time to come, the delicate balance between freedom and security may have to shift,"" Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott warns."
2014-09-22,Turkeys president refuses to reveal how he secured release of 49 hostages from ISIS without a single shot fired
2014-09-22,"Peta's Call to Muslims to Observe Vegetarian Eid Misfires & is Met with Violent Protests Monday - ""We are offended by this move of PETA. This is a direct attack on our religious beliefs."" PETA supporters fled the scene."
2014-09-22,ISIS audio urges Muslims everywhere to kill 'unbelievers'
2014-09-22,ISIS urges jihadists to attack Canadians
2014-09-22,ISIS Destroys Armenian Genocide Memorial Church in Der Zor
2014-09-22,NASAs Newest Mars Mission Spacecraft Enters Orbit around Red Planet
2014-09-22,"Turkey closes borders, preventing Kurds from returning to defend their villages from ISIL"
2014-09-22,"Thousands evade Ebola lockdown in Sierra Leone. Health officials in Guinea said people were coming in waves through the bush, fearing they would be taken away if they were found to have the disease."
2014-09-22,Iraqi Army Uses Russian Anti-Tank Guided Missile Systems Against IS for First Time. Five armored Islamic State vehicles with gunmen were destroyed.
2014-09-22,Scotland leader says voters were 'tricked' into rejecting independence by a last-minute vow
2014-09-22,"India's Low-Cost Mars Mission Completes Crucial Engine Firing Test, Prepares To Enter Mars Orbit In Two Days"
2014-09-22,"Street protests demanding urgent action on climate change have attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers in more than 2,000 locations worldwide."
2014-09-22,Islamic State fighters using women captives as 'human shields' in face of Western air strikes
2014-09-22,Belgium has been put on edge over potential Islamist terrorist attacks for the second time in four months amid reports that a man and woman who had returned from the war in Syria via Turkey were plotting an assault on the European Union's main offices in Brussels.
2014-09-22,Russia to provide up to 8 nuclear reactors to S. Africa
2014-09-22,"Nationalists push for Irish unity vote after 'inspiring' Scottish referendum -- Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams said Scotland's ""inspiring"" referendum on independence would accelerate a vote to unite Ireland"
2014-09-22,US approves sale of advanced AGM-158 cruise missiles to Poland: Poland will use the enhanced capability as a deterrent to regional threats and to strengthen its homeland defence.
2014-09-22,Poll shows Egyptians favour democracy and stoning for adultery
2014-09-22,DuckDuckNo: The privacy-focused search engine is blocked in China
2014-09-21,Canadian government begins invalidating passports of citizens who have left to join extremist groups
2014-09-21,"Thousands March Against War In Moscow, St. Petersburg: Thousands of people have gathered to take part in antiwar demonstrations protesting Russia's role in eastern Ukraine"
2014-09-21,"A Mexican copper mine which spewed millions of gallons of acid into a river last month is still causing pollution and the facility's owners are blocking the work of investigators probing the accident, authorities said"
2014-09-21,Fifa accused of cover up as it emerges World Cup bid report to be kept secret: Investigation in alleged corruption around bids for 2018 and 2022 World Cups will never be made public says Fifa ethics chief
2014-09-21,"Poland, Ukraine and Lithuania form joint military unit"
2014-09-21,"US will not commit to climate change aid for poor nations at UN summit. Rich countries pledged to find $100bn a year by 2020, but so far only Germany has made a significant contribution."
2014-09-21,"30,000 people in the Australian city of Melbourne rally for climate change action"
2014-09-21,"Photographer horrified after claims Britain First used picture - Everything she stood for, everything she fought for, for herself, her family, her daughters and future of her country, everything has been desecrated by how Jacqui Lambie and Britain First have used this photograph."""
2014-09-21,Pope Francis to majority Muslim country: Religion cannot be used to justify violence
2014-09-21,China Fines GlaxoSmithKline Record $485 Million for Bribing Hospitals & Doctors to Use Their Products - The pharma company admits it's at fault & will not appeal
2014-09-21,Leaked transcripts reveal Putin's secret attack in Ukraine
2014-09-21,Suspicions Run Deep in Iraq That C.I.A. and the Islamic State Are United
2014-09-21,Russia warns that the West wont be able to return to the Russian market once sanctions are over
2014-09-21,Pro-Russian separatists' weapons factory blows up in Eastern Ukraine
2014-09-21,"IS militants are 'gangsters' who hijack Islam, Anonymous says: The hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a social media campaign against Islamic State militants, telling FRANCE 24 that Operation Ice ISIS aims to protect those who are defenseless, both in the cyber world and the real world."
2014-09-21,People's Climate March: thousands demand action around the world  live | Tens of thousands of people across 150 countries are taking to the streets to march for action on climate change; it has been flagged as the biggest global call-to-action on climate change in history
2014-09-21,Gay sex could be punishable by 100 lashes of the cane in Indonesia's staunchly conservative Aceh province if parliament passes a draft law that critics say violates basic human rights.
2014-09-21,"Qantas flight diverted because of drunk, Scotch-stealing passenger who allegedly broke through all four sets of plastic handcuffs on the flight after repeated attempts to steal whisky"
2014-09-21,"Ebola could infect 500,000 by end of January, according to CDC projection"
2014-09-21,North Korea threatens attack if leaflets are launched from South Korea
2014-09-21,"First Scotland, Now Catalonia: Region Will Hold Independence Referendum on November 9"
2014-09-21,Egypts president says hes prepared to give whatever support needed to fight ISIS
2014-09-21,Putin foe Khodorkovsky 'willing to lead Russia'
2014-09-21,Report: Belgium prevented terrorist attacks by jihadists returning from Syria
2014-09-21,India gets its first transgender TV news anchor
2014-09-20,French Warplanes Kill 75 IS Militants Near Mosul
2014-09-20,The Islamic State is upset with the French government's new name for them
2014-09-20,"Ebola Patients Buying Survivors' Blood from Black Market, WHO Warns - It's said to have antibodies that can fight the deadly virus. Though the treatment is unproven. Illicit trade can lead to spread of other infections, including HIV."
2014-09-20,Russian Bombers Intercepted Near Canadian Airspace
2014-09-20,"American jailed in North Korea invited arrest deliberately, state media says: An American sentenced to six years hard labour in North Korea pretended to have secret US information and was deliberately arrested in a bid to become famous and meet the imprisoned US missionary Kenneth Bae"
2014-09-20,"Kim Dotcom's Internet-Mana party rejected by NZ voters, as John Key's National party is set to win an absolute majority"
2014-09-20,ISIS releases 49 Turkish hostages in Iraq
2014-09-20,"Goldman Sachs has admitted in court documents to having used small gifts, occasional travel and an internship to cement its ties with Libya's sovereign wealth fund under Moamer Kadhafi"
2014-09-20,The Australian government will introduce tough new legislation in parliament next week to tackle terrorism in the aftermath of the biggest crackdown in the country's history.
2014-09-20,Wild boar tortured and killed during a political protest in Pakistan. Protestors inscribed the name of the current Prime Minister on the boar before beating it to death with sticks.
2014-09-20,"Riots in George Square, Glasgow between Yes and No voters"
2014-09-20,"New Zealand 2014 Election: Center-right National Party projected to have won a third term, increasing their seats in parliament from the previous election"
2014-09-20,Kurds kill 18 ISIS jihadists in northern Syria.
2014-09-20,A large majority of the Catalan regional parliament has voted in favour of a law that legislators say will allow it to hold a non-binding vote on independence from Spain in November.
2014-09-20,"Turkey opens border to 45,000 Kurds fleeing Isis in Syria"
2014-09-20,"Belgian media: several terrorism attacks prevented | Belgian authorities have reportedly foiled attacks by jihadist fighters returning home from Syria and by sympathizers of the ""Islamic State."" Several arrests have been made, according to a Belgian newspaper"
2014-09-20,German Muslims unite against 'Islamic State'
2014-09-20,"Big Steakhouse Chain sues small restaurant owner, because he uses his own last name as restaurant name!"
2014-09-20,Solar panels to be made mandatory for new buildings in Hyderabad
2014-09-20,"Cuba to privatize 9,000 restaurants."
2014-09-20,NYT reveals threats against Turkish reporter as pro-gov't media turn her into target
2014-09-20,Third convoy carrying Russian humanitarian aid crosses Ukrainian border
2014-09-20,Russian lawmakers want to turn Putin's birthday on Oct 7 into a national holiday
2014-09-20,Sweden protests against airspace violation by Russian planes
2014-09-20,Putin to unplug Russia from the internet: Russian leader to introduce draconian measures that would see country switch off in emergencies
2014-09-19,Scotland votes to remain in the U.K.
2014-09-19,Bodies of 8 Ebola workers (including 3 journalists) found at the bottom of a latrine in Guniea after locals attacked them.
2014-09-19,Polls close in Scotland - Results expected in hours
2014-09-19,Russia calls foul over Scottish referendum
2014-09-19,US Airstrike kills 40 Islamic State fighters
2014-09-19,"A Muslim academic has opened a gay-friendly mosque in South Africa, despite receiving death threats and fierce criticism from parts of the local Muslim community"
2014-09-19,45% of Russians Believe Shadowy Group Controls Humanity
2014-09-19,After 5 years of painful austerity Ireland's economy is the fastest growing in the EU at 7.7%
2014-09-19,France Launches First Airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq
2014-09-19,China insists wealthy countries should improve emission targets if a global pact on climate change is to be reached next year. A much-anticipated UN summit will be held in Paris aiming to produce most ambitious deal yet in fight against global warming.
2014-09-19,Swedish airspace has been violated by Russian aircraft.
2014-09-19,WHO: 700 new Ebola cases emerge in one week
2014-09-19,Mysterious Millionaire Will Pay $30M to Know Who Exactly Shot Down MH17 - Bing News
2014-09-19,"Japan claims southern ocean whaling has led to 666 peer-reviewed papers, but international court says there are just 2"
2014-09-19,Iranian blogger found guilty of insulting Prophet Mohammad on Facebook sentenced to death
2014-09-19,"Archaeologists unearth hidden death chambers used to kill a quarter-million Jews at notorious camp ""...the discoveries didnt end with the gas chambers. Thousands of items that belonged to those murdered were also left buried in a well the Germans had plugged."""
2014-09-19,Russia detains Lithuanian fishing vessel
2014-09-19,Turkey opens borders to thousands of fleeing Syrian kurds. Refugee numbers are now over 1.5 million.
2014-09-19,"Iranians who YouTubed themselves dancing to Pharrell's ""Happy"" sentenced to 91 lashes"
2014-09-19,Poland Wants United Nations to Limit Russias Influence
2014-09-19,Russian stocks fall as economic concern mounts
2014-09-19,British Fighter Jets Intercept Russian Planes
2014-09-19,"Scotland First Minister, Alex Salmond, to resign"
2014-09-19,"Ebola Deaths Doubled in a Month, WHO Says"
2014-09-19,"Turkey stops 3,000 Kurds from escaping Islamic State militants"
2014-09-18,"Police foiled plan by IS supporters in Australia to ""snatch a random member from the public, drape them in an IS flag, and behead them on camera"""
2014-09-18,Angry passengers throw Pakistani politician off plane after getting stuck on tarmac waiting for him for two hours
2014-09-18,"North Korea Leads the World in Human Rights, Says Report by North Korea"
2014-09-18,Man from Texas arrested for trying to swim to North Korea because he wanted to meet Kim Jong-Un
2014-09-18,"Indian Army rushes 3 battalions to its borders as nearly 1,000 Chinese soldiers enter India."
2014-09-18,"The group of young Iranian men and women who released a YouTube video showing them dancing to pop star Pharrell Williams hit song Happy has been sentenced to six months in jail in addition to 91 lashes, their attorney is quoted as saying by the IranWire news agency."
2014-09-18,"BBC Crew Attacked and Beaten Up While in Southern Russia, Investigating Reports of Russian Servicemen killed in Ukraine"
2014-09-18,Voting begins in Scottish referendum
2014-09-18,"Liberal professor of islamic studies in Pakistan shot dead, was accused of being an apostate and issuing fatwas allowing muslim women to marry non-muslim men"
2014-09-18,Liberian ship docking in New Orleans reports several ill passengers. CDC to respond. All on board will be hospitalized.
2014-09-18,Archbishop of Canterbury admits doubts about existence of God
2014-09-18,Islamic State forces backed by tanks capture 16 Kurdish villages in Northern Syria
2014-09-18,"Venezuela on alert over mysterious, deadly disease"
2014-09-18,"Nigeria has 'torture officers' - Torture has become such an integral part of policing in Nigeria that many stations have an informal torture officer, Amnesty International says."
2014-09-18,Russia: Free Syrian Army No Longer Exists; Rebels Are Coordinating With Terrorists
2014-09-18,European Parliament calls Russia to release the abducted Estonian citizen immediately
2014-09-18,ISIS release new video of British hostage.
2014-09-18,"The black market for Ebola survivors blood:Ebola has infected nearly 4,800 people. It has killed more than 2,400. And a black market for the blood of its survivors is emerging in the epicenter of the outbreak in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)."
2014-09-18,Al Qaeda Offshoot Says It Hijacked A Pakistani Navy Ship to Attack U.S. Vessels - gCaptain Maritime & Offshore News
2014-09-18,Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has malignant tumour: Doctor
2014-09-18,"Putin: My troops could reach Warsaw in two days (as well as Riga, Vilnius, Tallinn and Bucharest)"
2014-09-18,Kiev says Russia masses troops in Crimea on the border to Ukraine
2014-09-18,NSA shared Americans' private communications with Israel: Snowden
2014-09-18,Hubble Discovers Supermassive Black Hole
2014-09-18,Russia opens new airport on Japan-claimed Etorofu Island off Hokkaido
2014-09-17,Hepatitis C drug in India to cost 1% of the US price
2014-09-17,"German Muslim community announces protest against extremism in roughly 2,000 cities on Friday - ""We want to make clear that terrorists do not speak in the name of Islam. I am a Jew when synagogues are attacked. I am a Christian when Christians are persecuted for example in Iraq."""
2014-09-17,"France switches to Arabic Daesh acronym for Islamic State ""I do not recommend using the term Islamic State because it blurs the lines between Islam, Muslims and Islamists. The Arabs call it Daesh and I will be calling them the Daesh cutthroats foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told journalists"
2014-09-17,France arrests 5 for belonging to a ring that recruits young women to join Islamic militants in Syria
2014-09-17,"Pope Assassination Imminent, Iraq Ambassador To Vatican Warns; ""What has been declared by the self-declared Islamic State is clear - they want to kill the Pope. The threats against the Pope are credible,"" Al Sadr said during an interview with Italian newspaper La Nazione"
2014-09-17,"Boeing, SpaceX poised to build 'space taxis' for NASA"
2014-09-17,BP caught using 'college' tricks to cheat page count in court document.
2014-09-17,Russian Travel Agencies Bankrupted as Demand Falls Up to 50%
2014-09-17,Kurds retake Christian villages from Iraq jihadists: Kurdish peshmerga forces on Tuesday recaptured several Christian villages in northern Iraq in clashes with Islamic State jihadists
2014-09-17,"Islamist Rebels in Iraq Resorting to Chemical Weapons: At least 14 members of the Islamic State jihadist group were killed near Baghdad by a rocket that exploded as they were filling its warhead with chlorine gas, which the insurgents operating in Iraq appear to be seeking to weaponize"
2014-09-17,Soviet Monuments in Lithuania Spray-Painted in Ukraine's National Colors
2014-09-17,Gaza mortar shell lands in Israel for first time since war
2014-09-17,Angry mob throw Ukraine MP into rubbish bin
2014-09-17,Colossal squid weighing 350kg pulled from Antarctic
2014-09-17,The UN says Brazil is now rich enough to feed itself
2014-09-17,SHOE COMPANY: Our CEO Just Disappeared And Most Of The Money Is Gone
2014-09-17,Pentagon: US ground troops may join Iraqis in combat against Isis
2014-09-17,Russia Sending New Stealth Submarines to Crimea
2014-09-17,7.1 earthquake strikes 21 miles off coast of Guam
2014-09-17,As many as 36 children were on Tuesday night reported to have died excruciating deaths after receiving tainted measles vaccines under a United Nations-sponsored program in the rebel-held north of Syria
2014-09-17,"Ebola is NOT Likely to go airbourne, says a Scientific American article citing top experts."
2014-09-17,Bill Clinton: Netanyahu 'not the guy' to strike lasting Middle East peace deal. Former US president recorded going off-message in criticising the Israeli governments unwillingness to seek peace.
2014-09-17,"Russia, Egypt seal preliminary arms deal worth $3.5 billion"
2014-09-17,No court-martial for nurse who refused to give forced-feeding at Gitmo - A Navy commander has chosen not to court-martial a nurse who refused to conduct forced feedings of hunger strikers...
2014-09-17,John Key says Edward Snowden may well be right about NSA spying on NZ
2014-09-16,"Al-Qaeda appeals to Islamic State to release British hostage Alan Henning: Al-Qaeda believes Henning is an innocent aid volunteer who was genuinely trying to help suffering Muslims, and kidnapping him was a step too far"
2014-09-16,Five hundred people drowned off the coast of Malta last week after people traffickers deliberately sank their ship
2014-09-16,"A female member of Saudi Arabias National Society for Human Rights has reportedly been fined for driving herself to the hospital. When police pulled her over, Aliyah Al Farid said she had a medical emergency and there was no one available to drive her to the hospital so she took her husbands car."
2014-09-16,Plans for a major rewriting of international tax rules unveiled on Tuesday could eliminate structures that have allowed companies like Google and Amazon to shave billions of dollars off their tax bills. The draft proposals announced have been agreed by all G20 members and OECD members ...
2014-09-16,ISIS Bans Teaching Evolution In Schools
2014-09-16,China creates cell phone lane for 'zombie pedestrians' who want to text and walk
2014-09-16,Ruble falls below .38 against the dollar for the first time in history.
2014-09-16,Cell-Like Structure Found in Martian Meteorite
2014-09-16,"NASA: Hottest August Globally Since Records Began in 1880 - Last month was the warmest August globally since records began being kept in 1880, NASA reported Monday. The globe just keeps warming."
2014-09-16,NASA Unveils World's Largest Welder to Build New Mega-Rocket
2014-09-16,Study: 40% of European Jews hide their religion
2014-09-16,"Ebola crisis: Obama administration to ask Congress for $1 billion to fight outbreak, sources say"
2014-09-16,14 year old Arab Israeli murdered in honor killing in Upper Galilee village.
2014-09-16,"Fixing Climate Change May Add No Costs, Report Says: When the secondary benefits of greener policies  like lower fuel costs, fewer premature deaths from air pollution and reduced medical bills  are taken into account, the changes might wind up saving money"
2014-09-16,Japan: 'Solar Islands' Replace Nuclear Power
2014-09-16,U.S. Hits ISIS Position Near Baghdad in New Phase of Strikes
2014-09-16,Almost half of China's wealthy are considering relocating to North America or Europe within the next five years to find better education and job opportunities for their children
2014-09-16,Soldiers Killed in Suicide Attack at U.S. Base in Kabul
2014-09-16,"First dolphins of hunting season slaughtered in 'The Cove' in Taiji, Japan"
2014-09-16,"Ukraine rebels to get self-rule, amnesty"
2014-09-16,Millions of banknotes sent to Scotland in case Yes vote sparks run on ATMs
2014-09-16,Turkey Is a Steady Source of ISIS Recruits
2014-09-16,Passengers eject Pakistani politicians out of plane for causing delay
2014-09-16,"Belgian murderer Van Den Bleeken wins 'right to die' - Unable to control his violent sexual urges, Frank Van Den Bleeken, who is 50, argued he would never be freed."
2014-09-16,The Discovery of Mexico's First Coca Plantation Could Upend the Cocaine Business
2014-09-15,"Former Auschwitz guard, 93, charged with accessory to 300,000 murders in Germany"
2014-09-15,"Edward Snowden: ""If you live in New Zealand you are being watched"" | The first of the documents have landed on the website of Greenwald"
2014-09-15,"Gaza landlords refusing to rent to Hamas, official says"
2014-09-15,"WikiLeaks releases previously unseen information on FinFisher (formerly part of the UK based Gamma Group International until late 2013), a company which produced weaponised surveillance malware used by intelligence agencies around the world to spy on journalists, political dissidents and others."
2014-09-15,27 Christians in Saudi Arabia Arrested for Using House As a Church
2014-09-15,2 young British tourists found murdered - stripped naked and bloodied - at beach on Thai island of Koh Tao
2014-09-15,"Mass murder reported off Malta, 500 drowned"
2014-09-15,Russia concerned about rights of Russian speakers in the Baltics
2014-09-15,NATO countries have begun arms deliveries to Ukraine: defense minister
2014-09-15,"The Chinese sturgeon, thought to have existed for more than 140 million years, is now on the brink of extinction. No wild sturgeon reproduced naturally last year in the Yangtze river, according to local media. It was the first time since researchers began recording levels 32 years ago."
2014-09-15,The joint military exercises of Ukraine and NATO begin today.
2014-09-15,"Germans will soon be getting 30 percent of their power from renewable energy sources, by far the largest industrial power to reach that level in the modern era."
2014-09-15,Swedish Prime Minister Frederik Reinfeldt concedes defeat
2014-09-15,"WikiLeaks has today released parts of the FinFisher surveillance suite, as well as a customer list that it claims includes the police forces of the Netherlands and New South Wales, and the intelligence arms of the Hungarian, Qatari, Italian, and Bosnian governments"
2014-09-15,Ukraine Authorities Raid Newspaper Offices in Kiev
2014-09-15,WikiLeaks: Australian Police use hacking software to spy on computers and smartphones
2014-09-15,"Russia to provide military, other assistance to Iraq, Syria in combating terrorism"
2014-09-15,NATO Countries Have Begun Arms Deliveries to Ukraine
2014-09-15,Al Qaeda group in India on first mission mistakenly attacks a Pakistani Navy frigate instead of a US aircraft carrier
2014-09-15,"Scotland's referendum: the ""no"" is winning"
2014-09-15,The Queen hopes Scots will ''think very carefully'' before voting in the independence referendum - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
2014-09-15,Russia creates emergency fund to deal with Western sanctions
2014-09-15,New Zealand dismisses Snowden's claim it planned mass domestic spying
2014-09-15,"Russia 'testing Polish resolve' with cut in gas supply: They are requesting the maximum, and we are only able to supply closer to the daily minimum says Gazprom spokesperson."
2014-09-15,Germany and Turkey refuse to take part in bombing ISIS
2014-09-14,"Diver Finds Over 2,750-Yr-Old Gold Coin in Bulgaria - It's believed to be the oldest gold coin ever discovered"
2014-09-14,"IS Beheads Briton David Haines, Threatens to Execute Another Briton, Alan Henning"
2014-09-14,Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe awards PhD degree to wife 2 months after she enrolls
2014-09-14,"Pope Francis is making good on his insistence that the Catholic Church welcome all faithful  not just those who obey church teaching perfectly. He'll marry 20 couples this weekend, including some who already live together and those with children, technically a sin in the eyes of the church."
2014-09-14,A group of disillusioned British jihadists who wanted to return home after fighting for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria have been taken prisoner by their militant commanders
2014-09-14,The parents of murdered journalist Steven Sotloff were told by a White House counterterrorism official at a meeting last May that they could face criminal prosecution if they paid ransom to try to free their son
2014-09-14,Uncovered: U.K. intel encouraged Arab armies to invade Israel in 1948
2014-09-14,"'Shariah Police' ditch vests and change name: Salafists who caused outrage by mounting patrols in western Germany as ""Shariah Police"" have ditched their vests and changed their name, but pledged to continue to take action."
2014-09-14,"Pope marries couples who have cohabited, had children: Pope Francis married 20 couples on Sunday, some of whom had already lived together and had children, in the latest sign that the Argentine pontiff wants the Catholic church to be more open and inclusive."
2014-09-14,Assad's regime insists it should be part of anti-ISIS alliance
2014-09-14,Syrian airstrike on Islamic State jihadist camp kills 18
2014-09-14,France says 930 citizens or residents involved in jihad
2014-09-14,"Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has sacked 10 government officials who have been ""out of the country without an excuse,"" amid a national Ebola crisis."
2014-09-14,Austria bans Isis terror symbols
2014-09-14,North Korea sentences U.S. citizen Matthew Todd Miller to six years hard labor
2014-09-14,Fresh sanctions will freeze big foreign oil projects in Russia
2014-09-14,ISIS executes eight Sunnis in northern Iraq
2014-09-14,Australia to deploy military force to UAE
2014-09-14,Another journalist beheaded by ISIS. British journalist David Haines beheaded in new video.
2014-09-14,ISIS destroys Sufi Shrines
2014-09-14,"Free-market era in Sweden swept away as feminists and greens plot new path | ""People are tired of the government  The common feeling is enough. Enough of privatisation, enough of big profit within the school system and within the health system."""
2014-09-14,"Researchers at Glasgow University have claimed a breakthrough in producing hydrogen fuel from water they say is fast, clean and cheap"
2014-09-14,Catalans turn out en masse to ask for independence vote
2014-09-14,The NSA and GCHQ Campaign Against German Satellite Companies - Treasure Map is a vast NSA campaign to map the global internet.
2014-09-14,"Britain will take ""whatever steps are necessary"" to keep the country safe, following the killing of hostage David Haines by Islamic State militants, the prime minister has said."
2014-09-13,Rob Ford withdraws from Toronto mayor race
2014-09-13,ISIL hit U.S. F-15 with anti-aircaft batteries captured from Iraq - World Tribune | World Tribune
2014-09-13,Israel tells US it will act if ISIS reaches Jordan
2014-09-13,Nigeria reportedly kills 200 Boko Haram members along with feared commander in rare victory in the country's north
2014-09-13,Hamas admits it fired rockets from civilian areas
2014-09-13,A convoy of more than 200 trucks that Russia says is carrying humanitarian aid has crossed the border into Ukraine without permission. Ukrainian border guards and customs officer did not have access to them to check what they were carrying.
2014-09-13,Germany plans to fund education about anti-Semitism for Muslim youth
2014-09-13,"Masked and caped anonymous superheroes are popping up throughout Mexico. They are being referred to as the Mexican ""Power Rangers."""
2014-09-13,"U.S. government scientists: Ebola epidemic to last 12 to 18 months, infect hundreds of thousands."
2014-09-13,"Pope says world's many conflicts amount to piecemeal World War Three ""War is madness. Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction. War is irrational; its only plan is to bring destruction"""
2014-09-13,New Russian Military Bases Going Up on Arctic Island Near Alaska - Putin sees control of the Arctic as a matter of serious strategic concern for Moscow.
2014-09-13,"New Zealand Prime Minister John Key dismisses Glenn Greenwald as """"[Kim] Dotcom's little henchman."" after Greenwald claims the New Zealand government is conducting mass surveillance on its citizens. Key previously he'd resign if it were proven the New Zealand government was spying on citizens."
2014-09-13,"Ebola surging beyond control, WHO's Margaret Chan warns"
2014-09-13,Tribes battle illegal loggers in the Amazon in these shocking photographs
2014-09-13,Australian police in riot gear removing Aboriginal children from their parents
2014-09-13,Defrocked Catholic priest Eric Dejaeger found guilty of 24 sex charges involving Inuit children
2014-09-13,Syrian rebels and the Islamic State have agreed a non-aggression pact near Damascus
2014-09-13,Turkey overflowing with $36 billion in mystery funds
2014-09-13,Boko Haram Now Controls An Area In Nigeria The Size Of Ireland
2014-09-13,"Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria now have about 20,000 to 31,500 fighters on the ground, the US Central Intelligence Agency says, much higher than a previous estimate of 10,000"
2014-09-13,"How U.N. troops defied orders, opened fire and escaped Syrian rebels"
2014-09-13,Iran 'sending troops' to fight Islamic State in Iraq
2014-09-13,Advocates for tribal people in Peru published new photos this week that show a troubling scene: An apparent missionary and other outsiders in a tourist boat idling along the bank of a river to give clothes and other gifts to children from an isolated indigenous tribe
2014-09-13,Groundbreking stem cell transplant performed in Japan: A woman in Japan suffering from an incurable eye disease has received what is being called the world's first human transplant of cells reprogrammed to an embryonic state
2014-09-13,"The Pakistani Taliban announce its end of armed struggle in Pakistan. They will now increase their efforts to preach sharia through peaceful means, says TTP Chief"
2014-09-12,Germany officially makes helping Islamic State (IS) a crime
2014-09-12,Oscar Pistorius found guilty of culpable homicide
2014-09-12,British Female Jihadists 'Are Running Brothels Full Of Captured Sex Slaves For Islamic State Militants'
2014-09-12,"Ecuador to tax fast food in effort to halt soaring obesity rate People are dying from bad food, not a lack of food. People will stop eating so many McDonalds and Burger King hamburgers [with this tax]. This favours the production of our traditional gastronomy."" President Correa told journalists."
2014-09-12,"Archaeologists in Siberia have discovered a suit of armour made of animal bones which they believe could be aged between 3,500 and 3,900 years old. The sheath, found in ""perfect condition"", is made of the bones of an unidentified animal. The armour may have been built for an elite warrior"
2014-09-12,Virologist: Fight against Ebola in Sierra Leone and Liberia is lost
2014-09-12,Russian ruble hits record low as sanctions loom
2014-09-12,"Pilot rescues baby elephant who survived massacre by flying it home in four-seater plane ""We were able to confirm about 100 animals had indeed been massacred at that site in a national park in Chad, when we found the baby elephant he was tied up to a tree where he had been for the last 3-to-4 days."""
2014-09-12,NASAs Mars Curiosity Rover Arrives at Martian Mountain
2014-09-12,"U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft flew more than 2,700 missions to combat Islamic State in Iraq even before President Barack Obama announced an expanded military campaign against the Sunni extremists"
2014-09-12,"In the dead of night, Ukrainian troops and Russian-backed rebel forces exchanged 67 prisoners who had been captured during fighting in eastern Ukraine, part of a cease-fire deal that has struggled to succeed"
2014-09-12,Israeli intelligence veterans refuse to serve in Palestinian territories. They say actions not consistent with a democracy
2014-09-12,Philippines displays ancient maps to debunk China's sea claims
2014-09-12,Jordan alarmed over Obama plan to arm 'moderates'
2014-09-12,Germany bans ISIS symbols and propoganda.
2014-09-12,"The US government has imposed new sanctions on major Russian banks, defence and energy firms over Russia's support for separatists in Ukraine."
2014-09-12,Italys first Muslim councillor flees the country in fear of her life after a series of death threats
2014-09-12,"President Barack Obama said on Thursday the United States will join the European Union in imposing tougher sanctions on Russia's financial, energy and defense sectors"
2014-09-12,Experts worry Ebola could mutate to spread by air
2014-09-12,Turkey Will Refuse US Permission to Use Air Bases For Attacking ISIS
2014-09-12,"Police raid homes of Latvians connected to pro Russia rebels in Ukraine, weapons found"
2014-09-12,Cuba sending dozens of doctors to fight Ebola
2014-09-12,"Cuba Sends Drugs, Medical Supplies to Gaza | Hamas thanks Cuba for 'noble gesture,' after it sent six tons of drugs and medical supplies to Gaza."
2014-09-12,Department of Justice: Hewlett-Packard Russia Pleads Guilty to and Sentenced for Bribery of Russian Government Officials. HP and Subsidiaries Will Pay $108 Million in Criminal and Regulatory Penalties
2014-09-12,Scientist who identified Ebola virus calls for 'quasi-military intervention'
2014-09-11,France ready to join USA in airstrikes against ISIS
2014-09-11,Famous dominatrix kicked out of Canadian Senate hearing after threatening to expose politicians who hire prostitutes
2014-09-11,Oscar Pistorious found NOT guilty for premeditated murder
2014-09-11,"China sees big drop in carbon emissions: Premier. ""There is no turning back in China's commitment to a sound eco-system. We have declared war on pollution and earnestly fulfilled international responsibilities,"""
2014-09-11,Gates Foundation commits $50 million to fight Ebola in West Africa
2014-09-11,"Russia has warned that US air strikes against militants in Syria would be a ""gross violation"" of international law."
2014-09-11,North Korea 'backs Scottish independence'
2014-09-11,Ukraine Starts Building Wall to Keep Russia Out
2014-09-11,US drone strike kills 14 afghan civilians including women and children
2014-09-11,ISIS proposing plans to go to Mexico and enter Southern US states across the American border; the Mexican Drug Cartels will likely not permit ISIS activity because they do not want the US Military to retaliate against ISIS and begin operations on the Mexican border.
2014-09-11,Obama prepared to authorize air strikes in Syria against Islamic State
2014-09-11,500 Bodies Found in IS Mass Grave in Northern Iraq
2014-09-11,"Ebola fatality rate is ~80%, not ~50% as previously assumed"
2014-09-11,She's a 14-year-old Yazidi girl given as a gift to an ISIS commander; heres how she escaped
2014-09-11,Half of Europeans want to tackle international issues without US meddling
2014-09-11,"For Many Iranians, the Evidence Is Clear: ISIS Is an American Invention"
2014-09-11,"Scientists: 'Extreme' solar storm heading to Earth that could interfere with power grids, satellites and radio transmissions"
2014-09-11,North Koreans 'back Scottish independence because of fondness for Scotch whisky'
2014-09-11,Around 5 football fields of tropical forest illegally cleared every minute between 2000 & 2012 - Most illegal deforestation for commercial agriculture is in Brazil & Indonesia. Demand for agricultural products driving 'shock' tree loss.
2014-09-11,Two stunning caryatid statues have been unearthed holding up the entrance to the biggest ancient tomb ever found in Greece
2014-09-11,"12 km demonstration in Catalonia making the letter ""V"" to demand the right to vote in a referendum"
2014-09-11,Dalai Lama Refuses to be Reborn If Tibet Is Not Free
2014-09-11,The U.S. and European Union are poised to halt billions of dollars in oil exploration in Russia by the worlds largest energy companies in sanctions that would cut deeper than previously disclosed
2014-09-11,Ultra-orthodox Jewish sect engaged in human trafficking and tied up disobedient teens: Police warrants
2014-09-11,"Hamas higher-up in Gaza pulled trigger on teens' abduction, coordinated with Hamas member in Turkey"
2014-09-10,"There are now over 4268 Ebola cases, with over 2288 dead"
2014-09-10,Anxiety and sleeping pills linked to Alzheimer's disease: benzodiazepine use for three months or more was linked to an increased risk (up to 51%) of dementia.
2014-09-10,ISIS declares war on Twitter: Terror group warns employees they will be assassinated for closing down Islamist propaganda accounts
2014-09-10,David Attenborough to return for new BBC series about Great Barrier Reef
2014-09-10,"Ukraine says Russia withdrawing forces from east, sees boost for peace"
2014-09-10,Suicide has claimed more than one million lives over the past 20 years in Russia
2014-09-10,Digital mapping uncovers super henge that dwarfed Stonehenge
2014-09-10,Putin sacks governor for rally against Russian invasion of Ukraine
2014-09-10,British-Iranian woman imprisoned for two months for trying to watch volleyball game in Tehran
2014-09-10,"Saudi anti-Christian sweep prompts calls for US involvement. The West should demand that its strategic ally, Saudi Arabia, release the Christians at once and allow them to pray according to their own faith traditions."
2014-09-10,"Ebola outbreak ""threatens Liberia's national existence"""
2014-09-10,President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused Western countries of creating the Ukrainian crisis and using it to revive NATO.
2014-09-10,Cameron Tells Scotland There Will Be No Going Back
2014-09-10,"Nato expansion unlikely before late 2015, Finland and Sweden could walk in within a week"
2014-09-10,Nurse who survived Ebola returning to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone
2014-09-10,A snail once thought to have been among the first species to go extinct because of climate change has reappeared in the wild.
2014-09-10,"As climate change debate heats up, UN experts warn we are running out of time We know without any doubt that our climate is changing and our weather is becoming more extreme due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, World Meteorological Organization Secretary-General said"
2014-09-10,ISIS Forms All-Female Al-Khansaa Brigade To Hunt Down Spies Disguised As Women In Burqas
2014-09-10,Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $50 million to support emergency efforts to contain Ebola epidemic
2014-09-10,Video shows Islamic Jihad digging new Gaza tunnels
2014-09-10,5 million compromised Google accounts leaked
2014-09-10,Some of the world's biggest banks have gone on red alert on the increased chance that Scotland might secede from the United Kingdom
2014-09-10,"More young people in Spain are NEETs (Not in Education, Employment or Training) than anywhere else in the EU, with graduate unemployment also tripling the OECD average."
2014-09-10,Venezuela's inflation rises to 63.4%
2014-09-10,China tells Dalai Lama again to respect reincarnation
2014-09-09,New Report: World Leaders Call For Ending Criminalization of Drug Use and Possession and Responsible Legal Regulation of Psychoactive Substances
2014-09-09,"Another victory for Kim Dotcom, he's getting all Megaupload data back - Neowin"
2014-09-09,ISIS Kidnaps 50 Civilians After They Burn Islamic State Flag
2014-09-09,MH17 crash: Dutch experts say numerous objects hit plane
2014-09-09,Russian agents raiding homes of Muslims in Crimea
2014-09-09,"2,300 year old mysterious tomb discovered in Amphipolis, Greece."
2014-09-09,"Russia Reports Troop Deaths In Ukraine, But Calls Them 'Volunteers'"
2014-09-09,"Steven Sotloff Was Sold To ISIS By 'Moderate' Rebels, Family Spokesman Tells CNN"
2014-09-09,Spain opens door to ban on burqas: Spain's interior minister Jorge Fernndez Daz on Wednesday said the Spanish government would consider including a ban on burqas as part of a packet of planned new security reforms.
2014-09-09,USAF rotates F-16s in Poland as tensions with Russia continue
2014-09-09,Russians 'operated BUK' in MH17 area
2014-09-09,Dalai Lama Blasts Putin's Self-Centeredness
2014-09-09,"Fury in Germany over Sharia Police Patrols: the ""Sharia Police"" patrolled the streets in attempt to stop people from listening to music, drinking, and gambling. The government said that the Sharia Police would not be allowed to replace the actual police and that Germany did not want Sharia law."
2014-09-09,Pakistan mosque collapses on worshipers
2014-09-09,Russian military plane circles HMCS Toronto in Black Sea
2014-09-09,"6 Elephant Poachers Caught in Mozambique Reserve  During the early morning raid, 12 tusks & 2 rifles were confiscated. 2 of the tusks, 23 kilograms (57 lbs) each, were from an elephant about 40 yrs old. The tusks were worth over US-$150,000."
2014-09-09,"ISIS-Affiliated Twitter Account Calls For Assassination Of Twitter Employees, Twitter Investigating"
2014-09-09,"Ebola spreading exponentially in Liberia with many thousands of new cases expected in next three weeks, WHO says."
2014-09-09,MH17 shoot-down suspects 'were Russian' claim eyewitnesses
2014-09-09,Lost Franklin expedition ship found in the Arctic
2014-09-09,4.5 Million Fish Dead in Environmental Disaster in Mexico (Unbelievable Pictures)
2014-09-09,Iran arrests 'Afghans and Pakistanis joining Islamic State'
2014-09-09,Israeli defense minister: Turkey is openly supporting terrorism
2014-09-09,Germany TV displays Ukrainian soldiers bearing Nazi insignia
2014-09-09,Russia Threatens to Bankrupt Western Airlines by Closing Its Airspace
2014-09-08,"A Chinese boy has made the discovery of lifetime by stumbling across a 3,000-year-old bronze sword in a river in Jiangsu Province. Archaeologists have dated the 26cm (10in) weapon to either the Shang or Zhou dynasties - the dawn of Chinese civilisation - based on its material, size and shape."
2014-09-08,'Meteorite' smashes into Nicaraguan capital
2014-09-08,"NASA space submarine to explore oceans in Titan, one of Saturns moons"
2014-09-08,Whistleblower Edward Snowden released a document Friday that shows that U.S. intelligence planned to spy on foreign companies to outline 'future threats' to U.S. economic predominance.
2014-09-08,Arab League joins US-led coalition against Islamic State
2014-09-08,Russia reopens criminal cases against Lithuanians who refused to serve in Soviet army
2014-09-08,"British female jihadis are running an ""ISIS Police Force"" to punish women for ""un-Islamic behaviour""."
2014-09-08,"The German government has strongly criticized nightly patrols in the city of Wuppertal by men calling themselves ""Sharia police."""
2014-09-08,EU sanctions defy Russia warning and will take effect on Tuesday
2014-09-08,Russia says it could close its airspace to Western airlines if new EU sanctions are imposed
2014-09-08,Palestinian president threatens to break off alliance with Hamas unless Islamic group gives up power in Gaza
2014-09-08,"Al Jazeera Pulls Story Suggesting ISIS Videos Of Foley, Sotloff Were Fake"
2014-09-08,CIA 'tortured al-Qaeda suspects close to the point of death by drowning them in water-filled bat
2014-09-08,"Activists promise biggest climate march in history. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of New York, London and eight other cities worldwide in a fortnight to pressure world leaders to take action on global warming"
2014-09-08,"Three Italian nuns raped and killed in Burundi, one beheaded"
2014-09-08,Four NATO allies deny Ukraine statement on providing arms
2014-09-08,Three German men suspected of being members of the Somalian terrorist organization al-Shabab were arrested at Frankfurt airport as they attempted to re-enter the country
2014-09-08,"Hilton Hotel in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, under quarantine after woman falls ill."
2014-09-08,Peacekeepers in Somalia use aid to rape women and buy sex for $5 - Human Rights Watch
2014-09-08,Pope accepts resignation of head of scandal-plagued Irish church
2014-09-08,Scottish independence: Ed Miliband raises prospect of guards along the border if Scotland votes 'Yes' in referendum
2014-09-08,Israeli company says it can produce experimental Ebola drug
2014-09-08,Norwegian MP says Norway should arrest Snowden if he wins the Nobel Peace Price.
2014-09-08,"Obama: U.S. military to provide equipment, resources to battle Ebola epidemic in Africa"
2014-09-08,Starving Ebola patients escape Liberian medical centre by threatening to infect security; one dies on the street
2014-09-07,"Sierra Leone to Impose 3-Day Ebola Quarantine: For three days, from Sept. 19 to Sept. 21, everybody is expected to stay indoors as 7,000 teams of health and community workers go door to door to root out hidden Ebola patients"
2014-09-07,"6 months after Malaysian Air plane disappeared, Chinese police 'beat, detain relatives of missing MH370 passengers'"
2014-09-07,Viking 'ring fortress' discovered in Denmark
2014-09-07,"Finnish Somalis: ""Help us prevent ISIS from recruiting our youth"""
2014-09-07,"Ukraine gov't forces attacked in Mariupol, day into ceasefire"
2014-09-07,"Zimbabwe: Go Back to England, Mugabe Tells Whites"
2014-09-07,"Civilians accidentally killed in airstrikes in Iraq; 72 killed, 27 wounded | The casualties include civilians at a Hawija hospital, where 18 were killed and 16 wounded. Eight of the fatalities were newborns housed in a premature baby wing that collapsed due to the strike."
2014-09-07,Kenya thanks US for killing Abdi Godane
2014-09-07,"Latest YouGov Scottish Independence poll for the Sunday Times: YES 51% (+4), NO 49% (-4)"
2014-09-07,ISIL takes 100 kids at an orphanage hostage in Nineveh
2014-09-07,Shock new poll says Scots set to vote yes to independence
2014-09-07,ISIS in Iraq: Canada to send special ops soldiers as advisers
2014-09-07,Merkel : Germany no place for anti-Semitism
2014-09-07,Obama vows US will 'hunt down' ISIS 'wherever they are
2014-09-07,15 Christians held under Pakistan's blasphemy laws
2014-09-07,Abbas threatens to end unity with Hamas
2014-09-07,"Ebola spreads to jails, with 5 infected patients discovered in Monrovia's Central Prison per latest situation report"
2014-09-07,IS Militants Behead Five Fortunetellers in Mosul
2014-09-07,ISIS Teaches Children How to Behead in Training Camps
2014-09-07,Supporters of Scottish independence take narrow poll lead for first time
2014-09-07,"A fleet of four Japanese ships left Hokkaido on Sunday to start the seasonal research whaling hunt in Pacific coastal waters, local media said. Japans Fisheries Agency has said whalers planned to kill up to 51 minke whales in waters off Kushiro city through the end of October."
2014-09-07,"Fighting resumes in Mariupol, ceasefire may be over"
2014-09-07,"Israeli official: Hamas preparing for next war. Islamist group renews rocket production, tunnel construction"
2014-09-07,More armed searches of Crimean Tatar homes
2014-09-07,Families of MH370 claim abuse and detainment by Chinese police
2014-09-06,Man escapes ISIS execution
2014-09-06,"W.H.O alerts Kenya that a passenger, who claims to be a CNN journalist, on a Kenya Airways flight may be infected with Ebola"
2014-09-06,F-15s Dispatched to 'Unresponsive Aircraft' Over Atlantic
2014-09-06,"More Syrians have died in 3 years of war than Americans in every war since WW2: A rigorous new study by the United Nations Office of Human Rights has confirmed 191,369 deaths from the Syrian civil war since it began in 2011, of which about 100,000 have been killed in the last 14 months alone"
2014-09-06,Whaling ban seen as restoring blue whales in northeast Pacific: The number of blue whales in the northeastern Pacific returns to near-historic levels thanks to a 48-yr international ban on commercial or subsistence whaling for this species..
2014-09-06,"Malaysian Islamic Police Raid Hotel Room, Arrest Two Women For Being Lesbians"
2014-09-06,Obama Recruits 9 Allied Nations To Combat ISIS
2014-09-06,"Russian government admits detaining Estonian security official, claims incident occurred ""on Russian soil""."
2014-09-06,A freed French hostage has claimed that one of the Islamists who held him captive in Syria was the suspect in the Jewish Museum shooting in Brussels.
2014-09-06,European Union imposes new sanctions on Russia
2014-09-06,Russian news mistakes video game poster for U.S. propaganda
2014-09-06,"Robots to replace chemical, steel workers in China"
2014-09-06,Russia 'will react' to EU sanctions
2014-09-06,"Saudis Raid House Church, Arrest 27 Christians"
2014-09-06,US and 10 NATO Allies Form Coalition to Destroy ISIS
2014-09-06,British jihadists on the run from terror group IS in Syria
2014-09-06,Rights Groups Demand Answers from Qatar over 'Disappearance' of British Researchers Investigating Migrant Worker Abuses
2014-09-06,PM Announces the Deployment of Canadian Armed Forces to Iraq
2014-09-06,Anti-Semitism drives largest ever French immigration to Israel
2014-09-06,Russia to reopen Arctic naval base
2014-09-06,"Canada's Army Tested Drones in the Arctic for 1st Time Ever - While the US plots more anti-missile defense in Canada's Arctic, the Canucks are testing drones."
2014-09-06,"Sierra Leone declares Ebola lockdown - From 18 to 21 September people will not be allowed to leave their homes, a senior official said. The aim of the move is to allow health workers to isolate new cases to prevent the disease from spreading further."
2014-09-06,"Israel preparing for very violent war against Hezbollah, TV report says"
2014-09-06,Unresponsive Airplane Flying Towards Cuba (LIVE UPDATES) - Flight Tracker in the links
2014-09-06,"Taiwanese health authorities said on Friday they were investigating more than 200 companies that allegedly used recycled cooking oils obtained from restaurants in their products, in the latest food safety scandal to hit the island."
2014-09-05,"After convincing China to give up shark fin soup, Yao Ming sets out to save Africa's elephants from the ivory trade"
2014-09-05,"Lego is now the worlds largest toymaker, as kids choose bricks over Barbie"
2014-09-05,Anti-ISIS flag-burning campaign launched by a trio of fearless Lebanese teens have ignited an Internet anti-terror sensation
2014-09-05,"Photographs show Amazonian tribe capturing and stripping illegal rainforest loggers: The tribes have sent out their warriors to expel all loggers they find, setting up monitoring camps in the areas that are being illegally exploited."
2014-09-05,Three top ISIS lieutenants killed in US bombing raid
2014-09-05,"British jihadists fighting in Syria are increasingly disillusioned and want to come home, it has been reported | Dozens of them are reported to want to return to Britain but are afraid they will be locked up for years if they do so."
2014-09-05,Estonia intelligence officer abducted by gunpoint and taken to Russia
2014-09-05,"Iran's Supreme Leader has approved co-operation with the US as part of the fight against Islamic State in northern Iraq, sources have told BBC Persian."
2014-09-05,A group of indigenous people in Brazil's Amazon region have detained and expelled loggers working illegally in their ancestral lands.
2014-09-05,"Korean 20 year old dies in military service after a month of systematic beating, military is accused of covering up bullying"
2014-09-05,"Prominent Imams Denounce ISIS, Prohibit Muslims From Joining. According to the fatwa, British and other EU citizens should not only avoid joining the extremist group, but should also ""actively oppose its poisonous ideology."""
2014-09-05,"New dinosaur discovered! Ancient behemoth: Meet Dreadnoughtus, a supermassive dino"
2014-09-05,Ukraine ceasefire deal 'signed'
2014-09-05,"The U.N. nuclear watchdog said it has seen releases of steam and water indicating that North Korea may be operating a reactor, in the latest update on a plant that experts say could make plutonium for atomic bombs."
2014-09-05,"British jihadists want to come home, say they made 'mistake'"
2014-09-05,"Archaeologists Make Spectacular Discovery Off Denmarks Coast: Stone Age boat & settlement foundBoat has repairs. It split 6,500 yrs ago & they tried to fix the crack by putting a bark strip over it & drilling holes on both sides. The most exciting thing is there's sealing mass in the holes."
2014-09-05,US confirms al-Shabab leader killed
2014-09-05,World-first experiment achieves direct brain-to-brain communication in human subjects
2014-09-05,"Large asteroid to pass ""very close"" to Earth on Sunday"
2014-09-05,NATO allies to supply Ukraine with lethal military equipment
2014-09-05,Russian TV shows funeral of soldier killed 'on leave' in Ukraine
2014-09-05,Japan transfers $1 billion in frozen oil money to Iran
2014-09-05,Thirty-four Bosnian coal miners trapped underground after earthquake
2014-09-05,"US, S Korea reportedly to set up wartime unit to destroy North's nukes"
2014-09-05,US doctor infected with Ebola heading to Nebraska
2014-09-04,Russia warns NATO not to offer membership to Ukraine
2014-09-04,France suspends plans to deliver warship to Russia amid Ukraine tensions.
2014-09-04,Deep sea 'mushroom' may be new branch of life
2014-09-04,"The pace of Ebola infection has accelerated, and there were close to 400 deaths in the past week alone. The UN says $600 million in supplies would be needed to fight the outbreak."
2014-09-04,"Canadian beekeepers sue Bayer, Syngenta over neonicotinoid pesticides for over $400 million"
2014-09-04,Nova Scotia to ban fracking
2014-09-04,"ISIS Capture Russian Jets In Syria, Tell Vladimir Putin Hes Next"
2014-09-04,"Obama casts Russia as threat to peace in Europe -- Vows to defend all NATO states, specifically reassures the baltic states will be defended."
2014-09-04,France raises possibility of military action on Islamic State
2014-09-04,South Africa refuses Dalai Lama visa for Nobel summit
2014-09-04,Israel bars 13 Members of the European parliment from visiting Gaza
2014-09-04,British hostage captured by Isis is experienced aid worker who helped Muslim communities in the Balkans - The British hostage threatened with death by Islamic State (Isis) militants was an experienced aid worker who spent years trying so hard to help communities ravaged by war in the Balkans
2014-09-04,Ukraine army on alert to repel possible rebel attack near Mariupol - military source
2014-09-04,Islamic State officially outlawed in Israel
2014-09-04,"In Estonia, Obama pledges to defend Baltic States, calls for a unified NATO to help Ukraine strengthen its forces"
2014-09-04,IS militants 'killed up to 770 Iraqi troops' in single atrocity
2014-09-04,Two UK researchers investigating migrant worker treatment 'missing' in Qatar
2014-09-04,Sky Films Troops 'In Russian Gear' In Ukraine
2014-09-04,Canada prepared to act with allies against Islamic State: Harper
2014-09-04,"France faces huge Mistral bill for halting Russia deal: The decision to suspend delivery of a Mistral naval assault ship to Russia risks costing France at least 1bn euros (800m), officials say."
2014-09-04,"A hail of U.S. missiles aimed at the leader of Somalia's al Shabaab militants may have left a gaping hole in the group's leadership, potentially the biggest challenge to its unity since it emerged as a fighting force eight years ago."
2014-09-04,French spy who sunk Greenpeace Ship has wildlife photograph published in Greenpeace calendar
2014-09-04,Guinea detects Ebola in new region as U.S. warns outbreak out of control
2014-09-04,Iraqi soldier survives Isis mass execution by playing dead for hours to escape militants who massacred hundreds
2014-09-04,ISIS threatens to liberate Chechnya and Caucasus; Chechnya threatens to destroy ISIS
2014-09-03,Islamic State 'kills US hostage' Steven Sotloff
2014-09-03,Malaysia Airlines has provoked a storm of controversy by asking customers to list the things they would most like to do before they die.
2014-09-03,US claims it has rightful access to data stored on servers anywhere in the world.
2014-09-03,Russian General Calls for Preemptive Nuclear Strike Doctrine Against NATO
2014-09-03,Pakistan army kills 910 Taliban militants
2014-09-03,Danish mosque declares support for Isis
2014-09-03,Obama says US will 'degrade and destroy' Islamic State
2014-09-03,"'American forces are on the ground here': Kurds claim US commandos ARE fighting ISIS with them in northern Iraq, after Obama said no 'combat troops' would fight"
2014-09-03,Israel shows evidence of rocket fire from Gaza schools
2014-09-03,Saudi Arabia's proposal to destroy Prophet Mohammeds tomb and move remains to anonymous grave risks new Muslim division
2014-09-03,UK bans American Apparel adverts UK for 'Sexualising Schoolgirls' and 'Underage Porn'
2014-09-03,"Moscow has continued to deny direct involvement in the fighting in eastern Ukraine. But evidence to the contrary continues to mount. NATO says up to 1,000 Russian soldiers have joined the fray and the pro-Russian separatists have made a remarkable turnaround."
2014-09-03,"Jordan signs 15 year deal to import natural gas from Israel, estimated value more than $15bn"
2014-09-03,New drug cured 16 of 16 monkeys with a viral ebola relative.
2014-09-03,Obama signs off on request for more U.S. troops in Iraq
2014-09-03,President Obama: We will degrade and destroy ISIS
2014-09-03,CDC: Window Is Closing on Containing Ebola
2014-09-03,Forty-eight Kurdish intellectuals symbolically convert to Yezidi faith to protest Islamic State attacks
2014-09-03,Putin's spokesman: Russia 'did not agree a ceasefire'
2014-09-03,Mexican state of Coahuila legalises same-sex marriage
2014-09-03,Kremlin is ready to release phone conversation about 'taking Kiev in two weeks'
2014-09-03,ISIS said in a recent tweet it is forcing detained Syrian pilots to train militant fighters to fly stolen aircraft
2014-09-03,"In an attack that felt like an earthquake, U.S. forces hit Islamic extremists in Somalia"
2014-09-03,Ukraine Retracts Announcement of Cease-Fire With Russia
2014-09-03,"ICC: Palestine is a state, can file war crimes complaints against Israel if chooses"
2014-09-02,"Captured IS Suicide Bomber in Peshmerga hands ""When he is treated and well, he will go to prison and rot there for the rest of his life. He will be denied martyrdom. The Kurds want the foreign fighters to know that."" - Sky News"
2014-09-02,Russian sex geckos die in orbit
2014-09-02,Plans to dump 3 million cubic metres of material dredged from the ocean floor into the Great Barrier Reef area will be abandoned.
2014-09-02,NASA is building the largest rocket of all time for a 2018 launch
2014-09-02,"German President Joachim Gauck: Russia has ""effectively severed its partnership"" with Europe and wants to establish a new order"
2014-09-02,Ukraine warns of great war with Russia the likes of which Europe has not seen since WWII
2014-09-02,"Egypt fatwa bans online chats between men and women: Egypts top Islamic authority has prohibited online chat between unrelated men and women, triggering a big controversy in the country."
2014-09-02,"Canada Misleads in Keystone XL Ads About Deep Cuts to Environmental Monitoring - Canada has cut nearly $3 billion in spending & up to 5,000 jobs from its science-based depts, according to federal scientists."
2014-09-02,"Gays not welcome in Crimea - ""We do not need such people in the Crimea"" acting PM Aksenov"
2014-09-02,Huge new Israeli settlement in West Bank condemned by US and UK
2014-09-02,Israel cancels settlement plans due to international pressure
2014-09-02,Denmark passes law allowing transgender people to obtain official documents reflecting their gender identity without needing to be diagnosed with a mental disorder or undergo surgeries resulting in irreversible sterilization.
2014-09-02,Ebola Patient Flees Clinic In Search For Food: Video has emerged of Liberian ebola clinic workers dressed in contamination suits chasing an escaped patient through the streets after he left a treatment centre to visit a market.
2014-09-02,Russian Investigators Seize Assets of Pro-Kiev Ukrainian Billionaire
2014-09-02,Radioactive wild boar roaming the forests of Germany
2014-09-02,"Russia Has Threatened Nuclear Attack, Says Ukraine Defence Minister"
2014-09-02,"Dutch organization, ""Women on Web"", sends abortion pills to women in countries that restrict or ban the procedure - Working to revolutionize access to the procedure, bypassing the clinic & turning to a novel method of delivery: the Internet."
2014-09-02,Uber has been banned across the whole of Germany
2014-09-02,"AUSTRALIA will enter a historic partnership with NATO at the groups summit in Wales this week, giving the Australian Defence Force greater access to the planning and decision-making of the worlds most powerful military alliance"
2014-09-02,Sharks Off Menu & on Tourist Trail in Palau - World's 1st shark sanctuary here was so successful it's going to totally ban commercial fishing in the island nation's vast ocean territory by 2018. The unprecedented fishing-free zone in the Pacific is about the size of France.
2014-09-02,"Nuclear ban on muslim engineer (from accessing nuclear sites, citing his links with jihadist networks) upheld by French court - France"
2014-09-02,"2 secret funders of British politician Nigel Lawsons climate skeptic group revealed - This is 1st time backers have confirmed contributions. Both are linked to a free-market think-tank, IEA, which takes money from oil firms & argues against climate change mitigation."
2014-09-02,"British jihadists to be forced to attend deradicalisation programmes, says Cameron"
2014-09-02,"Nato to create high-readiness force to counter Russian threat - Spearhead force will be made up of around 4,000 troops with capacity to 'travel light but strike hard'."
2014-09-02,EU threatens Israel with total ban of poultry unless it marks products from settlements
2014-09-01,"Australia increases cigarette prices for the fourth time by almost 15% to $1 a cigarette. Expected to stop 60,000 smokers."
2014-09-01,Hundreds of Ukrainian troops 'massacred by pro-Russian forces as they waved white flags'
2014-09-01,"The Islamic States' next target is Pope Francis as the group deems Italy a highly strategic point of attack. An Italian intelligence agency found information that the ISIS is targeting the Pope as he bears false witness against Islam and serves as the ""greatest exponent of Christianity""."
2014-09-01,Anger As Annual Dolphin Hunt Begins In Japan
2014-09-01,Ethical bottled water companies find it hard to compete with Nestl and Coke
2014-09-01,"Ukraine Crisis: 'If I Want, I Will Take Kiev in Two Weeks', Putin Warns EU's Barroso"
2014-09-01,Merkel Says Europe Wont Allow Russia Attack on Ukraine
2014-09-01,Rotherham Police 'would not investigate child abuse for fear of breaching victim's human rights': Mother who found 125 names of alleged sex abusers on her young daughter's mobile phone claims police told her an investigation would breach the girl's human rights
2014-09-01,"The owner of Raju, the recently freed elephant that was tortured for 50 years, launches legal action to return him. Petition goes up to keep Raju free. The fight is on. (Link in article)"
2014-09-01,Hong Kong Braces for Protests as China Rules Out Full Democracy
2014-09-01,"Germany projected to post third straight budget surplus, after 16.1 billion surplus in first half of 2014"
2014-09-01,Ukraine says rescue under way after naval vessel attacked
2014-09-01,Grand Ayatollah Issues Fatwa Stating High Speed Internet is against Sharia
2014-09-01,Ukraine soldiers battling Russian tanks at Lugansk: Kiev
2014-09-01,Islamic State key financier was director of private Muslim primary school in Birmingham
2014-09-01,"President Obama To Attend Nato Summit, Will Become First Sitting US Pres. To Visit Wales"
2014-09-01,Dogs digging up and eating Ebola victim corpses may become asymptomatic carriers and potentially a new source of infection.
2014-09-01,Stonehenge: ghostly outlines of missing stones appear. Archaeologists can now say for certain that Stonehenge was once a complete circle after the dry weather revealed the ghostly outlines of missing stones
2014-09-01,Russia's Putin orders Gazprom to start gas pipeline construction to China
2014-09-01,Rickets is back in the UK because the poor can't afford good food.
2014-09-01,Separatists hit Ukrainian vessel in first naval attack of war
2014-09-01,"Thousands of Russian soldiers sent to Ukraine, reports suggest up to 15,000 soldiers have been sent to assist separatists since July 2014"
2014-09-01,Ukraine crisis: truth about MH17 must be revealed: Lavrov
2014-09-01,Man shoots up social welfare office in New Zealand
2014-09-01,25 Sunni Tribes Ready To Fight ISIS
2014-08-31,Food imports ban backfires on Russias economy | An embargo on food imports from the West has sent grocery prices in Russia soaring and greatly worsened inflation. The move is seen as a severe blow to the country's stagnating economy.
2014-08-31,ISIS gang-raping and selling off Yazidi women inside Iraqi prison.
2014-08-31,Nigerian diplomat who fled Ebola quarantine and spread the disease to the South East of the country may face Manslaughter charges.
2014-08-31,Ukraine and Russia 'very close' to war
2014-08-31,Polish president warns Germany of Putin's 'empire' ambitions
2014-08-31,Syrian crisis is biggest humanitarian emergency of our era - nearly 50% of all Syrians have been forced to flee their homes
2014-08-31,Finland plans large-scale military exercise on Russian border
2014-08-31,"President Putin urges talks on ""status"" of east Ukraine, says ""impossible to predict"" end of crisis - Russian media"
2014-08-31,UK considers ban on British-born jihadists in Iraq and Syria returning home
2014-08-31,"The North Korean authorities have declared the U.S as the chief culprit of counterfeit notes printing and circulation and the most hideous criminal state regarding the manufacturing of high quality counterfeit United States one hundred-dollar bills, known as supernotes."
2014-08-31,Iceland issues red alert after new eruption near volcano
2014-08-31,Fatah blasts Hamas for stealing humanitarian aid during Gaza operation
2014-08-31,"UK criticizes arms exports to Russia, then confirms its own"
2014-08-31,Russia demands MH17 black box data release
2014-08-31,"Israel appropriates 4,000 dunams of West Bank land"
2014-08-31,"British Muslim leaders issue anti-ISIS fatwa - forbids joining ""heretical, extremist organisation"""
2014-08-31,Russian politician beaten after report on soldier burials
2014-08-31,Iraq breaks Islamic State siege of Amerli
2014-08-31,Fighter's in Amerli vow to kill their wives and children if the city falls to IS
2014-08-31,Canadian troops off to Europe as part of NATO plan to rein in Putins ambitions
2014-08-31,Putin wants statehood for eastern Ukraine
2014-08-31,Beijing Rules Out Open Elections in Hong Kong
2014-08-31,"U.S. begins airdrops to town ringed by ISIS to protect an ethnic minority that one official says faces the threat of an ""imminent massacre"""
2014-08-31,Russian rouble falls to new low on sanctions threat
2014-08-31,Ukrainian forces in port city of Mariupol prepare for 'Russian-led' assault
2014-08-30,Britain wants Russia stripped of right to host World Cup 2018
2014-08-30,"Banker for Kim Jong-Un flees North Korea, seeks asylum."
2014-08-30,"A town north of Baghdad is surrounded by ISIS, but the residents decided to fight them off instead of flee"
2014-08-30,Russia effectively at war with Europe: Lithuanian president.
2014-08-30,"NATO would ""fully respect"" Ukraine application"
2014-08-30,"As President Barack Obama warns of stepped-up economic punishments against Russia for its military incursions inside Ukraine, U.S. sanctions have so far avoided one prominent financial institution: the $10 billion Russian Direct Investment Fund, which has partnered with brand-name American companies"
2014-08-30,U.S. to Send Troops and Weapons to Eastern Europe
2014-08-30,Sweden raises military alert level due to Ukraine crisis
2014-08-30,"Russia has up to 100 battle tanks fighting in Ukraine, UK believes"
2014-08-30,Putin Hopes Russia Won't Lose Right to Host World Cup 2018
2014-08-30,Seven NATO allies to create new rapid reaction force
2014-08-30,Russian security software vendor Kaspersky has yanked an article from its website arguing that people shouldn't fear state surveillance unless they had done something wrong in the first place.
2014-08-30,Ukraine Says Russian Tanks Have Attacked Town
2014-08-30,Poland bars overflight by Russian defence minister's plane - Russian agency
2014-08-30,Rasmussen: NATO Will Help the Ukrainian Army
2014-08-30,"Saudi king warns West will be jihadists' next target; ""If we ignore them, I am sure they will reach Europe in a month and America in another month"
2014-08-30,"Trigger that sets off ALS found, testing for treatment can begin soon."
2014-08-30,75 UN troops flee across Golan border into Israel to escape Syrian rebels
2014-08-30,Oil tanker with $100 million cargo goes missing off Texas coast
2014-08-30,Indigenous leaders have reacted angrily to Tony Abbotts assertion that white settlement was the defining moment in Australian history
2014-08-30,"Iraq conflict: Kurdish forces strike significant victories against ISIS as they recapture land, oilfields and the vital Mosul dam"
2014-08-30,British MP George Galloway has jaw and ribs broken in street attack
2014-08-30,"In response to recent Russian violations of Finnish airspace, Finnish Air Force ups readiness level and moves hardware to Helsinki-Vantaa airport; public reports Hornet sightings"
2014-08-30,"Myanmar's first census in more than 30 years has revealed that the country has 9 million fewer people than it thought | The count caused tension after about 800,000 members of a long-persecuted Muslim minority were denied the right to identify themselves as Rohingya."
2014-08-30,Scandal hit Rotherham 'deleted abuse files' - Senior staff from Rotherham Council ordered a raid on offices to delete and remove case files of abused girls
2014-08-29,Ukraine to seek Nato membership
2014-08-29,U.S. says Russia has 'outright lied' about Ukraine
2014-08-29,Russian Army Wives Are Protesting For Russia To Come Clean About Where Soldiers Are
2014-08-29,Russians start asking: are we at war?
2014-08-29,Ukraine Asserts Russian Invasion and Reinstitutes Draft
2014-08-29,"Obama on Russian invasion: ""Ukraine is not a member of NATO. But a number of those states that are close by are. And we take our Article Five commitments to defend each other very seriously."""
2014-08-29,"WildLeaks: a whistleblower platform for poaching and wildlife crimes | Many witnesses of poaching or other wildlife crimes remain silent, fearing retribution. An anonymous whistlebower platform aims to change that. The WildLeaks project is turning information into action on the ground"
2014-08-29,"Malaysia Airlines lays off 6,000 jobs"
2014-08-29,UK's terror threat level raised to 'severe'
2014-08-29,A volcanic eruption has started in Iceland's Brarbunga
2014-08-29,Renewable energy capacity grows at fastest ever pace- Green technologies now produce 22% of world's electricity
2014-08-29,Finland Upgrades NATO Ties After Condemning Russian Tactics
2014-08-29,"The idea that the United States or any outside power would perpetually defeat Isis, I think, is unrealistic, Obama said."
2014-08-29,Italy Steps Up Security Over Alleged ISIS Plot to Kill The Pope
2014-08-29,Putin likens Ukraine's forces to Nazis and threatens standoff in the Arctic
2014-08-29,Obama rules out US military action in Ukraine
2014-08-29,Gene studies of Ebola in Sierra Leone show virus is mutating fast
2014-08-29,MILF vows to stop spread of ISIS 'virus' in the Philippines
2014-08-29,"More than 100 Russian soldiers were killed in eastern Ukraine in a battle this month while helping pro-Russian separatists fight Ukrainian troops, two members of the Russian presidential human rights council said on Thursday, citing accounts of eye-witness and relatives of the dead."
2014-08-29,U.K. Wants EU to Block Russia From SWIFT Banking Network
2014-08-29,Senegal confirms its 1st case of Ebola
2014-08-29,The Islamic State's Terror Laptop of Doom - Buried In a Dell Computer Captured in Syria Are Lessons For Making Bubonic Plague Bombs and Fatwas On Using Weapons of Mass Destruction.
2014-08-29,'We anxiously await a Russian-produced map of Canada that shows an independent Quebec. It seems to be the way diplomacy is being conducted these days'.
2014-08-29,"Palestinian leader say Hamas caused prolonged war: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accused Hamas of needlessly extending fighting in the Gaza Strip, causing a high death toll."
2014-08-29,"Polish and Ukrainian scientists unearth 1,000 victims of Stalin in castle once used as secret police prison"
2014-08-28,NASA confirms that their rocket to Mars will have first launch in 2018
2014-08-28,"Russia has begun ""full scale invasion"" into Ukraine fighting now on two fronts."
2014-08-28,Russian state/military aircraft have violated Finnish airspace for the third time in a week today.
2014-08-28,Pablo Escobar's hitman released from prison after 22 years. Responsible for over 3k assasinations.
2014-08-28,NATO releases satellite imagery showing Russian combat forces inside Ukraine
2014-08-28,Putin's human rights adviser says Russia 'invading' Ukraine
2014-08-28,Lithuania calls for UN meeting over Russian invasion of Ukraine
2014-08-28,ISIS Says It's Burning Marijuana Fields in Syria
2014-08-28,"Superstitious People Are Dismembering Albinos in Tanzania - In one case, 3 men armed with machetes hacked a 15-yr-old girl's right arm off. A witch doctor had told them they could get $600 for it. Others are being killed to harvest their skin, bones, & hair."
2014-08-28,"The authorities in Brazil say they have dismantled a criminal organisation they believe was the ""biggest destroyer"" of the Amazon rainforest."
2014-08-28,India launches banking for the poor - expected to provide banking services for 90 million people by Jan 15 it is aimed to serve as channel directly to people thereby reducing corruption. Account holder gets to have zero balance without risk of closure and provides life and accident insurance
2014-08-28,Russian soldiers 'buried in secret'
2014-08-28,Merkel asks Putin to explain reports of Russian troops in Ukraine
2014-08-28,"47 UN peacekeepers 'abducted by al-Qaeda linked Syrian rebels', Fears for the safety of UN peacekeepers reported missing during fighting on the Golan Heights involving Al-Nusra Front, an al-Qaeda linked group"
2014-08-28,Ukraine crisis: T-72 tank shoots hole in Russian denial
2014-08-28,Poll: 89% of Gazans support rocket fire on Israel
2014-08-28,Hamas's political leader emerges after cease-fire to proclaim Jerusalem as the goal
2014-08-28,UN Security Council Meets on Ukraine Crisis
2014-08-28,MH370: satellite phone call revealed as Australia gives update on search
2014-08-28,Russia Says It Will Respond To NATO Troop Rotations In East
2014-08-28,Egyptian soldiers kill Palestinian exiting tunnel near Rafah
2014-08-28,U.N. calls emergency meeting on Ukraine crisis
2014-08-28,EU lawmakers are threatening to block a multi-billion dollar trade pact between Canada and the European Union because it would allow firms to sue governments if they breach the treaty.
2014-08-28,"A British nurse infected with Ebola may have caught the deadly virus after playing with a one-year-old boy whose mother had died in a treatment centre but who himself had initially tested negative for the disease, a medical colleague has said."
2014-08-28,"ISIS Is Recruiting Child Soldiers, Committing War Crime, As It Gains Ground In Aleppo"
2014-08-27,"Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, to go ahead with $244 million program that introduces religious chaplains to state schools and keeps secular workers out."
2014-08-27,Terror suspects may lose Norwegian citizenship: The government is considering withdrawing Norwegian citizenship from individuals taking part in terror activities and wars abroad.
2014-08-27,"North Korea calls US a ""human rights graveyard"" over Ferguson."
2014-08-27,American Douglas McAuthur McCain Killed Fighting for ISIS in Syria
2014-08-27,Irreversible Damage Seen From Climate Change in UN Leak
2014-08-27,"Great Barrier Reef: Australian MP Says He ""Got it Wrong"" on Dredging Spoil - Admits he was wrong to support dumping of 5m tons of sediment into the Reef's marine park. Writes open letter, saying he's looking at options to dump dredging spoil on land."
2014-08-27,All schools in Nigeria have been ordered to remain shut until 13 October as part of measures to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. The new academic year was due to start on Monday.
2014-08-27,"Rotherham sex abuse scandal: 1,400 children exploited by Asian gangs while authorities turned a blind eye - Telegraph"
2014-08-27,The Argentine government says it is revoking the operating license of a U.S. bank that has played a central role in the dispute that recently pushed the country into default
2014-08-27,Nato plans east European bases to counter Russian threat
2014-08-27,Astronomers: First Evidence Of Water Clouds Discovered Outside Solar System
2014-08-27,London Metropolitan Police chief apologises for officer's unlawful use of CS spray on protesters - Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe admits officer used excessive force when he sprayed teargas into faces of UK Uncut protesters
2014-08-27,"NATO Plans More Visible Presence in Eastern Europe: It is safe to say that nobody had expected Russia to grab land by force. We also saw a remarkable change in the Russian military approach and capability since, for instance, the Georgian war in 2008."
2014-08-27,"The U.S. Coast Guard fired at an Iranian fishing dhow in the Persian Gulf after the Iranian boat pointed a machine gun at the American crew, the Navy said on Tuesday."
2014-08-27,Egypt's Sisi says Qatar and Turkey are spending millions to spread chaos in Arab lands
2014-08-27,"16% of French Citizens Support ISIS, Poll Finds"
2014-08-27,"The Ukrainian military said on Wednesday that more Russian soldiers had crossed the border into eastern Ukraine, entering the small town of Amvrosiyivka in five armoured infantry carriers and a truck."
2014-08-27,Saudi Arabia busts cell of ISIS recruiters
2014-08-27,"Iran to military intervene in Iraq ""with no restrictions"" if ISIS captures holy Shiite cities of Karbala and Najaf"
2014-08-27,China Said to Consider $16 Billion Electric Vehicle-Charging Fund - Chinas central government last month set a target for electric cars to make up at least 30 percent of government vehicle purchases by 2016.
2014-08-27,Syrian rebels take over border crossing with Israel | i24news
2014-08-27,Advertising Standards Authority rules Peabodys clean coal ad misleading
2014-08-27,Ukraine's PM says Russia has plans to block gas flows to Europe
2014-08-27,"Iranian General Threatens Surprise Attack on Israel; wants to ""air its grievances with Israel on the 'battlefield' """
2014-08-27,IMF Chief Christine Lagarde Under Investigation Over Fraud Charges
2014-08-26,"A 22 yr old Australian Aboriginal woman who died in jail after twice seeking medical attention from authorities who deemed her healthy, was imprisoned over unpaid fines totalling just $1000"
2014-08-26,Russia admits its soldiers have been caught in Ukraine
2014-08-26,"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's approval rating hits 38%, down from 82% last month."
2014-08-26,Burger King Worldwide Inc. has agreed to acquire Tim Hortons Inc. for about $12.5 billion in a deal and move its headquarters to Canada.
2014-08-26,Malaysia Airlines flights are empty and the airline is burning $2Million per day
2014-08-26,"U.S. and Iran Hit ISIS, Ignore Each Other"
2014-08-26,"Russian soldiers captured in east Ukraine crossed border ""by accident"""
2014-08-26,ISIS Militant Who Loved Taking Photos With Severed Heads Killed In Iraq
2014-08-26,Finland Says NATO an Option After Russia Violates Border Laws
2014-08-26,"'Ban E-cig use indoors,' says WHO"
2014-08-26,As many as 112 Indian nationals suspected to have been exposed to the Ebola virus are expected to land in Mumbai from Liberia on seven different flights Tuesday.
2014-08-26,"Putting the full blame for Palestinian situation on Hamas, Saudi foreign minister calls for Arab nations to strengthen ties with Israel"
2014-08-26,US shocked at UAE air strikes in Libya
2014-08-26,NASAs New Horizons Spacecraft Crosses Neptune Orbit En Route to Historic Pluto Encounter
2014-08-26,"The Islamic State may be raising more than $2 million a day in revenue from oil sales, extortion, taxes and smuggling, according to U.S. intelligence officials and anti-terrorism finance experts."
2014-08-26,"Turkey struggles as 'lone gatekeeper' against Islamic State recruitment: ""The Islamic State is here to establish the law of God ... Turkey is not being ruled based on God's law but as a secular state."""
2014-08-26,"Pope Francis endorses use of force to ""stop"" unjust aggressor ISIS"
2014-08-26,"French Cabinet Is Dissolved, A Victim of Austerity Battles: The collapse of the French government on Monday exposed widening divisions both within Frances leadership, and Europe more broadly, over austerity policies that many now fault for threatening to tip the eurozone back into recession."
2014-08-26,Islamic States Own Photos Used to Find One of Its Training Camps
2014-08-26,Charred U.S. dollars fluttering in street after Israeli missile blows up car with alleged Hamas money man inside
2014-08-26,ISIS Demands $6.6M Ransom for 26-Year-Old American Woman.
2014-08-26,China Is Building a National Operating System to Cut Out Microsoft and Google
2014-08-26,Pakistan suffers heavy casualties as Indian govt gives troops free hand to retaliate against ceasefire violations.
2014-08-26,ISIS developing 'sophisticated drones to launch attacks on Israel and US'
2014-08-26,UK embassy apologises for 'burning White House' tweet
2014-08-25,Australia: Conservationists making last ditch plea to fed. govt to help prevent endangered black cockatoos from becoming extinct due to the felling of their pine forest - Perth people love their birds & this is an iconic species. We need the state & federal govt to take urgent action over this.
2014-08-25,"SAS, Delta Force, and Seal Team 6 forming hunter killer unit to 'smash Islamic State'"
2014-08-25,More than 720 whales have been harpooned in Norway in the most deadly hunting season since the Government began defying an international ban in 1993.
2014-08-25,"30 Metre Wide Sinkhole Appears in Durham, England - So deep its bottom can't be seen. Gaping void discovered by woman walking dog, still growing in size. ""The sound was phenomenal. We could hear rumbling & smashing & crashing from down below."""
2014-08-25,Congo declares Ebola outbreak
2014-08-25,"Indias Untouchables Still Being Forced to Collect Human Waste by Hand - Practice of forcing low-caste people in Indian communities to remove accumulated human waste from latrines is continuing despite legal prohibitions, according to new report."
2014-08-25,A column of Russian tanks and armored vehicles has crossed into southeastern Ukraine
2014-08-25,Mayor of London says Britons visiting Iraq or Syria should be presumed terrorists
2014-08-25,Assange scheduled to help Kim Dotcom drop 'bombshell' on NZ prime minister 5 days before the NZ elections.
2014-08-25,Iran Sends Tanks to Iraq to Fight ISIS
2014-08-25,Burger King in merger talks with Canada's Tim Hortons
2014-08-25,An American journalist kidnapped in Syria nearly two years ago has been freed and handed over to U.N. representatives after Qatari mediation helped lead to his release.
2014-08-25,ISIS captures major military base in Syria using a child suicide bomber
2014-08-25,"7.0 Earthquake in Tambo, Peru"
2014-08-25,70 percent of Israelis living near Gaza have left | i24news
2014-08-25,French PM presents government resignation
2014-08-25,'Sex superbug': Concerns over spread of highly resistant gonorrhoea strain found in Australia
2014-08-25,US 'set to launch air strikes' on senior Isis leaders in Syria
2014-08-25,Tunnels as tall as the Eiffel Tower discovered under Antarctic ice
2014-08-25,'Incredible' rate of polar ice loss alarms scientists
2014-08-25,'Widespread methane leakage' from ocean floor off US coast
2014-08-25,110 rockets fired at Israel since midnight as barrages continue
2014-08-25,Ukraine border guards clash with rebels near Russian border: military
2014-08-25,Hamas fires 23 mortars at crossing used for humanitarian aid supplies.
2014-08-25,"Jihad Made in Kosovo | Over the span of two days, 43 Islamic extremists were arrested in Kosovo. Dozens more are under watch, both at home and in the Middle East. As fears of terror attacks grow, Kosovo is clamping down"
2014-08-24,IS threatens to destroy world's largest buddhist temple. Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim country - pledges to protect the temple.
2014-08-24,"The president of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, has called the ISIS militants ""embarrassing"" to the religion and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism."
2014-08-24,Report: British intelligence has identified Foley's killer - Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary
2014-08-24,Iran 'shoots down Israeli drone'
2014-08-24,Indian Army rushes more troops to the border as Pakistan intensifies cross-border shelling
2014-08-24,US Gives Intelligence To Assad For Targetting ISIS Commanders
2014-08-24,"German kidnapped in Syria by ISIS militants has been released after a ""substantial consideration"""
2014-08-24,Five rockets fired from Syria hit Israel
2014-08-24,Unidentified jets attack targets in Tripoli
2014-08-24,"'Thanks, Putin!': Finland flooded with cut-price 'Putin cheese' as Russia turns away European exports"
2014-08-24,Rocket fired from Lebanon at northern Israel
2014-08-24,Separatists put Ukrainian captives on show in Donetsk
2014-08-24,Isis surges towards the borders of Turkey
2014-08-24,"Italy finds 19 boat migrants dead, saves over 3,500 since Friday: navy"
2014-08-24,"Briton infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone is being evacuated to the UK, the African country's health ministry says"
2014-08-24,Fleeing Iraqi Christians reveal horror of Islamic State
2014-08-24,Iranian Kurds Joining Fight Against IS
2014-08-24,Rice Bucket Challenge to help the poor in India
2014-08-24,Three wounded by mortar attack on Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza
2014-08-24,Ten injured at Malm anti-Nazi demonstration: A planned manifestation against the neo-Nazi Party of the Swedes spiralled out of control on Saturday in Malm as police and protesters clashed leading to several injuries.
2014-08-24,"Iceland's Bardarbunga Volcano Update: Eruption in Progress, Airspace Over Volcano Closed"
2014-08-24,"China shuts down the Beijing Independent Film Festival, seizing documents and films from organizers' office and hauling away two event officials"
2014-08-24,"Hundreds of Iranian troops crossed border to join battle against Islamic State group, sources tell Al Jazeera."
2014-08-24,PA slams Hamas executions of alleged collaborators
2014-08-24,WHO Announces First Ebola Infection Among Staff  Reports
2014-08-23,"Ebola death toll rises to 1,427, with 142 new cases and 77 deaths over the last two days."
2014-08-23,UK: Man jailed for 33 months for pirating Fast & Furious
2014-08-23,Small volcanic eruption has started in Iceland.
2014-08-23,London rapper turned jihadist believed to be under investigation for murder of American journalist in Syria
2014-08-23,India's Mars orbiter to reach red planet in 33 days: Isro
2014-08-23,Lithuania envoy killed in Ukraine - Lithuania says its honorary consul in the rebel-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine has been murdered by terrorists there
2014-08-23,"ISIS 'betraying' Muslims, says Calgary imam before hunger strike"
2014-08-23,"Russian Artillery Units Are Firing at Ukrainian Soldiers, NATO Says"
2014-08-23,"Mapped: 568 earthquakes in Iceland in a single day: 22 August, 2014."
2014-08-23,Scottish independence: 1m voters sign declaration in favour of yes vote
2014-08-23,Last Ebola-free region of Liberia falls to virus as the World Health Organization warned the fight against the worst-ever outbreak of the killer disease would take months
2014-08-23,White House Says Foley Beheading a Terrorist Attack Against U.S.
2014-08-23,"Swedish Nationalists Rise as Influx of Syrian Refugees Grows: The Sweden Democrats, a nationalist party that targets deep cuts to immigration, is poised to double its support in elections next month as Swedes prepare for a change of government."
2014-08-23,New law in Sierra Leone makes hiding Ebola patients illegal
2014-08-23,U.S. urges Russia to withdraw convoy from Ukraine
2014-08-23,"Perus Alarming Environmental Regression - New laws cozy to big mining & give police impunity quelling eco-protests. Strips Environment Ministry of rule over air, soil & water quality, ends power to create reserves exempt from mining & oil. In Dec, Peru to host 'UN Climate Change Conference'."
2014-08-23,"A fever of unidentified origin has killed 13 people in the northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo since August 11, the health minister said."
2014-08-23,15 Islamic State terrorists were killed overnight in another failed attempt to take over a Syrian Airbase. More than 150 jihadists were wounded in the assault.
2014-08-23,Belgium Burka Ban: Diplomat Rips off Qatari Princess' Niqab - Yahoo News UK
2014-08-23,President Barack Obamas effort to have Arabs play the lead role in combating the Islamic State terrorist group suffered a setback yesterday when Sunni lawmakers quit talks on forming a new Iraqi government after Shiite gunmen killed scores of worshipers at a Sunni mosque
2014-08-23,"Ebola outbreak: Number of deaths are massively underestimated, warns WHO"
2014-08-23,"Deputy nat'l security advisor says the US ""will not be restricted by borders"" in combating ISIS."
2014-08-23,Ebola crisis: Speed and extent of outbreak 'unprecedented'
2014-08-23,India makes 'liking' blasphemous content illegal [in Karnataka state]
2014-08-23,"India, Pakistan trade gunfire in Kashmir; 4 dead"
2014-08-22,"The president of Indonesia, the worlds most populous Muslim-majority country, deemed the actions of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group embarrassing to the religion and called upon Muslim leaders to unite in tackling extremism"
2014-08-22,"Orangutan experts plead for Australian food manufacturers to reject palm oil - Apes, elephants, rhinos & tigers at dire risk if unsustainable palm oil plantations allowed in Sumatran reserve"
2014-08-22,"Saudi Arabia has beheaded 19 people this month, including one for sorcery"
2014-08-22,"Mexico says 22,322 people now 'disappeared'"
2014-08-22,The Syrian Army killed at least 70 Islamic State terroristis in Syria in the last 48 hours.
2014-08-22,Muslims in Norway mobilize against extremists
2014-08-22,Hamas Kills 11 Suspected Informers for Israel
2014-08-22,"Israeli boy, 4, killed by Gaza mortar in south; Rocket sirens wail in Tel Aviv"
2014-08-22,Hamas admits kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank
2014-08-22,"Top U.S. military brass warns ISIS has apocalyptic, end-of-days plan that cant be stopped without attacks in Syria"
2014-08-22,"Hezbollah condemns beheading of American photojournalist James Foley, describing the killing as a savage crime executed by terrorist groups"
2014-08-22,"Chinese Jet Threatened U.S. Intelligence Aircraft: ""The defense officials said the Chinese Su-27 interceptor jet flew within 50 feet of the P-8 and then carried out a barrel roll over the top of the aircraft--a move described by officials as dangerous and meant to threaten the surveillance aircraft"""
2014-08-22,"Ukraine president pledges to 'talk peace' with Putin. ""The whole world is tired of the war."""
2014-08-22,Pentagon: Isis is 'beyond anything we've seen' and must be contained
2014-08-22,Man Cured Of Ebola With Experimental Drug: 'Today Is A Miraculous Day'
2014-08-22,Russia shuts down McDonald's branches in Moscow amid Ukraine row
2014-08-22,Father hurt saving kindergarten kids from Gaza rocket
2014-08-22,Iraqi Christians welcomed in France: Iraqi Christians reach France after fleeing Islamists
2014-08-22,"Seals carried tuberculosis across the Atlantic, gave it to humans. Disease was present in the Americas prior to European contact."
2014-08-22,Russia to move Ukraine aid convoy
2014-08-22,"Shi'ite militias open fire in Iraqi mosque, killing 30 Sunnis"
2014-08-22,"Mass surveillance of online communications allows Indian state to arrest people ""pre-emptively"" for piracy intent"
2014-08-22,"Russian aid trucks cross border into Ukraine, without Kyiv's approval: ""Frustrated by a week of delays, Russia sent dozens of aid trucks into rebel-held eastern Ukraine on Friday without Kyiv's approval, saying its patience had worn out with the Ukrainian government's stalling tactics"""
2014-08-22,NSA and GCHQ agents 'leak Tor bugs' - The Tor Project says it believes some NSA and GCHQ agents are surreptitiously leaking it information to protect anonymity on the net
2014-08-22,The British jihadi who decapitated the U.S. journalist is thought to be an educated Londoner named John.
2014-08-21,ISIS Spokesman Who Promised To 'Raise The Flag Of Allah In The White House' Is Killed
2014-08-21,Canadian government orders scientist not to disclose extent of polar melting
2014-08-21,U.S. military announces 14 airstrikes in Iraq following James Foley execution
2014-08-21,British Right-Wing party (UKIP) calls to strip Islamic State militants of their British citizenship
2014-08-21,"North Korean Internet users download American Porn, Violent video games and British TV show Top Gear"
2014-08-21,Suicide Tourism: Terminally ill Britons now make up a nearly one quarter of users of suicide clinics in Switzerland. Only Germany has a higher numbers of suicide tourists visiting institutions to end their own lives
2014-08-21,"A 111-year-old Japanese national has been certified as the world's oldest man. With this, Japan now boasts of having the world's oldest man and woman"
2014-08-21,Confirmed: Microbial life found half mile below Antarctic ice sheet
2014-08-21,Earth's atmosphere contains an unexpectedly large amount of an ozone-depleting compound from an unknown source decades after the compound was banned worldwide
2014-08-21,"A 70-year-old Australian grandfather has become the oldest person to swim the English Channel, celebrating his feat by having a couple of beers ""for medicinal purposes"""
2014-08-21,Gaza rocket fire hits new heights: 168 launched in one day
2014-08-21,"In first, Hamas official takes credit for kidnap and murder of Israeli teens"
2014-08-21,Obama addresses James Foleys beheading by ISIS: No just God would stand for what they did
2014-08-21,James Foley death sparks manhunt to find British jihadist
2014-08-21,Israel kills three top Hamas commanders
2014-08-21,"Shortly after Ugandas controversial Anti-Homosexuality Act was struck down by the courts on a technicality, a similar proposed bill in neighboring Kenya seeking harsh punishments for homosexuals was found unconstitutional"
2014-08-21,"Ivory poachers killing elephants faster than they are being born, a new study says"
2014-08-21,"Growing fears that Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano could be about to erupt, with around 1,000 earthquakes in the past 24 hours:"
2014-08-21,Three more Tibetans have died of untreated gunshot wounds after Chinese authorities fired on peaceful protesters last week in Sichuan Province and refused to treat the dozens who were injured and detained
2014-08-21,Ecuador president confirms that the country has granted asylum to Julian Assange
2014-08-21,Three top Hamas commanders killed in Israeli strike
2014-08-21,Police warn sharing James Foley killing video is a crime under Britain's anti-terror laws. Even viewing the video may be a criminal offense.
2014-08-21,Hundreds Rally in Ireland After Rape Victim Says Denied Abortion
2014-08-21,Israel-Gaza conflict: Anti-Semitic incidents 'up 500%' in UK since start of bombardment of Gaza
2014-08-21,James Foley captors first asked for $135 million ransom
2014-08-20,"US Journalist, James Foley, beheaded by ISIS ""Warning to America""."
2014-08-20,"Maya Cities Found in Yucatan2 massive cities hidden by dense vegetation. ""In the jungle you can be 600 ft from a large site & not suspect it."" Both feature plazas surrounded by palace-like buildings & pyramids, one 65 ft high, & ball courts. Stele with date 'November 29, AD 711' found."
2014-08-20,"Isis fighter who beheaded US journalist appears to be British, Hammond says"
2014-08-20,The Islamic State Executes Female Dentist for Treating Men
2014-08-20,"Iran to produce 400,000 electric motorcycles to help reduce air pollution. Once the plan is implemented, only electric motorcycles will be allowed on the streets of central Tehran."
2014-08-20,German development minister Gerd Mueller accuses Qatar of financing ISIS
2014-08-20,Chinese coal consumption just fell for first time this century
2014-08-20,The computers of high-ranking officials in agencies involved in the MH370 investigation were hacked and classified information was stolen.
2014-08-20,Sierra Leone's 365 Ebola deaths traced back to one healer
2014-08-20,North Korea says US Secretary of State John Kerry is a wild dog with a 'hideous lantern jaw'
2014-08-20,Sea plankton discovered outside space station
2014-08-20,"Muhammad is now the most popular babies name in England and Wales, when its three main spelling variations are counted."
2014-08-20,"Earth sliding into ecological debt earlier and earlier, campaigners warn. World has already exhausted a years supply of natural resources in less than eight months, Global Footprint Network says"
2014-08-20,Qatar threatened Hamas leader Khaled Mashal that it would expel him if Hamas accepts the Egyptian ceasefire truce deal
2014-08-20,"ISIS Threatens the life of another U.S Journalist, Steven Sotloff, after alleged beheading of James Foley"
2014-08-20,Israel Reports HAMAS Military Chief Killed In Airstrike
2014-08-20,Changes to Australian Security Laws Will Make Illegally Obtained Evidence Permisable in Court
2014-08-20,200-Year-Old Alcohol Found in Shipwreck Is Still Drinkable
2014-08-20,Reporting from Gaza: Criticism of Hamas slowly growing among population
2014-08-20,Activists paint Moscow's 'Stalin Tower' with Ukraine colours
2014-08-20,Curiosity rover in danger as wheels get punctured and badly damaged due to harsh terrain
2014-08-20,'He deserves to die like bin Laden': Israel defends air strike that killed Hamas leader's wife and baby son as militant group warns: 'You've opened the gates of hell'
2014-08-20,#ISISMediaBlackout goes viral following purported execution of James Foley.
2014-08-20,Hamas claims responsibility for the rocket strike on central Israel. They claim they used a Fajr-5 rocket.
2014-08-20,Saudi Arabia executes four for hashish possession
2014-08-19,Two sisters who kidnapped 13 young children and forced them to work as pickpockets before murdering them are to become the first women to be executed in India.
2014-08-19,Russia Wants Bulgarians to Stop Vandalizing Soviet Monuments To Look Like American Superheroes
2014-08-19,"100,000 elephants killed in Africa between 2010 and 2012, study finds"
2014-08-19,"Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, said on Tuesday the militant groups Islamic State and al-Qaida were ""enemy number one of Islam"" and not in any way part of the faith."
2014-08-19,Israel: 'Rockets From Gaza Break Ceasefire'
2014-08-19,Pope: I have only two or three years left to live
2014-08-19,"North Korea Moves Tanks, Armored Vehicles to Chinese Border"
2014-08-19,Air France cabin crew are so concerned about the threat of the Ebola epidemic that unions have started a petition calling for flights to be stopped to those West African countries most affected by the disease.
2014-08-19,Egypt calls for restraint in Ferguson
2014-08-19,"Three rockets explode in Israel, hours before truce to expire - Diplomacy and Defense"
2014-08-19,"ISIS to America: ""We Will Drown All of You In Blood"" for airstrikes."
2014-08-19,"Hezbollah kills local Islamic State leader in Qalamoun, near the Lebanon-Syria border"
2014-08-19,Yazidis haunted by cries for help as militants bury victims alive
2014-08-19,Liberian army told to 'shoot on sight' anyone crossing border as search for Ebola patients continues
2014-08-19,Liberia: all 17 runaway Ebola patients found
2014-08-19,"No longer pinned down by U.S. air cover, Taliban fighters are attacking Afghan military posts in larger numbers with the aim of taking and holding ground  a shift from the hit-and-run strikes with posses of gunmen, explosives and suicide bombers"
2014-08-19,An American Tribe Wants a German Museum to Return Native American Scalps - The German Museums Association says that scalps are not subject to the same ethical guidelines that govern other human remains
2014-08-19,"Five weeks out from an election, New Zealand is hit by a ""Watergate"" scandal implicating the Prime Minister."
2014-08-19,"Montreal firefighters trash city hall over pension dispute, police watch from sidelines"
2014-08-19,"Australian Politician Clive Palmer releases Tirade, referring to the Chinese as ""Mongrels"" and ""Bastards"". China responds by labelling the verbal attack as ""Absurd and irresponsible"". Possible tensions for Trade Agreement between the countries that was set to be tabled by the end of the year."
2014-08-19,"US should mind its own problems, not meddle in others affairs  Russian FM"
2014-08-19,Europe 'shot itself in foot' with Russia sanctions: Hungary PM
2014-08-19,"Hazelnut prices soar, fuelling fears of Nutella shortage"
2014-08-19,Nigerian woman suspected of Ebola dies in UAE on way to India
2014-08-19,China liquor reported spiked with Viagra
2014-08-18,Residents of Beijing can use one of the citys 34 newly installed recycling machines to trade empty bottles for phone card rebates or free public transit passes.
2014-08-18,"Israel bars Amnesty, Human Rights Watch workers from Gaza"
2014-08-18,Canadian Doctors decline request from Health Canada to back Anti-Marijuana campaign.
2014-08-18,Sweet victory for Mexico beekeepers as Monsanto loses GM permit
2014-08-18,Saudi prince robbed in Paris after motorcade held at gunpoint
2014-08-18,Six LGBT persons have been stoned to death in rural Uganda -- They were killed by stoning. One who survived (still breathing after stoning) was burnt alive using kerosene/paraffin and a match box
2014-08-18,"For 15 years, over $77 million in counterfeit $100 bills have flooded into the US from Israel."
2014-08-18,Julian Assange 'to leave Ecuadorian embassy' and could surrender to police
2014-08-18,Australian authorities are failing to protect Great Barrier Reef because of Australian PM Tony Abbott's approval of the dumping of dredge soil
2014-08-18,E-cigarettes set to be banned in India soon
2014-08-18,Israel may be accused of war crimes by UN council
2014-08-18,Gaza's ruling Hamas placed dozens of activists from the rival Fatah movement under house arrest during the Gaza war and shot several in the legs for not staying indoors
2014-08-18,Plans for one of Australias largest solar power stations scrapped - Decision to suspend Mildura solar power station comes amid speculation renewable energy target may be scrapped
2014-08-18,British Muslim wants to renounce citizenship and move to the Islamic State
2014-08-18,Inequality grows as pay gap for bosses and workers is higher than ever
2014-08-18,Ukraine's flag raised over Luhansk
2014-08-18,"Russian sanctions create surplus of European produce | Russian sanctions have left farmers in Europe high and dry. If they put their produce on EU markets, prices would likely crash. So what is to become of this year's harvest?"
2014-08-18,Biggest oil discovery in 30 years found off Western Australia coast
2014-08-18,"Liberia confirms West Point patients missing: Following earlier denials, Liberia has admitted that 17 suspected Ebola patients are ""missing"" after a health centre in the capital was looted. The gov't had sought to reassure people, saying all the patients had been moved to another health facility."
2014-08-18,U.S. firm helped the spyware industry build a potent digital weapon for sale overseas
2014-08-18,Australian Teenage supporter of Islamic State arrested for hate crime.
2014-08-18,Israel's Shin Bet security service said Monday it had thwarted a Hamas coup attempt in the West Bank aimed at toppling Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
2014-08-18,Torture And Rendition: Diplomats 'Trying To Censor' US Senate Report On British Role In CIA Activities
2014-08-18,"A powerful volcano, Brarbunga, might erupt in the Highlands of Iceland. The Icelandic Met Office has upgraded its aviation alert status to orange, meaning that a ""volcano shows heightened or escalating unrest with increased potential of eruption."""
2014-08-18,Hamas in West Bank 'planned to topple Palestinian Authority'
2014-08-17,39 Endangered African Vultures Killed by Poison - Now more endangered than rhinos. The scavengers are hated by poachers since they alert rangers to their presence. Poachers lace kills with poisons so birds die before they can take to skies again.
2014-08-17,Sweden celebrates 200 years of peace
2014-08-17,US-backed Kurds retake Mosul dam from ISIS.
2014-08-17,Ebola patients flee from Liberian isolation centre
2014-08-17,"Unprecedented - the United Nations has declared four of the world's humanitarian crises ""Level 3,"" the UN's highest designation - Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, and the Central African Republic."
2014-08-17,"Islamic State militants could grow strong enough to target people on the streets of Britain unless action is taken, David Cameron has warned."
2014-08-17,Ukraine recognizes Russian cargo as humanitarian aid for war-weary civilians in the eastern part of the country
2014-08-17,Scotland Independence: Yes vote advancing despite currency fears
2014-08-17,US: No Confirmation on Reports Russian Military Entered Ukraine - The White House says it cannot confirm reports that Ukrainian troops destroyed a Russian military convoy that had allegedly crossed into eastern Ukraine.
2014-08-17,Hamas: Israel Will Face a Long War If Palestinian Demands Not Met
2014-08-17,Ukrainian fighter jet shot down
2014-08-17,"One of Iceland's biggest and most dangerous volcanoes, Brarbunga, could be waking up from a long sleep."
2014-08-17,Islamic State Commander Says Turkey Instrumental in Success
2014-08-17,"Senior official: Israel has lifted ban on Gaza fishing zone, allowed fisherman to go out 3 miles from shore"
2014-08-17,"Islamic State executes 700 members of Syrian tribe, mostly civilians - report  RT News"
2014-08-17,"The Islamic State group has executed 700 members of a tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria during the past two weeks, the majority of them civilians. The killing spree happened in several villages of Sheitat in Deir Ezzor province, where the al-Sheitat tribe are from."
2014-08-17,Israeli court allows protesters to picket Palestinian-Jewish wedding
2014-08-17,Ukraine Plays Down Significance of Destruction of Russian Military Convoy
2014-08-17,"Human Rights Watch: Egypt likely committed ""crimes against humanity"" in 2013 protest dispersal that killed 1,150 in one day"
2014-08-17,Rhinos airlifted to safety: South Africa to evacuate up to 500 animals from poaching hotspot including endangered black rhino
2014-08-17,Scottish independence: Australian PM Tony Abbott's comments 'offensive'
2014-08-17,Tony Abbott brands almost half of the Scottish population as 'Enemies Of Freedom'
2014-08-17,Pro-peace rally held in Tel Aviv amid Gaza truce talks
2014-08-17,"Africa's Population Could Hit 4 Billion By 2100, Says UNICEF"
2014-08-17,Greenland Glaciers Collapsing much Faster than Thought
2014-08-16,"In Australia, Businesses are Getting Hit with a $500 Fee Designed to Kill Solar Power - The fee makes it so businesses in Queensland have no monetary incentive to lower their electricity consumption by installing solar panels, industry players say."
2014-08-16,"In the biggest speech of the year, and his first major address, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi chose to speak at length about the scourge of rape and violence against women, breaking a long silence on the matter and raising the issue to major prominence"
2014-08-16,Brazil's Air Force says the black box recovered from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed a presidential candidate does not contain a recording of the flight.
2014-08-16,"Germany Reaches New Levels of Greendom, Gets 31 Percent of Its Electricity From Renewables - As of 2011, one German village already began producing at least 300 percent more energy than it needs"
2014-08-16,"First African military aircraft takes to the skies, making aviation history"
2014-08-16,"Mexico Acid Leak Leaves Orange River, Toxic Water - 20,000 people left without water since a massive sulfuric acid leak last week at copper mine, one of largest in the world."
2014-08-16,'ISIS want to impregnate Yazidi women and smash our blond bloodline': Fears are growing for the 300 Yazidi women reportedly kidnapped by Islamic State fighters last week amid claims they would be used to bear children to break up the ancient sect's bloodline.
2014-08-16,"Iranian president tweets bare-headed photo of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields medal, seen as the Nobel prize for mathematics"
2014-08-16,"Nigeria fires 16,000 doctors in midst of rising Ebola concerns"
2014-08-16,Two players die at world chess championship in Norway
2014-08-16,"Islamic State bans Philosophy, Chemistry from Syria Schools"
2014-08-16,German Federal Intelligence Service taps Hillary Clinton's phone call
2014-08-16,Iraq Sunni tribes take up arms against jihadists
2014-08-16,"Illegal immigrants discovered in shipping container, one dead: A total of 35 people, including seven children were found severely dehydrated and hypothermic inside a container on docks near to London."
2014-08-16,"Rebel leader in Ukraine says forces bolstered by '1,200 troops trained in Russia'"
2014-08-16,Merkel tells Putin to stop sending arms to Ukraine
2014-08-16,Yazidi villagers 'massacred' in Iraq
2014-08-16,Iraq conflict: Canada to fly weapons to Kurdish forces battling ISIS
2014-08-16,Ebola's spread to US is 'inevitable' says health chief - Telegraph
2014-08-16,North Korea rumored to have bought land in Zimbabwe
2014-08-16,Russia to build atomic power station in Jordan
2014-08-16,Victims of HAMAS Suicide Bombings Sue Jordanian Bank In New York For Funding Terrorism
2014-08-16,Boko Haram abducts nearly 100 boys and men during village raid
2014-08-16,American couple arrested in grisly Bali murder could face death by firing squad
2014-08-16,"Hamas considers truce, EU offers to police borders"
2014-08-15,It could be the most exotic material on the planet. Seven particles of dust brought back to Earth by a spacecraft nearly a decade ago appear to have come from beyond our solar system. The specks have all the hallmarks of being created in interstellar space.
2014-08-15,"Malaysian police have arrested a bank officer and her husband over allegations they stole more than $30,000 from the accounts of four passengers aboard missing flight MH370"
2014-08-15,Two female Italian aid workers who ignored their parents' pleas and snuck into Syria have been kidnapped by Islamist militants
2014-08-15,"Hezbollah describes Islamic State as a growing ""monster"" that could threaten Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other Gulf states."
2014-08-15,"Ebola moving too fast, doctors say"
2014-08-15,Russian military vehicles enter Ukraine as aid convoy stops short of border
2014-08-15,NATO confirm Russia 'incursion' in Ukraine
2014-08-15,Hamas spokesperson: We deported foreign journalists for filming missile launches
2014-08-15,Russia bans Ukrainian language from schools in Crimea
2014-08-15,"World's Rarest Dolphins Under Threat from Oil Exploration in New Zealand Sanctuary - The govt has to listen to the international scientific experts & give this species a shot at survival."" Govt accused of threatening survival of Mauis dolphins, but it disagrees."
2014-08-15,Hong Kong legal body votes to oust its pro-Beijing president
2014-08-15,"Finland's President Niinisto to Putin: ""Sanctions bite both, let's discuss Ukraine"""
2014-08-15,Second group of Amazonian Indians makes contact with outside world
2014-08-15,China rights lawyer malnourished after prison; can no longer speak intelligibly
2014-08-15,Vatican Approves US Airstrikes in Iraq
2014-08-15,"Serbian mercenaries fighting in eastern Ukraine | Serbian fighters fight side by side with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. According to Belgrade, they're not the only ones active in Ukraine, either."
2014-08-15,Rosneft asks Putin for $42bn loan
2014-08-15,Russia amending list of banned EU products - Lactose-free milk products and specialty foods for food-allergy sufferers are being taken off the list of forbidden agricultural imports from EU countries into Russia.
2014-08-15,Israel Braces for War Crimes Inquiries on Gaza
2014-08-15,Russian aid convoy checked; military vehicles mass near Ukraine
2014-08-15,"Venezuela wants to offload Citgo, its American refinery and pipelines unit. It may be worth up to $15 billion, but the country will sell it for less because Maduros administration is running out of cash."
2014-08-15,Poland puts on biggest military parade in years as tensions rise next door in Ukraine
2014-08-15,Pastafarian- B.C. man is fighting the system for not allowing him to wear his religious headgear (colander) for his licence.
2014-08-15,"Crackdown on Fish Poaching in Wales Nets 139 Arrests in 1st 4 Months - Biggest concern is ""foul hooking"", which involves dragging hooks through water at high speed trying to impale fish, as it leaves more fish damaged & dying than are brought to shore"
2014-08-15,Ukrainians in Czech Republic called up to serve in war
2014-08-14,A group of North Korean defectors held by China on the Laos border is released to South Korea rather than repatriated in sign of a Chinese policy change
2014-08-14,"A Russian convoy carrying ""humanitarian aid"" has turned away from its route towards a confrontation with government officials at the Ukrainian border - and is now heading straight for rebel-held areas."
2014-08-14,"Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Passengers Bank Accounts Being Accessed Unknowingly, Money Goes Missing- Report"
2014-08-14,4 Billion Gallons of Mining Waste Pour Into Pristine B.C. Waterways
2014-08-14,Coal generation down as Germany breaks yet another renewables record. Green electricity meets 28 per cent of demand in first half of 2014
2014-08-14,"Two hours before ceasefire set to end, and with parties still working in Cairo to extend lull, Gaza militants break truce, fire rockets at Israel."
2014-08-14,"Pesticide Ban Call to Save Bees - 'Scottish Wildlife Trust' reports 60% decline in bumblebees. Hoverflies & butterflies also at threat. Govt says it's ""committed to taking a precautionary approach on the use of neonicotinoids""."
2014-08-14,US ground troops land on Iraq's Mt Sinjar to evacuate trapped Yazidis
2014-08-14,"The Australian government's chief business adviser says too much time has been spent focusing on global warming and as a result Australians are ""ill prepared"" to deal with the prospect of global cooling. He also states that global warming only persists because science has been made a religion."
2014-08-14,"Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak welcomes family of US soldier who died shielding a Pole from suicide bomber in Afghanistan. Father of US soldier: ""I feel that he is not only a Polish soldier, but my brother and part of our family."""
2014-08-14,German public debt falls for first time in post-war era
2014-08-14,Israeli official confirms US nixed arms sale to Israel
2014-08-14,Ukraine rebel head Strelkov 'quits'
2014-08-14,"ISIS Shifts Tactics As US Bombings Begin, 'Blend Into' Population"
2014-08-14,"Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid in apparent shot at Netanyahu: ""Crisis in US-Israel relations is a very concerning trend... Sometimes, you just have to know how to say thank you."""
2014-08-14,Pro-ISIS leaflets handed out on Oxford Street (London)
2014-08-14,Seoul: N. Korea fires projectiles as pope visits
2014-08-14,"Restrictions on gay men donating blood outdated, says Tory MP"
2014-08-14,SAS sent in to Iraq as US troops land on Mount Sinjar
2014-08-14,UPDATE 1-One child killed and two wounded in Sinai rocket attack
2014-08-14,"Hello Kitty, Japan's ambassador of cute, is on a government-funded mission to space: The project to launch Sanrio Co Ltd's white cat with a pink bow into orbit is part of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's push to promote Japan's high-tech industry and engineer economic growth."
2014-08-14,"Nigeria fears Ebola spread to east by infected nurse who ""disobeyed medical instructions"""
2014-08-14,Putin says Russia Should Aim to Sell Energy in Roubles
2014-08-14,Norwegian Journalist: Hamas Expels Reporters Over Critical Coverage
2014-08-14,Gaza conflict: Israel and Hamas agree to extend ceasefire by five days
2014-08-13,"South Koreas firstand onlyastronaut just quit her job, ending the countrys manned space program"
2014-08-13,"NSA was responsible for 2012 Syrian internet blackout, Snowden says"
2014-08-13,"Iranian is first woman to nab highest prize in maths: The Int'l Mathematical Union has revealed the winners of the 2014 Fields medals, considered the highest honour in mathematics. The 4 young medallists  including Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female winner since the prizes were established in 1936"
2014-08-13,"ISIS brutally subdues rebellion in Syria, beheading and crucifying tribesmen who resisted their rule"
2014-08-13,"Australia open to sending troops to Iraq to prevent genocide by Islamic State, Protecting people from murder at the hands of ISIL terrorists is a humanitarian cause ...and Australia has a long and proud tradition of assisting people in need"
2014-08-13,Brazil presidential candidate Campos in plane crash: source
2014-08-13,"Leader of the Conservative People's Party in Denmark: 'I'm gay, so what?'"
2014-08-13,Thorium-based 300 MW nuclear power plant in India to be commissioned in 2015
2014-08-13,"Egypt's top religious authority condemns ISIS describing it as a corrupt, extremist organisation that is damaging Islam"
2014-08-13,Russia accepts Ukrainian stipulations to hand over convoy of aid trucks to Red Cross before they enter country
2014-08-13,"Canadians spend more on taxes than on food, clothes and housing, study finds"
2014-08-13,Islamic State Supporters Hand Out Leaflets in Central London Promising 'Dawn of a New Era'
2014-08-13,"Archaeologists uncover Greece's biggest ancient tomb - The official said the Amphipolis site, about 65 miles north-east of Greece's second-biggest city, Thessaloniki, appeared to be the largest ancient tomb to have been discovered in Greece."
2014-08-13,280-truck Russian aid convoy set to reach Ukraine border within hours
2014-08-13,Israel furious as UN unveils Gaza probe team
2014-08-13,Australias Treasurer Joe Hockey claims fuel tax increase wont affect poor people because they dont have cars
2014-08-13,"A landslide in eastern Switzerland has derailed a train in a ""serious accident"", police say, amid reports that carriages have plunged into a ravine."
2014-08-13,"China arrests North Korean defectors near Laos border, the group which includes women and children will be deported back to North Korea"
2014-08-13,UN report finds Gaza construction funding incorrectly handled by non-staff UN personnel
2014-08-13,'US is sending 130 more military advisors to northern Iraq to help Kurds fight militants'
2014-08-13,Hundreds of PKK Kurdish fighters poured into Iraq on Friday turning the tides against ISIS
2014-08-13,"Islamic State seizes towns near Turkish border -- ""a significant expansion."""
2014-08-13,"AP video journalist, translator killed in Gaza"
2014-08-13,"UK to suspend military exports to Israel, if fighting in Gaza resumes"
2014-08-13,French town is resistant to changing their name from 'La-mort-aux-Juifs' which means 'Death to Jews'
2014-08-12,Norway joins the sanctions against Russia
2014-08-12,Rob Ford says threatening email has given him 12 hours to resign or City Hall will be blown up
2014-08-12,"Icelandic Girls Can't be Called Harriet, Govt Tells Family- Authorities reluctant to renew passport of Harriet, 10, as name is not on approved list of 3,565"
2014-08-12,'Miracle' birth of world's first healthy panda triplets in China - Telegraph
2014-08-12,A Spanish missionary who contracted the Ebola virus while working in West Africa has died in hospital in Madrid.
2014-08-12,Swedish dad takes gamer kids to warzone
2014-08-12,Madagascars National Assembly has quietly adopted a cybercrime law that provides for prison sentences for anyone insulting or defaming a state representative online
2014-08-12,"ISIS was too brutal for Osama bin Laden, letter reveals"
2014-08-12,"U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil began drilling in Russias Arctic on Saturday, despite Western sanctions imposed on its Russian partner Rosneft, and was hailed by Russias president as an model of cooperation."
2014-08-12,280 humanitarian aid trucks have left Russia for war-torn eastern Ukraine.
2014-08-12,Russian aid convoy 'will not be admitted into Ukraine'
2014-08-12,Israel allows Jews to immigrate with same-sex spouses
2014-08-12,RAF fighter jets head for Iraq as Islamic State warns world 'has seen nothing yet'
2014-08-12,China to start direct sales of fruit and vegetables to Russia
2014-08-12,"Israel-Gaza conflict: Petition to send Royal Navy hospital ship to Gaza reaches 50,000"
2014-08-12,"India to add 10,000 MW of wind energy every year."
2014-08-12,"To date, more than 170 health care workers have been infected with ebola"
2014-08-12,"Ebola: Nigeria now has 10 confirmed cases, 177 under surveillance"
2014-08-12,A U.S.-designated terrorist group is saving Yazidis and battling the Islamic State
2014-08-12,"Chinese city invests 5 million yuan ($813,000) building bridges for migrating macaque monkeys threatened by a reservoir"
2014-08-12,Israel To Allow Gay Jews To Immigrate With Non-Jewish Same-Sex Spouses
2014-08-12,U.N. Names Panel to Investigate War Crimes in Gaza; Israel Slams It
2014-08-12,"Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid calls on the international community to create a massive aid package for Gaza conditioned on the Palestinian Authority returning to power. Adds that if Hamas were removed, the blockade would end."
2014-08-12,Israel says no white phosphorous fired in Gaza this time
2014-08-12,Google Is Backing a New $300 Million High-Speed Internet Trans-Pacific Cable System between the US and Japan
2014-08-11,"At least half of the 40,000 people besieged by jihadists on a mountaintop in northern Iraq have escaped in the past 24 hours, aided by Kurdish rebels who crossed from Syria to rescue them."
2014-08-11,"The U.S. military has systematically covered up or disregarded abundant and compelling evidence of war crimes, torture, and unlawful killings in Afghanistan as recently as last year, according to a report by Amnesty International"
2014-08-11,Ukrainian government forces are preparing for the final stage of recapturing the city of Donetsk from pro-Russian separatist rebels.
2014-08-11,"North Korea plans report on human rights: North Korea, unhappy with a damning, in-depth United Nations sponsored study of human rights conditions in the country, is planning its own assessment."
2014-08-11,Ambulance service in New Zealand fails to respond to critically ill patient for 1 hour and 10 minutes - despite being 5 minutes away from Auckland Hospital. The patient works for one of New Zealand's largest news agencies.
2014-08-11,Kurdish forces retake 2 towns from ISIS in northern Iraq
2014-08-11,NATO sees 'high probability' of Russian invasion as Ukraine troops close on Donetsk
2014-08-11,Iraq crisis: US to arm Kurds - live updates
2014-08-11,"Ban Ki-moon secretly worked with Israel to undermine UN report into Gaza war crimes, says WikiLeaks"
2014-08-11,Australian MP listed as secret KGB informant in Russian archives
2014-08-11,"An artillery shell landed in a high-security prison in the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, sparking a riot in which 106 inmates escaped, local officials say."
2014-08-11,"Nuclear reactors closed after faults found at north England power plants - Defects found in boiler units by inspectors lead to 4 reactors being taken offline, 2 at Heysham 1 & 2 at Hartlepool"
2014-08-11,North Korea launch surfing tours on east coast
2014-08-11,Head of Human Rights Watch denied entry after landing in Cairo ahead of release of report on mass killing of protesters.
2014-08-11,"20,000 Iraqis besieged by Isis escape from mountain after US air strikes"
2014-08-11,"Hillary Clinton blasts 'unfair' world reaction over Gaza, cites anti-Semitism as factor"
2014-08-11,Police want right to see medical records without consent
2014-08-11,Report: Hamas Executes Dozens of 'Terror Tunnel' Diggers
2014-08-11,Fracking campaigners criticise 'censored' report on house prices. Government urged to publish sections cut from study into impact of shale gas wells on local communities
2014-08-11,Desperate Christians in Iraq beg UK and US to send in troops
2014-08-11,"Ukraine says Russia has massed 45,000 troops on joint border | Reuters"
2014-08-11,Israel Finds Silent Backing Among Arab Nations Hostile to Hamas
2014-08-11,"The U.S. failed to properly investigate civilian killings, including possible war crimes, which occurred during its military operations in Afghanistan, the international rights group Amnesty International said Monday. NATO said it would review the report."
2014-08-11,Erdogan wins Turkey's presidential election: Unofficial results show PM won Turkey's first directly elected poll with 52 percent as his main rival concedes victory.
2014-08-11,US Bombs ISIS Again
2014-08-10,NSA Tried To Delete Court Transcript In Lawsuit Over Deleting Evidence
2014-08-10,Iraqi Militants Execute 500: Some Buried Alive
2014-08-10,Poland asks US to import apples banned by Russia
2014-08-10,"Iraqi Kurdish president asks world for weapons to fight Islamic State, ""We are not fighting a terrorist organisation, we are fighting a terrorist state"""
2014-08-10,Ebola Patient Zero Was A Toddler
2014-08-10,Pope Francis: ISIS Brutality In Iraq 'Offends God And Deeply Offends Humanity'
2014-08-10,Sunni And Shiite British Imams Denounce ISIS Together
2014-08-10,Estonia's president accuses Switzerland of acting in its own self interest by not imposing sanctions against Russia and gaining an advantage for its banking sector
2014-08-10,"Hamas Riddles Former Spokesman With Bullet Holes, Dumps Body at Hospital, Then Blames Israel for Death"
2014-08-10,Wave of anti-Israel protests sweeps countries worldwide
2014-08-10,Officials: U.S. airstrikes pound ISIS militants firing at Iraq's Yazidis
2014-08-10,"Ebola ""Attacks"" Kakata, a major trading center in Liberia; 11 hospital workers infected, 4 dead."
2014-08-10,U.S. urges India to step up as regional power
2014-08-10,Russia push into Ukraine 'unacceptable': Germany
2014-08-10,Barack Obama pledges long-term campaign to fight Iraq's spreading jihadist crisis
2014-08-10,Palestinians accept new 72-hour cease-fire offer
2014-08-10,"Kurdish Forces Begin Counterattacks Against ISIS Fighters: Kurdish officials said they had retaken the town of Gwer and were on the verge of seizing Mahkmour, where American military planes first struck the positions of fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, on Friday."
2014-08-10,"Ebola test negative for Brampton, Ont., man hospitalized after Nigeria trip"
2014-08-10,"Iraq War Created Isis, Concedes David Miliband"
2014-08-10,"Fighters abandoning al-Qaeda affiliates to join Islamic State, U.S. officials say"
2014-08-10,"Turks vote in 1st direct presidential election: Turks were voting in their first direct presidential election Sunday, a watershed event in the 91-year history of a country where the president was previously elected by Parliament."
2014-08-10,"Ukraine says no ceasefire until separatists surrender, rebels defiant"
2014-08-10,Jordan accused of barring entry to Palestinians fleeing Syria
2014-08-10,Leaked Files: German Spy Company Helped Bahrain Hack Arab Spring Protesters - The Intercept
2014-08-10,Man suspected of selling Michael Schumacher's medical files to press found hanged in cell
2014-08-09,French MPs propose forcing supermarkets to hand over all unsold food to charity
2014-08-09,China Will Install More Solar This Year Than The U.S. Ever Has
2014-08-09,"Isis persecution of Iraqi Christians has become genocide, says religious leaders"
2014-08-09,The Islamic flag that was raised at a council estate in London has now been taken down by a Catholic nun and Muslims from the local area: 'There is no place for hate in Tower Hamlets'
2014-08-09,"'If demands not met by Sunday, we will attack Tel Aviv,' says Hamas"
2014-08-09,"Turkish warplanes set to join US, bomb ISIS in Northern Iraq"
2014-08-09,Government computers used to alter Wikipedia entries on high profile killings
2014-08-09,Nick Clegg (British Deputy Prime Minister) Calls for ending imprisonment for the possession of drugs for personal use
2014-08-09,A suspected case of Ebola has made it to Toronto
2014-08-09,"Four new Ebola cases in Nigeria, all related to American who brought virus there"
2014-08-09,"Kurdish ground forces had opened a pathway off of Mt. Sinjar and helped some 10,000 people trapped there to safety"
2014-08-09,US warns Russia against Ukraine invasion: US official says any Russian intervention under the guise of providing humanitarian aid will be viewed as invasion.
2014-08-09,U.S. launches second round of air strikes against IS targets in Iraq.
2014-08-09,Ottawa refuses to let injured Gaza children into Canada for treatment
2014-08-09,"Iraq supplies Kurds with ammunition in unprecedented move, U.S. says"
2014-08-09,"Islamic State persecution of Yazidi minority amounts to genocide, UN says ( video)"
2014-08-09,Russia and China agree on currency swaps so that international trade between the two countries can be carried out without the dollar
2014-08-09,"New Ukrainian rebel leader gives Moscow distance: The Russian commanders ""are fleeing like rats,"" said Andrei, a 27-year-old rebel in Donetsk. ""We had hoped for help from Moscow, we had expected Russian troops, but Russia betrayed us."""
2014-08-09,"U.S. jet fighters, drones strike ISIS fighters, convoys in Iraq"
2014-08-09,Russia to 'restrict' US-run GPS satellites
2014-08-09,Ghana May Now Have Recorded Her First Case of Ebola
2014-08-09,Israel Destroyed 60 Gaza Mosques: Ministry
2014-08-09,"Palestinians death toll rises to at least 1,898"
2014-08-09,Iraq: Muslim Jihadis Vow to Take Revenge on US Infidels for Isis Bombing Campaign
2014-08-09,Venice: large ships and cruises have finally been banned from entering the canals.
2014-08-08,"Obama authorizes targeted airstrikes in Iraq against Islamic militants, along with airdrops."
2014-08-08,Man found wandering in northern Maine IDd as Rwandan gnocidaire whom Canada says helped kill 200 in hospital in 94
2014-08-08,Ebola is declared an international health emergency.
2014-08-08,US launches Iraq militant air strike
2014-08-08,"Hamas breaks ceasefire, fires rockets at Israel."
2014-08-08,ISIS: 'We Will Raise The Flag Of Allah In The White House'
2014-08-08,Russia bans anonymous public Wi-Fi.
2014-08-08,Argentina sues US at top UN court over debt
2014-08-08,"Hamas: If Gaza blockade isn't lifted, we'll renew fire Friday"
2014-08-08,Archbishop: Hamas Fired Out of Our Church in Gaza
2014-08-08,"Australia's 'cruel' asylum regime must end, say 190 experts"
2014-08-08,"China Irritated With Christianity, is Creating its Own Version"
2014-08-08,First Ebola case suspected in Greece
2014-08-08,UK government announces plan to cut funding to schools that teach creationism; children as young as 2 must learn 'British values'
2014-08-08,"Ukraine considers stopping all transit from Russia, including gas as form of sanctions - PM"
2014-08-08,Kiev's Independence Square Is on Fire  Again
2014-08-08,"Know your place you shameless woman, Erdoan tells journalist for The Economist"
2014-08-08,American Forces Said to Bomb ISIS Targets in Iraq
2014-08-08,Britain's Deputy Prime Minister calls for 'Ending imprisonment for the possession of drugs for personal use'
2014-08-08,Iraqi Airstrikes kill 130 IS Militants in Mosul
2014-08-08,14-year-old girl reunited with her family after being swept away by tsunami 10 years ago
2014-08-08,Kurdish Pershmaga transport large amount of Yazidi refugees to safe areas of Kurdistan
2014-08-08,Israeli minister urges Germany and EU to send inspectors to Gaza
2014-08-08,"Ebola scare reaches Delhi, India - 3 under watch in Dwarka"
2014-08-08,RAF planes to drop food aid in Iraq
2014-08-07,Campaign Mounts to Declassify 9/11 Reports References to Alleged Saudi Involvement
2014-08-07,Snowden granted 3-yr residence permit
2014-08-07,Chinese city bans anyone with Islamic clothing or a 'big beard' from boarding buses after terror attacks across the country
2014-08-07,Israel proposes ceasefire extension; Hamas declines
2014-08-07,Netanyahu: Hamas accepted the exact ceasefire they rejected three weeks earlier. 90% of all casualties could have been avoided
2014-08-07,Russian Poacher Faces 7 Years in Prison for Killing Extremely Rare Amur Leopard. Fewer than 50 remain in the wild.
2014-08-07,"France Passes Sweeping Gender Equality Law - At a time when women in many parts of the world are seeing their rights restricted, violated, & disrespected, France has set an important example."" 'Ensuring a womans right to control her fertility is fundamental to achieving gender equality.'"
2014-08-07,"The 1% May Be Richer Than You Think, Research Shows"
2014-08-07,Isis seizes Iraq's largest Christian town
2014-08-07,"40,000 Iraqis stranded on mountain as Isis jihadists threaten death"
2014-08-07,"Ecuador to open embassy in 'Palestine', president cancels visit to Israel"
2014-08-07,Turkey airdrops aid to starving Iraqi refugees stranded on mountain
2014-08-07,Jimmy Carter slams Israel in pro-Palestine op-ed
2014-08-07,"'Help Israel avoid war crimes charges,' Netanyahu urges US lawmakers"
2014-08-07,New Hepatitis-C drug 99% cheaper in India
2014-08-07,Ebola survivors shunned as zombies in Guinea
2014-08-07,The CDC has issued its highest alert for an all-hands on deck response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa.
2014-08-07,Spacecraft catches comet after 10-year chase
2014-08-07,"Russia will ban all imports of food from the United States and all fruit and vegetables from Europe, the state news agency reported on Wednesday, a sweeping response to Western sanctions imposed over its support for rebels in Ukraine."
2014-08-07,Russia publishes list of banned EU and US foods in sanctions response
2014-08-07,EU proposes Gaza reconstruction for Hamas disarmament
2014-08-07,IDF orders West Bank village land seized for settler road
2014-08-07,40 Yazidi children killed in Islamic State attack
2014-08-07,Russian Hackers Stole 1.2 Billion Passwords
2014-08-07,Fukushima reactor 3 meltdown was worse than estimated: Tepco
2014-08-06,"Indonesia, the largest Muslim country in the world, has banned the support and endorsement of ISIS"
2014-08-06,Italy expels imam for preaching hatred against Jews
2014-08-06,US officials say someone else is leaking documents in the wake of Snowden
2014-08-06,Germany blocks the delivery of military parts to Russia
2014-08-06,Canadians Cant Drink Their Water After 1.3 Billion Gallons Of Mining Waste Flows Into Rivers
2014-08-06,Outrage in Saudi Arabia at appearance of female newsreader without headscarf on state television
2014-08-06,Wikipedia has revealed that more than 50 links to content on its website have been removed from Google's search results under the controversial Right to be Forgotten ruling
2014-08-06,Angry Palestinians Attack Hamas Official Over Gaza Destruction
2014-08-06,NATO says Russia could be poised to invade Ukraine
2014-08-06,"Iraqi children die as ISIS targets Yazidi minority. Lawmaker Vian Dakhil, the only MP representing the Yazidi minority in Iraq's Parliament, said in an impassioned speech that 70 Yazidi children had died so far, that women were being killed or sold into slavery and that 500 men had been slaughtered."
2014-08-06,Member of Iraqi Parliament breaks down in tears: ISIL is exterminating my people (translation included)
2014-08-06,Ebola outbreak: British experts urge US and WHO to give Africans experimental cure.
2014-08-06,"A US 2-star Major General was killed and 15 other soldiers, including a German Brigadier General, were wounded in an attack at a military academy in Afghanistan today. The major general would be the highest-ranking member of the U.S. military to die in hostilities in Afghanistan."
2014-08-06,Rosetta satellite set to land on comet after 10 years LIVE
2014-08-06,Putin bans agricultural imports from sanctioning countries for 1 year
2014-08-06,"North Korea plans to fire missiles at White House, Pentagon if US-South Korea continue military exercises"
2014-08-06,"Perus New Cocaine - Illegal gold miningfarmers digging up ore & selling it on the black market, so that it may eventually end up wrapped around your fiances fingeris a major cause of rain forest depletion. It has devastated nearly 370,000 acres of the Peruvian Amazon."
2014-08-06,"France 24 Reporter Reveals Hamas Rocket Launcher Fired Near Civilians, United Nations Facility and Reporters"
2014-08-06,ISIS commander killed in Lebanon clashes
2014-08-06,"Putin spends 300 billion roubles from public pension savings to plug fiscal holes, second year in a row"
2014-08-06,"More than 400 children have been killed in Israel's assault on Gaza, and almost a thousand times as many are traumatized and face an ""extraordinarily bleak"" future, says top UNICEF official in Gaza"
2014-08-06,US spy plane photos reveal groups of girls believed to be those kidnapped by Boko Haram from a Nigerian boarding school
2014-08-06,"Between 35,000-50,000 Yazidis are completely surrounded by ISIS militants in Sinjar, Iraq"
2014-08-06,Iraqi Yazidis stranded on isolated mountaintop begin to die of thirst.
2014-08-06,Leader in murder of Israeli teens arrested
2014-08-05,Obama signs bill giving Israel $225 million for missile defense system
2014-08-05,Hamas militants caught on tape assembling and firing rockets from an area next to a hotel where journalists were staying.
2014-08-05,Spain freezes arms exports to Israel over Gaza op- This is the second country to announce sanctions over weapons sale to Israel.
2014-08-05,Beijing to ban coal use to curb pollution: Beijing will ban coal use in its six main districts by the end of 2020
2014-08-05,Outspoken Russian journalist Timur Kuashev found dead.
2014-08-05,Israel Announces Withdrawal of all Troops from Gaza
2014-08-05,US to Give Kurdish Forces Air Support
2014-08-05,Military jets escort passenger plane to Manchester Airport
2014-08-05,"2,100-Yr-Old Royal Chinese Tombs DiscoveredJade coffin & over 10,000 artifacts in mausoleum of 3 main tombs, 11 attendant tombs, 5 chariots, swords, spearheads, crossbow triggers, knives found. King's tomb has gold, silver, musical instruments, over 100,000 coins & a kitchen with food."
2014-08-05,Pakistani secret service (ISI) planned attacks on US and Israeli consulates in India
2014-08-05,Israel Flagged as Top Spy Threat to U.S. in New Snowden/NSA Document
2014-08-05,German prosecutors say they would accept an offer of $100m (60m) from Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone to end his trial on bribery charges.
2014-08-05,Ebola death toll in Africa reaches 887 (158 more than 4 days ago)
2014-08-05,"WikiLeaks: ""Israel actively supported Hamas"" | Documents allegedly show that Israel was interested in empowering Hamas in attempt to end the first Intifada."
2014-08-05,"Singapore's parliament has passed a bill proposing to fine companies that pollute the country's air, regardless of whether the companies operate on the island. Under the bill, companies found guilty of causing haze could be fined up to S$100,000 ($80,347) for each day they pollute ..."
2014-08-05,"Israeli soldier arrested, suspected of stealing from Gaza home - Decision to investigate incident causes outrage among fellow soldiers"
2014-08-05,MH17 breakthrough as owner of Volvo truck that transported missile is found
2014-08-05,"Lady Warsi, British Foreign Office minister resigns over governments morally reprehensible stance on Gaza"
2014-08-05,Women's engineering colleges in India are closing. Women prefer co-ed colleges because they believe working alongside men improves their job prospects
2014-08-05,"Deputy Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus ruling Likud Party, Moshe Feiglin, has called for the use of concentration camps for the conquest of the entire Gaza Strip."
2014-08-05,NZ parliament unanimously condemns Israel
2014-08-05,The French Are Thinking About Arming Europe Instead of Russia | VICE News
2014-08-05,"Kurdish forces, known as the Peshmerga, entered Sinjar, Iraq on Monday and have been engaged in house-to-house battles in some of the fiercest fighting since the fall of Mosul to ISIS in June"
2014-08-05,"Worst forest fire in modern history ravages Sweden, covering over 10,000 hectars of forest and evacuating town after town"
2014-08-05,27 000 Russian tourists stranded abroad as travel company collapses after economic sanctions
2014-08-04,"NSA hands Gaza targeting data to Israel, say latest Snowden docs"
2014-08-04,The Phillipines has reported the country's first suspected cases of the Ebola virus
2014-08-04,"62% of British public says Israel committing war crimes, as polls show sympathy for Palestinians"
2014-08-04,Ten firms say they will not represent clients that deny man-made climate change or seek to block emisson-reducing regulations
2014-08-04,"South Korea Sent 10,000 Choco Pies Over to North Korea in Balloons"
2014-08-04,Israeli Foreign Minister Suggests UN Takes Control of Gaza
2014-08-04,Scientists discover vast methane plumes escaping from Arctic seafloor - aboard the icebreaker Oden  currently north of eastern Siberia
2014-08-04,Bodies of possible Ebola victims found in central Monrovia on the street for four days before being collected; gov says few hours
2014-08-04,High winds expose previously unknown Nazca geoglyphs in Peru
2014-08-04,Iran's elite Guards fighting in Iraq to push back Islamic State
2014-08-04,"Obama: 'Russia doesn't make anything,' West must be firm with China"
2014-08-04,"Terror attack in Jerusalem. 1 killed, 5 injured, terrorist shot dead."
2014-08-04,"""Five previous Ebola outbreaks have been linked to the handling of meat from gorillas, chimps and duikers... all these animals have been found for sale in the UK. Heathrow baggage handlers frequently complain about foul-smelling packages, some seeping blood"""
2014-08-04,Iran ready to fully support Palestine
2014-08-04,Strong quake kills at least 367 in southern China
2014-08-04,There are reports of the Islamic State executing dozens of Yazidis.
2014-08-04,UK government reviewing 8bn of arms sales to Israel
2014-08-04,"Obama - 'Russia doesn't make anything': US president downplays Russia's role in the world, saying Vladimir Putin's actions will hurt country in the long-term."
2014-08-04,Israel 'breaks ceasefire in minutes' as eight-year-old girl killed in air strike
2014-08-04,Over 400 Ukrainian Military Personnel Request Refugee Status in Russia
2014-08-04,"""New Fears That 'Bush Meat' Could Spread Ebola Experts warn deadly virus could be carried through smuggled meat""...""While the meat is often disguised as beef, it is often found to be the meat of wild animals such as rat or antelope....7500 tons annually."
2014-08-04,"Police in China have detained six executives of a meat supply company that supplied long-expired meat to foreign fast food chains McDonalds and KFC-parent Yum Brands Inc, among many others"
2014-08-04,"Indian police have arrested the chairman of state-run Syndicate bank, Sudhir Kumar Jain, and several others over allegations of bribery: The raids are being described as the first large scale anti-corruption moves since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office earlier this year."
2014-08-04,More than 130 Palestinians killed in IDF's 'Hannibal' protocol
2014-08-04,Israel declares 7-hour humanitarian cease-fire to take effect Monday in Gaza
2014-08-03,"UN: In order to stop the spread of Ebola... Stop eating dried fruit bats and dead animals you find on the ground. ""Fruit bats are among the most notorious for spreading the disease"""
2014-08-03,"Civilian Death Toll in Ukraine reaches 800, over 2,000 wounded. These deaths ""have gone virtually unnoticed by the outside world."""
2014-08-03,"Luxury Cruise Line Offering ""Environmental Disaster Tourism"" in Arctic - US cruise operator announces it'll offer a once-in-a-lifetime trip to experience the environmental devastation of the Arctic  using a mode of transport that emits 3 times more CO2 per passenger per mile than a jumbo jet."
2014-08-03,"India drops claim to 19,500 square kilometers of disputed maritime area settling a four decade old dispute with Bangladesh"
2014-08-03,UN chief Ban Ki-moon says attack on Gaza school is 'a moral outrage and a criminal act;' says those responsible must be held accountable
2014-08-03,"ISIS Makes Up To $3 Million a Day Selling Oil, Say Analysts"
2014-08-03,Report: Israel eavesdropped on Kerry's phone calls
2014-08-03,Britain 'attempts to censor' US report on torture sites - US Senate report may confirm that Diego Garcia was used for extraordinary rendition after 9/11
2014-08-03,UN warns of Gaza health disaster
2014-08-03,"A lake suddenly appeared in the Tunisian desert, and the water could be radioactive."
2014-08-03,'It's like the Apocalypse' says British doctor in Gaza
2014-08-03,"Soldier Thought to Be Captured Was Killed in Battle, Israel Says."
2014-08-03,"Ebola Virus Is Outpacing Efforts to Control It, World Health Body Warns - NYTimes.com"
2014-08-03,"If We Release a Small Fraction of Arctic Carbon, 'We're Fucked': Climatologist"
2014-08-03,Israel-Gaza conflict: At least 100 dead in 24 hours in Rafah - Israeli military react to apparent capture of one of their soldiers before declaring him killed in battle.
2014-08-03,A desperate bid to stop illegal loggers and drug runners has forced a Brazilian tribe to contact the outside world
2014-08-03,Italians enraged at rise of Sicily's new Facebook mafia - Detectives are poring over social media for details that might help them arrest new generation of mobsters who have turned their back on traditional code of discretion
2014-08-03,Israel PM Netanyahu says operation in Gaza will continue if required after Hamas tunnels are destroyed
2014-08-03,Chinese cable television service hacked to broadcast messages attacking the ruling Communist party and calling for the release of a pro-democracy activist
2014-08-03,Hospital Director in Liberia tests positive for Ebola after false negative a week earlier.
2014-08-03,Russian bunker-smashing rockets arrive in Iraq.
2014-08-03,IDF declares missing IDF officer Hadar Goldin dead
2014-08-03,"Violent uprising in Xinjiang, China leaves almost 100 dead"
2014-08-03,Powerful US spy tools were set for NZ installation
2014-08-03,Ed Miliband accuses David Cameron of 'inexplicable silence' in row over Gaza
2014-08-02,Dutch ban display of Islamic State flag
2014-08-02,Palestine football legend Zaqout killed in Gaza conflict
2014-08-02,China admits pollution has caused 'cancer villages'
2014-08-02,Netanyahu to U.S.: Don't second guess me on Hamas
2014-08-02,"Congress approves $225 million additional funding to Israel, totaling $0.575 billion in past 2 weeks"
2014-08-02,Islamic State withdraws from Syria villages after Sunni tribes burn their headquarters to the ground
2014-08-02,50 kg of cocaine missing from Paris police HQ
2014-08-02,French hospital to open wine bar for terminally ill patients
2014-08-02,More than a third of the 140 rockets fired by Hamas at Israel yesterday fell short and exploded inside the Gaza Strip
2014-08-02,Saudi King Condemns Gaza War but Not Israel
2014-08-02,Venezuela: We will shelter injured and orphaned Palestinian children
2014-08-02,"More than 5,500 civilians killed in Iraq this year, UN report says"
2014-08-02,"Putin warns European leaders against aggression, egotism and overweening ambition"
2014-08-02,Hamas Says It Isnt Holding Missing Israeli Officer
2014-08-02,"Israel signaled it was winding down the 25-day-old Gaza war unilaterally, saying on Saturday it would not attend Egyptian-hosted negotiations for a new truce and giving Palestinians who had fled fighting in one northern town the all-clear to return."
2014-08-02,"U.S. Plans to Train, Arm Ukraine National Guard in 2015"
2014-08-02,"China confirms it has developed a long-range MIRV'd ICBM, a significant upgrade to their previous generation nuclear arsenal."
2014-08-02,Israel warplanes bomb Gaza university
2014-08-02,"Saudi king calls for united stance against terrorism, says Islam was innocent of the actions of traitor terrorists and that they have distorted the image of Islam with its purity and humanity and smeared it with all sorts of bad qualities by their actions"
2014-08-02,EU quietly lifts ban on supplying Kiev with weapons and technology
2014-08-02,Azerbaijan-Armenia border clashes turn deadly
2014-08-02,Islamic State loses oil-rich areas in Syria
2014-08-02,Revealed: Britains 'role' in arming Israel
2014-08-02,Ukraine leaks Stalin's 'KGB secrets'
2014-08-02,Anti-war mood in Britain grows as bombing of Gaza intensifies
2014-08-01,"The Swedish government announced that it plans to remove all mentions of race from Swedish legislation, saying that race is a social construct which should not be encouraged in law."
2014-08-01,Uganda's constitutional court strikes down anti-homosexuality law
2014-08-01,Asian-American couple held in Qatar for years as authorities refuse to believe their adopted African child is their own.
2014-08-01,Ebola 'spreading too fast' - WHO
2014-08-01,IDF soldier feared kidnapped in Gaza; cease-fire deal collapses - Diplomacy and Defense
2014-08-01,Student starts global class action against Facebook: Austrian law student Max Schrems appealed to a billion Facebook users around the world on Friday to join a class-action lawsuit against Facebook's alleged violations of its users' privacy.
2014-08-01,"US and UN: Israel, Hamas agree to unconditional, 72-hour humanitarian cease-fire to begin Fri."
2014-08-01,"Judge rules seriously ill boy, 13, can be treated against mothers beliefs"
2014-08-01,"Worlds Park Rangers Murdered in Widespread ""Bush War""  War underway in forests, grasslands & mountains  rangers against poachers. If rangers win, tigers, elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos & orangutans will survive. If the poachers win, these key mammals, many other species & the rangers won't."
2014-08-01,US calls Hamas attack 'barbaric' violation of Gaza ceasefire
2014-08-01,"Kurdish forces push ISIS out of Kurdish region in Syria amid fierce fighting, 35 ISIS fighters killed."
2014-08-01,Brazilian President Accuses Israel of Carrying Out a Massacre in Gaza
2014-08-01,Judge Rules Microsoft Must Let U.S. See a User's Emails Stored Overseas
2014-08-01,Israel to resume Gaza operation
2014-08-01,Amazon tribe makes first contact with outside world - Indigenous people crossed from Peru into Brazil looking for help to combat illegal loggers & drug traffickers
2014-08-01,US: Israeli attack on UN school 'totally indefensible'
2014-08-01,Russia enacts 'draconian' law for bloggers and online media
2014-08-01,Canadian First Nation chief made $1M in salary twice the amount of the prime minister of Canada.
2014-08-01,Snowden's asylum expires.
2014-08-01,Massacre of uncontacted tribe in Peru revealed in new report
2014-08-01,French government moves to ban militant extremist right-wing Jewish Defence League
2014-08-01,Bank of America will pay a $1.3 billion penalty for mortgage fraud (x-post from /r/banksters)
2014-08-01,"U.S. aid to Afghanistan exceeds Marshall Plan in costs, not results"
2014-08-01,A Japanese judicial panel has recommended that three former executives of the utility that operates the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant face criminal charges over their role in the disaster.
2014-08-01,"Multiple gas explosions in Taiwan city: Cars overturned, 115 injured"
2014-07-31,Sierra Leone declares emergency as Ebola death toll hits 729
2014-07-31,US condemns shelling of UN school in Gaza but restocks Israeli ammunition
2014-07-31,"Bolivia declares Israel a ""terrorist state"" and bans its citizens from entering the country without a visa"
2014-07-31,U.S. says North Korea should stop 'polluting the waters' with missile launches and instead focus on feeding its people
2014-07-31,"NATO bombed 5,000 civilians in Kosovo just because it was insulted; 27,000 Iraqi civilians were bombed during the American invasion because they posed a danger to the US; there is not a country in the world that can talk to us about morality. - Israeli MP"
2014-07-31,U.N. official breaks down on live TV over deaths of Palestinian children
2014-07-31,Gaza Crisis: Isis Pledge to Join the Palestinian Fight Against 'Barbaric Jews'
2014-07-31,"Pentagon approves transfer of rocket launchers, grenades, and other weapons already stockpiled in Israel to IDF"
2014-07-31,A lake suddenly appears in the middle of Tunisian desert due to a seismic tremor
2014-07-31,Senior UN Official: Hamas Fires Rockets From the Vicinity of U.N. Facilities
2014-07-31,3 IDF soldiers killed in booby-trapped UNRWA clinic that housed a tunnel opening
2014-07-31,Russia regains control of lizard sex satellite
2014-07-31,Edward Snowden's lawyer blasts Australian law that would jail journalists reporting on spy leaks
2014-07-31,"Palestinian Authority to sign Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in effort to file suit against Israel for ""war crimes"" during Operation Protective Edge."
2014-07-31,Egypt calls on Israel to immediately stop targeting civilians
2014-07-31,"Roughly 8,000 women in India died violent deaths because their families were unable to cough up the demands for more dowry, according to government statistics"
2014-07-31,American military aircraft violates Swedish airspace
2014-07-31,"Israeli Military Calls Up Another 16,000 Reserves In Effort To Widen Gaza Offensive"
2014-07-31,"UN human rights chief Navi Pillay: strikes by Israel's military on UN buildings in Gaza ""do not appear to be accidental"""
2014-07-31,Turkish women share smiling selfies after politician tells them not to laugh out loud
2014-07-31,Israel destroys the only power plant in gaza
2014-07-31,"A wine-cup believed to belong to Pericles, Founder of the Athenian Golden Age, was discovered on Wednesday in an ancient tomb in Athens"
2014-07-31,"Arab Leaders Silent, Viewing Israel as Better Than Hamas: Led by Egypt, a coalition of Arab states has effectively lined up with Israel in its fight against Hamas, posing new obstacles to efforts to end the Gaza conflict"
2014-07-31,Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper blames Hamas entirely for what's happening in Gaza
2014-07-31,Argentina defaults for second time
2014-07-30,Malaria vaccine discovered
2014-07-30,"US unable to account for $626 million worth of weapons in Afghanistan | The Department of Defense cannot account for 747,000 weapons and auxiliary military equipment."
2014-07-30,Israel bombs another UN school despite them telling Israel 17 times that the school housed civilians
2014-07-30,Israeli Official To Obama: Leave Us Alone - CBS DC
2014-07-30,Diabetic ex soldier dies with 3.44 to his name because his unemployment benefits were cut for missing an appointment. Corner says there was no food in his stomach.
2014-07-30,South Korea sends chocolate snacks into North Korea via balloon
2014-07-30,"Top virologist doctor, Sheik Umar Khan, dies of ebola virus aged 39"
2014-07-30,"Gaza Crisis: Far-Right Israelis Chant 'There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'"
2014-07-30,"World Faces ""Insurmountable"" Water Crises by 2040 - There will be no water by 2040 if we keep doing what were doing today. Wind, solar power increase needed to avoid global drought"
2014-07-30,"The World's TigersThere are Only 3,200 Left in the Wild"
2014-07-30,"Fear of Ebola Breeds a Terror of Physicians - ""Villagers flee at the sight of a Red Cross truck. When a Westerner passes, villagers cry out, 'Ebola, Ebola!' and run away."""
2014-07-30,Hamas threatening journalists in Gaza who expose abuse of civilians
2014-07-30,U.N. says more rockets found at one of its Gaza schools
2014-07-30,Moscow Stock Exchange Suspends Trading
2014-07-30,Belgium calls for clear labelling of goods from Israeli settlements
2014-07-30,The space race for Mars is heating up. Russia confirms green light for super heavy lift rocket amid nuclear treaty talks.
2014-07-30,"Russia wants Apple, SAP to cooperate against foreign spying: Russia has proposed that Apple Inc and SAP hand the government access to their source code to make sure their widely used products are not tools for spying on state institutions."
2014-07-30,WikiLeaks publishes 'unprecedented' secret Australian court suppression order
2014-07-30,Over 90% of Jewish Israelis say Gaza op justified
2014-07-30,Regulators want bankers to accept criminal liability under new plans
2014-07-30,Poll Says Around 60 Percent Russians not in Favor of Military Interference in Ukraine
2014-07-30,Gaza market air strike 'kills 15'
2014-07-30,"Pressure is mounting on France to ban a far-right Jewish group, described as violent and extreme by critics, following its involvement in clashes at a pro-Palestinian protest in Paris and the jailing of two of its supporters over a bomb plot"
2014-07-30,Palestinians accuse Hamas of executing Palestinians
2014-07-30,CNN: Ukrainian government uses ballistic missiles against rebels
2014-07-29,"Japanese steel workers reveal that they saved their city from a nuclear bombing by burning coal tar to block view of US planes; story was kept secret for 69 years out of respect for Nagasaki victims, who were bombed instead"
2014-07-29,Russia may leave nuclear treaty
2014-07-29,US: Russia Violates 1987 Nuclear Missile Treaty by Testing New Ground Launched Cruise Missile
2014-07-29,Liberia closes borders. Trying to stop spread of the Ebola Virus.
2014-07-29,Bankers Face World's Longest Bonus Clawbacks: Staff at British banks could be made to hand back bonuses more than six years after the money has been paid to them under a regime that will amount to the world's toughest rules on clawing back remuneration.
2014-07-29,Malaysia Airlines may change its name in major rebrand after MH370 and MH17 disasters
2014-07-29,Turkish deputy PM says women laughing in public is 'Haram'
2014-07-29,"France said on Monday it was ready to welcome Christians from northern Iraq who have been told by the al Qaeda offshoot group now ruling the region to either covert to Islam, pay a religious levy or face death."
2014-07-29,Ebola Outbreak Spreads to Fourth African Country
2014-07-29,"'Women should not laugh in public,' says Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister in morality speech ... [The woman] will know what is haram and not haram. She will not laugh in public. She will not be inviting in her attitudes and will protect her chasteness,"
2014-07-29,Heavy casualties reported in Xinjiang terror attack
2014-07-29,"US ""gravely concerned"" about 15-yr-old American held in Israeli jail"
2014-07-29,U.S. and Europe Agree to Escalate Sanctions on Russia - NYTimes.com
2014-07-29,Qatar World Cup: Fifa boss demands payment of migrant workers
2014-07-29,Israeli airstrikes flattened the four-story home of Hamass top political leader in the Gaza Strip and destroyed offices of the movements radio and television station early Tuesday.
2014-07-29,Palestinian gunmen infiltrate Israeli village near Gaza.
2014-07-29,Fuel tank at Gaza city's only power plant hit by Israeli shells
2014-07-29,Hamas declares that Israel's recent military operations has only reached a fraction of their tunnels.
2014-07-29,Australia Approves One of World's Biggest Coal Mines & Rail Project Despite Concern Over its Potential Environmental Impact - Critics voice concern over local water use & impact on the Great Barrier Reef.
2014-07-29,People actively resisting Ebola Treatment
2014-07-29,"Hamas has given North Korea a first payment on missiles to replenish arsenal, sources say"
2014-07-29,US Fuming Over Israeli Criticism Of Kerry
2014-07-29,Children killed in Gaza playground shelling
2014-07-29,Cameron cuts EU migrants' unemployment and child benefits
2014-07-29,France offers asylum to Christians of north Iraq
2014-07-28,Qatar World Cup: migrants wait a year to be paid for building offices. Migrant workers who built luxury offices used by Qatar's 2022 football World Cup organisers have told the Guardian they have not been paid for more than a year and are now working illegally from cockroach-infested lodgings.
2014-07-28,Companies proclaim water the next oil in a rush to turn resources into profit: Mammoth companies are trying to collect water that all life needs and charge for it as they would for other natural resources
2014-07-28,N. Korea threatens nuclear strike on White House
2014-07-28,A 2nd American has now tested positive for Ebola.
2014-07-28,"Israeli Foreign Minister:""No more cease-fires. IDF will operate with full power"""
2014-07-28,Poll: 86.5% of Israelis oppose cease-fire
2014-07-28,U.S. Airmen Banned from Drinking in 1st Month in Korea: The rule is part of a new introductory program for incoming troops and follows a string of rapes and other violent incidents involving U.S. Forces Korea personnel.
2014-07-28,"Pakistani mob kills two children including a baby and their grandmother after 'blasphemous' Facebook post: A seven-year-old and her baby sister were killed alongside their grandmother, police said, after another member of the Ahmadi sect was accused of blasphemy"
2014-07-28,"Hamas chief: We cannot coexist with ""occupiers""."
2014-07-28,The arrival of an Ebola-infected air passenger in Nigeria has airlines and airports scrambling to respond around the world
2014-07-28,Hamas fired rockets in ceasefires
2014-07-28,U.S. Releases Satellite Imagery That Shows Russians Shelling Eastern Ukraine
2014-07-28,Japan wants to stage a robot Olympics alongside the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
2014-07-28,"'Freedom Flotilla II' set to sail for Gaza from Turkey, Turkish navy will provide protection"
2014-07-28,"Deutsche Bank, HSBC and Bank of Nova Scotia have been accused of attempting to rig the price of silver, in a lawsuit filed in the US"
2014-07-28,Israel Blames Hamas For Gaza Hospital Strike
2014-07-28,Germany tells citizens to get out of Libya
2014-07-28,Fifth St. Petersburg LGBT pride event held without major incidents
2014-07-28,Russia Wants UN Investigation Into Downed Malaysia Airlines Plane
2014-07-28,MH17 Black Box Data Shows Evidence Of Missile Strike
2014-07-28,Margaret Thatcher was warned of Tory child sex party claims
2014-07-28,Moscow questions US allegations Russia shelling Ukraine
2014-07-28,China criticized the U.S. for applying new tariffs on Chinese solar products following allegations that panels and cells were being sold too cheaply to the American consumer.
2014-07-28,"Leading scientists, including Lord Winston, an early pioneer of fertility treatment, have criticised the Department of Health for trying to play down a process that will for the first time allow the alteration of the DNA of future generations."
2014-07-28,"LIVE UPDATES: At least four Israelis killed, four wounded, in mortar shell fire from Gaza"
2014-07-27,Red Cross officially declares Ukraine civil war
2014-07-27,"Taliban stops a convoy of minibuses traveling through western Afghanistan, questioned the passengers, then pulled all the Shiites into the road and shot them dead."
2014-07-27,"""Please Stop!"", Pope Francis Makes Plea for Peace"
2014-07-27,No more deaths: Thousands of Israelis protest the Gaza war
2014-07-27,One of Liberia's most high-profile doctors has died of Ebola highlighting the risks facing health workers trying to combat the deadly disease
2014-07-27,"BBC: Dutch team cancel MH17 crash site investigation, sighting security concerns"
2014-07-27,Egypt army destroys 13 Gaza tunnels
2014-07-27,Hamas rejects 4-hour Gaza war truce extension
2014-07-27,Barack Obama banned from entering Chechnya
2014-07-27,"10 people die and 1,400 rushed to hospital in Japan amid heat wave"
2014-07-27,"45,000 gather in London to protest Israeli action in Gaza"
2014-07-27,Hamas 'declares Gaza ceasefire'
2014-07-27,"Boko Haram militants seize Cameroon vice Prime Minister's wife, vice PM escapes: Cameroon military commander"
2014-07-27,Tokyo rejects U.N. call to take blame for comfort women
2014-07-27,Ukrainian government moves to ban Communist Party
2014-07-27,American Doctor in Africa Tests Positive for Ebola
2014-07-27,Rocket kills four children in Egypt near Gaza border: sources
2014-07-27,Official: Ebola Kills Senior Doctor in Liberia
2014-07-27,"ISIS Kills 50 Syrian Soldiers, Beheads Many In Raqqa"
2014-07-27,"Poland was complicit in the USAs rendition, secret detention, and torture of alleged terrorism suspects, a top human rights court has ruled..."
2014-07-27,"Ebola outbreak: Nigeria begins screening for deadly virus. Visitor brings lethal disease to Lagos, Africa's largest city. Nigerian health authorities are racing to stop the spread of Ebola after a man brought the deadly and highly contagious disease by plane to Lagos"
2014-07-27,"Canada's Govt Might Not Care About Climate Change, but Canadians Do - Despite the Harper govt, a new poll says Canadians overwhelmingly believe in global warming."
2014-07-27,Two people arrested in London on suspicion of conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation
2014-07-27,"France condemns vicious cycle of Israel-Gaza violence: France on Sunday condemned the vicious cycle of attacks on Gaza and on Israel and called for a real ceasefire and negotiations, in a statement issued by Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius."
2014-07-27,Israel 'to resume Gaza operations'
2014-07-26,Japan to extend $5.5M in humanitarian aid to Gaza
2014-07-26,"Italian police have arrested two US soldiers from an army garrison in Vicenza, near Venice, over the rape of a pregnant woman."
2014-07-26,"After moving money around, Google paid tiny amount in European taxes--President Obama: ""You're just gaming the system. You are an American company."""
2014-07-26,Israel calls Brazil a diplomatic dwarf  and then brings up World Cup humiliation
2014-07-26,"Palestinian death toll in Israeli operation in Gaza passes 1,000"
2014-07-26,"Archaeologists Discover 3,500-4,000 Yr Old Astronomy Lab in Peru"
2014-07-26,"Israeli police official says Hamas not responsible for kidnapped teenagers that sparked recent bloodshed, despite Netanyahu's claims"
2014-07-26,Mayor of central Ukrainian city shot dead
2014-07-26,Gaza baby delivered from dead mother
2014-07-26,Ukraine rebels go to the museum -- for WWII tanks and cannons
2014-07-26,Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17: 'Extraordinary' New Wreckage Discovered with 'Machine-gun-Type Holes'
2014-07-26,Giant anteaters kill two hunters in Brazil
2014-07-26,"A Liberian man who died in quarantine in Lagos was suffering from the deadly virus Ebola, Nigerian officials said Friday, confirming that the worst-ever outbreak of the virus has reached Africa's most populous country."
2014-07-26,House votes to block president from sending US troops to fight in Iraq
2014-07-26,Human Rights Watch: Ukrainian forces are rocketing civilians [Washington post]
2014-07-26,Israel and Hamas agree to 12-hour Gaza truce on Saturday brokered by US secretary of state
2014-07-26,Mass grave discovered in Ukraine in former Pro-Russian stronghold
2014-07-26,China Will Build Largest Super Particle Collider
2014-07-26,"Canadian court forces Google to remove search results worldwide, as fears of memory hole grow"
2014-07-26,"Russia Sues McDonalds, Questioning Quality of the Food"
2014-07-26,"Russia criticizes EU sanctions, claims U.S. shares responsibilty ""for the internal conflict in Ukraine and its severe consequences."""
2014-07-26,"India threatens to derail WTO deal, angry US retorts"
2014-07-26,"Leaked World Bank lending policies 'environmentally disastrous': New 'light touch' rules on bank's $50bn annual lending have been gutted to remove protections, watchdogs claim"
2014-07-26,"Deutsche Bank, HSBC Accused of Silver Fix Manipulation"
2014-07-26,Nigeria confirms Ebola case in megacity of Lagos
2014-07-25,A U.S. cyclist who pedaled across 50-plus countries for peace and charity was run over and killed in Russia by a drunken truck driver
2014-07-25,Obama blasts US firms for 'magically becoming Irish' in controversial tax switches
2014-07-25,"The U.S. says it has ""new evidence"" that Russian forces have been firing artillery across the border to attack Ukrainian military positions, and that Moscow is planning to ship powerful rocket artillery to the rebels it backs in the country's east."
2014-07-25,World's 85 richest earn more than 3.5 billion poorest: UN report
2014-07-25,"Israel Bans Radio Broadcast Naming Children Killed in Gaza because it's ""politically controversial""."
2014-07-25,"First Ebola victim in Sierra Leone capital on the run - ""The family of the patient stormed the hospital and forcefully removed her and took her away"""
2014-07-25,"10,000 Palestinians protesting..walking from Ramallah to Jerusalem right now in Israel"
2014-07-25,Egypt sides with Israel in conflict with Hamas
2014-07-25,"Germany to 'spy on US and UK intelligence gathering' for the first time in 45 years | Germany orders surveillance of British and American intelligence gathering, according to reports."
2014-07-25,"Canadian group brings 1,000 litres of Canadian water to citizens in bankrupt Detroit, as part of protest"
2014-07-25,Gay man sentenced for twitter debauchery in Saudi Arabia -- A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced an homosexual man to three years in prison and 450 lashes for using his Twitter account to promote homosexual contacts
2014-07-25,Vladimir Putin has offered to help mediate Palestinian - Israeli cease-fire
2014-07-25,"Russia offers over $100,000 to de-anonymize Tor"
2014-07-25,"A US appeals court has dismissed a lawsuit against banana grower Chiquita brought by at least 4,000 Colombians who accused the company of supporting paramilitary forces who killed or tortured their relatives"
2014-07-25,Thailands Military Government Thinks John Oliver Is a Threat to Its Monarchy
2014-07-25,British inventor builds giant 'fart machine' to fire at France
2014-07-25,U.S. Senate sets $225 million for Israel's Iron Dome in emergency bill
2014-07-25,"Israel-Gaza conflict: Israeli targeting policy under scrutiny after shellfire hits a mother and child, a school full of refugees and a doctors home"
2014-07-25,Officials: ISIS blows up Jonah's tomb in Iraq
2014-07-25,"Wikipedia chief enters internet censorship row: Private search engines such as Google should not be left in charge of ""censoring history"", the Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, has said, after the internet company revealed it had approved half of more than 90,000 ""right to be forgotten"" requests."
2014-07-25,Researchers Successfully Eliminate HIV Virus In Human Cells
2014-07-25,UPDATE 1-U.S. says Russia firing artillery across border at Ukrainian military
2014-07-25,Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians | Human Rights Watch
2014-07-25,Hungarys new ambassador to Italy thinks Jews are agents of Satan who enslave mankind
2014-07-25,Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinian demonstrators in West Bank protest
2014-07-24,"The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither concrete facts nor irrefutable evidence to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist"
2014-07-24,Air Algerie 'loses contact with plane from Burkina Faso'
2014-07-24,"White House is expected to release a version of a classified report on torture during the Bush years... the entire thing, five years in the making, clocks in at about 6,700 pages, making it the most exhaustive account yet of what really went on in secret CIA prisons around the world"
2014-07-24,Israel Bombs Gazas Only Power Plant as Toll Nears 650. Hospitals on the brink of collapse.
2014-07-24,"No, ISIS Isnt Ordering Female Genital Mutilation In Iraq"
2014-07-24,"MH17 looting confirmed: Victims' phones answered by strangers, relatives say"
2014-07-24,Norway faces 'imminent' terror attack
2014-07-24,Dutch mayor wants Vladimir Putin's daughter Maria deported
2014-07-24,Christian leaders express shock at world silence after ISIS expels Iraqi Christians
2014-07-24,"More than 50 former Israeli soldiers have refused to serve in the nations reserve force, citing regret over their part in a military they said plays a central role in oppressing Palestinians"
2014-07-24,Ukrainian Rebels Admit they had BUK launcher at time of MH 17 incident
2014-07-24,UN rights council launches probe into Israeli violations in Gaza - only US voted against it
2014-07-24,The pacific island country of Palau is becoming the first nation to ban commercial fishing and bottom trawling in their waters in order to regenerate fish stocks around the globe.
2014-07-24,Nato responds in depth to all of Russia's allegations
2014-07-24,Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says he is resigning
2014-07-24,Brazil recalls Israel envoy to protest 'disproportionate force' in Gaza
2014-07-24,Hamas leader says there will be no truce in Gaza without an end to the Israeli blockade
2014-07-24,A teenager who was attempting to set a record by becoming the youngest person to fly around the world in 30 days died when his plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
2014-07-24,Europe's top human rights court has ruled that Poland violated the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing the CIA to imprison and torture two alleged terrorists on Polish soil.
2014-07-24,German politicians question Russias suitability to host 2018 World Cup
2014-07-24,'Massacre' at sea: Italy arrests five for killings of over 100 on migrant boat
2014-07-24,Israel 'may have committed war crimes' as one child killed every hour in Gaza over last two days
2014-07-24,American Quakers are Running an 'Underground Railroad' to Help LGBT Ugandans Flee
2014-07-24,European Court Says CIA Ran Secret Jail in a Polish Forest
2014-07-24,Ban Ki-moon expresses 'outrage' as rockets found in Gaza school go missing
2014-07-23,"North Korea requests that the Chinese Government take down doctored video of Kim Jong Un ""Dancing"", China unable to oblige"
2014-07-23,Pro-Russian rebels shoot down two Ukrainian fighter jets
2014-07-23,Britain's porn-blocking filters are overwhelmingly rejected by the populace
2014-07-23,"""On Monday night, a strike hit an eight-story apartment building in downtown Gaza City  an area where Israeli officials had urged Gazans to take shelter. The building collapsed as rescue crews were inside, killing more people. """
2014-07-23,More Rockets found under unrwa schools
2014-07-23,"For civilians fleeing in Gaza, escape options are few - ""Gaza is unique in the annals of modern warfare in being a conflict zone with a fence around it, so civilians have no place to flee."""
2014-07-23,Putin passes law against protests
2014-07-23,"Sierra Leone's chief Ebola doctor contracts the virus: The head doctor fighting the deadly tropical virus Ebola in Sierra Leone has himself caught the disease, the government said."
2014-07-23,The video of a young unarmed Gazan man shot dead was real. His family learned of his death through YouTube.
2014-07-23,UN Chief: 'Israel Could Be Guilty Of War Crimes'
2014-07-23,700 Syrians killed in two days of conflict
2014-07-23,"German protesters chant ""Jews to the gas chambers during Anti-Israel protests"
2014-07-23,"Argentina zoo refuses to move 'world's saddest polar bear' to Canada - Arturo the polar bear will not be moved out of sweltering heat in Argentinian zoo, despite petition gathering half a million signatures"
2014-07-23,"New York Times reviews the raw footage of the video posted earlier, showing a wounded civilian shot to death in Gaza, says ""it bears no apparent signs of manipulation""."
2014-07-23,"I would fire rockets at Israel, tweets British MP"
2014-07-23,Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash: Pro-Russian rebel admits to shooting down plane
2014-07-23,Israel asks U.S. for $225m for missing Iron Dome parts
2014-07-23,Cockpit of MH 17 found sawed in half at crash site
2014-07-23,"Putin looking to enact a tax ""solidarity tax"" on Russia's 1% to help pay for the Crimean annexation"
2014-07-23,"BBC Arabic reporter attacked on air in Ashkelon, Israel"
2014-07-23,Pope telephones Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to end Holy Land hostilities
2014-07-23,"As many as 48 dead, 8 injured in Taiwan plane crash"
2014-07-23,Ukraine is officially in a war - assessment by The Red Cross
2014-07-23,US: No evidence of direct Russian link to plane
2014-07-23,Israel outraged over UNRWA turning over rockets to Hamas - 07/23/2014
2014-07-22,Delta cancels all flights to Israel indefinitely
2014-07-22,Internet Piracy deciminalised in the UK. Only warnings will be sent in 2015 and no one will be disconnected.
2014-07-22,"Britain decriminalises online video game, music and movie piracy."
2014-07-22,"Gaza struggles to bury the bodies of the more than 550 dead. Morgues are overflowing, the freezers are full, and the living are too afraid of the Israeli offensive to hold proper funerals."
2014-07-22,"Shots fired into Al Jazeera's office in Gaza, a day after Israeli FM said Israel will work to close down the network."
2014-07-22,"The Great Barrier Reef is in the worst state it's been in since records began and will be ""pretty ugly"" within 40 years, Australian scientists say."
2014-07-22,"France's Jews Flee As Rioters Burn Paris Shops, Attack Synagogue"
2014-07-22,"'No safe place for civilians' in Gaza, U.N. says"
2014-07-22,"MH17 tributes in Moscow: 'Forgive us.' Despite denials by Putin of Russian responsibility in downing MH17, dozens of tributes have been left outside the Dutch embassy by regular Russians."
2014-07-22,The bodies of MH17 victims to be taken to the Netherlands and the Black Boxes will be handed over to a Malaysian Team tonight.
2014-07-22,"Defying allies, France to deliver first warship to Russia"
2014-07-22,Cellphone Video Captures Gaza Civilian Shot and Killed By Sniper
2014-07-22,MSNBC Contributor Accuses Network Of 'Biased' Coverage Toward Israel
2014-07-22,Rebels in eastern Ukraine have handed over two flight-data recorders from the downed MH17 plane to Malaysian officials
2014-07-22,Israeli ambassador to the US says IDF deserves Nobel Peace Prize for 'unimaginable restraint'
2014-07-22,Russia's richest lost $1.7B Friday
2014-07-22,Muslims show solidarity with Iraqi Christians in Baghdad rally
2014-07-22,"Quebec mayor, stung by wasps, dies."
2014-07-22,"11 parents of Nigerias abducted girls die: Since the mass abduction of the schoolgirls by Islamic extremists three months ago, at least 11 of their parents have died and their hometown, Chibok, is under siege from the militants, residents report."
2014-07-22,"Dutch expert says Ukraine body recovery team 'did a hell of a job' - ""I'm very impressed about the work that was done over here,"" he said after inspecting the main crash site"
2014-07-22,World Health Organization Calls for Drug Decriminalization and Broad Drug Policy Reforms
2014-07-22,North Korea appeals to White House to halt release of US comedy film - Telegraph
2014-07-22,Emotional Al Jazeera Journalist Breaks Down During Gaza Report
2014-07-22,Sinn Fein calls for expulsion of Israeli ambassador
2014-07-22,Kuwait revokes citizenship of opposition activists including the owner of a pro-opposition satellite television channel and a daily newspaper
2014-07-21,Netherlands opens war crimes investigation into MH17 airliner downing
2014-07-21,Russian Billionaires in horror as Putin risks isolation
2014-07-21,"President Barack Obama and the UN have called for an ""immediate ceasefire"" between Israel and Hamas as the death toll among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip reached 508."
2014-07-21,"Human Rights Watch: Boko Haram kills 2,053 over the course of 6 months and the girls kidnapped in April are still missing and most likely scattered, in case anyone forgot"
2014-07-21,More than 700 killed in Syria in what may be the bloodiest 48 hours of fighting in the conflict to date
2014-07-21,"Most intense shelling in Gaza, streets littered with dead bodies, death toll climbs to 425 - The death toll on the Palestinian side included children and women, with over 2,500 injured and almost 61,000 displaced seeking refuges in 49 UN Relief and Works Agency run centres"
2014-07-21,"At least 100 Palestinians from a single neighbourhood have been killed, as Israel continues its assault on the Gaza Strip."
2014-07-21,"Malaysia Air avoiding Ukraine, diverted flights over Syria instead"
2014-07-21,"China shuts meat factory supplying McDonald's, KFC and others for mixing expired meat with new and of misleading inspectors - Australia Network News"
2014-07-21,Dutch forensic team gets access to MH17 victims' bodies five days after crash
2014-07-21,David Cameron in furious phone call with Vladimir Putin over 'indefensible' Russian delays
2014-07-21,"64 public figures, 7 Nobel laureates, call for arms embargo on Israel"
2014-07-21,Snowden seeks to develop anti-surveillance technologies
2014-07-21,Deaths as Israeli tanks shell Gaza hospital
2014-07-21,MH17: UN draft resolution demands 'guilty should be held to account'
2014-07-21,Bosnians bury ethnically cleansed victims: Thousands of Bosnians have gathered for a mass funeral for their loved ones more than 20 years after they were killed in the country's civil war. Many of the bodies were only discovered recently in a nearby mass grave.
2014-07-21,Hundreds of Japanese hold silent protest for Gaza
2014-07-21,Phone intercepts allegedly show Russia tried to seize MH17's black boxes
2014-07-21,"Carlos Slim calls for three-day working week to improve quality of lifeMexican billionaire says workforce could be spread over a full week, employees working up to 10 or 11 hours a day"
2014-07-21,Independent: Netanyahu says Hamas using rising death toll to make Israel look bad
2014-07-21,Hamas armed wing stating they have abducted an Israel soldier.
2014-07-21,"KFC, Pizza Hut, and McDonalds are hit with a new China food scandal: expired meat products"
2014-07-21,US says recordings of Ukraine rebels admitting MH17 downing authentic
2014-07-21,Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 hit by rocket is consumed by fire at Tripoli International airport
2014-07-21,Pro-Palestinian protesters raid Jewish neighborhood outside Paris
2014-07-20,Ukraine Says It Can Prove Russia Supplied Arms System That Felled Jet
2014-07-20,MH17 victims put into refrigerated train bound for unknown destination
2014-07-20,Anti-Russia Sentiment Running Deep in Malaysia
2014-07-20,Anger mounts towards Russia as inspectors still denied access: Armed separatists deny full access to crash site for investigators and media amid accusations rebels are tampering with evidence and removing bodies from the site
2014-07-20,Ukraine: Rebels Have Taken All Plane Crash Bodies
2014-07-20,"Britain, Netherlands say EU will need to reconsider relations with Russia due to plane disaster"
2014-07-20,"Dutch prime minister warns Putin on ""last chance"" to help recover MH17 bodies: Thomson Reuters"
2014-07-20,Murdered Crimewatch presenter Jill Dando 'tried to get bosses to investigate alleged paeodphile ring inside the BBC but no one wanted to know'
2014-07-20,13 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza Strip
2014-07-20,"""Serious diplomatic crisis between Athens and Moscow as Greek Foreign Ministry have barred Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko, ""Putin's Right Hand"", from coming to Greece"
2014-07-20,Dutch banks act on MH17 credit card looting reports
2014-07-20,"Ebola virus disease, West Africa (update 18 July 2014) - now over 1,000 cases and 600 deaths"
2014-07-20,Israel says field hospital at Erez open for Gazans
2014-07-20,"Japan's Mount Fuji is in a 'Critical State', could be Ready to Blow, Researchers Say"
2014-07-20,Japan's Supreme Court rules that permanent foreign residents are ineligible for welfare benefits
2014-07-20,Hamas Fighters Infiltrate Israel Through Tunnel and Kill Two Soldiers
2014-07-20,"Israeli bulldozers demolished more than a dozen tunnels Saturday in the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian authorities reported intensified airstrikes and shelling as the death toll from Israel's ground offensive rose to at least 342 Palestinians."
2014-07-20,"Raw footage: Israeli forces storm holiest mosque in Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque"
2014-07-20,"There is no such thing as Ebola - As the Ebola virus continues to spread in West Africa, so do the rumors. Some say you can contract Ebola from a motorcycle helmet. Others say you can cure the deadly virus by drinking Nescaf mixed with cocoa and sugar  or with two large onions."
2014-07-20,Islamic State levels small Iraqi town as a warning
2014-07-20,MH17: Kerry says all evidence points to pro-Russia Ukrainian separatists
2014-07-20,Explosion Reported in a Moscow Metro Station
2014-07-20,Bolivian president: Israel air strikes on Gaza is 'genocide'
2014-07-20,"Israel-Gaza conflict: Gaza death toll rises as the world protests - More than 300 have been killed since Israel launched its offensive 12 days ago, and hospitals are struggling to treat all the injured, many of them children"
2014-07-20,UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon has accused Vladimir Putin of sponsoring terrorism and delivered an ultimatum to Russias leader: Get out of Ukraine.
2014-07-19,"Nude photos of strangers are a 'fringe benefit' for NSA employees, says Snowden | The former NSA contractor said that images of people in ""sexually compromising situations"" were regularly passed around by young employees"
2014-07-19,"US terrorist database already has 1.5 million ""terrorists"", and it's growing at rapid rate"
2014-07-19,"200,000 people sign petition to move a ""depressed"" polar bear to Canada"
2014-07-19,MH17: rebels block access to part of site of crash as evidence against them grows
2014-07-19,Russia spotted editing Wikipedia page about downed Malaysia Air jet
2014-07-19,The MH17 site is being stripped by looters
2014-07-19,Pentagon: Russia helped deploy missile that hit plane
2014-07-19,"Cancer treatment clears two Australian patients of HIV: Scientists have uncovered two new cases of HIV patients in whom the virus has become undetectable. The two patients, both Australian men, became apparently HIV-free after receiving stem cells to treat cancer."
2014-07-19,Ukraine says Russia helping destroy crash evidence
2014-07-19,Australia may ban Putin from G20 meeting.
2014-07-19,Putins Approval Rating Reaches Record High in Russia
2014-07-19,Malaysia Airlines MH17: Government facing growing pressure to ban Russian president from attending G20
2014-07-19,Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razaks step-grandmother killed on Flight MH17
2014-07-19,"RCMP officer who witnessed the beheading on a Greyhound bus in 2008, commits suicide from PTSD struggles"
2014-07-19,Jihadists kill 270 in Syrian gas field 'massacre'
2014-07-19,Pro-Russian rebels 'stole bodies from MH17 crash site'
2014-07-19,Merkel: Russia partly responsible for Ukraine crash
2014-07-19,Donkey suicide bomb stopped by Israeli troops in Gaza
2014-07-19,"Russia Bans Congressman, 12 Other Americans"
2014-07-19,Suicide bombing kills 24 in Baghdad
2014-07-19,Malaysia Airlines: Crash site in Ukraine goes neglected as bodies decompose.
2014-07-19,Pro-Russia Rebel Commander Suggests Passengers Died Days Before Malaysian Flight
2014-07-19,Islamic State overwhelms Iraqi forces at Tikrit in major defeat and killed or captured hundreds of Iraqi government troops
2014-07-19,MH17: Rebels accused of stealing bodies from crash site
2014-07-19,NBC Reporter Ayman Mohyeldin Who Witnessed Killing of 4 Palestinian Children Removed From Gaza by the Network
2014-07-18,The World Health Organization calls for the decriminalization of drug use
2014-07-18,Israel Ground Invasion of Gaza has Begun
2014-07-18,"As Putin blames Ukraine for MH17 tragedy, video emerges 'showing BUK missile launcher being driven into place'"
2014-07-18,US Intelligence Confirms Surface to Air Missile downed Malaysian Airplane
2014-07-18,Dutch Senator killed in Malaysia Airlines crash
2014-07-18,Russia Today London correspondent resigns in protest at 'disrespect for facts' over Malaysian plane crash
2014-07-18,Family suffers tragedy twice. Kaylene Mann lost her brother Rod Burrows and her sister-in-law Mary with MH370 and her step-daughter Maree Rizk and her husband Albert were among the Australians on flight MH17.
2014-07-18,Hamas hacks Israeli TV sat channel to broadcast pics of Gaza wounded
2014-07-18,"154 Dutch nationals, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysian, 11 Indonesians, six British nationals, four Germans, four Belgians, three Filipinos and one Canadian were on board MH17. Nationality of remaining 47 still undetermined."
2014-07-18,UN: 80 per cent of Palestinians killed in Israeli offensive are civilians
2014-07-18,CNN reporter removed from Israel-Gaza after branding Israelis who gathered to watch bombardment 'scum' after they threatened her
2014-07-18,"Leading AIDS researchers/activists, WHO spokesperson reportedly on board Malaysian flight"
2014-07-18,MH17 death toll increased to 298  3 infants were on board
2014-07-18,"Turkish Prime Minister: ""Israel threatens world peace. Israel threatens peace in the Middle East"" ... ""Israel is at the moment waging terrorism; Israel at the moment is carrying out genocide"""
2014-07-18,"Germany is most energy efficient major economy, study finds"
2014-07-18,U.S. Senate Doubles Funding for Israel's Iron Dome
2014-07-18,"City workers in Seoul will be allowed an hour a day to nap during the height of summer, in a bid to boost productivity. Anytime between 1pm and 6pm, as long as they make up for it by arriving early or leaving late. Employees can use lounges, conference rooms and other places to rest."
2014-07-18,Russian aircrafts violate Ukrainian air space 5 times during 24 hours
2014-07-18,"- Two months after ordering 2,000 trains that were too wide, a French transport company orders 30 too-wide escalators, which will cost millions to replace."
2014-07-18,ISIS Threatens To Kill Creator of Muslim Superhero Comic Series The 99
2014-07-18,"Boko Haram Jihadists Massacre 38 Christians During Attack On Village, Three Churches Burnt"
2014-07-18,The Indian Prime Minister's flight was close behind the one that got shot down
2014-07-18,Putin's Statement on Ukraine Plane Crash
2014-07-18,Airline will not escape liability if act of war caused crash
2014-07-18,Obama makes first remarks on plane crash in Ukraine
2014-07-17,"German footballer Mesut Ozil donated his 300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgery of 23 children in Brazil"
2014-07-17,Malaysian Plane crashes over the Ukraine
2014-07-17,Mexico is going to war on the nation's obesity epidemic by banning television ads for soda and high-calorie foods
2014-07-17,Australia becomes the first country in the world to go backwards on climate policy by removing a price on carbon
2014-07-17,"The U.S. Should Not Prosecute Edward Snowden, U.N. Official Says"
2014-07-17,Malaysian passenger plane crashes in Ukraine near Russian border [Reuters]
2014-07-17,BBC News - LIVE UPDATES: Malaysian Airlines MH17 Crashes in Eastern Ukraine by Russian Border
2014-07-17,Russian missile launchers filmed firing across the border into Ukraine
2014-07-17,Rockets fired from Gaza two hours into temporary truce - Diplomacy and Defense
2014-07-17,Report: Hamas proposes 10-year cease-fire in return for conditions being met
2014-07-17,Met Police detective says he was taken off probe into child abuse claims after revealing he planned to investigate senior politicians
2014-07-17,Russia to reopen spy base in Cuba as relations with US continue to sour - Decision to reopen signals intelligence facility south of Havana follows Russia forgiving 90% of Cuba's unpaid Soviet-era debts
2014-07-17,Banned anal exam akin to torture still being used by police in Lebanon to determine if people are gay
2014-07-17,UNRWA investigates after rockets found in Gaza school - Channel NewsAsia
2014-07-17,"The controversial Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Bill, which extends government and security services' surveillance powers, has been overwhelmingly passed in the House of Commons with all-party support"
2014-07-17,US Congress approves $351m in aid to Israel's Iron Dome
2014-07-17,US widens sanctions against Russia
2014-07-17,Israeli military takes out 13 Hamas terrorists who crossed into Israel from Gaza via underground tunnel
2014-07-17,Massive tunnel infiltration into Israel from Gaza thwarted.
2014-07-17,"Reports: Israel Accepts Egypts Cease-Fire Plan, Hamas Rejects"
2014-07-17,Israel recognizes murdered Arab teenager as terror victim. Family will get benefits from the state & victim will be on list of names on Israel's Memorial Day.
2014-07-17,Israel declares 'humanitarian truce'
2014-07-17,Julian Assange Arrest Warrant Upheld
2014-07-17,Australia repeals its price on carbon emissions
2014-07-17,"France 'bans pro-Palestinian rallies' as tensions increasingly mirror Israel-Gaza animosity: Thousands protested in Paris this week against rising Palestinian death toll in Israeli strikes, now French authorities reportedly imposed full ban on pro-Palestinian marches in several cities"
2014-07-16,NASA: Humans Will Prove We Are Not Alone In The Universe Within 20 Years
2014-07-16,A U.S. military nurse has refused to conduct forced feedings of inmates at Guantanamo Bay
2014-07-16,Giant hole appears at 'world's end'
2014-07-16,"Israeli naval ship 'bombs Palestinian children on Gaza beach', killing four... A journalist who saw the incident said some of the children who survived were running away when another shell seemed to be aimed at them."
2014-07-16,Journalists will face jail over spy leaks under new security laws in Australia
2014-07-16,Julian Assange May be Freed Today
2014-07-16,660 paedophile suspects arrested in the UK - Paedophiles using the 'Dark Web'.
2014-07-16,Tesla Motors magnate Elon Musk donates $1 mn to Nikola Tesla museum
2014-07-16,"Four-winged dinosaur is 'biggest ever': A new four-winged dinosaur has been discovered, with exceptionally long feathers on its tail and ""hindwings"". Changyuraptor yangi was a gliding predator which lived in the Cretaceous period in what is now Liaoning, China."
2014-07-16,"Former dictator Manuel Noriega sues Call of Duty publishers for portraying him as a kidnapper, murderer and enemy of the state'"
2014-07-16,900 Kurds enter Syria to defend Kurdish city against the Islamic State
2014-07-16,Metropolitan Police officer was moved 'from child abuse inquiry' - A former senior Metropolitan Police officer says he was moved from his post when he revealed plans to investigate politicians over child abuse claims.
2014-07-16,New UK 'Drip' data law will allow interception of internet traffic worldwide
2014-07-16,Suicide Blast Kills 89 in Afghanistan
2014-07-16,Federal and state police officers raided a group home Tuesday in the western state of Michoacan and rescued 458 children who were forced to beg for money and suffered sexual abuse while being against their will in filthy conditions
2014-07-16,Georgian ambassador at time of 2008 war with Russia found dead
2014-07-16,ISIS has ordered government workers to stop giving rations to Christians and Shiites in Mosul
2014-07-16,Julian Assange: Swedish judge rules on lifting of arrest warrant  live
2014-07-16,Ukraine submits evidence of Russian covert action
2014-07-16,Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have entered northern Syria to help battle jihadists besieging the Kurdish city of Ain al-Arab
2014-07-16,Software used to count Australian Senate votes is a trade secret
2014-07-16,"Germany has criticised Russia for failing to meet commitments to end the violence in Ukraine, and said it might face further EU sanctions."
2014-07-16,Leaders of the BRICS emerging market nations launched a $100 billion development bank and a currency reserve pool on Tuesday in their first concrete step toward reshaping the Western-dominated international financial system.
2014-07-16,"As Border Tensions Rise, Ukraine and Russia Draw Nearer to Direct Conflict"
2014-07-16,UN's Pillay suggests Snowden should not face trial
2014-07-15,"Documents leaked by Edward Snowden reveal GCHQ programs to track targets, spread information and manipulate online debates"
2014-07-15,Germany 'may revert to typewriters' to counter hi-tech espionage | Politicians claim communciations technology is mistrusted in wake of US spying allegations and NSA surveillance revelations
2014-07-15,Iran sentences eight Facebook activists to total of 127 years in prison for 'criticising government'
2014-07-15,India caps price of 108 more medicines
2014-07-15,Hong Kong asks Beijing for greater democracy
2014-07-15,Cheetah Smuggling Driving Wild Population to Extinction - Rising demand for cheetahs as luxury pets in the Middle East taking gruesome toll as 2/3 of snatched cubs are dying en route. Nations at both ends of the trade agreed urgent action is needed.
2014-07-15,"Moscow Metro derailment: 3 killed, over 80 injured in rush hour"
2014-07-15,"Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS nations) to launch World Bank and IMF rivals"
2014-07-15,"10,000-year-old rock paintings depicting aliens and UFOs found in India"
2014-07-15,Germany pledges $1bn to UN climate change fund
2014-07-15,"Australia: George Brandis set to require internet, phone companies hold customer data for two years."
2014-07-15,U.S. signs agreement for $11 billion arms sale to Qatar
2014-07-15,The US has begun stage 1 of sending recent illegal immigrants back to their home countries
2014-07-15,"Australian intelligence agencies to be given new powers. ""Australians would be wise to insist on very careful scrutiny of these proposals before endorsing them."""
2014-07-15,"Chinese TV anchor vanishes from the screen in corruption investigation, viewers watching an economics programme on China Central Television on Friday saw only an empty chair with an unused microphone where Rui Chenggang normally sits"
2014-07-15,North Korea fires 100 artillery shells near border over US-South Korea naval exercises
2014-07-15,WTO rules against US in trade spat with China and India
2014-07-15,"90% of mostly civilian aircraft destroyed by rocket shelling at Tripoli airport, Libya may now seek deployment of international force"
2014-07-15,"UK's New Energy & Environment Ministers Opposed Green Energy - Energy minister, Matthew Hancock, signed letter calling for cuts to wind power subsidies & environment secretary, Liz Truss, claimed renewable power was damaging the economy"
2014-07-15,CNET attacked by Russian hacker group
2014-07-15,Ebola crisis in West Africa deepens
2014-07-15,Pakistan: Man accused of blasphemy sentenced to death
2014-07-15,UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says he will try to raise $2.2bn (1.3bn) in aid money to fight the spread of cholera in Haiti.
2014-07-15,"Russia has invited monitors from the OSCE to two of its border crossings with Ukraine as a sign of goodwill. Meanwhile, Ukraine has said shots that downed a military plane ""probably"" came from Russian territory."
2014-07-15,TEPCO's rubble removal at Fukushima plant likely spread cesium to rice paddies 20km away
2014-07-14,"Executive pay '180 times average', report finds: Executive pay has grown from 60 times that of the average worker to almost 180 times since the 1990s, according to a report."
2014-07-14,Germany 1 - 0 Argentina. Germany win the 2014 FIFA World Cup!
2014-07-14,Church of England votes in favour of women bishops.
2014-07-14,Edward Snowden condemns Britain's emergency surveillance bill
2014-07-14,"Samsung has temporarily suspended business with one of its suppliers in China after finding ""evidence"" of illegal child labour at the plant."
2014-07-14,Ukraine says plane shot down by rocket from Russia
2014-07-14,"In Iraqs disputed territory, minorities are embracing Kurdish control"
2014-07-14,"Chinese hacker arrested, charged with hacking Boeing and US fighter jet planes"
2014-07-14,"The clouds of black carbon soiling snow and ice in Finlands Arctic region have diminished since the middle of the 20th century, a change attributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the cessation of some of the most polluting industrial practices in Russia, according to a new study."
2014-07-14,"Natural Disasters including storms, floods and heatwaves have increased fivefold since the 1970s, UN finds"
2014-07-14,China bemoans its peoples behavior in Africaincluding undergarment ivory smuggling
2014-07-14,"Malware hidden in Chinese inventory scanners targeted logistics, shipping firms"
2014-07-14,"Angela Merkel ""does not want to complete full term as German chancellor and is considering quitting ahead of the 2017 elections--interested in UN Secretary-General or President of the European Council roles"
2014-07-14,"34 killed in raid on alleged brothel in Baghdad - An AFP correspondent on the scene reported that the attackers left a message on a door: ""This is the fate of any prostitution."""
2014-07-14,"Pope Francis says about 8,000 pedophiles are members of Catholic clergy, including bishops and cardinals"
2014-07-14,Moscow 'considering targeted strikes' on Ukraine: report
2014-07-14,Rebels have captured Lugansk airport. Rebel airstrike has destroyed 6 Ukrainian tanks
2014-07-14,News from Israel and Palestine for July 13th / 14th
2014-07-14,US father takes unclaimed African kingdom so his daughter can be a princess
2014-07-14,"The Chief Judge of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in August 2010 formally approved spying by the US National Security Agency on all countries except Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, according to reports published in the United States"
2014-07-14,Military transport plane shot down in eastern Ukraine
2014-07-14,Eight killed in militant attack in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
2014-07-14,"The Pope cites data suggesting that about 2% of Catholic priests are pedophiles, wrote that ""I find this state of affairs intolerable."""
2014-07-14,"BRICS nations rally around Russia: ""Leaders of the BRICS nations will meet July 15-16 in Fortaleza in northeastern Brazil, in a gathering that sends a strong message about their refusal to isolate Russia"""
2014-07-14,Ukraine says Russian army officers fighting with rebels
2014-07-13,"The World Health Organization has suggested for the first time that all men who have sex with men should take antiretroviral medicine as an additional method of preventing HIV infection, warning that HIV infection rates among gay men are exploding around the world."
2014-07-13,"Margaret Thatcher 'personally covered up' child abuse allegations against senior ministers: The Tory Prime Minister is said to have held a meeting with a rising star, who was tipped for promotion, and told him: You have to clean up your sexual act"
2014-07-13,Tory child abuse whistleblower: 'I supplied underage rent boys for Margaret Thatcher's cabinet ministers'
2014-07-13,American Quakers are Running an 'Underground Railroad' to Help LGBT Ugandans Flee
2014-07-13,Israeli 'knock on the roof' bombing technique caught on film
2014-07-13,WikiLeaks reports the FBI to Danish police
2014-07-13,Toxic Agent Orange ingredients found at Okinawa US military dumpsite
2014-07-13,'About 2% of Catholic Clergy are pedophiles' says Pope Francis
2014-07-13,"Russia has vowed to respond to a ""dangerous escalation"" of violence near its border, after a Russian man was killed and two women injured by shelled fired across the Ukraine border."
2014-07-13,Hamas call on evacuated citizens who heeded Israeli warnings to return to the war zone
2014-07-13,Australia slams extremist PETA for sheep abuse video
2014-07-13,Tory child abuse whistleblower: 'Margaret Thatcher knew all about underage sex ring among ministers'
2014-07-13,The UN has estimated that 77% of the people killed in Gaza have been civilians.
2014-07-13,Two major Palestinian West Bank cities hit by rockets fired from Gaza
2014-07-13,Israel Navy commandos raid long-range rocket facility in Gaza
2014-07-13,"Russia threatens Ukraine with ""irreversible consequences"" after shell crosses border. Ukraine denies its forces fired into Russian territory."
2014-07-13,"More Than A Dozen US Spies Infiltrate German Ministries Says Bild: ""The alleged spies have infiltrated the German defense, development, economic, and interior ministries, reported Bild on Sunday [13 July 2014], citing unnamed sources within the US intelligence community."""
2014-07-13,Tobacco giant 'tried blackmail' to block Ugandan anti-smoking law
2014-07-13,"UN calls for Israel-Gaza ceasefire. At least 133 Palestinians have been killed in the last 5 days, three quarters of them civilians according to the UN"
2014-07-13,"Some 29 people, 20 of them women, were killed on Saturday evening in an apartment building in eastern Baghdad by gunmen wearing a mix of plain clothes and camouflage, a police officer and a hospital official said."
2014-07-13,"Reprocessing plant to give Japan enough plutonium for 2,000 bombs a year: US expert"
2014-07-13,"US congressman called Germany reaction on a spy sa ""temper tantrum"""
2014-07-13,Half of Gaza's dead 'are women and children'
2014-07-13,Fierce fighting erupts around Tripoli airport
2014-07-13,Sean Connery joins Bahamas campaign to stop billionaire developing mansion
2014-07-12,"Whistleblower: NSA stores 80% of all phone calls, not just metadata - full audio"
2014-07-12,Fukushima hit by 6.8 quake. Tsunami warning issued.
2014-07-12,Former archbishop of Canterbury lends his support to campaign to legalize right to die. Lord Carey says the assisted dying proposal is a way to prevent 'needless suffering' and help the terminally ill; it is 'not anti-Christian'.
2014-07-12,"A large umbrella group of churches representing more than half a billion Christians worldwide announced Thursday that it would pull all of its investments in fossil fuels, saying it had determined the investments were no longer ethical"
2014-07-12,Vladimir Putin: I support Israel
2014-07-12,Great Barrier Reef impact from Australian PM Tony Abbott's decision to dredge could cost 'as much as $1 billion'
2014-07-12,"For the first time, China admits trading in Tiger Skins. ""We don't ban trade in tiger skins, but we do ban trade in tiger bones."""
2014-07-12,Bulgaria to allow its fourth-biggest bank to collapse
2014-07-12,Chinese state media has branded Apple Inc's iPhone a threat to national security because of the smartphone's ability to track and time-stamp user locations.
2014-07-12,Arab states draft Gaza truce deal; Hamas refuses to consider it
2014-07-12,"Protests will be held in towns and cities across the UK today (the 12th of July) against a major trade deal that campaign groups believe would hit jobs and public services | Opponents claim that the proposed TTIP deal is the result of ""secret"" negotiations between the US and the European Commission."
2014-07-12,"""The Obama administration knew in advance that the British government would oversee destruction of a newspaper's hard drives containing leaked National Security Agency documents last year, newly declassified documents show."""
2014-07-12,"U.S. hints at displeasure with Germany over spying controversy - ""Administration officials have expressed frustration with Germanys angry reaction"""
2014-07-12,Two killed and four wounded in Israeli strike on residential home for disabled people in Gaza's Beit Lahiya
2014-07-12,Hamas warning to Israel: Invade Gaza and we will kidnap your soldiers
2014-07-12,"Sheep beaten with a hammer, punched and thrown around by shearers sparks RSPCA investigation"
2014-07-12,"Thousands in London, Paris, and Oslo protest Israeli strikes in Gaza - 7/11/2014"
2014-07-12,Top German Politician: Crystal Meth Makes Me Work Harder
2014-07-12,"BRICS nations launch New Development Bank, and emergency reserves fund, will offer developing nations alternative financing to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund."
2014-07-12,Germany demands public promise from US to end spying
2014-07-12,EU sees likelihood of Israeli ground attack on Gaza
2014-07-12,"Canadian First Nation evicticting CN Rail, logging companies, fishermen from its lands"
2014-07-12,Kurds keep advancing
2014-07-12,ISIS Battle For Baghdad Stalls Amid Escalating Violence In Aleppo
2014-07-12,"Kurds withdraw support, leaving Iraq without a president"
2014-07-11,Putin writes off 90 percent of Cuba's debts to USSR | 90 percent of the debt of the Republic of Cuba to the Soviet Union will be written off.
2014-07-11,Amazon snubs French free delivery ban with one-cent charge
2014-07-11,HIV Returns In Baby Thought To Be Cured
2014-07-11,Helsinki's Ambitious Plan to Make Car Ownership Pointless in 10 Yrs - Finland's capital hopes a 'mobility on demand' system that integrates all forms of shared and public transport in a single payment network could essentially render private cars obsolete
2014-07-11,"Judge in Australia says incest may no longer be a taboo and the only reason it is criminal is potential birth abnormalities, which can be solved by abortion"
2014-07-11,"How a Mexican Cartel Demolished a Town, Incinerated Hundreds of Victims, and Got Away With It"
2014-07-11,"China makes new electric cars tax-free | Buyers of fully electric, hybrid and fuel cell cars will not have to pay purchase tax from September to the end of 2017"
2014-07-11,Abbas slams Hamas over rocket attacks on Israel: What are you trying to achieve?
2014-07-11,Thirty Ukrainian troops possibly killed in rebel grad missile attack
2014-07-11,'100 killed' in Gaza as pressure builds on Israel to end military offensive
2014-07-11,Scientists say they have developed the world's first vaccine against dengue fever seen to work in large-scale trials.
2014-07-11,"Report: Israel warns 100,000 Gaza residents to leave"
2014-07-11,UK Fast Tracks Emergency Surveillance Law
2014-07-11,"London student accused of trying to smuggle 20,000 cash to Syrian jihadists in her underwear"
2014-07-11,"China's Communist Party Admits It Has a Big Corruption Problem - Its the result of a lack of checks and balances in Chinas government. No one can limit the power of the officials and the party."""
2014-07-11,India Sets Aside $1.6 Billion Fund For Startups
2014-07-11,80-year-old Irish woman goes back to jail for protesting US use of Shannon Airport (x-post from r/Ireland)
2014-07-11,"Ukrainian forces launch an ""all out attack"" on Pro-Russian forces near Donetsk"
2014-07-11,The Afghan Taliban have urged Muslims to avoid extremism and remain united.
2014-07-11,Soot-Stained Documents Reveal Firing Squad Executions Carried out by Rebels in Ukraine
2014-07-11,FBI monitored Nelson Mandela in 1990s over perceived communist threat
2014-07-11,"Brics to Open Alternatives to World Bank, IMF"
2014-07-11,Amazon counter-attacks French ban on free deliveries
2014-07-11,India Building World's Highest Railway Bridge
2014-07-11,China Says It's up to US to Drive Global Economy
2014-07-10,Chinese hackers hacked into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees in March
2014-07-10,Germany expels CIA official in US spy row
2014-07-10,Books not considered 'Pro-family (1 father 1 mother)' to be destroyed by National Library Board in Singapore.
2014-07-10,"Islamist plot to blow up Eiffel Tower, Louvre and nuclear power plant foiled, say French police"
2014-07-10,New UK Law requiring all internet and phone companies to log usage to be enforced within a week
2014-07-10,Chinese President Says Conflict With U.S. Would Be Disaster
2014-07-10,US-Backed 'Moderate' Free Syrian Army Factions Join ISIS Terror Group
2014-07-10,"The scientists who conducted the study are still unsure why the magnetic field is weakening, but one likely reason is that Earth's magnetic poles are getting ready to flip, said Rune Floberghagen, the ESA's Swarm mission manager. In fact, the data suggest magnetic north is moving toward Siberia."
2014-07-10,"Synthetic cannabis 'not medicinal', EU top court says"
2014-07-10,Files on UK role in CIA abductions accidentally 'soaked in water'
2014-07-10,Fatah joins Hamas and Islamic Jihad in missile launches
2014-07-10,Russia writes off $32bn Cuban debt in show of brotherly love
2014-07-10,Neonicotinoids linked to recent fall in farmland bird numbers
2014-07-10,"More than 50 bodies, including children, found in Iraq"
2014-07-10,"""Emergency powers"" to ensure police and security services can continue to access phone and internet records are being rushed through the UK Parliament, dispite the EU rejecting the plan."
2014-07-10,"Snowden's asylum in Russia runs out this month, asks for extension"
2014-07-10,Exclusive: Iraq tells U.N. that 'terrorist groups' seized nuclear materials
2014-07-10,Israeli police officer to be charged in beating of Palestinian teen
2014-07-10,India Earned 40 Million For Launching 15 Foreign Satellites - Business insider
2014-07-10,Harper confirms Canadas support for Israel in conversation with Netanyahu
2014-07-10,"Scholarly journal retracts 60 articles, smashes ""peer review ring."""
2014-07-10,"China is selling $38 million worth of missiles, grenade launchers, machine guns and ammunition to South Sudans government, even as it pledges to help end a civil war in the country now on the brink of famine."
2014-07-10,"Judge compares incest and paedophilia to past attitudes towards homosexuality, claiming they might not be taboo anymore"
2014-07-10,Iron Dome racks up 90% success rate so far. Changes to civilian aviation as Hamas takes aim at airport; Iron Dome doing better than it did in 2012.
2014-07-10,"53 unidentified corpses were found south of Baghdad, all of them blindfolded and handcuffed, with bullets to the chest and head. Mass killings are becoming a regular occurrence again in Iraq for the first time since the worst days of sectarian and ethnic cleansing in 2006-2007."
2014-07-09,Germany destroy Brazil 7-1 as Miroslav Klose becomes the record scorer by netting his 16th finals goal in World Cup History.
2014-07-09,"Approximately 23 buses have been set ablaze in Sao Paolo, Brazil following the World Cup defeat to Germany."
2014-07-09,"British woman, 65, 'threw spear at officials' as she was arrested for allegedly running Philippines 'House of Horrors' where children as young as six months suffered abuse"
2014-07-09,There is a second Snowden - says Greenwald
2014-07-09,Latest Snowden Leaks: FBI Targeted Muslim-American Lawyers
2014-07-09,Another German Spy working for US
2014-07-09,Israeli rockets strike at more than 400 Gaza sites
2014-07-09,Bill Gates funds birth control microchip
2014-07-09,A Ukrainian military officer was captured by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and is currently being held at a detention facility in the Russian city of Voronezh
2014-07-09,"Kidnapped Israeli teens were shot 10 times with silenced gun, according to U.S. official"
2014-07-09,"Files on UK role in CIA rendition accidentally destroyed, says minister | Rights groups say FCO claim records of flights in and out of Diego Garcia missing due to water damage 'smacks of cover-up'"
2014-07-09,Central Israel under threat as Iron Dome intercepts rockets over Tel Aviv
2014-07-09,Canadian Mark Emery due to released from federal prison after serving 5 years for selling Marijuana seeds
2014-07-09,Live updates on the Israeli air raids on Gaza - 32 Palestinians killed in 'operation protective edge' including children
2014-07-09,"Because of Australian PM Tony Abbott's 'Stop the Boat' policy, 12 mothers seeking asylum in Australia 'attempt suicide' to give kids chance"
2014-07-09,China says it will punish journalists just for talking about state secrets
2014-07-09,Second 'suspected spy' in Germany
2014-07-09,UN issued with roadmap on how to avoid climate catastrophe | Report is the first of its kind to prescribe concrete actions that the biggest 15 economies must take to keep warming below 2C
2014-07-09,Cocaine use in Scotland highest in world ahead of the US and Spain
2014-07-09,Female Iranian journalist sentenced to two years and 50 lashes
2014-07-09,Israeli peace conference cut short when rocket attack forces attendees to evacuate
2014-07-09,Uncontacted tribe in Brazil ends its isolation
2014-07-09,"Edward Snowden has applied for extended asylum in Russia, his lawyer says"
2014-07-09,China's incredible high-speed rail system: Beijing has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build the world's largest high-speed rail system -- a feat accomplished in less than a decade.
2014-07-09,Iraq forces find 53 corpses south of Baghdad
2014-07-08,Elephant Cries After He Is Rescued Following 50 Years Of Abuse
2014-07-08,"Drug overdoses triple in Russia, killing over 100,000 a year"
2014-07-08,Sex-Abuse Victims to Pope: Stop Begging for Forgiveness and Just Stop the Abuse
2014-07-08,"Ebola 'out of control' in West Africa as health workers rush to trace 1,500 possible victims"
2014-07-08,"Samsung factory robbed at gunpoint in Brazil, $36 million in smartphones, tablets and laptops stolen"
2014-07-08,"Israeli Army Authorized to Mobilize 40,000 Soldiers"
2014-07-08,"Tony Abbott's government is 'recklessly endangering' the future on climate, says UK chief"
2014-07-08,"Children's homes were 'supply line' for paedophiles, says ex-minister Lord Warner"
2014-07-08,Australia is facing international condemnation after it confirmed it handed a boat of asylum seekers to the government of Sri Lanka where they now face rigorous imprisonment.
2014-07-08,"Australian federal and state police are ordering phone providers to hand over personal information about thousands of mobile phone users, whether they are targets of an investigation or not"
2014-07-08,"Long-Lost Iron Age Temple Unearthed in Iraq: Life-size human statues and column bases from a long-lost temple dedicated to a supreme god have been discovered in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. The discoveries date back over 2,500 years to the Iron Age"
2014-07-08,"The Vatican bank has blocked the accounts of more than 2,000 clients and ended some 3,000 ""customer relationships"" as part of a clean-up process that nearly wiped out its profit."
2014-07-08,Airport security: you won't fly to the US if your mobile phone battery is dead: British Airways says it will turn away passengers booked on US-bound flights if their electrical devices will not switch on
2014-07-08,Canadians are eating tar-sands pollution | Tar-sands operations are contaminating the wild animals that members of the Mikisew Cree and Athabasca Chipewyan First Nations have traditionally relied on for food.
2014-07-08,Exclusive: CIA had role in Germany spy affair
2014-07-08,"Former children's minister: ""I'll name and shame Commons paedophiles"""
2014-07-08,"Once In Decades Typhoon Approaches Japan, Two Nuclear Power Plants"
2014-07-08,U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced that the United Nations is recognizing the gay marriages of all its staffers
2014-07-08,Germany Dumps No-Spying Pact with United States
2014-07-08,Bahrain Ejects US Diplomat After He Met Shiites
2014-07-08,"Emma Watson is the new Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N.s gender-equality arm, U.N. Women"
2014-07-08,Islamist terror threat to west blown out of proportion - former MI6 chief - Richard Dearlove says extremists are now focused on Middle East and giving them publicity in west is counter-productive
2014-07-08,Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Emerges From Rainforest
2014-07-08,"Three Jewish extremists arrested for the killing of a Palestinian teenager have confessed to the attack, an Israeli official said Monday, as shock waves from the brutal murder continued to spread."
2014-07-08,Gaza: Israel launches Operation Protective Edge
2014-07-07,"BBC staff ordered to stop giving equal air time to climate deniers: The network will stop airing ""debates"" featuring members of the anti-science fringe"
2014-07-07,"63 abducted women, girls escape from Boko Haram"
2014-07-07,Dalai Lama urges halt to Buddhist violence against Muslims
2014-07-07,"Poverty-stricken Filipino parents are increasingly getting their children to perform live sex shows on camera for Australian paedophiles, it has been revealed, as a Victorian man was today one of the first to be jailed for his involvement"
2014-07-07,"Magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocks southern Mexico, Guatemala - USGS"
2014-07-07,Pope apologizes for 'sacrilegious cult' of Church's sexual abuse
2014-07-07,Fukushima has 9 days to prevent unsafe overheating
2014-07-07,Japan picks Israel as first research & development cooperation agreement partner
2014-07-07,"Tebbit hints at sex abuse cover-up as pressure over missing files intensifies: Thatcher's administration hid officials, MPs and peers all implicated in child sex abuse, including one Conservative MP at the time who was reportedly found with child pornography but subsequently released by the police"
2014-07-07,TSA targets mobile phones and electronics in new security policies: direct flights to US will require passengers to show cellphones to security as authorities work to counter threat of explosives
2014-07-07,More than 60 women and girls escape Islamist abductors in Nigeria
2014-07-07,A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to 15 years imprisonment and barred him from traveling for another 15 years after that on charges related to his activism
2014-07-07,US Restricts Uncharged Electronic Devices On Planes
2014-07-07,Spain to charge tax of 0.03 percent on bank deposits
2014-07-07,Cursed Warship Revealed With Treasure Onboard
2014-07-07,"KGB defector's cold war secrets are revealed at last - Vasili Mitrokhin's demand granted 20 years on as 2,000 pages of notes he made from KGB archives begin to be made public"
2014-07-07,"Typhoon Described As A ""Once In Decades Storm"" Is Barreling Toward Japan"
2014-07-07,UK report: Anti-Muslim hate crime rising
2014-07-07,"Okinawa within the path of Category 5 ""Super Typhoon"" Neoguri."
2014-07-07,Australian High Court injunction blocks potential handover of 153 asylum seekers to Sri Lanka by Australian Government
2014-07-07,Russia successfully test-launches long-range interceptor missile for defense system S-500
2014-07-07,Syrian militant leader preaches jihad with Hello Kitty notepad
2014-07-07,Thousands march in Bust the Budget rallies across Australia to oppose Abbott Governments budget cuts
2014-07-07,Pyongyang calls for Koreas federalization & reunification without outside interference
2014-07-07,Christian leader jailed for 12 years amid Chinese church crackdown
2014-07-06,Germany arrests double agent recruited by U.S. to reveal details of Berlin's NSA inquiry
2014-07-06,6 Arrested For Burning Palestinian Teen To Death
2014-07-06,About 40 politicians on UK pedophile ring: Report
2014-07-06,"Germany demands full explanation from US on arrested spy. President Joachim Gauck accuses the US of playing games with our friendship and says if allegations are proven Germany must say enough is enough, for once."
2014-07-06,British student jailed for failing to provide password
2014-07-06,Ordinary Web users far outnumber foreign targets in conversations intercepted by the NSA
2014-07-06,U.S. profoundly troubled by Americans beating in Israeli custody - Al Arabiya News
2014-07-06,"Egypt to increase tax on cigarettes to 50%, alcohol will rise to 200%"
2014-07-06,"ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi injured, flees to Syria"
2014-07-06,Eleven dead in Poland parachute club plane crash
2014-07-06,Taliban torch 200 trucks carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan
2014-07-06,Uber Gets a Green Light to Operate in London
2014-07-06,Home Office child abuse cover-up: Michael Gove rules out public inquiry into claims of paedophile politicians at Westminster
2014-07-06,Isis leader 'Caliph Ibrahim' makes first ever public video appearance
2014-07-06,Dalai Lama celebrates 79 years
2014-07-06,"17 coal miners trapped underground in west China - China has world's deadliest mines, although safety record has been improving lately"
2014-07-06,Australian officials made a visit to the Refugee Detention Centre on Manus Island centre two weeks ago saying: ''You will be here a very long time. You will never get to Australia. You should strongly consider going back to where you came from.''
2014-07-06,Ukraine crisis: Rebels abandon Sloviansk stronghold
2014-07-06,Two Suspected Al-Qaeda militants blow themselves up in southern Saudi Arabia
2014-07-06,"World Bank Email Leaks Show More Money Available for Power & Mining Projects - Environmentalists & human rights campaigners sound alarm at radical plans to ease conditions for loans, making over $50bn (29bn) of public money a yr available for big power, mining, transport & farming projects."
2014-07-06,"Egypt fuel prices soar up to 70%, exasperating the public"
2014-07-06,'More than 10' politicians on list held by police investigating Westminster 'paedophile ring'
2014-07-06,"A ""profoundly troubled"" United States condemned reports Saturday that an American teenager detained in Israel was ""severely beaten"" while in police custody, amid heightened tensions with Palestinians"
2014-07-06,American IRA supporters sent weapons used for Orangemen murders - The Order yesterday demanded an explanation from the US authorities after information was passed to the institution by the PSNI's Historical Enquiries Team.
2014-07-06,"Dubai is planning on building world's largest shopping mall in a temperature-controlled ""city"""
2014-07-05,"Pope Francis, in unprepared remarks, says destruction of South American rain forests is a modern sin of our times"
2014-07-05,USA is the world's biggest oil producer after overtaking Saudi Arabia
2014-07-05,"African leaders should not be prosecuted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide -African leaders have decided."
2014-07-05,"U.S. overtakes Saudi Arabia to become world's biggest oil producer, report says"
2014-07-05,CCTV shows moment Palestinian boy is kidnapped before being killed
2014-07-05,"ISIS destroys shrines, Shiite mosques in Iraq"
2014-07-05,India will provide four new vaccines free of cost as part of a programme to reduce child mortality
2014-07-05,Russian government to spend up to $46.7 billion on revamping Siberian railways
2014-07-05,Israel Moves Troops Toward Gaza As Tensions Soar
2014-07-05,US company signs $1.175bn Iran energy deal in a rare joint commercial project to turn rubbish and human waste into electricity.
2014-07-05,Child sexual abuse royal commission: Vatican declines request to provide all documents relating to Australian priests
2014-07-05,The German authorities have summoned the US ambassador in Berlin after a man was arrested on suspicion of spying
2014-07-05,Ukraine crisis: Army 'enters rebel base of Sloviansk'
2014-07-05,India bans import of foie gras after animal rights activists complained that the method used to produce the duck liver delicacy was cruel
2014-07-05,Mexico finds radioactive load from stolen truck
2014-07-05,Myanmar Buddhists Threaten to Kill Muslims
2014-07-05,Iranian pilot killed fighting in Iraq
2014-07-05,"South Korea, China agree to direct trade in national currencies"
2014-07-05,Ukraine pushes rebels from eastern stronghold: Defence minister says national flag is flying over Slovyansk after the retreat of outnumbered pro-Russian separatists.
2014-07-05,Russia passes law to force websites onto Russian servers
2014-07-05,Foreign investors including pension funds from London borough councils and even Shell are among a new group of shareholders suing BP in Texas over the Deepwater Horizon accident
2014-07-05,Brazilian police say they have identified a FIFA official who they believe could be at the center of a ticket-tout scandal worth $100 million. Eleven suspects have been arrested after their mobile phones were tapped as part of the investigation.
2014-07-05,"UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, in Talks with EU Leaders Over International DNA Database"
2014-07-05,Iraq seeks to recover over $40 billion from US
2014-07-05,"Official: 100,000 Ukrainians seeks asylum in Russia"
2014-07-04,NSA permanently targets the privacy-conscious: Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person doing the search.
2014-07-04,German parliament approves 8.50 euro national minimum wage.
2014-07-04,Russian Physicists Launch Campaign To Rebuild Teslas Wardenclyffe Tower And Power The World
2014-07-04,"NSA 'totalitarian,' ex-staffer tells German parliament"
2014-07-04,What did $7 billion spent on opium eradication in Afghanistan buy? More opium.
2014-07-04,Thieves in Mexico steal truck with dangerous radioactive load - iridium 192.
2014-07-04,U.S. grounds entire F-35 fighter jet fleet after unexplained fire...Latest incident in hugely expensive weapons program threatens plane's participation in two UK air shows this month
2014-07-04,Suspected double agent spied on German NSA committee for the US
2014-07-04,"Schneier: NSA Permanently Targets, On Full-Take Basis, Privacy Conscious Visitors to Sites Covering TAILS, TOR, and Other Privacy Tools. Adds, I think theres a second [NSA] leaker out there."
2014-07-04,The UK's Internet Filters Block Almost 1 in 5 Websites
2014-07-04,"American journalist Charles Horman was murdered with the help of the US government, a Chilean court finds"
2014-07-04,Google reverses decision to delete UK newspaper links
2014-07-04,Tony Abbott says Australia was 'unsettled' before British arrived
2014-07-04,"Google reinstates 'forgotten' links after pressure - After widespread criticism, Google has begun reinstating some links it had earlier removed under the controversial ""right to be forgotten"" ruling."
2014-07-04,"Iraq army retakes Saddam Hussein's home village from Islamist rebels, previously called the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)"
2014-07-04,Israel gives ultimatum to Hamas: Stop rockets or we attack | i24news
2014-07-04,"Gaza rocket fire continues, two direct hits on residential buildings"
2014-07-04,AEC threatens to have FOI applicant declared vexatious  after two requests
2014-07-04,"Iran, US talk on drafting comprehensive nuclear agreement"
2014-07-04,"Anthrax discovered in beef in Hungary: Hungarian authorities have identified an infection of the deadly disease anthrax in beef, with five people being monitored for symptoms. The disease was found in meat from cattle slaughtered in the east of the country."
2014-07-04,Overpass collapses in World Cup host city Belo Horizonte; at least one dead
2014-07-04,"Britain planned to train and equip 100,000 Syrian rebels"
2014-07-04,Police Are Investigating The Disappearance Of A Secret Dossier Allegedly Naming UK Politicians Involved In Child Abuse
2014-07-04,"Astronomers in Ukraine Named a Star ""Putin is a D**khead"""
2014-07-04,5 fresh rockets fired from Gaza; Israel issues 48-hour ultimatum to Hamas to halt attacks or face massive strike
2014-07-03,"In 2012, New Zealand police seized computer drives belonging to Kim Dotcom, copies of which were unlawfully given to the FBI. A judge has now ruled that even if the Megaupload founder supplies the passwords, they cannot subsequently be forwarded to the FBI."
2014-07-03,Anyone who is determined to be using Tor is targeted for long-term surveillance and retention by NSA
2014-07-03,Pope Francis approves the revival of exorcism as a canon Catholic practice
2014-07-03,Algeria's World Cup team to donate salary to people of Gaza
2014-07-03,Google have been forced by the EU to delist a BBC journalist's article from 2007 on banking fraud without stating a reason.
2014-07-03,ISIS Kidnaps More Than 130 Syrian Schoolchildren; International Leaders Yet To Respond
2014-07-03,"No land for whites in Zimbabwe, says Mugabe"
2014-07-03,Pentagon Officials: US Troops Will Pilot Apache Attack Helicopters In Iraq
2014-07-03,China bans Ramadan: Fasting and taking part in religious activities forbidden in controversial crackdown on minority Uighur Muslims
2014-07-03,"Huge Crowds Turn Out for Pro-Democracy March in Hong Kong, Defying Beijing"
2014-07-03,Germany to adopt minimum wage to help working poor
2014-07-03,Facebook psychological studies linked to Department of Defense
2014-07-03,'This Secret US-EU Deal Will Make NHS Privatisation Irreversible': Unite Union Leader warns on TTIP
2014-07-03,More than 510k protest in Central Hong Kong to protect its sacred democracy and freedom
2014-07-03,NASA: Satellite which will end man-made CO2 debate in orbit at last
2014-07-03,The Home Office is facing calls to explain why a 1980s dossier about alleged paedophiles at Westminster was lost or destroyed by officials.|BBC|UK
2014-07-03,"Saudi Arabia deploys 30,000 soldiers to border with Iraq - al-Arabiya TV"
2014-07-03,Russian social media users are campaigning against the US singer Demi Lovato after her concert at New York's gay pride event on Sunday featured a controversial use of an image of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
2014-07-03,"In a rare scene of disorder, Hong Kong police forcibly arrest 511 protesters calling for democracy"
2014-07-03,"EU Court of Justice ""save the internet"" by holding that internet browsing does not require a license"
2014-07-03,Ukraine conflict: At Least Nine Civilians killed as truce collapses
2014-07-03,"Rampant torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions signal catastrophic decline in human rights one year after ousting of Morsi"
2014-07-03,At least 17 rockets hit Israel on Wednesday. - 2/7/2014
2014-07-03,A scientist who carried out research on making influenza viruses more infectious has deliberately created a potentially lethal strain of flu that can evade the human immune system.
2014-07-03,Chapel dedicated to pharaoh Mentuhotep II found in Sohag (Abydos) thanks to bust of illegal excavation
2014-07-02,Facebook Is Under Investigation For Mood Manipulation Study
2014-07-02,African leaders vote to give themselves immunity from war crimes
2014-07-02,"British PM David Cameron calls for global response to Antibiotic-resistant superbugs, which ""threaten to plunge the world back to the ""dark ages"" of medicine."""
2014-07-02,Three killed in Ankara after police officer shoots woman who filed complaint against him
2014-07-02,"Bikinis to blame for sex crimes on Goa's beaches, says minister"
2014-07-02,An entire island nation is preparing to evacuate to Fiji before they sink into the Pacific
2014-07-02,TOR nodes (and other services) now illegal in Austria
2014-07-02,"Russia launches swearing ban; books, films, plays risk fines"
2014-07-02,Chilean court links US intelligence to 1973 killings of two Americans
2014-07-02,"Study: Muslims hate terrorism, too. ""it underscores the growing fear and anger felt by many in Muslim-majority countries when facing a range of militant threats, from that of Boko Haram in Nigeria to ISIS to the Taliban insurgency in Pakistan."""
2014-07-02,"Netanyahu orders swift probe after Palestinian teen found murdered, 50 Israelis arrested over Jerusalem riots."
2014-07-02,"Rome will be conquered next, says leader of Islamic State"
2014-07-02,Caribbean coral reefs will be lost within 20 years
2014-07-02,Newly Revealed Snowden Docs Expose Near Global Reach of NSA
2014-07-02,42 Percent of Muslims Polled by Pew Research Think Suicide Bombing and Other Violence Against Civilians Are at Least Occasionally Justified
2014-07-02,Metropolitan Police 'deleted evidence of sex and race discrimination'
2014-07-02,French ex-leader Nicolas Sarkozy charged with corruption for influencing judicial proceedings
2014-07-02,ISPs take GCHQ to court in UK over mass surveillance
2014-07-02,Ebola death toll rises to 467 out of 759 cases - WHO
2014-07-02,Police in Hong Kong have arrested 196 protesters who staged a pro-democracy sit-in at the city's business district.
2014-07-02,Egypt's richest man sentenced to 3 years in jail on tax evasion: ETA
2014-07-02,All Iranian Su-25 Frogfoot attack planes have just deployed to Iraq
2014-07-02,French Ban on Face Veils Upheld by European Rights Court
2014-07-02,"""I am convinced that we should develop a European armed drone"". Germany's defense minister says she wants to hire combat drones and then start building them."
2014-07-02,Over Half a Million Rally in Hong Kong Against Chinese Rule
2014-07-01,Ukraine president ends ceasefire - 'We will attack'
2014-07-01,"ISIS Vows To Destroy Meccas Kaaba, Kill Those Who Worship Stones"
2014-07-01,Guaranteed $20K income for all Canadians endorsed by academics...
2014-07-01,"Japan authorized a reinterpretation of war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution, allowing Japan for the first time since World War II to come to the aid of an ally under attack."
2014-07-01,"Bodies of Three Missing Israeli Teens Found Near Hebron, Source Says"
2014-07-01,Remaining Snowden docs will be released to avert 'unspecified US war'  Cryptome
2014-07-01,"MIT and CERNs secure webmail plan, Proton Mail, stumped by PayPal freeze without warning. Money-shuffler shutters cash flow after asking if crypto is legal"
2014-07-01,"The United Nations has voted to legislate against human rights abuses carried out by transnational corporations, but the resolution, proposed by Ecuador and South Africa, was opposed by the US and the member states of the EU"
2014-07-01,The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil - the niqab
2014-07-01,Supreme Court lets victims' 9/11 suit vs. Saudi Arabia proceed
2014-07-01,Indian Prime Minister proposes that India launch a satellite for the benefit of neighboring South Asian countries as a gift from India
2014-07-01,EU slashes mobile data roaming fees by 55 percent: The European Union says the surcharges for surfing the Internet on mobile devices while traveling across the 28-nation bloc will be more than halved
2014-07-01,Liberia To Prosecute People Hiding Ebola Patients
2014-07-01,Russian Tsar's WWI-era 'Shark' submarine discovered beneath the Baltic Sea
2014-07-01,Chilean Court Rules U.S. Had Role in Murders [in 1973]
2014-07-01,Iraq Kurdistan independence referendum planned
2014-07-01,MH370: New evidence of tampering with cockpit systems revealed. Probe shows mysterious power outage during the early stages of its flight
2014-07-01,Tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents marched Tuesday through the streets of the former British colony to push for greater democracy in a rally fueled by anger over Beijing's recent warning that it holds the ultimate authority over the southern Chinese financial center.
2014-07-01,Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being held for questioning over suspected influence-peddling
2014-07-01,"Massive dams in Borneo to flood over 2,000 square kilometers of rainforest, displace 10,000s of indigenous people - all to generate electricity that no one wants."
2014-07-01,"Unknown persons erect KKK flag in east Belfast, residents unite to have it removed."
2014-07-01,"Snowden applies to extend asylum in Russia, report says"
2014-07-01,"Barrier Reef Dredge Spoil Could Travel Further than Previously Thought, Affecting Coral - Bid to create 1 of world's biggest coal terminals criticised by Unesco's world heritage committee. 3 million cubic metres of spoil to be dumped 20km from reef as part of the expansion of Abbot Point port."
2014-07-01,Ex-French President Sarkozy Detained
2014-07-01,Kuwait finance firm suggests trading oil in bitcoins
2014-06-30,"Blackwaters top manager issued a threat: that he could kill the governments chief investigator and no one could or would do anything about it as we were in Iraq, according to U.S. State Department reports"
2014-06-30,"Indian mars mission is cheaper than the movie ""Gravity"""
2014-06-30,"Jehovah's Witnesses destroyed documents showing child abuse allegations, court told in cover-up case"
2014-06-30,"Facebook is facing criticism after it emerged it had conducted a psychology experiment on nearly 700,000 users without their knowledge"
2014-06-30,Peru now has a licence to kill environmental protesters
2014-06-30,"New Zealand: A church which advertised that a prayer session could heal health problems including ""incurable diseases"" has been told to remove the advertisement. ""It may mislead and deceive vulnerable people who may be suffering from any of the illnesses listed in the advertisement"""
2014-06-30,ISIS declares Islamic caliphate from Aleppo to Diyala
2014-06-30,Two French Jews were sent to prison for placing a bomb in 2012 under the car of an anti-Zionist journalist in Paris.
2014-06-30,The Ugly Truth About Your Shrimp Cocktail - Reports of enslavement and forced labor rack Thailands $7.3 billion fishing-export industry.
2014-06-30,Chinese troops tried to enter Indian waters in Ladakh: Report
2014-06-30,Russian journalist killed in Ukraine as gunmen fire on media bus
2014-06-30,"Bomb Isis Or We'll Ask Iran To, Top Iraqi Politician Warns United States"
2014-06-30,Nestle has become the first major UK manufacturer to achieve living wage accreditation. The move comes amid increasing pressure on major companies to raise salaries
2014-06-30,US rushes 75 Hellfire missiles to aid Iraqi Government's battle against ISIS
2014-06-30,Putin Signs Law Giving Prison Terms for Internet Extremism
2014-06-30,Extreme weather official advice rewritten to remove climate change link - Australian government accused of significantly watering down information document on Department of Environment website
2014-06-30,Tens of thousands turn out for Istanbul Gay Pride parade
2014-06-30,Vaccination for Heroin Addiction and Overdose Developed by The Scripps Research Institute
2014-06-30,Hong Kong prepares for mass protest against Beijing control
2014-06-30,Ukrainians crowdfund to raise cash for 'people's drone' to help outgunned army
2014-06-30,A diplomat has evaded sexual assault charges in New Zealand by claiming diplomatic immunity and returning home
2014-06-30,Bulgaria's President Plevneliev to dissolve parliament
2014-06-30,Poroshenko: Ukraines only state language to be Ukrainian
2014-06-30,"World Bank: tackle global warming and add $2 trillion to global economy, save a million lives"
2014-06-30,"Ultra low interest rates and the failure of policy to ""lean against"" the build-up of financial imbalances are in danger of making the global economy permanently unstable, the Bank for International Settlements has warned."
2014-06-29,Japanese man self immolates in protest against PM Shinzo Abe's proposed remilitarization of Japan
2014-06-29,Iraq army soldiers retake full control of Tikrit
2014-06-29,France passes anti-Amazon bill aimed at helping small bookstores
2014-06-29,Canadian Supreme Court rules Wal-Mart must compensate workers
2014-06-29,"Australian cities South Perth and Victoria Park to become ""South Park"" due to merger"
2014-06-29,"Chinese president Xi Jinping vows China won't bully other nations: ""China's president, Xi Jinping, says his country will never seek to impose its will on other nations, no matter how powerful it becomes."""
2014-06-29,Nigerian's rejection of religion deemed clinical insanity - A Nigerian man has been detained in a mental health institution by his family after saying he had lost his belief in God. [x-post /r/LegalNews]
2014-06-29,ISIS Crucifies One of Its Own in Syria
2014-06-29,Scientists warn of tourism threat to Antarctica: Antarctic scientists on June 18 warned that a surge in tourists visiting the frozen continent and new roads and runways built to service research facilities were threatening its fragile environment.
2014-06-29,"Famous Barcelona bullring may be converted into Europes biggest mosque. The Emir of Qatar has reportedly agreed to roll out 2.2 billion ($2.99 bn) to convert Barcelona's Monumental bullring into a 40,000-capacity mosque, the biggest in Europe, by 2020, if the city council approves the project."
2014-06-29,"""Russia will not sit idly by as jihadists press Iraq assault"""
2014-06-29,Big turnout in Hong Kong democracy vote as Beijing fumes
2014-06-29,"Gaza rocket strikes Israeli factory, engulfing structure in flames"
2014-06-29,"Iraq receives fighter jets from Russia, Belarus"
2014-06-29,"Boko Haram Islamists 'kill dozens' in attack on churches in Nigeria - At least three churches reported burned down and dozens of men, women and children killed near Chibok by Islamist militants"
2014-06-29,"Putin 'would be killed' if he came to Kiev, Ukraine parliament deputy says on TV"
2014-06-29,The former head of international adoptions at Nepals largest orphanage is in custody over allegations that he raped young girls and groomed them as prostitutes in Kathmandu dance bars.
2014-06-29,Men's issues group excluded from Toronto Pride parade: Last-minute decision goes against Pride rules
2014-06-29,Tokyo man sets himself on fire after giving a speech opposing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to reform the country's pacifist constitution
2014-06-29,Indian Warships on Standby for Evacuation: India deploys a guided missile destroyer and a frigate to help evacuate 100 Indians including 46 nurses trapped in the Iraq conflict zone.
2014-06-29,"Saudi King Abdullah, in a Ramadan message on Saturday, vowed to crush Islamist militants threatening the kingdom, the state news agency reported, saying the world's top oil exporter would not tolerate ""a band of terrorists""."
2014-06-29,ISIS tells Lebanon to prepare for more attacks
2014-06-29,"Eritrea, the United Nations says, is the planet's least-connected country. Less than 1% of its people have landlines; just 5.6% have cell phones. As for the Internet, less than 1% use it, and connections are almost all dial-up."
2014-06-29,"Passenger killed, crew injured as gunmen open fire on plane landing at Pakistan's Peshawar airport"
2014-06-29,Iraq Says Russian Experts Have Arrived to Help Prepare Jets for Fighting
2014-06-28,Washington is renaming the street outside Chinas embassy after jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo  and China is furious
2014-06-28,Canada's Supreme Court penalizes Walmart for closing store after workers unionized.
2014-06-28,Spain and Italy have joined France in advising their citizens not to invest in Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian Land
2014-06-28,"An estimated 48,000 immigrants may have fraudulently obtained English language certificates despite being unable to speak English, the government has said."
2014-06-28,"Allow fracking in national parks, says UK's Environment Agency chief"
2014-06-28,Quebec unionized Wal-Mart workers win Supreme Court victory - Montreal
2014-06-28,"Saudi Arabia puts army on ""High Alert"" after ISIS advances in Iraq."
2014-06-28,Sarajevo marks 100 years since killing of Archduke Ferdinand
2014-06-28,"Land taken over by foreign investors could feed 550m people, study finds"
2014-06-28,"The Vatican's former ambassador to the Dominican Republic has been convicted by a church tribunal of sex abuse and has been defrocked, the first such sentence handed down against a top papal representative."
2014-06-28,Egyptian judge who mass sentenced hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death found out he had sentenced a child to death only after reading the newspaper
2014-06-28,Jordan fears homegrown ISIS more than invasion from Iraq
2014-06-28,"Japanese city assembly says air conditioners weaken students fortitude; rejects petition for air conditioners, despite numerous cases of heatstroke"
2014-06-28,London's population is 8.4m and rising faster than any other part of the country
2014-06-28,Israel tells U.S. it would act to save Jordan from Islamists
2014-06-28,Russia warns Europe over re-selling gas to Ukraine
2014-06-28,US vulture fund ruling pushes Argentina towards second bankruptcy | New York judge blocks $500m payment to creditors in ruling that favours 'predatory' hedge funds over debt restructuring plan
2014-06-28,Murdoch editors told to 'kill Whitlam' in 1975
2014-06-28,"In Russia, state enterprises now account for more than half of the economy, up from 30 percent when Putin came to power at the end of 1999"
2014-06-28,Taliban Mount Major Assault in Afghanistan
2014-06-28,Iran MPs support more babies bill:A bill aimed at encouraging more births by outlawing sterilization and vasectomies has passed a first reading in Irans Parliament
2014-06-28,Armed U.S. drones now flying over Iraq
2014-06-28,Christians in Turkey 'fearful' after knife-wielding men terrorize Istanbul church
2014-06-28,"'Happy Ramadan' signs at 239 Australian supermarket stores creates a stir, customers boycott"
2014-06-28,Report: drone attacks by US may lead to perpetual war
2014-06-27,German government cancels Verizon contract in wake of U.S. spying row
2014-06-27,"Australian woman found dead wearing headphones and holding her laptop, with burns on her ears and chest, in an apparent electrocution caused by sub-standard cheap USB charger."
2014-06-27,"Mexican military chopper crosses the border, shoots at US Border agents"
2014-06-27,"Put Ultraviolet Dye In London Water Cannons To Track Protesters, Police Bosses Urge"
2014-06-27,"Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova have signed partnership agreements with the European Union, in a move strongly opposed by Russia."
2014-06-27,"Russell Brand: Fanatical, terrorist, propagandist Fox News is more dangerous than ISIS"
2014-06-27,"Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis, a month into his first tem in office, doesn't want his name on plaques at public works or his portrait hung in public offices: ""The works are from the country and not from a government or a particular official,"" Solis told reporters"
2014-06-27,"Obama Seeks $500M to Train, Equip Syrian Rebels"
2014-06-27,"Britain bans controversial Saudi cleric al-Arifi: The UK Government makes no apologies for refusing people access to the UK if we believe they represent a threat to our society. Coming here is a privilege that we refuse to extend to those who seek to subvert our shared values,"
2014-06-27,"UN: Icelanders smoke the most pot | According to the UN's annual World Drug Report Icelanders smoke the most pot, per capita"
2014-06-27,Iraq buys Russian jets to destroy the terrorists dens after long delays waiting for U.S. F-16s
2014-06-27,Australian utilities move to kick rooftop solar off the grid
2014-06-27,"Nigerian man is locked up after saying he is an atheist | Campaigners call for release of 29-year-old Mubarak Bala, who lives in Kano in Nigeria's predominantly Muslim north"
2014-06-27,This is now the deadliest ebola outbreak on record  and its getting worse (from /r/globalhealth)
2014-06-27,"FBI seizes 80,000 emails from Murdochs News Corp"
2014-06-27,"A Sudanese Christian woman who was sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her faith and then released, is currently staying at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum with her husband and two children"
2014-06-27,"Iranian students prevented from studying science, technology, engineering and maths in UK because of US sanctions"
2014-06-27,"It took awhile, but Mubarak Bala, the 29 year-old engineer hospitalized against his will in Nigeria for being an atheist, is beginning to receive some attention by the news media"
2014-06-27,"UN: 110,000 fled Ukraine for Russia this year"
2014-06-27,U.N. Experts: Detroits Mass Water Shut-Off Violates Human Rights
2014-06-27,"Israel Could Get Dragged into ISIS's War, Obama Admin Warns"
2014-06-27,Pablo Escobars hippos: A growing problem
2014-06-27,WHO reduces Ebola death toll by changing the way it reports fatalities at the request of the government
2014-06-27,Indian Intelligence Bureau redflags entry of Saudi Wahhabi preachers into India
2014-06-27,"The fight against Boko Haram sees an unusual faction join the fray: snakes and bees are flushing the rebels out of their forest base of operations with their incessant bites and stings, which often leave their targets fatally injured."
2014-06-26,"U.S. Scientist Offers $10,000 to Anyone Who Can Disprove Manmade Climate Change."
2014-06-26,Iran Tries To Save Asiatic Cheetah From Extinction
2014-06-26,Fake engineer made Berlin Airport fire system: The man responsible for designing the fire safety system at Berlins new airport - the main reason for the continuing delays to the calamitous 5 billion project - has admitted he was not a qualified engineer.
2014-06-26,"Explosion rips through mall in Nigerian capital, killing at least 21: police"
2014-06-26,"Conservative Canadian Government surprises when it admits Climate Change is real, and the effects are coming"
2014-06-26,North Korean restaurants springing up around Asia to raise money for regime
2014-06-26,The polio virus has been detected in sewage in Brazil; it's the first time the disease has been identified in the country since 1994
2014-06-26,Iraq confirms and welcomes Syrian air strikes against Isis militants
2014-06-26,ALERT: North Korea fires three projectiles into East Sea
2014-06-26,"Use of Drones for Killings Risks a War Without End, Panel Concludes in Report"
2014-06-26,Details of Jimmy Saville sexual abuses in NHS hospitals have been revealed - he abused people aged 7 to 75 during unrestricted access.
2014-06-26,Ghana sends a plane with $3 Million in cash to calm its World Cup players
2014-06-26,Baghdad May Lose Its Drinking Water As ISIS Approaches Second Largest Dam
2014-06-26,Chinas commodity-lending fraud just got $15 billion bigger - Discovers fraudulent loans backed by gold stocks that dont exist.
2014-06-26,"Australia: Tiny Wallaby Among 3 Newly Discovered Mammals in Remote Forest - 40 camera traps capture shots of previously unknown wallaby, giant-eared mouse & shrew-like marsupial"
2014-06-26,"Russia offered Baltics cheaper gas in exchange for NATO exit, says Lithuanian president"
2014-06-26,"Kerry demands Russia action on Ukraine 'in hours': US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on Russia to show ""within hours"" it is working to disarm separatist militants in eastern Ukraine."
2014-06-26,"In a U.S. Court, Iraqis Accuse Blackwater of Killings in 2007"
2014-06-26,World Health Organisation urges 'drastic action' on Ebola
2014-06-26,Iraqi jihadists seize ancient Exorcist temple full of idolatrous stone statues from 3rd century B.C.
2014-06-26,Astronomers Detect Mysterious Signal 240 Million Light-Years From Earth
2014-06-26,"For first time, Israel compensating Palestinians over settlers' land grab. State agrees to pay six Palestinians $87,500 after settlers seized their land to build the unauthorized Amona outpost."
2014-06-26,Hamas arrests terror cell responsible for rocket fire on Israel
2014-06-26,"Chinese government funds have been misused to buy French vineyards, pay for a trip to Las Vegas and more, the state auditor said in a report revealing more than 300 serious corruption cases"
2014-06-26,"Tackling climate change would grow global economy, World Bank says | Findings put to rest claims that the world could not afford to act on climate change"
2014-06-25,"Pesticides linked to bee deaths must be banned, scientists say"
2014-06-25,North Korea threatens war over Seth Rogen movie.
2014-06-25,Shopper shocked to find bargain 10 dress has plea for help from Bangledeshi sweatshop employee written on the tag
2014-06-25,Young Beirut security guard sacrifices his life to prevent a massacre at packed World Cup viewing cafe
2014-06-25,"UK Government minister: ""There is no programme of mass surveillance and there is no surveillance state"""
2014-06-25,"The Sydney Opera House has cancelled a controversial talk by Muslim writer and activist Uthman Badar titled ""Honour killings are morally justified"" after widespread condemnation of its inclusion in the Festival of Dangerous Ideas."
2014-06-25,"Chinese warships will join US-led naval drills off Hawaii for the first time this week, in a significant but mainly symbolic effort by the two powers' fighting forces to make friends, not war"
2014-06-25,"66% of Russians want Putin to be president after 2018. People feel far more confident about their future, calm and security, they hope that Russia will restore its status of great power"
2014-06-25,Snowden defends mega spy blab: 'Public affairs have to be known by the public' | Calls on Council of Europe to protect whistleblowers
2014-06-25,"India denies US company extension of patent on anti-cancer drug. Earlier, the Patent Office had denied the patent in 2009 on the grounds of obviousness and lack of inventive step."
2014-06-25,Researchers Find and Decode the Spy Tools Governments Use to Hijack Phones
2014-06-25,Denmark's ties with the NSA are deeper than previously thought
2014-06-25,"Unknown planes bomb ISIS positions in N. Iraq, Pentagon denies its US"
2014-06-25,"UN says environmental crime is worth between $70-$213 billion a year and largely finances criminal, militia, and terrorist groups"
2014-06-25,North Korea Faces Worst Drought In Over A Decade
2014-06-25,"France, supported by Sweden and Denmark, urges the European Union to take action now on Endocrine Disruptors (EDCs)"
2014-06-25,"Finnish study: Having a dog at home may prevent diabetes - A new Finnish study of more than 3,000 children finds a ""significant link"" between having a pet dog and a lower risk of developing type 1 diabetes. Only dogs were found to have the preventative effect."
2014-06-25,New Report: Syria Joins Iran in Sending Military to Fight ISIS in Iraq
2014-06-25,"France warns citizens: Don't invest in Israeli settlements, Golan Heights"
2014-06-25,Leader of Tijuana drug cartel captured in northern Mexico
2014-06-25,Payday lender Wonga used fake law firms to chase customers in arrears; ordered to pay 2.6m in compensation.
2014-06-25,Scotland Yard want to interview Rupert Murdoch about phone hacking
2014-06-25,Australian immigration minister instructs detained asylum seekers to leave and return home in official state footage
2014-06-25,"""Seeking to mobilize a global front against anti-gay violence and discrimination, Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday [24 June 2014] that protecting gay rights is a defining mark of a civilized nation and must trump national cultures and social traditions."""
2014-06-25,Norway to bring in begging ban
2014-06-24,"Neurotoxic pesticides blamed for the world's bee collapse are also harming butterflies, worms, fish and birds, and the evidence was ""sufficient to trigger regulatory action""."
2014-06-24,UN rejects Australia's 'feeble' bid to strip Tasmanian forest's heritage status
2014-06-24,"Doctors vote for ban on UK cigarette sales to those born after 2000 - British Medical Association hails vote as step towards achieving goal of a tobacco-free society by 2035, but critics call it 'illiberal'"
2014-06-24,"Iran arrests 2 over 'vulgar' online video showing people singing, dancing in support of nation's World Cup team"
2014-06-24,World must act within five years to save oceans from pollution and overfishing: watchdog
2014-06-24,"8.0 magnitude earthquake, Rat Islands, Aleutian Islands 25 minutes ago. Tsunami bulletin issued."
2014-06-24,Greenpeace executive uses jet to commute
2014-06-24,Russia's President Putin asks upper house of parliament to revoke the right of military intervention in Ukraine
2014-06-24,"Sudan death row woman 're-arrested': Sudanese woman freed from death row Monday has been arrested with her family at Khartoum airport, sources tell BBC"
2014-06-24,"North Korea Officially Condemns Seth Rogen, James Franco Over Unreleased Movie"
2014-06-24,The Independent: Iraq crisis: Tony Blair admits 'removal of Saddam Hussein' partly to blame for uprising
2014-06-24,Hamid Karzai: 'I Didn't See a War in AfghanistanI Saw a Conspiracy'
2014-06-24,"Great white shark population is healthy and growing, new census shows"
2014-06-24,Hezbollah: Gulf states will regret funding ISIS
2014-06-24,Australia Is The Largest Per Capita Contributor Of Foreign Fighters To ISIS
2014-06-24,Tasmanias New Laws Threaten Protesters with Mandatory Jail Term - They mainly will be used to target demonstrators against logging forests. We saw too many of these protests tolerated under the previous Labor-Green govt. Law follows similar crackdown on protests in Victoria.
2014-06-24,"Putin offers complete support to Iraq, Iran says Obama lacks will to combat terrorism"
2014-06-24,Iran transfers 88 Russian Sukhoi fighter planes to Iraq
2014-06-24,"India to invite bidding for largest solar power project; aims to achieve a capacity addition of 10,000 MW by 2017"
2014-06-24,8.0 Earthquake- Aluetian Islands. Tsunami Warning Issued
2014-06-24,US state dept names Ireland as the worlds sex trafficking center - Report highlights serious gaps in Irelands anti-trafficking laws. There has been an increase in identified Irish children subjected to sex trafficking within the country.
2014-06-24,Outrage as Egypt jails Al Jazeera staff
2014-06-24,Polish MPs ridicule Cameron's 'stupid propaganda' aimed at Eurosceptics
2014-06-24,Ebola 'out of control' in West Africa
2014-06-24,Christian woman freed after death sentence in Sudan
2014-06-23,Al-Jazeera journalists sentenced to seven years in prison in Egypt
2014-06-23,"""We Demand Justice"": Kenyans protest after men who brutally raped girl sentenced to cut grass"
2014-06-23,Ghana has been exposed agreeing to pay to take part in international football matches organized and manipulated by match fixers
2014-06-23,Russell Brand calls for revolution as tens of thousands march in London against coalition's austerity measures
2014-06-23,"'The House of One', a Mosque, Church and Synagogue; all under one roof, is being built in Berlin"
2014-06-23,Researchers discover mass graves near US-Mexico border containing bodies of migrants in body bags
2014-06-23,Israeli Air Force attacks Assad army targets
2014-06-23,"The UK government has acknowledged that every UK citizen who uses Google and accesses web site services Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, can be monitored, under existing legislation, by the security services"
2014-06-23,"Polish Foreign Minister: We Gave The US A ""Blowjob,"" Got Nothing"
2014-06-23,Prince William gets $11M helicopter from Queen on his birthday
2014-06-23,UN: World's forests fundamental to human well-being
2014-06-23,"Iraqi military facing psychological collapse after losses, desertions"
2014-06-23,"ISIS is advancing towards Baghdad after more territorial gains. Iraqi officials say ISIS has seized an Air Force base and now has a ""direct line"" to Baghdad."
2014-06-23,"Iranian President: Islam rejects violence, extremism"
2014-06-23,The Mahdi Army - the paramilitary force that once led a Shia rebellion against American troops - makes show of force against ISIS
2014-06-23,"Glastonbury goes green: Festival declares war on plastic water bottles, will distribute reusable steel bottles as 400 drinking-water taps are erected"
2014-06-23,Riot police deployed in Kiev as hundreds of masked pro-Ukraine activists march on monastery to stop pro-Russian rally
2014-06-23,"Putin Calls for Ukraine to Hold Unconditional Talks With Rebels: Talks Must Include All Sides, Says Russian President"
2014-06-23,"Amazon Living Wage campaigners place dummy book on site as protest -Fake book, A Living Wage for All Amazon Workers, adds to campaign against low pay at internet retail giant"
2014-06-23,Pope Francis seeks to abolish all forms of torture
2014-06-23,Japan considering new base on Antarctica
2014-06-23,"13-year-old Israeli-Arab boy killed, 4 hurt in bombing on Israel's Syria border"
2014-06-23,Syria handed over 100% of declared chem weapons stockpile
2014-06-23,"ISIS 'May Have Recruited 1,500 Britons'"
2014-06-23,"Big Voter Turnout in Unofficial Hong Kong Poll, condemned as illegal and invalid by the central government in Beijing."
2014-06-22,Fifa Bosses 'Secretly Doubled Their Salaries'
2014-06-22,New leaks show Germany's collusion with NSA
2014-06-22,Pope excommunicates all Mafia members from the Catholic Church.
2014-06-22,"Australians want renewable energy target retained by big margin: Polling shows 72% of Australians want to keep or expand RET, as Abbott government considers abolishing it"
2014-06-22,Polish Foreign Minister caught on tape saying that Poland's US ties are worthless or even harmful.
2014-06-22,Snowden Receives German Award for Civic Courage
2014-06-22,"Iraq Has Split Into Three, Says Kurdish Official"
2014-06-22,"Edward Snowden rejects German plans for meeting in Moscow | Whistleblower Edward Snowden has rejected a German request for a meeting in Moscow, where he is living under temporary asylum. Snowden's lawyer told DW that German intelligence has downplayed its ties to the NSA."
2014-06-22,"Schumacher to ""remain invalid rest of his life."""
2014-06-22,"British people favour leaving the European Union, according to poll"
2014-06-22,"Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Pilot Now Top Suspect In Missing Plane Mystery, Police Say"
2014-06-22,"""Oldest Surviving"" Bannockburn Manuscript Restored - The 1,400-line epic poem ""The Brus"" was written by the Archdeacon of Aberdeen in about 1375, & covers Robert the Bruce's Scottish wars of independence. ""The Brus is a unique & nationally important treasure."""
2014-06-22,Russia is ready to replace Visa and MasterCard with Sberbank's Universal Electronic Card
2014-06-22,"1,000s rally in London against austerity"
2014-06-22,Report: Polish minister says US ties worthless
2014-06-22,Angry farmers bring cow from Fukushima to Tokyo to demand Japan's government investigate a disease they say cattle have developed since the nuclear disaster three years ago
2014-06-22,"Tens of thousands of people gather in London to protest about UK Government's austerity measures, yet it's gone mostly unreported by media"
2014-06-22,Iraqi Military Out of Hellfires in Battle Against ISIS
2014-06-22,Iraq action futile without accord: President Obama tells 'no amount of American firepower' will be able to hold Iraq together if leaders do not rise above sectarianism
2014-06-22,Canada announces economic sanctions against Russia following Putin placing troops on combat alert
2014-06-22,UNICEF says Al Qaeda sexually abused Yemen children
2014-06-22,"President Obama has dismissed the idea that supplying US arms to Syrian rebels would have toppled President Assad, calling it a ""fantasy""."
2014-06-22,US Senate committee approves $960 mn for Pakistan in 2015
2014-06-22,"Iran opposes US intervention in Iraq, says Ayatollah Ali Khamenei"
2014-06-22,Baltic states to back further Russia sanctions if Ukraine crisis does not ease
2014-06-21,"Hong Kong people demand right to select their own leader, by staging a referendum. Beijing is not amused that half a million people have voted."
2014-06-21,"Outrage in Japan as female lawmaker jeered for being single, childless"
2014-06-21,"30 schools across the UK are using textbooks which teach that AIDS can be avoided through religion, and that homosexuality is a choice | The US-based Accelerated Christian Education curriculum currently lists over 30 UK schools on its website, with the majority being private Christian schools."
2014-06-21,"US fired depleted uranium at civilian areas in 2003 Iraq war, report finds"
2014-06-21,5 South Korean soldiers shot and killed by fellow soldier near SK/NK border
2014-06-21,Kurdistan defies Baghdad and delivers a million barrels of oil to Israel
2014-06-21,Anger in Vietnam as China sends four more oil rigs into disputed waters
2014-06-21,a 'Super predator' that devoured a Great White Shark is being investigated by researchers.
2014-06-21,"China Employs Porn Judges to Scrub the Web: These judges, the government says, have the sacred task of returning the Internet to a clean and safe state"
2014-06-21,Putin orders central Russia forces on 'full combat alert'
2014-06-21,A case involving Shell Oil Company had a breakthrough on Friday when a U.K. judge ruled that the oil giant was liable to provide certain security measures to protect its pipelines in Nigeria after two spills in 2008 and 2009 devastated a Niger Delta community.
2014-06-21,Human Rights Watch says Israeli military ordered removal of surveillance footage that showed killings of two Palestinian boys
2014-06-21,China bans unauthorised critical coverage by journalists
2014-06-21,"EU launches attack against corporate tax avoidance: The EU has taken steps to curb tax avoidance by global corporations. In recent months, criticism in the budget-strapped bloc has mounted over tax loopholes exploited by companies such as Apple, Google and others."
2014-06-21,"New leaks show Germany's collusion with NSA | An NSA document from January 2013 shows the spirit of cooperation that existed between the NSA, the German BND, then the BfV, as well as the BSI. The documents also show that the BND has been ""eager"" for closer ties with the NSA since 1962."
2014-06-21,Court Hands Google a Worldwide Site Blocking Injunction | a Canadian court has ordered Google to completely block a group of websites from its worldwide search results. The ruling was handed down despite Google's protestations that the court has no jurisdiction over Google locally or in the US.
2014-06-21,Rome seeks 25 million to save Emperor Nero's lavish palace
2014-06-21,Chinese police shoot dead 13 attackers in Xinjiang
2014-06-21,Cyberattack on Hong Kong Vote Was Among Largest Ever: The online voting platform for the unofficial referendum now underway on Hong Kongs political future has been subjected to one of the most severe cyberattacks of its kind ever seen
2014-06-21,"Presbyterian Church narrowly votes to divest from Hewlett-Packard, Caterpillar, & Motorola, three companies that it claims support Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories."
2014-06-21,"Google Removes Singapore Hate Blog Against Filipinos - Blog listed ways to harass Singapore's Filipino population. Police investigating the anonymous ""Blood Stained Singapore"" blog that suggests Singaporeans refuse to be served by Filipinos or ""accidentally"" shove them in crowded places."
2014-06-21,Iraqi oil refinery fire: Blaze seen by Landsat 8.
2014-06-21,Iraq crisis: Isis allies 'turn on jihadists' as 17 killed in clashes near Kirkuk
2014-06-21,Egypt jails man for a year as push against sexual harassment begins
2014-06-21,ISIS mocks Michelle Obama with new hashtag #bringbackourhumvee
2014-06-20,Indian Govt. planning to make 50 essential medicines free of cost for every citizen from birth to death.
2014-06-20,"Doctors without Borders say that ""the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is 'totally out of control'"" and ""the outbreak is far from over and will probably end up as the most deadly on record."""
2014-06-20,"WikiLeaks publishes 'secret draft' of world trade agreement: Deal among 50 countries would help prevent added regulation of financial services, website says"
2014-06-20,Pope condemns efforts to legalize marijuana | Al Jazeera America
2014-06-20,"U.S. cuts aid to Uganda, cancels military exercise over anti-gay law"
2014-06-20,Secret deal: bank free-for-all - Leaked WikiLeaks documents reveal the Abbott government is pressing ahead with secret trade negotiations aimed at bringing about radical deregulation of Australia's banking and finance sector.
2014-06-20,"Classified files leaked to Danish media suggest some EU states are allowing US spies to install surveillance equipment on cables in order to intercept the emails, private phone calls, and Internet chats of their citizens."
2014-06-20,"Untreatable virus spreading in the Caribbean now afflicts 4,600"
2014-06-20,Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Teenager Protesting West Bank Arrests
2014-06-20,"Brazilian-based architect cites estimates indicating that some 250,000 people have been evicted from their homes to make way for the World Cup"
2014-06-20,Tufted Puffin spotted for the first time since 1830's
2014-06-20,Hong Kong democracy movement hit by one of largest DDoS attacks in internet history
2014-06-20,Solar energy production breaks record in Germany. More than 50 percent of country's electricity demand supplied by solar power at start of June.
2014-06-20,Japan PM Abe wants to stage 2020 Robot Olympics
2014-06-20,Norway likely set to implement a national ban on begging
2014-06-20,South Korea calls on US military to keep servicemembers in line
2014-06-20,Isis storms Saddam-era chemical weapons complex in Iraq
2014-06-20,"Abbott in 'secret trade negotiations' to deregulate banking and finance | Foreign banks and workers would get greater access and local bank accounts could be transferred overseas, reports say"
2014-06-20,"""The US and EU are driving the TISA process. It was their lax rules that allowed the Global Financial Crisis to happen. Now they are using TISA to extend those rules even further, at the bidding of their finance industry"""
2014-06-20,Uganda students smuggle pigs into parliament to protest government corruption.
2014-06-20,"Chilean mountaintop blasted off to make way for worlds largest telescope, which will search for alien life"
2014-06-20,Saudi Arabia slams ISIS as destructive terror group
2014-06-20,Obama sending 300 Military Advisors (i.e. Special Forces) to Iraq; We will be prepared to take targeted and precise military action if we conclude the situation on the ground requires it.
2014-06-20,Iceland Tops Global Peace Index 2014
2014-06-20,Beijing Now Has Almost as Many People as Australia
2014-06-19,"Fiji accuses global community of abandoning the Pacific on climate change, singles out 'selfish' Australia - accused the global community of abandoning Pacific island nations to ""sink below the waves"" instead of tackling climate change."
2014-06-19,China has handed down lengthy jail terms to three anti-corruption activists who had called for officials to disclose their personal wealth
2014-06-19,Australian High Court finds $245.3m federal funding of chaplaincy program unconstitutional.
2014-06-19,Petraeus: U.S. Must Not Become the Shia Militia's Air Force
2014-06-19,"WikiLeaks publishes secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) - Financial Services, covering 50 countries"
2014-06-19,"Australia has dropped a plan to place its first nuclear waste dump on Aborigine land, after a long-running legal case ended"
2014-06-19,"Canada's Indigenous: ""We are the wall"" that the pipeline cannot pass - Aboriginal groups plan lawsuits & direct actions to stop Northern Gateway pipeline. First Nation says approval violates constitutional rights since govt didn't consult them when their lands & resources are impacted."
2014-06-19,Injured man trapped in German cave rescued after 12 days
2014-06-19,"Mountain to be Blasted Today for Telescope - The top of a mountain in Chile will be blown up make way for the worlds largest optical & infrared telescope. Once the mountain is leveled, construction of the E-ELT will begin. It's expected to take less than 10 yrs."
2014-06-19,"Poverty hits twice as many British households as 30 years ago | The UK economy has doubled in size since the early 1980s  yet the number of those suffering below-minimum living standards has grown by more than twice, a study claims."
2014-06-19,Polish authorities search premises of weekly that revealed tape scandal
2014-06-19,"Iraq crisis: Britain and US must not meddle in Iraq, warns Saudi Arabia"
2014-06-19,Indian Officals Order Coca-Cola Plant to Close for Using too Much Water - Mehdiganj plant at centre of protests accused of extracting too much groundwater & releasing pollutants above limits. India is one of Coke's fastest-growing markets thanks to an expanding middle class.
2014-06-19,Doctors Without Borders Clinic In Tikrit Shelled By ISIS Militants
2014-06-19,"Google will be forced to make a company disappear: Inspired by the ""right to be forgotten,"" a Canadian court has ordered Google to delete links to a company"
2014-06-19,"How Corrupt Is the U.S.? Just Watch House of Cards, China Party Arm Says"
2014-06-19,Kenya al-Shabaab attack 'was led by white man speaking fluent British English'
2014-06-19,"Japan failed to include 640 kg of unused plutonium in its annual reports to the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2012 and 2013, in what experts are terming an inappropriate omission."
2014-06-19,U.K. Approves Plans For What Could Become The Worlds Largest Offshore Wind Farm
2014-06-19,"Increasing numbers of French Jews are leaving for Israel, citing dim economic prospects and a sense of being caught between an increasingly influential far right and militant Islam. More than 5,000 are on track to leave this year, the most since after the Six-Day War in 1967"
2014-06-19,Fukushima ice wall looking more like a dirt Slurpee - Failure of a small-scale version to freeze is latest setback in addressing ongoing crisis
2014-06-19,Senior MP calls for Tony Blair to be impeached over Iraq
2014-06-19,Luxembourg approves same-sex marriage bill.
2014-06-19,Felipe VI has been proclaimed King of Spain
2014-06-19,US rules out military action until PM Nouri al-Maliki stands down
2014-06-18,Secular triumph as British government bans creationism from free schools and academies
2014-06-18,Baghdad has formally called on the United States to launch air strikes against jihadist militants
2014-06-18,Japan makes possession of child pornography a punishable offense
2014-06-18,ISIS begins assault on Baghdad: Gunmen attack North of Iraqi Capital
2014-06-18,NHS 'world's best healthcare system'; healthcare provision in US the worst.
2014-06-18,Saudis give apparent warning to Iran: don't meddle in Iraq
2014-06-18,World Cup Produces Arrest of Mexican Drug Lord Going to Game
2014-06-18,"Kim Jong-un's latest propaganda video reveals Russian cruise missile, potentially in violation of sanctions"
2014-06-18,"20,000 Elephants Were Poached in Africa in 2013"
2014-06-18,New NSA Revelations: Inside Snowden's Germany File. An analysis of secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden demonstrates that the NSA is more active in Germany than anywhere else in Europe -- and that data collected here may have helped kill suspected terrorists.
2014-06-18,Hundreds of teenage boys suffered brutal physical and sexual abuse at an Australian naval base
2014-06-18,Scientists Baffled After Discovering Mysterious Man Hidden Beneath Picasso Masterpiece
2014-06-18,"World peace declining after long post-WWII improvement: Study. World peace has deteriorated steadily over the last seven years, with wars, militant attacks and crime reversing six earlier decades of gradual improvement, a global security report said on Wednesday."
2014-06-18,"Australia buys up, enters Asian arms race: ""Australia is now the seventh-largest importer of major arms in the world and the biggest customer of the largest weapons producer, the US"""
2014-06-18,"Largest Active Volcano on Earth Rumbles Back to Life - The world's biggest active volcano, Hawaii's towering Mauna Loa, may be rumbling back to life, according to the Hawaii Volcano Observatory."
2014-06-18,US may blacklist Thailand after prawn (shrimp) trade slavery revelations
2014-06-18,Several people feared dead after explosion hits World Cup viewing center in northeast Nigeria
2014-06-18,YouTube to block Indie music as a music subscription service is launched
2014-06-18,German security firm finds spyware on Chinese-made smartphone
2014-06-18,"Despite Protests, Canada Approves Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline - It'll run from the Alberta oil sands to British Columbia coast. Opponents in British Columbia, who span the political spectrum, threaten to block it altogether, fearing it'll make the province vulnerable to an oil spill."
2014-06-18,"Earth has its Warmest May on Record Globally, Spring could be Warmest"
2014-06-18,Youtube to start blocking indie artists &labels that don't sign up for their new paid service
2014-06-18,"A boat carrying 97 people from Indonesia sank off the western coast of Malaysia and 61 of the passengers are still missing, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said"
2014-06-18,"China is building artificial islands in the South China Sea that it claims as its own. China can use the islands to claim the 200 miles around them as its Exclusive Economic Zone; the islands may also be used for Chinese military activities, alarming Vietnam, the Philippines, and other countries."
2014-06-18,Iraq crisis: Isis seizes Baiji oil refinery  live updates
2014-06-17,"Tiny island nation that controls vast area of Pacific Ocean bans all commercial fishing in one of world's largest marine parks - ""If you think of the ocean as a bank account in which everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit, then protected marine reserves are like savings with interest."""
2014-06-17,"Britains top counter-terrorism official has been forced to reveal a secret government policy justifying the mass surveillance of every Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google user in the UK."
2014-06-17,New Zealand government to open up habitat of worlds rarest dolphin for oil exploration.
2014-06-17,"Pope tells super rich, bankers to find some ethics"
2014-06-17,"Iraq says Saudi Arabia ""siding with terrorism"""
2014-06-17,North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sends birthday greetings to Queen wishing 'British people well-being and prosperity'
2014-06-17,Gunmen kill at least 50 in Kenya during World Cup TV screening
2014-06-17,The West Australian government has decided to allow Buru Energy to frack for gas in the Kimberley region without an Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) assessment.
2014-06-17,UK law banning forced marriage takes effect
2014-06-17,"Top universities are paying too much for scores of academic journals provided by major publishing companies, an investigation has found."
2014-06-17,Gas transit pipeline explodes in East Ukraine
2014-06-17,IMF urges U.S. to raise minimum wage
2014-06-17,Marijuana Breathalyzer Invented
2014-06-17,Russia 'using words to destroy meaning' - Group of authors including two Nobel laureates condemns Russian Federation's 'waves of propaganda' against free expression
2014-06-17,UK to reopen embassy in Tehran
2014-06-17,"Mass surveillance of social media is permitted by law, says top UK official"
2014-06-17,Russia's Former Top Anti-Corruption Cop Commits Suicide During Questioning
2014-06-17,Greenpeace suffers $5.2-million loss after rogue employee botches major currency investment
2014-06-17,ISIS fighters in Syria and Iraq keep tweeting pictures of cats and pizza and its surreal
2014-06-17,"Sudan's airforce bombs Mdecins Sans Frontires (MSF) hospital in South Kordofan, Sudan"
2014-06-17,Nigerian army arrests 486 alleged Boko Haram members
2014-06-17,Turkey bans reporting on consular staff kidnapped in Mosul
2014-06-17,Two Russian state TV journalists have been killed in a mortar attack near a village outside the east Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
2014-06-17,Qatari: U.S. intervention in Iraq would be seen as war on Sunni Arabs
2014-06-17,Kerry: US open to working with Iran against extremists in Iraq
2014-06-16,Michael Schumacher out of Coma
2014-06-16,"Australia's government is trying to delist 74,000 acres of world heritage protected rainforest to make way for loggers"
2014-06-16,"British public wrongly believe rich pay most in tax, new research shows - Study shows poorest 10% pay eight percentage points more income, prompting calls for more progressive system"
2014-06-16,"Japanese fans clean stadium after losing 2-1 against Ivory Coast: Japanese fans who watched their national team be defeated by the Ivory Coast in the Fifa World Cup on Saturday showed it is possible to lose graciously, when they stayed behind after the match to help clean up."
2014-06-16,"Australia's richest 1% own as much as bottom 60%, says Oxfam | Income inequality has risen since mid-1990s and nine richest people now have greater net worth than poorest 4.54 million"
2014-06-16,"IKEA waits 8 years, then shuts down IKEAhackers site with trademark claim | IKEA lawyers pushed site to go non-commercial or give up its domain name."
2014-06-16,Russia cuts off natural gas supplies to Ukraine
2014-06-16,"Thousands of Iraqi men take up arms and volunteer to protect Baghdad ""at all costs,"" as ISIS troops closes in on the capital."
2014-06-16,"Green party peer put on database of 'extremists' after police surveillance in the UK - Political movements of Jenny Jones and Green party councillor Ian Driver were recorded for up to 11 years, though neither have a criminal record"
2014-06-16,Boris tells Blair: Put a sock in it over Iraq | Mayor of London Boris Johnson claims the former Prime Minister has 'finally gone mad' after making an 'unhinged' attempt to rewrite history.
2014-06-16,NATO has released satellite imagery supporting reports that the tanks crossing into Ukraine are Russian T-64s; it is believed that the T-64s were in storage in Russia and were then sent with pro-Russian forces. Russia is denying this.
2014-06-16,"In a leaked video, the nominee to be South Koreas next prime minister says that Japans occupation of Korea was Gods will and that it shouldnt apologize for comfort women."
2014-06-16,Syrian army foils chemical attack on Damascus
2014-06-16,"Hackers threaten to release details of 600,000 Domino's Pizza customers - including favourite toppings - unless they get 30,000."
2014-06-16,The slaughter of Kenyas biggest elephant and the decimation of an entire species
2014-06-16,Brazilian Police Officer Reportedly Fires Live Bullets At World Cup Protesters
2014-06-16,Australian PM Tony Abbott seeks World Heritage reversal to open Tasmanian forests to logging
2014-06-16,"NATO says Russia considers it an opponent, prepares Ukraine aid"
2014-06-16,"Taliban target voters in Afghanistan, kill 50, mutilate 11"
2014-06-16,New research shows Western Amazon under threat from oil pollution
2014-06-16,"'Foreign Legion' in Iraq and Syria may bring jihad to West. ""I don't think the public realizes the seriousness of the problem. "" -Richard Walton, head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command"
2014-06-16,"Global nuclear arsenal estimated at 16,300 warheads, says think tank. Pace of nuclear bombs reduction seems to be slowing, says Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; Israel's stock reportedly remained at 80."
2014-06-16,How an arrest in Iraq revealed Isis's $2bn jihadist network
2014-06-16,Chinese govt reveals Microsofts secret list of Android-killer patents
2014-06-16,ISIS enters Turkmen city Tal Afar in northern Iraq
2014-06-15,Syria pounds ISIS bases in coordination with Iraq
2014-06-15,"U.S. officials scrambled to nab Snowden, hoping he would take a wrong step. He didnt."
2014-06-15,Japan kills 30 minke whales in first hunt since International Court of Justice ruling
2014-06-15,"About 300 Ukrainian nationalists have stormed the Russian embassy in Kiev and raised the Ukrainian flag, following a demonstration to protest the shooting down of a Ukrainian military transport by pro-Russian rebels."
2014-06-15,13 Aircraft Mysteriously Disappear from Radar: 2 separate blackouts of identical length - Military blamed after planes vanish from Europe air-traffic control screens. Slovak authorities claim electronic warfare exercise caused dozens of planes to briefly disappear from air-traffic control radar
2014-06-15,"Tony Blair rejects 'bizarre' claims that invasion of Iraq caused the crisis - 'We have to liberate ourselves from the notion that ""we"" caused this', argues former prime minister in website essay"
2014-06-15,A superbug resistant to last-resort antibiotics has made its way into the food supply
2014-06-15,"Oil-rich United Arab Emirates aims to be a sustainable energy pioneer. One of the world's richest oil-based economies is embracing sustainable technologies, and making a surprise bid to become a clean energy leader"
2014-06-15,Canadian Supreme Court rules internet anonymity is key to privacy
2014-06-15,"Possible mass execution of 1,700 Shiite Iraqi soldiers by ISIL in Iraq"
2014-06-15,Torvalds on patents: 'Sane people know it's bullsh*t but making real change is difficult'
2014-06-15,U.S. aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush moving toward Persian Gulf as Iraq tensions rise
2014-06-15,"After months of speculation, Pakistan launches full scale operation in North Waziristan to cleanse area from foreign and local terrorists."
2014-06-15,Melinda Gates: Gates Foundation Has Decided Not to Fund Abortion
2014-06-15,US condemns attack on Russian embassy in Kiev
2014-06-15,Surveillance for FIFA World Cup Brazil - $5.2 million USD contract for intelligent video analytics software that autonomously learns and identifies 'unusual or suspicious' behavior and alerts authorities via text message
2014-06-15,"Brazil: Arrests and crackdowns but anti-World Cup activists get their message across | Despite police raids on activists' homes, protesters are gaining wide audiences with their calls for change in Brazil and beyond"
2014-06-15,"Facebook will track users outside of the site, says 'people want more targeted advertising'"
2014-06-15,Militants Claim Mass Execution of Iraqi Soldiers
2014-06-15,Vandals Sets Crimean Mosque on Fire
2014-06-15,Be more British Cameron tells UK Muslims: PM issues powerful new pledge to combat extremism
2014-06-15,Norway concerned for civil society in Hungary
2014-06-15,Israeli Teens kidnapped by terrorist organization
2014-06-15,Apparent pause in global warming blamed on 'lousy' data - European Space Agency scientist says annual sea level rises since 1993 indicate that warming has continued unabated
2014-06-15,Facebook to track what users do on other sites
2014-06-14,Poachers massacre 68 elephants in Congo national park with chainsaws and by shooting from helicopters.
2014-06-14,"'At my age I do not have much to lose': Pope Francis ditches bullet-proof Popemobile, creating security headache for Vatican officials"
2014-06-14,Ukrainian military plane with at least 49 aboard shot down
2014-06-14,YouTube refuses Egypt's request to remove footage of Tahrir Square sexual assault
2014-06-14,Poacher who killed 30 tigers in India has been Caught
2014-06-14,"Petition with 150,000 signatures calls on France to grant Snowden asylum"
2014-06-14,"Worlds Biggest Elephant Killed by Poachers in Kenya - He was killed by a poisoned arrow. Poachers hacked off the face & tusk of Satao, who is reported to have been exceptionally intelligent."
2014-06-14,"Toronto police, at the direction of an Ontario Superior Court judge, have released an internal video which for more than two years the force denied existed, in a case involving the arrest and detention of a paraplegic man who claims he was assaulted by officers and urinated on while in custody."
2014-06-14,"U.S. wont intervene in Iraq in absence of political reform by Iraqis, Obama says"
2014-06-14,"Jamaica decriminalizes personal possession of marijuana, will clear past ganja arrest records"
2014-06-14,ISIS' half-a-billion-dollar bank heist makes it world's richest terror group
2014-06-14,"'Powerful bomb' found near presidential HQ: Ukrainian presidential bodyguards have disposed of a powerful explosive device discovered near President Petro Poroshenko's headquarters, a security source said."
2014-06-14,Canada's Top Court Just Ruled Online User Data Is Inherently Private
2014-06-14,Iran sends troops into Iraq to aid fight against Isis militants
2014-06-14,Canada's Top Court Just Ruled Online User Data Is Inherently Private
2014-06-14,Taliban changing from religious group to criminal enterprise: U.N.
2014-06-14,"Pope rejects bullet-proof Popemobile, says there is no point in riding the sardine can at his old age"
2014-06-14,Kenyas biggest elephant killed by poachers
2014-06-14,Pope Francis Warns The Global Economy Is Near Collapse
2014-06-14,Volunteers flock to defend Baghdad as insurgents seize more Iraqi territory
2014-06-14,Hundreds of young Shiite men volunteer to fight Sunni militants in Iraq
2014-06-14,Japan to slash corporate tax rate to below 30%
2014-06-14,"U.S. weighs Iraq airstrikes, Obama says he won't send combat troops"
2014-06-14,Blood minerals are electronics industry's dirty secret: A crackdown in the US is forcing technology firms to come clean about the source of the minerals used in their smartphones and electronics
2014-06-14,It's a huge win for Canadian Privacy Rights as Supreme Court rules government warrantless disclosure requests unconstitutional | OpenMedia.ca
2014-06-13,"WildLeaks attracts major wildlife crime leads in first three months | A new WikiLeaks-style website targeting the kingpins of wildlife crime has attracted serious leads on elephant, tiger, fishery and forest destruction across the globe."
2014-06-13,Jamaica to decriminalize personal marijuana possession
2014-06-13,"Tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades on the streets of Sao Paulo as World Cup begins"
2014-06-13,"China battles to be first ecological civilisation: Premier Li Keqiang has declared a ""war on pollution"". His leadership has drawn up a philosophical framework called ecological civilisation. It aims to ""bring everything back to the relationship between man and nature"""
2014-06-13,Ayatollah Sistani issues call to arms; the highest ranking Shia cleric in Iraq asks all Muslims to fight back against ISIS insurgents.
2014-06-13,Baghdad is going to be overrun. The Green Zone is going down. - U.S. intelligence official
2014-06-13,The rules in ISIS new state: Amputations for stealing and women to stay indoors.
2014-06-13,Russia on Iraq: We told you so
2014-06-13,China arrested more people last year for environmental offences than in the previous 10 combined as Beijing strives to produce results after a much-vaunted pollution crackdown
2014-06-13,"Iran Deploys Quds Forces To Support Iraqi Troops, Helps Retake Most Of Tikrit"
2014-06-13,Tesla puts electric car patents into public domain
2014-06-13,Iran official: 'Tehran willing to work with US over Iraq crisis'
2014-06-13,Pope Francis says global economy discards young
2014-06-13,"Jehovah's Witness elders were 'spiritually corrupt and morally bankrupt', court told in child abuse cover up case"
2014-06-13,Supreme court of Canada rules ISP's cannot give police subscriber information without a warrant
2014-06-13,"Iraqi militants capture US made tanks, humvees, arms from abandoned military base"
2014-06-13,Ontario has just elected the first LGBTQ premier in Canadian history
2014-06-13,"Obama: Considering ""All Options"" after Iraq Government Asks US for Air Strikes against ISIS"
2014-06-13,Supreme Court rules Canadians have the Right to Online Anonymity
2014-06-13,Greece sues for 7 billion euros over German submarines that have never sailed
2014-06-13,UK rules out taking military action in Iraq
2014-06-13,Oil prices spike on escalating Iraq violence
2014-06-13,Solar Storm Heading Toward Earth Today
2014-06-13,Iran is open to shared role with U.S. - senior Iranian official
2014-06-13,"Ukraine Claims Full Control of Port City - Ukrainian government forces said Friday that they had won full control of the port city of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine, in a fight that left five pro-Russian militants dead and ended with a Ukrainian flag being hoisted at City Hall."
2014-06-12,"Australian government grabs $360 million from idle household bank accounts that have been dormant for just three years, prompting outrage in some quarters amid complaints that pensioners and retirees have lost deposits."
2014-06-12,Brazil airports go on Strike.... hours before World Cup...
2014-06-12,Rich got 14.6% richer in 2013
2014-06-12,"Uber sees an 850 percent jump in sign-ups, while cab drivers across Europe protest the taxi-hailing app by going on strike. Experts call the strike against Uber ""PR gold"" for the app."
2014-06-12,Ukraine: Tanks 'cross from Russia'
2014-06-12,ISIS just stole $425 million and became the worlds richest terrorist group
2014-06-12,Activists Poured Concrete All Over Some 'Anti-Homeless' Spikes This Morning
2014-06-12,An unprecedented attempt to hold the first ever completely secret criminal trial in the UK has been blocked by the Court of Appeal.
2014-06-12,Crisis in Iraq - open discussion thread (sticky #10)
2014-06-12,Clinton reveals how Obama forcibly prevented China's 'secret' meeting with India to isolate US
2014-06-12,Australia to sue FIFA over corruption surrounding 2022 World Cup
2014-06-12,Turkey calls for emergency Nato meeting on security situation in Iraq
2014-06-12,The extinct influenza virus that caused the worst flu pandemic in history has been recreated from fragments of avian flu found in wild ducks in a controversial experiment to show how easy it would be for the deadly flu strain to reemerge today.
2014-06-12,"500,000 People Reportedly Flee Mosul After Iraqi City Falls"
2014-06-12,"214 mile long traffic jam in Brazil, a day ahead of the World Cup. Transit protests are expected again for opening day."
2014-06-12,Britain and New Zealand reject Australian PM Tony Abbott's idea for a centre-right alliance to block action on climate change
2014-06-12,Blackwater on trial over killing of 14 Iraqi civilians in 2007 | Prosecutors plan to call dozens of Iraqis to testify over bloodshed in Baghdad that inflamed anti-US sentiment around the world
2014-06-12,"Australian PM Tony Abbott to UN: ""Count me out of climate change summit"""
2014-06-12,"Recession 'led to 10,000 suicides': The economic crisis in Europe and North America led to more than 10,000 extra suicides"
2014-06-12,ISIS militants extend control to 90 kms from Baghdad as Iraqi army melts away
2014-06-12,Insurgents vow to take Baghdad as U.S. mulls action
2014-06-12,Palestinians: autopsy shows live bullet killed teen during anti-Israel protest
2014-06-12,"Congo mines no longer in grip of warlords and militias, Enough Project finds 2010 US law requiring companies like Apple and Intel to prove products are conflct-free has worked"
2014-06-12,Iraqs Terrorists Are Becoming a Full-Blown Army
2014-06-12,"Syrian woman survives 700 day blockade leaving home only six times, emerging weighing only 75 pounds"
2014-06-11,"Canadian ""Cyberbullying"" law would let government ""remotely hack into computers, mobile devices, or cars"""
2014-06-11,Chile rejects Patagonia wilderness dam project: The Chilean government has rejected a plan to build five hydroelectric dams on rivers in the south of the country. Its decision follows years of campaigning by environmentalists and local communities.
2014-06-11,Taxi drivers to bring London to a standstill over row with Uber. The last organised strike of this magnitude cost London over 600 Million.
2014-06-11,"Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK | Thai 'ghost ships' that enslave, brutalise and even kill workers are linked to global shrimp supply chain, Guardian investigation discovers"
2014-06-11,"The insurgent fighters who routed the Iraqi army out of Mosul did not just capture Iraqs second-largest city. They also gained a windfall of arms, munitions and equipment abandoned by the soldiers  arms that were supplied by the US and intended to give the troops an edge over the insurgents"
2014-06-11,London Mayor Boris Johnson offers to be blasted by water cannon to show theyre safe - after buying the riot control equipment for the capital despite having no permission to use it.
2014-06-11,Emirates cancels order for 70 Airbus A350s
2014-06-11,JK Rowling donates 1m to Scotland's anti-independence campaign
2014-06-11,"Billions of NATO-dollars unaccounted for, says Dutch National Court of Auditors"
2014-06-11,"ISIL storms Turkey's Mosul consulate, 'takes diplomats captive'"
2014-06-11,"""I think we just got read the riot act""  Hong Kong must accept Beijing's control, China's Communist Party warns"
2014-06-11,Unverpacked: New Zero-Waste Grocery Store in Germany Will Package None of Its Products
2014-06-11,"Oil company Soco International is suspending all operations in Virunga World Heritage Site, Africa's oldest national park. It has also committed to keep out of all other UNESCO World Heritage Sites."
2014-06-11,Huge haul of blood-stained ivory found in 32 suitcases at Hong Kong airport
2014-06-11,ISIL take over parts of Tikrit after overrunning Mosul
2014-06-11,Mosul Seized: Jihadis Loot $429m from City's Central Bank to Make ISIS World's Richest Terror Force
2014-06-11,Canadian man living in China says he was wrongfully imprisoned after refusing to spy on Canada
2014-06-11,"EU opens in-depth probes into tax rulings on Apple, Starbucks, Fiat unit"
2014-06-11,"ISIL militants seize control of Tikrit as second Iraqi provincial capital falls in two days. ""All of Tikrit is in the hands of the militants,"" a police colonel said of the Salaheddin provincial capital, which lies roughly half way between Baghdad and Iraq's second city Mosul."
2014-06-11,China Shuts Down 20 Million WeChat Accounts For Prostitution
2014-06-11,"Saudi minister says beheading, lashings 'cannot be changed'"
2014-06-11,Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server
2014-06-11,Hacker who revealed George W. Bush paintings gets 4 years in Romanian prison
2014-06-11,Canadian teachers in British Columbia vote yes at 86% for a full scale strike walk out.
2014-06-11,"After Ukraine, U.S. trains more special forces in eastern Europe | As NATO refocuses on its eastern borders after Russia's annexation of Crimea, the United States is quietly deploying more troops to train special forces in former Soviet bloc states anxious about Moscow's intentions."
2014-06-10,Baby rhino Gertjie refuses to sleep alone after witnessing his mother's death at the hands of poachers - The baby rhino was found 'crying inconsolably' next to his dead mother in South Africa
2014-06-10,Mexico City joins others in banning animals in circuses
2014-06-10,"Boris Johnson calls for removal of anti-homeless spikes: London mayor says 'ugly, self-defeating and stupid' spikes outside luxury flats are not the answer to rough sleeping"
2014-06-10,"New Inca Road Discovered Leading Right to Machu Picchu - Road includes a nearly 5 meter long tunnel, still intact 500 yrs after its construction"
2014-06-10,The NYT reports a Chinese military unit has been stealing design schematics from aerospace and satellite companies and government agencies.
2014-06-10,"Canada shuts down investor immigration path declaring that there is ""little evidence that immigrant investors as a class are maintaining ties to Canada or making a positive economic contribution to the country""; Rich Chinese sue"
2014-06-10,Australian PM Tony Abbott seeks alliance to thwart President Obama on climate change policy
2014-06-10,"Russia, China have their sights on undercutting dollar's dominance as reserve currency"
2014-06-10,"Ireland: Nun admits care home children were involved in medical trials - ""In one of the trials, 80 children became ill after they were accidentally administered a vaccine intended for cattle"""
2014-06-10,Eight employees at Canada's largest dairy farm are being accused of viciously beating cows after undercover video was given to the British Columbia SPCA.
2014-06-10,"G20 not a place to discuss climate change, says BHP chief [BHP is an Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum company]"
2014-06-10,Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper have condemned carbon taxes during their first bilateral talks in Ottawa.
2014-06-10,Moderate Muslim preacher shot dead in Kenya
2014-06-10,Iraq militants seize Mosul provincial government HQ
2014-06-10,"Archaeologists discover 4,000-year-old tomb from 11th Engyptian dynasty in Luxor"
2014-06-10,Venezuelan Prostitutes Earn More Selling Dollars Than Sex
2014-06-10,World's oldest man dies at 111
2014-06-10,UK govt accuses Muslim group of trying to impose Islam in schools -
2014-06-10,Vietnam banking tycoon given 30-year jail term
2014-06-10,"ISIS Militants seize control of Mosul, the Second Largest City in Iraq"
2014-06-10,"Chrome OS leaks data to Google before switching on a VPN, says CESG (the part of GCHQ that helps British citizens protect stuff from foreign spies) | It also identifies ""significant risks"" in the operating systems."
2014-06-10,Netanyahu Is Facing Heat From All Sides For His Handling Of Palestine Peace Talks
2014-06-10,"U.S. arms could create Syria 'warlords', rebel commander says"
2014-06-10,"A man and a woman arrested for protesting against the coup will undergo a process to ""have their attitude adjusted"", said deputy national police chief General Somyos Phumpanmuang"
2014-06-10,"Revealed: Asian slave labour producing prawns for supermarkets in US, UK"
2014-06-09,Kim Dotcom offers $5m bounty in online piracy case - Megaupload founder in bid to prove US authorities aided by New Zealand illegally targeted him at behest of Hollywood studios
2014-06-09,Lego asks UK government to stop using their products in anti-Scottish-independence videos.
2014-06-09,"F-35's single engine too dangerous for Canadian military, report says"
2014-06-09,"Religious orders allowed over 2,000 Irish children to be used in medical experiments"
2014-06-09,"Russia warns Finland against joining NATO. 'If Finland wants to join NATO, they should think first. Will you join and start World War III?' warns Russian President Vladimir Putin's personal envoy Sergei Markov."
2014-06-09,"'France must give refuge to Edward Snowden' | A petition calling for France to grant asylum to American NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has garnered over 33,000 signatures in less than 12 hours."
2014-06-09,"Gunmen attack Karachi international airport, injuring security guards and hurling grenades"
2014-06-09,"Inspectors find 'fear and intimidation' at UK schools linked to Muslim extremism ""Some of our findings are deeply worrying, and in some ways quite shocking. In the most serious cases, a culture of fear and intimidation has taken grip."" said Michael Wilshaw, head of the Ofsted schools inspectorate."
2014-06-09,"An outbreak of Ebola virus disease is happening in West Africa with 395 cases, 215 deaths and a case fatality of 54% as today"
2014-06-09,"Israel has prevented a senior Palestinian soccer delegate from traveling to this month's World Cup in Brazil, his federation said on Sunday."
2014-06-09,"Brazil Has Done More To Stop Climate Change Than Any Other Country, Study Finds"
2014-06-09,"Russia would react to NATO beefing up forces near borders: Russia would consider any further expansion of NATO forces near its borders a ""demonstration of hostile intentions"" and would take political and military measures to ensure its own security, Interfax quoted a senior diplomat as saying."
2014-06-09,Britain calls up Dad's Army of spies to watch Russia - Military intelligence chiefs have been re-recruiting Cold War veterans and retired linguists because of a lack of Russian skills to deal with the Ukraine crisis
2014-06-09,Delhi court awards life imprisonment to 17 policemen for killing a 22 year old student in a staged shootout
2014-06-09,U.S. Sends Stealth Bombers To Europe
2014-06-09,"Gates Foundation Sells Stake in Worlds Biggest Security-services and Prison Operator, UK-based G4S"
2014-06-09,"Death of Palestinians in protest may be Israeli war crime, rights group says"
2014-06-09,"China's anti-graft campaign is now targeting officials who have sent their spouses & children abroad, where they can create channels to potentially funnel illicit gains & establish footholds for eventual escape from the mainland"
2014-06-09,UK Prime Minister Cameron to order school inspections over worries about infiltration by Muslim extremists.
2014-06-09,Egypt: Mob torches Christian shops ahead of trial
2014-06-09,sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus strongest coalition partner threatened to bring down the government if it tries to annex West Bank settlements following the breakdown of Mideast peace talks
2014-06-09,Japan to press for resumption of annual whale hunt
2014-06-09,"Two men have been given life sentences by a Moscow court for the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Russian news agencies report."
2014-06-09,"Latin Americans forge ahead with CO2 reduction plans. Over the past year, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Bolivia and Peru have all either passed or announced an intent to legislate major new policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions"
2014-06-09,"China ships 'rammed 1,400 times by Vietnamese vessels' as tensions continue to rise between the two countries."
2014-06-08,"Fifa sponsor demands 'appropriate investigation': One of Fifa's main sponsors, Sony, calls for an investigation into the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar"
2014-06-08,Stephen Fry denounces UK government for not acting on Snowden revelations
2014-06-08,"For first time in history, Islamic prayers to be held in Vatican"
2014-06-08,Qatar allegedly paid $1.7 million to secure Asian votes for their World Cup bid
2014-06-08,Man who spotted what may have been the burning missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 off the coast of Vietnam sacked from his position on an oil rig after reporting the incident.
2014-06-08,An American fossils dealer has been jailed for smuggling dinosaur bones including a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus fossil from Mongolia.
2014-06-08,MH370 family members suspect coverup. Raise money for whistleblowers to come forward.
2014-06-08,"Car bombs kill 52 in Baghdad, militants storm university and take hostages"
2014-06-08,"2,000 Irish Children in Church Custody Used as Drug Trial Guinea Pigs"
2014-06-08,Facebook blocks users in Pakistan from access to several left-wing secular pages on request from the Pakistani government
2014-06-08,Rising sea levels have disturbed the skeletons of soldiers killed on the Marshall Islands during World War II - one grave with 26 dead has already been exposed.
2014-06-08,China creates 55 billion tons of artificial rain a yearand it plans to quintuple that
2014-06-08,3 Canadian men escape Quebec City Jail with a helicopter
2014-06-08,"South Africa's policy of race-based affirmative action is killing babies and must be scrapped, the country's Institute of Race Relations said. The institute said black empowerment policies had seen unqualified people appointed to positions where their incompetence hit poor and vulnerable communities"
2014-06-08,Hezbollah leader says war on Assad has failed
2014-06-08,"Egypt has banned unauthorized preachers from giving sermons or teaching Islam in mosques and other public places, according to a decree on Saturday marking a further step in official efforts to curb Islamist influence"
2014-06-08,"The United States has pledged millions of dollars in additional aid to Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, deepening American support to the Western-leaning countries on Russia's border."
2014-06-08,Jimmy Wales: UK needs US-style first amendment to protect whistleblowers
2014-06-08,China Flattens Hundreds of Mountains for New Cities
2014-06-08,Brazil: Clashes in Sao Paulo strikes ahead of World Cup | Police in Brazil have used tear gas to break up protesters on the second day of a metro strike that has left Sao Paulo's transport in chaos.
2014-06-08,Brazil Olympics: Rio bay 'will not be clean for 2016'
2014-06-08,"Venezuela's judiciary is persecuting students, dissidents and independent judges while turning a blind eye to most crimes in a country with one of the world's highest murder rates"
2014-06-08,"90% Of Gazprom Clients Have ""De-Dollarized"", Will Transact In Euro & Renminbi"
2014-06-08,"Wikileaks welcomes CIA to Twitter by taking a dig at the spy agency, saying: ""@CIA we look forward to sharing great classified info about you,"" along with links to CIA-related revelations in the Wikileaks website."
2014-06-08,Ukraine forces shelling Donetsk residential areas. 3 civillians killed yesterday. Most neighborhoods without water and electricity.
2014-06-07,Pensioner who hid medals and absconded from care home found at D-Day celebrations in France. The 89-year old was reported missing from his Hove care home but actually sneaked onboard a coach for a final reunion with his D-Day comrades across the Channel
2014-06-07,D-Day veteran: 'Remember Germans too'
2014-06-07,U.S. admits supplying lethal aid to Syrian rebels
2014-06-07,Vietnam has released dramatic footage showing a large Chinese ship chasing and ramming one of its fishing boats that then sank near an oil rig in contested waters in the South China Sea
2014-06-07,"Scientists have found traces of Theia, the planet that smashed into the Earth to form the Moon, in lunar rocks"
2014-06-07,North Korea detains U.S. citizen; now has three in custody
2014-06-07,'I'm not going to Brazil' hashtag tackles World Cup
2014-06-07,"Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 5 June 2014) - now the largest recorded Ebola outbreak in history"
2014-06-07,Putin says Russian city Volgograd can become Stalingrad again
2014-06-07,"Labor has slammed Tony Abbott, declaring him embarrassing for cancelling meetings with the world's top finance officials during his visit to the United States."
2014-06-07,China may build an artificial island in disputed South China Sea to use as a military base in enforcing a future Air Defense Identification Zone.
2014-06-07,Hero's welcome for runaway D-Day veteran - The 89-year-old war veteran who slipped out of his care home to attend D-Day commemorations in Normandy has arrived back in the UK to a hero's welcome
2014-06-07,Metal spikes have been installed outside a block of luxury flats in London to deter homeless people from sleeping there.
2014-06-07,Vodafone says 'Six unnamed nations have access to user's phone use at any time.'
2014-06-07,One hundred of Australia's richest people have taken advantage of a rare amnesty from the Australian Taxation Office - issued in March this year - to reveal their use of secretive offshore tax havens without severe punishment.
2014-06-07,"WWII Vet, AWOL From Nursing Home, Found At Normandy Ceremonies"
2014-06-07,Canadian government orders federal departments to keep tabs on all demonstrations across country
2014-06-07,"China investigation finds 1,000 'naked officials' in Guangdong: investigation in China has revealed that more than 1,000 officials in the southern province of Guangdong have spouses or children living abroad"
2014-06-07,Rising seas wash Japanese war dead from Marshall Islands graves - Officials blame climate change as 26 skeletons are found on Santo Island after high tides batter Pacific archipelago
2014-06-07,Palm Oil In Pastries Drives Deforestation
2014-06-07,"China May Build ""Artificial Island"" Military Base In South China Sea From Which To Project Power"
2014-06-07,"Ukraine's new president sworn in, says ""he would guarantee indemnity from criminal charges"" to separatists ""who did not have blood on their hands"""
2014-06-07,World Cup 2014: Police use rubber bullets and tear gas as Sao Paulo underground strike enters third day
2014-06-07,Power cuts in north India spark riots
2014-06-07,Finland To Put NATO Membership to Referendum
2014-06-06,"Quebec passes 'dying with dignity' bill, allows terminally ill patients be given the choice to end their lives."
2014-06-06,"Europe to force Google, Facebook to abide by EU privacy rules"
2014-06-06,Gunman who killed three RCMP officers and wounded two others in Moncton has been captured by police
2014-06-06,Irish government now seemingly caught in the act of tapping thousands of phones
2014-06-06,Vodafone admits governments use 'secret cables' to tap citizens' phones
2014-06-06,"Internet users cannot be sued for browsing the web, ECJ rules"
2014-06-06,"(Reuters)  An 18-year-old Pakistani has survived being shot and thrown in a canal by her family for marrying the man she loved, police said, weeks after the honor killing of another woman drew worldwide condemnation"
2014-06-06,"Thai military leader: ""I want to tell any offenders on social media that police will come get you"" for criticizing them."
2014-06-06,German intelligence agency confesses to spy stations
2014-06-06,Brazil transit strike hits a week before World Cup
2014-06-06,"""Bill C-24 promises to shred the passports of Canadians who the Minister of Immigration deems terroristsand deport them to countries they may have never seen before."""
2014-06-06,Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance
2014-06-06,CIA drone strikes: embarrassment for US as Pakistan court orders murder investigation - Telegraph
2014-06-06,Twelve injured in sword fight between rival Sikhs rowing over who should speak first
2014-06-06,Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko for first time since election
2014-06-06,Israel navy fires on Gaza fishing boats
2014-06-06,The Canadian government is expanding its surveillance of public activities to include all known demonstrations across the country
2014-06-06,Fishermen's clip proves China's Lied
2014-06-06,North Korea has announced that a third American has been arrested and is in state custody.
2014-06-06,"Anti-American Sentiment On The Rise In Russia. Forty percent of respondents said their opinion about the United States was ""generally negative,"" while 31 percent said it was ""very negative."""
2014-06-06,Ukraine says 15 rebels killed in border clash. Government aide says armed men came from Russia in trucks and an infantry vehicle and tried to cross eastern boundary.
2014-06-06,Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma purchases half of China's best soccer club
2014-06-06,German spy agency comes clean on secret sites
2014-06-06,"Hundreds of Scientists to Canada Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Pipeline report ""deeply flawed"" - Blasts federal review recommending approval of Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline as biased. He'll decide whether to approve $7b pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia this month."
2014-06-06,"Big blast hits Kosovo power station near Pristina: A loud explosion has been reported at a coal-fired power station outside Kosovo's capital Pristina, causing a number of casualties."
2014-06-05,"The Worlds first waste-to-biofuels facility has opened in Edmonton Canada. The facility converts household garbage into biofuels. By 2016, it is expected that 90 per cent of the city's waste will be diverted out of the landfill because of this facility."
2014-06-05,"Dont ask for privacy, Take it back: Anti-NSA #ResetTheNet campaign kicks off"
2014-06-05,Gunman on the loose in Moncton: Unconfirmed reports RCMP officers shot
2014-06-05,"After 16 hours, gunman who killed three Canadian cops still on the loose, city in lockdown"
2014-06-05,Pope Francis sacks entire Italian board of the Vatican's financial watchdog
2014-06-05,Irish church under fire after research uncovers 796 young children buried in an old septic tank
2014-06-05,A major criminal trial involving two men charged with serious terrorism offences could be held entirely in secret for the first time in modern British legal history
2014-06-05,"Snowden publicly supports Reset the Net campaign: ""This is the beginning of a moment where we the people begin to protect our universal human rights with the laws of nature rather than the laws of nations"
2014-06-05,"India state minister on rape: 'Sometimes it's right, sometimes it's wrong'"
2014-06-05,German NSA-Proof Server Protonet Smashes Crowdfunding Record by Raising $1m in 89 Minutes
2014-06-05,Russian to become mandatory in Syrian schools
2014-06-05,Witnesses: Boko Haram militants slaughter hundreds
2014-06-05,The Guardian launches SecureDrop system for whistleblowers to share files | SecureDrop platform allows sources to submit documents and data while avoiding most common forms of online tracking.
2014-06-05,Canada bans government meteorologists from talking about climate change
2014-06-05,Thousands gather in Hong Kong to remember Tiananmen killings. Crowds pack Hong Kong's Victoria Park to demand the truth about the Tiananmen crackdown 25 years ago and to call for an end to an assault on Communist Party critics that many view as the worst since 1989
2014-06-05,Finns invent promising method for CO2 reduction. Researchers at the Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences have developed a water-based technique for removing carbon dioxide from industrial emissions.
2014-06-05,68 U.S. companies procure minerals from North Korea despite Economic Sanctions
2014-06-05,Extinct bat found in Papua New Guinea after 124 years.
2014-06-05,"Putin on Clinton: 'It's better not to argue with women.' He later characterized Clinton's comments as a sign of weakness, which is maybe ""not the worst quality for a woman,"" he added."
2014-06-05,"Air attack on pro-Russian separatists in Luhansk kills 8, stuns residents"
2014-06-05,Rebels seize three govt bases in Ukraine
2014-06-05,"Japan's SoftBank Corp said on Thursday it will start selling human-like robots for personal use by February, expanding into a sector seen key to addressing labour shortages in one of the world's fastest ageing societies."
2014-06-05,US Deploying B-52s to Europe
2014-06-05,Nearly $190 million in assets linked to ousted Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych and his inner circle have been frozen in Switzerland
2014-06-05,"Angered by Palestinian unity gov't, Israel to build more settler homes"
2014-06-04,Relatives of Chinese citizens gunned down during the 1989 Tiananmen massacre have defied unprecedented Communist Party attempts to silence them to demand the truth about their loved-ones deaths ahead of todays 25th anniversary of the crackdown.
2014-06-04,David Cameron's house 'fracked' by protestors
2014-06-04,"Nigerian military court-martials 15, including 10 generals, for aiding Boko Haram"
2014-06-04,The mayor of Venice is among 35 people arrested in Italy over alleged corruption in connection with new flood barriers built to protect the city.
2014-06-04,"Poll: Australians concern about climate change & a desire for the government to take action is on the rise. 45% want action now 'whatever the cost', as survey reveals a 9-point rise in the strongest response since 2012"
2014-06-04,Obama expected to ask Abbott to put climate change back on G20 agenda
2014-06-04,US coastguard releases Chinese boat accused of illegal fishing in North Pacific. Vessel caught with half a tonne of salmon and high-seas net widely condemned as highly destructive to marine life
2014-06-04,North Korea asked Japan for food and medical aid
2014-06-04,Anti-marijuana candidate loses in Uruguay primary
2014-06-04,People 'more negative about Russia': People's views of Russia have strongly deteriorated since last year
2014-06-04,"The world's leading industrialized nations meet without Russia for the first time in 17 years on Wednesday, leaving President Vladimir Putin out of the talks in retaliation for his seizure of Crimea and Russia's part in destabilizing eastern Ukraine."
2014-06-04,Protests for kidnapped girls banned in Nigerian capital
2014-06-04,"OSCE confirms that deadly explosion at Lugansk HQ which killed civilians was indeed a ""non-guided missiles launched from an aircraft. While Ukraine military confirmed they fired 150 missiles in Lugansk area that day"
2014-06-04,"Rouhani: ""We shouldn't interfere in people's lives to such an extent, even out of compassion. Let them choose their own path to heaven."""
2014-06-04,"Lithuania is set to adopt the euro on 1 January 2015, after the European Commission said it had met the criteria for joining the single currency."
2014-06-04,Heavy fighting is taking place in and around the rebel-held city of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine
2014-06-04,"Finlands Foreign Ministry has adopted a ""corruption trigger"" for reporting the misuse of development aid. The online service is the first of its kind to be used by the Finnish public service and is available in Finnish, Swedish and English."
2014-06-04,"Protestors in Spain Don't Want to Have a King Anymore: Thousands of Spaniards & Mexicans are welcoming new king by chanting pro-Republican slogans like Monarchy Out!, Up With the Third Republic!, & Referendum Now!"
2014-06-04,Germany investigates alleged NSA Merkel phone tap: Germanys chief federal prosecutor says he has opened an investigation into the alleged monitoring of Chancellor Angela Merkels cell phone by the U.S. National Security Agency.
2014-06-04,Sweden considers making programming an alternative to shop class
2014-06-04,"China, once the manual labour workshop of the world, has become the largest buyer of industrial robots"
2014-06-04,An Uproar in Australia Over Proposal to Deregulate Tuition
2014-06-04,"Major explosion, fire at Shell plant in the Netherlands"
2014-06-04,Australias one hundred days of truth-telling: Operation Blame the Victims was in full swing again today as Scott Morrison insisted that it was the unarmed men who received the beating who are to blame
2014-06-04,Activists stage fracking protest at David Cameron's home: Signs to drill under PM's cottage in Cotswold put up to protest against tresspass law changes expected in Queen's speech
2014-06-03,"Satirist Bassem Youssef (the ""Jon Stewart"" of Egypt) ends TV show: ""The present climate in Egypt is not suitable for a political satire program...Im tired of struggling and fearing for my personal and my familys safety and that of the people around me."""
2014-06-03,Alexander Shulgin dead: Godfather of ecstasy and pioneering psychedelic pharmacologist dies aged 88
2014-06-03,"Reset the Net! Reddit, Greenpeace, Amnesty unite in anti-NSA hit campaign | Opponents of mass government surveillance are braced for the June-5 campaign for a free and secure internet, led by some of the worlds largest websites."
2014-06-03,Attack of the Russian Troll Army: Russias campaign to shape international opinion around its invasion of Ukraine has extended to recruiting and training a new cadre of online trolls that have been deployed to spread the Kremlins message on the comments section of top American websites.
2014-06-03,Sweden proposes a six-hour work day
2014-06-03,Fifa ethics head Michael Garcia won't look at new corruption allegations: Fifa's chief ethics investigator will not consider millions of documents underpinning a new wave of corruption allegations surrounding the award of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar
2014-06-03,Thailands military threatens to arrest people giving Hunger Games salute
2014-06-03,80k Palestinians left without drinking water
2014-06-03,French president plans to eat two dinners in one night just so he can keep Obama and Putin away from each other
2014-06-03,Barack Obama announces plans for a $1bn fund to increase US military deployments to Europ
2014-06-03,"The Indian miracle-buster stuck in Finland: An Indian man who made his name exposing the ""miraculous"" feats of holy men as tricks has fled the country after being accused of blasphemy. Now in self-imposed exile in Finland, he fears jail - or even assassination - if he returns"
2014-06-03,800 children found buried in a silage tank at a disused home for unmarried mothers in Ireland.
2014-06-03,Kerry to Israel: U.S. intends to work with new Palestinian government
2014-06-03,China Blocks All Google Services Ahead of Tienanmen Square Anniversary
2014-06-03,"Scientists Have Discovered A Planet They Thought Was Impossible. May have ""profound implications for the possibility of life"" on extra-solar planets."
2014-06-03,"China plan to cap CO2 emissions seen turning point in climate talks. China said on Tuesday it will set an absolute cap on its CO2 emissions from 2016 just a day after the United States announced new targets for its power sector, signalling a potential breakthrough in tough U.N. climate talks."
2014-06-03,Mining company Idemitsu Australia Resources has admitted it contracted spies to infiltrate protesters opposed to the expansion of coal mining in Australia.
2014-06-03,"Survey finds broad discontent in World Cup host Brazil | People take the view that the billions of dollars poured into the soccer tournament would be better spent on services such as healthcare, schools and public transportation."
2014-06-03,Spain protests call for vote on monarchy | Tens of thousands rally across Spain to demand referendum on removal of royal family after King Juan Carlos abdicates.
2014-06-03,"Russia calls UN meeting to seek Ukraine ceasefire: Moscow urges Security Council action to end weeks of violence in Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine, a move denounced by U.S. as hypocritical."
2014-06-03,Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef ends his TV show
2014-06-03,"Canada has been dragging its heels on commitments to create marine protected areas, according to new report."
2014-06-03,"Roman Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal: 19 Accuse Mexican Priest, Activist Estimates as Many as '100 Victims'"
2014-06-03,Climate Change Is Here: Australia Experiences Hottest Two Years Ever Recorded
2014-06-03,Freak sandstorm hits Iranian capital
2014-06-02,Google is building 180 satellites to spread internet access worldwide
2014-06-02,King Juan Carlos of Spain abdicates
2014-06-02,"Authorities 'cover up' radioactive waste dump | A highly radioactive substance, emitting in some places radiation 100 times the permitted amount, has been discovered in the canton of Bern, Swiss media reported on Sunday, adding that authorities had covered it up for 18 months."
2014-06-02,7 die in Cambodia after looking for money (equivalent to approx $0.75 USD) in well
2014-06-02,Sudan backtracks on pledge to free woman sentenced to death for apostasy
2014-06-02,Bilderberg 2014 attendees list released.
2014-06-02,"One killed, ten wounded after Ukrainian Air Force attack Lugansk administration building"
2014-06-02,Police Apprehend LGBT Pride Protesters in Moscow
2014-06-02,German villagers build own broadband network
2014-06-02,"World Cup 2014: 'Hacktivist' group Anonymous plan cyber-attack on sponsors including Coca-Cola, Budweiser and Emirates Airline"
2014-06-02,Former soldiers and intelligence operatives have been sent to infiltrate a network of anti-coal protesters aiming to thwart a multibillion dollar expansion of coal production in Australia.
2014-06-02,Oxford university academics support fossil fuel divestment | Fifty-nine University of Oxford academics have signed an open letter urging the institution not to invest in fossil fuel companies. [X-post from /r/divestment]
2014-06-02,"25 Years Later, Details Emerge of Armys Chaos Before Tiananmen Square"
2014-06-02,Cameroon troops kills 40 Boko Haram militants
2014-06-02,ISIL kills 102-year-old man and family in Syria
2014-06-02,Russia takes over UN Security Council chairmanship
2014-06-02,YouTube still blocked in Turkey despite top court verdict
2014-06-02,"Palestinians swear in unity government: Palestinians swore in their first national unity government in seven years on Monday, a move condemned by Israel but not other major players in the Middle East peace process, including the EU and U.S."
2014-06-02,Seoul seeks U.S. help with probe into GIs' alleged sexual abuse
2014-06-02,Egyptian judge defends mass death sentences on 'demons from hell' - Saeed Youssef says the 720 he sentenced included 'demons disguised in the cloak of Islam' who followed Jewish scripture.
2014-06-02,Tony Abbott raises eyebrows after linking WWII D-Day memorial with policies on mining and carbon taxes
2014-06-02,"India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh has formally split in two, with its northern area carved out to create a new state called Telangana"
2014-06-02,Israel Condemns Plans for Palestinian Unity Government
2014-06-02,Nigeria will cease to exist by December 2015  Biafra Movement Leader
2014-06-02,"Nigeria: Boko Haram Kills 85, Burns Three Villages in Borno, Adamawa"
2014-06-01,"Rhino poacher shot dead by forest guards in Kaziranga National Park, India"
2014-06-01,Pakistan clerics issue decree says so-called 'honour killings' are un-Islamic and sign of ignorance
2014-06-01,The Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden
2014-06-01,"The National Security Agency is collecting millions of images a day for facial recognition purposes, according to classified documents obtained from Edward Snowden by the New York Times."
2014-06-01,"Brazilian legend Ronaldo is ""appalled"" at how ill-prepared Brazil is for the World Cup with 2 weeks to go. So far, $11 billion have been spent on the event."
2014-06-01,The Canadian Government Has Forbidden Meteorologists to Discuss Climate Change | VICE News
2014-06-01,US soldier Bowe Bergdahl freed by Taliban in Afghanistan
2014-06-01,"Singaporean gets sued by his PM for defamation, citizens have crowdfunded $50,000 in 3 days to fight back"
2014-06-01,"Suspect arrested over Brussels shooting, allegedly linked to Syrian jihadis  Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French citizen, arrested in Marseilles carrying a Kalashnikov rifle."
2014-06-01,"The world is increasingly hungry because small farmers are losing access to farmland. [...] Corporate and commercial farms, big biofuel operations and land speculators are pushing millions off their land."
2014-06-01,"After a nation-wide attack against the Iranian President by Friday Prayer leaders for saying that ""you can't force people into heaven"", Rouhani hits back at them; publicly mocking the extremist clerics for opposing modernisation."
2014-06-01,Sudanese woman facing death penalty for abandoning Islam to be freed
2014-06-01,UK 'threatens to quit EU over presidency' - Der Spiegel | German magazine Der Spiegel says British PM David Cameron warned that the UK could leave the EU if Luxembourg ex-PM Jean-Claude Juncker became president of the European Commission.
2014-06-01,Turkish police fire tear gas at hundreds of protesters in Istanbul's Taksim Square on anniversary of deadly violence.
2014-06-01,UN backlash as Uganda's 'anti-gay' minister heads for human rights top job
2014-06-01,"World Cup: More than 1,400 football hooligans in England will have to hand their passports to police in the coming days to stop them going to the World Cup."
2014-06-01,Desmond Tutu calls oilsands filth created by greed in Fort McMurray speech
2014-06-01,Canada pledges 3.5 Billion to improving maternal health in third-world countries
2014-06-01,There Might Be 100 Million Planets In The Galaxy With Complex Life
2014-06-01,"Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that a coalition government to be formed by his Fatah party and its rival, the militant group Hamas, will be sworn in Monday."
2014-06-01,Taliban five arrive in Qatar after swap deal
2014-06-01,"Eyeing Pakistan and China, India's Modi bolsters security team"
2014-06-01,"Corporate Stranglehold of Farmland a Risk to World Food Security, Study Says"
2014-06-01,US cybercrime laws being used to target security researchers
2014-06-01,Russian language to become compulsory in Syrian schools
2014-05-31,Ukraine has shot down what is believed to be a Russian drone
2014-05-31,US confirms Syria suicide bomber was American
2014-05-31,Lithuania accuses Russia of harassing ships in Baltic Sea
2014-05-31,"The Turkish government cut off the flow of the Euphrates River, threatening primarily Syria but also Iraq with a major water crisis"
2014-05-31,"Up to 80,000 Palestinians in Jerusalem without running water for three months"
2014-05-31,Earth heading toward another mass extinction
2014-05-31,CNN reporter detained during live shot in Turkey
2014-05-31,"Bilderberg conference: Spies, CEOs and politicians gather"
2014-05-31,China warns Australian PM Tony Abbott's plan to abolish Emission Trading Scheme will risk scuttlling global emissions trade
2014-05-31,Korea's Dinosaur Robot Outruns Usain Bolt
2014-05-31,NATO says bulk of Russian troops pulling back from Ukraine border
2014-05-31,France lottery winner to give away 50 million to charity
2014-05-31,Frances Front National against naming square after terrorist Mandela
2014-05-31,"Police shut Istanbul park to pre-empt protests one year after unrest | Turkish police on Saturday shut Gezi Park, the Istanbul square at the center of mass demonstrations in 2013, to prevent any efforts to mark the anniversary of the biggest anti-government protests in decades."
2014-05-31,"Inmates at Berlin Tegel jail set up world's first union for prisoners: group's founders want minimum wage and pension scheme for prison's convicts, who work regular shifts"
2014-05-31,Ex-Head Of 'NSA North' Says Canadians Are 'Stupid'
2014-05-31,Zimbabwe Official: Fewer Condoms Means More Soldiers
2014-05-31,Over 200 Paintings Discovered in Angkor Wat Cambodian Temple Complex
2014-05-31,"World On Brink Of Sixth Great Extinction, Species Disappearing Faster Than Ever Before"
2014-05-31,"Swedes test a future of less work, more play"
2014-05-31,Potentially Biggest Discovery in Health in 30 Years. Nerve Stimulation Blocks 75% of Tumor Necrosis and Inflammation from Bacterial Toxins.
2014-05-31,Putin Advisor: The US Is 'Unfurling A War In Ukraine After Organising A Coup'
2014-05-31,New Zealand's immigrantsThe country's Asian-born have overtaken the British as its largest foreign population
2014-05-31,US deploys first advanced drones to Japan
2014-05-31,Japan will play a larger role in regional security as a counterpoint to China
2014-05-30,India arrests police officers over gang rape
2014-05-30,"Siberian fisherman accidentally nets 4,000-year-old pagan god"
2014-05-30,Thousands rallied in Melbourne tonight against the Australian government's proposed healthcare plans.
2014-05-30,Canadian Weather Forecasters Forbidden From Discussing Climate Change
2014-05-30,"France's largest bank faces record $10-billion fine for helping Sudan, Iran and Cuba elude U.S. sanctions"
2014-05-30,Report: Israel tapped president Clinton's diplomatic calls
2014-05-30,Full account of Tony Blair's exchanges with George Bush on Iraq war to be kept secret. (Chilcot Inquiry)
2014-05-30,Privacy call for internet browsing in the wake of Edward Snowden leaks | Survey reveals that more than eight out of 10 internet users believe their search history should be kept private
2014-05-30,"We are Arkady Ostrovsky, Moscow bureau chief, and Edward Carr, foreign editor, Covering the crisis in Ukraine for The Economist. Ask us anything."
2014-05-30,40% of EU citizens can't afford a vacation
2014-05-30,Formal countdown begins for Scottish vote that could break up United Kingdom
2014-05-30,Australian farmer loses court case suing neighbor for contaminating his organic crop with genetically-modified canola whose seed blew 1.5km inside his property
2014-05-30,"Researchers have succeeded in deterministically transferring the information contained in a quantum bit  the quantum analogue of a classical bit - to a different quantum bit 3 metres away, without the information having travelled through the intervening space: teleportation"
2014-05-30,Only Chinese-born parliamentarian in UK to quit politics over racist abuse
2014-05-30,Turkish Twitter user who created a parody God acoount (similar to @TheTweetOfGod) sentenced to 15 months in prison
2014-05-30,Australian PM Tony Abbott to remove secular welfare staff from schools under Christian chaplaincy drive
2014-05-30,Arrests over hanged Indian girls
2014-05-30,Britain's 1940s propaganda films made available online.
2014-05-30,BRICS emerging nations close to launching bank
2014-05-30,Israeli force apprehends Palestinian wearing suicide belt in West Bank
2014-05-30,CAR: At least 30 killed in Muslim raid on Christian church
2014-05-30,Donetsk militants send 34 pro-Russian separatists bodies to Russia
2014-05-30,Ebola: Deadly outbreak crosses border as mistrust hampers medical staff
2014-05-30,Ukraine's rebels in crisis after Donetsk 'coup'
2014-05-30,South Korea Ferry Search: 2nd Diver Dies Inside Doomed Vessel
2014-05-29,"Top scientists warn World Health Organization not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing that doing so would jeopardize a major opportunity to slash disease and deaths caused by smoking."
2014-05-29,"Edward Snowden says he would like to return home but not to a ""jail cell"""
2014-05-29,A Third of the World is Now Obese or Overweight
2014-05-29,"The husband of a Pakistani woman stoned to death for refusing to participate in an arranged marriage told CNN her family had demanded 100,000 rupees if the couple wanted to stay alive."
2014-05-29,American carries out suicide attack in Syria
2014-05-29,"Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan form Eurasian Economic Union"
2014-05-29,"US Secretary of State John Kerry has labelled intelligence leaker Edward Snowden a fugitive from justice who should ""man up"" and return home | Mr Kerry added that if Mr Snowden, 30, ""believes in America, he should trust the American system of justice""."
2014-05-29,A volcano is Ethiopia is spewing blue lava
2014-05-29,"Turkey highest court: YouTube ban violates rights: Turkeys highest court has ruled that the countrys ban on YouTube violates the freedom of expression. The ruling is a setback for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had advocated the ban of YouTube."
2014-05-29,Germany hit for dropping NSA probe plan
2014-05-29,Lithuania's president wins second term on anti-Russia platform
2014-05-29,Russians Revealed Among Ukraine Fighters
2014-05-29,WikiLeaks claims Google director helped the NSA spy on Afghanistan.
2014-05-29,US jails Chinese mastermind of rhino horn smuggling ring for six years
2014-05-29,U.N. Chemical Weapons Inspectors Attacked in Syria
2014-05-29,"Ebola expands in Guinea, sickens more in Sierra Leone"
2014-05-29,China Middle-Class Protests Turn Violent After Petitions Ignored
2014-05-29,Assad Destroyed Syrias Oldest Synagogue
2014-05-29,"Tritium levels at Fukushima No. 1 top Pacific Ocean dumping limit, Tepco admits"
2014-05-29,Downed Ukraine Helicopter Had General On Board
2014-05-29,"MH370 is not in the Indian Ocean search zone, authorities say"
2014-05-29,"A Swedish engine company risks a $75,000 fine for telling an Iraqi-born high school student he could not intern with them, because it put them at odds with US export rules"
2014-05-29,"Reports: At least 30 killed at church in Central African Republic | Muslim rebels have stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of the Central African Republic, killing at least 30 people in a hail of gunfire and grenades, witnesses said."
2014-05-29,Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif orders action on stoning
2014-05-29,Crusader against sex trafficking in Cambodia quits amid charges stories were fabricated
2014-05-28,Judge questions why only the boy is charged in underage sex case
2014-05-28,"ISS crew from Russia, USA, and Germany, hug and take selfie to say No' to politics and Ukraine tension in Space."
2014-05-28,Nobody Wants To Host The 2022 Olympics
2014-05-28,"There will be no investigation into the alleged mass surveillance of German citizens, nor will there be an investigation into the NSA's alleged spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone, the German federal prosecutor has decided."
2014-05-28,Bank of England governor: capitalism doomed if ethics vanish
2014-05-28,"China: US has breached international laws, infringed human rights and put global cyber-security at risk. Demands halt to unscrupulous' US cyber-spying."
2014-05-28,A Bloody War for Water in Mexico - Residents of a town outside Mexico City injured 100 police in a fight to defend their natural spring from being tapped
2014-05-28,"Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has described himself as a trained spy specialising in electronic surveillance, dismissing claims he was a mere low-level analyst | In an interview with NBC, he reiterated that he had worked undercover overseas for the CIA and NSA."
2014-05-28,Over 80 per cent of drug seizures in Europe are for cannabis
2014-05-28,Facebook Wants To Listen In On What You're Doing.
2014-05-28,Glenn Greenwald: NSA documents on Middle East to be disclosed
2014-05-28,"Gaza's Hamas government says ready to step aside and hand ""full responsibility"" to a Palestinian unity government."
2014-05-28,Zambian Park Ranger in Charge of Law Enforcement Shot Dead: Was shot to death by suspected poachers while investigating reports of gunshots.
2014-05-28,More than 50 rebels killed as new Ukraine leader unleashes assault | Ukrainian aircraft and paratroopers killed more than 50 pro-Russian rebels in an assault that raged into a second day on Tuesday after a newly elected president vowed to crush the revolt in the east once and for all.
2014-05-28,"Leggings are not pants, Qatar tells tourists"
2014-05-28,Russia to Offer $327Mln in Free Financial Aid to Syria
2014-05-28,"Google is to start building its own self-driving cars. The car will have a stop-go button but no controls, steering wheel or pedals"
2014-05-28,Humpback whale strandings in W Australia: malnutrition a major factor. An unprecedented number of mostly young whales have become stranded on the coast
2014-05-28,"Brazil anti-World Cup protesters clash with police | Police in Brazil have fired tear gas at anti-World Cup and indigenous demonstrators in the capital, Brasilia."
2014-05-28,Bangkok Post reporting Facebook blocked in Thailand
2014-05-28,Median CEO Pay Crosses $10 Million in 2013
2014-05-28,U.S. tells citizens to leave Libya immediately
2014-05-28,Russia sees no business interest in the ISS and is doubtful the mission will continue past 2020.
2014-05-28,Racism on the rise in Britain | British Social Attitudes survey finds proportion of people in the UK who say they are racially prejudiced has risen since 2001.
2014-05-28,Iran orders 'Zionist' Zuckerburg to appear in court
2014-05-27,"The Soma coal mine, where 301 workers lost their lives, received a perfect score in March by an official inspector, who is the brother-in-law of a senior executive of the company"
2014-05-27,A Pakistani woman has been stoned to death by her family in front of a Pakistan high court for marrying the man she loves.
2014-05-27,"Pope Francis declares 'zero tolerance' for clergy linked to sexual abuse, says he will meet victims next month."
2014-05-27,"World Meteorological Organization: Carbon Dioxide hits 400ppm, 'Time is running out'"
2014-05-27,IMF chief says banks haven't changed since financial crisis. Still resisting reform and taking excessive risks.
2014-05-27,Pope Francis says he favors celibacy for priests but that 'door is open to change'
2014-05-27,Coca-Cola accused of 'obscene' hypocrisy in 20 million 'anti-obesity' drive
2014-05-27,Syrian Rebels Describe U.S.-Backed Training in Qatar
2014-05-27,Putin says Kiev must stop military operation in east Ukraine
2014-05-27,Elderly Chinese people committing suicide before end of the month to avoid province's looming ban on burials
2014-05-27,"South Korea offers $500,000 reward for tips about missing billionaire Sewol ferry owner Yoo Byung-eun"
2014-05-27,Canada needs a Hawaii: Turks & Caicos premier visits Ottawa
2014-05-27,"Gunman who killed three people at a Jewish museum in Belgium was cold-blooded and very determined, officials said today, leading some security experts to suggest that he may have been a hitman rather than an anti-Semitic lone wolf"
2014-05-27,"Ukraine Retakes Airport, After Airstrikes And Dozens Of Deaths"
2014-05-27,Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered to appear in Iran court
2014-05-27,Japan creates new national holiday for overworked population
2014-05-27,"Palestinians 'to unveil unity government' | President Abbas to announce cabinet by Thursday, ending seven years of rivalry between Fatah and Hamas, official says."
2014-05-27,EU Safety Institutions Caught Plotting an Industry escape route Around Looming Pesticide Ban
2014-05-27,Bees trained to seek TNT instead of sugary sweets will soon be used to detect left-over landmines
2014-05-27,Frances UMP ordered 10m fake invoices to hide Sarkozy campaign spending
2014-05-27,Dutch police on Tuesday arrested six Greenpeace activists after they chained a Russian oil drilling platform destined for the Arctic to a dock to prevent it from leaving a Netherlands port
2014-05-27,"Chinese Boat Attacks, Sinks Vietnam Fishing Vessel, Vietnam Says"
2014-05-27,"A Chinese Internet information body has complained of ""unscrupulous"" surveillance by U.S. intelligence agencies over the rest of the world, and called for an immediate cessation of the practice, saying that operations have gone ""far beyond the legal rationale of 'anti-terrorism'""."
2014-05-27,"Clashes over control of Donetsk airport left at least 30 pro-Russian separatists dead, rebels say"
2014-05-27,The wives of the two jailed Venezuelan opposition mayors win elections with 88% and 73%
2014-05-26,"China to take 5 million old cars off road in 2014 in anti-pollution push: China plans to take more than 5 million ageing vehicles off its roads this year in a bid to improve air quality, with 330,000 cars set to be decommissioned in Beijing alone, the gov't said in a policy document published Monday"
2014-05-26,Afghanistan says illegal monitoring of telephone calls by the NSA is a violation of national sovereignty of Afghanistan and a violation of human rights
2014-05-26,Australian senator smuggles fake 'pipe bomb' into Parliament House to mock the new security rules
2014-05-26,The French far-right party gets 25% of the votes in European elections
2014-05-26,Ukraines new president Petro Poroshenko says he will push for EU integration
2014-05-26,Far right Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn wins seats in EU parliament after 10% vote in Greek elections
2014-05-26,Chocolate tycoon Petro Poroshenko has won outright victory in Ukraine's presidential election
2014-05-26,Bailiff seizes $800m cruise liner: A Norwegian bailiff has impounded one of the world's biggest cruise ships because of unpaid pilot fees.
2014-05-26,North Korea Executes Four Engineers For Pyongyang Apartment Collapse
2014-05-26,Edward Snowden Seeking Return to US: Der Spiegel
2014-05-26,"Sudan faces mounting condemnation over pregnant woman's death sentence | Calls grow for release of Meriam Yahya Ibrahim and her toddler son and for her sentence, including 100 lashes, to be rescinded"
2014-05-26,Chinese ship sinks Vietnamese fishing vessel
2014-05-26,"China opens first environmental court as the country looks for new ways to tackle crippling air, water and soil pollution"
2014-05-26,China's state-owned sector told to cut ties with U.S. consulting firms.
2014-05-26,Russia may carry out joint astronautic projects with China  Russian Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin
2014-05-26,"The left-wing opposition Syriza party has succeeded in capturing first place in Greece's election for the European Parliament, leading the conservative New Democracy party by about 3.5 percent"
2014-05-26,China says Vietnam claims to disputed islets 'ridiculous'
2014-05-26,Narendra Modi Sworn in as 15th Prime Minister of India (Live scenes from Rashtrapati Bhavan)
2014-05-26,Top Nigerian Islamic cleric calls for unity against Boko Haram
2014-05-26,"""Dracula's castle"" for sale in Transylvania, Romania"
2014-05-26,"Chinese Fighter Jets Flew Within Meters Of Japanese Fighter Jets, Japan Says"
2014-05-26,"Karzai offended by Obama's request to meet at Bagram Air Base, doesn't show up. Says ""Afghanistan government is ready to welcome Obama at the presidential palace, but not at Bagram military base"""
2014-05-26,Thai military leader: Junta will hold power indefinitely
2014-05-26,"Al-Shabaab Islamists in Somalia have attacked the country's parliament building with a multi-pronged strike involving a car bomb, a suicide bomber and gunmen on foot - at least 7 killed"
2014-05-26,Thailand coup: Protests continue despite army warning
2014-05-25,"Iran hangs billionaire over $2.6b bank fraud. Largest fraud case since 1979 Islamic Revolution sends four scammers to the gallows, including tycoon Mahafarid Amir Khosravi."
2014-05-25,"Pope Francis calls Israeli-Palestinian stalemate unacceptable, The Pope also chose to arrive in West Bank from Jordan rather than via Israel in a symbolic nod towards Palestinian statehood"
2014-05-25,Ukraine says Russia should lose 2018 World Cup over Crimea
2014-05-25,Millions Worldwide March Against Monsanto
2014-05-25,13-year-old Indian teen becomes youngest female to scale Everest
2014-05-25,Jobless have 'no right' to wait for dream job: Abbott
2014-05-25,Poverty in Venezuela swells from 21.2% to 27.3% in one year.
2014-05-25,"Russian interpreter, Andrei Mironov and Italian photojournalist, Andrea Rocchelli have been killed in eastern Ukraine while covering fighting between government forces and pro-Russia insurgents"
2014-05-25,"Armed pro-Russian separatists gather outside home of Ukraine's richest man: The rebels, roundly denounced by Akhmetov, have prevented voting in Donetsk. known abroad as the owner of Shakhtar Donetsk soccer club, has urged people to vote and accused the pro-Russian rebels of ""genocide"" last week."
2014-05-25,Ukraine fires warning shots at Russian helicopters from Crimea
2014-05-25,Italian Journalist and his Russian interpreter Killed in Eastern Ukraine
2014-05-25,"In a goodwill gesture, Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered the release of 151 Indian fishermen and 57 boats, a day ahead of the visit of his visit to India to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi."
2014-05-25,"US military must be allowed to force-feed Guantnamo detainee, judge rules | Judge lifts restraining order that stopped Abu Wa'el Dhiab being force-fed because of the 'very real probability that Mr Dhiab will die'"
2014-05-25,U.S. may act to keep Chinese hackers out of Def Con hacker event
2014-05-25,Putin says Russia ready for talks with Japan over disputed islands
2014-05-25,"A bitter pill as China crackdowns squeeze pharma margins: Crackdown on corruption & pricing in its fast-growing pharmaceutical market has squeezed profits & margins, raising a red flag to global Big Pharma that days of easy growth may be over."
2014-05-25,"Boko Haram Raids 3 Villages in Borno, 34 Persons Slaughtered"
2014-05-25,"King Richard III to be buried in Leicester, resolving row after remains were found in carpark in 2012: Britain's high court has ordered he be buried in a cathedral in Leicester, the city where his remains were found under a car park 2 years ago."
2014-05-25,"Thailand's coup leaders have announced the dissolution of the country's Senate, with the military assuming all executive power in the country. Saturday's announcement, which was broadcast on television, stripped away the last democratic institution in the country."
2014-05-25,"Hurricane forms off Mexico, strengthens rapidly"
2014-05-25,"Ukraine election draws high turnout, voters blocked in fearful east."
2014-05-25,Sweden to sue EU Commission over delays to rules on chemicals that disrupt human hormones and cause disease (x-post from /r/GMOinfo)
2014-05-25,Vietnam marines has stopped confronting Chinese ships over the oil rig
2014-05-25,"For Crimea, Its Russian Troops in, Tourists Out"
2014-05-25,Ireland's coalition government suffered a bruising setback at local elections on Saturday as the opposition Sinn Fein party made major gains to capitalize on frustration over six years of relentless austerity cuts
2014-05-24,Deutsche Bank refuses to fund coal port expansion near Great Barrier Reef
2014-05-24,"EU Considering A Ban On Russian Vodka, Furs, Diamonds, And Caviar"
2014-05-24,"Pope Francis is touring the Middle-East accompanied by a rabbi and an imam - friends from his native Argentina - and hopes to improve relations between Christians, Muslims and Jews in the Holy Land"
2014-05-24,Facebook user to be jailed in India for post speaking out against new Prime Minister
2014-05-24,Russia Today hits back at Prince Charles' Putin-Hitler comparison: 'If anyone knows real Nazis its the Royal Family'
2014-05-24,Uruguay to sell marijuana tax-free to undercut drug traffickers
2014-05-24,EU bans import of Israeli settler poultry produce
2014-05-24,Trillions of plastic pieces found in Arctic ice
2014-05-24,Packed minibus filled with boiling water after geyser bursts through Siberian street
2014-05-24,"BBC News - At least three people have been shot dead near the Jewish Museum in the Belgian capital Brussels, officials say"
2014-05-24,Three people die in Brussels shooting at Jewish museum
2014-05-24,German court rules ex-lovers must delete explicit photos of partners after a break-up
2014-05-24,Deadliest day for Ukraine troops: 16 slain in raid
2014-05-24,Deaths Related To Air Pollution Increase 68% In Australia
2014-05-24,A Japanese drink company is putting the first billboard on the moon in 2015
2014-05-24,Church of England dioceses approve female bishops
2014-05-24,'Go and vote in your own country': Evidence of non-British EU citizens turned away at the polls despite being on electoral roll
2014-05-24,"In historic move, Pakistan's prime minister to visit India for PM Modi's swearing in ceremony."
2014-05-24,Earthquake rocks Turkey and Greece
2014-05-24,Massive Flooding May Have Redistributed Tens of Thousands of Land Mines in Bosnia
2014-05-24,Top Taiwanese scientist Chen Kun-shan defects to China
2014-05-24,Mystery behind Origin of New Zealands Iconic Flightless Bird Kiwi Solved
2014-05-24,Iran hangs key figure in banking scandal
2014-05-24,A group of conservative students have requested the flogging of Iranian actress Leila Hatami for her on-the-cheek kiss with the president of the Cannes Film Festival during the opening ceremony
2014-05-24,"In new warehousing suit, Goldman, JPMorgan sued over zinc | Reuters"
2014-05-23,WikiLeaks reveals that NSA spies on almost all of Afghanistan's communications
2014-05-23,"Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab Accounts Linked To Mexican Drug Cartels: SEC"
2014-05-23,Twitter's blocking of 'blasphemous' content raises questions over its censorship policy
2014-05-23,I was framed: Court outburst by billionaire mining tycoon Liu Han as he is sentenced to death
2014-05-23,"Footage of Palestinian boys being shot is genuine, says Israeli rights group: B'Tselem contradicts Israeli military claims that CCTV footage showing deaths is either forged or was edited misleadingly"
2014-05-23,New meteor shower may burst into meteor storm Friday night
2014-05-23,Environmental activists protest Japan's killing of thousands of dolphins in a secluded cove by filing a lawsuit
2014-05-23,Great Barrier Reef: Deutsche Bank rules out funding for controversial Abbot Point coal terminal expansion
2014-05-23,"Syria video shows chlorine gas floating in streets: Syrian opposition activists have posted a video of what they say is chlorine gas floating through the streets of a village, the first such footage of they say is a chemical weapon campaign by President Bashar al-Assad."
2014-05-23,"Russia will recognise outcome of Ukraine poll, says Vladimir Putin"
2014-05-23,Ecuador Issues Permit To Drill In Pristine Amazon Reserve
2014-05-23,Glasgow School of Art is burning down
2014-05-23,New Zealand PM John Key Confirms 'Legal' Data-Sharing with U.S.; Justifies U.S. Drone Strikes | Mr Key has confirmed that data gathered by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) may have been used to identify the targets for U.S. attacks using unmanned aircraft.
2014-05-23,"Cave Paintings Discovered in Spain: The cave's location will only be revealed once security measures are in place, after vandals defaced a 5,000-year-old rock painting in Spains southern Jan province in April."
2014-05-23,Catholic Bishop who was forced to resign over building costs gets to live in new $43-million HQ until the Vatican finds new job for him
2014-05-23,'Revenge porn' victims receive boost from German court ruling
2014-05-23,"India slaps anti-dumping duty on U.S., China solar imports."
2014-05-23,Dublin Activists Occupied the Bank of Ireland
2014-05-23,"""Authorities in Bosnia have banned civilians from entering two villages they marked as potential epidemic flashpoints after record floods devastated the Balkan region last week."""
2014-05-23,Germany's highest criminal court has ruled that the country has jurisdiction over the case of a retired Minnesota carpenter that an Associated Press investigation exposed as a former commander in a Nazi SS-led unit.
2014-05-23,"US ordered to return seven books from Schneerson collection to Russia ($50,000/day overdue fines)"
2014-05-23,Airstrikes in Pakistan kill 60
2014-05-23,"Guatemala's ex-president was sentenced to nearly six years in prison for accepting bribes, as a U.S. judge rejected leniency and said government corruption must be stamped out worldwide"
2014-05-23,"Attack on Indian consulate in Herat, Afghanistan"
2014-05-23,Vladimir Putin says Russia will respect result of Ukraines presidential election
2014-05-22,All three matadors gored in opening of San Isidro festival. Event cancelled.
2014-05-22,India's new PM to Use Solar to Bring Power to Every Home by 2019
2014-05-22,Uruguays President Jose Mujica wants to host Syrian children victims of war in his summer residence
2014-05-22,"US Govt ""does not deny it routinely spies to advance American economic advantage"""
2014-05-22,"North Korea fires artillery, misses South Korea ship near disputed sea border"
2014-05-22,Egyptian doctor to stand trial for female genital mutilation in landmark case
2014-05-22,Official Japanese government report estimated that the Fukushima disaster has so far released 75% more radioactive cesium than the Chernobyl disaster.
2014-05-22,"Manga about Fukushima cleanup operation becomes hit in Japan: Kazuto Tatsuta, who worked on cleanup at nuclear plant, hopes his work 'tells people about things that the media never see'"
2014-05-22,Pentagon report: scope of intelligence compromised by Snowden 'staggering'
2014-05-22,"We will not tolerate any demands or right to apostasy by Muslims, or deny Muslims their right to be governed by Shariah Courts and neither will we allow Muslims to engage in LGBT activities"" - Malaysian PM"
2014-05-22,Good news: Warming waters extend swim season. Bad news: Theyre full of monster jellyfish
2014-05-22,China proposes security alliance to counter U.S. influence
2014-05-22,Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution referring the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible war crimes.
2014-05-22,"China's Xinjiang Uygur:31 dead, 94 injured in Urumqi terrorist bombing"
2014-05-22,World Bank and aid donors accused of enabling land grabs: Millions of smallholder farmers worldwide have been left homeless and hungry because of private investment promoted by policies such as tax breaks and cheap loans
2014-05-22,"Sweden: Five extreme-left militants were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for politically motivated and ""unfathomable"" crimes, after they mistook two Slovak guest workers for Swedish neo-Nazis and attacked them."
2014-05-22,'My job is not to win a popularity contest': Tony Abbott shrugs off disastrous poll results as state premiers promise to inflict more political pain over budget cuts
2014-05-22,Russia has launched a government-owned search engine
2014-05-22,"Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he decided to cancel a university visit today because he did not want to give students ""an excuse for a riot""."
2014-05-22,Ukraine crisis: 'Many' soldiers die in Donetsk attack
2014-05-22,Turkish Gay rights activist sued by Prime Minister Erdoan fined for using word queer in tweet
2014-05-22,Painful and rapid spread of new virus in Caribbean
2014-05-22,"JPMorgan, HSBC and Credit Agricole accused of euro rate-fixes"
2014-05-22,Visa CEO Charlie Scharf says the company may stop operations in Russia if the international payment systems are obliged to make guarantee payments of hundreds of millions of dollars
2014-05-22,Muslim terrorists blamed for market bombings in China that kill 31
2014-05-21,"France Mistakenly Orders 2,000 Trains Which Are Too Wide For Its Platforms"
2014-05-21,VIDEO: CCTV footage indicates killed Palestinian youths posed no threat when shot by Israeli forces
2014-05-21,Tony Abbott's daughter did not have to pay for 60000 design degree
2014-05-21,Russia and China seal historic multibillion gas deal
2014-05-21,China Arrests Former CEO Of JPMorgan Asia
2014-05-21,Australian PM Tony Abbott has winked and smiled to a radio host while being confronted by an angry pensioner who claims to have been forced to work on a sex line to make ends meet.
2014-05-21,UK Green Party rejects millionaire's donation because he is not a full UK taxpayer
2014-05-21,Thousands of protesters march to the steps of Parliament during a national day of action against the Australian Government's plan to deregulate student fees.
2014-05-21,"The silent epidemic - Depression is the top cause of illness and disability among adolescents globally, the World Health Organisation (WHO) revealed last week."
2014-05-21,Russian planes violeted Finnish air space. Fighters were scrambled to the area causing a sonic boom.
2014-05-21,Eight church leaders detained for refusing to leave Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbotts electoral office
2014-05-21,"4 dead, 21 injured in stabbing on Taipei metro"
2014-05-21,Australian PM winks during question from pensioner 'forced to work on sex line'
2014-05-21,"Not a coup, says Thai general on television channel he has seized control of"
2014-05-21,"Drone strikes are justified - even if innocent civilians are mistakenly killed, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says. Key confirmed yesterday that intelligence collected by New Zealand might be passed to the controversial US program."
2014-05-21,China and Russia fail to reach agreement on gas deal
2014-05-21,"India's Modi extends olive branch to Pakistan, invites Sharif to inauguration"
2014-05-21,US to Israel: Investigate killing of Palestinian teens
2014-05-21,"Jean-Marie Le Pen suggests Ebola as solution to global population explosion | Virus 'could sort out demographic explosion' and by extension Europe's 'immigration problem', says founder of Front National"
2014-05-21,"Study: Diaspora Jews say occupation, Orthodoxy threaten Israel"
2014-05-21,Russia And China Sign Gas Pipeline Mega-Deal
2014-05-21,"A Nazi salute isn't illegal racial discrimination provided it's intended as a personal statement, Switzerland's top court ruled"
2014-05-21,"Iranians arrested by government for dancing to Pharrell's ""Happy"""
2014-05-21,"E-Cigarettes Help Smokers Quit, Study Says'"
2014-05-21,"Modern slavery generates $150 billion in profits globally per year for those who exploit them, the International Labour Organisation has said."
2014-05-20,Thailand's army has declared martial law.
2014-05-20,"WikiLeaks said it would reveal within 72 hours the name of a second country where the NSA is said to be using a cyber-espionage programme to record the content of all phone calls made, despite a warning from journalist Glen Greenwald that revealing the name of the nation could lead to deaths."
2014-05-20,Aussies To Slash 90% Of Global Warming Funding From Budget
2014-05-20,"Tesla promises electric car revolution : Tesla electric car owners will be able to drive 300 miles without stopping and restore almost half of battery life in just 20 minutes, company claims"
2014-05-20,"Poll shows Germans want smaller role in military missions, favouring instead a foreign policy promoting human rights and environmental causes"
2014-05-20,500 Nigerian hunters with homemade weapons ready to rescue kidnapped girls
2014-05-20,NASA says International Space Station will keep operating even as Russia threatens to withdraw co-operation
2014-05-20,Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas
2014-05-20,China rules out Windows 8 for government computers
2014-05-20,'Planes Don't Just Disappear': Former Malaysian Prime Minister Accuses CIA of Covering Up What Really Happened to Flight MH370
2014-05-20,"As the Israeli government prepares to welcome Pope Francis on his first visit as Pope, vandals have scrawled hate-filled graffiti at some Christian sites. Jesus is garbage, Death to Christians and We will crucify you."
2014-05-20,"Australian spies are helping the United States secretly monitor telephone calls across the Philippines, leaked US intelligence documents reveal."
2014-05-20,China Angry Over US Spy Charges 'Hypocrisy'.
2014-05-20,"VTB - among Russia's largest banks - has signed a deal with Bank of China to pay each other in domestic currencies, bypassing the need for US Dollars for ""investment banking, inter-bank lending, trade finance and capital-markets transactions."
2014-05-20,17 UK arrests linked to Blackshades RAT malware which captured nude pictures of Miss Teen USA: Hack Forums users raided
2014-05-20,"Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong, who earns 4x more than Obama and is the highest paid country leader in the world , is suing over a blog post. He is even demanding that the blogger to pay for all legal fees incurred."
2014-05-20,"Emissions from 10 food and drinks companies ""higher than Scandinavia"": Cereal and softdrinks brands among top polluters singled out in Oxfam report for not doing enough on climate"
2014-05-20,"Ukrainian tycoon, the richest man in Ukraine, confronts rebellion, accuses separatists of leading Ukraine towards ""genocide""."
2014-05-20,Italian women appeal to Pope Francis to end priests' celibacy vow - Telegraph
2014-05-20,'A national disgrace': NGOs react to the Australian PM Tony Abbott's budget
2014-05-20,"European Union antitrust regulators charged Europe's biggest bank HSBC, U.S. peer JPMorgan and France's Credit Agricole on Tuesday with rigging financial benchmarks linked to the euro, exposing them to potential fines"
2014-05-20,Scientists are creating a whole new class of antibiotics - Danish researchers are developing a new class of antibiotics to fight the growing threat of superbugs.
2014-05-20,"WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange remains the subject of an active criminal investigation by the United States Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation, newly published court documents reveal"
2014-05-20,Doubling of Antarctic ice loss revealed by European satellite
2014-05-20,"Lost snake species rediscovered in Mexico: ""The rediscovery of the Clarion Nightsnake is an incredible story"""
2014-05-19,"Tens of thousands gather in Australian capital cities to protest the Abbott government's cuts against health, welfare and education, the Murdoch press runs with ""The Ferals Are Revolting""."
2014-05-19,Chilean activist destroys student debt papers worth $500m
2014-05-19,"Food should be regulated like tobacco, say campaigners: The food industry should be regulated like the tobacco industry as obesity poses a greater global health risk than cigarettes, say international groups."
2014-05-19,U.S. to Sue Chinese Military for Digital Espionage
2014-05-19,"Thousands flee record flooding in Bosnia, Serbia: 'Everything is destroyed'. Three months worth of rain has fallen on the region in three days this week, creating the worst floods since records began being kept 120 years ago."
2014-05-19,"25 tons of tetrachloroethane spilled in Fuchun River, China~ drinking water shut-off"
2014-05-19,NYU promises workers constructing their Abu Dhabi campus will be treated fairly and humanely. Evidence has surfaced that those promises were overwhelmingly false.
2014-05-19,Credit Suisse to admit running a criminal enterprise' helping US tax dodgers
2014-05-19,Kremlin says President Putin has ordered troops near Ukraine to return to their home bases.
2014-05-19,"Italian airline Alitalia has announced that it is suspending all flights to Venezuela ""due to the ongoing critical currency situation"" in the country,"" which is ""no longer economically sustainable."""
2014-05-19,Scientists finally hope to turn light into matter - after 80 years of trying
2014-05-19,"Russia's President Putin orders troops near Ukraine border to return ""immediately"" to their permanent bases"
2014-05-19,Venezuela vowed yesterday to accuse the United States of meddling in its political crisis at the United Nations and other international organisations.
2014-05-19,"Pope to visit Palestinian refugee camp, Western Wall"
2014-05-19,"No signs of Russian troops' withdrawal along Ukrainian border, NATO says"
2014-05-19,"South Korea is to break up its coastguard in the wake of the ferry disaster in which nearly 300 people died, says President Park Geun-hye."
2014-05-19,Palestine urges EU to blacklist Jewish 'terrorists'
2014-05-19,Fukushima Seawater Radiation Rises To New All Time High
2014-05-19,Israel to use drones to track West Bank hate crime perpetrators
2014-05-19,Putin to India: Together we'll scale new heights
2014-05-19,"Manmohan Singh resigns as Prime Minister of India, says his tenure is 'open book'"
2014-05-19,Poisoned Sheep in Australia Its like dealing with a thousand heroin addicts.
2014-05-19,"Sir Jack Brabham, three-time Formula One world drivers' champion and icon of world motorsport, dies aged 88"
2014-05-19,"Since last Monday, the German army has been conducting its largest military exercises since the 1980s."
2014-05-19,Russia seizes accounts of Ukraine chocolate tycoon/politician
2014-05-18,Study of 1.3 Million Kids Reveals Vaccines Aren't Associated with Autism
2014-05-18,"Brazil will not make good on its commitment to clean up Rio de Janeiro's sewage-filled Guanabara Bay by the 2016 Olympic Games, state environmental officials acknowledged in a letter obtained Saturday by The Associated Press."
2014-05-18,Thousands across Australia flock to the March in May protests in opposition of the Abbott Government and its economic policies.
2014-05-18,Weed legal in 5 years: A former B.C. solicitor general predicts Canada will legalize marijuana in the next five years  no matter who is in charge in Ottawa
2014-05-18,"Britain has tried to block release of US 'torture files' that could prove Blair Government was complicit in ill-treatment of terror suspects, it is claimed"
2014-05-18,"China has built a prototype testing platform for a near-vacuum high-speed maglev train that is theoretically capable of reaching speeds up to 1,800 mph."
2014-05-18,Switzerland 'rejects world's highest minimum wage'
2014-05-18,ISIS Destroys 3000 Year-Old Assyrian Artifacts In Syria
2014-05-18,"Britains Wealthiest Now Worth 519Billion. ""Britains richest have doubled their wealth in the last 5 years"""
2014-05-18,Large number of Chinese troops heading for Vietnamese border.
2014-05-18,Childhood vaccinations will no longer be free in Australia.
2014-05-18,"North Korea said a ""serious"" accident last week at a construction site in the capital, Pyongyang, claimed casualties and triggered a major rescue operation but no death toll was mentioned."
2014-05-18,"In Taking Crimea, Putin Gains a Sea of Fuel Reserves: When Russia seized Crimea on March 18, it acquired not just the Crimean landmass but also a maritime zone some three and a half times its size with the rights to underwater resources potentially worth trillions of dollars"
2014-05-18,Russian Space Program Gets $52 Billion Boost
2014-05-18,Balkan Floods Offer New Threat: Loosened Land Mines
2014-05-18,Syrian Girls Forced To Marry ISIS Jihadists
2014-05-18,"Devastating floods in Serbia and Bosnia, spreading to Croatia. People are dead, and more flooding is expected tomorrow."
2014-05-18,Mastermind behind al Qaedas first attack on U.S. now a security official in Yemen
2014-05-18,"U.S.-Russia Tension Could Affect Space Station, Satellites: ""In the aftermath of the Cold War, the two superpowers set aside their mistrust and agreed to build a massive orbiting outpost as a symbol of a new era of cooperation in space exploration. But now that partnership is under serious strain."""
2014-05-18,Nigeria kidnapped schoolgirls: Boko Haram 'prepared to begin release of up to half of the girls
2014-05-18,White House lawyers unable to find critical Iraq letter from Tony Blair telling George Bush I'm with you whatever.
2014-05-18,Kazakhstan: Atheist Faces Seven Years for Stoking Religious Tension
2014-05-18,Boko Haram attacks Chinese workers in Cameroon
2014-05-18,Serbian Suburb almost entirely submerged under water while neighbouring towns have met a similar fate
2014-05-18,Bosnia and Serbia floods: Bodies pulled from rivers
2014-05-17,"In important speech, Iran's President Rouhani says that it should be an Iranian citizens' right to freely access internet."
2014-05-17,"Laos military plane has crashed - 20 on board, 3 confirmed dead including the minister of public security, the minister of defense, and the governor of Vientiane province."
2014-05-17,"Vancouver teenager creates new HIV test -- The test ""allows users to place a drop of blood on a chip to receive a near instantaneous response to find out if they are infected, a process only slightly more difficult than a pregnancy test"""
2014-05-17,'Executed' Kim Jong-Un girlfriend reappears on North Korea television - Telegraph
2014-05-17,"Germany Will Ban Tech Companies That Play Ball With NSA - No federal contracts will go to companies that turn over data to the NSA or other agencies. There may, however, be one crucial exemption"
2014-05-17,Largest dinosaur? New heavyweight unearthed in Argentina. Analysis of the 90-million-year-old fossil suggests the dinosaur weighed about 100 tons - the equivalent of 14 grown elephants.
2014-05-17,UN warns Crimean Tatars have suffered harassment and persecution since peninsula was annexed from Ukraine
2014-05-17,65-year-old man accused of blasphemy shot dead in Pakistani police station
2014-05-17,Africa leaders declare 'war' on Nigerian Boko Haram
2014-05-17,Paralysed Saudi Arabian man's tweet asking for someone to visit him in hospital becomes most retweeted message in Saudi Arabian Twitter history
2014-05-17,Lithuanias parliament voted to ban the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to minors
2014-05-17,Guantnamo force-feeding stopped
2014-05-17,"Organised crime launders 100 billion euros through gambling: Eighty per cent of the world's bets on sport are illegally carried out, according to researchers"
2014-05-17,Russian business elite excluded from Canada's sanctions list
2014-05-17,"A double-decker ferry sank in Bangladesh on Thursday, during a storm, with approx. 200 people on board. About 75 people escaped, the rest of the passengers are assumed dead."
2014-05-17,"Russia, China agree to create working group for space cooperation projects"
2014-05-17,Chilean Artist burns promissory notes with an estimated value of US$500 million to release students from their university debts.
2014-05-17,So Paulo Streets Burn as Brazils Protesters Promise Fighting Ahead of World Cup
2014-05-17,Turkish mine death toll now at 299
2014-05-17,"Mine owner 'innocent,' martyred workers 'guilty'  Turkish government and the operator of the mine in which about 300 workers died denied claims of negligence accusing the workers of causing the accident"
2014-05-17,'Putin approval rating hits 6-year high'
2014-05-17,Brazil 2014: World Cup dengue fever risk predicted
2014-05-17,Gambian President on Gay Asylum-Seekers: 'I Will Kill Them'
2014-05-17,More than 2.7 billion people live in countries where being gay is a crime
2014-05-17,Elephant poaching reported at Kruger national park in South Africa: Bull most likely shot for its tusks in first case for a decade as illegal ivory trade encroaches from Zimbabwe and Mozambique
2014-05-16,"FIFA head calls Qatar 2020 World Cup a ""mistake"""
2014-05-16,"Villagers Kill 200 Boko Haram Insurgents With Dane Guns, Arrows; Catch 10 Alive."
2014-05-16,"Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for' ""Almost a third of long-term unemployed young people have contemplated taking their own lives."""
2014-05-16,"Steel Workers in Mariupol, Ukraine seize the city and out Pro-Russian Militants"
2014-05-16,Bosnia and Serbia emergency after 'worst ever' floods
2014-05-16,Russian Proton rocket carrying advanced satellite crashes
2014-05-16,"UK's oil, coal and gas 'gone in five years'. In just over five years Britain will have run out of oil, coal and gas, researchers have warned."
2014-05-16,"Turkish PM Erdogan punches a citizen of Soma, where 300+ miners died in an explosion, because he was protesting along with the rest of the town for him to resign."
2014-05-16,Google swamped by takedown requests after court ruling: European ruling on 'right to be forgotten' prompts numerous requests to remove personal info
2014-05-16,"The remains of a teenage girl who fell to her death in an underground cave system in Mexico 12,000 years ago have thrown fresh light on the origins of the first Americans | DNA recovered from 12,000-year-old skeleton help to dispel claims that first Americans came from Australia, Asia or Europe."
2014-05-16,Pro-Russian insurgents retreat in eastern Ukraine city as steelworkers begin patrols
2014-05-16,NATO Chief Says Russia Can't Be Trusted Over Ukraine
2014-05-16,Report: Russian space rocket breaks apart after launch in Kazakhstan
2014-05-16,Police tear gas Turkey mine protest: Turkish police fire tear gas at thousands of protesters in town of Soma where some 300 miners died on Tuesday
2014-05-16,NATO's Secretary General Tells Europe To Stop Relying On The US And Provide Its Own Defense
2014-05-16,UN report documents alarming deterioration in human rights in eastern Ukraine
2014-05-16,"China blames Vietnam, says will not cede inch of disputed territory"
2014-05-16,Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoan filmed slapping civilian protesting about the Turkey Mine Explosion.
2014-05-16,Modi on brink of power as India vote count begins
2014-05-16,"Hong Kong begins burning its entire stockpile of illegal ivory, joining the US, China & France in combating the illicit trade"
2014-05-16,Australia: Flaming Ball Falls from Sky and Crashes 'Like a Bomb'
2014-05-16,A paralysed Saudi kid's tweet about him being abandoned by family goes viral. He ends up getting 1000s of visitors and over US $100K in donations from strangers to royal family.
2014-05-16,A photograph of an aide kicking a protester may be just the beginning of Erdogans problems
2014-05-16,"The leader of a Chinese baby trafficking ring that brought 23 boys and pregnant women from Vietnam was sentenced to death Friday, a state news agency reported."
2014-05-16,"Australian Opposition Leader calls Tony Abbott a coward and says ""Try Us"" when threatened with Double Dissolution after negative backlash from recent budget"
2014-05-15,Alberta government is planning to sell off crucial caribou habitat to the energy industry just days after a federal scientific panel said the herds were in immediate danger of vanishing completely
2014-05-15,"Sudan woman sentenced to be hanged for apostasy for refusing to return to Islam, after marrying a Christian man"
2014-05-15,The biggest fast food strike in the history is happening around the world today
2014-05-15,"Saudi Arabia: Farmers flout Mers warning by kissing camels - People are taking photos and videos of themselves kissing camels in defiance of a warning from Saudi health authorities not to go near the animals, which have been linked to the deadly Mers virus."
2014-05-15,US plans nearly $1 billion arms deal with Iraq
2014-05-15,Turkish PM Erdoans adviser sparks outrage for kicking mourner amid Soma protests
2014-05-15,"Google ruling 'astonishing', says Wikipedia founder Wales"
2014-05-15,Australia's Minister For Education Just Called The Opposition Leader A Cunt In Parliament
2014-05-15,"Train from Kaliningrad, Russia Halted at Lithuanian Border for Bearing Soviet Symbols"
2014-05-15,Turkish mine disaster: PM Erdogan's car attacked
2014-05-15,South Korea Officials Enact De Facto SOPA Regime to Block Foreign Websites -- Its takedown system mirrors the SOPA provision on copyright holders being empowered to compel ISPs to block foreign sites through a simple allegation of copyright infringement
2014-05-15,Russia Scores Massive Gas Pipeline Deal With China
2014-05-15,Anti-China riots turn deadly in Vietnam | 20 or more killed
2014-05-15,"Brazil laundering illegal timber on a 'massive and growing scale': Greenpeace investigation uncovers evidence that illegally logged timber is being sold on to buyers in the UK, US, Europe and China"
2014-05-15,German undercover agent dies in mysterious circumstances: Corelli was due to appear in the Munich court to give evidence on the workings of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground.
2014-05-15,Fast food workers strike for higher wages: Protesters in several dozen countries join in a united call for wages of $15 an hour and the right to form a union
2014-05-15,Turkish miners who took shelter inside the only refuge chamber available at the Soma mine used oxygen masks in turns before perishing
2014-05-15,"Road Work Reveals Ancient Treasure Trove of 9,000 Years of Scottish History"
2014-05-15,"Kuwait, a U.S. ally on Syria, is also the leading funder of extremist rebels"
2014-05-15,"Atlantic Current Strength Declines - The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is part of the great ocean conveyor belt that ceaselessly circulates sea water, heat and nutrients around the globe."
2014-05-15,Afghan Taliban commander linked to Pakistani spy agency
2014-05-15,News of the World royal editor: I hacked Kate Middleton 155 times
2014-05-15,Trade unions in Turkey have announced a one-day strike in protest at the country's worst ever mine disaster which has claimed at least 274 lives.
2014-05-15,China and Russia beat US in new corporate transparency report
2014-05-15,"Ecuador's Plan to Drill in the Amazon Is Moving Ahead, Despite Opposition"
2014-05-14,British Government to release 1.2 million illegally held documents to the public - some over 200 years old
2014-05-14,Ukraine Stops Water Supply to Crimea
2014-05-14,"Germany Sets New Record, Generating 74 Percent Of Energy Needs From Renewable Energy. With wind and solar in particular filling such a huge portion of the countrys power demand, electricity prices actually dipped into the negative for much of the afternoon"
2014-05-14,Silvio Berlusconi's links with Italian organised crime confirmed
2014-05-14,"Some 20 miners are reported to have been killed after an explosion at a coal mine in western Turkey. Up to 300 other workers are believed to be trapped underground at the mine in Soma, Manisa province"
2014-05-14,Death toll in Turkey's coal mine disaster jumps to 157.
2014-05-14,VP Biden's Son Joins Ukrainian Gas Company's Board
2014-05-14,Samsung offers 'deep apology' and compensation to workers who've contracted incurable diseases
2014-05-14,"Anti-cyberbullying bill could harm internet privacy rights, Amanda Todd's mother warns"
2014-05-14,Philippines says China appears to be building airstrip on disputed reef
2014-05-14,Kiev rejects Donetsk's referendum results
2014-05-14,Turkey ordered to pay 90m Euros compensation to Cyprus - Turkey refuses as they do not 'formally recognise Cyprus as a country'.
2014-05-14,"The dominance of India's most famous political dynasty may be finished: Exit polls suggest the hold of the Nehru-Gandhi family over Indian politics is over, as Narendra Modi draws closer to win"
2014-05-14,"WWF staff receive death threats for opposing Virunga oil exploitation | ""The callers  said that they had missed killing de Merode, but would not miss WWF's employee,"""
2014-05-14,"10 factories set on fire in anti-China protest in southern Vietnam, official says."
2014-05-14,Turkish PM cites 19th-century Britain to prove mine accidents are typical
2014-05-14,Uruguays President Mujica Offers to Host Guantnamo Prisoners
2014-05-14,238 dead in Turkey coal mine explosion
2014-05-14,"201 killed, hundreds trapped by coal mine explosion: Turkish Energy Minister"
2014-05-14,"Israel demolishes 28 illegal outposts, including a Synagogue."
2014-05-14,"Chinese authorities accuse a senior executive of the global pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline of orchestrating a long-running bribery and fraud scheme that involved making secret payments to doctors, hospital staff and government officials to bolster drug sales"
2014-05-14,UK Government Willing To Block EU Net Neutrality Deal
2014-05-14,German Official Says It Was Wrong to Make Ukraine Pick Between EU and Russia
2014-05-14,Mexican Vigilante groups begin accusing each other of working for drug cartels.
2014-05-14,"Pakistan's Chief Justice says all religions come under the blasphemy law, calls for strong action against those who target Hindus"
2014-05-13,"Found after 500 years, the wreck of Christopher Columbuss flagship the Santa Maria"
2014-05-13,"Right to be forgotten: EU court rules Google must amend results on request. Individuals have right to control their data and can ask search engines to remove results, says European court."
2014-05-13,13 arrested for cutting buffalo milk with cheaper cow milk in Italian cheese scandal.
2014-05-13,British police ask blogger to remove legitimate tweet criticising UK political party
2014-05-13,"Joe Biden's son joins the team of Burisma Holdings, Ukraines largest private gas producer"
2014-05-13,How the NSA tampers with US-made internet routers & servers heading overseas
2014-05-13,Seven car bombs went off almost simultaneously in Baghdad killing at least 21 people
2014-05-13,"There are now more than 100 billionaires living in Britain, the highest number per capita of any other country in the world."
2014-05-13,"The current Australian Government proposes a budget that would make egregious cuts to funding for social services, the Health/Science/Education/Arts & Entertainment industries, and much more."
2014-05-13,World Health Organization finds alcohol causes one in 20 deaths globally
2014-05-13,Canada orders extradition to India of mother and uncle for their role in 'honor' killing of a young Sikh woman
2014-05-13,Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert handed six-year jail sentence
2014-05-13,"Western Antarctic ice sheet collapse has already begun, scientists warn. Loss is inevitable and will cause up to four metres of additional sea-level rise."
2014-05-13,"Isabel Carrasco, a top female politician in the northern Spanish town of Leon, is shot dead on a public street"
2014-05-13,Beijing just handed out the citys largest-ever fine for air pollutionto a US joint venture
2014-05-13,Egypt To Put Six Homosexual Men On Trial For Organizing Gay Party
2014-05-13,ICC to examine claims that British troops carried out war crimes in Iraq
2014-05-13,Sharp rise in French Jews leaving for Israel
2014-05-13,"United Nations: ""It is difficult to reconcile Canadas well-developed legal framework and general prosperity with the human rights problems faced by indigenous peoples in Canada that have reached crisis proportions in many respects."""
2014-05-13,Canadian Special Forces on the ground in Nigeria.
2014-05-13,"A Future Of Thirst: Water Crisis Lies On The Horizon -- ""The next time your throat is as dry as a bone and the Sun is beating down, take a glass of clean, cool water. Savour it. Sip by sip. Vital and appreciated as that water is, it will be even more precious to those who will follow you."""
2014-05-13,Donetsk Peoples Republic will start its own anti-terrorist operation in Donetsk region against Ukrainian military forces if they dont leave in 48-hours
2014-05-13,Romania seeks explanation from Russia over TU-160 threat
2014-05-13,Former IRA activists are to sue Boston College over its decision to hand tapes of their stories from the Troubles to the police.
2014-05-13,Former CIA director: We kill people based on metadata
2014-05-12,Govt to axe Australian Renewable Energy Agency
2014-05-12,"Russia blogger bill authorized today, requires bloggers to publicize identity, all posts will be inspected by government officials and any ""terrorist or propagating posts"" are subject to fines and imprisonment."
2014-05-12,Japanese whalers have restarted operations in the north-west Pacific only weeks after the United Nation's highest court banned Japan's so-called scientific whaling program in the Antarctic
2014-05-12,"Brazil Police warn visitors, 'Don't scream if robbed'"
2014-05-12,"Cocaine use in Britain so high it has contaminated our drinking water, report shows"
2014-05-12,"Over 540 million people (66.4% of electorate) just finished voting in India's month-long general election, the largest democratic exercise in the world to date"
2014-05-12,The Pirate Bay to be Blocked by Australian Government
2014-05-12,IEA: Decarbonising the economy will save $71 trillion by 2050
2014-05-12,"2,000 tons of whale meat arrives in Japan from Iceland"
2014-05-12,Lost Vincent van Gogh painting found in bank safe
2014-05-12,Photos of dead turtles in Chinese ship anger Filipinos
2014-05-12,Ukraine Guardsmen open fire on crowd.
2014-05-12,Nereus deep sea sub 'implodes' 10km-down
2014-05-12,David Cameron: Taxes will rise unless we can raid bank accounts
2014-05-12,400 US mercenaries 'deployed on ground' in Ukraine military op
2014-05-12,One billion people still defecate in public despite health risks-UN
2014-05-12,France to redraw nations map to save money
2014-05-12,"Ukrainian troops open artillery fire at village of Adreyevka, Donetsk region - headquarters of Donetsk region's self-defense forces"
2014-05-12,Obama aims oil weapon at Putin but will he pull the trigger? Oil prices heading for major correction after Russia's attempt to use crude as a weapon to bully Western powers backfires
2014-05-12,Brazil Built The World's Second-Most Expensive Soccer Stadium In A City With No Pro Team
2014-05-12,"Court orders Turkey to pay Cyprus over invasion: Europes top human rights court on Monday ordered Turkey to pay 90 million euros ($123 million) to Cyprus over the 1974 invasion of the island and its subsequent division, in one of the largest judgments in its history."
2014-05-12,Russian officials(Rogozin) attempted to smuggle lists calling on independence of Transnistria. The lists were confiscated by Moldavian officers.
2014-05-12,Mexico: A Zetas founder among 6 dead in shootout
2014-05-12,Girl who escaped Boko Haram abduction speaks publicly about ordeal
2014-05-12,Ukraine crisis: National guardsmen fire into crowd - World
2014-05-11,"100,000 'yes' ballots for referendum intercepted in Sloviansk"
2014-05-11,"US Marines, Satellite locate missing girls in Sambisa forest"
2014-05-11,"Calls are mounting for hardline Jewish settlers to be classified as terrorists after a spate of attacks on Palestinian property in the West Bank and Israel, and threats of violence towards Israeli soldiers"
2014-05-11,Full-scale large military drone operations will start shortly in Japan and its nearby airspace to monitor Chinese military activities and North Koreas nuclear and missile development.
2014-05-11,Some Ukraine voters seen voting twice in pro-Russian separatist poll
2014-05-11,Russian deputy PM tweets threat to fly over Romania in strategic bomber
2014-05-11,Austria wins Eurovision song contest
2014-05-11,"Europeans Are Getting Fatter, Just Like Americans."
2014-05-11,"As Italy gears up to become EU president, Italian PM Renzi vows to push for ""United States of Europe"""
2014-05-11,"Mexico legalises vigilantes, handing weapons to farmers in bid to fight drug cartel Knights Templar"
2014-05-11,Russia Claims Ukraines Black Sea Oil And Gas Bounty
2014-05-11,"A 12,000-year-old tomb made of rock in the southern province of Mersins Silifke district has been blown up with dynamite by treasure hunters."
2014-05-11,"Iran will not accept 'nuclear apartheid', says President Hassan Rohani"
2014-05-11,Ukraine: referendum for self-rule in eastern regions begins - live updates
2014-05-11,The lawyer defending a Pakistani doctor jailed after helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden is quitting the case because of death threats and alleged U.S. interference in the trial
2014-05-11,Saudi Arabia warns of MERS risk from camels as cases rise
2014-05-11,France and Germany have threatened Russia with further sanctions if Ukraine's presidential election on 25 May fails to go ahead.
2014-05-11,Israeli ministers approve bid to block Palestinian prisoner releases
2014-05-11,Philippines Jails Chinese Sailors in Fish Dispute
2014-05-11,Budget-strapped Israeli military banks on future US aid
2014-05-11,North Korea Says It Will Defend Its Dignity With Another Nuclear Test
2014-05-11,Mexico legalizes vigilantes fighting drug cartel
2014-05-11,Nigeria Refused Help to Search for Kidnapped Girls
2014-05-11,Young Gurkha slays Pak militant in fierce hand-hand-combat long LoC in Jammu and Kashmir
2014-05-11,Brazil deploys troops to secure borders for World Cup
2014-05-10,"Australian Environment Minister Andrew Powell wants Australians to boycott Ben and Jerrys ice cream for supporting propaganda save the reef campaign, saying theyve damaged the reputation of the reef and jeopardised jobs and tourism dollars."
2014-05-10,Mexico to legalize vigilantes fighting drug cartel
2014-05-10,China may build an undersea train to America
2014-05-10,Harvard study shows neonicotionoids are devastating colonies by triggering colony collapse disorder
2014-05-10,Russia: Proposed Bill Would 'Protect' Children From Unpatriotic Information
2014-05-10,Ex-Blackwater guard indicted on murder charge for Iraq shooting
2014-05-10,"""Not a shred of truth"": IOC Denies report that Rio 2016 Olympics could be moved to London"
2014-05-10,Swiss company agrees to pay $4.4m fine for helping US tax dodgers  US thanks Swisspartners for 'extraordinary cooperation'  Credit Suisse expected to face big fine and criminal charges.
2014-05-10,"U.S. officers whisked from Yemen after they kill would-be kidnappers, State Department says"
2014-05-10,Australia delists protected woodland in Tasmania
2014-05-10,Venezuela said on Tuesday it would start crushing abandoned cars and bicycles to provide raw materials for housing construction and supplement drastically reduced amounts of local steel.
2014-05-10,"War on drugs a global failure, London School of Economics says - Business - CBC News"
2014-05-10,WHO to hold emergency talks on deadly MERS virus Tuesday
2014-05-10,Satellite images contradict suggestion of Russian pull back from Ukraine.
2014-05-10,Chinese military experts claim pressure from US and NATO forced Turkey to scrap US$3.4 billion China missile system deal
2014-05-10,"Nigeria knew of school raid ahead of time, failed to act"
2014-05-10,China blames U.S. for stoking tensions in South China Sea
2014-05-10,Europe softens stance on Canadas oil sands as relations with Russia sour
2014-05-10,Cambodia seizes three tonnes of ivory in record haul | Customs officers find elephant tusks hidden in shipping container for beans
2014-05-10,China is reportedly thinking about building a bullet train that reaches America
2014-05-10,New documents point to CIA rendition network through Djibouti
2014-05-10,"A 6.0 has occurred near Acapulco, the same town close to yesterday's 6.4 - Updates inside"
2014-05-10,Swedish Airliner Nearly Hit Russian Spy Plane
2014-05-10,Vietnam Says Video Proves China Rammed Its Ship
2014-05-10,Ukraine Forces Destroy Police Building in Restive East
2014-05-09,Rio 2016 so far behind schedule the IOC considering using London 2012 sites instead.
2014-05-09,Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey has attacked wind farms as utterly offensive and a blight on the landscape in the latest sign that the Abbott government intends to cut back on renewable energy
2014-05-09,Pope Francis Calls For 'Legitimate Redistribution' Of Wealth To The Poor.
2014-05-09,Beijing to the US by train: China outlines plans to connect world by high speed rail network
2014-05-09,"Soviets saved Europe from fascism, says Vladimir Putin on war anniversary"
2014-05-09,Israel sends more spies to unearth US secrets than any other ally: Newsweek
2014-05-09,China is considering plans to build a high-speed railway line to the US
2014-05-09,Casualties as fighting breaks out in Ukraine port city of Mariupol
2014-05-09,"A newly discovered, 3,100-year-old Egyptian tomb includes intricate hieroglyphics describing the afterlife"
2014-05-09,"Defector: Shadowy organization, not Kim Jong Un, controls North Korea  Amanpour"
2014-05-09,Coca-Cola to close two Russian juice plants as market shrinks
2014-05-09,Australian Government Wants to Selectively Slaughter Sharks for Three More Years
2014-05-09,"6.8 Earthquake - 40 miles NW of Acapulco, Mexico"
2014-05-09,Putin Arrives in Crimea for First Visit Since Annexation
2014-05-09,"Honest Sri Lankan student gets to keep $80,000"
2014-05-09,Turkey caught shipping weapons to terrorists in syria
2014-05-09,US voices 'concerns' at sale of French warships to Russia
2014-05-09,Canadian Government snooping on social media may breach Privacy Act
2014-05-09,Chinese Premier Li Keqiang unveiled extra aid for Africa totalling at least $12 billion and offered to share advance technology with the continent
2014-05-09,Spanish and Portuguese fishing boats targeting sharks after collapse in tuna catches
2014-05-09,Muslim world scholars condemn Nigeria kidnapping
2014-05-09,"Putin visits annexed Crimea, hails its return to the Motherland"
2014-05-09,"Russia bars Canadian, U.S. officials as Ukraine separatists rebuff Putin"
2014-05-09,"Ukraine PM says he suspects Putin plot for victory day: ""Yatseniuk said he feared Moscow was planning an incident involving veterans who fought with the Soviet army in defeating the Nazis."""
2014-05-09,Islamic officials from around the world unanimously condemn and denounce Boko Haram's abduction of girls
2014-05-08,"Fast-food workers announce global protest, walkouts set for 33 countries"
2014-05-08,Vietnamese government shows reporters footage of Chinese Coast Guard ramming and using water cannons on Vietnamese ships after they attempted to block illegal drilling rigs in disputed waters of the South China Sea. Vietnamese claim 80 Chinese ships were deployed including 7 military vessels.
2014-05-08,War on drugs is a failure.
2014-05-08,German NSA investigative panel to allow Snowden to testify
2014-05-08,"Tony Abbott has proposed to cut out 74,000 hectares of forest in Tasmania from World Heritage status in order to allow industrial logging"
2014-05-08,"A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced the editor of an Internet forum he founded to discuss the role of religion in the conservative Islamic kingdom to 10 years in jail and 1,000 lashes"
2014-05-08,NATO says no evidence Putin pulled back troops from Ukrainian border
2014-05-08,Syria: the capital of Syrias revolution surrenders to Assad
2014-05-08,"Russia Plans to Colonize Moon by 2030, Newspaper Reports"
2014-05-08,"Almost 100 IRA fugitives who were given ""letters of comfort"" from Tony Blair's government stating they were no longer wanted for past crimes are suspects in nearly 300 murder cases, a senior police commander has admitted."
2014-05-08,UK deploys a destroyer to track Russian aircraft carrier
2014-05-08,Chinese police will soon patrol the streets of paris
2014-05-08,"Ukrainians Favor Unity, Not Russia, Pew Polls Find"
2014-05-08,USAF General: Russian Long-Ranged Aircraft Skim California Coast
2014-05-08,Obama Withdrawing Trade Preferences for Russia
2014-05-08,Japanese Man Arrested For Possession of 3D Printed Gun  Claims A gun makes power equal
2014-05-08,"Fast-food restaurant employees are to hold a global day of protest and strike action next week. Planned under the banner of an international trade union, the workers agreed to launch their movement on May 15 with strikes in 150 US cities and protests in 33 countries."
2014-05-08,336 massacred by militants in Nigeria
2014-05-08,Huge blast reported near secret Iran nuclear site; City of Qazvin closed
2014-05-08,"Northern Ireland women not entitled in free abortions in England, court rules | Pro-choice campaigners dismayed at ruling that will affect hundreds of women who cross Irish Sea for terminations."
2014-05-08,Obama Removing Special Trade Benefits for Russia
2014-05-08,"The internet will have almost 3 billion users by the end of the year, UN report says"
2014-05-08,United States warns of 'imminent' North Korea nuclear test
2014-05-08,North Korea making final preparations for nuclear test
2014-05-08,"Moscow: U.S., NATO Missile Shield is 'Anti-Russian'"
2014-05-07,"End The War On Drugs, Say Nobel Prize-Winning Economists"
2014-05-07,President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said Indonesia is not a Muslim country and any efforts to turn it into one must be resisted
2014-05-07,Great Barrier Reef's 'unprecedented' threat from Australian PM Tony Abbott's decision to dredge and dump
2014-05-07,Ukrainian girl gunned down as she was delivering sandwiches to pro-Russian activists
2014-05-07,"Putin 'backs' Ukraine election: Russia's Putin says Ukraine presidential poll is a step ""in the right direction"" and urges halt to all violence"
2014-05-07,We will take on horrendous Boko Haram to find 200 kidnapped schoolgirls: Barack Obama
2014-05-07,U.S. Sending Team To Help With Search For Abducted Nigerian Girls
2014-05-07,"Russia is fomenting disorder in Ukraine to disrupt election: ""They [Ukrainians] cannot be bullied out of having their elections by disorder that is deliberately fomented and co-ordinated from another country  in this case from Russia. """
2014-05-07,Intelligence officials to Congress: Israel 'crossed red lines' in spying on U.S.
2014-05-07,Europe softens stance on Canadas oil sands as relations with Russia sour
2014-05-07,Russia demands $3.8bn security deposit from Visa and Mastercard
2014-05-07,"Russia Will No Longer Tell Lithuania about Kaliningrad Weaponry, which May Include Nuclear Weapons"
2014-05-07,"For the first time, the Vatican unveils how it punished thousands of pedophile priests "" ... It had protected pedophile priests. 'Well-known child sexual abusers have been transferred from parish to parish or to other countries in an attempt by the church to cover-up such crimes,' the U.N. alleged."""
2014-05-07,"Ukraine intel audio shows Russian involvement, plan to falsify Donetsk referendum"
2014-05-07,A Thai court has ruled that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra must step down over abuse of power charges.
2014-05-07,Air pollution 'too high' in most of world's cities. The World Health Organization says air pollution in many of the world's cities is breaching its guidelines.
2014-05-07,"A mob of nearly 3,000 attacked Hindu households and a temple in eastern Bangladesh after two youths from the community allegedly insulted Prophet Muhammad on Facebook"
2014-05-07,Russia to send first batch of Yak-130 jets to Syria
2014-05-07,"NATO troops in East Europe could be permanent after Crimea crisis: NATO will have to consider permanently stationing troops in parts of Eastern Europe in response to the crisis in Ukraine and Russias annexation of Crimea, the organisations top military commander said Tuesday."
2014-05-07,Israel's Peres says Netanyahu blocked 2011 peace deal.
2014-05-07,"Russia imposes ""bloggers law""."
2014-05-07,Putin says Russian troops have pulled back from Ukraine border.
2014-05-07,Philippine police confirm detention of Chinese fishing boat in waters close to the disputed Spratly Islands over haul of 500 turtles
2014-05-07,"Israel mulls internment for Arab hate crimes - Israel plans to use detention without trial against Jewish extremists suspected of anti-Arab hate crimes, a minister has announced, amid mounting criticism over government failure to secure prosecutions."
2014-05-07,MSF (Doctors Without Borders) halts most Central African Republic work as government fails to condemn killing of 16 people at one of its clinics
2014-05-06,Putin outlaws denial of Nazi crimes -Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday making the denial of Nazi crimes and distortion of the Soviet Union's role in the World War Two a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in jail.
2014-05-06,"Vladimir Putin mounting a slow-motion invasion of Ukraine, Stephen Harper tells NATO"
2014-05-06,"Morocco wind farm, Africa's biggest, starts generating power. The North African kingdom has no hydrocarbon reserves of its own and hopes to cover 42 percent of its energy needs with renewable sources by 2020."
2014-05-06,Emails reveal close Google relationship with NSA
2014-05-06,Russian Governments Own Civil Society Organization Finds Crimean Referendum Falsified
2014-05-06,"/r/worldnews is currently under a downvote attack - here's what you need to know, and what you can do"
2014-05-06,"Parts of the vast ice sheet of East Antarctica  which collectively holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 53 metres  could begin an irreversible slide into the sea this century, causing an unstoppable process of global coastal destruction, scientists have warned."
2014-05-06,Communists expelled from Ukrainian parliament
2014-05-06,Ukraine open discussion thread (Sticky Post #9)
2014-05-06,"'Swearbot' to root out online obscenities: A computer programme to seek out swear words on the internet should go live in the autumn, to enforce a Russian law against online obscenity"
2014-05-06,Venezuela Introduces Food Rationing
2014-05-06,"Ukraine close to war, says Germany"
2014-05-06,"Al-Jazeera journalist loses third of body weight in Cairo jail, says family | Abdullah Elshamy, on hunger strike in notorious Tora prison, is one of at least 16,000 held since Morsi's overthrow last year."
2014-05-06,Ukraine troops ambushed by pro-Russia gunmen in Slovyansk; 14 die
2014-05-06,NATO top commander: Russian troops won't enter eastern Ukraine
2014-05-06,"Wind energy surges to record share as coal ebbs. Two-thirds of the emissions drop has been because renewable energy increased its market share by 25 per cent in the first 12 months of the carbon taxs start, he said."
2014-05-06,New kind of bird flu found in penguins in Antarctica~ The virus is unlike any other avian flu known to science
2014-05-06,Coca-Cola to remove controversial drinks ingredient
2014-05-06,US sends Air Force to rescue injured Chinese sailors
2014-05-06,"Ebola virus disease, West Africa (Situation as of 5 May 2014) - 231 cases with 155 deaths"
2014-05-06,French forces have fought an armed group in northern Central African Republic that is blamed for killing health workers from Doctors Without Borders.
2014-05-06,Australian Political show Cut from Air as students begin Protesting
2014-05-06,"Dennis Rodman: Kim didn't kill his uncle or his ex. ""The last time I went there, when they said they killed his girlfriend, they killed his uncle, they just fed him to the dogs ... They were standing right behind me."""
2014-05-06,"Venezuela has violated the rights of opposition protesters through beatings, illegal detentions and failure to follow due process, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday."
2014-05-06,Vatican defends its handling of abuse before a U.N. panel on torture
2014-05-05,"Tokyo hit by 6.2 magnitude earthquake (May 5th, 2014, 5:16 am)"
2014-05-05,"New nature preserve will be the largest on Earth - At more than 500,000 square miles, the marine park is twice the size of Texas and three times the size of Germany"
2014-05-05,"Young blood rejuvenates brains and muscles of old mice: If three discoveries in mice reported on Sunday are applicable to people, making old brains and old muscles perform like young ones may require simply a blood transfusion."
2014-05-05,"Ukraine: Civilians gearing up to face civil war, learning to handle weapons"
2014-05-05,"Chinas military has initiated a number of measures in preparation for a possible regime collapse in North Korea, a leaked military document suggests"
2014-05-05,Russian Stocks Decline Second Day as Ukraine Clashes Spread
2014-05-05,Switzerland has frozen $193 million in Ukrainian assets
2014-05-05,"Ireland's murder rate rockets by 66%, standing at 20 people killed after the first 4 months of 2014."
2014-05-05,"WHO declares Polio spread ""International public health emergency"""
2014-05-05,German IT expert hacks NSA homepage
2014-05-05,"Ukraine Is Nearing State of War, Says Former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow"
2014-05-05,Russia to Prosecute Crimean Tatar Protesters Over Unrest
2014-05-05,"Infusions of young blood may reverse some effects of ageing, studies suggest"
2014-05-05,40 Maps That Explain The Middle East
2014-05-05,Netanyahu pushes to define Israel as nation state of Jewish people only
2014-05-05,Netanyahu pushes to define Israel as nation state of Jewish people only | World news
2014-05-05,"In Ukraine, separatists seize one of last government sites in Donetsk"
2014-05-05,First Ever Charge for Female Genital Mutilation in UK After 28 Years of Law  Top Gynecologist Warns Do Not Prosecute
2014-05-05,Turkish opposition: 'Erdoan will become 'dictator' with de facto presidential system'
2014-05-05,China gives 10-year sentence to leaker of military secrets
2014-05-05,Side deals with Moscow thwart drive to wean Europe off Russian gas [Reuters]
2014-05-05,"Polio Spreading at Alarming Rates, World Health Organization Declares"
2014-05-05,"Claims 220 Australian child sailors raped, brutalised in the '80s"
2014-05-05,Indonesian Villagers Driven from Villages in Palm Oil Land Theft
2014-05-05,"Polio cases: WHO recommends travel restrictions on Pakistan - Pakistan,Somalia and Iraq"
2014-05-04,"China Outlaws the Eating of Tiger Penis, Rhino Horn, and Other Endangered Animal Products"
2014-05-04,UN asks Australia to reconsider dumping on Great Barrier Reef
2014-05-04,"Everyone is under surveillance now, says whistleblower Edward Snowden | People's privacy is violated without any suspicion of wrongdoing, former National Security Agency contractor claims."
2014-05-04,Stephen Hawking Says A.I. Could Be Our 'Worst Mistake In History'
2014-05-04,"CIA, FBI agents 'advising Ukraine government': report"
2014-05-04,"11 Terrorists Have Been Arrested on Suspicion of Involvement in the Disappearance of Malaysian Flight MH370. ""The possibility that the plane was diverted by militants is still high."""
2014-05-04,Four rare white tiger cubs born in Crimea zoo
2014-05-04,"Nigerian troops 'preparing to launch rescue mission for schoolgirls' - Four battalions of troops, fighter aircraft and helicopter gunships reported to be preparing for assault to free 223 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram."
2014-05-04,Russia refuses to rule out military intervention in Ukraine after dozens of separatists burned alive in Odessa
2014-05-04,Scientists find Antibodies able to fight off the MERS virus.
2014-05-04,"In Senegal, at least 50,000 boys studying the Koran beg for food and money to pay their master. Some of these boys left home so young they dont know where they came from, and suffer brutal punishment when they fail to make their quota."
2014-05-04,Untouchable beaten to death for refusing to divulge his party choice
2014-05-04,"Ukraine crisis: we are now at war with pro-Russia rebels, states Kiev"
2014-05-04,"Number of children in Japan slips to new low: The number of children in Japan has fallen to a new low, while the amount of people over 65 has reached a record high as the population ages and shrinks, the government said Sunday."
2014-05-04,276 schoolgirls kidnapped from a Nigerian school are still missing
2014-05-04,"Pro-Russian activists attack Odessa police station in south Ukraine, two days after violence left dozens dead"
2014-05-04,Chinese villager creates fake but effective 'government office' to fight illegal land grabs
2014-05-04,"Russian bombers, fighter jets 'seen over Crimea'"
2014-05-04,Global warming: China and US in crucial talks on cutting carbon dioxide emissions
2014-05-04,Indian politician dies after being hugged by 'human torch' on live TV
2014-05-04,Ukraine PM blames local police for Odessa deaths
2014-05-04,"Military operation, early on Saturday: Ten Russian separatists were killed in Andreevka"
2014-05-04,Pakistan's ISI planned terror attacks on US and Israeli consulates in India
2014-05-04,Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams will be released without charge after being questioned over a 1972 murder
2014-05-04,BBC News - China 'illegal' bridge collapse kills 11 in Guangdong
2014-05-03,"More than 2,100 confirmed dead in Afghanistan landslide: Official"
2014-05-03,First U.S. case of deadly MERS virus confirmed: CDC
2014-05-03,"CBS News Crew Blindfolded, Detained By Pro-Russian Forces In Ukraine"
2014-05-03,"At least 38 people killed in fire in an official building amid clashes in Odessa, Ukrainian police say"
2014-05-03,"Taiwan to levy a ""rich man's tax"" on nearly 10,000 of the island's wealthiest people in a bid to narrow the income gap"
2014-05-03,Moscow has 'lost influence' over Ukraine rebels: Putin spokesman
2014-05-03,"Cuba calls terrorism designation by U.S. absurd, manipulative"
2014-05-03,"Russians disperse Crimean Tatars, Cemilev entry blocked"
2014-05-03,Russia blames the West for crisis in Ukraine
2014-05-03,British troops fly to Estonia as tensions with Russia rise
2014-05-03,G7 to discuss weaning Europe off Russian oil amid Ukraine crisis
2014-05-03,"Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri calls for Iraqi branch to end infighting in Syria, return home"
2014-05-03,Canada sending soldiers for military exercises in Poland
2014-05-03,Ukraine forces move on rebels in Kramatorsk
2014-05-03,"France to ban U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Japanese pigs"
2014-05-03,NATO must invest in defense to counter Russia: US
2014-05-03,Mexico Seizes 'Knights Templar' Cartel Ship Carrying Illegal Iron.
2014-05-03,Uruguay marijuana legalisation: Details unveiled
2014-05-03,Obama and Merkel fail to reach no-spying pact
2014-05-03,MERS virus from camels and humans called indistinguishable - Health
2014-05-03,Abducted OSCE observers 'freed'
2014-05-03,"Amnesty International report on Pakistan's media situation: ""The situation of journalists has deteriorated since the restoration of democratic rule in Pakistan"""
2014-05-03,"The torture of detainees in Mexico continues to be widespread and occurs between the time of arrest and when suspects appear before a judge, a United Nations official said"
2014-05-03,North Korea Conducting a Nuclear Missile Test That Has Potential of Reaching United States
2014-05-03,At least six killed in blast in Somali capital
2014-05-02,Billionaire dies and leaves $3.3 billion to charity
2014-05-02,"'Many dead' in Ukraine offensive, rebels killed, injured and arrested in Ukraine offensive"
2014-05-02,"Neo-Nazis spark first church alarm since WWII: The churches in Jnkping, Sweden, rang their bells in warning for two hours on May Day as neo-Nazis took to the streets. The alarm marked the first of its kind for the central Sweden town since World War II broke out."""
2014-05-02,"Top 1% taking lion's share of global growth, OECD says"
2014-05-02,Australia to raise the retirement age to 70
2014-05-02,SpaceX gets injunction preventing US jet manufacturers from buying Russian rocket engines.
2014-05-02,"1,000 native women murdered, missing in Canada over 30 years: RCMP"
2014-05-02,"Denmark leads the charge in renewable energy | By 2020, the country aims to produce 70 percent of its energy from renewable sources and to make the switch to renewables completely by mid-century. ""Today, we're already at 43 percent,"" said Kristoffer Bttzauw"
2014-05-02,Russia to Ukraine: Your military actions are criminal
2014-05-02,North Korea releases list of U.S. human rights abuses: The U.S. is a living hell
2014-05-02,NATO official: Russia now an adversary
2014-05-02,Putin says Geneva agreement no longer viable after Ukrainian military action: A spokesman for the Russian president has said the Geneva agreement to defuse the situation in eastern Ukraine is no longer viable after Kiev launched a military operation against the rebel-held city of Slavyansk.
2014-05-02,Ukraine reinstates conscription to deal with problems in the East
2014-05-02,"Ukrainian Ambassador to NATO: We do not want any country or organisation to deploy military forces on our territory...if Ukrainian borders are crossed by Russian troops, we will protect our country."
2014-05-02,UNESCO condemns dredge waste dumping in Barrier Reef waters: Recommends Australian marine park be considered for inclusion on the World Heritage in danger list.
2014-05-02,Ukraine helicopter shot down in Slovyansk
2014-05-02,New Virus Related To Smallpox Is Found In Republic Of Georgia
2014-05-02,Kremlin Says Ukraine Clashes Destroy All Hope for Diplomatic Agreement
2014-05-02,"Ethiopian Security Forces Open Fire on Oromo Student Protesters, Killing 28"
2014-05-02,Ukraine says Russian 'saboteurs' attempted to cross border
2014-05-02,"Pro-Russian rebels in Slaviansk say Ukraine tries to retake town, gunfire heard"
2014-05-02,"US troops head to Latvia as Ukraine crisis continues, us troops to train with live fire and 50 lbs of gear."
2014-05-02,Russia demands Security Council meeting on Ukraine
2014-05-02,Merkel asks Putin's help in freeing European hostages in Ukraine
2014-05-02,Belgium just signed into law saying that chronically ill minors can be euthanized.
2014-05-01,France agrees workers can give days off to colleagues with sick children: France has passed a law allowing workers to give some of their days off to a colleague with a seriously ill child. The idea came from the case of a man whose colleagues donated 170 days while his son was battling cancer.
2014-05-01,"Germany blocks Edward Snowden from testifying in person in NSA inquiry: The German government has blocked Edward Snowden from giving personal evidence in front of a parliamentary inquiry into NSA surveillance, it has emerged hours before Angela Merkel travels to Washington for a meeting with Obama."
2014-05-01,New video emerges of Rob Ford smoking crack in his sister's basement last Saturday
2014-05-01,Google breaks Canadian privacy laws with ads based on personal health information
2014-05-01,"Egypt mass death sentences: 60% of defendants have evidence that proves they were not present at the scene of the crime. One woman reveals her son, who died three years ago, has also been convicted in the case."
2014-05-01,Vladimir Putin demands Ukraine withdraw troops from troubled eastern regions
2014-05-01,UK slips down global press freedom list due to Snowden leaks response | British government's draconian response to the Guardian's reporting sees UK drop five places on Freedom House list
2014-05-01,Hundreds of kidnapped Nigerian school girls reportedly sold as brides to militants for $12
2014-05-01,"Declassified documents reveal that Thatcher's government dismissed Ronald Reagan as a bumbling, homophobic ""bozo"""
2014-05-01,Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams arrested over murder of widowed mother abducted from her home in 1972
2014-05-01,A surreptitiously taped video clip that surfaced Tuesday shows the mayor of Mexicos busiest cargo port seemingly receiving instructions from the chief of the Knights Templar crime group.
2014-05-01,"Edward Snowden: NSA Spies More on Americans Than Russians - ""We watch our own people more closely than anyone else in the world."""
2014-05-01,"The death of Clayton D. Lockett in Oklahoma produced more than the usual horror in Europe, with Britain and France condemning the execution and calling for the abolition of the death penalty."
2014-05-01,Outdoor grills banned in Beijing
2014-05-01,UN asks Australia to reconsider dumping on Great Barrier Reef
2014-05-01,Merkel rules out military intervention over dispute in Ukraine
2014-05-01,Putin 'to visit Crimea' for May 9 military parade
2014-05-01,Moscow revives Red Square Soviet-era May Day parade
2014-05-01,Australian government to advocate for the end of universal healthcare
2014-05-01,Kindergartens In China Suspected of Drugging Students To Boost Attendance
2014-05-01,"Antibiotic resistance now 'global threat', WHO warns"
2014-05-01,German officials demand justice after exchange student killed in Montana
2014-05-01,"Afghan opium production explodes despite billions spent, says US report. Report by DC's Afghanistan war watchdog found opium cultivation unaffected by $7.5bn US spent to combat it"
2014-05-01,World Bank: India Overtakes Japan as Worlds Third Largest Economy
2014-05-01,"U.S. general: Corruption, not Taliban, the worst threat to Afghanistan"
2014-04-30,"Afghan couple hack off nose, ears of cleric who sexually assaulted their daughter"
2014-04-30,WHO says world poised for 'post-antibiotic' era
2014-04-30,"U.S. would react immediately if Russia invaded Ukraine, says American ambassador"
2014-04-30,US offers $5 million bounty for China executive accused of trying to sell missile technology to Iran
2014-04-30,"Afghans repel attack by 300 militants on base, kill 60 militants"
2014-04-30,Japan to refuse entry to 23 Russians due to sanctions over Crimea annexation
2014-04-30,Fukushima Nuclear Plant Operator Tepco announces $4.3 Billion Profit
2014-04-30,Scorpions drummer James Kottak jailed in Dubai for insulting Islam
2014-04-30,"Russian Deputy Prime Minister says: ""After analyzing the sanctions against our space industry, I suggest to the USA to bring their astronauts to the International Space Station using a trampoline"""
2014-04-30,Ukraine 'on full combat alert' against possible Russia invasion
2014-04-30,"Explosion at Xinjiang's largest train station, cause and casualties still unclear"
2014-04-30,China poised to pass US as world's leading economic power this year
2014-04-30,"American Abu Ghraib Prisoner Disappears: Shawki Ahmed Omar ""disappeared"" around the time the others were transferred. Repeat requests for information on his whereabouts by his family have fallen on the deaf ears of the Iraqi authorities; the US authorities claim to know nothing as well."
2014-04-30,Russia parliament approves Internet-restricting bills
2014-04-30,"Gunmen have stormed Libya's parliament and started shooting, according to officials."
2014-04-30,"Kiev says security forces ""helpless"" to restore order in east, as more buildings seized"
2014-04-30,Prosecutor: Yanukovych's 'Mafia' Government Stole Up To $100 Billion From Ukraine And Some Of It Is Funding Rebels.
2014-04-30,"Pakistan's spy agency ISI accused of kidnapping and killing journalists | Amnesty International details journalists' claims of harassment, intimidation and attacks at the hands of military intelligence."
2014-04-30,New satellite imagery confirms continued activity at North Korea's main nuclear test site that is consistent with preparations for an atomic detonation
2014-04-30,David Cameron has pledged to step down as Prime Minister after next years general election if he could not deliver on his promise to hold a referendum on Britains membership of the European Union.
2014-04-30,1.4 million workers are employed on zero-hours contracts in Britain annually
2014-04-30,"Hess and Mercuria Added to Crude Oil Price-Fixing Suit; joining BP, Shell, and Statoil in alleged conspiracy [Bloomberg]"
2014-04-30,Real-life Atlantis? The world's megacities that are sinking 10 times faster than water levels are rising - Scientists have issued a new warning to the worlds coastal megacities that the threat from subsiding land is a more immediate problem than rising sea levels caused by global warming.
2014-04-30,Pro-Russia separitists seize control in another Ukrainian city
2014-04-30,Guardian obtains footage of police officer firing Taser at naked man
2014-04-29,Snowden to reveal secrets of Arab dictators
2014-04-29,"Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge admits using drugs and enjoying it, slams Sweden for ""deranged"" and ""destructive"" drugs policy that leads police to ""arrest anyone on any bullshit suspicion"""
2014-04-29,Turkey to require pet owners to undergo mandatory certification. A new law also will forbid the sale of most animals in pet shops.
2014-04-29,U.S. Taped Moscow Plotting Chaos
2014-04-29,Ukraine loses at least $80 billion since Russia takes Crimea: Ukraine has lost at least $80 billion since Russia annexed its southern Crimea region and the price tag will be much higher when Kiev includes lost profits and the value of possible energy reserves in the Black Sea.
2014-04-29,"The Chernobyl arch alone will end up costing about $1.5 billion, financed largely by the United States and about 30 other nations."
2014-04-29,The Pentagon says Russia's defense chief has assured Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that Russia will not invade Ukraine
2014-04-29,"Rio Olympics preparations 'worst' I have ever seen, says IOC vice-president"
2014-04-29,Dispatch 31 - Simon Ostrovsky describes his kidnapping
2014-04-29,Saudi Arabia criticises Norway over human rights record
2014-04-29,"Israel okayed nearly 14,000 settler homes"
2014-04-29,"Prosecutor General: Yanukovych took $32 billion to Russia, financing separatism in Ukraine"
2014-04-29,A television debate show in northern India has ended in horror after a spectator set himself ablaze and embraced a local politician
2014-04-29,"30,000 Chinese Factory Workers Strike Against Maker of Nike Sneakers"
2014-04-29,"IED kills one Ukrainian soldier, injures one."
2014-04-29,"Stop using Microsoft's IE browser until bug is fixed, US and UK warn"
2014-04-29,Several wounded when pro-Russian separatists attacked a rally in support of Ukrainian unity
2014-04-29,US senators remove requirement for disclosure over drone strike victims | World news
2014-04-29,No sign of Russian troops withdrawing from Ukraine border-NATO official
2014-04-29,European Union moves to end smartphone patent wars
2014-04-29,"Video of South Korean ferry's captain being rescued in his underwear, and speakers telling students to not move."
2014-04-29,Israel's High Court rules in favor of Palestinians in the West Bank Area C
2014-04-29,Russian says was 'irresponsible' to send monitors to east Ukraine
2014-04-29,"Russia, Iran In Talks To Sign $10 Billion Energy Deal"
2014-04-29,Ukraine's Pro-Russian Candidate Quits Presidential Race
2014-04-28,More than Two-Thirds of Afghanistan Reconstruction Money has Gone to One Company: DynCorp International
2014-04-28,683 Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Sentenced to Death in Egypt
2014-04-28,Hitler's former maid Elisabeth Kalhammer breaks her silence after 71 years
2014-04-28,"Cold War Spy-Satellite Images Unveil Lost Cities. Photos triple number of known archaeological sites across the Middle East, revealing thousands of ancient cities, roads, canals, and other ruins."
2014-04-28,"China bans ""The Big Bang Theory"" and other American shows from the internet; analysts say government censors are concerned with ""ideological issues."""
2014-04-28,Desmond Tutu has said he is happy Nelson Mandela is dead - so he does not have to see what South Africas current leaders are doing to the country
2014-04-28,BP and Shell exposed as US prepares first warning shot against Russia's oil and gas industry
2014-04-28,"John Kerry told the Trilateral Commission that Israel risks becoming ""an apartheid state"" if it doesn't make peace"
2014-04-28,China releases trove of Japanese sex slave records
2014-04-28,Australian State Government urges boycott of Ben & Jerrys ice cream over WWF propaganda on Great Barrier Reef
2014-04-28,"60,000 Chinese Workers Continue Historic Strike"
2014-04-28,Human Rights Watch report: Israel structurally shooting unarmed Gaza civilians.
2014-04-28,"Pro-Russia forces free Swedish military observer held in Ukraine: It wasn't immediately clear why only Johansson was released, but the pro-Russian insurgents had accused the group of being NATO spies and Sweden isn't a member of the trans-Atlantic alliance."
2014-04-28,Missing Flight MH370: Exploration company believes it may have found MH370
2014-04-28,Food Prices In Russia Grew 40 times faster than in Europe for 1st quarter of 2014
2014-04-28,Mayor of eastern Ukrainian city shot
2014-04-28,Hungarians march against anti-Semitism after far-right poll gains
2014-04-28,Ukraine crisis: EU set to intensify Russia sanctions
2014-04-28,US judge rules search warrants extend to overseas email accounts
2014-04-28,"Mayor of Kharkov, Ukraine shot in back, hospitalized"
2014-04-28,Syria's Assad to run for third term as president
2014-04-28,Russian vice-premier visits North Korea to discuss economic ties
2014-04-28,"The Toll Of 5 Years Of Drone Strikes: 2,400 Dead"
2014-04-28,Russia Unexpectedly Raises Main Rate as S&P Lowers Rating
2014-04-28,Ukraine: kidnapped observers paraded by pro-Russian gunmen in Slavyansk
2014-04-27,Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370: Malaysian prime minister admits lost plane WAS tracked by military radar
2014-04-27,South Korea PM to resign over criticism of the governments handling of the ferry incident.
2014-04-27,"North Korea calls Obama a ""powerful pimp"" and ""gangster"" for South Korea's ""prostitute"" President; says South Korean president's behavior like a ""crafty prostitute eagerly trying to frame someone by giving her body to a powerful pimp"". The North then said it was ready for ""full scale nuclear war."""
2014-04-27,Russian and Ukrainian game developers are starting to leave their countries in midst of political crisis
2014-04-27,"Heavily armed African and French peacekeepers escorted some of the last remaining Muslims out of Central African Republic's volatile capital on Sunday, trucking more than 1,200 people who for months had been trapped in their neighborhood by violent Christian militants."
2014-04-27,"Brazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito to help fight dengue fever -- With dengue endemic in three of the host cities for this summer's World Cup, Brazilian health officials are trying a radical new approach to fighting it - biotechnology."
2014-04-27,Museum dedicated to Tiananmen square massacre opens in Hong Kong
2014-04-27,Ecuadors President Rafael Correa has ordered 20 Pentagon officers and staff to leave the country
2014-04-27,Ireland: Doctors back two GPs who want cannabis use legalised
2014-04-27,"Danish cabinet minister allows full access to mine all her online data, in an attempt to show just how much information can be derived from an individual's digital footprint."
2014-04-27,"All synthetic drugs sold as ""legal highs"" to be removed from New Zealand shops within two weeks"
2014-04-27,Serial Killer Arrested For Killing Gay Men In Pakistan
2014-04-27,Gunmen refuse to release European observers seized in eastern Ukraine
2014-04-27,Iraq: Bomb explodes at election rally
2014-04-27,"NIS aquires supercomputer - ""It's codenamed Steelwinter and is part of a 100 million dollar investment program. The supercomputer will crack heavy cryptology and analyze the vast amounts of data Norwegian Inteligence Service (NIS) collects."""
2014-04-27,"The Russian Defense Ministry complains of large Ukrainian troop buildup in east - that the number of Ukraine troops put the pro-Russian militants at a disadvantage because the latter are ""armed only with small amount of pistols and shotguns."""
2014-04-27,Saudi Arabia says has 10 more cases in MERS outbreak and two more people have died from the disease
2014-04-27,Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser warns Australia risks war with China unless US military ties are cut back
2014-04-27,Baltic States Lead Push to Cut Russia Gas Reliance
2014-04-27,A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed criminal charges against a former Blackwater security guard whose actions allegedly triggered the shootings of dozens of Iraqi citizens at a traffic circle in Baghdad nearly seven years ago
2014-04-27,Iraqi helicopters attack jihadi convoy across Syrian border
2014-04-27,Pro-Russia rebels hold German-led observers hostage
2014-04-27,Search for MH370 reveals a military vulnerability for China
2014-04-27,Europe bans American apples for containing a possibly carcinogenic chemical and group asks U.S to examine them
2014-04-27,"GE invests $24 million in Welspun Renewables Energys solar project - With this transaction, GE Energy Financial Services has exceeded $10 billion in cumulative renewable energy investment commitments worldwide, including $1.8 billion in solar power commitments in seven countries."
2014-04-26,Putin Halts All Talks With White House
2014-04-26,Satellite images taken on Wednesday include hints that North Korea may be preparing to detonate multiple nuclear devices at once
2014-04-26,Nearly 200 Schoolgirls Are Still Being Held Captive And Abused By Militants In Nigeria
2014-04-26,Saudi princess calls for uprising
2014-04-26,Stop moaning about our bonuses: Barclays boss slaps down investors angry at bank's pay practices
2014-04-26,Russian jets cross into Ukraine airspace
2014-04-26,The Taliban Has No Clue to Whom It Should Return a Captive US Soldier
2014-04-26,Danes see Russia as a threat to peace in Europe
2014-04-26,G-7 Nations Agree To More Sanctions On Russia
2014-04-26,US troops land in Latvia amid Ukraine crisis
2014-04-26,BBC News - Spain: Endangered hamster-sized deer born in zoo
2014-04-26,Human Rights Watch: 'Israel Must Stop Shooting at Palestinian Civilians for Simply Crossing a Line'
2014-04-26,Finnish Officers see growing threat from Russia
2014-04-26,Russia fears Crimea Water Shortage - Ukraine reducing supply
2014-04-26,Latvia says Russia trying to use 'provocateurs' in Baltic state
2014-04-26,"Liberty, human rights are godless and faithless ideologies created by atheists to undermine Islam, says ISMA chief | Malaysia"
2014-04-26,7 OSCE observers captured by separatists in E. Ukraine
2014-04-26,Ukraine crisis: Pentagon says Russian jets violated airspace
2014-04-26,UK RAF fighter jets scrambled to investigate Russian planes which flew close to UK airspace
2014-04-26,Ukrainian Troops Confront Eastern Separatists as Russian Troops Mass Along the Border
2014-04-26,Pro-Russian separatists have seized a bus carrying international observers from the OSCE. Separatist leader says Kyiv 'spy' is in detained group.
2014-04-26,The Canadian Supreme Court has rejected the Harper government's plan to reform or abolish the Canadian Senate
2014-04-26,Poland holds biggest security exercise in decades
2014-04-26,Palestinian unity govt will recognize Israel: Abbas
2014-04-26,Russia Warns Kyiv will pay for 'anti-terrorism' campaign
2014-04-25,China to jail eaters of rare wild animals
2014-04-25,"In the past 24 hours, Saudi Arabia has reported four new deaths from a Middle East virus related to SARS and 36 more cases of infection, including a Turkish pilgrim in Mecca."
2014-04-25,Reclusive owner of South Korean ferry dubbed the millionaire with no face is raided by police as its revealed the doomed vessel was THREE times over its maximum load
2014-04-25,Ukraine warns Russia is bent on World War Three
2014-04-25,Simon Ostrovsky Has Been Released
2014-04-25,Two of the most popular English-language proficiency tests in Japan can no longer be used to obtain student visas to Britain after a British TV program exposed fraud in the test-taking process.
2014-04-25,North Korea arrests 24 year old American citizen trying to claim asylum in DPRK
2014-04-25,S&P Cuts Russia to Just Above Junk Status
2014-04-25,John Kerry Just Gave Russia A Final Warning
2014-04-25,McDonald's Canada CEO calls foreign worker controversy 'bullshit' - Scandal reaches upper echelons of government
2014-04-25,"OSCE Slams Putin For The 'Height Of Hypocrisy' ""In the OSCE, the Russians are always alleging double standards, but this is ridiculous because in Russia, anybody who calls for separatism is a criminal. So, that means that the people in Ukraine under Russian standards would be criminals."""
2014-04-25,"Spanish team finds hidden 'tomb of Jesus': Spanish Egyptologists have discovered what could be one of the oldest images of Jesus Christ, painted on the walls of a mysterious underground structure deep in an ancient Egyptian tomb."
2014-04-25,Mi-8 helicopter explodes at Kramatorsk airport in Ukraines east
2014-04-25,Russia makes internet bloggers with over 3000 daily views register with the Roskomnadzor (state body of media)
2014-04-25,"Ex-Soviet Officials Call on Russia to Pull Troops: Officials from five ex-Soviet republics called on Russia to withdraw its troops from border areas near Ukraine, and they backed a free and fair Ukrainian presidential election on May 25."
2014-04-25,"Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the West of wanting to ""seize"" Ukraine, amid escalating rhetoric between Russia and the US."
2014-04-25,"US suspends tax talks with Russia as a form of 'unofficial sanctions'. In the coming weeks, a 30% tax penalty will hit US payments going to over 800 Russian banks."
2014-04-25,Australia to Purchase 58 More F-35 Fighters for $12.4 billion
2014-04-25,3 russian helicopters are said to have violated Ukrainian airspace
2014-04-25,McDonald's boycott threatened over use of temporary foreign workers - British Columbia - CBC News
2014-04-25,North Korea's Got a Big Crystal Meth Problem
2014-04-25,Four major tech companies including Apple and Google have agreed to pay a total of $324 million to settle a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to hold down salaries in Silicon Vall
2014-04-25,Another U.S. warship enters Black Sea
2014-04-25,Sweden wants cruise missiles 'for defence'
2014-04-25,"Armenians are protesting today at Turkish embassies, all across the world, for recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, where 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered."
2014-04-24,FCC Abandons Net Neutrality
2014-04-24,Iran's President Rouahani calls for gender equality
2014-04-24,"American troops now en route to Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in response to Russian troop movements and European concerns over ""Russian aggression"". Yesterday, US soldiers arrived in Poland."
2014-04-24,Putin calls the internet a 'CIA project'.
2014-04-24,"Four physicists have announced their resignation from the academic council of one of Russia's top research institutes, accusing it of failing to defend a prominent colleague who was fired for ""truancy"" after attending a workshop at Stony Brook University in the U.S."
2014-04-24,"Ukraine forces kill up to five rebels, Putin warns of consequences"
2014-04-24,China Is Shutting Down Porn Websites En Masse
2014-04-24,"Swearing in films banned by Russia's lower house: The Russian parliament's lower house has passed a bill that bans swearing from films, music and other works of art. ""In addition, members of the public could face penalties of up to 2,500 roubles for swearing in public ... """
2014-04-24,Chemicals killing smartphone chip factory workers: Samsung and Apple factories accused
2014-04-24,"Facebook, Gmail, Skype face Russia ban under 'anti-terror' data snooping plan"
2014-04-24,Ukraine crisis: Army moves to retake Sloviansk
2014-04-24,"[Preliminary] Magnitude 6.7 earthquake just hit off the coast of Vancouver, Canada."
2014-04-24,Brazilian Congress passes Internet bill of rights
2014-04-24,"China says more than half of its groundwater is polluted | Number of groundwater sites of poor or extremely poor quality increases to 59.6%, Chinese government says"
2014-04-24,"Brazil's new Internet 'Bill of Rights' protects privacy, ensures net neutrality"
2014-04-24,Dutch fighter jets intercept 2 Russian bombers in its airspace
2014-04-24,Researchers unravel the works of a bishop who theorised multiple universes 800 years ago
2014-04-24,"106,000 Signatures in Support of Pirate Bay Founder Delivered to Danish Govt. - After amassing 106,000 signatures a petition aimed at improving the prison conditions of Gottfrid Svartholm has been delivered to the Danish government."
2014-04-24,RAF Jet Chases Russian Planes Away From UK
2014-04-24,Russia orders troops to south and west borders after Ukrainian soldiers kill five
2014-04-24,United States likely to impose sanctions against India over drug IP issue
2014-04-24,"US President Barack Obama has reaffirmed his support for Japan in its row over islands with China, after talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.But he confirmed that the islands fell under a security treaty that commits the US to act if Japan is attacked."
2014-04-24,Canada under increasing pressure to come up with co-ordinated NATO response to Russia in Arctic
2014-04-24,"Norway has been severely punished for the Norwegian Nobel Committee's decision to award the prize to Liu Xiaobo, one of the leaders of the 1989 uprising in Tiananmen Square."
2014-04-24,"Russia, India Planning $30 Billion Oil Pipeline Through Xinjiang"
2014-04-23,"British people by 2:1 ratio say it was good for society, not bad, that newspapers reported the materials given to them by Edward Snowden"
2014-04-23,Mission to Mars is necessary for survival of human race
2014-04-23,"Pope Francis told divorced and remarried woman there is nothing wrong with her taking Communion: Pope Francis reportedly told a divorced and remarried woman that there is nothing wrong with her taking Communion, in what would be a huge departure from current Catholic teaching."
2014-04-23,"""Russian Facebook"" founder flees country after being forced out as CEO: Russian social network is now effectively under state control"
2014-04-23,North Korea offer condolences to South for Sewol Ferry disaster
2014-04-23,Report: Vice Journalist Captured in Eastern Ukraine
2014-04-23,Poland is about to engage in a massive military spending spree to replace Soviet-era equipment
2014-04-23,"Ukraine: VICE journalist held by separatists, TIME reporter released"
2014-04-23,US deploying troops to Eastern Europe
2014-04-23,For the first time Turkey PM Erdogan offers condolences over mass WWI killings of Armenians
2014-04-23,"Saudi prince kills about 2,000 endangered birds on safari"
2014-04-23,Russia Warns Ukraine of Potential Military Response
2014-04-23,"Founder of biggest Russian social network VKontakte flees Russia, claims Persecution"
2014-04-23,"'Don't behave like gangsters,' Ukrainian PM tells Russia"
2014-04-23,Pro-Russian Insurgents Identified: The Green Men of VKontakte
2014-04-23,Russia begins extracting oil in the Arctic despite Greenpeace efforts
2014-04-23,"Suspected mass grave, believed to contain at least 250 bodies of ethnic Albanians killed in the 1998-99 Kosovo war, excavated in Serbia"
2014-04-23,Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been convicted of libel in a ruling that could potentially lead to the jailing of one of President Vladimir Putins most prominent critics.
2014-04-23,Russia Bans Military and Police from Traveling Abroad
2014-04-23,"In Russia, a Soviet revival grips leadership"
2014-04-23,"Acting Ukraine president calls for relaunch of anti-terrorist operation in east after politician ""tortured to death"""
2014-04-23,"Nearly 90 percent of the chemicals in Syrias weapons arsenal have now been removed from the war-torn country, with only two or three shipments left for export, the group responsible for policing the global treaty that bans chemical munitions reported on Tuesday."
2014-04-23,Violent protests have broken out in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro following the death of a young man allegedly beaten by police.
2014-04-23,Sweden to beef up air force to counter Russia
2014-04-23,China issues veiled warning to N. Korea not to conduct nuclear test
2014-04-22,China: Violent Government Thugs Beaten To Death By Angry Crowds After They Killed A Man Documenting Their Brutality
2014-04-22,"North Korean new generation losing faith in the regime: After decades of absolute control, Pyongyang's iron grip on the lives of ordinary citizens is finally slipping"
2014-04-22,"Arab royal hunts down 2,100 internationally protected houbara bustards in three week safari"
2014-04-22,Bolivia raises minimum wage by 20%
2014-04-22,"CEO Of Russian Facebook Says He Was Fired And That The Social Network Is Now In The Hands Of Putin Allies - So ends the slow unravelling of independence at VKontakte, Russias most popular social network."
2014-04-22,"China's new environment law submitted to parliament... will give legal backing to Beijing's newly declared war on pollution and formalise a pledge made last year to abandon a decades-old growth-at-all-costs economic model that has spoiled much of China's water, skies and soil."
2014-04-22,"DSL router patch merely hides backdoor instead of closing it - Researcher finds secret knock opens admin for some Linksys, Netgear routers."
2014-04-22,North Korea erupts with anti-gay tirade against UN Human Rights Chair
2014-04-22,Ultra-Orthodox Jews are resisting new laws which force them to join the army
2014-04-22,US releases photos of Russian special forces soldier operating in eastern Ukraine.
2014-04-22,Russia bans Tatar leader from Crimea after Putin signs decree
2014-04-22,Spanish Congress rejects Catalan independence referendum
2014-04-22,Sri Lanka to deport British tourist with Buddha tattoo
2014-04-22,US ordered to release memo in Anwar al-Awlaki drone killing
2014-04-22,Everest's Sherpas Issue List of Demands
2014-04-22,Chinese hackers are stealing our secrets - US Admiral
2014-04-22,"It is a significant shift in how Russian ground forces approach a problem, - James G. Stavridis, the retired admiral and former NATO commander."
2014-04-22,"Leaflets Given To Donetsk Jews Made Waves Worldwide, But Not In Donetsk"
2014-04-22,Extremist Hindu leader in India calls to evict Muslims and loot and burn their properties
2014-04-22,First sign of South Korea ferry disaster was call from a frightened boy who is among the missing - The Globe and Mail
2014-04-22,Hundreds of people were killed because of their ethnicity after South Sudan rebels seized the oil hub of Bentiu last week
2014-04-22,"Rockets from Gaza hit Israel, army launches airstrikes in Passover clash"
2014-04-22,Trial of Al Jazeera journalists resumes: Correspondent Peter Greste and producers Mohammed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed appear in court in Egyptian capital Cairo.
2014-04-22,"Fukushima disaster: Tokyo hides truth as children die, become ill from radiation - ex-mayor"
2014-04-22,Activity has increased at North Korea's nuclear test site ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama to the region
2014-04-21,Twitter bans two whistleblower accounts exposing government corruption after complaints from the Turkish government
2014-04-21,"Jamaica sees green in ganja -- After more than a century, the island of music and marijuana seems ready for legalization"
2014-04-21,Canadians rally to legalize marijuana
2014-04-21,"Japan defence chief puzzled by Russian warplanes: The country's air defence force scrambled fighter jets for seven days in a row after spotting Russian military planes. ""They are continuing flights, which we deem as abnormal and were unseen even in the Cold War era,"" - Defence Minister"
2014-04-21,"China has seized a Japanese ship over ""debt"" from 1936."
2014-04-21,"Malaysia Airlines MH192 has made an air turn back to KUL, but is currently circling round burning fuel and unable to land due to problems with its landing gear and burst tyres."
2014-04-21,India and Georgia have made it compulsory for Pakistani travellers to get anti-polio vaccine prior to entering their territory; several other countries may follow suit
2014-04-21,Snowden reporter promises more NSA revelations are coming. And Greenward hits back after Rep. Peter King denounces the Pulitzer Award calling it 'disgraceful'.
2014-04-21,"North Korea accuses US and allies of ""worst human rights abuses""; says defectors to South Korea who exposed human rights abuses are ""terrorists"" and that North Korea's masses are leading happy lives. The North said that human rights investigations would only make it achieve ""Final Victory"" faster."
2014-04-21,Photos Link Masked Men in East Ukraine to Russia and suggest that many of the men who have seized Ukrainian government sites are indeed Russian military and intelligence forces.
2014-04-21,"Abuse of veal calves unveiled by hidden camera: ""Baby calves... are kicked, punched, slapped and yelled at by barn employees. Some are grabbed by the testicles to force them into narrow wooden stalls. Several lie gasping for air on slats stained with urine and feces."" [Canada]"
2014-04-21,"Spains Robin Hood takes from the banks and gives to the disenfranchised - They call him the Robin Hood of the banks, a man who took out dozens of loans worth almost half a million euros with no intention of ever paying them back."
2014-04-21,David Cameron fuelling sectarian division by bringing God into politics'
2014-04-21,Russia stares at recession as Ukraine crisis scars economy
2014-04-21,Ukrainian synagogue reportedly firebombed
2014-04-21,"Bangladesh Factory Owner Charged With Murder: Its been almost a full year since the tragic Bangladesh factory collapse killed 1,135 garment workers in the capital of Dhaka.This week, authorities announced that Rana [the negligent owner of the factory] would stand trial for his role in the disaster."
2014-04-21,Scottish independence poll:Yes on brink of victory
2014-04-21,Tesla poised to start delivery of Model S to Chinese motorists
2014-04-21,"Unease in Vatican over cardinal's 'luxury flat': An Italian cardinal is moving into a 600-square-metre (6,500 square foot) Vatican apartment in apparent contradiction with Pope Francis's call for a ""poor Church"""
2014-04-21,"Botswana bushmen: 'If you deny us the right to hunt, you are killing us'"
2014-04-21,Ukraine Conflict Becomes Hostage Crisis as Separatists Take Prisoners
2014-04-21,Ukrainian journalist and activist Irma Krat arrested by pro-Russian separatists for 'war crimes'
2014-04-21,Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed laws simplifying procedures for Russian speakers in the former Soviet Union to obtain Russian citizenship and on obligations for migrant laborers working in Russia.
2014-04-21,Nigeria: Latest Boko Haram massacre; over 150 dead
2014-04-21,India Wants To Take On 'US Hegemony' Over The Internet... By Renaming It The Equinet
2014-04-20,"Engineers are about to blast away the top of a Chilean mountain to create a site for the European Extremely Large Telescope. It will allow us, for the first time, to directly observe planets outside the solar system"
2014-04-20,"Six schools in Birmingham, U.K. implicated in ""Trojan Horse"" plot by extremists to ""Islamise"" secular state education ."
2014-04-20,"In 60 Days, South Sudan will Starve: There is a looming crisis in South Sudan that, if not dealt with, could rival some of the worst famines in recent history."
2014-04-20,"President Barack Obama has signed into law a measure that would bar entry to any UN ambassador whom the US says has engaged in ""terrorist activity""."
2014-04-20,"US Drone Obliterates Civilians in Yemen: At least fifteen people, including those not specifically targeted, are killed or wounded in bombing"
2014-04-20,Saudi man fined for allowing his wife to drive.
2014-04-20,Government to introduce law requiring porn sites to obtain proof that users are over 18
2014-04-20,Turkey may leave World Wide Web says Communication Minister
2014-04-20,Thousands of Chinese spent their best years making Nike shoes and now have no pensions
2014-04-20,"Poland wants 10,000 American troops deployed to defend against Russia"
2014-04-20,Deadly gun attack in eastern Ukraine shakes fragile Easter truce
2014-04-20,"Putins popularity at its peak, society rallies around patriotism"
2014-04-20,"Nearly 1/5 of China's farmland is now too polluted to farm; 82.8 percent of contaminated lands are polluted by pollutants like Arsenic, Cadmium, and Nickel. ""Although air pollution is highly visible and present, these pollutants eventually end up in the soil and pollute it as well."""
2014-04-20,Meteor-like Object Explodes Over Russia
2014-04-20,"Strike at Nike, Adidas China supplier halts output"
2014-04-20,Bodies found inside sunken South Korean ferry - 52 confirmed dead
2014-04-20,Criminals Are Using Drones To Find Weed Farms To Rob
2014-04-20,"Some 3,000 Crimeans refuse to become Russian citizens: About 3,000 residents of Crimea, including Sevastopol, have refused to receive Russian passports, Russian Federal Migration Service chief Konstantin Romodanovsky said."
2014-04-20,"BBC News - Rubin ""Hurricane"" Carter has passed away"
2014-04-20,"Saudi Arabia announces jump in new cases of deadly MERS virus: Saudi Arabia has confirmed seven new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), adding up to 36 infections in five days, a sudden increase of a disease that kills about a third of the people infected and has no cure."
2014-04-20,"South Africans Have Case for Aiding Apartheid: Ford Motor Co. and IBM must face a class action from black South Africans accusing them of supplying the apartheid regime with military cars and computers, a federal judge ruled."
2014-04-20,Syrian Rebels Are Being Armed With US-Made Anti-Tank Missiles
2014-04-20,Ukraine crisis: Geneva deal hangs by a thread after deaths in Slavyansk Pro-Russian militants and unidentified assailants are reported killed in gun battle in eastern Ukrainian town
2014-04-20,Spanish Court Refuses to Close Guantnamo Torture Investigation
2014-04-20,Iran says reactor dispute 'virtually solved' - Middle East
2014-04-19,"Obama: ""Countries like Germany, China and India - they're working every day to out-educate our kids so they can out-compete our businesses. And each year, frankly, it shows that they're making more progress than we are."""
2014-04-19,North Korea has written an official letter of complaint to Britain over a London hair salon's advert implying leader Kim Jong-Un has a bad hairstyle
2014-04-19,A 7.5 earthquake has occurred off the coast of Papua New Guinea - Tsunami expected locally
2014-04-19,"Schools in Birmingham discrimate against non-Muslim students and restrict GCSE teaching to fit in with Islamic beliefs, according to official report"
2014-04-19,"Chinese authorities have arrested at least 20 people for the crime of writing male/male fanfic, mostly young women."
2014-04-19,"Japan expands army footprint for first time in 40 years, risks angering China."
2014-04-19,"Russia writes off 90 percent of North Korea debt, eyes gas pipeline: Russia's parliament has agreed to write off almost $10 billion of North Korea's Soviet-era debt, in a deal expected to facilitate the building of a gas pipeline to South Korea across the reclusive state."
2014-04-19,Nearly one-third of morning-after pills in Peru are fake
2014-04-19,"Most in east Ukraine region against joining Russia. A majority of inhabitants in Ukraine's pro-Russian protest hub Donetsk do not want to join Russia but consider the government in Kiev to be illegitimate, according to a poll published Saturday."
2014-04-19,Russian Vice Speaker Screams at Guards to Rape Pregnant Journalist during press conference
2014-04-19,"U.S. ground troops going to Poland, defense minister says"
2014-04-19,115 Nigerian school girls still missing after kidnapping
2014-04-19,"58 killed, 100 injured in attack on UN base in South Sudan"
2014-04-19,"Obama Administration ""indefinitely suspending a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline"""
2014-04-19,CIA torture architect breaks silence to defend 'enhanced interrogation'
2014-04-19,"Scores of abducted girls freed in Nigeria - At least 44 of the 129 schoolgirls abducted in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok have been released, and have reunited with their parents"
2014-04-19,Poland and the United States will announce next week the deployment of U.S. ground forces to Poland as part of an expansion of NATO presence in Central and Eastern Europe in response to events in Ukraine.
2014-04-19,"Over 100 hate crime murders linked to far-Right White Nationalist web forum Stormfront.org, whose registered users included Anders Breivik (2011 Norway massacre) and Frazier Glenn Miller (last week's shooting at a Jewish center in Kansas)."
2014-04-19,Over 50 thousand Russians demand to be put on US sanctions list
2014-04-19,Library named after Osama bin Laden in Pakistan
2014-04-19,United States to deploy ground troops to Poland
2014-04-19,Russia to Build 150 Military Facilities on Kuril Islands (disputed by Japan)
2014-04-19,Interpol in hunt for Austrian jihadist teenage girls
2014-04-19,Germany shuts scheme for young unemployed Europeans after being flooded with interest from job-seekers particularly from struggling Spain and Hungary
2014-04-19,"Rape victims in Germany are finding it increasingly difficult to see their assailants convicted, a national study showed"
2014-04-18,Vice principal of South Korea school in ferry disaster commits suicide
2014-04-18,"That 'Jewish registry' flyer in East Ukraine is 'fake,' says NCJS, a Jewish organization with direct contact to the Donetsk government"
2014-04-18,NASA's Kepler Discovers First Earth-Size Planet In The 'Habitable Zone' of Another Star
2014-04-18,"World Bank wants water privatized, despite risks"
2014-04-18,"7.5 Magnitude Earthquake in Guerrero, Mexico"
2014-04-18,"Pro-paedophile group to be banned, Dutch supreme court says"
2014-04-18,Japan Says It Will Resume Whaling Off Antarctica
2014-04-18,Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca Marquez dies at 87
2014-04-18,"Armed civilians pretending to be peaceful protesters delivering a petition to the United Nations in South Sudan forced their way into a U.N. base sheltering some 5,000 civilians and opened fire."
2014-04-18,Canada sends six CF-18 jets to Poland in response to Ukraine crisis
2014-04-18,"The manager of the Fukushima nuclear power plant admits to embarrassment that repeated efforts have failed to bring under control the problem of radioactive water, eight months after Japan's prime minister told the world the matter was resolved"
2014-04-18,Thousands of animals starving in Ukraine's zoos
2014-04-18,"2,300 tubes containing SARS virus samples missing in France"
2014-04-18,SNOWDEN: I Questioned Putin To Get His Answer On Record
2014-04-18,Ukraine crisis: US secretary of state Kerry announces Geneva agreement - live updates | 'Occupied' buildings to be vacated; arms turned over | Kiev would grant amnesty to protesters | Putin: 'Russia will find mutual understanding with Ukraine'
2014-04-18,Chief Warden Shot in Africa's Oldest National Park
2014-04-18,"High Altitude Avalanche on Mt. Everest 2 dead, 7 Missing"
2014-04-18,"Gabriel Garca Mrquez, the Colombian novelist whose One Hundred Years of Solitude established him as a giant of 20th-century literature, died on Thursday at his home in Mexico City. He was 87"
2014-04-18,"Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says all sides agree to steps to ""de-escalate"" Ukraine crisis, after talks in Geneva"
2014-04-18,Edward Snowden defends decision to question Vladimir Putin on surveillance
2014-04-18,British arms dealers sell weapons to 23 countries labelled dangerous by the Foreign Office
2014-04-18,"Scientists find an 'Earth twin', or maybe a cousin"
2014-04-18,"7 Die in Shooting at China-Vietnam Border: ""A Chinese man who was being repatriated from Vietnam along with 15 other migrants seized a gun from a border guard on Friday, triggering a gunfight and standoff in which five Chinese and two Vietnamese guards died"""
2014-04-18,US freeing Iran funds as Tehran cuts uranium stockpile
2014-04-18,"Russia and China forge closer ties, as EU explores sanctions"
2014-04-17,Putin admits Russian forces were deployed to Crimea.
2014-04-17,"Jimmy Carter and Nobel Laureates Urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline: ""History will reflect on this moment..."""
2014-04-17,Ukraine submits proof of Russian covert action
2014-04-17,"Putin Asserts Right to Use Force in Eastern Ukraine - '[He] stressed Russias historical claim to the territory, repeatedly referring to it as new Russia'"
2014-04-17,Ukrainian Oligarch Offers $10k for Each Captured Russian Invader
2014-04-17,Donetsk Pro-Russians Order Jews to 'Register or be Deported' for Supporting Kiev Rule
2014-04-17,Kim Dotcom can have seized assets returned  New Zealand High Court
2014-04-17,Putin: Russia may invade Ukraine to protect locals
2014-04-17,Kiev says Russian males aged 16-60 banned from entering Ukraine
2014-04-17,300 people attacked a Ukrainian military base in the country's southeast on Thursday
2014-04-17,Ukrainian military surrounded by pro-Russians
2014-04-17,"Snowden asks Putin: ""Does Russia intercept millions of citizens data?"""
2014-04-17,Crimeans find their new lives in Russia harder than expected
2014-04-17,"Russia Economy Worsens Even Before Sanctions Hit: With inflation rising, growth stagnating, the ruble and stock market plunging, and billions in capital fleeing the country for safety, the economy is teetering on the edge of recession, as the countrys minister of economic development acknowledged"
2014-04-17,"West Slams Russia 'Fantasy Narrative' on Ukraine: Western countries on the Security Council said the new report undermines Russia's claims about the events that led to its recent annexation of Crimea, and they warned of a similar situation unfolding now"
2014-04-17,Vkontakte Founder: Russia Wanted Personal Data of Euromaidan Protesters
2014-04-17,"S. Korean Ferry Captain Was One of the First Off the Sinking Ship: I cant raise my face before the passengers and family members of the missing, he said."
2014-04-17,Students kidnapped by suspected Islamic militants in Nigeria are freed
2014-04-17,"$10,000 for separatist head and $1,000 for the machine-gun - the reward promised by the governor of Dnipropetrovsk region"
2014-04-17,Iranian Officials and Bankers Warn Russia Not to Dismiss U.S. Sanctions Threat
2014-04-17,"A labor group says a strike at the world's biggest athletic shoe maker is snowballing, with about 30,000 of its Chinese workers protesting over insufficient benefits"
2014-04-17,Moldovas Breakaway Region Asks Putin to Recognize Sovereignty
2014-04-17,"Obama warns of ""consequences"" for Russian actions destabilizing Ukraine"
2014-04-17,Canadian arrested for Heartbleed hacking
2014-04-17,Ukrainian Parliament Recommends Resumption Of Mandatory Conscription
2014-04-16,South Korea ferry carrying 350 sinking.
2014-04-16,"Several armoured personnel carriers have reportedly entered the eastern Ukrainian town of Slaviansk, with the lead vehicle showing the Russian flag"
2014-04-16,"U.S. drone strike kills New Zealander, Australian in Yemen"
2014-04-16,China's president urges greater militarization of space
2014-04-16,Brunei's new law permits stoning gay people to death
2014-04-16,Spanish judge defies pressure to scrap Guantanamo torture case against Bush | The Raw Story
2014-04-16,Combat Vehicles in East Ukraine Switching Sides
2014-04-16,Swiss president greeted with Danish flag in Ukraine
2014-04-16,"Switzerland pushes for minimum wage of $25 per hour, maximum in the world"
2014-04-16,"SARS: French scientists lose 2,300 samples of potentially deadly virus"
2014-04-16,"A majority of Ukrainiansin all regionscondemn the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine (93 percent of people in the west and center held this opinion, 73 percent in the South, and 68 percent in the East)."
2014-04-16,Ukraine says it reclaimed airport seized by pro-Russia separatists
2014-04-16,5 Dead in Calgary's Worst Ever Mass Murder
2014-04-16,"Greece's Golden Dawn party describes Hitler as 'great personality': Cementing its credentials as an unapologetic neo-nazi force, Greece's increasingly combative Golden Dawn party has hailed Hitler as a ""great personality"" and denounced homosexuality as a ""sickness""."
2014-04-16,Ukraine troops blocked in Kramatorsk as tension rises
2014-04-16,Jordanian air force fighter jets have destroyed an undetermined number of vehicles trying to enter the kingdom by crossing the border from war-torn Syria.
2014-04-16,Ukraine crisis: NATO to bolster forces in eastern Europe | World news
2014-04-16,Citizen scientists prepare to test West Coast for Fukushima radiation
2014-04-16,Six Kiev's APCs sent to Kramatorsk join forces with anti-Maidan activists - eyewitness
2014-04-16,Ukraine pushes tanks and troops into separatist east
2014-04-16,Japan population drops for third year straight; 25% are elderly
2014-04-16,'We Will Shoot Back': All Eyes on Russia as Ukraine Begins Offensive in East
2014-04-16,Ukraine Says Russian Forces Among Separatists as Battles Ensue
2014-04-16,N Korea formally complains over British barber's Kim Jong Un poster
2014-04-16,German Law Professors Are Rebelling Against Their Country's Drug Laws
2014-04-15,Billionaire Takes Up Fight Against African Poachers  Pledges to provide a helicopter & a multi-million dollar investment to protect South Africas rhinos.
2014-04-15,Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations | Media
2014-04-15,Russian paramilitary leaders in eastern Ukraine caught on tape communicating with Moscow
2014-04-15,Ukraine has asked the UN for troops
2014-04-15,"Drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline bribed doctors to boost sales, says whistleblower"
2014-04-15,Russian forces spotted on ground in eastern Ukraine: Bloomberg
2014-04-15,"Canadians' mental-health info routinely shared with FBI, U.S. customs"
2014-04-15,"Poland: NATO should send troops to east Europe, ignore Russia's objections"
2014-04-15,"Russian economy may see zero growth this year because of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's finance minister has admitted"
2014-04-15,Guantnamo hearings halted amid accusations of FBI spying on legal team | World news
2014-04-15,"Russia on brink of financial crisis as showdown with West escalates - Country's private companies shut out of global bond markets, raising prospect that they may need state support."
2014-04-15,Red Hot Chili Peppers music used to torture prisoners in Guantnamo Bay
2014-04-15,"Smog-hit China is set to pass a new law that would give Beijing more powers to shut polluting factories and punish officials, and even place protected regions off-limits to industrial development"
2014-04-15,A survey released Tuesday -- the first comprehensive one of its kind - says that only 10 killers of 908 environmental activists slain around the world over the past decade have been convicted
2014-04-15,Malta legalises same-sex civil unions/marriage
2014-04-15,U.S. Is Considering Sending Arms To Ukraine
2014-04-15,Nigeria unrest: 'Attackers abduct 200 schoolgirls'
2014-04-15,Chernobyl Sarcophagus Jeapordised by Crisis in Ukraine: The political crisis in Ukraine is severely hampering efforts to build a new radioactive containment structure over the site of the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown.
2014-04-15,Russia says Ukraine on brink of civil war
2014-04-15,North Korean officials visit salon in London over Kim Jong-un 'bad hair' advert
2014-04-15,CIA chief visited Kiev over the weekend: White House
2014-04-15,Russia Tests Multi-Warhead ICBM
2014-04-15,Pro-Russian Ukrainian police help foil Ukraine crackdown in east
2014-04-15,"Morocco Women March to Demand Gender Equality - Ccarried banners demanding ""equality as a right, not a privilege""."
2014-04-15,"Russia warns against use of force against protesters in Ukraine: Russia's foreign minister has said intervention by Ukrainian authorities to stop pro-Russian protesters in eastern Ukraine would set back diplomatic talks. Ukraine has announced an ""anti-terrorist"" operation in the east."
2014-04-14,"Looks Like Rome is Even More Ancient than Thought - As Italian capital approaches 2,767th birthday, excavation reveals wall built long before official founding year of 753BC. It seems to have channeled water. Around it, are pieces of ceramic pottery & remains of food."
2014-04-14,Ukraine says it can prove that Russia coordinated weekend attacks
2014-04-14,"Russian fighter jet makes multiple, close-range passes near an American warship in the Black Sea"
2014-04-14,"Glow-in-the-dark roads make debut in Netherlands -- They look beautiful, but they could also save a lot on streetlight power. The glow lasts up to eight hours once powered throughout the day."
2014-04-14,"3 EU Countries Back Ukraine's Use of Force - Sweden, Lithuania, & Luxembourg explicitly back Ukraines right to use force against pro-Russian separatists."
2014-04-14,"Russian TV Propagandists Caught Red-Handed: Same Guy, Three Different People (Spy, Bystander, Heroic Surgeon)"
2014-04-14,"Russia has ~65,000 troops bordering the rest of Ukraine; 40,000 on the Russian Border, 25,000 in Crimea. This is in addition to ""pro-Russian"" armed protesters already in Ukraine; Russia said attempts to expel those pro-Russian forces are ""criminal"" and warned it would ""protect Russian-speakers""."
2014-04-14,"This is war, Ukraine declares as mob ignores ultimatum to surrender, takes police chief prisoner"
2014-04-14,Hong Kong women 'being kept in slave-like conditions in Sydney brothels'
2014-04-14,"Worlds Highest Minimum Wage on Ballot in Switzerland: The Swiss will vote in a national referendum May 18 on whether to create a minimum wage of 22 francs ($25) per hour, or 4,000 francs a month"
2014-04-14,Israel demolishes Bedouin village for 68th time | Palestine
2014-04-14,Anti-Kremlin protest draws thousands in Moscow
2014-04-14,"Ukraine Forces Storm a Town, Defying Russia"
2014-04-14,White House Warns Russia Not to Invade as Biden Plans Ukraine Trip
2014-04-14,"Russia prepared to let tanks roll across borders - German minister: German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel warned on Monday of an escalation of the crisis in Ukraine, saying ""Russia was clearly prepared to allow tanks to roll across European borders""."
2014-04-14,"UN scientists: The world needs to triple the energy it gets from renewables, nuclear reactors, and power plants that use emissions-capture technology to avoid dangerous levels of global warming"
2014-04-14,West approves $3.2 billion package for Ukraine
2014-04-14,World must end 'dirty' fuel use.
2014-04-14,Biggest drug bust in Saudi Arabian History: $267 million US dollars worth of amphetamine. (other source with pictures in comments)
2014-04-14,Japan says it's not decided on whaling in Southern Ocean next year - Tokyo deeply disappointed UN declared its whaling a commercial activity disguised as science. Has filed US court briefs saying it intends to hunt whales 2015-16 with new research program.
2014-04-14,U.S. Troops May be Sent to Eastern Europe
2014-04-14,Ukraine to fight pro-Russia forces
2014-04-14,"The UK, Poland, and Sweden have proposed sending an EU police mission to Ukraine to build up its law enforcement bodies"
2014-04-14,Nigeria: Boko Haram kills at least 60 in new atrocity
2014-04-14,President of Ukraine Turchynov offers to hold referendum on status of Ukraine
2014-04-13,"Journalists who broke NSA story in Guardian, accept, dedicate their George Polk award to Edward Snowden"
2014-04-13,1 Ukraine officer killed and 4 others injured as Ukraine begins Anti-Terrorist operations in East Ukraine
2014-04-13,"Obama Lets N.S.A. Exploit Some Internet Flaws, Officials Say"
2014-04-13,"Women who have sex before marriage should be hanged, says senior politician in India's Socialist Party"
2014-04-13,Canadian mail service to scrap all home deliveries - Older residents angered over cost-cutting decision by Canada Post to make first G20 country without door-to-door service
2014-04-13,"If China invaded the Japan-held Senkaku Islands, U.S. Marines in the Pacific would swiftly recapture them, the commander of marines deployed in Japan assured."
2014-04-13,Major Climate Change Report: averting catastrophe is affordable - Landmark UN analysis concludes catastrophic climate change can be averted without sacrificing living standards. Dismisses fears that slashing carbon emissions would wreck the world economy.
2014-04-13,Ukraine open discussion thread (Sticky post #8)
2014-04-13,Risk of 'gas war' grows as Ukraine halts payments to Russia
2014-04-13,"Japan orders slaughter of 112,000 chickens after H5 strain of bird flu detected"
2014-04-13,US corn exports to China drop 85 percent after ban on GMO strains  industry report
2014-04-13,Mexico prepares 1st illegal drug financing blacklist. Mexico is preparing to implement new regulations that will allow the government to identify individuals and businesses linked to drug trafficking and ban financial firms from doing business with them.
2014-04-13,Egyptian police 'using rape as a weapon' against dissident groups
2014-04-13,"Gerhard Schroeder has admitted that ""like the situation in Crimea,"" the NATO attack on Serbia in 1999 was also a violation of international law."
2014-04-13,Israel's seizure of EU-funded aid projects prompts compensation calls
2014-04-13,South Korea And United States Hold Largest Ever Joint Air Drill
2014-04-13,"Eike Batista, who was Brazil's richest man for most of the past decade, is under investigation by securities industry watchdog CVM for allegedly engaging in insider trading while he chaired his now-bankrupt oil-producing and shipbuilding firms."
2014-04-13,JPMorgan profits fall 19% as mortgage business fades
2014-04-13,Second strong earthquake hits Solomon Islands
2014-04-13,"IDF officer dismissed for approving soldiers' anti-Arab T-shirts: Shirts featured the slogan 'Nablus, we are coming! and warned Arab mothers that their sons fates lay in Israeli soldiers hands."
2014-04-13,Ukraine prepares armed response as city seized by pro-Russia forces
2014-04-13,Ukraine crisis: Kramatorsk shooting reported
2014-04-13,"Just two months before Brazil is to host the World Cup soccer tournament in Rio de Janeiro and other cities, police officers used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse thousands of families, squatting in a complex of abandoned commercial buildings."
2014-04-13,Joe Biden to travel to Ukraine
2014-04-13,Ukraine Links New Attacks in East to 'External Aggression' by Russia
2014-04-12,CIA and White House under pressure after Senate torture report leaks.
2014-04-12,"Armed men dressed in camouflage clothing have seized a police station in eastern Ukraine, officials say."
2014-04-12,UN to summon Kim Jong Un before international court; China says it will veto any action against its ally and may block the summoning.
2014-04-12,"Malaysian military withheld radar data on Flight MH370 as nations searched wrong area, sources say"
2014-04-12,"Around 1,000 Christian and Hindu women in Pakistan are forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men every year, says a report released by Movement for Solidarity and Peace (MSP) on Monday"
2014-04-12,"For Crimea, Google Shows Different Borders Based on Your Location"
2014-04-12,"BEIJING (Reuters)  The governor of Chinas restive far western region of Xinjiang wrote on Monday that Islamist militants were trying to ban laughter at weddings and crying at funerals, as he appealed to people to stamp out the tumor of extremism"
2014-04-12,Mexico Marches Against New Internet Censorship Laws
2014-04-12,Russia aims to have permanent moon base up and running by 2040
2014-04-12,Japanese railway operator to offer maglev tech to US for free- Nikkei Asian Review
2014-04-12,Experimental Hepatitis Drug Cures 95% Patients in Clinical Trial: German Researchers | News Tonight Africa
2014-04-12,"UN voices ""deep concerns"" about Brunei implementing death by stoning for adultery, sodomy, extramarital sexual relations, insulting verses of the Quran and Hadith, blasphemy, declaring oneself a prophet or non-Muslim starting from 22nd of April"
2014-04-12,Russian oil firm says Asian buyers willing to use euros
2014-04-12,Lithuania Dispatches Warship After Claiming Russian Disturbance
2014-04-12,Workers in Samsung semiconductor plants who have developed cancer while working in dangerous conditions are fighting their former employerand their governmentfor compensation.
2014-04-12,Spanish village called kill Jews mulls name change
2014-04-12,Pope Assumes Responsibility for Priest Sex Abuse
2014-04-12,"IPCC report: world must urgently switch to clean sources of energy. Clean energy will have to at least treble in output and dominate world energy supplies by 2050 in order to avoid catastrophic climate change, a UN report is set to conclude on Sunday."
2014-04-12,"BBC News - US refuses visa for Iran's pick for UN Ambassador, due to his involvement in the 1979 U.S. Embassy Raid."
2014-04-12,Ukraine commandos refuse to storm buildings
2014-04-12,"The National Security Agency flatly refuted a report that it has been aware for at least two years about the Heartbleed computer glitch, one of the most significant security flaws in Internet history. ""Reports that say otherwise are wrong, a NSA spokesperson told TIME"
2014-04-12,"Russia's Foreign Ministry is warning that Russians should refrain from traveling abroad because they could be entrapped by US secret services who are actively ""hunting"" for Russians to persecute in punishment for Moscow's recent annexation of Crimea."
2014-04-12,"Former Chief Economist of the BIS: ""I see speculative bubbles like in 2007"""
2014-04-12,"Israeli Hackers Strike Back at Anonymous OpIsrael, Expose Participants With Their Own Webcams"
2014-04-12,"The IMF and World Bank on Friday urged finance ministers to impose a price on carbon, warning that time was running out for the planet to avoid worst-case climate change."
2014-04-11,"China Finds Nearly 2,000 Firms in Breach of Anti-pollution Rules - Ministry trying to improve enforcement by using real-time monitoring that'll give govt regulators direct access to data. To invest 40 billion yuan ($6.45 billion) to boost monitoring capacity."
2014-04-11,Pastafarians rejoice as Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is granted permission to register as a religion in Poland
2014-04-11,'Cherry tree from space' mystery baffles Japan
2014-04-11,"""State of Palestine"" allowed to join Geneva Conventions"
2014-04-11,"Drinking water in China's Lanzhou city unsafe to drink, say authorities - Water in city found to contain levels of benzene, a cancer-inducing chemical, at 20 times above safety levels"
2014-04-11,German Law professors demand cannabis legalization: Over 120 German professors of criminal law are supporting an initiative to legalize cannabis.
2014-04-11,Moscow laying landmines in Ukraine: Kiev
2014-04-11,"Archbishop of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu is saying their is no longer any excuse for not doing everything humanly possible to fight climate change and called on Thursday for an international ""anti-apartheid-style boycott"" against the fossil fuel industry."
2014-04-11,North Korean Defector talks about her struggle getting out of North Korea.
2014-04-11,BBC News -Israel impose tax sanction against Palestinian Authority in retaliation for signing a number of international treaties
2014-04-11,Massive 7.4 earthquake hits Papau New Guinea
2014-04-11,Japan has asked for U.S. President Barack Obama to meet the families of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korean agents when he visits Japan in late April.
2014-04-11,Law professors demand cannabis legalization. Over 120 German professors of criminal law are supporting an initiative to legalize cannabis. They have called on the Bundestag to discuss the issue. Merkel's coalition is skeptical.
2014-04-11,BBC News - Russia TV stations air 'impostor' protester in two guises
2014-04-11,President Vladimir Putin warned European leaders on Thursday Russia would cut natural gas supplies to Ukraine if it did not pay its bills and said this could lead to a reduction of onward deliveries to Europe.
2014-04-11,"NATO released satellite photographs on Thursday showing Russian military equipment, including fighter jets and tanks, that it described as part of a deployment of as many as 40,000 troops near the border with Ukraine."
2014-04-11,"Syrian rebels say that Obama admin pursues ""a dark strategy aimed at prolonging the war"" in Syria"
2014-04-11,"Al-Jazeera trial dismissed as 'joke' - 3 Al-Jazeera journalists are on trial for terrorism in Egypt, prosecutors used video filmed by the defendants, including wildlife scenes and a news conference as evidence"
2014-04-11,"U.N. Report Hints Russia and Its Allies Rigged Crimea's Secession Vote. Activists and critics of Crimea's secession were threatened, detained and tortured."
2014-04-11,The US Department of Energy has blocked access for Russian scientists to its major physics research centers
2014-04-11,"Spain: A human-rights avenger no longer? -- Madrid is trying to end Spain's universal jurisdiction law, which proponents say has helped human rights victims find justice  but has also caused major diplomatic headaches."
2014-04-11,Putin Says Further Violations by Ukraine Will Compel Russia to Cut Off Gas
2014-04-11,Somalia in high speed internet 'culture shock'
2014-04-11,Estimates of illegal and unreported fish in seafood imports to the USA - Between 20% and 32% of wild-caught seafood US imports are illegal
2014-04-11,"Thai Tanker Sinks, Spilling Oily Sludge - It was carrying 40 times the volume of spilled sludge, headed to shore to deliver it to oil recycling facilities. While spill appears small, escaped oil has already fouled coastal fishing areas & mangrove forests."
2014-04-10,Australia rules homeopathic remedies useless
2014-04-10,Burger King Expands Into Crimea After McDonald's Exit
2014-04-10,Satellite images show Russian military hardware and Spetznaz (special forces) massing at Ukrainian border
2014-04-10,Uruguay Wants to Give Marijuana to Prisoners - A leading health official tells UN the country is interested in experimenting with medical marijuana to treat prisoners suffering from cocaine addiction.
2014-04-10,"MH370 Tragedy: Experts confirm pulse signals are from a black box. Air Chief Marshal (Rtd) Angus Houston, said Wednesday the experts... had confirmed that the 33.31 kHz signals were from the flight data recorder of a black box."
2014-04-10,"Last Minute Dash to Keep Big Oil from National Park  In 2007, for US$3.6 billion investment, Ecuador offered world chance to save 10% of all species on earth by keeping bio hot spot from oil. If enough signatures collected by April 12, voters can decide its fate instead of politicians."
2014-04-10,UN piracy experts shot and killed in Somali airport
2014-04-10,"Netherlands Must Criminalize Downloading, EU Court Rules - It can no longer permit its citizens to freely download copyrighted movies & music without paying. Court rules current system of a ""piracy levy"" to compensate rights-holders is unlawful."
2014-04-10,5 banks sued for gold price manipulation
2014-04-10,The biggest swarm of genetically modified mosquitoes ever has been set free in Brazil to combat infectious disease.
2014-04-10,"Portuguese galleon ""Flor de la Mar"", which is estimated to have billions of dollars in gold inside, is reported to be found in Indonesia"
2014-04-10,US troops may be sent to Eastern Europe
2014-04-10,Americas overtake Africa as region with most murders: UN report finds nearly 40% of world's murders were committed in Americas in 2012
2014-04-10,"Russia claims NATO is concerned over an ""imaginary threat"" that Russia does not pose; the Russians counter-accused NATO of using the Ukraine crisis against Russia and also accused NATO of ""Cold War mentality."""
2014-04-10,"UN report details comprehensive country-by-country murder rates. Safest is Singapore, with just one killing per 480,000 people in 2012. In the worlds most violent country, Honduras, a man has a 1 in 9 chance of being murdered during his lifetime."
2014-04-10,"The second Category 5 cyclone to hit Far North Queensland, Australia in 3 years is less than 24hrs away from hitting land. Wish us well!"
2014-04-10,"Britain wasted 600m of taxpayers' money on useless flu pills stockpiled by Government in case of pandemic - ""[the drugs] are no better than paracetamol in relieving flu symptoms and are next to useless in preventing a pandemic."""
2014-04-10,Russian Duma calls for criminal prosecution of Gorbachev for the collapse of the Soviet Union.
2014-04-10,"Plane passengers refuse to put on seatbelts, halt deportation of Iranian man"
2014-04-10,"Tamiflu: Millions wasted on bogus drug, claims major report"
2014-04-10,Russia takes Voice of America radio off air
2014-04-10,Secret WW1 spy files have been made available online
2014-04-10,Netanyahu Orders Israeli Ministers To Stop Meeting Palestinian Counterparts
2014-04-10,Mexico overtakes Japan as No. 2 car exporter to US
2014-04-10,Car bomb detonated outside Bank of Greece in Athens
2014-04-09,Shark fin trade from Hong Kong to China drops almost 90 per cent in one year
2014-04-09,"Carbon Dioxide Levels Climb Into Uncharted Territory for Humans. The amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere has exceeded 402 parts per million (ppm) during the past two days of observations, which is higher than at any time in at least the past 800,000 years"
2014-04-09,German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied access to her own NSA file
2014-04-09,Edward Snowden: Whistleblower 'did complain to NSA' before leaking classified US Government documents
2014-04-09,Iraq ready to legalise childhood marriage
2014-04-09,Ukraine vows to use force if pro-Russian protesters dont leave occupied buildings
2014-04-09,Kim re-elected as North Korean leader
2014-04-09,Turkey reports Russian missile systems radar-locked on its F-16s near Syrian border
2014-04-09,"Voters in South Africa told ""those who receive social welfare grants but vote for opposition political parties are stealing from government"""
2014-04-09,"Ukraine's Jews dismiss claims of antisemitism, say Kiev is not in the hands of Neo-Nazis"
2014-04-09,"Kerry focuses blame on Israel for collapse of talks - ""The prisoners were not released by Israel on the day they were supposed to be released and then another day passed and another day, and then 700 units were approved in Jerusalem and then poof  that was sort of the moment, Kerry said"
2014-04-09,"Syrian insurgents reveal they are using US-made anti-tank missiles. TOWs are likely acquired from regional supporters of the opposition, either Saudi Arabia or Turkey."
2014-04-09,"Pharaonic seal found in ancient coffin in Israel: Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Wednesday a 3,300-year-old coffin containing a signet ring bearing the name of an Egyptian pharaoh among the remains of what they believe was a local nobleman."
2014-04-09,60 People Taken Hostage In Ukraine's East
2014-04-09,Dutch priest who refused to leave Syria assassinated at his monastery
2014-04-09,"""Tensions between China and the United States were on full display on Tuesday [8 April 2014] as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel faced questions in Beijing about America's position in bitter territorial disputes with regional U.S. allies."""
2014-04-09,US accuses Russia of sending spies into eastern Ukraine to 'create chaos'
2014-04-09,"WHO says Ebola outbreak in West Africa one of ""most challenging"""
2014-04-09,"Italy has rescued 4,000 migrants from boats trying to reach European shores in the past 48 hours in a deepening immigration crisis"
2014-04-09,'I Will Tear His Head Off': How the Italian Mafia Is Infiltrating Germany - A trial currently underway in Cologne showcases the extent of the Italian Mob's infiltration of German society and the construction business. Critics claim authorities have been far too lax in cracking down on Mafia activity
2014-04-09,"3rd confirmed North Korean drone found, this time in Samcheok, a town 130 kilometers away from the Border. Drone was found by a herb harvester, who kept his findings to himself until the 2 drones were originally found. North Korea, however, denies involvement."
2014-04-09,India's Mars mission crosses half the distance
2014-04-09,Crimeans Made Homeless by Annexation Seek Solace in Kiev Asylums
2014-04-09,Catalonia independence vote rejected by Spanish MPs
2014-04-09,Nordic countries condemn Russia
2014-04-08,"Swedes to give six-hour workday a go: Municipal staff in Gothenburg will act as guinea pigs in a proposed push for six-hour workdays with full pay, with hopes that it will cut down on sick leave, boost efficiency, and ultimately save Sweden money."
2014-04-08,School in Canada makes non-vaccinated students stay home to halt the spread of measles
2014-04-08,"Ukraine Turmoil Leaves Zoo Animals Starving  Over 6,000 in dire straits. 114-yr-old Nikolaev Zoo survived 2 world wars, but likely not this. Only enough left for carnivores to eat today & tomorrow. Herbivores will last 1 more week. No medical supplies."
2014-04-08,"A man with total amnesia has turned up in Norway. He speaks 4 languages, including Russian, and calls himself John Smith."
2014-04-08,"""No legal means exist to challenge mass surveillance"", says NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden"
2014-04-08,Plane Search Shows World's Oceans Are Full of Trash
2014-04-08,"Leading environmental scientists say Australia's Tony Abbott has engineered, in less than one year in office, and ""environmental train wreck,"" that could potentially cause irreversible damage to some of the world's most fragile ecosystems."
2014-04-08,"Philippine top court approves birth control law: ""The Philippines highest court approved Tuesday a birth control law that supporters said would transform the lives of millions of poor Filipinos, in a stunning defeat for the powerful Catholic Church."""
2014-04-08,Quebec has voted the separatist Parti Quebecois out of office. A new majority government will be formed by the Liberal Party.
2014-04-08,"South Korea, U.S., Japan issue joint warning to North Korea, ""If North Korea goes ahead with another nuclear test, we, along with the international community, will make it pay the price for that"""
2014-04-08,Japan's Biggest Drugmaker Is Hit With $6 Billion Penalty For Concealing Cancer Risks
2014-04-08,Edward Snowdens Testimony to European Parliament on NSA [Full Transcript]
2014-04-08,"Overwhelmed by crime, Argentina declares emergency in Buenos Aires"
2014-04-08,EU top court rules EU data retention law invalid
2014-04-08,Edward Snowden: US government spied on human rights workers
2014-04-08,Liechtenstein bank chief shot dead
2014-04-08,"Ukraine has launched an ""anti-terrorist"" operation in the eastern city of Kharkiv and about 70 ""separatists"" have been arrested for seizing the regional administration building"
2014-04-08,"Ebola still spreading, World Health Organisation expects outbreak to last 2-4 months"
2014-04-08,Anti-semitism on the rise in Europe- Hungarian far-right anti-semitic party wins 20% of the votes
2014-04-08,BBC News - Ukraine crisis: Violent brawl at Kiev parliament
2014-04-08,"EU, Russia, Ukraine and US will hold joint talks in next 10 days, as EU diplomat blames ""Russian lobby"" for lack of action in Europe"
2014-04-08,Polish MP is living in London on 100 a week budget to see why so many Poles prefer Britain to their homeland
2014-04-08,"Tasmanian Forests Set for Logging as Govt Pushes Ahead to Repeal Protection - State plans to tear up historic deal between industry & greens protecting 400,000 hectares of forest, some pristine."
2014-04-08,China has surpassed the USA in porn consumption.
2014-04-08,Ukraine fears 'Crimea scenario' in east
2014-04-07,India losing 70% voice and call centre business to Philippines
2014-04-07,"Norway refuses holiday visa to Russian TV's Dmitry Kiselyov, the anchor who recently said Russia was the only country that could reduce US to radioactive rubble"
2014-04-07,"French organic winegrower fined for refusing to spray grapes with pesticide ""Giboulot refused to comply with the official instructions on crop spraying on the ground that the insecticide caused collateral damage among pollinating insects, including bees."""
2014-04-07,Syria's Assad says political Islam project has failed  there should be no mixing between political and religious work
2014-04-07,"UK: Gay conversion therapy should have no place in NHS, says health minister."
2014-04-07,Artists install massive poster of childs face in Pakistan field to shame drone operators
2014-04-07,"Dmitry Medvedev: If the Americans like to eat GMO products, let them eat it then. We dont need to do that; we have enough space and opportunities to produce organic food, he said."
2014-04-07,"Serious Ebola Outbreak in West Africa, Rumored to be Airborne."
2014-04-07,"North Korea issues warning, ""If a U.S. missile or the South Korean puppet forces' missile falls on any part of the DPRK (North Korea), it will pound all the strongholds of the enemy with merciless shower of missiles to reduce them to ashes"""
2014-04-07,Italian diplomat arrested for child trafficking
2014-04-07,"Russian Soldier Kills Ukrainian Naval Officer in Crimea, Ukraine's Defence Ministry Says."
2014-04-07,Pro-Russian separatists declare east Ukrainian region independent
2014-04-07,"Russia regrets NASA halting cooperation, warns of impact on ISS"
2014-04-07,Russian Court Declares Ban on LGBT Rights Protests Illegal...Appeal to Follow
2014-04-07,Ukraine says Putin behind protesters' seizure of state buildings
2014-04-07,Snowden to Receive Truth-Telling Prize
2014-04-07,Siberia's biggest city turns Red as Communists win mayoral election
2014-04-07,FIFA turns down U.S. request to ban Russia from hosting the 2018 World Cup
2014-04-07,"Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a crackdown on ""destructive"" non-government organisations, saying such groups were behind the mass protests that brought down Ukraine's government."
2014-04-07,Legislature of just proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic asks Putin move in peacekeepers
2014-04-07,Nigeria becomes Africa's biggest economy
2014-04-07,"Rwanda on Sunday told France to face up to the ""difficult truth"" of its role in the 1994 genocide, amid a major diplomatic spat on the eve of commemorations marking the 20th anniversary of the killings."
2014-04-07,China Warns US To Stay Out Of Hong Kong Over Democratic Reform
2014-04-07,Merkel ally says U.S. assurances on NSA spying 'insufficient'
2014-04-07,India to kick off world's biggest election on Monday
2014-04-06,"EU ""unhappy"" with Australia's decision to drop climate change from the G20 agenda"
2014-04-06,"Drone killings case thrown out in US - A US federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the government by the families of three American citizens killed by drones in Yemen, saying senior officials cannot be held personally responsible for money damages for the act of conducting war."
2014-04-06,"Australian public servants will be urged to dob in colleagues posting political criticism of the Abbott government on social media, even if the comments are anonymous, under new Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet guidelines"
2014-04-06,"North Korea wants our television: Under Kim Jong-un, TV is pretty grim. But now the Supreme Leader is considering sampling the delights of Top Gear, Tinky Winky and Doctor Who"
2014-04-06,"BBC: Pro-Russians storm government office in Donetsk, East Ukraine"
2014-04-06,"World's Oldest Decimal Times Table Found in China: The newly deciphered multiplication table, written on bamboo strips dated to 310 B.C., was more sophisticated than earlier versions."
2014-04-06,Uganda police raid HIV project for 'homosexuality training'
2014-04-06,109 killed during Afghan elections
2014-04-06,A Recovering US Is Outpacing Other Major Economies : NPR
2014-04-06,"Ebola virus in Guinea most aggressive, near totally fatal"
2014-04-06,Israeli forces demolish Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem
2014-04-06,US Response to Crimea Worries Japan's Leaders
2014-04-06,Finns have concerns over Russian nuclear power plant
2014-04-06,"Israel warns Palestine of unilateral action: Prime Minister Netanyahu says Israel will take action against the Palestinians, if they press ahead with statehood."
2014-04-06,Massive corruption at Ukraine's Naftogaz funnelled through western banks
2014-04-06,Ebola clinic in Guinea evacuated after attack
2014-04-06,The science spacecraft launched from Virginias coast last year has been orbiting the moon for months and is about to conclude its mission with a crash into the lunar surface.
2014-04-06,Afghanistan presidential election hit by unexpected problem  too many voters.
2014-04-06,"Former ABN Banker, Wife, Daughter Found Dead at Home"
2014-04-06,"In Yemen ""Pentagons armed drones have stopped flying, a result of the ban on American military drone strikes imposed by the government there after a number of botched operations"""
2014-04-06,Far-right youth movement seeks 'Europe of Fatherlands'
2014-04-06,"A rare Ming-era Chinese wine cup, one of only 19 known to exist, could fetch a record US$38 million or more when it goes under the hammer in Hong Kong next week"
2014-04-06,MH370: Australia urged caution after Chinese ship detects pulse in Indian Ocean
2014-04-06,"Lech Wasa, former Poland president: Putin should be tried in The Hague"
2014-04-06,Russian annexation of Crimea alarms Georgia. Russia controls a fifth of Georgian territory following the 2008 conflict in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
2014-04-05,Japan cancels whaling hunt in Antarctic first time for 25 years
2014-04-05,"""The United States on Friday [4 April 2014] criticized proposals to build a European communication network to avoid emails and other data passing through the United States, warning that such rules could breach international trade laws."""
2014-04-05,"China Wants To Close 1,725 Coal Mines By The End Of This Year as one aspect of an effort to get coal down to 65 percent of Chinas energy mix by the end of this year"
2014-04-05,MH370: Chinese search vessels discovers pulse signal in Indian Ocean
2014-04-05,"Afghan voters defy Taliban, cast their ballots for a new president, regional councils - As polls opened amid threats of violence and lingering memories of fraud, Afghan voters turned out on Saturday morning to choose a president who will lead them into the post-American era in Afghanistan"
2014-04-05,Christian couple in eastern Pakistan sentenced to death over 'blasphemous' text message
2014-04-05,"Germany Opens Hearings On NSA Spying, Want To Offer Safe Passage For Snowden To Come To Berlin"
2014-04-05,"Bananageddon: Millions Face Hunger As Deadly Fungus Decimates Global Banana Crop -- ""Disease spreads from Asia to Africa and may already have jumped to crucial plantations in Latin America"""
2014-04-05,"Frances newly elected far-right mayors will re-instate school cafeteria menus featuring pork in the cities they govern, the National Front partys leader, Marine Le Pen, announced on Friday."
2014-04-05,"A volcano just south of Ecuador's capital Quito has erupted, creating a spectacular plume of ash, 10km (six miles) high."
2014-04-05,"Two drug tunnels, with rail systems, found at U.S.-Mexico border"
2014-04-05,North Korea tells world 'wait and see' on new nuclear test
2014-04-05,"Ukraine rejects Russia Gazprom gas price hike ""Ukraine's interim prime minister said the price Russia was demanding was the highest in Europe (raised by 81% to $485.50), and that Ukraine was prepared to continue to buy at the previous rate of $268.50."""
2014-04-05,U.S. will not stand in way of Scottish independence: Salmond
2014-04-05,"Erdogan ""Our national and moral values being disregarded"" as Turkey Court lifts Twitter ban"
2014-04-05,Flooded Solomon Islands hit by 6.0 earthquake. (16 Confirmed deaths)
2014-04-05,"Declassified: Hours after a plane carrying the UN secretary general, Dag Hammarskjld, crashed over central Africa in September 1961, the US ambassador to Congo sent a cable to Washington claiming that the aircraft could have been shot down by a Belgian mercenary pilot."
2014-04-05,"Ukraine servicemen leave Crimea, 8,000 join Russia instead of going back"
2014-04-05,Japan quietly deploys destroyer in response to N. Korea's missile launch.
2014-04-05,"India successfully launches navigation satellite IRNSS-1B, closer to GPS alternative"
2014-04-05,North Korea says US 'hell-bent on regime change'
2014-04-05,"4,500 year-old path discovered near Galway Bay used by Celts"
2014-04-05,Putin Defies Obama in Syria as Arms Fuel Assad Resurgence
2014-04-05,"A Liberian bushmeat trapper who died of Ebola caught the virus despite living far away from the epicentre of the current epidemic in Guinea, raising fears of multiple concurrent outbreaks of the haemorrhagic fever."
2014-04-05,Angry mob attacks Ebola treatment centre in Guinea
2014-04-04,"NASA detects ocean inside Saturn Moon, potential home for extraterrestrial microbes"
2014-04-04,McDonald's Closes Crimea Restaurants - Offers to relocate staff who wish to move to Ukraine.
2014-04-04,Ukraine detains 12 riot police on suspicion of 'mass murder'
2014-04-04,The White House confirms a US government aid agency was behind a text-message service that was allegedly designed to foment unrest in Cuba
2014-04-04,"On Sunday, Nigeria will overtake South Africa and become Africa's biggest economy."
2014-04-04,Russia furious at Hitler comparison - The German finance minister's comparison of Crimea's takeover with the Nazi annexation of Sudetenland in 1938 has incensed Russia. German Chancellor Angela Merkel distanced herself from the statement.
2014-04-04,"CIA torture report: Dianne Feinstein called its findings ""shocking"" and the CIA's behavior ""in stark contrast to our values as a nation"""
2014-04-04,Crimea: no more McDonald's or methadone after annexation: Russia's annexation of Crimea sees shutdown of fast food chain and discontinuation of methadone programme for drug users
2014-04-04,U.S. Pushes Canada to Loosen Privacy Laws
2014-04-04,"North Korean drones are analyzed, they contained pictures of Seoul, military bases in Baekryong island, and the Presidential residence. South Korean military denied their origins in March 24th, when one of the drones were initially found."
2014-04-04,Report: FIFA threatens to expel Israel over restrictions on Palestinians
2014-04-04,Germany opens hearings on U.S. spying
2014-04-04,"Over 10,000 march in Montreal against austerity; pre-election protest was declared illegal as it began"
2014-04-04,Korea's Largest Broadcaster Bans Pop Group Song For Using A Japanese Word
2014-04-04,South Korean Chaebol buying vast swathes of land in Canada to resurrect the extinct Mammoth
2014-04-04,U.S. warns China not to attempt Crimea-style action in Asia
2014-04-04,"Japan's biggest online retailer, Rakuten, ends whale meat sales"
2014-04-04,Turkish court lifts YouTube ban
2014-04-04,"A Mongolian-flagged cargo ship has sunk off the southern coast of South Korea, with most of the 16 North Korean crew members on board missing, and two dead bodies recovered."
2014-04-04,Apparently separate outbreak of Ebola discovered in Liberia; reports of infection spreading to Mali.
2014-04-04,"Canadian-born journalist Kathy Gannon wounded, AP photographer killed on assignment in Afghanistan | CTV News"
2014-04-04,Ocean discovered on Enceladus may be best place to look for alien life
2014-04-04,US allegedly denies VISA to german activist for criticism of the TTIP free-trade agreement.
2014-04-04,"""China should not doubt the U.S. commitment to defend its Asian allies and the prospect of economic retaliation should also discourage Beijing from using force to pursue territorial claims in Asia in the way Russia has in Crimea, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday [3 April 2014]."""
2014-04-04,Cambridge University Press refuses to publish book on Putin and his 'cronies' because of libel fears
2014-04-03,"European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms"
2014-04-03,Australia's government is considering making it illegal to boycott a company for environmental reasons
2014-04-03,"EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roaming charges ""Blocking and throttling Internet traffic will become illegal in the European Union following a parliamentary vote on Thursday ... The package also abolishes roaming charges for mobile phone use in the EU."""
2014-04-03,"Massive 7.8 earthquake (aftershock of yesterdays 8.2 quake) just hit 40km from Iquique, Chile. Damage and injuries are very likely to occur. [Live updates in article]"
2014-04-03,Norwegian skydiver almost hit by a meteorite (caught on tape)
2014-04-03,US secretly created 'Cuban Twitter' to stir unrest and undermine government
2014-04-03,"US Food Aid Already Being Sold on Black Market Websites in Ukraine - US sent 300,000 food rations to the Ukrainian army, some of which are now going for a dollar a meal on the web."
2014-04-03,NASA suspends collaboratation with Russia (except for ISS) over the situation in Ukraine
2014-04-03,Russia signs economic development and trade deal with North Korea
2014-04-03,North Korean intelligence official tells of aborted coups and assassination attempts: One of only a handful of North Korean intelligence officials ever to have escaped the country paints a dark portrait of plotting and factions in Pyongyang
2014-04-03,"Billionaire Ukrainian industrialist indicted in Chicago on bribery charges for ""participating in an international racketeering conspiracy involving at least $18.5 million in bribes to government officials in India to allow the mining of titanium minerals"""
2014-04-03,"1/4 of Europe's Bumblebees, Vital to Crops, Face Extinction"
2014-04-03,NATO's Europe plans alarm Russia.
2014-04-03,"Majority of Russians and Americans View Each Other's Country Negatively, Polls Show"
2014-04-03,Syria says Russia re-establishing multipolar world
2014-04-03,Switzerland snubs U.S. effort to sanction Russian billionaires
2014-04-03,Saudi Arabia labels atheists as terrorists
2014-04-03,"South Africa's government will distribute coloured and flavoured condoms among students to end ""condom fatigue"", the health minister has said."
2014-04-03,"Iran, Russia working to seal $20 bln oil-for-goods deal - sources"
2014-04-03,The FBI has completed of review of the in-home flight simulator that belonged to the captain of the missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet and found nothing suspicious whatsoever.
2014-04-03,"Despite having been given $50 million in aid by Russia back in 2009, in retaliation for Russia taking over Crimea, the tiny Pacific microstate of Tuvalu scrapped its recognition of the Russian protectorates of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and established diplomatic relations with Georgia."
2014-04-03,"South Korea investigates two suspected North Korean drones, containing a camera which has aerial pictures of Seoul and military bases along the west of the border"
2014-04-03,"Mexico's government has taken down almost the entire leadership of one of the country's most vicious drug cartels, but it can barely savor victory amid rising violence around the capital"
2014-04-03,"Armed men abduct Chinese, Philippine women from Malaysia resort: reports"
2014-04-03,Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson banned from flying to US after admitting drug use
2014-04-02,An 8.0 magnitude earthquake has struck offshore Northern Chile - Live coverage inside.
2014-04-02,Japan Halts Whaling Program in Response to International Court Ruling
2014-04-02,Putin Divorces Wife after 30 Years
2014-04-02,A suspected World War II bomb exploded in the Thai capital as scrap metal workers tried to cut it open with a blow torch
2014-04-02,March Was First Month Without U.S. Fatalities in Iraq or Afghanistan In 11 Years
2014-04-02,"MPs criticise BBC over climate change reporting. ""Some editors appear to be particularly poor at determining the level of scientific expertise of contributors in debates, for instance, putting up lobbyists against top scientists as though their arguments on the science carry equal weight."""
2014-04-02,Exxon Mobil says climate change unlikely to stop it selling fossil fuels: oil giant issues report on risks that climate policies could pose to the value of its assets and future profitability
2014-04-02,Bombs explode outside of Cairo University
2014-04-02,"Pro-gov suppliers, not cats, cut off electricity on election night in Turkey"
2014-04-02,"Researchers testing a real-life human-to-dolphin translator have reported the first successful use of their technology in the wild, with a bottlenose dolphin pointing out a piece of nearby seaweed to a scientist in the water."
2014-04-02,"Ukraine crisis: Poland asks Nato to station 10,000 troops on its territory"
2014-04-02,"Ebola virus has spread from Guinea into Liberia and possibly Sierra Leone, as well as Guinea's capital, Conakry, which has a population of two million people. Senegal has closed its land border with Guinea."
2014-04-02,Turkey's Riot Police Use Water Cannons on Vote Fraud Protesters
2014-04-02,"A newspaper editor in Vologda posted a tongue-in-cheek letter to Putin, asking him to help topple the Russian city's 'corrupt oppressors.' He now faces 6 years in prison under charges of extremism."
2014-04-02,"Ousted Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych: Crimea a part of Ukraine: Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraines ousted president, calls Russias annexation of Crimea a tragedy and says he hopes the Black Sea peninsula can come back under Ukraines fold someday."
2014-04-02,Bulgaria wary as Russia steps up military flights over Black Sea
2014-04-02,"Russia's Last Independent TV Channel Is Fighting For Its Life, Asks For Help to Raise Funds"
2014-04-02,"Turkish Constitutional Court ruled that Twitter ban is unconstitutional  The high court issued same ruling, deeming the ban unlafwul, one week ago, only to be dismissed by the Turkish government"
2014-04-02,"Russia has threatened to retaliate against US diplomatic missions after JPMorgan Chase blocked a money transfer from a Russian embassy, in the clearest political fallout so far from sanctions imposed over the annexation of Crimea last month"
2014-04-02,Amnesty Reports Dozens of Venezuela Torture Accounts
2014-04-02,Five days of rowdy protests in a southern Chinese city against a planned chemical plant have forced the authorities onto the back foot and underscored that breakneck economic growth no longer rides roughshod over public opinion in the world's second largest economy.
2014-04-02,"Evacuations as Peru volcano rumbles to life, occurs just hours before 8.0 earthquake near Chile"
2014-04-02,"1/4 of Europe's Bumblebee Species Risk Extinction: Largely because of climate change & intensive farming, says the International Union for Conservation of Nature."
2014-04-02,"China ""prefers to negotiate with countries individually, rather than in international forums"", accounting for Chinese action in Pacific. China says it was ""provoked"" by Philippines' request for UN arbitration- calls international dispute resolution ""illegal and unreasonable""."
2014-04-02,Nigeria: Muslims torch Christian church
2014-04-01,Opposition ballots found in trash bags in southern Turkey
2014-04-01,Mexican marines kill leader of Knights Templar drug cartel
2014-04-01,"Saudi Arabia Doubles Down on Atheism; New Laws Declares It Equivalent to Terrorism -- ""non-believers are assumed to be enemies of the Saudi state"""
2014-04-01,Lithuania bans Russian TV station over 'lies'
2014-04-01,"New Leaks Show NSA, GCHQ Infiltrating Private German Companies"
2014-04-01,Germany returns art stolen by Nazis in 1939 to Poland
2014-04-01,"Chinas high-speed rail is so popular, its hurting the domestic airline industry."
2014-04-01,British sniper in Afghanistan kills six Taliban with one bullet
2014-04-01,"Lufthansa pilots strike. 3,800 flights cancelled."
2014-04-01,"Russia warns Kiev against NATO integration: Russia warned Ukraine against integration with NATO on Tuesday, saying Kiev's previous attempts to move closer to the defence alliance had had unwelcome consequences."
2014-04-01,Campaign calls for Paris love locks to be banned. An estimated 700K padlocks now attached to locations across French capital; weight could risk structural integrity of the citys architecture.
2014-04-01,US accuses China of provoking Philippines
2014-04-01,"Nato plans stronger military ties to ex-Soviet states: Ministers consider joint exercises with Azerbaijan, Armenia and Moldova after annexation of Crimea"
2014-04-01,"Ocean Garbage Thwarts Flight 370 Search - ""The ocean is like a plastic soup, bulked up with the croutons of these larger items. It's like a toilet bowl that swirls but doesn't flush."" Australian PM pledges search will continue indefinitely, despite obstacles."
2014-04-01,"'Torture was not essential to find bin Laden, US Senate report will find"
2014-04-01,Ukraine crisis: No sign of Russian troop pullout - Nato
2014-04-01,Afghanistan: 7 militants blown up while making roadside bombs in mosque
2014-04-01,"Gazprom hikes Ukraine gas price by a third: ""The company's CEO says the change was because Kiev has failed to pay its bills. ... the price of Russian gas for Ukraine has gone up to $385.5 per 1,000 cubic metres in the second quarter of 2014 from the previous rate of $268.5."""
2014-04-01,"Ehud Olmert, former Israeli prime minister, found guilty of bribery: Israel's former prime minister is expected to go to jail after a judge convicted of him of receiving 190,000 in bribes and accused him of lying in court"
2014-04-01,The potential threats posed by coal and natural gas projects to the Great Barrier Reef are sparking everything from lawsuits to tweets from Hollywood stars. Theyre also prompting close scrutiny from investors as a global campaign against fossil fuels gains momentum.
2014-04-01,"To replace drone strikes, US to give Yemen Hellfire-armed crop dusters"
2014-04-01,"Unidentified drone crashed on South Korean border island, suspected to be of North Korean origin"
2014-04-01,Russia Raises Salaries and Pensions for Crimeans
2014-04-01,U.S. ambassador to India resigns after diplomatic row
2014-04-01,Journalists increasingly under fire from hackers: Google researchers show 21 out of 25 top news organizations hit by state-sponsored attacks.
2014-03-31,The UN's International Court of Justice has ruled that Japan's Antarctic whaling programme is not for scientific purposes
2014-03-31,BBC News - North and South Korea exchange fire across western sea border
2014-03-31,"10,000-year-old settlement found in Cork"
2014-03-31,NSA Infiltrated RSA Security More Deeply Than Thought
2014-03-31,Germany ready to reinforce Nato-Russia borders
2014-03-31,World court says Japan's Antarctic whaling program is not for scientific purposes
2014-03-31,"No proof torture helped US find Osama bin Laden, Senate report concludes"
2014-03-31,"Israel bulldozes Palestinian homes, mosque"
2014-03-31,"Silk Road closure fails to dampen illegal drug sales online, experts say"
2014-03-31,"India creates own drug to treat gangrene, to be available in a year"
2014-03-31,Members of the UN's climate panel say that their report provides overwhelming evidence of the scale of global warming
2014-03-31,UN court rules against Japan whaling
2014-03-31,Obama weighs sending shoulder-fired missiles to Syrian rebels
2014-03-31,"Moving quickly to envelop Crimea in the Russian bureaucracy and economy, the Kremlin announced plans on Monday to nearly double retirement pensions paid to the elderly on the peninsula, raising them to the average levels paid in Russia."
2014-03-31,South African President Jacob Zuma refuses to pay back hundreds of millions on upgraded personal residence
2014-03-31,Poland seeks to avoid Russian 'gas blackmail'
2014-03-31,"Russia returns captured submarine to Ukraine, says that sub stopped being relevant on the battlefield since the 80-s. Sub will have to be towed to Ukraninan side by tugboat."
2014-03-31,"Russian Deputy Prime Minister tweets photo in Crimea saying, ""Crimea is ours, and thats that."""
2014-03-31,2 Morsi supporters sentenced to death. They are accused of throwing a kid and a young man off a building in Alexandria.
2014-03-31,Pilots daughter says UK tabloid made up MH370 report
2014-03-31,"Health authorities in Guinea are facing an ""unprecedented epidemic"" of Ebola, an international aid group warned Monday as the death toll from the disease that causes severe bleeding reached 78."
2014-03-31,"India, Russia sign Rs 2,600 crore (USD 430 million) deal for anti-tank ammunition"
2014-03-31,Ebola outbreak spreads to Liberia after killing 70 in Guinea
2014-03-31,Germany Mulls Military Support for NATO's Eastern European States
2014-03-31,MH370: Hopes dashed as orange objects turn out to be fishing equipment
2014-03-30,"British experts say they have found London's lost Black Death graves: Archaeologists in Britain have solved a 660-year-old mystery, citing DNA tests which they said proved they had found a lost burial site for tens of thousands of people killed in medieval London by the ""Black Death"" plague."
2014-03-30,"Pope Francis 'stuns' congregation by confessing to an 'ordinary' priest: In a move that was described as ""bold"" and even ""noteworthy"" by some, Pope Francis has stunned a congregation by confessing his sins to an ordinary priest in full view of St. Peter's Basilica."
2014-03-30,Turkey started hijacking IP addresses for popular Global DNS providers
2014-03-30,"Black Death Was Not Spread by Rat Fleas - Evidence from skulls in London shows plague had to have been airborne to spread so fast & kill so quickly, making it a pneumonic plague rather than a bubonic one."
2014-03-30,Brunei brings in system of Islamic law with punishments that include the dismemberment of limbs and stoning to death
2014-03-30,Vladimir Putin 'Wants to Regain Finland' Says Close Adviser
2014-03-30,Rio Looks Like A War Zone As Troops Raid Slums Only Months Before The World Cup
2014-03-30,"On Eve of Turkish Elections, Google Confirms DNS Service Intercepted"
2014-03-30,"In a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Hamid Karzai accused Pakistan of being behind a recent series of attacks and of blocking his government from striking a peace deal with the Taliban"
2014-03-30,Office of Outgoing JPMorgan Asia CEO Raided By Hong Kong's Commission Against Corruption
2014-03-30,Fifth Brazilian World Cup construction worker dies after falling 25ft while installing seats
2014-03-30,Crimea sets clocks to Moscow time
2014-03-30,"Biggest Threat to Japan Whaling isn't Environmentalists, but Declining Appetites - Due to a lack of buyers, stockpiled whale meat has doubled. Over 2,300 minke whales worth of meat is sitting in freezers, yet whalers still plan to catch another 1,300 whales a yr."
2014-03-30,Philippines sues China over sea claims: lawsuit says China has no 'historical rights' to a section of South China Sea.
2014-03-30,"UN Science Report: Warming Worsens Security Woes - top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees."
2014-03-30,Putin gives green light to sale of S-400 missile system to ChinaPoliticsNewsWantChinaTimes.com
2014-03-30,"Boy, 14, told reporters he was stripped, spit on and beaten by Israeli soldiers during interrogation"
2014-03-30,Guinea battles to contain Ebola as Senegal closes its border
2014-03-30,"Slovak tycoon Kiska, who has no previous political experience, wins presidency"
2014-03-30,"China seizes $14.5 billion assets from family, associates of ex-security chief - sources"
2014-03-30,Archaeologists Delicately Dig Up Nazi Death Camp Secrets at Treblinka
2014-03-30,Mexico finds 370 abandoned immigrant children
2014-03-30,North Korea To UN On Human Rights: 'Mind Your Own Business'
2014-03-30,Crowds gather in Crimean capital Simferopol to celebrate as their clocks move two hours forward to Moscow time.
2014-03-30,One million people have been forced out of their homes by S Sudan conflict
2014-03-29,"Thorium: a safer nuclear power - China last week announced it was going to speed up its research and development of ""fourth generation"" so-called molten salt reactors that can run on thorium. It aims to have one operational in 10 years instead of 25 years"
2014-03-29,Gay marriage to become legalised at midnight tonight in England and Wales
2014-03-29,A Philippine government ship has slipped past a Chinese coast guard blockade and brought food and fresh troops to a marooned navy ship used as a base by Filipino troops to bolster the country's territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea
2014-03-29,Mozilla staff call for new CEO to stand down over donation to anti-gay marriage campaign
2014-03-29,Google and Facebook get sued over their incomprehensible privacy policies
2014-03-29,Russian fighter jets light up Finnish sky
2014-03-29,Putin Calls Obama to discuss Ukraine
2014-03-29,"North Korean rockets contain American, British, South Korean parts, UN finds"
2014-03-29,Der Spiegel: NSA Put Merkel on List of 122 Targeted Leaders
2014-03-29,Russia has 'absolutely no intention' of crossing Ukraine border: Lavrov
2014-03-29,"Huawei on NSA: If foreign spies attacked a US firm, thered be outrage - Chinese tech company still trying to track down NSA infiltration"
2014-03-29,"Over U.S. objection, U.N. Human Rights Council votes to probe legality of drone strikes."
2014-03-29,"Ireland: Judge sparks controversy after saying that ""Muslims feel they can actually beat their wives"""
2014-03-29,A ruling at The Hague on Japans whaling activity in the Antarctic Ocean Monday may mark the end of an era - Japan has subsidized a robust whaling program since 1987under the auspices of a research project. The decision comes when demand for whale meat in Japan is in decline
2014-03-29,Major Taliban attack underway now near the election commission in Kabul Afghanistan
2014-03-29,First-Ever Excavation Reveals Horrors of Nazi Death Camp
2014-03-29,Crimean Tatars offer orthodox priests of the Kyivan Patriarchate to conduct services at mosques in case of being forced out by Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate
2014-03-29,Russia Completes Military Takeover of Crimea
2014-03-29,Canadian Inuit post 'sealfies' in protest over Ellen DeGeneres' Oscar-night selfie | Film
2014-03-29,"Despite 2nd Turkish court ruling in favour of Twitter, access remains blocked"
2014-03-29,Russia to hand over to Ukraine 350 armoured and motor vehicles
2014-03-29,MH370: objects bearing colours of missing plane seen in new search zone
2014-03-29,EU's Ashton denounces radicals' pressure on Ukraine parliament
2014-03-29,How a Chinese Tech Firm Became the NSA's Surveillance Nightmare
2014-03-29,Putin: Russia to record holders of dual citizenship
2014-03-28,"UN Slams US for torture, NSA spying"
2014-03-28,Russia to raise price of Ukrainian gas 80%
2014-03-28,UK Government: DVD and CD ripping will be legalized this summer
2014-03-28,"Ukraine says 100,000 Russian troops near border"
2014-03-28,"Russia is ""growing concerned"" about well-being of Germans, Czechs, Hungarians and other minorities in Ukraine."
2014-03-28,"A senior military academic is warning Europe is staring down the barrel of its biggest war since 1945. And it could start in days, as Russian forces mass on the border with Ukraine"
2014-03-28,Sochi Resembles a Ghost Town Just Weeks after Olympics
2014-03-28,"Russia agrees to turn over some weapons, military equipment in Crimea to Ukraine"
2014-03-28,"If Wolves are Protected in France, Why are They Being Hunted? - Wolves were originally hunted to extinction by farmers in France back in the 1930s. In 1992 a mating pair crossed the border from Italy. It is now estimated there are around 300 individuals in 25 packs across France."
2014-03-28,WHO declares India a polio-free nation
2014-03-28,"Russian Border Buildup Stokes Worries - ""Russian troops massing near Ukraine are actively concealing their positions and establishing supply lines that could be used in a prolonged deployment."""
2014-03-28,Recording posted on YouTube in which officials heard discussing plot to establish a justification for military strikes in Syria rattles Turkey.
2014-03-28,Obama urges Russia to pull back troops from Ukrainian border
2014-03-28,U.S. Tries To Stop India's Solar Policy While Pushing Fight Against Climate Change
2014-03-28,Turkey YouTube Ban: Full Transcript of Leaked Syria 'War' Conversation (FALSE Flag Plan) Between Erdogan Officials
2014-03-28,"Denmark offers F-16 patrols to Baltic states, in response to Russian incursion."
2014-03-28,Pentagon: Russian Forces on Ukraine's Border Not Conducting Routine Exercises
2014-03-28,"Kenya: Muslim MP says ""homosexuality just as serious as terrorism"""
2014-03-28,"World's Biggest Coal Company, World's Biggest PR Firm Pair Up To Promote Coal For Poor People. In the 1990s, Burson-Marsteller was involved in forming a ""smoker's rights"" front group known as the National Smokers Alliance, funded by the tobacco industry"
2014-03-28,Norway's Former Premier Jens Stoltenberg to Be New Chief of NATO
2014-03-28,Pakistani Christian gets death in blasphemy case
2014-03-28,"'The Guardian' reporting of Snowden leaks threatened with closure, conference told"
2014-03-28,President Obama announces plan to dismantle NSA phone record database | The Verge
2014-03-28,Yanukovich calls for referendum on each Ukrainian region
2014-03-28,Turkish foreign minister calls Syria security leak a declaration of war
2014-03-27,Turkey bans YouTube
2014-03-27,"Estonias President suggestion on how to deal with Russia: go after the Kremlins banks like youd go after a terrorists, question the legitimacy of Russian passports, and never doubt Putins taste for territory."
2014-03-27,"Catholic bishop who blew $300,000 on a fish tank and $900,000 on LED lighting blames his deputy for lavish spending"
2014-03-27,"Prepare for War in 2015, Kim Jong-un Tells Officers"
2014-03-27,"In Turkey, leaked recording surfaces on Syria war policy"
2014-03-27,G7 warns Russia of more sanctions if Ukraine crisis escalates
2014-03-27,Monsanto Forced to Withdraw Unsubstantiated Advertising Claims on Benefits of GM Crops in South Africa
2014-03-27,"Barack Obama, the US president, has expressed concerned about cutbacks in European defence spending, telling NATO members in Brussels that ""everyone has to be chipping in"" to defend the continent's borders, sovereignty and territorial integrity."
2014-03-27,"Dwarf planet discovery hints at a hidden Super Earth in solar system - The body, which orbits the sun at a greater distance than any other known object, may be shepherded by an unseen planet"
2014-03-27,Japanese court has decided to release a man on death row for more than 30 years in a high-profile murder case based on new DNA evidence.
2014-03-27,Liberia declares Ebola outbreak a national emergency
2014-03-27,Soyuz rocket carrying expedition 39 to the ISS has had technical difficulties. An engine burn did not occur as planned and the 6 hour trip will now take 2 days
2014-03-27,South Korea Seizes North Korean Boat Amid New Tensions
2014-03-27,"World now 80% polio free, World Health Organization says: The World Health Organization has declared its South East Asia region polio-free. The certification is being hailed a ""historic milestone"" in the global fight to eradicate the deadly virus."
2014-03-27,North Korea Calls South Korean President 'Blabbering Peasant Woman' In Unhinged Rant
2014-03-27,Swiss decide against Russian sanctions
2014-03-27,Obama Defends Iraq Invasion: At Least America 'Sought' To Get UN Backing
2014-03-27,(Norway)Planned military activities with Russia suspended
2014-03-27,UN Human Rights Committee Says International Human Rights Treaty Applies to US Worldwide Surveillance
2014-03-27,"IMF agrees to $14-18 billion bailout for Ukraine, to rise to $27 billion over the next two years."
2014-03-27,Russian officials dump iPads over spy fears
2014-03-27,Canadian Mayor Rob Ford Says Scandals are Old News During Debate - Says people no longer interested in the drug scandal surrounding him after the front-runners trying to replace him said he has embarrassed Toronto & ruined its reputation
2014-03-27,Ukraine agrees to 50% gas price hike: Ukraine's interim gov't says it will raise gas prices for domestic consumers by 50% in an effort to secure an IMF aid package. An official at Naftogaz state energy company said the price rise would come in on 1 May ... further rises would be scheduled until 2018
2014-03-27,Pakistan court sentences Christian man to death for blasphemy
2014-03-27,Black money: India threatens to take action against Switzerland
2014-03-26,"Brazil passes Internet governance Bill: Brazil has made history with the approval of a post-Snowden Bill which sets out principles, rights and guarantees for Internet users."
2014-03-26,"Kenya to use drones to fight elephant, rhino poachers"
2014-03-26,"Icelanders can now each claim $400 worth of Auroracoin, the country's new digital currency ""The goal is to decentralize power and revive Iceland's local economy, given that the kroner has fallen dramatically in value in recent years. Iceland was hard hit by the 2008 global financial crisis ..."""
2014-03-26,"As Turkey censors Internet, Tor adds 10,000 new users per day - Turkeys online censorship and banning of Twitter is fueling mass adoption of Tor, the most popular anonymity network online, as a tool to circumvent government obstruction"
2014-03-26,"The head of Russia's largest bank, the state owned Sberbank, has warned that Russia is now at risk of recession"
2014-03-26,"Guardian threatened with closure over Snowden leaks, conference told."
2014-03-26,Pope Francis has formally accepted the resignation of a senior German Church leader suspended over his alleged lavish spending.
2014-03-26,Ukrainian Women Have Launched a Sex Strike Against Russian Men
2014-03-26,Swedish hotel denies breakfast to Roma guest | A Swedish expert invited by the government to speak at the release of its white paper on Roma discrimination was on Tuesday denied entry to the breakfast room at Stockholm's Sheraton hotel. She had to drink her coffee in the lobby.
2014-03-26,"Female polio vaccinator, mother of 5, has been found dead after being kidnapped and tortured in Peshawar, Pakistan."
2014-03-26,The Ecuadorian lawyer representing small farmers trying to force Chevron to pay damages for pollution in the Amazon rainforest says he has received death threats
2014-03-26,"NSA, FBI, DIA Sued over Refusal to Disclose U.S. Role in Imprisonment of Nelson Mandela"
2014-03-26,"A Contiguous 12-Country Coalition is Building the 'Great Green Wall of Africa' to span 5,000 Miles Across the Continent and Slow Desertification"
2014-03-26,Something rotten in the Metropolitan Police: Corrupt officers may escape justice thanks to mass shredding of evidence
2014-03-26,Comet lander set to wake up: A fridge-sized robot lab hurtling through the Solar System aboard a European probe is about to wake from hibernation and prepare for the first-ever landing by a spacecraft on a comet.
2014-03-26,New York Times report: Pakistani officials knew about bin Ladens whereabouts
2014-03-26,India tests new underwater nuclear missile
2014-03-26,Russian military holds exercises in breakaway Moldova region
2014-03-26,Catalonia independence vote ruled unconstitutional
2014-03-26,"The war in Syria is not only a war without end. It is a war without international humanitarian law - statistics tell their own story. Out of a population of 22 million, 9 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes. 130,000 are dead"
2014-03-26,"Missing plane hunt for 'new objects': A further 122 objects potentially from missing Malaysian flight identified by satellite, Malaysian minister says. The images, taken on 23 March, showed objects up to 23m (75 ft) in length, he said."
2014-03-26,"Ebola Outbreak in Guinea is Suspected to be the Deadly Zaire Strain, Which Kills Approximately 80 Percent of Hosts"
2014-03-26,The Russian Navy Now Controls Ukraine's Combat Dolphin Program
2014-03-26,Greece seeks war reparations from Berlin  Move to claim $7bn awarded to Greece in 1946 over Nazi crimes comes amid growing anti-German sentiments over austerity
2014-03-26,War without weapons: Russia singles out Canada over tough line
2014-03-25,Solar Power Is Now Just As Cheap As Conventional Electricity In Italy And Germany
2014-03-25,Russian thugs beat up St Patricks flashmob after mistaking it for gay activists
2014-03-25,"U.S., other powers kick Russia out of G8"
2014-03-25,"Jimmy Carter: ""I have become convinced that the most serious and unaddressed worldwide challenge is the deprivation and abuse of women and girls."""
2014-03-25,"Australia, Tony Abbot says, has too much locked-up forest. Mr Abbott wants to open up a swathe of Australias most fought-over forest and hand it to loggers."
2014-03-25,Qatar 2022 World Cup expected to take more lives than 9/11
2014-03-25,Ukraine to take Russia to the International Court...
2014-03-25,"Head of Public Relations for the 2022 Qatar World Cup sent an angry letter to Deadspin regarding their ""Report: Qatars World Cup will Take More Lives Than 9/11"" article"
2014-03-25,Bloomberg editor quits over China story. Editors did not publish an investigative article on Chinese elites due to fears that Bloomberg would be expelled from the country. Bloomberg relies heavily on sales of its financial data terminals in the country.
2014-03-25,Genocidal War in Darfur Revealed in New Satellite Photos - Latest images taken from space are grim indeed.
2014-03-25,UK To Start Buying Gas From Russia Despite Threats Of Sanctions Over Crimea
2014-03-25,Most Face Masks In China Don't Work And Pollution Is Getting Worse
2014-03-25,"Sweden has designed a warplane so sophisticated it is being heralded as the world's first ""sixth-generation"" fighter."
2014-03-25,Russian TV Anchor Accuses Jews Of Bringing Holocaust On Themselves
2014-03-25,Russia Gets Ready for Life Without Visa and MasterCard
2014-03-25,UN calls on Turkey to stop blocking Twitter
2014-03-25,"Russia's Economy Ministry releases expected first quarter figures. GDP growth of ""around zero"", 7% inflation, capital flight of $65-70 billion. Mostly due to lost investor confidence, not sanctions."
2014-03-25,WHO Report: 1 in 8 of all global deaths in 2012 was linked to polluted air
2014-03-25,More Allies Are Cutting Orders for the Pentagon's Costly New Fighter Jet
2014-03-25,"Russia offers India crude oil supplies, stakes in blocks in the Barents Sea (Arctic Ocean)"
2014-03-25,G-7 to hold June summit in Brussels instead of G-8 meeting in Russia
2014-03-25,Time to grab guns and kill damn Russians  Tymoshenko in leaked audio recording
2014-03-25,'I have been beaten': The Uzbek president's daughter smuggles a letter to the BBC
2014-03-25,UK: HMRC criticised for using terror laws against tax whistleblower | Public accounts committee chair says tax official's use of powers to track down journalist had 'shocked her to the bones'.
2014-03-25,Egyptian television celebrates mass death sentence
2014-03-24,Egypt court sentences 529 to death
2014-03-24,"Malayisan PM: ""Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean"""
2014-03-24,"Russia ready to annex Moldova region, Nato commander claims"
2014-03-24,Norway's army is making women share bedrooms with their male colleagues. This has led to a drop in reports of sexual harassment
2014-03-24,Two more colossal pharaoh statues unveiled in Egypt
2014-03-24,Poll shows half of Finns would support a military union with Sweden
2014-03-24,MI5 warns British officials to beware of Russian 'honey traps' as relations worsen over Ukraine
2014-03-24,Pope Francis announces the first eight members of a new 'commission for safeguarding minors.' One was abused by a priest in the 1960s and has become a prominent activist working to hold the church accountable.
2014-03-24,Russia slams Germany for halting arms deal
2014-03-24,Turkey becomes first country ever to ban Google DNS (x-post from /r/Turkey)
2014-03-24,China is now claiming parts of Indonesia as its sovereign territory.
2014-03-24,Japan to Let U.S. Assume Control of Nuclear Cache
2014-03-24,Ukraine fears Russian invasion imminent
2014-03-24,Chinese man jailed after he applied for permission to protest on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
2014-03-24,"India Beats The Odds, Beats Polio: ""Rukhsar Khatoon is... a last in a country of 1.2 billion people. Rukhsar, 4, is the final documented case of polio in India."""
2014-03-24,"Ebola outbreak in Guinea kills dozens, spreads to capital"
2014-03-24,"Hamid Karzai announces support for Russia's annexation of Crimea, making Afghanistan the third country (after Syria & Venezuela) to publicly back Russia's actions."
2014-03-24,"As many as 32,000 kids infected with drug-resistant TB: report"
2014-03-24,Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde to run for European Parliament from Finland
2014-03-24,"Students storm the Executive Yuan (executive branch of gvmt.), an escalation of events surrounding the protest of the Trade Agreement with China, one of the biggest student movements to date in Taiwan."
2014-03-24,Brazil set to send army into Rio slums as violence escalates before World Cup
2014-03-24,MH370: Australian ship trying to recover 'objects' - live updates
2014-03-24,Norwegian ex-PM to be next NATO Secretary General
2014-03-24,Russia moves in to take over a 3rd military base in Crimea
2014-03-24,Anti-Chinese propaganda on display at North Korean military academy
2014-03-23,Germans seize cocaine addressed to Vatican
2014-03-23,"Storms uncover 7,500-year-old drowned forest on Irelands west coast"
2014-03-23,"In non-binding poll, Venice votes 89% in favour of cutting ties with Italy and forming their own state."
2014-03-23,Nato warns of Russian army build-up on Ukraine border
2014-03-23,Drug dealers in Mexico 'made to eat children's hearts' to prove their loyalty to Knights Templar leader El Chayo
2014-03-23,"Revelations of NSA spying cost US tech companies: Microsoft has lost customers, including the government of Brazil. IBM is spending more than $1 billion to build data centres overseas to reassure foreign customers that their information is safe from prying eyes in the US government."
2014-03-23,Snowden documents reveal NSA breached servers of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei
2014-03-23,"Turkish PM Erdogan: ""I don't understand how people of good sense could defend this Facebook, YouTube and Twitter"""
2014-03-23,Canadian PM says he'll push for Russia's expulsion from the G8
2014-03-23,Visa and MasterCard block Russian bank customers
2014-03-23,3-Eyed Fish Drawing Attention to Raw Sewage & Toxic Pollution in the Great Lakes Basin of Ontario - It's the largest freshwater ecosystem on earth. And its under attack.
2014-03-23,Czech Republic ready to deploy its air force in protection of Eastern European countries
2014-03-23,"In Unprecedented Move, 5 Govts Make Pact to Protect Threatened Sargasso Sea  For 1st time, the worlds only sea without coasts will be protected from pollution, ship traffic, overfishing, & illegal activities. This scale of action is unprecedented either on land or in the sea."
2014-03-23,Guinea confirms Ebola as source of deadly epidemic
2014-03-23,"Drug-resistant TB a ""global health security risk,"" WHO says"
2014-03-23,Pakistan erased an entire International New York Times cover story
2014-03-23,Obama will meet Xi Jinping of China in attempt to isolate Russia over Ukraine
2014-03-23,"The Russian Navy said Saturday that it took over Ukraines only submarine, based in Sevastopol, Crimea"
2014-03-23,Poland calls for larger U.S. military presence in eastern Europe
2014-03-23,Government intervenes at school 'taken over by Muslim radicals
2014-03-23,Adolfo Surez dies. First president of the Spanish democracy.
2014-03-23,Australian PM: Civilian aircraft gets first direct sighting of debris found in search for missing jet
2014-03-23,Russia to Europe: We can do whatever we want
2014-03-23,Swedish foreign minister: Twitter ban is stupid
2014-03-23,Danish Minister Mogens Jensen to Uganda's Prime Minister: What would you say if it was forbidden to be black?
2014-03-22,Turks graffiti 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 - Google's public DNS servers to help people evade the Twitter ban
2014-03-22,Explosions and shots heard as Russian forces storm Ukrainian airforce base in Crimea.
2014-03-22,Michelle Obama tells Chinese students internet freedom's a universal right
2014-03-22,"Orange has been cooperating allegedly illegally for years with Frances main intelligence agency (the DGSE). According to a newly found report by Edward Snowden and an investigation by Le Monde, the DGSE was given access to all of Oranges data (not just metadata)."
2014-03-22,"Greece's economy has shrunk by nearly one-third since 2007, and the debt has become unmanageable. According to the Greek Census Bureau, there has been a 43 percent increase in suicides in austerity-chained Greece since the beginning of the crisis."
2014-03-22,Kenyan parliament passes polygamy law -- Female politicians storm out after parliament passes law that allows men to to marry as many women as they want
2014-03-22,"Ukraine finally signs the EU deal that started it all: Today's agreement between Brussels and Kiev is a version of the one Yanukovych originally rejected four months ago, precipitating the crisis with Russia."
2014-03-22,"China has found debris in ""southern corridor"" potentially from missing MH370."
2014-03-22,Turkey blocked Google DNS
2014-03-22,Putin orders fireworks over Moscow as he laughs off US sanctions - Telegraph
2014-03-22,Alarming spread of drug-resistant TB threatens global health
2014-03-22,"FIFA 'powerless' over Qatar labour rights - World football body accepts ""some responsibility"" over welfare of Qatar's migrant workers, but says it cannot intervene"
2014-03-22,"Russia tells UN Human Rights Council: ""Language should not be used to segregate and isolate groups  (Russia is) concerned by steps taken in this regard in Estonia as well as in Ukraine."""
2014-03-22,Spain condemns Israel's construction of new settlements
2014-03-22,"European countries begin to rethink defense spending after decades of cuts in face of Russian actions. ""A serious recalibration is underway, particularly in countries with memories of Soviet tanks rumbling across their borders."" Estonia and Latvia are now calling on NATO for more military assets."
2014-03-22,Ukraine police find 42 Kg of gold in ex-energy minister's home
2014-03-22,French spy software targeted Canada: report
2014-03-22,Apple Nicked Billions in Tax from Australia
2014-03-22,"Were ready to fight, but not the Russian people. Were fighting the Russian criminals in the Kremlin. They want to make slaves out of us, If not for us, nobody will. If I dont do it, who will?"
2014-03-22,Inmarsat reveals all 7 pings from MH370 were progressively further from the satellite
2014-03-22,"Thailand is removing thousands of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar from immigration confinement centers and transporting them to human traffickers waiting at sea, then to a series of camps near Malay border until relatives pay thousands of dollars to release them"
2014-03-22,"Canadian Judge has granted medical marijuana patients and producers exception from new laws set to take effect April 1st, until a proper constitutional challenge can be heard."
2014-03-22,Turks face new Internet restrictions after Twitter block : DNS servers are being blocked
2014-03-22,European Union prepares for trade war with Russia over Crimea
2014-03-22,Airlines Move to Cut Off Service to Venezuela
2014-03-21,Pirate Bay Founder Peter Sunde Gets Ready to Run for European Parliament
2014-03-21,Microsoft sells your Information to FBI; Syrian Electronic Army leaks Invoices
2014-03-21,"The Trans-Pacific Partnership Will ""Significantly"" Restrict Online Freedoms"
2014-03-21,"We Need Three Planets to Keep the Human Race Alive, NASA Scientist Says"
2014-03-21,"The last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, argues that Russian President Vladimir Putins actions in Ukraine are a response to years of hostility from the United States, including the eastward expansion of NATO, the bombing of Serbia and the expansion of American military bases in Eastern Europe."
2014-03-21,First ever female genital mutilation prosecutions announced in UK
2014-03-21,Putin calls on billionaires to pay taxes in Russia
2014-03-21,Putin orders Russias central bank to help his billionaire friends after U.S. targets them for sanctions
2014-03-21,"Desalination plant to be built in Gaza - The European Union and UNICEF launched a project Thursday to build a desalination plant in the Gaza Strip to provide 75,000 Palestinians with drinking water"
2014-03-21,"Russia raids Ukrainin factory in southern Russia, halts production. The factory is owned by pro-European MP Petro Poroshenko."
2014-03-21,"The underlying message from the head of Russia's biggest oil company, Rosneft, was clear: If Europe and the United States isolate Russia, Moscow will look East for new business, energy deals, military contracts and political alliances."
2014-03-21,A video of a female Egyptian university student walking through the Cairo University campus while being whistled and shouted at by male students has caused an international and viral backlash against sexual harassment in Egypt
2014-03-21,A member of Russia's parliament who voted against annexation of Ukraine's Crimea might be expelled from the Duma
2014-03-21,"A number of gunman, alleged to be teenagers, enter the five-star Serena Hotel in Kabul with guns in their socks, hide out in the washroom for three hours, then storm the restaurant. Nine diners were killed, including women from Canada and New Zealand. Elite Afghan forces soon dispatched all of them."
2014-03-21,"In Saudi Arabia, Indonesian maids are on death row for sorcery"
2014-03-21,"Head of Ukraine TV slapped around by politicians, forced to resign on camera"
2014-03-21,"An entire city in Sweden is being relocated to a new site 2 miles away, all thanks to the destructive impact of local mining that is already spreading cracks through the ground Kiruna is built upon."
2014-03-21,"Ukraine guarantees rights, status of Crimean Tatars | Ukrainian parliament passes bill granting Crimean Tatars status as national minority, regional indigenous population."
2014-03-21,"The first Ukrainian soldier killed in Russias invasion of Ukraines Crimean peninsula is Serhiy Kokurin, 37, a warrant officer from the Simferopol military unit | Kokurin was on the observation tower and shot in the heart when Russian-backed forces attacked his military unit."
2014-03-21,"Russia Bewildered by US Sanctions, Warns Retaliation Will Not Take Long"
2014-03-21,"Russian troops have taken over three Ukrainian warships in Crimea, a Ukrainian navy official said, after Moscow's seizure and annexation of the peninsula | V. Seleznyov, a Ukrainian military spokesman, said the Russian forces used stun grenades as they stormed the corvette Ternopol in Sevastopol."
2014-03-21,Iraqi cleric who spoke out against terrorism gunned down in Mosul
2014-03-21,Satellite images show Iran is building a fake aircraft carrier
2014-03-21,"Russia to refrain from retaliatory moves against US, Ukraine: Putin"
2014-03-21,"Orange shares all its call data with France's intelligence agency DGSE, according to new Snowden leak"
2014-03-20,"Guy buys golden egg for $13,000. Turns out to be a Faberge egg worth $33.3 million."
2014-03-20,"Tech Giants Knew About Prism All Along, the NSA's Top Lawyer Says"
2014-03-20,Man in his early 20s 'woke to find MP Nigel Evans raping him'
2014-03-20,"BP wins new US oil contracts four years after Deepwater Horizon disaster - wins 24 bids to begin exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, just days after authorities lifted a year-long ban"
2014-03-20,"Exclusive: Uruguay may import marijuana from Canada. While it waits for weed to grow, the South American country could turn to Canadian pot producers to kickstart its newly legalized marijuana industry."
2014-03-20,AMSA (Australian Maritime Safety Authority) has identified two possible objects that might be connected to missing Malaysian plane MH370.
2014-03-20,"China indicates it may block future action against its staunchest ally, North Korea, slamming human rights critics as ""divorced from reality"". Furthermore, China will continue deporting Korean refugees to North Korea, even though many of the deported are sent to prison camps and killed."
2014-03-20,President Obama: No U.S. Military Action in Ukraine
2014-03-20,"The Venezuelan government is removing city mayors who oppose President Nicolas Maduro's administration. Yesterday, the mayor of San Cristobal was arrested and the mayor of San Diego removed from office and jailed."
2014-03-20,"""It's no longer unthinkable to prepare for a major war in Europe, officials and analysts say."""
2014-03-20,"US funding ghost workers across Afghanistan: ""I am writing to express my concern that the US may be unwittingly helping to pay the salaries of non-existent members of the Afghan National Police"" wrote the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction."
2014-03-20,"NASA: In 2012 Earth dodged a Solar blast by a mere nine days that would have taken out satellite communications systems, a big chunk of the GPS network, and possibly crashed power grids and computer systems down on the surface."
2014-03-20,"Moscow signals concern for Russians in Estonia: Russia signaled concern on Wednesday at Estonia's treatment of its large ethnic Russian minority, comparing language policy in the Baltic state with what it said was a call in Ukraine to prevent the use of Russian."
2014-03-20,"North Korea says UN report on human rights ""fabricated"""
2014-03-20,"Uganda's First Lady says she doesn't know any gay cows, so homosexuality doesn't exist..."
2014-03-20,Australia sees possible plane debris: Two pieces of debris possibly linked to Malaysia flight MH370 seen off Western Australia - Australian PM Tony Abbott
2014-03-20,International scholars say that the Canadian government's Elections Act threatens Canadas global reputation as a guardian of democracy and human rights
2014-03-20,"""Dont pay too much attention to the rhetoric that originates from Washington and Moscow and at meetings between their high-level officials.Trust me as a former Kremlin and government adviser: Behind the scenes it is mostly all handshakes and smiles."""
2014-03-20,"South African president, Jacob Zuma will need to pay back millions for upgrades to personal home in long awaited anti-corruption probe"
2014-03-20,"""Russia's Reality Check"": Ruble Bonds Drop Second Day on Sanctions | Markets are reacting in real time to Russias incursion into the Crimea section of Ukraine and plans to annex the Black Sea peninsula."
2014-03-20,"Fortune magazine names Pope Francis the world's greatest leader ""His hardest work lies ahead. And yet signs of a 'Francis effect' abound: In a poll in March, 1 in 4 Catholics said they'd increased their charitable giving to the poor this year. Of those, 77% said it was due in part to the Pope"""
2014-03-20,U.S. Boycotts U.N. Drone Strike Talks
2014-03-20,Russia warns West it may change its stance on Iran
2014-03-20,"One of the world's largest and most knowledgeable scientific bodies wants to make one point very clear: Just as smoking causes cancer, so too are humanity's greenhouse gas emissions causing the planet to change, with potentially unknown and unalterable impacts."
2014-03-20,"France has banned the sale, use, and cultivation of Monsanto GMO maize crops"
2014-03-19,"More Than 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatars World Cup Facilities | The International Trade Union Confederation says that if conditions dont improve, at least 4,000 migrants will die before kick-off"
2014-03-19,"Putin's top aide mocks US sanctions: 'The only thing that interests me about the US is Tupac, and I don't need a visa for that'."
2014-03-19,"Putin on Western criticism: ""They tell us that we are violating the norms of international law. First of all, it's good that they at least remember that international law exists"""
2014-03-19,"TED Prize winner: Rip veil off corporate criminals - Charmian Gooch, the anti-corruption crusader who co-founded Global Witness, called Tuesday night for action to lift the veil on who owns corporations around the world."
2014-03-19,MH370 families dragged away from press conference amid claims they are being imprisoned in hotel rooms
2014-03-19,Ukrainian Defense Ministry: military allowed to use arms to protect their lives after serviceman killed in Simferopol
2014-03-19,"Russia has told the US that Western sanctions over the Crimea dispute are unacceptable, and has threatened consequences."
2014-03-19,Ex-dolphin fisherman says Japans hunt and slaughter not age old tradition
2014-03-19,China cuts power to North Korean island (X-post /r/NorthKoreaNews)
2014-03-19,A man once believed to be one of Sweden's worst serial killers has been freed after spending two decades confined in a mental institution after a string of false murder confessions.
2014-03-19,Crimean Tatars Will Have to Vacate Land
2014-03-19,Russians reportedly attack two Ukrainian naval units in Crimea
2014-03-19,Taiwan's Parliament Building now occupied by citizens (xpost from r/taiwan)
2014-03-19,Israels defense minister (Moshe Yaalon) has signaled that his country has abandoned any hope that the United States will solve the Iranian nuclear crisis diplomatically and that he  in a reported reversal  would now support Israel taking unilateral military action against the Islamic Republic.
2014-03-19,"Canadian Govt is Forcing Medical Marijuana Patients to Destroy Their Weed - Starting April 1, Canada's 40,000 medical marijuana patients will no longer be able to grow their own weed. Instead, they'll have to turn to the big-time grow ops that are being built & regulated all across the country."
2014-03-19,German high-speed trains to be be delivered to five US states - German conglomerate Siemens has won a multi-million-dollar US contract to build high-speed locomotives. Siemens outbid major US rivals in a tender aimed at establishing the first high-speed train services in the US.
2014-03-19,"Ukrainian Prime Minister Yatseniuk has said the conflict in Crimea has moved from political to military stage. He has asked the defence minister to organize urgent meeting with Russian, British, US counterparts."
2014-03-19,"Britain halts military cooperation and arms exports to Russia. In related news, Britain was selling arms to Russia"
2014-03-19,American Film Crew Escapes Death in Ukraine (with video)
2014-03-19,London hospitals have treated 4000 patients for female genital mutilation since 2009
2014-03-19,Moldova tells Russia: don't eye annexation here
2014-03-19,Full EU Net Neutrality Proposal [pdf]
2014-03-19,Kazakhstan recognizes Crimean independence
2014-03-19,"Turkish Airlines allegedly ships arms to Nigeria, tape reveals. An assistant executive of the airline is allegedly heard saying ""I do not know whether these (weapons) will kill Muslims or Christians. I feel sinful"" to Prime Minister Erdogan's advisor."
2014-03-19,The Great War is still killing: two people dead and another two wounded in Ieper (Belgium) when a WW I shell explodes.
2014-03-18,Putin announces that Russia will annex Crimea into the Russian Federation
2014-03-18,"Taliban denies MH370 involvement; ""We wish we had an opportunity to hijack such a plane,"" commander says."
2014-03-18,Russia Suspended From G8
2014-03-18,"Birth of the Universe detected by scientists.Proving that the universe expanded by 100 trillion trillion times, in less than the blink of an eye."
2014-03-18,Western powers begin process to hold Kim Jung Un accountable for crimes against humanity.
2014-03-18,Turkey Warns Russia it Will Blockade Bosphorus if Violence Occurs
2014-03-18,"Shots fired, officer taken from Ukraine base in Crimea"
2014-03-18,"BBC: A Russian ex-minister Alexander Pochinok dies aged 56, shortly after commenting that annexing Crimea would cost Russia trillions"
2014-03-18,Japan to impose sanctions on Russia
2014-03-18,"France warns Russia it could cancel warships deal: France might cancel a controversial deal to sell two state-of-the-art warships to Russia if Britain acts against Russian oligarchs in London, according to the French foreign minister ."
2014-03-18,"NSA surveillance program reaches into the past to retrieve, replay phone calls: 'a surveillance system capable of recording 100 percent of a foreign countrys telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month after they take place'"
2014-03-18,"Doku Umarov, anti-Russian Chechen rebel leader, is dead"
2014-03-18,Qatar World Cup 2022 investigation: former Fifa vice-president Jack Warner and family paid millions by Qatari firm.
2014-03-18,Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network loses its charity status for fundraising over misinformation claims
2014-03-18,"Russian parliament mocks sanctions - asks US, EU to sanction all its members"
2014-03-18,First Dozen U.S. Warplanes Arrive In Poland... Russia Deploys 6 SU-27 fighters & 3military Rransport Jets to Belarus
2014-03-18,U.S. and U.K. Marked Enemies of the Internet. Press freedom group denounces spy agency surveillance in report.
2014-03-18,"Burning fireball seen off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes overnight. ""It was a bright light and it lit up the whole sky [...] it was almost like a meteor but not the same."""
2014-03-18,"Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree recognising Crimea ""as a sovereign and independent state"""
2014-03-18,"Armed men, believed to be Russians,dig trenches near the Ukrainian military base in Perevalnoye"
2014-03-18,'It's great to be back': Last of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan return home
2014-03-18,"Russian truck manufacturer Kamaz has appealed to Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakhstan authorities for help in recovering a convoy of new trucks, intended for Kazakhstan, which was hijacked in Ukraine yesterday."
2014-03-18,Malaysia opposition leader Anwar admits MH370 pilot is his relative
2014-03-18,Voice of Russia announces that the chairman of the Transnistrian Parliament asked Russia to allow the breakaway Moldovan republic into the Russian Federation
2014-03-18,"""Absolutely certain"" Russia will invade rest of Ukraine - Ukrainian Admiral"
2014-03-17,"A 100-year-old Saudi beggar died leaving a million-dollar fortune behind, secretly amassing a fortune and real estate portfolio over 50 years of begging on the streets of Jeddah that rivaled those of the citys millionaires."
2014-03-17,"Eight days after Flight MH370 vanished, Malaysian authorities are seeking diplomatic permission to investigate a theory that the Boeing 777 may have been flown under the radar to Taliban-controlled bases on the border of Afghanistan and North West Pakistan, The Independent has learnt."
2014-03-17,UN report on North Korea finds 'atrocities like WW2'
2014-03-17,Britain's five richest families worth more than poorest 20%
2014-03-17,Ukraine Is Training Young Protesters to Fight the Russian Army
2014-03-17,Unregulated mining in rural northern Nigeria is causing blindness and paralysis among children and making adults infertile. Farmers are forced to choose between poverty and a slow death by lead poisoning.
2014-03-17,"Modern civilisation is heading for collapse within a matter of decades because of growing economic instability and pressure on the planets resources, according to a scientific study funded by Nasa."
2014-03-17,"Ukraine: Neo-Fascist Leader and presidential candidate Dmitry Yarosh Vows to Destroy Russia's Trans-Siberian Pipeline, which supplies Europe with the majority of its gas imports, to Stop 'World War III'"
2014-03-17,EU votes in favor of universal mobile charger -- 550 votes to 12 says that chargers need to be standardized
2014-03-17,Ukrainian radical leader threatens to sabotage Russian pipelines
2014-03-17,UN's North Korea Crimes Against Humanity Report Rejected By China
2014-03-17,U.S. Navy SEALs Take Control of Oil Tanker Hijacked in Libya
2014-03-17,McCain: 'Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country'
2014-03-17,Crimea exit poll: Around 93% back Russia union
2014-03-17,Crimea Parliament Declares Independence After Vote
2014-03-17,Finland condemns 'illegal' Crimean vote
2014-03-17,State TV says Russia could turn US to 'radioactive ash'
2014-03-17,BBC News - Russia 'planned Wall Street bear raid'
2014-03-17,"MH370 flew as low as 1,500m to avoid detection, says paper"
2014-03-17,Civilians stopped a Ukrainian military convoy from entering a city in Donetsk region
2014-03-17,Paris makes public transportation free due to smog crisis
2014-03-17,EU imposes sanctions over Crimea
2014-03-17,Government of Japan refuses to acknowledge Crimea joining Russia
2014-03-17,Russia might quit WTO in case of economic sanctions
2014-03-17,Obama Says U.S. Will Never Recognize Crimea's Secession Vote
2014-03-16,"Russian troops invade Kherson Oblast, Ukrainians declare right to fight back"
2014-03-16,"30,000 Australians hit the streets in protest of government policies."
2014-03-16,"Anti-police brutality march declared illegal, broken up"
2014-03-16,Russian forces have seized a village in mainland Ukraine.
2014-03-16,"I am afraid that I am interested in a cold war with the West, said Mr. Prokhanov, 76, in a lull between interviews on state-controlled television and radio. I was very patient. I waited for 20 years. I did everything I could so that this war would begin. I worked day and night."
2014-03-16,Thousands of Australian protesters take to the streets against Abbott Government policies.
2014-03-16,"MH370 is now thought to be near Perth,Australia"
2014-03-16,"North Korea fires 10 short-range missiles toward Sea of Japan, the latest in a series of launches that have provoked criticism from Seoul and Washington"
2014-03-16,Viral Facebook posts claiming the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 has been found are used by hackers to spread malware
2014-03-16,"112,000 protest in Aus over 'no confidence' in current government."
2014-03-16,Belarus Mobilizes Its Military
2014-03-16,U.S. Prepares for Russian Retaliation
2014-03-16,Nigeria Navy destroys 260 illegal oil refineries
2014-03-16,A letter from Guantanamo: 'Nobody can truly understand how we suffer'
2014-03-16,Radar data show that missing Malaysian jet flew directly over Malaysia and was visible on military air defense rader without being noticed or reported by on-duty crew
2014-03-16,"A BRITISH Muslim couple have been jailed after posting videos on YouTube saying it was a brilliant day when Fusilier Lee Rigby was murdered. Royal Barnes, 23, and his wife, Rebekah Dawson, 22, pleaded guilty to three counts of disseminating a terrorist publication last month"
2014-03-16,Mapped: The 634 runways where missing Malaysia Airlines plane could have landed
2014-03-16,Russian Forces Move Outside of Crimea - Natural Gas Plant Seized
2014-03-16,2 times as many teenagers are admitted to hospital with self-harm injuries compared to 10 years ago
2014-03-16,"US regulator sues 16 banks, incl. Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, HSBC, and Royal Bank of Scotland, for engaging in manipulation of the Libor rate, a measure of how freely banks lend to each other, in order to protect their revenue streams"
2014-03-16,"Turkish PM accuses dead 15 yr old Berkin Elvan, who spent 9 months in a coma before dying, of having links to terrorism"
2014-03-16,Ukraine's president fears Russia could invade: Kremlin is behind turmoil in eastern Ukraine and there is 'real danger' Moscow could seize more territory
2014-03-16,Australia abolishes Carbon Tax
2014-03-16,"Revelation suggests person who delivered 'All right, good night' message from missing plane knew system had been shut down."
2014-03-16,Last satellite signal from MH370 'may have been sent while missing jet was on the ground'
2014-03-15,"A Russian mining company is destroying archaeological finds, including some potentially involving the origin of man, in a Georgian gold mine that is arguably the oldest in the world."
2014-03-15,"NYT: Malaysian Military Radar data shows missing MH370 climbed to 45,000 feet before descending unevenly to 23,000 feet. Rolls-Royce engines data shows it descending 40,000 feet in the space of a minute. American official says ""A lot of this doesn't make sense."""
2014-03-15,Malaysian investigators conclude flight was hijacked.
2014-03-15,"50,000 protest Crimea action in Moscow: Around 50,000 people rallied in central Moscow on Saturday, March 15, in protest at Russia's intervention in Ukraine, a day before the Crimean peninsula votes on switching to Kremlin rule."
2014-03-15,"Russian citizens rally against Ukrainian occupation calling it ""Russia's Disgrace"" | BBC"
2014-03-15,"In his final address to Afghanistan's parliament Saturday, President Hamid Karzai told the United States its soldiers can leave at the end of the year because his military, which already protects 93 percent of the country, was ready to take over entirely"
2014-03-15,Worlds Most Pristine Waters Polluted by US Navy Human Waste - American military has poured 100s of tons of sewage into protected coral lagoon on British-owned Diego Garcia. It's 1 of world's most isolated & controversial military installations since Brits removed islanders to make way for US.
2014-03-15,"US Companies Stashing $1.95 Trillion In Profits Overseas; tech companies such as Microsoft, Apple and IBM among the worst offenders."
2014-03-15,"Massive Anti-War Demo in Moscow, Russia"
2014-03-15,Forests Around Chernobyl Arent Decaying Properly
2014-03-15,Russian diplomat stabbed near embassy in Ottawa
2014-03-15,"World's first solar-powered toilet set for India launch - The toilet has the capability of heating human waste to a high enough temperature to sterilise it and create biochar, a highly porous charcoal"
2014-03-15,Fatal clashes as Ukraine dissolves Crimean parliament
2014-03-15,Ukraine cobbles together an army as fears of a Russian invasion grow. Volunteers in Kyiv flock to join a newly-created national guard.
2014-03-15,Russia Sanctions Lithuania over Ukraine
2014-03-15,"Russia Blocks Major Opposition Sites; Anonymous Russia Retaliates, Shuts Down Kremlin Site | TechPresident"
2014-03-15,"The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp sued 16 of the world's largest banks on Friday, accusing them of cheating dozens of other now defunct banks by manipulating the Libor interest rate. The global financial institutions broke certain swaps contracts they had entered into with the now-closed banks."
2014-03-15,US sues 16 banks for rigging Libor rate
2014-03-15,"North Korea becomes the second country, after Syria, to endorse Russian invasion of Ukraine"
2014-03-15,Russian Paratroopers Land In Mainland Ukraine
2014-03-15,NASA: industrial civilisation headed for 'irreversible collapse'?
2014-03-15,Russia Vetoes UN Resolution on Crimea's Future: Every voting member except Russia who vetoed and China who abstained vote the Russian invasion of Crimea as illegal sending a strong unified message to Russia
2014-03-15,"A doctor will stand trial for the first time in Egypt on charges of female genital mutilation, after a 13-year-old girl died following an alleged operation in his clinic last year."
2014-03-15,Navy warship accidentally fires torpedo at nuclear dockyard in Plymouth
2014-03-15,"The chemical makeup of a tiny, extremely rare gemstone has made researchers think there's a massive water reservoir, equal to the world's oceans, hundreds of miles under the earth"
2014-03-14,A draft European law requiring all phones sold in the EU to be compatible with a common charger was approved by the European Parliament yesterday.
2014-03-14,"Russia Is Preparing to Invade East Ukraine, Estonia Says"
2014-03-14,"MH370: US officials said that because two separate communication systems were shut down separately, the plane did not suffer a catastrophic accident."
2014-03-14,Sri Lanka bans Monsanto herbicide citing potential link to deadly kidney disease
2014-03-14,Russia blocks internet sites of Putin critics
2014-03-14,A Ukrainian army colonel has threatened to open fire on Russian marines unless given new and formal instructions to hold off by his nation's defense ministry.
2014-03-14,Radar data suggests missing Malaysia plane flown deliberately toward Andamans
2014-03-14,Kerry Gives Russia until Monday to Abandon Crimea. Threatens 'Serious Steps' If They Refuse.
2014-03-14,US Army to proceed with planned exercise in Ukraine
2014-03-14,Pentagon says flight came down in Indian Ocean.
2014-03-14,"MH370 transmitted its location repeatedly to satellites over the course of five hours after it disappeared from radar, people briefed on the matter said, as searchers zeroed in on new target areas hundreds of miles west of the plane's original course."
2014-03-14,France: Paris makes all public transport free in bid to cut spiralling pollution
2014-03-14,Algerian freed from Guantanamo after being held for 12 years without charge.
2014-03-14,Malaysian plane: India to search uninhabited islands in Andaman Sea | World news
2014-03-14,"UN human rights committee criticizes US for long list of human rights abuses from Guantnamo, drone strikes and NSA surveillance, to the death penalty, rampant gun violence and endemic racial inequality"
2014-03-14,Russia Wipes Opposition Sites From The Internet
2014-03-14,"Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary Sign Military Pact (x-post /r/europe)"
2014-03-14,"Flamboyant billionaire in India jailed amid heightened scrutiny: Last week, Indias Supreme Court locked up billionaire Subrata Roy in Tihar Jail in New Delhi and demanded at least $3 billion, to be returned to investors, to set him free."
2014-03-14,Japan hit by 6.3-magnitude earthquake
2014-03-14,Serbian Paramilitaries Join Pro-Russian Forces in Crimea
2014-03-14,Toronto doctor smacks down U.S. Senate question on Canadian waitlist deaths
2014-03-14,Former Berlusconi secretary arrested with 24 kg of cocaine
2014-03-14,UFO sightings soar to new heights in Canada
2014-03-14,"Over 900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatars World Cup Facilities - The 'International Trade Union Confederation' says that if conditions dont improve, at least 4,000 migrants will die before kick-off"
2014-03-14,Philippines agrees to let US forces have access to its military bases under new security deal
2014-03-13,"Australia: Coalition Lies to UN in Order to Strip Tasmanian Forest of Heritage Listing so it Can be Developed - Photos show 90% of the 74,000 hectares the govt claims is degraded are ecologically pristine forests"
2014-03-13,"Uncovered in Jerusalem, 9 tiny unopened Dead Sea Scrolls"
2014-03-13,U.S. Investigators Suspect Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours
2014-03-13,MH370: BBC have just broadcast this satellite image which Chinese officials believe could be wreckage from Flight MH370.
2014-03-13,"A man who found his computer infected with ransomware demanding payment of 13,000 or face jail decided to take his own life and that of his four-year-old son | The report comes from the Romanian commune of Movila Miresii, made up of three small villages and located in the east of the country."
2014-03-13,Misbehaving bankers and their bosses will have to hand back bonuses up to six years after they pocketed the cash under a proposed rule from the Bank of England to prevent excessive risk-taking
2014-03-13,"One of VICE's journalists, Matthew Power, has died in Uganda."
2014-03-13,WWF reports a full year without a single incident of poaching in Nepal
2014-03-13,Israel ends military exemption for ultra-Orthodox
2014-03-13,Europe says US-made cheeses can't use Old World names
2014-03-13,Europe Passes Deal to Enforce Standard Mobile Phone Charger
2014-03-13,"After Crimea, Sweden Flirts With Joining NATO: ""Sweden's top general estimated in 2013 that the country could only defend itself for a week if attacked."""
2014-03-13,Three EU Countries Hit 2020 Renewable Benchmarks Early | Sweden leads the way for all EU members with 51 percent of its energy coming from renewables.
2014-03-13,London zoo celebrates birth of rare Sumatran tiger cubs (around 300 left in wild)
2014-03-13,"Animals See Power Lines as Glowing, Flashing Bands, Research Reveals - Pylons & wires that stretch across many landscapes are having a worldwide impact on wildlife"
2014-03-13,Russia Massing Military Forces Near Border With Ukraine
2014-03-13,"US NSA: stop mass surveillance now or face consequences, MEPs say"
2014-03-13,Uruguay planning to sell legally cloned marijuana by years end
2014-03-13,Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval rating has soared to a three-year high following the political crisis in Ukraine and an upcoming regionwide referendum on whether Crimea should secede from Ukraine and return to Russia.
2014-03-13,Philippines Military evades Chinese sea blockade to airdrop food to soldiers on a tiny and remote shoal claimed by both countries
2014-03-13,Russia and Iran agree: Russia will build 2 Nuclear plants in Iran
2014-03-13,"Google has given UK security services 'special access' to monitor YouTube including power to ""flag swaths of content at scale instead of only picking out individual videos"""
2014-03-13,Canadian soldiers formaly end mission in Afghanistan after 12 years.
2014-03-13,Vietnam searchers find nothing at the debris site marked by the Chinese
2014-03-13,Unidentified gunmen seized the bank in the center of Kiev
2014-03-12,"220,000 troops, 1,800 tanks, 400 helicopters on Ukraine border as Russia launches exercise of 4000 elite paratroopers and 36 planes."
2014-03-12,Australian makes protesting illegal and fines protesters $600 and can gaol (jail) up to 2 years
2014-03-12,A girl who was kidnapped 7 months ago in Spain has turned up alive in the depths of the Amazon rainforest
2014-03-12,Russia has lost more money in one day as a result of the Ukraine crisis than it spent preparing for the Sochi Games
2014-03-12,Gay sex just got decriminalized in Lebanon
2014-03-12,Poland moves to reduce dependence on Russian gas
2014-03-12,"Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, calls for a global Digital Bill of Rights to protect Internet users from surveillance."
2014-03-12,Body wearing lifejacket reported found off MalaccaThe Beijing News reports a source claiming to be a local volunteer assisting in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has found a dead body wearing a lifejacket
2014-03-12,How the NSA Plans to Infect Millions of Computers with Malware
2014-03-12,Masked guards seized computers from three Norwegian journalists and labelled them as spies as they attempted to leave Crimea
2014-03-12,Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 turned 290 degrees and headed to Indonesia for at least 2 hours after contact lost near Vietnam
2014-03-12,"A photographic view of how a faceless militia is operating in Ukraine right now. They are, ""Believed to be Russian soldiers."""
2014-03-12,Venezuelan student leader shot dead at protest
2014-03-12,Chinese ridicule Malaysias recruitment of witch doctor to track missing plane
2014-03-12,Barrage of rockets launched from Gaza to Israel | i24news
2014-03-12,Japan wants to dump radioactive water from Fukushima in sea
2014-03-12,Malaysias air force chief denies saying MH370 detected over Malacca strait
2014-03-12,"Turkey: thousands gather at funeral of Berkin Elvan, 14, who died after being wounded by a police tear gas canister"
2014-03-12,"Russian oligarchs and Vladimir Putin are likely to escape sanctions over the occupation of Ukraine, UK government admits"
2014-03-12,Missing MH370: Hopes as fishermen find life raft
2014-03-12,Israel ends ultra-Orthodox military service exemptions
2014-03-12,"'Tell us the truth': Chinese families hurl water bottles at Malaysian airline staff before clueless officials admit the plane is anywhere within a 27,000 square nautical mile area and change their mind over when it was last seen again"
2014-03-12,"Turkish boy hurt in anti-government protests dies nine months later | Berkin Elvan, then aged 14, got caught up in street battles between police and protesters after going out to buy bread for his family. He was struck in the head with a suspected police tear-gas canister and went into a coma."
2014-03-12,Ukraine says will not fight Russia over Crimea
2014-03-12,The World Wide Web is 25 years old today!
2014-03-11,Swedish reporter shot dead in Afghanistan
2014-03-11,"ABC News reports a satellite imaging company out of Denver, Colorado is crowdsourcing the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Help search for the missing plane using satellite images shot this weekend."
2014-03-11,"Anti-war protest in Moscow: ""Ukrainians, forgive us"" [video]"
2014-03-11,Israeli troops shoot dead a Palestinian-Jordanian judge at border crossing
2014-03-11,"Venezuelans Are Marked With Numbers To Stand In Line At Government Supermarkets:It's hard to get a sense of what a food shortage is like unless you've lived through one, but this tidbit from Venezuela serves as a chilling illustration."
2014-03-11,"Saudi Arabia has threatened to blockade neighbouring Qatar by air, land and sea unless Doha cuts ties with Egypts Muslim Brotherhood, closes global channel al-Jazeera, and expels local branches of the US Brookings Institution and Rand Corporation think tanks."
2014-03-11,"Snowden has shown the 'huge disparity of surveillance and power', says Gellman | Government needs reminding that they work for us, says Pulitzer-winning reporter Barton Gellman, who describes Edward Snowden as ending an era of indifference to surveillance."
2014-03-11,MH370 detected above Malacca Straits at 2.40am
2014-03-11,"A report by the United Nations Human Rights Council has called for independent investigations to be carried out into drone attacks after a series of strikes that result in unexpected civilian deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Most of the attacks involved US drones."
2014-03-11,New Zealand plans vote on changing national flag
2014-03-11,Malaysian Military official tells Reuters plane flew for more than an hour after vanishing from air traffic control screens
2014-03-11,PILOT: I'm Not Surprised There Was No Mayday Call From The Missing Malaysia Plane
2014-03-11,Turkey clashes after 15 year old boy hurt at Istanbul Gezi Park protest dies
2014-03-11,"Two Russian cosmonauts, U.S. astronaut head back to Earth"
2014-03-11,Live: China deploys satellites to find missing Malaysian plane
2014-03-11,Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source
2014-03-11,"Explosion at Power Plant in Novokuznetsk, Russia, video in link."
2014-03-11,UN warns world must produce 60% more food by 2050 to avoid mass unrest
2014-03-11,"A Chilean woman was shot dead while clearing a barricade put up by anti-government protesters, the first foreign fatality during a month of civil unrest in Venezuela, authorities said on Monday."
2014-03-11,"Palestinian refugees starving to death in Syrian camp, human rights groups say"
2014-03-11,"Chinas billionaire politicians quadruple their wealth - ""Despite their low official government salaries, at this weeks National Peoples Congress annual meeting, there will be 86 renminbi billionaires and Chinas richest politicians have quadrupled their wealth in the past eight years."""
2014-03-11,Four suspended after video shows workers bludgeoning turkeys with shovel [Canada]
2014-03-11,"Kim Jong-Uns sister, Kim Yo-Jong, makes first official appearance"
2014-03-11,Thousands protest after Swedish activist stabbed
2014-03-11,North Korea reportedly tries to sell border-town land to Chinese investors
2014-03-10,Russian troops fire at Ukraine military post
2014-03-10,The man who witnessed Steve Irwin's dying moments has described for the first time how a massive stingray wildly stabbed the conservationist 'hundreds of times'.
2014-03-10,Kim Jong-un calls for execution of 33 Christians
2014-03-10,"Ukraine may have to go nuclear, says Kiev lawmaker"
2014-03-10,"Ukraine crisis: US will not recognise Crimea referendum, says ambassador: Washington threatens further action against Russia if Vladimir Putin uses poll to legitimise military occupation, says Kiev envoy"
2014-03-10,Ukraine Sticky Post
2014-03-10,Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Passengers' Mobile Phones Ring But Not Answered
2014-03-10,Mexico kills drug kingpin reported dead years ago: official
2014-03-10,26 Disquieting Photos Of Armed Russians Still Surrounding Ukrainian Soldiers In Crimea.
2014-03-10,Desmond Tutu: Israel guilty of apartheid in treatment of Palestinians | JPost
2014-03-10,[Ukraine] A hotel and two cars belonging to Crimean Tatars have been burned down in Russian-occupied Crimea [Photos + Video]
2014-03-10,"Russia Welcomes the US Destroyer Truxtun, by Moving Bastion Anti-Ship Missiles to Crimea"
2014-03-10,"Chinese courts acquitted a total of 825 people out of almost 1.16 million verdicts last year, a conviction rate of 99.93 percent."
2014-03-10,"Limbs broken, forced to eat feces, Chinese officials say they were tortured into false graft confessions"
2014-03-10,Kenya's President declares to cut his salary by 20% and to cut cabinet ministers salaries by 10%
2014-03-10,"Abuse Victims Should Be Able To Sue Catholic Church, Says Cardinal Pell"
2014-03-10,Massive Bombing near Baghdad; 97 Killed 237 Wounded Across Iraq -- Antiwar.com
2014-03-10,"Sex Workers Have Labor Rights Just Like Any Other Employee, Confirms NZ Court"
2014-03-10,"Low levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster likely will reach ocean waters along the U.S. West Coast next month, scientists are reporting."
2014-03-10,UN warns of genocide in Central African Republic
2014-03-10,Forty-two African migrants have drowned when their boat capsized off the coast of Yemen
2014-03-10,"Global Debt Exceeds $100 Trillion as Governments Binge, BIS Says"
2014-03-10,Taiwanese Intelligence received warnings of possible terrorist attacks on Beijing's airport days prior to the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines 307
2014-03-10,"Malaysias civil aviation chief clarifies the stolen passport passengers looking like ""Mario Balotelli"""
2014-03-10,US transfers $429m to Israel for Iron Dome - Globes English
2014-03-09,Women protest against proposed Iraq law that would allow marriage of nine-year-old girls
2014-03-09,Pilot 30 min ahead of Malaysia Airlines MH370 says he established contact with missing jet
2014-03-09,"80th birthday of Yury Gagarin, first man in space"
2014-03-09,The same two people who were traveling on Flight 370 with the stolen passports purchased their tickets on the same transaction and were traveling together.
2014-03-09,Two more Europeans passengers with suspect identities onboard missing MH370
2014-03-09,"North Korea holds ""elections"" every 5 years. There is only one candidate for each district with ""Yes"" or ""No"" options. In 2009, 99% voted and 100% were ""Yes""."
2014-03-09,Australia's Shark Cull Is Killing the Wrong Sharks
2014-03-09,Warm Water Worlds May Have Been Found According to New Study by German Scientists
2014-03-09,Ukrainian army from all regions moving to the south
2014-03-09,Saudi princesses plead for help as they claim they are being held by the king against their will -- Their mother has written to UN human rights agency to intervene
2014-03-09,Family of Chinese passenger missing on flight MH370 makes contact with his phone
2014-03-09,Thousands marched through the Lebanese capital to demand the passage of law protecting women against domestic violence
2014-03-09,A suicide bomber driving a minibus packed with explosives killed at least 32 people and wounded 147 on Sunday in the southern Iraqi city of Hilla
2014-03-09,"Chinese news, unverified, third case identified where an identified passenger on the missing 777 was actually home in China and never went to Malaysia. News in Chinese, but Google translation works"
2014-03-09,Ukraine computers infected by powerful virus
2014-03-09,Thousands of women have been demonstrating in Madrid against controversial moves to scrap Spains abortion on demand law.
2014-03-09,"Beijing threatens Hong Kong, says 'democracy will only bring disaster'"
2014-03-09,New possible sighting of debris at sea as China sends warships to join search for missing Malaysian Airlines flight
2014-03-09,"Military radar trace shows MH370 turn-back, but no distress signal"
2014-03-09,"Libya threatens N Korea ship over seized oil - Libya has threatened to bomb a North Korean-flagged tanker if it tries to export oil from a rebel-controlled port east of Tripoli, in a major escalation of a standoff over the country's petroleum wealth."
2014-03-09,Malaysia announces they are investigating a possible terror link in jet disappearance
2014-03-09,Malaysia Airlines: What we know about Flight MH370
2014-03-09,Japanese PM Abe to tell Putin of Japan's trilateral stance with U.S. and EU on Ukraine crisis
2014-03-09,Israel Doubled Settlement Construction In West Bank In 2013
2014-03-09,"Four on-board missing Malaysian plane had fake passports, say officials"
2014-03-08,"Malaysia Airlines Plane 'Loses Contact': Malaysia Airlines says a plane - flight MH370 - carrying 239 people ""has lost contact"" with air traffic control."
2014-03-08,It has been reported that two passengers who were listed on the plane's manifest - an Italian and an Austrian - were not actually on the flight but had had their passports stolen in the past two years in Thailand
2014-03-08,CNN team told to stop broadcasting from Crimea
2014-03-08,Russian soldiers begin to storm bases in Crimea
2014-03-08,Vitnamese Navy confirms plane crashes into the sea.
2014-03-08,Interim Ukrainian government says it has no plans to cede Crimea to Russia
2014-03-08,South Korean military given new authority to launch pre-emptive strike against North if they beleive an attack is imminent.
2014-03-08,Turkey Scrambles Jets After Russian Flyover: Russia sent a surveillance plane into Turkish airspace as a US Navy destroyer passed through on the way to the Black Sea.
2014-03-08,Russia may halt US inspections over sanctions: Russian news agencies says Moscow is considering a freeze of U.S. military inspections under arms control treaties in retaliation to Washington's decision to halt military cooperation with Russia.
2014-03-08,China draws 'red line' on North Korea
2014-03-08,Warning shots fired as foreign observers blocked from entering Ukraines Crimea region
2014-03-08,A sophisticated piece of spyware has been quietly infecting hundreds of government computers across Europe and the United States in one of the most complex cyber espionage programs uncovered to date.
2014-03-08,Animals left to starve to death at Ukraine zoo
2014-03-08,There have already been almost 3000 murders in Venezuela since the start of the year
2014-03-08,"Sultan of Brunei to impose strict observance of Sharia Law, claims it is a ""great achievement for the country, and not a backward or old-fashioned step."""
2014-03-08,Names and ages of all passengers aboard flight MH370
2014-03-08,Republican senators tell Fifa Russia must be kicked out of 2014 World Cup
2014-03-08,Oil Slick Sighting Is First Sign Malaysia Airlines Plane May Have Crashed
2014-03-08,Russia may end nuclear checks in response to Ukraine sanction
2014-03-08,"For First Time, Kremlin Signals It Is Prepared to Annex Crimea"
2014-03-08,Guatemalan Farmers Too Poor to Protest - Tens of thousands of farmers showed up in Guatemala City yesterday to demonstrate against the construction of hydroelectric power plants and the high price of electricitybut they didn't have enough money to stay very long.
2014-03-08,Oxfam ex-fraud chief admits defrauding charity
2014-03-08,Ukraine crisis 'created artificially' - Russia's Lavrov
2014-03-08,Stolen European passports on missing Malaysia plane
2014-03-08,"Pro-Russian protesters won't let wife give her husband a bag of food, Russian soldiers intervene and take the food to him.(X-Post from r/News)"
2014-03-07,Russian soldiers training in Canada given 24 hours to leave country
2014-03-07,"Court in Lebanon rules that Homosexuality is ""not a crime, nor against nature"" in historic ruling"
2014-03-07,"China ""concerned"" after North Korean missile test comes dangerously close to hitting Chinese airliner with 200 passengers onboard"
2014-03-07,Uganda president wants poachers 'shot on sight'
2014-03-07,IKEA is in trouble for cutting down 600-year-old trees
2014-03-07,"India became the first country, supports Russia interests in Crimea"
2014-03-07,Norway will cut through an island in tribute to massacre victims
2014-03-07,"Amid Crimea Crisis, Russia Proposes Expanding Citizenship in Ex-USSR - The Russian government has proposed legislation that would grant citizenship to anyone who speaks fluent Russian and had once lived, or who had relatives who lived, on the territory of the Soviet Union [x-post /r/LegalNews]"
2014-03-07,"A group of Japanese historians Friday stood behind their governments 1993 apology over wartime sex slavery, slamming Tokyos possible move to revise it as unforgivable."
2014-03-07,Saudi Arabia designates Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist group: Interior Ministry
2014-03-07,Edward Snowden delivers testimony to the European Parliament
2014-03-07,"Russia says new troops weren't deployed to Crimea, but this soldier's social media photos suggest otherwise"
2014-03-07,Russia Starts Massive Air Defense Drills Amid Crimea Standoff
2014-03-07,Moscow: Bill Criminalizing 'False Anti-Russian Information' in the Works
2014-03-07,Great Barrier Reef Faces 'Irreversible' Damage: Report
2014-03-07,Russian soldiers training in Canada given 24 hours to leave country
2014-03-07,"After 12 years of war, labor abuses rampant on US bases in Afghanistan: More than a year after Obamas executive order outlawing forced labor on US military bases, exploitation remains"
2014-03-07,Turkey's prime minister has given warning that his government could ban social media networks YouTube and Facebook after a number of online leaks added momentum to a growing corruption scandal.
2014-03-07,Ukraine crisis: US sends F-16 fighter jets to Poland
2014-03-07,EU slaps initial sanctions on Russia
2014-03-07,"EU and US start Russia sanctions, call Crimea referendum illegal"
2014-03-07,EU urges to investigate cases of people killed by snipers in Kiev
2014-03-07,Interpol says Ukraine seeks wanted notice for Yanukovich arrest
2014-03-07,"Your porn is not Canadian enough, Canadian Radio & Television Commision warns erotica channels"
2014-03-07,Malaysian couple to hang for starving Indonesian maid to death
2014-03-06,Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air: I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government which whitewashes the actions of Putin.
2014-03-06,Obama Signs Order Declaring Ukraine Crisis an Extraordinary Threat to National Security
2014-03-06,"Marijuana decriminalization is under ""serious consideration"": Canada's conservative party"
2014-03-06,Turkey grants US warship permission to enter Black Sea
2014-03-06,A Second Baby seems to have been Cured from HIV. A Clinical Trial with 50 Infected Babies will Start within 3 Months.
2014-03-06,"U.S., China officials agree Ukraine's territorial integrity important"
2014-03-06,"UN Envoy Not Kidnapped But Threatened By Armed Men In Crimea, Agrees To End Visit"
2014-03-06,Viktor Yanukovych had heart attack. He's in a hospital in serious condition.
2014-03-06,Poor 'live like animals' says Boris's privately educated sister after going on 'poverty safari'
2014-03-06,"NATO to cancel activities with Russia, step up military cooperation with Ukraine"
2014-03-06,"Rhino with Bullet in its Brain & Hacked Off Horn Wanders for Days Before Being Put Out of its Misery in South Africa, Which is in the Midst of a Rhino Poaching Epidemic"
2014-03-06,Advanced Heavy Water Reactor is the latest Indian design for a next-generation nuclear reactor that will burn thorium as its fuel
2014-03-06,U.S. imposes new sanctions on Russian officials it blames for Ukraine crisis
2014-03-06,"RT Anchor Quits on Air: An anchor on state-owned television station RT quit on Wednesday. Liz Wahl, an American working in the network's D.C. bureau, said she was born to Hungarian refugees who fled Soviet oppression, and could no longer be ""part of a network that whitewashes the actions of Putin."""
2014-03-06,Russian Federation Council Considering Bill to Confiscate US and European Company Assets in Russia in Case of Sanctions
2014-03-06,Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has likened Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions on the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine to those of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
2014-03-06,Kyiv University invites Russian professor who was fired by Putin
2014-03-06,Estonia denies leaked call implicates Ukraine protesters in killings
2014-03-06,"UK, US, Ukraine insist on direct talks between Moscow and Kiev"
2014-03-06,US drone strike kills 5 Afghan soldiers and wounds 8 at a military post near Kabul
2014-03-06,"Tim Flannery says coal communities are being kept in dark about dangers. Our government is doing an inquiry into the health impact of wind [turbines], but here weve got this risk with coal. If the federal government expanded their inquiry that would be good start, he said."
2014-03-06,Climate Change? Not in Australia..... - Top Bureaucrats in Victorian State Government told not even to use the terms.
2014-03-06,Crimean Tatar leader calls on UN forces to intervene and for Crimean Tatars to boycott upcoming referendum
2014-03-06,Ukraine signs $10 billion shale gas deal with Chevron
2014-03-06,'If we sign up Russia will see Ukraine is determined to defend itself'
2014-03-05,"Venezuela: In 17 days of protest: 18 dead, 261 wounded, 1044 arrests and 888 precautionary measures"
2014-03-05,"Senator Scott Ludlam coolly tells Prime Minister Tony Abbott to go ram his ""heartless, racist exploitation of peoples fears"""
2014-03-05,"Russia and US Still Friends in Space, NASA Says"
2014-03-05,Sweden stops aid to Uganda over anti-gay laws
2014-03-05,Vancouver Police Department to feds: We wont enforce new pot law
2014-03-05,"First LSD-assisted psychotherapy research published in 40 years in Switzerland, Dr. Peter Gasser"
2014-03-05,Russian oligarchs lost 13 billion yesterday. Money may be more at play than being talked about.
2014-03-05,Tony Abbott pledges support to loggers and moves to remove National park statuses from forests
2014-03-05,"Russia Today anchor who went off script to criticize Russian invasion to Crimea sent to the region to be educated, refuses, keeps her job"
2014-03-05,Wealthy Residents Depart Chinese Mainland in Search of Clean Air - The term 'environmental refugee' has taken on a new meaning in China.
2014-03-05,"Rich Chinese Mad Over Cancelled Canadian Immigrant Program - Threatening legal action against govt after Ottawa cancelled popular program offering way to buy entrance to those with net worth of $1.6m & able to lend Ottawa $800,000 interest-free for 5 yrs"
2014-03-05,Yanukovych funneled money through the Netherlands; Dutch Ministers silent on the issue
2014-03-05,Israel halts 'Iran weapons ship' to Gaza
2014-03-05,Scottish leader calls on all Britons to back independence - Scottish leader Alex Salmond called on all Britons on Tuesday to back his campaign for an independent Scotland to help create a northern economic counterweight to stop London from sucking the life out of the rest of the country
2014-03-05,UN Report Identifies 30 Drone Strikes That Require Public Explanation | Common Dreams
2014-03-05,"Russia has revealed it sold a record $11.3bn in foreign currency to support the rouble on March 3, during a ""Black on Monday"" of panic selling over the crisis in Ukraine | The Russian central bank sold foreign currency to buy roubles and prevent the Russian currency from falling further in value."
2014-03-05,Russia Threatens to Seize US Assets if Sanctions are Made
2014-03-05,No more national parks as Tony Abbott pledges to support loggers as the 'ultimate conservationists'
2014-03-05,"""It is not appropriate to invade a country and at the end of a barrel of a gun dictate what you are trying to achieve. That is not 21st-century, G-8, major-nation behavior.""- John Kerry"
2014-03-05,Ukraine crisis: Ukrainians rush to join military - Ukraine has called up its reserves even though Russian invasion has so far been bloodless
2014-03-05,"A US drone strike in northern Yemen on Wednesday killed four suspected Al-Qaeda members, including an Iraq veteran, a military official said."
2014-03-05,"Commander of the Ukrainian Navy threw a Russian Vice Admiral into a stupor : ""Russians do not surrender!"""
2014-03-05,Hamas Outlawed By Egyptian Court
2014-03-05,Russia says cannot order Crimean 'self-defense' units back to base
2014-03-05,China to increase military spending by 12.2 percent.
2014-03-04,David Cameron's aide on child internet policy has been arrested for child pornography
2014-03-04,Russian President Putin accuses U.S. of double standard in criticizing his nation's incursion into Crimea.
2014-03-04,"""A Kremlin aide was quoted on Tuesday [4 March 2014] as saying that if the United States were to impose sanctions on Russia over Ukraine, Moscow might be forced to drop the dollar as a reserve currency and refuse to pay off any loans to U.S. banks."""
2014-03-04,Obama promises to protect Poland against Russian invasion
2014-03-04,"US Anti-gay evangelist Scott Lively to stand trial for 'crimes against humanity', is being sued by the organization Sexual Minorities Uganda, which alleges that his actions in Uganda over the past ten years led to the persecution, torture, arrest and murder of gay people in the country."
2014-03-04,Turkey scrambles jets after Russian plane flies near its Black Sea coast
2014-03-04,Poland requests NATO consultations under Article 4
2014-03-04,"""Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Mr. Obama by telephone on Sunday that after speaking with Mr. Putin she was not sure he was in touch with reality, people briefed on the call said. In another world, she said."""
2014-03-04,"A far-right candidate for Paris elections says France's Roma population should be ""concentrated"" in ""camps"""
2014-03-04,"President Barack Obama has said that Russia is ""on the wrong side of history"" and in violation of international law for sending troops into the Ukranian region of Crimea. He also promised America will make Russia face consequences for its actions."
2014-03-04,"Chinese baby-trafficking ring busted wide open, leads to rescue of 382 babies and arrest of over 1,000"
2014-03-04,"Ukraine tells UN Russia has 16,000 troops in Crimea; Russia says Yanukovych requested them (3/3/14 5:22 pm)"
2014-03-04,"Russia is Looking for a Hot War, Says Georgias Former President"
2014-03-04,Ukraine and Russia: the military imbalance [infographic]
2014-03-04,"Russia use the same group of ""protesters"" in different regions of Ukraine"
2014-03-04,Ukraine loses it's 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade To The Autonomous Republic of Crimea
2014-03-04,Secret document suggests UK will not support trade sanctions against Russia
2014-03-04,Russia's First Targets in Ukraine: Its Cell Phones and Internet Lines
2014-03-04,"French scientists revive 30,000-year-old virus, say it ""serves as a warning that unknown pathogens entombed in frozen soil may be roused by global warming"""
2014-03-04,"Moscow intends to discuss the Ukraine crisis with the West on two key conditions. The source says the 21 February agreement - signed by ousted President Yanukovych and the Ukrainian opposition - must be implemented, and that all Ukrainian political forces must take part in negotiations."
2014-03-04,US urges N Korea restraint after two more test missiles
2014-03-04,Former Ukraine PM Yulia Tymoshenko urges superpowers to use force against Russia
2014-03-04,"Ukraine crisis: Russia stands firm despite rebukes, sanctions threats"
2014-03-04,Two women who represented 'opressed citizens of Odessa' in Sevastopol were previously seen during the storm of Kharkiv Regional Government
2014-03-04,Putin: Russia has no plans to annex Ukraine's Crimea region
2014-03-03,"At least 10,000 people bearing Russian flags marched freely through Moscow on Sunday in a pro-invasion rally, while dozens of people demonstrating on Red Square against an invasion of Ukraine were quickly detained by Russian riot police."
2014-03-03,"G-7 Leaders Statement: we (the G-7: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States) have decided for the time being to suspend our participation in activities associated with the preparation of the scheduled G-8 Summit in Sochi in June"
2014-03-03,"Poland says Russian appeasement not an option: ""History shows that those who appease all the time in order to preserve peace usually only buy a little bit of time."" Warsaw fears Russia will push west through Ukraine and threaten Poland now."
2014-03-03,Russia deploys 3500 troops and heavy equipment on Batlic coast in Kaliningrad Oblat near Polish and Lithuanian borders
2014-03-03,"Russian stocks are tanking after Putin mobilizes tanks in Ukraine. Losses over 20% for state-owned mining company. All state-owned sectors (finance, gas, minerals, steel, coal) tumbling in biggest plunge of last 5 years."
2014-03-03,Merkel tells Putin Russia has broken international law in Ukraine
2014-03-03,Obama: U.S. won't be able to defend Israel if peace talks fail.
2014-03-03,Russia Delivers 3am 'Storm' Deadline
2014-03-03,"Russian Ruble is weakening fast; ""We don't have foreign cash, the last was taken five minutes ago. Now we are only buying foreign currencies but not selling,"" said an operator at an exchange office in Moscow."
2014-03-03,Putin like Hitler in 1930s: former Czech foreign minister
2014-03-03,The Russian military set an ultimatum Sunday for Ukrainian army and navy units to surrender weapons and leave their bases in the Crimean peninsula
2014-03-03,The UK will boycott the Paralympics in Sochi over Russia's decision to take military action in Ukraine.
2014-03-03,Russian Parliament proposes bill to allow annexation of Crimea (scanned copy included in article)
2014-03-03,Ukraine Navy Chief 'defects': Newly appointed head of Ukrainian Navy swears allegiance to Crimea
2014-03-03,Ukraine conflict: Russian troops break into Sevastopol Navy base
2014-03-03,Russia blocks web pages linked to Ukraine protests
2014-03-03,Japan Pledges $200 Million in Aid for Palestinians
2014-03-03,Ukraine fires navy chief for 'treason' after surrendering HQ
2014-03-03,US concedes Russia has control of Crimea and seeks to contain Putin.
2014-03-03,"Russian Prime Minister ordered Russian Highways to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, connecting Crimea with Russia"
2014-03-03,"Loyal to Ukraine, Tatars lie low as Russia seizes Crimea: ""If there is a conflict, as the minority, we will be the first to suffer"""
2014-03-03,Mount Everest litter targeted by Nepalese authorities: climbers will have to bring down 8kg of extra waste or face legal action as government tackles rubbish mountain in Himalayas
2014-03-03,"Reports that Ukraine Flagship is at a NATO Mediterranean base, and not defected as RT claims."
2014-03-03,Putin ready to invade Ukraine; Kiev warns of war
2014-03-03,Russia And China 'In Agreement' Over Ukraine
2014-03-02,"Canadian Prime Minister tells Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine, pulls ambassador out of Russia, withdraws from G8 being chaired by Russia and officially recognizes legitimacy of new Ukrainian government"
2014-03-02,"Poland, Latvia and Lithuania officially request an emergency NATO meeting in regards to Ukraine, invoking article 4: any member state can convene a meeting of NATO members to consult when it feels its independence or security are threatened."
2014-03-02,"Ukraine put its armed forces on full combat alert ""Russian military intervention would be the beginning of war and the end of any relations between Ukraine and Russia"" -Yatseniuk"
2014-03-02,"Kerry: Russia behaving ""in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text"""
2014-03-02,"'What Russia is doing now in Ukraine violates the principles of U.N. charter,' NATO Secretary General says."
2014-03-02,Canada withdraws ambassador from Moscow. Follows US in standby of G8 preparations.
2014-03-02,"Translation: Ukrainian Parliament just passed a vote to ask US, UK, France, China and Russia for protection within the framework of the Budapest Memorandum and international agreements"
2014-03-02,"A severely ill man, who was deemed ""fit to work"" by the UK gov, has starved to death after his benefits were cut."
2014-03-02,Pope Francis is urging world leaders to promote dialogue as a way of resolving the crisis in Ukraine.
2014-03-02,"BBC - 27 dead in attack by knife-wielding men at train station in Kunming in south-west China, state news agency says"
2014-03-02,Ukraine's Klitschko calls for 'national mobilisation' (of the Ukrainian Army)
2014-03-02,"US pulls out of G8 summit: ""The United States will suspend upcoming participation in preparatory meetings for the G-8. Going forward, Russias continued violation of international law will lead to greater political and economic isolation."""
2014-03-02,Ukraine PM warns 'we are on the brink of disaster'
2014-03-02,Russia told to 'back off' by Australian PM Tony Abbott
2014-03-02,Ukraine declares total mobilization - News - World - The Voice of Russia
2014-03-02,Unidentified Gunmen surround Ukrainian military base restricting soldiers to leave
2014-03-02,North Korea's No. 2 man and Korean Peoples Army Chief arrested
2014-03-02,"The Wikileaks Cables That Anticipated the Russian Invasion of Crimea -- ""A 2006 cable...warns of a possible Russian threat to Crimea  Ukraine's 'soft underbelly'"""
2014-03-02,Ukraine Mobilization/Draft Begins: translated from Ukrainian to English
2014-03-02,Putin ready to invade Ukraine; Kiev warns of war
2014-03-02,"Russia's Seizure of Crimea Is Making Former Soviet States Nervous: ""Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite also openly expressed fears that Russia's actions could ultimately lead to Crimea's annexation."""
2014-03-02,Ukraine warns Russia that Crimea intervention will lead to war
2014-03-02,Ukraine Finds Its Forces Are Ill Equipped to Take Crimea Back From Russia
2014-03-02,U.S. to Russia: Pull out of Ukraine immediately
2014-03-02,Russian anti-missle warship docked 200 miles from Maiami.
2014-03-01,"Russia has brought in extra 6,000 troops to Ukraine"
2014-03-01,Putin ask for Authorization to send Russian troops to the Ukraine
2014-03-01,"Russia admits that it has moved troops in Ukraine: Russia has finally confirmed that it has moved troops into Ukraine's restive Crimea region, after speculation about Moscow's involvemen"
2014-03-01,"Aleksei A. Navalny, Russias leading opposition figure, was placed under house arrest on Friday and ordered not to use the Internet or telephone for two months, thus removing President Vladimir V. Putins fiercest critic from public life."
2014-03-01,Obama warns Russia there will be costs for any military intervention in Ukraine | Obama just finished his speech (link for it not up yet)
2014-03-01,Russian parliament approves use of military against Ukraine- live updates
2014-03-01,Russian forces try to seize anti-aircraft missile base in Ukraine's Crimea-Interfax
2014-03-01,"Thousands of pro Russian protesters in eastern cities in the Ukraine, raise Russian flags and reports of shots fired."
2014-03-01,Ukraine crisis live: Russia admits its troops are moving in Crimea
2014-03-01,Gold Fix Study Shows Signs of Decade of Bank Manipulation
2014-03-01,Polio vaccination team ambushed in Pakistan with IED's. Over 12 killed.
2014-03-01,Full draft text of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership leaked
2014-03-01,Russian Lawmakers Push to Simplify Annexing New Territories
2014-03-01,"At least five Russian Il-76 planes have landed at a military airport in Gvardiysky, near Simferopol"
2014-03-01,U.N. Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Ukraine crisis
2014-03-01,"Israeli military kill Palestinian woman near Gaza border: hospital | The Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the Gaza Strip in an area near the border that Israel has declared a no-go zone for Palestinians, , local hospital officials said"
2014-03-01,Ukraine Journalists Race to Publish Secret Yanukovych Documents
2014-03-01,"Canada supports Ukraines territorial integrity amid fears of Russian intervention, Harper says"
2014-03-01,Gladiator School Dating to 2nd Century A.D. Discovered in Austria
2014-03-01,"China has accused the United States of widespread human rights abuses, including cyber-surveillance and child labor..."
2014-03-01,Foreign domestic workers across Asia rise up over exploitation
2014-03-01,World Bank freezes aid to Uganda over anti-gay law.
2014-03-01,Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels
2014-03-01,Crimean airspace closed after Russian transports reportedly land
2014-03-01,"China on Friday issued a report on human rights in the US, denouncing it for foreign drone strikes, state-sponsored spying and rampant gun crime after Washington criticized its rights record"
2014-02-28,Scotland to offer gay Ugandans asylum
2014-02-28,Jamaica will decriminalise possession of small amounts of marijuana this year
2014-02-28,"Ukraine says it has repelled ""Russian invasion"" and has retaken territory seized by Russians earlier. An official has said that Ukraine repelled a combination of Russian soldiers and pro-Kremlin militias- the country continues to appeal to the West for protection against Russia."
2014-02-28,"Monsanto's Roundup may be linked to fatal kidney disease. A heretofore inexplicable fatal, chronic kidney disease that has affected poor farming regions around the globe may be linked to the use of biochemical giant Monsantos Roundup herbicide in areas with hard water."
2014-02-28,"The World Bank has postponed a $90 million loan to Uganda over its anti-gay law that has drawn widespread criticism from Western governments, the United Nations and rights groups"
2014-02-28,A man who beheaded a fellow passenger on a Canadian bus has been granted the right to leave his mental hospital without an escort.
2014-02-28,Ukraine's interior minister says Russian military have seized airport in Sevastopol.
2014-02-28,"Worlds biggest cyber attack detected. 360 million accounts detected , 1.25 billion email addresses hacked."
2014-02-28,"UK welfare cuts: woman in a coma told ""get back to work"" by the Department for Work and Pensions"
2014-02-28,"Russia forces ""block Crimea airport"", Ukraine's interior minister calls their presence ""armed invasion"""
2014-02-28,"Russia gives all its gold medalists $120,000, a new Mercedes"
2014-02-28,"Chinese police have arrested 1,094 people and rescued hundreds of infants in a crackdown on baby trafficking."
2014-02-28,Pastor of Korean Megachurch Convicted for Embezzling $12 Million
2014-02-28,"Police to press charges against vice president of the European Parliament who reportedly drunk two bottles of wine before yelling ""Heil Hitler"" at officials in German airport"
2014-02-28,"New Zealand's Customs Service are concerned people will use 3D printers to ""create gold, gems, food or drugs in their living rooms""."
2014-02-28,Sevastopol airport in Ukraine taken over by armed men
2014-02-28,Fugitive Ukrainian president shows up in Moscow
2014-02-28,"Russia is building a ""rural Berlin wall"" in Georgia. The wall separates South Ossetia from Georgia, and Russian forces are detaining Georgian citizens who near the wall."
2014-02-28,"Turkish PM admits that the trials he used to jail military officers were a sham, now that the same courts are targeting him"
2014-02-28,"Doctors Without Borders says it has been expelled from Myanmar, thousands of patients at risk"
2014-02-28,Wild beavers seen in England for first time in centuries | Environment
2014-02-28,Confusion over Uganda's 'miniskirt ban' leads to public attacks on women - Mobs are taking an interpretation of the proposed law as an excuse to target and strip people they consider to be improperly dressed.
2014-02-28,Unidentified armed men seize Crimea airport
2014-02-28,Report: U.K. Spy Agency Stored Millions of Webcam Images. Many of them were sexually explicit in nature.
2014-02-28,Leaks show GCHQ captured ordinary internet users webcam images
2014-02-27,UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users
2014-02-27,Armed men seize Crimea parliament - reports | World news
2014-02-27,"Taxing the rich is good for the economy, IMF says - Business"
2014-02-27,NASA has discovered 715 New Worlds
2014-02-27,About $70 billion has been withdrawn from Ukraine's financial system over the last three years.
2014-02-27,North Korea launches missiles into sea
2014-02-27,"Boko Haram attacked a school in Nigeria, setting it ablaze and murdering those who tried to escape the flames."
2014-02-27,Ukraine: Former President Yanukovych reportedly found in Russia
2014-02-27,"Russian jets put on ""combat alert"" along western border"
2014-02-27,Royal Bank of Scotland pays out 588m in staff bonuses despite suffering 8.24bn loss
2014-02-27,Japan says any bitcoin regulation should be international.
2014-02-27,Turkeys main opposition took to the streets...in protest against the latest leaked voice recordings incriminating Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan and his son...The recordings feature Erdoan and his son discussing how to get rid of a sum of cash equivalent to 2.2 billion Turkish Liras.
2014-02-27,Russia says it will defend the rights of its 'compatriots' in Crimea after pro-Russia gunmen seize parliament
2014-02-27,"ISIS imposes rules on Christians in Raqqa: A jihadist group in Syria has demanded that Christians in the northern city of Raqqa pay a levy in gold and accept curbs on their faith, or face death. ISIS said it would give Christian residents ""protection"" if they agreed to the list of conditions."
2014-02-27,"Turkish Prime Minister targeted in second audio tape - A second recording, presented as the voice of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan asking his son not to accept an amount of money on offer in a business deal but to hold out for more, was published on YouTube by an anonymous poster on Wednesday"
2014-02-27,Qatar's foreign domestic workers subjected to slave-like conditions
2014-02-27,"Lee Rigby murderers sentenced to life in prison | Michael Adebolajo has been sentenced to life in prison for the killing of Drummer Lee Rigby while Michael Adebowale was sentenced to life, with a minimum of 45 years."
2014-02-27,Turkey calls out Canada on human rights over Quebec secular charter
2014-02-27,"Militias form in Crimea, Ukraines Russian bastion"
2014-02-27,Syrian troops reportedly kill more than 150 Al Qaeda-linked rebels
2014-02-27,Ontario Liberals are thinking about letting cities ditch first-past-the-post voting
2014-02-27,North Korea fires four short-range missiles into Sea off the Coast of South Korea
2014-02-27,George Brandis refuses to back up claim that Snowden put lives at risk | Attorney general says he is aware of particular cases on the basis of intelligence briefings but will not reveal the information
2014-02-27,Slovenian journalist Anushka Delic indicted for revealing government connections to neo-nazi group
2014-02-27,"Amongst 715 new planets discovered by NASA today, there are a few that may lie in zones habitable by humans"
2014-02-26,"New Snowden Doc Reveals How GCHQ/NSA Use The Internet To 'Manipulate, Deceive And Destroy Reputations' of activists."
2014-02-26,An Italian woman with cancer is suing health authorities after she was subjected to grueling radiotherapy 22 times - on the wrong breast
2014-02-26,"Switzerland could soon have the world's highest minimum wage - at $24.80 per hour, or $4,505 a month."
2014-02-26,"China's air pollution has reached the level of a ""nuclear winter"", with even crops and agriculture facing problems. Beijing's pollution concentration is at 505 micrograms, 20 times the World Health limit. The Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences says that the city is ""uninhabitable for human beings""."
2014-02-26,"Norway, Denmark, Netherlands halt millions of dollars in aid to Uganda"
2014-02-26,Bush cyberczar: NSA created the potential for a police state
2014-02-26,IMF study finds inequality is damaging to economic growth: The International Monetary Fund has backed economists who argue that inequality is a drag on growth in a discussion paper that has also dismissed rightwing theories that efforts to redistribute incomes are self-defeating.
2014-02-26,UK shells out over $8m to monitor Julian Assange  RT News
2014-02-26,Brazil champions undersea cable to bypass US
2014-02-26,Tepco Says Fukushima Radiation Significantly Undercounted
2014-02-26,Ugandan Minister for Ethics & Integrity says men raping girls is natural
2014-02-26,Scale of suffering at Syrian refugee camp is revealed by photo of huge queue for food
2014-02-26,"Greek police enter schools, quiz children on political activities"
2014-02-26,Ukraine's new rulers disband riot police
2014-02-26,"Israel Guilty of 'Apartheid', Says Falk in Final Report"
2014-02-26,Soviet monument in Bulgaria vandalized...again
2014-02-26,Couple finds $10million in gold coins while walking their dog
2014-02-26,Spanish Flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia dies at 66
2014-02-26,White House Clears Way For Complete Withdrawal From Afghanistan
2014-02-26,"Geoengineering side effects could be potentially disastrous, research shows. Comparison of five proposed methods shows they are ineffective, alter weather systems or could not be safely stopped."
2014-02-26,"Former Hong Kong Newspaper Editor Kevin Lau, who investigated the offshore companies maintained by mainland officials, Stabbed"
2014-02-26,'Outernet' Project Seeks Free Internet Access For Earth : Discovery News
2014-02-26,"Killer climate: tens of thousands of flying foxes dead in a day. This summer we have seen one of the most dramatic animal die-offs ever recorded in Australia: at least 45,500 flying foxes dead on just one extremely hot day in southeast Queensland"
2014-02-26,"World begins 2014 with unusual number of extreme weather events. ""Next month we will publish a major report showing the likelihood of extreme heatwaves is increased 500% [with climate change]."""
2014-02-26,"'A Perfect Storm': The Failure of Venezuela's New President - He was hand-picked by Hugo Chvez, but Nicols Maduro has lost control of the country's economy. Vast protests are the result, but the govt in Caracas shows no signs of bending."
2014-02-25,Russia Says It Will Keep Out of Ukrainian Affairs
2014-02-25,"Ukraine protester falls for policeman at barricades, offered live TV interview about romance, instead rants about corruption in the TV station and shames them with pictures of her dead friends. ""It is true that I fell in love with the policeman that I met, but I'm going to tell you another story..."""
2014-02-25,Was Apple security flaw actually an NSA backdoor?
2014-02-25,Turkish main opposition convenes over Erdoan's voice recording regarding $1 billion cash stored in several properties of Erdoan family.
2014-02-25,"Mt. Gox is dead: Rumors swirl over insolvency of Japan-based Bitcoin exchange as leaked documents show $375 million worth of Bitcoin was stolen from ""cold storage"" accounts"
2014-02-25,HSBC hands allowances to hundreds of bankers to avoid EU bonus cap | Britain's biggest bank awards staff 'fixed pay allowances' to side-step restriction on bonuses imposed by Brussels.
2014-02-25,"Pirate Bay teams up with Swedens Lund University and becomes ""Research Bay"""
2014-02-25,UK: The family of a soldier who was found hanged after claiming she had been raped and bullied have said they fear a possible cover-up by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) after about 1400 new documents emerged on the day the inquest into her death was due to conclude.
2014-02-25,"Brazil, Europe plan undersea cable to skirt U.S. spying"
2014-02-25,The NSA Has Set Up Shop at the US Embassy in Mexico
2014-02-25,"China banned outdoor school sports and cookouts as it grappled with a fourth straight day of thick, choking smog, a pollution problem that a recent report says makes Beijing ""barely suitable"" for living"
2014-02-25,"Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox disappears. ""Website down, it's founder unaccounted for, and a Tokyo office empty"""
2014-02-25,Mass arrest of protesters at rallies in Russia
2014-02-25,Ukraine votes to send Yanukovych to The Hague to face trial
2014-02-25,"Iraq signs arms deal with Iran - Deal to buy arms and ammunition worth $195m violates UN arms embargo on Iran, Reuters news agency says"
2014-02-25,Turkish opposition calls for Erdogan to be investigated for corruption
2014-02-25,Brunei: 19 Islamic words banned for non-Muslims
2014-02-25,Seven Egyptian Christians found dead near Benghazi
2014-02-25,Developing: Israel shells Hezbollah post in east Lebanon
2014-02-25,Biggest meteor ever recorded hits Moon (VIDEO)
2014-02-25,"After anti-gay law is signed, Uganda tabloid publishes list of the country's 'top' homosexuals"
2014-02-25,Rebekah Brooks 'did not know hacking was illegal'
2014-02-25,Erdogan Resignation Demanded by Turkish Opposition Over Tape
2014-02-25,"Yanukovych was planning harsh clampdown, leak reveals"
2014-02-25,Australian Federal Election Fraud. Police investigate multiple votes in 2013 federal election; one person voted 15 times.
2014-02-24,The Egyptian government has resigned.
2014-02-24,"President Yoweri Museveni has signed the Ugnada anti-gay bill. The new law punishes first-time offenders with 14 years in jail, and allows life imprisonment as the penalty for acts of ""aggravated homosexuality"". The law makes it a crime not to report gay people."
2014-02-24,"Venezuela: how photos get manipulated. ""This article provides graphic evidence of how some postings on social and other media have reproduced images culled from elsewhere and portrayed them as depicting events in Venezuela..."""
2014-02-24,Russia advises U.S. to watch its own use of force - Interfax
2014-02-24,Japanese company proposes to build solar power cells on the Moon to provide clean energy to Earth.
2014-02-24,Ex-Venezuelan general in armed standoff at home
2014-02-24,Australian gem is 'oldest piece of Earth ever found' - and shows life could have formed on our planet earlier than anyone thought possible
2014-02-24,"Venezuelas central bank said yesterday that the scarcity index reached 28 percent in January, the highest since the central bank created the measure in 2005, meaning that more than one in four basic goods was out of stock at any given time."
2014-02-24,"Two suicide bombers killed a senior al-Qaida operative, blowing themselves up inside the militant leader's compound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo"
2014-02-24,New Zealand set to raise minimum wage 50c to $14.25/hour from April 1
2014-02-24,Sochi Olympic end. Russia takes the most medals
2014-02-24,Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers
2014-02-24,Diplomats fear Australia will wreck UN probe into Sri Lankan war crimes
2014-02-24,Retired Venezuelan general to be arrested following decapitation of motorist at opposition blockade
2014-02-24,U.S. imposes visa bans against 20 Ukrainian officials
2014-02-24,Pakistan minister offers Taliban cricket match for peace
2014-02-24,"China Must Reduce Unbearable Smog, Government Adviser Says"
2014-02-24,American inmate killed after shooting guards in Israeli prison.
2014-02-24,"Taliban Attack Afghan Army Base, Killing Soldiers in Their Sleep"
2014-02-24,George Brandis refuses to back up claim that Snowden put lives at risk | Attorney general says he is aware of particular cases on the basis of intelligence briefings but will not reveal the information
2014-02-24,"Sanctioning Iranians' health - ""Before the sanctions reached their full impact over the past two years, the Iranian healthcare system was long considered one of the most advanced in the Middle East, with health standards among the highest in the developing world."""
2014-02-24,Snowflake malfunction: Russia makes fun of itself in Sochi closing ceremonies.
2014-02-24,Mexico hunts for No. 2 after netting cartel boss
2014-02-24,My playmate the monster: The man who saw Kim Jong-Un from rock-star boyhood to blood-soaked dictatorship tells his story
2014-02-24,Majority of Finns reject NATO membership
2014-02-23,"Mexico's biggest drug Lord Joaquin ""el chapo"" Guzman has been captured."
2014-02-23,Turkish citizens say no to internet censorship and take streets in protest
2014-02-23,Reuters: NSA now bugging 320 German officials in place of Merkel - including Merkel's most trusted confidant - after Obama promised to stop monitoring Merkel.
2014-02-23,"NSA Affair: Constitutional Court President Had Strong Words for the US - How can one criticize the human rights situation in China or the Turkish governments measures to restrict Internet usage, when basic civil rights are being disregarded in such a manner in the U.S.? asked Holzinger"
2014-02-23,Ukraine: sticky post
2014-02-23,Call To Make Drinking While Pregnant A Crime
2014-02-23,Yanukovich Attempts To Flee Ukraine But Is Stopped By Border Guards
2014-02-23,U.S. now bugging German ministers in place of Merkel: report
2014-02-23,Canadian journalist disappears from Hotel in Cambodia while filming documentary on Khmer Rouge.
2014-02-23,Beijing Air Pollution Reaches 11-Times WHO Recommended Levels
2014-02-23,"Venezuela orders troops into border city amid fierce clashes: Paratroopers sent into San Cristobal in the border state of Tachira and an internet blackout imposed, as residents say they are living in a 'war zone'"
2014-02-23,Germany Embraces Creation of European Data Networks as Shield from NSA
2014-02-23,Dont panic. But theres a global coffee shortage.
2014-02-23,Iceland moves to withdraw EU application
2014-02-23,The Saudi gov't/family is about to hire the Binladen Group to destroy the house Muhammad was born in to build a palace for members of the royal family.
2014-02-23,President Yanukovych`s house
2014-02-23,Leaders in Russian-speaking east Ukraine vote to take control of their areas
2014-02-23,"Smog is the best defense against laser weapons from the US, Chinese theorist says: Shanghaiist"
2014-02-23,Pakistani jet fighters and helicopter gunships kill more than 40 militants in two days of intense bombardment
2014-02-23,Australians hold vigils across the country for slain asylum seeker killed while in custody in 'Australia's Guantanamo'.
2014-02-23,Ukrainian parliament appoints speaker Oleksander Turchinov as interim president
2014-02-23,Ukraine: Yulia Tymoshenko released as country lurches towards split
2014-02-23,Russia Pledges to Fight for Crimea if Ukraine Splits
2014-02-23,"""Brazilian Chancellor to the USA"" identified in a report sent to the State Department in 2012 as a ""financial component of the Sinaloa Cartel"""
2014-02-23,'You have removed this cancer from our country': Ukraine former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko addresses protesters in Independence Square after release from prison
2014-02-22,Ukrainian protestors have gained control over the presidential building. President is on the run
2014-02-22,Venezuela Shuts Off the Internet After Blocking Twitter and Preventing News Organizations from Covering the Protests
2014-02-22,"University of the People, a tuition-free online university targeted toward the world's poor, has received accreditation to award real degrees"
2014-02-22,"Men banned from becoming Queen of England or a Princess, as gay marriage approaches in UK."
2014-02-22,"Five former Guantanamo detainees from Turkey, Uzbekistan and Algeria, who are now settled in other countries, are seeking damages in a US appeals court for years of sexual, mental and physical abuse at the US detention centre, where they were held without charge or trial."
2014-02-22,Ukraine's president says he won't resign and likens country's political crisis to Nazis' rise.
2014-02-22,"Venezuela revokes visas of CNN journalists for spreading ""war propaganda"""
2014-02-22,"The Croatian Catholic Church has found one of its priests guilty of sexually abusing minors, the first such ruling in the staunchly Catholic nation"
2014-02-22,Manitoba becomes first province in Canada and only jurisdiction in North America to declare Hell's Angels a criminal organization.
2014-02-22,"Ukraine: Protesters remain occupying Kyiv Square, cautious of how truthfully Yanukovych and the Ukrainian Gov. will honor the deal signed earlier yesterday to make major reforms. Policemen join the protesters instead of fighting them."
2014-02-22,Live: former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko to be freed
2014-02-22,"U.S. Official: Beijing Preparing For 'Short, Sharp' War With Japan"
2014-02-22,Sochi Games hit by first doping shock  A German double gold-medal winning female biathlete has failed a doping test
2014-02-22,Ukrainian parliament introduced bill to impeach president Yanukovich
2014-02-22,"Young Ukrainian who tweeted, I am dying, has become symbol of protest"
2014-02-22,"About 4,000 people deported from US are stuck in no-man's land between border and Tijuana, unwanted by US or Mexico."
2014-02-22,The Ukraine: sticky post
2014-02-22,Whistle Blowers Protection Bill passed by the Indian Parliament
2014-02-22,NAFTA leaders agree to protect monarch butterfly
2014-02-22,New Iranian newspaper shutdown after questioning Islamic legal principles
2014-02-22,The Council voted to dismiss Yanukovych and announced elections for May 25!
2014-02-22,Britain's bank bosses to get millions in share payments in bonus cap dodge | Payments would be on top of bank leaders' basic pay in a move to circumvent EU's limits on bonuses.
2014-02-22,Ukrainian protesters claim full control of capital amid reports president has left Kyiv
2014-02-22,Reports that Yanukovych has resigned and fled Ukraine.
2014-02-22,Lithuania opens CIA black site probe
2014-02-21,Ukrainian Skier Pulls Out of Olympics To Join Protestors In Kiev
2014-02-21,"Polish minister warns protest leader 'you'll all be dead.' The Polish foreign minister has been filmed telling a protest leader: ""If you don't support this [deal] you'll have martial law, you'll have the army. You will all be dead."""
2014-02-21,Footage captured of clearly marked medic being shot by police snipers in Kiev.
2014-02-21,The People Have Won: Ukraine President Yanukovych calls early vote
2014-02-21,"Footage of the massacre in Kiev, Ukraine today from Twitter (new images every 15 minutes, video of snipers)"
2014-02-21,Venezuela threatens to expel CNN over protest coverage
2014-02-21,US investigates illegal military equipment shipments from Israel to Iran: US Homeland Security says Israeli arms dealers have been sending spare military jet parts to Iran in breach of sanctions
2014-02-21,EU to impose sanctions on Ukrainian officials responsible for killings in Kiev
2014-02-21,"Kyiv sees deadliest day in 3 months of protests: Medic says at least 70 killed, 500 wounded"
2014-02-21,"""Russia is prepared to fight a war over the Ukrainian territory of Crimea to protect the ethnic Russian population and its military base there, a senior government official has told the FT."""
2014-02-21,"Ukrainian parliament voted for ceasefire, the return of police to their bases and prohibited gun use."
2014-02-21,South Korea has announced it is developing offensive cyberwarfare capabilities to cripple North Korea's nuclear and missile facilities.
2014-02-21,Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's Allies Start Deserting Him
2014-02-21,"Venezuela's poor join protests as turmoil grips Chvez's revolution - ""This country can't stay like this for much longer. If it's not lack of food, it is the fear of being killed when you step out of your house to go to work"", Jorge Farias said. ""I would like to wake up without this fear,"""
2014-02-21,Sticky Post: Ukraine & Venezuela
2014-02-21,"While protests rage in Ukraine and Venezuela, they are also occurring in Bosnia"
2014-02-21,"""Ukraines parliament just threw President Yanukovych under the bus. Thats great news."""
2014-02-21,"Libyan rape victims of Gadaffi forces to be recognized as war victims, receive compensation like that of wounded ex-soldiers"
2014-02-21,No Protester Is Safe From Snipers Or AK-47s In Ukraine (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
2014-02-21,President Yanukovich announces Ukraine to hold early Presidential election
2014-02-21,Canada joins EU in slapping sanctions on Ukraine as death toll rises in Kyiv
2014-02-21,Ukraine president says deal has been reached to end days of bloodshed
2014-02-21,"The Ukrainian President has agreed to hold early elections, and to the formation of a national unity government, according to the Polish Prime Minister, following talks earlier today."
2014-02-21,"Tough austerity measures in Greece leave nearly a million people with no access to healthcare, leading to soaring infant mortality, HIV infection and suicide"
2014-02-21,"""Chinese government officials have quietly become more sceptical about foreign banks' research reports and are avoiding senior economists at global banks, partly because of growing mutual distrust over the scale and seriousness of the country's debt problems."""
2014-02-20,Ukraine: Video of police shooting AK-47 and sniper rifles at people
2014-02-20,600 year old Voynich manuscript partially decoded by University of Bedfordshire professor
2014-02-20,"22-year-old student dies from bullet wound after being shot in the head during a protest, 5th fatality of unrest in Venezuela"
2014-02-20,Keystone Pipeline struck down by Nebraska Judge
2014-02-20,Truce crumbles amid gunfire in Ukraine that kills 21
2014-02-20,"Iraq offers $17,200 reward for killing jihadists: Iraq's government has offered a reward of $17,200 for each foreign militant killed from al-Qaeda or ISIS, a former affiliate. A larger reward of $25,800 is being offered for the capture of militants belonging to the two groups."
2014-02-20,CNN cameras taken at gunpoint in Venezuela-
2014-02-20,"The Russian government evicted 2,000 people out of their homes to build a $9 billion highway just for the Olympics. Further investigation found Russian did not systematically implement a fair and transparent process to repay them."
2014-02-20,"Wild bumblebees worldwide are in trouble, likely contracting deadly diseases from their commercialized honeybee cousins, a new study shows."
2014-02-20,New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant.
2014-02-20,"A hobby archaeologist with a metal detector has discovered a trove of gold and silver in a German forest dating back to late Roman times, fuelling speculation that it could be the legendary Nibelung treasure which inspired composer Richard Wagners operatic Ring Cycle."
2014-02-20,Brazilian Senate will discuss the legalization of Cannabis.
2014-02-20,Bill to legalize medical marijuana proposed in Mexico
2014-02-20,North and South Koreans hold rare family reunions
2014-02-20,Women join the Kurdish fight in Syria: Syrian Kurds are fighting for an autonomous region in the northeast of the country. They have largely managed to drive out Assad's troops. Now they're fighting Al-Qaeda terrorists. A third of the fighters are women.
2014-02-20,"Nigerian Mafia running wild in Japan. Brokering heroin sales with yakuza members, forcing Filipino women into prostitution, performing money laundering, committing car theft and arranging fake marriages are among the common illegal schemes"
2014-02-20,"Food Scam: Tons of Fake Food, Drinks Seized in Interpol Bust  Environmental offenses were uncovered as over 1,200 metric tons of fake or substandard food & nearly 430,000 liters of counterfeit drinks seized across Europe, Asia, & the Americas."
2014-02-20,"After highly likely bugging uncovered at the Irish police oversight office, things keep getting stranger. Justice Minister, implicated by recorded conversation in trying to silence police whistleblowers, sacks his own appointee and associate."
2014-02-20,"China training for short, sharp war, says senior US naval officer"
2014-02-20,US investigates illegal military equipment shipments from Israel to Iran
2014-02-20,China To Spend $330 Billion On Cleaning Up Polluted Water
2014-02-20,Report: Deadly drone strike in Yemen failed to comply with Obamas rules to protect civilians - The Washington Post
2014-02-20,A German professor at a top Swiss university has quit over rampant 'xenophobia' in his host country
2014-02-20,Mexico lawmakers introduce marijuana legalization bill [x-post /r/LegalNews]
2014-02-20,Nigeria's central bank governor Lamido Sanusi has been suspended after he alleged that $20bn (12bn) in oil revenue had gone missing.
2014-02-19,"Left-wing Mexican senators on Tuesday presented an initiative to Legalize Medical Marijuana, saying a new approach was needed to speed up drug liberalization and help end a cycle of cartel violence that has killed tens of thousands"
2014-02-19,"At least nine reported dead, over 100 injured in Kiev as violent clashes break out near Ukraine's parliament"
2014-02-19,Thai court bans use of violence against protesters.
2014-02-19,Pussy Riot attacked with whips by Cossack militia at Sochi Olympics
2014-02-19,Edward Snowden Elected Rector of Glasgow University
2014-02-19,Ukraine Revolt: sticky post
2014-02-19,"Ukraine's bloodiest day of protests, 18+ dead"
2014-02-19,South Africa Parliament Introduces Bill To Legalize Marijuana
2014-02-19,"Rioters seize over 1,500 guns in Ukraine, Government pledges ""anti-terrorism"" measures"
2014-02-19,Ukraine: Police shooting and throwing granades to people in Kijev Live stream
2014-02-19,"China plans to spend 2 trillion yuan, or $330 billion, on an action plan to tackle pollution of its scarce water resources, state media said on Tuesday."
2014-02-19,"Tony Blair gave advice to newspaper executive Rebekah Brooks on handling the phone-hacking scandal six days before her arrest, a court has heard."
2014-02-19,Jane Goodall: China Is Colonizing Africa
2014-02-19,IOC bans Ukraine's athletes from wearing black armbands at Sochi
2014-02-19,13 People Believed Killed as Police Storm Ukrainian Protest Camp
2014-02-19,"Greece posts first current account surplus: Greece has reached a current account surplus for the first time in 66 years, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Bank of Greece."
2014-02-19,"David Miranda detention at Heathrow airport was lawful, high court rules | Detention of former Guardian journalist's partner was justified by 'very pressing' interests of national security, judges say"
2014-02-19,Tensions Rise as Thousands of Venezuelans March in Protest
2014-02-19,Venezuela opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez surrenders
2014-02-19,UK High Court Dismisses Miranda Claim - Supports Terrorism interpretation
2014-02-19,The Battle for Kiev Begins
2014-02-19,"Head of one of Russia's few independent radio stations is ousted in favor of wife of a Putin crony, fueling concerns that Putin's crackdown on civil liberties and free journalism is intensifying."
2014-02-19,Ukrainian regime launches a deadly attack on the protesters
2014-02-19,"Tony Blair allegedly offered to advise Rupert Murdoch, phone-hacking trial told"
2014-02-19,"Venezuela Opposition Leader was arrested Tuesday, after emerging from days of hiding and making an impassioned speech to thousands of supporters, saying he hoped his detention will open Venezuelans' eyes to the increasingly authoritarian bent of their government."
2014-02-18,Glenn Greenwald: Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal for the first time how the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.
2014-02-18,"""At the end of the Second World War so many people said 'if only we had known... if only we had known the wrongs that were done in the countries of the hostile forces""- Michael Kirby (UN) on how the world must act on North Korea rights abuse"
2014-02-18,Saudi Arabia: women banned from visiting hospitals without male guardian
2014-02-18,Another JP Morgan Banker Suicide.
2014-02-18,Policeman who shot and killed a pregnant restauranteur for not serving him milk tea gets the death sentence
2014-02-18,News Corps $882m blew the Australian budget: 'The single largest factor in the underlying deterioration of the federal budget announced by Treasurer Joe Hockey in December was a cash payout of almost $900 million to Rupert Murdochs News Corp'
2014-02-18,"No Swiss fighter jets were scrambled Monday when an Ethiopian Airlines co-pilot hijacked his own plane and forced it to land in Geneva, because it happened outside business hours, the Swiss airforce said."
2014-02-18,Another huge violent clash is happening in Ukraine right now. This is all being streamed live online.
2014-02-18,Killer starfish are eating the Great Barrier Reef by smothering and digesting its flesh. Scientists are blaming the problem on fertiliser from nearby sugar cane farms.
2014-02-18,"An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaeda is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, US officials say, and the Obama administration is weighing up whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally"
2014-02-18,Angela Merkel: Let US spies keep their internet. The EU will build its own
2014-02-18,"Venezuela: Intelligence Officials Burst Into Opposition Headquarters. Lacking a Warrant, Agents Enter with Guns Drawn (video)"
2014-02-18,"NSA, and GCHQ, deployed Internet surveillance technologies against Wikileaks in a campaign that also encouraged international governments to take action against the websites founder, according to newly leaked documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden."
2014-02-18,North American leaders called upon to save monarch butterfly
2014-02-18,Kazakhstan: Lace underwear ban sparks protests
2014-02-18,"Qatar World Cup toll: More than 450 Indian migrant workers in Qatar have died in the last two years, media revealed on Monday. Another upcoming report will show that 400 Nepalese have lost their lives scrambling to get the Gulf state ready for the 2022 World cup."
2014-02-18,Ukraine: Maidan Protests Escalate Once Again
2014-02-18,Five dead in Ukraine clashes
2014-02-18,Iran's interior minister has warned it may send forces into Pakistan if it does not act to free five Iranian border guards seized 10 days ago
2014-02-18,North Korea: 'You are brainwashed from the time you know how to talk' - UN dossier of regime's human rights abuses contains appalling stories of how state brutally enforces 'racial purity'
2014-02-18,"Heavy clashes near Parliament in Kiev, Ukraine 18.02.2014"
2014-02-18,"Israel boycott movement is antisemitic, says Binyamin Netanyahu | World news"
2014-02-18,Venezuela expels three U.S. diplomats accused of spurring protests
2014-02-18,"""Venezuela gave three US diplomats 48 hours to leave the country Monday as Washington rejected as ""baseless and false"" accusations it was aiding protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro."""
2014-02-18,U.K. drafting legislation to expand porn filter to include 'Extremist' websites
2014-02-17,Snowden's Lawyer aggressively intimidated in Heathrow
2014-02-17,"Dolphins 'suffering miscarriage, lung disease, losing teeth after BP oil spill' researchers claim"
2014-02-17,"Catholic bishop who spent $480,000 on wardrobes used children's charity cash to build new $40-million HQ"
2014-02-17,"North Korean human rights abuses systematic and unparalleled, says UN. Inquiry chairman writes to Kim Jong-un warning he could face trial at The Hague for crimes against humanity"
2014-02-17,"Scientists have made an impassioned plea for humanity to pause and think before making a headlong rush to exploit the deep sea. The researchers said the oceans' lowest reaches had untold riches that could benefit mankind enormously, but not if the harvesting were done destructively."
2014-02-17,"Denmark bans religious slaughter of animals: Defending the government's decision, Agriculture and Food Minister Dan Jrgensen told Denmark's TV2 television that ""animal rights come before religion"""
2014-02-17,"Members of 'Flat Earth Society'? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday called climate change perhaps the world's ""most fearsome"" destructive weapon and mocked those who deny its existence or question its causes, comparing them to people who insist the Earth is flat."
2014-02-17,Rupert Murdoch's empire receives $882m tax rebate from Australia - Payment revealed by News Corp in US likely to reignite debate over how much tax is paid by international corporations
2014-02-17,"Chinese Archaeologists have discovered an ancient tomb in Alaer, Southern Xinjiang. The finding shows that the skeleton of the Qiang people 4,000 years ago was nearly 2.3 meters, or 7.5 feet long. Also, the Qiang people's front teeth are vertically grown, unlike modern people's teeth"
2014-02-17,"Taliban behead 23 Pak soldiers, peace talks with govt collapse"
2014-02-17,"Little British Columbia Fishing Club Takes on US Billionaire - Dispute arose when club protested against Stanley Kroenke's ranch policy of locking gates on roads leading to 2 lakes after turning them private for sport-fishing, with a lodge charge of $349 a night & $195 for a fishing guide."
2014-02-17,North Korea's Kim warned he might face charges over atrocities
2014-02-17,"China said on Monday it was ""extremely concerned"" by a report that Japan has resisted returning to the United States more than 300 kg (660 lb) of mostly weapons-grade plutonium, the latest dispute between the two Asian neighbors."
2014-02-17,11 arrested for serving human meat at Nigerian hotel restaurant.
2014-02-17,Edward Snowden leak: Australia spied on Indonesian phones and data
2014-02-17,"European boycotts begin to bite, catching Israel's attention: Last year, Jordan Valley farmers lost an estimated $29 million, or 14 percent of revenue due to the campaign"
2014-02-17,"In election year, Romania debates giving human rights to dolphins"
2014-02-17,EU freezes Switzerland out of reseach and education grants.
2014-02-17,North American Leaders Urged to Restore Monarch Butterflys Habitat
2014-02-17,"Journalists who broke NSA story in Guardian receive George Polk Awards | Ewen MacAskill, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras honoured.; Polk curator: repercussions of NSA will be with us for years"
2014-02-17,South Korea building collapse: Dozens of students trapped
2014-02-17,"Shunning Creditors, Iceland Goes It Alone As Economy Rebounds: ""Iceland's government feels it can shun international investors while enjoying economic growth - witness its dismissive response to a $5 billion lawsuit over Icesave debts and a tough stance on paying bond creditors."""
2014-02-17,"China's plan to clean up air in cities will doom the climate, scientists say | News | Eco-Business"
2014-02-17,Tens of thousands of Turks stage anti-government protests in Istanbul
2014-02-17,Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 Squawks Hijacking for Reasons Unknown
2014-02-16,"Homeless man wins the lottery with his last few coins, vows to spend winnings setting up a foundation for addicts and abused women."
2014-02-16,"A top-secret document, obtained by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden, shows that an American law firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States."
2014-02-16,"NSA aftermath: Germany decides to massively ramp up counterintelligence against Western allies, after Obama denies no-spy treaty"
2014-02-16,"With Porn Filters Going Oh So Well, UK Roars Ahead In Expanding Them To Include 'Extremist' Content [x-post]"
2014-02-16,Qatar World Cup: 400 Nepalese have died since construction began Calls grow for Fifa to take decisive action as human-rights group prepares to release report on mounting death toll
2014-02-16,Toronto child-porn investigation leads to major political scandal in Germany
2014-02-16,"Doctors group tells US, big pharma to get off Indias back"
2014-02-16,"Protesters are being shot by the police in Chacao, Venezuela"
2014-02-16,South Africa mine accident: Rescuers trying to reach 200 illegal workers in mine near Johannesburg
2014-02-16,Greece grapples with soaring numbers of abandoned children and babies
2014-02-16,Cuba shuts down US travel visas.
2014-02-16,"""Indonesia has said Australia and America need to 'clean up their mess' to salvage relations with Indonesia after revelations that Australia spied on a law firm representing Indonesia in a trade dispute."""
2014-02-16,"Bahrain protest attracts tens of thousands, no clashes - thousands of Bahrainis joined a peaceful demonstration on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of an abortive pro-democracy uprising led by majority Shi'ite Muslims"
2014-02-16,Business boycott: Israelis feeling the pinch
2014-02-16,"A North Korean ship, caught in July while trying to move undeclared Cuban weapons through the Panama Canal, left on Saturday to Cuba, the Foreign Ministry said. The ship got the green light last week to leave Panama after Pyongyang paid a fine of nearly $700,000."
2014-02-16,"US law firm spied on by Australian spy agency, offered to share details with the NSA, including information covered by attorney-client privilege."
2014-02-16,Ukraine: protesters end Kyiv City Hall occupation
2014-02-16,Explosion on a bus on Egyptian side of Sinai-Israel border
2014-02-16,Saudi Arabia to shut down offending websites
2014-02-16,Japan's Rakuten buys chat app Viber for $900 million to expand digital empire
2014-02-16,Germany draws up plans against NSA to counter American spies on its soil
2014-02-16,Israel Prepares Media War Against Boycott Movement
2014-02-16,"Brazil's World Cup courts disaster as delays, protests and deaths mount | An attack on the president's office was just the latest alarming episode in the runup to June's tournament"
2014-02-16,Hundreds trapped in South African gold mine
2014-02-16,"Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's most influential aide on Saturday rejected criticism from China that Japan is lurching toward militarism and said Tokyo would keep seeking dialogue with both Beijing and Seoul, ties with which have been badly strained by rows over territory and wartime history."
2014-02-15,"Italy overturns 'absurd' drug law equating marijuana and hard drugs: Italys constitutional court has overturned a controversial law equating cannabis with cocaine and heroin. The decision could see around 10,000 people released from the countrys overburdened jails."
2014-02-15,"A mob armed with wooden clubs and iron bars, screaming that they were going to ""cleanse"" their neighborhood of gay people, dragged 14 young men from their beds and assaulted them"
2014-02-15,"The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant knew about record high measurements of a dangerous isotope in groundwater at the plant for five months before telling the country's nuclear watchdog, a regulatory official told Reuters."
2014-02-15,Ugandan president to sign law imposing lifetime jail sentence for homosexuality
2014-02-15,Pakistani Taliban To Ancient Tribe: Convert To Islam Or Die
2014-02-15,"Villagers in southwestern China infuriated by a factory that was polluting the environment smashed its offices and equipment, and later clashed with police, underscoring the potential for such concerns to trigger violent unrest."
2014-02-15,UK Government Official Gets Twitter Parody Account Closed Down For Mocking Politicians And Heads Of Large Companies
2014-02-15,Saudi Arabia agrees to provide Syria rebels with mobile antiaircraft missiles
2014-02-15,"""A U.N. Commission of Inquiry has found that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and recommends that its findings be referred to the International Criminal Court"""
2014-02-15,Ukraine frees all protesters detained during unrest
2014-02-15,"Archaeologists have unearthed shell tools around 20,000 years old that could help clear up mysteries surrounding the ancestors of modern Japanese people"
2014-02-15,Australian Government To Buy Giant Drones Worth $3 Billion To Protect The Country
2014-02-15,Glenn Greenwald Calls Guardian Book On Snowden 'Bullshit'
2014-02-15,"Merkel, Hollande to discuss European communication network that avoids U.S."
2014-02-15,Poland's Surveillance Programs Could Be Worse than the NSA
2014-02-15,Starbucks openly admits to using carcinogenic shoe chemical in China stores
2014-02-15,"Pakistani anti-drone activist, Kareem Khan, who was abducted last week before he was meant to speak against drones in Europe, is released by his captors."
2014-02-15,Anders Breivik demands better video games and threatens hunger strike over jail 'hell'
2014-02-15,BBC News - Greens calls for clear-out of 'climate change deniers' [UK]
2014-02-15,India Unveils Astronaut Capsule | Science/AAAS
2014-02-15,CSEC exoneration a 'mockery of public accountability' - Canada
2014-02-15,The major city of Guangzhou in southern China closed its live poultry markets for two weeks to halt the spread of the H7N9 strain of bird flu
2014-02-15,"Chinese Man Allegedly Pushes Girlfriend Into Manhole: ""According to Sky News, the suspect told police he had planned to kill the woman because he owed her a debt of 100,000 yuan (approximately $16,000)"""
2014-02-15,Twitter confirms that Venezuela's Government is blocking access to Images after days of protests
2014-02-15,Nanjing massacre denial by governor of Japan's public broadcaster NHK prompts chilly response from U.S. Embassy
2014-02-14,The UK Government U-Turns on Election Promise; dropping plans to give voters the ability to dismiss Members of Parliament for serious wrongdoing.
2014-02-14,Russian MPs seek nationwide ban on child beauty pageants
2014-02-14,"Islamic fundamentalists in Syria have started to destroy archaeological treasures, such as Byzantine mosaics and Greek and Roman statues, because their portrayal of human beings is contrary to their religious beliefs"
2014-02-14,Silk road 2 hacked. All bitcoins stolen.
2014-02-14,Twitter is being blocked in Venezuela by the Government
2014-02-14,"""No banks should be promised eternal life"" - Norwegian governor of the Norwegian federal reserve says."
2014-02-14,Belgium's parliament removes age limit on euthanasia
2014-02-14,"Russia Expands Adoption Ban -- Russia is now ""forbidding single people (gay or straight), who live in any country where gay marriage is legal, from adopting Russian children"""
2014-02-14,"Volcano erupts in Indonesia, 100,000 evacuated, airports closed"
2014-02-14,ISIL Stones Syrian Girl to Death for Facebook Membership. Says It Is Tantamount To Adultery
2014-02-14,Australian politician who has never heard of VPN's; let alone understand what they are for; believes internet file downloads can be stopped by legislation of ISP's
2014-02-14,Mexican officials introduce bills seeking to relax marijuana laws
2014-02-14,"Four African nations pledge to end all sales of ivory: Botswana, Gabon, Chad and Tanzania won't sell their ivory stockpiles to protect elephants from poaching"
2014-02-14,"TEPCO latest readings detects record levels of radioactive cesium near Pacific, 600 times higher than allowed to be released into the ocean"
2014-02-14,"Britain's hundred years of conflict. If withdrawal from Afghanistan is successful, it will be the first time in 100 years that nation has not been at war."
2014-02-14,Snowden 'left in the lurch' by EU Parliament | An EU parliament's committee has issued a damning report about the scale and the impact of mass surveillance. But there is no consensus on an amendment to give asylum to intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.
2014-02-14,Belgium now the first country to legalize euthanasia for minors under 18.
2014-02-14,"Al Jazeera: 70 men and women executed in DR Congo ""mainly by armed groups to spread terror among the population"""
2014-02-14,9 Die in Fire Destroying Argentine Bank Archives
2014-02-14,Kerry says China willing to pressure North Korea on nuclear plans
2014-02-14,"Hamas blocks UN textbooks in Gaza, saying they focus too much on peaceful conflict resolution"
2014-02-14,"Crimes against humanity in NKorea, UN panel finds: A U.N. Commission of Inquiry has found that crimes against humanity have been committed in North Korea and recommends that its findings be referred to the International Criminal Court"
2014-02-14,Big Brother HSBC bank wanted to know what I'd spend my money on
2014-02-14,"Penguin Books India has reportedly agreed to recall and destroy all copies in India of a book about Hinduism by a U.S. religious scholar in response to a civil case filed by a nationalist organisation, raising concerns over the increasing sway of interest groups over freedom of expression."
2014-02-14,Last-Place Speed Skater Wins Gold Medal After Everyone Else Falls Down
2014-02-13,London City Banker tried to put neighbour in mental hospital over 12 inches of land.
2014-02-13,Italy court overturns law equating cannabis with heroin
2014-02-13,Venezuela anti-government rally turns deadly
2014-02-13,"Slaughtered for Ivory: 65% of Forest Elephants Killed Since 2002 - which means only 35% remain. Annual mortality rate is exceedingly high, at 9% a yr. By the time you eat breakfast, another elephant has been slaughtered to produce trinkets for the ivory market."
2014-02-13,Massive Protests in Venezuela ignored by local media.
2014-02-13,The risk of reporting US drone strikes: Yemen researcher says he received a death threat after investigating deadly wedding-convoy attack.
2014-02-13,Mexican Tycoon Becomes First Foreigner to Exploit Citizens United to Influence U.S. Elections
2014-02-13,Britain warns Scotland: Forget the pound if you break away
2014-02-13,"UK launches 500,000 fund to help male victims of rape and sexual abuse"
2014-02-13,German postwoman sacked for taking too much time off work while undergoing chemotherapy
2014-02-13,Tepco hid record-level radiation data last July
2014-02-13,Union apologises for censoring atheist 'Spaghetti Monster' poster.
2014-02-13,"The jobless rate in Greece reached a record high of 28% in November, according to newly released government figures."
2014-02-13,"Venezuelan Radio Host Post Soundbyte about Marshall law in Mrida, Venezuela. The Government has ordered all radio stations to seize broadcasting of any live content. (Rough translation in comments)"
2014-02-13,The Chinese moon rover Jade Rabbit has awaken; comms signal strength now reinstates to a normal level; tech team is trying to identify and fix issues with control system
2014-02-13,EU tells Britain to include Prostitutes And Drug Dealers in GDP
2014-02-13,"Venezuela: One Wounded, Two Dead after Opposition Protest. (Video. NB: Graphic)"
2014-02-13,Chinese villagers attack factory after reports of polluting
2014-02-13,"Strange ""S""-shaped phenomenon appears off Western Australia coast on weather bureau radar; bureau says it's not a cloud and doesn't know what it is"
2014-02-13,China announces $1.6B air pollution fund
2014-02-13,The Bank of England has confirmed that economic forecasting is basically impossible
2014-02-13,Male prostitution on the rise in Lebanon
2014-02-13,Indian Parliament erupts in chaos after MP uses pepper spray
2014-02-13,Spain makes abortion a criminal offense
2014-02-13,Nuclear fusion breakthrough raises hopes for ultimate green energy source | Scientists have moved a step closer to achieving sustainable nuclear fusion and almost limitless clean energy.
2014-02-12,Australian Politician Clive Palmer's nickel refinery pumped toxic waste into Great Barrier Reef park - Company discharged toxic wastewater into world heritage area despite being forbidden from doing so
2014-02-12,U.S. Plummets in Global Press Freedom Rankings
2014-02-12,Former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said Wednesday that Japan committed indescribable wrongdoings by forcing women from South Korea and elsewhere to serve as wartime sex slaves.
2014-02-12,"Raise prices of leukaemia and ovarian cancer meds by 4,000 % or we wont supply: Drug manufacturer Aspen Pharmacare threatens to cut off crucial treatment to Spain."
2014-02-12,"Judge Who Sentenced Protesters Shot Dead in Ukraine: A Ukrainian judge who recently sentenced several political protesters to house arrest has been shot dead by unknown attackers, police said Wednesday."
2014-02-12,EU loses faith in U.S. ability to manage Internet
2014-02-12,"""They beat me with a metal rod. They dripped molten plastic on my back. They beat the soles of my feet and then they forced me to stand for long periods of time, sometimes for days.""  Hundreds of Eritreans enslaved in torture camps in Sudan and Egypt"
2014-02-12,Japanese readers angry after South Korea Maxim runs story about how to date a Japanese girl who hasn't been exposed to radiation.
2014-02-12,Edward Snowden asylum demand dropped by European parliament: MEPs reach no consensus on amendment to inquiry calling on governments to assure NSA whistleblower of his safety
2014-02-12,University tears down Flying Spaghetti Monster posters for offending Christians
2014-02-12,Bing censoring Chinese language search results for users in the US in the same way it filters results in mainland China - English and Chinese language queries for terms such as Dalai Lama return radically different results on Microsoft search engine
2014-02-12,"Russia hoarded 400,000 tons of snow for over a year so it could save the Olympics this week"
2014-02-12,Iran womens football team turned out to include four men
2014-02-12,"Bosnia wants a new government of the expert, the young and, above all, the uncorrupt"
2014-02-12,"China hit by 6.8 magnitude earthquake, damages and casualties unclear"
2014-02-12,Polish Woman Guilty Of Killing Two Million Bees With Anti-Mosquito Spray
2014-02-12,UK slips down press freedom index due to harassment of the Guardian | US also registers fall in latest world press freedom indexreach no consensus on amendment to inquiry calling on governments to assure NSA whistleblower of his safety
2014-02-12,An Afghan town gets its first female high-school graduates
2014-02-12,"400 arrested in global trafficking crackdown. Officers collected a treasure trove of black market goods: 36 rhino horns, 3+ metric tons of elephant ivory, 10,000+ turtles, 1,000+ protected-species skins, 10,000+ European eels, and over 100+ tons rosewood logs."
2014-02-12,"EU 'secretly spent 320 million on surveillance drone development' - MPs furious as report reveals ""out of control"" EU is developing surveillance drones without ""any kind of democratic accountability"""
2014-02-12,Belgium set to extend right-to-die law to children amid intense opposition
2014-02-12,"Pakistani family fear for 'disappeared' anti-drone activist, just days before he was due to testify before European parliamentarians"
2014-02-12,"Bolivias Morales: The US abolished Costa Ricas army - I really feel there is a rebellion in Latin America to be democratically freed from the empire. Without U.S. imperialism, there will no longer be coups and we will no longer have our natural resources plundered."
2014-02-12,"Fiji Invites People of Kiribati to take Refuge There When Their Country is lost to Rising Sea Levels ""You will be able to migrate with dignity. The spirit of the people of Kiribati will not be extinguished"""
2014-02-12,Gay Austrian athlete says fuss over Russia law is exaggerated
2014-02-11,Suicide bomb instructor accidentally gives live demonstration to pupils - 22 dead
2014-02-11,"Feb. 11 Is 'The Day We Fight Back' Against NSA Surveillance | More than 5,300 web-based companies and other organizations, including Reddit, Imgur, Tumblr, Mozilla the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU, have joined forces to protest National Security Agency surveillance on Feb. 11."
2014-02-11,Donald Trump loses legal challenge to windfarm near his Scottish golf resort.
2014-02-11,Canada's new citizenship bill gives the government power to revoke citizenship from natural born citizens.
2014-02-11,Why Mexico's 'drug war' is not about drugs. Many of the civilians taking on the gangs say they care little about illicit narcotics. We aren't against drug traffickers. We are against organized crime.
2014-02-11,An Australian organic farmer lost his certification due to GM seeds being spread from his neighbour's farm. He is now suing his neighbour in what might be a world first (xpost)
2014-02-11,Fisherman nets centuries-old statue of Greek god Apollo in Gaza Strip
2014-02-11,New fossil site found in Canada could be worlds most important.
2014-02-11,UK to ban smoking in cars carrying children by 2015
2014-02-11,Kaspersky Lab Uncovers The Mask: One of the Most Advanced Global Cyber-espionage Operations to Date
2014-02-11,NASAs Mars orbiter sees signs of seasonal water flow on Mars surface
2014-02-11,"An Afghan girl has been diagnosed with polio in Kabul - the capital's first case since the Taliban's fall in 2001. Polio remains endemic in Afghanistan, Pakistan and northern Nigeria. Islamic extremists have obstructed health workers, preventing polio eradication campaigns from taking place."
2014-02-11,"Bin Laden death images subject to purge, emails reveal"
2014-02-11,Revealed: Big Pharma's hidden links to NHS policy
2014-02-11,Australian mother hides her children under a blanket in neighbours dam as one of over 100 bushfires in Victoria rages above their heads. They survived after being in the water for over an hour.
2014-02-11,Company in France becomes first in country to ban wearing of Muslim headscarves at work
2014-02-11,"Lost for centuries, a rare bronze statue of the Greek god Apollo has mysteriously resurfaced in the Gaza Strip, only to be seized by police and vanish almost immediately from view."
2014-02-11,Major NSA intelligence facility established in Jerusalem
2014-02-11,"Tiger evades hunters, kills 10th person in India"
2014-02-11,Australian TV Host slams his own network for paying $2million to a convicted drug smuggler for an interview after spending 9 years in Indonesian prison.
2014-02-11,Algeria plane crash 'kills 103'
2014-02-11,Indian couple kills Iranian student for refusing threesome
2014-02-11,"A senior official connected with the seasonal dolphin hunt in Taiji, Wakayama, Japan, is defending the tradition as painless to the small cetaceans and is inviting U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy to see for herself."
2014-02-11,Intellectual property rights: US set to punish India
2014-02-11,Nigeria Uses Sharia Law And The Whip To Sanitize Gays
2014-02-10,"Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill: The NSA's Secret Role in the U.S. Assassination Program. ""At least 273 civilians in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia have been killed"""
2014-02-10,Images of the Flying Spaghetti Monster banned from a London university for being religiously offensive
2014-02-10,Swiss vote Yes on Limits to Immigration: 50.3% yes/49.7% no
2014-02-10,Google promised change to avoid $5bn fine by the European Commission. Google has been unethically favoring its products in internet searches.
2014-02-10,"France's tough stance on female genital mutilation is working, say campaigners - Parents & 'cutters' have been jailed in France but concerns remain that parents go abroad  including to UK  for FGM"
2014-02-10,"UK borrowed US drones to carry out unreported strikes in Afghanistan - The UK has used American drones over 250 times to carry out previously unreported attacks in Afghanistan, the MoD has admitted"
2014-02-10,"Girl meets homeless Jamaican man in London, promises to get him home. Crowdfunds 3k in 24 hours."
2014-02-10,"Catholics and church at odds on contraception, divorce and abortion: Survey in 12 countries finds 78% of Catholics support contraception and 65% think abortion should be allowed"
2014-02-10,NASA is now accepting applications from companies that want to mine the moon
2014-02-10,"Joint investigation, Australian Broadcasting Commission's 4 Corners and 'The Australian': Israeli army targeting Palestinian boys with violent interrogations, thought to be intelligence gathering. Unicef released report on ill-treatment of Palestinian minors in 2013"
2014-02-10,"Anti-government protests continue in Ukraine: About 70,000 gather in central Kiev demanding president's resignation and formation of pro-Western government."
2014-02-10,"A confidential email shows a top Chinese regulator directly asked JP Morgan's chief executive, for a""favor"" to hire a job applicant - Federal authorities are now investigating whether the hiring at JPMorgan was done explicitly to win business from Chinese companies"
2014-02-10,Glenn Greenwald Launches New Site 'The Intercept' With Story On The NSA's Role In Targeted Killings
2014-02-10,"[xpost from r/ecursiveRevolt] Fake-food scandal revealed as tests show third of products mislabelled | Consumers are being sold drinks with banned flame-retardant additives, pork in beef, and fake cheese, laboratory tests show"
2014-02-10,Smoking ban in cars carrying children expected to be passed
2014-02-10,"Suspicious Death of JPMorgan Vice President, Gabriel Magee, Under Investigation in London"
2014-02-10,Edward Snowden revelations: GCHQ using online viruses and honey traps to discredit targets
2014-02-10,"French journalist ""hacks"" govt by inputting correct URL, later fined $4,000+"
2014-02-10,'N. Korea ready for 4th nuclear test'
2014-02-10,Two SA cops filmed dying man while laughing about uploading it to Facebook.
2014-02-10,"China spending more than Europe on science and technology as GDP percentage, new figures reveal"
2014-02-10,"Mexico vigilantes parade through Knights Templar stronghold - Hundreds of vigilantes, backed up by armoured vehicles and troops, had set up roadblocks around the western city before entering it on Saturday."
2014-02-10,"CNN Latino Shuts down shortly after its uncovered that bankers, Fugitives from Ecuador, were financing it - FBI investigates, Lawmaker receives ""donations"" (links on description)"
2014-02-10,Four million Pakistanis working in slave-like conditions
2014-02-10,N. Korea attack on U.S. could push Japan into collective defense: Abe - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that Japan views an attack by North Korea on the United States as a case in which it could exercise the right to collective self-defense
2014-02-09,"You won't hear about the Bosnian revolution in news: Protesters ask for the abolition of ""economic model that favors only the rich"""
2014-02-09,Edward Snowden has received eight public nominations for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
2014-02-09,Intelligence officials investigating how Edward Snowden gained access to a huge trove of the most highly classified documents say that he used inexpensive and widely available software to scrape the NSAs networks
2014-02-09,Danish zoo sparks outrage by killing healthy giraffe
2014-02-09,Foreign Office caught asking Spanish press to undermine Scottish independence
2014-02-09,"Snowden documents show British spies use techniques to ""deny, disrupt, degrade and deceive"" by any means possible, such as setting up social media honey pots to harvest embarrassing information"
2014-02-09,Mexico vigilantes enter Knights Templar cartel stronghold
2014-02-09,"Why global water shortages pose threat of terror and war. Reserves dangerously depleted in California, the Middle East, Brazil, north Africa, South Asia and China"
2014-02-09,Police fired water cannon and teargas to disperse hundreds of people protesting in central Istanbul on Saturday against new controls on the Internet approved by parliament this week.
2014-02-09,A giraffe at Copenhagen zoo will be destroyed tomorrow to keep the herd genetically pure
2014-02-09,"Google will have to display on its French search page a notice saying it has been fined by the local data-protection watchdog over how user information is tracked and stored, France's top administrative court ruled on Friday."
2014-02-09,Documents reveal chaotic military sex-abuse record
2014-02-09,China accuses US of adding to regional tensions
2014-02-09,International Olympic Committee Will Not Object To Arrests And Beatings Of Russian LGBT Activists
2014-02-09,"Sochi Olympics: U.S., Russian judges accused of conspiring to help certain figure skaters"
2014-02-09,"The miracle cure - scientists turn human skin into stem cells. A simple laboratory process raises hopes of a cure for serious illnesses including heart disease and Parkinson's, and could lead to the creation of embryos, according to one scientist"
2014-02-09,Iran sending warships close to US borders.
2014-02-09,"Nick Clegg Attacks The Tory Party On Drugs, Calls For New Approach"
2014-02-09,Immigration minister behind 'Go Home' campaign resigns for employing illegal immigrant
2014-02-09,"In Yemen, questions and anger over U.S. drone targets after civilian deaths"
2014-02-09,Child sex tourism warning for fans attending World Cup in Brazil
2014-02-09,"Under the new ""Fair Elections Act"" Canadian Chief Electoral Officer (independent officer in charge of administering federal elections) says Conservative Government will remove his ability to promote and speak about democracy in Canada. Conservatives also invoked debate time limit."
2014-02-09,Turkish police fire tear gas to break up Internet protest
2014-02-09,"High-dose vitamin C can boost the cancer-killing effect of chemotherapy in the lab and mice, research suggests. Given by injection, it could potentially be a safe, effective and low-cost treatment for ovarian and other cancers, say US scientists."
2014-02-09,"Dubai mulls minimum salary for car owners: ""Dubai authorities are considering introducing a scheme that would restrict car ownership to those earning above a certain salary, a top official was quoted as saying""."
2014-02-08,How Japans BBC is rewriting its role in Second World War. Naoki Hyakuta says Japan was lured into the Second World War by America while liberating Asia from white colonialism.
2014-02-08,"Fukushima radiation levels underestimated by five times, according to TEPCO."
2014-02-08,UK Immigration minister Mark Harper resigns after it emerges his cleaner did not have permission to work in UK
2014-02-08,Four LGBT Activists Arrested in Russia for Quoting the Olympic Charter
2014-02-08,Russian Olympic snowboarder puts Pussy Riot logo on his board
2014-02-08,Britain Puts Mormonism on Trial - A London court called the churchs leader to account for false doctrinesthe latest in a string of sensational charges leveled against Mormons since they 1st landed in Liverpool.
2014-02-08,"Internet users all over the world are standing up to say no to GCHQ and the NSA's mass surveillance | Open Rights Group, Liberty, English PEN, Privacy International, Article 19, and Big Brother Watch are coming together to launch ""Don't Spy on Us"" on the 11th of February."
2014-02-08,China cancels USA corn purchases as GMO dispute drags on
2014-02-08,"Turning table on NSA, US diplomats' phone call is bugged, leaked to YouTube | Did Russian spy apparatus capture senior official's ""F*ck the EU"" comment?"
2014-02-08,"The number of civilians killed and wounded in the conflict in Afghanistan rose 14% last year, the UN says. Nearly 3,000 civilians were killed and more than 5,600 were injured in 2013"
2014-02-08,Italy: 'Cashmere' clothes found to contain Rat fur
2014-02-08,"Irans Hassan Rouhani donates $400,000 to Tehran Jewish hospital"
2014-02-08,Bank of England 'was told that traders were rigging currency rates two years ago but did nothing about it'. Traders claim they told Bank about information sharing in 2012 but officials told banks they should make up own rules.
2014-02-08,Rob Ford bans rainbow flag flying at Toronto City Hall: LGBT people irrelevant at Olympics
2014-02-08,Toronto mayor Rob Ford wants Pride flag  just raised at City Hall to support gay rights at Sochi  taken down
2014-02-08,[Turkish] Allegedly there was an hijacking attempt on a Pegasus Flight with the aim of Sotji.
2014-02-08,Russia Censors Olympic Ring Mishap
2014-02-08,Ukrainian plane landed in Istanbul due to alleged hijacking attempt
2014-02-08,"10 LGBT activists arrested in Moscow -- They ""came with rainbow flags and sang the Russian national anthem"""
2014-02-08,US vows to defend Japan against China
2014-02-08,Olympic officials are defending the use of TV rehearsal footage to cover up a glitch in Sochi's opening ceremony and the choice of a final torchbearer who had posted a racially offensive tweet about President Barack Obama.
2014-02-08,"Nasa's Curiosity rover has taken a photograph of Earth from the surface of Mars, showing what our planet looks like from 100 million miles away."
2014-02-08,Two quakes strike near Fukushima
2014-02-08,UK could be hit by 150 mph winds as worst storm in decades approaches
2014-02-08,"UK inequality is getting worse, quickly. The UK is now among the most inequal countries in Europe."
2014-02-07,"Women in Tokyo are threatening a sex boycott against any man who votes for the front-runner in this weekend's gubernatorial election, in protest at his claim that menstruation makes women unfit for government."
2014-02-07,"UK: Police will have 'backdoor' access to health records despite opt-out, says MP | David Davis says police would be able to approach central NHS database without a warrant as critics warn of catastrophic breach of trust"
2014-02-07,"HSBC settlement approved: no criminal charges, 5 weeks' profit in fines, deferred bonuses for laundering billions for narco-terrorists"
2014-02-07,"There are spy-cams in Olympic showers, Russian Deputy PM admits"
2014-02-07,Massive protests in cities all over Bosnia. Citizens torching government buildings.
2014-02-07,China fury at Japanese claim that Nanjing massacre never took place: Board member at Japan's state broadcaster denies infamous wartime slaughter of tens of thousands ever happened
2014-02-07,Saudi female student dies after male ambulance crew denied access: University officials argued that the ambulance staff were males and could not enter the premises
2014-02-07,Great Barrier Reef on brink of devastation in relentless quest for coal
2014-02-07,"Why 2,000 passengers just rioted at an airport in China - more than 2,000 delayed passengers stormed check-in counters at an airport in Henan province, smashing computers and equipment, in response to the airports five-hour long shutdown because of snow."
2014-02-07,Myanmar arrests five journalists for reporting the governments hiding a chemical weapons production plant.
2014-02-07,Chinas military worries that its only-child recruits are wimps - Chinas millions of only childrenknown as little emperors for how they are doted upon by parents and grandparentsmay turn out to be terrible soldiers.
2014-02-07,"""The World Bank's former chief economist wants to replace the US dollar with a single global super-currency, saying it will create a more stable global financial system. 'The dominance of the greenback is the root cause of global financial and economic crises,' Justin Yifu Lin told Bruegel"""
2014-02-07,"900,000 year old footprints in the UK have been confirmed as human"
2014-02-07,76-year-old German woman celebrates birthday with cocaine binge in Berlin bar
2014-02-07,Video emerged of military dog taken hostage by Taliban.
2014-02-07,Thousands of Saudis vented their anger online over a report that staff at a Riyadh university had barred male paramedics from entering a women's-only campus to assist a student who had suffered a heart attack and later died
2014-02-07,"Bosnian police use stun grenades, rubber bullets as protesters torch government building  reports"
2014-02-07,Russia bans Bitcoin
2014-02-07,Big Pharma presses US to quash cheap drug production in India
2014-02-07,"Message to North Korea engagers: Youre helping Kim Jong - People in Pyongyang and Wonsan have been watching buses disgorge respectful Europeans and Americans for years now. The regime spins these visits as pilgrimages, and the locals are invested enough in the national life-lie to believe it."
2014-02-07,A Nobel Peace Prize for legalizing marijuana  why not? -- Uruguays President Jos Pepe Mujica has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the second year in a row  for legalizing marijuana.
2014-02-07,"Winning the lottery makes you more conservative, study finds: A sudden windfall makes people less compassionate and 18% of winners immediately switched support to conservatives"
2014-02-07,Solar Water Pumps Wean Farmers From Indias Archaic Grid - My crops would have failed if I hadnt opted for a solar pump.
2014-02-07,"Leaked tape, US involvement in Ukraine."
2014-02-07,Third day of demonstrations in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Government buildings are on fire.
2014-02-06,"The system that provides half the drinking water to South Americas largest city, Sao Paulo, will run dry in 45 days if theres no rain, amid the biggest drought on record."
2014-02-06,Goldman Sachs Sued for Selling Libya Billions in Worthless Options
2014-02-06,A dog shelter backed by a Russian billionaire is engaged in a frantic last-ditch effort to save hundreds of strays facing a death sentence before the Winter Olympics
2014-02-06,Weed-Legalizing President Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
2014-02-06,3 tons of seized illegal ivory crushed in Paris
2014-02-06,"How UK spies committed DoS attacks against Anonymous - ""Regular citizens would face 10 years in prison and enormous fines for committing a DoS / DDoS attack. The same applies if they encouraged or assisted in one. But if you work in the government, it seems like you're an exception to the rule."""
2014-02-06,"Vatican kept a code of silence on Child Sexual Abuse by Priests, says UN Report"
2014-02-06,"Fuck the EU, frustrated US Assistant Secretary of State says to US Ambassador to Ukraine in a leaked phone call about inaction and indecision by the European Union in solving Ukraines political crisis."
2014-02-06,Female genital mutilation is banned but very much alive in the UK
2014-02-06,Scientists have likely found Charlemagne's skeleton
2014-02-06,"Giant jellyfish, never encountered before, found on Australian beach"
2014-02-06,Former German chancellor: US has 'no respect'
2014-02-06,The Harper Government Insists its Legal to Collect Metadata
2014-02-06,Bionic hand allows patient to 'feel'. Dennis Aabo was able to feel what was in his hand via sensors connected to nerves in his upper arm. Scientists have created a bionic hand which allows the amputee to feel lifelike sensations from their fingers.
2014-02-06,"Tony Abbott launching a full-frontal attack on renewable energy industry. The environment minister, Greg Hunt, jumped out of a plane to support a previous save our solar campaign on the grounds that Labors decision to means-test the then $8,000 subsidy was putting the industry into freefall."
2014-02-06,Frozen Slovenia is witnessing 'The Worst Devastation In Living Memory'
2014-02-06,Israel said willing to give up 90% of West Bank
2014-02-06,"Fire Destroys Iron Mountain Data Warehouse, Argentina's Bank Records Lost"
2014-02-06,Winter Olympics 2014: Sochis day of reckoning has finally come  just dont look too closely
2014-02-06,Ukrainian activist forced to admit being U.S. spy under torture
2014-02-06,"How Big Is Sochi's Terrorism Problem? ""It would be safer if we had the Olympics in North Korea. At least they dont have an active terrorist group blowing things up."""
2014-02-06,"Turkish MPs endorse internet control law: Despite opposition from press freedom groups, Turkeys parliament approved a bill tightening control of Internet."
2014-02-06,"17-year-old Fahma Mohamed calls on Michael Gove to help end female genital mutilation in the UK | She wants the education secretary to write to headteachers and ask them to train and inform teachers and parents about practice, which has affected an estimated 66,000 women and girls in the UK."
2014-02-06,Legal experts gobsmacked after British judge orders Mormon leader to prove faiths origins
2014-02-06,Over 400 dead dolphins wash up on northern Peru beaches
2014-02-05,"The Catholic Church must remove all child sexual abusers from their posts and turn them over to the police, the UN says."
2014-02-05,UK Police blatantly lie on camera to falsely arrest citizen journalist
2014-02-05,"Indigenous Groups: ""No Keystone XL Pipeline Will Cross Our Lands"" - Native American communities are promising fierce resistance to stop TransCanada from building, & President Barack Obama from permitting, the northern leg of the Keystone"
2014-02-05,Scotland becomes the 17th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage.
2014-02-05,"BBC News - UN denounces the Vatican for ""systematically"" allowing priests to rape thousands of children"
2014-02-05,"Police beat boys who ran away from Salvation Army home: Children who complained of sexual abuse were given a 'flogging' then taken back to home, former resident says"
2014-02-05,Jamaican Bobsled Team Lose Luggage on Way to Sochi
2014-02-05,"US ambassador to Germany admits NSA tapping of Merkel's phone was ""stupid"""
2014-02-05,"Brazil senator proposes Snowden for Nobel Peace Prize - ""We are convinced that Mr Snowden's actions, more than those of any other individual, contributed to a more stable and peaceful future,"" said Grazziotin."
2014-02-05,AT&T Becomes First Major Advertiser to Protest Russias Antigay Law
2014-02-05,"Philippine president compares China's expansion to Nazi Germany - At what point do you say, Enough is enough? Well, the world has to say it. Remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent World War II,"
2014-02-05,"The king of Bahrain has approved a law imposing a jail sentence of up to seven years and a fine of up to 10,000 dinars ($26,500) for anyone who publicly insults him."
2014-02-05,Albania says it will ban all hunting for two years to protect animals threatened with extinction
2014-02-05,Apparently the NSA has been spying on the German Chancellor since 2002
2014-02-05,Three bankers go on trial in Dublin over financial crash that brought Ireland to its knees
2014-02-05,"A new Afghan law will allow men to attack their wives, children and sisters without fear of judicial punishment, undoing years of slow progress in tackling violence in a country plagued by honour killings, forced marriage and vicious domestic abuse."
2014-02-05,Norwegian Minister Of Health Brings His Husband To Sochi
2014-02-05,"Baby-beating charges dropped for mother begging with child in Barcelona, cops who falsely accused her sentenced to 2 years in jail."
2014-02-05,NBC: All Visitors to Sochi Olympics Immediately Hacked
2014-02-05,"Alberta pipeline ruptured in 2009, TransCanada and federal regulators hid report until a FOIA request by CBC"
2014-02-05,"New Afghanistan law passed by parliament, bans relatives of accused from testifying against them. Most violence against women is within the family, so the law effectively silences victims as well as most potential witnesses"
2014-02-05,The United States has cut back sharply on its drone strikes in Pakistan after the Islamabad government asked for restraint while it seeks peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban
2014-02-05,"The NSA also tapped the phone of Merkel's predecessor, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, over his opposition to the Iraq War"
2014-02-05,EU gives US six months to come clean on visa policy
2014-02-05,UN Accuses Vatican of Adopting Policies That Allowed Priests to Rape Children
2014-02-04,"Guardian reveals threats of imprisonment and closure over Snowden leaks: ""The British government threatened to jail Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger and close the newspaper last July, over the newspapers reporting of the Edward Snowden revelations"""
2014-02-04,South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians and more than four times as much as Americans
2014-02-04,"The spy agency which illegally monitored Kim Dotcom's communications has admitted deleting information needed in the upcoming $6 million damages hearing, according to the tycoon"
2014-02-04,"Pope: unjust unemployment can mean sin, suicide ""He noted that sometimes 'unjust social conditions' like unemployment lead to this type of destitution by depriving people of the dignity of work and access to education and health care."""
2014-02-04,Rights Group Releases Video of LGBT Attacks in Russia
2014-02-04,The truth behind the luxury of Qatar Airways  Flight attendants treated like slaves
2014-02-04,"As war on corruption mounts, Chinas rich flee to America - The US grants far more green cards to wealthy Chinese as president Xi Jinping cracks down."
2014-02-04,Ukraine discussion thread #3 (sticky post)
2014-02-04,"4,600-Year-Old Step Pyramid Uncovered in Egypt. The pyramid, which predates the Great Pyramid of Giza, is one of seven for which its function remains a mystery."
2014-02-04,Ukrainian customs block 10 tons of humanitarian aid for Maidan protestors
2014-02-04,"Oilsands air pollutants underestimated, researchers find"
2014-02-04,India to build world's largest solar plant - Facility will triple the country's solar capacity and dwarf existing photovoltaic arrays.
2014-02-04,"Much of Sochi is a work in progress, and parts of it look at least a dozen all-nighters away from completion. There are unfinished hotels, half-finished stores and a mall where the only shop that is open and thriving is a Cinnabon."
2014-02-04,BBC News - Governor of Japan broadcaster NHK denies Nanjing massacre
2014-02-04,Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz issued a royal decree on Monday saying any citizen who fights in conflicts outside the Kingdom could face jail
2014-02-04,"US-Backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai Calls The Taliban His Brothers, Slams US Presence In Afghanistan"
2014-02-04,Scotland's same-sex marriage bill to be given final approval
2014-02-04,"Tar Sands Toxins with Keystone XL Link Underestimated | The Canadian government may have underestimated emissions of carcinogens known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, from the Alberta tar sands, and they may be a major hazard to both human and ecosystem health."
2014-02-04,Australia permits dredge dumping near Great Barrier Reef for major coal port
2014-02-04,"Man attempts bank robbery wanting to go to jail, fails and ends up with a cup of coffee instead of cash."
2014-02-04,Russian dad talks killer son into freeing classroom full of hostages (with video)
2014-02-04,Pakistan Has A Months Worth Of Water Left and 5% Of Its Tree Cover. 80% of Pakistans agriculture relies on irrigation from the overstressed water system
2014-02-04,"Germany wants Britain to stay in EU because it stops Europe from going to war - The history before the First world war was of not talking to each other, of alienation, of nationalisms."
2014-02-04,NSA Scandal Boosts German Tech Industry: The German IT sector is hoping to profit from trust lost in American technology firms in the aftermath of the NSA spying scandal. But critics warn that plans to create a European routing system could affect the openness of the Internet.
2014-02-04,One-year prison sentence for 21-year-old Twitter user who glorified terrorists
2014-02-03,"Saudi Arabia put into effect a sweeping new counterterrorism law Sunday that human rights activists say allows the kingdom to prosecute as a terrorist anyone who demands reform, exposes corruption or otherwise engages in dissent."
2014-02-03,Hackers Sue German Government Over NSA Spying
2014-02-03,"David Miranda's detention: a chilling attack on journalism | When the partner of journalist Glenn Greenwald was detained at Heathrow airport last August under the Terrorism Act, MI5 were pulling the strings and knew full well that he wasn't a terrorist"
2014-02-03,"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has claimed that a woman he is alleged to have raped sent text messages admitting that he never assaulted her | In an affidavit published on the WikiLeaks website, Assange cites several SMS messages supposedly exchanged between his two alleged victims."
2014-02-03,"Corruption in the EU is ""breathtaking"" says EU Commissioner."
2014-02-03,Australian PM has Video removed and YouTube Account closed for violations
2014-02-03,Financial world shaken by 4 bankers' apparent suicides in a week
2014-02-03,Chaos Computer Clubs files criminal complaint against entire German government and Merkel over spying scandal
2014-02-03,UK Parliament considers allowing secret courts to issue orders to seize reporters' notebooks
2014-02-03,"UK media alarmed by govt bill allowing seizure of journalists notes, files: UK media organizations have warned that if a government bill authorizing police to seize journalists notebooks, photos and digital files is passed Monday, it could seriously endanger press freedom in the country."
2014-02-03,"More sailors have been abandoned by their employers than taken hostage by Somali pirates, a controversial practice to avoid big expenses."
2014-02-03,25% of Russian Men are Dead by Age 55
2014-02-03,"EU: Sweden should ban secret party donations -- While Sweden was acknowledged as one of the least corrupt countries in the EU, a new report from the European Commission urges Sweden to ban anonymous political party donations."
2014-02-03,Russia: Hostage situation at one of Moscow schools. Police officer on duty is allegedly shot.
2014-02-03,Japanese radio commentator quits after being told to shut up about Fukushima nuclear plant
2014-02-03,Why Dutch mayors want to cultivate cannabis - 'We have a bizarre system of banning and allowing cannabis at the same time' [x-post /r/LegalNews]
2014-02-03,"Total Drone Deaths in Pakistan Top 2,000"
2014-02-03,Shark Cull Opposition Intensifies in Australia - Thousands take to beaches to protest against controversial catching and killing of sharks longer than 3 metres
2014-02-03,Thousands of anti-Putin protesters march in Moscow
2014-02-03,Missing Amy Hamilton poster circulating on social media revealed as racist right-wing propaganda hoax
2014-02-03,"A new film about Muammar Gaddafi, based on the testimony of those who were closest to him, contains an allegation that he ordered a young man to be tied between two cars and ripped in half, after he had complained about Gaddafi having had sex with his wife."
2014-02-03,Why do we insist on building on flood plains? Houses are still being built on floodplains - despite expert warnings
2014-02-03,UK: Labour has accused the Conservatives of being obsessed by taxing the poor for unoccupied bedrooms while refusing to act against the super rich who keep mansions empty for years.
2014-02-03,South Koreans drink twice as much liquor as Russians and more than four times as much as Americans
2014-02-03,"Brazil Must Offer Edward Snowden Asylum, Glenn Greenwald Says"
2014-02-02,"Egyptian belly dancer and actress Sama Al Masry has just announced that she would run in Egypts upcoming parliamentary elections, and in doing so, she vowed to exact revenge on the Muslim Brotherhood."
2014-02-02,Kangaroo court orders Indian woman to be gang-raped by 13 men for having a relationship with a man from another village
2014-02-02,"Tens of thousands of people have marched to Spain's parliament to protest against the government's new law that aims to restrict abortion, allowing the practice only in cases of rape or serious risk to health."
2014-02-02,$395 billion global 2012 arms sales: US dominates list of top 10 global arms sellers.
2014-02-02,Number of men claiming to have been sexually assaulted in New Zealand rising steeply
2014-02-02,How Russia is Fighting to Regain Control of Ukraine
2014-02-02,Boys 'rented out' for abuse at Salvation Army boys' home at Bexley in Sydney's south
2014-02-02,Chief economists apparent suicide is the latest in a series of bizarre deaths in the financial world this week
2014-02-02,Palestinian workers back Scarlett Johansson's opposition to SodaStream boycott
2014-02-02,Afghanistan Has More Women in National Parliament Seats Than the U.S.
2014-02-02,Goldman Deal Threatens Danish Government
2014-02-02,"Australia Claims ""Substantial"" Progress on Reef Protection in Attempt to Stave Off a 'World Heritage' Downgrade, Despite Govt Approving a Massive Coal Port Expansion & the Reef's Governing Body  Under Investigation for its Links to Mining Okaying the Dumping of Dredge Waste Within its Waters."
2014-02-02,"Beijing Smog Contains Witches' Brew of Microbes - For people racked by dreaded Beijing cough, it's clear that particles are a health problem. But less clear is the impact  or even identity  of microbes also in the brown haze. Study reveals pathogens & allergens in citys air."
2014-02-02,"Volcanic ash smothers part of Indonesia, kills 15"
2014-02-02,David Cameron has been accused of secretly plotting to pack public bodies with Tory supporters | The Prime Minister came under fire after Labour peer Baroness Morgan was effectively sacked as the chairwoman of schools inspectors Ofsted.
2014-02-02,UKs January Flooding Surpasses All 247 Yrs of Data on the Books - Last month's seasonal total was higher than any since 1767 & 3 times the average level
2014-02-02,"Israeli security minister slams Kerry over boycott, threatens to invade Gaza"
2014-02-02,Sochi Culling Stray Dogs Ahead of the Olympics
2014-02-02,BBC News welcomes Chinese New Year with the message Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate
2014-02-02,White House official urges Japan to respect history
2014-02-02,Teck smelter spills chemical solution into Columbia River in Canada
2014-02-02,American Photojournalist James Nachtwey Shot In Thai Violence
2014-02-02,Syrian Electronic Army hacks eBay and PayPal
2014-02-02,"UK: Bullying in armed forces on rise, MoD figures reveal | Call for urgent overhaul of military justice as MP highlights plight of servicewomen alleging sexual offences"
2014-02-02,"A court in Egypt has dropped charges against more than 60 supporters of the ousted President Mohammed Morsi, who were arrested last summer"
2014-02-01,"The Mexican government is passing laws that will ban all shark and stingray fishing. This week, they passed a permanent ban on fishing for great white sharks. If a great white is accidentally caught, it must be released."
2014-02-01,Australian PM denounces Edward Snowden as a traitor
2014-02-01,Canadian Gov't Responds To Spying Revelations By Saying It's All A Lie And Calling Glenn Greenwald A 'Porn Spy'
2014-02-01,"Tour Operators Fume Over Great Barrier Reef Dumping Plan - ""They are not looking at scientific fact, they are not looking at protection of the reefthey are just doing what their political masters want. Well, let me tell you, 220 scientists wrote saying 'do not grant this'."""
2014-02-01,UK: Secret hearings could allow police to seize journalists' notes if deregulation bill passes
2014-02-01,"A Look at Nine Goldman Sachs Trades That Lost Libya $1 Billion in One Year  Goldman Sachs, however, walked away with roughly $350 million in profits from executing these trades"
2014-02-01,"Iceland taps the ultimate renewable energy source: Earth's magma - Iceland's National Energy Authority has created the world's first magma-based geothermal energy system after drilling 1.3 miles (2,100 meters) through the Earth's crust."
2014-02-01,Ban on HIV positive immigrants entering the UK proposed for immigration bill by Tory MP's.
2014-02-01,Decriminalizing marijuana: Could Mexico City be next to light up?
2014-02-01,New Snowden docs show Canadian spies tracked thousands of travelers
2014-02-01,"India: A man spent 10 years in jail because police dog barked at him. Now, Bombay High Court sets him free"
2014-02-01,Australia's plan to dump sediment near Great Barrier Reef sparks outrage: More than 100 million cubic feet of sediment will be dumped near the World Heritage-listed reef to make way for one of the world's largest coal ports.
2014-02-01,Catholic priest who ran right-wing death squad during the Dirty War arrested in Colombia
2014-02-01,Israeli army preventing Palestinian from sowing land near settlement
2014-02-01,Now we know Ottawa can snoop on any Canadian. What are we going to do?
2014-02-01,India Becomes Second Country To Ban Testing On Animals For Household Products
2014-02-01,"Ukraine: Police Attacked Dozens of Journalists, Medics"
2014-02-01,"Nokia restructures, gives former employees support to create hundreds of new companies"
2014-02-01,"Inside 'Billionaires' Row': London's rotting, derelict mansions worth 350m | The North London street where billionaires can buy homes, never live in them, let them rot and still make millions"
2014-02-01,The pop singer daughter of a Mexican cartel boss causes controversy by posing in an outfit covered in the insignia of her father's gang
2014-02-01,"Hundreds of dead animals, many on the endangered lists, found at South Africa airport."
2014-02-01,"Brazil continues to ignore Snowden asylum appeal | Over a million people have signed an online petition to grant asylum to former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in Brazil. However, experts doubt that the country will give in to this demand."
2014-02-01,Goldman Sachs sued for $1 billion by Libya wealth fund
2014-02-01,Ukraine unrest: EU and US clash with Russia in Munich
2014-02-01,"Brazil Must Offer Edward Snowden Asylum, Glenn Greenwald Says; Greenwald also praised the way the Brazilian government has dealt with the U.S. following allegations of espionage."
2014-01-31,Footage released of Guardian editors destroying Snowden hard drives: GCHQ technicians watched as journalists took angle grinders and drills to computers after weeks of tense negotiations
2014-01-31,Man Washes up in Marshall Islands 'After 16 Months Adrift' at sea
2014-01-31,"Ukrainian riot police have allegedly beaten up a busload of government supporters, after mistaking them for opposition activists"
2014-01-31,A Factory in China is Slaughtering Endangered Whale Sharks - A Chinese non-profit wildlife organization exposes what they believe to be the largest whale shark-processing factory in the world
2014-01-31,Australia's Great Barrier Reef watchdog gave the green light for millions of cubic metres of dredged mud to be dumped near the fragile reef to create the world's biggest coal port and possibly unlock $28 billion in coal projects
2014-01-31,Cameron unhappy newspapers still printing Snowden data leaks
2014-01-31,"61% said ""No!"" - Most Germans oppose bigger role for military."
2014-01-31,"Bumblebees exposed to controversial pesticides collect just half the pollen they would otherwise harvest, according to new research, depriving their growing young of their only source of protein. [x-post /r/environment]"
2014-01-31,Ontario raises minimum wage to $11
2014-01-31,"Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh is in a Saudi prison, allegedly for spreading atheism  and having long hair"
2014-01-31,Pirate Bay allowed to sail again: Dutch court surrenders.
2014-01-31,"""They cut my ear off and even crucified me"" - AutoMaidan leader Bulatov found alive eight days after disappearance"
2014-01-31,The former head of Canada's military in Afghanistan is being detained in Afghanistan for alleged gun smuggling
2014-01-31,Shipwrecked man makes land 'after 16 months adrift'
2014-01-31,"After billions in U.S. investment, Afghan roads are falling apart"
2014-01-31,CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents
2014-01-31,Leaked document records 330 drone strikes in Pakistan: A former Pakistani minister says that officials may have come under pressure to play down civilian deaths after Obama's election. Almost all mention of non-combatant casualties disappears after 2009 despite significant evidence to the contrary.
2014-01-31,Mexico has started registering vigilantes fighting drug cartel to classify them as official defense groups.
2014-01-31,"Pollution Taints Chinese New Year Fireworks - Chinese typically ring in the Lunar New Year with fireworks. In Shanghai, young people say the smog has changed their minds about the ancient tradition & they won't be lighting off fireworks this year to spare the air."
2014-01-31,UK nuclear plant detects elevated radiation - Sellafield bans non-essential workers as precaution after monitors detect higher-than-normal radioactivity.
2014-01-31,Stunning electric-blue flames erupt from volcanoes in Indonesia
2014-01-31,Central African Republic: 'Scene of absolute horror'
2014-01-31,Cameron: UK public is fine with domestic spying
2014-01-31,Vodka blamed for high death rates in Russia
2014-01-31,Ukrainian police 'attack wrong protesters'
2014-01-30,"'Angry Birds' website hacked following NSA spying allegations, displaying a message saying Spying Birds with one of their iconic Angry Birds bearing an NSA logo on its forehead"
2014-01-30,"Danish government implodes over opposition against a deal with Goldman Sachs, to sell them stocks with veto rights over our energy infrastructure"
2014-01-30,The EU is developing a secret plan to give the police the power to control cars by switching the engine off remotely
2014-01-30,Let Banks Fail Is Iceland Mantra as 2% Joblessness in Sight
2014-01-30,"Photos of Ukrainian uprising. Includes a dude with a colander on his head, humans on fire and lots of molotov cocktails."
2014-01-30,"'Insane, Disgusting' and 'Epic Treachery': NSA Spied on Climate Talks 'Obama admin. clearly never wanted Copenhagen talks to work,' says Bill McKibben following latest NSA revelations concerning climate talks"
2014-01-30,Scarlett Johansson quits Oxfam charity over her controversial support of company with factory in the occupied Palestinian territories
2014-01-30,"Russia to monitor 100% of communications at Sochi Games, says Russia openly"
2014-01-30,"A noted professor who regularly provides commentary on an NHK AM radio show in Japan, has resigned from the program in protest over the public broadcasters demand that nuclear power not be discussed until after the Feb. 9 Tokyo gubernatorial election."
2014-01-30,New Snowden Docs: U.S. Spied on Negotiators At 2009 Climate Summit
2014-01-30,"A record number of foreign citizens were deported from Norway last year, after country's police stepped up the use of deportation as a way of fighting crime."
2014-01-30,Danish Government Nearly Collapsed Over Deal With Goldman Sachs
2014-01-30,"Ukraine on verge of 'civil war', says ex-president"
2014-01-30,"In Germany, memories of repressive national spying inflamed by U.S. surveillance"
2014-01-30,"Female genital mutilation affects a fifth of young girls in sub-Saharan Africa: Almost one in five young girls in sub-Saharan Africa are still forced to endure female genital mutilation, according to a UN report that paints a grim picture of the state of the world's children."
2014-01-30,Top lawyer finds GCHQ spying is illegal & UK spies who help US drone strike may be accessories to murder
2014-01-30,"China bans smoking in schools, including kindergarten"
2014-01-30,"UK House of Lords pass 'Gagging Bill', a bill designed to stop charities and trade unions from criticising the government."
2014-01-30,Threats to Sochi Olympics Whistleblower: 'You Will Be Drowned in Blood!'
2014-01-30,"The Ukrainian Parliament recently repealed harsh rules against freedom of speech and assembly, but rather than sign the repeal into law, PM Yanukovych goes on sick leave, leaving the harsh rules in place"
2014-01-30,"'Jews, Out of France!' Around 17000 March in Paris Chanting Anti-Semitic Slurs"
2014-01-30,"Egypt said it would try 20 people who work for the Al Jazeera television channel on charges they belong to a terrorist group, drawing U.S. allegations that the military-backed government is trying to muzzle dissent."
2014-01-30,Hunan couple recycles 9 million of plastic bottles a year to send their sons to university
2014-01-30,NSA spied on Copenhagen UN climate summit  Snowden leak
2014-01-30,"US-Funded Hospital in Afghanistan Has 3 Light Bulbs, Forces Staff to Wash Newborns in River Water"
2014-01-29,"""You're sending the wrong signal to billions of people living in undemocratic states""- Angela Merkel attacks US and UK spying tactics."
2014-01-29,Americas health craze for fish oil is wiping out the worlds rarest shark
2014-01-29,Two Norwegian politicians nominate Snowden for the Nobels Peace price.
2014-01-29,"US bans students from Syria, Iran, Sudan and Cuba from accessing Coursera, the non-profit organization offering free Massive Open Online Courses"
2014-01-29,China confirmed for the first time that H7N9 bird flu has spread from person to person
2014-01-29,Stem cell 'major discovery' claimed: Scientists in Japan showed stem cells can now be made quickly just by dipping blood cells into acid
2014-01-29,A French television programme is set to reveal a potentially damming audio recording in which the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi claims he helped bankroll former French president Nicolas Sarkozys 2007 presidential campaign
2014-01-29,"Gay Sex Is a Crime and Will Stay a Crime, Says Indias Top Judges"
2014-01-29,Angry Birds firm calls for industry to respond to NSA spying revelations | Rovio rethinks relationship with ad platforms; CEO tells users it was not complicit in surveillance; 'We do not collaborate or share data with spy agencies'
2014-01-29,"NSA, GCHQ mapping political alignment of cellphone users: The programs do not primarily target terrorists, but workers, intellectuals, and students."
2014-01-29,Japan: Nintendo President Cuts Salary After Disappointing Profits in 2013
2014-01-29,"Huge swath of GCHQ mass surveillance is illegal, says top lawyer"
2014-01-29,JP Morgan IT executive plunges to death at bank's London HQ
2014-01-29,Beijing forces U.S. reporter to leave China to punish foreign news organizations for exposing the tremendous wealth amassed by close relatives of top Communist Party leaders.
2014-01-29,"Angela Merkel warns US over surveillance in first speech of third term - 'A programme in which the end justifies all means  violates trust,' German chancellor says"
2014-01-29,Russia and U.S. to sign treaty prolonging ISS operations until 2024
2014-01-29,Michael Schumacher is being awakened today
2014-01-29,Pollution in Delhi is worse than Beijing; Indians have the world's weakest lungs
2014-01-29,Olympic Sponsors Were Warned About Sochi; Now McDonald's and Coca-Cola Are Having a PR Nightmare
2014-01-29,"Ukraine 'on brink of civil war' - Ukraine's first post-independence president says the country is ""on the brink of civil war"" as he opens debate on an amnesty for detained protesters"
2014-01-29,JPMorgan Technology VP Dies in Fall From London Headquarters
2014-01-29,Black Carbon Pollution is 2-3 Times Worse in India & China Than Previously Thought - Black carbon is a an air pollutant that comes from burning fossil fuels and biomass. New studies have found that it is contributing much more to both local air pollution and climate change than previously thought.
2014-01-29,Multiple sclerosis 'linked to food bug'. Lab tests in mice by the team from Weill Cornell Medical College revealed a toxin made by a rare strain of Clostridium perfringens caused MS-like damage in the brain.
2014-01-29,Justin Trudeau to remove senators from Liberal caucus
2014-01-29,Shark Cull: Western Australia Kills First Shark with 4 Head Shots
2014-01-28,Mexico Just Legalized Vigilantism And Then Captured A Huge Cartel Leader
2014-01-28,"World-first Edward Snowden interview reveals NSA spying on billions of innocents. ""Its clear that there are times where what is lawful is distinct from what is rightful... and it doesnt take long for an American or German to think of historic examples."""
2014-01-28,World's Largest Shark Slaughterhouse Uncovered in China
2014-01-28,"Salvation Army officers locked boys in cage, raped and beat them while the Army's leadership often failed to discipline or remove the perpetrators"
2014-01-28,"ISPs No Longer Have to Block The Pirate Bay, Dutch Court Rules"
2014-01-28,"Spain's prime minister is trying to ban abortion despite almost no support from the people - In the midst of a jobs crisis and economic dysfunction, Spain now must face a bitter debate over government plans to radically restrict womens rights."
2014-01-28,Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni said he will only sign the country's 'Anti-Homosexuality Bill' if scientists can prove that gay people are not born that way
2014-01-28,NSA and GCHQ target 'leaky' phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data
2014-01-28,Congress secretly approves U.S. weapons flow to 'moderate' Syrian rebels
2014-01-28,"Hairless hero: Iranian teacher shaves head in solidarity with bullied pupil: Ali Mohammadian's gesture, copied by his entire class of 23 pupils, stops bullying and attracts praise from all over country"
2014-01-28,"Sochi Olympics sponsor Coca-Cola wants to share a Coke, but not with gay people: Coca-Cola's bid to downplay its sponsorship of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics took a blow this week, when it emerged that the word 'gay' is banned from its customisable 'share a Coke' function."
2014-01-28,"Ukraine president accepts resignation of PM, entire cabinet"
2014-01-28,The British government is unlawfully hiding over a million documents about its colonial past. But it could soon be forced to release them.
2014-01-28,"Rooftop solar PV will soon be cheaper than coal : Even in northern Germany, where there is little sun, solar can be generated at 0.14c/kWh, half the cost of grid-based electricity."
2014-01-28,President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said in an interview aired Tuesday that he could accept an Israeli military presence in the West Bank for a three-year transition period as part of a peace deal.
2014-01-28,"In North Korea, meth is offered as casually as a cup of tea"
2014-01-28,"NSA uses apps like 'Angry Birds' to snatch your personal data including players location, age, sex and other personal information"
2014-01-28,"Chinese steelmakers and power plants are being forced to shop around for higher-quality raw materials to meet tougher air pollution standards, a move that will be a boon for global mining giants that produce premium-grade iron ore and coal."
2014-01-28,"""Anyone using Google Maps on a smartphone is working in support of a GCHQ system"" one 2008 document from the British intelligence agency is quoted as saying."""
2014-01-28,"Jew, France is Not Yours Chant Anti-Government Demonstrators in Paris"
2014-01-28,"Convicted Chinese ivory smuggler faces a record $233,000 fine or 7-years in jail in Kenya"
2014-01-28,Flatulent cows start fire at German dairy farm
2014-01-28,Ukraine 'to scrap' anti-protest law
2014-01-28,"Swedish divers unearth a 'Stone Age Atlantis': 11,000-year-old ancient settlement discovered under the Baltic Sea"
2014-01-28,Ukrainian prime minister offers to resign
2014-01-27,"HSBC is paying $2 billion, or 5 weeks' worth of its profit, to avoid criminal charges in drug cartel laundering case"
2014-01-27,"Pope Francis is preparing a new faith defining document on 'Human Ecology': ""People must defend and respect nature"""
2014-01-27,UK Considers putting persistent internet pirates in jail and increase the maximum jail time for digital infringement to 10 years
2014-01-27,Ukraine warns of state of emergency
2014-01-27,Russian anti-corruption politician Navalny reveals the mind-boggling amount wasted and stolen on the Sochi 2014 Olympics in an interactive infographic!
2014-01-27,"Wanted dead by US officials, Snowden tells German TV | Fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has claimed that US government officials ""want to kill me"" in an exclusive interview which German television says it conducted in Moscow."
2014-01-27,China installed more solar panels in 2013 than any country ever has
2014-01-27,Ukraine man found dead hanging from Independence Square protest 'tree'
2014-01-27,"Documents reveal ""national embarrassment"" over UK govt role in letting fraudster use diplomats and soldiers to sell worthless bomb detectors to Thailand, Mexico, Lebanon, Philippines and several African countries"
2014-01-27,Vaccine fears are causing an influx of preventable disease
2014-01-27,Ukraine protests 'spread' into Russia-influenced east
2014-01-27,The European Union Will Not Be Regulating Fracking For Natural Gas
2014-01-27,"Police in Japan arrest a factory worker, 49-year-old Toshiki Abe, who sickened up to 2,800 people by lacing more than six million packets of frozen food (such as pizza and chicken nuggets) with malathion, a pesticide used for killing fleas, over four shifts last October."
2014-01-27,"The mayor of Sochi, host of the Winter Olympics, has said there are no gay people in the city."
2014-01-27,"Vancouver man appalled at Sochi conditions after working on ski, snowboarding courses"
2014-01-27,"440,000 Thai voters prevented from voting"
2014-01-27,Thai protest leader Suthin Tharathin shot dead
2014-01-27,Pepsi One contains high levels of cancer causing chemical : Study
2014-01-27,"The money spent on preparing the UK for the impacts of global warming has almost halved since the environment secretary, Owen Paterson widely regarded as a climate change sceptic  took office. Critics called the cuts ""shocking"" and ""complacent""."
2014-01-27,"In a recently published interview in Bloomberg Businessweek, Bayer CEO Marijn Dekkers said that his companys cancer drug isnt for poor people. We did not develop this medicine for Indianswe developed it for western patients who can afford it, he said back in December."
2014-01-27,"China's Jade Rabbit moon rover that has broken down on the surface of the moon may be beyond repair, state media hints"
2014-01-27,"""The massive scale of human suffering still stuns us - German President writes letter to Vladimir Putin on anniversary of Leningrad siege and Auschwitz liberation"
2014-01-27,Argentine activists win first round against Monsanto plant
2014-01-27,H7N9 Bird Flu Kills First Doctor
2014-01-27,"""Abhorrent"": Hundreds of mentally ill children in England and Wales 'locked in police cells', some for over 24 hours as officers had no place else to take them."
2014-01-26,"All relatives of the executed uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, including children and the country's ambassadors to Cuba and Malaysia, have been put to death at the leader's instruction"
2014-01-26,Canada's Yukon Territory opening one of largest unbroken wilderness areas in N America to mining & mineral exploration - Decree stuns indigenous leaders who support 2011 plan maintaining 80% of the wilderness. New plan opens 71% to mining.
2014-01-26,Ukraine's President Yanukovych offers PM position to opposition leader
2014-01-26,"Pentagon unveils plan to keep 10,000 troops in Afghanistan"
2014-01-26,A group of UK climate activists have had their convictions for hijacking a coal train quashed after revelations have arose that one of the most active members was actually an undercover police officer who encouraged their actions.
2014-01-26,"Extremist religion is at root of 21st-century wars, says Tony Blair"
2014-01-26,Six Muslim Siblings Jailed For Attempted Kidnap Of Sarah Harrison For Having Relationship With Sister
2014-01-26,HSBC u-turn on restricting large withdrawals
2014-01-26,Former imam of the mosque of Pau ordered to leave France after faking hate crime against his own mosque [Google Translate]
2014-01-26,This is the one map you need to understand Ukraines crisis
2014-01-26,Orthodox priests in Ukraine step into line of fire to stop deadly protests
2014-01-26,Jailed ex Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko supports the protesters...
2014-01-26,Chinese teenager kills himself to save the life of his brother.
2014-01-26,Swedish Public Television Claims Copyright Publication Rights To Everybody's Sports Photos If Posted On Twitter
2014-01-26,Police forced to abandon Kiev conference centre to opposition
2014-01-26,"On Thursday, in a question-and-answer session on the ""Free Snowden"" website, Snowden ruled out returning to the United States, where he said there was no chance of a free trial."
2014-01-26,Report from Kiev by Russian journalist
2014-01-26,Bangkok  Hundreds of thousands of Thais were blocked from voting on Sunday as antigovernment demonstrators obstructed polling places in Bangkok and southern Thailand in a campaign to suspend democracy and replace Parliament with an unelected peoples council.
2014-01-26,Egypt calls early presidential election as violence spreads
2014-01-26,ISIS and Al-Nusra Declare War on Lebanon
2014-01-26,Danish government taking flak for Goldman Sachs deal
2014-01-26,Ukraine 2014 Riots Livestream
2014-01-26,A new poll suggest support for Scottish independence from the UK has significantly increased.
2014-01-26,"Twitter rape threats land UK pair in jail - charged for ""improper use of a public electronic communications network"""
2014-01-26,The Philippines has agreed the final section of a peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighting a long-running insurgency in the south of the country. It is the fourth part of a roadmap for peace with the
2014-01-25,"Bank refuses to give customers their money, unless they tell it why they want it."
2014-01-25,"Stephen Hawking announces in surprising statement that 'black holes', as most people, even physicists, understand them, do not exist."
2014-01-25,Confirmed: Protesters in Ukraine Kidnapped From Hospitals And Executed
2014-01-25,"Hong Kong to Incinerate One of Biggest Ivory Stockpiles in the World  Acting against a centuries-old tradition of carving ivory into religious objects, govt will destroy it as a deterrent to poachers who kill up to 96 elephants a day across Africa."
2014-01-25,Ukraine revolt open discussion thread #2 (sticky post)
2014-01-25,French MP fined for saying Hitler 'didnt kill enough Gypsies
2014-01-25,Ukraine's riot police accused of brutality
2014-01-25,Ukraine protesters reject deal with president
2014-01-25,Ukraine anti-government protesters try to seize energy ministry in Kiev
2014-01-25,US Will Stand With the People of Ukraine  Kerry | World
2014-01-25,"Israels abortion law now among worlds most liberal. Despite its conservative leanings, government approves free pregnancy termination for nearly all women, and it barely causes a ripple."
2014-01-25,'We didn't make this medicine for Indians we made it for western patients who can afford it': Pharmaceutical chief tries to stop India replicating its cancer treatment.
2014-01-25,"Britons returning to the UK from Syria will be stopped at the border and face arrest, a senior police chief has said. Sir Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, told the BBC there was ""huge concern"" Britons returning after fighting in Syria pose a threat to the UK."
2014-01-25,How Ukrainian Authorities Are Using Smartphones as Weapons Against Protesters
2014-01-25,Plight of slave maid who was beaten everyday for eight months
2014-01-25,"Cuba to freeze foreign funds linked to al Qaeda, Taliban"
2014-01-25,"Man tortured by police in video returns to EuroMaidan, talks to journalists"
2014-01-25,Letter to Obama from American detained in Egypt
2014-01-25,Twitter trolls jailed over menacing abuse sent to feminist campaigner.
2014-01-25,Egyptian embassy staff seized in Libya
2014-01-25,European Court of Human Rights fast-tracks case against GCHQ; more organizations launch legal challenges to UK spying
2014-01-25,N. Korea objects to US nuclear weapons being brought to South Korea
2014-01-25,Irish Town Shuts Down Blasphemous Play
2014-01-25,Poland to investigate alleged CIA secret prison following new developments [x-post /r/LegalNews]
2014-01-25,Ukraine: Fragile Truce in Kiev as Protests Spread Across Country
2014-01-24,"Snowden: ""I think a person should be able to dial a number, make a purchase, send an SMS, write an e-mail, or visit a Web site without having to think about what it's going to look like on their permanent record."""
2014-01-24,"We did not develop this medicine for Indians...we developed it for western patients who can afford it,"" says Pharmaceutical CEO on expensive cancer drug patent"
2014-01-24,Ukraine: Police undress arrested to take group photos with him [NSFW]
2014-01-24,Kidnapped Ukrainian protestor Verbytsky found dead; activist Lutsenko describes abduction
2014-01-24,German Olympians will be wearing rainbow-colored uniforms in Sochi
2014-01-24,"Denmark may soon be the first country in the world to issue a ban on non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. Calls it ""Genital Mutilation"". Meanwhile, Israel tries hard to block changes that are broadly perceived in Europe as a clear step forward in children's human rights."
2014-01-24,12 gauge Brass Slugs Fired At Ukraine Protesters
2014-01-24,"Every half hour, police keep bringing corpses to a Kyiv morgue"
2014-01-24,A Ukrainian Journalist Explains 10 Things The West Needs To Know About The Situation In Kiev
2014-01-24,"No, an Abandoned Ship Full of Diseased Rats Is Not Floating Towards Britain"
2014-01-24,Outrage after Ukraine policeman filmed abusing naked protester
2014-01-24,"Two killer whales, which can grow up to 22ft long and swim 100 miles a day, are set to be kept in a small concrete tank for display during the Sochi Olympics"
2014-01-24,British man sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy
2014-01-24,Ukraine's Capital Descends Into Chaos
2014-01-24,"Ukraine's Yanukovich spurns opposition, more barricades go up"
2014-01-24,Russia will not end Snowden's asylum
2014-01-24,"Thailand is the third largest exporter of seafood in the world, supplying supermarkets in Europe and America, but is accused of crewing fishing boats with Burmese and Cambodian Slaves. And if people can't work, aren't useful on board, they can be Killed and thrown overboard"
2014-01-24,"Ukraine protesters seize building, put up more barricades"
2014-01-24,"Snowden admits in interview: ""The people at the working level at the NSA, CIA, or any other member of the [Intelligence Community] are not out to get you. They're good people trying to do the right thing... do have a role to play""."
2014-01-24,"Justin Trudeau says Canada should draw on best practices from marijuana legalization in Colorado, Washington. Last summer, Trudeau admitted to smoking pot after becoming an MP and has maintained that legalization in Canada is a good idea."
2014-01-24,Ukrainians are capturing state administrations across the country
2014-01-24,US Judge Rules That Anti-Gay Scott Lively Must Stand Trial for Crimes Against Humanity In Uganda
2014-01-24,Russia has accused the European Union of the aggressive propaganda of homosexual love in order to force an alien view of homosexuality on all countries worldwide
2014-01-24,"Norway's Progress Party demands personal apology from Obama after his nomination for Norway's new ambassador described its members as ""fringe elements"" who ""spew out their hatred"""
2014-01-24,"Pope: The Internet is a ""gift from God"" that facilitates communication, but he warns that the obsessive desire to stay connected can actually isolate people from their friends and family"
2014-01-23,Netflix warns it will provoke customer protest if ISPs violate net neutrality principles
2014-01-23,"Video of riot police stripping detained protester naked in the snow at tempatures below 0 while taking pictures of him. Reports of police torture continue in Kyiv, Ukraine."
2014-01-23,Ukraine revolt Livestream (sticky post)
2014-01-23,"Ukraine: One of kidnapped protestors was found in a forest, tortured to death"
2014-01-23,A Ghost Ship filled with cannibal rats possibly headed for British Coast
2014-01-23,29 images of Kiev protests resembling a war zone
2014-01-23,Hong Kong Billioniare doubles his offer from 40M to 80m to any man who can turn his lesbian daughter straight
2014-01-23,"India,20-year-old tribal woman tied to tree, gang-raped on orders of village council for falling in love with other caste man"
2014-01-23,Pope Francis says the internet is a 'gift from God'
2014-01-23,Martial Law declared in Kiev
2014-01-23,"Norwegians caught selling whale meat snacks at the world's largest eco food fair, could go to prison for five years."
2014-01-23,"A Ukrainian student has told the BBC he was tortured by riot police after being arrested during violent clashes in Kiev on Monday night. Mikhailo Niskoguz says he was taking photos before being detained by police, beaten and cut with a knife."
2014-01-23,Weapons used by protesters in Kiev
2014-01-23,Porn found on mobile phone of member of Saudi religious police
2014-01-23,"Woman, 79, who refused to fill out census found guilty of violating Statistics Act"
2014-01-23,Kenya Burns Indigenous People Out of Ancestral Lands  Govt sends Forest Service guards with police support to forcibly & illegally evict thousands of Sengwer indigenous people from their ancestral forest lands & burn their homes & belongings.
2014-01-23,"A record 1,004 rhinos were killed in South Africa in 2013. Valiant efforts by concerned citizens can't compete with the international smuggling operations that have zeroed in on South Africa in recent years."
2014-01-23,Thousands of Nigerians throw stones into Sharia trial of gay men demanding speedier executions
2014-01-23,It is -10 to -20 in Kiev and police are using water canons
2014-01-23,"Ukraine opposition issues ultimatum, will ""go on offensive"" if demands aren't met"
2014-01-23,"Ukraine protests: Russia will not intervene, says Vladimir Putin spokesman"
2014-01-23,Prime Ministers Office Tries to Silence Pipeline Critics; Labels Environmental GroupEnemy of the Government of Canada
2014-01-23,"Snowden Calls Russian-Spy Story 'Absurd' in Exclusive Interview : The media has a major role to play in American society, and theyre really abdicating their responsibility to hold power to account."
2014-01-23,"Beijing bans new refining, steel, coal power to curb pollution"
2014-01-23,Mexican drug lord busted by his Instagram feed - pictures in article
2014-01-22,"Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance. a text message that thousands of Ukrainian protesters spontaneously received on their cell phones today, as a new law prohibiting public demonstrations went into effect."
2014-01-22,Injured Ukraine activists disappearing from Kyiv hospitals
2014-01-22,Pope Francis has challenged the world's business elite to do more to help the poor and vulnerable
2014-01-22,"Snowden: If 'Country Is Helped,' Ending Up in Ditch 'Worth It' - In New Yorker interview, Snowden says 'I acted alone' and calls spy accusations by Republican congressman 'absurd'"
2014-01-22,"Syria accuses the west of pouring arms into the hands of terrorists. ""The west claims to fight terrorism, but it secretly feeds terrorism."""
2014-01-22,Ukraine: 2 dead from bullets near Kiev barricades
2014-01-22,N.S.A. and the F.B.I. officials have said their investigations have turned up NO evidence that Mr. Snowden was aided by others.
2014-01-22,"Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, who pledged last year to go clean after a crack-smoking scandal, admitted on Tuesday he had been drinking again after a video surfaced of him ranting about police surveillance in a mock Jamaican accent in a suburban eatery"
2014-01-22,China executes man who held six women as sex slaves in his basement and murdered two of them
2014-01-22,Guardian blocked in China after story about leadership's offshore wealth
2014-01-22,Mafia murder 3 year old boy Nicola Campolongo over his grandfather's debts
2014-01-22,Almost 80% of Russians see solution for terrorism in liquidating terrorists - poll
2014-01-22,Argentina limits online purchases on foreign sites to 2 per year.
2014-01-22,First year University of Toronto student develops new treatment for malaria
2014-01-22,"China's exports linked to western U.S. air pollution -- ""In the western United States, Chinese pollution related to exports contribute up to 12% to 24% of daily sulfate concentrations"""
2014-01-22,BBC -Ukraine police storm Kiev protest barricades
2014-01-22,"Rare Blue Diamond found in South Africa's Cullinan mine. The ""exceptional"" 29.6 carat blue diamond is the latest rare stone to be found in the Cullinan mine."
2014-01-22,Text messages warn Ukraine protesters they are 'participants in mass riot'
2014-01-22,"Brazil's poor are protesting income inequality in an awesome way: Brazilians are shutting down upscale shopping malls with flash mobs, dancing and BBQs"
2014-01-22,"Google's Eric Schmidt calls surveillance a ""luxury problem"", denies knowledge of NSA tapping of firm"
2014-01-22,NSA files: Snowden says 'I acted alone' and rubbishes Russian spy claims. Former spy agency contractor tells magazine that attempt to link him to FSB are 'absurd'.
2014-01-22,Air pollution from Asia affecting world's weather
2014-01-22,State of Emergency Begins in Thailand
2014-01-22,A Star Just Exploded In A Nearby Galaxy. Closest of its kind in 30 years
2014-01-22,"Human Rights Watch annual report 2014 criticises NSA mass surveillance | States with poor human rights records may use spying scandal as excuse to clamp down on internet freedom, report warns"
2014-01-21,Ukraine's Capital is literally revolting (Livestream)
2014-01-21,"Science and information suppression is getting so bad in Canada, researchers are squirreling away large volumes of data in their basements for others to use."
2014-01-21,A BBC photo of a men's cubicle with twin toilets at a Sochi Olympics venue has caused a Twitter storm in Russia
2014-01-21,Thailand declares state of emergency in Bangkok
2014-01-21,Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair subjected to citizen's arrest at top London restaurant over 'illegal' war in Iraq
2014-01-21,A senior Italian cleric has been charged with laundering millions through the Vatican bank. He is already on trial and under house arrest on separate charges of plotting to smuggle 20m euros into Italy. The former Vatican accountant and two other people were served with arrest warrants on Tuesday
2014-01-21,"After another night of violence, Russia tells Europeans not to interfere in Ukraine: Russia has called on European governments not to interfere in the political crisis in Ukraine. The statement followed another night of violent clashes between anti-government protesters and police in Kyiv"
2014-01-21,"Health Canada scientists are so concerned about losing access to their research library that some are squirrelling away journals and books in their garages for colleagues to consult, says a report obtained by CBC News (X-post from /r/Canada)"
2014-01-21,French Minister Slams Spain's 'Stone Age' Abortion Law
2014-01-21,Snowden to ask Russian police for protection after US threats - lawyer
2014-01-21,Japanese fishermen begin annual slaughter of hundreds of dolphins: Annual cull goes ahead in defiance of worldwide criticism
2014-01-21,"The Catalan National Assembly collects 235,000 signatures for independence in one weekend"
2014-01-21,"Personal credit card data of 20 million South Koreans -- or 40% of the country's population -- has been stolen, sparking outrage and resignations"
2014-01-21,Evidence of 'industrial-scale killing' by Syria spurs call for war crimes charges | World news
2014-01-21,Germany Has Recovered a Paltry 5 Tons of Gold from the NY Fed After One Year
2014-01-21,"Swiss Guard veteran claims existence of 'gay network' at the Vatican: Former commandant Elmar Mder says there is a 'secret society of homosexuals' at Holy See, and that it imperils pope's security"
2014-01-21,Ukraine Tracks Protesters Through Cellphones
2014-01-21,The European Space Agency has successfully received a signal from the Rosetta spacecraft on its way to land on a comet
2014-01-21,The University of Cumbria (UK) becomes first public university in the world to accept Bitcoin in tuition fees.
2014-01-21,"South Sudan hospital patients 'shot in their beds': It is thought that up to 10,000 people have been killed in the South Sudanese conflict and a half a million displaced."
2014-01-21,Angry S Koreans flood banks after data leak
2014-01-21,"Homophobic? Not me, says Putin... I like Elton John"
2014-01-21,Image published by embassy in Japan shows Fukushima melted fuel deep underground
2014-01-21,European tax loopholes - which allows Google to pay just 0.1% income tax in UK - to be closed
2014-01-21,"Scholar Wins Court Battle to Purge Name From U.S. No-Fly List. Total Costs of this Battle: $3,8M"
2014-01-20,Oxfam: Combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to that of the poorest 3.5 billion - half the world's population
2014-01-20,"Vladimir Putin opens the door to permanent Russian asylum for Snowden: Asked whether Snowden could stay as long as he wants, Putin replied: ""Yes, sure, definitely."""
2014-01-20,"It's bobsled time: Jamaican team raises $25,000 in Dogecoin"
2014-01-20,"Robot spaceship built by European Space Agency just 'woke up' after 2.5 years of hibernation, prepares to shoot a harpoon into the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet and travel with it for over a year in a style similar to that of the Moby Dick novel."
2014-01-20,"UN confirms: Iran has begun implementing nuclear deal, stopping enrichment, reducing stockpiles"
2014-01-20,Nasa says 'doughnut rock' on Mars is like nothing weve ever seen before
2014-01-20,"""The German justice system will not stand idly by if the efforts of the NSA blithely continue here"" - Germany reacts to Obama's NSA reforms"
2014-01-20,"In an unusual move, U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy has expressed deep concern over the traditional dolphin hunt in western Japan, where local fisherman corral dolphins in a secluded bay before killing many for meat."
2014-01-20,1% of families own 46% of total global wealth
2014-01-20,Canada cancels state visit by Nigerian president over country's anti-gay law.
2014-01-20,Credit card details from almost half of all South Koreans have been stolen and sold to marketing firms.
2014-01-20,"Dogecoin raises over $30,000 for Jamaican Olympic Bobsled team in just over 24 hours"
2014-01-20,Bill and Melinda Gates predict a world with almost no poor countries by 2035
2014-01-20,Beijing residents are NOT watching fake sunrises on giant TVs because of pollution
2014-01-20,France warns Europe could be 'overwhelmed' by jihadis returning from Syria
2014-01-20,Japanese dolphin killing condemned by US ambassador
2014-01-20,"Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as half of the world's population - As World Economic Forum starts in Davos, development charity claims that growing inequality has been driven by a 'power grab' by wealthy elites"
2014-01-20,Christian mob in CAR burns Muslims in street
2014-01-20,"Of the first 20 captives to arrive at Guantnamo 12 years ago, 11 remain there. The general in command then reflects on that time and says the prisons should be closed."
2014-01-20,"3D-printed prosthetics: How a $100 arm is giving hope to Sudan's 50,000 war amputees"
2014-01-20,"Putin: Russia must 'cleanse' itself of gays, but they shouldn't fear Sochi"
2014-01-20,6.3 magnitude earthquake hits New Zealand's North island.
2014-01-20,Ukraine Protesters attacking Government Building [Live Stream]
2014-01-20,NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance companies
2014-01-20,Tomb of ancient Egypt's beer maker to gods of the dead discovered
2014-01-19,Jamaican Bobsled Team Qualifies for 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics
2014-01-19,"Wife of Indian minister found dead after 'exposing husband's affair on Twitter to 2 million followers' died a 'sudden and unnatural death', tests reveal."
2014-01-19,UK Prime Minister David Cameron Wants to Strip Benefits from Immigrants Who Can't Speak English
2014-01-19,"Rich Chinese continue to flee China, 64 percent of Chinese millionaires have either emigrated or plan to emigrate and United States is their favorite destination"
2014-01-19,Report will detail how Jimmy Savile abused up to a THOUSAND young boys and girls on BBC premises. (xpost from r/news because I forgot that's for US news)
2014-01-19,"3 Japanese Groups Ask that Brutal Dolphin Hunts be Stopped in Japan - The roundups occur 6 months out of each yr. This year alone, fishermen allowed to drive in over 2,000 dolphins."
2014-01-19,Man tortured for Britain finds asylum  in the US. Britain has been attacked by human rights campaigners over its shameful failure to aid a British embassy guard who had to flee his home country with his family after he was brutally tortured.
2014-01-19,Benefits 'to be stripped from immigrants who cannot speak English': David Cameron intends to make the cuts in order to slash the countrys welfare bill
2014-01-19,Water leak found inside Fukushima reactor building
2014-01-19,Egypt's new constitution gets 98% 'yes' vote
2014-01-19,"As Obama Speaks, Why Is the UK So Quiet on Surveillance?"
2014-01-19,"US airstrike kills woman, seven children in Afghanistan"
2014-01-19,"Riot police fired plastic bullets, tear gas and water cannons at hundreds of people in Istanbul protesting a government plan to expand controls over the public's use of the Internet"
2014-01-19,A whole town is burning down in Norway. Google translate correction: The fire is NOT under control.
2014-01-19,"Ukrainian protesters clashed with police in central Kiev after at least 10,000 people took to Independence Square for an anti-government demonstration. Police retaliation was prompted by an attempt to storm the government quarter."
2014-01-19,China building second aircraft carrier: reports
2014-01-19,Canadian government accused of destroying environmental archives
2014-01-19,A Suspiciously High Percentage of Egyptians Voted 'Yes' on a New Constitution - The Wire
2014-01-19,African Pop Star turns white (and causes controversy) with new line of skin whitening cream.
2014-01-19,Mystery Mars rock reveals unexpected chemical composition
2014-01-19,North Korea's Huge Rare Earth Deposits
2014-01-19,"Japanese lieutenant hid in the Philippines for 29 years after war, dies: ""[he] survived on bananas and coconuts and sometimes killed villagers he assumed were enemies"""
2014-01-19,Chinas Commerce Ministry has condemned a $1.1 trillion spending bill passed by the United States Congress last week over clauses that limit technological purchases from China
2014-01-19,"Gunmen attack Muslims fleeing CAR, kill 22, 3 kids"
2014-01-19,Cool runnings 2: Jamaican bobsled team qualifies for Sochi Olympics!
2014-01-18,"At 10am GMT on Monday morning an alarm clock will rouse a snoozing spacecraft that is hurtling through the darkest reaches of the solar system. Launched 10 years ago, and in hibernation for the last three, the time for action has come at last."
2014-01-18,Pope Defrocked Nearly 400 Priests in 2 Years for Molesting Kids
2014-01-18,"Australia is currently on fire: In the Grampians a fire complex has been so intense it created a 12km-wide convection column, generating its own weather and lightning strikes. As of today lightning strikes have started 25 fires in Aus which are forecast to form an inferno of half a million hectares."
2014-01-18,A senior Italian member of the International Olympic Committee has slammed the US for mixing politics with the Olympics in its absurd decision to include openly gay athletes in its official delegation to the Winter Games in Russias Sochi.
2014-01-18,Mali arrests Islamist judge who ordered amputations and stonings
2014-01-18,Ministers wife found dead in luxury hotel room in India after exposing husbands alleged affair on Twitter
2014-01-18,"A colossal pod of 250 plus Bottlenose dolphins including babies, juveniles and one baby albino dolphin is being held captive overnight in the cove right now."
2014-01-18,"4,000-year-old erotica depicts a strikingly racy ancient sexuality"
2014-01-18,"Montreal, Canada : Woman claims she was told to leave hospital and province for requesting English service"
2014-01-18,"Canada, France & UK issue travel advisory for women visiting India"
2014-01-18,"Egypt hires American PR firm to improve its image, then arrests its film crew within hours of setting foot in Cairo."
2014-01-18,Wife who used Twitter to accuse Indian MP husband of affair is found dead
2014-01-18,EU to start lifting Iran sanctions on Monday
2014-01-18,"Egyptians 'will kill Americans in the streets', prominent editor threatens"
2014-01-18,Major Political Donors Have Access to TPP Documents. Everyone Else? Not So Much
2014-01-18,"Civilian militias in Michoacan, Mexico expelled drug-traffickers and have taken control of the region. The government is demanding they disarm."
2014-01-18,"Intel confirms it will axe 5,400 workers in 2014"
2014-01-18,Columbia University prof. estimates $20tln hidden in tax havens
2014-01-18,250 dolphins rounded up in Japan's Taiji cove
2014-01-18,Two explosions hit capital of Russia's southern republic of Dagestan
2014-01-18,"250 dolphins rounded up, await slaughter at Japan's Taiji Cove"
2014-01-18,Taliban attack on restaurant in Afghan capital kills at least 13
2014-01-18,"Turkey purges bank watchdog, telecoms body, state TV in graft probe backlash"
2014-01-18,Germany candy maker Haribo pulls 'racist' liquorice after complaints
2014-01-18,"Body of 3 year old Mikaeel Kular has been found at 1am GMT in Fife, Scotland, mother has been detained"
2014-01-17,UN: Online Privacy Now Considered a Human Right
2014-01-17,Uganda president refuses to approve anti-gay Bill
2014-01-17,"The Economist talks about ""The coming storm"" - 47% of today's jobs could be automated within 20 years ""No government is prepared for it."" Suggests a radical rethinking of education and redistributive taxes towards lower-wage workers"
2014-01-17,84-year-old Canadian died in handcuffs while in U.K. immigration lockup: watchdog
2014-01-17,NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
2014-01-17,Fervently Anti-Gay Uganda Among World's Top Gay Porn Consumers Behind Fervently Anti-Gay Pakistan
2014-01-17,Growing Number Of People Agree That Ed Snowden Is A Whistleblower
2014-01-17,"The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has released a manifesto claiming that the Quran forbids the use of violence to spread Islam"
2014-01-17,Neurosurgeons from Poland transplanted nerve cells taken from the nose of man that had his spinal cord injured. He can move his legs now. (Google translate)
2014-01-17,"Japan's last WWII straggler dies at 91 - Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding and surrender 29 years after the end of World War II, has died."
2014-01-17,Ugandan president refuses to approve law jailing gay people for life
2014-01-17,"Putin's Message to Gays in Sochi: Leave Children in Peace - Gay people should feel comfortable at the Sochi Olympics but leave children in peace, Russias President Vladimir Putin said Friday."
2014-01-17,Spain becomes first country to rely on wind as top energy source
2014-01-17,Mexican vigilante groups refuse to be disarmed by the military
2014-01-17,"Activists in Wuhan block truck carrying 2,800 cats headed for Slaughter"
2014-01-17,"Italian MP puts on blackface in anti-immigration tirade, ""saying that all white Italians should do the same so as to receive benefits, free housing and preferential treatment African migrants do"""
2014-01-17,Buddhist Mob Group Kills Dozens of Muslims in Myanmar.
2014-01-17,"Vladimir Putin: ""We do not have a ban on non-traditional sexual relationships. We have a ban on the propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia. I want to underline this. Propaganda among children. These are absolutely different things  a ban on something or a ban on the propaganda of that thing."""
2014-01-17,"Young Greek convicted 10 months with parole for insulting religion, by facebook page with the Greek offshoot of the Flying Spaghetti Monster."
2014-01-17,"A 79-year old feminist, peace activist, film-maker and member of Aosdna has been jailed for three months in Limerick Prison in relation to protests over US military use of Shannon Airport."
2014-01-17,Vomit fee proposed for Torontos taxi cabs
2014-01-17,"Metals, Currency Rigging Worse Than Libor, Bafin Chief Says"
2014-01-17,A blogger in Greece has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for blasphemy because he satirized a Greek Orthodox monk
2014-01-17,"Jamaican Bobsled Team on verge of qualifying for Sochi Olympics, first time since 2002"
2014-01-17,Ukraine passes sweeping legislation against acts of protest
2014-01-16,"Pope Francis sacks all but one of the cardinals who run the Vatican bank, less than a year after Pope Benedict XVI appointed them"
2014-01-16,A paedophile ring which streamed live child abuse from the Philippines over the internet has been broken up after an operation by UK police and their counterparts in Australia and the US
2014-01-16,A huge pile of shit has been dumped outside the French National Assembly to protest against Hollande & the politcal elite.
2014-01-16,"Govt request to remove political content worrying, says Google"
2014-01-16,Korean-Russian team to clone a mammoth from ancient tissue
2014-01-16,"Income Inequality Most Likely Threat to World Economy, WEF Says"
2014-01-16,Chronic income gap between richest & poorest poses biggest global threat - 'World Economic Forum' survey identifies inequality as biggest flashpoint as well as extreme weather and unemployment
2014-01-16,New analysis of rocket used in Syria chemical attack undercuts U.S. claims  it would have been impossible for the rocket to have been fired from inside areas controlled by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.
2014-01-16,German charity worker raped while asleep on train in southern India
2014-01-16,More Leaked Documents on the TPP Show More Problems
2014-01-16,"Chinese general arrested for gilded lifestyle: Top officer had dozens of homes, a golden boat, gold statue of Mao and other items confiscated in corruption probe."
2014-01-16,Wind power is now the main source of energy in Spain
2014-01-16,North Korea warns the US and South Korea that their standard military practices are provocative of war.
2014-01-16,Prostitutes in the party island of Ibiza have formed a sex workers' union to pay taxes and gain social security benefits  first of its kind legally registered in Spain.
2014-01-16,New forms of male birth birth control may change how we humans get it on:
2014-01-16,FOX Bankrupted a 23-Year-Old Canadian Pirate for Running a 'Simpsons' Streaming Site
2014-01-16,Archaeologists uncover new pharaoh in Egypt
2014-01-16,Stunning new footage of civilian defiance emerges from North Korea
2014-01-16,61% of Pakistanis say women should dress as they wish: online survey
2014-01-16,"70,000 Gallons of Borscht to Sustain Spectators at Sochi Games - Organizers hope everyone likes beets"
2014-01-16,Radical Israeli settlers torch Mosque in the West Bank.
2014-01-16,India looking into tax evasion by US Embassy following the Khobragade issue.
2014-01-16,We Hacked North Korea With Balloons and USB Drives
2014-01-16,Stanford scientists: Climate change occurring 10 times faster than anytime in the past 65 million years.
2014-01-16,Schools prepare to close as Shanghai Pollution reaches an all-time high
2014-01-15,WikiLeaks releases long sought Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Environment draft
2014-01-15,"New Memo: Kissinger Gave the ""Green Light"" for Argentina's Dirty War. ""That resulted in the disappearancethat is, deathsof an estimated 30,000 people."""
2014-01-15,Urn containing Sigmund Freud's ashes smashed in raid on London crematorium
2014-01-15,Why the DEA Let the World's Tech-Savviest Drug Cartel Do As It Pleased for 12 Years
2014-01-15,"As per newly declassified documents, in 1984, Britain assisted in the desecration and destruction of the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine."
2014-01-15,Man tries to self-immolate (set himself on fire) after tribal council [jirga] tells him to wed his underage daughters to the sons of a policeman. PAKISTAN
2014-01-15,Japan to test 'magnetic net' that can fish out floating space junk
2014-01-15,"Danish tourist robbed, beaten and gang-raped in India."
2014-01-15,"Iranian born former US air defense contractor caught smuggling boxes of secret documents to Iran, including 'thousands of pages contained in dozens of manuals/binders relating' to F-35 fighter jet"
2014-01-15,Starvation reported at Palestinian camp in Syria. Disturbing images of emaciated children and elderly people who appear to have died of hunger are emerging from a Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Damascus.
2014-01-15,Report: NSA uses radio pathways to access computers even when machines are not connected to the internet.
2014-01-15,Insane Photos Show Mexican Vigilantes Battling A Drug Cartel For Control Of A City
2014-01-15,Saudi Arabian women's rights: Govt will no longer text a woman's male guardian if she leaves the country
2014-01-15,"Sickened Fukushima Worker: Employees beaten, threatened with death for speaking out (VIDEO)"
2014-01-15,Vatican To Be Grilled By UN On Allegations It Enabled Rape Of Children
2014-01-15,"Canada's carbon emissions projected to soar by 2030. Tar sands expected to help drive 38% increase in emissions. ""We in Canada are living an Orwellian nightmare when it comes to our government and climate."" (x-post /r/everythingscience)"
2014-01-15,"US physically hacks 100,000 foreign computers"
2014-01-15,The $8 Million Mayor: 'My Wealth Comes From God'. Indonesian anti-corruption investigators are not so sure.
2014-01-15,Man caught with pipe bomb at Edmonton airport allowed to fly anyway.
2014-01-15,"Frontline: Secret State of North Korea. Footage smuggled out by a network of journalists and defectors offers an unprecedented look inside the Hermit Kingdom. ""At least in China, they have free speech,"" said one North Korean in her Pyongyang apartment."
2014-01-15,Mexican army shooting unarmed civilians; trying to take down the Autodefensas
2014-01-15,"China's young are following in Jack Kerouac's footsteps: Chafing under social expectations, they fantasize about travelling to exotic places and leaving work or school far behind"
2014-01-15,Palestinians starve to death in South Damascus
2014-01-15,"Indonesian Maids are Hong Kong's ""Modern-Day Slaves"""
2014-01-15,Chinese Doctor Who Sold Newborns to Human Traffickers Sentenced to Death
2014-01-14,Mozilla Calls On World To Protect Firefox Browser From the NSA
2014-01-14,Confired: The DEA Struck A Deal With Mexico's Most Notorious Drug Cartel
2014-01-14,"Palm Oil Company Fined for Burning Only Place on Earth Where Tigers, Elephants, Rhinos, & Orangutans Live Together in the Wild  Indonesian court finds 'PT Kallista Alam' firm guilty of illegally burning large swathes of Sumatran Forest."
2014-01-14,"""The Americans have lied to us"" - Germany loses hope of signing 'no-spy' treaty with US in wake of NSA scandal"
2014-01-14,"Pakistan to name school, stadium after teenager who died stopping suicide bomber"
2014-01-14,Melting glaciers in northern Italy reveal corpses of WW1 soldiers
2014-01-14,"Spain Youth Unemployment Rises To Record 57.7%, Surpasses Greece"
2014-01-14,"Pirate Bay Founder Gets Access to His Books After Public Outcry: Danish authorities are now allowing Gottfrid Svartholm to access the books he brought from Sweden. Previously, the police feared that these books could contain secret messages"
2014-01-14,"China is now requiring all fisherman in the Pacific waters it claims to seek China's approval before fishing. Other countries have responded angrily to China's new jurisdiction claim, declaring it ""illegal and invalid""."
2014-01-14,China cloning on an 'industrial scale'
2014-01-14,"Afghan atheist granted UK asylum -- ""An Afghan man is believed to have become the first atheist to be granted asylum in the UK on the basis of his views on religion"" and ""could set a significant precedent in asylum and immigration cases"""
2014-01-14,Car-Free City: Hamburg Announces Audacious 20-Year Plan to Eliminate Need for Automobiles
2014-01-14,MegaUpload's Kim Dotcom set to establish own political Party in New Zealand
2014-01-14,Nurse Arrested For Selling Babies Exposes China's Child Trafficking Problem
2014-01-14,Tensions between Muslims and Christians in CAR culminate in act of public cannibalism
2014-01-14,Nigerian president signs anti-gay bill into law - made it illegal for gay people to even hold a meeting
2014-01-14,"US will not enter bilateral no-spy agreement with Germany, says media: Despite assurance from Barack Obama, United States has not ruled out bugging political leaders' calls, claims German paper"
2014-01-14,NSA Data Have No Impact on Terrorism: Report
2014-01-14,"Nigeria's president has signed a law that bans same-sex marriage and criminalizes homosexual associations, societies and meetings, with penalties of up to 14 years in jail"
2014-01-14,India three years polio-free. Great achievement considering the fact that 20 years ago there used to be 50 000 to 100 000 cases every year.
2014-01-14,"The U.S. Army tested biological weapons in Okinawa in the early 1960s, when the prefecture was still under U.S. rule, according to U.S. documents obtained by Kyodo News."
2014-01-14,French President's approval ratings go up after report he's having an affair with an actress
2014-01-14,The Dutch government is planning to make prisoners pay 16 a day for their time in jail
2014-01-14,Saudi religious cops tell women not to use swings
2014-01-14,Mexican vigilantes seize cartel bastion
2014-01-13,"A broad coalition of well-known organizations (Reddit, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, Free Press, Mozilla and others) announced today that it will stage an online protest against wide-ranging government surveillance of Internet users on 11 February, in memory of activist Aaron Swartz."
2014-01-13,6.4 quake hits Puerto Rico coast
2014-01-13,"Neil Young blasts Harper government for allowing oil-sands development: money is number one, integrity isnt even on the map"
2014-01-13,EU Offers Public a Chance to Fix Copyright Law: EU Commission has opened a public consultation which allows all citizens  even those in the U.S.  a rare opportunity to change the path of copyright law
2014-01-13,Raped 60 times in hospital: Mental health patient reveals shocking abuse on wards dubbed ''playgrounds for predators''
2014-01-13,Kalashnikov 'feared he was to blame' for AK-47 rifle deaths: The inventor of the Kalashnikov assault rifle apparently wrote to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church before he died expressing fears he was personally responsible for the people it killed.
2014-01-13,"Samoan teenager arrested and family fined $4300 USD, 30 cartons of tinned fish, and 2 cows, for mocking Samoan Prime Minister"
2014-01-13,UK government minister urges middle classes to forget banks and join credit unions
2014-01-13,"A gay man in Cameroon who was jailed for sending a text message to another man saying ""I'm very much in love with you,"" and who was later declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, has died"
2014-01-13,BP loses bid over Gulf oil payouts
2014-01-13,Pope Francis says abortion is part of 'throwaway culture'.
2014-01-13,Mystery of Alexander the Great's death solved? Ruler was 'killed by toxic wine' claim scientists. A leading toxicologist has said that Alexander the Great may have died after drinking wine made from a poisonous plant that would have cause a slow and painful death.
2014-01-13,Mumbai fashion designer raped by 13 men in Dubai
2014-01-13,Vice-president of European Commission accuses British government of whipping up scares to distract people from the UK's real problems
2014-01-13,Al Shabaab of Somalia has banned the Internet.
2014-01-13,"Out in the Open: An NSA-Proof Twitter, Built With Code From Bitcoin and BitTorrent"
2014-01-13,White House: Iran to start eliminating uranium stockpile January 20
2014-01-13,"Thailand braced for a ""shutdown"" of its capital on Monday by protesters who want to topple Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and install an unelected government, as fears grew that the southeast Asian country could be heading for civil war"
2014-01-13,Overfishing is truly becoming the world's problem... Philippines and Vietnam condemn new Chinese South China Sea fishing law.
2014-01-13,German security contact killed in US drone attack in Pakistan-Afghan border
2014-01-13,NSA #2 States That Only One Terrorist Activity Was Ever Related to Bulk Phone Data Collection
2014-01-13,Rival militiamen have embraced each other in a district of the Central African Republic capital Bangui after the French military brokered a truce
2014-01-13,Pope Francis calls abortion 'horrific' in toughest remark to date
2014-01-13,"Audit slams World Bank - Investigation says loan to Honduran palm oil magnate, alleged to be linked to activist deaths, violated bank's rules"
2014-01-13,A man in Ireland has been stabbed to death in what detectives believe may have been a row over a late night game of chess. Detectives said they believed a row had broken out over a chess move and spiralled out of control.
2014-01-12,Close to victory: India will officially be declared polio-free on Monday
2014-01-12,Obama to announce changes to NSA surveillance on Jan. 17
2014-01-12,"UK schools fingerprinted over 800K children, third without parental consent - watchdog"
2014-01-12,"Permit to hunt Critically Endangered Black Rhino sells for $350,000 at Dallas auction"
2014-01-12,"About that Consensus on Global Warming: 9136 agree, 1 disagrees."
2014-01-12,A 14-year-old girl has been found shot dead in southeastern Turkey a few days after giving birth to her second child
2014-01-12,"German church criticizes plan to add 'acceptance of sexual diversity' to school curriculum cautioning against any ""ideologization and indoctrination"""
2014-01-12,Devastating dossier on 'abuse' by UK forces in Iraq goes to International Criminal Court. Senior UK military and political figures could end up in the dock as 400 victims denounce 'systemic' use of torture and cruelty.
2014-01-12,Woman tries to sue her lawyers because they failed to tell her a divorce settlement would end her marriage
2014-01-12,An international campaign to boycott Israeli settlement products has rapidly turned from a distant nuisance into a harsh economic reality for Israeli farmers in the West Bank's Jordan Valley. The export-driven income of growers in the valley's 21 settlements dropped by more than $29 million.
2014-01-12,"Norway's Oil Fund Heads For $1 Trillion; Every man, woman and child in oil-rich Norway became a theoretical millionaire"
2014-01-12,Construction of Monsanto GMO seed plant in north Argentina halted on environmental grounds
2014-01-12,IOC Member Says One-Third of Olympic Funds Lost to Corruption
2014-01-12,"Indian tribe dubbed ""real-life Avatar"" succeed in stopping British mining giant from mining sacred hills"
2014-01-12,"French First Lady 'in hospital'  after revelations of affair by her partner, French President Hollande"
2014-01-12,"US tested biological weapons in Japan, Taiwan and US mainland"
2014-01-12,"Cannibalism, looting reported in CAR"
2014-01-12,China donates solar energy kit systems to Rwanda
2014-01-12,41 Palestinians die of hunger brought on by siege
2014-01-12,"Close Guantnamo prison, says first US commander on 12th anniversary"
2014-01-12,"Left behind girl, aged 11, falls victim to sexual abuse by villagers"
2014-01-12,Brussels slaps down British threats to rewrite immigration rules - President of European parliament says UK has 'no chance of curbing [the EU's] basic principle of free movement'
2014-01-12,"Close Guantnamo, says former commander of the prison. 'Terrorists aim to change our behaviour through fear. They have succeeded'"
2014-01-12,"South pacific island nation of Tonga slammed by category 5 cyclone, at least 1 dead"
2014-01-12,Jewish-American public leader raps AIPAC on lobbying for more Iran sanctions
2014-01-11,"UK gov document reveals that the government has no evidence its drug policies are working and that it considered hiding the report to prevent ""legalisation supporters [using it] to criticise government policies""."
2014-01-11,"This could be the year we start to save, not slaughter, the shark - Specialist restaurants in Beijing are changing their menus or closing down as the Far East begins to share world revulsion at cutting off shark fins to make a gourmet soup"
2014-01-11,"Former Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, dead at 85 after 8 years in coma"
2014-01-11,Vatican refuses to extradite Polish archbishop accused of child sex abuse
2014-01-11,Pakistan to award slain boy with the nation's highest civil award of bravery for foiling terrorist bombing
2014-01-11,"Somalia's Al Shabaab Bans the Internet -- ""Al Shabaab has reportedly banned the use of the Internet through mobile handsets and fiber optic cables throughout Somalia, giving telecommunications companies 15 days to comply with the order"""
2014-01-11,"Large Carnivores Disappearing From the Earth  The decline of large predators such as lions, leopards, wolves, otters, & bears is changing landscapes from the tropics to the Arctic, finds new study from scientists in Sweden, US, Australia, & Italy."
2014-01-11,"EU report reveals massive scope of secret NSA surveillance | The European Parliament has wrapped up its inquiry into mass surveillance. In a draft report, politicians are being hard on all sides - the US government, the NSA, but also on hesitant EU governments and companies."
2014-01-11,"Gashimov, Chess Grandmaster from Azerbaijan, dead at 27"
2014-01-11,NASA warns of 'potentially hazardous' asteroid
2014-01-11,World's first bitcoin storage vault opens in London - A deep cold storage service for bitcoins underwritten by Lloyds of London and offering protection from hackers and accidental loss has launched in the UK.
2014-01-11,"Tens of thousands of Turkish demonstrators took to the streets in capital Ankara Saturday in protest against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, which has been rocked by a vast corruption probe"
2014-01-11,"Blackouts are ""best possible thing"" for UK energy crisis, says Labor adviser - Says it'll force politicians to confront lack of infrastructure investment. ""  the Central Electricity Generating Board used to say a resilient network operated on a 25% capacity surplus. We're down to 4%."""
2014-01-11,"More Dutch funds and companies sever ties to Israel, because of infractions of international law."
2014-01-11,It has been two weeks now since a team of Al Jazeera journalists have been detained by the state of Egypt without charge
2014-01-11,TEPCO withheld Fukushima radioactive water measurements for 6 months
2014-01-11,Outrage over NSA spying sends data clients to Canada
2014-01-11,Scientist from Astana has solved one of the most difficult mathematical tasks of the millennium
2014-01-11,"Polar vortex over US brings abnormally mild weather to Scandinavia - On the back of a generally mild winter, there have been reports of bears emerging early from hibernation in Finland, and changes in the behaviour of migratory birds off the coast of Sweden."
2014-01-11,India expels senior US diplomat
2014-01-11,Gaza woman gives birth to first baby born from smuggled sperm: Palestinian woman arranged for her husband's sperm to be smuggled from an Israeli prison into Gaza.
2014-01-11,Starved And Beaten 'Slave' Man Is Adopted Son Of UK's Top Anti-Slavery Expert
2014-01-11,Gunmen open fire on Bangkok protesters | Seven people hurt in shooting on Thai anti-government demonstrators ahead of attempted city shutdown
2014-01-11,Suicide bomber kills 23 Iraqi army recruits
2014-01-11,"An ancient town in China's Southwestern Yunnan province has been burning throughout the night. The 1,300-year old Dukezong Old Town in Shangri-La caught fire early Saturday morning, and fire-fighters were still battling the blaze at 8 am."
2014-01-10,The people behind the GSM standard: We were pressured to weaken the mobile security in the 80's
2014-01-10,"Man gets homeless teenager, dips her head into cooking oil before raping her, stubs cigarettes out on her body...gets 12 years in prison"
2014-01-10,US Marines Shoot and Kill Four-Year-Old Afghan Boy: President Karzai calls for 'absolute end' to US/NATO military operations on homes and villages
2014-01-10,"University student refuses to work with women on a project for ""religious reasons"". Administration grants his request."
2014-01-10,"NSA and GCHQ activities appear illegal, says EU parliamentary inquiry"
2014-01-10,"France bans standup show before it starts, because what the artist might say could be perceived as antisemitic."
2014-01-10,"Israel defies World Bank, refuses to let Palestinians use landfill"
2014-01-10,Four-year-old boy 'accidentally shot dead' by US forces in Afghanistan
2014-01-10,"Over 8,000 Baby Pig-Nosed Turtles Hidden in Suitcases Apparently Bound for China & Singapore Rescued - All will be returned to their natural habitat in Papua"
2014-01-10,Google Maps Mistakenly Identifies Berlin Square as Adolf Hitler Platz
2014-01-10,Russian Actor Begs Putin to Fully Criminalize LGBT People
2014-01-10,Australia: Rapid loss of top predators a major environmental threat - Scientists warn that removal from ecosystem of large carnivores like the dingo could be as detrimental as climate change
2014-01-10,"After Nine Attempts, Terrorists Eliminate Pakistans Bravest Cop"
2014-01-10,"Viewing Pirated Streams is Not Illegal, German Govt Says"
2014-01-10,"Scotland Yards rotten core: Police failed to address Met's endemic corruption - Organised crime infiltrated police at will, according to secret report. Top-level internal inquiry identified scores of corrupt individuals working for London's Metropolitan Police"
2014-01-10,University stands by controversial decision to allow female-free schooling for religious student
2014-01-10,"""A 2011 study in the Journal of Peace Research found that the perpetuation of Islamist extremism was more significantly associated with urban poverty than with variables like religiosity...."""
2014-01-10,"Canadian federal court rules telecom giant Bell broke the law by accessing potential customer's credit report without permission. The man was awarded $21,000 in damages."
2014-01-10,"Karzai defies US on prisoner release. Afghanistan says it will release scores of alleged Taliban fighters from jail, despite US objections that the men could return to the battlefield as NATO troops withdraw."
2014-01-10,"Vimeo Banned in Turkey, meanwhile the gov. is looking to introduce tighter regulations on the Internet"
2014-01-10,Pope Francis lambasts the rich and reminds the world of what matters most
2014-01-10,16-year legal battle over laptop reaches UK supreme court
2014-01-10,A young lion has died after getting its head caught in cables in its cage at an Indonesian zoo notorious for hundreds of animal deaths in recent years
2014-01-10,Afghan boy killed by US forces as Nato staff die in aircraft accident
2014-01-10,"Only 432 people own half of the private land in Scotland, reform planned."
2014-01-09,All armed police officers in England will have to wear cameras on duty
2014-01-09,Pirate Party Turns the Tables and Spies On Intelligence Agency: Armed with a surveillance van the Swedish Pirate Partys youth division planned to listen in on one of the countrys most secretive outfits
2014-01-09,"H5N1 bird flu death confirmed in Alberta, 1st in North America"
2014-01-09,"Video of drunk 9-year-old boy exposes New Zealand's underage drinking problem. ""I had to upload the film to get police to act,"" says teen who shot video."
2014-01-09,US govt attempts to block lawsuit against NSA
2014-01-09,"Pakistani high school student saves school and lives when he: ""stood his ground and got a hold of the suicide bomber who then detonated his vest"""
2014-01-09,We want a United States of Europe says top EU official
2014-01-09,Russia on alert after finding 6 bodies in bomb-laden cars
2014-01-09,"Mark Duggan, whose death sparked riots in England in 2011, was lawfully killed, inquest jury says by majority 8 to 2"
2014-01-09,"UK law on being annoying in public has been blocked by the House of Lords, who 'believe the new injunction would undermine freedom of speech and association'"
2014-01-09,European Parliament invites Snowden to testify
2014-01-09,Lawsuit lodged by MIT student seeks proof of CIA meddling in Mandela's arrest
2014-01-09,WikiLeaks consultant Gottfrid Svartholm Warg extradited from Sweden after alleged access to NSA contractor CSC
2014-01-09,Lions Approach Extinction in West Africa where they occupy less than 1% of their Historic Range.
2014-01-09,Environmentalists Sue Canada Over Species at Risk Due to Pipeline  5 groups are take govt to court claiming it's failed to meet its legal responsibilities under the 'Species at Risk Act' to protect endangered wildlife threatened by the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline & oil tanker route.
2014-01-09,M Class Earth directed solar flare on the way. 50% chance of X class solar flare within the next 48 hours.
2014-01-09,Spain: Child films security guards attacking parents
2014-01-09,"Honeybee shortage threatens crop pollination in Europe: In more than half of European countries, there are not enough honeybees to pollinate crops, according to new research. Scientists believe that a boom in biofuels has sparked a massive increase in the need for pollination."
2014-01-09,Yahoo Virus Converts Millions Of Computers Into Bitcoin Mining Slaves
2014-01-09,Aitzaz Hasan: Tributes to Pakistan teenager killed when he stopped a bomber
2014-01-09,NASA spots a 'potentially hazardous' new asteroid
2014-01-09,US witness report found on Stalin's Katyn massacre
2014-01-09,"Former SS Soldier, 88, Charged Over 1944 Village Massacre in France"
2014-01-09,'They built our bridge upside down': Chile's government says Spanish firm messed up construction of prestige $30 million building project.
2014-01-09,Former SS soldier charged over 1944 Nazi massacre at Oradour-Sur-Glane
2014-01-08,"'Golden age' of antibiotics 'set to end': We cannot say we weren't warned. The growing threat of antibiotic resistant organisms is once again in the spotlight. Prof Jeremy Farrar, the new head of Britain's biggest medical research charity The Wellcome Trust said it was a 'truly global issue'""."
2014-01-08,A huge library of books collected by a 72-year-old Greek Orthodox priest but used by the whole community was torched in Lebanon after he was accused of insulting Islam
2014-01-08,"Purge of Canadas Fisheries Libraries ""Historic Loss"" Scientists Say - I see this situation as a national tragedy done under the pretext of cost savings. A modern democratic society should value its information resources, not reduce, or worse, trash them."
2014-01-08,"By pouring cash into science and technology faster than its economy has expanded, China has for the first time overtaken Europe on a key measure of innovation: the share of its economy devoted to research and development."
2014-01-08,Ex-Swiss guard complains of sexual advances in Vatican
2014-01-08,Germany urges Japan to deal honestly with World War 2 past
2014-01-08,China blocks the Guardian
2014-01-08,"People are more rational when they're speaking a foreign language, new research shows."
2014-01-08,"Thailand might declare state of emergency; Nearly 15,000 police and soldiers will be deployed in Bangkok"
2014-01-08,"Reported cases of Christians killed for their faith around the world doubled in 2013 from the year before, with Syria accounting for more than the whole global total in 2012"
2014-01-08,"Plan to avert global warming by cooling planet artificially 'could cause climate chaos'. Proposal to inject tiny reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to block out sunlight could lead to droughts, warn scientists."
2014-01-08,"Japan police deployed about 4,000 officers to locate a rape and robbery suspect, who escaped during questioning at a prosecutors office near Tokyo yesterday."
2014-01-08,"Sri Lankans leave so many coins in India that central bank is running out - It's facing an unusual currency crisis: a pilgrim-driven coin shortage. 22 tons of coins laying unused in Buddhist temples in India, left by Lankans on pilgrimage. Govt negotiating with India to have them sent back."
2014-01-08,Police in Japan are investigating how pesticide at 2.6 million times the permitted levels got into frozen croquettes produced by Maruha Nichiro after its products sickened hundreds
2014-01-08,"Global rise in smokers: ""Nearly 1 billion"" now smoke"
2014-01-08,Lobbies Switch from Influencing to Directly Writing EU Laws
2014-01-08,China's trapped icebreaker makes successful escape
2014-01-08,BBC News - US Military Helicopter crashes on Norfolk coast. Emergency services are attending. 400m area cordoned off
2014-01-08,China suspends ban on video game consoles after more than a decade.
2014-01-08,Japanese workers sick from inhaling asbestos while laboring at US military bases
2014-01-08,Largest Dutch pension fund boycotts Israeli banks over settlement ties
2014-01-08,"Pirate Bay supporters plan 'Twitterstorm' for jailed founder | As hacker prepares to return to court tomorrow, online activists lend their support"
2014-01-08,Spains Princess Cristina Ordered to Appear in Court on Corruption Charges - A Spanish court has ordered Juan Carloss daughter to answer allegations of money laundering & tax fraud as faith in the monarchy hits a new low.
2014-01-08,"Poland vows to veto British changes to EU migration rules - Poland vows to veto any potential changes to EU laws on workers migration, after the UK singled out Polish workers as having benefited from the British welfare system."
2014-01-08,"Europe is likely to become ""the museum of world farming"" because of its failure to embrace genetically modified crops, the environment secretary told farmers on Tuesday."
2014-01-07,"Swedish justice minister falls for Daily Currant spoof story on marijuana deaths, calling incident ""stupid and sad""."
2014-01-07,Mexican vigilante gunmen disarm local POLICE so they can rid town of feared Knights Templar drug cartel
2014-01-07,Zambian opposition leader charged with calling president a potato
2014-01-07,Boss-napping returns in France as unionists lock up and humiliate Goodyear executives
2014-01-07,Glenn Greenwald: There are more Snowden documents on Israel
2014-01-07,Saudi Arabia: Survey shows men blame women for rising cases of molestation
2014-01-07,Around 350 Turkish police officers were removed from their posts in Ankara overnight in the biggest single reported police shakeup since a corruption probe rocked the government last month
2014-01-07,"Legendary film producer and the man behind iconic films like Bladerunner and the Hong Kong Kung Fu film genre, Sir Run Run Shaw dies aged 106"
2014-01-07,"Syrian rebels free 50 prisoners, including Turkish journalist, held captive by rivals affiliated with Al-Qaeda"
2014-01-07,Tunisia enshrines gender equality in constitution
2014-01-07,Senegal seizes Russian vessel for 'illegal fishing'
2014-01-07,Israel: Up to five year sentence for uploading sexual content without consent or knowledge of those in it
2014-01-07,Hundreds of Romanian Roma evicted from camp in France
2014-01-07,"The Turkish government dismisses 350 police officers in the capital Ankara in an anti-corruption operation, reports say."
2014-01-07,Vatican denies pope is open to recognition of gay civil unions
2014-01-07,Canada planning to sell guns and military equipment to developing countries to maintain domestic arms industry
2014-01-07,H1N1 flu in Alberta causes 10 deaths
2014-01-07,Israels new law to send revenge porn uploaders to jail for five years
2014-01-07,Thousands of bats killed by hot weather in Queensland
2014-01-07,"Erdogan family drawn into corruption probe | In the wake of a sweeping corruption probe, the Turkish opposition has requested a parliamentary inquiry into the relationship between Prime Minister Erdogan's son Bilal and a Saudi Arabian businessman."
2014-01-07,The Plight of the Roma: Europe's Unwanted People - Over 10 million Roma live in Europe. Tens of thousands of them are fleeing westwards from poverty & discrimination. But EU member states aren't helping them.
2014-01-07,More Israel disclosures in Snowdens trove of 'significant stories'  Greenwald
2014-01-07,Hong Kong entertainment tycoon Run Run Shaw dies at 107
2014-01-07,Family missing after freak wave sweeps them away during a grieving ceremony for dead father
2014-01-07,Snowden has more U.S.-Israel secrets to expose: Greenwald
2014-01-06,Sea Shepherd locates Japanese whale poachers inside New Zealand's sovereign waters with 3 protected Minke whales dead on their deck.
2014-01-06,An eight-year-old Afghan girl wearing a suicide vest has been detained by police in southern Afghanistan
2014-01-06,"Wind power was Spain's top source of electricity in 2013: Remarkable new figures from Spain's grid operator have revealed that greenhouse gas emissions from the country's power sector are likely to have fallen 23.1% last year, as power generation from wind farms and hydroelectric plants soared."
2014-01-06,"""Aliens would give us much more tech if we'd stop wars"" - ex-defense minister"
2014-01-06,IT firms set to lose Billions after NSA scandal exposed by Edward Snowden
2014-01-06,"Japanese whaling fleet filmed with dead minke whales in Southern Ocean - Video shot by Sea Shepherd aircraft shows 3 minke whales loaded onto the deck. A 4th whale was being cut apart at the time of the filming, with crew members seen mopping up large pools of blood on the deck."
2014-01-06,"Eight-year-old girl divorces her husband, 14, in India"
2014-01-06,David Cameron plays down cutting top rate of tax below 45%
2014-01-06,China destroys tonnes of illegal ivory
2014-01-06,Jet in 'near miss' with UFO
2014-01-06,Pime Minister David Cameron's Right-To-Buy Poster Girl Revealed To Be Estate Agent - Who Sold The Flat To Herself
2014-01-06,German Chancellor Angela Merkel injured while cross-country skiing
2014-01-06,Iran offers to help Iraq in fight against al-Qaida
2014-01-06,Unconventional oil and gas will fry climate: ExxonMobil report | ExxonMobil benefits from selling fossil fuels but appears to take no responsibility for any of the climate damage their products cause.
2014-01-06,"First female law firm opened in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia."
2014-01-06,The story that Kim Jong-un fed his uncle to dogs is likely fake
2014-01-06,"There may be mercy for Edward Snowden, but not yet -- or in the near future. In the meantime, maybe we ought to look the other way so he can find somewhere to live. Time works miracles; and it might do so also for Edward Snowden."
2014-01-06,"Heavily indebted Chinese railway company reportedly loses president to suicide - He leapt to his death from his family home, the latest in a series of deaths & corruption investigations that have plagued the countrys debt-plagued railway industry."
2014-01-06,Rents In China Are Getting So High That Some People Are Moving Underground
2014-01-06,Abortion Legislation comes into effect in Ireland
2014-01-06,"UK: Nigel Farage (the UKIP leader) has backed the ""basic principle"" of Enoch Powell's warning that mass immigration can make people feel like strangers in their own country from the Tory (Conservative) politician's 1968 ""rivers of blood"" speech."
2014-01-06,Iraq government faces all-out war with al-Qaida in Falluja
2014-01-06,Australian health warning as heatwave kills thousands of bats littering the southeast with corpses
2014-01-06,Moscow Bombings Suspect Killed in Dagestan
2014-01-06,"A Volcano Has Erupted In Indonesia, And The Pictures Are Terrifying"
2014-01-05,US icebreaker heads to Antarctica to help stuck Chinese and Russian ships.
2014-01-05,"Rich Catholics Threaten Pope Francis  Because He Frightens Them: ""How I would love a church that is poor and for the poor,"" Pope Francis said not long after his election to the papacy"
2014-01-05,"Pope Francis has called for a rethink in the way the Catholic Church deals with the children of gay couples and divorced parents, warning against administering a vaccine against faith."
2014-01-05,"Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives"
2014-01-05,Polish woman raped in India while travelling with daughter: police
2014-01-05,"In Australia, men die earlier but women's health gets four times more funding"
2014-01-05,"Privacy campaigner and Cambridge Universitys Head of Cryptography Professor Ross J Anderson has suggested one way to begin stamping out the UKs involvement in the NSA spying scandal: end the domestic secret services entirely | Were I a legislator, Anderson says, I would simply abolish MI5."
2014-01-05,"Lebanon Loses 78000 Books To Terrorism: Country's Second Largest Library Burned Because Owner Allegedly ""Offended"" Islam"
2014-01-05,Robert Mugabe has collapsed
2014-01-05,"Tony Abbott urged to rethink climate policy after hottest year on record - PM called ""reckless ideologue who ignores science & is intent on listening to people who are part of the tinfoil hat brigade"""
2014-01-05,French mother to sue couple who filmed drunk son before he drowned
2014-01-05,African forest elephants are being massacred into extinction
2014-01-05,52 Russians Shortlisted For One-Way Mission to Mars
2014-01-05,Snowden: NSA's Indiscriminate Spying 'Collapsing'
2014-01-05,US Sailors Sue Japanese Nuclear Plant Owner TEPCO  71 from aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan are filing suit against Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company after they were allegedly exposed to radiation from Fukushima Daiichi when they arrived with aid.
2014-01-05,Tunisia: MPs reject Islam as main source of law
2014-01-05,European Commission To Ban Heirloom Seeds and Criminalize Plants & Seeds Not Registered With Government
2014-01-05,"Dog virus killing tigers, red pandas and lions in India: Endangered tigers, red pandas and lions are succumbing to infection caused by canine distemper virus (CDV), a disease common in domestic dogs, Indian scientists say"
2014-01-05,"Fire torches 60% of North Stradbroke Island, Australia. No lives lost due to mass evacuation of residents."
2014-01-05,Isro successfully launches indigenous cryogenic engine-powered GSLV-D5
2014-01-05,Syrian rebels launch fierce offensive against al Qaeda fighters
2014-01-05,130 radioactive Japanese cars banned from entering Russia
2014-01-05,"Thousands of visitors to yahoo.com hit with malware attack, researchers say"
2014-01-05,Iraq conflict: Sunni fighters 'control all of Fallujah'
2014-01-05,David Cameron has authorised an unprecedented swapping of secrets with the Russians as they try to track down Islamic extremist bombers | It follows last week's attacks in Volgograd | British agents working in Russia are now sharing confidential assessments on extremists.
2014-01-04,"Wild Tigers: the Time to Act is Now  Just 3,000 remain in the wild. 100 were poached in India in 2013. A century ago, over 100,000 roamed 30 nations; today, they hang on in 12, disappearing from 93% of their range."
2014-01-04,Five Doctors Without Borders workers abducted in Syria
2014-01-04,"The practice of, ""corrective rape"" is being used in South Africa to, ""cure"" lesbianism."
2014-01-04,Tunisian lawmakers rejected Islam on Saturday as the main source of law for the country that spawned the Arab Spring
2014-01-04,Peru to consider marijuana legalization
2014-01-04,"German Dads Demand Family Time - Family friendly policies in German business have been targeted at women in the past, but the tables are turning. Men are demanding more flexible working conditions in order to balance work and family burdens, forcing big changes in corporate culture."
2014-01-04,"For 2nd time ever, we saw an asteroid before it hit us, both spotted by same guy."
2014-01-04,WWII Ace Who Flew Through the Eiffel Tower Dies at 92
2014-01-04,"According to documents provided byformer NSA contractor Edward Snowden, the US National Security Agency (NSA) is racing to build a computer that could break nearly every kind of encryption used to protect banking, medical, business and government records around the world."
2014-01-04,Government Spy Cams in China Can't See Through the Smog
2014-01-04,"Former NSA head, Michael Hayden, calls clemency for Snowden 'outrageous,' says it sends 'wrong message' to potential whistleblowers"
2014-01-04,Iraq slides toward civil war
2014-01-04,Israeli sniper kills Gaza teen
2014-01-04,U.S. waived laws to keep F-35 on track with China-made parts.
2014-01-04,Homeless transgendered woman murdered in Rome honored by Jesuits
2014-01-04,Al Qaeda force captures Fallujah amid rise in violence in Iraq
2014-01-04,"Cubans can now buy new and used cars freely, first time since 1959"
2014-01-04,"Time ticking for the most isolated people on earth, the Jarawa. The hunter-gatherer tribe has lived in the dense forests of Andaman Islands completely cut off from the outside world for thousands of years. But things are changing fast as modern influences creep in"
2014-01-04,Several European manufacturers spawn NSA-proof Android cryptophones
2014-01-04,Worker aghast at shoddy work on Fukushima radioactive water storage tanks
2014-01-04,Cubans aghast at car prices as new law kicks in.
2014-01-04,Putin lifts ban on protests at Sochi Games
2014-01-04,Syrian opposition turn on al-Qaida-affiliated Isis jihadists near Aleppo | World news
2014-01-04,Germany eyes parliamentary inquiry into NSA activities
2014-01-04,DNA tests confirmed that a man in government custody is the alleged leader of an al-Qaida-linked group that has conducted attacks across the Middle East  including a 2010 bombing of a Japanese oil tanker in the Persian Gulf  before shifting its focus to Syrias civil war.
2014-01-03,Update: U.S. Customs Won't Apologize for Destroying Musician's Rare Flutes
2014-01-03,"UK Porn Filter blocks legitimate file-sharing services, download portals for Linux distributions"
2014-01-03,"Kim Jong Un's uncle, Jang Song Thaek's brutal execution: stripped naked and eaten alive by 120 hungry hounds."
2014-01-03,"Indian gang-rape victim, 16, died Tuesday, a week after she said two suspects of the 6 men who repeatedly raped her in October had set her on fire. Autopsy reveals she was pregnant - child's DNA will be matched against suspects'."
2014-01-03,NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption
2014-01-03,Canadian government is dismantling key libraries and is destroying priceless collections as well as 100 years of scientific research in the process.
2014-01-03,"Bill Gates world's richest person again. Microsoft founder regains top position from Mexican telecoms magnate Carlos Slim, with estimated fortune of $78.5bn."
2014-01-03,"China Says Over 3 Million Hectares of Land, the size of Belgium, Too Polluted to Farm"
2014-01-03,"Drugs firms routinely withhold results of medical trials from doctors, researchers and patients. Damning report by MPs warns that doctors and patients are being undermined on treatment options."
2014-01-03,"Malaysian court rules that ""Allah"" is exclusive to Islam, seizes Bibles."
2014-01-03,2013 confirmed as Australia's hottest year on record.
2014-01-03,US will evacuate South Sudan embassy staff.
2014-01-03,"Indian army will deploy 40,000 strong mountain strike corps division by 2016 along disputed areas bordering/claimed by China."
2014-01-03,Israel successfully tests Arrow space missile interceptor
2014-01-03,"Fukushima ghost towns struggle to recover amid high radiation levels - Post-tsunami reconstruction & radiation cleanup could take 10 years, but officials say something has been permanently lost"
2014-01-03,"Chinese meth village in massive raid, 3 tons of meth seized"
2014-01-03,BBC News - Pakistan government restores ancient Hindu temple
2014-01-03,"Hubble Space Telescope spots clouds on alien worlds. Astronomers have spotted clouds in the atmospheres of two planets outside our solar system, with a pair of research papers suggesting that these sorts of cloudy alien worlds might be far more common than previously thought."
2014-01-03,Antarctic rescue: Chinese vessel 'may now be stuck in ice'
2014-01-03,Chinas San Francisco consulate was set on fire last night by unknown attackers.
2014-01-03,U.N.: Children beheaded as violence grows in Central African Republic
2014-01-03,"Russian Muslim Convert Behind Deadly Bus Bombing: Why Should We Follow Those Christian Commandments, When Allah, May He Be Glorified, Urges Us To Fight Those Infidels?"
2014-01-03,"Margaret Thatcher was secretly preparing to use troops and declare a state of emergency at the height of the miners' strike  out of fear Britain was going to run out of food and grind to a halt, government papers released today reveal."
2014-01-03,"World War II Bomb detonated in germany, 1 dead."
2014-01-03,Mexico subway dig turns up unusual Aztec offering
2014-01-02,"Japan's population falls 'by record 244,000' in 2013"
2014-01-02,"Kolkata police 'hijack' rape victim's hearse, forcibly cremate body: Gang-raped twice and dumped in a government hospital for nine days with fatal burns, the 16-year-old victim had no peace even after death."
2014-01-02,Young people 'feel they have nothing to live for'
2014-01-02,"Rob Ford proclaims himself the best mayor that this city has ever had, registers for 2014 election"
2014-01-02,The US has been voted as the most significant threat to world peace in a survey across 68 different countries
2014-01-02,Blast that killed Palestinian ambassador occurred after he opened office safe that had been sealed for 30 years
2014-01-02,JP Morgan bonuses for top London staff in 2012 revealed: an average of near $3 million
2014-01-02,Global poll: US is the greatest threat to world peace
2014-01-02,"Al-Qaeda in Iraq dictates men's clothing choices  ""anyone wearing what they described as irreligious clothes, such as neckties and ordinary shirts imprinted with words in English or images of international celebrities"" would be punished"
2014-01-02,Fox flesh found in donkey meat package at Wal-Mart
2014-01-02,"Not so anonymous VPN uses Snowden's name for PR: 'Some may think thats a clever move, but it is rather ironic since HideMyAss previously handed over personal details of a Lulzsec member to the US Government'"
2014-01-02,Jamaican bobsleigh team are back in the running for Winter Olympics glory.
2014-01-02,"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has used the unlikely platform of the religious slot on the BBC's Today programme to condemn attempts by US and UK governments to acquire a ""god-like"" knowledge of citizens through mass surveillance."
2014-01-02,"Pope Francis drew 6.6 million to Vatican in 2013, three times Benedict"
2014-01-02,US customs officials destroy flute virtuosos instruments
2014-01-02,"Rape suspect stoned to death by irate mob. The unidentified man, 32, was beaten with sticks and then stoned by a Cape Town crowd. The rape victim was just 15."
2014-01-02,"New protests after suicide of 16-year-old gang-raped twice in Calcutta: Gangsters who twice raped a 16-year-old girl and threatened to kill her father unless she dropped the charges had political patronage, says veteran womens rights campaigner"
2014-01-02,"Indian lawyer Kapila Hingorani, who - assisted by her three practicing lawyer children - fought more than 100 cases in the Supreme Court, voicing concern for the poor, tortured and remedy-less before the judiciary for 60 years, has died. She was 86."
2014-01-02,"Japan's State Secrets Law: Hailed By U.S., Denounced By Japanese : Parallels : NPR"
2014-01-02,Walmart recalls donkey meat from China stores because it may contain fox meat
2014-01-02,Skype twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army. Tweets that Microsoft is selling user data to governments.
2014-01-02,"Palestinian ambassador opens 20 year old safe, gets blown up"
2014-01-02,An Australian father has been charged by police over the alleged genital mutilation of his infant daughter while they were holidaying overseas
2014-01-02,Charity fundraiser dressed as superhero attacked and robbed on a run across Canada
2014-01-02,Putin sends new year's greetings to Obama
2014-01-01,Vladimir Putin vows 'total annihilation' of terrorists after Volgograd bombings
2014-01-01,Children in cages: Human rights group accuses Israel of torture
2014-01-01,Latvia enters Eurozone and becomes the 18th state to join.
2014-01-01,"Canada is headed in the wrong direction, majority says in poll"
2014-01-01,Most Australians want Google to stop giving data to US spy agencies
2014-01-01,WikiLeaks Julian Assange Calls on Computer Hackers to Unite Against NSA Surveillance
2014-01-01,"Finnish HIV vaccine testing to begin -- ""Previous tests have shown that the vaccine may have the ability to stop the progression of the disease, or at best to eliminate the HIV virus completely"""
2014-01-01,"Japan will revise its constitution, which limits its military activities to self-defense by 2020, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said"
2014-01-01,Email is broken - but Dark Mail Alliance is aiming to fix it | Edward Snowden's email provider is teaming up with secure communications firm Silent Circle to try and fix email for good
2014-01-01,Hadron Collider upgrade will lead to highest energy particle collisions ever attempted in efforts to solve questions over Dark Matter
2014-01-01,"Elephant deaths rise in Tanzania after shoot-to-kill poachers policy is dropped - 60 animals 'butchered' in 2 months since crackdown was suspended after inquiry uncovered murder, rape & extortion"
2014-01-01,Russia wishes NATO a Happy New Year by posing next to an inter-continental ballistic missile
2014-01-01,"Hidden Poverty - The Well People Of Beijing: Dubbed the new 'cave dwellers' of Beijing, these people were recently found living in the city's underground water system. Society's lowest rung raises hard questions about modern China."
2014-01-01,Latvia Becomes 18th Eurozone Member
2014-01-01,Palestinian ambassador in Prague injured in explosion
2014-01-01,Six killed in New Year's eve bomb blast in Philippines
2014-01-01,Saudi royal faces death penalty for murder of citizen: The identity of the prince has not been released but Crown Prince Sultan bin Salman has given approval for the execution to take place. 'Sharia (Islamic law) shall be applied to all without exception.'
2014-01-01,The Daily Dot - The 10 NSA leaks you need to understand in 2013
2014-01-01,Egypt Says 3 Journalists Will Be Held 15 More Days
2014-01-01,Pope Francis Encourages Bishop to Condemn Same-Sex Parenting
2014-01-01,"The Archbishop of Canterbury, the principal leader of the Church of England, has urged bank bosses to make a ""massive cultural change"" in their management style. He says many refuse to accept how they dragged the world economy into crisis in 2008."
2014-01-01,British Ex-Spy Launches Fund to Support Whistleblowers Like Snowden | Threat Level
2014-01-01,Climate Change Vastly Worse Than Previously Thought
2014-01-01,"India, Pakistan exchange nuclear facilities list"
2014-01-01,Alberta Woman Sues Over Flammable Tap Water
2013-12-31,The Japanese Mob Is Hiring Homeless People to Clean Up Fukushima
2013-12-31,U.S. Furious With Israel After Sale of Advanced Military Technology to China
2013-12-31,Leaked documents from Jacob Appelbaum show NSA can see every communication through backdoor access to your iPhone
2013-12-31,"The NSA's elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away | Alongside pre-packaged exploits that allowed control over iOS devices and any phone communicating through GSM, Appelbaum detailed a device that targets computers through packet injection, seeding exploits from up to 8 miles away."
2013-12-31,"Mass murderer Breivik treated better than hacker, campaign says"
2013-12-31,Terrorists planned to nuke Indian city and quietly paste evacuation posters in mosques to save Muslims
2013-12-31,Women threatened with deportation after exposing sexual harassment at UK detention centre
2013-12-31,Uruguay may have started a marijuana legalization storm in Latin America (x-post from /r/LatinAmerica)
2013-12-31,"British ex-spy launches foundation to support whistleblowers | Annie Machon, a former MI5 operative who blew the whistle on the UKs dubious spying activities, has started a new fund to support other whistleblowers such as former NSA contractor Edward Snowden."
2013-12-31,"NSA can turn on your iPhones camera, mic without you knowing"
2013-12-31,France's 75% 'millionaire tax' to become law
2013-12-31,"Chinese doctor has admitted in court that she stole babies from the hospital where she worked and sold them to human traffickers, China state media and a court said."
2013-12-31,"Indian boy is stripped, hanged upside-down and beaten to death for stealing biscuits"
2013-12-31,The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
2013-12-31,"Kim Jong-uns $300 million ski resort boondoggle is really, truly, almost finished"
2013-12-31,NSA Uses Windows Error Messages To Spy On People
2013-12-31,"Researchers find 7,300-mile ring of mercury around tar sands in Canada - Bitumen in the tar sands being excavated to produce oil is the likely culprit of the mercury deposits"
2013-12-31,"Everything that the United States government accused the Chinese of doing  which they are also doing, I believewe are learning that the US government has been doing to American companies, Secret NSA spy programs exposed at conference in Germany by security researcher Jacob Appelbaum"
2013-12-31,Israel May Start Paying for All Abortions for Women Between 20 & 33 Years Old - Health officials indicate they eventually intend to expand it to offer abortion funding to women of all ages.
2013-12-31,China Says 8 Million Acres Of Farmland Now Too Polluted For Food
2013-12-31,Egypt confiscates assets of more than 500 leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in crackdown
2013-12-31,"Passengers Ridicule Canadian Airline for Sexist Ticket Policy - ""Maybe let your bosses know that those of us who are not married to June Cleaver find this deeply insulting,"" one passenger tweeted at Air Canada."
2013-12-31,"While the media gave nonstop coverage to the drama of Phil Robertson, this was happening in Uganda with the support of U.S. churches."
2013-12-31,Energy minister wants four million solar panels installed on government land and buildings
2013-12-31,Thai street vendors using hospital x-ray films to make bulletproof vests to sell
2013-12-30,"Tony Blair and George Bush exchanged voluminous correspondence prior to the start of military operations in Iraq. Now, the UK is moving to declassify details of the talks for an inquiry into Britains involvement in the conflict, British media reported."
2013-12-30,"A trolley bus blast in the Russian city of Volgograd has killed at least 10 people, emergencies services reported. The explosion comes a day after a terrorist attack in the city killed 17 people"
2013-12-30,"Glenn Greenwald Says NSA, GCHQ Dismayed They Don't Have Access To In-Flight Internet Communication: The very idea that human beings can communicate for even a few moments without their ability to monitor is intolerable."
2013-12-30,"2000 tons of explosives disappear from chemical plant in Yekaterinburg, Russia"
2013-12-30,Saudi Prince faces execution for murder.
2013-12-30,IT firms lose billions after NSA scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden
2013-12-30,15 Palestinians die of hunger in Syria camp
2013-12-30,"The sun has fully ""flipped upside down"", with its north and south poles reversed to reach the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24. Now, the magnetic fields have once again started moving in opposite directions. To mark the event, Nasa has released a visualisation of the entire process."
2013-12-30,"Pedophile let go by italian justice because the 11 years old victim was deemed to be ""in love"" (source in french)"
2013-12-30,Special Report: Japan's homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up
2013-12-30,"Regarding the ""Top Secret NSA catalog reveals US government has been secretly back dooring"" here are some scans. Just click the red dots or arrows, documents are english"
2013-12-30,"Clothing factories across Cambodia shut following strikes - ""Our industry is unable to continue operations given the current situation"""
2013-12-30,Man survives first week with artificial heart after world-first operation
2013-12-30,Latin America has a homophobic killings problem -The gruesome murders of gays in the region are shocking. So is how rarely the violence gets reported.
2013-12-30,Antarctic ship passengers to be evacuated by Chinese helicopter
2013-12-30,Egypt Detains Al Jazeera English Journalists for Broadcasting 'False News'
2013-12-30,Its against the law to see God in Pakistan. Two who claimed to have done do face death for blasphemy
2013-12-30,Toronto police officer strips naked hundreds of people
2013-12-30,"Dolphins 'Getting High' On Puffer Fish, Zoologist Rob Pilley Says"
2013-12-30,The NSA Has A Way To Intercept Computers Mid-Shipment And Install Spyware On Them
2013-12-30,"Al Jazeera demands Egypt release journalists. Broadcaster urges ""immediate and unconditional release"" of detained staff, calling their arrest ""arbitrary""."
2013-12-30,Anti-Female Genital Mutilation Campaigners Make Progress in Egypt
2013-12-30,"Russia Revises Their Definition of ""Gay Propaganda""; It Can Include Any Negative Portrayal of Heterosexuality"
2013-12-30,Private talks between Tony Blair and George Bush on Iraq war to be published.
2013-12-30,98-year-old photo negatives discovered in Antarctica
2013-12-29,Uruguay's marijuana growers come out into open
2013-12-29,"In a message to Pope Francis, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said his government is ready to participate in peace talks."
2013-12-29,HSBC Gets Small Fine For Terrorist Transactions
2013-12-29,BBC News - Deadly blast at Russia train station
2013-12-29,"NSA drowning in overcollected data, can't do its job properly: Former NSA employee, William Binney, warns that the agency collects so much useless information that it can't process it effectively"
2013-12-29,Vaccine Aide Gunned Down In Pakistan
2013-12-29,"Japans conservative government is considering a requirement that school history textbooks nurture patriotism and include nationalist views of World War II, a departure from the current mainstream texts."
2013-12-29,Rockets fired from Lebanon strike northern Israel
2013-12-29,Glenn Greenwald: A Lot More NSA Documents to Come
2013-12-29,"Snowden documents: Norway is NSA's dream partner | Norwegian intelligence is an increasingly important part of U.S. global monitoring network. It appears from a top-secret document about ""flawlessly"" cooperation between Norwegian Intelligence Service and the NSA (Google Translate)"
2013-12-29,"Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield urges space co-operation with China: ""It's the next logical step"""
2013-12-29,Egypt: student dies as police open fire on protesters
2013-12-29,US may be violating its own minimum wage laws for staff in its Indian embassy.
2013-12-29,Palestinians call on USA to stop new Israeli settlements construction
2013-12-29,Exposed: The Soviet Union spent $1 billion on mind-control program
2013-12-29,Female suicide bomber kills at least 13 people at Russian train station
2013-12-29,Feud between USA pork agriculture and Japan helping to stop TPP deal
2013-12-29,"Afghanistan gains will be lost quickly after drawdown, U.S. intelligence estimate warns"
2013-12-29,"Canadian government, against advice from Water Protection Experts, cuts $100M from Department of Fisheries and Oceans."
2013-12-29,China's labour camp system officially abolished
2013-12-29,Turkey and Iran accused of oil-for-cash sanctions scheme: An unfolding corruption scandal in Turkey has uncovered transactions that may have allowed Tehran to circumvent harsh U.S. and E.U. sanctions
2013-12-29,Blast rips through railway station in central Russia's Volgograd city weeks after a suicide bomber blew herself up in a bus there
2013-12-29,Corruption Scandal Implicates Turkish PM Erdogan's Son
2013-12-29,"Australian government proposal to charge $6 fee for visiting a doctor (taking effect after the patient has already had 12 free visits in a year) met with controversy, criticism from Australian Medical Association"
2013-12-29,"A 9-year-old boy from California has become the youngest person in recorded history to reach the summit of Argentina's Aconcagua mountain, which at 6,962 metres is the tallest peak in the Western and Southern hemispheres"
2013-12-28,Peru To Provide Free Solar Power To 2 Million Of Its Poorest Residents By 2016
2013-12-28,"Greenwald: US, British media are servants of security apparatus"
2013-12-28,"Conservators restoring an Antarctic exploration hut recently made a remarkable discovery: a small box of 22 exposed but unprocessed photographic negatives, frozen in a solid block of ice for nearly one hundred years."
2013-12-28,More than 500 lawmakers in a Chinese city have resigned after being implicated in a bribery scandal
2013-12-28,Nigerian extremist: Allah says we must decapitate
2013-12-28,"Turkish riot police have blasted opposition protesters with water cannons, tear gas and plastic bullets in Istanbul in scenes reminiscent of the summer's mass anti-government demonstrations. Some of the protesters on Friday evening threw rocks and firecrackers at police, shouting, ""Catch the thief!"""
2013-12-28,"25,000 ""White Army"" Militia March, To ""Kill All"" Rival Tribe, ""Wipe Out"" Sudan Army"
2013-12-28,India suspends Bitcoin operations due to Reserve Bank warnings
2013-12-28,"Beware of data spying, former NSA official warns Canadians"
2013-12-28,"India is checking the tax status of Americans working at schools in the country, after the arrest this month of an Indian diplomat in New York."
2013-12-28,"Glenn Greenwald calls for Snowden asylum at Chaos Computer Club congress | Journalist and Edward Snowden associate Greenwald has told a major annual gathering of computer activists in Hamburg to continue fighting for online privacy, saying he did not expect meaningful political reforms."
2013-12-28,"Helicopters drop TNT-packed barrels on vegetable market and next to hospital in Aleppo, killing at least 20"
2013-12-28,Venezuela car owners may have to give up nickel-a-gallon gas
2013-12-28,Palestinians urge U.S. to block new Jewish settlements
2013-12-28,"Israel plans to build 1,400 homes in its settlements in the occupied West Bank and will announce the projects next week after releasing a group of Palestinian prisoners, an Israeli official said on Friday."
2013-12-28,Pakistan: Polio volunteers pull out in wake of latest murder
2013-12-28,The residents of two remote towns in Brazil's Amazon region have attacked an indigenous reserve hours after members of a local tribe fled the area and took refuge in a nearby military base
2013-12-28,UN condemns Israeli raid in West Bank
2013-12-28,"US will make deal with Edward Snowden, claims former MI5 Chief"
2013-12-28,African asylum seekers in Israel march on Jerusalem to protest conditions
2013-12-28,China's top legislature has formally adopted a resolution easing the country's one-child policy
2013-12-28,Tycoon Robert Wilson gives away $800 million fortune before jumping to death.
2013-12-28,Turkish protesters clash with police as supporters cheer Erdogan
2013-12-28,India Police Charge 6 in Gang Rape of Young Woman
2013-12-28,Ukraine leader warns defiant regions amid protests
2013-12-27,"Edward Snowden did the world a favour by revealing the scale of surveillance by governments, according to the inventor of the internet. Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he believed Snowden had ""done us all a favour""."
2013-12-27,47% of Indian Graduates of 2013 Unemployable for Any Job: Study
2013-12-27,Swedish develop self-cleaning dishware
2013-12-27,"Strong explosion shakes Lebanese capital, black smoke billowing from central Beirut"
2013-12-27,Former Stasi officers still employed at archives of East Germany's secret police | German president blamed as archive admits victims seeking access to files might still have to deal with former Stasi agents
2013-12-27,"Woman raped, dumped, abducted again and gang-raped in Karaikal - The Times of India"
2013-12-27,India Has Begun Retaliating For US Arrest And Strip Search Of Diplomat
2013-12-27,Uruguay: Marijuana Becomes Legal
2013-12-27,U.S. base on Japan's Okinawa allowed to move after 17-year deadlock
2013-12-27,Bahrain court acquits princess on trial for torturing doctors
2013-12-27,Turkey military says will not get involved in political crisis
2013-12-27,Large explosion rocks downtown Beirut killing a former minister along with four others.
2013-12-27,"Torrent temptation: EU Parliament, Vatican, Hollywood download pirated content"
2013-12-27,Three NATO personnel killed in Kabul suicide car bomb: NATO
2013-12-27,Russia says Arafat was not poisoned and died of natural causes: French and Russian teams have found no evidence of radiation poisoning
2013-12-27,"Turkish prime minister loses aura of invincibility: ""The revelations were a shock for a government accustomed to getting its way."""
2013-12-27,French unemployment rises to 3.29m
2013-12-27,Stanford researcher proves NSA can probably identify individuals from phone records
2013-12-27,Dozens killed in a car bomb explosion in Downtown Beirut; Lebanon's Former Minister of Finance Mohammad Shatah Assassinated
2013-12-27,"Turkeys legal morass thickened after a prosecutor said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogans government is obstructing a graft probe by preventing detentions, disobeying court orders and allowing suspects to flee. The lira extended losses after his comments."
2013-12-27,Angolan soldiers 'rape' 950 DRC refugees
2013-12-27,"Students in Nepal protest what they believe is a ""manufactured shortage"" on cooking fuel"
2013-12-27,Python kills Bali security guard outside five-star hotel. Ambar Arianto Mulyo strangled to death while trying to capture snake near Bali Hyatt hotel on Indonesian island.
2013-12-27,Turkish corruption scandal: prosecutor accuses police of obstructing case
2013-12-27,Protesting Turkish prosecutor piles pressure on PM
2013-12-26,"Internet privacy as important as human rights, says UN's Navi Pillay | Navi Pillay compares uproar over mass surveillance to response that helped defeat apartheid during Today programme"
2013-12-26,"In a message broadcast on British television, Edward J. Snowden, the former American security contractor, urged an end to mass surveillance, arguing that the electronic monitoring he has exposed surpasses anything imagined by George Orwell in 1984, a dystopian vision of an all-knowing state"
2013-12-26,Reddit's /r/NorthKoreaNews raised over $2500 to rescue a North Korean refugee on a modern underground railroad
2013-12-26,"Egypt names Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group - Egypt's military-backed interim government has declared the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group, a dramatic escalation that gives authorities more power in cracking down on them."
2013-12-26,Police open fire on protesters in Bangkok. 96 injured.
2013-12-26,Judge Rules That NSA Can Only Spy On Phone Records Of 6.7 Billion Non-Americans
2013-12-26,"The body of a Mapuche Indian leader has been found in Chile, floating in the reservoir she spent a decade trying to prevent from being created"
2013-12-26,Hong Kong confirms first death from H7N9 bird flu
2013-12-26,Bletchley Park accused of airbrushing Edward Snowden from history. NSA whistleblower omitted from new exhibition on cyber security as museum says it does not want to be seen to back his actions
2013-12-26,Egyptian government Declares the Muslim Brotherhood 'a terrorist organization'
2013-12-26,Flesh-eating piranhas inflict deep wounds on 60 Christmas Day swimmers.
2013-12-26,"Large sharks to be baited, killed, and dumped offshore to keep Western Australian beaches ""safe."""
2013-12-26,At least 15 rare Indian bisons have mysteriously died in Thailand's national park the past few days - Food poisoning considered likeliest cause. They are among the largest living land animals.
2013-12-26,Pope To Atheists: We Need Your Help
2013-12-26,"New Zealand is not as clean and pure as the NZ Gov would have you think - 1 in 3 NZ beaches are too polluted to swim in, and the government whilst knowing about it, have the attitude that people should just use the clean beaches rather than them doing anything about the pollutants."
2013-12-26,Snowden Says Surveillance Worse Than Orwells 1984 Envisioned
2013-12-26,A pensioner who took out a newspaper advert to avoid spending Christmas alone for the 10th year in a row enjoyed the occasion in the company of a couple who read about his plight.
2013-12-26,Saudi activist could be executed for alleged apostasy
2013-12-26,Chinese-made computer input system banned in Japanese government agencies
2013-12-26,"Cryptolocker ransomware has 'infected about 250,000 PCs'...."
2013-12-26,Egypt names Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group
2013-12-26,"Exposed: BitTorrent Pirates at the European Parliament, And More Unexpected Places"
2013-12-26,Government Shakedown in Turkey
2013-12-26,"Floods leave 50,000 Brazilians homeless"
2013-12-26,BBC News - Edward Snowden Christmas message: End mass surveillance
2013-12-25,Libraries in Canada holding irreplaceable scientific data and books being quietly dismantled under the Harper government.
2013-12-25,Kim Jong-un tells North Korean army to ready for combat
2013-12-25,Secret 'pro-Japanese' family history of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un revealed; makes him liable for execution as per Korean law for being the criminals third generation
2013-12-25,"Pope Francis has addressed his first Christmas message to every man or woman ""who hopes for a better world, who cares for others while humbly seeking to do his or her duty""."
2013-12-25,Imprisoned Pussy Riot members underwent daily forced gynecological examinations
2013-12-25,"Edward Snowden to broadcast Channel 4's alternative Christmas Day message: NSA whistleblower records message from Russia, filmed by Laura Poitras, warning of the dangers of a loss of privacy"
2013-12-25,43 brave Indian soldiers held back 2000-strong mob in South Sudan.
2013-12-25,Go away Cameron! Browser extension bypasses UK govts porn filter
2013-12-25,"New Tapir Species Discovered in Amazon Rainforest of Brazil & Colombia  It's the 1st tapir discovery since 1865 & 1st time in 100 yrs a new species has been found in the Perissodactyla order, which includes rhinos, & horses."
2013-12-25,"Antarctic Expedition Scientists Trapped in Ice, Sends Distress Call - Team retracing footsteps of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911. A Chinese ship is closest & will take over a day to reach them some 1,500 nautical miles. French, Antarctic, & Australian icebreakers also on way."
2013-12-25,"Antigovernment Activist Beaten in Ukraine - A crusading antigovernment journalist and activist in Ukraine, who became famous last year after documenting the opulence of the heavily guarded residential compound of President Viktor F. Yanukovich, was savagely beaten early Wednesday morning."
2013-12-25,Billion-dollar climate denial network exposed (Wired UK)
2013-12-25,Uruguay President Mujica Signs Marijuana Law
2013-12-25,"Turkish economy, interior, environment ministers resign amid graft scandal"
2013-12-25,"Syria's minority Christians under threat from extremist Muslim rebels - Once a safe haven for Middle Eastern Christians, Syria has become a place where Christians are targeted for kidnapping and murder."
2013-12-25,Vatican to open poignant ancient Roman cemetery - An ancient Roman cemetery discovered under a Vatican City car park 60 years ago is to be opened to the public early in 2014.
2013-12-25,"Turkish Environment Minister announces resignation, calls on PM Erdogan to quit"
2013-12-25,Turkish interior and economy ministers resign after sons are charged in corruption scandal
2013-12-25,Three Turkish Ministers Step Down Amid Graft Inquiry
2013-12-25,Woman sentenced to 30 years in prison for picking mushrooms with her husband. Thailand.
2013-12-25,Border police find secret smuggling tunnel in Hong Kong
2013-12-25,Go Away Cameron: UK's porn filters foiled by Chrome extension (Wired UK)
2013-12-25,Pollution for Shanghais Christmas: Heavily-polluted air is expected to greet Christmas today with the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center forecasting an air quality index of between 220 and 240.
2013-12-25,"Russia's Supreme Court on Wednesday said it will review two convictions against former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, including a ruling the Kremlin critic said was preventing him from returning to Russia despite a presidential pardon."
2013-12-25,"""We counted ourselves and found we were 252. Then they put guns in through the windows and started to shoot us."" - The Guardian reports from South Sudan on the brutal and sudden descent into civil war."
2013-12-24,Uruguays neighbor Argentina now considering marijuana legalization
2013-12-24,Renowned rifle inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov dies at 94
2013-12-24,Richard Branson: Boycott Uganda over gay rights - UK business tycoon Richard Branson has called on companies and tourists to boycott Uganda after its parliament approved a bill to toughen the punishment for homosexual acts.
2013-12-24,Alan Turing Pardoned
2013-12-24,"Edward Snowden, after months of NSA revelations, says his missions accomplished"
2013-12-24,Israel launches airstrike in Gaza Strip in retaliation for deadly shooting
2013-12-24,Surgeon suspended over claims he branded patients liver with his own initials.
2013-12-24,Egypt declares Muslim Brotherhood 'terrorist' group
2013-12-24,Edward Snowden: I already won
2013-12-24,"Lung Cancer: A Cloud on China's Polluted Horizon - China's doctors are starting to speak of link between air pollution & lung cancer. Youngest known patient is 8-yr-old girl in Jiangsu. Another is 14-yr-old of Shanghai, daughter of nonsmokers with no family history of lung cancer."
2013-12-24,"The NSA has granted the Swedish FRA access to one of the most controversial systems in its global mass surveillance. Called Xkeyscore, the system makes it possible to monitor millions of people worldwide."
2013-12-24,"On Friday, Reuters reported that RSA entered into a secret contract to make DUAL_EC_PRNG the default random number generator in the BSAFE toolkit. DUA_EC_PRNG is now known to have been backdoored by the NSA -- Yesterday, RSA denied it"
2013-12-24,GlaxoSmithKline Forced To Stop Paying Doctors To Promote Drugs After Major Bribery Investigation
2013-12-24,China's central bank has been forced to pump nearly $50 billion into the financial system to prevent a second damaging cash crunch this year.
2013-12-24,"Poachers Kill 3 of Malawis Rare Black Rhinos  Wire snares & traps set by poachers cost Malawian National Parks 3 Critically Endangered Black Rhinoceros re-introduced 20 yrs ago after the species was declared extinct. Lack of a fence, not built due to financial scandal, let poachers enter."
2013-12-24,"Germanys Largest Utility Ditches 2 Long-Term Contracts for Coal Power - The move could signal yet another shift in Germany's power mix, as renewables boom & expected electricity prices for 2014 drop."
2013-12-24,U.S. Marines poised to enter South Sudan
2013-12-24,"BP Geologist: "" we are pretty much at peak today... expect more famine, more drought, more resource wars and a steady inflation in the energy cost of all commodities."""
2013-12-24,Wal-Mart in China accused of passing off fox meat as donkey meat
2013-12-24,UN finds mass grave with 75 bodies in South Sudan
2013-12-24,Inventor of Kalashnikov rifle dies
2013-12-24,"Alan Turing, the World War Two codebreaker who later killed himself after receiving a criminal conviction for his homosexuality, is granted a Royal pardon by the Queen"
2013-12-24,South Sudan sees 'mass ethnic killings
2013-12-24,"Obama to make a ""definitive statement"" on NSA spying in January"
2013-12-24,Thyroid Cancers Surge Among Fukushima Youths
2013-12-23,North and South Korea exchange faxes threatening to attack each other
2013-12-23,"Kim Jong-un ""very drunk"" when ordered execution of uncle's two aides"
2013-12-23,"Freed Pussy Riot member, on walking out of prison: ""This is not an amnesty. This is a hoax and a PR move."""
2013-12-23,North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un's Uncle was killed because he tried to depose Jong-Un and replace him with his brother. Now all the Uncle's men are defecting to the South.
2013-12-23,Viral video of Spanish cops hitting female pro-abortionists at protest raises global alarm over the country's police brutality and tough new abortion law
2013-12-23,Girl dies after pharmacy refuses to give her the antidote
2013-12-23,Britain: Furious backlash from customers over Muslim policy
2013-12-23,No way back for Britons who join the Syrian fight - Theresa May strips jihadists of citizenship to prevent them returning
2013-12-23,"Creator of chickenpox vaccine dies, age 85"
2013-12-23,BT Internet filter gives parents option to block 'gay and lesbian lifestyle' content
2013-12-23,Edward Snowden will help Germany investigate NSA snooping if it grants him political asylum
2013-12-23,"Scientists Link Spike in Thyroid Disease to Fukushima Disaster - ""And so far, 56 percent of children near Fukushima do in fact have a precancerous cyst or a nodule."""
2013-12-23,"""Brazil's decision to buy Swedish fighter jets instead of F/A-18 Super Hornets from Boeing eliminates its most promising foreign-sales prospect just as the U.S. company faces critical decisions about extending the jet's production line past 2016."""
2013-12-23,"Islamic charity officials gave millions to al-Qaeda, U.S. says"
2013-12-23,A 13-year study of coral reefs spontaneously recovering in the Cayman Islands offers hope of refuting often doomsday forecasts about the worldwide decline of the colorful marine habitat.
2013-12-23,"Bangladeshi Factory Owners Charged in Fire That Killed 112 workers, Walmart said they were unaware that their apparel was being made in such factories."
2013-12-23,Chilling Pictures Taken By The Teenage Photographer Who Was Killed In Syria
2013-12-23,"'Hell for animals: Egypt's Giza Zoo beset by tear gas, bear riots and giraffe suicide."
2013-12-23,"Death on the US-Mexican border: the killings America chooses to ignore. Since 2005, patrol agents and CBP officers have killed some 42 people along the US-Mexican border without facing any public consequences  or any large-scale media coverage"
2013-12-23,UAE sentences American to 1 year for making parody video of youth culture in Dubai.
2013-12-23,Journalists banned from entering police stations across Turkey.
2013-12-23,"Pregnant asylum seeker denied ultrasound miscarries in Australian detention centre, is told to lower her expectations"
2013-12-23,No snow in Siberia? Locals marvel - and worry
2013-12-23,"Prior to a vote today in Armenia to hand over its national natural gas distribution to Russia, an opposition member secretly stole the electronic voting card of all pro-government members, forcing them to resort to voting by a raise of hands as all opposition members walked out."
2013-12-23,"Tasmania forest threatened by Coalition - Govt to push ahead plan to remove world heritage listing from a swath of Tasmanian forest, potentially reopening bitter divisions over the states timber industry. Plan to roll back hard-won protection branded ""fundamentally irresponsible""."
2013-12-22,"The Economists country of the year: Uruguay for legalising gay marriage and cannabis which are ""obviously sensible"" and has ""increased the global sum of human happiness at no financial cost"""
2013-12-22,"""Kill Gays"" bill just passed in Uganda - president expected to sign any day now"
2013-12-22,Cuba's Raul Castro calls for 'civilised relations' with US
2013-12-22,"Documents leaked by Snowden, released after Biden's visit to Brazil, ended up enraging Rousseff and changed her plans to purchase Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet - she surprised the defense and diplomatic worlds by tapping Sweden's Saab to supply the jets"
2013-12-22,"Italian army reservist to be prosecuted for saving cat's life in Kosovo | Barbara Balanzoni, who saved dying cat while serving as a medical officer at a Nato base, is charged with insubordination"
2013-12-22,"Al-Qaeda in Yemen 'sorry' for hospital attack. In a rare public apology, its leader said that one of his fighters disobeyed orders and attacked a hospital attached to the defence ministry during a December assault that killed 52 people."
2013-12-22,Muslim staff at Marks & Spencer can refuse to sell alcohol and pork
2013-12-22,London School of Economics apologizes to atheist students for forcing them to cover-up T-shirt with Muhammad and Jesus
2013-12-22,"More than a hundred relations of Jang Song-thaek, who was executed by firing squad on charges of plotting to overthrow the North Korean state, have reportedly been arrested and sent to prison camps."
2013-12-22,"Top PR exec Justine Sacco under fire for sending racist tweet before flying to Africa. Justine Sacco, who is the communications director of IAC wrote: Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. Im white!"
2013-12-22,The number of government requests to remove content from Google's services has grown dramatically by 68% in the last year
2013-12-22,Anatomy of an honour killing: Why a Palestinian community demanded a father murder his divorced daughter
2013-12-22,A multibillion-dollar CIA covert program has helped kill rebel leaders in Colombia.
2013-12-22,"Saudi Arabia Announces Plans for Joint Gulf Military of 100,000 Troops (with UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar)"
2013-12-22,"Madagascar rivals both claim poll win, allege fraud after ""an entire airplane filled with pre-marked ballots"" had been discovered"
2013-12-22,"Israel condemns US spying revelations, calls for release of Jonathan Pollard, jailed in 1980s of spying for Israel"
2013-12-22,Bomb Explodes on Bat Yam Bus; One Wounded
2013-12-22,"Chinese media reports of plans to build a 110,000 ton 'super aircraft carrier' to rival US naval power"
2013-12-22,Former Japanese beauty queen takes on yakuza mafia in Japan
2013-12-22,"A Syrian photographer who took pictures for Reuters on a freelance basis has been killed while covering fighting in Aleppo, activists said."
2013-12-22,EU fury over claims UK and US spied on competition chief
2013-12-22,"Germans riot over closure of cultural centre, 82 police officers injured in altercations with demonstrators in Hamburg"
2013-12-22,"Three bombs exploded southern Thailand, injuring more than two dozen people in what appeared to be an attack by Islamic insurgents"
2013-12-22,"Explosion on Israeli bus, no one hurt: police"
2013-12-22,Suicide bombers kill 36 Shi'ite pilgrims in Iraq
2013-12-21,Icelands jailed bankers a model for dealing with financial terrorists
2013-12-21,Snowden ally Appelbaum claims his Berlin apartment was invaded
2013-12-21,"Dennis Rodman receives open letter: ""I was born in 1982 in Camp 14, a political prison in the mountains of North Korea."""
2013-12-21,Court rules that 9/11 families can now sue Saudi Arabia
2013-12-21,"Germany Should Ban U.S. Contracting Companies Passing Data to NSA: U.S. contracting companies such as Cisco should be contractually barred from passing sensitive information to the U.S. security services, a spokesman for Merkel's conservatives was quoted saying"
2013-12-21,"Oil industry devastating Amazon communities, warns UN rapporteur. Oil companies have affected health & food sources of indigineous people Amazon region by heavily contaminating the Peruvian rainforest."
2013-12-21,"No, we do not support the boycott of Israel[Palestinian President Mahmoud] Abbas told reporters. But we ask everyone to boycott the products of the settlements..in our territories..But we dont ask anyone to boycott Israel itself.We have relations with Israel. We have mutual recognition of Israel"
2013-12-21,U.N. votes to protect online privacy; Edward Snowden leaks credited
2013-12-21,French company implants first artificial heart
2013-12-21,China's Moon rover has activated its science tools. Imaging experiments have begun.
2013-12-21,Vandals in Sweden have burned down for the 27th time a giant straw goat meant to symbolize the Christmas spirit.
2013-12-21,TEPCO says Radioactive cesium detected in water samples taken from deep underground
2013-12-21,"Protests greet Spains move to ban abortions outside of rape and incest: the head of Spains Planned Parenthood Federation, complained the reform would take Spain back to a time when Spanish women had to go to England and France to terminate their pregnancies"
2013-12-21,Indigenous Groups Win Right to Seize Chevrons Canadian Assets over $18 Billion in Amazon Pollution
2013-12-21,"Indian protesters ransack a Dominos Pizza outlet in a Mumbai, demand a ban on U.S. goods as officials struggle to defuse a row over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York"
2013-12-21,Just 90 Companies account for 2/3 of all human Global Warming Emissions since Industrial Revolution
2013-12-21,"Renewable energy, once a dream, lights up some of India's slums - Most huts here have no attached toilet or running water, but solar panels of all sizes appear on their asbestos rooftops."
2013-12-21,UK citizen wins legal round against Facebook over NSA Prism leaks
2013-12-21,"Canadian Panel Approves Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline  Multi-billion dollar pipeline is subject to 209 required conditions. Conservation groups condemn decision, saying the 3-member panel ignores overwhelming scientific evidence against the pipeline & widespread public opposition."
2013-12-21,"Kim Dotcom Ratted Out Rival File-Sharing Sites, Court Documents Claim"
2013-12-21,Turkish PM Erdogan calls US ambassador Ricciardone provocative implies he might be expelled
2013-12-21,Italian politician 'forced secretary to sign contract which required her to have sex with him at least four times a month'
2013-12-21,"""Mexican president signs controversial oil and gas law"" - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has signed a controversial law that allows foreign companies to drill for oil for the first time since the sector was nationalised in 1938."
2013-12-21,"Syria views Saudi Arabia as number one enemy  Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister: if the world wants to avoid another September 11 incident, they must start telling Saudi Arabia 'enough is enough',"
2013-12-21,Emergency spacewalk underway to fix coolant loop. - Live video feed
2013-12-20,The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down the country's anti-prostitution laws in a unanimous decision.
2013-12-20,Pussy Riot members freed from prison
2013-12-20,"A prominent Libyan dissident cannot pursue his ""well-founded"" claim that he was unlawfully abducted in a joint MI6-CIA operation, and later tortured, because to do so would damage Britain's relations with the US, a high court judge ruled on Friday."
2013-12-20,"Four cops arrested for raping, molesting and threatening a minor schoolgirl for two-and-a-half months."
2013-12-20,"US Air Force general in charge of 450 nuclear missiles fired for 'drunken bender' on official trip to Moscow. Report finds he offended Russian counterparts with comments on ""Eric Snowden,"" tried to repeatedly perform with a bar band, and drunkenly bragged that he ""saves the world from war every day"""
2013-12-20,"China has rejected 545,000 tons of imported US corn found to contain an unapproved genetically modified strain."
2013-12-20,North Korea Threatens To Strike South Korea Without Notice' - by fax
2013-12-20,"About 200 cars stolen in Germany have been tracked down in Tajikistan, where most are now driven by family and friends of President Emomali Rakhmon."
2013-12-20,"Philippine mayor, wife, and 2 others shot and killed at Manila airport"
2013-12-20,Snowden leak confirms Denmark spying deal with US | Leaked document from NSA lists Denmark as one of nine European countries that collaborates with the '5-Eyes'
2013-12-20,Uganda passes draconian anti-gay law
2013-12-20,Bubonic plague outbreak kills 32 in Madagascar
2013-12-20,Policeman sentenced to year in prison for blowing off man's testicles
2013-12-20,"GCHQ and NSA targeted Israeli PM, charities, Germans, and EU chief"
2013-12-20,"Amnesty International: Nearly 1,000 killed over 2 days in Central African Republic."
2013-12-20,Former CIA chief: Snowden should be hanged by the neck until dead
2013-12-20,"MI6 'turned blind eye' to torture of rendered detainees, finds Gibson report | Britain's intelligence agencies 'totally unprepared' for US response to 9/11 and years later 'cooperated with interrogations'"
2013-12-20,NZ Customs Refuses To Answer Questions After Revelations Of Illegal Orders To Give FBI Info On Kim Dotcom For 'Brownie Points'
2013-12-20,"Australian and US scientists reverse ageing in mice, humans could be next"
2013-12-20,Going green: record 40% of Scotland's electricity is coming from renewables
2013-12-20,"Girls freed in Nigeria 'baby factory' raid; ""Nigerian police have raided a home in the southeastern state of Abia where 19 pregnant women were staying with the intent of selling their newborn babies."""
2013-12-20,Canadian lottery winner donates $40 million jackpot to charity
2013-12-20,"UK: ake from the poor, but not the rich: Tax authorities accused of 'siding' with big business over small firms and individuals"
2013-12-20,Anti-ageing compound set for human trials after turning clock back for mice. New South Wales professor in US rolled back the key indicators of ageing to make two-year-old mice appear six months old
2013-12-20,Obama deploys small military group to South Sudan
2013-12-19,"NSA Fallout hits American business to the tune of four billion dollars: Brazil ditches Boeing, buys Gripen"
2013-12-19,Putin says he envies Obama because he can spy on his citizens and get away with it.
2013-12-19,Pedophile soccer coach arrested after BURGLAR tells police about child abuse videos.
2013-12-19,"Report Suggests NSA Engaged In Financial Manipulation, Changing Money In Bank Accounts"
2013-12-19,Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: 'Women love money. Give em a couple thousand bucks and they are happy'
2013-12-19,Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid
2013-12-19,Teenager buys 600 of food for 4 pence using supermarket coupons and donates it to families in need.
2013-12-19,UK - Porn filters block sex education websites
2013-12-19,"Pentecostal pastors in Africa push prayer, not drugs, for people with HIV -- ""pastors invite people infected with HIV to come forward for a public healing, after which they burn the persons anti-retroviral medications and declare the person cured"""
2013-12-19,"At this rate, elephants will be wiped out within 10 years - More elephant tusks were seized in 2011 than in any year since 1989, when the trade was banned"
2013-12-19,Finland intends to build a new data transmission cable through Germany to prevent Sweden from intercepting data and passing it on to NSA
2013-12-19,"For the first time since the 1959 revolution, Cubans will have the right to buy new and used vehicles"
2013-12-19,Japanese school cancels US exchange student program over California comfort women monument
2013-12-19,"The world's most powerful satellite camera, Gaia. Launched Into Space"
2013-12-19,"Private foundation pays over $500,000 to buy disputed Native American religious relics at auction and return them to Hopi, Apace tribes."
2013-12-19,Fracking could be allowed under homes in Britain without owners' knowledge | Planning minister says law will be changed so companies do not have to directly notify people about gas drilling in their areas
2013-12-19,"UK Establishment Closes Ranks as Organised Child Sex Abuse Network Leads Back to No. 10. Elm tree abuse has alleged links to High class MP's, Sir Cliff Richard, MI5 leaders, Heads of social services and convicted pedophiles linked to the BBC"
2013-12-19,"British tax office 'lost nerve' over big avoiders - Treasury is owed 35bn in missing payments, pursued small firms not global giants"
2013-12-19,European boycott of death penalty drugs lowers rate of US executions: The European-led boycott of medical drugs used by US corrections departments to execute prisoners is having such an impact that it has driven the number of executions to an almost all-time low
2013-12-19,Snowden document shows Norway works with U.S. to spy on Russia
2013-12-19,Five Turkish police commissioners were sacked a day after the sons of cabinet ministers and prominent businessmen close to PM Tayyip Erdogan were detained in a corruption probe
2013-12-19,"Facebook removes photo of gay Sikh man kissing another man , sparks debate"
2013-12-19,The UN General Assembly adopts anti-spy resolution
2013-12-19,"Chinese journalists face ideology exams from book that states: ""it is absolutely not permitted for published reports to feature any comments that go against the party line"""
2013-12-19,"DNA analysis of early human remains in a Siberian cave, reveals the existence of a mystery human species."
2013-12-18,Bitcoin loses almost 50% of its value overnight as China's largest exchange blocks new deposits
2013-12-18,"Edward Snowden: These Programs Were Never About Terrorism: Theyre About Economic Spying, Social Control, and Diplomatic Manipulation. Theyre About Power"
2013-12-18,Swiss banks are quietly warning wealthy U.S. clients with secret accounts to come clean with the tax man in the next two weeks  or risk jail time
2013-12-18,"An Iraqi policeman gave his own life Wednesday in an attempt to protect Shiite pilgrims, embracing a suicide bomber just moments before an attack to shield others from the blast."
2013-12-18,"Pope Francis makes move to weaken the ultraconservative arm of the Vatican's Congregation for Bishops by removing two American's, including Raymond Burke, known for denying communion to abortion rights politicians."
2013-12-18,"Snowden: 'I Would Rather Be without a State than without a Voice': Open letter to Brazilian people is a testimony of continued purpose, not a quid pro quo"
2013-12-18,Merkel compares NSA to Stasi in heated encounter with Obama
2013-12-18,Great Barrier Reef approved for extensive dredging by the Australian government - 3 million cubic metres of seabed to be dumped
2013-12-18,"With a Quota of 1,035 Whales, the Japanese Whaling Fleet Was Only Able to Take 103 Thanks to the Sea Shepherd Society"
2013-12-18,Edward Snowden doesnt show up once in Googles list of top 2013 searches
2013-12-18,NSA's goal is elimination of individual privacy worldwide - Greenwald to EU
2013-12-18,"European food regulators said on Tuesday that a class of pesticides linked to the deaths of large numbers of honey bees might also harm human health, and recommended that the European Commission further restrict their use."
2013-12-18,Scientists cut million-year natural process to convert algae into crude oil to about an hour.
2013-12-18,How Wind Met All of Denmarks Electricity Needs for 90 Hours
2013-12-18,"Sweden's experiment with private, for-profit schools and voucher systems is failing"
2013-12-18,President Obama Chooses Gay Athletes to Represent Sochi Olympics Delegation
2013-12-18,Edward Snowden's 'open letter to the Brazilian people'  in full
2013-12-18,"Pope Francis' Christmas message: ""Place ourselves at the service of the poor"""
2013-12-18,"Jailed Pussy Riot members could be freed on Thursday, officials say"
2013-12-18,Merkel compared NSA to Stasi in heated encounter with Obama - German chancellor furious after revelations US intelligence agency listened in on her personal mobile phone.
2013-12-18,"Study of Fracking water pollution: increases health risks, interferes with people's response to male hormones & oestrogen, scientists warn."
2013-12-18,"UK citizens born in the 1960s and 70s will be the first pensioners since WWII to be worse off than their parents, a study has shown."
2013-12-18,Dont call them drones: RAF launches charm offensive for unmanned aircraft - One of the first journalists allowed into Britains top secret drone base reports on its remote Afghan missions
2013-12-18,"German scientists use ""molecular scissors"" to cut HIV out of living cells"
2013-12-18,Ian Watkins gets 35 year sentence and the two mothers involved in the case also convicted and will serve over 10 years each. One Police officer also suspended due to gross misconduct
2013-12-17,"UN declares that the right to privacy, including online privacy, is a human right"
2013-12-17,"'Snowden Vindicated': Judge Rules Against 'Indiscriminate' NSA Spying. Snowden: ""Today, a secret program authorized by a secret court was, when exposed to the light of day, found to violate Americans rights."""
2013-12-17,"In a 1984 moment, North Korea deletes near entirety of news archives"
2013-12-17,"Pope Francis blesses 'Jesus the Homeless' sculpture that was rejected by Cathedrals in the US and Canada, calling 'Jesus the Homeless' a ""Beautiful Piece of Art"""
2013-12-17,"No Amnesty For Edward Snowden, White House Says:""Mr. Snowden is accused of leaking classified information and faces felony charges here in the United States"""
2013-12-17,"Pope shares his birthday breakfast with homeless: Four homeless people, one of them bringing his dog, helped Pope Francis celebrate his 77th birthday at the Vatican Tuesday. They live on the street in the Rome neighborhood just outside the Holy Sees walls"
2013-12-17,Female students banned from speaking at Islam seminar and forced to walk through separate 'sisters only' entrance at leading London university
2013-12-17,Thousands of Germans get warning letters asking people to pay 250 fine for watching copyrighted porn
2013-12-17,Female protestor who kissed riot policeman's helmet charged with sexual assault
2013-12-17,Snowden offers to help Brazil investigate NSA spying if granted asylum
2013-12-17,Saudi Arabia: New law to set marital age of consent at 18
2013-12-17,"It's not an act: Kim Jong Uns former classmates from Swiss boarding school say he really is ""dangerous, unpredictable, prone to violence"""
2013-12-17,"Archbishop of Mumbai criticizes Supreme Court of India's ruling that homosexuality is a crime, ""Homosexuals have the same dignity as any other human being."""
2013-12-17,"The rape victim that India forgot - Bereft of media attention, minor girl fights lonely battle and awaits 20th surgery after being gang-raped 16 months ago"
2013-12-17,"London Bankers Expect 44% Bonus Increase, Survey Finds - Managing directors at banks in London are expecting a 44 percent rise in bonuses for 2013 even as European authorities seek to scale back compensation, according to a recruiters survey."
2013-12-17,Devyani arrest: India asks all US diplomats to hand over their IDs
2013-12-17,Pirate Bay founder's prison conditions improved after mum's complaints | Gottfrid Svartholm Warg given more interaction with other inmates after mother criticises solitary confinement
2013-12-17,New Snowden leak - Norways secret surveillance of Russian politics for the NSA
2013-12-17,USS Ronald Reagan sailors report cancers after Fukushima rescue mission
2013-12-17,FIFA has banned Croatian defender Josip Simunic for 10 games  including the entire World Cup  for leading fans in a pro-Nazi chant after the team qualified for next year's tournament in Brazil
2013-12-17,India on Tuesday retaliated strongly to the arrest of its deputy consul general in New York by initiating series of steps to strip US diplomats and their families of privileges including withdrawing all airport passes and stopping import clearances for the embassy
2013-12-17,After deleting 99% of it's state news archive - is North Korea trying to erase its history?
2013-12-17,"Matthew Perry gets in heated, televised argument with UK newspaper columnist who denies that drug addiction is real"
2013-12-17,White House: No amnesty for Snowden
2013-12-17,"Sochi Olympic critics get terrorist treatment ""They are fearless, stubborn and increasingly under siege. Environmentalists, activists and journalists in Sochi have spent years exposing the dark side of Vladimir Putins showcase Winter Games  and now theyre paying the price."""
2013-12-16,UK's Largest ISP now blocks porn for all new connections by default
2013-12-16,Chinese police shoot 14 dead in Xinjiang riot
2013-12-16,"Yemeni Government gives $150,000 and 100s of guns as compensation to American drone victims' families"
2013-12-16,"Michelle Bachelet wins Presidential seat in Chile's landslide victory promising hike in corporate taxes to 25 percent from 20 percent, to pay for social reforms that include a gradual move to free higher education"
2013-12-16,"Spain wont have enough tanks: Catalonia to vote on independence, defy Madrid"
2013-12-16,Growing cannibal social network boggles authorities
2013-12-16,Indias most wanted tiger skin trader Ranjitsingh Bawaria arrested
2013-12-16,Severed hand saved after being attached to mans ankle. A man had his hand fixed to his ankle for a month before doctors successfully reattached it to his arm.
2013-12-16,Artist criticised for creating sculpture by pouring molten aluminium into fire ant colony mound.
2013-12-16,Get your fill of bananas now; theyre about to get destroyed by fungus
2013-12-16,Survivors of garment factory fire in Bangladesh have not received any compensation from big brands including Walmart
2013-12-16,Last Australia combat troops leave Afghan base
2013-12-16,"Drone strikes must end, Yemen's parliament says"
2013-12-16,"Google will not answer to British court over UK privacy claim, insists lawsuit concerning UK internet users privacy should be brought in California."
2013-12-16,Mapping the Blind Spots: Developer Unearths Secret U.S. Military Bases
2013-12-16,Coup D'etat Attempt In South Sudan
2013-12-16,Ontario is putting an end to coal-burning power plants: '...on the verge of becoming the first industrial region in North America to eliminate all coal-fired electrical generation.'
2013-12-16,Radioactive cesium from Fukushima is contaminating Japanese forests and soil.
2013-12-16,Saudi activist sentenced to 300 lashes and prison time for advocating elections
2013-12-16,Amazon workers strike in Germany over long-running pay dispute
2013-12-16,Google has been called arrogant and immoral for arguing that a privacy claim brought by internet users in the UK should not be heard by the UK legal system | Google will tell the high court that it should throw out claims that it secretly tracked the browsing habits of millions of iPhone users.
2013-12-16,Sharia Law in the UK: Muslim protesters take to London's streets to demand shops stop selling alcohol and and warned retailers they face 40 lashes if they continue to sell the product.
2013-12-16,University of Queensland scientists create first complex human organ produced from stem cells after growing tiny kidney.
2013-12-16,A Saudi judge has sentenced a political activist to 300 lashes and four years in prison for calling for a constitutional monarchy in Saudi Arabia
2013-12-16,"Swedish police say around 28 people have been detained after a group of neo-Nazis attacked an anti-Nazism demonstration in a Stockholm suburb by hurling bottles, torches and firecrackers"
2013-12-15,Iceland Sends Four Bank Bosses to the Slammer
2013-12-15,Pope attacks mega-salaries and wealth gap in peace message - CNBC
2013-12-15,"Pope: I am not a Marxist but, ""I dont feel offended being called one."
2013-12-15,"China rejects fifth US corn cargo in a month, citing GMO strain"
2013-12-15,"U.S. May Never Know Extent of Snowdens Leaks :Theyve spent hundreds and hundreds of man-hours trying to reconstruct everything he has gotten, and they still dont know all of what he took, a senior administration official said. I know that seems crazy, but everything with this is crazy."
2013-12-15,2 more executives facing the death penalty in Viet Nam for Kickbacks and corruption
2013-12-15,"Student protest has been quietly sweeping the nation. Now, it's getting louder. The Occupy Sussex movement has acted as the spark for a new wave of protest against the marketisation of higher education."
2013-12-15,Protester accused of sexual violence after world hails iconic photo of her kissing Italian riot officer
2013-12-15,Uruguay President taking the lead along with Pope in the fight against unfettered Capitalism
2013-12-15,New National Poll Shows That Almost 50% of Canadians Support a Guaranteed Annual Income
2013-12-15,"French stage smokeless revolution: In a country that can't shake its love affair with smoking, electronic cigarettes are catching like wildfire."
2013-12-15,Forced Sterilization Of Women Widespread In Uzbekistan
2013-12-15,Leading Russian actor advocates burning homosexuals alive to a cheering crowd
2013-12-15,"Call the FBI: China is Trying to Steal America's Seeds - In 2 cases this week, feds arrested citizens of China & charged them with stealing seeds that American companies consider valuable intellectual property. It's a mixture of Midwestern farming, corporate espionage & international intrigue."
2013-12-15,Drone Warfare Protest at CIA Follows Strike on Civilians in Yemen
2013-12-15,China bans shellfish imports from US West Coast
2013-12-15,"As protests continue in Kiev's Independence Square, an army of volunteers brings food and drink to nourish the thousands who remain in the snow and cold."
2013-12-15,"About 20,000 people who watched pornography on a U.S.-based website have had their names and addresses mistakenly released by a court in Germany"
2013-12-15,"Toxic 'e-waste' dumped in poor nations, says United Nations | Millions of tonnes of old electronic goods illegally exported to developing countries, as people dump luxury items"
2013-12-15,"Desmond Tutu not invited to Mandela funeral; Preparations for Nelson Mandela's funeral have been marred by a public spat between the South African government and retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the most prominent survivors in the long anti-apartheid struggle."
2013-12-15,"Notable presence of Islamic fundamentalism in Western Europe, study shows"
2013-12-15,"Scandal involving clandestine hotel room sex, money laundering and huge bribes hits Indonesia's Islamic parties"
2013-12-15,Belgium approves law allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children
2013-12-15,NSA spying on French officials and businesses
2013-12-15,Woman discovers her son was among 270 Lockerbie bombing victims almost 25 years later
2013-12-14,Chinese spacecraft successfully lands on the Moon; 1st lunar landing in 4 decades
2013-12-14,Uruguay's Prez Rips Into U.N. Official Over Marijuana Law: Stop Lying'
2013-12-14,"27 years later, CIA pilot tells of using secret Costa Rican airstrip to traffic guns, cocaine"
2013-12-14,"The cellphone encryption technology used most widely across the world can be easily defeated by the NSA, an internal document shows, giving the agency the means to decode most of the billions of calls and texts that travel over public airwaves every day"
2013-12-14,New DNA evidence frees man after 17 years in prison for attempted rape.
2013-12-14,I Would Shove All Live Gays Into A Furnace Says Popular Russian Actor
2013-12-14,"Visa, MasterCard $5.7 Billion Swipe Fee Accord Approved - For the first time, merchants will be empowered to expose hidden bank fees to their customers, educate them about those fees and use that information to influence their customers choices of payment methods."
2013-12-14,BBC News - Iran claims to have captured British MI6 spy
2013-12-14,Ex-FBI agent who disappeared in Iran was on rogue mission for CIA
2013-12-14,The global group Reporters Without Borders is proposing that attacks on journalists be considered war crimes by the International Criminal Court
2013-12-14,Spanish cave dwellers revolt as city council about to start ancient caves eviction
2013-12-14,"North Korean business people are being recalled from China following the execution of top official, Chang Song-thaek, says a South Korean report."
2013-12-14,Canadian Cops Receiving International Praise for Viral Video With Surprising Twist
2013-12-14,"Australian Police filmed punching, kicking man"
2013-12-14,China's Extreme Smog Forces Pilots to Train for Blind Landings
2013-12-14,Scientology buys big building complex in Amsterdam for new head quarters
2013-12-14,Seymour Hersh Alleges Obama Administration Lied on Syria Gas Attack
2013-12-14,China Imposes First-Ever West Coast Shellfish Ban
2013-12-14,"Chinese warship, US missile cruiser nearly collided in Sourh China Sea standoff"
2013-12-14,Canadian Police Officer Shows the Right Way to Deal With Being Filmed During an Arrest
2013-12-14,Jang Song Thaek was executed because he met privately with Kim Jong Uns older brother Kim Jong Nam
2013-12-14,"Zhou Yongkang, Chinas third most powerful politician, is under investigation for murder, corruption, and plotting to overthrow the government, and could face a trial similar to Bo Xilai."
2013-12-14,China's first lunar probe to land on the moon this weekend
2013-12-14,"Reasons to be executed in North Korea: ""dreaming different dreams"" and ""half-heartedly clapping"""
2013-12-14,"Islamic militants have taken control of a cache of machine guns and ammunition intended for Syria's Western-backed rebels, the Syrian opposition confirmed, demanding that the weapons be returned."
2013-12-13,Air strike kills 15 civilians in Yemen by mistake: Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy
2013-12-13,Russian Supreme Court Declares Pussy Riot Sentence Unlawful
2013-12-13,"Woman who miscarried in private prison 'made to clean up after herself,' court told"
2013-12-13,Uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un executed after being purged for corruption - state news agency
2013-12-13,"Pirate Bay founder suffering 'torturous' conditions in Danish solitary confinement, his mother says after visiting"
2013-12-13,French officials can monitor internet users in real time under new law that passed quietly
2013-12-13,Indians go 'gay for a day' - posting photos of same-sex affection to show outrage over supreme court ruling that criminalises gay sex
2013-12-13,Icelandic bank bosses jailed - also made to pay legal costs for the case which amounts to millions of pounds.
2013-12-13,"The Canadian federal government will, for the first time, designate crude oil a highly dangerous substance and introduce tougher safety and testing measures for shipping oil by rail, according to Transport Minister Lisa Raitt"
2013-12-13,"Study: Dead sea creatures covered 98% of seafloor last year about 150 miles off California coast; Unprecedented, had been below 1% prior to event  Major changes began in spring 2011"
2013-12-13,"Beneath Yellowstone, A Volcano That Could Wipe Out U.S.: ""We've long known that Yellowstone is merely the skin on top of a supervolcano -- a giant pool of magma sitting just under the Earth's surface. Exactly how giant has been the subject of much speculation. Until now."""
2013-12-13,Mandela deaf interpreter accused of murder
2013-12-13,Missing American in Iran was working for CIA. Family paid $2.5 million to keep quiet.
2013-12-13,Physicists discover 'clearest evidence yet' that the Universe is a hologram. Latest calculations chime with 1997 theory that reality is only perceived as 3D and is actually a 2D projection on the boundary of the universe.
2013-12-13,Family faces deportation to Bangladesh by Australia because their autistic son would be a 'burden to taxpayers'
2013-12-13,Drone strike kills 15 heading to wedding in Yemen.
2013-12-13,Panic as Thousands Receive Fines For Streaming RedTube Videos
2013-12-13,"Massive water geysers spotted on Jupiters moon Europa, possibly from subsurface ocean."
2013-12-13,US 'totally dictates' Swedish surveillance
2013-12-13,Mexican Senate votes to privatize oil industry
2013-12-13,"Kenya: Two Poachers Killed As Gun, Tusks Nabbed. One of the suspects killed is a notorious poacher believed to be behind the killings of rhinos and elephants in the North tourism circuit."
2013-12-13,"Israel has halted a plan that would have displaced tens of thousands of Bedouins in the southern part of the country. The controversial plan would have involved destroying ""unrecognized"" villages in the Negev, and resettling the displaced Bedouin citizens into ""recognized"" villages."
2013-12-13,Two men arrested for sending anti-Semetic tweets in the UK
2013-12-13,N. Korea confirms that Kim Jong-un's uncle was executed for plotting a military coup. First announced execution from within the ruling family.
2013-12-13,UN inspectors confirm Syria chemical attack
2013-12-12,"New Zealand citizen stripped of phone, tablet, laptop and hard drive at New Zealand customs after returning from a talk in London about Edward Snowden's released documents."
2013-12-12,"Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti, the highest religious authority in the country, has condemned suicide bombings as grave crimes, reiterating his stance in unusually strong language. Refers to the attacks as a sin, with attackers condemned to hell."
2013-12-12,"In 13 countries around the world, all of them Muslim, people who openly espouse atheism or reject the official state religion of Islam face execution under the law"
2013-12-12,Taxpayers to pay for fracking pollution if companies go bust
2013-12-12,"Legal marijuana in Uruguay violates international law, says UN agency"
2013-12-12,Cooling system fails on orbiting International Space Station
2013-12-12,Pussy Riot to be freed under amnesty bill
2013-12-12,"Eve Online players use in-game money to generate $190,890 for typhoon Haiyan relief during unique charity drive by CCP Games!"
2013-12-12,Census shows Christians no longer a majority in New Zealand: Census 2013 figures released this week show four out of ten New Zealanders now declare themselves non-religious  a rise of 26% and a total of 1.6 million people
2013-12-12,"Chinese dont see United States as an enemy, study finds, but they distrust its government"
2013-12-12,"India Government's chief spokesman accuses Supreme Court of dragging the country back to the 19th century by reinstating gay sex ban, calls for swift reversal of the ruling."
2013-12-12,The High Court of Australia has overturned same-sex marriage laws passed in the Australian Capital Territory causing the recent marriage of 27 couples to be annulled.
2013-12-12,The staff of Canadian legislators are being forced to sign life time gag orders in order to move jobs or get raises.
2013-12-12,Vladimir Putin claims Russia is moral compass of the world
2013-12-12,"Major Mandela security breach: Nobody seems to know who the ""fake sign language interpreter"" standing next to Obama was"
2013-12-12,MI5 chief Andrew Parker will not face MPs on Snowden claims | Home secretary rejects calls for spy boss to justify claim that Guardian put national security at risk in publishing NSA files
2013-12-12,Tepco lost the layout drawing of pipes and drains in Fukushima plant / Office entirely contaminated
2013-12-12,US foundation buys Hopi masks for $530k at controversial Paris sale and returns them to tribes
2013-12-12,Suspect in 200 murders captured.
2013-12-12,The Pirate Bay moves operations to remote Ascension Island.
2013-12-12,New Zealander has all electronic devices seized by customs at Auckland Airport following his attendance at a talk in London about Edward Snowden's leaked documents.
2013-12-12,Nearly $1 trillion was smuggled out of developing countries in 2011 - Quartz
2013-12-12,Catalonia intends to vote independence from Spain on the 9th of November 2014
2013-12-12,"Swedish newspaper Expressen invades and reveals personal details of private people who have ""the wrong"" views. Even confronting them on TV at home."
2013-12-12,One of the two cooling pumps has failed on the International Space Station
2013-12-11,"Confirmed outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Madagascar, at least 20 dead so far."
2013-12-11,Uruguay legalizes the sale and production of marijuana
2013-12-11,Nelson Mandela memorial interpreter 'was a fake'
2013-12-11,"Australia: Victims of child sexual abuse walked out of a public hearing after the Catholic church's legal representative quoted the Bible in his opening address -- ""Let the little children come to me; do not stop them..."""
2013-12-11,Pope Francis is TIMEs Person of the Year for 2013
2013-12-11,Germany gets rid of tuition fees (Google translate)
2013-12-11,"World Health Organization Warns that Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis is ""Ticking Time Bomb"" - Other serious diseases like malaria & whooping cough are also growing resistant to antibiotics. Public health experts warn of an impending antibiotic apocalypse."
2013-12-11,"Scientology is a religion, rules Supreme Court"
2013-12-11,"The Romanian parliament has exempted politicians and lawyers from corruption crimes, in a move contrary to agreements with the EU | The amendments, voted without parliamentary debate, now exclude the country's President, senators, members of the lower chamber, and lawyers, as ""public officials."""
2013-12-11,Huge blow to LGBT rights in India: Indian Supreme Court declares gay sex illegal
2013-12-11,Domino's Pizza Chief Executive upset that no one in the UK is interested in being hired for substandard pay
2013-12-11,"Most Western European Muslims are Islamic fundamentalists, study finds"
2013-12-11,Canada vows to protect Santa Claus from Russian troops in the Arctic
2013-12-11,Canada to stop home mail delivery.
2013-12-11,Uruguay's Marijuana Liberalization Up for Final Vote Tonight
2013-12-11,"China bans dishes containing shark fins, bird nests and wild animal products in official reception dinners"
2013-12-11,Sweden cooperated with the United States in operations to hack into computers
2013-12-11,"5 Nobel prize winners have condemned the scale of state surveillance, warned that spy agencies must be curbed by a new international charter."
2013-12-11,Underage worker dies after long hours in iPhone factory: Shanghaiist
2013-12-11,(Yonhap) N. Korea sells gold in sign of imminent economic collapse: source
2013-12-11,NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking
2013-12-11,Calls to boycott Israel grow on US campuses
2013-12-11,Netanyahu skips Mandela memorial. Israelis say 'are you kidding?'
2013-12-11,The Women Who Sold Their Daughters Into Sex Slavery
2013-12-11,Australian Government approves creation of one of the world's largest coal ports near the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
2013-12-10,Bill Clinton says security does not justify espionage
2013-12-10,Snowden docs had NYTimes exec fearing for his life
2013-12-10,"The latest annual figures available show that of the 706 rape cases filed in New Delhi in 2012, only one, the most famous, ended in conviction"
2013-12-10,"While the Harper government is preaching government austerity, it is spending almost $1.2 billion on a new spy palace - Ottawa headquarters for military spy agency. It's the most expensive Canadian government building ever constructed"
2013-12-10,"Chinese citizens outraged after nationalist newspaper calls smog a ""national defense measure"""
2013-12-10,Murdoch-owned newspaper the Sydney Sunday Telegraph hides phrase 'Murdoch is evil' in children's wordsearch puzzle
2013-12-10,"Female genital mutilation on the rise among Southeast Asian Muslims - More than 90 percent of women surveyed in Malaysia have been circumcised, and experts say increasing regional Islamic conservatism may be the reason why."
2013-12-10,Atheists face death in 13 Muslim countries
2013-12-10,"New record low temperature confirmed in Antarctica, 93.2 C (That's -minus 135.8 Fahrenheit)"
2013-12-10,A world first - two openly gay men will lead a country (Luxemburg).
2013-12-10,"President Hamid Karzai says the U.S. is ""absolutely"" acting like a colonial power in its attempts to force him to sign the bilateral security agreement by the end of this year"
2013-12-10,Wikileaks reveals failed plans to suppress anti-Keystone activists (sourced from Stratfor)
2013-12-10,BBC News - Sir Ian McKellen 'advised not to go to Russia'
2013-12-10,Obama shakes hands with Cuba's Raul Castro
2013-12-10,"State surveillance of personal data is theft, say world's leading authors"
2013-12-10,"Australian paedophile Peter Truong, who bought a newborn boy for $US8000 and then allowed men around the world to be abuse the child, has been sentenced in a US court to 30 years' jail. Truong's partner was jailed in June for 40 years."
2013-12-10,"State surveillance of personal data is theft, say world's leading authors"
2013-12-10,Ikea stores in Hong Kong have unexpectedly sold out of a stuffed toy wolf after it became the symbol of opposition to the city's unpopular government
2013-12-10,"Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists: Harper government shuts down 'world class' collection on freshwater science and protection."
2013-12-10,"Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority are expected to sign a water agreement aimed at saving the rapidly drying Dead Sea,The agreement will build a pipeline to carry water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea and provide drinking water to the region."
2013-12-10,Australian police to adopt technology capable of collecting emails - Controversial deep packet inspection system used by NSA for surveillance to be rolled out by AFP next year
2013-12-10,"The U.K. is aiming to broker a deal between the U.S. and China to support a multinational manned mission to Mars, according to Science Minister David Willetts."
2013-12-10,Israel approves detention without charges for African migrants
2013-12-10,560 Authors from 83 Countries Issue International Appeal Against Mass Surveillance
2013-12-10,Canada to claim north pole as its own - UN submission will seek to redefine Canada's continental shelf to capture more Arctic oil and gas resources.
2013-12-09,"104 Chinese cities are now reporting air pollution levels above 300 mcg per cubic meter, twelve times the recommended limit. Over 70 percent of China's rivers and lakes are now too toxic for animals to drink from. This past week, visibility in some parts of China was reduced to less than 5 meters."
2013-12-09,"Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Twitter and AO have united to demand sweeping changes to US surveillance laws and an international ban on bulk collection of data"
2013-12-09,Edward Snowden voted Guardian person of the year 2013
2013-12-09,Thousands protest in Japan against new state secrets bill
2013-12-09,Somali woman who reported rape sentenced: Nineteen-year-old will be confined to home for six months and journalists who reported the story are to go to jail.
2013-12-09,NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life
2013-12-09,London's biggest university bans student protests - students could be fined or imprisoned
2013-12-09,"China bans shark fin dinners, suites for officials in latest crackdown"
2013-12-09,"Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a party formed barely a year ago mainly by non-politicians, wins 28 out of 70 seats in India's capital New Delhi with agenda to drive out deep-ingrained corruption inside the world's largest democracy."
2013-12-09,Most UK People in Poverty Have a Job
2013-12-09,Second release of secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement documents
2013-12-09,British agents in Russia instructed to find Snowden  Canadian NGO
2013-12-09,Anti-corruption crusader stuns Indian politics with election surge
2013-12-09,"WikiLeaks releases new documents exposing secret Trans-Pacific Partnership talks | The revelations are mostly the same, but the new documents suggest that the public outcry against these proposals has had little effect on the negotiations."
2013-12-09,"Protesters in Kiev Topple Lenin Statue as Rallies Grow. Today's estimates at 500,000 people."
2013-12-09,Russia's President Vladimir Putin has abolished the country's state-owned news agency RIA Novosti
2013-12-09,Ukrainian homosexual X-Factor contenstant tortured by Russian Neonazis who shaved his head and forced him to admit to being a pedophile using a dildo as a microphone while pouring urine on him.
2013-12-09,Canada Busted Covering Up Spikes In Fukushima Radiation Washington's Blog
2013-12-09,The Silent Crisis: Vietnams Elephants on the Verge of Extinction
2013-12-09,Ukrainian protesters topple Lenin statue in Kiev
2013-12-09,The rise of BlackRock - The worlds single largest investor with over $4.1 Trillion in directly controlled assets
2013-12-09,Seymour Hersh Alleges Obama Administration Lied on Syria Gas Attack
2013-12-09,Revealed: spy agencies' covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online games
2013-12-09,Iraqi Kurdistan fights female circumcision: Female circumcision is slowly declining in Iraqi Kurdistan. Years of campaigning and a law against the practise have borne fruit. Some villages went from 100 percent of all young girls being circumcised to none.
2013-12-09,Islamophobes Publish Fake Image About Muslims Throwing Christian Girl From Window
2013-12-08,"An open letter from Carl Bernstein to Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger: ""You are being called to testify at a moment when governments in Washington and London seem intent on erecting the most serious (and self-serving) barriers against legitimate news reporting"""
2013-12-08,Japan cracks down on leaks and press freedom after scandal of Fukushima nuclear power plant
2013-12-08,New Japanese whaling trip aims to hunt 1000 whales amid foreign criticism
2013-12-08,India to push for freeing Internet from U.S. control
2013-12-08,"'Let's be honest, we eavesdrop too': former French foreign minister on NSA spying claims."
2013-12-08,Two thousand toxic mice pumped up with Tylenol dropped on Guam by parachute to kill snakes
2013-12-08,"NSA ""asking for"" specific exchanges from Swedish Defence Radio Establishment FRA - Secret treaty since 1954"
2013-12-08,One million people chanting in unison: today's EuroMaidan protest in Kiev
2013-12-08,UK MPs set to receive 11% pay rise
2013-12-08,"Syrian Christians have Officially Declared War on Syrian Rebels - "" I urge every Christian man capable of carrying weapons to defend Syria"""
2013-12-08,The Obama administration knew that a Syrian rebel faction had the ability to make chemical weapons but omitted that knowledge when building their case for a strike on Syria
2013-12-08,"An estimated 30,000 elephants have been killed every year since the start of the decade, and experts believe the number has soared this year. Estimates suggest that 100 elephants per day are being killed for their ivory."
2013-12-08,"Yale University study sounds alarm on rare earth metal shortages, finding that of the 62 elements used in smartphones and similar devices, none had an equal-performance substitute, and twelve had no conceivable replacement"
2013-12-08,South Korea expands air defense zone to partially overlap China's
2013-12-08,Chevron has suspended exploration for shale gas in northeastern Romania after hundreds of anti-fracking protesters tore down fences
2013-12-08,Turkish PM Erdogan accuses Taraf reporter of treason over revealing a document from a 2004 National Security Council meeting in which his government colluded to target social movements  charged with revealing forbidden information.
2013-12-08,"Singapore news. Fire, rioting taking place in Little India: reports"
2013-12-08,Israeli soldiers accused of killing Palestinian boy in West Bank
2013-12-08,Lee Rigby case: Muslim fanatic said he killed soldier in 'most humane way he could'
2013-12-08,Bitcoin Slumps After Chinese Government bans real world use.
2013-12-08,Australian intelligence agency cancels passports of 20 Muslim men over suspicion they may join Syria conflict
2013-12-08,Pakistan's Federal Sharia Court has ordered to remove the life imprisonment from the section 295C of the Blasphemy laws and death sentence be the only punishment in 295C.
2013-12-08,"Across Europe, a Growing Sense That Legalized Prostitution Isn't Working. The issue driving recent bans is human trafficking."
2013-12-08,Highest radiation levels measured outside Fukushima
2013-12-08,Ukraine's capital hit by mass anti-govt protest
2013-12-07,'Muslim Patrol' jailed for harassing couple holding hands and men drinking in a bid to enforce Sharia law in East London
2013-12-07,North Korea frees U.S. Korean War veteran after seven weeks
2013-12-07,UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA
2013-12-07,"A march yesterday at the University of London ended in kettling, arrests and blood on the pavement after a week of alleged police brutality finally has video footage to accompany what has been going on."
2013-12-07,"Chevron in Romania, part 3. Clashes between locals, activists and riot police. Protesters break into fracking site, Chevron suspends operations, again"
2013-12-07,Snowden to make video appearance at EU parliament
2013-12-07,"The National Security Agency has publicly admitted to tracking the locations of literally billions of international cell phones under a 1981 executive order (under the Reagan presidency). To allay the fears of US citizens, it said the program only targets international phones."
2013-12-07,Police In Thailand Lay Down Vests and Barricades In Solidarity With Protestors
2013-12-07,"Supermarkets selling chicken that is nearly a fifth water | Consumers paying 65p a kilo for water, as legality of process of 'tumbling' imported chicken called into question."
2013-12-07,Romania - Fighting Chevron's Fracking SUVs on Horseback
2013-12-07,Couples celebrate Australia's first same-sex weddings
2013-12-07,Six hospitalized in Mex nuke exposure. Police block Mexico City hospital.
2013-12-07,"Dick Cheney Didn't Regret His Vote Against Freeing Nelson Mandela, Maintained He Was A 'Terrorist'"
2013-12-07,India Could Be Kicked out of Olympics
2013-12-07,All Syrian Chemical Weapons Munitions Destroyed
2013-12-07,Nothing is beyond our reach: Evil octopus strangling the world becomes latest US intelligence seal
2013-12-07,"""The devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan shocked researchers who did not expect that the seismic fault involved could release so much energy. Now the world's deepest-drilling oceanographic ship has been able to pin down the odd geology that made this disaster so horrific."""
2013-12-07,Hong Kong sees second case of H7N9 bird flu in a week
2013-12-07,NSA defends global cellphone tracking as legal
2013-12-07,Rich Kazakhs Revive Polygamy as Women Seek Poverty Escape
2013-12-07,"Militants who carried out a brazen day-light assault on the Yemeni defence ministry that killed 56 people were mostly Saudis, investigators said on Saturday."
2013-12-07,"France says all 1,200 pledged troops now in Central African Republic"
2013-12-07,[STUDY] One percent of the population is responsible for 63 percent of violent crime convictions
2013-12-07,"Japanese Parliament passes contentious ""secret"" law that stiffens penalties for government leaks."
2013-12-07,"China, South Korea fear secrets law could lead to Japanese military state - U.S. State Dept. ""welcomed passage of the bill"""
2013-12-06,Nelson Mandela has passed away.
2013-12-06,Japan passes a democracy-muzzling Patriot Act. The Obama-supported State Secret Bill criminalizes investigative journalism and conflates terrorism with imposing ones opinions.
2013-12-06,"Austrian Mayor Says That Journalists Who Report on Asylum-Seekers Should Be ""Hanged Like Jews"""
2013-12-06,US will no longer report Guantanamo Hunger strikes
2013-12-06,Al-Qaida massacres 52 at Yemen hospital
2013-12-06,New law allows same-sex couples in Australia to be married
2013-12-06,"Iceland to write 24,000 off every household mortgage"
2013-12-06,Atheist advertising rejected in Vancouver
2013-12-06,"Upset over inaction by police, a 16-year-old gang-rape survivor allegedly consumed poison outside the office of the Superintendent of Police"
2013-12-06,Microsoft brands governments a 'persistent threat' alongside malware and cyber attacks
2013-12-06,TEPCO clean-up boss says Fukushima's radioactive water will be dumped into Pacific Ocean
2013-12-06,Chinese moon rover enters lunar orbit
2013-12-06,How the NSA Targets Italy
2013-12-06,India: 14-year-old braveheart girl offers herself to kidnapper to save 10 kids in Assam
2013-12-06,"Snowden to speak to European Parliament, delegate claims: US whistleblower Edward Snowden is to give video evidence to the European Parliament, a German assembly member claims. A parliamentary committee session will examine mass-surveillance by intelligence agencies."
2013-12-06,Data haul by Android Flashlight app 'deceives' millions
2013-12-06,Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet | Threat Level
2013-12-06,First ever pictures from inside Australian refugee detention centre
2013-12-06,Iran Arrests 16 in New Crackdown on Internet Freedom
2013-12-06,East Timor seeks to scrap oil treaty with Australia in The Hague over spying allegations
2013-12-06,"Beating bribery: An increasingly popular weapon in the fight against corruption: fake money ""..It can be a pointed way of shaming someone who asks for a bribe. That is the thinking behind zero-rupee notes, an Indian anti-corruption gimmick now attracting worldwide interest."""
2013-12-06,Russia's High Court Declares 'Gay Propaganda' Ban Constitutional
2013-12-06,Religious Intolerance on the rise: Indonesian Gov't Fails to Act as Two More Churches Sealed
2013-12-06,UK to aid France in Central African Republic intervention by providing a C-17 aircraft
2013-12-06,Nelson Mandela Was On The U.S. Terrorist Watch List Until 2008
2013-12-05,"NSA tracking cellphone locations worldwide, Snowden documents show"
2013-12-05,Thieves who stole cobalt-60 are likely dead or dying from radiation poisoning
2013-12-05,Pope sets up body on child abuse: Pope Francis sets up a Vatican committee to fight Catholic Church child abuse
2013-12-05,21 Images of Where Children Sleep Around the World Paints A Powerful Picture of Inequality
2013-12-05,US Embassy aggressively blocked minimum wage increase for Haitian workers
2013-12-05,"This past summer, the US Army began investigating why the military spent nearly $36 million to construct a well-appointed 64,000-square-foot headquarters in southwestern Afghanistan that commanders in the area did not want and has never been used."
2013-12-05,"Uruguay could become the first country in the world to nationalise and legalise marijuana. On Tuesday, the Senate will vote on a bill that would make the sale of cannabis for adults legal and government-controlled. If passed the price of marijuana is expected to be set at around $1 a gram."
2013-12-05,Morocco seeks legalization of marijuana cultivation and exports  RT News
2013-12-05,It worked so well that Amsterdam is now expanding the project where they let alcoholics drink while they clean the streets
2013-12-05,Police remove protesters from Chevron's fracking site in Romania
2013-12-05,The Central African Republic descending into 'complete chaos' - France may send 1000 troops to prevent genocide
2013-12-05,Scientists in South Korea say the country must brace itself for a bank of smog rolling in across the sea from China
2013-12-05,"The other side of North Korea: A defected smugglers extraordinary story shows a side of North Korea outsiders rarely glimpse, one in which the biggest threat to the govt may be not political dissidents but regular citizens getting their first taste of a middle class life"
2013-12-05,"Massive Fire Started By Angry Workers Destroys Factory That Supplied To Gap, Wal-Mart In Bangladesh"
2013-12-05,Vatican refuses to share sex abuse investigations with UN
2013-12-05,A UK marine convicted of murdering a Taliban prisoner has lost fight to remain anonymous
2013-12-05,Beijing unveils 5-year plan contains 84 measures to tackle pollution
2013-12-05,OPEC losing control of oil prices
2013-12-05,Switzerland Launches Criminal Probe Into NSA Surveillance
2013-12-05,Japan whistleblowers face crackdown under proposed state secrets law
2013-12-05,"BC-LT--APNewsAlert,11 MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican nuclear official say stolen container of radioactive material found empty. AP-WF-12-04-13 2304GMT"
2013-12-05,"Governments close to agreement to put hacking, cryptography software on the same footing as weapons of war"
2013-12-05,Thai officials admit to human trafficking
2013-12-05,"COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP)  A new wave of Europeans is heading to Syria, their ranks soaring in the past six months as tales of easy living and glorious martyrdom draw them to the rebellion against Bashar Assad"
2013-12-05,American Studies Association endorses academic boycott of Israel
2013-12-04,"Bangladeshi garment workers, lowest paid in the world at $0.21/hour, torch 10-story factory at Gazipur + 15 full garment trucks. No human casualties, $100 million losses to the owners."
2013-12-04,"Without Anyone Paying Attention, Canada Is About To Change Its Laws To Support ACTA - ""They can point to the tiny, but real, problem of counterfeit drugs that can cause serious damage... and then mix it with the very ""large"" issue of copyright infringement where they can't show any actual harm."""
2013-12-04,Only 1% of Snowden files published - Guardian editor
2013-12-04,70% of Chinese don't know that ivory comes from dead elephants
2013-12-04,British Fathers Will Get the Same Family Leave as Mothers
2013-12-04,"Hassan Rouhani, Irans president, has more cabinet members with Ph.D. degrees from U.S. universities than Barack Obama does. In fact, Iran has more holders of American Ph.D.s in its presidential cabinet than France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, or Spaincombined."
2013-12-04,European Commission fines eight banks a total of 1.7bn euros for forming illegal cartels to rig interest rates
2013-12-04,How the secretly negotiated TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) will gut environmental protection
2013-12-04,NASA finds water on planets 1000 light years from Earth that orbit star.Could be prime candidates for life
2013-12-04,"Sahara Suffers Catastrophic Collapse of Wildlife: In world's largest tropical desert the Bubal hartebeest & scimitar horned oryx in the wild are extinct & the African wild dog & African lion are gone. Dama gazelle & addax are gone from 99% of their range; leopard from 97%; Saharan cheetah, 90%."
2013-12-04,"Ukraine Moves To Join EU In Russia Snub: Ukrainian protesters have successfully forced the hand of their president, getting him to reconsider signing a trade deal with the European Union even if it means irking one Vladimir Putin in Moscow."
2013-12-04,Canada passes Bill C-309. Protestors could now face up to 10 years in jail for masking up.
2013-12-04,"Israel has sent humanitarian aid to Syria, despite having technically been in conflict with the country for the last 46 years."
2013-12-04,"Japanese Liberal Democratic Party Secretary-General: Protesting New Secrecy Bill is ""an Act of Terrorism"""
2013-12-04,Bitcoin Heist: Millions Vanish from Online Black Market
2013-12-04,Anti-fracking protests in Canada turn violent
2013-12-04,"Guardian will not be intimidated over NSA leaks, Alan Rusbridger (editor) tells MPs"
2013-12-04,The 10 Most Corrupt and Least Corrupt Countries in the World
2013-12-04,Putin backs amnesty that could free Pussy Riot
2013-12-04,Japan's WW II super-submarine found scuttled off Hawaii - World
2013-12-04,"Deal to halt illegal ivory trade signed by African and Asian states, including China"
2013-12-04,NSA Spying Challenged in the United Nations
2013-12-04,"Food poverty in UK has reached level of 'public health emergency', warn experts"
2013-12-04,British soldier arrested in Germany on terrorism offences after police found far-right leaflets at a home.
2013-12-04,Yasser Arafat 'was not poisoned' - leaked French report
2013-12-03,Police kill someone in Iceland.. for the first time ever.
2013-12-03,"Pope Francis secretly sneaks out at night to help the homeless, source says"
2013-12-03,"An entire village is sealed off by gendarmes and riot police in the middle of the night, some peasants taken to the police station, so that Chevron can start drilling for shale gas, in spite of fierce local opposition"
2013-12-03,Stephen Hawking: NHS is Britain's finest public service and must be preserved from commercial interests
2013-12-03,"1,200-year-old Malaysian temple ruin razed by developer clearing land for a residential housing project"
2013-12-03,Spain And Japan Move To Criminalize Protests
2013-12-03,UK politician who made speech implying rich people have higher IQs answers IQ test questions incorrectly on live radio
2013-12-03,"North Korea's second-most-powerful man and husband of Kim Jong-il's sister, Jang Seong-taek, has suddenly been relieved of all posts. His two absolute closest associates were publicly executed last month, and other officials associated with him have likewise been recently purged, according to NIS."
2013-12-03,Anti-gay Russian group upload video of them physically abusing and humiliating former X Factor contestant
2013-12-03,"Are you one of the 700,000 people on the U.S. government terrorist watch list? - Landmark Case Goes to Trial over Massive U.S. Terrorism ""No-Fly"" Database"
2013-12-03,Ukraine's crisis is getting so serious that protesters in Kiev charged police with a bulldozer
2013-12-03,Hong Kong confirms first human case of bird flu
2013-12-03,BP wins U.S. appeals court reprieve over some Gulf spill payments
2013-12-03,Guantnamo Bay detainees claim Poland allowed CIA torture
2013-12-03,Guardian Australia fiercely defends its reporting on spy agencies | World news
2013-12-03,Zimbabwe gives Chinese man $150 fine for $320 worth of ivory
2013-12-03,Yuan Passes Euro as Second-Most Used Trade-Finance Currency
2013-12-03,"Tim Berners-Lee: Spies' cracking of encryption undermines the web - World wide web inventor dismayed about US and UK attempts to undermine privacy and security, revealed by Edward Snowden"
2013-12-03,Dredging set to swamp decades of Great Barrier Reef protection
2013-12-03,"The Spanish region of Catalonia wants to revoke the driving licenses of drug addicts, alcoholics and people with mental disorders to avoid other people's lives being put at risk."
2013-12-03,US singer and song writer Bob Dylan has been placed under judicial investigation in France for allegedly provoking ethnic hatred of Croats
2013-12-03,"BBC News - Ukraine PM says he ""sees all signs of a coup"" as protesters fill square in Kiev"
2013-12-03,"The UN's senior counter-terrorism official is to launch an investigation into the surveillance powers of American and British intelligence agencies following Edward Snowden's revelations that they are using secret programmes to store and analyse billions of emails, phone calls and text messages."
2013-12-03,"Australian Security service, ASIO has raided Canberra office of lawyer representing East Timor in its case about to be heard in The Hague accusing Australia of spying during delicate oil-and-gas negotiations"
2013-12-03,Mexico: Thousands Protests Against Oil Industry Privatisation
2013-12-02,"The War on Democracy: How corporations and spy agencies use ""security"" to defend profiteering and crush activism"
2013-12-02,"""It is completely unacceptable to give a 15-year-old a breast enlargement as a Christmas present"" - Germany to ban plastic surgery on children"
2013-12-02,Italian girl gang-raped after a false Facebook page told she was available to anyone. Onlooker failed to help cause it 'was none of his business.'
2013-12-02,"Spooky Business: A New Report on Corporate Espionage Against Non-profits. Chamber of Commerce, Walmart, Monsanto, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Burger King, McDonalds, Shell, BP have been linked to espionage or planned espionage against nonprofit organizations, activists and whistleblowers."
2013-12-02,"African elephants ""could fall by 1/5"" due to poaching - There were 100 million at turn of 20th century. That has fallen to 1/2 million. 22,000 were killed in 2012. Rate of killing compared to natural population growth means the largest animal on earth could soon become extinct."
2013-12-02,Fresh spy leak shows Australia offered to share data on its citizens
2013-12-02,Croatia voted a ban on same-sex marriage
2013-12-02,Two German students have vandalised part of the Pyramid of Khufu
2013-12-02,Sweden's prison population has dropped so dramatically that the country plans to close four of its prisons
2013-12-02,Saab to resume making cars in Sweden
2013-12-02,"Roman Catholic Church pushes for constitutional ban on gay marriage in new EU member-state Croatia, arguing that ""same-sex marriage is not a human right""."
2013-12-02,Revealed: Australian spy agency offered to share data about ordinary citizens (Snowden)
2013-12-02,"Ukraine Leader Is Called On to Resign as Anger Swells: I want the authorities to know that this is not a protest; this is a revolution! Yuri V. Lutsenko, a former interior minister, told a vast crowd here in Independence Square Revolution! the crowd roared back. Revolution!"
2013-12-02,"UN implicates Bashar al-Assad in Syria war crimes: The UN's human rights chief has said an inquiry has produced evidence that war crimes were authorised in Syria at the ""highest level"", including by President Bashar al-Assad."
2013-12-02,Croatia changes constitution to ban Gay Marriage in a referendum heavily influenced by the catholic church
2013-12-02,Former Israeli PM: Netanyahu has 'declared war on the US government'
2013-12-02,Major study that fuelled fears of GMOs retracted
2013-12-02,"Nearly a century after the Armenian genocide, these people are still being slaughtered in Syria"
2013-12-02,China launches first moon mission
2013-12-02,"Pot-smoking Mountie returns serge, accuses RCMP of not helping members with PTSD"
2013-12-02,"Violent demonstrations have Thailands prime minister on the run - The PM is sister of Thaksin Shinawatra, a billionaire & former PM who himself was forced from office in a 2006 coup & is now in exile in Dubai still wielding significant influence in his home country."
2013-12-02,US push on intellectual property violates international norms
2013-12-02,Thousands protest US drone strikes in Pakistan
2013-12-02,Secret filming highlights poor care of U.K. brain injury victims - lying in urine and call bell ripped out from hand in the neuro-rehabilitation unit.
2013-12-02,"China's Jade Rabbit takes great hop for mankind  The Register | Chinas first lunar rover, dubbed Yutu or ""Jade Rabbit"", has finally left the hutch today as part of the Change 3 mission to become the first Moon landing probe sent up by the Peoples Republic."
2013-12-01,"World's lawmakers endorse making political corruption a Crime Against Humanity, at United Nations UNCAC"
2013-12-01,Pope sends Archbishop and Swiss guards onto the streets of Rome at night to comfort the poor and the homeless.
2013-12-01,"More than 100,000 demonstrators chased away police to rally in the center of Ukraine's capital on Sunday, defying a government ban on protests on Independence Square, in the biggest show of anger over the president's refusal to sign an agreement with the European Union."
2013-12-01,Woman has child taken from her womb by social services - Telegraph
2013-12-01,Indian Muslim females overwhelmingly reject Islamist attempt to lower marriage age for women
2013-12-01,"Leaked paper reveals UN split over war on drugs - Instead, a number of countries are pushing for the ""war on drugs"" to be seen in a different light, which places greater emphasis on treating drug consumption as a public health problem, rather than a criminal justice matter."
2013-12-01,"Mangalyaan, India's Mars Orbiter, has successfully commenced its journey to Mars"
2013-12-01,"Thousands of Israelis took to the streets across the country Saturday to protest a government plan to displace some 40,000 Arab Bedouins from their lands."
2013-12-01,"Spies worry over ""doomsday"" cache stashed by ex-NSA contractor Snowden"
2013-12-01,Life imprisonment of five out of six teachers for repeatedly raping a 19-year-old Untouchable girl student
2013-12-01,The Richest World Leaders Are Even Richer Than You Thought
2013-12-01,Starfish dying off in large numbers in two oceans
2013-12-01,"China's government ""declares victory"" in removing ""negativity and unruliness"" about China's government from the internet. The Government started an ""internet scrubbing"" program over the summer, arresting ""opinion leaders"" and stepping up government presence to ""control the message in cyberspace."""
2013-12-01,Cayman Islands and Costa Rica agree to share bank account details with US - The alleged tax havens have signed agreements with the United States to tell the IRS about funds held offshore by Americans
2013-12-01,"INTERVIEW: Predatory development is threatening Brazils Amazon - Marina Silva. The Amazon gives us rain and consequently all the water in this region. Its like killing the chicken that lays the golden egg, Silva said."
2013-12-01,Israel's new opposition leader says he told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that a clear majority in Israel supports a peace deal with the Palestinians and that his Labor Party will back any future agreement
2013-12-01,Britain targets Guardian newspaper over intelligence leaks related to Edward Snowden
2013-12-01,Germany: Berlin council votes to open first cannabis cafe
2013-12-01,A Generation of US and UK War Veterans Are Being Silenced
2013-12-01,David Cameron distances UK from Dalai Lama and Tibet to woo Beijing
2013-12-01,Turkey court brands swimming goggles 'weapons'
2013-12-01,"Standing by Palestine, India opens visa service in Ramallah"
2013-12-01,"EU to Yanukovych: You're taking Ukraine ""nowhere"" - Lithuanian & German leaders rebuke Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych over his u-turn on EU integration. Germany's Angela Merkel's brief encounter with the stony-faced Ukrainian chief was captured in a video."
2013-12-01,Ukrainian protesters warned against mass disorder. Clashes in Kyiv right now.
2013-12-01,East African nations agree on monetary union to boost trade
2013-11-30,"NSA's Blackmail By Porn Strategy, The Abuse We Were All Waiting For"
2013-11-30,"Thousands expected to take part in ""Day of Rage"" protests against Israel's plan to displace tens of thousands of Bedouin."
2013-11-30,Berlin council votes to open first cannabis cafe
2013-11-30,Helicopter crashes into pub in Glasgow.
2013-11-30,"I Tried to See Where My T-Shirt Was Made, and the Factory Sent Thugs After Me -- After meeting India's ""sumangali girls,"" I'll never look at cute, cheap clothes the same way again."
2013-11-30,Pope launches blistering attack on the 'tyranny of capitalism' as he warns we're all heading towards 'disintegration and death'
2013-11-30,"The Syrian civil war is creating a generation of traumatized, isolated and under-educated children who are vulnerable to exploitation and recruitment by armed groups"
2013-11-30,Veteran RCMP Officer Cpl. Ron Francis brought to tears while being stripped of his uniform after being fired for smoking legally prescribed marijuana
2013-11-30,North Korea Calls Captive 85-Year-Old US Citizen 'Criminal' For His Service During Korean War
2013-11-30,Germany spends millions on animal-only bridges
2013-11-30,"""Police in Jamaica say authorities have seized 3,300 missile warheads and a machine to make missiles and bullets."""
2013-11-30,90 firms responsible for emitting two-thirds of world's deadly gases since 1751
2013-11-30,"Egypt to pardon women jailed over protest - 21 women and girls, whose 11-year sentencing for a peaceful protest caused outrage, will be freed after court processes"
2013-11-30,Islamic law and suspicion fuel polio resurgence
2013-11-30,"Vodafone Iceland Breached, Website defaced, database containing 70,000+ Accounts leaked."
2013-11-30,Berlin borough pushing for Germanys first cannabis coffee-shop
2013-11-30,"Billions from Beijing: Africans Divided over Chinese Presence - Chinese companies have pumped billions into Africa to secure access to natural resources, boosting countries' economies along the way. Ordinary citizens aren't reaping the benefits though & are growing more wary of the new investors."
2013-11-30,"AFP: British burned, dumped 'embarrassing' colonial documents"
2013-11-30,[Greece] Journalist found guilty of insulting 'proud national socialist' by calling him a 'neonazi'
2013-11-30,Canada's Role in NSA's Global Spy Network Revealed
2013-11-30,"A meteor hit Zakynthos, the third largest Greek island, in the Ionian Sea on Wednesday night"
2013-11-30,China scrambles fighter jets towards US and Japan aircraft in disputed air zone; Escalation of response in South China Sea is the first time China is known to have sent military jets in zone alongside foreign craft.
2013-11-30,"Spain's youth unemployment rate has re-surged to a record 57.4%, 24.4% of Europe's under-25 population is unemployed"
2013-11-30,Dutch intelligence agency AIVD hacks internet fora
2013-11-30,Israel likely to be first non-European member of CERN
2013-11-29,Swedish prisoner escapes.. to go to the dentist. Returns to prison afterwards.
2013-11-29,Japanese want to build a power plant on the moon and send the energy to earth using lasers or microwaves.
2013-11-29,Police Distribute Roses To Gay Pride Marchers in India
2013-11-29,"New Snowden document reveals NSAs international malware operation: The NSA has infected more than 50,000 computer networks worldwide with malicious software designed to steal sensitive and private information"
2013-11-29,China sends warplanes to newly declared air zone
2013-11-29,"Plans for gay-only retirement homes ""to protect elderly homosexuals from homophobia"" are being considered in France"
2013-11-29,"Brazil confirms satellite deal after US spying outcry - Brazil's state-owned telecom provider Telebras signed a $560 million contract to deliver a satellite for secure communications Thursday, following months of outrage over revelations of US cyber-spying."
2013-11-29,"Men tried to behead soldier on London street, court hears"
2013-11-29,"Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds caused the 'financial downfall' of thousands of small businesses through ""unscrupulous"" business practices, according to an explosive report out on Monday"
2013-11-29,Canadian RCMP officer says he has 'legal right' to smoke medical marijuana in uniform
2013-11-29,Germany and Britain block Palestinian bid to join international olive trade group
2013-11-29,China 'tailed' US and Japanese planes in defence zone: China says its fighter jets followed US and Japanese planes as they passed inside China's newly declared air defence zone in the East China Sea.
2013-11-29,"Amsterdam sees closure of 'pot-cafes' as next step to prohibition - The Netherlands is unique on marijuana possession policy - While an illegal drug, having 5 grams or less is not a criminal offense. Visitors to Amsterdam's coffee shops may find this law doesn't apply to them anymore."
2013-11-29,"Karzai says U.S. drone strike killed child, wont sign security deal if similar attacks continue"
2013-11-29,"Laid-off Spanish TV staff mutiny, take over broadcasts"
2013-11-29,2 Blasts outside US Air base in Japan
2013-11-29,"Iraq violence: Eighteen killed after being abducted. The UN says 979 people - including 158 police and 127 military personnel - were killed in violent attacks in October. More than 6,500 civilians have died since January, the highest annual toll since 2008"
2013-11-29,A new and more aggressive strain of HIV discovered in West Africa causes significantly faster progression to AIDS
2013-11-29,Berlusconi accused of bribing witnesses in prostitution trial
2013-11-29,Thai protesters capture army HQ
2013-11-29,"Recent estimates put the number of young men and women involved in gang activity at 150,000 in the UK. What we have also started to see is an increase in gang-rapes. Seven, eight, nine, 10 in a group targeting vulnerable young girls."""
2013-11-29,"450,000 Christians flee from Muslim attacks in the Central African Republic"
2013-11-29,"Microsoft, HURTING after NSA backdooring, will now harden own pipe"
2013-11-29,CNN cuts most crucial points from interview with Russia's UN envoy on Syria
2013-11-29,Weve had enough: Shipyard workers protest treatment after co-worker commits suicide
2013-11-28,"Swedens Fashion Giant H&M stops making angora products after chilling rabbit torture video hits internet - Animal rights group released it showing fur being painfully plucked from screaming, live rabbits on Chinese farms."
2013-11-28,Italy's Senate expels Silvio Berlusconi
2013-11-28,"Coca-Cola suspends their ad campaign for best reason possible, to donate their entire ad budget to the typhoon relief efforts in the Philippines. So far they've donated over $2.5 million in cash."
2013-11-28,A man in Wales has thrown away a hard drive containing 7500 Bitcoins - approximate value $6.5m
2013-11-28,UN Approves Rights to Privacy in the Digital Age.
2013-11-28,New Snowden docs show U.S. spied during G20 in Toronto
2013-11-28,"A couple in Russia face jail after their religious zeal compelled them to drive their child, injured in a car crash, to church for an urgent baptism rather than to hospital. The two-month-old infant died."
2013-11-28,"People in the Streets of Shanghai Use Weibo (Chinese Twitter) to Rescue 600 Cats from Being Skinned - Man transporting them in small crates to sell for their fur & meat was stopped by concerned citizens, who forcibly took them from him & called rescue groups."
2013-11-28,Japan Wants To Turn The Moon Into A Giant Solar Power Plant
2013-11-28,Veterans Are Being Threatened and Silenced by the US and UK Militaries
2013-11-28,"Egypt jails women protesters for 11 years - 21 women are given 11-year prison sentences, far harsher than those of policemen accused of beating to death and assaulting protesters"
2013-11-28,"South Koreas Spy Agency, Military Sent 24.2 Million Tweets to Manipulate Election  Global Voices"
2013-11-28,"After 50 Years, Cuba Says Its Baseball Players Can Go Abroad"
2013-11-28,U of M grad thrown in Maximum Security Dubai prison for posting a youtube video
2013-11-28,An Israeli court on Thursday jailed six Arab citizens for killing a far-right soldier after he slew four Arabs and wounded more than 20 in a 2005 shooting spree.
2013-11-28,4.2 tonnes of ammunition and 328 illegal firearms seized from farmer in Australia. Video of haul in link.
2013-11-28,"From 600,000 down to 30,000 - Spain's government has reduced the fines it was set to impose on unauthorized protesters outside the parliament. ""This is just a makeover of 1st bill, they're still trying to silence the general public,"" says opposition."
2013-11-28,"""Imagine a hospital room, door handle or kitchen countertop that is free from bacteria -- and not one drop of disinfectant or boiling water or dose of microwaves has been needed to zap the germs. That is the idea behind a startling discovery made by scientists in Australia."""
2013-11-28,"BBC News -Japan, South Korea defy China air zone rules"
2013-11-28,Police digging up mass graves in western Mexico have now found human remains from at least 54 victims there.
2013-11-28,"SOUTH KOREA Government brands pro-democracy priest as ""enemy"" of the nation"
2013-11-28,"Muslim Brotherhood Fatwa: A Woman Who Swims Is An Adulteress, Touching Bananas Haram"
2013-11-28,Baby dinosaur skeleton found intact in Alberta - Calgary
2013-11-28,German court rules top cop can keep his job in police force despite being convicted of raping his girlfriend as she stayed in relationship with him
2013-11-28,Meanwhile in Croatia.. Popular Gay Band The XX To Sue Croatian Hate Group For Using Their Music In Anti-Gay Ad
2013-11-27,US flies B52 aircraft over disputed islands in East China Sea in defiance of Chinese air defence rules.
2013-11-27,"Fight Club, Pretty Woman Producer Admits to Being Israeli Spy"
2013-11-27,Harvard fracking study rings methane alarm bells in Australia: A peer-reviewed report suggests that greenhouse gas emissions from drilling and fracking are 50 per cent worse than thought.
2013-11-27,"Bitcoin virtual currency breaks $1,000 mark"
2013-11-27,"France set to introduce fines of at least $2,000 for those caught buying sex. Prostitutes say their lives will become a lot more dangerous."
2013-11-27,France sends in troops to Central African Republic to stop 'another Rwanda'
2013-11-27,Acidifying Oceans Alarm 540 Scientists from 37 Countries  Oceans acidifying at rates not seen for last 55 million yrs & the only way to slow it is to reduce human emissions of carbon dioxide. All oceans have experienced a 26% rise in acidity since dawn of industrial age.
2013-11-27,"Crane falls on World Cup opening ceremony football stadium, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 3 dead."
2013-11-27,Moscow Police detain 15 Islamists with suicide belts
2013-11-27,"The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without also prosecuting U.S. news organizations and journalists, according to U.S. officials."
2013-11-27,World's Second Largest Clothing Retailer Pledges Living Wages for Factory Workers
2013-11-27,Free movement within Europe needs to be less free- David Cameron
2013-11-27,"Radical Islamists arrested in Moscow, found with Guns and Bombs (BBC NEWS)"
2013-11-27,"EU warns the UK risks being seen as a ""nasty country"" after Prime Minister David Cameron outlined plans to restrict access to benefits for EU immigrants. Cameron is proposing powers to deport homeless migrants and cut rights to unemployment and housing benefits."
2013-11-27,"Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis of Latvia has announced his resignation, and thereby the fall of his government, over a deadly supermarket collapse."
2013-11-27,Tunisia protesters torch ruling Islamist party office
2013-11-27,NSA surveillance: Europe threatens to freeze US data-sharing arrangements
2013-11-27,"Midnight Sabotage with Transylvania's Anti-Fracking Activists - Farmers, peasants and eco-warriors are leading the fight against gas giants in Romania, who they claim are illegally seizing land"
2013-11-27,"Dutch lawmakers may backtrack on plans to scrap blasphemy law: The law makes it a crime to insult God, the monarch or to be disrespectful to a policeman. The legislation introduced in the 1930s, has not been invoked for the past fifty years"
2013-11-27,"Pope says Catholic church must decentralise and tackle poverty. ""Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills."""
2013-11-27,"China-Japan-US situation escalates: American B-52s defy Chinese airspace claim and demand that all aircraft submit to Chinese notification and compliance. China has stated it may take ""emergency defensive measures"" to enforce their demand on Japan and the US."
2013-11-27,"New analysis questions constraint on US drone strikes: ""Six months after President Obama laid out US rules for using armed drones, a Bureau analysis shows that covert drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan have killed more people than in the six months before the speech."""
2013-11-27,"Protests in Thailand: The mass protests, the biggest since 2010, are the latest round in an escalating battle between the Bangkok-centred establishment and the family clan of Thaksin Shinawatra, a billionaire former PM, and his sister Yingluck, the current PM"
2013-11-27,EU demands protection against U.S. data surveillance: EU justice commissioner Viviane Reding said she wanted Washington to follow through on its promise to give all EU citizens the right to sue in the United States if their data is misused.
2013-11-27,"China arrested 1,000 over threat to state security"
2013-11-26,"UK Prime Minister David Cameron Announces That Filters Used to Block Porn Will Also Block Websites Espousing ""Extremist"" Views in Order ""to Keep Our Country Safe"""
2013-11-26,USA drops case against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
2013-11-26,"Pope attacks tyranny of markets, urges renewal in key document: Pope Francis called for renewal of the Roman Catholic Church and attacked unfettered capitalism as ""a new tyranny"", urging global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality in the first major work he has authored alone as pontiff."
2013-11-26,Woman fined $140 a day for refusing to circumcise son. Rabbinical judges in the case said they fear the effect that allowing Israeli Jews to freely decide on the ritual circumcision of their own children might have on the global debate over the issue.
2013-11-26,"Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales in Oxford: Snowden a 'hero'. It's very difficult for me to go to authoritarian countries and say, 'You shouldnt spy on activists, you shouldnt censor the internet', when [the US] is complicit in these acts of extraordinary intrusion into peoples personal lives."
2013-11-26,Japan's lower house of parliament has approved a state secrecy bill that penalizes civil servants who leak secrets and journalists who seek them  a move opponents criticize as a heavy-handed effort by the government to hide what it's doing and suppress press freedom
2013-11-26,"Ian Watkins, singer of Welsh rock band Lostprophets, pleads guilty to a series of child sex offences including attempted rape of a baby"
2013-11-26,Canada's Conservatives Are Using Cyberbullying to Normalize Online Surveillance
2013-11-26,Prisoners who escaped from a flooded jail at the height of Super Typhoon Haiyan returned after helping their families deal with the storm's aftermath
2013-11-26,"Up to 15,000 U.S. troops to remain in Afghanistan until 2024"
2013-11-26,US Working To Kill UN Privacy Resolutions
2013-11-26,"Half Of New Greek HIV Cases Are Self-Inflicted To Receive 700 Per Month Benefits, Study Finds"
2013-11-26,Pope calls for power to be devolved away from the vatican
2013-11-26,Untouchable PhD student kills self over University 'bias'
2013-11-26,"EU Commission moves to close corporate tax loophole used by Google, Amazon and Starbucks. Google, Amazon and Starbucks have all been using 'aggressive tax planning'."
2013-11-26,German company Solarworld has announced it's acquiring the complete solar business of Bosch. The takeover will result in the first German solar firm with a manufacturing capacity exceeding one gigawatt.
2013-11-26,"Wary of war, Israeli public gives Iran deal a chance - Going about their business on Monday, Israelis seemed more accepting than their leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, of a nuclear deal with Iran that he rejected as a historic mistake."
2013-11-26,Afghanistan plans to re-introduce public stoning as punishment for adultery
2013-11-26,The largest Byzantium monastery in Istanbul will be converted into a mosque
2013-11-26,"World Health Organisation withdraws claim that half of all new Greek HIV cases self-inflicted, says there was an ""error in the editing phase"" of the report"
2013-11-26,"Egypt bans gatherings of more than 10 people with government approval: The interim president of Egypt, Hazem Beblawi, on Sunday banned public gatherings of more than 10 people without having prior government approval. Punishments for violating the new ban include fines and prison terms."
2013-11-26,Headteacher apologises after ordering pupils to attend Islam awareness trip or face punishment for 'racism'
2013-11-26,"Scottish National Party releases independence blueprint, calling it a ""mission statement"" for Scotland's future."
2013-11-26,Changes to Canada's fisheries law alarm biologists - Revisions that take effect today remove protections for 80% of endangered freshwater species.
2013-11-26,"U.S. says may pull out all troops as Afghan leader holds up deal - Hamid Karzai has refused to sign a security deal with the United States, and Washington may have to resort to the ""zero option"" of withdrawing all American troops from the strife-torn country next year, as it did in Iraq."
2013-11-25,"'Every time you buy fish in the UK, you pay a fee to support an organisation which opposes campaigns to protect fish stocks and marine ecosystems'"
2013-11-25,Oil prices fall after Iran agrees nuclear deal
2013-11-25,"86-year-old couple found holding hands in a luxury Paris hotel bed, lashed out at France's ""cruel"" ban on euthanasia in their suicide note"
2013-11-25,Egypt is now ranked as the worst arab country for women's safety and rights
2013-11-25,"Abortion is illegal in Haiti but women and girls are losing their uteruses and their lives as they turn to clandestine, increasingly deadly ways to terminate their pregnancies."
2013-11-25,"Tony Abbott quietly shifts UN position to support Israeli settlements, upsetting Palestinians"
2013-11-25,A wealthy dentist couple in India have been found guilty of murdering their 14-year-old daughter and servant by slitting their throats
2013-11-25,93 schoolgirls sexually harassed aboard Patna train
2013-11-25,Swiss voters reject proposal to limit executives' pay (with 66% against)
2013-11-25,"Gaza becoming uninhabitable as blockade tightens, says UN. Destruction of smuggling tunnels and renewed ban on import of construction materials have exacerbated humanitarian crisis"
2013-11-25,Toxic Lakes May Emerge From Alberta's Tar-Sand Projects
2013-11-25,Plummeting popularity for Australian PM - Tony Abbott's party loses the lead that won him the election as immigration and climate change remain top issues
2013-11-25,Merkel's phone tapped by at least 5 countries
2013-11-25,German universities are being criticized for taking $13 million of Pentagon cash for research including into environmentally-friendly bombs
2013-11-25,"An Australian anti-vaccination network ""The Australian Vaccination Network"" has been forced by the Fair Trade Tribunal to change its name."
2013-11-25,RBS accused of wrecking viable small businesses to make profits for the bailed out bank
2013-11-25,Afghanistan considers reintroduction of public stoning for adulterers
2013-11-25,"Ukrainians riot in Kiev to join EU after deal collapses over Yulia Tymoshenko - PRO-WESTERN Ukrainians have held the biggest protest rally in Kiev since the 2004 Orange Revolution, urging the government to sign a historic pact with the European Union and clashing with police."
2013-11-25,Japan warns of 'unpredictable events' over China's new air zone
2013-11-25,"1 of Europe's Best Preserved Iron Age Hill Forts Threatened by Plans for 200 Luxury Homes for ""Affluent Commuters & Rich Retirees""- Old Oswestry has existed for over 3,000 yrs. Protesters say the plan will be low-risk developments ""for country retreat investors & holiday cottage landlords""."
2013-11-25,Reports of explosion in Belfast city centre
2013-11-25,NGO: Israel Okays 829 New Settler Homes in West Bank
2013-11-25,Radical Islamist group [Turkistan Islamic Party] has claimed responsibility for an attack on Tiananmen Square last month and warned of future attacks in the Chinese capital.
2013-11-25,"The dark side of the Magic Kingdom? Fairytale may be over for Disneyland Paris. With union marches replacing the parade, the theme park risks losing its sparkle."
2013-11-25,Pakistani island born from an earthquake is already disappearing
2013-11-24,Iran nuclear deal reached
2013-11-24,"I Sold My Sister for 300 Dollars Jordanians, Egyptians and Saudis are visiting Syrian refugee camps to buy virgins. They pay 300 dollars, and they get the girl of their dreams."
2013-11-24,"Bacterium found in New zealand - ""resistant to every single antibiotic known"""
2013-11-24,"Swiss voters are saying ""no"" to a proposal that would limit executive pay to 12 times that of the lowest paid"
2013-11-24,"Secretive trade pact called 'most harmful ever' for affordable medicine - Global health advocates say the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade agreement between the US and 11 other countries, is an attack on public health."
2013-11-24,U.K. intern died of seizure after working 72 hours straight
2013-11-24,"Jihadists cut down a 150-year-old oak tree in Atme, on Syria's border with Turkey, after they accused locals of worshiping it"
2013-11-24,Homosexuals in India Demand an End to Discrimination
2013-11-24,Dangerous escalation as China declares military control of airspace over islands that are claimed by both China and Japan.
2013-11-24,Neo-Nazi Wins Regional Election in Slovakia
2013-11-24,"Latvians in few hours donate more than 400k dollars to help victim's families. 54 confirmed dead in supermarket collapse in Riga, Latvia."
2013-11-24,Former CEO of British Co-Op Bank and a Methodist minister caught on tape buying 300 worth of crack cocaine by an acquittance met on GRINDR. - The Crystal Methodist 'who didn't believe in God'...
2013-11-24,Israelis Attack Palestinian Farmers near Hebron
2013-11-24,Huge Ukraine rally over EU agreement delay
2013-11-24,"Climate Activists: Carbon Trading a ""False Solution"" Pushed by Bankers and Bureaucrats"
2013-11-24,Proposed date for Scottish independence named
2013-11-24,Boeing is alerting airlines about possible engine icing problems on some of its new planes. It is recommending that planes with a specific General Electric engine avoid flying near thunderstorms that might contain ice crystals.
2013-11-24,"Italy's Mount Etna erupts, showers volcanic ash on towns"
2013-11-24,Israel condemns Iran nuclear deal as 'historic mistake'
2013-11-24,"China creates air-defense zone around Japan controlled islands, escalates hostilities over disputed territory."
2013-11-24,"Switzerland votes this weekend on whether to limit executives' pay at twelve times that of their lowest-paid worker. In the run up to the referendum, the issue has become a national talking point, with both sides stoking public resentments and fears."
2013-11-24,11 teachers administering polio vaccine in Pakistani tribal area are abducted
2013-11-24,"""Scientists in Spain say they'll attempt to clone an extinct mountain goat using frozen, preserved cells taken from the last living animal before it died. The species known as a . . . Pyrenean ibex, went extinct in 2000, but cells from the last animal were collected and frozen in liquid nitrogen."""
2013-11-24,1:12 salary cap referendum in Switzerland fails by wide margin
2013-11-24,Israel denounces Iranian nuclear deal
2013-11-23,"NSA infected 50,000 computer networks with malicious software"
2013-11-23,House intel bill adds $75 million to NSA budget to stop future Snowdens
2013-11-23,Latest Snowden leak reveals NSAs goal to continually expand surveillance abilities
2013-11-23,"Moroccan teen, forced to marry her rapist, commits suicide"
2013-11-23,"Unspeakable horrors in a country on the verge of genocide | Militias in the Central African Republic are slitting children's throats, razing villages and throwing young men to the crocodiles. What needs to happen before the world intervenes?"
2013-11-23,"Australian police laugh at man in custody who had soiled himself, ridiculed him, yelled at him and showed him little respect. He dies the next morning after being shoved out of police station of hypothermia and liver failure."
2013-11-23,"One year after Bangladesh factory fire , US retailers Walmart, Sears, Childrens Place and others that sold garments produced there refuse to join an effort to compensate families of the 1,200 workers who died."
2013-11-23,"Moscow is banning the construction of new mosques, the latest sign of the growing anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment in Russia."
2013-11-23,UN official: Gaza is quickly becoming uninhabitable
2013-11-23,"Ontario Bill Bans Coal-Fired Power  Ontario is going coal-free. The largest coal-burning power plant in North America, Nanticoke Generating Station on Lake Erie, will stop burning coal this yr"
2013-11-23,"Thousands protest U.S drone strikes, blocking Nato supplies in Peshawar."
2013-11-23,Indonesian newspaper depicts Australian PM Tony Abbott as a masturbating peeping Tom following spying scandal
2013-11-23,The Spanish Government Is Trying to Outlaw Peaceful Protest
2013-11-23,"Ison: The comet of the century. If we're lucky, then in just a few days time we could witness one of the most spectacular sights in the night sky for a generation or more."
2013-11-23,"European retailers pay to compensate victims of Bangladesh factories where 1,240 died. Walmart and Sears refuse."
2013-11-23,Ask our US friends: Putin turns NSA spying into punchline for joke
2013-11-23,Zimbabwe: Foreigners must close shops by Jan 1.
2013-11-23,Prisoners who escaped during typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines return to jail after tending to their families
2013-11-23,Moscow Bans Construction of New Mosques
2013-11-23,Internet founder warns growing surveillance 'threatens democracy'
2013-11-23,"#NSA pushing for more laws to allow ""anyone,anytime,anywhere"" spying in ""golden age of Sigint"" - NYT"
2013-11-23,Muslim passenger shot in face in terrifying Russia subway attack (GRAPHIC)
2013-11-23,"Egypt downgraded diplomatic relations Saturday with Turkey and expelled its ambassador from Cairo, a sharp escalation in tensions between the two countries that mounted after a military coup ousted the country's Islamist president this summer"
2013-11-23,Web inventor Berners-Lee says NSA surveillance threatens democracy
2013-11-23,"Female teacher jailed for 4 year affair with female pupil, started when girl was 14 and lasted until she went to university."
2013-11-22,Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic will accept Bitcoin
2013-11-22,Canadians brave freezing waters to save shark choking on moose.
2013-11-22,Five arrested in Thailand under drug ring with meth produced from North Korea. The kicker: The meth was tested by authorities and found at over 99% purity.
2013-11-22,"""Once Ford became mayor, he continued the practice of personally returning constituent calls about everyday issues like backed up city sewers, sometimes returning calls late into the night."""
2013-11-22,Malaysia cuts fuel subsidies to fund welfare payments for the poor
2013-11-22,Magnus Carlsen wins Chess World championship
2013-11-22,Satellite imagery reveals mystery 'supergun' in Chinese desert
2013-11-22,American prisoners are choosing to stay in German jails rather than transferring home
2013-11-22,"Italys Triangle Of Death: Naples Residents Blame Child Cancer Rates on Mob Disposal of Toxic Chemicals - Italians blaming sky-high child cancer rates on mobs dumping of toxic chemicalscontaminating water, mozzarella, & the developing brains of babies."
2013-11-22,"""We Have to Consume Less"": Scientists Call For Radical Economic Overhaul to Avert Climate Crisis"
2013-11-22,Latvia supermarket collapse death toll 'rises to 32'
2013-11-22,50 US embassy workers in Norway busted for tax fraud. (Google translated link from norwegian news)
2013-11-22,"Urgent call for UN troops to 'prevent genocide' in Central African Republic. Muslim former rebels have been accused of murder, kidnap, rape, looting and the burning of villages"
2013-11-22,"Despite US Opposition, UN Pushes Forward Surveillance Bill of Rights: The so-called ""Five Eyes"" countries overwhelmed by international unity on the right to protection from spying"
2013-11-22,"As Inequality Grows, Swiss To Vote On Curbing Executive Pay"
2013-11-22,Chinese Court rules out confession through torture
2013-11-22,China struggles to crack down on fake miltary officials. Number of criminals making financial gains impersonating PLA officials soars amid culture of state corruption.
2013-11-22,"S. Korea decides to buy 40 Lockheed F-35s from US, to be delivered starting in 2018"
2013-11-22,"Two hours ago people in Kiev, Ukraine, began spontaneous gathering to express their disagreement about the decision of the Ukrainian government to suspend preparation for the signing of the Association Agreement with EU (my rough translation of the article in the comments)"
2013-11-22,Bolivian President Morales doubles workers Christmas bonus
2013-11-22,"The rusted remains of a Nazi-era submarine have been discovered off the coast of Java, Indonesia. Researchers are looking through the wreckage, which includes human bones and plates with Nazi insignia, for clues that could identify the ship."
2013-11-22,Libya's Tripoli celebrates with cake as militias withdraw and official police force deploys across the city
2013-11-22,"Assads North Korean connection: Reports that Pyongyang has sent pilots to Syria suggest the Damascus regime can no longer rely on its own airmen; ties precede current Syrian war, forms part of North Korea's broader network of relationship in Mideast."
2013-11-22,An underwater volcano creates a new island south of Japan
2013-11-22,Greenpeace activist freed by Russian authorities
2013-11-21,Wikipedia names Texas PR firm over false manipulation of site entries. Free encyclopaedia called in lawyers after 300 'sock puppet' accounts were traced to single firm.
2013-11-21,US Working Overtime Behind The Scenes To Kill UN Plan To Protect Online Privacy From Snooping
2013-11-21,"Pirate Parties International (PPI), the international umbrella organization for dozens of Pirate Parties worldwide, has been granted observer status by the World Trade Organization"
2013-11-21,"Australian state decriminalise abortion, forces doctors that oppose termination to provide a list of willing practitioners to patients"
2013-11-21,US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data
2013-11-21,"British Army admits operating a shoot to kill ""terrorist style"" force during the Troubles in Northern Ireland."
2013-11-21,Three women rescued after 'decades of slavery' in south London home
2013-11-21,Volcano creates new Japanese island 620 miles south of Tokyo
2013-11-21,Derry bus driver who drove alone with bomb on board is 'selfless heroine' - Woman defied masked terrorist's instruction to take device to central police station by driving it instead to less built-up area
2013-11-21,German politicians will be given encrypted phones to keep NSA spies at bay
2013-11-21,"70 global investors with collective assets totalling $3tn (1.85tn) made the first ever joint request to the world's 45 largest oil, coal and power companies to assess the financial risks that climate change and these other trends pose to your business plans"
2013-11-21,An 85-year-old American veteran of the Korean War is being detained in North Korea.
2013-11-21,Has BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments?
2013-11-21,"""We just experienced an abrupt climate change event in the Arctic. Portions of the Arctic have warmed as much as 9F in the last few years. This is possibly the most dramatic event of the last several thousand years"""
2013-11-21,"Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions since the dawning of the industrial age - vast majority of companies are in the business of producing oil, gas or coal"
2013-11-21,'We need more wars': Head of controversial private outsourcing firm blames lack of conflict for spectacular collapse in Army recruitment since it took charge
2013-11-21,Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere
2013-11-21,Wreckage of Nazi U-boat found off Indonesia's coast
2013-11-21,"Australia's Lower House Votes to Dump Carbon Tax: 18 mos after taking effect  with a one off 0.4% increase in cost of living & almost no impact on economic growth  it's been repealed. ""This is about honour & dignity & the sovereign will of the Australian people,"" says environment minister."
2013-11-21,"""The Norwegian military said Tuesday [19 November 2013] it plans to put its troops on a vegetarian diet once a week in a bid to fight a new kind of enemy -- climate change."""
2013-11-21,Massive cocaine haul washes up on beach near Tokyo
2013-11-21,Al Qaeda-linked group says it bombed Iran embassy in Beirut
2013-11-21,US drone kills senior militant in Pakistani seminary
2013-11-21,UK Imam caught agreeing to marry off a 14-year-old girl gets job back
2013-11-21,Report: Taliban Have Killed More Than 800 Clerics For Not Defending Afghanistans Original Islamic Values
2013-11-20,LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers
2013-11-20,Secret U.S. court approves wider NSA spying even after finding excesses
2013-11-20,United States paid more than $150 million to companies in Afghanistan that are accused of financing terrorist attacks on American soldiers and facilities
2013-11-20,Monty Python to reunite for new show after 30 years
2013-11-20,A stash of 24 gold bars worth more than $1.1m has been discovered in the toilet compartment of a commercial plane in eastern India.
2013-11-20,"Switzerland will vote on Sunday on whether to limit the salaries of top executives so they don't earn more in a month than the lowest paid workers earn in a year, a move that could mean big pay cuts for business leaders earning millions."
2013-11-20,"Gabon troops kill poacher, arrest 34 others near elephant park. The soldiers found the carcass of an elephant and a panther at the camp used by the poachers, who had also been mining for gold."
2013-11-20,"Teenage poet, Islam critic, assaulted in Denmark. In his poetry he claims [Islam] is a culture of hypocrisy underpinning Denmark's Muslim population ""Can one not speak freely without being attacked?"""
2013-11-20,"Poor countries walk out of Warsaw climate conference after rich nations refuse to discuss climate change recompense until after 2015 - Orchestrated exit came during talks about ""loss & damage"" - how countries should respond to climate impacts like typhoon Haiyan"
2013-11-20,"Pot Legalization in Morocco: ""Even the Islamist Party of Justice and Development has cautiously welcomed the draft proposals -- presumably because the party is mindful that it now occupies a minority presence in the cabinet and could benefit from going with the flow."""
2013-11-20,Gunmen Open Fire Outside Moscows Most Popular Gay Club
2013-11-20,Rape fear keeps US students out of India: Nancy Powell
2013-11-20,Stuxnet's Secret Twin-- The real program to sabotage Iran's nuclear facilities was far more sophisticated than anyone realized.
2013-11-20,"The battery storage system that could close down coal power. Company says these systems can substitute 10 times the capacity from conventional generation  coal, nuclear and gas  and at a fraction of the cost. A"
2013-11-20,Norwegian army goes veggie to save climate
2013-11-20,"LG TV sends your viewing habits and names of files you screen to its home servers, even if you tell it not to"
2013-11-20,"Britain's GCHQ 'The Brains,' America's NSA 'The Money' Behind Spy Alliance"
2013-11-20,"Vatican unveils restored catacomb with frescoes showing 'female priests.' Women depicted in scenes show they were priests, say activists; they were just praying like everyone else, says Holy See"
2013-11-20,"Germans jail Nato spy for seven years for taking the ""crown jewels"" of data"
2013-11-20,Indonesia 'downgrades' relationship with Australia
2013-11-20,German court chides Google over its vague privacy policy and terms
2013-11-20,"Underworld exploitation of Bitcoin: 'Assassination Market' website raising the online virtual currency to hire assassins that target key US figures revealed. Those allegedly targeted on the site include Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, President Obama and NSA director Keith Alexander."
2013-11-20,Koreas newly-elected President wants to ban gaming
2013-11-20,"Norway's military intelligence chief has admitted his country spies on millions of phone calls in conflict areas around the world and shares that data with allies, including the United States"
2013-11-20,"JPMorgans Fruitful Ties to a Member of Chinas Elite: ""While many Hong Kong investment bankers were earning as much as $250,000 a year, JPMorgan paid Ms. Wens firm $900,000 annually from 2006 to 2008, records show, for a total of $1.8 million."""
2013-11-19,"Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer to clean streets. The imaginative approach to the problem of anti-social behaviour demonstrates typical Dutch pragmatism which could be found shocking in other countries, but not here."
2013-11-19,"NSA recorded more than 30 million phone calls made in its Nato ally Norway, in the latest Snowden revelations. ""It is unacceptable,"" says Norway's Justice Minister. ""A crime under Norwegian law,"" says head of telecoms regulator."
2013-11-19,"Insulting a police officer in Spain could result in a30,000 ($40,500) fine while protesting outside Parliament could mean a 600,000 penalty if tough new security laws get passed today."
2013-11-19,"Embarrassed husbands will have to discuss plans to watch online porn with their wives, says David Cameron"
2013-11-19,'Syria is not a revolution any more  this is civil war'
2013-11-19,Mayor Rob Ford stripped of Toronto powers after heated council vote
2013-11-19,"Norway NSA surveillance: ""We did this"", say Norwegian intelligence services. Information was gathered legally by Norwegian intelligence and voluntarily shared with partners, among others the NSA"
2013-11-19,"Private firms selling mass surveillance systems around world, documents show"
2013-11-19,Corrupt Bank Officials Get Death Sentence in Vietnam
2013-11-19,"""Germany has turned into a giant brothel and even a destination for European sex tourism. The best guess is that Germany has about 400,000 prostitutes catering to 1M men a day."""
2013-11-19,"Australia worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations - Country has failed to consistently decrease its emissions, faring poorly in a global climate report"
2013-11-19,Corrupt Bank Officials Get Death Sentence in Vietnam
2013-11-19,"NSA surveillance hinders Iceland's attempts to be a haven for free speech: 'It is obvious that it doesnt matter if we have the best source protection laws in the world,' says Icelandic MP"
2013-11-19,The Accidental Vagina: Design for Qatar's first 2022 World Cup stadium released
2013-11-19,Russian Skinheads Abuse Gays and Post Videos to Social Networks
2013-11-19,"Surveillance technology out of control, says Lord Ashdown | World news"
2013-11-19,"""Blood Avocados"": The Dark Side of Your Guacamole - Mexican Drug Cartel ""The Knights Templar"" Has Taken Control Of The Industry In Mexico"
2013-11-19,Seven people reported killed in explosion near Iranian embassy in Beirut
2013-11-19,Sisters in Nova Scotia are asking the Government to ban internet porn in Canada to protect children.
2013-11-19,A nightclub in one of Switzerland's biggest cities has banned hip hop after 70 riot police were called to quell a brawl amongst devotees of the music form
2013-11-19,"In Germany, legacy of Stasi puts different perspective on NSA spying"
2013-11-19,Venezuelan army occupies white goods shops as punishment for 'profiteering'
2013-11-19,Monty Python reunion planned for new stage show
2013-11-19,"Hong Kong Is Sitting On 30 Tons Of Ivory and Has No Plans to Destroy It. While other countries have destroyed confiscated tusks, Hong Kong stockpiles an ivory mountain. Conservationists say it must be incinerated to send the right message."
2013-11-19,"Massive explosion hits southern Beirut, Lebanon; possible target: Iranian embassy"
2013-11-18,"Rape porn possession to be punished by three years in jail, David Cameron to announce"
2013-11-18,BBC News - Huge bomb hits Syria government site
2013-11-18,"Boris Johnson says super-rich are put-upon minority like homeless people and Irish travellers. Mayor says wealthiest should get automatic knighthoods and our humble thanks, in comments deemed deeply offensive by London Assembly's Labour group."
2013-11-18,"A Boeing 737 has crashed landed in the Russian city of Kazan, killing all 44 passengers on board."
2013-11-18,Volcanic activity detected under Antarctica
2013-11-18,Ireland becomes first euro country to quit bailout programme
2013-11-18,"We owe it to Snowden to not forget him while he is in Moscow when he has dedicated himself to exposing truth,"" - German university seeks honorary doctorate, also given to Einstein, for Snowden."
2013-11-18,Snowden cache reveals diplomats' hotel bookings being tracked by GCHQ
2013-11-18,An unprecedented public appearance by UK spy chiefs has been labelled a total pantomime after it emerged that they were told of questions in advance.
2013-11-18,"Threat from NSA leaks may have been overstated by UK, says Lord Falconer - Ex-lord chancellor defends Guardian reporting of Snowden files and says he's sceptical of warnings from spy agency chiefs"
2013-11-18,"Docs Reveal CIA-Guadalajara Cartel Link, Not Conspiracy"
2013-11-18,"Qatar 2022 World Cup workers 'treated like cattle', Amnesty report finds. Fresh fears raised about exploitation after Fifa president declares country 'on right track' over migrant labourers' rights."
2013-11-18,Uruguays First Lady and Senator Affirms Drug War Is Lost
2013-11-18,Australian Prime Minister lines up with Canada to Oppose Climate Change Fund for poor nations at Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
2013-11-18,"Nigeria:Muslim Rebel group ""Boko Haram"" seizing slave 'brides' in Nigeria. ""I can't sleep when I think of being there... If I cried, they beat me. If I spoke, they beat me. """
2013-11-18,44 feared dead as passenger jet crashes in central Russia
2013-11-18,"Australia's worst pedophile Catholic priests, Gerald Ridsdale, 79, pleaded guilty to 30 new child sexual assault charges. Previously convicted of 31 cases from 1961 - 1988. Magistrate Ian Alger struck out another 54 charges."
2013-11-18,Indonesia recalls its ambassador to Australia after spying leak
2013-11-18,Amnesty report on Qatar exposes 'grim' abuse of migrant workers
2013-11-18,Rob Ford tells Fox he wants to be prime minister
2013-11-18,"In light of the Chess World Championship match between Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and Indian Viswanathan Anand, a Norwegian newspaper is organizing a online chess game: Norway vs. the world. Anyone can open the page and vote for the next move. IP address determine which team you play for:"
2013-11-18,Vigilantes seize town in western Mexico
2013-11-18,Champion free diver Nicholas Mevoli dies trying for new record
2013-11-18,City of Vancouver bans doorknobs
2013-11-18,"Australia spied on Indonesian president, leaked Snowden documents reveal"
2013-11-17,TV presenter Melissa Bachman causes outrage after posing with lion she killed in South Africa
2013-11-17,"Mayor Rob Ford gave every member of his staff a $5,000 raise on Friday"
2013-11-17,UN envoy 'shocked' by UK's 'unacceptable' persecution of The Guardian over Snowden leaks
2013-11-17,"BBC News - The damage to China's international reputation is significant: ""It's very hard to call for de-Americanisation and then leave your wallet at home when there's a human disaster the scale of the typhoon in the Philippines."""
2013-11-17,NSA Asked Linus Torvalds To Install Backdoors Into GNU/Linux
2013-11-17,Months of Occupations Pay Off: Bangladeshi Garment Workers Win a 77% Pay Raise
2013-11-17,"David Cameron Calls For Capitalism Lessons In Schools To Celebrate Profits In The Classroom: ""The PM [Prime Minister] said he wanted a 'fundamental change' in attitudes to money making and called for a culture 'that values that typically British, entrepreneurial, buccaneering spirit'"""
2013-11-17,British Paratroopers Will Help Train Kenyan Rangers To Fight Off Illegal Elephant Poachers
2013-11-17,"""No tyranny lasts forever,"" Mongolian president said in N. Korea"
2013-11-17,Mafia Accused of Causing Deaths: Tens of Thousands Protest in Naples Against Mafia's Toxic Waste Dumping - Demonstrators carried photos of relatives they say died of cancer as a result of the pollution. Some 10 million tons of industrial waste dumped in area over 20 yrs.
2013-11-17,"Slammed for being stingy, China boosts aid to Philippines"
2013-11-17,"Huge Climate Rallies Held Across Australia - Labor & Greens join firefighters & activists in protests against Coalition plan to repeal carbon tax. ""In Australia, there's an atmosphere of denialism & scepticism. So many in our media & so many of our politicians deny the science is settled."""
2013-11-17,UK prime minister rejects call from public health expert to lower age of sexual consent to 15.
2013-11-17,"Mavis Batey, Bletchley Park code breaker in World War II, dies at 92"
2013-11-17,"""I will not give anything back"" - Reclusive son of Nazi art dealer wants to keep looted paintings found hidden in his flat"
2013-11-17,UK expert calls for lowering of the age of sexual consent to 15
2013-11-17,"Scientists Find World's Most Irreplaceable Protected Places for Threatened Species - Colombias 'Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta National Park' tops list. Biggest threat is deforestation. Indigenous communities have helped to preserve it, but they're threatened by disease, poverty & armed conflict."
2013-11-17,Report: Mossad working with Saudis on contingency plans for potential attack on Iran
2013-11-17,"CIA, Pentagon trying to hinder construction of GLONASS stations in US"
2013-11-17,Bloomberg News Fires Reporter Suspected of Leaking Its Self-Censorship on China
2013-11-17,"Huge storm rages over Finland - 200,000 households without power"
2013-11-17,US soldier charged with murdering Iraqis
2013-11-17,"NASA:The robotic explorer called Maven is due to blast off Monday on a 10-month journey to the red planet. There, it will orbit Mars and study the atmosphere to try to understand how the planet morphed from warm and wet to cold and dry."
2013-11-17,"'Royal Concierge': GCHQ Monitors Hotel Reservations To Track Diplomats -- ""Britain's GCHQ intelligence service monitors diplomats' travels using a sophisticated automated system that tracks hotel bookings. Once a room has been identified, it opens the door to a variety of spying options."""
2013-11-17,Ireland to exit Europe's emergency room
2013-11-16,Vietnamese banker sentenced to death for fraud
2013-11-16,LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years in jail for leaking Stratfor emails
2013-11-16,Indian politician warns tribal voters that they will get an electric shock from the voting machine if they press any button other than the one for his party
2013-11-16,India buys third aircraft carrier amid rivalry with China. Refurbished Soviet-era vessel purchased for 1.4bn as India modernizes military to counterbalance Chinese expansion.
2013-11-16,"UK's reputation is damaged by reaction to Edward Snowden, says UN official"
2013-11-16,"Part of Nazca Lines Destroyed by Machinery Near Ica, Peru - 'Invaders"" have taken over 2 big tracts of protected land. Several groups of lines & trapezoid shapes have been destroyed. Occupiers have built a stone fence & divided the territory into lots, as well as vandalized it."
2013-11-16,Germany Says No To Weaponized Drones
2013-11-16,Saudi diplomat made two women work like slaves in London home.
2013-11-16,"Between 2,000 and 4,000 freight trucks have closed off major French highways and slowed traffic to a crawl on nine roadways to protest a proposed environmental tax on heavy loads."
2013-11-16,Wikileaks releases all the Stratfor files following Hammond's sentencing
2013-11-16,"34 Dead, 300 Wounded in Tripoli attack by militia on peaceful Protesters"
2013-11-16,Rare albino kangaroo sighted in Australia
2013-11-16,Fighters from an al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebel group beheaded an allied commander whom they mistook for a pro-government fighter
2013-11-16,Christians 'face extinction' amid sectarian terror; There are parts of the world today where to be a Christian is to put your life in danger.
2013-11-16,JPMorgan's rogue trader refuses extradition to US where he faces criminal charges for $6.2 billion 'London Whale' fraud scandal.
2013-11-16,"Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad have firmly seized the momentum in the country's civil war in recent weeks, capturing one rebel stronghold after another and triumphantly planting the two-starred Syrian government flag amid shattered buildings and rubble-strewn streets"
2013-11-16,"Afghanistan: The rise of a narco state. 2013 has been an all-time record year for Afghan poppy farmers, according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)."
2013-11-16,'Muslim Brotherhood' protesters storm London university lecture on Egypt
2013-11-16,"Malaysia:Muslim group Jati has declared war against NGos for its alleged attempts to turn Malaysia into a liberal country in the name of human rights. And their most rude demand is to call for the repeal of the Syariah law"""
2013-11-16,"China Reforms One-Child Policy, First Time in 30 Years"
2013-11-16,Four suspected Syria jihadists arrested in France
2013-11-16,Hammond: FBI directed my attacks on foreign government sites. Anonymous hacktivist told court FBI informant and fellow hacker Sabu supplied him with list of countries vulnerable to cyber-attack.
2013-11-16,IAEA: Iran has halted most nuclear expansion
2013-11-16,"Venezuelas legislature has voted to back President Nicolas Maduro's bid to rule by decree, a measure which would give him expanded powers over the economy"
2013-11-16,Last-line antibiotics losing ability to kill superbugs
2013-11-15,'What's it like working with Mexican drug cartels?' Banking giant JPMorgan cancels Twitter Q&A after thousands of abusive tweets
2013-11-15,"The world's oceans are becoming acidic at an ""unprecedented rate"" and may be souring more rapidly than at any time in the past 300 million years"
2013-11-15,China's aid to Philippines dwarfed by Ikea - China is the world's second largest economy and closer to the Philippines than other major donors. Yet the $1.6 million in aid it pledged was less than the check written by Swedish furniture store Ikea.
2013-11-15,NSA files: New York Times defends the Guardian's Snowden leaks.
2013-11-15,"Councils in Britain to be given powers to ban peaceful protests that might disturb local residents - Anger mounts at shockingly open-ended Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill that could also see youngsters banned from skateboarding, forbid teenagers from using local parks"
2013-11-15,Embarrassment after embarrassment for Australia at Warsaw climate change meeting
2013-11-15,The Central Intelligence Agency is secretly collecting bulk records of international money transfers handled by companies like Western Union  including transactions into and out of the United States
2013-11-15,Al-Qaeda-linked rebels apologise after cutting off head of wrong person
2013-11-15,The Most Nefarious Part Of The TPP Proposal: Making Copyright Reform Impossible
2013-11-15,"JPMorgan allegedly paid $80,000 a month to Wen Jiabao's daughter"
2013-11-15,Bangladeshi Garment Workers win a 77% pay rise following a four day shutdown of hundreds of factories and a series of violent confrontations involving tens of thousands.
2013-11-15,"Forest change mapped by Google Earth - From 2010 to 2012, the Earth lost a combined ""forest"" the size of Mongolia, enough trees to cover the UK six times."
2013-11-15,China plans to loosen one-child policy and abolish labour camps.
2013-11-15,A French footballer has been held against his will in Qatar for two years due to controversial labour laws - he has now written to former World Cup 2022 ambassadors Zinedine Zidane and Pep Guardiola to ask for their help
2013-11-15,"Mexicos meth country is totally tweaking out. In Michoacans meth heartland, a drug gang has gone medieval, militias are up in arms, and the government has put boots on the ground."
2013-11-15,"Oslo Hells Angels invite locals into clubhouse for mulled wine and ginger biscuits. ""You will have the opportunity to look around, and since it's Christmas, we will probably serve mulled wine and ginger biscuits too,"" says Rune Olsgaard, the group's spokesman"
2013-11-15,Germany flies 70 tonnes of aid to Philippines
2013-11-15,"NY Court Rules Ancient Gold Tablet Belongs to Berlin, not Holocaust Survivors Heirs - Assyrian tablet found in Iraq by German archaeologists went on display in 1934 & disappeared at start of WWII. Holocaust survivor says he traded cigarettes for it with a Russian soldier."
2013-11-15,"A Pacifist at War: In the embattled region of eastern Congo, the United Nations is deploying a real combat brigade for the first time. It's being led by a German pacifist who believes peacekeeping sometimes requires the use of military force. His approach appears to be working"
2013-11-15,Fukushima: 8 news cases of children with thyroid cancer in last two months. Now 59 cases. Schools using Water Bottles to Shield Students
2013-11-15,"A Green Pope? Pope to write encyclical (doctrinal statement) about ""nature, humans and environmental pollution"", appears in photo holding item with anti-fracking statement"
2013-11-15,"A BBC investigation has revealed concerns that young girls are being brought to Scotland to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) because the country is seen as a ""soft touch""."
2013-11-15,CIA spills Camp David secrets on 1978 Egyptian-Israeli agreement - Declassified documents reveal how US intelligence helped Jimmy Carter strike a Middle Eastern bargain
2013-11-15,"First ever American ballerina to join the Bolshoi has quit, accusing the theater of extortion"
2013-11-15,Germany: Ally and Accomplice in U.S. Secret War on Terror
2013-11-14,"Indian train strikes herd of 40 elephants crossing tracks - 7, including 2 calves, killed, 10 others seriously injured & death toll expected to rise in worst such crash in recent memory. Railways have ignored requests to reduce train speeds inside the famed elephant corridor."
2013-11-14,UK Government caught deleting archive of past speeches from internet
2013-11-14,"341 people arrested, 386 children rescued in massive anti-paedophile ring operation (bbcnews)"
2013-11-14,"""We categorically reject illegal killings by drones"" - Germany gives up on armed drones"
2013-11-14,Jailed Pussy Riot singer 'found in hospital'
2013-11-14,US blocks publication of Chilcots report on how Britain went to war with Iraq
2013-11-14,World's oldest creature was 507...but scientists killed it
2013-11-14,Trans-Pacific Partnership Leak Confirms the Worst: An anti-user wishlist of industry-friendly policies
2013-11-14,Denmark surpasses 100 percent wind power
2013-11-14,"Police tried to spy on Cambridge students, secret footage shows: Officer is filmed attempting to persuade activist in his 20s to become informant targeting 'student-union type stuff'"
2013-11-14,JPMorgan cancels Twitter Q&A after tirade of abuse
2013-11-14,"Pope Francis: his life is in danger from 'ndrangheta, warns anti-mafia judge. Crackdown on financial corruption in Vatican has angered brutal crime syndicate, says Nicola Gratteri."
2013-11-14,"Singles Day in China, when billions are spent online and millions look for a mate."
2013-11-14,Secret Trade Pact Will Spread U.S. Copyright Rules Abroad
2013-11-14,"Mafia are considering assassinating the Pope in response to his anti-corruption sermons, warns leading Italian prosecutor"
2013-11-14,"TPP IP Chapter Leaked, Confirming It's Worse Than ACTA"
2013-11-14,New life found in Nasa's spacecraft clean rooms
2013-11-14,Unreached typhoon victims create huge SOS for help
2013-11-14,Asia is in the grip of a diabetes epidemic
2013-11-14,"Napoleon Death Mask Blocked from Export - It was sold for 175,000 to an overseas buyer earlier this year by a descendant of the brother of its original owner. It has a power & immediacy that raises the hairs on the back of the neck."
2013-11-14,"NZ lawyer gives advice to rape victim, says you should have closed your legs"
2013-11-14,"Rob Ford admits to buying illegal drugs as mayor, threatens city councillor during ugly debate on his future"
2013-11-14,WikiLeaks publishes secret draft of Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty
2013-11-14,Sweden's Ice Hotel told to get fire alarms
2013-11-14,TPP Uncovered: WikiLeaks releases draft of highly-secretive multi-national trade deal
2013-11-13,WikiLeaks releases the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter.
2013-11-13,"Author Of The PATRIOT Act Goes To EU Parliament To Admit Congress Failed, And The NSA Is Out Of Control"
2013-11-13,Wars are becoming less frequent. Life expectancy has more than doubled in the past century. More children than ever are going to primary school. The world is better than it has ever been.
2013-11-13,"UK spy found dead in bag probably locked himself inside, according to London police"
2013-11-13,/r/worldnews fundraising campaign for Typhoon Haiyan Relief
2013-11-13,They never forgot: Japan returns favor to the Philippines
2013-11-13,Wikileaks exposes secret TPP trade negotiations
2013-11-13,Here's David Cameron Calling For Permanent Austerity In Front Of All Kinds Of Ridiculous Gold Things
2013-11-13,A 270 sq mile iceberg has broken off Antarctica.
2013-11-13,"White House blasts new sanctions against Iran as US Congress 'marching to war'. Says the ""American people do not want a march to war."""
2013-11-13,"A Danish church minister has argued for the abolition of the country's blasphemy law saying it undermines democracy by limiting free speech, abuses human rights and no longer serves any purpose"
2013-11-13,"A band of Islamic vigilantes has admitted to roaming the streets of East London, confronting and threatening to kill non-believers in an effort to enforce Sharia law."
2013-11-13,"A Vietnam court will consider the death penalty for two former executives if theyre convicted in a $25 million fraud scheme, signaling an aggressive stance as leaders seek to clean up the banking system."
2013-11-13,"A camera trap in a forest in central Vietnam has managed to snap a photo of one of earths rarest mammals, the saola, which hadnt been seen in 15 years."
2013-11-13,Putin receives his ninth degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do
2013-11-13,"""In public the Australian government is on the side of consumers. Yet behind closed doors it is siding with the US government to block them turn after turn."""
2013-11-13,A 16 year old palestinian stabs an Israeli soldier to death in a bus stop in Israel
2013-11-13,"Quebec's controversial Bill 60 would ban public servants from wearing religious symbols, such as headscarves, yarmulkes or crucifixes."
2013-11-13,"China, Russia, Cuba, Saudi Arabia win UN human rights council seats"
2013-11-13,Afghanistan opium harvest hits record high
2013-11-13,"The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Turkey to pay 2.3 million euros to victims of the bombing of two Kurdish villages in 1994.  Turkey was found guilty of the attack, having blamed it on Kurdish separatists."
2013-11-13,"China to spend only $100K on Philippines relief: ""It was impossible to separate China's anger over territorial claims from the question of disaster relief."""
2013-11-13,"EU citizenship for sale: Maltas parliament approved a controversial bill allowing people to buy Maltese citizenship, including a Maltese passport and access to the EUs Schengen Area, for 650,000"
2013-11-13,16-Year-Old Palestinian Stabs to Death Israeli Soldier Sleeping on Bus
2013-11-13,Philippine president urges countries to have moral responsibility to end climate change
2013-11-12,An eight-year-old girl in China is the youngest living person to be diagnosed with lung cancer attributed to pollution.
2013-11-12,"""I am a decent person. But if you have not eaten in 3 days, you do shameful things to survive""-- Tormented typhoon victims scour for food."
2013-11-12,"Member of U.S. Army National Guard's Tactical Human Intelligence Team commits suicide; his suicide note says he was forced to commit ""war crimes, crimes against humanity"" in Iraq"
2013-11-12,Spain toughens up new 'sun tax' law. Homes can now be searched for illegal solar panels without warrant and offenders fined up to 60million ($80 million).
2013-11-12,Mathematically-improbable voting pattern proves fraud in Philippine polls
2013-11-12,Snowden asks Germany to support him against US 'persecution'
2013-11-12,Norway to introduce new regulations on circumcision. Ban on under 18 circumcision a possibility.
2013-11-12,"To ride the Moscow subway for free, do 30 squats"
2013-11-12,South Korea has five times as many credit cards as people and more debt per capita than any other nation on earth
2013-11-12,The Lies Shell is Telling About Oil Spills in the Niger Delta
2013-11-12,"Neuchatel is the first canton in Switzerland to set a minimum wage  more than $21 an hour, virtually three times the US federal minimum  but hardly anyone will be affected because 97% of the canton's residents are already earning more than that."
2013-11-12,"Renault Introduces DRM For Cars: 'When you buy a Renault Zoe, the battery isn't included. Instead, you sign a rental contract for the battery with the car maker... the contract contains a clause giving Renault the right to prevent your battery from charging at the end of the rental period.'"
2013-11-12,$4.1M goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL vanishes.
2013-11-12,International Space Station Infected With USB Stick Malware Carried on Board by Russian Astronauts
2013-11-12,"Theresa May, Britain's Home Secretary plans new powers to make British terror suspects stateless - Home secretary working on legislation allowing removal of UK passport from suspects even if they have no other citizenship"
2013-11-12,"Ukraine's Genocide by Famine - Eighty years later, there's no denying the Soviet atrocity."
2013-11-12,"In Afghanistan, interpreters who helped U.S. in war denied visas; U.S. says they face no threat"
2013-11-12,Hundreds of Buddhists are marching through the streets of Burma's biggest city to protest against an upcoming visit by a high-level delegation from the world's biggest Islamic political bloc.
2013-11-12,"Russia can seize assets of President Vladimir Putin's most prominent critic, a Moscow court ruled on Tuesday, in connection with embezzlement charges that the activist says is an attempt by the authorities to intimidate opponents."
2013-11-12,Want to Have a Happy Planet? Just Ask Costa Ricans About Their Banks
2013-11-12,"US Sec State John Kerry: Iran talks came 'extremely close' to deal. ""We haven't been speaking for 35 years... we just talked more in 30 hours than we have in those prior 30 years."""
2013-11-12,"NSA's Vast Surveillance Powers Extend Far Beyond Counterterrorism, Despite Misleading US Government Claims: the truth is that counterterrorism is only a fraction of their far broader authority to seek foreign intelligence information"
2013-11-12,Why creating memes is illegal in Australia
2013-11-12,Australian sees evidence of Telstra/NSA hacking on his phone - a year before the Snowden leaks (X-Post r/australia)
2013-11-12,U.S. Marines Bringing Typhoon Aid to Philippine Shores
2013-11-11,Hundreds turn out for funeral of WWII veteran held on Remembrance Day following successful online campaign as the man had no family.
2013-11-11,Iran's deputy minister assassinated
2013-11-11,Wealth of worlds billionaires doubles since 2009
2013-11-11,Sweden to close prisons due to lack of criminals [google translate]
2013-11-11,A sickening video of a man in Lebanon microwaving a cat has sparked outrage and calls for stricter animal cruelty laws in the region.
2013-11-11,"Zoologists hunting Tasmanian tiger declare 'no doubt' species still alive - Team claims that it has 'highly credible' witnesses & has found animal faeces that could belong to the extinct thylacine, last known one dying in a zoo in 1936."
2013-11-11,'Worse than hell' in typhoon-ravaged Philippines (PHOTOS)
2013-11-11,"John McCain says NSA chief Keith Alexander 'should resign or be fired'. Senator gives interview to Der Spiegel, saying general should 'be held accountable' for Edward Snowden leaks."
2013-11-11,"'Israel will attack Iran if you sign the deal, French MP told Fabius'"
2013-11-11,"How the NSA and GCHQ Spied on OPEC: America's NSA and Britain's GCHQ are both spying on the OPEC oil cartel, documents from whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal. The security of the global energy supply is one of the most important issues for the intelligence agencies."
2013-11-11,"Israel OKs demolishing Bedouin village, replacing it with a Jewish town"
2013-11-11,Sir John Major attacks 'truly shocking' privilege of privately educated elite
2013-11-11,"Greece intercepts mystery ship with 20,000 Kalashnikovs onboard"
2013-11-11,North Korea holds simultaneous executions of 80 in seven cities.
2013-11-11,Copyright Extension Goes Into Effect In The UK: More Works Stolen From The Public Domain
2013-11-11,Mass Surveillance Violates EU Law
2013-11-11,"Vatican gives $150,000 in emergency aid to Philippines"
2013-11-11,Sounds like a good plan: UK legal-aid Lawyers to earn higher fees for early guilty pleas
2013-11-11,Moscow: Protester nails testicles to Red Square cobblestone
2013-11-11,"Thousands of workers demanding higher pay hurled rocks and sticks at clothing factories and clashed with police who used tear gas against them Monday, bringing fresh scrutiny to working conditions in Bangladesh's garment industry. At least 30 people were reported wounded"
2013-11-11,"Tensions between Shia and Sunnis Muslims are probably the most serious threat to world security, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohamed Zarif tells the BBC"
2013-11-11,"Irans signs agreement with IAEA to allow broader inspections of nuclear sites: Iran signed an agreement on Monday with the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency in which it pledged to allow greater access to some of its nuclear sites, U.N. and Iranian officials said."
2013-11-11,"UK spies continue quantum insert attack via LinkedIn, Slashdot pages"
2013-11-11,"Peru Uses Climate Twist to Lure Tourists to Shrinking Glacier - It was so bright with ice & snow that sunglasses were mandatory. In less than 20 yrs, it's shrunk in 1/2, climbing banned. It's being rebranded as a place to see climate change in action."
2013-11-11,"North Korea publicly executes 80 people earlier this month, many for watching smuggled South Korean TV shows, a South Korean newspaper reported Monday"
2013-11-10,"Philippines estimates at least 10,000 died from super typhoon"
2013-11-10,Traffic lights utilizing 'game theory' successfully reduce gridlock in downtown Toronto by up to 40%.
2013-11-10,[Ex-post r/ainbow] First Lady Of Zambia Stuns The Continent By Calling For An End To Homophobia
2013-11-10,Homosexuality is illegal in 41 out of 53 Commonwealth countries
2013-11-10,"NSA leaks on Canadian surveillance coming, Greenwald says"
2013-11-10,Swedish Security Service (SPO) wants to intercept all mobile traffic without any search warrant at any time
2013-11-10,"Switzerland Mulls Giving Every Citizen $33,000 a year"
2013-11-10,At least 30 journalists currently are reported missing while covering Syria's civil war. The widespread abduction of journalists is unprecedented. Many have gone unreported in hope that keeping the kidnappings out of public view may help to negotiate the captives' release.
2013-11-10,"Polish Church Officials: Child Sex Abuse Victims were Looking for Love and Fulfillment, Made Conscious Decision to Have Sex with Priests"
2013-11-10,"Spanish police arrest 25, free 5 women, while uncovering Nigerian sex slave ring"
2013-11-10,"MafiaLeaks promises whistleblowers safety from the Family. A group of Italian volunteers have launched a site to encourage victims of the mafia, as well as whistleblowers within the organisations, to come forward with incriminating information."
2013-11-10,"1st Line of Beowulf Misunderstood for 200 Yrs - University of Manchester lecturer discovers famous line of English languages oldest epic poem misinterpreted. ""The true meaning now has a biographical feel, giving us a sense of how the writer attaches importance to his communitys history."
2013-11-10,"Non-profit wins $300,000 Google prize to make India's first open-defecation free city"
2013-11-10,"The world is spending half a trillion dollars on fossil fuel subsidies every year, according to a new report by the Overseas Development Institute - seven times more supporting coal, oil and gas than on helping poorer nations fight climate change"
2013-11-10,Veteran reporter Paul Mooney wont receive China visa renewal after covering Beijing for 18 years. Government withholding visas as leverage against negative western coverage.
2013-11-10,"Al-Qaeda in Syria raids wedding party, warns against music and singing"
2013-11-10,Venezuelan military seizes major retail chain
2013-11-10,Earthquake in Tokyo
2013-11-10,Google engineers offer the NSA 'a giant F*** You'
2013-11-10,"Iranians angry and bewildered after French torpedo Geneva nuclear entente - France should replace US as le grand satan, joke some inside Iran after Paris defies Washington and blocks stopgap deal"
2013-11-10,Students Detained For Protesting Turkish PM Erdogan
2013-11-10,Ships Washed Ashore by Typhoon Haiyan in Philippines
2013-11-10,U.S. aid on the way to devastated areas of Philippines
2013-11-10,Arctic 30 protester: My little girl will have forgotten who I am if I get out of here in seven years: the plight of the Arctic 30 in their eighth week of imprisonment in Russia
2013-11-10,Dropping the bomb: Saudi Arabia invested in Pakistan's nuclear weapons program
2013-11-09,Mexico Mayor killed for 'standing up to drugs cartel'
2013-11-09,"Myanmar is preparing to adopt the Metric system, leaving USA and Liberia as the only two countries failing to metricate."
2013-11-09,Malala Yousufzais recent book I am Malala will be banned completely due to its controversial contents in all private schools across all the Pakistan
2013-11-09,"Greek coastguard halts ship carrying 20,000 Kalashnikovs, places Turkish captain in custody"
2013-11-09,"Man is given 39 life sentences + 212 years for multiple rapes, sexual assault, kidnapping and theft."
2013-11-09,"Typhoon Haiyan makes Sandy, Katrina look like weak cousins. Might be the fiercest typhoon in recorded history - winds of 195 to 235mph"
2013-11-09,"""There, outside the bus, just a few dozen meters away is the real dead zone, a place where it is still far too dangerous for anyone to go. No human has been inside reactor three since the disaster. To do so would be suicide. No-one knows when it will be possible to go in."""
2013-11-09,Five people detained in Romania for planing to kidnap an 14 year-old boy. The boy was set to marry an 8 year-old girl.
2013-11-09,Smoggy Beijing sees lung cancer cases soar
2013-11-09,"Philippines: 'bodies in the streets', with many feared dead in typhoon Haiyan. Reports from worst-hit areas suggest the death toll will rise significantly as storm's passing reveals scale of damage."
2013-11-09,Critically endangered species in Sumatra on the road to extinction: Some of the world's most vulnerable creatures could be wiped out if a highway through the Haparan rainforest is approved
2013-11-09,"The Kremlin Is Losing Control of the Nationalist Movement It Helped Create. Russian nationalism, with its dangerous xenophobic overtones, is now spreading to the country's 'silent majority.'"
2013-11-09,"Vigilante ranchers, fruit growers kick out brutal drug cartel in western Mexican state"
2013-11-09,Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger to face MPs over Edward Snowden intelligence leaks
2013-11-09,"Rickets Making Comeback In The UK, Doctors Say"
2013-11-09,Oil prices may plunge if Iran gets a nuclear deal
2013-11-09,"Images of the persecuted stateless Rohingya people are currently being projected onto the outside walls of the Washington Holocaust Memorial Museum, Myanmar calls the display ""inappropriate""."
2013-11-09,Right Wings Surge in Europe Has the Establishment Rattled
2013-11-09,"100 bodies have been spotted by aviation official in the streets of the city of Tacloban, Philippines. Death toll feared to be much higher"
2013-11-09,Anger after Chinese delegate to Melbourne charged with rape of student Song Jingsong was charged with raping an Australian university student guide in August
2013-11-09,"Why 140,000 Chinese people want to kick out CNN"
2013-11-09,U.S. Ambassadors letter from former Japan Ambassador: Worsening radioactive contamination of the sea will soon awaken whole world
2013-11-09,Chinese Obtain 80% of Portugal Visas Given to Property Investors
2013-11-09,Philippines Typhoon Haiyan: 'Most people hid in their closets'
2013-11-09,Bill Gates: What I Learned in India's Fight Against Polio - India's success in eradicating polio offers lessons for solving other human welfare issues world-wide
2013-11-08,$62k USD reward offered for WikiLeaks to obtain and publish secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Argeement 12 nation internet-trade deal
2013-11-08,"U.S., Israel lose UNESCO voting rights"
2013-11-08,"Supreme Court of Canada finds gov't must get distinct warrant to search a computer found with a search warrant: ""It is difficult to imagine a more intrusive invasion of privacy than the search of a personal or home computer."""
2013-11-08,"German Trust in United States Plummets ""The NSA spying scandals have taken a toll on Germans' opinion of their longtime ally, according to a new survey. Mistrust in the United States has skyrocketed, and more Germans are viewing whistleblower Edward Snowden as a hero."""
2013-11-08,Woman who cried wolf about rape may have to face her victim in court
2013-11-08,Creator of the World Wide Web - Sir Tim Berners-Lee slams governments for 'seriously spying' on the Internet
2013-11-08,Video emerging from The Philippines as Typhoon Haiyan comes ashore with winds reaching 378 km/h.
2013-11-08,"Super Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms ever seen, heads for Philippines."
2013-11-08,Royal Marine found guilty of 'executing' Afghan insurgent
2013-11-08,Snowden persuaded other NSA workers to give up passwords
2013-11-08,Only a few weeks until internet surveillance starts in Norway to prevent piracy. (Google translated Norwegian page)
2013-11-08,"How telcos 'collude' with the NSA and GCHQ: Google and Yahoo were quick to condemn the NSA for spying on their customers, but telecom firms remained conspicuously silent - and for good reason. Privacy International has filed a complaint against them with the OECD."
2013-11-08,The Philippines are about to get wrecked by one of the strongest storms in history.
2013-11-08,Coca-Cola vows to axe suppliers guilty of land grabbing. Coca-Cola has said it will cut off suppliers that do not follow guidelines to protect the land rights of local communities in developing countries.
2013-11-08,Former Garment Worker Fights to Unionize Walmart's Near-Slave Labor in Bangladesh
2013-11-08,NYT: West and Iran on the verge of Nuclear agreement. Kerry called unexpectedly to Geneva.
2013-11-08,Arafat Poisoning: Israel Is 'Only Suspect'
2013-11-08,Universities cancel Muslim clerics speaking tour over concerns about his anti-gay views
2013-11-08,Japan's Offshore Wind Power Rises within Sight of Fukushima Nuclear Plant - Unique turbines that float on the surface rather than rest on the seafloor can be placed in deeper waters
2013-11-08,Israel 'utterly rejects' potential Iran nuclear deal; Kerry heads to talks in Geneva
2013-11-08,The Guardian: Oil traders claim crude prices fixed
2013-11-08,Europe decides to open up clinical data but one of world's biggest pharma companies wants to keep their trials secret. Here's why
2013-11-08,"Japans military is stationing unarmed missiles on islands that mark the gateway to the Pacific, officials said Thursday, as part of a major drill that has made China nervous."
2013-11-08,Pressured to work for MI5. British intelligence agencies have a strange recruitment campaign among Britains young Muslims.
2013-11-08,"Put out more flags, says Putin in patriotism drive. In a new appeal to conservative values and voters as he tries to lift his popularity ratings, Putin also criticized the use of foreign words by Russian professionals, saying it was a sign of weakness."
2013-11-07,Exclusive: Swiss study says Polonium found in Arafat's bones. Scientists find at least 18 times the normal levels of radioactive element in late Palestinian leader's remains
2013-11-07,"EU rules that gay Africans are entitled to asylum - According to the European Court of Justice, a gay refugee from a country where people are jailed for being homosexual does qualify as a persecuted group eligible for asylum."
2013-11-07,Gray whale stranded dead with a stomach full of plastic.
2013-11-07,"Leaked Document Reveals Plot to Destabilize Venezuelan Goverment: ""US Embassy Officials Encouraging Acts of Sabotage"""
2013-11-07,Legalisation of cannabis motion defeated in Irish Parliament. The motion was defeated 111-8
2013-11-07,"New Zealand police are refusing to act on a self-confessed group of gang rapists, but are threatening a man with 6 months in prison for parodying their inaction"
2013-11-07,UK Gov't Losing The Plot: Now Claiming Snowden Leaks Could Help Pedophiles
2013-11-07,"Google has started encrypting traffic between data centers, effectively halting joint surveillance by NSA and GCHQ"
2013-11-07,"Fancy French restaurant under fire for seating ""beautiful"" clients in public view and hiding ""ugly"" ones"
2013-11-07,'Silk Road' illicit online market reopens just four weeks after US seizure
2013-11-07,"Yasser Arafat may have been poisoned with polonium, tests show: Swiss scientists find levels of polonium 18 times higher than normal in first forensic tests on former Palestinian leader's body"
2013-11-07,"100s of Protected Tortoises Found in Luggage at Thai Airport - After X-raying the suitcases, they found 423 radiated tortoises, as well as 52 unknown species of turtle or tortoise."
2013-11-07,"New Leaks Show NSA Spying on U.N., Climate Summit, and existence of NSA database called Dishfire that 'stores years of text messages from around the world, just in case.'"
2013-11-07,"NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance is violation of European law, report finds - Authors of study warn of 'systematic breach of people's fundamental rights' and call for EU parliament to take action"
2013-11-07,"LIVE - Heads of MI5, SIS (MI6) and GCHQ face live televised public grilling from UK MPs at 14:00 GMT"
2013-11-07,Hate rallies targeted at ethnic Koreans living in Japan have spread from Tokyo and Osaka to smaller regional cities over the past six months
2013-11-07,"Liechtenstein wants to naturalize whistleblower, Edward Snowden (sorry for the bad translation)"
2013-11-07,"Audio of Royal Marine sergeant shooting unarmed insurgent, while saying -Shuffle off this mortal coil, you c**t."
2013-11-07,"Pakistan Taliban appoints new leader - Mullah Fazlullah, who ordered death of girl student Malala Yousafzai, is the new commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban"
2013-11-07,Pakistan 'ready to deliver nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia'
2013-11-07,"Saudi Arabia has invested in Pakistani nuclear weapons projects, and believes it could obtain atomic bombs at will, a variety of sources have told BBC Newsnight."
2013-11-07,Tim Berners-Lee: encryption cracking by spy agencies 'appalling and foolish' - Inventor of world wide web calls for debate about 'dysfunctional and unaccountable' oversight of NSA and GCHQ
2013-11-07,"Sarah Harrison joins other Edward Snowden files 'exiles' in Berlin; UK journalist's lawyers advise against returning home after assisting NSA whistleblower, says statement on WikiLeaks site"
2013-11-07,"The A-Team Killings: ""If true, these accusations would amount to some of the gravest war crimes perpetrated by American forces since 2001."""
2013-11-07,"One-fifth of the worlds biggest banks may be broken up or sold as part of a radical course correction to boost shareholder returns, according to McKinsey & Co.."
2013-11-06,The Indian Mars Mission cost $73 million which is less than the production budget for the movie Gravity ($105 million)
2013-11-06,Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admits to smoking crack-cocaine.
2013-11-06,"The giant Spanish wine corporation Codornu, has permits in place right now to clear-cut 154 acres of coveted California coastal redwood forest and grade the soils to construct a sprawling vineyard, roads, and reservoirs in their place"
2013-11-06,Kerry: Israeli settlements are illegitimate
2013-11-06,"Kofi Annan - Stop 'war on drugs': ""today, we know what works and what does not. It is time for a smarter approach to drug policy. Putting people's health and safety first is an imperative, not an afterthought."""
2013-11-06,Female Genital Mutilation Cases Should Be Treated As Child Abuse: Report
2013-11-06,Google engineer accuses NSA and GCHQ of subverting 'judicial process' - Anti-hacking expert claims British spy agency is 'even worse' than NSA for tapping private networks between Google's centres
2013-11-06,"[Glenn Greenwald's partner,] David Miranda lawyers to argue that Heathrow detention was unlawful"
2013-11-06,Texas-sized floating island containing one million tonnes of junk from Japan tsunami drifting towards US coast
2013-11-06,Brazil admits to spying on US diplomats after blasting NSA surveillance
2013-11-06,Catholic church slams Israel razing of its property
2013-11-06,Egypts Muslim Brotherhood finds havens abroad. Some Brotherhood leaders are living in exile in Doha  and Al Jazeera is paying their bills.
2013-11-06,"Protesters gather around the world for Million Mask March; Demonstrations in more than 400 cities were planned to coincide with Guy Fawkes Day, with Russell Brand at a London protest"
2013-11-06,Surge in ADHD diagnoses gets a red flag
2013-11-06,"Rob Ford : 'Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine.'"
2013-11-06,Israel orders more demolitions of Palestinian flats in Jerusalem
2013-11-06,"Brazilian government to stop buying ""non-auditable"" software"
2013-11-06,Bodies of Massacred Christians Found in Mass Grave in Syria
2013-11-06,Two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 bombers violate Colombian airspace.
2013-11-06,Russia has failed to appear before an international court that is hearing a Dutch bid to force the release of the Greenpeace protest ship Arctic Sunrise and the activists who were on board her.
2013-11-06,"Apple takes strong privacy stance in new report, publishes rare warrant canary: Apple has never received an order under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act."
2013-11-06,"David Suzuki has issued a scary warning about Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, saying that if it falls in a future earthquake, it's ""bye bye Japan"" and the entire west coast of North America should be evacuated."
2013-11-06,"Lebanon Outraged Over Kidnapped Teen Bride: A 13-year-old girl was abducted by her fathers creditor and forced to marry his older son, in a case that has activists calling for a minimum age for marriage in the country"
2013-11-06,"Video of the attack on Greek Neo-Nazis Golden Dawn where 2 people died and 1 is heavily injured. 0:22 mark starts, attack lasts only 10 seconds."
2013-11-06,Nigerian wedding party in Borno State massacred by gunmen - More than 30 dead (groom among the victims)
2013-11-05,China discovers that pollution makes it really hard to spy on people - 20 million surveillance cameras are now useless
2013-11-05,UK Claim That 'Journalism Equals Terrorism' Sparks Outrage
2013-11-05,"Teenagers Are Droned, And a Family Cries Out. The U.S. says it was hunting militants on August 8. The dead boys' brother has a different story."
2013-11-05,"Two billion planets in our galaxy may be suitable for life, far more than previously thought"
2013-11-05,"North Korea: 100,000 prisoners missing, feared dead in gulags"
2013-11-05,Pussy Riot convict 'transferred to Siberia'
2013-11-05,Norway: Bus has been hijacked - currently in progress
2013-11-05,There is an engine being developed that would run for a year on 8 grams of Thorium fuel
2013-11-05,"In Colombia, no sex till the roads fixed. Wives have refused sex to force politicians to form a coalition government in Belgium, to bring down a dictator in Togo and to end factional fighting in the Philippines. Women... have long known that men have a special vulnerability when it comes to sex."""
2013-11-05,Brazil Acknowledges Spying on Diplomats From U.S.
2013-11-05,"Brazil spied on US, Russia, Iran, Iraq."
2013-11-05,8 year old in China gets lung cancer from smog
2013-11-05,Jihadi Work Accident: Blast Destroys Islamic School In Pakistan After Bombs Being Built By Seminary Students Detonate Prematurely
2013-11-05,"New study says ""One in five Milky Way stars hosts potentially life-friendly Earths"""
2013-11-05,Anonymous prepares for Million Mask March protests around the world
2013-11-05,"North Korea says NSA spying scandal proves the USA is ""the worst abuser of human rights"""
2013-11-05,"North Korea has revealed that one of its warships sank last month, killing a number of sailors, in a rare admission of military failure."
2013-11-05,"Germany is only now exposing many Stasi-era spies, using new computer technology. A new film shows what that's doing to the country, which may help explain Germans' unusually strong stand against NSA spying."
2013-11-05,NSA chief may lose 'cyber command' powers
2013-11-05,"Garda (Irish Police) seek help in identifying girl found on the streets of Dublin. They fear that she was victim of sex trafficking. Photos and police contact info in article, if you know who she is"
2013-11-05,Canadian man fights Dubai swearing law by arguing 'fuck off' is not an insult in Canada
2013-11-05,India to launch Mars Mission today
2013-11-05,"Brazil admits to spying and conducting intelligence surveillance on the US, Iran, and Russia"
2013-11-05,Scientists in Alaska Warn About Spread of Fukushima Radiation
2013-11-05,"Pakistani Taliban spokesperson threatens to attack offices of UN, Voice of America, BBC and those selling the book I am Malala"
2013-11-04,1.8 tonnes of ivory found in Chinese home in Tanzania. Authorities found at least 1800kg ivory at a home of Chinese nationals in Dar es Salam Mikocheni area. The haul is still being counted and could increase. So far 706 pieces of ivory have been counted representing over 200 elephant deaths.
2013-11-04,"Jimmy Carter: ""the president of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki...he was refusing to let Aids be treated...Thats the closest Ive come to getting into a fist fight with a head of state."""
2013-11-04,Father arrested in France after his 14-year-old daughter secretly films him on a webcam as he sexually assaults her
2013-11-04,President Putin signs law requiring terrorists relatives to pay for damages
2013-11-04,The Google File System makes NSAs hack blatantly illegal and they know it
2013-11-04,"""Bin Laden has won,"" says Richard Dawkins after having honey confiscated by airport security"
2013-11-04,"Three police officers suspended over failure to help innocent man branded a paedophile, beaten and set on fire"
2013-11-04,UK cops officially detained David Miranda for thoughtcrime
2013-11-04,Irish Atheists Urge Repeal of Nations Blasphemy Law at Constitutional Convention
2013-11-04,5 teens in France arrested for stealing a circus llama and taking him on the subway
2013-11-04,"British minister says Islamic veil should be banned in courts - Muslim women should be banned from wearing a veil when giving evidence in British courts, a cabinet minister in Prime Minister David Cameron's government said on Sunday, arguing it was hard to judge someone's testimony otherwise."
2013-11-04,"N.Korean naval drill goes horribly wrong, ship sinks, 30 crew dead, Video shows Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un visiting their graves"
2013-11-04,Turkish troops engage three suspected Syrian Rebel vehicles on border - cars found to contain large quantities of chemical weapons
2013-11-04,Report: NSA among worst offenders of mass surveillance
2013-11-04,'NSA gave no answers on why they were mass spying on Europeans' - head of EU delegation
2013-11-04,Uncensored Instagrams From North Korea Buck Brutal Trend of Secrecy
2013-11-04,Turkish PM Erdoan says male and female students should not live together in same house and we will intervene as government
2013-11-04,Saudi Arabia arrests a Kuwaiti woman driving her diabetic father to a hospital
2013-11-04,"Another Anti-Gay Attack in Russia: Two Victims Attacked by Two Masked Men; One Shot in the Eye. Police Leave the Scene Almost Immediately After Arriving, Saying There's No Crime to Investigate"
2013-11-04,Kuwaiti woman arrested in Saudi Arabia for driving her diabetic father to hospital
2013-11-04,Brazil says Internet privacy must be UN priority
2013-11-04,"Rich-poor gap hits health of both. Overall, the United States has among the largest social and economic inequalities of any rich country. Japan and the Scandinavian countries have the smallest . The more equal countries also have the longest life expectancies."
2013-11-04,EU condemns new Israel settlements plan
2013-11-04,A bone dug up in a man's garden turns out to be the fossilised limb of a savage sea dinosaur.
2013-11-04,East Libya declares self-government
2013-11-03,"Innocent man accused of paedophilia, burned to death in UK"
2013-11-03,"Inspired by Snowden, more NSA insiders are blowing the whistle"
2013-11-03,United Arab Emirates pushes for stronger laws against sorcerers
2013-11-03,Edward Snowden: 'Speaking The Truth Is Not A Crime'
2013-11-03,Two French journalists executed in Mali
2013-11-03,More than 1500 pieces of art found in German House. Estimated worth more than 1.000.000.000.
2013-11-03,"Resistance heroine who led 7,000 men against the Nazis - A tribute to Nancy Wake, the Second World War's most decorated woman, who has died at the age of 98"
2013-11-03,Mexico says it will waive most of $487 million debt owed by Cuba
2013-11-03,"4,000-pound, World War II bomb forces mass evacuation in Germany"
2013-11-03,An Afghan Tragedy: The Pashtun practice of having sex with young boys
2013-11-03,"Snowden document reveals key role of companies in NSA data collection. NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows."
2013-11-03,Additional NSA employees said to be following Snowden's lead
2013-11-03,Latest Snowden Leaks: Everyone Is Spying On Everyone and Sharing It
2013-11-03,"the NSA, intent on exploiting the communications revolution to the full, developing ever more intrusive programmes in pursuit of its ambition to have surveillance cover of the whole planet: total command of what the NSA refers to as the 'digital battlefield'."
2013-11-03,"Brazil thinks its being colonized by China, and wants its economy back"
2013-11-03,"India's Mars mission launch cleared for Tuesday, Nov 5"
2013-11-03,France is now the second-biggest consumer of fast food in the world.
2013-11-03,Bloody October: 30 Iraqi civilians killed every day in deadliest month since 2008
2013-11-03,"An art collection of around 1500 pictures seized by the Nazis and ordered to be destroyed were discovered in a Munich apartment. Artists include Picasso, Renoir and Matisse. Approx. worth at least a billion Euros."
2013-11-03,Women-friendly cafe in Benghazi bombed
2013-11-03,Injecting sperm may raise chances of conception but lead to fertility problems in next generation
2013-11-03,"Some Fukushima evacuees can never return home, Japanese official admits for the first time"
2013-11-03,"In Wetaskiwin, Alberta - An elderly couple died after being hit by a train, when the wife tried and failed to save her husband. They both died because the one wouldnt let the other one be stuck on the tracks. What a hero."
2013-11-03,"Noam Chomsky slams Canada's shale gas energy plans. Canada's rush to exploit its tar sands and shale gas resources will destroy the environment ""as fast as possible"", according to Noam Chomsky."
2013-11-03,No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A.
2013-11-02,Jose Mujica: 'I earn more than I need' The man described as the world's 'poorest president' discusses Uruguay's move to legalise marijuana.
2013-11-02,Israel 'furious' with White House for leak on Syria strike
2013-11-02,Bill Gates says putting worldwide Internet access before malaria is 'a joke'
2013-11-02,"No fewer that 25 students at a Lagos school yesterday went into a coma after inhaling fumes from chemical waste allegedly discharged by Bizcircuit Photo Laboratory, located a few meters from the school premises."
2013-11-02,"When attackers threw acid in Shamsia Husseini's face outside her school in Afghanistan, she defied them by returning to class -- and now she has struck another blow for female education by becoming a teacher herself"
2013-11-02,Snowden seeks world's help against US charges
2013-11-02,"Spy agencies across Western Europe are working together on mass surveillance of Internet and phone traffic comparable to programs run by their U.S. counterpart denounced by European governments, Britain's Guardian newspaper reported on Saturday."
2013-11-02,"New Snowden revelations show European governments tap private communications, despite criticizing US for doing same."
2013-11-02,Jailed Pussy Riot member still disappeared
2013-11-02,"Stop exporting your abortion problem, Britain tells Ireland"
2013-11-02,Pussy Riot Member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova 'Goes Missing' During Prison Colony Transfer
2013-11-02,Pussy Riot: Tolonnikova 'out of sight. One of the jailed members of the Pussy Riot protest band has vanished from sight since she was moved to a new prison 10 days ago.
2013-11-02,Mexico to tackle obesity with taxes on junk food and sugary drinks. President calls for hour of exercise per day and a 'change of culture' as Mexico has higher rates of adult obesity than the US.
2013-11-02,Europe spies too: Leaked documents point to cooperative surveillance program
2013-11-02,NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says US 'treats dissent as defection'
2013-11-02,"GCHQ and European spy agencies worked together on mass surveillance. Edward Snowden papers unmask close technical cooperation and loose alliance between British, German, French, Spanish and Swedish spy agencies."
2013-11-02,"Israel plans to Demolish Homes of 15,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem"
2013-11-02,Venezuela has quietly seized control of two oil rigs owned by a unit of Houston-based Superior Energy Services after the company shut them down because the state oil monopoly was months behind on payments
2013-11-02,"Japan, Russia agree to cooperate on security as China rises"
2013-11-02,"Australia's Murdoch Newspapers Lying to Public About Climate Change, Says Study Author"
2013-11-02,Snowden leak reveals Europe's role in mass surveillance programs.
2013-11-02,UK: Snowden reporter's partner involved in 'espionage' and 'terrorism'
2013-11-02,European Intelligence Agencies were Cooperating in Mass Surveillance
2013-11-02,NSA spying: Germany and Brazil produce draft UN resolution | Document does not name US but calls for end to mass surveillance and gross invasions of privacy
2013-11-02,"6,000 NATO troops hold one of largest post-Cold War drills near Russia's borders"
2013-11-01,Edward Snowden's letter to Germany revealed.He is ready to go to Germany and testify over the US wiretapping of Angela Merkels phone on condition of granting him political asylum
2013-11-01,A new law requiring Muslim women to remove a burqa or niqab to prove their identity to West Australian police has been passed by the state's parliament.
2013-11-01,Japan Likely To Pass New Secrecy Law That Would Put Whistleblowers And Journalists In Jail
2013-11-01,Report: Japan is hunting its whales and dolphins to extinction
2013-11-01,"""These Drones Attack Us and the Whole World is Silent"": New Film Exposes Secret U.S. War"
2013-11-01,Israeli warplanes strike military base in Syria
2013-11-01,Germany may ask Edward Snowden to be witness in NSA inquiry
2013-11-01,Ireland to consider marijuana legalization bill
2013-11-01,"Tunnel linking US and Mexico found. It's complete with ventilation, electricity and a railway."
2013-11-01,"Meanwhile in Russia: Man, 80, fights bear, falls off cliff  and survives"
2013-11-01,U.S. Congress committee endorses $488 million aid to Israel
2013-11-01,Saudi sheikh Ali al Hemki declares fatwa against manned missions to Mars
2013-11-01,"Russia's PM says U.S. hurt by evidence of cynical spying ""'Can the situation be calmed? I think it's possible. But to be honest, no assurances will help here,' he said. What can you say in this situation? Sorry, we won't do it anymore or We will not try to listen in on you? Nobody will believe it"""
2013-11-01,"High-profile stories of children expose Europes anti-Roma prejudice: ""Within days... a kind of witch hunt was underway in many countries, with officials and ordinary people scouring Roma enclaves for white children on the presumption that any fair-skinned child must have been snatched"""
2013-11-01,"German MP meets Snowden, says he is willing to come to Germany for inquiry"
2013-11-01,Male prisoners in UK to wear uniforms and be banned from watching television - A new regime instigated by Chris Grayling aims to promote incentives and earned privileges
2013-11-01,"Mass grave in Bosnia could be biggest of 1992-95 war, authorities say"
2013-11-01,China is spying on you through your KETTLE: Bugs that scan wi-fi devices found in imported kitchen gadgets
2013-11-01,Pacific Ocean 'Warming 15 Times Faster than Ever Before' - Study adds weight to the theory that recent global warming 'pause' is down to heat absorbed by ocean depths
2013-11-01,Senate committee backs bill that would allow NSA data collection to continue; bill a direct challenge to Leahy Bill that would end domestic phone-records collection.
2013-11-01,Today the Singaporean government newspaper was attacked by Anonymous. This was what they did.
2013-11-01,"CONFIRMED: Israel Launched Strikes On Syrian Missile Sites, Damascus"
2013-11-01,Russia & China Block Bid to Create 2 Massive Antarctic Ocean Sanctuaries
2013-11-01,"According to a German lawmaker, Snowden is ready to testify in Merkel tapping case"
2013-11-01,A video that appears to show a Saudi man beating a migrant worker is causing growing outrage in Saudi Arabia: A man believed to be an Asian migrant worker cowers as his tormentor beats him with a belt. The shocking images spark outrage and a police hunt for the culprit
2013-10-31,"NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say ""The NSA has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Snowden.."""
2013-10-31,"Yahoo & Google ""outraged"" at new reports of NSA hacking their data centers. Google: ""We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform."""
2013-10-31,Catalonia to become first Spanish region to ban circus acts with live animals
2013-10-31,"We are not scared of the cartels. They have guns but we have guns, too. And we are many, says Ramon Diaz. Mexican vigilante groups are not taking the cartel violence lying down"
2013-10-31,"Most Canadians See Edward Snowden As A Hero, Poll Suggests"
2013-10-31,Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair Confirms That They Have the Alleged Mayor Rob Ford Crack Video
2013-10-31,Revealed: NSA pushed 9/11 as key 'sound bite' to justify surveillance
2013-10-31,"Google chief legal officer, David Drummond, responds to reports of NSA tapping into Google data centers abroad: ""We are outraged at the lengths to which the government seems to have gone to intercept data from our private fiber networks, and it underscores the need for urgent reform."""
2013-10-31,"National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden will begin working Friday for one of the largest Russian websites"""
2013-10-31,Outrage Over NSA Spying Spreads to Asia
2013-10-31,"Murdochs News of the World Editors Admit to Phone-Hacking - 3 sr editors of Murdochs defunct 'News of the World' plead guilty to hacking into phone messages of politicians, royals, crime victims & movie stars. Admissions prove for 1st time that hacking was at the heart of media empire."
2013-10-31,Former Brazilian footballer's head left on doorstep
2013-10-31,"Ahead of the Sochi Olympics in February, Russia is taking saliva samples from religiously conservative Muslim women, gathering DNA so authorities can identify the body parts if any become suicide bombers."
2013-10-31,Queen of England enacts state oversight of media
2013-10-31,Mayor of London defends Guardian over NSA revelations.
2013-10-31,Lavabit And Silent Circle Join Forces To Make All Email Surveillance-Proof
2013-10-31,"Woman dodges rocks & Molotov cocktails to protect Peru's ancient sites - Its real estate market is exploding to the point fake titles are being sold to protected sites, leading people to build homes & entire neighborhoods atop ancient ruins."
2013-10-31,"Getting behind the wheel is something so mundane, but take that away and, especially for someone that has driven their whole life, like me, you feel like youve lost your independence. More and more women are fighting for the right to drive in Saudi Arabia."
2013-10-31,Reports huge blast 'destroys Syrian air defence base' at Latakia
2013-10-31,Taking Stock: Why Bankers Still Aren't Chastened: Bankers have gone from being global elites to universally despised villains. Recent headlines suggest authorities are finally cracking down on illicit practices -- but the truth is very different.
2013-10-31,"""Panorama said the recorded Vatican phone calls were catalogued by the NSA in four categories - leadership intentions, threats to the financial system, foreign policy objectives and human rights."""
2013-10-31,"Switzerland is the worst place in the world for expats to make friends, according to a comprehensive survey."
2013-10-31,Report says U.S. tapped cardinals phones ahead of conclave
2013-10-31,"Japan's Coastal Hunts not Sustainable - Pursuit of whales, dolphins & porpoises (over a million killed in Japanese waters in past 70 yrs) should be phased out, says new report. It's the biggest coastal hunt of its kind in the world. 2013 catch limits allowed slaughter of 16,655 small cetaceans."
2013-10-31,China Blames Terror Attack in Tiananmen Square on People From Muslim Region
2013-10-30,London's cheapest suburb is Barcelona. City worker causes a stir by proving it's cheaper to live in Spain and fly in to work in London every morning.
2013-10-30,"'Prison clearly does not work' Fresh from jail, the economist and author of Prisonomics explains why the system costs too much, locks up the wrong people and does not prevent reoffending"
2013-10-30,REPORT: NSA May Have Spied On The Vatican During The Papal Conclave
2013-10-30,Canadians Seek Dick Cheney's Arrest For War Crimes During Upcoming Visit
2013-10-30,A record-equalling 188 countries on Tuesday condemned the five-decade-old US embargo against communist Cuba in an annual UN General Assembly
2013-10-30,Embattled NSA chief Keith Alexander rejects calls to limit agency's power | World news
2013-10-30,"""Even with Europe in an uproar over intrusive United States surveillance, its leaders are looking for ways to slow down legislation aimed at preventing violations of privacy at home."""
2013-10-30,"Spain colluded in NSA spying on its citizens, Spanish newspaper reports"
2013-10-30,"A second solar system has been detected that's very similar to our own. 7 planets with similar orbits and day/night cycles similar to Earth, Venus and Mercury."
2013-10-30,Israel 'destroying peace process' with new housing
2013-10-30,"What did my grandmother do wrong?:Nabila Rehman was picking vegetables from her family garden last year when missiles from a US drone rained down from the sky, killing her grandmother and injuring her and seven other children."
2013-10-30,Adobe says data for 38 million customers compromised
2013-10-30,U.S. officials: French and Spanish newspapers suggesting that the NSA had vacuumed up French and Spanish telephone records incorrect. NSA didnt collect the data -- the intelligence services of those countries did.
2013-10-30,A Japanese ruling-party panel will recommend the break-up of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) after shortcomings in the firm's handling of clean-up operations at its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
2013-10-30,"Roman eagle found by archaeologists in City of London: the 1,800-year-old sculpture of the imperial symbol is regarded as one of the best pieces of Romano-British art ever found"
2013-10-30,Egyptian police arrested a 20-year-old student following a report submitted by the university's administration saying he had formed a group for atheists on Facebook. Egypt's penal code says anyone convicted of offending religion in any form can face up to 6 years in prison.
2013-10-30,"A town in Norway on Wednesday began beaming light down from giant mirrors installed on the surrounding hills, bringing it winter sunlight for the first time in its history"
2013-10-30,US food aid programme criticised as 'corporate welfare' for grain giants
2013-10-30,U.N. Confirms an Outbreak of Polio in Syria
2013-10-30,Egyptian Arrested for the Crime of Forming a Facebook Group for Atheists
2013-10-30,Bitcoin cashes in as its first ATM opens in Vancouver | Technology
2013-10-30,"Polio Re-Emerges in Syria and Israel, Threatening Europe"
2013-10-30,Second Solar System detected. The most extensive planetary system to date arranged similar to the eight planets in the Solar System
2013-10-30,Franois Hollande becomes most unpopular French president ever
2013-10-30,"Edward Snowden A 'Hero' In UK, But Americans Are More Divided (POLL)"
2013-10-29,"Man buys $27 of bitcoin, forgets about them, finds they're now worth $886k. Bought in 2009, currency's rise in value saw small investment turn into enough to buy an apartment in a wealthy area of Oslo."
2013-10-29,Zombie CISPA bill pushes forward with NSA support
2013-10-29,Cannabis Plants Pop up All Over Germany as Form of Protest.
2013-10-29,"As Europe Erupts Over US Spying, NSA Chief Says Government Must Stop Media With General Alexander calling for NSA reporting to be halted, US and UK credibility as guardians of press freedom is crushed"
2013-10-29,"If All These Countries Are So Outraged By Revelations Of US Spying On Them, Why Aren't They Offering Snowden Asylum?"
2013-10-29,Cameron openly threatens the Guardian
2013-10-29,Europe considers sanctions against U.S. over spying
2013-10-29,Why Did America Kill My Mother? Pakistani Drone Victim Comes To Congress For Answer
2013-10-29,Tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua will launch new website that will offer the world America's copyrighted content for free.
2013-10-29,9/11 Suspects Cant Mention being Tortured during Trial Testimony because Their Torture is Classified
2013-10-29,China flexes muscle and unveils mystery nuclear sub fleet
2013-10-29,"""This goes to the heart of science reporting  you wouldn't have a homeopath speaking alongside a brain surgeon for balance, as that would be absurd. It's just as absurd to have a climate sceptic for balance against the work of the overwhelming majority of climate scientists."""
2013-10-29,NSA oversight dismissed as 'illusory' as anger intensifies in Europe and beyond. Condemnation by Latin American panel comes as US fields worsening outrage from Spain and Germany over surveillance
2013-10-29,"BERLIN: U.S. spying on Europeans a symptom of a paranoid government, Germans say"
2013-10-29,David Cameron makes veiled threat to media over NSA and GCHQ leaks
2013-10-29,U.K. may punish publication of NSA leaks
2013-10-29,Obama sidesteps questions on NSA spying and what he knew
2013-10-29,Dianne Feinstein: 'I am totally opposed' to NSA surveillance of US allies
2013-10-29,Cameron threatens to act against newspapers publishing security leaks
2013-10-29,WikiLeaks launches site for Edward Snowden's legal defense
2013-10-29,NSA affair could block EU-US free trade talks
2013-10-29,"Google, Microsoft Threaten End to Cookie Tracking"
2013-10-29,Parents of Down's syndrome boy who was bullied by his teachers are charged with neglect for taking him out of school.
2013-10-29,"33-year-old woman has admitted in court in Memmingen, Germany to have wrongly accused her father of rape. The man had been sitting for seven years in prison because of the allegations."
2013-10-29,NSA oversight dismissed as 'illusory' as anger intensifies in Europe and beyond
2013-10-28,"Reduce working week to 30 hours, say economists"
2013-10-28,500 year old Da Vinci Mural Discovered Under Layers Of Paint During Castle Restoration In Italy
2013-10-28,Spain summons US ambassador over claim NSA tracked 60m calls a month
2013-10-28,"Kenya petition over 'grass cutting for gang-rape' tops 1m ""More than a million people have signed an online petition demanding justice after three men accused of brutally gang-raping a girl in Kenya were ordered to cut grass as punishment."""
2013-10-28,Innocent man burned to death after vigilantes branded him a paedophile
2013-10-28,"After 15,000 jobs cut and mis-selling scandlas at bailed out Lloyds Bank, CEO to receive multi-million pound bonus payout next month"
2013-10-28,13 Year Old Girl Buried Alive After Rape in Pakistan
2013-10-28,"5 Dead, 38 Injured In Car Explosion At Tiananmen Square"
2013-10-28,"Diebold Charged With Bribery, Falsifying Docs, 'Worldwide Pattern of Criminal Conduct'"
2013-10-28,The new Norwegian Prime minister: One does not snoope on friends.
2013-10-28,Worlds anger at Obama policies goes beyond Europe and the NSA
2013-10-28,"BRICS countries are building a ""new Internet"" hidden from NSA: 21 thousand mile fiber-optic cable from Fortaleza (Brazil) to Vladivostok (Russia) via Cape Town (South Africa), Chennai (India) and Shantou (China)"
2013-10-28,Document Reveals NSA Monitored 125 Billion Phone Calls in One Month
2013-10-28,Europe falls out of love with Obama over NSA spying claims
2013-10-28,"Attackers in Mexico blow up nine electrical plants west of the capital, triggering blackouts that gunmen then used as cover to torch gasoline stations."
2013-10-28,"The Indian Prime Minister is NSA spy-proof, has no mobile phone or email account to hack"
2013-10-28,Britney Spears music is used by merchant navy ship owners is used to scare off Somali pirates
2013-10-28,Spain warns US of breakdown in trust after new NSA revelations - White House struggles to contain diplomatic crisis as Madrid warns US ambassador after claim that NSA harvested 60m Spanish calls
2013-10-28,Spain Summons U.S. Ambassador in Spying Scandal
2013-10-28,David Cameron: newspapers which publish Snowden secrets help terrorists who want to 'blow up' families
2013-10-28,"Austrian invents outside-sound volume knob for your windows. Sono ""sticks to glass surfaces and allows you to dial down unwanted noise. After it receives a sounds vibrations, it reprocesses them much like the active noise cancellation technology used in certain headphones."""
2013-10-28,Can Germany call on Snowden as a witness?
2013-10-28,Syrian troops retake Christian town from jihadis
2013-10-28,U.S. NSA spied on 60 million Spanish phone calls in a month
2013-10-28,Israel denies EU committee access to Gaza Strip
2013-10-27,Barack Obama 'approved tapping Angela Merkel's phone 3 years ago'
2013-10-27,World's first venomous crab found in Australia
2013-10-27,Why the banker who helped 50 million Bangladeshis out of poverty became his countrys enemy number one
2013-10-27,NSA: New reports in German media deepen US-Merkel spy row
2013-10-27,Angela Merkel demands action from US to rebuild trust: Furious Angela Merkel accuses US of betraying trust of German soldiers that fought and died alongside American allies on the battlefields of Afghanistan by bugging her phone
2013-10-27,NSA surveillance: Germany to send intelligence officials to US. Move comes as Der Spiegel reports that Angela Merkel's phone might have been monitored for more than 10 years.
2013-10-27,"Dr. Arjun Srinivasan: Weve Reached The End of Antibiotics, Period"
2013-10-27,"The United States may have bugged Angela Merkel's phone for more than 10 years, according to a news report on Saturday that also said President Barack Obama told the German leader he would have stopped it happening had he known about it."
2013-10-27,"""The U.S. National Security Agency [NSA] sought the Japanese government's cooperation in 2011 over wiretapping fiber-optic cables carrying phone and Internet data across the Asia-Pacific region, but the request was rejected, sources said Saturday [26 October 2013]."""
2013-10-27,"UK Muslims are speaking out against a call by al-Shabab for more international ""do it yourself"" attacks"
2013-10-27,"Australia: The day after bushfires tore through the area, the federal government tightened the rules for disaster payments leaving hundreds of residents who were forced to evacuate without any financial help."
2013-10-27,U.S. Spying Update: Europe Fumes And Protesters Rally In D.C.
2013-10-27,"Germany, Brazil enlist 19 more countries for anti-NSA UN resolution"
2013-10-27,New media report suggests Obama knew NSA spied on Merkel
2013-10-27,"British Gas rakes in 20m profit from overestimated bills, says whistleblower"
2013-10-27,Syria submitted chemical arms destruction plan on time: OPCW
2013-10-27,Ethiopia opens Africa's largest wind farm to boost power production
2013-10-27,"The Israel-Saudi Alliance Against the US-Iran Talks - Its an odd partnership, but Israel & Saudi Arabia are happily traveling on same path toward confrontation with Iran. Both are bitterly opposed to the growth of Irans influence in the region & take hawkish positions on Irans nuclear program."
2013-10-27,Anonymous has been hacking Cambodian government sites in support of popular protests for social justice and an end to corruption in the country.
2013-10-27,Car bombs kill at least 42 people in Baghdad
2013-10-27,"After troops leave, U.S. to lose access to Afghan reconstruction projects worth billions"
2013-10-27,Bulgaria is going to build a wall to stop refugees
2013-10-27,"Russia reeling from backlash on ""anti-gay laws"" now dealing with charges of ""racism"" in football..."
2013-10-27,Mount Etna eruption closes air space
2013-10-27,Inventor of Doner Kebab dies
2013-10-26,"Lightbeam, the free Firefox extension will enable users to see which third party companies are monitoring their online presence, a move that Mozilla states will illuminate the inner workings of the web."
2013-10-26,Scotland to block fracking on environmental grounds
2013-10-26,7.5 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Japan - Tsunami Warning Issued For Fukushima
2013-10-26,Canadians sue their own government over domestic spying
2013-10-26,"US defends drone strikes as 'necessary and just' in face of UN criticism. Brazil, China and Venezuela sharply critical of 'illegal' program but US says it has taken steps to introduce new guidelines, for example zero congressional oversight."
2013-10-26,"'It took him a long time to die': drone operator traumatised by killing missions ""A former US Air Force drone operator has described how he is haunted by his time as a 'remote killer' functioning in 'zombie mode' in missions over Afghanistan and Iraq that claimed more than 1600 lives"""
2013-10-26,NSA: Brazil and Germany lead calls for UN resolution on internet privacy Diplomats from the two countries are heading efforts by coalition of nations to draft resolution in wake of Edward Snowden leaks
2013-10-26,Chinese students caught selling human flesh diet
2013-10-26,"""It is my belief and my faith that it is my right to drive my own car."" Saudi women plan to defy driving ban."
2013-10-26,Leaked memos reveal GCHQ efforts to keep mass surveillance secret - Edward Snowden papers show UK spy agency fears legal challenge if scale of surveillance is made public
2013-10-26,Sweden signs up to UN plan to curb US spying
2013-10-26,Predator Drone Strikes Kill Up to 50 Civilians For Every 1 Terrorist Assassinated: Study
2013-10-26,Saudi Arabia women to defy authorities over female driving ban
2013-10-26,Saudi activists said more than 60 women claimed to have answered their call on Saturday to get behind the wheel in a rare show of defiance against a ban on female driving in the ultraconservative kingdom.
2013-10-26,"Boy, 16, who threw acid at a woman on her doorstep leaving her with horrific burns is jailed for eight years"
2013-10-26,Iran hands over captured US drone technology to Russia
2013-10-26,The China blogosphere has been abuzz this week at the rare sight of a Chinese newspaper directly challenging senior law enforcers
2013-10-26,"Man wrongly deported from Canada to torture in Libya told he has to pay $6,800 in costs before returning"
2013-10-26,Press handling with talking heads: Snowden files reveal enormous GCHQ efforts to escape legal challenge
2013-10-26,"7.3 magnitude earthquake near Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan and Sendai, Miyagi, Japan : October 25, 2013 17:10"
2013-10-26,"A high-profile file-sharing site has been revealed to be a year-long pirate ""honeypot"", collecting data on users, file hosters and websites."
2013-10-26,Saudi Arabia Warns Online Backers of Women Drivers - 5 years in prison for support
2013-10-26,"Bassem Youssef, known as Egypt's Jon Stewart, returns to TV after four-month ban, tests the waters on criticism of regime"
2013-10-26,Snowden files || Report suggests Israel behind attempt to hack into French communication network
2013-10-26,China's NSA Furiously Hacking U.S. Drone Secrets
2013-10-25,NSA monitored calls of 35 world leaders after US official handed over contacts
2013-10-25,Switzerland may be close to enshrining a law that would ban an executive from earning more than 12 times what the lowest paid worker at a Swiss company earns
2013-10-25,Europe Demands the US Agree to Stop Spying
2013-10-25,"Over 100 rhinos poached in S.Africa in past month. Kruger National Park is worst affected, having lost 476 rhinos since January."
2013-10-25,"To clean up Beijing, the Chinese government will suck its western regions dry. Beijing will be one of the first cities powered by Synthetic natural gas which emits 82% more greenhouse emissions than coal."
2013-10-25,Europe falls out of love with Obama over NSA spying claims
2013-10-25,"Another jumbo poisoner gets 15 yrs. A Hwange court on Wednesday sentenced a poacher to more than 14 years in prison for poisoning and killing elephants with cyanide, the fourth such conviction in the country [Zimbabwe] in a month."
2013-10-25,"Anonymous pledges support to Canada anti-fracking protesters - Anonymous is joining anti-fracking campaigns, targeting the Canadian government, corporations and energy conglomerates."
2013-10-25,Greenwald: NSA spied on the Italian government and military
2013-10-25,"Bangladesh Accuses Countrys Only Nobel Prize Winner Of Being Un-Islamic, Spreading Homosexuality, An Accomplice of Jews And Christians"
2013-10-25,DNA tests confirm Bulgarian Roma woman as mother of mystery child Maria found in Greece last week
2013-10-25,"UK Police seize 3D printed ""gun parts"", which turn out to be 3D printer parts."
2013-10-25,French football clubs to go on strike because of a new 75% tax on over 1 million euro wages
2013-10-25,Another Denial of NSA Spying Even as More Evidence Emerges: Italian PM says spying by allies unacceptable
2013-10-25,Norway rejects U.S. request to destroy Syrian chemical arms
2013-10-25,US Drones Have Killed Up to 900 Civilians in Pakistan
2013-10-25,Saudi Arabia's women plan day of action to change driving laws
2013-10-25,"Latin America leading the way on promoting food as a human right ""Latin America has blazed the way in the adoption of laws that promote and protect the right to food, a UN expert has said."""
2013-10-25,"Nearly a third of all Mexicans are obese. Lawmakers proposing a 10% tax on sodas, 5% tax on high calorie snacks."
2013-10-25,"The NSA spied on Spain's leaders too, according to sources in Madrid."
2013-10-25,"With Winter Ahead, Can China's Smog Get Anything But Worse? On Monday and Tuesday, air-quality monitoring stations in Harbin reported concentrations of PM 2.5 exceeding 1,000 micrograms per cubic meter - 40 times the limit deemed safe by the World Health Organization."
2013-10-25,Major Pension Funds Ask for Climate Change Study - Some of the largest pension funds in the U.S. and the world are worried that major fossil fuel companies may not be as profitable and want details on how the firms will manage a long-term shift to cleaner energy sources.
2013-10-25,Greece's Mystery Girl's Mother Found: DNA Tests Confirm Bulgarian Roma Woman Is Blond Child's Biological Parent
2013-10-25,"Germany, Brazil Turn to U.N. to Restrain American Spies"
2013-10-25,U.S. warns foreign allies for upcoming Snowden leaks
2013-10-24,Angela Merkel called Barack Obama today to complain against NSA attempts to eavesdrop on her personal phone. Internal investigations done by german intelligence agencies clearly hinted at US attempts to break into her phone. [Source in German]
2013-10-24,U.S.-funded Afghan hospital project paid $500-a-gallon for gas instead of market-rate of $5 and is still 23 months behind schedule
2013-10-24,"Pot growers celebrate as Uruguay legalizes cultivation and consumption of marijuana ""Uruguay is about to go where no country has gone before by legalizing the cultivation and distribution of marijuana, with the left-of-center government regulating all facets of the trade"""
2013-10-24,"Six months ago, 1,127 Bangladeshi workers were killed in a garment factory collapse. Today, not a single Bangladeshi garment factory has been inspected."
2013-10-24,DNA test proves 7 year old girl taken from by police from house in Dublin this week is related to Roma family - The couple have maintained all along that the 7-year-old blonde girl is their daughter
2013-10-24,"""The insolent actions of the USA must be stopped."" ""It is a punch in the face"" - Germany reacts to reports NSA tapped Merkel's phone"
2013-10-24,Secret memos show that senior Pakistani government officials have for years known of and endorsed CIA drone strikes.
2013-10-24,Where Do the Dollars For Drone Victims End Up? In the Hands of American NGOs - $40 million allocated never made it to the people who need it the most
2013-10-24,Giant mirrors installed on Norway mountainside: The massive mirrors will bring winter sunlight to a Norwegian town for the first time
2013-10-24,Al Gore attacks Tony Abbott's refusal to link bushfires with climate change - Nobel laureate likens Australian prime minister to 'pliant politicians' who said tobacco didn't cause lung cancer
2013-10-24,"German Catholics can only remain in the Church if they pay membership tax, rules court. All Germans who are officially registered as Catholics, Protestants or Jews pay a religious tax, worth an extra 8-9% of their income tax bill."
2013-10-24,"Two large earth facing sunspots give us both barrels, incoming storm expected"
2013-10-24,"1,000 year old frozen arrows found preserved in Swedish mountain ice"
2013-10-24,"ATM company Diebold charged with bribery, falsifying docs The charges are in response to ""worldwide pattern of criminal conduct,"" according to a U.S. Attorney"
2013-10-24,West African Inventor Creates a $100 3D Printer from E-Waste
2013-10-24,Talks to Create Worlds 2 Largest Marine Reserves in Antarctic Being Undermined by Last-Ditch Push for Sunset clause allowing fishing & oil drilling - Proposal backed by US & NZ would create 1.3m sq km no take zone in 1 of last pristine bodies of water in world.
2013-10-24,Pussy Riot Member Missing Since 10/21
2013-10-24,"Iranian who survived execution will be spared second hanging. The justice minister claims Alireza, found alive in morgue and now on life support, survived penalty so will not be 're-executed'."
2013-10-24,"National Trust won't accept wind turbines on its land, might accept fracking."
2013-10-24,World leaders called Obama to ask why he has bugged their phone.
2013-10-24,Royal Marines murdered man live on camera: court martial continues.
2013-10-24,"In China, 'everyone is guilty of corruption'"
2013-10-24,"A fake priest held hostage the family of Spain's corrupt ex treasurer, demanding a flash drive with secret info which could 'bring down the government'."
2013-10-24,Experian sells thousands of Personal Identifiable Information to ID thieves in Singapore
2013-10-24,US-Student left scarred for life in late-night mob attack three days after arriving in the UK
2013-10-23,"First 3D printers arrive to Haiti, quickly put to use making umbilical cord clamps and other hard-to-obtain medical gear"
2013-10-23,India: Minor girl gang raped and burnt alive
2013-10-23,"Mexico officially bans genetically modified corn, citing risk of imminent harm to the environment"
2013-10-23,Pirate Bay founder writes open letter seeking to stop his extradition from Sweden
2013-10-23,"A Yemeni father has burned his 15-year-old daughter to death for keeping in touch with her fiance, police said, sparking further outrage in Yemen, where an eight-year girl died from internal bleeding on her wedding night a month ago."
2013-10-23,European Parliament calls for suspension of EU-US bank data deal (SWIFT) in response to NSA snooping
2013-10-23,"Edward Snowden NSA files: Guardian should be prosecuted, says Tory MP"
2013-10-23,"About 60 to 70 percent of all inmates in France's prison system are Muslim, though Muslims make up only about 12 percent of the country's population"
2013-10-23,The leader of Poland's Catholic Church suggests that children are partly to blame for being sexually abused by priests.
2013-10-23,Bahrain Just Bought More Tear Gas Canisters Than It Has Citizens
2013-10-23,"As New South Wales endures its earliest wild fire season, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says UN climate head is 'talking through her hat' claiming a link between climate change and wildfires"
2013-10-23,"Vatican suspends 'bishop of bling': The Vatican suspends a German Catholic bishop dubbed the ""bishop of bling"" over his alleged lavish spending"
2013-10-23,"Denmark is considered to be the happiest place on earth, yet again."
2013-10-23,"Diebold charged with bribing officials, falsifying records in China, Russia, Indonesia; fined nearly $50 million"
2013-10-23,"Footage of Spanish police allegedly beating a man to death in Barcelona's gay quarter has put the spotlight back on the country's ""brutal"" police force"
2013-10-23,Canadian civil liberties group sues Spy agency (Equivalent of NSA) for violating the charter of rights and freedoms
2013-10-23,Two police officers sacked over using Taser on innocent man five times - Kyle McArdle was put into the back of a police van and hit with five Taser rounds after he was spotted urinating in an alley
2013-10-23,Japan plans to blast a hole into an asteroid with their new space cannon
2013-10-23,Boko Haram Islamists Hack 19 Motorists To Death
2013-10-23,"Ukrainian Anti-Muslim/White extremist murdered 82-year-old Muslim man, planted mosque bombs in Britain. ""He said he murdered (Saleem) because he wasn't white."""
2013-10-23,"Big typhoons may collide: Less than a week after being hit by the largest typhoon in a decade, Tokyo is bracing for another strong storm that will likely reach the area Saturday, and it may get merged with an even stronger approaching tempest."
2013-10-23,"Bell to track customers web usage, mobile history, phone calls and TV veiwing in changed privacy policy. More intrusive than anything Google has done."
2013-10-23,Obama Administration Reportedly Halts Aid to Syrian Rebels
2013-10-23,"Nigerias Islamic Police Arrest 150 For Violating Sharia Dress Codes, Having Un-Islamic Hairstyles"
2013-10-23,"Back to the future: Communist Party may gain power in the Czech Republic -- Fed up with corruption, a disenchanted electorate could give the Communists their first real influence since 1989 in elections this week."
2013-10-22,"China smog emergency shuts city of 11 million people. The smog is so bad, 'You cant see your own fingers in front of you.' (Photo Gallery)"
2013-10-22,Japan will shoot down foreign drones
2013-10-22,"US officials responsible for the secret CIA drone campaign should stand trial, says Amnesty Intl"
2013-10-22,Groom gets a year in jail for staging a bomb hoax on his wedding day to avoid bride finding out he had forgotten to book a venue
2013-10-22,The Australian Capital Territory legalises same-sex marriage.
2013-10-22,"US brushes off France's complaints, says all nations spy"
2013-10-22,"Nobel peace prize winner Lech Walesa calls for a new set of ""secular Ten Commandments"" to provide the foundation for a universal human values."
2013-10-22,Indian Illegal Mining Investigation that Led to Arrests of Public Officials Abruptly Ends Without Explanation - Sudden halt sparks concern over extent of corruption uncovered. India ending investigation shows failure to protect vulnerable tribal communities.
2013-10-22,Gay marriage legalised in the Australian Capital Territory.
2013-10-22,"UK Wikipedia Editors Express Shock & Dismay at Discovery of 100s of Paid-for Entries Promoting Products & Organisations - Most disputed entries originate from US company Wiki-PR, which claims to ""build, manage, 7 translate Wikipedia pages for over 12,000 people & companies."""
2013-10-22,Brunei introduces death by stoning under new Islamic laws
2013-10-22,Israel: Economic Assessment Says Legalizing Cannabis Will Boost Revenue
2013-10-22,"Britains jails facing growing problem of forced conversion to Islam, officers warn"
2013-10-22,Thousands of Christians in Egypt turned out for the funerals of four members of a family gunned down as they waited outside a Coptic church for a wedding.
2013-10-22,Another Blond Girl Seized from a Gypsy Camp - This time in Dublin
2013-10-22,David Cameron criticises Facebook as irresponsible for allowing users to post videos of beheadings
2013-10-22,Activists urge South Korea to cancel an imminent shipment of over 1.6 million tear gas canisters allegedly ordered by Bahraini authorities battling a two-and-a-half-year-long rebellion.
2013-10-22,"The head of the UN body tasked with delivering a global climate treaty broke down in tears at a meeting as she spoke about the impact of global warming on coming generations. Christiana Figueres told the BBC that the lack of an agreement was ""condemning future generations before they are even born"""
2013-10-22,UN: Holland has to stop Sinterklaasfeest
2013-10-22,US admits: French surveillance revelations raise 'legitimate questions'
2013-10-22,'Mega-fire' fears grip Australia as dozens of blazes rage
2013-10-22,"Uruguay Will Sell Legal Marijuana For $1 Per Gram, Official Says"
2013-10-22,Infant Mortality in India Down by 30% in Past Decade
2013-10-22,Israel's elections bring 'racism' to the fore
2013-10-22,"Walesa Wants New Secular 'Ten Commandments': ""'We need to agree on common values for all religions as soon as possible, a kind of secular Ten Commandments on which we will build the world of tomorrow,' he said in an opening speech kicking off the three-day summit."""
2013-10-21,"70 million phone calls in France recorded in one month by NSA, new report claims. French government demands immediate explanation to ""shocking"" revelations"
2013-10-21,Poachers kill 300 Zimbabwe elephants with cyanide
2013-10-21,A 41-year-old native of Monaco increasingly looks to be to banking what Edward Snowden is to American surveillance.
2013-10-21,Uruguay government to sell three marijuana cigarettes for 1 dollar
2013-10-21,"Ebay founder Pierre Omidyar to start a new platform for investigative journalism, hires Glenn Greenwald, the journalist behind Snowden's leaks."
2013-10-21,"With U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, American military gear sold as scrap - The armored trucks, televisions, ice cream scoops and nearly everything else shipped here for Americas war against the Taliban are now part of the worlds biggest garage sale."
2013-10-21,Snowden leaks: France summons US envoy over NSA surveillance claims - Demand follows claims in Le Monde that US agency has been intercepting phone calls of French citizens on 'a massive scale'
2013-10-21,"Between 2002 and 2005, U.S. forces shot off 6 billion bullets in Iraq (something like 300,000 for every person killed). They also dropped 2,000 to 4,000 tons of bombs on Iraqi cities, leaving behind a witchs brew of contaminants and toxic metals, including the neurotoxins lead and mercury."
2013-10-21,Anti-Shark Fin Soup Campaign Goes Viral in China
2013-10-21,Pirate Bay's PirateBrowser web browser reaches 1m downloads
2013-10-21,"Conservative British Tory MP tells one-legged wheelchair beggar, who was begging outside of parliament, to 'get a job'"
2013-10-21,"Lawyers for Libyan politician Abdel Hakim Belhaj, who accuses MI6 and the CIA of secretly sending him and his pregnant wife to be tortured by Muammar Gaddafi, will challenge the UK government's efforts to have his case thrown out or tried in secret."
2013-10-21,Brazilian activists have stormed a laboratory in the southeastern state of Sao Paulo and freed some 200 Beagle dogs used for drug testing.
2013-10-21,"5 $33,000 a year for every adult guaranteed $66,000 per couple base income - Switzerland referendum after hearing how much CEO's get payed compared to workers"
2013-10-21,"""An Afghan army special forces commander has defected to an insurgent group allied with the Taliban in a Humvee truck packed with his team's guns and high-tech equipment, officials in the eastern Kunar province said on Sunday."""
2013-10-21,"The US National Security Agency recorded millions of French phone calls, including those involving individuals with no links to terrorism, ""Le Monde"" reported on Monday, prompting France to summon the US ambassador for ""immediate"" talks."
2013-10-21,China smog emergency shuts city of 11 million people
2013-10-21,"Iranian Brig. Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, America on the one hand arms al-Qaida (in the Syrian civil war) and on the other kills (al-Qaida) members. Such a double-standard policy will be divulged, and the weapons in possession of al-Qaida and other terrorist groups will target the Americans"
2013-10-21,Thirteen Vietnamese fishermen were arrested after being found in Philippine waters with a haul of protected sea turtles
2013-10-21,China Arrests Prominent Businessman Who Backed Human Rights Causes
2013-10-21,"What the 9,000 fee gets you: less teaching time - University lecturers in the UK devote less time to teaching now their students are paying 9,000 a year for courses than they did when tuition was free"
2013-10-21,Fukushima overwhelmed with radioactive water - Highly radioactive water overflowed barriers into Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station after its operator Tepco underestimated how much rain would fall and failed to pump it out quickly enough.
2013-10-21,Afghan special forces commander defects with guns to insurgents
2013-10-21,Chinese Can't Understand Why The French Work So Little
2013-10-21,60 injured in Montenegro during gay pride march
2013-10-20,"NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President ""The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican govet for years. It hacked into the president's public email account and gained deep insight into policy making and the political system."""
2013-10-20,President Barack Obama's administration is urging the Supreme Court not to take up the first case it has received on controversial National Security Agency's foreign and domestic cybersnooping.
2013-10-20,Gunman in clown suit kills senior Mexican drug cartel member
2013-10-20,"Undercover investigation reveals horrific conditions in egg industry: ""W5 discovered the Egg Farmers of Canada had sent out a nation-wide security alert to egg farmers across Canada, warning them about our story... to prevent any visits by reporters."""
2013-10-20,"Why have young people in Japan stopped having sex? ""For their govt, 'celibacy syndrome' is part of a looming national catastrophe. Japan already has one of the worlds lowest birth rates. Its population of 126M, which has been shrinking for the past decade, is projected to plunge a further  by 2060"""
2013-10-20,"Sailor: After we left Japan, it felt as if the ocean itself was dead  Nothing alive for over 3,000 miles  No longer saw turtles, dolphins, sharks, birds  Saw one whale, it appeared helpless with big tumor on head"
2013-10-20,Mexico Bans GMO Corn:A ruling by a judge in Mexico City has suspend the planting of genetically modified corn in our country.
2013-10-20,"On the Kansas plains, thousands of soldiers once bound for Iraq or Afghanistan are now gearing up for missions in Africa"
2013-10-20,Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong to protest against what they see as a lack of government transparency and accountability.
2013-10-20,"In China, victory for wildlife conservation as citizens persuaded to give up shark fin soup. People said it was impossible to change China, but the evidence we are now getting says consumption of shark fin soup in China is down by 50 to 70 percent in the last two years"
2013-10-20,"JPMorgan to pay $14bn for role in meltdown - agrees deal to settle probes into bad loans sold before the 2007 crisis, but criminal proceedings to continue"
2013-10-20,"NASA to China Scientists: No Chinese researchers allowed! Oh wait, please come - NASA barred them from Kepler Conference citing national security. But some US scientists decried the ban. ""The meeting is about planets located trillions of miles away with no national security implications."""
2013-10-20,"Pope Francis launches reform of Vatican bureaucracy, with cleanup of Vatican bank"
2013-10-20,"Argentines Worry Agrochemicals Are Killing Them: A country once known for its grass-fed beef is now dominated by soy, corn and cotton. Doctors and scientist worry the chemicals may be the cause of rising cancer rates, birth defects and other health problems"
2013-10-20,"Like Norway & NZ, Swedish Pension Funds Drop US Firm Due to Bad Environmental Practices - Says 'Freeport McMoRan Holdings' ""linked to serious adverse impacts"" in Papua, where it runs worlds biggest copper & gold mine. Massive amount of waste is visible from space."
2013-10-20,Mexico drug lord shot dead by clown assassins: Gunmen in disguise kill lieutenant of once-powerful Tijuana cartel during family children's party.
2013-10-20,Inmates Bullied Into Converting To Islam
2013-10-20,Norwegian suspect named as Kenya mall gunman
2013-10-20,Scotland wants to secede from UK. Referendum less than a year away.
2013-10-20,"US debt surges $328 billion in single day, surpassing $17 trillion for first time"
2013-10-20,"Lobbying Bonanza as Firms Try to Influence European Union ""law firms have managed to win results for clients, which include chemical & energy companies, drug makers, Silicon Valley firms, Wall Street businesses & military contractors. The firms are taking advantage of weak ethics rules in Brussels"""
2013-10-20,Canadian Hamlet Evacuated After Oil Train Crash Causes Huge Blaze - Emergency crews battle fire after tanker cars carrying crude oil & petroleum gas leak following derailment in Alberta
2013-10-20,"Is Brazil lost at sea? - After a rough season, Brazil hopes bidding for its massive offshore oil reserves will right the ship. Now Brazilian oil workers are striking and energy majors like Exxon-Mobil, Chevron and BP aren't placing their bids."
2013-10-20,"In post-crisis Spain, communism is beginning to emerge as a viable economic model."
2013-10-20,"More than 90% of people in European cities breathe dangerous air, study finds Countries have downplayed hazards of air pollution despite evidence that it leads to 430,000 shortened lives a year"
2013-10-19,U.N. tells U.S. to release drone assassination data
2013-10-19,"US has killed far more civilians with drones than it admits, says UN"
2013-10-19,Girl smuggled into Britain to have her 'organs harvested'
2013-10-19,"In biggest ceasefire violation in 10 years, Pakistan troops open fire at 25 locations on international border.(India)"
2013-10-19,"The British public has such poor religious literacy that a modern audience would be baffled by the Monty Python film The Life of Brian  because it would not understand the Biblical references, a senior BBC figure has claimed."
2013-10-19,Court bans Berlusconi from public office
2013-10-19,"British Muslim Convert Pleads Guilty To Trying To Enforce Sharia Law In London, Part of Muslim Patrol That Would Attack Non-Believers"
2013-10-19,US Quietly Releasing $1.6B in Pakistan Assistance
2013-10-19,"Drone strikes by US may violate international law, says UN; CIA attacks lead to civilian deaths & casualties, US protocols are 'hurdle to transparency'"
2013-10-19,The Race To Silk Road 2.0  Eight Sites Battle It Out To Become The Internets Go-To Drug Site
2013-10-19,"Australia wildfires: Resident dies defending home, thousands evacuated"
2013-10-19,"Islamic police in northern Nigerias Kano state will begin enforcing Sharia based law. Ten thousand officers will be on the streets making sure all citizens, including Christians, adhere to the strict Islamic legal code"
2013-10-19,UN Urged To Declare Canada's Treatment Of Aboriginals 'Genocide'
2013-10-19,'Let Jesus be known': Pope speaks English publicly for the first time
2013-10-19,Michael Gove: governments must stop lying to children about life chances
2013-10-19,"UK court blocks WSJ story on rate rigging: publisher of the Wall Street Journal pledged Friday to fight an injunction preventing publication of the names of traders who may be implicated in the rate-rigging case involving the London interbank offered rate, or LIBOR"
2013-10-19,"Australian Hare Krishna 'guru' jailed for raping teen girls in France, despite claiming they forced him to serve their 'unbridled sexual appetites'"
2013-10-19,Iran opens doors to tourists
2013-10-19,French politician suspended after calling nations first black minister a monkey who belongs in the trees
2013-10-19,"Girls in Taliban-controlled Swat Valley going to school without fear: Saying they don't care what the Taliban does, smiling."
2013-10-19,"Syrian rebels assaulted a checkpoint in a pro-government suburb of Damascus, setting off a suicide vehicle bomb that killed 16 soldiers"
2013-10-19,"Maldives sank further into political disarray Saturday when police blocked officials from conducting a presidential revote, saying that holding the election would violate a Supreme Court order."
2013-10-19,"Pakistan tells U.N. at least 400 civilians killed by drone strikes - Of some 2,200 people killed by drone strikes in the past decade, at least 400 were civilians and an additional 200 victims were deemed ""probable non-combatants,"" a U.N. human rights investigator said on Friday."
2013-10-19,UK's top prosecutor defends journalists who break law in public interest
2013-10-19,Qatar is Down: Syrian Electronic Army hijacks major Qatar websites
2013-10-18,Snowden: US would have buried NSA warnings forever. Whistleblower says he shared information with media because he could not trust internal reporting mechanisms
2013-10-18,"A Taliban Ban on Vaccination Is Exacerbating A Serious Polio Outbreak In Pakistan, Threatening To Derail Dramatic Progress Made This Year Towards Wiping Out The Disease Worldwide."
2013-10-18,France rules mayors cannot refuse to marry gay couples
2013-10-18,"US to sell $10.8 bln in missiles, bombs to Saudis, UAE"
2013-10-18,Total of 11 car bombs and two suicide bombings killed 66 people in Iraq today
2013-10-18,"Police in central Greece find 4 year old blond, blue eyed girl living in Roma camp and are now seeking her biological parents."
2013-10-18,"Scientology's fraud conviction upheld in France... top appeals court has upheld a fraud conviction and fines totalling hundreds of thousands of euros against the Church of Scientology, for taking advantage of vulnerable followers"
2013-10-18,Canada and Europe sign historic free trade deal
2013-10-18,The NSA Revelations Are Destroying IBM Hardware Sales In China
2013-10-18,"With UN Debit Cards, Syrian Refugees No Longer Depend on Food Rations:The UN World Food Programme will soon distribute Mastercard prepaid debit cards, each loaded with $27, to Syrian refugees in Lebanon so they can buy their own food and boost the local economy."
2013-10-18,"""I do own a driving license, that of my kingdom,"" - The self-proclaimed 'King of Germany' who has founded his own realm with 3,500 subjects has been sent to jail for using a fake driving license...from his own kingdom"
2013-10-18,India arrests crew of US ship carrying weapons
2013-10-18,UK Orders WSJ to Withhold Names of Implicated LIBOR Manipulators After Story Already Hits Wires
2013-10-18,"New Kenya mall attack footage shows brutality, horror of assault"
2013-10-18,Women jailed for miscarrying in El Salvador
2013-10-18,Cat Caught Carrying Marijuana Into Moldovan Prison
2013-10-18,"Saudi Arabia gives up its status of non-permanent UNSC member less than 24 hours after being voted in, saying UN doesn't do anything for conflict resolution"
2013-10-18,"Police in Riot Gear Tear-Gas and Shoot First Nations Coalition Protesting Hydraulic Fracturing in New Brunswick, Canada. 30+ Arrested."
2013-10-18,Snowden Says He Took No Secret Files to Russia
2013-10-18,"Dutch Telcos Used Customer Metadata, Retained To Fight Terrorism, For Everyday Marketing Purposes"
2013-10-18,"Five police cruisers torched, 40 protesters arrested as native anti-fracking rally. (social search of the area)"
2013-10-18,"Pakistan polio outbreak, amid Taliban ban on vaccination, puts global eradication at risk"
2013-10-18,"Saudi Arabia on Friday rejected its freshly-acquired seat on the U.N. Security Council, saying the 15-member body is incapable of resolving world conflicts such as the Syrian civil war."
2013-10-18,Dolphins butchered for shark bait in illegal hunt off the coast of Peru
2013-10-18,"Five police cruisers torched, 40 protesters arrested as native anti-fracking rally turns violent"
2013-10-17,German filmmaker imprisoned for exposing dire Qatar World Cup worker conditions
2013-10-17,Scotland Now Receives 40 Percent of its Power from Renewables
2013-10-17,Senior gay Dutch Diplomat (60) Tied down and beaten up in his Moscow home. LGBT written in lipstick on his mirror.
2013-10-17,Pope Francis to Auction his Harley Davidson Motorcycle to Benefit Homeless
2013-10-17,Kenya to microchip all rhinos' horns to beat poachers
2013-10-17,Documents reveal NSAs extensive involvement in targeted killing program
2013-10-17,Largest Star ever found in the universe about to go supernova 16000 ly from Earth
2013-10-17,Brazil's biggest drug cartel promises a 'World Cup of terror' as violent demonstrations take over the streets... The threat was issued by the First Capital of the Command in Sao Paulo... Gang was behind the murder of more than a hundred of the city's police
2013-10-17,"""Some 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, trafficked into brothels, forced into manual labor, victims of debt bondage or even born into servitude, a global index on modern slavery showed on Thursday [17 October 2013]. Almost half are in India"""
2013-10-17,"New EU rules to curb transfer of data to US after Edward Snowden revelations - Regulations will make it harder to move European data to third countries, with fines running into billions for failure to comply"
2013-10-17,"Kim Jong Un's Luxurious 'Seven-Star' Lifestyle Of Yachts, Booze And Food: North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un enjoys a seven-star lifestyle of yachts, parties and extravagant food, his friend Dennis Rodman has revealed."
2013-10-17,"Deaf 10-year-old girl trafficked to UK, kept in cellar and raped by pensioner"
2013-10-17,Romanian villagers occupy site to prevent Chevron 'fracking'. Chevron decides to suspend its activities (update in comments)
2013-10-17,10 reasons not to trust claims UK national security is being threatened by media covering whistleblower leaks
2013-10-17,"British Gas hikes prices by 9.2% - with customers' annual bills set to rise by over 120 - It'll leave average annual bills at a record high, forcing many more hard-up households into fuel poverty. Energy giant denies accusations of profiteering, blames external factors."
2013-10-17,2% of China's public consumes one-third of world's luxury goods
2013-10-17,"95 Bushfires burning throughout New South Wales, Australia. Hundreds of homes lost."
2013-10-17,Amnesty has urged Iran not to go ahead with a repeat execution for a drug smuggler who survived a botched hanging. The condemned man was found alive in a morgue after being hanged at a jail in the city of Bojnord last week. He is now being nursed to recovery in preparation for his repeat execution.
2013-10-17,Man from Kiribati Applying to High Court of New Zealand to be Granted Asylum as Climate Change Refugee - has three children who will live long enough to see Kiribati disappear under the Pacific Ocean
2013-10-17,National study suggests Finland is the first country in the world to start to get fitter - a reduction in obesity rates
2013-10-17,Turkey blows Israels cover for Iranian spy ring
2013-10-17,"5 major bush fires are still burning in NSW, Australia; spreading towards houses and has already shut down Newcastle Airport"
2013-10-17,White House says Iran sounds serious in nuclear talks
2013-10-17,EU says Palestinian Authority lost 2.5 billion euros of aid over the last four years
2013-10-17,"Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, Excommunicated Ugandan Priest, Says American Missionaries Feed LGBT Hate"
2013-10-16,"France finds Church of Scientology guilty of ""organized fraud"" despite ""religious freedom"" claims"
2013-10-16,"Glenn Greenwald is leaving The Guardian to launch his own news organization, which already has substantial monetary backing"
2013-10-16,"Divers have recovered what may be a 570kg chunk of the space rock that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. The object is thought to have plunged into Lake Chebarkul leaving a 6m-wide hole in the ice. If confirmed, it would be the largest fragment of the meteorite yet found."
2013-10-16,Brazilian judge rules in favour of farmers against Monsanto
2013-10-16,Jihadi Work Accident: Two Al-Shabaab Suicide Bombers Planning To Attack World Cup Qualifying Match Accidentally Blow Themselves Up While Preparing Attack
2013-10-16,Transparency International calls on German President to intervene after BMW gives almost $1million to politicians who then block law to limit car emissions
2013-10-16,"End of Swiss bank secrecy, black money information to be shared"
2013-10-16,"Iraq War death toll near 500K, new study estimates"
2013-10-16,"Germanys Bishop of Bling : Pope Francis has summoned a spendthrift German bishop to Rome to answer for his excesses, including a $3 million marble courtyard at his new headquarters with fountains spouting holy water."
2013-10-16,"Using military-grade helicopters, night-vision equipment and guns fitted with stealth silencers, organized crime syndicates are taking rhino poaching to a whole new level"
2013-10-16,BP oil spill: Ex-Halliburton manager pleads guilty to destroying evidence
2013-10-16,The Canadian Government Is Spying on Behalf of the Energy Industry
2013-10-16,Colombian Street Gangs Kidnap Girls and Auction Off Their Virginity
2013-10-16,Brazilian government to ditch Microsoft in favour of bespoke email system
2013-10-16,Snowden leaks: David Cameron urges committee to investigate Guardian.
2013-10-16,"Thai Police Are Shocked, Shocked After Rihanna Exposes Their Country's Sex Shows"
2013-10-16,"Iraq war claimed half a million lives, peer-reviewed medical study finds"
2013-10-16,93 dead as 7.2 magnitude quake hits Philippine tourist islands
2013-10-16,Malala Yousafzai to get honorary Canadian citizenship
2013-10-16,GoDaddy Pulls Lavabit's Security Creds Because The FBI Got Ahold Of Its Encryption Keys
2013-10-16,Dutch diplomat assaulted in Russia
2013-10-16,The number of cockroach farms in China is growing
2013-10-16,"""I just want to have a future."" Anger in France as Roma girl gets kicked off a bus during a school trip and deported back to Kosovo"
2013-10-16,"Fukushima Industries said Tuesday it was rethinking its Fukuppy mascot, after the Internet erupted in sniggers over a name that recalls the catalogue of mishandling at the Fukushima nuclear plant."
2013-10-16,Lavabit comes back online for 96 hours to allow users to download their data. The 'window' is open until 19 October.
2013-10-15,"Somali Pirate Warlord lured to Brussels Airport, Belgium, under pretext he was signing a movie deal about his life. He came. Got arrested. (English, translations available)"
2013-10-15,"In a single day, the N.S.A. collects an estimated 500,000 ""buddy lists"" from chat services as well as 444,743 email address books from Yahoo, 105k from Hotmail, 82k from Facebook, 33k from Gmail and 22k from unspecified other providers. Millions of Americans are impacted, yet no law authorizes it."
2013-10-15,Greenwald on Snowden Leaks: The Worst Is Yet to Come
2013-10-15,"""Edward Snowden Is a Patriot"": Ex-NSA CIA, FBI and Justice Whistleblowers Meet Leaker in Moscow"
2013-10-15,"""Islam does not allow terrorism at any cost. Islam condemns all violence and terrorism plaguing the world today. Muslims should demonstrate a love for peace and unity.""- Grand Islamic cleric at annual Hajj pilgrimage."
2013-10-15,NSA Leaks Prompt Rethinking of U.S. Control Over the Internet's Infrastructure
2013-10-15,Microphone bomb kills Afghan governor during mosque speech
2013-10-15,Qatar detained two Germans who filmed World Cup labour conditions
2013-10-15,"The European Space Agency has unveiled plans to ""take 3D printing into the metal age"" by building parts for jets, spacecraft and fusion projects."
2013-10-15,Latest Snowden Leaks: NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally
2013-10-15,Meth-like substance found in popular workout supplements
2013-10-15,Further proof emerges of Turkeys genocide
2013-10-15,MINING billionaire Andrew Forrest has gifted a staggering $65 million - believed to be the nation's largest single philanthropic donation - to attract the world's best minds to Western Australia's universities.
2013-10-15,7.2 Earthquake strikes The Philippines
2013-10-15,"Ethiopian utopian village goes against the grain ""a community where gender equality is crucial, where organized religion is banished, and where work and development are of the upmost importance...run by way of committees where 50-percent-plus-one vote majorities decide all bylaws and decisions"""
2013-10-15,"""School bribes pupils to take religion classes with paintball and excursions"": 12-year-old boy's letter to newspaper goes viral"
2013-10-15,"Jos Bustani, founding director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (which just won the Nobel Peace Prize), was ousted by the Bush administration in 2002 because he was a roadblock to war  since, as Bustani now explains, ""everybody knew"" Iraq had no chemical weapons"
2013-10-15,Bubonic plague epidemic possible in Madagascar
2013-10-15,"Swiss scientists say Yasser Arafat's belongings have traces of polonium-210, supporting possibility that Palestinian leader was poisoned with radioactive substance - Lancet paper"
2013-10-15,"North Americas Largest City Moves to Legalize Pot: Legislators in Mexico City, the largest city in North America, are preparing to push through certain measures that would decriminalize and regulate the consumption of marijuana in the Mexican capital"
2013-10-15,Rogers telephone bill ruins credit rating of man who doesn't have Rogers account
2013-10-15,"Typhoon Wipha, packing winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour near its center, is on a path that will take it toward the precarious Fukushima nuclear power plant."
2013-10-15,Taliban launches 'multiple rocket fire' on US Bagram airfield in Afghanistan
2013-10-15,China confirms new human H7N9 infection
2013-10-15,The Russia Left Behind
2013-10-14,"""Not a single byte should leave Germany"" - Communication giants puts forward plan to combat NSA spies with German-only network hubs"
2013-10-14,"China state media blasts US shutdown, calls for a de-Americanized world"
2013-10-14,NSA backlash sparks new technology. Anti-surveillance technology created in light of NSA expose
2013-10-14,Research finds that giving money to the poor reduces poverty.
2013-10-14,CIA asset implicated in 1985 murder of undercover DEA agent in Mexico
2013-10-14,Radiation experts confirm polonium on Arafat clothing
2013-10-14,Nobody wins African prize for good governance -- for 4th time in 5 years
2013-10-14,"Former director general of Nobel Peace Prize winner OPCW, on his ousting in 2002: ""the Bush administration [feared] that chemical weapons inspections in Iraq would conflict with Washingtons rationale for invading it"""
2013-10-14,New York Times says UK tried to get it to hand over Snowden documents
2013-10-14,China: U.S. fiscal failure warrants a de-Americanized world
2013-10-14,German bishop faces grilling over lavish lifestyle. A German bishop was in Rome on Monday to explain himself to Pope Francis after facing multiple calls to resign over embezzling $42 million in church funds.
2013-10-14,3 million Spaniards getting by on just 307 ($416) a month. Spain's rich poor divide is now the widest in Europe.
2013-10-14,"India Seizes Armed ""Anti-piracy"" Ship Owned by U.S. Security Firm"
2013-10-14,"GCHQ is probably intercepting legally privileged communications between lawyers and their clients, according to a detailed claim filed on behalf of eight Libyans involved in politically sensitive compensation battles with the UK"
2013-10-14,"The perfect epitaph for establishment journalism: 'If MI5 warns that this is not in the public interest who am I to disbelieve them?', says the former editor of The Independent"
2013-10-14,BBC News - Malaysia court rules non-Muslims cannot use the word 'Allah'
2013-10-14,"In Indonesia, Environmentalists See a Disaster in the Making  Near a palm oil plantation, bulldozers & chainsaws can be heard in what is officially protected forest. With few areas left for expansion, loggers are denuding the land."
2013-10-14,Snowden leaks: MI5 chief accused of using 'foolish self-serving rhetoric' - Former DPP Lord Macdonald dismisses Andrew Parker's claim that greater scrutiny would harm intelligence agencies
2013-10-14,The 12 Least Ethical Companies In The World: Covalence's Ranking
2013-10-14,Chinese tourists arrested in Paris after trying to pay for hotel room with coins
2013-10-14,"Moscow riots follow murder blamed on migrant - Chants of ""Russia for the Russians"" and ""White Power""."
2013-10-14,IMF eyes tax potential of the world's super-rich
2013-10-14,China surpasses the United States as worlds largest net oil importer
2013-10-14,France prepares for war in the Central African Republic
2013-10-14,"China state media blasts US shutdown, calls for a 'de-Americanized' world ""...without striking a viable deal to bring normality to the body politic they brag about, it is perhaps a good time for the befuddled world to start considering building a de-Americanized world,"
2013-10-13,"Shutdown: US 'Days' from Causing Worldwide Economic Disaster, says World Bank - If this comes to pass, it could be a disastrous event for the developing world, and that will in turn greatly hurt developed economies as well."
2013-10-13,46 per cent global wealth owned by richest 1 per cent: Credit Suisse
2013-10-13,Middle Class Young People to be Materially Worse of than Their Parents
2013-10-13,"Degrading virginity tests on women must stop, Quebec doctors group urges"
2013-10-13,"France cements fracking ban: A law prohibiting fracking for shale gas has been upheld by France's constitutional court, citing environmental protection"
2013-10-13,World prepares for U.S. debt default
2013-10-13,"Pink Floyds Roger Waters Tells His Israeli Fans, Its Apartheid Clear And Simple"
2013-10-13,Tens of thousands of mainly young Israelis protest against hardliners opposed to peace with the Palestinians and mourn peace-seeking prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.
2013-10-13,"A Roman bathhouse still in use after 2,000 years"
2013-10-13,"Fukushima Farmer: Plutonium was detected all over village 25 miles from plant  Professor: Something terrible, dreadful happening  Mayor: Please dont tell this to the residents (VIDEO)"
2013-10-13,"Stopping Bank Bonuses Could Breach Top Bankers' Human Rights, Warns Bank Of England"
2013-10-13,"China has signed a 350-billion-yuan (45 billion euro) currency swap agreement with the European Union, marking a major step in internationalizing its currency"
2013-10-13,"""More disclosures about Canada's aggressive foreign spying activities are coming, suggests Glenn Greenwald . . . 'There is a huge amount of stuff about Canada in these archives because Canada works so closely with the NSA,' Mr. Greenwald, who lives in Brazil, told The Globe and Mail in an interview"""
2013-10-13,U.S. citizen found dead in Egyptian prison
2013-10-13,"Real-life 'Captain Phillips' Says High-Seas Piracy Also Thrives in South America and Spain, Not Just Somalia"
2013-10-13,Snowden: mass surveillance making us less safe
2013-10-13,"""From Silicon Valley to the South Pacific, counterattacks to revelations of widespread National Security Agency surveillance are taking shape, from a surge of new encrypted email programs to technology that sprinkles the Internet with red flag terms to confuse would-be snoops."""
2013-10-13,"Cyclone Phailin, India: Google has launched a 'Person Finder' to help those displaced by the storm to reconnect with their families. It is an open source software that allows individuals to post and search for the status of relatives or friends affected by a disaster."
2013-10-13,"""The Plight of the Pangolin"": One of the planet's most extraordinary and intelligent animals is being hunted to extinction. Believed to be the world's most trafficked animal, a single pangolin can fetch as much as $7,000 on the black market."
2013-10-13,"A Eureopean Union study has found 600,000 unemployed migrants are living in Britain - a 42 per cent rise."
2013-10-13,Chile indigenous groups mark Columbus Day with protests
2013-10-13,Global 'March Against Monsanto' rallies activists
2013-10-13,"Russian officials have been threatening Ukraine with dire consequences, if it signs a free trade / association agreement with the EU in Vilnius"
2013-10-13,"Gaza tunnel uncovered inside Israel, says army"
2013-10-13,French headmaster forced out of Qatar after 'anti-Muslim' charges
2013-10-12,Malala meets Barack Obama and asks him to end Drone Strikes
2013-10-12,"Google will soon put your face, name, and content in its ads"
2013-10-12,"BBC News - Cyclone Phailin: Mass evacuations in eastern India! [It Is As Strong as Katrina, Twice as Wide as Sandy And it is About to Devastate India] Keep us in thought Reddit!"
2013-10-12,Saudi Arabia's Women Driving Ban: Doctor Dismisses Cleric's Claim That Driving Hurts Ovaries
2013-10-12,International Monetary Fund strongly suggests countries tax the rich to fix deficit
2013-10-12,European Utilities Say They Can't Make Money Because There's Too Much Renewable Energy
2013-10-12,"New video: Edward Snowden receives award from NSA, CIA, FBI and DOJ officials, breaks silence on NSA programs for the first time in Russia. Reveals new details on how mass surveillance makes us less - not more - safe."
2013-10-12,Asian nations stockpile $6 trillion safety net in anticipation of US default.
2013-10-12,Snowden drawn into Brazil investigation of alleged spying: Brazil will ask the Russian government for permission to speak with Edward Snowden to learn more about U.S. and Canadian espionage activities in this country
2013-10-12,A Srebrenica-Esque Massacre Has Recently Taken Place In North Korea's Killing Fields
2013-10-12,"In a reversal of its longstanding policy toward nuclear weapons, Japan, the only nation that has experienced the devastation of atomic bombings, will sign a joint statement by the United Nations calling for their abolition."
2013-10-12,The war on drugs is a broken business model
2013-10-12,"Queen receives pay-rise after her rainy-day fund is reduced to her ""last 1million"""
2013-10-12,Internet freedom on the decline around the world
2013-10-12,Arafat poisoning claim backed by journal - Lancet publishes peer review supporting findings Palestinian leader may have been poisoned by polonium.
2013-10-12,Syrian rebels accused of massacring civilians
2013-10-12,'March Against Monsanto': Live Updates
2013-10-12,"Another migrant boat sinks off Sicily, 200 people in sea"
2013-10-12,BBC News: High Court orders two sisters must receive MMR vaccine
2013-10-12,"Dark web 'will evolve', warns UK cyber crime chief"
2013-10-12,"Malala Wins Sakharov Award, EU's Top Human Rights Award"
2013-10-12,"Japanese authorities may have underestimated by 20 percent the radiation doses workers got in the initial phase of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, a Japanese newspaper reported on Saturday, citing a U.N. panel."
2013-10-12,A hedge fund that employs one of George Osborne's closest friends and best man is among the City institutions set to make millions from the privatisation of Royal Mail.
2013-10-12,Saudi woman detained for blogging & supporting women drivers in Saudi Arabia
2013-10-12,Foxconn admits labour violation at China factory
2013-10-11,Snowden given award by former CIA agents for taking a stand against abuse of information gathering
2013-10-11,"$470,000 on wardrobes, $20,000 on a bath tub and $1 million on his garden - A German Catholic bishop has upset a few people with this kind of spending"
2013-10-11,Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA
2013-10-11,'What the Guardian is doing is important for democracy' - On Thursday the Daily Mail described the Guardian as the 'The paper that helps Britain's enemies' - Editors of more than 20 newspapers around the world respond to defend The Guardian
2013-10-11,"Guardian was 'entirely correct' to publish NSA stories, says Vince Cable - Britain's Business secretary confirms Deputy PM Nick Clegg is to launch review of oversight of intelligence agencies"
2013-10-11,"Trapped in Qatar: Footballers Describe Nightmarish Treatment ""Qatar, host of the 2022 WC is spending a lot of money to attract players and coaches. SPIEGEL spent time with a handful who have gone to the emirate and say they are aren't getting paid, but have been prevented from leaving the country"""
2013-10-11,German drug firm halts US anesthetic exports after finding it was sent for executions
2013-10-11,Richest 1 Percent Hold 46 Percent Of The World's Wealth
2013-10-11,"'Stop playing well, they'll know you're not mentally disabled', the inside story of how Spain's fake Paralympic basketball team in Sydney 2000 came to be known as the biggest cheats in history."
2013-10-11,Media analysts who made frequent appearances during the recent debate over a possible U.S. strike on Syria have ties to defense contractors and other firms with stakes in the outcome
2013-10-11,More Saudi women defy driving ban despite clerics warning that it would damage their ovaries
2013-10-11,Everyone Is Leaving Rural Scotland Because the Internet Is Too Slow
2013-10-11,Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday that high radiation levels have been detected near three water storage tanks at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
2013-10-11,"Syrian rebel forces killed as many as 190 civilians and seized more than 200 hostages during a military offensive in August, Human Rights Watch says."
2013-10-11,Former Chinese President Hu Jintao is to be tried for alleged Tibetan genocide in Spanish court
2013-10-11,"Mexicans Dont Want NYC Mayor Bloomberg Harassing Them About Soda Consumption Either - He's exporting his dietary finger-wagging to Mexico, & it isn't going over well. He's become a target in the debate over a proposal to impose a 1 peso (8 cent) per liter tax on soft drinks."
2013-10-11,"Skype under investigation in Luxembourg over link to NSA: Ten years ago, the calling service had a reputation as a tool for evading surveillance but now it is under scrutiny for covertly passing data to government agencies"
2013-10-11,Wikileaks releases it's internal memo and the script of film 'The Fifth Estate' which criticises it
2013-10-11,'Even worse than Foxconn': Apple rocked by child labour claims
2013-10-11,The World Bank: Rejecting The Rule of Law
2013-10-11,Iran cancels annual anti Zionism conference
2013-10-11,"Syrian rebels killed at least 190 civilians and took more than 200 hostage during an offensive in Latakia province in August, Human Rights Watch said on Friday, in what it calls the first evidence of crimes against humanity by opposition forces."
2013-10-11,"French cop caught on video beating black woman and spraying tear gas in her face ""committed no infraction,"" has charges dropped"
2013-10-11,"Destroying for Peace: OPCW, the UN's chemical weapons watchdog, wins Nobel Peace Prize against Malala Yousafzai and other significant individuals"
2013-10-11,Alzheimer's breakthrough hailed as 'turning point'
2013-10-10,Azerbaijan accidentally released election results before voting had even started. It showed President Ilham Aliyev winning 73% to the opposition's 7%.
2013-10-10,"China warns US to 'stop manufacturing crises' and raise debt ceiling - China criticises ""mind-boggling political infighting"" over issue of raising America's $16.7 trillion debt ceiling."
2013-10-10,"A farmer commits suicide every two days in France, almost 500 in three years"
2013-10-10,Armed rebels kidnap Libya's prime minister
2013-10-10,"""William Binney is a man on a mission. He spent nearly 30 years as a top executive in America's super-secret National Security Agency (NSA), now he wants you to know that same spy agency is pushing western democracies -- including Canada -- toward fascism."""
2013-10-10,Girl slain after alerting police about stalker
2013-10-10,Indigenous Woman Gives Birth On Hospital Lawn In Mexico After Doctors Denied Her Care
2013-10-10, Four U.S. whistleblowers who have met with former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden say he is settling into life in Russia and expresses no regrets about leaking highly classified information.
2013-10-10,Girls in Pakistan see Taliban victim Malala as heroine
2013-10-10,I am not sure my son will be returning to the U.S. again - Edward Snowden's Father while Speaking to Russian Press Reporters in Moscow
2013-10-10,Israel demands Yatta villagers remove solar panels.
2013-10-10,China Passes U.S. As World's Biggest Oil Importer
2013-10-10,"Molotovs, tear gas and a burning bus: The Black Bloc join Rio teacher protest. ""One local resident couldnt believe what he was seeing. He turned to me and said: Theres got to be another way!"""
2013-10-10,US - press freedom: Journalists complain about the climate of fear under Obama
2013-10-10,Government turns unable to seize Bitcoins
2013-10-10,Spanish schoolkids 'fainting from hunger' due to government spending cuts: EU Human Rights boss
2013-10-10,"Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev wins third term, opposition claims fraud"
2013-10-10,Turkey Cracks Down on Cleavage
2013-10-10,"As dolphin die-off nears record high, shutdown puts investigation on ice"
2013-10-10,Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai wins EU human rights prize
2013-10-10,No one at Fukushima seems to have any idea what theyre doing
2013-10-10,London Police Order Registrars To Shut Down A Bunch Of Websites Without Any Legal Basis; Threaten Registrars If They Don't Comply
2013-10-10,Canadian Alice Munro receives Nobel Prize in litterature
2013-10-10,Kidnapped Libyan PM Ali Zeidan released
2013-10-10,"A team of Japanese researchers has developed a compound to suppress the formation of a protein believed to cause Alzheimers disease, according to a study published Wednesday in a British science journal."
2013-10-09,Who Wants to Be a Russian Billionaire? 35% of Russias entire wealth now in the hands of just 110 people.
2013-10-09,"Teslas $110,000 Model S is now Norways best-selling car"
2013-10-09,"Alarming mass die-off of starfish in areas along Canadas Pacific coast  Theyve disintegrated, now theres just goo left  Appeared to melt  Single arms clinging to rock faces, tube feet still moving"
2013-10-09,Taiwan says China will be able to invade in 2020
2013-10-09,"UN caused deadly cholera in Haiti, covered it up, lawsuit says: Survivors and family members of nearly 700,000 Haitians who have contracted cholera are suing the U.N. for billions of dollars, accusing it of covering up its role in starting the worst outbreak of the deadly disease in modern history."
2013-10-09,"A Russian court on Tuesday ordered a critic of President Vladimir Putin confined to a psychiatric ward indefinitely over clashes with police at a protest, a ruling likened by rights activists to abuses of psychiatry during the Soviet era to jail dissidents"
2013-10-09,"Half of the $51bn for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the most expensive ever, is alleged to have disappeared in corrupt building contracts"
2013-10-09,"30,000 year old Brazilian artifacts throw wrench in theory humans first arrived in Americas 12,000 years ago"
2013-10-09,Another accident at Fukushima. At what point do we need to start paying attention (again)?
2013-10-09,U.S. to halt Egypt aid after coup
2013-10-09,Virgin auctions: Colombian gangs entrap girls as young as 10 then sell them to the highest bidder
2013-10-09,Snowden leaks are a 'gift' to terrorists says UK intelligence chief
2013-10-09,The 'First Global Snapshot' Of The Drug War Used Government Data To Prove That It's An Abysmal Failure
2013-10-09,Three years in Abu Dhabi jail for father who killed son over bad grades
2013-10-09,Canadian Workers Replaced With Temporary Foreign Workers
2013-10-09,"Dolphin killing town from The Cove is to open a marine park, where you can swim with dolphins, then eat them"
2013-10-09,Passenger with no flying experience lands airplane after Pilot falls ill mid-flight
2013-10-09,"Russians being paid to post online in favor of Putin and his allies, attack his opponents."
2013-10-09,"Iranian citizen-- ""I could not have dreamt that the Iranian news would broadcast the voice of real people who would say, on camera, that our president has conversed with America"""
2013-10-09,"Nobel Chemistry Prize to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel for developing multiscale models for complex chemical systems"
2013-10-09,Parliament suspended in France after a drunk male lawmaker makes sexist chicken noises at a female deputy
2013-10-09,"""The first rules on state regulation of the press for more than 300 years will be set out this week after politicians rejected the newspaper industry's plans for self-regulation"""
2013-10-09,Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced his strong willingness on Oct. 8 to resolve a long-running Russo-Japanese territorial dispute and sign a peace treaty with Japan.
2013-10-09,Britain arrests four users of Silk Road online marketplace
2013-10-09,President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that China had probably taken advantage of his absence from a summit in Asia this week and he warned that the government shutdown and fiscal debate were hurting U.S. credibility abroad.
2013-10-08,Higgs boson scientists win Nobel prize
2013-10-08,"Swiss to vote on $33,600/year universal basic income for every adult"
2013-10-08,"Australian FOI request proves Australian Govt knew all about PRISM, said nothing to Australian people"
2013-10-08,Girl expelled from school for having two dads
2013-10-08,U.S. is now the worlds biggest oil and gas producer
2013-10-08,"E-cigarettes are not medicinal and should remain on free sale, the European Parliament rules"
2013-10-08,"Switzerland Decriminalizes Marijuana, Won't Prosecute For Small Amounts Of Weed"
2013-10-08,Kuwait has said they will use medical tests to detect homosexuals and make sure that they cannot enter the country
2013-10-08,Chinese Police Fire on Unarmed Tibetan Protesters in Driru
2013-10-08,"Billionaire Masayoshi Son, Japans second-richest person, mounted an attack on the next wealthiest, Hiroshi Mikitani, wiping out a combined $4.3 billion in their companies market values."
2013-10-08,China says US has 'responsibility' to resolve debt ceiling row; Vice-finance minister outlines concern over 'safety of Chinese investments in the United States'
2013-10-08,"North Korea puts army on alert, warns U.S. of 'horrible disaster': North Korea said on Tuesday its military would be put on high alert and be ready to launch operations, stepping up tension after weeks of rhetoric directed against the United States and South Korea"
2013-10-08,"FBI struggles to seize 600,000 Bitcoins from alleged Silk Road founder; authorities battle to control Ross Ulbricht's personal wallet"
2013-10-08,"Two Inner Hebrides islands are to become a native honeybee sanctuary, after a new law is passed"
2013-10-08,Conservative parties are lobbying to remove Palestinian history from school curriculum.
2013-10-08,Marijuana is Legal in North Korea: Story of a Tourist
2013-10-08,"Canada spying in Brazil: more to come, Greenwald promises -- Journalist Glenn Greenwald says he has more documents regarding Canada's spying in Brazil"
2013-10-08,'Sanctimonious little prigs': Richard Dawkins wades into row as London School of Economics atheist society 'banned from wearing satirical Jesus and Prophet Mohamed T-shirts'
2013-10-08,"Worse Than Gangs: Rio Police Criticized for Favela Crackdowns ""A new security campaign is helping authorities win back control of Rio's favelas ahead of next year's World Cup. Special police units are driving drug gangs out of the slums -- but often only to replace them with their own thuggish rule"""
2013-10-08,Blood sugar: Oxfam accuses Coke and Pepsi of fueling land grabs - The soft drink giants agree to look into allegations that farmers were displaced in Cambodia.
2013-10-08,Iceland rises from the ashes of banking collapse
2013-10-08,"Inside Syria's model town: Peace, until al-Qaeda arrived - The residents of Yabroud have established an independent government that manages everything from schools, the court and emergency services to humanitarian aid and defence. It is remarkably efficient  as long as they can keep al-Qaeda out."
2013-10-08,"Arabian Gulf countries to begin using ""clinical tests"" to identify homosexuals. Will deny visas to homosexuals and transgender people."
2013-10-08,"Woody Allen pulls Blue Jasmine in India - Woody Allen has stopped his latest film, Blue Jasmine, from being screened in India after learning mandatory anti-tobacco adverts would be inserted into its smoking scenes."
2013-10-08,"Turkish police can now legally arrest and detain people they deem at ""risk of conducting a protest"" without court orders"
2013-10-07,"Police in Turkey now allowed to detain ""potential protesters"" without a court order, based merely on their looks, in what an opposition member calls ""beyond fascism"""
2013-10-07,"""The only way to solve this problem is to execute the killers on spot"" - Tanzania's Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism recommends summary execution of elephant poachers."
2013-10-07,"The War on Drugs Is Over. Drugs Won ""The war on drugs could not have been a bigger failure. To sum up their most important findings, the average purity of heroin and cocaine have increased, respectively, 60% and 11% between 1990 and 2007. Cannabis purity is up a whopping 161% over that same time"""
2013-10-07,"North Korea calls Switzerlands refusal to sell it ski lifts a ""serious human rights abuse"""
2013-10-07,Japan asks for world's help on Fukushima leaks
2013-10-07,"Brazil wants Internet independence from the US: The NSA spying scandal has woken Brazil out of its data protection doze. Plans are being made for an optical network to link twelve South American countries with Europe and Africa, and largely avoid the US."
2013-10-07,British imams willing to marry girls as young as 14 in secret
2013-10-07,BBC airs *fake* video of medic claiming chemical weapons in Syria
2013-10-07,"Catholic elites' clothes defy Pope Francis' call for humility. As Pope Francis urges church officials to live more modestly, the price for one cardinal's clothes can cost as much as $20,000."
2013-10-07,"Canadian spy agency dissected Brazilian Energy Ministry: Canada, as well as the US, infiltrated and spied on the Brazilian Energy Ministry, a new leak by Edward Snowden has revealed."
2013-10-07,"A ""Baby factory"" just opened in India. Surrogate mothers will carry Western couples' babies for about 8,000 USD"
2013-10-07,Nuclear scare at Navy submarine base after 'unbelievable' failures
2013-10-07,Taliban Says It Would Try to Kill Malala Yousafzai Again
2013-10-07,Turkey is set to end a ban on several letters of the alphabet
2013-10-07,Scientists who discovered the mechanism of cellular vesicle transport are awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013.
2013-10-07,Olympic flame arrives in Russia  and extinguishes itself
2013-10-07,"Chinese women flock to sex classes. Sex is a traditionally a taboo topic in China  leaving some adults with no idea how procreation works. New, private classes are changing that."
2013-10-07,"A set of official documents detailing how the wartime Japanese military carted off about 35 Dutch women from a prison camp in what is now Indonesia and made them provide sex as comfort women has been disclosed to a civic group at the National Archives of Japan in Tokyo, group members said Sunday."
2013-10-07,"After Netanyahu tells BBC Persian that Iranians could ""wear jeans and listen to western music if Iran was free"", Iranians tweet him photos angrily in response."
2013-10-07,"Countries that treat workers the best, according to World Economic Forum: 1. Switzerland 2. Finland 3. Singapore"
2013-10-07,Iraq: Children Killed In Playground Bombing
2013-10-07,FSB: Vladimir Putin's immensely powerful modern-day KGB
2013-10-07,"Crocodiles Disappearing as Dinner in Jamaica - Once abundant, they're increasingly difficult to spot. A growing taste for crocodile meat & even their eggs has conservationists worried that the reptiles might be wiped from the wild altogether."
2013-10-07,Boozy feral pig who found fame after getting drunk on stolen beer and starting a fight with an innocent cow dies in car accident
2013-10-07,Assad: the 'West is more confident in al-Qaida than me'
2013-10-06,Muslims formed a human chain outside a Pakistan church during mass to act as a shield for those attending Sunday mass inside.
2013-10-06,"""China is employing two million people to keep tabs on people's Internet use, according to state media, in a rare glimpse into the secret world of Beijing's vast online surveillance operation."""
2013-10-06,"Russia to monitor 'all communications' at Winter Olympics in Sochi ""Athletes and spectators attending the Winter Olympics in Sochi in February will face some of the most invasive and systematic spying and surveillance in the history of the Games, documents shared with the Guardian show."""
2013-10-06,"Two Canadians who have been detained in an Egyptian jail for over a month without charges have been released, the Canadian government has confirmed."
2013-10-06,Brazilian authorities sided with protesting natives and slammed as unconstitutional an amendment that would give lawmakers authority to approve and demarcate indigenous lands
2013-10-06,"Radiation Soars 6,700 Times Legal Limit as Fukushima Disasters Continue Unabated :'Clean-up' a litany of failures: near daily leaks, escalating danger, TEPCO and government cover-ups"
2013-10-06,Typo adds $14.5 billion to Spain's debt
2013-10-06,Suspected Al Qaeda leader who had a role in 1998 bombing of US Embassies in Kenya & Tanzania seized in Tripoli
2013-10-06,Israeli bulldozers razes Palestinian village for 4th time | Palestine
2013-10-06,Canadian man wins lawsuit allowing hi to resell Trader Joe's products under the name Pirate Joe's
2013-10-06,"Jerusalem court rejects Israel nationality petition - Citizens have to register as Jewish, Arab or Druze and can't simply call themselves Israelis"
2013-10-06,Ikea Sends Its New Flatpack Refugee Shelter to Syria
2013-10-06,Russia ordered to compensate chess grandmaster (and Putin critic) Garry Kasparov over protest arrest
2013-10-06,Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks Headed For Finish Line Amid Official Secrecy
2013-10-06,American and British spy agencies targeted Tor network with minimal success
2013-10-06,"Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee"
2013-10-06,"Chinas smog polluting Fuji, new study says: A Japanese study is claiming that toxic air pollution from China is to blame for high mercury levels atop beloved Mount Fuji."
2013-10-06,"Who bombed Pakistan's Christians? -- Bombs have killed more than 100 in Pakistan in little over a week, with scores more injured. The violence has reignited a quest to understand who is fighting whom in Pakistan  and why."
2013-10-06,End of free National Health Service care for migrants under new bill (UK)
2013-10-06,"Khamenei: Something about Rouhani's U.S. trip ""wasn't proper"". ""The U.S. government is untrustworthy, egotistical and illogical and breaks its promises."""
2013-10-06,"A suicide bomber drove a truck packed with explosives into the playground of a primary school in northern Iraq and blew himself up, killing 14 students and their headmaster on Sunday, police and medical sources said."
2013-10-06,"Swiss to vote on providing every citizen a basic income of approximately $2,600 per month whether they work, or not."
2013-10-06,Madagascar arrests 19 over deaths of European tourists
2013-10-06,Libya wants answers over raid by US commandos
2013-10-06,"Obamas no-show in Asia is a boost for Chinas Xi, trying to repair ties with region."
2013-10-05,"China floods thousands of troops into Tibetan village that is defying a law requiring every Tibetan to hang a Chinese flag over their home. Since troops arrived, 40 villagers have disappeared."
2013-10-05,The Pirate Party of Russia has offered NASA the use of its dedicated servers to temporarily host the US space agencys website as it has been shut down due to the lapse in federal government funding.
2013-10-05,"Medicinal marijuana is now legal in Romania, the 10th country in EU that makes this decision!"
2013-10-05,"1500-Yr-Old Swedish Fortress Massacre Revealed, Frozen in Time - A fort untouched since the 5th century reveals a brutal massacre. Bodies are lying where they fell. In 1 case, a couple were cut down from behind as they ran through the house, another is in a doorway."
2013-10-05,"The Supreme Court (Japan) has rejected an appeal by a citizens group demanding that the state disclose the names of firms whose employees were officially confirmed to have died from overwork, saying this could harm their corporate reputation."
2013-10-05,NSA presentation (Tor Stinks)  read the full document
2013-10-05,How the Owner of the Company That Handled Edward Snowden's Encrypted Emails Courageously Stood Up to the Feds' Massive Investigation
2013-10-05,"Scientists have found way to use a third person's DNA to greatly reduce the potential for disorders of the heart, brain, and muscle. Large numbers of European politicians condemn the act as a three parent baby ""incompatible with human dignity"" and are working to make the therapy illegal."
2013-10-05,"Water 6,700 times more radioactive than legal limit spills from Fukushima"
2013-10-05,Morocco teens held for kissing photo on Facebook: A campaign to post a million copycat photos was later launched in protest.
2013-10-05,"Chile has declared a state of emergency after a late frost caused an estimated $1 billion worth of damage to fruit crops, potentially hitting wine production and impacting trade from one of South America's top fruit exporters."
2013-10-05,National Organization for Marriage Caught Helping Russia Pass Antigay Laws
2013-10-05,Ireland votes on eliminating its Senate.
2013-10-05,A Spanish judge has risked the ire of women everywhere after ruling that a driving school was within its rights to charge female learners more because it was proven that men were better drivers
2013-10-05,US scientists boycott Nasa conference over China ban; Nasa facing backlash from US researchers due to rejection of Chinese nationals from conference
2013-10-05,American and British spy agencies targeted Tor network with minimal success: Tor remains largely secure - the agencies had only limited success in trying to identify users.
2013-10-05,An alcoholic British mother who let her four-year-old son starve to death and left his body in a cot for almost two years was sentenced Friday to 15 years in jail.
2013-10-05,"Arab blasphemy law being drafted in Qatar: Law would empower Arab countries to file cases against non-resident violators -- 'all forms of defamation, derision or denigration of religions and prophets will be considered crimes.'"
2013-10-05,U.S. federal judge has ordered the release of a mentally ill Guantanamo Bay prisoner who spent more than 11 years at a psychiatric ward
2013-10-05,Norway asked to destroy Syria's chemical weapons
2013-10-05,"Greenpeace International's director says Russia's seizure of its ship ""Arctic Sunrise"" and the arrest of its crew is the worst ""assault"" on the group's environmental activism since its flagship ""Rainbow Warrior"" was bombed in 1985."
2013-10-05,Al Jazeera sources say the US may have been involved in sea-borne assault in Somalia that killed at least one al-Shabab fighter.
2013-10-05,"The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has endorsed overtures to the US made last month by President Hassan Rouhani in New York."
2013-10-05,The Seas are in Rough Shape
2013-10-05,Children among 5 Afghans killed in NATO airstrike
2013-10-04,Russia stops all adoptions to Sweden due to risk of children getting gay parents.
2013-10-04,"Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult - Switzerland will hold a vote on whether to introduce a basic income for all adults, in a further sign of growing public activism over pay inequality since the financial crisis."
2013-10-04,Internet freedom on decline worldwide as governments tighten grip - report
2013-10-04,"UFO crashes into London primary school playground: A very talented parent built the space craft and dressed as forensic detective to help with staging of crash"". Later school received letter of apology from aliens stating they accidently crashed into playground whilst sightseeing in London"""
2013-10-04,"99% of Kidnappings in Mexico Went Unreported Last Yr - Thanks to fallout from continued crackdown on illegal drugs, its crime ratenumber of crimes per 100 headsis over 34, a near historic high. No wonder Mexicans are more concerned with security than unemployment, inflation, or health."
2013-10-04,Five stupid things Dread Pirate Roberts did to get arrested: Everyone thought the shady figure behind the Silk Road website was a criminal mastermind. The reality tells a different story
2013-10-04,"Gambia withdraws from Commonwealth, rejects membership of 'neo-colonial institution'"
2013-10-04,"Pope Francis: Heads of the Church have often been narcissists, flattered and thrilled by their courtiers. The court is the leprosy of the papacy."
2013-10-04,"A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a young man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for dancing naked on the roof of a car."
2013-10-04,"""We are not an island. We must not think we can be protected from conflicts"" - President of Germany urges country to play a bigger global role"
2013-10-04,Thousands of pro-Gaddafi Libyans tortured in secret prisons under new regime.
2013-10-04,TEPCO confirms contaminated water may have flowed into the Pacific Ocean in latest radioactive scare at Fukushima
2013-10-04,Russia's Military Is Back-A million men under arms. Thousands of new tanks and planes. A hundred new satellites. Next-generation weapons. Inside Vladimir Putin's $755 billion plan to restore Russian might.
2013-10-04,NSA and GCHQ target Tor network that protects anonymity of web users
2013-10-04,Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant operator says another tank leaked toxic water
2013-10-04,FOI file reveals Catholic Church tried to strike agreement with NSW police which would conceal evidence against accused priests
2013-10-04,Saudi black op team behind Damascus chemical weapons attack  diplomatic sources
2013-10-04,"The 12 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations are now planning to only scrap fishing subsidies that clearly cause overfishing, negotiation sources said Thursday."
2013-10-04,Europe's Youth Unemployment Crisis In One Grim Map
2013-10-04,"No threat to Qatar's right to host: Fifa will announce Qatar faces no threat to its right to host the 2022 World Cup despite proven bribery, slave labor, extreme heat, and strict Islamist laws"
2013-10-04,How Snowden's Email Provider Tried To Foil The FBI Using Tiny Font : The Two-Way : NPR
2013-10-04,Legendary Vietnam Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap Dies
2013-10-04,Mini-skirt ban prompts protest at Hungarian university
2013-10-04,"Japan to pay $3.1bn to remove US troops from Okinawa, will host spy drones"
2013-10-04,Lampedusa sinking: Italy mourns up to 300 migrant dead
2013-10-03,"New evidence reveals FBI demands companies secretly turn over crypto keys, allowing them to simultaneously wiretap all customers worldwide, and threatens to jail them if they violate the gag order"
2013-10-03,Unsealed Lavabit documents show owner defied US government court order for SSL key and destroyed the servers instead
2013-10-03,"Edward Snowden's E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show - Faced $5,000 Daily Fine"
2013-10-03,Police caught in the act trying to incriminate innocent brazilian protester by planting explosives in his bag
2013-10-03,"Pope Francis: 'I believe in God, not in a Catholic God'"
2013-10-03,"For sale: Chinese babies and children. $8k for a baby boy, $2500 for a newborn. Many ""buyers"" are from Western countries."
2013-10-03,Ex-NSA/CIA chief Hayden jokes of putting Snowden on kill list
2013-10-03,Canada Rolls Out a $1 Billion Privatized Medical Marijuana Industry
2013-10-03,85 year old Canadian farmer is forced to surrender land that has been in his family for two centuries to allow for expansion of a military base
2013-10-03,The Russian Embassy in Libya is currently under attack.
2013-10-03,"No more free delivery and special discounts: France moves against Amazon which is ""destroying"" bookstores."
2013-10-03,Chinese tourists warned not to pick noses or urinate in public
2013-10-03,NSA Now Claiming 'Terrorist Chatter' Leak By Unnamed Govt Officials 'More Damaging' Than All Of Snowden's Combined
2013-10-03,"Teachers in China have the highest levels of public respect, according to an international study comparing their status in 21 countries."
2013-10-03,Fukushima nuclear plant operator says another tank is leaking toxic water
2013-10-03,IMF says US must solve debt crisis
2013-10-03,Health of oceans declining fast
2013-10-03,"BBC News - David Cameron suggests cutting benefits for under 25's. So they are ""Either learning or earning"""
2013-10-03,Ancient 300 year-old City Of Idu Discovered Beneath Mound In Iraq
2013-10-03,AP News: At least 94 dead in migrant shipwreck off Italy
2013-10-03,Russian Embassy in Libya attacked
2013-10-03,CIA ramping up covert training program for moderate Syrian rebels
2013-10-03,Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination
2013-10-03,Iran's cyberwarfare czar is allegedly assassinated
2013-10-03,Alawite villages attacked by Islamists
2013-10-02,South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor will defer payments due from US federal employees impacted by the partial government shutdown.
2013-10-02,"Australia had a government shutdown once, in 1975. It ended with the Queen firing everyone in Parliament."
2013-10-02,"FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner"
2013-10-02,Saudi Arabia gives 20 lashes punishment to man for beating wife
2013-10-02,"BBC response to government shutdown: ""Even in the middle of its ongoing civil war, the Syrian government has continued to pay its bills and workers wages"""
2013-10-02,Heron is now 74% cheaper in Europe than it was in 1990 due to a failing global drug policy.
2013-10-02,"Greek woman who went to Golden Dawn neo-Nazi group for support speaks up. ""They talked of beating up gay and dark-skinned people. A party member came to visit me. He offered to break someone's arm and leg for 300 euros. Ignite a car for 1,000 euros. Hospitalize someone for a month for 1,500 euros."""
2013-10-02,A German writer is banned from the US for criticizing the NSA
2013-10-02,"Thousands in Japan reported to be suffering massive and recurring nosebleeds in recent days  Gundersen: Japan doctors tell us, We know our patients have radiation illness but forced to keep it secret (VIDEO)"
2013-10-02,"Japan Aims to Beam Solar Energy Down from Orbit - JAXA developing revolutionary concept to put power stations in orbit to capture sunlight & beam it to Earth. It wouldn't deplete resources & it'd be unaffected by time of day or weather & provide environmentally friendly, clean energy."
2013-10-02,"Lavabit founder raises $20,000 to fund court battle"
2013-10-02,"Greenpeace activists charged with piracy by Russian authorities, could face 10 to 15 years in prison for oil rig protest"
2013-10-02,Tom Clancy dead at age 66
2013-10-02,The True Size Of The Shadow Banking System Revealed (Spoiler: Humongous)
2013-10-02,The Dominican Republic's top court has ruled that children born after 1929 to Haitian migrants be stripped of citizenship and deported.
2013-10-02,UK's first All-Muslim school Al-Madinah closes after inspection
2013-10-02,"Iran considers end to ""Death to America"""
2013-10-02,Highly dangerous radioactive material stolen by burglar in Swords (Ireland)
2013-10-02,Somali-Canadian arrested for allegedly beheading 4 sons in Somalia | CTV News
2013-10-02,"Almost 1,000 people killed in Iraq last month, UN says"
2013-10-02,"A Belgian man has been killed by medical euthanasia after claiming that a botched sex change operation had turned him into ""a monster"""
2013-10-02,Japan fast-food chain to grow food 100 km from wrecked nuclear plant
2013-10-02,"Tokyo Electric Power Co. said about four tons of radioactive water spilled out of a tank at its stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station on Tuesday. The water seeped into the ground around the tank, TEPCO officials said."
2013-10-02,Torture 'widespread' in Libyan jails - UN report
2013-10-02,"Europe's Largest Internet Exchange Decides To Open US Office, Risks Making Itself Subject To NSA Demands"
2013-10-01,"Ex-Microsoft privacy chief: I don't trust Microsoft after NSA revelations, says he was unaware of Prism data-sharing program when he worked there"
2013-10-01,US leaker Edward Snowden among 3 finalists for EU's top human rights prize
2013-10-01,A CEO who resisted NSA spying is out of prison. And he feels vindicated by Snowden leaks.
2013-10-01,"Age of Unreason: The governments of Britain, Canada and Australia are trying to stamp out scientific dissent."
2013-10-01,German writer and NSA-critic is not allowed to enter the US
2013-10-01,"""A superpower has paralyzed itself. The unthinkable has happened."" - Europe reacts to US government shutdown"
2013-10-01,Korean minister blasts Japan for covering up Fukushima radiation leak
2013-10-01,"Snowden to EU: Whistleblowers need protection, ""Surveillance of whole populations is one of the greatest challenges facing human rights"""
2013-10-01,"Report: Cheaper, purer illegal substances suggest global war on drugs is failing"
2013-10-01,NYC Accountant Gets 18 Years for Aiding al-Qaida
2013-10-01,Siberian tigers making a comeback in China
2013-10-01,"Peru exports more illegal gold than cocaine, and its the worlds biggest exporter of cocaine"
2013-10-01,"NSA stores metadata of millions of web users for up to a year, secret files show"
2013-10-01,A kiss between two women gets them arrested in Brazil.
2013-10-01,US shutdown has other nations puzzled
2013-10-01,"NSA spied on Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali, Protestors of Vietnam War: Operation Minaret"
2013-10-01,"Venezuela kicks out three U.S. diplomats, alleges plot to sabotage economy"
2013-10-01,Saudi Men Buying Syrian Refugee Children as Brides and Prostitutes
2013-10-01,"The Indian lawyer for two of the four Delhi gang-rapists sentenced to hang last week has criticised the victim's parents for allowing her to go out at night with a boy and claimed he would have ""burned her alive"" if she had been his daughter."
2013-10-01,NSA May Not Be Collecting Your Location Data From Telco Dragnet... Because It Gets It From Your GPS
2013-10-01,"Qatar World Cup 2022: 70 Nepalese workers die on building sites ""Nepal has said that 70 of its migrant workers constructing facilities for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar have died on building sites since the start of 2012."""
2013-10-01,War on illegal drugs failing: Illegal drugs are cheaper and purer globally than at any time over the last 20 years
2013-10-01,Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
2013-10-01,"Obama, after meeting Israel PM, says 'no options off the table' on Iran"
2013-10-01,"At U.N., Syria compares rebel violence to 9/11 attacks: ""How can some countries, hit by the same terrorism we are suffering now in Syria, claim to fight terrorism in all parts of the world while supporting it in my country?"""
2013-09-30,"John McAfee reveals details on gadget to thwart NSA. And if the U.S. government bans its sale, ""I'll sell it in England, Japan, the Third World. This is coming and cannot be stopped."""
2013-09-30,Pope Francis to 'rip up and rewrite' Vatican constitution
2013-09-30,Secret Cold War documents reveal NSA spied on US senators
2013-09-30,"Swiss army trains for invasion by a bankrupt France ""looking for money"""
2013-09-30,"Glenn Greenwald working on new NSA revelations - ""U.S. assassination program."""
2013-09-30,South Africa on terror alert after the mastermind behind the Kenya terror attacks was spotted doing surveillance of Pretoria embassies.
2013-09-30,Brits now experiencing an unprecedented squeeze on living standards
2013-09-30,BP again fighting $18 billion (11.1bn) fine from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil spill in court
2013-09-30,Convicted earthquake scientist says he can't be blamed for 309 deaths
2013-09-30,Girls as young as 9 are forced into prostitution in Davao City in the Philippines
2013-09-30,"""Two degrees,one MA and now I clean SH*t in a foreign country,""viral message by qualified young Spaniard strikes a chord with thousands of countrymen doing menial jobs overseas"
2013-09-30,"Jehovah's Witness teen loses appeal over life-saving transfusion: 'The Australian teenager, who is being treated for Hodgkin's Lymphoma, threatened to rip the IV needle from his arm and said it would be akin to rape if he was given a blood transfusion while under anaesthetic.'"
2013-09-30,Cannabis for Kreuzberg: A new Berlin Wall made of pot? - A proposal to legalize marijuana in a Berlin park is polarizing one of the citys hippest neighborhoods.
2013-09-30,Helping Build The Surveillance State Is Good Business: Palantir Gets $196 Million More In Funding
2013-09-30,"Email surveillance could reveal journalists' sources, expert claims. Phil Zimmermann, inventor of PGP encryption, urges shift away from consumer email"
2013-09-30,"Roma kids aged 10, forced into crime like military conscripts and Roma women bought and sold over their ability to steal, a court in France hears."
2013-09-30,"Saudi Arabia ""Outraged"" At Obama's Peace Overtures With Syria, Iran"
2013-09-30,"32% of all food in the UK is wasted. It's estimated that Tesco alone waste 130,000 tonnes of food per year but state that the problem lies with distribution and the consumer."
2013-09-30,Peres: Israel will consider joining chemical weapons ban treaty
2013-09-30,French were 'hours' from military strikes on Syria before phone call from Obama
2013-09-30,Nasa plans first 3D printer space launch in 2014
2013-09-30,Hassan Rouhani suggests resuming direct flights between Iran and US
2013-09-30,Terrified Muslims hid in their homes in northwest Myanmar on Monday after armed police dispersed a Buddhist mob that torched houses and surrounded a mosque in the latest outbreak of sectarian tension
2013-09-30,Suicide bomber kills 40 at Iraq mosque | Reuters
2013-09-30,US gives million-dollar cup back to Iran
2013-09-29,"""Two American journalists known for their investigations of the United States' government said Saturday [28 September 2013] they've teamed up to report on the National Security Agency's role in what one called a 'U.S. assassination program.'"""
2013-09-29,"In India, the Supreme Court has ruled that a None-of-the-Above button must be included on electronic voting machines, allowing people to cast votes of no confidence in all candidates."
2013-09-29,"'It is time to end the war on drugs', says top UK police chief"
2013-09-29,Mom who held down 4-year-old son so step-father could rape him gets 20 years
2013-09-29,Greatest threat to Muslim world is extremists who are using Islam as an excuse to commit violence- Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak tells UN General Assembly
2013-09-29,Top Saudi cleric says women who drive risk damaging their ovaries
2013-09-29,"Westgate Mall Photographer Goran Tomasevic: If I Get Shot, I Get Shot. NSFW"
2013-09-29,Islamists who demand their own shariah law and exemption from national law in Philippines tried to reignite civil war. 218 dead so far.
2013-09-29,Afghanistan opens up 1.5 Billion Barrels of Oil for production to the highest bidder. No takers.
2013-09-29,"Britains harsh crackdown on Internet porn prompts free-speech debate: 'Perhaps more than any other Western nation, critics say, Britain has become a test case for how and whether to more deeply police Internet images and social media in free societies.'"
2013-09-29,'Breast ironing': Girls have chests flattened out to disguise the onset of puberty: Barbaric custom that takes place in Cameroon may have been imported to the UK
2013-09-29,"The punishment was death by stoning. The crime? Having a mobile phone;This barbaric form of execution is on the rise, and campaigners are calling on the UN to act"
2013-09-29,"Slavery is banned in Nepal. But hidden behind the walls of city homes, some still keep young girls as slaves called kamlaris."
2013-09-29,Majority of French believe Roma should leave France
2013-09-29,"Brazilian journalist getting arrested in US: ""How I was handcuffed and arrested at Yale Law School"""
2013-09-29,Israel must sign non-nuclear treaty: Egypt's FM
2013-09-29,"BBC News - Germany's Siemens to axe 15,000 jobs"
2013-09-29,'We must be able to chuck out people who threaten our country': Cameron reveals Britain could leave human rights convention - The European Convention has been responsible for deeply controversial decisions including repeatedly blocking the deportation of radical cleric Abu Qatada.
2013-09-29,Boko Haram militants fire on sleeping students in college dorm in Nigeria
2013-09-29,"A fifth of Hong Kongs population is living in poverty, underscoring the challenge Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying faces in seeking to narrow a record wealth gap."
2013-09-29,Bertolli Makes the Most of Barilla Chairman's Anti-Gay Comments: Love & pasta for all!
2013-09-29,"Italian center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi pulled his ministers out of the ruling coalition on Saturday, effectively bringing down the government of Prime Minister Enrico Letta and leaving Europe's third-largest economy in chaos."
2013-09-29,Fukushima disaster: New information about worst-case scenarios.
2013-09-29,"MSFs six hospitals and two clinics in Syria are conducting an average of 10,000 consultations and 430 surgical acts per month, while supporting 28 hospitals and 56 health clinics throughout Syria. All report dire shortages of essential medical supplies... (/r/doctorswithoutborders xpost)"
2013-09-29,"The Japanese government has asked local authorities and state-run universities not to post maps provided by Google Inc. on their websites because some of them include foreign place names that undermine Japans territorial claims, sources said Saturday."
2013-09-28,Drug Is Found to Eradicate HIV Permanently from Infected Cells
2013-09-28,"Iranian President Hassan Rouhani returns to Tehran, and is greeted by 200-300 supporters offering thanks for his conciliatory overtures to the West, while about 60 hard-liners chanted 'Death to America' and hurled shoes and eggs at his convoy."
2013-09-28,"An international team of sniper hitmen have been caught, plotting to murder a DEA agent and others; reads like a Tom Clancy novel."
2013-09-28,Greek police arrest Golden Dawn Party leader and a party lawmaker
2013-09-28,Al-Qaeda now controls more territory and can call on more fighters than at any time since bin Laden created the organization.
2013-09-28,Tunisia's Islamist Government Agrees To Step Down In Response To Mass Secular Protests
2013-09-28,"In wake of gang rape, India sees rise of women only taxis, buses and parks"
2013-09-28,"Chinese police rescue 92 abducted children - Chinese police have rescued 92 abducted children and held 301 suspected members of a huge trafficking network, the authorities say."
2013-09-28,"In the latest twist in a controversy that has divided Germans, a regional court has ruled that doctors need to discuss circumcision procedures with the child before they can be carried out."
2013-09-28,"2,700-year-old Persian artifact returned by U.S. to Iran"
2013-09-28,Record Label Picks Copyright Fight With The Wrong Guy
2013-09-28,Obama Announces Historic Phone Call With Iranian President Rouhani
2013-09-28,Bolivian President Morales : Obama can invade any country for US energy needs
2013-09-28,Britain and the US have betrayed their troops' Iraqi and Afghan interpreters
2013-09-28,Qatar World Cup 'Slaves' Dying At Shocking Rate (VIDEO)
2013-09-28,"A Corporate Coup of a Different Order - The Growing Resistance to the TPP: '...to characterize the TPP as a trade deal is imprecise.. it has less to do with the exchange of goods than with altering regulations covering medicine, agriculture, finance, IP, and labor and environmental standards.'"
2013-09-28,Elephants being hunted down and advertised by NBC
2013-09-28,"""Hard-line protesters hurled eggs and a shoe at President Hassan Rouhani of Iran as he returned to Tehran on Saturday after supporters cheered him for reaching out to President Obama."""
2013-09-28,"U.S., Iranian presidents have historic conversation,which was the first talk between the two countries' heads of state for more than 30 years, regarding the ongoing efforts to pursue a deal over Iran's nuclear program."
2013-09-28,"Ominous Signs, Then a Cruel Attack: ""The Westgate mall, which is owned by Israelis, was a glitzy mecca for rich Kenyans and expats, a symbol of Kenyas newfound decadence."""
2013-09-28,Now 400 tons a day of toxic water is estimated to be entering Pacific from Fukushima plant; Up 100 tons from what Tepco previously claimed  Asahi: Leakage of radioactive material is becoming serious
2013-09-28,China ends video game console ban with new Shanghai trade zone
2013-09-28,"How hundreds of thousands of pet dogs are snatched in Thailand, smuggled into Vietnam, and eaten at Hanoi's top restaurants"
2013-09-28,"Seymour Hersh on death of Osama bin Laden: Its one big lie, not one word of it is true"
2013-09-28,The First Victim of Russia's Anti-Gay Law Is Dead
2013-09-27,The Curiosity Rover just found water on Mars
2013-09-27,Researchers: Sonar mapping for oil near Madagascar killed 100 whales
2013-09-27,"The death of a young Saudi during a car chase by the countrys religious police has stirred uproar on the social media, especially after it became known that the involved members of the Saudi religious police fled the scene of the accident."
2013-09-27,"Malala Yousafzai tells UN to send books, not guns. ""Instead of sending weapons, instead of sending tanks to Afghanistan and all these countries which are suffering from terrorism, send books. Instead of sending tanks, send pens. Instead of sending soldiers, send teachers."""
2013-09-27,The TomTato: Plant which produces both potatoes and tomatoes launched in UK
2013-09-27,The Indian Supreme Court gives voters right to reject all candidates
2013-09-27,"Syrian arsenal will be easier to diasarm than initially expected: U.S. and Russia Say Majority of Syrian Chemical Arsenal Is Unweaponized"""
2013-09-27,"""Youre not the boss of the world"": Regular Iranian citizens speak directly to America"
2013-09-27,"The Palestinian village erased from the map: Demolition of Makhul shows how Israelis are transforming the Jordan Valley, despite international condemnation"
2013-09-27,Study: Effectiveness Of U.S. Drone Strikes Doubtful
2013-09-27,Britain accused of trying to block EU data protection law
2013-09-27,Iran news agency slams CNN for fabricating Rouhanis Holocaust remarks
2013-09-27,IPCC climate report: Global warming now 'unequivocal'
2013-09-27,"Risky Repair of Fukushima Could Spill 15,000 Times the Radiation of Hiroshima, Create 85 Chernobyls"
2013-09-27,Russian court orders Greenpeace activists to be held without charge - More than 20 people detained for up to two months over the protest against offshore oil drilling in the Arctic
2013-09-27,"Canadian Man Gets 9 Yrs for Artifact TheftHe stole some 1,600 artifacts from museums, galleries, archives. We felt it was important to distinguish this case from simply a theft of electronics, which you can replace easily. He's agreed to forfeit his home, bank account, & seized artifacts."
2013-09-27,"Fukushima plant's undersea radiation curtain ripped, TEPCO: Damage was found Thursday on one of the undersea curtains installed near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to help contain radiation contamination, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said."
2013-09-27,Saudi Bankrolling of al-Qaeda Well Known to U.S. Government
2013-09-27,Kenya mall shooting: Dozens of families unsure if loved ones are dead or alive.
2013-09-27,MoD study sets out how to sell wars to the public
2013-09-27,Want to stay alive in Lebanon? There's an app for that. Lebanese developers are designing applications to keep people safe as Syria-related violence intensifies.
2013-09-27,Greek Special Forces present gov't with 15 demands including immediate resignation of government; urge march on square this Saturday
2013-09-27,"Syria's Disneyland for Jihadists ""Foreign Islamists coming into Syria have been gathering in the relatively quiet north. But many of them are finding transit towns -- with good food, video games and smoking -- preferable to the front. When they do end up fighting, it's often with each other"""
2013-09-27,"IPCC Report: Australia Can Expect 6C Rise on Hottest Days - Reptile, bird and mammal species set to vanish along with Kakadu wetlands by end of century, scientists' report reveals"
2013-09-27,Dictatorship 101: Dont Shut Off the Internet for a Day: The Internet monitoring firm Renesys reports that Sudans Internet is back up after a 24-hour complete blackout
2013-09-26,"Iran's new president: Yes, the Holocaust happened. Whatever criminality they committed against the Jews we condemn. The taking of human life is contemptible. It makes no difference whether that life is a Jewish life, Christian or Muslim."
2013-09-26,A fossil unearthed in China is hailed by scientists as the most significant paleontological discovery in decades.
2013-09-26,"The Pope Says The World Worships A ""God Called Money"""
2013-09-26,"Stunned mountaineer finds box of treasure containing jewels worth up to 330,000, buried in ice on glacier in Alps."
2013-09-26,"PressTV - Move the United Nations headquarters out of the United States, Bolivian president says"
2013-09-26,Revealed: Qatar's World Cup 'slaves' - Abuse and exploitation of migrant workers preparing emirate for 2022 World Cup
2013-09-26,US puts pressure on India because of their cheap medicine that undercuts big pharma
2013-09-26,"NSA spied on Indian embassy and UN mission, Edward Snowden files reveal"
2013-09-26,"Qatar World Cup construction 'will leave 4,000 migrant workers dead' ""Qatar's construction frenzy ahead of the 2022 World Cup is on course to cost the lives of at least 4,000 migrant workers before a ball is kicked, the International Trade Union Congress has claimed."""
2013-09-26,Prominent Mexicans urge government to decriminalize marijuana
2013-09-26,"NSA spying row: bugging friends is unacceptable, warn Germans."
2013-09-26,"Atheism to be taught to Irish schoolchildren ""Up to 16,000 primary school pupils in non-denominational sector will get tuition in atheism, while the rest will be offered courses on the internet and on smartphone apps"""
2013-09-26,"62% of Scottish people now feel ""only Scottish"", with only 18% feeling ""Scottish and British"""
2013-09-26,Nearly one worker is dieing each day at the construction sites of the Fifa world championship stadiums in Qatar
2013-09-26,Violent clashes in Greece as thousands march against fascism
2013-09-26,Human Rights Watch urges Israel to stop displacing Bedouins
2013-09-26,"US govt prevented drone strike victims from meeting with Congress, lawyer claims"
2013-09-26,Hornet Attacks Kill 18 in China - Over 100 people stung by swarms of insects in Angkang city in Shaanxi province. People warned to be vigilant if they go into the woods.
2013-09-26,"Zimbabwe poachers jailed 15 years for elephant poisoning. A Zimbabwe court on Wednesday sentenced three poachers to at least 15 years in prison each for poisoning and killing 81 elephants, state radio reported."
2013-09-26,Bolivian President Plans To Sue The US For Diverting Presidential Planes
2013-09-26,"For the first time, the UN is allowing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to use the head-of-state chair"
2013-09-26,Russia Says Sarin Gas in Aug. 21 Syria Attack was 'Homemade'
2013-09-26,Israel on sidelines as world rushes to embrace Iran's Rouhani
2013-09-26,"A 14-year-old rape survivor was allegedly forced to strip at a police station in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, apparently to prove that she was sexually assaulted."
2013-09-26,Human remains found on Costa Concordia
2013-09-25,Eddie Izzard declares he will stand for London mayor in 2020
2013-09-25,1st Example of Whispering Observed in Non-Human Primates - Researchers noticed tamarin monkeys communicating with each other at a 'reduced amplitude' in the presence of zoo staff they disliked
2013-09-25,Iran president: Were tired of war
2013-09-25,Retired British Marine who was having coffee at the mall when the violence broke out rushed in and out of the building 12 times to save around 100 people from the takeover-style massacre
2013-09-25,"India to Build Largest Solar Plant in World - Its Incoming Solar Power Plant will be Bigger than US's 10 Biggest Combined. Plan to use 23,000 acres for it at 4GW of power."
2013-09-25,"NSA planted bugs at Indian missions in D.C., U.N."
2013-09-25,"Vigilante ""paedophile hunters"" are on the rise in the UK. Group Letzgo warns We are vigilantes, definitely. Were not working within the law. I would like to warn paedophiles we are coming for you and we will do our best to catch you."
2013-09-25,"Poland should be merged with Germany, says former Polish president who led the country to freedom from Communism."
2013-09-25,Chinas wealthiest families score $720 billion in undeclared gray income - Gray income has reached staggering levels & is contributing to massive income inequality far worse than official statistics. Richest 10% make some 21 times more than poorest 10%.
2013-09-25,Greece targets its own police departments in crackdown against fascist Golden Dawn party
2013-09-25,Untouchable woman stripped and paraded in the streets by upper caste men to avenge an affront to their pride.
2013-09-25,"Pirate Bay Founder Hacking Sentence Slashed in Half on Appeal, from two years to one."
2013-09-25,"Corroding Our Democracy: Canada Silences Scientists, Targets Environmentalists in Tar Sands Push"
2013-09-25,"Activists fight to preserve Beirut's Roman Heritage - Lebanese activists trying to stop construction of homes over a 2,000-year-old chariot race track"
2013-09-25,"Irans New President, in First U.N. Appearance, Preaches Tolerance, Says His Country Is No Threat"
2013-09-25,"""Roma people are like all EU citizens so they can live where they want,"" Europe warns France to stop kicking Roma out of the country"
2013-09-25,"NSA is targeting India's Nuclear, Space, and Political Programs ""Nation's strategic, commercial interests may have been compromised"""
2013-09-25,"Qatar Airways has come under scrutiny on Wednesday after it was accused of forcing its female workers to seek permission from the company when they decide to get married. In a report released by ITF, the airline was found to also mandate that women tell a supervisor if they become pregnant."
2013-09-25,One person killed and two injured in West Papua as Indonesian police shoot at villagers who refused to cut hair and beards
2013-09-25,"In first public letter since stepping down, ex-pope Benedict denies covering up child sex abuse"
2013-09-25,"An underwater pyramidal structure identified in the Azores islands (60m high, 8K square meter)"
2013-09-25,Zimbabwean authorities say at least 81 elephants have been killed by poachers using cyanide in water holes
2013-09-25,"Signaling that he may be serious about cooperating with the United States and averting military strikes against his government, Syrian President Bashar Assad has disclosed the locations of ""dozens"" of chemical weapons production and storage sites to international inspectors."
2013-09-25,Rouhani to UN: 'Imaginary Iranian threat propaganda' dangerous for world security
2013-09-25,The Canadian Forces is requiring wounded vets to sign a form acknowledging they wont criticize senior officers or discourage others in uniform with their comments on social media sites
2013-09-24,You CANNOT masturbate publicly in Sweden. The earlier reports were just a mistake in translation.
2013-09-24,BP seeks to have Gulf Coast oil spill settlement payments suspended
2013-09-24,Brazilian president Rousseff launches tirade against US over NSA surveillance at United Nations
2013-09-24,44kg of gold bars worth $2million were loaded onto the plane but when it landed they were missing... Air France in more trouble
2013-09-24,"4-year-old British boy in Nairobi mall confronts armed terrorist, tells him ""You are a bad man."" Terrorist begs for forgiveness."
2013-09-24,Stephen Fry joins demand to end NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance
2013-09-24,China will consume more processed food than the U.S. by 2015
2013-09-24,Very big quake (7.8) in Pakistan creates new island! Link to pic included
2013-09-24,Google Launches 'Constitute' Site for Exploring World's Constitutions
2013-09-24,Untouchable girl raped. Woman police officer intimidates victim into not revealing rapist names
2013-09-24,Pope Francis orders excommunication of priest who spoke out against the church's positions on gay marriage and women becoming priests.
2013-09-24,"Guys turned away from a nightclub in Russia return with automatic weapons and go on a five minute shooting spree while shouting ""Allah akhbar."""
2013-09-24,Coral Alert: destruction of reefs 'accelerating' with 1/2 destroyed over past 30 yrs - The eco-system has been around for tens of millions of years & we are wiping it out within 100... & the trend is accelerating.
2013-09-24,Humankinds Most Dangerous Moment: Fukushima Fuel Pool at Unit 4. This is an Issue of Human Survival.
2013-09-24,US military to stop updates on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay
2013-09-24,China to lease 7.4 million acres of farmland in Ukraine for 50 years to keep up with rising food demand
2013-09-24,"Hundreds riot at Foxconn's China factory-""Armed workers at a Foxconn factory in China fight with counterparts from another province, resulting in dozens hospitalized and three reportedly killed"""
2013-09-24,EU not satisfied with US retorts on spying scandal
2013-09-24,Poland declines once again to answer questions on alleged CIA jails
2013-09-24,"Speedy Trains Transform China - Just five years after the rail system opened, it is carrying nearly twice as many passengers as the country's domestic airline industry."
2013-09-24,"Pakistan 7.8 earthquake on Sept. 24,2013 A ""7.8 magnitude earthquake"" hit Pakistan at 16:29 local time Tuesday."
2013-09-24,NSA accused of hacking into India's nuclear systems
2013-09-24,BBC News - China says it has banned the export to North Korea of several weapon-related technologies which could be used in the development of nuclear weapons.
2013-09-24,Russia accuses Greenpeace crew of 'piracy' in Arctic: Russian prosecutors have accused 30 Greenpeace activists of piracy and say they will prosecute all of them for trying to board an Arctic oil platform.
2013-09-24,Australian Broadcasting Commission's Media Watch Finds Murdoch Journalists in Publications across the Globe repeating each others mistakes and misinformation regarding the new IPCC Report
2013-09-23,618 Rhinos killed already in South Africa this year. In 2007 only 13 were poached.
2013-09-23,"German Election: Merkel Wins Third Term, Exit Polls Suggest"
2013-09-23,"50,000 Bangladeshi garment workers strike over inhuman wages: They earn about $38 a month. They are demanding a raise to $103 a month."
2013-09-23,Commander of al Qaeda in Iraq has been killed in Syria.
2013-09-23,Muslim Brotherhood activities banned in Egypt
2013-09-23,"Indian shot in Nairobi mall for failing to answer ""What is the name of Muhammad's mother?"""
2013-09-23,"In central Mexico, it's all-out war in the streets for control of an entire state that's run and terrorized by a drug cartel"
2013-09-23,"NPR: The U.S. Has More Guns, But Russia Has More Murders"
2013-09-23,$270 million worth of cocaine found on Air France flight
2013-09-23,"Pussy Riot's Tolokonnikova writes about the conditions in her Mordovian prison, and why she is going on hunger strike."
2013-09-23,"Swedish Police Discovered Having Illegal Database Of Romani, Including Children"
2013-09-23,Suicide Bombers kill 72 in Church in Pakistan
2013-09-23,25 Palestinian women killed in 'honor' crimes in 2013
2013-09-23,New Zealand schools put science in the too-hard basket: Scientists are alarmed as a growing number of schools considering ditching science from the compulsory curriculum because it is too difficult for some pupils.
2013-09-23,The missing $3.1B no one is asking about in Canada
2013-09-23,"Kenyan and Israeli forces battle to clear Islamist Al Qaeda terrorists from Nairobi, Kenya mall. Those Killed by terrorists include citizens of: Britain, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Canada, France, China, India, Ghana and the Netherlands"
2013-09-23,Poland seizes private pension funds to reduce government debt
2013-09-23,Global HIV infections among children cut in half since 2001
2013-09-23,"Five months after the devastating fire that killed more than 1,100 clothes factory staff in Bangladesh, an investigation by Panorama (BBC) has found evidence of employers abusing workers rights."
2013-09-23,Egypt Bans Muslim Brotherhood Group
2013-09-23,'Snowden believes he did everything right' - lawyer Anatoly Kucherena
2013-09-23,Veiled vote: Burka ban approved in Italian-speaking Switzerland
2013-09-23,India among top targets of spying by NSA
2013-09-23,"What constitutes a ""state secret"" will be left to the discretion of the government and those who obtain such information can be punished under a bill being prepared by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration, worrying critics about infringements on the public's right to know."
2013-09-23,"Cyber-Poachers Hack GPS Collar Data to Pinpoint Tigers - While most illegal hunters faced long days of bushwhacking through the jungle in hopes of spotting a tiger, a dangerous new breed of cyber-savvy poachers are on the rise -- using conservation tools to help target their ill"
2013-09-22,"""More workers will die building World Cup infrastructure than players will take to the field,"": an article on the mistreatment of migrant workers in the run-up to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar"
2013-09-22,'Naming the Dead' project will name and number people killed by drone airstrikes to challenge CIA claims of no civilian deaths in Pakistan
2013-09-22,"Chinese law criminalizes online posts that are read by more than 5,000 people or reblogged more than 500 times"
2013-09-22,'All Muslims leave... we only want to kill non-Muslims': Gunmen massacre at least 22 in Kenyan shopping mall after releasing anyone who could prove they were Islamic by reciting a prayer
2013-09-22,Pope attacks global economics for worshipping 'god of money'
2013-09-22,Teaching union furious as Islamic free school staff are told they must wear hijab even if they are not Muslim
2013-09-22,NSA Fallout: Officials are now talking about laying fibre-optic cables to Latin American countries and Europe so that Brazils international online traffic bypasses the United States
2013-09-22,"North Korean collapse ""inevitable"", according to new report. A collapse would risk ""civil war, a humanitarian crisis or even war with China"" when China moves to annex territory."
2013-09-22,Uruguay First To Fully Legalize Marijuana
2013-09-22,Saudi Arabian women call new day of defiance against driving ban
2013-09-22,"Israeli troops attack EU diplomats, seize West Bank aid material"
2013-09-22,Israeli forces join Kenya battle to end deadly mall siege
2013-09-22,Indias Mars Mission to be launched on Oct 28
2013-09-22,"When the terrorist attack started at a Nairobi mall, photographer Tyler Hicks from the NY Times was right next door. Here's his report"
2013-09-22,France will introduce a levy on nuclear energy as well as a tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuels to raise billions needed to boost renewable power and improve energy efficiency
2013-09-22,Muslim groups oppose ban on child marriage
2013-09-22,"64 people were killed and 143 others wounded in car bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Saturday, police said."
2013-09-22,Major US security company warns over NSA-subverted encryption protocol; RSA sends email to global customers over default random number generator which uses weak formula
2013-09-22,"A Berlin judge has banned a Muslim lawyer from wearing a headscarf in his courtroom stating she should show religious neutrality. The lawyer, who has not been named, was told by a judge three times that she was not allowed to wear a headscarf in court."
2013-09-22,400% More Fukushima plant workers show health problems (VIDEO)
2013-09-22,Chinas Fallen Politician Bo Xilai Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
2013-09-22,Ancient Woodland in Kent to be Uprooted for Quarry - Ruling comes despite allegations of political & legal bullying & outburst of foul language by minister Eric Pickles. 80 acres of woodland was condemned to be turned into a quarry to supply Kentish ragstone to a company.
2013-09-22,Switzerland referendum voters to keep army conscription
2013-09-22,"Typhoon Usagi hits southern China. Storm brings travel chaos and puts nuclear power plant on alert, but spares Hong Kong after warnings of severe threat to city"
2013-09-22,"Latest Snowden Leaks Show GCHQ Gleefully Hacking Belgian Telco: ...the British wanted to use this access for complex attacks (""Man in the Middle"" attacks) on smartphone users. The head of GCHQ's NAC described Operation Socialist in the presentation as a ""success."""
2013-09-21,"WikiLeaks released 249 documents from 92 global intelligence contractors. These reveal how, US, EU and developing world intelligence agencies have rushed into spending millions on next-generation mass surveillance technology to target communities, groups and whole populations."
2013-09-21,North Korean coast guard opens fire on Russian vessel [xpost /r/NorthKoreaNews]
2013-09-21,Ecuador: US has seemingly denied visas to a delegation that was set to travel to the UN General Assembly in New York to present their case regarding an ongoing dispute against Chevron-Texaco.
2013-09-21,"NASA declared the Deep Impact mission lost on Friday, after a computer glitch doomed the comet-smashing spacecraft."
2013-09-21,Greece is moving to effectively outlaw the extreme-right Golden Dawn party by asking prosecutors to declare it a criminal organization...It presented prosecutors with a legal file that it says it acted as an organized ganga felony under Greece's penal codeand declaring it a threat to public order
2013-09-21,"As crime rises, French rally behind jeweller who shot and killed armed robber"
2013-09-21,Pope urges Catholic doctors to refuse abortions
2013-09-21,Israel army roughs up EU envoys on West Bank aid trip for Palestinians
2013-09-21,Gunmen attack Kenyan shopping centre leaving at least 15 people dead
2013-09-21,"Beware Of Data Spying, Former NSA Official Warns Canadians: ""'Every democracy is going this way,' William Binney, a former technical director of the U.S. National Security Agency [NSA], said ahead of a planned trip to a civil-liberties conference in Toronto [Canada]"""
2013-09-21,"Syria declares its chemical weapons arsenal, first step in US-Russian deal"
2013-09-21,Yale Professor: Fukushima Unit 4 pool in perilous condition  All of humanity will be threatened for thousands of years if not able to be kept cool
2013-09-21,Diplomats from a number of European countries and the UN have reacted angrily after Israeli soldiers intervened to prevent them delivering aid to Bedouins in the West Bank
2013-09-21,Obama to nominate Goldman Sachs partner Bruce Heyman as new ambassador to Canada
2013-09-21,"In Spain, website owners can now get six years in prison for linking to copyrighted material"
2013-09-21,"Israeli soldier, missing for 24 hours, found murdered in West Bank.Palestinian admitted that he lured the soldier into the West Bank and murdered him in order to trade his body for the release of his incarcerated brother."
2013-09-21,White Muslim convert planned to steal bodyguard's gun and murder Prince Harry for having 'blood on his hands'
2013-09-21,Two UK universities ban Blurred Lines for promoting rape culture
2013-09-21,"""On Internet, Brazil is beating US at its own game"": an analysis of what Brazil is doing against NSA spying"
2013-09-21,Trafficking case against Saudi princess dismissed
2013-09-21,"Tunisian women have traveled to Syria to have sex with rebel fighters, a practice known as ""sexual jihad."""
2013-09-21,Anti-Euro Party Gaining Steam in Germany.
2013-09-21,Why are so many Westerners homeless in Thailand?
2013-09-21,Pope Francis sets out vision for more gay people and women in 'new' church
2013-09-21,"Danish engineers plan to send astronaut into space in homemade rocket made from cork, duct tape"
2013-09-20,"Mother given jail sentence for sending her son, named Jihad, to school wearing a T shirt with the words 'I am a bomb' and 'Born on 9/11' on it. She said it was a ""joke""."
2013-09-20,"WikiLeaks leaks ""The Fifth Estate"" script, says: ""Most of the events depicted never happened, or the people shown were not involved in them."""
2013-09-20,He called climate change crap  now Australias new Prime Minister abolishes watchdog
2013-09-20,A porpoise slaughter 7x larger than Taiji's 'The Cove' is about to begin.
2013-09-20,Kenya poachers to be named and shamed online.
2013-09-20,Smoking to be banned in UK prisons in 2014
2013-09-20,British Spy Agency GCHQ Hacked Belgian Telecoms Firm
2013-09-20,"2,000-Yr-Old Warrior Grave & 5 Spears Found in England at Site Soon to be Golf ClubhouseThe warrior was a member of the Catuvellauni tribe from the time of the Roman conquest of Britain."
2013-09-20,5.3 magnitude earthquake near Fukushima nuclear plant
2013-09-20,Tunisian girls return home pregnant after sexual jihad in Syria
2013-09-20,"Due to the economic crisis, some ex-prisoners are committing crimes to get back into prison."
2013-09-20,NASA Curiosity Rover Detects No Methane on Mars. A huge blow in hope on finding life on the planet's surface.
2013-09-20,President of Iran Hassan Rouhani Op-Ed In Washington Post: Time to engage
2013-09-20,France erupts over manslaughter charges against jeweller who killed robber
2013-09-20,5.8 Magnitude Earthquake hits Japan near the same Fukushima Nuclear Plant
2013-09-20,France suggests it is ready to give weapons to Syrian rebels
2013-09-20,US judge accepts Halliburton's guilty plea for destroying evidence in Gulf oil spill probe.
2013-09-20,"Pope Wants 'Airport Bishops' Grounded: ""Pope Francis on Thursday [19 September 2013] lashed out at what he called the scandal of 'airport bishops', urging his peers to remain rooted in their dioceses and spend less time seeking the spotlight."""
2013-09-20,"Children find 10 handcuffed, blindfolded corpses in Baghdad"
2013-09-20,Russia 'seizes' Greenpeace ship after Arctic rig protest
2013-09-20,Member states of the UN nuclear agency voted down an Arab-backed resolution targeting the Jewish state for criticism over its clandestine nuclear weapons arsenal.
2013-09-20,President Obama may meet Iranian President Rouhani in NY!
2013-09-20,US Denies Venezuela's President Airspace Access For China Trip
2013-09-20,"British Banks to block internet porn sites: Websites which fail to stop children accessing pornography will have payments to them blocked by banks and credit card companies as part of a government plan to help clean up the internet, The Telegraph has learnt."
2013-09-20,Putin says he may seek 4th presidential term
2013-09-19,"Pope Francis says Catholic Church too obsessed with abortion, gay marriage and contraception."
2013-09-19,"Australia's new Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has just dissolved the Climate Commission, as part of his stance about climate change being being a false idea"
2013-09-19,Syria just became a three-way war: Islamist rebels attack non-Islamist rebels
2013-09-19,"Pope Francis says the church should be home for all and not a small chapel focused on doctrine, orthodoxy and a limited agenda of moral teachings."
2013-09-19,"Amazing scenes across Greece and in Athens. A large anarchist/antifascist block of 3000-4000 people is heading towards Golden Dawns offices in Nikaia. Golden Dawns offices are being smashed. People are chanting the blood is running, it seeks revenge."
2013-09-19,"Hiroshi Yamauchi, former Nintendo president who transformed a small playing cards company into a global video game giant, has died at 85."
2013-09-19,"Turkish government hiring 6,000 young Twitter users to post propaganda"
2013-09-19,Greece moves to ban far-right Golden Dawn party
2013-09-19,Canadian Scientists push campaign for evidence-based decision making from government
2013-09-19,Evangelist Pat Robertson Exploited Post-Genocide Rwandans For Diamonds
2013-09-19,Netflix exec: Canadas broadband caps almost a human rights violation
2013-09-19,"""It's just harmless fun,"" says terrifying clown who has been stalking an English town for a week"
2013-09-19,"""In the Netherlands today, local ISPs are arguing that not only is DNS and IP address blocking both disproportionate and ineffective, but denies subscribers free access to information and runs counter to an EU ruling against filtering the Internet"""
2013-09-19,"Developer Destruction of Pre-Inca Pyramid Goes Unpunished - I was desperate & climbed the hill to tell the watchman to call the police. When it happened, I felt a deep pain, as this is part of my country, they are destroying my identity, my culture & this is an act of treason against our nation."
2013-09-19,"Tens of millions of elderly Chinese are being left behind by the countrys transformation, suffering poverty, illness and depression. It has become such a serious problem that the Chinese government put into effect a law allowing parents to sue their children if they failed to visit and support them"
2013-09-19,Tepco successfully lobbied against a proposed ground water barrier wall two months after Fukushima because the cost could have stirred speculation it would be driven into bankruptcy.
2013-09-19,Rhino poaching kingpin arrested in South Africa
2013-09-19,"Pope Francis: Church can't ""interfere"" with gays"
2013-09-19,"Mugabe wants rapists castrated, says ""that which makes him rape, must go"""
2013-09-19,Brazil looks to break from U.S.-centric Internet
2013-09-19,"Europe is Wiping Out its Seabass Population, Thanks in Part to Trendy Chefs - Posh diners are swallowing up yet another species from the ocean. The population of the once populous fish has plummeted 32% since 2009 & has hit a 20-yr low."
2013-09-19,"Sir David Attenborough: If we do not control population, the natural world will"
2013-09-19,British scientists claim to have found proof of alien life
2013-09-19,"""Go and live in the forest!"" Turkish PM tells environmental activists"
2013-09-19,Iran's president Rouhani: We will never develop nuclear weapons - has full authority to make a deal with the West on the disputed atomic program.
2013-09-18,"Child beauty contests have been banned in France to stop ""hyper-sexualisation"" of young girls. Two years in prison for anyone who tries to organise a pageant."
2013-09-18,"Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff cancels october state dinner in US over NSA spying and plans speech on the United Nations ""to emphasize the need to maintain the neutrality of the internet and the prohibition of using it for espionage"""
2013-09-18,U.S. to seize Manhattan skyscraper secretly owned by Iran
2013-09-18,13-year-old Indian girl begins microbiology master's degree
2013-09-18,"NYT editor on story about NSA giving all its data on Americans to Israel: ""I didnt think it was a significant or surprising story"""
2013-09-18,An Indian minister jumps into a cold lake along with his guards and saves a family of six trapped in a sinking car
2013-09-18,French citizen arrested in Cairo just for breaking the curfew is then beaten to death by his cell mates
2013-09-18,David Attenborough: Sending food to famine-ridden countries is 'barmy'. Veteran broadcaster has called for a debate on population control
2013-09-18,Daddy's Girl: How An African 'Princess' Banked $3 Billion In A Country Whose Citizens Are Living On $2 A Day
2013-09-18,Half The World's Richest Women Are Chinese
2013-09-18,"European Parliamentarians Call for SWIFT Suspension ""Revelations the US is spying on international bank transfers has angered European parliamentarians. Some are calling for the suspension of the SWIFT deal between the EU and US. 'Washington must make clear where it stands,' says one."""
2013-09-18,"Facebook apologizes for dating site ad with photo of Rehtaeh Parsons with ""meet Canadian girls and women for dating, friendship and relationships."" Parsons killed herself after being sexually assaulted then subsequently bullied on Facebook."
2013-09-18,"A German neo-nazi party has sparked outrage by sending mock one-way airline tickets to politicians with migrant roots, urging them to ""go home"""
2013-09-18,"Brazilian Press Assoc gives Intl Human Rights Prize to Assange, Snowden, Manning, Glenn Greenwald, Swartz & Vanunu"
2013-09-18,"Passenger train collides with bus in Canada's capital Ottawa, at least five people killed"
2013-09-18,N. Korea in grip of 'ice' plague: new report claims drug producers are finding a ready market closer to home and that as many as two-thirds of North Koreans have used methamphetamines
2013-09-18,22 Tons of Fake Beef Seized in China
2013-09-18,400 Richest Americans Worth More Than GDP of Canada or Mexico
2013-09-18,US can access NZ fingerprint info. in new deal.
2013-09-18,"Since 1990-91, Australians have enjoyed the longest period of economic expansion unbroken by recession of any developed country ever. That expansion may be coming to an end."
2013-09-18,"King Willem-Alexander delivered a message to the Dutch people from the government Tuesday in a nationally televised address: the welfare state of the 20th century is gone. In its place a ""participation society"" is emerging, in which people must take responsibility for their own future."
2013-09-18,"Soldiers are developing relationships with their battlefield robots, naming them, assigning genders, and even holding funerals when they are destroyed."
2013-09-18,14-year-old rape victim commits suicide in India after being pressured to marry her alleged rapist
2013-09-18,"Defense Analyst Report: Al-Qaeda-Type, Jihadists Make Up Half of Syrian Rebels"
2013-09-18,Two guard dogs that protected Prince William on RAF duty are destroyed days after he quits service because they could not be redeployed or re-homed
2013-09-17,Professor Stephen Hawking backs assisted suicide
2013-09-17,"Edward Snowden is in the running for a European human rights prize ""Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought"", whose past winners include Nelson Mandela and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi."
2013-09-17,UN report confirms sarin gas use in Syria
2013-09-17,"Sugar is 'addictive and the most dangerous drug of the times': Soft drinks should carry tobacco-style warnings that sugar is highly addictive and dangerous, a senior Dutch health official has warned."
2013-09-17,Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit
2013-09-17,"Eiji Toyoda, engineer who steered Toyota to global lead, dead at 100"
2013-09-17,"Thailands cure for meth addiction? A leafy jungle stimulant - Seen as an emerging threat in the US, Kratom could wean addicts off meth, Thailands justice minister argues."
2013-09-17,Brazil Aims to Break from US-Centric Internet Because of Washington's Spying - Many fear this is a potentially dangerous 1st step toward politically fracturing a global network built with minimal interference by govts.
2013-09-17,Guardian Story on Israel and N.S.A. Is Not Surprising Enough to Cover
2013-09-17,War crimes blamed on the Syrian opposition are predominantly being carried out by foreign fighters
2013-09-17,London's underground tube cleaners refuse new measures requiring them to clock-in using fingerprint scanners
2013-09-17,"The Oil Is Ours  But Its Secrets Are the NSAs. Reported U.S. spying on Brazils Petrobras oil firm revived the controversy over opening up the company, a symbol of Brazilian sovereignty since the 1950s, to foreign investment."
2013-09-17,"Valentina Tereshkova, 76, first woman in space, seeks one-way ticket to Mars"
2013-09-17,"Inspectors catch Bristol prison officer denying meals to inmate as punishment - Surprise inspection finds HMP Bristol overcrowded, dirty and cockroach-infested with 'delinquent' staff"
2013-09-17,Romanian Protesters Still Don't Want Gold Companies to Blow Up Their Mountains
2013-09-17,"A United Nations mandated investigator has spotlighted ""unspeakable atrocities"" inflicted on political camp prisoners in North Korea, citing testimony from survivors who saw babies drowned or had to survive by eating lizards."
2013-09-17,"Tokyo Electric Power Co. said it dumped about 1,130 tons of tainted rainwater Monday into the Pacific Ocean after it accumulated at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant due to a typhoon."
2013-09-17,Cambodian textile workers who supply UK clothing stores starving and suffering 'mass faintings'
2013-09-17,Austria gunman kills three including police and takes hostage
2013-09-17,Iran opens up Twitter and Facebook
2013-09-17,"The NSA has hacked telecommunications firm Belgacom, targeting information concerning the principal organs of the EU in Brussels"
2013-09-17,"Japanese media declare dark times are on us: The monthly Sapio has dire fears on that score. Japan, it says, is being swallowed up by a black society""."
2013-09-17,Supporters rally for the French jeweller who was charged with murdering a fleeing thief.
2013-09-17,White House waives arms export rules for Syrian rebels (to send gas masks and hazmat suits)
2013-09-17,Report: Iran set to shut down nuclear site in deal with West | JPost
2013-09-16,Turkey shot down Syrian helicopter at border
2013-09-16,Kerry and McCains favorite Syria expert fired for faking credentials
2013-09-16,NSA possibly involved in major Belgian telecom hack
2013-09-16,Top North Korean officials daughter defects
2013-09-16,"Israel has 80 nuclear warheads, can make 115 to 190 more, report says"
2013-09-16,"The NSA has been widely monitoring international banking and credit card transactions, a new report says referencing Edward Snowdens leak"
2013-09-16,"Rallies Across Canada Ask Canadians to Stand Up for Science: A national non-partisan group comprised largely of scientists, journalists and citizens is asking the govt to reverse what it sees as disconcerting trends in how science has been treated in Canada since Conservatives took power in 2006"
2013-09-16,Canadian scientists protest against government censorship - Rules bar government researchers from talking about their own work with journalists and even fellow researchers
2013-09-16,"New Australian Prime Minister unveils new Cabinet: No ministers for Science, Early Childhood, Energy, Disability, Climate, Mental Health, Youth, Status of Women and Aged Care. Border Protection added to Immigration"
2013-09-16,Turkey confirms Syrian rebels with Al Qaida ties sought chemical weapons
2013-09-16,"Veils are not appropriate in classrooms or airport security, says Nick Clegg"
2013-09-16,"Syria: nearly half rebel fighters are jihadists or hardline Islamists, says IHS Jane's report"
2013-09-16,Murdoch Newspapers Wage co-ordinated international campaign of Climate Warming Denial
2013-09-16,Inside the mind of NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander; A lavish Star Trek set he had built as part of his Information Dominance Center is endlessly revealing
2013-09-16,Mexico 'really mad' at Canada for imposing travel visas - 'Canada has the most stringent visa system for Mexicans of any country in the world'
2013-09-16,Former NSA and CIA director says terrorists love using Gmail
2013-09-16,Discovery of Russian spy in Canadian navy set off sabotage fears.
2013-09-16,"Faced with being swamped by the ocean, Pacific state looks to become worlds first floating nation"
2013-09-16,"[NSA] Court documents released this week show that after its first three years of operation, the best the intelligence establishment could show the judge overseeing the program was that it had led to opening ""three new preliminary investigations"""
2013-09-16,Israel quietly treats wounded Syrians
2013-09-16,'Elephant angels' take up crusade to destroy Hong Kong tusk stockpile. Two young girls are leading a renewed call for Hong Kong to destroy its massive stockpile of illegally poached elephant tusks. (via South China Morning Post).
2013-09-16,First Mexican openly gay mayor inaugurated in the city of Fresnillo
2013-09-16,Church of England has up to 10m invested in arms firm
2013-09-16,Outrage grows in Pakistan over rape of 5-year-old
2013-09-16,Russian Journalist Threatens to Out Closeted Politicians
2013-09-15,"Fisa judge: Snowden's NSA disclosures triggered important spying debate; orders government to review rules on surveillance, says further declassification would protect court's integrity"
2013-09-15,Italian journalist who was kidnapped by rebels calls Syria hell and says rebels are power hungry Islamists
2013-09-15,"Pope Francis Angelus address: ""We should forgive and show mercy. If we live according to the rule an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. We will never overcome the spiral of evil."
2013-09-15,"A gay man in Russia was violently beaten then raped with a bottle, because the attackers wanted the victim to ""repent for his sins."""
2013-09-15,Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Ordered To Pay U.S. Contractors Legal Fees
2013-09-15,Yemen's human rights minister wants child marriage outlawed after an 8-year-old girl reportedly died of internal injuries that she suffered on her wedding night.
2013-09-15,"'Follow the Money': NSA Spies on International Payments ""The US' NSA agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a ""tailored access operations"" division"""
2013-09-15,Ivory campaign in China raising awareness of elephant massacres. 70% of Chinese didn't realise ivory came from dead elephants.
2013-09-15,Frustrated professors convince elementary schools to step back from new math and go back to basics
2013-09-15,Australia could become the first major nation to outlaw smoking
2013-09-15,"Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is the nature of our society, declines to pass judgment on spying operations"
2013-09-15,A B.C. deer famous for playing with preschoolers and nuzzling vacationers was killed by conservation officers this week because it was deemed to be too friendly.
2013-09-15,"South Korea to get 450-meter 'invisible' tower, cloaked by LED image-projection system"
2013-09-15,Yemen's human rights minister calls for child marriage ban
2013-09-15,Endless Fukushima catastrophe: 2020 Olympics under contamination threat
2013-09-15,What happens when you roll a giant cruise liner upright after it's been rusting in the sea for 20 months? We'll find out at daybreak when the capsized 'Costa Concordia' is to be uprighted. It crashed off a Tuscan island taking 32 lives.
2013-09-15,"Perspectives: Fukushima is, in this disaster, pumping out around one quarter of the radiation that a coal plant does in normal operation."
2013-09-15,"India successfully tests nuclear-capable ballistic missile with ability to reach Japan, Moscow, Greece and all of China"
2013-09-15,"Brazil will probably scale down its plans for new nuclear plants due to safety concerns following the 2011 radiation leak in Japan and pick up some of the slack with a ""revolution"" in wind power"
2013-09-15,"A bill was introduced to the British Parliament for the second time earlier this week that if successful, would push for national service for 18-26 year olds."
2013-09-15,Beachcomber finds message in a bottle dating back to 1906. ( possible new world record )
2013-09-15,Beheaded in front of children: Alleged Assad thugs dragged to their doom and butchered like animals
2013-09-15,"One of Nigeria's most senior Anglican clerics, who was kidnapped by armed men more than a week ago, has been freed."
2013-09-15,Iran and UN sign agreement on Syria assistance
2013-09-15,"At least 28 killed in wave of attacks in Iraq, including more than a dozen car bombs; head of Baghdad's provincial council escapes assassination"
2013-09-14,FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
2013-09-14,US and Russia agree Syria arms deal
2013-09-14,Woman sentenced to four years for levelling false charge of rape against man who committed suicide as a result of the accusation
2013-09-14,"Kim Dotcom sues New Zealand for $7 million over illegal spying, raid"
2013-09-14,"The Sex Party is within a nudge and a wink of getting a senator up in Tasmania: ""Our five main policies are legalising and taxing marijuana, euthanasia, taxing the church, abortion as a national health policy and censorship''"
2013-09-14,Girl Shot In Head By Taliban For Attending school Is Raising $500 Million For Syrian Refugees
2013-09-14,LA Times: Israel is also believed to have a chemical weapons stockpile and won't ratify the Chemical Weapons Convention...
2013-09-14,Shark fin banned at official Hong Kong functions
2013-09-14,Japan's premier is criticized for telling Olympic committee that Fukushima leaks are under control
2013-09-14,"Roman Catholic priest injured in Zanzibar acid attack, a month after two British teenage girls were victims of a similar acid attack there."
2013-09-14,NSA gets data from Germanys domestic security agency - reports
2013-09-14,"""Brazil's president asked legislators on Thursday to urgently vote on a bill that would force foreign companies to store all data about their Brazilian clients on servers based in the country, a move seen as essential for user security after repeated reports of Internet spying by the U.S. in Brazil"""
2013-09-14,Thousands of Polish labor union members are marching through Warsaw throwing smoke grenades and blowing whistles to show the level of their discontent with the government's labor and wage policies
2013-09-14,I would have burnt my daughter alive for premarital sex: Delhi gang-rape lawyer
2013-09-14,Al Qaeda faction in Syria announces offensive on fellow rebels
2013-09-14,Tribesmen blow up Yemen's main oil export pipeline
2013-09-14,"Putin's press secretary is baffled by Washington's reaction on the opinion piece in The New York Times: Democracy implies competition, but sometimes one gets a feeling that the U.S. have long forgotten it."
2013-09-14,Vice Chancellor's Daughter Skipped 343 spots to receive medical school admission at University of Queensland
2013-09-14,"U.S. military confirms Syrian Rebels had Sarin, a type of chemical weapon"
2013-09-14,German chancellor candidate gives middle finger during interview and allows the photo to be published shortly before the election
2013-09-14,"Syria attacks hospitals, denies healthcare as 'weapon of war': U.N."
2013-09-14,U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov say they have reached an agreement on a framework for securing Syria's chemical weapons after the third day of intense negotiations in Geneva.
2013-09-14,"Kenya: Army Man, KWS Staffer Shot Over Poaching. ""The KWS Ngulia Rhino sanctuary attendant...is behind the killing of rhinos in Ngulia"". Kenya has lost 214 elephants and 36 rhinos to poaching this year."
2013-09-14,"100,000 Poles in anti-govt march, threaten strike"
2013-09-14,Eli Lilly Sues Canada For 'Lost Profits' Because Canada Rejected Their Patents
2013-09-13,Malawi will use $15m from the sale of the country's presidential jet to feed the poor and grow crops to fight malnutrition
2013-09-13,Indian court sentenced four men to death for gang raping and murdering a student in the capital Delhi
2013-09-13,Baby elephant in China rejected by mom wept inconsolably
2013-09-13,"""I hope Putin has taken adequate protections. Now that he is a Russian journalist his life may be in grave danger!"" - Garry Kasparov"
2013-09-13,"Fukushima ""not under control"", says TEPCO official"
2013-09-13,US consulate attacked by Taliban
2013-09-13,"The Honduran govt has granted more than 7% of its territory to the indigenous Miskito communities who live on the land, an initiative intended to help them protect their forests. It represents an acknowledgment of the rights of the most neglected citizens in one of the hemispheres poorest countries"
2013-09-13,Assad: Israel should be first to disarm
2013-09-13,Russia warns of 'catastrophe' if N.Korea restarts reactor
2013-09-13,"Steam seen at Fukushima nuclear reactor - ""Vapour has begun rising again from a reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, more than two-and-a-half years after its core melted down"""
2013-09-13,Al Qaeda calls for attacks inside United States
2013-09-13,"Pope Francis, then Jorge Bergoglio, ran secret network to save dissidents, while a military-backed dictatorship in Argentina was conducting a clandestine war"
2013-09-13,"Syria Massacre? Nusra Front Fighters Reportedly Kill Women, Children, Elderly Men In Alawite Village (x-post)"
2013-09-13,Nine men accused of a range of sexual offences against a teenage girl have walked free from court after the cases against them were dropped because of Twitter evidence
2013-09-13,The war in Syria has reached the point where a person can be mercilessly killed in front of hundreds of peoplewho enjoy the spectacle.
2013-09-13,Russia to expand Mediterranean fleet to 10 warships  Navy chief
2013-09-13,Ugandan girl serves six-hour jail term for killing rapist father
2013-09-13,"British Banks Going Consumer Friendly1 thing that keeps people from switching banks is that it's a pain. Starting Monday, customers can switch banks within 7 business days. Banks must handle moving accounts & make sure automatic bill payments & transfers are shifted to customer's new bank."
2013-09-13,Spacemen 'flew blind' from space station as sensors failed - The three crew of the International Space Station (ISS) who returned to Earth this week endured a hair-raising descent after their height sensors failed.
2013-09-13,"UK statistics show 56,257 people were detained under counter-terrorism powers at Britain's ports and airports in one year"
2013-09-13,"A South Korean man who was abducted by North Korea 41 years ago has managed to return home, officials in Seoul say."
2013-09-13,"Ireland and other countries that colluded with the kidnapping and torture of terror suspects by the CIA must investigate and atone for their actions, the Council of Europes human rights chief has said. [re-post r/IrishNews]"
2013-09-13,More than 250 people are arrested in Chile after protesters marking the 40th anniversary of the 1973 military coup clash with police.
2013-09-13,Jordanian MP fires AK-47 at colleague in parliament
2013-09-13,Assad: We'll give up chemical weapons once U.S. stops arming rebels - Middle East Israel News
2013-09-12,Vladamir Putin's Op-Ed in the New York Times on America and Syria
2013-09-12,Vodafone Germany has been hacked. Banking data of 2 million customers stolen.
2013-09-12,"""God's mercy has no limits"" Pope Francis tells atheists to abide by their own consciences"
2013-09-12,Tesla Model S is now Norway's most sold car.
2013-09-12,Assad confirms chemical weapons handover
2013-09-12,NSA shares raw intelligence including Americans' data with Israel | World news
2013-09-12,CIA begins weapons delivery to Syrian rebels
2013-09-12,"Syrian Rebels Slit Throat of Christian Man Who Refused To Convert To Islam, Taunt Fiance, Jesus Didnt Come To Save Him"
2013-09-12,'9/11 was an inside job' says Italian member of parliament on floor of house.
2013-09-12,"Syria ""Expert"" Cited by Kerry, McCain Fired for Lying about Academic Credentials"
2013-09-12,"Anonymous Hacker flees to Canada, says he's being set up with ""child porn"" charges."
2013-09-12,Mayhem as MP fires AK-47 at colleague in Jordans parliament
2013-09-12,The Syria researcher whose Wall Street Journal op-piece was cited by John Kerry and John McCain during congressional hearings about the use of force in Syria has been fired from the Institute for the Study of War for lying about her resume.
2013-09-12,"American holed up in Canada denies ""child porn"" charges, claims to be founding member of Anonymous"
2013-09-12,Strain of HIV virus found in monkeys is cleared by vaccine - Vaccine could be used on humans in clinical trials within 2 yrs
2013-09-12,Genetically Modified Insects: Scientists plan to launch thousands of GM insects into fields as alternative to using chemicals
2013-09-12,A million and a half people form a 400 km long human chain in Catalonia supporting independence from Spain
2013-09-12,Syria will send documents to UN to sign chemical arms accord - Assad
2013-09-12,Companies found guilty of rigging market benchmarks like Libor could be fined the equivalent of 15 percent of their turnover under a European Union law approved on Tuesday.
2013-09-12,New Australian government is removing environmental programs even if they make a profit.
2013-09-12,Iran says it will cooperate with U.N. nuclear watchdog
2013-09-12,20 yr old man found living in forest for 16 yrs
2013-09-12,Muslim girl must go to swimming lessons - German court
2013-09-12,Catalans form 400km human chain to ask for independence
2013-09-12,Pope Francis wants to drive. Italian priest gives him '84 Renault with a stick shift
2013-09-11,Woah - enough water found underground in Kenya to supply whole country for 70 years. Big implications for East Africa
2013-09-11,"Snowden Nominated for Freedom of Thought Prize ""Members of the European Parliament are officially nominating fugitive US leaker Edward Snowden for a prize celebrating freedom of thought, a parliamentary representative said Wednesday."""
2013-09-11,A brutal rape case has pushed the citizens of India past the point of blissflul ignorance to outrage
2013-09-11,"Thanks to a combination of wind, solar, and nuclear power, Germany is producing so much energy that generating companies need to pay customers to take their surplus power."
2013-09-11,"NASA will begin producing its own food in orbit for the first time ever -- The lettuce will be grown under bright-pink LED lights, ready to harvest after just 28 days."
2013-09-11,Body doubles in China: Rich pay poor to serve prison sentences
2013-09-11,89% Pakistanis say suicide bombing is never justified: PEW report
2013-09-11,British parliament debating a bill that proposes mandatory service - charitable or miliitary - for 18-to-26-year-olds.
2013-09-11,"The food the world wastes accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than any country except for China and the US. Every year about a third of all food for human consumption, around 1.3 billion tons, is wasted, along with all the energy, water and chemicals needed to produce it and dispose of it"
2013-09-11,German support for small business has kept its economy thriving as the rest of Europe languishes in recession (x-post from r/economics)
2013-09-11,"The Chinese education ministry tries to ban homework-- The ministrys proposed guidelines, would ban written homework for any child up to the age of 12, and ban exams for children up to the age of nine."
2013-09-11,"North and South Korea have agreed to re-open the Kaesong joint industrial zone next week, officials in Seoul say."
2013-09-11,Confirmed: Greenland reached hottest temperature in modern record this summer
2013-09-11,Spanish Catalonia to press independence bid with a 400 Km human chain
2013-09-11,Crude that exploded in Quebec train wreck was mislabelled in North Dakota:Canadian transportation investigators have alerted U.S. regulators that the train of North Dakota crude that unleashed a deadly fireball in Lac-Mgantic contained explosive oil that was improperly labelled
2013-09-11,Russia 'to renew offer to supply S-300s to Iran'
2013-09-11,"For six years, a Yahoo forum had been used to essentially traffic dozens of children adopted from across the world after their new parents grew tired of them. When Reuters uncovered the practice, Facebook neglected to shut down a similar group, claiming it is a method of ""problem solving."""
2013-09-11,"Syrian warplanes bomb rebel suburbs of Damascus for the first time in 3 weeks, in an offensive that opposition activists say shows Assad no longer fears attack by the US"
2013-09-11,"""Once touted as an economic miracle, faltering India cannot provide jobs for millions of university graduates. Meanwhile, employers complain they don't have the skills anyway."""
2013-09-11,"Hello, Michele, its Pope Francis. The Pope is surprising the faithful by randomly calling those who write him letters."
2013-09-11,Muslim clerics issue fatwa banning photography as un-Islamic
2013-09-11,Russia Says UN Resolution Proposal 'Unacceptable'
2013-09-11,"Woman In Sudan Refuses To Wear Hijab, Faces Flogging"
2013-09-11,"Land of the Tomb Raiders: Real-life vampires, giant rock vaginas, ancient sites to rival Greece & Rome  Bulgarias archaeologists are trying to stop the mafia stealing its treasures. Bulgaria is trying to claw back thousands of ancient artifacts plundered in 25m-a-yr export racket."
2013-09-11,"Australia Under New Management. Fundamentally, Abbott proposes to turn the clock back 30 years on environmental protection."
2013-09-10,Syria accepts Russian chemical weapons proposal
2013-09-10,"Government scientist leaks photos of bitumen oil spill in Alberta lake. A million litres of bitumen have so far leaked into the surrounding environment, with 2,400 litres seeping in every day."
2013-09-10,"The Pakistani women who risk death every day to vaccinate children against polio; 'I continued after my niece was shot. We all die one day, so why not as a brave person?'"
2013-09-10,"According to leaked diplomatic correspondence, Iran has been warning Washington since July 2012 that Sunni rebel fighters have acquired chemical weapons, and called on the US to send an immediate and serious warning to rebel groups not to use them."
2013-09-10,People in Wales will be presumed to have agreed for their organs to be donated after death from December 2015.
2013-09-10,Syria welcomes Russian chemical arms arsenal proposal
2013-09-10,Netherlands Close Prisons Due To Lack Of Criminals
2013-09-10,White House  Not U.S. Intelligence Agencies  Prepared Report about Syrian CW Attack on August 21
2013-09-10,Police Officer Gang-Raped Escorting Dead Sister in India
2013-09-10,"Egypt bans 55,000 mosque preachers in crackdown on Islamists"
2013-09-10,Report: CIA believes Israel acquired chemical weapons decades ago
2013-09-10,Romanian gold rush cancelled as protesters defeat Europe's biggest mine
2013-09-10,"Indian court convicts 4 men in fatal gang rape of woman on New Delhi bus. The men, convicted on all the counts against them, including rape and murder, now face the possibility of hanging"
2013-09-10,"Iraq closes airport in second largest city, no explanation"
2013-09-10,Man found after 4 months 'lost' living in a cave in Andes mountains was evading police warrant for child molestation.
2013-09-10,Speaker Of Syrian Parliament Urges Boehner To Help Prevent U.S. Military Strike
2013-09-10,Centre-right wins Norway election
2013-09-10,"In a rapid and remarkable chain of events, Syria welcomed the idea of turning over all of its chemical weapons for destruction on Monday,"
2013-09-10,"Mexico, beset by obesity and diabetes, to consider a tax on soft drinks"
2013-09-10,John Kerry tells Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov his comments about Syria averting a U.S. military strike by turning over its chemical weapons were rhetorical and not meant to be a proposal
2013-09-10,"Syria ""welcomes"" Russia's proposal to hand over its chemical weapons"
2013-09-10,"A 500-Yr-Old Bank in Italy is Teetering & Threatens to Take the Rest of the Countrys Financial System with it - Compared to the wreckage in Cyprus, Ireland, Portugal & Spain, Italian lenders have gotten off relatively lightly. Until now."
2013-09-10,22-year-old protester dies in Turkey protests
2013-09-10,Syrian Parliament Letter To The US Congress
2013-09-10,International experts have strong proof images of chemical victims fabricated  Russian Foreign Ministry reports.
2013-09-09,"Norway Has More Money Than It Knows What To Do With: ""Our biggest challenge is that our oil wealth is so huge we run the risk of wasting it on substandard projects that are not profitable enough."""
2013-09-09,"Obama's top aide: We lack 'irrefutable, beyond-a-reasonable-doubt evidence' on Syria"
2013-09-09,"A 58-year-old Uruguayan man who disappeared four months ago in the remote Andes Mountains was found alive on Sunday, after he spent a brutal winter eating rats and raisins to survive, local media reported."
2013-09-09,"Why Dubai's Islamic Austerity is a Sham, Couples who publicaly kiss are jailed yet the state turns a blind eye to 30,000 imported prostitutes"
2013-09-09,Obama Administration Denies AP Requests For Syria Evidence
2013-09-09,'Saddam used chemical weapons on Iran with no hullabaloo from the West' - Ex British Foreign Secretary
2013-09-09,Russia urges Assad to give up chemical weapons
2013-09-09,"France strengthens separation of Church and State by unveiling a charter of 15 rules to uphold secularism, that will be displayed in every school in the country"
2013-09-09,Obama Is Going To Struggle To Even Get 100 Syria Votes in The House
2013-09-09,First Detection of Water Ice on Saturn by Cassini Spacecraft
2013-09-09,Al Nusra Front Rebels Start Killing Syrian Christians After Retaking Village From Government Forces
2013-09-09,The Chinese dissident whom Yahoo helped put in prison eight years ago is finally a free man.
2013-09-09,Fantastico to reveal latest Snowden leak - US government spied on Brazilian oil giant Petrobas
2013-09-09,"Syria chemical weapons attack not ordered by Assad, says German secret service"
2013-09-09,"ATMs that allow you to exchange cash for Bitcoins coming to Canada this fall. 5 Bitcoin kiosks, similar to ATMs, are coming to Canada, with the first machine expected to land in Vancouver in early October."
2013-09-09,Assad Tells PBS' Charlie Rose Syria Prepared to Retaliate if Hit
2013-09-09,"The U.S. government tapped into computer networks of companies including Google Inc. and Brazilian state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA, according to leaked U.S. documents"
2013-09-09,"Sudanese woman Amira Osman Hamed refuses to cover her head, faces flogging"
2013-09-09,Afghan authorities slam NATO after drone strike kills 16 civilians
2013-09-09,Public concerned over growing use of Tasers by police in UK
2013-09-09,US planning three days of Syria attacks
2013-09-09,Al Qaida fighters among rebels who seize Christian village in Syria
2013-09-09,German intelligence indicates Syrian government forces may have carried out a chemical weapons attack without the permission of President Assad
2013-09-09,"Confidential documents have revealed the formidable lobbying operation waged by tobacco giant Philip Morris seeking to undermine efforts to make cigarettes less attractive to children and women, and force packs to carry larger health warnings."
2013-09-09,Russia to push Syria to surrender chemical weapons
2013-09-08,Germany's retailers want to pay farmers directly for keeping their animals in better conditions than legally required.
2013-09-08,An eight-year-old girl died of internal injuries on the first night of her arranged marriage to a man more than five times her age
2013-09-08,Japanese professor pushes for Hide and Seek at the Olympics
2013-09-08,"No attack on Syria, no matter what, say voters"
2013-09-08,Christian televangelist Pat Robertson is threatening legal action against a Canadian documentary team over their film alleging that Robertson used a bogus charity as a supply line for his diamond mining business in Africa.
2013-09-08,"US intelligence agency has the capability of tapping user data from the iPhone, devices using Android as well as BlackBerry, a system previously believed to be highly secure"
2013-09-08,Bank of America Blocked Donations to the Wikileaks Party
2013-09-08,"Damascus repeatedly rejected commanders requests to be allowed to use chemical weapons, radio transmissions captured by a ship of the German Navy crossing off the Syrian coast shows."
2013-09-08,Reuters confirms that the U.S. Government doesnt know who ordered the CW attack in Syria on August 21.
2013-09-08,Russian lesbian author Masha Gessen pleads 'Get us the hell out of here'. Says Kremlin has unleashed an 'all-out war' on gay people
2013-09-08,A Wall Street Journal op-ed cited this week by both Secretary of State John Kerry and Sen. John McCain has drawn scrutiny for not disclosing writer Elizabeth O'Bagy's ties to a Syrian rebel advocacy group.
2013-09-08,French consulate worker arrested at Israeli border with 334 pounds of gold and $2 million in checks
2013-09-08,Today's middle class feel oppressed in the same way as Marxs 19th-century working class
2013-09-08,We say no war: Protesters across the world rally against military strike on Syria
2013-09-08,Church of England has 10m invested in arms firm.
2013-09-08,"Children removed from Christian sect after German police raids -- ""rods used were soaked in oil to make them more pliable during a beating, when children were allegedly struck on their bare feet, arms and backs...as the children were removed [by police] they showed no emotion towards their parents"""
2013-09-08,"Dubai police have intercepted a shipment of over half a ton of ivory. Found at Dubai International Airport, the haul was described by police as being one of the largest found in the emirate."
2013-09-08,Syria: western activists volunteer to become 'human shields'
2013-09-08,90% of the condom vending machines installed at public places in India have gone missing
2013-09-08,"Afghans say NATO airstrike kills 15, including women and children; NATO says 10 insurgents die"
2013-09-08,Murdoch celebrates conservative victory in Australia with Twitter tirade. News Corp chief rejects claims his newspapers swung election against Labor instead saying it was due to 'public [who were] sick of public sector workers and phony welfare scroungers'
2013-09-08,CNN has videos of alleged Syrian chemical weapons use that White House showed senators to bolster strike support.
2013-09-08,"Police used teargas to contain street protests on Saturday in several Brazilian cities, stopping demonstrators from disrupting Independence Day military parades and an international soccer game between Brazil and Australia."
2013-09-08,Pakistani president becomes first democratically elected leader to finish a full term.
2013-09-08,Protests Fill City Streets Across Brazil
2013-09-07,"President Obama Calls for Yes Vote On Syria, Even If Public Opposed"
2013-09-07,Tony Abbott will be Australian prime minister after decisive election victory
2013-09-07,Kenya urges world to impose moratorium on ivory trading to save wildlife
2013-09-07,"20,000 North Koreans 'disappear' from gulag"
2013-09-07,"For France, U.S. delay on Syria fuels doubts You [the U.S] have way more cruise missiles than we do. Its not even comparable. If we were going to fire 200 of them into Syria, it would be like half the arsenal we have. We do not use them like you do. We use them to take out strategic targets"
2013-09-07,Poachers have used poison to kill 41 elephants in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park
2013-09-07,"Not Just Russia: Italy, Other Europeans Sold Plenty Of Weapons To Syria"
2013-09-07,Direct link between Assad and gas attack elusive for U.S.
2013-09-07,"Fukushima tank leak may have mixed with groundwater, Tepco reckons"
2013-09-07,"41 Zimbabwe elephants poisoned with cyanide in worst national case ever. Police in Zimbabwe arrest 6 men accused of poisoning watering holes frequented by elephants for $120,000 worth of ivory."
2013-09-07,EU agrees that all indications on Syria chemical attack points to Assad - 'but that any potential military attack against it should wait for a U.N. inspectors report.'
2013-09-07,Julian Assange's WikiLeaks Party Underwhelm Everyone With Australian Election Results
2013-09-07,Syria: Al Qaeda-Linked Rebels Target Christians
2013-09-07,"Russian Sends Another Warship To The Coast Of Syria, Picks Up Special Cargo Before Setting Sail"
2013-09-07,How Intelligence Was Twisted to Support an Attack on Syria
2013-09-07,"Hafiz Saeed, a Pakistani Islamist with a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, appeared openly at a rally in Islamabad on Friday, denouncing India as a terrorist state as thousands of his supporters called for ""holy war"" against the rival nuclear nation."
2013-09-07,WikiLeaks case sparks UN criticism of US government's torture of Bradley Manning
2013-09-07,Syria strike could bring Raytheon payday
2013-09-07,"Syrian jihadi groups protest U.S. strikes ""The leading hard-line Islamist group in northern Syria issued a statement on Facebook cautioning its followers against supporting U.S. intervention, saying it would only serve U.S. interests and not the cause of those seeking to topple Bashar al-Assad"""
2013-09-07,"G20 nations to crack down on tax cheats, agree to share records by 2015"
2013-09-07,Syrian Anarchist Challenges the Rebel/Regime Binary View of Resistance
2013-09-07,Obama rejects G20 pressure to abandon Syria air strike plan
2013-09-07,"Protests continue in Bucharest against goldmine plan in Rosia Montana--""About 1,000 people gathered in Bucharest on Tuesday night for a third day of protests against plans for Europe's biggest opencast goldmine."""
2013-09-07,Egyptians Vehemently Opposed to Strike in Syria
2013-09-07,"Dennis Rodman - ""That's not my job to ask about Kenneth Bae. Ask Obama about that. Ask Hillary Clinton,"" he told a throng of reporters. ""I don't give a shit."""
2013-09-06,New documentary shows how televangelist Pat Robertson defrauded millions in aid donations to fund a diamond mining venture in the Congo
2013-09-06,US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
2013-09-06,Cameron's UK Porn Filter Also Blocks VPNs
2013-09-06,India: Rapist dies after victim's family members burn him alive
2013-09-06,"Feds Beg NY Times, Pro Publica Not To Reveal That They've Inserted Backdoors Into Internet Encryption"
2013-09-06,U.N. Calls for a Public Debate on Snowden Revelations
2013-09-06,Curved 300-million-dollar London skyscraper is not just melting cars with sunlight - it has also spontaneously ignited carpets in local businesses.
2013-09-06,Putin says Russia will assist Syria if attacked
2013-09-06,World Public Opinion Sharply Opposed To Syria Strikes
2013-09-06,Pope calls on world leaders to abandon military options in Syria
2013-09-06,"20,000 North Korean Prison Camp Inmates Have 'Disappeared'"
2013-09-06,The United States has intercepted an order from an Iranian official instructing militants in Iraq to attack U.S. interests in Baghdad in the event the Obama administration launches a military strike in Syria
2013-09-06,Mission Congo: how Pat Robertson raised millions on the back of a non-existent aid project -- The televangelist claimed Operation Blessing was giving vital aid in response to the 1994 Rwandan crisis. A documentary opening at the Toronto film festival paints a less flattering picture
2013-09-06,Obama Has No 'Intention' To Strike Syria If Congress Says No : NPR
2013-09-06,"Russian Neo-Nazis Admit They're ""Safari Hunting"" Gays"
2013-09-06,Syria: Shocking video emerges showing rebel forces executing bound government soldiers
2013-09-06,US orders diplomats out of Lebanon
2013-09-06,Report says millions in U.S. aid funds for Afghan health projects are being wasted
2013-09-06,Was Your Chicken Nugget Made In China? It'll Soon Be Hard To Know
2013-09-06,Bruce Schneier reports new Snowden leaks: 'These are hacker tools designed by hackers with an essentially unlimited budget.'
2013-09-06,UPDATE: [funds released] PayPal freezes funds of Mailpile - a secure mailing solution under development based in Iceland
2013-09-06,Militants in Afghanistan have killed an Indian woman whose memoir about marrying an Afghan and life under the Taliban was made into a Bollywood film
2013-09-06,Report: U.S. preparing for a larger than anticipated military strike on Syria
2013-09-06,"Syria crisis: War of words between Russia, U.S. heats up"
2013-09-06,"Last Hitler Bodyguard Dies - He witnessed the Nazi leader's final hours in the bunker. He proudly reminisced about his wartime duties for the ""boss"" & called Hitler ""a very normal man... he was no brute, he was no monster""."
2013-09-05,"36 hours before the Australian election and in the middle of an advertising blackout, the party in the lead declares they will filter the internet by default."
2013-09-05,"'Jurassic Park' Emerges Out of Venezuela Oil - Finds include an armadillo the size of a Volkswagen, crocodile bigger than a bus, saber-toothed tiger, featherless chicken resembling an iguana, & 10 ft pelican. Paleontologists aim to find human fossils. ""We've have already found spearheads."""
2013-09-05,"India: 6 year old rape victim has been ordered by a caste council to marry her rapist's 8 year old son. During the period of negotiation, the rapist raped the girl again."
2013-09-05,"Even with 8 times the fresh water of France, Venezuela can not supply clean drinking water because Santeria Witch Doctors keep dumping their sacrificial carcasses in the reservoirs."
2013-09-05,Swedish Reporter Asks Obama if Nobel Peace Prize Presents Dilemma When Planning Syria Attack
2013-09-05,PayPal freezes funds of Mailpile - a secure mailing solution under development based in Iceland
2013-09-05,China joins Russia in opposing military strikes
2013-09-05,Reporter tries to cook egg with London's 'deathray' building  gives up when his hair starts to catch fire
2013-09-05,"Furious about a report that the U.S. government spied on her private communications, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff may cancel a planned White House visit and downgrade commercial ties unless she receives a public apology"
2013-09-05,Russia says it's compiled 100-page report blaming Syrian rebels for a chemical weapons attack
2013-09-05,Kerry portrait of Syria rebels at odds with intelligence reports
2013-09-05,"Mexico City mulls legal marijuana 'clubs' -- The Mexico City council is considering the legalization of cannabis plants and the creation of private marijuana smoking ""clubs"" as it mulls controversial legislation to liberalize consumption"
2013-09-05,Daughter furious after police Taser her 80-year-old mother
2013-09-05,Russia releases key findings on chemical attack near Aleppo indicating similarity with rebel-made weapons
2013-09-05,Russian president signals he will take action if America strikes at Assad
2013-09-05,Syria rebels linked to al-Qaeda target Christian village
2013-09-05,Proposed Russian Law Takes Children From Gay Parents
2013-09-05,Syrian Rebels Attack Christian Village
2013-09-05,"Pope Francis writes letter to President Putin of Russia ahead of G20 summit about Syria: ""I make a heartfelt appeal for them to help find ways to overcome the conflicting positions and to lay aside the futile pursuit of a military solution"""
2013-09-05,Russians send official request to meet with U.S. Congress  CNN Political Ticker
2013-09-05,"LSD may actually be good for you, says study"
2013-09-05,"U.S. intelligence agencies did not detect the Syrian regime readying a massive chemical weapons attack in the days ahead of the strike, only piecing together what had happened after the fact, U.S. officials say."
2013-09-05,Russia warns of catastrophe if Syrian reactor containing radioactive uranium was hit by U.S. strike
2013-09-05,US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Wednesday that Russia was a supplier of chemical weapons to Syria
2013-09-05,Russia Warns Of Nuclear Disaster If Syria Is Hit
2013-09-04,All major commercial TV networks in Australia refusing to air ad critical of Murdoch's biased coverage of the election.
2013-09-04,"Putin: The problem is not that were defending Snowden. Were not. The problem is that we dont have a mutual extradition treaty with the US. They refused to sign such a treaty. And they don't extradite our criminalswho have tortured people, trafficked people, whose hands are covered in blood"
2013-09-04,"Sweden grants blanket asylum to Syrian refugees. All Syrian asylum seekers who apply for asylum in Sweden will get it"""
2013-09-04,"Putin accused Secretary of State Kerry of lying after Kerry denied Al-Qaeda existence in Syria. ""He lies and he knows he lies. It's pretty sad."""
2013-09-04,"In lieu of military intervention, Britain vows to 'lead the world' in providing humanitarian aid for Syrian refugees"
2013-09-04,"Radiation Levels At Fukushima Soar By Over 20% In Three Days, Hit 2,200 mSv And Rising"
2013-09-04,Vladimir Putin calls Edward Snowden a 'strange guy'
2013-09-04,China now has a higher rate of Diabetes than the United States with 114 million diabetics.
2013-09-04,"Putin warns US against Syria military action: ""We have our ideas about what we will do and how we will do it in case the situation develops toward the use of force or otherwise. We have our plans."""
2013-09-04,Facebook considers adding people's Facebook photos to facial recognition database.
2013-09-04,"More than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic websites at the Houses of Parliament in the past year, official records suggest."
2013-09-04,The area of the Amazon where Ecuador plans to drill for oil contains a much higher density of jaguars than anywhere else on the planet
2013-09-04,Obama wins support for limited strike in Syria. Vote expected next week.
2013-09-04,"Syrian Electronic Army revealed: Anonymous hacks SEA website, dumps data. After claims that Syrian regime used chemical weapons on its own population, Anonymous struck, revealing personal information of key members within the Syrian Electronic Army."
2013-09-04,David Cameron rules out any future military action in Syria
2013-09-04,The Vatican is ramping up its opposition to threatened military strikes against Syria as it draws attention to Pope Francis' plans to host a day of fasting and prayer for peace this weekend.
2013-09-04,"We all thought Libya had moved on  it has, but into lawlessness and ruin"
2013-09-04,Putin: Russia can support Syria strike if proven that Assad used chemical weapons
2013-09-04,"80,000 South African gold miners go on strike"
2013-09-04,"Hands off: Syrians form human shields outside possible US strike targets, say they are ready to die when bombs start falling."
2013-09-04,Oldest Known Land Animal from Gondwana found in South Africa: a 350-million-year-old fossilized scorpion
2013-09-04,Japanese Government Will Bankroll a Giant Ice Wall at Fukushima
2013-09-04,"Obama says U.S. credibility on the line in Syria response: ""My credibility is not on the line. The international community's credibility is on the line. And America and Congress' credibility is on the line, because we give lip service to the notion that these international norms are important."""
2013-09-04,"First CIA-trained Syrian rebel unit about to join fighting against Assad regime, says Obama"
2013-09-04,UN Chief Discourages Further Militarization of Syria Conflict
2013-09-03,"Romanian government changes environment law to allow Canadian mining company to start building the biggest cyanide gold mine in Europe wiping out from the face of the earth 4 mountains, ancient roman galleries and forcing people to move from their home. Protests start all over the country."
2013-09-03,"She did it! Diana Nyad, 64, completes 103 mile Cuba-to-Florida swim after 5 attempts"
2013-09-03,CIA files prove US helped Saddam Hussein as he gassed Iran
2013-09-03,"Lenovo chief shares $3.25 million of bonus with staff -- ""Most are hourly manufacturing workers. As you can imagine, an extra $300 in a manufacturing environment in China does make an impact, especially to employees supporting families"""
2013-09-03,Russias early radars detect launch of two ballistic rockets in Mediterranean  Defense Ministry
2013-09-03,More and More Journalists Are Being Kidnapped in Syria
2013-09-03,Russia Issues Travel Warning About United States
2013-09-03,Syrian president Bashar Assad challenges U.S. and France to publicly show proof of chemical weapons use
2013-09-03,"Obama To Meet With LGBT Activists While In Russia: After canceling a bilateral summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin while there for the G20 summit, Obama may anger the Kremlin further by meeting with Russian activists  including from LGBT groups"
2013-09-03,"""It's natural"" - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd argues in favour of same-sex marriage on national television"
2013-09-03,Swiss banks say they're sorry for assisting tax cheats
2013-09-03,2 most wanted poachers were among 7 people arrested by Kenya Wildlife Service in Tsavo conservation area over the weekend. They were found with 200 snares. The wanted suspects were also found in possession of poisoned arrows and game meat.
2013-09-03,Vietnam just banned doing pretty much anything online
2013-09-03,Israel says carried out joint missile test with U.S. in the Mediterranean
2013-09-03,Brazilian government plans national 'anti-snooping' email system
2013-09-03,France release videos of Sarin Gas attack in Syria [www.defense.gouv.fr]
2013-09-03,"Amid the tempest over Syrian chemical weapons, an irony stands out. After two decades of bloody struggle between the West and al-Qaedas global jihadist franchise, those bitter adversaries suddenly find themselves fighting on the same side."
2013-09-03,France declassifies a report about chemical attacks. Assad threaten France.
2013-09-03,Market Tumbles After Russian Report Of Missile Launches
2013-09-03,Egypt shuts down four TV stations including Al-Jazeera
2013-09-03,Top-secret U.S. intelligence files show new levels of distrust of Pakistan
2013-09-03,"U.S. intelligence agencies spend millions to hunt for insider threats, Snowden document shows -- ""individuals with connections to al-Qaeda and other hostile groups have repeatedly sought to obtain jobs in the intelligence community"""
2013-09-03,Seoul says N. Korean nuclear program 'real threat'
2013-09-03,"""Canada has given $5.3-million to the Syrian opposition to support the rebels in anti-government propaganda since April 2012, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFAIT)."""
2013-09-03,Mystery solved: Israel declares successfully launched the missiles in the mediterranean today
2013-09-02,Two thirds of Britons say they would not care if relations with the USA were damaged by Parliament's rejection of Syria intervention
2013-09-02,"Swiss banks to divulge names of wealthy US tax avoiders, pay billions in fines"
2013-09-02,"Pope Francis condemns the use of chemical weapons and asks for peace on Syria: ""War, never again. Violence never leads to peace, war leads to war, violence leads to violence."""
2013-09-02,"Obama 'has the right' to strike Syria regardless of Congress vote, says Kerry"
2013-09-02,Germany is Withdrawing 674 Tons of Gold From Foreign Central Banks.
2013-09-02,The DEA has been listening in on everybody's phone calls since 1987.
2013-09-02,Saudi Arabia backs US strike against Syria
2013-09-02,The Big 3 Canadian telecom companies are trying to convince Canadians that outside competition is bad for them through a massive internet and radio ad campaign.
2013-09-02,"Mexicos Lost Drug War - ""Corruption is so deep within the govt that its become a war for drugs, not against. I cant say freedom of expression exists when I have to live with round-the-clock bodyguards. Journalists in other countries can walk freely on the streets & I cant."
2013-09-02,Fukushima's toxic water pool grows as Tepco dithers: ' largest pool of radioactive water in the history of nuclear accidents'
2013-09-02,Did you hear that a group of 400 angry farmers attacked and destroyed a field trial of GMO rice? That was a lie. Reality was a small number of activists while farmers (who had been bussed in to attend the event) looked on in dismay.
2013-09-02,The Syrian Electronic Army has defaced the Marines.com website posting a message to all US marines
2013-09-02,'Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie'
2013-09-02,British government let company export nerve gas chemicals to Syria in 2012 while Syrias civil war was raging
2013-09-02,"Australia's HEMP Party formally launches election campaign with a call for cannabis to be legalised for personal and medical use, just as it is now for industrial purposes"
2013-09-02,"The US National Security Agency spied on the communications of the Brazilian and Mexican presidents, and used a program to access all Internet content the Brazilian president visited online"
2013-09-02,"The National Security Agency's spy program targeted the communications of the Brazilian and Mexican presidents, and in the case of Mexico's leader accessed the content of emails before he was elected, Greenwald said Sunday"
2013-09-02,"Context for Syria Bombing Campaign: on average, US has bombed another nation at least once every 40 months since 1963"
2013-09-02,France to declassify secret documents detailing Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons
2013-09-02,Russia Rejects U.S. Evidence on Syrian Chemical Attack
2013-09-02,Vietnam internet restrictions come into effect -- A controversial law banning Vietnamese online users from discussing current affairs has come into effect
2013-09-02,Syrian Cabinet Minister calls for pre-emptive strikes on U.S.
2013-09-02,Ecuador To World: Pay Up To Save The Rainforest. World To Ecuador: Meh.
2013-09-02,"Taliban target U.S. army base in Afghanistan, attack ongoing"
2013-09-02,Japan considering dumping Fukushimas radioactive water into the Pacific
2013-09-01,"Sir David Frost, broadcaster and writer, dies at 74"
2013-09-01,Fukushima radiation levels 18 times higher than previously thought
2013-09-01,"Quebec hotel sues former guest over online review: The hotel is suing a former guest for $95,000 in damages over a review he wrote on the travel site TripAdvisor."
2013-09-01,Syrians warn U.S. that Al Qaeda has hijacked revolution
2013-09-01,"'Arab news broadcaster Al Jazeera was spied on by the National Security Agency, according to documents seen by SPIEGEL. The US intelligence agency hacked into protected communication, a feat that was considered a particular success.'"
2013-09-01,Spain's youth unemployment reaches record 56.1%
2013-09-01,President Obama To Seek Congressional Authorization for Syrian Air Strikes
2013-09-01,"The Most Efficient Health Care Systems In The World: 'among the 48 countries included in the Bloomberg study, the U.S. ranks 46th, outpacing just Serbia and Brazil... worse than China, Algeria, and Iran.'"
2013-09-01,"Peruvian government declares state of emergency in 10 regions due to unusually cold weather and heavy snowfall, which has killed thousands of farm animals."
2013-09-01,Yemen Prime Minister survives assassination attempt.
2013-09-01,"Demand for Shark Fins Dropping Due to China's Crackdown that's Forced Decline in Lavish Banquets & Extravagance - Hong Kong also shows significant decline in consumption. ""The culture is changing in Asia among younger people. They aren't eating shark fin soup as much."""
2013-09-01,"Syria allies: Why Russia, Iran and China are standing by the regime"
2013-09-01,"France, following US and UK, applies brakes on Syrian war rhetoric"
2013-09-01,India plans to ban Gmail for government workers after Snowden leaks: The move is intended to protect confidential government information from US intelligence agencies.
2013-09-01,"Let's not let discussions about Syria become fact free, here's a good summary of how we got here"
2013-09-01,Catholic Church in Australia succeeds in lobbying against charity watchdog
2013-09-01,"""We are fighting for survival,"" Pacific islands leader warns, as low-lying atolls grow uninhabitable because of rising seas, severe floods, droughts & storm surges. ""Climate change has already arrived."" Marshall Islands to host summit for largest greenhouse gas emitters, including US, China & EU."
2013-09-01,2 Canadian Navy ships collide during manoeuvres.
2013-09-01,Radiation readings spike at water tank at Japan's ruined nuclear plant
2013-09-01,EU plans to fit all cars with speed limiters
2013-09-01,"Terrorist attack on Suez Canal ship 'foiled' in Egypt -- Reports of two blasts, but Panama-flagged vessel remained undamaged."
2013-09-01,Syria crisis: Britain will play active role in military action despite vote defeat
2013-09-01,"Beneath Greenland's ice scientists have discovered a 460-mile ""megacanyon"""
2013-09-01,A hugely popular self styled god-man / guru in India is arrested for rape of a 19 year old
2013-09-01,"Fukushima radiation levels spike, now at ""Threat Level: Serious"""
2013-08-31,Putin says US should present Syria chemical weapons evidence to UN Security Council
2013-08-31,Syrias largest city just dropped off the Internet
2013-08-31,UK Asked New York Times To Destroy Edward Snowden Documents; NY Times Ignored Request
2013-08-31,China confirms plans for first Moon visit later this year
2013-08-31,Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared 'utter nonsense' the idea that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons on its own people and called on the US to present its supposed evidence to the UN Security Council
2013-08-31,RT.com partially banned by Reddit - RT Answers Back.
2013-08-31,NATO will not be part of Syria attack
2013-08-31,"Latest Snowden leak reveals, US hit 231 cyber-attacks against Russia, Iran, and China"
2013-08-31,"Kerry: Syrian chemical attack killed 1,400 people."
2013-08-31,Read Full Report: Obama Officially Pins the Blame Of Chemical Weapons Attack On Assad
2013-08-31,"Officer in the Syrian army claims that thirteen pilots have signed a pledge to serve as kamikaze pilots against Western aircraft. Also claims that there 8,000 total 'suicide martyrs' at the ready, and that ""I myself am ready to blow myself up against US aircraft carriers."""
2013-08-31,Gays attacked in their own homes as Jamaica hits record levels of violence
2013-08-31,"Most French people do not want France to take part in military action on Syria and most do not trust French President Francois Hollande to do so, a poll showed on Saturday."
2013-08-31,The government of India will soon ask all its employees to stop using Google's Gmail for official communication
2013-08-31,"'Black Jesus' murder: Leader of 6,000-strong cannibal rape cult hacked to death by villagers in Papua New Guinea jungle after killing yet again - Stephen Tari called himself 'the true Christ' and had previously been accused of raping, murdering and eating young girls"
2013-08-31,Why Fukushima is much worse than everyone thinks
2013-08-31,"Syria suggest that it has ways of defending itself that will 'surprise everybody'. "" ""We will defend ourselves using all means available. I don't want to say more than that."""
2013-08-31,"Russia's President Vladimir Putin dismisses US claims that Syria's regime used chemical weapons as ""utter nonsense""."
2013-08-31,Majority of French oppose Syria intervention
2013-08-31,"Experts Fear That U.S. Plan to Strike Syria Overlooks Risks. Our biggest problem is ignorance; were pretty ignorant about Syria, said Ryan C. Crocker, a former ambassador to Syria and Lebanon."
2013-08-31,Russian Aircraft Carrier Admiral Kuznetsov To Be Sent To Syrias Tartus
2013-08-31,"University of Alberta nano-tech discovery would make solar panels cheaper, lighter"
2013-08-31,"According to documents leaked by Edward Snowden, U.S. spy agencies mounted 231 offensive cyber-operations in 2011."
2013-08-31,Growing Bipartisan Coalition Urges Obama to Seek Congressional Authorization for Syrian Strike
2013-08-31,7.0 earthquake strikes just south of Alaska's Aleutian
2013-08-30,David Cameron loses Syria vote in Commons
2013-08-30,Documents leaked by Edward Snowden to the Washington Post show that DNA analysis on the corpse of Bin Laden were done that confirm his identity.The Pentagon denied more than a year ago it had any records of these tests in a response to a Freedom of Information Act request.
2013-08-30,"""The last time a British prime minister was defeated by the Commons on a war motion was 1782 when MPs refused to go on fighting  of all people  the restless Americans wishing for independence."""
2013-08-30,The Russian news site RT.com has been banned from the popular Reddit forum r/news for spamming and vote manipulation.
2013-08-30,Unprecedented 'black budget' leak reveals the scope of $52 billion US spy complex.
2013-08-30,Canada will not join the U.S. and U.K. in a military attack.
2013-08-30,Edward Snowden awarded with German whistleblower prize
2013-08-30,"Britain's Cameron: I don't need to apologize to Obama over Syria defeat ""U.K. Prime Minister said on Friday he regretted the failure of the British parliament to support military action in Syria but that he hoped President Barack Obama would understand the need to listen to the wishes of the people"""
2013-08-30,Snowden reveals US intelligences black budget: $52.6 billion on secret programs
2013-08-30,"'Napalm' bomb dropped on school in Syria, leaving scores of children with burns over their bodies"
2013-08-30,"While BBC hasn't reported the number, 50,000 military troops have been dispatched throughout Colombia to put an end to the national protests."
2013-08-30,Al Jazeera: It's time for a UN-imposed ceasefire in Syria
2013-08-30,Leaked documents reveal US sees Israel as a major spying threat
2013-08-30,China warns U.S. against attack on Syria
2013-08-30,"U.S. military officers have deep doubts about impact, wisdom of a U.S. strike on Syria"
2013-08-30,Archbishop of Canterbury: Christians must repent for their homophobia
2013-08-30,France Backs U.S. on Syria Action
2013-08-30,"France says ready to punish Syria despite British no vote: ""All the options are on the table. France wants action that is in proportion and firm against the Damascus regime"""
2013-08-30,"Emotional Syrian letter to Britain stresses that they are ""fathers and mothers with families not so different from yours,"" and a war will plunge ""secular Syria into sectarian violence"""
2013-08-30,Australians told to leave Syria now
2013-08-30,Poet Seamus Heaney dies aged 74
2013-08-30,"The Fukushima Nightmare: No End in Sight-- ""After underground pools leaked, TEPCO has hastily built around 1,000 surface storage tanks. Several are leaking from joints sealed with plastic"""
2013-08-30,"Finland's government announced a long-term plan to start scaling back its welfare system, one of the most generous in the world, aiming to preserve its triple-A credit rating in the face of a slower economy and aging population."
2013-08-30,Why is every media outlet now questioning Britain's status in the world because our House voted against an American military intervention?
2013-08-30,Irish poet Seamus Heaney dies
2013-08-29,"Saudi Arabia's cabinet has passed a ban on domestic violence and other forms of abuse against women for the first time in the Kingdom's history. The cabinet approved a ban on physical or sexual violence earlier this week, which applies both at home or within the work place."
2013-08-29,Man turns his phone number into a premium number. Makes money off of telemarketers calling him.
2013-08-29,Russia is sending an anti-submarine ship and a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean as Western powers prepare for possible strikes against Syria
2013-08-29,"WikiLeaks raises $12,000 in Bitcoin for Edward Snowden's defense"
2013-08-29,"Fukushima leak upgraded to Level 3 severity, leaking 300 tons of radioactive water into the ocean."
2013-08-29,Kim Jong-Un's ex is executed by firing squad.
2013-08-29,David Cameron backed down and agreed to delay a military attack on Syria following a growing revolt over the UK's rushed response to the crisis on Wednesday night.
2013-08-29,"Legalize/Decriminalize Marijuana, Canadians Say: 'A survey found that 69% either want to see marijuana legalized, taxed, and regulated or see the possession of small amounts decriminalized.'"
2013-08-29,"Christianity is dying in England, and in France Catholic priests are only preaching to pensioners -- In France, ""almost two-thirds of youth said they belonged to 'no religion' and very few people, just an estimated one in 20, regularly attend Mass"""
2013-08-29,Syria asks UN to immediately investigate three new chemical attacks by rebels
2013-08-29,US Judge Rejects BPs Latest Request to Stop Payments from its Multibillion-Dollar Settlement with Victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill - Were pleased the court relied on actual facts & evidence in reaching its conclusion & not the unsupported hyperbole & speculation propagated by BP.
2013-08-29,"Untouchable girl kidnapped and repeatedly gang-raped in a car by the sons of influential persons with a warning that if she did not return to them every 10 days, her parents would be killed."
2013-08-29,"Syrias ambassador to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari, added a new level of complexity to the issue on Wednesday, announcing that he had submitted evidence of three previously unreported instances of chemical weapons use in Syria, which he asserted had been carried out by Syrian insurgents."
2013-08-29,"Christians, other minorities in Syria fear 'ethnic cleansing' - Syrian rebels, who are mostly Sunni Muslims, have repeatedly shelled Christian neighborhoods in the city"
2013-08-29,Protesters gather outside Downing Street to oppose Syria intervention
2013-08-29,Undercover at the Tar Sands: What It's Really Like Working for Big Oil - An anonymous worker reveals conditions at ground zero for Canada's controversial pipelines
2013-08-29,New Zealand's Intelligence will not be charged for illegally spying on Kim Dotcom because they didn't mean to break the law.
2013-08-29,Scientists claim they have discovered fossilized algae inside meteorite hinting at proof of alien life.
2013-08-29,Mini volcano pops up in Rome.
2013-08-29,Five years since Lehman's collapse the unthinkable has become reality; Our systems of governance have yet to properly address these previously unthinkable outcomes and their profound implications for current and future generations
2013-08-29,"Iran's Revolutionary Guards chief said a U.S. military attack on Syria would lead to the ""imminent destruction"" of Israel and would prove a ""second Vietnam"" for America, according to an Iranian news agency."
2013-08-29,Armies of Kurdish women are taking on Syria's Islamists -- and winning
2013-08-29,Woman in Pakistan sentenced to death for taking a sip of water
2013-08-29,"In Rush to Strike Syria, U.S. Tried to Derail U.N. Probe: ""Dismissed the U.N. investigation as coming too late to obtain valid evidence"""
2013-08-29,"Panama: North Korea arms shipment broke UN sanctions - Weapons on freighter seized after leaving Cuba were 'without a doubt' being traded in breach of embargo, ministry says"
2013-08-28,A campaign has been launched to encourage the World Meteorological Organisation to begin naming hurricanes and other destructive storms after climate change deniers.
2013-08-28,"New Zealand bans software patents Todays historic legislation will support our innovative technology industry, and sends a clear message to the rest of the world that New Zealand wont tolerate the vexatious practice of patent trolls"
2013-08-28,Irans parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill requiring the government to sue the U.S. for its involvement in the 1953 coup that overthrew the countrys democratically elected prime minister.
2013-08-28,Existence of new element confirmed
2013-08-28,"Strike on Syria Would Cause One on Israel, Iran Declares"
2013-08-28,"Syrian President: This is nonsense. First they level the accusations, and only then they start collecting evidence."
2013-08-28,"Castro Denies That Cuba Refuses To Accept Snowden, He Admires Snowdens Actions"
2013-08-28,Syria challenges West to offer proof of chemical weapons use
2013-08-28,PM: Poland will not join strikes on Syria
2013-08-28,"For the first time, the combined GDP of poor nations is greater than the rich ones"
2013-08-28,Syria says 'terrorists' will strike Europe with chemical weapons
2013-08-28,Jordan: No attack on Syria from our soil
2013-08-28,Apple Tries to Trademark the Word 'Startup'
2013-08-28,"Exclusive Glenn Greenwald Interview: ""I Won't Be Kept Out of My Country for Doing Journalism!"""
2013-08-28,Syrian Electronic Army takes down New York Times website
2013-08-28,"Currency Spikes at 4 P.M. in London Provide Rigging Of Stock Market Clues ""distorting the value of trillions of dollars of investments in funds that track global indexes. Bloomberg News reported"""
2013-08-28,Iranian Official: Israel to Be First Victim of U.S. Attack on Syria
2013-08-28,Painting of Vladimir Putin in women's underwear seized by Russian police
2013-08-28,N. Korea sees bright future in tourism
2013-08-28,Pope Francis has phoned an Argentine woman to comfort her and tell her she is not alone after she wrote a letter to him saying she was raped by a policeman.
2013-08-28,"Russia: Paintings of Officials Are Seized by the Police.The police seized a painting of the president and prime minister in womens underwear from an art gallery in St. Petersburg, saying the display had broken unspecified laws."
2013-08-28,Japan formally raises Fukushima water leak to INES Level 3 incident
2013-08-28,"""Excorcist"" arrested claiming penis purge ghosts inside women"
2013-08-28,Angela Merkel: Greece should never have been allowed in the euro
2013-08-28,Taliban attack under way on Polish base in east Afghanistan
2013-08-27,"Hans Blix: Whether Obama in Syria or Bush in Iraq, The US Is Not the World Police"
2013-08-27,"Facebook will pay a $20 million fine for privacy violations, from which it made $73 million in profits."
2013-08-27,"Obama orders documents justifying a military strike in Syria to be declassified and released, legal process to justify military intervention is already underway"
2013-08-27,India bans shark 'finning'
2013-08-27,Russias warning falls on deaf ears as Britain and US prepare to bomb
2013-08-27,Remember bogus U.S. excuses for Iraq war before attacking Syria: China's Xinhua
2013-08-27,"Saudi Arabia has secretly offered Russian a sweeping deal to control the global oil market and safeguard Russias gas contracts, if the Kremlin backs away from the Assad regime in Syria."
2013-08-27,Russia says West acting in Muslim world like 'monkey with grenade'
2013-08-27,German Chancellor Candidate: Stop Trade Negotiations Until US Stops Spying
2013-08-27,"Most efficient Health Care by Country. Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan have top three spots. Israel comes in fourth. US comes in 46th."
2013-08-27,"Liberia students all fail university admission exam. Liberia's education minister says she finds it hard to believe that not a single candidate out of 25,000 passed this year's university admission exam."
2013-08-27,Russia starts evacuating its citizens from Syria ahead of western strike
2013-08-27,Tom's BBQ-Philanthropic Work With The Aid Of Paz De Cristo
2013-08-27,Talk Of Strike On Syria Moves From 'Will It Happen?' To When
2013-08-27,Syria crisis: Russia and China step up warning over strike
2013-08-27,"Former JPMorgan employee who is wanted by the United States in a trading scandal that cost the bank $6.2 billion last year, was arrested in Madrid"
2013-08-27,"Russia warned Western powers on Monday against any military intervention in Syria, saying the use of force without a U.N. mandate would violate international law."
2013-08-27,Russia warns of 'catastrophic consequences' if Syria hit
2013-08-27,"Kerry: Chemical weapons were used in Syria, accuses Assad of destroying evidence"
2013-08-27,UN says it will contact United States over spying report
2013-08-27,Syria crisis: warplanes spotted in Cyprus as tensions rise in Damascus
2013-08-27,Kerry: US will act against Assad
2013-08-27,"Julian Assange Reveals ""Google's Covert Role In Foaming Uprisings"""
2013-08-27,"First wave powered desalination plant to be built in Perth, Australia."
2013-08-27,Expat British architect loses a tooth after Basel police beat him for cycling on a bike without proper brakes
2013-08-26,Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
2013-08-26,Snowden Covered His Tracks Well; How Many Other NSA Staffers Did The Same?: 'U.S. government's efforts to determine which highly classified materials Snowden took from the National Security Agency have been frustrated by Snowden's sophisticated efforts to cover his digital trail..'
2013-08-26,Syria: UN Inspectors 'Shot At By Snipers'
2013-08-26,"LSD is good for you, say Norway researchers"
2013-08-26,"US military intervention in Syria would 'repeat the mistakes' of Iraq war, Russia warns"
2013-08-26,Syrian official: Israel will be under fire if the US strikes in Syria.
2013-08-26,Top Editors Call Out UK Govt: 'Detention of Miranda Undermines Free Press': Sharply worded open letter from the heads of leading European papers echoes mass outrage at abuse of anti-terrorism laws to intimidate journalists
2013-08-26,"Alexander runs the US cyberwar effort, an empire he built over eight years by insisting that our vulnerability to digital attacks requires amassing ever more authority. In his telling, the threat is so huge that the nation has little option but to put the entire Internet under his control."
2013-08-26,Navy ready to launch first strike on Syria: Britain is planning to join forces with America and launch military action against Syria within days in response to the gas attack believed to have been carried out by President Bashar al-Assads forces against his own people
2013-08-26,Wikileaks leaks alleged emails between American officials and intelligence contractors.
2013-08-26,"Finnish Court Censors Website That Criticizes Censorship -- While the site itself doesnt host or link to illegal content, the court argues that societys obligation to protect the children trumps freedom of speech in this case"
2013-08-26,Jehovahs Witness elders stonewalled a police probe into church members sexual abuse. They claimed they had a duty to God not to cooperate with the investigation.
2013-08-26,"Taiwan Seizes 2,626 Rare Turtles Bound for Dinner Plates in China - ""After consuming up their own turtles, now they are turning their eyes to Southeast Asia & Taiwan,"" said a Council of Agriculture official. ""Since the turtles are not seen often in the wild, many must've been involved."""
2013-08-26,"Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster AKA ""Pastafarians"" stage satirical march in Moscow. Police detain and charge 8 with organizing an unsanctioned rally."
2013-08-26,"Alexei Navalny, who is also an anti-corruption blogger, was detained late Sunday at an event for infringing ""the rights and legal interests of other citizens,"" an unnamed police official told Interfax news agency."
2013-08-26,"""Britain's anti-terror legislation should be widened to cover the publication and passing on of official government secrets, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Lord Blair has suggested."""
2013-08-26,Gay reporter James Kirchick kicked off Russias RT news network for protesting anti-gay laws
2013-08-26,"Russia to US: Once again we call not to repeat past mistakes, not to allow actions that contradict international law."
2013-08-26,Feasting & Fighting: the Long-Lost Secrets of Beowulf - Archaeologists in Denmark have excavated the 6th-century great dining hall at the center of the epic work. The dark secrets of Englands oldest work of epic literature are emerging from under a field.
2013-08-26,"Syria lets U.N. inspect gas attack site, Washington says too late"
2013-08-26,'Our generation is a lost cause': Spain's youth struggle to chart a life amid economic crisis
2013-08-26,"Hysteria around chemical attack suits those who want military intervention in Syria - Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russia"
2013-08-26,"Flouting International Rejection of Weapons, US to Supply Saudi Arabia With Cluster Bombs -- The U.S. and Saudi Arabia have refused to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits use and transfer of the weapons noted for their harm to civilian populations years after they are dropped"
2013-08-26,"1,000-strong Burmese Buddhist mob burns Muslim homes and shops"
2013-08-26,Saudi Arabia to have 16 nuclear reactors to be ready by 2030
2013-08-25,"Americans strongly oppose U.S. intervention in Syria's civil war and believe Washington should stay out of the conflict even if reports that Syria's government used deadly chemicals to attack civilians are confirmed, a Reuters/Ipsos poll says."
2013-08-25,"David Miranda's detention is a threat to press freedom, say European editors - Newspapers urge prime minister to restore Britain's reputation for free press after holding of Guardian journalist's partner"
2013-08-25,"Land speculators destroy 2,700 year old Greek necropolis in Libya, throwing artifacts into a river"
2013-08-25,"Syria has agreed to allow weapons inspectors full access to any site of a purported chemical weapons attack, effective immediately, Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Mekdad tells CNN's Fred Pleitgen."
2013-08-25,An open letter from four of the largest Nordic newspapers to Britains PM David Cameron regarding the treatment of The Guardian
2013-08-25,2 British women were beaten and detained in China for refusing to accept counterfeit goods. Their visas expired while they were stuck in jail and they are now in legal limbo.
2013-08-25,CSEC Commissioner: Canadians May Have Been Illegally Targeted in Surveillance Activities In Violation of the Law
2013-08-25,Muslim Brotherhood leader is hiding in London
2013-08-25,Did New Zealand Spooks Tap Into PRISM To Spy On Dotcom?: 'Police affidavits appear to show that NZ police and spy agencies are able to tap directly into US surveillance systems...'
2013-08-25,"Egypt Widens Crackdown and Meaning of 'Islamist' - Anyone who opposes the regime, even liberal groups, are being branded Islamists and arrested on false charges"
2013-08-25,Scandinaivian publishers write Open Letter to David Cameron in the midst of recent events in the snowden case
2013-08-25,UK government given Tuesday deadline over David Miranda data: Judges ask government to provide detailed evidence about why it wants right to trawl and share data seized using terror laws
2013-08-25,Secret vodka smuggling pipeline discovered under Kyrgyzstan river
2013-08-25,"Plumpy'Nut: The lifesaver that costs... well, peanuts: life-saving peanut paste, first trialled during a famine in Niger eight years ago, is reaching two million of the world's most severely malnourished children a year"
2013-08-25,"Censorship Doesnt Just Stifle Speech  It Can Spread Disease -- ""[MERS] is mysterious, far more so than it should bebecause Saudi Arabia, where the majority of cases have clustered, has been tight-lipped about the diseases spread"""
2013-08-25,Syria: Cameron and Obama agree to military strike over chemical weapons
2013-08-25,Syria: Mideast will burn if we're attacked
2013-08-25,"Ecuador looks to ban publication of classified documents, despite 'housing' WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange"
2013-08-25,"3,600 Syrians show 'neurotoxic symptoms'"
2013-08-25,Editors of four major Scandinavian papers write an open letter to David Cameron
2013-08-25,"Russia warns U.S. not to repeat in Syria past mistakes in region ""Referring to the United States' military intervention in Iraq, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that any military action would affect joint U.S.-Russian efforts for an international peace conference on Syria."""
2013-08-25,"Two Russian bombers have violated Japanese airspace near its major southern island of Kyushu on Thursday, prompting Tokyo to scramble its own F-2 combat jets and lodge a protest, reports say."
2013-08-25,Greenpeace campaigners invade Belgian Grand Prix to protest against sponsors Shell
2013-08-25,"Jihadist Group Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian Village Killing 44, Survivors Have Their Eyes Gouged Out"
2013-08-25,Scotland Yard under fire over arbitrary terror arrests - IPCC investigating 25 complaints about Schedule 7 detentions at borders as Britains biggest force given ultimatum after refusing to hand over evidence
2013-08-24,Nobody is saying anything but Colombia has been for the last 4 days in a Nationwide strike against the Government policies and the Trade agreement with the United States.
2013-08-24,US soldier sentenced to life in prison for shooting 16 Afghan villagers
2013-08-24,A 15-year-old girl who faced 100 lashes in the Maldives after she was raped by her step-father has had the sentence overturned following an international campaign.
2013-08-24,Judge refuses to let Muslim defendant wear burqa in court
2013-08-24,"Holding Italy Hostage ""Vote me out of jail, or I will bring the country down with me. This, essentially, is the message Silvio Berlusconifour-time prime minister, owner of the countrys three main TV channels, criminal defendant many times overhas just sent to the Italian government..."""
2013-08-24,Recently released documents show that New Zealand police possibly got illegal help from spying apparatus set up by America's National Security Agency in order to bust Megaupload's Kim Dotcom
2013-08-24,Snowden accuses UK gov't of leaking documents he never leaked to make mim look bad
2013-08-24,"Police in Hong Kong have arrested more than 1,800 people in a crackdown on the organised crime gangs known as triads."
2013-08-24,Nigerian Islamists accused of cutting throats of 44 villagers
2013-08-24,"Syrian soldiers enter rebel tunnels, find chemical agents: state TV ""Syrian state television said government soldiers found chemical agents in rebel tunnels in the Damascus suburb of Jobar on Saturday and some of the troops were suffocating"""
2013-08-24,"U.S. Shipping Thousands of Cluster Bombs to Saudis, Despite Global Ban"
2013-08-24,"Medecins Sans Frontieres says it treated about 3,600 patients with 'neurotoxic symptoms' in Syria, of whom 355 died"
2013-08-24,"UK drives Guardian to partner with the New York Times, which has the files and will start reporting also."
2013-08-24,"The United States on Friday was repositioning naval forces in the Mediterranean to give President Barack Obama the option for an armed strike on Syria, although officials cautioned that Obama had made no decision on military action"
2013-08-24,"Iran's Rouhani says chemical weapons killed people in Syria  ""The Islamic Republic gives notice to the international community to use all its might to prevent the use of these weapons anywhere in the world, especially in Syria,"""
2013-08-24,First Nations Women Are Being Sold Into The Sex Trade On Ships Along Lake Superior
2013-08-24,Mapped: Every Protest on the Planet Since 1979
2013-08-24,Syrian troops find chemical agents in tunnels used by rebels
2013-08-24,"The list of Christian churches, schools, institutions, shops torched by the Muslim Brotherhood in the last three days"
2013-08-24,US readies possible missile strike against Syria - report
2013-08-24,"Pastor caught up in $300,000 small town opium bust"
2013-08-24,"""The German Government is now deeply suspicious that the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) technology built into a growing number of Windows 8 PCs and tablets is creating a gigantic back door for NSA surveillance, leaked documents have suggested."""
2013-08-24,"Doctors Without Borders Confirms 3,600 Suffering Neurotoxic Symptoms Treated in Hospitals in Syria"
2013-08-24,"Canadian politician admits to smoking pot during his time as a member of Parliament, with a surprisingly positive response. [x-post from /r/Canada]"
2013-08-24,Israel's Most Liberal City Introduces Racially Segregated Kindergartens
2013-08-23,Orders To Destroy Guardian Hard Drives Came Directly From PM David Cameron
2013-08-23,Not a conspiracy anymore
2013-08-23,"""It appears that the UK government is...intentionally leaking harmful information to The Independent and attributing it to others"""
2013-08-23,SOPA 2: the return of the internets grim reaper
2013-08-23,Chinese policeman who grabbed an infant and threw her to the ground has been sacked from the force and formally arrested
2013-08-23,Ecuador gives up on protecting the rain forest -- oil drilling soon to destroy most biodiverse place on the planet
2013-08-23,Colombia more than doubled the size of a huge nature reserve as it fights to protect the Amazon from deforestation
2013-08-23,Fukushima operator pleads for international help as radiation crisis deepens
2013-08-23,Edward Snowden leaks reveal UKs secret Middle-East web surveillance base - Data-gathering operation is part of a 1bn internet project still being assembled by GCHQ
2013-08-23,"The first legal abortion in an Irish hospital has been carried out in Dublin, it was confirmed on Friday. The termination was carried out on a woman who had an unviable 18-week pregnancy and whose life was risk at the National Maternity hospital."
2013-08-23,"Saudi Princess Meshael Alayban posts $5,000,000.00 bail, then skips her California arraignment on human trafficking charges, contending that her Kenyan slave was well paid, well fed, enjoyed spa days and cable television and even had wild shopping sprees."
2013-08-23,Israeli Jets Bomb Lebanon In Retaliation For Rocket Attack
2013-08-23,Kenya jails Chinese ivory smuggler in landmark ruling. Sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Thursday in a landmark ruling hailed as sending a powerful warning to poachers and smugglers.
2013-08-23,"Surge in wolf attacks in France prompts call to bring in American hunters, because the French ""don't know how to kill wolves"""
2013-08-23,Germany Breaks its Own Record for Solar Power Generation
2013-08-23,"Someone Beat the Vikings Into the North Atlantic by 500 Years - We're not sure who colonised the Faroe Islands, but they got there pretty early"
2013-08-23,"The Real, Terrifying Reason Why British Authorities Detained David Miranda"
2013-08-23,"For some two decades, major German breweries have allegedly been fixing beer prices, according to a media report this week. They now face hundreds of millions of euros in fines."
2013-08-23,"One of China's most well-known civil rights advocates has been formally arrested on charges of disrupting public order, as Beijing cracks down on grassroots efforts to build a civil society that may challenge its rule"
2013-08-23,UN finds Australia guilty in 150 cases of Human rights abuses.
2013-08-23,"US gun culture is 'corrupting the world,' Australia ex-deputy PM says after Okla. slaying I am angry cos it's corrupting the world, this gun culture of the U.S. The U.S. has chosen the pathway of an illogical policy with regard to guns. They cannot expect not to have any criticism of it worldwide"""
2013-08-23,Syria crisis: Child refugees reach 'one million'. 'The UN's refugee agency and Unicef say a further two million children are displaced within the country'
2013-08-23,Ten tons of dead fish found in lake near Rio de Janeiro's 2016 Olympic Park
2013-08-23,"The News From Fukushima Just Gets Worse, and the Japanese Public Wants Answers"
2013-08-23,Theresa May attacked for comments on critics of David Miranda's detention - Ex-director of public prosecutions speaks out after home office say opponents of Miranda's detention are 'condoning terrorism'
2013-08-22,"An Indian spiritual leader who sparked controversy when he said a gangrape victim could have saved herself by addressing her violators as brothers and asking for mercy, has been charged with raping a minor"
2013-08-22,"PayPal unfreezes $45,000 cancer donation after media enquiries, the wife of the cancer patient previously rang PayPal without success, says she felt helpless"
2013-08-22,"Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe' ""What is the worse is the water leakage everywhere else...It is leaking out from the basements, it is leaking out from the cracks all over the place. Nobody can measure that. It is much worse than we have been led to believe, much worse"""
2013-08-22,"Hundreds of children's bodies piled high after nerve gas attack near Damascus leaves up to 1,300 dead"
2013-08-22,"Julian Assange: Bradley Manning Sentence is an ""Affront to Basic Concepts of Western Justice"""
2013-08-22,"Council of Europe wants to know why Britain ordered Guardian harddisks destroyed and detaining Greenwalds partner, calls it ""negative impact on freedom of expression in the UK""."
2013-08-22,Canadian Robber caught after going back to apologize
2013-08-22,A Pakistani cleric cut his wife into pieces on Wednesday for refusing to wear a veil and sending their children to school
2013-08-22,"Julian Assange make a puplic statement on the Manning case: ""The only just outcome in Mr Mannings case is his unconditional release, compensation for the unlawful treatment he has undergone..."" Full statement in link"
2013-08-22,Mubarak is Free
2013-08-22,"Germany Produces Record-Breaking amount of solar power and even shatters their wind power record. Renewables are doing so well, in fact, that one of Germany's biggest utilities is threatening to migrate to Turkey."""
2013-08-22,"Up to 400 British citizens emigrate every day, causing what one politician says is a 'disappearance' of skilled middle-class professionals"
2013-08-22,Police brutality reported at UK fracking protests. They tried to provoke a clash when we had no interest in having one.
2013-08-22,David Miranda wins partial court victory over data seized by police
2013-08-22,"Native Canadian women sold on U.S. ships, researcher says - Thunder Bay"
2013-08-22,An Australian Islamic preacher is under police investigation after he was filmed calling for all Buddhists and Hindus to be killed.
2013-08-22,"France calls for use of ""force"" in Syria if chemical weapons massacre is proved"
2013-08-22,"The detention of David Miranda was an unlawful use of the Terrorism Act - The Act, which I helped introduce, was not passed with people like Miranda in mind. The act was designed to secure lasting peace in Northern Ireland and make it difficult for Irish dissident terrorists to come to the mainland"
2013-08-22,"Gaza: Palestinian Youth Denounce Hamas As ""Medieval Gangsters"""
2013-08-22,"Video: James Kirchick Taken Off ""Russia Today"" After Slamming Russia's Anti-Gay Law"
2013-08-22,Israeli Media Reports: Air Raid Sirens Wail in Northern Israel
2013-08-22,China arrests Weibo users for inciting public dissatisfaction with the government
2013-08-22,"Auckland, New Zealand to ban beggars off street"
2013-08-22,Canadians may be victims of illicit spying
2013-08-22,Sherlock Actor Benedict Cumberbatch challenges the British Prime Minister on Goverment Surveillance and the Police State
2013-08-21,British PM David Cameron told a member of his cabinet to warn the Guardian newspaper of serious consequences of publishing Snowden material
2013-08-21,"WikiLeaks: Govts attacks on media signalling rise of fascism in UK, US'"
2013-08-21,"""Journalism is not Terrorism."" - Greenwald"
2013-08-21,"'Let's tax the sun': Spain's new tax on solar panels has shocked international publications like Forbes for its ""stupidity""."
2013-08-21,David Miranda was forced to give the passwords for his cell phone and laptop to the police against the threat of prison.
2013-08-21,"Lord Falconer, who helped introduce the Terrorism Act, states that it provided no legal basis to detain David Miranda"
2013-08-21,UK defends Miranda detention: Those who oppose (detentions) need to think about what they are condoning.
2013-08-21,Reports of massive chemical attack near Damascus as UN observers arrive in Syria
2013-08-21,Argentina's Ambassador Calls David Cameron 'Dumb' And 'Completely Useless'
2013-08-21,"Quebec wants to ban turbans, veils, kippas, from publicly funded spaces"
2013-08-21,"In the 21st century surveillance state, we are all terrorists -- Intimidating reporters, destroying their computers, detaining them under false pretenses -- it's all in a day's work for today's modern spy agency"
2013-08-21,GCSB Bill Passed (New Zealand domestic spying bill)
2013-08-21,Russia slams UKs double standards over Guardian pressure
2013-08-21,David Cameron accused of sanctioning detention of Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda
2013-08-21,"Australian University Newspaper has had to change its cover to a blank canvas, after the original cover depicted 18 realistic vaginas of the student population, trying to protest against the false depictions of female genitalia in the media. [Uncensored Cover inside]"
2013-08-21,"North Korean prison camp horror exposed at UN panel hearing. Harrowing accounts of how guards chopped off a man's finger, forced inmates to eat frogs and a mother to kill her own baby."
2013-08-21,North Korea Breaks Bad: Heavy Meth Use and Addiction
2013-08-21,Why the Guardian destroyed the hard drives of leaked files
2013-08-21,"Pink Floyd's Roger Waters calls on ""his fellow musicians to boycott the Zionist Israeli regime""."
2013-08-21,Black Helicopters: Britain's Blind Faith in Intelligence Agencies
2013-08-21,Cameron was behind UK attempt to halt Snowden reports
2013-08-21,Japan to raise severity rating for Fukushima leaks to level 3
2013-08-21,"In Russia, Five Men Film And Share Brutal Attack On Trans Woman In Broad Daylight"
2013-08-21,Indian campaigner against mysticism and black magic assassinated after government announces an anti-superstition bill
2013-08-21,Guardian: Willingly Destroyed Snowden Data instead of letting a Judge decide outcome in a year.
2013-08-20,"Guardian Editor: U.K. 'Security Experts' Entered Offices And Destroyed Hard Drives - ""You've had your debate. There's no need to write any more."""
2013-08-20,The Guardian is suing the UK Home Office for the detention of David Miranda
2013-08-20,"Brazil passes a law that reserves the nation's oil royalties for education and health care: ""Historic victory."""
2013-08-20,U.K. government thought destroying Guardian hard drives would stop Snowden stories
2013-08-20,One U.S. security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the British government's detention and questioning of Miranda was to send a message to recipients of Snowden's materials
2013-08-20,"60 years ago, the U.S. and Britain overthrew a democratic gov't in Iran, docs reveal"
2013-08-20,BP is suing the US government to be allowed to explore for oil with US federal money again.
2013-08-20,"Following the nine-hour-long detention by British authorities of Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda, Anonymous hacks UK and Chinese government websites, posts personal information of US government officials and their families as ""vital anti-terror surveillance information."""
2013-08-20,David Miranda detention prompts outcry over 'gross misuse' of terror laws
2013-08-20,"Indonesian city to require female schoolgirls to pass virginity test. Official said it's a response to the high rate of ""adultery"" and ""prostitution"" among female students."
2013-08-20,"In China, half of all groundwater and 2/3rds of all surface water is polluted"
2013-08-20,"Members of one of the most isolated tribes on Earth have briefly emerged from the Peruvian jungle to ask for food..The tribe, which numbers in the hundreds, has had virtually no contact with the wider world..Campaigners say logging and urban dev't have diminished the area in which the tribe can live"
2013-08-20,"Anti-superstition activist Narendra Dabholkar shot dead in Pune, India"
2013-08-20,"In 2006, when Sweden's unemployment rate stood at only 6%, Mr Reinfeldt promised to boost jobs by cutting income tax and welfare benefits. Today unemployment is above 8%, and youth unemployment is higher than in any other Nordic country."
2013-08-20,"Israel behind Egypt coup  Turkish PM ""Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan claims Ankara has proof Israel was behind the July 3 military ""coup"" that toppled Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Hurriyet daily reports."""
2013-08-20,One in 7 Canadians has genital herpes: StatsCan study
2013-08-20,Russian Officials Now Prohibited from Having Foreign Bank Accounts
2013-08-20,"More than 1,000 artifacts spanning 3500 years of history looted or destroyed during Egypts violence"
2013-08-20,"Wrecked Fukushima plant springs highly radioactive water leak ""The latest leak, which is continuing, is so contaminated that a person standing 50 centimetres (1.6 feet) away would, within an hour, receive a radiation dose five times the average annual global limit for nuclear workers."""
2013-08-20,Radiation levels in Fukushima bay highest since measurements began
2013-08-20,Encrypted computer files seized from David Miranda 'were from US whistleblower
2013-08-20,"Glenn Greenwald: Detaining My Partner Was a Failed Attempt at Intimidation -- The detention of my partner, David Miranda, by UK authorities will have the opposite effect of the one intended"
2013-08-20,"Egyptian journalist shot dead after curfew -- ""Egyptian security forces killed the bureau chief of a provincial office of state newspaper Al-Ahram after opening fire on a car they thought had tried to escape from a checkpoint enforcing a dusk-to-dawn curfew"""
2013-08-20,New Zealand prime minister John Key says he will resign if spy agency conducted mass surveillance on citizens
2013-08-20,North Korea Grapples With Crystal Meth Epidemic
2013-08-19,"Glenn Greenwald's partner detained at Heathrow airport for nine hours, under controversial Terrorism Act 2000. He was denied access to a lawyer, and had his possessions confiscated."
2013-08-19,"The new Egyptian constitution may seek to ban all religious parties from the political arena,declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization"
2013-08-19,New Zealand prime minister walks out of press conference when questioned over spy bill
2013-08-19,"Greenwald: The detention of my partner, David Miranda, by UK authorities will have the opposite effect of the one intended"
2013-08-19,CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup: The agency finally owns up to its role in the 1953 operation.
2013-08-19,"Drug addiction not a criminal issue, says chief medical officer UK,"
2013-08-19,Mexican politician says gay people should not be allowed to marry because 'they don't face each other during sex'
2013-08-19,"Brazil says the detention under British terror laws of one of its citizens at London's Heathrow airport caused ""grave concern"" and was ""unjustified""."
2013-08-19,"16 year-old shot and killed a Melbourne baseballer because ""he just wanted to kill someone"""
2013-08-19,Toronto police officer in streetcar shooting charged with murder
2013-08-19,Amnesty International: Detention of Guardian employee at Heathrow unlawful and unwarranted
2013-08-19,"""A Russian senator has challenged Internet giant Google to explain its use of clients personal Gmail data, and claimed that the e-mail service violates individuals right to the secrecy of correspondence under Russias constitution."""
2013-08-19,UK police gathered intelligence on trade union activists and passed the information to a clandestine blacklisting agency that unlawfully stored secret files on thousands of worker
2013-08-19,"China punishes Wikipedia editor for Jimmy Wales' comments: In response, they've grounded Wikipedia China editor Huang Zhisong from leaving the country until 2016"
2013-08-19,"Canadian woman taken hostage in Somalia says she was starved, beaten, sexually brutalized and ready to die"
2013-08-19,Canada Remains Worlds Most Educated Country
2013-08-19,Amnesty International condemns detention of Glenn Greenwald's partner
2013-08-19,Volcano eruption covers Japanese city of Kagoshima with ash
2013-08-19,New Zealand's first same-sex marriages will be held today
2013-08-19,"Chile rallies against 'Monsanto Law', thousands in streets to protect country's food sovereignty"
2013-08-19,Egypt army chief vows to use full force
2013-08-19,20 Egyptian Soldiers killed in Sinai
2013-08-19,"Google trying to evade UK privacy laws, campaigners claim - Search giant aims to contest right of British users to bring lawsuit in UK over claims company illicitly tracked their web browsing, says the browsing habits of internet users are not protected as ""personal information"""
2013-08-19,"Glenn Greenwalds partner detained, questioned at London airport"
2013-08-19,Russian authorities in Moscow broke up a march of Pastafarians on Saturday with some help from anti-gay Russian Orthodox religious activists.
2013-08-18,TIME journalist says 'I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange.' Here's the deleted tweet. Wikileaks have responded by demanding his resignation.
2013-08-18,Ecuador Asked the World to Pay it Not to Drill for Oil. The World Said No. So oil exploration is to begin in Yasun National Park in the Amazon Rain Forest.
2013-08-18,Australia to cut tax benefit for parents who don't immunise children
2013-08-18,"Writer and journalist Will Self was stopped by police while out walking with his son because they suspected he was a paedophile, he has said."
2013-08-18,Germany acknowledges Bitcoin as currency
2013-08-18,"Canadians Warn Americans: Dont Trust Harpers Tar Sands Rhetoric  Production of heavy crude oil from the Alberta tar sands is Canadas fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, & if expansion continues as govt & industry project, they'll cancel out every effort to mitigate emissions"
2013-08-18,"Police Passed New Information on Princess Diana's death: ""It's not clear exactly what this information is, but we understand that it points to an allegation that Diana and those in the car with her were murdered."""
2013-08-18,Poll: 71% of Egyptians do not sympathize with pro-Morsi protesters
2013-08-18,"Al-Jazeera raided, journalists assaulted in Egypt"
2013-08-18,Chile fights GMO in national protest against Monsanto law
2013-08-18,Scotland Yard to assess fresh claims over death of Princess Diana: A new file includes allegations that a former SAS soldier claimed to know who arranged Princess Diana's death and that it had been covered up
2013-08-18,"Egypts Islamists target Christian churches, schools in backlash as chaos spreads ""After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded 3 nuns on the streets like 'prisoners of war' before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused"""
2013-08-18,Mohammed Al-Zawahiri Arrested: Brother Of Al-Qaeda Chief Ayman Al-Zawahiri Arrested In Egypt
2013-08-18,Report: UN panel finds it's 95 percent likely humans cause of climate change
2013-08-18,"Egypts Coptic Church Announces Support For Military Against Muslim Brotherhood, Rips Western Medias Pro-Islamist Reporting"
2013-08-18,Latin America stands up against US espionage
2013-08-18,Venezuela's Anti-Gay Politicians - Politicians at the highest levels of the Venezuelan govt are hurling anti-gay slurs & accusing each other of being gay
2013-08-18,"Egyptian prosecutors have placed 250 Muslim Brotherhood supporters under investigation for murder, attempted murder and terrorism"
2013-08-18,WikiLeaks posts 400 GBs of encrypted insurance data online  That No One Can Open..
2013-08-18,Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has fired the director of an Islamic TV channel for his role as the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait
2013-08-18,"Copies of Hadashi no Gen (Barefoot Gen), an internationally renowned manga about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, have been pulled from school library shelves here due to graphic descriptions of violence committed by Japanese troops"
2013-08-18,"After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like ""prisoners of war"" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge"
2013-08-18,Leader of Mexican Gulf Cartel Captured
2013-08-18,How American Hopes for a Deal in Egypt Were Undercut. The violent crackdown has left Mr. Obama in a no-win position: risk a partnership or stand by while longtime allies try to hold on to power by mowing down opponents. The Israelis and Saudis have lobbied him to go easy on the generals.
2013-08-18,Latin America Condemns US Espionage at United Nations Security Council
2013-08-17,"Girls escape forced marriage by concealing spoons in clothing to set off metal detectors at the airport ""When they go through security, it will highlight this object...they will be taken to a safe space where they have that one last opportunity to disclose theyre being forced to marry"""
2013-08-17,"Wikileaks just released three ""insurance"" torrents via their Facebook page, one includes a whopping 349 gigabytes of data."
2013-08-17,Major repeat offender elephant poacher faces just 1 year jail
2013-08-17,"Egypt considers outlawing Muslim Brotherhood, calls it a terrorist organization."
2013-08-17,'Both sides are wrong' - Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla urges people to 'reject the binaries' of siding with the army or the Muslim Brotherhood
2013-08-17,Egypt has erupted into chaos. Military shooting protesters. Armed groups battle military. Hundreds dead today. Videos inside
2013-08-17,"British court has ruled for the first time that a man who lacks capacity to give informed consent should have vasectomy because it is in his best interests - 36-year-old has an I.Q. of 40, lives with his parents and has a long-term girlfriend who also has severe learning disabilities"
2013-08-17,Somalia polio outbreak spreads; 105 recorded cases - more cases than the rest of the world combined
2013-08-17,Germany to become first European state to allow third gender birth certificates
2013-08-17,Did an 8-Year-Old Spy for America? U.S. Drone Killed Yemeni Man After Boy Planted Tracking Chip
2013-08-17,"Egypt's Christians face unprecedented attacks: More than 30 churches have been destroyed in the past week, activists say, as thugs launch a campaign of intimidation."
2013-08-17,"As Islamist rebels rise in Syria, liberal activists take a step back - They are confused and say, Its not my revolution any more. "
2013-08-17,India's unfair obsession with lighter skin - The Dark is Beautiful campaign hopes to halt India's huge appetite for skin whitening products
2013-08-17,Rupert Murdochs News Corp could face corporate hacking charges - London police investigating Murdochs British newspaper business for possible criminal violations over allegations of phone-hacking and illegal payments to public officials by its journalists
2013-08-17,Some young HIV patients are giving up their medicine after being told by Pentecostal Church pastors to rely on faith in God instead
2013-08-17,Mass Protest in Tibet over Chinese Mining - xpost from r/tibet
2013-08-17,"""They won't give us a death certificate at the mortuary to bury him saying he was killed in the clashes in Ramses. They want to give us a death certificate saying he committed suicide,"""
2013-08-17,"2014 Sochi Olympics -- Controversy, not competition, dominates headlines six months out due to Russia's anti-gay laws"
2013-08-17,"The police keep firing; the bodies pile up. In Cairo, bloodbaths are now a daily occurrence"
2013-08-17,NAFSA Directs New York City Cease And Abstain Discriminative Actions Against Indian Country
2013-08-17,Iraq-Turkey Oil Pipeline Bombed
2013-08-17,Iraq would 'welcome' US drone strikes  Foreign Minister
2013-08-17,"Coca-cola and McDonalds agree that Winter Olympics should not be relocated from Russia -- They ""both stated that they do not condone the anti-gay laws, and that they think they contradict the Olympic charter, but...do not think the games should be relocated away from Sochi"""
2013-08-17,Swedish track and field official says Emma Green Tregaro has been told that painting her fingernails in rainbow colors to support gay rights is a potential violation of the world championships' code of conduct
2013-08-17,The Charity That Just Gives People Money: GiveDirectly is a charity that just gives money to poor people. The people who get the money can spend it on whatever they want. They never have to pay it back.
2013-08-16,"Former Archbishop of Canterbury: Christians in Britain and the US who claim that they are persecuted should ""grow up"" and not exaggerate what amounts to feeling ""mildly uncomfortable"""
2013-08-16,"Europes marijuana capital isnt Amsterdam. An outlaw Albanian village has built a fortune from the cultivation of cannabis worth as much as half the countrys GDP, and its off-limits to the police."
2013-08-16,Edward Snowden Says Media Being Misled 'About My Situation'
2013-08-16,6.9 earthquake hits Wellington New Zealand
2013-08-16,45 churches torched as violence strikes Egypt's Coptic Christians
2013-08-16,"A New ""451"" Error Message Would Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites"
2013-08-16,Vladimir Putin may have offered to put all Russian military facilities at the Egyptian military's disposal hours after Obama cancelled a U.S.-Egyptian military drill
2013-08-16,"Snowden: 'Neither my father, nor my father's lawyer, nor his wife, or spokeswoman represent me in any way. This will continue in the future...'"
2013-08-16,The Wild West of groundwater: Billion-dollar Nestl extracting B.C.s drinking water for free
2013-08-16,BBC News - US credibility 'in tatters' over Egypt crisis
2013-08-16,"With more deaths than Iraq, Brazil is at war and does not know"
2013-08-16,"Man surfaces in Bolivia who is possibly 123 years old, which would make him the oldest person on ever on record; credits longevity to chewing coca leaf."
2013-08-16,Israeli law will strip many Arab absentees of land
2013-08-16,Ecuador has abandoned a conservation plan that would have paid the country not to drill for oil in previously untouched parts of Yasuni National Park in the Amazon rainforest
2013-08-16,"Top Israeli official ""sick"" of commemorating Hiroshima, Nagasaki A-bomb victims"
2013-08-16,More than 40 Churches Burned in Egypt
2013-08-16,"Russias FSB mulls ban on TOR online anonymity network ""The head of the Federal Security Service (FSB) has personally ordered preparations for laws that would block the TOR anonymity network from the entire Russian sector of the Internet, a Russian newspaper reported."""
2013-08-16,Israel extradites Bosnian Serb for trial over Srebrenica massacre of 8000 Muslim men and boys
2013-08-16,"In Brazil, Kerry Is Told Spying Sows Distrust"
2013-08-16,[Graphic] Video Purports to Show Syrian Rebels Executing Child Assad Supporters
2013-08-16,Churches torched across Egypt in anti-Coptic violence by Morsi loyalists
2013-08-16,"Ecuador restates support for Julian Assange on asylum anniversary ""A year after granting WikiLeaks founder political asylum, Ecuador says it remains committed to finding solution to standoff"""
2013-08-16,Egypt: Police prepared to use live ammo as Brotherhood calls march
2013-08-16,Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Burning Coptic Christian Churches in Egypt
2013-08-16,Egypt: Supporters of former President Mohamed Morsi turn on Christians in angry backlash
2013-08-15,"The Brazilians were right: After protests against rising the prices of public transportation, was discovered that in Sao Paulo, Siemens and the government were stealing $200 million in a scheme. Now they're occupying the city council, for the imprisonment of those involved and a refund."
2013-08-15,Animation legend Hayao Miyazaki under attack in Japan for anti-war film
2013-08-15,The Colombian Government Is Killing Its Peasant Farmers for Their Land
2013-08-15,"Sri Lankans protest contamination of their water supply by glove factory. Govt responds by sending army, disabling cameras, and opening fire on the crowd."
2013-08-15,Egypt says 525 people were killed on Wednesday when security forces stormed pro-Morsi protest camps.
2013-08-15,Swedish athletes compete in Moscow with rainbow painted nails
2013-08-15,Infrared images show [it seems] that the Muslim Brotherhood 'fired on police'
2013-08-15,"In Britain, spoon in underwear saving youths from forced marriage"
2013-08-15,Brazil's Congress approves bill that designates all royalties from newly discovered oil fields to education and healthcare
2013-08-15,Remember last week when the Norwegian Prime Minister worked as a taxi driver and had a good time? Several of his customers were paid by a publicity agency
2013-08-15,"Russian pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva condemns homosexuality, supports new anti-gay law"
2013-08-15,Iran seizes Indian ship carrying oil from Iraq
2013-08-15,"Lavabit email service unlikely to relaunch outside the US, says founder; warns that US is 'going to lose a lot of business' if cloud-based services rights aren't protected"
2013-08-15,Iranian Politician Moradi Denied Seat On City Council Because She Is Too Attractive
2013-08-15,Gaza Border Crossing Closed Indefinitely By Egypt
2013-08-15,Smithsonian to Announce Discovery of New Mammal
2013-08-15,John Cleese brands British press depraved and amoral during film interview
2013-08-15,"Nearly 1,500 South African police exposed as convicted criminals"
2013-08-15,"China to stop using organs from executed prisoners in transplants ""China will start phasing out its decades-long practice of using the organs of executed prisoners for transplant operations from November, as it pushes to mandate the use of organs from ethical sources, a senior official said."""
2013-08-15,"Pollution in Lac-Mgantic Quebec at high levels, study says: Potential carcinogen found at 394,444 times above normal limit -- Nearly 5.7 million litres of crude oil spilled out of derailed train cars and leached into the water, soil and air of Lac-Mgantic following the July 6 train disaster"
2013-08-15,"Germany Fights Population Drop: ""There is perhaps nowhere better than the German countryside to see the dawning impact of Europes plunge in fertility rates over the decades, a problem that has frightening implications for the economy and the psyche of the Continent."""
2013-08-15,Namibia is in the middle of its worst drought in 30 years. This is what it looks like on the ground.
2013-08-15,Egypt: global outcry steps up pressure on US to suspend aid to military
2013-08-15,"Doctors Without Borders leaving Somalia after 20-plus years, frustrated: High-profile medical aid mission group gives up, citing unhelpful 'civilian authorities' and too many attacks and risks. Latest kidnapping was the 'last straw.'"
2013-08-15,Australian film directors defend Edward Snowden
2013-08-14,Every Important Person In Bitcoin Just Got Subpoenaed By New York's Financial Regulator
2013-08-14,'Hundreds' dead as Egyptian army opens gun fire on pro-Morsi protesters in Cairo: Bloodshed ensues as military opens fire on protest camps
2013-08-14,"North Korea changes ruling principles to legitimise succession of power, removing mentions of Communism, North Korea is now a monarchy"
2013-08-14,Israeli students offered grants if they tweet pro Israel propaganda
2013-08-14,"The Church of England has told parishioners that fracking causes environmental problems and risks lasting harm to Gods glorious creation."""
2013-08-14,Sky News cameraman Mick Deane shot dead in Cairo
2013-08-14,"In Switzerland, asylum seekers (almost all of Asian and African descent) will no longer be able to use public libraries, public pools, public playgrounds, or attend church mass. In the name of 'peaceful coexistence'."
2013-08-14,Google: Gmail users have no legitimate expectation of privacy
2013-08-14,"In Russia, American Runner Dedicates Silver Medal to Gay Friends."
2013-08-14,"Doctors Without Borders pulls out of Somalia: militants, leaders tolerate attacks on NGOs"
2013-08-14,Iran's President Nominates Female Vice President
2013-08-14,The Taliban have kidnapped a female Afghan MP as she and her children were travelling in a rural area south of the capital Kabul
2013-08-14,"Tourist in Italy buried without family's knowledge after authorities thought he was a ""homeless African immigrant"""
2013-08-14,"""This man tried to kill my wife, then apologised. I had to meet him."" - Mohammad Odeh planted a Hamas bomb that killed nine in Jerusalem. Then he did something terrorists never do: he apologised. David Harris-Gershon, whose wife was injured in the attack, needed to know why."
2013-08-14,"Web filter at British Library: Sorry, Hamlet is too violent"
2013-08-14,Doctors Without Borders pulls out of Somalia because of attacks on its staff
2013-08-14,"Two ""European-looking"" men abuse, punch and tear Islamic veil off 16-year-old Muslim girl near Paris"
2013-08-14,"A new study paves the way for the next generation of portable water purification devices, which could provide relief to the 780 million people around the world who face every day without access to a clean water supply"
2013-08-14,Eurozone comes out of recession. The eurozone has emerged from recession after a record 18 months of economic contraction
2013-08-14,Brazil sues Samsung over 'serious' violations at Manaus factory of world's largest smartphone maker.
2013-08-14,Israel: Government pays students to fight internet battles
2013-08-14,At least 43 dead as police swoop on pro-Morsi Cairo demos
2013-08-14,Fukushima: Officials say they don't know how 10 workers at the plant were sprayed with radioactive water recently. The contamination was detected Monday.
2013-08-14,"Photos, video show Egyptian protesters pushing armored police vehicle off bridge ""subsequent photo shows two security officials splayed, one on the trucks now-skyward underside and another on the ground nearby."""
2013-08-14,"Monkey-christ fresco painter Cecilia Gimenez raises 50,000 euros for charity by charging entry to the church in which her ""restored"" fresco is displayed"
2013-08-13,"Q&A: Edward Snowden Speaks to NY Times. ""After 9/11 many of the most important news outlets...abdicated their role as a check to power."""
2013-08-13,Olympic Committee Confirms It Will Punish Athletes Who Support LGBT Rights In Russia
2013-08-13,"Record-breaking quadruple amputee has $30,000 wheelchair returned to him after it was stolen by thieves"
2013-08-13,"Israel faces deepening isolation, Kerry warns. Kerry has warned Netanyahu in recent weeks that if the current peace talks bear no fruit, Israel may soon face an international delegitimization campaign ""on steroids."""
2013-08-13,Hillary Clinton tries to silence Bindi Irwin on population growth
2013-08-13,The New Zealand Parliament is about to pass a bill legalizing spying on it's citizens - here is the PM's response when questioned about the public's thoughts on it
2013-08-13,Wikileaks founder Julian Assange might win a seat in next month's Australian election
2013-08-13,"A white rhino has been shot dead by poachers in one of Kenya's most secure parks, near the capital, Nairobi."
2013-08-13,News Law requiring Muslim women to remove burqa to prove their identity to police introduced to West Aust. Parliament
2013-08-13,"""A kick in the teeth"":British rail passengers stage protests as fares set to rise by over 9% - Leader says people are condemned to pay the highest prices in Europe for rail travel on ""clapped-out, overcrowded & unreliable trains""."
2013-08-13,U.S. deal to sell 36 F-18 to Brazil stumble with recent revelations that the United States collected data on Brazilian Internet communications
2013-08-13,"Russian official on gays: ""And their hearts, in case of the automobile accident, should be buried in the ground or burned as unsuitable for the continuation of life."""
2013-08-13,UK's Liberal Democrats propose to ban all petrol and diesel cars from British roads by 2040
2013-08-13,Russia Confirms Anti-Gay Law Will Be Enforced at Olympics
2013-08-13,"Putin's Weapon in the War of Images - The Russian president has created an anti-CNN for Western audiences with the international satellite news network Russia Today. With its recipe of smart propaganda, sex appeal & unlimited cash, it's outperforming its peers worldwide."
2013-08-13,Gunmen 'kill 44 at Nigeria mosque'
2013-08-13,"Experts estimate that 25,000 to 40,000 elephants are being killed annually by poachers, significantly more than are born each year: ""You're never going to stop poaching by just putting new boots in Africa because it's a game of whack-a-mole."""
2013-08-13,"Irish Peat Harvesters Discover World's Oldest Bog BodyRemains of young adult male found in bog where he was likely sacrificed over 4,000 yrs ago. Lack of calluses shows he was likely a noble. A blow broke an arm, there were deep cuts to his back & his body was marked by wooden stakes."
2013-08-13,Senior IOC member raises specter of taking Winter Olympics away from Russia
2013-08-13,An entire genus of plants used in Chinese Medicine found to be highly carcinogenic (higher than tobacco smoke)
2013-08-13,"France opposes Olympics boycott over Russian ""gay propaganda law"""
2013-08-13,"Rockets fired on Eilat, Israel. Residents say seeing Iron Dome counter-rockets intercepting at least one rocket."
2013-08-13,Two-thirds of Iranians are under age 35. One-third of those between 16-25 say they'd abandon Iran if they had the chance.
2013-08-13,Bahrain expels U.S. teacher for inciting 'hatred' of the royal family
2013-08-13,"Borno: 63 killed, 26 hospitalised as Boko Haram attacks Ngom, Konduga"
2013-08-12,Greek youth unemployment hits record 65%
2013-08-12,"A French athlete, who became the first quadruple amputee to swim across the English Channel, has made a public appeal after thieves stole his custom-made wheelchair"
2013-08-12,Police In Zanzibar Shoot Radical Imam Wanted In Acid Attack On Two British Women
2013-08-12,"The High Court of Bangladesh ruled that the countrys biggest religious party, the Jamaat-e-Islami, is unfit to contest national polls because its charter puts God above democratic process."
2013-08-12,"Saudi prince defects: 'Brutality, oppression as govt scared of Arab revolts' ""He accuses the monarchy of corruption and silencing all voices of dissent and explains how the Saudi mechanism for suppression functions."""
2013-08-12,Evidence of Viking Outpost found in Canada.
2013-08-12,Norwegian Prime Minister spent an afternoon working incognito as a taxi driver in Oslo. He wanted to hear from real Norwegian voters and stated that taxis were one of the few places where people shared their true views
2013-08-12,XKeyscore Russia server located at US embassy
2013-08-12,Prince Friso of The Netherlands has passed away after a nearly one and a half year long coma following his ski accident 2012
2013-08-12,"In conflict with former statements, Monsanto will be able to ship gene manipulated food to Europe through a backdoor in the new free trade agreement"
2013-08-12,"The abuse of China's 'left-behind' children ""A series of disturbing revelations in China's state media about the sexual abuse of school children has exposed the dark side of life in rural areas where parents leave their homes to earn money as migrant workers."""
2013-08-12,"Britain must accept fracking for good of nation, says David Cameron"
2013-08-12,"A referendum on Scottish independence, due to take place on September 18, 2014, will mark the most important constitutional event in British history since the Act of Union united Scotland and England in 1707"
2013-08-12,Fukushima plant spilling contaminated water into the sea 'for years'
2013-08-12,NASA Finds A Pink Planet That Challenges Current Theories
2013-08-12,"'Smart' bins banned from grabbing your data as you pass by. The City of London Corporation has called for Wi-Fi-enabled, data-snaffling bins to stop recording your movements as you wander the streets."
2013-08-12,"Syrian rebels accused of sectarian murders  Hundreds of Alawite civilians have been killed, kidnapped or have disappeared during a rebel offensive on Latakia, local residents have reported."
2013-08-12,China and India 'water grab' dams put ecology of Himalayas in danger
2013-08-12,"Railroad files for bankruptcy after Quebec oil train disaster: Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway has filed for bankruptcy in the US and Canada, claiming it lacks the insurance and financial resources to cover the damages of North American's worst railway disaster in decades."
2013-08-12,Spain 'to take Gibraltar dispute to UN'
2013-08-12,Spain Considers Joint Diplomatic Offensive with Argentina Over Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands
2013-08-12,"Snowden's Father Will Travel to Russia, Rejects Idea of Plea Deal For Son"
2013-08-12,"Norway says no to Apple regarding high precision photo of Oslo City to be used in Apple's map solution. U.S Embassy: ""Please reconsider""."
2013-08-12,Why the World Bank Shies Away From Energy Efficiency
2013-08-12,US-EU Spy Scandal Challenges Transatlantic Trade Talks
2013-08-11,"Wikipedia Co-Founder Refuses to Comply With Chinas Censorship ""Wales said he would rather have no Wikipedia in China than comply with any form of censorship. Wikipedia will always refuse to comply with Gov't requests to restrict information, calling access to knowledge and education a human right."""
2013-08-11,"Russia Invites U.S. To A ""Tank Biathlon"""
2013-08-11,Astronomers Find Ancient Star 'Methuselah' Which Appears To Be Older Than The Universe
2013-08-11,"Rail companies in Britain have banned e-cigarettes from trains and stations, claiming that the nicotine devices make other passengers feel 'uncomfortable'"
2013-08-11,Julian Assange is confident about being elected to the Australian senate next month
2013-08-11,"Construction firm builds 47-story skyscraper in Spain, but forget to include elevators after the 20th floor. Architects have resigned."
2013-08-11,Norway PM works as secret cab driver
2013-08-11,"Israel approves nearly 1,200 new settlement homes"
2013-08-11,"More than 100,000 want to go to Mars and not return, project says"
2013-08-11,"Transgender teen killed by mob in Jamaica as country addresses long-standing discrimination. 'For years, Jamaicas gay community has lived so far underground that their parties and church services were held in secret locations'"
2013-08-11,New Zealand court rules that employee must allow her bosses to examine her Facebook pages and bank accounts over what she was up to on sick leave
2013-08-11,Gay skater Johnny Weir: Im prepared to be arrested at Winter Olympics
2013-08-11,Yemenis call U.S. drone strikes an overreaction to al Qaida threat
2013-08-11,"Is China Doomed? - ""the increase in capital flight from China and soaring applications for American and European residential visas by well-heeled Chinese suggest that the elite is hedging its bets."""
2013-08-11,"Britain's foreign aid has fallen into hands of al-Qaeda, DfiD admits: Almost half a million pounds of British taxpayer-funded aid and equipment has fallen into the hands of al-Qaeda, the Department for International Development has admitted."
2013-08-11,The Pirate Bay celebrates 10th anniversary with new Web browser
2013-08-11,"Japans soaring national debt, already more than twice the size of its economy, has reached a new milestone, surpassing one quadrillion yen (1,000,000,000,000,000 Yen)"
2013-08-11,"Series of car bombs ripple across Baghdad, killing 57 and injuring 150"
2013-08-11,New Zealands plan to regulate designer drugs
2013-08-11,Obama opposes boycott of Olympics over antigay laws in Russia
2013-08-11,"Britain's foreign aid has fallen into hands of Al-Qaeda, British government admits"
2013-08-11,Gay Peoples Hearts Unsuitable For Life Says Head Of Russias State-Controlled TV News
2013-08-11,"India held 3,000 ethnic Chinese in internment camps. A half-century later, survivors are still seeking justice."
2013-08-11,"Israel Approves Nearly 1,200 New Settlement Homes on lands the Palestinians want for their state, just three days before U.S.-sponsored talks on the borders of such a state are to begin in Jerusalem."
2013-08-11,"A Fukushima Fishermans Tale: Yoshio Ichida still rises for work every day at 3am & checks the engine of his 5-ton boat, switches it off & gazes out at a sea too poisoned to fish. Upstream, Fukushima leaks into the ocean & sardines, mackerel & squid 3 generations of his family once caught."
2013-08-10,"Study: In Switzerland, Marijuana Use Helps Keep Prisons Calm and Safe -- The Swiss prison guards agree that marijuana use among inmates is a good thing, and cracking down on consumption would have more negative effects than positive ones"
2013-08-10,"New evidence was unveiled Thursday that Japans imperialist army directly managed Asian women for sexual slavery, dealing a fresh blow to Tokyos denials of responsibility."
2013-08-10,"A volcano has erupted in central Indonesia, spewing ash and rocks, killing five people"
2013-08-10,"Pakistani troops violate ceasefire with India again, fire over 7,000 rounds of ammunition in 7 hours"
2013-08-10,"'Swedish men told to beware testicle-munching fish.' Experts have warned Swedish men to keep their swimming trunks on if taking a dip in a sound off the country's southern coast, after a South American fish known for attacking testicles was discovered in the area"
2013-08-10,Radioactive water overruns Fukushima barrier
2013-08-10,"Vietnamese Men Emerge From Jungle 40 Years After War, Have Had No Contact With Outside World -- ""In the midst of the Vietnam War, after a bomb destroyed his family home and killed his wife and two of his sons, a desperate father grabbed his infant boy and fled into the forest"""
2013-08-10,2 face charges in case of Canadian girl who hanged self after alleged rape
2013-08-10,Indian villagers defeat British billionaire over plans to mine sacred mountain
2013-08-10,"Syria: Assyrian Christians told 'If you want to come back, convert to Islam, or you will be killed'"
2013-08-10,Israels ultra-Orthodox headed to the army
2013-08-10,German companies to automatically encrypt emails
2013-08-10,Reactor of India's first indigenous nuclear submarine INS Arihant goes 'critical' (x-post /r/india)
2013-08-10,"US Palm Oil Plantation Endangering Chimps, Other Primates in Cameroon  Forest elephants & endangered chimpanzees will lose stretches of forest habitat if companys plan goes ahead. Based in NYC, Herakles Farms, says its project involves land of little conservation value."
2013-08-10,Skys Court Ordered Piracy Filter Blocks TorrentFreak
2013-08-10,Crypto experts blast German e-mail providers secure data storage claim
2013-08-10,"Frances $16M Anti-Piracy Agency Has Sent Two Million Warnings, But Only Fined Two People"
2013-08-10,Israeli Drone Strike Kills 5 in Egypt
2013-08-10,Two cases bolster suspicion of Mexico's justice system: The collapse of high-profile cases against two well-connected men leaves many dismayed by what they see as enduring dysfunction.
2013-08-10,Zimbabwe agrees to sell uranium to Iran
2013-08-10,"Israel, Greece, Cyprus sign energy and water deal"
2013-08-10,IOC calls on Russia to explain its anti-gay law
2013-08-10,Punks break Myanmar's silence on religious attacks
2013-08-10,"AL-QAIDA PAPERS: The following pages are part of a cache of documents that the Associated Press found on the floor in a building occupied by al-Qaida fighters for almost a year in Timbuktu, Mali. The AP has pieced together the order of the pages as far as possible. [PDF]"
2013-08-10,'Golden rice' GM trial vandalised in the Philippines
2013-08-09,Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms
2013-08-09,"India Banning Animals in Circuses - ""Animals used in circus are treated brutally. They are kept hungry & cruel treatment is meted out to them."" Says a circus spokesman: ""Given this ban, we will have to concentrate more on acrobatic performances."""
2013-08-09,Two encrypted email services have closed down for reasons linked to US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden.
2013-08-09,"Major breakthrough in malaria vaccine reported. A recent test proved 100% effective against the disease that kills over 600,000 per year."
2013-08-09,"Snowden: ""Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, and the rest of our internet titans must ask themselves why they aren't fighting for our interests the same way"""
2013-08-09,The British Police: getting away with murder since 1969: 827 people have died in police custody since 2004. Not a single police officer has been convicted. Why is police accountability failing in this most serious of issues?
2013-08-09,"Fukushima in worse state than previously revealed; 300 tons of ""highly radioactive water"" is spilling into the Pacific daily"
2013-08-09,Chief physician from Bors has filed a police report for the arrest of Barack Obama for crimes against humanity when he is visiting Sweden in September.
2013-08-09,"Cop shoots cat, faces five years in prison"
2013-08-09,"The curious case of Mahdi Hashi. Britain quietly stripped 16 people of their citizenship. Bashi, a social worker in London, vanished and resurfaced months later in US custody."
2013-08-09,"Danish Muslim leader regrets role in cartoon rage: ""I want to be clear today about the trip It was totally wrong...At that time, I was so fascinated with this logical force in the Islamic mindset that I could not see the greater picture. I was convinced it was a fight for my faith, Islam."""
2013-08-09,2 Mexican teens in jail claim van bought at US government auction came with cocaine
2013-08-09,On the self-shutdown of email service Lavabit to avoid US surveillance - with reaction from Edward Snowden:
2013-08-09,"Whistle-Blower Who Can Name Names: Herv Falciani professed whistle-blower hunted by Swiss investigators, jailed by Spaniards and claims he was kidnapped by Israeli Mossad agents eager for a glimpse of client data he stole while working for a major financial institution in Geneva"
2013-08-09,India Considering Shark Finning Ban - Big trawlers are only hunting sharks to cut off their fins & toss the sharks back into sea to meet an agonizing death. Animal Welfare Board issues advisory to coastal state fisheries to end finning.
2013-08-09,Japan debt tops 1 quadrillion yen
2013-08-09,"In an attempt to smear the U.S. by publishing pictures it claimed were of a ""real execution"" in America, China's leading state-run news agency Xinhua accidentally posted screen grabs from a fetish film."
2013-08-09,"The construction of a new train route through London's center is proving to be one of the U.K.'s largest archaeological digs, revealing everything from medieval burial sites to Roman remains"
2013-08-09,Hundreds rally in Brazil to impeach Rio de Janeiro governor for corruption
2013-08-09,"Russias UN ambassador: ""We dont have anti-gay laws"""
2013-08-09,"Hafiz Saeed, who is the prime accused in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, and is on America's most wanted terrorists list, led Eid prayers in a stadium in Lahore, Pakistan."
2013-08-09,"Minister ""Stops the Clock"" on Proposal to Dredge Great Barrier Reef - Mark Butler says he needs more time to consider new scientific reports on impact of Queensland coalport expansion"
2013-08-09,Email service Lavabit abruptly shut down citing government interference
2013-08-09,"As Foreign Fighters Flood Syria, Fears of a New Extremist Haven"
2013-08-09,Malaria vaccine achieves 100% protection using parasites from irradiated mosquitoes -- It far surpasses any other experimental malaria vaccine tested. It will now be tested further in clinical trials in Africa.
2013-08-08,Russia says Obama hurting himself by canceling summit over Snowden
2013-08-08,"Snowden's Asylum: 'It's the law, stupid' - It should be made clear that Russia has no legal, political or moral duty to turn Snowden over to American authorities."
2013-08-08,Unhappy With U.S. Foreign Policy? Pentagon Says You Might Be A 'High Threat'
2013-08-08,"47,000 people, George Takei sign petition to move Sochi Olympics to Vancouver"
2013-08-08,"Swedish Pirate Party reports IT minister to the police, after she was spotted infringing copyright online on a number of occasions."
2013-08-08,Gay Olympians could be kicked out of games by the IOC instead of Russia for speaking out against anti-gay laws
2013-08-08,"The Pentagon wants to sell 2.7 billion dollars worth of weapons to Iraq, including 681 Stinger anti-aircraft missiles"
2013-08-08,N.S.A. Sifting Broader Set of Data systematically searching  without warrants  through the contents of Americans communications that cross the border
2013-08-08,"A Montreal man has been ordered to pay $8,000 to a panhandler after an email he wrote complaining about her presence outside a liquor store was deemed discriminatory by the province's human rights commission."
2013-08-08,"Meet Australia's Sarah Palin - she ""doesn't oppose Islam as a country"""
2013-08-08,"Glenn Greenwald: Snowden Gave Me 15-20,000 Classified Documents"
2013-08-08,"Russia is Silencing Activists, Journalists ahead of Sochi Games -- HRC has documented government efforts to intimidate those who have investigated abuse of migrant workers, environmental impact of Olympic venus construction, and unfair compensation for people forcibly evicted from their homes"
2013-08-08,Neonicotinoids are the new DDT killing the natural world
2013-08-08,"Russia is ""silencing"" journalists and human rights groups over human rights abuses on Olympic construction sites..."
2013-08-08,American Police Want Legal Exemptions From Canadian Law When Inside Canada
2013-08-08,"If Scotland was independent today, only 18% of Scots would vote to join the UK."
2013-08-08,"Tesla has delivered the first Model S cars to the first few customers in Europe, in Norway, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Norway could see 800 Model S cars on its roads by the end of 2013."
2013-08-08,US involvement in Egypt criticised: Both supporters and opponents of the military see the US as self-interested and hypocritical.
2013-08-08,"Stunning Maya Sculpture, its Colors Intact, Found in Buried Pyramid - 30 ft long & 6 ft tall, ""It's one of the most fabulous things I've ever seen,"" says archaeologist. It was on a staircase tomb inside a pyramid. Painted red, blue, yellow & green, it depicts 3 men over a mountain spirit."
2013-08-08,"Al-Qaida currently consists of ""fewer than 100 leaders, fighters and trainers and few experienced operators"""
2013-08-08,Iranian Plane full of Arms and Ammo Shot Down over Damascus
2013-08-08,Germany boosts arms exports to Qatar: German arms exports to the Gulf region are on the rise. Critics say Germany should not be supplying countries with such questionable human rights records.
2013-08-08,"Furious French farmers are smashing 100,000 eggs each night on roads in a bid to raise the price of an eggs"
2013-08-08,Suicide bomber kills 29 at policeman's funeral in Pakistan
2013-08-08,Does Rupert Murdoch own 70% of newspapers in Australia?
2013-08-07,Stephen Fry writes an open letter to Cameron about the Olympics and the treatment of the LGBT community in Russia
2013-08-07,"""Some girls have been married 60 times by the time they turn 18"": Thousands of girls in Egypt sold into sharia-compliant temporary marriages with rich Saudi tourists"
2013-08-07,41yo man walks free after admitting having sex with a 13yo girl. Judge calls her a sexual predator
2013-08-07,"Wikipedia Boosts Security after XKeyscore Revelations. Co-founder says: ""I challenge the rest of the industry to join us. Encryption is a human rights issue."""
2013-08-07,"McDonald's burgers ""unfit for human consumption"""
2013-08-07,The Taliban ambushed a convoy of a female Afghan senator seriously wounding her in the attack and killing her 8-year-old daughter and a bodyguard
2013-08-07,"The Magical World Where McDonald's Pays $15 an Hour? It's Australia -- Even in countries with a high minimum wage, the golden arches manage to turn a profit"
2013-08-07,"Python That Killed Boys Was House Pet: ""The python that strangled two young brothers in Canada had been kept in the pet store owner's apartment where the boys were sleeping and not with the other animals in the shop below, authorities have revealed."""
2013-08-07,"French mayor threatens to kill himself if 'Gypsies' return to his town: ""Others have made sacrifices to advance our country, I am prepared to do the same"""
2013-08-07,Obama administration authorized recent drone strikes in Yemen
2013-08-07,Court Releases Whistleblower from Psychiatric Ward
2013-08-07,Ukraine has banned the bass guitarist of the US rock group Bloodhound Gang from entering the country for five years after he appeared to urinate on the Ukrainian flag.
2013-08-07,"HSBC announced it would close accounts with 40 Embassies, days before Terror threat"
2013-08-07,"Syria fired ballistic missiles on its largest city in February. This is what it looks like now: As the battle for the Syrian city of Aleppo rages on, the escalating violence is ravaging a once prosperous city."
2013-08-07,Japan's government believes radiation-contaminated water has been leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant for the past two years
2013-08-07,"Tens of thousands of protesters have marched in the Tunisian capital, Tunis, to demand the resignation of the Islamist-led government."
2013-08-07,Researchers have reported the first case of human-to-human transmission of the new bird flu that has emerged in China.
2013-08-07,"Argentine president Cristina Kirchner says to UN: We will discuss what several countries have already addressed, the issue of spying, the need for global regulation in this area, not only due to the question of peace and national security, but also the security and privacy of individuals"
2013-08-07,Indian youth killed after stopping attempted rape of sisters
2013-08-07,"Huge fire forces Nairobi airport shutdown - 'Massive' fire has gutted parts of airport in the Kenyan capital, forcing all flights to be suspended, officials say."
2013-08-07,Internet access becomes a reality for some Cubans
2013-08-07,Moscow disappointed by Obama meeting cancelation
2013-08-07,Japans Unveils Aircraft Carrier in Disguise
2013-08-07,"Thousands Demonstrate In Tunisia, Calling On Islamic Government To Resign"
2013-08-07,Hungary is on the brink of becoming a fascist regime
2013-08-06,German minister proposes banning US companies that participate in US spying activities from doing business in the EU
2013-08-06,They won't be lovin' it: McDonald's admits 90% of employees are on zero-hours contracts without guaranteed work or a stable income - Fast-food chain is potentially the largest zero-hours employer in the UKs private sector
2013-08-06,US tourist accidentally snaps finger off 600-year-old statue in Italy's Florence
2013-08-06,"Drone strikes kill militants in Yemen, Americans urged to leave"
2013-08-06,"gustl mollath, the man who has been locked up in a psychatric ward for 7 years because he tried to whizzleblow illegal banking activities is about to get free, a german court ruled."
2013-08-06,"Muslim veil ban urged in French universities ""France prohibits all children from wearing religious symbols such as Muslim headscarves in schools. A government agency has recommended extending the ban to universities, citing 'growing tensions'"""
2013-08-06,"US criticises Vietnam internet control law - ""Fundamental freedoms apply online just as they do offline,"" it said."
2013-08-06,"Amazon brings American-style union-busting to Germany: In Germany, the idea that warehouse workers are going to be getting opposition from an employer when it comes to the right to organize, thats virtually unheard-of"""
2013-08-06,"Uganda passes law that criminalizes a meeting of more than 3 people ""without police authorization""."
2013-08-06,"Global Scientists Shocked by True Scale of Ocean Warming, Warning that Such Big Shifts Can Affect All Sea Life, as Well as Humans Who Depend on the Sea for Food  When you see changes as large as these, life generally has 3 options  migration, adaptation or extinction."""
2013-08-06,"The Ghost Rapes of Bolivia -- ""F or a while, the residents of Manitoba Colony thought demons were raping the towns women. There was no other explanation. No way of explaining how a woman could wake up with blood and semen stains smeared across her sheets and no memory of the previous night."""
2013-08-06,WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks about what impact jailing Bradley Manning will have on future whistleblowers around the world.
2013-08-06,"Across forbidden border, doctors in Israel quietly tend to Syrias wounded. 'The doctors say all they know is that Syrian patients arrive by military ambulance and that the hospital calls the army to come pick them up when they are ready to go back to Syria'"
2013-08-06,A Wisconsin IT professional has filed a lawsuit against Indian outsourcing firm Infosys alleging that the company discriminates against U.S. job applicants in favor of South Asians for jobs in the U.S.
2013-08-06,Sun's magnetic field poised to flip
2013-08-06,"Bangladesh garment factory collapse determined to be an ""act of God"" by owners' association; victims only get one months' salary as compensation."
2013-08-06,This map of the ongoing U.S. embassy closures raises more questions than it answers
2013-08-06,"7 years innocent in German forensic psychiatry: Key in witness money laundering scandal of 6th largest German Bank Hypovereinsbank Mr. Gustl Mollath finally free [German link, Story in comments]"
2013-08-06,"Python escapes Canadian pet store, strangles two children"
2013-08-06,"Indian IT Firm Accused of Discrimination Against Stupid Americans - Infosys favored Asians in hiring, alleges suit seeking class action status. Infosys has about 15,000 employees in the US & some 90% are of South Asian descent, says the lawsuit."
2013-08-06,Costa Rica Will Do Away With Caged Animals At Its Zoos: NPR
2013-08-06,"Al-Qaeda might attack Guantanamo, claims US"
2013-08-06,Japan Marks 68th Anniversary of Hiroshima Nuclear Bombing
2013-08-06,Video: Russian paratroopers violently attack lone gay rights activist in St Petersburg
2013-08-06,IOC silence on Russian gay laws speaks volumes
2013-08-05,Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity
2013-08-05,Costa Rica announced Monday that it will transform its two zoos into botanical gardens or urban parks in order to eliminate the practice of displaying caged animals
2013-08-05,Two scientists think we can safeguard the world's knowledge against an apocalypse if we store it in DNA
2013-08-05,"Pakistan, one of the most water-stressed countries in the world, is on the brink of crisis. A recent report from the Asian Development Bank states that the countrys emergency water reserve only has enough supply for 30 days."
2013-08-05,"Accused by plotting a ""coup"", Pro-Government Turkey court sentences 254 with prison, including journalists, professors, politicians and significant figures in the army with secular views."
2013-08-05,Foreigners buy nearly 75% of new homes in inner London
2013-08-05,Saving The Earth Is A Very Dangerous Job: Two environmentalists are killed on average every week as land struggles intensify violence against green activists worldwide.
2013-08-05,Chinese tourists appall North Koreans by throwing candy at their kids
2013-08-05,US threatens sanctions if energy-starved Pakistan pursues a gas pipeline deal with Iran
2013-08-05,Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an 'emergency'
2013-08-05,Julian Assange announces WikiLeaks Party's federal election candidates
2013-08-05,"South Korea says concerned about U.S. decision on some Apple models. The move was vehemently criticized by the South Korean media as ""protectionism."
2013-08-05,"Spain will have an unemployment rate above 25% until at least 2018, according to IMF"
2013-08-05,Spain accused of acting like North Korea as tensions escalation over Gibraltar - Spain has threatened to close its airspace to flights heading to the British territory
2013-08-05,Pakistan on red alert for possible attack.
2013-08-05,India considers world's largest welfare program through a subsidized food program that would provide 5kg of cheap grain every month to nearly 800 million poor
2013-08-05,US band Bloodhound Gang ejected from Russia after flag stunt
2013-08-05,Bahrain using IP tracking to harass democracy advocates
2013-08-05,"Fukushima radioactive water leak an 'emergency'. Japan's nuclear watchdog has said the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is facing a new ""emergency"" caused by a build-up of radioactive groundwater."
2013-08-05,Latvia blocking extradition of Gozi writer due to disproportionate US sentencing
2013-08-05,Turkey court clears 21 over Ergenekon 'coup plot'
2013-08-05,Murdoch sends trusted general 'Col Pot' to bring down Australian government over their National Broadband Network.
2013-08-05,"More than two years into Syria's civil war, the once highly-centralized authoritarian state has effectively split into three distinct parts, each boasting its own flags, security agencies and judicial system."
2013-08-05,"Fleeing Syria, Palestinians find little support from their brethren in Lebanon"
2013-08-05,"In Germany, Union Culture Clashes With Amazons Labor Practices"
2013-08-04,US regulators 'find evidence' of banks fixing derivative rates
2013-08-04,Uruguay to Become First Nation to Fully Legalize Marijuana: Blow to Ruinous US War on Drugs
2013-08-04,"West Acts Like 'Bull in China Shop' in Middle East  Russian PM ""Our Western partners sometimes behave like a bull in a china shop  they squeeze in, crush everything and then don't know what to do next. I often find myself astonished at their analysts and how inconsistent their projects are..."""
2013-08-04,Swedish sociology professor Steven Svallfors has nominated Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize.
2013-08-04,Germany Promises Day Care for All Parents - A new law went into effect in Germany on guaranteeing every child over 12 months of age a slot at a daycare facility
2013-08-04,"As Cost of Importing Food Soars, Jamaica Turns to the Earth: Jamaica has taken on a bold new strategy: make farming patriotic and ubiquitous, behind homes, hospitals, schools, even prisons"
2013-08-04,Algerians protest against mandatory fasting during Ramadan
2013-08-04,"""Germany has been under surveillance by the United States for decades, and German leaders have been fully aware of it, says historian Josef Foschepoth. The reason? Secret post-war accords."""
2013-08-04,FBI bids to extradite 'largest child-porn dealer on planet'
2013-08-04,"A chilling photo and a scary story. Life in China's toxic haze: Where safe milk powder and air filters are sought after items in Beijing, and 60 percent of the days so far in 2013 have been deemed unsafe to go outside."
2013-08-04,"In South Korea, private tutors earn the kind of money that professional athletes make in the U.S."
2013-08-04,UK Councils told to ignore alternative methods of energy generation in favour of fracking
2013-08-04,"Time to legalize marijuana in Mexico City Politicians in Mexico are considering following Colorado and Washington states lead in legalizing marijuana, according to Fernando Gomez Mont and Jorge G. Castaeda."
2013-08-04,"Arab atheists, though few, inch out of the shadows"
2013-08-04,Russian meteor may have gangmates in tow: Orbital estimates pinpoint 20 asteroids on similar paths to rock that exploded near Chelyabinsk.
2013-08-04,"Saudi activist receives 7-year sentence, 600 lashes for insulting Islam"
2013-08-04,"Excitement, but anxiety too, as Uruguay sets liberal path with new cannabis law In the first country set to legalise the sale and production of marijuana, opinion is divided on the merits of the experiment"
2013-08-04,Saudi Arabia denied permission for plane carrying Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to travel through its airspace on Sunday for the swearing-in of the new Iranian president
2013-08-04,"Irans new president takes oath of office, asks West to abandon language of sanctions"
2013-08-04,"Egypt's top general to white house: ""You left the Egyptians. You turned your back on the Egyptians and they won't forget that."""
2013-08-04,Japan has launched the world's first talking robot into space to serve as companion to astronaut Kochi Wakata who will begin his mission in November
2013-08-04,Montreal woman fined $219 for not paying bus fare with exact change.
2013-08-04,"Chinas Collapse Will Be Worse Than Soviet Union, Xinhua Says"
2013-08-04,Suicides rise as Italy's economy slumps
2013-08-04,"Leave Yemen now, Britons warned amid fears of growing violence"
2013-08-03,The FBI can remotely activate the microphones for phones running Google's Android software to record conversations (worldwide)
2013-08-03,"""An Absolutely Ridiculous Idea"": Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales rejects David Cameron's online porn filter plan - ""We should be devoting that... dealing with real criminal issues online, stealing credit card numbers, hacking into sites."" He's been a high-profile celebrity adviser to the PM."
2013-08-03,"US Diplomat Kills Man in Car Crash, Leaves Kenya - Embassy officials in Nairobi rushed the American and his family out of Kenya the next day, leaving the crash victims with no financial assistance to pay for a funeral and for hospital bills for the eight or so others who were seriously injured"
2013-08-03,'I want to dig a deep hole and bury myself again': Chilean miners stunned by decision not to prosecute over accident. The decision that no one will face charges over the mining accident in Chile that left 33 men underground for 69 days has left many speechless
2013-08-03,A boy was forcefully held down on a desk and circumcised because there was a rumor he was masturbating ... this happened in Montreal
2013-08-03,"White House Closes Inquiry Into Afghan Massacre and Will Release No Details -- ""in November 2001, Taliban prisoners surrendered to the Northern Alliance. They were transported in shipping containers without food or water...hundreds of men died of suffocation while others were shot"""
2013-08-03,"Facebook Is Riddled With Click Farms Where Workers Sit In Dingy Rooms in Bangladesh, Bars On The Windows, Generating 1,000 Likes For $1"
2013-08-03,"The decision by Uruguay lawmakers to legalize the possession and sale of marijuana could signal the beginning of the end for the increasingly unpopular U.S.-led war on drugs, experts say."
2013-08-03,XKeyscore a 'God-terminal' into Internet
2013-08-03,"Norwegian Green Party is calling for ""state-controlled production and sale of cannabis,"" as well as the decriminalization of possession for all drugs"
2013-08-03,"A 10-year-old German boy has found what appears to be a mummy hidden in a corner of his grandmother's attic. The ""mummy"" was inside a sarcophagus complete with hieroglyphic adornments, packed in a wooden crate"
2013-08-03,"Russian SOPA Anti-Piracy Body Under Investigation For Software Piracy -- ""Pirated software from Adobe, Microsoft, Corel and Autodesk was found on their machines"""
2013-08-03,Uruguay's pot legalization could be 'tipping point' in war on drugs
2013-08-03,"In an abrupt about face, Russia said today that athletes and guests attending next years Winter Olympics will not be subject to the countrys stringent new anti-gay law"
2013-08-03,Pope Francis sends message for end of Ramadan. Calls for respect between Christians and Muslims
2013-08-03,"Verizon, BT, Vodafone Cable, Global Crossing, Level 3, Viatel and Interoute, give GCHQ unlimited access to their undersea cables."
2013-08-03,"Mesopotamian Marshlands Declared Iraqs 1st National Park  Drained by development & nearly destroyed, it was once 3rd largest wetlands in the world. Saddam in the 1990s drained 93% of it, resulting in the UN calling it the worst environmental disaster of the last century."
2013-08-03,Chinese Hacking Team Caught Taking Over Decoy Water Plant
2013-08-03,Riot police broke up a protest by hundreds of Moroccans late on Friday against a royal pardon for a Spanish pedophile serving a 30-year sentence for raping and filming children as young as four
2013-08-03,"Bangladesh's security forces fired into a crowd of unarmed protesters, killing 6 people. The next day they charged family members of the victims with their murders."
2013-08-03,"Dutch zoo baffled by spooked baboons that are sitting still, hardly eating: A zoo in the Netherlands is trying to understand what has spooked a group of baboons, with the monkeys huddled together and hardly eating."
2013-08-03,Jimmy Wales on UK porn ban: It's ridiculous
2013-08-03,"100,000 protests in front of the Taiwan's presidential headquarter demanding justice for a kid that died under corporial punishment during mandatory military service"
2013-08-03,"Mass Graves Found at Irish Prison Now Begs Bigger Question  Where are the Other Bodies? Notorious for overcrowding, disease, malnutrition, it was opened during the Great Famine of the 19th century, giving insight into prison's role as a mechanism by which the empire was established & maintained."
2013-08-03,"US Senate edited Snowden's Wikipedia page and labeled him as ""Traitor""."
2013-08-02,"Germany nixes surveillance pact with US, Britain ""Germany canceled a Cold War-era surveillance pact with the United States and Britain on Friday in response to revelations by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden about those countries' alleged electronic eavesdropping operations."""
2013-08-02,"Berthold Beitz, a leading German industrialist who was credited with saving hundreds of Jews during World War II by employing them at the oil fields he managed in Nazi-occupied Poland, a rescue operation later compared to the more popularly known deeds of Oskar Schindler, died July 30. He was 99."
2013-08-02,"Dozens of CIA Agents on the ground during Benghazi attack. ""...agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret."""
2013-08-02,Italy's supreme court confirms prison sentence for ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi
2013-08-02,Turkish police used water cannons to disperse hundreds of people gathered in Istanbuls Taksim Square in a show of support for a teenager who has been in intensive care for 46 days after being hit by a tear gas canister during the Gezi Park protests.
2013-08-02,"The new stop-and-search - spot checks near London police stations to hunt for illegal immigrants - Onlookers described their shock at the operations, with one member of the public saying it was akin to 'Nazi Germany'"
2013-08-02,"Swiss to decide on introduction of an unconditional basic income in public vote, mandatory 130,000 signatures have been collected."
2013-08-02,"US embassy cables released by WikiLeaks show South Korean and US Intelligence Agencies hold a huge trove of evidence of human rights abuses in North Korea, which they haven't given to UN investigation."
2013-08-02,"Germany Ends Cold War Spying Pact With US, Britain"
2013-08-02,Snowden gets job offer from Russia's Facebook (VKontakte). His asylum papers grant him the right to work in Russia
2013-08-02,Government of India revokes GlaxoSmithKline's breast cancer drug's patent.
2013-08-02,"Cops torture Untouchables, parade them naked in India"
2013-08-02,Founder of leading russian social network Vkontakte is offering Snowden a job
2013-08-02,"One of China's Largest, Most Prominent Media Companies12% owned by a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century FoxRocked by Major Sexual Scandal - Lawsuit alleges Chinese journalist, a onetime DC bureau chief, routinely harassed & assaulted employees."
2013-08-02,A mining company has been convicted of desecrating an Aboriginal site in Australia's Northern Territory. Mining firm OM Manganese was found guilty on Friday in the first time a company has been successfully prosecuted in Australia for desecration of a sacred site
2013-08-02,Crackdown on Everest expeditions from next year after series of incidents including mass brawl on mountain
2013-08-02,"Drug Resistant Tuberculosis in North Korea Is a Bigger Problem Than Previously Thought ""A study published this week in PLOS Medicine found that, of those treated for tuberculosis by, an American / South Korean NGO that specializes in patients who relapse, 87 percent tested positive for MDR."""
2013-08-02,US To Shut Embassies Over Security Fears
2013-08-02,Tunisia launches major offensive against Islamist fighters
2013-08-02,"1,700 Russian websites on strike against new anti-piracy law ""Over 1,700 websites in the Russian internet have joined an online strike against the new anti-piracy legislation, which came into force on Thursday, allowing pre-trial blocking of web-pages."""
2013-08-02,U.N. rights chief calls for investigation into Syria massacre: U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Friday she wanted an independent investigation into an apparent massacre carried out by Syrian opposition forces in the town of Khan al-Assal.
2013-08-02,Heat related Drought hits 27m people in China - drinking water shortages for 5.1 million Hunan and Guizhou residents 8/2/13 (x-post /r/StormComing)
2013-08-02,"Worst heat wave in 140 years hits parts of China; dozens of deaths reported - Level 2 weather emergency declared, a label normally invoked for typhoons and flooding"
2013-08-02,"""I'm a Pastafarian"": Czech man, who claims his religion forces him to wear a sieve on his head, given permission to wear one on his official identity card picture. Officials ruled that turning down Novy's request would be a breach of the country's religious equality laws."
2013-08-02,"Unsealed confidential British documents reveal that in 1982, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl tried to carry out a plan to reduce the number of Turks living in Germany by 50 percent within four years."
2013-08-01,Edward Snowden has been granted documents that will allow him to leave the Moscow airport where he has been since 23 June
2013-08-01,BP is engaged in an aggressive campaign to limit how much it pays for the losses caused by its reckless behavior.
2013-08-01,Uruguay: Marijuana legalisation bill approved in the lower house
2013-08-01,Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters shatter bus windows after female passenger refuses to sit in back
2013-08-01,"Dont boycott our vodka, youve got the wrong country, say gay Latvians"
2013-08-01,"China invests nearly $300 billion in renewables, part of plan to deal with climate change."
2013-08-01,"Protesters camp out against UK fracking: ""This isn't about one place, it's about the whole country, and the future of the planet. We have the technology now to use renewable energy. We shouldn't be developing new industries to pollute the planet."""
2013-08-01,Russian cops allegedly beat and sodomize Olympic construction worker over $600 in back pay
2013-08-01,Five Afghan police accidentally killed in US air strike
2013-08-01,"The controversial GCSB 'spy' bill, which would give the New Zealand Government the legal authority to electronically gather information on its own citizens, has passed its second reading in parliament"
2013-08-01,Caribbean has lost 80% of its coral reefs in recent years.
2013-08-01,"French court lifts ban on Monsanto GM corn, much to annoyance of French government"
2013-08-01,"Girls are the worlds forgotten population: 9 facts about child brides ""complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the No. 1 cause of death for girls age 15 to 19. That means that pregnancy and childbirth kill more girls in the developing world than war, AIDS, tuberculosis or any other cause"""
2013-08-01,"UN narcotics body warns Uruguay over marijuana bill: The law would ""be in complete contravention to the provisions of the international drug treaties to which Uruguay is party"""
2013-08-01,Stephen Harpers border deal imperils Canadian sovereignty.
2013-08-01,All passengers on Quantas Flight QF28 have been quarantined after 26 passengers arrived in Sydney vomiting from Chile
2013-08-01,Cameron's Anti-Porn Program Tells ISPs To Do The Impossible: Only Block Bad Content; Don't Block Good Content
2013-08-01,Chilean President is under fire for allowing the country's counterterrorism legislation to be used against indigenous protesters fighting for ancestral land rights
2013-08-01,"Mugabe claims victory in Zimbabwe election, opposition claims ""monumental fraud"""
2013-08-01,United Airlines employee stole and sold luggage form Asiana plane crash
2013-08-01,Croissants banned by Syrian rebels because the pastrys crescent shape celebrates European victory over Muslims.
2013-08-01,Chinese President Xi Jinping says his government is willing to shelve territorial disputes and carry out joint development in disputed waters.
2013-08-01,"Uruguay's unprecedented proposal to fight organized crime by creating a legal, government-licensed marijuana market was fiercely debated by lawmakers, ruling party counted every vote in hopes of winning passage in the lower house of Congress"
2013-08-01,"Russian Envoy Urges Archaeology Dig in California - Russian & American youths to dig at Fort Ross, a 19th-century Russian settlement. They were considered by local Kashaya tribe better neighbors than the Spanish."
2013-08-01,"UK priest ""ready to go to jail"" in his tax battle for the poor"
2013-07-31,Snowden's father says FBI asked him to fly to Moscow to persuade son to return home to US
2013-07-31,"""Egypt's cultural heritage is in danger. Grave robbers, sometimes heavily armed, are taking advantage of political chaos to plunder its poorly guarded archaeological sites. Authorities feel powerless to stop them and fear that ancient treasures might be lost forever."""
2013-07-31,"To give some perspective to the recent story concerning the upcoming Olympics, this is what happens during a gay pride event in Russia"
2013-07-31,"In Turkey, Higher Education Loans and Dormitories Institution announces no education loans will be granted to students who engage in resistance, stage boycotts, chant slogans or become involved in similar activities"
2013-07-31,XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
2013-07-31,Woolly mammoth DNA may lead to a resurrection of the ancient beast
2013-07-31,Saudi princess to face trial in US court
2013-07-31,Military judge finds Bradly Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy
2013-07-31,Greece to end free police protection for rich
2013-07-31,Iran and Syria sign $3.6bn oil deal: Tehran agrees to supply Damascus with oil in exchange for the right to invest in country devastated by conflict.
2013-07-31,Right-to-die campaigners lose battle
2013-07-31,"Lac-Megantic Train Disaster (Que, Can) - Company Not Able to Afford Clean-Up Costs; Possible Bankruptcy."
2013-07-31,"Christian programs attempting to convert homosexuals continue in Australia with tragic results -- ""I know people that have done the programs a number of times and attempted suicide. It's one of the most psychologically damaging things"""
2013-07-31,Moscow police bust ring of professed so-called psychics accused of convincing people they were cursed and then charging to remove the hexes
2013-07-31,"Can a carbon tax work without hurting the economy? Ask British Columbia. Five years in, BC's carbon tax has successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions in a stable economy"
2013-07-31,"""There's no question I have access to information that members of Congress don't"" -Greenwald today with Brian Lehrer"
2013-07-31,Long-living Japanese society needs better quality of death
2013-07-31,"Global warmings new natural disaster: Himalayan tsunamis. June megafloods killed as many as 6,000 in the town of Kedarnath -- and experts expect more to come"
2013-07-31,London police officers face action over woman's strip-search
2013-07-31,"The father of US fugitive Edward Snowden says the FBI asked him to travel to Moscow and see his son, who he advises to ""stay in Russia"""
2013-07-31,"After Toronto street car shooting, Canadian police considering implementing body-worn video cameras (BWV)."
2013-07-31,"Why fewer ground reports are emerging from Syria: Foreign journalists are increasingly staying out of Syria - ""The country has fallen into economic ruin and hardcore jihadist groups, many with foreign ties, have proliferated. These two factors have created an environment ripe for kidnapping"""
2013-07-31,"Cardinal Dolan Clarifies Pope Francis Remarks: ""Homosexual people deserve love respect and dignity, while homosexual acts are immoral"""
2013-07-31,U.S. wants exemption from Canadian law for cross-border officers working in Surrey and Ontario
2013-07-31,UN gives DR Congo rebels 48 hours to hand in weapons
2013-07-30,Nepal sees tiger population go up by 63% since 2009
2013-07-30,"Irish President signs Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill into law - legally giving a woman access to an abortion where there is a real and substantial risk to her life, including risk of suicide."
2013-07-30,Russia To Ban Swearing On The Internet
2013-07-30,"Canada Liberal Party Leader Says Legalize Marijuana: ""Its one of the only ways to keep it out of the hands of our kids, because the current war on drugs, the current model, is not working."""
2013-07-30,A Challenge to the NSA: Deny Snowden's Most Radical Claims Under Oath: Some officials say the whistleblower was lying. The journalist who brought his revelations to light wants them to say it under oath
2013-07-30,Thailand has become the first country to ban bitcoins after the central bank ruled it is not a currency
2013-07-30,A new animated series voiced by pop stars is set to debut on Pakistani TV next month entitled the 'Burka Avenger.' The hero is a young girl who wears a burka to keep her identity secret as she fights corrupt politicians and the Taliban.
2013-07-30,"BP Reveals There's Just $300m Left in its Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Compensation Fund - Company blames falling profits on lower oil prices, an ""unusually high"" tax rate because of a stronger dollar, & lower income from Russia"
2013-07-30,"Tar sands oil has been leaking into Alberta, Canada for 10 weeks and no one knows how to stop it"
2013-07-30,Trains collide head-on in Switzerland. At least 30 injured
2013-07-30,Global-Warming Armageddon? It may be more likely than you thought - Calculations from Canadian & US scientists show runaway greenhouse effect is realistic possibility
2013-07-30,"Saudi Arabia sentences secular activist to 600 lashes, seven years prison for setting up a ""liberal"" network and alleged insults to Islam"
2013-07-30,Nobody wants to help us because we are Untouchables in India --acid attack survivor Chanchal Kumari
2013-07-30,Ice-free Arctic in two years heralds methane catastrophe  scientist
2013-07-30,"Taliban launch major attack on Pakistani prison, free 300 inmates"
2013-07-30,Police force university to cancel Muslim feminist lecture
2013-07-30,"Serco: the company that is running Britain. Serco is a giant global corporation that has hoovered up outsourced government contracts. Now the NHS is firmly in its sights. But it stands accused of mismanagement, lying and even charging for non-existent work (X-post r/unitedkingdom)"
2013-07-30,Mexico shuts down more than 20 coal pits due to child labour probe
2013-07-30,Egypt restores feared secret police units: Military-backed government seems to have no intent of reforming practices that characterised both Mubarak and Morsi eras
2013-07-30,King Richard III of England: Dig unearths mysterious coffin-within-a-coffin
2013-07-30,White House Muted in Response to New Mass Killing of Egyptian Protesters
2013-07-30,FBI arrests 150 in three days in child sex-trafficking sweep
2013-07-30,"Taliban gunmen storm Pakistan prison, free hundreds"
2013-07-30,"Taliban attacks jail in Pakistan freeing over 250 prisoners, including 25 dangerous terrorists"
2013-07-30,"Afghan waste: aid money squandered on conferences. ""Rather, it has spent nearly $50 million -- roughly a quarter of the total program budget -- on conferences, overhead and workshops"""
2013-07-29,"Saudi prince defects from Royal family  This regime in Saudi Arabia does not stand by Gods rules or even established rules and its policies, decisions, and actions are totally based on personal will of its leaders."
2013-07-29,"Why its time to get rid of Irelands blasphemy laws: ""The law brings our parliament and our laws into disrepute. It does not protect religious belief; it incentivises outrage and it criminalises free speech. It also treats religious beliefs as more valuable than atheistic or secular beliefs"""
2013-07-29,"Caught on video: Indian Mufti enjoys music despite calling it un-Islamic ""Bashiruddin Ahmad was recently filmed in a houseboat on the scenic Dal Lake, in the company of several other people, including women...In February 2013, the Grand Mufti released a fatwa declaring music un-Islamic."""
2013-07-29,"Iraq: 17 car bombs detonate within one hour, killing at least 60"
2013-07-29,"Pope: Door 'Closed' on Women Priests - reiterated the Roman Catholic Church's ban on women priests, saying the decision is ""definitive"""
2013-07-29,Email links Lockerbie bomber's prison transfer to 400m Libyan arms deal
2013-07-29,The Egyptian National Council for Women has described the Muslim Brotherhood's one year rule as the worst and most cruel [year] for Egyptian women
2013-07-29,Crude oil leaked from a pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand has reached a Thai tourist resort. Black waves of crude oil washed up on the beach at popular tourist island despite continuous attempts to clean up the oil
2013-07-29,"Legal costs mount in Kim Dotcom case -- Lawyers working for the taxpayer have racked up almost 10,000 legal hours battling Kim Dotcom. At senior counsel charge-out rates, the cost in lawyers alone would be almost $2 million [to New Zealand taxpayers]"
2013-07-29,Untouchable student in India beaten to death by classmates he refused to give his pen
2013-07-29,"Australian Government releases its report into IT pricing, suggests a ban on geoblocking. Acknowledges Australians pay much more for IT products that other countries."
2013-07-29,Mexico's navy vice admiral killed in ambush
2013-07-29,"Ex-officer: CIA inflated threat of radical cleric to allow 2003 abduction, shield higher-ups"
2013-07-29,"According to secret correspondence obtained by The Sunday Telegraph, the release of the Lockerbie bomber was part of a 400 million arms-export deal between Libya and the UK."
2013-07-29,"Saudi police are searching for an Indonesian housemaid accused by her employer of casting a magic spell on all his family, causing fainting and epileptic fits to them"
2013-07-29,Scientists at Stanford University School of Medicine issued report that said a type of stem-cell alternative approved by the Vatican and other theologians has turned out to be a myth
2013-07-29,Google asked to remove 100 million 'piracy' links in 2013
2013-07-29,"South Korea has proposed ""final"" talks with the North over the fate of shuttered joint industrial zone, suggesting it may permanently close the estate if negotiations fail."
2013-07-29,Bahrain orders tougher penalties ahead of protests. 'Bahrain's lawmakers agreed at an extraordinary session on Sunday to proposals including stripping those who commit or call for 'terrorism crimes' of their nationality and preventing any protests from taking place in the capital Manama'
2013-07-29,Russians smell something fishy in Putin's latest stunt
2013-07-29,"Facing eviction, rogue Greek monks hurl petrol bombs at bailiffs"
2013-07-29,Morsi supporters threaten to destroy Egyptian power plants
2013-07-29,US Government Protection of Al-Qaeda Terrorists and the US-Saudi Black Hole
2013-07-29,One man fights to set his nation free: Benny Wenda's campaign for West Papuan independence is embarrassing Britain and enraging Indonesia.
2013-07-29,Muslims defend Egyptian churches with help from army
2013-07-28,"On-by-default UK internet porn filters will also block content relating to alcohol, smoking, web forums, ""esoteric material,"" and web blocking circumvention tools."
2013-07-28,Mass protest in Germany against US intelligence surveillance
2013-07-28,Public health officials are watching in horror as bacteria become resistant to powerful carbapenem antibiotics  one of the last drugs on the shelf. UK and US chiefs warn of a coming health nightmare and a catastrophic threat.
2013-07-28,"Porn Block: UK ISP Says If You Want Internet Censorship, Move To North Korea"
2013-07-28,Trudeau Says he Supports Legalizing Marijuana
2013-07-28,"New sex abuse crisis in Scottish Catholic church Priest claims he was abused by older cleric, and church is punishing him for speaking out"
2013-07-28,Zimbabwe president calls for the beheading of gays
2013-07-28,"Rejected mistresses expose Chinese leaders' corruption; lavish spending on cars, designer cloths, jewelery dispite low ""official"" salary"
2013-07-28,Unemployment rate among young people in Greece has passed 50 percent
2013-07-28,Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Id choose Hell over a homophobic Heaven
2013-07-28,"Abuse at Ecuadorian gay conversion facilities shocks authorities: We have lesbians who have reported what the clinics called sex therapy, but which consists of being raped by men,"
2013-07-28,A Kazakhstan atheist blogger has been imprisoned for four months for allegedly inciting religious hatred. His trial starts next month and he faces 7 years in prison.
2013-07-28,Cameron's proposed filters extend to more than just porn
2013-07-28,Germany and France want drones in EU skies
2013-07-28,"The Brutality of Corrective Rape: South Africa has one of the worlds highest rates of sexual assault, and particularly insidious is corrective rape  the rape of gay men and lesbians to cure them of their sexual orientation"
2013-07-28,Horrified police discover Jimmy Savile's secret lair
2013-07-28,Climate Change 'Climate of Fear': Reporter Blows Whistle on Reuters
2013-07-28,"Edward Snowden isn't yet allowed to step outside the Moscow airport where he's been holed up for weeks, despite reports to the contrary"
2013-07-28,"The brutality of ""Corrective Rape"""
2013-07-28,"Germany: thousands of people demand to stop surveillance (more than 10.000 on the streets, google translate in comments)"
2013-07-28,Syrian Christian Describes Religious Cleansing Of City By Islamist Rebels
2013-07-28,China's new '10-dash line map' eats into Philippine territory
2013-07-28,"Marte Dalelv's Dubai Ordeal: 'I Was Fighting for My Life' - When Marte Dalelv reported her rape to Dubai police four months ago, she was charged and convicted to 16 months in prison. It was only after international pressure that she was later pardoned."
2013-07-28,"Spanish Guardia Civil are searching every car at the Gibraltar frontier, causing a 10,000 car queue, lasting 6 hours, resulting in dehydration, diabetic attacks, and a lot more."
2013-07-28,"Sixty-five percent of girls in Bangladesh are being married off in their childhood, trapping them in a vicious cycle of poverty and ill health, experts at a roundtable said, calling for action to break the cycle."
2013-07-27,German president says whistleblowers like Snowden merit respect
2013-07-27,Bananas thrown at Italy's first black minister
2013-07-27,Vancouver bars boycott Russian vodka after anti-gay law passed
2013-07-27,"Soldiers Mass Execution Reported by Syria Group - Islamist extremists in Syrias insurgency killed 150 soldiers in a battle for control of an Aleppo suburb this week, including 51 who were executed after they had surrendered (video in comments - NSFW; GORE)"
2013-07-27,"Pope Francis: ""I want a mess. We knew that in Rio there would be great disorder, but I want trouble in the dioceses! I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane. Because these need to get out!"
2013-07-27,"UK man convicted of fraud after of selling explosive-detection dowsing rods consisting of completely ineffective, empty plastic boxes with radio antennas attached, for $30,000 each - made millions of dollars in Iraq, Mexico, and Thailand as hundreds died while being ""protected"" by them."
2013-07-27,Thousands of New Zealanders protest the GCSB Bill (new legislation giving the NZ spy agency more powers to spy on New Zealanders)
2013-07-27,Evidence mounts agent provocateurs used by Brazilian police: Demonstrators say police infiltrator threw the molotov cocktail used to justify severe police violence.
2013-07-27,Imaginary threats justify New Zealand spy bill  Dotcom
2013-07-27,"Key Govt Bee Scientist Behind Controversial Study Joins Pesticide Firm - MP raises fears that govt agency & pesticides industry ""too close"" as Dr Helen Thompson moves to Syngenta. She worked on project paid for by Syngenta, plus on registration of pesticides."
2013-07-27,"US Embassy, DEA Obstructing Investigation Into Drug War Killings in Honduras"
2013-07-27,Libya's Muslim Brotherhood offices attacked  Libyans demonstrate after the assassination of a Muslim Brotherhood critic in Benghazi.
2013-07-27,"South Africa's Nobel peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu says he will never worship a ""homophobic God"" and will rather go to hell. The retired archbishop was speaking at the launch of a UN-backed campaign in South Africa to promote gay rights."
2013-07-27,More than 100 Morsi supporters killed in Egypt clashes
2013-07-27,New Zealand refuse to renew South African man's work visa because he is too fat.
2013-07-27,"Pakistani troops violate ceasefire again, fire at Indian post in Poonch"
2013-07-27,Spain Privatizes The Sun: Multi Millon Dollar Penalties For Collecting Sunlight
2013-07-27,Catalan President officially proposes political Referendum to Spanish PM
2013-07-27,"After Shi'a Muslims got lined up and executed yesterday at a fake roadblock, at least 31 are further killed by bombing a busy cafe today."
2013-07-27,Filipino woman treated as a slave in Canberra after accepting housekeeping job for a Foreign Diplomat (Australia)
2013-07-27,Obese man told he's too fat to live in NZ
2013-07-27,"Israel bars European aid staff from entering Gaza, western diplomat says"
2013-07-27,Turkey's Prime Minister Erdogan threatens to sue Times for publishing critical letter
2013-07-27,Indian army mistook planets for Chinese spy drones: Report
2013-07-27,Pakistan's first female superhero 'Burka Avenger' fights for women's rights
2013-07-26,"The pornography filtering system praised by David Cameron is controlled by the controversial Chinese company Huawei, the BBC has learned."
2013-07-26,Putin press secretary: Russia will not extradite Snowden
2013-07-26,"If You Think The French President Is 'Stupide,' Just Say So: For the first time in 130 years, it's now legal to say how you really feel about the French leader"
2013-07-26,"Oxford Dictionary will change the definition of ""Marriage"" to include the LGBT Community..."
2013-07-26,"32 German novelists writing an open letter to Chancellor Merkel: ""Germany is a surveillance society."" Google translation in comments."
2013-07-26,"Desmond Tutu says stop discriminating against gay people: ""I think it's as utterly unjust as racism ever was."""
2013-07-26,Russia Slams U.S. Pressure Over Snowden
2013-07-26,Senate threatens to sanctions countries that aid Snowden
2013-07-26,Police could be forced to axe Big Brother road cameras: Town wins landmark victory over blanket use of number plate 'spies'
2013-07-26,"UK Porn Filter Will Censor Other Content Too, ISPs Reveal"
2013-07-26,Bankers shiver as UBS swallows $885 million U.S. fine
2013-07-26,Israel freezes co-operation with EU in Palestinian territories
2013-07-26,Walmart workers in strike across the entire country...of Chile (Google translation in comments)
2013-07-26,BBC News - Elite hacker Barnaby Jack dies ahead of Black Hat event
2013-07-26,North Korea: we'll kill activists launching pro-democracy literature via balloons
2013-07-26,"The relationship between Christianity and capitalism is complicated, the archbishop of Canterbury said Friday, admitting he was embarrassed by revelations that the Church of England indirectly invested in a payday loan firm he had pledged to put out of business"
2013-07-26,"New Pakistani cartoon superhero ""Burka Avenger"" fights for girls' rights using martial arts, pens, and books"
2013-07-26,Attorney General Holder tells Russia US wont seek death penalty for Edward Snowden
2013-07-26,Iraq War veterans chilled by country's slide into civil war
2013-07-26,Tourists warned after French woman and her dog are attacked by gang of feral cats
2013-07-26,"Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is being held over allegations of links with Palestinian militants Hamas and plotting attacks on jails in the 2011 uprising, it has been announced."
2013-07-26,'I have principles': Pussy Riot convict defiant after losing parole battle
2013-07-26,Belarus president: US have given an asylum to hundredths of Russian traitors. In place of our Russian friends I'd give Snowden a political asylum without worrying much (article in russian media).
2013-07-26,Shi'a Muslims lined up and executed at a fake roadblock
2013-07-26,South Africa's 'worst rapist' commits suicide - Africa
2013-07-25,"Pope Francis scolds rich in visit to muddy Brazilian slum: ""Everybody, according to his or her particular opportunities and responsibilities, should be able to make a personal contribution to putting an end to so many social injustices"""
2013-07-25,WikiLeaks Founder Assange to Run for Australian Senate
2013-07-25,Australian billionaire gets approval to build world's largest dinosaur park
2013-07-25,"MP behind UK internet porn filter hacked, accuses blogger who reported it -- ""It became disturbingly clear that MP Perry does not know how hyperlinks, websites, the fundamentals of content distribution works"""
2013-07-25,"All internet pornography should be preemptively blocked in Canada, says Conservative MP Joy Smith of Winnipeg"
2013-07-25,"U.S. Wants Snowden Returned, Not Extradited, Ambassador Says ""U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul said that Washington wants fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden returned to the United States and not extradited"""
2013-07-25,"''The train driver recognised that he was driving at 190 KM/H, while the speed limit in that curve is 80 KM/H.'' More than 80 dead in the spanish train accident."
2013-07-25,Spain high-speed train crashes near Santiago de Compostela
2013-07-25,Church of England announces plans to force money lenders out of business - by offering a superior service through credit unions
2013-07-25,"Canadian Man ""Sorry"" for Chugging Eight Beers and Swimming to Detroit"
2013-07-25,Secular Tunisian opposition leader Mohamed Elibrahmi shot dead. Spontaneous protests have broken out across capital Tunis
2013-07-25,Yemeni president pardons reporter Obama wanted kept in jail
2013-07-25,The United States has expressed disappointment in the release of a Yemeni journalist who rights groups say was detained because of his reporting on al-Qaida and alleged U.S. complicity in attacks in Yemen
2013-07-25,"South African man to stand trial on a 122 charges which includes raping 34 minors and ""attempted murder through HIV infection"""
2013-07-25,Irish communications minister opposes porn block in fear imposing censorship
2013-07-25,"Of the worlds seven billion people, six billion have mobile phones. However, only 4.5 billion have access to toilets or latrines  meaning that 2.5 billion people, mostly in rural areas, do not have proper sanitation. In addition, 1.1 billion people still defecate in the open"
2013-07-25,"European companies should stop sending data to the US, German privacy officials say"
2013-07-25,Pope Francis attacks drug legalization in Latin America
2013-07-25,Banks and pharmaceutical companies are on a secret list of blue-chip firms that hired private investigators who break the law
2013-07-25,"Scientists Warn of Overwhelming Costs of Mental Illness: ""We will be overwhelmed by brain disorders"" if nothing is done now to boost investment in research. Estimated costs in Britain alone is over $172b a yr. It needs same funding levels as cancer & heart diseases."
2013-07-25,"Spanish PM Rajoy under fire in media after a condolences message for the train crash victims, that killed 77 people, posted by his office included a paragraph ""copied and pasted"" from a statement previously sent to victims of an earthquake in Gansu, China"
2013-07-25,China to Spend $275 Billion On Clean Air Plan For Beijing
2013-07-25,South Africa's drug testing shame. Multi national drug companies exploiting the poor and desperate in drug trials: In one instance children as young as six were taken of life saving drugs to act as a control group.
2013-07-25,"Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian opposition MP from #SidiBouZid was shot dead today in front of his place on Tunisia' Republic Day. 6 months after Chokri Belaid's death"
2013-07-25,Pakistani TV host gives away abandoned babies on show as battle for viewers heats up during Ramadan
2013-07-24,"Technologically illiterate MP who masterminded UK porn blocker get hacked, threatens reporter for writing about it"
2013-07-24,"David Cameron's ""porn advisor"" website hacked - her reaction is to libel and threaten the journalist reporting the story."
2013-07-24,US And Russia Simultaneously Announce Intent To Arm Opposing Sides In Syria
2013-07-24,Snowden Gets Whistleblower Award in Germany
2013-07-24,Member of Russian female punk group Pussy Riot loses her appeal for parole after nearly a year in prison for performing a protest song against President Putin in a Moscow cathedral
2013-07-24,Yemeni girl's speech against child marriage goes viral - Eleven year-old says she escaped forced marriage by fleeing her parents.
2013-07-24,"Iran invites Snowden to visit and ""elaborate"" on U.S. spying practices"
2013-07-24,"Canada's Alberta Oil Sands Have Been Leaking for 9 Weeks - ""Nobody really understands how to stop it from leaking, or if they do they havent put the measures into place."" Impacted area spans some 30 acres, with dozens of animals killed & some 60,000 lbs of contaminated vegetation removed so far."
2013-07-24,"Snowden is preparing for a life in Russia: applying for asylum, looking for a job. He may stay there permanently."
2013-07-24,China is no longer a low-labor-cost environment. The increases in labor cost are now faster than economic growth.
2013-07-24,"The police is trying to hide, but Video of Clashes in Brazil Appears to Show Police Infiltrators Among Protesters"
2013-07-24,"Nazi-themed caf sparks global outrage: ""We're living in Indonesia and Indonesians weren't tortured in the Holocaust, so we don't really care"""
2013-07-24,UK cops and spook agencies wrongly fingered five people as criminals after seizing data about their communications
2013-07-24,"Spain police arrested 25 members of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, including Europe leader"
2013-07-24,"Extremists Attack Montenegro's First Gay Pride -- Several hundred extremists shouting ""Kill the gays"" attacked gay activists and clashed with police on Wednesday in a bid to disrupt the first ever pride event in staunchly conservative Montenegro, which is seeking to join the EU"
2013-07-24,Hunt on for Japanese serial killer who leaves Haiku clues
2013-07-24,"Hundreds of men who took up arms against President Bashar al-Assad are defecting back to the government side, The Telegraph has learnt."
2013-07-24,Robert Mugabe criticises Barack Obama's gay rights stance - repeats his claim that homosexuals are 'worse than pigs and dogs' at rally ahead of the Zimbabwe elections
2013-07-24,Hijacked cyanide truck still missing
2013-07-24,Dubai boss gets 'rape' mail after firing Norwegian rape victim who was imprisoned in Dubai
2013-07-24,Israeli Cabinet Approves Bill to Draft Ultra-Orthadox Jews
2013-07-24,Fears grow for Pope's safety in Brazil: Violent protests broke out in Rio de Janeiro within hours of his arrival.
2013-07-24,Hunt on for Serial Killer in Japan who leaves Haiku Clue: Setting on fire/ Smoke gives delight/ To a country fellow.
2013-07-24,"Bulgarian Parliament Blockaded by Protesters, 109 People Trapped Inside"
2013-07-24,"GM crops: campaigners in Ghana accuse US of pushing modified food. From farmers to MPs, debate over seed ownership and the role of foreign influences on agriculture is causing divisions in Ghana"
2013-07-23,New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens
2013-07-23,"US secretary of state threatens Venezuela over Snowden asylum. ""A report published earlier this week by Spanish newspaper ABC details a series of heavy-handed threats leveled by US Secretary of State John Kerry against the government of Venezuela."""
2013-07-23,"'I request you, whether you are in the developing world or the developed, to treat corruption at par with war, and terror.' -Anonymous"
2013-07-23,David Cameron retreats in war on internet porn
2013-07-23,"KFCs ice cubes are 12 times dirtier than toilet water, says Chinas official media"
2013-07-23,Mexico could legalize marijuana in five years
2013-07-23,The UK wants to ban packed lunches. It's a step too far
2013-07-23,Source: Obama to move forward with plan to arm Syrian rebels
2013-07-23,"""Hitler did not kill enough"" - French politician in trouble for suggesting the Nazis did not exterminate enough Gypsies"
2013-07-23,Dolphins 'call each other by name'
2013-07-23,Bomb found at planned Pope Francis visit site in Brazil
2013-07-23,Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers allowing him to escape airport. His lawyer Anatoly Kucherena has said the fugitive American leaker hopes to soon receive papers that would allow him to leave Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow.
2013-07-23,Passengers push 32-ton train to help free woman stuck in gap between train and platform in Tokyo
2013-07-23,"Whistleblower claims asylum seekers in Manus Island detention centre have been raped and abused with full knowledge of staff, days after the Australian Government announced that all who arrive in Australia by boat would be sent there for processing and possible settlement."
2013-07-23,"Russias Anti-Gay Crackdown: Vladimir Putin has declared war on homosexuals. So far, the world has mostly been silent."
2013-07-23,Finland Writes History With Crowdsourced Copyright Law -- Finland is the first country in the world in which Parliament will vote on a fairer copyright law that has been crowdsourced by the public
2013-07-23,Tokyo Electric Power Company admits Fukushima leaking radioactive water into Pacific Ocean
2013-07-23,Depleted uranium used by US forces blamed for birth defects and cancer in Iraq
2013-07-23,The other side of the pope's visit to Brazil: police violence and repression against protesters and journalists in Rio. Police beats AFP photographer and takes unconscious man in custody.
2013-07-23,Shipwreck company finds $36M of silver in WWII wreck on seafloor
2013-07-23,Goldman Sachs in spotlight over 'aluminium price-hike' scandal
2013-07-23,Germany launches probe into US spying ties
2013-07-23,"Insolvent Spain Forced To ""Borrow"" From Social Security Fund To Pay Pensions"
2013-07-23,"""The growing body of counter-terrorism legislation is having a direct impact on humanitarian action, restricting funding, stalling project implementation and resulting in an increased climate of self-censorship by aid workers, according to an independent study."""
2013-07-23,Former head of MI6 threatens to expose secrets of Iraq 'dodgy dossier'
2013-07-22,"Iraqi Man moves to Australia, uses the welfare system as income. Becomes successful, writes a check to the Australian Government for every cent he was given. [X-Post from r/News]"
2013-07-22,Britain's Former Top Spy Threatens To Expose The 'Dodgy Dossier' Used To Push Iraq War
2013-07-22,"Al Qaeda militants flee Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail in violent mass break-out: ""The number of escaped inmates has reached 500, most of them were convicted senior members of al Qaeda and had received death sentences"""
2013-07-22,"Norwegian Marte Deborah Dalelven is pardoned by the Emir of Dubai and can go home, said Foreign Ministry."
2013-07-22,"""It's a law FOR women, not against Muslims"": France forced to defend ban on Islamic veil after violence"
2013-07-22,Cannabis plants spring up all over German town after campaigners plant thousands of seeds in protest against the 'demonisation' of the drug
2013-07-22,"Yes, thats a photo of the pope carrying his own bag ""by carrying his own bag, Francis is seeking to demonstrate humility and a closer connection to regular Catholics, as well as signaling to other Vatican officials that they could stand to behave a bit less like royalty and more like priests"""
2013-07-22,"""We have two or three times the amount of food right now that is needed to feed the number of people in the world,"" the problem is distribution."
2013-07-22,Pornography filters in every UK household. ISPs will contact users who must 'declare whether they want to maintain access to online pornography'. 'Simulated' rape scenes also become illegal.
2013-07-22,First tourists arrested in Russia for gay propaganda
2013-07-22,Israeli and Palestinian bands unite in 'metal brotherhood'. Joint 18-gig tour by Orphaned Land and Khalas will take message of coexistence through rock'n'roll across Europe
2013-07-22,"Spain privatized sun, its forbidden to generate power for consumption"
2013-07-22,"437% increase deforestation of the Amazon, 114 square miles (184 km) in just one month. For comparisson, Manhattan has just 22.96 square miles. From August 2012 to June 2013, forest degradation accumulated in 908 square miles."
2013-07-22,"Japan's top animation director, Hayao Miyazaki, speaks out against constitutional amendment."
2013-07-22,Doctors Without Borders: Price of vaccines has increased 2700% in the last decade
2013-07-22,Leaked Pakistani report confirms high civilian death toll in CIA drone strikes
2013-07-22,"Bombing of the Great Barrier Reef by US May be Astonishing to Some, but to Queensland Activists Opposed to ""War Games"", it's Just Latest in Series of Grievances - The marine park was rezoned in 2003 to allow military training area."
2013-07-22,"SIM Cards Have Finally Been Hacked, And The Flaw Could Affect Millions Of Phones"
2013-07-22,A trove of 44 WWI german U-boats has been found off the coast of the United Kingdom
2013-07-22,European Union Adds Hezbollah to Terror List
2013-07-22,Turkish court gives green light to destruction of Gezi Park
2013-07-22,"'Recognizing same-sex unions brings us closer to apocalypse' - Head of Russian Orthodox Church: This is a very dangerous apocalyptic symptom. We face enormous temptations when countries start approving sin and codifying it into law in order to justify it"""
2013-07-22,"Arundhati Roy on Obamas Wars, India and Why Democracy Is ""The Biggest Scam in the World"""
2013-07-22,UK inequality rising more quickly than under Thatcher
2013-07-22,"Disgruntled man attempts to kill 50 students by mixing rat poision in their meal, in India"
2013-07-21,6.8 Earthquake hits New Zealand Capital
2013-07-21,Venezuela says it ends efforts for better U.S. ties
2013-07-21,"CIA backs $630,000 study into how to control global weather through geoengineering"
2013-07-21,UK wants to ban pornography featuring scenes of glorification of rape and other serious sexual offences
2013-07-21,Principal forced kids to eat midday meal cooked in insecticide
2013-07-21,"The G20, a group of the worlds richest economies, have for the first time endorsed a plan to curb widely used tax avoidance strategies that allow some multinational corporations such as Apple and Starbucks to pay only a pittance in income taxes."
2013-07-21,11 Year-Old Yemeni Girl Gives Profound Monologue On Arranged Marriage: I'd Rather Kill Myself
2013-07-21,One of the Britains leading law enforcement bureaus has known about but ignored massive misconduct and corruption for over a decade by private investigators who use illegal surveillance techniques for the benefit of financial services sector.
2013-07-21,"Two American fighter jets dropped four unarmed bombs into Australia's Great Barrier Reef Marine Park last week when a training exercise went wrong, the U.S. Navy said"
2013-07-21,"Brutal rape draws outrage over culture of corruption, impunity in Ukraine. 'The cops, Krashkova said, forced her into the car and drove her to the woods. There... they allegedly beat her so badly they fractured her skull. The officers then took turns raping her'"
2013-07-21,Emirati who assaulted Indian driver faces up to a year in jail - Indian who filmed video faces up to 2 years
2013-07-21,Venezuela ends efforts to improve US ties; Foreign ministry releases statement in response to US UN Envoy nominee Powers promise to stand up to repressive regimes
2013-07-21,Out with the Mafia! Mass anti-govt protests backed by Anonymous grip Spain (PHOTOS)
2013-07-21,Hamas reeling from Egyptian crackdown on Gaza tunnels
2013-07-21,Vladimir Putin tells critics of Russia at World University Games to try some Viagra
2013-07-21,"Wissam Al Mana, husband of Janet Jackson, fires rape victim in Dubai because of ""unacceptable and improper behavior"""
2013-07-21,"School lunch disaster in India confirmed to be caused by residual pesticide in the cooking oil. The chef told the principal that it 'smelled strongly' and looked 'dodgy', but this objection was ignored. The principal is still at large and will have their property seized imminently."
2013-07-21,Istanbul protesters clash with riot police over access to Gezi Park
2013-07-21,Capture of Mexican drug lord began with a fed-up informant
2013-07-21,China to launch cargo train to Germany
2013-07-21,20 Cars torched and police station attacked in Paris exurb amid tensions linked to authorities' handling of France's ban on Muslim face veils
2013-07-21,Israeli president convinced Palestinian leader to accept that settlers remain in West Bank but be subject to Palestinian state
2013-07-21,Judge Challenges White House Claims on Authority in Drone Killings
2013-07-21,At least 41 people were killed and more than 165 others wounded Saturday in a series of bombings that hit Baghdad over a two-hour period - bombings target mostly Shiite neighborhoods
2013-07-21,Belgium to swear in new king.
2013-07-20,"The Norwegian woman who was jailed after getting raped in Dubai, was fired by Janet Jackson's husband"
2013-07-20,"Poachers Kill 2 Kenya Wildlife Service Officers  They came under fierce fire in 2 separate gunfights Thursday after encountering gang hunting elephants in a dense forest. Last year, Kenya lost 384 elephants & 30 rhinos to criminals, a worrying trend that's not sustainable."
2013-07-20,"""War on Drugs"" at work in Mexico. My former students, arrested a week from graduating high school, have been in jail for months. Their used car, bought from the U.S., had a brick of cocaine hidden in it. Customs didn't find a thing. Meanwhile, real drug lords run the government and live in luxury."
2013-07-20,"Fifteen years after autism panic, a plague of measles erupts in Wales. In 1998, southwest Wales was a hotbed of resistance to a vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. The bill has now come due."
2013-07-20,"Female vigilantes in India join forces to fight rape: In a country where a woman is raped every 20 minutes, the group's extreme measures have won quiet approval from some"
2013-07-20,Over 90% of Japanese think Fukushima disaster not under control
2013-07-20,"FARC: ""Despite the law that allows us to keep the U.S. soldier...as a POW, we have decided to release him as a gesture in keeping with the spirit of talks under way in Havana"" - the capture shows ""American military men and mercenaries in counter-insurgency operations under the guise of contractors"""
2013-07-20,Women 'banned from shopping alone' in northern Pakistan. 'The step is reportedly aimed at keeping men from being distracted during the holy month of Ramadan'
2013-07-20,"Police say samples of cooking oil and leftover food taken from an Indian school where 23 children died after eating lunch this past week were contaminated with ""very toxic"" levels of an agricultural pesticide."
2013-07-20,"UK government has decided to privatise the supplier of blood to the NHS, and sell it to Bain Capital."
2013-07-20,Kerry vows to put the screws to Venezuela over Snowden  report
2013-07-20,'Unprecedented' 131 Congressmen Say Obama Should Give Iran's New President a Chance
2013-07-20,Explosion at Beijing's Airport
2013-07-20,Norwegian woman has spoken out about the 16-month prison sentence she received in Dubai after reporting a rape incident to police in March this year
2013-07-20,"Crime is plunging in the rich world. To keep it down, governments should focus on prevention, not punishment"
2013-07-20,"Mexico could legalize marijuana in five years, according to former president Vicente Fox"
2013-07-20,Nigerian senate legalises child marriage.
2013-07-20,Pope's clean-up man 'found stuck in lift with rent boy'
2013-07-20,"Alan Turing, a British World War Two code breaker who helped to crack the German Naval code to be pardoned for his gay conviction in 1952"
2013-07-20,Norwegian convicted over rape report issues Gulf caution
2013-07-20,Six get life imprisonment in Swiss tourist gang-rape case in India
2013-07-20,Israeli banks may lose access to large loans under new EU rule on occupied lands
2013-07-20,Around 200 protesters clashed with police in a Paris suburb on Friday night following the arrest of a man who allegedly assaulted a police officer after his wife was stopped for wearing an Islamic veil in public.
2013-07-20,Missing mom found alive in Canada after almost 52 years
2013-07-20,Somalia may have been better off under anarchy than predatory government
2013-07-19,"A former CIA station chief has been arrested in Panama, and faces extradition to Italy where he has already been sentenced to 9 years in prison for his involvement in the extraordinary rendition of a terror suspect."
2013-07-19,98% of murders in Mexico last year went unsolved
2013-07-19,"Woman sues head of Japans largest mafia group, demanding return of protection money."
2013-07-19,Almost 800 people have died so far in Britain's heatwave. Temperatures above 30C for sixth day running
2013-07-19,Boy raped in broad daylight attack because 'his phone wasn't good enough to steal'
2013-07-19,"""Camera off, or I'll shoot , he said"" - Freedom of press in Germany ended for cameraman across from the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt"
2013-07-19,Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released after massive protests supporting him
2013-07-19,"""No warming for 17 years"" you say? June 2013 was the 340th consecutive month of above-average global temperatures."
2013-07-19,Top US Military Officer: America Is Considering Entering Syrian War
2013-07-19,G-20 Backs Plan to Curb Tax Evasion by Large Corporations
2013-07-19,Japan's government on Friday gave its seal of approval to the world's first clinical trials using stem cells harvested from a patient's own body.
2013-07-19,"Paypal founder invents 4000mph train ""Elon Musks train will use vaccuum power to speed from London to Beijing in 2 hours"
2013-07-19,Controversial comic Frankie Boyle in hunger strike to support Shaker Aamer - the last British detainee in Guantnamo Bay
2013-07-19,"Australia announces Papua New Guinea asylum deal: People arriving by boat to seek asylum will no longer be resettled in Australia but will go to Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced."
2013-07-19,"Monsanto drops bid to have GM crops approved in Europe -- ""We will no longer be pursuing approvals for cultivation of new biotech crops in Europe"""
2013-07-19,EU officially publishes settlement guidelines despite Israeli objections
2013-07-19,"Hitting Chinas Wall. To put it crudely, its running out of surplus peasants. (Krugman)"
2013-07-19,"Norwegian woman was assaulted and raped on a business-trip to Dubai. When she went to the police to press charges, she instead was convicted of having sex outside marrige, now facing 16 months in jail."
2013-07-19,Britain Reveals 50% Tax Break for Fracking Firms - Its fledgling shale gas industry will get a major boost today as it cuts taxes on fracking profits to less than 1/2 the amount paid by conventional oil & gas producers.
2013-07-19,Woman (24) reported rape in Dubai: Sentenced to 16 months in prison
2013-07-19,After a Girl was raped for two days Delhi police refused to register a case and instead assaulted and broke bones of the people who wanted to file an FIR.
2013-07-19,"The Norwegian town of Rjukan is located deep in a valley floor and is completely deprived of direct sunlight 5 months a year. So the city is spending about $835,000 to install 3 large mirrors on the sides of nearby mountains to redirect light rays directly into to the towns main square."
2013-07-19,Britain abandons plans to arm Syrian rebels
2013-07-19,"Russian mobile operators say 'nyet!' to Apple, 'da!' to Samsung: All three top carriers have discontinued iPhone"
2013-07-19,PAKISTAN: Yet ANOTHER acid attack as an abused woman tries to flee her husband
2013-07-18,"Pres. Jimmy Carter defends Snowden, also says: ""America has no functioning democracy."" Could only find this on German news sites, not American"
2013-07-18,Peru to Provide Free Solar Power to its 2 Million Poorest Citizens
2013-07-18,"Brazil's Army Moves To Protect Indigenous Aw Tribe By Halting Illegal Logging: They're known by some as Earth's Most Threatened Tribe, but now Brazil's indigenous Aw population is getting help from a powerful force -- the national army."
2013-07-18,"Stolen paintings of Picasso, Matisse, Monet and others, worth approximately $200mln, burned by Romanian woman to destroy evidence against her son"
2013-07-18,19 of the 22 children who died after eating a tainted free school meal in India's Bihar state have been buried in and around the school grounds. Angry parents say they want the graves to serve as a reminder that the children died due to state negligence
2013-07-18,Soccers global body FIFA lost a fight to block free TV access to World Cup matches after the European Unions highest court said top matches involving national teams should be available to all viewers if governments insist
2013-07-18,Asian arrested for filming UAE man beating Indian driver in Dubai
2013-07-18,The Drone that Killed my Grandson
2013-07-18,EU's decision on Israel like 'a bucket of cold water on the head of a drunk' The European Union has at last lost patience with Israel's refusal to comply with international law over settlements.
2013-07-18,In the '40s and '50s the Canadian government intentionally withheld rations and vitamin supplements from hungry aboriginal children to see how starvation affects the body.
2013-07-18,Husband and wife jailed for attacking Sikh taxi driver and ripping off his turban
2013-07-18,Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny Jailed for 5 Years
2013-07-18,"Rules Change on Olympic Marijuana Testing - World Anti-Doping Agency amended its rules on cannabis, raising threshold for a positive test from 15 nanograms per milliliter to 150 ng/ml to distinguish in competition use from use taking place well before events"
2013-07-18,Russian opposition leader Navalny found guilty of theft
2013-07-18,"Allowing abortions in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities would be ""depriving future Special Olympics athletes of being born"""
2013-07-18,India's Supreme Court orders curb on sales of acid in attempt to reduce attacks on women
2013-07-18,Sorry is not enough: Bolivia demands EU find culprits behind aerial hijack
2013-07-18,Indian principal on the run after 22 students die from school lunches
2013-07-18,A Malaysian couple known for a sexually explicit blog have been charged with sedition after they caused outrage by posting a Ramadan greeting on Facebook which showed them eating pork.
2013-07-18,More Dubai Injustice: Man who uploaded government official assault video arrested
2013-07-18,"Russian protest leader guilty of embezzlement: Judge finds Alexei Navalny, a critic of Vladimir Putin, guilty of colluding to steal $500000 from a timber company. Navalny had always claimed the trial was political to try to stop his rise in popularity and his challenging of Putin for political power"
2013-07-18,"Canadian gore website owner charged with ""corrupting morals"" for hosting dismemberment video"
2013-07-18,"Tunisia: Artists 'targeted for offending morals' ""Artists in Tunisia are increasingly finding themselves in the dock for ""offending morals"" as Islamist influence grows, it seems."""
2013-07-18,Taliban writes a letter to Malala Yousafzai explaining why they shot her in the head
2013-07-18,Asian arrested for putting up video of Dubai man beating Indian
2013-07-17,Norwegian rape victim sentenced to 1 year and 4 months of prison in Dubai for sex outside of marriage.
2013-07-17,Queen gives royal assent to same-sex marriage legislation; gay marriage now legal in England and Wales
2013-07-17,"Same-sex marriage legalized in England, Wales"
2013-07-17,"Li Jianxin, a Chinese whistleblower, was rammed by a car, blinded with acid, and deprived of two of his fingers."
2013-07-17,"Russia bursts into top five strongest economies, replacing Germany"
2013-07-17,"EU to abandon net neutrality - The new rule would undo the EU's previous policy of ensuring so-called network neutrality - a principle which states that ISPs must not give any content preferential treatment and that any video, article or web page should get just as much bandwidth as another."
2013-07-17,"Shark Finning and Over Fishing. More people need to understand how much of a problem this is. 12 people are killed each year by sharks, but an estimated 11,417 sharks are killed EVERY HOUR."
2013-07-17,US surveillance becomes election issue in Germany - creates political turbulence for Merkel
2013-07-17,Shark Finning Banned By EU
2013-07-17,U.S. to Russia: Turn over Snowden or risk 'long-term problems'
2013-07-17,Same-sex marriage set to enter UK law later this week
2013-07-17,"19 children die, more sick after eating free lunch in Indian primary school, official says"
2013-07-17,Israel among most corrupt of OECD countries
2013-07-17,"Approximately 5,000 Syrians are dying each month, and an average of 6,000 people flee the country every day, UN officials reported Tuesday. Since the war began, nearly 93,000 people are dead, and 1.8 million have fled."
2013-07-17,Israel set to approve over 900 new settlement homes in West Bank
2013-07-17,"Stolen paintings Matisse, Picasso, Monet and Gauguin burnt by thieves because they wouldn't sell, suspects' mom says"
2013-07-17,"Britain's Chemical Sales To Syria Revealed - Britain has approved more than 12bn in military sales to countries it condemns for human rights abuses, including Syria."
2013-07-17,Putin says U.S. ties more important than Snowden
2013-07-17,US drone strike killed key al-Qa'ida leader Saeed al-Shihri in Yemen
2013-07-17,Winner of $3.2million at age 16 now has $3000 left 10 years later
2013-07-17,"Petty police corruption shown in the UK, as officer's ex-girlfriend is harassed with false accusations"
2013-07-17,"U.N. officials say 5,000 people a month are being killed in Syria - flight of refugees worst since Rwanda genocide"
2013-07-17,Tibetans lose patience after 50 years of peaceful protest
2013-07-17,Canadian First Nations people were used as test subjects for malnutrition experiments without their knowledge
2013-07-17,Catholic school expels school girl who was raped during school trip. School says she broke curfew and had been drinking alcohol
2013-07-16,Media Continues to Focus on Snowden Rather Than the Information He's Revealed
2013-07-16,"India bans captive dolphin shows, says dolphins should be seen as non-human persons"
2013-07-16,"A German man who called on Facebook friends concerned about American secret service operations to join him in a walk around a US army spy centre near his home, found secret service men at his door checking his political leanings."
2013-07-16,The European Union has banned its 28 member states from signing agreements with Israel without an explicit exclusion of Jewish settlements
2013-07-16,Long- term Chinese government official has anonymously revealed himself as an ethnic Tibetan and is writing a book exposing Chinese atrocities in Tibet
2013-07-16,Leader of Mexico's Zetas drug cartel captured
2013-07-16,"HSBC Leaker: Banks 'Make Selves Rich at Expense of Society' - ""What we certainly don't need are governments telling us what is good for us"""
2013-07-16,Putin blames Snowdens stateless situation on America
2013-07-16,"Notorious Holocaust-denier David Irving is planning to visit Berlin in September - but may have to sleep on a friend's a couch, and hold his meeting in a living-room, as hotels in the German capital have united to boycott him."
2013-07-16,"North Korean missile material seized passing through Panama Canal, president tweets proof"
2013-07-16,Irish Catholic Nun organisations behind enslavement of women over decades refuse to pay damages to victims
2013-07-16,For those that want to see the full documents that Snowden released.
2013-07-16,Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline allegedly ringleader of the sexual bribery scandal in China
2013-07-16,Panama seizes North Korean ship carrying weapons - vessel's captain attempted suicide after it was stopped near the Panama Canal
2013-07-16,Putin: US has locked Snowden in Russia by scaring other countries
2013-07-16,Anyone Traveling Into The UK Can Have Their Phones Seized And Data Downloaded Without Cause
2013-07-16,Neo-Nazi and black metal musician Varg Vikernes arrested in France on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack
2013-07-16,"The Canadian Maritimes says no to domestic abuse, Sponsors pull out from Chris Brown concert"
2013-07-16,"Putin ordered snap military exercise, which has involved about 160,000 servicemen, 5,000 tanks and armored vehicles, 130 aircraft and 70 Pacific Fleet warships"
2013-07-16,Snowden officially requests asylum in Russia  lawyer
2013-07-16,Fukushima nuclear plant leaking contaminated water into the ocean
2013-07-16,Spains Premier Refuses to Resign in Fraud Scandal
2013-07-16,"Russia holds biggest war games in decades. 'Russia has launched its biggest military maneuvers since Soviet times, involving 160,000 troops and about 5,000 tanks across Siberia and the far eastern region'"
2013-07-16,Nuns say they will not pay Magdalene compensation
2013-07-16,Mexican marines capture the Zeta's drug lord
2013-07-15,Reykjavk to end sister cities relationship with Moscow because of gay rights violations in Russia
2013-07-15,19 year-old Hacker Reveals How Brazil's Elections Were Rigged
2013-07-15,"Linguist Finds a Language in Its Infancy - the language, called Warlpiri rampaku, created by children, is spoken only by people under 35 in Lajamanu, an isolated village in Northern Australia"
2013-07-15,Heroic effort at great personal cost: Edward Snowden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
2013-07-15,Hundreds of centuries-old trees chopped down to make room for the Pope's visit in Brazil
2013-07-15,"Slavery is a $32bn global industry, so why aren't we following the money trail?"
2013-07-15,Britain to use secret evidence in court: The Justice and Security Act 2013 (JSA) came into force this month. The key provision contained within the legislation creates a new judicial procedure which will permit the use of secret evidence in any civil trial in the UK.
2013-07-15,EU Commissioner: We Dont Want U.S. Reading Our Mail and Listening to Our Phone Calls
2013-07-15,Israeli PM threatens to attack Iran
2013-07-15,"'World's Oldest Calendar' Discovered in Scottish Field - It's thousands of years older than previous known formal time-measuring monuments created in Mesopotamia. ""It is remarkable to think our aerial survey helped find the place where time itself was invented."""
2013-07-15,China aims to quadruple solar power generating capacity within two years
2013-07-15,Poland bans Kosher slaughter of animals. Ethical or Intolerant?
2013-07-15,Australias largest telco stored data for FBI
2013-07-15,"NHS Hit for Millions by Overcharging Scam - Drug companies exploit loophole in the law to hike prices by as much as 2,000%"
2013-07-15,Police continued to fire Tasers at chests  despite cardiac arrest warnings
2013-07-15,Gay marriage clears the House of Lords
2013-07-15,"The Arab spring: has it failed? Roughly two-and-a-half years after the revolutions in the Arab world, not a single country is yet plainly on course to become a stable, peaceful democracy"
2013-07-15,Saudi Arabia has built missile launch pads that target both Iran and Israel with ballistic missiles
2013-07-15,4 senior executives from pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline are being held by Chinese police on suspicion of bribery
2013-07-15,China naval fleet seen off northern Japan
2013-07-15,US blocks crackdown on tax avoidance by net firms like Google and Amazon; US forced the watering down of tough new international tax reform rules
2013-07-15,How International Justice Is Being Gutted: Critics accuse one judge of creating legal precedents that make it impossible to convict senior commanders for human rights abuses.
2013-07-15,Italian senator says black minister has 'features of orangutan'
2013-07-15,Intelligence agencies suspect that the well-established drug cartels in China's Xinjiang province pushing fake currency into India with the help of Pakistan spy agency ISI.
2013-07-15,"Racist attacks on the rise in Greece: Violence against foreigners and immigrants are on the rise in Greece, as the country suffers from a recent economic downturn and increased violent activity from suspected neo-Nazis."
2013-07-14,"Snowden: I did not seek to enrich myself. I did not seek to sell US secrets. I did not partner with any foreign government to guarantee my safety. I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice."
2013-07-14,"Northern Ireland: Told it would get his grandpa into heaven, a 7 year old boy submitted to sex with a predatory Catholic priest -- ""The defendant said that this was to get his grandfather into heaven and that if he told anyone it would not work"""
2013-07-14,"Snowden documents could be 'worst nightmare' for U.S., if something bad happened to him"
2013-07-14,"After searching the Bolivian President's plane for Snowden, Morales says the US has hacked into his emails."
2013-07-14,"South Fires Back At US Bully: ""Repeated US attempts by the Bush and Obama administrations to bully the rest of the world into compliance, using a combination of military might and economic blackmail, are beginning to backfire and meet with moral resistance."""
2013-07-14,Greenwald: U.S. should be on its knees begging that nothing happens to Snowden
2013-07-14,"South Korea's Asiana Airlines considering legal action against TV station, NTSB -- Bogus pilot names, that phonetically spelled out phrases such as ""Something Wrong"" and ""We Too Low,"" were read during KTVU's noon broadcast Friday."
2013-07-14,Summary of 11 Shocking Things Snowden Has Taught Us (So Far)
2013-07-14,Snowden revelations stir up anti-US sentiment: the self-confessed National Security Agency leaker has managed to orchestrate a very different political phenomenon: the biggest bout of anti-Americanism since the Iraq war
2013-07-14,Egypt 'freezes assets' of Muslim Brotherhood leaders
2013-07-14,"Iran's president-elect signals he's on young people's side: President-elect Hassan Rouhani says he wants less government control in Iran over women's dress, the Internet and mixing of the sexes."
2013-07-14,Colombian judge says gay couple can marry
2013-07-14,"Turkish prime minister's new chief adviser: ""There is work going on in many centres in the world to kill Erdoan from afar through methods like telekinesis"""
2013-07-14,'It was a kill mission': independent Bin Laden panel contradicts US claims
2013-07-14,"""Genes"" a reason poor kids struggle at school, says Australian government report"
2013-07-14,US Officials: Israel targeted Russian-made missiles in Syria
2013-07-14,Pablo Picasso's stepdaughter said 407 works by the late Spanish artist were stolen from her chateau in southern France
2013-07-14,Italian investigators have opened an inquiry into claims by a convicted paedophile priest that an underage prostitution ring has been operating inside the Holy Roman Church with clergymen hiring rentboys for sex inside churches
2013-07-14,Q&A with Glenn Greenwald: Americans reaction surprising and gratifying
2013-07-14,Al Jazeera's Awful Week: How the voice of Arab freedom became a shill for Egypt's Islamists.
2013-07-14,Morales says US hacked Bolivian leaders' emails
2013-07-14,Southern Europe Is Becoming One Big Surveillance State
2013-07-14,Burma risks becoming 'the next Rwanda' as violence grows
2013-07-14,The White House is turning up the pressure on Moscow over Snowden. Will it make any difference?
2013-07-14,Spain's Running Of The Bulls Ended With A Horrific Pileup In Front Of The Bullring Entrance
2013-07-13,UN human rights chief says whistleblowers need protection
2013-07-13,"One step forward, two steps backward: Egypt's new constitution declares Islam state religion, and Shariah as the basis for law."
2013-07-13,"A 20-year-old college student was gangraped and set on fire in India. Shockingly, the police not only refused to register the case but also blames victim of setting herself ablaze and lying"
2013-07-13,S. American states to withdraw ambassadors from Europe over Bolivian plane incident
2013-07-13,"Malala Yousafzai, teen shot by Taliban to U.N.: ""The extremists were afraid of education. That is why they're blasting schools every day. Because they're afraid of progress, afraid of change. Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. Education is the only solution."""
2013-07-13,"In her first speech since Taliban tried to kill her for advocating education for girls, Malala Yousafzai celebrated her 16th birthday at the UN, appealing for compulsory free schooling for all children. ""One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world..."""
2013-07-13,Container ship breaks in two in the Indian Ocean. 7000 containers lost.
2013-07-13,Turkey redefines armed forces' duties - only to defend against external threats.
2013-07-13,Wikipedia Fears That Russian Anti-Piracy Law Could Shut Them Down -- The new legislation allows copyright holders to have websites blocked if they link to infringing material. Wikipedia has millions of hyperlinks to content that may or may not be authorized.
2013-07-13,Snowden Affair Dampens US-Latin American Ties
2013-07-13,Colombia demands answers on U.S. spying as Latin America seethes
2013-07-13,Boeing 787 Dreamliner catches fire at London Heathrow Airport
2013-07-13,'Many hurt' in France train crash
2013-07-13,"Australian chief scientist: act now, or expect deadly 'post-antibiotics era'"
2013-07-13,"Egypt Punishes the Palestinians - Egypt is allowed to strangle the entire Gaza Strip and deny its people food and fuel, especially on the eve of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, but one hardly hears about these anti-Palestinian measures: they are being carried out by an Arab country, not by Israel"
2013-07-13,"Obama Administration Accuses Russia of Giving Snowden ""Propaganda Platform"""
2013-07-13,Two Saudis sentenced to eight and nine years in prison for protesting monarchy
2013-07-13,"80 Acres of Ancient Woodland in Kent to be Destroyed for Quarry Site - Hermitage quarry to extend into Oaken Wood, the subject of a fierce planning battle. ""With just 2% ancient woodland cover remaining, we can not afford to lose any more."""
2013-07-13,"Rail boss scapegoats Lac-Mgantic, Quebec train driver. Chairman Ed Burkhardt was met by a public outraged by MMAs negligence and its efforts to blame others for Canadas worst railway disaster in more than a century."
2013-07-13,Mayor in Quebec admitted to killing kittens [translation in comments]
2013-07-13,"Obama speaks with Putin on Snowden, but no sign of movement"
2013-07-13,75% of the World's Mining Companies Are Based in Canada
2013-07-13,U.S. to buy Russian-made choppers for Afghanistan despite Assad ties
2013-07-13,Malala's Forgotten Sisters; Girls as young as 5 are still being sold into marriage in Pakistan. And no one will stop it.
2013-07-13,Suicide bomber kills 33 as Iraqis play Ramadan game in Kirkuk cafe
2013-07-12,"Canadians win $250,000 dollar prize for first human powered helicopter. The prize has been unclaimed for 33 years."
2013-07-12,Edward Snowden calls meeting with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch at Sheremetyevo airport: 'US officials are preventing me claiming asylum'
2013-07-12,Russian lawmakers say Snowden deserves Nobel Peace Prize
2013-07-12,"Snowden: """"No actions I take or plan are meant to harm the US...I want the US to succeed."", Asks for political asylum in Russia"
2013-07-12,Snowden watch: Todays Moscow-Havana flight taking a very unusual detour that avoids U.S. airspace. Currently over the Atlantic.
2013-07-12,"Telstra storing data on behalf of US government: 'The data Telstra stored for the US government includes the actual content of emails, online messages and phone calls.'"
2013-07-12,"Irish government passes legislation to allow for an abortion if a womans life is at risk, including from suicide."
2013-07-12,"Amnesty International: Having seen the evidence, the US should immediately drop the ""Aiding the Enemy"" charge against WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning"
2013-07-12,Happening now: Minute-by-minute LIVE coverage of Snowden's meeting with human rights groups.
2013-07-12,Corrupt Zimbabwe hospital charged women in labor $5 for every scream. Average annual income is only $150 so many give birth at home; eight women die during childbirth every day in Zimbabwe.
2013-07-12,Edward Snowden requests human rights groups meeting
2013-07-12,Turkey's Protests Won't Die Like Occupy Wall Street Did
2013-07-12,"Tired of helping CIA? Quit Facebook, Venezuela minister urges"
2013-07-12,Hubble telescope spots azure blue planet where it rains glass
2013-07-12,Experts advise Snowden: fly commercial
2013-07-12,Al Qaeda kills Free Syrian Army commander: FSA spokesman
2013-07-12,"Saudi princess posts $5-million bail, will be freed"
2013-07-12,"Edward Snowden to meet human rights groups Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch at Moscow airport Fri 7/12/13"
2013-07-12,US ships F-16s to Egypt as military intensifies crackdown
2013-07-12,Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai is to address the United Nations as part of her campaign to ensure free compulsory education for every child.
2013-07-12,Media Disinformation: 22 Resignations at Al Jazeera over pro-Muslim Brotherhood bias Egypt coverage.
2013-07-12,"Saudi, UAE and Kuwait provide $12 bil to Egypt, delighted at army's ousting of President Mohamed Mursi"
2013-07-12,A young woman stoned to death for having a cell phone after ruling by a Panchayat
2013-07-12,The wheels are coming off the whole of southern Europe
2013-07-12,"Thousands of workers across Brazil walked off their jobs in a peaceful nationwide strike demanding better working conditions: ""We're here to demand that Dilma follows through on her promises"""
2013-07-11,Russia Says It Will Arrest Openly Gay Tourists
2013-07-11,"US allies Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Chile have joined other Latin American nations in demanding answers from Washington over spying allegations."
2013-07-11,Diplomats cry foul as Obama donors take over top embassy jobs
2013-07-11,Snowden: I never gave any information to Chinese or Russian governments
2013-07-11,"Londons police spend over $16,000 per day to stake out Julian Assange"
2013-07-11,World Service Authority has issued a world citizen passport for Edward Snowden
2013-07-11,Saudi princess arrested in California human trafficking investigation
2013-07-11,"Pope Francis overhauled the laws that govern the Vatican City State, criminalizing leaks of Vatican information and specifically listing sexual violence, prostitution and possession of child pornography as crimes against children that can be punished by up to 12 years in prison"
2013-07-11,"Putin sends a signal: Russian lawyer who exposed police corruption and was beaten to death by the police he accused, is convicted of tax fraud by Russia after his death."
2013-07-11,Kremlin turns back to typewriters to avoid security leaks
2013-07-11,Police investigate 'United Stasi of America' artist
2013-07-11,We aired lies: Al Jazeera staff quit over misleading Egypt coverage
2013-07-11,Horrifying accounts of a massacre of Muslim students by Buddhists in Myanmar.
2013-07-11,"Laser show on the US embassy in Berlin: ""United Stasi of America"""
2013-07-11,Mexican president says possible U.S. spying 'totally unacceptable'
2013-07-11,Sales of adult diapers surpass baby diapers in aging Japan
2013-07-11,"Parched Jordan to Start Pumping from 300,000-Yr-Old Aquifer - Problem is, 2008 study by Duke University shows the water has 20 times more radiation than is safe, with radium content that could trigger cancers. But the govt has brushed aside those concerns."
2013-07-11,"Julian Assange stakeout at Ecuadorean embassy costs Met police 3.8m (so far); MP cites misallocation as ""ridiculous"" waste of time & resources"
2013-07-11,Man aged 23 dies after Manchester police shoot him with Taser
2013-07-11,"India is 'ready to use' Blackberry message intercept system ""Blackberry is ready to provide the Indian authorities with a way to intercept consumers' messages sent and received on its platform."""
2013-07-11,"Chinese police say employees of drug maker GlaxoSmithKline bribed doctors, hospitals"
2013-07-11,BMW said China will surpass the U.S. this year as its No. 1 market
2013-07-11,"Infighting threatens Egypt transition plan, army orders arrests"
2013-07-11,Anonymous hactivists reveal files of corrupt governing party in Spain
2013-07-11,"France to stop the ""Three-strikes"" law."
2013-07-10,The Pirate Bay founder is raising money for spy-proof messaging app
2013-07-10,Expert calls for marijuana to be legalised to reduce harm of binge drinking in teens
2013-07-10,Congress derails Obama plans to arm Syrian rebels
2013-07-10,"In a landmark judgement, Indian Supreme Court has said people convicted of crime cannot hold parliamentary positions"
2013-07-10,Spain Admits U.S. Behind Rumor Snowden Was Aboard Bolivian Jet
2013-07-10,Photographer films his own death by sniper in Egypt. (GRAPHIC.)
2013-07-10,"Japan officials mistakenly reveal internal memos - They used the wrong privacy settings for Google Groups online discussions, allowing anyone to see internal memos, including over 6,000 cases of info from public or private organizations, among them, hospital records."
2013-07-10,"The reality is that the engine of corruption is driven by our international banking system, the problem of anonymous shell companies, and the secrecy we afford to big oil, gas and mining operations. - Chairman Gooch"
2013-07-10,"Over 37 Million Dead Bees Killed In Ontario Due To Suspected Neonicotinoid Pesticides, Which Are Banned In The EU"
2013-07-10,"Nudists in France demand change in law, saying they are being criminalized and treated as sex offenders just for taking clothes off"
2013-07-10,"Mission creep: Australian local council intercepted phone, email data to hunt litterbugs"
2013-07-10,"Activist films evidence of horrendous animal conditions at alberta zoo, owner calls activist domestic terrorist"
2013-07-10,"Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood Gunmen Open Fire On Church, Third Attack On Christians In 24 Hours"
2013-07-10,Saudi Arabia approves $5 billion aid package to Egypt
2013-07-10,Finnish minister of interior encourages people to obey the Bible instead of the law
2013-07-10,Egypt issues arrest warrant for Muslim Brotherhood leader on charges of inciting violence in Cairo when 51 died.
2013-07-10,Parts installed upside down caused Russian rocket to explode last week
2013-07-10,Unapproved GM rice found in US exports to over 30 countries
2013-07-10,"Gay youth club shooter, who killed 2 and injured 11 in Tel Aviv Israel, said he did it ""because of the biblical edict to attack homosexuals"""
2013-07-10,Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists
2013-07-10,"In the Philippines, masturbation is murder."
2013-07-10,"Australian [Vic] local council accessed phone, email metadata to hunt litterbugs & unregistered pet owners"
2013-07-10,"Canadian authorities have found evidence that a train that crashed in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, was tampered with."
2013-07-10,BBC News - Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie arrest ordered
2013-07-10,"Chile: 11-year-old pregnant rape victim banned from getting abortion, even though doctors say that the pregnant girl's health is in danger. The Catholic countrys conservative government has opposed lifting the ban on abortion numerous times in the past."
2013-07-09,Hero Fukushima ex-manager who foiled nuclear disaster dies of cancer: It was Yoshidas own decision to disobey HQ orders to stop using seawater to cool the reactors. Instead he continued to do so and saved the active zones from overheating and exploding
2013-07-09,Majority of people worldwide believe corruption has worsened - governments less effective at curbing it since 2008 financial collapse
2013-07-09,New Edward Snowden video interview released
2013-07-09,Ireland's High Court refuses to grant arrest warrant for Snowden - The Irish Times
2013-07-09,How The Guardian Broke the Snowden Story ... and what it says about the British media company's emerging threat to The New York Times.
2013-07-09,"Snowden chooses Venezuela for asylum, agrees to Maduro offer  Russian MP"
2013-07-09,"Warren Buffett just donated 22,870,529 shares of Berkshire Hathaway stock to five charities. The gift is worth $2.6 billion."
2013-07-09,Fukushima groundwater now 90x more radioactive than Friday
2013-07-09,"Gay tourists could face jail following new anti-gay law in Russia. LGBT people in Russia are scared, they live in fear"""
2013-07-09,"""Australian director of the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, says marijuana should be legalised under strict controls because the social harm associated with it was significantly less than from drinking."""
2013-07-09,"Ruling party in Turkey stops own bill, thinking it was proposed by the opposition"
2013-07-09,"The European Union has brokered a legally-binding deal to improve worker rights and safety standards in Bangladesh, but some US companies, including Wal-Mart and Gap, have opted out, on the grounds that the deal gives too much power to local unions."
2013-07-09,Brazilian Politicians Want To Offer Snowden Asylum After Learning Of US Spying On Brazilians
2013-07-09,Tibetan monks celebrating Dalai Lama birthday shot at by Chinese police
2013-07-09,Osama bin Laden was stopped for speeding in car while on run in Pakistan report reveals
2013-07-09,"Christian healer, who groped three women patients at British home, is jailed -- He tried to convince jurors that victims were experiencing ""phantom hands."" The judge the explanation was a ""significant lie"" and jailed him for two years."
2013-07-09,"Three Strikes and Youre Still In  France Kills Piracy Disconnections -- ""France has backtracked on the law that allowed users to be disconnected from the Internet. Today a decree was published which removed the possibility for file-sharers to have their connections cut for copyright infringement"""
2013-07-09,Brazil Opens Investigation into US Spying
2013-07-09,22 Staffers Resign At Al-Jazeera Over Claims Of Biased Coverage In Egypt
2013-07-09,"Toronto battered by storm, flooding; 300,000 residents in the dark"
2013-07-09,Second 'Prisoner X' held in top secret in Israel
2013-07-09,Venezuela receives formal asylum request from Snowden
2013-07-09,A Spanish newspaper has published what it alleges are documents showing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and other top politicians received illicit payments.
2013-07-09,Revealed: NSA Put Latin American Countries in Cyber-Spying Crosshairs
2013-07-09,Pollution in northern China has led to drop of 5 years in lifespan.
2013-07-08,"Mexico: Teenager stabbed to death for recording vote-buying with his cellphone. He was attacked by PRI militants, the current party in power."
2013-07-08,Pope Francis: It hurts my heart when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model of car
2013-07-08,"U.S. To Latin American Countries Offering Asylum To Snowden: ""We Won't Put Up With This Kind Of Behavior"""
2013-07-08,"President of Zimbabwe tells gay couples to have a baby or they face jail ""I should like to shut them up in some room and see if they get pregnant. If they dont then its jail because they have claimed they can have children. So, to that kind of rot, we say no!"
2013-07-08,Canada's new chief scientist proclaims: Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value.
2013-07-08,Billionaire Gives His $3 Million Bonus To Workers
2013-07-08,"Mos Def force fed under standard ""Gitmo"" procedure to demonstrate the treatment of the hunger strikers."
2013-07-08,Snowden Reveals How GCHQ in Britain Soaks Up Mass Internet Data
2013-07-08,A 16-year-old boy was arrested at a Pink concert in Australia after he tweeted a reference to the singer's Timebomb song
2013-07-08,"Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic to win Wimbledon men's final, becomes first British man to win since 1936."
2013-07-08,"Bolivia joins the party, also grants asylum for Edward Snowden"
2013-07-08,"Ban Ki Moon goes to a private meeting with Icelandic officials and condemns Snowden. Pirate Party's Birgitta Jnsdttir's response - ""Ban Ki Moon sucks"""
2013-07-08,Pentagon Papers leaker: Snowden was right to run
2013-07-08,Video captures camouflaged military sniper firing into a crowded demonstration in Cairo
2013-07-08,"Cuba's Raul Castro criticizes U.S., backs allies on Snowden"
2013-07-08,"Donald Trump fails to deliver on Scottish golf resort jobs pledge. By his own admission, Mr Trump has created no more than 200 of his promised 6,000 jobs"
2013-07-08,"Canadians continue to trade fundamental freedoms away to the Harper Government for ""security"""
2013-07-08,Al-Jazeera kicked out of Egypt news conference
2013-07-08,US escalates threats against governments considering asylum for Snowden
2013-07-08,Egypt after Mursi - Suddenly there is electricity and petrol again which raises questions and nourishes rumors
2013-07-08,"UN report says Mexicans are the heaviest on the planet, outweighing Americans even as they battle hunger and malnutrition."
2013-07-08,11-Year-Old Chilean Rape Victims Health Is In Danger Because She Cant Get An Abortion
2013-07-08,At least 50 drinkers in bar feared dead after runaway train devastates Canadian town
2013-07-08,"Russian plane to conduct observation flights over US, Canada"
2013-07-08,A new form of protest is emerging in Turkey - people's forums. A loosely organised group with no political or religious affiliation is keeping the government to account.
2013-07-07,Asiana Airlines Boeing 777 has crashed at the San Francisco International Airport
2013-07-07,US attempts to block Edward Snowden are 'bolstering' case for asylum
2013-07-07,U.S. spied on millions of e-mails and calls of Brazilians Latest Snowden Leak Reveals!
2013-07-07,Sweden vetoes EU investigation against US Spying
2013-07-07,Indian Temple Where Buddha Reached Enlightenment Hit by Bomb Blasts
2013-07-07,Everybody in Guantanamo has been tortured or abused - former detainee
2013-07-07,Muslim Brotherhood recruited Syrians and Palestinians to shoot at anti-Morsi protestors
2013-07-07,Massacre in Myanmar ignored by almost everyone.
2013-07-07,"NSW Beaches Flooded with Millions of Liters of Waste Water in Past 2 Yrs - Water treatment plants put on ""bypass"" about 600 times in 24 months, posing a health risk to swimmers & surfers. ""The community has a right to know when they are swimming in waste water."""
2013-07-07,Snowden Accuses Germany of Aiding NSA in Spying Efforts
2013-07-07,Antarctic Lake Vostok buried under two miles of ice found to teem with life
2013-07-07,The 'Edward Snowden Aviation Club' and other ways to beat US persecution: Some countries have offered asylum but he will need transport. How about concerned citizens raising money for a private plane?
2013-07-07,Rupert Mudoch's Ex-wife Exposed as Senior Chinese Spy!
2013-07-07,Russia's Putin says Egypt moving towards civil war
2013-07-07,Video shows anti-Mursi protesters thrown off building in Alexandria by Islamist supporters of ousted president Mohammad Mursi
2013-07-07,Glen Greenwald: Edward Snowden confirmed to me today that the statement released by wikileaks was written exclusively by Snowden
2013-07-07,All internet traffic routed through the UK is kept accessible for GCHQ in a buffer for three days
2013-07-07,Venezuela says no contact with Snowden since asylum offer
2013-07-07,Sweden and UK block US Europe spy talks
2013-07-07,Egyptian gas pipeline to Jordan blown up; five Egyptian security officers killed at checkpoints
2013-07-07,"Toxic Radiation ""in Groundwater"" at Fukushima - Tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen used in glow-in-the-dark watches, is present at levels 10 times permitted rate. In June, highly toxic strontium-90 were found at levels 30 times the permitted rate."
2013-07-07,Russian Official Says Venezuela Is the Best Solution for Snowden (New York Times)
2013-07-07,Israel Passes Military Draft Bill
2013-07-07,BBC News - ElBaradei to become Egyptian PM
2013-07-07,Turkish police intervene as protesters attempted to peacefully reenter Gezi Park
2013-07-06,"29 boarding school students burned alive, shot dead by Islamist militants in Nigeria"
2013-07-06,Venezuela announces they WILL give Edward Snowden political asylum!
2013-07-06,'Not Your Colony': Bolivia Threatens Shutdown of US Embassy: South American leaders flank the Bolivian President as he rails against US air piracy in manhunt for Snowden
2013-07-06,"Huge explosion in Lac-Megantic, Quebec. The city literally on fire."
2013-07-06,Mexican police chief in the state of Jalisco killed with rifle lost in ATF gun-tracking program
2013-07-06,"European intelligence agencies carry out massive Internet spying; ""this French Big Brother works in secret. It defies all control."
2013-07-06,Libya aiming to make rape in armed conflict a war crime
2013-07-06,Murdoch Under New Pressure After Secret Bribes Tape Released
2013-07-06,"European businesses are likely to abandon the services of American internet providers because of the National Security Agency surveillance scandal, the European commission has warned."
2013-07-06,US Ambassador to Austria Reportedly Responsible for False Claim Snowden Was on Bolivian Leaders Plane
2013-07-06,"""Human breast milk is the latest delicacy amongst China's wealthy, with a growing number of companies offering wet nurses for adults. Xinxinyu, a domestic staff agency in Shenzhen . . . allows adult clients to drink directly through breastfeeding or via a breast pump 'if they feel embarrassed'."""
2013-07-06,"'The real threat to our future is peak water' As population rises, overpumping means some nations have reached peak water, which threatens food supply"
2013-07-06,"Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offers US fugitive Edward Snowden asylum, following similar offer from Nicaragua"
2013-07-06,BBC reporter Jeremy Bowen shot in Egypt as demonstrations end in bloodshed
2013-07-06,Costa Rica accidentally legalizes gay marriage
2013-07-06,"Edward Snowden Asylum To Be Offered By Venezuela, President Nicols Maduro Says"
2013-07-06,"Abortion debate flares in Chile over case of raped 11-year old. 'Doctors say her life and that of the fetus are at high risk, but abortion is banned in Chile'"
2013-07-06,"Egypt unrest: Morsi marchers die as they are fired upon by the army, Muslim Brotherhood vows to protest until he is reinstated"
2013-07-06,"Israel debates price-tag attacks on Muslims, where for each illegal settlement post removed or settlement attacked on the West Bank, Muslim family's within Israel proper face an attack."
2013-07-06,"Bugged by US spying, EU may sever ties with American internet providers"
2013-07-06,Nicaragua: Willing to Grant Asylum to Snowden
2013-07-06,Muslim Brotherhood site says Egypts new president is secretly Jewish
2013-07-06,Venezuela offers asylum to U.S. intelligence leaker Snowden
2013-07-06,Reports: Nicaragua willing to grant Snowden asylum
2013-07-06,Venezuela Leader Claims CIA Behind Morales Plane Incident
2013-07-05,Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan were told by their superiors to ignore incidents where Afghan soldiers and interpreters sexually assaulted young boys.
2013-07-05,"Bolivian President Evo Morales says he won't hesitate to close the U.S. embassy: ""European countries need to liberate themselves from the imperialism of the Americans."""
2013-07-05,US President Barack Obama has been urged to appear in front of the European Parliament to explain the allegations that US authorities spied on EU embassies.
2013-07-05,"Tech firms including Microsoft are said to voluntarily give advanced warning to the US government of vulnerabilities in software products sold to governments overseas before they are patched, allowing US agencies to effectively use them to conduct foreign surveillance."
2013-07-05,Iranian swimmer Elham Asghari swam 20km in full Islamic dress. But her record-breaking nine-hour feat has not been recognised by national authorities because she is a woman.
2013-07-05,"If you think that government and the financial industry are a bit too friendly in the U.S., try England. London's version of Wall Street is called the City. And in the City, the line between government and corporate interests gets even blurrier. Critics say it's time for change."
2013-07-05,CIA whistleblower to Snowden: Do not cooperate with the FBI
2013-07-05,Egypt army opens fire on pro-Morsi protesters - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2013-07-05,Icelandic parliament refuses to grant Snowden citizenship.
2013-07-05,Egypt: 80 sexual assaults in one day  the other story of Tahrir Square
2013-07-05,"South American leaders demand apology in plane row - The presidents of Argentina, Ecuador, Suriname, Venezuela and Uruguay joined Morales in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba late Thursday to address the diplomatic row. Morales warned that he would close the U.S. Embassy in Bolivia if necessary."
2013-07-05,"France rejects Snowden's application for citizenship. ""If Snowden enters France, the police would be compelled to arrest and extradite him"""
2013-07-05,Spain Claims It Was 'Told' Snowden Was On Morales' Flight
2013-07-05,"Rupert Murdoch upset that he's been paying off the press for years, and all of a sudden people are having a problem with it"
2013-07-05,"For US, Assistance Given to Snowden Is No Trifling Matter: US sends strong message that whoever takes in the NSA whistleblower 'will face serious repercussions'"
2013-07-05,Muslim Brotherhood accuses Egypt's new president of being secretly Jewish
2013-07-05,Forcing down Evo Morales's plane was an act of air piracy
2013-07-05,Bolivian President threatens to shut down U.S. embassy following the forced stop of presidential plane in Austria.: We dont need US Embassy in Bolivia
2013-07-05,"Early in Obama's first term, some 78 percent of Germans saw the US as ""a country that could be trusted."" This week, though, following revelations of large-scale US spying in Europe and vast Internet surveillance, that trust has taken a hit."
2013-07-05,"EU votes to support suspending U.S. data sharing agreements, including passenger flight data"
2013-07-05,Russia criticises European states for 'unfriendly' diversion of Bolivian president Morales' plane
2013-07-05,India passes worlds largest Food Security bill
2013-07-05,US sends Irish Government arrest warrant for Snowden - Move a pre-emptive strike to stop fugitive intelligence analyst landing at Shannon on way to Cuba
2013-07-05,Only six members of Icelandic Parliament are in favor of granting Edward Snowden citizenship.
2013-07-05,China and Russia start largest-ever joint military drills
2013-07-04,Morsi Overthrown
2013-07-04,No jail time for Olympus bosses who committed $1.7 billion accounting fraud
2013-07-04,Icelandic parliament has a bill that would give Snoweden Icelandic citizenship
2013-07-04,"...""Beyond its criminality, lying to Congress destroys the pretense of oversight. Obviously, members of Congress cannot exercise any actual oversight over programs which are being concealed by deceitful national security officials"""
2013-07-04,EU Parliament votes to launch in-depth inquiry into US surveillance programmes with huge majority
2013-07-04,When states monitored their citizens we used to call them authoritarian. Now we think this is what keeps us safe?
2013-07-04,Snowden latest: Protesters burn French flags and attack French embassy in La Paz after France bans president's plane from air space
2013-07-04,"German Social Democrat chairman Sigmar Gabriel: ""The first step has to be that public prosecutors travel to Moscow to depose Mr. Snowden as a witness. If they come away with the impression that he is a reliable witness, then admitting him to the witness protection program must be considered."""
2013-07-04,"Human Cost of US Drone Strikes in Yemen - Interviews with witnesses to casualties. They were mothers, fathers, children & grandparents  & they stand in contrast to claims US does not launch missiles into Yemen unless there's a ""near-certainty no civilians will be killed or injured""."
2013-07-04,"The Rupert Murdoch tape. ""Incompetent"" cops, regrets over his own investigation, promises to protect Sun journalists: a secret recording reveals Rupert Murdoch's real attitudes to the scandal that has engulfed his empire."
2013-07-04,"France's external intelligence agency spies on the French public's phone calls, emails and social media activity in France and abroad says the daily Le Monde said on Thursday"
2013-07-04,It's happened. Military just took over the streets of cairo!
2013-07-04,Catholic establishment up in arms as Pope Francis shakes up the church
2013-07-04,"Helmand's top female police officer shot dead: The most senior female police office in Afghanistans Helmand province, and a symbol of improving womens rights in the face of Taliban hostility, has been shot dead."
2013-07-04,Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers
2013-07-04,"'Full military coup' underway in Egypt, tanks & APCs seen on streets. Security forces have placed a travel ban on President Morsi and a number of top Muslim Brotherhood officials"
2013-07-04,International gangsterism in Snowden manhunt
2013-07-04,Snowden case: France apologises in Bolivia plane row
2013-07-04,US refuses to comment on Morales plane but admits contact with other nations over potential Snowden flights
2013-07-04,"German official: Drop U.S. sites if you fear spying - Internet users worried about their personal information being intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies should stop using websites that send data to the United States, Germanys top security official said Wednesday."
2013-07-04,"A British investigative web site, has just published the full transcript of a secretly recorded meeting between media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the staff of The Sun"
2013-07-04,WikiLeaks says MasterCard lifts 'financial blockade': WikiLeaks announced in a press release Wednesday that MasterCard International has reversed its decision to not process payments for WikiLeaks and that customers can once again contribute to the sites operation
2013-07-04,Iran commemorates victims of US attack on passenger plane
2013-07-04,Snowden Applies for Asylum in Iceland
2013-07-04,Man dies from new coronavirus in UK
2013-07-03,Bolivia furious its president's plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Austria because of rumour US fugitive Edward Snowden was on board.
2013-07-03,Act of aggression: Bolivia to file UN complaint over airspace blockade
2013-07-03,German government refuses asylum for Snowden
2013-07-03,US spying row: France wants suspension of trade talks between EU and US over spying claims
2013-07-03,Egypt's army threatens to march with protesters and take over government if demands aren't met by tomorrow.
2013-07-03,Iran's incoming president says Facebook should be unblocked and the Islamic dress code should be softened
2013-07-03,"Canadian Lotto Winner Leaves $10,000 Tip for Diner Owner With Sick Daughter - just had burger and fries"
2013-07-03,"Hidden microphone found at Ecuador's embassy in UK, says foreign minister - Microphone was found last month inside office of Ecuadorean ambassador, in building where Julian Assange resides"
2013-07-03,"For more than two and a half weeks now, Bulgarians have been taking to the streets daily. Is the world watching?"
2013-07-03,Police State Canada: Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) Runs Massive Domestic Spying Program
2013-07-03,"Live coverage: Crisis in Egypt. Latest: Muslim Brotherhood refused to meet army commanders. ""Everyone in Egypt holding their breath these 2 hrs when deadline for pres Morsi ends -- Army in meetings, both sides ready for the streets"""
2013-07-03,Julian Assange calls on Europe to 'welcome' fugitive Edward Snowden
2013-07-03,Ecuador says it found a hidden microphone at its London embassy - Reuters
2013-07-03,Turkish court scraps plan to redevelop Taksim Square
2013-07-03,Norway will reconsider asylum for Snowden
2013-07-03,"Spain has opened its airspace to Bolivian president Evo Morales' plane, after it was diverted to Austria amid suspicions Edward Snowden was on board"
2013-07-03,Bug found at Ecuador's embassy in London
2013-07-03,"Missing man, 43, is rescued after being forced to work as a slave for 13 years in Wales"
2013-07-03,Snowden case: France denies blocking Bolivia plane - Two officials with the French Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that Morales' plane had authorization to fly over France. They would not comment on why Bolivian officials said otherwise.
2013-07-03,Bug is found in Ecuador Embassy in London
2013-07-03,"Edward Snowden's digital 'misuse' has created problems, says Ban Ki-moon"
2013-07-03,"Judge OKs deal for HSBC bank to pay $1.9 billion penalty for helping Mexican drug traffickers, Iran, Libya and others"
2013-07-03,Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Be Force-Fed at Night Out of Respect for Ramadan
2013-07-03,Indian movie banned in Pakistan because it shows a Muslim girl falling in love with a Hindu boy
2013-07-03,"Another lie from James Clapper. He says he ""forgot about the Patriot Act""."
2013-07-02,Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow
2013-07-02,Angry residents in a town in southern Ukraine stormed the local police headquarters after authorities refused to detain one of two police officers implicated in the brutal gang-rape of a young woman
2013-07-02,A teenage actress in Pakistan is in a critical condition after a television producer threw acid in her face when she turned down his marriage proposal.
2013-07-02,"Snowden needs ""world's protection"""
2013-07-02,"Part of 5,000-yr-old pyramid, 1 of oldest in the Americas, destroyed by private construction companies that want the state landThis isnt the 1st time they've tried to take this land. They say they're the owners, though this land is untouchable. An irreparable loss to Peru."
2013-07-02,"Not a single climate change denial book is published by a University Press. 90% are not peer reviewed. 72% have a verifiable link to a conservative think tank, the rest are self-published."
2013-07-02,"""If [Snowden] wants to stay here, there is one condition: He must stop his work aimed at harming our American partners, as strange as that sounds coming from my lips,"" - Putin"
2013-07-02,"Sex workers, immigrants, and trans-gender being rounded up and imprisoned in camps across Greece"
2013-07-02,"Major banks still involved in money laundering, says top regulator"
2013-07-02,Edward Snowden has abandoned his request for political asylum in Russia after Moscow told him he would have to stop leaking US intelligence reports
2013-07-02,"Author of EU anti-ecig bill, who was forced to resign after soliciting bribes from big tobacco companies, caught moving millions of dollars to Bahamas."
2013-07-02,"One-Third Of Britons Are Too Poor To 'Join In With Society': Many On Lowest Incomes Cannot Buy Consumer Goods, Visit The Cinema Or Go On Holiday"
2013-07-02,"China has a new rule that children must visit their parents over age 60 ""frequently"" and make sure their financial and spiritual needs are met."
2013-07-02,Swedish Women Drop Burkas and Enter Stockholm Mosque Bare-Breasted; Pandemonium Ensues
2013-07-02,Edward Snowden asylum: countries approached and their responses
2013-07-02,"The European Union has ordered a worldwide security sweep of all its premises following reports US intelligence has bugged its offices in Washington, Brussels and the United Nations."
2013-07-02,Vatican scandal: The Vatican bank director and his deputy resigned Monday afternoon amid a growing financial scandal that has already landed a Vatican monsignor in prison
2013-07-02,'Muslims praying in our streets is like the Nazi occupation': Leader of France's far right now faces prosecution over these words.
2013-07-02,"Dead Fish Fill Mexico Reservoir - Tens of 1,000s washed up on banks, amid allegations a firm dumped 100s of liters of molasses into canal. ""The sustenance of everybody was damaged,"" said the mayor. ""What will they live off? This is a tragedy."""
2013-07-02,Copy of Snowden asylum request sent to Polish authorities.
2013-07-02,Ecuador's President Rafael Correa: We helped Snowden by mistake
2013-07-02,"Emails From A Dead Man: emails between Iraqi who worked with US forces and US Immigration Office beseeching help for family to escape Iraq after death threats starting July 2011. After constant bureaucratic vaccilation and incompetence, he and his brother are now dead, and his family still in Iraq."
2013-07-02,Report: 'Argentina sold Israel yellowcake uranium in 1960s' to make nuclear bombs
2013-07-02,Authorities in Mexico City say they've rescued 46 women in a human trafficking bust
2013-07-02,China to join Russia for largest ever joint naval drills with foreign partner
2013-07-01,Germany ready to charge UK and US intelligence over alleged bugging operations - Europe - World
2013-07-01,"In 2009, a German politician sued to have 6 months of his stored metadata released by his cell phone company, this is what it looks like."
2013-07-01,French president demands any US spying cease now
2013-07-01,"Germany to ""charge"" UK and USA with spying."
2013-07-01,"Army estimates 'millions' of protesters on Egypt streets: ""It is the biggest protest in Egypt's history,"" the source told AFP"
2013-07-01,Muslim Brotherhood Headquarters Destroyed In Egyptian Protest
2013-07-01,"Edward Snowden asking 15 countries for asylum, Russian official says"
2013-07-01,Dutch Rabobank refuses to fund US fracking and to provide any money at all to US farmers who lend their land to it
2013-07-01,Afghan soldier defuses suicide vest with terrorist still wearing it
2013-07-01,Putin tells Snowden to stop leaking
2013-07-01,Iranian Female Swimmers Time Goes Unrecorded Because Government Say Her Bathing Suit Was Too Revealing
2013-07-01,"India's Seed Savior Goes Against the Corporate Grain  Debal Deb, a scientist building a seed bank, is helping save 920 varieties of indigenous rice using traditional methods. Working with locals, he hopes to make farmers independent of big corporations & GM crops, opening access to local seeds."
2013-07-01,EU threatens U.S. with dropping trade (translation)
2013-07-01,Revelations that the US has spied extensively on the EU and European countries have infuriated leaders in Brussels and Berlin -- and could endanger the trans-Atlantic free-trade agreement. Important American voices are demanding that Obama come clean.
2013-07-01,French president told to grant asylum to Edward Snowden for revealing illegal US surveillance of Europen governments.
2013-07-01,Thousands of Egyptians gather in Tahrir square to protest against the Morsi regime
2013-07-01,Germany summons US ambassador over 'Cold War' spying leaks
2013-07-01,"The Oxford grooming ring was promoted by imams who encourage followers to think white women deserve to be punished, an Islamic leader has claimed."
2013-07-01,Hundreds of thousands protest for democracy in Hong Kong
2013-07-01,Russian politician says it would be 'morally impermissible' to hand Edward Snowden to US
2013-07-01,"Donald Trump, on trying to build another golf course in Scotland: ""Wind farms are a disaster for the environment"""
2013-07-01,"Shotguns, petrol bombs and rocks as protesters try to storm Muslim Brotherhood HQ in Cairo"
2013-07-01,"Japan spends millions in order to be 'Cool'. Japans Upper House gave final approval to a $500 million, 20-year fund to promote Japanese culture overseas, called Cool Japan"
2013-07-01,"US Secretary of State John Kerry has responded to allegations that the US bugged the offices of its allies, saying its activities were ""not unusual"" in international relations."
2013-07-01,France is top industrial espionage offender according to WikiLeaks cable
2013-06-30,"The United States taps half a billion phone calls, emails and text messages in Germany in a typical month and has classed its biggest European ally as a target similar to China.."
2013-06-30,"U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks"
2013-06-30,"European officials reacted with fury Sunday after a report that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on EU offices. The European Union warned that if the report is accurate, it will have tremendous repercussions."
2013-06-30,"How Chevron Turned the Tables in Ecuador - Faced with a $19b fine for polluting Ecuadors rainforest, Chevron has launched a non-stop attack, hauling them into court in New York, accusing them of fraud & extortion, going after Ecuadors judicial system as well. And it's working."
2013-06-30,A British teen on holiday in Turkey was stripped naked and knifed 17 times for kissing a local Turkish girl in a bar
2013-06-30,All participants in St Petersburg gay pride arrested for marching
2013-06-30,Shiites are now being lynched in Egypt
2013-06-30,Ecuador President: Snowden Can't Leave Moscow
2013-06-30,Revealed: secret European deals to hand over private data to America
2013-06-30,Irish Bankers Lied to get Bailout Leaked Tapes Show
2013-06-30,Croatia becomes 28th member of European Union
2013-06-30,"Victims of Notorious Magdalene Laundries to be Compensated - Irish govt to pay 58m euros ($75m) to 100s of women forced to work at Catholic Church's laundries - 10,000 women & girls were put through great hardship from 1922-1996. Nuns treated them like slaves."
2013-06-30,"European Union concerned over claim of US spying and head of the European Parliament has demanded ""full clarification"" from the US"
2013-06-30,A Pakistani Christian girl who was arrested for blasphemy last year and forced into hiding for fear of her life has moved to Canada
2013-06-30,Thousands gather in Istanbul's Taksim Square to demand justice for slain protester
2013-06-30,Saudi Arabian Women's Conference... With Not A Female In Sight
2013-06-30,"The day that the river turned black: More than 200 villagers have died from cancer in the past 10 years in a village near a heavily polluted river in China's eastern Anhui Province. The village, with a population of just 1,000, is one of a number of so-called ""cancer villages"" near the Huaihe River."
2013-06-30,UK's ancient forests could spread again thanks to plan to clone 'super-trees'
2013-06-30,Ecuador has asked the Kremlin for talks over the fate of fugitive US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden
2013-06-30,"At stroke of midnight, Croatia to join European Union: Croatia will become the 28th EU member on Monday, some 20 years after gaining independence in a bloody civil war"
2013-06-30,Egypt group: 22 million signatures against Morsi
2013-06-30,Global agribusiness giant Monsanto angers Australia farmers by increasing stake in local crop company
2013-06-30,"Recent leak exposes Ecuador's own surveillance state. In response, Ecuador files for copyright violation to get documents taken down."
2013-06-30,Woman who sits on death row for blasphemy is still at least two years away from an appeal date: PAKISTAN
2013-06-30,Impossible to stomach: Merkel slams Irish bankers who fudged bailout figures
2013-06-29,The Obama administration and members of Congress are pressing India to curb its generic and inexpensive drugs which are essential to providing life-saving treatments around the world.
2013-06-29,A wave of anger is sweeping the cities of the world. Politicians beware.
2013-06-29,Saudi Arabias Feared Islamic Police Raid Wedding After Groom Seen Holding Brides Hand
2013-06-29,US army blocks access to Guardian website to preserve 'network hygiene'
2013-06-29,"Peruvian peasants rally to stop a $5 billion American gold mine project, which they say would ruin the local lakes"
2013-06-29,"Moscow teens decapitate homeless man, then play soccer with his head"
2013-06-29,US student stabbed to death during Egypt protests was in the country teaching ...
2013-06-29,"U.N. Admits Drug War Is Floundering, But Is Regulating Recreational Drugs the Answer?"
2013-06-29,A highly contagious coronavirus with a 55 percent mortality rate is poised to move globally with an impending religious pilgrimage.
2013-06-29,German chancellor Angela Merkel has slammed the conduct of some Irish bankers who were caught on tape joking about an EU bailout. Merkel has called their attitudes an insult to all hard-working people.
2013-06-29,Tibetans Allowed to Openly Revere the Dalai Lama in Two Chinese Provinces
2013-06-29,"Canada in landmark move to strike out ""hate speech"" law"
2013-06-29,Mexico: Leader of Leftist Party Is Fatally Shot one week before Local Election
2013-06-29,UK may be the first country to allow three-parent babies in order to prevent inherited mitochondrial defects.
2013-06-29,"Bombs hit Iraq funeral and football stadium, killing 22"
2013-06-29,Hell to pay: Residents angry as RCMP seize guns from High River homes
2013-06-29,Syrian Christians face 'ethno-religious cleansing' -
2013-06-29,"Russia debates letting Snowden in; Government official says he ""deserves protection"" and should file asylum request"
2013-06-29,A Vatican cleric and two other people were arrested Friday by Italian police for allegedly trying to smuggle 20 million euros in cash into the country from Switzerland by private jet.
2013-06-29,"Half of Britains mosques have been attacked since 9/11: There remains a lack of political will to tackle Islamophobia, warns Government adviser"
2013-06-29,Iran's President-Elect: Nation Voted for Change
2013-06-29,Snowden asked to brief Russian parliament on US espionage
2013-06-29,Facebook denies sharing user information with Turkish govt
2013-06-29,1.2 Million Stolen on its way to US Federal Reserve.
2013-06-29,UK's top general in Afghanistan has said West should have talked to Taliban a decade ago after they had just been toppled from power.
2013-06-28,Vatican rent-a-boy prostituion ring revealed by priest
2013-06-28,"Japan's Whaling is Not Science, Expert Witness Tells World Court - The Japanese practice of catching & killing some 1,000 whales a yr can't be justified as science, the World Court was told in a case Australia has brought against Japan."
2013-06-28,"A mysterious Facebook character from Zimbabwe steals secrets from the ruling party every day and shames politicians for alleged corruption and brutality, often including their mobile-phone numbers with instructions to call and demand answers"
2013-06-28,"Ecuador's president to U.S.: Don't threaten us on Snowden case.""It is outrageous to try to delegitimize a state for receiving a petition of asylum""."
2013-06-28,The former second-highest ranking officer in the U.S. military is now the target of a Justice Department investigation into an alleged leak of classified information about a Stuxnet attack on Irans nuclear program.
2013-06-28,France: Restaurants selling 'home-made' dishes must be prepared from raw ingredients
2013-06-28,Hundreds protest Obama visit to South Africa
2013-06-28,UK set to become the first country to allow the creation of babies using DNA from three people.
2013-06-28,Syrian Orthodox Bishop beheaded by Syrian Rebels - Intifada Palestine
2013-06-28,"Five phone hacking defendants, including Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, have lost a last ditch attempt to block their prosecution."
2013-06-28,Egyptians call for a 'second revolution'
2013-06-28,"The Most Hated Man on Chinas Internet Won't be Missed - Fang Binxing, creator of the Great Firewall of China, is all too familiar to Chinese internet users. So when Fang, head of Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunication, announced he's resigning, the reaction was brutal."
2013-06-28,China lifts 17-year ban on Dalai Lama photos at Tibet monastery
2013-06-28,Christiane Amanpour is sued by Turkish newspaper's managing editor for broadcasting the protests in Istanbul and harming Turkey's public image (need help for translating the article)
2013-06-28,"A group calling itself RedHack hacked into Istanbul Special Provincial Administration, deleting city debts and renaming a school. [translation]"
2013-06-28,Turkish PM's treason claims against BBC reporter chills other journalists. Turkish journalists see Recep Tayyip Erdoan's attack on presenter for BBC's Turkish service as a warning to them all
2013-06-28,German parliament approves tax equality for gay couples
2013-06-28,"German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against supplying arms to the militants in Syria, saying the risks of the move are too high"
2013-06-28,"Censorship: U.S. military blocks access to ""Guardian"" articles"
2013-06-28,"At least 22 people have been killed after a series of bombs exploded in busy coffee shops and other public spaces across Iraq. In north and south Baghdad on Thursday, two blasts tore through cafes where scores of young men had gathered to watch a televised football match."
2013-06-28,Kevin Rudd becomes first Australian prime minister to support gay marriage.
2013-06-28,Cambodian orphans donate to help Alberta flood victims
2013-06-28,"Turkish security forces fire on protest in southeast, one dead"
2013-06-28,Kim Jung Un wants his army to build A Tourist beach resort
2013-06-28,"French aid worker Pierre Borghi spent four months in shackles, imprisoned by the Taliban in a hole in the ground. But an opportunity to escape eventually came his way, thanks in part to the weight he had lost on the ""Taliban diet""."
2013-06-27,"Ecuador president blasts coverage of Snowden case: ""They've managed to focus attention on Snowden and on the 'wicked' countries that 'support' him, making us forget the terrible things against the U.S. people and the whole world that he denounced."""
2013-06-27,Equador Gets Sassy and Offers U.S. 23 Million In Human Rights Training.
2013-06-27,The CIA's Plan To Cut Down On Leaks Was Just Leaked.
2013-06-27,Ecuador waives U.S. trade rights over Snowden case
2013-06-27,"WikiLeaks Volunteer Was a Paid Informant for the FBI. Sigurdur ""Siggi"" Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange for $5,000."
2013-06-27,"""Happy endings"" ruled not illegal in southern China. Giving men masturbation in exchange for money will not be considered an act of prostitution, and those who provide these services will not face prosecution."
2013-06-27,Africa's Western Black Rhino is Now Officially Extinct
2013-06-27,Additional US data mining revealed by the guardian.
2013-06-27,"Obama: ""I'm Not Going to Be Scrambling Jets to Get a 29-Year-Old Hacker"""
2013-06-27,Ecuador waives US trade rights after threats made over Snowden case - Ecuador said on Thursday it was waiving preferential rights under a US trade agreement to demonstrate its principled approach to the asylum request of former American spy agency contractor and whistle-blower Edward Snowden.
2013-06-27,Edward Snowden given safepass to Ecuador
2013-06-27,The British inventor of the World Wide Web accused Western governments of hypocrisy in spying on the Internet while lecturing repressive leaders across the world for doing exactly the same
2013-06-27,The US got Snowden's middle name wrong in the extradition request it sent to Hong Kong
2013-06-27,"First Unlooted Royal Tomb of Its Kind Unearthed in Peru. Three queens were buried with golden treasures, human sacrifices."
2013-06-27,"Henry Kissinger: In the American press Syria is described as a conflict between democracy and a dictator. But thats not whats going on,"
2013-06-27,"Syria: Islamist Rebels Attack Christian Village, Kill Priest Trying To Defend Nuns Inside Convent"
2013-06-27,"Outrage over Syrian rebels assaulting catholic monastery, killing hermit"
2013-06-27,"Facebook ""Accepted"" but Twitter ""Rejected"" to help Turkish Government on Protests"
2013-06-27,US wont try to intercept Snowden flights - Obama
2013-06-27,"Botswana, the world's largest diamond producer, has started to auction its own diamonds for the first time instead of selling them in Europe."
2013-06-27,"""[During] the Cold War, practically every telephone call in both directions between East and West Germany was monitored by the secret services on both sides of the Berlin Wall. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, international monitoring operations were not halted, but rather extended."""
2013-06-27,US boss held captive by Chinese plant workers until he agrees to severance packages.
2013-06-27,George Orwell's birthday celebrated in style in Utrecht (Netherlands) [translated link]
2013-06-27,Japan's public broadcaster sued over use of English words. Elderly viewers confused by increasing trend to use anglicised terms instead of their Japanese equivalent
2013-06-27,Report: 36 killed after knife gang attacks China police station
2013-06-26,"Why U.S. Is Being Humiliated By The Hunt For Snowden: ""Extra-judicial assassination, drones, killer robots, extraordinary rendition, black ops, wet ops, psy-ops, silly ops... The world is a bit tired of all this American posturing, grandstanding, and self-serving banditry."""
2013-06-26,Netherlands closing prisons due to lack of prisoners
2013-06-26,Two girls and mother killed in northern Pakistan over a home video showing them enjoying the rain
2013-06-26,"Former Icelandic minister asked 8 or 9 FBI agents to leave country - Agents said they were there to stop hackers, were really investigating WikiLeaks."
2013-06-26,"Chris Hedges Defends Snowden's Heroism in the Face of a Growing Smear Campaign: ""If there are no Snowdens, if there are no Mannings, if there are no Assanges, there will be no free press."""
2013-06-26,"Snowden, in asylum letter, says fair trial unlikely: ""I believe that, given these circumstances, it is unlikely that I would receive a fair trial or proper treatment prior to that trial, and face the possibility of life in prison or even death."""
2013-06-26,Mainstream Corporate Media Is More Interested in Capturing Snowden Than Condemning the Abuses He Exposed
2013-06-26,Kevin Rudd trumps Julia Gillard in bid for Australian Labor Party ballot. 57 - 45.
2013-06-26,"(NYT) Snowden, Through the Eyes of a Spy Novelist: ""in the last week both he and his former employers have misplayed their hands... (He) did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies dont give their secrets to journalists for free."""
2013-06-26,Australia: Julia Gillard has been voted out of leadership by her party only 2 months before the election and replaced by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.
2013-06-26,Latin America is ready to defy the US over Snowden and other issues | Stephen Kinzer
2013-06-26,"The Terminal: Snowden stuck in Moscow airport, 'can't buy ticket' with invalid passport. ""Cancelling Snowden's passport and bullying intermediary countries may keep Snowden permanently in Russia, warns WikiLeaks"
2013-06-26,Snowdens (Encrypted) Files Are Out There if Anything Happens To Him
2013-06-26,"US demands Russia give up Snowden: Thanks, says Putin: Every time the US 'demands' something from another country without considering the other parties' interests and motivations, it weakens itself. Vladimir Putin has been pointing this out"
2013-06-26,Bitcoiners rally behind Snowden
2013-06-26,"""Though the U.S. revoked Snowden's passport, Assange revealed that Snowden was supplied with a refugee document when he left Hong Kong by the Ecuadorean government, allowing him to travel."""
2013-06-26,Gay student beaten to death by farmer who was convinced the young man was 'the devil'.
2013-06-26,Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard calls a leadership ballot for 7pm Wednesday to decide who will lead the country to the next election
2013-06-26,"Whistleblowers will continue to leak state secrets, warns AP chief"
2013-06-26,Ecuador tells U.S. to send its position on Snowden in writing
2013-06-26,Pope Francis sets up special commission of inquiry into the Vatican bank
2013-06-26,"Russia: ""Syria Will Be Armed With Weapons That Have Never Been Seen Before In the Middle East"""
2013-06-26,"More recordings of Irish bankers, One heard laughing as deposits come in from Germany as a result of a Bank Guarantee"
2013-06-26,Germany blasts Britain over GCHQ's secret cable trawl - Minister questions legality of mass tapping of calls and internet and demands to know extent to which Germans were targeted
2013-06-26,Australian Government changes Prime Minister to Kevin Rudd at a vote of 57 - 45
2013-06-25,Leaked e-mails reveal that Standard and Poors and Moodys accepted money for higher ratings before the financial crisis.
2013-06-25,"Amnesty International chimes in on Snowden case: ""USA must not hunt down whistleblower Edward Snowden"""
2013-06-25,Afghan Presidential Palace is Under Attack
2013-06-25,Putin Says Russia Won't Extradite Edward Snowden
2013-06-25,Putin confirms Edward Snowden is in Moscow airport transit zone
2013-06-25,"Overzealous data collectors in the US and Great Britain have no right to investigate German citizens. The German government must protect people from unauthorized access by foreign intelligence agencies, and it must act now. This is a matter of national security."
2013-06-25,The United States Wiretapped The Mail Of The European Parliament
2013-06-25,"Russia Rebukes U.S., Insisting Snowden Not Within Border. ""The Obama administration's inability, at least for now, to influence China, Russia and countries in Latin America that may accept Mr. Snowden for asylum, like Ecuador, brought home the limits of American power around the world."""
2013-06-25,Iceland has withdrawn its bid to join the European Union
2013-06-25,"An increasingly frustrated Obama administration escalated its criticism on Monday of Russia, China and Ecuador, the countries that appeared to be protecting Edward J. Snowden."
2013-06-25,Snowden never entered Russia admits Moscow
2013-06-25,"""Given the colossal scale of the technologies both in place and coming online soon, it is conceivable that the US government intends to intercept, store, catalog, and profile the activities of every single person with a cell phone or an Internet connection... about 4.5 billion people."""
2013-06-25,"[Dutch link] Dutch Internet TV program exposes Europe parliamentarians who check in to work, and leave 5 minutes later. This gets them 300 Euro's. When confronted they get angry and hit the camera."
2013-06-25,"Jon Stewart, on Egypt's version of the Daily Show, criticizes Morsi's persecution of political comedians: ""If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you dont have a regime. A joke has never ridden a motorcycle with a baton into a crowd, a joke has never fired tear gas into a park."""
2013-06-25,Edward Snowden leaves reporters chasing shadows around an airport
2013-06-25,"""On its side, the Obama Administration has the courts, the intelligence services, Congress, the diplomatic service, much of the media, and most of the American public. Snowdens got Greenwald, a woman from Wikileaks, and a dodgy travel document from Ecuador. Which side are you on?"""
2013-06-25,Zimbabwe MP who just published damning report on missing diamond funds dies in 'road accident'... after warning
2013-06-25,German police arrested a 57-year-old trucker accused of carrying out 762 shootings on European highways over the past five years
2013-06-25,"Policeman Who Shot And Killed an unarmed protester Ethem Sarslk In Turkey, was released From Jail today. Even though his murder was caught on video!"
2013-06-25,Michael Hastings Sent Email About FBI Probe Hours Before Death
2013-06-25,"Brazil's President Rousseff calls for constitutional vote to quell protests. ""The streets are telling us that the country wants quality public services, more effective measures to combat corruption ... and responsive political representation"""
2013-06-25,Istanbul's 2020 Olympic bid chief is backing Turkish protesters
2013-06-25,Trauma of spy's girlfriend: 'like being raped by the state'
2013-06-25,American CEO Being Held Hostage in China by his own Factory Workers
2013-06-25,BBC releases statement after the Mayor of Ankara threatened one of their reporters in social media
2013-06-24,Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to seven years in jail
2013-06-24,"Caught on tape: Ireland's financial ruin - Banking Execs talk about lying to regulator, and their ""playbook"" to take as much taxpayer money as possible."
2013-06-24,"Snowden exposes criminals, criminals are going for him now"
2013-06-24,British intelligence has monitored internet users much more heavily than the US....why that should alarm us
2013-06-24,"Protests in Bulgaria going on for about a week, being ignored by the international media."
2013-06-24,"We are abandoning Afghans who worked with U.S. troops to a certain death."" America's Afghan And Iraqi Interpreters Risk Lives But Wait Years In Danger For Visas"
2013-06-24,Uzbekistan Bans Meaningless Songs That Dont Praise The Motherland
2013-06-24,Swedens top anti-piracy company has admitted that using streaming movie sites to watch illicit content is not illegal and little can be done to stop it
2013-06-24,WikiLeaks' Assange says Snowden is healthy and safe
2013-06-24,Egyptian women rising up against sexual harassment. '99.3% of Egyptian women surveyed reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment. Men pay few penalties for grabbing and groping women in a violent manner'
2013-06-24,Edward Snowden fails to show up for Moscow to Havana flight  live
2013-06-24,Nelson Mandela's condition becomes critical
2013-06-24,Australian government shelves data retention plans. The Australian government has said that it will not progress plans for a mandatory data retention scheme.
2013-06-24,MI5 feared GCHQ went 'too far' over phone and internet monitoring
2013-06-24,Global Surveillance: The Public Must Fight for its Right to Privacy
2013-06-24,Moody's downgrades rating on nine Hong Kong banks.
2013-06-24,"Undercover UK police were sent to look for ""dirt"" on murder victim Stephen Lawrence's family"
2013-06-24,BBC News - Kerry warns of Snowden consequences for Russia and China
2013-06-24,Edward Snowden is due to fly out of Russia in the next few hours in a bid to seek asylum in Ecuador.
2013-06-24,Kim Dotcom case threatens New Zealand Government
2013-06-24,Europeans Will Now Know When And What Data Gets Compromised
2013-06-24,It's Becoming More Clear How Hard Hong Kong Just Slapped The US In The Face
2013-06-24,PM Erdogan defends riot police tactics in Turkey protests
2013-06-24,Four Egyptian Shiites Slaughtered by Ultra-Conservative Muslims in Egypt
2013-06-24,Islamic Militants Disguised as Policemen gun down 10 Foreigners and a Pakistani Guide in Mountain Camp
2013-06-23,"Assange: It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Prize, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice."
2013-06-23,GCHQ Taps: this is a pivotal moment: democracies are becoming national security states; what once looked like science fiction is now an everyday reality
2013-06-23,China slams US as worlds biggest villain for cyber espionage
2013-06-23,"Turkey's crowds return, armed only with flowers"
2013-06-23,Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin: Google informed 2 Icelandic activists that a US court order mandated a secret search in 2011
2013-06-23,Turkey - Police attacking people gathered to commemorate the victims of previous police violence.
2013-06-23,"China's Xinhua news agency condemns US 'cyber-attacks' ""They demonstrate that the United States, which has long been trying to play innocent as a victim of cyber-attacks, has turned out to be the biggest villain in our age,"" says Xinhua."
2013-06-23,A senior Australian rabbi who failed to stop sexual abuse of young boys at Sydney Jewish school claims the victims consented to sexual relations.
2013-06-23,The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is trying to block access to books for blind people in non-English speaking countries.
2013-06-23,"Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secretive trade agreement with 10 other nations, to let corporations directly challenge laws & regulations - ""It's about tying the hands of democratically elected govts & shunting authority over to the nonelected for the benefit of multinational corporations."""
2013-06-23,"Google 'mistakenly collects' private information from WiFi networks with Street View cars, and 'mistakenly' holds on to data for over a year after pledging to destroy it"
2013-06-23,"In an effort to break Guantanamo detainees' hunger strike, US authorities are using metal-tipped feeding tubes and making rooms freezing cold."
2013-06-23,"Maya City Discovered in Jungles of Mexico - Hidden for centuries, there are 3 monumental complexes, numerous pyramidal structures, ballgame courts, patios, plazas, monuments & residential areas. Some structures appear to have been reused at some point, something not found elsewhere."
2013-06-23,Jgermeister promotional party incident with liquid nitrogen ends with 9 people hospitalised and with one left in a coma.
2013-06-23,GCHQ monitoring described as a 'catastrophe' by German politicians - Federal ministers demand clarification from UK government on extent of spying conducted on German citizens
2013-06-23,America claims privacy invasion but British intercepted all Irish communications in early 1990s
2013-06-23,Chinese astronauts succeed in manual docking with space lab - World
2013-06-23,How angry is Brazil? They're getting pissed at Pel.
2013-06-23,Aston Martin Driver Allan Simonsen Killed In Le Mans Crash
2013-06-23,"250,000 Brazilians return to streets as protests focus on government corruption"
2013-06-23,"Russias SOPA Passed By Lawmakers, Site Blocking Begins In Weeks: Aggressive new anti-piracy legislation that allows for sites to be rapidly blocked by ISPs upon allegations of copyright infringement passed through its final two readings in Russias State Duma"
2013-06-23,"4,000-year-old Egyptian statue in UK museum moves on its own"
2013-06-23,"In the favelas on the frontline of protest, Brazilians ask: who is this World Cup for?"
2013-06-23,"PM Erdogan accuses anti-government protestors of insulting Islam, alleges international conspiracy at pro-AKP rally."
2013-06-23,"UK Report reveals that firms routinely hire criminals to steal rivals' information 'UK police knew 6 years ago that firms were hiring private investigators to break the law and further their commercial interests, yet the police did next to nothing to disrupt the unlawful trade'"
2013-06-22,"British spy agency has secret access to the world's Facebook posts, phone calls, emails and internet history"
2013-06-22,"World Bank Insider Blows Whistle on Corruption, Federal Reserve"
2013-06-22,"Putin: """"If the United States ... recognizes one of the key Syrian opposition organizations, al-Nusra, as terrorist ... how can one deliver arms to those opposition members?"""
2013-06-22,"Death of AIDS in sight - A trial of the only vaccine to offer partial protection from HIV, after 30 years of research, was started in South Africa this week."
2013-06-22,US files criminal complaint against Edward Snowden charging him with espionage.
2013-06-22,"Jon Stewart encourages Egyptian counterpart: If your regime is not strong enough to handle a joke, then you dont have a regime"
2013-06-22,"Increasingly brutal tactics are being used in an attempt to break the hunger strike by detainees at Guantnamo Bay, including making cells ""freezing cold"" and the use of ""metal tipped"" feeding tubes."
2013-06-22,Syria: 'I saw rebels execute my boy for no more than a joke
2013-06-22,'Worse than NSA': UK Spy Agency Amasses 'World's Communication': Documents reveal a five-year-old government surveillance system that dwarfs all others in its scale and capacity to collect metadata on the world's communications
2013-06-22,US 'to charge Edward Snowden with spying'
2013-06-22,UN report accuses Israel of child torture
2013-06-22,"""I am proud to be called a radical Buddhist"": In Burma, Buddhists are increasingly embracing extremism and calling for the deaths of Muslims"
2013-06-22,"Feel Free To Kill Protesters, said Brazilian Public Prosecutor"
2013-06-22,"Massive flooding in Southern Alberta. Estimated 100,000+ people evacuated from their homes, highways washed out, houses lost."
2013-06-22,CIA secretly providing training for Syrian rebels: report
2013-06-22,Snowden faces execution as sealed complaint charges espionage
2013-06-22,Christian women forced to parade naked in Pakistan
2013-06-22,"Majoritarianismthe credo of an expanding group of elected but autocratic rulers around the world, which holds that electoral might always makes you rightis not true democracy, even if, on the face of it, the two things look alike. It is worth explaining why."
2013-06-22,UN: Impossible to determine Syria chemical attack perpetrator even with US evidence
2013-06-22,Anonymous: We Have Stolen North Korean Military Documents
2013-06-22,"German Chancellor Angela Merkel told President Putin that German art seized by the Soviets in the wake of World War II should be repatriated, a claim the Russian leader swiftly rejected."
2013-06-22,"Brazilian President has spoken on national TV: 100% of oil royalties going to education, import of thousands of foreign doctors to improve the health care system, elaboration of national urban mobility plan."
2013-06-22,"WHO calls emergency meeting to respond to SARS-like outbreak, called MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) - incubation time 12 days, fatality rate 60%"
2013-06-22,"The World Cup may be transferred to the United States according to news agency. American Friends do not let that happen, it is your money that they're going to use - More information in the comments - Portuguese Link"
2013-06-22,"Suppressed report accuses respected industries, including telecoms giants and insurance companies, of hiring criminals to steal data"
2013-06-21,More than 300 thousand people protesting in Rio right now!
2013-06-21,"""Occupy Brazil"" happening simultaneously in over 100 cities, totalling a few million people on the streets right now"
2013-06-21,"""Japanese scientists are expecting to be granted approval to grow human organs in animals and then harvest them for transplant within the next year."""
2013-06-21,This could be the moment Brazilians decide theyve had enough of 500 years being exploited by the same people. Andy Martin reports on Sao Paulo
2013-06-21,The case of a 12-year-old girl who is pregnant after being raped for years by her father and others in a La Paz prison has sparked outrage in Bolivia over the practice of letting children live in jails.
2013-06-21,"The ""Around The World in 80 Jobs"" blogger has had his concept stolen and name trademarked by Adecco. (x-post from r/travel)"
2013-06-21,Anonymous to release secret North Korea military documents June 25
2013-06-21,The UK patent on Viagra runs out today making it cheaper than a cup of coffee... Happy Friday Chaps.
2013-06-21,15 million Egyptians have signed a petition calling for President Morsi's Resignation
2013-06-21,Istanbul is silent right now. Because tear gas killed its birds.
2013-06-21,"Israeli man shot in Jerusalem at the Wailing Wall for shouting ""Allah Ackbar"""
2013-06-21,"Brazillian newspaper on the mass protests in Brazil: Everything was going so well and suddenly we are replaying Tahrir Square, suddenly, with no warning, no crescendo."
2013-06-21,Egypt orders $2.5mln worth of teargas from US despite plunging economy
2013-06-21,Argentina caught a Chinese ship trying to steal 180 tonnes of its squid
2013-06-21,"Calgary (Alberta, Canada) flooding forces evacuations, 100,000 may be affected"
2013-06-21,Palm Oil Companies Most Likely Caused Record Fires in the Rainforests of Indonesia
2013-06-21,Chinas economy is freezing up
2013-06-21,"Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC gets the Standing Man treatment"
2013-06-21,"A very bad air day in Singapore this week, as seen by NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites."
2013-06-21,"McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer Bob Lambert - McDonald's sued green activists in long-running David v Goliath legal battle, but police role only now exposed"
2013-06-21,Palm-Oil Giants Dodge Responsibility for Toxic Smog Covering Singapore. Record-breaking hazardous smog forces millions indoors
2013-06-21,Chinese students protest against increased steps to stop cheating.
2013-06-21,"""Hope brought me to America"": A North Korean defector tells his inspiring story of surviving famine, escaping hell, and finding a new purpose"
2013-06-21,Syria: Children 'dying by the roadside' as refugees flee for the border
2013-06-21,"Over 1,000,000 people are protesting on the streets in dozens of Brazilian cities"
2013-06-20,"Canada bill that bans wearing masks during an unlawful assembly or riot carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence, scheduled to become law today"
2013-06-20,Australian state passes law allowing un-immunised children to be banned from childcare centres
2013-06-20,Pope Francis says that financial speculation and corruption were keeping millions of people in hunger and the financial crisis could not be used as an alibi for failing to help the poor
2013-06-20,AP: Sources have stopped talking - US seizure of journalist records called 'chilling'
2013-06-20,Pirate Bay cofounder sentenced to 2 years in prison for hacking
2013-06-20,Brazilian police join demonstrators
2013-06-20,"Almost half of boys and one in five girls in Jordan's capital city, Amman, believe that killing a woman who has ""dishonored,"" or shamed, her family is justifiable, a study of teenagers' attitudes reveals"
2013-06-20,"Singapore is currently covered in hazardous haze and smoke due to Indonesia burning its forests. Indonesian minister claims Singapore is ""behaving like a small child"" over the hazardous haze"
2013-06-20,"Pel, Brazils greatest footballer and one of the best players of all time, has shocked Brazilians by urging them to forget the protests sweeping the country and concentrate on cheering for the national team"
2013-06-20,China introduces execution for extreme environmental offenders
2013-06-20,Image of Gas Attack Against Lone Brazilian Woman Goes Viral: Shocking images of police violence draw much-needed attention to protests and larger issue of police brutality
2013-06-20,"Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: U.N."
2013-06-20,Drone 'Signature Strike' Witness Responds To Obama Speech: 'I Don't Trust A Single Word'
2013-06-20,Egypt's Coptic Christians say they are 'no longer safe' in Egypt
2013-06-20,Leaked doc shows USA has started an Internet War: Schneier
2013-06-20,Six teenage soccer players sentenced to just two years in prison for kicking a referee to death.
2013-06-20,The U.S. military is actively trying to destroy a lot of what it brought to Afghanistan
2013-06-20,"Pool party in Mexico, goes bad when party organizers pour liquid nitrogen in the pool. Party goers asphyxiated, not poisoned."
2013-06-20,"Shared symbols of a generation in revolt: Ordinary people, with no ideological axe to grind, have found the means to resist the ""sham nature"" of Democracy in countries around the world."
2013-06-20,Brazilians protester win: So Paulo mayor announces reduction in bus fares
2013-06-20,"New MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) virus spreads easily between people and has a 65 precent fatality rate, compared with SARS 8 percent. The source of the virus is still unknown."
2013-06-20,Taliban offer to free US soldier in exchange for Afghans held at Guantanamo
2013-06-20,Before-and-after satellite photos from Darfur show entire villages wiped off the map
2013-06-20,Australia will not recognise gay and lesbian marriages performed overseas
2013-06-20,"In Brazil, mayors of So Paulo and Rio de Janeiro have agreed to lower the price of public transportation back to pre-protest levels"
2013-06-19,"An open letter from the Turkish TV Network , to be closed down tomorrow because it broadcasted Protest coverage"
2013-06-19,"Subway Contractor Destroys Ancient TombsWorkers have destroyed over 12 historically significant tombs ( 2,200-3,000 yrs old) on China's Da Gong Mountain. Yesterday we were still conducting archaeological excavations, but all 5 tombs were gone this morning."
2013-06-19,"Bosses of collapsed banks should be sent to jail, Chancellor told"
2013-06-19,"China executes a Communist party official for raping a series of underage girls, some of whom were reportedly as young as 11"
2013-06-19,Egyptian President appoints member of terror group that once massacred 62 tourists in 1997 to run tourism region
2013-06-19,"Alan Grayson: ""I saw the secret trade deal (TPP). There is no national security purpose in keeping this text secret. This agreement hands the sovereignty of our country over to corporate interests."""
2013-06-19,"NASA announces a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them: ""We need to find all those that might be a threat to Earth"""
2013-06-19,"Kim Dotcom: All Megaupload servers 'wiped out without warning in data massacre' ""The information stored on the dormant servers  petabytes of pictures, backups, personal & business property  was what Dotcom called evidence in the case US authorities launched against him in January 2012."""
2013-06-19,"Senior bankers guilty of reckless misconduct should be jailed, a long-awaited report on banking commissioned by the British government has recommended."
2013-06-19,Dolce and Gabbana sentenced to jail for tax evasion | BBC News
2013-06-19,A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
2013-06-19,Security forces raid homes across Turkey as top officials threaten military crackdown
2013-06-19,"Megauploads former hosting provider Leaseweb has deleted all Megaupload user data from 690 servers without warning. Petabytes of data and backups, mostly from European users, are now lost forever. Kim Dotcom outraged."
2013-06-19,Tens of thousands of Brazilians again flooded the streets of the country's biggest city to raise a collective cry against a longstanding lament
2013-06-19,"Islamists press blasphemy cases in Egypt. 'Blasphemy cases were once rare in Egypt, and their frequency has increased sharply since the revolution'"
2013-06-19,"North Korea has angrily denied a report that its ruler used Adolf Hitler's memoir as a leadership guide, threatening to kill the authors of the report."
2013-06-19,US President Barack Obama has used his public speech in Berlin to propose cuts of one-third in American and Russian nuclear arsenals.
2013-06-19,Erdogan Casts Bankers as Villain of Turkish Protests
2013-06-19,Saudi women activists get jail time for helping starving mother locked in home
2013-06-19,"Suicide bomber, gunmen attack U.N. office in Somalia"
2013-06-19,Cat stands for election in Mexican city Campaign shines light on political disenchantment with slogan: 'Tired of voting for rats? Vote for a cat'
2013-06-19,"Syria's Islamists seize control as moderates dither ""The moderates are losing ground...Small shops selling black headbands, conservative clothing and black balaclavas have popped up around the city and their business is booming."""
2013-06-19,Snowden seeks asylum in Iceland through intermediary
2013-06-19,"Turkish PM Erdogan warns on 'birth control game': unnamed 'they' seek to 'sterilise' Turks with contraception, C-sections and abortion"
2013-06-19,China completes internet monitoring scheme in Tibet. Tibetans required to register for internet and mobile phones under real names
2013-06-18,Protesters in Brasil: World Cup website hacked to show the world what's happening in Brazil right now.
2013-06-18,"Brazil is under Siege: Protest in all Major Cities. Rio 100 thousands, Sao Paulo, 65 thousands. Brasilia, Capital: Congress was invaded."
2013-06-18,Turkish government threatens to deploy the army against protests and to prosecute doctors who treated wounded protesters in Gezi Park
2013-06-18,Brazilians spend as much as 26% of their income to ride the bus
2013-06-18,"A quarter of a million people flooded the streets of cities across Brazil last night to protest against police violence, political corruption and World Cup spending."
2013-06-18,A single man has been standing still for hours at Taksim square to protest Turkish government. Others are joining one by one
2013-06-18,"Iran ready to halt 20% uranium enrichment, West must reciprocate ""Iran has confirmed it is prepared to halt its enrichment of 20-percent uranium, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, urging Western nations to end their sanctions against Tehran."""
2013-06-18,"Bill Clinton in Israel: No matter how many settlers you put out there, the Palestinians are having more babies than the Israelis as a wholeYouve got an existential question to answer"
2013-06-18,"98-year-old charged with 'unlawful execution, torture' of Jews during World War II"
2013-06-18,Brazil protests over World Cup costs spread nationwide
2013-06-18,Turkey: A Weekend of Police Abuse Many Protesters Arrested; Hospital Targeted - detailed report from Human Rights Watch
2013-06-18,Obama's Soft Totalitarianism: Europe Must Protect Itself from America
2013-06-18,"'In a letter sent today to the US Congress, an international coalition of non-profit organizations called upon the U.S. government to protect the privacy and freedoms of not only its citizens, but of people everywhere.'"
2013-06-18,"New Snowden leak: NSA, Britain's GCHQ, eavesdropped on foreign leaders"
2013-06-18,Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm will be extradited to Denmark where he faces several new hacking charges.
2013-06-18,Pregnant Muslim woman loses baby after being kicked for wearing Islamic veil
2013-06-18,Kerry quietly releases $1.3bn military aid package for Egypt
2013-06-18,Barbra Streisand: Women shouldn't sit in back of bus in Israel: Orthodox Jews in Israel shouldn't treat women as second class citizens
2013-06-18,"Brazil's Poor Pay World Cup Penalty: Inside the stadium, president Dilma Roussef was booed as she inaugurated the Brazil-Japan match."
2013-06-18,Russian parliament passes anti-homosexual laws
2013-06-18,"Brazil is, right now, facing numerous and pacific protests in its main cities (Rio, So Paulo, Braslia etc.). Millions in the streets demanding an efficient and less corrupt government."
2013-06-18,"Kim Jong Un distributed copies of Mein Kampf to senior officials, ordered them to study the Third Reich 'in depth' and 'that practical applications be drawn from it'"
2013-06-18,Governement working on draft to restrict social media in Turkey
2013-06-18,"'World Heritage Sites' Wants Drilling & Oil Exploration Banned in Gorilla Sanctuary - It's 1 of the last places on Earth you should go looking for oil. Virunga National Park is Africas oldest & has the most species. Permits are held by international conglomerates, including French Total."
2013-06-18,"Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe vows to make 'hell' for gays and lesbians, says they'll 'rot in jail' if he's re-elected"
2013-06-17,Julian Assange was willing to go to Sweden to answer allegations. All he wanted was a guarantee he wouldn't be handed over to the United States. Sweden refused.
2013-06-17,"Police brutality caused a pregnant victim to miscarry on Saturday night; six rounds of teargas was fired into an impromptu medical clinic housed in a tent in Istanbul. PM Erdogan threatens news reporters: ""Turkey is not a country that international media can play games on."""
2013-06-17,Turkey threatens to deploy army to end unrest
2013-06-17,An 18-year-old girl beheaded her father with a bush knife after he repeatedly raped her at their home in Papua New Guinea
2013-06-17,"Its about to go down in Aleppo, Syria. as 80,000 troops are about storm the city."
2013-06-17,Corrosive chemicals in Turkish Police water cannons - causes blisters
2013-06-17,Putin questions why Western powers support Syrian rebels who eat human organs'
2013-06-17,Turkish PM appears to be a man so intoxicated with power that he's lost all grasp of reality and doesn't seem to realize how much damage his ego is doing to an entire country
2013-06-17,Dozens of Photos Showing Toxic and Chemical Gas Canisters Used on Protesters in Turkey
2013-06-17,"'Hateful' Speech in Istanbul: Erdogan Throws Fuel on Flames ""He cleared out Gezi Park with brutal violence, disparaged the protesters as terrorists and railed against the foreign media...Erdogan is inflaming the conflict once more. But the protest movement shows no signs of backing down"""
2013-06-17,China calls for explanations of US surveillance
2013-06-17,"North Korea ""ready to discuss nuclear disarmament"""
2013-06-17,JPMorgan calls for authoritarian regimes in Europe: The authors of the JPMorgan report are arguing for governments to adopt dictatorial-type powers to complete the process of social counterrevolution that is already well underway across Europe
2013-06-17,UK secret service intercepted foreign politicians' comms during G8
2013-06-17,"Julian Assange: Ecuador will continue to grant asylum """"The Ecuadorian government will continue to ensure that he continues with the protection we have given him under asylum in our country, protecting his life, his personal integrity, and particularly his freedom of expression."""
2013-06-17,Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum arrested by anti-corruption unit
2013-06-17,"400 Year woman found in backyard,costs couple 5000$ in fees."
2013-06-17,The Chinese government has ordered firms in heavy-polluting industries to cut emissions by 30% by 2017.
2013-06-17,"Turkish government says it may use army to end protests ""The Turkish government has said it may use the armed forces to end nearly three weeks of unrest by protesters in Istanbul and other cities."""
2013-06-17,"""I don't recognize the European Parliament"", says PM Erdogan"
2013-06-17,Egyptian Bloopers: 'Our War Is With America and Israel'
2013-06-17,Teenage Girl Beheads Father After He Raped Her In Papua New Guinea Home'
2013-06-17,"A Finnish company have spent 10yrs devising a carbon fibre lift rope that will be able to raise an elevator 3,300 feet. The effectiveness of elevators is one of the main constraints when building tall buildings, so UltaRope could result in buildings worthy of the name 'skyscraper'"
2013-06-17,"""infantile"" Climate science debate has cost precious time, expert warns. Commission report says evidence of rapidly changed climate has strengthened. ""There have been attempts to undermine the science. The science has been attacked and scrutinised and it's stood up."""""
2013-06-17,"UK spies hacked diplomats' phones, emails, Guardian reports"
2013-06-16,"Turkish European Union minister: ""Everyone who enters the Taksim Square to be treated as terrorist."""
2013-06-16,"Iran's new president in his own words ""What I truly wish is for moderation to return to the country. This is my only wish. Extremism pains me greatly. We have suffered many blows as a result of extremism."""
2013-06-16,New Zealand law permits 'low risk' designer drugs: The legislation is the first in the world to regulate new recreational drugs based on scientific evidence of their risk of harm
2013-06-16,Tear gas and explosions as Police tries to clear Gezi Park in Istanbul
2013-06-16,Activists in Turkey claim police targeted medical facilities with water cannon and tear gas
2013-06-16,Turkish Police are putting acid in the Crowd Dispersal Water Cannon Fluid.
2013-06-16,Police have forcibly removed throngs of protesters from Istanbuls Taksim Square. Tonight was the most violent police crackdown since the initial protests.
2013-06-16,BBC suspends ties with Turkey's NTV over protests coverage
2013-06-16,The UK's Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg: Arming Syrian rebels is currently 'the wrong thing to do'
2013-06-16,"Iran will send 4,000 troops to aid Bashar al-Assads forces in Syria"
2013-06-16,Turkish Police use their water cannon to spray the German hospital in stanbul
2013-06-16,"German Greens party co-chair receives medical attention after being affected by tear gas in Taksim Square, Istanbul: ""It was like war"" Roth told media."
2013-06-16,"With the Prime Minister's command, police is preparing for intervention to protests in Gezi Park in Turkey."
2013-06-16,Police enter Istanbul's Gezi Park
2013-06-16,Riot police pour into Istanbul before Erdogan rally
2013-06-16,Guardian: Brazilian cities rocked by violent clashes
2013-06-16,Citizens of World Cup hosts Brazil tell the world not to come next year.
2013-06-16,"Gezi Park Radio's message to the world: ""We take back what's ours!"""
2013-06-16,"Like something out of a movie, Davide Martello plays the piano to quell the crowds in Taksim Square, Turkey"
2013-06-16,13 Shocking Photos Of Brazilian Military Police Brutalizing Protesters in So Paulo
2013-06-16,"Turkish union federation to call general strike this Monday after police raid in Gezi Park, Istanbul"
2013-06-16,"Fighting the poachers on Africa's thin green line. Underpaid, ill-equipped and outnumbered, park rangers fight a one-sided war against vicious gangs of poachers"
2013-06-16,Turkish riot police clash with defiant protesters in Istanbul
2013-06-16,"""Nobody can intimidate us. We take no orders or instruction from anyone but God"" says Erdogan."
2013-06-16,PM uses tear gas to dispel protesters stadium in Brasilia (FIFA Confederations Cup 2013 in Brazil)
2013-06-15,Hassan Rouhani wins Iran presidential election
2013-06-15,UK's 5 biggest banks lose 2.4 million customers in protests against banking scandals
2013-06-15,"Syria chemical weapons - no questions asked; At briefing No one, not one person asked if the Obama administration would make public any of its ""proof"" that the Assad regime had used chemical weapons."
2013-06-15,"Here in Brazil, what started, 4 days ago, as a protest over the hike of the public transport fares, turned out as protests over freedom."
2013-06-15,"Police brutally repress protesters in So Paulo, hitting unarmed people with rubber bullets and tear gas as they chanted ""no more violence"". At least 3 journalists were arrested and many injured."
2013-06-15,Russia says any attempt to enforce a no-fly zone over Syria using F-16 fighter jets and Patriot missiles from Jordan would violate international law
2013-06-15,"20th Century Laws Meet 21st Century Surveillance: Why Metadata Surveillance is a Serious Concern: 'Canada has its own metadata surveillance program. The program was discontinued in 2008 after concerns that it could involve illegal surveillance of Canadians, but was secretly restarted in 2011.'"
2013-06-15,"India's Ministry of External Affairs claimed it had no record of Julian Assange's request for asylum. Two days later, Assange provides the Times of India with the receipt issued by the Indian high commission in London for his letter seeking refuge."
2013-06-15,Protesters in Turkey Vow to Continue Fight
2013-06-15,Google has revealed top-secret plans to send balloons to the edge of space with the lofty aim of bringing Internet to the two-thirds of the global population currently without web access
2013-06-15,Erdogan claims Jewish investors behind protests
2013-06-15,Bus-Fare Protests Hit Brazils Two Biggest Cities - The New York Times
2013-06-15,"France 'cuts off' illegal downloader's web access: As the French government is re-thinking its policy towards Internet users who illegally download copyrighted material, a court has sentenced one offender to 15 days without (some) online services."
2013-06-15,UN secretary general says US arming Syria rebels 'would not be helpful' - live
2013-06-15,United Arab Emirates: Law mandating mid-day break for workers in comes into effect today
2013-06-15,India to send world's last telegram on July 14.
2013-06-15,US Congress prepares to hand Israel an additional $188 million dollars
2013-06-15,AFP: 25 dead as bombs target women students in Pakistan
2013-06-15,"Patriot batteries, F-16s and 4,500 US troops were deployed near the Syrian border earlier this week as part of a scheduled military exercise"
2013-06-15,Offshore Leaks web app lets you sort through gigabytes of leaked financial data
2013-06-15,"ICIJ Releases Offshore Leaks Database Revealing Names Behind Secret Companies, Trusts"
2013-06-15,How Obama crossed his own line on Syria after months of debate
2013-06-15,"Banned pesticides may be having wider environmental impacts: A new report indicates that a class of pesticides linked to the deaths of bees may also be posing a risk to soil, water and grain-eating birds."
2013-06-15,"Early results put Rouhani ahead in Iran poll: Moderate cleric takes commanding lead in country's presidential election based on early results, interior minister says."
2013-06-15,"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the US to repeal the huge federal budget cuts introduced this year, denouncing them as ""excessively rapid and ill-designed""."
2013-06-14,"Almost unnoticed, the UN is about to fight its first war. 3,000 Soldiers from South Africa, Tanzania and Malawi wearing UN insignia will take on the irregulars who sow mayhem in Congos east."
2013-06-14,Google finds that Pakistan leads in searches for gay pornography despite the country's overwhelming opposition to homosexuality
2013-06-14,"PRISM-style surveillance is global, Julian Assange says ""Edward Snowden revealed something that I've been speaking about for a long time, providing clear concrete proof that the internet has penetrated every aspect of society, right along with it is mass surveillance,"" he said."
2013-06-14,"Russian man reveals he is a homosexual to friends, Friends then beat him, shove beer bottles in his anus, try to set him on fire. Then they crushed his head with a heavy stone."
2013-06-14,Britain says NSA leaker Snowden not welcome in UK
2013-06-14,"Moscow unconvinced by US evidence of Syrian chemical weapons use ""The US tried to present us with information on the use of chemical weapons, but frankly we thought that it was not convincing...We wouldnt like to invoke references to the famous lab tube that Secretary of State Powell showed"""
2013-06-14,"Syria Has Used Chemical Arms on Rebels, U.S. and E.U. Say"
2013-06-14,"There are more journalists in prison in Turkey than in any other country. Prime Minister Erdogan tolerates no criticism, and aggressive prosecution of journalists on often questionable charges has fostered an atmosphere of anxiety and self-censorship."
2013-06-14,Yahoo Fought the Good Fight Against PRISM But Failed
2013-06-14,Forget PRISM: Global Cyberchiefs Meeting in Israel Say They Need to Pry Even Further
2013-06-14,"Iran picks new president, bids adieu to Ahmadinejad"
2013-06-14,"""The Obama administration successfully lobbied the European Commission to strip its data-privacy legislation of a measure that would have limited the ability of US intelligence agencies to spy on EU [European Union] citizens, according to three senior EU officials."""
2013-06-14,Why I Have Nothing to Hide Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance
2013-06-14,Britain asks airlines to block U.S. NSA leaker Snowden: report
2013-06-14,Pictures of people hurt during a demonstration against the raise of bus taxes in So Paulo. Most of these people aggressed by the police were reporting for the press or just passer-bys.
2013-06-14,Syrian rebels pledge loyalty to al-Qaeda
2013-06-14,The Shocking Amount of Wealth and Power Held by 0.001% of the World Population: The level of inequality around the world is truly staggering
2013-06-14,"4th day of protests in Sao Paulo, Brazil"
2013-06-14,Classified US government data shown to the SCMP by Edward Snowden has provided a rare insight into the effectiveness of Washington's top-secret global cyberspying programme. The small sample data suggests NSA attacks on HK computers had a success rate of more than 75%
2013-06-14,Edward Snowden 'banned from flying to UK'
2013-06-14,Syrian opposition fighters arrested with chemical weapons last month by Turkish police
2013-06-14,Norway introduces gender-neutral conscription as first country in the world
2013-06-14,According to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press a top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit accused of burning villages filled with women and children lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II.
2013-06-14,Egyptian artists rally against 'Islamisation' of culture
2013-06-14,Turkish Protesters Sing Les Miserables protest song
2013-06-13,"Defend Edward Snowden! Snowden is not the one betraying the democratic principles embodied in the Bill of Rights. By exposing the conspiracy against these rights and coming forward at the cost of his career and possibly his life, he is defending them."
2013-06-13,"Kim Dotcom: concerns over government tyranny are legitimate ""Prism: concerns over government tyranny are legitimate ""The post 9/11 security narrative has eroded our privacy rights in favour of government control. Prism should be discontinued immediately"""
2013-06-13,"Vladimir Putin defends the U.S. on NSA spying programs and drones: ""Thats the way its done in the U.S., and thats the way its done in Russia"""
2013-06-13,Afghan Doctor Killed by Angry Mob for Examining a Female Patient Without a 'Chaperone'
2013-06-13,"Turkish Prime Minister issues a ""final warning"" to protesters to leave Gezi Park in Istanbul"
2013-06-13,Obama administration convinced EU to drop measure that would have blocked NSA spying
2013-06-13,Kim Dotcom releases new raid footage captured by in house CCTV
2013-06-13,Justices rule human genes cannot be patented
2013-06-13,Hong Kong activists plan rally in support of Edward Snowden: Eleven organisations plan to stage march to oppose extradition to the US of former CIA employee behind NSA spying claims
2013-06-13,"Maid dies after torture, weighing 38 kg/80 lb."
2013-06-13,"Turkish PM says Taksim Square will be cleared within 24 hours, lashes out at EU resolution condemning excessive use of force, suggests Israel satisfied with unrest"
2013-06-13,"Snowden: ""[I] would rather stay and fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law."""
2013-06-13,Syrian rebels massacre entire christian village.
2013-06-13,"Snowden Claims U.S. 'Trying to Bully' Hong Kong for Extradition: ""I am not here to hide from justice; I am here to reveal criminality,"
2013-06-13,"France Disconnects First File-Sharer From the Internet -- After three years and millions of warning letters, the French three-strikes anti-piracy law Hadopi has resulted in the first Internet disconnection"
2013-06-13,Brazillian journalist killed with 44 bullets: We have information that his newspaper was very combative and that he made many accusations
2013-06-13,"1/3 of All Honeybee Colonies in England Didn't Survive Winter - British Beekeepers Association attributes worst losses since survey began to washout summer leading to long winter, exacerbated by late spring"
2013-06-13,Greece shuts down public broadcasting (TV)
2013-06-13,Turkey protests: Lone Pianist brings welcome calm to Taksim Square
2013-06-13,"Death Toll in Syria Tops 93,000 since start of conflict"
2013-06-13,Afghan parliament upholds right to marry children
2013-06-13,"The government may have not received personal data from the tech giants directly, but private contractors that comprise %70 percent of the NSA may have..."
2013-06-13,Afghan parliament upholds right to marry children
2013-06-13,Turkish protesters party in square despite ruling party call
2013-06-13,Syria: 60 Shia Muslims massacred in rebel cleansing of Hatla
2013-06-12,"In Unanimous Vote, Russia Passes Bill Making It Illegal To Tell Kids Gay People Exist"
2013-06-12,"Germany Demands Obama Explain ""American-Style Stasi Methods"" before his visit."
2013-06-12,World's oldest man dies at 116 years. He was also the only man remaining born in the 19th century.
2013-06-12,The NSA Has A Secret Group Called TAO Thats Been Hacking China For 15 Years
2013-06-12,Thousands of Russians march through Moscow demanding Vladimir Putin resign
2013-06-12,"Russia Passes Anti-Gay Bill, 436-0"
2013-06-12,Famous Norwegian lawyer gets U.S visa revoked by the NSA after talking to his norwegian/chilean client on Facebook about his terror charges against the Norwegian government.
2013-06-12,'The worst case of scientific censorship since the Catholic Church banned the works of Galileo': Scientists call for drugs to be legalised to allow proper study of their properties - Science - News
2013-06-12,"Archaeologists have uncovered thousands of Stone Age underground tunnels, stretching across Europe from Scotland to Turkey, perplexing researchers as to their original purpose..."
2013-06-12,Nigerian cook survives two days under sea in shipwreck air bubble
2013-06-12,"Lawyers Rail At Police Response To Turkey Protests: Thousands of black-robed lawyers are storming out of their courthouses in Turkey, shouting about the rough treatment police dished out to their colleagues amid Turkey's biggest anti-government protest in years."
2013-06-12,Europe warns US: you must respect the privacy of our citizens - EU officials demand answers on what data snooping programmes entail and whether they breach human rights
2013-06-12,86 Civil Liberties Groups and Internet Companies Demand an End to NSA Spying
2013-06-12,EU to ban blocking websites in Europe and throttling by ISPs
2013-06-12,A small group of civilian police officers staged a fake attack on Turkish police this morning to legitimize police brutality
2013-06-12,Germany slams US for Stasi methods ahead of Obama visit
2013-06-12,"London police confiscate sleeping bags and food parcels from homeless people: Not only did the police not deny the confiscations, they argued that such actions were justified on the grounds of protecting the public from the negative impact of homeless people"
2013-06-12,"Turkish media fined for ""harming development of children, youth"" (by reporting on the protests)"
2013-06-12,Guardian: Snowden considered NYTimes untrustworthy for sitting on NSA warrantless wiretapping scoop for a year
2013-06-12,Gays and religion offenders are criminals now in Russia.
2013-06-12,Parents of Navy SEAL Killed in Afghan Crash File the First Suit on NSA Spying
2013-06-12,Man shot in both legs for disobeying an illegal curfew set by local Muslims in Trinidad
2013-06-12,"For any Canadians who think just being a Canadian means the NSA and PRISM won't be affected, think again"
2013-06-12,"NSA surveillance: Private Facebook correspondence between lawyer and terror accused client was monitored by NSA (Norwegian, Google Translate)"
2013-06-12,Greece downgraded from developed market to developing market
2013-06-11,"NSA surveillance: The US is behaving like China ""Both governments think they are doing what is best for the state and people. But, as I know, such abuse of power can ruin lives"" By Ai Weiwei"
2013-06-11,"European member of parliament on PRISM: We really need to wake up. This is serious stuff. The government knowing everything, literally everything about us, and we are unable to exercise any meaningful democratic scrutiny? That is not a democracy."
2013-06-11,"Dutch intelligence has access to PRISM, reveals existence of moles in companies"
2013-06-11,Astronaut Chris Hadfield announces resignation -
2013-06-11,"Tony Blair: There is a problem within Islam and we have to put it on the table and be honest about it. It has at its heart a view of religion that is not compatible with pluralistic, liberal, open-minded societies."
2013-06-11,Turkey imprisons more journalists than any other country
2013-06-11,"TransCanada Whistleblower says Oil Industry ""organized crime"""
2013-06-11,Chinese internet users call for an Edward Snowden of their own
2013-06-11,"Chinese Internet users back Snowden, call on government to protect him"
2013-06-11,Google chief wrote about 'terrifying' surveillance months before NSA leaks
2013-06-11,Turkish riot police move into Taksim Square - live updates | World news
2013-06-11,NSA builds its largest data farm... Ever.
2013-06-11,"Daniel Ellsberg: Edward Snowden, Saving Us From the United Stasi of America -- Snowden's whistleblowing gives us a chance to roll back what is tantamount to an 'executive coup' against the US constitution"
2013-06-11,NSA Prism scandal: Russia would consider Edward Snowden asylum claim  live coverage | World news
2013-06-11,"Allies concerned about privacy, want answers about US surveillance programs"
2013-06-11,"German bank employee falls asleep on keyboard, transfers millions"
2013-06-11,"Edward Snowden not safe in Hong Kong, warns human rights chief - Hong Kong authorities have co-operated with the CIA in the past to remove enemies of US, says Human Rights Watch director"
2013-06-11,Police gathering around Taksim square in Turkey. Interventions expected shortly.
2013-06-11,"Russian congressman: ""It would be a very good idea to give Edward Snowden a political asylum"". ""We will certainly look into a political asylum for Snowden if he applies for one"" says Putin press-secretary."
2013-06-11,"Merkel to Raise NSA Data-Gathering Program in Talks with Obama Next Week - ""It's good and necessary for the U.S. to rethink its anti-terror legislation."" says Justice Minister"
2013-06-11,Obama pressured by European leaders to explain NSA surveillance tactics - Information chiefs worldwide sound alarm while US senator Dianne Feinstein orders congressional review of NSA program
2013-06-11,Prince Harry saved gay soldier from homophobic attack
2013-06-11,Taliban Beheads Two Boys in Southern Afghanistan
2013-06-11,"A Chinese-manned spacecraft has blasted off with three astronauts on board for a 15-day mission to an experimental laboratory, the latest step towards the development of a space station."
2013-06-11,Turkish police have begun to invade square where the protests were taking place. Live TV
2013-06-10,Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind revelations of NSA surveillance
2013-06-10,Icelandic Legislator: I'm Ready To Help NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seek Asylum
2013-06-10,Germany most snooped EU country by US
2013-06-10,Why The NSAs Secret Online Surveillance Should Scare You: George Orwell isnt who you should be reading to understand the dangers inherent to the NSAs dragnet. Youd be better off turning to famous French social theorist Michel Foucault'
2013-06-10,Why Edward Snowden's flight to Hong Kong might be brilliant. The NSA whistleblower could exploit a loophole in the Chinese territory's asylum system to buy himself some valuable time.
2013-06-10,"Revelations of a huge, secret U.S. Internet spying program have raised awkward questions for allies, forced to explain whether they let Washington spy on their citizens or benefited from snooping that would be illegal at home."
2013-06-10,Why Canadians Should Be Demanding Answers About Secret Surveillance Programs: 'Canada has similar disclosure provisions as those found in the USA Patriot Act.'
2013-06-10,"After PRISM, 'Boundless Informant' tool comes to light: Meet the U.S. NSA's global intelligence tracking tool, Boundless Informant, the latest intelligence secret exposed by leaked information"
2013-06-10,"Turkey erupts: The new young Turks. ""Many are strikingly young; but there are plenty of older Turks, many secular-minded, some overtly pious. There are gays, Armenians, anarchists and atheists."""
2013-06-10,Technology giants struggle to maintain credibility over NSA surveillance scandal
2013-06-10,"Syrian rebels execute teenage boy for heresy ""An al-Qaeda-affiliated opposition group has allegedly executed a teenage boy in Syria in front of his family, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports. The boy was shot by the group for supposedly blaspheming."""
2013-06-10,A senior figure in Hong Kong law enforcement has suggested NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden should leave the city.
2013-06-10,Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data (2011)
2013-06-10,Syrian rebels 'execute teenager' in Aleppo for blasphemy
2013-06-10,"Canadian marijuana seed magnate and political dissident Marc Emery, in solitary confinement in US prison"
2013-06-10,Egyptian girl dies while being circumcised
2013-06-10,"Experts: Canadian version of NSA, CSEC, Capable Of Similar Surveillance:"
2013-06-10,Rep. Peter King calls for NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden to be extradited from Hong Kong
2013-06-10,IMF admits it failed to realize austerity's damage on Greek economy
2013-06-10,NSA whisteblower Edward Snowden gives interview about why he made his decision to leak.
2013-06-10,"300,000 ancient manuscripts were saved from rebels in Timbuktu, but now face a slow death by rot"
2013-06-10,"Brazil 'on alert' over Ecuador spill: Brazil is ""on alert"" over an oil spill that originated in Ecuador and is travelling downstream towards the Brazilian Amazon, officials say."
2013-06-10,A Heros Welcome for Snowden on Chinese Internet
2013-06-10,Tear gas is a booming business
2013-06-10,Thousands flee as German dam bursts
2013-06-09,Turkish game show host breaks self-censorship by making answers about ongoing unrest: 70 times.
2013-06-09,The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism
2013-06-09,"Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Petition Gains 65,000 Signatures (VIDEO)"
2013-06-09,"New NSA slide released by Guardian: Prism takes data ""directly"" from servers, 4 other programs take data from cables"
2013-06-09,Celebrated sci-fi author Ian Banks dies of cancer
2013-06-09,"Egyptian government holds secret meeting on preventing/destroying Ethiopian dam. Unbeknownst to them, the ""secret"" meeting was being broadcast on live television."
2013-06-09,"A man in an Afghan uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the eastern province of Paktika, killing three of them, while an attacker with a grenade killed an Italian soldier in the west, officials have said."
2013-06-09,Ankara police disperse protesters with tear gas as Turkish officials say 'process is under control'
2013-06-09,Turks tango in their gas masks as they defy orders of Prime Minister and carry on with protests
2013-06-09,UK Police visit piratebay proxy PirateSniper's owners home demanding a shutdown - was reportedly handed a letter and ordered to shutter the site or face criminal action.
2013-06-09,Russian TV show taken off air over joke on Putin divorce
2013-06-09,"NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has made perhaps the biggest discovery of its nearly 10-year career, finding evidence that life may have been able to get a foothold on the Red Planet long ago"
2013-06-09,Angry Pakistan summons envoy after U.S. drone strike kills nine
2013-06-09,Gardeners To Be Deprived Of Heirloom Seeds Under E.U. New Directive
2013-06-09,U.S. and Chinese leaders agree North Korea must shed nuclear weapons
2013-06-09,"Truck carrying fireworks hits moose, shuts down Trans-Canada Highway for five hours and lights up the sky"
2013-06-09,Many dead as asylum boat sinks off Australia
2013-06-09,"Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Friday abandoned his plan to build a new shopping mall on one of the few green patches in central Istanbul, but he insisted on razing the park nevertheless, a mixed signal that could prolong weeklong protests here and in other cities."
2013-06-09,Afghanistan: Women in parliament receive threats - from fellow lawmakers
2013-06-09,"The Singapore way of censorship: blogs must be licensed, license costs $39500"
2013-06-09,Widespread dumping of asbestos in Australia: Experts are warning that there is widespread illegal dumping of asbestos waste around the country and it's costing tens of millions of dollars each year and exposing thousands of Australians to deadly health risks.
2013-06-09,Islamic Extremists Kill 13 in Northeast Nigeria
2013-06-09,US waives human rights condition on $1.3B in aid to Egypt
2013-06-09,North and South Korea hold official talks on restoring commercial cooperation
2013-06-09,"German report: Berlin a hub of Hezbollah activity; 950 members in Germany, 250 in Berlin; Hezbollah-run orphanage used to fund-raise for suicide bombers targeting Israelis."
2013-06-08,"""What we have... is... concrete proof of U.S.-based... companies participating with the NSA in wholesale surveillance on us, the rest of the world, the non-American, you and me,"" Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish software security firm F-Secure."
2013-06-08,"Glenn Greenwald, journalist who broke the PRISM story: U.S. wants to destroy privacy worldwide"
2013-06-08,NSA Prism: Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech - and you should too. 'Not subject to American law' - the next desirable IT feature
2013-06-08,Male train drivers in Stockholm have found a novel way to get around a workplace ban on wearing shorts at work. They have taken to wearing skirts to keep cool in train cabs that can reach up to 35C
2013-06-08,Web inventor Berners-Lee warns forces are 'trying to take control'
2013-06-08,"""When government officials came to Silicon Valley to demand easier ways for the world's largest Internet companies to turn over user data as part of a secret surveillance program, the companies bristled. In the end, though, many cooperated at least a bit."""
2013-06-08,"More than 100 of the world's most powerful people are at the former manor house near London for a secretive annual gathering, the Bilderberg meeting, that has attained legendary status in the eyes of anti-capitalist protesters and conspiracy theorists."
2013-06-08,Assange: US rule of law suffering 'calamitous collapse'
2013-06-08,"Putin orders crackdown on Islamists, police detain 300 people. ""We must fight back hard against extremists who, under the banners of radicalism, nationalism and separatism, are trying to split our society,"" Putin said"
2013-06-08,Archaeologists are working to save a Buddhist site of immense significance in Afghanistan from imminent destruction by a Chinese mining firm.
2013-06-08,Thousands turn out for Tel Aviv Gay Pride Parade
2013-06-08,"Indeed, when the U.S. says only non-U.S. citizens are targeted in some instances, that certainly suggests that Canadians are a potential target."
2013-06-08,Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
2013-06-08,Saudi billionaire prince sues Forbes magazine because it understated his wealth by $10 billion
2013-06-08,"UK government 'complicit' in NSA PRISM spy program, may have bypassed international treaties"
2013-06-08,Erdoan accuses EU members of hypocrisy over Turkey protests - Turkish PM says methods used by Turkish police to quell demonstrations are little different from those used in US and UK
2013-06-08,Corporate power has turned Britain into a corrupt state: Westminster lobbying is the least of it. Revolving-door colonisation of public life is a corrosive threat to democracy
2013-06-08,"The last rebel stronghold near the strategic town of Qusair, western Syria, has fallen to government forces, Syrian state TV says."
2013-06-08,"Saudi Silence on Deadly MERS Virus Outbreak Frustrates World Health Experts. Middle East respiratory syndrome, a cousin of SARS, has sparked global concern for its pandemic potential, but Saudi Arabia has yet to release information that could help protect the rest of the world."
2013-06-08,British Intelligence watchdog flies to Washington to demand answers on snooping scandal
2013-06-08,"Too many immigrants in France, says ex-PM Fillon - Eyeing his conservative UMP party's nomination for the 2017 presidential election, former prime minister Franois Fillon said Thursday that France needs to ""reduce the number of immigrants"" it allows into the country."
2013-06-08,"Mars rover, ""Curiosity"" finds evidence of drinkable water on mars."
2013-06-08,"Dont dump radioactive groundwater into sea, Fukushima fishermen tell Tepco"
2013-06-08,"A suicidal man started a fire on a packed commuter bus in south-eastern China that killed 47 people, state media report."
2013-06-08,Turkey protests: Erdogan rejects EU criticism
2013-06-07,EFF has so much evidence of the NSA surveillance now that they've created a timeline
2013-06-07,"White House admits it has 'access' to Facebook, Google"
2013-06-07,"Leaked NSA presentation claims that NSA has ""direct access"" to servers at Google, Apple, Facebook, Skype, Yahoo, and many others"
2013-06-07,Anonymous Just Leaked a Trove of NSA Documents
2013-06-07,"PRISM Is Also The Name Of A Product From Palantir, A $5 Billion Tech Startup Funded By The CIA"
2013-06-07,UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation
2013-06-07,Monsanto says it can't explain how GMO wheat from program discontinued 9 years ago could have survived out in the wild
2013-06-07,Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife announce their 'marriage is over'
2013-06-07,U.S. intel mining data from nine Internet companies in broad secret program
2013-06-07,"Erdogan returns to Turkey ""No power but Allah can stop Turkey's rise."""
2013-06-07,Cambodia approves a law making it a crime to deny that atrocities were committed by the genocidal 1970s communist Khmer Rouge regime
2013-06-07,Thousands of citizens of Sarajevo are blockading the parliament and not allowing the ministers to leave
2013-06-07,"Sweet conspiracy? Nestle, Mars charged with chocolate price-fixing in Canada"
2013-06-07,"Turkey's 'Other 50 Percent' Demand a Voice - Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is driving a wedge through his country. While one half reveres him as a savior, the other reviles him as a dictator. By continuing to condemn his opponents and ignore their demands, he is playing a dangerous game."
2013-06-07,165 kidnap victims freed in Mexico
2013-06-07,The Internet is a Surveillance State
2013-06-07,"Six newspapers, one title. Six big Turkish papers all headline the exact same quote from a speech by prime minister Erdogan made yesterday, reflecting the media censorship."
2013-06-07,"Amount of Carbon Dioxide in the Air is Now Higher Than Any Time in the Last 3,000,000 Years"
2013-06-07,"British MP caught on camera, ""You look like a bloody Jew"""
2013-06-07,Fire at Cattenom nuclear power plant in France (35km from Luxembourg) (French/German article)
2013-06-07,"Heracleion Photos: Lost Egyptian City Revealed After 1,200 Years Under Sea"
2013-06-07,PM who takes things personally: Erdogan to demolish park despite protests
2013-06-07,BBC News - Rape suspect buried alive in Bolivia
2013-06-07,Occupy Istanbul hits London with major protest
2013-06-07,France in shock after teenage far-left activist dies following fight with skinheads
2013-06-06,"Mr Erdogan has intimidated the media into self-censorship: as the protesters choked on tear gas, the television networks carried programmes about cooking and penguins. More journalists are in jail in Turkey than in China."
2013-06-06,Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said plans to redevelop a park in Istanbul will go ahead despite mass protests now in their seventh day.
2013-06-06,Church of England gives up fight against gay marriage: The Church of England has effectively accepted defeat over gay marriage signalling that it will no longer fight against a change in the law.
2013-06-06,"Turkish Protests Are About Democracy, Not Religion"
2013-06-06,18-year-old Paris student left brain dead after brutal attack by far-right skinheads
2013-06-06,Girl Gang Raped in Pakistan: Dares to Fight for Justice
2013-06-06,Pope Francis says wasting food is like stealing from the poor
2013-06-06,Israeli judge resigns after commenting some girls 'enjoy being raped' | CTV News
2013-06-06,"UN: Countries that engage in bulk, warrantless Internet surveillance are violating human rights"
2013-06-06,Turkish police arrest 25 people for using social media to call for protest
2013-06-06,"BBC: Crowds in Taksim Square ""bigger than ever"" tonight."
2013-06-06,Teacher who had over 200 child porn pictures on his computer is allowed to return to work.
2013-06-06,Former Mexico president calls for marijuana legalization
2013-06-06,IMF 'to admit mistakes' in handling Greek debt crisis and bailout.
2013-06-06,Hamas Orders Christian Schools In Gaza To Enforce Sharia Gender Separation Rules Or Face Closure
2013-06-06,North and South Korea Agree to First Dialogue in Years
2013-06-06,"Spanish MPs abolish subsidised alcoholic drinks in parliament bars after public outcry. Theres no money for school lunches, but there is some for gin and tonics"
2013-06-06,"In Nigeria, They are killing people without asking who they are. When they see young men in traditional robes, they shoot them on the spot."
2013-06-06,German High Court Supports Equal Tax Privileges for Gay Couples
2013-06-06,Brilliant! Spanish town mailing un-scooped poop to the dog owners who leave it behind.
2013-06-06,"Fake farm concealed underground grow-op in Langley, B.C. Sheep and pig help disguise grow-op bunker as hobby farm"
2013-06-06,Turkish trade unions join protests against PM Erdogan
2013-06-06,Iran bans dog-walking in public and warn animals could be 'arrested' if caught outside
2013-06-06,Police slash ankles and arms of more than 70 men in Papua New Guinea
2013-06-06,"A mouse-sized fossil from China has provided remarkable new insights into the origin of primates. At 55 million years old, Archicebus, which roughly translates as ""ancient monkey,"" represents the earliest known member of this broad group of animals that includes humans"
2013-06-05,Turkish police started arresting people for tweeting and facebooking about the protests (local news from CNN Turk needs translation)
2013-06-05,"Tens of thousands in Iran protest against Khamenei, chant 'death to dictator'"
2013-06-05,Facebook blocks links to Turkish protest organizing tool
2013-06-05,Explicit evidence of Turkish state violence  in pictures
2013-06-05,An Islamic centre in north London has been destroyed by a fire in an apparent racially motivated attack.
2013-06-05,"Activists in Turkey have demanded the sacking of police chiefs in Istanbul, Ankara and other cities over their forces' violent responses to protests."
2013-06-05,"Russian police uncover subterranean migrant city: The city contained a factory complete with sewing machines and tables where the illegal migrants were kept to sew clothes... The underground complex was also equipped with a market, cafe, cinema and casino."
2013-06-05,Beijing allegedly went dark at noon because of smog and storm
2013-06-05,Third person killed in Turkey protests
2013-06-05,"Internet Surveillance and Free Speech: the UN Makes the Connection -- ""Communications surveillance should be regarded as a highly intrusive act that potentially interferes with the rights to freedom of expression and privacy and threatens the foundations of a democratic society"""
2013-06-05,"Secret Photographs of Hitler Bunker in Berlin. Starting in 1987, Robert Conrad risked his freedom to secretly photograph Adolf Hitler's decaying bunker in what was then East Berlin. Disguised as a construction worker, he snuck inside some 30 times, and has now finally revealed his work."
2013-06-05,Latvia to become 18th eurozone member
2013-06-05,"Erdogan wrecking Turkey's image as model democracy, critics say"
2013-06-05,BBC News - France 'confirms sarin use in Syria'
2013-06-05,"UK: Muslim father threatens to honour kill his daughter, walks free"
2013-06-05,"Istanbul United: protests bring rival fans together, for now"
2013-06-05,"50,000 Rally in Hong Kong on Tiananmen Square Anniversary"
2013-06-05,Saudi Arabia bans Viber because it cannot monitor it
2013-06-05,Japan tests 310mph bullet train
2013-06-05,Turkish Official Apologizes for Force Used at Start of Riots
2013-06-05,"Chinese Girl Raped by Indian Man in Hong Kong, Chinese reactions"
2013-06-05,"No miniskirts on buses, Beijing police tell women to avoid harassment."
2013-06-05,Pakistan's new PM calls for halt to US drone attacks.
2013-06-05,"The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is compiling a new set of defense guidelines that would allow Japans armed forces, for the first time, to develop offensive capability, and to strike first if an attack appears imminent"
2013-06-05,Former Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa sentenced to two years for corruption
2013-06-04,"Turkish protesters raise $55,000 for full-page ad in New York Times | World news"
2013-06-04,"""This is a place for Arabs,"" he said, before headbutting victim. French court convicts north African of anti-white racism"
2013-06-04,Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
2013-06-04,Turkish police captured smashing down windows and throwing gas bombs to a civilian house!
2013-06-04,Turkish Military helping protestors with paramedics and face masks distribution
2013-06-04,"Peaceful Turkish protester has been shot by Turkish police, 4 times, in head."
2013-06-04,"The protests in Turkey have brought together people from all walks of life, including engineers, teachers, construction workers, leftists and even some former supporters of Prime Minister Erdogan. They are demanding changes in a country that is more divided than ever before"
2013-06-04,"Turkish government is giving instruction to the seized news channel to not broadcast the speech of the opposition party leader[TURKISH, Translate link on the comments]"
2013-06-04,"3,000 Injured in Turkey Protests"
2013-06-04,Turkish protestors using encryption software to evade censors
2013-06-04,"22-year-old man shot in the head during protest in Turkish town of Antakya near Syrian border; a defiant Erdogan says that protesters who are responsible for country's worst riots in years are ""arm in arm with terrorism."""
2013-06-04,King Mohammed VI of Morocco refuses to meet Erdogan
2013-06-04,"Police in the UK force shopkeeper to stop selling a T-shirt that says: ""Obey our laws, respect our beliefs or get out of our country"""
2013-06-04,Turkish president Abdullah Gl defends people's right to protest
2013-06-04,"Turkish union starts strike. ""The left-leaning confederation has some 240,000 members in 11 unions"""
2013-06-04,"Turkish PM Erdogan while on visit to Morocco says about protests:""The situation will soon calm down. I will return from my visit and the problems will be solved"""
2013-06-04,Colombias controversial cure for coke addicts: Give them marijuana
2013-06-04,American woman gang-raped in India
2013-06-04,Controversy erupts over dancing ban in Indonesia. Why? Shariah Law.
2013-06-04,Turkish stock market falls 10.5% as demonstrations escalate
2013-06-04,Israeli female soldiers disciplined for racy Facebook photos [NSFW]
2013-06-04,"7 rhinos killed by poachers in Kenya's bloodiest week - Kenyans aghast as deadly co-ordinated attacks bring country's rhino death toll to 24 this year. ""I'd be surprised if there were over 500 left in Kenya."
2013-06-04,Oil Spill in Amazon Basin Threatens to Damage Ecuadorian National Park with Greatest Biodiversity on Earth
2013-06-04,Greek leftists march in support of Turkish protesters
2013-06-04,"As Turks Challenge Leaders Power, He Tries to Expand It"
2013-06-03,"Human rights activist Ethem Sarslk was shot in the head and killed by the police during the protests in the capital Ankara. Confirmed by multiple witnesses, footage available. Turkish media ignoring the story."
2013-06-03,"Turkish PM: To me, social media is the worst menace to society"
2013-06-03,Turkish protesters trying to raise funds for a full page ad at Washington Post or New York Times
2013-06-03,"Girl, 14, gang raped by 4 men, labelled a 'black virgin' and condemned to death by her village in rural Pakistan for speaking out about it."
2013-06-03,"Pope Francis meets Atheist Uruguayan president Jose Mujica: I think that if they let him, hes going to make a revolution inside the Church, towards simplicity. Hes just like talking to a good neighbour youve known for years"
2013-06-03,"Canada set to ban lifelong confinement of pigs in small cages: ""The days of pregnant pigs being confined in cages roughly the same size as their bodies are numbered."""
2013-06-03,"Turkish PM: ""There is now a menace which is called Twitter. To me, social media is the worst menace to society"""
2013-06-03,Twitter is a troublemaker: Turkish PM
2013-06-03,"Stop killer robots now, UN asks -- ""Countries are developing armed robots that can kill without the need for human choice or intervention, and they need to call a halt before it's too late"""
2013-06-03,Turkish Union to Strike From Tuesday Over Unrest to support protestors
2013-06-03,Syria warns its citizens not to go to Turkey because of protests
2013-06-03,"""Turtle conservationist shot dead 'by poachers' on Costa Rica beach -- Jairo Mora Sandoval, 26, died just weeks after posting a Facebook plea for police help with turtle-egg thieves."""
2013-06-03,Only 'Unevolved Apes Want Nukes!': Japanese Demand End to Nuclear Era: Thousands rally in Tokyo as nuclear restarts loom
2013-06-03,Islamic cleric decrees it OK for Syrian rebels to rape women
2013-06-03,"UK Internet provider Sky Broadband has quietly started to restrict access to a wide range of proxy sites through which subscribers could reach Piratebay, Kat.ph, Movie2k and other blocked sites."
2013-06-03,"Flo Rida refuses to pay $400,000 in damages because he doesn't think Australia has any jurisdiction over him."
2013-06-03,Almost 100 Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in suspected gas attack
2013-06-03,"Turkish Leader Defies the Turkish people and Says Protests Will Not Stop Plans for Park: Calling protesters looters and bums, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that plans to demolish a public park would continue, despite public opposition"
2013-06-03,Laos Admits Handing Over North Korean Defectors to Pyongyang
2013-06-03,"Prague evacuated, state of emergency as floods grip Czech Republic"
2013-06-03,"Protests in Turkey Reveal a Larger Fight Over Identity: For many Turks, the development of urban spaces is not so much progress as a reflection of growing autocratic ambitions by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a fight against Islamism"
2013-06-03,"Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court has ruled that the nation's Islamist-dominated legislature and constitutional panel were illegally elected, dealing a serious blow to the legal basis of the Islamists' hold on power. [x-post /r/LegalNews]"
2013-06-03,Insight: North Korean economy surrenders to foreign currency invasion
2013-06-03,Turkeys Leader Blames Rioting on Extremists
2013-06-03,Portugal stage biggest protest since 1974 revolution whilst international mainstream media ignores it
2013-06-02,"Based on requests, the pictures of the protests going on in Turkey. You will see how big the protest is. It is believed it has reached 1 million people througout Turkey. You will also see how brutally violent the police is."
2013-06-02,"Turkey Prime Minister, Erdogan says protestors should go home, ""If you bring 100,000, I'll bring out a million."""
2013-06-02,"Youth unemployment in Greece and Spain above 50 percent, could hit 70 percent in early 2014"
2013-06-02,Egypt's top court rules that Islamist-dominated Senate and the panel that drafted constitution are illegal
2013-06-02,13yrold student reprimanded for stopping a knife-weilding bully at school.
2013-06-02,"Say what you will about Greenpeace, their office is in the middle of the chaos in Turkey. They're treating the injured -- this is their update."
2013-06-02,Monsanto shares fall as South Korea joins pause in wheat imports from the US
2013-06-02,An Oxford University researcher and author specializing in neuroscience has suggested that one day religious fundamentalism may be treated as a curable mental illness
2013-06-02,Canadian relief for Oklahoma tornado victims denied at border
2013-06-02,The new suffragettes: The Kurdish woman fighting against female genital mutilation
2013-06-02,A stunning 90-sec video of Turkeys protests: It started over the govts plan to turn a park into a mall but have since become a broad rebuke to the 10-year leadership of Mr. Erdogan and his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party...which has adopted authoritarian tactics.
2013-06-02,Russia Is Upping The Ante By Sending Its Only Aircraft Carrier To The Mediterranean
2013-06-02,US call for full Tiananmen massacre disclosure angers China
2013-06-02,Update on the Turkey situation from Al Jazeera. Interesting read.
2013-06-02,"'Begging Mafia' in Pakistan is kidnapping children, inflicting them with disabilities, and then forcing them to beg for money, already thousands of children are kidnapped every year"
2013-06-02,Syria Rebukes Erdogan Over Turkish Protest Violence
2013-06-02,Al-Qaeda poison gas cell busted in Baghdad: Iraqs defense ministry
2013-06-02,Iraq captures suspected Al Qaeda cell that planned to make chemical weapons
2013-06-02,U.S. company allegedly caught aiding Syria and Iran in censorship efforts
2013-06-02,"""The American embassy in Cairo has bad news for anyone traveling to Egypt: For now, the pyramids in Giza should be considered off limits -- at least if you're visiting without a trusted guide."""
2013-06-02,Mentally-ill patients were 'Tasered' more than 50 times in three years: Freedom of Information request reveals extent of stun-gun use by UK police in psychiatric ward
2013-06-02,New web censorship rule bans gay content in Singapore
2013-06-02,"In Somalia, polio vaccines rejected over rumours spread by Islamic extremists | CTV News"
2013-06-02,China accuses US of prejudice after it calls for a full account of 1989 Tiananmen crackdown
2013-06-02,China Will Soon Be Drilling A Third Of Iraq's Oil
2013-06-01,"In Turkey, 'police are packing people into the subway stations and throwing in tear gas, attacking hospitals where the injured are being treated.'"
2013-06-01,Revolution in 90 seconds.This is what happening right now in Turkey. Help us spread the word.
2013-06-01,The Islamist government of turkey is about to fall. Minute by minute updates.
2013-06-01,Thousands in Mexico Protest Monsanto by Throwing a Carnival of Corn
2013-06-01,"10 Russian MiG-29 fighter jets headed to Syria, which asks for more..."
2013-06-01,Japan pledges 32 billion in aid to Africa
2013-06-01,Saudi Authorities Ban Guy Fawkes Masks
2013-06-01,"Italy announces first case of SARS-like coronavirus. The virus has now reached Italy, France, Germany, and Britain"
2013-06-01,Russia to sell MiG fighters to Syria
2013-06-01,Costa Rica poachers 'kill turtle activist': An environmentalist campaigning for the protection of endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica has been found dead in a suspected killing by smugglers
2013-06-01,Richest 1% control 39% of world's wealth and growing
2013-06-01,Islam cartoon pulled from Australian student newspaper website. Australian National University vice-chancellor says the cartoon satirising Islam overstepped the mark.
2013-06-01,Horror in a mass sterilization camp: Unconscious Indian women were dumped in a field after undergoing a painful sterilization operation
2013-06-01,Three strikes for file-sharing fails to halt music sales decline in France
2013-06-01,Monsanto gives up fight for GM plants in Europe
2013-06-01,Chinese women learn how to marry elite foreigners in 90 days
2013-06-01,Graphic: Syrian Civil War is Bleeding Beyond its Borders [x-post from /r/infographic]
2013-06-01,Russia to send nuclear submarines to southern seas
2013-06-01,France to ban electronic cigarettes in public
2013-06-01,Mexicos ex-president Vicente Fox backs nationwide legal pot market in the US
2013-06-01,"Ethiopia has begun diverting the flow of the River Nile as part of its controversial scheme to build Africas largest hydroelectric dam. Construction has already caused significant concern in Egypt, which is totally dependent on the Nile for water."
2013-06-01,NATO data: Assad winning the war for Syrians hearts and minds
2013-06-01,"India to raise 40,000 additional troops with offensive capabilities to counter China along shared border."
2013-06-01,"China Skeptical Of Expanded US Role In The Pacific: ""A Chinese military leader on Saturday [1 June 2013] pointedly questioned the expanded U.S. role in the Pacific after the Pentagon chief said he hoped for better military ties between the two powers."""
2013-06-01,"Two global meat giants with shady food safety histories are planning to merge in hopes of becoming the most powerful meat producer in the world. Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the U.S., has been bought by Chinas Shuanghui International Holdings Limited."
2013-05-31,Kim Dotcom Wins Case to Get Seized Material Back...
2013-05-31,"Police attacks peaceful protest trying to save a park in the heart of Istanbul, Turkey. Local media is being silenced."
2013-05-31,"Amelia Earhart's Plane Revealed in Sonar?: A grainy sonar image captured off an uninhabited tropical island in the southwestern Pacific republic of Kiribati might represent the remains of the Electra, the two-engine aircraft legendary aviator Amelia Earhart was piloting when she vanished on 7/2/1937"
2013-05-31,South Korea follows Japan to ban all US wheat imports after unapproved Mansanto mutant strain found in Oregon
2013-05-31,Former Mexican president (Vicente Fox) pushes for pot legalization
2013-05-31,Japan cancels U.S. wheat order on GMO fear
2013-05-31,Nasa's Curiosity rover has confirmed what everyone has long suspected - that astronauts on a Mars mission would get a big dose of damaging radiation
2013-05-31,Cardinal: Abortion is bigger sin than priest abuse
2013-05-31,Cuba says inclusion on U.S. terrorist list 'shameful'
2013-05-31,McCain denies knowingly posing with kidnappers
2013-05-31,U.S. Senator John McCain was photographed with a known affiliate of the rebel group responsible for the kidnapping of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims (xpost /r/syriancivilwar)
2013-05-31,Giant Asteroid Zooming by Earth on Friday Has its Own Moon
2013-05-31,Pakistan Rape cases: DNA tests not admissible as main evidence says Council of Islamic Ideology
2013-05-31,"The River Nile has been a source of life for millions over the centuries. Now Ethiopia is diverting water to build a giant dam, and those downstream who depend on the river, are left wondering when and whether this issue can be resolved peacefully."
2013-05-31,170 indigenous people ready to die to protect their land
2013-05-31,UK Government's child internet safety adviser wants default safety setting on Google Search to force users seeking hardcore porn sites to register
2013-05-31,NASA's Curiosity rover confirms a stream once ran through Gale Crater on Mars
2013-05-31,Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics a 'monstrous scam'
2013-05-31,Fugitive CEO with Arrest Warrant  Shaileshkumar Famous for Scareware Software Programs
2013-05-31,US and Germany urge Russia not to arm Syria military
2013-05-31,Turkey finds sarin gas in homes of suspected Syrian Islamists
2013-05-31,"Novartis warns India over drug patent: Novartis has threatened to stop supplies of new medicines to India if the countrys top court refuses to grant a patent for Glivec, its cancer drug."
2013-05-31,The destruction of tropical rainforests is having an even greater impact on the environment than was previously thought
2013-05-31,"Syrian forces kill three Westerners, including an American woman and a British citizen, who it claims were fighting with the rebels"
2013-05-31,British taxpayers to pay 'millions' towards secretive Bilderberg meeting security
2013-05-30,"Irish priest: Delay communions until adulthood -- ""It should be when people have choice, when they have proper formation [of faith]. What Im saying isnt off the wall, its realistic."""
2013-05-30,First topless protest in an Islamic state leads to 3 arrests (NSFW).
2013-05-30,Hungary torches 500 hectares of GM corn to eradicate GMOs from food supply
2013-05-30,"A pair of Saudi maids each get 1,000 lashes & 10 years in prison for witchcraft. A compassionate sentence for a crime that usually results in the death penalty."
2013-05-30,El Salvador court denies seriously ill woman abortion. Lawyers for the young woman argued that continuing the pregnancy would place her life at risk. The foetus itself is missing part or all of its brain.
2013-05-30,Girl turns up at a police station in the UK on her wedding night and claims she had been forced to marry a man she had only met once or she would be killed
2013-05-30,U.N investigators say most Syrian rebels are not seeking democracy
2013-05-30,"Canadian abortion rights campaigner Henry Morgentaler has died. Parents killed by Nazis, survived the Polish Ghetto, Aushwitz and Dachau. Persecuted in Canada, went to prison for 10 years Responsible for the eventual overturning of Canada's abortion laws. A true humanitarian and hero."
2013-05-30,Iran is in the throes of an unprecedented sexual revolution. Could it eventually topple the regime?
2013-05-30,"More than 1,000 dog skulls found in Thai garbage dump. Authorities fear that the dogs were killed for food, most likely meatballs, and that the processor intentionally started the fire to cover his or her tracks."
2013-05-30,Assad: Syria has received Russian missile shipment
2013-05-30,"Extremists arrested in Turkey, supposedly carrying 2 kg of Sarin gas."
2013-05-30,Deadly New Virus Is Spreading. Virus has killed half the people known to be infected.
2013-05-30,Almost half of people shot dead by Australian police were mentally ill: Report says 44 out of 105 fatal shootings in the past 22 years were of people with mental illness
2013-05-30,Soldier will plead guilty to slaughtering 16 villagers in Afghanistan to avoid the death penalty
2013-05-30,"Editorial: Recreational drug control a world first: ""New Zealand could be the first legal, regulated market for recreational drugs thanks to the Psychoactive Substances Bill before Parliament."""
2013-05-30,"A Muslim-run company have been ordered to pay a Christian worker over 2,000 for racially discriminating against him because he is white"
2013-05-30,Middle East Coronavirus Called 'Threat To The Entire World'
2013-05-30,Sexual allegations about 81 BBC staff have been reported since the Jimmy Savile scandal came to light - with almost half still working for the corporation
2013-05-30,UN rights chief urges global powers: Don't send arms to Syria rebels.[xpost /r/strictlyworldpolitics]
2013-05-30,Assad: We received 1st shipment of S-300 missiles from Russia
2013-05-30,UK special forces snatched Woolwich terror suspect Michael Adebolajo as he tried to enter Somalia from Kenya in 2010 and was flown back to Britain and allowed to roam free for the next two and a half years after he was give a clean bill of health by security services
2013-05-30,Syrian Rebels Fragment Over Growing Power of Islamists
2013-05-30,Two men become first gay couple to wed in France
2013-05-30,Rape in South Africa and other African countries. Some shocking stats.
2013-05-29,New poll says Assange could win Australian Senate seat
2013-05-29,The World's Richest 8% Earn Half of All Planetary Income
2013-05-29,A 13 year old Chinese girl was handcuffed and paraded in streets for 20 mins for spilling drink on a govt. vehicle
2013-05-29,First gay couple to wed in France amid tight security
2013-05-29,Preserved Ice Age mammoth found with flowing blood in Siberia
2013-05-29,"Japan's innovation in science is at heart of plans to boost economy - Govt revitalizing science workforce by boosting jobs for females, finding top talent abroad & upping research commercialization. It's committed 100s of billions of yen to space, physics & stem-cell research & more is to come."
2013-05-29,"A ""lost"" report into genocide, torture, rape and enslavement of indigenous tribes during Brazil's military dictatorship has been rediscovered: ""The Indian Protection Service has degenerated to the point of chasing Indians to extinction"""
2013-05-29,Buddhist Mobs Burn Mosque and Muslim School in Myanmar
2013-05-29,Muslims and Buddhists clash in northern Myanmar. The fighting begun after a violent quarrel between a Muslim man and a Buddhist woman who worked at a petrol station. The man doused the woman in fuel and set her on fire.
2013-05-29,"Oldest complete Torah scroll reportedly found in Italy - University of Bologna says 850-year-old Jewish text, belonging to Babylonian tradition, was mislabeled by a librarian in 1889."
2013-05-29,UN Report: an astounding 99.3% of Egyptian women have experienced harassment
2013-05-29,Germany warns of revolution as youth unemployment threatens to tear Europe apart
2013-05-29,"Gunmen killed a female polio worker and injured another near the northwest city of Peshawar on Tuesday, the latest in a series of assaults on vaccination teams working to eradicate the disease in Pakistan"
2013-05-29,King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Of Saudi Arabia Reported To Be 'Clinically Dead'
2013-05-29,Terrorists attack Red Cross office in Afghan city of Jalalabad
2013-05-29,"Syria Goes Hot: Russia To Deliver Weapons, Deploys Air Defense; Israel Warns Russia; Obama Demands No Fly Zone"
2013-05-29,Scottish outrage at 'nanny state' plan to ban pint glass in Highlands pubs
2013-05-29,"New outsource job, Indians have to check american doctors and nurses wash their hands properly via cam and sensors"
2013-05-29,"A elevator beheads woman in Shenzhen, China."
2013-05-29,Corporations Are Subverting Attempts to Rein in Their Power: Citizens have won important policy victories only to be undermined by the growing web of international investment rules and arbitration courts
2013-05-29,The Stigma of Reporting a Rape in Pakistan
2013-05-29,A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the International Committee of the Red Cross office in the Afghan city of Jalalabad and two more insurgents entered the building
2013-05-29,Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Problem of Muslim Leadership
2013-05-29,U.S. drone reportedly shot down by Al-Shabab militants in Somalia
2013-05-29,Switzerland to allow its banks to sidestep secrecy saws to disclose names of clients in a move intended to help resolve a long-running dispute with the United States over tax evasion
2013-05-28,China is starting to get embarrassed about its tourists obnoxious behavior abroad - Take for example the sign outside the Louvre Museum only in Chinese characters that forbids people from urinating or defecating wherever they want.
2013-05-28,"Unvaccinated children will be banned from childcare facilities, and centres who do enrol them will face fines, after changes to the Public Health Act passed through cabinet Monday night (NSW, Australia)"
2013-05-28,Israel warns Moscow that it will attack shipments of Russian weapons to Syria
2013-05-28,"Police with stun batons were called to end a protest over pay by 3,000 mostly female workers working at a Nike factory in Cambodia"
2013-05-28,"An Australian woman is sacked when she takes leave to cope with her daughter being murdered. Employer tells reporter ""You are a hyena and something wrong is going to happen to your children"""
2013-05-28,Australia ranked 'happiest' developed nation again
2013-05-28,"Months after a Russian ""ghost ship"" turned up adrift off the Irish coast, she's gone missing again. The Lyubov Orlova's tow line broke as the cruise ship was being hauled from Canada to the Dominican Republic as scrap. The ship, empty except for an infestation of rats, has not been seen since March"
2013-05-28,"War memorial vandalized with the word ""ISLAM"" in wake of terror murder. An 89-year-old veteran has vowed to stand next to the memorials until someone removes the graffiti. It's unclear who painted the graffiti."
2013-05-28,Newborn baby rescued alive after being flushed down toilet in China
2013-05-28,An Alaska Airlines passenger has been restrained by other passengers after trying to open the emergency exit midflight.
2013-05-28,"The armed rebels affiliated to the Free Syrian Army (FSA) raided the Christian-populated al-Duvair village in Reef (outskirts of) Homs near the border with Lebanon today and massacred all its civilian residents, including women and children."
2013-05-28,Dad demands further action after sex abuse inquiry: The father of two girls who were abused by a Catholic priest in Australia says apologies don't matter if the church doesn't take further action.
2013-05-28,"Meat from endangered whales caught by Icelandic hunters is being sold in Japan as luxury dog treats, environmental campaigners say"
2013-05-28,BBC News - Russian to deliver arms 'to deter foreign intervention in Syria'
2013-05-28,At least 57 dead as 13 car bombs rip Baghdad
2013-05-28,Man kills 11 elderly people to hide $85 drug theft.
2013-05-28,Drones join war on rhino poachers in South Africa
2013-05-28,Male rape survivors fight stigma in Uganda
2013-05-28,"In Malaysia, a criminal tribunal attempts to prosecute war crimes the Hague wont. It has tried and sentenced former US President George W. Bush, in absentia, over charges tied to the Iraq War. In August, the tribunal will hold hearings on alleged war crimes in Israeli-occupied Palestine."
2013-05-28,Armed Rebels Massacre Entire Population of Christian Village in Syria
2013-05-28,Polio Reappears in the Horn of Africa according to W.H.O. [xpost /r/strictlyworldpolitics]
2013-05-28,North Korea to open a ski resort.
2013-05-28,Rob Ford CrackStarter Cracks 200K. Police now linking homicide to the tape investigation.
2013-05-28,"UAE crown prince receive Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai and says ""education of women is a basic right in Islam"""
2013-05-28,"Israels defense minister says they could hit Russian shipment of advanced missiles to Syria: As far as we are concerned, that is a threat"
2013-05-27,"The bewildering state of India's justice system - Prison born boy grows up, gets a job and finally manages to provide his mum with the $180 bail she's been waiting 19 years in jail for."
2013-05-27,116 year old Japanese man now the last male alive that was born in the 19th century
2013-05-27,"Chinese tourist carved ""Ding Jinhao was here"" in a 3,500 year old Egyptian temple: ""We want to apologize to the Egyptian people and to people who have paid attention to this case across China"""
2013-05-27,"Most of the major newspapers in Uganda, apart from the government run paper, were raided and shut down by police last week. The government paper (The New Vision) that is still in operation has no mention of any of this on their website."
2013-05-27,Cows are gradually losing their sacred status in India as tastes for beef increases.
2013-05-27,Monsanto Found Guilty of Chemical Poisoning in Landmark Case
2013-05-27,Vatican corrects infallible pope: atheists will still burn in hell
2013-05-27,UK Government use beheading as excuse to push through failed cyber security bill
2013-05-27,Mosque in UK set on fire in retaliation for death of British soldier
2013-05-27,"Xi Threatens Lifetime Consequences for Officials Who Hurt the Environment - Chinas president has laid down a stark warning to officials: if you sanction a project that damages the environment, youll be held responsible. For life."
2013-05-27,Original owner of Toronto mayors alleged crack video may have been killed
2013-05-27,Pakistani women marry in Britain's first Muslim lesbian partnership
2013-05-27,Grieving parents speak out against anti-vaccination extremists
2013-05-27,"Google's Eric Schmidt: change British law and we'd pay more tax ""If the British system changes the tax laws then we will comply. If the taxes go up we will pay more, if they go down we will pay less. That is a political decision for the democracy that is the UK."""
2013-05-27,"No-Vacation Nation Revisited: Out of 21 rich countries (16 European countries, Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, and the United States), the US is the only country in the group that does not require employers to provide paid vacation time"
2013-05-27,Reporters for French journal Le Monde witness chemical warfare in Syria. Photographer is exposed to toxic gas.
2013-05-27,Vandals Graffiti The Word 'Islam' On Two London War Memorials
2013-05-27,"Cash-Strapped Italians Abandoning Autos for Bicycles - We've seen a lot of people re-discover this means of transport. Its ease, simplicity, speed for short distances. 2,000 more bikes sold than cars in 2011  a differential that rose to over 200,000 last year."
2013-05-27,Woman beaten to death in Gaza for entering mother-in-law's kitchen
2013-05-27,"From Now Google will help Police to track ""extremist websites"" through its search results"
2013-05-27,Syrian Army Kills FSA Leader in Qusayr Known as Bin Laden II... FSA is Now Surrounded from All Sides
2013-05-27,Chinese Tourist Damages 3000-Year-Old Temple in Luxor
2013-05-27,Germany Seeks Uniform Law on Marijuana: German states are now trying to hash out possession regulations that would apply across the country
2013-05-27,Huge anti-gay marriage protest march in Paris
2013-05-27,Sweden's riots: Is the integration of immigrants failing?
2013-05-26,Nearly two-thirds of people in the UK believe there will be a 'clash of civilisations' between British Muslims and white Britons
2013-05-26,Thousands of Muslims gather in London to condemn murder of soldier Lee Rigby
2013-05-26,"French Soldier stabbed in the neck in Paris, reportedly by man of North African descent."
2013-05-26,"BBC News - Brazil 'to write off' almost 900M in African debt. ""Brazil has announced that it will cancel or restructure almost $900m (600m) worth of debt with Africa."""
2013-05-26,Canadian mine giant Barrick fined a record $16.4M in Chile. Native population complains of cancerous growths and aching stomachs
2013-05-26,"David Simon, creator of The Wire: drug war is ""a holocaust in slow motion"""
2013-05-26,Islamists kill 21 in suicide attacks in Niger
2013-05-26,A woman awaiting a transplant for a rare condition that has destroyed her kidneys had her operation cancelled at the 11th hour because the Government refused to pay for the drug she needs to prevent the organ being rejected
2013-05-26,Islamists attack Turkey 'kissing protest'
2013-05-26,Millions march against GM crops: Organisers celebrate huge global turnout and say they will continue until Monsanto and other GM manufacturers listen
2013-05-26,Bosnian Shepherd Strangles Brown Bear Barehanded
2013-05-26,Russia will deliver S-300 system if Israel strikes again
2013-05-26,Robert Mugabe's darkest secret: An 800bn blood diamond mine run with China's Red Army.
2013-05-26,"Under Hamas, No More Coed Classes in Gaza"
2013-05-26,Attacks on Muslims soar in wake of Woolwich murder
2013-05-26,Muslims Demand Germany 'Make Islam Equal to Christianity'
2013-05-26,"Terrorists in India attack government convoy, kill 17"
2013-05-26,Millions of Protesters around the world march against Monsanto
2013-05-26,"Proposed law to protect Afghan women faces backlash. 'The drama erupted when a female legislator brought the bill before parliament May 16 and a group of conservative male lawmakers vehemently objected, saying it was contrary to Islam and Afghan culture'"
2013-05-26,A French soldier on patrol in Paris has been stabbed in the throat by a man believed to be of North-African origin.
2013-05-26,"Muslim: The doctrine of armed jihad against the ""kuffar"" (non-Muslims) is disingenuously denied by Islamic clerics and leaders."
2013-05-26,Breaking the Taboo: Why the OAS Report on Alternatives to Drug Prohibition Is Such a Big Deal : The Organization of American States (OAS) released an unprecedented report last Friday that presents the most high-level discussion of alternatives to drug prohibition in history.
2013-05-26,Pope Francis condemns mafia for 'enslaving people'
2013-05-26,"VICE: We Watched the Stockholm Suburbs Burn - ""The riots must either have been one step ahead of us or maybe there were no riots at all, just a couple of bored and prolific arsonists."""
2013-05-26,Four mosques attacked in Germany in 10 days
2013-05-25,Sweden riots spread beyond Stockholm despite extra police
2013-05-25,28 grade 10 students in Quebec stripped search due to a missing cell phone during an exam.
2013-05-25,"Google to bankroll, build wireless networks across Africa, including with balloons, blimps and TV airwaves"
2013-05-25,Five Undercover Police Cars Sent To Arrest Single Alleged Movie Pirate
2013-05-25,"Challenging Monsanto: 200,000 in 40 countries to rally against GMO"
2013-05-25,"Public rapes outrage Brazil, testing ideas of image and class. 'In one case, an assailant held a gun to the head of a 30-year-old woman while raping her in front of passengers on a bus as the driver proceeded down a main avenue'"
2013-05-25,"A suicide bomber has blown herself up close to an interior ministry building in the troubled southern Russian republic of Dagestan, officials say."
2013-05-25,Eleven people across UK arrested for making 'racist or anti-religious' comments on Facebook and Twitter about British soldier's death
2013-05-25,Energy suppliers held back gas during UK shortage - Terminals near London & in Wales were 40% & 52% full on the day it was claimed the UK had 6 hours' worth of gas left
2013-05-25,They dont want to integrate: Fifth night of youth rioting rocks Stockholm
2013-05-25,Church of England unveils plan for women bishops in 2015
2013-05-25,Jordan king says extremism 'grown fat' on Israel-Palestinian conflict
2013-05-25,China Bluntly Tells North Korea to Enter Nuclear Talks
2013-05-25,2-Child Limit for Muslims in Parts of Mynamar
2013-05-25,Swedish police call in back-up after worst riots in years
2013-05-25,"Close to half of Australian adults lack the basic reading, writing and maths skills needed for every day living"
2013-05-25,"Nigerian ""baby factories"" tricking women into believing they're pregnant, then give them ""factory made"" babies from teenage girls."
2013-05-25,Woolwich killing: universities crack down on the preachers of hate | UK news | The Guardian
2013-05-25,"Bees have been battling bad weather, loss of habitat and possible pesticide effects but now keepers are facing a new threat - bee-rustling."
2013-05-25,"India will issue at least 27,000 more Emergency Certificates to enable its citizens to leave Saudi Arabia for home after a new labor policy came into force in the Kingdom"
2013-05-25,Woolwich attack: MI5 'offered job to attacker 6 months previously
2013-05-25,"Russia Orders Urgent Evacuation of 'Drifting' Arctic Research Station as Ice Floe Melts - 16 scientists abandon station near Canada because ice disintegrating at alarming rate, giving the station little chance of survival. ""It's getting harder to find a block of ice to sustain a station."""
2013-05-25,"Police, locals deny claim that part of The Hague is a 'Sharia triangle'"
2013-05-25,Japan to build giant elevator from earth to space by 2050.
2013-05-25,"""We are dealing with a major incident"": British police close motorway to deal with suspicious vehicle"
2013-05-24,"German brewers concerned fracking could contaminate water supplies, violate beer purity law of 1516"
2013-05-24,"A report out Thursday calls on Canada to decriminalize personal use of all narcotics and regulate cannabis, saying current policies are failing to reduce drug use or make Canadians safer."
2013-05-24,3D printed gun explodes during testing by Australian police.
2013-05-24,Malaysians outraged after sharia court allows rapist to marry his 13-year-old victim
2013-05-24,"Orthodox Christian protesters, lead & organized by Priests, have brutally attacked gay rights activists in Georgia. All this crowd, like zombies, they simply wanted to kill us. Not beat or humiliate, they simply wanted to kill us, said Nino Kharchilava, one of the protesters."
2013-05-24,The Muslim Brotherhood Has Turned Cairo Into A Dystopia [PHOTOS]
2013-05-24,"RAF Fighter jets reported ""escorting passenger plane to Stansted Airport"""
2013-05-24,Stockholm rioting continues for fifth night
2013-05-24,"5,000 cave paintings discovered in Mexico: ""These groups escaped Spanish control for almost 200 years"""
2013-05-24,Magnitude 8.2 Earthquake Hits Russian Far East off Kamchatka
2013-05-24,Croatia bans sex education in schools after pressure by conservatives and catholic church
2013-05-24,"In Berlin, you can carry 15 grams of marijuana. In Munich? Just six. To ease any confusion, German states are now trying to hash out possession regulations that would apply across the country"
2013-05-24,'The future of freedom on the internet is at stake'
2013-05-24,The highest reported share of self-described atheists is in China: an astounding 47 percent
2013-05-24,"'Something passed underneath us, quite close': Airbus A320 has close encounter with UFO - Home News - UK"
2013-05-24,Muslim preacher justifies the hacking to death of a British soldier
2013-05-24,"Swaziland's albinos have called on the government for protection ahead of elections expected later this year, fearing their body parts will be harvested by candidates seeking good luck."
2013-05-24,German beer makers have warned the chancellor Angela Merkel that the controversial method of drilling for natural gas known as fracking could damage Germanys legendry beer industry by contaminating the purity of the water.
2013-05-24,"Plane seen ""On Fire"" flying over London.... Looks like an engine fire!"
2013-05-24,Nineteen-year-old Israeli sentenced to jail for the 10th time because of his refusal to serve in the army
2013-05-24,Fukushima contamination found in plankton at all 10 points tested in the Pacific Ocean
2013-05-24,3-D Printed Windpipe Gives Infant Breath of Life: Scientific American
2013-05-24,British police arrest two more over London attack
2013-05-24,Mass piracy lawsuits are back in Australia: A law firm is requesting major Australian ISPs hand over the details of users who have allegedly used peer to peer Internet file sharing platforms to pirate content owned by the firms clients
2013-05-24,"Stockholm riots throw spotlight on Swedish inequality. 'Five nights of rioting in the suburbs of Sweden's capital Stockholm have raised the national debate about immigration, unemployment and social inequality'"
2013-05-23,"Pope Francis says atheists can be good ""Atheists should be seen as good people if they do good, Pope Francis has said in his latest urging that people of all religions, and none, work together."""
2013-05-23,South Korean police have discovered a all female criminal gang running a honeypot operation. They entice married men to have sex with a member of the gang and then blackmail them with the threat of reporting it as rape.
2013-05-23,"Dutch meat tycoon, Willy Selten, has been arrested for allegedly selling 300 tonnes of horsemeat as beef"
2013-05-23,Stockholm hit by third night of rioting. Pm calls for calm
2013-05-23,"Kim Dotcom to Google, Twitter, Facebook: ""I own security patent for the two-step authentication system"". He says he doesnt want to sue, but might if the likes of Google and Facebook dont help fund his legal battle with the U.S. Government."
2013-05-23,Man hacked and beheaded with meat cleaver by two men who have been shot and killed by police in England
2013-05-23,China has been stealing intellectual property from the US. It has cost the US upwards of 300B dollars a year.
2013-05-23,7 year old South Korean girl killed by a falling suicide jumper.
2013-05-23,Stockholm riots enter day four
2013-05-23,Huge underwater structure stumps Israeli archaeologists
2013-05-23,Chile's fish supply decline 'catastrophic' after years of overfishing
2013-05-23,"Saudi Arabia: six executed, including five Yemenis crucified outside a university"
2013-05-23,Three former Ford Motor Co. executives were charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.
2013-05-23,Man with bloodied hands and weapons speaks after brutal attack in South East London
2013-05-23,Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: 'We want to start a war in London tonight'
2013-05-23,"Australia OKs Mine on Proposed World Heritage Site - It requires clearing 30,000 hectares that a scientific report identifies as of World Heritage standard. Minister Burke has given the green light to landscape destruction. This mine will result in environmental vandalism on a grand scale."
2013-05-23,"Anti-Korean rallies are growing in Tokyos Shin-Okubo district, with the hate speech ramping up to even death threats."
2013-05-23,Both men who hacked British soldier to death were known by UK intelligence services
2013-05-23,Swedish riots rage for fourth night
2013-05-23,"Christian academy in Surrey, British Columbia gives enrollment priority to those experienced in speaking in tongues. The non-profit society that operates the school received $5.8 million in government funding last year."
2013-05-23,Video of man who killed soldier with machete in London speaking with bloodied hands
2013-05-23,"Journalist Riham Said rips of hijab, gives Muslim cleric Yousuf Badri huge serve on national TV"
2013-05-23,Sweden riots spread to south of capital
2013-05-23,Attack in London being treated as terrorism
2013-05-23,Pussy Riots Imprisoned Russian Rock Star Alekhina announces hunger strike
2013-05-22,North Korea's hidden labor camps exposed: A new UN panel is vowing to hold North Korea's Kim regime to 'full accountability' for decades of mass crime and murder. Will Pyongyang face ICC indictment?
2013-05-22,"Pope proclaims all redeemed, even atheists. ""The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!"""
2013-05-22,Gay Marriage Bill Passed in the UK
2013-05-22,Unconfirmed shootings in London- BBC News.
2013-05-22,2nd day of riots in Stockholm suburb shakes Sweden.
2013-05-22,BBC News - LIVE:Police attend London Machete Beheading On Street
2013-05-22,"POLICE have twice stopped a woman, 73, from boarding a plane to Africa to meet an online romance scammer who fleeced her of $75,000."
2013-05-22,Torture Victims Body Is Found Near U.S. Base: Afghan investigators say the man was seen in a videotape undergoing torture at the hands of an Afghan-American translator for a U.S. Special Forces unit
2013-05-22,"Malaysian man who is charged with raping a 13-year-old girl before marrying her under sharia law has provoked national outrage, as the father claims the accused paid the family"
2013-05-22,"Mystery Irish Potato Famine pathogen identified 170 years later - It's the 1st ancient plant genome to be successfully sequenced, a breakthrough expected to help fight modern agricultural diseases"
2013-05-22,"German software giant to recruit hundreds of people with autism after pilot project succeeded: ""SAP sees a potential competitive advantage to leveraging the unique talents of people with autism"""
2013-05-22,"World on course to run out of water, warns Ban Ki-moon Freshwater supply and water quality under pressure, warns UN secretary general on International Day of Biological Diversity"
2013-05-22,Libyan Islamists Bomb Catholic Church In Benghazi
2013-05-22,Nutella lawyers shut down what other companies would consider a wet dream
2013-05-22,UK justice minister insists the UK Pakistani community must tackle grooming (rape) gangs
2013-05-22,"Russian drunk driver who killed 7, including 5 orphans, at bus stop gets 8 and a half years"
2013-05-22,China agrees to impose carbon targets by 2016.
2013-05-22,Koreans more racist than Chinese or Japanese
2013-05-22,Godless funerals thrive in post-Catholic Ireland. 'The growth has come amid a backdrop of church decline. The number of people who call themselves Catholics is at an all-time low'
2013-05-22,Number of Afghan women jailed for fleeing abuse soars | World news
2013-05-22,Quebec area where cancer rates are 80 times higher to be studied
2013-05-22,Lithuanian Foreign Minister: Israel risks facing boycott of all Israeli goods by European countries
2013-05-22,US Senate committee votes to provide weapons to Syrian rebels
2013-05-22,Body of Footless Torture Victim Unearthed Near US Special Forces Base in Afghanistan: Latest development deepens mystery surrounding activities in Wardak Province
2013-05-22,Millions falling into poverty in recession-racked Italy: report
2013-05-21,India Bans Captive Dolphin Shows as Morally Unacceptable - Says they're highly intelligent & should be seen as non-human persons with their own specific rights.
2013-05-21,Intelligence reports confirm that China is quietly encouraging regime change in North Korea and is grooming Kim's older brother Kim Jong-nam to take over his role when Kim Jong-un's control over the country crumbles.
2013-05-21,Teen dies after hiding embarrassing testicle lump
2013-05-21,Preschools may get right to bar unvaccinated children
2013-05-21,A retired Church of England priest has been found guilty of a catalogue of historic sex attacks on young children has been jailed for 10 years
2013-05-21,Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries
2013-05-21,China demands North Korea release captured Chinese.
2013-05-21,"British police officers will be forced to name any friends who work in the media, or else face the sack, under new guidelines"
2013-05-21,Worldwide Protests Against Monsanto Scheduled For May 25th
2013-05-21,North Korea releases Chinese fishing crew.
2013-05-21,Nazi Swastika Flag Raised Near Palestinian Mosque
2013-05-21,'WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange said that he has received a series of unclassified instant message exchanges from UK intelligence officials suggesting that he is being framed.'
2013-05-21,Eddie Izzard: Two more tours and Ill be mayor - Izzard will seek Labour's nomination to run in the 2020 London Mayoral Election
2013-05-21,Climber's phone call from Everest 'illegal'
2013-05-21,"Catholic Church takes on reproductive rights in Philippines, risks further alienation. ""We know (greater access to birth control) will just snowball later on. After this, they will file bills for divorce, euthanasia, abortion, and homosexual marriages."""
2013-05-21,Residents of a western Mexico area who endured months besieged by a drug cartel cheered the arrival of hundreds of Mexican soldiers Monday. [x-post from /r/worldevents]
2013-05-21,[UK] Tory Lord beleives Gay marriage bill may lead to 'lesbian queen and artificially inseminated heir' | He beleives the legislation could allow him to marry his son to escape inheritance tax
2013-05-21,Church of Scotland votes to allow gay ministers
2013-05-21,Russian spacecraft returns to Earth with most of its furry crew dead
2013-05-21,"B.C. police find first counterfeits of new 100$ polymer bills, meant to be impossible to have counterfeits"
2013-05-21,Syria and Israel in exchange of fire
2013-05-21,"Saudi Arabia executes 5 Yemenis, displays bodies"
2013-05-21,"UK signals support for EU import of Canadian tar sands oil: Leaked papers show UK rejects proposal to classify oil from tar sands as highly polluting, a label that would deter EU countries from importing it"
2013-05-21,"Tunisia topless Femen activist arrested for 'immoral gestures': ""Our society is Muslim and we do not accept this marginal behaviour"""
2013-05-21,Homeless Melbourne girl 'gang-raped'
2013-05-20,Police raid school teacher for uploading $4.00 history book to his website that offers free educational resources for students
2013-05-20,1000 year old coins discovered in Australia could re-write history
2013-05-20,"Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate have all asked Google to take down links pointing to the Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK."
2013-05-20,North Korean forces have seized a Chinese fishing boat.
2013-05-20,"Ranbaxy Laboratories knowingly sold inferior and dangerously contaminated generic drugs. When discussing the quality of AIDS drugs sold in Africa, an executive allegedly said, ""Who cares? It's just blacks dying."""
2013-05-20,Youths burn 100 cars in north Stockholm riots
2013-05-20,4 African girls invent a generator that produces 6 hrs of electricity from one glass of urine
2013-05-20,Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon pacing 88% higher than last year's rate
2013-05-20,"""Yemeni women used to tell their children, go to bed or I will call your father,"" a villager tells CNN. ""Now they say, go to bed or I will call the drone. That is a golden ticket you give al Qaeda to use against you."""
2013-05-20,Report Calls on World Leaders to End War on Drugs
2013-05-20,"UK Police retain DNA from thousands of children. Some 120,000 gene samples taken in two years, as police forces argue they are acting within the law"
2013-05-20,Golden Dawn MP stopped from taking gun into parliament.
2013-05-20,North Korea launches short-range missile into East Sea for the third day in a row
2013-05-20,"News museum caves to Israel lobby: ""will not honor two cameramen killed while working for Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV, reversing a Friday decision to include them on a memorial for fallen journalists"""
2013-05-20,How Humans Are Changing the Planetin 7 Dramatic GIFs
2013-05-20,Julian Assange reveals GCHQ messages discussing Swedish extradition
2013-05-20,"Half of the silk on sale in Beijing contains little or no silk, study finds."
2013-05-20,GCHQ embarrassment as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reveals instant messages that he says point to 'fit up'
2013-05-20,Restraint is the new red in China: President Xi Jinping is pressing the Communist Party's elite to cut back on lavish living amid growing public resentment. The economic effect is far-reaching.
2013-05-20,"Iran Hangs Men Convicted Of Spying For U.S., Israel"
2013-05-20,Syria has surface-to-surface Tishreen missiles aimed at Tel Aviv and is ready to use them should Israel decide to conduct a strike on Damascus
2013-05-20,"Do white people have a future in South Africa? 'The answer, as with so many similar existential questions, is ""Yes - but""'"
2013-05-20,'Terrorist attack' against Moscow prevented after counter-terrorism raid in the town of Orekhovo-Zuyevo
2013-05-20,Rice being planted 10 miles from Fukushima Daiichi  Residents cant stay in town overnight  Intended for sale
2013-05-20,"Julian Assange reveals GCHQ messages discussing Swedish extradition - WikiLeaks founder uses subject access request to access British agency chatter, which allegedly calls extradition 'a fit-up'"
2013-05-19,"Church must help the poorest, not dissect theology, Pope says"
2013-05-19,"In landmark ruling, Indonesia's indigenous people win right to millions of hectares of forest"
2013-05-19,Archaeologists have discovered a lost civilisation deep in the jungles of Central America.
2013-05-19,EU to ban olive oil jugs from restaurants essentially forcing restraunt owners to ignore artisans and buy olive oil that is massed produced.
2013-05-19,Israel to return land taken by IDF to Palestinian owners.
2013-05-19,"Bill Gates: ""I always use this chart of childhood death. In 1960, 25% of kids died before the age of 5. And now were down below 6% of kids dying before the age of 5"""
2013-05-19,"North Korea fires short-range missiles for two days in a row, ignoring calls for restraint from Western powers."
2013-05-19,Canadian Police and Government Caught Pirating Movies and TV-Shows
2013-05-19,Gay rights march attacked by crowd led by priests
2013-05-19,South Africa stunned by fatal circumcisions - More than 20 boys have died during coming-of-age rituals in the past week.
2013-05-19,"The Church wins education reform - SPAIN - It is now mandatory to study Religion or it's alternative ""Social and Cultural Values and Ethical Values"". Its grade weights in the average grade for university applications and the law shields subsidies that separate schools by sex."
2013-05-19,Western leaders study 'gamechanging' report on global drugs trade. Review by Organisation of American States on illicit drugs 'could mark beginning of the end' of prohibition
2013-05-19,S.Korea deploys Israeli missile on border with North
2013-05-19,Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party Threatens to 'Slaughter' Muslims 'Like Chickens'
2013-05-19,Denmark won the ESC 2013!
2013-05-19,China now spends $125 billion per year on riot gear and 'stability maintenance'
2013-05-19,"Somaliland celebrates 22 years of independence, having maintained a stable, democratic government in northern Somalia with little international assistance"
2013-05-19,Okinawa rally calls for removal of US bases
2013-05-19,Russia sends at least 12 warships to Syria
2013-05-19,Honeybees trained in Croatia will be used to find land mines in the Balkans
2013-05-19,"India: Murder suspect dies after police inject him with acid, kerosene"
2013-05-19,Torture and Murder of Colombian Union Leader Sparks Scrutiny of Corporate Giant Nestle: Luciano Romero's murder is now taking center stage in a legal battle to define corporate responsibility in conflict zones
2013-05-19,"Heinrich Rohrer, nobel laureate and inventor of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope died on Thursday at the age of 80."
2013-05-19,The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde On Running for European Parliament and Innovating Past Democracy
2013-05-19,A survivor of the recent factory building collapse in Bangladesh describes the day of the tragedy and the constant pressure to work faster under horrible conditions. Her story provides a glimpse at the difficult and impoverished lives of those who produce inexpensive clothing for the West.
2013-05-18,"NASA: Meteor slams into Moon, causes explosion visible to naked eye on Earth"
2013-05-18,"Lebanese Man Impregnates His Sister, Kills Her in 'Honor Crime'"
2013-05-18,"According to a leaked email, Fox News journalists were ordered to cast doubt on climate change"
2013-05-18,Saudi woman makes history by reaching Everest summit
2013-05-18,A group of pregnant Canadian women launched a class-action lawsuit against the maker of a recalled birth control pill after it was discovered the packages contained mostly placebos
2013-05-18,North Korea just launched three short range missiles.
2013-05-18,Guantanamo hunger strike enters 100th day
2013-05-18,"Director of Australia's largest dance studio, caught with thousands of child pornography images, taking pictures of, and molesting students."
2013-05-18,"Aussie government tries to block two sites, takes down 1,200"
2013-05-18,Afghan lawmakers block legislation protecting womens rights
2013-05-18,Washington Gets Explicit: Its 'War On Terror' Is Permanent
2013-05-18,Israeli intelligence official: Assad preferable to rebels
2013-05-18,The Unsafe Sex: Should The World Invest More In Men's Health?
2013-05-18,"Bashar al-Assad: 'We can't negotiate with fragmented rebels'. The Syrian president says that the opposition could not uphold any peace deal, and blames the west for supporting them"
2013-05-18,It has emerged that Hamburg managed to scrape past a catastrophe on May 1st when firefighters swiftly removed radioactive containers and explosives from a burning ship in the city's harbour
2013-05-18,"Five critical, 30 force-fed, 102 to 130 taking part  data that makes for grim reading as the Guantanamo hunger strike enters its 100th day"
2013-05-18,Syrias Bashar Al-Assad is Winning
2013-05-18,Rare good news for elephants: Gabon steps in to help protect elephants from ivory poaching at site of massacre in the Central African Republic
2013-05-18,Gay marriage to become legal in France by Saturday
2013-05-18,North Korea Fires Missiles Into Sea
2013-05-18,A Chinese manager working in Pakistan occupied Kashmir was arrested for 'throwing Quran'
2013-05-18,Man who put a chastity lock on wife gets jailed
2013-05-18,"Afghan Mineral Treasures Stay Buried, Hostages to Instability - It's sitting on massive deposits of copper, gold, iron & rare earth minerals valued up to $3 trillion. But investors are hesitant. And it could be many yrs before Afghanistan begins extracting its mineral wealth."
2013-05-18,Indonesia's tropical forests set to benefit from further clearing ban: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expected to sign extended deal to help restore habitat of tigers and orangutans
2013-05-18,Woman raped in the UAE then jailed after being accused of having pre-marital sex.
2013-05-17,Christianity could be facing a catastrophic collapse in Britain according to official figures suggesting it is declining 50 percent faster than previously thought.
2013-05-17,Pro-Life activists threaten to slit throat of Irish member of Parliament over proposed abortion legislation. They have also threatened to burn down her house.
2013-05-17,Syria is not breaking apart - It is already broken apart and is now a collection of armed fiefs loyal to 3 groups
2013-05-17,Life-saving drugs prices set to fall by up to 80 per cent in India
2013-05-17,"Chinese tourists' bad manners harming country's reputation, says senior official"
2013-05-17,"OECD: The widest gaps between rich and poor were registered in Chile, Mexico, Turkey and the United States."
2013-05-17,"Author Who Chronicled Mexicos Drugs War Forced to Flee - ""He said 'run', then hung up"". She tells how colleague's disappearance meant she had to escape. Her blog partner is still missing."
2013-05-17,"Russia's foreign minister 'does not understand' uproar over Syria arms sales: ""We have not hidden that we supply weapons to Syria under signed contracts, without violating any international agreements, or our own legislation"""
2013-05-17,Golden Dawn Member Of Parliament Yells 'Heil Hitler' In The Middle Of A Debate
2013-05-17,An Australian man who raped and strangled his Indian student neighbour and threw her body into a canal in a suitcase was jailed Friday for 45 years for the horrifying murder.
2013-05-17,Fifteen killed by suicide bomber in Kabul: Dead included two Nato soldiers and four contractors
2013-05-17,"UK MP to Google: 'you do do evil' when it comes to tax ""You are a company that says you do no evil. I think that you do do evil in that you use smoke and mirrors to avoid paying tax."""
2013-05-17,"US slams Japanese mayor's sex-slave comments - State Department says comments by mayor that sex slaves were ""necessary"" during World War II were ""outrageous"""
2013-05-17,The Head of King Richard III Has Been 3D-Printed From His Exhumed Skull
2013-05-17,"Unmoved by Israel, Russia will send top air-defense system to Assad [x-post /r/syriancivilwar]"
2013-05-17,Toronto Star reporters have seen video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack
2013-05-17,Why is violent crime so rare in Iceland?
2013-05-17,"Portugal expands adoption rights for same-sex married couples, refuses unrestricted adoptions"
2013-05-17,US seizes top Bitcoin exchange as crackdown begins
2013-05-17,Former Argentine dictator Videla dead
2013-05-17,"At least 13 killed, 45 wounded as bombs go off in two Pakistani mosques"
2013-05-17,"New, poisonous, meth-like drug ""sisa"" is sweeping through Athens. Many addicts live for only a few months."
2013-05-17,Women's Prison in Gaza Swells With 'Moral' Criminals
2013-05-17,"Earthquake felt in Toronto, Canada, reported as Magnitude 5.0"
2013-05-17,The French Supreme Court ruled on gay marriage: it is constitutional
2013-05-16,"Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the ""cult of money"" that he says is tyrannizing the poor and turning humans into expendable consumer goods: ""Money has to serve, not to rule!"""
2013-05-16,KFC smugglers bring buckets of chicken through Gaza tunnels - Gazans with a hankering for the Colonel's secret recipe can call up a delivery company and get some finger lickin' food smuggled hot from Egypt in just three hours.
2013-05-16,"Australian Web filters, ostensibly put in place to block child pornography sites is now being used to block other sites deemed unlawful by Government Agencies."
2013-05-16,11 Governments Are Meeting in Peru to Figure Out How They Can Control the Internet
2013-05-16,"Sharia law used in the United Arab Emirates to jail Australian woman after she was gang-raped -- Her drink was spiked. Three colleagues then raped her. Under Sharia law, four adult Muslim men need to witness rape, otherwise the woman is sent to prison for sex outside marriage."
2013-05-16,Czech pharmacies begin selling medical marijuana
2013-05-16,A man has shot himself in front of a dozen children in the corridor of a nursery school in Paris.
2013-05-16,"Teen uses metal detector, finds rare Viking-era coins and other items in a field in northern Denmark"
2013-05-16,WalMart and GAP refuse liability for workers in their sweatshops
2013-05-16,Star Wars and Doctor Who fans clash at sci-fi convention. Police called.
2013-05-16,China lays claim to Okinawa as territory dispute with Japan escalates
2013-05-16,South Korea recognizes spousal rape as a crime for first time.
2013-05-16,"Saudi religious police boss condemns Twitter users. 'Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said anyone using social media sites - and especially Twitter - ""has lost this world and his afterlife""'"
2013-05-16,"New Zealand Govt Wants To Spy On All Communications, VPNs, And Be Able To Use Secret Evidence Against You"
2013-05-16,Israel starts process of authorising new West Bank settlement
2013-05-16,Scientists Report First Success in Cloning Human Stem Cells
2013-05-16,British prime minister threatens to prosecute oil bosses. Oil company executives should face criminal prosecution if they are found to have fixed the price of gas.
2013-05-16,"Israel Hints at New Strikes, Warning Syria Not to Retaliate"
2013-05-16,Oldest water on earth discovered...
2013-05-16,Some scientists contend laws against harvest of rhino horns has same effect as prohibition did for alcohol: it created a lucrative black market. Some scientists think creating a regulated market for farmed rhino horns may be the only path to prevent their extinction.
2013-05-16,Australia to stock up on US drones
2013-05-16,Saudi princes fail to win sovereign immunity in UK court case
2013-05-16,Malaysian couple sentenced to 24 years in prison for fatally starving Cambodian housemaid
2013-05-16,"""Pope Francis on Thursday [16 May 2013] called on world leaders to put an end to the 'cult of money' and to do more to help the poor, warning that insecurity was rising in many regions of the world and the 'joy of life' was diminishing in developed countries."""
2013-05-16,"North Korea: Swiss Mission in the DMZ -- With a delegation marooned inside the no man's land between North and South Korea since 1953, Switzerland maintains fragile ties with the North."
2013-05-15,"Theres a country that will pay $300,000 per rhino horn to cure cancer and hangovers, and its wiping out rhinos"
2013-05-15,"Teacher in Qatar jailed for ""insulting Islam"" and faces seven years in prison. He was simply trying to teach his students to be tolerant of people from other countries."
2013-05-15,"Brits are now poorer than the French, Swiss, Belgians, Swedes, Austrians, Aussies and Canadians"
2013-05-15,Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Run For European Parliament
2013-05-15,BP and Shell raided in oil price-rigging investigation
2013-05-15,"If women don't want to be raped they shouldn't drink too much, says Hong Kong official"
2013-05-15,"The gap between rich and poor widened more in the three years to 2010 than in the previous 12 years, the OECD group of industrialised nations has said. It says the richest 10% of society in the 33 OECD countries received 9.5 times that of the poorest in terms of income, up from nine times in 2007."
2013-05-15,"Raids on BP, Shell, and Statoil for evidence of price fixing."
2013-05-15,"Canipre, the company helping movie studios sue you for illegal downloading, has been using images without permission."
2013-05-15,Walmart opts out of Bangladesh safety agreement
2013-05-15,Saudi Arabia Confirms 6 New Cases of SARS-like Virus
2013-05-15,Malaria and HIV Spike as Greece Cuts Healthcare Spending
2013-05-15,A UK-based pharmaceutical company has stopped selling a drug to Arkansas because the US state planned to use it to execute prisoners on death row
2013-05-15,5 signs there's something fishy about the alleged CIA spy arrested in Moscow
2013-05-15,"Palestinians face daily struggle in Egypt - Palestinian refugees do not have access to free medical care or education, creating cycle of poverty."
2013-05-15,"Osaka mayor: ""Wild"" US Marines should consider using prostitutes."
2013-05-15,"Ahmadinejad aide, running for president, threatens to reveal incriminating information about the regime."
2013-05-15,"Argentines are now allowed to know the real rate of inflation, thanks to their courts"
2013-05-15,"Rescuers have found four bodies and rescued 10 of the dozens trapped underground after a tunnel caved in at a giant U.S.-owned gold and copper mine in Timika, Papua province, eastern Indonesia."
2013-05-15,"A X-47B drone took off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time, in a test flight that could eventually open the way for the U.S. to launch unmanned aircraft from just about any place in the world"
2013-05-15,Where Private School Is Not a Privilege - Two school systems in Kenya and in Bangladesh  are making decent education accessible to the worlds poorest on a giant scale.
2013-05-15,Irish government wants the power to shut down the mobile phone network.
2013-05-15,El Salvador gang truce leads to plummeting murder rates
2013-05-15,Japanese manned submersible finds signs of submerged continent off Brazil
2013-05-15,"Sex workers in China subject to police abuse ""Officers sometimes detain women only on the basis of their carrying condoms, thus deterring their use among sex workers and increasing the risk of spreading HIV"" - Human Rights Watch"
2013-05-14,"Astronauts Chris Hadfield, Tom Marshburn, and Roman Romanenko have just touched down in Kazakhstan after 146 days in the International Space Station during Expedition 35."
2013-05-14,"2,300 year old Mayan pyramid destroyed to harvest rock for use as road fill."
2013-05-14,Australian Man Dead for 40 Minutes Brought Back to Life By New Resuscitation Technique
2013-05-14,"Thieves break into stadium safe ""Ocean's 11 style"" after Bon Jovi and Justin Bieber concerts, make off with millions."
2013-05-14,Bowie responds to Hadfield's Space Oddity
2013-05-14,Canada Sells Out Science
2013-05-14,Graphic video shows Syrian rebel commander cutting out government soldier's heart and eating it
2013-05-14,India develops its own diarrhoea vaccine much cheaper than western and expected to save thousands of children lives
2013-05-14,"Czech president, so drunk he can barely stand, staggers through formal state ceremony on national TV"
2013-05-14,CIA agent trying to recruit Russian intelligence officer detained in Moscow
2013-05-14,"Child Molesting Commanders, Heroin Addicted Soldiers - Eye Opening War In Afghanistan Documentary"
2013-05-14,"U.N.: Eating insects is good for you and world. The U.N. is promoting edible insects as a low-fat, high-protein food"
2013-05-14,Japan WWII 'comfort women' were 'necessary' - Hashimoto
2013-05-14,The United Nations has proposed a single solution to both hunger and obesity around the globe: Eating insects.
2013-05-14,"The French government is considering introducing a 1% tax on the sale of smartphones and tablets to help fund French film, music and images."
2013-05-14,"British schoolgirl 'murdered for her organs' in India, family claim"
2013-05-14,The mystery of Shane Todd: Did US electronic engineer commit suicide  or was he murdered because he knew too many Chinese secrets?
2013-05-14,"US shale oil supply shock shifts global power balance: USA could be ""all but self-sufficient"" in its energy needs by about 2035."
2013-05-14,"Millions of phone records revealing age, address and even the websites you visited were offered for sale to police in controversial deal"
2013-05-14,"Death Toll in Syria Likely as High as 120,000"
2013-05-14,The British say the French are the most arrogant people in Europe - and the French agree
2013-05-14,"Sun power advocacy lights up: The million-plus Australian residents with solar panels on their roofs will be less likely to be treated poorly by power companies and politicians following the creation of a new advocacy group, its backers say"
2013-05-14,Atheist Bloggers Arrested in Bangladesh
2013-05-14,Mining company working with Indonesian government to strip forest of protected status
2013-05-14,"""New street drug 40 times worse than heroin"" Montreal Police"
2013-05-13,Poacher Trampled to Death by the Elephant He was Trying to Shoot
2013-05-13,SATs cancelled in South Korea due to suspect cheating. First time an entire country has been banned from taking the test.
2013-05-13,Swaziland makes it illegal for a witch to fly a broomstick above 150m
2013-05-13,Russian Man Raped with Beer Bottles and Penis Chopped off For Being Gay - His Skull Crushed
2013-05-13,"New Fatal Virus Infects Two in France, Likely Spreads Person-to-Person"
2013-05-13,"350,000 fake ballots found just before the elections in Bulgaria (10% of the voting population)"
2013-05-13,27% of Spaniards are out of work. Yet in one town everyone has a job: Marinaleda is run along the lines of a communist Utopia and boasts collectivised lands
2013-05-13,A major Mayan Monument had been bulldozed for roadfill aggregate. Noh Mul in Belize - repost from /Archaeology
2013-05-13,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could face 74 lashes over Iran election 'violation'
2013-05-13,Acid Attacks Against Women on the Rise in Italy - A vicious spate of copycat acid crimes has shocked the European country& reveals a deep-seated culture of violence against women.
2013-05-13,Poachers Kill 26 African Elephants At World Heritage Site : News : Nature World News
2013-05-13,Taliban renounces war on anti-polio workers
2013-05-13,Today is astronaut Chris Hadfield's last full day on the International Space Station
2013-05-13,"""Good Catholics Use Condoms"" ads outrage Kenyan Catholic community"
2013-05-13,"Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia are all slowly islamizing"
2013-05-13,"US and South Korean intelligence agencies are sitting on a huge archive recording torture, starvation and gross human rights abuses in North Korea."
2013-05-13,Egyptian man goes undercover as a woman to explore sexual harassment | World | News
2013-05-13,"Bangladesh ends search for collapse victims; final toll 1,127: The collapse of the Rana Plaza building is the worst tragedy in the history of the global garment manufacturing industry"
2013-05-13,Italian soccer match stopped due to racist abuse of Milan's Balotelli
2013-05-13,Greece has threatened high school teachers with arrest if they go ahead with a nationwide strike
2013-05-13,"David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station [Video]"
2013-05-13,A landfill site that was one of the biggest in Europe has been turned into a nature reserve with rare species now finding refuge on top of nearly 50 years of rubbish.
2013-05-13,Turkish F-16 fighter jet crashes near Syrian border
2013-05-13,Mystery virus death toll hits 15 in Saudi Arabia
2013-05-13,"'Two of the worlds largest apparel companies - H&M and Inditex, owner of the Zara chain - agreed to sign a far-reaching and legally binding plan that requires retailers to help finance fire safety and building improvements in the factories they use in Bangladesh.'"
2013-05-12,North Korea Caves to Chinese Pressure; Puts Missiles in Storage
2013-05-12,UAE rape victim jailed
2013-05-12,Huge Chinese essay writing service uncovered in New Zealand
2013-05-12,President Raul Castro's daughter leads march for gay rights in Cuba
2013-05-12,"Russian Tortured to Death for 'Being Gay' - In a rare admission from Russian authorities, the torture death of a young gay man in Volgograd last week has been confirmed as a hate crime. There are growing fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise in the country."
2013-05-12,"The severity of air pollution in China has rattled Chinese leaders. While they have, on occasion, closed factories and restricted traffic to clear the air for special events, so far they have lacked the will or the capacity to reduce air pollution on a sustained basis."
2013-05-12,"Israel's prime minister faces criticism over $127,000 bed installed on plane"
2013-05-12,Australia has a new program that offers millionaires residency in return for a portion of their wealth
2013-05-12,"There are currently a hundred locust swarms in Madagascar, totaling around 500 billion locusts, eating around 100,000 metric tons of vegetation per day."
2013-05-12,Coke lobbying against Australian recycling legislation & accused of pressuring Australian media to withdraw Greenpeace ad highlighting it's activities
2013-05-12,Arrival of U.S. aircraft carrier infuriates North Korea
2013-05-12,"China's State-Run TV Uses Daily Show Clip To Demonize US, Viewers Point Out The Irony"
2013-05-12,Wall of ice rises out of lake and destroys homes in Canada
2013-05-12,Egyptian police have arrested three al-Qaeda militants planning a suicide attack on a Western embassy
2013-05-12,The UN in Mali says the #2 general in command of the current international support mission there has been found dead in his hotel room.
2013-05-12,Psychologists attack psychiatrists
2013-05-12,"MORE than 80,000 people have been killed in Syria's conflict since it erupted more than two years ago, a monitoring group says."
2013-05-12,"Recession is a good time to exploit cheap labour, says David Cameron aide"
2013-05-12,Morocco launches worlds largest solar power project
2013-05-12,"A second case of a new SARS-like coronavirus has been diagnosed in France, the Health Ministry said on Sunday, in what appeared to be a case of human-to-human transmission."
2013-05-12,Thousands of babies sold on Indonesian black market
2013-05-12,The World Health Organization says it appears likely that the novel coronavirus (NCoV) can be passed between people in close contact.
2013-05-12,Twin car bombs killed 43 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday and the government said it suspected Syrian involvement.
2013-05-12,DPRK lists crimes of detained American
2013-05-12,Two Candidates Shake Up Irans Presidential Race as Last-Minute Entries
2013-05-11,Emergency space walk on the ISS to fix an ammonia leak about to happen LIVE right now!
2013-05-11,"""Settlements on the West Bank are illegal and therefore the produce of those settlements should be treated as illegal throughout the European Union"" - Irish Foreign Affairs Minister"
2013-05-11,Fossil fuel companies have sabotaged all political efforts to stop global heating. Governments have been corrupted and stopped from really trying.
2013-05-11,Saskatoon police mourn local drunk they considered a friend
2013-05-11,"7 Eye-Catching Chinese Petitions Submitted to the White House - Chinese citizens, frustrated by censorship in their own country, are using the White House's petition site to complain."
2013-05-11,"Millions of Chinese internet users have posted online pledges not to kill themselves in recent days, a reaction to a woman's death that police concluded was suicide, despite rumours it was murder."
2013-05-11,Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity
2013-05-11,"3 Male fish, Last of Their Kind, Must Find a Mate or Go Extinct - London Zoo is home to 2 of 3 Mangarahara cichlids known to exist. ""We're urgently appealing to anyone who owns or knows someone who may own these critically endangered fish, which are silver with an orange-tipped tail."""
2013-05-11,A 6.2 quake has struck Southern Iran - Updates inside.
2013-05-11,"4 killed, 18 injured as explosions rock Turkish town on Syrian border  officials"
2013-05-11,Carbon Dioxide Levels Exceed Long-Feared Milestone
2013-05-11,Bradford Muslims Rally To Save Synagogue From Closure
2013-05-11,"German potato cartel has allegedly been fixing supermarket prices for more than a decade, costing consumers and farmers more than 100 million"
2013-05-11,Greece says austerity measures working as budget deficit falls to less than half the sum initially forecast
2013-05-11,"""One of the worlds largest, longest and nastiest courtroom battles was escalated today by Chevron, which sued Patton Boggs, the powerhouse law firm, for alleged fraud and malicious prosecution in an Ecuadoran pollution case."""
2013-05-11,"Why the TransPacific Partnership Is a Scary Big (Trade) Deal - a super-sized NAFTA, the TPP gives foreign corporations privileges that can override domestic laws on environmental health and citizens rights"
2013-05-11,"Seventeen pregnant teenage girls and 11 babies have been rescued from a house in Nigeria's south-eastern Imo state, police have said."
2013-05-11,Noam Chomsky was behind lobby to get Stephen Hawking to boycott Israel conference
2013-05-11,"Mexico slaughters 55,000 chickens at a farm where avian flu was detected"
2013-05-11,86 year old former dictator of Guatemala given 80 year sentence for genocide of Mayan group.
2013-05-11,S. Korean presidential press secretary fired amid an investigation into the alleged groping of woman in a Washington hotel
2013-05-11,Prototype flying car crashes in British Columbia - 2 injured
2013-05-11,Strange Argentina ghost town that was underwater for 25 years re-emerges as tourist attraction
2013-05-11,"Russia denies new sales of advanced air defense system, the S-300 to Syria. Won't confirm or deny if old contracts included a sale of the system."
2013-05-11,Canadian mobsters killed in 'old-fashioned' Sicilian mafia hit | guardian
2013-05-10,Pirate Bay takes over distribution of censored 3D Printable Gun
2013-05-10,Monsanto protests scheduled in 36 countries
2013-05-10,China Destroying Thousand Year Old Buddhas in Afghanistan. This is becoming way too common...
2013-05-10,"""The authorities at Guantnamo Bay say that prisoners have a choice. They can eat or, if they refuse to, they will have a greased tube stuffed up their noses, down their throats and into their stomachs, through which they will be fed."""
2013-05-10,New Zealand Government Announces That Software Will No Longer Be Patentable
2013-05-10,UN study: shocking levels of sexual violence in China - 1 in 4 men admit to rape
2013-05-10,Three men have been arrested after police held back hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protesters trying to prevent a liberal Jewish women's group from praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall.
2013-05-10,International Space Station crew plans daring spacewalk to fix leak
2013-05-10,Mystery surrounds North Korea's decision to grant top military honor to female traffic cop: Defector organization believes she saved Kim Jong Un from assassination attempt
2013-05-10,"Researchers find prejudice, racism and intolerance are more likely to be present with individuals with greater cognitive rigidity, less cognitive flexibility and lower integrative complexity. basically racism is linked to stupidity."
2013-05-10,Kofi Annan: Africa plundered by secret mining deals
2013-05-10,High Court ruling in Pakistan: CIA drone strikes illegal. Judge calls for U.N. sanctions against U.S.
2013-05-10,Regulators Reject Proposal That Would Bring Fox-Style News to Canada
2013-05-10,Israel condemns Church of Scotland report that questions Jews' divine right to Israel
2013-05-10,Ultra Orthodox Jews clash with Israeli police in attempt to stop women praying at western wall.
2013-05-10,"Pew Poll: Israelis, on balance, believe an independent Palestinian state can coexist peacefully with their country. Palestinians overwhelmingly do not think this is possible, and plurality believes armed struggle rather than negotiations or nonviolent resistance is the best way to achieve statehood."
2013-05-10,International Space Station has ammonia leak in cooling system
2013-05-10,Dhaka building collapse: 'Woman found alive' in rubble after 17 days
2013-05-10,China Refuses to Confirm Okinawa And Other Ryukyuan Islands Belong to Japan
2013-05-10,"In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme"
2013-05-10,Turkey 'will support' Syria no-fly zone - Europe
2013-05-10,"On Victory Day, Putin Says Russian Soldiers Freed Europe."
2013-05-10,Western Black Rhino declared extinct.
2013-05-10,Survivor rescued from Dhaka Factory rubble 17 Days After the Collapse
2013-05-10,Syrian girls 'sold for marriage' in Jordan refugee camps
2013-05-09,"North Korea asks China to hire idled workers from closed Kaesong industrial complex, China declines"
2013-05-09,Stephen Hawking confirms he is boycotting Israeli conference
2013-05-09,"North Korean Long-Range Missiles Might Be Fake: ""Fuel ports were in weird places. Cables looked like they weren't laid correctly. The warheads appeared to be made of cheap metal sheeting or perhaps wood. There were so many problems that most experts agree: The missiles on parade weren't real"""
2013-05-09,Rupert Murdoch must step down as News Corporation chair  shareholders
2013-05-09,"Downloads for 3D-printed Liberator gun reach 100,000"
2013-05-09,"Reports from Tibet that Chinese authorities have begun demolishing holy districts of Lhasa, including Jokhang Temple; shopping mall and parking lot construction plans cited"
2013-05-09,Two women to run for Iranian Presidency
2013-05-09,Russia will do its best to stop anybody from starting a war  Putin
2013-05-09,Israel Approves 296 West Bank Settler Homes
2013-05-09,"Chevron Using 60 Law Firms and 2,000 Legal Personnel To Evade Ecuador Environmental Liability, Company Reports"
2013-05-09,"Disney pulls bid to try to trademark the Mexican Holiday ""Dia de los Muertos"""
2013-05-09,Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 4 years in jail for tax fraud
2013-05-09,A B.C. man who vanished a decade ago in a possible underworld killing set up offshore companies and bank accounts before he went missing. He is among the 450 Canadians named in the recent massive leak of tax-haven data
2013-05-09,Berlusconi sentenced to 4 years in prison
2013-05-09,Pakistan: Court condemns U.S. drone attack as a war crime
2013-05-09,The other gender divide: where men are losing out - Feminists are redrawing their battle lines. But data on topics from domestic violence to education show men have problems too.
2013-05-09,Age of consent should be 13 says a prominent British barrister
2013-05-09,"A leading evangelical Christian pastor has been arrested in a Rio suburb for the alleged rape of six women, including three minors, police said"
2013-05-09,"A schoolgirl (14) was repeatedly raped by newspaper tycoon after being 'sold' to him for 650, a court heard"
2013-05-09,Greek Youth Unemployment Rises Above 60 Percent
2013-05-09,B'Tselem: More than 50% of Palestinians killed in Israel's last Gaza operation were civilians - Diplomacy & Defense - Israel News
2013-05-09,Athens mayor sues neo-Nazi MP who punched a 12-year-old girl while trying to assault him
2013-05-09,Researchers mix cells from human adult gum tissue with tooth-inducing cells from mouse embryos to grow new hybrid teeth complete with roots.
2013-05-09,"Blast rips through Moscow bus on Victory Day. An explosion has hit a bus in northern Moscow, ripping the vehicle's roof off and shattering its windows."
2013-05-09,Mass protest in Beijing over police handling of gang rape case [UPDATING]
2013-05-08,Internet Traffic from Syria Just Disappeared
2013-05-08,"Peru says no to GMO: the first country in the Americas to ban genetically modified foods, putting its food policy closer to that of Europe, than the US or many of its South American neighbors"
2013-05-08,Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel
2013-05-08,Ecuador to sell 3 million hectares of rainforest to Chinese oil interests
2013-05-08,France 'rejects' Bob Dylan for Legion of Honor award because he smoked pot and objected to Vietnam war
2013-05-08,Russia Not to Tolerate Further Israeli Attacks on Damascus
2013-05-08,"North Korea will no longer be rewarded for provocative behaviour, US President Barack Obama has said at a joint news conference with South Korea's leader."
2013-05-08,Elephant Slaughter Underway at Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in Central African Republic.
2013-05-08,"It turns out that Stephen Hawkings cancelled trip to Israel is not a matter of boycotting the Jewish state, but rather merely a result of his health"
2013-05-08,Dalai Lama condemns Myanmar attacks on Muslims
2013-05-08,A Final Embrace: The Most Haunting Photograph from Bangladesh's Building Collapse.
2013-05-08,Google reactivates Speak2Tweet for Syrian Internet cutoff
2013-05-08,Several dead as Italy ship crashes into tower
2013-05-08,Uk gorvernment set to destroy DNA samples that can be used to solve cold cases
2013-05-08,A judge on Tuesday ruled that Chevron Corp's chief executive must testify in the U.S. oil company's fraud case against Ecuadoreans seeking to collect on a $19 billion judgment against Chevron related to rainforest pollution. [x-post from /r/LegalNews]
2013-05-08,Scientists are making plants into light sources
2013-05-08,Belgium says 31 detained in $50m diamond heist.
2013-05-08,"A ""fault in optical fibre cables"" is to blame for Syria's continued internet blackout, local state-run media said."
2013-05-08,"Ray Harryhausen, master of stop motion animation dies."
2013-05-08,Assad's forces capture strategic town in southern Syria [X-post /r/NewsCrowd]
2013-05-08,Generation J(obless): A Quarter Of The Planet's Youth Is Neither Working Nor Studying
2013-05-08,Chinese Turn to White House Website for Help with Petitions
2013-05-08,"Israel has collected some 1,000 DNA samples from African migrants, but denies creating database - Israel Police commander admits migrants charged with infiltration in order to obtain samples, says authorized to do so in order to identify offenders with no other identification."
2013-05-08,Syrian militants capture UN peacekeepers in Golan Heights
2013-05-08,President Assad says he can face Israel as Syria loses access to internet
2013-05-07,North Korea withdraws missiles
2013-05-07,"Anti-gay group in New Zealand, ""Family First,"" will lose its charity status -- ""they have no public benefit"""
2013-05-07,A hunger strike has been going on at the Guantanamo bay prison since 90 days. More than 2/3rd of the prisoners are hunger striking.
2013-05-07,Bank of China Cuts Off North Korea Trade Bank: One of China's biggest banks said Tuesday it has halted business with a North Korean bank accused by the U.S. of financing Pyongyang's missile and nuclear programs in the latest sign of Beijing's anger with its estranged ally.
2013-05-07,US returns stolen Tyrannosaurus dinosaur to Mongolia
2013-05-07,Pakistan election: 25 dead after suicide bomber targets rally
2013-05-07,British politicians have said they want a cut in the price of alcohol at bars in the House of Commons - despite the price being significantly cheaper than nearby pubs
2013-05-07,Ecuador Auctions Off Amazon Rainforest to Chinese Oil Companies
2013-05-07,Irish government to formally pardon thousands branded traitors and deserters for fighting alongside Britain in second world war
2013-05-07,"Why have so few bankers gone to jail for their part in the crisis? In Britain not one senior banker has faced criminal charges relating to the failure of his institution. In America, prosecutors have brought few criminal charges against high-profile bankers."
2013-05-07,"Germany's Paradox: Family-Friendly Benefits, But Few Kids - It's 1 of most generous countries in world in helping women raise families, including healthcare, parental leave, daycare & tax breaks. Yet Germany has the lowest birthrate on the continent & many benefits hurt women."
2013-05-07,"Thousands protest in Moscow, in attempt to reinvigorate opposition to Putin government"
2013-05-07,"Mayon Volcano Philippines...worlds most perfect conical volcano, just erupted. 5 climbers killed, more trapped."
2013-05-07,Syrian rockets hit Israeli territory
2013-05-07,Explosions heard near missle facility in Tehran
2013-05-07,The Clouded Leopard has been declared extinct
2013-05-07,"Shopkeepers in the Indian city of Bhopal have created their own ''currency'' , In an unprecedented move faced with the shortage of  5 coins, shopkeepers here have introduced a parallel currency which they are willing to trade with"
2013-05-07,Right-wing extremists shout Nazi salutes and attack a man they believe is Jewish. Black-booted militants frighten aging Holocaust survivors. Writings of authors linked to a pro-Nazi regime are recommended reading for school children. Hungary is seeing a rise in anti-Semitism.
2013-05-07,Generation Jobless: Almost 290m people under the age of 24 are neither working nor studying
2013-05-07,"Israel in talks to join alliance with Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey"
2013-05-07,German online editor send into prison because he refused to reveal the identity of a webpage user
2013-05-07,German police arrest 93-year-old suspected of being Auschwitz guard
2013-05-07,"""U.S. officials had blundered into a circular firing squad. Salehi, the subject of the U.S. government's corruption test case, was also the U.S. government's intermediary for covert cash payments to Karzai."""
2013-05-07,Armless artist Karipbek Kuyukov denied entry to UK because he could not give fingerprints
2013-05-07,An 11- year - old elementary school girl told to remove hockey jersey
2013-05-06,Canadian teacher's career ruined by cyber-stalker ex-girlfriend even after she was placed in jail and ordered to pay him damages. Not many schools want to hire a teacher who is accused of being a pedophile.
2013-05-06,"No jab, no play campaign launched to ban unvaccinated kids from childcare centres and preschools"
2013-05-06,Worlds first 3D-printer gun fired - worlds first gun made using a 3D printer is successfully tested in the US by a group planning to make the blueprints available online
2013-05-06,"""They're taking our children"" - West Papua's youth are being removed to Islamic religious schools in Java for ""re-education"""
2013-05-06,"Hundreds of thousands of hardline Islamists demanding a new blasphemy law on Sunday blocked highways and fought running battles with police, leaving four people dead and hundreds injured in Bangladesh. Chanting Allahu Akbar and ""Atheists must be hanged"""
2013-05-06,Botched Kim Dotcom case spurs New Zealand to allow domestic spying: 'PM John Key issued a public apology to Dotcom and a subsequent inquiry released last month found another 88 NZ citizens or residents may have been illegally spied on.'
2013-05-06,"Hong Kong Risks Losing Rare Pink Dolphins - Numbers fall from 158 to 78. Tour guide spots them aiding mother hold her dead calf above water in attempt to revive it in 3rd such incident in April. Were 99% certain it died of toxins in the mothers milk, accumulated from polluted seawater."
2013-05-06,"Tantrum exposes Mexican class divide. If you are born in poverty, you'll die in it too."
2013-05-06,UN Investigators Say Syrian Rebels  Not Assad  Used Sarin Gas
2013-05-06,'Catholic mafia' inside NSW police force hindered police probe into child sex abuse special commission.
2013-05-06,"BBC News - Barnet Councillor Brian Coleman admits parking row attack: ""An ex-Conservative mayor has admitted attacking a woman as she filmed him parking illegally on a street where he had helped introduce unpopular parking charges."""
2013-05-06,"Paul Hellyer, former Minister of Defense of Canada, addresses current Canadian Goverment Cabinet Members and asks for ""Full Disclosure"" of the fact that ET's are currently living on the Earth and working with the US Government. Says it is time the public is made aware."
2013-05-06,"Malaysia election sees record turnout: Ruling coalition wins majority extending its 56-year rule, officials say"
2013-05-06,"Vultures in the French Pyrenees took less than 50 minutes to devour a tourist who fell when trying to take a shortcut. 'only bones, clothes and shoes left on the ground'"
2013-05-06,"UN: Rebels, not Assad, appear to have used chemical weapons"
2013-05-06,Israel says Google's 'Palestine' page harms peace hopes
2013-05-06,Police take 16 year-old girl into custody for dressing inappropriately
2013-05-06,Hunger rises in Great Britain
2013-05-06,Mexican journalists' sons killed; seven bodies found near Mexico City
2013-05-06,"Indian shop owner, passionate for education, runs school for poor kids under a railway bridge"
2013-05-06,South Korea rejects North demands - Seoul describes Pyongyang's conditions to re-starting the Kaesong Industrial Complex as 'incomprehensible'
2013-05-06,Most sexual assault victims have little faith in justice system: survey
2013-05-06,Australia Defends Live Animal Export Trade After Shocking New Footage - Insists regulation is at all-time high. A bloodied bull is seen being attacked with a knife: repeatedly stabbed in the face & cut across the legs before collapsing in a pool of blood. Other scenes show inept kills.
2013-05-06,MI6 'handing bundles of cash to Hamid Karzai'
2013-05-06,"World War II hero honoured in Canberra - saved the lives of up to 100,000 people during the Holocaust"
2013-05-05,"A huge explosion has hit Damascus, the capital of Syria. This is video footage of it (0.20). More in the comments."
2013-05-05,Syria: Attack on military facility was a 'declaration of war' by Israel
2013-05-05,"Inside Denmark's 'Fixing Rooms', Where Nurses Watch As Addicts Inject In Safety: ""Away from public view, this safe haven for drug users has 1,000 regulars. Crime is down, the streets are safer. Could it work in Britain?"""
2013-05-05,"Dutch Police Allowed to Hack into Foreign Servers - Netherlands govt grants hacking permission to fight online crime. The powers, which also give police the ability to install spyware, read emails & delete files, will be subject to the oversight of a judge, but critics warn of dangerous precedent."
2013-05-05,"Israel may reportedly join defense pact with Saudi Arabia, UAE"
2013-05-05,"(India) Man rescues fiance from brothel, is later accused by police in taking part in her kidnapping. Man and woman claim police corruption."
2013-05-05,Karzai Says He Was Assured C.I.A. Would Continue Delivering Bags of Cash
2013-05-05,A recent UN survey suggested an astounding 99.3% of Egyptian women have been sexually harassed
2013-05-05,The smuggled chocolate treats of North Korea
2013-05-05,"Chinese officials try to dissuade environmental protest by making Saturday a work day and holding weekend-long ""earthquake"" police drills."
2013-05-05,Syria stations missile batteries aimed at Israel
2013-05-05,Girls in Saudi Arabia to be allowed to play sports in private schools for the first time
2013-05-05,South Korean President to Visit United States - VOA
2013-05-05,Saudi Arabia Issues First Anti-Domestic Abuse Advert For Women & Children
2013-05-05,"Vatican Uncovers ""1st Western Painting of Native Americans"" - Hidden for over 5 centuries, images of dancing naked men wearing feathered head-dresses found while restoring 1494 fresco. The Borgia Pope arbitrated the division of New World lands between Spain & Portugal."
2013-05-05,Pakistan's women face battle for the right to vote: Female activists plan to deploy protection teams to polling stations in forthcoming elections
2013-05-05,Large explosions shake Syrian capital. State TV says a military research center has been attacked
2013-05-05,Syria: Attack on military facility was a 'declaration of war' by Israel
2013-05-05,Syria considers retaliation and claims alliance between Islamic terrorists and Israel
2013-05-05,Ethiopian Religious Groups Want Death Penalty for Gays
2013-05-05,Egypt mob lynches teenage son of an Islamist leader
2013-05-05,"Israel launches second airstrike in Syria, targeting weapons shipment"
2013-05-05,Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) plans to complete the transfer of radioactive water from leaking underground storage pools to tanks above ground at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant early in June.
2013-05-05,"Egypt, Arab League condemn Israeli 'attacks' in Syria"
2013-05-05,"To join EU, Croatia may give up its wine in trademark dispute [x-post /r/LegalNews]"
2013-05-04,Israel confirms airstrike inside Syria
2013-05-04,Sources: U.S. believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria
2013-05-04,"A large, unprecedentedly coordinated campaign in India has eradicated polio. If no new cases are recorded by the end of this year, India will be officially considered polio-free"
2013-05-04,Engineer who warned that Bangladesh building was unsafe has been arrested; death toll from building collapse tops 500
2013-05-04,China will not accept N. Korea as 'nuclear-armed state': official
2013-05-04,Australia is suspending the export of live cattle to Egypt after video emerged showing extreme cruelty to animals in Egyptian abattoirs
2013-05-04,Obama Blames U.S. For Gun Violence In Mexico
2013-05-04,"In a $100 million strategically important move to counter China, India to upgrade Iran's crucial Chabahar port. Chabahar port will give India a transit route to land-locked Afghanistan."
2013-05-04,Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims?
2013-05-04,"""Unless domestic dairy companies improve the quality of their products substantially and stop using banned chemicals, and the government tightens supervision and punishes the enterprises guilty of poisoning our children, Chinese people will not believe in domestic products."""
2013-05-04,US military secrets leaked to Chinese hackers for three years
2013-05-04,Japan calls for solving N.Korea human rights issue: The Japanese government held a symposium to raise international awareness of North Korea's abductions of foreign nationals in New York on Friday.
2013-05-04,Africans are beating the dreaded river blindness by capturing the black flies responsible their spread; they use themselves as bait.
2013-05-04,Chinese boat 'damaged' Philippine coral reef - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English
2013-05-04,Canada accuses Qatar of trying to buy UN agency
2013-05-04,China Is Censoring Jokes About Its Propaganda Machine's Penis-Shaped HQ
2013-05-04,100 dead and rescuers trapped in Darfur gold mine disaster
2013-05-04,"Saudi royal family sold large amounts of Dell computer equipment to the Syrian government, while selling arms to rebels"
2013-05-04,Air India pilots suspended for leaving cabin crew in charge of plane while they slept in business class
2013-05-04,Report: Israeli Airstrikes on Syria
2013-05-04,"China's ambassador to the US warned Washington not to ""lift the rock off Japan only to let it drop on its own feet""."
2013-05-04,Israel airstrikes in Syria
2013-05-04,BBC News - Syrians flee 'massacres' in Baniyas and al-Bayda
2013-05-04,"""Norwegian Parliament Approves Extreme Version Of SOPA,"" is this a real thing?"
2013-05-04,"Three deaths lift China's H7N9 fatality count to 27, case count remains at 128"
2013-05-03,Tribes vow to fight-to-the-death to save Amazon rainforest
2013-05-03,Two Chinese kindergarten students die after rival school poisons yogurt
2013-05-03,No news is good news: No successful Somali pirate hijackings in nearly a year.
2013-05-03,Suicide No. 1 cause of death for younger people in South Korea
2013-05-03,Rat meat sold as lamb in Shanghai
2013-05-03,"China arrests 900 over 20,000 tonnes of tainted meat products and fox, mink and rat passed off as mutton"
2013-05-03,"Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input ""should not have the power of life and death over human beings,"" a new draft U.N. report says."
2013-05-03,"A lawmaker from Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn party allegedly tried to punch the mayor of Athens on Thursday, swinging at him but reportedly missing and hitting a 12-year-old girl instead."
2013-05-03,'The civil war in Iraq has already begun': Politician claims conflict has started and warns it will be worse than Syria
2013-05-03,How Israel is squeezing the Palestinians out of their own land
2013-05-03,"No one should be jailed in secret, says top judge - Lord chief justice issues urgent guidance to judges following court of protection's imprisonment of Wanda Maddocks"
2013-05-03,US calls for immediate release of Kenneth Bae from North Korean jail
2013-05-03,SATs cancelled in South Korea due to continued leaking of questions.
2013-05-03,"First Richard III, now Roman cemetery found under Leicester, UK car park."
2013-05-03,British fighters in Syria: UK to withdraw the passports of those suspected of involvement in terrorist activities abroad who might return with enhanced capabilities to launch attacks at home
2013-05-03,"China's People's Daily newspaper mocked over its new, phallic headquarters"
2013-05-03,"Hospitals regularly save money by ""medical repatriation"" of undocumented workers, whereby an unconscious patient is flown to their home country without their consent."
2013-05-03,'Appalling irresponsibility': Senior scientists attack Chinese researchers for creating new strains of influenza virus in veterinary laboratory
2013-05-03,New evidence from NASA modeling study that global warming may increase the risk for extreme rainfall & drought.
2013-05-03,"Rogue Economists Champion Prosperity without Growth ""phasing out the 'totalitarian consumerism' that gives people desires that, until recently, they didn't even suspect they would ever have."""
2013-05-03,"Footage of a Massacre in Tivoli Gardens, Jamaica"
2013-05-03,"Guatemala: state of siege declared as Army, police crack down after protests against Canadian-owned mine"
2013-05-03,'Burglar' found stuck in chimney after several weeks
2013-05-03,Google 'recognizes' Palestine
2013-05-03,Prosecutor in Bhutto Killing and Mumbai Attacks Assassinated in Pakistan
2013-05-02,"The world's most widely used insecticide is devastating dragonflies, snails and other water-based species, a groundbreaking Dutch study has revealed."
2013-05-02,40 Chinese troops erect 5 tents 19 Km inside Indian territory and have a banner which reads you are in Chinese territory
2013-05-02,"64 percent of Muslims in Egypt, Pakistan support death penalty for leaving Islam"
2013-05-02,"Bankers ""struggle to live"" on 1million a year"
2013-05-02,"Italys First Black Cabinet Member Bombarded With Racial Slurs, Insults From Far Right: Congolese monkey"", ""Zulu"" and ""the black anti-Italian"""
2013-05-02,Brazil Catholic Priest Excommunicated For Defending Gay Rights
2013-05-02,Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff: All oil royalties collected by the state should go into public education funding
2013-05-02,The FBI's role in 'manufacturing' terrorism
2013-05-02,"Egyptian newspaper claims ""Jews drink Egyptian blood"""
2013-05-02,"The Walt Disney Company has ordered an end to the production of its branded merchandise in Bangladesh, and other retailers are considering similar moves, after a factory building collapse left more than 400 dead."
2013-05-02,"Conman James McCormick jailed for 10 years over fake bomb detectors - He sold the models to Iraq, Belgium and the UN"
2013-05-02,Pope Francis Condemns 'Slave Labor' In Bangladesh: 'Goes Against God'
2013-05-02,Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
2013-05-02,"Police in the Greek capital Athens have stopped the far-right Golden Dawn party from handing out free food only to Greeks on the city's main square. Riot police used tear gas to prevent activists distributing food from a lorry on Syntagma Square, where the country's parliament is located."
2013-05-02,Poll: 40% of Palestinians support suicide bombing
2013-05-02,Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims?
2013-05-02,"Bolivian President Evo Morales orders expulsion of USAID: ""We may be a small country, but we deserve respect"""
2013-05-02,Turkey is testing blood samples taken from Syrian casualties brought over the border from fighting in recent days to determine whether they were victims of a chemical weapons attack.
2013-05-02,Many in Muslim world want sharia as law of land: survey
2013-05-02,Israel welcomes Arab League's 'land swap' position
2013-05-02,"Sohel Rana Most Hated Man in Bangladesh - To build Rana Plaza, he bullied landowners & ultimately took their property by force. His political allies gave him a construction permit, despite his dubious claims of title to the land, & a 2nd permit to add upper floors, likely destabilizing the building."
2013-05-02,Disgruntled Arab states look to strip Canada of UN agency
2013-05-02,Bombers turn up too late for rally: A murderous plot by radical Islamists to launch a gun and bomb attack on hundreds of people attending a right-wing rally in the UK failed after they turned up too late
2013-05-02,Lawyer who drafted White House drone policy says US would rather kill suspects than send them to Cuban detention centre
2013-05-02,US Labor Department Website is being Operated by Chinese Hackers and serving Malware
2013-05-01,Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers
2013-05-01,2-year-old girl gets windpipe made from stem cells
2013-05-01,"Japan and Russia want to finally end World War II, agree it is 'abnormal' not to"
2013-05-01,"New Zealand says no to bizarre baby names 4Real, Juztice and Lucifer"
2013-05-01,"Split up or son will be expelled, school tells lesbian couple: Legally married South African couple said they were called to a meeting with the principal of Secunda Highveld Christian School and were told their homosexuality was problematic"
2013-05-01,"Between $21 trillion and $32 trillion of private wealth is held in secret offshore tax havens, according to leaked data. By comparison, the gross world product in 2012 was $83tn"
2013-05-01,"Thought to be a myth, an 8th century B.C. Egyptian city, Heracleion, was found sunken 150 feet underwater."
2013-05-01,Pew Study: Muslims across the globe tend to be deeply committed to their faith and believe that it should shape not only their personal lives but the societies they live in
2013-05-01,Antigravity gets first test at Cern's Alpha experiment
2013-05-01,Sony CEO and 39 other executives give up bonuses in unprecedented gesture 'to atone for a slump in its embattled electronics unit'
2013-05-01,Last 15 Rhinos in Mozambique Killed by Poachers Helped by Park Rangers - 30 rangers charged with involvement in the shootings. 180 out of 249 rhinos in Kruger National Park slaughtered since Jan.
2013-05-01,BBC News - Airliner 'had narrow miss with UFO'
2013-05-01,US Boeing 747 crash in Afghanistan - Huge Explosion (VIDEO)
2013-05-01,"Morocco's police is looking for an atheist activist: He is wanted for creating the ""Council of ex-Muslims of Morocco"" and stating ""there is no God but Mickey Mouse."""
2013-05-01,"India's total population is 1.21 billion, final census reveals"
2013-05-01,Garbage shortage looms in Northern Europe
2013-05-01,Mt. Fuji poised to get World Heritage status
2013-05-01,"The number of people killed in the collapse of a factory building on the outskirts of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has passed 400, officials say."
2013-05-01,UK ministers are preparing to spin off 'dozens' of state-owned services into independent companies in what could be one of the largest privatisation programmes since the 1980s
2013-05-01,Third of children born in UK have foreign-born parent; white Britons will be a minority by 2066
2013-05-01,"Mexico's Congress has passed a major reform, in an attempt to make the country's telecommunications industry more open and competitive."
2013-05-01,"Obama preparing to send lethal arms to Syrian opposition, officials say"
2013-05-01,The horrific chemical weapons attack that probably wasnt a chemical weapons attack. A recent strike in Aleppo led Syrians to think chemical warfare had broken out. But a closer analysis reveals something different.
2013-05-01,Measles Epidemic in Wales Has Roots in Antivax Movement
2013-05-01,Venezuela brawl: 22 hurt in parliament fight between lawmakers | World | News
2013-04-30,China is plundering the planet's seas -- and it's doing it 12.5 times more than it's telling anybody
2013-04-30,Facebook Is Losing Millions Of Users In The US And Other Mature Markets
2013-04-30,"Over 20,000 people applied to become first settlers on Mars"
2013-04-30,Obama: 'Guantanamo Bay must close' [BBC News]
2013-04-30,Dutch Queen Beatrix to abdicate in favour of son
2013-04-30,As many as 200 civilians have been killed in an attack in Nigeria.
2013-04-30,Five year old Indian rape victim dies
2013-04-30,Missiles fired at Russian plane with 200 passengers onboard flying over Syria
2013-04-30,Women who stole husbands sperm and got pregnant with use of IVF forced to pay compensation
2013-04-30,Study: Germans see Islam as a threat
2013-04-30,"North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has stashed away some $4-5 billion in bank accounts in other people's names in Austria, China, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland, intelligence agencies believe."
2013-04-30,What Is TPP? It's the Biggest Global Threat to the Internet Since ACTA.
2013-04-30,Danish sailors freed after 838 days in pirate captivity
2013-04-30,Billionaires Flee Havens as Trillions Pursued Offshore
2013-04-30,"After Bombing, American Ties With Russia Improve"
2013-04-30,Somalia To Receive International Mail For First Time In 22 Years
2013-04-30,"Maker of useless ""bomb sniffing rods"" convicted of fraud after hundreds die."
2013-04-30,Europe bans pesticides blamed for the decline of bee population
2013-04-30,How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan
2013-04-30,Huge explosion rocks Damascus
2013-04-30,German embassy in NZ none too pleased by NZ bar having a Hitler piata party for ANZAC day. Bar promises bigger piata next year.
2013-04-30,Modesty police arrests ratchet fears of radicalized Islam in Gaza
2013-04-30,"Six admit planning to bomb English Defence League rally, but arrived after it had ended!"
2013-04-30,China becomes biggest PC market in 2012 putting it above the United States for the first time
2013-04-30,"Only Canadian company that has admitted to carrying items make in Bangladesh factory, that collapsed, will compensate victims."
2013-04-29,"Girl, 14, forced to become pregnant with donor sperm bought by mother: Judge describes 'wicked and selfish' motive of using daughter to provide parent with a fourth child"
2013-04-29,"Three teens, starved, tortured, and killed at a ""Gay Conversion Camp"""
2013-04-29,Powerful blast causes injuries in Prague
2013-04-29,Bee deaths: EU to ban neonicotinoid pesticides
2013-04-29,The CIA has attempted to buy influence with Afghan President Hamid Karzai by dropping off bags filled with cash totalling tens of millions of dollars.
2013-04-29,The real cancer killer: rip-off prices for drugs. Doctors say industry 'profiteering' threatens lives
2013-04-29,"The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan, one American official said, was the United States."
2013-04-29,"Act of Terror - arrested for filming police officers: 'When police carried out a routine stop-and-search of her boyfriend on the London Underground, Gemma Atkinson filmed the incident. She was detained, handcuffed and threatened with arrest.'"
2013-04-29,Neonicotinoid insecticides now banned in Europe
2013-04-29,"Spain Is Beyond Doomed: The 2 Scariest Unemployment Charts Ever. ""[A]usterity hasn't been [Spain's] path to prosperity. It's been the path to perma-slump."""
2013-04-29,Man who ran Canada's only shelter dedicated solely to male victims of domestic abuse dies in apparent suicide
2013-04-29,"A lost ancient Egyptian city submerged beneath the sea 1,200 years ago is starting to reveal what life was like in the legendary port of Thonis-Heracleion."
2013-04-29,"Insiders say Canada 'scammed' by foreign worker industry. (Claims include Faked Resumes, Visa Violations and Discrimination AGAINST Canadians)."
2013-04-29,"Chinas best-paid banking boss only made $185,000 last year"
2013-04-29,FSA says Israeli jets hit Syrian chemical site
2013-04-29,Indonesia teens accused of blasphemy over Maroon 5 dance: Five Indonesian teenage girls have been accused of blasphemy and may face jail after making a video in which they mixed Islamic prayer with dancing to a Maroon 5 song
2013-04-29,52% of Canadians distrust Muslims
2013-04-29,"China is banning the use of privileged military license plates on BMWs, Porches and other luxury cars in an attempt to crack down on abuses and reduce corruption."
2013-04-29,"Israel bulldozes apartments in Palestinian East Jerusalem, evicts 24 people"
2013-04-29,The British nurse who committed suicide after a prank radio call by two Australian DJs reportedly left a suicide note blaming them for her death.
2013-04-29,Anti-drone protests take off in Britain
2013-04-29,"Speed of light may not be constant, physicists say"
2013-04-29,An Indian Guinness World Record holder who attempted to cross a river suspended from a zip wire attached to his ponytail has died during the stunt.
2013-04-29,Hamas teaches Palestinian schoolboys how to fire Kalashnikovs
2013-04-29,Japan forgot data wipe on ship sold to Pyongyang
2013-04-28,Insecticide firms in secret bid to stop ban that could save bees - Last-ditch lobbying to sway vote in Brussels to halt use of killer nerve agents
2013-04-28,"American tourist faces death penalty in North Korea for reportedly attempting to overthrow the government by ""taking pictures of homeless children"""
2013-04-28,Portraits of survivors of the Utya massacre in Norway - in pictures
2013-04-28,These Canadian Cops Are Fighting to Legalize Drugs
2013-04-28,"Men in pick-up trucks bristling with anti-aircraft guns have blocked off Libya's foreign ministry, demanding a jobs ban on Gaddafi-era officials."
2013-04-28,The Slow and Painful Death of Freedom in Canada
2013-04-28,Iceland elects the same parties that were responsible for the economic collapse in 2008.
2013-04-28,British Prime Minister David Cameron abandoned a trip to China planned for this month as Beijing punished him for meeting the Dalai Lama. Cameron is understood to have cancelled the trip after Beijing indicated that he was unlikely to be granted meetings with senior figures.
2013-04-28,Iceland Pirate Party may win Parliament seats
2013-04-28,"Iraq Halts TV Channels After Deadly Unrest - It's suspended 10 TV satellite channels including Al-Jazeera, for promoting ""sectarianism"" after 5 days of violence kills over 215 people."
2013-04-28,Collapsed building owner arrested on India border
2013-04-28,Fight on Mount Everest sparks police probe
2013-04-28,"Female rapists abuse soldier for 4 days: A 25-year-old soldier was allegedly kidnapped and detained for four days by suspected female rapists, who are said to have sexually abused him several times before releasing him early this week."
2013-04-28,MPAA Executive Tampered With IFPI Evidence in Internet Piracy Case
2013-04-28,Catalonia says no to austerity in standoff with government
2013-04-28,"Two factory bosses and two engineers were detained in Bangladesh on Saturday, three days after the collapse of a building killed at least 352 people. The owner of the eight-storey building that fell like a pack of cards around more than 3,000 mainly young women workers was still on the run."
2013-04-28,NYT: Islamist Rebels Create Dilemma on Syria Policy
2013-04-28,Are Kosovos Leaders Guilty of War Crimes? : Were Serbs shipped to Albania and Organs harvested for sale.
2013-04-28,"Gunshots fired near Italy prime minister's office, injuries"
2013-04-28,Study: 45 percent of Bitcoin exchanges end up closing
2013-04-28,Residents of a number of Sunni cities in Iraq have announced the formation of military forces to counter attack the Iraqi army and its crackdown against anti-government protesters
2013-04-28,Almost 30 Anti-Putin Protesters Detained on Red Square
2013-04-28,Chinese military planes made more than 40 flights close to Tokyo-controlled islands at the center of a territorial dispute on a single day last week
2013-04-28,"N. Korea preparing for large-scale air, land military exercise along Yellow Sea coast"
2013-04-28,'It was raining money': Residents of Belgian town scoop up thousands of euros after crooks hurl safe from getaway car (and ignore police pleas to return cash)
2013-04-27,Egyptian Activists Say Their Religion isn't Your Business - Religious violence prompting public debate about religious identity in Egypt. A group of young Egyptians wants to remove religious labels from national ID cards.
2013-04-27,Greece starts firing civil servants for first time in a century
2013-04-27,North Korea to indict US citizen on coup charges - a US citizen is soon to go on trial on charges including attempting to overthrow North Korea's government
2013-04-27,"'You treated her like a piece of meat': Judge's fury as he jails trio of men who abducted girl, 13, and forced her to be their sex slave"
2013-04-27,Gays and lesbians in Chile now allowed to donate blood
2013-04-27,"North Korea Threatens to Carry Out ""Kamikaze Nuclear Attacks"" Against the United States"
2013-04-27,China Orders Troops and Tanks to North Korean Border
2013-04-27,Revenue Canada says BitCoins aren't tax exempt
2013-04-27,Russian court nixes parole for Pussy Riot band member after penal colony where she is serving a two-year term complained that she 'didn't repent'
2013-04-27,"North Korea, Iran attack Canadas human rights record at UN forum"
2013-04-27,"At 95, Hitler's food taster talks of paranoia, poison fears, vegetarian diet for Nazi leader"
2013-04-27,"Russian court denies parole to Pussy Riot convict serving sentence for ""hooliganism motivated by religious hatred"""
2013-04-27,Mother rescues kidnapped son after months when authorities would not help.
2013-04-27,"EU ban on trade in seal fur set to be overturned, in a move that'll reignite 1 of the world's most contentious wildlife issues - European court expected to back pelt traders & sporran makers. Battle being led by 'Fur Institute of Canada'."
2013-04-27,Chinese president Xi Jinping orders generals and senior army officers to serve as privates
2013-04-27,Elephant meat sold openly after extensive slaughter
2013-04-27,American tourist to stand trial in North Korea
2013-04-27,White House says the US may use military force against Syria
2013-04-27,"HERAT, Afghanistan  Faiz Ahmad says his life has become meaningless since the Taliban robbed him of his ability to work last week by chopping off his right hand and his left foot"
2013-04-27,Taliban Says It Will Begin Spring Offensive Sunday
2013-04-27,The amount of illegal immigration into the EU drops by close to 50% after Greece tightened its border
2013-04-27,Anti-white racism trial begins in France
2013-04-27,North Korea embraces 3G service - Almost two million North Koreans now use the country's only 3G network
2013-04-27,Nigeria: Number Of Churches Destroyed By Jihadist Group Boko Haram Tops 400
2013-04-27,"Chinese military planes, mostly fighter jets, made more than 40 flights close to Tokyo-controlled islands on April 23,when 8 Chinese marine surveillance ships entered the 12-nautical-mile territorial zone off the islands."
2013-04-26,A Norwegian resistance fighter who led a daring raid to sabotage Nazi Germany's atomic bomb program during World War II has been honoured at a London ceremony.
2013-04-26,"Machines with the ability to attack targets without any human intervention must be banned before they are developed for use on the battlefield, campaigners against ""killer robots"" urged on Tuesday."
2013-04-26,China's top 70 Members of the Communist Party are worth nearly $90 billion - more than ten times the wealth of all members of US Congress
2013-04-26,"Europe Set to Vote on Pesticide Ban to Save Honeybees -- A proposed ban of pesticides called neonicotinoids is gathering scientific support as some experts are calling for more field studies. The goal is to reverse massive honeybee hive die-offs, which also afflict U.S. farming"
2013-04-26,Chinese troops have erected tents 19km inside Indian territory
2013-04-26,94 Guantanamo Bay inmates are now on hunger strike. The men are protesting conditions and their indefinite confinement at the U.S. base in Cuba.
2013-04-26,Baby burned to death on bonfire in Chile after cult leader decided she was the antichrist
2013-04-26,"Slavery must be recognised in all its guises: Sex trafficking is the only human rights abuse that gets proper attention  yet slavery is slavery, no matter what form it takes"
2013-04-26,Moroccos High Council of Ulemas issues death sentence fatwa on apostates who leave Islam
2013-04-26,White House confirms use of sarin gas in Syria based on blood tests
2013-04-26,Australian hockey team captain dies after he is bitten by venomous snake he picked up to carry it off the pitch
2013-04-26,19 yr old has a plan to remove large amounts of plastic from our oceans
2013-04-26,Father loses custody fight for child he never knew he had - A cruelly deceived father whose son was put up for adoption without him even knowing of his existence has had his hopes of gaining custody dashed following a court ruling.
2013-04-26,Google didnt comply with Argentinas request to remove NSFW video of president
2013-04-26,Japan. Woman dies after heavy-set police officer sits on her
2013-04-26,"In a shocking incident, a woman was allegedly injected with HIV infected blood by her husband and in-laws in India for conceiving a baby girl and failing to get more dowry."
2013-04-26,Heavy use of herbicide Roundup linked to health dangers-U.S. study
2013-04-26,140 people detained in Moscow for connection to Islamist extremist groups
2013-04-26,The Biggest Price-Fixing Scandal Ever | Politics News
2013-04-26,"Kim Jong Un has over $1 billion in slush funds abroad, while North Korea has an estimated 14 billion in foreign debt."
2013-04-26,North Korea loses popularity among Russians amid ongoing crisis
2013-04-26,White man goes on trial in France for 'anti-white racist' assault
2013-04-26,Culture war erupts in Israel over attempts to end preferential budgets for ultra-Orthodox
2013-04-26,Instant noodle sales top 100 billion a year
2013-04-26,Fire in Russian psychiatric hospital kills 38
2013-04-25,"Iran Police Dressed a Suspect in Womens Clothing and Parade Him in Public to humiliate him, Iranian men started protesting by posting photos of themselves in woman's clothing."
2013-04-25,Student wrongly tied to Boston bombing found dead
2013-04-25,"Canadian and American police agencies are in private talks that would allow American agents from organizations like the FBI and the US Drug Enforcement Administration to be accredited as police officers in Canada, with the power to arrest individuals on the street like any Canadian cop."
2013-04-25,"Putin on Boston bombings: We suffered from terrorists, whom the West called insurgents"
2013-04-25,Man found dead on London street 'was probably a stowaway who fell from plane's landing gear
2013-04-25,Dalai Lama Says He Would Support A Woman Successor
2013-04-25,The Pirate Bay moves to Iceland - thepiratebay.is is now active
2013-04-25,Swedish police found drugs inside Justin Bieber's tour bus
2013-04-25,"Greenwald on the motives for terrorism: ""Ignoring the role played by US actions is dangerously self-flattering and self-delusional. Listen to the people who live in the places devastated by US violence... it's long past time that we stop pretending that all this evidence does not exist."""
2013-04-25,WikiLeaks: Iceland's Supreme Court rules Visa contractor Valitor must pay $204k per month if continues to block site
2013-04-25,"President of Macedonia comes to Canada, nobody notices"
2013-04-25,Spain Unemployment Hits New Record of 27 Percent
2013-04-25,"Brown University student falsely identified as Boston bombing suspect found dead in Providence River, Rhode Island authorities confirm"
2013-04-25,"North Korean soldiers put down arms to help plant crops: The North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone is a hive of activity  not of fighting, but of farming."
2013-04-25,"Tens of thousands of migrant workers in Arab Gulf working as modern day slaves, German banker warns, for $5 a day for 12 hours a day. Employers confiscate workers passports and make them live 6 or 7 to a small room."
2013-04-25,"A Russian historian who lived in Pyongyang as an exchange student in the 1980s recorded some sample math questions from North Korean textbooks. Questions included likened to ""How many American imperialist bastards does it take to screw on a light bulb?"""
2013-04-25,"Abortion drug RU486 set to be approved for heavy subsidization by the Australian Federal Government, dropping its price from ~$800 to ~$30"
2013-04-25,Toronto court rules woman must remove niqab to testify
2013-04-25,Afghanistan to get $100 million/year to let Chinese copper mining consortium destroy potential World Heritage site of high archeological import
2013-04-25,"India, 2,644 people died during clinical trial of drugs in 7 years"
2013-04-25,"Shale mining under Great Barrier Reef 'likely to be banned': Australia's coastline mining industry undergoing a boom as rules relaxed, but Unesco site to be protected under heritage rules"
2013-04-25,Minaret of historic Syrian mosque destroyed in Aleppo. Rebels and state forces blame each other for toppling tower of 12th century Umayyad mosque in Unesco world heritage site
2013-04-25,North Korea: Radioactive gases 'consistent with' nuclear test detected.
2013-04-25,Iran presidential candidate blasts Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial
2013-04-25,Water from comet impact still hanging around on Jupiter
2013-04-24,"Canadian Muslim groups take hard stance against terror plotters; ""You have nothing to do with our faith"""
2013-04-24,Hundreds of Europeans are fighting with rebel forces in Syria
2013-04-24,[UK-Scotland] Donald Trump's anti-windfarm ads banned over 'misleading' images - Watchdog also says US billionaire's Scottish golf resort could not substantiate claim that tourism will be harmed by turbines
2013-04-24,"""Europe's bankers refuse to admit bankruptcy, and there is no political accountability to make them. Their objective is solely to maintain the face value of their credit book, and thus protect their balance sheets, derivatives, bonuses and status. It is a disaster."""
2013-04-24,Plans to block porn in public spaces backed by British PM David Cameron who wants 'good clean Wi-fi'
2013-04-24,"Canada train derail plotter says he does not recognize the Criminal Code of Canada, ""not a holy book"""
2013-04-24,"Web censorship: the net is closing in - across the globe governments are monitoring and censoring access to the web. And if we're not careful millions more people could find the internet fractured, fragmented and controlled by the state"
2013-04-24,"Fearing corruption, Hong Kongers reject sending aid to China quake victims. Hong Kong residents recall the $1.2 billion they sent to Sichuan after the 2008 quake that wound up paying for government banquets."
2013-04-24,Mars One is now accepting applications for one-way trips to the planet Mars.
2013-04-24,[Bangladesh] At least 70 people were killed and over 600 injured in Savar on the outskirts of the capital Wednesday morning when an eight-storied building housing four garment factories collapsed
2013-04-24,"A Greek court yesterday handed down 18 months imprisonment to a strawberry farm owner and three foremen for involvement in the shooting of 32 Bangladeshis, said the Bangladesh ambassador in Athens."
2013-04-24,Student seeking Kyoto flat told: No foreigners allowed - The Japan Times
2013-04-24,Israel airport guards may ask 'suspicious' tourists to open their email accounts
2013-04-24,"Ancient Europeans Underwent Mysterious Genetic Transformation 4,500 Years Ago"
2013-04-24,UK may withdraw from European rights convention over Abu Qatada - Downing Street confirms prime minister is exploring temporary withdrawal from European convention on human rights
2013-04-24,"More than 70 people are dead and some 600 injured in Bangladesh following the collapse of an eight-story building on the outskirts of the capital, Dhaka."
2013-04-24,Taxing Canadians at the border is not the answer to America's problems
2013-04-24,"World Health Organization: ""new bird flu more lethal to humans"" confirmed cases up to 108 throughout China"
2013-04-24,UK in dark mood as new recession may be confirmed
2013-04-24,Yemeni Tells Senators About 'Fear and Terror' Caused by U.S. Drones - The drone strikes are the face of America to many.
2013-04-24,"Stripped to the waist, his face heavily bruised and a rope around his neck, the grey-haired Syrian man was led by his captors on a humiliating parade through the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli. ""I am an Alawite shabbiha,"" read slogans daubed on the bare chest of the man."
2013-04-24,Fattest countries in the world revealed: Kuwait is top of the list with the highest average body mass index
2013-04-24,Prominent anti-same sex marriage French MP presses wrong button and casts ballot in favour of legislation he opposed
2013-04-24,Greece pulls nude ancient Olympic statutes after Qatar wanted to cover members with black cloth
2013-04-24,India to rush troops to Ladakh if no de-escalation on face-off with China
2013-04-23,Muslim community tipped off Canada about terror plot
2013-04-23,"Canada to announce arrests after thwarting ""major terrorist attack"": CBC"
2013-04-23,Child pornographer Eric Toth from the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted fugitives finally captured in Nicaragua
2013-04-23,French Parliament legalises Gay Marriage
2013-04-23,China states it will never use nuclear weapons against Japan
2013-04-23,5 Hour Secret Meeting between WikiLeaks Founder and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
2013-04-23,"Assad attacked rebels with nerve gas, top IDF analyst says. Based on photo evidence, regime deployed sarin on March 19; over 1,000 tons of chemical weapons in Syria."
2013-04-23,"Pit of hopelessness: Guantanamo grows tense, inmates suicidal"
2013-04-23,Malaysian deputy PM says gay rights and freedom of religion campaigners are 'poisoning' the minds of Muslims to accept 'deviant practices' and the right to leave Islam
2013-04-23,"Terrorists in Korea target Americans, but mistakenly fire bomb a Korean own English academy."
2013-04-23,Japan vows to use force if Chinese land on islands
2013-04-23,Lego to open its own school. Lego will be opening its own school this summer fusing traditional teaching with its own brand of play-centred learning
2013-04-23,The face-off between Indian and Chinese troops escalates: Chinese envoy called in
2013-04-23,"Fake bomb detectors were being used in Iraq as recently as last month. Iraqi MP says country has paid 'high price in blood' for fake devices, but officials continue to put faith in them"
2013-04-23,Animal-rights activists wreak havoc in Milan laboratory
2013-04-23,Chinese helicopters violate Indian airspace
2013-04-23,"Tokyo Electric Power Co. refuses to pay 10.55 billion yen ($106 million) for decontamination work around its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, saying it is under no legal obligation to do so. The Environment Ministry disagrees."
2013-04-23,"Cod stocks may never recover, study finds"
2013-04-23,"Wife of jailed Nobel dissident Liu Xiabo shouts out of moving car, 'I'm not free!'"
2013-04-23,French Embassy in Tripoli Hit by Car Bomb
2013-04-23,Dutch diplomat jailed for giving secret Nato documents to Russian agents.
2013-04-23,"Five teenaged girls gang-raped in Pakistan : Asia, News"
2013-04-23,Japan vows to use force if Chinese land on disputed islands
2013-04-23,"Canada's authorities are expected to announce they have foiled a plot to carry out a major terrorist attack, media reports say."
2013-04-23,Millionaire businessman convicted of fraud after selling fake bomb detectors
2013-04-22,North Korea Asks Mongolia for Food Aid.
2013-04-22,"A gunman has opened fire near an arms shop in the Russian town of Belgorod, leaving at least five people dead and one injured. A 14-year-old girl is among those killed."
2013-04-22,"/r/worldnews, should we join the CISPA blackout?"
2013-04-22,"Eloquent Guantanamo inmate, 60 days into hunger strike, describes constant beatings"
2013-04-22,"North Korean missiles placed in ""attack position"": Kim Jong Un reaffirms ""highest level of combat readiness."""
2013-04-22,"Canadian Conservatives to propose Bill S-7, called the Combating Terrorism Act, Monday. It includes imprisonment for up to 12 months if an individual refuses to testify before a judge."
2013-04-22,At least 185 killed in Nigeria attack
2013-04-22,"4channer threatens to kill teacher and as many students as he can in Leiden, The Netherlands"
2013-04-22,"India: In a silent afforestation campaign, a private company has successfully raised more than a million trees and recorded a survival rate of 90 per cent."
2013-04-22,"The North Korean spy who blew up a plane, now married to intelligence officer in South Korea"
2013-04-22,"Syrian army aggressively seizes town near Damascus, confirmed massacre of 80+ ...reports of up to 250 killed inc. women and children"
2013-04-22,"Danish single mother on welfare gets $2,600 a month"
2013-04-22,Up to 500 feared dead in Damascus suburb: activists
2013-04-22,"New microchip to detect medical viruses : Singapore chip identifies 70,000 viruses in one go, cutting costs and allowing earlier diagnosis."
2013-04-22,Video shows Burmese police standing by as Buddhists attack Muslims
2013-04-22,Ball of light turns night to day in Argentina
2013-04-22,Up to 74 school girls hit by gas attack in Afghanistan
2013-04-22,North Korea requests food aid from Mongolia as starving state faces 'severe' food shortage
2013-04-22,"Despite assertions to the contrary, Iraqs Kurds are inching towards outright independence"
2013-04-22,"Grad Student Who Shook Global Austerity Movement - ""proof that the pro-austerity movement is based, at least in part, on bogus math"""
2013-04-22,"French biologist Francois Jacob, who won the 1965 Nobel prize for medicine for his research into enzymes, has died at the age of 92, a relative told AFP on Sunday."
2013-04-22,Four soldiers killed while defusing bomb in Thai south
2013-04-22,Meet Africa's Youngest Billionaire - 31 year old Ashish Thakkar
2013-04-22,Somali reporter killed in fourth journalist murder this year
2013-04-22,"Van Gogh did not kill himself, authors claim."
2013-04-21,Pope cancels salaries of cardinals overseeing bank
2013-04-21,"China says aims to banish superstition, promote knowledge"
2013-04-21,"Britain's oldest (1,285 year old) oak tree blown over by galeforce winds"
2013-04-21,"New Zealand sends man to jail for watching cartoon videos of elves, pixies and other fantasy creatures having sex."
2013-04-21,"China confirms 102 H7N9 cases, 20 deaths"
2013-04-21,"More than 60,000 have died in Syria during the two-year uprising against Bashar al-Assad."
2013-04-21,African students invent anti malaria soap
2013-04-21,Twenty-three Brazilian police officers were sentenced to 156 years in jail each on Sunday for their role in the killing of 111 inmates during Brazils deadliest prison uprising in 1992.
2013-04-21,393 rapes in Delhi in past three months
2013-04-21,China criticizes US for its human rights record
2013-04-21,"Raped, beaten, and enslaved for years  and handed back to her tormentors when she went to beg police for help"
2013-04-21,A 28-year old grad student publishes a PhD thesis which blows holes in the current theory of global austerity
2013-04-21,"Inside India's 'No-Frills' Hospitals, Where Heart Surgery Costs Just $800"
2013-04-21,Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama agree greater counter-terrorism cooperation in the wake of Boston Marathon bombing
2013-04-21,UK stripped of AAA rating
2013-04-21,4/20 Pot party no longer a fringe event as thousands descend on Parliament Hill
2013-04-21,"A website used by Russia's North Caucasus rebels denied Sunday any link to the deadly Boston Marathon bombings that have been blamed on two ethnic-Chechen suspects. ""the Caucasus fighters are not waging any military activities against the United States of America,"""
2013-04-21,"After Indian Supreme Court rule against patent protection for a Novartis cancer drug currently sold for US$75 per tablet, Rajasthan state government has announced to provide it free of cost to patients"
2013-04-21,Legendary horses to be slaughtered as Spain's financial crisis deepens: purebreds will be turned into horse meat for export come July.
2013-04-21,Man rescued by surfers after treading water for 27 hours off coast of Indonesia
2013-04-21,A proposed federal law in Canada could make certain types of cyberbullying as illegal as distributing child pornography.
2013-04-21,Pyongyang says no to denuclearisation
2013-04-21,Iran seeks to export oil to North Korea
2013-04-21,6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Japan
2013-04-21,"Settlers in Jordan Valley poison Palestinians' sheep, cows. UN investigates"
2013-04-20,"""Czechs: we're not Chechens"""
2013-04-20,Second Boston bombing suspect captured. Reuters live feed
2013-04-20,"El Salvador woman's fetus is anencephalic, can never have a brain. She's critically ill and faces jail time if she goes forward with lifesaving abortion"
2013-04-20,"8000 suspected pot cookies found by Mounties: ""I've never seen anything like it before. It's an unprecedented number of cookies."""
2013-04-20,"Suicide Bombing in Baghdad Kills 27 people, at least 3 children"
2013-04-20,"British man sues gym over ""sexist women-only hours"""
2013-04-20,"Stonehenge 5,000 Years Older Than Thought"
2013-04-20,6.9 Earthquake in China
2013-04-20,Genital Wart Decline in Australia Tracked to HPV Vaccine - The incidence of genital warts declined by more than 90% in adolescent and teenage girls in the first 4 to 5 years after introduction of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Australia
2013-04-20,Nigerian Girls Sold Into Sex Slavery in Italy - The Domitiana highway was built in 95 AD as a thoroughfare. Now it's more like a 1-stop sex supermarket where up to 600 Nigerian prostitutes are found at a time along a 30-kilometer stretch of the pot-holed road.
2013-04-20,World's oldest ever man turns 116 in Japan
2013-04-20,Chinese troops intrude into Indian territory in Ladakh
2013-04-20,"""Hiding money in the ways & amounts revealed by the 'International Consortium of Investigative Reporters' is a deep kind of social corruption. It goes beyond questions of legality to the heart of modern political economy."" Revelations embarrassed govts & exposed rich businesses & individuals."
2013-04-20,"India: Doctors Find Bottle, Candle Inside 5-year-old Rape Victim"
2013-04-20,N. Korea accepts China's offer for dialogue
2013-04-20,Chechen president on Boston suspects: Look for the roots of their evil in America
2013-04-20,Saudi Arabia opens luxury religious extremist rehab center for Al-Qaeda militants
2013-04-20,"Russia, U.S. to step up counter-terrorism cooperation - Kremlin"
2013-04-20,"Police launch manhunt after a shooting in Southampton, UK"
2013-04-20,Indian police arrest suspect for rape of 5-year-old as protests build up: hundreds of angry protesters gathered outside the headquarters of Delhi police on Saturday after a five year-old girl was allegedly raped and tortured
2013-04-20,[Update] No explosive found in suspect letter to Germany's President Gauck.
2013-04-20,"6.9 Earthquake strikes Sichuan, China"
2013-04-20,Pro-Moscow Chechen leader blames U.S. for Boston bombing
2013-04-20,"""It's always the women at fault for rape."" Interviews with 30 senior law enforcement officers in the Delhi-NCR region."
2013-04-20,A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes
2013-04-19,Letter bomb sent to German president
2013-04-19,"Pope Francis redirects employee bonuses to charity. ""Vatican employees wont receive the special bonus they are traditionally awarded when a new pope is elected, the Vatican confirmed on Thursday (April 18), under orders from Pope Francis to give extra money to charity instead."""
2013-04-19,Anonymous calls for internet black out
2013-04-19,"A gay friendly, non sex-segregated, mosque is opening in Uppsala, Sweden"
2013-04-19,Blast in popular Baghdad coffee shop kills at least 27
2013-04-19,Magnitude 7.0 strikes off the coast of Japan
2013-04-19,25 year-old man suspected to have died of measles in the UK would be the first since 2008
2013-04-19,Musharraf arrested. Latest is he has been shifted to police headquarters and may be tried for high treason. A victory for judicial freedom in Pakistan.
2013-04-19,Chechen terrorism: What you need to know - Islamist fighters from the region have fought a long war of independence against Russia
2013-04-19,Cops beat up women protesting against kid's death in India
2013-04-19,"Afghans send sympathy and love to Boston, whose pain they know all too well"
2013-04-19,"Delhi fails to deliver on its promise of safety for girls and women: Neighbour rapes young child brutally, police apathetic"
2013-04-19,A PhD economics student has debunked the most influential study which has been used to promote austerity worldwide.
2013-04-19,A new exhibition aims to celebrate the role Muslims played in saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
2013-04-19,"Belize Supreme Court declares offshore oil drilling contracts issued by Govt of Belize 2004-2007 null & void, stopping govt from allowing drilling in worlds 2nd largest barrier reef, the Meso American - Govt didn't assess environmental impact & gave okay to firms without proof of safety."
2013-04-19,"CSIS, Canadian spy agency, is sharing intel with corporations, despite a law that forbids it"
2013-04-19,The Flying Taxman: Bank secrecy is dying in Europethanks mainly to America
2013-04-19,"Greek Far Right Gains Ground - Nowhere else in Europe are neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists profiting as greatly from the financial crisis as in Athens. As they terrorize the country with violence, the police stand back and prosecutors are powerless."
2013-04-19,"Egyptian bride ordered to pay 5,000 compensation to groom because she had secret surgery to restore her virginity"
2013-04-19,Australia's NBN (National Broadband Network) announce Gigabit speeds to current customers by the end of the year. Once the 10 year roll-out has finished the network will provide gigabit speeds to 93% of the population
2013-04-19,Half of Syrian population 'will need aid by end of year'. UN high commissioner for refugees says crisis may be worst humanitarian disaster it has dealt with.
2013-04-19,Canadian Supreme Court refuses to re-open anti-gay pamphlet case where flyers referred to gay men as sodomites and pedophiles.
2013-04-19,India accounts for 33% of world poor: World Bank
2013-04-19,China Vastly Under-Reports Global Fish Catch
2013-04-19,Police in the Philippines say two officers held captive by communist rebels have escaped after seizing a rifle and shooting their guards.
2013-04-18,"Afghan women commit suicide to escape marriage: ""The suicide rate is rising particularly in towns because women are fighting against forced marriages there."""
2013-04-18,Iran's leader condemns bombing attack in Boston
2013-04-18,Venezuela's New Leader Just Ordered the Arrest of His Political Rivals
2013-04-18,A man diagnosed with late stage cancer saves the life of his ambulance driver when the latter had a heart attack while driving the former to a hospital
2013-04-18,"Australian judge overrules ill Jehovah's Witness teenagers wishes, orders blood transfusion"
2013-04-18,BBC News - North Korea lists terms for talks with US and S Korea
2013-04-18,More Children in Greece Start to Go Hungry
2013-04-18,"British woman, 21, faces life in jail after leading vigilante gang who murdered teenager falsely accused of rape"
2013-04-18,"Brighton and Hove city council recommended the opening of drug consumption rooms, places where people could inject drugs under medical supervision without fear of prosecution."
2013-04-18,"""I Jumped to Save My Body"": Walmart Slammed Over Nicaragua Stabbings & Bangladesh Fire - Survivors of factory fire & an armed assault calling for Walmart to crack down on abuses in its global supply chain. Were making the clothes theyre going to sell, so they've a role in what goes on inside."
2013-04-18,Indian man killed for trying to protect friend from sexual harassment
2013-04-18,"In Congo, Babies as Young as Six Months Victims of Rape in War"
2013-04-18,A woman who was convicted of murdering her toddler son and hiding his body has been cleared of all charges
2013-04-18,"Pervez Musharraf flees Pakistan court after arrest order - Pakistan's former president rushes out of Islamabad court and into waiting vehicle after being denied bail, say police"
2013-04-18,Transgender for president? Pakistanis challenge stereotypes in elections
2013-04-18,"President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, has 90 percent public approval rating, which puts him first in a survey regarding two dozen leaders of the region"
2013-04-18,North Korean reveals cannibalism is common after escaping starving state
2013-04-18,Ghana seizes 1m faulty condoms imported from China
2013-04-18,Paraguayan Politician Threatens To Shoot Own Testicles If Son Marries Another Man
2013-04-18,"Was that the president in my Beijing taxi? A rumor that Chinese President Xi Jinping traveled undetected among the commoners of Beijing sparked enormous interest, echoing popular lore of Chinese emperors moving about in disguise"
2013-04-18,A UK man paralysed from the neck down is taking up the legal challenge previously mounted by the late Tony Nicklinson for the right-to-die with the help of a doctor
2013-04-18,Chinese authorities suspect human-to-human transmission of H7N9 avian flu
2013-04-18,The Poverty Lie: How Europe's Crisis Countries Hide their Wealth. How fair is the effort to save the euro if the people living in the countries that receive aid are wealthier than the citizens of donor countries like Germany?
2013-04-18,Japan island rocked by 30 quakes
2013-04-18,"200 US troops ordered to Jordan by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, to 'be ready for military action'"
2013-04-17,New Zealand Marriage Equality Bill passes in to law
2013-04-17,Muslims worldwide have raced to social media websites to pray that perpetrators of a deadly bombing in Boston would not be Muslims
2013-04-17,Tanzania to evict Maasai people in favor of fee-paying trophy hunters. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards.
2013-04-17,20 year old pregnant woman stomped on stomach in India after 'Godman' proclaims that she was carrying a female fetus
2013-04-17,"The British Homeopathic Association confirms there is no evidence that homeopathic 'vaccines' protect against contagious diseases: ""We recommend people seek out the conventional treatments"""
2013-04-17,Consulate: Chinese national is 3rd victim in Boston marathon blasts
2013-04-17,"7 Dead, 61+ Injured Following Protest After Venezuela Election."
2013-04-17,"Mexico's vigilante law enforcers: Caught between the murderous drug cartels and absent or corrupt law enforcement, communities are taking the law into their own hands. In the state of Guerrero, a fledgling vigilante force has grown into an organisation numbering thousands."
2013-04-17,"Thirteen injured in a bomb blast near the office of a political party in Bangalore, India"
2013-04-17,US foe Cuba sends condolences for marathon attack
2013-04-17,Circuses to be banned from using wild animals | World news
2013-04-17,Pirate Bay co-founder charged with Hacking and Fraud
2013-04-17,"North Korean exiles scoff at talk of war - ""It's not even possible for North Korea to have a war"""
2013-04-17,[Pakistan] US drone strike in South Waziristan kills five
2013-04-17,New Zealand expected to become 13th country in the world to legalise same sex marriage tonight.
2013-04-17,Soviet balloon probes may have seen rain on Venus
2013-04-17,The Saudi Marathon Man : The New Yorker
2013-04-17,"The German military plans to withdraw from Afghanistan completely by the end of next year. As it pulls out, it leaves behind Afghan employees -- some 1,700 of them -- including interpreters, drivers and kitchen staff. The Taliban has threatened to kill the collaborators."
2013-04-17,Israeli city of Eilat hit by two rockets
2013-04-17,"China's bird flu death toll is now at 16, ""and the government has warned that the number of infections could rise."""
2013-04-17,"Ethiopian Wins 2013 Boston Marathon At Age 23, Only His Second Marathon Ever."
2013-04-17,"Pope Francis Supports Crackdown on US Nuns For Promoting ""Radical Feminist Themes"""
2013-04-17,Italy finds 1 in 5 beef samples contain horse meat
2013-04-17,"17 killed, 60 wounded in Peshawar ANP rally blast."
2013-04-17,North Korea Says It Isnt Opposed to Resuming Dialogue With U.S.
2013-04-16,8.0 Earthquake strikes Iran
2013-04-16,31 People killed in Explosions in Iraq
2013-04-16,Boston Marathon explosions: dozens wounded as two blasts hit finish line
2013-04-16,"Boston Marathon explosions: two dead, 64 injured as 'bombs' hit race finish line"
2013-04-16,"""Wherever we find Americans we will kill them, but we don't have any connection with the Boston Explosions"" - Pakistani Taliban"
2013-04-16,"Black Monday in Iraq: 46 killed, almost 300 injured in series of attacks"
2013-04-16,"Sir Ian McKellen posts statement to remind all that Margaret Thatcher was in favor of and voted for Section 28, which was ""...designed to slander homosexuality, by prohibiting state schools from discussing positively gay people and our 'pretended family relations'""."
2013-04-16,"""And as we see the flags from the 50 countries participating in this event, still flying, we are reminded that this is not just a Boston or an American event, but a global event and a global tragedy"" -CNN"
2013-04-16,New Zealand set to legalize gay marriage
2013-04-16,US Black Hawk crashes near North Korean border.
2013-04-16,RE: recent events at /r/worldnews.
2013-04-16,Three teenagers who beat a homeless man to death following a dare have been sentenced.
2013-04-16,Russia ready to help in investigation of Boston terror act - Kremlin
2013-04-16,46 dead overnight in Iraq
2013-04-16,"Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, openly declares support for LGBT equality."
2013-04-16,Anonymous hackers bring down North Korean websites for a second time
2013-04-16,"North Korea warns, they won't warn South Korea."
2013-04-16,"37 killed, more than 140 wounded in nearly 20 separate attacks across Iraq"
2013-04-16,"A nonpartisan, independent review of interrogation and detention programs in the years after the Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks concludes that it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture and that the nations highest officials bore ultimate responsibility for it."
2013-04-16,Boston Marathon explosions: Pakistan Taliban says it was not behind bombs
2013-04-16,"Video of the Boston Marathon bombing, recorded by Steve Silva at the finishing line. (DISTURBING CONTENT)"
2013-04-16,"""President Barack Obama said in an interview broadcast Tuesday [16 April 2013] that North Korea likely does not have the ability to arm a ballistic missile with nuclear warheads. He also compared the Stalinist regime's recent belligerent rhetoric to a child's temper tantrum."""
2013-04-16,"4,500-year-old harbor structures and papyrus texts unearthed in Egypt. ""Archaeologists have stumbled upon what is thought to be the most ancient harbor ever found in Egypt, along with the country's oldest collection of papyrus documents, Egyptian authorities say."""
2013-04-16,Please dont be a Muslim: Boston marathon blasts draw condemnation and dread in Muslim world
2013-04-16,BBC News - Iran struck by magnitude 7.8 earthquake
2013-04-15,"Saudi Arabian billionaire Prince AlWaleed bin Talal, a nephew of King Abdullah, has thrown his support behind allowing Saudi women to drive, saying it makes economic sense"
2013-04-15,"""Saddam's marsh drainage project was war by other means"" - Some 2 decades after the drainage of Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq by Hussein, the area is buzzing with life again after much of what was once the world's 3rd largest wetland is restored to some of its former glory."
2013-04-15,Director Ken Loach on Margaret Thatcher Funeral: Lets privatise her funeral. Put it out to competitive tender and accept the cheapest bid. Its what she would have wanted.
2013-04-15,Price of Gold Collapses....investors panic.
2013-04-15,"Financial crisis caused by too many bankers taking cocaine, says former drugs tsar"
2013-04-15,Nicols Maduro has been elected President of Venezuela
2013-04-15,"Chinese vessel that hit protected reef in Philippines held even more environmental destruction inside: over 10,000 kg (22,000 lbs) of meat from the protected pangolin. 400 boxes, each containing 25-30 kg frozen pangolins, found. Rising demand & lax laws are wiping out the toothless anteaters."
2013-04-15,NASA plans to capture an asteroid and set it into orbit around the moon
2013-04-15,"North Korean leader makes first appearance in weeks, pays tribute to late grandfather, father at mausoleum"
2013-04-15,"Russian MPs have given initial approval to an anti-blasphemy law with tougher jail terms or fines for anyone found guilty of offending religious feelings. Some activists warned that ""insults to believers"" might include the teaching of evolution or the Big Bang theory"
2013-04-15,Norway to build first ever tunnel for ships
2013-04-15,"Justin Bieber has caused outrage with his message in a guestbook at the Anne Frank Museum, saying he hoped the Holocaust victim would have been a fan."
2013-04-15,"10 million pound cost of Margaret Thatcher's funeral ""asking for trouble"""
2013-04-15,Black workers 'banned from Gare du Nord during Israeli president visit'
2013-04-15,Protesters in Spain call for end to monarchy
2013-04-15,"Climate Change skeptic, Lord Monckton, demands apology from prominent climate scientists after having his views mocked, ""In saying I have 'no training' he [Professor Renwick] has lied. I have a Cambridge degree in classical architecture."""
2013-04-15,North Korea brands US an 'enemy of the state' as South Korean's burn effigies of Kim Jong-un
2013-04-15,Justin Trudeau elected as Liberal party leader [Canada]
2013-04-15,Turkish pianist Fazil Say convicted of insulting Islam
2013-04-15,Opium poppy cultivation in Afghanistan has been increasing for a third year in a row and is heading for a record high
2013-04-15,Teenager exposes India's 'one month wives' sex tourism
2013-04-15,Israel arrests 14-year-old US citizen
2013-04-15,"Synthetic kidney could soon be ready for first human transplant: A synthetic kidney made from a patients own skin cells might soon be ready for the first human transplant following the creation of a similar artificial organ in laboratory animals, scientists have said."
2013-04-15,Australia to tackle Japan on whaling at U.N. world court
2013-04-15,Don't underestimate Germany's new anti-euro party
2013-04-14,Constitutional Convention in Ireland votes 79% in favour of same-sex marriage
2013-04-14,Kim Jong-Un has not been seen in 2 weeks
2013-04-14,"In Switzerland, two-thirds of voters have supported a fat cat initiative  a referendum that gives shareholders a binding say on executive pay as part of the worlds most stringent rule of its kind to date. Noncompliance carries hefty fines and jail time."
2013-04-14,Ireland gets its first Tornado warning.
2013-04-14,Canadian govt demands members of public fill in a 10-page questionnaire & submit CV in order to seek permission to comment on the new Enbridge oil pipeline
2013-04-14,Margaret Thatcher 'gave her approval' to her son Mark's failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea
2013-04-14,"Why Chemotherapy That Costs $70,000 in the U.S. Costs $2,500 in India: By rejecting patent applications, developing countries have kept down the costs of much-needed medications. Can they continue to do so without harming efforts to develop new drugs?"
2013-04-14,Kerry offers to withdraw US missile defenses and military presence in exchange for China's support on North Korea.
2013-04-14,French gangster Redoine Faid just escaped from prison by taking 4 guards hostage and blowing off 5 doors with explosives
2013-04-14,BBC fakes London student credentials to access North Korea
2013-04-14,Lost Soviet Mars Lander Found?
2013-04-14,Report: The Syrian Chemical Weapons 'Red Line' Has Been Crossed
2013-04-14,"Millions face starvation as world warms, say scientists: World is unprepared for changes that will see parts of Africa turned into disaster areas, say food experts"
2013-04-14,Polio Vaccine Developer Koprowski Dies
2013-04-14,Rust in hell: Irish nationalists slam Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher
2013-04-14,"Papua New Guinea Considers Repealing Sorcery Law: In February, a 20-year-old woman was stripped, tortured, doused in gasoline and then set ablaze"
2013-04-14,Melting in Antarctic is worst in 1000 years
2013-04-14,N. Korea denounces S. Korea's dialogue offer as 'cunning ploy'
2013-04-14,Russia has published the names of 18 U.S. citizens who are barred from Russia. The list includes those alleged to have been involved in the use of torture at Guantanamo bay.
2013-04-14,Russia bans 18 Americans from country in answer to US list: Former Bush staffers and Guantanamo Bay commanders on list released in response to US Treasury visa bans
2013-04-14,"New bird flu (H7N9) well adapted to quickly infect. ""One thing of concern is the pace at which we are seeing the identification of cases."" US Center for Disease Control and Prevention says"
2013-04-14,China bird flu death toll rises to 13 as more cases reported
2013-04-14,"One of France's most dangerous gangsters, known for brazen attacks on cash-in-transit vehicles, on Saturday blasted his way out of jail after briefly taking several wardens hostage"
2013-04-14,North Korea nuclear weapons agreement reached by U.S. and China | National Post
2013-04-14,Never mind aliens in outer space. Some scientists believe we may be sharing the planet with 'weird' lifeforms that are so different from our own they're invisible to us: Prof Cleland calls this ethereal dimension the shadow biosphere
2013-04-13,U.S. and China agree on Korean denuclearization
2013-04-13,"In latest propaganda video, North Korea threatens to bomb Colorado Springs. Unfortunately for them, they have no idea where Colorado Springs is."
2013-04-13,A passenger plane carrying more than 100 people has crashed into the ocean off the coast of Bali - It is believed that everyone on board has survived.
2013-04-13,Canadian Kids Smoke Most Marijuana In Western World: UNICEF
2013-04-13,An Indian village plants 111 trees for every girl born.
2013-04-13,[Philippines] Manila offers US its military bases in case of N Korea war
2013-04-13,Dozens of Native American tribal masks have been sold at an auction in Paris after a French court ignored the objections of the Hopi tribe and the U.S. government.
2013-04-13,"Mayan Genocide - Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt, accused of ordering the execution of over 1,700 indigenous Ixil Mayans in 1980s, on trial. It's ""the 1st time anywhere in the world"" a former head of state is tried for genocide by a national tribunal."
2013-04-13,UK 'confirms' use of chemical weapons in Syria after secret MI6 op  report
2013-04-13,6.0 magnitude earthquake hits western Japan
2013-04-13,World on course for catastrophic 6 Celcius rise
2013-04-13,"New Zealand Minister responsible for border security officially warns of the threat posed by 3D printers, ""If people could print off ... sheets of Ecstasy tablets at the party they're at at that time, that just completely takes away our border protection role in its known sense."""
2013-04-13,Pope appoints 8 cardinals to advise on the reform of the Catholic Church
2013-04-13,"17 years after being gangraped by more than 40 men, Indian girl still waits for justice"
2013-04-13,What time machine? Iranian news agency quietly deletes a report that Iran had built one.
2013-04-13,"Hundreds of Thousands March for 'Free Education' in Chile: 'Education should be equal for everyone, it should be free  we all have the same rights.'"
2013-04-13,"Missile launch is North Korea's exit strategy, analysts say."
2013-04-13,World's first unmanned supersonic stealth combat aircraft to make its maiden test flight in Australia.
2013-04-13,Ants Can Sense Earthquakes A Day In Advance
2013-04-13,"A German man has been arrested at Athens International Airport after allegedly trying to smuggle nearly half a ton of gold and silver out of Greece, according to airport officials."
2013-04-13,"Egypt's Coptic Christians live in fear of Islamic extremists: The group has long faced persecution, but many feel the aggression is now more systematic. 'They set a Christian man on fire the other day,' a woman says near Cairo."
2013-04-13,"Measles in Wales: Warning of Epidemic Spreads - Fears that measles epidemic may spread from Swansea with over 40,000 children still unvaccinated in Wales. Number of cases now at 693. This could ""easily double"" as 1000s of children have not had 2 MMR vaccines. No part of the UK is safe."
2013-04-13,Egypt's Coptic Church unleashed one of its strongest criticisms ever of the government after back-to-back deadly attacks on Copts that the pope insists were incited by harsh anti-Christian rhetoric.
2013-04-13,Cannibalism in North Korea
2013-04-13,EU loses 1 trillion euros a year to tax dodging
2013-04-12,France passes gay marriage bill. The legislation not only legalizes same-sex marriage but allows same-sex couples to adopt children.
2013-04-12,North Korea declares its target: Japan
2013-04-12,Vladimir Putin unveils $50 bn drive for Russian space supremacy
2013-04-12,"Putin Promises 100% Support for Buddhists - ""The president described Buddhism as a kind, humanist learning based on love for others and love for ones country,"
2013-04-12,Stephen Hawking: Space Exploration Is Key To Saving Humanity
2013-04-12,Anti-Thatcher song hits top of U.K. pop chart - Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead goes to No. 1
2013-04-12,Wave of homophobic violence sweeps France
2013-04-12,"A Chinese woman sent to a labour camp for demanding seven men who kidnapped, raped and forced her then 11-year-old daughter into prostitution be punished went to court on Friday to sue for compensation."
2013-04-12,U.K. gives the homeless jobs as tour guides
2013-04-12,"Sudan People's Liberation Army to ""wipe out the entire Murle tribe on the face of the earth"". Nobody is willing to help these people."
2013-04-12,North Korean helicopter dropping paratroopers along China border
2013-04-12,Nuclear Waste Found in English Channel
2013-04-12,"Greece's jobless rate has soared to a new high at 27.2%, 18-24yo at 60%"
2013-04-12,"In order to adhere to Chinese concepts of family and duty, an increasing amount of gay Chinese men are turning to an alternate form of marriage marrying lesbian women."
2013-04-12,An amazing visualization of every drone strike in Pakistan
2013-04-12,Russia Builds Giant Space Base In $52bn Push
2013-04-12,Margaret Thatcher dead: Sex Pistol Johnny Rotten says hate mobs are 'loathsome' & calls for respect
2013-04-12,Sweden enlists llamas to fight sheep-killing wolves
2013-04-12,3 scenarios for North Korea endgame
2013-04-12,German hacker demonstrated how to remotely hijack and bring down an airplane using an app for the Android phone
2013-04-12,"Spain holds first ""Siesta Championship"" or ""Napping Competition"" to bring back old tradition"
2013-04-12,Reinventing InventHelp - Inventors Digest Review
2013-04-12,"Hawking: Mankind has 1,000 years to escape Earth"
2013-04-12,"North Korea employing ""Deceptive"" tactics. South Korean news source says they may be planning ""multiple"" missile launches."""
2013-04-12,Google launches tool to determine data use after death
2013-04-11,"Bitcoin value plummets, losing as much as 41% of its value in a single day"
2013-04-11,"Two Norwegian teens return $81,500 found in bag on a train left by elderly passenger"
2013-04-11,The Pirate Bay kicked out of Greenland in under 48 hours.
2013-04-11,"A woman who died after being refused a potentially lifesaving abortion even while she was having a miscarriage was told that her repeated pleas could not be granted because Ireland is a Catholic country, an inquest has confirmed"
2013-04-11,"""Italy's 5-Star Movement, led by comic Beppe Grillo, wants to scrap the country's planned purchase of 90 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets and use the savings to help boost the struggling economy, a lawmaker told Reuters on Tuesday [9 April 2013]."""
2013-04-11,Uzbekistan calls Harlem Shake 'a vortex full of meaninglessness and shamelessness'
2013-04-11,"'Very high' chance North Korea will fire missile, U.S. and South Korea say"
2013-04-11,Mysterious gigantic stone structure found beneath Sea of Galilee
2013-04-11,"Defecting NK Commander confirms rival factions within NK military, pro- and anti-Kim Jong-Un fighting within ranks"
2013-04-11,"For the first time in 69 years, there are no American tanks in Europe."
2013-04-11,Beaver Bites Man To Death In Belarus Attack
2013-04-11,"Germany owes us 162-billion euros in war damages, say Greeks | World | News"
2013-04-11,"Egyptian doctors 'ordered to operate on protesters without anaesthetic'. ""Senior Egyptian army doctors were ordered to operate without anaesthetic on wounded protesters at a military hospital in Cairo during protests against military rule"""
2013-04-11,N. Korea shifts missile locations ahead of imminent launch: sources
2013-04-11,Japan has inked an agreement with Taiwan to allow Taiwanese vessels to fish within 12 miles from the disputed Diaoyu Islands in a surprise deal that has shaken China.
2013-04-11,Airbus is installing special big seats for fat people while shrinking other seats
2013-04-11,"""DPRK's nuclear shower will break the U.S. nuclear umbrella so mercilessly that the warmongers cannot even repent of anything."""
2013-04-11,United States and South Korean armed forces placed at 'maximum alert' Watchcon 2
2013-04-11,North Korea is shifting placement of missiles in an attempt to outwit intelligence
2013-04-11,"Camel gifted to French president is mistaken for food, made into tagine and eaten for dinner"
2013-04-11,Seoul calls on North to come to bargaining table (Yonhap)
2013-04-11,Top admiral of US Pacific Command worries North Korea crisis could escalate 'pretty quickly' with one miscalculation
2013-04-11,Uruguay to become third American country to legalize gay marriage after Canada and Argentina
2013-04-11,"Former Guatemalan dictator, Efrain Rios Montt, being charged with genocide. First time ever a former head of state is being tried for genocide by a national tribunal."
2013-04-11,Finland police say Russias President Putin mistakenly placed on criminal blacklist
2013-04-10,NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days
2013-04-10,Germany gives Japan its backing as N Korea tensions rise
2013-04-10,"Anonymous vows justice for Rehtaeh Parsons, 15 year old rape victim who committed suicide. Canadian Police do nothing."
2013-04-10,North Korea v South Korea in figures
2013-04-10,Breasts better off without bras: French study
2013-04-10,North Korea preparing to launch missiles from 2 different locations
2013-04-10,"North Korea has completed fueling its Musudan medium-range ballistic missile, and is ready to launch it any moment"
2013-04-10,"Google launches global human trafficking helpline & data network - Commits $3M (2M) to build an international helpline network fueled by data. Human trafficking enslaves 21M people, with 2.5M forced into labor. Most are ages 18-24 & 43% are forced into the sex trade."
2013-04-10,China and Russia urge North Korea to step back from missile launch.
2013-04-10,"A Nova Scotia teenager has killed herself after she was raped by four boys, who distributed a photo of the assault and bullied her, her family says."
2013-04-10,South Korea raises alert with North to 'vital threat' [BBC]
2013-04-10,Ex-North Korea spy says Kim Jong-Un struggling to control military
2013-04-10,South Korea confirms North was behind the massive hacking attack that paralyzed networks of local financial firms and broadcasters last month
2013-04-10,"April 1 marked the beginning of free abortion in France. As mandated by the new law, the country will now reimburse all abortions 100 percent, as well as provide free contraception for girls ages 15-18."
2013-04-10,North Korea Warns It Is on Brink of Nuclear War With South
2013-04-10,Japanese city accidentally tweets North Korean missile launch
2013-04-10,"South Korea raises surveillance level to Watchcon 3 in response to reports that the North will fire multiple missiles: 4-5 TELS (Scud launchpads), one Nudong and two Musadan missiles being prepared"
2013-04-10,"North Korea's peasant army gets ready to farm, not wage war"
2013-04-10,"Intelligence suggests North Korea could be planning multiple launches, U.S. official says"
2013-04-10,Doomsday Clock creator dies.
2013-04-10,North Korea: US 'ready to intercept up to three missiles'
2013-04-10,"Three years after BP oil spill, USF research finds massive die-off"
2013-04-10,Admiral says US ready if North Korea strikes
2013-04-10,Pakistan today successfully test-fired nuclear-capable Hatf-IV ballistic missile with a range of 900 km that can hit targets in India.
2013-04-10,The 4th Largest City In The World Has No Outdoor Advertising
2013-04-09,Ontario is putting an end to coal-burning power plants: '...on the verge of becoming the first industrial region in North America to eliminate all coal-fired electrical generation.'
2013-04-09,"In sign of growing Chinese frustration with North Korea, Daily Show clip mocking Kim Jong Un gets 2.8 million views on China web portal, making it the 2nd most viewed Daily Show segment ever"
2013-04-09,North Korea to 'launch missile TOMORROW' after warning foreigners to evacuate South | World | News
2013-04-09,"French Intelligence Agency Forces Wikipedia Volunteer to Delete Article; Re-Instated, It Becomes Most-Read Page On French Wikipedia"
2013-04-09,Jewish terrorist who murdered two palestinians gets 2 life sentences in Israeli jail
2013-04-09,10-year-old rape victim put behind bars- Times of India
2013-04-09,'Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead' set to enter UK Official top 40 following Margaret Thatcher's death
2013-04-09,Street parties break out in London and across the UK over death of Margaret Thatcher
2013-04-09,Now Hiring: Fake Somali Pirates. Foreign journalists have paid Kenyans pretending to be Somali pirates hundreds of dollars to interview them.
2013-04-09,"Japan deploys three Patriot missile defense batteries in Tokyo, a chain of PAC-3 batteries to Okinawa, and Aegis missile defense destroyers to the Sea of Japan"
2013-04-09,"The British are watering our whiskey, warned American diplomat in 1973 (via Wikileaks)"
2013-04-09,"US tear gas shipment -140,000 canisters - arrives in Egypt."
2013-04-09,"While in Syria, FRONTLINE filmmaker Olly Lambert did not anticipate that bombs from government jets would begin to fall just 300 meters away. (Warning: Graphic Violence)"
2013-04-09,South Korean politician: We need tactical nukes to send message to China
2013-04-09,How a Single Spy Turned Pakistan Against the United States. What really happened after Raymond Davis killed two men in the street in Lahore.
2013-04-09,North Korea workers don't report for work at joint industrial park
2013-04-09,"Japanese woman with megaphone in Osaka: ""I hate Koreans so much... We will start Tsuruhashi massacre like Nanking Massacre."" Crowd cheers."
2013-04-09,Afghanistan mineral deposits estimated at $1 trillion
2013-04-09,The Pirate Bay Moves to .GL Domain in Anticipation of Domain Seizure: The Pirate Bay has received indications that the Swedish authorities might soon attempt to seize the sites .se domain
2013-04-09,Margaret Thatcher Was Freakishly Correct About Why The Euro Would Be Such A Big Disaster
2013-04-09,US Navy Deploying Laser Weapon Prototype in Persian Gulf
2013-04-09,The Sun reports that Kim Jong Un starred in a Grease production while going to school in Switzerland
2013-04-09,Putin Says Russia Does Not Discriminate Against Gays
2013-04-09,North Korea: ex-soldiers recall 'golden days' of military drills | World news
2013-04-09,"France wants to keep 1,000 soldiers in Mali permanently"
2013-04-08,Ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died following a stroke
2013-04-08,Iceland voted the friendliest place on earth
2013-04-08,"Swiss offer to mediate in North Korea crisis, foreign ministry already made contact with the North Korean authorities"
2013-04-08,Germany: Thieves Swipe 5 Tons of Nutella
2013-04-08,"The Canadian government has barred scientists from entering the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario. As funding for the freshwater research station dried up this week, scientists with on-going projects at the facility were left wondering about the future of their research."
2013-04-08,N. Korea to withdraw all its workers from Kaesong complex
2013-04-08,"Wikileaks releases ""Kissinger Cables"" with 2 million documents."
2013-04-08,120 tons of radioactive water leak out of Fukushima plant
2013-04-08,Prime Minister of Iceland visits China with HER wife - Anticipation over reactions
2013-04-08,British grandmother sentenced to death by firing squad for drug trafficking in Indonesia.
2013-04-08,Britons accused of drug offences in Dubai are refused legal visits and claim to have been tortured (including electrocuting testicles)
2013-04-08,India Use Drones to Protect Rhinos From Poachers -
2013-04-08,An oil discovery is expected earn the Falkands $10.5 billion over the next 25 years
2013-04-08,Bemused Vladimir Putin and Angela Merkel confronted by topless Femen protester in Hanover
2013-04-08,"Greek Commission Concludes Germany Owes Billions in War Reparations ""The total could be enough to solve the country's debt problems, but the Greek government is wary of picking a fight with its paymaster."""
2013-04-08,North Korea seen readying for fourth nuclear test
2013-04-08,Why Japan is the most interesting story in global economics right now
2013-04-08,WikiLeaks is to publish more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence documents
2013-04-08,Gaza police shaving heads of long-haired youths. 'It is the latest sign that the Islamic militants are imposing their strict practices on the population'
2013-04-08,Bangladeshi PM Sheikh Hasina has firmly rejected demands by Islamists for a new anti-blasphemy law to punish those who defame Islam and Prophet Muhammad
2013-04-08,Pirates of the Caribbean: Global Resistance to Tax Havens Grows - Tax havens cause hundreds of millions of euros in annual damage to national economies around the world and they create an uncontrollable parallel economy.
2013-04-08,France to buy US drones
2013-04-08,Police allege man was sexually assaulted by 4 women
2013-04-08,"North Korea ready for new nuclear test, says South - video | World news"
2013-04-08,Tepco finds second pit leaking in Fukushima
2013-04-07,Nazca lines destroyed by quarrying operations in Peru.
2013-04-07,BBC has uncovered fresh evidence of how some Sharia councils in Britain may be putting Muslim women 'at risk' by pressuring them to stay in abusive marriages
2013-04-07,Swedish tourist manages to smuggle out pictures from North Korea. Guides did not know the camera had 2 memory cards.
2013-04-07,Canada's largest bank replacing Canadian workers with temporary foreign workers
2013-04-07,"Anonymous launches massive cyber assault on Israel: Hacktivist group Anonymous has launched its second massive cyber attack against Israel. The collective threatens to ""disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace"" in what they have dubbed ""the largest internet battle in the history of mankind"""
2013-04-07,"In a secret deal, Pakistan allowed American drone strikes on its soil on the condition that the unmanned aircraft would stay away from its nuclear facilities and the mountain camps where Kashmiri militants were trained for attacks in India."
2013-04-07,"Maasai face eviction from ancestral lands to make way for Dubai hunting firm: Tanzania plans to reduce Maasai areas by 40%, citing 'overgrazing.' A mass protest fell apart this week, but Maasai women took up the cause and organized their own sit-in"
2013-04-07,Magic mushroom depression trial tripped up by absurd drug laws
2013-04-07,China asks North Korea to ensure safety of its nationals.
2013-04-07,"Judges may lack common sense because they have lived 'sheltered lives', warns Britain's most senior female judge"
2013-04-07,Philippines asking $1.4 mn from US for reef damage
2013-04-07,Hang atheist bloggers: Bangladeshi Muslims call for execution of blasphemers (PHOTOS)
2013-04-07,"Afghan attacks kill U.S. diplomat, soldiers, others"
2013-04-07,Countries rattled by tax-haven data leak - Politicians and companies worldwide face questions over offshore accounts
2013-04-07,Japan to order shooting down of North Korea missile: Reports
2013-04-07,"Japan whaling haul a 'record low', plans to keep whaling regardless: Japan's latest whaling season has drawn to a close with a record low haul due to ""unforgiveable sabotage"" by protestors, a government minister has said"
2013-04-07,"Embassy staff in N Korea ignore warning. Most foreign governments have made it clear they will not be evacuating their staff, despite warning from Pyongyang"
2013-04-07,"China 'severely concerned' over North Korean tensions, saying they won't ""allow troublemaking at the doorstep of China."""
2013-04-07,North Korea tension 'prompts US missile test delay'
2013-04-07,"This Is What Superstition Does -- Witches Tortured, Burned Alive: Papua New Guinea has seen several cases of persecution. The latest attacks occurred on Easter when six women were tortured with hot irons as an Easter sacrifice."""
2013-04-07,BBC News - Afghan children 'killed by Nato air strike
2013-04-07,The great recycling con trick: How 12million tons of your carefully sorted waste is being dumped in foreign landfill sites
2013-04-07,Is the Global Economy Slowly Falling Apart?
2013-04-07,"Health Canada recalls birth control pill Alysena, after finding out some packages were sold with 2 weeks of placebos instead of 1"
2013-04-07,"Hamas ban on Western garments, hair styles criticized in Gaza"
2013-04-06,"Demonstrators march against law that allows police to declare public protests illegal. In response, the Montreal police declare the protest illegal."
2013-04-06,French intelligence agency bullies Wikipedia admin into deleting an article
2013-04-06,"""I was so brainwashed in North Korea death camp I betrayed my family"""
2013-04-06,Man freezes to death on day 3 of trying to live as the homeless do
2013-04-06,"""You might think alarm bells would be sounding in Washington, given the warnings in North Korea. But when they talk about North Korea, United States officials are sounding like an exasperated parent responding to a child's tantrum."""
2013-04-06,"North Korea thinks that the U.S. is irritated and scared of the ""proud"" and ""mighty"" NK military."
2013-04-06,U.S. amassing B-1 strategic bombers near North Korea
2013-04-06,Study finds most Haiti aid went to US groups. 'Just 1 percent went to Haitian companies'
2013-04-06,Syria in Ruins - In Focus [PHOTOS]
2013-04-06,"Mexico hourly wages now lower than China's. Mexico's wages as a proportion of economic output are lower than those in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, South Korea, Hungary, Poland and Brazil. Mexico has increased its U.S. market share at a faster pace than China over the past six years."
2013-04-06,"7.2 Earthquake off Papua, Indonesia"
2013-04-06,Hundreds of thousands of people are protesting in Bangladesh to demand that the government introduce an anti-blasphemy law that would include the death penalty for bloggers who insult Islam.
2013-04-06,Daycare shooting in Canada
2013-04-06,"Fidel Castro says the current tensions on the Korean Peninsula pose one of the ""gravest threats"" for nuclear holocaust since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962"
2013-04-06,US is using China to pressure North Korea
2013-04-06,"H7N9, Avian Flu in Beijing being monitored, 14 confirmed cases 6 dead."
2013-04-06,North Korea releases video of Kim Jong-un firing a gun
2013-04-06,Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant leaking contaminated water
2013-04-06,"Pope Francis donates $50,000 to flood victims in Argentina"
2013-04-06,Kim Jong-un orders increased production of artillery in N. Korea
2013-04-06,U.S. Calls on China to to crack down on the regime in Pyongyang(N.Korea)
2013-04-06,"Russia has more nuclear warheads than US, UK, France, China combined. Interactive stats on the nuclear states"
2013-04-06,Japanese scientists figure out how to read visual contents of dreams with brain scans.
2013-04-06,Angelina Jolie pledges $200K to educate Pakistani girls
2013-04-06,Fidel Castro to North Korea: nuclear war will benefit no one
2013-04-05,"U.N. calls for closure of Guantanamo prison: ""We must be clear about this: the United States is in clear breach not just of its own commitments but also of international laws and standards that it is obliged to uphold"""
2013-04-05,"2,080 lashes for Saudi man who raped daughter"
2013-04-05,N. Korea loads 2 medium-range missiles on mobile launchers
2013-04-05,Earthquake just north of North Korea's border
2013-04-05,A man in Germany has raised a pack of 70 wolves and established himself as the alpha male
2013-04-05,"Gul Meena, a 17-year-old Pakistani girl, was attacked by her brother in an honor killing attempt after she left her 60-year-old husband. With an ax, her brother struck his own sister 15 times after killing her friend."
2013-04-05,Map: This is how far those North Korean missiles can actually reach
2013-04-05,North Korea warns it cannot protect embassies after April 10
2013-04-05,"A South Korean intelligence official correctly predicted North Korea would urge foreign diplomats to leave, said an attack would follow"
2013-04-05,"""North Korea does now have missile technology that is able to reach, as they put it, the whole of the United States"" - David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom."
2013-04-05,International Topless Jihad Day: FEMEN Activists Stage Protests Across Europe (nsfw photos)
2013-04-05,U.S. to return military base lands in Okinawa to Japan
2013-04-05,"Lego didn't give in to Muslim demands to remove Jabba's Palace: ""A few media have reported that the product is being discontinued due to the mentioned criticism. This is, however, not correct."""
2013-04-05,Japanese rock song so offensive it took North Koreas focus off U.S
2013-04-05,"China ""shifts position"" on North Korea"
2013-04-05,A girl from Tunisia could be stoned to death for posing naked with the words 'my body belongs to me' scrawled on her chest.
2013-04-05,BBC News - Pope Francis calls for action on clerical sex abuse
2013-04-05,"Archaeologists unearth 'breathtaking' 4,000-year-old complex at Iraqi home of Abraham"
2013-04-05,BBC News - North Korea warns safety of British diplomats 'cannot be guaranteed'
2013-04-05,Uruguay: Marriage Equality Approved
2013-04-05,"Fidel Castro pens first column in 9 months, urges restraint on tense Korean Peninsula"
2013-04-05,"As N. Korean threats intensify, first signs of jitters in the South."
2013-04-05,Pope Francis: Women are 'fundamental' to church
2013-04-05,North Korea 'asks Russia to evacuate embassy staff' as China loses patience
2013-04-05,US offers 5 million for the capture of Joseph Kony
2013-04-04,Canadian father 'appalled' that mother who drowned two young boys and left their dead bodies for her husband to find next to her wedding ring will be released after serving only 10 months.
2013-04-04,Pyongyang asks China to send envoy- Beijing rejects the request
2013-04-04,North Korea seen moving mid-range missile to east coast
2013-04-04,"Offshore Leaks: Vast Web of Tax Evasion Exposed - International network of journalists has 2.5m records from tax havens detailing letterbox firms, offshore accounts & dubious financial deals. The unprecedented leaks include names of 130,000 people who moved money offshore."
2013-04-04,N. Korea has just vowed actual military actions against the US
2013-04-04,"Anonymous Hacks Official North Korean Social Media Accounts: The hackers allegedly seized control of North Korea's official Twitter and Flickr accounts, in the process defacing several related websites, and making the autocratic nation look extremely unprepared for cyber attack."
2013-04-04,Anonymous wealth from around the world revealed after data leak
2013-04-04,"Two North Korean submarines have ""disappeared"" - Chosun TV (Translated)"
2013-04-04,"US Official: N. Korea may be planning launch, It's unknown whether it would be a test or a strike."
2013-04-04,A renowned Alberta water scientist is urging the federal government to take action after he discovered deformities in fish in the Athabasca River downriver from oil sands developments bear a striking resemblance to ones found in fish after spills in U.S. waters.
2013-04-04,The Next Korean War and how the Kim regime might play the nuclear card to force a indecisive war (Good analysis for those wanting more than jokes about NK)
2013-04-04,"Secret Files Expose Offshore's Global Impact: A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of politicians, con men and the mega-rich the world over."
2013-04-04,North Korea approves nuclear strike on US
2013-04-04,Bank of Japan to pump $1.4 trillion into economy in unprecedented stimulus
2013-04-04,"North Korea warns nuclear war on America could break out ""today or tomorrow""."
2013-04-04,"Sorry, Anonymous probably didnt hack North Koreas intranet"
2013-04-04,US tells North Korea to drop threats after nuclear warning
2013-04-04,North Korean Twitter Account Hacked By Anonymous.
2013-04-04,Signs of North Korea Easing Off War Message at Home
2013-04-04,North Korea's missile movement not aimed at U.S. mainland
2013-04-04,Hack attacks hit Bitcoin exchange rates
2013-04-04,North Korea warns the moment of explosion is near. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is standing by to discuss at 6:29p ET on CNN
2013-04-04,'Not a crime to make known crime of a state': Senior Swedish judge backs Assange
2013-04-04,"N Korea, final approval for nuclear attack on US"
2013-04-04,Manchester police to record attacks on goths and punks as hate crimes
2013-04-03,North Korea via Instagram
2013-04-03,"""North Koreans are not getting any information from the outside world. They think they will win if a war breaks out."""
2013-04-03,"Saudi Arabia will now let women ride bicycles, but only for fun, not for transportation."
2013-04-03,Brazilian men gangrape an American girl in a public bus while holding down her boyfriend and making him watch
2013-04-03,Russian billionaire plans to make humans immortal by 2045: A Russian billionaire has unveiled plans to make humans immortal by converting them into 'Terminator-style' cyborgs - a creature that's part human and part machine - within the next three decades.
2013-04-03,Indian woman burns her rapist to death
2013-04-03,"""Gate to hell"" discovered by Italian scientists."
2013-04-03,Sony makes more money selling life insurance than selling electronics.
2013-04-03,"China deploys tanks, armor to NK border"
2013-04-03,"It's Believed China is Dramatically Under-Reporting Its Overseas Fishing Catch - Excessive catches by vessels from China threaten the livelihoods & ecosystems in West Africa, in particular"
2013-04-03,"N. Korea only allowing S. Korean workers to leave Kaesong, banning entry"
2013-04-03,Hungary is no longer a democracy
2013-04-03,U.S. sends in $900M anti-missile radar array as North Korea vows to fire up nuclear reactor
2013-04-03,Spain's Princess Cristina has been summoned to appear in court over allegations that her husband misused millions of euros of public money.
2013-04-03,Amazon tribe threaten to go to war with Brazilian government after military incursion into their land by dam builders
2013-04-03,City plans to fight drug addiction with... marijuana
2013-04-03,New face-sized tarantula discovered in Sri Lanka - Scientists found the spiders -- with a leg span up to 8 inches across -- living in trees & the old doctor's quarters of a hospital.
2013-04-03,"Bangladesh police have arrested three atheist bloggers for defaming Islam and the prophet Mohammed, amid demands from religious fundamentalists for an Internet crackdown."
2013-04-03,Germany Doesn't Get Much Sun. How Did It Become a Leader in Solar Energy?
2013-04-03,Saudi court sentences man to be paralyzed
2013-04-03,"""The Anonymous hacktivist collective announced that it's released sensitive data -- aka doxed -- the government of North Korea over its threat to restart a nuclear reactor in the country."""
2013-04-03,"Double standard emerges in Brazil van gang rape investigation. The American victim of a Brazil gang rape saw two suspects arrested in her case within 24 hours. The same men allegedly raped a local woman a week prior, but her case saw little action from police."
2013-04-03,Slain dictator Gaddafis only daughter booted from Algerian safe house for repeatedly setting it on fire
2013-04-03,Cyprus President's Family Transferred Tens Of Millions To London Days Before Deposit Haircuts
2013-04-03,"Australia launches national child sex abuse inquiry: Australia has opened a national investigation into child sex abuse, with primte minister Julia Gillard warning of ""uncomfortable truths"" as institutions including schools and churches come under scrutiny"
2013-04-02,"Samoa Air becomes the first airline to introduce ""pay as you weigh"" aifares meaninig overweight passengers pay more"
2013-04-02,"Free abortions come into force in France: As of April 1 women in France will have access to free abortions, while teenage girls will be able to get free and anonymous contraception."
2013-04-02,"One Month After Threatening a College Newspaper with Legal Action for Criticizing Their Anti-Gay Marriage Campaign, The Iona Institute Is Threatening to Sue Another Paper For Reporting It"
2013-04-02,"A list of those that had private foreknowledge and withdrew large sums of money in RUB, EUR and USD out of Cyprus."
2013-04-02,U.S. marijuana law changes bring boom to B.C. hydroponics
2013-04-02,No end in sight for North Korea tensions
2013-04-02,Western women warned 'friendliness' confuses Indian men
2013-04-02,China's anger at North Korea overcomes worry over U.S. stealth flights: North is to blame for the tensions and that hostilities are not imminent
2013-04-02,North Korea 'crisis gone too far' says UN chief Ban Ki-moon
2013-04-02,US Navy shifts guided missile destroyer in wake of North Korea missile threats
2013-04-02,"Afghan Girl, 6, Rescued from Child Bride Fate; Countless Others not so Lucky"
2013-04-02,Jon Stewart obliterates Egypts president for arresting Egypts Jon Stewart
2013-04-02,First australian ambassador of aboriginal origin appointed
2013-04-02,North Korea names new premier seen as economic reformer amid nuclear tension
2013-04-02,Eurozone unemployment hits all-time high: 19 million out of work
2013-04-02,Police Officer sues robbery victim after injury while investigating premises. Litigation culture gone mad?
2013-04-02,Mislabeled fish slip into Europe's menus. Research reveals that 7% of cod and haddock - the deep-fried staples of British fish and chips - actually turn out to be cheaper fish substituted to cut costs.
2013-04-02,Air pollution linked to 1.2 million premature deaths in China
2013-04-02,"African nations increase farm spending, winning poverty battle"
2013-04-02,"The U.S. Navy is moving a radar platform closer to North Korea's coast, the Pentagon says"
2013-04-02,Russia going back to Afghanistan? Kremlin confirms it could happen
2013-04-02,"A new strain of bird flu, H7N9, has killed 2 in China, but doctors dont detect human transmissions."
2013-04-02,Hamas law promotes gender segregation in Gaza schools
2013-04-02,American tourist riding public transportation was gangraped in Brazil
2013-04-02,"Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad - Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses"
2013-04-01,Cyprus President's Family Transferred Tens Of Millions To London Days Before Deposit Confiscations
2013-04-01,Canadian warship seizes $100-million of heroin in 'massive' high seas bust
2013-04-01,Israel jails teenage conscientious objector for eighth time: Nathan Blanc has spent more than 100 days in prison over the past 19 weeks due to his refusal to enlist in Israeli army
2013-04-01,Pakistani Behind the Korean Nukes
2013-04-01,Supreme Court in India has rejected attempts by the drug maker Novartis to patent its cancer drug
2013-04-01,"Canadas information commissioner is launching an investigation into the muzzling of government scientists, a wide-reaching probe that will cover six different federal departments."
2013-04-01,"A 40-year-old Pakistani housewife has made history by becoming the first woman to run for parliament from the country's northwest tribal region, a highly conservative area that is a haven for Islamist militants"
2013-04-01,"If the EU were to apply to join the EU, it would not be admitted, because it does not meet the democratic standards required of member states."""
2013-04-01,Are Drone Strikes Killing Terrorists or Creating Them?What the evidence says about one of the biggest questions in the debate over targeted killings.
2013-04-01,U.S. F-22 stealth jets join South Korea drills amid saber-rattling
2013-04-01,"""North Korea likely has the capability to mount a plutonium-based nuclear warhead on the shorter range Nodong missile, which has a range of about 800 miles""  Former IAEA inspector David Albright (x-post from /r/NorthKoreaNews)"
2013-04-01,"Patents Defeat in India Is Key Victory for Generic Drugs: Indias top court rejected a Swiss drug makers patent request for a major cancer drug on Monday, ensuring poor patients access to many of the worlds best drugs, at least for a while"
2013-04-01,"Indian Supreme Court rejects Novartis' patent petition, allowing a price drop on leukemia medicine around the world. From $70,000 to $2,500."
2013-04-01,Acts of Torture Reveal True Nature Of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
2013-04-01,India tourist visits down 25% following fatal Delhi gang rape
2013-04-01,An Afghan teenager has killed an American soldier by running up from behind and stabbing him in the neck
2013-04-01,Thousands of Moroccans protest to topple Islamist-led government
2013-04-01,Canadian federal office is launching a sweeping investigation into complaints that the Harper government has been 'muzzling' and restricting access to scientists
2013-04-01,Cesar Chavez Google doodle on Easter Sunday outrages Christian conservatives online
2013-04-01,Brazil: Foreign tourist raped on Rio de Janeiro minibus
2013-04-01,"Countries in the developing world are drastically reducing their euro holdings as economic instability in Europe leads them elsewhere to stock their currency reserves. Euro holdings are at their lowest level in a decade, according to the International Monetary Fund."
2013-04-01,India's top court dismisses Novartis petition for Glivec patent
2013-04-01,Antarctic sea ice is expanding
2013-04-01,A neuroscience arms race The increasingly lucrative field of brain research and the politics behind it
2013-04-01,"South Korean President Vows Strong, Swift Military Response if North Provokes"
2013-03-31,"How Egypt's radical rulers crush the lives and hopes of women. Women stood shoulder to shoulder with men in Tahrir Square in 2011. Now they are back on the streets, opposing a new constitution that sweeps away their rights and opens the way for girls of 13 to be married"
2013-03-31,"28,000 Rivers Disappear From Chinas Maps - Over 1/2 the rivers are missing, according to 800,000 surveyors, leaving Beijing fumbling to explain why. They blame climate change. But environmentalists see it as a manifestation of headlong, ill-conceived development."
2013-03-31,North Korea: Nukes are our country's 'life'
2013-03-31,Two men die in Shanghai after contracting strain of birdflu 'not previously known in humans'
2013-03-31,Putin orders ban on adoptions by LGBT foreign couples
2013-03-31,"Scientists find evidence of nearly-extinct Sumatran rhinos in Borneo, where the species was believed to have been extinct for 20 years"
2013-03-31,Land grab: Israel gave less than 1% of seized West Bank to Palestinians
2013-03-31,Journalists manufactured and spread false list of pedophiles
2013-03-31,Wikileaks launches political party in Australia: Australians could soon have a new political party - the Wikileaks Party - if Julian Assange's bid for official electoral status can enlist 500 members.
2013-03-31,"Egypt's ""Jon Stewart"" Bassem Youssef faces arrest warrant"
2013-03-31,"Critics damn move as Egypt's top prosecutor orders arrest of hit TV satirist Bassem Youssef, Egypt's Jon Stewart, whose show 'al-Bernameg' gets over 30 million daily viewers."
2013-03-31,Iceland's Crowd Sourced Constitution Killed by Parliament
2013-03-31,"Germany--Gray, Overcast Germany--is the Greatest Solar Power Success Story in the World. Here's How They Did it. Germanys little-guy suppliers are destabilizing big power companies."
2013-03-31,Stuck US minesweeper cut in pieces and removed from coral reef in Phillipines
2013-03-31,"Russian authorities can't beat back democracy: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, said Saturday that Russia will face unrest unless society is made more democratic despite President Vladimir Putin's success in cracking down on dissent."
2013-03-31,Harrowing Photo of Syrian Child Soldier
2013-03-31,Saudi Arabia 'may end' Twitter user anonymity - government asks telecom companies to look at how they can monitor or block services like Skype
2013-03-31,Online protest over Maldives' rape sentence Campaigners target islands' tourist economy after teenage victim is ordered to be flogged
2013-03-31,"Maasai Furious as Plan to Lure Arabian Gulf Tourists Threatens Their Ancestral Land - Tribal leaders vow to resign official posts in protest after nomads are denied access to their pastures in Serengeti ""wildlife corridor"" to make way for Dubai-based luxury safari company"
2013-03-31,HIV spreading among students in China
2013-03-31,Eiffel Tower evacuated following call threatening explosion
2013-03-31,Kuwait online activist jailed for 2 years for Twitter posts insulting the country's ruler
2013-03-31,Will Congress act to stop US support for Honduras' death squad regime?
2013-03-31,North Korea: What happens if Kim Jong-un acts on his threats?
2013-03-31,"Natural gas extraction causing frequent quakes, property damage in northern Netherlands: 'The Dutch Oil Company which is in charge of the extraction admits that the earthquakes are linked to its activities and has set up a 100-million-euro compensation fund.'"
2013-03-30,UK Man Caught With Just Over 2lbs Of Marijuana. Sentenced To Writing 5000 Word Essay.
2013-03-30,Full war declaration statement from DPRK
2013-03-30,South Korea Warns North of Punishment Should War Declaration Go Beyond Words: South Korea's Ministry of National Defense has issued a statement calling on Pyongyang to stop making what it calls unacceptable threats.
2013-03-30,French President announces 75% tax on companies for salaries above 1m
2013-03-30,North Korea says it enters war against South Korea
2013-03-30,"North Korea assures Chinese Tourists that ""there will be no war."""
2013-03-30,North Korea declaring war resulted from a translation error
2013-03-30,French workers hold company heads captive after theyre fired without pay
2013-03-30,Amsterdam to fly rainbow flag for Russian President Putins visit to the capital (xpost r/europe)
2013-03-30,"No, North Korea cant hit Hawaii"
2013-03-30,"NATO air strike kills two children, nine suspected Taliban in Afghanistan"
2013-03-30,"Rivers of Blood: Pigs Still Rotting in China's Water Supply - Shanghai's drinking water under threat with 16,000 diseased pig corpses in river. A woman recalls playing in it as a kid. Now it's inky black with slick lime green algae & smells like a blocked drain. A dead piglet bobs at her feet."
2013-03-30,Texans mock Kim Jong Uns apparent plan to strike Austin
2013-03-30,"""Stunning"" Historic Shipwrecks Emerge from Stockholm HarborLow levels reveal hulls of 2, likely 17th-century Danish warships. I saw immediately that it was a shipwreck. You could clearly see the bow & stern. He spotted them while walking with his girlfriend. Samples are being testing."
2013-03-30,"North Korea has almost no pollution, largely due to its stagnant economy"
2013-03-30,Mass muggings of Chinese tourists in Paris spark fears of decline in visitors
2013-03-30,"Camera catches Vancouver policeman punching handcuffed cyclist, politely explaining why he did it"
2013-03-30,"U.S. defense officials: North Korean threats are ""bellicose rhetoric"""
2013-03-30,"Guantanamo Guards Denying Water to Hunger Strikers to Thwart Protest, say Lawyers"
2013-03-30,Julian Assange's WikiLeaks Party opens for membership in Australia
2013-03-30,North Korea enters 'state of war' with South Korea
2013-03-30,China and Russia conduct 'surprise' military exercises
2013-03-30,Hacktivists Anonymous_Korea claim taking down N.Korean govt's websites
2013-03-30,Egypt's government issues arrest warrant for TV satirist
2013-03-30,Canada is the only country to pull out of the UN convention to combat desertification
2013-03-29,Pope washes feet of young Muslim woman prisoner in unprecedented twist on Maundy Thursday
2013-03-29,"Russia has warned of tensions in North Korea slipping out of control, after Pyongyang said it was placing its missile units on stand-by.
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2013-03-29,"Pope Francis becomes the first pope to ever wash a woman's feet, breaking centuries of Catholic tradition."
2013-03-29,Retired man loses his $1m in life savings over night as Cyprus Bank goes bankrupt and unable to repay depositors
2013-03-29,North Korea Rockets 'Ready To Hit US Bases'
2013-03-29,'Sharply increased' vehicles and troops movments at North Korea's mid- and long-range missile units have been detected by South Korea's military just hours after the North's leader ordered rocket units to be ready to attack U.S. bases.
2013-03-29,"Girl, 14 raped by two men on bus... in Glasgow"
2013-03-29,USS Freedom heading towards N. Korea. 
2013-03-29,North Korea plan to attack US mainland revealed in photographs.
2013-03-29,"Toronto Restaurant owner fined $ 10,000 after 31 threatened Spiny Softshell Turtles found in freezer - 


They're used to make ""medicinal"" soup, but there may be less than 1,000 left in the Province."
2013-03-29,"Ten years after Iraq war began, Iran reaps the gains: American forces are gone, and Washington's political influence is now virtually nonexistent. Iran has become an indispensable broker among Baghdad's new Shiite elite, and its influence continues to grow"
2013-03-29,"From the Stone Age to the Digital Age in One Big Leap -  Deep in the Amazon, an isolated Brazilian tribe almost vanished when it 1st had contact with the modern world. Now the Surui is working with Google to do things like report on illegal logging in the forest."
2013-03-29,Russia: Gay pride march organiser beaten after city announces ban
2013-03-29,North Korea leader orders rocket units on standby to hit U.S. bases
2013-03-29,"Second Palestinian journalist jailed in the past year for ""insulting"" Mahmoud Abbas"
2013-03-29,"Incredible North Atlantic storm spans Atlantic Ocean, coast to coast"
2013-03-29,"Franois Hollande has promised to force companies to pay a 75 per cent tax on salaries over a million euros, in a face-saving bid after his plan to tax individuals was slapped down as confiscatory by the country's constitutional court. "
2013-03-29,North Korean military activity detected - Readies rockets after US show of force.
2013-03-29,Atheists say abandoned by EU in U.N. rights council
2013-03-29,"North Korea Releases Two New Photos, And In The Background You Can See A 'US Mainland Strike Plan'"
2013-03-29,China to spend $16 billion to tackle Beijing pollution crisis
2013-03-29,"The Chinese government has intensified a co-ordinated public campaign against Apple, slamming the company as dishonest, greedy and incomparably arrogant and threatening regulatory action if the US company does not improve its after-sales service policies."
2013-03-29,"Mass rally in Pyongyang in support of Kim Jong Un
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2013-03-29,Haiti Planting Millions of Trees in Effort to Undo Damage Done - Govt-backed campaign aims to double its forest cover by 2016.  It was once covered in forests but land clearance for plantations was followed by tree felling for cooking fuel.  Its forest cover now one of lowest in world. 
2013-03-29,North Korea Missile Activity: South Korea Reportedly Detects Increased Movement At Rocket Sites
2013-03-28,Pope Francis urged Catholic priests to devote themselves to helping the poor and suffering instead of worrying about their careers as Church 'managers'
2013-03-28,Egyptian women fight back as sexual assaults skyrocket
2013-03-28,First Human-Neanderthal Hybrid Found
2013-03-28,Mother gets 30 years for letting 2 kids starve to death in Osaka
2013-03-28,Stealth B-2 Bombers headed to South Korea
2013-03-28,Japan to purchase 42 US built F-35 fighter jets describing them as the best fighter. 
2013-03-28,"The use of coal power in Alberta adds $300-million a year to health expenses, a factor that heavily increases coals true cost, a new report has found.
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2013-03-28,"Mexican vigilantes seize town, arrest police"
2013-03-28,Gut bacteria 'key to treating obesity without surgery'
2013-03-28,Canada quietly pulls out of UN anti-droughts convention
2013-03-28,"""Why I just got called out by North Korean state media"""
2013-03-28,"Twitter Caves to Vladimir Putin, Censors Content Within Russia."
2013-03-28,"IMF, citing $1.9 trillion in government subsidies, calls for end to energy mispricing"
2013-03-28,"Iraqi oil: Once seen as U.S. boon, now it's mostly China's"
2013-03-28,University of Damascus hit by mortars
2013-03-28,China's New Stealth Fighter's Missile Launch Rails Prove Beijing Can Improve U.S. Technology
2013-03-28,"Billions of locusts everywhere the eye can see, eating most everything in sight. That's the harsh reality affecting roughly half the island nation of Madagascar  an emergency situation compounded by natural disasters and a prolonged political crisis."
2013-03-28,"The new Icelandic constitution has been killed in cold blood - ""RIP our new constitution - Written by the nation, for the nation"""
2013-03-28,Bomb Explodes Near Acropolis in Central Athens
2013-03-28,Red Cross to visit Guantanamo as hunger strike spreads
2013-03-28,Chinese gaming addict spends six solid years at an Internet cafe
2013-03-28,Man who points laser at aircraft lands a 30-month prison sentence.
2013-03-28,Russia raids offices of Amnesty International and other human rights groups
2013-03-28,Guantanamo hunger strikers 'denied water' - thirty-one men on hunger strike lodge complaint with Red Cross that they are being denied drinking water by jailers
2013-03-28,Mexico vigilantes detain police in Guerrero:  Hundreds of armed vigilantes have occupied a town in south-western Mexico after one of their leaders was killed. 
2013-03-27,Portugal: 12 Years After Decriminalizing Drugs
2013-03-27,Airline 'fat tax': Should heavy passengers pay more?
2013-03-27,The US Army Is Planning For A Failed Nuclear State In North Korea.
2013-03-27,The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled that police must have wiretap authority to snoop on cellphone text messages and not just a search warrant.
2013-03-27,Former President Carter says his organization is on verge of eradicating Guinea worm disease
2013-03-27,"Baby baldies are first in decades: After several years of trying, the bald eagles of Cootes Paradise have hatched the first eaglets to grace Lake Ontario in decades."
2013-03-27,North Korea to cut all channels with South as war may break out any time
2013-03-27,The Global Internet is being slowed by a series of huge arguements between a spam-fighting group and a hosting firm. (Company remains nameless)
2013-03-27,Brazilian doctor Virginia Soares de Souza 'who played God' could have killed more than 300 patients to free up beds:  If the death toll of more than three hundred people is correct it would implicate De Souza in one of the world's worst serial killings
2013-03-27,"Esquire story of how Bin Laden was killed ""is complete B.S."" CNN learns"
2013-03-27,Europe Reels In Shock As Politician Tells The Truth
2013-03-27,Bangladesh widens crackdown on atheist bloggers
2013-03-27,"Traces of human DNA in meat products quite likely: ""[Slaughterhouse] workers are often cutting themselves. If we had done DNA tests, we probably would have found traces of human DNA in the products,"" said Stellenbosch University professor to British MP"
2013-03-27,"Essential Medicine Rides Coca-Cola's Distribution Into Remote African Villages - The AidPod is a wedge-shaped container between bottle necks in a Coca-Cola crate. For now, they're distributing an anti-diarrhea kit.   There are places in the world where its easier to get a Coke than clean water. "
2013-03-27,A day in the life of the internet hacked and mapped: A single hacker managed to get into millions of computers around the world - which was easy because their routers were all set to the default password of 'root'. But what he did with the data was simple and unmalicious: map it.
2013-03-27,"In Syria, the Rebels Have Begun to Fight Among Themselves"
2013-03-27,North Korea is running out of threats
2013-03-27,Swedish woman convicted for hitting stranger who grabbed her ass
2013-03-27,"Frankie Boyle donates 50,000 to a prisoner in Guantanamo Guantanamo to sue MI6"
2013-03-27,"SCC - Police need wiretap authority, not just warrant, to search text messages: In a 5-2 decision, the court has sided with wireless giant Telus (TSX:T) and quashed a general warrant that had forced the company to turn over all texts to police.
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2013-03-27,(Update)North Korea issues order for the protection of Kim statues (X-post /r/NorthKoreaNews )
2013-03-27,"Blamed for rapes, women in Egypt are speaking out"
2013-03-27,Japan's trust in its government is one of the lowest in the industrialised world. Why? There are fears about food from Fukushima.
2013-03-27,Muslim private school is ranked the best in France
2013-03-27,"Schoolgirl given razor blade to self harm, supervised by a teacher."
2013-03-26,"Scottish Govt Approves Windfarm Opposed by Donald Trump - 
US businessman claims wind project off Aberdeen coast will spoil the views from his nearby golf course"
2013-03-26,Japan breaks China's monopoly on rare metals with discovery of vast reserves (x-post from science)
2013-03-26,"""A photo that makes North Korea look a lot less scary."" - Washington Post"
2013-03-26,"A week after Frances top court ruled that a woman was wrongfully fired from a private nursery school for refusing to remove her Islamic veil, a new poll shows a majority of French people support a ban of all religious signs in private workplaces. "
2013-03-26,Egypt sentences Muslim to death for raiding several Christian houses and killing two people
2013-03-26,"North Korea threatens Guam, Hawaii, US mainland"
2013-03-26,Bill Gates to boost sex lives of millions with condom redesign
2013-03-26,"BRICS Nations  -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- Plan New Bank to Bypass World Bank, IMF"
2013-03-26,"Irish Catholics continue to flee the church:  A combination of clergy sex abuse revelations and a more secular climate has created a stigma against attending Mass.
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2013-03-26,"Italy overturns Amanda Knox Acquittal, Orders Retrial"
2013-03-26,One in five French bottled waters 'contain drugs or pesticides' 
2013-03-26,India's 'richest' politician shot dead 
2013-03-26,Syria's Shiites offer different picture of war:  Shiite Muslims who fled Syria for Lebanon tell of an 'ethnic cleansing' campaign by rebels intent on creating a Sunni-run Islamic state.
2013-03-26,"South Korea cyberattack traced to U.S. and Europe, not China"
2013-03-26,James Cameron donates Deapsea Challenger submarine to science.
2013-03-26,Not just for the Taliban anymore: drones are now tracking rhino poachers
2013-03-26,Bahrain blocks Doctors Without Borders medical ethics conference
2013-03-26,"""Cypriots are angry at the suggestion only Russian mobsters or foreign investors will lose money. Pensioners, businesses and regular Cypriots who have large bank balances, could lose between 20 to 40 per cent of their money in a one-time tax meant to bail out the broke banks"""
2013-03-26,"Google forces new word - ""ogooglebar"" - out of the Swedish language - Pressures Language Council"
2013-03-26,Rise in Egypt Sex Assaults Sets Off Clash Over Blame: Egyptian Women Blamed For Sexual Assaults
2013-03-26,"Ranchers Try to Drive Tsiman Indians Off Their Land:  We cant take any more abuse, Carmelo Tayo, the head of this small Tsiman indigenous village, says sadly. The community has lived for decades on land in Bolivias Amazon jungle that outsiders are now trying to gain control of."
2013-03-26,BBC News - China 'buys fighter jets and submarines from Russia'
2013-03-26,"Spanish Government Bows Down To US Pressures Again, Pushes SOPA-Like Law To Appease Hollywood"
2013-03-26,Irish town to allow residents to drink and drive
2013-03-26,"Out of sight, out of mind. Every drone attack in Pakistan visualised"
2013-03-25,"Armenia is the first country in the world to make chess mandatory in schools, aiming to build a better society"
2013-03-25,"North Korea 'defeats' US troops and takes 150,000 American hostages in newly released propaganda video"
2013-03-25,"IT'S OFFICIAL: Banks In Europe May Now Seize Deposits To Cover Their Gambling Losses


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2013-03-25,The Dangerous Drift towards World War in Asia
2013-03-25,Duck successfully fathers a chicken at Dubai research laboratory
2013-03-25,Russia reacted furiously today to news of the 11th hour European Union bailout of Cyprus - condemning it as 'stealing'.
2013-03-25,The Indian unit of Ford Motor Company has apologised for an advertisement showing former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi with a group of bound women in the trunk of a car.
2013-03-25,How Anonymous gamed Twitter to shed light on a hidden massacre
2013-03-25,UK School bans triangle shaped flapjacks
2013-03-25,Unconfirmed reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been shot by a member of his security forces
2013-03-25,"Steven Simpson, Gay British Teen, Dies After Being Set On Fire At Birthday Party"
2013-03-25,Israel restores tax transfers to Palestinians following Obama visit
2013-03-25,Arab Media said to be reporting that Syrian President Assad has been killed.
2013-03-25,Hong Kong's top court ruled that foreign domestic helpers are ineligible for permanent-resident status no matter how long they live there.
2013-03-25,"Egypt's Islamist rulers get tough on alcohol:  beer tax rose to 200% this month, with wine tax rising to 150%. "
2013-03-25,Lawyer declared brain dead wakes up after calls to pull plug on her
2013-03-25,Cyprus Limits ATM Withdrawals to 100 Euros Per Day
2013-03-25,"Swedish feminists call for all men to be banned from sitting with their legs opened. Say it is part of rape culture that ""Leads to women being raped"""
2013-03-25,"Morsi issues ominous warning to Egypt opposition: ""If I am forced to do what is required to protect this nation, then I will do it. And I fear that I might be on the verge of doing it."""
2013-03-25,"""Nothing is safe from being seized by the state, no savings account, but also no house or apartment."""
2013-03-25,"'Syrian army no longer in control of Israel border region' - Two divisions of the Syrian army, comprising tens of thousands of soldiers, which had been posted permanently along the Golan cease-fire line, have now almost entirely disintegrated"
2013-03-25,"Russian warning to withdraw all the cash from the ""western banks"", because ""The European Union and United States were preparing for the largest theft of private wealth in modern history."""
2013-03-25,"Cyprus has clinched a last-ditch deal with international lenders for a 10 billion euro ($13bn) bailout that will shut down its second largest bank and inflict heavy losses on uninsured depositors, including wealthy Russians"
2013-03-25,Rebels in the Central African Republic have seized the presidential palace in the capital Bangui
2013-03-25,"Experts: North Korea trains cyber warrior teams - North Korea has nothing to lose in a cyberbattle, there is no target for South Korean retaliation."
2013-03-24,A Tunisian Salafi preacher has called for a 19-year old girl who posted her topless pictures on Facebook to be quarantined and stoned to death before she starts an epidemic.
2013-03-24,"Russian billionaire and critic of Vladimir Putin, Boris Berezovsky, found dead at his UK home in suspected suicide"
2013-03-24,"Transgender UK teacher, who was harassed and slandered by UK media, commits suicide"
2013-03-24,"Adobe to its Australian customers: Fly to US for cheaper software -- Australians can go to the US if they want lower American prices on boxed Adobe products, an Adobe official told an Australian Parliamentary panel today"
2013-03-24,Cyprus Now Looks to Take 25% From Bank Accounts of Wealthy
2013-03-24,"S. Korea, U.S. sign combined operational plan against N. Korea"
2013-03-24,Topless Tunisian Femen Protester 'Amina' Threatened With Death By Stoning for topless pics
2013-03-24,"NORTH Korea's latest propaganda video depicts 150,000 US citizens being taken hostage by paratroopers invading Seoul.
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2013-03-24,"A Japanese teenager who allegedly killed his mother and chopped her body into pieces has told police he simply did not like her, and wanted to know more about dissection"
2013-03-24,33-Year-Old Man Gang Raped By Six Suspects In South Africa
2013-03-24,Iraq War's 10th Anniversary in pictures: The Invasion (Hi-res. No multi-page bullshit.)
2013-03-24,Icelandic MP wants to write off 20% of household mortgages using nationalized money from foreign creditors
2013-03-24,Seoul to crack down on scammers preying on North Korea defectors
2013-03-24,Nasa Confirms Meteor After 'Fireball' Reports
2013-03-24,France confirms death of Islamist commander Abou Zeid
2013-03-24,China retaliate to North Korea's nuclear tests through trade
2013-03-24,Canada worst human rights violator in world: Iran lawmaker
2013-03-24,Slaughter of the African Elephants
2013-03-24,Israel fires into Syria after Golan attack on troops
2013-03-24,Rio police evict Amazon natives from World Cup site
2013-03-24,"French mother on trial for son Jihads T-shirt that says I am a bomb, on the front and the back read, Jihad Born Sept. 11."
2013-03-24,BBC News - Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky dies
2013-03-24,"World Bank's new vision on tackling poverty 'very unambitious': Bank's promotion of 'shared prosperity' fails to tackle inequalities and growing gaps between rich and poor, critics warn"
2013-03-24,Kurdish rebels declare formal ceasefire with Turkey.
2013-03-24,Transgender primary school teacher who 'took own life' had sought protection from media hounding before her death.
2013-03-23,"Twitter sued 32m for refusing to reveal anti-semites - French court ruled Twitter must hand over details of people who'd tweeted racist & anti-semitic remarks, & set up a system that'd alert police to any further such posts as they happen. Twitter ignored the ruling."
2013-03-23,"Jim McCormick is on trial, accused of modifying $20 novelty golf ball finders and selling them to governments for up to $60,000 - touting them as Explosive detectors"
2013-03-23,China on track to overtake America as the world's biggest economy in 2016
2013-03-23,"State of emergency imposed in central Burma - Gangs of Buddhists including monks are reported to be roaming the city attacking Muslims, hundreds of whom have taken refuge in a local football stadium"
2013-03-23,"Seven years ago, the newly-elected Pope Francis urged Turkey to unconditionally recognize the Armenian Genocide."
2013-03-23,"Police sending 200,000 'Scratch-N-Sniff' cannabis cards to train British people it's scent along with a $1,500 reward incentive in order to rat out those who smell like pot."
2013-03-23,"After Obama's visit, Israel apologizes to Turkey over flotilla deaths, agrees to pay reparations"
2013-03-23,Canadian Government votes against public science. 
2013-03-23,"Life after cannabis prohibition: The Copenhagen Model will see the production, sale and consumption of cannabis legalised"
2013-03-23,China tightens border searches to punish North Korea as US asks for sterner measures
2013-03-23,China 'fully prepared' for currency war
2013-03-23,"Two tourists, an Israeli man and a Norwegian woman, have been kidnapped by armed men in the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, security officials said"
2013-03-23,Japanese court sentences US musician to five years in prison for killing woman in Tokyo hotel room
2013-03-23,Brazilian Indians are fighting against their possible eviction due to World Cup construction
2013-03-23,Russias rich hiring luxurious ambulance-taxis to beat Moscows traffic jams
2013-03-23,"An Arab-Israeli student interrupts President Obama in his speech while in Jerusalem, ""Have you really come to promote the peace process or to provide Israel with more weapons to kill the Palestinian people? On your way here did you see the ""West Bank security"" fence, or the killer of Rachel Corrie?"""
2013-03-23,Citizens' Campaign to Arrest Blair Continues: Citizens band together to arrest former British prime minister over involvement in Iraq's invasion a decade ago
2013-03-23,Nuclear weapons: Who has what?
2013-03-23,"Britain set to lose second AAA credit rating: Impending report by rating agency, Fitch, almost certain to downgrade UK's status because of lack of growth and rising debt
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2013-03-23,Oman's ruler is about to pardon all dissidents jailed for defaming the leader or taking part in protests
2013-03-23,"Today in horrible advertising ideas, Ford India plugs the cavernous trunk space of its Figo hatchback by depicting captive women stuffed inside."
2013-03-23,"Teeing off at edge of the Arctic? A Chinese plan baffles Iceland: 'At the center of the drama is Huang Nubo, a former official in the Chinese Communist Partys Propaganda Department who, wants to build a luxury hotel and an eco golf course for wealthy Chinese seeking clean air and solitude'"
2013-03-23,Coal & Coral: Australia's Self-Destructive Paradox - The city of Gladstone is the world's 4th largest coal-export hub. It's also a jumping off point to the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. But coal mining could eventually kill the reef that Australians revere.
2013-03-23,Lawyers alarmed as Guantanamo hunger strike grows - hunger strike expands at the US prison in Cuba
2013-03-23,Ubuntu tapped by China for national operating system 
2013-03-22,Twelve North Korean soldiers attempting to defect have been captured by Chinese troops and sent back to NK
2013-03-22,India passes rape law that sets age of consent at 18
2013-03-22,"North Korea says, ""North Korea is a great place for human rights."""
2013-03-22,South Korea admits that the Hacking Attempt from an IP address from China was actually from a Local IP address at the same Bank
2013-03-22,"Number of dead pigs found in Chinese rivers rises to 16,000: ""Authorities say Shanghai's water is safe, but no official explanation has yet been given for the dumping of carcasses"""
2013-03-22,Pre-Viking tunic found on glacier as warming trend aids archaeology
2013-03-22,An uprising against the Taliban that began last month in this southern Afghan village has now spread through dozens of others.
2013-03-22,Father of African literature Chinua Achebe dies aged 82
2013-03-22,"1,000 dead ducks join 16,000 dead pigs floating in Chinese rivers."
2013-03-22,Netanyahu makes apology to Turkey over 2010 Gaza flotilla
2013-03-22,"Thousands sign school climate change petition started by 15-year-old. Esha Marwaha from west London says she is outraged that climate change has been scaled back in national curriculum
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2013-03-22,Citizens band together to arrest former British prime minister over involvement in Iraq's invasion a decade ago
2013-03-22,BBC News - South Korea says China hack link a 'mistake'
2013-03-22,"Trans teacher whose gender reassignment made news, found dead at home "
2013-03-22,"Major terror attack on scale of 7/7 foiled every year in UK, police reveal"
2013-03-22,Singles Caught Having Sex Face Jail Time Under Proposed Law in Indonesia | The Jakarta Globe
2013-03-22,Map of the countries that are most and least welcoming to foreigners. Surprises?
2013-03-22,"New North Korean video depicts invasion of South, US hostages"
2013-03-22,Italy marines return to face India charges
2013-03-22,"Suicide Bomber Kills  45 People at a Mosque, Killing Pro-Regime Sunni Cleric"
2013-03-22,"More than 100 cars involved in highway pile-up near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada"
2013-03-22,'Ex-gay' London bus advert ban ruled lawful
2013-03-22,Israel PM apologies to Turkey for Gaza flotilla deaths
2013-03-22,"South African electricity consumers are subsidising BHP Billiton, allowing 2 smelters to pay 20% for electricity what every user in the country pays."
2013-03-22,"Rare earths treasure trove found in seabed near Minami-Torishima:  Scientists said that they have identified rich seabed deposits of rare earth elements in a Japanese exclusive economic zone near Minami-Torishima, a coral reef 2,000 kilometers southeast of Tokyo."
2013-03-21,Swiss Acupuncturist Arrested For Intentionally Infecting 16 People With HIV 
2013-03-21,"Transcript: Obamas speech in Israel. ""It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own, and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents every single day"""
2013-03-21,"UK Health Minister calls for the end of routinely feeding antibiotics to farm animals to prevent superbugs: ""The routine prophylactic use of antibiotics is not acceptable practice."""
2013-03-21,BP accused of rewriting environmental record on Wikipedia.
2013-03-21,North Korea's Kim Jong Un threatens attack on US bases in Pacific
2013-03-21,"BBC News - Music sales are not affected by web piracy, study finds"
2013-03-21,"Swaziland government sells maize donated by Japan and banks the cash: Government sold 12,000 tonnes of maize and deposited money in central bank, even though Swaziland has not been able to feed itself since 1970s"
2013-03-21,Somalia: Gay Teen Stoned To Death.
2013-03-21,NASA: Voyager 1 has not yet left the solar system or reached interstellar space
2013-03-21,Russian analyst: Moscow believes Washington is gripped by strategic insanity
2013-03-21,Obama condems new Israeli settlements - live updates | World news
2013-03-21,"Pope Francis will hold a major ceremony next week in the chapel of a youth prison instead of in the Vatican or a Rome basilica where it has been held before, the Vatican said on Thursday."
2013-03-21,Is it a crime for someone simply to share a link to stolen information? That seems to be the message conveyed...Barrett Brown is in legal trouble for copying and pasting a link from one chat room to another. This is scary to anyone who ever links to anything
2013-03-21," India approved on Thursday a tougher new law to punish sex crimes, including death for repeat rape offenders, after the fatal gang rape of a student in December sparked unprecedented protests over the treatment of women in the country."
2013-03-21,"Egypt's judges claim Brotherhood group is illegal, recommend dissolution: A group of Egyptian judges have recommended to one of the highest administrative courts in the country that the Muslim Brotherhood should be dissolved based on its legal status"
2013-03-21,Poor-quality Chinese concrete could lead to skyscrapers collapsing
2013-03-21,Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan declares ceasefire with Turkey
2013-03-21,Burying Bad News: Barclays Bank Announces 38.5 million in bankers' bonuses on budget day.
2013-03-21,News Corps' TV broadcasting licenses (including Fox News) could be revoked by the FCC because of bribery convictions in the UK.
2013-03-21,"South Korea: Chinese address source of attack.  'A Chinese Internet address was the source of a cyberattack on one of the South Korean companies hit in a massive computer shutdown that affected five other banks or media companies, initial findings indicated Thursday'"
2013-03-21,"President Of Argentina Takes Convoluted Way To Rome So Her Plane Won't Be Impounded By Hedge Fund Managers

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2013-03-21,"Britain has failed in a last ditch effort to alter EU proposals to cap bankers' salaries from next year. Member states and the European Parliament hammered out a final draft, which London failed to influence. "
2013-03-21,Icelandic MP wants to nationalize all assets of foreign creditors
2013-03-21,Roger Waters: Boycott against Israel is 'way to go'
2013-03-21,Obama: Israel settlements dont advance cause of peace
2013-03-20,More prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have joined a growing hunger strike that their lawyers say reflects hopelessness about their prospects of ever being freed from the detention center in Cuba.
2013-03-20,"british water companies are caught avoiding tax, while raising consumer bills and paying millions to their bosses"
2013-03-20,North Korea Military Warns it will Attack if US Flies B-52s Again
2013-03-20,A 14 year old Indian kills herself after getting raped at school
2013-03-20,Australian State passes law ending the 'right to silence' when dealing with police. 
2013-03-20,Dennis Rodman reveals Kim Jong Un has a daughter
2013-03-20,Supreme Court issues ruling allowing foreign buyers of textbooks and movies a right to resell them in the US without the permission of the copyright owner
2013-03-20,"""The Bolshoi Ballet was a brothel"" Female dancer claims ballerinas were forced to sleep with wealthy patrons "
2013-03-20,Korea Asks US to Respond to Growing Crimes by US Soldiers
2013-03-20,"Spanish pig farm investigation finds violation of EU animal welfare law: ""pregnant sows kept in sow stalls so narrow that they cannot even turn around."" Also finds ""painful and routine mutilations,"" and overcrowding, says welfare group"
2013-03-20,"Who among us has not followed girls? When you want to talk to a woman she wont at first, you have to put in a lot of effortIts the same all over the country.
says an Indian legislator during the debate for passing anti-rape bill, in India's lower house of Parliament."
2013-03-20,Cyber attack paralyzed three news networks and two major banks in South Korea
2013-03-20,Builder Saves 2 Year Old Girl's Life in Supermarket. 
2013-03-20,"Canada's 'No' To Iraq War A Defining Moment For Prime Minister, Even 10 Years Later"
2013-03-20,Five men arrested for sexually harassing a Norwegian woman... in India.
2013-03-20,"Panama 'tax haven' for weathly Germans:  Forget Switzerland; some of Germany's richest families, including Porsche and coffee giant Jacobs, have far-flung businesses registered in oft-forgotten tax haven Panama "
2013-03-20,86 elephants killed in Chad poaching massacre
2013-03-20,"Poachers in Chad slaughter 89 elephants:  Pregnant females and calves among those killed for tusks, as African governments prepare to hold anti-poaching talks."
2013-03-20,"Cyprus votes no on bailout that would have seized money directly from bank accounts, with not one vote in favour of the bill"
2013-03-20,"Saudi princes not immune from UK law, court rules. High court judgment against father and son could aggravate tensions in relations between Britain and Saudi Arabia"
2013-03-20,US Supreme Court upholds first sale doctrine 
2013-03-20,A U.S. group that tracks clergy abuse called on Pope Francis to apologize Tuesday for what it called the Argentine church's protection of two priests who were eventually convicted of abusing children.
2013-03-20,"US allegedly coordinates transfer of 3,000 tons of weapons to Syria militants"
2013-03-20,"Palestinians in Bethlehem set fire to pictures of US President Barack Obama, saying he was not welcome in their city."
2013-03-20,Scotland may allow Jedi to perform marriage ceremonies.
2013-03-19,British tourist jumped from hotel balcony in India and injured severely to escape from rape
2013-03-19,Two lynchings in Egypt as villagers take the law into their own hands. Egyptians civilians are increasingly killing suspected rapists and kidnappers in response to lack of security. 
2013-03-19,"
Kim Dotcom Still Causing Headaches For Spy Agency: Documents show that in Dec 2011 when the spying began, police already had information which stated that Dotcom was a NZ resident 'which rendered the surveillance illegal.'"
2013-03-19,"Indian Parliment passes new anti-rape laws: new provisions allow for the death penalty, and minimum sentence for gang rape, rape of a minor, rape by a person in authority will be doubled to 20 years and can be extended."
2013-03-19,EU: Illegal downloads are NOT so harmful to the music industry [PDF Alert]
2013-03-19,'Suffocating in the streets': Chemical weapons attack reported in Syria
2013-03-19,New recorded conversation between President Johnson and adviser reveal that Nixon sabotaged a Vietnam peace treaty in order to win the 1968 election
2013-03-19,"To crack down on secret suburban cannabis farms, marijuana-scented scratch-n-sniff cards are being sent to hundreds of British homes."
2013-03-19,Tensions rise as US B-52 bomber flies over Korean peninsula
2013-03-19,U.S. confirms Syrian aircraft fired rockets into Lebanon
2013-03-19,BBC News - Syrian rebels 'use chemical weapon'
2013-03-19,"U.S. joins Australia and New Zealand in backing Antarctic marine sanctuary amid calls for fishing ban: ""...drawn a proposal for a marine sanctuary covering 1.6 million square kilometers of the Ross Sea, which would be the worlds largest reserve."""
2013-03-19,Nine former chief executives of fallen Icelandic bank Kaupthing indicted for involvement in general market manipulation in the years prior to the bank's crash.This is the largest case of its kind in the world that has lead to an indictment.
2013-03-19,South Korea now wants their own nuclear program to counter the North.
2013-03-19,Anti-gay Islamic preacher Khalid Yasin prevented from attending University of East London event
2013-03-19,Curiosity rover breaks rock to reveal dazzling white interior
2013-03-19,Pentagon Says B-52 Was Flown Over South Korea in 'Signal' to North
2013-03-19,Rwandan warlords sudden surrender at U.S. Embassy
2013-03-19,New Zealand is planning on a Cyprus-style solution: Small depositors may lose some of their savings to pay for bank bailouts.
2013-03-19,"The number of dead pigs found in a river near Shanghai rose to more than 13,000 over the weekend. Last Friday, the figure stood at about 7,500."
2013-03-19,British woman jumps from Agra hotel balcony to escape sexual assault
2013-03-19,"Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt is due to go on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity on Tuesday, the first time a country has prosecuted an ex-head of state in a national court on such charges

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2013-03-19,Cyprus Finance Minister Quits
2013-03-19,List of the 5 biggest exporters and importers of arms in the world during 2008-2012.
2013-03-19,Second computer glitch shuts down NASA Mars rover
2013-03-18,"American defense contractor Lockheed Martin says it has ""found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater,"" which has the potential to eliminate the world's shortage of fresh water in the future"
2013-03-18,Hans Blix: Iraq War was a terrible mistake and violation of U.N. charter
2013-03-18,"North Korea's Prison Camps Are Absolutely Horrifying
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2013-03-18,Wanted: People willing to die on Mars
2013-03-18,Surge in renewable energy as solar panel prices plummet
2013-03-18,Japan seizes nuclear-related materials from North Korea cargo
2013-03-18,Seven Komodo dragons born in Indonesia zoo
2013-03-18,Taiwan to aim missiles at China 
2013-03-18,"Forbes on the Cyprus bailout - ""they have opted for a solution that amounts to probably the single most inexplicably irresponsible decision in banking supervision in the advanced world since the 1930s."""
2013-03-18,MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD: BBC's Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief
2013-03-18,What Happens When Half The World Stops Making Babies
2013-03-18,The Reuters Journalist Who Played with Anonymous and Got Burned
2013-03-18,Paul Krugman: Cyprus Bailout Will Push Europeans To Stage A Run On Their Banks 
2013-03-18,"67-yr old woman raped, Farmer husband killed for cellphones (South Africa)"
2013-03-18,Iraq war 10 years on: 'There is phenomenal violence against women. I hear of rape cases in prison. Police officers are doing it'
2013-03-18,"A 56-year-old India-born football fan was beaten up badly by seven men and punched in the face and head more than 18 times on a packed tram in UK, as 200 onlookers did nothing to save him from the racist attackers. "
2013-03-18,UAE opens worlds largest solar power plant
2013-03-18,"Cyprus bailout: 'people are panicking, they're afraid of losing their money' - Cypriots tell of shock finding government had seized up to 10% of savings  despite promise deposits would be safe"
2013-03-18,"Bullied South Korean Teen Commits Suicide: Administration to install high-resolution, closed-circuit cameras at schools across the country and crack down on school gangs"
2013-03-18,"Iran charges 18 over nuclear scientist killings. Tehran accuses Mossad, the CIA and MI6 of being behind the assassinations
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2013-03-18,"Saudi Arabia's farcical justice system condemned seven young men to death this week, and the world remained silent."
2013-03-18,Quebec manhunt on for fugitives who fled prison in helicopter
2013-03-18,"Two Quebec inmates climbed up a rope into a hovering helicopter to make a daylight escape on Sunday from a jail northwest of Montreal, the authorities said."
2013-03-18,Scientists find an unexpectedly large and active community of single-cell organisms at Earth's deepest spot 
2013-03-18,China: US risks antagonizing North Korea
2013-03-17,Greek footballer Giorgos Katidis banned for life from national team for celebrating goal with Nazi salute
2013-03-17,Pope Francis: 'I would like to see a church that is poor and is for the poor'
2013-03-17,North Korea Threatens Japan with Attack
2013-03-17,China is spending $250 billion per year on Education
2013-03-17,"Titanic violin, the instrument played by bandmaster as the ship sank, has been found."
2013-03-17,"One of France's best-known criminal lawyers, Olivier Metzner, has been found dead"
2013-03-17,"World poverty is shrinking rapidly, new index reveals"
2013-03-17,"U.N. development chief slams War on Drugs: Helen Clark, a former health minister, says criminalizing drugs has created more problems than it has solved"
2013-03-17,Hundreds of dinosaur egg fossils found.
2013-03-17,"Russian fundamentalists sue U.S., want Alaska back"
2013-03-17,Ancient Chinese coin found on Kenyan island by Field Museum expedition
2013-03-17,Two Australian MPs slam Israel's treatment of Palestinians; Labor MP compares former occupation of Lebanon with Nazi Germany.
2013-03-17,"Muslim Brotherhood decries UN Commission on Women for gutting family values by promoting ideas like ""Sharing of roles within the family between men and women"", ""Granting equal rights to homosexuals"" and ""Cancelling the need for a husbands consent in matters like: travel, work"" [official statement]"
2013-03-17,Kuwait approves 'racist' segregation of medical care - Healthcare
2013-03-17,"N. Korea threatens to target S. Korean Prime Minister after border island visit, saying he will be the ""first target to be mowed down."""
2013-03-17,5 arrested in India in connection with rape of Swiss tourist
2013-03-17,"BBC News - Pakistan's Ashraf government makes history: Pakistan's PM has hailed as ""a victory"" for democracy the completion of a full term by an elected government for the first time in the country's history"
2013-03-17,"Canadians are major customers in Cubas child sex market: Canada is lax when it comes to stopping its sex offenders from going to Cuba and preying on underage prostitutes.
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2013-03-17,Suspected Sudanese war criminal 'who shot so many people he lost count' lives unsupervised and on benefits in Britain (x-post from /r/Darfur)
2013-03-17,Pakistan Government Steps Down
2013-03-17,N Korea warns world of nuclear war breakout 
2013-03-17, British police are investigating an estimated 600 new allegations of phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World newspaper
2013-03-17,"Israel PM Netanyahu signs coalition deal: For the first time in a decade, the governing coalition will not contain any Ultra-Orthodox groups"
2013-03-17,Syria conflict: General 'defects to rebels'
2013-03-17,"Activist, who works with disabled children, 'shocked' at conviction for yelling at Prime Minister David Cameron"
2013-03-16,"North Korea warns residents of southern islands to evacuate immediately, threatening to attack them."
2013-03-16,"Video: Chinese police detain British reporter, unaware hes broadcasting live throughout"
2013-03-16,Man steals $33 million from Australian casino in Oceans 11-like heist
2013-03-16,"North Korea officially denounces the reptile media for jabbering: ""I want to meet the person who translates North Koreas state propaganda into English, because that man or woman is an artist."""
2013-03-16,"Britons too afraid of offending to challenge radical Islam, says former Obama adviser"
2013-03-16,Seven unidentified men gangrape Swiss woman in India
2013-03-16,Pope Francis wants 'poor Church for the poor'
2013-03-16,Cypriots stunned by 10% savings cuts forced by EU bailout deal - Islanders fume as they queue to withdraw cash
2013-03-16,"Pacific island bigger than Manhattan ""vanishes"""
2013-03-16,Bloggers in Russia are exposing the luxury lifestyles and scandals of lawmakers loyal to Vladimir Putin
2013-03-16,'Paedophilia not criminal condition' says Durban cardinal
2013-03-16,"The photos Saudi Arabia doesn't want seen  and proof Islam's most holy relics are being demolished in Mecca. Archaeologists fear billion-pound development has led to destruction of key historical sites
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2013-03-16,Britain helps prevent ban on pesticides linked to bee decline 
2013-03-16,Swiss tourist gang-raped in India
2013-03-16,"Dutch NGO nominates Uruguay's President for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his work towards the decriminalization of marijuana and his fight against drug-trafficking. "
2013-03-16,BBC News - Shock in Cyprus as savers wake up to bailout levy
2013-03-16,"Swiss woman gang-raped in India, in front of tied-up husband"
2013-03-16,North Korea's Internet returns after 36-hour outage (x-post /r/NorthKoreaNews)
2013-03-16,The Man Who Coined 'The God Particle' Explains: It Was A Joke!
2013-03-16,BBC News - North Korea tells South to leave islands
2013-03-16,The Destruction of a Nation: Syrias War Revealed in Satellite Imagery
2013-03-16,Eurozone and IMF agree 10 billion euros Cyprus bail-out deal
2013-03-16,"Nearly 35% of Android Apps Are Secretly Stealing Private Data, Says Chinas Latest DCCI Report"
2013-03-16,"Donald Trump today - to boost the economy, we should take Iraq's oil and ""pay ourselves back"" for the war."
2013-03-16,What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success
2013-03-15,"VW shares $1.1b in profits with workers ""'Profit sharing is hard earned and deserved; it is the equitable participation of employees in the success"""
2013-03-15,North Korea fires short range missiles in the Sea of Japan
2013-03-15,Bellicose North Korea forces China to shift stance on old friend.  Chinese newspapers have been calling North Korea an ungrateful and unreliable liability.
2013-03-15,Zimbabwean police are interrogating young children (aged 4-6) at school about whether their parents have radios. The police are confiscating wind up radios in night time raids.
2013-03-15,A Dutch lesbian couple and their nine-year-old Turkish foster child have gone into hiding because of the row in Turkey about Muslim children being cared for by gay or Christian couples.
2013-03-15,More HIV 'cured': 14 Adults
2013-03-15,"North Korea: Kim Jong-un targeted in assassination attempt, South Korean intelligence says"
2013-03-15,Drunken thug who battered girlfriend in the street making her face 'explode like an airbag' walks away with community service despite the fact he was on PROBATION
2013-03-15,"A husband must have guardianship over his wife, not an equal partnership with her, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood declared. Daughters should not have the same inheritance rights as sons. Nor should the law cancel the need for a husbands consent in matters like travel, work or use of contraception"
2013-03-15,"Windfarm sickness spreads by word of mouth, Australian study finds"
2013-03-15,"/r/Worldnews users, I would like your opinion on some of our existing rules/policies."
2013-03-15,North Korea 'prepares to strike': Kim Jong-un supervises live artillery drill as inflammatory threats continue
2013-03-15,Pakistan architect shot for starting a project that would construct a sewage system for the poor in the worst slums of Pakistan.
2013-03-15,"More than half of Britons believe Tony Blair was wrong to invade Iraq, while 22% says he should be tried as a war criminal"
2013-03-15,"Americans hacked us, says North Korea - regime's servers reportedly went down as rhetoric continues over UN sanctions and South conducts war games with US"
2013-03-15,"Three indigenous communities from the Chilean highlands have just received solar panels, which will be set up and maintained by unlikely solar engineers: five native women who traveled around the world to India and overcame language and other barriers to bring photovoltaic energy to their villages."
2013-03-15,"Bergoglio twice invoked his right under Argentine law to refuse to appear in open court in trials involving torture, murder and the theft of babies during Argentina's dirty war."
2013-03-15,Male Teacher in Taiwan Arrested after Intentionally Infecting 50 Men with HIV
2013-03-15,Egypt's Islamists warn giving women some rights could destroy society
2013-03-15,Bee-harming pesticides escapes ban: European commission proposal to suspend the use of neonicotinoids fails to gain backing of UK and Germany
2013-03-15,"Google Readers demise is awful for Iranians, who use it to avoid government censorship"
2013-03-15,N.Korea Under Massive Cyber Attack; all websites with North Korea-based servers were affected
2013-03-15,Muslim Brotherhood Statement Denouncing UN Women Declaration for Violating Sharia Principles
2013-03-15,Pope Francis' run-in with Benedict XVI over the Prophet Mohammed 
2013-03-15,"Man 'pays 4,500 to bring African slave girl to France'"
2013-03-14,Bill Gates: capitalism means male baldness research gets more funding than malaria
2013-03-14,"India is now covering water canals with solar panels, this way they are preventing water loss through evaporation and saving space while creating energy."
2013-03-14,North Korea guides artillery exercises against South Korean Island.
2013-03-14,Vatican Elects New Pope
2013-03-14,"At least 28% of South African schoolgirls are HIV positive compared with 4% of boys because ""sugar daddies"" exploit them, the health minister says. "
2013-03-14,Rare Asian coin found in Kenya proves trading between Asians and Africans occurred well before Europeans
2013-03-14,"75 percent of Chinese say air pollution a big problem in China; 81 percent agreed with statement that today the rich just get richer while the poor get poorer."""
2013-03-14,BBC News - Germany bans three 'anti-democratic' Islamist groups
2013-03-14,LHC confirms Higgs boson identification
2013-03-14,photos of children from around the world with their most prized possessions
2013-03-14,"Pope Francis I aided the Argentine Military Dictatorship that ""disappeared"" many thousands"
2013-03-14,"47 temples, 700 Hindu houses torched across Bangladesh"
2013-03-14,France could join the small club of countries that require net neutrality: The French government has put forward a new plan that could enshrine net neutrality in national law. They would become the fourth country in the world with a law for net neutrality.
2013-03-14,"Pope Francis I rejects luxuries and the special car for him: ""I'll just go with the guys on the bus"""
2013-03-14,"French court rejects sick man's plea for medicinal cannabis, fines him 300 for possession"
2013-03-14,"Keystone XL Pipeline Not Good for Canada - 
Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair criticizes Canada's Conservative govt, saying  pipeline exacts heavy environmental cost.  Pumping tar sands oil to America would cost 40,000 Canadian jobs & keep energy prices high in Canada, he says. "
2013-03-14,"RPT-Pentagon Weapons-Maker Finds Method For Cheap, Clean Water: * Filter could sharply cut energy needed to remove salt from water * Officials say firm has patented process, looking for partners * Cheaper seawater purification could help ease water security fears"
2013-03-14,"Amsterdam prostitute twins retire at 70 after 50 years and 355,000 men"
2013-03-14,"Hosni Mubarak's police chief 'gave shoot to kill order', with the former president's full knowledge. Police, including rooftop snipers, were responsible for nearly all of the deaths of the 850 protesters killed during Egypt's 2011 uprising, a government inquiry has concluded."
2013-03-14,North Korean domains are becoming inaccessible from a specific IP range.
2013-03-14,Supreme Court of India 'restrains' Italian Ambassador from leaving India
2013-03-14,The Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for the revival of a Soviet-era physical evaluation programme that required all schoolchildren to pass fitness test
2013-03-14,Monarch Butterflies Drop Ominously in Mexico
2013-03-14,Swarming locusts descend on Israel 
2013-03-14,"Sudan official says if doctors refuse to amputate, judges can train to do it to carry out sentences"
2013-03-13,"Irish college students had 36 hrs to get as far as they could in the world, without spending any money. Some reached Argentina, Australia and Malaysia."
2013-03-13,New Zealand gay marriage bill passes
2013-03-13,"North Korean Desertion Skyrocketing, Number of NK Military AWOL Shoots Up Eightfold"
2013-03-13,Assassination attempt of Kim Jung Un could explain recent threats
2013-03-13,"North Korea seems to have taken ""initial steps"" to deploy mobile long-range missiles- U.S. Intelligence Chief"
2013-03-13,China to abolish hated labour camps
2013-03-13,"Pirate Bay Founders Case Rejected by Human Rights Court: The European Court of Human Rights has rejected an application to hear the cases of Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay"
2013-03-13,"An Estonian man returned a library book 69 years late, and said a World War II aerial bombing that damaged the library was partly to blame for the late return. The book was checked out on March 7, 1944, while Estonia was occupied by Nazi Germany."
2013-03-13,Dutch scientists are creating the first in vitro beef from bovine stem cells. The synthetic meat could feed the world and save the environment.
2013-03-13,"In the ultimate story of payback, British boxer Curtis Woodhouse tracks down a twitter troll and shows up at his doorstep"
2013-03-13,Chris Hadfield takes over as space station commander
2013-03-13,"Almost quarter of Russians believe gay people should be forced to undergo psychological treatment and 5% think they should be ""liquidated"", according to new survey"
2013-03-13,Analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbe
2013-03-13,"Inflated Salaries: Merkel Joins German Battle Against Executive Pay - Both the EU & Switzerland have drawn a line in the sand when it comes to excessive compensation packages. Now, Berlin is to cap salaries. For Merkel, this is a U-turn, but with growing public discontent, she had little choice."
2013-03-13,Why North Korea loves to threaten World War III (but probably wont follow through)
2013-03-13,"Every nation's most popular porn site search term revealed: Americans favour a 'MILF', Australians like gay men and Syrians like their aunt"
2013-03-13,Craig Venter says he is close to creating artificial life
2013-03-13,"N. Korea's military again threatens merciless retaliation for S. Korea, U.S."
2013-03-13,A United Nations report has suggested that a Palestinian infant who died in the fighting in Gaza last November may have been killed by an errant Palestinian rocket rather than by an Israeli airstrike as was widely believed at the time. 
2013-03-13,Egyptian Christian tortured to death by Police in Libya
2013-03-13,WHO confirms 15th case of new corona virus. Half the victims have died
2013-03-13,"India's prime minister has said ""there will be consequences"" unless Italy returns two marines charged with the murder of two fishermen in Kerala"
2013-03-13,Saudi Arabia executes seven men despite UN appeal for clemency 
2013-03-13,N. Korea sharply increases flights of fighter jets
2013-03-13,"China pulls nearly 6,000 dead pigs from Shanghai river, says water still safe to drink"
2013-03-12,"N. Korea ready to fight a real war with the U.S, its media report. "
2013-03-12,EU bans sale of all animal-tested cosmetics [BBC]
2013-03-12,"Japan says it has successfully extracted natural gas from frozen methane hydrate off its central coast, in a world first."
2013-03-12,"Ukrainian military has apparently lost three of its trained dolphins in the Black Sea. ""these dolphins have been trained to attack enemy combat swimmers using special knives or pistols fixed to their heads."""
2013-03-12,"Falklands vote in favour of staying British: 98.8% vote ""yes"" with 92% turnout"
2013-03-12,EU votes to reject 'porn ban' proposals
2013-03-12,"Chopsticks Killing Trees, Chinese Lawmaker Says - Legislator, a forestry firm head, urges China to save trees by reducing 80bn pairs of chopsticks  a yr.    ""We urge people to carry their own tableware.""  Rising  wood demand, at least 1/10  illegal, means ""fate of world's forests in China's hands""."
2013-03-12,US sends clear warning to North Korea after Pyongyang declares armistice void
2013-03-12,"Despite war threats, North Korean border units hit by growing AWOLs"
2013-03-12,BBC News - Falklands referendum: Islanders vote to remain British
2013-03-12,[Korea Times] Frontier NK soldiers deserting in large numbers 
2013-03-12,"The Vatican, Iran, and Russia are blocking progress in the UN's Commission on the Status of Women."
2013-03-12,"As cardinals gather to elect Pope, Catholic officials break into a sweat over news that 23m investment includes gay sauna "
2013-03-12,"An Ugly Truth in the War on Drugs: ""human rights abuses in the war on drugs are widespread and systematic"""
2013-03-12,"Iran's Ahmadinejad commits grave sin, behaves in a way inappropriate for the president of an Islamic state. His crime? Consoling Hugo Chvez's mother at Chvez's funeral. "
2013-03-12,"5 Shark Species Win Protection Against Fin Trade in Historic Turnaround - Millions of sharks killed each yr  for shark-fin soup  now have greater protection after world's biggest wildlife summit votes to crack down.  Some nations now see  sharks more valuable alive, as a source of tourism.  "
2013-03-12,"N.K. leader visits front-line units near western sea border, tells troops to throw all enemies into a ""cauldron,"" break their ""waists"" and cut their ""windpipes."""
2013-03-12," Paranoid Dictator's Communist-Era Bunkers Now a National Nuisance - In Albania, 750,000 Communist-era bunkers populate the landscape, relics of the paranoia & skewed priorities of former dictator Enver Hoxha.  The peculiar bunkerization resulted in 1 bunker for every 4 citizens."
2013-03-12,"Researchers in China are randomly disabling mouse genes one at a time, in order to identify the function of each gene. By essentially throwing darts at a genetic dartboard to see what happens, the researchers have filled 45,000 mouse cages with mutant mice."
2013-03-12,Second Korean War Is Unavoidable (x-post from r/Pyongyang)
2013-03-12,New Zealand Condemns Argo
2013-03-12,UN Says Korean War Armistice Still in Force
2013-03-12,Soviet soldier missing since 1980 found in Afghanistan
2013-03-12,UN asks North Korea's Kim Jong-un to tone down war talk as he rallies troop
2013-03-12,"Sex Abuse Cover-Up Claims Disturb Conclave: A plain clothes policeman watches Francesco Zanardi. As he waits for his moment just outside the Vatican in St Peter's Square, Zanardi's intention is clear. So is the policeman's. "
2013-03-11,South Korean Military Now Preparing for Unexpected North Korean Move
2013-03-11,North Korea invalidates 60 year armistice and cuts off direct phone lines to South Korea.
2013-03-11,"Nearly 3,000 dead pigs found in river supplying Shanghai's drinking water"
2013-03-11,"Asia's turning tide against shark fin soup. Chinas Communist Party vowed to phase out shark fin soup from official functions. Taiwan, the fourth-largest shark fin market, outlawed fishermen from sawing off shark fins and dumping the carcass overboard. The same rule applies to boatmen in EU waters."
2013-03-11,Rice prices skyrocket in North Korea
2013-03-11,"S. Korea, U.S. kick off annual war game amid tension
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2013-03-11,The Reserve Bank of Australia has been hacked by the Chinese
2013-03-11,"Former 10 y.o. Yemeni child bride Nujood Ali is now 15. She stopped going to school and fled daily beatings by her father, who is stealing all proceeds from her book. ""I made it possible for my father to buy new wives."""
2013-03-11,Kim Jong-un's Slush Funds Found
2013-03-11,"In China, public anger is growing over secrecy on environment
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2013-03-11,"Call for Cannabis to Relieve Pain in New South Wales - 

It should be approved for medicinal use to help people suffering chronic pain, advocates tell parliamentary committee, which is looking into 
 feasibility & safety of using it as a medicine, legal implications & how to get it to   patients."
2013-03-11,N. Korea reiterates will to invalidate armistice pact
2013-03-11,Northern Irish women risk jail by admitting use of abortion drugs
2013-03-11,Saudi Arabia may stop beheading due to swordsmen shortages
2013-03-11,"POLICE have issued a warning about a bad batch of LSD imprinted with an image of pop icon Psy doing a 'Gangnam Style' dance.
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2013-03-11,N. Korea threatens all-out war ahead of S. Korea-U.S. military drill
2013-03-11,Sweden Princess Lilian dies aged 97.
2013-03-11,Bundestag votes that acess to clean water isn't a human right - opens road to clean water resources privatisation in EU (and beyond?)
2013-03-11,"US, Japan, EU Announce New Pressure on North Korea: UN Investigation into Human Rights Abuses to Lead to International Criminal Court Case"
2013-03-11,"Nazis would be elected today, over 50% of Austrians believe."
2013-03-11,"After centuries of public beheadings, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is considering firing squads as an alternative means of execution because of the scarcity of swordsmen and their unavailability in a number of regions"
2013-03-11,"Polish plant 'using rotten meat': ""A Polish meat plant exporting to EU countries has been closed after inspectors discovered it was adding old meat to products""
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2013-03-11,A Push to Investigate North Korea's Human Rights Abuses
2013-03-11,Outrage as lion that killed woman as she made love to boyfriend is shot
2013-03-11,Delhi gangrape case: Prime suspect Ram Singh commits suicide
2013-03-10,"Geist: The Canadian government is characterizing its Bill C-56 as an anti-counterfeiting bill, yet this week NDP MP Charmaine Borg framed it more accurately as ""ACTA through the backdoor."""
2013-03-10,Queen Elizabeth to Sign Commonwealth Charter Promoting Gay Rights And Gender Equality
2013-03-10,North Korea Forces Await 'Final Strike Order' from Kim Jong-un
2013-03-10,"North Koreas missile arsenal, its potential reach and payloads | Graphics | News"
2013-03-10,"Northwestern University journalism student spends 10 days in jail in Qatar for reporting on a fire. Qatar police accuse him of being a Syrian spy and make him sign papers without reading them, and Northwestern refuses to help him."
2013-03-10,"
Spanish sperm whale death linked to UK supermarket supplier's plastic: the whale had swallowed 17kg of plastic waste dumped into the sea by farmers tending greenhouses supplying produce for British supermarkets"
2013-03-10,"When China's environment ministry told attorney Dong Zhengwei he couldn't have access to two-year old data about soil pollution because it was a ""state secret"", it added to mounting public outrage over the worsening environment"
2013-03-10,"The Countries Where Women Have the Best Lives, in Charts - a look at the regions where women are healthiest, happiest, make most, and are most likely to hold positions of power"
2013-03-10,"Dubbed ""The Punisher,"" Alexei Volkov takes a zero-tolerance approach to being cut off while driving his bus on Russia's roads."
2013-03-10,Sweden will not amend 'wife import' rules:  Equality Minister Maria Arnholm wants Sweden to keep the right to deport women whose relationships with Swedish spouses end within two years of their arrival in Sweden.
2013-03-10,North Korea issues new threats to US and 'puppets' South Korea; Kim Jong-Un visits frontline
2013-03-10,Is North Korea a credible threat? Their army is a Cold War relic. 
2013-03-10,Why is North Korea so aggressive lately? Simple: nukes mean negotiating power.
2013-03-10,"""Thousands have been killed and millions made homeless in Syria's civil war, but it has also caused irreparable damage to some of the world's most precious historical sites. The treasures now being destroyed matter to everyone on the planet, argues historian Dan Snow."""
2013-03-10,"Israelis Flock To Berlin For Better Life: ""Young immigrants find the German capital to be hip and cheap - and still contains traces of its Jewish past."""
2013-03-10,Iran-North Korea Pact Draws Concern
2013-03-10,China won't forsake N.Korea
2013-03-10,"Mystery surrounds discovery of more than 900 dead pigs found floating in Chinese river. According to the city's water supplies bureau the dead pigs were spotted in a section used as a drinking water source for Shanghai residents
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2013-03-10,German pilot in WWII spared an American B-17 pilot over Germany only to reunite 40 years later and become fishing buddies
2013-03-10,Falklands votes in sovereignty referendum rejected by Argentina:  Residents of the Falkland Islands vote on Sunday in a sovereignty referendum aimed at countering Argentina's increasingly assertive claim over the British-ruled territory.
2013-03-10,"Newly crowned Miss Russia attacks Pussy Riot sentence, says ""their punishment is too harsh."""
2013-03-10,"Proposals to Slaughter Up to 750,000 Deer in Britain Would Threaten 1000s of Jobs, Say Furious Gamekeepers - 
Highland estates & rural communities would be devastated by loss of income from stalking if proposal is acted on.  They warn estates will close & communities die."""
2013-03-10,Calls for Military Coup as Crisis Worsens in Egypt
2013-03-10,"Christian neighborhood in Lahore, Pakistan attacked over alleged blasphemy:  Over 150 houses and at least two churches were set on fire in the Christian neighborhood of Joseph Colony."
2013-03-10,Recently appointed Mexican state tourism minister shot dead near city of Guadalajara
2013-03-09,Afghan police officer embraces suicide bomber to save others
2013-03-09,Russian satellite hit by debris from Chinese anti-satellite test 
2013-03-09,The Pentagon's response to North Korea's nuke threat: Yawn 
2013-03-09,"North Korea Experts Worried, Speculate Attack On or Around March 11"
2013-03-09,Ex-scientologist: I was brainwashed. BBC News interview with Jenna Miscavage Hill
2013-03-09,Forest elephant numbers have decreased by 62% across Central Africa over the last 10 years
2013-03-09,"Stonehenge may have been burial site for Stone Age elite, say archaeologists. More than 50,000 cremated bone fragments, of 63 individuals buried at Stonehenge, have been excavated and studied for the first time by a team led by archaeologist. "
2013-03-09,Alleged blasphemy: Mob burns scores of Christian homes in Lahore
2013-03-09,"A world-renowned physicist meets a gorgeous model online, gets caught with 2 kilos of cocaine in a suitcase she asked him to transport"
2013-03-09,Norway teacher fired after letting children taste her blood
2013-03-09,Evidence that bishops in the Catholic Church in Scotland knew of 20 allegations of child sex abuse by priests between 1985 and 1995. 
2013-03-09,The tiny village of Feldheim is at the leading edge of Germanys renewable energy transition and generates all its own heat and light 100 per cent without fossil fuels and neutral as far as the emission of carbon dioxide is concerned
2013-03-09,Sperm whale on Spanish southern coast had swallowed 17kg of plastic waste dumped by greenhouses supplying produce to UK
2013-03-09,An Egyptian court confirmed death sentences handed down to 21 soccer fans for their role in a stadium riot which killed dozens of people in Port Said last year
2013-03-09,"The United States has coordinated a massive airlift of arms to Syrian rebels from Croatia with the help of Britain and other European states, despite the continuing European Union arms embargo"
2013-03-09,"Uhuru Kenyatta, indicted for crimes against humanity, declared winner of Kenya's presidential election"
2013-03-09,"Sexual violence blights Cambodia - One in four men admit to rape in survey, 5% to participation in gang rape (VIDEO)"
2013-03-09,63 ill after eating at 'world's best restaurant' -- guests fell ill with sickness and diarrhea after visiting Danish restaurant Noma
2013-03-09,Less fertile crescent-- The waters of Babylon are running dry
2013-03-09,Half of girls in South Sudan forced to marry
2013-03-09,Unidentified Life Form Found in Antarctic Lake
2013-03-09,Mind the Gap Tube announcement returns after wife's plea
2013-03-09,"""How potent are North Korea's threats? Many experts believe these threats come from the North's desire for a peace treaty with the US"" - An in depth BBC article on the issue."
2013-03-09,"Stonehenge builders travelled from far, say researchers."
2013-03-09,EU Porn Ban? MEPs Attack 'Gender Stereotypes Resolution' Proposal For International Women's Day
2013-03-08,"North Korea officially voids non-aggression pacts with South, following new round of UN sanctions"
2013-03-08,North Korea says 'prepare for war'
2013-03-08,North Korea has voided its armistice with the South four times in the last 10 years
2013-03-08,BBC News - North Korea says it ends peace pacts with South
2013-03-08,"Skype's Been Hijacked in China, and Microsoft Is O.K. With It -- How a computer-science graduate at the University of New Mexico deciphered a complex surveillance system governing Skype chats in China"
2013-03-08,Bosnian woman helps win recognition of rape as a war crime
2013-03-08,"Mexican Supreme Court: anti-gay comments are hate speech, not free speech, and are not legally protected"
2013-03-08,First drones and now real life Skynet: web-based brain for robots goes live in Europe.
2013-03-08,South Korea's president calls for joint defense readiness against North Korea's provocations
2013-03-08,Vatican gets eternal life: Puts its entire library online
2013-03-08,"North Korea ends non-aggression pacts with South, cuts hotline"
2013-03-08,"The EU will not accept any moves by the Americans to water down rules about the collection of individual personal information by companies, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding said today in Brussels"
2013-03-08,"Police puzzled by human skulls found near consulates and Mormon churches in Sao Paulo, Brazil. "
2013-03-08,"Nations Consider Protecting Sharks as 100 Million Die Each Year

  Every year in commercial fisheries around the world some 100 million sharks die, according to scientific findings released today. In Bangkok, 178 govts will decide whether to protect the most vulnerable shark species."
2013-03-08,The world is hottest it has been since the end of the ice age - and the temperature's still rising
2013-03-08,UN Security Council unanimously approves sanctions against North Korea in 15-0 vote. The resolution was drafted by China and the United States
2013-03-08,SK's Ministry of Defense vows to obliterate NK from the face of Earth if NK launches nuclear strike against SK
2013-03-08,White House: We can stop a North Korean nuke strike
2013-03-08,"China has appealed for calm on the Korean peninsula, hours after North Korea said it had scrapped all peace pacts with the South and threatened pre-emptive nuclear strikes."
2013-03-08,A Catholic Church in India bans Catholic school girl who was raped by a Catholic congressman from attending.
2013-03-08,U.S. says U.N. sanctions 'will bite' after North Korea threatens nuclear attack
2013-03-08,"Every 2 hours, a woman in New Delhi(capital of INDIA) is molested or raped"
2013-03-08,"""Palestinian pedestrians must walk along a tiny dirt road, while Jewish settlers and their guests get the rest of the street."""
2013-03-08,"Japan Earthquake, 2 Years Later: Before and After"
2013-03-08,"Economist: If you are a working woman, move to New Zealand."
2013-03-07,Rhino Poachers Shot Dead by Forest Guards in India
2013-03-07,N. Korea threatens preemptive nuclear strike against aggressors
2013-03-07,A court in New Zealand has ruled that Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom can sue the country's foreign intelligence service for illegally spying on him.
2013-03-07,"Scouts Canada to Carly Rae Jepsen: Were pro-LGBT, so perform for us, maybe?"
2013-03-07,Unknown class of bacteria found under ice crust of Antarctic lake: Voice of Russia
2013-03-07,Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 1 year in prison in wiretrap trial
2013-03-07,"EU Parliament voting for a complete ban on pornography. 'Eliminating Gender Stereotypes in the EU' is the innocuous title of a report that sounds like the sort of thing few would object to, but as Swedish Pirate MEP, Christian Engstrom notes, the devil is in the details."
2013-03-07,UN Security Council approves new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test.
2013-03-07,North Korea says to exercise right to preemptive nuclear attack against U.S. - KCNA
2013-03-07,"Tesla Motors loses appeal case against Top Gear - Judge says lost sales from alleged libel ""quite unrealistic""."
2013-03-07,"In a Grain of Golden Rice, a World of Raging Controversy Over GMO Foods - There's rice growing in  the Philippines unlike any ever seen. It's yellow & genetically modified with beta-carotene.  It's become the symbol of an idea: genetically engineered crops can improve lives, rousing  global debate."
2013-03-07,Scientists believe crystal found in shipwreck could be a sunstone - mythical Viking navigational aid
2013-03-07,A proposal by the US to ban cross-border trade in polar bears and their parts was defeated on Thursday at an international meeting.
2013-03-07,20 UN observers seized by Free Syrian Army Rebels in Golan Heights.
2013-03-07,Woman mauled to death by a lion as she had sex with her boyfriend in the African bush
2013-03-07,US names 'pro-Hitler' Egyptian 'woman of courage'
2013-03-07,Peacekeepers Kidnapped in Golan Heights
2013-03-07,"Australia, citing nuclear test, bars North Korea from reopening embassy"
2013-03-07,"The ""stompin"" legend himself Canadian singer Tom Conners passes away at 77"
2013-03-07,"N Korea building huge 'security perimeter' - satellite images show political prison camps expanding to enclose civilian settlements, Amnesty International says"
2013-03-07,Chechnya Islamic militants from Russia team up with Syrian rebels in 'jihad' against Assad 
2013-03-07,Inside Fukushima two years on: radiation levels too high to enter reactors
2013-03-07,"Furious over UN sanctions vote, North Korea vows to launch pre-emptive nuclear strike"
2013-03-07,The United Nations says about 20 peacekeepers in the force charged with monitoring the cease-fire between Israel and Syrian troops on the Golan Heights have been detained by approximately 30 armed fighters.
2013-03-07,BBC News - Silvio Berlusconi convicted over Italy wiretap
2013-03-06,Venezuela's Hugo Chavez dead at 58
2013-03-06,"Chinese Farmers Revolt Against Govt Land Grab - Demand free elections, saying their chief sent thugs to attack the community. The road that runs along Shangpu is littered with burned-out cars. Farmers have built tents & barricades. Police have been in standoff 2 weeks."
2013-03-06,"Horse meat scandal sparks rise in sales of vegetarian alternatives: Quorn, the UK's biggest vegetarian ready meal brand, said it had seen sales growth more than double in the second half of February "
2013-03-06,Ikea withdraws chocolate cakes containing 'faecal matter'
2013-03-06,Australia has confirmed for the first time that an Australian-Israeli man who died while secretly jailed in Israel worked for the Israeli government
2013-03-06,South Korea threatens North Korean leadership 
2013-03-06,"For the first time, a man and a transgender woman are married in Israel"
2013-03-06,Australia: Police 'naive' to tell public not to film arrest
2013-03-06,Microsoft Fined $731 million for Breaking EU Promise
2013-03-06,Campaigners demand Google stop whale and ivory ads on Google Japan
2013-03-06,Research indicates that nearly one-third of the soot in the San Francisco Bay Area blew over from Asia.
2013-03-06,The EU have agreed to cap bankers bonus' ... despite opposition from Britain
2013-03-06,End of the inquisition: Sephardic Jews invited back to Spain after 500 years. [BBC]
2013-03-06,China to Back New Sanctions Against North Korea
2013-03-06,African elephants face 'alarming declines'
2013-03-06,UN cancels Gaza charity marathon as Hamas bans women runners
2013-03-06,Israel ill-treatment of Palestinian minors 'systematic': UN
2013-03-06,Syrian Refugees Number One Million
2013-03-06,In Finland parents kill 8-year-old daughter after brutally abusing her for all her life. One of the most disgusting crimes in Finnish history.
2013-03-06,"Choking to Death: The Health Consequences of Air Pollution in China - ""The poor air quality, according to a leading Chinese public health expert, is worse than SARS because nobody can escape it."""
2013-03-06,"A United Nations-based drug agency urged the United States government on Tuesday to challenge the legalization of marijuana for recreational use in Colorado and Washington, saying the state laws violate international drug treaties."
2013-03-06,"Canadians consume 50% more alcohol than the rest of the world, claims study"
2013-03-06,National outrage in China after car thief kills a 2 month old baby he discovered in the back seat.
2013-03-06,"British troops will leave Germany a year earlier than planned to end a legacy of World War II by 2019, UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced late on Tuesday"
2013-03-06,"Hugo Chvez will 'return on resurrection day', says Ahmadinejad"
2013-03-05,"A huge comet is headed for Mars. If it hits, ""it would be an event on the same sort of scale as the impact that drove the dinosaurs extinct 65m years ago. """
2013-03-05,"A 75-yr-old Japanese man died after 25 hospitals refused to admit him to their emergency rooms 36 times over two hours, citing lack of beds or doctors to treat him"
2013-03-05,US Ambassador Politely Asks UN Colleagues to Stop Showing Up Drunk to Meetings
2013-03-05,Piratebay is not actually being hosted from North Korea. It was a hoax to make it appear as if the IP was originating from NK.
2013-03-05,North Korea vows to cancel Korean War ceasefire
2013-03-05,"Desmond Tutu: Nuclear weapons must be eradicated for all our sakes. No nation should own nuclear arms  not Iran, not North Korea, and not their critics who take the moral high ground
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2013-03-05,Indias patent appeals office has rejected international drug maker Bayer AGs plea to stop an Indian company from manufacturing a cheaper generic version of a patented cancer drug
2013-03-05,"'Dubious' care of the sick, 'questionable' politics and 'suspicious' financial dealings: Researchers claim Mother Teresa was not so saintly after all"
2013-03-05,North Korea threatens to cancel Korean War cease-fire because of U.N. sanctions. Warns of surgical strikes with precision nuclear striking tool.
2013-03-05,China officials caught spray-painting grass green in Chengdu
2013-03-05,"
Relaxation of US cannabis laws 'violates UN drug conventions': International Narcotics Control Board criticises decision by some US states to legalise use of cannabis"
2013-03-05,"Ban marketing of junk food to kids under 12, Ontario report recommends"
2013-03-05,'It's not racism. The Muslim players just shouldn't be here': Beitar Jerusalem fans walk out over signing of two Muslim Chechen players
2013-03-05,"A UN human rights advocate has called on Britain and the US to release confidential reports into the countries' involvement in the kidnapping and torture of terrorism suspects, accusing them of ""years of official denials, sophistry and prevarication"" to cover up the truth"
2013-03-05,Buses of company operating 'Palestinian-only' lines torched
2013-03-05,"After being shutdown in Norway, The Pirate Bay Returns from North Korea."
2013-03-05,Soviet war veteran found in Afghanistan after 33 years
2013-03-05,South Africa running out of Rape kits due to massive numbers of Rape cases...
2013-03-05,A look inside N. Korea's Gulag system. A filthy side of the country Dennis Rodman ignored. 
2013-03-05,Russia Fears Its Troops Will Riot if Cigarette Rations End
2013-03-05,"""Only one in 10 regular mass-going Roman Catholics in Britain feel any guilt about using contraception . . . They are also much less likely to feel guilty about committing adultery, having sex before marriage or using pornography than people from many other religious groups."""
2013-03-05,Gaza marathon cancelled after Hamas bans women runners
2013-03-05,Cancer drug ruling seen as victory for poor: India's patent appeals office rejects Bayer AG's plea to stop production of generic version of a patented cancer drug -- 'Bayer sells a one month supply for US$5600. Natco's version would cost Indian patients US$175 a month'
2013-03-05,HSBC paid CEO Stuart Gulliver $11 million last year despite record money laundering fine
2013-03-05,Syrians tear down statue of Bashar al-Assad's father after rebel advance
2013-03-04,US doctors cure child born with HIV
2013-03-04,'Batman' brings in suspect to Bradford police
2013-03-04,Japanese father dies sheltering his daughter from blizzard
2013-03-04,Fake bishop sneaks into pre-conclave meeting at Vatican
2013-03-04,Four cops suspended after woman beaten on camera
2013-03-04,Female Iranian communists organize topless protest against hijabs in Swedish capital
2013-03-04,"South Afican government spends R140m ($15,5 mil) on $40 theme driven Wordpress website"
2013-03-04,Police in Northern Ireland intercept 4 mortar bombs minutes from being launched at a Londonderry Police station. 3 arrested and operation linked to dissident republicans.
2013-03-04,Harvard Economist: Legalizing Drugs Suits Ideal of American Freedom
2013-03-04,UK: Queen hospitalized after apparent infection
2013-03-04,Egypt unleashes Islamic morality police force
2013-03-04,Putting a Price on Foreigners: Strict Immigration Laws 'Save Denmark Billions'
2013-03-04,Australian miners fired for 'Harlem Shake'
2013-03-04,Hamas Will Not Allow Obama To Visit The Temple Mount on His Upcoming Trip to Israel and Palestine.
2013-03-04,Melbourne researchers uncover HIV's genetic hiding place
2013-03-04,A $1 billion bet on peace: Qatar funds huge Palestinian settlement in West Bank
2013-03-04,Spain's Jobless Hits Record 5 Million in February 
2013-03-04,"Germany would veto Bulgaria, Romania in Schengen: Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has told Der Spiegel magazine that Germany would not allow Romania or Bulgaria to join the European open-border Schengen zone. "
2013-03-04,"Iranian boat seized off the Yemeni coast was carrying sophisticated Chinese anti-aircraft missiles, a development that could signal an escalation of Iran's support to its Middle Eastern proxies, alarming other countries in the region "
2013-03-04,"""Fat Cat Initiative"" to be written into Switzerland's constitution, to impose some of the world's strictest controls on executive pay"
2013-03-04,Israel on 'locust alert' following Egyptian plague
2013-03-04,"Man charged $20,000 for roaming charges in Mexico."
2013-03-04,The answer to Chinese pollution? It's in Japan
2013-03-04,"Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover has been put into ""safe mode"" after a computer glitch caused by corrupted files."
2013-03-04,SOS John Kerry: US to release $250 Million in Aid to Egypt to support 'its future democracy'
2013-03-03,"200 egg farmers in Germany accused of selling millions of eggs falsely labeled as 'free-range' and 'organic' in what has been called ""fraud on a massive scale"""
2013-03-03,"Israel introduces 'Palestinian only' bus lines, following complaints from Jewish settlers  Israel News"
2013-03-03,"100 million sharks killed each year, say scientists:  Protect sharks or they face possible extinction in a generation, scientists warn as they gather in Bangkok for Cites meeting
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2013-03-03,Moscow Mayor says no to more mosques in the city
2013-03-03,Iranian ship carrying Chinese missiles to Yemen Caught
2013-03-03,Not a Good Idea: American Nukes in South Korea - The redeployment of tactical nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula would be a Cold War solution to a 21st century problem.
2013-03-03,"Ban Elephant Ivory, Legalize Rhino Horn? - Fate of elephants, rhinoceroses & other imperiled species to be decided at Bangkok wildlife summit. 177 countries will consider increasing or decreasing protection for iconic mammals & organisms like sharks, turtles & timber species.
  











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2013-03-03,"US Trade Rep orders Canada to comply with the dead-and-buried ACTA treaty: 'USTR gave marching orders to Canada's Harper government, and it has introduced a bill that would force Canadians to obey the provisions in ACTA, even though ACTA no longer exists'"
2013-03-03,Israeli Ministry of Transportation launches 'Palestinians only' buses
2013-03-03,Mars Curiosity rover switched to safe mode after memory problems
2013-03-03,Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood want to delete video of MB members doing the Harlem Shake from the Internet.
2013-03-03,Greece reclassified to 'emerging market' from developed
2013-03-03,Nazi Holocaust camps uncovered across Europe
2013-03-03,3 suspected Islamist terrorists arrested in France
2013-03-03,Top managers salary to be decided by shareholders in Switzerland
2013-03-03,Syrian troops destroy ancient synagogue
2013-03-03,Political corruption scandal in Spain takes new twist. Former Popular Party Treasurer who was forced out after it was discovered he held a secret Swiss bank account worth millions presses theft charges against his own Party. Police raid PP headquarters until some higher-up cancels investigation.
2013-03-03,"Think New York Is Costly? In New Delhi, Seedy Goes for 8 Figures: 'Real estate prices in the heart of New Delhi, especially for the bungalows built nearly a century ago during the British Raj, are among the highest in the world.'"
2013-03-03,Thailand's promise to end ivory trade cautiously welcomed
2013-03-03,Hundreds of thousands of Portuguese have poured into the streets of Lisbon and other cities to demand an end to austerity dictated by an international bailout and the resignation of the center-right government.
2013-03-03,"Volunteers in China say they rescued 900 dogs from cramped truck after online posting. 'Volunteers said the truck was on its way to Guangdong province in southern China, where dog meat is often served in restaurants'"
2013-03-03,"Heat on Thailand as wildlife conference starts - conservationists will converge in Bangkok for the start of key endangered species talks on Sunday, as host Thailand faces pressure to curb rampant ivory smuggling through its territory"
2013-03-03,"Magnitude-5.5 Yunnan, China earthquake injures 20, damages 2500 homes"
2013-03-03,Banker Andrei Borodin granted asylum in Britain after fleeing Vladimir Putin's Russia:  Britain has risked opening a new rift with the Kremlin by granting political asylum to a prominent Russian banker accused of fraud in his own country. 
2013-03-03," Russia Turns Against Nabokov - 36 yrs after his death & 22 after end of censorship, the author is, once again, controversial.  Since wave of 2011 protest, Vladimir Putin & his party have cut losses with finicky lites & focus on demonizing them as Western agents. 














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2013-03-02,The good news: Meat Pies tested in Iceland contain no horse meat.  The bad news: They also apparently contain no meat of any kind.
2013-03-02,European Officials Cap Banker Bonuses at Maximum of One Year of Salary
2013-03-02,Japanese bullet train carrying some 130 people derails in heavy snow in northern Japan
2013-03-02,"""The Vatican admitted on Thursday [28 February 2013] that it had secretly bugged clergy within the Holy See as part of the investigation into the Vatileaks scandal, which resulted in the Pope's butler being imprisoned for stealing confidential pontifical documents."""
2013-03-02,"13-Year-Old Mexican Drug Cartel Hitman Found Dead, Tortured"
2013-03-02,"Lech Walesa, former president of Poland says: Homosexuals should sit on the last bench in the plenary hall, or even behind the wall "
2013-03-02,"Don't tear down our wall, Berliners plead"
2013-03-02,"Brazil's favelas, or slums, are home to a growing consumer class whose purchasing power has risen due to a jump in salaries, a decrease in unemployment, and greater access to education."
2013-03-02,US wins court appeal in battle to extradite Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom from New Zealand 
2013-03-02,The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking: The Germans had vastly more work camps and ghettos than anyone knew
2013-03-02,"Potatoes grown during the Famine available from next week, for the first time in almost 170 years - The Irish Times"
2013-03-02,'I am one of the Fukushima fifty': One of the men who risked their lives to prevent a catastrophe shares his story 
2013-03-02,"Failing Drug War: When Cops Become Criminals - ""The war on drugs has become so intense that the line between criminality and law-enforcement has blurred."""
2013-03-02,"660,000 People In China Have Been Living With Almost No Water For Four Years"
2013-03-02,US military expands its drug war in Latin America
2013-03-02,"Tunisia Stumbles - It took the lead in Arab Spring, its revolution swift & peaceful. An assembly was elected to write a new constitution.  But it's getting more complicated. The prime minister resigned, an opposition leader was assassinated, &  public discontent is mounting.





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2013-03-02,Italy exposes wider crisis of democracy - Those preaching austerity are contributing to a political meltdown
2013-03-02,Self-destructive Europe: Those preaching austerity are contributing to a crisis of democracy.
2013-03-02,Research shows that nearly 100 million sharks are killed annually
2013-03-02,One doctors dream: to keep Indias last polio ward empty. Polio once claimed thousands of victims a year in India. But its two years since the last case.
2013-03-02,S. Africa cops charged with murder after death of man dragged by police van
2013-03-02,NASA probes find new radiation belt encircling Earth
2013-03-02,Egypt considering renting out the Pyramids.
2013-03-02,"THE PRICE OF IVORY: From Elephants Mouths, an Illicit Trail to China"
2013-03-02,"The Nato-led Isaf force has apologised for the deaths of two Afghan boys, killed when a helicopter fired on them, mistaking them for insurgents.

The boys, aged under seven, were killed last month in rural Uruzgan province."
2013-03-01,Manning statement: Americans had a right to know 'true cost of war'
2013-03-01,"Every year in China, 287,000 people end their lives by suicide"
2013-03-01,"The 81-story skyscraper is all but invisible, shrouded by a layer of pollution so dense that even close-up objects are a blur."
2013-03-01,Taco Bell finds traces of horse meat in U.K. products.
2013-03-01,"China Building 29 Nuclear Reactors, 40% of the World's Total - After  Fukushima meltdown, Germany announced it'd decommission all nuclear plants. Switzerland & Italy rejected proposals to build more. Japan shut down  reactors & hasn't restarted them. China, on the other hand, plowed ahead.




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2013-03-01,"Iceland's porn ban 'conflicts with the idea of a free society', say critics | World news"
2013-03-01,Berlin Wall to be torn down for luxury flats
2013-03-01,2 US Navy Sailors Convicted in Okinawa Rape
2013-03-01,"Norwegian health minister supports making smoking heroin legalized, to make addicts quit using needles. "
2013-03-01,Here ComeChinas Drones - China is developing its own drone technology -- for its own military and for sale around the world.
2013-03-01,"""Five women and one man are suing the Met Police over alleged intimate relationships with undercover police, including cases where children have been fathered."""
2013-03-01,"In Kenya, Half Brother To Obama Runs For Governor"
2013-03-01,Dennis Rodman tells Kim Jong Un he has a 'friend for life'
2013-03-01,"Publicly owned Royal Bank of Scotland admits 'chastening' year as losses breach 5bn, pays bonuses of 679m - all pretense is gone, this is blatant looting"
2013-03-01,"Delhi protest over 'sex attack' on seven-year-old girl -There have been violent protests in the Indian capital, Delhi, after reports that a seven-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at school."
2013-03-01,Airline refuses to change woman's flights after her son was brutally killed by a Great White shark.
2013-03-01,"""Iran's nose jobs per capita rate is seven times that of the United States."""
2013-03-01,Benedict XVI Formally Ends His Papacy and Leaves Vatican
2013-03-01,"French forces in Mali have killed Abu Zeid, leader of Al-Quaida in north africa (no link to an english article yet )"
2013-03-01,US Wins Appeal in Battle to Extradite Kim Dotcom
2013-03-01,BBC News - Mount Etna erupts from 'new crater'
2013-03-01," Iran has stepped up executions of prisoners including juveniles as well as arrests of dissidents who are often tortured in jail, sometimes to death, the United Nations reported on Thursday."
2013-03-01,First photos of Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un at a basketball game in Pyongyang.
2013-03-01,"Loss of wild pollinators serious threat to crop yields, study finds."
2013-03-01,Euro Zone Unemployment Rises to Record: 11.9 percent
2013-02-28,'Marijuana cannon' used to fire drugs over US border seized in Mexico
2013-02-28,South Africa shock as 'police dragging' video man dies
2013-02-28,The Pilot of the Hot Air Balloon that crashed jumped while it was 5 meters off the ground and let the tourists float up on their own
2013-02-28,Australian Muslim men charged with assault for enforcing Sharia law on recent Muslim convert by whipping him with electrical cord
2013-02-28,"North Korean prison camp was the only life he knew -- Camp 14: Total Control Zone is the harrowing and unmissable story of a man born in a North Korean prison camp.
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2013-02-28,"Secret War on Enemy Within: British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship then killed by drones - 

 Govt  secretly ramps up  controversial program that strips people of  British citizenship on national security grounds  with 2 of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks"
2013-02-28,"Two to tango: China accuses U.S. of almost 100,000 hacking attempts per month last year"
2013-02-28,What Happened To The Aid Meant To Rebuild Haiti?
2013-02-28,Bangladesh sentences Islamist leader to death for war crimes
2013-02-28,Asda's 'Made in Italy' tomato puree actually hails from China
2013-02-28,Japan to Begin Restarting Idled Nuclear Plants: All of Japans 50 operable nuclear reactors were shut down following the 2011 tsunami
2013-02-28,BBC News - EU agrees to cap bankers' bonuses
2013-02-28,The Harlem Shake becomes a protest in Egypt and Tunisia
2013-02-28,Chinese Woman Left Humiliated After Fake Baby Bump Tube Seat Con Is Exposed
2013-02-28,Court orders UK ISPs to block more piracy sites
2013-02-28,European Union Moves Toward Bonus Cap for Bankers
2013-02-28,South African police drag man 400m behind police van. (Video)
2013-02-28,Police assaulting a cameraman during a protest against the summit on higher education in Montreal (French video)
2013-02-28,Shell says it will pause drilling in Arctic Ocean for 2013
2013-02-28,"Millionaire Dennis Tito to send couple on manned Mars mission on Jan. 5, 2018"
2013-02-28,Australia makes largest meths seizure. 'Australian police say they have made their largest-ever seizure of the drug methamphetamine hidden in a shipment from southern China'
2013-02-28,"First Tweet from North Korea - ""Hello World"""
2013-02-28,emember the hibernating Swede - Lived 2 months in a snowed in car and lost 60% of his body weight? New interview explaining why he did it. *translation in comments*
2013-02-28,BBC News - Greek ex-mayor jailed for life for embezzlement
2013-02-28,FOSS Patents: UK judge who issued extreme ruling for Samsung against Apple hired by... Samsung!
2013-02-27,"Maldives girl gets 100 lashes for pre-marital sex. 'A 15-year-old rape victim has been sentenced to 100 lashes for engaging in premarital sex, court officials said'"
2013-02-27,Compulsive liar jailed after 11 false rape claims in decade
2013-02-27,Australian Muslim activists lose free speech case. 'Australia's highest court on Wednesday narrowly rejected the case of two Muslim activists who argued they had a constitutional free-speech right to send offensive letters to families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan'
2013-02-27,"North Korea warns U.S. is within range of strategic rockets, nuclear weapons"
2013-02-27,Chinese parents of gays and lesbians demand equal marriage rights
2013-02-27,'Homosexuality is a ticking timebomb for the Catholic Church': Explosive claim of former friar who says half of recruits are gay
2013-02-27,"We'll never stop eating whales, declares Japanese minister"
2013-02-27,Afghan teenager whose nose & ears were cut off as punishment for attempting to flee an abusive marriage has revealed her new nose after reconstructive surgery. Aesha Mohammadzai appeared on the cover of Time magazine and became an international symbol of female oppression following her mutilation.
2013-02-27,Tony Blair: People are still 'very abusive' to me 10 years after the Iraq War
2013-02-27,9 year old boy hangs himself because he was being bullied for being white.
2013-02-27,Evidence is mounting that Chinas government is sponsoring the cybertheft of Western corporate secrets.
2013-02-27,Minister: 'ban smoking in cars carrying children'
2013-02-27,"Beijing Restaurant Sign Triggers Fury - Sign at popular tourist spot  bars citizens of nations involved in maritime disputes with China,  triggering outrage among Vietnamese & Filipinos. It reads:  ""This shop does not receive the Japanese,  Philippines, Vietnamese & dogs.""  It's gone viral.



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2013-02-27,At least 5 dead in Swiss workplace shooting
2013-02-27,"New Zealand man eaten by Great White, Police shoot at shark."
2013-02-27,Deforestation rate in Venezuela reduced by 47%
2013-02-27,"Amsterdam to raise prostitution age, bring in brothel closing hours."
2013-02-27,"Niger arrests doctors after Bill Gates charity graft probe:  Niger arrested about 20 doctors suspected of embezzling funds from a charity set up by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote vaccination in poor countries, judicial and police sources said on Monday."
2013-02-27,"Anti-protest: Bahrain bans import of plastic Guy Fawkes masks
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2013-02-27,U.N. told atheists face discrimination around globe
2013-02-27,An accused rapist was allowed to walk free and later kill two children as a result of a London police policy to manipulate crime statistics by failing to record sexual assault allegations 
2013-02-27,"Black Canadian police officer faces charges for not investigating racial taunts directed at him.  ""I was treated like a dog."""
2013-02-27,"In conservative Pakistan, everybody must get stoned. The garbage man doubles as a dealer, and you can light up in a prominent Sufi shrine  never mind the death penalty."
2013-02-27,"The United Nations brought a deadly strain of cholera to Haiti that killed 8,000 people but accepts no responsibility for the disaster"
2013-02-27,Salafists fail to stop 'Harlem Shake' in Tunisia
2013-02-26, Church of Scientology in Sydney accused of holding a young Taiwanese woman hostage
2013-02-26,Rats trained to detect mines find 2400 landmines in Mozambique.
2013-02-26,"North Korea expanding gulags, satellite images show"
2013-02-26,"As its vice president, the UN Human Rights Council has chosen as Mauritania  ""a country that allows 20% of its citizens, some as young as 10, to live as slaves."""
2013-02-26,"WikiLeaks has published over 40,000 secret documents regarding Venezuela, which show the clear hand of US imperialism in efforts to topple popular and democratically elected leader Hugo Chavez"
2013-02-26,"Deutsche Bank Is Caught In A Spiral Of Lies - Leaked internal studies show it had known for years that commodity speculation drove up food prices, but lied to German parliament about it"
2013-02-26,Met Police rape unit 'encouraged' victims to retract cases
2013-02-26,"Chinese Junk Patents Flood Into Australia, Allowing Chinese Companies To Strategically Block Innovation"
2013-02-26,"Chinas riskiest property market just collapsed. ""..13 percent of Chinese GDP in 2011 came from real estate investment."""
2013-02-26,Nine men accused of gang-raping six girls aged between 11 and 15
2013-02-26,"How Demography Is Changing Japan - The increasingly inverted structure of Japans population pyramid, with fewer young people than old people, means that it will be very difficult to generate the tax revenues necessary to pay for the healthcare needs of the elderly."
2013-02-26,"Lion populations have fallen by 68% in just 50 years  from 100,000 to 35,000 today. "
2013-02-26,"As a member of the radical group ""Fuerza Nueva"", Spaniard Emilio Hellin shot and killed a 19-year-old girl in 1980.  After serving only 14 years of his 43-year-sentence, he is now employed by the Spanish Interior Ministry as a security consultant
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2013-02-26, Oxford sex gang victim aged 11 was 'branded with initial of her abuser'
2013-02-26,"None of Japans 16 nuclear power plants has satisfied the government's proposed new safety standards, making them ineligible to be restarted in the near future, according to an Asahi Shimbun survey.

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2013-02-26,"Religious Schools in Canada protest anti-bullying laws, claiming it infringes upon their religious freedom by mandating acceptance of homosexuals"
2013-02-26,"Scotland Yards specialist sex crime team 'pressured woman to drop rape claim' against man who went on to murder his two children
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2013-02-26,Italy in stalemate after election shock
2013-02-26,"""A hot air balloon flying over Egypt's ancient city of Luxor caught fire and crashed into a sugar cane field . . . killing at least 18 foreign tourists . . . It was one of the worst accidents involving tourists in Egypt and likely to push the key tourism industry deeper into recession."""
2013-02-26,Mexican Farmers Turn Into Vigilantes To Fight Narco Traffickers
2013-02-26,Syrian Regime Launches Missile Strike on Aleppo and Kills 140
2013-02-26,"Iran tackles 'inappropriate dressing', by teaching chastity and hijab to toddlers"
2013-02-26,"Sex, secrets, and the race for the next pope:  Pope Benedict is allegedly sitting on a secret dossier of purported scandals at the Vatican. Is there a cardinal alive who can fix this mess? "
2013-02-26,Iranian media alters Michelle Obama's Academy Awards dress to cover her shoulders
2013-02-26,"Syrias Armenian minority flees from conflict:  Armenian-Syrians are fleeing to other countries  as their families once fled to Syria for sanctuary after the 1915 Ottoman genocide.
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2013-02-25,Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people has the lowest reoffending rate in Europe
2013-02-25, A helicopter swooped down on a prison courtyard Sunday as armed men on board fired on guards and lowered a rope to help a convicted killer make his fourth attempt to escape from a Greek prison.
2013-02-25,"Iran calls Oscar for 'Argo,' awarded by Michelle Obama, an ad for CIA"
2013-02-25,Long-lost continent found under the Indian Ocean: Sand from Mauritian beaches reveals rock from ancient landmass.
2013-02-25,South Korea's Park Geun-Hye is sworn in as nation's first female president
2013-02-25,Afghanistan's first female mayor proves critics wrong. Azra Jafari has won respect in her community as she fights to improve lives and change attitudes towards women
2013-02-25,Horse meat found in Ikea's Swedish meatballs
2013-02-25,U.S. Confronts Cyber-Cold War With China
2013-02-25,Bangladesh Moves To Ban Main Islamic Party: Bangladesh's parliament has amended a law to allow the prosecution of the country's largest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami for war crimes and also eventually ban it.
2013-02-25,"An energy revolution is taking place in East Africa as the price of solar technology tumbles and huge resources of geothermal steam beneath the Great Rift Valley start to be exploited, moves which have the potential to lift millions out of poverty and cut greenhouse gas emissions"
2013-02-25,"In ground-breaking move, S. Africa steps in over alleged Zimbabwe mass rapes"
2013-02-25,Muslims Torch and Loot 200 Hindu Homes in West Bengal.
2013-02-25,"Greece: ""A promise from the army has been obtained to not intervene against a civil uprising"" - says ex-diplomat"
2013-02-25,Putin signs law banning smoking in public in Russia
2013-02-25,Icelands Plan to Ban Internet Porn Sparks Uproar
2013-02-25,"Italy Election: Bersani Ahead in Exit Polls, Berlusconi Trailing By Over 5%"
2013-02-25,Chinese Communist Party leaders plan first central government overhaul in half a decade: new leaders will this week consider plans to revamp the central government as part of efforts to streamline bureaucracy and boost an economy that's recovering from the slowest growth in 13 years
2013-02-25,Syria - The death of a country
2013-02-25,Eyewitnesses have come forward for the first time to support allegations that the Sri Lankan army executed two Tamil Tiger rebel leaders after they surrendered with a white flag in '09. This adds to a growing body of evidence of war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan military.
2013-02-25,BBC News - Cardinal Keith O'Brien steps down as Archbishop
2013-02-25,Ral Castro to step down as president in 2018
2013-02-25,"Indian Rocket Launches Asteroid-Hunting Satellites, Tiny Space Telescopes"
2013-02-25,An underwater Grand Canyon has been discovered in images captured by a Royal Navy survey vessel in the Red Sea. These features could be the result of ancient rivers scouring through the rock strata before the Red Sea flooded millennia ago.
2013-02-25,"From Bullets to Bistros: the Mexico City Miracle -- Even as drug war violence encroaches, a sharp drop in crime over the past decade has changed the culture of Mexico's capital."
2013-02-25,German Catholic Church to allow emergency contraception for rape victims 
2013-02-24,"North Korea prison camps 'like the Holocaust', survivors who escaped say"
2013-02-24,"A pilot will attempt the 10,500-mile trip from Sydney to London using a fuel that has never before been tested in the air  and is produced entirely from plastic waste"
2013-02-24," Lessons From the Failed 'War on Drugs' - The global 'war on drugs' has cost billions & taken countless lives, but achieved little. Politicians & experts are joining calls for legalization. Following the journey of cocaine from a farm in Colombia to a user in Berlin sheds light on why."
2013-02-24,UK's first cat cafe to open in London in May. Customers will be able to stroke and play with 10-15 cats as they enjoy their daily coffee.
2013-02-24,4 arrested in Egypt for 'Harlem Shake'
2013-02-24,Park Geun-hye will be sworn in as South Korea's first female president on Monday
2013-02-24,"The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled that if a cellphone is not password-protected, police making an arrest can search it without a warrant

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2013-02-24,Censorship is alive and well in Canada  just ask government scientists
2013-02-24,"Four killed in Bangladesh clashes over ""atheist bloggers"" -- At least four people were killed and over 200 injured in Bangladesh on Friday as hundreds of Islamists clashed with police here and other major cities demanding execution of ""atheist bloggers"" they accused of blasphemy"
2013-02-24,"Shocking revelations of murder, sexual abuse of boys, civilians being shot, and kidnaps are exposing the state of Afghanistan's security forces in a Panorama investigation. Afghan forces running bases that British soldiers secured are barely able to function/pose no challenge to the Taliban."
2013-02-24,"Around 3,000 Palestinian prisoners refuse food after death of fellow inmate"
2013-02-24,"Let's talk about the exodus of 600,000 whites from London"
2013-02-24,Food giants still flouting code on promoting baby milk formula in developing countries. Research in Pakistan finds companies giving free gifts and misleading literature to mothers and health workers
2013-02-24,African leaders meeting in Ethiopia sign deal to end two decades of fighting in Democratic Republic of Congo
2013-02-24,Thief distributes money among poor in Paraguay
2013-02-24,"One of the worst in the world: Indonesia ranked last in a landmark education report that measured literacy, test results, graduation rates and other key benchmarks in 50 nations. Only a third of Indonesian students complete basic schooling"
2013-02-24,Photos of Transnistria: The Country that isn't Really a Country
2013-02-24,EU sues Sweden over environmental 'inaction'
2013-02-24,Karzai expels US special forces from Afghan province.
2013-02-24,"The Lost Tribes of the Amazon:  	Often described as uncontacted, isolated groups living deep in the South American forest resist the ways of the modern worldat least for now "
2013-02-24,"Fauja Singh ran his first marathon at age 89 and became an international sensation. Now 101 years old, he will run his final race on Sunday in Hong Kong -- and try to find peace with a Guinness World Records slight."
2013-02-24,"In Syria, new influx of weapons to rebels tilts the battle against Assad. 'A surge of rebel advances in Syria is being fueled at least in part by an influx of heavy weaponry in a renewed effort by outside powers to arm moderates in the Free Syrian Army, according to Arab and rebel officials'"
2013-02-24,Mali radicals recruited child soldiers at schools. An untold number of children are believed to have been killed in the January fighting. 
2013-02-24,Canadian Election tampering court case moves ahead with key evidence being considered.
2013-02-24,Vatican Slams Media Reports Of Gay Scandal
2013-02-23,Briton finds 500-year-old arrest warrant for Machiavelli
2013-02-23,UK's most senior Roman Catholic says priest should be allowed to get married and have children
2013-02-23,North Korea warns U.S. Forces of destruction ahead of drills: 'North Korea on Saturday warned the top U.S. military commander stationed in South Korea that his forces would meet a miserable destruction if they go ahead with scheduled military drills with South Korean troops'
2013-02-23,Iran to Execute 4 Bankers on Fraud Charges
2013-02-23,Charities say 'neigh' to feeding horse to the poor - A conservative German politician has been slammed for suggesting that poor people be given the meals removed from sale
2013-02-23,"
German president: make English the language of EU: 'Europe needs Britain's democratic traditions, political courage and sober-mindedness'
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2013-02-23,"
China has almost 10,000 kilometers of high speed rail now and will have 5 times more by 2020 - Forcing China's Airlines to Shift Focus to International Travel"
2013-02-23,"A British theatre director working in Uganda was bundled into a car, taken to the immigration department, then to a police station and locked up in a crowded cell. He was kept for five days before being deported. His crime was to have staged a comedy that touched on the subject of homosexuality."
2013-02-23,"A potentially explosive report has linked the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI to the discovery of a network of gay high-ranking clergy in the Vatican, some of whom were being blackmailed by outsiders. The popes spokesman declined to confirm or deny the report."
2013-02-23,"Lawyer: Iranian diplomat quits embassy in Norway, seeking asylum there"
2013-02-23,"Iran said it has found significant new deposits of raw uranium to feed its nuclear program and has identified sites for 16 more nuclear power stations, just days before talks with Western powers over its disputed atomic program"
2013-02-23,100 US military personnel deployed to Niger
2013-02-23,"India's Rice Revolution: Top Chinese scientist questions claim of massive harvests, scoffs at claims that fewer seeds plus less water can lead to better rice crop results"
2013-02-23,Big pharma's excuses for the monopolies on medicine won't wash
2013-02-23,"[Businessweek] After Three Years, BP Is Finally Headed to Court."
2013-02-23,"S Korea female president brings gender hopes
Country ranked in bottom third of global equality list, but inauguration raises hopes of tackling issue."
2013-02-23,UK loses its AAA credit rating
2013-02-23,Banksy mural removed. Up for auction in Miami. - NPR
2013-02-23,"Horsemeat containing a drug potentially harmful to humans has likely entered the food chain, France says"
2013-02-23,La Repubblica reports existence of underground gay network at Vatican.
2013-02-23,"South Korea nuclear weapons possible within 6 months, a conservative South Korean newspaper says."
2013-02-23,Missile Defenses Real Enemy: Math
2013-02-23,Our Right to Poison: Lessons from the Failed War on Drugs
2013-02-23,Horsemeat scandal triggers 15% rise in sales for France's equine butchers | UK news
2013-02-23,Horsemeat scandal's origin lies in the heart of our economic model:  Fixing lax regulation won't solve the problem  we need to address the circumstances that created this severely distorted food supply system
2013-02-22,"Japanese are beginning to turn against the whaling industry. According to a new report, ""Whaling is an unprofitable business that can survive only with substantial subsidies and one that caters to an increasingly shrinking and aging market."
2013-02-22,"China officially admits the existence of ""Cancer Villages"" for the first time."
2013-02-22,German Catholics allow morning-after pill in rape cases
2013-02-22,Univision reporting rumors of the death of Joaqun El Chapo Guzmn (world's #1 drug lord) after a gun battle in Guatemala. This comes one day after Wikileaks publishes emails saying he is in Guatemala. (story in spanish)
2013-02-22,Canadian School teachers prank students with Disneyworld trip causing anger by parents and tears by students the next day.
2013-02-22,Bangladesh protests demanding execution of atheist bloggers turn deadly.
2013-02-22,Police ban radios in Zimbabwe to prevent those in rural areas without access to mainstream media from getting the latest updates ahead of elections.
2013-02-22,"Pope Benedict retired after inquiry into ""Vatican gay bishops"""
2013-02-22,Heavily armed Islamic Militants from the Philippines invade Northern Malaysia 
2013-02-22,"The world's most powerful drug lord, Joaqun 'El Chapo' Guzman, has been killed in a gun battle between drug gangs, Guatemalan authorities suspect."
2013-02-22,"Egypt imports 140,000 teargas canisters from US."
2013-02-22,South Korea calls for development of nuclear weapons
2013-02-22,Parent calls to remove 'religious observance' in non-denominational schools in Scotland
2013-02-22,Toronto declared sanctuary city to non-status migrants: Toronto has become the first Canadian city with a formal policy allowing undocumented migrants to access services regardless of immigration status
2013-02-22,Al Qaeda Tips On Evading Unmanned Aircraft Found In Mali
2013-02-22,"To Block Gaza Tunnels, Egypt Lets Sewage Flow"
2013-02-22,Mexican Drug Cartels Eye Spain As Their New Home
2013-02-22,Syria conflict: Many dead in huge Damascus bombing
2013-02-22,China holds generals son for gang rape 
2013-02-22,$2.5 billion in lost income for Egyptian tourism since 2011. Tourism ministry prepares new campaign to promote Egypt by live-streaming images of the country around the world.
2013-02-22,"Three British Islamists convicted of plotting ""another 9/11"""
2013-02-22,Life expectancy increased by 11 years in South Africa by new HIV combating treatment
2013-02-22,"Egyptian opposition tries to get Morsi blasted into space - You can vote for him, too."
2013-02-22,North Korea to launch 3G network
2013-02-22,Switzerland's only bear killed amid threat fears
2013-02-21,Germans couldn't see many of the Russian meteor videos last week because a radio was playing music in the background. The German version of the MIAA wanted a penny per view.
2013-02-21,"Brits Want Marijuana Reforms, Drug Policy Review: 'majority of Britons favor either decriminalizing or legalizing marijuana and two-thirds support a comprehensive review of all the options for controlling drugs, from legalization to tougher enforcement.'"
2013-02-21,"The French language police in Quebec, Canada cracked down on an Italian restaurant because its menu has ""too much Italian"""
2013-02-21,Over 100 million people are striking in India today and tomorrow. Possibly the largest strike in world history.
2013-02-21,"[WATCH] British MP George Galloway storms out of Oxford debate after discovering his opponent is Israeli, tells crowd ""I don't debate Israelis"" "
2013-02-21,More than 20 per cent of Norwegians tuned in to watch a 12-hour extravaganza about firewood.
2013-02-21,Switzerland's only wild bear (Named M13) is shot
2013-02-21,Chinese activist asks Internet users: What does your river look like?
2013-02-21,India to launch Mars mission this year: President
2013-02-21,"""You people think that by making these cartoons of the prophet that you are going to deface him. No, you will never achieve this, only thing you will achieve is suicide bombers on your streets spilling so much blood that you'll have nightmares for the rest of your miserable lives.""
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2013-02-21,"15 dead - 50 injured in bomb blasts in Hyderabad, India. "
2013-02-21,Duke of Edinburgh: 'The Philippines must be half empty because you're all here running the NHS'
2013-02-21,"Hundreds of children (as young as 9), have been illegally detained & tortured by the Egyptian police following the protests after the 2nd anniversary of the '11 uprising. Those detained have been subjected to beatings, electrocution and forced to strip naked to be drenched with cold water."
2013-02-21,"Banks should be forced to pay much bigger fines if they 'fail' to co-operate with investigations into their misbehaviour, according to the UK Treasury Select Committee"
2013-02-21,Chinese revolt over government plan to ban BBQ in order to fight epic smog problem
2013-02-21,"US senator says 4,700 killed in drone strikes"
2013-02-21,Japan executions resume with three hangings
2013-02-21,Case Western researchers discover gene that permanently stops cancer cell proliferation
2013-02-21,"Pakistani police accused the country's ambassador to the United States of blasphemy, a crime that carries the death penalty, in connection with a 2010 TV talk show"
2013-02-21,"A Rogue Power: Vatican May Shield Pope from Growing Prosecution Efforts: 'Vatican officials will give the retiring Pontiff sanctuary, arguing that otherwise he would be ""defenseless"" - a feeling likely familiar to the Church's many victims of sexual abuse.'"
2013-02-21,"Saudi Arabias King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sworn in the countrys first female members of the Shura Council, an appointed body that advises on new laws, angering conservative clerics. It is the first time in the countrys history that women have been able to hold any political office."
2013-02-21,"Three British men have claimed they were beaten and electrocuted in the testicles after being imprisoned in Dubai for possession of a cannabis substitute. The men say they were threatened/beaten before being forced to sign documents in Arabic, a language that none of them understand"
2013-02-21,Germans cant see meteorite YouTube videos due to copyright dispute
2013-02-21,Space Tourist to Announce Daring Manned Mars Voyage for 2018
2013-02-21,"""Federal civil servants in Canada, and in particular scientists, are being muzzled by the federal government"""
2013-02-20,"
You have the right to Google for a lawyer in Canada: 'After a 19-yr old struggled to find a lawyer using the telephone, an Alberta court has ruled that police must provide an accused with Internet access to exercise their right to counsel.'
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2013-02-20,Bulgaria government resigns after national protests
2013-02-20,"Chinese government involved in cyber espionage; a
Chinese military unit hacked into 141 businesses, mostly inside the U.S., to steal commercial secrets"
2013-02-20,US Catholics urge cardinal to skip papal vote - American group call on cardinal accused of covering up sexual abuse by priests not to take part in electing a new pope
2013-02-20,North Korean propaganda video shows President Obama and US troops in flames
2013-02-20,Contact lost with ISS
2013-02-20,Pirate Party threatened with lawsuit for hosting the Pirate Bay
2013-02-20,Russia: Boy adopted by U.S. lesbian subjected to conditions harmful to his psychological health'
2013-02-20,Mexican police chief goes missing
2013-02-20,"Wikilieaks releases over 3,000 emails from Stratfor intelligence agency on the Vatican and the Pope "
2013-02-20,"A British man infected with a new virus from the same family as SARS has died, bringing the worldwide death toll from the previously unknown disease to six"
2013-02-20,Gay Afghan man describes life as a homosexual in an oppressive society
2013-02-20,How Chinese hackers outed themselves by logging onto Facebook
2013-02-20,"5 minutes, 8 robbers, a $50-million haul in diamonds..
With military precision, perfect timing and likely some inside help, a group of eight robbers managed to pull off one of the biggest diamond heists in history in Belgium"
2013-02-20,How Vaccines Have Changed Our World In One Graphic
2013-02-20,North Korea says tourism 'booming'
2013-02-20,'How stupid do you think we are?' An epic letter from American CEO to a French minister
2013-02-20,Sea Shepherd ship rammed 
2013-02-20,"A French soldier and more than 20 Islamist rebels were killed during what appeared to be the first clashes in the Adrar des Ifoghas mountain range where militants have taken refuge in northern Mali, French officials said on Tuesday."
2013-02-20,"Horror at Sea: Adrift for Months, Starving Asylum Seekers Threw 98 Bodies Overboard
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2013-02-20,3 minor sisters are raped and murdered and the bodies dumped in a well in India.
2013-02-20,Australian billionaire to build a high-tech replica of the Titanic. It's maiden voyage in late 2016 will be from England to New York.
2013-02-20,Indian MIT students' big idea caught in US visa limbo: 
2013-02-20,Saudi king swears in first women members of advisory council
2013-02-20,Obesity worldwide: the map of the world's weight
2013-02-19,"North Korea threatens ""final destruction"" of South Korea at U.N."
2013-02-19,"In Russia, proposed bill will ban pride parades and public LGBT awareness events, as well as what has been deemed as pro-gay attitudes on television"
2013-02-19,Israel passes law banning models that have a BMI under 18.5
2013-02-19,"Brazil seethes over public officials ""super salaries"", one Judge Made $361,500 in a Month"
2013-02-19,"
Legalising drugs would be the perfect Tory policy: 'It would save money, aid global security and be tough on crime. What could appeal to Conservatives more?'
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2013-02-19,Russian lawmaker found dead in barrel of cement.
2013-02-19,Detailed Proof of Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
2013-02-19,"At least 3,000 children, including four under the age of 10 found huddled together in frozen embrace, are now known to have died during attendance at Canada's Indian residential schools, according to new unpublished research."
2013-02-19,"Eight men steal 50m worth of rough gems, by cutting a hole in a fence"
2013-02-19,Turkey: Children fostered by European gay couples will be retrieved
2013-02-19,Germany Strengthens Gay Adoption Rights
2013-02-19,"Handed a snack, and then executed: the 12-year-old son of a Tamil Tiger. Photographs show boy was held before he was killed at close range"
2013-02-19,China to introduce carbon tax: official
2013-02-19,Man arrested for pouring acid on 16-year-old's face
2013-02-19,Chinese military linked to hacking attacks in the US.
2013-02-19,Photographs have emerged depicting the execution of the 12 year old son of the late LTTE chief by the Sri Lankan Army
2013-02-19,AP: Woman commits self-immolation inside Spanish bank.
2013-02-19,Chinese Students Wore Uniforms With Cancer-Causing Dyes
2013-02-19,UK: Border chiefs seize 48 TONS of illegal meat containing horse and donkey
2013-02-19,The British government was warned in April 2011 that illegal horse meat was entering the human food chain
2013-02-19,"As BBC strikes, Brits trust journalists less than Americans do. Only 21% of adults in Britain trust journalists to tell the truth...40% of Americans trust journalists..."
2013-02-19,"Armed robbers have made off with a ""gigantic"" haul of diamonds after a daring raid at Brussels Airport."
2013-02-19,Scientists discover what caused Ireland's Great Potato Famine
2013-02-19,Eight people have been arrested in Russia after a politician's body (Mikhail Pakhomo) was found stuffed in a barrel of cement.
2013-02-19,Nestle finds horse meat in beef pasta meals
2013-02-18,"A Chinese entrepreneur is offering a huge reward to a senior official if he swims in a polluted river for 20 minutes, an attempt to draw attention to China's the environmental problems."
2013-02-18,Egyptian sheikh who said it is halal (permissible) to rape female protesters has been arrested and charged with defamation of religion
2013-02-18,A Muslim preacher is secretly filmed urging followers to take benefits from the state to fund a holy war
2013-02-18,"Halve meat consumption, scientists urge rich world: People in the rich world should become ""demitarians""  eating half as much meat as usual in order to avoid severe environmental damage"
2013-02-18,Amsterdam steakhouse boss admits selling horse for 63 years.
2013-02-18,Oscar Pistorius murder charge: 'steroids found at athletes home
2013-02-18,Report: Iran confiscates Buddha statues to stop promotion of Buddhism
2013-02-18,ATLAS Meteor Tracking System Gets $5M NASA Funding
2013-02-18,"Egypt's telecoms ministry has refused to block access to YouTube and has filed an appeal to reverse a court order asking it to do so.
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2013-02-18,At least 18 ancient mosaics depicting scenes from Homer's 'The Odyssey' have been stolen in northern Syria
2013-02-18,India blocks 73 URLs for criticism of an educational institution
2013-02-18,Britain is selling millions of pounds worth of small arms and ammunition to Sri Lanka despite the countrys dire human rights record. Government database shows that sales continue despite litany of rights abuses. 
2013-02-18,Round-the-world UK cyclists killed in Thailand
2013-02-18,What an Intro for an Xbox 360 HDMI Cable Promotion....
2013-02-18,"Keiko Fukuda, a Trailblazer in Judo, learned from its inventor and went on to become the sports highest-ranked woman, died on Feb. 9 at her home in San Francisco. She was 99.
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2013-02-18,"In China, Families Bet It All on College for Their Children but There are too few Jobs for College Grduates"
2013-02-18,Hezbollah condemned for 'attack on Syrian villages'
2013-02-18,Scientists confirm Chebarkul Lake meteorite found in Russian Urals as meteorite with an iron content of about 10%
2013-02-18,Breakthrough: Saudi women can pass on citizenship to their children
2013-02-18,Most Terrorist Plots in the US Aren't Invented by Al Qaeda -- They're Manufactured by the FBI
2013-02-18,A new hardline Sinhalese Buddhist group in Sri Lanka has called for the abolition of the Muslim halal system of certifying foods and other goods
2013-02-18,Alcohol sale to be banned in Egypt's new residential suburbs
2013-02-18,Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has returned home to Venezuela after more than two months of medical treatment in Cuba
2013-02-18,Red Cross' 150 years of helping between fronts
2013-02-18,"Irans supreme leader steps deeper into the political fray and uncharted territory. 'Bad, wrong, inappropriate, scolded Khamenei on Saturday in his most stinging rebuke of Ahmadinejad for his mounting attacks on rivals'"
2013-02-17,"Suspects in sex cases should have their identities protected until they are convicted, a senior lawyer has said"
2013-02-17,Pope Benedict XVIs leaked documents show fractured Vatican full of rivalries
2013-02-17,"In a village in India's poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice  with no GM, and no herbicide"
2013-02-17,"Missing Egyptian activist found naked, tortured in desert, says was abducted."
2013-02-17,Uprising against Taliban gains momentum
2013-02-17,"Bomb rips through Pakistan market, killing 63
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2013-02-17,"Secret funding of climate sceptics is not restricted to the US: In the UK, wealthy rightwing donors also finance campaigns against policies to reduce greenhouse gases"
2013-02-17,"UK, Germany and France Call for New Laws on Corporate Tax Avoidance:  Britain, Germany and France have called on their fellow G20 nations to introduce global tax rules in order to combat corporate tax avoidance that is costing countries millions in lost revenue."
2013-02-17,"AFP: Bloodied cricket bat found at Pistorius home: Reeva Steenkamp's Skull Had Been ""Crushed"""
2013-02-17,Libya arrests 4 foreigners suspected of trying to spread Christianity in Muslim nation
2013-02-17,North Korea tells China of preparations for fresh nuclear test
2013-02-17,Russia Meteorite Blast Equals 500-Kiloton Explosion - NASA. (Hiroshima in 1945 released an estimated 15 kilotons)
2013-02-17,Russian Prison Working Pussy Riot To Death
2013-02-17,"Adrift as Shape of Families Changes, Koreas Elderly Increasingly Turn to Suicide"
2013-02-17,"NASA now says the Chelyabinsk meteor must have been about 55 feet wide (17 meters wide) with a mass of 10,000 tons before it entered Earths atmosphere."
2013-02-17,The British home secretary has accused judges of 'subverting' democracy and making the streets of Britain more dangerous by ignoring rules aimed at deporting more foreign criminals
2013-02-17,Some Chinese Are Souring on Being North Koreas Best Friend 
2013-02-17,"India's rice revolution:  In a village in India's poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice  with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages?"
2013-02-17,First Krispy Kreme store in Scotland creates massive traffic jam (xpost /r/NewsOfTheWeird)
2013-02-17,EU calls for better conditions for Palestinians jailed in Israel
2013-02-17,"Russian Meteor Blast Bigger Than Thought, NASA Says"
2013-02-17,Hezbollah chief warns Hassan Shateri Dead: Iran Vows Revenge On Israel For Killing Of Guard Commander In Syria
2013-02-17,Israel Treats Wounded Syrians Along Frontier
2013-02-17,"Family Cleans House, Finds Pet Tortoise Missing Since 1982 "
2013-02-17,"Exploding Fireballs Reported In Japan, Russia, Cuba, US"
2013-02-16,Czech Republic Legalizes Medical Marijuana Use
2013-02-16,"U.S., Iran, Russia team up to save wrestling"
2013-02-16,"""If America did not exist, Russia would have to invent it. In a sense it already has: first as a dream, then as a nightmare. No other country looms so large in the Russian psyche. To Kremlin ideologists, the very concept of Russias sovereignty depends on being free of Americas influence."""
2013-02-16,"'Russian Romeo' steals girlfriend from psych ward, sues mother for forced hospitalization"
2013-02-16,"Russian lawmaker and party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky claims meteor was a US weapons test: ""Those aren't meteors falling, it's the Americans testing new weapons"""
2013-02-16,"American engineer, stressed about US security, about to return home, ""hangs"" himself in Singapore under suspicious circumstances. Police refuses FBI assistance. Confiscates laptop, mobile phone."
2013-02-16,"Portugal drug law show results ten years on, experts say.  Problematic drug use has dropped by HALF since the new law was put in place"
2013-02-16,Malaysia detains Australian senator Nick Xenophon - an outspoken critic of human rights in the country
2013-02-16,Suspected meteor explosion reported in central Cuba
2013-02-16,Lot's of Meteor talk lately. Here's NASA's live stream of the huge meteor passing earth today.
2013-02-16,Assange's $4.5-million lockdown: UK police spending huge sums on 24-hour patrol
2013-02-16,"Unprotected sex leads to rise in gay men in UK contracting HIV - One in 20 men who have sex with men in the UK now have HIV (1 in 12 in London), with unsafe sex among gay men also having increased"
2013-02-16,Saudi finally limits its religious police - announces legislation that reduces the authority of Islamist police
2013-02-16,"Conservative Cabinet minister: ""Gay couples cannot provide safe environment for children"""
2013-02-16,"Taking the Lead Against Corporate Excess, Swiss to Vote on 'Fat Cat' Pay: Proposal grants binding shareholder vote on CEO salaries, bans golden parachutes"
2013-02-16,Dwindling church attendance - German Catholic and Protestant Churches Sell Off Church Buildings 
2013-02-16,Model girlfriend fled to bathroom as Oscar Pistorius shot her through the door
2013-02-16,Canada's environmental activists seen as 'threat to national security' by Harper Government
2013-02-16,Russian nuclear bombers intercepted near Guam
2013-02-16,"Taxpayers' money keeps Japan's whaling fleet afloat: public funds subsidise Japan's whaling industry to the tune of $8.9 million, even though only 11 per cent of citizens support it"
2013-02-16,Why Did So Many Russian Drivers Get Such Great Meteor Videos?
2013-02-16,Japanese whalers harpooned a Minke in Australian waters
2013-02-16,Three men jailed in UK for deliberately causing a 'crash for cash' car wreck that led to a woman dying
2013-02-16,Russian parliament member says meteor was actually a U.S. weapons test
2013-02-16,"Prehistoric pornography: Chinese carvings show explicit copulation. - Its at least 3,000 years old, and its bi-curious."
2013-02-15,Possible meteor shower reported in eastern Russia
2013-02-15,Russia to ally with UN to address DPRK nuke issue
2013-02-15,100th Tibetan self-immolates in China
2013-02-15,"One-fifth of Russian city apartments have no hot water, one-tenth no plumbing or heating"
2013-02-15,"Islamists denounce Valentines Day as an excuse for forbidden sex, ban gift-buying in Indonesia"
2013-02-15,North Korea considering another nuclear test and missile launch this year
2013-02-15,A Russian Emergencies Official Says at Least 1 Meteorite Has Fallen in Chelyabinsk Region
2013-02-15,Australian scientists discover malaria's 'Achilles heel
2013-02-15,"A third of India's politicians currently have charges against them, ranging from forgery to rape to murder"
2013-02-15,Pictures from Carnival 2013!
2013-02-15,"An Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander has been killed inside Syria by rebels battling Iran's close ally President Bashar al-Assad, Iranian officials and a rebel leader said on Thursday ."
2013-02-15,"6-year-old raped, brutalized in New Delhi, India"
2013-02-15,Obama reaffirms commitments to defend Japan
2013-02-15,MP says jail is good for young Aboriginal people
2013-02-15,"Jos Genoino and Francisco Tenrio, respectively found guilty of bribery and under investigation for murder, have just become Congressmen. A third of Brazils lawmakers have either been convicted or are being investigated for crimes ranging from vote-buying to theft to slave-holding."
2013-02-15,"Chinese appetite for shark fin soup devastating Mozambique coastline: Mantas and hammerheads to 'disappear' from divers' paradise if plunder is unchecked
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2013-02-15,"Iraq war 'delivered little but bloodshed', say Britons in 10-year anniversary poll"
2013-02-15,"French meat processing company Spanghero sold meat labelled as beef despite knowing it could have been horsemeat, the French government has said.
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2013-02-15," In their hurry to flee last month, al-Qaida fighters left behind a crucial document: Tucked under a pile of papers and trash is a confidential letter, spelling out the terror network's strategy for conquering northern Mali and reflecting internal discord over how to rule the region."
2013-02-15,Meteor explodes in Russia
2013-02-15,Second case of Sars-like virus in Britain indicates human-to-human infection
2013-02-15,"Tunisia: ""Trade unions, representing about 30 percent of the labour force, have been protesting against the ruling Ennahada party."""
2013-02-15,Inside the Vatican: The $8 billion global institution where nuns answer the phones
2013-02-15,"Burma police used incendiary weapons against mine protesters, report says. Shells containing white phosphorus were used to disperse Letpadaung protesters, causing burns, investigation finds"
2013-02-15,Huge Meteorite Impact in Russia! Striking Amateur Footage. 
2013-02-14,"Totally drug-resistant TB uncovered, outbreak would be untreatable"
2013-02-14,Its Official: Julian Assange Will Run for Office
2013-02-14,Oscar Pistorius (South African double-amputee Olympian) shoots and kills girlfriend after mistaking her for an intruder
2013-02-14,Iceland considering ban of online pornography
2013-02-14,A man burns himself to death outside a job centre in France after being declared ineligible for unemployment benefit
2013-02-14,"Canada will never be a safe haven for zombies, Foreign Minister John Baird tells House of Commons"
2013-02-14,South Korea unveils missile it says can hit North's leaders
2013-02-14,Egypt floods Gaza tunnels to cut Palestinian lifeline
2013-02-14,"Three people have been arrested in the US and accused of conspiring to smuggle endangered black rhino horns and carvings from the US into China.

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2013-02-14,"Horsemeat Scandal: Up to 100.000 horses disappeared in Sweden since 2000, possibly sold as meat in EU"
2013-02-14,"Israel's Prisoner X driven to suicide by interrogation, lawyer suggests"
2013-02-14,"
How the Latin American Drug War Will End: When change comes, it will be brought about by grassroots civil society organizing in the U.S. and in Mexico"
2013-02-14,Russia Uses New Internet Censorship Bill To Silence Prominent Reporters Who Criticized The Government
2013-02-14,"Egypt's women brandish knives at sex assault protests. One hard-line cleric, Mohammed Abdullah, said women who go to protests ""were going there to get raped"""
2013-02-14,Israel acknowledges 'Prisoner X' existence 
2013-02-14,The Swiss-held version of the Mona Lisa is also a genuine painting by Leonardo da Vinci
2013-02-14,"Norway jails Rwandan for 21 years over role in 1994 genocid  -  Oslo court finds Sadi Bugingo guilty of complicity in premeditated killings of at least 2,000 people in Kibungo, eastern Rwanda"
2013-02-14,Up to 200 smuggling tunnels shut since Egyptian President Morsi took office; some 30% of all goods reach Gaza through tunnels.
2013-02-14,French driver trapped for an hour in speeding 125mph car with no brakes
2013-02-14,Pakistani extremists rally against the evils of Valentines Day
2013-02-14,Australia blocks North Koreans' visit over nuclear test
2013-02-14,"Horsemeat has been detected in frozen lasagne on sale in Germany and supermarkets have started removing the product from their shelves.
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2013-02-14,"Microsoft brings solar Wi-Fi to rural Kenya - The pilot project  named Mawingu, the Swahili word for ""cloud""  is part of an initiative by Microsoft and local telecoms firms to provide affordable, high-speed wireless broadband to rural areas"
2013-02-14,Murdoch's Sun paper now caught up in NOTW-like hacking scandal. 
2013-02-14,Gazan farmers attend Israeli conference aimed at supporting Gaza's agricultural sector
2013-02-13,"The European Union and the US will begin formal talks on a free-trade agreement, paving the way for the biggest trade deal in history. "
2013-02-13,"'He will stay in prison for a long time': Saudi royal family intervenes in case of 'celebrity' preacher released after paying blood money despite raping and torturing daughter to death
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2013-02-13,"Russian cop faces 5 years in jail after leaving disabled man to die on street in -40C: After losing his fingers as a result of twelve hours spent in subzero temperatures, a disabled man has died from a blood clot in a Russian hospital"
2013-02-13,French Assembly Approves Gay Marriage.
2013-02-13,"North Korea Nuclear Test: Japan, South Korea Ready Armies Following Provocation"
2013-02-13,Google Maps reveals identity of North Korean test facilty
2013-02-13,Fiance kidnaps his bride from a mental clinic after she's been put in there on a false accusation by her relatives (translated article)
2013-02-13,China bans television ads for bling to douse growing frustration in wealth disparity
2013-02-13,Could the Middle East run out of water? New NASA images warn of water shortage
2013-02-13,Roof collapses at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant: Wall panels and parts of the roof fell in on Tuesday in the machine-hall at the plant's Reactor Number Four. No-one was hurt in the incident and the radiation level in the so-called exclusion zone around the plant has not changed
2013-02-13,"Afghan military helicopter pilot flies missions with her daughter, as she has no childcare."
2013-02-13,G20 commissioned study by OECD urges stronger international co-operation on corporate tax.  Finds that some multinationals use strategies that allow them to pay as little as 5% in corporate taxes when smaller businesses are paying up to 30%. 
2013-02-13,Iranian ambassador's high-five with a German woman lawmaker causes uproar in Iran.
2013-02-13,"A NATO airstrike killed 10 Afghan civilians, including five children, in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, local officials said"
2013-02-13,Vatican reveals pope had secret heart surgery
2013-02-13,Egypt: Hundreds of Police Stage Rare Protests
2013-02-13,Health officials in the UK believe they have the strongest evidence yet that a new respiratory illness similar to the deadly Sars virus can spread from person to person.
2013-02-13,Britain summons North Korea ambassador over nuclear test
2013-02-13,Strange Shiny Object On Mars Identified
2013-02-13,Australian Dairy farmers face ruin amid supermarket milk war
2013-02-13,"Syrian air base falls, Assad forces under pressure"
2013-02-13,Israel's Prisoner X revealed 
2013-02-13,"NATO airstrike kills 10 civilians, Afghan official says
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2013-02-13,"French Assembly passes gay marriage, adoption bill"
2013-02-13,"Devastating collection of video interviews with young children inside Syria. Little kids in Syria describe, in their own words, what it's like to grow up in a war zone."
2013-02-12,"Iran urges to destroy all atomic weapons after N.Korea nuclear test: ""We need to come to the point where no country has any nuclear weapons and at the same time all weapons of mass destruction and nuclear arms need to be destroyed"""
2013-02-12,China's patience with North Korea wears thin after latest nuclear test
2013-02-12,"China's New Bachelor Class ""An estimated 12 to 15 percent of Chinese men -- a population nearly the size of Texas -- will be unable to find a mate within the next seven years."""
2013-02-12,"4.9 earthquake detected in North Korea, indicates possible nuclear blast."
2013-02-12,"In surprise move, IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympic program "
2013-02-12,"North Korea tells U.N. will never bow to nuclear resolutions: ""The U.S. and their followers are sadly mistaken if they miscalculate the DPRK would respect the entirely unreasonable resolutions against it. The DPRK will never bow to any resolutions"""
2013-02-12,The same international body that enacted a 1990 global ivory ban allowed China in 2008 to import ivory. This catastrophic reversal can be counted in carcasses  elephant and human. 
2013-02-12,"Healthy Vancouver senior commits suicide in bid to change right-to-die law: 'I do not have a terminal illness; I am simply old, tired and becoming dependent, after a wonderful life of independence'"
2013-02-12,Iran's 'fake' fighter jet which experts say can't fly is spotted in the air (with a little help from Photoshop).
2013-02-12,"Chinese Hackers Are Going After U.S. in General, Not Just Media Companies"
2013-02-12,"North Korea: Nuke test just a ""first response"" aimed at U.S."
2013-02-12,"North Korea earthquake was a nuclear test, UN official says: UN Confirms nuclear test in North Korea"
2013-02-12,Police hunting serial rapist dont know whom to charge after DNA leads to arrest of identical twins
2013-02-12,"Pope's Sudden Resignation Sends Shockwaves Through Church: ""Church officials tried to relay a climate of calm confidence in the running of a 2,000-year-old institution, but the decision could lead to uncertainty in a Church already besieged by scandal for covering up sexual abuse"""
2013-02-12,"Australia's ABC exposes the mystery of Prisoner X, an Australian Jew working for Mossad who killed himself in Israeli Prison."
2013-02-12,"Obama to announce return of 34,000 troops from Afghanistan
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2013-02-12,Government killing online surveillance bill
2013-02-12,"A multibillion-dollar expansion of the Panama Canal is proving a boon to scientists. The construction has revealed a trove of fossils, revealing a wide array of creatures that lived at the southern end of North America 20 millions years ago."
2013-02-12,Japan to send planes to monitor radiation after N Korea test 
2013-02-12,North Korea withdraws from nuclear test site: Report
2013-02-12,"Olympic Committee Drops Wrestling From 2020 Games
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2013-02-12,Coca-Cola rejects findings that its product was the most likely cause of the death of a New Zealand woman.
2013-02-12,"Not only has Putin made Russia the worlds largest oil producer, hes also made it the biggest gold buyer. His central bank has added 570 metric tons of the metal in the past decade. The added gold is also almost triple the weight of the Statue of Liberty"
2013-02-12,"'Tories no longer party of privilege', claims David Cameron at 400-a-head champagne ball"
2013-02-12,Non-muslim teachers at Islamic College forced to wear hijab or lose their jobs
2013-02-11,"Pope Pope Benedict XVI 'to resign'. The Pope is to resign at the end of this month in an entirely unexpected development, reports from the Vatican say."
2013-02-11,"To get the gold, they will have to kill every one of us - The most-storied warrior tribe in Ecuador prepares to fight as the government sells gold-laden land to China"
2013-02-11,"
Leaked Documents Reveal Gas Company Eyeing Protected Region in Peruvian Amazon Where Biodiversity ""Exceeds That of Any Other Place on Earth"" & is Home to  Indigenous People Who Have No Regular Contact With the Outside World"
2013-02-11,"China tightens concert rules after Elton John's 'disrespectful' Beijing show. Officials considered banning foreign artists without university degrees, after singer dedicated song to Ai Weiwei, say sources"
2013-02-11,"""Unfortunately, we live in an age where any no-brains that brandishes a gun and screams 'God is great' thinks he's speaking for Islam, when he is merely just a hoodlum with a gun."""
2013-02-11,An asteroid is going to fly by Earth on Feb.15. This is going to be the closest an asteroid has come to Earth without hitting it.
2013-02-11,Wind power capacity grew 20% globally in 2012
2013-02-11,Farmers use of genetically modified soybeans grows into Supreme Court case
2013-02-11,"Fascism mounts a comeback in Italy. As Italy prepares for elections, Mussolini, the father of Fascism, is casting a long shadow. "
2013-02-11,Outrage After Job Center Suggests Brothel Job for Young Woman in Germany
2013-02-11,"Afghan boy, 13, jailed for having sex with men"
2013-02-11,"Microsoft, Apple (and others) summonsed to explain high prices in Australia"
2013-02-11,"An energy company is eyeing up the gas reserves of a national park in the Peruvian Amazon whose biodiversity Unesco says ""exceeds that of any other place on Earth"" and is home to indigenous people who have no regular contact with the outside world"
2013-02-11,"Israeli police detained 10 women at one of Judaism's most sacred sites for wearing prayer shawls, which Orthodox tradition sees as solely for men"
2013-02-11,"Attackers in northern Nigeria killed three Korean doctors, beheading one of them, two days after suspected Islamic fundamentalists shot dead nine polio vaccinators nearby"
2013-02-11,"Islamic extremists armed with AK-47 automatic rifles invaded Gao in wooden boats in a surprise attack on the most populous city in northern Mali: ""Gao is becoming like Pakistan"""
2013-02-11,"After 2 months absent, still no sign of Chavez:  Two months have passed since Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez climbed the stairs of the presidential jet, blew kisses to his supporters and flew to Cuba to undergo his fourth cancer-related surgery."
2013-02-11,Nigerian prostitutes promise week of free sex if Nigeria win Africa Cup of Nations
2013-02-11,"To curb poaching menace, India is considering issuing ""shoot-at-sight"" orders."
2013-02-11,"Anti-gay, religious group gets funds from the Canadian government to work in Uganda"
2013-02-11,"Two people in southwest China have tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu virus and are critically ill, state news agency Xinhua said on Sunday, citing the Chinese health ministry."
2013-02-11,"China has leapfrogged the US to become the worlds biggest trading nation, bringing an end to the USs post-war dominance of global commerce.  "
2013-02-11,"Over the Antarctic, the Smallest Ozone Hole In a Decade "
2013-02-11,"The pilgrims came, millions upon millions of them, in the greatest tide of humanity ever seen. Again and again, the vast crowds threatened to press too close, to trample the smallest. Then it happened ...
As many as 30 people were killed"
2013-02-11,Pope Benedict XVI to resign feb 28
2013-02-10,"Aldi confirms up to 100% horsemeat in beef products:  Supermarket says it is angry with supplier Comigel after tests reveal 30% and 100% horsemeat in withdrawn ready meals
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2013-02-10,British sugar giant caught in global tax scandal 
2013-02-10,"
Muslim fundamentalists use British television channels to preach in favour of violent crime and killing apostates. "
2013-02-10,Thousands protest in Ireland against bank bailouts
2013-02-10,Curiosity Mars rover takes historic drill sample
2013-02-10,China Passes U.S. to Become Worlds Biggest Trading Nation
2013-02-10,Russian opposition leader put under house arrest
2013-02-10,Thousands more people will have to pay inheritance tax to help fund long-awaited social care reforms in England
2013-02-10,"Chinese table-tennis player with key role in diplomacy leading to thaw in US-China relations in the 1970s, has died aged 73."
2013-02-10,"Spanish leader teeters under corruption scandal:  Strapped for cash, Spaniards seethe over allegations of kickbacks to high-ranking Spanish officials, including Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.
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2013-02-10,Attack in Nigeria is latest onslaught targeting health workers by radical Islamic sect
2013-02-10,"Tunisian Islamists rally to show power of street:  Thousands of Islamists marched in Tunis on Saturday in a show of strength, a day after the funeral of an assassinated secular politician drew the biggest crowds seen on the streets since Tunisia's uprising two years ago."
2013-02-10,South Sudan attack leaves more than 100 dead
2013-02-10,Sexual abuse victim's suicide sparks call for review of court procedures | UK news
2013-02-10,An arachnophobe's worst nightmare? Its 'raining spiders' in Brazil
2013-02-10,Mali War Shifts as Rebels Hide in High Sahara
2013-02-10,Pro-N. Korean activist gets jail term for illegal trip to Pyongyang
2013-02-10,South Korean doctors killed in north-eastern Nigeria
2013-02-10,Kosovo to get an army in June
2013-02-10,Dutch Put Electric Cars to the Test - NYTimes.com
2013-02-10,Horse meat scandal: How horses slaughtered in Romania end up on British plates
2013-02-10,"IMF sees 140m jobs shortage in ageing China as 'Lewis Point' hits
Chinas vast reserve of cheap workers in the hinterland is vanishing
at a vertiginous pace."
2013-02-10,Peculiar 900-year-old Order of the Knights of Malta celebrates anniversary with Vatican mass
2013-02-10,"N. Korea says world mistakenly interprets its ""important measures"" as nuclear test"
2013-02-10,"BBC news ""Huge Bangladesh rally seeks death penalty for war crimes"""
2013-02-09,Mathematician discovers 17-million digit prime number:  'No practical use' 
2013-02-09,"India judge defends acquitting 35 accused in  gangrape case: ""There was ample evidence to show the girl was used for child prostitution, which is not rape"""
2013-02-09,The British Queen is facing a tough inquiry into her finances and expenses by the most powerful watchdog in government
2013-02-09,"Inside A Secret CIA Prison In The Polish Countryside: Documents reveal how American intelligence officers turned a secret training center for Polish security forces into one of the controversial ""black site"" prisons for terrorism suspects"
2013-02-09,There's a reason Egyptians keep taking to the streets: The Muslim Brotherhood has proved to be little more than the old Mubarak clique with beards
2013-02-09,"11,000 Elephants Slaughtered in African Forest"
2013-02-09,"German Education Minister Annette Schavan has resigned after a university stripped her of her doctorate for plagiarism.
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2013-02-09,Polio workers in Nigeria shot dead:  At least nine health workers gunned down in northern city of Kano amid increasing hostility towards polio immunisation drive
2013-02-09,South Korea says it will launch a pre-emptive strike against Pyongyang if they moves to test a nuclear weapon
2013-02-09,"Papua New Guinea woman burned alive for sorcery: ""She was stripped naked, tortured with a branding iron and tied up, splashed with fuel and set alight, while a crowd that included school children looked on"""
2013-02-09,Cold War in Asia: Japan suggests setting up a military hotline with China to avoid clashes between the two countries
2013-02-09,Iran's president defies supreme leader to safeguard his future
2013-02-09,"Mob strips, tortures, and burns alive woman accused of witchcraft in Papua New Guinea 
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2013-02-09, China will compensate a woman who was held in a disused morgue as punishment for going to Beijing to petition against her husband's jailing
2013-02-09,"Malala, Pakistani teen shot by Taliban, leaves hospital after stunning recovery"
2013-02-09,"Suicide bomber in north Mali manages to kill 1 person, himself. "
2013-02-09,"Japan demanded a formal apology from China yesterday for a ""one-sided provocation"" after its navy targetted a Japanese destroyer patrolling the disputed Senkaku Islands with weapons-linked radars. "
2013-02-09,"Horse meat crisis widens
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2013-02-09,Syria: Children in Aleppo suffer horrific injuries as Assad forces target civilians
2013-02-09,"A judge in Chile has ordered the exhumation of the remains of the poet Pablo Neruda, as part of an inquest into his death in 1973.
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2013-02-09,"Oil-rich, velvet-rope-poor Azerbaijan, a country about the size of South Carolina on the Caspian Sea, would very much like to be the worlds next party capital"
2013-02-09,Guatemala declares national coffee emergency
2013-02-09,Woman defaces famous Louvre painting with black pen
2013-02-09,Delhi parliament attack plotter hanged
2013-02-09,Huge Bangladesh rally seeks death penalty for Islamists
2013-02-08,"An Egyptian Salafi preacher said raping and sexually harassing women protesters in Cairos Tahrir Square is justified, calling them crusaders who have no shame, no fear and not even feminism."
2013-02-08,Australian children are to be banned from blowing out candles on communal birthday cakes under new hygiene regulations
2013-02-08,35 ancient pyramids discovered in Sudan
2013-02-08,A Somali court has sentenced a woman to a year in prison after she accused security forces of raping her.
2013-02-08,"Woman vandalizes famous Louvre painting ""Liberty Leading the People"" by Delacroix"
2013-02-08,"The drone war is a shadow war, widely reported in the media but officially unacknowledged by the CIA and the White House. no one knows precisely how many casualties our shadow war has caused, but media and NGO reports suggest that the number of deaths is somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000."
2013-02-08,Aviation experts say new Iranian stealth jet is a pathetic hoax that cant even fly
2013-02-08,Police defuse bomb in Madrid cathedral
2013-02-08,All dogs will now have to be microchipped in England
2013-02-08,"Spain Offers Citizenship to Descendants of Jews Forced Out During the Inquisition
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2013-02-08,"The brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on Saturday have led to an outpouring of anger among South Africans, frustrated with a national epidemic of sexual violence."
2013-02-08,Personal finance education to be compulsory across England
2013-02-08,"UN says bribe payments soar in Afghanistan - Survey found that $3.9bn, twice the nation's domestic revenue, was paid in bribes in 2012."
2013-02-08,Child-free seats on AirAsia for just 25 extra
2013-02-08,Vermont Maple Sugar Candy Producer implicated in Canadian $20-million maple syrup heist from Quebec warehouse
2013-02-08,Born In An Iranian Prison -- And Into A Lifetime Of Consequences
2013-02-08,Back in the USSR? Key Soviet document that proclaimed the death of the Soviet Union is missing
2013-02-08,Blunt Words on China from U.S. Navy
2013-02-08,"Suicide bomber blows himself up near Mali soldiers
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2013-02-08,Turkey tells US envoy to stop meddling in its affairs
2013-02-08,35 pyramids discovered in a Sudan Necropolis
2013-02-08,"Derision, bafflement over Egypt prime ministers remark on unhygienic breasts causing diarrhea"
2013-02-08,A Sri Lankan prisoner who tried to hide his cellphone during a search of his cell was caught out when guards heard a ring tone emanating from his rectum - complete with x-ray image.
2013-02-08,"Gunmen Kill 9 in Attacks on Nigerian Polio Clinics - Attacks come after  local cleric denounced polio vaccination campaigns & local radio programs repeated previous conspiracy theories about such campaigns being a Western plot to harm Muslims.
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2013-02-08,"Overwhelmed by a critical housing crisis, Hong Kongs poorest residents forced to live in metal cages"
2013-02-07,Dad must pay child support for 3 kids that aren't his: Court rules | Canada 
2013-02-07,Japan says scrambled jets after Russian intrusion into air space
2013-02-07,A small hole for Mars a giant hole for mankind: Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has turned its drill in rock for the first time
2013-02-07,9 year old gives birth
2013-02-07,"Two Russian fighter jets have violated Japanese airspace, prompting Tokyo to scramble its own aircraft, reports say.
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2013-02-07,Child Sexual Abuse Rampant and Untreated in India while even Police refuse to help- in one case they jailed a young girl for 12 days because she claimed she was raped
2013-02-07,Anti-snow chemicals used in Moscow take 1.3bn years to dissolve
2013-02-07,"In Yemen, drone strikes are causing a spike in support for al Qaeda, ""because such a move is seen as the only way to retaliate against the United States."""
2013-02-07,Filipino Faces Jail Time for Offending Religious Feelings
2013-02-07,Colombia's Farc proposes legal coca and marijuana crops as part of land reform in the country.
2013-02-07,"Swiss consul's wife hits couple on bike and escapes, gets caught because eye witnesses note license plate"
2013-02-07,"Over the past year a New Zealander named Roger Shepherd has had almost unprecedented access to North Korea. He has spent nearly three months in the country over four visits, and was allowed, even encouraged, to travel far and wide into the remotest corners of the country."
2013-02-07,"South African girl's gang-rape and murder triggers political outrage  -  Attack on Anene Booysen likened to Delhi bus case, but similar protests unlikely in country where rape has become normalised"
2013-02-07,Doctor shocked by rape victim's injuries
2013-02-07,"Australian Wind Energy Now Cheaper Than Coal, Gas, BNEF Says"
2013-02-07,"The oldest known living wild bird in the world, a 62-year-old albatross, Wisdom,, has given birth to a healthy hatchling. "
2013-02-07,Three Canadians invent worlds most energy efficient light bulb
2013-02-07,20 yr old woman burned alive for 'sorcery' in PNG  -  police attempting to help her chased away by the mob
2013-02-07,Irans supreme leader rejects Joe Bidens offer of direct talks
2013-02-07,35 Ancient Pyramids Found in Sudan
2013-02-07,"France is on the hunt for would-be Islamist fighters at home, fearful that they will join militants in Mali"
2013-02-07,High hopes: Why science is seeking a pardon for psychedelics 
2013-02-07,"Poachers kill 11,000 Gabon elephants in under a decade: The African country is home to half the world's 100,000 forest elephants, coveted by ivory dealers for their tusks"
2013-02-07,"Iran to manufacture drones for Hezbollah: ""Irans drones are highly demanded by different countries, and we have transferred the assembly line to these countries"""
2013-02-07,"Forty Winks on a slow train in China: an AFP stringer finds himself on a 36-hour train trip during Chinese New Year, the biggest annual human migration"
2013-02-06,"Canada officially eliminates the penny, 35 billion pennies (82M kg/ 180M pounds) will be collected and melted down. Transactions will be rounded to the nearest $0.05"
2013-02-06,"Thousands of Mali's ancient manuscripts were saved from the fires of radical Islamists by an illiterate 72-year-old librarian who stuffed them into millet bags and smuggled them by cart, motorcycle, canoe, then car to the capital, Bamako, on the other side of the country."
2013-02-06,UK Parliament votes in favour of Gay Marriage.
2013-02-06,Family decides to smoke on plane forcing pilot to do an emergency landing. Family now being sued by airline for landing fees and hotel accommodations for all the other passengers. 
2013-02-06,PM's daughter blows whistle on 54 nations that helped US secret detention programme.
2013-02-06,North Korea propaganda taken off YouTube after Activision complaint
2013-02-06,Magnitude 8.0 - near Santa Cruz Island
2013-02-06,"China's state-run newspaper: ""If North Korea insists on a third nuclear test despite attempts to dissuade it, it must pay a heavy price"""
2013-02-06,"Catholic Church enslaved 30,000 Irish women as forced unpaid labor in Magdalene Laundries until 1996"
2013-02-06,"(Reuters) - China unveiled sweeping tax reforms on Tuesday to make wealthy state-owned firms, property speculators and the rich pay more to narrow a yawning gap between an urban elite and hundreds of millions of rural poor."
2013-02-06,"Somali court sentenced a woman to a year in prison after she accused security forces of raping her, and a journalist who interviewed her was also sentenced"
2013-02-06,"Malaysian airline launches 'quiet zones' on flights, where children under the age of 12 are not permitted to sit"
2013-02-06,"Ahmadinejad: Iran already a nuclear state, but has no intention of launching attack on Israel"
2013-02-06,"Six Spanish tourists were raped by a gang of armed, masked men in the Mexican resort of Acapulco. They tied up the six men with phone cords and bathing suit straps and then raped the six Spanish women. The Mexican woman was not raped."
2013-02-06,French troops killed 'hundreds' of Islamist fighters in Mali
2013-02-06,8.0M Solomons quake triggers tsunami warning
2013-02-06,Danish Islam critic escapes assassination attempt
2013-02-06,"Apple slugged in Australia by new tax laws after a 5.5 billion dollar tax discrepancy - ""the cloak of invisibility is no longer acceptable"""
2013-02-06,Gay marriage legislation passes in England and Wales
2013-02-06,"BBC News - CIA operating drone base in Saudi Arabia, US media reveal"
2013-02-06,"Brazil to Scrap All Taxes On Food, President Dilma Rousseff announced"
2013-02-06,Fears in Germany as Neo-Nazi's move in from Greece 
2013-02-06,4 arrested in Egypt after shoe thrown at Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
2013-02-06,Someone Threw a Shoe at Ahmadinejad on His Not-So-Good Trip to Cairo
2013-02-06,"The assassination of the Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid has sparked mass protests in the capital, Tunis, and in several cities across the country - Live Updates"
2013-02-05,"North Korea, poised to conduct a nuclear test any day now, has posted a video on YouTube depicting a US city resembling New York engulfed in flames after an apparent missile attack."
2013-02-05,Woman in Bolivia has been building homes for the poor out of plastic bottles. These things are amazing.
2013-02-05,China threatens Japanese warship with guided missiles over island dispute
2013-02-05,North Korea dreams of the future for One Korea and the USA
2013-02-05,Japanese Whaling 'Dead in the Water' Without Millions in Subsidies: Animal watchdog reveals 'warehouses of whale meat' as demand plummets
2013-02-05,"Gunman fires at Danish anti-Islam writer, misses"
2013-02-05,Greek police caught photoshopping suspects' mugshots after beating them
2013-02-05,"I will not forget my childrens blood: Aleppos female sniper vows to take her revenge -- Her fame has spread throughout Aleppo. Her comrades have nicknamed her Guevara, but to many residents she is known simply as the female sniper."
2013-02-05,"Singing is un-Islamic, says Grand Mufti to Kashmir's first all-girl rock band"
2013-02-05,Somali journalist sentenced for reporting on rape
2013-02-05,A suicide bombing that killed five Israelis and a bus driver in Bulgaria was the work of Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group
2013-02-05,"Falklands will be under our control within 20 years, says Argentina "
2013-02-05,Denmark shooting: Gunman targets Islam critic Hedegaard
2013-02-05,"CIA rendition: more than a quarter of countries 'offered covert support'. Report finds at least 54 countries co-operated with global kidnap, detention and torture operation mounted after 9/11 attacks
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2013-02-05,Israels Education Ministry has rejected the findings of a study funded by the U.S. State Department that determined that Palestinian textbooks rarely demonize Israel or incite hatred against the Jewish people
2013-02-05,"1,800 soldiers from Chad have entered Kidal, the last major town in northern Mali under Islamic rebel control"
2013-02-05,"Report due on Magdalene laundries: 'Over the 74 years, thousands of women were put to work in detention, mostly in industrial for-profit laundries run by nuns. Each woman had her Christian name changed, her surname unused and most have since died.'
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2013-02-05,"Bangladesh war crimes court jails Islamic party leader for life: Guilty on five of six charges, including mass murder and rape "
2013-02-05,Malis Islamist Sharia Enforcers Singled Out Women For Special Persecution
2013-02-05,Canada's penny heads into retirement
2013-02-05,"In Turkey, more than half of the navy's admirals are in jail, along with hundreds of generals and other officers, all on charges of plotting to oust Turkeys mildly Islamist Justice and Development government."
2013-02-05,Kashmirs first all-girl rock band breaks up after one concert because of threats including a fatwa from the government's cleric
2013-02-05,Iran's New 'Super' Stealth Fighter Jet Is Totally Fake
2013-02-05,"Israels Gatekeepers break their silence
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2013-02-05,"She put the photos online, but can this womans bruises keep Chinas wives safe from domestic abuse? - Asia - World"
2013-02-04,"The remains of Richard III, one of the most famous figures in English history, has been found."
2013-02-04,"Women in Paris are finally allowed to wear trousers, after a 200 year law forbidding them to do so was revoked!"
2013-02-04,"In rush to urbanize, China flattens 700 mountains
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2013-02-04,Ahmadinejad says he wants to be Irans first astronaut
2013-02-04,"Match fixing in European Soccer: Investigators identify 380 fixed football matches, 425 corrupt officials and players. Including Champions League matches."
2013-02-04,Yemen confirmed on Saturday that a ship intercepted last month off its coast was an Iranian vessel trying to smuggle explosives and surface-to-air missiles to the country
2013-02-04,"To curb rape, Muslim group calls for end to co-ed schools in India"
2013-02-04,Windfarms in Spain Produce More Electricity Than Any Other  Source for 1st Time - Wind energy exceeded output from both nuclear & coal-fired power stations & represents over a quarter of Spain's total power generation
2013-02-04,North Korea 'preparing for two nuclear tests' 
2013-02-04,"
The growing wealth gap is unsustainable: The ever-increasing many who are struggling cannot support a structure that favours a tiny number of the very rich
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2013-02-04,China's thick smog arrives in Japan
2013-02-04,Fidel Castro makes first public appearance in three years
2013-02-04,"The Monkey Uprising Has Begun in Saudi Arabia
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2013-02-04,"Fayhan Al Ghamdi, Saudi Cleric, Reportedly Beats 5-Year-Old Daughter To Death, Receives Only Light Sentence"
2013-02-04,Google Doodle pays hommage to the Canadian penny. It is the last day that the penny will be in use
2013-02-04,Egyptian police target impoverished children - A fourteen year-old bone cancer patient in police custody is being refused chemotherapy treatment amid a rise in disappearances and arrests of minors.
2013-02-04,"Iran's former central bank chief caught entering Germany with a check worth $70 million, drawn on a bank in Venezuela. "
2013-02-04,Kuwait jails youth for five years for insulting emir on Twitter.
2013-02-04,Ecuadorian judges confess to taking bribes in Chevron suit
2013-02-04,"More in France Are Turning to Islam, Challenging a Nations Idea of Itself
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2013-02-04,"Skeleton found in Leicester car park is that of Richard III, the last Plantagenet king"
2013-02-04,"Thousands More Birds Expected to Wash Up on Britains Shores in ""Enormous Eco Crime"" - 
Pressure mounts to find the ship that dumped  oil into the sea."
2013-02-04,Supplier of halal meat containing pork DNA is named
2013-02-04,Investigation Finds Suspected Fixing in 680 Soccer Matches: At least 425 people from more than 15 countries are suspected of conspiring to fix matches on behalf of Asian criminal syndicates...
2013-02-04,Family of smokers on airplane forces costly diversion
2013-02-03,"Saudi preacher gets off light for raping, killing daughter"
2013-02-03,New Saudi fatwah - baby girls must be veiled to stop sexual assault
2013-02-03,The Nordic countries are probably the best-governed in the world
2013-02-03,"
After 30 years, is a GM food breakthrough finally here? Golden rice, a new strain that boosts vitamin A levels and reduces blindness in developing countries, is about to be sown in the Philippines
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2013-02-03,The saving of Timbuktus priceless manuscripts owes everything to the bravery of an unlikely group  librarians.
2013-02-03,"German Left Party calls for a 100 percent tax on any income over 500,000 in their general election campaign"
2013-02-03,"Time Running out to Save Elephants from Ivory Trade:  The new wave of killing of elephants in Africa is in many ways far graver than the crisis of the 1970s and 80s. Firstly there are fewer elephants, and secondly the demand for ivory is far higher. "
2013-02-03,"A Saudi preacher who raped his five-year-old daughter and tortured her to death has been sentenced to pay ""blood money"" to the mother after having served a short jail term"
2013-02-03,Germany busts Iranian man arriving on a flight from Turkey with $70M
2013-02-03,Sweden's immigration Minister: immigrant 'volumes' too high.
2013-02-03,"Self-Immolations by Tibetans Approach 100, Some Are Asking if It Is Worth It: There was a self-immolation in Tunisia which was labeled the catalyst for the Arab Spring. And how come we have been given less support than what we witnessed in the Arab world?"
2013-02-03,"Egypt ""bodyguards"" take stand against sex assault; Amid a growing number of brutal attacks on women protesters in Egypt, one stood out: A mob of men on Cairo's Tahrir Square raped a 19-year-old woman with a sharp object, cutting her genitals in an attack that forced her to undergo emergency surgery."
2013-02-03,"Eastern Syrian town lives under al Qaeda rules. 'They took control of the nearby al-Ward oil and gas field and also went straight for the grain silos. They control the resources, which gives them power'"
2013-02-03,17 year old daughter of Indian Farmer nominated for Science Award - Making Salt out of coconut palm petiole
2013-02-03,Minister: Iceland refused to help FBI on WikiLeaks
2013-02-03,Woman who had acid thrown in her face by woman wearing Muslim Veil recalls ordeal
2013-02-03,"Almost 100 Self-Immolations, yet No International Media Spotlight"
2013-02-03,Maldives girl whose stepfather reportedly raped her charged with fornication
2013-02-03,"Iran says it will resume nuclear talks in Kazakhstan
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2013-02-03,The inventor of the Etch A Sketch died in France today
2013-02-03,President Assad accuses Israel of destabilising Syria
2013-02-03,Hollande mobbed by grateful Timbutuku residents
2013-02-03,6.9-magnitude earthquake hits northern Japan
2013-02-03,Thief helps Paris police snare 'Corsican gangster' - A man alleged to be one of Corsica's most notorious gangsters was behind bars after being arrested by chance thanks to a thief plying his trade on one of the poshest streets in Paris.
2013-02-03,Ahmadinejad unveils Irans newest fighter jet that militant officials claim can evade radar
2013-02-02,London woman left disfigured by shocking random acid attack by mystery woman in niqab as she walked home from work at Victoria's Secret 
2013-02-02,French General Assembly votes to make same-sex marriage legal
2013-02-02,"After 8 days of protests that killed nearly 60 people, a video of one demonstrator stripped naked, dragged across the ground and beaten with truncheons by helmeted riot police has fired Egyptians to a new level of outrage."
2013-02-02,Ghana: Gays have rights and I will protect them - Oye Lithur
2013-02-02,"Iceland refused to help FBI on WikiLeaks. Minister says, ""I demanded that Icelandic police cease all cooperation (with FBI) and made it clear that people interviewed or interrogated in Iceland should be interrogated by Icelandic police."""
2013-02-02,Egypt President Morsi aide claims Holocaust was US hoax and 6m 'dead' Jews simply moved to America  | Mail Online
2013-02-02,"Egyptians work to reclaim a Tahrir tainted by sexual assault:  

Tahrir square has become a terrifying place for women as sexual assault becomes more common and violent. Fed up, civilians are making it their job to prevent it and rescue women from attacks."
2013-02-02,"Missing Irish millionaire found after eight months with ""thief"" reportedly carved into his forehead"
2013-02-02,'Traces of pork DNA' found in Halal prison meat
2013-02-02,"Russian judge fired after falling asleep in court, then giving defendant a 5-year sentence"
2013-02-02,Greeces neo-fascists are on the rise... and now theyre going into schools: How Golden Dawn is nurturing the next generation 
2013-02-02,"Stalingrad gets its name back for a day:  The Russian city of Volgograd has approved the use of its wartime name for one day, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of the 200-day Battle of Stalingrad."
2013-02-02,British Gangs Use Flare Guns Now Because They Cant Find Real Ones
2013-02-02,10 Years later - Beheading of Daniel Pearl
2013-02-02,Children and the culture of pornography: 'Boys will ask you every day until you say yes'
2013-02-02,Here's What Your $97 Million Drug War in Central America Actually Bought
2013-02-02,"Court upholds Canada's medical marijuana laws: The ruling was a major disappointment to civil libertarians and advocates for HIV-AIDS patients, who had argued that it is virtually impossible to obtain the medical approval the law demands"
2013-02-02,Outlawed 'Argo' DVDs Are Selling By The Thousands In Iran
2013-02-02,"The plight of Cambodias garment workers:  Striking workers call on Wal-Mart to take responsibility after supplier skips country owing $200,000 in wages"
2013-02-02,Iran Rial Hits All-Time Dollar Low - Currency registering a more than 21% drop in   2 week span against US dollar.  Iran facing growing shortage of foreign cash because of international sanctions against its central bank & vital oil sector over its  nuclear program.
2013-02-02,"Deadly clashes in Cairo as Egyptians rally:  Thousands of demonstrators hit streets of Cairo, Port Said and Alexandria calling for President Morsi's resignation."
2013-02-02,Admitting you are a secularist can you killed in Pakistan
2013-02-02,"Toronto Grads Invent World's Most Energy-Efficient Light Bulb: ""The NanoLight, invented by three U of T [University of Toronto, Canada] graduates, uses only 12 watts of electricity yet generates the equivalent output of a 100-watt incandescent bulb."""
2013-02-02,IMF hits Argentina with first-ever censure of a country.
2013-02-02,Israel 'considering further air strikes on Syria'
2013-02-01,Recent pictures from war-ridden Damascus by Reuter's photographer Goran Tomasevic | The Atlantic
2013-02-01,Japanese whalers ordered out of Australian waters - ABC News
2013-02-01,"4 at Once: Volcano Quartet Erupts on Kamchatka - A unique show is taking place on Kamchatka these days: 4 separate but nearby volcanoes are erupting simultaneously on the Russian peninsula. A Moscow film crew has produced an awe-inspiring 360-degree video of the natural fireworks.

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2013-02-01,"Nunavut man who fired a semi-automatic rifle at five home intruders, killing three, has murder convictions overturned"
2013-02-01,"Explosion in front of U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Several people wounded"
2013-02-01,Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate WikiLeaks
2013-02-01,David Attenborough reveals his choice of successor: Professor Brian Cox
2013-02-01,18 year-old Jamaican born footballer Raheem Sterling uses new contract with Liverpool FC to pay for Jamaican kids to go to school.
2013-02-01,HRW: Worst year for human rights in Russia since the USSR collapsed
2013-02-01,"Syria: 420,000 people in Homs are in desperate need of humanitarian aid says UN"
2013-02-01,"Peak Oil solved, but climate will fry: BP report"
2013-02-01,"Mali Is Not a Stan: When it comes to covering Africa's latest conflict, it's suddenly amateur hour."
2013-02-01,The French are winning handily in Mali.
2013-02-01,"Mexico City 'Explosion' at Pemex, state oil giant."
2013-02-01,Prisoners in Brazilian jail get four days off their sentence for every book they read.
2013-02-01,Explosion outside USA embassy in Turkey
2013-02-01,Irish the forgotten white slaves says expert John Martin | Irish News | IrishCentral
2013-02-01,"UN calls on Israel to remove over 500,000 settlers"
2013-02-01,"Air Pollution in New Delhi Was Much Worse Than Beijing Thursday, But  Indian Government Is Not Acting."
2013-02-01,Syria Says It Has Right to Counterattack Israel
2013-02-01,A Russian judge who decided to spend his vacation  as a war correspondent in Syria was shot in the face
2013-02-01,UK sperm donors win the legal right to apply for regular contact with their biological children following a landmark High Court ruling.
2013-02-01,"A truck carrying fireworks has exploded on a highway in central China, causing part of a bridge to collapse. 26 people may have been killed."
2013-02-01,"14 killed, 100 injured in blast at Mexican state oil company offices in Mexico City"
2013-02-01,Pakistan bomb: 21 die in Hangu Shia suicide attack
2013-01-31,"Syrian state TV has confirmed that Israeli warplanes bombed a military research centre northwest of the capital, Damascus."
2013-01-31,S. Korea Measles Free in 2012 with 98% vaccination rate
2013-01-31,U.S. official confirms Israel behind attack on Syria-Lebanon border
2013-01-31,"Smog 'Airmageddon' Chokes China - All week in Beijing, in offices & homes, in lifts & shops, restaurants, taxis & buses, 1 topic dominates conversation -  foul air.  Walking out into streets is like plunging into a swirling soup. The pollution swathes the city, wreathing everything in grey. "
2013-01-31,Colombia plans to decriminalise ecstasy in a bid to battle the nation's rampant drug problems
2013-01-31,"Timbuktu Manuscripts Apparently Escaped Burning:   In contrast to horrific reports from Timbuktu earlier this week, an important library of medieval texts is still standing, and many manuscripts are thought to have survived the hasty retreat of Islamic militants "
2013-01-31,"A 15-year-old Icelandic girl has been granted the right to legally use the name given (Blaer), despite the opposition of authorities and Iceland's strict law on names. The decision overturns an earlier rejection by Icelandic authorities who declared it was not a proper feminine name.  "
2013-01-31,UN inquiry says Israel must end settlements 
2013-01-31,"""A 224-foot-long U.S. warship will have to be cut into smaller pieces to get it off a Philippine reef where it grounded two weeks ago, Navy officials . . . They said that's the only way to prevent further damage to the Tubbataha Reef, a Philippine national park and UNESCO World Heritage site"""
2013-01-31,Syria threatens to retaliate for Israeli airstrike -- Syria threatened Thursday to retaliate for an Israeli airstrike and its ally Iran said there will be repercussions for the Jewish state over the attack.
2013-01-31,"Myanmar police used white phosphorus, a munition normally reserved for warfare, to disperse protesters demonstrating against government efforts to relocate villagers."
2013-01-31,U.S. braces for North Korean nuclear test 'at any time'
2013-01-31,"Suspected Poacher Shot Dead on  Private Ranch After Fierce Gun Battle With Kenya Wildlife Service Rangers--4th killed this week--Hunt for 5 accomplices  is underway. Translators are in demand in courts to make Chinese & Vietnamese wildlife defendants intelligible to the English & Swahili speakers.
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2013-01-31,"Hackers in China Attacked The New York Times for Last 4 Months
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2013-01-31,"French forces enter last urban Islamist stronghold:   Days after capturing Gao and Timbuktu, French forces entered Kidal - the last northern Malian city under rebel control - encountering no resistance amid reports that Islamist fighters had already fled the city. "
2013-01-31,Swedish court convicts man for Hitler salute - The Local
2013-01-31,President Vladimir Putin hires Boys II Men for concert to promote fertility
2013-01-31,China to Boost Solar Power Goal 67% as Smog Envelops Beijing
2013-01-31,Will Syria Bleed Hezbollah Dry?
2013-01-31,Leading privacy expert Caspar Bowden has warned Europeans using US cloud services that their data could be snooped on.
2013-01-31,"Israeli fighter jets targeted a military research center near Damascus early on Wednesday morning, Syrian state news agency SANA said citing army officials."
2013-01-31,"Pakistan's secret service gave half a million Rupees (about $5,000)  to man who beheaded Indian soldier last month."
2013-01-31,Syrian state news agency says Israeli warplanes bombed military site near Damascus
2013-01-31,Syria Confirms Israeli Airstrike Outside Damascus
2013-01-31,"Many financial institutions and multinational organizations view speculating on food commodities as a dangerous game and a contributor to global hunger. Despite its bruised reputation, Deutsche Bank is leaping back into the business."
2013-01-30,France to deport radical Muslim clerics
2013-01-30,Julian Assange to run for a seat in the Australian Senate
2013-01-30,Senior British rabbi filmed telling alleged child abuse victim not to go to the police 
2013-01-30,S. Korea's space rocket launch apparently successful.  Becomes the 13th country to reach space from their own soil. | YONHAP NEWS
2013-01-30,"France to deport 'radical foreign imams' -  
France's interior minister says the move is part of a fight against ""global jihadism"". "
2013-01-30,"Most of Timbuktu's Ahmed Baba Institute's manuscripts saved, according to locals."
2013-01-30,Beijing cancels flights as pollution hits beyond index levels
2013-01-30,S. African billionaire to give away half his money 
2013-01-30,Payback time in Mali: Residents hunting down and beating suspected Islamist extremists in newly liberated town
2013-01-30,Dutch Court Rejects Most of Shell Spill Case - Judges  rejected most of a landmark case brought by Nigerian farmers against Royal Dutch Shell for poisoning their fish ponds & farmland with leaking pipelines.
2013-01-30,Israeli forces have attacked a target on the Syrian-Lebanese border: Reports of heavy presence of Israeli jets over Lebanon territory
2013-01-30,"Secretary-General of the United Nations says the situation in Syria is ""catastrophic"": ""I appeal to all sides, and particularly the Syrian government, to stop the killing... in the name of humanity, stop the killing, stop the violence"""
2013-01-30,Germany is marking the 80th anniversary of Adolf Hitler's rise to power with a solemn ceremony at a memorial site in what was the heart of Nazi Berlin.
2013-01-30,"Shamil Jeppie, the Timbuktu Manuscripts Project director at the University of Cape Town, said that more than 90% of the 300,000 manuscripts said to be in the region were safe."
2013-01-30,"A man is facing animal cruelty charges after 155 dead cats were found in an apartment in Windsor, Ont."
2013-01-30,Zimbabwe has just $217 in the bank
2013-01-30,"Russia Pulls Out of US Drugs Agreement - The decade-old drug control deal ""does not address today's realities & has exhausted its potential"".
It's seen by some as the latest sign of a deterioration in ties since President Putin's return to the Kremlin.  "
2013-01-30,An innovative college for homeless people in London is attracting hundreds of students
2013-01-30,British internet users' personal information on major 'cloud' storage services can be spied upon routinely by US authorities
2013-01-30,Egypt State on Brink of Collapse.
2013-01-30,"Chinese Love for Himalayan Viagra Causing Shortage From Over-Harvesting & Threatening Ecological Damage -  Worlds most expensive medicinal fungus is in serious decline. It's  a symbol of wealth & power in China, & as  its economy booms, the fungus is enjoying unprecedented popularity. "
2013-01-30,Gay chocolatiers forced out of remote Scottish village   -  driven out after suffering a decade of homophobic and anti-English abuse.
2013-01-30,"Mexico raids alleged sex slavery cult on border, detains 14 foreigners, including 6 Spaniards"
2013-01-30,Family finds pet tortoise that was missing for 30 years as they clean out dead father's storeroom
2013-01-30,"In China, Beware: A Camera May be Watching You - 
There are an estimated 20-30 million surveillance cameras in China  or 1 for every 43 people. Officials say the cameras help fight crime & maintain ""social stability."" But critics say they're used to monitor & intimidate dissidents."
2013-01-29,Google unveils detailed map of North Korea
2013-01-29,Libor Lies Revealed in Rigging of $300 Trillion Benchmark -- The benchmark rate for more than $300 trillion of contracts was based on honesty. New evidence in banking's biggest scandal shows traders took it as a license to cheat. 
2013-01-29,Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands to announce abdication
2013-01-29,Israel a No-Show at Its UN Rights Review
2013-01-29,There is currently a Canada-wide outage of the entire Visa credit card network.
2013-01-29,Surfer breaks world record by riding an enormous 100-foot wave.
2013-01-29,"Sword gang were ""like a pack of dogs"" as they stabbed 16-year-old to death in central London - Telegraph"
2013-01-29,"Man sells canned fresh air in China. Welcome to yuppie capitalism, comrades."
2013-01-29,Tortoise 'survives in locked store room for 30 years'
2013-01-29,Melbourne pushes for world's toughest smoking ban that would prevent lighting up in all public spaces as part of a proposal to make the city healthier and more attractive to visitors
2013-01-29,Men are MUCH more likely to commit suicide by a wide margin.
2013-01-29,"Hundreds of British troops will be deployed to Mali: ""We cannot let states fail because we know from recent history that failed states just lead to really difficult circumstances, instability"""
2013-01-29,"'Dozens of bodies' found in Syria: Syrian Rebels and Activist findThe bodies of dozens of young men, all apparently summarily executed"
2013-01-29,Poison suspected in deaths of 10 endangered pygmy elephants in Borneo
2013-01-29,Step-grandchildren of infamous Nazi propaganda boss Joseph Goebbels are hidden billionaires
2013-01-29,Iran sentences U.S. pastor to 8 years in prison for for his religious beliefs
2013-01-29,Growing number of dreadlocked people have had their hair stolen in Johannesburg the past few months.
2013-01-29,No-Go Zones: Map Will Detail Germany's Neo-Nazi Hotspots. A German nonprofit organization is set to launch an interactive map that will show where neo-Nazi activities are concentrated across the country.
2013-01-29,"Anti-Gay Bill: German Foreign Minister Criticizes Russian Legislation  -  Moscow is seeking to make ""homosexual propaganda"" a prosecutable offense. But Germany's foreign minister  warns Russia's ambassador  it could aggravate European-Russian relations."
2013-01-29,"Niger gives green light to U.S. drone deployment: Niger has given permission for U.S. surveillance drones to be stationed on its territory to improve intelligence on al Qaeda-linked Islamist fighters in northern Mali and the wider Sahara, a senior government source said."
2013-01-29,Canadian mining firm allowed use of forced labour at African mine
2013-01-29,"Large arms shipment intercepted off Yemen, Iran eyed as source
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2013-01-29,"100-year-old great-grandfather has spent 34 years working for same firm after becoming bored with retirement
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2013-01-29,One Billion Rising: 'It's like a feminist tsunami'
2013-01-29,Moody's downgrades six Canadian banks
2013-01-28,Mali rebels fleeing Timbuktu burn library full of ancient manuscripts
2013-01-28,"A Father in North Korea is reported to have been executed by firing squad after murdering his two children to eat them during a ""hidden famine"" that may have killed more than 10,000 people last year."
2013-01-28,Iceland wins controversial Icesave case at European court
2013-01-28,"Timbuktu Mayor Says Islamists Burned Texts - 
Extremists  torch library containing historic manuscripts in Timbuktu as French & Malian forces close in on the desert city.   ""They torched all the important ancient manuscripts. The ancient books of geography & science."""
2013-01-28,"Want to become a British citizen? Better swot up on Monty Python -- New citizenship test will quiz people on all aspects of British life including comedy, music, history and science
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2013-01-28,Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian Jews without their consent
2013-01-28,Wind power has surpassed nuclear power to become China's third largest energy resource
2013-01-28,"18yr old Australian man survives for nine weeks in bushland, in Summer, during 45 degree heatwave."
2013-01-28,Massive Explosion Traps 200+ Workers At Nuclear Facility In Iran; Denied By Iran
2013-01-28,WikiLeaks movie script apparently leaked to WikiLeaks
2013-01-28,Google faces legal action over alleged secret iPhone tracking: 10 million UK iPhone users could have grounds to sue Google after it sidestepped Apple security settings to monitor web habits
2013-01-28,Britain's Economy Is a Disaster and Nobody Is Entirely Sure Why - Matthew O'Brien - The Atlantic
2013-01-28,Egypt unrest: Morsi declares emergency in Port Said
2013-01-28,North Korea: Sanctions by South would be 'declaration of war' - World News
2013-01-28,"Doctors risk murder and torture for treating the wounded in Syrias civil war - ""Security precautions they take are extraordinary. Doctors use false names, even with each other. Carrying medical equipment is a risk and getting caught with a stethoscope at a checkpoint could mean death or detention"""
2013-01-28,Iran 'sends monkey into space'
2013-01-28,"Liberated Malians celebrate, French-led forces clear Timbuktu"
2013-01-28,Libor Scandal widens into Asian markets
2013-01-28,Iran arrests 11 journalists accused of cooperation with foreign-based media outlets
2013-01-28,"Cow smuggling ... it's how Bangladesh gets its beef:  Beef is a delicacy in Bangladesh, but Hindu-majority India refuses to sell their sacred cows. The demand is so high, however, that a dangerous $920 million cow smuggling trade has popped up.  "
2013-01-28,"Paratroopers trained by special forces based in Canada were behind a failed counter-coup in Mali last year to bring back a democratically elected government, but many have since been hunted down and killed by the countrys military."
2013-01-28,Ariel Sharon showing brain activity seven years into coma
2013-01-28,UK Government: Romanian or Bulgarian? You won't like it here!
2013-01-28,Toyota reclaims world's top vehicle maker title
2013-01-28,Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor Threatens to Swallow Us All: World Economic Forum in Davos    Global Risk report identifies growing inequality for the 2nd year as one of the biggest potential challenges the world is facing.
2013-01-27,"In New Zealand, the number of Facebook users has stayed the same over the last 3 months. 13-15 years olds are leaving at the same rate as their parents are joining"
2013-01-27,At least 90 people were killed in a nightclub fire caused by a pyrotechnics show in southern Brazil
2013-01-27,"Nicholas Stern: 'I got it wrong on climate change  it's far, far worse'"
2013-01-27,Israel admits Ethiopian women were given birth control shots
2013-01-27,Death toll in Brazilian nightclub fire is now at least 220.
2013-01-27,Iran unveils machine for amputating thieves fingers | The Observers
2013-01-27,Poland's investigation into secret CIA prisons loses steam
2013-01-27,Sir David Attenborough: Humans are a plague.
2013-01-27,"Drug-resistant infections could pose apocalyptic scenario, medical experts warn"
2013-01-27,"Glasgow to be UK's 1st 'Smart City' - ""It has quite extreme challenges - it has the lowest life expectancy of any city in the UK  - & the hope is  if we bring together energy, transport, public safety & health it'll be  a better place to live.""  It won 24 million  from  Technology Strategy Board ."
2013-01-27,"Environment Canada warns alleged polluters, instead of prosecuting them"
2013-01-27,Berlusconi defends Mussolini for backing Hitler
2013-01-27,Official Hints Israel Has Shelved Its Plan for Attack on Iran
2013-01-27,Great Barrier Reef at Great Risk From Coal - The big mama of all reefs under siege by fossil fuel development pushed by recently elected conservative Queensland state govt. UNESCO  threatens to strip the reef of its World Heritage Site status  if  more isn't done to protect it.
2013-01-27,Egyptian Judge sentences 21 to death after riot kills 74
2013-01-27,"Brazil Nightclub Fire Kills at Least 90 -  A band's pyrotechnics show caused the fire. Some 2,000 people were in the nightclub when it broke out. "
2013-01-27,Archeologists revise image of ancient Celts | Culture | DW.DE 
2013-01-27,The all-female militias of Syria
2013-01-27,French Capture Strategic Airport in Move to Retake North Mali
2013-01-27,Satellite photos suggest that North Korea is ready for a nuclear test
2013-01-27,Israel vows Syria strike at any sign of chemical arms transfer
2013-01-27,Why Clothes Might Not Be Made in China Much Longer
2013-01-27,"Poland Source of Horsemeat in UK Beefburgers Scandal - 
Irish govt says raw material imported from Poland had up to 20% horse DNA.  Irish food & agriculture minister says he's sure Poland was the source of the contamination. "
2013-01-27,France orders Twitter to identify racist users
2013-01-27,Tepco plans to dump cleaned Fukushima No. 1 water
2013-01-26,Hundreds of students march in Indian capital to demand strict laws to protect women
2013-01-26,Child labour uncovered in Apple's supply chain
2013-01-26,"A Black Bloc Emerges in Egypt--Wearing black masks and waving black banners, it warned the Muslim Brotherhood of using its military wing to put down protests."
2013-01-26,Russia's Vladimir Putin says West is fomenting jihadi 'blowback'
2013-01-26,"Swedish ISP hits back over TV licence fees:  A Swedish ISP outraged by the prospect of computer and iPad owners being forced to pay TV licence fees is offering clients a ""TV Stopper"" to block online content from state broadcaster SVT."
2013-01-26,United Nations Launches Investigation Into U.S. Drone Program
2013-01-26,UK government unveils gay marriage bill
2013-01-26,Czechs outraged over proposal to make water cheaper than beer.
2013-01-26,Germany Plans To Deploy Armed Drones in Combat Abroad - SPIEGEL ONLINE
2013-01-26,Zeman wins Czech presidency
2013-01-26,"The euro hit an 11-month high and global equity markets advanced on Friday on signs of a healthier European financial system and a brighter outlook for Germany, while U.S. stocks extended a rally to an eighth day, their best run since late 2004"
2013-01-26,The Biggest Housing Bubble in the World Is in ... Canada?
2013-01-26,Majority of British citizens want to leave the EU.
2013-01-26,"Top climate scientist denounces billionaires over funding for climate-sceptic organisations
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2013-01-26,Wreckage of missing plane found in Antarctica
2013-01-26,"Russian Parliament Passes Anti-Gay Law in First Reading - ""The bill was supported by 338 deputies, with only one lawmaker opposing it and one abstaining"""
2013-01-26,Deutsche Bank trader loses $34m bonuses over Libor scandal
2013-01-26,"Attackers blow up main oil pipeline in Yemen, forcing the country to shut down one of its most lucrative sources of income"
2013-01-26,"Iceland's president dismisses EU common fisheries policy as ""colossal failure"""
2013-01-26,Egypt: At least 22 people have been killed in clashes after 21 men were sentenced to death for football violence in which 74 people died
2013-01-26,"Mali: French-Led Soldiers in Control of Gao Airport - Both Gao's airport & the strategic Wabary bridge have been secured, though fighting continues in the town.  Gao, along with Kidal & Timbuktu, were seized by an alliance of Tuareg rebels & Islamists last April.

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2013-01-26,New B.C. telescope to make massive 3D map of universe
2013-01-26,Polish parliament rejects efforts to legalize gay unions
2013-01-26,"Egyptian protest clashes leave 4 dead, at least 370 injured:  Rallies mark 2 years since revolution toppled Hosni Mubarak"
2013-01-26,"Who can fly drones in UK airspace: missile manufacturer, police forces and golf video company among more than 130 groups licensed to use technology"
2013-01-25,"Game to destroy CCTV cameras: vandalism or valid protest? Activists in Berlin are teaming up to trash surveillance cameras. Points are given, with bonus scores for the most innovative modes of destruction"
2013-01-25,Prime Minister David Cameron calls for a worldwide crackdown on big companies that avoid paying taxes.
2013-01-25,"A German court ruled on Thursday that people have the right to claim compensation from service providers if their Internet access is disrupted, because the Internet is an ""essential"" part of life."
2013-01-25,A group of Delhi women have decided the best way to make sure women are safe is to create a special cab service just for them. Women drive the cabs and only pick up women passengers. 
2013-01-25,The Economist's hilarious article on why Saudi Arabias morality police shut down a dinosaur exhibit
2013-01-25,Kim Dotcom wants to encrypt half of the Internet to end government surveillance.
2013-01-25,Egyptian protesters torch Muslim Brotherhood HQ in Ismailia
2013-01-25,London hailed as one of the safest cities on the planet after murder rate hits 42 year low (99 murders last year in a city with a population of 8m).
2013-01-25,"The Catholic church in the Philippines has declared war on birth control following a landmark legislation that has come into effect, effectively making sex education and contraception more widely available"
2013-01-25,Sri Lanka to stop sending housemaids to Saudi Arabia after beheading
2013-01-25,China media threatens North Korea aid cut over atomic test
2013-01-25,"Al Qaeda Commander Killed for the Third Time
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2013-01-25,"Pacific Bluefin Tuna Population Down 96% - Fishermen from Japan, Mexico, South Korea & US fish Pacific bluefin, but about 80% are consumed in Japan. Despite  finding, countries are still fishing for this tuna in its only known spawning & nursery areas in the western Pacific Ocean.

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2013-01-25,"Honduras Can't Pay its Bills - Street surveillance cameras in 1 of  world's most dangerous cities  turned off cause govt hasn't paid millions it owes. Police radio threatened to be suspended. Teachers protest cause not paid in 6 mos, while doctors complain of no  gauze & needles."
2013-01-25,"Indian women given kitchen knives, chili to fend off rapists ""The Shiv Sena party, an ally of the main opposition BJP, said it had handed out 21,000 knives with three-inch blades to women in the city and surrounding areas and plans to distribute 100,000."" "
2013-01-25,Coronal Mass Ejection Headed for Earth
2013-01-25,21-year-old jailed for dumping pig's head at mosque
2013-01-25,Cuba gets high-speed internet
2013-01-25,"Major oil discovery off Northern Ireland coast
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2013-01-25,"A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over details of users who spread anti-Semitic messages, months after offensive tweets were removed."
2013-01-25,"US and China come together over defiant North Korea
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2013-01-25,"Argentine Navy destroyer, Falklands Island conflict veteran, Rolls over and sinks at the dock due to neglect."
2013-01-25,"Army and police called in as 15,000 crocodiles flee South African farm"
2013-01-25,India Shiv Sena party gives knives to women for protection.
2013-01-25,South Korean prosecutors have detained and charged a Korean American with the illegal transfer of a staggering 1.09 trillion won ($1.02 billion) in Iranian money frozen in South Korea under international sanctions
2013-01-24,Two former Scientology members sue church claiming it 'duped' people into donating  millions to misrepresented causes
2013-01-24,Don't buy South African wines: striking workers' plea to foreign consumers
2013-01-24,"A renegade band of Solomon Islanders is responsible for the slaughter this week of about 900 bottlenose dolphins, says a group that was paying for the killing to stop. Villagers claim they were promised $2.4 million and only received $700,000."
2013-01-24,"The rise in drug resistant infections is comparable to the threat of global warming, according to the chief medical officer for England."
2013-01-24,Spain unemployment rate hit a record: youth rate at 55%
2013-01-24,"A growing number of university students in Toronto are looking for sugar daddies to help pay down their tuition fees and living expenses, says the founder of a U.S. website that helps them do just that."
2013-01-24,"
George Soros backs Guatemalan president's call to end war on drugs: says the war on drugs had endangered political stability and security in many countries
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2013-01-24,"""The filmmaker Roger Ross Williams reveals how money donated by American evangelicals helps to finance a violent antigay movement in Uganda."""
2013-01-24,Catalonia declares itself a sovereign entity
2013-01-24,"The UN is launching an inquiry into the impact on civilians of drone strikes and other targeted killings. Twenty-five attacks will be examined - in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen, the Palestinian territories and Somalia."
2013-01-24,UK: Firearms offences are 40 per cent down in less than a decade
2013-01-24,"On a daily basis, groups of heavily armed men attack local officials, police, soldiers, teachers and any Muslim they believe is not adhering strictly enough to Islamic values"": Islamist terrorism worsening in Thailand"
2013-01-24,"15,000 crocodiles escape from South African farm  - Telegraph"
2013-01-24,Palestinians threaten to take Israel to ICC - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2013-01-24,German Supreme Court defines internet access as 'minimum subsistence means'
2013-01-24,"UBS study heralds age of unsubsidized, profitable solar: Purely based on economics, we believe almost every family home and every commercial rooftop in Germany, Italy and Spain should be equipped with a solar system by the end of this decade."
2013-01-24,Three Canadians Missing in Antarctica
2013-01-24,Witchcraft claims against children in Congo DRC reflect curse of poverty. Sorcery charges are increasingly being used by poverty-stricken Congolese families as an excuse to abandon their children
2013-01-24,Burger King has said says it is no longer sourcing food from an Irish supplier linked to horsemeat.
2013-01-24,"North Korea to target U.S. with nuclear, rocket tests
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2013-01-24,The Moroccan government has said it plans to change a law that allows rapists to avoid charges if they marry their victims. The move comes nearly a year after 16-year-old girl committed suicide after being forced to marry her alleged rapist.
2013-01-24,Chinas latest restriction for Tibetans: no passports
2013-01-24,"
How Britain Enthusiastically Teamed Up with Bush's Horrific Torture and Rendition Agenda"
2013-01-24,"$20 trillion valuation of Australian oil greatly exaggerated, says the company that holds the exploration permits. "
2013-01-24,Antibiotic-resistant diseases pose 'apocalyptic' threat.
2013-01-23,$20 trillion oil basin discovered in Australia set to turn the country from importer to mass exporter.
2013-01-23,London 'Muslim Patrol' members arrested for homophobic public harrassment
2013-01-23,Road tunnel in Norway to stay shut for several weeks after 27 tonnes of cheese catches fire
2013-01-23,"""An official says Nepal's government will begin issuing citizenship certificates with the category 'third gender' for people who do not wish to be identified as male or female."""
2013-01-23,Single and Over 27: What the Chinese Government Calls Leftover Women
2013-01-23,"Princess Bride quote intimidates passengers on a flight to New Zealand.  In other news, Inigo Montoya added to the terrorist watch list."
2013-01-23,"Despite win, Netanyahu loses big in Israel election. Israel's next coalition government will likely be significantly less beholden to right-wing hardliners than the current one."
2013-01-23,Magazine editor jailed for 11 years for defaming Thai king - King of Thailand had previously said that he did not object to criticism.
2013-01-23,"Morocco to Change Law Allowing 'Rape Marriage' - 
Women's rights activists are welcoming a proposal by the justice minister to change a law that allows rapists to escape prosecution if they marry their underage victim"
2013-01-23,Chinese Workers Take Japanese Bosses Hostage To Protest 2-Minute Limit On Bathroom Breaks
2013-01-23,Canadian oil company fined millions for bribing African officials.
2013-01-23,"Man survives falling from Siberian train and running 4 miles in -40C, wearing just a T-shirt, shorts and slippers"
2013-01-23,Two million people of working age have left Britain over the last decade in a drain of talent.
2013-01-23,Mali's musicians defiant in face of music ban by Islamists - they sing Song for Peace. Take a listen. 
2013-01-23,"Selfish, ignorant, dangerous: Europe's verdict on Cameron speech"
2013-01-23,Nepal introduces transgender category on ID cards
2013-01-23,"Iran: authorities step up political surveillance, ordering coffee shops to install cameras to monitor customers "
2013-01-23,Top Japanese Official Urges Elderly to Hurry Up and Die 
2013-01-23,Famous Bridge in India is in Danger of Coming Down...Because of Spit
2013-01-23,Primed and Ready: Huge Pentagon Bunker-Buster Gets Green Light For Possible Iran Mission 
2013-01-23,"Spain has long been disconnected from the high-speed rail network that crisscrosses Europe. But no longer. A new line connecting Madrid, Barcelona and Paris opened last week."
2013-01-23,"For Rape Victims in India, Police Are Often Part of the Problem"
2013-01-23,"New Zealand environmentalist wants all cats in the country to be banned, to save the birds"
2013-01-23,Suicide bomber kills 22 inside Iraqi Shi'ite mosque
2013-01-23,"Syria builds paramilitary force aided by Iran, NGO says"
2013-01-22,"A new asteroid-mining company, Deep Space Industries, Inc., launches Tuesday with the goal of helping humanity expand across the solar system by tapping the vast riches of space rocks.  It plans to launch a fleet of prospecting spacecraft in 2015."
2013-01-22,"Canadian student whistleblower tells his college about massive security breach in their system, gets expelled."
2013-01-22,The Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini's millions
2013-01-22,Population Bomb scientist: Nobody has the right to as many children as they want
2013-01-22,Immigrants Are Being Stabbed to Death on the Streets of Athens | VICE
2013-01-22,"Air cadets rewrite their oath to remove God from pledge: One of the UK's largest and most respected youth organisations, the Air Cadet Organisation, will no longer compel its new members to take a religious oath"
2013-01-22,"Chinas Water Pollution Crisis - According to one report, up to 40 percent of Chinas rivers were seriously polluted and 20 percent were so polluted their water quality was rated too toxic even to come into contact with."
2013-01-22,Irish council has voted to back a motion allowing for people living in rural areas to drink and drive
2013-01-22,India warns Kashmiris of possible nuclear attack
2013-01-22,"The cost of solar energy has dropped below the cost of diesel generation worldwide for communities living away from the electricity grid, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency"
2013-01-22,"Prince Harry: I've killed in Afghanistan. But Dad wants me to act like a prince
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2013-01-22,Japan threatens to fire at chinese fighters
2013-01-22," Chinese military officer has raised the spectre of nuclear weapons and warned Australia not to side with the United States and Japan as a territorial dispute in the East China Sea continues to escalate.
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2013-01-22,Not a Fake Headline: France Mad at United States for Not Vigorously Supporting an Intervention
2013-01-22,"Gambia: Gov't Announces Four-Day Working Week - ""Fridays will henceforth become rest and prayer days alongside Saturdays and Sundays"""
2013-01-22,"In Mexico, citizens take on gang violence themselves."
2013-01-22,A 56 year old British Grandmother has been sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug-trafficking $2.6 Million worth of Cocaine
2013-01-22,Turkey: Nine Human Rights Lawyers Imprisoned
2013-01-22,Are Animals Near Chernobyl Mutating or Thriving?
2013-01-22,Russia to evacuate citizens from Syria
2013-01-22,Huge gas leak creates rotten egg small across France and the UK.
2013-01-22,"''The trafficking of young children, especially girls, under the garb of placement agencies, is the biggest organised crime in India today,'' said Bhuwan Ribhu"
2013-01-22,Polio virus found in Egypt linked to Pakistan
2013-01-22,Russia pushes forward with controversial anti-gay legislation that would outlaw homosexual propaganda'
2013-01-22,Bank of Denmark to charge customers fee for having account to increase profits; receives fierce critisism
2013-01-21,Google Earth puts North Korea labour camps on the map - RT News
2013-01-21,Russia moves to enact anti-gay law nationwide
2013-01-21,The Swiss turn on the super-rich
2013-01-21,An investigation by the BBC has revealed that Thai officials have been selling boat people from Burma to human traffickers.
2013-01-21,"Ugandan soldiers have killed one of Kony's bodyguards, believed to be in charge of child abductions."
2013-01-21,Japans finance minister Taro Aso say the elderly should be allowed to hurry up and die instead of costing the government money for end-of-life medical care
2013-01-21,"Neutral Austria votes to keep military draft - 60 percent voted in favour of maintaining the draft, which is seen as binding civil society to the military and instilling a sense of citizenship in young men."
2013-01-21,"China has accused the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, of presenting a distorted picture of its dispute with Japan over islands in the East China Sea."
2013-01-21,China's buying a fleet of Russian bombers perfect for taking on the US Navy
2013-01-21,An Australian scientist has said he discovered how to turn HIV against itself to stop it progressing to AIDS
2013-01-21,"French, Mali Troops Retake Islamist Towns - They've recaptured the Malian towns of Diabaly & Douentza from Islamist fighters"
2013-01-21,US Navy ship 'ignored reef warnings'
2013-01-21,Iran resorts to hangings in public to cut crime
2013-01-21,"Three bottles of rare, 19th century Scotch found beneath the floor boards of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackelton's "
2013-01-21,Germany's Pirate Party Suffers Massive Setback in Lower Saxony State Election
2013-01-21,Vatican's demand for silence is too high a price - Fr Tony Flannery
2013-01-21,Fracking 'will ruin Bath's spa waters' | UK
2013-01-21,Is Britain guilty of systemic torture in Iraq?
2013-01-21,2nd Tibetan self-immolates in China in a week
2013-01-21,Revolutionary Japan is suddenly the centre of world affairs - Telegraph
2013-01-21,Evidence Of Life On Mars May Be Underground...
2013-01-21,"Known cases of the Guinea Worm tropical disease drop to 542, down from a high of 3.2 million 25 years ago"
2013-01-21,Algeria crisis: Hostage death toll 'rises to 48'
2013-01-21,"Shark Attack: British holidaymaker jumps into sea in Australia to drag thrashing beast away from children by its tail.


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2013-01-21,Youth expelled from Montreal college after finding security flaw
2013-01-20,How to Catch Illegal Logging in the Amazon? Make a Trunk Call - Trees in Brazil being fitted with mobile phones.  Data is sent from sensors once logs are within 20 miles of a phone network so officials can stop sales. The system is run by Dutch company.
2013-01-20,"Priest is planning to defy Vaticans orders to stay quiet. If I signed this, it would be a betrayal not only of myself but of my fellow priests and lay Catholics who want change. I refuse to be terrified into submission"
2013-01-20,Oxford college sued over using 'selection by wealth' for admissions
2013-01-20,"Canada Almost Dead Last on Environment - It produces more garbage per person than any other nation in study, twice as much garbage per capita as Japan, the best country in category. Ahead of only US & last place Australia on environmental performance"
2013-01-20,"Aaron Swartz: Cannon Fodder in the War Against Internet Freedom - 
Govts are determined to control the internet & if hackers like Swartz get in the way, they will be crushed"
2013-01-20,"A report about child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, based on victim accounts and released by the church this week, showed that priests carefully planned their assaults and frequently abused the same children repeatedly for years."
2013-01-20,Japan Confirms Dock on Washington Coast Is Tsunami Marine Debris
2013-01-20,An Islamic vigilante group has been confronting people in a London suburb asking women to cover up and to give up alcohol claiming they were living an 'unclean life'
2013-01-20,Residents in the northern Malian town of Gao on Saturday lynched a prominent Islamist leader in retaliation for the killing of a local journalist
2013-01-20,Foreigners Now Permitted to Carry Mobile Phones in North Korea
2013-01-20,Guatemala's president: 'My country bears the scars from the war on drugs'
2013-01-20,140 nations agree on legally binding rules to curb mercury pollution
2013-01-20,"Antarctic cruise ship takes 50-hour detour to rescue French sailor Alain Delord, who was attempting a solo round-the-world voyage, off Tasmania"
2013-01-20,Anti-poaching drones to take off in Africa
2013-01-20,Sophie Schmidt's (Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt's daughter) photo and text impressions of their recent visit to North Korea.
2013-01-20,"Call off war on drugs, leader of Guatemala tells the west: President Otto Prez Molina says regulated narcotics market must be introduced to forestall threat to democracy from drug cartels"
2013-01-20,Mexico: Over 150 police in Durango state arrested on suspicion of organized crime links
2013-01-20,Anti-racism protesters rally in Athens after Pakistani stabbed
2013-01-20,Japan warns China over 'airspace violations' 
2013-01-20,"Deutsche Bank will continue to gamble on food products: ""There is no correlation to world hunger."""
2013-01-20,Investigation Shows Spanish Ruling Partys Ex-Treasurer Had $29 Million in Swiss Account
2013-01-20,"
A load of Thunderballs: A shocking UK ruling (let's call it the 007 standard) gives undercover police licence to break hearts. It's the hacking of people's lives
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2013-01-20,"Stopping Child Labor: There's an app for that - 
A smartphone app in Colombia uses crowdsourcing to document and fight child labor. Whenever users see a child working they can take a picture, log the location, & the app sends it to Colombia's child welfare agency."
2013-01-20,"Japan defends right to fire warning shots as territory dispute with China heats up
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2013-01-20,"70-Yr-Old Lard Washes Up on Scottish Beach - Ocean-soaked baked goods from 1940s seem to have come from a WWII merchant vessel. Barrels they were in rotted away, leaving lard pieces still bright white.  They  smelled good enough to have a fry up with.  Lard appeared on this beach in '40s & '60s."
2013-01-19,A leading Australian priest who sexually preyed on a disabled woman for 14 years has been allowed to return to preaching and running one of the nation's busiest churches.
2013-01-19,"Crocodiles Killed by Zoo Visitors in China Because They Wanted to Make Sure They Were Alive - They hurled bottles, rubbish & stones, ignoring signs urging people not to disturb them"
2013-01-19,The 100 richest people in the world earned enough last year to end extreme poverty four times over.
2013-01-19,Australian scientists may have found potential cure for AIDS
2013-01-19,"Snowpocalypse Russia: Snow 'tsunami' swallows streets, cars, buildings (PHOTOS) "
2013-01-19,650 hostages freed by Algerian special forces.
2013-01-19,Attempted armed assault on Turkish politician in Bulgaria
2013-01-19,AFP: Sniper kills Jazeera reporter in Syria's Daraa: TV
2013-01-19,Companies in China are mislabeling domestically made food products as halal imports from Islamic nations
2013-01-19,Belgium Wants to Build a Doughnut-Shaped Island to Store Energy -  North Sea minister reveals nation's novel solution to preserving excess energy -- build a doughnut-shaped island a few miles off the coast that continually pumps water through its center
2013-01-19,Bolivian Lawmaker Caught Raping Unconscious Colleague
2013-01-19,"In Thailand, a Broader Definition of Insulting Royalty - Court Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said"
2013-01-19,Japan finds high radiation levels in fish
2013-01-19,Spanish Partys Ex-Treasurer Had $29 Million in Swiss Account - NYTimes.com
2013-01-19,Rome's Colosseum cleaning reveals frescoes  as well as ancient graffiti and drawings of phallic symbols.
2013-01-19,"Chinese spin doctors urged to spread 'positive energy' online:  Chinese spin-doctors have been instructed to step-up their online activities and tap into the social-media revolution to spread ""positive energy"" across the internet. "
2013-01-19,"The director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin, suffers third-degree burns from an acid attack"
2013-01-19,Swedish cleaner not to blame for train crash
2013-01-19,Mali army 'regains Konna and Diabaly' from rebels
2013-01-19,"As Tibet burns, China seizes TV's in Tibet crackdown"
2013-01-19,Arrest of Sun's crime correspondent sends shockwaves through News International 
2013-01-19,South Sudan signs oil deal with Israeli companies
2013-01-19,Deutsche Bank announces it will continue investing in agricultural commodities - There was no evidence that speculation was responsible for price developments 
2013-01-19,"Eleven hostage-takers have been killed as Algerian troops launched a final raid on a gas plant in the Sahara desert where foreign workers were being held captive, state news agency APS said."
2013-01-19,"Snakes and Ladders: Investment Banking on the Brink - For decades, investment bankers have held the key to untold riches -- but now they're being laid off by the tens of thousands. As the crisis forces the industry to search for a new identity, is it ready to mend its ways?"
2013-01-18,"An indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon has won a reprieve after building up an arsenal of spears, blowpipes, machetes and guns to fend off an expected intrusion by the army and a state-run oil company."
2013-01-18,"French flags selling out in Mali's capital: Normally, Malian attitudes towards France range from resentment to admiration. But when France launched a bombing campaign against Islamist rebels in central and northern Mali, French flags bloomed around the capital Bamako almost instantaneously"
2013-01-18,US officially recognises Somalia's government
2013-01-18,"In Kashmir, a nine year old ceasefire agreement between India and Pakistan is in danger of breaking down. We ignore it at our own peril."
2013-01-18,Japan to build world's largest offshore wind farm - this July
2013-01-18,Google to build 1bn UK headquarters at London's King's Cross
2013-01-18,"Scientists modify HIV proteins; engineer them to protect against AIDS
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2013-01-18,Canada is the first county in the world to launch a national standard for mental health in the workplace (x-post from r/canada)
2013-01-18,"
 Govts in Russia, Canada & Scandinavia claim they need to protect lesser species & habitats by killing wolves  while continuing their smash & grab raid on natural resources - Wolf killings are based on the most cynical of premises"
2013-01-18,"Movement of Missiles by North Korea Worries U.S.:
American intelligence agencies have discovered mobile missile launchers carrying a new generation of powerful rocket"
2013-01-18," Hotel Mama: Bad Economy Has Young Europeans at Home - 

Young Europeans in countries hit hardest by the Continent's economic crisis are finding it difficult to move out of their parents' home. Data shows over 50% of those 25-34 in some countries have yet to move out."
2013-01-18,Berlin Bank Heist Tunnel Pictures Released
2013-01-18,Anonymous Hacks Argentina Data Agency that is Known for Corruption and Lying about their Economy
2013-01-18,"A US Navy minesweeper is stuck on a coral reef off the Philippines, in a Unesco heritage site, after running aground"
2013-01-18,"Investigating officer, probing Pakistan PM Raja Pervez Ashraf for graft, found dead"
2013-01-18,Israels Netanyahu 'will not dismantle settlements' if re-elected
2013-01-18,"US asks Turkey, Jordan to secure chem weapons if Syria crisis worsens"
2013-01-18,"David Cameron has postponed a long-awaited speech on Europe due to the hostage crisis in Algeria, saying the country should prepare ""for bad news""."
2013-01-18,"Some Hostages Killed, but Raid Rescues Many, Algeria Says"
2013-01-18,"Special Report: China's military hawks take the offensive
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2013-01-18,Parcel for Julian Assange is geo-tracked by artists
2013-01-18,China's planned rail spending tops $100-billion for 2013
2013-01-18,"In Israel, tensions grow between ultra-Orthodox and less strict Jews"
2013-01-18,Jakarta Flooding 1/17/2013
2013-01-18,Belgium plans artificial island to store wind power
2013-01-17,Lucky prospector finds huge gold nugget 177 Oz/5.5kg (Australia)
2013-01-17,One of Russias biggest criminal bosses  call him the countrys Don Corleone  has been gunned down in the center of Moscow as he left his favorite hangout surrounded by bodyguards.
2013-01-17,Sniper kills Russian crime boss in Moscow
2013-01-17,Egyptian court sentences Christian family to 15 years for converting from Islam | Fox News
2013-01-17,"""Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan profits rise sharply"""
2013-01-17,Dozens of hostages killed in Algeria - Al Jazeera English
2013-01-17,Man locks up drunk cop in his own van. [South Africa]
2013-01-17,"Mali: a guide to the conflict
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2013-01-17,Mexico Looks Forward to Hearing about Gun Control Laws in the US; As much as 70 percent of the weapons confiscated from Mexico's drug cartels come from the U.S.
2013-01-17,Do we have the right to be anonymous online? - Facebook vs Germany
2013-01-17,Former Australian PM writes about his 1996 gun reform
2013-01-17,"U.S., Japan review defense guidelines amid tension with China"
2013-01-17,The Gravest of Allegations: Conflating Critique of Israel with Anti-Semitism
2013-01-17,French Ground Troops In Combat in Central Mali
2013-01-17,"Attackers kill, injure workers in Algeria; Americans held hostage"
2013-01-17,Six reasons events in Mali matter
2013-01-17,Ecuadorian tribe gets reprieve from oil intrusion
2013-01-17,UK police accused of taking DNA of men convicted 30 years ago under now-defunct gay sex law
2013-01-17,Israel can remove Palestinian protest tents: court
2013-01-17,Italy Closes Consulate in Benghazi After New Attack
2013-01-17,Food prices may be catalyst for 2013 revolutions
2013-01-17,"Jakarta floods leave hundreds of thousands homeless
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2013-01-17,BBC News - Bombings in Iraq kill Shia pilgrims
2013-01-17,Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates
2013-01-17,Is Tunisia headed towards democracy or sliding back into chaos?
2013-01-16,"Insecticide 'unacceptable' danger to bees, report finds -- Campaigners say the conclusion by the European Food Safety Authority is a 'death knell' for neonicotinoid pesticides"
2013-01-16,Horse DNA has been found in some beef burgers in the Uk & Ireland supermarkets.
2013-01-16,Helicopter 'crashes into crane' in London
2013-01-16,"500,000 Breathing Masks Sold in China in Two Days"
2013-01-16,67yo Queensland woman banned from calling Emergency Services. Makes 1000 calls in 5 years.
2013-01-16,"White House condemns anti-Semitic speech by Egypt's Morsi that called Jews 'descendants of apes and pigs'

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2013-01-16,52 killed after an air strike targets Aleppo University on the first day of exams
2013-01-16,"Report says Germany will bring back $200 billion in gold reserves stored in US, France"
2013-01-16,Pollution over Beijing as seen from space
2013-01-16,Germany's central bank is to bring back almost 700 tonnes of gold reserves it keeps in New York and Paris
2013-01-16,French boots on the ground in Mali - Direct combat within hours
2013-01-16,"  Islamist militants attack BP facility in Algeria, kidnapping at least 8 foreigners, including English, Norwegian & Japanese nationals.
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2013-01-16,Russia will resume a long-dormant quest to explore the moon by sending an unmanned probe there in 2015
2013-01-16,The right to a free education could be enshrined in the written constitution of an independent Scotland
2013-01-16,"Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has assured religious groups they will have the ""freedom"" under a new rights bill to discriminate against homosexuals and others they deem sinners, according to the head of the Australian Christian Lobby."
2013-01-16,Saudi clerics protest kings move to empower women
2013-01-16,"Dengue is the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease and represents a ""pandemic threat"", infecting an estimated 50 million people across all continents, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday."
2013-01-16,638 Illegal Elephant Tusks Found at Kenyan Port
2013-01-16,'Militant atheist' blogger stabbed in Bangladesh -- His blog has been one of the most visited webpages in Bangladesh and is known for its tirade against religions
2013-01-16,Indian caste councils praise families that carry out 'honour killings': Indian caste councils accused of encouraging the 'honour killing' of eloping young couples have praised families who murder their daughters as 'peace loving' and 'law abiding'
2013-01-16,"Explosions kill 83 at Syrian university as exams begin
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2013-01-16,Leaked US State Dept. memo says chemical weapons used in Syria 
2013-01-16,"Quebec to proceed with ""Dying with Dignity"" legislation"
2013-01-16,"Elderly couple killed on Free State farm, South Africa"
2013-01-16,All Nippon Airways Co is grounding all 17 of its Boeing 787 planes for inspection after one of its Dreamliners made an emergency landing in western Japan 
2013-01-15,"In China's capital, they're calling it the ""airpocalypse,"" with air pollution that's literally off the charts. The air has been classified as hazardous to human health for a fifth consecutive day, at its worst hitting pollution levels 25x that considered safe in the U.S."
2013-01-15,"The crime of ""insulting"" someone through words or behaviour to be dropped in UK"
2013-01-15,"Chinas plainclothes police stuff man into unmarked van for speaking to reporters:  After a young man offers his support for a censored newspaper, some plainclothes police swoop in to pack him away."
2013-01-15,"Ontario will phase out coal-fired power by 2014, making the Canadian province the first coal-free jurisdiction in North America"
2013-01-15,"How bad are the bad guys in Mali? The answer, in four powerful paragraphs."
2013-01-15,"Bank robbers have made off with an unknown amount of loot after digging a 100-foot tunnel into a Berlin bank from a nearby parking garage. To get into the building, they broke through two concrete walls."
2013-01-15,Pakistan Supreme Court Orders Arrest of Prime Minister
2013-01-15,Cleaning lady steals train and crashes into house
2013-01-15,Turkey's science state council halts publication of evolution books
2013-01-15,"Al-Qaida carves out own country in Mali, using the bulldozers, earth movers and Caterpillar machines left behind by fleeing construction crews to dig what residents and local officials describe as an elaborate network of tunnels, trenches, shafts and ramparts."
2013-01-15,"France has openned the gates of hell, say Mali rebels"
2013-01-15,"Rhino Poaching Death Toll Soars Across South Africa:    668 rhinos lost their lives to poachers in 2012  up from 14 rhinos in 2005 & an increase of nearly 50% from the 448 rhinos poachers killed in 2011.  5 more rhinos were killed by poachers just since the beginning of this year.
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2013-01-15,Nike accused of using military to intimidate workers - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
2013-01-15,Saudi clerics protest against appointing women to advisory body
2013-01-15,"Egypt's  Ancient Heritage Under Immediate Threat - Dahshur archaeological site, home of 1st complete pyramid, is being plundered by armed vandals &  thieves.  Residents  invaded site next to Black Pyramid of King Amenemhat III.  Guards were unable to repel the them."
2013-01-15,UK won't let British veterans accept Russian medal
2013-01-15,"Japan's new budget reverses austerity cuts, giving 570 billion to science and education including 20 billion for stem cell research"
2013-01-15,"An international conservation group on Tuesday urged Thailand to ban all ivory trading, warning that rising demand for tusks is fueling an unprecedented slaughter of elephants in Africa."
2013-01-15,France expected to more than triple Mali troop numbers
2013-01-15,"Saudis defend Sri Lankan maid's execution, hit back at criticism - CNN.com"
2013-01-15,Islamists vow to strike 'heart' of France - (France has attacked Islam. We will strike at the heart of France)
2013-01-15,"""The Afghan president said Monday that a meeting of the nation's elders should convene to decide whether U.S. troops staying in the country after 2014 would be immune from prosecution under Afghan law."""
2013-01-15,U.N. Human Rights Chief Seeks Investigation of North Korea - the United Nations human rights chief called on Monday for an international inquiry into human rights offenses committed by the North Korean government over many decades
2013-01-15,Thousands of protesters in Moscow denounce adoption ban
2013-01-15,China Allows Media to Report on Air Pollution Crisis
2013-01-14,"German govt  unexpectedly offers Paris concrete support as French troops battle Islamist extremists in Mali -  Though ruling out a combat role, Germany's military will provide transport & medical assistance."
2013-01-14,"Man acquitted of rape and murder of a 9 year old girl, rapes and murders a 9-year-old girl after being freed from jail"
2013-01-14,Polio in India: How the Country Beat the Disease:  A sprawling country with a massive population pulled off one of the greatest public-health coups in history
2013-01-14,"Mass rape, amputations and killings  why families are fleeing terror in Mali "
2013-01-14,Denmark aids France in Mali conflict
2013-01-14,"Air pollution in Beijing goes off the index, reaching levels 25 times as large as the acceptable level."
2013-01-14,Iran unable to get life-saving drugs due to international sanctions. Western measures targeting Tehran's nuclear programme have impeded trade of medicines for illnesses such as cancer.
2013-01-14,Doctors euthanize Belgian twins who said they could not bear the thought of going blind
2013-01-14,Children and elderly people in Beijing are urged to stay indoors as instruments measuring pollution break all records.
2013-01-14,"Japan Ups Defense of Disputed Islands - 
Will deploy 3 more patrol ships to boost its defense of the Senkaku islands at the center of a territorial row with China"
2013-01-14,Deaf twins who discovered they were going blind and would never see each other again are euthanized in Belgian hospital
2013-01-14,"Decriminalise drugs, inquiry by cross-party peers says"
2013-01-14,Egyptian man urinates into Eternal Flame in Russia's Volgograd 
2013-01-14,"India's army chief turns up heat on Pakistan, says can retaliate"
2013-01-14,Japan is breaking from economic orthodoxy with interesting results
2013-01-14,"'Shame on the scum!': 20,000 furious Russians march in protest of adoption ban for American parents"
2013-01-14,Israeli premier says hell move ahead with Jewish settlement seen as blow to Palestinian state 
2013-01-14,"Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Jordan are reporting gang rapes, other sexual violence as reasons for fleeing Syria, International Rescue Committee says."
2013-01-14,"France receives help from U.S., Britain as it ramps up airstrikes against Islamic rebels in Mali"
2013-01-14,Goldman Sachs will use a tax delay on bonuses for when the top tax rate falls. Delaying the bonuses cost the UK government  16 billion in 2010.
2013-01-14,Austria politician Strasser guilty in bribery trial
2013-01-14,Is WTO about to abandon dream of global free trade?
2013-01-14,"French Widen Bombing Campaign, Hit Central Mali"
2013-01-14,Mali crisis: militants killed as French fighter jets pound rebel camps
2013-01-14,Beijing Authorities Starts Emergency Plan to Curb Emissions as Air Pollution Hits Record Level - Will shut down polluting manufacturers &  curb govt car use. 54 high-emission manufacturers have been ordered to reduce 30% of their pollutant discharges.
2013-01-13,Mexico City has emerged as an aspiring environmental model citizen in recent years as the left-leaning local government has introduced everything from barter markets for recyclables to bicycle-sharing arrangements to zero emissions bus corridors.. And the air is cleaner.
2013-01-13,"Wal-Mart paid bribes as it sought to build in the shadow of one of Mexicos most revered cultural landmarks, the pyramids of Teotihuacn."
2013-01-13,"Cuba opens the gates, hoping for a trickle, not a flood:  Under a new policy that takes effect Monday, any Cuban with a valid passport will be able to leave the country.
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2013-01-13,"Roads melt, gas evaporates in Australia's unprecedented heat wave
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2013-01-13,India police arrest 6 in new bus gang-rape
2013-01-13,"World's oldest woman, Koto Okubo, dies at age 115 in Japan | The Japan Times Online"
2013-01-13,Goldman bonuses set to total $13bn
2013-01-13,Brits rate immigration as societys biggest issue
2013-01-13,"""A portable hard drive containing personal information of more than half a million people who received student loans has gone missing . . . Human Resources and Skills Development Canada says the device disappeared from an HRSDC office in Gatineau, Que., in early November [2012]."""
2013-01-13,French drive back Mali Islamists 
2013-01-13,Here's What It's Like To Get An Abortion In An Increasingly Pious Turkey
2013-01-13,"Israeli forces evict West Bank Palestinian outpost, despite Israels High Court preventing the government from doing so."
2013-01-13,Binyamin Netanyahu 'wasted $3bn on Iranian attack plan'. Israel's former prime minister Ehud Olmert accuses Israeli PM of preparing for war that never took place
2013-01-13,Kenya President Rejects Lavish Pay for Legislators: Kenya's President has vetoed legislation in which members of parliament gave themselves a hefty send-off package
2013-01-13,"Beijing entombed in smog, airborne particles up to 800 micrograms, elderly women & children told to stay indoors"
2013-01-13,France on alert for backlash as air assault on Mali rebels kills 100
2013-01-13,"UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet -
Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says"
2013-01-13,Services Like Car and Bike Sharing Boost Global Sharing Economy - Barter Economy Matures from Niche to Trend
2013-01-13,"Vatican: Children should have mom, dad after Italy high court upholds custody for gay mother
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2013-01-13,When Dad Lives In Jail: A Soft New German Way For Kids To Visit Prisoner Parents
2013-01-13,"Domestic violence single greatest cause of harm, says top Met police officer "
2013-01-13,18 killed in failed French raid to free Somalia hostage
2013-01-13,Thousands of Russians rally on Sunday in condemnation of the Russian Parliaments move to ban adoption of Russian children by American families
2013-01-13,Bolivians demand the right to chew coca leaves. 
2013-01-13,"Lenins tomb should stay in Red Square, Putin says "
2013-01-12,"Saudi King Abdullah appoints 30 women to the 150-member Shura Council, a historic first"
2013-01-12,France launches air strike in Mali
2013-01-12,France confirms Mali intervention.
2013-01-12,Canadian oil sands pollute nearby lakes. Report is blow to Keystone pipeline. - CSMonitor.com
2013-01-12,"By 2050, the world population will comprise nearly 40 per cent Indians and Chinese compared to 5 per cent western Europeans"
2013-01-12,Rare ground based photo of Hiroshima mushroom cloud re-discovered - good information on the immediate aftermath
2013-01-12,Beijing choked by pollution at dangerous levels
2013-01-12,Aboriginals stage protests across Canada  
2013-01-12,91 year old British crossword setting legend John Galbraith Graham (AKA Araucaria) uses crossword to announce that he's dying of cancer.
2013-01-12,Portraits of Albanian Women Who Have Lived Their Lives as Men
2013-01-12,"French pilot killed in Mali helicopter raid, city of Konna retaken by government troops"
2013-01-12,Spain: Nuclear items intended for Iran nuclear program seized
2013-01-12,Bolivia scores coca leaf victory at UN
2013-01-12,"A Trail of Bullet Casings Leads From Africas Wars to Iran: A group of arms-trafficking researchers worked for six years to locate the source of rifle and machine-gun ammunition in regions of protracted conflict, and all roads lead back to Iran"
2013-01-12,In the Time of Cholera - How the U.N. created an epidemic -- then covered it up.
2013-01-12,"Australia's 3rd largest city, Brisbane is apparently experiencing a snake plague!"
2013-01-12,"India Moves to Block Dolphin Shows, Citing Cruelty"
2013-01-12,"""Until today I have not seen a single incident or example of rape with a respected lady,"" Manohar Lal Sharma said, according to the Bloomberg report. ""Even an underworld don would not like to touch a girl with respect."""
2013-01-12,French troops help Mali retake captured town
2013-01-12,"Japanese idol, a member of the girls group AKB48, accused of sexually abusing a child in her ""inappropriate"" nude photo. [LINK PHOTO NSFW]"
2013-01-12,"Somali fighters 'repel' French commandos: ""Mujahideen fighters defeated the so-called commandos of the French government who tried to rescue a hostage, and they [the commandos] left the bodies of several of their own at the sit of the attack."""
2013-01-12,Canadian mine company Nevsun Resources Ltd. is facing explosive allegations that it unwittingly allowed forced labour to be involved in building its flagship copper-gold mine. 
2013-01-12,"Spanish police arrested two men and seized the contents of a truck bound for Iran loaded with materials destined for use in the Islamic state's nuclear program, the Interior Ministry said on Friday."
2013-01-12,'Mogadishu is like Manhattan': Somalis return home to accelerate progress as construction replaces chaos
2013-01-12,Pakistan mobilizes its army across the border. Cancels leave for all personnel. 
2013-01-11,"Saudi Arabia beheads young Sri Lankan maid, despite international campaign for clemency
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2013-01-11,"Pakistan also has a rape problem. Days after the Delhi gang-rape victim died, 9-year-old in Pakistan beaten and raped by three men. In Pakistan, however, no one is talking about it."
2013-01-11,China Sends Fighter Jets To Meet Japan's F-15s In The East China Sea
2013-01-11,Brazil prostitutes are planning to learn English before 2014 World Cup.
2013-01-11,"String of bombings kill 101, injure 200 in Pakistan
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2013-01-11,Zambia has banned the hunting of lions and leopards because of the rapid decline in its numbers of big cats.
2013-01-11,"Outrage over beheading of Sri Lankan woman by Saudi Arabia...""she had not had access to lawyers during her pre-trial interrogation during which she said she was assaulted and forced to sign a confession under duress..."" - CNN.com"
2013-01-11,"Most Russians and Pakistanis say they prefer a strong ruler over democracy. ""Pew asked people in seven countries whether they prefer democratic government or one with a strong leader. The latter choice was more popular in only two countries: Pakistan and Russia."""
2013-01-11,"Pacific Bluefin Tuna Overfishing Has Led To 96 Percent Population Reduction, Study Says"
2013-01-11,"Trapped killer whales escape ice, reach safety, hunters say - thestar.com"
2013-01-11,Irish Newspapers Want To Pass A Law That Would Allow Them To Charge Anyone Who Links To Their Articles
2013-01-11,"What Happens When China Goes ""Gray""? - ""Chinas pension system will have a U.S.$2.9 trillion gap between assets and liabilities by the end of 2013. By 2033 the gap is expected to reach U.S.$10.9 trillion, or 38.7% of GDP."" "
2013-01-11,Native Canadians protesting against forced subsidies in a campaign known as 'idle no more'
2013-01-11,Japan's government has approved an economic stimulus package worth 10.3 trillion yen (72bn) in an attempt to fix its economic crisis.
2013-01-11,"The gang of men charged with the rape and murder of an Indian physiotherapy student deliberately tried to find a woman to rape and kill and ended the night with blood on their clothes, a police report seen by Reuters said."
2013-01-11,Break-through in Saudi Arabia: women allowed in parliament
2013-01-11,Killer whales escape as Canada's Hudson Bay ice shifts
2013-01-11,"8,500-year-old human bones discovered in Istanbul (pics inside)"
2013-01-11," The candy-colored steps of a staircase in Rio's bohemian neighborhood of Lapa were the life work of Chilean artist Jorge Selaron and a symbol of his adopted city. On this gray, rainy Thursday, they became his memorial. He was found dead on his masterpiece."
2013-01-11,Archaeologists Uncover Clues to Why Vikings Abandoned Greenland 
2013-01-11,"UN calls for ""swift deployment"" of international troops to Mali"
2013-01-11,"Concerns about the only child practice in China have been expressed before. Now researchers present new evidence that these children are less trusting, less competitive, more pessimistic, less conscientious and more risk-averse than people born before the policy was implemented."
2013-01-11,Paralyzed woman loses first Irish right-to-die case
2013-01-11,Hungarian Journalist Calls for Final Solution of Roma Issue 
2013-01-11,Mysterious structures in China are likely factories  -  NBC News
2013-01-10,The world's population could actually start declining.
2013-01-10,Ex-CIA Analyst Finds Mysterious Chinese Complex on Google Earth
2013-01-10,"German bishops cancel study into sexual abuse by priests, prompting the investigator to accuse them of trying to censor what was to be a major report on the scandals"
2013-01-10,'My goodness there's a snake on the wing': Snake spotted on a Qantas plane.
2013-01-10,McDonalds to give out books instead of toys in U.K
2013-01-10,"Pakistan kiln laborers hemmed in by debts they can't repay:  Brick makers and others live a life of indentured servitude known as bonded labor. They must borrow to live, and their debts pass on to their children when they die."
2013-01-10,Blind stroke victim tasered after a police officer mistook his white stick for a samurai sword
2013-01-10,"Three Kurdish women activists have been found dead with gunshot wounds to the head in Paris, French media say, citing police sources"
2013-01-10,"After Bluefin Tuna Sells for 1m Conservationists Warn Species is Dying Out -  Bluefin tuna are in danger of ""all but disappearing"", according to a new report, despite a decade long fight to save the ""tiger of the seas""."
2013-01-10,Half of all food 'thrown away' claims report
2013-01-10,Six prisons to be closed in England - with a new 'super-prison' planned
2013-01-10,"Indian gang-rape victim blamed for attack by lawyer representing the offenders: ""I never heard of a 'respected lady' being raped in India """
2013-01-10,Canadians rush to save 11 trapped killer whales - CNN.com
2013-01-10,"Up to half of the food produced in the world is wasted, according to a report by the UK's Institution of Mechanical Engineers"
2013-01-10,The British Library releases the first-ever audio guide to how Shakespeare should really sound
2013-01-10,"Chinese animal rights group helps rescue bears from ""bile farm"""
2013-01-10,Locals seek help from Canadian gov as a dozens of killer whales become trapped under vast stretch of sea ice crowding desperately around a single small hole for air
2013-01-10,Tattooed composer in strong run for Czech presidency
2013-01-10,"Calls Out to Change How South Korea Treats Mental Illness, Since its  Suicide Rate Remains Highest in Developed World - It's leading cause of death for people under  40 - & it's an issue that's only gotten worse in recent years.

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2013-01-10,"Ancient Medicine in Roman Shipwreck  Round tin boxes in 2,000-yr-old ship off Tuscany held mix of zinc & beeswax likely used for eyes. Impressions in tablets suggest were wrapped in linen to prevent crumbling.   Finds include wine jars,  jugs, Syrian-Palestinian glass bowls, Ephesian lamps."
2013-01-10,3 Kurdish women shot dead in Paris
2013-01-10,U.N. wants to use drones for peacekeeping missions
2013-01-10,"Australian Wildfires: Clinging to Life, a Family Defies Wall of Flame - 
Photograph likely to become one of the defining images of a disaster that has seen wildfires sweep south-eastern Australia"
2013-01-10,Saudi Arabia Beheads Young Sri Lankan Maid
2013-01-10,"Millions of New Species of 'Killer Slugs' From Spain Set to Invade English Gardens - After worst year on record for slugs, it's about to get worse. Growing up to 5 in. long, they eat dead mice, dog mess & even each other. In Scandinavia, slugs eating road kill caused road hazard. "
2013-01-09,Saudi ruling puts end to marriage between 90-year-old man and his 15-year-old bride
2013-01-09,"A Chinese Web censor snaps, goes on public rant"
2013-01-09,Police investigating murder on UK nuclear submarine horrified by tales of crew's binge drinking
2013-01-09,Military lasers becoming a reality
2013-01-09,Catholic Church in Germany drops sex abuse inquiry
2013-01-09,Former FBI agent missing in Iran photographed in Guantnamo jumpsuit  
2013-01-09,Australian wildfires are 'nearly uncontrollable' : 'rated catastrophic' in some areas
2013-01-09,Japan Explores War Scenarios with China
2013-01-09,"Siberia Is Thick With Wolves, and Hunters Are in Demand:   Officials in the Sakha-Yakutia region of Siberia have gone so far as to declare a state of emergency to draw attention to the wolves eating livestock, including horses and reindeer."
2013-01-09,Report: U.S. Spy Law Authorizes Mass Surveillance of European Citizens
2013-01-09,Guatemala builds private city for the wealthy to escape crime
2013-01-09,Havens Are Turning Hellish For Tax Avoiders
2013-01-09,Australia's devastating bushfires as seen from ISS!
2013-01-09,"Short skirts, bad stars and chow mein: why Indias women get raped"
2013-01-09,"West African lions on verge of extinction, report says:  Conservation group LionAid says as few as 645 lions remain in the wild in western and central Africa
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2013-01-09,Next week most Cubans will be able to travel freely for the first time in decades. But not its baseball starts.
2013-01-09,"While many people in Aleppo still say they, too, want rid of Assad, the rebels' inability to bring order or to improve the miserable conditions of the city, an ancient jewel of the Arab world now ravaged by 21st-century war, is losing them support."
2013-01-09,BBC News - The girls stolen from the streets of India
2013-01-09,"Taiwanese linguist races to save dying language:  Her eyes lit bright with concentration, Taiwanese linguist Sung Li-may leans in expectantly as one of the planets last 10 speakers of the Kanakanavu language shares his hopes for the future."
2013-01-09,"Man falls onto subway track in Canada, with sound of an oncoming train filling the station. Student jumps onto the tracks to try to lift him out of harm's way...."
2013-01-09,Indian soldier killed in Kashmir was beheaded
2013-01-09,"A massive fire tore through a waterfront slum in Nigeria's megacity of Lagos on Tuesday, burning down dozens of shack workshops and homes. The only sirens heard came from convoys of police and soldiers roaring by guarding the nation's business and political elite."
2013-01-09,US could withdraw all Afghanistan troops 
2013-01-09,Healthcare managers in the Madrid region are resigning over plans to privatise part of the health service in and around the Spanish capital.
2013-01-09, Ex-Abu Ghraib inmates get $5m settlement from US firm
2013-01-08,Poachers killed a family of 11 elephants in the biggest single mass shooting of the animals on record in Kenya.
2013-01-08,"Australia's heatwave off the scale, the Bureau of Meteorology forced to add new colour to charts as ""dome of heat"" pushes 51C (123.8F) "
2013-01-08,"Poachers are not only killing elephants, but also the park rangers who are trying to protect them."
2013-01-08,"In a world first, McDonald's in Australia will temporarily re-name some stores to what 55 percent of Australians now call the company: 'Macca's'"
2013-01-08,Gamers hired by father to 'kill' son in online games
2013-01-08,Anger online as Saudi in his 90s marries 15-year-old
2013-01-08,"In Bollywood films, men routinely chase and harass women. The message from Bollywood is almost always that if you harass a woman enough, ""no matter how often she says no, she'll ultimately say yes""."
2013-01-08,Outrage as Indian guru blames Delhi rape victim
2013-01-08,A surprising map of the best and worst countries to be born into today
2013-01-08,"Australia - Nation on high alert, over 100 fires in the state of New South Wales alone."
2013-01-08,"Two Indian soldiers have been shot dead in the disputed Kashmir region between India and Pakistan, officials say."
2013-01-08,Archaeologists in Israel discover synagogue dating from time of Jesus 
2013-01-08,Students at North Korea's premier university have showed Google's executive chairman how they look for information online: they Google it.
2013-01-08,Hunger Striking First Nations Chief Audited - Revealing Majority of $104M from Canadian government not properly accounted for - CBC News
2013-01-08,"In Unprecedented Protest to State Censorship, Chinese Media Outlets Run Disclaimer Stating They Don't Support State-Mandated Editorial Denouncing Southern Weekly"
2013-01-08,Iran admits oil exports fall by 40 percent amid crippling Western sanctions
2013-01-08,Environmental activist creates a fake media release to wipe over $300 million worth of value from the stock of one of Australias biggest miners. 
2013-01-08,Syria crisis: Food aid 'cannot reach a million people'
2013-01-08,Kim Jong-Un sends 2.2 pounds of sweets to every child in North Korea to mark his birthday.
2013-01-08,"Fifteen year old girl repeatedly raped by her father and whose baby was murdered faces flogging for ""fornicating"" with another man in the Maldives."
2013-01-08,New Record for German Exports Expected for 2012 Despite Euro Crisis - SPIEGEL ONLINE
2013-01-08,"After Outsourcing Boom, An 'Insourcing' Comeback? : NPR"
2013-01-08,British Soldier Killed By 'Uniformed Afghan'
2013-01-08,Latest drone strike kills eight in northwest Pakistan
2013-01-08,"Indonesia's Aceh province proposes new law banning female passengers from straddling on motorcycles, because women's curves are more visible"
2013-01-07,"Mother Jailed For Murdering Seven-Year-Old Son, for failing to learn Koran"
2013-01-07,The IMF Has Admitted Their Economists Were Wrong
2013-01-07,US drone strike kills 17 in Pakistan
2013-01-07,South Africa: Women Drinking To Harm Babies
2013-01-07,Tweeter gets 2-year jail term for criticizing Amir of Kuwait
2013-01-07,China blazes trail for 'clean' nuclear power from thorium
2013-01-07,"Indian Politician: ""Women should be just housewives"""
2013-01-07,Protesters in China call for press freedoms
2013-01-07,"German Chancellor Angela Merkel: ""deployments overseas 'will soon encompass the entire globe.'"""
2013-01-07,China's 'freedom of speech' standoff - Al Jazeera
2013-01-07,"French film star Gerard Depardieu received a hug from President Vladimir Putin and a new Russian passport on Sunday after abandoning his homeland to avoid a new tax rate for millionaires.
| Reuters"
2013-01-07,China's Growing Appetite for New Kinds of Luxury Goods: Illegal Drugs
2013-01-07,"BBC News: The rapes that India forgot (yes, more distressing stories of justice not served, including rapes by the police, and rapists not charged with crimes)"
2013-01-07,"Chinese city fails to report huge toxic leak, cuts off water to 1 million - ""Handan, located in Hebei province, has seen its primary water supply cut off since Saturday afternoon."""
2013-01-07,The Tax Man Takes Aim at World's Wealthy - Multinational corporations defend themselves by pointing out they're only taking advantage of international laws.  Italy's central bank Wed. suspended credit & debit card payments & cash withdrawals  in Vatican City.
2013-01-07,Australia's Mining Boom Creates Demand For Sex Workers 
2013-01-07,"Israeli firm to design San Diego desalination plant - the largest of its kind in western hemisphere
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2013-01-07,Thousands Stranded as Crews Battle Bushfires Tearing Across Tasmania - Some 100 people missing in out of control blazes.  Fires broke out in extreme heat Friday & thousands of residents & tourists remain stranded & without power.
2013-01-07,Syria President Bashar Assad makes clear he won't step down  
2013-01-07,"In Asia, Ill Will Runs Deep: The resentments between China and Japan predate World War II by centuries"
2013-01-07,Chinese mayor apologizes for taking 5 days to report chemical leak that contaminated water
2013-01-07,Violent demonstrations injure dozens of police in Northern Ireland
2013-01-07,Morsi Expands Brotherhood Influence in Egyptian Cabinet
2013-01-07,The Greek island of old age
2013-01-07,"British Army accused of 'wrongly punishing' 1,400 soldiers"
2013-01-06,"India's Supreme Court commutes death penalty for man who brutally killed 65-year-old woman, raped and stabbed pregnant granddaughter-in-law "
2013-01-06,UK PM David Cameron warns he is ready to fight another war with Argentina to keep control of Falklands
2013-01-06,"""Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice"""
2013-01-06,Radioactive waste dumped into rivers during decontamination work in Fukushima 
2013-01-06,"Cat Caught 'Sneaking' Drill Bits, Files, EarPhones, Phone & Charger Into Brazilian Prison"
2013-01-06,"Brazilian Girl selling her virginity to raise money for her bedridden mother, and highest bid currently stands at $35,000"
2013-01-06,Banana Republic Justice: Behind The Scenes Of The Pirate Bay Trial
2013-01-06,Mass protests against government spread in Iraq  
2013-01-06,Pakistan mob mutilate and kills man for 'burning Quran'
2013-01-06,"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad made his first public appearance in months on Sunday, calling for a ""full national mobilization"" to fight against rebels he described as al Qaeda terrorists."
2013-01-06, Honduran ambassador to Colombia sacked after wild party
2013-01-06,"The father of an Indian student whose brutal rape provoked a global outcry said he wanted her name made public so she could be an inspiration to victims of sexual assault, a call that was quickly taken up by social media users and may pressure authorities to allow her identity to be revealed."
2013-01-06,Chinese anti-corruption drive nets official with 47 mistresses
2013-01-06,Grard Depardieu meets Vladimir Putin and gets his Russian passport
2013-01-06,"Oldest Swiss bank Wegelin to close after admitting aiding US tax evasion. Founded in 1741, Wegelin pleaded guilty in court to helping wealthy Americans hide their income in secret offshore accounts"
2013-01-06,Somalia Faces Alarming Rise in Rapes of Women and Girls
2013-01-06,"Indian Government going to recruit 2500 women police officers in Delhi, recommends that all other states bring up women police % up to 33% of police force."
2013-01-06,"Female genital mutilation - unreported, ignored and unpunished | Independent.co.uk"
2013-01-06,"""In yet another incident of the same police station, a woman was raped in 1976 and her case is also awaiting committal."""
2013-01-06,Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
2013-01-06,India 'kills Pakistani soldier in Kashmir'
2013-01-06,US troops arrive in Turkey to protect it from Syrian scuds as Rebels are posed to capture a key airport from Assad
2013-01-06,"'Malala survived  that is a big defeat. Now they want to kill many Malalas':  As the Pakistani schoolgirl leaves hospital in Britain, extremists continue their murderous campaign by turning their guns on health workers and teachers"
2013-01-06,Why Japan Can't Compete With China:  Tokyo officials are relying on retirees and aging ships to fill a temporary shortfall in coast guard manpower -- a move that reveals the broader limits of Japan's capabilities.
2013-01-06,Pakistan says 1 dead in border clash with India - World - CBC News
2013-01-05,"North Korea to open economy for foreign investment this year supported by German economic and legal experts. ""They are interested in the Vietnamese model"""
2013-01-05,"Two Swedes Renditioned To The US, Possibly To Death Penalty, In Secrecy And Without Lawyers Knowledge"
2013-01-05,Indian politician publicly beaten by crowd after he is caught raping a woman
2013-01-05,"After Years in Solitary, an Austere Life as Uruguays President - Jos Mujica, a former guerrilla who took office in 2010, donates most of his salary, shuns opulence and lives modestly, as he says the leader of a democracy should. "
2013-01-05,In Pakistan 9-year-old in critical condition after gang-rape
2013-01-05,First LGBT-friendly mosque opens in France
2013-01-05,"German solar power installations at record high in 2012: Capacity grew by more than 7.6 gigawatt, breaking the previous records of 7.5 GW in 2011 and 7.4 GW in 2010, and far above the 2.5 to 3.5 GW Berlin would like to see each year"
2013-01-05,Australian heist goes wrong as robbers tunnel into KFC not jewelers 
2013-01-05,A New Account Of India's Brutal Gang Rape Is Out  And It Makes Delhi's Police Look Awful
2013-01-05,"The Palestinian Authority has officially changed its name to 'State of Palestine,' in its first concrete  albeit symbolic - move since its successful UN bid for statehood."
2013-01-05,"Asia is Purchasing Nearly all of Irans Oil - Even as they cut their imports, China, India, S. Korea, and Japan account for nearly all of Iran's oil sales."
2013-01-05,"As a Girl in India, I Learned to Be Afraid of Men"
2013-01-05,Church of England lifts ban on gay bishops
2013-01-05,France's censorship demands to Twitter are more dangerous than 'hate speech'. Few ideas have done as much damage throughout history as empowering the government to criminalize opinions it dislikes
2013-01-05,"Israeli fighting Assad 'can't go home' - 
Arab Israeli who joined rebel forces in Syria says they burned his passport, refuse to allow him to leave"
2013-01-05,"
Google concedes defeat in China censorship battle. 

US company quietly drops warning message that Chinese users saw when searching for politically sensitive phrases
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2013-01-05,"Mexican drug gangs dig into mining industry -- The Zetas cartel, one of Mexico's most violent groups, has moved into coal mining as it's ""more lucrative than drugs"""
2013-01-05,"Kenyan man butchers, feasts on 5-year-old son"
2013-01-05,Union flag protests: Nine police officers hurt in fresh flag trouble. Police said more than 30 petrol bombs and other missiles were thrown as police dealt with serious public disorder in east Belfast.
2013-01-05,Unruly passenger taped to seat on Iceland Air flight
2013-01-05,"Another Indian town council bans use of mobile phones by girls - ""excessive use of mobile for listening to music and talking to men led to crime against women."" "
2013-01-05,Hong Kong dries thousands of shark fins on rooftops to avoid prying eyes of environmentalists..
2013-01-05,Islamic Jihad vows to fight the Jews if they return to Egypt | Egypt Independent
2013-01-05,Burma: Moustache Brothers keep on telling jokes after prison and torture.
2013-01-05,China gearing up for anti-satellite test
2013-01-04,Soccer team walks out on game in Italy after African player is taunted with monkey chants
2013-01-04,Obese who refuse to exercise 'could face benefits cut' in the UK
2013-01-04,How to Halt the Terrorist Money Train? Step 1: Make bankers stop laundering dirty cash
2013-01-04,"Japanese man vacations on Syrian front lines. Im not a target for snipers because Im a tourist, not like you journalists. Besides, Im not afraid if they shoot at me or that they might kill me. Im a combination of samurai and kamikaze."
2013-01-04,Switzerland's oldest bank became the first foreign bank to plead guilty in the United States to tax charges when it admitted Thursday that it helped American clients hide more than $1.2 billion from the Internal Revenue Service.
2013-01-04,Woman jumps from speeding train in India to avoid molestors.
2013-01-04,"Journalists at a leading Chinese newspaper have called for a propaganda chief to resign, in a rare protest against censorship."
2013-01-04,"Disastrous relief for Haiti: Three years on from the quake, it's evident reconstruction has been fatally undermined by greedy and incompetent outsiders"
2013-01-04,Ryanair pilots claim they are pressured into filling their airplanes with too little fuel. 
2013-01-04,Evidence has been promised to a French court that could prove former President Nicolas Sarkozy accepted more than 50 million in campaign donations from ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. (x-post /r/politics)
2013-01-04,An amazing mea culpa from the IMFs chief economist on austerity
2013-01-04,Governor Shuts Down Tehran Over Pollution - Only emergency & health services will report for work.  It's 2nd time in a month  activities have been ordered halted because of air pollution.
2013-01-04,"Could gang-rape protests mark beginning of an age of activism for India?  

India's youth bulge and its disillusionment with political leaders may have helped drive recent post-rape protests and an anticorruption movement. But it's not clear the new activism will sustain itself."
2013-01-04,Palestinian Authority And Hamas Both Refuse To Take In Palestinian Refugees From Syria
2013-01-04,The Disappeared - Even the Soviet Union eventually acknowledged Stalin's Great Famine. Why does China still hide evidence of its own mass starvation under Mao?
2013-01-04,"Narwhal Tusk Smuggling Ring Busted - Does your neighbor have a Narwhal tusk displayed? It was likely smuggled illegally from Canada.  Body parts of the rare whales were bought legally in Canada, then smuggled across a New Brunswick-to-Maine border, & resold for black-market prices in US. 
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2013-01-04,"Magazine firebombed for printing satirical 'Sharia' edition in France publishes Prophet Mohammed cartoon book

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2013-01-04,Bored truck driver plays war tourist in Syria
2013-01-04,BBC News - Church of England drops gay bishop opposition
2013-01-04,Argentina's understanding of history is laughable - Telegraph
2013-01-04,"Drone attacks unacceptable: Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesman said the attacks were illegal, unacceptable and against Islamabads sovereignty."
2013-01-04,BBC News - Hugo Chavez suffers 'complications' after surgery
2013-01-04,"60,000 Dead in Syria? Why the Death Toll Is Likely Even Higher - The Atlantic"
2013-01-04,India. Assam women beat 'sex-attack politician' Bikram Singh Brahma
2013-01-04,Anti-government protests rage across Iraq 
2013-01-03,Australian PM says abolishing compulsory voting would make democracy the plaything of cashed up interest groups.
2013-01-03,Spanish city's locksmiths say they'll no longer assist with evictions
2013-01-03,"Nicolas Sarkozy DID take $50 million of Muammar Gaddafi's cash, French judge is told"
2013-01-03,Al Jazeera Acquires Current TV
2013-01-03,Icelandic Girl Fights For Right To Her Own Name.
2013-01-03,Kim Jong-un's wife 'has given birth' in North Korea
2013-01-03,Indian politician attacked for alleged involvement in rape: Police in India have arrested a leader of the ruling Congress party on accusations he raped a woman in a village in the early hours of the morning
2013-01-03,Controversial Israeli law banning too-skinny models went into effect with the start of 2013.
2013-01-03,Sexual violence is not a cultural phenomenon in India - it is endemic everywhere
2013-01-03,"Why Japan's 'Fukushima 50' Remain Unknown - Entering exclusion zone around crippled Fukushima plant is an unnerving experience. It's also illegal.  But without a Geiger counter, it'd be easy to forget this is now one of the most contaminated places on Earth."
2013-01-03,Measles outbreak kills hundreds in Pakistan
2013-01-03,Muslim scholar vehemently condemns treatment of rape victims in Muslim-majority countries
2013-01-03,A Look Inside North Korea 
2013-01-03,"Palestinian owners barred from Jordan Valley land, while Israeli farmers profit"
2013-01-03,BBC News - Indonesia city to ban women 'straddling motorbikes'
2013-01-03,Argentina reignites Falklands row
2013-01-03,Canada's Indigenous movement gains momentum
2013-01-03,Murder Charges Are Expected Against 5 Men in New Delhi Gang Rape
2013-01-03,Al Jazeera to start new U.S.-based News Channel
2013-01-03,Russia restricts sale of beer to reduce problematic alcoholism in the country.
2013-01-03,Icelandic girl fights for right to her own name
2013-01-03,"U.S. drone strike kills key Pakistan Taliban commander - sources
| Reuters"
2013-01-03,"In the Middle East, the Arab spring has given way to a Christian winter |  The Guardian"
2013-01-03,"Rio geared towards bike-friendly future: Brazilian metropolis turns to old-fashioned pedal power to ease grinding, hours-long traffic jams"
2013-01-03,Delhi gang rape: Victim's father says juvenile should be hanged as govt plans to amend criminal laws
2013-01-02,"In Pakistan: Gunmen stop a van containing teachers that educate girls, shoot and murder 5 teachers and 2 aid workers"
2013-01-02,Russia boosts space spending: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved a plan to spend $68.71 billion on developing Russia's space industry from 2013 to 2020
2013-01-02,"Japan's Population Falls by 212,000 in 2012 (record drop)"
2013-01-02,"Solar energy on the rise in Germany - the recent solar boom means the alternative form of energy now reaches 8 million homes in Germany, a 45 percent increase compared to 2011"
2013-01-02,"Pakistan is developing a new generation of smaller ""tactical"" nuclear weapons. The dangers and challenges such arms present are very real."
2013-01-02,"Six women and a man, working for a health and education charity, have been shot dead in a drive-by shooting after they left a community centre in northwest Pakistan, police say. The victims of Tuesday's attack were all Pakistanis attached to the community centre in a Swabi village."
2013-01-02,"52,000 Amerasians, the illegitimate children of Filipino women and US soldiers,  fight for recognition in the Philippines.  "
2013-01-02,Insight: How Colombian drug traffickers used HSBC to launder money
2013-01-02,Indian lawyers refuse to defend gang rape accused
2013-01-02,Euros discarded as impoverished Greeks resort to bartering
2013-01-02,60 people have been killed in a stampede following a New Year's fireworks 
2013-01-02,Hollande refuses to ditch super-tax  - President tells France 'we will still ask more of those who have the most' after court rules proposed 75% rate unconstitutional 
2013-01-02,An Indian minister has called on the authorities to reveal the name of the Delhi gang-rape victim so that a new anti-rape law can be named after her.
2013-01-02,Al Saud remains hostile towards democracy and human rights. The Al Saud family of Saudi Arabia has dealt heavy crackdowns on peaceful protesters who demand democracy and human rights
2013-01-02,"Blood of Beheaded French King Louis XVI ""Found in Gourd"" -   Many spectators dipped their handkerchiefs in his blood.  A piece of fabric was in a dried, hollowed-out gourd, leaving blood stains. The DNA is very similar to genetic material from  mummified head of earlier  king. "
2013-01-02,Egypt satirist faces probe for insulting president
2013-01-02,"Israel will cease to exist within a decade, says Muslim Brotherhood official  - Telegraph"
2013-01-02,"Over 60,000 dead in Syria conflict, U.N. says"
2013-01-02,Qatari poet jailed for insulting the state's ruler. 
2013-01-02," Egypt satirist faces probe for 'undermining' Morsi -- 
Bassem Youssef, Egypt's alternative to Jon Stewart, faces investigation after insulting the president on television. "
2013-01-02,"Armed robbers hit Apple store in Paris, reportedly steal $1.3 million in goods"
2013-01-02,Drug-resistant malaria in Thailand threatens deadly global 'nightmare'
2013-01-02,"In Myanmar, Muslim survivors recall Buddhist assault that forced mass exodus - The Washington Post"
2013-01-02,Israeli-Palestinian Clashes Erupt in West Bank 
2013-01-02,"Drop in North Korean refugees to South Korea. Significantly fewer people fled North Korea towards the South in 2012 compared with 2011, data from Seoul shows"
2013-01-01,"North Korean leader, in rare address, seeks end to confrontation with South"
2013-01-01,"It will cost Canada 25 times more to close the Experimental Lakes Area research centre than it will to keep it open next year, yet the centre is closing."
2013-01-01,"Raped by 42 men in 40 days. Sixteen years later, she awaits justice, Kerala, India"
2013-01-01,Planet's oldest fossils at 3.49 billion years old found in Australia.
2013-01-01,121 Journalists Killed on Duty in 2012
2013-01-01,"Palestinians to outnumber Jewish population by 2020, says PA report - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper"
2013-01-01,Kim Jong-Un calls for an end to confrontation with South Korea - Reuters
2013-01-01,"Japans New Leader Endorses Nuclear Plants
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2013-01-01, Egypt official: Israel will be wiped out in a decade
2013-01-01,"Extremism unchecked in schools, secret briefing reveals - Telegraph"
2013-01-01,"Britain is expected to lose its AAA credit rating this year, dealing a blow to George Osborne's defence of deep spending cuts as the key to retaining Britain's status with global investors."
2013-01-01,Africa: Where black is not really beautiful
2013-01-01,LOTR trilogy sound editor Hopkins dies in NZ
2013-01-01,"Multiple Feuds Bring Record Year of Violence to Karachi -  
The sad truth was whatever your religion, business affiliation, or political party, someone was willing to kill you for it. The murder rate in Pakistan's largest city & commercial hub hit an all time high."
2013-01-01,North Korea's Kim Jong-Un vows radical economic shift
2013-01-01,"Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban, for 3 Minutes"
2013-01-01,Poverty in one of the world's richest kingdoms: Saudi Arabia
2013-01-01,Ghana bans second-hand fridges:  A ban on the import of second-hand refrigerators is coming into force in Ghana to reduce energy consumption and harm to the environment.
2013-01-01,Man arrested after online rant against Liverpool and Hillsborough disaster victims 
2013-01-01,American plane leaves Iran after emergency landing
2013-01-01,China Kicks Out 'New York Times' Reporter
2013-01-01,Syrian PM says Assad ready for peace talks
2013-01-01,Venezuela fearing the worst amid reports Hugo Chavez is close to death
2013-01-01,"Ivory Coast New Year stampede kill dozens.
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2013-01-01,Indian police to officially charge 5 suspects with murder in gang-rape case. The sixth suspect in the case that has outraged the country is under 18 and a juvenile
2012-12-31,A young Nepali woman returning from Saudi Arabia is robbed by immigration officials and raped by a policeman 
2012-12-31,Victim's brother wants Indian gang rapists hanged
2012-12-31,Scientists fear Canada will fish bluefin tuna and other species to extinction
2012-12-31,New rights will 'effectively end homelessness' in Scotland 
2012-12-31,"Controversial surgery in China for addiction burns away brain's pleasure center: By destroying parts of the brain's ""pleasure centers"" in heroin addicts and alcoholics, these Chinese neurosurgeons hope to stop drug cravings"
2012-12-31,A French weekly known for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to the ire of conservative Muslims said Sunday it plans to release a comic book biography of Islams founder that will be researched and educational
2012-12-31,"""The Opec oil cartel, led by Saudi Arabia, will pocket a record of more than US$1tn in net oil revenues in 2012 as the annual average price for Brent, the benchmark, heads to an all-time high in spite of weak economic growth."""
2012-12-31,"Police Trap Reveals How Afghan Insider Attacks Work - The Taliban believed Beyar Khan Weyaar was perfect candidate to prepare an insider attack on Afghan police, but instead he set a daring trap that has given a rare insight into suicide bombing tactics."
2012-12-31,Sunshine is abundant in Qatar. All that untapped solar power could create a new energy economy in this oil-rich nation. Researchers are already testing solar-powered cooling systems and water desalination plants
2012-12-31,"Energy Company Staff Discovered Working at Climate Ministry -   Green party MP says fossil fuel giants have no place there. ""...it's even more outrageous taxpayers are footing the bill.""  At a time British Gas customers are struggling, it's  to make 1.4bn profits this year. "
2012-12-31,"
It'll take less than 2 inches of rain by month's end to make 2012 the wettest year ever in Britain - How Britain went from a drought to a deluge"
2012-12-31,"Pakistan militants kill 41 in mass execution, attack on Shi'ites"
2012-12-31,Abu Qatada family say they want to leave 'racist' UK - Telegraph
2012-12-31,"Yahoo exits S. Korea, halts service"
2012-12-31,"Costa Rica moves toward national ban on hunting --  Costa Rica, a tropical country known for its national parks and ecotourism, has gone one step further to protect its environment: a ban on hunting."
2012-12-31,"Afghans angry at US soldiers who drove away in the night leaving rent unpaid: US forces left behind piles of equipment, an unpaid rent bill and a festering land dispute that threatens to undermine the Afghan government when they moved out of a volatile corner of eastern Kunar province"
2012-12-31,Syrian rebels 'beheaded Christian and fed him to dogs' | THE AUSTRALIAN
2012-12-31," Russia Sends Another Naval Ship to Syria - No reason given, but Russian diplomats say Moscow is preparing  to evacuate thousands of Russians from Syria if necessary."
2012-12-31,Indian rape victim was 'planning to marry man she was attacked with' - Telegraph
2012-12-31,Pregnant US woman Caitlan Coleman missing in Afghanistan with husband
2012-12-31,Will Egypt's Jon Stewart be stifled? - CNN.com
2012-12-31,"National Trust triess to block 100m Giant's Causeway golf course - 
Campaigning group challenges Donald Trump-style plan backed by Northern Irish politicians for 5-star resort on world heritage site"
2012-12-31,"Pakistani Taliban execute captured policemen:  At least 21 men who belonged to a paramilitary force shot dead in Peshawar by their captors, say government officials."
2012-12-31,German magazine mistakenly publishes obituary for former US President George H.W. Bush
2012-12-31,"Sex, drugs and rock and roll: Australia's other boom
| Reuters"
2012-12-30,"To save wildlife, and tourism, Kenyans take up arms. 'In a growing number of communities here, people are so eager, even desperate, to protect their wildlife that civilians with no military experience are banding together and risking their lives to confront heavily armed poaching gangs'"
2012-12-30,"Australia condemns Japan for whale hunt, threatens Japan with diplomatic action unless it stops 'scientific' whaling program -- Tony Burke, Australia's environment minister, condemned the move by Japan, describing the claims that its whaling program is for scientific research as ""a joke"""
2012-12-30,"Indian government is proposing law to put rapists in prison for 30 years, and includes chemical Castration."
2012-12-30,"France, home to the largest European population of Jews and Muslims,  sees spike of violence against Jews from young Muslim men"
2012-12-30,21 Pakistani policemen found shot dead
2012-12-30,"Rita Levi Montalcini, Nobel Prizewinner in Medicine, Dies at 103"
2012-12-30,"Russian police free child hostage, kill seven militants in Dagestan
| Reuters"
2012-12-30,Mexican navy kills 4 trying to recover drug boss' body
2012-12-30,Dead Sea Scrolls Digitally Launched As Never Seen Before By The Public (x-archeology)
2012-12-30,"Pakistan lifts YouTube ban, only to reinstate it after three minutes"
2012-12-30,Drone War Spurs Militants to Deadly Reprisals
2012-12-30,Iran to move airport after oil found under runway
2012-12-30,Bolivia nationalises electricity companies 
2012-12-30,20 Shiite pilgrims killed in Pakistan bus attacks
2012-12-30,Unemployment rate in France climbs for 19th month in row
2012-12-30,Eight Are Charged With Chilean Singers 1973 Murder After Military Coup
2012-12-30,No I'M the world's oldest person! Chinese woman aged 127 takes on 'young man' from Japan who is aged just 115
2012-12-30,"In the United Arab Emirates, poorly paid gas station attendants are routinely strip-searched to make sure they're not keeping any tips customers have given them. If they do, they're fired."
2012-12-30,BBC News - Bolivia takes over Spanish-owned energy suppliers
2012-12-30, Philippine president signs contraception law: A family-planning bill that was blocked by the Catholic Church for more than a decade is approved by the president. It allows government funding for contraceptives that would be made available especially for poor women.
2012-12-30,A New Player in the Narcotics Trade - Indonesia's National Narcotics Agency is concerned Iranian drug syndicates are using asylum seekers as smugglers. 
2012-12-30,"Hezbollah's cocaine Jihad  - Faced with dwindling Iranian funding, Shiite terror group partners with Mexican drug cartels; uses millions of dollars in drug money to support weapon acquisition habit"
2012-12-30,Indian math genius Ramanujan's cryptic deathbed theory finally proved correct after 100 years
2012-12-30,National uproar over young womans death triggers public conversation about rape  in India
2012-12-30,French court throws out Hollande's tax on rich
2012-12-29,BBC News - Delhi gang-rape victim dies in hospital in Singapore
2012-12-29,A world without bees would be a very different place
2012-12-29,Executives at Collapsed Iceland Bank Jailed for Fraud
2012-12-29,"At Least 15 Tied Up & Killed - Suspected radical Islamists attacked Nigerian village, tying up men, women & children before slitting their throats.  ""We heard chanting, 'God is great, God is great' amid sounds of banging on doors.   ...children were heard screaming.""

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2012-12-29,Heirs of Maos Comrades Rise as New Capitalist Nobility - How children of China's Communist old guard got so rich. They were put in charge of state corporations created in 1980s. Used assets and cashflow to build private real estate empires in 1990s. Now their kids crash Ferraris
2012-12-29,"UK has one of highest rates of family breakdown in the Western world, with just 68.9% of children living with both parents - It's behind only Belgium, Latvia & Estonia.  Finland has the most children living with both parents, at 95.2%.

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2012-12-29,Mexico Lifting Gay Blood Donation Ban
2012-12-29,A series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in scenes with strong homosexual overtones on display at Pakistan's leading arts college sparked an uproar and threats of violence by Islamic extremists.
2012-12-29,French 75% income tax struck down by constitutional council
2012-12-29,Wojtek the beer-drinking soldier bear statue planned
2012-12-29,"Australia Angry, Condemns Japan Whale Hunt - ""It's particularly offensive that Japan's whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.""  Australia  condemns Japan's ""so-called 'scientific' whaling"".  Japan will hunt up to 935 Antarctic minke whales & up to 50 fin whales through March. "
2012-12-29,A Moscow court has acquitted the only official charged with the death of whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky
2012-12-29,"Along Chinese Border, Defectors Say N Korean Province is Quietly Liberalizing, Experiencing a Degree of Relative Wealth & Freedom Unknown in the Rest of the Country - Residents are said to have regular access to rice.  ...you can lead a decent life. "
2012-12-29," Greek official caught in financial scandal. 
Pasok party ejects former finance minister for allegedly removing relatives' names from list probed for tax evasion.
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2012-12-29,"B.C. Man Sues Wal-Mart After Heater Allegedly Starts Fire, Burns Down House - Alleges Wal-Mart & heaters maker, Fusion Canada, had a duty to warn of any defects & to ensure the heater was reasonably inspected before sale."
2012-12-29,"Passengers & Crew on  Luxury Cruise Ship Sickened by Mystery Pathogen - Unknown illness, suspected of being a norovirus, has sickened 194 passengers & 11 crew  on  Queen Mary 2, causing vomiting & diarrhea.  Earlier this week, 189 passengers & 31 crew on the Emerald Princess had same symptoms."
2012-12-29,"Out Of Desperation, North Korean Women Become Breadwinners"
2012-12-29,"Venezuela: South America's Most Dangerous Country - According to calculations made by a respected NGO, Venezuela is now far & away the most dangerous country in South America, with Caracas one of the most dangerous capitals in the world."
2012-12-29,China's growing hunger for seafood is testing relations with other countries and worrying foreign officials and scientists over the potential damage its massive fleet could do to global fishing stocks
2012-12-29,Pharma Firms Tested Drugs on East Germans - Over  50 Western firms had contracts with East Germany's Health Ministry to carry out 165 medical tests between 1983-1989 for money. Test subjects often were not informed.
2012-12-29,India charges six suspects with murder after victim of horrific gang rape dies
2012-12-29,"German members of parliament call for creating a ""Minister of Internet"" after next election"
2012-12-29,World's largest building nears completion
2012-12-29,Four Thais found guilty of human trafficking were sentenced to between three and 10 years imprisonment yesterday for their intricate involvement in the 2008 death truck that left 54 Burmese dead from suffocation inside a seafood container bound for Phuket
2012-12-29,BBC News - Delhi rape victim's condition 'deteriorates'
2012-12-28,"A 17-year-old Indian girl who was gang-raped killed herself after police pressured her to drop the case and marry one of her attackers, police and a relative said on Thursday."
2012-12-28,"Belgium prosecutes Scientology as a criminal organisation. Charges are: extortion, fraud, privacy breaches and practice of illegal medicine."
2012-12-28,China has passed a law requiring adult children to visit their elderly parents regularly or risk being sued.
2012-12-28,Chinese labor camp worker hides note inside Halloween decorations
2012-12-28,"Saudi detains dozens for ""plotting to celebrate Christmas"""
2012-12-28,First wolf sighting in the Netherlands since 1897
2012-12-28,"Catholic Priest Sparks Outrage in Italy by Claiming Women Bring Violence on Themselves by Dressing Provocatively & Neglecting Housework - ""They provoke the worst instincts, which end in violence or sexual abuse. They should search their consciences & ask: did we bring this on ourselves?"""
2012-12-28,"
Surge in 'Honor killings' Bring Dishonor to India - The policeman jumped to his feet as a brother   placed his sister's head on the table.  Nilofar Bibi, 22, was only 14  when she entered an arranged marriage. Alleging torture  by her in-laws, Bibi returned to her parents &  vanished. "
2012-12-28,Ancient Mayan Temple in Guatemala Irreparably Damaged by End-of-World Parties
2012-12-28,"Islamists Harsh Justice Is on the Rise in North Mali - Amputations have occurred at least 14 times since the Islamist takeover of the region last spring, with a vow of more to come. "
2012-12-28,German court allows patients to grow own pot | Germany | DW.DE | 27.12.2012
2012-12-28,A top official hinted Thursday that Japans newly installed conservative government might seek to revise a nearly two-decade-old official apology to women forced into sexual slavery during World War II.
2012-12-28,"2,750-year-old temple discovered in Israel"
2012-12-28,Hamas bans Palestinian journalists from Israeli media co-operation | World news | guardian.co.uk
2012-12-28,"Betrayed While They Sleep, Afghan Police Are Dying in Numbers"
2012-12-28,China has tightened its rules on internet usage to enforce a previous requirement that users fully identify themselves to service providers.
2012-12-28,US evacuates Central African Republic embassy as rebels advance on capital.
2012-12-28,U.S. official: North Korea likely deceived U.S.
2012-12-28,Iran's only female cabinet minister sacked: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad takes action after health minister Marzieh Vahid Dastjerdi criticises colleagues
2012-12-28,"Egypts top prosecutor orders probe against Egypt's top opposition leaders: ElBaradei, Moussa and Sabahi"
2012-12-28,"Swedish Mother Used Christmas Gift to Murder Partner as he Slept
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2012-12-28,"Uttar Pradesh Gang-Rape Victim Raped, Threatened by Police Officers Probing Her Case (India)"
2012-12-28,Official in Japan's new government hints at revising apology to wartime sex slaves
2012-12-28,Germany Now a Shopping Destination for Wealthy Russians and Chinese
2012-12-28,The police slap heard all over Bahrain
2012-12-27,Putin Says He Will Sign Bill Banning Americans From Adopting Russian Children
2012-12-27,"PricewaterhouseCoopers sued for $900 million in Iceland for being an accomplice to the crimes of Landsbankinn, one of the three failed Icelandic banks"
2012-12-27,"India to Name & Shame Rapists - Govt to post photos, names & addresses of convicted rapists on official websites to publicly shame them in new measure to combat growing crime against women. "
2012-12-27,Villagers join al-Qaeda after deadly US strike
2012-12-27,Chemical Weapons use in Syria confirmed by defecting MP General
2012-12-27, Flurry of corruption revelations suggests Chinas new leadership getting serious about cronyism and bribery in state-run companies and local governments.
2012-12-27,BBC News - 33 ton aquarium bursts in shopping centre in Shanghai injuring 16 people
2012-12-27,"Brazilian cities hit by crack epidemic. 'Although crack is illegal, Brazilian officials view the problem as a public health matter in which the state has a paramount role in helping break addictions'"
2012-12-27,"Gerry Anderson, Thunderbirds creator, dies"
2012-12-27,Japan says it will review plans to abandon nuclear power
2012-12-27,Civilians rush to withdraw savings from banks after Egyptian president signs bill into law; US: We urge Morsi to bridge division.
2012-12-27,MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams 'probably locked himself into sports bag' - Telegraph
2012-12-27,"In Public Broadcast, High-Ranking Syrian General Defects in New Blow to Assad"
2012-12-27,'Brighter than a full moon': The biggest star of 2013... could be the comet of the century 
2012-12-27,"Proposal to ban polar bear hunts, trade sparks international controversy"
2012-12-27,"New Zealand's largest paper calls Kim Dotcom good for this country - 
Dotcom comes with drama, but he helped expose political scandal in the country"
2012-12-27,"China may require real name registration for internet access
| Reuters"
2012-12-27,"Would you eat less meat to help save the planet? - Westerners should halve their consumption of meat to prevent global warming caused by agriculture, scientists attending the Rio+20 summit in Brazil have said"
2012-12-27,World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens in China
2012-12-27,"Ancient Conehead-Like Alien Skulls Unearthed In Mexico: This was an Hispanic cemetery with 25 skulls, and 13 of them have deformed heads...We dont know why this population specifically deformed their heads."
2012-12-27,"Nine men in a small Mexican town were gunned down as they ate Christmas dinner - an escalation of the war between drug cartels in the state of Sinaloa. 
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2012-12-27,Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura to become oldest living man ever on record  - The Telegraph
2012-12-27,"Germany: Suspected Islamists attack Indian student | News  ,  International | THE DAILY STAR"
2012-12-27,Russia has sent 1200+ marines to Syria - developing
2012-12-27,BBC News - India tea workers burn boss to death in Assam state
2012-12-26,"Mexico Bishop Inspires, Infuriates by Telling 1,000s Gathered in Stadium That Politicians are Tied to Organized Crime, Lawmakers' Attempts to Curb Money Laundering are Intentionally Weak, & New Labor Reforms are a Way to Enslave Mexican Workers"
2012-12-26,"British Create Petition to Keep Piers Morgan in US - After a petition to deport the pro-gun control CNN host gains momentum, a counter-petition emerges"
2012-12-26,Defense Department of Canada removes report on killing of Canadian soldier by Israeli forces
2012-12-26,"When U.S. drones kill civilians, Yemens government tries to conceal it - The Washington Post"
2012-12-26,Dig Finds Evidence of Real Bethlehem - There's strong evidence Jesus was born in a Galilee village once celebrated as his birthplace. Emperor Justinian built a wall around it. It makes more sense Mary rode 7 km on a donkey rather than 150 km.  West Bank's Bethlehem likely wasn't inhabited then.
2012-12-26,Majority of Britons support fox hunting ban leaving the hunters none too pleased.
2012-12-26,Facebook Funneled Nearly Half A Billion Pounds In The Cayman Islands Last Year
2012-12-26,"""Faced with the threat of horse-mounted Sudanese elephant poachers armed with machine guns, the central African nation [Cameroon] has deployed military helicopters and 600 soldiers to try to protect the park [Bouba Ndjida National Park] and its animals."""
2012-12-26,Iranian lawmaker is complaining that Russian women technicians at the Bushehr nuclear power plant are violating the Islamic dress code
2012-12-26,"China's Finless Porpoises Now Rarer than Wild Pandas - Fishing, pollution, etc in Yangtze River   driving another species to extinction. It's one of worlds few remaining freshwater cetaceans.   Losing these top carnivores is an indication of the terrible state of the river ecosystem.""  . "
2012-12-26,The men who would save Mali's manuscripts - Islamist militants in Timbuktu destroyed graves & shrines associated with Sufism this year. Some fear the ancient manuscripts  are next.
2012-12-26,"Russias Brutal Early Winter Claims 123 Lives in Past 10 Days - In the past 24 hours, 201 people were hospitalized for hypothermia & frostbite, including 14 children.  Since the cold snap, 1,745 people were affected & over 800 hospitalized."
2012-12-26,Netanyahu: I'll strengthen settlements during next 4 years
2012-12-26,China says it is on alert after Japan dispatched fighter jets over the East China Sea.  Japanese media report Japan sent F15 fighter aircraft after detecting a Chinese marine surveillance plane in disputed airspace near contested islands in the East China Sea.
2012-12-26,"8 dead, 5,000 homeless in Christmas Day fires followed by riot in Philippine capital
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2012-12-26,Group of Indian Jews said to be from Lost Tribe move to Israel
2012-12-26,"In majority-Muslim Senegal, Christmas is flourishing -- Even the Grande Mosquee that dominates the citys skyline, is aglow in holiday lights.  "
2012-12-26,President Vladimir Putin is facing growing opposition to new legislation that would ban US citizens from adopting Russian children. 
2012-12-26,Policewoman who killed US aide in Kabul 'is Iranian'
2012-12-26,China cracks down on child-trafficking gangs. National operation spanning nine provinces leads to arrest of 355 suspects and the rescue of 89 abducted children.
2012-12-26,"An Iranian lawmaker has complained that female Russian technicians working at the Bushehr nuclear power plant are not respecting the countrys dress code despite that they are being paid to wear the Islamic headscarf, known as the hijab."
2012-12-26,"Canada's Food Safety Rules Not Much Good if Not Followed - Veteran cattleman has  simple solution to prevent E. coli outbreak making people sick, throwing 1,000s out of work & smearing the Canadian beef brand.  Industry officials  must do their jobs."
2012-12-26,China opens world's longest high-speed rail route
2012-12-26, Egyptian voters back new constitution
2012-12-26,"Facebook paid 2.9m tax on 840m profits made outside US, figures show "
2012-12-25,India rape victim raped by cops investigating case
2012-12-25,A 'dad' is tenth most popular Christmas list request for children - Telegraph
2012-12-25,Acid attack victim wins India's version Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Will spend her winnings on reconstructive surgery.
2012-12-25,"Al Jazeera plays the piper, but Qatar calls the tune: Long-time Berlin correspondent for Al Jazeera recently resigned from his post, says the Qatari government is exercising undue influence on Al Jazeera's reporting"
2012-12-25,Indian policeman killed in rape protests 
2012-12-25,"In an effort to safeguard some 20,000 jobs at a time of rising unemployment,
the Italian government has taken an unprecedented step. It has reversed a court order that called for the partial shutdown of Europe's biggest steel plant because it is spewing cancer-producing dioxins."
2012-12-25,Wife-beating husband gets 30 lashes | GulfNews.com
2012-12-25,"China may require real name registration for internet access. 'The government says such a system is needed to prevent people making malicious and anonymous accusations online and that many other countries already have such rules'
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2012-12-25,"Ethiopia has struggled with a shortage of qualified doctors for years. In an effort to resolve that, it's vastly increased the sizes of existing classes and opened 13 new schools. But critics say Ethiopia is training a generation of woefully unqualified doctors. "
2012-12-25,"Indian woman, daughter kill Mumbai stockbroker, cut him into 17 pieces"
2012-12-25,"Despite billions of dollars spent  and billions more allocated for Haiti but unspent  rebuilding has still barely begun and 357,785 Haitians languish in 496 tent camps."
2012-12-25,Christmas brings fear of church bombs in Nigeria
2012-12-25,Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond has announced that British Reaper Drones will be withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014- Defence Chiefs are furious
2012-12-25,5-yr-old raped by neighbour in India
2012-12-25,Jerusalem Catholic patriarch backs Palestinian state
2012-12-25,"For the first time since the 18th century, the European bison is returning to Germany to live in the wild. The wisent, as it is also known, has been brought to the country by a famous prince. Although the creatures' survival is uncertain, the project has already attracted considerable attention"
2012-12-25,"Leniency Denied, UBS Unit Admits Guilt in Rate Case - NYTimes.com"
2012-12-25,"Iran warns citizens to avoid US travel | Iran has issued a travel warning to its citizens against visiting the United States, an official said, after the death of an Iranian national reportedly following a grilling by US customs officials.
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2012-12-25,AFP: Mali Islamists destroying more Timbuktu mausoleums
2012-12-25,Jurez police officers allegedly force man to swallow bullets
2012-12-25,"Mentally-challenged woman raped by uncle, cousin in India"
2012-12-25,"Female circumcision is a right, says imam |  The Australian"
2012-12-25,South Korea mass singles dating event flooded by men
2012-12-25,"India clamps down on gang rape protests, PM appeals for calm:  Indian authorities throttled movement in the heart of the capital, shutting roads and railway stations in a bid to restore law and order after police fought pitched battles with protesters enraged by the gang rape of a young woman."
2012-12-25,BBC News - Macedonia budget sparks protests in front of parliament
2012-12-24,"Swaziland Bans Women From Wearing ""Rape-Provoking"" Mini-Skirts, Midriff-Revealing Tops & Low-Rise Jeans.  Offenders face 6-mos in  jail.  ""The act of the rapist is made easy, because it'd be easy to remove half-cloth worn by women.""  Those wearing such clothing are responsible for assaults or rapes."
2012-12-24,Air strike kills dozens of Syrians trying to buy bread
2012-12-24,Mayan temple damaged in tourist 'apocalypse' frenzy 
2012-12-24,"Human Rights Watch: Palestinian armed groups in Gaza violated the laws of war by launching rockets toward population centers from densely populated areas
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2012-12-24,Red alert issued for Chilean volcano
2012-12-24,From the Delhi police -- why women DESERVE to be raped
2012-12-24,Canadian backlash as cannibal killer named 'news maker of the year' by The Canadian Press
2012-12-24,"Syrian Troops 'Using Killer Gas Bombs' While Fighting Rebels in Homs - 
 ""Activists in Homs say 6 rebels died Sunday night because they inhaled odorle  Is gas & white smoke.""  Some felt nauseous with severe headaches. Some had fits. It's the 1st time activists have recorded these effects."
2012-12-24,Afghan Policewoman Kills US Advisor
2012-12-24,"New German party has its eye on the far-right torch. If authorities succeed in banning the neo-Nazi NPD, its successor is ready and waiting.
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2012-12-24,"Chile on high alert for volcano:  Chile has raised the alert level for the Copahue volcano to red, the highest possible, as seismic activity in the area increased overnight. "
2012-12-24,Red alert issued for volcano on Chile-Argentina border
2012-12-24,Counterfeit medicine from Asia threatens lives in Africa
2012-12-24,Syrian Christians fear bleak future after Assad
2012-12-24,Israel to join NATO activities amidst Turkey tension.
2012-12-24,"Muslim Brotherhood: Egyptians pass new constitution -- Preliminary results released by state run media show 64 percent of Egyptians voted yes.
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2012-12-24,Chinese school bus crash kills 11 children
2012-12-24,"North Korea warns South over giant Christmas tower- Pyongyang warned of unspecified consequences because of the tower, which Seoul allowed Christians to light on Saturday"
2012-12-24,Russian military presence in Syria poses challenge to US-led intervention - Advisers deployed with surface-to-air systems bolster President Assad's defences and complicate outcome of any future strikes
2012-12-24,India PM appeals for Delhi calm after rape protests
2012-12-24,"Minor girl in India raped, recorded and clip uploaded to the internet, in yet another crime against children/women"
2012-12-24,"Syrian Christians flee civil war, say they face a bleak future if Assad regime falls "
2012-12-24,Nigeria: Islamists kidnapp French engineer because of French Government's stance on Islam and Muslims. France recently banned the veil.
2012-12-24,China Holds Test Run on Worlds Longest High-Speed Railway Link.
2012-12-24,Russias only Hindu temple faces threat of demolition
2012-12-23,Philippines OKs divisive contraceptives bill: Philippine legislators passed a landmark bill that would provide government funding for contraceptives and sexuality classes in schools despite strong opposition by the dominant Roman Catholic Church and its followers
2012-12-23,"Indian protesters, mostly women, are being beaten in the street by India's ""Rapid Action Force"", a violently supressive police force.  Protests against an unpunished gang rape have turned violent.  The World's largest democracy is having an enormous humanitarian and political crisis."
2012-12-23,"
Jeremy Hunt 'disgusted and appalled' by reports of neglect at hospital where elderly man died of starvation: Reports claim some patients treated by Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospital Trust were left thirsty with drinks left out of reach while others were left to sit in their own excrement
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2012-12-23,"Crowdfunded Drones Could Save White Rhinos From Extinction - There are 4 North White rhinos in Kenya. They constitute 57% of the total population__there are only 7 in the world. They live on 90,000 acres patrolled by 120 rangers. "
2012-12-23,"West Island Catholic deacon removed from post after child porn charges: A prominent West Island (Montreal Quebec) deacon, who used to speak publicly about sexual crimes, has been charged with the production and distribution of 2,000 child pornography files following a police investigation"
2012-12-23,Egypt: 'Things are definitely worse than under the old regime'
2012-12-23,"India Police Kill Journalist During Protest Over Sex Attack - 
TV reporter shot when police fired on protest over attack on  film actress dragged from stage in full public view by an armed militant who tried to rape her. She managed to fight him off."
2012-12-23,"Welcome To Mato Grosso, The Giant Swath Of Land That's Feeding The Entire World"
2012-12-23,Israel says it will build settlements in East Jerusalem neighborhoods
2012-12-23,'Unprecedented' Public Rage Over Gang Rape In India
2012-12-23,"US and Russia agree on a plan to curtail theft of intellectual property, after Obama grants Russia ""permanent normal trade relations"" and the two nations agree to have the WTO's tenets apply between them"
2012-12-23,Taliban bomb kills nine including minister at Pakistan rally
2012-12-23,"Sydney mosque puts fatwa on Christmas, warning followers it is a ''sin'' to even wish people a Merry Christmas..."
2012-12-23,"""Pope Benedict XVI granted his former butler a Christmas pardon Saturday, forgiving him in person during a jailhouse meeting for stealing and leaking his private papers in one of the gravest Vatican security breaches in recent times. After the 15-minute meeting, Paolo Gabriele was freed"""
2012-12-23,UN suspends polio drive in Pakistan after eight people involved in the effort were shot dead in the past two days
2012-12-23,"Woman gang-raped, stripped naked in India"
2012-12-23,Stalins Statue Restored as Georgians Recall Happier Times  
2012-12-23,Google makes it possible for the masses to view portions of the Dead Sea Scrolls
2012-12-23,"Germany Warns Britain Against 'Blackmailing' EU  in Bid to Bring Powers Back Home From Brussels - ""We want to keep Britain in the EU & not force it out.   But I'll also say that does not mean anyone can blackmail us,""  says German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble."
2012-12-23,"""Hungary has amended its constitution to bar foreigners from buying farmland, a move the government called 'historic,' but one that could cause friction with the European Union."" "
2012-12-23,Thousands protest during anti-rape rallies in India
2012-12-23,"A hospital in Taiwan harvested organs and other body parts from one of six executed death row inmates, in a controversial procedure that could help five patients"
2012-12-23,Syrian rebels threaten to storm 2 predominantly Christian towns
2012-12-23,"Egypt's Brotherhood Claims Constitution Passes With a 64% ""yes"" vote -  The opposition says there were ""a lot"" of irregularities in the voting"
2012-12-23,Pakistani mob beats to death Muslim accused of blasphemy
2012-12-22,Man burnt to death by mob in front of the police for allegedly burning pages of Quran
2012-12-22,70 percent of Germans oppose new law legalizing religiously motivated circumcision
2012-12-22,"Top Tory MP, who praised sanctity of marriage, had 11-year affair; he claimed marriage could only work between ""one man and one woman"""
2012-12-22,Christian mob burns man alive after Nigeria church attack
2012-12-22,Russia closes paper after journalists laugh at Vladimir Putin  
2012-12-22,Guyana to get $45M from Norway for saving forest
2012-12-22,Syrian rebels fire at civilian airliner
2012-12-22,German Family Minister Slammed for Suggesting God Has No Gender - SPIEGEL ONLINE
2012-12-22,"Fortress in the Sky: 
Buried Christian Empire Casts New Light on Early Islam - 

Archeologists are studying the ruins of a buried Christian empire in the highlands of Yemen. The sites spark questions about the early history of Islam. Was there once a church in Mecca? "
2012-12-22,"Delhi, India :  Police fire tear gas shells, lathi-charge at people protesting against the gang-rape of a young Delhi woman"
2012-12-22,"Delhi gang-rape case could be turning point for India's rape laws:  

India is considering a fast-track court process to expedite rape cases and step up punishment for sexual violence on the heels of the bus rape incident that spurred outrage across India."
2012-12-22,"More than 20,000 people have disappeared in Mexico over the past six years of a brutal crackdown on drugs during the government of former president Felipe Calderon"
2012-12-22,Assange to publish 'million more files' 
2012-12-22,"UN peacekeeping helicopter shot down in South Sudan, all four crew members dead"
2012-12-22,Cameron Backs Plans to Protect Children With 'Radical' New Web Porn Filters
2012-12-22,Cameroon army to take on machine-gun-toting elephant poachers
2012-12-22,"What happened when a travel writer flew to Iran with no tourist visa or return flight, ""the Iranian official let him in."""
2012-12-22,"Hunt for Argentina's Grandchildren Stolen Years Ago - During military dictatorship, women were abducted & killed for leftist views. Those pregnant were kept alive until giving birth, their children adopted & given false IDs to ensure they didn't grow up with same views as mothers."
2012-12-22, UN helicopter shot down in South Sudan 
2012-12-22,Mexico Frees Ex-Marine Jailed for Bringing in Gun
2012-12-22,United States citizen detained in North Korea
2012-12-22,CD ripping to be permitted following UK copyright reform
2012-12-22,Italian PM Monti resigns after 13 months in office 
2012-12-22,Israel: Soldiers Wound 5 Palestinians in Gaza
2012-12-22,"Armed Islamic  Extremists Kill Yemen Woman in Alcohol Raid -  They raided several homes whose owners allegedly have alcoholic drinks. Over 10 armed men on motorbikes stormed 3 houses.
Owners fled except the woman who the gunmen shot dead before driving off."
2012-12-21,Syria dropping cluster bombs on civilians 
2012-12-21,UN calls for ban on 'grotesque practice' of female genital mutilation 
2012-12-21,Pope signals inter-religion alliance against gay marriage
2012-12-21,China and North Korea are batteling over a mountain on their border where Kim Jong-il was allegedly born. Soviet documents however show he was born in Russia. 
2012-12-21,"Discovery of Oldest Known Water Wells in Europe Show Stone Age Settlers More Advanced Than Thought  -  The 4 wells, lined with wood shaped with stone tools,  don't match up with what historians believed man capable of then.   Houses from this era have probably been underestimated."
2012-12-21,Big Food Corporations Are Making The World Fat
2012-12-21,Rising anger of Canada's First Nations over living conditions
2012-12-21,Cairo Court Sentences Man to 3 Years for Insulting Religion -- A Cairo court sentenced an atheist from a Christian family on Wednesday to three years in prison for insulting religion
2012-12-21,Rumors of plot to sterilize Muslims with polio vaccine spark killings in Pakistan
2012-12-21,"Bolivian president predicts era of peace and love instead of apocalypse: Evo Morales will mark the solstice by sailing across Lake Titicaca in one of the largest reed ships built in modern times
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2012-12-21,"Two arrested in Delhi gangrape case, doctors say never seen such brutality: Her intestines are damaged; the blood supply to her intestines has been severed"
2012-12-21,"Moscow is preparing to evacuate 30,000 Russians from Syria"
2012-12-21,Major blow to Apple as one of its key patents is invalidated. The patent helped it win a 1 billion dollar judgement against Samsung
2012-12-21,US Rabbis Sign Letter Opposing Settlement Construction
2012-12-21,"Mexico's Maya Heartland Greets Dawn Of New Era: Ceremonial fires burned and conches sounded off as dawn broke over the steps of the main pyramid at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza Friday, making what many believe is the conclusion of a vast, 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan calendar."
2012-12-21,Why Has Moscow Passed a Law to Ban U.S. Adoption of Russian Orphans?
2012-12-21,"Under new rules which enter force tomorrow, insurers in Europe will have to charge the same prices to women and men for the same insurance products without distinction on the grounds of sex."
2012-12-21,Video of Syrian military released showing the military firing scud missiles on their own people.
2012-12-21,"Female Vaccination Workers, Essential in Pakistan, Become Prey"
2012-12-21,"Syria Unleashes Cluster Bombs on Town, Punishing Civilians"
2012-12-21,Winter solstice celebrated at Stonehenge
2012-12-21,"Frances President Franois Hollande recognized the suffering of Algerians during more than a century of French dominion over the country Thursday, in the harshest description of the period by a French head of state yet, denouncing the profoundly unjust and brutal nature of the colonial system."
2012-12-21,EU steps up anti-tobacco warnings
2012-12-21,"Rape victim still critical, writes to mother 'I want to live' - Hindustan Times"
2012-12-21,Facebook Trials Charging $1 to Send Certain Messages - It's launched a trial to see whether people are prepared pay $1 (0.62) to send messages to the inboxes of people who aren't in their social circle.
2012-12-20,Thieves arrested for stealing 6 million pounds of maple syrup in Canada
2012-12-20,UN confirms Hezbollah fighting for Assad in Syria
2012-12-20,"50,000 Islamists marched chanting that Egypt will be ""Islamic, Islamic, despite the Christians."" They made sure to go through mainly Christian districts of the city, where residents, fearing attacks, shuttered down their stores and stayed in their homes."
2012-12-20,Those with no religious affiliation  including atheists and agnostics  are now the third-largest religious group in the world.
2012-12-20,"Jobless to be remotely monitored by Government, Benefit claimants will have their online job applications remotely monitored by the Government to see whether they are making serious attempts to find work.  - Telegraph"
2012-12-20,Afghanistan Village Massacre: Army Will Seek Death Penalty For Soldier Accused Of Killing 16 Villagers
2012-12-20,Down to -50C: Russians freeze to death as strongest-in-decades winter hits (PHOTOS)
2012-12-20,"23 yr old girl brutally gang-raped and assaulted in New Delhi, India. Girl is fighting for her life. Entire India is in uproar."
2012-12-20,"Native Chief on 9th day of hunger strike, in an effort to move Stephen Harper to include Aboriginal people in decisions involving natural resources. Thousands marched across Canada today, after the Prime Minister has passed bills allowing foreign purchase of resources and more"
2012-12-20,"Afghan President Hamid Karzai has called on US and NATO troops to immediately leave the country, saying security transition to local forces should take place as soon as possible."
2012-12-20,Russia votes to ban all adoptions by Americans
2012-12-20,"Child-snatching eagle video is fake, created as student project"
2012-12-20,Mother of 3-year-old named Jihad faces French court for putting I am a bomb shirt on her son
2012-12-20,"Police in China have arrested almost 1,000 doomsday cult members for spreading rumours about the imminent end of the world, state media say. 
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2012-12-20,Species of whale thought to be extinct for 2 million years found.
2012-12-20,Astronaut Chris Hadfield blasts off to become first Canadian commander of International Space Station
2012-12-20, Julian Assange to make 'balcony speech' from Ecuador embassy
2012-12-20,"Five-year-old Indian girl stolen in sleep, raped"
2012-12-20,"
China arrests 500 followers of religious cult over Mayan apocalypse rumours: Quasi-Christian religious group the Church of the Almighty God accused of spreading rumours that world will end on Friday
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2012-12-20,"65% of Air Pollution Deaths Occur in Asia With a 1/4 in India - It ranks 6th most dangerous killer & is in top 10 killers in world. Outdoor air contributes to 1.2m deaths in E Asia & 712,000 in S Asia, much higher than toll of 400,000 in EU 27, E Europe, & Russia."
2012-12-20,Why Indian men rape
2012-12-20,"Nazis in Italy:   165 Murders Per Day - That's the horrifying conclusion reached by commission exploring full extent of Nazi war crimes in Italy in WWII. The identity of many of the murderers has long been known, but to this day little has been done to bring them to justice. "
2012-12-20,How Australia banned semi-automatic rifles nationwide in 1996 and how it change the landscape
2012-12-20,UN confirms Hezbollah fighting for Assad in Syria
2012-12-20,"Delhi gang-rape victim writes on a piece of paper 'Mother, I want to live' - Hindustan Times"
2012-12-19,S Korea has it's first woman president.
2012-12-19,"'Habitable' planet discovered circling Tau Ceti star  World is one of five thought to be circling star just 12 light years away, say scientists"
2012-12-19,"In France, Free Birth Control For Girls At Age 15"
2012-12-19,British woman 'raped by three men' in Dubai is FINED for drinking
2012-12-19,Five female polio vaccinators shot dead in Pakistan.
2012-12-19,United Nations and Amnesty International give Canada failing grades on human rights.
2012-12-19,Outrage Grows in India Over Gang-Rape on Bus - The hours-long gang-rape & near-fatal beating of a 23-yr-old student on a bus in New Delhi trigger outrage & anger across the country as Indians demand action from authorities who've  long ignored persistent violence & harassment against women.
2012-12-19,"King Ramesses III's Throat Slit - Scans reveal deep cut in Egyptian pharaohs neck.  Records say he was killed by his harem as part of a palace coup involving his son, Prince Pentawere. An unusual, unidentified mummy from a royal tomb near the Valley of the Kings may be the  convicted son.  "
2012-12-19,Dead Sea Scrolls online library launched by Google and Israel
2012-12-19,"The Truth About North Korean Space Launch - It put an object into orbit. Headlines shouted how it was likely a missile test & a failure of Western intelligence. Most of those headlines were completely wrong, though there are many questions yet to be answered about the launch &  what it means."
2012-12-19,"3 arrested in massive Canadian maple syrup heist, which hurt world supply - The Washington Post"
2012-12-19,S&P raises Greece's credit rating
2012-12-19,"Slavery's Global Comeback - Buying & selling people into forced labor is bigger than ever. What ""human trafficking"" really means."
2012-12-19,Breakthrough: Cops make arrests in maple syrup heist
2012-12-19,More Heath Workers shot in Pakistan bringing the total to 8 in 48 hours.
2012-12-19,"Chinese leaders still suspicious of religion, party document shows - A May 2011 party document talks of a plot by overseas hostile forces to use religion to divide the country."
2012-12-19,"Three more polio workers shot in Pakistan; eight dead in 48 hours
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2012-12-19,Japan whalers given Sea Shepherd injunction by US court
2012-12-19,Anger as French psychiatrist is found guilty after patient hacks man to death
2012-12-19,Russian lawmakers eye adoption ban to U.S. 
2012-12-19,East London men charged over child prostitution - BBC News
2012-12-19,French psychiatrist sentenced after patient commits murder
2012-12-19,"New Lethal Bird Flu Strain  in Indonesian   Virus that's killed over 300,000 ducks in the past few weeks is virulent type new to country.  It's unknown  it mutated or if it originated overseas. There's a possible risk factor with direct contact.  A 4-yr-old boy died  from bird flu  Dec 6."
2012-12-19,"90 More Pieces of Gold & Silver From Staffordshire Hoard Found - In 2009, a metal detector enthusiast found over 3,000 gold & silver Anglo-Saxon objects from 7th-8th centuries in a farmer's field. New artifacts include a helmet piece, cross & eagle-shaped mounts. "
2012-12-19,Anti-polio workers shot dead in Pakistan
2012-12-18,Ireland to legalise abortion
2012-12-18,Berlin warns Egypt is sliding to dictatorship
2012-12-18,Chinese Authorities Arrest Dozens For Spreading Mayan Apocalypse Rumors
2012-12-18,"Swedish teens riot over Instagram sex rumours  - ""500 people are estimated to have gathered outside the 'Plus Gymnasium', according to Aftonbladet"" (Link in English)"
2012-12-18,"Israel Presses on With Plans for 6,000 New Settler Homes"
2012-12-18," China up in arms over Newtown coverage
Chinese critics argue that the public now knows more about Sandy Hook than they do about crime in their own country "
2012-12-18,1 in 6 worldwide unaffiliated with a religion.  Non-affiliation/atheism is the third largest category.
2012-12-18,"'If A Man Is Not An Oligarch, There's Something Wrong With Him': Welcome To The New Breed Of Plutocrat Running London"
2012-12-18,"Russia sends a couple more ships to Syria, possibly starting evacuation"
2012-12-18,Pakistan: Four female vaccination workers shot dead in Karachi
2012-12-18,Richard Engel and NBC News team freed from captors in Syria
2012-12-18,The Bribery Aisle: How Wal-Mart Used Payoffs to Get Its Way in Mexico
2012-12-18,Iranian computers attacked by new malicious data wiper program
2012-12-18,Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade
2012-12-18,"11 yr old Afghan girl, student, polio vaccination volunteer...shot dead. "
2012-12-18,Tokyo to Take a Tougher Line With China
2012-12-18,Syrian rebels fight Palestinian pro-Assad group
2012-12-18,"""The Islamic Republic of Iran will not suspend 20 percent uranium enrichment because of the demands of others,"" said Atomic Energy Organization Director Fereidoun Abbasi."
2012-12-18,Saudi rights activist faces apostasy charge and death
2012-12-18,Police In Colombia Seize 1.5 Tons Of Cocaine In A Container That Was To Be Shipped To The US
2012-12-18,Armed militia in control of refugee camp in Damascus - Xinhua | English.news.cn
2012-12-18,"Bilateral distrust between U.S., China at an all-time high"
2012-12-18,Syrian Rebels Battle Palestinian Fighters in Damascus
2012-12-18,Palestinians flood into Lebanon after Damascus fighting
2012-12-18,Peak farmland is here. The amount of land needed to grow crops worldwide is at a peak and an area more than twice the size of France can return to nature by 2060 due to rising yields and slower population growth
2012-12-17,Russia sees panic buying as Mayan apocalypse mania takes root
2012-12-17,"Why 2012 was the best year ever: never in the history of the world has there been less hunger, less disease and more prosperity"
2012-12-17,"Congo has become a never-ending nightmare, one of the bloodiest conflicts since World War II, with more than five million dead. "
2012-12-17,Queen to attend cabinet meeting for first time. It is believed to be the first time a monarch has attended cabinet since Queen Victoria's reign.
2012-12-17,Afghan bomb blast kills 10 girls: Ten girls aged nine to 13 killed and two seriously injured as they gathered firewood outside their village in eastern Afghanistan
2012-12-17,Cameroon court upholds 3-year jail term for man convicted of sending 'I love you' text message to another man.
2012-12-17,"Health Canada Plans to Treat Marijuana Like Other Medicines, Commercialize its Production and Distribution"
2012-12-17,Leaked Report Confirms Human-Induced Climate Change
2012-12-17,Australian public servant injured during sex on a work trip awarded compensation.
2012-12-17,"For Spaniards, Having A Job No Longer Guarantees A Paycheck"
2012-12-17,"An Afghan Mystery: Why Are Large Shipments Of Gold Leaving the Country? -- 


A surge in shipments since early summer. How come so much, when little gold is mined in Afghanistan? And why does so much of it go to Dubai? Is it regular Afghan commerce or is something else going on?"
2012-12-17,One Hundred Thousand Tamils Missing After Sri Lanka War (World Bank data)
2012-12-17,Report: Thousands of children face sex abuse by gangs in England - CNN.com
2012-12-17,Silence over sexual violence: Arab women take stand on 'absurd honor' - CNN.com
2012-12-17,Syria descends into holy war
2012-12-17,"
Rights Group Denounces Thai Teachers' Slayings by Muslims
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2012-12-17,"In Spain, Having a Job No Longer Guarantees a Paycheck - NYTimes.com"
2012-12-17,The lungs that Jennifer Wederell was given to save her life brought only agonising death - A young newlywed was never told that the organs needed for her transplant had come from a heavy smoker 
2012-12-17,Canadian claims to have cracked carrier pigeon message.
2012-12-17,Thousands of people across France have demonstrated in support of same-sex marriage. The rallies come after even more people took to the streets last month to protest against it. 
2012-12-17,"'Useless, useless, useless': the Palestinian verdict on Tony Blair"
2012-12-17,"India 'gang-rape': Student, friend attacked on Delhi bus"
2012-12-17,"A major international human rights organization called Monday for an immediate end to violence against school personnel in Thailands insurgency-wracked southern provinces, following last weeks murder of two Buddhist teachers who were shot execution-style in the middle of a school day"
2012-12-17,Palestinian refugee camp in Syria hit by fighting 
2012-12-17,Homes destroyed as Fiji feels Evan's fury
2012-12-16,"Body-Slamming Piglets to Death is Humane, Big Food Lobby Claims - Harrowing video of  Canadian pig farm shows workers body-slamming piglets into the floor, swinging them into metal posts & kicking them when they cant stand up.  Pork industry  says much on video is widely accepted practice.

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2012-12-16,Pope Says Gay Marriage Poses A Threat To 'Justice And Peace' In World Day Of Peace 2013 Address
2012-12-16,Salvation Army volunteer tells gay rights supporters not to donate.
2012-12-16,"Category 4-5 Hurricane Evan devastates Samoa, Fiji and is predicted to hit New Zealand on Friday"
2012-12-16,"Danes are the happiest people in the world. ""Once again, the US failed to make the top 10 list of happiest nations in the world, while all the Scandinavian nations did. They all have small stable populations. The US has the highest population growth rate of any industrialized nation."""
2012-12-16,"
Secular Britain is ruled by religious bureaucrats: Why is the church still such a force in our society when most of us disregard its clerics' teachings?
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2012-12-16,"In Turkey, there lives a mysterious minority known as the secret Armenians. They have been hiding in the open for nearly a century. Outwardly, they are Turks or Kurds, but the secret Armenians are actually descendants of the survivors of the 1915 Genocide,"
2012-12-16,Music Industry Threatens to Bankrupt Pirate Party Members
2012-12-16,"Syrian fighter jets bombed the Palestinian Yarmouk camp in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 25 people sheltering in a mosque"
2012-12-16,"French actor, Gerard Depardieu, plans to give up his French citizenship after being ""insulted"" by the PM for wanting to move to Belgium for ""tax purposes"""
2012-12-16,China's Recent Trade Statistics Have Been Artificially Inflated
2012-12-16,An Afghan Mystery: Why Are Large Shipments of Gold Leaving the Country?
2012-12-16,Free Syrian Army top commander killed in Syria's Aleppo
2012-12-16,"Secrecy the Standard as Canada Enters TPP Talks: 'The talks remain shrouded in secrecy, with a draft text that is confidential; public interest groups are largely banned from the venue where the negotiations are being held.'"
2012-12-16,"
H&M comes under pressure to act on child-labour cotton: Anti-slavery charity lobbies high street stores over links with clothing suppliers who buy from Uzbekistan
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2012-12-16,Why North Korea Can't Count on China's Patronage Forever:  Beijing's support for Pyongyang is at growing odds with its international responsibilities.
2012-12-16,"Outdoor air pollution has been listed as one of the top ten killers in the world, with 65 percent of the air pollution deaths occurring in Asia and close to quarter of this in India"
2012-12-16,British Columbia's Path to Marijuana Legalization
2012-12-16,European Court of Human Rights rules in former CIA detainee's favor
2012-12-16,"
Rendition, Zero Dark Thirty and the brutal reality of Britain's secret services"
2012-12-16,Japan's conservative LDP back in power with two-thirds majority
2012-12-16,File Sharing Lawsuits Could Lead to Clogged Courts as Canadians Rely on New Liability Caps: '.. a Montreal-based company has captured data on one million Canadians who it says have engaged in unauthorized file sharing.'
2012-12-16,UN Concerned Over Egyptian Womens Rights in Proposed Constitution - Very few women were involved in drafting the constitution. Womens perspectives were grossly under-represented in the final draft.  Womens right to equality can't be justified by religious or cultural tradition.
2012-12-16,Iran's army chief of staff warned NATO on Saturday that stationing Patriot anti-missile batteries on Turkey's border with Syria was setting the stage for world war.
2012-12-16,"People in Japan are voting in a general election, where former leader Shinzo Abe is challenging the current Prime Minister, Yoshihiko Noda."
2012-12-15,Man slashes 22 children near China school 
2012-12-15,Millions of camera-trap images reveal Serengeti life
2012-12-15,"Hospitalized with a lung infection, the 94-year-old former South African president Nelson Mandela has successfully undergone a procedure to have gallstones removed"
2012-12-15,Thousands hold unauthorized anti-Putin rally in Moscow to mark anniversary of mass protest
2012-12-15,Debate on Islam and evolution has to be called off after revolt by Islamic student societies
2012-12-15,"Egyptian Ruling Party Accused of ""Vote Rigging"" -   Claims President Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood cheated  in referendum on new constitution. Violations cited include unsealed ballot papers, Muslim Brotherhood members coercing people, absence of judges to monitor & early closing of polls."
2012-12-15,"Wrong man seized in Macedonia, brutalised by CIA, dumped in Albania
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2012-12-15,Prince Charles's 700m estate accused of tax avoidance
2012-12-15,UBS faces $1 billion fine for Libor rigging
2012-12-15,Canada withdraws from Kyoto Protocol
2012-12-15,Iran offers condolences over school shooting in US
2012-12-15,Fukushima operator Tepco admits culpability:  Japanese nuclear plant accepts lack of safety culture and bad habits contributed to world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years
2012-12-15,News of a new Syrian massacre; between 125-150 civilians killed on Tuesday.
2012-12-15,Egypt TV bans romantic songs - sarcastic songs mocking public figures will also be banned because of the sensitiveness of the political situation
2012-12-15,"Popularity of tiny Dutch Caribbean island soars after legislators legalized same-sex marriage
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2012-12-15,"'Global Day of Action' Hits Walmart in 10 Countries - 

Walmart workers demonstrated at headquarters in Argentina; marching through  Santiago; leafleting customers in Nicaragua; rallying  in Brazil, India & South Africa; & delivering a letter to the head office of Walmarts UK subsidiary ASDA."
2012-12-15,"Iran: Patriot missiles in Turkey threaten ""World War"""
2012-12-15,Spain seizes 28 million euros in Hosni Mubarak-linked assets 
2012-12-15,The Bullies of Beijing: China's Image Problem - Actions by the People's Republic -- intentional or not -- have created the worst regional environment for China since the Tiananmen Square massacre.
2012-12-15,U.S. Officials: Syria Has Prepared Several Dozen Chemical Bombs - Syrian President Bashar Assad have prepared several dozen bombs and shells loaded with the lethal chemical sarin.
2012-12-15,Major Gas Users Call for Anti-Rigging Regulations -   Britain's biggest energy users are calling for tough regulations to ensure the over-the-counter wholesale gas market cannot be rigged by traders & speculators.
2012-12-15,"Opposition to Labor Camps Widens in China - Opponents of Chinas re-education through labor system believe new leadership could end abuses at the camps, which confine perceived troublemakers without trial. "
2012-12-15,China tightens 'Great Firewall' internet control with new technology.
2012-12-15,"Small boat sinks off Greek island, 20 migrants drown
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2012-12-15,Jets strike Rebels around Damascus
2012-12-14,Internet remains unregulated after UN treaty blocked
2012-12-14,"BBC News - US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN internet treaty"
2012-12-14,"In 2004 CIA agents tortured a German citizen, sodomising, shackling, and beating him"
2012-12-14,Scientists call for pardon for WW2 codebreaker Alan Turing
2012-12-14,"British Deputy Prime Minister says war on drugs has failed, accuses politicians of ""a conspiracy of silence"""
2012-12-14,"Computer hacker Gary McKinnon, who is wanted in the US, will not face charges in the UK"
2012-12-14,22 school students stabbed in China: A man with a knife has wounded 22 children and an adult at a primary school in central China
2012-12-14,India Rejects Internet Regulation as UN Split Widens in Dubai -- India joined the U.S. in opposing rules that would give governments control over the Internet as an international split over Web regulation divides a United Nations conference in Dubai.
2012-12-14,"Too Big to Indict: ""Federal and state authorities have chosen not to indict HSBC, the London-based bank, on charges of vast and prolonged money laundering, for fear that criminal prosecution would topple the bank..."""
2012-12-14,Israeli soldiers assault two Reuters cameramen
2012-12-14,Reuters news agency has accused Israeli soldiers of hitting two of its cameramen and forcing them to strip in the West Bank city of Hebron
2012-12-14,"European court of human rights finds against CIA abuse of Khaled el-Masri;
America must now apologise to the German citizen, a victim of mistaken identity who was kidnapped and beaten by the CIA"
2012-12-14,"Philippine death toll rises to 902 after Typhoon Bopha; 80,000 homeless"
2012-12-14,Norway Begins Tests On Thorium - Business Insider
2012-12-14,British Deputy Prime Minister backs calls to consider decriminalising illegal drugs
2012-12-14,"Pentagon to send missiles, troops to turkey"
2012-12-14,"UK Deputy Prime Minister says ""Time to re-think drugs""."
2012-12-14,"Afghan human rights groups have noticed a sharp rise in the number of self-immolations across the country by women who are so desperate, so hopeless, they think the only escape is to burn themselves beyond recognition. "
2012-12-14,Ed Miliband: every Briton should speak English
2012-12-14,Canada designates 27 countries as 'safe countries of origin' 
2012-12-14,Russian's save elephants by giving them vodka
2012-12-14,"Hard-Line Israeli Foreign Minister Is Stepping Down: Avigdor Lieberman resigned on Friday after being charged with fraud and breach of trust, in a move that could have repercussions on next months election"
2012-12-14,Families Of Spain's 'Stolen Babies' Seek Answers 
2012-12-14,United States to send troops and Patriot missiles to Turkey
2012-12-14,Kim Jong Un Says N. Korea Needs More Satellites to Boost Economy
2012-12-13,"The Real North Korea Problem - While the world fears its missiles 250,000 innocents, one-third of them children, are being forced to do slave labor on starvation rations and are daily subjected to heinous torture and executions"
2012-12-13,"North Korean satellite 'tumbling out of control,' US officials say"
2012-12-13,"""Tibetans can't vote, their petitions to government are ignored, protest of any kind is criminalized and, once imprisoned, most Tibetans are denied a lawyer."""
2012-12-13,Google boss Eric Schmidt: I'm proud of our tax avoidance scheme...it's called capitalism
2012-12-13,Google avoids paying tax on upto 80% of its profit.
2012-12-13,Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation 
2012-12-13,"Argentine mom rescues 100s of sex slaves, but can't find daughter"
2012-12-13,"The Russian state was involved in the murder of former spy Alexander Litvinenko, documents released by the British government have suggested."
2012-12-13,Kuwait introduces death penalty for cursing God and prophets
2012-12-13,Canadian university installs gender-neutral toilet facilities. Go wherever you feel comfortable.
2012-12-13,The Tallow Candle an unknown fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen (author of the ugly duckling and the little mermaid) has been discovered.
2012-12-13,Jackie Chan suggests that Hong Kong residents should have their rights to protest restricted. 
2012-12-13,"Insecticide regulators ignoring risk to bees, say MPs. A parliamentary inquiry has uncovered evidence that links widespread use of neonicotinoid pesticides to decline in bees
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2012-12-13,"Super-costly F-35s, a global wrecking ball"
2012-12-13,Syria Fires Scud Missile at Rebel Forces
2012-12-13,India's secret weapon against cervical cancer? Vinegar.
2012-12-13,"North Korean satellite 'orbiting normally' after rocket launch, according to South Korea"
2012-12-13,Japan scrambles fighter jets after Chinese plane seen near disputed islands
2012-12-13,"Japanese Fighter Jets Respond to Chinese Challenge Over Disputed Islands - 
China once again challenged Japanese claims to a disputed set of islands in the East China Sea, this time by sending a plane to patrol the area, which prompted Japan to scramble its own air force. "
2012-12-13,Top Deutsche Bank Executives Caught Up in Tax Evasion Inquiry
2012-12-13,"Scores of Syrian civilians belonging to President Bashar al-Assads minority Alawite sect were killed Tuesday in the first known Alawite massacre since the Syrian conflict began by members of the shabiha, a pro-government Alawite militia in a shocking episode of Alawite-on-Alawite violence "
2012-12-13,"Tweet history of US drone strikes lasting longer than planned:
NYU student Josh Begley tried to tweet 10 years of US drone strikes in 10 minutes  but 12 hours later, he still hadn't finished"
2012-12-13,"What's a protester to do? Two years of peaceful demonstrations have yielded no results in Bahrain. Frustrated, some are now giving up on nonviolence, turning instead to the tried and true Molotov Cocktail."
2012-12-13,B.C. mine to hire only Chinese temporary workers for years
2012-12-13,Asahi: Tepco cant find where huge amount of highly radioactive water is leaking at Reactor No. 2  Fractures in containment vessel suspected
2012-12-12,"Julian Assange to form Wikileaks Party, run for Australian Senate"
2012-12-12,"Amsterdam police will turn a blind eye to foreigners buying cannabis in its famous ""coffee shops"" when a national ban comes into force next year, the city's mayor said on Wednesday."
2012-12-12,North Korea launches rocket
2012-12-12,Giant Squid finally captured on video. Footage to be shown on Discovery Channel in January next year.
2012-12-12,"Ravi Shankar, 92, greatest sitar player of the 20th century, has died"
2012-12-12,"Geysina, a 14 year old Afghani girl is beheaded for not accepting a marriage proposal - Yahoo! News"
2012-12-12,"Obama: the US now recognizes Syrian opposition coalition as ""legitimate representative"" of the Syrian people"
2012-12-12,Spain arrests woman with cocaine filled breast implants.
2012-12-12,Google Just Spent $5 Million on Drones to Spy on Rhino Poachers 
2012-12-12,"The controversy over Psy's anti-American song lyrics is based on a single, anonymous translation. Several new translations suggest he didn't call for American deaths."
2012-12-12,Israel vows to withhold $400M in tax revenues from Palestinians over statehood drive
2012-12-12,Human trafficking ring in Argentina: all suspects cleared of all charges
2012-12-12,Julian Assange confirms bid for Australian Senate
2012-12-12,A Canadian Company has claimed to have perfected invisibility!
2012-12-12,"In northern Mali, Islamists attacks against civilians grow more brutal - Refugees describe rapes, forced marriages, amputations and other abuses in the region."
2012-12-12,Electronic Voting: 19 year old hacks the Brazilian elections
2012-12-12,Uruguay has approved a gay marriage law.
2012-12-12,"Prominent Russian political analyst publishes 
book explaining the social customs of Americans to his somewhat baffled countrymen"
2012-12-12,NORAD: North Korea Launches 'Object' Into Orbit [Updated]
2012-12-12,Syrian rebels defy US and pledge allegiance to jihadi group
2012-12-12,"Ravi Shankar, sitar legend, has died"
2012-12-12,"Explosives connected to Islamic Extremists left at the Central Train Station in Bonn, Germany"
2012-12-12,BBC News - Afghan judge Zahorudin recorded on tape 'seeking bribe'
2012-12-12,How a hotel maid changed France: Nafissatou Diallo helped deny DSK the presidency of France - and changed the countrys history
2012-12-12,Obama Says U.S. Will Recognize Syrian Rebels
2012-12-11,Calls for a ban on helium balloons as world shortage worsens.  
2012-12-11,"Costa Rica Bans Hunting as a Sport - 

With 25% of its land protected as reserves, it becomes 1st Latin American country to ban hunting"
2012-12-11,British deputy prime minister says he will block plans to give police and intelligence services powers to monitor all internet use
2012-12-11,Eighth Tibetan under 18 sets self on fire to protest Chinese occupation of Tibet. Ninety Tibetans have self-immolated since February 2009.
2012-12-11,Norway wants to ban commercials for candy and other unhealthy food
2012-12-11,"Google parks $10 billion in Bermuda, avoiding $2 billion in taxes"
2012-12-11,The First Arrests Have Been Made in the LIBOR Manipulation Case 
2012-12-11,Dying girl now cancer-free after 'breakthrough' AIDS virus experiment.
2012-12-11,"Chinese Want to Know Why Their News is on Twitter & They Aren't - 
Chinese internet users miffed after learning Communist Party's official news service has its own Twitter account, even though Twitter is supposed to be banned in China"
2012-12-11,"Israel raids 3 Palestinian NGO offices: ""This a message by the Israelis to the Palestinians, saying that when they take decisions or form patriotic organizations to seek their freedom, the occupation will use aggression to try and stop us."""
2012-12-11,"2011 UK census shows rise in foreign born residents. 45% of Londoners are white British, down from 58% in 2001."
2012-12-11,What Great Helium Shortage? - Forbes
2012-12-11,"Oldest Pharaoh Carvings Discovered in Egypt. The scenes place the age of the carvings between 3200 B.C. and 3100 B.C., researchers report in the December issue of the journal Antiquity. During that time, Egypt was transitioning into the dynastic rule of the pharaohs."
2012-12-11,Syrian Rebels force a child to behead an unarmed civilian. 
2012-12-11,"Queensland medical centre hacked by Russian cyber criminals, records encrypted, and ransom demanded."
2012-12-11,"Islamist supporters of Mohamed Morsi detained and beat dozens of his critics last week, in a move that may undermine the Egyptian presidents credibility."
2012-12-11,"David Cameron rejects call for royal commission on drugs - British Prime minister rules out home affairs committee's proposal, arguing that drugs policies are already working"
2012-12-11,Actor Depardieu bids adieu to France to avoid taxes
2012-12-11,"French teacher suspended over 'suicide assignment'. 'The pupils, aged between 13 and 14, were told to imagine reasons for wanting to end their lives and describe their self-disgust'"
2012-12-11,Number of jailed journalists sets global record 
2012-12-11,"Syrians Create A Secular, Democratic Village in Liberated City, Hope their example will set a model"
2012-12-11,Election phone calls challenge hits Federal Court (Canada)
2012-12-11,Radical Syrian rebel group is about to be declared a terrorist organization.
2012-12-11,Dutch blasphemy law to fall and Irish one may follow
2012-12-11,"Magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes Banda Sea, Indonesia."
2012-12-10,Gunmen kill senior womens activist in Afghanistan 
2012-12-10,"Nelson Mandela 'has stopped talking',  amid a ""troubling"" deterioration in his condition"
2012-12-10,"China Appears Set to Become World's Next Rust Belt - Just 2 yrs after China overtook US to become worlds biggest manufacturer, its competitive advantages are eroding & factories closing. And there's little Beijing can do to arrest the slide. "
2012-12-10,Japan falls into recession:  Strong yen and diplomatic row with major trade partner China have harmed Japan's economy
2012-12-10,North Korean Internet a brief look into Dictatorship.
2012-12-10,"Senior al Qaeda leader killed in Pakistan: Sheikh Khalid bin Abdel Rehman, al Qaeda's #2, was killed in a drone strike Thursday"
2012-12-10,"Hitler has a following in India: ""Mein Kampf is a bestseller ... In 2006 a cafe called Hitler's Cross opened in Mumbai; in 2011 a pool hall named Hitler's Den opened nearby in Nagpu ... A soap opera, Hitler Didior 'big sister Hitler'is a hit."" "
2012-12-10,"Atheists around world suffer persecution, discrimination: report
| Reuters"
2012-12-10,Venezuela Abolishes Entrance Visas for Palestinians
2012-12-10,The Government tonight ruled out any shift in drugs policy despite a damning report by an influential group of MPs which said Britain was failing to tackle drug barons or the multi-billion pound global profits of their illegal trade.
2012-12-10, UAE authorities 'detain 18-year-old blogger'
2012-12-10, India MPs in parliament uproar over Walmart lobbying
2012-12-10,Spain arrests 28 people suspected of links to Toronto-based child porn ring
2012-12-10,Tibetan monk arrested for inciting self-immolation:  Chinese state media blames deaths on instructions from Dalai Lama
2012-12-10,"""Garlic smuggler flees conviction for 2m ginger fraud"" -""They had told customs officials that thousands of tons of garlic were, in fact, fresh ginger, which is untaxed."""
2012-12-10,"Britain launches genome database for patients' DNA. Up to 100,000 Britons suffering from cancer and rare diseases are to have their genetic codes fully sequenced and mapped as part of government plans to build a DNA database to boost drug discovery and development."
2012-12-10,Singer Jenni Rivera is missing after a plane she was flying in lost contact with air traffic controllers in Mexico 
2012-12-10,Syria's endgame in sight as rebels advance
2012-12-10,"""Austerity-struck Paris [France] has been hit by a wave of street muggings and grave robberies with thieves prepared to exhume bodies to steal gold and jewellery."""
2012-12-10,Virgin pulls ads that make light of rape.
2012-12-10,Syria rebels homemade tank With Playstation Controller - Business Insider
2012-12-10,German cabinet decides to send troops to Turkey-Syria border
2012-12-10,Nigerian finance minister's mother kidnapped
2012-12-10,Nigerian finance minister's mother kidnapped
2012-12-10,Sheik Khalid Bin Abdel Rehman Al-Hussainan Dead: Al Qaeda Leader Killed By U.S. Drone In Pakistan's Tribal Regions
2012-12-09,"Russias Anti-Mormon Campaign - 

An influential young pro-Kremlin politician is trying to get the Latter-day Saints banned from the country"
2012-12-09,Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy has canceled a decree that had allowed him to run the country unchecked. 
2012-12-09,"Hospital-Acquired Infection Rates in Greece, Already Among Worst in Europe, to Rise Due to Shortages - . ""We run out of surgical gloves, syringes, vials for blood samples & needles. ""Everything here is collapsing: the health system, the educational system."""
2012-12-09,"Monsanto's Suicide Economy: Nearly 300,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide since 1995 after being driven into insurmountable debt by neoliberal economics and the conquest of Indian farmland by Monsanto's Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton."
2012-12-09, The two Australian radio hosts behind the prank call to the Duchess of Cambridges hospital are fragile and receiving intensive counselling amid global outrage over their tragic stunt. 
2012-12-09,"Hugo Chavez announces his cancer has returned, talks about a successor"
2012-12-09,After three months in solitary confinement in Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm will be released from custody by Swedish Authorities
2012-12-09,"Myths About Homosexuality Fuel Uganda's 'Kill the Gays' Bill. This week, as we are waiting for the Ugandan parliament to debate whether or not homosexuality should be punishable by death, it might be helpful to review what could make anyone reach such a murderous conclusion."
2012-12-09,"Treat addicts, don't lock them up: MPs pave way to legalise drugs as they admit prison sentences are failing to deter offe"
2012-12-09,90 percent of Indians are idiots: Justice Markandey Katju
2012-12-09,Experts skeptical Syria is preparing to use its chemical arsenal
2012-12-09,"Taiwan Wants Apology From Japan Over Sex Slaves -President  urges Japan to apologize for using sex slaves from across Asia during WWII.  ""Historical mistakes can be forgiven, but the lessons of history should not be forgotten.""

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2012-12-09,"Mo Yan, the winner of this years Nobel prize for literature, defends censorship as something as necessary as airport security checks"
2012-12-09,The REAL Toy Story: Chinese factory workers forced to sleep among piles of doll parts as they churn out Christmas presents
2012-12-09,Scarred burns victim models for UK fashion retailer
2012-12-09,"An internal report for the US Congress has concluded that Iran probably is no longer on track, if it ever was, to having an ocean-crossing missile as soon as 2015."
2012-12-09,Nelson Mandela 'proven' to be a member of the Communist Party after decades of denial  - Telegraph
2012-12-09,"37-year-old mom fights to block radiotherapy for cancer-stricken son, fears it will lower his IQ (xpost /r/NewsOfTheWeird)"
2012-12-09,Syrian Rebels Tied to Al Qaeda Play Key Role in War
2012-12-09,Syrian rebels elect Islamist-dominated unified command
2012-12-09,UN forum extends Kyoto Protocol to 2020.
2012-12-09,'Pants' skyscraper? China reacts against latest tall building
2012-12-09,"Egyptian President Morsi 'annuls' powers decree, intends on going ahead with draft constitution"
2012-12-09,Canadas witch trials: Fake sorcerers and sham psychics abound despite 100-year-old law that outlawed them
2012-12-09,"Mario Monti to quit as Italian PM amid waning support for austerity policies: 
Prime minister announces decision hours after former leader Silvio Berlusconi confirms he will seek office again
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2012-12-08,"A man in India is living in exile after being charged with blasphemy for debunking a ""weeping Jesus"" that was cause by a leaking sewer pipe."
2012-12-08,"""In all there are now 17 Amercian warships off the Syrian coast."""
2012-12-08,Bomb attack on chairman of German parliamentary committee investigating neo-nazi terror shortly after decision to ban right-wing extremist party NPD
2012-12-08,"Norwegian protesters say EU Nobel Peace Prize win devalues award:  

More than 50 organizations plan to march in Oslo on Sunday to protest of the Nobel Committee's award of the 2012 Peace Prize to the EU at a time of debt crisis."
2012-12-08,"Guardian interviews Julian Assange about reports of illness, paranoia, and whether he'll ever leave the embassy "
2012-12-08,"Over the last 20 years, the climate scientists have consistently underestimated the progress and impact of global warming."
2012-12-08,Bitcoin-Central has won the right to operate as a bank thanks to a deal with French financial firms Aqoba and Credit Mutuel. The change in status makes it easier to use bitcoins and bestows national protections on balances held at the exchange.
2012-12-08,Japan poised to shoot down North Korean missile
2012-12-08,"In Egypt the elite may have changed, but the revolution continues as Egyptians no longer willing to accept old rules"
2012-12-08,Philippines declares state of calamity
2012-12-08,Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi confirms he will run for prime minister again next year
2012-12-08,France funding Syrian rebels in new push to oust Assad
2012-12-08,Natural cure: Scientists create stem cell contact lens that fixes eyesight
2012-12-08,'Israel didn't take German warnings seriously'
2012-12-08,"Canada approved China's biggest overseas energy acquisition, a $15.1 billion takeover by state-owned CNOOC of Canadian oil and gas producer Nexen, but vowed Friday to reject any future foreign takeovers in the oil sands sector by state owned companies."
2012-12-08,Clinton: Situation in Syria is 'accelerating' - CNN.com
2012-12-08,Slideshow: Syria in ruins
2012-12-08,"

Egyptian Protesters Break Through Barrier at Presidential Palace
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2012-12-08,Meet operative PP0277: A secret agent  or just a vulture hungry for dead camel? Sudan says he's an Israeli operative  but his handlers say he's too easily distracted for that
2012-12-08,Egyptian Opposition Protesters Break Through Army Barricade to Presidential Palace
2012-12-08,"Pakistan tribal sources say U.S. drone strike kills al Qaeda commander. 'Abu Zaid was killed, along with 10 other people, in the drone strike on a hideout in Pakistan's North Waziristan'"
2012-12-08,Shanghai's Deadly Pollution Remedy
2012-12-08,Six British men who took part in a complex plot to steal gold and silver in Belgium are jailed
2012-12-08,"In photos: 200,000 protesters return to Tahrir Square, painting ""Go away, Morsi"" on streets and brandishing a cross alongside a Qur'an in opposition of the increasingly extremist leader."
2012-12-08,Philippines Declares State of Calamity as deadly typhoon Bopha turns back for 2nd Hit. 500 Lay Dead So Far
2012-12-07,"U.N. summit votes to support Internet eavesdropping. Uses: censorship, identifying BitTorrent and MP3 transfers"
2012-12-07,"Earthquake M7.3  - 293km SE of Kamaishi, Japan. Tsunami alert."
2012-12-07,Kate Middleton's Receptionist Found Dead In London Days After Being Duped By Prank Callers
2012-12-07,Google Drones Launch In Africa to monitor and prevent poaching
2012-12-07,"7.3 magnitude earthquake off Japan's eastern coast, tsunami warning issued"
2012-12-07,North Korea in financial trouble after blowing $100 million on tributes to dead leader Kim Jong-il
2012-12-07,China to flatten 700 mountains for new metropolis in the desert
2012-12-07,Canada Destroys Legislation to Protect its Natural Lakes and Rivers. 2.5 million down to 82. 
2012-12-07,Dotcom gets go-ahead for spy lawsuit - A ruling in the High Court of New Zealand means that the country's security service will have to reveal details of its spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom & his associates.
2012-12-07,British PM backs gay marriage.
2012-12-07,Volvo aims for 'no-death' new cars by 2020
2012-12-07,"Stunned that reporters were able to visit her, detained China Nobel wife  trembled uncontrollably and cried Thursday as she described how absurd and emotionally draining her confinement under house arrest has been in the two years since her jailed activist husband was named a Nobel Peace laureate."
2012-12-07,Canada cancels F-35 procurement
2012-12-07,"Egyptian immigrant Waleed Taleb says demanding his unpaid wages in Greece came at a heavy price; 18 hours chained and beaten by his boss, a stint in jail and orders to leave the country he calls home."
2012-12-07,Another large quake has occurred off the coast of northeast Japan in the same general area as 3/11; moderately heavy shaking in Tohoku
2012-12-07,Human rights group: Israel violated laws of war in fatal house bombing in Gaza conflict
2012-12-07,'Zero hour': Syrian rebels prepare to mount Damascus attack  - Telegraph
2012-12-07,Russian anchorman shot dead 
2012-12-07,Muslim women are removing their hijabs to improve job prospects
2012-12-07,"Drone in Iran Appears to Be U.S.-Made, Pentagon Says"
2012-12-07,"US, NATO behind 'insecurity' in Afghanistan, Karzai says"
2012-12-07,Japan Gets Hit with 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake
2012-12-07,"China's Foreign Ministry lambasted the United States on Friday for ""disgusting"" comments by a U.S. official on the human rights situation in Tibet, saying it had prompted them to file a formal diplomatic complaint with Washington."
2012-12-07,Royal prank call nurse found dead in suspected suicide
2012-12-07,12 To 17-Year-Olds Are Smoking Less
2012-12-06,"Police and child advocates broke padlocks and busted down doors in a surprise raid of a sweatshop in India, to find a group of children imprisoned beeing forced to make Christmas decorations. The children, as young as 8 years old, were kept in rooms 6 ft by 6 ft and forced to work 19-hour days"
2012-12-06,"Mexican court rules in favor of same-sex marriageMexico's Supreme Court ruled that law in Oaxaca banning same-sex marriages is unconstitutional, paving way for same-sex couples to marry in that state & possibly in the rest of Mexico."
2012-12-06,Starbucks agree to pay 10m tax in UK after customer revolt at their not paying tax at all for two years and very little for past 14 years...
2012-12-06,"A mother who beat her seven-year-old son ""like a dog"" when he failed to memorise passages of the Koran has been found guilty of his murder."
2012-12-06,S. Korea formally dumps scientific whaling plan
2012-12-06,Syria says chemical scare pretext for intervention
2012-12-06,"Hometown Bans Mali Legend Ali Farka Toures' Music From His Home Town - ""Music is so much part of our culture.  I miss it.""  Islamist fighters have taken over, introducing a strict social code: Females must be covered, young men can't wear loose pants, & all music is banned.


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2012-12-06,John McAfee arrested in Guatemala
2012-12-06,"North America Is Region Least Likely To Suffer From Terror Attack, Researchers Say"
2012-12-06,Egypt deploys tanks outside Morsi palace - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2012-12-06,Russia: West is exaggerating Syria's chemical weapons threat
2012-12-06,Map: The most- and least-corrupt countries in the world
2012-12-06,"Egyptian Islamists: 'We've Won Elections, Now Democracy Isn't Good Enough?' | PRI's The World"
2012-12-06,Dogs learning to Drive in New Zealand
2012-12-06,"China told Vietnam on Thursday to stop unilateral oil exploration in disputed areas of the South China Sea and not harass Chinese fishing boats, raising tension in protracted maritime territorial disputes with its neighbors."
2012-12-06,"Weapons sent to Libyan rebels with U.S. approval fell into Islamist hands: '[U.S.] secretly gave its blessing to arms shipments to Libyan rebels from Qatar last year, but American officials later grew alarmed as evidence grew that Qatar was turning some of the weapons over to Islamic militants'"
2012-12-06,India suspended from Olympics
2012-12-06,"US, Russia set for surprise Syria meeting"
2012-12-06,Sweden Recognises Massacre of Kurds at Anfal as Genocide
2012-12-06,"Typhoon in Philippines kills 350, 400+ Missing"
2012-12-06,"Syrian Rebels: When We Finish With Assad, We Will Fight the U.S."
2012-12-06,BBC News - More Afghan women are reporting sexual abuse
2012-12-06,India and Vietnam face off with China in disputed waters
2012-12-06,Toxic cloud: Mass evacuation in Buenos Aires after chemical container explodes
2012-12-06,China's Communists Declare War ... On Boring Meetings
2012-12-05,North Korean prisoner born in labor camp escaped after 23 brutal years
2012-12-05,"Wal-Mart Nixed Paying Bangladesh Suppliers to Fight Fire -- At a 2011 safety meeting, Wal-Mart said paying Bangladesh suppliers more to help them upgrade their manufacturing facilities was too costly. A fire at a Bangladesh factory that made clothes for Wal-Mart killed more than 100 last month."
2012-12-05,Scientists warn of sperm count crisis: biggest-ever study confirms drastic decline in male reproductive health
2012-12-05,'Men don't have to worry about being caught': Sex mobs target Egypt's women
2012-12-05,"Brazil authorities arrest 61 police officers for taking bribes of drug-gangs: ""Operation Purification"""
2012-12-05,"18th-century French chateau bulldozed by mistake -  A Russian businessman has been left devastated after builders demolished his 18th-century French chateau among the Bordeaux vineyards, seemingly by mistake. Irate local authorities have launched an investigation. "
2012-12-05,"NATO warns Syria not to use chemical weapons, NATO told Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday that any use of chemical weapons in his fight against encroaching rebel forces would be met by an immediate international response"
2012-12-05,Irans Revolutionary Guards are telling the United States to recount the drones in its fleet as they insist that  despite US denials  they captured a small US unmanned spy plane over Gulf waters.
2012-12-05,"Underwear Factory Fire in China Kills 14 - A fire at a garment factory in Bangladeshi last week killed 110. In Sept, a similar blaze in  Pakistan killed 289 workers."
2012-12-05,"Serbias ambassador to NATO was chatting and joking with colleagues in a parking garage at Brussels Airport when he suddenly strolled to a barrier, climbed over and flung himself 10 metres to the ground below.  By the time his shocked colleagues reached him, he was dead."
2012-12-05,"Why Africa's lions are rapidly disappearing:  

Africa's lion population has dwindled to 32,000, a nearly 70 percent decline in the past 50 years, according to a new survey "
2012-12-05,"High-Speed Traders Profit at Expense of Ordinary Investors, Government Study Finds"
2012-12-05,Sperm count in France falls by 33.4%
2012-12-05,"Spain's unemployment is on the rise, with youth unemployment above 50%"
2012-12-05,Syrian army wears down as rebels gain territory and confidence
2012-12-05,"Egyptian presidential candidate 
Mohamed ElBaradei accused of Zionist plot to overthrow the Islamist-led government of Mohammed Mursi"
2012-12-05,"40 Dead 60,000 Missing As Monster Typhoon Bopha Devastates The Philippines"
2012-12-05,New Zealand Government Admits That Order To Suppress Illegal Spying On Kim Dotcom Only Such Order Issued In 10 Years
2012-12-05,BBC News - Serbia Nato envoy 'jumps to death in Brussels car park'
2012-12-05,James Cameron releases results from his deep dive
2012-12-05,How Australia could end the Assange stalemate
2012-12-05,All amateur football matches in the Netherlands cancelled after referee got beaten to death. 
2012-12-05,Typhoon kills at least 283 in Philippines (Crosspost from r/globalhealth)
2012-12-05,Snakes on a Plane: cobra forces plane into emergency landing  - Telegraph
2012-12-05,"Russia said on Wednesday respect for human rights was declining in the European Union, as part of a campaign to turn the tables on the West's criticism of Moscow's rights record."
2012-12-04,Medicinal cannabis to be legalised in Ireland next year
2012-12-04,Man jailed for throwing homeless man's rabbit into river
2012-12-04,"""MI6 passed up an opportunity to kill a senior leader of al-Qaeda because lawyers advised them they would be breaking the law"""
2012-12-04,"European Roma descended from Indian 'untouchables', genetic study shows:  Roma gypsies in Britain and Europe are descended from ""dalits"" or low caste ""untouchables"" who migrated from the Indian sub-continent 1,400 years ago, a genetic study has suggested. "
2012-12-04,Entire Ukraine Government Resigns
2012-12-04,Indonesia continues to decrease deforestation by planting 1 billion trees in 2013
2012-12-04,U.S. Sees Syria Prepping Chemical Weapons for Possible Attack
2012-12-04,Dutch Youth soccer referee dies after being beaten by 15/16 years old players
2012-12-04,Syrian state media say 29 students and a teacher killed after a mortar slams into a school outside Damascus
2012-12-04,"120 mile long Russian traffic jam ""still growing"""
2012-12-04,"Starbucks hears they might have stop avoiding tax in the UK, slashes employee benefits to compensate"
2012-12-04,Paraguay peasant leader Vidal Vega shot dead. The leader of a landless peasant movement in Paraguay involved in a land dispute with a powerful politician has been shot dead.
2012-12-04,"A group of rural Guatemalans want justice for what they say are the misdeeds of a Canadian mining company. Fearing they won't get it in their own country, they've traveled to Toronto"
2012-12-04,BBC News - Iran: US ScanEagle drone 'captured over Gulf'
2012-12-04,Syria is mixing chemical warfare agents.
2012-12-04,"China surpasses U.S. as top global trader
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2012-12-04,German Commentators Blast Israel for Settlement Building Plan
2012-12-04,The 61 countries that could easily be unplugged from the internet
2012-12-04,"Cat Fight in Rome: Beloved Shelter Faces Closure - Anyone visiting Rome  has seen the many stray cats  amid the ruins.   Archaeologists have issued an eviction notice, & feline lovers from around the world are bracing for a cat fight."
2012-12-04,More than 200 women's rights groups are calling for laws to make paying for sex a crime across the European Union.
2012-12-04,"Genetic link between Paleolithic population of Europe & modern Native Americans found:  N European populations -- including British, Scandinavians, French, & some E Europeans -- descend from a mixture of 2 very different ancestral populations, one related to Native Americans."
2012-12-04,"Loss of income caused by banks as bad as a 'world war', says BoE's Andrew Haldane "
2012-12-04,Pro-loyalist rioters overtake Belfat's City Hall after the council voted to change its policy on the Union flag.
2012-12-04," China's 10 Toppled Myths - From leftover women to human rights, this was a year for misconceptions washing away"
2012-12-04,Shocking: Dutch linesman clinically dead after savage post-match beating by teenagers
2012-12-03,Internet Hangs in Balance as World Governments Meet in Secret
2012-12-03,France and Britain Are Reportedly Considering Pulling Their Ambassadors from Israel
2012-12-03,Thousands attend anti-Nazi rally in Hungary to protest lawmakers call for screening of Jews
2012-12-03,"Germany says it will achieve a fully balanced budget across all layers of government this year thanks to a resilient economy, low unemployment, higher tax revenues and low borrowing costs"
2012-12-03,"Pirate Bays artist promotion platform  the Promo Bay website, despite being perfectly legal, is being blocked by several UK Internet service providers including BT, Virgin Media"
2012-12-03,Sweden summons Israeli ambassador over settlements
2012-12-03, Israel must explain 'targeting' journalists 
2012-12-03,Japan threatens to shoot down North Korean rocket
2012-12-03,"UK Home Secretary warns that those opposing plans to let police monitor all internet use are ""putting politics before people's lives""."
2012-12-03,Europes first gay-friendly mosque sparks controversy
2012-12-03,Bread that lasts for 60 days could cut food waste
2012-12-03,"""At the buttocks."" ""Thighs of a virgin."" South Africa's 'inappropriate' school name translations to be examined"
2012-12-03,China and the United States have held a joint military indoor war game to practice humanitarian rescue and disaster relief in case of an earthquake and consequent nuclear leaks
2012-12-03,First Sikh to guard Buckingham Palace- and in turban
2012-12-03,Paraguayan peasant leader shot dead. Vidal Vega was among last surviving leaders of peasant movement whose land dispute led to president's downfall
2012-12-03,"Israel Asking to Bomb Syria's Chemical Weapons - 
As concern grows over Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons, a new report suggests that one country is already figuring out how it intends to bomb them out of existence."
2012-12-03,Epic weekend-long traffic jam in Russia stretched 125 miles
2012-12-03,"Young Filipino Muslims and Christians are using the internet to try to end 40-year conflict that has killed 120,000 people"
2012-12-03,Immigration crackdown increases number of Canadians having citizenship revoked 
2012-12-03,"Firms must pay their fair share of tax  this is war: A report by UK MPs on the tax dodges employed by multinationals is incendiary  and ought to unite politicians to act
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2012-12-03,"British official: U.K. may suspend trade agreements, recall ambassador over Israel settlement expansion"
2012-12-03,"US software firm hacked for years after suing China
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2012-12-03,"Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Hit Record in 2011, Researchers Say"
2012-12-03,Does it really matter if Iran got the Bomb?
2012-12-03,Vietnamese children killed by mortar shell. Bomb left over from Vietnam war exploded killing four young children and injuring five other people
2012-12-02,Germany Has Built Clean Energy Economy U.S. Rejected in 80s
2012-12-02,"""The Vatican has cracked down on a prominent Austrian Roman Catholic priest who has been leading a disobedience campaign to openly challenge Roman Catholic teachings on celibacy and women priests."""
2012-12-02,Israel halts Palestinian tax transfer over UN bid | DAWN.COM
2012-12-02,Israel confiscates Palestinian funds | Al Akhbar English
2012-12-02,"US 'shocked' by new settlement plan - Israel News, Ynetnews"
2012-12-02,Israel halts Palestinian tax transfer
2012-12-02,"Japan tunnel collapse traps cars - Parts of a tunnel collapsed Sunday on a highway west of Tokyo, trapping an unknown number of vehicles."
2012-12-02,"After UN vote, Israel to suspend Palestinian Authority funds"
2012-12-02,Turkey requests Nato missile defences amid Syria chemical weapons fears
2012-12-02,World Scientists Statement on GMO's .. I would say everyone needs to be aware of this statement 
2012-12-02,"Afghanistan's displaced dread the coming winter: The country has nearly half a million displaced people, many living in primitive camps where the cold weather will mean death for some."
2012-12-02,Clashes in Mexico after president sworn in.
2012-12-02,"New President of Mexico: ""The state has lost ground in important areas. Lawlessness and violence have robbed various parts of the country of peace and freedom. My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico."""
2012-12-02,"In northern Mali, music silenced as Islamists drive out artists:  The region, which was once one of the richest reservoirs of musical talent on the continent, is now an artistic wasteland."
2012-12-02,Muslim Brotherhood paying gangs to go out and rape women and beat men protesting in Egypt as thousands of demonstrators pour on to the streets
2012-12-02,Eurozone unemployment hits record high - Europe - Al Jazeera English
2012-12-02,Internet restored in Syria after three-day blackout
2012-12-02,Canada: Ontario judge rules Toronto's shark fin ban invalid
2012-12-02,The Sketchy Articles of Egypts Constitution 
2012-12-02,Egypts top court says it has suspended its work indefinitely to protest pressures. The court said in a statement it cannot work in a climate filled with hatred
2012-12-02,"Ach! No End in Sight for Berlin Airport Woes - Germans are famous for their efficiency & being on time. But a much-delayed, expensive new airport in the German capital, Berlin, is rapidly destroying that reputation."
2012-12-02,Aboriginal HIV infections a growing problem in Canada:  Infection rate for aboriginal people 3.6 times higher than that for other Canadians 
2012-12-02,Cars trapped in tunnel collapse outside Tokyo
2012-12-02,"
Balkans' political football keeps hooligans close to heart of power.

While ultras elsewhere have been stigmatised, violent fans in Macedonia and Serbia exercise influence as well as fear
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2012-12-02,Internet Giants Google and Amazon Face Tax Attack
2012-12-01,UK considering cutting all funding to schools that don't teach evolution
2012-12-01,India records 57% drop in new HIV cases
2012-12-01,"Egyptians fear decades of Muslim Brotherhood rule, warn Morsi is no friend to US - World News"
2012-12-01,Syrian rebel films himself shooting 10 prisoners
2012-12-01,"Masked men in jackets emblazoned with the word ""police"" boarded a fishing boat Friday in Curacao and stole 70 gold bars worth an estimated $11.5 million, officials on the southern Caribbean island said. ""The crew said it was like a movie operation, very fast,"" Huggins said."
2012-12-01,"Using satellite technology, much of it smuggled in from abroad, Syrian rebels and activists are still communicating online, but the government is finding ways to listen"
2012-12-01,Yahoo 'ordered to pay $2.7bn' by Mexican court
2012-12-01,India's 'Love Commandos' protecting eloping couples from their relatives
2012-12-01,North Korea plans rocket launch within days
2012-12-01,North Korea Says It Will Test Another Long-Range Rocket
2012-12-01,Chinese authorities have demolished the home in the middle of the road.
2012-12-01,Japanese take responsibility for tsunami debris cleanup hitting west coast
2012-12-01,"Mexico: More than 25,000 people disappear in six years. Unpublished official figures show cost of chaos and violence enveloping country in fight against drug gangs"
2012-12-01,Australia has become the first country in the world to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes.
2012-12-01,"Two Pakistan-born brothers living in Florida have 
been arrested on charges of providing support to 
terrorists and conspiring to use a weapon of mass 
destruction within the United States, authorities 
said on Friday."
2012-12-01,"Russian mafia whistleblower found dead outside UK mansion
| Reuters"
2012-12-01,"International health officials have confirmed two more fatal cases of a mysterious respiratory virus in the Middle East. ""It's too early to say whether human-to-human transmission occurred or not, but we certainly can't rule it out,"" said WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl."
2012-12-01,Saudi cleric under fire for labelling waitresses as prostitutes
2012-12-01,Japan Airlines serves in-flight KFC for the holidays  
2012-12-01,"Syrian jets bomb rebels, Internet down for third day
| Reuters"
2012-12-01,Backers of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi are to hold a mass rally to support his sweeping new powers and the drafting of a constitution opponents say is too Islamist.
2012-12-01,Syria army pushes to secure Damascus perimeter
2012-12-01,"As convicted terrorists face possible release, Canada faced with growing problem: how do you rehabilitate them?"
2012-12-01,Afghan girl beheaded after refusing mans marriage proposal | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
2012-12-01,"Guatemalan Peasants Sue Canadian Mining Company Hudbay
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2012-11-30,"Less than 24 hours after General Assembly recognizes Palestine as non-member state, Israel responds by approving construction of 3,000new housing units in Jerusalem, West Bank"
2012-11-30,"North Korea Has Found a Secret Unicorn Lair, Apparently - 
""Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences have recently reconfirmed a lair of the unicorn rode by King Tongmyong, founder of the Koguryo Kingdom"", reports the  wait. Stop. UNICORNS? "
2012-11-30,Global hacking network declares Internet war on Syria -  Anonymous says it'll shut down Syrian govt websites around the world in response to a countrywide Internet blackout believed to be aimed at silencing opposition to the president.
2012-11-30,"Mexican Cartels Enslave Engineers to Build Radio Network - At least 36 engineers & technicians have been kidnapped in the past 4 yrs. None of them have been held for ransom   just disappeared.   When they need specialists they catch them, use them, & discard them. "
2012-11-30,"In Syria, fighting escalates as the country's internet goes dark, and cell phone communication go down. We dont know why yet, but in the past, the Syrian government has cut off access during major operations."
2012-11-30,"Syria's Internet Blackout Explained -  ""Syria has 4 physical cables that connect it to the rest of the internet. 3 are undersea. The 4th is an over-land cable through Turkey. In order for a whole-country outage, all 4 would've had to been cut simultaneously."" "
2012-11-30,UN votes overwhelmingly to upgrade Palestine's status
2012-11-30,"Attacked with acid because she spurned men's advances, then proceeds to win millions of rupees on ""Who Wants to be a Millionaire"" in India."
2012-11-30,Whisky saves man's eyesight after being blinded by vodka
2012-11-30,Internet and Phone Service Cut in Syria
2012-11-30,UN General Assembly recognizes Palestine as a state 138-9 with 41 abstaining
2012-11-30,Australians think cigarettes in the new mandatory plain packaging taste worse than they did in branded packs.
2012-11-30,The U.N. Shouldn't Decide on an Open Internet Behind Closed Doors - The goal is to update a decades-old treaty. But certain countries seem to be attempting a quiet coup in updating it  one that could violate our rights online while leaving users less secure & with slower service.
2012-11-30,Hitler's Strange Afterlife In India
2012-11-30,France tells UK's richest man Lakshmi Mittal: sell up or we nationalise
2012-11-30,Qatari poet jailed for life for insulting Emir with his poem   RT
2012-11-30,Dominique Strauss-Kahn may pay the maid who accused him of attempted rape $6 million to resolve her civil lawsuit
2012-11-30,Philippines criticises 'dictatorial' China  - Chinese naval patrols have been authorized to search and repel ships that illegally enter an area in the South China Sea through which much of the regions commercial vessels pass
2012-11-30,UN Makes Palestine Non-Member Observer State
2012-11-30,"Austrian police seize servers that were part of a global anonymous browsing system, after images showing child sex abuse were found passing through them - The Onion Router (Tor)  pipes data through many different nodes to hide who is browsing what site."
2012-11-30,Egypt's new constitution: An unofficial translation
2012-11-30,4 Reasons Britannia Rules the Waves (& Wind & Solar) - UK this week released a comprehensive (if complicated & controversial) new energy bill that triples subsidies for non-carbon energy & opened a new green bank that'll rush cash to alternative energy projects.
2012-11-30,First Use of OMG Abbreviation Found in a 1917 Letter to Winston Churchill
2012-11-30,Muslims Face Expulsion From Western Myanmar - Ethnic Hatred Tears Apart a Region of Myanmar
2012-11-30,Brazil economy slows unexpectedly
2012-11-29,"Canada creates $5,000 cap on liability for file sharing lawsuits"
2012-11-29,Internet and Mobile Has Been Cut Off in Syria 
2012-11-29,"Swedish drunk MP falls over with his wheelchair and is helped by immigrants. He then calls the police saying the immigrants stole his backpack, which he in reality had forgotten at the bar..."
2012-11-29,Palestinians set to win statehood recognition in UN vote
2012-11-29,"Good News For Animal Lovers: Factory Farming's Days May Be Numbered: In a stunning victory for humane farming, Australia's largest supermarket chain, Coles, will as of January 1 stop selling company branded pork and eggs from animals kept in factory farms"
2012-11-29,"Bodies Found on Drifting Ship Near Japan - It was badly damaged & contained faint markings on the side that appeared to be Korean characters. Some bodies had decomposed to the point where only skeletons remained.
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2012-11-29,Seas rising 60% faster than UN forecast
2012-11-29,"Dutch parliament to abolish blasphemy law: ""The blasphemy law was no longer relevant in the 21st century"""
2012-11-29,German man locked up over HVB bank allegations may have been telling truth.
2012-11-29,"Women in poor countries miss up to a month of work or school per year, because they don't have access to low-cost sanitary pads."
2012-11-29,Poland's top court has outlawed the religious slaughter of animals weeks before the EU is due to allow the practice on religious grounds. It will no longer be legal to allow animals to have their throats cut and bleed to death without first being stunned.
2012-11-29,"The Secret to Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop -- Earlier this month, Iran said it made a new drone that could take off and land vertically. However, the picture they released was just an altered version of a drone developed by Japan's Chiba University."
2012-11-29,Samsung asks employees to quit getting smashed at company events
2012-11-29,"
Bangladeshi Factory Workers Say They Were Locked In During Deadly Inferno - 
As if the story of the deadly blaze that killed 112 people in a Bangladeshi garment factory couldn't get any worse, new details suggest that somebody locked the workers in the burning building. "
2012-11-29,Polish ruling on kosher meat angers Jews
2012-11-29,"
Sweden makes gender-free toy Christmas wish come true: With a picture of a girl with a Nerf gun, a Swedish toy retailer is arming children with the ability to question outdated gender roles
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2012-11-29,"A Russian businessman helping Swiss prosecutors uncover a powerful fraud syndicate has died in unexplained circumstances near his mansion in Britain, in a chilling twist to a Russian mafia scandal that has strained Moscow's ties with the West.
| Reuters"
2012-11-29,Serbian village in panic after mayor warns of vampire on the loose...
2012-11-29,EU rejects French report linking GM maize to cancer 
2012-11-29,"Three managers accused of locking gates in fire in Bangladesh factory where 100 were killed by a fire. The factory makes clothing for Wal-Mart, amongst other European chains."
2012-11-29,"Cairo court gives death penalty to Egyptian Christians tried in absentia for participating in ""Innocence of Muslims"" video"
2012-11-29,"Amazon deforestation drops to record low: The new figure, a staggering 27% drop from 2011, exceeded the expectations of the Brazilian government"
2012-11-29,"Germany backtracks on Palestinian UN bid, decides to abstain."
2012-11-29,"Haiti seeks $2bn to fight cholera outbreak blamed on UN soldiers - 
Government to unveil 10-year plan for water & sanitisation as evidence grows that peacekeepers were source of infection"
2012-11-29,15 yr old Afghan girl has throat slit over refusal to wed
2012-11-28,"Girl, 8, to get vaccination shots after court overrules mum (xpost from /r/NewsOfTheWeird)"
2012-11-28,Spain Intends to Back Palestinian Bid for Statehood at UN.
2012-11-28,"Wife forced to remarry husband who threw acid into her face |
			News.com.au"
2012-11-28,Iceland's president explains how a financial crisis should be handled: Let the banks fold. 
2012-11-28,Egyptian Christians sentenced to death for anti-Islam film
2012-11-28,Finlands education system ranked number one. #2 South Korea #3 Hong Kong. 
2012-11-28,Mass Cairo protest!! Demonstrators are accusing President Morsi & Muslim Brotherhood of betraying last year's revolution.
2012-11-28,"On Wednesday Switzerland & Denmark joined a growing list of European countries that back an upgrade for Palestinians to non-member status at the United Nations, a victory that would be a diplomatic boost to their aspirations for statehood"
2012-11-28,"Citing hunt for pedophiles, Dutch government to make refusing to help decrypt computer a crime -- The Dutch government says it is planning to make it a crime for a suspect in a child sex abuse or terrorism case to refuse to help decrypt a computer when ordered to do so by prosecutors."
2012-11-28,"Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has dropped to its lowest level in 24 years, the government said Tuesday."
2012-11-28,"Owner of TVShack, UK student Richard O'Dwyer avoids extradition"
2012-11-28,Why the Fate of Humanity Rests on a Chinese Middle-Schooler's Test Scores
2012-11-28,Germany will not back Palestinian U.N. bid
2012-11-28,"Dirty War Against Africa's Rhinos - In 2007, 13 rhino were poached in S Africa.  This year, 585 were slain  by organized gangs smuggling horns to Asia.  They recruit triggermen with military backgrounds equipped with silencers & night vision. Helicopters, flying below  radar, get poachers in & out. "
2012-11-28,Spain to recognize Palestinian state at UN
2012-11-28,"Three mid-level managers arrested in connection to the Bangladesh factory blaze which killed over 100 workers. ""Survivors told us that they did not allow the workers to escape the fire, saying that it was a routine fire drill. There are also allegations that they even padlocked doors."""
2012-11-28,Kabul Bank audit reveals the bank as a massive Ponzi scheme
2012-11-28,Is the world ignoring the Congo war?
2012-11-28,Why Finland's Unorthodox Education System Is The Best In The World
2012-11-28,"Particles for Peace: Iranian, Israeli, Turkish and Arab Physicists Lay Plans for a Joint Particle Accelerator | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network"
2012-11-28,Life discovered in ancient polar lake
2012-11-28,Palestinians Predict Historic UN Vote on Statehood
2012-11-28,"Hundreds of millions of dollars from Kabul Bank were spirited out of Afghanistan  some smuggled in airline food trays to bank accounts in more than two dozen countries,  revealed in a report  about massive fraud that led to the collapse of the nation's largest financial institution"
2012-11-28,"Largest trial of 'Dirty War' crimes starts in Argentina: Sixty-eight former officials face 800 charges of kidnap, torture and murder"
2012-11-28,William Hague says UK set to abstain in Palestinian UN vote
2012-11-27,China's party paper falls for Onion joke about Kim Jong Un
2012-11-27,"""One challenge I have when I speak about North Korea is I run out of adjectives for how bad things are... This place is almost this black hole for modern civilization"""
2012-11-27,France to Back Palestinian Bid for Status at U.N.
2012-11-27,"""The scale of cruelty and corporal punishment in Indian schools was highlighted . . . by the attempted suicide of 13 year girl who was paraded naked by a teacher for 'stealing'"""
2012-11-27,Toronto mayor ordered removed from office
2012-11-27,"""Having the Internet rewired by bureaucrats would be like handing a Stradivarius to a gorilla."" U.N. to Seek Control of the Internet"
2012-11-27,Germany to ban sex with animals
2012-11-27,"A Hungarian far-right politician urged the government to draw up lists of Jews who pose a ""national security risk"", stirring outrage among Jewish leaders who saw echoes of fascist policies that led to the Holocaust."
2012-11-27,"UK Lord Suggests Dropping A Neutron Bomb On Pakistan-Afghanistan Border: ""To create cordons sanitaire along various borders where people are causing trouble"""
2012-11-27,"How Ordinary Chinese are Talking, & Fighting Back - Chinese are using Weibo to expose corruption, criticize officials & try to make their country a better place  even as the Communist Party tries to control the Weibo revolution.  This isn't to say there isn't censorship  there is, & plenty of it.
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2012-11-27,Man featured in show about honour killing is murdered in honour killing - The Times of India
2012-11-27,Australian Prime Minister forced to withdraw support for Israel in UN vote.
2012-11-27,"Canadian ex-Salvation Army exec surrenders to police; he is accused of stealing more than $2,000,000 in toys from the organization"
2012-11-27,A bomb was found on Monday under the car of a prominent Pakistani journalist who the Taliban had threatened over his coverage of a schoolgirl the militants shot
2012-11-27,"France said on Tuesday it would vote in favour of Palestinian non-member status at the United Nations, boosting Palestinian efforts to secure greater international recognition.
| Reuters"
2012-11-27,BBC News - Risk of robot uprising wiping out human race to be studied
2012-11-27,"Uganda will pass anti-homosexuality bill this year, says Speaker. Death penalty clause dropped from latest draft but bill encourages violence against gay men and lesbians, say activists"
2012-11-27,"Heres the Chinese passport map thats infuriating much of Asia. Chinas new official passport carries, on its eighth page, a watermark map of China that has set off diplomatic disputes with four neighboring countries."
2012-11-27,China planning 'huge fracking industry'
2012-11-27,"""One of the Israeli militarys most visible spokesmen is under fire for a photo he posted on his Facebook page captioned Obama style in which his face is smeared with mud."""
2012-11-27,"Protesting Farmers Spray European Parliament & Riot Police With Milk - Thousands of dairy farmers angry at falling dairy prices in the EU &  accompanied by hundreds of tractors, descended on Brussels for 2 days of demonstrations. Tractors are hindering EU officials from reaching their offices."
2012-11-27,"After four years, Graham Hughes visits every country in the world, without flying. Finishes in South Sudan, a country that didn't exist when he started his trip.
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2012-11-27,October Was 332nd Consecutive Globally Warm Month
2012-11-27,Japan Is Flexing Its Military Muscle to Counter a Rising China
2012-11-27,Plane loads of cash: Flight records reveal Russia flew 30 tonnes of bank notes to Syrian regime. The logs show that a cargo plane belonging to the Syrian Air Force made eight round trips between Moscows Vnukovo Airport and Damascus over three months this summer
2012-11-26,"Having survived two assassination attempts, Mexican mayor beaten to death"
2012-11-26,Vietnam's passport control offices are refusing to stamp visa pages in the new Chinese passports containing a map showing islands in the South China Sea as part of Chinese territory. 
2012-11-26,Crowd of 300 sexually assaults three girls in Tahrir Square
2012-11-26,"Over 500 Bangladesh clothes factories for Walmart, H&M, Tesco & others declare wild-cat ""holiday"", fearing rising protests against bad labor conditions -  Garment workers demanding end to ""deathtraps"" after new blaze sparks fresh panic & terror following worst-ever textile factory fire in country.  "
2012-11-26,"Atheists and Islam: No God, not even Allah -- Ex-Muslim atheists are becoming more outspoken, but tolerance is still rare"
2012-11-26,"An autopsy on the exhumed body late President Turgut Ozal, who led Turkey out of military rule in the 1980s, has revealed evidence of poisoning, a newspaper reported on Monday.
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2012-11-26,UK gives 19 million aid to South Africa - its president spends 17.5 million on his palace.
2012-11-26,"In Egypt, presidents power grab unites those who once battled over Mubarak - With Egyptian President Mohamed Morsis decision  to assume near-absolute power over his country, at least for now, secularists of all stripes have mobilized in ways unimaginable just a week ago."
2012-11-26,Universal Health care hits 94% approval in Canada
2012-11-26,"Catalans Vote in Secession Push: Catalans began voting for a regional government, driving a push for independence from Spain; if the pro-secession party wins a majority, a referendum on independence would likely follow within two years"
2012-11-26,A fire at a clothing manufacturer in Bangladesh kills 112 workers
2012-11-26,"British engineer hacked to death on his South African farm:  A British engineer who moved to South Africa after ""falling in love with the country"" has been brutally murdered on his remote farmstead. "
2012-11-26,"Egypt's stock market has plummeted in its first trading session since the Islamist president expanded his authority last week, triggering violent protests and a political crisis"
2012-11-26,An Israeli mother who lost her son and a Palestinian whose father was shot dead now seek peace together in the Middle East
2012-11-26,Harper took steps to stifle Palestinian statehood bid
2012-11-26,Israel and Palestine's leaders  and cheerleaders  have failed them: Those who support Israel or Palestine as if they were rival football teams do those two peoples a terrible disservice
2012-11-26,Pakistan: 13 Die After Drinking Cough Syrup - 
2012-11-26,"Egyptian Judges Feud With Morsi - Fed up with the President trying to rid his office of judicial checks & balances, highest judges call for nationwide strike against the power grab, an unprecedented attack on judiciary branch.  But not everyone opposes Morsis aim for  dictatorial powers."
2012-11-26,More than 800 homes flooded as storms hit UK.
2012-11-26,"Britain has a duty to back us at UN, say Palestinians"
2012-11-26,'Poison' pen mightier than sword for would-be North Korean assassin (xpost from /r/NewsOfTheWeird)
2012-11-26,Korea's whopping US$275 billion tourism city plan | CNN Travel
2012-11-26,Chinese flock to elite U.S. schools 
2012-11-26,"Ireland to Act Fast on Abortion Law, Providing Limited Access if an Expert Group's Recommendation is Accepted by the Cabinet, After Raging Controversy Over Woman's Death - The 'expert group' will deal with how the State deals with  lawful abortions.  "
2012-11-26,Public anger in China erupts online as official caught in sex tape scandal.  there are more videos featuring at least five other senior figures
2012-11-25,China's Toxic Milk Whistleblower Murdered
2012-11-25,Sanal Edamaruku faces jail for revealing 'tears' trickling down a Mumbai church statue came from clogged drainage pipes
2012-11-25,"Japan Working on 300 MPH Floating Train - The Series Lo prototype is a magnetic levitation train, floating above its track & moving forward thanks to powerful magnets. It'll run from Tokyo to Nagoya, & travel as fast as 500 kilometers per hour (about 311 mph). "
2012-11-25," Several thousand people have turned out for a rally in Mali's capital, Bamako, to show support for ""the authentic Islam"" and to say no to religious extremism"
2012-11-25,"Arafat's Body to be Exhumed to Test for Poison - French opened  murder inquiry after  Swiss  found high levels of radioactive polonium on his clothing, supplied by his widow. Palestinians say they've ""evidence suggesting Arafat was assassinated by Israelis"". Israel denies any involvement."
2012-11-25,"Scientists Rush To Save Manta Rays, The 'Pandas Of The Ocean'"
2012-11-25,"Nearly 10,000 march in Kuala Lumpur to stop controversial rare earth plant"
2012-11-25,"A Chinese-made fighter jet has landed on Beijing's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning"
2012-11-25,"C.S. Lewis to be honoured with stone in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey"
2012-11-25,Syrian rebels capture air base near Damascus
2012-11-25,China will build the worlds tallest building using giant lego like pieces... In a total of 90 days.
2012-11-25,Bangladesh clothes factory fire kills 'at least 120'
2012-11-25,"Atheists and Islam: Ex-Muslim atheists are becoming more outspoken, but tolerance is still rare"
2012-11-25,Self-immolations on rise in Tibet 
2012-11-25,Toronto police recover $2 million worth of toys and donated goods stolen from a Salvation Army warehouse
2012-11-25,Europe mulls banning 'boxes' for abandoned babies: 'The box is a warm incubator that can be opened from an outside wall of a hospital where a desperate parent can anonymously leave an unwanted infant.'
2012-11-25,Greek police have recovered antiquities stolen from a museum in Ancient Olympia and arrested three people after one of them tried to sell an ancient gold ring to an undercover policeman
2012-11-25,Iran warns Turkey not to deploy Patriot missiles
2012-11-25,Swedish toy firm drops gender roles for Christmas
2012-11-25,Boris: we are losing India to the Americans - Telegraph
2012-11-25,Report: Israeli spy satellites spot Iranian ship being loaded with rockets for Gaza
2012-11-25,"Pakistani Lawyers become Thugs, Beat and Terrorize Cops and Judges in their black suits and ties"
2012-11-25,India's clothing workers: 'They slap us and call us dogs and monkeys'. Human rights tribunal hears allegations of abuse and low pay against clothing companies that supply high street stores
2012-11-25,Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility for bomb attack on Shia procession
2012-11-25,"Sunni extremists arrested over threats to Shia Muslims - in Sydney, Australia"
2012-11-24,Japan's Population Now So Old That Sales Of Adult Diapers Exceed Those For Babies 
2012-11-24,"Mexico President says it's ""impossible"" to end drug trade: ""Either the US decides to drastically reduce their consumption of drugs, or if they are not going to reduce it they at least have the moral responsibility to reduce the flow of money towards Mexico, which goes into the hands of criminals"""
2012-11-24,World's most expensive footballer Cristiano Ronaldo donates 1.5m to children in Gaza
2012-11-24,Muslim radio station in Britain fined for saying gay people should be tortured
2012-11-24,China: Homeless children found dead in rubbish bin
2012-11-24,Mass protests erupt in Egypt against Mursis antidemocratic decrees
2012-11-24,Boxer Hector Camacho dies after life support is turned off.
2012-11-24,"
The 'nutrition gap' between Britain's rich and poor is vast  and wicked

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2012-11-24,Pussy Riot woman moved to solitary confinement 
2012-11-24,"MSPs dismiss Donald Trumps wind farms warning. There is no evidence to support claims by American tycoon Donald Trump that wind turbines would destroy Scottish tourism, MSPs have concluded."
2012-11-24,Israel said to ease restrictions on Gaza fishing and farming
2012-11-24,Brazil gang's slaughter of police sparks fightback
2012-11-24,"Mashaal: I accept a Palestinian state on '67 borders. Hamas leader says he'll move to a peaceful path contingent on the ""end of the occupation"" and Palestinian statehood."
2012-11-24,Egypt's top judges condemn Mohamed Morsi power grab
2012-11-24,Uruguay lawmakers are calling on the government to go even further and legalize all drugs in a bid to blunt the power of and threat from illicit drug traffickers
2012-11-24,Parents lose care of foster children due to membership of UK Independence Party
2012-11-24,"Wave of Plagiarism Cases Strikes German Politics - Over 1/2 a dozen politicians  in embarrassing cheating scandal that last year cost defense minister his job. The education minister is also implicated. She, like the others, is accused of plagiarizing people's work while earning a doctorate degree."
2012-11-24,"4-year-old Dalit girl raped and strangled to death in Meerut, India"
2012-11-24," Education Secretary calls decision to remove  3 children from a foster couple because they belong to 'United Kingdom Independent Party' as ""indefensible"".  The children - who are ""not indigenous white British"" - were removed by social workers accusing the couple of belonging to a ""racist party""."
2012-11-24,"No One Pharaoh Should Have All That Power - 
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, who when elected reclaimed some executive power from previous military regime, is in hot water after giving himself a Thanksgiving present that put him above the courts & has some  calling him ""Pharaoh."" "
2012-11-24,Clashes Break Out After Morsi Seizes New Power in Egypt
2012-11-24,Chinese Consumers Willing to Pay More for American-Made Goods | PRI's The World
2012-11-24,"French MPs have been caught playing online poker and chess and buying wine and clothes on their electronic tablets during debates in the National Assembly, sparking calls for the new Socialist speaker to scramble wireless signals in the chamber for the sake of democracy. "
2012-11-24,"Record Killing of Journalists In 2012: The deadliest country this year was Syria, where 36 journalists and dozens more media activists have been killed"""
2012-11-24,"Germany Rejects Swiss tax Deal - The deal would've allowed Germans with undeclared assets in Switzerland to avoid punishment by making a one-off payment of between 21% & 41% of the value of their assets. It was a deal which made ""honest taxpayers feel like fools""."
2012-11-23,Egypt protesters set fire to Muslim Brotherhood offices
2012-11-23,"65%  of Canadians over 18 support either pot legalization & taxation, or the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana - I think we have to recognize 1st & foremost  the war on drugs, as it exists, doesnt work. Legalization is a smart policy for the Liberal Party."
2012-11-23,"Saudi Arabia now electronically monitoring women, letting male family members know when they try to leave the country"
2012-11-23,"Mexico City: Now One of Safest Places in Mexico - Once infamous for its pollution, lawlessness, & chaos,  it's at the vanguard of ecological & civic change.  Abortion, gay marriage, & gay adoption is legalized. Outsiders who once viewed the city as terrorizing, now want to visit, to live here.
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2012-11-23,A Dubai court has sentenced an Irish man and British woman to three months in jail for an intimate encounter in the back of a taxi.
2012-11-23,Muslim Man to Open 'Mosque for Gays' in France
2012-11-23,Delhi government widens ban on plastic: Plastic is an environmental disaster
2012-11-23,"A teenage girl in the Indian capital Delhi has been shot dead by a man after she objected to him urinating near the gate of her family home, police said."
2012-11-23,"Israeli soldiers open fire in Gaza buffer zone - 1 killed, 10 injured"
2012-11-23,BBC News - Egypt's President Mursi assumes sweeping powers
2012-11-23,Pakistan will suspend cellphone services in most parts of the country over the next 2 days to prevent attacks against Shias Muslims during Muharram - Militants detonate bombs using cell phones. The govt has never suspended service on such a wide scale for this. 
2012-11-23,Syria forces airstrike on Aleppo Hospital: At least 40 people killed
2012-11-23,"Delhi Imposes Blanket Ban on All Plastic Bags - No use, sale, or manufacturing. No exceptions. Delhi generates 574 metric tons (1.2m lbs) of plastic waste a day. Jute is popular alternative, but not widely available. Ban on garbage bags likely to see resistance with few alternatives available. "
2012-11-23,Mexico's President Tries to Change Country's Name 
2012-11-23,"Opposition leaders in Egypt are calling for a ""million man march"" to protest against what they say is a coup by President Mohamed Morsi."
2012-11-23,A rumour that a Christian man blasphemed against Islam has sparked a riot in the Nigeria 
2012-11-23,Man stopped from peeing in public kills girl in India
2012-11-23,"Amid Protests, Spain Tries Banning Photos Of Police"
2012-11-23,"In One Chinese Province, the Government Literally Paves a Highway Around Homeowners Who Refuse to Move"
2012-11-23,Anti-Morsi protesters torch Muslim Brotherhood offices
2012-11-23,Map depicted in new Chinese passport raises diplomatic row
2012-11-23,BBC News - Hong Kong: Former British colony fears China 'remake'
2012-11-23,"There is only one or two legitimate ninjas left in Japan, and they are to be the last. This saddens me. "
2012-11-23,Egypt's Morsi grants himself far-reaching powers
2012-11-23,Gaza crisis: Palestinian 'shot dead near border'
2012-11-22, Israel and Palestinians Agree to a Truce
2012-11-22,"China sends 90 tons of aid, including 900 tents, 10,000 blankets, 30 water purification systems, 100 electric generators and assorted medicines to Cuba for Hurricane Sandy recovery(x-post from /r/China)"
2012-11-22,The Beatles' audition tape famously rejected by a record executive in 1962 has finally been uncovered after 50 years
2012-11-22,"The Church of England can no longer continue as an arm of the state: By voting against women bishops, it has shown itself to be a discriminatory organisation that seeks to be above the law"
2012-11-22,China to build world's tallest skyscraper in 90 days..
2012-11-22,Ceasefire between Hamas and Israel agreed
2012-11-22,"Hacker Arrested for Stealing ID Info of Most of Greece - Found in possession of ""9 million data files containing ID data, addresses, tax ID & licence plate numbers"",  he's  suspected of trying to sell. Some kind of accomplice working in govt hasn't been ruled out."
2012-11-22,Canada: $2 Million in Toys Stolen From Salvation Army
2012-11-22,Argentine experts have discovered the fossils of a two-metre-tall penguin that lived in Antarctica 34 million years ago.
2012-11-22,"A South Pacific island identified on Google Earth & world maps doesn't exist, according to Australian scientists who went searching for it - The  sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island, was positioned between Australia & French-governed New Caledonia. ""Were really puzzled. Its quite bizarre."""
2012-11-22,Great tits more susceptible to disease than other British birds
2012-11-22,"Rape in Congo is not a myth  if anything, it is under-reported: A report claiming aid agencies exaggerate rape stories for publicity is untrue, unhelpful and out of date"
2012-11-22,Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no sailors watched Osama bin Ladens burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the ceremony.
2012-11-22,Iran supplied Hamas with Fajr-5 missile technology
2012-11-22,Scientists 'undiscover' Pacific island
2012-11-22,"Singapore is world's least emotional country, poll finds. Only 36% of Singaporeans report feeling positive or negative emotions on a daily basis, compared to 60% in the Philippines"
2012-11-22,Lebanese rockets fired at Israel. 
2012-11-22,US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and  Egyptian Foreign Minster announce cease fire between Israel and Hamas
2012-11-22,"""The entire Christian calendar is based on a miscalculation, the Pope has declared, as he claims in a new book that Jesus was born several years earlier than commonly believed."""
2012-11-22,"Spanish government struggles to respond to home eviction suicides:  

In less than a month, at least five people who were about to be forcefully evicted from their homes committed suicide. The issue is galvanizing opposition to austerity measures. "
2012-11-22,Japans Last True Ninja
2012-11-22,China arrests blogger for Twitter joke
2012-11-22,Taliban suicide bomber kills 23 in Pakistan
2012-11-22,Rebels say Syria hospital strike kills 40 
2012-11-22,"Global shadow banking hits $67 trillion.
 
G20 charts rise of sector blamed for aggravating worldwide financial crisis
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2012-11-21,Hamas executes six suspected collaborators with Israel; body dragged through street - San Jose Mercury News
2012-11-21,Moscow bans protest against political repressions 'due to lack of political repression'
2012-11-21,"After 8 more rhinos were slaughtered over the weekend, South African army deployed to assist in the war against poaching.  So far a staggering 570 rhinos have been killed this year within the country's borders."
2012-11-21,Marijuana legalization or decriminalization backed by most Canadians: poll - thestar.com
2012-11-21,B.C Marijuana tax could net billions if pot is Legalized
2012-11-21,"Dutch govt scraps `weed pass' for coffee shops. Dope-selling coffee shops in Amsterdam won't be shutting their doors to foreign visitors, a huge relief to the hundreds of thousands of tourists who enjoy a toke or two in the Dutch capital alongside their excursions on the canals and to the museums."
2012-11-21,National anguish at death of five Chinese street children: The deaths of five street children who poisoned themselves after lighting a fire to fend off the cold have triggered an outpouring of online grief and reinforced a national debate over Chinas growing wealth gap. 
2012-11-21,India hangs Mumbai gunman Ajmal Kasab
2012-11-21,"The video of a teenage girls random assault that has London up in arms. British police have released this very disturbing video, reportedly captured by a nearby closed-circuit camera, of a man attacking a 16-year-old girl for what authorities say is no discernible reason."
2012-11-21,Norway to cull the 25 wolves in their country
2012-11-21,Volcano erupts in new zealand.
2012-11-21,"Mohammed Kasab, the sole surviving gunman from the 2008 Mumbai attacks, has been hanged in an Indian prison"
2012-11-21,"Iranian news agency says the head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard has disclosed his country has given fighters in Gaza the ability to produce longer-range missiles on their own, without direct shipments"
2012-11-21,"Iran says Palestinians in the Gaza Strip should be ""equipped"" to defend themselves against Israel."
2012-11-21,"World's Most Expensive Coffee, Made of Feces, is Tainted by 'Horrific' Civet Abuse - They're kept in tiny cages, separated from their young, & force-fed only coffee cherries. Kopi Luwak surged in popularity since 2007 film 'The Bucket List' (x-post from r/nature)"
2012-11-21,"Singapore taxi driver returns $900k left by passengers
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2012-11-21,A Pakistan court threw out all charges against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy in a case that drew international condemnation
2012-11-21,New Zealand's 'Lord of the Rings' Volcano Erupts
2012-11-21,A French news magazine has accused the US government of hacking into the office of Nicolas Sarkozy in the final weeks of his presidency of France.
2012-11-21,"Iraqi-Kurd tensions soar after firefight. A shootout over an unpaid gasoline bill in this small but hotly contested town has sent tensions soaring between the Iraqi government in Baghdad and the northern region of Kurdistan, threatening to ignite the Arab-Kurdish conflict that many have long feared."
2012-11-21,Libya: Benghazi police chief assassinated
2012-11-21,"NATO says Turkey has asked for missile defense against Syria
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2012-11-21,Dozens who protested in Yemen during Arab Spring still missing
2012-11-21,Melbourne bus racist abuse video puts Australian attitudes on trial
2012-11-21,"Violence Against Women in Latin America: Getting Worse - Femicides in Mexico, Guatemala, & Honduras have all shot up, some of the highest rates in the world.  El Salvador has  biggest spike, with 637 women murdered in 2011, almost quadruple  from a decade ago. 


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2012-11-20,"Israel air force drops leaflets across Gaza City warning residents to evacuate homes ""immediately"""
2012-11-20,"Trump hotel in Canada failing, investors suing after 7 years and no building"
2012-11-20,"""The rising scream of pain emanating from the people of eastern Congo, trapped in a horrific and accelerating cycle of murder, mutilation, rape, exploitation and mass displacement, is barely heard."""
2012-11-20,France Stripped Of Prized 'AAA' Credit Rating By Moody's
2012-11-20,"Two women are arrested in Mumbai: one for making a Facebook post, the other for ""liking"" her friend's post"
2012-11-20,The day I saw 248 girls suffering genital mutilation
2012-11-20,Australia 'cracked top-secret US jet fighter codes'
2012-11-20,"The British governments increasingly obstinate stance on criminalizing insults seems to have finally offended the public. Now an official movement, the Reform Section 5 campaign, is drawing support from all levels of society."
2012-11-20,"As Hamas confronts Israel, its Arab support swells - "
2012-11-20,110 UN countries back ending death penalty
2012-11-20,Billionaire Indian Brothers kill each other after an argument escalated into a gun fight 
2012-11-20,Moscow Bans 'Political Repression' Protest - 'No Such Thing'
2012-11-20,"A chilling article by Gilad Sharon, son of the former Israeli prime minister, in the Jerusalem Post says Israel must ""flatten Gaza"" like the US flattened Japan."
2012-11-20,France ends combat mission in Afghanistan
2012-11-20,"More than 1,000 new coal plants planned worldwide, figures show. The huge planned expansion comes despite warnings from politicians, scientists and campaigners that the planet's fast-rising carbon emissions must peak within a few years if runaway climate change is to be avoided"
2012-11-20,US defends Israeli attacks on Gaza at UN
2012-11-20,"MP Peter Lilley has received over $400,000 in oil company share options - 
Analysis shows full extent of climate sceptic's financial interests in oil industry & places committee role under further scrutiny"
2012-11-20,"Mob's racist tirade against bus passenger caught on camera; Melbourne, Australia
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2012-11-20,New law in India seek to help untouchables by banning contruction of nonflushing toliets or hiring them to remove human excrement by hand
2012-11-20,Widower calls for independent investigation into death of Savita Halappanavar -- criticises investigation by Health Service Executive because the team appointed includes employees from Galway University Hospital where his wife died
2012-11-20,Canada Introduces tougher Anti-Cannabis Laws
2012-11-20,"After Savita Halappanavar's death, the brutal irony of 'pro-life' is exposed"
2012-11-20,"Poland has arrested a person it said was planning a terrorist attack targeting the country's parliament, president and government. Special conference at 9:00 GMT"
2012-11-20,Moody's downgrades France's credit rating to AA1
2012-11-20,"Pakistan acquits girl of blasphemy charges
after police accused cleric of framing her"
2012-11-19,"Turkish Prime Minister: ""I say that Israel is a terrorist state, and its acts are terrorist acts"""
2012-11-19,"Cuban transsexual elected to public office. Adela Hernandez, jailed for 'dangerousness' in the 1980s, becomes first transgender person to hold public office in Cuba"
2012-11-19,"Nigeria: An oil spill at an ExxonMobil facility offshore from the Niger Delta has spread at least 20 miles from its source, coating waters used by fishermen in a film of sludge."
2012-11-19,"Hamas [will] agree to a ceasefire only after Israel ""stops its aggression, ends its policy of targeted assassinations and lifts the blockade of Gaza."""
2012-11-19,"Egypt liberals quit assembly drafting constitution.  number of liberal politicians withdrew on Sunday from the Islamist-dominated assembly drafting Egypt's new constitution, saying they were not given the opportunity to discuss articles and their suggestions were being ignored."
2012-11-19,Lebanese Army Dismantles Rockets Aimed at Israel
2012-11-19,"Protesting women maced, beaten on Paris streets - NSFW images"
2012-11-19,"""We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didnt stop with Hiroshima  the Japanese werent surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too."""
2012-11-19,BBC News - Obama: 'Israel has right to defend itself'
2012-11-19,Gaza death toll now at 77 after 6 days of violence
2012-11-19,"14 Tasmanian Devils Free From a Contagious Facial Tumor Disease to be Moved to Own Island - Their plight is so dire Australian authorities are breeding an ""insurance population"" to ensure they don't die out. Their numbers have dropped 91% since the disease appeared in 1996."
2012-11-19,"A video obtained by Reuters shows Nigerian troops shooting unarmed captives in broad daylight by the roadside in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the bastion of an Islamist insurgency.
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2012-11-19,"Spain to Offer Residency to Foreign House Buyers - if they buy houses worth over 160,000 ($200,000) as part of an attempt to reduce the country's bloated stock of unsold homes. Spain has over 700,000 unsold houses following the collapse of its real estate market in 2008."
2012-11-19,"Woman in India arrested for criticizing local politician, charged with ""hurting religious sentiments"""
2012-11-19,Hamas: Rockets will stop when Gaza borders are opened
2012-11-19,"World Bank Warns Of Catastrophic Effects From 4 Degree Warming: The World Bank warned that global temperatures could rise by four degrees this century without immediate action, with potentially devastating consequences for coastal cities and the poor"
2012-11-19,Europes New Fascists
2012-11-19,You can now get arrested for your comments and likes on Facebook???
2012-11-19," When the Pope announced he was transferring his respected sex crimes prosecutor to Malta to become a bishop, Vatican watchers immediately questioned whether the Holy See's tough line on clerical abuse was going soft  and if another outspoken cleric was being punished for doing his job too well."
2012-11-19,"Death toll rises as Israeli military assaults Gaza Strip: Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip on Sunday killed at least 10 members of one family, including a mother and her four children, and struck two buildings used by journalists"
2012-11-19,Restaurateur Gets 90 Days In Jail For Criminally Libelling Author Of Bad Review
2012-11-19,"""The system of so-called 'shadow banking,' blamed by some for aggravating the global financial crisis, grew to a new high of $67 trillion globally last year, a top regulatory group said, calling for tighter control of the sector."""
2012-11-19,95% of Australian voters support Royal Commission into child abuse
2012-11-19,"French government to spend 580 million on a new airport next to one that some claim is only being used at ""50% of its capacity"", with 2000 hectares of farmland set to be destroyed"
2012-11-19,Angry Chinese Protesters Overturn Police Vans 
2012-11-18,ATM gives out extra money - the British form an orderly queue
2012-11-18,"Approx 20,000 Irish people are marching today, calling on the Irish government to introduce legislation on abortion. "
2012-11-18,"Over the past decade the business of renting out private soldiers has grown from a specialised niche into a global trade, worth as much as $100 billion"
2012-11-18,"US self-sufficiency in energy is likely to end reliance on Gulf regimes, but biggest loser of all may be Russia"
2012-11-18,"
France : More than 100000 people protest against Gay Marriage"
2012-11-18,Chavez: Every Venezuelan to Have Dignified Home by 2019 Whatever it Costs
2012-11-18,"Ahmed Jabari, Assassinated Hamas Leader, Received Draft Of Gaza Truce Agreement Shortly Before Death "
2012-11-18,"US denies visas to Iran officials for UN meeting. The Iranian judiciary's Human Rights HQs said in a statement that the US denied visas to an Iranian delegation that planned to travel to a meeting of the UN's 3rd Committee, which focuses on social issues and human rights."
2012-11-18,Metro - Jimmy Carter: 'Israelis policy is to confiscate Palestinian territory'
2012-11-18,IKEA admits using forced labor in the 80's
2012-11-18,"56% of Britons would vote to quit EU in referendum, poll finds"
2012-11-18,"Palestinians in Gaza fire over 30 rockets into Israel since the morning, injuring four; fragments from intercepted rocket near TA destroy car; Iron Dome intercepts over 17 rockets; IDF hits 70 targets in Gaza"
2012-11-18,Protests in Jordan intensify: Down with King Abdullah!
2012-11-18,Syrian rebels capture another military airport
2012-11-18,"Egyptian Convoy heads to Gaza
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2012-11-18,"
Putin on Pussy Riot: 'I don't think modern Germany should support anti-Semitism'"
2012-11-18,"In UK, Hillsborough police accused of sexually harassing survivor: ""One officer pestered a young woman for sex only weeks after the disaster, while other witnesses were reportedly threatened with jail if they did not change accounts that portrayed the police in a negative light.""
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2012-11-18,Israel PM says ready to expand Gaza operation after Hamas resumed fire
2012-11-18,Gaza hospitals face dire supply shortages - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2012-11-18,US denies visas to Iran's UN officials
2012-11-18,Elections Canada email trail points to growing suspicions over voter suppression mischief during 2011 election
2012-11-18, Sierra Leone Votes Peacefully 
2012-11-18,"Rothschilds unite with National Trust to fight plans for high speed rail link - 
Billionaire family & conservation charity combine to propose 'green corridor' for 33bn track"
2012-11-18,Human Rights Watch accuses Myanmar security forces of supporting some anti-Muslim attacks
2012-11-18,Spain rejects proposed 75 billion euro budget cut
2012-11-17,Taliban Accidentally Reveal Identities of Their Mailing List Members - ABC News
2012-11-17,"'Hundreds of Irish women, including dozens who had been raped, have life-threatening illnesses or are under the age of 16, have been forced to seek abortions in Britain in the past three years, a pro-choice charity said.'"
2012-11-17,New law would let Uruguayans grow marijuana at home or in clubs
2012-11-17,BBC News - Gaza crisis: Israel air strikes hit Hamas HQ
2012-11-17,40 Egyptian school children killed in crash
2012-11-17,"Western media can't get Palestine right
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2012-11-17,"Uganda says wants to pass anti-gay law as ""Christmas gift"""
2012-11-17,Israel Destroys Hamas Prime Minister's Office
2012-11-17,"Japan, India to cooperate on rare earth production"
2012-11-17,"Cat lovers tell Rome archaeologists they won't abandon strays living at site where Brutus assassinated Caesar  - Cats of Rome are as ancient as the marble capitals they lounge on. We must find a solution that balances heritage with a social practice that's its own tradition,"" says head of culture. "
2012-11-17,"Once imprisoned for her sexuality, Cuban transgender woman becomes 1st to hold elected office"
2012-11-17,"Train ploughs into school bus in Egypt, 47 killed"
2012-11-17,Saudi Arabia Funds Mossad Anti-Iran Operations
2012-11-17,"British Buddhist monk self-immolates at French monastery:   A British monk died in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery in France after he poured petrol over his clothes and set himself alight, police said. "
2012-11-17,Australia mulls mandatory smoker's licenses | Times247
2012-11-17,"Chinas national strategy to acquire technology illicitly from Western companies, but it won't work in the future"
2012-11-17,France enacts the Nutella Taxa quadrupling of palm oil taxes
2012-11-17,France: The time-bomb at the heart of Europe
2012-11-17,U.S. lifts ban on imports from Myanmar ahead of Obama visit
2012-11-17,"Bal Thackeray, Hindu leader and Shiv Sena founder, dies."
2012-11-17,10 Things You Need to Know About Gaza
2012-11-17,"Turkey will formally ask NATO on Monday to set up missiles on its border with Syria. The Munich-based Sueddeutsche Zeitung, which did not cite its sources, also said that up to 170 German soldiers could be deployed as part of the mission."
2012-11-17,Tunisia denounces Israel's operation as illegitimate and unacceptable   
2012-11-17,Interview: There is a great anger in the country  President Higgins - Ireland.
2012-11-17,"Catholic nun stands trial over 63 counts of physical and sexual abuse of children
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2012-11-16,"Mexico lawmaker introduces bill to legalize marijuana. A leftist Mexican lawmaker on Thursday presented a bill to legalize the production, sale and use of marijuana, adding to a growing chorus of Latin American politicians who are rejecting the prohibitionist policies of the United States."
2012-11-16,"Gaza cease-fire collapses, Egypt PM backs Palestinians as Israel drafts 16,000 reservists"
2012-11-16,Gaza crisis: Tel Aviv targeted by missiles.
2012-11-16,"Hong Kong seizes $1.4m of illegal ivory - Customs officers in Hong Kong confiscate 569 pieces of illegal elephant ivory, their second major seizure of tusks in a month
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2012-11-16,Growing concerns over 'in the air' transmission of Ebola - Canadian scientists find the deadliest form of the virus can be transmitted by air. It goes  from pigs to monkeys with no direct contact.  There are accounts of pigs dying at the start of human outbreaks. 
2012-11-16,Egyptian leaders have promised to support Gaza against Israeli attacks
2012-11-16,"Kenyan information minister leads an IT revolution:  Since Bitange Ndemo got Kenya hooked up to high-speed Internet, there has been no stopping his cyber-progress. A 'Silicon Savannah' is now flourishing."
2012-11-16,Israel And Gaza On Brink Of War As Tanks Amass At Border
2012-11-16,BP to Admit Crimes and Pay $4.5 Billion in Gulf Settlement - The British oil company said it would pay $4.5 billion in fines and other payments to the government and plead guilty to 14 criminal charges in connection with the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico two years ago.
2012-11-16,The Federal Court of Justice in Germany has ruled that the parents of a 13-year-old were not responsible for their son's illegal file sharing and do not have to pay a fine. The decision overturns a previous ruling. 
2012-11-16,"Australia declares world's largest marine reserve - formally creates the world's largest network of marine reserves, protecting oceans around its coast."
2012-11-16,Egypt PM decries Gaza 'aggression' by Israel - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2012-11-16,Hague war court acquits Croat Generals Gotovina and Marka over the killing of hundreds of ethnic Serbs in an operation to retake Croatia's Krajina region in 1995
2012-11-16,Hamas armed wing fires long-range rocket at Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem
2012-11-16,"Ireland abortion row: India summons Irish envoy --  Voicing concern and angst over the death of an Indian woman who was denied an abortion by doctors in Ireland, India summoned the Irish Ambassador & hoped that the inquiry into the incident would be independent."
2012-11-16,"Trafficking: The ordeal of a Moscow 'shop slave'. ""Whenever the girls ran away from there, they would be caught [by the local police] and horribly beaten up"""
2012-11-16,"Thousands rally in Egypt against Israel offensive. The demonstrations come on the day that Egypt's prime minister, Hesham Kandil, traveled to Gaza in a symbolic show of support for the territory's Hamas rulers."
2012-11-16,Israeli Tanks and Troops Move Toward Gaza Border
2012-11-16,"Rockets pound Israel, Gaza as Netanyahu alleges 'double war crime'"
2012-11-16,Hard numbers on terrorism invalidate current policies
2012-11-16,China's richest man Zong Qing Hou: Wealth gap is huge problem
2012-11-16,"Jamaica to abolish flogging punishment - Law allowing flogging and whipping of prisoners is preventing government from ratifying UN torture convention, says minister
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2012-11-16,"Multibillion-dollar Global Fund fires internal watchdog whose office found financial losses. It said that had terminated the employment of Inspector General ""after a careful review of his performance, which was found to be unsatisfactory"""
2012-11-16,"Ikea admits political prisoners made its furniture, apologises"
2012-11-16,'Horrible Citizens': The Life of Greece's One Percent - The Greek economy has been tanking for years now as the country struggles to balance its budget by imposing deep austerity measures. But the country's richest residents haven't noticed. Many aren't taxed at all 
2012-11-15,"
Savita Halappanavar's medically unnecessary death: In the worst way possible, a woman refused a life-saving abortion in Ireland has proved 'pro-life' advocates wrong"
2012-11-15,Ireland 'should change abortion law' after woman's death. Member of Irish Labour party says country's almost total ban on abortions must be relaxed
2012-11-15,North Korean missile parts found on ship going to Syria
2012-11-15,Anonymous warns Israel: 'No one cuts internet on our watch!'
2012-11-15,"I am ashamed that Ireland's medieval abortion law still stands - Blame for denying Savita Halappanavar a termination lies with all of us who keep quiet about abortion rights
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2012-11-15,BBC worker's son killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza
2012-11-15,China's Great Shame: the government-induced Great Famine that killed 36 million still cannot be publicly discussed in China.
2012-11-15,"Hamas says now in 'open war' with Israel, promises 'gates of hell'  RT"
2012-11-15,Cambodia arrests 8 over 'SOS' messages for Obama
2012-11-15,Uganda hit by new Ebola outbreak (from r/globalhealth)
2012-11-15,"'Nazis out!' Greek protesters attack conference, throw coffee at German diplomat  RT"
2012-11-15,"UK government: Gay ""cure"" therapy is harmful -- ""The Department of Health does not condone the concept of therapists offering 'cures' for homosexuality. There is no evidence that this sort of treatment is beneficial and indeed it may well cause significant harm"""
2012-11-15,"The story behind the photo: BBC journalist grieves the death of his 11-month-old son, killed in Gaza"
2012-11-15,Parents slam Irish abortion laws after woman dies
2012-11-15,BBC News - Gaza rocket-fire kills three Israelis
2012-11-15,Frosty Relations With Russia Begin to Thaw After Obamas Re-election
2012-11-15,How Germany Is Getting to 100% Renewable Energy
2012-11-15,"Argentina Asks UN to Free Navy Ship Impounded in Ghana, Arguing Seizure Violates Maritime Law - It  was seized after a local court ruled in favor of an American billionaire, who claims the Argentine govt owes $370m (233m) for  a debt default a decade ago."
2012-11-15,Huge Anti Austerity Strikes in Europe
2012-11-15,"Russia has lost the ability to send commands to most of its satellites and its segment of the International Space Station, following a power cable failure near Moscow."
2012-11-15,"Rat kill in Galapagos Islands targets 180 million. The unique bird and reptile species that make the Galapagos Islands a treasure for scientists and tourists must be preserved, Ecuadorean authorities say _ and that means the rats must die, hundreds of millions of them."
2012-11-15,Massed Israeli troops poised for invasion of Gaza
2012-11-15,Mcafee goes off the grid Jason Bourne style
2012-11-15,UN report: Contraception access could save $57 billion worldwide
2012-11-15,Millions of workers strike over government spending cuts in Europe. 
2012-11-14,UN says access to contraception a human right
2012-11-14,Porn sites appear in Islamic countries most-visited online rankings
2012-11-14,"Woman denied an abortion dies in hospital - The Irish Times - Wed, Nov 14, 2012 Xpost r/Feminism"
2012-11-14,Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari killed by Israeli strike
2012-11-14,UN once again votes to condemn US embargo against Cuba
2012-11-14,"Death penalty request over Afghan massacre - US army prosecutors request court-martial and death penalty for Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 villagers"
2012-11-14,"Cannabis taxation: a win-win all round, Richard Branson tells UK MPs"
2012-11-14,"140 people (90 police officers) have been murdered in San Paulo, Brazil over the past 2 weeks by an organized crime syndicate know as First Capital Command (x-post r/mafia)"
2012-11-14,"Proselytizers, be warned: Jamaica bans Bible preaching on commuter buses"
2012-11-14,Israeli Air Strike kills Hamas militant chief Ahmed Jabaari
2012-11-14,"Putin, Obama confirm interest in consistent development of Russian-US relations"
2012-11-14,U.N. Urges End to U.S. Cuba Embargo for 21st Year
2012-11-14,"Middle class now rivals poor in Latin America: World Bank. Rapid economic growth and more inclusive social policies in Latin America in the last decade have lifted 50 million people into the middle class, which for the first time rivals the poor in number, the World Bank said in a study on Tuesday."
2012-11-14,"Afghan Warlords Call to Arms Rattles Officials - ""One of the most powerful mujahedeen commanders in Afghanistan, Ismail Khan, is calling on his followers to reorganize and defend the country against the Taliban as Western militaries withdraw"""
2012-11-14,Isreal considers toppling Palestinian Authority if bid for UN non-member state is approved
2012-11-14,Israel officials warns against Palestinian UN bid. Israel's vice premier says the Palestinians would violate their peace accords with Israel by seeking recognition of an independent state of Palestine at the UN.
2012-11-14,"A man described as a modern-day Rasputin was convicted Tuesday of brainwashing three generations of an aristocratic French family for nearly a decade, swindling them of their fortune and their turreted manor."
2012-11-14,'France has become the first European nation to recognize Syria's opposition coalition as the sole legitimate representative of the Syrian people.'
2012-11-14,"Anti-austerity strikes sweep Europe: Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Greece, Italy and France rising in a European Day of Action and Solidarity."
2012-11-14,Study finds more men in Sweden sell sex than women.
2012-11-14,"British ban squatting in empty properties - claim the new law necessary to fight ""anarchists""  - Features - Al Jazeera English"
2012-11-14,Scandal in Ireland as woman dies in Galway 'after being denied abortion'. Health authorities in Ireland are investigating the death of a pregnant woman whose husband says she was denied an abortion following severe complications.
2012-11-14,Israeli air strike kills Hamas military chief Jabari
2012-11-14,Vatican City: True Financial Crime and Murder
2012-11-14,Spaniards Take To Streets To Block Home Evictions
2012-11-13,"With more than 50,000 supporters, The uprising of women in the Arab world"" facebook group is being blocked by Facebook, over a picture of a woman not wearing a veil."
2012-11-13,"Egyptian migrant turns up for work in Greece, tortured for 18 hours"
2012-11-13,"Australian Judge rules that you can tell cops to ""Fuck off"""
2012-11-13,Anti-virus pioneer John McAfee wanted for murder
2012-11-13,"On streets of Athens, racist attacks increase"
2012-11-13,42 Kenyan police officers killed in an ambush by cattle rustlers.
2012-11-13,SPECIAL REPORT - Witnesses tell of organized killings of Myanmar Muslims
2012-11-13,"B.C. marijuana activist wins $25 million- Erb will now put his money where his mouth is, using some of his winnings for the legalization, decriminalization of marijuana.

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2012-11-13,'Priests believe child abuse forgivable' 
2012-11-13,Beijing fears sparking its own French revolution
2012-11-13,"Dutch teenagers receive the maximum (2 years juvenile detention) sentence for inciting contract killing of a 15 year old girl, what has become known as the Facebook murder"
2012-11-13,The Palestinian leadership has decided to defy a personal plea from President Barack Obama and go ahead with a bid for elevated status at the United Nations General Assembly.
2012-11-13,"The European Union has announced that it is suspending $25million in aid for Afghanistan, warning that aid will be increasingly conditional on the government sticking to agreed reforms."
2012-11-13,"The Expendables - the French Foreign Legion: haunted men from everywhere, fighting anywhere, dying for causes not their own."
2012-11-13,"At least $2 billion of diamonds from Zimbabwe's Marange fields have been stolen by people linked to President Robert Mugabe's party, a diamond watchdog has said, although the state mining firm said the gems were sold transparently.
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2012-11-13,British Special Forces training rebels to assassinate Syrian president
2012-11-13,"Fighting grows along Syria's borders, threatening to spread war"
2012-11-13,FSA examines whistleblower's claims of 'Libor-like' manipulation in gas prices
2012-11-13,Have Syria's fractious rebels finally united?
2012-11-13,"Canadian 60-year-old former candidate for the B.C. Marijuana Party wins $25 million. Will donate most of it to soup kitchens, food banks, shelters.
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2012-11-13,"Spain's banking association announced on Monday it would freeze eviction orders for the next two years in cases of ""extreme hardship"", following widespread alarm and protests after a woman killed herself on Friday"
2012-11-13,"Extremist calls for destruction of Egyptian antiquities - (CNN.com) Morgan Al-Gohary, a jihadi sheikhdeclared that if he and his ilk ever came to power, they would not hesitate to destroy the Sphinx and the pyramids."
2012-11-13,"Hong Kong to cut Iranian ships from register: 'Hong Kong will stop allowing 19 ships linked to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) from operating under its flag, a government letter showed, in the latest blow to Tehran's sanctions-hit global trade'
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2012-11-13,Internet freedoms put in stranglehold in UAE  RT
2012-11-13,"Viagra maker Pfizer pays virtually no corporation tax in UK despite 1.8bn turnover: Public outrage over the issue has mounted after it emerged that giants including Starbucks, Google, Facebook, Amazon and eBay all pay relatively little tax in the UK"
2012-11-12,"Arm raised in a Nazi-style salute, the leader of Greece's fastest-rising political party surveyed hundreds of young men in black T-shirts as they exploded into cheers. Their battle cry reverberated through the night: Blood! Honour! Golden Dawn! "
2012-11-12,Prominent Saudi preacher tortures five-year-old daughter to death
2012-11-12,"India: Illiterate fruit vendor built a primary and high school from his savings for the village children, now planning a pre-university college."
2012-11-12,"Saudi Arabia to be overtaken by United
States in oil output."
2012-11-12,"In Pictures: Venice hit by floods - More than 70% of Venice has flooded after the city was hit by high tides, a strong southerly wind and heavy rain"
2012-11-12,An SAS soldier has been jailed for possessing a war trophy pistol presented to him by the Iraqi Army for outstanding service.
2012-11-12,United Nations wants control of web kill switch
2012-11-12,"Rhino Butchers Caught on Film  - Video is a trail of evidence from S Africa to SE Asia against poaching syndicate that got away.  A rhino dozing under a tree is shot.  Making a desperate sound, it thrashes wildly, trying to stand. It takes 5 shots before it falls, alive, kicking.  


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2012-11-12,"Malala's journey from near death to recovery - A month after being shot by the Taliban, it is nothing short of a miracle that teen blogger Malala Yousufzai is alive and smiling -- and even more astounding that she suffered no major brain damage"
2012-11-12,IEA Report: US projected to become biggest oil producer and energy independent by 2020
2012-11-12,Australian Government to launch Royal Commission into child sex abuse by the Catholic Church
2012-11-12,"Uganda will pass anti-gay law, calling it 'Christmas gift' to the people of Uganda"
2012-11-12,Racist attacks on rise and growing more violent on the streets of Athens
2012-11-12,"Israel reports 'direct hits' on targets in Syria, after responding to stray mortar fire"
2012-11-12,"Australia - More than 70 per cent of the Brothers from the St John of God order are suspected child abusers. ""Claims were also made that two boys had allegedly been beaten so badly they were thought to have died but their deaths had not been reported to authorities."""
2012-11-12,"Harper Among Least Trusted Leaders, Poll Shows - The Globe And Mail "
2012-11-12,Muslim extremists in Egypt plot the destruction of the sphynx and pyramids.
2012-11-12,"Russian police have arrested six members of a banned Islamic group on suspicion of recruiting followers in Moscow mosques and possessing weapons, the Interior Ministry said on Monday."
2012-11-12,"Thailand's government recently attempted to manipulate the price of rice to help farmers. Now, the Rice is rotting in storage and the Government is accumulating massive debt."
2012-11-12,"An 80-year-old Catholic priest in Perth, Australia, bit off an 81-year-old priest's ear and socked him in the face for not giving up his parking spot."
2012-11-12,Iran warns US against airspace violation 
2012-11-12,Intruder breaks in and steals Tower of London keys
2012-11-12,"Australian in Bulgarian prison for murder after running to the aid of two gypsies being gang bashed says he is being ""held ransom"" by Bulgarian government."
2012-11-12,Kent man arrested after picture of burning poppy posted on internet - Police say that the man from Aylesham had been arrested on suspicion of 'malicious telecommunications'
2012-11-12,Troops could be headed to Mali to fight Islamist extremists
2012-11-11,"Vatican vows to fight gay marriage after gains in U.S., Europe"
2012-11-11,"84 year old Australian man fights off two armed intruders, stabs one (with the broken blade of his own knife) hits the other with a pole and chases both out of his house."
2012-11-11,"A documentary maker has inspired  young people to take part in an oral history project to collect peasants' stories of the Great Famine in the late 1950s and early 1960s. An estimated 36 million people died during the famine, which the Chinese government blamed on natural disasters."
2012-11-11,"A herd of elephants find 500 litres of moonshine and go on a drunken rampage in India.
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2012-11-11,Only two fifths of Italians say affairs are completely unacceptable. One quarter of Spaniards do not regard sexual fidelity as important. The majority of the French  two thirds of men and half of women  believe that sexual attraction inevitably leads to intimacy
2012-11-11,Palestinians: 12 EU nations to support our UN bid
2012-11-11,"In Xinjiang (western China) people are not allowed to go to their place of worship, unable to speak their native language, are turned down for jobs based on their race, all in an effort to assimilate local culture. "
2012-11-11,"BBC News - Burma rocked by strong earthquake, casualties reported"
2012-11-11,Spain's conservative prime minister and the leader of the opposition aim to agree measures on Monday to stop banks evicting homeowners after a woman's suicide before her property was repossessed caused public outrage.
2012-11-11,Israel fires warning shots 'after Syria mortar strike'
2012-11-11,BBC Boss quits
2012-11-11,David Cameron to consider forcing Internet Service Providers into 'opt-out' porn block
2012-11-11,What will four more years of Barack Obama mean for Africa? Obama Remains Very Popular in Africa Despite Barely any Engagement with the Continent Compared to President Bush
2012-11-11,"Brother of French gunman denounces his family: Abdelghani Merah, the brother of Mohamed Merah, who killed seven people in Toulouse, France, says they were raised with hatred, anti-Semitism and violence."
2012-11-11,"'Mahmoud' can't get table at an Israeli eatery, but 'Tamir' can  Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper"
2012-11-11,"India's history has been pushed back by more than 2000 yrs, making it older than Egypt & Babylon -  Latest research dates  origin of Indus Valley Civilization at 6,000 yrs before Christ, contesting current theory that  settlements began around 3750 BC."
2012-11-11,Sweden to ban baby photos in baby formula to encourage breast-feeding
2012-11-11,"Apartheid, by any other name"
2012-11-11,"If you are still confused about Benghazi, a layman's guide"
2012-11-11,"Turns Out Mummified  Iceman, tzi, was Central European Native, Not a 1st-Generation Emigr from Sardinia  - In  the world's oldest cold case, Otzi was pierced by an arrow & bled to death on a glacier in the Alps between Austria & Italy over 5,000 yrs ago."
2012-11-11,Magnitude-6.6 earthquake strikes northern Burma
2012-11-11,Argentina faces tough choices after U.S. debt ruling
2012-11-11,Many Chinese Intellectuals Are Silent Amid a Wave of Tibetan Self-Immolations
2012-11-11,Argentina protests: up to half a million rally against Fernndez de Kirchner| The Guardian
2012-11-11,"South Africa loses faith with the ANC. Poor blacks are disillusioned with the party that ended apartheid 18 years ago, promising a better life for all"
2012-11-10,"Raped police officer offered cash to quit - ""A female police officer who was sexually assaulted by a male colleague has spent nearly three years being sidelined from her job  and says she is now being offered a few months salary to quit."""
2012-11-10,"Former Australian priest comes forward on child abuse coverups in Catholic Church, ""I became aware that some of the other priests were actually paedophiles and were not necessarily becoming priests because they wanted to help people, but because they were paedophiles who wanted the opportunity."""
2012-11-10,"In Singapore the government prohibits financial vulnerable individuals from entering casinos, with about 43,000 Singaporeans reportedly falling in this category."
2012-11-10,"The Mexican government on Friday charged 14 federal police officers with trying to kill two CIA agents and a Mexican marine during an August ambush of an armored U.S. Embassy vehicle. The off-duty officers, in private vehicles, attacked the agents' marked SUV with AK-47 assault rifles "
2012-11-10,"UN warns of worsening crisis as at least 8,000 Syrians fled into Turkey over the last 24 hours alone"
2012-11-10,"China plans to spend 600 billion yuan ($96 billion) building railway infrastructure next year, with 60 percent of the investment going to high-speed projects, a senior executive from China's leading rail and highway builder said."
2012-11-10,Iraq cancels $4.2bn Russian arms deal over 'corruption'
2012-11-10,"Australia to open $12.2 million ""Super Brothel"". One of the biggest brothels in the world. "
2012-11-10,"Families of three million of Pakistan's poorest children will get cash sums if their child attends school, in a scheme announced ahead of a day of action for a schoolgirl shot by the Taliban."
2012-11-10,Thousands protest in Spain after 53 year old facing eviction jumps to her death.
2012-11-10,"As Turkey Rises, 'A Real Problem' With Censorship - Turkey is disputing a new report that names it as the world's leading jailer of journalists, with scores behind bars  ahead of Iran, China and other authoritarian states."
2012-11-10,"Anglo American Platinum fired 12,967 striking South African miners - The police fired rubber bullets at striking miners "
2012-11-10,Citizen drone camera captures Argentina's #8N protests as citizens take creative measures to film anti-government protests in Buenos Aires.
2012-11-10,"More than 5,000 child brides in Saudi Arabia | GulfNews.com"
2012-11-10,"Pakistan marks Malala Day, poor children to get cash for school. The families of more than 3 million poor children in Pakistan will receive cash stipends if their children go to school, the government said as officials prepared ""Malala Day"" on Saturday in support of the girl shot by the Taliban. "
2012-11-10,"Five Tibetans set themselves on fire in protest at Chinese rule: Campaign groups report self-immolations a day before Communist party congress opens in Beijing
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2012-11-10,"NGO dropped 20 Motorola tablets, preloaded with mostly literacy apps in an Ethiopian village with no instructions. In 4 minutes, one boy had found the on/off switch, and he then taught the others. In a few days, they were each using about 50 apps each."
2012-11-10,Iran reconstructs Armenian Church damaged after earthquake
2012-11-10,"Britain will stop giving financial aid to India by 2015, government said on Friday, marking a shift in ties between the one-time imperial power and its fast-growing former colony. The move follows anger at handouts to an economy which is Asia's third largest and has a space program"
2012-11-10,Iran confirms firing at U.S. drone over Persian Gulf
2012-11-10,27 killed in Sri Lanka prison riot - Australia Network News 
2012-11-10,Egypt's Muslim 'Sisters' rise with conservative vision. Women's rights have sprung to the forefront of the debate in Egypt as members of an Islamist-dominated assembly wrestle over the writing of a new constitution for the country. 
2012-11-10,South African court sentences rhino horn smuggler to 40 years
2012-11-10,"Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is still giving thousands of euros a month to aspiring showgirls who attended his colourful parties, a Milan court heard on Friday. Weakened by a sex scandal and graft and tax fraud allegations, he was forced to resign a year ago."
2012-11-10,"Iraq denies cancelling $4.2 bln arms deal with Russia over 'corruption concerns'. Iraqi Prime Minister's spokesperson Ali Mussawi told RT that the deal hasn't been cancelled, it is simply under review. He also confirmed it was because of earlier allegations of corruption from the Iraqi side. "
2012-11-09,"Cipla, the Indian drug company that cut prices of cancer drugs earlier this year, slashes prices of three more cancer drugs by 63%..."
2012-11-09,"Five Muslim extremists attacked a gay club in Paris beating the bouncers and spraying some attendants, including the vice president of IDAHO, with tear gas"
2012-11-09,"UK campaigners call for Nobel Prize for shot Pakistani girl. Tens of thousands of Britons called on the government on Friday to nominate Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating girls' education, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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2012-11-09,"Chavez to Obama: forget global wars, fix domestic woes. The U.S. government's chief antagonist in Latin America, Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, has advised newly re-elected U.S. President Barack Obama to avoid further entanglement in international conflicts and concentrate on fixing internal problems."
2012-11-09,Viagra patent tossed out by Supreme Court. Canada's top court has ruled that Pfizer's patent on its groundbreaking erectile dysfunction drug Viagra is void.
2012-11-09,"How to Rob Africa:
Why does the Western world feed Africa with one hand while looking the other way when billions in dirty money from corruption is channeled into bank accounts in Europe and the US."
2012-11-09,FIRST ON CNN:  Iranian jets fire on U.S. drone  CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs
2012-11-09,"Forget batteries: scientists ""major breakthrough"" on how to best produce hydrogen for clean and renewable energy."
2012-11-09,"North Korea has over 1 million cell phone users. People receive daily texts from government propaganda, are not allowed to make outside calls to other nations, and can only call users part of North Korea's network. "
2012-11-09,A mafia war is brewing in Montreal. A graft probe that cost the mayor his job and a string of killings in Quebecs biggest city are exposing deep mob connections.
2012-11-09,"2,400 year-old Thracian gold hoard found in Bulgaria. Beautiful and priceless artifacts..."
2012-11-09,Iran fired on US drone
2012-11-09,Venezuela repays nearly half of $36 bln in Chinese loans
2012-11-09,"Iran accused of torturing blogger to death: 
Sattar Beheshti's family told of his death in prison a week after he was arrested for criticising Iran on Facebook"
2012-11-09,"Australia comes to its senses, abandons Internet filtering regime"
2012-11-09,Anders Behring Breivik's prison conditions 'inhumane'.
2012-11-09,"Assad: There is no civil war in Syria. Syria's president insists there is no civil war in his country - rather, a new kind of battle he calls ""terrorism through proxies."""
2012-11-09,"Pakistani girl, 9, awarded as 'compensation' in dispute "
2012-11-09,"""Nearly half of Britons would vote in a referendum to leave the European Union and less than a third to stay in, according to a poll highlighting divisions facing Prime Minister David Cameron."""
2012-11-09,"'Fake' Wine Hoard Found in China - Police find 10,000 bottles labelled 'Chateau Lafite Rothschild', one of the world's most expensive wines, in a deserted house.  The owner of the house was surprised by the find. 70% of Chateau Lafite sold in China are fakes."
2012-11-09,"Iran's Ahmadinejad says anyone stockpiling atom bombs retarded
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2012-11-09,Obama victory infuriates Pakistani drone victims
2012-11-09,Kyoto protocol: Australia signs up to second phase
2012-11-09,Mass protest fills downtown Buenos Aires
2012-11-09,"The Palestinian Authority circulated a draft resolution to U.N. member states on Wednesday that calls for upgrading its U.N. status to that of an ""observer state"" despite U.S. and Israeli suggestions that the Palestinians could face retaliatory moves."
2012-11-08," Ancient Buddhist city of Mes Aynak will be destroyed,  turned into an open pit copper mine"
2012-11-08,7.4 Earthquake in Guatemala
2012-11-08,Athens ablaze as protesters try to storm parliament | World news | The Guardian
2012-11-08,South Korean activists float condoms into N.Korea
2012-11-08,"New player in ""Earth 2.0"" hunt: seven times Earth size, 42 light years away, orbit within habitable zone."
2012-11-08,The Australian government has finally backed down on its plan for a controversial mandatory internet filter.
2012-11-08,Taliban commander: I was relieved at the death of Osama
2012-11-08,"Global warming in the next few years could place all of the disputed islands in the South China Sea under water, ending the possibility of a major war in Asia. "
2012-11-08,"Despite 'The Cove' documentary winning an Oscar and raised public awareness, the inhuman slaughter of dolphins and pilot continues in Taiji, Japan."
2012-11-08,Egypt Moves to Ban Online Pornography
2012-11-08,South Koreas secret: Runaway teen prostitution
2012-11-08,"BBC tells star science presenter Brian Cox that impromptu extraterrestrial contact would break health and safety guidelines, stops him using Jodrell Bank to listen to possible candidate for alien life on live stargazing programme."
2012-11-08,"Zimbabwe's tobacco growers angry at the WHO's anti-smoking stance. The tobacco crop makes up 26% of the country's foreign revenue. Tobacco one of the only viable cash crops for the country, as the country faces a food deficit."
2012-11-08,4 Tibetans burn themselves as Chinese leaders' meet 
2012-11-08,"Archaeologists Explore War Torn Syria-Turkey Border Site for 1st Time in 90 Yrs, Building on Work of Lawrence of Arabia, When Slabs Carved With Soldiers, Chariots, Animals & Kings Were Found, Along With Ruins of Palaces & Temples"
2012-11-08,"New Leaders Face China's Wealth Divide - As China's fortunes rise, more  wealth is going into fewer hands. China's top 10% of households surveyed have 57% of the country's total income & 85% of total assets. ""Inequality is no longer just a social issue."" "
2012-11-08,Dalai Lama's Message to President Obama
2012-11-08,Syrian mortar shells land across Israeli border
2012-11-08,Forced labor in India: Slavery in all but name 
2012-11-08,Egypt's prosecutor-general orders ban on porn websites
2012-11-08,"Suspected French jihadist arrested in Mali. Prosecutors in France are investigating a French man suspected of entering Mali illegally to set up a jihadist cell in the country, where Paris believes there is a risk of militants planning an attack on French soil."
2012-11-08,Archaeologists find mammoth skeleton outside Paris
2012-11-08,Herd Of Drunken Elephants Ransack Indian Village After Drinking Purloined Liquor 
2012-11-08,"Israel begins construction of 1,200 settler homes: Warning to Palestinians to rethink plan to ask UN to recognize independent state of Palestine"
2012-11-08,7.4 earthquake kills at least 39 in Guatemala
2012-11-07,"Poll: Israel viewed negatively around the world,  BBC survey measures public opinion on 22 countries, places Israel in company of North Korea, ahead of only Iran, Pakistan.
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2012-11-07,Korean Christians and Protestants continue vandalism acts on Buddhist Temples
2012-11-07,Canada's legal hemp industry growing - Business - CBC News
2012-11-07,French gay marriage and adoption bill backed by cabinet.
2012-11-07,Outrageous plan for $264 billion mega-city in Korea
2012-11-07,"Story about explosives in Polish plane crash that 
killed president false; editor dismissed"
2012-11-07,"Israel to counter Palestinian attempt at UN - ""If the Palestinians go to the UN General Assembly with a new unilateral initiative, they must know they will be subject to severe measures by Israel and the United States,"" the station quoted Lieberman as saying on October 24."
2012-11-07,Chinas Communist Party Congratulates Obama on Victory 
2012-11-07,"South African police have been accused of planting weapons near the bodies of workers killed during strikes at the Marikana platinum mine. Photographs taken by police suggested large knives had been placed near the bodies after they had been shot, a lawyer told an inquest into the deaths."
2012-11-07,"Unable to copy it, China tries building own jet engine
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2012-11-07,"Chinese author tells of his Tibetan wife being ejected from Beijing, and himself threatened to leave his 90 year old grandmother behind, ahead of the 18th People's Congress, and how things would get ""uncomfortable"" for him if he chose to stay.  He has stayed."
2012-11-07,"The re-election of Barack Obama may open an opportunity for new negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program as sanctions pile economic pressure on its theocratic leaders.
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2012-11-07,Girls in care homes 'gang-raped' - Mirror Online
2012-11-07,Turkey conducts ground raid against Kurd militants in Northern Iraq.
2012-11-07,BBC News - Microsoft ditches Windows Live Messenger for Skype
2012-11-07,"Canada tightens its borders after Tuesday, November 6th to prevent illegal migration from the US."
2012-11-07,Pakistan parents killed daughter with acid for eyeing boy - World - CBC News
2012-11-07,"Bahraini authorities have revoked the citizenship of 31 Shia activists, among them two former members of parliament, for having undermined state security, state news agency BNA reported Wednesday."
2012-11-07,"China's outgoing leader and his likely successor are pushing the ruling Communist Party to adopt a more democratic process this month for choosing a new leadership, sources said, in an attempt to boost its flagging legitimacy in the eyes of the public."
2012-11-07,"Russia's largest bank will offer the 100 best customers of its Kazakhstani branch a solid gold credit card encrusted with 26 diamonds, although they will have to carry an ordinary plastic card to use in cash machines. The card itself will cost $65,000"
2012-11-07,India and Canada finalise conditions of nuclear deal 
2012-11-07,Britain condemns Israel's new construction plans beyond the Green Line
2012-11-07,Mumbais Historic Haji Ali Bans Women From Most Sacred Area
2012-11-07,"South Korea widened a probe into how thousands of parts for its nuclear reactors were supplied using forged safety documents, with regulators set to inspect all 23 of the country's facilities - a move that could test public support for the industry and threaten billions of dollars worth of exports"
2012-11-07,Sandy: UN to send emergency food aid to storm-hit Cuba
2012-11-06,Harassers of women in Cairo now face wrath of vigilantes. 'More and more groups are emerging to make protecting women  and shaming the do-nothing police  a cause'
2012-11-06,Skype illegally distributed a user's personal information to a private company during a Dutch police investigation into Anonymous-sanctioned cyberattacks on PayPal
2012-11-06,"The world's rarest whale, known until 
now just by three partial skulls,  seen 
for first time"
2012-11-06,"Israel has announced plans to press ahead with construction of 1,213 homes on annexed West Bank land, defying international opposition to its settlement policies"
2012-11-06,Malawi suspends laws against homosexual relationships
2012-11-06,"Scots Farmers to Reap Solar Power Harvest - News of bringing solar power to Scotland on a large scale comes days after the govt announced new target to meet 1/2 Scotlands electricity needs from renewable sources by 2015. Its aim is to become 100% renewable by 2020.

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2012-11-06,"Murdered Briton Neil Heywood was MI6 informant - The British businessman murdered in China, regularly provided information on Bo Xilai, the powerful politician, to MI6 before he was killed. "
2012-11-06,Russian attack sub detected near U.S. East Coast
2012-11-06,Chinese court sentences drug gang to death
2012-11-06,"Montreal mayor, Gerald Tremblay resigns amid corruption allegations"
2012-11-06,"Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, is spending the equivalent of $23.5 Million taxpayer's money to build himself a homestead complete with an underground bunker."
2012-11-06,Britain's highest earners pocket twenty times more tax relief on pension contributions than ordinary workers 
2012-11-06,"North Korea Threatens War at UN Assembly, Withdraws from NPT"
2012-11-06,Moscow pledges to stop arms shipments to Syria 
2012-11-06,Indian Officer builds 100-km long road to connect an inaccessible village without government help..  
2012-11-06,"Ed Miliband has unveiled plans to deliver a ""living wage"" of at least 7.45 per hour for millions of people, if Labour wins the next election."
2012-11-06,Boeing to clinch $2.4 billion Indian Air Force deal over Russian Mi-26
2012-11-06,UK and Germany agree tax crackdown on multinational companies
2012-11-06,"Global Domination? Whoa, Canada!: ""[T]here is a new and unfamiliar wind blowing in the North--one of national ambition and passionate, even aggressive, patriotism. Its proponents seek to transform Canada from the polite and accommodating country...into a major, muscular force on the world stage."""
2012-11-06,Canada's legal hemp industry growing
2012-11-06,Greek workers stage mass anti-austerity walkout
2012-11-06,"A Dying Model: Chinese Capitalism-- Chinas economic growth has been based on the intense exploitation of a large cheap labor force, unusually high investment rates, and exports to western markets. "
2012-11-06,Egyptian Vigilantes Crack Down on Abuse of Women - NYTimes.com
2012-11-06,Report says Syrian generals defect to Turkey
2012-11-06,Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on Tuesday after the ministry was drawn in to an investigation into allegations of fraudulent sales of military assets.
2012-11-05,"The girl was 16. She was raped by men from a higher caste, and her father committed suicide from the shame. The reaction of her community? To call for a change in the age of consent"
2012-11-05,Methane warning in New Zealand mine was ignored 21 times before the 2010 explosion that killed 29 workers
2012-11-05,"""Germany is leading a growing European movement to let newspaper publishers charge internet search engines for displaying links to their articles -- a move market-leader Google warns could cause an internet news blackout."""
2012-11-05,HSBC fears U.S. money laundering fines to top $1.5 billion
2012-11-05,Tortured to death by Putin's jackboot state: Inside the rat-infested Gestapo-like Russian prison where eight guards beat lawyer who exposed Moscow's gangster regime
2012-11-05,Pakistani couple arrested over acid attack on daughter
2012-11-05,Pakistani Taliban target female students with acid to their faces in hopes to deter them from education
2012-11-05,"High quality Afghan saffron is repackaged as Iranian product, causing the price of the spice to plummet, causing farmers to switch to poppy harvesting to make ends meet"
2012-11-05,"Despite billions of dollars spent, Japan's American made missile defenses were unable to track N. Korea's April missile launch - that crashed into the ocean. "
2012-11-05,"Syrian army shells Damascus Palestinian camp, killing at least 20"
2012-11-05,Mexican officials capture key lieutenant of Sinaloa drug cartel
2012-11-05,"South Korea has shut down two nuclear reactors after it was revealed that some parts used had not been properly vetted, an official says."
2012-11-05,"A new policy in India: ""people will 'shout, beat drums or blow a whistle' if they see anyone urinating or defecating in the open."""
2012-11-05,"Palestinian leader violates taboo on refugees. The Palestinian president has set off a strident debate by shattering a once-inviolable taboo, publicly suggesting his people would have to relinquish claims to ancestral homes in Israel."
2012-11-05,South Korea Hopes Gangnam Style will Boost nation's economy
2012-11-05,China Diabetes Triples Creating $3.2 Billion Drug Market
2012-11-05,"3 Japanese Tourists Die on Great Wall of China - They were trapped in sudden heavy snowstorms overnight.  Unusually early storms caused Beijing to issue its 2nd-highest blizzard alert.  In 24 hrs,  5.8 cm (2.3 ins) of rain & snow fell, trapping 100s of cars.
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2012-11-05,Gunfire heard near Turkish PM's office 
2012-11-05,Children 'with no state' in UK
2012-11-05,"France's governing Socialist Party hit back hard at the Roman Catholic Church on Sunday for campaigning against its plan to legalize same-sex marriage, heralding a bruising debate over the issue."
2012-11-05,"Evidently, Israel Already Tried to Attack Iran"
2012-11-05,Sir David Attenborough picks 10 animals he would take on his ark
2012-11-05,"Chinese Patrol Boats Relentlessly Harass Japanese Coast Guard Many Times a Week in Island Dispute - Chinese ships push within hailing distance of Japan's & flash signs claiming the islands. China says it's chased them away at least once, but Japan denies it. "
2012-11-05,Kuwaiti security forces fired tear gas to disperse an unauthorized demonstration on Sunday by thousands of opposition supporters against new voting rules for parliamentary elections on December 1.
2012-11-05,Russian minister: No need for U.N. resolution to end violence in Syria
2012-11-04,The British have invaded nine out of ten countries 
2012-11-04,"Masks banned in Canadian riots, just in time for Anonymous day of action: Canada's House of Commons approved Bill C-309 that bans people from hiding their faces at all during riots"
2012-11-04,Pakistani Taliban target female students with acid attack. It's the latest cruel tactic in the Pakistani Taliban's battle to stop girls and women from getting an education
2012-11-04,UK millionaire admits plot to sell missile parts to Iran after US sting operation
2012-11-04,Kurdish prisoners in Tureky have been on Hunger Strike for over 50 days now. Some are nearing death.
2012-11-04,"China formally expels disgraced politician Bo Xilai from party, paving way for his criminal prosecution - He's accused of corruption & of bending the law to hush up his wife's murder of a British businessman. He's yet to be formally charged. "
2012-11-04,"HSBC makes almost 100million from bankrolling Malaysian rainforest destruction, watchdog claims"
2012-11-04,"Foreigners  so the adage goes  are ""coming over here and stealing our jobs"". Now it seems they are coming over here and stealing our immigrants. Canada is courting Polish migrants living in Britain in an attempt to persuade them to abandon our shores in favour of a new life in Canada."
2012-11-04,Iran suspends uranium enrichment
2012-11-04,"Berlin is enjoying a cycling boom, with miles of new cycle paths and more than half a million bike journeys made every day - but controverisally, a helmet is rarely seen."
2012-11-04,"Syrian Rebels Seize Their 1st Oilfield - 
The opposition movement has taken over one of the country's major oilfields.  Rebels, who face the superior firepower of regime forces, also seized a tank, armoured vehicles & ammunition."
2012-11-04,"Inside Israel's nuclear wargames - Israeli military leaders have conducted a war game simulating a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, five days after the US Presidential elections. They concluded such an operation could be pulled off without plunging the whole region into war. "
2012-11-04,"Bahrain Goes From Bad to Worse: On Tuesday, the government took the remarkable step of declaring a ban on all public rallies and demonstrations"
2012-11-04,"10 More Shooting Deaths  in Brazil's Sao Paulo Metropolitan Area in Past 24 Hours in  Worsening Wave of Violence Targeting  Military Police  - The violence is linked to an undeclared war between  military police &  prison drug-trafficking gang, PCC (1st Command of the Capital)."
2012-11-04,"Seven years after the riots, the suburbs of Paris still simmer with resentment"
2012-11-04,"'A skeleton dug up in a car park has triggered a tug-of-war between two English cities, with the royals, the govt and the Church involved - because the bones are thought to be those of King Richard III.'"
2012-11-04,Japan refuses to register trans man as father on birth certificate
2012-11-04,Iran Sanctions Take Unexpected Toll on Medical Imports
2012-11-04,"The Continuing Nightmare of Poland's 2010 Smolensk Plane Crash - The disaster, which killed the country's former president and his entourage, is still a source of major political tension.  Wrong body buried."
2012-11-04,"China, Russia Block Plan to Protect Antarctic Waters - Proposals to establish marine reserves in 2 critical areas stymied by Russia, China & Ukraine at  international summit in Australia. Commercial fishing restrictions in the proposed sanctuaries were the sticking point."
2012-11-04,Syrian Army Headquarters Bombed; Rebels Seize Oilfield
2012-11-04,Zetas cartel occupies Mexico state of Coahuila:  The aggressively expanding and gruesomely violent Zetas group dominates territory by controlling all aspects of local criminal businesses.
2012-11-04,Chinese factory giant employed underage interns on assembly line
2012-11-04," ""Youths Executed"" in Nigerian City  - Dozens of young men have been shot  by the military.  An imam says  11 youths from his street alone were killed, including 4 of his sons.  The killings happened as Amnesty International accused  security forces of abuses in its crackdown on Islamist militants."
2012-11-04,"France to oppose those creating instability in Lebanon: Hollande
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2012-11-03,Body of carrier pigeon carrying a WWII coded message  in a tell-tale red capsule on its leg was found in an English house chimney - Gen. Montgomery's headquarters were in a  nearby hotel. British code breakers are working on the message.
2012-11-03,"Pussy Riot should not be in jail, says Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev "
2012-11-03,A German who volunteered to fight for the Taliban quit after becoming disheartened by the violence and annoyed with the group's macho and drug-taking world.
2012-11-03,HSBC Bank Caught in New Drug Money Laundering Scandal
2012-11-03,Six-year-old girl stabbed to death for being noisy in class in India
2012-11-03,"The Saudis are bulldozing Islam's heritage: ""In Mecca, the house of one of Mohammeds wives has been demolished to make space for public lavatories. His birthplace may disappear, too, as part of King Abdullahs scheme to complement the skyscrapers and shopping malls with a Grand Mosque..."""
2012-11-03,"Australia's oldest most prestigious Catholic college house in state of anarchy, like 90's college movies but somewhat terrifying"
2012-11-03,"India Food Scam:  Private Companies Eat Up Program Meant to Provide Food to Poor Children & Their Mothers - Corporate-contractor lobby hijacked  govt's flagship program,  forming shell agencies to bid for contracts on the pretext of being women's organizations. 
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2012-11-03,"Rupert Murdoch, ""a tottering, cowardly supplicant and a prime candidate for criminal prosecution"" "
2012-11-03,Acapulco mayor plans to fire 500 police officers because they failed tests used to identify corrupt officers
2012-11-03,Pakistan acid honour killing: Parents arrested after 15-year-old girl dies
2012-11-03,"UK man ""sentenced for shouting"" at UK prime minister David Cameron."
2012-11-03,A fish fight is brewing in Canada as an eagerly anticipated report on the fate of sockeye salmon blames the federal govt for weakening environmental laws meant to protect the fishes' habitat - Govt employees are confused by their dual mandate to protect wild fish while also promoting fish-farming.
2012-11-03,"Swiss Environmentalists Submit Bill Aimed at Halting Immigration - The group, which claims to be opposed to all forms of xenophobia & racism, insists Switzerland must limit immigration to avoid urbanisation & to preserve its agricultural land & breathtaking nature."
2012-11-03,Australia closes doors to N Korean refugees - 
2012-11-03,"Greece is governed by a corrupt clique, says Kostas Vaxevanis"
2012-11-03,Underage Teens put in Solitary Confinement for upwards of 5 months in Victorian adult jail system - Australia
2012-11-03,"Bananas could replace potatoes in warming world - Climate change could lead to crops from the banana family becoming a critical food source for millions of people, a new report says."
2012-11-03,BBC News - North Korea Ryugyong 'Hotel of Doom' may open next year
2012-11-03,China flexes military muscle with J-31 stealth jet - The Times of India
2012-11-03,Germany's Merck halts supply of cancer drug to Greek hospitals
2012-11-03,An Inside Look at World War II's Bloodiest Battle
2012-11-03,"Aftermath Of Hurricane Sandy Leaves Haiti Facing New Disaster: While The World's Attention Has Focused On The US, The Suffering And Consequences For The Caribbean Nation Are Far Greater"
2012-11-03,"Kill 60 Rats, Get A Cellphone From South African Charity"
2012-11-03,Russian PM argues for Pussy Riot members release
2012-11-02,The home front: Man builds 60ft-long World War I trench in his back garden - and then invites history buffs round for re-enactment
2012-11-02,Pakistani couple kill daughter for talking to a boy
2012-11-02,"Thousands of Iranians chanting ""Death to America"" burnt US flags on Friday to mark the 33rd anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran"
2012-11-02,Pakistani coupe kill their daughter by pouring acid on her face when she was found talking to a boy
2012-11-02,"China opposition party lasts a day, founder gets 8 years in prison"
2012-11-02,"Hyundai, Kia admit to bogus fuel efficiency claims"
2012-11-02,Vigilantes Spray-Paint Sexual Harassers In Cairo : NPR
2012-11-02,"In Africa, imprisoned at the hospital until bills are paid:  In Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, as in many places in Africa, hospital patients don't get to leave until they pay their bill. And every day they stay, the bill gets higher. They're prisoners of their medical debt."
2012-11-02,A row has broken out after the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland was named Bigot of the Year by gay rights charity Stonewall
2012-11-02,"Montreal, Canada engineer details 20 years of bribes"
2012-11-02,Syrian rebels execute unarmed government soldiers; dozens killed in fighting 
2012-11-02,Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr commits $100m to tackle malaria in the Asia Pacific region
2012-11-02,"Ireland's former richest man, Sean Quinn, sentenced to 9 weeks in prison"
2012-11-02, Gunmen occupy Libyan parliament.
2012-11-02,"Killings by Syrian rebels caught on video appear to be war crime, UN says - thestar.com"
2012-11-02,"Return of the Czech communists: the country's hardline Communists are now the second most popular party, and could enter government in a matter of weeks. This would make the Czech Republic the first post-communist European country in which a communist party returned to power"
2012-11-02,"Sean Quinn, once Ireland's richest man, is given 9 week jail term"
2012-11-02,Greek court dismisses charges against 'Lagarde List' journalist.
2012-11-02," Greek journalist who published names of 2,000 suspected tax evaders acquitted "
2012-11-02,"In Brazil, researchers genetically modifying mosquitoes to wipe out dengue fever"
2012-11-02,"Iskandar Malaysia: the green mega-city rising above Singapore - Planned eco-city for 3m people matches Luxembourg in size and showcases urban 21st-century smart-living, say developers"
2012-11-02,Japan protests after new report of incident involving drunken US serviceman. A U.S. airman is suspected of assaulting a young boy Friday on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa
2012-11-02,U.S. quietly eases rules on sale of medicines to Iran 
2012-11-02,"Hit by crisis, Greek society in free-fall "
2012-11-02,Is this the darkest day for Russia under Putin yet?
2012-11-01,"Amsterdam will not ban tourists from coffee shops, says mayor"
2012-11-01,"France deports radical imam for advocating holy war, violence against women"
2012-11-01,Argentina lowers voting age to 16
2012-11-01,Nigerian state makes it a crime to accuse children of witchcraft or sorcery
2012-11-01,"
Israel Fesses Up to Killing Arafat Deputy in 1988
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2012-11-01,Sweden pays jobless youth to move to Norway 
2012-11-01,The global gap between rich and poor is at its highest level for 20 years and is growing
2012-11-01,Iran Offers to Send Emergency Aid Team to Hurricane Stricken New York
2012-11-01,"Waves of anger: Japan tsunami victim aid spent on whalers, officials and fighter pilots"
2012-11-01,Have Indias poor become human guinea pigs?
2012-11-01,Language skills: Scandinavia tops the list of countries in the world (none native english speakers) when it comes to English skills | The Economist
2012-11-01,"Europe's oldest prehistoric town unearthed in Bulgaria - The walled fortified settlement, near the modern town of Provadia, is thought to have been an important centre for salt production."
2012-11-01,Archaeologist says prehistoric town unearthed in Bulgaria is the oldest urban settlement found to date in Europe
2012-11-01,"Russia Set To Redefine Treason, Sparking Fears
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2012-11-01,Russia internet censorship law takes effect
2012-11-01,"Dead Sea Shrinking at Record Rate - Water loss  prompts calls for Israel & Jordan to stop fertilizer makers from siphoning so much of the water whose restorative powers have attracted visitors since biblical times.  1/2 the drop  caused by Israel Chemicals Ltd. & Jordan's Arab Potash Co.
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2012-11-01,Bank of England director: Occupy was right
2012-11-01,"Wary of Future, Professionals Leave China in Droves"
2012-11-01,"Nervous on the Nile: Minorities Fear End of Secularism in Egypt - Taking office as Egypt's president, Morsi pledged a pluralist policy respecting rights of women & non-Muslim minorities. But his actions show he plans to replace his predecessor's secularist dictatorship with an Islamist one."
2012-11-01," Nearly 60,000 people have perished since 2006 in the Mexican governments military-led offensive against the countrys drug cartels."
2012-11-01,"China proposes new initiatives for Syria ceasefire:  China said on Thursday it had proposed a new initiative to head off an escalation of violence in Syria, including a phased, region-by-region ceasefire and the establishment of a transitional governing body."
2012-11-01,Mexico 'smugglers' car' gets stuck atop US border fence
2012-11-01,Iran Offers to Send Emergency Aid Team to Hurricane Stricken New York - NYTimes.com
2012-11-01,"Britons Abandon Thousands of Pets Amid Economic Pain - Nearly 16,000 more animals were abandoned last year than in 2007 & convictions for animal cruelty rose 23.5% in the last 5 years"
2012-11-01,"India: Nearly 300 Wild Elephant Deaths in Orissa, Over 1/3 Killed by Electric Shock & Hanging Electricity Wires -  Other causes of deaths  include poaching, poisoning by farmers, & being hit by trains.  Shrinking habitat has led to conflict with people & the deaths of many of the protected animals.
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2012-10-31,Incoming Dutch government ditches 'weed pass' plan that would have been available only to residents and that would have effectively banned tourists from Amsterdam's marijuana cafes
2012-10-31,The scale of unpaid tax now outstrips the national deficit. Forcing the elite to pay up is now a matter of justice and necessity.
2012-10-31,German Politicians Demand to See Gold in US Federal Reserve - SPIEGEL ONLINE
2012-10-31,"China's 1%: members of China's National Peoples Congress are worth a combined total of $89.8 billion; in contrast, the net worth of the top 660 U.S. officials is only $7.5 billion."
2012-10-31,"Celebratory gunfire at Saudi wedding cuts cable, 23 electrocuted. Celebratory gunfire at a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night brought down an electric cable, killing 23 people, a local civil defense official said. 30 others were injured"
2012-10-31,Mayans Pissed Off Over Doomsday 'Deceit'
2012-10-31,"Greek police beat Korean tourist, stonewall investigation."
2012-10-31,"Panasonic, currently Japan's third-largest employer, announced they will lose $9.6 billion this year.  That's after already laying off almost 39,000 people."
2012-10-31,"
Blow to Pro-Democracy Movement as Bahrain Bans Public Dissent: Government and Shia Muslim majority continue to clash"
2012-10-31,"Non-Muslims have 'sex like donkeys' and deserve to be blown-up, said 'terror plot' leader - Telegraph"
2012-10-31,Bahrain bans all opposition rallies
2012-10-31,Chinese Think Tank Urges End To 'One-Child' Policy 
2012-10-31,Bahrain regime pays a PR company in DC and CNN to censor stories uncovering human rights violations
2012-10-31,"Head of Russia's Election Commission, known as the ""magician,"" criticizes U.S. election process. "
2012-10-31,"SA census shows big racial divide: The income of white South African households is six times higher than that of black households, 18 years after the end of apartheid"
2012-10-31,Celebratory gunfire leaves 23 dead at Saudi wedding - RT News
2012-10-31,Afghanistan to hold presidential election in April 2014
2012-10-31,Christian persecution throughout the world ignored  - Telegraph
2012-10-31,165 killed a day in Syria - watchdog
2012-10-31,Somali comedian who poked fun at Islamists shot dead
2012-10-31,"EU will lose Turkey if it hasn't joined by 2023 - Erdogan. Turkey's bid to join the EU, officially launched in 2005, has virtually ground to a halt in recent years due to opposition from core EU members and the failure to find a solution to the dispute over the divided island of Cyprus."
2012-10-31,Russian Ship Carrying 700 Tons Of Gold Ore Missing
2012-10-31,25% and Rising: Unemployment in Spain and Greece Is Still Spiralling
2012-10-31,"Iran pulls back from nuclear bomb goal: Israeli defense minister
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2012-10-31,"Schools closed, thousands move to higher ground as 90 kph (55 mph) cyclone roars toward southern India"
2012-10-30,"Poland found explosives on wreckage of president's plane-report
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2012-10-30,"""Since ACTA was decisively beaten on 4th July 2012.. by the people of EU member nations, the big business lobbyists have taken heed and resolved to change in order to be more successful. Hence the secrecy. CETA and the EU-India trade agreement are the next big battles."" "
2012-10-30,Bank of England Official : Occupy Movement Right About Global Recession
2012-10-30,"Worlds 1st hepatitis E vaccine is rolling out of a Chinese factory, promising to stem a virus that infects 20m people & claims 70,000 lives a year.  It's a victory for a rare publicprivate partnership in Chinas growing biotechnology sector &  deliver other vaccines overlooked in the West."
2012-10-30,16 year old female Egyptian scientists finds new catalysts for using plastic waste as biofuel feedstock.
2012-10-30,Michael Ignatieff's timely warning on the politics of fascism - Democracy is not a battle of wills with a prize of victory and defeat...but Fascism is.
2012-10-30, Imam Shot Dead in Russia -  Attackers killed an imam & 2  relations as they drove to a mosque.  The cleric delivered sermons calling for peace.  Islamists have been blamed for attacks on moderate Muslims in the region.
2012-10-30,"In China, a CCTV footage shows teacher abusing a mentally disabled child who slipped into unconsciousness. The child is now severely brain damaged."
2012-10-30,Bank of England Director Andrew Haldane: Occupy were right all along; credit due for stirring reform
2012-10-30,"""Tsunami money spent on unrelated jobs"" - Money to rebuild Japan's devastated areas has been spent on unrelated projects, including a contact lens factory & research whaling. Over 1/2  has yet to be disbursed. Nearly all 340,000 evacuated  remain uncertain whether, when & how they'll resettle."
2012-10-30,"Popular Somali poet, playwright & songwriter gunned down in Mogadishu - He wrote & acted in radio plays critical of the militant group, al-Shabab, who he accused of misleading people in the name of Islam."
2012-10-30,It May Be Too Late to Stop Global Warming - ABC News
2012-10-30,"Don't call them French fries. Belgium, where the ""frite"" is all important, celebrates its national treasure."
2012-10-30,"Last week, seven Tibetans set themselves on fire in as many days, bringing the total of self-immolations on the troubled high plateau to more than 60 people since March 2011

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2012-10-30,Hamas clip shows rockets fired from populated area
2012-10-30,Syrian air force general 'killed by rebels'
2012-10-30,Italian quake: wiretapped evidence suggests scientists were pressured into giving a reassuring statement.
2012-10-30,Associated Press: No explosives found on Polish President's plane wreckage
2012-10-30,Reports: Iranian Warships Dock In Sudan
2012-10-30,"65 dead as Hurricane Sandy crosses Caribbean; 'the whole south is under water,' says Haitian PM (with video)"
2012-10-30,Moscow police 'discover brothel on monastery premises'
2012-10-30,German official says expansion of renewable energy production outpacing forecasts--Projections indicate that clean energy will account for 48% of German electricity production by 2022
2012-10-30,Syrian Warplanes Bombard Rebels With 60 Airstrikes
2012-10-30,Japanese airport shut after second world war bomb found
2012-10-30,Turkey police disperse pro-secular protesters:  Tear gas and water cannons used to disband thousands marching in Ankara to mark Republic Day.
2012-10-29,Sweden Wants Your Trash
2012-10-29,"UN set to ban female genital cutting -- An estimated 140 million girls and women have undergone FGM, which can cause serious physical and emotional damage. Campaigners liken the psychological effects of FGM to those of rape."
2012-10-29,"Anonymous Is Going After Zynga For Mistreating Employees, It Has Leaked Confidential Documents And Games"
2012-10-29,"Journalist who published list of 2,000 prominent Greeks with HSBC accounts in Switzerland is arrested: ""Instead of arresting the tax evaders and the ministers who had the list in their hands, they're trying to arrest the truth and freedom of the press,"" Mr Vaxevanis said"
2012-10-29,"Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz: ""'I demand a UN resolution that condemns any country or group that insults religions and prophets . . . It is our duty and that of every Muslim to protect Islam and defend the prophets.'"""
2012-10-29,Russian ship carrying 700 tons of gold ore gone missing. 
2012-10-29,"One and a half billion people, many living in remote areas, have no access to electricity: Microgrids are a practical and relatively inexpensive way to supply them with reliable power"
2012-10-29,"Showdown Set on Bid to Give UN Control of Internet: Russia, China and other countries back a move to place the Internet under the authority of the International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency that sets technical standards for global phone calls"
2012-10-29,"China's destruction of minorities ""I witnessed a Chinese mother allowing her child to urinate on the grounds of a historical Uyghur tomb complex, right outside a mosque."""
2012-10-29,"A major Greek newspaper reprinted the names of more than 2,000 wealthy Greeks with Swiss bank accounts on Monday and the editor who first published the list was to go on trial for violating data privacy laws"
2012-10-29,Rise of the Superbugs (ABC Report on Antibiotic overuse)
2012-10-29,Tension escalates in Republic Day celebrations in Ankara. People beaten by police forces.
2012-10-29,"Case of blonde girl beggar rescued from streets strikes nerve in Mexico; activists see racism. The flurry of internet attention to the photo, and the quick way officials reacted, has renewed a debate about racism in Mexico"
2012-10-29,"'Many streets across the UK are besieged by anarchy and violence. Negative, discriminatory and aggressive police behavior, if not perpetuating gang culture, actively hinders attempts to tackle it' - CSJ study"
2012-10-29,"Mexican city battered by drug gangs feels lure of truce:  In a five-year struggle with Mexico's most notorious drug cartel, the city of Torreon has suffered a 16-fold increase in murders, fired its police department and lost control of its main prison to the gang."
2012-10-29,The slow and steady overtake of the Islamist came to this in Turkey: citizens are not allowed to rally on the Republic day (similar to 4th of July). As A Turk I'm extremely interested in what might happen tomorrow.
2012-10-29,"Burma's leader admits deadly attacks on Muslims: ""It's not just anti-Rohingya violence anymore, it's anti-Muslim"""
2012-10-29,HMS Bounty reported sunk off the North Carolina coast
2012-10-29,The Great Chinese Stampede: Hot Money Leaving the Country
2012-10-29,"A declining Japan loses its once-hopeful champions:  An economist laments the decline of tiny island nation, which only two decades ago was touted as a global model for prosperity."
2012-10-29,"Germany Doubts Whether Croatia Is Ready for EU: After a recent progress report exposed problem areas, several leading German conservatives have placed the timeline in doubt. The EU, they argue, does not need another Romania."
2012-10-29,"UBS shares jump at prospect of 10,000 job cuts"
2012-10-29,"7 killed, 100 wounded in Nigeria church bombing"
2012-10-29,French start-up extracts trace amounts of gold from waste water. 
2012-10-29,"Muslim survivors of Myanmar's sectarian violence relive ordeals: The United Nations said 22,587 people had now been displaced after unrest between Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Rakhines claimed at least 84 lives"
2012-10-28,"Canadian police need new internet surveillance tools, say chiefs: Bill C-30 would give them access to internet communications without a warrant"
2012-10-28,"7.7 in British Columbia, Canada"
2012-10-28,"Arrest warrant issued for Greek journalist who published list of Greek nationals holding Swiss accounts, including the Speaker of the Greek Parliament."
2012-10-28,"Relatives of Wen Jiabao (China's prime minister), including his son, daughter, younger brother, mother and brother-in-law, have become extraordinarily wealthy during his leadership. A review of records indicates that the prime ministers relatives have controlled assets worth at least $2.7 billion."
2012-10-28,Greece is putting immigrants in camps and shipping them off while the police force is overrun with Golden Dawn fascists.
2012-10-28,24 year old student faces extradition to the U.S. and 10 years prison for hosting a site with links to tv shows but no actual copyrighted content
2012-10-28,"Soviet Missile Base Spy Planes Never Saw - It was top-secret in 1959 & remains almost completely unknown. A crumbling, beautiful, eerie place. Photos & posters scattered in derelict buildings. Hard to think terror could've been unleashed from here. "
2012-10-28,Fighting a rape epidemic in India
2012-10-28,"A Village Rape Shatters a Family, and Indias Traditional Silence"
2012-10-28,"Thailand arrests lorry driver after 16 tiger cubs discovered in the back of his vehicle packed into 8 plastic crates -  He told police he'd been paid 15,000 baht ($490; 300) to transport the cubs.  Only 6 subspecies of tiger remain in the wild, with less than 1,000 tigers left in each group."
2012-10-28,Assisted suicide clinic Dignitas says healthy people should be free to choose to die
2012-10-28,"Pensions: Retired people should work for their pensions, says Lord Bichard. The fact that pensioners already have worked for their pension doesn't detain him. Pensioners are a ""negative burden"" on the state, who need to be ""incentivised"" into doing jobs that young people could do for a wage."
2012-10-28,"Tens of thousands protest against austerity in Rome. Tens of thousands of people marched through Rome in a ""No Monti Day"" on Saturday, some throwing eggs and spraying graffiti to protest against austerity measures introduced by Prime Minister Mario Monti's government.
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2012-10-28,Tsunami Warning for Alaska and BC
2012-10-28,Japan Was the First to Ratify ACTA. Will They Join TPP Next? 
2012-10-28,Berlusconi 'declares war' against Italian government
2012-10-28,Spain police thwart mass march to parliament - Thousands of anti-austerity protesters held back from surrounding Madrid's legislature to denounce government cutbacks.
2012-10-28,"Canals may have sped up building of wonder of the world Angkor Wat: Scientists have discovered the secret that allowed Angkor Wat, a famous 1,000 year old temple complex in Cambodia, to be constructed far faster than should have been possible  canals. "
2012-10-28,Beersheba schools close after early morning rocket attacks | The Times of Israel
2012-10-28,"Norway's New Foreign Minister:  ""Exploitation of Arctic Resources Will Happen,"" when reminded  the British parliament  calls drilling for oil & natural gas in the Arctic a ""reckless gold rush"".  He doesn't see Norway as reckless. ""The Arctic is not special in legal terms; it is just an ocean."""
2012-10-28,"In world first, biggest refugee camp gets university: The campus is being set up in Kenya near the Dadaab refugee camp, home to more than 500,000 people sheltering from Somali conflict"
2012-10-28,The human cost of austerity - Rates of suicide and depression are on the rise in Spain as the unemployment figures there hit a record high. 
2012-10-28,Albino models setting the trend for Africa
2012-10-28,Chinas export limits on rare earth minerals backfire as its monopoly erodes.
2012-10-28,"Burma's leader admits deadly attacks on Muslims: Satellite images show huge swath of coastal town destroyed in a wave of violence which has left dozens dead
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2012-10-27,"Fukushima 'running out of space' to store radioactive water. Nuclear engineer: 'Radioactive water in the basements may already be getting into the underground water system, where it could reach far beyond the plant, possibly into the ocean or public water supplies.'"
2012-10-27,"The lower house of the French parliament has voted to fully reimburse all abortions and to make contraception free for minors. It now goes to the Senate, where it is likely to pass."
2012-10-27,Chinese man sues wife for being ugly and wins
2012-10-27,9 More Banks to Add to the Libor Scandal? 
2012-10-27,"US returns 4,000 archaeological relics to Mexico"
2012-10-27,Imran Khan detained and 'interrogated over drone views' by US immigration
2012-10-27,"French government plans to provide free, anonymous contraception to teenage girls: Providing free contraception is just as important for these teenagers as getting good sex education at school"", according to Minister of Women's Rights "
2012-10-27,Victory For Man Who Took Cold Caller To Court
2012-10-27,"Dozens die as Buddhists, Muslims clash in Myanmar: Myanmar's estimated 800,000 Muslim Rohingya are officially stateless, with many among the Buddhist majority viewing them as illegal immigrants"
2012-10-27,"Iceland Says Yes To New Constitution: In the wake of the 2008 economic collapse, a public outcry to change the very structure of its socio-political system led to an initiative to write a new constitution"
2012-10-27,Canadian MP wants government to curtail online anonymity.
2012-10-27,France makes abortions free for all
2012-10-27,Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez jokes that so many Venezuelan players are in the World Series that next year it should be played in the South American country.
2012-10-27,Japan quake-hit nuclear plant  may still be leaking radiation  into sea
2012-10-27,The head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales has written to the Vatican to ask if Jimmy Savile's papal knighthood can be posthumously removed.
2012-10-27,"Golden Dawn has infiltrated Greek police, claims officer"
2012-10-27,Taliban's attack on Pakistan education goes beyond one girl 
2012-10-27,Syrian: Damascus car bomb killed kids near playground 
2012-10-27,Ferrari flag controversy: Ferrari will display the Italian navy's flag on the F1 in support of Italian marines currently on trial in India
2012-10-27,Donald Trump lawyers tried to stop BBC showing Scottish bullying film
2012-10-27,Protesters occupy Bankia headquarters in Madrid
2012-10-27,"Brazilian Student Sells Her Virginity for $780,000 to Raise Money - Japanese Man Wins the Bid. "
2012-10-27,"
Israel has moved to the right, but it is not an apartheid state -- 

My experience of apartheid in South Africa leads me to think a survey of Israeli attitudes towards Arabs has been spun too far
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2012-10-27,Burma:HRW satellite images 'showRakhine destruction'
2012-10-27,Berlusconi's sentence cut to 1 year to make room in prison for more scientists.
2012-10-26,"Ashok Khemka, a bureaucrat in India, has been transferred out of his job 43 times because of his determination to follow the rules and whistleblowing. A senior career bureaucrat, he simply cannot tolerate corruption, and so, in every job he takes, he does his best to put a stop to it."
2012-10-26,"North Korean army minister executed with mortar round. ""Kim Chol was forced to stand on a spot that had been zeroed in for a mortar round and ""obliterated."""
2012-10-26,"The U.K. thinks a strike on Iran would be illegal, denies U.S. access to its bases"
2012-10-26,"Opinion poll shows 43% of French people see Islam as a 'threat' to national identity, with two-thirds saying Muslims are poorly integrated into society"
2012-10-26,British ExxonMobil oil chief 'assassinated' in Brussels street  - Telegraph
2012-10-26,"""Hitler told senior Nazis that 'everyone has lied to me, everyone has deceived me' just eight days before he killed himself in his bunker, according to newly disclosed documents."""
2012-10-26,China Outraged Over Picture of Teacher Hurting Pupil - Police detain 2 teachers after photo  circulates online showing one of them lifting a pupil by his ears
2012-10-26,Britain rejects US request to use UK bases in nuclear standoff with Iran
2012-10-26,What Sex Means for World Peace - The evidence is clear: The best predictor of a state's stability is how its women are treated.
2012-10-26,"A victory for self-defence, but only a partial one: After 15 months in legal limbo, a Toronto man who defended himself and his loved ones is a free man. Moses Mahilal stabbed an intruder in his home with a kitchen knife.. and was charged with aggravated assault"
2012-10-26,"Through Her Sister's Eyes -- ""This seemingly magical ability -- to see through each other's eyes, to feel what the other experiences, perhaps even to share thoughts -- has stunned neurologists and makes these tiny girls unique in the world."""
2012-10-26,New York Times blocked by China after report on wealth of Wen Jiabao's family.
2012-10-26,"President Vladimir Putin flatly rejected on Thursday Western criticism of the imprisonment of the Pussy Riot punk protest band, saying its three female members deserved their fate because they threatened the moral foundations of Russia.


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2012-10-26,"New York Times blocked in China over Wen Jiabao wealth revelations. Unwelcome revelations about wealth of family of Chinese premier, known for his humble background and populist appeal"
2012-10-26,Billions in Hidden Riches for Family of Chinese Leader
2012-10-26,Suicide bomber kills 20 in Afghan mosque 
2012-10-26,What Are the Odds That Israel Just Attacked Sudan? - Armin Rosen - The Atlantic
2012-10-26,"Ben Goldacre: Closed drug trials leave patients at risk and doctors in the dark: Drug companies can hide information about their drugs from doctors and patients, perfectly legally, with the help of regulators "
2012-10-26,Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sentenced to 4 years in jail in tax fraud trial.
2012-10-26,"Milan court convicts Berlusconi of tax evasion, gives 4-year sentence"
2012-10-26,UN to investigate civilian deaths from US drone strikes. Special rapporteur on counter-terror operations condemns Barack Obama's failure to establish effective monitoring process
2012-10-26,The British government opposed the establishment of the Nuremberg war crimes tribunals at the end of the WWll because it wanted selected Nazi leaders to be summarily executed and others to be imprisoned without trial
2012-10-26,Malala's parents overjoyed after first visit in UK hospital 
2012-10-26,"Hundreds of homes burned and gunfire rang out as sectarian violence raged for a fifth day between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists in western Myanmar on Thursday, pushing the death toll to nearly 60 and testing the country's nascent democracy"
2012-10-26,"After the biggest double dip since WW2, the UK is officially out of recession"
2012-10-25,"Memorial to 'Forgotten' Holocaust Opens in Germany for 500,000 Gypsies Also Slaughtered by Nazis  Forward.com"
2012-10-25,"French far-right group attacks and occupies mosque, and issued a ""declaration of war"" against what it called the Islamization of France."
2012-10-25,Entire Indian tribe threatens to commit mass suicide after Brazil court rules they must leave land
2012-10-25,David Attenborough: US politicians duck climate change because of cost
2012-10-25,Satellite images show gulags still operational in North Korea
2012-10-25,Caribbean debt crisis has islands considering taxes on hedge funds
2012-10-25,'Lost' Beethoven Hymn Unearthed - A previously unknown Beethoven arrangement for an ancient hymn has been uncovered after 192 years
2012-10-25,"Greek Unemployed Cut Off From Medical Treatment - Until recently, Greece had a typical European health system offering universal care, but the unemployed are now often left on their own if they get sick."
2012-10-25," ""No Toilet, No Bride""  - Rural sanitation minister accused by Hindu fundamentalists of skewing rural marriage market with slogan.  He's also drawing ire for deeming toilets a higher priority than temples & telling  parents of marriageable daughters to reject in-laws without indoor sanitation.

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2012-10-25,"US, Israel Hold Largest-Ever Joint Military Drill"
2012-10-25,"Austrian incest rapist Fritzl divorces: report. Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive in a cellar for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, has divorced his wife of 52 years for failing to visit him in prison, a magazine reported on Thursday."
2012-10-25,North Korea executing military leaders by mortar fire
2012-10-25, Olympics boosts UK economy out of recession.
2012-10-25,"Africa could avoid food shortages if it reduces the tangled web of rules, fees and high costs strangling regional food trade and by putting large swathes of uncultivated land to productive use, a World Bank report said on Wednesday."
2012-10-25,"A Polish photographer, Wilhelm Brasse was arrested and sent to Auschwitz early in World War II, he was put to work documenting his fellow prisoners, an emotionally devastating task that tormented him long after his liberation."
2012-10-25,Sudan threatens retaliation over alleged Israeli air strike
2012-10-25,Arsen Ostrovsky: My Country is Under Attack. Do You Care? 
2012-10-25,School of hard facts: why the British government is promoting knowledge over skills in schools
2012-10-25,The Qatar conundrum: The Emirate that arms Syrias rebels also embraces Hamas
2012-10-25,Dutch warship destroys pirate mother ship
2012-10-25,Japan sees new Chinese activity near islands - China accused of sending four ships and also increasing air operations in disputed East China Sea waters.
2012-10-25,Syrian Rebels agree to 4-day ceasefire in light of holidays.
2012-10-25,"British female medic, Royal Marine and Afghan policeman killed in Afghanistan shooting"
2012-10-25,Orangutan survives after being shot 100 times
2012-10-25,"Ford says 4,000 to lose jobs in Belgium "
2012-10-24,Greedy U.S. billionaire urges Michigan voters to reject free bridge to Canada
2012-10-24,'We wont advise the state again': Scientists outraged at Italian seismologists' jailing
2012-10-24,"With 60,000 dead, Mexicans wonder why drug war doesn't rate in presidential debate "
2012-10-24,"After slitting his wifes throat, Toronto man complained of unbearable burden of childrens insufficiently Muslim clothes"
2012-10-24,Oil giants charged with price fixing
2012-10-24,"6 cases of children being raised by animals. Unlike Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, these tales of feral kids surviving in the wild are decidedly darker and reportedly true."
2012-10-24,North Korean Official executed for drinking liquor while mourning Kim Jong-il
2012-10-24,Qatar designs a law against offending religions - Draft will be presented to the UN with aim of creating int'l law
2012-10-24,Russia activist told 'confess or your children die'
2012-10-24,Canadian doctors call for warnings to be placed on packaging for unhealthy foods - similar to those found on cigarette packages
2012-10-24,CNN increasingly twitchy over Piers Morgan's tabloid past as phone hacking scandal spreads to Daily Mirror 
2012-10-24,"A new poll finds that a large majority of Germans back the government's decision to phase out nuclear power and switch to renewable energies within a decade, despite rising electricity bills."
2012-10-24,White House told of militants hours after Benghazi attack
2012-10-24,Mali: Islamic extremists declare war on music
2012-10-24,Psy meets UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon - UN chief jokes that Psy has overtaken him as most famous Korean in the world
2012-10-24,"An arms factory in Khartoum where there were blasts and a huge fire overnight was attacked by four military planes, a Sudanese minister said on Wednesday, blaming the air strike on Israel."
2012-10-24,Iran has the highest number of natural gas powered vehicles on the road in the world (2.9 million)
2012-10-24,Russia: Syria rebels have US-made weapons
2012-10-24,"""France's Socialist government plans to test launch a series of 'shooting galleries' by the end of the year [2012] where addicts can inject illegal drugs under medical supervision, the health minister said."""
2012-10-24,China hints at reform by dropping Mao
2012-10-24,Italian scientist convicted over L'Aquila earthquake condemns 'medieval' court  
2012-10-24,"Asmaa al-Ghoul aims to keep thorn in Hamas' side -- Secular, feminist Palestinian journalist al-Ghoul has been harassed, beaten, arrested by Hamas for protesting its Islamist policies"
2012-10-24,Massive solar flare erupts from the sun.
2012-10-24,Pakistan Taliban threaten another child activist after Malala shooting
2012-10-24,"Abbas: We're ready to resume direct talks with Israel  - Israel News, Ynetnews"
2012-10-23,"A 28-year-old Tunisian who was caught on security camera stealing from a man who had fallen onto the tracks on the Stockholm subway and then leaving him to be hit by a train was sentenced to prison, deportation"
2012-10-23,Italian Scientists sentenced to jail for failing to predict earthquake.
2012-10-23,Uruguay plans to legalise marijuana under state monopoly
2012-10-23,Survey: Most Israeli Jews would support apartheid regime in Israel
2012-10-23,Russia accuses U.S. of human rights abuses 
2012-10-23,The head of Italy's disaster body quits in protest after seven colleagues were sentenced for their roles before the L'Aquila quake
2012-10-23,Irish boy thrilled at 'message in a bottle' from Quebec
2012-10-23,"Israel's former Mossad chief urges dialogue with Iran, calls Obama policy 'brave'"
2012-10-23,"Israeli poll finds majority in favour of 'apartheid' policies: 2/3s say Palestinians should not be allowed to vote if West Bank was annexed, while 3/4 favour segregated roads"
2012-10-23,"Syrian Rebels Detonate Car Bomb As Christians Head To Sunday Mass, 10 Killed"
2012-10-23,"Italian court convicts 7 scientists, experts of failing to warn of deadly 2009 earthquake."
2012-10-23,"Voters in Iceland back new constitution, more resource control
| Reuters"
2012-10-23,Icelandic Constitutional Referendum:  Resources Not Privately Owned to Become Public Property.
2012-10-23,"Killer Disease Reaches Uganda Capital - Highly  contagious & deadly  Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola,  spread after an infected woman visited the city.    It's  transmitted through bodily fluids or infected wild animals.  Symptoms include severe headache followed by haemorrhaging."
2012-10-23,Now Piers Morgans Mirror and The People accused of phone hacking
2012-10-23,Malala Isn't Alone: Another Pakistani Girl's Dream 
2012-10-23,Coast guard saves 64 Chinese seamen from burning freighter
2012-10-23,Syrian Anti-Aircraft Shell Hits Turkey Health Center
2012-10-23,Japanese justice minister resigns over organised crime links
2012-10-23,Egypt TV host gets jail term for insulting president
2012-10-23,Battle of Britain veteran who bailed out of his Spitfire over the English Channel dies aged 99
2012-10-23,"The general public unwittingly donated thousands of pounds to a group of men planning to carry out suicide attacks in Britain, a court has heard."
2012-10-23,Indian bureaucrat hounded out of office 43 times for fighting graft - The Washington Post
2012-10-23,World sea piracy falls to lowest level since 2008
2012-10-23,Lebanon army deploys in Beirut and Tripoli
2012-10-22,Soldier sacked by the army 72 hours before he gets his full pension
2012-10-22,Pussy Riot band members sent to remote prison camps. Maria Alyokhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova to serve sentences in Russia's 'harshest prisons' in Perm and Mordovia.
2012-10-22,World's oldest survivor of Auschwitz dies at 108
2012-10-22,"Scientists await verdict in Italy quake trial:  Seismologists face four years in jail if found guilty, in a case that has sparked outrage in the scientific community."
2012-10-22,"Voters in Iceland back new constitution, more control of natural resources such as fish and geothermal energy.
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2012-10-22,"WWF brings Russian bison back:  WWF brings Europes largest land mammal, nearly extinct, back to woodlands of North Caucasus."
2012-10-22,A Pakistani man who was acquitted of a blasphemy charge has been shot dead by two men in Punjab province
2012-10-22,"IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers: So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the IMF claims that one could eliminate the net public debt of the US at a stroke, and by implication do the same for Britain, Germany, Italy, or Japan"
2012-10-22,Morocco denies destruction by Salafi Muslims of pagan rock carving
2012-10-22,Rhino slaughter in South Africa sets savage pace: Poachers have killed 455 rhinos so far this year in South Africa -- more than half in a single national park -- topping last years mark of 448
2012-10-22,Former banker Greg Smith says focus at bank [Goldmans] was to sell the most complex product to the least sophisticated investor.
2012-10-22,"As world helps shot Pakistani girl, Afghans ask ""what about us?"": The global attention bestowed on a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Taliban has sparked outcry amongst many Afghans dismayed by what they say is the unequal response to the plight of their women and children"
2012-10-22,"Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada -  Digging in the ruins of a centuries-old building, archaeologists found some very intriguing whetstones. Wear grooves bear traces of copper alloys such as bronzematerials known to have been made by Viking metalsmiths but unknown among native inhabitants."
2012-10-22,"Europe's lost generation costs 153bn a year, study finds: EU agency estimates cost in state welfare and lost production of 14 million young adults not in employment, education or training"
2012-10-22,BBC News - L'Aquila quake: Italy scientists face trial verdict
2012-10-22,Large majority of Germans back govt's decision to phase out nuclear power -  Germany's grid operators announced  that a surcharge on households' electricity prices financing the expansion of renewable energies will increase by 47% starting in January. 
2012-10-22,"Northern Ghana has six witch camps that have been in existence for more than 100 years, accommodating 800 accused witches  almost all of them women."
2012-10-22,"Iran's judiciary has blocked a request by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Tehran's Evin prison, where a top presidential aide is being held"
2012-10-22,"Scientists link deep wells to deadly Spain quake
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2012-10-22,Men accused of rucksack bomb plot. Three Birmingham men have gone on trial accused of planning a bomb campaign prosecutors say may have been bigger than the 7 July London attacks. 
2012-10-22,Okinawa legislators protest alleged rape by US sailors.
2012-10-22,Separatists win Basque election in Spain - exit polls.
2012-10-22,Canada: XL Foods dumps E.coli tainted meat at landfill
2012-10-22,S. Korea Prepares to Evacuate DMZ Citizens
2012-10-22,"UK risks undermining human rights legislation, Europe's top judge warns"
2012-10-21,"Juan Cole: Israeli Government Consciously Planned to Keep Palestinians ""on a Diet"", Controlling Their Food Supply, Damning Document Reveals"
2012-10-21,"""The Terrifying Rise of Greeces Nazi Party"" - They own the streets; is parliament next?
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2012-10-21,"Turkish schoolchildren in Istanbul received a series of books denouncing scientific figures, including one denying the theory of evolution and describing Charles Darwin as a ""big-nosed Jew"""
2012-10-21,"History of boarding school 'torture' uncovered in Switzerland:  Thousands of children fell victim to violence and abuse in Catholic boarding schools in Switzerland up until the 1970s, according to a recent study decrying ""sadistic"" practices resembling ""torture""."
2012-10-21,"China is on course to becoming a superpower - but not in the way many expect, writes economist Martin Jacques."
2012-10-21,"Police protection or citizen censorship? Spain to ban photos and videos of cops, ""just at a time when the streets are boiling""."
2012-10-21,"In wake of the Lance Armstrong scandal, donors to the Livestrong charity are demanding their money back"
2012-10-21,"French president demands probe after newborn dies en route to hospital: No French person should be more than 30 minutes from emergency care, Hollande said"
2012-10-21,"Czech Pirate Libor Michlek wins first Senator's seat, Czech win International race to national-level legislatures"
2012-10-21,US denies Iran nuclear talks New York Times report
2012-10-21," A correspondent for France 24 TV was ""savagely attacked"" near Cairo's Tahrir Square after being seized by a crowd, the network said Saturday. It was the latest case of violence against women at the epicenter of Egypt's restive protests."
2012-10-21,France 24 TV says its Cairo correspondent was savagely attacked near restive Tahrir Square
2012-10-21,Qatar announces 157m plan to rebuild Gaza
2012-10-21,The Pakistani girl shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education is recovering. She can stand and write.
2012-10-21,"EU drug demands would cost Canadians up to $2B a year: federal research on free-trade talks with Europe (CETA). EU proposal would add an average life of 2.66 years to a typical drug patent, and increase Canadian drug costs by between $795 million and $1.95 billion annually"
2012-10-21,Europe's leaders have agreed to start building a single banking union for the eurozone from the beginning of next year
2012-10-21,"r/Tibet: 56th Tibetan self immolator in Sangchu, Kanlho."
2012-10-21,"Russian forces kill 49 militants in operation: state agency
| Top News
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2012-10-21,China-Korea Tensions Rise After Failed Venture - A Chinese mining conglomerate accuses the North Korean government of sabotaging its $40 million investment.
2012-10-21,"Of the 37 most wanted criminals in Mexico, 16 were arrested and 9 killed in the past 3 years."
2012-10-21,A drug that could transform the lives of hundreds of people with cystic fibrosis is being blocked from use in England because of a battle over cost
2012-10-21,More celebrities to be investigated in Child-Abuse scandal
2012-10-21,"Voters in Iceland back new constitution, more resource control "
2012-10-21,Protesters Try To Storm Lebanese Government HQ : NPR
2012-10-21,"Seeking a better life and a future for their children, tens of thousands of Roma have come to Germany in recent years. They hope to escape the poverty and marginalization they experience in their home countries, but they remain outsiders in their new home too. "
2012-10-20,Rowan Atkinson: We must be allowed to insult each other - Rowan speaks out against strict censorship laws in the UK
2012-10-20,"Hong Kong seizes more than 8,000 lbs. of ivory worth $26.7 million"
2012-10-20,"Supreme Court rules employees have right to privacy on work computers-The court said an individuals Internet browsing history alone is capable of exposing his or her most intimate likes, dislikes, activities and thoughts."
2012-10-20,Spain is considering a ban on photographing police officers
2012-10-20,Cuban leader Fidel Castro 'has suffered a massive stroke and has just weeks
2012-10-20,Only 17% of Russians Think U.S. Treats Russia With Respect
2012-10-20,"Google To French Media: We May Have To Cut You Off: French Lawmakers are considering legislation that will force search engines to pay for sending French newspapers readers. Newspaper publishers pushing for the law, say it is unfair that Google receives advertising revenue from searches for news"
2012-10-20,Kim Jong Ils grandson calls his uncle Kim Jong Eun a dictator
2012-10-20,Thailand warned their Facebook users not to like controversial photo of journalist stepping on a newspaper photo of Cambodian King
2012-10-20,"Accused student prevails in first ""three strikes"" copyright case: The New Zealand recording industry group RIANZ has dropped the one case that was actively being defended; RIANZ was asking for NZ$1075.50 for sharing 5 songs, plus NZ$1623.75 for legal costs and a ""deterrent"""
2012-10-20,"American Entrepreneur Got Away With Dumping 100 Tons of Iron Dust in Pacific Ocean Off Canadian Coast, Outraging Scientists & Government Officials--All in the Name of Science"
2012-10-20,Israel navy stops Gaza-bound boat
2012-10-20,No evidence found of Al Qaeda role in Libya attack - latimes.com
2012-10-20,Secular Egyptians protest Islamists role in drafting new constitution. Egyptian liberal and secular groups gathered Friday in Cairos Tahrir Square to protest what they say is the overreach of the countrys Islamists in drafting a new constitution
2012-10-20,"Math teacher caught producing and trafficking  'date-rape' drug. Police seized 250,000 $ worth."
2012-10-20,"Austerity protesters march on London: Firefighters, nurses and teachers marched alongside unemployed youngsters, anti-war activists and other campaigners today in a huge protest against the Govt's austerity measures."
2012-10-20,Karl Lagerfeld in hot water after calling French President Francois Hollande an idiot over his plans to impose huge taxes on the rich
2012-10-20,Rover spots shiny objects on mars
2012-10-20,"Gaza-bound aid ship has ""come under attack"" in international water. On board: five parliamentarians from Europe and a former Canadian politician..."
2012-10-20,A man runs over 11 people in his van while on a rampage 
2012-10-20,Israeli navy takes control of Gaza boat
2012-10-20,TUNIS (Reuters)  Clashes between Islamists and secular opponents in the southern Tunisian town of Tataouine on Thursday left a secular politician dead
2012-10-20,Banana Boat recalls sunscreen after reports of people catching on fire - thestar.com
2012-10-20,Newlywed Afghan beheaded for her refusal to become prostitute
2012-10-20,Israeli Navy on Alert as Swedish Aid Ship Steams Toward Gaza
2012-10-19," Shot Pakistani schoolgirl can stand, communicate "
2012-10-19,"WWII veteran 'took a bullet in the knee' but doesn't like to make a fuss about it.  After he is cremated, this..."
2012-10-19,Saudi Arabia reveals plans to be powered entirely by renewable energy
2012-10-19,Disturbing Video Shows U.S. Defense Contractors Drunk and on Drugs in Afghanistan
2012-10-19,Toronto man tries to spread HIV to as many men as he can
2012-10-19,Who Smokes Most: A surprising map of smoking rates by country
2012-10-19,Explosion rocks centre of Lebanese capital Beirut
2012-10-19,8 girls charged in Canada in bullying case
2012-10-19,Australia to become new member of the UN Security Council
2012-10-19,Kim Jong Il's Grandson Wants Change in North Korea (Interview in English)
2012-10-19,"Malala Yousufzai stood for the first time after her 
shooting Friday morning and is communicating"
2012-10-19,"Pakistan court rules army must stop interfering in politics
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2012-10-19,British Boy Scouts kick out 11 year old for being atheist
2012-10-19,"There was no destruction of carvings in Morocco by Salafists, the news were false and unfounded. 
""The reports that these stone carvings were damaged, as you can see, is not true,"" Communications Minister Mustapha Khalfi told journalists, on a government organised trip to the Yagour plateau."
2012-10-19,Greek poverty so bad families 'can no longer afford to bury their dead'
2012-10-19,"MegaUpload Will Deflect Copyright Liability and Become Raid-Proof: Kim Dotcom and business partner Mathias Ortmann say they have a plan that will not only make Mega raid proof, but will also give it an iron-clad defense against copyright infringement claims"
2012-10-19,Microsoft employees have donated over $1 Billion to non profits over the last 30 years - The Give Campaign
2012-10-19,UPDATE - Egyptian teacher fired for cutting the hair of girls who didn't wear headscarves
2012-10-19,Google's stock just dropped 10% after their current earnings were leaked
2012-10-19,New rules allow Cubans to freely leave the country. Will they return?
2012-10-19,N Korea threatens 'merciless' strike on South - World - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
2012-10-19,Opponents to Muslim headscarves get a powerful new ally: Vladimir Putin
2012-10-19,"Activists: At least 28,000 Syrians 'forcibly disappeared' "
2012-10-19,"Want To Move To A Small Town? A Manitoba Community Is Offering Lots For The Low, Low Price Of $10"
2012-10-19,Scientists turn fresh air into petrol
2012-10-18,"8,000-yr-old carvings in stone destroyed in Moroccos High Atlas Mountains by Salafists, Muslims who strictly prohibit idolatry - The carvings depicted the sun as a divinity. One of the carvings, called the plaque of the sun, predates the arrival of the Phoenicians in Morocco. "
2012-10-18,"Apple loses tablet copyright appeal against Samsung
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2012-10-18,British couple who spent most of the money they made from canabis growing on paying for life changing operations and schooling for people in a poor Kenyan village gets sent to prison for 3 years.
2012-10-18,Taliban thinks the media is biased because everyone is angry at them for trying to kill a 14 years old girl
2012-10-18,The BBC is facing deliberate jamming of its transmissions to audiences in Europe and the Middle East. 
2012-10-18,Protests As Ireland's 1st Abortion Clinic Opens
2012-10-18,"
Egyptian teacher 'cut hair of schoolgirls who refused to cover heads': Teacher in Luxor province accused of punishing two pupils for not wearing Muslim headscarf
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2012-10-18,Twitter Shuts Out German Neo-Nazi Groups Account
2012-10-18,BBC News - Are Greek police 'colluding' with far-right Golden Dawn?
2012-10-18,"Teenage girl gang-raped, set on fire in Bengal"
2012-10-18,"A first-time treasure hunter finds one of the largest Roman gold coin hoards ever discovered in the UK  thought to be worth 100,000"
2012-10-18,"
Britains High-Tech Thought Police: Authorities target bloggers, tweeters, and t-shirt wearers for speech crimes - Barry Thew was sentenced to 8 months in jail for wearing a t-shirt that said, One less pig  perfect justice, a few hours after two police officers were shot dead"
2012-10-18,Turkish pianist on trial for insulting Islam
2012-10-18,"Bank of England's Deputy governor says that the ""Worst may still be ahead for banking"" and that Banks must be able to fail in an orderly way, without taxpayer support."
2012-10-18,"Days after police stormed one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous shantytowns, city health and welfare workers are working to ease the despair and devastation left behind among hundreds of crack cocaine addicts suddenly without drugs."
2012-10-18,"Belfast judge: Gay, unmarried couples can adopt"
2012-10-18,BBC Nature - In pictures: Wildlife Photographer of the Year winners
2012-10-18,"Pakistan's aggressive polio vaccination program has cut cases of polio to 1/3 of the 198 reported last year. However, 75 percent of Pakistan's polio cases can be traced back to certain areas controlled by the Taliban. "
2012-10-18,Farmer in India named worlds oldest new dad at age 96  
2012-10-18,Hungary far-right marches to denounce Roma.
2012-10-18,Texas man with Iranian passport pleads guilty in plot to kill Saudi ambassador
2012-10-18,"At least 28,000 Syrians 'forcibly disappeared' "
2012-10-18,"Cellphone video recorded earlier this year at an operations center of a U.S. defense contractor in Kabul, Afghanistan appears to show key personnel staggeringly drunk or high on narcotics, in what former employees say was a pattern of outrageous behavior"
2012-10-18,"Greece, Spain 'in depression': Nobel winner Stiglitz "
2012-10-18,"Big Highways for China's Small Villages -  China is on an infrastructure tear, investing hundreds of billions of dollars. 30,000 miles of expressway were paved in the 10 yrs before 2008, with  highways stretching 53,000 miles by 2020  surpassing the 47,000 miles of interstate currently in the U.S."
2012-10-17,Chinese companies will be able to sue Canada in secret for trying to protect the Canadian environment if FIPPA (Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act) passes!
2012-10-17,Afghan girl 'beheaded for refusing prostitution'. Afghan police have arrested four people who allegedly tried to force a woman into prostitution and beheaded her when she refused
2012-10-17,"Gunmen kill polio vaccinator in Pakistan - 
The vaccinator was shot dead, highlighting opposition to the  program.  The Taliban have banned immunizations, condemning the campaign as a cover for espionage since a Pakistani doctor  helped CIA track down Osama bin Laden using a vaccination program.
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2012-10-17,"Blind Man Tasered - UK Police Mistake Stick For Sword: Stroke victim Colin Farmer, 61, was hit with a 50,000 volt Taser gun after police mistook his white stick for a samurai sword"
2012-10-17,Taliban Demands Unbiased Coverage of Its Attempted Murder of a 14-Year-Old Girl
2012-10-17,North Korean leaders wife not seen in over 40 days. Not wearing Kim Il-Sung badge cited for disappearance.
2012-10-17,French President to attempt to ban homework.
2012-10-17,Rhino poaching hits record numbers in South Africa
2012-10-17,Evidence of mass murder after Gaddafi's death
2012-10-17,A Canadian border guard has been shot at the Peace Arch U.S.-Canada crossing.
2012-10-17,Canadian government 'knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific'
2012-10-17,"Coffee giant Starbucks has reportedly only paid $14m in corporation tax in the UK since 1998, and nothing in the past three years, despite racking up sales of more than $4.8bn."
2012-10-17,Corruption Continues Virtually Unchecked in Greece 
2012-10-17,"May says No to US over computer hacker  McKinnon extradition - 
Shock decision hailed as significant milestone for those who have campaigned against Britains extradition agreement with the US."
2012-10-17,"If a man is not an oligarch, something is not right with him. An excerpt from Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else"
2012-10-17,Scotland Yard bans visible tattoos on officers
2012-10-17,Death rate falls to lowest ever in England and Wales
2012-10-17,An interesting little experiment on sexual harassment here in Egypt
2012-10-17,"Chinese public opinion growing increasingly hostile to the world, new survey shows."
2012-10-17,"Europe Has Worst Grape Harvest in Half Century - 
Drought, frost & hail ravaged  harvest, which is expected to slump by 20% compared 2011. Italy's grape crop dropped 7%.  The European wine harvest automatically has a global impact since it accounts for 62% of worldwide wine production."
2012-10-17,"Iran upset over the European Union's decision to shut down all 19 Iranian satellite channels carried by Eutelsat, including Press TV"
2012-10-17,Pope condemns Pussy Riot
2012-10-17,"Horrific use of child soldiers rising in Colombia, report finds"
2012-10-17,"The Malala Yousafzai Saga: Like Father, Like Daughter. As the world is astonished by the bravery of the young Pakistani girl, attention is being given to the man whose ambitions inspired her courage"
2012-10-17,"Theologists, Philosophers and Scientists to debate the origin of the universe at CERN"
2012-10-16,British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US
2012-10-16,"For eight months, starting last November, he was the prime minister of his native country, Somalia, one of the most chaotic nations on earth. And then, as suddenly as he had left, he was back in his cubicle at the Transportation Department in Buffalo, NY"
2012-10-16,"
Starbucks paid no tax on UK earnings in the past three years: The coffee chain company has used legal tax-avoidance tactics to pay as little as possible, paying 8.6m in taxes on a reported 3bn in UK sales since 1998, and nothing in the past three years. Is this OK?
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2012-10-16,"Indian baby suffers horrendous burns in shocking dowry dispute:  An Indian woman has died and her 13-month-old daughter suffered horrendous burns after her husband and father-in-law set them on fire as they slept, in a dispute over a dowry payment. "
2012-10-16,"The Jewish majority is history:
The government's acknowledgement that Jews are a minority in this land means one thing only: Apartheid is here. In other words, in the territory under Israel's jurisdiction a situation of apartheid exists. A Jewish minority rules over an Arab majority."
2012-10-16,"West's free speech stand bars blasphemy ban - OIC - ISTANBUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Western opposition has made it impossible for Muslim states to obtain a ban on blasphemy, including anti-Islamic videos and cartoons that have touched off deadly riots, the Islamic world's top diplomat said."
2012-10-16,"Mali: Girl in Timbuktu whipped for speaking to men - BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- A teenaged girl received 60 lashes in Timbuktu after Islamist extremists convicted her of speaking to men on the street."
2012-10-16,STRATFOR: Egypt Is Prepared To Bomb All Of Ethiopia's Nile Dams
2012-10-16,Cardboard bike is a 'game changer in Africa - Telegraph
2012-10-16,"1,400 evacuated in Germany after Kraft Foods leak "
2012-10-16,Historically Neutral Swiss Prepare Army for European Economic Meltdown and Civic Unrest
2012-10-16,"Israel urged to protect West Bank olive trees after settler attacks. More than 870 trees vandalised in first week of harvest this month, according to UN"
2012-10-16,Guinea-Bissau: How Cocaine Transformed a Tiny African Nation
2012-10-16,Doctors and Nurses Forced to Pick Cotton in Uzbekistan 
2012-10-16,"Russia's Medvedev calls for ban of tobacco ads
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2012-10-16,"Syria: Rebels losing support in Aleppo. As the conflict deteriorates, many residents are losing patience with an increasingly violent and unrecognizable opposition."
2012-10-16,The European Union has banned imports of natural gas from Iran.
2012-10-16,"British computer hacker Gary McKinnon will not be extradited to the US, Home Secretary Theresa May has announced."
2012-10-16,Girl Shot by Taliban Arrives in Britain For Treatment - NYTimes.com
2012-10-16,Western spies get discreetly involved in Syria
2012-10-16,I didn't even know this was feasible. Ghana seizes Argentinian war ship due to a court order from a hedge fund stating that Argentina still owes money from defaulted loans. 
2012-10-16,"Cuba Scraps Exit Visa Requirement - HAVANA (AP)  The Cuban government announced Tuesday that it will no longer require islanders to apply for an exit visa, eliminating a much-loathed bureaucratic procedure that has been a major impediment for many seeking to travel overseas."
2012-10-16,When the Arab Jews Fled - WSJ.com
2012-10-16,"Nigel Farage and the Euro: The idea that we should take all these different countries in Europe, force them together against their democratic will, and put them under the control of people like Herman Van Rompuy is, frankly, beyond belief. These are very, very dangerous, bad people"
2012-10-16,Chinese Navy Warships Pass Waters Near Okinawa Island
2012-10-15,"The shadow of ACTA is back in Europe, disguised as CETA (Canada-European Union and Trade Agreement): A comparison of the leaked draft CETA shows it includes a number of the same controversial provisions, specifically concerning criminal enforcement, private enforcement by ISPs, and harsh damages."
2012-10-15,"Controversial US businessman dumped 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canadian coast in world's largest ever geoengineering experiment, in what lawyers are calling a ""blatant violation"" of international bans"
2012-10-15,"Muslims protest 'age of mockery' as thousands 
descend on Google HQ - Telegraph"
2012-10-15,Slavery's last stronghold
2012-10-15,Skydiver Felix Baumgartner lands highest ever jump
2012-10-15,Over 100 militants attack Pakistani police station killing six policemen. Two of the killed policemen were beheaded
2012-10-15,Pakistani teen activist on way to Britain to recover from shooting by Taliban 
2012-10-15,"Student rejected from entry into medicine, pretends to be medical student for 2 years going to classes, labs, tutorials"
2012-10-15,"Gurkha ignores knife wound to trap his mugger for 15 minutes while blade was stuck in his arm
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2012-10-15,"Fukushima disaster could have been avoided, nuclear plant operator admits"
2012-10-15,"Panama leader tells Germany he wants to adopt euro - BERLIN (Reuters) - Panama would like to introduce the euro as legal tender alongside the U.S. dollar, President Ricardo Martinelli told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday during a visit to Europe"
2012-10-15,Malaysian transsexuals lose case against Islamic law that states men cannot wear women's clothes
2012-10-15,Austerity-weary Lithuania elects new left-wing govt
2012-10-15,"Using Illegal Drugs Is Like Gambling Or Eating Junk Food, Says UK Drug Policy Commission"
2012-10-15,Turkey bans all Syrian aircraft from entering its airspace.
2012-10-15,Iran acknowledges arming Hizbollah with drone
2012-10-15,"""Wildlife experts say the number of tigers in Asia has fallen sharply in recent years due to habitat loss and poaching. Skins and body parts are sold to medicinal and souvenir markets, mainly in China."""
2012-10-15,"Food Prices: ""Bread, coffee & fresh fruit have become a bit of a luxury"" - 
Affordability is now the key factor for grocery shoppers, with ethical considerations least important"
2012-10-15,"Flemish separatists score wins in Belgian local election - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A party that wants to split Belgium scored major victories in municipal elections on Sunday and its leader was set to become mayor of the country's second city, raising the pressure on a fragmented national government."
2012-10-15,'Guinea worm' close to extinction
2012-10-15,"Germans face hefty bill to end nuclear power:  But only 18 months into the plan, the cost of the switchover is beginning to sink in. Some politicians, fearful of losing popular support for the transition, are demanding an overhaul of the mechanism to pay for it."
2012-10-15,Referendum in Place for Scottish Independence
2012-10-15,Scotland moves step closer to independence vote
2012-10-15,"Lithuanians ditch government in verdict on austerity - VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania's opposition prepared to take power on Monday after voters rejected the austerity-minded government, a foretaste of what may await other European leaders forced to make unpopular cuts by the financial crisis."
2012-10-15,"Prehistoric man ate panda, claims scientist. Excavated panda fossils show early humans used the bears as food in what is now south-west China, says Chinese scientist"
2012-10-14,Thousands rally for Pakistani girl shot by Taliban - ISLAMABAD -- Tens of thousands have rallied in Pakistan's largest city in support of a 14-year-old girl shot and critically wounded by the Taliban for promoting girls' education and criticizing the militant group.
2012-10-14,"Iraq records huge rise in birth defects, New study links increase with military action by Western forces

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2012-10-14,Mauritania's president shot by his nation's troops - CNN.com
2012-10-14,British producer faces 2 years in prison for play about gay challenges in Uganda 
2012-10-14,"China now eats twice as much meat as the United States and must rein in its appetite or face a food crisis, one of the country's leading farm experts has warned. "
2012-10-14,"Swedish lunch lady gets to continue baking her own bread! The whole drama was a ""misunderstanding""."
2012-10-14,"Brazil forces set for Rio slum onslaught:  More than 1,000 police and soldiers brace for military-style assault on drug traffickers in four of the city's favelas."
2012-10-14,UN warns of looming worldwide food crisis in 2013
2012-10-14,Pussy Riot members face tough life in penal colony
2012-10-14,Malala Yousafzai is now face of global girls education movement 
2012-10-14,Russian activists slam rainbow adorned milk carton - 'gay milk propaganda'
2012-10-14,"Mexico's drug cartels target journalists in brutal killing spree  - He shakes as he speaks &  his eyes fill. Its certain the people who killed my colleague were criminals. The killing had the modus operandi of organised crime. But who sent them & why? Thats the question, thats the smokescreen."
2012-10-14,Gunmen kill 20 at mosque in northern Nigeria
2012-10-14,"The Wests Stalwart Ally in the War on Drugs: Iran 
(Yes, That Iran)"
2012-10-14,"Israel kills Qaeda-tied leader of Gaza militant group
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2012-10-14,"In Spain, separatist fever rises in time of crisis"
2012-10-14,"Gunmen kill 20 at mosque in northern Nigeria - KADUNA (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on Muslim worshippers as they were leaving a mosque in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least 20 people, a local official said."
2012-10-14,"North Korea's progress seems to be more style than substance: Despite new construction, fashions and items to buy, 'Day to day, our life is actually harder,' says one North Korean, who struggles to get enough to eat."
2012-10-14,"Mali rebels threaten France over intervention: Al-Qaeda-linked fighters say they will ""open the doors of hell"" if France keeps pushing for armed intervention in Mali."
2012-10-14,"Stop Trade in Bear Bile - Rescued bear cubs now poster children to end barbaric practice of regularly ""milking"" bile from bears.  Over 10,000 bears are kept on bile farms in China & around 2,400 in Vietnam. "
2012-10-14,"China Exports Exceed Estimates, Shipments Increased 9.9 Percent"
2012-10-14,President of Mauritania accidentally shot in the neck  
2012-10-14,Syria despatch: rebel fighters fear the growing influence of their 'Bin Laden' faction.
2012-10-14,Imran Khan says Taliban's 'holy war' in Afghanistan is justified by Islamic law. Pakistani politician's comments at hospital that treated shooting victim Malala Yousafzai outrage Afghanistan's government
2012-10-14,BBC News - Brazil drugs raids: Police surge into north Rio slums
2012-10-13,"A pharmaceutical giant has withdrawn an existing treatment for MS, and rebranded it. It now sells at twenty times the original price."
2012-10-13,Mysterious elk-shaped structure discovered in Russia. Huge geoglyph may predate Peru's famous Nazca Lines by thousands of years.
2012-10-13,"Egypt's liberals and Islamists clash on Tahrir Square, 110 reported injured
| Reuters"
2012-10-13,"Canadas $1.5B Afghanistan aid effort divorced from reality, according to damning, previously unreleased documents -- 'All the projects have failed. None of them have been successful,' said Nipa Banerjee, who headed CIDAs Afghanistan operation from 2003 to 2006 "
2012-10-13,"Iran says it would halt high-grade uranium enrichment if given fuel for a research reactor
| Reuters"
2012-10-13,"No blasphemy clause in new Tunisia constitution: Islamist-proposed blasphemy clause will not be included in the new Tunisian constitution, National Constituent Assembly speaker Mustapha Ben Jaafar reveals "
2012-10-13,"A shadowy jihadi group believed to be linked to al Qaeda fought alongside rebels who seized a government missile defense base in Syria on Friday, activists said, heightening fears that extremists are taking advantage of the chaos to acquire advanced weapons."
2012-10-13,Russia says the Syria-bound plane intercepted by Turkey was carrying a legal cargo of radar parts - not weapons for the Syrian war effort. 
2012-10-13,"Greece's biggest company is leaving the country, drinks bottler Coca Cola Hellenic (CCH) said on Thursday in announcing it will move to Switzerland and list its shares in London, dealing a blow to the debt-crippled Greek economy."
2012-10-13,Tibetan Man Sets Himself on Fire to Protest China - An overseas human rights group says the grandfather of a revered Tibetan Buddhist figure has died after setting himself on fire in protest of Chinese rule. It is the latest of dozens of self-immolations by Tibetans since 2009
2012-10-13,"Iran not to invade any country, but to encounter aggression: Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday that based on Islamic principles, Iran has no aggressive intents but will never back down in face of any aggression"
2012-10-13,"One Child, One Laptop ... And Mixed Results In Peru  "
2012-10-13,16 year old boy in Mexico shot by US border agent.
2012-10-13,"Turkey condemns U.N. inertia as Syrian conflict deepens - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rebuked the U.N. Security Council for inaction over Syria on Saturday as war intensified across the country, saying the world body of superpowers was repeating mistakes that led to massacres in Bosnia"
2012-10-13,"BBC News - Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one"
2012-10-13,"Marseille police: crime, corruption and cover-up at the highest level "
2012-10-13,Botswana court allows women to inherit:  In a landmark ruling Botswana's High Court has overturned a customary law which prevents women from inheriting the family home.
2012-10-13,"A Point Of View: Making sense of China. For more than 2,000 years, it was not a nation-state but a civilisation-state"
2012-10-13,Tepco admits Fukushima nuclear disaster avoidable
2012-10-13,India's sex slaves face lifelong cycle of abuse
2012-10-13,87 soldiers die in Syrian army's highest toll: NGO
2012-10-13,United Nations starts crusade to stop little girls from becoming brides:  Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu said Thursday that he is as committed to abolishing child marriage worldwide as he was to fighting apartheid in South Africa. 
2012-10-13,Finland: Israel warns of action against Gaza ship
2012-10-13,"China, Japan Signal Support for Europe Rescue Fund as IMF Meets"
2012-10-13,What You Can Do to Help Girls Like Malala Yousafzai 
2012-10-12,"Italian church to be stripped of tax exemption from 2013: The extra revenue from these exempt properties - including hotels, restaurants and sports centres - could be 25.5m a year in Rome alone"
2012-10-12,Spot where Julius Caesar was stabbed discovered
2012-10-12,"Weeks after posting a haunting Youtube video on her years of torment at classmates hands, 15-year-old B.C. girl commits suicide."
2012-10-12,The European Union wins the Nobel Peace Prize 2012 (google translate article).
2012-10-12,"In Haiti, Little Can Be Found of a Hip-Hop Artists Charity:   The charity created by Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-born hip-hop celebrity, effectively went out of business last month, leaving a trail of debts, unfinished projects and broken promises."
2012-10-12,"UN: Human rights activists beaten, raped in Iran"
2012-10-12,Prince of Sealand dies aged 91
2012-10-12,"China's official Womens Federation: ""Pretty girls dont need a lot of education to marry into a rich and powerful family, but girls with an average or ugly appearance will find it difficult. ... by the time they get their M.A. or Ph.D., they are already old, like yellowed pearls."""
2012-10-12,What it means to be 'living under drones' - latimes.com
2012-10-12,"Pakistan Arrests Three Men In Taliban Shooting Of 15-
Year-Old Girl"
2012-10-12,Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones barred from Canada for anti-Muslim film debate
2012-10-12,Golden Dawn Incident At Theater in Athens - Business Insider
2012-10-12,Fear grows as Mali extremists compile list of unwed mothers
2012-10-12,"Botswana court rules in favor of gender equality - Botswana's courts nullify a customary law that denied women the right to inherit a family home, a decision seen as a crucial step forward for women's rights in the southern African country."
2012-10-12,BBC News - France 'uncovers biggest bomb plot in years'
2012-10-12,"Nina was brutalised by her rapists, and then French justice assaulted her again"
2012-10-12,"A story to celebrate on the International Day of the Girl Child:  

Rekha Kalindi refused to enter a child marriage at age 12 and insisted on staying in school. Her stand is helping change attitudes in part of rural India."
2012-10-12,"US corn ethanol cost poor nations $6.6 billion - ""The paper calculates that, from 2006 to 2011, ethanol-related corn price increases cost all corn-importing countries $11.6 billion. Developing nations bore around 57 percent of the burden"""
2012-10-12,Turkey scrambles fighter planes to Syria border
2012-10-12,Hezbollah says it launched drone over Israel and that it was shot down as it flew over suspected Israeli nuclear site.
2012-10-12,Nigerian farmers sue Shell in Dutch court over oil cleanup:  Landmark case against overseas oil giant could set precedent
2012-10-12,Hezbollah Promises Drone Invasions Will Become A Way Of Life For Israel
2012-10-12,Nobel's will 'blatantly disrespected' in Norway
2012-10-12,Seven British soldiers arrested in murder probe
2012-10-12,French fishermen clash with 'scallop-pillaging' Brits
2012-10-11,"A group of 23 impoverished west African fishing communities has driven off a fleet of illegal, unreported & unregulated ""pirate"" trawlers by filming & reporting them when they are found in their waters.  9 of the 10 ships identified  were found to have licences to export catches to Europe."
2012-10-11,"""Eagle Dad"" and children rescued from Mt. Fuji after ascending with only water and a chocolate bar thinking ""there would be steps up the mountain and shops along the way."""
2012-10-11,Pakistan Erupts in Anger Over Talibans Shooting of Schoolgirl
2012-10-11,Masked gunmen kill U.S. embassy employee in Yemen
2012-10-11,Russia says it will not renew arms agreement with U.S.
2012-10-11,Dalai Lama warns not to generalize Islam as a negative force and called on believers of different faiths to reach out to one another
2012-10-11,Taliban says they will try to kill injured schoolgirl who defied them 
2012-10-11,IMF: We got it wrong on austerity and made things worse 
2012-10-11,"Megaupload Wants Charges Dropped, Points Out Judge Failure"
2012-10-11,Manchester man jailed over anti-police T-shirt worn after police killings
2012-10-11,Brazilian elderly woman dies after accidentally injected with soup at hospital.
2012-10-11,Foxconn under fire again after requesting premature discharge of brain-damaged factory worker from hospital due to cost
2012-10-11,"Romney's China Policy Bad - US presidential candidate sparking fears his policy may  trigger trade war while being unenforceable.  He's pledging, on his 1st day, to designate China a currency manipulator, a step no administration has taken against any country for 18 years."
2012-10-11,Governor of Bank of Greece given a severance payment of 3.4 million from bank he now regulates
2012-10-11,Unemployment in Greece hit a record high of 25.1 percent. Indications are that unemployment in Greece will be heading higher for some to come.
2012-10-11,Syrian plane suspected of carrying arms forced to land in Ankara
2012-10-11,"Toronto mother of six drowned in her own blood after throat slit in alleged honour killing, court hears"
2012-10-11,President Barack Obama signs order implementing new Iran sanctions 
2012-10-11,France's Hollande promises pupils no more homework 
2012-10-11,"Mali Islamists 'buying child soldiers, imposing Sharia': Islamists who seized control of part of Mali are amassing money from ransoms and drug trafficking while imposing Sharia law, says a senior UN official. They are also buying child soldiers, paying families $600 (375) per child."
2012-10-11,People are beaten in Xi'an for the offense of driving Japanese cars
2012-10-11,"What Chinas slowdown means. China is slowing down, dramatically. If it continues, it will have a profound impact on the rest of the world. "
2012-10-11,Chinese billionaire buys 43 new cars for owners of damaged Japanese cars damaged during protests --all Chinese brands
2012-10-11,Taliban vows to target girl again
2012-10-11,"
Rising food prices are climate change's first tangible bite into UK lives

The UK's dreadful harvest from a sodden summer is a warning that the impact of global warming is getting close to home
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2012-10-10,Scotland will hold a vote in 2014 on independence in what could result in the eventual breakup of Britain
2012-10-10,"Latin America is taking the lead on ending the ""war on drugs."" Will the U.S. follow?"
2012-10-10,"Many mentally ill in Ghana being treated by Christian organization who will only use prayer, herbs and mandatory fasting for as long as 12 hours a day for up to 40 days, human rights group warns."
2012-10-10,"A British WWII soldier was taken prisoner by the Japanese, forced to build the Burma Railway (the ""Death Railway""), and tortured for making a radio receiver out of spare parts.  He later tracked down one of his torturers and forgave him in 1993, becoming friends.  He died at 93."
2012-10-10,"Raped pupil expelled for 'tarnishing school's image':  An Indonesian school has expelled a 14-year-old girl, claiming she ""tarnished"" the institution's image after she was raped by a trafficking syndicate, a child rights activist said "
2012-10-10,And the Worlds Most Educated Countries Are...
2012-10-10,"Trial over girls gang-raped by ""youths"" shocks France and sparks justice system row"
2012-10-10,"Stonehenge Laser Survey Reveals Carved Images, Now Invisible to the Naked Eye - Shows crust was removed from key stones, so they glistened at winter & summer solstices - We've recorded & scrutinized every cm2 in unparalleled detail, revealing  rock art, graffiti, damage, & restoration. "
2012-10-10,"Frenchwoman gets phone bill for 11,721,000,000,000,000 euros"
2012-10-10,"Pakistan Taliban causes revulsion by shooting girl who spoke out. Attempt to kill activist Malala Yousafzai, 14, could be 'watershed' moment that turns public tide against militants and extremism"
2012-10-10,NATO: Plans Ready to Defend Turkey 
2012-10-10,Most Dangerous Cities In The World
2012-10-10,"Australian PM, Julia Gillard, tears into opposition leader over sexist remarks"
2012-10-10,"Rich or poor, depression is a growing global crisis:  Depression could become the leading cause of disability worldwide."
2012-10-10,"Africa can easily grow wheat to ease hunger, price shocks: study "
2012-10-10,Malala Yousafzai: Pakistan bullet surgery 'successful'. Surgeons say they have successfully removed a bullet from the campaigning 14-year-old schoolgirl shot by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan's Swat Valley
2012-10-10,"Outcry over Pakistan attack on activist Malala Yousafza, 14"
2012-10-10,Toyota to recall 7.4 million cars
2012-10-10,Felix Baumgartner's skydive is postponed
2012-10-10,Tunisia children's magazine prints petrol bomb guide
2012-10-10,Mexico confirms death of feared Zetas cartel leader
2012-10-10,"Why Chvez Was Re-elected
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2012-10-10,Iraq buys $4.2 billion in Russian weapons.
2012-10-10,"Canadian psychiatrist 'Dr Shock', accused of human rights abuses in apartheid-era South Africa, charged with sexually assaulting male patients."
2012-10-10,"More than 150 fishermen and indigenous natives occupied controversial Amazon dam, claiming the project will do irreparable damage to the Amazon ecosystem and their way of life, while environmentalists have warned of deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions and irreparable damage to the ecosystem."
2012-10-09,14-year-old Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai has been shot; she had been on a Taliban 'hit list' since March after giving her diary to the BBC in the wake of women being forbidden an education in her town
2012-10-09,Jewish settlers attack undercover police officers posing as Palestinian shepherds 
2012-10-09,Mexican navy says Zetas cartel founder Heriberto Lazcano apparently killed in confrontation
2012-10-09,"Officer who killed Brazilian student  with taser says he likely would've used the weapon even if he'd known the male had only stolen biscuits - He died after 11 officers  tasered him 14 times,  handcuffed him, used capsicum spray, & used a baton to fight his ""superhuman strength""."
2012-10-09,The Guardian: Greek anti-fascist protesters 'tortured by police'
2012-10-09,"Quantum particle work wins Nobel for French, U.S. scientists:  A French and an American scientist won the Nobel Prize on Tuesday for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them, which could make it possible to build a new kind of computer far more powerful than any seen before."
2012-10-09,South African president Jacob Zuma uses $30million of taxpayer money to 'upgrade' personal home
2012-10-09,'Saudi weapons' intended for the Saudi military seen at Syria rebel base
2012-10-09,"Putting Profits Before Nutrition: 
The Dark Side of the School Meals Business -- 
Experts now believe that frozen strawberries from China are behind a massive outbreak of the norovirus that recently affected thousands of schoolchildren in eastern Germany. "
2012-10-09,Rage erupts in Guatemala after police kill 6 protesters
2012-10-09,North Korea Says Its Rockets Can Hit U.S. Mainland
2012-10-09,"Z-3, the leader of Los Zetas-- one of Mexico's most violent cartels-- has been reported dead in a clash with Mexican Marines."
2012-10-09," Egypt rights activists seeing hopes dissolve:  Women and minorities had wanted guarantees of equal rights, but that goal seems out of reach now that control of Egypt has shifted to an Islamist president."
2012-10-09,Mexico Navy confirms death of Zetas leader Lazcano.
2012-10-09,BBC News has uncovered evidence that weapons intended for the Saudi military have been diverted to Syrian rebels.
2012-10-09,"4,000 tons of shells explode in Central Russia, leave mushroom cloud-like plume of smoke (PHOTOS, VIDEO)"
2012-10-09,Turkey shells Syria for sixth day:  Turkey has hit Syrian military positions for the sixth day in a row after a shell fired by the neighbouring country landed across the border. 
2012-10-09,"Brain-eating amoeba kills at least 10 in Karachi: Pakistan's most populous city hit by Naegleria fowleri, which is transmitted by contaminated water entering the nose
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2012-10-09,"Japan-based internet users who download copyright infringing files face up to two years in prison or fines of up to two million yen ($25,700; 15,900) after a change to the law."
2012-10-09,"Hugo Chvez wins again in Venezuela: ""Spin doctors have constructed a macabre operation that violates his privacy and human decency by telling  that his death was imminent. But he's in complete condition to carry out the presidency"""
2012-10-09,Peace-prize winning Pakistani girl on Taliban hit list fights for life after shooting
2012-10-09,Afghan woman helps addicts by running daring new restaurant in Kabul
2012-10-09,"Actually, There Is No Hyperinflation In Iran"
2012-10-09,Turkey sends fighter jets to Syrian border
2012-10-09,"Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the ""worst-case scenarios"" were now playing out in Syria and Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself, as its army fired back for a sixth day after a shell from Syria flew over the border."
2012-10-08,"
How the banking crash sparked a credit union boom: People are turning away from casino finance and towards a more democratic system that isn't just about money-making
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2012-10-08,"No Arab national wants to ask: What was the real cost for not recognizing Israel in 1948 and why didnt the Arab states spend their assets on education, health care and the infrastructures instead of wars? "
2012-10-08,USA declares Chinese companies a security threat 
2012-10-08,Ancient Buddhist City Will Be Destroyed in December
2012-10-08,Girl has stomach removed after consuming a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen.
2012-10-08,Julian Assange to sue Australian PM Julia Gillard for defamation over WikiLeaks comments
2012-10-08,"Julian Assange supporters ordered to forfeit 93,500 bail money"
2012-10-08,Venezuela Electoral Council Says Hugo Chavez Wins Presidential Vote - ABC News
2012-10-08,Cisco Systems Inc. has ended a longstanding sales partnership with ZTE Corp after an internal investigation into allegations that the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker sold Cisco networking gear to Iran.
2012-10-08,"Three men, including a bank's Chief Executive, appeared in Irish court today to face charges relating to the 2008 banking crisis. Their bank has been bailed out so far by the state with 30 Billion Euro since 2009. These are the first people to be charged in relation to the current banking crisis."
2012-10-08,Did a French Spy Kill Gaddafi?
2012-10-08,Stem Cell Researchers Gurdon and Yamanaka win Nobel Prize for Medicine
2012-10-08,Chavez wins the Venezuelan election.
2012-10-08,Drone shot down by Israel appears Iranian-made headed for Dimona reactor
2012-10-08,Most African countries to be middle income by 2025
2012-10-08,Iraq executes 11 convicted of terrorism
2012-10-08,Einstein letter dismissing idea of God to be sold on ebay.
2012-10-08,Four Nigerian students wrongly tortured in public and killed for crimes they didn't commit.
2012-10-08,Australia's Great Barrier Reef has lost more than half of its coral since 1985.  Nearly half of that destruction is linked to a single species of starfish.
2012-10-08,Teacher tried to dissuade Nobel winner from science 
2012-10-08,"Daredevil Austrian Felix Baumgartner will attempt a freefall from the edge of Space on Tuesday.  If he succeeds he will break the sound barrier, if he fails his skin will boil."
2012-10-08,Kids killed by Taliban after Afghan cop refuses to quit
2012-10-08,'Loud thumping' heard at volcano
2012-10-08,"British PM David Cameron joins Twitter, draws immediate heavy fire"
2012-10-08,"Cristina Kirchner is facing revolt over an ailing Argentine economy, as her approval rating hits a record low and aides admit she is using the Falkland Islands as a smokescreen to mask domestic failings. "
2012-10-07,Lunch Lady In Sweden told to stop making fresh bread and varied vegetables.  Its not fair to kids in other schools. 
2012-10-07,S.Korea announces US deal allowing it to have missiles capable of hitting all of NKorea
2012-10-07,"German Government on Fracking: ""In summary, we conclude that a great deal of the fundamental information needed to make a valid assessment of these risks is still missing."""
2012-10-07,Women in northern Mali hold protest against Islamist in charge of veil requirement
2012-10-07,North Korean soldier kills two superior officers and defects to South.
2012-10-07,"In goodwill gesture, Iran shifts uranium to fuel stock"
2012-10-07,Ancient Civilization Collapsed due to Climate Change
2012-10-07,"Marseille police unit closed due to rampant corruption: 'Twelve police officers in France's crime-ridden Marseille appeared in court on suspicion of corruption, extortion and drug dealing, with a prosecutor claiming there was ""overwhelming"" proof of guilt.'"
2012-10-07,Iran Urges Israel to Join NPT | Defense | RIA Novosti
2012-10-07,Glimpses of North Korean life exposed by AP photographer.
2012-10-07,"Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has led Western activists and thousands of supporters on a defiant march to the tribal belt to protest against US drone strikes. Cheering crowds lined the road on Saturday to greet Khan, scattering rose petals."
2012-10-07,"France Invests 50 Million Euros in Electro-mobility  New 50 million euro investment program to support electric vehicles & charging infrastructure launched.  Maximum bonus on electric vehicles will increase from 5,000-7,000 in 2013 & the bonus for hybrid vehicles will double to 4,000.
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2012-10-07,Beijing authorities have completed a network of monitors that will more accurately measure air quality in the pollution-ridden city after being pushed into it by public pressure and reports from the U.S. embassy
2012-10-07,Switzerland: Hand Grenades Sent To UAE Ended Up In Syria - Switzerland set up commission to investigate... after a newspaper published a photo indicating a Swiss-made grenade was found with Syrian rebels.
2012-10-07,"Pirate Bay co-founder has his Swedish passport restored: Fredrik Neij's passport had been revoked, he will now be free to travel"
2012-10-07,China's 'New Left' Grows Louder - WSJ.com
2012-10-07,Turkey retaliates at Syria for a fifth day 
2012-10-07,"Police massacre case turns back tide of injustice in Brazil: Nineteen sharecroppers demanding land were gunned down by police in 1996. In a stunning result, two top officers involved have been imprisoned, signaling a shift from impunity to accountability. "
2012-10-07,"Chavez seeks another six-year term after 13 years as Venezuelan president
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2012-10-07,"Africa's mineral wealth hardly denting poverty levels, says World Bank - 
Report finds discovery of oil & mineral resources doing little to improve prospects for poor people, whose lot may even worsen."
2012-10-07,UK mobile company Vodafone increases prices for second time on 'fixed' contracts - provokes customer outrage
2012-10-07,Somalia's first female police cadets in 20 years
2012-10-07,"Europes Richer Regions Want Out: Angry at having to finance their poorer neighbors, some richer regions, including Catalonia and Scotland, are calling for independence"
2012-10-07,"Prime Minister David Cameron has said he would veto a new European Union budget ""if necessary"""
2012-10-07,Ahmadinejad: 'You can't rule with war'
2012-10-06,"The Reality of Anti-Blasphemy Laws -- ""Anti-blasphemy laws inevitably lead to the arrest and persecution of religious minorities, including children, in order to 'protect sensibilities' of religious majorities."" Such laws are about authority and control, not respect "
2012-10-06,When gender equality really hurts. Women in Europe facing large increase in car insurance premiums due to EU ruling to end discrimination. (Young males to see their premiums fall)
2012-10-06,"People with HIV no longer need to disclose their infection to sexual partners in Canada (if low risk, on retro viral drugs, and wearing condom)."
2012-10-06,"South African mine union leader shot ""execution style""; death toll in Platinum Belt rises to 49; 75,000 mine workers striking"
2012-10-06,The 100 richest people on Earth gained a combined $26.9 billion this week as an unexpected drop in the American unemployment rate bolstered confidence in the worlds largest economy
2012-10-06,N. Korean soldier defects to S. Korea via heavily armed border
2012-10-06,"Israeli Air Force shoots down small, unmanned aircraft over its airspace."
2012-10-06,BBC News - Turkey returns fire 'after fresh Syria shelling'
2012-10-06,Pirate Bay Founder Wins Back Passport from Swedish Embassy - TorrentFreak
2012-10-06,North Korean soldier kills two of his officers Saturday and defected to South Korea 
2012-10-06,"Prepare for war with Syria if you want to have peace, says Turkish PM after another shelling. "
2012-10-06,India - Two women working for Rs. 15 (30 cents) a month for 42 years
2012-10-06,"S Korean Villagers Panicked by Toxic Leak -  Those in nearby village also demanding to be evacuated.  5 killed &  over  600 treated after hydrofluoric acid leak at a Gumi chemical factory. 100s suffering nausea, chest pain, rashes, sore eyes & throats, bloody saliva."
2012-10-06,Turkish PM warns that his country is not far from war with Syria.
2012-10-06,"""The pope's butler was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Saturday [6 October 2012] after being convicted of stealing the pope's private documents and leaking them to a journalist."""
2012-10-06,Sharia-Medicine: Egyptian Clinic Treats People with Camel Urine Per Prophet's Advice
2012-10-06,'Too easy': Ex-drone operator on watching civilians die
2012-10-06,Imran Khan leads US drone protest in Pakistan
2012-10-06,Spanish police arrest man with 140kg of explosives after he boasted of doing a Columbine massacre of university students
2012-10-06,Italian politician 'slashes tyres of disabled man'  
2012-10-06,Turkey returns fire after new Syria shelling
2012-10-06,Foxconn denies China iPhone plant hit by strike
2012-10-06,Malis heritage: Scrolls under threat - Islamist zealots are endangering Malis most treasured manuscripts
2012-10-06, N. Korean soldier defects to S. Korea via heavily armed border 
2012-10-06,EU Parliament to back jail sentences for Libor cheats
2012-10-05,Canadian government fires all non-Christian Chaplains in federal prisons
2012-10-05,"42 year old Alberta man dismissed of drug charges: 1,600 seized pot plants turn out to be daisies."
2012-10-05,"An 11-year-old Russian boy discovers a 30,000-year-
old woolly mammoth carcass"
2012-10-05,French bees make green and blue honey after M&Ms feast 
2012-10-05,"Death penalty for family members in India 'honour killing' - 5 members of a family in Delhi, have been sentenced to death for the brutal murder of a young couple.  The young lovers were brutally beaten up, tortured and electrocuted in Asha's uncle's home."
2012-10-05,"A mass grave has been found near the Polish village of Dworzysko -  It's suspected the victims, shot in the back of the head, were members of the National Armed Forces, a Polish group that resisted communist rule from the end of WWII until 1956."
2012-10-05,President issues 'state apology' in Tunisia after police rape women and charge her with indecency
2012-10-05,Canada poised to claim ownership of vast underwater territory bigger than Quebec
2012-10-05,"How Politics Nuked Irans Economy: ""some pundits are wondering whether inflation will spell the end of the regime."""
2012-10-05,"Stay classy Paris: luxury hotel owner says Chinese tourists ""not welcome"""
2012-10-05,"Ukrainian Bill Banning Promotion of Homosexuality Passes First Reading, with 289 Votes (out of 350 Present)"
2012-10-05,"Honduras plan to create ""for profit"" cities run by multinational corporations ruled unconstitutional"
2012-10-05,Two Eritrean Air Force pilots defect to Saudi Arabia - in the President of Eritrea's plane. [Article in French]
2012-10-05,"Tunisia president offers 'state apology' to rape woman. ""There is no more tolerance, neither for rapists, nor for those who want to hide the truth"" 


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2012-10-05,"The world's most luxurious designer brands are abandoning Argentina rather than comply with tight new government economic restrictions, leaving empty shelves and storefronts along the capital's elegant Alvear Avenue."
2012-10-05,Turkey issues new warnings to Syria. Erdogan says Turkey 'not far from war' 
2012-10-05,"Five suspected terrorists - including radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri - will be extradited to the US to face trial, UK High Court judges rule."
2012-10-05,An Idealist on Death Row - Why the desperate fate of a little-known Sudanese human rights activists poses some fundamental questions about what it means to be human.
2012-10-05,"Queensland wants federal laws to help find trolls
 - It's s flagged a major shake-up of media & privacy laws with a call for tougher federal laws to help identify social media trolls"
2012-10-05,"A bizarre dinosaur described as a cross between ""a bird, a vampire and a porcupine"" has been identified from fossils in South Africa."
2012-10-05,"Is the U.S. Admitting Defeat in Afghanistan?
The law of diminishing returns - and rising costs - appears likely to bring Western troops home from Afghanistan even as the Taliban insurgency rages"
2012-10-05,"Hackers hit 5 Japan colleges / Todai, Kyoto U. among victims of worldwide attack that stole info"
2012-10-05,Jihadis in Syria: The Cracks Start to Show
2012-10-05,"World food prices rise, stay close to crisis levels: UN | Business Recorder"
2012-10-05,"Iraq 2002, Iran 2012: Compare and contrast Netanyahu's speeches"
2012-10-04,BBC News - Turkey's parliament authorises military action in Syria
2012-10-04,Two Coptic children arrested in Egypt for 'insulting Islam'
2012-10-04,Foreign donors have spent tens of millions of dollars building hospitals in Afghanistan that have never seen a patient.
2012-10-04,"Land acquired over past decade could have produced food for a billion people: Oxfam calls on World Bank to stop backing foreign investors who acquire land for biofuels that could produce food
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2012-10-04,34 Syrian soldiers killed in Turkish offensive
2012-10-04,Badly disabled woman told she's fit to work.
2012-10-04,"Turkey govt says Syria crisis is threat to its security, seeks parliament approval for military operations outside its borders"
2012-10-04,"The last native speaker of the Cromarty fisherfolk dialect has died -- retired engineer Bobby Hogg, 92, was the last person who was still fluent in the dialect used in parts of the Black Isle, near Inverness."
2012-10-04,"Arctic Melt: ""Were worried. This is our home and these waters are our fields where we harvest our food. This isnt just a staging area for Shell, this is our home, and it is all about to change."""
2012-10-04,"Morocco using warships to block ""abortion vessel"""
2012-10-04,"German customs seize Stradivarius violin, demand $1.5 million"
2012-10-04,"Lethbridge police (Alberta, Canada) raid man's house finding a record haul of...daisy flower plants... "
2012-10-04,Saudi Arabia to curb powers of religious police: The head of Saudi Arabia's notorious religious police has told the media he will curb his force's powers in a bid to clamp down on excesses.
2012-10-04,Rupert Murdoch faces shareholder revolt at News Corp annual meeting
2012-10-04,Gaza flotilla sponsor blames Jews for Holocaust on Twitter 
2012-10-04,'Scareware' trickster fined $163m by authorities
2012-10-04,Egyptian woman runs for chairmanship of Muslim Brotherhoods political wing  RT
2012-10-04," 
Airline tickets are plunging in Japan, as Japanese embrace quick weekend flights to visit friends & family. 3 new efficient low-cost carriers have seen growth this year."
2012-10-04,"Russia accuses al-Qaida of 'forest jihad' in Europe.  Forest fires in EU countries should be considered part of al-Qaida's new strategy, says Russia's top security official"
2012-10-04,India's improbably champion for affordable feminine hygeine
2012-10-04,"Why the US demonises Venezuela's democracy
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2012-10-04,"Iran's currency plunges 40 percent, riot police called out "
2012-10-04,Turkey strikes targets in Syria in retaliation for shelling deaths - CNN.com
2012-10-04,Nigeria: Muslims massacre up to 30 Christian students 
2012-10-04,BBC News - Turkey's parliament authorises military action in Syria
2012-10-03,Stolen Maple Syrup Recovered
2012-10-03,France to cover 100 percent of abortion costs
2012-10-03,Marijuana And Cancer: Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Stops Metastasis In Aggressive Cancers
2012-10-03,Swedish Pirate Party surges after file-sharing host facility raided
2012-10-03,"


Divers Return to Wreck Where Ancient Computer Found - In 1900, divers saw ""a pile of dead, naked women"" on the seabed.  Turned out to be Greek statues in a Roman ship wreck. Also found was a curious device that calculates movements of stars & planets & timing of athletic events. 



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2012-10-03,The $1 billion mission to reach the Earth's mantle
2012-10-03,"Proposed Split of Large Institutions: Fight Looms Over EU Plans for Bank Reform - Until recently, calls to forcibly split up European banks were dismissed as a radical leftist idea. Now even an EU panel of experts is recommending dividing up dangerous financial giants."
2012-10-03,Japanese researchers discover that looking at pics of baby animals improves productivity
2012-10-03,"""The Philippines Passes a Cybercrime Prevention Act that Makes SOPA Look Reasonable"""
2012-10-03,LOCAL -  Three killed as Syrian shell strikes Turkish town
2012-10-03,"Tunisians took to the streets by the hundreds, protesting the treatment of a woman who was allegedly raped by police officers -- and then charged with public indecency"
2012-10-03,What happened when British politicians took a maths exam
2012-10-03,Mortar from Syria kills at least 3 in Turkey
2012-10-03,"Africans have flocked to Europe for years, in search of a better life and to make money they could send back home. Now, as Europe's economy struggles, many Africans are ready to pack up and head back home, where the economy is better."
2012-10-03,Radical Islamists execute man before crowd of 600 in northern Mali in latest punishment
2012-10-03,"25 killed in attack at Nigerian college dormitory: The attackers called out victims' names and then killed them, a police official says of the assault in Mubi, Nigeria."
2012-10-03,"Ferry crash response revives distrust between Hong Kong and mainland China:  A ferry crash in Hong Kong has turned into a political match between the city and Mainland China.
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2012-10-03,US grants Taiwan visa-waiver status - Taiwanese nationals will not need a visa to enter the United States starting November 1
2012-10-03,Hamas accused of routine torture of detainees in Gaza Strip
2012-10-03,Does the World Need Iran's Oil? Apparently Not
2012-10-03,Hezbollah military commander 'killed in Syria'
2012-10-03,Iranian Police Clash With Protesters Over Currency Plunge
2012-10-03,Mentally ill patients in Ghana chained up for months at prayer camps: Report
2012-10-03,Spike in Police Officer Deaths Alarms So Paulo
2012-10-03,New Philippine cyber law could numb the Net
2012-10-02,"Mafia Runs 90% of Illegal Tropics Logging - Illegal logging is driving the lion's share of deforestation in the world's rain forests, & organized crime is to blame for almost all of it. That's the grim conclusion of a new U.N. report."
2012-10-02,"Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party is increasingly assuming the role of law enforcement officers on the streets of the bankrupt country, with mounting evidence that Athenians are being openly directed by police to seek help from the neo-Nazi group."
2012-10-02,"Police rape woman in Tunisia, then charge her with indecency"
2012-10-02,"Chinese Company Sues Obama Over Wind Farm Project -  A company blocked from building wind farms near a US navy test site in Oregon is suing President Barack Obama, arguing that his order to stop the project was unconstitutional."
2012-10-02,"Uruguay's Drugs Policy: Regulating Market For Pot: ""The government of President Jose Mujica has proposed a law that would put the state in charge of producing and selling marijuana to registered users."""
2012-10-02,Muslim mobs attacked temples and houses in what Buddhist leaders described as the worst violence against the community since independence
2012-10-02,France to cover total cost of abortion: 'The move follows a long campaign by pro-choice organisations and was a manifesto promise by President Hollande ahead of his election victory in June.'
2012-10-02,Syria Crisis: Russia Tells NATO To Stay Away From Syria
2012-10-02,Libya's Magarief calls for a secular state
2012-10-02,Irans economy plunges because of sanctions.
2012-10-02,BBC News - Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili admits election loss
2012-10-02,"Dutch ""abortion boat"" heads to Morocco in its first trip to a Muslim country - will ""promote the idea of a safe medication abortion"""
2012-10-02,"'Offensive (and not funny)' After years of insults, BBC finally censures Jeremy Clarkson"
2012-10-02,"Japans first 'cuddle cafe' lets you sleep with a stranger for Y6,000 an hour  Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion"
2012-10-02,"High Food Prices Forecast More Global Riots Ahead, Researchers Say "
2012-10-02,Unemployment in the euro zone at record 18.2 million - Economy Watch
2012-10-02,"Mexicans Puzzled by Azerbaijan Leader Monument - The appearance of a life-size statue of Azerbaijan's ""founder of the nation"" on Mexico City's elegant Reforma Avenue, not far from Mahatma Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln & Mexico's national heroes, is raising eyebrows & protests."
2012-10-02,Professor: Drones Will Soon Be Able To Kill During War Without Human Assistance
2012-10-02,Saudi Arabia on Friday began expelling more than a thousand Nigerian women on a religious pilgrimage because they had arrived without male guardians
2012-10-02,Top 5 Reasons Not to Ballyhoo Chinas Carrier - It has no aircraft on it. 
2012-10-02,"Former Pirate Bay host raided by police, goes down amidst DDoS-attack"
2012-10-02,"Scottish independence: Who would get the nukes, and other questions -- 

As it considers a 2014 referendum on independence from the UK, Scotland still has a litany of issues that must be resolved beforehand, including its role in the EU and NATO."
2012-10-02,"Great Barrier Reef coral seeing 'major decline,' scientists report"
2012-10-02,Iran's currency hits all-time low as western sanctions take their toll. Rial sent into tailspin in spite of Ahmadinejad's defiance as Iranians rush to convert assets to foreign currency or gold
2012-10-02,"Starting Nov.6, Spirit Airlines is going to start charging up to $100 for carry-on's..."
2012-10-01,Bahraini court sentences 9 doctors to prison for up to 5 years for treating injured protesters. 
2012-10-01,"Anti-Downloading Law Hits Japan, Up To 
2 Years in Prison From Today"
2012-10-01,Activists warned to watch what they say as social media monitoring becomes 'next big thing in law enforcement' 
2012-10-01,"In urban Taiwan, indoor shrimp fishing is booming:  Shrimp fishing in Taiwan has moved indoors over the years, and it now is a popular activity among city dwellers in Taipei and elsewhere. "
2012-10-01,"Ikea is being criticized for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its furniture catalogue, a move the company says it regrets - The report raised questions in Sweden about Ikea's commitment to gender equality"
2012-10-01,"Egypt sheikh says girls should be married, have children starting at 14-years-old; he is also a member of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting Egypt's new constitution"
2012-10-01,"A firefight broke out between U.S. forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing two Americans and three Afghan soldiers "
2012-10-01,AP Interview: SKorea foreign minister says Japan must educate its people about its war crimes
2012-10-01,"No tax? No blessing! German church made the final move, excluding from religious community anyone who doesn't devolve part of his taxes to the church.."
2012-10-01,"Suspected Muslim insurgents shoot grenades at fair in 
southern Thailand, 30 hurt - The Washington Post"
2012-10-01,Iranian News Agency Claims Onion Report It Ran by Mistake Is Essentially True
2012-10-01, Govts around the world are leaving hundreds of millions of cancer patients to suffer needlessly by not giving them adequate access to pain-relieving drugs - New data paints shocking picture of unnecessary pain on a global scale. There's an urgent need to repeal excessive restrictions.
2012-10-01,"Sweden detains Pirate Bay founder in oppressive conditions without charges, The case underscores the prime fear long expressed by Assange supporters about the Swedish justice system"
2012-10-01,How the mafia is destroying the rainforests
2012-10-01,"Muslim Rage Is About Politics, Not Religion: Muslims have good reason to be angryand its not a sophomoric movie trailer on youtube. "
2012-10-01,Critics deplore Canadas shift to the right
2012-10-01,Powerful typhoon hits Japan's mainland ...video shows cars blown over like toys
2012-10-01,1 in 10 European workers took time off for depression - survey
2012-10-01,"Iranian economy on verge of collapse, says Israel"
2012-10-01,"Amid Greeces Worries, the Rise of Right-Wing "
2012-10-01,"Aleppo's Silk Road souk burns to ashes in battle for Syrian city. Flames destroys 1,500 shops in Souk al-Madina, a world heritage site, fuelled by fabric stored beneath ancient arches"
2012-10-01,"Thousands march in Paris against 'austerity':   Chanting ""resistance"", demonstrators took to the streets of Paris on Sunday to protest against austerity policies and Europes new budget treaty, in the first major demonstration since President Franois Hollande took power four months ago. "
2012-10-01,An estimated one million children go missing in the European Union - every year.
2012-10-01,"In Italy, a comedian getting the last laugh:  Beppe Grillo, a TV comedian-turned-political phenomenon, is making much of Europe nervous. Pundits see his rise as underscoring the political uncertainty in Italy that is quickly becoming one of the biggest wild cards of the European debt crisis."
2012-10-01,BBC News - Man freed after getting his head stuck in bin in Aberdeen
2012-09-30,Maid in Dubai tries to kill herself after her employers don't pay her for 3 months. Woman is arrested for attempting suicide and fined $270.
2012-09-30,Bangladesh Muslim protesters torch Buddhist temples over Facebook photo
2012-09-30,"Afghan-Canadian mother stabs daughter for staying out past curfew. She cuddled her first-born and told her to lie on her stomach so she could give her a back massage. Then I stab her, stab her neck, she confessed. She said, No Mom! I said, Its for your good. Let me finish. "
2012-09-30,Pirate Bay Founder Remains Locked Up Without Charges - TorrentFreak
2012-09-30,"Russia told Assad to shoot down Turkish plane, murder captured pilots, 'leaked Syrian documents' show -- Devastating intelligence papers purport to prove jet was downed on Moscows orders, pilots captured alive by intelligence unit and then killed; Damascus had claimed June incident was an accident"
2012-09-30,"Finland may be first European country to halt coal use


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2012-09-30,A Muslim television preacher in Egypt will face blasphemy charges after being video-taped burning a copy of the Bible
2012-09-30,"Turkish pilots killed by Assad, not crash: leaked documents"
2012-09-30,"Islamists who pose a threat 'have no place in France', said interior minister Manuel Valls"
2012-09-30,"Tens of thousands of Australians flood the streets of Melbourne for a peace march after woman (Jill Meagher) was abducted, raped and murdered"
2012-09-30,"India launches 101st space mission, and looks to Mars:  

The mission will be carried out without international help, highlighting the growth and ambition of India's home-grown space program, which plans to launch a mission to Mars."
2012-09-30,"UK renewable energy output jumps by 42% in last year - Figures come just days after the UK set a new record for wind power output & mean the UK  on track to set a host of new renewable energy records for 2012, despite on-going concerns that policy uncertainty is harming investor confidence."
2012-09-30,Libya launches weapons collection drive:  Hundreds of Libyans voluntarily turn over their weapons after rallies calling for disbanding of militias.
2012-09-30,"A theatre in southern Russia has stopped selling tickets to the musical ""Jesus Christ Superstar"" after prosecutors launched a probe into whether it is offensive to devout Christians, officials said Saturday"
2012-09-30,Islamic group calls for ban on offending prophet
2012-09-30,"For Germans, religious membership comes with price:  Catholics, Protestants and Jews forced to pay up to 9 percent of income to participate in religious ceremonies"
2012-09-30,Russian lawmakers call for jail sentences for people guilty of offending religious feelings
2012-09-30,7.4 magnitude earthquake in southwestern Colombia
2012-09-30,"Al-Shabab abandon their last major stronghold in Somalia, Kismayo, following an assault on the town by African Union forces."
2012-09-30,Bahrain police shoot 17-year-old protester dead in new wave of Shia unrest: Police in Bahrain shot dead a teenage protester as fresh unrest swept the island kingdom 19 months after Shia protesters first took to the streets early in the Arab Spring. 
2012-09-30,Venezuelan youth could decide if Chavez remains in power
2012-09-30,"Guantanamo's last Western detainee returned to Canada
| Reuters"
2012-09-30,"Yulia Tymoshenko makes video appeal to Ukraine's voters from prison: Opposition leader beseeches country to vote out Viktor Yanukovych, who presides over a 'criminal state'
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2012-09-30,Afghan insider attack kills 2 Americans
2012-09-30,"BBC News - US military death toll in Afghanistan reaches 2,000"
2012-09-29,You really did not manage this well: Czech president Klaus to bodyguards after being shot with toy handgun.
2012-09-29,"Science and social science will be taken out of Indonesian elementary schools curriculum next year as they are deemed ""irrelevant""."
2012-09-29,"
File-Sharing for Personal Use Declared Legal in Portugal"
2012-09-29,Survey says 56% of the French think that anti-white racism is developing in France
2012-09-29,"Honest taxi driver rewarded less than $3 for returning $10,000"
2012-09-29,"""Pope Benedict's former butler went on trial on Saturday [29 September 2012] for using his intimate access to the pope's desk to steal and leak explosive documents in what he said was an attempt to clean up corruption in the Vatican."""
2012-09-29,"A new Afghan Army manual is teaching soldiers that when their Western counterparts wink at them or pat them on the back, the actions are not meant to be offensive or worthy of revenge."
2012-09-29,Philippines: 'Retweeting' is a crime under new law
2012-09-29,Kofi Annan: Tony Blair could ultimately have stopped Iraq war
2012-09-29,"4 leopards poached each week in India - Study concludes that around 2,294 leopards were poached & their parts traded over a 10-yr period, an average of 4 a week.
This cast new light on the sheer scale of the illicit trade in leopard parts, which has been overshadowed by trade in  tiger parts."
2012-09-29,"Poachers shoot & brutally dehorn 4 rare rhinoceros in India - They shot 4 Wednesday & Thursday, 2 fatally, on the edge of a national park & escaped with all 4 horns.  Rhino horn powder is coveted in some Asian countries. (With Photo)"
2012-09-29,"Rat reality show: Russian scientists to broadcast GMO experiment. After a French study suggested that rats fed on Monsanto GMO corn suffered tumors, Russian researches plan their own, this time public, experiment."
2012-09-29,"The top U.S. intelligence authority issued an unusual public statement on Friday, declaring it now believed the September 11 attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, was a ""deliberate and organized terrorist attack."""
2012-09-29,Economic slumps in Europe make people question subsidising royalty
2012-09-29,The US has removed the dissident Iranian group Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) from its terror blacklist
2012-09-29,US to Iran: Stop shipping arms to Syria
2012-09-29,"Australians suddenly richer as statistician ""finds"" $338 billion"
2012-09-29,"CAIRO (AP)  Coptic Christian families have fled their homes in a town in Egypts Sinai Peninsula, fearing for their lives after receiving death threats from suspected Islamic militants"
2012-09-29,"The Window is Closing for Riyadh - 
The oil wont last forever -- so Saudi Arabias government has to reform its economy if it wants to survive."
2012-09-29,Tunisia 'police rape' condemned
2012-09-29,"U.N. criticizes ""shrill war talk"" in Iran dispute"
2012-09-29,White House Move to Give Egypt $450 Million in Aid Meets Resistance - NYTimes.com
2012-09-29,Indias heaviest satellite GSAT-10 launched
2012-09-29,Stop calling criticism of Islam Islamophobia
2012-09-29,France wants to slap rich with 75 percent 'super-tax'
2012-09-28,"Iran news agency picks up ""Onion"" story, tells Iranians rural Americans prefer Ahmadinejad to Obama"
2012-09-28,16 year old Egyptian girl shot dead after resisting groping
2012-09-28,B.C. mayors vote to decriminalize pot
2012-09-28,Streams Of Water Once Flowed On Mars; NASA Says Photos Prove It
2012-09-28,"A second, younger looking version of the Mona Lisa has been unveiled, and it's also by Leonardo Da Vinci."
2012-09-28,"1,000 Nigerian Women Are Stuck in Saudi Arabia Airports Because Theyre Not Accompanied by the Right Kind of Men"
2012-09-28,"Melinda Gates New Crusade: Investing Billions in Women's Health
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She plans to use the Gates Foundations billions to revolutionize contraception worldwide. The Catholic right is pushing back. Is she ready for the political firestorm ahead?"
2012-09-28,"Radical Islamists in control of northern Mali are becoming ""increasingly repressive,"" amputating limbs, whipping people in the streets and stoning to death a couple accused of adultery, a human rights group says. "
2012-09-28,France Unveils Temporary 75 Percent Super-Rich Tax Rate
2012-09-28,"German parliament bans using laptops during the 
debates; the Pirate Party brings a typewriter"
2012-09-28,Zinedine Zidane headbutt statue unveiled in French capital
2012-09-28,Filmmaker behind anti-Islam video is arrested - latimes.com
2012-09-28,Kenya  Captures Last Islamist Bastion in Somalia
2012-09-28,"Spain announces cutbacks, tax increases: The measures, including frozen salaries for civil servants and a 9% budget cut for all government departments, are intended to save $50 billion."
2012-09-28,"Panama passes intellectual-property protection law that would allow officials to fine up to $100,000 for copyright infringements without a trial or civil suit. The legislation is meant to bring Panama into compliance with a U.S.-Panama free trade agreement
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2012-09-28,"a flight of Mt Everest tourists crashes after hitting a vulture, shortly after take off, 19 dead. "
2012-09-28,"London: First squatter jailed 12 weeks under new law for occupying flat without permission
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2012-09-28,"Israelis see no Iran war this year after 
Netanyahu's speech
| Reuters"
2012-09-28,Apple Store Opening Make Swedes Feel Awkward 
2012-09-28,French government passes a series of tax hikes that includes a temporary provision to tax its richest citizens 75% (!) in order to slash deficit.
2012-09-28,'Monster Larva' mystery solved after 200 years 
2012-09-28,List of Greek politicians suspected of corruption made public
2012-09-28,D-Day for al-Qaida in Somalia? Troops storm beaches at last stronghold 
2012-09-28,Top Gear presenters agree to deal for 3 more years
2012-09-28,"State monopoly over the cultivation, commercialization and sale of cannabis has Uruguay's stoners peeved."
2012-09-27,President Obama to United Nations: 'We Do Not Ban Blasphemy'
2012-09-27,Slavery Still Exists:  Photographs of human trafficking and enslavement around the world
2012-09-27,"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama for supporting freedom of speech in the Middle East while simultaneously ""persecuting"" his organization for leaking diplomatic cables."
2012-09-27,Japan may scrap this year's whale hunt in the Antarctic.
2012-09-27,"Uruguay has voted by a razor-thin margin to legalise abortion, becoming only the second country in Latin America to make abortions accessible to all women during the first trimester of pregnancy"
2012-09-27,"French president tells world to decriminalize homosexuality which cannot be seen as a crime  on the contrary, its the recognition of ones orientation. "
2012-09-27,US labels Assange 'enemy of state'
2012-09-27,"There Will Be No Bacon Shortage:
How a British trade association press release sent the Internet into a senseless panic."
2012-09-27,"PORTUGAL: ""Prosecutor says it's legal to copy music and movies on the Net"""
2012-09-27,"Red Bull heir pays $97,000 to family of man he is alleged to have killed with a $1M Ferrari"
2012-09-27,"Julian Assange speaks to UN via satellite from London, calls for end to 'persecution': ""It is time for the United States to cease its persecution of WikiLeaks, to cease its persecution of our people and to cease its persecution of our alleged sources"""
2012-09-27,"Its just amazing how Libor-fixing can make you that much money or lose it if opposite, he wrote. It is a cartel now in London. Royal Bank of Scotland Employee"
2012-09-27,New Zealand spy agency apologizes to Kim Dotcom for illegally spying on him. 
2012-09-27,"Cybersex now illegal in the Philippines, with penalties higher than some child pornography charges. Expressing your opinion on the internet could be punishable by law."
2012-09-27,No fix for 'Jesus rifles' deploying to Afghanistan - U.S. military issued rifle scopes bearing New Testament Bible verses still in circulation years after correction was ordered
2012-09-27,Radical Muslim being prosecuted for violating Egypt's blasphemy laws by tearing up an English copy of the Bible
2012-09-27,Japan hangs cult leader responsible for 6 murders
2012-09-27,"Libyan who captured Qaddafi tortured, killed
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2012-09-27,Nuclear hypocrisy in Middle East? Does Israel enjoy a double standard when it comes to nuclear ambitions in the Middle East?
2012-09-27,"A First Victory for Tunisian Women, The Term Complementary to Men, Replaced with Equality in Controversial Article of the New Constitution."
2012-09-27,"Aussie Aid Worker's Family Angry With  Foreign Affairs Dept  - 
Mother of aid worker wants help freeing daughter, who was stopped at Libya airport for questioning.  Though not arrested, she can't leave.  Her family thinks it's connected to rumors she was sexually assaulted by a Libyan official."
2012-09-27,Pope is both victim and supreme judge in trial of ex-butler accused of leaking documents
2012-09-27,BBC News - North Korea's Ryugyong 'Hotel of Doom' pictures released
2012-09-27,Testing is complete on a laundry detergent additive that will enable your clothes to remove nitrogen oxide traffic pollution from the air in a bid to reduce asthma and other respiratory problems in cities
2012-09-27,Backlash to the Backlash; Muslim Moderates are fighting back - Tom Friedman
2012-09-26,New comet discovered predicted to blaze brighter than the full moon next year
2012-09-26,"1.5 Million March in Barcelona demand independence from Spain over austerity, unemployment, Euro. "
2012-09-26,"""A Hong Kong tycoon has offered a $65 million 'marriage bounty' to any man who can win the heart of his lesbian daughter, a report said Wednesday [26 September 2012]."""
2012-09-26,"13 year old Filipino homeless boy wins $130,000 peace prize "
2012-09-26,Spanish Congress surrounded... Spain in full revolt over Austerity ? 
2012-09-26,Switzerland Questions Crazy Hollywood Claims About File Sharing... Ends Up On Congressional Watchlist
2012-09-26,Massive protest in Spain outside of the congress building. 
2012-09-26,Spain police fire rubber bullets at Madrid protest
2012-09-26,"Iran develops drone planes, possibly from downed American drone"
2012-09-26,French President Franois Hollande tells UN to decriminalize homosexuality around the world
2012-09-26,"""Anti-Islam film had 'nothing to do with' US Consulate attack"" -Libyan president"
2012-09-26,"Russia suspends import, use Of GM Corn made by Monsanto following a study's allegations that the crop causes cancer"
2012-09-26,Statistical model suggests widespread fraud in Russian election
2012-09-26,"Woman raped by police officers prosecuted for indecency, in Tunisia."
2012-09-26,"RBS Instant Messages Show Libor Rates Skewed for Traders.  RBS ""trader Tan Chi Min told colleagues the firm was able to move global interest rates, according to electronic messages the bank is trying to make secret."""
2012-09-26,"Europe Is Taking Online Privacy Far More Seriously Than The U.S.
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2012-09-26,Secret POW camp tapes reveal German atrocities were performed by more individuals than originally thought
2012-09-26,France set to ban the words 'mother' and 'father' from official documents
2012-09-26,Georgia's Prison Rape Scandaland What It Says About the Rose Revolution 
2012-09-26,Outrage leads Stockholm library to drop Tintin ban - The Local
2012-09-26,'Occupy Congress'- violence at protest in Madrid
2012-09-26,"Six in 10 Mexican prisons are ""self-governed"" by prison gangs or drug cartels, a new report claims. "
2012-09-26,"Australian troops dying in Afghanistan to ""defend American prestige"" & it's difficult to justify continued involvement in the war, says former finance minister Lindsay Tanner, adding that Australia should've withdrawn long ago. "
2012-09-26,"An Oregon inmate, Bobby Jack Fowler, who died in 2006 has been confirmed as the killer of a 16-year-old B.C. hitchhiker, and may be responsible for as many as nine other slayings and disappearances along B.C.s so-called Highway of Tears"
2012-09-26,It's on. Philippine Central Bank website hacked by Anonymous in response to the passing of the Cybercrime Prevention Bill (SOPA Philippine style) that will lay the groundwork for the curtailing of internet freedom and freedom of expression as a whole
2012-09-25,"Hillary to World Leaders: Time for the Rich to Pony Up Their Taxes: You know Im out of American politics, but it is a fact that around the world, the elites of every country are making money. There are rich people everywhere. And yet they do not contribute to the growth of their own countries.""
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2012-09-25,"China launches aircraft carrier amid rising tensions with Japan
"
2012-09-25,"Iran test-fires missiles, sinks target not far from US-led international fleet. "
2012-09-25,Kim Dotcom hints at suing NZ government.
2012-09-25,"China: For Many Expats, It's Not Worth It"
2012-09-25,Israeli envoy walks out on Ahmadinejad speech at the UN but US envoys all stay.
2012-09-25,"American court orders BBC to hand over Yasser Arafat documentary footage.

Ruling raises questions about the ability of the American justice system to seize material held by media outside the United States
"
2012-09-25,"New Zealand finance minister knew spies were involved in Kim Dotcom case. Also, NZ govt signed an indemnity order which makes taxpayers liable for all costs should the Megaupload millionaire choose to sue over illicit eavesdropping."
2012-09-25,'US drone attacks are counter-productive and terrorise civilians' - Telegraph
2012-09-25,Man sentenced to one year in prison for insulting Turkish president on Facebook
2012-09-25,Bogota mayor Gustavo Petro wants to construct centers where drug addicts can consume drugs and receive treatment as part of a wider strategy to curb drug-related crime.
2012-09-25,Abu Hamza concerns raised by Queen
2012-09-25,The backbone of Africa: Entrepreneurs who refuse to quit 
2012-09-25,"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak likes Australia's national broadband network so much, hes applying for citizenship"
2012-09-25,Walmart Took Over Chile In Only Three Years And Other Countries Are Terrified
2012-09-25,Russia to Base MIG-31s in the Arctic to defend against attacks from the north.
2012-09-25,"China Tells Japan to ""Abandon Illusion"" - Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Zhijun says China ""will absolutely not tolerate any unilateral action by the Japanese that infringes on China's sovereignty"", after a long-running dispute over the Diaoyu islands caused street protests across China. "
2012-09-25,Japanese companies restore their operations in China
2012-09-25,Greece's Debt shortfall is a whopping 20 billion  far more than assumed.
2012-09-25,Austerity drives Britain to share embassies with Canada
2012-09-25,"Pro-Israel message which uses the dichotomy of ""civilized man vs. savage"" approved for New York City Metro transit. "
2012-09-25,"Bare breasts, heads high - The women of the Femen association, noted for their bare-breasted feminist demonstrations, are the best-known activists in Ukraine. But some, such as Inna Shevchenko, have been pressured into leaving the country. "
2012-09-25,Untouchable no more - Al Jazeera's The stream looks at caste and the reservation system. 
2012-09-25,This is how Day of the Triffids started...Meteors spotted across British skies
2012-09-25,Loose Nuke Smugglers Caught With Uranium - ABC News
2012-09-24,"After 11 years in Guantanamo, a man who was never charged with any crime, and was recommended twice for release has been found dead."
2012-09-24,"This week, the United Nations will consider criminalizing Blasphemy in response to growing pressure from the Muslim World. "
2012-09-24,"Egyptian atheist arrested on blasphemy charges, after being molested by an angry mob."
2012-09-24,"The relaxation of cannabis laws shows the failure of the war on drugs: Uruguay's president, realising that prohibition has failed, wants to go further than others by legalising cannabis"
2012-09-24,Several faith leaders across England have told people with HIV to stop taking their life-saving drugs.
2012-09-24,27-Year old in Greece arrested For blaspheming a monk on Facebook. The arrest was agitated by the neonazi political party Golden Dawn.
2012-09-24,"Bo Xilai scandal: The Chinese police chief who blew the whistle on the murder of Neil Heywood, toppling one of China's most prominent political families, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison"
2012-09-24,The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal
2012-09-24,Report: Riots break out at Foxconn factory in China
2012-09-24,Japan protests as Chinese ships enter disputed waters
2012-09-24,Father sells off rape victim following village meeting
2012-09-24,Google and Gmail blocked in Iran as it moves to establish a nation-wide intranet
2012-09-24,"79 Irish politicians have signed a statement supporting the SV Estelle, a ship now on its way to break Israels blockade of Gaza and call for immediate end to the siege."
2012-09-24,Kim Dotcom was illegally spied on by Agency.
2012-09-24,Report: Iran mulls 'pre-emptive attack' against Israel; commander warns of 'World War III'
2012-09-24,Everything a Chinese family owns lined up in a row and photographed. 
2012-09-24,New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has called for an inquiry into the possible unlawful interception of Kim Doctom-related communications by members of the NZ intelligence community
2012-09-24,"More than 1,000 people are now being killed in Syria every week -""Eyes wide shut, world watches Syria bleed"""
2012-09-24,Iran set to block access to Google
2012-09-24,Germany Losing Patience With Spain as EU Warns on Crisis - Bloomberg
2012-09-24,"North Korea plans to allow farmers to keep more of their produce in an attempt to boost agricultural output, a source with close ties to Pyongyang and Beijing said, in a move that could boost supplies, help cap rising food prices and ease malnutrition."
2012-09-24,"
Kim Dotcom: New Zealand to investigate unlawful spying: PM orders inquiry into actions of government agents in lead-up to arrest of Megaupload founder, who is fighting US extradition
"
2012-09-24,"Outbreak of virus in SARS family has WHO on alert.
Coronavirus confirmed in Saudi Arabia"
2012-09-24,"
Iran: Attack Could Trigger World War III: With tensions high, US leads massive military minesweeping exercise in Persian Gulf "
2012-09-24,"""When Satire Conquered Iran"" -- some vintage Iranian satire"
2012-09-23,"Mes Aynak, site of the Buddhist statues, has survived for thousands of years from looters and even the Taliban but a Chinese mining company is set to destroy it this December"
2012-09-23,"India slowly confronts epidemic of missing children - Every six minutes, a child goes missing in India."
2012-09-23,"Wikipedia honcho caught in scandal quits, defends paid edits: High-placed editors at Wikipedia's U.K. site were caught in a simmering paid-PR scandal. After news broke, one resignation and a little backpedaling has done little to solve the problem"
2012-09-23,The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal
2012-09-23,Italys highest criminal court upheld the guilty verdict of 23 Americans in connection with the CIAs extraordinary rendition program.
2012-09-23,"Iranian Women Banned From 77 College Majors, Including Accounting, Counselling, & Engineering - International rights groups protest as 36 universities begin the ban, raising questions about the rights of women to education in Iran"
2012-09-23,Iran discovered listening device near nuclear site --- disguised as a rock
2012-09-23,"
UK Crackdown On Millionaires Who Dodge Taxes: ""The wealthiest did best in the boom years and it is right they should pay more now,"" says the Treasury Chief Secretary"
2012-09-23,Australian Catholic Church admits child abuse:  State of Victoria confirms that more than 600 children have been sexually abused by Catholic priests since the 1930s.
2012-09-23,Cranks and crazies have taken over GOP: Australian official
2012-09-23,"The United States has denied visas to about 20 Iranian government officials hoping to attend next week's United Nations General Assembly, including two ministers, Iran's Fars news agency reported on Saturday."
2012-09-23,Libya leader Magarief vows to disband illegal militias
2012-09-23,"Libyan Army issues ultimatum to militias responsible for Embassy killings: Leave in 48 hours, or we will use force"
2012-09-23,"Protesters at U.S. consulate in Toronto demand government action against anti-Islamic movie:  ""The Muslims, united, will never be defeated,"" a crowd of roughly 1,500 chanted as they protested against an anti-Islamic film and denounced the inaction of the U.S. and Canadian governments. "
2012-09-23,Valencia: A Spanish city drowning in debt which is now running out of prescription medicine
2012-09-23,Elephants Dying in Epic Frenzy as Ivory Fuels Wars and Profits
2012-09-23,"Most Greeks feel new austerity measures are unfair: An overwhelming majority of Greeks believe new austerity measures the government has promised its international lenders in exchange for more financial aid are unfair and hurt the poorest sections of society, a poll showed on Saturday."
2012-09-23,"U.S. bans 20 Iran officials from travel to U.N. assembly
| Reuters"
2012-09-23,"Pakistan official offers $100,000 reward for killing of maker of anti-Prophet Muhammad film - World News"
2012-09-23,"""When I saw the skull, the hair on the back of my neck stood up"" -  As archaeologists leave the Leicester car park where they believe they've found Richard III, locals are already convinced it's the last Plantagenet, who rode out Aug 22, 1485 a king & returned a naked corpse slung over  a horse."
2012-09-23,"El Salvador in Battle Against Tide - 
Rising sea levels & deforestation have destroyed mangrove crops villagers depend on to survive. No one knows how long it'll take before waves reach their homes. Logging has left 2% of the original forests, resulting in flash floods. "
2012-09-23,Le Pen calls for ban on veils and skullcaps in public:   Wearing the full face-covering veil is already banned in public places in France and now the leader of Frances far-right National Front party wants this to apply to all veils as well as Jewish skullcaps. 
2012-09-23,"""Montreal student protest calls for free tuition"" - CBC Montreal"
2012-09-23,Spy rock explodes near secret Iranian nuclear compound.
2012-09-23,"REUTERS: Iranian hackers have repeatedly attacked Bank of America, JPMorgan, Citi over the past year"
2012-09-22,"A synchronized, 1 million person toilet flush is planned to clear a backed-up sewer system in Zimbabwe"
2012-09-22,"""Hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators marched in Benghazi and overtook the headquarters of a radical Islamist group tied to the attack."""
2012-09-22,In Quebec It's Official: Mass Movement Leads to Victory for Students: '...newly elected Premier Pauline Marois announced that the government was cancelling the proposed tuition hike that led to the student uprising and nullifying the contentious Bill 78 law.'
2012-09-22,"Libyans march against militias. Around 30,000  marched through Benghazi on Friday in an unprecedented protest to demand the disbanding of powerful militias in the wake of last week's attack that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans."
2012-09-22,"""Muslim, let's get naked"": Ukraine-based activist group Femen Opens First Office Abroad in Paris. For the opening, the women ran half-naked through a predominantly Muslim neighborhood in the French capital."
2012-09-22,Cenk: Iceland Arresting Bankers Works! Economy Growing Faster Than EU Now
2012-09-22,"EU Officials Propose Internet Cops On Patrol, No Anonymity & No Obscure Languages (Because Terrorism!)"
2012-09-22,"Facebook party invite sparks riot in Haren, Netherlands"
2012-09-22,"Salman Rushdie on protests: ""Whats happening is a product of the outrage machine. Yes, theres this stupid film...and the correct response to a stupid film on YouTube is to say its a stupid film on YouTube, and get on with your life."""
2012-09-22,gangnam dance-off leads to gang war in Bangkok
2012-09-22,"Pakistan government minister announces $100,000 bounty on anti-Islam filmmaker "
2012-09-22,"Publishing of Japan-related books banned in Beijing, China"
2012-09-22,Australian church admits child sex abuse - the Roman Catholic Church in the Australian state of Victoria confirms that more than 600 children have been sexually abused by priests since the 1930s.
2012-09-22,"Protesters seek to disband Libya militias - Protesters mourned the killing of the US envoy, waving signs that read, ""The ambassador was Libya's friend"" and ""Libya lost a friend""."
2012-09-22,Judge who sentenced woman to 8 years in prison for performing her own late stage abortion is linked to conservative Christian charity
2012-09-22,Pro-democracy protesters overtake Islamist group's HQ in Benghazi
2012-09-22,"Dying for Ivory:  In response to a massive rise in demand, poachers have eliminated two rhino subspecies and nearly a third species, killed 25000 African elephants, and sparked violent conflicts with rangers.  The clock is ticking on the world's remaining megafauna.  "
2012-09-22,Shell sues Greenpeace to stop Arctic protests
2012-09-22,"330 military officers, including the former air force and navy chiefs, found guilty of plotting to overthrow the Islamic-based Turkish government in 2003, in a case that has helped curtail the militarys hold on politics."
2012-09-22,"Iraq has denied permission to a North Korean plane bound for Syria to pass through Iraqi airspace on Saturday because it suspects it could be carrying weapons, a senior official said on Friday."
2012-09-22,"19 Reported Dead in Pakistan at the end of the ""Day of love for the Prophet"", the protest day that was sanctioned by the government itself"
2012-09-22,Chuck Norris bridge denied: Slovakia govt favors history name over populism
2012-09-22,The Catholic Church in one Australian state has revealed that at least 620 children have been abused by its clergy since the 1930s
2012-09-22,Iran blamed for cyberattacks on U.S. banks and companies - The Washington Post
2012-09-22,Afghanistan banned all Pakistani newspapers from entering the country on Friday to block the Taliban from influencing public opinion
2012-09-21,"Egypt's mufti urges Muslims to endure insults peacefully. Muslims angered by cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating, Egypt's highest Islamic legal official said on Thursday"
2012-09-21,"Italian Scientists Find 6,500-Yr-Old Filling in Human Tooth Embedded in Cave Wall -  While analyzing a fossilized jaw & several teeth, they found a vertical crack filled with beeswax in the enamel & dentin of 1 tooth. This is the earliest direct evidence of therapeutic dental filling."
2012-09-21,"Australia's Treasurer Wayne Swan ""has launched a blistering attack on US Republicans, declaring ""cranks and crazies"" have taken over the party and have come to represent the No 1 threat to the world's biggest economy."""
2012-09-21,"Poorest president, the president of Uruguay, Jos Mujica, donates 90% of his salary "
2012-09-21,"France's Le Pen urges ban on Muslim, Jewish headwear"
2012-09-21,Three people were killed and dozens injured on a holiday declared by Pakistan's government so people could rally against the video
2012-09-21,South Korea navy 'fires at North Korea fishing boats'
2012-09-21,"More than two years after her daughter went missing, a mother spots her child along with the abductor"
2012-09-21,Suspected child murderers lynched in Guatemala [NSFL pics]
2012-09-21,"Sweden's waste recycling program ""too successful."" Imports waste from neighboring countries"
2012-09-21,Pakistani police shoot rioters protesting anti-Islam film
2012-09-21,South Korea fires warning shots at North Korean fishing boats 
2012-09-21,"Muslims angered by cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammad should follow his example of enduring insults without retaliating, Egypt's highest Islamic legal official said on Thursday"
2012-09-21,"French Muslim leader urges calm as Mohammad cartoons republished:  The main agency representing Muslims in France appealed for calm on Friday as a new print run of cartoons featuring a naked Prophet Mohammad hit newsstands, raising fears of protests on prayers day around the Islamic world."
2012-09-21,U.S. Says Disputed Islands Covered by Japan Defense Treaty
2012-09-21,UAE calls for Middle East nuclear weapons free zone 
2012-09-21,US ends ban on New Zealand naval ship visits
2012-09-21,Cuba: US embargo failed policy
2012-09-21,How China is trying to capitalize on global warming
2012-09-21,Last of Obama 'surge' troops leave Afghanistan
2012-09-21,KFC closes restaurants in Pakistan amid protests
2012-09-21,Use of heavy weaponry against Syrian civilians is unmatched by any modern state fighting its own people. 
2012-09-21,"Last of 33,000 US surge troops leave Afghanistan"
2012-09-21,Women raped by Sinai traffickers find help: Human traffickers raped Tegisti Tekla often during her long journey via Sudan and the Sinai to Israel. She shares her ordeal to prevent others from enduring the same fate.
2012-09-21,More Protests In Muslim Nations; Some Violence
2012-09-20,"Uruguay Takes War on Drugs in New Direction: state monopoly over the production & distribution of marijuana, making it the 1st national government to sell cannabis directly to citizens"
2012-09-20,Mystery of the Disappearing Bees: Solved!
2012-09-20,"Girls Beat Up Iran Cleric Over Dress Code -  2 girls clobbered a cleric in a small town in Iran, when he admonished one of them to cover herself more completely."
2012-09-20,Italy's Highest Court Upholds The Convictions of 23 CIA Agents for Kidnapping a Terror Suspect in Milan - NYTimes.com
2012-09-20,China's fishing boat flotilla not actually heading for Senkaku/Diaoyu. Fishing boats were actually just going fishing.
2012-09-20,"A woman from Iran is facing deportation from Canada next Wednesday despite new evidence proving she faces an adultery charge there that, under sharia law, could result in her being stoned to death."
2012-09-20,"French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday denounced the ""unfathomable stupidity"" of Islamist radicals who destroyed Muslim shrines at Timbuktu in northern Mali. "
2012-09-20,Israeli air strike kills Hamas govt employees in Gaza
2012-09-20,Australian Senate votes down same-sex marriage 41 against 26. 
2012-09-20,'Japanese Must All Be Killed': Hate Sign in China Goes Viral -- Volkswagen AGs luxury Audi (NSU) unit asked a Chinese dealer to remove a banner advocating the murder of Japanese people
2012-09-20,Old Spanish Woman Who Ruined Jesus Fresco Now Demanding Payment
2012-09-20,"UN backs naming and shaming of governments and armed groups that recruit or attack children. UN Security Council approved the resolution over protests from Russia, China, Pakistan and Azerbaijan, which abstained from the 11-0 vote"
2012-09-20,"Islamic states to reopen quest for global blasphemy law
| Reuters"
2012-09-20,"Uruguay takes 'war on drugs' in new direction: The state as dealer -- 

The South American country is proposing a state monopoly over marijuana in part to curtail drug-related violence. But it's getting pushback  even from those in favor of legalization."
2012-09-20,China and Japan: Could Asia really go to war over these? | The Economist
2012-09-20,Why Does China Want A Mural In Oregon Destroyed?
2012-09-20,Church of Scientology is expanding abroad  this time to the Middle East.
2012-09-20,Some Religious Leaders See a Threat as Europe Grows More Secular
2012-09-20,An Australian counter protest may be in the works for the planned pro-Islam protests in Melbourne this coming Sunday
2012-09-20,Afghan suicide attacks kill skateboarding children
2012-09-20,"Greek State Tries to Stem Neo-Nazi Rise - In recent weeks the once-fringe group has organised Greeks-only food handouts & blood donations, & has ousted migrant peddlers from street markets to the delight of local operators & the outrage of authorities"
2012-09-20,Japan wants China to compensate for damages from protests
2012-09-20,Australian Medical Association president calls for legal drinking age to be lifted to 25
2012-09-20,"Russia shows USAID the door - After 20 years of working in Russia, USAID officials said they were informed by the Russian government that their services were no longer required."
2012-09-20,Law bans cybersex in Philippines
2012-09-19,France bans protests against anti-Muslim video
2012-09-19,Why British police dont have guns
2012-09-19,UK woman who falsely claimed she was raped by three men because she regretted having sex with them jailed for two years
2012-09-19,Protester dies after inhaling fumes from burning American flag
2012-09-19,French magazine to publish cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed
2012-09-19,Thousands of people in the Asian island nation of Sri Lanka have been struck by a mysterious and deadly form of kidney disease. A new study points to a likely cause: pesticides and fertilizers. 
2012-09-19,Canadian University Requires Students To Pay $180 For 'Art History' Text That Has No Photos Due To Copyright Problems
2012-09-19,French weekly fuels Mohammad row with nude cartoons- Foreign Ministry shut down everything
2012-09-19,"Libyans tried to save U.S. ambassador, video shows"
2012-09-19,Japanese firms closing China plants
2012-09-19,Report: 4 injured after explosion at kosher store in a Paris suburb
2012-09-19,"PAKISTAN: Friday Will Be A Holiday To Protest Film Mocking Islam

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2012-09-19,Georgia prisons minister resigns after revelations of inmate torture and rape
2012-09-19,"Anti-Japanese sentiments have spread to Hong Kong, Japanese couple is attacked by a Chinese man"
2012-09-19,"Hezbollah: ""The height of US hypocrisy is that no one can question the Holocaust without escaping punishment, whereas when the greatest prophet of our nation is insulted, Hillary Clinton considers that America cannot do anything about freedom of expression."""
2012-09-19,Five of the six biggest countries in the EU have called for a radical overhaul of European foreign and defence policy
2012-09-19,Cyberattacks hit 19 Japan websites amid Chinese protests
2012-09-19,There's a scramble to take control of resources exposed by melting ice.
2012-09-19,Japan Still Waiting for Chinese Fleet - As of Tuesday evening a giant flotilla hadn't materialized near the islands
2012-09-19,"A populist group in Germany wants to publicly show the anti-Islam film ""Innocence of Muslims,"" which is stoking a violent backlash across the Muslim world. Officials are reviewing whether they could ban the action, sparking a delicate debate over free speech and public order. "
2012-09-19,Britain shocked by shooting death of two unarmed female police officers
2012-09-19,"To ban or not to ban? German right-wing group to show anti-Islam film. - 

After protesters torched the German embassy in Sudan last week, a German right-wing group announced plans to screen 'Innocence of Muslims.'  Now officials are weighing a ban of the event."
2012-09-19,Iran deploys submarine in Persian Gulf
2012-09-19,Fire tornado captured on film in Australia - video | World news | guardian.co.uk
2012-09-19,Free speech or incitement? French mag runs cartoons of Prophet Mohammed 
2012-09-18,"Russia has just declassified news that will shake world gem markets to their core: the discovery of a vast new diamond field containing ""trillions of carats,"" enough to supply global markets for another 3,000 years."
2012-09-18,Canada rises to Top Five in world economic freedom ranking as U.S. plummets to 18th | Canada |
2012-09-18,Russia signs deal with North Korea to write off 90% of North Korea's $11 billion debt to Moscow
2012-09-18,Japan to prevent Chinese landing on disputed islands 'by any means'
2012-09-18,"In Africa's warm heart, a cold welcome for Chinese: As Chinese miners, merchants and laborers surf into Africa on the back of a wave of big investments, a grass-roots backlash against Beijing's increasing diplomatic and commercial clout is sweeping through the continent
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2012-09-18,"Arctic expert predicts final collapse of sea ice within four years: ""a global disaster now unfolding in northern latitudes as the sea area that freezes and melts each year shrinks to its lowest extent ever recorded,"""
2012-09-18,Billionaire calls for end to aid to poor countries
2012-09-18,Airport ditches controversial bodyscanners - Telegraph
2012-09-18,Japan Discovers Massive Rare Earth Mineral Deposits Under Pacific Ocean
2012-09-18,"Egypt issues arrest warrants for Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones, 7 others over anti-Islam film"
2012-09-18,Death of world's coral reefs could wreak global chaos.
2012-09-18,'High value' air passengers may get fast-track passport checks - UK Border Agency working on plans for priority passport lanes for rich travellers at Heathrow and other British airports
2012-09-18,How Angela Merkel's bold plan to save Europe may have just saved Barack Obama.
2012-09-18,Shell executive caught after accidentally printing child pornography at work
2012-09-18,Shell Executive Anthony Sturman Jailed for Printing Child Pornograpy at Work.
2012-09-18,Japanese coast guard warns Chinese ship near disputed islands
2012-09-18,Witness says Libyans tried to rescue U.S. ambassador Stevens after he was found in alive in consulate office
2012-09-18,UK student charged for 'grossly offensive' Facebook post - under the Malicious Communications Act of 1988: 'Azher Ahmed posted a message on his Facebook page in response to the news that six British soldiers had died in an Afghanistan IED attack.'
2012-09-18,Islamists destroy tomb of Muslim saint in Mali
2012-09-18,Pakistan Bans Youtube after it refuses to block video.
2012-09-18,"""Behead all those who insult the prophet"" sign child deemed safe as mother talks to police"
2012-09-18,Iran says explosives cut power line to nuclear site
2012-09-18,"After 45 deaths and a six week strike, mine workers in South Africa finally accept pay rise offer"
2012-09-18,"US diplomats at the embassy in Beirut, Lebanon are burning classified material as a precaution as anti-American protests spread to Lebanon."
2012-09-18,Irish Army's elite deployed to protect humanitarian cargo ships from Somali pirates in Aden 
2012-09-17,"France Says No to Genetically Modified Crops, No to Fracking: the ban specifically targets Monsanto's MON810 maize, as it is the only GMO currently allowed in Europe"
2012-09-17,Japan's ambassador to China mysteriously dies in Tokyo 
2012-09-17,Salman Rushdie: 'Satanic Verses would not be published today' and would be censored to appease Islam
2012-09-17,Myanmar frees all political prisoners
2012-09-17,Search starts for mother of young child in photograph holding sign 'Behead all those who insult the prophet' during Muslim riots in Sydney.
2012-09-17,OPEC is investing in solar power so they don't have to use their oil to refine more oil.
2012-09-17,Japan tooth patch could be end of decay
2012-09-17,Ex-Mossad Chief: Attack On Iran 'Stupidest Idea I've Ever Heard'
2012-09-17,Germany bars US pastor Terry Jones (the crazy one who burnt the Koran)
2012-09-17,"Amid Japan China row, United States and Japan announce joint Missile Defense Program"
2012-09-17,Key evidence in Assange case dissolves
2012-09-17,An armada of US and British naval power is massing in the Persian Gulf in the belief that Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike against Irans suspected nuclear weapons programme.
2012-09-17,"Pirate Bay Founder Officially Arrested For Tax Hack, Denies Accusations
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2012-09-17,Iran confirms it has forces in Syria and will take military action if pushed
2012-09-17,"17 Men Found Shot &  Tied Up in Chains in Mexico - Witnesses say  people in trucks stopped along a road & tossed the bodies out.  At least 60,000 have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since 2006.

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2012-09-17,"Time running out to save coral reefs, scientists say: Around 70 per cent of corals are expected to suffer from long-term degradation by 2030, even if strict emission cuts are enforced, according to the study




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2012-09-17,Panasonic closes China plants after violent protests 
2012-09-17,Growing tension between China and Japan fuels concerns over potential war
2012-09-17,"Berlin residents unhappy with ""visiting hipsters"""
2012-09-17,Government hands keys to Senkaku Islands to Japan Coast Guard 
2012-09-17,"China claims most of South China Sea based on it existing on ancient maps, even though some are less than 20 miles from another country's main shorelines"
2012-09-17,China tensions force Japanese companies to retreat
2012-09-17,50 arrested over US envoy killing in Libya
2012-09-17,Mysterious tourist deaths in Asia prompt poison probe - CNN.com
2012-09-17,Amanpour shoots down Brian Ross claim that Iran four weeks away from nuclear weapons
2012-09-16,Forensic experts have failed to find crucial DNA evidence in the sexual assault case against Julian Assange
2012-09-16,"Insurgents posing as US troops attacked an air base in Afghanistan - they killed two US Marines and destroyed six Harrier jets, but failed to kill Prince Harry"
2012-09-16,"""A member of the Afghan police... bandaged his leg and pretended that he needed medical help; he shot the two British soldiers with a pistol when they came to his aid"""
2012-09-16,"Iranian film depicts Jews as money-hungry Arab-killers. Saturday Hunter, screened on Iranian TV, tells the story of a boy and his grandfather as they steal land from Arabs and execute civilians"
2012-09-16,Over 100 arrested in protest of anti-Islam film outside U.S. embassy in Paris
2012-09-16,US withdraws diplomats from Tunisia and Sudan
2012-09-16,Panasonic Plant in China on Fire as Anti-Japan Protests Escalate
2012-09-16,"Woolworths South Africa boycotted over ""Whites need not apply"" campaign against hiring white employees"
2012-09-16,Iran foundation boosts bounty to kill Rushdie
2012-09-16,Assange gets an Aboriginal passport: 
2012-09-16,Scientists shocked after Canadian government assigns IT staff to monitor ozone data
2012-09-16,The Incredible Muslim Hulk proves to be no friend of Islam either
2012-09-16,"China willing to risk a ""minor conflict"" over its territorial dispute with Japan"
2012-09-16,Iran acknowledges it has troops in Syria
2012-09-16,Four Nato troops killed by 'Afghan police' while trying to stop an insurgent attack on a police checkpoint
2012-09-16,"Protests against desecration of Quran leads to 6 dead and 12 injured in Ghaziabad, India"
2012-09-16,"Sunday, Sep. 16, 2012:
Nishimiya, Japan's ambassador to China, dies"
2012-09-16,"U.S. won't tolerate efforts to harm Americans: Obama
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2012-09-16,Israel: War with Iran is not imminent. 
2012-09-16,Malaysia Holds Seminars on How to Spot Gay Children 
2012-09-16,Afghanistan: Nato air strike 'kills eight women in Laghman'.
2012-09-16,Questions Abound as China Unveils Another Stealth Jet
2012-09-16,Anti-Putin protest draws tens of thousands - Yahoo! News
2012-09-16,"Khmer Rouge ex-minister Ieng Thirith, 80, released - She was released after the genocide tribunal in Cambodia ruled she's unfit to stand trial.  She was the most powerful woman among the Khmer Rouge, during which 2,000,000 people died between  1975-1979.
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2012-09-16,"Libya identifies 50 involved in U.S. attack: official
| Reuters"
2012-09-15,289 Pakistan workers die in factory fire- doors were locked to prevent workers from leaving early
2012-09-15,Why Is The Muslim World So Easily Offended?
2012-09-15,"Sydney protest erupts over 'insulting' Islam film (Australia)
"
2012-09-15,"Iraq police persecute, rape, murder homosexuals."
2012-09-15,"Attack on one of largest American military base in Afghanistan, Camp Leatherneck, 2 marines dead"
2012-09-15,Czech Republic declares state of prohibition starting today. Alcohol beverages containing deadly amounts of methanol are being illegally distributed resulting in 20 deaths already. The government has shut down all alcohols sales nationwide. 
2012-09-15,Benghazi airport shut down as heavy anti-aircraft fire targets U.S drones
2012-09-15,Toronto Hindu group plans to screen controversial Prophet Mohammad film  with heavy security
2012-09-15,"Tunisias governing moderate Islamist party condemned an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Tunis and the neighboring American school, saying such violence threatens the countrys progress toward democracy after decades of dictatorship"
2012-09-15,"Edmonton teacher who gave 0s for unsubmitted work 
fired"
2012-09-15,Muslim protestors clash with police in Sydney.
2012-09-15,Inside the strange Hollywood scam that spread chaos across the Middle East: A group of rightwing extremists aimed to destabilize post-Mubarak Egypt and roil US politicians. They got their wish
2012-09-15,"Coptic Christians in Egypt preparing for backlash -- ""The reaction in Egypt is going to be terrible"""
2012-09-15,20 Muslim countries attack U. S. embassies.
2012-09-15,"The Czech Republic indefinitely banned all sales of 
liquor with more than 20 percent alcohol on Friday 
after 19 people died from drinking bootleg vodka 
and rum containing poisonous methanol"
2012-09-15,"The Obama administration is flatly denying a blaring British newspaper report that the U.S. diplomats in Libya were killed as a result of a continuing security breach, and that credible information about possible attacks had been ignored."
2012-09-15,"'We'd do anything for Israel, but we don't do that,' say Mossad's female secret weapons: For the first time in Israeli history, five agents have been allowed to give interviews
"
2012-09-15,"No protest before Benghazi attack, wounded Libyan guard says"
2012-09-15,Anti-Japan protests in China over disputed islands swell and turn violent
2012-09-15,"Mohammed Film Protests Spread To Jordan, Thousands Chant Listen Obama, All Of Us Are Osama"
2012-09-15,EXCLUSIVE: Panetta says Pentagon Pre-positioning Forces for Additional Unrest
2012-09-15,"2 dead, 40 injured in Tunis as protesters storm US Embassy, set fire to American school"
2012-09-15,"Ambassador's killing: US scrambles to rush spies, drones to Libya - The Times of India"
2012-09-15,Muslim Protests Spread Across the Globe [pics]
2012-09-15,All current muslim protests mapped
2012-09-14,"U.S. Embassy calls out Muslim Brotherhood over contradiction between the Brotherhoods Arabic and English Twitter postings.  English feed: ""hope US-Eg relations will sustain turbulence of Tuesday's events."" Arabic feed: Egyptians revolt for the Prophets victory in front of U.S. embassy."
2012-09-14,"Protesters try to storm German, British embassies in 
Sudan"
2012-09-14,"Maker of Anti-Muslim movie is not Israeli-American, but a Coptic Christian previously convicted of bank fraud."
2012-09-14,Report: German embassy in Sudan on fire
2012-09-14,Arab Spring nations don't yet grasp freedom of dissent - CNN.com
2012-09-14,"Protests have been reported today in Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Qatar, Kashmir, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Sudan and Afghanistan."
2012-09-14,"Protestors torch KFC in Tripoli, Lebanon (PHOTOS)"
2012-09-14,China calls Romney's accusations 'as false as they are foolish' 
2012-09-14,EU working on consumer labels for Israeli settlement products. Denmark is spearheading an EU initiative to help consumers boycott Israeli settlement products.
2012-09-14,Six Chinese ships enter Japanese waters
2012-09-14,"Hundreds of Muslim protesters storm German embassy in Sudan, raise Islamic flag"
2012-09-14,Protesters set fire to American School in Tunis - Reuters Reports
2012-09-14,Toronto group says it wants to screen controversial anti-Islam film - The Glo
2012-09-14,United States 'warned of Libya embassy attack but did nothing'
2012-09-14,Scottish wildcat to be extinct within months
2012-09-14,Japan warns its citizens in China after another round of assaults
2012-09-14,Protesters Attack US Embassy in Tunis.
2012-09-14,"Egypt, hearing from Obama, moves to heal rift from protests. A blunt phone call from President Obama prompted Egyptian leaders to scramble Thursday to try to repair the countrys alliance with Washington"
2012-09-14,Bosnian politician uploads porn to his web site in the hopes of improving his electoral prospects
2012-09-14,Anti-US protests spread across the Middle East
2012-09-14,US embassy under attack in Tunisia. 
2012-09-14,U.K. surveillance goes too far by putting cameras in school bathrooms
2012-09-14,Somali president survives assassination attempt - Video
2012-09-14,Topless Kate photos in French mag upset UK royals
2012-09-14,Man behind anti-Islam film reportedly is Egyptian-born ex-con
2012-09-13,Up to 10 Libyans were also killed or wounded defending the US cousulate
2012-09-13,"Dalai Lama tells his Facebook friends that religion ""is no longer adequate"""
2012-09-13,Iraqi government arresting gay men and lesbians and handing them over to Islamist militias
2012-09-13,"Diplomat Killed in Libya playing MMO, tells other gamers: Hope I 'Don't Die Tonight'"
2012-09-13,"A clash of civilizations? Not really. Egyptians and Libyans denounce ""extremist"" fringe responsible for attacks on US missions in their countries."
2012-09-13,"It'd appear that ""Sam Bacile,"" the man behind the anti-Islam film that sparked riots in Libya and Egypt, lied about his identity and is really Nakoula Basseley Nakoula."
2012-09-13,"WHO: ebola outbreak out of control in Congo, risks spreading to major towns"
2012-09-13,"Report indicates Libyan attack has hallmarks of a professional job, not a riot."
2012-09-13,There may be no anti-Islamic movie at all - CSMonitor.com
2012-09-13,Russian Prime Minister Medvedev says Pussy Riot should be freed
2012-09-13,US officials say the Pentagon is moving 2 warships toward Libyan coast.
2012-09-13,"Post-embassy attack, Egyptian President Morsi's silence deafening:  

President Mohamed Morsi, who still faces enormous skepticism as Egypt's first Islamist president, squandered an opportunity to reassure the international community that Egypt is stable."
2012-09-13,World's first colour moving pictures discovered
2012-09-13,Egypt to take legal action in U.S. against Prophet film makers
2012-09-13,Yemen protesters storm US embassy - live coverage
2012-09-13,"US Diplomat killed in Libya told fellow gamers: ""Assuming we dont die tonight. We saw one of our police that guard the compound taking pictures."
2012-09-13,'This Does Not Represent Us': Moving Photos of Pro-American Rallies in Libya - Politics - The Atlantic Wire
2012-09-13,Film That Stoked Mideast Violence Has Murky Parentage - NYTimes.com
2012-09-13,"Iranians protesting infront of the Swiss Embassy in Teheran, Iran "
2012-09-13,"Film That Stoked Mideast Violence Has Murky Parentage: Director ""Sam Basile"" may not even exist, but producer Steve Klein and promoter Terry Jones have long history of anti-choice and anti-Muslim activism"
2012-09-13,BBC News - US embassy in Yemen stormed in film protest
2012-09-13,"Chris Stevens died at the hands of militants, not an offended mob
"
2012-09-13,Yemeni protesters storm U.S. embassy in Sanaa: witnesses
2012-09-13,U.S. sending warships to Libyan coast after consulate attack
2012-09-13,Tepid response from Egypt government may be bigger concern for US than events in Libya.
2012-09-12,"US ambassador and 3 staff members killed in an attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya"
2012-09-12,Drunk North Korean man floats to South Korea
2012-09-12,"For the first time, White House declines Netanyahu request to meet with Obama"
2012-09-12,Egypt Protesters Attack U.S. Embassy In Cairo
2012-09-12,Witnesses say an armed mob has attacked the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi and set fire to the building in what they say was a protest at a film deemed offensive to Islam's Prophet Muhammad.
2012-09-12,Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for 3 members of punk band Pussy Riot to be freed
2012-09-12,Hillsborough Report reveals police dramatically altered 164 police statements (including removing 116 comments about policing) revolving around the death of 96 football fans
2012-09-12,1.5 million turn out in Barcelona in rally for independence from Spain.
2012-09-12,US ambassador to Libya 'killed in attack on Benghazi consulate'
2012-09-12,Report: Maker of anti-Islamic film 'Innocence of Muslims' goes into hiding
2012-09-12,U.S. to send Marines to Libya to bolster security
2012-09-12,"Catalan independence rally brings Barcelona to a standstill: Surge in secessionist sentiment surprises regional government as Madrid dismisses 'big gesture'
"
2012-09-12,CCTV cameras being used in more than 200 schools changing rooms and toilets across Britain
2012-09-12,"Attack in Libya planned, protest used as diversion, U.S. sources say"
2012-09-12,A News International executive who admitted that the company had destroyed computers and deleted emails during the phone hacking scandal has been promoted by Rupert Murdoch.
2012-09-12,Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused his country's enemies of enacting a sinister plan to create a drought by somehow destroying the rain clouds before they reach Iran
2012-09-12,"Assange threatened to sue film festival if they showed a documentary film on Wikileaks called ""WikiLeaks: Secrets and Lies"""
2012-09-12,Afghanistan bans YouTube over anti-Islam film
2012-09-12,Japan:Scientists sound alarm on plan to bury nuclear waste
2012-09-12,"Benjamin Netanyahu has denounced American and British efforts to restrain Israel from striking Iran, saying that no-one had a ""moral right"" to prevent his country from acting against a mortal threat. "
2012-09-12,"""You have to stop being gay, otherwise we will kill you."" Homosexuals in Iraq face death threats from family, neighbors, police."
2012-09-12,Israel distances itself from Prophet Muhammad film
2012-09-12,MI6 boss 'visited Israeli Prime Minister to urge against attacking Iran' - Telegraph
2012-09-12,China Says No Questioning Its Sovereignty Over South China Sea 
2012-09-12,"Netanyahu denied White House meeting - The White House has reportedly rejected a request by Binyamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, to meet President Barack Obama in the US later this month."
2012-09-11,"

South Korea rejects creationist interference in school textbooks"
2012-09-11,Anonymous takes down Godaddy.com
2012-09-11,WikiLeaks releases 32k Syria emails
2012-09-11,India to back Palestine's full UN membership bid
2012-09-11,Loving dog dies saving suicidal owner from train tracks.
2012-09-11,"China tries to persuade the city of Corvallis, Oregon to force a businessman to remove a mural from his downtown building."
2012-09-11,"US drug addiction impedes Mexican growth - President Calderon: 'stated that the US was the root cause of the drugs war that has claimed over 50,000 lives in Mexico.'"
2012-09-11,Russia sets 'super goal' of establishing Moon base
2012-09-11,"Jerusalem police announced that over they past month they uncovered a massive weapons cache inside a vegetable shop in east Jerusalem, with dozens of weapons, ammunition, pipe bombs, Hamas literature, and a quarter of a million shekels."
2012-09-11,"Mysterious absence of top Chinese official latest Communist Party woe: Presumptive new leader Xi Jinping not seen since September 1, missing scheduled meetings with foreign dignitaries"
2012-09-11,"French homosexuals will be able to adopt children in the same conditions as heterosexual couples in the new gay marriage law proposed by the French government (article in translated French, sorry)"
2012-09-11,"""The supervision of Kosovo is finished"" - Kosovo declared 'fully independent'"
2012-09-11,Scientology threatens Vanity Fair over Tom Cruise 'auditions' claims
2012-09-11,Andy Murray becomes first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a Grand Slam singles title.
2012-09-11,"Australia Determined to Stop Dutch Super-Trawler From Fishing in its Waters by Immediately Changing  Environmental Protection Laws - There's never been a fishing vessel of this capacity in Australia before. There are risks to environment, commercial operators &  everyone who loves fishing."" "
2012-09-11,A rare scarab amulet newly unearthed in Tel Aviv reveals the ancient Egyptian presence in this modern Israeli city.
2012-09-11,Suicide bombing at Turkey police station kills 1
2012-09-11,"Somalia, after two decades of war, has taken a major step toward stability  electing an activist leader as president."
2012-09-11,Russian Authorities' Shocking Nighttime Demolition of a Pentecostal Church in Moscow - Forbes
2012-09-11,"Oregon town angers China with mural on Taiwan, Tibet"
2012-09-11,Violence continues in Kenya's Tana river area despite a dusk-to-dawn curfew after the deaths of about 100 people in weeks of clashes
2012-09-11,Bin Laden raid doctor Shakil Afridi speaks out
2012-09-11,"Channel 4 cancels controversial screening of Islam: 
The Untold Story documentary after presenter Tom 
Holland is threatened"
2012-09-11,Stowaway plunges to death from plane in residential street under Heathrow flight path  - Telegraph
2012-09-11,"Where is China's Vice President Xi Jinping? - 

The strange disappearance from public view of China's heir apparent Vice President Xi Jinping has puzzled observers."
2012-09-10,Caribbean coral reefs face collapse.  Only 8% showing live coral cover.
2012-09-10,Man wakes up from coma after 7 years after given sleeping pill
2012-09-10,Declassified documents add to proof that US helped cover up 1940 Soviet massacre
2012-09-10,"A top story today on Australia's public broadcaster: 
Academics advise legalizing marijuana and 
ecstasy,nationally."
2012-09-10,"French newspaper to France's richest man: ""Get lost, you rich bastard"""
2012-09-10,"It Keeps Growing:  41,000 South African Miners Go on Strike -  They say   they're getting desperate & do not have enough money to feed their families because of the no-work, no-pay strike.  But they remain resolute & won't return to work until their wage demand is met. 


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2012-09-10,China's next president injured.  Rumored to be assassination attempt.
2012-09-10,Hong Kong citizens to China: We refuse your propaganda.
2012-09-10,"Slaughtering Of Elephants Is Soaring Because Of China's Demand For Ivory - because of the economy in China, there is a huge middle class that is able to afford ivory. For the first time in history, hundreds of millions of Chinese, who have always liked ivory, are able to buy it."
2012-09-10,"Japan minister Matsushita found dead at home in 
possible suicide: police | The Japan Times Online"
2012-09-10,America's refusal to extradite Bolivia's ex-president to face genocide charges
2012-09-10,"
A Roman parade cavalry helmet that fetched over 2.2 million at auction after unearthed by a metal detector enthusiast in a Cumbrian field is going on display for 1st time - With its curls & face mask, it has a ''hauntingly impassive expression'' & is a ""great masterpiece of Roman metalwork.""  
"
2012-09-10,Indian cartoonist arrested on sedition charges after criticizing government corruption
2012-09-10,Canadian citizen age 30 arrested while visiting Israel for not serving in IDF 13 years ago; to stand trial as deserter
2012-09-10," ""It smells of chemicals and it gives you a headache, Sometimes I feel like vomiting""...  Fifteen-year-old Elena goes up and down the rows removing flowers from tobacco plants for 12 or more hours a day."
2012-09-10,"Devastated Mexican father asks: Why did my son have to die for the US's failed ""war on drugs""?"
2012-09-10,SA miners 'killed while trying to surrender'. Witnesses allege police brutality in shooting of striking miners at Marikana mine last month that left 34 people dead.
2012-09-10,"France's richest man denies tax exile bid - LVMH boss Bernard Arnault says he is not becoming a tax exile, despite seeking Belgian nationality as Paris moves to impose a 75% wealth tax."
2012-09-10,"Indian family launch court action for return of Koh-i-Noor diamond:  The descendants of the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, who was forced to hand over the Koh-i-Noor diamond to Queen Victoria, will on Monday launch a court action for his body and possessions to be returned to India. "
2012-09-10,Iraq vice-president sentenced to death amid deadly wave of insurgent attacks
2012-09-10,"Study finds that in total s, it was the educated middle-class that avoided the most taxes in Greece."
2012-09-10,"Hundreds of Palestinians attack Jewish village while chanting ""slaughter the Jews"""
2012-09-10,"Can Israel Surprise Iran? Maybe Not: Years of public speculation, much of it stoked by official statements in Israel and abroad, about the likelihood and timing of such a conflict have afforded the Iranians plenty of notice to fortify their threatened nuclear facilities and prepare retaliation."
2012-09-10,Former German first lady battles red-light rumors: Sues Google
2012-09-10,"Yet Again, Congo Faces The Specter Of Civil War : NPR"
2012-09-09,French surgeon returning from Aleppo says half of rebels are non-Syrians wishing to set up an Islamic state with sharia law to become part of the world Emirate
2012-09-09,"Putin Says Missile Deal Is More Likely With Obama: ...praising President Obama as a very honest man and chastising the Republican nominee, Mitt Romney, for describing Russia as without question our No. 1 geopolitical foe."
2012-09-09,"Javan rhino clings to survival in last forest stronghold: There are only 35 rhinos left in one wild population, and none in captivity"
2012-09-09,"Philippines' 14-year fight for birth control: National surveys show 65-70% of Filipinos support the Reproductive Health bill, but it faces fierce opposition by the country's Roman Catholic Church leaders"
2012-09-09,Sexist remarks and wolf-whistles could become criminal offences
2012-09-09,"Three New Zealand citizens are being put in front of the Copyright Tribunal for pirating music over peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, under the Skynet law."
2012-09-09,Frances richest man applies to become a (less-taxed) Belgian citizen
2012-09-09,"UK Drugs policies are not working, believe 75% of MPs: 'More than three-quarters of the MPs said that drug policy needed to draw much more on evidence and research.'"
2012-09-09,"Decriminalise cannabis, ecstasy to curb addiction: report (Australia)"
2012-09-09,New Zealand high Court throws out climate change critic's lawsuit against scientists. (x-post r/environment)
2012-09-09,"Iceland Shows Other Europeans How to Survive Bankruptcy: Small Atlantic nation enjoys growth and employment gains after failing to rescue its banks. Mainland Europe remains stuck with stagnation, decline, and ruinous ""rescue"" packages"
2012-09-09,India makes history with 100th space mission
2012-09-09,Mass protest in Japan against U.S. hybrid aircraft - Tens of thousands of people rallied on Japans southern island of Okinawa Sunday against the deployment of US Osprey military aircraft after a series of accidents elsewhere involving the planes
2012-09-09,Syrian government destroys water pipe that delivered drinking water to millions of residents of Aleppo
2012-09-09,"Pakistan has prohibition laws; therefore, it has a moonshine problem"
2012-09-09,Worlds Richest Gain $25 Billion as Zong Now Top in China - The 40 richest people on the planet added $25.3 billion to their collective net worth this week
2012-09-09,"Kurdish gathering turns violent in Mannheim - Around 80 police officers were injured and 31 people arrested in Mannheim on Saturday after an international gathering of about 40,000 Kurds erupted in violence triggered when a teenager was stopped with a banned flag."
2012-09-09,Iraq's Sunni vice president sentenced to death
2012-09-09,"Nuclear-armed Iran ""not an option"", says German foreign minister - Calls on Tehran for ""substantial negotiations"" over its controversial atomic program.  ""We share the Israeli concerns about Iran's nuclear program."" "
2012-09-09,"Nicaragua volcano belches ash cloud, hundreds evacuate:  Nicaraguas tallest volcano, San Cristobal, belched an ash cloud nearly a mile into the air on Saturday.
"
2012-09-09,Threat to wildlife haven in 'scariest place on Earth' 
2012-09-09,The forbidden public toilets of Beijing
2012-09-09,"Egypt coordinating with Israel in Sinai military offensive:   Egypt's military has been coordinating its offensive against Islamist militants in the Sinai Peninsula with Israel. Cairo said it has killed 32 militants and arrested 38 people since ""Operation Sinai"" began in August. "
2012-09-09,"Nicaraguan volcano spews ash cloud, residents evacuated"
2012-09-09,BBC News - Iraq VP Tariq al-Hashemi sentenced to death
2012-09-08,"David Nutt: If Alcohol Were Discovered Today, Would it be Legal? Booze has created a public health crisis of immense proportions
"
2012-09-08,The Yangtze River turned red today
2012-09-08,Thailand proposes free health care for kids 
2012-09-08,Sec. Clinton is trying to get the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment lifted so we can start trading with Russia
2012-09-08,Ryanair CEO: 'Stupid' Passengers Deserve Fees
2012-09-08,"Stunning Video Shows Greek Neo-Nazis Smashing An Immigrant's Stand At A Market (business insider)
"
2012-09-08,Hong Kong backs down over Chinese patriotism classes.
2012-09-08,Suicide bomber who killed six in Afghanistan was 14 years old
2012-09-08,"Japan cuts $78b in spending, warns reserves may dry up by November"
2012-09-08,Vatican official says Israel fostering intolerance of Christianity - responding inadequately to violent attacks against the faith by Jewish extremists
2012-09-08,The Arab Spring is dead -- and Syria is writing its obituary 
2012-09-08,Police shootings raise questions over CIA role in Mexico
2012-09-08,Experts warn of 'perfect storm' for global economy 
2012-09-08,Syrian rebels use kidnappings to raise funds
2012-09-08,Syrian troops storm Palestinian refugee district.
2012-09-08,"South African police shot fleeing miners, witness says"
2012-09-08,United Kingdom's Prince Harry was deployed to Afghanistan this Friday as an Apache helicopter pilot for the Britain's Army Air Corps.
2012-09-08,Hong Kong backs down over plans for compulsary Chinese patriotism classes after weeks of protest; classes will be optional for schools
2012-09-08,BBC News - China earthquake death toll rises in Yunnan and Guizhou
2012-09-08,Large weapons cache found in Mexico after 9 year old boy takes gun to school
2012-09-08,"For the first time in nearly a decade, the Colombian govt will sit down for peace talks with the Marxist guerrillas of the FARC, which has been fighting to create a socialist Colombia since 1964"
2012-09-08,"Rimsha Masih, 14 year old Christian who allegedly burned pages of the Quran, freed on bail by Pakistani authorities"
2012-09-08,"Pirate Attacks Down as Private Maritime Security Business Booms:  In the Indian Ocean, home to some of the world's busiest shipping lanes, a war rages between Somali pirates, who have attacked 800 ships and taken 3,400 hostages in the past four years, and private security firms"
2012-09-08,"Sweden's Shame - ""In 2001, the Swedish government turned over two Egyptians to the CIA so that they could be sent to Egypt, where they were tortured."""
2012-09-08,Has The German Pirate Party Lost Its Way?
2012-09-07,"Afghan actress stabbed to death by male mob for appearing on television. Numerous other actresses have received death threats and have been forced into hiding. ""Afghanistan is not made for women... whether actresses or not."""
2012-09-07,"Canada closes embassy in Iran, expels Iranian diplomats"
2012-09-07,"Mount Fuji Prone to a Full Eruption Soon, Pressure Now Higher than the Last 4,000-metre-high Eruption Experts Warn (disaster imminent?)"
2012-09-07,"World's richest woman chastises Australian miners for being too expensive, saying, Africans want to work. Its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day."
2012-09-07,Ex-F1 driver Alex Zanardi wins gold at 2012 Paralympics.  11 years after his horrific incident.
2012-09-07,S.Arabia may not have oil to export by 2030
2012-09-07,"""Of the 51 self-immolations, 41 have died. That speaks to just how grave and desperate the situation is that Tibetans are choosing to die than to leave."""
2012-09-07,Science wins over creationism in South Korea: Government asks publishers to retain examples of evolution in science textbooks
2012-09-07,Are Chinese Banks Hiding The Mother of All Debt Bombs? - China's massive bank financed stimulus was intended to keep the economy moving. It may instead lead to economic disaster. 
2012-09-07,"Canada closes Iran embassy, expels remaining Iranian diplomats"
2012-09-07,"Mother of Gary Mackinnon, British autistic hacker under threat of extradition to US, writes open letter to UK government"
2012-09-07,"No ban on pesticides that 'threaten bees': European and American reports say nerve agents may be a danger, but the UK goes on using them
"
2012-09-07,"""Greek police protesting against austerity cuts blocked the 
entrance to the riot police headquarters on Thursday, preventing buses 
carrying riot police from leaving for the site of major demonstrations this 
weekend."""
2012-09-07,Agent Orange victims in Vietnam to get Scientology 'detox' treatment
2012-09-07,Germany Overtakes US in Global Competitiveness - SPIEGEL ONLINE
2012-09-07,"The Myth That Japan Is Broke: The World's Largest ""Debtor"" Is Now the World's Largest Creditor
"
2012-09-07,Iran sends elite troops to aid Assad regime
2012-09-07,"Report assails palm oil project in Cameroon as a land grab - ""The area to be developed, which is about eight times the size of Manhattan, is a hot spot of biodiversity, and the 99-year land lease is of questionable legal status"""
2012-09-07,"The 14th round begins: of negotiations over the TPP, a secretive, multi-national trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive IP laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on their enforcement"
2012-09-07,The current rate of Arctic ice melt 'like adding 20 years of CO2 emissions' 
2012-09-07,"Netanyahu 'lost his temper,' reprimanded U.S. ambassador over Iran, says congressman"
2012-09-07,Pope urged to recognise Palestinian state
2012-09-07,"Arctic ice melting at amazing speed, scientists find. Unprecedented and surprising change likely to affect global climate. "
2012-09-07,"Xi Jinping, China's Next Leader, Is Secretly Hinting At Reforms"
2012-09-07,Kalashnikov Manufacturer Faces Bankruptcy
2012-09-06,"Evangelical Christian doctor in Australia banned from practicing as GP for prescribing chemical castration to ""cure"" teenager of being gay"
2012-09-06,"Berlin declares circumcision legal, but only if performed by a doctor -- not as a ritual | The Times of Israel"
2012-09-06,"Not only did the US deliver Gaddafi his enemies on a silver platter but it seems the CIA tortured many of them first,"
2012-09-06,$59 million Swedish Aid Package For Cambodia after Pirate Bay Founder Arrest
2012-09-06,4 year girl hid under family's dead bodies for 8 hours before being found
2012-09-06,Medieval church discovered beneath parking lot. The church may be where King Richard III was buried in 1485.
2012-09-06,FBI must show piracy evidence to extradite Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom: New Zealand court
2012-09-06,Assange case: Sweden's shame in violating human rights.
2012-09-06,Japan Finds Major Rare Earth Deposits
2012-09-06,"The Strange Deaths of 2 Canadian Sisters in Thailand - A hotel maid found  the sisters dead in their room, with lesions tracked across their bodies, their fingernails & toenails turned an odd grayish blue. They were huddled in their beds,  smeared with vomit & blood.  And they weren't the first."
2012-09-06,"Putin: Assange case a definite example of double standards, trial politically motivated"
2012-09-06,War reporter shot in front of husband
2012-09-06,France shootings: Three victims shot in head
2012-09-06,"Asia's Richest Woman (Georgina ""Gina"" Rinehart) Slammed After Musing About Workers Paid $2 A Day"
2012-09-06,"Race to the End:  Pakistan's terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea to develop battlefield nukes."
2012-09-06,Vladimir Putin to pilot hand glider at head of endangered crane migration - while disguised as a bird
2012-09-06,Christian girl hailed as 'daughter of nation' by senior Pakistani cleric
2012-09-06,Report: The US waterboarded Libyans opposed to Moamer Kadhafi and handed them over to his regime for further torture
2012-09-06,"Depression, Suicides Rise as Euro Debt Crisis Intensifies"
2012-09-06,Swedish Doctor and nurse let patient die so they can go on a lunch break. And they are still working!
2012-09-06,"BBC News - Detailed map of genome function -  ""80% of our genome is performing a specific function"" and ""The term junk DNA must now be junked."""
2012-09-06,China buys Egypt from the US. The US is suddenly competing for influence over its once most stalwart ally in the Middle East.
2012-09-06,Islamic Green Lantern introduced by DC Comics: New superhero is a tattooed Arab-American called Simon Baz with a criminal record for illegal street racing
2012-09-06,RT: Small Catalonian town declares independence from Spanish Government 
2012-09-06,"Between Gandhi and Gates: India at Crossroads on Path to Superpower Status -- Poverty is still rampant in India and chaos remains a defining characteristic. But the country is also a global leader in high tech, has become the world's leading weapons importer and is planning a mission to Mars. "
2012-09-05,'I couldn't believe CNN was making me put what I knew to be government lies into my reporting.'
2012-09-05,"220 people evacuated from Swiss postal hub after a white substance was found in an envelope, 34 got hospitalized because they felt sick. Turns out it was cornflour."
2012-09-05,Worlds richest women calls for Australian wage cut
2012-09-05,7.9 Earthquake off the coast of Costa Rica
2012-09-05,Attempted murder on Quebec's new prime minister. First women elected. LIVE
2012-09-05,"A 74-year-old farmer in a small town in southern Germany planted more than 1,000 cannabis plants in the mistaken belief they were sunflowers"
2012-09-05,BP accused of gross negligence 
2012-09-05,Christians should 'leave their beliefs at home or get another job' 
2012-09-05,"Explosion, Gunshot at victory speech from Canadian provincial election"
2012-09-05,Iran Supplying Syrian Military via Iraq Airspace
2012-09-05,"4 Endangered Tiger Cubs & Over 100 Pangolins Found in Car by Vietnam Police  - They're hunted for their fur, bones & other body parts for use in Chinese medicine.   Vietnam has 1 of    worst record in world in fight against trade in endangered species - an accusation it denies."
2012-09-05,Armenia 'ready for war' over axe killer's pardon
2012-09-05,"Mexico arrests 'El Gordo,' alleged leader of Gulf Cartel drug gang"
2012-09-05,"Hate content against Hindus, Sikhs, Christians in Pakistan textbooks increases manifold - The Times of India"
2012-09-05,British family finds medieval well under living room floor
2012-09-05,7.9 earthquake strikes off the coast of Costa Rica
2012-09-05,Iran says it treats Israeli military threats as American
2012-09-05,'Queen of Cocaine' Killed in Columbia
2012-09-05,"Sailboat Becomes 1st to Sail Through Northwest Passage, Becoming ""Visual of Declining Polar Ice"" - Warming global temperatures &  melting polar ice caps have helped   the international 3-man crew go where few have gone before"
2012-09-05,"Who are the Worst Tax Dodgers in Greece? -  Tax evasion is so widespread & customary that bank loan officers use standard multipliers to convert reported income into real income. A doctor?  Assumed income is 2.45x reported.  Restaurant owner?  1.99x. But why different multipliers? 
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2012-09-05,Peru villagers allege neglect after toxic spill
2012-09-05,"Nigeria pirates hijack oil tanker near Lagos -  The crew hid in a room on the ship.  The tanker was laden with fuel & is now sailing into the Gulf of Guinea, which suggests some or all of its cargo will be offloaded into a waiting vessel & sold on the region's illegal fuel market."
2012-09-05,Eurozone demands six-day week for Greece in return for bailout. 
2012-09-05,"Iran makes no distinction between U.S. and Israeli 
interests and will retaliate against both countries if 
attacked | Reuters"
2012-09-05,"Mexico navy says it captured Gulf cartel leader. Mario Cardenas Guillen, alias El Gordo, is accused of being one of the two top leaders of the Gulf cartel of Mexico"
2012-09-04,"A virus that eats cancer, Cheap to 
produce, the virus is exquisitely 
precise, with only mild, flu-like side-
effects in humans is just sitting in a 
refrigerator in a Swedish laboratory. "
2012-09-04,Tens of thousands of elephants are being slaughtered as the ivory trade becomes militarised.
2012-09-04,Yemen official: U.S. drone 'mistake' kills 13 civilians
2012-09-04,"Jeremy Hunt, UK Health Secretary, thinks homeopathy works."
2012-09-04,We're one crucial step closer to seeing Tony Blair at The Hague
2012-09-04,"Sweden, while publicly protesting, aided US invasion of Iraq: A Swedish intelligence agency gave crucial info to US about targets for a bombing raid in the run-up to Iraq invasion. At the time of the invasion then-Prime Minister Goran Persson called military attack on Iraq a breach of human rights"
2012-09-04,'A great silence is spreading over the natural world' 
2012-09-04,Islamic Clerics in Pakistan Vow to Defend and Support Framed Christian Girl
2012-09-04,"No wage rise, no fly: Lufthansa crews strike, 26,000 passengers stranded, almost 300 flights cancelled in Frankfurt as Berlin and Munich are joining the strike"
2012-09-04,"Pirate Bay Founder Will Be Deported, Cambodian Authorities Confirm"
2012-09-04,Desmond Tutu with the truth again. South Africa in 2012 a is nightmare.
2012-09-04,"To Back Democracy, U.S. Prepares to Cut $1 Billion From Egypts Debt"
2012-09-04,"Gazas Contaminated Water Worsens Health for Palestinians -- The aquifer that provides water to the Gaza Strip may become unusable within four years and irreversibly damaged by 2020 unless pumping stops and major infrastructure upgrades are made, the United Nations said."
2012-09-04,Maldivian teen to face 100 lashes for sex: Report | NDTV.com
2012-09-04,"16 percent of Japan's population live in poverty, 35 percent of workers are in irregular employment, and for the past 14 years more than 30,000 Japanese have taken their own lives."
2012-09-04,"Africas Elephants Are Being Slaughtered in Ivory 
Poaching Frenzy"
2012-09-04,A Ferrari crash kills privileged Chinese playboy and ruffles top leaders before power shift - The Washington Post
2012-09-04,BBC News - BitTorrent study finds most file-sharers are monitored
2012-09-04,"Fears Rising, Spaniards Pull Out Their Cash and Get Out of Spain"
2012-09-04,Australian Government wants to store people's phone and Internet usage data for up to 2 years
2012-09-04,"Liberia has sold quarter of its land to logging companies. Campaigners claim forests are under threat as landowners enter into deals with logging firms, bypassing sustainability laws
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2012-09-04,"In authoritarian North Korea, hints of reform - The Washington Post"
2012-09-04,"Julian Assange's backers lose 200,000 bail money"
2012-09-04,Iran could hit U.S. bases in the Middle East in response to any Israeli strike even if American forces played no role in the attack: Hezbollah
2012-09-04,Paralyzed patients regain some sensory function after neural stem cell treatment - HealthPop - CBS News
2012-09-03,EU Wants to Sneak in a Mini-ACTA by the Backdoor
2012-09-03,U.S. Tells Iran: We Won't Join Israeli Attack
2012-09-03,Why Does Canada Have a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve? 
2012-09-03,"Pakistani Imam faces blasphemy charge for trying to 
frame Christian girl for burning the Koran."
2012-09-03,Convert to Islam or leave Muslim neighborhood. Warning given to Christians in Lahore
2012-09-03,UK tells Ecuador Assange can't be extradited if he faces death penalty
2012-09-03,A woman presenter reads the news on Egypt's TV in Islamic headscarf for what is believed to be first time since 1960
2012-09-03,"In South Africa, four out of ten women say their first sexual experience was rape | Rape laws: Crime and clarity"
2012-09-03,Revealed: US flew spy drone missions from Australia
2012-09-03,Disabled Pakistani girl framed in Koran-burning case. Imam arrested for planting evidence
2012-09-03,"The radical Islamists who control northern Mali appear incapable of managing basic services  including electricity, water and schools  and in some cases are asking for the return of state functionaries to run them"
2012-09-03,Buddhist monks in Myanmar rally to expel minority Muslims from country
2012-09-03,"China officials order pharmaceutical firms to check their suppliers after claims of ""gutter oil"" being used in antibiotics - It's reprocessed kitchen waste dredged from restaurant drains.  In April, China cracked down on workshops using rotting animals to make it."
2012-09-03,70 egyptian generals forced into retirement 
2012-09-03,"Israeli archaeologists say two animal-shaped figurines discovered at the site of an Israeli highway construction project go back more than 9,000 years, and reflect the religious practices that were common in the region several millennia before Moses."
2012-09-03,BBC News - 'Moonies' founder Sun Myung Moon dies at 92
2012-09-03,Australian public urged to catch world's deadliest spiders due to anti-venom shortage.
2012-09-03,Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Myanmar have staged a rally in support of President Thein Sein's proposal to send the members of the Rohingya minority group to another country. Sunday's rally in Mandalay is the latest indication of deep-seated sentiment against the Rohingya.
2012-09-03,"Australian troops have killed a 70 year old Imam and his son in their search for the rogue Afghan soldier who shot and killed three Australian soldiers, according to Afghan government."
2012-09-03,Paralympics: Iranian athlete refuses to shake hands with Duchess of Cambridge 
2012-09-03,Gaza Man dies after setting himself on fire in poverty protest 
2012-09-03,"Activist groups estimate that 5,000 people died this August in Syria in an attempt to revolt against President Bashar Assad's regime."
2012-09-03,Cardinal says Catholic church '200 years behind'
2012-09-03,China manufacturing hits three-year low
2012-09-03,"Trucks Full of Cash: U.S. Firms Make Plans for Greece Euro Exit - European leaders have vowed to do all they can to keep the eurozone intact, but U.S. companies are making contingency plans in case Greece is forced to leave the currency union. "
2012-09-02,South Africa to drop murder charges against miners
2012-09-02,"Cleric planted evidence of Koran desecration by 13yo girl; seeked to ""get rid of christians"". "
2012-09-02,Melting glacier reveals World War I ammunition
2012-09-02,A Pakistani cleric who accused a 14 year old Christian girl of blasphemy has himself been arrested for tampering with evidence. 
2012-09-02,"Iran and North Korea sign agreement to cooperate in science and technology, declaring that the two countries have ""common enemies."""
2012-09-02,Germany: Rabbi brutally beat in front of his six-year-old daughter sparks outrage
2012-09-02,"Half of the 6,000 plus spoken languages today will disappear by the end of the century. "
2012-09-02,"Canadian military store owner defends selling Nazi memorabilia, saying it's part of history"
2012-09-02,"If cannabis impairs the IQ of those who smoke as teenagers, then legalising it is the best way to mitigate that harm"
2012-09-02,"Egypt Shuts Down Last Jewish Synagogue. For the first time in 2,000 years, this year there will be no Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services at the Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue in Alexandria.
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2012-09-02,"Worlds oldest bank faces uncertain future. In Italy, the oldest bank in the world has survived the Borgias, pestilence and too many wars to count. Now, a mundane foe has proved far more dangerous: Italian government debt."
2012-09-02,"Canada Hunts Maple Syrup Thieves - They've stolen millions of dollars worth of highly prized maple syrup from a storage facility. The 'Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers' noticed empty barrels after inventory.  It's unclear how much was stolen.
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2012-09-02,The Syrian resistance now has anti-aircraft missiles after raiding Government air defense base. 
2012-09-02,Imam held in Pakistan blasphemy case: Pakistani police have arrested an imam accused of planting burnt pages of the Koran in the bag of a Christian girl accused of blasphemy
2012-09-02,Mexican cartels now trafficking  cigarettes?
2012-09-02,"Putin calls for Stalin-style ""[military] leap forward"""
2012-09-02,"Migron settlers begin leaving homes: Israeli army-Jewish settlers began leaving the unauthorized outpost of Migron in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, obeying an Israeli supreme court order to vacate their homes by Tuesday."
2012-09-02,"Iran could be shaping its nuclear ambitions after Japan, which has the full scope of nuclear technology but has stopped short of actually producing a weapon. It creates, in effect, a de facto nuclear power with all the parts but just not pieced together."
2012-09-02,"Two Afghan children beheaded in separate incidents:  ""We are not sure if she was beheaded by her family or the Taliban"""
2012-09-02,"Turkish Tanker Spilling Oil on South African Beaches - Run aground 3 yrs ago off Cape Town, a prime tourist city, it's spilling oil onto 2 beaches after disintegrating into 3 pieces Friday. Black oil fingers are trickling toward Dolphin Beach. "
2012-09-02,Bail hopes dashed of Christian girl in Pakistan blasphemy case
2012-09-02,Pakistan police arrest Muslim cleric accused of planting evidence in Christian blasphemy case: The cleric allegedly planted pages of a Quran in a shopping bag containing burned papers and ash that had been carried by a Christian girl
2012-09-02,Defenders and critics in France agree that the actual impact of a law banning full-face veils in public places has been far less dramatic than the politicized prologue to it
2012-09-02,Imam held in Pakistan blasphemy case
2012-09-02,"Azeri murderer is set free and becomes ""National Hero"""
2012-09-01,"Once the highway network is completed, an estimated 15,000 additional people will switch from driving to biking... The bike highway alone is expected to save Copenhagen's health care system some $60 million a year."
2012-09-01,Ireland calls for minimum Internet speeds of 30Mbps: EU states appear poised to blow US minimum levels of service out of the water
2012-09-01,"Arctic sea ice hit its lowest extent ever recorded - ""When your children ask how and why it all went so wrong, point them to yesterday's date, and explain that the world is not led by rational people."" "
2012-09-01,Apple loses Samsung patent case in Japan
2012-09-01,"After Banning Circumcision, German Courts Are Going After Baby Ear Piercing "
2012-09-01,Dad supports five-year-old son in a slightly less than traditional manner.
2012-09-01,Barclays makes 500m betting on food crisis
2012-09-01,"Iranian TV translator tampers with Egyptian President Morsi speech, replacing ""Syria"" with ""Bahrain"" throughout the entire speech"
2012-09-01,"An adolescent boy and a young girl have been beheaded in two separate incidents in Afghanistan, local officials and police said on Friday, in the latest brazen attacks that have raised fresh questions about a splintering Taliban."
2012-09-01,"As Kurdish flags fly over border towns, they seem to signal the end of Syria as a unitary state, despite efforts by Turkey and Syrian rebel forces to push the genie of Kurdish nationalism back into the lamp."
2012-09-01,Gottfrid Svartholm Warg - One of four Piratebay founders arrested yesterday in Cambodja
2012-09-01,"Norway prison seeks 'friends' to play hockey, chess with mass killer Breivik"
2012-09-01,"Hikers discover wreckage of plane carrying Indian diplomatic mail & newspapers from 1966 - The diplomatic pouch was intact, & the Indian Embassy in Paris has confirmed the discovery in the Alpine glacial ice near Mont Blanc"
2012-09-01,"U.S. scales-back military exercise with Israel, making it more difficult for the Israeli government to launch a pre-emptive strike on Tehran's nuclear program"
2012-09-01,Empowering Prague's Homeless by Hiring Them as Tour Guides
2012-09-01,"Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation: ""We should carry out the same powerful, all-embracing leap forward in modernization of the defense industry as the one carried out in the 1930s"" "
2012-09-01,"Oscar-winning film ""American Beauty"" banned in Russia for containing homophobia and gay propaganda."
2012-09-01, Cardinal Carlo Martini says Church '200 years behind' the times.
2012-09-01,Thieves Hit Warehouse Holding $30 Million Of Canadian Maple Syrup
2012-09-01,Woman acquitted of driving under the influence of marijuana.
2012-09-01,"Quebec sisters died in Thailand from drinking DEET. Though the chemical is a potentially neurotoxic mosquito repellent, it is used as an ingredient in a euphoria-inducing cocktail that is popular among youth in Thailand...cough syrup, Coke, DEET + ground up kratom leaves, a mild narcotic"
2012-09-01,Argentina to track all credit card purchases & impose 15% tax on all foreign transactions.
2012-09-01,"""Centuries-old theological disputes have broken out in cyberspace as religions aim to influence the future presentation of faith on the Internet."""
2012-09-01,120-member Nonaligned Nations unanimously decrees support for Iran's nuclear energy program; criticize US for its unilateral economic sanctions against Iran
2012-09-01,"Australians are fending off threats to their right to privacy from all directions: First, AG Roxons push to expand govt online surveillance powers... then the Senate approved a bill granting authorities the power to require phone and ISPs to store up to 180 days worth of personal data"
2012-08-31,"World's richest woman says poor should have less fun, work harder"
2012-08-31,"Gay man gets 'maternity' leave in Brazil:  Brazils social security agency has, for the first time, given a four-month ""maternity"" leave to a gay man so that he can care for his adopted child.
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2012-08-31,Norway writes down 90% of populations mortgage debt
2012-08-31,"Over 100,000 people demand that Peter Sunde, former spokesperson of The Pirate Bay, be pardoned from his sham verdict by the Swedish Administration"
2012-08-31,South Africa uses apartheid-era law to accuse 270 miners of murder: South African authorities on Thursday invoked a legal move seldom used since the dying days of apartheid in order to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 co-workers who were seen being shot dead 
2012-08-31,"Drone-Tracking App Gets No Traction From Apple: For the third time in a month, Apple has rejected a proposed app that tracks American drone strikes. The company says the app is ""objectionable and crude""; the developer says he wants to encourage more dialogue about drone attacks."
2012-08-31,Police probing Quebec maple syrup heist worth up to $30-million
2012-08-31,"Drink Less, Work More, Aussie Billionaire Tells Non-Rich"
2012-08-31,Deadly Tuberculosis now drug resistant
2012-08-31,Julian Assange: I could stay in Ecuadorean embassy for a year -- WikiLeaks founder believes case against him will be dropped as William Hague admits 'solution is not in sight' to extradition row
2012-08-31,"Food prices jump 10% in July and are expected to keep rising. The countries most affected are the poorest, which are not only the most food insecure but also experiencing the sharpest increases"
2012-08-31,'Blind faith' in DNA test led innocent man to be jailed for murder
2012-08-31,7.9 earthquake in Philippines
2012-08-31,Americans Shot in Mexico Were C.I.A. Operatives Aiding in Drug War
2012-08-31,Chaos as Strikes Ground Planes at Frankfurt Airport:  Lufthansa flight attendants walked off the job for eight hours on Friday resulting in over 200 flight cancellations and a temporary ban on incoming flights into Germany's biggest airport. The labor dispute will likely result in more strikes soon.
2012-08-31,"FinSpy, A Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents. Two researchers say an off-the-shelf computer program has been used to monitor and spy on dissidents in countries around the world"
2012-08-31,A fisherman found the oldest message in a bottle at sea. The previous record holder was found by the same boat.
2012-08-31,Russia plans to build sea based missile shield
2012-08-31,"UN nuclear agency confirms Iran has shrouded site, says its probe significantly hampered"
2012-08-31,Eurozone unemployment at new high - BBC News
2012-08-31,7.9 quake hits off Philippines - tsunami warning
2012-08-31,Everything you need to know about the September 12 German court decision that could rock the entire world
2012-08-31,"US, Israel responsible for Syria conflict: Iran"
2012-08-31,Iran: Persian interpreter tampers with Morsi's NAM speech to deflect criticism of Syria
2012-08-31,"A Tokyo court has ruled Samsung hasn't infringed on an Apple patent, in the latest development in the legal battle between the two technology titans.


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2012-08-30,Some 270 South African miners arrested during protests will be charged with the murder of their 34 colleagues shot by police
2012-08-30,Missing woman unknowingly joins search for herself
2012-08-30,"""It's not rhetoric to draw parallels with Nazism"": 
Actual fascists in actual black shirts are waving swastikas and murdering ethnic minorities in Athens"
2012-08-30,Drunk driver ends medal-winning cyclist's dream of competing at Paralympics
2012-08-30,"2 women stabbed, 'Free Pussy Riot' scrawled in blood at murder scene: Two women were stabbed to death in a gruesome killing in Russias Kazan, and Free! Pussy Riot was painted on the wall in what police believe was the victims blood"
2012-08-30,Illegal gold miners allegedly massacre Amazon tribe in Venezuela
2012-08-30,"Chinese Blame Failing Bridges On Corruption: No nation has built so many roads, bridges and buildings so quickly as China. But since 2011, eight bridges have collapsed, according to China's state-run media. Many believe the culprit is government corruption"
2012-08-30,"An 8-year-old boy in England could be up to $63,000 richer, thanks to a piece of solidified whale vomit he picked up on the beach."
2012-08-30,"President Putin is rumored to be among the worlds 
wealthiest men, with an oil-fed fortune worth tens 
of billions of dollars. He denies that, vehemently, 
but a report to be published Tuesday suggests that 
the dispute may be beside the point."
2012-08-30,Why are Mexican eco-anarchists bombing nanotechnology researchers?
2012-08-30,"An attack by gold miners on a group of Yanomami tribespeople in Venezuela has left up to 80 people dead, according to campaign groups."
2012-08-30,The women of the African country of Togo might be the first to try to bring down a dictator by staging a sex strike.
2012-08-30,"A space telescope has added to its list of spectacular finds, spotting millions of supermassive black holes and blisteringly hot, ""extreme"" galaxies"
2012-08-30,"Mexican police attacked CIA officers, ambush likely: sources"
2012-08-30,Violent Attack on Rabbi in Berlin Draws Outrage
2012-08-30,"Indian diplomatic bag found in French Alps after 46 years, believed to be from an Air India plane which crashed there."
2012-08-30,FIVE AUSSIES DEAD: Soldiers killed in Afghanistan attack and chopper crash | news.com.au
2012-08-30,"A Muslim Sufi leader has been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the Russian republic of Dagestan. Said Afandi, a leader of Sufi Muslims in the region, and five of his followers were killed onTuesday night by a female suicide bomber in an attack at Afandis home in the village of Chirkei."
2012-08-30,Mexicans see a losing battle in the war on crooked police (LA Times)
2012-08-30,Arab states looking to turn IAEA meeting into referendum on Israeli nukes
2012-08-30,"""Mexican prosecutors said Wednesday they are seeking to arrest a former border state governor who U.S. officials allege laundered millions of dollars in South Texas"""
2012-08-30,Red Cross halts most Pakistan aid in wake of doctor's beheading 
2012-08-30,"IAEA: Iran doubles underground nuclear capacity, preparing for a possible major expansion of uranium enrichment in a fortified underground facility"
2012-08-30,World record as message in bottle found after 98 years near Shetland
2012-08-30,Julian Assange: Argentine ambassador accuses 'arrogant' Britain of violating international law 
2012-08-29,"Poor in India Starve as Politicians Steal $14.5 Billion of Food -- ""The theft blunted the countrys only weapon against widespread starvation -- a five-decade-old public distribution system that has failed to deliver record harvests to the plates of Indias hungriest."""
2012-08-29,"Shenzhen, where some of China's largest electronics manufacturers are located, looks set to hike its minimum wage by 13.3%, in a move that could cause a ripple effect across the world's major technology companies."
2012-08-29," In Feb. Guatemalan President Molina said his country is not doing what the US says, we're doing what we have to do   decriminalize drugs.  Now US Marines have been sent in to help oust the Zeta Drug Cartel.  The US Navy, Coast Guard, & federal agents are also involved. "
2012-08-29,Bill for gay marriage passes first reading in New Zealand
2012-08-29,Russias volleyball coach commits suicide after Olympic failure  report
2012-08-29,Hundreds Of Websites Go Dark In Jordan In SOPA-Style #BlackoutJo Protest Over Internet Freedom
2012-08-29,"Desmond Tutu quits summit with Blair over invasion of Iraq. Nobel peace winner says he won't share platform with 'morally indefensible' former PM
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2012-08-29,Blizzard cuts off Iranian Access to WoW because of 'U.S. trade sanctions'
2012-08-29,Stephen Hawking to star in Paralympics opener
2012-08-29,"Russian President Vladimir Putin is spending billions of taxpayers' rubles on 20 luxurious residences, 43 jets and four yachts, a top opposition leader claimed Tuesday. It's estimated that the maintenance of Putin's residences, jets and cars alone costs $2.5 billion a year."
2012-08-29,"Possible Malaria cure found at the University of Cape Town, South Africa."
2012-08-29,"CIA balked at chance to kill bin Laden in 99, Polish ex-spy says"
2012-08-29,"IBM and MS deciding New Zealand legislation: In 2010, Microsoft and IBM convinced the Ministry of Economic Dev to abandon plans to exclude software from patentability, as seen in the new version of the text published on Aug 2012"
2012-08-29,Red Cross halts most Pakistan aid in wake of doctor's beheading
2012-08-29,"Bolivian police seize 2 tons of uranium...that was being stored at a building in central La Paz located near the U.S. and Spanish embassies.
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2012-08-29,Anger over Australian supermarket 'no Indians' job ad.
2012-08-29,Multiple roofs on fire after planned WW2 Bomb detonation in Munich 
2012-08-29,"Is ABC Starting to Understand BitTorrent Demand? In an attempt to dissuade Aussie punters from torrenting the show, ABC announced it will offer this weekends new Doctor Who episode on its iView service as soon as it finishes airing in the UK"
2012-08-29,France opens murder inquiry' into Yasser Arafat death 
2012-08-29,China Aims High From the Bottom of the World - Country plans 2 world-class telescopes for its Antarctic observatory.  The pair will be among the biggest & most significant telescopes in Antarctica. Astronomers have long thought Dome A is the best place on Earth to gaze at the Universe.
2012-08-29,UK's Deputy PM demands an emergency tax on the rich to cope with downturn
2012-08-29,"A little bit of WWII just came back to Munich: An American bomb was found; disarming impossible; now it was detonated, setting nearby houses on fire"
2012-08-29,Three-person civil union sparks controversy in Brazil
2012-08-29,"Archbishop Tutu refuses platform with Blair.
Nobel Peace laureate pulls out of leadership conference in protest against ex-UK PM's role in US-led Iraq invasion."
2012-08-29,Red Cross halts most Pakistan aid after beheading
2012-08-28,"University of the People, a tuition-free online university aimed at poor students around the globe who would otherwise not have access to higher education."
2012-08-28,"New Megaupload Will Be Massive Global Network To Change The World: We are building a massive global network, Dotcom revealed, adding that hosters will all be able to connect to the network to add servers and bandwidth  providing theyre not in the US"
2012-08-28,"Dont Let Them Trade Away Our Internet Freedoms: The TPP endangers the Internet and digital freedoms on par with ACTA, SOPA, and PIPA...The TPP is a major threat because it will rewrite global rules on IP enforcement and restrict the public domain."
2012-08-28,Gaza 'will not liveable by 2020' - UN
2012-08-28,"Australian Employment minister Bill Shorten has declared he finds it ""hard to make ends meet"" on his $330,000 salary while denying a rise to the $13,000 unemployment benefit."
2012-08-28,Father blows up daughter's boyfriend.
2012-08-28,"Young cannabis smokers run risk of lower IQ, report claims"
2012-08-28,"Egyptian designer runs afoul of Saudi princess, gets 500 lashes"
2012-08-28,"Nagla Wafa, a 39-year-old Egyptian designer in a dispute with the Saudi monarchy has been formally sentenced to 500 lashes and 5 years in prison, where she has been kept with little contact with the outside world and does not have access to a lawyer. "
2012-08-28,"After attacks, Israeli schools confront hate: Israeli students are being required to discuss the attempted lynching of a number of Palestinian youths"
2012-08-28,Israeli army 'cleared' in Rachel Corrie death
2012-08-28,"Ex-General's Daughter Lured To Lagos, Killed By Facebook Friends"
2012-08-28,"Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, warn scientists"
2012-08-28,Egyptian President hires women and Christians as steps toward diversity.
2012-08-28,How the US and Israeli justice systems whitewash state crimes
2012-08-28,"Israeli court rules killing of American activist ""accident""; US Ambassador says Israeli inquiry is insufficient"
2012-08-28,China test-fires new nuclear-capable ICBM
2012-08-28,"Canadian children's rights group condemns AAP circumcision policy as ""seriously flawed"""
2012-08-28,University of Cape Town claims to have found a single dose cure for Malaria. Malaria kills 1.2m people a year.
2012-08-28,Exclusive: We believe that the USA is the major player against Syria and the rest are its instruments
2012-08-28,Dutch man gets suspended term for insulting queen on Twitter
2012-08-28,"The Forgotten Soviet-Japanese War of 1939: From May to September 1939, the USSR and Japan fought an undeclared war involving over 100,000 troops. It may have altered world history. "
2012-08-28,"Gaza will no longer be ""liveable"" by 2020 unless urgent action is taken to improve water supply, power, health, and schooling, the United Nations' most comprehensive report on the Palestinian enclave said on Monday."
2012-08-28,Marines punish nine for urinating on Taliban corpses; punishment due soon in Quran burning
2012-08-28,BBC News - French police break up Roma encampment in Lyon
2012-08-27,Australian State to try and Ban cigarettes to anyone born after 2000
2012-08-27,"Man steals phone from Ebola patient at Uganda hospital, gets Ebola"
2012-08-27,"In case of a nuclear accident in India, the maximum fine that can be imposed by the regulator on an offending nuclear plant is less than 10 US$"
2012-08-27,"Islamic extremists who control much of the vast desert region of Mali have banned all music, except the singing of Koranic verses"
2012-08-27,A new breathalyzer law  drives anger in France: A law requiring drivers to have breathalyzer kits has the French seeing red over what they view as lobbying  a practice reviled in the country  by an employee of a test manufacturer. 
2012-08-27,"[X-post] A series of recent scandals have exposed the connection between some of the biggest global banks and the seamy underworld of mobsters, smugglers, drug traffickers and arms dealers"
2012-08-27,"LEAKED! TPP: the Son of ACTA will oblige America and other countries to throw out privacy, free speech and due process for easier copyright enforcement - Boing Boing"
2012-08-27,Almost 450 killed in a single day in Syria
2012-08-27,Korean Constitutional Court rules real-name policy online unconstitutional
2012-08-27,Egypt rejected U.S. demand to fire on Iranian ship: Suez chief
2012-08-27,"Israeli Soldiers Show No Mercy to Palestinian Children: ...the testimony goes, Israeli troops chase a Palestinian child. He was about two metres away - the company commander cocked his weapon in his face. The kid fell on the ground, crying and begging for his life.  "
2012-08-27,"Pakistan govt to keep 11yo Christian girl in jail 'for own safety': Pakistani police blocked a bail request for the minor who reportedly suffers from Downs syndrome, claiming her release would endanger her life and that of her family. The girl is accused of blasphemy for allegedly burning a Koran"
2012-08-27,"British Police gaffe as top-secret document reveals how WikiLeaks founder will be dealt with if he tries to leave embassy
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2012-08-27,"Overseas weapons sales by the United States totaled $66.3 billion last year, or nearly 78 percent of the global arms market. Russia was a distant second, with $4.8 billion in deals."
2012-08-27,"Tunisia: New Constitution Will Be Modern, Progressive"
2012-08-27,"Food shortages could force world into vegetarianism, 
warn scientists"
2012-08-27,Vehicle Carrying Japans Ambassador to China Attacked in Beijing
2012-08-27,"Pregnant Nicaraguan Girls Forced to Become Mothers: Nicaragua is 'one of the few countries in the world where abortion is illegal in any circumstances, and is punishable by prison  even if the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest, or the mothers life is in danger.'"
2012-08-27,France to introduce same-sex marriage bill
2012-08-27,Togo women push sex strike to unseat president
2012-08-27,"Magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off the coast of El 
Salvador"
2012-08-27,"Rebels shot down a Syrian army helicopter: Video footage showed the burning helicopter falling to the ground in a trail of smoke, as rebels on the ground could be heard shouting ""God is greatest (Allhu Akbar)"""
2012-08-27,A block of 120 Non-Aligned nations begin summit in Iran. Joinee by UN Chief and Palestinian President.
2012-08-27,"Britain wants to restart Assange talks with Ecuador
"
2012-08-27,Ragtag Revolts in Parts of Afghanistan Repel Taliban
2012-08-26,'Anti-church hysteria' spreads across Russia: Four Orthodox Christian crosses have been chopped down in different parts of Russia... after the Femen movement attacked a cross in Kiev to protest the sentence of the punk band Pussy Riot
2012-08-26,Two Members of Pussy Riot flee Russia.
2012-08-26,"An Israeli bus driver refused to take Palestinian passengers on board, was ordered to do so by police, and took his revenge by forcing them off the bus at the entrance to a settlement. The bus company: The driver acted exactly as expected of him."
2012-08-26,'Ban Islam in Sweden': Sweden Democrat
2012-08-26,"Israel breaks silence over army abuses
Ex-soldiers admit to appalling violence against Palestinian children
"
2012-08-26,"Kim Jong-un threatens ""all-out war"" in wake of US-South Korea military exercise"
2012-08-26,Israeli vets confess to 'no mercy' abuse of Palestinian 'terrorist' kids  RT
2012-08-26,Britain Withdraws Threat to Raid Embassy in Assange Standoff
2012-08-26,"Israel's investigation into the death of Rachel Corrie has failed to be ""thorough, credible and transparent,"" U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro told the Corrie family"
2012-08-26,Neil Armstrong dead age 82.
2012-08-26,"Correa recalls the UK non extradition of Pinochet. If Pinochet was not extradited for humanitarian reasons then it's clear that they can take the decision not to extradite Mr. Julian Assange, Correa said."
2012-08-26,''Tobacco holocaust'' as tobacco companies aggressively target poor nations.
2012-08-26,Two Pussy Riot members flee Russia: Two members of band who escaped arrest after February's protest in Moscow's main cathedral leave the country
2012-08-26,"Libya Islamists destroy Sufi shrines, library "
2012-08-26,"Last-hope prostate drug not funded. There are two tiers of men with advanced prostate cancer in Ontario: Those who get access to a remarkable drug through private insurance, and those who get a death sentence."
2012-08-26,Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has ordered an urgent investigation to find the cause of a huge explosion at the country's biggest oil refinery.
2012-08-26,"UK refuses to extradite ""most-wanted pedophile"" on human rights grounds, but still intent on extraditing Assange. Why?"
2012-08-26,Vatican Urges G20 To Convene Crisis Summit On Food Prices: Holy See Attacks Grain Speculators For Profiting From The Most Poor And Needy On The Planet
2012-08-26,"Several Orthodox Christian crosses have been chopped down in different parts of Russia. The incidents come after the Femen movement attacked a cross in Kiev to protest the sentence of the punk band Pussy Riot, who received two years in prison. "
2012-08-26,"Syrian envoy: We'll destroy Israeli nuclear facilities with 20 missiles | Jordanian media report that Syria's ambassador in Amman, Bahjat Suleiman said that his country is capable of destroying Israel's nuclear facilities should Damascus come under attack

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2012-08-26,"
Russia to help Europe fight forest fires
"
2012-08-26,Dozens of Bodies Are Found in Town Outside Damascus - Possibly over 200 bodies found
2012-08-26,"A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery and unleashed a ferocious fire on Saturday, killing at least 26 people and injuring more than 80 others in one of the deadliest disasters ever to hit the country's key oil industry."
2012-08-26,German minister rejects more time for Greece 
2012-08-26,"Pussy Riot verdict: as we condemn Russia, we expose ourselves as hypocrites"
2012-08-25,Navy advisor stripped of her career for alerting Washington of Admirals plan to provoke Iran
2012-08-25,"""Criminals are not primarily wrongdoers to be punished, but broken people to be fixed."" Why the Norwegian Justice aims to benefit even the offender. ""University of Oslo professor Thomas Mathiesen, say it's better for society overall because it isn't about ""revenge, but sober, dignified treatment."""""
2012-08-25, Secret Police Documents Reveal WikiLeaks Founder To Be Arrested In Any Attempt To Leave. Lewis Whyld of the Press Association took the pictures of the documents on a clipboard carried by a police standing outside the building.
2012-08-25,Update. 100 years old time capsule opened in Norway. It contained letters and documents.
2012-08-25,Pakistan Taliban chief killed by NATO strike 
2012-08-25,"Monitoring File-Sharers Forbidden in Norway: From today, file-sharers in Norway can download pretty much whatever they like without facing any consequences... after the only law firm in the country permitted to monitor file-sharing networks lost its license and were denied a new one"
2012-08-25,"Mexican police open fire at US embassy vehicle, wounding three."
2012-08-25,Why George Orwell is as relevant today as ever
2012-08-25,(ABC News)  A Pakistani Christian girl detained on accusations of defaming Islam has been refused a meeting with a lawyer
2012-08-25,"Oil was supposed to catapult Ecuador out of poverty. Instead it resulted in immeasurable ecological damage, social disruption, assassinations and coups, overwhelming debt, and an economy that is radically skewed to favor the rich. Predatory capitalism, its sole goal to maximize corporate profits."
2012-08-25,"Travis McCrea: Our latest Wikileaks release shows that the United States is assassinating Mexicans without trial, and the ATF gunwalking scandal may have just been the latest controversy in a longer chain of corruption"
2012-08-25,WATCH LIVE 100 year old package opens at 12pm est in Norway
2012-08-25,"Drones to watch over UK streets: Unmanned police drones, comparable to those used in war zones such as Afghanistan, could soon be secretly watching over the streets of UK cities"
2012-08-25,"23 year old female threatens a 69 year old male on a flight to Saskatoon. Oh yeah...he's a Senator, and she's his wife. "
2012-08-25,"Expect more farm protests in Spain. As the EU pays landed owners like the Duke of Segorbe whether or not they actually produce crops and more government austerity is on the horizon, Spanish farm workers are getting bolder and history is repeating itself."
2012-08-25,Pakistani Islamists Bomb Womens Clothing Store
2012-08-25,President of Gambia plans mass executions by next month.
2012-08-25,"19 dead, 53 hurt in Venezuela refinery blast"
2012-08-25,"Gunmen inside what was described as a Mexican federal police vehicle fired upon a U.S. Embassy vehicle, said the official, who declined to be named for security reasons."
2012-08-25,Mexico scrambles to cope with egg shortage 
2012-08-25,"Thousands of young Chileans marched peacefully on Thursday in different cities demanding education reform and equal conditions and rights for all young Chileans, amid a heightened police presence."
2012-08-25,Black teenager 'stopped 50 times' plans to sue Met police for harassment
2012-08-25,"France's diplomats to push for universal ban on death penalty across the world. Foreign minister Laurent Fabius expects resistance from US, China. "
2012-08-25,"If Bashar Falls, What Will Happen to Syria's Alawites and Kurds?"
2012-08-25,China is moving ahead with the development of a new and more capable generation of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched missiles
2012-08-24,Anders Brevik sentenced to 21 years...
2012-08-24,"As she nears death, Chinese hail woman who saved 30 babies from trash "
2012-08-24,"US 'should hand over footage of drone strikes or face UN inquiry' - ""America is facing mounting global pressure over its use of UAVs ... [the issue] will remain at the top of the UN political agenda until some consensus and transparency has been achieved."
2012-08-24,"Icelands recovery continues, declared impressive"
2012-08-24,"Palestinians design solar car not to buy petrol from Israel: We want to lower as much as possible our dependence on Israel, because we wont be able to reach a reasonable level of national security if Israel can, at any point, disconnect our electricity, and even harm the power plant in Gaza"""
2012-08-24,"The IMF: Iceland Was Right, We Were Wrong"
2012-08-24,"Pub owner in Copenhagen refuses to pay protection money to local gang, goes public about the repercussions that ensued and gets overwhelming support from the community (More details in comments)"
2012-08-24,BBC removes Syrian opposition war crime video
2012-08-24,"The Swedish media war on Assange  Australian 
pig, retard, white-haired crackpot, scumbag - 
Fria Tider"
2012-08-24,"Christian boy tortured and killed in Pakistan: The tortured body of an 11 year old Christian boy has been found in a town in Punjab, Pakistan, days after a young Christian girl was arrested on blasphemy charges"
2012-08-24,Palestinian man repeatedly tasered by Israeli police in front of his children Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
2012-08-24,"Gangnam Style, dissected "
2012-08-24,Nepali snake bites man. Man bites snake to death
2012-08-24,Catholic Church sues three pro Pussy Riot protestors in Germany. They might face more jail time than Pussy Riot in Russia
2012-08-24,"Egypt bans detention of journalists accused of media-related offenses. Islam Afifi, editor of an opposition paper charged with insulting President Mohamed Morsi, released after president issues decree"
2012-08-24,"Foreign companies have bought up 124 million hectares of land in Africa in the past decade, resulting in the eviction of smallholding farmers, sometimes by force, from their ancestral lands, former IMF chief warns."
2012-08-24,Even more brutal leader takes over Mexico's Zetas
2012-08-24,18 Days with the Syrian rebels (PHOTOS)
2012-08-24,"The New Statesman must correct its error over Assange and extradition (re: New Statesman's article ""Legal myths about the Assange extradition"")"
2012-08-24,Why the Western Media Hates Julian Assange
2012-08-24,"Ex-senator in Brazil to repay $234 mn in stolen funds: ""This is the largest amount to be repaid in a corruption case"""
2012-08-24,Egypt arrests man after nail bomb attack on German embassy over prophet Mohammed cartoons
2012-08-24,Assange & Ecuador may take UK to international court
2012-08-24,"How Did Coal-Rich India End Up With Power Blackouts? - For decades, the World Bank pushed privatization of the power industry and assumed that energy services would ""trickle down"" to the poor."
2012-08-24,Apple and Samsung get South Korea bans - BBC News
2012-08-23,"Tomorrow, a 100 year old mysterious package, its content unknown, will be opened in a museum in Norway. A true time capsule is revealed."
2012-08-23,"Elderly woman ruins the classic painting ""Ecce Homo"" Beyond recognition. "
2012-08-23,"We'll make a killing out of food crisis, Glencore trading boss boasts, Drought is good for business"
2012-08-23,"SKorean judges block law requiring real names online, ruling it restricts freedom of speech"
2012-08-23,"'US not our daddy to punish us' - Ecuador FM Patino. Ecuador does not fear US revenge for granting asylum to Julian Assange: We dont think that any punishment is possible, nor do we think that there is a reason for revenge for Ecuadors sovereign decision. The USA does it every day"
2012-08-23,Russia to eliminate all its chemical weapons by 2015
2012-08-23,Tobacco on Pace to Kill One Billion People This Century (crosspost from r/globalhealth)
2012-08-23,"Swedish prosecutor: It is possible to interview Assange in London. We've done so in other cases. Still, Assange MUST come to Sweden and we wont say why."
2012-08-23,BBC News - Israel anger at S Africa 'Occupied Territories' labels
2012-08-23,"Chinese Psych Treatments -   Each year 1,000s are forcibly locked in mental institutions.  A human-rights lawyer was walking down a street when he was grabbed &  tossed in one, where he was tied up, force-fed, & given injections. When released, he had no idea about what exactly had happened to him.
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2012-08-23,New immune-system disease found in Asians; causes AIDS-like symptoms in people without HIV
2012-08-23,"Nearly 60 percent of Jewish 12th-graders in Israel support the deportation of African refugees and almost half think their children should also be deported, according to a survey that will be presented at this year's Haifa Education Conference"
2012-08-23,Massive student protests return to streets of Montreal: Thousands of students have rallied against tuition fee hikes in Quebec; demonstrators marched through downtown Montreal ahead of Quebecs general election on Sept 4th
2012-08-23,"US, Pakistan should 'divorce,' ex-ambassador to Washington says: The United States and Pakistan should stop pretending they are allies and amicably ""divorce,"" Pakistan's former ambassador to Washington said on Wednesday, citing unrealistic expectations in both countries that include U.S."
2012-08-23,"Canadian government drops environmental assessment of 492 projects, washes hands; dropped projects include those proven to cause damage to environment"
2012-08-23,Robert Fisk: 'Rebel army? They're a gang of foreigners'
2012-08-23,Islamist Mind Games: How Young German Men Are Lured into Jihad -  Young Muslim men in Germany are systematically trying to recruit their peers for jihad using sophisticated rhetoric and psychology and by targeting vulnerable youths who are searching for direction in life. 
2012-08-23,Report: Pacific Ocean Has 100x More Plastic Particles in it Than in the '70s
2012-08-23,"In rare public rebuke, UN chief tells Iranian leaders to tone down rhetoric "
2012-08-23,The Syrian government is now using tanks and aircraft to shell Damascus
2012-08-23,Automated feed of /r/india to twitter ordered to be blocked by Government of India
2012-08-23,Australia/NZ threatens telcos with mobile roaming price laws: Australia and New Zealand are considering legislation to prevent mobile carriers gouging customers when they use their phones overseas
2012-08-23,Son of Chechen Warlord Dies Fighting Assad - An International War
2012-08-23,France loosens job restrictions on Roma:  Prime minister's office says new sectors will be created where Europe's most marginalised ethnic group can seek work.
2012-08-23,Chemical weapons 'excuse for US to intervene in Syria': Chinese state media have accused US President Barack Obama of planning to use Syria's chemical weapons as an excuse for intervening militarily.
2012-08-22,"A week after losing his appeal for the right-to-die with assistance from a doctor, Tony Nicklinson, who was paralysed from the neck down and described his life as a ""living nightmare"", dies after refusing food for a week."
2012-08-22,"German customs seized a $1.2 million violin from a Japanese professional musician and are demanding she pay almost $500,000 to get it back"
2012-08-22,"George Orwell is 'too Left-wing for a statue, says BBC... "
2012-08-22,"""Pirate Patch Unblocks The Pirate Bay In a Blink"
2012-08-22,Criminal charges filed against German rabbi for performing circumcision:  The charges come less than two months after a Cologne court ruled that the religious act causes bodily harm to newborn babies
2012-08-22,"Enrique Steiger, epic plastic surgeon who spends 2 months per year working on celebrities, and the rest of the year working as an emergency doctor in war-torn zones"
2012-08-22,Gambia to execute all death row prisoners next month:   Gambian President Yahya Jammeh pledged to have all of the countrys death-row prisoners executed by mid-September in a stern Eid address aired on Sunday which targeted heinous acts including homosexuality and drug use. 
2012-08-22,"Obama warns Syria against using chemical or biological weapons:Obama says, 'That's a red line for us ... there would be enormous consequences' if Bashar Assad appeared to be preparing to use poison gas or biological weapons.'"
2012-08-22,"Tony Nicklinson, British sufferer of 'Locked In Syndrome', dies."
2012-08-22,Offensive Caricature Has Angered Christians in Germany - 
2012-08-22,"The Might Of Thorium: Can India Lead The Next 
Global Energy Revolution? | Economy Watch"
2012-08-22,TrapWire tied to anti-Occupy Internet-spy program
2012-08-22,"Kim Jong Un to make first foreign trip as head of state next week, to Iran."
2012-08-22,Russia joins WTO
2012-08-22,What's gone wrong at The Guardian? 
2012-08-22,Judge in Chile orders arrest of 8 former police & army officials for kidnapping US hiker  - The Princeton University mathematics professor vanished in 1985 while hiking near Chile's border with Argentina.
2012-08-22,Mexican judges strike down law protecting army from civilian courts
2012-08-22,Aides to the British royal family are understood to have asked UK media organizations not to publish pictures of Prince Harry partying naked in Las Vegas
2012-08-22,"Male-order education: Iran bars women from 77 university courses including accounting, engineering, pure chemistry, English literature and translation, hotel management, and many others. The University of Tehran will not allow women to take courses in mathematics, natural resources, and forestry."
2012-08-22,"Fish caught near Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant was carriyng 258 times the 'safe' level of radiation. It registered 25,800 becquerels of caesium per kilo, beating the previous radiation record for captured wildlife."
2012-08-22,"Pictures of killer of 69 people, Anders Breivik's cell in Norway"
2012-08-22,"Canada's Unique Freshwater Test Lakes Face Closure - 
Slashed funding threatens the isolated Experimental Lakes Area, site of landmark experiments on sources & effects of pollution.  With 58 lakes serving a broad range of studies, the program is unique in the world."
2012-08-22,Elderly woman ruins valuable artwork in Italy
2012-08-22,"Mexico's top court ruled on Tuesday that military officials who committed crimes against civilians should be tried in civil courts, possibly clearing the way for sterner prosecutions against military misconduct in the country's drug war"
2012-08-22,"Russia warned the West on Tuesday against unilateral action on Syria, a day after US president Barack Obama threatened ""enormous consequences"" if his Syrian counterpart used chemical or biological arms or even moved them in a menacing way."
2012-08-21,Iran bans women from 70 university degree courses 
2012-08-21,"Sweden does not want to extradite Assange to death row:  ""We will never surrender a person to the death penalty"" said Cecilia Riddselius on behalf of the Swedish Ministry of Justice"
2012-08-21,"Mali Islamists: when we have finished conquering France, we will come to the USA, we will come to London and conquer the whole world. "
2012-08-21,"Boy (15) on trial for murder in the Netherlands for allegedly stabbing a  girl to death in a 20 contract killing, after a row started over Facebook comments."
2012-08-21,"Just As Ecuador Grants Asylum To Assange, It Prepares To Extradite Blogger For Exposing Corruption"
2012-08-21,"""The Vatican won a major victory Monday [20 August 2012] in an Oregon federal courtroom, where a judge ruled that the Holy See is not the employer of molester priests. The decision . . . ends a six-year question in the decade-old case and could shield the Vatican from possible monetary damages."""
2012-08-21,'Operation Free Assange': Anonymous take down UK government websites
2012-08-21,Wife of powerful politician dodges death sentence for murder of U.K. businessman while a street vendor sits on death row.
2012-08-21,"China plans on building a 220-story skyscraper...in 
90 days."
2012-08-21,Possible Amelia Earhart wreckage found!
2012-08-21,"Islamists in Timbuktu: Mali Becomes Infected by the Somali Virus - Mali was once a model of African democracy. But ever since a military coup in March, Islamists have been on the march and have already imposed Sharia law in the country's north. "
2012-08-21,Hundreds Of Christians Hiding In Pakistan After Girl's Arrest
2012-08-21,Mexico chalks up success in health-care reforms. Near-universal coverage results from science-informed changes.
2012-08-21,A female Japanese journalist was killed Monday while covering clashes in Syria's northern city of Aleppo.
2012-08-21,"BBC article on the increasing reach of American law overseas - taxes, copyrights, and sanctions extending American law to foreign companies operating overseas."
2012-08-21,Satellite imagery shows North Korea placing dome atop developing nuclear reactor
2012-08-21,"Up to 3 years: Pussy Riot copycats booted from German cathedral may face jail. 4 people who stormed Cologne Cathedral during services, wearing masks and carrying signs showing solidarity with the jailed members of Pussy Riot, have been charged with disturbing a religious service and may face prison"
2012-08-21,"Netanyahu 'determined to attack Iran' before US elections, claims Israel's Channel 10..."
2012-08-21,WikiLeaks Bypasses Financial Blockade With Bitcoin - Forbes
2012-08-21,"India blocks more than 250 Web sites for inciting hate, panic - The Washington Post"
2012-08-21,U.K. aims for the fastest broadband in Europe by 2015
2012-08-21,Brazil: Drug dealers say no to crack in Rio
2012-08-21,Egypt is preparing to use aircraft and tanks in Sinai for the first time since the 1973 war with Israel
2012-08-21,"Fish demand 'exceeds UK sea supply': Level of consumption in 2012 has already met annual fish supplies, leaving the UK reliant on imported stocks
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2012-08-21,BBC News - Arctic sea ice set to hit record low
2012-08-20,"14 year old girl too young to work as a counsellor at a camp for kids with cancer. Instead, she raised $90k by becoming the youngest person to swim across Lake Ontario."
2012-08-20,"Frenchwoman in legal battle with Saudi monarchy dead after mysteriously ""falling"" from her apartment window, with foul play considered a possibility."
2012-08-20,Canada's largest Protestant church approves boycott of Israeli settlement products
2012-08-20,German Pirate Party appeals Germany's ban on anonymous SIM card activation: Says it's covered under European Court of Human Rights' right to private life
2012-08-20,Legal myths about the Assange extradition.
2012-08-20,"Dawn of 'drone ecology' begins, as unmanned vehicles skim over Indonesia's jungle canopy to photograph orangutans, protect rhinos in Nepal, and study invasive aquatic plants in Florida"
2012-08-20,UK 'too heavy-handed' with Twitter and online trolls
2012-08-20,Burma Abolishes Media Censorship
2012-08-20,Myanmar ends direct media censorship in most dramatic move yet for freedom of expression
2012-08-20,"Israel Police: Hundreds watched attempt to lynch Palestinians in Jerusalem, did not interfere."
2012-08-20,Are some banks too big to prosecute? - CNN.com
2012-08-20,"Iceland holds some key lessons for nations trying to survive bailouts after the islands approach to its rescue led to a surprisingly strong recovery, the International Monetary Funds mission chief to the country said."
2012-08-20,"Mosque shooting, suicide bombing hit Russia's Caucasus region"
2012-08-20,Pussy Riot protesters arrested in Marseille. French police detain Pussy Riot protesters for wearing balaclavas amid crackdown on face-coverings
2012-08-20,"UK doesn't know who it is dealing with, Ecuador says - 

President Rafael Correa describes UK's stance as ""grotesque"" & ""intolerant"" & warns any attempt to storm its embassy to arrest Assange would destroy relations between the 2 countries."
2012-08-20,"Scientists dispel 'Miserable Monday' myth - It seems we hate Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays too"
2012-08-20,Pussy Riot copycats booted and arrested from German cathedral (VIDEO)
2012-08-20,"Spains Creative Protests: Flamenco Flash Mobs and Supermarket Robin Hoods: Angry demonstrations are one thing, but the irate in Spain are stomping their flamenco heels at banks and robbing supermarkets to give to the poor"
2012-08-20,11 year old Christian  girl arrested for 'blasphemy'
2012-08-20," The Russian Orthodox and Polish Roman Catholic churches signed an unprecedented reconciliation appeal on Friday, after centuries of feuding and hostility. The two churches described the move as a historical act. "
2012-08-20,"Wife of Chinese politician Bo Xilai gets suspended death sentence, expected to spend at least 14 years in jail "
2012-08-20,India bans mass text messages to stem panic among minorities  
2012-08-20,Colombian 'Farc rebels' blow up oil pipeline
2012-08-20,"Raising Romania's Orphans, Several Boys At A Time
:Florin Grosuleac has raised more than 60 orphaned boys in his small apartment in Bucharest. In a country where children are too often abandoned, Grosuleac has devoted his life to taking them in."
2012-08-20,Mexico's federal police agency has replaced all 348 officers at the capital's international airport almost two months after police there shot dead three of their fellow officers in an alleged drug related killing.
2012-08-19,"Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa has slammed  Britain's threats to remove WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange from the Ecuador embassy. ""Never, as long as I am president, will Ecuador accept threats like these, which are absolutely vulgar, inconsiderate and intolerable."""
2012-08-19,"Assange Demands U.S. End WikiLeaks Witch Hunt. ""The war on whistleblowers must end."""
2012-08-19,"Drug Dealers in Brazil ban sale of crack, claim it destabilizes communities "
2012-08-19,Julian Assange to leave Ecuadorean embassy and make public statement in 1 hours time
2012-08-19,"A dinosaur dig team has unearthed the skeleton of a massive 2000 kg triple-horned triceratops just east of Drumheller, Alberta. "
2012-08-19,World First: Australia introduces plain cigarette packaging; Defeats Big Tobacco challenge in High Court.
2012-08-19,"Support for Ecuador appears to be growing in Latin America. ""Britain ... is wrong. The threat is not only an aggression to Ecuador, it's against Bolivia, it's against South America, against the whole of Latin America,"" Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Friday."
2012-08-19,State Department: The U.S. does not recognize the concept of diplomatic asylum | The Cable
2012-08-19,"Russian clerics forgive Pussy Riot, ask for mercy: Russian Orthodox Church clerics have asked the countrys authorities to ""show mercy"" on the three members of the punk band Pussy Riot, who were sentenced to two years in jail each on Friday in a trial seen as a test of President Vladimir Putin"
2012-08-19,"Anti-Islam protest goes ahead in Germany | euronews, world news"
2012-08-19,"Dutch campaign to stop cannabis card law | euronews, world news"
2012-08-19,"
11 year-old mentally challenged girl jailed for blasphemy in Pakistan

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2012-08-19,Lord Rothschild takes 130m bet against the euro
2012-08-19,Oil-industry lobbyists are trying to undermine transparency measures in America and Europe that could help prevent future tyrants from emerging
2012-08-19,LIVE: Julian Assange's legal team speak outside Ecuadorean Embassy in London
2012-08-19,Researchers May Have Found Amelia Earhart's Plane Debris
2012-08-19,"

A  boy calling a wrong number in India has snowballed into a major row, with 50 families facing social boycott  "
2012-08-19,German spy ship aiding Syrian rebels: A German newspaper has reported that a spy ship from the German intelligence agency is helping Syrian rebels in their fight to oust the Damascus regime.
2012-08-19,"Prepare for 'sacred war,' Kim tells North Korea's troops - Kim Jong Un has ordered his troops ""not to miss their gold chance to deal at once deadly counter blows"" if even one shell lands in North Korean territory during upcoming U.S.-South Korea military exercises"
2012-08-19,"Pussy Riot, sentenced to two years in a penal colony, release new anti-Putin single"
2012-08-19,Benjamin Netanyahu faces widespread opposition to strike on Iran
2012-08-19,British parliamentarians accused former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond of holding back evidence during a hearing last month over the Libor rate-rigging scandal.
2012-08-19,Italy's tax hunters target super-rich and their yachts off the Sardinian coast -  Coastguards get tough.
2012-08-19,Kim warns troops to prepare for 'sacred war' during US-South Korea exercises - CNN.com
2012-08-19,Thousands protest in Tunisia over proposed language for Constitution that describes a woman as a complement with the man in the family and an associate to the man in the development of the country.
2012-08-18,"According to the IMF, Icelands decision to push losses on to bondholders instead of taxpayers and the safeguarding of a welfare system that shielded the unemployed from penury helped propel the nation from collapse toward recovery, "
2012-08-18,Pregnant teen dies after abortion ban delays her chemo treatment for leukemia - CNN.com
2012-08-18,Chess master Garry Kasparov among those arrested outside Pussy Riot trial
2012-08-18,Russia issues warning to Britain over Assang
2012-08-18,South African Airways announces new policy: no longer accepting white male applicants for pilot training programme
2012-08-18,Palestinian youth beaten unconscious in attempted lynch in Jerusalem
2012-08-18,Ecuador urges other countries to protect its London embassy 
2012-08-18,"As Israel prepares for war with Iran, some citizens say the government is warmongering"
2012-08-18,Australian diplomats expect Assange to be extradited to the US
2012-08-18,"The Politically Incorrect Guide to U.S. Interests in the Middle East - Sorry, folks: America just doesn't care about freedom or Arab-Israeli peace all that much."
2012-08-18,"16-year-gld girl in the Dominican Republic dies of cancer after being refused treatment for 3 weeks due to pregnancy; under an amendment to the Dominican Republic's constitution which declares that ""life begins at conception,"" abortion is banned, effectively for any reason"
2012-08-18,"Richard Dawkins: England's religious-inspired legal system forbids assisted suicide for two men, who have locked-in-syndrome and who cannot physically kill themselves -- ""I am ashamed of my country and its laws"""
2012-08-18,The Organization of American States (OAS) to hold meeting about the threat of intervention in Ecuador's London embassy.  US vote not to hold meeting was on the losing side.
2012-08-18,"In UK [United Kingdom] Threat To Ecuador, Experts See Mistake: ""'It was a big mistake,"" said former British ambassador Oliver Miles. 'It puts the British government in the position of asking for something illegitimate.'"""
2012-08-18,Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov could face up to 5 years in prison for alleged violence against police outside Pussy Riot sentencing.
2012-08-18,What Do Russians Think About 'Pussy Riot?' The Answer Might Surprise You - Forbes
2012-08-18,More than 30 Killed in Protest in South Africa. Miners demand higher wages and get bullets instead. 
2012-08-18,"Reunited with her daughters after 5 years of Kafkaesque detention in American prisons on false charges, Iranian Shahrzad Mir-Qolikhan to file lawsuits in the ICJ against the US Federal Bureau of Prisons and others."
2012-08-18,United Church of Canada passes boycott of products tied to Israeli settlements
2012-08-18,Syria VP defects.
2012-08-18,"Australia confirmed Saturday that its diplomatic post in Washington had been preparing for Julian Assange's possible extradition to the US but played it down as ""contingency planning""."
2012-08-18,Man arrested in Czech Republic for planning Breivik copycat attack.
2012-08-18,"20 Shiites pulled off buses in Pakistan, shot, killed: police"
2012-08-18,"Julian Assange Extradition: Ecuador 'Willing To Co-Operate' With Britain -- ""Pledge on protecting WikiLeaks founder from US could lead to deal, says source as embassy complains of 'intimidating' police"""
2012-08-18,Media Frenzy Over Pussy Riot Obscures Legal Plights Of Lesser-Known Protesters
2012-08-17,Pussy Riot found GUILTY
2012-08-17,"A Former CIA man on the UK threat to go into the Ecuador embassy and arrest Assange: ""This was unheard of even during ... the Cold War. If someone sought refuge in the US Embassy in Moscow or the Soviet Embassy in the United States ... international law was always honored. This is unprecedented."""
2012-08-17,Anonymous calls for shut-down of TrapWire to start this Saturday
2012-08-17,Moscow bans gay pride marches for the next century
2012-08-17,German TV crew attacked while filming at Chinese factory - angry workers shouted 'kill the foreign spies'
2012-08-17,"Norway's police chief resigned on Thursday, days after an independent commission found that police could have prevented all or part of a bombing and shooting spree by far-right militant Anders Behring Breivik that killed 77 people."
2012-08-17,Irans President Ahmadinejad calls Israels existence insult to all humanity
2012-08-17,What the world thinks: Should drugs like cocaine and heroin be legalised? | The Economist
2012-08-17,Syria rebels warn they will turn to Al-Qaeda if West fails them
2012-08-17,Anti-Leaks is DDOSing RT.com
2012-08-17,"WikiLeaks siege fiasco: 40 cops and 50,000 pounds a day"
2012-08-17,"Scientology Detox Programs: expensive &  unproven - 
There is no evidence Scientology's 'Purif' and 'Narconon' detox work & the megadoses of vitamins involved may harm health"
2012-08-17,"No one else will protect Assange, so Ecuador will - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)"
2012-08-17,"Half of Scotland's drug deaths caused by prescribed heroin substitute, more than heroin itself..."
2012-08-17,"Mexico's big oil problem: Crude production by Mexico, the third largest supplier of oil to the U.S., is falling fast."
2012-08-17,"As Ecuador Grants Assange Asylum, Former UK Ambassador Says Embassy Raid Is Coming After Enormous Pressure from the Obama Administration"
2012-08-17,"Air France asks passengers for refuel cash at Damascus stop
| Reuters"
2012-08-17,Pussy Riot guilty of hooliganism 
2012-08-17,Fraser Institute co-founder confirms 'years and years' of U.S. oil billionaires' funding
2012-08-17,Jewish extremists believed behind attack that hurts 6 Palestinians in W. Bank; Netanyahu to Abbas: Jerusalem not taking incident lightly.
2012-08-17,Russian Embassy in London attacked
2012-08-17,"Chilean students arrested in Santiago schools - There were violent clashes as police moved in & arrested 139 people, mostly teenage students, who were occupying 3 schools in the capital.  Students have held months of mass protests demanding free, high-quality public education for all."
2012-08-17,"Entire book (53,000 words, 11 images and a computer program) encoded on to DNA"
2012-08-17,"""Assange's flight from Sweden, a decent democracy, into the arms of Ecuador's megalomanic president is incomprehensible"" The Guardian"
2012-08-17,Germany Debates Plan to Pay Stay-at-Home Moms
2012-08-16,Ecuador to Let Julian Assange Stay in Its Embassy.
2012-08-16,Ecuador says Britain threatened to raid embassy to extract Julian Assange
2012-08-16,Gunmen Have Attacked And Entered A Pakistani Air Force Base Thought To House Nuclear Weapons
2012-08-16,"At least 18 killed as South African police open fire on 3,000 striking miners (PHOTOS)"
2012-08-16,Julian Assange: UK issues 'threat' to arrest Wikileaks founder
2012-08-16,Wikileaks founder Julian Assange faces arrest even if Ecuador grants asylum
2012-08-16,Kim Dotcom's extradition uncertain.  FBI now has to prove it actually has a case.
2012-08-16,WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange granted asylum by Ecuador
2012-08-16,Israel 'ready' for short Iran war
2012-08-16,Ecuador says it received 'threats' from UK as Assange decision looms
2012-08-16,"Today we have received from the United Kingdom an explicit threat in writing that they could assault our embassy in London if Ecuador does not hand over Julian Assange, Mr. Patio said at a news conference in Quito, adding defiantly, We are not a British colony."
2012-08-16,"TrapWire tied to White House, Scotland Yard, M15 and others, claims hacked Stratfor email"
2012-08-16,Over a dozen African athletes missing in London
2012-08-16,Germany Gives Up on Greece. Suggests Bankruptcy Is Only Option.
2012-08-16,Ecuador grants asylum to WikiLeaks' Assange
2012-08-16,"Massive Sacrifice of Ancient Warrior Army Discovered at Danish Alken Enge Bog - It's believed a dramatic, society-changing event caused the mass sacrifice of a large army at the site.  Who they were, where they're from, & why they were sacrificed is a mystery."
2012-08-16,"Only 2% of Canadians deny climate change, suggests poll"
2012-08-16,"Britain, in order to apprehend WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, threatens to revoke the Ecuadoran embassy's diplomatic status"
2012-08-16,Australia upholds tobacco branding ban: High Court ruling will force tobacco companies to sell cigarettes in plain packaging.
2012-08-16,"Families of Irans slain nuclear scientists have filed a lawsuit against Israel, the United States and Britain accusing them of involvement in the assassination of their loved ones"
2012-08-16,"Harry Harrison, creator of Deathworld, Stainless 
Steel Rat and many other sci-fi books, dies at 87"
2012-08-16,Ecuador grants asylum to Assange and condemns condemns Britain's 'threatening and intimidating' language
2012-08-16,Syrian conflict spills into Lebanon
2012-08-16,U.K. cops hunting for Assange show up at Ecuador's embassy
2012-08-16,Libor scandal: Seven banks summoned in US probe
2012-08-15,India announces plans for a Mars mission in 2013
2012-08-15,Iran threatens to disconnect from the Internet
2012-08-15,Japan and North Korea Set To Talk: Based on the principle of settling the unfortunate past and on restoring normal relations. 
2012-08-15,"Cipla launches Qvir, a four in one HIV drug for Rs 158 ($2.84)"
2012-08-15,Robin hood Spanish mayor becomes hero for robbing supermarkets 
2012-08-15,Tunisian Olympians targeted by Islamist radicals for behavior and dress deemed un-Islamic
2012-08-15,Masked neo-Nazi Immortals storm Germany  and the Web 
2012-08-15,"China's plan to expand coal mines & power plants threatens to drain   precious water supply & could trigger a severe water crisis, report warns - Heavy coal mining in Inner Mongolia is already causing desertification in the once pristine grasslands. ""The extinction of water is irreversible."""
2012-08-15,"""Like a Bad Hollywood Cop Movie"": Asia's wildlife traffickers untouchable, colluding with officials -   Bags of Tiger cubs, 100s of squirming tortoises, elephant tusks, water dragons, American paddlefish. Officials at Thailand airport proudly cite what's been seized. But others tell another story: "
2012-08-15,The enthusiasm of Israel's prime minister and defence minister for an air strike on Iran appears to have united their country's defence and security establishment against them
2012-08-15,Australian High Court rules government's world-first plain packaging laws are constitutionally valid and tobacco products will be sold in olive-green packaging by end of 2012.
2012-08-15,"More brutal farm attacks in South Africa: Mom shot in the face, tried calling for help | News24"
2012-08-15,Shadowy American drone campaign in Africa targeting Islamic militants more ruthlessly than ever
2012-08-15,Israel unhappy after EU blacklists 1980s town
2012-08-15,"Syria, 'on the Verge of Collapse' - In Focus - The Atlantic"
2012-08-15,Truck Bomb Explodes in Central Damascus
2012-08-15,Roma Trapped in Misery as France Demolishes Camps
2012-08-15,"AK47s, Quack Medicine, & Heaps of Cash: The Gruesome Rhino Horn Trade Explained -  A male rhino struggled to its feet, hobbled several paces, then fell back down. It's horn of keratin, the same protein in human fingernails & hair, had been hacked off by poachers for a Chinese-driven market.  "
2012-08-15,"Leaders of Muslim countries are expected to suspend Syria's membership of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation at a summit in Mecca on Wednesday, despite the vocal objections of Iran."
2012-08-15,"Neo-Nazi flash mobs strike German cities, aim to become 'immortal' on YouTube - NY Daily News"
2012-08-15,Syrian conflict turning into proxy war against Iran.
2012-08-15,Australia forces tobacco companies to use plain packaging (High Court decision)
2012-08-15,Saudi king in goodwill gesture to Iran's Ahmadinejad
2012-08-15,Chinese Companies Pull Out of US Stock Markets 
2012-08-15,Hindus leave Pakistan for India amid claims of persecution
2012-08-14,Canadians ridicule unarmed American Tourist's fears
2012-08-14,Dotcom accused of assault - with his stomach
2012-08-14,"Venezuela is training a ""guerrilla army"" aiming to be a million strong by 2013 to fight off a possible US invasion"
2012-08-14,Riots in the North of France
2012-08-14,Pope's butler to face criminal charges after leaking hundreds of secret documents from the Pope's apartment in an attempt to reveal corruption.
2012-08-14,"Deep magnitude 7.7 quake off coast of Russia, north of Japan "
2012-08-14,"Women Challenge Islamists Over Equality - They don't want ''complementarity'' rather than ""equality"" of the sexes & see the groundbreaking ""Personal Status Code"" of 1956 in jeopardy.  Thousands of Tunisians protested in the capital for women's rights as the Islamist-led govt faces rising dissent. 
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2012-08-14,Indian police arrest famed TV yoga guru and anti-corruption campaigner as he attempts to lead a procession of thousands of supporters to parliament.
2012-08-14,"Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake in the Sea of Okhotsk, Russia"
2012-08-14,"Israeli Sniper Gets Only 45 Days for Killing of Two Women under White Flags: Israeli human rights group B'Tselem points out, the deal does not recognize guilt for the killing of Majedah and Rayah Abu Hajaj, but rather punishes the soldier for the ""killing of an unidentified individual."""
2012-08-14,Pakistani wife in disputed marriage gunned down in court by her brother
2012-08-14,Iran says Israel won't attack
2012-08-14, European Bankers Destroying European Democracy - The cause of necessary economic reforms has not been served by confounding that necessity with the policy of austerity 
2012-08-14,Revealed: Life behind the scenes at the secretive Bilderberg conference
2012-08-14,"Punk Band's Moscow Trial Offers Platform For Orthodox Protesters: ""'We're going to rip them [a Pussy Riot poster and a Madonna poster] up and burn them,' said Leonid Simonovich-Nikshich, the white-bearded leader of one group, the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers. 'Like in the Middle Ages.'"""
2012-08-14,Proceso Magazine: US Navy SEALs to Hunt Mexican Cartel Kingpin
2012-08-14,"Severe abnormalities' found in Fukushima Butterflies
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2012-08-14,Malaysian internet users stage an online protest against law that threatens free speech online
2012-08-14,Poland Peels Back Layers On Secret CIA Prison For Suspected Terrorists
2012-08-14,4 Congo Olympic delegation members missing
2012-08-14,India witnesses 56 per cent drop in HIV cases - IBNLive
2012-08-14,"NATO official: Soon, Israel wont have unanimous support for Iran strike"
2012-08-14,"Japan's poverty gap has politicians calling for rise in minimum wage - 
It's only over the past decade that poverty has come to be recognized in Japan. Prior to that, the govt didn't even compile statistics on income inequality."
2012-08-14,Ecuador to make Assange asylum bid decision 'this week'
2012-08-14,Saudi king sends 32m to embattled Burma Muslims
2012-08-13,"QANTAS airline defends policy of moving any men sitting next to unaccompanied minors, to different seats.  Because every adult male is a potential child molester..."
2012-08-13,Wikileaks under week long attack. Remains inaccessible.
2012-08-13,Egypt president Mohamed Morsi forces top generals to retire 
2012-08-13,Two New Pyramids discovered in Egypt
2012-08-13,Fukushima Chief Yoshida: We must bring foreign experts in to help  Reactors NOT stabilized
2012-08-13,Israeli sniper gets 45 days for killing Palestinian women
2012-08-13,Gender-based violence leading cause of death for Turkish women 15-44
2012-08-13,"Reddit man spends summer flying around the world helping others | Australian media has picked this up
			News.com.au"
2012-08-13,"""Pope Benedict XVI's butler will be charged with aggravated theft over the leaking of hundreds of secret papers from the pope's personal apartment to an Italian journalist . . . A second man, Vatican IT expert Claudio Sciarpelletti, will be charged with aiding the butler, Paolo Gabriele"""
2012-08-13,"Brazil's economic slowdown so far leaves many unscathed: Brazil unemployment is at a record low, wages have risen, and more than 1 million jobs have been created this year. An economist calls it the 'great conundrum.'"
2012-08-13,Even China Is Running Out of Money Now
2012-08-13,Syrian atrocity: Bodies of postal workers thrown from roof (GRAPHIC VIDEO)   RT
2012-08-13,"Extreme porn trial: well, thank you for that interesting anatomical lesson - The Guardian"
2012-08-13,"German Archaeological Conservationists Pushing for Rebuilding Afghanistan's Buddhas -    Their destruction in 2001 by the Taliban caused global condemnation.  Once the largest in the world, they were carved in the 6th Century.  Unesco's decision not to rebuild them hasn't ended the debate. "
2012-08-13,Moscow to spend over $720 billion on new military aircraft  
2012-08-13,Saudi Arabia plans new city for women workers only
2012-08-13,Thailand - Senator 'accidentally' kills secretary.....With an Uzi
2012-08-13,Israeli Minister Asks Nations to Say Iran Talks Have Failed - NYTimes.com
2012-08-13,At Least 300 Dead in Iran Earthquakes
2012-08-13,Father of Saudi athlete says daughter called names for competing in Games
2012-08-13,"Media coverage of Syrian violence partial and untrue, says nun"
2012-08-13,Nigerian army 'kills 20 Boko Haram Islamists'
2012-08-13,Kangaroo escapes zoo in Germany ... with the help of a fox and a boar
2012-08-13,Syrian fighter jet crashes near Iraq border
2012-08-13,Indonesians protest against Myanmar genocide of Muslims. 
2012-08-12,"China releases woman sent to labor camp for protesting daughter's rape:  After a woman was sentenced to a labor camp for protesting leniency for her daughter's rapist, Chinese authorities bent to public pressure and released her. "
2012-08-12,Japans Olympic soccer loss brings out the Twitter racism - The Japan Daily Press
2012-08-12,German Opposition Calls for Wealth Tax
2012-08-12,Price of bacon set to soar as producers are hit by new EU animal welfare laws
2012-08-12,"80 Dead, Many More Injured in Iranian Earthquake "
2012-08-12,"Geist: CETA Update - ACTA Provisions Are Still Very Much Alive: ""...the concerns that CETA may replicate ACTA appear to be very real despite the denials from the European Commission."" "
2012-08-12,U.S. guided missile destroyer collides with a Japanese-owned oil tanker in Strait of Hormuz
2012-08-12,Tanzania said a shipping agent based in Dubai had reflagged 36 Iranian oil tankers with the Tanzanian flag without the country's knowledge and approval.
2012-08-12,The United States and Turkey want to impose a no-fly zone in Syria
2012-08-12,Anti-Blasphemy Law Introduced In Tunisia
2012-08-12,Japan to take islands row with South Korea to world court
2012-08-12,"German opposition leader talks tough on tax evasion: Social Democrat leader Sigmar Gabriel has said that tax evasion using havens such as Switzerland constitutes ""organized crime in Swiss banks in Germany."" He said the banks should be threatened with prosecution. "
2012-08-12,More than half of young Greeks are unemployed: Greek youth unemployment figures marked another record high at 54.9% in May compared to 41% for the same period last year
2012-08-12,Iraq oil production surpasses Iran
2012-08-12,Mans penis stolen by thieves in China
2012-08-12,Harassed Hindus flee Pakistan: reports
2012-08-12,"Trending against Kurds in Turkey:""The best Kurd is a dead Kurd"" "
2012-08-12,Earthquakes kill 87 people in Northwestern Iran.
2012-08-12,"Biggest London fire 'for years' - 
More than 200 firefighters are tackling a blaze described by London Fire Brigade as the biggest seen in the capital for several years.  There were initial reports that people could see the smoke from the Olympic Park."
2012-08-12,Afghan Policeman Kills 10 Fellow Policemen 
2012-08-12,"Authorities in Spain released a video which shows suspected al-Qaeda members training for a bombing raid using a model plane, three arrested."
2012-08-12,"People of the Lake - The drying up of the Aral Sea was an environmental and human tragedy, but can Kazakhstan undo this man-made disaster?"
2012-08-12,Hamas is prepared to close all the underground tunnels along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt if the Egyptians agree to reopen the Rafah border crossing on a permanent basis.
2012-08-12,Saudi Arabia media ignores historic Olympic Games of female athletes
2012-08-12,"Nuclear ruse: Posing as toymaker, Chinese merchant allegedly sought U.S. technology for Iran"
2012-08-11,"The FBI justified the insane raid of Kim Dotcom's mansion by saying that it suspected Dotcom had a 'doomsday' device that could ""wipe out evidence of internet piracy around the world."""
2012-08-11,Saudi Arabia Won't Let Israel Cross Airspace To Attack Iran
2012-08-11,UN Pleads With US to Curtail Ethanol Production To Prevent Famine
2012-08-11,"Stratfor emails reveal secret, widespread TrapWire surveillance system"
2012-08-11,Vietnam workers kept like slaves at factory in Russia
2012-08-11,"Israel's prime minister and defense minister would like to attack Iran's nuclear sites before the U.S. election in November but lack crucial support within their cabinet and military, an Israeli newspaper said on Friday."
2012-08-11,"Montreal Student Riots, Quebec's Speech-Killing Bill 78, & Something Called the ""Anarchopanda"""
2012-08-11,"Indian minister says bureaucrats 'can steal a little': A provincial minister in India's most populous state has sparked a scandal after suggesting to bureaucrats that they could ""steal a little"" if they performed well in their duties. "
2012-08-11,"Resistant Gonorrhea: CDC Says Just One Drug Left: Exactly 6 months after warning that gonorrhea was becoming untreatable by the last two drugs commonly used against it, CDC has taken one of those drugs off the table, leaving just one antibiotic available to treat the disease"
2012-08-11,No mans land: Women-only city planned for Saudi Arabia  RT
2012-08-11,"Parkinson's man arrested at Olympic cycling for ""not smiling"": ""I was arrested on 'suspicion of being about to cause a public order offence' or something like that."""
2012-08-11,Chavez highlights arrest of US 'marine mercenary' | News  
2012-08-11,"A Libyan army general, with a senior defence ministry role, has been shot dead in the eastern city of Benghazi."
2012-08-11,Middle Eastern Gauss malware could be state sponsored: Code linked to Flame and Stuxnet attacks
2012-08-11,"Spanish police thwart Mexican cartel attempting to set up in Europe:  Spanish police, working closely with the FBI, have smashed an attempt by Mexico's biggest drugs cartel to set-up in Europe. "
2012-08-11,Mexican cartel 'thwarted' in Spain
2012-08-11,"India's enduring problem with malnutrition a ""national shame."" Millions of children suffering from severe malnutrition."
2012-08-11,"The Royal Spanish Academy, the arbiter of the Spanish language, will add Espanglish (Spanglish) to its 2014 dictionary and experts believe the future of the Spanish language is in the US, not Spain or Mexico."
2012-08-11,"At least 50 killed, 400 injured in northwest Iran quakes [ Sat Aug 11, 2012 15:46 pm (GMT) ]"
2012-08-11,"Vietnamese Airline, VietJetAir, Fined for In-Flight Bikini Show - ABC News"
2012-08-11,"Two strong earthquakes struck northwest Iran on Saturday and at least 50 people were taken to hospital, but there were no reports of any deaths, Iranian media said."
2012-08-11,Belarus KGB summons Swedish teddy bear stunt team
2012-08-11,Fossils found in Kenya hint at distant cousins to our ancestors
2012-08-11,"Jordanian military clashes with Syrian military, 0 Jordanian deaths"
2012-08-11,"Kaspersky Lab: New ""Gauss"" virus simlar to Flame and Stuxnet aimed at stealing Lebanese customers' bank info discovered. "
2012-08-10,"The Libor scandal is the largest financial scandal of all-time, but receiving almost no TV coverage. Here is a complete package of news articles on the matter. "
2012-08-10,"Commerzbank stops speculating on basic food prices: Germany's second-biggest lender, Commerzbank, says it will no longer participate in market speculation on basic food prices. The bank says it has removed all agricultural products from its funds for moral reasons."
2012-08-10,Virgin Australia review after 'pedophile' complaint: A NSW firefighter felt ashamed when a flight attendant asked him to move seats because men are banned from sitting next to unaccompanied children
2012-08-10,Yemen officials seize 40 belts packed with explosives and thwart an al Qaeda cell plot.
2012-08-10,JPMorgan Chase Libor Subpoenas Coming From Everybody In The World 
2012-08-10,"Drunk Norwegian tourist falls asleep on airport baggage belt, travels for 15 minutes before being spotted on X-ray scan"
2012-08-10,"""UN demands US biofuel suspension"" - BBC"
2012-08-10,World over-using underground water reserves for agriculture
2012-08-10,"France expels first Roma under Hollande: Continuing a practice that had been criticized when Nicolas Sarkozy was president, France has dismantled two camps of Roma in Lille. It's the first raid on a camp since Francois Hollande took office in May. "
2012-08-10,Saudi will fire at Israeli jets in Iran attack
2012-08-10,"Japans Demographic Nightmare: If trends continue, Japan's population will be cut in half by the end of the century. "
2012-08-10,"FBI Monitored Dotcom Raid Via Live Video Link, Secret Govt Group Involved: 'Under questioning from a defense lawyer, a senior police officer has admitted that top New Zealand officers and members of the FBI watched the raid live via video link.'"
2012-08-10,"Undersea volcano nearby New Zealand creates 25,000sq km pumice 'island', now floating in the south pacific."
2012-08-10,Pussy Riot: Russia's deputy prime minister calls Madonna a whore | GlobalPost
2012-08-10,"Church prayer angers French gay rights groups:   A tradition will be revived in France next week when a Prayer for France will be read out at Catholic churches across the country. The text, which attacks the governments plan to legalise same-sex marriage, has angered Frances gay rights groups. "
2012-08-10,"At least 70 journalists around the world have been killed in the last six months, making it one of the most deadliest years ever for the media."
2012-08-10,The far right in Europe is rising in many European countries in spite of its inability to provide a coherent economic message
2012-08-10,"Dozens dead in attacks in Acapulco, San Luis Potosi, Mexico City - latimes.com"
2012-08-10,Hard landing for China as factory prices fall and deflation looms
2012-08-10,Facebook 'should help pay for illegal parties' according to German state interior ministers
2012-08-10,Islamists in Northern Mali Amputate Mans Hand - NYTimes.com
2012-08-10,"At Afghan orphanage, friends from different sides of the war:In Kandahar, where vengeance and pride so often dictate action, two boys might have been expected to inherit their fathers allegiances. Instead, they started fresh, embracing each other."
2012-08-10,"After 40 Years, U.S. to Clean Up Agent Orange in Vietnam."
2012-08-10,"Nepal Bans Young Women From Seeking Work In Middle East Over Exploitation Fears - Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the African nation of Kenya have also implemented or proposed similar bans on women going to the Middle East to work."
2012-08-10,Sinai: Egypt tribes back offensive against militants
2012-08-09,Islamist sect found living underground near Russian city for nearly 10 years - many of the children had never seen daylight
2012-08-09, Germany's top court has ruled that homosexual couples must receive a tax benefit available to heterosexual married couples. The verdict comes as the ruling CDU debates making same-sex couples more equal in tax law. 
2012-08-09,"A Roman trading ship from the time of the Caesars has been discovered off the coast of Italy, reportedly in such good condition that some of the food may still be preserved inside the storage jars."
2012-08-09,Bolivia to ban Coca-Cola to mark the 'end of capitalism'
2012-08-09,Parkinsons Sufferer Arrested for Not Smiling at Olympic Mens Cycling Race 
2012-08-09,wikileaks under DDOS attack again 
2012-08-09,"Superpower Denied? Why Chinas Rise May Have Already Peaked: How a toxic mix of economic, demographic, environmental, political, and international challenges could end China's ascent."
2012-08-09,Sikhs angry at protests against US in India
2012-08-09,"A majority of Australians believe the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would not receive a fair trial should he ever be extradited to the United States
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2012-08-09,"Poland Searches for Remains of WW2 Hero:  Witold Pilecki fought in three wars and even volunteered to be imprisoned at Auschwitz to send out intelligence reports. But, after the war, he was executed for opposing Poland's new communist leaders. Now the authorities are searching for his remains."
2012-08-09,Religiosity Plummets In Ireland And Declines Worldwide; Atheism On The Rise 
2012-08-09,U.S. Navy Rescues 10 From Iranian Ship on Fire - ABC News
2012-08-09,Anthropologists have discovered three human fossils that are between 1.78 and 1.95 million years old. The specimens are of a face and two jawbones with teeth.
2012-08-09,Ikea brand sold for 75 billion kronor (9 billion+ Euros) - The Local
2012-08-09,"Dubai Now Major Global Supplier of Shark Fins  - It's also the auction point for fins  from its own waters, plus Oman &  other Middle East & African nations.   China's vast & growing appetite for shark fin soup has caused shark stocks to drop drastically.   It's estimated some species have lost 90%."
2012-08-09,New French government moves against Roma camps
2012-08-09,Global Food Reserves Falling As Drought Wilts Crops
2012-08-09,"Spanish Mayor & supporters in southern Spain occupy Ministry of Defense land, lead town residents on 'Robin Hood' style raids, expropriating food from multi-national supermarkets. Says, ""someone has to do something so that families can eat."""
2012-08-09,U.S. gives military aid to nations with child soldiers - Washington Times
2012-08-09,Pakistani Taliban threaten to kill Imran Khan: Militant group say they will kill 'infidel' politician if he holds march to their stronghold to protest against US drone attacks
2012-08-09,Chile cracks down on violent student protest:  Police use water cannons on crowd and arrest 75 protesters who returned to streets of Santiago to demand free education.
2012-08-09,Rohingya Muslims persecuted by Rakhine Buddhists and Myanmar forces in Burma
2012-08-09,"More Abandoned Children As Europe Austerity Wears On: ""The rise in the abandonment of infants across Europe is most visible in the spread of 'baby hatches' or 'boxes' across Europe, where unwanted infants are left anonymously."""
2012-08-09,"Conservative Australian Prime Minister Howard bashes U.S. ""gun culture"" in Op-Ed"
2012-08-09,"Colombia Drug Lord 'Sebastian' Arrested - He was head of underworld organisation  ""Office of Envigado"", which  ""killed more people than any other criminal network in Colombia in the last 10 years.""  ""This is the hardest blow against Colombia's criminal organisations this year."" "
2012-08-08,"Thousands of UK Workers 'Blacklisted' Over Political Views. Corporations in the UK used a secret ""blacklisting"" database to screen out left wing trouble-makers and union sympathizers as potential job recruits."
2012-08-08,Ireland abandoning religion faster than almost every other country
2012-08-08,Pharma giant Pfizer fined for bribing officials in Eastern Europe and China | The Raw Story
2012-08-08,US starts landmark Agent Orange cleanup in Vietnam
2012-08-08,Interpol issues arrest warrant for Sea Shepherd chief
2012-08-08,"MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexican archaeologists say they have found an unprecedented human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman is surrounded by piles of 1,789 human bones in Mexico City's Templo Mayor"
2012-08-08,'A business in Wales is bussing in inmates from an open prison 21 miles away and paying them just 3 a day to man its call centre'
2012-08-08,"In Scotland, humanist weddings are overtaking religious ones; if current trends continue, there will be more humanist wedding celebrations than Church of Scotland marriages in three years' time"
2012-08-08,"Critically endangered grey nurse shark washes ashore after her fins were slashed off - An investigation is under way on the NSW coast. ""The shark was still alive when it was found on the beach & suffered a slow, cruel death.""  Price for fins is soaring."
2012-08-08,Iran vows it will not allow Assad to fall
2012-08-08,Egypt admits it ignored Israeli warnings of attack -- Intelligence chief says no action taken because they didnt believe a Muslim would kill another Muslim during break fast
2012-08-08,Like a water world - The Philippines is drowning 
2012-08-08,BBC News - In pictures: Rare snow in Johannesburg
2012-08-08,Outraged Lebanese demand end to anal exams on gay men
2012-08-08,South Korea to restart Iranian oil imports. Refiners say Tehran has offered to pay $1bn insurance.
2012-08-08,"Corporations in the UK who used a secret ""blacklisting"" database to screen out left wing trouble-makers and union sympathizers as potential job recruits are facing renewed scrutiny after the UK-activist group Liberty called for a fresh investigation"
2012-08-08,Egypt army kills 20 militants in Sinai says offical
2012-08-08,Why India Shouldnt Criticize U.S. on Sikh Shooting: Indian politicians condemning America for gun violence against its Sikh population forget India's own past.
2012-08-08,How Latin America is reinventing the war on drugs
2012-08-08,"Russian general denies reports he was killed by FSA - Israel News, Ynetnews"
2012-08-08,"Nigerian Oil Still Poisons The Landscape After 
Promised Clean-Up"
2012-08-08,Iran backs Assad in Syria crisis and blames 'warmongering' US
2012-08-08,New fossil skull from Africa reveals tangled roots at base of the human family tree
2012-08-08,Syria launches ground assault in Aleppo
2012-08-08,"Egypt launches Sinai air strikes: Military officials say helicopters fired missiles and killed 20 'terrorists' after latest attacks on security checkpoints
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2012-08-07,"In world's 1st commercial deep-sea mining project, Canadian firm will mine for gold & copper in Papua New Guinea's seabed,  despite vehement objections over threat to marine life -  Nautilus Minerals has been granted a 20-yr license 

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2012-08-07,"""Honour killing"" evolves: Punjab girl hires contract killers to eliminate parents for opposing her marriage"
2012-08-07,Chinese mother rescues 11 year-old daughter from brothel; sentenced to labor camp for protesting lenient punishment of the men
2012-08-07,New Zealand volcano erupts
2012-08-07,Bodyguard fears Assange may face death
2012-08-07,Kim Dotcom accuses New Zealand police of beating him during arrest. 
2012-08-07,"Three female members of Pussy Riot, a Russian punk band, face prison on hooliganism charges. Band member's husband gives his diary account of five extraordinary days in a Moscow court"
2012-08-07,Leaked MPAA memo shows that how they plan to deal with TV Shack and the extradition of Richard O'Dwyer
2012-08-07,"The first known Gay Wedding was conducted in Muslim-majority Malaysia and where sodomy is outlawed, risking the ire of the government who has all but declared war on homosexuality"
2012-08-07,"Demonoid Operators Face Criminal Investigation in Mexico: ""In Mexico a criminal case against the owners of Demonoid has been initiated and the tracker is charged with intellectual property rights violations"""
2012-08-07,"British army considering switching to the same environmentally friendly, ""green"" bullets used by Scandinavian armies."
2012-08-07,Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood blames Sinai attack on Mossad
2012-08-07,British Bank Accused of Hiding About 250 Billion Dollars of Transactions With Iranians
2012-08-07,"'Londoner against Londoner': UK fighters held journalist captive in Syria | The two men were immediately seized by around 30 fighters when they entered the camp, which they had thought belonged to the Free Syrian Army. The journalists soon realized none of the fighters was Syrian.
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2012-08-07,11-year-old girl married to 40-year-old man
2012-08-07,UK court jails parents for life over honor killing of teen daughter
2012-08-07,"An unmanned Russian rocket and its payload of two communications satellites has failed to reach orbit, the latest in a series of failures that has dogged Moscow's space programme."
2012-08-07,London Olympics: Cameroon athletes 'abscond'
2012-08-07,French Catholic Church to pray against upcoming gay marriage law
2012-08-07,"Monsoon rains swamp Philippine capital, markets shut "
2012-08-07,"
Saying Mali Is Our Country, Militias Train to Oust Islamists"
2012-08-07,Iranian Chief of Staff: Turkey is next after Syria
2012-08-07,French air force chief named NATO supreme commander
2012-08-07,Russia: Suicide Bombers Strike at Military Unit in Chechnya
2012-08-07,Conservative German Party asks for equal taxation for married gay couples
2012-08-06,NASA's Curiosity rover has successfully landed on Mars! The first pictures are expected shortly. (Guardian liveblog)
2012-08-06,Pakistani wife in disputed marriage gunned down in court by her brother The latest 'honour killing' in Hyderabad has shocked people because the family is middle class and it happened in open court
2012-08-06,"Banks In Libor Inquiry Are Said To Be Trying To Spread Blame: ""Major banks, which often band together when facing government scrutiny, are now turning on one another as an international investigation into the manipulation of interest rates gains momentum."""
2012-08-06,News coming out of Ukraine following a massive DDoS attack Demonoid has now been busted by local authorities  a source in the countrys Interior Ministry says that the action was scheduled to coincide with Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovskys trip to the United States
2012-08-06,Syrian Prime Minister Defects to Jordan
2012-08-06,Japanese launch 4.5-tonne gun-toting robot controlled by smartphone
2012-08-06,Safe sex? Indonesia would rather its sex workers got Aids. Religious intolerance is undermining the fight against Asia's fastest-growing HIV epidemic
2012-08-06,"MPAA Recruits Surrogates to Support Extradition of UK Student: '...MPAA experiencing problems finding allies to support the extradition of UK student Richard ODwyer - it is recruiting third party surrogates to write op-eds and blog posts which back their position.'
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2012-08-06,Drilling discovers ancient Antarctic rainforest 
2012-08-06,Turkish troops kill 115 Kurdish rebels as offensive blocks escape routes to Iraq
2012-08-06,Wealthy elite are worried about their Cayman Islands tax haven.
2012-08-06,"""A group of Upper Egypt children hold an impromptu protest march carrying signs saying that they had lights while President Morsi was visiting their village, but it was cut off once he left"""
2012-08-06,Physician calls for an end to bikini waxing
2012-08-06,"Couple jailed for racist attack on daughter, 17"
2012-08-06,Zambian miners kill Chinese supervisor and injure another in pay dispute:  Workers angry over mining company's failure to raise wages in line with a directive from the Lusaka government
2012-08-06,"Armed militants attack Egyptian army outpost, try to infiltrate Israel border"
2012-08-06,"Rebirth of the Wolf Has French Greens at Each Other's Throats -  Battle ignites as wolves encroach on sheep-farming land. Wolves are being seen this summer for 1st time since the 1920s.  Jos Bov, sheep farmer-turned-environmental campaigner, is calling for the them to be shot."
2012-08-06,"In Somali capital, a year without Islamist militia:  

One year after the forced departure of Islamist militia Al Shabab, Mogadishu is rebuilding and prospering. But residents worry the group may return."
2012-08-06,Syria Prime Minister Riad Hijab 'defects' to Jordan
2012-08-06,"Chinese police arrested 137 people, among them doctors, suspected of trafficking human organs in a nationwide crime ring that profited from the huge demand for transplants, authorities said."
2012-08-06,'Bootleg chicken' sold for record prices in Iran
2012-08-06,Syria rebels admit kidnapping 48 Iranians in Damascus
2012-08-06,"Saying Mali Is Our Country, Militias Train to Oust Islamists. The youngsters have something the regular Malian Army here appears to lack: a fierce will to undo the jihadist conquest of northern Mali"
2012-08-06,"German Minister Warns Foreign Policy Debate Taking ""Very Dangerous"" Tone -  His comment came after Italian Premier Monti warned of tensions that ""bear the traits of a psychological dissolution of Europe,"" & a German  official said Greece must leave the euro. "
2012-08-06,"Unknown assailants lay siege to a Red Cross residential building in Misrata, Libya - prompting the agency to withdraw staff from two cities"
2012-08-05,"Vast international child-porn network uncovered, 43 men arrested"
2012-08-05,"""Police paraded us naked in public.""  - Several Pakistani police suspended after accusations they paraded a couple naked in public. Mobile phone footage shows a naked man being beaten by police & a woman begging them to let her cover herself."
2012-08-05,Israels Fading Democracy - NYTimes.com
2012-08-05,"Palestinian bid for UN status will most likely succeed, but will not bring them closer to statehood and peace with Israel says Israel UN envoy"
2012-08-05,African diplomats in Israel: We're afraid to walk down streets. 
2012-08-05,"Chinese police have detained almost 2,000 people in a nationwide sweep on fake drugs, seizing more than $180 million worth of counterfeit products and destroying some 1,100 production facilities"
2012-08-05,"Sweden ""counter-jihad"" rally outnumbered by anti-racists"
2012-08-05,The War on Women in Colombia Includes Horrifying Acid Attacks
2012-08-05,"In Turkey, construction workers uncovered part of the ancient city of Antioch - Layers include a Roman-era mosaic measuring over 9,000 sq ft. A hotel & a museum will sit above the site.  This is an example of coordination between cultural heritage & modern urban development. "
2012-08-05,"Mass grave in London reveals how volcano caused global catastrophe - 
Scientists search for the explosive source of a disaster that wiped out almost 1/3 of Londoners in 1258"
2012-08-05,Robert Fisk: Syria's ancient treasures pulverised 
2012-08-05,Riot Leaves an Egyptian Village Without Christians
2012-08-05,"Faced with an MHRA crackdown on unlicensed medicines, one of Britain's leading manufacturers of homeopathic remedies has indicated it would be prepared to relabel its products 'confectionery' to circumvent regulation"
2012-08-05,"Syrian TV host kidnapped, executed by Islamists"
2012-08-05,"Greek Police Detains 1,130 Immigrants - They  vowed not to relent in their efforts to evict undocumented immigrants after a sweep they  in central Athens over the weekend. ""We must send the message that Greece cannot afford work and hospitality."" "
2012-08-05,China calls in U.S. diplomat over South China Sea
2012-08-05,"US drone strike killed leader of a major Uzbek militant group closely allied with Al Qaeda, according to the group"
2012-08-05,"Senior Damascus intelligence officer defects to Jordan: TV
| Reuters"
2012-08-05,"Standard & Poors has downgraded 15 Italian banks, saying Italy faces a potentially deeper and more prolonged recession than the ratings agency had originally anticipated."
2012-08-05,"As Syrian War Roils, Sectarian Unrest Seeps Into Turkey - They were there to kill us, said Servet Evli, who was hiding in his bedroom with his pregnant wife and terrified daughter, both so afraid that they urinated through their clothes. "
2012-08-05,"BBC News - Syria conflict: jihadists from ""anywhere but Syria"" - Photographer 'held by UK jihadists'"
2012-08-05,"Acid attacks on women in Colombia on the rise, experts say"
2012-08-05,"Nigeria gunmen storm oil ship, kill 2 native sailors and kidnap 4 foreign officers"
2012-08-05,Congo rebellion ravaging women and children
2012-08-05,"Radioactive cesium found in Japans fish, seawater"
2012-08-04,"British couple of Pakistani descent sentenced to 25 years minimum for ""honour killing"" of daughter"
2012-08-04,"Israeli settlers graffiti ""Palestinians should die"" and plant an improvised explosive device under a car in Ramallah"
2012-08-04,Palestinian billionaire Munib al-Masri's retort to Mitt Romney's claims
2012-08-04,"Pussy Riot trial 'worse than Soviet era', guards with submachine guns throwing reporters out at will, judge refusing to allow testimony of 10 witnesses for the defense"
2012-08-04,"Girl denied permission to study engineering, kills self - India - Rajasthan - ibnlive"
2012-08-04,Ex-Mexico governor pleads guilty to laundering $19M from Jurez drug cartel
2012-08-04,The decay of Athens Olympic venues
2012-08-04,"Street Harassment in Belgium - a documentary about sexist insults on the street endured by women daily in ethnically diverse, low-class communities"
2012-08-04,US will refuse bid to give United Nations control over the internet
2012-08-04,North Koreans in desperate need of food after floods - CNN.com
2012-08-04,"India plans to send a probe to mars and a wheeled 
rover to the moon."
2012-08-04,"Himachal Pradesh to Give Solar Lamps at Remote Non-Electrified Villages - Solar lanterns are to be distributed among sheep & goat breeders in remote & tribal areas. About 4,337 lanterns will be provided by Himurja, a state-run agency that's promoting use of non-conventional energy."
2012-08-04,Four children killed by Haiti witch doctor: official
2012-08-04,Acid attacks against women on the rise in Colombia
2012-08-04,U.N. to send first food aid to flood-hit North Korea
2012-08-04,"As sanctions decimate Iranian middle class, people are becoming more dependent on the state and more ""fearful of engaging in civil activism"""
2012-08-04,Egypt demands release of Guantanamo detainee 
2012-08-04,"Scores of Iranian pilgrims abducted in Damascus - Bus with 48 Iranians  missing. The pilgrims were seized by ""armed groups"" on the Damascus airport road as they returned from a religious shrine."
2012-08-04, France has seized the 118 million Paris mansion of Equatorial Guinea leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema's family as part of a corruption investigation involving his son 
2012-08-04,"Pussy Riot trial 'worse than Soviet era': Judge refuses to allow 10 defence witnesses while lawyer claims women are being tortured with lack of food and sleep
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2012-08-04,Iran tests upgraded version of short-range missile
2012-08-04,"In Afghanistan, U.S. Packs War Gear for the Movers l NYTimes.com"
2012-08-04,U.S. Discreetly Planning for Post-Assad Syria
2012-08-04,"Poland considers asking repayment of a 400-year-old loan taken out by Spanish King Phillip II.  The original 430,000 Gold Ducat loan is valued at 56.7 million Euros in today's money before computing interest."
2012-08-04,"Russia denies plans to send ships to Syria, says Annan needs to be urgently replaced"
2012-08-03,"In China, the rich and powerful can hire body doubles to do their prison time for them."
2012-08-03,Woman turned to police to investigate claims of official involvement in trafficking in human beings and subsequently sent to jail for trying to expose corruption involving public officials
2012-08-03,French President Francois Hollande has made good on a campaign pledge to make the wealthiest in France pay up to 75 percent income tax. 
2012-08-03,"All 330 US drone attacks in Pakistan mapped with details of the 3,247 casualties"
2012-08-03, Donald Trump destroys Scotland - Greed and arrogance win when the mogul decides to build a golf course in an environmentally pristine location 
2012-08-03,"Sweden says ambassador to Belarus expelled for being ""too supportive of human rights""."
2012-08-03,Israel helps India clean up the Ganges river | Environment
2012-08-03,"More than 1,000 march in Jerusalem's 10th Gay Pride Parade"
2012-08-03,British ships banned from docking in Buenos Aires: Ships flying the British ensign have been banned from docking in Argentina's largest province under a new law passed yesterday. 
2012-08-03,"For the first time since 1998 more money leaves China than enters it, as it incurs its first Balance of Payments deficit"
2012-08-03,Mortar shells kill 20 Palestinians
2012-08-03,Satellite imagery show rate of deforestation of the Amazon is at record low
2012-08-03,Japan Upper House passes ACTA almost unanimously [link to House of Councillors vote tally]
2012-08-03,"China Steps Up Curbs on Muslims: Authorities in Xinjiang ban public religious activities during the holy month of Ramadan.
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2012-08-03,Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Budget Too Expensive To Justify Says French Culture Minister: '...Internet disconnections are a disproportionate way to deal with infringement.'
2012-08-03,British ambassador to Israel: Israel losing international support due to settlement expansion and lack of peace process
2012-08-03,Chinese teen kills nine in knife attack: reports
2012-08-03,"Kim tells China that his priority is to develop the decaying economy and improve living standards in North Korea
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2012-08-03,"Mexican farmers fear losing traditions, livelihood as Monsanto wins GMO planting rights in Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula: 'The move by Monsanto, farmers say, continues a corporate agenda made possible through the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.' "
2012-08-03,"Femen stage topless anti-Islamist Olympic protest in London: Members of Ukrainian female protest group Femen demonstrate in London to draw attention to what they call ""bloody Islamist regimes"" taking part in the Olympics."
2012-08-03,Moscow sending 3 large navy ships with marines aboard to a Russian naval facility in the Syrian port of Tartus
2012-08-03,"Lebanese marijuana growers fight security forces, two hurt"
2012-08-03,"Putin requests leniency for Pussy Riot punks -  Three female members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who are facing trial and jail terms of up to seven years for performing a protest inside Moscow's main cathedral, should not be judged ""so harshly"", President Vladimir Putin said Thursday. "
2012-08-03,"HSBC To Pay More Than $2 Billion In Penalties: CEO said revelations of lax anti-money laundering controls had been ""shameful and embarrassing"" for Europe's biggest bank"
2012-08-03,Brazil court orders Chevron to stop drilling:  Chevron and Transocean given 30 days to suspend drilling pending probes into two oil spills off coast of Rio de Janeiro.
2012-08-02,"Obama authorizes secret U.S. support for Syrian rebels
| Reuters"
2012-08-02,"""Central bankers and regulators will hold talks in September [2012] on whether the troubled global Libor interest rate can be reformed or whether it is so damaged that the benchmark of borrowing costs should be scrapped."""
2012-08-02,"Ontario thief returns stolen goods, leaves $50 for damages"
2012-08-02,"Japan Set to Become 2nd Biggest Solar Power Nation - It's created a tariff to encourage investment. Utilities will pay solar firms $0.5 per kwh - triple the standard. The extra money will come from a rise in electricity prices. Meanwhile, nuclear power will provide competition."
2012-08-02,Judge says religious couple's brain-damaged baby can be allowed to die. A judge has ruled that a severely brain-damaged baby boy can be allowed to die even though his devoutly religious parents wanted him to be kept on a life-support system.
2012-08-02,"North Korea's Key to Olympic Medals: Refrigerators For Winners, Labor Camps for Losers"
2012-08-02,"A mentally ill man died in police custody after officers used ""unsuitable"" force during an ""unnecessarily"" long restraint, an inquest jury has ruled."
2012-08-02,Toronto police sued for profiling women with 'hairy legs' during G20 protests
2012-08-02,"For Paternity Leave, Sweden Asks if Two Months Is Enough - WSJ.com"
2012-08-02,"'If I were Iranian, I'd be fearful of the next 12 weeks' states former Mossad chief."
2012-08-02,Racist 'Scandal': German Police Kept Jobs Despite KKK Involvement - Officials allowed two German police officers to keep their jobs even after it emerged they had been members of a Klu Klux Klan spin-off group. 
2012-08-02,Kofi Annan quits as Syria peace envoy
2012-08-02,The supreme leader of Iran once banned all internet. Now he's on Instagram.
2012-08-02,Paris to return Seine to the people with car-free riverside plan. City mayor behind Paris Plages wins fight to pedestrianise large sections of 1960s expressway on left and right bank
2012-08-02,Assad supporters executed by Syria rebels
2012-08-02,"Golden Dawn hands out food parcels outside parliament, but makes sure only Greek citizens receive assistance."
2012-08-02,Using water as a weapon in the West Bank: The Civil Administration is protecting a law that its title in contemporary Hebrew is 'keeping most of the West Bank Palestinian-free.'
2012-08-02,"A Sudanese woman accused of adultery has been sentenced to death by stoning and is being held shackled with her six-month-old baby in jail, says activists"
2012-08-02,"Inside North Korea, more cellphones & traffic lights, but real change lags - 
A visitor finds more signs of modernization in Pyongyang as Kim Jong-un consolidates power. But it's hard to tell if reform is afoot in a country that remains deeply impoverished & isolated."
2012-08-02,Papua New Guinea charges 29 alleged cannibals
2012-08-02,Kofi Annan resigns as special envoy to Syria  RT
2012-08-02,L'Oreal heiress Bettencourt sells Seychelles island at the centre of a tax evasion case after using it as tax haven
2012-08-02,"Even after India's power grid was restored, more than 400 million people still dont have access to the energy they need. They never had it in the first place."
2012-08-02,"US mulls buildup of bombers and attack submarines in the Asia-Pacific region, based in Guam"
2012-08-02,India lifts ban on investment from Pakistan - The Times of India
2012-08-01,The American embassy in Norway forgot about their own practise bomb and called in the Norwegian bomb squad when they found it.
2012-08-01,Russians Say Human Immortality a Possibility by 2045
2012-08-01,Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort with cloned dinosaurs.
2012-08-01,No Copyright Law: The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion?
2012-08-01,"Egypt's new Islamist president has sent his first letter to an Israeli leader, Israel said Tuesday, in which the Egyptian leader expresses his hopes that the Mideast peace process can be restarted and that ""Israeli people"" can achieve security."
2012-08-01,"Drone Pilots, Waiting for a Kill Shot 7,000 Miles Away - ""He steps out of a dark room of video screens, his adrenaline still surging after squeezing the trigger, and commutes home"". The everyday life of drone pilots in upstate New York, killing people 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan"
2012-08-01,"""London is like a ghost town"" 
Museums, Taxis, Theaters, and the 
London Zoo say business down by as 
much as 40% "
2012-08-01,"Sudan: Give us Bush & Blair, well give you Bashir"
2012-08-01,"150-Yr-Old Bangladesh Brothel Fights Closure - Tara Das says she is the 5th generation of her family to work at the same brothel in Bangladesh, but now she's fighting against Islamic protesters who want to shut down her business."
2012-08-01,Senior bank manager with HSBC plunges 100ft to his death at the Tate Modern art gallery in London
2012-08-01,Belarussian president Alexander Lukashenko has sacked his air defence chief and the head of the border guards for failing to stop a Swedish aircraft from dropping hundreds of teddy bears over the hardline state in a pro-democracy stunt.
2012-08-01,Anonymous react to French retailer involved in Trademark stunt
2012-08-01,The Cartel: Behind the Scenes in the Libor Interest Rate Scandal - Investigators and political leaders believe that the manipulation of the Libor benchmark interest rate was the result of organized fraud. Institutions that participated could face billions in fines and penalties.
2012-08-01,"One in 5 Hong Kong women will never find a husband, as city's gender imbalance widens."
2012-08-01,Sharp Decline in Terror Attacks After Bin Laden Death
2012-08-01,Coca-Cola to be booted out of Bolivia
2012-08-01,"
Ebola outbreak claims more lives in Uganda - 
President appeals for citizens to limit physical contact, as virus-related cases reported in capital Kampala"
2012-08-01,Israeli law protecting Ultra-Orthodox from military service expires. Secular Israelis say the law was unfair.
2012-08-01,China slams new US - Iran sanctions as 'serious violation of intl rules'  RT
2012-08-01,Another Murdoch journalist arrested in phone-hacking case
2012-08-01,"China blocks Bloomberg for exposing financial affairs of its leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping, revealing his extended family's investments in companies with total assets of $376m"
2012-08-01,Syrian rebels acquire surface-to-air missiles
2012-08-01,"Five bomb blasts in Pune, India"
2012-08-01,How American oil companies have built their own fiefdom in northern Iraq. 
2012-08-01,Full power restored after India hit by second huge outage
2012-07-31,"Power grids fail, leaving 600 million without power in India "
2012-07-31,A Stradivarius violin  possibly worth several million pounds  has been handed in at a Swiss lost-property office after a hapless musician left it on a train. 
2012-07-31,Auschwitz era ends:  A spokesperson for Auschwitz museum says the last surviving member of a group of prisoners that escaped the German Nazi concentration camp in 1942 has died.
2012-07-31,Story of a Chinese woman who found over 30 babies abandoned in the trash
2012-07-31,North Korea Now Under Control of Kim Jong-Un's Uncle
2012-07-31,"Chinas Sex Worker Warrior Ye Haiyan Fights for Prostitutes Rights
 - She campaigns to improve conditions & end discrimination for Chinas sex workers & AIDS victims scorned by society & abused by authorities. Her bid for empathy has even led her to work as a prostitute in a low-cost brothel."
2012-07-31,"India Village Fears Being Swallowed by the Earth - 

Residents, who live above coal fires that steadily consume the ground under their feet, say they are being sacrificed to corporate interests."
2012-07-31,"In the 1960s  Indonesia's President Suharto, a major-general at the time, led a military campaign that wiped-out perhaps half a million people. It was covered up until recently. Many were completely innocent of any crime. "
2012-07-31,Police seize $500million worth of crystal meth and heroin.
2012-07-31,"How WikiLeaks Revitalized Brazil's Media - 
Cablegate did not just reveal secrets, it inspired a new culture of investigative journalism."
2012-07-31,US embassy in Norway evacuated due to bomb scare
2012-07-31,Power blackouts in half of India
2012-07-31,High-res photos show Syria's largest city at war.
2012-07-31,"London 2012: G4S security guard accused of spitting at soldier and calling him 'baby killer' at Olympic archery event
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2012-07-31,"""The sleepy hamlet of Mittenwalde in eastern Germany could become one of the richest towns in the world if Berlin were to repay it an outstanding debt that dates back to 1562. A certificate of debt...attests that Mittenwalde lent Berlin 400 guilders...to be repaid with six percent interest per year"""
2012-07-31,Ancient human figure unearthed in Turkey
2012-07-31,China Keeps Buying Irans Oil as U.S. and EU Intensify Sanctions.
2012-07-31,Mass blackout strikes India for second day
2012-07-31,"France Passes a Tougher Sexual Harassment Law. From now on, making sexual jokes, hugging a reluctant employee or looking insistently at a young lady up and down will become reprehensible acts in France. "
2012-07-31,"Italy Worries Sicily's Woes Could Have Ripple Effect - Eurozone crisis has led to sharp spending cuts &, with an economy based on public sector wages, it's being called Italy's Greece. Worried about contagion, the Rome govt is dictating tough bailout conditions similar to those  imposed on Greece. "
2012-07-31,Drought and wild fires destroy Russian harvest
2012-07-31,"The long road back: Fed up, struggling Jurez business owner takes stand, stops paying 'quotas'"
2012-07-31,Israel to end draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox:  Israel's defense minister instructed the military on Tuesday to start drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men like other Israelis -- but it could take a while to implement.
2012-07-31,Rebels claim victory in Syria's al-Bab town: Opposition claims to have pushed regime forces from what they say was military's last urban base outside Aleppo city.
2012-07-31,UK police arrest man over Olympic tweets
2012-07-30," Germany Breaks 25% Renewable Energy Barrier - It produced 67.9 billion kWh renewable energy in 1st 1/2 of 2012, an increase of 19.5% from last year. The world's top market for power converted from solar radiation, its installed capacity accounts for over 1/3 of global total."
2012-07-30,"Tens of thousands including teachers and parents pushing strollers took to Hong Kong streets Sunday to protest the upcoming introduction of Chinese patriotism classes they fear will lead to brainwashing, the latest sign of growing discomfort over Beijing's influence in the semiautonomous territory."
2012-07-30,Pussy Riot: Our arrest signals start of repression campaign to spread fear. Members of punk band who performed anti-Putin song in Russias main cathedral plead not guilty. Its the start of repressive authoritarian campaign which aims to hamper publics political activity and build a sense of fear
2012-07-30,Couple stoned to death in Mali for having sex outside marriage
2012-07-30,"Philippines birth control: Filipinos want it, priests don't -- In the Philippines, access to contraceptives is limited for the most part to those with the means to pay. The Catholic Church has fought a ""reproductive health bill"" in the legislature that would change that."
2012-07-30,South America finds a path to drug legalization.
2012-07-30,"Pirate Bay Renames Itself to Olympic Bay, Steals Tagline"
2012-07-30,Britain just signed a 25 year contract to let a private company take care of their nuclear stockpile.
2012-07-30,Uruguay Considers Legalizing Marijuana to Stop Traffickers
2012-07-30,"Beijing's Real Olympic Hero: Meet Ji Sizun, imprisoned for three years for daring to take China's promises of greater openness at the 2008 Games at face value."
2012-07-30,Deadly Ebola Virus Reaches Ugandan Capital
2012-07-30,"Two Journalists Freed by Syrian Rebels After Weeklong Ordeal - ""Mr. Oerlemans said their captors apparently included no Syrian fighters, but instead jihadists from Bangladesh, Britain, Chechnya and Pakistan. """
2012-07-30,Female punk band goes on trial in Russia for Putin protest
2012-07-30,"Air pollution turns Beijing into ""Greyjing"""
2012-07-30,Four Iranians Sentenced to Death Over $2.3 Bln Bank Fraud
2012-07-30,Pussy Riot: will Vladimir Putin regret taking on Russia's cool women punks?
2012-07-30,Israeli troops kill Palestinian at checkpoint
2012-07-30,"In Israel, at least 7 people have set themselves on fire over the last two weeks."
2012-07-30,"Christchurch, New Zealand rebuild plans unveiled today to take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to build a brand new modern city from scratch after the devastating earthquakes last year. "
2012-07-30,"Iraq Police Training: $200 Million Wasted On Police Development Program, Auditors Say"
2012-07-30,Cat electrocuted; East Delhi goes powerless for 24 hours
2012-07-30,"Across Latin America, leaders appalled by the spread of drug-related violence are mulling policies that would have once been inconceivable."
2012-07-30,Uruguay Considers Legalizing Marijuana to Stop Traffickers - NYTimes.com
2012-07-30,"In India, Anna Hazare again drawing crowds against corruption:  

Thousands are once again assembling around anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare in New Delhi, setting up another major distraction for India's beleaguered government."
2012-07-30,"Syrian troops vow to 'purge' Aleppo of rebels as assault continues:  Syrian troops fired tank shells and artillery Sunday at neighbourhoods in Aleppo as rebels tried to repel a government ground assault against their positions in Syrias largest city, activists said."
2012-07-29,"Woman sees wells built to fulfill her late daughter's wishes; 9yo hoped to raise $300 to bring clean water to an African village. After she died 32,000 people donated $1.27 million"
2012-07-29,"Vietnam to consider gay marriage, could become first country in Asia to legalise it"
2012-07-29,"Dominican Republic abortion ban stops treatment for pregnant teen with cancer: A 16-yr-old girl, dying of acute leukemia, needs chemotherapy. But there's a problem: the teen is pregnant and treatment would very likely terminate the pregnancy, a violation of Dominican anti-abortion laws"
2012-07-29,"At 71, Hiroshi Hoketsu is the oldest competing Olympian in 92 years."
2012-07-29,Oxford University rewrites gender dress code - Oxford University students will no longer have to wear gender-specific academic clothing after concerns it was unfair to the transgender community
2012-07-29,Defense Minister Ehud Barak is evicting hundreds of Palestinian farmers and shepherds by declaring the land on which their villages stand 'firing zones.'
2012-07-29,During recent floods in Beijing the early warning system failed; police officers were reportedly busy ticketing stranded cars rather than helping citizens in need; and workers at toll plazas continued to collect fees as people desperately tried to escape the rising waters.
2012-07-29,The pattern in the reporting of the Syrian civil war suggests the opposition (possibly in collaboration with western governments) are trying to manipulate the media.
2012-07-29,"""The Obama administration has for now abandoned efforts for a diplomatic settlement to the conflict in Syria, and instead it is increasing aid to the rebels and redoubling efforts to rally a coalition of like-minded countries to forcibly bring down the government of President Bashar al-Assad"""
2012-07-29,Japanese politicians perplexed by anti-nuclear protests
2012-07-29,Report: Mubarak has $70 billion in banks
2012-07-29,Barclays executive blamed for Libor scandal given 8.75m pay-off
2012-07-29,Former U.S. officials say CIA considers Israel to be Mideast's biggest spy threat
2012-07-29,"Hundreds of Spaniards protested Sunday against the conservative government's proposal to roll back women's abortion rights, including in cases where the fetus is deformed."
2012-07-29,"Hunting the Hunter - 
In a remote patch of N India, poaching is so rampant that leopard skins & rare animal parts are sold from tea stalls. Along with a team of wildlife activists, journalists help track & pin down a notorious poacher. Here's how it happened."
2012-07-29,Breakout of Ebola virus is confirmed in Uganda
2012-07-29,"'Britons evaded 200m in tax' using HSBC-owned Swiss bank: Trade minister who headed banking division is facing further pressure
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2012-07-29,"
7 Nations Face Sanctions Over Endangered Species - 
UN will penalize  Syria,  Paraguay, Nepal, Rwanda, Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, & Solomon Islands for lax rules or not reporting wildlife trade. They're traded for food, fuel, health care, religious items, collections, trophy hunting & other sport."
2012-07-29,"Kenyan police say the acting Venezuelan ambassador to Kenya, found dead in her official home in Nairobi Friday, was strangled. "
2012-07-29,"Amnesty International USA Blasts Obama Administration for ""Stunning Cowardice"" At UN Arms Talks"
2012-07-29,US presents Israel with Iran strike plan 
2012-07-29,Al Jazeera speaks to captured Syrian secret police
2012-07-29,Chinese court dismisses fraud charge against rights activist Ni Yulan:  Disabled lawyer has prison time cut by two months in small victory for China's human rights movement
2012-07-29,Syrian rebels survive regime onslaught in Aleppo 
2012-07-29,Italian embassy staff kidnapped in Yemen
2012-07-28,"Angry Chinese occupy government office, smash computers in environment protest, seize bribes"
2012-07-28,Snoop Dogg banned from Norway for 2 years after trying to enter the country with a small amount of pot
2012-07-28,Ebola Breaks Out in Uganda Killing 14
2012-07-28,France forgives Ivory Coast's debt worth $4bn
2012-07-28,Saudi forces 'open fire' on protesters - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2012-07-28,Saudi businessman cancels contracts with Russia due to their stance on Syria
2012-07-28,At least three banks seen central to Libor rigging
2012-07-28,"Olympics opening ceremony was 'multicultural crap', Tory MP tweets"
2012-07-28,Enbridge shuts down part of Canada-US pipeline after oil spill in Wisconsin
2012-07-28,"
Chinese officials forced to cancel 2nd  industrial waste pipeline project in a month after 1,000 environmental protesters occupy office, overturn cars, destroy computers & beat police officers. Environmental worries have stoked calls for expanded rights for citizens. "
2012-07-28,"Deadly Ebola virus breaks out in Uganda, 14 killed in western Uganda this month"
2012-07-28,"The Syrian opposition: who's doing the talking? The media have been too passive when it comes to Syrian opposition sources, without scrutinising their backgrounds and their political connections."
2012-07-28,"The acting Venezuelan envoy to Kenya was found dead at her official residence in Nairobi, and police said Friday she was murdered by strangulation."
2012-07-28,"Federal police heads to roll in Germany - The leadership of Germany's Federal Police is to be replaced, according to various media reports quoting sources close to the government."
2012-07-28,"Mexicans pay in blood for the US's war on drugs. 100,000 dead and counting."
2012-07-28,Spain unemployment hits new high at 24.6%
2012-07-28,China waste water pipeline scrapped after protest
2012-07-28, Gorilla hangs himself by accident in Prague Zoo
2012-07-28,Ebola outbreak confirmed in Uganda.
2012-07-28,UN states fail to reach arms trade treaty
2012-07-28,With American and Iranian naval vessels operating in close proximity in the Persian Gulf there is  constant danger that a small incident could spark a major war. 
2012-07-28,"Canada's Enbridge Inc, already under fire from U.S. regulators over a massive oil spill two years ago, said on Friday it had shut a key pipeline indefinitely after an oil leak in Wisconsin."
2012-07-28,"US, Pakistan Officials Trade Accusations at Tense Conference"
2012-07-28,U.N. states fail to reach global arms trade treaty. Monthlong conference on a new U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion dollar global arms trade has failed.
2012-07-28,London Olympics 2012: Row after NBC drop opening ceremony '7/7 tribute'
2012-07-27,Cuban president Ral Castro willing to hold no-limits talks with America
2012-07-27,"Sweden officially registers ""Kopimism"" a religion  whose central dogma is that file sharing is sacred."
2012-07-27,Police made up evidence against Muslim student
2012-07-27,"Disfigured victim's plea to die exposes India's acid violence
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2012-07-27,Mitt Romney does the impossible: Gets Brits to stop moaning and start cheering about Olympics
2012-07-27,Kim Jong-un Has Actually Been Married for Three Years 
2012-07-27,"UK Prime minister Cameron soon rebuked Romney. ""We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course, it's easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere,"" he said."
2012-07-27,"Population of Jewish settlements in West Bank up 15,000 in a year"
2012-07-27,"Bhopal victims stage own Olympics to protest Dow sponsorship: Dozens of disabled kids aged 5 to 16 have participated in 10 sports. Survivors of 1984 Bhopal disaster, one of worlds worst-ever industrial catastrophes, held their own Games to protest against London Olympics sponsored by Dow Chemical"
2012-07-27,"Husband tortured, wife gang-raped, son drowned in boiling water and pet dog gutted in murder of family that shocked even South Africa.  

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2012-07-27,"Twitter joke trial: UK man wins 'airport bomb threat' court battle. Paul Chambers, found guilty of sending a menacing tweet threatening to blow up Robin Hood Airport in S.Yorkshire, has won an appeal in Britains High Court"
2012-07-27,Since 1975 the countries now in the euro zone have given birth to just one company currently among the worlds 500 biggest (ironically it is from Spain: Inditex); by contrast California alone has created 26.
2012-07-27,Mass arrests as London police attack 'Critical Mass' cycle ride during Olympic ceremony
2012-07-27,"Chinese farmer travels from China to London, in a rickshaw, to attend the Olympic games. A 2 years epic journey."
2012-07-27,"Russia seeks to set up naval bases abroad:  Naval chief confirms talks with Cuba, Vietnam and the Seychelles about setting up overseas facilities for Russian ships"
2012-07-27,Narconomics | The Economist
2012-07-27,"Add faith in the work ethic and in capitalism to the lengthening list of casualties from the Great Recession. Four years after Lehman Brothers fiasco, a new Pew survey finds citizens around the world less and less likely to believe that effort in a competitive economy can lead to success."
2012-07-27,"Spanish Fishermen Receive Some of Biggest Fines in UK Maritime History - 
Details emerged of falsified log books, false readings given for weighing fish at sea, and fiddling of fishing quota"
2012-07-27,"David Hicks, an Australian that spent five years in Guantanamo Bay, is now free to keep all profits from his memoir, as the Commonwealth has dropped its attempt to seize the proceeds under the 'proceeds of crime' law."
2012-07-27, India bans Iran oil ships from its waters
2012-07-27,"The United States will face a ""teeth-breaking"" response if it continues to carry out cyber attacks against Iran, an Iranian official said on Wednesday."
2012-07-27,Republican dissidents join forces to form a new IRA
2012-07-27,The pointless building projects that dragged Spain into the red
2012-07-27,"Aeromexico places $11 billion order with Boeing
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2012-07-27,"BBC News - Chilean Senator Fulvio Rossi's confession heats debate on legalising marijuana, that he partakes on occasion"
2012-07-26,French President Francois Hollande has called for a 75 percent income tax on top earners in France to help lower the country's deficit
2012-07-26,Hugo Chvez tells Venezuelans to drink juice not Coke: urges people to buy state-made Uvita to boost consumption of homegrown products and reduce imports
2012-07-26,"China arrests thousands in latest internet crime crackdown - More than 10,000 suspects have been arrested and 600 criminal gangs ""busted,"" 3.2 million ""harmful"" messages deleted, and 30 internet service providers punished for granting access to unlicensed sites"
2012-07-26,"""I'll legalise gay marriage by 2015"", vows Britain's PM"
2012-07-26,"German U-boat may be at the bottom of a Canadian river, far from the ocean"
2012-07-26,Chinese maker of U.S. Olympic uniforms baffled by backlash
2012-07-26,Turkey cuts off trade with Syria  
2012-07-26,The New Zealand parliament will vote to legalise gay marriage
2012-07-26,Ecuador seeks to stop 'evil' of Julian Assange US extradition
2012-07-26,Banksy's commentary on the Olympic Games might be destroyed
2012-07-26,"War voyeurs: Israeli tourists watch Syria battles from safe distance. Armed with binoculars and cameras, tourists in Israel are flocking to the Golan Heights in the hope of seeing the bloody conflict in neighboring Syria, sparking a trend among tour operators"
2012-07-26,"North Korean Olympic footballers walk off the pitch as South Korean flag mistakenly displayed
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2012-07-26,"Unspinning The Narrative Of A Syrian Massacre - 
At least 100 people were killed in the village of Tremseh earlier this month. Activists called it a massacre of innocent civilians by government forces, but later reports suggest something different. Here's some untold details about the killing."
2012-07-26,"Bo Xilai's Wife Charged With Murder - 
Gu Kailai, wife of disgraced Chinese political leader, has been charged with murder of British businessman Neil Heywood, who was found dead in a hotel in Chongqing in November."
2012-07-26,"BBA ""warned weekly"" about Libor says former rate-compiler -  British Bankers Association was given weekly warnings in 2008 that the process of setting the Libor interest rates was being distorted.  The BBA denies these amounted to warnings of wrong-doing."
2012-07-26,Iran accuses Israel of plotting Bulgaria bus attack: Iran's U.N. envoy accused Israel of plotting and carrying out a suicide bomb attack on a bus in Bulgaria a week ago in which five Israeli tourists were killed
2012-07-26,"India's Bans Tiger Tourism - It's banned across the country in aim  to protect the endangered cats. India is home to over 1/2 the world's 3,200 tigers, most of in reserves. Ban is temporary pending decision on some states that allowed hotels, resorts & shops in the core of the reserves."
2012-07-26,HSBC fined $27.5m for 'money laundering'
2012-07-26,German U-Boat wreck found 100 km inland.
2012-07-26,Taiwan's national flag was taken down from Regent Street 3 days before the Olympics but no explanation was given. 
2012-07-26,Whole Afghan family works in brick factory to pay off crushing healthcare debt of $900
2012-07-26,UK in longest double-dip recession in 50 years: UK economy contracts by a shock 0.7pc
2012-07-26,"Horrific death of boy, 12, drowned in boiling water after robbers raped and killed his mother "
2012-07-26,"Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson warrant issued, leaves Germany; destination unknown"
2012-07-26,UK border officers let known drug smugglers through as they are overwhelmed with tourists arriving for the Olympics. 
2012-07-25,Gorillas Seen Destroying and Dismantling  Poachers' Snares In Rwanda 
2012-07-25,BBC News - Gay marriage to be introduced in Scotland
2012-07-25,"A Mexican official says the CIA and other international security forces ""don't fight drug traffickers"" as much as ""try to manage the drug trade"" - ""It's like pest control companies, if you finish off the pests, you are out of a job. If they finish the drug business, they finish their jobs."""
2012-07-25,Six women rape man to death
2012-07-25,The world is closer to a food crisis than most realize
2012-07-25,"11 year old sneaks on to flight , ends up in italy"
2012-07-25,Kim Jong Un gets married.
2012-07-25,"""Street Art"" banned in London ahead of Olympics, Artists banned from going within a mile of any venue."
2012-07-25,Gun control debate about to go international.  The first draft of a new U.N. treaty to regulate the multibillion dollar global arms trade has sparked criticism
2012-07-25,Burma's monks call for Muslim community to be shunned - the Rohingya - one of the world's most oppressed groups
2012-07-25,"Julian Assange defence to be led by Spanish jurist Baltasar Garzn, renowned human rights investigator who indicted Augusto Pinochet"
2012-07-25,"Wikileaks says famous Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon, best known for indicting former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, to lead Assange legal team"
2012-07-25,20% of all Spanish Homes Currently Sit Empty
2012-07-25,Why is India so bad for women?
2012-07-25,"The US Central Intelligence Agency and other international security forces ""don't fight drug traffickers"", a spokesman for the Chihuahua state government in northern Mexico has told Al Jazeera, instead ""they try to manage the drug trade"""
2012-07-25,Sanford I. Weill former Citigroup chief who helped to destroy what remained of the wall between commercial and investment banking is effectively advocating its return.
2012-07-25,The First Person in the World to be Cured of HIV....
2012-07-25,"Beijing flooded and coated in mud, and the government doesn't want to talk about it"
2012-07-25,700m smuggling tunnel found between Ukraine and EU
2012-07-25,"Turkey sealed its border with Syria to all traffic except refugees on Wednesday, citing worsening security conditions following escalating skirmishes close to the frontier which last week saw rebel fighters capture at least two crossing points."
2012-07-25,Tony Blair denies praying with George Bush
2012-07-25,"Archaeologists have unearthed a skeleton believed to be the body of Lisa Gherardini, the Florentine noblewoman widely believed to have served as the muse for Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa'"
2012-07-25,Indonesia's condom campaign to fight Aids criticised by religious groups:  Approach to preventing HIV and Aids draws accusations from conservative Muslims that government is promoting promiscuity
2012-07-25,Canadian spy 'sold Australian intel to Russia':  Australian and Canadian officials are reportedly in discussions about a spy who allegedly passed information from Australia and the US to a foreign power.
2012-07-25,"Denied visa by US to attend an International AIDS conference, sex workers hold parallel conference  in Kolkata"
2012-07-24,"How the Norwegians Reacted to Terrorism: ""The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,"" said the prime minister. A year later it seems the prime minister has kept his word"
2012-07-24,"US evangelical Christians accused of promoting homophobia in Africa
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2012-07-24,"Iranian nuclear facilities hit by AC/DC virus that turns off automated system operations, turns on PCs at night playing 'Thunderstruck'"
2012-07-24,"King Juan Carlos of Spain ousted from, 'World Wildlife Fund', presidency  a title hed held since 1968  after hunting elephants in Botswana - A photo of him with a rifle & a dead elephant caused outrage. He was also criticized  for an ostentatious lifestyle when 1 in 4 Spaniards are out of work. 
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2012-07-24,"UN: Israel urged to treat Palestinian child detainees in accordance with rights law: Israels use of solitary confinement against children flagrantly violates international human rights standards"""
2012-07-24,How Finland keeps its head above eurozone crisis:  What has Finland done right? Its economy is dominated by services but it is competitive in manufacturing. Income per person is among the highest in western Europe - and its revenues are bigger than its debt
2012-07-24,"Occupy the Dam: Brazil's Indigenous Uprising: In the Amazonian backcountry, tribes are challenging construction of the world's third-largest dam - by dismantling it. Here's what they can teach us about standing up to power"
2012-07-24,"Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and six others face charges"
2012-07-24,Romania is sliding unremarked into despotism.
2012-07-24,"[India] Bhopal Gas tragedy victims to hold Bhopal Olympics on July 26, a day ahead of the London Olympics to oppose sponsorship of the Olympic Games by Dow Chemical which continues to evade civil, criminal and environmental liabilities of Bhopal inherited from Union Carbide"
2012-07-24,"Egypt lifts 5-year blockade of Gaza, allowing Palestinians free entry  RT"
2012-07-24,House of Lords says make maths compulsory for all A level students
2012-07-24,A Land Without Guns: How Japan Has Virtually Eliminated Shooting Deaths
2012-07-24,"Private banking's cosy world under siege: With banking secrecy increasingly under threat, private banks may have to organise ever more trips to the Arctic to keep their customers loyal."
2012-07-24,Ghana President Mills dead
2012-07-24,"Iran warns Arab countries not to intervene in Syria, threatening them with retaliation if they do"
2012-07-24,"Syria: 'war planes bomb Aleppo':   Fighter jets have reportedly launched bomb attacks on Syria's second city of Aleppo, which, if confirmed, would be the first time Assad forces had used war planes against citizens. "
2012-07-24,"There is an epidemic of stabbings against doctors in China: ""When the doctor in Harbin was stabbed to death, netizens were cheering for the murderer, says 26-year-old Liang Yingcong, a doctor at Peking University First Hospital in Beijing. There is something wrong with society."
2012-07-24," 
 
First Nations leaders shocked by oilsands"
2012-07-24,Buddhist attacks on the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar have picked up over the last few weeks following the rape and murder of a Buddhist woman in May.
2012-07-24,"Shock discovery: 248 human embryos found trashed in Russian forest. A fishing trip in Russia's Urals ended with cries of horror as a man found canisters filled with human embryos, some already shaped to baby bodies"
2012-07-24,China Sends Troops to Disputed Islands
2012-07-24,'Super cereal' feeds Mali's malnourished kids
2012-07-24,A 300-year-old skull with traces of brain tissue has been located by divers excavating the royal ship Kronan in the waters off the Baltic Sea island of land.
2012-07-24,Will London Really Erase Banksy's New Olympics Art?
2012-07-23,"Super rich hiding up to $32 trillion offshore, which amounts to roughly the US and Japanese GDP combined. Up to $280bn is lost in tax revenues. Some of the world's biggest banks are involved: HSBC, Citigroup, Bank of America, UBS, Credit Suisse"
2012-07-23,Israel orders demolition of 8 palestinian villages claims need for idf training land
2012-07-23,"Anthrax Hits Glasgow: The Story of a Desperate Hunt for its Source - When heroin users in Scotland began dying from a powerful infection, health officials were alarmed to find the culprit was anthrax. A desperate hunt for the source involved police, microbiologists & bioweaponeers."
2012-07-23,Syria says will use chemical weapons if attacked 
2012-07-23,"Farmers armed with machineguns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars forced government troops to abandon an operation to destroy their illegal cannabis crop in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley on Monday"
2012-07-23,"Officials: Egypt allowing Palestinians to enter without permits, visas, ending Gaza blockade - Yahoo! News"
2012-07-23,Germany and IMF to Refuse Greece Further Financial Aid
2012-07-23,Japan police arrest 4 journalists for selling a magazine issue that focused on how to backup DVDs. They might also arrest the CEO of Amazon Japan. They violated Japan's Unfair Competition Prevention Law that was recently revised to make illegal the sale of any DRM circumvention device or software.
2012-07-23,"Libor arrests in US could be imminent, say sources"
2012-07-23,"Affluent Vietnamese Driving Rhino Horn Poaching in South Africa - 
Conspicuous consumption from a growing middle class is opening a new market in the illegal wildlife trade.  Several Vietnamese diplomats have been recalled after being caught with rhino horn."
2012-07-23,"Greece now in ""Great Depression"" - Greek Prime Minister"
2012-07-23,"Tens of thousands protest in Mexico against new president: At least 32,000 protesters marched through Mexico City on Sunday to protest the imposition of the new president. They accuse president-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, a member of the old ruling party, of electoral fraud"
2012-07-23,"German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria among rebels. Reports say these groups complicit in massacres. German Gov't notes the content of these reports was to remain classified ""by reason of national interest""."
2012-07-23,The Swedish Young Pirates association was evicted from a municipal festival for giving out free waffles; they were targeted with eviction because the traditional festival waffle makers couldn't get paid anymore
2012-07-23,"Disgusted by Her Dating, Man Beheads His Daughter, 20, In India"
2012-07-23,Belize Ponders Marijuana Decriminalization
2012-07-23,BBC News - Tax havens: Super-rich 'hiding' at least $21tn
2012-07-23,"Prosecutors, regulators close to making Libor arrests"
2012-07-23,An Israeli lawmaker has torn up a copy of the New Testament in front of cameras in his parliament office.
2012-07-23,"Food price crisis feared as erratic weather wreaks havoc on crops:
'What the world economy really needs right now is a break', one economist says, but instead it appears headed toward upheaval
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2012-07-23,This is how racism takes root
2012-07-23,First fuel rods removed from Fukushima Daiichi plant
2012-07-23,"Japanese workers told to underplay Fukushima radiation dosage: A subcontractor urged workers at Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant to put lead around radiation detection devices in order to stay under a safety threshold for exposure, according to reports"
2012-07-23,Japanese authorities investigate bogus readings at Fukushima plant:  Subcontractors accused of covering gauges with lead plates so they could remain longer at the tsunami-hit plant
2012-07-23,Palestinian prisoner ends 102-day hunger strike - longest hunger strike in human history
2012-07-22,$21tn: hoard hidden from taxman by global elite
2012-07-22,Pakistani policeman kills sister for wearing jeans
2012-07-22,"3 Vietnamese Soldiers Held for Torturing, Killing 2 Rare Monkeys & Posting the Photos on Facebook -  Some show one of the monkeys, believed to be pregnant, being forced to smoke a cigarette before being tortured & killed.  The men were detained after the Facebook pics triggered outrage."
2012-07-22,Why Mexico's Nascent Youth Movement Continues to Agitate: Some international elections observers have confirmed what many Mexicans thought -- the recent elections in Mexico were characterized by massive fraud
2012-07-22,"Teenagers kidnapped, tortured, bashed and sexually assaulted a 12 year old autistic child as part of a depraved attack in suburban Townsville.

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2012-07-22,Rupert Murdoch resigns as News International director
2012-07-22,Spanish protests swell as jobless march on Madrid
2012-07-22,Norway's Prime Minister's speech one year after the massacre on Utya.
2012-07-22,"""Dramatic"" New Maya Temple Found, Covered With Giant Faces"
2012-07-22,Madagascar Army Base in Mutiny
2012-07-22,"Blast rocks Egypt's gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan

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2012-07-22,Japan to investigate radiation cover-up claims:   A subcontractor hired after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima is reported to have told workers to cover up devices meant to detect unsafe levels of radiation. Japan's health ministry is looking into the matter. 
2012-07-22,"""The deadly earthquake that leveled Haiti's capital more than two years ago brought a thread of hope: a promise of renewal. . . . Today, the fruits of an ambitious, $1.8 billion U.S. reconstruction promise are hard to find."""
2012-07-22,"With Syria imploding, is Hezbollah next?
Hezbollahs loyalty to the brutal regime in Syria is costing it support and exacerbating divisions in Lebanon"
2012-07-22,Spiegel: IMF to provide no new funds to Greece
2012-07-22,Rupert Murdoch Resigns as Head of News International
2012-07-22,Rolling Stone Mobile - Politics - Politics: Global Warming's Terrifying New Math
2012-07-22,"Prosecutors in Chile are investigating 61 schools in the capital, Santiago, over allegations that pupils were sexually abused. "
2012-07-22,Heaviest rains in 60 years kill 10 in Beijing
2012-07-22,"Iraq Sends Troops To Seal Borders Against Syrian Rebels, Evacuates Iraqi Nationals From Damascus  "
2012-07-22,Tony Blair admits that Labor didn't understand the finance sector that they were entrusted to manage.
2012-07-22,World renowned writer and activist Alexander Cockburn dead at 71 - nytimes
2012-07-22,Palestinian dies after 'fall' while in custody. 
2012-07-22,Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the bill ratifying the country's accession into the World Trade Organization after 18 years of complicated negotiations. 
2012-07-22,Wealthy hiding up to $21-32 trillion offshore 
2012-07-21,Kim Jong-Un May Have Just Suppressed a Coup
2012-07-21,Anti-Putin girl punk band to stay in jail
2012-07-21,"its as if someone else is throwing a party in our house, with a huge entry fee, and were all locked in the basement. "
2012-07-21,Source: Kim to reform North Korean economy after purge
2012-07-21,Spain king ousted as honorary president of World Wildlife Fund branch after elephant hunt
2012-07-21,Russian city prosecutes 73 people for homosexual propaganda
2012-07-21,"Police arrested actors for spilling custard, say Olympic protesters"
2012-07-21,Iranians Use Facebook To Say 'No' To Compulsory Hijab
2012-07-21,"In Scotland we have a man nicknamed ""The Naked Rambler"". He's an ex-marine who has spent the past six years in prison for being naked in public. He was released three days ago. He's just been arrested again..."
2012-07-21,"Saudi Arabia warns non-Muslims not to eat, drink, smoke in public on Ramadan, or face expulsion"
2012-07-21,BBC News - London 2012: Outrage over artist banned from Olympics
2012-07-21,"Two more Syrian generals defect, flee to Turkey overnight - World News"
2012-07-21,"Bodies of 14 Critically-Endangered Sumatran Tigers Seized in Indonesia - ""We confiscated whole preserved bodies of 14 tigers, a lion, 3 leopards, a clouded leopard, 3 bears & a tapir & a tiger head.""  Tiger body parts are prized in the  traditional Chinese medicine market.  "
2012-07-21,"27 killed, 26 injured in Mexico bus crash."
2012-07-21,"Bahraini police fire tear gas on thousands of protesters (PHOTOS, VIDEO)"
2012-07-21,Sweden says freed Guantanamo captive was not bomber in Bulgaria - BostonHerald.com
2012-07-21,2012 Olympics -- Runner without country to compete at Olympics - ESPN
2012-07-21,Creepy Olympic mascots take over London
2012-07-21,"
Pussy Riot jailed for six more months"
2012-07-21,"Japan ""reduces"" radiation exposures of cleanup crews with lead lined detectors."
2012-07-21,Japanese rocket sends cargo craft to space station
2012-07-21,Fukushima's Uncertainty Problem - Science holds few definitive answers for those worried about radiation exposure.  Why can't it do better? Because it's guesswork.   How much radioactivity was released? Who was exposed & when?  How does it effect the human body? 
2012-07-21,Graphic interview of alleged church camp rapists angers Mexico
2012-07-21,"The seizure of white-owned farms was a disaster for Zimbabwe, but amid that pain, thousands of people got small farm plots and many ended up faring pretty well"
2012-07-21,Chinese woman looks much better after doctors remove 70 tumours from her face
2012-07-20,"Lenovo CEO distributes his $3 Million USD Bonus to his 10,000 Employees "
2012-07-20,"In China Man Saves Drowning Family, Drowning Family Leave Man To Die Because ""It's Not Their Business"""
2012-07-20,"HSBC, accused of financial dealings linked to terrorists and drug cartels, heads to Senate subcommittee - latimes.com"
2012-07-20,Vast aquifer found in Namibia could last for centuries - A newly discovered water source in Namibia could have a major impact on development in the driest country in sub-Saharan Africa.
2012-07-20,"Spanish rallies turn violent as million people protest in 80 cities: Demonstrators carried flags and banners decorated with scissors, symbolizing the country's harsh spending cuts. The streets of Madrid were paralyzed by the boundless crowds of people"
2012-07-20,"Huge explosion in Damascus, Wi-Fi and 3G cut-off - RT reporter  RT"
2012-07-20,That large event that see very fit people converge every four years has a list of restricted words that is being enforced by 300 uniformed persons in an effort to protect the sponsors of said event.
2012-07-20,(Video) Former Mexican president: Legalize drugs to fight cartels
2012-07-20,UK Judge: Apple must run ads saying Samsung DIDN'T copy the iPad
2012-07-20,300 radioactive Japanese cars stopped at Russian border
2012-07-20,Syria conflict: West 'appalled' by Russia China UN veto
2012-07-20,"Exclusive: Kim to reform North Korean economy after purge: source
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2012-07-20,Silvio Berlusconi will probably run for prime minister for a seventh time.
2012-07-20,"
Iran denies Israeli claims on Bulgaria attack"
2012-07-20,Fukushima children have abnormal thyroid growths - Business Insider
2012-07-20,"Bulgarian media have named the suicide bomber who blew up the bus with Israeli tourists on Wednesday, killing seven. The terrorist is alleged to be Mehdi Ghezali, an Algerian-Swedish Islamist who spent two years in Guantanamo Bay"
2012-07-20,U.A.E. Police Treating US Navy's Gulf Shooting as Murder
2012-07-20,Solar industry trade war heats up:   German solar firms are preparing anti-dumping litigation against China in an effort to curb cheap panel imports often backed by state subsidies. The German government is supporting the move. 
2012-07-20,Russia and China veto UN resolution on Syria 
2012-07-20,Not everyone hates Bashar al-Assad. Some people even like the Syrian president. But they're afraid to admit it.
2012-07-20,"'Bigotry' behind burning of Polish flags in Belfast must stop, warns group:  Maciek Bator, founder of the Polish Association in Northern Ireland, has described the burning of his country's national flag by loyalists on bonfires in Northern Ireland as ""despicable"". "
2012-07-20,"Spanish firemen strip naked to protest spending cuts: ""With so many cuts we have been left naked,"" declared a banner on the wall above them."
2012-07-20,"Historic first, Canadian sub sinks a ship"
2012-07-20,Azerbaijan: Army Officer Shot Dead By Armenian Sniper
2012-07-20,Brazil removes diplomats from Syria 
2012-07-19,Drug decriminalization in Portugal decreases number of addicts
2012-07-19,"96,000 pounds of Silver, possibly the largest discovery in history, was found in the North Atlantic."
2012-07-19,"Canadian Mining Company Destroys Panama rainforest, destroys local people's livelihood"
2012-07-19,"Married Olympic couple cant room together, claim discrimination for being a heterosexual couple."
2012-07-19,"Infant buried alive minutes after birth.  Father ""It was my will because she was my child and every person has the right to do anything with their children"""
2012-07-19,Shell could face huge fine for Nigeria spill:  Nigerian agency tells parliament oil giant should pay $5bn for environmental damage caused by offshore leak last year.
2012-07-19,Canada B.C. launches massive new program to wipe out HIV/AIDS by testing everyone in the province who has ever been sexually active using an HIV antibody test that produces results in about 30 seconds
2012-07-19,Rupert Murdoch faces shareholder revolt at News Corporation AGM
2012-07-19,Aust Government to force citizens to hand over internet passwords - sending you to jail if you refuse.
2012-07-19,"A top Muslim cleric in Russia's Tatarstan province was shot dead Thursday and another was wounded by a car bomb, attacks that the province's leader and local religious authorities said were probably related to the priests' criticism of radical Islamists."
2012-07-19,"Beyond Foxconn: More Dirt on the Factories Making Your iPhone - Troubling new findings cast doubt on Apple's highly publicized promise to improve  conditions in its overseas factories. Using surveys, onsite visits, undercover investigations, & face-to-face interviews, 10 factories were evaluated."
2012-07-19,"French rightwing lawmakers raised their eyebrows and hooted as minister of territories and housing, Ccile Duflot, took to the podium because she was wearing a floral dress."
2012-07-19,"UK Border Agency Staff To Go On Strike One Day Before The Olympics
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2012-07-19,"Russia, China veto western-backed Syria resolution at UN Security Council"
2012-07-19,Russia's Moderate Muslim leaders attacked in Tatarstan
2012-07-19,Ian Tomlinson death: PC not guilty
2012-07-19,Mexico Admits to 67 Journalists Murdered Since 2006 - Press advocates have long called Mexico one of the most dangerous nations for journalists. But there is little agreement about the numbers killed.
2012-07-19,"As China Squeezes Nepal, Tibetan Escape Route Narrows: Tibetans seeking to flee Chinese rule are finding their traditional passage of escape  via the Himalayan nation of Nepal  far more fraught and difficult than before "
2012-07-19,Mexican Teen's brothel escape triggers clampdown...
2012-07-19,"No sign of Assad after bomb kills kin, rebels close in - Reuters"
2012-07-19,This Is Not A Composite Photo - site of an aluminum oxide plant burst in Hungary
2012-07-19,Syrian rebels now control all border post between Syria and Iraq
2012-07-19,Young gorillas seen dismantling poachers traps
2012-07-19,"Hong Kong Imported 10 Million Kilograms of Shark Fins Last Year | Extinction Countdown, Scientific American Blog Network"
2012-07-19,Australian Government Moves to Expand Surveillance Powers: 'AG Roxon calls for making it easier for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to spy on Twitter and Facebook users... likely be achieved by compelling companies to create backdoors to enable surveillance.'
2012-07-18,"Girls denied cervical cancer jab - Some schools in England have opted out of the HPV vaccination programme because their pupils ""follow strict Christian principles"" and ""do not practise sex outside marriage""."
2012-07-18,"WikiLeaks Reopens Channel For Credit Card Donations, Dares Visa And MasterCard To Block Them Again | Forbes"
2012-07-18,Anti-piracy group fined...for stealing music.
2012-07-18,Syrian Defense Minister confirmed killed in Damascus blast.
2012-07-18,Blast hits Israeli tour bus in Bulgaria
2012-07-18,BBC banned from airing London Riots Docudrama 
2012-07-18,Megaupload judge quits case after US 'is enemy' comment
2012-07-18,Denmark is trying to encourage bicycle commuting to Copenhagen by promoting so-called cycle superhighways
2012-07-18,"China airline crew rewarded with cars and cash for foiling hijack: Hainan Airlines Group gave nine crew members Audi cars, cash and property"
2012-07-18,Court demands secret files on US 'black jails
2012-07-18,"Several killed, wounded in terror attack against Israelis in Bulgaria"
2012-07-18,Two-thirds of Spaniards aged below 30 still live at home with their parents
2012-07-18,Wounded Indian fisherman: US Navy vessel gave no warning before firing
2012-07-18,"Average Chinese person's carbon footprint now equals European's:  The per capita emissions of the world's largest national emitter is almost on a par with the European average, new figures show
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2012-07-18,"
 
Millions of savers being misled by City fund managers about hidden fees that can almost halve the value of their pensions, year-long study finds"
2012-07-18,"The judge overseeing the Kim Dotcom extradition case has stepped down after making comments suggesting the United States was the ""enemy"""
2012-07-18,Kim Jong Un's government begins to ease persecution of criminals' extended families. 
2012-07-18,Taliban bomb destroys 22 NATO supply trucks in Afghan north
2012-07-18,"Indian doctors illegally removed wombs from poor women in order to claim money from a national insurance scheme, the state's health minister said on Wednesday."
2012-07-18,Court ruling preventing BBC docu-drama on London riots being aired to be challenged.
2012-07-18,Northern Mali has become a magnet for Islamic extremists who have imposed a strict form of justice that is prompting tens of thousands of people to flee what some are likening to an African Afghanistan
2012-07-18,"Bank of England votes 7-2 to print money - Policymakers meanwhile voted unanimously to keep the BoE's main interest rate at a record low 0.50%, where it has stood for over 3 years."
2012-07-18,A Tanzanian ferry carrying at least 250 people has sunk near the island of Zanzibar.
2012-07-18,Disillusioned German Islamists Returning Home to Germany
2012-07-18,Reactor building of Shika nuclear plant in Ishikawa might sit on an active fault
2012-07-17,The Average Canadian is Now Richer than the Average American
2012-07-17,Canadians favor decriminalizing marijuana
2012-07-17,TSA agents to staff UK airports during Olympics
2012-07-17,HSBC allowed Mexican drug cartels to launder billions of dollars through its US operations as well as providing money and banking services to some banks in Saudi Arabia and Bangladesh believed to have helped fund al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.
2012-07-17,"Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal
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2012-07-17,"New Zealand Parents deny daughter life-saving transplant: ""girl suffering a rare kidney disease has been put into the guardianship of the High Court because her Jehovah's Witness parents will not consent to her receiving a life-saving kidney and liver transplant"""
2012-07-17,"French seek arrest of 97 years old Nazi in Hungary for his role in the deportation of 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz.

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2012-07-17,US warship fired on a boat after it ignored warnings off the coast of the United Arab Emirates
2012-07-17,"In March, 24-year-old Yorkshireman David Simpson stumbled across the mutilated bodies of 13 men in an African forest. He is now in jail charged with their murder..."
2012-07-17,"Needles found in sandwiches on 4 U.S.-bound Delta flights that left Sunday from Amsterdam, injuring one passenger."
2012-07-17,Disney heir divests from Israeli cosmetics company Ahava because it operates in the occupied Palestinian territories.
2012-07-17,"Syria now officially in a state of civil war, according to the Red Cross.  This means that the Geneva Conventions (and prosecution of war crimes) now applies."
2012-07-17,Blair-Bush Iraq war transcript may be suppressed
2012-07-17,Israel Begins Rounding Up and Interning Africans - Africanglobe
2012-07-17,"Beaten, stripped and burned with cigarettes for 45 minutes: Horrific video of attack on young woman by mob of 20 men in India sparks outrage after it was posted on YouTube

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2012-07-17,500 dead penguins wash up along Brazil's beaches
2012-07-17,"Oil Companies Spring a Leak, Courtesy of 
Anonymous | Threat Level | Wired.com"
2012-07-17,Egypt's new president considers lifting the blockade on Gaza.
2012-07-17,Israeli ignites protests with self-immolation - Features - Al Jazeera English
2012-07-17,Man Who Bit Into Needle Found in Sandwiches on Delta Flight Put on Anti-HIV Medication - ABC News
2012-07-17,150m skyscraper ablaze as fire tears through Polat Tower in Istanbul: A large blaze has broken out in a 42-story tower block in the center of the Turkish city of Istanbul
2012-07-17,South Africa says 281 of the country's endangered rhinoceros have been killed by poachers in the first six months of the year.
2012-07-17,A pervasively polluted culture allowed HSBC to faciliate clients involved in money laundering
2012-07-17,Kadima quits Israel government over conscription law -   Israel's Kadima party has left Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government in a dispute over military conscription for ultra-Orthodox Jews.
2012-07-17,Gaza Christians protest 'forcible conversions' - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
2012-07-16,"Calls to destroy the Pyramids were a hoax, begun by a satirical twitter account, which western news outlets took as fact."
2012-07-16,Tasmanian cops decline to 'censor internet content'
2012-07-16,Mexican drug cartels' spreading influence: Graphic
2012-07-16,Gang rapes SEVEN girls during violent night time attack on church youth camp in Mexico City
2012-07-16,"35.8% of children in Fukushima have cysts in their thyroid, compared to 0.8% of children in a control group."
2012-07-16,"Egyptian Protesters Chant ""Monica"" To Hillary Clinton"
2012-07-16,"Light sentence in brutal murder shows double standard for Jews, Palestinians
"
2012-07-16,"Springsteen cut off because of curfew. Guitarist calls Britain a ""police state"". "
2012-07-16,Hardheaded Socialism Makes Canada Richer Than U.S. 
2012-07-16,"U.S. Navy ship fires at boat in Persian Gulf - 1 killed, 3 injured"
2012-07-16,Sri Lanka names a newly found fresh water fish after Dawkins.
2012-07-16,"Huge anti-nuclear demonstration staged in Tokyo - 
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Tokyo on Monday to demand a stop to nuclear power. It is the latest sign of a growing anti-nuclear sentiment among the Japanese population. "
2012-07-16,Hollande keeps another election promise: no presumtion of self defense for police [Google translate of French Reuters]
2012-07-16,"The judge due to hear Kim Dotcom's extradition case has referred to the US as ""the enemy"" in a discussion about copyright law"
2012-07-16,"The Worlds Last Worm: A Dreaded Disease Nears Eradication - ""In 1986 there were 3.5 million cases, as compared with only 1,060 in 2011 and a mere five as of the first few months of 2012."""
2012-07-16,"Germany Not Immune To Bank Fiasco: ""'In Germany we have a problem with the bigger banks, but no one is talking about it,' said Dr Mechthild Schrooten, professor of economics ... 'It is not clear how big a banking problem there is, I wouldn't even want to begin to guess, but it has a lot of zeroes.'"""
2012-07-16,Taliban imposes ban on polio vaccination campaign in tribal areas.
2012-07-16,"Spanish Journalist Describes Seeing the Aftermath of the Tremseh Massacre - 
A freelance photojournalist who visited the town after reports of a recent massacre the says he saw 1st-hand the evidence of heavy artillery & mass executions by the Syrian government."
2012-07-16,"N. Korean media: Army chief relieved of all posts: Kim Jong Un's top military official has been removed from all posts because of illness, state media said in a surprise announcement that shakes the core of the authoritarian country's power structure"
2012-07-16,"Israel's second summer of discontent - One year after waves of protests in Tel Aviv, thousands are taking to the streets again, demanding political reforms. The mood darkened over the weekend following the self-incineration of an activist. "
2012-07-16,The bodies of over 500 penguins have washed up on beaches in southern Brazil in the past week.
2012-07-16,A world of plenty....Countries ignore global warming to mine shale gas 
2012-07-16,Libya's Olympic chief kidnapped
2012-07-16,London 2012: difficult day on roads and rail as countdown to Olympics starts - 32-mile backup in London as VIP Games lanes open | Telegraph
2012-07-16,"Gazans visit relatives jailed in Israel: Israel has allowed 40 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to visit relatives held in Israeli jails, the first such visits in five years, following a deal to end a prisoners' hunger strike."
2012-07-15,Iceland Has Hired An Ex-Cop To Hunt Down The Bankers That Wrecked Its Economy
2012-07-15,London is now considered to be the money-laundering capital of the world
2012-07-15,"A skeptic faces possible charges for debunking Mumbais miracle statue: Sanal Edamaruku faces a Catholic backlash after insisting that the ""holy"" water dripping from a statue of Christ in Mumbai, India, came from a leaky drain"
2012-07-15,"A gang of about a dozen armed people stormed into a church youth camp-out near Mexico City and went on an hours-long rampage of beatings, robberies and rape"
2012-07-15,"""Highway 16 in Canada has become known as the 'Highway of Tears' because dozens of women have disappeared along its route. Many of them have been killed, most of them First Nation indigenous peoples. The police have shown little interest in solving the crimes."""
2012-07-15,"More than 381,000 infected in Chinese outbreak "
2012-07-15,"A Village council in India has issued a Taliban-like diktat banning women under the age of 40 from falling in love, using mobile phones or going out in public unescorted."
2012-07-15,"One in 10 UK prisoners is a former soldier, new research reveals "
2012-07-15,Japan Recalls Ambassador to China - NYTimes.com
2012-07-15,"""A freak wave of tornadoes ripped through northern Poland on Sunday [15 July 2012], wrecking houses and swathes of forest and leaving one person dead and another 10 injured."""
2012-07-15,Vive La France ... And Its High Taxes On The Wealthy
2012-07-15,"Protester in Tel Aviv, Israel set himself on fire this evening."
2012-07-15,"Gang of gunmen go on rape, robbery, beating rampage at church youth camp-out near Mexico City"
2012-07-15,Red Cross: Syrian conflict now a civil war
2012-07-15,"Cambodian workers on 10 a week making Olympics 'fanwear:  Adidas, the sportswear company, is facing an investigation over claims that Cambodian workers are being paid 10 a week in basic wages to make official merchandise for the London Olympics. "
2012-07-15,Waning Patience: Germany Rejects Greek Plea For More Time
2012-07-15,"Hillary Clinton motorcade pelted with tomatoes, shoes in Egypt; Protesters chanted: Monica, Monica, - thestar.com"
2012-07-15,It's Official: China Is Slowing Down -  But how slow is the slowdown? 
2012-07-15,Five cities named alternative capitals in case Tokyo devastated by next Big One
2012-07-15,NYT: US builds criminal cases in interest-rate fixing scandal
2012-07-15,"""...violence between Buddhists and Muslims in Rakhine flared after three Muslims were detained following the rape and killing of a Buddhist woman.  More than 60 people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed in sectarian clashes that followed."""
2012-07-15,Overland pipeline bypassing Strait of Hormuz goes into operation - Move by UAE aims to neutralize Iranian threat to cut off oil
2012-07-15,Chinese city wages war on piranhas 
2012-07-15,One man out of 55 survives on lost boat
2012-07-15,Son: Iranian dad arrested for my Facebook posts
2012-07-14,Cuba receives first US shipment in 50 years.
2012-07-14,London Olympic committee says you're only allowed to link to their site if you have nice things to say
2012-07-14,"Daily Beast: Tim Geithner was aware of LIBOR rate fixing in 2007, but chose not to do anything"
2012-07-14,Philippines Says China Warship Is in Its Territory - ABC News
2012-07-14,Russian Ship with Attack Helicopters for Syrian Regime Sets Sail Again - This Time Under A Russian Flag and a Flotilla Including a Destroyer
2012-07-14,"70,000 Condoms is not enough in Olympic Village"
2012-07-14,Belgian nuclear power plant has been leaking radioactive water for 6 years.
2012-07-14,A Quebec woman who was once active in a youth group that fought stereotypes against Muslims has been charged with terrorism for allegedly trying to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah.
2012-07-14,"240,000 people ordered to evacuate their homes in Kyushu, southern Japan, due to relentless rain storms."
2012-07-14,US strengthens its military might in the Gulf - The United States has deployed a fleet of robot subs in the Gulf to prevent Iran from blocking the strategic Strait of Hormuz
2012-07-14,Pakistan military to receive 1B dollars from USA after apology
2012-07-14,"A World Without Coral Reefs
No Hope Left for Global Coral Reef Ecosystem: Ecologist "
2012-07-14,"Vatican posts $19 million deficit, worst in years | The Salt Lake Tribune"
2012-07-14,"China's Inner Network Of 'Princelings' Runs Kleptocratic Oligarchy: Corruption Spreads Throughout Society As An Estimated $50 Billion A Year Leaves The Country, Followed By Officials, Families"
2012-07-14,"Russia's lower house OKs curbs on Internet, media and activists - latimes.com"
2012-07-14,"New Country, South Sudan is Hell:  Tens of Thousands of Refugees, Starvation, and War.  "
2012-07-14,Libor: They all knew  and no one acted
2012-07-14,Israeli sentenced to 2.5 years in prison in U.S. for dealing kidneys - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
2012-07-14,Chavez says Venezuela is no threat to anyone
2012-07-14,Irans Aging Airliner Fleet Seen as Faltering Under U.S. Sanctions
2012-07-14,Japan's 'man-made' nuclear fiasco | The Japan Times Online
2012-07-14,"Nigerian suicide bomber attacks mosque, kills 5"
2012-07-14,"In one hour, there will be fireworks at the Eiffel Tower for our national day, the 14th of July. Watch it live !"
2012-07-14,"In Mexico, Central American immigrants under fire"
2012-07-14,Mexican papers halt crime coverage for fear of reprisals.
2012-07-13,So thirsty he called police: Coroner slams hospital staff who refused dying patient's desperate pleas for water
2012-07-13,Head of women's affairs in Afghanistan killed by car bomb in latest act of violence against women
2012-07-13,"Too big to fail - too lofty to learn? - With investigators zeroing in on over a dozen big banks in the Libor rate rigging scandal, the timing couldn't be better for a structural overhaul of Europes banking sector. Not so fast, says the banking lobby. "
2012-07-13,"China blocks searches of the word ""truth"""
2012-07-13,A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Policies in Practice Across the Globe - Evidence from 23 countries shows decriminalizing drugs doesn't increase use
2012-07-13,Indian Government Spends $1.3 Million To Stop Auction Of Gandhi Letters That May Show He Was Gay
2012-07-13,Pair disembowelled child rapist in UK Prison
2012-07-13,India refuses to hike cancer drug price
2012-07-13,"Germany tells Jews, Muslims they will be free to circumcise"
2012-07-13,London Olympics Bans Non-McDonald's Fries
2012-07-13,Iranian father arrested for son's facebook page activity while at school in the Netherlands
2012-07-13,Business Insider: Iceland hires ex-cop to hunt down financiers which wrecked its economy
2012-07-13,Ethnic Cleansing in Myanmar
2012-07-13,"Merkel backs circumcision after German court calls it illegal and states, ""it is a right"""
2012-07-13,China airline thanks passengers for foiling hijack
2012-07-13,"Syrian troops using tanks and helicopters have massacred more than 200 people in the central province of Hama: ""The mosque was shelled, it collapsed, and that killed the people in it."""
2012-07-13,"The United States today hit Iran with a raft of economic restrictions, reported the Associated Press, a move that comes within weeks of a July 1 European Union oil embargo on Islamic Republic."
2012-07-13,"Britain embarrassed by Olympics security shortfall:  Britain could be forced to deploy thousands of extra troops in London during the Olympics, after a last-minute security blunder dealt an embarrassing blow to the government just two weeks before the Games."
2012-07-13,Israeli soldiers have once again crossed into Lebanon in clear violation of the country's sovereignty and a UN Security Council resolution
2012-07-13,International Survey - Crisis Batters Global Faith in Capitalism
2012-07-13,Saudi Arabia Will Send Two Women to the Olympics.
2012-07-13,"Mexico runner-up files legal challenge:  Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who finished second in July 1 vote, accuses the winner of breaking campaign finance laws."
2012-07-13,Tibetan monk beaten to death by Chinese officials
2012-07-13,German Circumcision Ban: Is it a parent's right to choose?
2012-07-13,MI6 chief: Iran 2 years from nuclear bomb. 
2012-07-12,WikiLeaks wins case against VISA 
2012-07-12,"Mexicans hold massive election protests, media remains quiet"
2012-07-12,"BBC News - Catholic Church loses child abuse liability 
appeal"
2012-07-12,Taiwan to stage first same-sex Buddhist wedding
2012-07-12,European Jewish and Muslim groups have joined forces to defend circumcision for young boys on religious grounds
2012-07-12,"Oil on their hands  With a middle finger to foreign oil companies, and costing them billions, Nigerians are stealing corporate oil, refining it themselves, and selling it on the black market."
2012-07-12,"Mutiny fear in Israeli army as religious Zionists gain influence. Highly religious soldiers could refuse orders to remove Jews from settlements
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2012-07-12,"Falkvinge: In the UK, you will go to jail not just for encryption, but for astronomical noise, too"
2012-07-12,Supreme Court of Canada rules that ISPs don't have to pay copyright fees when their users download music
2012-07-12,"Palestinians pressured not to seek international probe into Arafat's death: ""The United States has put pressure on the Palestinian leadership not to seek such an investigation because it can lead to some negative consequences on the Middle East peace process"""
2012-07-12,"A 1,000-year-old hoard of gold coins has been unearthed at a famous Crusader battleground where Christian and Muslim forces once fought for control of the Holy Land, Israeli archaeologists said on Wednesday."
2012-07-12,Mexico signs ACTA
2012-07-12,US quietly prepares for naval clash with Iran in Strait of Hormuz
2012-07-12,"Germany introduces ""easy"" parking spots for women"
2012-07-12,Australian Govt defends need to snoop on online and phone records
2012-07-12,Sales tax in Spain jumps to 21%
2012-07-12,Three African migrants hurt in Israeli arson attack: Israeli police said it appeared to have been a racist attack
2012-07-12,The Next Holy Grail for Physics
2012-07-12,End of empire for Western universities?
2012-07-12,Women Who Refuse to Die 
2012-07-12,"Prime Minister Tony Blair was briefed on the UK's files about UFO sightings in 1998, newly declassified MoD documents have revealed."
2012-07-12,Australian scientists have found that two different vaccines used to control an infectious disease in chickens can recombine to create new lethal virus strains
2012-07-12,Report: U.S. sends forces to Persian Gulf ahead of possible clash with Iran
2012-07-12,"Over 100 Nigerians burnt to death in fuel tanker explosion - ""the vehicle did not immediately burst into flames so people rushed to scoop up the fuel, but the tanker then exploded, burning many of them to death."""
2012-07-12,"Syria's Ambassador to Iraq Defects - says Syrian regime has become ""an instrument to kill people and their aspiration to freedom."""
2012-07-11,Melinda Gates challenges Vatican by vowing to improve contraception
2012-07-11,Mother who put her infant son on a highway in the Moscow Region amid the night hoping he would be killed by cars was sentenced to eight years in prison
2012-07-11,"
Canadian Scientists 'Mourn Death of Evidence' under Harper Government: Protest march will highlight public harm done by gutting of research programs "
2012-07-11,Muslim Brotherhood concedes defeat in Libyan parliamentary elections
2012-07-11,Legal euthanasia has not led to more cases in the Netherlands
2012-07-11,Dozens of Afghan womens rights activists took to the streets Wednesday to protest against the recent public execution of a young woman for alleged adultery 
2012-07-11,"Acta's worst clauses resurface in Canada-EU trade treaty, verbatim (Wired UK)"
2012-07-11,Taliban commander: we cannot win war and al-Qaida is a 'plague' 
2012-07-11,Behind the Libor Scandal - Graphic - NYTimes.com
2012-07-11,"NZ called on to ban ""Fat Hatred"" in the 3rd Fattest Country on Earth. Lecturer leading the cause claims obesity is healthy and the world is discriminating against fat people."
2012-07-11,"Why we are breaking the Pirate Bay ban
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2012-07-11,London residents lose court battle aimed at keeping missiles off roof of building during Olympic games.
2012-07-11,Scientists attribute extreme weather to man-made climate change
2012-07-11,Syria: Torture Centers Revealed | Human Rights Watch
2012-07-11,"Kim Dotcom says he will extradite himself to the us, if he gets his money back"
2012-07-11,Silvio Berlusconi to again run for Italian Prime Minister in next year's elections
2012-07-11,Russian Duma adopts 'site blacklist' bill despite SOPA-style outcry against censorship
2012-07-11,"More prison for feminist punk rockers, Pussy Riot, riles liberal Russians"
2012-07-11,"Swiss Banks UBS, Credit Suisse Raided By German, French Authorities Over Tax Evasion. German tax authorities have raided Credit Suisse clients and French officials searched the homes of UBS employees, deepening the crackdown on foreigners hiding money in Swiss offshore accounts to dodge taxes."
2012-07-11,Moscow's Marines Head for Syria 
2012-07-11,Spain today: more cuts and police crushing people
2012-07-11,Four found guilty of modern slavery. 
2012-07-11,Tigers kill a man in zoo in Copenhagen.
2012-07-11,Russian Websites Go Dark to Protest Internet Blacklist Bill: The bill is comprised of amendments that create an Internet blacklist which opponents say poses a serious threat to freedom of expression in Russia
2012-07-11,"Egypt Court Overrules President Over Parliament.  Egypt's Islamist-led parliament reconvened on Tuesday in an open challenge to the generals who dissolved it last month. The supreme court swiftly ruled the newly elected, Islamist president had acted illegally in summoning the assembly,"
2012-07-10,"20,000 Leatherback turtle eggs crushed by heavy machinery on Trinidad beach - thestar.com"
2012-07-10,"ACTA IS BACK: Leaked docs show Canada/
ACTA IS BACK! European Commission trying to 
sneak ACTA into Canada & back into Europe"
2012-07-10,"9 years ago, a man convinced English bookmakers to give him 66-1 odds on Roger Federer winning Wimbledon 7 times.  The man died, but the charity he gave the ticket to has cashed it in for almost $158,000."
2012-07-10,Drugs tunnel between Mexico and US discovered
2012-07-10,Wikipedia shut down its Russian-language page on Tuesday to protest at a bill that would boost government control over the internet amid a crackdown on those opposed to the regime of President Vladimir Putin
2012-07-10,"Congo warlord jailed for 14 years in landmark case:  Delivering its first sentence, the International Criminal Court jailed Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo for 14 years on Tuesday for recruiting child soldiers."
2012-07-10,Rare black tiger found in India
2012-07-10,"Vatican Threatens to Sue German Magazine - 'Titanic' featured a picture of the German-born pontiff with a yellow stain on his white cassock & the headline: ""The leak has been found.""  Editor Leo Fischer said in a statement: ""Benedict must have misunderstood us.""
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2012-07-10,"LIBOR Scandal: Manipulation Spanned Decades, According To Reports - ""It was one of those well kept secrets, but the regulator was asleep, the Bank of England didn't care, and...[the banks involved were] happy with the reference prices."""
2012-07-10,Canada's PM Stephen Harper faces revolt by scientists
2012-07-10,'Hostage siege' at Paris school in progress
2012-07-10,"Matt Taibbi: The New York Times and its outstanding financial reporter, Gretchen Morgenson, have published an important article about the LIBOR banking crisis, challenging American regulators to take this mess as seriously as the British appear to be."
2012-07-10,Russian Wikipedia shuts down to protest legislation
2012-07-10,Israeli Army burns agricultural crops in Gaza
2012-07-10,Libor scandal: Bob Diamond gives up 20m bonus 
2012-07-10,Anonymous takes credit for hack that exposes 2.4 million Syrian e-mails
2012-07-10,Thousands protest Mexico's president-elect
2012-07-10,Russia halts sales of new weapons to Syria
2012-07-10,"Mali Islamists destroy tombs at ancient Timbuktu mosque: ""There is no world heritage, it doesn't exist."" "
2012-07-10,Kim Jong-un Appears With Disney Characters on North Korean TV - NYTimes.com
2012-07-10,"With 15-Minute Session, Egypt's Parliament Defies High Court"
2012-07-10,Unknown illness surfaced in Cambodia kills infected children within 1 day
2012-07-10,Russian Wikipedia Shuts Down To Protest Censorship
2012-07-10,Norway's government has reluctantly intervened at the final hour to end a strike by offshore oil workers. Oslo used powers to end the walkout after firms said they would be otherwise forced into a complete shutdown. 
2012-07-10,Congo rebels capture key towns in east as conflict escalates; M23 mutineers advance to within 40km of UN mission HQ and call on Congolese president Joseph Kabila to heed demands
2012-07-09,"Nearly 25% of all adults in Botswana are infected with the HIV. But the response against the disease has been stunning with the government providing free, life-saving AIDS drugs to almost all of its citizens who need them.  "
2012-07-09,Higgs boson physicist shunned in Pakistan. Man whose work made discovery of elusive particle possible scorned in homeland because of his religious affiliation
2012-07-09,"Dozens of women who attended a high school run by the Legion of Christ have urged the Vatican to close the program, saying the psychological abuse they endured trying to live like teenage nuns led to multiple cases of anorexia, stress-induced migraines, depression & suicidal thoughts."
2012-07-09,Mexico urges U.S. to join drug policy review
2012-07-09,7 Americans (including US cops) at Colombian drug lord's party 
2012-07-09,German government slammed over controversial data law that allows government offices to sell people's private information to marketing companies.
2012-07-09,"Two Israeli police officer were convicted of leaving a wounded Palestinian man on the roadside, where he died of dehydration. 2.5 yrs sentence. "
2012-07-09,"The Bank of England had almost daily contact with Barclays over inter-bank lending at the end of October 2008, newly released emails show."
2012-07-09,"Norway, the worlds 8th-largest producer of oil, is hours away from the 1st complete shutdown of its oil industry in over 25 years as the government holds off on breaking up a fight between striking offshore workers & employers, threatening exports from western Europes top producer"
2012-07-09,"'We cannot forgive her, God tells us to finish her': video shows public execution of woman, 22, in Afghanistan after adultery allegations"
2012-07-09,Israeli government panel finds that Israeli isn't occupying the Palestinian West Bank and that all Israeli settlements should be declared legal.
2012-07-09,U.S. anti-drug agency admits killing pilot in Honduras
2012-07-09,"Bolivia to consider nationalizing Canadian miner's silver property, President Evo Morales said, following violent indigenous protests against the mining project"
2012-07-09,"Alberta, Canada: Priceless skeleton destroyed in latest fossil attack"
2012-07-09,"Tajikistan tells Russia, ""get out"" welcomes US and PRC"
2012-07-09,"New York Times, Gretchen Morgenson Applaud British, Issue Challenge To American Regulators Over LIBOR Scandal | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone"
2012-07-09,"Is the LIBOR Scandal The Crime of the Century?
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2012-07-09,"Charity condemns tourists' use of fresh water in developing countries. Study finds visitors to Bali, the Gambia and Goa use 16 times as much water as locals, causing conflict and disease."
2012-07-09,UK Ministry of Defence Close To Gaining Patent On Key GPS Technology; US Not Amused
2012-07-09,"Russia will not deliver fighter planes or other new weapons to Syria while the situation there remains unresolved, the deputy director of a body that supervises the country's arms trade was quoted as saying on Monday."
2012-07-09,Assad: U.S. trying to destabilize Syria 
2012-07-09,Tens of thousands protest 'vote-buying' in Mexico
2012-07-09,'Unspeakable cruelty': Outrage grows after Afghan woman's execution caught on video
2012-07-09,France sells bonds at negative interest rate 
2012-07-09,Mysterious fatal crash provides rare glimpse of U.S. commandos in Mali
2012-07-08,"Libor: The Crime of the Century - 
The interest rate scandal surrounding Englands Barclays Bank is corruption like weve never seen it before."
2012-07-08,"Anonymous Japan cleans up a public park in protest of tough illegal download laws. ""We prefer constructive and productive solutions,"" the group said in a statement. ""We want to make our fellow citizens aware of the problem with a productive message."""
2012-07-08,Women rights activist murdered in Pakistan
2012-07-08,"Cocaine and coca not the same thing, says Bolivia's Morales in defiance of US"
2012-07-08,Taliban shoot woman 9 times in public execution as men cheer
2012-07-08,South Korea to Reconsider Plan to Drop Evolution Examples From Textbooks
2012-07-08,Netanyahu moves to end military service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox.
2012-07-08,Drugs use map of the world: The World Drugs report for 2012 shows that 230 million people around the world - 1 in 20 of us - took illicit drugs in the last year.
2012-07-08,"Iran pastor facing death for apostasy: Youcef Nadarkhani whose incarceration for practicing Christianity reaches the 1,000-day mark on Sunday."
2012-07-08,"Afghan woman publicly executed near Kabul, ""Allah warns us not to get close to adultery because it's the wrong way. It is the order of Allah that she be executed."""
2012-07-08,'Big five' bank customers vent anger by taking their money elsewhere
2012-07-08,Switzerland will continue to purchase Iranian oil in defiance of the European Union sanctions.
2012-07-08,"Mass Mexico City protest against Pena Nieto win: 'Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through Mexico City against the presidential election win of Enrique Pena Nieto, accusing him and his party of widespread vote-buying.'"
2012-07-08,Iran says it has plans to close Strait of Hormuz
2012-07-08,Undiagnosed illness in Cambodia claims lives of 61 children.
2012-07-08,"Saudi Arabia cracks down on a large demonstration in the eastern city of Qatif, killing two people and injuring at least 20, after a Shia leader was shot and arrested"
2012-07-08,Libya holds first free national election after 40 years of Gaddafi
2012-07-08,President Bashar al-Assad claims that the United States was partially responsible for the death of innocent Syrian civilians because of their support of terrorist gangs operating in Syria.
2012-07-08,"In Canada, history was made when a legal team headed by Jason Bowman of the ACP was granted the right to proceed with its filing of a criminal conspiracy lawsuit against the Vatican, Crown of England and other parties"
2012-07-08,"In Canada, banks are closing customer accounts as part of Iran sanctions"
2012-07-08,Egyptian President Mursi reverses parliament dissolution - BBC
2012-07-08,A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul
2012-07-08,Why were ignoring the revolution in Sudan (Foreign Policy)
2012-07-08,French President Francois Hollande confirmed Saturday plans for a new law criminalizing denial of the Armenian genocide with representatives of the Armenian community
2012-07-08,"Cholera reportedly kills 15, sickens hundreds in eastern Cuba -  People in Cuba say hospitals are chaotic and being controlled by security agents who dont want alarming reports to get out."
2012-07-07,Jordanian MP pulls a gun on a critic during live TV debate
2012-07-07,Chernobyl's radioactive trees and the forest fire risk
2012-07-07,Franois Hollande keeps election promise of raising taxes for wealthiest
2012-07-07,"British democracy in terminal decline: Corporate power, unrepresentative politicians and apathetic voters leave UK 'increasingly unstable', says study"
2012-07-07,15 Killed in Pakistan by U.S. Drones 
2012-07-07,"Israeli officials say a UN fact-finding mission will not be allowed to enter the country and its occupied territories. On Friday, the Geneva-based Human Rights Council appointed three officers to probe Israels West Bank settlement activity."
2012-07-07,New Zealand Police Investigated over MegaUploads Founder Arrest
2012-07-07,Declassified FBI documents implicate PM Netanyahu in a 1970s plot to use U.S. technology for Israels nuclear program.
2012-07-07,"More Irish women seeking help for British abortions: Ireland's abortion ban means women with severe pregnancy complications are going abroad for terminations
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2012-07-07,'Blasphemer' dragged from police station and beaten to death by mob in rural Pakistan.
2012-07-07,"""Nuclear weapons are the only peacekeeping weapons that the world has ever known. It would be strange for me to advocate for their abolition, as they have made wars all but impossible."""
2012-07-07,Kids and laughing teachers bullied suicide teen in Japan. Teachers reportedly laughed as bullies tried to choke the victim.
2012-07-07,"At Least 99 Dead in Russian Storms, Crude Oil Shipments Halted:  Russian officials say the death toll from flooding in the southern Krasnodarsky Krai region has risen to 99 after two days of torrential rain pounded the region. "
2012-07-07,Three of Moroccos most prominent conservative clerics have publicly backed a death threat against a journalist who called for greater sexual freedom in the North African kingdom.
2012-07-07,The rotten heart of finance: A scandal over key interest rates is about to go global
2012-07-07,US orders Iran to pay for 1983 Lebanon attack 
2012-07-07,"Bob Diamond would have known about Libor rigging, claims whistleblower"
2012-07-07,"Reports from China claim a sealed bronze wine vessel discovered in a tomb in Shaanxi province contains liquid wine - The tomb dates to the Zhou Dynasty (1046 to 771 B.C.), & contained 6 vessels. The container in question has not been opened. [Archaeology x-post]"
2012-07-07,Debt crisis: Finland warns of euro exit rather than pay debts of others
2012-07-07,Romania parliament votes to impeach president
2012-07-07,Egypts new president orders formation of committee to investigate killings of protesters
2012-07-07,'Lost' penguins turn up on Rio's beaches
2012-07-07,The top security adviser for Mexico's next president said Friday that he is recommending the creation of elite units of police and troops who will target not just major drug traffickers but also lower-level cartel hitmen as a way of swiftly reducing violence.
2012-07-07,Extradition deadline passes for WikiLeaks' Assange
2012-07-07,"Syria's fighting spills into Lebanon, five killed"
2012-07-06,"Matt Taibbi:LIBOR Banking Scandal Deepens; Barclays Releases Damning Email, Implicates British Government"
2012-07-06,Large majority of Brits oppose extradition of Richard O'Dwyer to the US (he's the student the Americans want to charge with copyright offences)
2012-07-06,"""Finland would consider leaving the eurozone rather than paying the debts of other countries in the currency bloc, Finnish Finance Minister Jutta Urpilainen said in a newspaper interview on Friday [6 July 2012]."""
2012-07-06,"Aftermath of The Pirate Bay trial - Peter Sunde's plea, in his own words: 'A few days ago, Peter Brokep Sunde  the former media spokesperson of The Pirate Bay  sent a formal plea for pardon to the Swedish Administration.'"
2012-07-06,Big pharma is cut out by India's plan to bring medicine to masses.
2012-07-06,"Switzerland has suspended all arms exports to the United Arab Emirates following reports that Swiss-manufactured hand grenades had shown up in Syria
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2012-07-06,"China thwarts major child-trafficking rings:  Government says police break up two massive child-trafficking gangs, arresting 802 suspects and saving 181 children. "
2012-07-06,Sri Lankan facing death in Saudi for worshipping buddha statue !!
2012-07-06,Fake cigarette causes 4 hour motorway closure whilst anti-terrorist police do their thing
2012-07-06,An Egyptian university student was fatally stabbed as his girlfriend looked on after three suspected Islamic militants confronted the couple in a park and told them they should not be together if they are not married.
2012-07-06,London 2012: even Beijing didn't put an army on the gates
2012-07-06,India to give free generic drugs to hundreds of millions.
2012-07-06,Moscow Warns West of Big War in Syria
2012-07-06,Humpback whales to gain Panama Canal traffic protection
2012-07-06,The LIBOR scandal -- The rotten heart of finance
2012-07-06,UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) launches Libor investigation
2012-07-06,"A 40-pg document ""cherry-picked"" from 22 million emails is the only information the FBI believes should be made available to Kim Dotcom before his extradition hearing: Crown lawyer John Pike argued that there was no need for Dotcom to have access because he was not being tried in New Zealand"
2012-07-06,Chinas unexpected cut in interest rates  the second in less than a month  suggests that the worlds second-biggest economy is in worse shape than it appears and the government is getting worried about growth prospects ahead of the release of key economic data next week. 
2012-07-06,"The TPP: ACTA Resurfaces in New Trade Talks with South East Asia, Oceania and South America. Negotiations are Happening Now!"
2012-07-06,Explainer: Why the LIBOR scandal is a bigger deal than JPMorgan
2012-07-06,"France confirms defection of Syrian general:  A high-level military official close to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is heading to Paris after defecting to Turkey, as delegates from some 100 nations meet in the French capital to seek an end to the crisis in Syria. "
2012-07-06,Mystery illness killing Cambodian kids
2012-07-06,"Rate rigging probe escalates into Germany
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2012-07-06,"Mexican Student Movement Says Election Rife With Irregularities - An anti-PRI ""mega march"" is being announced for Saturday in Mexico City via online forums & flyers handed out in the street"
2012-07-06, CNN's Richard Quest: Guilty bankers should clean toilets
2012-07-05,"Banks across the world fixed interest rates in run-up to the financial crisis, says former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond"
2012-07-05,"RBS is about to be fined $233 million for its role in the Libor-rigging scandal. The bank is 82 per cent owned by the taxpayer and is said to have no power to claw back bonuses from the traders responsible. So the bank is fined for robbing taxpayers via Libor, and the fine is paid by the taxpayer."
2012-07-05,"WikiLeaks releases Syria Files, almost 2.5 mln emails to be published: The data is more than 8 times the size of Cablegate. Documents said to be 'embarrassing to Syria, but it is also embarrassing to Syrias opponents'"
2012-07-05,"Germans want dope legalized, bestiality banned
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2012-07-05,China Says No More Shark Fin Soup at State Banquets - NYTimes.com
2012-07-05,"LIBOR Banking Scandal Deepens; Barclays Releases Damning Email, Implicates British Government | Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone"
2012-07-05,Volkswagen acquires Porsche for 3.6bn and avoids paying taxes due to loophole
2012-07-05,"Bee stings killed as many in UK as terrorists, says watchdog."
2012-07-05,"A Growing Vatican Bank Scandal Threatens Catholic Church Image -- The core mission of the 'Institute for Works of Religion' (IOR) seems to be the laundering of money for God and others, providing anonymous banking for tax dodgers, political slush funds, and the mafia"
2012-07-05,FIFA approves goal-line technology.
2012-07-05,"Mexico's President-Elect Wants a 'Broad Debate' About Drug Policy: ""It is quite clear that after several years of this fight against drug trafficking, we have more drug consumption, drug use and drug trafficking. That means we are not moving in the right direction. Things are not working."""
2012-07-05,India to provide free generic drugs
2012-07-05,UK Pensioner Could Face Arrest For Atheist Poster: 'John Richards was advised that putting up a poster at his home denouncing religions as 'fairy stories' could be an offence under the Public Order Act.'
2012-07-05,Israeli reporter who exposed military secrets avoids jail
2012-07-05,"Mexico Recounting Over Half Presidential Vote - Feeding suspicion of large-scale vote-buying were 1,000s of people rushing to grocery stores this week to redeem pre-paid gift cards. Some tell reporters they were told to turn in a photocopy of their voter ID card  to get the gift cards."
2012-07-05,S. Korea to start 'scientific' whaling 
2012-07-05,Iran Demands $4 Bln From Russia Over Canceled Missile Deal
2012-07-05,"Report: Top Syrian officer, a close friend of Assad, defects and flees to Turkey - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper"
2012-07-05,Iran has threatened to destroy U.S. military bases across the Middle East and target Israel within minutes of being attacked
2012-07-05,"'Britain's Atlantis' found at bottom of North sea - a huge undersea kingdom swamped by a tsunami 5,500 years ago"
2012-07-05,Syria files: Wikileaks releases 2m 'embarrassing' emails
2012-07-05,UN Human Rights Council passes Internet freedom resolution
2012-07-05,"South Korean retweets N. Korea's tweets, may go to 
prison for 7 years"
2012-07-05,"Asian nations want to sink S.Korea whale hunt plan
| Reuters"
2012-07-05,Ecuador finds Assange charges 'hilarious'
2012-07-04,"VICTORY! ACTA Suffers Final, Humiliating Defeat In European Parliament - Falkvinge on Infopolicy"
2012-07-04,"Chimpanzees in South Africa Won't be Killed After Mauling American, 
 Because They Were Defending Their Territory Against a Trespasser, Authorities Say"
2012-07-04,IKEA cutting down primeval forests in Russia
2012-07-04,"ACTA killed: MEPs destroy treaty with 478 votes against, 39 in favor; Many stood up holding banners ""Hello democracy! Goodbye ACTA!"""
2012-07-04,LHC claims new particle discovery!
2012-07-04,CERN Presents findings about Higgs Boson live!
2012-07-04,"France increases by 7 billion euros their taxes on rich, big firms"
2012-07-04,"Every day some 3,000 Indian children die from illnesses related to malnutrition, and yet countless heaps of rodent-infested wheat and rice are rotting in fields across the north of their own country."
2012-07-04,Same poison used to murder Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko found on late Yasser Arafat's clothing
2012-07-04,"Scientists: (high levels of) Radioactive polonium-210 found on Yasser Arafat's toothbrush, clothes"
2012-07-04,"Police: Thousands of Pakistanis kill man, burn corpse after accusing him of desecrating Quran"
2012-07-04,Cuba confirms cholera outbreak
2012-07-04,Rise in sea level can't be stopped
2012-07-04,Reports of gift card payments feed growing accusations of vote-buying in Mexicos election. Thousands of people rushed to stores to redeem pre-paid gift cards they said were given to them previously by the party that won Mexicos presidency
2012-07-04," Pakistan mob burns man to death for 
'blasphemy'"
2012-07-04,Cameron's plan to block Greek immigration would break EU law
2012-07-04,"Palestinians ready to exhume Arafat body after scientists find polonium on his toothbrush, clothes - World News"
2012-07-04,United Arab Emirates seeks to recruit 3000 Colombian soldiers
2012-07-04,Tests suggest Arafat died of polonium poisoning
2012-07-04,Brazilian figher jets shatter Supreme Court building (VIDEO)
2012-07-04,BBC News - Acta: Controversial anti-piracy agreement rejected by EU
2012-07-04,ACTA: Controversial anti-piracy agreement rejected by EU
2012-07-04,"This was posted by another user on monday: ""Scottish team develops 'nutritional pizzas"" but it didn't get much attention. A better description: ""World's first completely nutritionally balanced pizzas"""
2012-07-04,"Just over two weeks after Nicolas Sarkozy lost the immunity from prosecution which he had enjoyed as president, police have searched his home and offices in Paris."
2012-07-04,"France slaps 7 bln euros in taxes on rich and big firms
| Reuters"
2012-07-03,"European court declares resale of used software 
licenses legal, not matter where and how they were 
obtained."
2012-07-03,"Eighty-Five Syrian Soldiers, Including a General, Defect en Masse to Turkey"
2012-07-03,French police raid home of former president Nicolas Sarkozy.
2012-07-03,"$3.5B later, China has built an empty city in Angola."
2012-07-03,21 Nations Block Effort to Turn Southern Atlantic Into Giant Whale Sanctuary
2012-07-03,"Tuscan police officers pay for shoplifter's goods after they see 2 brothers, the older with a wife and two children, had only pasta, milk, nappies and baby food"
2012-07-03,"Mexico elects Enrique Pea Nieto as its new leader, rejecting the ruling party in part because of its inability to end a bloody conflict with the drug cartels"
2012-07-03,500 year old world map discovered. First one to use the name America. 
2012-07-03,Barclay's Diamond Threatens to Reveal Secrets and Name Names If Investigation Is Too Aggressive
2012-07-03,New Zealand ships refused entry to Pearl Harbour during maritime exercise due to NZ Anti-Nuclear legislation
2012-07-03,Tests hint at possible Arafat poisoning - What Killed Arafat?
2012-07-03,Syria running 27 torture centers; Human Rights Watch group called for the U.N.  to refer the issue of Syria to the International Criminal Court
2012-07-03,Large earthquake felt across NZ
2012-07-03,Barclays boss Bob Diamond resigns after LIBOR fixing scandal
2012-07-03,"Lies, damn lies, and LIBOR: Barclays, Diamond, and a devalued benchmark:  

The story of how Barclays tried to rig an interest rate benchmark called LIBOR and it cost CEO Robert Diamond his job may seem obscure. But it's the latest evidence that bankers will take every inch regulators leave to them."
2012-07-03,"Assad regrets shooting down Turkish jet, had hoped it was an Israeli jet"
2012-07-03,"Timbuktus Destruction: Why Islamists Are Wrecking Malis Cultural Heritage

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2012-07-03,"Tests hint at possible Arafat poisoning: Nine-month investigation discovers rare, radioactive polonium on ex-Palestinian leader's final belongings."
2012-07-03,"Chinese city cancels copper plant project after protests:  Construction of multimillion-pound copper alloy plant axed after anti-pollution protests in Shifang, south-west China"
2012-07-03,"Officials in Kenya say that two Iranian agents arrested with explosives planned to attack Israeli, American, British or Saudi Arabian targets inside Kenya."
2012-07-03,BBC News - French police search Nicolas Sarkozy home and office
2012-07-03,Nigeria signs $4.5bn oil refining deal with Vulcan
2012-07-03,"Russian Visit Irks Japan - Prime Minister Medvedev angered Japan by visiting the disputed Kuril Islands.  Tokyo wants the return of the islands, seized by Soviets in 1945.  Japan calls the islands its 'Northern Territories', & says his visit is ""extremely regrettable""."
2012-07-03,"Syria's 'network of torture chambers'. According to Human Rights Watch, Syria has been torturing its citizens on a massive scale, with 25,000 people in a network of 27 detention centers where beatings and electrocutions are common."
2012-07-03,"Pakistan 'to re-open' supply lines to Nato Afghan 
forces"
2012-07-02,"Announcing The Declaration Of Internet Freedom: ""A whole bunch of organizations and individuals are getting together today to launch the beginning of a process, the creation of an Internet Declaration of Freedom."""
2012-07-02,The 'Tampon King' who sparked a period of change for India's women
2012-07-02,"Prisoners in Brazil Reducing Their Sentences by Producing Electricity - For every 16 hrs spent pedaling to charge a battery connected to the bike, prisoners of good standing will shave a day off their sentences"
2012-07-02,Scientology abandoned by Ron Hubbard's granddaughter and David Miscavife's father
2012-07-02,Falkvinge: Why DRM must be outright banned - Because legislation isn't coding
2012-07-02,"'As part of what one MP calls the most intrusive surveillance regime in the west, the British govt is hoping to require ISPs to route all of the data that gets transferred over their servers through a 'black box.' "
2012-07-02,The health spending map of the world
2012-07-02,"Defected North Korea poet writes of hunger, desperation."
2012-07-02,Army officers accused of sexual abuse following 'Game of Thrones' screening
2012-07-02,Catholic Church Fears Growing Vatican Bank Scandal
2012-07-02,Officials: Pena Nieto projected winner in Mexican presidential vote 
2012-07-02,More than ten thousand pounds of elephant ivory went up in flames today ... a fiery act intended to snuff out a recent spike in poaching.
2012-07-02,"
The Prime Minister Of Qatar Buys New York City's Most Expensive Home For $100 Million
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2012-07-02,David Nutt on the truth about drugs
2012-07-02,Mexico's former ruling party voted back to office
2012-07-02,"As crops rot, millions go hungry in India"
2012-07-02,British troops killed by gunman in Afghan police uniform
2012-07-02,England refuses to extradite sex offender due to risk of indefinite detention
2012-07-02,Ethiopia Refining Internet Censorship - The 'Committee to Protect Journalists' says it appears Ethiopia is extending & refining its censorship of Internet news with a sophistication that could encourage other authoritarian regimes in Africa.
2012-07-02,"The Prince vs. the 'Paupers' -  Liechtenstein's billionaire royal family is threatening to literally abandon its tiny, wealthy principality over a referendum to curtail its power. Is this the coming of the Liechtenspring? "
2012-07-02,The president of Germany's domestic intelligence agency has resigned in response to a series of errors made in the investigation of a neo-Nazi terror cell. Criticism grew last week after it emerged that his office had shredded important documents relating to the case.
2012-07-02,Did history kill defense deal between Japan and South Korea? 
2012-07-02,Militants in Mali Continue to Destroy Shrines of Sufi Saints 
2012-07-02,"The Amazon's Belo Monte Dam: You have an environmental impact study that's 36 volumes, around 20,000 pages, & its basically a work of fiction. Belo Monte is a spear point for dismantling the whole system of environmental licensing & regulation here. "
2012-07-02,"Swedish Woman refused help from 'dark-skinned' clerk, ""not a crime"" courts rule"
2012-07-01,"Australia introduces controversial carbon tax. The law forces the country's 500 worst-polluting firms to pay a levy for every tonne of greenhouse gases they produce.
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2012-07-01,"China hires tens of thousands of North Korea guest workers: Because of sanctions, North Korea is unable to export weapons. So it is using its people to raise money. Most of their earnings will go directly to the North Korean regime."
2012-07-01,The Barclays scandal is not 'wholly inappropriate'. It's a crime
2012-07-01,'Financial Services Authority' Calls for Tighter Laws Against Failing Bankers - 'There should be a presumption a director of a failed bank should not work in the industry again.'
2012-07-01,Police claimed a bus passenger was swearing and abusive so they tasered him. A passenger's video of the incident now shows they all colluded and lied in court.
2012-07-01,Turkey scrambles jets on Syria border
2012-07-01,"Anger Grows In Hong Kong Over China, New Leader"
2012-07-01,Drug test to be required for Unemployed to receive the benefit in New Zealand
2012-07-01,Islamists take to another world heritage site; this time with pick-axes. 
2012-07-01,"Home Secretary Theresa May planning changes to the test taken by foreign nationals who wish to become British citizens'; immigrants will be told ""historically the UK is a Christian country"""
2012-07-01,Mali: Islamists destroy Timbuktu heritage sites
2012-07-01,"Bankers of Failed Banks Should Be Banned from the World of Finance, Says FSA Chairman"
2012-07-01,6.3 Earthquake just hit china
2012-07-01,"Assange will remain in Ecuadorian Embassy, spokeswoman says. "
2012-07-01,"British Sex Grooming Cases Spark Racial Tensions - ""the several hundred girls are white, and the men who used them as sex toys are Asian Muslims, mostly Pakistanis raised in Britain"""
2012-07-01,Egypt Christians Killed After Election of Morsi as Egypt's president
2012-07-01,"Prince of Liechtenstein threatens to leave after vote on his powers. The Prince of Liechtenstein, one of Europe's most powerful monarchs, will learn on Sunday whether his powers are to be cut."
2012-07-01,Islamist rebels destroy UNESCO World Heritage sites in Timbuktu
2012-07-01,"The people of Japan occupy the only 
road to Nuke plant the government 
wants to re-start. Link to live-stream in 
article. "
2012-07-01,Three Mexican Federal police agents gunned down in Mexico City airport are believed to have been killed by their own colleagues  working for drug traffickers.
2012-07-01,"Mexican election could return old rulers to power
| Reuters"
2012-07-01,Falkvinge: 'There are credible rumors floating about in the European Parliament that the EPP party group is going to try to kill the ACTA vote through procedural trickery in the European Parliament.'
2012-07-01,Japan Introduced Stronger File-Sharing Law
2012-07-01,Ireland scraps electronic voting machines
2012-07-01,UK migrants to face 'patriotic' citizenship test
2012-06-30,"Colombia High Court Okays Drug Decriminalization: 'Under the law, people caught with less than 22 grams of marijuana or one gram of cocaine for personal use may not be arrested or prosecuted, but could be referred to treatment.'"
2012-06-30,"Japans Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a 
whistleblower for the first time in a case that 
highlights the harsh treatment outspoken 
employees have endured in a nation that 
zealously values loyalty and conformity."
2012-06-30,France to legalise gay marriage in 2013
2012-06-30,"Julian Assange defies police summons, refuses to leave Ecuadorean Embassy"
2012-06-30,Falkvinge: The most blatant pro-ACTA campaign so far is in itself a copyright monopoly violation
2012-06-30,The worlds richest people added a combined $21.4 billion to their collective net worth this week.
2012-06-30,"Webhost Refuses To Censor Its Own Pirate Bay Anti-Censorship Tool: Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN says that in the face of the hosts refusal to comply with the takedown, it is now considering filing a criminal complaint"
2012-06-30,"China's incoming president Xi Jinping's family 'has wealth of hundreds of millions': The family of China's next president has amassed a fortune running into hundreds of millions of pounds, according to a hugely damaging new report. "
2012-06-30,Sumatran Orangutans Being 'Extinguished' by Palm Oil Push: Fires set by landowners leave wild orangutans on brink of annihilation
2012-06-30,"Richard O'Dwyer petition hits 160,000 signatures Thousands back Wikipedia founder's call to oppose extradition of British student to US over alleged internet copyright offence"
2012-06-30,Big Four banks admit to mis-selling interest rate swaps 
2012-06-30,Nuclear officials withheld Fukushima radiation maps - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
2012-06-30,Oil posts fourth biggest daily gain on record
2012-06-30,Ugandan bill threatens homosexuality with death penalty
2012-06-30,"Some 100 youths rioted in the Stockholm suburb of 
Tensta, smashing up police cars and throwing 
stones at officers - The Local"
2012-06-30,Olympics 2012: let the political games begin
2012-06-30,"While Julian Assange defies his bond at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he has released a ""Wikileaks Album"" to drum up donations for his cause. Included is the song ""The Ballad of Julian Assange""."
2012-06-30,Russia 'retains right' to pre-emptive strike on NATO missile shield 
2012-06-30,Bomb Explodes in Damascus as Countries Gather to Discuss Syria
2012-06-30,"Egypt's newly elected President Morsi promises  to seek the release of the Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the Egyptian-born militant Islamist convicted after the 1993 World Trade Center attack of plotting to bomb several New York City landmarks."
2012-06-30,Israel evicts settlers after landmark ruling 
2012-06-30,Mongolia parties call for new elections
2012-06-30,"Libya descends into militia chaos as hostages still held
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2012-06-30,Syria: The First Casualty The big lie concerning Syria is the most significant and outrageous myth that we are living under today. | Foreign Policy Journal
2012-06-30,BBC News - Dial 999: 75 years of emergency phone calls (World's first emergency phone number)
2012-06-29,"British Journalist Sexually Assaulted in Cairo's Tahrir Square.... ""Men began to rip off my clothes,"" she wrote. ""I was stripped naked......""These men, hundreds of them, had turned from humans to animals."""
2012-06-29,2500 year old ancient Phoenician port destroyed to build skyscrapers
2012-06-29,"German secret service destroys files on neo-Nazi terrorist gang.
Vital information was shredded on the day it was due to be handed to federal prosecutors"
2012-06-29,China's first woman in space returns to Earth
2012-06-29,"Man sets himself on fire outside Birmingham job 
centre, apparently over a payment he had not 
received."
2012-06-29,"""Anonymous"" hacks the website of a minor countryside river authority, instead of the central Japanese government, because the first half of the name is the same spelling."
2012-06-29,"United Technologies Corp on Thursday admitted selling China software that helped Beijing develop its first modern military attack helicopter, one of hundreds of export control violations over nearly two decades."
2012-06-29,Syrian tanks amass near Turkish border
2012-06-29,91000 seals in Namibia to be clubbed and shot to death in a few weeks time.
2012-06-29,China blocks Bloomberg website after report on wealth of next presidents extended family
2012-06-29,"Troops Are Piling Up On Both Sides Of The Syria-Turkey Border: ""today about 170 Syrian tanks assembled north of Aleppo, yesterday Turkey deployed at least 30 Turkish military vehicles equipped with anti-aircraft rocket launchers to the border, straight west of Aleppo""



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2012-06-29,The oldest known samples of pottery have been unearthed in southern China.
2012-06-29,"Forbidden Drink: Why Alcoholism Is Soaring in Officially Booze-Free Iran -  With a worsening economy, thriving black market, and prohibition-enforced absence of social norms, Iranians' heavy drinking may be turning into a public health crisis."
2012-06-29,Julian Assange told to turn himself in at London police station:  WikiLeaks founder seeking political asylum inside Ecuador's London embassy is served with surrender notice
2012-06-29,BBC News - Julian Assange 'declines' police order
2012-06-29,"Chinese spacecraft returns to Earth:  China's Shenzou 9 spacecraft has completed its mission, bringing the first Chinese woman into space. The astronauts completed a crucial docking test meant to pave the way for building a manned Chinese space station. "
2012-06-29,"Egyptian officials sentenced over Israel gas deal: According to officials, the men were charged with undermining the interests of Egypt and ""exporting gas to Israel at below market value""."
2012-06-29,Germany caved in to demands for less stringent bailouts and direct aid to banks
2012-06-29,Julian Assange is not leaving the Ecuadorian Embassy any time soon
2012-06-29,Japan ignores protests to resume nuclear power - Telegraph
2012-06-29,Neo-Nazi Cell Scandal: German Intelligence Agency under Fire for Shredding Files  
2012-06-29,Police intercept $35M of counterfeit Italian train tickets en route from China
2012-06-29,Thousands flee floods in India's Assam state:  At least 27 people killed and about a million people shifted as the swollen Brahmaputra river swamps villages.
2012-06-29,"Destination Europe:  The Sahara Desert's Forgotten Refugees -- With ambushes, illness and police persecution, the journey through the Sahara to Algeria is a path of misery and danger."
2012-06-29,"Fires threaten to 'extinguish' critical Indonesian orangutan population:   Conservationists claim a massive new wave of fires has been set in Tripa peat swamp to make way for palm oil plantations
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2012-06-28,"In Mexico, it's taken as fact that the United States is backing the drug cartels..."
2012-06-28,Sweden to give illegal immigrants healthcare
2012-06-28,"Half of German teenagers unable to distinguish between democracy and dictatorship, study shows"
2012-06-28,Dotcom searches illegal: Judge. Also ruled it was unlawful for copies of Dotcom's computer data to be taken offshore. (NZ Herald)
2012-06-28,"Circumcision ruling condemned by Germany's Muslim and Jewish leaders: 
German court rules that procedure is bodily harm and contravenes right to choose religion in later life
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2012-06-28,Top CIA Spy Accused of Being a Mafia Hitman
2012-06-28,"Turkey deploying a substantial convoy of troops and about 30 military vehicles, including trucks loaded with missile batteries and anti-aircraft rocket launchers, to the Syrian border"
2012-06-28,"Months After Protest, Female Russian Rockers Still Jailed - 
A female punk-rock band staged a provocative political protest in Feb. at Moscow's Orthodox cathedral. 3 have been jailed since, & the Russian Orthodox Church is demanding harsh punishment in a case that's become a national issue."
2012-06-28,Is Mexico backing off its drug war? - The presidential election is Sunday and the leading candidates are all being deliberately vague about the rampant cartel violence and what they plan to do
2012-06-28,Brazil tribes occupy hydroelectric dam site - Americas - Al Jazeera English
2012-06-28,S. Korea and Japan Plan Military Pact
2012-06-28,BBC News - More banks face interest rate rigging investigation.  And no one goes to jail.
2012-06-28,Why the world doesn't have real leaders anymore. 
2012-06-28,"Trans-Pacific Partnership: ""Canadians would see Internet freedoms curtailed under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) currently being negotiated among a dozen Pacific Rim countries"""
2012-06-28,"Barclays bosses have serious questions to answer, warns David Cameron"
2012-06-28,Majority of Catalans for independence from Spain
2012-06-28,Exceptionally Troubling Ruling In The UK: Owners Of Links Site Guilty Of 'Conspiracy To Defraud'
2012-06-28,Arctic sea-ice levels at record low for June: Scientists say that the latest observations suggest that Arctic sea ice cover is continuing to shrink and thin 
2012-06-28,Barclays shamed by 290m fine for market fixing - Business News - Business - The Independent
2012-06-28,Tuscan village goes up for sale on eBay. 2.5m for the medieval village of Pratariccia.
2012-06-28,Merkel faces tensions at key euro summit in Brussels
2012-06-28,Olympic roof missiles: residents to launch legal action - East Londoners seek injunction to stop surface-to-air missiles being stationed on their building during London 2012 Games
2012-06-28,14 Year Old N. Korea Girl Dies Saving Kim Portraits
2012-06-28,European Union leaders have signaled that their latest summit will set the stage for a dramatic rethinking of the economic and political edifice that underlies the euro currency.
2012-06-28,Iranian authorities preparing to carry out death sentences against two men convicted of drinking alcohol
2012-06-27,"Australians and New Zealanders are the biggest users of recreational drugs, particularly cannabis, according to the 2012 United Nations World Drug Report."
2012-06-27,"""The Arab awakenings happened because the Arab peoples stopped fearing their leaders  but they stalled because the Arab peoples have not stopped fearing each other."""
2012-06-27,Rupert Murdoch forced to break up News Corp 
2012-06-27,"The war on drugs is a failure that is fuelling the global HIV/AIDS epidemic by driving people away from treatment, an international group says."
2012-06-27,Canada falls out of top fifty in global freedom of information rankings (from r/Canada)
2012-06-27,"In a remarkable statement, the copyright monopoly fundamentalist Marielle Gallo  of the Gallo Report infamy  says that the citizens of Europe who have been campaigning against ACTA are terrorists"
2012-06-27,UK ready to take on Israel over fate of children clapped in irons
2012-06-27,"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad declared on Tuesday that his country was at war and ordered his new government to spare no effort to achieve victory, as the worst fighting of the 16-month conflict reached the outskirts of the capital."
2012-06-27,"Why are Young Indians Killing Themselves? -  Suicide has become the 2nd leading cause of death among the country's young adults, after road accidents in men, & childbirth-related complications in women.  40% of the men & 56% of women who took their lives in 2010 were age 15-29."
2012-06-27,"The Ecuadorian embassies in US and Britain have received over 10,000 messages in support of political asylum for Julian Assange"
2012-06-27,Attack on Greek Microsoft Office - Gunmen set fire to the place in Athens
2012-06-27,"Irish vigilate group hunting drug dealers, in hopes to rid the area of drugs. "
2012-06-27,"The pacific nation of Palau ranks first in cannabis consumption, with nearly 25 percent of citizens having smoked in the past year. "
2012-06-27,"German Chancellor Angela Merkel sought to bury once and for all the idea of common euro zone bonds on Tuesday, saying Europe would not share total debt liability ""as long as I live"", as the bloc's big four finance ministers met to narrow differences on how to solve a worsening debt crisis."
2012-06-27,Assad says Syria at war as battle reaches capital
2012-06-27,Syrian rebels destroy goverment  TV station
2012-06-27,"Online and on the streets, Mexico youth protests grow as election looms"
2012-06-27,Founder and 4 senior members of Singapore's largest megachurch arrested for misappropriating church funds.
2012-06-27,"TransCanada Wins 1 of 3 US Permits for Keystone Pipeline in Galveston District -  2 more permits are needed to finish the line's southern section, rebranded the ""Gulf Coast project"".  Environmentalists argue it fosters more tar sands development in Alberta & have asked the EPA to intervene."
2012-06-27,"Second boat sinks off Christmas Island: A boat carrying an estimated 150 people has capsized north of Christmas Island, Australian officials say, a week after an asylum-seeker boat sank in the area."
2012-06-27,China proposes $10bn loan [and currency swaps] for Latin America countries [MERCOSUR]
2012-06-27,"Britain's Queen Elizabeth is to shake the hand of a once-feared commander of the IRA on Wednesday to seal end of one of Europe's bitterest conflicts, which cost the lives of thousands of soldiers and civilians, including her cousin"
2012-06-27,"Putin to Israel: Beware of wars that are 'not that smart', such as the ones in Iraq and Afghanistan."
2012-06-27,Germany v France: The eurozone's next big battle?
2012-06-27,Germany bans Circumcisions 
2012-06-26,Circumcision of kids a crime - German court
2012-06-26,"Mall collapse in Northern Ontario leaves 1 dead, 30 unaccounted for ... rescue crews are still unabe to enter the wreckage"
2012-06-26,"HPV vaccine ban by Calgary bishop putting girls' lives at risk, doctors say"
2012-06-26,"""Boxes where parents can leave an unwanted baby, common in medieval Europe, have been making a comeback over the last 10 years. Supporters say a heated box, monitored by nurses, is better for babies than abandonment on the street - but the UN says it violates the rights of the child."""
2012-06-26,Syria fires on second Turkish plane
2012-06-26,Shootout at Mexico City airport kills three police officers
2012-06-26,Prominent Americans urge Ecuador to accept Julian Assange's asylum request
2012-06-26,"Imagining the Unthinkable: The Disastrous Consequences of a Euro Crash - As the debt crisis worsens in Spain and Italy, financial experts are warning of the catastrophic consequences of a crash of the euro: the destruction of trillions in assets and record high unemployment levels, even in Germany."
2012-06-26,"Turkish PM vows to help 'liberate Syria from dictatorship': Erdogan lashed out at Syria, saying it poses threat to Turkeys national security, calling Syrian government tyrants. He warned that any Syrian troops approaching Turkish borders would be dealt with as a military target"
2012-06-26,"Not an accident, now it was self defense - Syria warns NATO"
2012-06-26,"Three ultra-Orthodox Jewish men have been arrested in Israel, suspected of defacing the national Holocaust memorial with anti-Zionist graffiti."
2012-06-26,Travelers run for cover as cops kill cops at Mexico City airport
2012-06-26,"Pandemic H1N1 Flu Killed Far More Than Reported: The pandemic H1N1 flu in 2009 may have killed more than 500,000 people around the world, 15 times more than reported (from r/globalhealth)"
2012-06-26,"After Rio, we know. Governments have given up on the planet: The post-summit pledge was an admission of defeat against consumer capitalism. But we can still salvage the natural world."
2012-06-26,China has pumped billions of dollars into the African nation of Chad's oil infrastructure. Chad's dictator has used the money to maintain power and bribe the populace with cheap oil. 
2012-06-26,EU Commissioner Reveals He Will Simply Ignore Any Rejection Of ACTA By European Parliament Next Week 
2012-06-26,World's oldest bank in Italy 'wants 3bn state aid'
2012-06-26,Both Koreas suffering worst drought in a century: North Korea dispatched soldiers to pour buckets of water on parched fields and South Korean officials scrambled to save a rare mollusk threatened by the heat as the worst dry spell in a century gripped the Korean peninsula.
2012-06-26,"New details of UK piracy monitoring plan made public: It gives copyright holders three times longer to produce evidence against alleged pirates, and it seriously reduces the right of appeal for the alleged pirates"
2012-06-26,4 presidents propose upping power of eurozone authorities over national governments
2012-06-26,Video shows police manhandling protester during Tel Aviv rally  Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
2012-06-26,Syrian forces fire at second Turkish plane: Turkey said on Monday Syrian forces had fired towards a Turkish military transport plane involved in a search for an F-4 reconnaissance jet shot down by Syria last week
2012-06-26,Egyptian court says army cannot arrest civilians
2012-06-26,Turkey said Monday it would push NATO to consider Syrias downing of a Turkish jet as an attack on the whole military alliance.
2012-06-26,New strain of TB resistant to all currently available treatments 
2012-06-25,"""Lonesome George"" The last-of-it's-kind Galapagos Tortoise has died at 100."
2012-06-25,"The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal, -Egypt's new president, Mohammed Morsi"
2012-06-25,End of 'compassionate Conservatism' as David Cameron details plans for crackdown on welfare
2012-06-25,WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Monday called for diplomatic guarantees he will not be pursued by the United States for publishing secret documents if he goes to Sweden to face criminal allegations.
2012-06-25,"Google has set out to save the world's dying languages. In an alliance with scholars and linguists, the Internet powerhouse on Wednesday introduced an Endangered Languages Project website where people can find, share, and store information about dialects in danger of disappearing."
2012-06-25,Saudi Arabia to let women compete in Olympics for first time
2012-06-25,Superbug vs. Monsanto: Nature rebels against biotech titan. A growing number of rootworms are now able to devour genetically modified corn specifically designed by Monsanto to kill those same pests. 
2012-06-25,Syria general and two colonels 'defect to Turkey'
2012-06-25,"""Fed up"" mother throws two sons from 15th floor, killing both: A Russian woman threw her 4- and 7-year-old sons out the window from the 15th floor, with both boys dying before an ambulance arrived. She explained that she was ""fed up with children"" and ""decided to get rid of them"""
2012-06-25,Israel army 'game' leaves Palestinian dead
2012-06-25,"Iraq orders Voice of America, 43 other media outlets to close - World News"
2012-06-25,Will we see a 'Mexican Spring'?
2012-06-25,China celebrates accomplishments in sea and space - deep-diving record in Mariana Trench and manual space docking  on same day
2012-06-25,"Jerusalem to become Egypts capital under Mursis rule, says Muslim cleric at campaign rally to cheering crowd."
2012-06-25,"For London Olympics, Britain calls up the military: Ground troops, fighter jets and perhaps missiles will reinforce police in Britain's largest peacetime security operation. Some residents see it as overkill."
2012-06-25,Wikipedia founder steps in to help UK hacker
2012-06-25,"Dalai Lama: Censorship in China morally wrong,  
people should know the truth"
2012-06-25,Lulzsec: UK men plead guilty to hacking charges
2012-06-25,Russian arms ship to make second attempt to deliver helicopters to Syria
2012-06-25,"North Korea condemns 'provocative' naval drills by US and South Korea:  Officials called joint military exercises a hostile and politically motivated act, which justified its nuclear expansion programme"
2012-06-25,BBC News - UAE death sentence for British man on 'drugs charge'
2012-06-25,"Censorship in China morally wrong, people should know the truth: Dalai Lama"
2012-06-25,Central Africa gunmen have attacked a uranium plant operated by French nuclear power giant Areva in the southeast of the Central African Republic
2012-06-25,The Moscow Times: Moscow Ranked Last for Doing Business
2012-06-25,"LulzSec's Ryan Cleary and Jake Davis plead guilty to hacking institutions including CIA, Soca and News International. Other websites targeted by the pair were Westboro Baptist Church, Bethesda, Eve Online, HBGary, HBGary Federal, PBS Inc and Infragard."
2012-06-24,Vatican gets Fox media adviser: The Fox news correspondent in Rome has been brought in by the Vatican to help improve its communications strategy as it tries to cope with one of its most serious scandals in decades.
2012-06-24,"As Hopes for Reform Fade in Bahrain, Protesters Turn Anger on United States"
2012-06-24,"Egypt braces for Islamist president, or army rule
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2012-06-24,"In North Korea, learning to hate US starts early - A framed poster on the wall of a kindergarten classroom shows bright-eyed children brandishing rifles and bayonets as they attack a hapless American soldier, his face bandaged and blood spurting from his mouth."
2012-06-24,"Stop Asking for More Help, Germany Tells Greece"
2012-06-24,Egyptian beats pregnant wife to death for not voting for Mursi
2012-06-24,Uruguay says pot law won't make it a drug haven
2012-06-24,"Mexico admits accidentally arresting car salesman after parading man to press as son of druglord Joaquin ""El Chapo"" Guzman"
2012-06-24,UK soldiers beat innocent Iraqi men in 'black ops' jails but new secret justice law means their torture will be hidden forever
2012-06-24,"Turkey declares jet shoot-down by Syria as a ""hostile"" act; Syria gave no warning before shooting down the F-4 Phantom jet which strayed into its territory"
2012-06-24,Why the West should embrace the Islamists in Egypt | The Economist
2012-06-24,Turkey Vows to Take Action in Downing of Jet by Syria
2012-06-24,Fourteen mutilated bodies found outside Mexican supermarket
2012-06-24,Bolivia Deploys Army to Patrol Streets as Police Across the Country Strike in Protest at Low Pay - Protests turned violent when officers seized control of a police barracks
2012-06-24,"It's one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of ""Honour."" Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly"
2012-06-24,Vatican seeks help from Fox News adviser for PR 
2012-06-24,Mexico elections: failure of drugs war leaves nation at the crossroads
2012-06-24,Homes evacuated as month's worth of rain falls in a day
2012-06-24,Mohamed Morsi wins the Egyptian presidential election. Crowds at Tahrir Square burst into cheers.
2012-06-24,"Afghan Tunnel: Decrepit, Dangerous Yet Indispensable - NATO supply convoys are using a long, slow & expensive route after Pakistan closed its border. Trucks driving high on crumbling roads pass through the Soviet-built Salang Tunnel, where lines of waiting traffic often stretch 10 miles."
2012-06-24,"Wave of Violence Swallows More Women in Jurez, Mexico"
2012-06-24,"Bee swarm attack lands Thailand monks in hospital: The Bangkok Post said more than 70 monks were admitted to hospital, quoting one doctor as saying he had seen 19 in serious condition."
2012-06-24,"Mexicos ""Perfect Dictatorship"" on Brink of Comeback"
2012-06-24,"Syria shot Turkish jet in international air space, says Turkish FM"
2012-06-24,"Richard O'Dwyer and the new internet war
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2012-06-23,"Canadian version of SOPA is close to becoming law, I don't know why this isn't getting more attention"
2012-06-23,Nationalisation: Uruguay's law allowing state to sell cannabis could be adopted across Latin America in defiance of US
2012-06-23,European Court Says Getting Sick on Vacation Means You Get a Do-Over - All 27 countries in the EU will be held to the court's decision.
2012-06-23,"Shouryya Ray, 16-Yr-Old 'Genius,' Did Not Solve Newton's 350-Yr-Old Problem"
2012-06-23,The president of Paraguay has been impeached.
2012-06-23,"World adopts Rio+20 declaration, pledges $513 billion for sustainable development projects:  In a huge victory for emerging countries like India and Brazil, the world leaders adopted 'The Future We Want' declaration on sustainable development."
2012-06-23,Syria admits to shooting down Turkish fighter jet
2012-06-23,"Caterpiller delisted from influential ""ethical investing index"" for role in Israel's armored tractor use. TIAA-CREF divests $72M; others may follow."
2012-06-23,"Turkey will take retaliatory steps against Syria for the downing of one of its military jets, President Abdullah Gul said Saturday."
2012-06-23,"Alan Turing: Inquest's suicide verdict 'not supportable'. The British mathematical genius and codebreaker born a hundred years ago on 23 June, may not have committed suicide, as is widely believed."
2012-06-23,Syria 'shoots down Turkish fighter jet' - Telegraph
2012-06-23,"Chinese Data Said to Be Manipulated, Understating Slowdown - NYTimes.com"
2012-06-23,Report: Saudis will pay salaries of rebel Syria army
2012-06-23,"Officials in charge of @sweden Twitter account ""seriously considering"" handling it over to Stephen Colbert"
2012-06-23,Saudi Arabia plans to fund Syria rebel army
2012-06-23,"US Warns of ""Imminent"" Threat of Attack in Mombasa -  Embassy in Kenya warns of an ""imminent"" attack on the port  & asks all its government workers to leave"
2012-06-23,Israel complains to UN over Hamas rockets on South
2012-06-23,"Syrian civilians hit hard by spreading violence - Her daughter, 8, often hides in a closet, terrified of flying bullets. Her son, 6, still asks for his father months after he turned up in a morgue. And the family has little income because her brother-in-law was killed too."
2012-06-23,Assange v Swedish Prosecution Authority: the (mis)application of European and international law by the UK Supre
2012-06-23,Fox correspondent named senior Vatican communications adviser
2012-06-23,"Gaza terrorists fire 22 rockets at Sderot area, hitting school and factory. 150 rockets in 6 days"
2012-06-23,U.S. seeks return to SE Asian bases - The Washington Post
2012-06-23,"A ""new type of coup"": right-wing congress ousts left-wing president in Paraguay."
2012-06-23,European courts pass a new law saying workers who get sick on vacation are entitled to another vacation. 
2012-06-23,Japan Opens Door to Acquiring Nuclear Weapons
2012-06-22,BBC News - India unblocks The Pirate Bay and other sharing sites
2012-06-22,Japan Passes Jail-for-Downloaders Anti-Piracy Law
2012-06-22,"CIA secretly operates on Syrian border, supplies arms to rebels."
2012-06-22,"It is easier to send 30,000 women abroad to study than to let one woman drive, says a Saudi diplomat."
2012-06-22,Turkey says warplane lost off Syria
2012-06-22,"Drone strikes threaten 50 years of international law, says UN rapporteur"
2012-06-22,"Julian Assange's first interview from Ecuadorian 
Embassy (Transcript)"
2012-06-22,Turkey drops anti-abortion legislation:  Government withdraws controversial plan to slash time limit for abortions after mounting pressure from civil society.
2012-06-22,"Two children hospitalized in London after a pub chef spiked chocolate puddings with ecstasy. Another customer had an ""out of body experience."""
2012-06-22,"Explosives found at Sweden nuclear plant; Nation raises security alert at all 10 reactors
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2012-06-22,"Suicide leading cause of death for India youths: In contrast to patterns usually seen in wealthier countries, the highest suicide rates in India are among young, wealthy and highly educated people."
2012-06-22,"Uganda says gays now free to meet: This is the first time the government is making a statement that appears to recognize the rights of gay people in Uganda, where most homosexuals remain closeted for fear of attacks, and it seemed to take even the activists by surprise."
2012-06-22,Thousand of protesters fill Tahrir Square against interference in Egypt's transition to democracy
2012-06-22,"Israeli airline El Al stops transporting research primates; ""El Al will not fly monkeys meant to be used for experiments. Period."""
2012-06-22, A huge North Korean flag disappeared behind a tower of flames and thick black smoke Friday as South Korean fighter jets and U.S. attack helicopters fired rockets in the allies' biggest joint live-fire drills since the Korean War.
2012-06-22,"Starving Greeks queue for food in their thousands as debt-laden country forms a coalition government.
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2012-06-22,Circumcision for Zimbabwe's MPs - A group of Zimbabwean MPs are getting circumcised as part of a campaign to reduce HIV and Aids cases 
2012-06-22,Ecuador president vows to take time on Assange decision:  Scotland Yard says the WikiLeaks founder has breached his bail conditions
2012-06-22,"WikiLeaks' Assange says ready for life in Ecuador: He fears that if sent to Sweden, he would then be extradited to the United States where he believes he could face criminal charges punishable by death."
2012-06-22," Deaths of Hostages Held by Somali Pirates ""Increasing""- The number of hostages killed or injured by Somali pirates increased significantly last year.  Levels of violence against seafarers in coastal waters around east Africa & the Gulf of Aden also remained high."
2012-06-22,BBC News - Syria rebels accused of massacring 25 people in village
2012-06-22,Paper on altering bird flu to be published despite bioterror concerns
2012-06-22,U.S. politicians are tempted to blame Chinese currency manipulation for the countrys economic woes. China though has appreciated its currency by nearly 40 percent in real terms since 2005.
2012-06-22,Moody's downgrades 15 major global banks
2012-06-22,Muslim pair accused of planning jihad bomb attack on Jews in Britain | Guardian
2012-06-21,"ACTA rejected by last committee, crucial blow before final EU Parliament vote: 'The Internet, in all its diversity, winning a global political battle against some of the most powerful industries and governments'"
2012-06-21,"The United States has immunity from a class action related to the government-sponsored infection of hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis, a federal judge ruled, calling the study ""a deeply troubling chapter in our nation's history."""
2012-06-21,Pirate Bay Disarms BT Blockade Within Minutes
2012-06-21,"Experts say Assanges asylum bid could work: ""The government of Ecuador has a capacity under international law to grant Assange political asylum, in which case he would be eligible to enjoy protected passage from UK to Ecuador"""
2012-06-21,Uruguay Aims to Legalize Marijuana - It's unveiled a plan to allow state-controlled sales of marijuana to fight a rise in drug-related crime
2012-06-21,"Cuts Leave Greek Heritage in Ruins -  Research & excavations are being abandoned. Museums can no longer afford security & are being plagued by armed robbers. Organized criminals are exploiting the chaos in an explosion of illegal digs & the trafficking of antiquities.

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2012-06-21,"After seriously considering sending out 3 strikes warning letters to file-sharers, today Denmark will officially announce the abandoning of the idea. Instead, it will focus on the development of legal services"
2012-06-21,"The first tourist flight into space is scheduled for next year, and it's cheaper than you'd think."
2012-06-21,"China was recently caught selling trucks that could allow North Korea to make its missiles mobile, a violation of UN sanctions. With North Korea having nukes, nuclear missiles could be a next step. "
2012-06-21,Mexico drugs war: 'This is a hell that is just too big'
2012-06-21,Mexico arrests son of top drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman
2012-06-21,Private security company chief predicts mass privatisation of police
2012-06-21,"A Controversial law that allows hunters into national parks has been passed by New South Wales Parliament following hours of fractious debate - Critics  fear it'll open 100s of parks recreational hunters.  ""It'll compromise the safety of every single person in our national parks."" "
2012-06-21,C.I.A. Said to Aid in Steering Arms to Syrian Opposition
2012-06-21,Moody's cuts ratings of 15 global banks
2012-06-21,Explosives found at Sweden nuclear site
2012-06-21,"Uganda to Ban 38 Organizations That ""Promote"" Homosexuality - Country's ethics & integrity minister claims banned NGOs exist to ""destroy the traditions & culture of this country"""
2012-06-21,The Coming Oil Crash  - By Steve LeVine  | Foreign Policy
2012-06-21,"Julian Assange asylum move is 'a tragedy' for his accusers, says lawyer:  Lawyer representing two women who accuse WikiLeaks founder of sexual assault says he still expects extradition to go ahead
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2012-06-21,Romania ex-PM Adrian Nastase in suicide attempt:  Former Romanian Prime Minister Adrian Nastase has attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the neck. 
2012-06-21,"Iran to build more ships, boost naval presence"
2012-06-21,"The prosecutions closing argument in Breivik case: Reasonable doubt whether he was sane. Therefore no criminal conviction, but forced psykiatric care."
2012-06-21,"Doctors strike in UK-wide protest over pensions: They oppose government moves to increase pension contributions and introduce a later retirement age. In a ballot of 104,000 members of the British Medical Association, the majority voted for a strike."
2012-06-21,"Russia May Change How It Calculates Oil Price to try and negate its dependency on oil sales: ""We are pretty concerned about this. That's why the government is coming up with rules to decrease the dependence on oil"""
2012-06-21,"Recent tribal clashes in Libya leave over 100 dead, over 500 injured"
2012-06-20,Julian Assange flees: Seeks asylum in Ecuadorian embassy in London
2012-06-20,Med Student Rescues Body Part From Airport Security 
2012-06-20,"El Salvador murders drop as gang truce passes 100 days: The gangs, Mara Salvatrucha and Barrio 18, agreed a halt to hostilities, in a deal brokered by the Catholic Church."
2012-06-20,Ecuador says Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is seeking asylum at its embassy in London - The Washington Post
2012-06-20,"""100 scientific academies around the globe... report that if birthrates and overconsumption continue unabated, large-scale famine, drought, disease and war lie ahead..."""
2012-06-20,19 tons of marijuana dumped into the ocean near US/Mexico border
2012-06-20," Vannak Prum was forced to work on a Thai fishing boat for 3 yrs before escaping by jumping overboard.  Rogue captains buy men like Prum from traffickers & use them to plunder the fishing grounds of surrounding nations. One expert calls it ""a perfect storm of slavery & environmental degradation."""
2012-06-20,"Englishman calling religion a ""fairy tale for adults"" could be arrested, say police. Because he's an atheist, the police are telling him he could be arrested for the ""threatening"" message he put on his door "
2012-06-20,"Man Beheaded For Sorcery, Witchcraft In Saudi Arabia"
2012-06-20,The real reason Julian Assange sought asylum
2012-06-20,Liberian effort to end female circumcision runs into fierce opposition
2012-06-20,BBC News - 'Hostages held' in Toulouse bank
2012-06-20,"Julian Assange Flees Extradition, Seeks Asylum From Ecuador"
2012-06-20,'Al-Qaida' gunman takes hostages in Toulouse bank
2012-06-20,"Uganda to ban NGOs accused of promoting gay rights; A bill calling for harsh penalties against homosexuals and outlawing the ""promotion"" of homosexuality, including providing financial support to gays and lesbians, is pending in the east African country's parliament."
2012-06-20,Netherlands rejects bill banning kosher slaughter; Jewish groups claim victory: The bill was harshly criticized during the debate in the upper house for contradicting the constitutional right to freedom of religion and ritual observance of faith.
2012-06-20,Ottawa airport wired with microphones as Border Services prepares to record travellers conversations
2012-06-20,"Ex-Romania PM shoots self after court's sentence: Romania's prime minister says one of his predecessors has shot himself and was in the hospital, just hours after a court upheld the ex-premier's two-year prison sentence on corruption charges."
2012-06-20,"Thousands flee as typhoon heads for Tokyo:  A powerful typhoon has forced the evacuation of thousands of people in Japan, and the cancellation of hundreds of flights."
2012-06-20,"Egypt's state news agency MENA reports former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is ""clinically dead."" "
2012-06-20,"""Ottawa has put the brakes on a high-tech eavesdropping program that would allow authorities to listen in on conversations taking place at border crossings and airports. Public Safety Minister Vic Toews asked the Canadian Border Services Agency to halt the contentious program on Tuesday"""
2012-06-20,Unmanned drones being used to combat poachers in Nepal
2012-06-20,Romania sends ex-prime minister Nastase to jail for corruption - Yahoo! News
2012-06-20,Deadly suicide attack hits Afghan city
2012-06-20,"Legalizing Ecstasy Would Save Lives, Says a Canadian Health Officer"
2012-06-19,"Brave man jumps into Moscow river after seeing a car plunge into the water, saves woman driver... as his own car and clothes get stolen."
2012-06-19,Egyptian Military grants itself sweeping powers; effectively military coup.
2012-06-19,"British comedian Jimmy Carr, who has openly criticised Barclays Bank for tax avoidance, is exposed as main beneficiary in huge tax avoidance scheme"
2012-06-19,"""Alcohol consumption would fall 25% if cannabis cafes were allowed""

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2012-06-19,"Canada Passes it's version of the DMCA (Bill C-11) through the Commons today.  Most of Reddit, and Canadian media fail to notice."
2012-06-19,Sea Sick: Another virus crashes Canadas salmon farms - Critics say the farms should've seen this coming.  A professor claimed that wild sockeye tested in 2011 showed a more serious virus was present in B.C. waters. The government seized his samples & declared the virus wasn't present.  
2012-06-19,Female singer in Pakistan who defied taliban decree against singing shot dead in drive-by
2012-06-19,"Vatican accuses media of ""imitating Dan Brown and said the Roman Catholic Church's latest travails were part of the Devil's attempt to destabilize it."
2012-06-19,BBC News - Ship 'carrying Russian attack helicopters to Syria' halted off Scotland
2012-06-19,Iceland Named Most Peaceful Country in the World
2012-06-19,"Swiss army 'loses track' of 10,000 firearms"
2012-06-19,"A magnitude 5.2 earthquake has shaken parts of southern Victoria, Australia  "
2012-06-19,"Iran, Russia, China, Syria to hold drill - 12 Chinese warships to sail through the Suez Canal, Russian atomic submarines / aircraft carriers to take part "
2012-06-19,Egypt: Revolutionary forces call for mass protest against 'coup d'tat'
2012-06-19,India announces USD 10 billion for debt-wracked eurozone
2012-06-19,Hamas renews rocket fire from Gaza; 11 missiles explode in southern Israel
2012-06-19,"""With inspiration from a friend too lazy to take a shower and a few months of research on the Internet, South African university student Ludwick Marishane has won global recognition for an invention that takes the water out of bathing."""
2012-06-19,Canadian mining companies are 'the new conquistadors.' 
2012-06-19,Mexico's drug war rocks U.S. and Canadian expat stronghold: '...last month suspected drug-gang hitmen kidnapped a group of Mexican locals and dumped 18 decapitated bodies in two vehicles just miles from the lakeside tourist enclave of Ajijic.'
2012-06-19,"According to Iranian news sources, Iran, Russia, 
China and Syria will soon hold the Middle East's 
largest ever war games - the exercises will 
reportedly involve 90,000 troops, 400 warplanes 
and 1,000 tanks from the four countries"
2012-06-19,"At least seven Turkish soldiers killed in ambush by Kurdish rebels, state TV says."
2012-06-19,Britain fires first shot for military intervention in Syria
2012-06-19,Canadian gov't to eavesdrop on people coming into country
2012-06-19,BBC News - WikiLeaks' Julian Assange seeks asylum in Ecuador embassy
2012-06-19,Zimbabwe's Mugabe Motorcade in Deadly Crash - One reported killed &  15 others injured.  A car in the motorcade hit a commuter bus__ the 3rd such accident in 2 weeks.  Police spokesman said a bus failed to make way for the president's vehicles quickly enough.
2012-06-18,"Indian drug giant Cipla cuts cost of cancer medicines in a humanitarian move, shaking up the drug market "
2012-06-18,Man in India beheads 20-year-old daughter in rage over her lifestyle and parades her head through village
2012-06-18,"Google sees 'alarming' level of government censorship: Web giant says it received more than 1,000 requests from government officials for the removal of content in the past six months, complying with more than half."
2012-06-18,Canada to be put on UN human rights watchlist
2012-06-18,A Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan has announced a ban on polio vaccines for children as long as the United States continues its campaign of drone strikes in the region
2012-06-18,"Nova Scotian government forces small, family-owned Christmas tree farm to unwillingly sell their land to an Australian Gold Mining company ""for the greater public good""."
2012-06-18,"100s Occupy Brazil Dam - Indigenous peoples, farmers &  fisherfolk  marched onto an earthen dam blocking the Xingu River & with pick axes & shovels opened a channel. Demanding the cancellation of the $18 billion project, they placed their bodies to spell out words meaning ""Stop Belo Monte."""
2012-06-18,Germany has decided to pursue ambitious greenhouse-gas reductions - while closing down its nuclear plants. Can a heavily industrialized country power its economy with wind turbines and solar panels?
2012-06-18,Israeli Soldier Holds Hunger Strike in Solidarity With Palestinians in Detention
2012-06-18,It has come to this: Greek towns reverting to barter economies
2012-06-18,Rumor had it a devious conspiracy was afoot: Egyptians voting for a new president Saturday were being tricked into using pens with disappearing ink so their choice on the ballot would vanish before it was counted.
2012-06-18,Greek vote 'too close to call'
2012-06-18,Taliban to ban polio vaccinations for children until US stops drone strikes
2012-06-18,Russian Warships Said to Be Going to Naval Base in Syria - NYTimes.com
2012-06-18,Egypts ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has issued a new constitutional declaration granting itself near total autonomy in military matters and the ability to exercise a de facto veto over the drafting of a new constitution.
2012-06-18,Taikonauts reach Chinese space station: Crew successfully enter experimental module in first stage of mission featuring China's first woman in space.
2012-06-18,"Is the U.N. abandoning Syria's rebels? Hundreds of United Nations monitors halt their mission as Bashar al-Assad and Syrian rebels flout the U.N.'s ceasefire deal, raising fears of all-out civil war
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2012-06-18,"""Diet or Quit"" Pakistan Tells Pot-Bellied Police"
2012-06-18,"The paralyzed man who tweets with his eyes, and wants to die"
2012-06-18,"Thousands of Turkish Women March Against Plans to Restrict Access to Abortion - Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan catapulted the issue into public debate when he called abortion ""murder"""
2012-06-18,"Violence erupts on Israel's Egypt, Gaza borders"
2012-06-18,The Ethiopian government is forcibly displacing tens of thousands from their land to make way for state-run sugar plantations
2012-06-18,Pope to Irish: Child abuse by clergy shook Catholic faith; calls motive a mystery
2012-06-18,"Australia's oldest artwork found: Archeologist discovers Aboriginal rock art made 28,000 years ago in Northern Territory cave"
2012-06-18,Secret EU summit document shows first step to Banking Union
2012-06-17,"""Australia will create the largest network of marine parks in the world, protecting waters covering an area as large as India while banning oil and gas exploration and limiting commercial fishing in some of the most sensitive areas."""
2012-06-17,"New Zealand's High Court Steps Into Extradition Fight Over Kim Dotcom: Judge orders US Attorneys to hand over evidence they're using to make the case against Dotcom, US goes ballistic insisting that such an effort is impossible..."
2012-06-17,"Religious leaders furious over Norway's proposed circumcision ban, but one Norway politician says: ""I'm not buying the argument that banning circumcision is a violation of religious freedom, because such freedom must involve being able to choose for themselves"""
2012-06-17,Mexican President Felipe Calderon says he is cancelling the construction of a huge tourist resort in Baja California over concerns it could damage a nearby marine reserve.
2012-06-17,Sweden Violated Torture Ban in CIA Rendition
2012-06-17,"Governments should publish clear accounts listing assets and liabilities, making the inter-generational implications of continuing with current debt levels absolutely clear for young voters. "
2012-06-17,"Meet Prince Salman, the Next Saudi King - 
Hes 76 years old, a hawk when it comes to Iran, a dove when it comes to peaceful reform&, with the death of his brother, the kingdoms new heir."
2012-06-17,Hollande party 'wins majority' in French parliament
2012-06-17,Wildlife camera catches Austrian politician having sex in forest
2012-06-17,"Lebanese army clashes with Palestinians; one dead
| Reuters"
2012-06-17,"Divers baffled after first expedition down to the ""Millenium Falcon"" shipwreck."
2012-06-17,Northern Ireland Health Minister stands by the existing ban on gay blood donors
2012-06-17,Ottawa [Canada] Airport Wired With Microphones As Border Services Prepares To Record Travellers' Conversations
2012-06-17,Paraguay:  9 landless farmers in Paraguay charged with murder after killing 6 police officers trying to evict them.  Farmers say the land was illegally taken during the 1954-1989 military rule of Gen Alfredo Stroessner & distributed among his allies.  
2012-06-17,Two Russian Parties Merge in Push Against Putin
2012-06-17,"Police say about 10 men armed with sledgehammers and wooden bats have attacked a polling station during Greece's election, wounding two policemen guarding it and setting fire to the ballot box."
2012-06-17,"An off-duty policeman drove up to a house occupied by a Roma (Gypsy) family, who were in their garden, & opened fire, killing 3 & wounding 2 in Slovakia - There was no immediate explanation for the attack, & police have so far refused to confirm a racial motive.
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2012-06-17,Guess Whos Emerging From the Crisis?
2012-06-17,"Chavez reveals Venezuela has built first drone: ""Venezuela has made its first drone in partnership with Iran, Russia and China, and said Caracas plans to start exporting it soon."""
2012-06-17,Kim Jong-un: North Korea Leader's Media Makeover -N Korea's tightly controlled media are building up a personality cult around the new leader that can be divided in obvious stages 
2012-06-17,"Greek Voices: ""We just feel betrayed. We are the EU's scapegoats"""
2012-06-17,"In Canada, a B.C. judge strikes down law making physician-assisted suicide illegal"
2012-06-17,Saudi Arabian women risk arrest as they defy ban on driving
2012-06-17,Edmonton triple-murder suspect arrested at U.S. border
2012-06-17,Taliban praises India for resisting US pressure on Afghanistan
2012-06-16,"Monsanto is one step closer to losing billions of dollars in revenues from its genetically-modified Roundup Ready soya beans, following a ruling this week by the Brazilian Supreme Court; Monsanto may have to refund millions of Brazilian farmers who had paid royalties to Monsanto over the last decade"
2012-06-16,Saudi Arabia's crown prince dies
2012-06-16,BBC News - Murdoch called Tony Blair urging him not to delay the invasion of Iraq
2012-06-16,Welshman claims to have found original Jack Daniel's whiskey recipe
2012-06-16,48% of rapes in Sweden are perpetrated by immigrants 
2012-06-16,Father pleads guilty to letting 14yo have sex - Could become a convicted sex offender based on a charge normally used on adults who have solicited children.
2012-06-16,Aung San Suu Kyi arrives in Oslo to give Nobel speech almost a quarter-century after receiving peace prize
2012-06-16,BBC News - UN suspends Syria peace mission
2012-06-16,"Rupert Murdoch claims under oath that former PM Gordon Brown furiously called him and claimed he would ""make war"" with them. 10 Downing Street switchboard announces it has no record of any phone call, on a landline or a mobile, between the two men in that year."
2012-06-16,"2012 Record year for American Arms deals, 50 billion!    Saudi Arabia and Japan main buyers"
2012-06-16,Russia Sending Missile Systems to Shield Syria
2012-06-16,After 21 Years Aung San Suu Kyi receives her Nobel Peace Prize
2012-06-16,Japan to restart nuclear reactors despite widespread fear
2012-06-16,China launches rocket carrying its first female astronaut
2012-06-16,Hungarian far-right politician gets DNA test to see if he's Jewish.
2012-06-16,Nik Wallenda completes wire walk across Niagara Falls
2012-06-16,Last fugitive caught in '95 Japan nerve gas attack
2012-06-16,"Striking Spanish Miners Clash With Police - In some of the worst disturbances since the government imposed austerity measures, miners fired sky rockets & ball-bearings at riot police who responded with rubber bullets & tear gas  "
2012-06-16,Viewpoint: Time to look beyond Mexico drug violence
2012-06-16,"Saudi succession: how oil kingdom picks its kings
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2012-06-16,How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions - NYTimes.com
2012-06-16,Saudi crown prince Nayef dead: state TV
2012-06-16,Arrested spy compromised China's U.S. espionage network
2012-06-16,BBC News - China set for space mission of first woman astronaut
2012-06-16,"Climate Change or Tectonic Shifts?
The Mystery of the Sinking South Pacific Islands"
2012-06-15,9-Year-Old Who Changed School Lunches Silenced By Politicians (Wired)
2012-06-15,The ban on a nine-year-old girl taking photographs of her school meals has been lifted
2012-06-15,Kidnapping by Mexican Police Caught on Video
2012-06-15,"Every call, every email, every text: UK unveils bill aimed at logging citizens Web activity."
2012-06-15,"""Manga is not child pornography"". Swedish supreme court acquits manga translator from possession of child pornography."
2012-06-15,Venezuela surpasses Saudi Arabia to become the worlds largest holder of proven oil reserves
2012-06-15,Indonesian man jailed for two-and-a-half years for writing God doesnt exist on his Facebook page
2012-06-15,"Spain Claims Top Spot for Worlds Oldest Cave Art - Archaeologists say red disk over 40,000 years old could've been painted by Neanderthals"
2012-06-15,"Irelands 5,500-yr-old ""Stone of Destiny"", has been hit with a hammer, causing damage in 11 places on all 4 granite faces - None of the fragments were found. Tradition holds that the High Kings of Ireland were crowned at the stone. "
2012-06-15,Court Dissolves Parliament in Egypt in Blow to Islamists
2012-06-15,Highway 16: Serial killer being hunted in Canada after 40 young women vanish on same remote road in 30 years 
2012-06-15,Parks Canada staff banned from criticizing Feds : Workers told they have 'duty' to support Harper government (x post from r/canada)
2012-06-15,Egyptian military forces surround parliament 
2012-06-15,China forced abortion photo: 'Feng Jianmei had to abort at 7 months for breaching one-child policy'
2012-06-15,Iran seizes killers of nuclear scientists
2012-06-15,"U.S. Revises Comments on Russian Helicopters Going to Syria - ""actually returning to Syria after being refurbished"""
2012-06-15,Three dead after University of Alberta shooting
2012-06-15,Argentine leader takes Falklands claim to UN
2012-06-15,US official: Russia sends troops to Syria as peace hopes fade - World News
2012-06-15,"Syrian forces use sexual violence against men, women, children (Contains graphic details of torture)"
2012-06-15,Aung San Suu Kyi taken ill:  Burma's pro-democracy leader forced to call a halt to a news conference in Bern after bending over in pain and vomiting
2012-06-15,"'Forest boy Ray' (in Germany) identified as Dutch - 
The Local"
2012-06-15,"""In a bid to end a decades-long split in the Catholic Church, the Vatican offered a conservative breakaway group [SSPX] a special status enjoyed only by the Opus Dei movement . . . The status . . . would allow the SSPX to operate directly under the pope's authority, without territorial boundaries."""
2012-06-15,"Greece's Knife-Edge Election - 

Greek politics is in a state of molecular meltdown, but the election story told by European politicians and journalists doesnt begin to map it."
2012-06-15,"Europe Makes Big Bets on Nuclear Waste Burial - 
 - On a small Finnish island & deep in remote rural France, far from the debates & doubts that followed Japans Fukushima nuclear disaster, the ground work is underway for a commitment to atomic power for the long term - the very long term"
2012-06-14,Pure ecstacy (MDMA) can be safe for adults; should be regulated and sold in stores: B.C. health officer
2012-06-14,Canadian researchers thwart Ebola virus - The Globe and Mail
2012-06-14,Germany bans ultraconservative Islamic organization
2012-06-14,"Over 50 Zetas Drug Cartel Members, Including 2 Active Duty Policemen, Women, & children, Arrested in Mexico"
2012-06-14,Italian prosecutors suspect Vatican bank is laundering Sicilian mafia $$$
2012-06-14,"Child shelter home scandal rocks India: '5-yr-olds made to perform oral sex, naked yoga'"
2012-06-14,Cleric declares jihad against polio campaign in Pakistan
2012-06-14,Gaza water too contaminated to drink
2012-06-14,Japan moves closer to restarting nuclear reactors
2012-06-14,The rise of Greece's far-Right Golden Dawn party has led to a spate of vicious attacks against immigrants that it is feared will only increase after a new election is held on Sunday. 
2012-06-14,"500 meter asteroid passes close to Earth today.  
2012 LZ1 was only discovered last week."
2012-06-14,Indonesia 'internet atheist' given jail term - 2 and a half years
2012-06-14,Egypt is currently under martial law until a new parliament can be put in place -Egypt's highest court declares parliament invalid.
2012-06-14,Jordan promises to stop revoking citizenship from Palestinians
2012-06-14,Amnesty: Syrian government forces are killing civilians in organized attacks on towns and villages that amount to crimes against humanity
2012-06-14,"Pickup truck in China tips over, 16 bodies fall out"
2012-06-14,Tony Blair avoids attempted citizen's arrest in Hong Kong
2012-06-14,Germany: Major crackdown on Salafist Muslims
2012-06-14,"Montreal Teacher Shows Class Jun Lin 'Murder Video' - The online video shows the stabbing & dismembering of the Chinese man by suspect Luka Magnotta.  School officials condemned the teacher's actions & are treating the incident ""very seriously""."
2012-06-14,"Top health official in the Canadian province of British Columbia expresses support for legalization of MDMA/Ecstasy, says it's safe for adults to use and should be regulated like alcohol."
2012-06-14,"Egypts high court nullifies parliamentary elections; military may take over lawmaking
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2012-06-14,Guess the World's Most Expensive Places to Live in  2012 [especially 2nd] .You will be shocked
2012-06-14,"The Raids That Backfired: How the Russian Police Helped to Swell a Protest -- Apparently concerned about a new march against Putin, the authorities tried disrupting the lives of its organizers. The move, however, gave fresh momentum to the demonstration"
2012-06-14,Egypt's Parliament Dissolved By Court; Election Ruled Unconstitutional
2012-06-14,Roma relocation scores Romania mayor a major vote win
2012-06-13,"Former British PM John Major testifies that Rupert 
Murdoch demanded his government change its 
policy on Europe or his papers would oppose him at 
the 1997 general election."
2012-06-13,N.Korea's missile launchers came from China: Japan reportedly has evidence of possible violation by China of trade restrictions on weapons technology
2012-06-13,Gay pageant winner beheaded | News24
2012-06-13,Norwegian party wants to ban religious male circumcision
2012-06-13,"German police release photo of mystery boy, whose identity has yet to be established, one year after he showed up claiming to have lived in German forests for five years"
2012-06-13,Europe to build world's biggest telescope powerful enough to see mountains on planets beyond our solar system.
2012-06-13,Zeta cartel leader caught living in America. Millions laundered
2012-06-13,Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed yesterday never to bow in the face of social upheaval as tens of thousands of determined protesters chanting Russia Will be Free marched against his third term.
2012-06-13,Colbert asks for @sweden Twitter control. Sweden says 'be patient'.
2012-06-13,Berlin should remember how the banking crisis of 1931 contributed to the breakdown of democracy across Europe. Action is urgently needed to stop history from repeating itself.
2012-06-13,WHO classifies diesel fumes as a carcinogen
2012-06-13,Greek political party threatens to raid hospitals and kindergartens to remove immigrants and their children 
2012-06-13,Golden Dawn threatens hospital raids against immigrants in Greece 
2012-06-13,A New Zealand family who believed their teenage daughter took her own life because of Facebook bullying have learned she posted the bullying comments herself.
2012-06-13,"In the New Libya, Lots of Guns & Calls for Shariah"
2012-06-13,Police fires warning shots when Polish and Russian football supporters clash
2012-06-13,Photographer Carlo Gianferro photographs interiors of Gypsy mansions 
2012-06-13,"Mogadishu, the Somali capital, is losing 'World's Most Dangerous City' designation after mostly peaceful year"
2012-06-13,"Thirty percent of Swedes drop out of high school - Nearly one in three Swedish high school students fail to finish their secondary education programmes on time, new statistics reveal."
2012-06-13,"Former Prime Minister John Major said Tuesday 
Rupert Murdoch used threats to try to influence 
British foreign policy - [Murdoch said] ""I would like 
you to change your policy and if you don't change 
your policy my organization cannot support you."""
2012-06-13,UN officially declares Syria in Civil War
2012-06-13,"
Greeks hoard cash ahead of key Sunday vote
 
'Its over the top; we must not panic,' says head of country's retail federation"
2012-06-13,"""Pope Benedict XVI is on a course correction. Benedict has been trying to restore Catholic traditions he believes were lost 50 years ago in the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council. As he presses for a more conservative Catholicism, the pope has been vigilant about ensuring that"""
2012-06-13,Iran draws up designs for nuclear powered submarine
2012-06-13,Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has presented his country with a plan to deepen his push for socialism and entrench his movement in power as he runs for another six-year term amid questions of whether he will overcome cancer.
2012-06-12,Gallup Poll: 57% of Chinese believe environmental protection should be their country's top priority
2012-06-12,"$28 cabbage, $65 chicken, $100 case of water and other insane food prices in Northern Canada "
2012-06-12,"Iceland, New Zealand top list of 'most peaceful nations'. Canada 4th, USA 88th"
2012-06-12,Putin opponents march in Moscow
2012-06-12,Police bar 3 veiled women from entering France 
2012-06-12,Falkland Islands to hold referendum on sovereignty
2012-06-12,"Syrian rebels seize key military base, reportedly have surface-to-air missiles aimed at Bashar's palace and are threatening to fire | Reuters (video)"
2012-06-12,Tens of thousands of Russians flooded Moscow's tree-lined boulevards in the first massive protest against Putin's rule since his inauguration
2012-06-12,Queensland's same-sex civil unions laws will be amended so couples can no longer have a ceremony that 'emulates marriage'.
2012-06-12,"Tens of thousands in 'March of millions' Moscow protest (PHOTOS, VIDEO)"
2012-06-12,Police bar 3 veiled women from entering France
2012-06-12,Greeks Ask EU: why does Spain get a better deal?
2012-06-12,"Results confirm, a dingo ate her baby"
2012-06-12,"Two 15 year old girls, charged with luring other teenage girls into prostitution."
2012-06-12,Greek politician who attacked rivals on TV avoids arrest because he was not apprehended by midnight of the next day.
2012-06-12,"After 115 Years Together, Tortoises Go Their Separate Ways"
2012-06-12,"China tells US embassies to stop tweeting about air quality, citing that Chinese standards are lower than US ones because China is a developing country"
2012-06-12,Assange asks for extradition case to be reopened:  Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have asked the British Supreme Court to re-open the appeal against his extradition to Sweden. 
2012-06-12,"Iran starts exporting electricity to power-starved Iraq. Iraq continues to suffer massive power shortages due to poor infrastructure, a lack of funds, political disorganization, and the effects of the recent US-led war."
2012-06-12,"'Thousands' protest in Moscow against Putin:  Thousands protest Russian president's third term, a day after police raid homes of opposition activists."
2012-06-12,Pakistan frenzy over 'gold' rupee coins  - Telegraph
2012-06-12,WikiLeaks' Julian Assange has asked Britain's Supreme Court to re-open his appeal against extradition to Sweden
2012-06-12,"Sorry, what's a Jew? Twitter storm after official Sweden curator puts her foot in it. "
2012-06-12,Spain Is In A 'Vicious Downward Spiral' Right Now
2012-06-12,Bangladesh has refused 14 boats carrying 550 Rohingya Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Myanmar
2012-06-11,Vatican Banker Running Scared - Ousted head of Vatican bank may have evidence that the organization is involved in money laundering& now he's afraid for his life.
2012-06-11,"One day before a major opposition rally, Russian police raid the homes of prominent protest leaders"
2012-06-11,"""Hockey Newfoundland and Labrador has slapped a junior hockey coach with a one-year suspension for allowing his players to study for exams instead of attending the opening ceremony for a recent tournament."""
2012-06-11,China topped USA in renewable energy investment in 2011
2012-06-11,"Saudi 'Got Talent,' But No Women or Music - City creates its own version of 'Arabs Got Talent', but with no music & women have been banned from taking part. Instead, competitors will be permitted to perform religious chants, recite poems & engage in sports."
2012-06-11,British PM Daivd Cameron forgets 8-year old daughter in country pub
2012-06-11,Egypt pulls TV ads warning foreigners may be spies after xenophobia fears
2012-06-11,"With recently gained power, German Socialists and Greens have forced Merkel into a U-turn & required a new Financial Transactions Tax into the new EU Treaty."
2012-06-11,NATURE magazine: Earth Facing Imminent Environmental 'Tipping Point'
2012-06-11,"Man defects to North Korea with his family willingly on false prospects of a better life, then only manages to escape alone a year later."
2012-06-11,"Fear mounts among African migrants as Israel begins deportation: The South Sudanese are the most concerned of all, after a Jerusalem court last week legitimized their deportation."
2012-06-11,"Mubarak in 'full coma', officials say"
2012-06-11,Shuttlecock Machine-Gun: Russia's New Anti-Riot Weapon
2012-06-11,"South Korean Paper Hit by Major Cyber Attack - 

A conservative South Korean newspaper is the victim of a major cyber attack, less than a week after North Korea threatened the paper & other Seoul media over their reports"
2012-06-11,Anonymous takes on India internet 'censorship'
2012-06-11,Business Insider: The Chinese kleptocracy is like nothing ever seen in history
2012-06-11,Spain's banks: Just don't call it a bailout 
2012-06-11,Allies Restrict Airstrikes on Taliban in Civilian Homes in response of a strike that killed 18 Civilians.
2012-06-11,"Strawberry Farms Suck Spain Dry - 
Decades of legal & illegal agricultural exploitation have brought western Europe's most important wetland to crisis point.  ""If  Doana park were a patient, it'd be on the point of entering the intensive care unit."" "
2012-06-11,China to send its first woman into space
2012-06-11,Report: Rebels Responsible for Houla Massacre - By John Rosenthal - The Corner - National Review Online
2012-06-11,China reveals more than 100 new Terracotta Warriors
2012-06-11,Israel rounds up African migrants for deportation
2012-06-11,Germany isn't strong enough to save Europe even if it wanted to
2012-06-11,Presidential Candidates in Mexico Signal a New Tack in the Drug War
2012-06-10,"F1 tourists get caught up in protest chaos on Montreal streets: ""I saw a girl in high heels just get clobbered by police. I mean youre not gonna tell me she was protesting in high heels."""
2012-06-10,Israel to put thousands of Africans in detention camp
2012-06-10,Somali Islamists offer 10 camels as bounty for Obama
2012-06-10,"China plans manned space launch this month: They will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveler"
2012-06-10,Egypt's on-air warning: Don't talk to foreigners  they're all spies
2012-06-10,"State of Emergency Declared in Burma - A spate of violence involving Buddhists & Muslims has left 17 people dead & hundreds of properties damaged.  Trouble flared after the murder of a Buddhist woman, followed by an attack on a bus carrying Muslims."
2012-06-10,"After Gaddafi, Libya splits into disparate militia zones"
2012-06-10,"UFO Seen Over the Middle East Confirmed to be Russian Ballistic Missile - In several videos from Israel, Syria, Iran & other Middle East, the object started out looking somewhat like a comet then started spiraling. (With Videos)



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2012-06-10,"EJP News | Leader of Islamist group in Belgium 
arrested after calling to attack non-Muslims"
2012-06-10,Iran bans women from Euro 2012 screenings
2012-06-10,"British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday that he couldn't rule out a military intervention in Syria, saying the situation there was beginning to resemble the violence that gripped Bosnia in the 1990s."
2012-06-10,"Chinese police detain Tiananmen Square veteran's relatives:  Family members questioned circumstances of Li Wangyang's reported suicide in hospital, reports human rights group"
2012-06-10,"French election: Socialists & Allies ""Set for Win"" - They're on course for a majority following the 1st round of voting in France's legislative elections - Socialists are tied with the right-wing UMP party on about 35% of the vote, but the support of Green allies gives them closer to 40%."
2012-06-10,Syrian government shelling kills at least 38 over the last 24 hours in attempts to regain control of rebel-held territories
2012-06-10,"Spanish bank rescue viewed as a ""victory for the Euro"""
2012-06-10,The Dragon's Hunger For The Elephant: How China Is Driving International Growth In Illegal Ivory Dealing 
2012-06-10,Russia: We won't back a foreign force in Syria
2012-06-10,"Argentina loses a third of its dollar deposits
| Reuters"
2012-06-10,Spanish banks to get rescue funds
2012-06-10,BBC News - Riot-hit western Burma province in state of emergency
2012-06-10,Jailed Palestinians to stage hunger strike - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2012-06-10,International Court Team Is Held in Libya
2012-06-10,French police detain suspect in hammer attack on Jews
2012-06-10,The International Criminal Court says that four of its staffers have been detained in Libya and is demanding their immediate release.
2012-06-10,"Ahmed Shafiq, prime minister under Mubarak, could be Egypts next president -The unexpected appearance of Hosni Mubaraks last prime minister in the runoff of Egypts first post-revolutionary presidential race owes much to support from business tycoons and other backers of the old regime.
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2012-06-09,"Canada's warrantless surveillance bill is back, and bigger than ever, with surveillance powers for US gov't, too(x-post from r/canada)"
2012-06-09,A mob of hundreds of men assaulted women who were taking part in a march in Cairo's Tahrir Square to end sexual harassment in Egypt.
2012-06-09,"North Korea ships malware-infected games to South Korean users, uses them to launch DDoS attacks"
2012-06-09,Tens of thousands of gallons of oil spilled from pipeline into Red Deer River in Alberta.
2012-06-09,Students cant win in Canadas gerontocracy
2012-06-09,Apple to pay $2 million for misleading Aussies over 4G iPad
2012-06-09,"Greek extremist mob rampages through streets of Athens in broad daylight, attacking refugees, migrants, homeless, and a foreign journalist. Unclear whether the mob was of the far right or far left."
2012-06-09,"Syrian rebels tried to get me killed, says Channel 4 correspondent. Alex Thomson says crew was led to 'free-fire zone' as deaths would discredit Bashar al-Assad's regime
"
2012-06-09,News from Antarctica: 'Sexual depravity' of penguins that scientist dared not reveal
2012-06-09,Man told to ditch his 'offensive' 666 number plate.
2012-06-09,Quebec sues tobacco giants for $60bn; Lawsuit seeks to recover health care costs associated with smoking
2012-06-09,Spanish bank bailout could reach 100 billion euros
2012-06-09,Mexican network alleged to have sold favourable election coverage to top politicians 
2012-06-09,French troop pullout from Afghanistan to start in July
2012-06-09,"
Irelands brain drain uses up their quota of US, 
Canadian and Australian visas "
2012-06-09,More young people going bankrupt
2012-06-09,"Spanish Banks Need $46 Billion, I.M.F. Says."
2012-06-09,51 Colleges in Brazil are closed since the last month because of the small wages of their professors 
2012-06-09,Canadian Government Repeals Hate Speech Clause
2012-06-09,Mexicans Want New Approach To Bloody Drug War
2012-06-09,"Golden Dawn spokesman claims he was provoked before live TV assault, says he will sue"
2012-06-09,Iran's nuclear program: 4 things you probably didn't know
2012-06-09,Mob attacks march against sexual harassment in Egypt; attackers grope women
2012-06-09,"Syrian rebels tried to get me killed, says British Journalist: crew was led to 'free-fire zone' as deaths would discredit Bashar al-Assad's regime"
2012-06-09,Bhagavad Gita banyan tree dying slow death - The Times of India
2012-06-08,Parents who force their children to marry will face jail under new UK laws to be introduced
2012-06-08,Moscow bans gay pride for century ahead: City court ruled lawful to ban public events that can be qualified as gay parades from March 2012 till May 2112
2012-06-08,Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper silences Canadian scientists
2012-06-08,An 11-year-old boy will appear in court in Bahrain on Monday to face charges of illegally protesting.
2012-06-08,Greece is not in a recession. It is in a Depression.
2012-06-08,Former Pentagon Analyst: China can shut down all the telecom gear it sold to US
2012-06-08,"Japan PM says two reactors must restart for survival of society
| Reuters"
2012-06-08,The US Will Re-Open Massive Philippine Bases Not Occupied Since The Cold War
2012-06-08,Robert Mugabe's motorcade runs over homeless man
2012-06-08,North Korea faces worst drought in 50 years; South says aid unlikely
2012-06-08,UFO Sightings Across Middle East Were Probably A Missile 
2012-06-08,"Argentina is trying to impose an ""economic blockade"" on the Falkland Islands"
2012-06-08,Putin signs new anti-rally bill
2012-06-08,"An eight-ton gilded bronze door so splendid Michelangelo dubbed it the `'Door of Paradise"" will be unveiled to the public again after 27 years of restoration work."
2012-06-08,New immigration law would force UK citizens with non-EU partners to choose between exile or breakup.
2012-06-08,"A British journalist claims Syrian rebels set him up to die in no man's land near the Lebanese border, saying Friday he believes they wanted to use his death at the hands of government forces to score propaganda points."
2012-06-08,Euro 2012: Holland players subjected to racist abuse at training session
2012-06-08,Tobacco giant Philip Morris infiltrated Swiss university
2012-06-08,Israel to build housing in West Bank
2012-06-08,Big Content wants to bring SOPA-style policies to Canada
2012-06-08,"14 Dismembered Bodies Found in Lorry Parked in Front of Mayor's Office in Mexico - Gang-related messages were found on the blankets covering 11 men & 3 women
"
2012-06-08,At least 18 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a bus carrying government employees in north west Pakistan.
2012-06-08,"Blood, Flesh, Gore at Site of Suspected Massacre in Syria"
2012-06-08,Bloodied heads of young seals found nailed to entrance of sanctuary
2012-06-08,Ukraine ambassador accuses BBC of bias over Euro 2012 racism claims
2012-06-07,"In a matter of days, the number of expected foreign visitors to Tibet has gone from millions to zero, as China Forbids International Tourism to Tibet Indefinitely."
2012-06-07,Far-right Greek politician punches female rival on TV.
2012-06-07,Toronto to ban plastic bags by 2013
2012-06-07,Gay marriage in the church just passed in Danish parliament 
2012-06-07,Denmark approves gay weddings in church
2012-06-07,"Four women killed for dancing at Pakistani wedding : 
World News - India Today"
2012-06-07,Hollande lowers French retirement age back to 60
2012-06-07,Dead obese woman's fat sets crematorium building on fire
2012-06-07,"Amid Economic Crisis, Spain Ponders Taxing Catholic Church Property - Yahoo! News"
2012-06-07,Manhunt for Greek lawmaker who hit female rival on live television - World News
2012-06-07,Golden Dawn spokesman attacks left-wing politicians on live TV
2012-06-07,"Dead' boy wakes up and asks for water at funeral in Brazil
"
2012-06-07,Syrian army stops UN from reaching 'massacre' 
2012-06-07,"Massive Fish Kill Outside Tokyo - ""Looks like a carpet of sardines.""  There are tons & tons of dead sardines washing up on shore.  Not only is the sight disturbing, but the huge amount of dead fish is literally smelling up the entire surrounding area."
2012-06-07,Huge Peru Tomb Found80 Bodies
2012-06-07,Greek far-right Golden Dawn MP wanted for assault
2012-06-07,"UN report warns global environment is near tipping point, calls for urgent action"
2012-06-07,"U.N. monitors shot at on way to Syria ""massacre"" site"
2012-06-07,"JPost journalist attacked by mob in Greece. The incident began around 8 p.m. when a group of about 20 masked men wielding batons started beating refugees, migrants and homeless people in the middle of the street."
2012-06-07,"State media reported that staff at a religious school in heavily Muslim far western China set off explosives to fend off a police raid and that 12 children were burned. An overseas rights group, however, blamed tear gas used by paramilitary forces for the injuries."
2012-06-07,"""After 33 years, I can no longer ignore the evidence on drugs"""
2012-06-07,Asian Origin for Human Ancestors? Discovery of a new primate that lived about 37 million years ago in the ancient swamplands of Myanmar bolsters the idea that the deep primate family tree that gave rise to humans is rooted in Asia
2012-06-07,"Freak European monsoon brings 70mph winds, torrential rain and 40ft waves to the UK"
2012-06-07,'I want my son executed':  Parents of man who secretly buried his 8-year-old child after allegedly torturing her to death seek capital punishment
2012-06-07,German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the EU needs a political union even if it means some countries integrating faster than others
2012-06-06,Ray Bradbury Passes Away at 91.
2012-06-06,"Russia Adopts Controversial Protest Bill - It hikes the penalty for organisers of illegal protests to 1,000,000 rubles ($32,100), while participants can be fined up to 300,000 rubles ($9,000).  'Human Rights Watch' criticized the bill, saying it ""severely undercut the right to peaceful assembly""."
2012-06-06,Teacher who gave students zero marks becomes a folk hero - The Globe and Mail
2012-06-06,Bath Salts drug ingredient to be made illegal in Canada
2012-06-06,UN IAEA inspectors have verified that Iran converted 33% of its 20% enriched uranium stockpile into metal plates. Converting the 20 percent uranium into fuel makes it more difficult to use the material for weapons.
2012-06-06,"Blind, Paralysis Tiananmen activist found hanged in Chinese hospital room, Chinese cop said this is sucide."
2012-06-06,"""The Vatican said it was being blackmailed by the leaking of confidential documents taken from the Pope's private apartment as an anonymous mole threatened to release more embarrassing material unless two senior officials were sacked."""
2012-06-06,Dozens arrested after riot at Foxconn plant.
2012-06-06,Belgian right-wingers have offered to pay a $310 bounty to anyone who reports a veiled woman to police
2012-06-06,Starbucks Ireland alienates it's entire customer base with one bad tweet.
2012-06-06,"Germany was quick to approve a phase-out of nuclear power in the country after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Now the costs of moving toward renewable energy are just being realized, and low-income consumers are paying the price."
2012-06-06,Groundbreaking Photography Exhibit on Imperial Japanese Sex Slave Labor Canceled in Tokyo
2012-06-06,Joseph Stalin's Deadly Railway to Nowhere - In the Russian Arctic lies buried an unfinished railway built by prisoners of Stalin's gulags. For decades no-one talked about it. But 1 woman is now telling the story  - & there's talk of bringing back to life the abandoned railway itself.
2012-06-06,"Drug-resistant gonorrhoea has spread across the world, say health officials"
2012-06-06,Suspicious packages believed to contain human remains sent to two Vancouver schools
2012-06-06,Greece Warns of Going Broke as Taxes Dry Up
2012-06-06,"A leading Chinese dissident, Li Wangyang, imprisoned after the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy protests has been found dead under strange circumstances, his relatives and rights groups said."
2012-06-06,US Drone Kills Al-Qaeda No. 2 Officer
2012-06-06,Large Tahrir Square protests break out over Mubarak sentence and lack of real change
2012-06-06,"Why China is likely to get more involved in Afghanistan:  For the past decade, China has not played a significant role in Afghanistan. But with NATO starting to pull out, Afghanistan's security will affect neighboring China."
2012-06-06,"In Turkey, Abortion Law Sparks New Battle Over Mosque Versus State - 
In the latest clash over the role of religion in Turkish society, thousands in Istanbul have rallied against a proposed new law that would restrict abortion rights"
2012-06-06,"Spain said it is losing access to credit markets and appealed to its European partners to help revive its banks, a distress signal sure to intensify global pressure on Europe to move faster to the aid of its fourth-largest economy."
2012-06-06,"Yes, they use the euro. And the economy is booming."
2012-06-06,Israel's attorney general approves Netanyahu's plan to relocate 5 homes on Palestinian land to former military base in West Bank where 300 unites will be built. Netanayahu also to head settlement approval committee and establishes Palestinian court grievance  process
2012-06-06,"China says Great Wall is 21,000 km long"
2012-06-05,"Norway goes secular, removes Lutheran Church as state religion"
2012-06-05,Busloads of unemployed UK residents brought in to work as unpaid stewards during the diamond jubilee celebrations and then told to sleep under London Bridge
2012-06-05,South Korea surrenders to creationist demands: Publishers set to remove examples of evolution from high-school textbooks
2012-06-05,"""A giant squid, one of the most mysterious and least understood of marine creatures, has been found floating off the New South Wales [Australia] south coast."""
2012-06-05,"Moscow : 18 year old female protestor , arrested during mass protest potentially faces 8 years in prison."
2012-06-05,China tells US to stop reporting Beijing's bad air
2012-06-05,"""Germany has indicated that it is prepared to accept a grand bargain that would provide greater support for its most indebted euro zone partners in exchange for more centralized control over government spending in Europe."""
2012-06-05,"Nearly half of Germans want Greece to leave euro
"
2012-06-05,"When Sandra Tamari arrived at Israel's international airport, she received an unusual request: A security agent pushed a computer screen in front of her, connected to Gmail and told her to ""log in."""
2012-06-05,"Egyptian women were ""doing better under Mubarak."""
2012-06-05,Syria declares Western ambassadors unwelcome
2012-06-05,"Iraqi architects and historians have decried official neglect of historical buildings nationwide, many of which have fallen into disrepair and disuse, and called for greater attention to be paid to them."
2012-06-05,'Vampire' skeletons found in Bulgaria near Black Sea
2012-06-05,"Pakistan condemns U.S. drone strikes. Pakistan on Monday strongly condemned a jump in U.S. drone strikes on its territory, using language that could increase tension between strategic allies already in dispute over military supply routes for NATO that Pakistan has closed."
2012-06-05,Syria bans US and European diplomats
2012-06-05,Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of killing five soldiers
2012-06-05,Top al-Qaeda strategist may have been killed in a drone strike in Pakistan 
2012-06-05,Breivik Judge Caught Playing Solitaire In Court.
2012-06-05,Vatican secretary of state says Pope Benedict XVI victim of 'ferocious' attacks 
2012-06-05,"New photos emerge of Tiananmen Square just after 1989 massacre
"
2012-06-05,Four African migrants have been hurt in a suspected arson attack in Jerusalem
2012-06-05,"Spain says markets shutting it out, seeks EU help for banks
| Reuters"
2012-06-05,"Satellite images indicate buildings are being demolished and soil removed at Parchin, an Iranian military site the U.N. nuclear watchdog wants to visit, its chief said on Monday."
2012-06-05,"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promised to step up efforts to deter, detain and deport illegal migrants to Israel, as tensions mounted over an influx of asylum seekers from Africa."
2012-06-05,China tells US to stop tweets on Beijing's bad air
2012-06-04,"Eduard Khil ('Trololo Guy') dies in St. Petersburg, aged 77"
2012-06-04,"Copyright Board of Canada recently approved new fees to play recorded music at large gatherings, including weddings - fewer than one hundred people, the fees start at $9.25 per day - 400 guests will cost them $27.76. If dancing is involved, that fee doubles to $55.52


"
2012-06-04,"Brazilian farmers sue Monsanto: Five million farmers are locked in a lawsuit with US-based biotech giant, suing for as much as 6.2 billion euros"
2012-06-04,Luka Magnotta arrested in Berlin: German Police
2012-06-04,"Quebec bangs pots and pans in growing protests:  What started as a march against university tuition hikes has grown beyond students as the government moves to muzzle protest. Now even saucepan-wielding grannies are up in arms.
"
2012-06-04,"China arrests activists to prevent commemoration of 
the Tiananmen Square anniversary."
2012-06-04,"Chevron still refusing to pay for Ecuador spill: 'The company's Ecuadorean opponents has moved the case to Canada, a country whose court system enjoys a rock-solid reputation.'"
2012-06-04,US drone strike 'kills 15' in Pakistan
2012-06-04,Breivik judge caught playing cards during trial
2012-06-04,"Luka Magnotta, the Canadian body-parts suspect, has been arrested in Berlin."
2012-06-04,"Vatican criticizes American nun's book on sexuality, says she has ""defective understanding."""
2012-06-04,"North Korea's 'open ultimatum' to blow up Seoul |
			News.com"
2012-06-04,Kuwaiti gets 10 years in prison for insulting the Prophet Mohammad and the Sunni Muslim rulers of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain on Twitter
2012-06-04,"ACTA lives or dies with the vote in the European Parliament: After rejections by the three first committees in the European Parliament, things are looking hopeful to prevent this middlemen-regime treaty from ever becoming reality. But were not there yet"
2012-06-04,"Bomb hits Shi'ite site in Baghdad, 23 killed"
2012-06-04,Tokyo gas attack suspect arrested after 17 years on run
2012-06-04,Jerusalem apartment housing migrants firebombed amid rising Israeli sentiment against 'illegal infiltrators'
2012-06-04,Thousands flee Mexico's epicenter of marijuana and poppy production 
2012-06-04,"""No debt repayments, higher salaries and freedom from EU-IMF tutelage: Greece under the radical leftists, who are poised to win a June 17 [2012] election, seems a world removed from its current recession nightmare."""
2012-06-04,8 killed in attack at Mexico rehab center
2012-06-04,"23 years ago today, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) violently cleared Beijing's Tiananmen Square of protesters. Here are 50 pictures from The Atlantic's ""In Focus"" photojournalism site documenting it."
2012-06-04,Solar-powered plane attempts first intercontinental flight 
2012-06-04,"Many have wondered for years about the exact capabilities of the submarines Germany exports to Israel. Now, experts in Germany and Israel have confirmed that nuclear-tipped missiles have been deployed on the vessels. And the German government has long known about it."
2012-06-04,"As United States and Western nations pull out, China seeks role in Afghanistan"
2012-06-04,"Thousands Continue Protest in Montreal after Government, Student Talks Fail"
2012-06-03,Family gives up fight against pedophile cop after fighting for 20 years.
2012-06-03,"Malawi's new president sells off presidential jet and 60 Mercedes:  Joyce Banda, Malawi's new president, has announced the presidential jet and fleet of 60 Mercedes limousines would be sold in a move applauded by a British cabinet minister as an example to other African leaders. "
2012-06-03,Western banks 'reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade'
2012-06-03,A passenger plane with at least 150 on board has crashed into a two-story building in the Nigerian city of Lagos
2012-06-03,"Violent clashes have broken out in Germany between the supporters and opponents of the neo-Nazi movement. Hamburg police have detained over 700 people after the demonstrators started throwing projectiles, injuring several officers."
2012-06-03,"Swarms of Spiders Invade Town, Kill 2 - '...spiders suddenly descended from nowhere & started biting the people.'  Some victims say the spiders latched onto them after biting. ""It's similar to the tarantula, but it could be a whole new species."""
2012-06-03,Shooting at Toronto's Downtown Eaton Centre
2012-06-03,"""Pope Benedict got no rest on Sunday [3 June 2012] from a leaks scandal when an Italian newspaper published documents showing that his butler was not the only person in possession of confidential correspondence indicating a Vatican in disarray."""
2012-06-03,"Hundreds Protest Plan to Curb Abortion in Turkey - 
Prime ministers plan to ban abortion after 4 weeks from conception.  Women carrying banners reading ""my body, my choice"" & shouting anti-government slogans march in Istanbul
"
2012-06-03,Israel Deploys Nuclear Weapons on German Submarines - SPIEGEL ONLINE
2012-06-03,"George Soros, the billionaire investor, has warned Germany it has three months to save the eurozone or risk the destruction of the European Union and a lost decade. "
2012-06-03,Saudi princess tried to leave luxury hotel without paying
2012-06-03,Cuba-trained doctors making difference around the world
2012-06-03,Vatican leaks: Why is the Pope's butler in a cell beneath the fortress?
2012-06-03,SAS frees all four hostages in daring Afghanistan raid
2012-06-03,"""'The Vatican is in a sense almost perpetually enmeshed in scandals, because it continues to act like a kingdom,' says John Stackhouse . . . 'It might have made sense at one point in history for the pope to also be a prince, but whenever you're involved in politics or business, things get messy.'"""
2012-06-03,Man charged with hiding dirty needles in store clothing.
2012-06-03,"Germany gets first ever black mayor; His father 
was African-American soldier "
2012-06-03,"Iran building new space center for launching satellites into orbit, says defense minister"
2012-06-03,"Hosni Mubarak's sentence:  initial euphoria at the historic verdict  the first time an Arab leader has ever been deposed, tried and convicted by his own people  quickly gave way to confusion and then fury on the streets as full details of the court judgement emerged."
2012-06-03,"30bn bill to purify UK water system after toxic impact of contraceptive pill. Drug firms oppose an EU call for controls on potent chemicals that have been blamed for the gender mutation of freshwater fish
"
2012-06-03,"1 dead, 7 hurt in shooting at downtown Toronto mall"
2012-06-03,Syria's Assad says he's like a surgeon saving patient.
2012-06-03,BBC News - Protests erupt in Egypt over Hosni Mubarak verdicts
2012-06-03,Tibetan self-immolations are a brutal protest to Chinese rule
2012-06-02,"Hosni Mubarak, former Egyptian president, gets life in prison."
2012-06-02,Google tells Chinese when they're being censored
2012-06-02,"Illegal File-Sharing Chips Away At North Korean Propaganda: 'According to a new report, the sharing of pirate TV shows and music among the citizens of the country is challenging the DPRK regimes depiction of the outside world.'"
2012-06-02,"WORLD BANK BOSS: We're Headed For ""Impending Catastrophe"" -- ""A Rerun Of Great Panic Of 2008"""
2012-06-02,Hosni Mubarak 'has a heart attack' while taken to prison
2012-06-02,[Israel] Ultra-Orthodox Jewish vandals have severely damaged a 1600-year-old mosaic located in an ancient synagogue.
2012-06-02,World cancer cases to rise by 75 percent by 2030
2012-06-02,"""The Vatican's justice system harks back to medieval times and is unlikely to provide the pope's butler with fair treatment after his arrest for leaking confidential documents, according to a French lawyer involved in a previous case in the Holy See."""
2012-06-02,Warnings about Flame virus come amid suspicions of US role in launching secret cyberweapons. White House refuses to discuss Virus. 
2012-06-02,"Azerbaijan Thwarts Massive Islamist Attack On Eurovision Singing Contest, 40 Arrested Along With Weapons Cache, Plotters Trained In Pakistani Jihadist Camps"
2012-06-02,"Kofi Annan warns of 'all-out' war in Syria: Peace envoy tells meeting of Arab League members that the conflict is taking sectarian dimension, amid renewed violence"
2012-06-02,"A bear ate the corpse of a convicted killer in a wooded area of Canada, according to authorities."
2012-06-02,Trillion-dollar plan to build Starship Enterprise
2012-06-02,Bear eats a murderer in Canada. 
2012-06-02,A series of leaks rocks the Vatican as allegations of corruption and internal conflicts emerge
2012-06-02,Srebrenica 'not genocide' - Serbia's President Nikolic
2012-06-02,BBC News - Thousands of Sudanese 'flee to South Sudan'
2012-06-02,"Myanmar has abandoned research on a nuclear program that never progressed very far, and has stepped back from close military and political ties with North Korea, the Southeast Asian country's defense minister said on Saturday."
2012-06-02,London Met police accused of racism 51 times in last two months 
2012-06-02,"Serbian president denies Srebrenica genocide: Newly elected Tomislav Nikolic says 'grave war crimes' by Serbs took place but not genocide, angering Bosnian leadership."
2012-06-02,How Islamophobes Launched a National Debate: Recent German Debate on Islam Triggered by Tiny anti-Muslim Party
2012-06-02,"No breathing room for Spain:  Spain is one of the favorites at this summer's European soccer championships, but the country is fighting for survival economically. Madrid could soon be calling for help from the European Union. "
2012-06-02,Copyright Board of Canada (SOCAN) charging tarrifs for music played at weddings
2012-06-02,Egypt's Hosni Mubarak sentenced to life in prison
2012-06-02,"Big Ben to be renamed ""Elizabeth Tower"" in honor of Queen ELizabeth"
2012-06-01,Dutch company plans colony on Mars. The one way trip only takes seven months!
2012-06-01,"""The world's political leaders are failing catastrophically to address the climate crisis. History will not understand or forgive them."""
2012-06-01,"Confirmed: US, Israel created Stuxnet, lost control of it"
2012-06-01,"Troubled Greece: ""Greece is broke and close to being broken. It is a country where children are fainting in school because they are hungry, where 20,000 Athenians are scavenging through waste tips for food, and where the lifeblood of a modern economy -- credit -- is fast drying up."""
2012-06-01,"U.N. takeover of the Internet must be stopped, U.S. warns"
2012-06-01,AP 'napalm girl' photo from Vietnam War turns 40
2012-06-01,Anxious Spaniards withdraw billions from banks
2012-06-01,China faces worst security breach in decades as official arrested on suspicion of being a U.S. spy: sources
2012-06-01,"Chevron Sued in Canada by Ecuadorans Over Pollution in Rain Forest- Ecuadorans, who've waged a bitter legal battle against Chevron, sued in Canada in an attempt to seize $18 billion of the oil giants assets, after Chevron refused to pay a verdict against it in their homeland"
2012-06-01,"From now on, in India sex under the age of 18 is forbidden - consensus or no consensus notwithstanding"
2012-06-01,"Canada withdraws from UN body, accuses it of making Mugabe tourism ""ambassador"""
2012-06-01,"Luka Magnotta wanted for murder after killing man on camera with an ice pick, performing sexual acts with the corpse, then beheading the victim. He then mailed a hand and a foot to parts of the Canadian government. "
2012-06-01,Egypt lifts emergency martial law that has been in place for 30 years
2012-06-01,Woman sentenced to death by stoning in Sudan:  Young woman held in a Khartoum prison with her baby son sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery.
2012-06-01,International manhunt started for murderer/cannibal Luka Magnotta
2012-06-01,"Fossil fuel subsidies must end, says Indian microfinance firm:  Award-winning organisations urge global leaders to concentrate on renewable energy and stop subsidising fossil fuels
"
2012-06-01,Russia's New Propaganda Minister Alters History
2012-06-01,Editors Of The Guardian And The New York Times Would Back Julian Assange If Prosecuted By U.S. Government. Also Thinking Of Launching WikiLeaks-style Operations Of Their Own.
2012-06-01,"12 Syrian workers ordered off a bus, then shot dead. Rebels blame Assad forces, Syrian media blame ""terrorists""."
2012-06-01,World stock markets plunge as global crisis deepens
2012-06-01,"In Thailand, if you insult the King online you can go to jail for up to twenty years. One women was arrested because she did not delete an online comment someone made about the King fast enough. She did not even make the comment. "
2012-06-01,Edmonton (Canada) teacher suspended for giving zeros
2012-06-01,"Irish voters back EU fiscal pact with 60.3% in favour  -- Voters in the Republic of Ireland have approved the EU fiscal pact, according to official results."
2012-06-01,"Syria Blames Rebels for Massacre - 
A Syrian official inquiry into the Houla massacre blames the atrocities on rebels trying to provoke international intervention"
2012-06-01,"Israel and its black immigrants: 
Keep out. Racial tension is rising as black asylum-seekers pour in"
2012-05-31,France to cap executive pay at state firms: no more than 20 times the lowest pay.
2012-05-31,The NSW upper house has voted in favour of gay marriage
2012-05-31,"Russian Millionaire Tosses Paper Money Planes Out of Office Window, Laughs as People Brawl Over Them"
2012-05-31,Men trick way into North Korea
2012-05-31,Three Strikes Against ACTA In European Parliament Today
2012-05-31,Alberta pipeline spill discovered by accident; still leaking oil and water into muskeg.
2012-05-31,Israeli politician: Send human rights activists to prison camps
2012-05-31,"It may seem painless, but drone war in Afghanistan 
is destroying the West's reputation - Telegraph"
2012-05-31,Moscow Mistakenly Plants Field of Marijuana Instead of Grass
2012-05-31,US student killed while filming violence in Syria
2012-05-31,"Anti-Censorship Tool Used in Syria and Iran Compromised: It adds a keylogging component, and ships the recorded information off to a server hosted in the US and registered to a person in Saudi Arabia"
2012-05-31,11-year-old played dead to survive Syria massacre
2012-05-31,BBC News - Russia contributing to potential Syria civil war - US
2012-05-31,Olympic beer to cost 7.23 a pint - Telegraph
2012-05-31,Report: Chavez's cancer has 'entered the end stage' - Yahoo! News
2012-05-31,Study: Sleepy drivers almost as dangerous as drunk drivers
2012-05-31,Report: Chavez's cancer has 'entered the end stage'
2012-05-31,Suspect that sent body parts to government parties in Canada may have filmed the killing.
2012-05-31,Security tighter than ever at Bilderberg conference
2012-05-31,"Ehud Barak: If negotiations fail, Israel must consider unilateral withdrawal from West Bank"
2012-05-31,Norway prison plans to hire cell buddies for Breivik
2012-05-31,Scottish Parliament Formally Endorses Independence
2012-05-31,"Egypts decades-long state of emergency came to an end on Thursday after its last renewal expired, the ruling military said in a statement, vowing to continue to protect the nation"
2012-05-31,Latest alleged girls' school poisoning blamed on Taliban 'attack on women's education'
2012-05-31,China says no to another massive stimulus plan to boost economy: Stock markets down across Asia as investors sought clues as to how the world's second-largest economy would respond to its biggest economic challenge in three years.
2012-05-30,"Dutch Parliament kills ACTA by unanimous vote, 'no similar agreement will be ever signed by the government'"
2012-05-30,"Rookie Toronto cop ""harassed and berated"" by fellow officers for arresting off-duty constable on DUI charge"
2012-05-30,"Google wins YouTube copyright battle: While German and U.S. courts say YouTube is responsible for pirated material, a French court backs Google saying, ""It has no obligation to police the content."""
2012-05-30,"IMF's Christine Lagarde, who chastised Greek tax evaders, pays no taxes herself; she makes $467,940 a year in salary and is given a $83,760 yearly allowance, both tax-free"
2012-05-30,Trololo man in critical health condition
2012-05-30,"Greeks voted themselves the hardest-working country in Europe, with most others saying they were laziest. By hours worked, the Greeks were right."
2012-05-30,"Russian Journalist Stabbed 20 Times, Apparently for Insulting Islam"
2012-05-30,"Quebec's Bill 78 threatens freedom of expression: 'Its penalties are draconian, designed more to stifle free expression than protect public order. Legislatively, it's the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut'"
2012-05-30,Mexico finds cartels making fake military uniforms
2012-05-30,"""Pope Benedict on Wednesday [30 May 2012] angrily denounced media coverage of a leaks scandal shaking the Roman Catholic Church, saying it presented a false image of the Holy See."""
2012-05-30,Human foot sent to Conservative Party of Canada headquarters
2012-05-30,Julian Assange loses appeal against extradition to Sweden
2012-05-30,"After 50 Years of Silence, China Slowly Confronts the 'Great Leap Forward' -  Half a century after the famine that killed perhaps 30 million people, censors have quietly loosened their ban and citizens are moving past the taboo. Why now?"
2012-05-30,Christine Lagarde - IMF head who told the Greeks to pay taxes - pays no tax on her $1/2M salary
2012-05-30,"Germany's renewable energy revolution leaves UK in the shade:  The country expects renewables to contribute 35% electricity by 2020  no matter what the cost
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2012-05-30,One policeman sent to the hospital in Spain after being bitten by 3 women
2012-05-30,13 found slain in Syria as world anger mounts - CNN.com
2012-05-30,BBC News - Julian Assange loses extradition appeal at Supreme Court
2012-05-30,Spain woes drag euro to 23-month low vs dollar
2012-05-30,Discovery of bones at B.C. lake resurrects one of darkest tales in Canadian history
2012-05-30,"Annan says Syria 'at a tipping point' after massacre:  Several nations expel Syrian diplomats to protest the Houla massacre, which officials now say involved mostly house-to-house summary executions of civilians."
2012-05-30,Iranian Officer: Tehran Sent Troops to Syria
2012-05-30,"India to open super highway to Burma and Thailand: India is to open a new four lane motorway to allow traders and tourists to drive from its eastern tea state of Assam into Burma, Thailand and eventually Cambodia and Vietnam. "
2012-05-30,"BBC:  ""Increase"" in West Bank demolitions of Palestinian homes, say United Nations. ""Ethnic cleaning,"" say Palestinians. "
2012-05-30,Unprecedented Wave Of Railway Suicides Hits France
2012-05-29,Hundreds of lawyers take to the streets in full courtroom attire in protest of unconsitutional Quebec law
2012-05-29,"Syrian diplomats expelled from countries around the world after new massacre: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, Britain and Australia kick out ambassadors and other senior representatives."
2012-05-29,A New Zealand court has ruled that the U.S. Government must hand over the evidence they have against Megaupload so Kim Dotcom and other employees can properly defend themselves against the pending extradition request.
2012-05-29,"The father of a man killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has hanged himself in protest after two decades of failed attempts to seek government redress, a support group said Monday."
2012-05-29,B.C police gun down a mentally ill man while he crawls on his hands and knees
2012-05-29,"Italy hit by magnitude 6.0 earthquake, 32 miles north-east of Parma"
2012-05-29,U.S. denies North Korea commando operation
2012-05-29,The Gem of Canadian Science that (Canadian PM) Harper Killed/ world famous Experimental Lakes Area proved phosphates caused lake killing blooms.
2012-05-29,Child brides sold as HIV cure in South Africa
2012-05-29,"NATO Kills Senior al-Qaeda Leader 
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2012-05-29,Rapper Najafi on the Fatwa: 'Fundamentalists Can't Take a Joke' - Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi has been in hiding in Germany since a fatwa was pronounced against him three weeks ago.
2012-05-29,EU signs 10M contract with UK security firm to work in Libya but didn't ask Libya and no work permits will be approved.
2012-05-29,Photos paint horrific scene following massacre in Houla
2012-05-29,Tuna contaminated with Fukushima radiation found in California
2012-05-29,Zanzibar Islamists burn churches - Reuters
2012-05-29,Argentina bomb defused where Colombia's ex-president was to speak 
2012-05-29,"Growing Fear Over Fukushima Fuel Pool 4 as Wall Bulge Detected - 
TEPCO admits bulge detected, stoking fears over the buildings stability

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2012-05-29,"Vatican Forced To Deny Senior Cardinal Is Mastermind Of Vatileaks Scandal: ""Speculation has continued to gather pace that senior Church figures are behind the leaking of sensitive Vatican documents and that butler Paolo Gabriele . . . is nothing more than a scapegoat."""
2012-05-29,Robert Mugabe named international tourism ambassador in latest UN absurdity
2012-05-29,"Syrian ambassadors expelled from countries including UK, France and US"
2012-05-29,Apparent human foot delivered to Conservative Party HQ
2012-05-29,"In a country with compulsory voting, 1.5 million potential voters missing from Australian electoral rolls. "
2012-05-29,71% of Britons said they felt the open doors approach to foreign nationals was leading to an increase in racist feelings
2012-05-29,Pakistan death decree over wedding video: Four women and two men have been sentenced to death in northern Pakistan for singing and dancing at a wedding
2012-05-29,Robert Mugabe appointed as UN international envoy for tourism
2012-05-28,Vatican faces widening scandal after the Pope's butler tries to publish book of conspiracies regarding top Cardinals
2012-05-28,China's yearly report on US human rights record has been published.
2012-05-28,"Bill C-38: ""In the last 12 months I have seen clearly  the rise of tyrannical policies and the application of such mind and state control that the people of Canada , unless they soon react, will find themselves slaves to a corporate and political domination"
2012-05-28,"BBC's Panorama spent a month filming at matches in Poland and Ukraine prior to their hosting Euro 2012, and witnessed Nazi salutes from the terraces, black players being taunted with monkey chants, rampant anti-Semitism and a vicious assault on a group of Asian students."
2012-05-28,Pirate Bay Ready For Perpetual IP-Address Whac-A-Mole
2012-05-28,Iran confirms sending troops to Syria
2012-05-28,"Protester interrupts Blair's appearance at Leveson inquiry ""This man is a war criminal"""
2012-05-28,Amnesty International report: North Korea executes 30 officials who were involved in talks with South Korea  
2012-05-28,Olympic ban threat for Syria.
2012-05-28,"Eduard Khil, trololol guy, hospitalized after stroke"
2012-05-28,"Powerful ""Flame"" cyber weapon found in Middle East. It is the most complex piece of malicious software discovered to date, according to a security researcher."
2012-05-28,Cambridge researchers claims backdoor found in China-made chip supplied to western militaries
2012-05-28,Houla massacre survivor tells how his family were slaughtered
2012-05-28,Iran Wont Halt Production of Higher Grade Uranium
2012-05-28,"A cyber-attack which has covertly collected vast amounts of sensitive data from countries like Israel and Iran has been uncovered, Russian researchers say."
2012-05-28,"The insurance market Lloyd's of London is preparing contingency plans for the possibility of the euro collapsing, its chief executive has said"
2012-05-28,Two monks self-immolate in Tibet
2012-05-28,Majority of Germans want Greece out of the Euro
2012-05-28,"Women increasingly taking on key management roles in Mexican drug cartels will make drug-traffickers stronger, harder to fight, because  the women appear to be acting smarter."
2012-05-28,"Mali rebels merge to create independent Islamist state:  Two rebels groups who seized control of northern Mali have agreed to turn their territory into an independent Islamist state. Both groups have grown in power in recent months, capitalizing on political instablity. "
2012-05-28,"""U.S. Special Forces have been parachuting into North Korea to spy on Pyongyangs extensive network of underground military facilities."""
2012-05-28,U.N. Security council meets to discuss Syria massacre
2012-05-28,Illegal kidney trade booms as new organ is 'sold every hour'
2012-05-28,U.N. condemns Syrian killings; toll rises to 108
2012-05-28,ACTA Doomsday Approaches - Please Help
2012-05-27,Teen Solves Newtons 300-Year-Old Riddle - An Indian-born teenager who lives in Germany has  solved a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton that's baffled mathematicians ever since
2012-05-27,A 61-year-old German woman has been fined 800 for blowing a whistle down the telephone at a call-centre worker and damaging her hearing - after she got fed up with constant cold-calls to her house
2012-05-27,"Israeli settler shoots Palestinian in West Bank:
Some 25 Israeli settlers, some carrying guns, set fire to wheat fields in the Palestinian village of Orif, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus."
2012-05-27,Quebec passes new law that many say is intended to stifle protests by students; thousands rally in Montreal to protest it
2012-05-27,Brave Saudi woman confronts religious police trying to chastise her for having painted nails - then posts video online
2012-05-27,"
Outrage Grows Over Syria Massacre - Western nations are pressing for a response to the massacre in the Syrian town of Houla, with the US calling for an end to what it called President Bashar al-Assad's ""rule by murder"""
2012-05-27,Afghan women leave the country in fear of Taliban return. The threat of a curtailment of women's rights prompts many to quit before the 2014 handover
2012-05-27,IMF chief tells Greeks to pay their taxes
2012-05-27,"Gorilla Areas Bombed by Congo Rebels -  Fighting in the central African state has reached the national park where a dwindling population of primates lives. Just over 800 gorillas remain in the world, with 210 living in the area."
2012-05-27,The definition of heroism- Man drowns rescuing two children
2012-05-27,BBC News - Nato air strike 'kills Afghan family'
2012-05-27,BBC News - Bosnian couple 'enslaved German girl'
2012-05-27,Sweden wins eurovision songcontest!
2012-05-27,Syria Denies Responsibility for Massacre Near Homs
2012-05-27,"Riots Over Smelly Pig Plant Shut it Down  - Pigs started dying after locals blocked access.  Chili ordered it closed & the 500,000 surviving pigs removed to prevent health disaster. Removal is expected to take 6 months.


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2012-05-27,"Manmohan Singh is beginning an official visit to Burma, the first by an Indian prime minister since 1987:  He will meet President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose mother once served as Burma's ambassador to India. "
2012-05-27,"India-Burma Border Caught in Time Warp - Both sides are poor & underdeveloped, & awash with ethnic tribes who are often at conflict with the governments in Delhi and Nay Pyi Taw, part of the reason why the region is a hot-bed of insurgency"
2012-05-27,Australia teen dies after YouTube 'Final Goodbye' video goes viral
2012-05-27,Syria 'massacre' raises pressure for international response
2012-05-27,Greeks riled by IMF chief Lagarde's 'tax-dodging' comments
2012-05-27,"Moscow police detain 40 as gay activists demand right to hold parade, face Christian protest"
2012-05-27,Lady Gaga cancels Indonesia concert amid Muslim protest fears
2012-05-27,Social media fuel Mexican youth protests
2012-05-27,Center of gravity in oil world shifts to Americas 
2012-05-27,"Rebel Groups Merge in Mali, Agree on Islamic State - 
The 2 rebel groups that seized control of the northern half of Mali have agreed to fuse their movements & work together to create an independent Islamic state on the territory they occupy"
2012-05-26,30 North Korean officials involved in South talks die 'in traffic accidents' 
2012-05-26,"Its the older generation thats entitled, not students"
2012-05-26,Canada eliminates entire marine pollution program
2012-05-26,China hits back on U.S. human rights
2012-05-26,26% of minors in Spain live in homes that fall below the 2010 poverty threshold
2012-05-26,BBC News - Syria crisis: Houla child massacre confirmed by UN
2012-05-26,Pope's butler arrested over Vatican documents leak
2012-05-26,Syria shelling 'kills at least 90'
2012-05-26,Not All Israeli Citizens Are Equal - NYTimes.com
2012-05-26,Syria: children slaughtered as regime unleashes 18-hour attack on town
2012-05-26,Japanese chef cooks and serves his genitals at Tokyo banquet.
2012-05-26,"After massacre kills 90 in Syria, Russia ships MORE weapons to Assad."
2012-05-26,"Women must bathe less, shave heads to avoid AIDS - Zimbabwean politician"
2012-05-26,German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity - through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday
2012-05-26,Syrian activists decry 'massacre' in Houla - [WARNING: photos of dead kids]
2012-05-26,Egypt elections results in a 'nightmare scenario'
2012-05-26,"In Brazil, a showdown over rainforest deforestation:  Brazil's president is scheduled to sign a reform package today that could retroactively legalize the deforestation of millions of acres in the Amazon."
2012-05-26,Center of gravity in oil world shifts to Americas. The dynamics of energy geopolitics is changing in a way that had been unforeseen just a few years ago.
2012-05-26,"Egypt runoff called 'worst-case scenario'. A Muslim Brotherhood candidate and a former member of Hosni Mubarak's regime will compete to become Egypt's next president, first-round election results show."
2012-05-26,"Diplomat: Iran nuclear talks complete failure. Western powers demand Iran completely shut down nuclear Program, offer no end to sanctions"
2012-05-26,"Israeli gunboats and an Egyptian clampdown on fuel smuggling into the Gaza Strip are strangling the Palestinian enclave's little fishing fleet, slowly turning a generation of fishermen into fishmongers."
2012-05-26,[UK] Theresa May: we'll stop migrants if euro collapses
2012-05-26,IMF Chief to Greeks - It's payback time: don't expect sympathy  
2012-05-26,Japan and China begin direct (non dollar) bilateral trading in June.
2012-05-26,Google warns hundreds of thousands may lose Internet in July
2012-05-25,Julian Assange wears Anonymous-style mask in rare public appearance
2012-05-25,BBC News - SpaceX Dragon docking with ISS
2012-05-25,"Montreal's student protesters defy restrictions as demonstrations grow
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2012-05-25,"The ""Yes"" campaign for Scottish independence officially launched today. Famous Scots supporting the Yes campaign include Sean Connery and Brian Cox."
2012-05-25,"Which countries work the longest hours? -- ""Generally speaking, long working hours are associated with lower productivity per hour"" "
2012-05-25,Ontario Students are considering joining Quebec
2012-05-25,"Mexico's war on the drug cartels started in Michoacan; six years on, it's a cautionary tale of prohibitionism's failure "
2012-05-25,Unprecedented attack on Canadians' constitutional freedoms.
2012-05-25,"Biggest telescope ever, to be built in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, announced today."
2012-05-25,US cuts Pakistan aid over jailing of bin Laden sting doctor
2012-05-25,US cuts $33m in aid to Pakistan.  $1m for each year of Shakil Afridi's sentence.
2012-05-25,Tel Aviv race riot flags bitter immigration dispute
2012-05-25,"Pot-banging against Bill 78, Quebec law limiting protests, is catching on."
2012-05-25,Report: N. Korean officials executed in staged traffic accidents
2012-05-25,"Spain plans $11bn rescue of troubled bank:  Minister announces full nationalisation of Bankia, country's fourth-largest lender, amid rising loan-default rates."
2012-05-25,Spanish doctor ordered to pay for upkeep of child after failed abortion
2012-05-25,Mexico gang launches car bomb near US border
2012-05-25,Newly Independent South Sudan becomes FIFA's 209th member
2012-05-25,Vatican detains suspect in unauthorised leaks probe
2012-05-25,"Jailed punk band ""Pussy Riot"" pushes free speech limits in Russia"
2012-05-25,At least ten top members of the Irans Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (Pasdaran) group have died under suspicious circumstances in recent months
2012-05-25,"Trash Bin Babies: India's Female Infanticide Crisis -  Can the European concept of ""baby hatches"" help curb sex-selective abortions and infanticide?"
2012-05-25,"An Israeli who rescued a distressed climber on Mount Everest instead of pushing onward to the summit said Friday that the man he helped, an American of Turkish origin, is like a brother to him."
2012-05-25,Iranian sailors chase off pirates attacking U.S. ship
2012-05-25,"Information shows that Syrian President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law, Assef Shawkat, and several other senior officials were indeed poisoned"
2012-05-24,Quebec is trampling basic human rights to quash student protests
2012-05-24,Indian state says it's OK now to kill tiger poachers on sight.
2012-05-24,Iran Navy Helps U.S. Ship Attacked by Pirates in Middle East
2012-05-24,"Child pornography is great, the man said enthusiastically, Politicians do not understand file sharing, but they understand child pornography, and they want to filter that to score points with the public."""
2012-05-24,Sweden moves to outlaw forced marriages
2012-05-24,"Nearly 1,000 dogs reportedly have been sickened by chicken jerky pet treats from China, according to a new tally of complaints from worried owners and veterinarians submitted to federal health officials."
2012-05-24,RCMP to ease Canadians into the idea of U.S. agents in Canada
2012-05-24,"Official: 122 girls, 3 teachers poisoned at Afghan school"
2012-05-24,Over 700 arrest last night in Montreal and Quebec City during a student demonstration.
2012-05-24,"Canadian Pacific Railroad wants to cut employee pensions by 40% and worsen already rough working conditions. In response, a strike is showing how important 4,800 CP workers are to the Canadian and Global economy, "
2012-05-24,Iran navy saves US cargo ship from pirates
2012-05-24,North Korea ready to carry out nuclear test at any moment
2012-05-24,"Drunk Chinese couple buries car-hit victim alive - police. A young Chinese couple is suspected of burying alive an elderly woman, whom they thought they had hit and killed while driving drunk after an all-night karaoke session."
2012-05-24,"""The two most important criminal organizations in Mexico are engaged in all-out war, and the most spectacular battles are being fought for the cameras as the combatants pursue a strategy of intimidation and propaganda by dumping ever greater numbers of headless bodies in public view."""
2012-05-24,New Zealand officials pledge to snuff out smoking entirely by 2025.
2012-05-24,"Australia21 Board Member Dr Alex Wodak: Should Illicit Drugs be Legalised in Australia? ""The War on Drugs, waged for at the last 40 years, has failed comprehensively. Important leaders of the community in Australia and other countries now increasingly acknowledge this."""
2012-05-24,"Indian state says it's OK now to kill tiger poachers on sight
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2012-05-24,TEPCO today announced their new estimates of the radiation release at Fukushima. They now estimate that four times as much Cesium was released as at Chernobyl
2012-05-24,A Female President Demands Equal Rights for Africa's Gays
2012-05-24,Gold Boom Spreading Mercury as 15 Million Miners Exposed
2012-05-24,African asylum seekers injured in Tel Aviv race riots:  Violence breaks out after inflammatory speeches as protesters join politicians to demonstrate against rising Israeli immigration
2012-05-24,U.S. drone strike kills 10 in northwest Pakistan
2012-05-24,Inventor of the TV remote control dies at 96 
2012-05-24,North Korea executes 3 for cannibalism.
2012-05-24,Chinese police have arrested a young couple who buried an old woman alive in the mistaken belief she was dead after their car hit the 68-year-old
2012-05-23,Indian state to let forest guards shoot poachers on sight: Maharashtra government says killing poachers will no longer be considered a crime after eight tiger deaths in the state this year.
2012-05-23,First Skydive without parachute successful!
2012-05-23,South Korea to Chemically Castrate Repeat Child Rapist
2012-05-23,"Across Italy police are cracking down on Ferrari and Lamborghini drivers, but not because they are driving too fast. Italy, like so much of southern Europe, is drowning in debt, so police are pursuing drivers to make sure they are declaring and therefore paying taxes."
2012-05-23,Former president of Poland: criminalization of drug use was a mistake
2012-05-23,"Egyptians choose their leader for first time in 5,000 years"
2012-05-23,Pakistan jails doctor who helped CIA find Bin Laden: Shakil Afridi was charged with treason for running a fake vaccination programme to gather information for the American intelligence agency.
2012-05-23,Israeli gives up on Everest summit to help Turkish climber
2012-05-23,Wikileaks' Julian Assange to learn his extradition fate on 30 May
2012-05-23,"""An Islamist who believes that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States were an American conspiracy is the front-runner in Egypts presidential race, a new poll shows."" "
2012-05-23,"Montreal police brought the hammer down on student demonstrators Tuesday night, enforcing a controversial law that brought tens of thousands into the streets in a protest earlier in the day that drew international support. "
2012-05-23,"Yemen is facing a food crisis of ""catastrophic proportions"", with almost half the population going hungry and a third of children in some areas severely malnourished"
2012-05-23,"Video from an Israeli human rights group shows Israeli soldiers stood by as Jewish ""settlers"" opened fire on Palestinians."
2012-05-23,New Zealand to pull troops from Afghanistan
2012-05-23,"Kidnapped Fishermen's Case Angers Chinese Public  Plight of 28 Chinese fishermen, who were kidnapped, robbed, stripped & held for 13 days by N Koreans, has inflamed public opinion, with Internet users questioning the Beijing govts close relationship with its reclusive ally in Pyongyang"
2012-05-23,Romanian PM will not ratify ACTA
2012-05-23,Africa is experiencing some of the biggest falls in child mortality ever seen
2012-05-23,"EU blocks France ban on Monsanto corn: ""Based on the documentation submitted by France, there is no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment"""
2012-05-23,Father of war veteran kidnaps shell shocked son from Canadian military base to get him treatment 
2012-05-23,"DEA-Backed Honduran Commandos Put Gun to Honduran Boy's Head, Tell Him, ""If you don't talk we'll kill you."""
2012-05-23,Piers Morgan freshly linked to phone-hacking scandal by Jeremy Paxman's evidence.
2012-05-23,'We want to live ... like human beings': Egyptians vote in first democratic presidential election
2012-05-23,"Scientists have found more than 150,000 sites in the Arctic where methane is seeping into the atmosphere, according to a report published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience."
2012-05-23,"Doctor Who Helped Track Osama Jailed - 
Physician who helped the US track down Osama bin Laden has been convicted of high treason & sentenced to 33 years in prison"
2012-05-23,"Philippines: China ""increasing ships at disputed shoal"" - Vessels include 5 government ships as well as dozens of fishing & utility boats. The Philippines currently has two vessels there."
2012-05-22,Tony Blair and George Bush's phone conversation a week before Iraq invasion 'must be released'
2012-05-22,A Muslim teenager was murdered by her parents for bringing shame on her Pakistani-born parents by leading a Western way of life and trying to go on dates with boys in the UK.
2012-05-22,"Father, 56, in critical condition after being stabbed 
trying to shield dying son from gang pub attack"
2012-05-22,"Putin consolidates power, hires ousted ministers: President Vladimir Putin ignored public opposition and hired some Russia's most unpopular former ministers Tuesday and Russian lawmakers debated a draconian bill that raises fines for joining unsanctioned protests 200-fold."
2012-05-22,Canada's Telecom Companies Have Secretly Supported Internet Surveillance Legislation
2012-05-22,"Private supply ship, SpaceX Dragon, rockets toward space station, opens new era of spaceflight: A first-of-its-kind commercial supply ship rocketed toward the International Space Station following a successful liftoff early Tuesday, opening a new era of dollar-driven spaceflight."
2012-05-22,"Quebecs largest student group has vowed to defy the Quebec governments new emergency law, calling for a summer of protests and acts of civil disobedience."
2012-05-22,Europe's worst fear: Spain and Greece spiral down together
2012-05-22,36 More Arrested in Quebec Student Protests
2012-05-22,Leaked Memo: High concentrations of dust and burned waste from Afghan 'Burn Pit' likely to impact veterans health for the rest of their lives. 
2012-05-22,"Night of Protest in Montreal after 'Emergency Law': 
Police continue to attempt crackdown on 'one of the most amazing mass protests of the year'"
2012-05-22,Research ship finds the world's oceans are 'plasticized'
2012-05-22,Veterans discard their service medals at anti-NATO rally
2012-05-22,"US Senate panel votes to cut aid for Pakistan, Egypt"
2012-05-22,"The return of the barbaric necklace in South Africa. 8 suspected criminals necklaced in Khayelitsha, Cape Town in the last 3 months by vigilantes"
2012-05-22,An Historic Moment: Private Cargo Rocket Heads to Space Station
2012-05-22,The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has said it is close to signing an accord with Iran after his talks in Tehran
2012-05-22,"Germany isolated as Latin Bloc calls the shots: The eurozone's 'Latin Bloc' is in full revolt. The trio of French, Italian, and Spanish leaders - backed by world powers - are to push for a radical shift in Europe's economic strategy at crucial summit on Wednesday"
2012-05-22,"Hollande will not go Dutch on drug policies: ""France is one of Europes biggest cannabis consumers and has some of the toughest anti-drug laws."""
2012-05-22,"UK prisoners must be given right to vote, European court rules"
2012-05-22,Third of malaria drugs 'are fake'
2012-05-22,French ban of Monsanto GM maize rejected by EU: The EU's food safety body ruled there is 'no specific scientific evidence' that the insect-resistant strain is harmful to health or the environment
2012-05-22,Which Nations Consume the Most Water? -- Much of the life-sustaining resource is traded across national borders
2012-05-22,"5.8 earthquake recorded 14 miles from Sofia, Bulgaria"
2012-05-22,Four die on Mount Everest
2012-05-21,Suicide blast kills more than 100 Yemeni troops at parade rehearsal - CNN.com
2012-05-21,Israeli soldiers seen standing by as settlers use live fire against Palestinians
2012-05-21,Bee Gee's singer Robin Gibb is dead.
2012-05-21,Earthquake destroys $326 million worth of cheese
2012-05-21,"WATCH: An Israeli settler shoots at Palestinians while IDF soldiers stand idly by, 24 year old Palestinian wounded as a result."
2012-05-21,"NATO decides to activate missile shield despite Russian threats - NATO leaders launched Sunday 1st phase of a US-led missile shield for Europe, risking the wrath of Russia which has threatened to deploy rockets to EU borders in response.

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2012-05-21,Elusive 'Asian Unicorn' Faces Extinction
2012-05-21,Japanese man severs real estate agent's arm with katana
2012-05-21,"Quebec corruption inquiry could expose links between Mafia, politics and construction "
2012-05-21,"Study: Despite Tougher Copyright Monopoly Laws, Sharing Remains Pervasive - 61% of 15-25 year-olds in Sweden share culture online, in violation of the copyright monopoly"
2012-05-21,"Ban Ki-moon: Eradicate polio, finally -- The highly preventable disease survives in only Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. If we don't wipe it out now, a future epidemic could be devastating."
2012-05-21,Arctic melt releasing ancient methane
2012-05-21,BBC News - Three climbers die on Mt Everest
2012-05-21,"Russia Says West Considering Military Action on Iran - ""It's one of many signals coming from sources that the military option is realistic & possible.  We're receiving signals this option is being reviewed in some capitals as more applicable in this situation. We're very worried about this."" "
2012-05-21,"Inside Halden, The Most Humane Prison In The World -- Report from high-security prison in Norway. Where rehabilitation is focus, not retribution. Prisoners include murderers, paedophiles. Yet every cell has flat-screen TV and private shower. Warden can't remember last figh"
2012-05-21,Taliban destroy poppy fields in surprise clampdown on Afghan opium growers.  Action by Taliban welcomed by government and clerics but insurgent says destruction was for religious reasons
2012-05-21,"Svyatoslav Sheremet, head of Gay Forum of Ukraine, is beaten as he met with members of the media to inform them that a scheduled gay-pride parade was cancelled"
2012-05-21,"UK banks are ready for Greek exit, says Bank of England"
2012-05-21,Pakistan restores Twitter after block
2012-05-21,JPMorgan Chase loss only going to get worse 
2012-05-21,"Drones of its Own: NATO Signs Deal with Northrup Grumman for ""Global Surveillance Capabilities"""
2012-05-21,"Mexican Journalists Silenced to Death - Journalists are being killed, wounded & threatened at an alarming rate in Mexico since the US/Mexican 'War on Drugs' accelerated into a bloodbath of deaths, wounding & torture beginning in 2006."
2012-05-21,Alleged perpetrator of mass beheadings in Mexico arrested
2012-05-21,"Czech ex-minister Rath faces hearing over box of cash  - A week ago police detained Mr Rath as he was carrying a wine box containing 7m koruna (224,000). He is accused of diverting money from an EU project."
2012-05-21,"Did a Dingo Do it?  - 32 years on,  the 4th inquest into Azaria Chamberlain's death opened in Darwin this morning.  A coroner's court heard the 9-week-old baby was probably taken by a dingo. She famously disappeared from a tent at Uluru in 1980.
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2012-05-20,Hundreds of pet owls abandoned after Harry Potter craze fades
2012-05-20,Pictures of the 6.0 Earthquake in North Italy
2012-05-20,"A 73-year-old Japanese woman climbed to Mount Everest's peak Saturday, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain."
2012-05-20,Immortal Avatar: Russian project seeks to create robot with human brain
2012-05-20,"The Pirate Party fits the political gap: 'two years ago, hardly anyone knew that the Pirate Party even existed; now, all of a sudden, it has won seats in state parliaments in four successive elections, and a new poll puts them at 11% of Germany's national vote.'"
2012-05-20,"Pakistan has blocked Twitter over ""blasphemous material"" on the social networking site."
2012-05-20,Scientists who claimed homosexuality could be cured withdraws claim and apologises
2012-05-20,"Franois Hollande pledges support for gay marriage in France: 'A communiqu issued by the office of the PM, Jean-Marc Ayrault, marked the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia yesterday with a pledge to put the presidents manifesto promise into law.' "
2012-05-20,Quebec protesters set fires in busy Montreal streets
2012-05-20,Frankfurt March Protests Unchecked Capitalism
2012-05-20,Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dead [x-post from r/unitedkingdom]
2012-05-20,BBC News - Three killed in northern Italy earthquake
2012-05-20,"Exploding The Myth Of The Feckless, Lazy Greeks: ""Stereotypes and untruths are everywhere, but this economic crisis is not the self-inflicted result of a lax Mediterranean work ethic."""
2012-05-20,Fighting rages in eastern DR Congo
2012-05-20,"Lockerbie bomber al-Megrahi has died in Libya
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2012-05-20,Fourth Mexican army officer held in drug cartel probe
2012-05-20,Pakistan blocks Twitter because of tweets considered offensive to Islam
2012-05-20,UK special forces 'to stay in Afghanistan after 2014'
2012-05-20,Eggs thrown as Taiwanese president sworn in
2012-05-20,Mafia suspected in Italian school bombing:  Local mafia cartel the United Sacred Crown are alleged to be behind the bombing of a girls' school in Italy which killed one and injured seven others. 
2012-05-20,Youth protest former Mexican ruling party's rise
2012-05-20,"Yemen clashes kill 34 militants, soldiers: officials"
2012-05-20,"Syria: Rebel Suicide Bomber Attacks Regime Military Installations, 9 Killed, 100 Wounded"
2012-05-20,Deadly floods strike north Afghanistan 
2012-05-20,"The Vatican is threatening legal action against those responsible for ""Vatileaks,"" a book of leaked internal documents."
2012-05-19,"800-year-old tree at Vancouver Island park falls to 
illegal loggers "
2012-05-19,"""In Athens, the homeless are on the streets in growing numbers, soup kitchens feed twice as many people as a year ago, and the poor are diving into garbage bins in search of scrap they can sell. Greece is close to breaking point as it struggles with austerity targets set by creditors"""
2012-05-19,Assange stands 'real chance' of election in Australia
2012-05-19,Quebecs anti-protest legislation tramples basic rights
2012-05-19,"Netherlands - first country in Europe with net neutrality: ""In addition, it adopted provisions protecting users against disconnection and wiretapping by providers."""
2012-05-19,"Saudi Arabia bans use of English, Gregorian calendar"
2012-05-19,"Bomb explosion at school in Brindisi, Italy"
2012-05-19,Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng was hurriedly taken from a hospital Saturday and boarded a plane that took off for the United States
2012-05-19,Illegal logging comes to Canada: 800-year-old tree at Vancouver Island park falls to poachers
2012-05-19,"Monsanto-Funded Research Reveals Monsanto [Toxic] Products Are Safe: ""Their [review on glyphosate] aimed to discredit the work of a French research group at the Institut Jaques Monod who published five articles indicating glyphosates wide-ranging potential for environmental and human harm.""

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2012-05-19,A third Mexican army general with ties with drug cartels has been arrested. --NY Times
2012-05-19,Japanese whalers set out to kill 260 whales for scientific research
2012-05-19,SpaceX aborted its launch of the Dragon capsule toward the ISS at the last second on Saturday due to a technical issue with one of the rocket's nine engines.
2012-05-19,"25,000 Rally Against Austerity in Germany "
2012-05-19,"Anonymous hacks Indian sites to protest against Vimeo, others being blocked"
2012-05-19,Israel is developing butterfly drones for indoor surveillance
2012-05-19,"BBC News - Crime and punishment, Norwegian style"
2012-05-19,Fukushima Reactor 4 poses massive global risk
2012-05-19,"French villagers run New Zealand man out of town over alleged cat torture - Neighbors charge they were mutilating cats & selling them for experiments.  ""People took matters into their own hands. It was like something out of the Middle Ages,"" the NZ man says."
2012-05-19,"Quebec student protests turn increasingly violent; Molotov cocktails thrown, explosive devices and various criminal acts"
2012-05-19,Nato protesters arrested in Chicago raid held on terrorism conspiracy charges
2012-05-19,Honduras can pull off five centuries of legal reforms in a decade by creating new city-states within it's borders with laws designed from scratch
2012-05-19,Lawyers compare Quebecs controversial protest bill to War Measures Act
2012-05-19,The philosopher Alain de Botton has announced that he will be working on a new project to make pornography better
2012-05-19,"Murdered Journalist was ""a Soviet Spy"", His Family Now Claims - Post-mortem examination indicates a horrific attack took place in the living room of his home"
2012-05-18,"Mexico's Drug War: 50,000 Dead in 6 Years"
2012-05-18,"As a direct result of the Pirate Bay ban, the website of the UK Pirate Party has jumped more than 100,000 places in the UK rankings and any moment now will become the 1,500th most-visited website in the country."
2012-05-18,French prime minister promises to implement equal marriage and adoption rights for gays
2012-05-18,"Canadian PM Harper: If you oppose the Internet spying bill, you support child pornography; the bill would allow the government to seize citizens' private data without warrant"
2012-05-18,"Welsh town where King Henry V born to be world's 1st ""Wikipedia town"" -  Local council installed town-wide free Wi-Fi so visitors can use smartphones to scan barcodes at points of interest in Monmouth, instantly bringing up a Wikipedia page about the landmark in whatever language they're set to "
2012-05-18,Police detain 400 anti-capitalist protesters in Frankfurt on Friday for defying a ban on demonstrations against austerity policies
2012-05-18,"People in Honduras' predominantly Indian Mosquito coast region burned down government offices and demanded that U.S. drug agents leave the area, reacting angrily to an anti-drug operation in which they say police gunfire killed four innocent people, including two pregnant women."
2012-05-18,"More than 1,000 UK government staff caught snooping on citizen data -- including criminal records, social security, and medical records."
2012-05-18,Greek leftist leader Alexis Tsipras: 'It's a war between people and capitalism'
2012-05-18,"Fishing Observers ""Intimidated & Bribed by EU Crews"" -Observers monitoring European fish quotas are being regularly intimidated, offered bribes & undermined by the fishing crews they are observing. Several observers recall being warned to back off because ""accidents happen at sea"".
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2012-05-18,200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf of Mexico
2012-05-18,"Caught snooping: the UK government was forced to reveal under Freedom of Information laws that more than 1,000 civil servants have ""snooped"" on British citizens' private data"
2012-05-18,Thailand: Man found with 6 roasted foetuses covered in gold leaf in his luggage.
2012-05-18,"Malawi to overturn homosexual ban, Joyce Banda says"
2012-05-18,Greek Politician Warns Europe: 'We Will Default If You Cut Funding'
2012-05-18,"Canada Axes Green Advisory Body - 
Government is to mark 25th anniversary of its green business advisers by shutting the agency down"
2012-05-18,"For many in Egypt, the presidential vote is not about Islam:  Egyptians have more earthly matters to contend with: jobs and the sagging economy. Polls find the Muslim Brotherhood candidate trailing moderate rivals."
2012-05-18,London's Amazingly Explicit Surveillance State Mascot For The 2012 Olympics Has A Huge Camera Eye That 'Records Everything'
2012-05-18,Indias untouchables turn video journalists to fill news gap on issues and abuse rarely documented in mainstream news media
2012-05-18,AFP: Israeli tank fire hurts seven in Gaza: medics
2012-05-18,US Envoy To Israel: US Ready To Strike Iran
2012-05-18,Pentagon claims Chinese stealth jet 2 years ahead of schedule
2012-05-18,"UK muslim woman beat girl, 10, with steel ladle for not reading enough of Koran. 56 wounds on the child's body."
2012-05-18,Quebec education law to impose fines in tuition crisis
2012-05-18,Controversial Quebec protest bill could pass tonight after lengthy debate
2012-05-17,Britain: 50 policemen raided seven addresses and arrested 6 people for making 'offensive' and 'anti-Semitic' remarks on Facebook 
2012-05-17,Emergency law considered in Quebec as thousands of students protest tuition; 122 arrests
2012-05-17,Ottawa: 74-year-old man who was beaten in a home invasion called for help - only to be arrested and thrown in jail for more than two months.
2012-05-17,"Canada's Internet surveillance bill is not dead and is instead moving forward; the bill is being pushed under the guise of protecting Canadians from child pornography and organized crime, but the bill makes no mention of child pornography in its actual text"
2012-05-17,"France's new Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Wednesday that his cabinet will announce a 30% salary cut for its members when it meets for the first time on Thursday. Its setting an example, he said in an interview. "
2012-05-17,Chinese boats seized by North Koreans.  
2012-05-17,Pupils in Ireland expelled after abusive Facebook posts about teachers 
2012-05-17,"The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police: ""the job of policing the Internet is falling to private intermediaries -- companies that are under little or no legal obligation to uphold citizens' rights."""
2012-05-17,Russian teacher who reported vote fraud on trial:  A teacher went on trial Wednesday after publicly claiming that she was pressured to help rig Russia's parliamentary election to boost the results for Vladimir Putin's party
2012-05-17,Iran threatens legal action against Google for not labeling Persian Gulf
2012-05-17,"German Chancellor Angela Merkel will soon have an extra 930 in her pocket each month, after the country's cabinet decided on Wednesday to award themselves their first pay rise for over a decade."
2012-05-17,"Indian Supreme Court orders Pirate Bay, Pastebin blocks, gets DDoSed"
2012-05-17,"Foreign holders of 422bn of Greek debt were warned to brace themselves for ""killer losses"" as coalition talks in Athens collapsed, threatening Greece's future in the eurozone. "
2012-05-17,"North Koreans 'holding 29 Chinese fishermen' and are demanding payment for their release, Chinese media says."
2012-05-17,UK exam boards making money from their own mistakes - the man who raised the alarm is suspended as means of silencing him 
2012-05-17,Controversial Islamic school ordered out of Toronto public school property-Police investigating into alleged anti-Semitic course material
2012-05-17,"Pakistan seeks $5,000 transit fee for each NATO container and tanker that transits its territory by land into and out of Afghanistan"
2012-05-17,Invisible Censorship: How Indian Government Censors Without Being Seen
2012-05-17,"WikiLeaks may have been responsible for exposing Majid Jamali Fashi, who was hanged in Tehran on Tuesday morning after confessing to assassinating a nuclear scientist on behalf of Israel"
2012-05-17,"Iran's Ahmadinejad wants to attend London Olympics to back Iran athletes, says Britain won't host him"
2012-05-17,"In Japan, the Lights are Already Starting to Go Out...
Government accused of plotting to restart nuclear plants as it warns of power cuts"
2012-05-17,BBC News - The Pirate Bay hit by DDoS attack
2012-05-17,Canadian police commanders and 28 front line officers to be charged over G20 protest misconduct
2012-05-17,Two held for shooting imam in northern Sweden:  Two men have been arrested in connection with the attempted murder of an imam who remains in a coma nearly three months after being shot in the head in northern Sweden.
2012-05-17,Iran 'to sue Google' for not labelling Gulf on world map
2012-05-16,"A German man who alleges he was subjected to ""extraordinary rendition"" by the CIA has taken his case to the European Court of Human Rights."
2012-05-16,"Francois Hollande, the new French President --> My enemy is the world of finance. "
2012-05-16,15-year-old schoolgirl died after 'doctor mistook tuberculosis for lovesickness'  - Telegraph
2012-05-16,"Indonesia cancels Lady Gaga concert because ""She's a vulgar singer... she is the envoy of the devil's child and she will spread satanic teaching"""
2012-05-16,US shadow war in Horn of Africa revealed by blogger
2012-05-16,"G20 report details mass violation of rights by police, says ""excessive force"" was used in Toronto
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2012-05-16,"Searching for the remains of a teenage girl missing for 3 decades, Italian police opened the Vatican-owned tomb of mobster Enrico De Pedis, but the boxes of bones they found interred with his corpse only deepen the mystery"
2012-05-16,A bank run is developing in Greece - $893 million withdrawn from Greek banks since May 6th election
2012-05-16,"Chinese official: it's us or America. AUSTRALIA cannot juggle its relationships with the United States and China indefinitely and must choose a ''godfather'' to protect it, according to a prominent Chinese defence strategist."
2012-05-16,Pirate Bay Under DDoS Attack From Unknown Enemy
2012-05-16,Greeks withdraw $894 million in a day: Is this beginning of a run on banks?
2012-05-16,"European helicopter gunships attacked a pirate base on the Somali coast on Tuesday, destroying five speedboats, in the first such airborne strike on land by the anti-piracy force."
2012-05-16,"Majority of Mexicans Want More U.S. Help in Drug War, 28% Want the US Military to Intervene on Mexican Soil"
2012-05-16,"Supreme Court mulls manga child porn appeal - The highly publicized last appeal of Simon Lundstrm, a Swedish translator of Japanese manga comics convicted of child pornography crimes, was brought up in Swedens Supreme Court (Hgsta Domstolen) on Wednesday."
2012-05-16,Leading Italian university switches to teaching in the English language
2012-05-16,Iran hangs 'Israel spy' over nuclear scientist killing
2012-05-16,Vatican official: Leaders of the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ religious order knew that their most famous priest had fathered a child for many months before they acknowledged it this week
2012-05-16,Exclusive: China pushes North Korea to drop nuclear test plan: sources
2012-05-16,Burma Vows to Cease Buying Weapons from North Korea
2012-05-16,"Greeks pull funds from banks; emergency cabinet to be named
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2012-05-16,"Bosnian Commander Mladic Led Ethnic Cleansing, War Crimes Trial Told - He faces 11 counts of war crimes & crimes against humanity, including genocide, in connection with the brutal 1992-95 Bosnian war.  He's called the accusations ""monstrous"" &  entered a not guilty plea."
2012-05-16,"Greece On Brink Of Collapse: ""Europe's financial crisis lurched into a perilous new phase as dire predictions emerged of a collapse in Greece's economy, with a run on its banks bringing an inevitable end to its membership of the euro."""
2012-05-16,Israel's Interior Minister: All African migrants should be jailed. 
2012-05-16,"Victoria Grant, 12, Hits Lecture Circuit To Explain How Canadian Banking Is A Fraud"
2012-05-16,"Thousands flee as Congo battles renegade general

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2012-05-15,"In a landmark case in Finland, a court has ruled that an open WiFi owner is not liable for illegal file-sharing"
2012-05-15,"Less affluent countries push towards universal healthcare. China is on track to complete a three-year, $124-billion initiative projected to cover more than 90% of the nation's residents."
2012-05-15,Rebekah Brooks to be charged with perverting the course of justice
2012-05-15,Anders Breivik Trial: A man just set himself on fire outside the Court in Olso. 
2012-05-15,"China builds ""instant high rise"" in just 9 days "
2012-05-15,"Greece fails to form new government, going to elections"
2012-05-15,Rebekah Brooks to be charged over News International phone hacking
2012-05-15,"Why so little condemnation of Israel's extremism? Western opinion formers have been indifferent, in some cases knowingly so, about what is happening. "
2012-05-15,"Japanese rivers continue to contaminate Tokyo Bay, where the levels of radioactive cesium are rising"
2012-05-15,Time to Admit Defeat Greece Can No Longer Delay Euro Zone Exit - SPIEGEL ONLINE
2012-05-15,"""Unless the world addresses the problem, by 2030 even two planet Earths would not be enough to sustain human activity, WWF said"""
2012-05-15,Asian Girls Getting Plastic Surgery to Widen Their Eyes: Plastic surgery boom as Asians seek 'western' look - CNN.com
2012-05-15,"Carlos Fuentes, Mexican Writer, Dies at 83"
2012-05-15,"Britain Bedeviled by Binge Drinking - It's reached crisis levels, costing the NHS 2.7 billion pounds a year, including cost of hospital admissions related to booze-fueled violence & longer-term health problems. Liver disease has increased 25% the last decade, causing a record level of deaths."
2012-05-15,"EU Makes 1st Air Strikes Against Somalia Pirates - Naval forces have conducted their raid on the Somali mainland, destroying several boats.  Pirates are believed to be holding about 17 ships & 300 crew."
2012-05-15,"[ALJAZEERA] - WWF announces ""we are living as if we have another planet at our disposal"""
2012-05-15,France's Hollande's plane hit by lightning en route to Germany
2012-05-15,"Aging Europeans Need to Work Longer & Expect Less, Report Says"
2012-05-15,"More than 1,500 Palestinians prisoners that have been on hunger strike in Israeli jails win concessions by Israel"
2012-05-15,Black Metal musician elected to Greek parliament
2012-05-15,"Iran Hangs 'Israel Killer Spy' - Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, convicted of killing an Iranian nuclear scientist, Massoud Ali Mohammadi,  in Tehran 2 years ago has been hanged.  Fashi was also accused of being a spy for Israeli intelligence agency Mossad & receiving $120,000 (72,000) for the killing."
2012-05-15,More horror in Mexico: 49 mutilated bodies dumped on highway in latest drugs war clash
2012-05-15,- Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of one of its employees.
2012-05-15,Debate Breaks Out in Germany over Foreign Gold Reserves - SPIEGEL ONLINE
2012-05-15,Blockupy Frankfurt is already somewhat succesful in blocking the inner city
2012-05-14,Don Ritchie saved over 500 people from suicide. He lived near 'The Gap' an infamous ocean cliff where hundreds of people have gone to commit suicide. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia and was named a Local Hero in 2011. He died peacefully today in his home at 85 years old.
2012-05-14,Israel closes Palestinian school to make way for West Bank training zone for the IDF even though Palestinians residents have no access to any other school.
2012-05-14,North Korean women sold into 'slavery' in China...
2012-05-14,More than half of all police officers in Greece voted for the pro-Nazi party candidate in the May 6 elections
2012-05-14,One of the last Palestinian farming villages that still uses irrigation systems from Roman times says its ancient way of life is in danger as Israel prepares to lay down its West Bank separation barrier.
2012-05-14,49 decapitated bodies found in Mexico
2012-05-14,Sea Shepherd captain arrested in Germany on attempted murder charges.
2012-05-14, Merkel shaken at state poll as Pirate Party surges
2012-05-14,"Ex-pat prisoners in Dubai have gone on hunger strike against the United Arab Emirates' arbitrary bounced-check laws. One man is serving a 6-year sentence because a government-owned entity failed to pay him for work he had done, and a check he wrote subsequently bounced."
2012-05-14,"Noam Chomsky: Palestinian Hunger Strike A Protest Against ""Violations of Elementary Human Rights"""
2012-05-14,North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un Has An Explosive Family Secret - Business Insider
2012-05-14,"""The Vatican is investigating seven priests from the troubled Legion of Christ religious order for alleged sexual abuse of minors -- evidence that the scandal over the order's pedophile founder doesn't rest solely with him, The Associated Press has learned."""
2012-05-14,Pirate Bay Founder Takes Case To European Court
2012-05-14,Plane Crashes With 21 Passengers In Nepal
2012-05-14,"500,000 People to Lose Disability Benefit, says IDS - 
Government says it's ridding system of abuse & fraud"
2012-05-14,Insider tells why Anonymous might well be the most powerful organization on Earth
2012-05-14,"South Korea: where sarcasm can get you thrown in jail -- Park Jeong Keun, a 23-year-old photographer, is embroiled in legal trouble for retweeting posts from North Korea's official Twitter account.
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2012-05-14,"China's central bank took further action Saturday to stimulate its economy.The People's Bank of China is cutting the amount of money banks are required to hold on the sidelines, freeing up those funds instead to boost investment and growth."
2012-05-14,"innfluential magazine Der Spiegel calls for Greek exit from euro
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2012-05-14,"Man falls into ice crevasse, coolly takes photos while awaiting rescue"
2012-05-14,Italian army on call to deal with escalating violence:  Italy's prime minister has not ruled out bringing in the army to deal with the increasing levels of violence across the country. 
2012-05-14,"The Sea Rises in China: ""Everyone wants to go to war with the Philippines. They say the government is being too weak."""
2012-05-14,"The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea say they will not tolerate further provocation from North Korea, amid fears that Pyongyang is preparing for a new nuclear test."
2012-05-14,Russian protests: thousands march in support of Occupy Abay camp. The opposition leader Alexey Navalny remains in jail on a 15-day sentence for disobeying police. His co-hort Sergei Udaltsov is also in jail and has gone on hunger strike.
2012-05-14,"EU foreign ministers have issued a harsh critique of Israel, regarding the gathering pace of settlement-building, settler extremism, and ill-treatment of Palestinians."
2012-05-13,Petition calls on Brazilian president to veto 'catastrophic' forest code:  More than 1.5 million people have petitioned Dilma Rousseff to reject a bill that may lead to further destruction of the Amazon
2012-05-13,"ACTA is not dead: ""...it appears more likely than not that the [European Parliament's] Development Committee will vote in favour of ACTA."""
2012-05-13,"German Pirate Party Scores Fourth Consecutive Election Win: ""...the exit polls indicate 7.5%, well clearing the five-percent hurdle for entry, and predicting 18 new Pirate Members of Parliament."""
2012-05-13,37 dismembered bodies dumped on Mexico highway
2012-05-13,China successful in teleportation.
2012-05-13,The Queen has formally announced plans to greatly increase surveillance of the internet
2012-05-13,Culture war looms as Israel pledges to end ultra-Orthodox military exemptions
2012-05-13,"China, Japan and South Korea agreed at a summit on Sunday to launch negotiations for a three-way free trade pact they said could help fend off global economic chills, but the talks are expected to be long and difficult because of decades of rivalry."
2012-05-13,I Cant Believe I Still Have to Protest This: Abortion Rights in Canada -  Parliament debated a motion creating a special committee to review if the definition of a human being in the Canadian criminal code can be extended to unborn fetuses 
2012-05-13,"Israel transformed from democracy to an oligarchy. These are self-styled lords of the manor who have power over civil and military sectors, and share the spoils of rule between themselves. The subjects can talk, but have no influence."
2012-05-13,"Murdoch driver: cash drops to Met police.
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2012-05-13,China mandates the Big Four U.S. auditors to hand over control of their Chinese operations to local partners by the end of the year and put a Chinese citizen at the top within three years.
2012-05-13,Dalai Lama fears Chinese poison plot:  Buddhist leader believes Chinese agents may have trained fake female followers to kill him when seeking blessings
2012-05-13,"Australian Labor Unions Call for Buffett-Style Tax on Millionaires - 
Calling on government to introduce a millionaires tax similar to US President Barack Obamas so-called Buffett Rule. Wants to ensure mining billionaires pay a minimum tax on their incomes regardless of how they're derived."
2012-05-13,"China allows banks to lend more in bid to boost economy:  China has cut the amount of funds banks have to hold in a reserve, in a bid to boost its economy."
2012-05-13,Quebec anti-austerity protests: police accused of shooting people in face with plastic bullets 
2012-05-13,"Saudi Arabia Unveils $100 Billion Plan to Make Solar ""A Driver for Domestic Energy for Years to Come"""
2012-05-13,"Portugal's sick economy triggers health crisis:  To cut costs, Portugal has increased the rates it charges for public health services. For many cash-strapped residents, the fee scheme has had a grim effect, potentially putting lives at risk. "
2012-05-13,"Whatever Happened to David Cameron, the Idealistic Young Eco-Warrior? - 
After spending 5 years in opposition trying to detoxify the Tories' image, he promised to lead ""the greenest government ever"" when he entered No 10, exactly 2 years ago. What became of that pledge?"
2012-05-13,"Ecuador Seeks Answer to Riddle of Inca Emperor's Tomb -   On expedition:  ""When we arrived here, I couldn't believe it.  I started running around."" Excavation starts in June, partly financed by the govt. ""...we could be facing one of the largest & most unusual discoveries of the past decades.""
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2012-05-13,"At least 100,000 Spaniards angered by grim economic prospects and the political handling of the international financial crisis turned out for street demonstrations in the country's cities Saturday."
2012-05-13,Pakistan crisis over power cuts
2012-05-13,Greece: A nation on the brink: President Karolos Papoulias makes a last-ditch effort to forge a unity government
2012-05-13,Boko Haram 'militant leader' captured in north Nigeria:  Nigerian police say they have arrested a senior commander of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram. 
2012-05-13,"Race for Egypt: Inside the Three-Way Fight for the Presidency -  The secular diplomat, the Muslim Brother, and the 'liberal Islamist' are facing off to become the first freely elected leader of Egypt. "
2012-05-12,"The Dutch judge who ordered The Pirate Bay links censored, Chris Hensen, has been found to be textbook corrupt - he had commercial ventures with the plaintiffs in previous anti-piracy cases"
2012-05-12,"A new law in Argentina allows everybody, even children, to choose and change their gender without having to justify it."
2012-05-12,"Iceland considers Canadian dollar instead of euro: ""The choice is between surrendering the sovereignty of Iceland in monetary policy by unilaterally adopting the currency of another country, or becoming a member of the EU,"" says PM"
2012-05-12,Dalai Lama reveals warning of Chinese plot to kill him
2012-05-12,"Scientologists push anti-drug classes in schools: ""An group with ties to the Church of Scientology has been selling lectures about drug abuse to Swedish schools that contain significant factual errors, according to an investigation carried out by a Swedish newspaper"""
2012-05-12,"Six leaders from South Korea's biggest Buddhist order have quit after secret video footage showed some supposedly serene monks raising hell, playing high-stakes poker, drinking and smoking"
2012-05-12,"Israeli newspaper: Undercover Israeli soldiers hurled stones in the ""general direction"" of IDF soldiers as part of their activity to counter weekly demonstrations in the Palestinian village of Bil'in"
2012-05-12,Sarkozy faces a slew of probes after immunity ends
2012-05-12,"Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has dismissed a controversial ultraconservative adviser after he publicly criticized reforms aimed at easing restrictions on women, the kingdom's state media reports."
2012-05-12,Israel's military looks to the sea:  Israel buys a sixth German-made submarine. A navy officer explains why Israel's military is looking increasingly to the seas.
2012-05-12,"Italian anarchists kneecap nuclear executive and threaten more shootings: 
Group named after Greek anarchist warns it will strike seven more times at nuclear firm's parent company, Finmeccanica
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2012-05-12,Germany plans to go nuclear free within a decade | todaysthv.com
2012-05-12,Man killed by illegal cockfighting bird
2012-05-12,China denies preparing for war over South China Sea
2012-05-12,Exclusive wire taps on Gaddafi's inner circle - Al Jazeera publishes recorded mobile-phone conversations between former Libya leader and some of his most trusted aides.
2012-05-12,"British Firm Suspends Funding for Chinese Foie Gras Factory - 
Says it'll look into animal welfare concerns raised public.  Production of foie gras, which is made by force-feeding geese or ducks until their livers are enlarged, is banned in the UK & most of Europe, except France, where it's prized."
2012-05-12,Shreddin in Yemen: Meet the skaters of Sanaa
2012-05-12,"'Goodbye to China, country of contradictions' - Features - Al Jazeera English"
2012-05-12,US partially resumes arms sales to Bahrain - Al Jazeera English
2012-05-12,"A major blast is reported to have ripped through Aleppo, Syrias largest city. The bomb allegedly targeted the headquarters of Syrias ruling Ba'ath Party."
2012-05-12,"Greece will run out of money soon, warns deputy prime minister"
2012-05-12,Socialist president owns 3 homes on French Riviera | Times247
2012-05-12,On the knife's edge in Ethiopia:  A vortex of climate change and rising population threatens Ethiopias gains in feeding itself
2012-05-12,Obama administration seeks to bolster Bahraini crown prince with arms sales
2012-05-12,Massive Active Fault Found beneath Japan's Mount Fuji
2012-05-11,A public schoolgirl who died from a brain hemorrhage at 13 has saved eight lives by donating her organs. 
2012-05-11,"Falkvinge: Just days before the elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germanys largest and most populous state, the Piratenparteis website has been censored in schools - specifically the election program of the German Pirate Party is being actively censored under the category illegal drugs"""
2012-05-11,Egypt holds first ever presidential debate - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2012-05-11,Chinese media warns citizens of possible war with the Philippines
2012-05-11,"A new NZ ISP has withdrawn its ""global mode"" that allowed customers to evade country-based blocking of web content - just 48 hrs after enabling the service"
2012-05-11,German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011
2012-05-11,Burma's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been given a passport for the first time in 24 years. She will first travel to Norway to accept her 1991 Nobel Prize.
2012-05-11,Under-performing UK civil servants will be identified and fired under plans to rank all government officials in order of ability
2012-05-11,"Monsanto and the Gates Foundation claim genetically modified crops will revolutionize agriculture in Kenya, but critics warn the technology is ill-suited to the needs of farmers"
2012-05-11,Victim's brother hurls shoe in Norway court at mass killer Anders Behring Breivik
2012-05-11,Rhino poacher killed in Kruger shoot out. 
2012-05-11,Game Over for the Climate: Canadas tar sands contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide emitted by global oil use in our entire history.
2012-05-11,The wreckage of a Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 has been found in Indonesia after smashing into the steep side of a volcano during a flight to impress potential buyers. All 50 people on board feared dead.
2012-05-11,Kalashnikov promenade: Blogger embarrasses Moscow cops
2012-05-11,Protests in Philippines over China dispute:  Hundreds take to streets in Manila to protest against Beijing's claim to South China Sea islands.
2012-05-11,Israel's Knesset to take up a bill that could transform outposts throughout the West Bank into legal settlements overnight.
2012-05-11,Mahmoud Shokraye given a sentence of 25 lashes for drawing a caricature of a local MP that was deemed insulting
2012-05-11,Islam critic Hirsi Ali wins German media prize:  Dutch writer and Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali is to receive a special award by German publishing house Axel Springer to honor her outspoken attitude and commitment to women's rights. 
2012-05-11,Former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks has told the British inquiry into media ethics that she discussed phone hacking with British prime minister David Cameron at a party in 2010. 
2012-05-11,Why Science Is Better When It's Multinational:  International diversity is just as important as diversity of discipline when it comes to scientific discovery
2012-05-11,Argentina Approves Law Making Sex-Change Surgery a Legal Right
2012-05-11,"Nigerian universities demand bribes for admission:  With a shortage of college spaces, prospective students complain that wealth and connections trump entrance exam scores.
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2012-05-11,"Greek parties scramble to avert new vote: The leaders of Greece's once-dominant political parties made a last push on Friday to form a coalition and avert a new election, which a poll showed would all but wipe them out and give victory to a radical leftist who rejects an EU bailout."
2012-05-11,Banks prepare for the return of the drachma
2012-05-11,Chilean Earthquake Restores Beaches - A recent powerful earthquake reversed years worth of coastal erosion at beaches in Chile.
2012-05-10,"Colombia passes 1st draft of drug crop legalization bill: 'The initiative calls for the decriminalization of growing plants such as coca, marijuana and opium poppies in the country.'"
2012-05-10,"Heavy metal unites Jews, Muslims across Middle East"
2012-05-10,Rape of women in DR Congo 'tops 1000 a day' 
2012-05-10,A Second World War plane crashed by a British pilot in the Sahara desert has been found frozen in time 70 years later.
2012-05-10,"Ancient language discovered on clay tablets found amid ruins of 2800 year old Middle Eastern palace in ancient city of Tushan, south-east Turkey"
2012-05-10,Tiny Scottish brewpub gets the shaft as corporate megabrewer strongarms British Institute of Innkeeping to revoke their award
2012-05-10,"A section of 600-yr-old city wall in Nanjing was damaged when a Ferrari was put on top if it for a publicity stunt - Its spinning, screeching wheels left tire marks on the Ming Dynasty walls. The stunt kicked off a Ferrari show marking the Italian car makers 20 years in the Chinese car market."
2012-05-10,"Suicide blast in Damascus leaves more than 50 dead, hundreds wounded"
2012-05-10,"Argentina Senate passes 'dignified death' law:  The Argentine Senate has approved a ""dignified death"" law to give the terminally ill and their families more say in end-of-life decisions. "
2012-05-10,Want a 170-year-old beer? Finnish researchers say they may be able to recreate beer from the 1840s after finding living bacteria in beer from a shipwreck near Aland islands.
2012-05-10,"South Africa troubled by corrupt cops:   The police are part of countrys crime problem.  More than 630 police officers were arrested in South Africas Gauteng province in 2011, mainly on charges of fraud and corruption, but also for rape and murder
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2012-05-10,"Islamic Defenders Front, which receives police funding, threatens to intercept Lady Gaga when she visits Indonesia, warning her ""vulgar music"" is a danger to children's morals."
2012-05-10,"Two of Mass Palestinian Prisoners' Hunger Strike ""On Verge of Death"": Over 1600 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail hold mass hunger strike, two of the arrested pass 70 days without food"
2012-05-10,China bangs the war drum over South China Sea
2012-05-10,A new Charter City could soon be established in Honduras. It will have extremely open immigration policies for North/South Americans to allow the city to rapidly grow to a population of 10 million people
2012-05-10,Russia foils plot to attack 2014 Olympics
2012-05-10,Germany is considering a legal ban on ultra-conservative Salafist Muslim groups.
2012-05-10,"Police found the decapitated and dismembered bodies of 15 people near Mexico's second city Guadalajara on Wednesday, in what appeared to be the latest atrocity by the country's most brutal drug cartel."
2012-05-10,Crashed Russian plane found in Indonesia: Helicopter scouring slopes of dormant volcano spots wreckage but no sign that passengers and crew survived.
2012-05-10,"Alpine tour guide chopped down crosses, said he wanted to spark debate on Christian symbols in public areas"
2012-05-10,"Why green energy might not solve the power crunch:   As the world turns its back on nuclear power in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster, experts worry green energy can't pick up the slack.
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2012-05-10,"Two suicide car bombs have ripped through the Syrian capital, killing 55 people and shaving the facade off a military intelligence building in the deadliest explosions since the country's uprising began 14 months ago."
2012-05-10,France  - where Freemasons are still feared. 
2012-05-10,"Netherlands becomes world's second ""net neutrality"" country"
2012-05-10,"One in six cancers worldwide is caused by preventable or treatable infections, a new study finds."
2012-05-09,"The amount of plastic trash in the ""Great Pacific Garbage Patch"" has increased 100-fold during the past 40 years, causing ""profound"" changes to the marine environment"
2012-05-09,"If Amsterdam won't sell weed to foreigners, who will? The Netherlands' ban on selling cannabis to foreigners could start a weed economy in other EU states. Spain and Portugal are top of the list."
2012-05-09,"Australia's Federal Budget predicts returns to Surplus, leading developed countries across the globe."
2012-05-09,Switzerland: An Initiative to Establish Basic Income for All: The idea is quite simply giving a monthly income to all citizens that is neither means-tested nor work-related
2012-05-09,"China's results in international education tests -- which have never been published -- are ""remarkable"", says Andreas Schleicher, responsible for the highly-influential Pisa tests. The findings indicate that China has an education system that is overtaking many Western countries."
2012-05-09,"India's Constitution obliges all citizens to develop scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform. India's laws, though, are being used to persecute a man who has devoted his life to doing precisely that. "
2012-05-09,9 men convicted in racially sensitive U.K. sex ring; girls as young as 13 were lured into sexual encounters using alcohol and drugs
2012-05-09,Russian plane disappears over Indonesia
2012-05-09,"David Cameron texted Rebekah Brooks before she quit News International, claims biography: ''Sorry I couldn't have been as loyal to you as you have been to me"""
2012-05-09,"South Africa seizes $7m in 'rhino-poachers' assets: The men, two of whom are vets, are already facing 1,872 charges of racketeering."
2012-05-09,"Seniors urged to eat Fukushima rice to help farmers, protect young people"
2012-05-09,Female Assassin Team Leader tied to at least 20 Murders in Mexico
2012-05-09,"every communication technology so far been ""'captured' by corporate power"""
2012-05-09,"NATO Admits Killing Afghan Mother, 5 Children in Air Strike "
2012-05-09,German Leaders Threaten End to Greek Aid
2012-05-09,"Dolphins Die of Drug Overdose after Swiss Rave
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2012-05-09,"Putin's Inauguration Was A Military Operation, Not A National Celebration - Forbes"
2012-05-09,'Anonymous' hackers expose Norway rivals
2012-05-09,Crisis-Hit Portugal Axes Holidays - Portugal takes austerity measures to a new level by scrapping 4 of its 14 public holidays
2012-05-09,Spain is becoming the new Greece 
2012-05-09,Bulgarian and Romanian Immigrants Overwhelm German System - SPIEGEL ONLINE
2012-05-09,Thai Grandfather Jailed for Text Messages Dies in Prison 
2012-05-09,"Queens speech unveils UKs Patriot Act Web 
monitoring plan"
2012-05-09,Peru drug clinic fire kills 14 people locked inside:  Privately run Sacred Heart of Jesus rehab centre outside Lima had windows and doors locked and barred
2012-05-09,Russian plane disappears in demonstration flight in Indonesia
2012-05-08,2012 vs. 1984: Young adults really do have it harder today - The Globe and Mail
2012-05-08,China Expels Al Jazeera's news operations
2012-05-08,"Pirate Party Wins Again, Enters Another Parliament: The German Piratenpartei has done it again, and entered its third state parliament - with 8.2% of the votes, the pirates take 6 out of 69 seats
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2012-05-08,BBC News - China buying oil from Iran with yuan
2012-05-08,Greek neo-Nazi party expels journalists
2012-05-08,South Korean IAEA nuclear inspector killed in Iran
2012-05-08,Thai Jailed for Royal Insult Dies - He was sentenced to 20 years for sending text messages deemed offensive to the royal family.  The conviction - the heaviest for a lese majeste case - sparked outrage among rights groups describing him as a political prisoner & the EU expressing ''deep concern''.
2012-05-08,"1,600 on hunger strike and the world doesnt even bat an eyelid: Compelling eyewitness dispatch from the Israeli internment jails threatening a new Arab Spring"
2012-05-08,"Mankind must change ways to survive, report says"
2012-05-08,"Ive never seen police act like this
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2012-05-08,"If the left doesn't lead the revolt against austerity, others will"
2012-05-08,German Pirate Party Scores More Seats In State Election
2012-05-08,Planner of 2000 USS Cole Bombing Killed by Drone Strike in Yemen
2012-05-08,UK Gov't Considering Requiring A 'Porn License' If You Want To Look At Porn Online
2012-05-08,What Is the World's Most Economically Powerful City?
2012-05-08,China and US to co-operate to avoid cyber Cold War
2012-05-08,"Runner has heart attack, Dustin Hoffman saves his life"
2012-05-08,"As China warns the Philippines that confrontation over an island in the South China Sea could worsen, The Philippines' Philex Petroleum Corp discusses a possible partnership with Chinese offshore oil producer CNOOC to develop a natural gas prospect in the disputed South China Sea, "
2012-05-08,Putin inaugurated for third term as Russia's president
2012-05-08,Playboy model steals the show at Mexican election debate
2012-05-08,Francois Hollande's election as French president was greeted by jitters on European markets and a dour front in Berlin where ruling conservatives warned the Socialist on Monday that Germans were not ready to pay for his promises of an end to austerity.
2012-05-08,The Interior Minister of Germany's western state of North Rhine-Westphalia has ordered a ban on far-right groups displaying Mohammed caricatures which provoked riots in Bonn on Saturday.  
2012-05-08,"Israel's Netanyahu strikes surprise coalition deal:  Netanyahu calls off early elections after reaching a deal with Kadima opposition for a unity government
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2012-05-08,Thai Man Jailed for Insulting King Dies in Detention 
2012-05-08,Attempt to form Greece government fails after shock poll | Reuters
2012-05-07,"Worried about online porn? Don't regulate the net  regulate your kids.
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2012-05-07,"South Korea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh (Ground up dead babies)
			News.com.au"
2012-05-07,Church of Kopimism Weds First Couple: encourages the newlyweds to copy and remix some DNA-cells and create a new human being.
2012-05-07,Greek neo-nazi party blows past expectations and enters parliament in Greek elections; leader's victory march includes anti-immigrant chants and ordering journalists to stand for him at press conference.
2012-05-07,Socialist candidate Franois Hollande elected President of France.
2012-05-07,nationalist neo nazi party has been elected into the greek parliament 
2012-05-07,Kuwait To Punish Insults Against Islam Or Muhammad With Death
2012-05-07,"India has developed a missile defence shield, which can be put in place at short notice to protect at least two cities, bringing the country on a par with an elite group of nations."
2012-05-07,Swiss politician offered mom and daughter to cannibals
2012-05-07,200 troops defect from Sudan to South Sudan after refusing to attack oil fields. 
2012-05-07,Merkel's party suffers setback in regional election - Pirate Party enters 3rd German state parliament.
2012-05-07,"The leader of an extreme-right, anti-immigrant party on course for shock success in Greece's general elections Sunday lashed out at those he described as ""traitors"" responsible for the country's financial crisis and said his party was ushering in a ""revolution."""
2012-05-07,"South Korea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh |
			Adelaide Now"
2012-05-07,Al-Qaida releases video of American hostage
2012-05-07,"US airstrike kills senior al-Qaida leader in Yemen
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2012-05-07,Malaysia issues fatwa banning Muslims from street demonstrations
2012-05-07,NATO strike 'kills civilians' in Afghanistan
2012-05-07,"A winner in France, alarm in Greece: ""The euro dropped in Asian trading as markets tried to digest not only the long-expected rise of the first Socialist president in France in 17 years, but also the electoral earthquake that took place in Greece on the same night."""
2012-05-07,North Korea Thanks Its Schoolchildren for Building Such Nice Rocket Tanks: 'That the state would actually boast its use of child labor for building Multiple-launch rocket systems is a reminder of the extent to which military nationalism has twisted North Korean society.'
2012-05-07,"U.N. chief says killings in Syria ""intolerable"" situation - CNBC"
2012-05-07,Pro-austerity parties punished in Greece vote
2012-05-07,Stradivarius cello broken in accident in Spain
2012-05-07,"Mali: Islamist Rebels Now In Control Of Timbuktu Destroy Tomb of Saint, Designated UN World Heritage Site"
2012-05-07,More news in Europe. Anti-austerity Greek party wins 60% of seats in parliament
2012-05-07,Azerbaijan Tower Will Be The Worlds Tallest Building On 2022
2012-05-06,"My Scientology Excommunication - 
I was one of the world's top 50 church members -- then one mistake changed my life"
2012-05-06,Russians protest over Putin's return as president
2012-05-06,The Roman Catholic Church has protected evil for too long
2012-05-06,"""File-sharing was firmly on the agenda when the head of the US DHS visited the Australian capital last week. The four new agreements were less about sharing season two of Game of Thrones and more about sharing the private, govt held information of Australian citizens with U.S. authorities."""
2012-05-06,"Nuclear-free Japan braces for severe power shortages
- Reuters"
2012-05-06,"Peru warns people to stay off beaches as it investigates  mysterious deaths of hundreds of dolphins & seabirds - Over 1,000 birds, mostly pelicans, have washed up dead, after hundreds of dolphins died in the same area"
2012-05-06,France's Sarkozy Set For Defeat by Socialist
2012-05-06,Socialist Franois Hollande is the new president of France
2012-05-06,"The Rise in the Number of Farm Animals Being Slaughtered by Having Their Throats Cut While Fully Conscious is ""Unacceptable"", says former president of the British Veterinary Association - Calls for action to curb throat-cutting without prior stunning, as it can cause unnecessary suffering

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2012-05-06,Thousands in Jordan call for end of peace treaty with Israel
2012-05-06,McAfee Founder Arrested in Belize on 'Bogus' Charges
2012-05-06,Proposed bill in Canada would make it illegal to conceal your identity during riots or unlawful assemblies 
2012-05-06,Mali rebels burn Timbuktu tomb listed as U.N. World Heritage site - CNN.com
2012-05-06,Japan shuts off nuclear power as thousands celebrate
2012-05-06,"Never Mind Europe. Worry About India: The economic slowdown in India is one of the worlds biggest economic stories, but it is commanding only a modicum of attention..."
2012-05-06,Moscow Police arrest top opposition figures after protest on eve of Vladimir Putin's inauguration 
2012-05-06,Israel's Supreme Court criticizes government for backtracking on demolition of West Bank outpost
2012-05-06,"A northeastern town has declared the king of Spain an unwelcome person, dealing another blow to the 74-year-old monarch who has faced scalding criticism for going on an elephant hunting trip during a severe financial crisis."
2012-05-06,UK PM David Cameron agreed to a meeting with one of Rupert Murdoch's senior executives that was arranged by the lobbyist now at the centre of the Jeremy Hunt scandal
2012-05-06,Europes far right is the true winner of Frances presidential election. - Slate Magazine
2012-05-06,Greek Neo-Nazis enter parliament according to exit polls
2012-05-06,Iran Elections 2012: Ahmadinejad Routed By Rivals 
2012-05-06,Quebec student strike may force election.
2012-05-06,"Documents allege money-laundering lapses at HSBC
| Reuters"
2012-05-06,"""France has voted for change. For only the second time during the Fifth Republic the people have voted to put a socialist in the Elysee Palace...For Europe too this is a momentous event. For a long time the centre right has held the stage; now a socialist has won and European politics will feel the"""
2012-05-05,"In its case against 26 major record labels at BC Supreme Court in Canada, BitTorrent index isoHunt argues that not only do they pose no threat to the music industry, its the copyright industry itself thats threatening the freedom of expression of millions on the Internet"
2012-05-05,Canada Quits Making Pennies - Says the coin was too expensive to produce & no longer needed for business
2012-05-05,"Muslim scientist at CERN sentenced to 4 years for exchanging three dozen messages, some encrypted, with Al Qaedas regional affiliate in Algeria."
2012-05-05,"Kuwait parliament passes death penalty for Muslims who curse God, the Muslim holy book, all prophets and the wives of Mohammed. Non Muslims will get 10 years imprisonment.
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2012-05-05,Disabled couple thrilled they'll be able to keep their baby
2012-05-05,Police recover memory card from hang glider pilot who swallowed it after a woman fell to her death from his glider. All data expected to be intact.
2012-05-05,TPB and other large BitTorrent sites are now being blocked by ISPs in India
2012-05-05,"Bodies hung from bridge as 23 more die in Mexico drug war: Human heads dumped at Nuevo Laredo city hall as part of gruesome display of power by warring cartel
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2012-05-05,"Fighting A Last-Ditch Battle To Save the Rare Javan Rhino: In Indonesia, conservation groups are engaged in a desperate struggle to save the last 40 Javan rhinos on earth"
2012-05-05,"Fourteen beheaded corpses found in Nuevo Laredo, hours after nine bodies were discovered hanging from a bridge"
2012-05-05,Thousands march as Japan switches off last nuclear reactor
2012-05-05,Al-Qaeda planned message to convert Ireland to Islam
2012-05-05,Revolution in Yemen: 'We are not finished yet' - USATODAY.com
2012-05-05,"Islamic Insurgents Kill 13, Wound 130 In Suicide Bomb Attack In Russias Dagestan Republic"
2012-05-05,"11 injured, including 4 police officers, as Quebec student protest turns violent - The Globe and Mail"
2012-05-05,"A teenager blew himself up near a Pakistani market close to the Afghan border Friday, killing 20 people"
2012-05-05,Greenpeace activists arrested after boarding Arctic-bound icebreaker in Sweden - The Washington Post
2012-05-05,China's iPad Generation - Meet the children left behind when their parents go to the factory
2012-05-05,"Iraq's unity tested by rising tensions over oil-rich Kurdish region:  As Iraqi Kurdistan ramps up oil production that could soon surpass Libya's output, Kurdish leaders have warned they may seek independence if disputes over oil revenues, power-sharing aren't resolved."
2012-05-05,Man struck by lightning in scrotum
2012-05-05,AFP: 23 dead in day of horror for Mexico border city
2012-05-05,Boris Johnson wins second term as London mayor 
2012-05-05,Ben Goldacre: Piratebay is blocked. The state is monitoring your web traffic. No problem: it's time for a VPN
2012-05-05,BBC Technology: Wind-blown landmine clearance
2012-05-05,"Gorbachev praises democratic Russia   There are more free people in Russia than ever before, believes former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. "
2012-05-04,"Vogue bans skinny, underage models - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)"
2012-05-04,German Court Won't Let Artist Kill Puppies Onstage - The performer planned to strangle 2 puppies to death on stage & hold a funeral. The artist said it was a way of protesting the killing of sled dogs in Alaska & hunting dogs in Spain when they are deemed too old or otherwise unfit to work.
2012-05-04,"""Japans last reactor to shut down, leaving country nuclear-free for first time since 1966"" "
2012-05-04,Two Australian men likely to lose limbs after fighting with a chainsaw and samurai sword.
2012-05-04,"European e-identity plan to be unveiled this month under the guise ""to protect children online"""
2012-05-04,"Govt lets Natco sell Bayer's cancer drug cheaper by 30 times: ""In a first, India today invoked a law permitting Hyderabad-based Natco Pharma to manufacture and sell cancer-treatment drug Nexavar at a price, over 30 times lower than charged by its patent-holder Bayer Corporation."""
2012-05-04,"
Argentina has released a provocative advertisement that was filmed secretly on the Falklands and depicts the islands as ""Argentine soil"" in an apparent barb aimed at Britain ahead of the London 2012 Olympics"
2012-05-04,Putin's palace? A mystery Black Sea mansion fit for a tsar
2012-05-04,Three Photographers Found Dead in Mexico
2012-05-04,Forbes announces Peak Oil is here.
2012-05-04,"Libyan transitional government passes sweeping new law granting immunity to rebels, outlawing speech against Islam, restricting free speech, etc."
2012-05-04,A French court has sentenced a scientist at the prestigious Cern laboratory to five years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks. 
2012-05-04,Russia threatens to strike NATO missile defense sites  
2012-05-04,"Israel on Thursday received its fourth German-made submarine capable of launching nuclear warheads, expanding a fleet that experts say could be used in an attack on Iran."
2012-05-04,Nine bodies hung from bridge in northern Mexico (Picture in the comments)
2012-05-04,"Dozen killed, 120 wounded in Russia's Caucasus by twin blasts"
2012-05-04,"Countries around the world envy Germany's economic success and look up to it as a role model. But a closer look reveals a much bleaker picture. Only few are benefiting from the boom, while stagnant wages and precarious employment conditions are making it difficult for millions to make ends meet."
2012-05-04,Suicide bombing in Pakistani market kills at least 20...
2012-05-04,Man fly across Rio de Janeiro using a jet pack he built himself
2012-05-04,Busted: Iran's Jarring Photoshopped Missile Test Image. Jar jar binks and missiles. 
2012-05-04,Al-Qaida document cache reveals toll of US drone strikes on Bin Laden's plans
2012-05-04,EU digital affairs chief admits controversial ACTA treaty likely to fail  TheJournal.ie
2012-05-04,Dubai plans to build underwater hotel 
2012-05-04,"
Turner, Bacon, Freud, Constable? No, Britain is Banksy country - A thousand artists were asked to name the work best expressing national identity. Their choice was surprising
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2012-05-04,An Australian man will break his own record as the world's oldest graduate when he receives his masters degree at the age of 97.
2012-05-03,Russian Military threatens to make pre-emptive strike on US missile shield facilities
2012-05-03,'The Scream' sold for nearly $120 million 
2012-05-03,"Can an African 'green revolution' feed the world? -  If you only increase productivity by 50 percent in Africa, Africa will go from food deficit to food surplus. And that can be done with access to simple inputs that are available today."
2012-05-03,"Drunk Welsh tourists break into Sea World, swim with dolphins, and take off with a Penguin."
2012-05-03,"""What happened to Canada? It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the US became unpalatable. No nuclear weapons. No huge military-industrial complex. Universal health care. Funding for the arts. A good record on the environment. But that was the old Canada."""
2012-05-03,"An Indonesian civil servant who posted ""God doesn't exist"" on Facebook faces 11 years in Jail"
2012-05-03,"On Saturday, the last of the Japans's 50 usable nuclear reactors will be switched off, completely idling a power source that once supplied a third of the country's electricity."
2012-05-03,BBC News - Osama Bin Laden documents released
2012-05-03,BBC News - Two blind British men have electronic retinas fitted
2012-05-03,"Crop scientists appeal to anti-GM protesters not to trash a field trial of GM wheat at a day of action later this month: Scientists hope the new variety of GM crop will repel aphids and so not require insecticide
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2012-05-03,Body piercing trend rises among Saudi women for reasons ranging from cosmetic to wanting to defy societal norm.
2012-05-03,Hobo cop: New tactic aims to catch drivers without seat belts and using cellphones on the road
2012-05-03,"Syrian University raided by regime, four students 
killed. "
2012-05-03,"Turkey angry at ratings agency Standard and Poor's for lowering its outlook and raising Greece's - ""From now on, we do not recognize you as a ratings agency"""
2012-05-03,"Barclays shareholders demonstrated their mounting anger over runaway boardroom pay, delivering a huge protest against Barclays pay policies  including the 17m package for CEO Bob Diamond"
2012-05-03,Israel to set up military censor to monitor social media
2012-05-03,"Spain Slams Bolivia Power Grid Nationalization  - Spain warns Bolivia its take over of the Spanish company that owned most of its grid will hurt the Latin American country's image among international investors.
 Madrid promises to make sure Bolivia pays a fair price for the forced takeover."
2012-05-03,"In the painful tumult of daily protests, an entire generation of Qubcois youth is learning a political lesson no class would ever teach: violence underlies all of society's inequalities, and power doesn't yield an inch without a fight"
2012-05-03,"EU Austerity Feeding Racism, Report Says - 
Austerity measures & populist election rhetoric are feeding an increase in racism & racist violence, the Council of Europe warns"
2012-05-03,Australia delays F-35 fighter orders to aid budget
2012-05-03,More than 500 dead pelicans have been found on a 40-mile stretch of the country's northern coast.
2012-05-03,Osama bin Laden's last words show dark days for al Qaeda
2012-05-03,"German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan facing allegations that she plagiarized parts of her dissertation, published in 1980"
2012-05-03,"Bolivian Soldiers Walked Into This Spanish Power Company, Hung A Flag And Seized Control"
2012-05-03,Norway whalers take first whales of hunting season: official
2012-05-02,"Tsunami motorcycle washes up in Canada, owner located in Japan. Now Harley Davidson wants to restore it for him."
2012-05-02,"The Vatican backs Ireland's most senior churchman who failed to protect children from paedophile priests, even though he knew who they were, and who was abusing them.."
2012-05-02,Protestors just say no to Dutch cannabis ban
2012-05-02,Motorola wins Xbox and Windows 7 ban in Germany
2012-05-02,"Israel orders 1,000 Palestinian trees uprooted"
2012-05-02,The Pirate Party (founded on protecting internet privacy and free downloads for personal use) is emerging as the leading 3rd party in Germany
2012-05-02,What the recession looks like in Spain. (24.4% unemployment in pictures.)
2012-05-02,"Jamming signals thought to be from North Korea have affected GPS navigation on at least 250 flights since Saturday, South Korean officials say."
2012-05-02,"Quebec student protests mark 'Maple spring' in Canada.  A revolt against a government tuition fee hike is growing into Occupy-inspired dissent against austerity and inequality
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2012-05-02,"Cannabis - Britain's growth industry: A clandestine industry has sprung up in the bedrooms, living rooms, cellars and roof tops. Some do it for personal use, others grow cannabis for organised criminal networks who make millions out of what they know is a comparatively low risk, high-profit crime."
2012-05-02,"After 50 years, Cubans hope to travel freely. One senior official says a ""radical and profound"" change is weeks away."
2012-05-02,"Eleven people were killed and more than 160 wounded near Egypt's Defence Ministry on Wednesday after armed men assaulted protesters demanding an end to army rule, prompting two Islamist candidates to suspend their presidential election campaigns."
2012-05-02,"Irelands Catholic leader defends role in cover-up of priests child abuse, says he wont quit"
2012-05-02,Court bans Microsoft products from German market
2012-05-02,Russian police arrest gay rights activists at May Day rally
2012-05-02,S&P Upgrades Greece Out Of Default 
2012-05-02,Rupert Murdoch's Fox broadcast licences targeted by US ethics group
2012-05-02,Bolivia nationalises electrical grid taking over Spanish-owned company
2012-05-02,Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng says he left his refuge in the US embassy in Beijing after Chinese authorities made death threats to family members.
2012-05-02,News International may have hacked other murdered children's phones
2012-05-02,What Finland Can Teach China:  A focus on daycare rather than rote learning is why Finnish students have some of the best global test scores. Chinese students might be more creative if they took a leaf out of their book.
2012-05-02,Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi sworn in as member of parliament
2012-05-02,Cesium exceeding new limit detected in 51 food items in nine prefectures
2012-05-02,Sarkozy doesn't win debate
2012-05-02,"Saudi Arabian Mufti, Says Girls Ready For Marriage At 10 Years Old "
2012-05-01,"""We conclude therefore that Rupert Murdoch is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company"""
2012-05-01,Bare Statistics of Rhinos Being Slaughtered Horrifying -  They're being killed in such unprecedented numbers that there are realistic fears they could be wiped from the face of the planet within a generation
2012-05-01,"Mayors of eight British Columbia cities call on the provincial govt to legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana"
2012-05-01,"Documents found encoded in porn reveal al Qaeda's plans for seizing cruise ships, and cause carnage in Europe - CNN.com"
2012-05-01,Report: Guns used in Mexico for lawyer's murder traced to ATF operation
2012-05-01,The Pirate Bay copyright crackdown is unsustainable
2012-05-01,"Air France Flight 447: 'Damn it, were going to crash - -- Airbus went down three years ago in equatorial waters between Brazil and Africa. 228 dead. Two years to find flight recorders, another year to write report. Official verdict: Pilot error. But why didn't other crew members intervene?"
2012-05-01,"An engineering mom leads effort to save an old-growth Russian forest
Yevgenia Chirikova found out a national forest was quietly being sold off. What she did to try to save it may change Russia forever"
2012-05-01,"Once poster child of crisis, Iceland recovers"
2012-05-01,"The dolphin-hunting Japanese town of Taiji, made infamous by the Oscar-winning documentary ""The Cove"", plans to open a marine mammal park where visitors can swim with the creatures"
2012-05-01,"Rick Falkvinge addresses the German Pirate Partys General Assembly, with 2800 people gathered in Neumnster  the largest party assembly in Germanys democratic history"
2012-05-01,The Secret War in Yemen: did anyone else know that this was going on?
2012-05-01,"Canadians were never told the true cost of a $114-billion ""secret bailout"" for the country's biggest banks during the financial crisis, says a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives."
2012-05-01,Malaysia Enacts Minimum Wage
2012-05-01,"Israel ex-spy chief slams Netanyahu over Iran, ""I really don't have faith in a leadership that makes decisions out of messianic feelings."""
2012-05-01,"Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung (""father of peace studies"") defends 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' and says Jewish influence was one of the factors leading to Auschwitz."
2012-05-01,BBC News - Turkey to write first fully civilian constitution
2012-05-01,Counter-coup attempt underway in Mali
2012-05-01,Europe takes hard look at nations that allowed U.S. interrogations
2012-05-01,"Debris believed to be from the Japan tsunami are surfacing in Washington State, Alaska and British Columbia, and scientists say the mess will be there for generations."
2012-05-01,"El Salvador holds its breath after day without murders:  Scepticism in barrios, where residents say people are still disappearing despite truce between powerful gangs"
2012-05-01,"Ethiopians could still go hungry despite economic gains
With its population of 91 million expected to double in the next 22 years, and a drier climate, Ethiopia will have trouble feeding its people, a new report says."
2012-05-01,Harley Davidson with Japan license plates washes up on Canadian coast.
2012-05-01,"Protesters Deploy, Police Brace for May Day Protests [Updated]"
2012-05-01,"""How Boko Haram attacks have changed the Maiduguri where I grew up"" - Jimeh Saleh of BBC Hausa returns to his home town of  in  Nigeria for 1st time in almost a year to find it's a mere shell of its once lively self, following a spate of deadly attacks by the Boko Haram Islamist group."
2012-04-30,UN adds Israel to the list list of states limiting human rights organizations
2012-04-30,Australian billionaire to build Titanic II: An almost exact replica of the original
2012-04-30,Five major UK internet service providers ordered to prevent users from accessing The Pirate Bay
2012-04-30,"Obama signs off $192 million in aid to Palestinian Authority, after it was frozen by the US Congress "
2012-04-30,"Vatican 'accepted one billion lire' to bury crime boss in basilica next to former popes
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2012-04-30,"""Most Israeli citizens don't want a war with Iran"""
2012-04-30,China Shuts Down Coca Cola Plant After Whistleblower Reports Excess Chlorine
2012-04-30,China to loan South Sudan $8 billion to get started
2012-04-30,"Most Israeli Citizens Don't Want a War with Iran - 
Binyamin Netanyahu & western hawks who seek an early strike are ignoring Israel's security experts & people"
2012-04-30,"""The French-led counter-attack and rumblings of revolt through every branch of the EU institutions last week have brought this aberrant phase of the eurozone crisis to an abrupt end. 'It's not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe,' said Franois Hollande...Strong words even for the hustings"""
2012-04-30,Montreal taxi hit and run caught on video
2012-04-30,Nigeria: 10 killed as motorcyclist suicide bomber targets police commissioner convoy  
2012-04-30,Motorcycle washed up in B.C. may be Japanese tsunami debris
2012-04-30,Tehran police in new dress code crackdown
2012-04-30,"Kim Dotcom fights back, may bring down a Member of Parliament and former Mayor of Auckland for campaign donations."
2012-04-30,"A former prostitute plans to sue the U.S. Embassy in Brazil, alleging that members of its security team in December threw her from a van and ran over her."
2012-04-30,Ex-Libyan Oil Minister found dead in Austria-Body found in the Danube River - Police say there were no signs of external violence
2012-04-30,The Qatar Bubble - By Blake Hounshell | Foreign Policy
2012-04-30,"Mexican journalist found dead: Authorities believe Regina Martnez, who often wrote about drug cartels in Veracruz, was murdered"
2012-04-30,Pakistan Condemns U.S. Airstrike After Drone Ban
2012-04-30,Solar power in India: Waiting for the sun -- Is the sun the answer to Indias energy problems?
2012-04-30,Historic Rwandan genocide trial starts Monday in Ottawa
2012-04-30,Israel begins building border wall with Lebanon
2012-04-30,"Former Mossad chief backs Shin Bet counterpart over criticism of Netanyahu, Barak"
2012-04-30,"Russia's xenophobia problem:  Putin vows to tighten immigration laws to curb Russia's large waves of foreigners, but critics worry this will only make life more dangerous for illegal migrants.
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2012-04-29,Canada announces that foreign workers can now be paid 15% less than Canadians.
2012-04-29,Major UK Supermarket Chain Boycotts Israeli Settlement Goods
2012-04-29,"Egypt Islamists upend race by backing liberal:  ""'There is no compulsion in religion,' which he interprets to mean that the state should not compel people to follow religious rules."""
2012-04-29,"Bahrain ministry is using social media to urge people to vote against a movie which is nomiated for BAFTA TV awards, the film shows a darker side of Bahrain which the ministry is trying to hide. Be a part of this Streisand-Effect and vote for the Bahrain film."
2012-04-29,Cruise ship crew earning 75p ($1.22) per hour to have tips withheld unless targets are hit
2012-04-29,Major UK food retailer boycotts 4 Israeli companies
2012-04-29,North Korea stages mass dance and military parade in tribute to Kim il-Sung. Visually impressive. 
2012-04-29,China rounds up family and friends of blind activist Chen Guangcheng after his escape from house arrest
2012-04-29,KFC Ordered to Pay $8.3 Million to Australian Girl Paralyzed After Eating a Twister Wrap - Monika Samaan was 7 when she suffered salmonella encephalopathy -- a brain injury linked to food poisoning that also left her with a blood infection and septic shock 
2012-04-29,Libya ex-Minister Shukri Ghanem found dead in Danube River
2012-04-29,"UK puts missiles on London rooftop to guard Olympics
| Reuters"
2012-04-29,Israeli navy arrests crew of Gaza fishing boat for fishing outside the Israeli set limits of Gaza's fishing zone (3 na. miles). Oslo peace accords granted 20.
2012-04-29,Are Mexicans giving up on U.S?
2012-04-29,Politicians braced for backlash as Europe turns against austerity 
2012-04-29,"Mohamed ElBaradei launches new Egyptian political party:  Nobel peace prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei said its aim was to unite Egyptians behind democracy.
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2012-04-29,"Police unleashed tear gas and chemical-laced water Saturday at thousands of demonstrators who staged one of Malaysias largest street rallies in years, demanding fair rules for national elections expected soon."
2012-04-29,Nigerian University Hit With Explosions
2012-04-29,BBC News - South Sudan 'agrees $8bn deal with China'
2012-04-29,What's Behind Europes Spike in Suicides?
2012-04-29,Vitali Klitschko on Tymoshenko Case: 'Ukraine Is Becoming Increasingly Authoritarian'  - The boxer and pro-democracy activist talks about the worsening situation in his country and the case of the jailed opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko. 
2012-04-29,"Escaped blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng is safe in US Embassy in Beijing, friend says; he said Chen scaled a high wall at night to escape his house arrest, and hurt his leg after jumping off"
2012-04-29,US 'expands Yemen drone strikes policy'
2012-04-29,"UPDATE 1-Lebanon impounds ship carrying Libyan weapons
| Reuters"
2012-04-29,"South Africa: Gold miners sue over lung disease -- Apartheid conditions gave black miners incurable silicosis, say experts.
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2012-04-29,Gaddafi put up 50M euro for Sarkozys presidential bid  report
2012-04-28,Dutch government decrees that all cannabis cafes are off-limits to tourists
2012-04-28,"Irish Catholic priests say they will not report confessions of child sexual abuse when revealed to them by parishioners in the confessional; under a proposed law, every person in Ireland is obliged to report suspected sexual abuse of children and vulnerable adults to police"
2012-04-28,"Japan Emperor and the Empress want cut-price funerals:  The Emperor and the Empress of Japan have stated they wish to be cremated in cut-price funerals after their deaths, breaking with 350 years of tradition. "
2012-04-28,"""After 115 Years, It's Time for Zionism to Retire"" - Gideon Levy, Leading Israeli Columnist"
2012-04-28,Spain's unemployment rate now at 24.4%
2012-04-28,Loneliness becoming 'norm' in Japan
2012-04-28,"Royal Society Calls for Redistribution of Wealth & More Birth Control to Save Planet - During its 352-year life span, the human population has risen from less than a billion to 7 billion & counting. 23 scientists spent 21 months studying the problem, resulting in  3 recommendations:"
2012-04-28,"Quebec Student Protests: ""Canada can point to high tuition fees and ask why Quebecers aren't paying more. Or we could ask why we're paying so much. ... but it's a matter of priorities. Perhaps the rest of the country should ask itself why cheap tertiary education isn't one..."""
2012-04-28,Romania's Government Collapses
2012-04-28,"We are rid of Murdoch and that is worth celebrating.
But the villain of the piece did not do it all by himself. Leading figures from many walks of life have enabled his dark side
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2012-04-28,Israel leadership 'misleading public' on Iran - ex-security chief says 
2012-04-28,"Britain's Richest Set New Record - 
The UKs richest people are getting even wealthier despite the recession"
2012-04-28,"Israel's former Shin Bet chief: I have no confidence in Netanyahu, Barak
Yuval Diskin accuses Israel's leaders of misleading the public on Iran, says they are making decisions 'based on messianic feelings.'"
2012-04-28,"Northern Ireland police find 600 pound unexploded bomb in abandoned van; it was found in Newry, Northern Ireland, near the border with the Republic of Ireland"
2012-04-28,Lebanon stops ship with Syria-bound weapons - Ship originally from Libya and loaded with arms reportedly destined for Syrian opposition is stopped by Lebanese navy.
2012-04-28,London 2012: Missiles may be placed at residential flats
2012-04-28,Spain to persist in suicidal austerity policies despite 25% unemployment rate
2012-04-28,Study of the Day: Even the Religious Lose Faith When They Think Critically
2012-04-28,Egyptian protests over detained lawyer shut Saudi embassy
2012-04-28,"Prince of Liechtenstein Threatens to Quit - The tiny principality has been rattled by a war of words between activists who want to revoke the royal veto & the hereditary prince, who has threatened to quit if they do. "
2012-04-28,Police Fire Tear Gas as Thousands Defy Malaysian Protest Ban
2012-04-28,New photo shows work at North Korea nuclear test site
2012-04-28,Former head of Israeli internal security agency says attacking Iran would encourage Iran to speed its nuclear bomb plans
2012-04-28,Pakistan's spy agency seeks some credit for bin Laden's death: The lead and the information actually came from us
2012-04-28,"Uzbekistan: End Forced, Child Labor in Cotton Fields"
2012-04-27,Incredible. A blind Chinese activist escapes 90 guards and posts video exposing his abuse under house arrest
2012-04-27,"India approved 'Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Bill 2011', which would make sexual contact with a girl below the age of 18 a criminal offence, even if it is consensual."
2012-04-27,"Montreal student protest march declared illegal - Montreal police declared a march by protesting students illegal, less than an hour after the demonstration began Thursday night."
2012-04-27,"Australian Govt. raises super tax on high-income earners of over $300,000 a year, a move which is expected to earn the govt. over $1B"
2012-04-27,Hostage situation developing in central London
2012-04-27,"After two decades of examining a microscopic algae-eater that lives in a lake in Norway, scientists on Thursday declared it to be one of the world's oldest living organisms and man's remotest relative."
2012-04-27,Green clouds over Moscow spark disaster fears
2012-04-27,Dutch judge clears way for 'weed pass' aimed at preventing foreigners from buying marijuana in coffee shops
2012-04-27,Trump threatens to sue Scotland over wind farm plan
2012-04-27,Several Blasts injure 12 in east Ukraine city of Dnipropetrovsk
2012-04-27,"London - Man said to have six canisters strapped to him ""threatened to blow himself up"". Holding hostages in Starbucks."
2012-04-27,Scientists have called for a radical rethink of our relationship with the planet to head off what they warn could be economic and environmental catastrophe.
2012-04-27,"9,000 U.S. Marines to leave Okinawa"
2012-04-27,Netherlands judge to rule on cafe cannabis ban
2012-04-27,S&P Lowers Spain's Rating 
2012-04-27,"India successfully launches first indigenously built all-weather Radar Imaging Satellite, RISAT-1, with applications ranging from agriculture to natural disaster management"
2012-04-27,"Four bombs go off in Ukraine, schoolchildren among the injured"
2012-04-27,North Korean ICBMs shown at recent parades were poorly made fakes. Detailed analysis [PDF warning]
2012-04-27,"Spanish economy in ""huge crisis"" after credit downgrade, rise in unemployment to 24%"
2012-04-27,Dutch court upholds ban on foreigners buying pot
2012-04-27,African big game poaching surges on Asian affluence: The hit job was done by professionals who swooped over their quarry in a helicopter before opening fire.
2012-04-27,"Chen Guangcheng, the blind, self-taught lawyer known for his outspoken opposition to Chinas forced abortion and sterilization policies, has escaped from house arrest and posted a dramatic YouTube video calling on Premier Wen Jiabao to investigate his case and protect his family."
2012-04-27,"Norway: ""In keeping with the thoughts expressed by their Prime Minister, over 40,000 citizens expressed themselves outside the court in a way that would chill every would-be terrorist  by not being afraid."""
2012-04-27,Tottenham Court Road Offices Evacuated Over 'Bomb Threat'
2012-04-27,"In China, blame for the USC victims -- Hateful comments toward two Chinese graduate students killed near the campus spotlight the growing divide between haves and have-nots in China.
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2012-04-26,"India Girl Ends Child 'Marriage' - 
A young woman has her child marriage legally annulled in northern Rajasthan state, in what is thought to be the 1st case of its kind in India."
2012-04-26,The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (ALDE) in the European Parliament have just confirmed that they will reject ACTA
2012-04-26,"Dalai Lama: World belongs to 'humanity,' not leaders"
2012-04-26,"Norwegians to protest Breivik, singing song he hates
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2012-04-26,"Rupert Murdoch apologizes, admits phone-hacking 'cover-up'"
2012-04-26,"""They were calling us Asian dogs and pussies while they were beating us. When my friend tried to wipe blood from his nose, a teenaged girl stuffed my friend's mouth with her tampon removed from her pants."""
2012-04-26,Swiss woman dies after attempting to live on sunlight; Woman gave up food and water on spiritual journey  - NY Daily News
2012-04-26,Yorkshire's Robinson Crusoe: Brit who bought a cut-price island in the Seychelles 50 years ago... and still lives in blissful solitude with 120 giant tortoises
2012-04-26,"Cambodian police shoot anti-logging activist:  Chut Wutty, country's most outspoken environmental activist, shot dead by military police in remote forest region."
2012-04-26," Brazil Chooses Farmers Over Environmentalists, Clearing Way for More Destruction of the Amazon -  Brazil eases rules on how much land farmers must preserve as forest. Powerful farmers' lobby says it promotes sustainable food production. Environmentalists say it'll be a disaster."
2012-04-26,Russia: Is wearing a pink triangle a crime?  -- St. Petersburg's new anti-gay law is reminiscent of fascism.
2012-04-26,"Rick Falkvinge: A European Parliament majority is now against ACTA, but more activist pressure is needed!"
2012-04-26,"World needs to stabilise population and cut consumption, says Royal Society"
2012-04-26,To the left: a likely new direction for France and Germany
2012-04-26, Charles Taylor war crimes trial verdict - Guilty
2012-04-26,Analysts say a close look at pictures of North Korea's new missiles shows they're sloppy fakes
2012-04-26,"Over-consumption in rich countries and rapid population growth in the poorest both need to be tackled to put society on a sustainable path, a report says."
2012-04-26,"""Two Taiwanese nationals were arrested after they told American undercover agents they were working for 'associates' in the Chinese intelligence community and wanted to buy a surveillance drone and stealth technology related to the U.S.'s F-22 Raptor fighter jet, the FBI said in court documents"""
2012-04-26,"Thousands Sing Song Hated by Norway Killer - Facing terror with music, tens of thousands have gathered in squares across Norway to sing a children's song that gunman Anders Breivik claims is being used to brainwash young Norwegians"
2012-04-26,Egypt 'necrophilia law'?  As expected: total blather - CSMonitor.com
2012-04-26,The Children of Fallujah - the hospital of horrors 
2012-04-26,Catholic church urges pupils in England and Wales to sign anti-gay marriage petition
2012-04-26,Colin Firth launches campaign to save 'world's most threatened tribe'
2012-04-26,S. Korea curbs U.S. beef sales after confirmation of mad cow disease
2012-04-26,Israel backtracks on demolition of illegal West Bank settlement
2012-04-25,"Drug maker Novartis takes legal action in UK to make hospitals use $1,000 eye drug over $97 alternative"
2012-04-25,Unimaginable horror as helicopter-borne poachers massacre 22 elephants before hacking off their tusks and genitals
2012-04-25,"For first time since Depression, more Mexicans leave U.S. than enter"
2012-04-25,New Zealand considers $100-a-pack cigarettes to curb smoking
2012-04-25,"Iran not building a nuclear bomb, says Israeli Chief of Staff"
2012-04-25,"Russell Brand to UK MPs: Consider decriminalisation of drugs so money is spent on treatment, not punishment"
2012-04-25,Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in EU parliament rejects ACTA
2012-04-25,"The terrible price of defecting to North Korea, and later defecting from North Korea."
2012-04-25,'Careless Norwegian driver' gets 7 years after US toe squash
2012-04-25,The Grand Experiment: German Pirate Party Attempts to Reinvent Politics
2012-04-25,UK slides back into recession in first double dip since 1970s
2012-04-25,"Internet freedom must be protected, TD tells Council of Europe"
2012-04-25,Knesset members celebrate latest E. Jerusalem settlement by posing on evicted Palestinian family's sofa
2012-04-25,"Over 1,000 Palestinian inmates on hunger strike in Israel"
2012-04-25,"German high jumper Ariane Friedrich posts stalker's name, hometown, and parts of his alleged e-mail on her Facebook account.  Privacy debate ensues."
2012-04-25,Mein Kampf to be re-released with notes countering Hitler's arguments
2012-04-25,Kenya's High Court Rules Anti-Counterfeiting Law Is Unconstitutional Because It Threatens Access To Generic Drugs
2012-04-25,The UK is now officially in a double-dip recession.
2012-04-25,"Why is North Korea threatening to conduct a nuclear test? - First, to make up for the embarrassment of the failed missile; second, the regime's past nuclear tests didn't go very well."
2012-04-25,Murdoch turns heat on UK government  
2012-04-25,N. Korea vows to turn South's leadership to ashes
2012-04-25,"North Korean nuclear test could happen as early as Tuesday night, NBC reports"
2012-04-25,Israel army chief contradicts Netanyahu on Iran
2012-04-25,"Mexican refugee claimant murdered after deportation:  Veronica Castro, a Mexican woman who sought to stay in Canada, was murdered five weeks after being deported"
2012-04-25,"Libyan authorities ban the formation of political parties based on religious principles, tribe or ethnicity ahead of elections scheduled for June."
2012-04-24,"Asteroid Mining Venture Backed by Google Execs, James Cameron Unveiled"
2012-04-24,Putin to step down as United Russia leader
2012-04-24,"It can happen - Ontario, Canada's largest province, has decided to tax the rich in order to reduce its deficit faster..."
2012-04-24,"The Biggest Student Uprising Youve Never Heard Of: ""On an unseasonably warm day in late March, a quarter of a million postsecondary students and their supporters gathered in the streets of Montreal to protest against the Liberal governments plan to raise tuition fees by 75% over five years..."""
2012-04-24,Kazakhstan thanks Borat for 'boosting tourism'
2012-04-24,Obama to Declare Sanctions on Countries That Track Citizen Internet/Cell Phones
2012-04-24,The Biggest Student Uprising You've Never Heard Of [Quebec]
2012-04-24,South Sudan President: Sudan Has Declared War
2012-04-24,Former top MI6 officer attacks global war on drugs.
2012-04-24,"Fight Against Dutch Cannabis Caf Restrictions Heats Up: In Amsterdam, hundreds of coffee shop supporters staged a flash-mob smoke-in to protest the proposed changes"
2012-04-24,China offshores manufacturing to the U.S.
2012-04-24,Welcome to Kiev: city of beautiful women and a prospering sex industry
2012-04-24,"Jihadi Work Accident Kills Lebanons Most Wanted Terrorist In Syria, Fatah Al-Islam Leader Blown To Pieces While Planting Roadside Bomb With Syrian Rebels"
2012-04-24,UK Bomb plotter says Bin Laden's plan was to bring down the U.S. economy
2012-04-24,Arab Comedian Sentenced To Jail For Offending Islam 
2012-04-24,Indias Misplaced Priorities: It fires missiles that can go thousands of miles yet most people don't have electricity and can't get an education and are doomed to poverty. 
2012-04-24,"Report raises fear of South China Sea war:  The chances of a full-scale war erupting which could drag in China, the US, the Philippines and Vietnam are not as remote as one may think."
2012-04-24,"Michael Ignatief, Canada's ex Liberal Party leader, predicts the province of Quebec's secession in a near future, likely to be accelerated if Scotland votes for independence"
2012-04-24,"North Korea promised Monday to reduce South Korea's conservative government ""to ashes"" in less than four minutes, in an unusually specific escalation of recent threats aimed at its southern rival."
2012-04-24,"Chinese scientists have cloned a genetically modified sheep containing a ""good"" type of fat found naturally in nuts, seeds, fish and leafy greens that helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease."
2012-04-24,"Israeli refuses to recognize East Jerusalem Arab's residency even though it recognizes his sister and parents.   Thus he has no identity card, no passport, he cannot register for university studies, apply for a job, sign up for an HMO or open a bank account."
2012-04-24,"Spy found dead in locked bag hated 'flash car and drinking' culture of MI6, inquest hears   "
2012-04-24,"At Wal-Mart in Mexico, a Bribe Inquiry Silenced - NYTimes.com"
2012-04-24,North Korea issues unusually specific threat | The Envoy - Yahoo! News
2012-04-24,"Cuba Plans Massive Shift to ""Non-State"" Sector
 - It'll move nearly 50% of the states economic activity to the non-state sector, a senior Communist party official says, the latest signal the island is headed toward a mixed economy"
2012-04-23,US to sanction authoritarian regimes that block internet access for protesters
2012-04-23,White killer whale adult spotted for first time in wild
2012-04-23,Turkey says Israel not welcome at NATO summit
2012-04-23,"Norway Killer Picked Victims Who Had ""Leftist"" Look -- The man who killed 77 people last summer to protest at Muslim immigration to Europe said he believed he could tell the ideology of his prospective massacre victims by looking at them, and tried to spare one who appeared ""right-wing""."
2012-04-23,MI6 officer found dead in a locked hold-all. Coroner describes death as controversial
2012-04-23,Greenpeace took samples from nine well-known tea companies in China. Twelve of the 18 samples contained at pesticides.
2012-04-23,"Egypt cancels Israeli gas contract:  Termination of 20-year deal, which provided 40% of Israel's natural gas, seen as sign of fraying relations between allies
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2012-04-23,Iran oil sector hit by 'cyber attack'
2012-04-23,"""If this ruling is upheld, YouTube will be held liable for the contents uploaded by its users."" - New German law forcing Youtube to pay copyright fines"
2012-04-23,Tsunami-swept soccer ball found in Alaska; returned to Japanese teen
2012-04-23,"Hollande beats Sarkozy in French vote, both in round 
2"
2012-04-23,Thousands of scientists from 67 countries have called for an international agreement to close the Arctic high seas to commercial fishing until research reveals more about the freshly exposed waters
2012-04-23,Half of Iran's tanker fleet storing oil at sea - Unable to sell due to sanctions
2012-04-23,The U.S. military has stockpiled  $800 million worth of weapons in Israel. Israel may use the weapons in case of emergency. 
2012-04-23,"Dan Bull & Pirate Bay Attack the Music Charts With Sharing Is Caring: ""Dan attempts to break into the UK and international singles charts without the backing of a label and show that with the help of a free Internet and BitTorrent, there is another way."""
2012-04-23,Two-year-old boy with IQ of 154 made member of Mensa
2012-04-23,"CBS 60 Minutes on Palestinians Christians and why they are leaving: ""The exodus from the Holy Land of Palestinian Christians could eventually leave holy cities like Jerusalem and Bethlehem without a local Christian population."""
2012-04-23,"A Muslim mob set ablaze a Catholic church frequented by Southern Sudanese in the capital Khartoum, witnesses and media reports said on Sunday."
2012-04-23,Indian campaign demands 'Right to Pee' for women
2012-04-23,UN to investigate plight of US Native Americans for first time
2012-04-23,PM Rutte resigns: Dutch cabinet fell (Dutch source) 
2012-04-23,"On sixth day of trial for murder of 77 people, Breivik explains how he picked off ""Marxists"" with his rifle and pistol while passing over a young man he thought looked conservative."
2012-04-23,"U.N.: Crime is one of world's ""top 20 economies"""
2012-04-23,New Delhi's trash mountain is a livelihood and a home for many
2012-04-23,"A Russian man guzzled almost $5,000 worth of luxury black caviar in just 86 seconds in what is believed to be the world's first speed-eating contest centered around the expensive fish eggs."
2012-04-22,"
500 New Fairy Tales from the 1800s Discovered in 
Germany"
2012-04-22,Anonymous hacks Formula One servers and dumps redacted info on attendees of the event today in Bahrain in an effort to force media attention on the year-long violent crackdown against protesters
2012-04-22,Irish priest takes leave after accidentally showing indecent images to room full of parents after putting memory stick in laptop. 
2012-04-22,"Falkvinge: ""Sweden likes to pretend it champions net freedom, but does the exact opposite itself: did you know that Sweden has given the copyright industry powers of net surveillance that even the Police dont have?"""
2012-04-22,"Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart
After Top-Level Struggle: Confronted with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart executives focused more on damage control than on rooting out wrongdoing"
2012-04-22,"Health Canada: Some of the world's biggest food brands and leading organic labels have understated the amount of bad nutrients  such as fat, sugar and sodium  in their products, including Kraft, Frito Lay, Unilever and Heinz"
2012-04-22,Iran says it has recovered data from captured U.S. spy drone
2012-04-22,uzbekistan carrying out forced sterilisations
2012-04-22,"Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart
After Top-Level Struggle. Wal-Mart de Mexico orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance"
2012-04-22,"We Can Save the Aw Tribe - 
As the successful survival of other Amazon Indian tribes shows, protecting their way of life rather than imposing that of the west is the best way to keep them intact"
2012-04-22,Afghanistan's first female film director risks death to go to work every day
2012-04-22,Rage boils in Bahrain's streets but Grand Prix still on
2012-04-22,"Hollande top Sarkozy in French vote, Le Pen surges."
2012-04-22,"Iran has begun building a copy of the US surveillance drone it captured last year, after breaking its encryption codes, Iranian officials say."
2012-04-22,"120,000 Czechs march in Prague :They want an end to austerity cuts, the resignation of the government and early parliamentary elections."
2012-04-22,Vietnam Baffled by Skin Disease - Seeks international help for a mystery skin infection that's already killed 19 & made 170 others ill. It begins with a rash on the hands & feet: it can progress to liver problems & multiple organ failure. 
2012-04-22,Dutch Trains Collide; Dozens Injured
2012-04-22,BBC News - Close-up: The Dutch village with no roads
2012-04-22,"South Korea's own Missile Challenge: S. Korea has a missile with a range of up 1,000 to 1,500 kilometers, enabling it to strike anywhere within North Korean territory and  knock out any North Korean weapons. "
2012-04-22,"Tired of austerity, many Portuguese returning to the land:  Disillusioned by the unfulfilled promise of the cities and feeling stifled by tough austerity measures aimed at coping with an economic downturn, some Portuguese are opting out and returning to the land."
2012-04-22,"15 killed in Mexican bar - 
A group of masked gunmen stormed a popular bar in Chihuahua killing 15 people, including 2 journalists."
2012-04-22,"The Arab Spring may have helped usher in a new era of government surveillance - ""... about $50 worth of storage could keep the information identifying the individual locations of one million people, at five minute intervals, 24 hours a day, for a full year."""
2012-04-22,Satellite tracks Sudan oil damage
2012-04-22,"Bahrain Grand Prix: riot squads, teargas and petrol bombs as protesters claim police beat Shia gardener to death"
2012-04-22,"Trains collide in Amsterdam, 125 injured"
2012-04-21,Kenya rangers shoot dead five suspected poachers
2012-04-21,"Mayor Supports $800,000,000 Ancient Rome Theme Park Planned - in Rome__The idea, which may be funded by the Emir of Qatar, is to give tourists a chance to do things such as race chariots & take Roman baths. One critic likens the plan to building a zoo in the jungle. "
2012-04-21,Black firefighter 'tasered as he tried to help police' 
2012-04-21,Worlds Largest Solar Field Switched on in India
2012-04-21,"Coral gardens that were among Asia's most spectacular, teeming with colorful sea life just a few months ago, have been transformed into desolate gray moonscapes by illegal fishermen who use explosives or cyanide to kill or stun their prey."
2012-04-21,"Dutch government falls, loses majority support after Anti-Islam party walks out of spending cut-negotiations. New elections likely to be held later in 2012"
2012-04-21,Japan to write off $3.7bn Burma debt - Joint plans could give Japanese firms a head start in winning business in what is seen as one of Asia's last frontier markets
2012-04-21,"In a bid to quash an investigation into his wife for the murder of Neil Heywood, Bo Xilai had at least seven people seized and tortured two to death, according to a document read out to Chinese government officials. "
2012-04-21,Norwegians value respecting killer's human rights - even when he showed no respect for the lives of others
2012-04-21,"In Argentina's Dirty War 35 years ago, soldiers pushed pregnant women out of planes. Should Argentina prosecute them now? The Stubborn Past | Foreign Policy"
2012-04-21,Bahain: 'Man shot dead' in protest ahead of Grand Prix
2012-04-21,"Richard Benyon, the UK environment minister destroying what he is paid to protect: With his lucrative Benyon's Inclosure quarrying project, the environment minister risks a shameless conflict of interests"
2012-04-21,"BBC News - Gay marriage 'nothing to fear', say senior 
Anglicans"
2012-04-21,China warns of war against US over South China Sea
2012-04-21,Assassination plot foiled? Afghanistan arrests five with 11 tons of explosives
2012-04-21,Students protesting tuition hikes in Montreal begin to riot in response to police brutality and government neglect.  
2012-04-21,Kuwait: New Law Mandates Death Penalty For Anyone Who Insults Islam
2012-04-21,"Iranian diplomat accused of child molestation in Brazil - cites ""cultural differences"""
2012-04-21,Bahrain protester found dead. Salah Abbas Habib died after being beaten by riot police on eve of Bahrain Grand Prix.
2012-04-21,"Footage of Australian police shoot teenagers in joyride when pedestrians are threatened, then bashing one when he's lying on the ground"
2012-04-21,China warns India of arrogance over missile launch
2012-04-21,China: Political scandal over death of Neil Heywood draws attention to how Chinese officials make  and spend  ill-gotten fortunes
2012-04-21,Australian High Court rules against the Music and Movie industry in making ISP iiNet accountable for for illegal downloads.
2012-04-21,"Cops raid McDonald's in Denmark, arrest illegal workers.
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2012-04-21,Petrol bombs vs stun grenades: Clashes in Bahrain ahead of F1 Grand Prix
2012-04-20,"After an epic four year legal battle, the Australian High Court has upheld previous rulings that ISP iiNet is not responsible for the copyright infringements of its customers."
2012-04-20,"Poland Announces Complete Ban on Monsantos Genetically Modified Maize
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2012-04-20,Plane Crashes in Pakistan With 127 On Board
2012-04-20,"'Huge' Water Resources Exist Under Africa, by Matt McGrath of BBC News"
2012-04-20,"(RT)  A Sri Lankan woman is currently facing decapitation by sword on a witchcraft charge in Saudi Arabia, in accordance with Wahhabism, a strict form of Sunni Islam"
2012-04-20,Anonymous takes down Formula One website in suppport of Bahranini protests
2012-04-20,Critics say Vladimir Putin has amassed a secret multi-billion dollar fortune contrary to his modest 'man of the people' image; may be one of the richest in the world
2012-04-20,North Korea threatens to 'blow up' Seoul
2012-04-20,"Homosexuals inferior to dogs and pigs, says Iranian cleric"
2012-04-20,"""Convinced that the United States is in decline, China's distrust is growing of the longtime superpower which it sees as bent on holding back the Asian power's rise, an influential scholar says."""
2012-04-20,Australian High Court unanimously dismisses case that would force ISPs to be accountable for users illegal downloading
2012-04-20,"Foreign Policy: ""He's Not Alone: The trial of Norway's alleged mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is only the tip of the iceberg in a rising sea of radical Islamophobia in Europe."""
2012-04-20,"Vietnamese Seek Help with Mystery Illness - Health officials in Vietnam have international experts for help in identifying a strange illness that has killed 19 people, but so far defies explanation. "
2012-04-20,"Thousands of protesters have massed in Tahrir Square in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, to demonstrate against continuing military rule."
2012-04-20,"Australian High court throws out Hollywood Consortium appeal in favour of Aussie ISP iiNet - groundbreaking precedent set for all Common Law nations (Aus, UK, Canada) preventing ISPs from terminating customers for copyright infringement."
2012-04-20,Neil Heywood was killed after his threat to expose Chinese leader's wife
2012-04-20,Worlds richest 40 people worth $1 trillion.
2012-04-20,"North Korea has vowed to launch satellites ""one after another"", vigorously rejecting international condemnation of an April 13 launch that was seen overseas as a disguised ballistic missile test."
2012-04-20,Anders Breivik describes Norway island massacre
2012-04-20,Australian ISP iiNet wins historic copyright case brought against it by Hollywood
2012-04-20,"News Corp is ""Toxic Shadow State"" -- British MPs"
2012-04-20,Murdoch's News Corp facing growing legal threat in US
2012-04-20,Report: Plane with 127 aboard crashes in Pakistan
2012-04-20,Germany and France's joint proposal to allow Schengen-zone countries to temporarily reintroduce border controls as a means of last resort might sound harmless. But doing so would damage one of the strongest symbols of European unity and perhaps even contribute to the EU's demise.
2012-04-20,"A uniform combining the name of a police force with a private company logo is being worn in Lincolnshire, England"
2012-04-19,"Cruise Ship Saw Them, But Didn't Help Drifting Boat, Passengers Say - 
After 28 days at sea, only 1 of the 3 men aboard an injured Panama fishing boat was still alive"
2012-04-19,"Discovery of world's largest colony of leatherback 
sea turtle may see species removed from critically 
endangered list"
2012-04-19,"Soldier's daughter hacked to death, hunts down killers in 5 days"
2012-04-19,"China to Officially Stop Repatriating North Korean 
Refugees"
2012-04-19,Drifting fishermen died after luxury cruise liner sailed past but didn't stop
2012-04-19,"A video of a 17-year-old girl being gang raped spread by cell phones through South Africa on Wednesday, shocking a nation battling an epidemic of violence against women."
2012-04-19,"A new father in India became enraged when his wife gave birth to a girl. He then allegedly took out this frustration on the young infant, and has been accused of stuffing the young childs mouth with clothes, battering her with a blunt object and biting her. She passed away.."
2012-04-19,"India tests missile capable of reaching China, Europe"
2012-04-19,Bollywood actress kidnapped and beheaded by actors
2012-04-19,EU agrees to hand over airline passenger data to U.S
2012-04-19,New Bill in the UK wants internet to be censored from porn by default: The Bill wants technology for filtering out porn to be provided at point of sale on every Internet enabled electronic device that can download content
2012-04-19,Kim Jong-il calls for peace with South Korea in 'will'
2012-04-19,Rotting from within: The Massive Corruption in the Chinese Military
2012-04-19,A life destroyed by cowardly acid attack.
2012-04-19,"She calls herself the ""voice of the people,"" the anti-system candidate who will ensure social justice for the have-nots and purify a France she says is losing its voice to Europe and threatened by massive immigration and rampant Islamization."
2012-04-19,"3,000 Ancient Buddhas Unearthed in China"
2012-04-19,"Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor admitted that Iranian President Ahmadinejad never said Iran wanted to ""wipe Israel off the face of the map"" in an interview with Al Jazeera"
2012-04-19,"Merkel ally says Islam not part of Germany
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2012-04-19,Labour MP Tom Watson: News Corp operated like 'shadow state'
2012-04-19,"NZ ISP Issues First Music Piracy 3rd Strike: 6 months after the so-called Skynet law was introduced, local ISP TelstraClear has confirmed that one of its customers is the unlucky recipient of a third and final enforcement warning, delivered on behalf of RIANZ"
2012-04-19,Taliban commander turns himself in demanding $100 reward offered on his own 'Wanted' poster
2012-04-19,BBC News - South Korea deploys cruise missiles amid North tensions
2012-04-19,Spain Is Doomed: Why Austerity Is Destroying Europe ... but the beatings will continue until bond yields improve!
2012-04-19,"How the Goldman Vampire Squid Captured Europe: ""Europeans are being hoodwinked into relinquishing their cherished democracy to a rogue band of financial pirates, and the rest of the world is not far behind."""
2012-04-19,Australian human rights lawyer and WikiLeaks supporter is placed on a watch list and prevented from flying home without government permission
2012-04-18,Picture of Afghan Girl screaming after suicide bombing wins Pulitzer Prize
2012-04-18,EU may reject ACTA
2012-04-18,Batch of dinosaur eggs found in Russia's Chechnya region
2012-04-18,Inhabitants of Fucking to vote for namechange after $20K signs are stolen
2012-04-18,Israels Minister of Intelligence and Atomic Energy Agrees Ahmadinejad Never Said Israel 'Must Be Wiped Off the Map'
2012-04-18,Iranian Girl Jumps onto Ahmadinejads Car to lecture him about how to run his country. The president listened to what she had to say.
2012-04-18,Britain destroyed records of colonial crimes
2012-04-18,US: Strike on N. Korea Possible if Nuclear Test Held - KBS WORLD
2012-04-18,Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists - Features - Al Jazeera English
2012-04-18,"U.N. Wives Urge Syrian First Lady: ""Stop your husband"""
2012-04-18,Photographs apparently showing soldiers posing with body parts of a dead insurgent drew strong condemnation on Wednesday from American officials and the ambassador in Afghanis
2012-04-18,"The Australian government gives over $4 billion in direct subsidies to mining companies each year, according to a report commissioned by Australian activist group GetUp, aiming to pressure the feds to cut subsidies -




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2012-04-18,A newly-discovered field in Iran is considered among one of the biggest light crude oil fields discovered in the world in the past decade according to official news sources.
2012-04-18,Is humanity quietly abandoning a future in space?
2012-04-18,"Swedish Minister of Culture celebrates with the circumcision of ""negro cake"""
2012-04-18,"Saudi might soon set minimum marriage age
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2012-04-18,"Spanish king: ""I'm sorry, I made a mistake and it won't happen again."""
2012-04-18,Saudi Arabia: Readers respond to Saudi princesss call for change
2012-04-18,Union Activists are Being Murdered
2012-04-18,South Korean government moves to censor racist remarks online
2012-04-18,Dismembered bodies found in Mexico town:  Remains of 14 men found stuffed inside a minivan in Nuevo Laredo that is often a flashpoint for the country's drug war.
2012-04-18,"Civil liberties trump fight on terror, Canadians say: Large minority favour requiring citizens to carry I.D. cards at all times, poll finds"
2012-04-18,Netanyahu defends his comparison of Iran to the Nazi Holocaust
2012-04-18,"Angry North Korea threatens retaliation, nuclear test expected
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2012-04-18,U.S. Soldiers Pose With Bodies Of Suicide Bombers In Afghanistan 
2012-04-17,Ten police officers were arrested after the owner of a used auto-parts business filed a complaint accusing the officers of kidnapping and torturing him because he refused to pay them a bribe. He was burned to death inside his home in Juarez right before he was scheduled to testify. 
2012-04-17,About 150 Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in anti-education attack
2012-04-17,"The Supreme Court of Canada ruled ""that the current emergency wiretap provision that allows for surveillance without a court order is unconstitutional."""
2012-04-17,"Quebec shuts down Scientology-linked Narconon center for ""dangerous practices""; Narconon treated drug addicts with ""purification treatments"" concocted by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Scientology's medical claims are widely considered to be prime examples of quackery"
2012-04-17,"The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms ""has replaced the American Bill of Rights as the constitutional document most emulated by other nations."""
2012-04-17,"""While the presidents of Guatemala, Colombia, Costa Rica and El Salvador have voiced support for an end to the drug war, President Obama rejected their calls for drug legalization during high-level talks at the Summit of the Americas in Colombia."""
2012-04-17,Where do France's election candidates stand? Learn the French presidential candidates' stances on everything from economy and migration to foreign policy and the EU. 
2012-04-17,Palestinian man sentenced to death for selling home to Jews
2012-04-17,Israel forces tourist to pledge to avoid pro-Palestinian activities as condition for entry.
2012-04-17,Tim Berners-Lee urges UK Government to drop internet surveillance plans
2012-04-17,Prime Minister Julia Gillard says Australia will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan earlier than planned
2012-04-17,"Argentina has nationalised YPF, the former and once again state oil company, as a matter of public interest"
2012-04-17,King of Spain faces calls to abdicate after elephant hunt: The King of Spain who is recovering in hospital after injuring his hip during a fall while elephant hunting in Botswana faced calls to abdicate amid growing controversy over the trip. 
2012-04-17,Pakistan building its own fleet of military drones
2012-04-17,Former NASA Astrophysicist and Microsoft Chairman appointed interim prime minister of Mali.
2012-04-17,Spain Vows Argentina Trade War as Repsol Seeks $10.5 Billion
2012-04-17,"Canadian commercial airline pilot mistook the planet Venus for an oncoming aircraft, sending his own plane into a dive and injuring 16 people. "
2012-04-17,"Imagining Cuba after Chvez:   Venezuela provides Cuba with up to $15 billion a year, which helps offset the US embargo. But there is the real possibility Chvez may not win or survive another six-year term as president."
2012-04-17,"Earthquake reported in Chile -M6.5  - Hacienda La Calera, Chile 2012-04-17 03:50:17 UTC"
2012-04-17,"The Bollywood actress Meenakshi Thapar, who appeared in last year's thriller ""404,"" was recently kidnapped and murdered in a gruesome manner. "
2012-04-17,Volcano Erupts within View of Mexico City
2012-04-17,20 buried Spitfires found in Burma
2012-04-17,"Spanish King Juan Carlos spends 27,000 to murder elephants while his country drowns in debt and half of youngsters are jobless"
2012-04-17,"Baby with six legs born in Pakistan, the father is an X-ray technician"
2012-04-17,Jean-Luc Mlenchon's policies are no far-left fantasy (No wonder the Left Front candidate is on the rise in France. He offers practical solutions where neoliberalism has failed)
2012-04-16,"No one was murdered in El Salvador on Saturday, in what was the first homicide-free day in nearly three years."
2012-04-16,"Sweden Grants Religious Recognition To File-Sharing Church: ""Sweden has accepted that a 'church' which believes in file-sharing as a religion: a move that will not please the Hollywood studios"""
2012-04-16,Spain's 74-year-old king came under scathing criticism Sunday for going on an expensive elephant hunting trip in Botswana amid the nation's deep financial woes. Spanish newspapers were filled with accounts of how hunting trips to Botswana cost more than most Spaniards earn in a year. 
2012-04-16,"Former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, calls on US to legalize drugs: ""This war on drugs is totally lost."" "
2012-04-16,"Indian skeptic charged with ""blasphemy"" for revealing secret behind ""miracle"" of weeping cross."
2012-04-16,The notion that democracy and capitalism are interlinked is nonsense
2012-04-16,"""To the world's military leaders, the debate over climate change is long over. They are preparing for a new kind of Cold War in the Arctic, anticipating that rising temperatures there will open up a treasure trove of resources, long-dreamed-of sea lanes and a slew of potential conflicts."""
2012-04-16,ACTA suffers major blow following European rejection call
2012-04-16,"In Latin America, 'critical mass' urges end to drug war "
2012-04-16,BBC News - Norway puts Anders Behring Breivik on trial for murder
2012-04-16,China Now Tops U.S. in Space Launches
2012-04-16,"Unified Latin America Challenges Failed US/Canada Policies on Drug War, Cuba, and Finance: Canada and US left in isolation in a vote on a resolution to put an end to Cuba's exclusion (32-2 vote) at a meeting of foreign ministers that was to approve documents to be signed by the presidents."
2012-04-16,"""Switzerland will allow banks to hand over the names of any employees and other third parties who helped wealthy Americans evade taxes to U.S. prosecutors, a Swiss newspaper reported on Saturday [14 April 2012]."""
2012-04-16,Some Asian glaciers are defying the global trend and growing.
2012-04-16,"Mexico Passes Climate Law, Only 2nd in the World"
2012-04-16,Unprecedented Latin American opposition to U.S. sanctions on Cuba left President Barack Obama isolated at a summit on Sunday and illustrated Washington's declining influence in a region being aggressively courted by China.
2012-04-16,"Summit of the Americas ends in acrimony: A Unified Latin America Challenges Failed US/Canada Policies on the Drug War, Cuba, & Finance - ""Last Summit of the Americas without Cuba"" sees an alternative rise to challenge the old hegemony of out-dated US policies; Argentina walked out over impasses"
2012-04-16,The British businessman whose murder has sparked political upheaval in China was poisoned after he threatened to expose a plan by a Chinese leader's wife to move money abroad. 
2012-04-16,"Norway mass-murder suspect that killed 77, claims self-defense"
2012-04-16,"Starting this summer, the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) will start to track down pirates as part of an agreement between the MPAA, RIAA and all the major ISPs. After six warnings ISPs may take a variety of measures against offenders, including bandwidth throttling and disconnections."
2012-04-16,Spain's King Juan Carlos under fire over elephant hunting trip
2012-04-16,"Israeli TV report shows air force gearing-up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near - ""the report ... was remarkable both in terms of the access granted to the reporter ... and in the fact that his assessments on the strike were cleared by the military censor."""
2012-04-16,"Dutch Pirate Party ordered to shut down Pirate Bay proxy within 6 hours, or face a fine of 10,000 euros per day."
2012-04-16,"Drought Causing Desperation on Farms in England - Although the public are aware of the drought, they're disconnected from the stark situation.  ""Farmers must plan for a future with much less water."""
2012-04-16,"Despite innocent verdict, blasphemy accused shot dead in Pakistan"
2012-04-15,Columbia calls on US and Canada to decriminalize drugs
2012-04-15,"Kuwaiti lawmakers voted in favour of a legal amendment that would make insulting God and the Prophet Mohammed punishable by death, following a furore over a Shiite man who allegedly posted defamatory material on Twitter"
2012-04-15,Three people in Brazil arrested for killing women and using their flesh to make empanadas
2012-04-15,"MPAA-Affiliated Anti-Piracy Group Mysteriously Disappears: ""INFACT  the MPAAs eyes and ears in Ireland  has simply disappeared. There has been no announcement as to its fate and its website, INFACT.ie, has completely gone."""
2012-04-15,"Argentinian Farmers take on Monsanto and Philip 
Morris over epidemic of birth defects"
2012-04-15,Pakistan's parliament votes unanimously to demand an end to US drone strikes
2012-04-15,Photo of Muslim Woman Holding Bra Causes Tensions - Canada
2012-04-15,The United Nations Security Council has unanimously voted to authorise the deployment of unarmed observers to Syria to monitor the country's ceasefire.
2012-04-15,North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un speaks publicly for the first time
2012-04-15,"Multiple blasts and gunfire have been heard in the 
centre of Kabul."
2012-04-15,"School revolution on the way? -- India's Supreme Court upholds law forcing private schools to admit poor students. The move is lauded by some as an equalizer on par with the decision to desegregate American schools in the 1960s.
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2012-04-15,400 inmates escape from prison in Pakistan
2012-04-15,Far-right anti-Muslim network on rise globally as Breivik trial opens.
2012-04-15,Taliban launch assaults across Afghanistan:  Suicide bombers have struck in Kabul and other sites across Afghanistan. The attacks show that militants still remain a potent force capable of hitting at the heart of the capital. 
2012-04-15,"Egyptian election officials have barred 10 candidates from the presidential poll, including former spy chief Omar Suleiman and the Muslim Brotherhood's Khairat al-Shater."
2012-04-15,Japan Seeks Nuclear Restart Amidst Opposition
2012-04-15,"In Nigeria, a Preview of an Overcrowded Planet - NYTimes.com"
2012-04-15,Series of attacks shake Kabul 
2012-04-15,Kabul - Embassies targeted in Taliban 'spring offensive' 
2012-04-15,"Iran nuclear talks seen as 'constructive and useful' - Iran and six world powers held ""constructive and useful"" talks Saturday in Turkey as international diplomats seek to persuade Tehran to rein in its nuclear program."
2012-04-15,Vicar goes to the hospital with a potato in his anus
2012-04-15,"Italy goes big to save Venice as it sinks into the sea
A multibillion-dollar flood-prevention system will be put in place starting next year, a decade after the project began."
2012-04-15,"British businessman, Neil Heywood, was 'poisoned by cyanide drops' in China"
2012-04-15,"With one week to go before France heads to the polls for a first round of voting, presidential rivals Franois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy are set to stage competing rallies in Paris on Sunday, in a last ditch effort to woo voters. "
2012-04-15,A 17-year-old high school student has been detained on suspicion of trying to blackmail billionaire Suleiman Kerimov and a St. Petersburg city official into paying him a combined $11 million
2012-04-14,Israel is forcing airlines to cancel flights of +1000 peace activitists trying to visit the Palestinian West Bank.
2012-04-14,"The richest, fattest nation on Earth (is not the United States)"
2012-04-14,"U.S. Allies Call for Drug Legalisation: ""An increasingly large chorus of nations - ravaged by trafficking and violence - say it's now time to re-think international drug policy."""
2012-04-14,"Condemned to die shortly after birth for being a girl, outspoken Afghan member of parliament Fawzia Koofi lived to become a champion of women's rights and is now eyeing the presidency in 2014."
2012-04-14,"A North Korean Press Bus Took A Wrong Turn And 
Showed Journalists The Real Pyongyang "
2012-04-14,Catalonia village says yes to drugs.Residents of the village voted on a plan to plant cannabis on a large scale as a way out of the financial crisis.
2012-04-14,"""One of Italy's top universities has sent shockwaves through the country's higher education system by announcing that from 2014 its courses will be taught exclusively in English. The radical move by Milan's Politecnico university will . . . 'contribute to the growth of the country'."""
2012-04-14,B.C. movie theatres now eligible for liquor licences
2012-04-14,"(Canada) - B.C. Supreme Court justice strikes down section of medical marijuana law - ""We took THC and cannabis away from pharmaceuticals this morning and put it back in peoples backyards where they can make their own medicines."" 

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2012-04-14,"Guatemalan President responds to Obama, and continues to push drug decriminalization at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena"
2012-04-14,"Some Canadian Health Experts Have Noticed The Drug War and ""Tough on Crime"" Things Not Working So Well"
2012-04-14,"Leaders rethink the war on drugs at Summit of the Americas - Latin American leaders are pushing to make a Cartagena summit a moment that sparks the world to redefine its approach to drugs. Stephen Harper, and U.S. President Barack Obama, have vowed to stand in the way."
2012-04-14,"In rare move, North Korea admits to missile failure"
2012-04-14,"""Investment in food commodities by banks and hedge funds has risen from $65bn to $126bn (41bn to 79bn) in the past five years,helping to push prices to 30-year highs and causing sharp price fluctuations that have little to do with the actual supply of food, says the United Nations' leading expert"""
2012-04-14,Panama Castaways Were Spotted By Cruise Ship Passengers - And Ignored By Ship's Captain -  2 of the 3 later died
2012-04-14,"Glencore, the commodity and mining firm worth 27bn, stands accused in the Democratic Republic of Congo of dumping raw acid and profiting from children working 150ft underground."
2012-04-14,Teen protester 'shot in chest' in Bahrain: Boy among several people wounded when police opened fire as thousands joined funeral procession
2012-04-14,Report: German ship carrying Iranian arms bound for Syria stopped at sea
2012-04-14,Canada issues glow-in-the-dark dinosaur quarter
2012-04-14,"Norwegian gunman Breivik determined to somehow prove that killing 77 people, most of them teenagers, was an act of self-defense"
2012-04-14,A Russian City Always on the Watch Against Being Sucked Into the Earth
2012-04-14,Sarkozy - rarely is a world leader caught in such a blatant lie.
2012-04-14,"Embarrassed by rocket crash, North Korea may try nuclear test"
2012-04-14,BBC News - Syria ceasefire: Security forces 'fire at protesters'
2012-04-14,"""The Royal Canadian Mint wants to get rid of pocket change -- and it's enlisting hacker-types for help. Less than a week after the government announced the penny's impending death, the Mint quietly unveiled its digital currency called MintChip."""
2012-04-13,Oxford University and the Vatican Library to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and images and make them freely available online
2012-04-13,ACTA Suffers Major Setback; European Parliament Will Seemingly Reject Legislation
2012-04-13,North Korea launches long-range rocket | YONHAP NEWS
2012-04-13,"At Fallujah hospital they cannot offer any statistics on children born with birth defects  there are just too many. Parents dont want to talk. ""Families bury their newborn babies after they die without telling anyone,"""
2012-04-13,Anti-gay adverts which were scheduled to be on London buses have been blocked by the conservative mayor of London Boris Johnson  
2012-04-13,Hundreds of orangutans killed in north Indonesian forest fires deliberately started by palm oil firms.
2012-04-13,Christian anti-gay adverts to be placed on London buses
2012-04-13,London mayor sued after banning Christian group's anti-gay ads on buses
2012-04-13,"14-Year-Old Girls to be Charged with Attempted Murder in Beating of Classmate with Disability
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2012-04-13,'Gay Cure' Buses Banned in London
2012-04-13,"North Korea launches rocket; rocket broke apart after launch, U.S. official said."
2012-04-13,BBC News - Can a hallucinogen from Africa cure addiction?
2012-04-13,Obese bodies have led to fire emergencies at several German crematoriums.
2012-04-13,EU Rapporteur Deals Major Blow To ACTA; Recommends Rejection By European Parliament
2012-04-13,Iran: We do not want nuclear weapons
2012-04-13,Nobel laureate banned from Israel over critical poem says only other countries that excluded him were East Germany and Burma
2012-04-13,"Spain warned Argentina Friday it risks becoming an international pariah if it tries to wrest control of energy company Repsols majority stake in its South American YPF unit, raising tensions between the 2 nations & sending Repsols shares plunging"
2012-04-13,"Why North Korea's launch failure was the worst possible outcome, second only to striking China."
2012-04-13,Failed rocket launch could push North Korea to conduct nuclear test
2012-04-13,GMO Tree Field Trial Destroyed in New Zealand
2012-04-13,"EU Threatens Bank Bonus Clampdown - Average bonuses paid to bank executives across the EU is 122% of basic pay, & for other staff (mainly traders) it was 139%.  However, in 1 unnamed country,  averages were 220% & 313% respectively, & in 1 case a bonus was over 9 times the basic pay."
2012-04-13,"Portugal considers 'Terabyte Tax' - money grabbing legislation in an ailing economy: ""The opposition - Portuguese Socialist Party - proposes a new tax on storage devices, all in the name of copyright protection - yet all but killing off HDD sales in the country."""
2012-04-13,"London university with 20% Muslim population considers ""alcohol-free zones"""
2012-04-13,"Call for compulsory contraception in the Netherlands - The Netherlands needs legal provisions to allow compulsory contraception for serious drug addicts, psychiatric patients and the mentally handicapped. "
2012-04-13,Muslim Woman's Bra Photo Sparks Controversy
2012-04-12,North Korea missile launch expected in next 24 to 48 hours
2012-04-12,Australia's most senior-ranked Catholic says Jews 'intellectually and morally inferior'
2012-04-12,7.0 Earthquake Mexico the third big quake today
2012-04-12,North Korea doesn't launch missile but tension remains.
2012-04-12,"Chinese workers in Zimbabwe are buying up the local wildlife for dinner, feasting on endangered tortoises, pythons, leopards  and even village dogs."
2012-04-12,China Deletes Thousands of Online Posts Amid Scandal
2012-04-12,6.2 Earthquake Followed By A 6.9 In Gulf Of California
2012-04-12,"Fear of Honor Killings: Immigrants Flee Families to Find Themselves -  Hundreds of young female immigrants are hiding from their families in Germany after fleeing oppression, physical violence and even death threats. "
2012-04-12,"Iceland's volcanoes may power UK: The energy minister is to visit Iceland in May to discuss connecting the UK to its abundant geothermal energy
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2012-04-12,German brother and sister in incestuous relationship lose European Court of Human Rights case. Germany 'is entitled to ban incest'.
2012-04-12,"A bus carrying foreign journalists in North Korea takes a wrong turn, giving them a rare glimpse of everyday life in the secretive nation."
2012-04-12,Unemployment in Greece hits new record high of 21.8 percent
2012-04-12,"Tony Blair channels Ronald Reagan, ""doesn't remember"" sending dissidents to Libya for torture"
2012-04-12,Hen: Swedens new gender neutral pronoun causes controversy.
2012-04-12,Wrong Turn Grants Glimpse Behind N. Korean Curtain : NPR
2012-04-12,"For every kilo of cocaine that is seized, we want to be compensated 50 percent by the consumer countries, said Perez recently, arguing its the USs responsibility to pick up more of the counter-drug tab for the regions poorest nations."""
2012-04-12,China sends 3rd ship in standoff with Philippines
2012-04-12,"Bolivian judge defends divination technique - has rejected calls to resign after he admitted ""reading"" coca leaves to help him make decisions."
2012-04-12,Women in Uzbekistan Forcibly or Unknowingly Sterilized By the Gov't
2012-04-12,EFF: Polish digital civil rights group recently published harrowing findings regarding abuses of Polands mandatory data retention law
2012-04-12,Frances Socialists Promise to Withdraw French Troops From Afghanistan by 2013
2012-04-12,Syria refugees ridicule Assads commitment to peace - His words are all gibberish. This ceasefire wont last long. Assad has been promising this for a year. I dont think hell withdraw either his tanks or his troops. 
2012-04-12,"Erased: Why Tens of Thousands of Haitian Youth Do Not Officially Exist -- Dominican laws have stripped citizenship from many young people of Haitian descent, barring them from legal employment, education, even marriage."
2012-04-12,MI6 anti-terrorism officials' phone call is recorded and leaked on internet by hacking group TeamPoison
2012-04-12,'Tortured' Libyan wants answers from Blair:  A Libyan military commander who is suing the British Government over its alleged complicity in his rendition and torture yesterday demanded answers from Tony Blair and Jack Straw. 
2012-04-11,8.7 Earthquake outside Indonesia
2012-04-11,"Political Revolution in Germany: Pirate Party is Country's Third Strongest Party in New Poll: ""...the political newcomers currently enjoy 13% of voter support and are now the third most popular party in the country ahead of the Greens, which lagged behind at 11%."" "
2012-04-11,Man jailed for 11 years for burning down Family-run furniture shop during London riots
2012-04-11,Philippine warship in standoff with China vessels
2012-04-11,"The Muslim Brotherhood,which now controls the parliament of Egypt, Presidential candidate Khairat al-Shater declares the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood movement is the establishment of a global Islamic State."
2012-04-11,"North Korea Is Lying About Its Rocket Launch, Satellite-Watchers Show"
2012-04-11,Canadians favour higher taxes to fight inequality - poll - RT News
2012-04-11,"Spain Is on the Bleeding Edge of a New European Crisis: Spains 709 billion euros of sovereign debt is roughly twice that of Greece, Ireland, and Portugal combined"
2012-04-11,Elite female night raiders break down barriers in Afghanistan
2012-04-11,Argentina: Grieving Parents Find Baby Alive in Morgue
2012-04-11," BP faces shareholder revolt over chief executive Bob Dudley's 4m pay, despite a depressed stock price"
2012-04-11,US judge rules UK parliamentary committee cannot be shown evidence of UK involvement in renditions
2012-04-11,WWF: Russia setting up park to save leopards
2012-04-11,Iraq's fugitive vice-president says two more of his bodyguards have been tortured to death by security forces during a terrorism investigation.
2012-04-11,"President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims that Iran has as much hard currency as they need, and they can stop selling crude oil for at least two to three years. "
2012-04-11,Baby ruled stillborn is found alive 12 hours late in Argentine morgue
2012-04-11,World News - 'Happy tears' as Peru miners are rescued after six days trapped underground
2012-04-11,"Timbuktu scholars, librarians, & ordinary citizens hiding tens of thousands of historic texts & priceless ancient manuscripts from rebels - ""The rebels may have an educated leadership, but they're sending in footsoldiers who won't have any respect for paper culture."" "
2012-04-11,"Dutch conservative coalition govt has signaled since January that it intended to prohibit khat, the mild stimulant plant from the Horn of Africa, and now, indications are that the ban will happen soon"
2012-04-11,"The number of poor people in Greece without access to medical care is on the rise, and the NGO Doctors of the World has warned the economic crisis is taking its toll on people's health. "
2012-04-11,"Jordan to revoke citizenship of Palestinian Authority, PLO officials; ""move coincides with a new electoral law in Jordan that seeks to limit Palestinian representation in parliament"""
2012-04-11,Philippine warship in standoff with Chinese ships
2012-04-11,China names ex-leader's wife in murder case:  Former star Bo Xilai sacked from Communist Party leadership and wife named as suspect in death of British businessman.
2012-04-11,Entire Indian ocean on tsunami watch following 8.7-mag earthquake near Aceh.
2012-04-11,Greece offers cop-for-hire service renting out policemen for $39 per hour to raise cash
2012-04-10,NZ police mysteriously lose video of Megaupload raid
2012-04-10,"Invisible Children, Makers of KONY2012, Spied For Ugandan Regime ---WikiLeaks"
2012-04-10,Norway's mass killer Breivik 'declared sane'
2012-04-10,"3000 dead dolphins found north of Peru. ""...as far as enlisted experts can tell, offshore oil exploration in the region is the most likely culprit."""
2012-04-10,Latin American countries to U.S.: The war on drugs is not working
2012-04-10,"Wikileaks shows Invisible Children spied for Uganda, and backed an operation that killed more civilians than militants."
2012-04-10,"Fighting to Stem its Growing Debt, Spanish Town Considers Cultivating Cannabis"
2012-04-10,Japan's Sony more than doubles net loss forecast to $6.4 billion
2012-04-10,"An imam in France has approved the marriage of two men who had previously married in South Africa, where same-sex marriage is legal, but the French government refuses to recognize it."
2012-04-10,"Committee for Human Rights in North Korea publishes report detailing torture, forced abortions and public executions in a vast network of secret political camps. (PHOTOS, 6.3 MB .pdf report)"
2012-04-10,"Like it or not, there was better rule of law under the Taliban, - Afghanistans dancing boys are invisible victims"
2012-04-10,"Revealed: lobbyists' plans to hijack 'people's petitions'.

Bell Pottinger memo offers to help clients shape EU law  despite ban on business involvement
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2012-04-10,President Mugabe 'close to death'
2012-04-10,"North Korea Prison Camps: 150,000 Languish In Secret Gulags, Human Rights Group Says"
2012-04-10,Twitter helps free kidnapped South African from trunk of his car
2012-04-10,China launches new 650 MW nuclear reactor
2012-04-10,Syria ceasefire: fighting continues as deadline passes
2012-04-10,"Iran to Cut Off the Internet, Replace With ""Clean"" Alternative"
2012-04-10,A museum that has honored Josef Stalin in Georgia since 1937 is being remodeled to exhibit the atrocities that were committed during the Soviet dictator's rule.
2012-04-10,Japan: Policeman in schoolgirl uniform arrested for flashing
2012-04-10,China records $5.35 billion trade surplus in March
2012-04-10,Syria: Homs activists resort to pigeons to communicate
2012-04-10,"Drought is so severe in parts of Britain that for the 1st time 2 regions will trade water to supply over 100,000 homes in the worst-hit areas - Severn Trent to sell 30 million litres of water a day to Anglian Water, 1 of 7 companies that imposed a hosepipe ban last week"
2012-04-10,Water supplies may start running out by 2030
2012-04-10,Chart: The mind-boggling rise in Asian coal consumption
2012-04-09,"""So what did the troll actually say?"" Why exactly is Liam Stacey in jail?"
2012-04-09,The Danish Government has set a goal of running the entire country on renewable energy by 2050.
2012-04-09,Russian businessman killed three home-invaders with a kitchen knife after they attacked his family and held his seven-month-old grandson at gunpoint. He now faces a life sentence for what may be qualified as a triple murder.
2012-04-09,Falkvinge: We are Winning -- How Pirate Parties are Changing the World
2012-04-09,"""Healthy competition"" in the NHS is a sick joke. Privatisation of UK's National Health Service leading to a so-called market is ""a mockery""."
2012-04-09,From the Delhi police: Why women deserve to be raped
2012-04-09,Japan deploys missile batteries as North Korea readies missile launch. 
2012-04-09,Home again in Mexico: Villagers are home again as the illegal immigration boom drops to net zero
2012-04-09,North Korea moves rocket into place for launch
2012-04-09,"""Canada's proposed purchase of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has been thrown into turmoil...In response to the April 3 [2012] auditor's report, the Canadian government has capped its funding for the F-35 project and, in an unprecedented move, will take the procurement out of the hands of the DND."""
2012-04-09,"Sony to cut estimated 10,000 jobs."
2012-04-09,Mom slams drug rehab centre run by Scientologists - Canada - CBC News
2012-04-09,"Anonymous says plans more attacks against China sites
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2012-04-09,German poet declared unwelcome in Israel
2012-04-09,"Syrian forces fire on Turkish refugee camp.

Reports that two people have been killed and at least 15 injured ahead of UN ceasefire deadline
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2012-04-09,"Pakistani prime minister states the Pakistani president's visit to India was suggested and urged by China. ""...Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday said that opening of trade with India would go a long way in promoting stability in the region bring the two countries closer."""
2012-04-09,Nigeria car bomb leaves 38 dead
2012-04-09,"In Sweden, a debate over whether gender equality has gone too far"
2012-04-09,"To Be a Woman in Pakistan: Six Stories of Abuse, Shame, and Survival  "
2012-04-09,Saudi Princess: What I'd Change About My Country -  It doesn't include allowing women to drive 
2012-04-09,"India's Census: Lots of Cellphones, too Few Toilets"
2012-04-09,Turkey reacts with anger as Syrian forces open fire across border
2012-04-09,Bahrain crackdown: Opposition in dire need of media spotlight
2012-04-09,What North Koreans really think of Kim Jong-Un--North Korean phone calls along the Chinese border by using Chinese signals telephony signals
2012-04-09,"Nine miners still trapped in Peru as rescue efforts look like they will be delayed because of structural efforts.  Food, water and oxygen being supplied by a metal tube."
2012-04-08,Liberal Democrats threaten to 'kill' online surveillance plans
2012-04-08,"In St. Petersburg, Russia, two men were arrested on Thursday for holding up a sign reading ""Homosexuality Is Normal."" It marks the first arrests on the strength of the city's new law against disseminating information on homosexuality."
2012-04-08,"'War on drugs' has failed, say Latin American leaders - Watershed summit will admit that prohibition has failed, and call for more nuanced and liberalised tactics"
2012-04-08,Denmark is (again) elected happiest country in the world.
2012-04-08,"Licensed to spill | BIG oil companies, lead by BP, Total and Shell, have polluted the North Sea with 69 oil and chemical spillages over the last three months, the Sunday Herald can reveal."
2012-04-08,Tiny Mexican Newspaper leads the fight for truth amid a drug war
2012-04-08,"Two of Latin America's deadliest gangs join forces - authorities say, they have begun to see the first signs that the Zetas are providing paramilitary training and equipment to the Maras in exchange for intelligence and crimes meant to divert law-enforcement resources and attention."
2012-04-08,North Korea threatens 'merciless punishment' as it readies rocket launch 
2012-04-08,"Beginning in 2005, the US helped train members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), a group designated as a terrorist organization by the State Department  "
2012-04-08,The Danish navy has had to release 17 Somali pirates  no-one was prepared to prosecute them.
2012-04-08,Two of Latin America's deadliest gangs join forces
2012-04-08,Actor playing Judas accidently hangs himself
2012-04-08,El Salvador's gang truce - A promising truce brokered by the Church that has reduced homicides by an average of 10 people per day should be upheld
2012-04-08,BBC News - Tunisians jailed for posting 'Naked Muhammad' cartoons
2012-04-08,"Vang Vieng, Laos: the world's most unlikely party town"
2012-04-08,BBC News - Home Office website blocked; 'Anonymous' hackers blamed
2012-04-08,Malawi's Banda becomes Africa's third female head of state:  Vice President Joyce Banda took over as Malawi's president on Saturday. Her first challenge: restoring relations with donor nations to the poverty stricken nation. 
2012-04-08,Greek drama as talk show host attacked with flour and egg whilst interviewing a a representative from a neo-nazi party
2012-04-08,Chinas Cash Buys Inroads in Caribbean
2012-04-08,East Timor: a lesson in why the poorest threaten the powerful
2012-04-08,"German Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass, under fire for a poem that sharply criticized Israel, said he was singling out the Jewish state's government, not the country as a whole."
2012-04-08,"Malis coup leader said the junta would hand power to civilians within days in a deal under which neighbouring nations agreed to lift sanctions and help tackle Tuareg rebels who have seized much of the north.
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2012-04-08,Himalayan avalanche buried scores of Pakistani troops 
2012-04-08,Chinese tycoon goes to trial for bribery
2012-04-08,"Yemen air force, US drone kill 24 al-Qaida suspects"
2012-04-07,"Big brother will be watching you: ""In an unprecedented step that will see Britain adopt the same kind of surveillance as China and Iran, police and intelligence officers are to be handed powers to monitor peoples messages online."""
2012-04-07,"The man who allowed 1600 hectares of carbon-rich peat forest & orangutan habitat to be razed & turned into a palm oil plantation now says his decision was ''morally wrong'' & claims he did it ""as a wake-up call"" - He's also running for reelection Monday in Indonesia
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2012-04-07,"France tightens grip on super rich: France, whether harking back to its revolution, or simply seething with rage at the injustices exposed by the financial crisis, now wants to lead the world in clobbering the mega-rich"
2012-04-07,"Hacktivist 'Hardcore Charlie' says he has hacked a Chinese government defense contractor and stole over 500MB worth of documents ranging from internal business memos to U.S. military transport data, including many related to the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan."
2012-04-07,Two Iranian naval warships rescue Chinese cargo ship from Somali pirates.
2012-04-07,"Facing Scandal, Russian Orthodox Church Photoshops $30,000 Watch Out of Picture of the Church Leader Wearing It"
2012-04-07,"How Murdoch's Aussie Papers Cover Climate Change - ""All they have to do is create doubt in the public mind to make it much more difficult for politicians to take action.""  The most negative coverage is in the Melbourne Herald Sun & the Sydney Daily Telegraph."
2012-04-07,"Hamas executes 3 in Gaza on Saturday, including ""traitor"""
2012-04-07,"Bosnians mark 20 years since war began with 11,541 of red chairs are standing empty along Sarajevos main avenue."
2012-04-07,"Avalanche traps over 100 Pakistani soldiers: army
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2012-04-07,"Chinese teenager sells kidney to buy iPhone, iPad; authorities charge 5 people -"
2012-04-07,Greek photographers skull fractured while covering protest; colleagues blame riot police
2012-04-07,"Freedom is Not the Property of the Liberals - 
Hungarys controversial prime minister Viktor Orbn gives his 1st interview to an American journalist"
2012-04-07,China admits Anonymous Hacks
2012-04-07,"Anonymous tops the 2012 TIME 100 poll by over 100,000 votes! EPIC"
2012-04-07,Avalanche buries 100 Pakistani soldiers on Himalayan glacier
2012-04-07,"My Uncle bought a painting for 3, found an Andy Warhol original on back, could sell for 1.3 million"
2012-04-07,Tunisia: Two Men Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison For Posting Mohammed Cartoons On Facebook
2012-04-07,Avalanche 'buries 100 Pakistani troops' in Kashmir
2012-04-07,"Germany proposing to levy extra taxes on the young to pay for the costs of the country's growing numbers of old people, under government plans for a ''demographic reserve'' levy













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2012-04-07,Pope Rebukes Priests Who Advocate Ordaining Women And Ending Celibacy
2012-04-07,"Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric has urged Christians to wear a cross every day, following a number of cases in which people say their employers have barred them from doing so."
2012-04-07,Germany debates upping taxes on the young to pay for the old.
2012-04-07,Turkmenistan leader wins his country's first car race
2012-04-07,"Hamas: 3 executed in Gaza, one for 'collaborating' with Israel"
2012-04-06,Quebec bans fracking pending studies
2012-04-06,"""The British government is scrambling to fend off accusations of trying to turn the country into a virtual police state with plans to conduct some trials in secret and allow authorities to track the phone calls, emails, text messages and online activity of the entire population."""
2012-04-06,2 young Tunisians have been sentenced to 7 years in prison for posting cartoons of the prophet Mohammad on Facebook
2012-04-06,"Ferdinand Porsche, famed sports car designer, dies at age 76"
2012-04-06,Airline declares kid-free zone
2012-04-06,"Falkvinge: Sweden has a fairly good reputation around the world as a good place to live. Did you know that Swedens security authority FRA wiretaps all of Swedens population, all of the time?"
2012-04-06,"Assailing ""Disobedience"", Pope Says Women Won't be Ordained - Pope Benedict XVI delivered a scathing homily that reiterated the Catholic Church's ban on female priests.  While not new, it was surprisingly direct & in line with the tone that earned him the moniker ""God's Rottweiler""."
2012-04-06,Israel's prime minister lambasted German poet and Nobel Prize laureate Guenter Grass on Thursday for saying Israel is a threat to world peace and for calling for international oversight of both Israeli and Iranian nuclear facilities.
2012-04-06,Russian Police make first arrests under new Anti-Gay law
2012-04-06,World News - 615 dead dolphins found on Peru beaches; acoustic tests for oil to blame?
2012-04-06,"Why Humans, Like Ants, Need A Tribe --- Religion. Sports. War. 
On tribalism, both our greatest and most dangerous genetic inheritance. ""It is an uncomfortable fact that even when given a guilt-free choice, individuals prefer the company of others of the same race, nation, clan, and religion"""
2012-04-06,"A View on Gnter Grass: Why We Need an OpenDebate on Israel --- Is Israel a threat to world peace?  But while the verse may not win any awards, Grass has kicked off an important -- and long overdue -- debate"
2012-04-06,China steps up pressure to prevent attack on Iran
2012-04-06,Israeli architect of Oslo accords says Middle East peace process is over
2012-04-06,"Israel's Haaretz Newspaper is reporting that ultra-Orthodox rabbis and community leaders routinely use psychiatric drugs ""at leaders' requests, in order to bring members in line with norms"""
2012-04-06,Confusion at the Pumps: Big Oil's Strategy for Jacking Up Gas Prices - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
2012-04-06,"Looting artifacts is on the rise at Apamea, Palmyra, & other archaeological sites in Syria - We have a video showing looters removing mosaics with drills. Museums are being robbed. Smuggling's a problem.  Damage to the heritage of the country is damage to the soul of its people & its identity."
2012-04-06,Murdoch's Unrivaled Hold On The Australian Press
2012-04-06,A clampdown on internet gossip in China suggests leaders fear that internal party battles could trigger wider unrest
2012-04-06,"Mali is ""on brink of major disaster"" - It's on the brink of a major humanitarian disaster following a coup & rebellion in the north, Amnesty International says"
2012-04-06,Austerity drives up suicide rate in debt-ridden Greece. Suicide rate jumped about 40% in the first five months of 2011 compared to 2010
2012-04-06,"Sky News, British Broadcaster With Murdoch Link, Admits to Hacking"
2012-04-06,"An Islamist leader who had a $10 million American bounty placed on his head this week has been helping Pakistan de-radicalize militants under efforts to stabilize the strategic U.S. ally, a top Pakistani counter-terrorism official says."
2012-04-06,"A man kills four people with a sword in Hungary, wounds three others"
2012-04-06,"In Russia, Stalin Enjoying A Revival On School Notebooks: ""School notebooks depicting Josef Stalin have become instant bestsellers. Critics decry the attempt to promote the brutal dictator as a Soviet hero in schools."""
2012-04-05,"Rupert Murdochs Sky News acknowledges hacking emails, says it was in public interest "
2012-04-05,Almost 500 websites in China have been defaced in a large-scale attack staged by the Anonymous hacking group.
2012-04-05,Greece: Six of the country's universities say they face immediate closure after the recent bondswap reduced their assets to zero.
2012-04-05,UK's Sky News: We hacked in the public interest
2012-04-05,Egypt sends Christian student to jail for insulting Islam
2012-04-05,Retiree's Suicide Triggers Riots in Greece 
2012-04-05,Millionaire's daughter convicted for role as driver for a gang of looters during London riots
2012-04-05,Gas Prices Hit Record High in Canada - Expected to be higher by end of April.  Crude shortage is said not to be the problem.
2012-04-05,Japan nuke plant leaks radioactive water again
2012-04-05,Jim Marshall (Founder of Marshall Amps) died today at 88 
2012-04-05,"New report on human trafficking: 2.4 million people are being traded at any one time. 80% of those people are trafficked for sexual exploitation, while 17% are traded to perform forced labor. 2 out of every 3 victims are women, and only 1 out of every 100 victims of trafficking is ever rescued"
2012-04-05,Push for the Right to Die Grows in the Netherlands - NYTimes.com
2012-04-05,New Zealand MP identifies Finland as a military threat
2012-04-05,"In Hong Kong, only 1,193 of seven million people are eligible to vote for the citys chief executive. "
2012-04-05,South Sudan Shoots Down Sudanese Jet
2012-04-05,"Russia's Foreign Minister: Syria's opposition will never defeat President Bashar al-Assad's army even if it is ""armed to the teeth""."
2012-04-05,"Greek Historic Remains Have Become 'Curse' - Faced with massive public debt, Greece is finding that its fabled antiquity heritage is proving a growing burden -- with licensed digs postponed, illegal ones proliferating, museum staff trimmed, & valuable pieces stolen."
2012-04-05,Sky News admits John Darwin email hack
2012-04-05,IP Above All Else: WIPO Defies UN Sanctions To Give Computers To North Korea
2012-04-05,"Syrian troops launched a fierce assault on a Damascus suburb Thursday, days ahead of a deadline for a U.N.-brokered cease-fire"
2012-04-05,"Almost all Holocaust survivors in Israel feel lonely, some 50,000 said they needed assistance on Passover eve and at least 12,000 will not have heating this holiday"
2012-04-05,South Sudan claims to have shot down Sudanese jet
2012-04-05,"Italian Law Pits Older Workers Against Younger Ones - Prime Minister faces his toughest challenge yet  pushing a labor overhaul. Laws all but guarantee life tenure to older workers, condemning younger ones to temporary jobs. The last 2 attempts to change the law ended in murders."
2012-04-05,"Gaddafi son 'attacked in custody' in Libya, ICC lawyers say"
2012-04-05,Egypt Brotherhood candidate says sharia is main goal
2012-04-04,Draconian Privacy Invasion Bill Continues to Gain Support: 'The bill is touted as being much worse than SOPA when it comes to privacy invasions. CISPA also appears to include the infringement of intellectual property as a security threat warranting access to user data.'
2012-04-04,International Criminal Court says it cannot investigate alleged Israeli crimes in Gaza because Palestine is not a state.
2012-04-04,Anonymous: Hundreds of Beijing's Government Websites Defaced
2012-04-04,"Canada, Home To The Suicide Capital Of The World: ""In Pikangikum, gas sniffing is rampant and young people are taking their own lives at a shocking rate."""
2012-04-04,"Nobel literature laureate Guenter Grass poem: ""What Must Be Said"" - Israel With Its Nuclear Weapons Is A Threat To World Peace"
2012-04-04,Woman sues Facebook over misuse of image.
2012-04-04,Kuwait: Members of Parliament Call For Execution of Man Accused of Insulting Prophet Mohammed on Twitter
2012-04-04,"In Vietnam, rhino horn costs more than cocaine. "
2012-04-04,Spain's jobless level hits record 4.75 million: 'The unemployment figures released show that the situation is worse for young Spaniards....'
2012-04-04,Israel predicts few casualties from war with Iran
2012-04-04,"One of China's richest men, and a close ally of Bo Xilai, the senior Chinese politician who was dramatically purged earlier this month, has been arrested for corruption. "
2012-04-04,How the West de-democratised the Middle East 
2012-04-04,Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has turned off the 4 live webcams in his home following orders from the Chinese authorities
2012-04-04,"An Upgrade, And Bigger Ships, For The Panama Canal"
2012-04-04,Matterhorn disintegrating in the face of global warming
2012-04-04,Thailand bans film adaption of MacBeth due to anti-monarchy overtones
2012-04-04,Canada Eliminates Penny Costing Penny-and-a-Half to Make - Businessweek
2012-04-04,Peru: The Only Nation in the World Hitting the Sustainability Sweet Spot
2012-04-04,The Secret To Germany's Low Youth Unemployment
2012-04-04,"Netanyahu backs Jewish settlers in Hebron, heightens controversy"
2012-04-04,"Hungary's president steps down after plagiarism scandal. Semmelweis University revoked Mr Schmitt's doctorate after a special committee concluded he had copied ""word for word"" large chunks of his 1992 thesis on Olympic history."
2012-04-04,Convicting a murderer with no dead body
2012-04-04,"Israeli Foreign Minister: ""If, God forbid, a war with Iran breaks out, it will be a nightmare"""
2012-04-04,"How Millions Have Been Dying In The Congo --- 


Forget the Middle East. If you know terrible things have been happening in Central Africa for the past couple of decades, not to say the past couple of centuries, but you can't get the whole story straight in your head, this piece does it for you"
2012-04-04,"Commander's words shed light on Taliban views - Group's eastern leader candidly discusses Afghan forces, morality police, and how they might act if return to power."
2012-04-03,Drugs war 'a failure' that bred criminals
2012-04-03,Australia foreign minister calls for decriminalisation of low-level drug use
2012-04-03,"France best, U.S. worst in preventable death ranking"
2012-04-03,North Korea 'preparing to unveil missile capable of striking continental US'
2012-04-03,Pay to be a waitress: A restaurant server has filed a complaint with B.C.'s Employment Standards Branch against a high profile Vancouver restaurant group because management required her to hand over her tips at the end of shifts.
2012-04-03,"Government bill to spy on websites, emails and texts will cost taxpayers 2bn"
2012-04-03, A 37-year-old Palestinian woman has been arrested for defaming President Mahmoud Abbas on her Facebook profile. She is being detained by the Palestinian Authority for two weeks.
2012-04-03,"Former princess of the Ottoman Empire has died - Her grandfather, the last Ottoman Sultan Vahdettin, & all other members of the dynasty were sent into exile in 1924"
2012-04-03,Greek island of Zakynthos has recently been dubbed the blind island by the Greek press after it emerged that 700 residents were allegedly receiving disability pensions as blind people despite being perfectly sighted.
2012-04-03,Dutch Law Would Stop Sale of Marijuana to Tourists
2012-04-03,"The United Nations convened on Monday to discuss a topic that isn't usually on their agenda: happiness. Throughout the day, speakers at the U.N. put forward their thoughts on how to measure and improve well-being around the world."
2012-04-03,Britains Orwellian war against tweetcrime
2012-04-03,Irish Priest Accidentally Flashes Gay Porn During First Communion Meeting
2012-04-03,'The Governments email and web monitoring plans would potentially be incompatible with the right to privacy of many ordinary people in the UK.' - Equality and Human Rights Commissions
2012-04-03,James Murdoch steps down as BSkyB chairman - live updates
2012-04-03,Iran says could hit U.S. if it came under attack: paper
2012-04-03,"French Polynesia Acts to Protect its Drinking Water - 
Desalination plant will give islanders a reliable, cheaper supply than bottled water, while meters will encourage conservation.  Islanders will be able to buy drinking water for about 6 cents a litre."
2012-04-03,Islamists push for sharia law in northern Mali
2012-04-03,Mexico hit by 6.3 magnitude earthquake
2012-04-03,Uganda's nodding disease: 'I've lost hope'
2012-04-03,A new study puts the amount of Cesium released from Fukushima at about 90% of Chernobyl.
2012-04-03,To the Victor in Egypt's Presidential Race: a terrible economy - The Muslim Brotherhood has fronted a candidate. A former ally of Mubarak may even run. But whoever wins will start with less than half the foreign reserves Egypt had before the revolution.
2012-04-03,Why Do Bankers Get to Decide Who Pays for Europe's Mess?
2012-04-03,Argentine president dismisses absurd UK claim to Falklands 
2012-04-03,"In Escalating Drone War, US Targets Yemen Rulers Rivals"
2012-04-02,ACTA Could be Passed in 10 Weeks; Take Action Before Its Too Late
2012-04-02,Tunisia rejects shariah in new constitution
2012-04-02,"UK teachers no longer teaching, just 'training' kids to pass exams.. (with a little help)"
2012-04-02,"North Korea rocket test will cost $850m USD, equivalent of feeding 19 million people for 1 year - Yonhap News"
2012-04-02,"Tibetan immolations, largely unnoticed, among historys biggest waves of suicide-by-fire. The stunning protests are going largely unnoticed in the wider world  due in part to a smothering Chinese security crackdown in the region that prevents journalists from covering them.

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2012-04-02,"How Canada's Green Credentials Fell Apart - 
Canada once enjoyed a deserved reputation for scientific & environmental leadership. Those days are long gone"
2012-04-02,"Ikea to design 11-hectare neighbourhood. We are in keeping with the Ikea philosophy: We dont want to produce for the rich or the super-rich; we want to produce for the families, for the people"""
2012-04-02,Executive pay soars as bosses set each others' awards
2012-04-02,Tobacco executive admits involvement in destruction of research documents ... at least 60 documents including some research that showed the company was aware smoking could cause cancer and other health problems
2012-04-02,New UK powers to record every phone call and email makes surveillance '60m times worse'
2012-04-02,Pakistan jails bin Laden's family for illegal stay
2012-04-02,BBC News - Backlash over email and web monitoring plan
2012-04-02,"The government wants to let police and intelligence agencies monitor what numbers people phone, when, and for how long, and whom they e-mail"
2012-04-02,Australia will target US workers 
2012-04-02,"Dozens of Tibetans have set themselves on fire over the past year to protest Chinese rule, sometimes drinking kerosene to make the flames explode from within, in one of the biggest waves of political self-immolations in recent history."
2012-04-02,Euro unemployment spikes to record 10.8%
2012-04-02,Hungary President Schmitt quits in plagiarism scandal
2012-04-02,Stephen Fry lends support to Greek calls to return Elgin marbles to Athens
2012-04-02,"""Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi declared a 'new era' for Burma Monday, after her party claimed a landslide victory in Sunday's parliamentary by-elections"""
2012-04-02,Swiss Arrest Warrants Fuel Tax Row With Germany - German opposition politicians are threatening to block a deal with Switzerland to tackle tax dodgers after the Swiss issued arrest warrants for 3 German tax officials
2012-04-02,Swedish workers party hard during lunch breaks
2012-04-02,Chinas Bloody Factories -- A Problem Bigger than Foxconn
2012-04-02,"In Rich Europe, Growing Ranks of Working Poor ---  Never anywhere in the world do you hear anyone talking about the French dream, he added, pausing to look at the row of campers. There is no such dream in France."
2012-04-02,UK 'considers' internet surveillance network
2012-04-02,"Japanese experts warn of earthquakes that could produce 34-metre tsunamis: 
Report following disaster last March finds waves pose bigger threat than previously thought and could inundate Pacific coast
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2012-04-01,Myanmar democracy icon and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has been elected to the country's parliament in landmark elections
2012-04-01,Romania's hospital scandal: Babies left to die as doctors refuse to work without bribes
2012-04-01,"Britain to Monitor Citizens Text Messages & emails - Internet companies would be instructed to install hardware to allow the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to go through on demand every text message & email sent, websites accessed & phone calls made in real time"""
2012-04-01,"Planning a trip to Canada or the Caribbean? One million British travellers planning to fly to Canada, the Caribbean and Mexico this year face the risk of being turned away at the airport  at the insistence of the US DHS"
2012-04-01,CIA Secret Prison: Polish Leaders Break Silence About Black Site
2012-04-01,"Rupert Murdoch-linked pirate website targeted rivals, online file shows

Internet forums gave advice on how to hack into ITVDigital and cable television companies.
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2012-04-01,Child witnesses to Afghan massacre say Robert Bales was not alone
2012-04-01,Colombia Bill Would Decriminalize Drug Plant Cultivation
2012-04-01,Chinese grad student hacks Indian Military research firms
2012-04-01,Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi wins by-election: NLD party
2012-04-01,New strain of HIV linked to Saskatchewan deaths
2012-04-01,"China is shuttering more than a dozen websites, penalizing two popular social media sites and detaining six people for circulating rumors of a coup that rattled Beijing in the midst of its worst high-level political crisis in years."
2012-04-01,European anti-Islamic rally in Denmark flops: Gathering attracts less than 200 supporters as thousands of counter demonstrators clash with attendees and police.
2012-04-01,"Opposition claims Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi wins a parliamentary seat in a landmark election, setting the stage for her to take public office for the first time."
2012-04-01,"Falklands, Thirty Years On --- 

British were right to fight, but wrong not to make some compromise with newly democratic Argentina in the years that followed"
2012-04-01,Malian rebels 'capture Timbuktu' - Africa - Al Jazeera English
2012-04-01,Why an easy exit from the euro is impossible. Youd think switching from the euro to a new currency could be simple. Think again.  - Telegraph
2012-04-01,Ukrainian police shut down forum for malware writers
2012-04-01,Report reveals earlier problems at North Sea gas site - A report by a drilling manager published last year describes how difficult it is to pump gas from the deep Elgin field. It even explains exactly how drilling operations can damage the wells in ways that may have led to this week's leak.
2012-04-01,Putin announces competition to find Russia's best workers
2012-04-01,Britain's police are at war with the people
2012-04-01,Cyprus to Give EU Journalists Free Bank Accounts -The incoming presidency giving journalists the offshore accounts to defend the island's reputation as a tax haven 
2012-04-01,Labour 'failed to connect with Asians in Bradford' - The party failed to win over young Asian voters or Muslim women.  The  opposing party attracted many Asian voters because of its opposition to the Iraq war & call for troops immediate withdrawal from Afghanistan.
2012-04-01,Libyan tribal clashes kill at least 147 people
2012-04-01,"India is darling of global defense firms:  India's military spending plan has arms merchants jockeying for a deal. Their only obstacles are political infighting, corruption and bureaucracy."
2012-03-31,"The 1,000-year-old warning. How a message was passed down from people 1,000 years ago that saved lives in Miyatojima, Japan. (X-post from r/Japan)"
2012-03-31,"Wife: Bin Laden Hid in Pakistan, Not Caves, for Decade"
2012-03-31,"Norway - one of the Last functioning welfare states, where employers lobby for longer parental leave for fathers, and parties win elections by promising not to cut taxes - and oil has little to do with it"
2012-03-31,"Canadian Budget Hits Basic Science - It slashes spending on the environment & pushes collaboration between basic researchers &  industry.  ""This is disastrous.  The government has no understanding of how scientific advancement is made. "
2012-03-31,Iran and 6 world powers agree to meet on April 13 for latest talks about Iran's nuclear program
2012-03-31,"To Keep Protesters Away, Egypt's Police Put Up Walls -  Street artists then painted this wall it"
2012-03-31,Official figures show that EU countries sold Greece over 1 billion of arms at the same time as negotiating its first bail-out back in 2010.
2012-03-31,EDL summit in Denmark humiliated by low attendance
2012-03-31,Australia now on the list of countries wanting Israel not to strike Iran
2012-03-31,"Fentanyl Causing Overdose Boom in Estonia - A synthetic form of heroin produced in clandestine laboratories across the border in Russia,  it's almost completely replaced heroin on the Estonian market & can be hundreds of times more potent. "
2012-03-31,"Spain's New Budget: ""As Austere as it Gets"" - It's an unprecedented austerity budget to avoid EU bailout & everybody living in Spain will be affected."
2012-03-31,An Afghan policeman killed nine of his fellow officers as they lay sleeping.
2012-03-31,Special relationship? U.S. threatens Britain with 6bn trade sanctions as legal battle over aircraft subsidies comes to a head
2012-03-31,"A girl aged five and an 87-year-old woman were among almost 1,500 forced marriage victims helped by the Forced Marriage Unit in 2011, new figures reveal."
2012-03-31,Websites shut down for spreading coup rumours (China)
2012-03-31,"Ex-Soviet KGB foreign intelligence chief Leonid Shebarshin was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Friday in an apparent suicide, Russian investigators said."
2012-03-31,"Cruise ship carrying 1,001 people is adrift south of the Philippines after a fire disabled its engines"
2012-03-31,[The Guardian]: The number of people living alone has skyrocketed. The rise and rise of solo living.
2012-03-31,"Support from Israel Lobby for Mulcair NDP leadership bid raises serious concerns. ""Israel Lobby recognizes that Mulcair would be an ardent supporter of Israel in all situations and in all circumstances"""
2012-03-31,"France's future: A country in denial --- By ignoring their countrys economic problems, Frances politicians are making it far harder to tackle them | The Economist"
2012-03-31,Spanish Soccer Team Real Madrid Removes Cross From Logo So It Wont Offend Islamic UAE After Entering Resort Agreement
2012-03-31,"HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) - Eight people have been arrested for allegedly killing two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman in ritual sacrifices by the cult of La Santa Muerte, or Saint Death, prosecutors in northern Mexico said Friday"
2012-03-31,"Foreign Fighters Join Syrian Rebels: Jihadists Declare Holy War Against Assad Regime -- Many volunteer fighters are veterans of the Iraq war, who have now brought their holy war to Syria. "
2012-03-31,"Pollution threatens South America's Lake Titicaca:  Growing urbanization is threatening Lake Titicaca along the Boliva-Peru border, and endangering those who depend on it for agriculture and drinking water."
2012-03-31,More rain forecast as deadly floods hit Fiji
2012-03-30,Apple Inc and its main contract manufacturing Foxconn agreed to tackle violations of conditions among the 1.2 million workers assembling iPhones and iPads in a landmark decision that could change the way Western companies do business in China.
2012-03-30,Canada set to phase out the penny
2012-03-30,"An 18-year-old Ukranian woman died Thursday, two weeks after her grisly rape by three young men who then tried to cover up their crime by strangling her, dumping her naked body at an abandoned construction site and setting her on fire."
2012-03-30,Police face racism scandal after black man records racial abuse (Crown Prosecution Service forced to review decision not to charge officers)
2012-03-30,"While China has 350,000 millionaires and 115 billionaires, 700 million of its people live on just ""four dollars a day"" and discontent is growing. In many villages there are riots and people are on strike. If those towns all got up on the same day and rebelled China would have big problems.
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2012-03-30,"World War 3.0 --- 


Privacy, piracy, security, sovereignty. Just some of the battle lines drawn in the war over the Internet. And part of wider questions of freedom and control. Later this year, the key UN treaty will be revised. Here's what's at stake"
2012-03-30,Girl of five forced into marriage in the UK
2012-03-30,"In China, ""Bachelor Villages,"" populated entirely by men, are the result of the One-Child policy"
2012-03-30,"'The Norway Killer Is Not Crazy':""... his beliefs and way of thinking are common,"" said Lippestad. ""He is not as unique, as paranoid or schizophrenic as the experts say.""
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2012-03-30,"Hungary President Loses Doctorate - 
A university in Hungary strips President Pal Schmitt of his doctorate after ruling that large parts of his thesis were plagiarised"
2012-03-30,Why Germans Dont Have A Problem With Mandated Health Care
2012-03-30,Japan orders interception of North Korean rocket.
2012-03-30,MI6 spy Gareth Williams death: agent could 'not have locked himself in bag' - Telegraph
2012-03-30,Where are you on the global pay scale?
2012-03-30,Adolf Hitler parents' tombstone in Austria removed
2012-03-30,Indias government orients towards privatizing/profitizing water
2012-03-30,"Canada is giving up on the penny. No more to be produced, cash transactions to be rounded to the nearest 5-cent increment."
2012-03-30,Japan will intercept N Korean rocket if necessary
2012-03-30,"Iran is helping its ally Syria defy Western sanctions by providing a vessel to ship Syrian oil to a state-run company in China, potentially giving the government of President Bashar al-Assad a financial boost worth an estimated $80 million"
2012-03-30,"Vatican Leaks Raise Questions Over Finances: An archbishop who complained of corruption was sent to the U.S., and the Vatican is carrying out a rare criminal investigation to see who leaked documents purporting financial misdeeds."
2012-03-30,Behind the facade of Dubai
2012-03-30,New York Times: Japan Nuclear Plant May Be Worse Off Than Thought. Both Tepco and the government were accused of playing down the dangers posed by the meltdowns at the plant. 
2012-03-30,South Korean officials say North Korea test-fired 2 short-range missiles
2012-03-30,Ireland to ban cheese adverts during children's TV schedules because it is high in fat
2012-03-30,Depleted Uranium: Iraq congenital birth defect survey to begin in April
2012-03-29,Colombias former president calls Americas drug war a failure: We cannot be condemned to live in war because Americans do not want to talk about it. No one speaks in favor of the war on drugs.
2012-03-29,B.C.'s chief medical officer joins call to legalize pot (Canada) 
2012-03-29,"U.S. soldier dies saving Afghan girl: Spc. Dennis Weichel saw an MRAP bearing down on a little girl and grabbed her out of the way. But in the process, the armored truck ran him over"
2012-03-29,'You know what men are like': Indonesia to ban mini-skirts over links to rape
2012-03-29,"With Google Earth, India Can No Longer Hide its Shantytowns and ""Slumdogs"""
2012-03-29,Fidel Castro to Pope Benedict: What does a pope do?
2012-03-29,Egyptian Court Declares Internet Porn Illegal
2012-03-29,"The Politics of Shitstorms:
Is the Pirate Party Its Own Worst Enemy? --- 
Germany's political establishment doesn't know how to react to the Pirate Party, which now has seats in two state parliaments and owns the debate on Internet issues."
2012-03-29,Canada gets rid of the penny
2012-03-29,Ireland Officially Bans Female Genital Mutillation
2012-03-29,"BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China & South Africa) agree to local currency credits to ease dollar dependency"
2012-03-29,Canada's First Nations communities wrecked by OxyContin addiction - An estimated 80 percent of working-age adults in some communities abuse the prescription drug
2012-03-29,US suspends food aid to North Korea: Pentagon official
2012-03-29,Israel gains access to airbases in Azerbaijan directly north of Iran eliminating the need for aerial refueling for attack on Iran 
2012-03-29,Ukraine rape scandal victim Oksana Makar dies
2012-03-29,A potential fuel strike sparks panic buying in the UK. Now one police force is recommending petrol stations should be closed
2012-03-29,Japan conducts first hangings in two years
2012-03-29,Australian couple has $1 million hospital bill after baby born in B.C.
2012-03-29,Afghan women jailed for 'running away'
2012-03-29,Italians shocked by self-immolation protests
2012-03-29,Azerbaijan denies giving Israel air base access
2012-03-29,Algeria refuses French gunman's body for burial - Yahoo! News India
2012-03-29,Murdochs News Corp accuses BBC of unfair and baseless allegations
2012-03-29,"Mohamed Merah, the gunman who killed seven people including three Jewish children, may have been an informant for France's intelligence services"
2012-03-29,More bad news from the stricken Fukushima nuclear site. Detected radiation levels of 70 seiverts an hour will kill a human after seven minutes of exposure.
2012-03-28,"A secret unit within Rupert Murdoch's News Corp promoted a wave of high-tech piracy, crippling competition in the Australian Pay TV market, with direct ramifications in the US and Italy."
2012-03-28,"Hunt for Skilled Labor: Germany Woos Portugal's Lost Generation  -- The crisis-hit nations of southern Europe have one booming industry left -- their skilled workers are in high demand in Germany, which has a chronic shortage of qualified labor."
2012-03-28,"More than 1 million Saudis on unemployment benefit, up by 170 percent from December. "
2012-03-28,"Dutch Catholic Church Accused of Forcing Castrations - ""The newspaper said the castrations were regarded both as a treatment for homosexuality as well as a punishment for those who accused clergy of sexual abuse"""
2012-03-28,BBC News - Super-Earths 'in the billions'
2012-03-28,This Thursday Iraq is to host the Arab Summit. It's the first summit since the Arab Spring movement and the first for Iraq since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990.
2012-03-28,WHO praises Cuba's health care system
2012-03-28,"Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation --- Short history of Sealand, self-proclaimed micro-nation on an old oil-rig in the North Sea. Once a base for pirate broadcasters. Soon, perhaps, a home for Wikileaks?"
2012-03-28,Tibetan man dies from self-immolation in New Delhi
2012-03-28,"Death Penalty Statistics, Country by Country - China, together with Iran, North Korea, Yemen and the US (the only G7 country to still execute people) carried out the most executions "
2012-03-28,"Strong showing for the Pirate Party in German elections - The German Pirate Party has won four seats in Saarland, one of the smallest regions in Germany, described as a ""conservative area."""
2012-03-28,Why Portugal Will Be the Next Greece
2012-03-28,"Afghan women are being jailed for 'moral crimes', says report - Courts failing to protect women, many of whom are in prison for running away from home or adultery, says Human Rights Watch"
2012-03-28,Verdict on UK riots: people need a 'stake in society'
2012-03-28,Billions in cash smuggled out of Afghanistan every year
2012-03-28,September 11 suspect spotted in Pakistan tribal region
2012-03-28,News Corporation's Australian branch in new hacking row
2012-03-28,BBC News - Mohamed Merah: Toulouse gunman's father 'to sue France'
2012-03-28,"The third British Empire - London is considered the ""capital of capitalism"" allowing foreign billionaires to stash tax free income offshore"
2012-03-28,"Household charge rebellion clouds Irish outlook.
Failure by a majority of homeowners to pay by this weekend would mark the first act of collective defiance against austerity
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2012-03-28,"People in Europe drink more alcohol than in any other part of the world, downing the equivalent of 12.5 liters of pure alcohol a year or almost three glasses of wine a day, according to report by the World Health Organization and the European Commission."
2012-03-28,"How Do You Buy Organs On The Black Market?
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Start on the internet, of course. Focus on countries with big income inequalities. South Africa and Yemen are good options. China is rebounding. Get the transplant done in an Israeli clinic, if you can afford to fly in your donor"
2012-03-28,"Major changes are needed in agriculture and food consumption around the world if future generations are to be adequately fed, a major report warns."
2012-03-28,Born in the Gulag: Why a North Korean Boy Sent His Own Mother to Her Death - Life inside North Korea's Camp 14 so twisted 13-year-old Shin In Geun that he betrayed his mother and only brother.
2012-03-28,"Indian high court grants divorce to sex-starved husband, maintaining that denial of sex by his wife amounted to mental cruelty."
2012-03-27,James Cameron releases the first ever video footage of the bottom of the Mariana Trench - seven miles below the ocean's surface.
2012-03-27,"10,000 People Sign Petition to Honor Alan Turing by Putting Him on the 10 Note:  Just last month the government there refused to pardon him for the crime of ""moral turpitude,"" that is, that he was gay."
2012-03-27,"Global Warming Close to Becoming Irreversible - The world is close to reaching tipping points that will make it irreversibly hotter, making this decade critical in efforts to contain global warming, scientists warned on Monday."
2012-03-27,11 suicide vests found at Afghan military HQ
2012-03-27,Australia bans Chinese  technology giant Huawei from bidding to help build a nationwide high-speed Internet network due to concern about cyber attacks traced to China
2012-03-27,"Why the Right to Water Is Under Attack - 
World leaders are trying to roll back momentum that would instill the right to water as an essential human right"
2012-03-27,Al Jazeera has received a video of the murderous rampage in southwest France and is now considering whether to air it over the objections of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
2012-03-27,"EU Parliament not sending ACTA to ECJ, making a final decision right away"
2012-03-27,Al Jazeera not to air French killings video
2012-03-27,"BP Oil Spill Seriously Harmed Deep-Sea Corals - Evidence ""compelling"" that explosion at Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in 2010 badly damaged colonies in the Gulf of Mexico "
2012-03-27,Egypt liberals to write rival constitution
2012-03-27,Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor's Anti-Nuclear Speech
2012-03-27,"German police can base ID checks on skin color, court rules:  A court in Germany has ruled that police can demand to see train passengers' ID on the basis of their skin color, supposedly to track down illegal immigrants.
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2012-03-27,"New Australian Laws Target Wikileaks: ""New extradition law will make it easier for foreign governments to request extradition of Australians and a new spying law that broadens ASIOs reach, which has been dubbed the WikiLeaks Amendment."""
2012-03-27,"WHO: The fight against new, antibiotic-resistant strains of tuberculosis has already been lost."
2012-03-27,"Is Human Impact Accelerating Out of Control? The conference has already declared that the Holocene Epoch is now over and that the Anthropocene -- in other words, the epoch when the impact of human activity will be clearly seen in the future in the geological record -- has already begun."
2012-03-27,Japan goes off script at summit to slam North Korea
2012-03-27,"Inequality: The deals off --- In much of Cuba it has become hard to find anyone under 40 with a good word to say for the system. The young people here have nothing to do. They are desperate,  | The Economist"
2012-03-27,Study shows a 78% increase in executions worldwide.
2012-03-27,O2 forced to expose 'porn downloaders'
2012-03-27,Taiwan woman commits suicide while on Facebook
2012-03-27,Deepwater Horizon spill severely damaged deep-sea corals more than 11 kilometers from the well site
2012-03-27,"""People seven miles away can see a gas cloud coming from the Total rig.""  The gas cloud encircled Total's leaking Elgin Franklin oil and gas platform in the North Sea following failed attempts to ""kill"" the leaking well."
2012-03-27,Syrian government accepts Kofi Annan's 6-point peace plan
2012-03-27,"Spanish copyright monopoly lobby Promusicae files lawsuit against reputable Professor Enrique Dans for soiling their honor, and demand 20,000 in damages"
2012-03-26,Denmark aims to get 50% of all electricity from wind power
2012-03-26,Queen Elizabeth stuns bride and groom by accepting invite
2012-03-26,"The Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans, 6.78 miles deep, has only been reached by two humans and that was 50 years ago. Today however, James Cameron has started his descent to the ocean's deepest point. He is going to be the third human who has reached the Mariana Trench."
2012-03-26,Earthquake in Chile
2012-03-26,"'Last week UK approved the extradition of 23-yr-old student, Richard ODwyer to the US. In a response to the decision, The Times reader wrote an interesting letter thats worth sharing...'"
2012-03-26,Prominent Kuwaiti Muslim scholar says freedom comes before Shariah
2012-03-26,"A fall to cheer: For the first time ever, the number of poor people is declining everywhere"
2012-03-26,Israel cuts ties with UN human rights body - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2012-03-26,Poland's new gas reserves turn out to be about 10% of the original estimate. 
2012-03-26,"Greed Is The Beginning of Everything --- 


Interview with Tomas Sedlacek, freethinking Czech economist and philosopher. ""Complicated mathematical models are simply wrong or pointless at best. The real question should be: Is the economy working the way we want it to?"""
2012-03-26,"Kenya announces discovery of oil
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2012-03-26,"Monsanto, a half-century of health scandals"
2012-03-26,Proving you're gay to the Turkish army
2012-03-26,"A gang of women -- described as blonde, bilingual and well educated -- have been taking Brazilian shopping malls by storm, kidnapping female shoppers and maxing out their credit cards, police say."
2012-03-26,"In a visit to Cuba, Pope Benedict calls for Cuba to abandon Marxism, saying that ""It is evident that Marxist ideology in the way it was conceived no longer corresponds to reality."""
2012-03-26,"Israel cuts contact with UN rights council, to protest settlements probe: Foreign Ministry orders envoy to Geneva to ignore all phone calls from rights council commissioner; 'The council sparked this process', says a senior Israeli official"
2012-03-26, Only one of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors now running
2012-03-26,Israeli police say they have launched an investigation into reports soccer fans swarmed into a Jerusalem mall chanting anti-Arab slogans and beat Palestinian workers there.
2012-03-26,Man in Afghan army uniform shoots 2 NATO troops in Afghanistan.
2012-03-26,North Korea's dehumanizing treatment of its citizens is hiding in plain sight 
2012-03-26,"Israel cuts contact with U.N. Human Rights Council over probe into Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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2012-03-26,"A Norwegian court on Monday sentenced Mullah Krekar, the founder of a Iraqi Kurdish Islamist group, to five years in jail for issuing death threats against a former government minister and others."
2012-03-26,Japan shuts down another nuclear reactor; all could be off line by May 
2012-03-26,"Pakistan bans ""Indian James Bond"" film "
2012-03-26,Journalist seeking truth about Khmer Rouge 'fears for his life' 
2012-03-25,"Guatemala's president says 'War on Drugs' has failed, & it's time to end the ""taboo"" on discussing decriminalization"
2012-03-25,"Sarkozy announces crackdown on Internet hate sites: ""From now on, any person who habitually consults Web sites that advocate terrorism or that call for hatred and violence will be criminally punished"" "
2012-03-25,Israel Loves Iran Campaign Gains Force
2012-03-25,A British man has been in prison for almost six years - for refusing to put his clothes on
2012-03-25,Cannabis: Legal high 
2012-03-25,Spanish police arrest 22 gang members that tattooed bar codes onto prostitutes wrists 
2012-03-25,Tory Peter Cruddas sold access to British Prime Minister
2012-03-25,White Supremacists Flee into Subway as Anti-Racist Group Approaches
2012-03-25,"Australia's Federal Dept of Foreign Affairs & Trade emerged as ACTAs cheerleader-in-chief, trumpeting the benefits of the treaty before a rare open federal parliamentary committee"
2012-03-25,JP Morgan closes Vatican's bank account
2012-03-25,"Afghan gun massacre families paid compensation. The families received around $50,000 for each person killed and about $10,000 for each wounded in the shootings in two villages in Panjwai district earlier this month. 
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2012-03-25,"Mackerel fishing sanctions imposed after Iceland & Faroes breach quotas, putting stocks at severe risk of over-fishing -  

North Sea & Atlantic mackerel fisheries to lose eco-label & any mackerel landed in Europe from March 31 won't be allowed to use it. "
2012-03-25,Shell Sued in U.K. Over Massive 2008 Nigerian Oil Spills
2012-03-25,"Dozens of French Muslims are training with the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan, raising fears of future attacks following the shooting deaths of seven people in southern France allegedly by a man who spent time in the region, Pakistani intelligence officials said Saturday."
2012-03-25,"Shell Scrambles To Pay Huge Bill For Iran Oil: ""'There are big frustrations with the payment route -- the U.S. pressure is really working,' said a senior oil source. 'It's now nearly impossible to use the banking system.'"""
2012-03-25,Greek Independence Day parade becomes effectively private.
2012-03-25,Israeli court rejects deal on settlers' Migron outpost
2012-03-25,Senior Tory Peter Cruddas resigns after cash for PM access sting
2012-03-25,"Aberdeen Coastguard  evacuate 209 non-essential personnel to safety after gas leak discovered at North Sea platform -   Evacuating that many that quickly reflects the seriousness. Efforts underway to control the leak.
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2012-03-25,China 'warns' India with border drill
2012-03-25,"1,000 Israelis March in First Significant Protest Against War with Iran"
2012-03-25,"Four years after Kosovo's ethnic Albanians declared independence from Serbia, they have stepped up a drive for unification with Albania "
2012-03-25,"Court to decide fate of 19 year old who claims she was kidnapped, converted to Islam and married against her will"
2012-03-25,Militia storms hotel in Libya after guest told to pay overdue bill
2012-03-25,Legacy of a Massacre: The World Bank and the Chixoy Dam
2012-03-24,A Kazakh shooting gold medallist is stunned as the comedy national anthem from the film Borat is played for her victory in Kuwait instead of the real one.
2012-03-24,"Nathaniel Raymond is the first to admit that he has an unusual job description. ""I count tanks from space for George Clooney"""
2012-03-24,Japanese boat washed away in tsunami spotted more than a year later - CNN.com
2012-03-24,"Christian bishops in Germany, Austria and Russia have sharply criticized Saudi Arabia's top religious official after reports that he issued a fatwa saying all churches on the Arabian Peninsula should be destroyed."
2012-03-24,"Liberals walk out of Egypt assembly selection:  Parliamentarians meet to name 100-member panel to write constitution, but liberals say Islamists are dominating process."
2012-03-24,UK: Revealed: what children are being told about abortion - Guardian
2012-03-24,Madonna May Be Charged Under St Petersburg Anti-Gay Law
2012-03-24,Mozart piano composition uncovered in Austria
2012-03-24,A former Russian banker is in a critical condition in hospital after he was shot several times with a sub-machine gun in London.
2012-03-24,Zimbabwean conservationists said Friday they are investigating the legality of a hunting spree in the country by the heirs to U.S. magnate Donald Trump's fortune after photos showed up online of the brothers posing with dead game animals.
2012-03-24,"Torontos Mayor Ford vows to ""lead the charge"" in stopping light-rail transit"
2012-03-24,"Mali suspended from African Union:  Military coup which deposed President Amadou Toumani Tour leads to EU and World Bank halting aid programmes
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2012-03-24,"Fire Devours Kenya's Ancient Forests - Blaze destroys 1,000s of hectares crucial for water & threatens wildlife at the World Heritage site.  It's believed it came from clearing bamboo to plant illegal crops, but poachers are also suspect. Elephants fled in search of safety. (With Video)
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2012-03-24,Police attack Portuguese people protesting austerity measures 
2012-03-24,North Korean missiles aimed at Australia
2012-03-24,BBC News - Osborne 'raiding' NHS budget to fund income tax cuts
2012-03-24,Sri Lanka rejects UN war resolution:  The country's acting foreign minister condemns a UN call for an international probe into three-year-old wartime battles.
2012-03-24,"Brazil police hunt ""blonde kidnapping gang"" in Sao Paulo"
2012-03-24,"On Thursday rebel troops in Mali went on state television to announce that they had seized control of the country and ended the administration of Amadou Toumani Toure, the president."
2012-03-24,"Serbian gangsters killed rival, ate him for lunch in a stew and disposed of body using a meat grinder"
2012-03-24,Japan tsunami 'ghost ship' drifting to Canada
2012-03-24,"Australia has banned Chinese networking giant Huawei from participating in the multi-billion dollar National Broadband Network tendering process, despite the company not being accused of having broken any pertinent laws"
2012-03-24,African Union to boost forces against Joseph Kony
2012-03-24,A Brazilian Corruption Story Finally Stirs Outrage
2012-03-24,"Pakistan's Quiet Erosion of Internet Freedom - In a small internet cafe in the bustling commercial area of the Pakistani city of Lahore, Nazakat Khan, 22, is surfing the net"
2012-03-23,North Korea warned that any criticism of its nuclear weapons program would be considered a declaration of war
2012-03-23,Staff Sgt. Robert Bales to face 17 murder counts in Afghanistan massacre
2012-03-23,Protesters gay the pray away.
2012-03-23,"Not only has the United States reduced oil imports from members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries by more than 20 percent in the last three years, it has become a net exporter of refined petroleum products like gasoline for the first time since the Truman presidency."
2012-03-23,China Has Censored All Mention Of The Rumored Coup
2012-03-23,Attacking Iran to be worst mistake in U.S. history: Castro
2012-03-23,Japan orders anti-missile defence for N Korea rocket
2012-03-23,"ACTA On Hold, But The Protests Continue In Serbia"
2012-03-23,BBC News - China to end organ donations from executed prisoners
2012-03-23,"New president urges Germans to stand by European unity, advocates tolerant society"
2012-03-23,"Better prepared: Mexico's 7.4 quake causes damage, but no deaths
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2012-03-23,"'Pitbull-type' dog mauls five police officers in London, UK"
2012-03-23,"Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they're cutting classes, the city's education secretary said Thursday."
2012-03-23,"Canada's Supreme Court says it's understandable for aboriginals to commit crimes, and they shouldn't be punished too harshly"
2012-03-23,"The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran's nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead."
2012-03-23,Hubbard ban: Scientology books officially extremist in Russia (again)  RT
2012-03-23,Radiation risks from Fukushima are likely to be less than for Chernobyl
2012-03-23,US warns of 'strong response' if North Korea launches rocket - The Times of India
2012-03-23,"Russia has destroyed 60% of chemical weapons
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2012-03-23,"Fresh water supplies are unlikely to keep up with global demand by 2040, increasing political instability, hobbling economic growth and endangering world food markets, according to a U.S. intelligence assessment released on Thursday."
2012-03-23,Kim Jong-un's Barbaric Purge of 'Unsound' Military Brass: He Uses Mortar Rounds To Dispose Of His Redcoats
2012-03-23,"Fukushima Pref. deleted 5 days of radiation dispersion data just after meltdowns
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2012-03-23,Nigeria's finance minister wants to be president of World Bank
2012-03-23,Portugal hit by general strike against austerity
2012-03-23,"As Syria's bloodshed deepens, the British-born first lady has become an object of contempt for many, a Marie Antoinette figure who shopped online for crystal-encrusted Christian Louboutin stilettos while her country burned."
2012-03-22,"Pirating UK Student to be Extradited to the US: 'Despite public outrage Home Secretary Theresa May approved the extradition order today. The 23-yr-old student has never visited US, but now faces several years in a US prison.'"
2012-03-22,"23 years old shooter in Toulouse, France, killed during assault, according to police."
2012-03-22,Over 308'000 Post-Secondary Students (out of 450'000) in Canadian Province of Quebec On Strike Today To Protest Austerity of 75% Tuition Increase. Over 100'000 Expected In The Streets Of Montreal Today. 200'000 On Unlimited General Strike.
2012-03-22,"Australia's most-wanted man caught after 7 years hiding in bush, eating kangaroos"
2012-03-22,"Baffling Illness Strikes Africa, Turns Children Into Violent ""Zombies"""
2012-03-22,Official: Coup d'etat underway in Mali
2012-03-22,"Contamination Time Bomb:  Chevron, TransOcean Executives Face Criminal Charge for Brazilian Oil Spill - Prosecutors say 'crime against nature' could land imprudent company's employees in jail"
2012-03-22,"Gangs of women in Zimbabwe have been picking up male travellers to have sexual intercourse and harvest their sperm, according to reports."
2012-03-22,"Alberta colleges, universities made illegal donations to Canada's ruling Conservative party during the last few years - CBC"
2012-03-22,Muslim envoys walk out in protests at U.N. gay rights debate
2012-03-22,"Kim DotCom to get monthly living expenses of $48,000: New Zealand court rules that the MegaUpload founder and alleged pirate will see more monthly cash and also be allowed the use of one of his cars"
2012-03-22,Indian government may have lost $210 billion in 'mother of all scams'
2012-03-22,Anti-piracy outfit BREIN is trying to stop the massive influx of Pirate Bay proxy sites that circumvent a court-ordered blockade in the Netherlands
2012-03-22,Syrian rebels running out of ammunition as government presses offensive
2012-03-22,Marijuana Must Be Legalized 
2012-03-22,"Massive fire sweeps through one of the oldest markets in Calcutta, destroying most of the shops - 30 fire engines fought the blaze for over 4 hours "
2012-03-22,"Why the World Should Keep Destructive Men Out of the World Bank:  ""Just between you and me, shouldn't the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the Lesser Developed Countries?"" (quote from banker Larry Summers, leading nominee to head the World Bank) "
2012-03-22,Toulouse shooting suspect Mohamed Merah dies jumping from his apartment window with gun in hand
2012-03-22,IMF Banksters worst fear: Egyptians launch campaign to repudiate Mubarak's debt's
2012-03-22,Soldiers stage coup in Mali 
2012-03-22,"Magna Carta to get modern makeover for 800th birthday
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2012-03-22,Iraqi Kurdistan threatens to declare independence
2012-03-22,The Brazilian who wants to jail Chevron oilmen
2012-03-22,"Leaked documents show 9,000 Nazi war criminals fled to South America after World War 2"
2012-03-22,"(Telegraph)  Suspected al Qaeda militants unleashed a wave of terror across Baghdad and 11 other Iraqi cities on Thursday, killing at least 60 people in a series of attacks on government buildings, security targets, restaurants and a primary school"
2012-03-21,"Russian Court declares books on Scientology to be ""extremist literature"" and bans them from sale."
2012-03-21,"7.9 in Acapulco, Mexico"
2012-03-21,Bomb explodes in Paris at Indonesian Embassy this morning
2012-03-21,"Why Has India Become the World's Top Arms Buyer? - India has replaced China as the worlds largest arms buyer, accounting for 10 percent of all arms purchases during the past five years, a Swedish research group said."
2012-03-21,Egyptian teen throws herself off a balcony to avoid forced marriage
2012-03-21,"Germany has confirmed plans to sell a discounted nuclear-capable submarine to Israel, after Berlin reportedly dropped objections over Jewish settlement building in the Palestinian territories. "
2012-03-21,Suspect in Toulouse shootings declares allegiance to al-Qaida according to French police
2012-03-21,Israel banning use of underweight models
2012-03-21,African reporter confronted with violent threats after story on female circumcision
2012-03-21,"Mohammed Merah, gunman suspected of murdering three children and rabbi at a French Jewish school, has been arrested"
2012-03-21,Greece: 1 in 6 disability claims fake
2012-03-21,"Are Walmart's Chinese Factories as Bad as Apple's? - 
A fiction-free investigation finds that in many cases, the company's auditors are asleep on the job"
2012-03-21,Centre fully accepts decriminalization of gay sex: AG - The Times of India
2012-03-21,Gunman who killed French Paratroopers and children at a Jewish school is in a siege with police. Apparently is a 24 year old French Muslim claiming to be a member of Al-Queda.
2012-03-21,"""Russia warned Tuesday [20 March 2012] that Iran would have no option but to develop nuclear weapons if it came under attack from either the United States or Israel over its contested atomic programme."""
2012-03-21,Dutch Catholic Church accused of castrating young boys who complained of sexual abuse or suspected of homosexuality.
2012-03-21,Russia and China agree on a U.N. Security Council statement that threatens Assad
2012-03-21,Apache copter crashes in Afghanistan  Some things just need to be seen to be believed. [video]
2012-03-21,As Greek health services are defunded: HIV rates soar; Malaria makes comeback after 30 years
2012-03-21,"Bolivia Has Transformed Itself by Ignoring the Washington Consensus: By breaking with orthodox prescriptions for progress, Evo Morales has helped to forge a new Bolivia centered on 'living well'"
2012-03-21,Payday Loans in the UK-they learned this trick in the States 
2012-03-21,"RIP NHS, 1948-2012: Cameron gloats as hated Health Bill passed to allow private firms to cash in on care"
2012-03-21,"Cameroon Elephant Massacre Shows Poaching, Ivory Trade Require an International Response: 'Less than a month ago Bouba NDjida National Park was home to 450 elephants. Today, at least half of those elephants are gone, slaughtered by armed horsemen...' "
2012-03-21,"Mexican Government predicted today's 7.4 
magnitude  earthquake one month ago."
2012-03-21,U.N. Security Council backs Kofi Annan's Syria peace plan
2012-03-20,"The ""potato movement"" is taking off across Greece: agricultural produce is being sold directly to consumers by their producers."
2012-03-20,105 year old woman hanged herself after telling her family she was tired of waiting to die.
2012-03-20,UK: Student wins Police payout after being arrested for filming
2012-03-20,Germanys $263 Billion Shift To Renewable Energy Is The Biggest Reconstruction Of It's Energy Market Since WWII.
2012-03-20,France restores ban on GMO maize crops | Reuters
2012-03-20,UK teenager arrested for anti-war Facebook post
2012-03-20,Russian troops roll into Syria to support Assad
2012-03-20,Iran presses ahead with dollar attack (will no longer accept oil payment in USD just as Saddam did in 2000)
2012-03-20,"Muhammad Wazir lost his mother, his wife, a sister-in-law, a brother, a nephew, his four daughters and two of his sons in last week's mass shooting in two villages. ""Like anyone, I wanted my children to be doctors, engineers  important people. All my dreams are buried under a pile of dust now.""


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2012-03-20,"Einstein archive goes online - 
Hebrew University of Jerusalem to publish 80,000 of the world-famous physicists documents on new internet archive
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2012-03-20,Australia Passes Controversial Mining Tax Into Law - The Australian Senate has pushed through into law a 30% tax on iron ore and coal mining companies
2012-03-20,Six political activists who gathered last year to watch and discuss television news broadcasts of the Arab Spring protests were convicted Monday of plotting to overthrow the government.
2012-03-20,Norway's state church headed toward  dis-establishment | The Christian Century
2012-03-20,Which is the world's biggest employer?
2012-03-20,"The Vatican has expressed its ""dismay and betrayal"" at the ""sinful and criminal acts"" by Catholic clergy guilty of child abuse across Ireland."
2012-03-20,"""I cannot imagine US infrastructure, diplomats or personnel would be safe anywhere in the world"" says former Iranian ambassador if US attacked Iran. "
2012-03-20,"Venezuela : Govt. hands out 600 musical instruments to children across ten schools as part of a strategy to prevent crime, and bringing the number of instruments handed out so far to a total of 1,600."
2012-03-20,Peace-minded Israeli reaches out to everyday Iranians via Facebook - CNN.com
2012-03-20,"Australian Government Moves To Quickly Pass Laws To Sterilize, Electroshock, And Restrain Children Without Parental Consent"
2012-03-20,Center-Left Mexico Presidential Candidate Vows to End Drug War
2012-03-20,"Greece:  theatregoers will pay for their tickets not with money but with food, which the theatre's staff will then distribute among half a dozen charities and welfare organisations in the city."
2012-03-20,Major earthquake in Mexico : 7.6
2012-03-20,"Greek bailout actually another bailout for the banks.  It is estimated that out of every euro provided by Brussels, only 19 cents will go to the Greek government, with the rest flowing straight into the coffers of banks and financial investors. "
2012-03-20,China raises concern to North Korea about rocket launch
2012-03-20,Deaths Spotlight Taiwan's 'Overwork' Culture - Working hard is ingrained in Taiwanese society. But recent deaths attributed to overwork are leading people to question the culture for the 1st time.
2012-03-19,"Iranians respond to Israeli Facebook initiative: Israel, we <3 you too"
2012-03-19,"Dutch Catholic church abuse: at least one youth castrated for 'homosexuality', evidence for at least 10 other cases"
2012-03-19,King of Tonga dead: report
2012-03-19,"The Nobel peace prize winner and president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has defended a law that criminalises homosexual acts, saying: ""We like ourselves just the way we are."""
2012-03-19,How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp
2012-03-19,Italian police have arrested 16 judges in what they say is a big anti-mafia operation centred on Naples.
2012-03-19,WikiLeaks Founder to Run for Australian Senate
2012-03-19,"Slavery's last stronghold, Mauritania"
2012-03-19,"Pope Benedict XVI disturbed by disloyalty of those who leaked internal documents about corruption, poor financial management,and contempt regarding the Vatican efforts against laundering."
2012-03-19,"In Mexico, extortion is a booming offshoot of drug war:  Almost every segment of the economy and society, including businesses, teachers and priests, has been subjected to extortionists who exploit fear of cartels."
2012-03-19,Four killed in shooting at Jewish school in France
2012-03-19,"Winds of change blow through China as spending on renewable energy soars - 
World's biggest polluter spends 4bn a year on wind & solar power generation in single region as it aims to cut fossil fuel use"
2012-03-19,"Assad wife: ""I am the real dictator""The British-born wife of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad joked in leaked emails."
2012-03-19,"Al Jazeera obtains secret Syria files --- 
Papers prepared for President Assad by intelligence and security chiefs throw light on his strategy to quell protests."
2012-03-19,Israelis Agree Iran Hasn't Decided on the actual construction of Atom Bomb 
2012-03-19,Chinese hoping ticket out of China is French class - Chinese desperate to emigrate have discovered a backdoor into Canada that involves applying for entry into the country's francophone province of Quebec  as long as you have a good working knowledge of the local lingo
2012-03-19,Topless Women Protest Rampant Sex Trade in Ukraine - ABC News
2012-03-19,80% in Japan 'support nuclear phase-out'
2012-03-19,Mexican Policemen Killed After Beheadings - Gunmen in western Mexico have killed 12 policemen investigating the beheadings of 10 other people
2012-03-19,24-pound tumor misdiagnosed as pregnancy
2012-03-19,"Researchers have updated HadCRUT, one of the main global temperate records, which dates back to 1850 - 2010 now listed as world's hottest year"
2012-03-19,WikiLeaks: Founder Julian Assange to run for Australian Senate - CNN.com
2012-03-19,"Only 2% believe David Cameron is leading 'greenest government ever - 
Poll reveals only one in 50 members of the British public agrees that the prime minister is delivering on his pledge"
2012-03-19,"Africans must travel to the moon to investigate what developed nations have been doing in outer space, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday."
2012-03-19,"A gunman has opened fire at a school for Jewish children in the French city of Toulouse, killing at least three people"
2012-03-18,"In Sweden, cash is king no more."
2012-03-18,Ukrainian girl survives been burned alive after gang rape 
2012-03-18,"The 19-year-old daughter of a Chilean diplomat in Venezuela has been killed by police at a road checkpoint. The trio ignored a command to stop by police at the checkpoint, fearing the officers might be robbers. Violent crime is widespread in Venezuela."
2012-03-18,"Brazil to file charges on Chevron executives:  A federal judge grants a request from prosecutors, barring 17 executives from leaving Brazil, pending criminal charges."
2012-03-18,"Drug War Incompatible with Human Rights, Says Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)"
2012-03-18,"Thai billionaire who invented Red Bull energy drink dies in Bangkok, aged 89"
2012-03-18,Officials in Marseille are evacuating an area around the French Mediterranean city's port so they can remove a 1-ton German bomb that dates to WWII
2012-03-18,"UK steps in to help West Africa in fight to overturn EU fishing abuses:  Britain helps block move by Spain that would have allowed European trawlers to continue overfishing in African waters
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2012-03-18,"Mexicos middle class is becoming its majority:  Although many Mexicans still imagine a country of downtrodden masses dominated by a wealthy elite, the swelling ranks of the middle class are crowding new Wal-Marts, driving Nissan sedans and maxing out their Banamex credit cards."
2012-03-18,A former Lutheran pastor and civil rights activist has been elected as Germany's new president
2012-03-18,"St. Patrick's Day party turns violent in London, Ont."
2012-03-18,"Somali pirates increase brutality: Pirates' torture of kidnapped crew members is becoming commonplace.
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2012-03-18,U.S. teacher killed in Yemen - witnesses say attackers wore uniforms of the country's Republican Guard 
2012-03-18,"England's Environmental Regulations to be Slashed - Environmentalists angry over government plans to 'cut red tape' on rules over air, land & noise pollution, & wildlife protection"
2012-03-18,Thousands Rally for Far-Left French Candidate
2012-03-18,"Gulf Widens Between U.S. And A More Volatile Karzai: ""'Let's pray for God to rescue us from these two demons,' Mr. Karzai said . . . clearly referring to the United States and the Taliban in the same breath. 'There are two demons in our country now.'"""
2012-03-18,"Brazil : 17 executives from Chevron and Transocean barred from leaving the country, pending criminal charges related to last years Oil Spill."
2012-03-18,"While Iceland investigates City banking fraud claims,  UK authorities admit they are defeated by the complexity of the case"
2012-03-18,"While an American-backed gas pipeline through Afghanistan might be done in 2014, an Iranian-backed pipeline is already built up to the border with Pakistan, just waiting for the hookup."
2012-03-18,"In China, millions make themselves at home in caves:  Some are basic, others beautiful, with high ceilings and nice yards. 'Life is easy and comfortable here,' one cave dweller says."
2012-03-18,Doctors bid to unseat 50 MPs in revenge over NHS bill
2012-03-18,"King George Tupou V of the South Pacific nation of Tonga has died at the age of 63, reports say."
2012-03-18,"India Maoists kidnap Italian tourists in Orissa - Maoist rebels have kidnapped 2 Italians in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, the 1st time Westerners have been abducted there"
2012-03-18,"With 1bn hungry and 1bn obese, what is the future of the world's resources?
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2012-03-18,Britain ending aid to India
2012-03-17,French Senator wants to ban child pageants and certain types of children's clothing.
2012-03-17,WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is planning to run for a seat in the Australian Senate.
2012-03-17,"Destroy all churches: 'If the pope called for the destruction of all the mosques in Europe, the uproar would be cataclysmic... On March 12, the grand mufti of Saudi Arabia, declared that it is necessary to destroy all the churches of the region.' "
2012-03-17,France bans strain of Monsanto GM maize
2012-03-17,Suicide of 16-year-old girl forced to marry rapist prompts angry protest by Moroccan women
2012-03-17,Russia plans manned moon shot by 2030 
2012-03-17,UK petrol station CCTVs will check insurance/tax status before you are allowed to fill up
2012-03-17,"Chile: Protesters Demanding Education Rights Met With Tear Gas, Water Cannons: Protesters reject 2-tiered education system, demand free, quality education for all"
2012-03-17,"Police plans to fire rubber bullets in London: ""... senior officers wanted to fire rubber bullets at rioters in south London last summer  but firearms specialists could not reach the trouble spots in time. The Met has now promised to make ""more agile use"" of the weapons."""
2012-03-17,France Bans Growing of Genetically Modified Monsanto Corn.
2012-03-17,Private papers released for the first time reveal a meeting kept secret and denied between Margaret Thatcher and Rupert Murdoch over his bid to buy the Times newspapers.
2012-03-17,WikiLeaks' Julian Assange to run for Australian Senate
2012-03-17,"Osama bin Laden ordered cells in Afghanistan and Pakistan to shoot down a plane carrying Barack Obama and Gen David Petraeus, it was reported on Friday."
2012-03-17,"The Vatican has launched an internal, criminal investigation into the leaks of confidential documents that alleged corruption and financial mismanagement and exposed power struggles among Holy See officials, a Vatican prelate said Saturday."
2012-03-17,Moroccans Slam Law Allowing Rapist To Marry Victim
2012-03-17,"Iraq'a Sadr movement says it frees US soldier - Followers of Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr handed over a captive American soldier to the United Nations alive on Saturday, two senior officials in Sadr's movement have said."
2012-03-17,"Coptic Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria and Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese died on Saturday at the age of 88
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2012-03-17,'Nazi guard' John Demjanjuk dies
2012-03-17,Bombings of two secret police HQ's heralds beginnings of a new stage of Syrian insurgency - 
2012-03-17,"Swedish feminists bare pits to 'reclaim the hair' - Some forty Swedish women gathered at a Malm square in the afternoon on Thursday, taking a stand against the recent internet storm vilifying women's hairy armpits."
2012-03-17,"Letter from China: The Chinese Campaign Gets Dirty --- Bo Xilai, perhaps the Communist Party's most charismatic politician, has been forced out of his job as Party secretary in Chongqing without explanation or warning. "
2012-03-17,Haiti and Cuba sign deal for Cuban technicians to help repair government truck and bus fleets
2012-03-17,China poised to limit use of mental hospitals to curb dissent:  Chinese lawmakers are drawing up laws that would spell out when people can be confined to psychiatric hospitals against their will.
2012-03-17,Profile: Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
2012-03-17,Israeli Budget Reinforces Discrimination Against 1948 Palestinians
2012-03-16,"Chinese official proposes death penalty as deterrent to government corruption amounting to about $100,000 or greater. "
2012-03-16,"New Chevron Oil Leak Off Coast of Brazil - Just 5 months after Chevron lost its drilling rights for causing the largest oil spill in recent memory off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, they've gone &  done it again"
2012-03-16,Shell admits to at least 207 oil spills in 2011
2012-03-16,A Jewish man wins his fight against a German museum for the return of thousands of rare posters stolen from his father by the Nazis in 1938.
2012-03-16,"UK would not help Israel attack Iran, Prime Minister David Cameron says"
2012-03-16,"""Afghan President Hamid Karzai lashed out at the United States on Friday [17 March 2012], saying he is at the 'end of the rope' because of the lack of U.S. cooperation into a probe of a killing spree allegedly carried out by an American soldier."""
2012-03-16,"Putin's Fabled Tiger Encounter was PR Stunt, Say Environmentalists - He allegedly came face to face with a wild tiger, but bloggers now say it was set up. According to local & Moscow-based environmentalists, the tiger, named Serga, was taken from a zoo & driven to a nature reserve."
2012-03-16,Moroccans call for end to rape-marriage laws - Africa - Al Jazeera English
2012-03-16,Friends no more? Egypts MPs declare Israel No. 1 enemy
2012-03-16,"In emails, the nuclear physicist at one of Europe's most celebrated laboratories railed about a need to punish Western governments for allegedly anti-Muslim wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - and conferred with an alleged al-Qaida contact about possible assassination or bombing plots."
2012-03-16,"Syrian armed forces desertion said to surge to 60,000 (Businessweek)"
2012-03-16,"A Moroccan government minister on Thursday called for changes to a law that allows a rapist to marry his victim to escape prosecution, after a teenager who was forced into such a marriage killed herself last week by drinking rat poison. "
2012-03-16,Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to stand down
2012-03-16,"A Swiss couple held captive for nearly a year by the Taliban in Pakistan turned up at an army post close to the Afghan border on Thursday, claiming to have escaped from their captors, the Pakistani army said. They were swiftly flown to safety by the military."
2012-03-16,Something is rotten here: O'Dwyer's extradition to US approved
2012-03-16,"Argentina is intensifying its campaign to block oil development in the Falkland Islands, announcing on Thursday it will pursue ""administrative, civil and criminal"" penalties against the dozens of companies involved."
2012-03-16,"You wouldn't expect it in light of the resurgent German debate about the willingness of young Muslims to integrate into mainstream society, but integration in Germany is actually faring better than expected. "
2012-03-16,"Canada Considers Fate of Arctic Explorer's Ship - It may repatriate the Norwegian 3-mast ship, visible above the frigid waters. Roald  Amundsen was the 1st European to sail through the Northwest Passage searching for a shorter shipping route from Europe to Asia & the 1st to reach the South Pole. "
2012-03-16,"North Korea's rocket launch would defy UN, despite just agreeing to halt weapons testing in exchange for food aid"
2012-03-16,North Korean threatens weeks old treaty with planned satellite/Long range Missile launch 
2012-03-16,"Ireland oil strike raises hopes for exploration boom -- Providence Resources boss Tony O'Reilly Junior said: 'I think this discovery also creates a reappraisal in the minds of global oil corporations about coming back to Irish waters to drill for oil'
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2012-03-16,"Moldova breaks political gridlock, elects president:  Moldova's parliament elected a veteran judge who vowed to tackle rampant corruption as the country's new president on Friday, ending a three-year hiatus that had delayed reform in the poor, ex-Soviet republic."
2012-03-16,More than 150 arrested after anti-brutality protesters clash with police in Montreal
2012-03-16,North Korea says it will launch long-range rocket carrying satellite
2012-03-16,"Acclaimed Public Radio International program has retracted an entire episode about working conditions inside Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer that builds much of Apple's most popular hardware, after learning the NPR reporter ""partially fabricated"" information about his visit to the factories"
2012-03-15,Moroccans demand change to Islamic penal code after a girl kills herself because judge forced her to marry her rapist
2012-03-15,Man called police after finding pornographic images on his laptop after trying to download music. Social services banned him from having unsupervised access to his child while police investigated... Ban was finally lifted
2012-03-15,"The Pirate Party, which made international headlines after its success in state elections in Berlin last year, stands to make gains in two other German states this spring. The party's pledge to foster transparency and participation is resonating with voters who are fed up with local corruption. "
2012-03-15,Lost Boy Uses Google Earth to Find His Way Home After 25 Years
2012-03-15,"Colombia to Enact Drug Decriminalization: The govt of Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is preparing legislation that will set ""personal dose"" amounts for drugs that will allow for their possession without the possibility of arrest or prosecution."
2012-03-15,The Guardian obtained 3000 messages from al-Asaad's email account.  Iran advised him on how to handle the uprising against his rule. And Qatar offered him exile 
2012-03-15,Kony 2012 video screening met with anger in northern Uganda
2012-03-15,"Officials in China's Ministry of Health recently admitted to harvesting organs from death row inmates, ending years of denials about the practice. It is estimated that two-thirds of the country's total organ transplants come from executed prisoners"
2012-03-15,"50 NGOs urge Pakistan to free Christian mother  from execution on charge of Blasphemy --- ""We refuse to accept that this mother of five children will continue to languish in her putrid, stifling, freezing cell for so long  especially without the right to see her children."""
2012-03-15,"French police use tear gas on steelworkers worried about job losses, as they tried to force their way toward the headquarters of President Sarkozy's re-election campaign"
2012-03-15,Syria setting border mines to stop refugee flight
2012-03-15,"Ugandan Gay Rights Group Sues Scott Lively, a U.S. Evangelist - NYTimes.com"
2012-03-15,"Illegal Fishing Straining West Africa -  Recognized as one of the world's richest fisheries grounds teeming with snapper, grouper, sardines, mackerel & shrimp, it's losing up to $1.5 billion worth of fish annually to vessels in protected zones or without proper equipment or licenses
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2012-03-15,Iran loses access to SWIFT 
2012-03-15,"Nato ""Must Quit Afghan Villages"" - President Karzai tells Nato to pull back to bases"
2012-03-15,"Suspect in Afghan massacre flown out of country, and will not face justice in Afghanistan."
2012-03-15,Norwegian Hercules plane vanishes en route to Sweden
2012-03-15,Afghans seethe at lack of US reaction to massacre
2012-03-15,UK Teen Charged Over Dead Soldiers Facebook Post: '... teenager will appear in court for allegedly making comments on Facebook about the deaths of six British soldiers in Afghanistan.'
2012-03-15,China Sacks Key Leadership Contender - One of Chinas most charismatic western-style politicians has been sacked in rare political scandal
2012-03-15,"In a historic judgment, the International Criminal Court convicts Thomas Lubango Dyilo of recruiting children into armed conflict"
2012-03-15,"Bo Xilai: a stunning & highly public fall from grace in China
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The senior Communist Party official, was abruptly dismissed amid scandal, ending his ambition of a top post. His removal could complicate a key year of political transition in China. "
2012-03-15,Egypt: Armed Bedouins are besieging the UN peacekeeper camp in Sinai
2012-03-15,Court Convicts Congo Warlord Of Using Child Soldiers
2012-03-15,"Canadian women 'molested by female US border guards,' lawsuit alleges"
2012-03-14,Israel is planning to demolish 'illegal' solar panels that are the only source of electricity for Palestinians in West Bank villages
2012-03-14,Moroccan girl commits suicide after being forced by judge to marry her rapist.
2012-03-14,"French Surgeon, 71, Saves Lives in Syria:  Dr. Jacques Brs, a veteran of war zones, left his comfortable Paris life last month to smuggle himself into Homs, the center of the Syrian revolt, to tend to the wounded and the sick. "
2012-03-14,Encyclopedia Britannica halts print publication after 244 years
2012-03-14,Russia to finally send man to the Moon
2012-03-14,Argentina's Supreme Court unanimously decriminalized abortion for rape victims
2012-03-14,"In a break with his past positions, Guatemala's president now wants to decriminalise drugs - and not just marijuana."
2012-03-14,"Switzerland bus crash 'kills 28, including 22 children'"
2012-03-14,Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao: democracy in China is 'inevitable'
2012-03-14,"
Teenager arrested for anti-war comments made on Facebook page"
2012-03-14,Tsunami alert as 6.8 earthquake hits Japan
2012-03-14,Hundreds of bodies found in German University.
2012-03-14,"A 12-year-old girl was arrested in Greece today after she tried to sell her baby to undercover police officers, Athens News reported. The baby was 10-weeks-old."
2012-03-14,"Chinese Premier Wen says China needs political reform, warns of another Cultural Revolution if without"
2012-03-14,"London Metropolitan Police officers assaulted a 16-year-old boy with severe autism by forcing him into handcuffs and leg restraints during a school trip, the High Court has ruled."
2012-03-14,Canada to Allow Foreign Ownership for Small Telecoms
2012-03-14,The Syrian story of truth and reality
2012-03-14,"Taking To The Streets --- 


Fabric of Greek democracy is unravelling. Savage cuts imposed by Europe. Politicians impotent, dismissed, loathed. Bailout or not, the political system is finished. Country stands on verge of radical social change"
2012-03-14,"China possibly purchasing Russian SU-35 fighter because of problems with their own J-20 Stealth fighter. ""Reports have surfaced that at least one of the J-20 prototypes uses a Russian borrowed engine."""
2012-03-14,"Iran's parliament grilled President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday over a long list of accusations, including that he mismanaged the nation's economy and defied the authority of the country's supreme leader."
2012-03-14,"Putin Promises Science Boost, but Russian Researchers Skeptical of Ambitious Schemes - Young scientists here have basically no opportunity to make ties with colleagues from N. America, Europe or Asia. It's a sad & stupid situation,  says a scientist in St Petersburg. "
2012-03-14,"Ex-Murdoch scribe claims editor ""told me to bribe police"""
2012-03-14,Congo warlord Thomas Lubanga convicted of using child soldiers
2012-03-14,"The recent death of 5 prematurely born children in German city, Bremen due to infections acquired in the hospital has strengthened fears among environmental and health experts that massive use of antibiotics in industrial livestock farming is creating extremely resistant bacteria"
2012-03-14,"As Syrians flee the increasing violence, and as government forces increase intensity of their crackdown, many refugees are discovering that Syrian forces have planted anti-personnel mines along the border  making their escape extremely dangerous."
2012-03-13,Indian Govt uses special powers to slash cancer drug price by 97%
2012-03-13,Dangerous Ignorance: The Hysteria of Kony 2012
2012-03-13,British stroke victim wins right to ask for euthanasia.
2012-03-13,"China cracks down on human trafficking, freeing 24,000 abducted women and children in 2011"
2012-03-13,"The alleged rape of a 16-year-old Muslim girl ""was captured on video by one of the soldiers and has been passed around Thailands newsrooms and military offices where some have made the galling and insulting comment that perhaps the girl didnt resist enough."""
2012-03-13,"Dr. Jacques Brs, a 71-year old French surgeon, smuggled himself into Homs, Syria, to treat the wounded in a makeshift hospital."
2012-03-13,Rebekah Brooks arrested
2012-03-13,"Fighting the failed War on Drugs: Bolivia's Evo Morales defends right to chew coca leaf""We are not drug addicts when we consume the coca leaf."""
2012-03-13,Nicolas Sarkozy 'received 42 million from Muammar Gaddafi for 2007 election'
2012-03-13,Russia says it will keep selling weapons to Syria
2012-03-13,"Australia Passes Controversial Nuclear Waste Bill - 

Radioactive material set to be dumped in remote Aboriginal community, despite ongoing court case into legality of proposal"
2012-03-13,"Syrian troops have planted landmines along routes used by people fleeing the country's violence and trying to reach neighbouring Turkey, an international human rights group has said. "
2012-03-13,Police Arrest Murdoch Deputy Rebekah Brooks And Husband - The Daily Beast
2012-03-13,"45,000 caught cheating at Britain's universities"
2012-03-13,Syria laying landmines along the border on routes where refugees have fled
2012-03-13,Nightmare Zoo in Indonesia Shaken When Giraffe Dies With Beachball-Sized Wad of Plastic in its Belly - Tigers are emaciated & the 180 pelicans packed so tightly they can't unfurl their wings. New attention now focused on scandalous conditions at largest zoo. (With Photos)
2012-03-13,'Enemies of the internet' named
2012-03-13,Colonel Gaddafi 'gave French President  Nicolas Sarkozy 42million to fund his 2007 election campaign'
2012-03-13,Lockdown London: The 2012 Olympic Games will see the UK's biggest mobilisation of military and security forces since the second world war.
2012-03-13,"A mosque near Brussels was attacked with Molotov cocktails and its imam died trying to extinguish the flames, Belgian newspapers reported late Monday."
2012-03-13,Russia sees 'no reason' to halt weapon support for Syria
2012-03-13,Polish Nuclear Dreams Threaten Ties with Germany
2012-03-13,China gives Japan nod to buy $10bn (6.4bn) of government bonds as Beijing tries to create a more international role for its currency
2012-03-13,"Billions in cash flees Afghanistan, economy threatened"
2012-03-13,"The Fertility Implosion --- A woman in Oman today has 5.6 fewer babies than a woman in Oman 30 years ago. Morocco, Syria and Saudi Arabia have seen fertility-rate declines of nearly 60 percent, and in Iran its more than 70 percent. These are among the fastest declines in recorded history."
2012-03-12,"Bradley Manning's treatment was cruel and inhuman, UN torture chief rules"
2012-03-12,Honduras Invites Colombia and Mexico to Join Drug Legalization Debate 
2012-03-12,"U.S. Faces Challenge to ""Drug War"" as Latin American Countries Mull Decriminalization, Legalization"
2012-03-12,Afghan civilian deaths spark calls for U.S. exit
2012-03-12,Swiss voters reject 6 weeks of paid vacation
2012-03-12,"In Kenya, a group of young Maasai warriors formed a cricket team with big hopes: to promote healthy living, to spread awareness about HIV/AIDS and women's issues, and ultimately to become role models in their community and ambassadors for both the Maasai and Kenya."
2012-03-12,Afghans vow vengeance for soldier's killing spree 
2012-03-12,Kim Dotcom: Many Megaupload Users at the US Gov't
2012-03-12,South Korea's Unification Plan: 'No One Wants to Just Swallow Upthe North' --- Is it possible that Korea will ever reunite? People in the South firmly believe it will happen -- and are even starting to save up money for the massive costs it would entail
2012-03-12,Sarkozy threatens 'to close' France's borders
2012-03-12,Frances Sarkozy vows to pull France out of Europes 25-nation visa-free zone unless border controls are tightened to prevent illegal immigrants from sneaking in to find jobs
2012-03-12,"Rioter who attacked Malaysian student during London Riots jailed for seven years
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2012-03-12,Jewish settlers agree to evacuate West Bank outpost
2012-03-12,"Researchers in Florence say they are one step closer to proving a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, The Battle of Anghiari, is painted on a hidden wall in a cavity in Florence's town hall, where it has remained unseen for five centuries."
2012-03-12,'This Debate Will No Longer be Suppressed': Legalizing Drugs Breaks Into the Mainstream 
2012-03-12,"Christians have no right to wear cross at work, says Government - Telegraph"
2012-03-12,Afghans 'out of patience' after Kandahar massacre
2012-03-12,Chinese Mighty Dragon doomed to breathe Russian fire
2012-03-12,"A newly-built section of a high-speed rail line has collapsed in China's central Hubei province following heavy rain, state media reports."
2012-03-12,"The 1% Recovery -- While the financial crisis hurt the top 1 percent more than anyone else, their recovery has been spectacular -- while everyone else has languished."
2012-03-12,"UK Wants Renewable Energy Target Scrapped - 

Fledgling green industries could be hit as document reveals move to rebrand nuclear power as a renewable form of energy"
2012-03-12,Aer Lingus apologises over language tests for passenger
2012-03-12,UK Foreign Secretary sued over US drone strikes in Pakistan
2012-03-12,The scientist who blew the whistle on stratospheric ozone destruction (won a nobel prize in 1995) died this weekend.
2012-03-12,China may send its first woman into space
2012-03-11,US Soldier 'Kills 16' Afghans In Their Homes
2012-03-11,"At least 14 youths have been stoned to death in Baghdad in the past three weeks in what appears to be a campaign by Shiite militants against youths wearing Western-style ""emo"" clothes and haircuts"
2012-03-11,"In secular Britain, a clash over public prayer: 'The move to ban public prayers in tiny town... has erupted into a national proxy fight over whether Christianity should still hold a privileged place in a modern, diverse and now highly secular society.'"
2012-03-11,"New Israeli air strike kills 12-year-old in Gaza, death toll reaches 17"
2012-03-11,"Appetite for shark fin soup 'causing decline of blue sharks in UK waters' - 
Blue shark population off UK coast is targeted by fisherman using ""wall of death"" method, before being sent to Asia"
2012-03-11,Groundbreaking Trial Against Big Tobacco Starts in Montreal Monday
2012-03-11,Moebius died...How Sad...
2012-03-11,"Turns out, remains found in Mexico cave are part of a pre-Hispanic cemetery dating back some 1,300 years (With Photos)"
2012-03-11,17 civilians killed in Afghan Kandahar province
2012-03-11,"Afghanistan's Karzai calls shooting spree ""intentional murders"""
2012-03-11, UN Powerless to Force Protection of Great Barrier Reef  - Says it's entirely up to Australia
2012-03-11,"Pro-European left sweeps Slovak vote, targets rich"
2012-03-11,"Legalising gay marriage unjustified, say archbishops"
2012-03-11,Fake Facebook profile used for spying...
2012-03-11,"Scots offer to send water to aid drought-hit England, but there are huge logistical issues to be overcome before it can happen "
2012-03-11,"""Iceland will either adopt the euro after joining the European Union or drop the krona and unilaterally adopt another currency as 'the situation can't remain unchanged,' said Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir."""
2012-03-11,A new chapter unfolds in the fight against Big Tobacco
2012-03-11,"My 130 Days In The Hands Of al-Qaeda's African ""Monsters"", By Former Hostage: ""The killing of British hostage Chris McManus in Nigeria is a wake-up call to the threat posed by Islamic militants in Africa, warns former kidnap victim Robert R Fowler"""
2012-03-11,Concordia University to lose $2 million in funding
2012-03-11,Egyptian army doctor cleared over 'virginity tests' on women activists
2012-03-11,Life and death under Syria's military onslaught
2012-03-11,"Syria's Assad meets Annan, but gives little ground"
2012-03-11,GCHQ civilian staff face war crimes charge over drone strikes in Pakistan
2012-03-11,"Shabab and Ethiopian troops clash in Somalia:  Scores dead as al-Shabab and Ethiopian army engage in a three-hour-long gun battle in Yurkud, close to nations' border."
2012-03-11,A military court on Sunday acquitted an army doctor who had been accused of performing forced virginity tests on women detained by soldiers when they broke up a street protest a year ago.
2012-03-10,"Up to 20,000 demonstrators have gathered in central Moscow to demand Vladimir Putin's resignation and protest against electoral fraud"
2012-03-10,"What country jails the most journalists? 
If you guessed China, you were close, but no cigar. 27 reporters are in prison there. If you guessed Iran, youre getting warmer 42 in prison therebut youre still off.  --- 
How many of you guessed Turkey?
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2012-03-10,"UK: Homelessness rise of 14% 'just tip of iceberg'. Charities say figure fails to capture huge numbers who are living with friends, in hostels or on streets."
2012-03-10,The dirty war on WikiLeaks | Media smears suggest Swedish complicity in a Washington-driven push to punish Julian Assange
2012-03-10,China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Is Already Doing A Whole Lot More Than Anyone Expected
2012-03-10,Radioactive plutonium spread tens of kilometres from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The distances at this material was found implies that plutonium was ejected during the hydrogen explosions in the first days of the crisis.
2012-03-10,"Spanish changes are scientific suicide: Spain no longer has a ministry of science. In 2011, its new govt transferred national science policy to the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness"
2012-03-10,"Afghan woman joins patriarchy from under a turban: Dressing as a man has helped this female tribal leader rise to power.
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2012-03-10,"Israel airstrikes target Gaza, killing at least 12"
2012-03-10,Spain's unions call general strike over labour laws
2012-03-10,"Did A Pirate TV Stream Save Lives During The Japan Tsunami? ""... minutes after the first vibrations of the earthquake, a middle school boy in Hiroshima started up a UStream channel to broadcast an illegal, pirate stream of NHK News'"
2012-03-10,"The undertaker, Atsushi Chiba, a father of five who cared for almost 1,000 bodies in Kamaishi, has now become an unlikely hero in a community trying to heal its wounds a year after the massive earthquake and tsunami that ravaged much of Japans northeastern coast"
2012-03-10,"Taliban demand the immediate release of Osama bin Laden's widows, threaten attacks in Pakistan"
2012-03-10,"For Afghan Policewomen, Sex Abuse Is A Job Hazard"
2012-03-10,British hostage killed in failed Nigeria rescue 
2012-03-10,Israel kills 10 Palestinian militants in Gaza strikes
2012-03-10,Remains of 167 People Found in Mexican Cave
2012-03-10,"Thousands protest outside Hungary's parliament calling for ouster of the Prime Minister & his center-right govt, which they accuse of undermining democratic values & weakening the economy"
2012-03-10,"""Britain can no longer ignore that its influence on the world is shrinking amid the rise of developing nations, a panel of senior lawmakers said Thursday [8 Mar 2012]...The group also said Britain should prepare for looser ties with the United States as the U.S. shifts its focus from western Europe"""
2012-03-10,"Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez betrayed the FARC to appease generals and to prevent the extradition of drug trafficker Walid Makled to the United States, according to new documents leaked by WikiLeaks.  "
2012-03-10,"The Islamic World's Quiet Revolution --- 
Forget politics. Muslim countries are poised to experience a new wave of change -- but this time it's all about demographics."
2012-03-10,Expert witnesses accused of 'industrial scale perjury'
2012-03-10,"'We Need a Bond Between Companies and Workers' - Berthold Huber is leader of Germany's powerful IG Metall union, which represents metal workers. He talks about the rise of worker exploitation in Germany and how unions helped prevent a double-dip recession."
2012-03-10,How India Became America - NYTimes.com
2012-03-10,Italian tanker ship runs aground in stormy seas off Sicily; helicopters rescuing crew of 19 - The Washington Post
2012-03-09,U.S. adds Vatican to money-laundering 'concern' list
2012-03-09,Japanese whalers cut season short
2012-03-09,Japan shutting down nuclear power industry
2012-03-09,Chinese state media thanks women for being hot ---  It's hard to think of a more awkward way for a media outlet to celebrate International Women's Day
2012-03-09,"In India, battle continues over Hindu temple's riches:  The vaults at a temple in Kerala have yielded gold and gems worth an estimated $21 billion. A lawsuit has raised a thorny question: Who owns the treasure?"
2012-03-09,4 more generals defect from Syrian army & join uprising against President Bashar al-Assad
2012-03-09,Mass pro-democracy protest rocks Bahrain
2012-03-09,"According to a recent court ruling, German hotels have the right to turn away far-right extremists for their political views. The case struggled to reconcile the principles of freedom and equality. "
2012-03-09,Smartphone apps are sending your data to China
2012-03-09,"In Russia's largest cities, government employees are given sirens and blue lights that give them the right to disobey traffic signals and barrel through traffic. But a small and growing protest movement is challenging them and their special privilege"
2012-03-09,"Resolute, Nunavut, Canada loses Chinese polar bear hunt - Business bows to pressure from international media deriding hunt of 'endangered' bears"
2012-03-09,Bin Ladens Wives Stories of Post-9/11 Life Casts More Suspicion on Pakistan 
2012-03-09," Tens of Thousands Protest in Bahrain: Down, Down Hamad - Bahrain protesters boost pressures on king; sporadic clashes"
2012-03-09,Japan Earthquake: One Year Later [pics]
2012-03-09,"Five murdered Irish emigrants will be reburied in a new grave today
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2012-03-09,"According to a Wikileaks email, Russia refused landing permission to the doomed plane carrying President Kaczynski in April 2010, to force him to miss a Katyn massacre memorial service."
2012-03-09,"""Girls only allowed to access Facebook if they are wearing burkas!"" - Afghans lampoon clerics over women guidelines"
2012-03-09,"Japan ends its whaling season with less than a third of its original target, as ships head home from the Antarctic Ocean."
2012-03-09,"Four Syrian generals defect to opposition as desertions gather pace: The defection brings the number of senior Syrian officers who have defected to seven, rebels say.
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2012-03-09,Top Irish food producer jailed for garlic tax scam
2012-03-09,Did Russia and Israel swap data on their enemies? A Stratfor email exchange suggests the two traded drone intel on Georgia and Iran.
2012-03-09,"Fearing climate change, island nation eyes move to Fiji"
2012-03-09,Far right hardcore 'willing to prepare for armed conflict'
2012-03-09,"With tensions high in Mideast, evangelical Christians tighten embrace of Israel"
2012-03-09,"LGBT rights window closing in Egypt: Revolutionary optimism retreats as Islamic parties take power.
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2012-03-08,"The desecration of an Aboriginal burial site in Australia with swastikas and the letters KKK is condemned as ""disgusting"" by officials."
2012-03-08,"The 51% Tragedy: A Majority of Young Greek Workers Are Now Unemployed
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2012-03-08,Entire nation of Kiribati to be relocated over rising sea level threat  - Telegraph
2012-03-08,"In Afghanistan, children behind bars: Girls as young as 12 jailed for crimes they often do not understand"
2012-03-08,Spain's youth unemployment surges above 50%.
2012-03-08,Riot police use tear gas to control student protest in Montreal
2012-03-08,Homelessness in the UK rises by 14% in one year. 
2012-03-08,Cameroon elephant slaughter: Park cannot cope with $2 million anti-poaching budget when ivory is $1000-$1500 per kg in Asia with each tusk weighing 10kg
2012-03-08,Solving War Crimes With Wristbands: The Arrogance of 'Kony 2012'
2012-03-08,"German Internet Community Cries Foul over Google News Law -- Germany's Internet community, gathered at the world's biggest high-tech fair, was up in arms Thursday at a draft law forcing Google and other similar sites to pay media firms for content."
2012-03-08,Strong solar storm heading for Earth
2012-03-08,AFP: Death-row inmates 'main source of organs in China'
2012-03-08,"Dugongs cruelly slaughtered in illegal meat trade (Australia)
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2012-03-08,India blacklists Israel Military Industries for 10 years for bribery.
2012-03-08,Italian police break up international paedophile network
2012-03-08,Germany earned 380 million euros in interest on the loans it paid to Greece so far
2012-03-08,"Israel's Netanyahu, In A Risky Strategy, Presses U.S. On Iran: ""Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has forcefully pushed President Obama to take a tougher stance on Iran. Critics say he risks alienating an ally."""
2012-03-08,"German Health Insurers Have $26 Billion Cash, Sueddeutsche Says - ""Politicians are suggesting lower premiums or abolishing payments for medication, while insurers want to keep the money as reserve for years with deficits"""
2012-03-08,Khamenei hails Obama's remarks against Iran strike
2012-03-08,"Japans Nuclear Energy Industry Nears Shutdown - All but 2 of its 54 commercial reactors have gone off line since the disaster a year ago.  With the last operating reactor to be idled, Japan  once a world leader in atomic energy  will shut down an industry that generated a 1/3 of its electricity."
2012-03-08,"UK 'Must Plan for Euro Collapse' - Ministers should draw up plans to deal with a break-up of the eurozone ""as a matter of urgency"", a committee of MPs & peers has warns"
2012-03-08,"Nigeria Rescue Bid: Kidnapped Briton & Italian killed - 

A Briton & an Italian abducted by gunmen in Nigeria last year have died in a failed rescue attempt, David Cameron announces"
2012-03-08,Tunisian University Denies Muslims the Right To Worship. Clashes Erupt Many Hurt.
2012-03-08,Syria's deputy oil minister defects from Assad
2012-03-08,4.6 magnitude earthquake strikes Haiti
2012-03-07,Man reports CP in music download and is banned from seeing his own daughter alone
2012-03-07,"A youth has burned himself to death in southwestern China, the third self-immolation in three days in protest of China's policies in Tibet"
2012-03-07,"Chinese Businessmen Paying $80,000 to Hunt Polar Bears in Canada - From one of the 'I Love Hunting Club's' brochures:  ""The polar bear is the most extreme of natural enemies in North America. The huge male bear specimens are the most majestic, most beautiful of hunting prizes!"""
2012-03-07,107 percent turnout? Another side to Russia's vote ---  Putin does better in Chechnya (99.82%) than Assad in Syria
2012-03-07,"In Chechnya, 107% Turnout for Putin - Obvious ballot-stuffing spotted in region"
2012-03-07,Brazil has become the sixth-biggest economy in the world
2012-03-07,"Two Murdoch reporters feared to be in suicide bids: 
""Two senior journalists at News International have 
apparently attempted to commit suicide as 
pressure mounts inside the Murdoch media 
empire..."""
2012-03-07,Nicolas Sarkozy says France has too many foreigners
2012-03-07,Huge solar flare's magnetic storm may disrupt satellites and power grids.
2012-03-07,"A suicide bomber kills herself and five police officers in the troubled Russian region of Dagestan, weeks after security forces kill her husband, prosecutors say."
2012-03-07,"How Three Germans Are Cloning The Web --- 

""The most admirable entrepreneurs are those with original ideas, ja? It's a unique gift that you either have or you don't."" Says Oliver Samwer, one of three brothers who do not have ideas. They just copy others. And make billions"
2012-03-07,"Afghan women trapped in tribal court system: unfairly imprisoned, traded like property and often abused every step of the way. "
2012-03-07,Norway: Breivik charged with Terror and 1st degree murder. Prosecution asks for forced psychiatric treatment 
2012-03-07,A hospital employee in Homs says Syrian civilians and rebel fighters are being tortured there by medical staff and members of the security forces.
2012-03-07,Israel stunned by India's ban on defense contracts after bribing scandal
2012-03-07,"Kim Jong-eun visits the narrowest part of the DMZ, coming within 100m of S. Korean troops while touring the Joint Security Area"
2012-03-07,Mid-size asteroid won't hit Earth in 2013: NASA
2012-03-07,Spiders spin whole fields of webs to escape flooding in Australia
2012-03-07,Father banned from being alone with his daughter after telling police he accidentally accessed child porn while attempting to download music from the internet
2012-03-07,Two Murdoch journalists reportedly attempt suicide as pressure mounts
2012-03-07,"UNESCO will not expel Syria from human rights committee, according to draft resolution"
2012-03-07,Speculation Blamed for Global Food Price Weirdness
2012-03-07,"South Africa: Kruger park rangers kill suspected rhino poacher -- 
Rangers at Kruger National Park shot dead a suspected rhino poacher and injured two others in gun battle, police said.
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2012-03-07,Anger over Sweden's 'secret' Saudi arms plant:  Opposition condemns government after broadcaster reveals documents said to show links between Swedish firm and Riyadh.
2012-03-07,"Taiwan's Nuclear Nightmare: A fourth nuclear plant got the go-ahead, but activists say a disaster worse than Fukushima is on the horizon."
2012-03-06,"Appeal Lost - UK ISPs will have to send warning letters to alleged illegal file downloaders, as well as potentially cutting users off"
2012-03-06,89% of the global population now has access to safe drinking water.
2012-03-06,How Goldman Sachs screwed Greece
2012-03-06,Iran to allow UN nuclear inspectors into military site
2012-03-06,"Myanmar has lowered its firewalls, opening access to social-media sites such as Facebook and Twitter"
2012-03-06,Brazil's economy overtakes UK to become world's sixth largest.
2012-03-06,Is Somalia on the brink of peace? Loss of key city is latest defeat for once-powerful Al Shabaab Islamists.
2012-03-06,Singapore maids to finally get one day off per week
2012-03-06,"Starving Iran Wont Free It: There's an old saying, attributed to the British Foreign Office in colonial days: Keep the Persians hungry, and the Arabs fat."
2012-03-06,Slovakians vote to name a bridge Chuck Norris.
2012-03-06,Penguin escaped from Tokyo zoo.
2012-03-06,Eastern Libya declares semi- autonomy
2012-03-06,Hamas rules out military support for Iran in any war with Israel
2012-03-06,"Twin blasts hit Egypt gas pipeline:  The main gas pipeline sending supplies from Egypt to Israel and Jordan was attacked on Monday, the 13th such attack since long-time President Hosni Mubarak was ousted in February 2011.
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2012-03-06,China Urges The U.S. To Tread Carefully On 'Core Interests'
2012-03-06,"Iran in Nuclear Facility Pledge:""Iran plans to allow U.N. officials to visit the secretive Parchin complex, where the nuclear agency suspects research into nuclear weapons may have been carried out."""
2012-03-06,Eastern Libya pulls away from central government
2012-03-06,"Gay chilean man remains in a coma after brutal 
attack. Neonazis carved swastikas into his 
abdomen and burned other parts of his body with 
cigarettes."
2012-03-06,Sweden to help build Saudi arms plant: report - The Local
2012-03-06,French PM Prompts Religious Row - Muslim & Jewish groups have reacted with dismay after French PM Francois Fillon suggested the religious slaughter of animals was out of date
2012-03-06,BBC News - Saudi diplomat shot dead in Bangladesh
2012-03-06,"Australia's mining boom placing Great Barrier Reef at risk, UN warns: 
Environmental team is assessing the reef amid concerns over rapid escalation in coal exports and gas exploration
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2012-03-06,Daughter of Mubarak-era mogul Hussein Salem to be extradited:  Spanish judge orders extradition of business tycoon's daughter to face corruption charges in Egypt
2012-03-06,France to require all drivers to have Breathalyzer kits
2012-03-06,"At Chechnya Polling Station, Votes for Putin Exceed the Rolls - New York Times"
2012-03-05,"Police are linked to blacklist of construction workers who were considered leftist or troublesome. The blacklist destroyed people's lives, broke up families, ensured that people were unable to earn a living. It devastated people year after year. "
2012-03-05,Australian Muslim women must show faces for identity checks under new law
2012-03-05,Costa Rica tries to go smoke-free: Congress approved sweeping smoking bans. Philip Morris and British American Tobacco are not happy
2012-03-05,"Last Monday, in a national TV interview, the candidate that public opinion polls have leading the French presidential race called for a 75 percent super tax on all individual income over $1 million euros, the equivalent of about $1.33 million.

 
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2012-03-05,"BBC News - Russia election: Vladimir Putin wins, exit polls say"
2012-03-05,"Iranian Ayatollah: Nuclear Weapons ""Grave Sin, Senseless, Destructive, Dangerous."""
2012-03-05,"South African Health Minister not only denied the proven link between AIDS and HIV, but also featured ""garlic, lemons and African potatoes"" as treatment for AIDS :: As of 2011, 40% of South Africans had STDs and 25% had AIDS."
2012-03-05,"Iranian human rights lawyer, colleague of Shirin Ebadi, sentenced to 18 years after being arrested for fourth time in six years. Abdolfattah Soltani was charged i.a. with ""accepting an unlawful award"" for getting the Nuremburg International Human Rights Award"
2012-03-05,Central America is starting a debate on decriminalizing drugs - Biden visits Mexico and Honduras amid drug debate
2012-03-05,"Chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed with other conservative European leaders to help President Nicolas Sarkozy in the French election campaign by spurning his Socialist challenger Franois Hollande, SPIEGEL has learned. Merkel's interference is causing tension in her own government. "
2012-03-05,India bans cotton exports effective immediately
2012-03-05,Secret footage showing 'torture' of Syrians in Homs hospital 
2012-03-05,Russia election 'clearly skewed' for Putin - OSCE
2012-03-05,"People fleeing the Syrian city of Homs tell the BBC that security forces are committing atrocities there, including summary executions."
2012-03-05,Arabian Nightmare: Three men jailed indefinitely in Saudi Arabia for renting the wrong flat.
2012-03-05,An unexpected exercise in globalization: South-African farmers have started heeding the call from the government of Georgia to come to the former Soviet republic
2012-03-05,Thirteen French officers 'captured by Syrian Army' 
2012-03-05,"The Vast Majority Of Israelis Are Against A Unilateral Strike Against Iran - only one in five Israelis, or 19 percent, favor unilateral military strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities without Washington's approval."
2012-03-05,"Brazil has declared a fresh ""currency war"" on the US and Europe, extending a tax on foreign borrowings and threatening further capital controls in an effort to protect the country's struggling manufacturers."
2012-03-05,"Swedish hospital seeks new 'hot' nurses - A hospital in Stockholm has published a job advertisement trying to attract nurses who are both qualified and ""TV-series hot"" in what has been explained as an ""attempt to catch peoples attention""."
2012-03-05,Heroes of Japan's Nuclear Disaster All but Forgotten 
2012-03-05,"Smart concrete: Iran makes some of the worlds toughest concrete. It can cope with earthquakes and, perhaps, bunker-busting bombs"
2012-03-05,Syrian forces 'carrying out mass arrests and executions' in Homs
2012-03-05,Moscow Protesters Denounce Putin Victory
2012-03-05,"Student faces prison for speaking out in royalist Thailand
The fate of Kanthoop, 20, who faces up to 15 years in jail for 'having opinions', highlights country's harsh pro-monarchy laws"
2012-03-04,"In one of India's poorest states, 2 entrepreneurs build and operate solar-powered micro grids to provide low-cost lighting and mobile phone charging to village houses, giving many rural people access to both light and power for the first time in their lives"
2012-03-04,"Kill the Messenger --- What Russia taught Syria: When you destroy a city, make sure no one -- not even the story -- gets out alive."
2012-03-04,Canadian Senate Passes Harsh Crime Bill: ... that includes mandatory minimum prison sentences for growing as few as six marijuana plants'
2012-03-04,"Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla adds her voice to the rising clamor for discussions on drug legalization as an alternative to the current state of affairs, in which Central American nations see themselves as increasingly threatened by the illicit drug trade"
2012-03-04,"Two trains crash in Poland, many are wounded, some have been killed. (happend two hours ago)"
2012-03-04,China military budget tops $100bn; rise by 11.2% in 2012
2012-03-04,How a Gold Mining Boom is Killing the Children of Nigeria: 'More than 400 children have died and thousands more have been severely poisoned by exposure to lead dust.'
2012-03-04,"About 600,000 Russians to Monitor Presidential Elections Online"
2012-03-04,"Thief steals heart of saint, making off with 800-year-old relic that had been on display at cathedral in Ireland"
2012-03-04,Israel to sell $1.6 billion in arms to Iran's neighbor Azerbaijan
2012-03-04,Sarkozy nixes halal meat in schools for Muslims
2012-03-04, the North Korean government has said that anyone caught defecting during the period of mourning for Kim Jong Ils death would have three generations of family members executed.
2012-03-04,"Libya's instability deepens: detainees tortured, tribal warfare rages, oil-rich region seeks ""autonomy"""
2012-03-04,Libyan authorities issue apology after British WWII graves attacked pledging to catch those responsible and to restore graves to a standard befitting the sacrifice
2012-03-04,"Almost a year after the Fukushima disaster, 52 of Japan's 54 nuclear power plants have been shut down. The reactor explosion destroyed the population's trust in nuclear energy. But the atomic lobby -- and the country's industrial needs -- could block a possible phase-out."
2012-03-04,"""Not only has the number of UK adults calling themselves Christian dropped dramatically since the 2001 Census  our research suggests that it is now only 54%  even those who still think of themselves as Christian show very low levels of religious commitment."""
2012-03-04,A matter of time before the US tires of Israel
2012-03-04,"Israel has legalized one of the oldest and largest of the unsanctioned settler enclaves dotting the West Bank, a step denounced by the Palestinians and Israeli activists as a show of bad faith ahead of talks next week between the Israeli leader and President Barack Obama."
2012-03-04,"Around 200 people have been killed and many more injured in a series of explosions in Brazzaville, the capital of Republic of the Congo."
2012-03-04,"Island of Guernsey, Channel Islands moots becoming a ""libel haven"" where rich and powerful can sue and silence critics"
2012-03-04,Dutch mobile euthanasia units to make house calls
2012-03-04,Assad's air force pounds population centers in Syria's Rastan
2012-03-04,"Belarus leader : ""Better a dictator than gay"""
2012-03-04,"Putin's Power Grab and the Russian Awakening -- The Russian leader's flagrant abuses are inspiring many Russians, long indifferent, to start fighting back."
2012-03-04,"New EU laws on hen cages blamed for forcing farms out of business, price of eggs quadrupled."
2012-03-03,"Rescued Photographer: In Syria 'It's Not A War, It's A Massacre' [NPR]"
2012-03-03,"Rasquera, a village of 900 near Barcelona, Spain, feeling the crunch of Euro-austerity measures and heavy debt, voted to let a nearby cannabis association use a stretch of city land to grow marijuana for its 5000 members"
2012-03-03,Danish prosecutors charged 4 people with terrorism for allegedly planning a shooting attack on a newspaper that had printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad
2012-03-03,"UK govt and in particular Ed Vaizey, pressuresing search engines to police search results in a way that goes well beyond notice and take-down...  a system to promote ""good"" music resellers and demote ""bad"" in the search rankings"
2012-03-03,Rick Falkvinge: How Microsoft Pays Big Money To Smear Google In European Parliament
2012-03-03,Israeli PM demands Obama commit to military action if Iran sanctions fail
2012-03-03,'Secret' Archive in Vatican Opened in Public Display - WSJ.com
2012-03-03,"Wukan holds its election after protests that cowed officialdom:  Chinese village goes to the polls to elect new leaders after running authorities out of town over land grabs
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2012-03-03,Moody's downgrades Greece to lowest level:  The credit agency becomes the second in one week to downgrade the country's rating even after announced debt-swap deal.
2012-03-03,"The Arab Spring arrives in Hong Kong Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Hong Kong today, calling for universal suffrage and criticizing Donald Tsang, the citys chief executive, for allegedly accepted perks from local tycoons. "
2012-03-03,"While tens of thousands of its citizens were dying from famine, the U.N.-backed Somali government spent only $1 million on social services despite having $58 million in revenue, according to a report by a former Somali government official."
2012-03-03,Vladimir Putin poised to regain Kremlin; protests likely
2012-03-03,Syria Stops Red Cross from Entering Homs
2012-03-03,Satellite images show what Bashar's military is capable of in Syria
2012-03-03,Japan PM: 'No individual to blame for Fukushima'
2012-03-03,"Don't Underestimate Israel's Capability To Strike Iran, Insiders Say: ""Skeptics say the Jewish state may not be able to deal a fatal blow to an Iranian nuclear-weapons program. But maybe that's what Jerusalem wants you to think."""
2012-03-03,"Thief steals Dublin saint's heart, that was housed in a wooden box surrounded by an iron cage (With Photo)"
2012-03-03,Russian Chamber of Commerce suspends contacts with Syria
2012-03-03,Chinese rebel village of Wukan hold first democratic elections after land grabs; Not going to spread says Beijing
2012-03-03,"Some Real Heroes: Syrias Humanitarian Martyrs - ""The world ignores the repression in Syria just as it effectively ignored the repression in Iran. There are no protests in the streets of Western capitals; no meetings or teach-ins on Western campuses. """
2012-03-03,"North Korean defectors' grim fate: Seoul activists are working to save North Korean defectors in China from repatriation  and a likely death.
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2012-03-03,Lawyer: Costa Concordia captain wasn't wearing his glasses
2012-03-03,"Ireland faces long road back to borrowing:  Of all Europes crisis countries, Ireland has been perhaps the most adamant about pushing ahead with the budgetary, banking and other steps urged by its international lenders."
2012-03-03,Excellent obituary of a brave Dutch doctor who hid 100 Jews in her attic during the Holocaust
2012-03-03,"Venezuela ""does not fear"" sanctions, will continue to supply Syria with oil"
2012-03-02,"AntiSec dumps Monsanto data on the Web: ""Your continued attack on the worlds food supply, as well as the health of those who eat it, has earned you our full attention. Your crimes against humanity are too many to name on one page."""
2012-03-02,"Legalization gains support in Central America: Guatemalan President Otto Perez has invigorated the drug legalization debate in Central America, where leaders are under pressure to contain staggering crime rates and battle violent drug cartels."
2012-03-02,EU: Google's new privacy policy is illegal
2012-03-02,South Africans try poisoning horns to save rhinos 
2012-03-02,"Accusations of witchcraft are part of growing pattern of child abuse in UK - ""African groups warn that boom in pentecostal churches and belief in 'kindoki' are causing more children to suffer in silence"""
2012-03-02,These Are The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Armies
2012-03-02,England's police forces are to be mostly privatised in an attempt to save money
2012-03-02,"Elections Canada begins investigations on 31,000 complaints regarding potential electoral fraud by the Conservative Party during the most recent election."
2012-03-02,"Overfishing Leaves Swaths of Mediterranean Barren, an Unprecedented Study Concludes  - ""We found a huge gradient, an enormous contrast. Off Spain & Italy, we found the largest fish biomass in the Mediterranean.  Unfortunately, around Turkey & Greece, the waters are bare."""
2012-03-02,"Police Censor Google, Facebook and 8,000 Other Sites by Accident"
2012-03-02,"UK photographer Paul Conroy:  ""Syria 'is slaughterhouse"" - Says attacks on the city of Homs were ""a systematic slaughter of the civilian population"""
2012-03-02,Oceans acidifying at fastest rate in 300 million years.
2012-03-02,Russian Election: Workers 'Paid To Vote Putin'
2012-03-02,"As Myanmar moves ahead with a set of reforms that have included the release of political prisoners, the country's government is also opening up its media. In some cases they've ended pre-publication censorship entirely and in others they've greatly reduced the restrictions"
2012-03-02,Peeing Frenchman sues Google for making him 'laughing stock'
2012-03-02,"Cairos hijab-free zones trigger cries of hypocrisy ... Feeling besieged, this segment seems willing to accept and even embrace the kind of steps that would prompt a discrimination lawsuit and cries of Islamaphobia if they were attempted in the US or Europe "
2012-03-02,"Furniture giant Ikea paid for secret police files to spy on ""complaining"" customers and ""suspicious"" staff at stores in France."
2012-03-02,Community reaction to 'destructive' war on marijuana warning
2012-03-02,Mexico adopts surveillance legislation that will grant the police warrantless access to real time user location data
2012-03-02,Organ Thieves Busted in Ukraine
2012-03-02,Muslims in Germany - Study Hints that Mutual Suspicion Is Slowing Integration
2012-03-02,Somali al-Shabab base captured outside Mogadishu:  A major base of Somalia's al-Shabab militants has been captured on the outskirts of the capital by government troops backed by African Union forces.
2012-03-02,"Novartis takes the Indian government to court over its patent law, in a move that threatened access to affordable medicines."
2012-03-02,"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday said his country had no special relationship with the Syrian regime, adding that it was up to the Syrians to decide who should run their country"
2012-03-02,"A Global Icon is Reborn: Londoners meet city's new $36,000 per seat red bus"
2012-03-01,Megaupload Founder Defeats US Govt Attempts To Put Him Back In Prison
2012-03-01,"End 'destructive' war on pot, panel urges Canadian PM - News"
2012-03-01,Australian philosophers have published an article advocating for the moral right to a post-birth abortion
2012-03-01,SOPA Ireland Signed Into Law: Ireland has passed new legislation that allows copyright holders to force Internet providers to block pirate websites
2012-03-01,A couple who tortured and killed 15-year-old Kristy Bamu in their London flat after accusing him of witchcraft have been found guilty of murder
2012-03-01,"Britain was no longer safe territory for Murdoch Jr. Described in the Commons as ""the first mafia boss in history who didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise"""
2012-03-01,"Anger Erupts Again Over China's Bear Bile Farms - In a secretly shot video, a Chinese farmer holds up a bag of yellowish bile he has just extracted from a caged bear "
2012-03-01,Only 19% of Israelis Support a Unilateral Strike on Iran
2012-03-01,"With the Eurovision Song Contest fast approaching, the government of Azerbaijan has ruthlessly evicted an estimated 60,000 people from their homes near downtown Baku."
2012-03-01,"British Lord forced to resign after ""Israel will not last"" claim"
2012-03-01,"My Drone War --- 


What it's like when America's secret war, conducted by remote control, comes to your neighbourhood. ""Then I heard the buzzing, far above our heads  like a bee, but heavier and unceasing, drifting in and out"""
2012-03-01,"Irish SOPA made law 
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2012-03-01,Unemployment in Europe has risen to its highest level since the introduction of the euro.
2012-03-01,Russia upgrades radar station in Syria to aid Iran
2012-03-01,Dutch mobile euthanasia clinic ready to go: Life-end Clinic will send teams to the homes of patients' whose doctors refuse to carry out the procedure
2012-03-01,Qatar crosses the Syrian Rubicon: 63m to buy weapons for the rebels
2012-03-01,"Iran recently offered to supply Pakistan with tens of thousands barrels of oil per day, a Pakistani official said Thursday. The deal would help ease the country's chronic energy shortages while guaranteeing Tehran a home for some of its crude."
2012-03-01,"In A Baghdad ER --- 


Iraqi junior doctor describes dealing with female patients. Lots brought in after attempted suicides. Stopping them dying is beginning and end of treatment. Abused and damaged women are then returned whence they came"
2012-03-01,Indonesia's Endangered Sumatran Tiger's Habitat Pulped for Paper -  Threatened trees in the rainforest are being illegally chopped down & sent to factories to be turned into paper (With Video)
2012-03-01,China drafts legal proposal to completely shut down genetically engineered rice
2012-03-01,Pakistan rejects US pressure on Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project
2012-03-01,"The Warlord and the Basketball Star  Dikembe Mutombo and an energy executive tried to buy gold in Kenya, only to find themselves mired in Congo's dangerous world of conflict minerals -- and totally outmatched.
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2012-03-01,"A mind-boggling 40,000 trillion becquerels of radioactive cesium, or twice the amount previously thought, may have spewed from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant after the March 11 disaster, scientists say."
2012-03-01,"Hong Kong Airlines Ltd has threatened to cancel its order for 10 A380s with Airbus - a value of $3.8 billion - over Europe's decision to make flights pay for their carbon emissions. ""We cannot do something which is against our country's interests,"" it quoted president Yang Jianhong as saying. "
2012-03-01,"North Korea: What does 240,000 metric tons of food mean? "
2012-02-29,Interpol arrests 25 suspected members of Anonymous hackers group
2012-02-29,James Murdoch Quits as News International Chairman
2012-02-29,13 Syrians die attempting to rescue foreign journalists from Homs
2012-02-29,Nearly 450 Elephants Killed in Cameroon
2012-02-29,North Korea agrees to stop nuclear enrichment
2012-02-29,"WikiLeaks: Russia Gave Israel Codes for Irans Tor-M1s [missile defense system] in exchange for UAV codes sold to Georgia, Turkey working with Israel to crack S-300 missile should Russia sell them to Iran"
2012-02-29,Copyright Legislation (SOPA) signed into law in Ireland today
2012-02-29,Interpol website suffers 'Anonymous cyber-attack'following Interpol's announcement of the arrest of 25 suspected members of the hacking group.
2012-02-29,"Russians head to the polls soon to choose a new president  who will likely be an old president. Vladimir Putin is expected to win re-election relatively easy, but there's growing discontent with him and political corruption in Russia, which has sent thousands into the street in protest"
2012-02-29,Why China's Urbanization Isn't Creating a Middle Class -- The nation's infamous two-tier classification system prevents rural migrants from rising up in cities.
2012-02-29,"""Over the past year eight of the world's top 10 drugmakers - Pfizer Inc, Novartis AG, Merck & Co Inc, Sanofi, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly & Co - have all warned that they may face liabilities related to charges of corruption in numerous overseas markets."""
2012-02-29,"The Arctic Keeper of the World's Seeds Turns 4 - For its birthday, Svalbard will receive seeds from war-torn Syria & celebrate years of success preserving our inheritance from Neolithic times"
2012-02-29,"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: ""The Americans are obsessed with the idea of securing absolute invulnerability for themselves, which, incidentally, is a utopia, for both technological and geopolitical reasons."""
2012-02-29,"Dictators' wives: how the west is wooed by the pretty faces of tyranny. Glamourous lives earn them fawning spreads in magazines like Vogue. But at home they inspire dread, with tales of confiscating people's homes and punishing servants with boiling water.



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2012-02-29,James Murdoch resigns as chairman of News International.
2012-02-29,"Employees should consider using strike action to disrupt the Olympics as part of their campaign against the government's spending cuts, the leader of Britain's biggest union has declared"
2012-02-29,Israel shuts down Palestinian TV in raid - CNN.com
2012-02-29,Egypt Got Ahead of Itself Arresting 'Top Al Qaeda Leader' - arrests the wrong man
2012-02-29,Anonymous brings down Interpol website in retaliation for the arrest of 25 alleged members.
2012-02-29,"Tens of thousands of students protested education spending cuts in big cities across Spain on Wednesday, and the demonstrations turned violent in Barcelona as angry young adults clashed with police."
2012-02-29,Japan police raid pro-North Korea group's offices
2012-02-29,"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could be classified as a war criminal, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said as the United Nations announced more than 7,500 civilians had been killed by his forces since the start of the revolt."
2012-02-29,"""Interpol said Tuesday that 25 suspected members of the loose-knit Anonymous hacker movement have been arrested in a sweep across Europe and South America."""
2012-02-29,"How Gogol Explains The Post-Soviet World --- 

""Here is a not entirely frivolous suggestion: How about skipping the political science textbooks when it comes to trying to understand the former Soviet Union and instead opening up the pages of Gogol, Chekhov, and Dostoyevsky?"""
2012-02-29,The Arab League: No longer toothless? - CNN.com
2012-02-28,"Guatemala, Colombia, and Mexico are considering the regional legalization of the drug trade"
2012-02-28,Italians welcome a proposal to cut out tax exemptions for the Catholic Church
2012-02-28,"Iran Calls for Negotiations on Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons - calls nuclear arms production ""a great sin"""
2012-02-28,"India grinds to a halt as historic 24-hour strike by 11 banking, transportion and governmental trade unions"
2012-02-28,Canada: Wide-spread electoral fraud under investigation. Tory robo-call scandal widens as complaints flood from nearly 30 ridings - The Globe and Mail
2012-02-28,South Korea's parliament has passed a resolution demanding that China stops the repatriation of North Korean refugees.
2012-02-28,"Corporations hired Stratfor to spy on activists, according to emails obtained by Anonymous and Wikileaks. "
2012-02-28,Occupy London protest camp eviction under way - BBC
2012-02-28,Israeli officials have reportedly let it be known that they won't give their United States counterparts a heads up if the country decides to launch an airstrike against Iran. 
2012-02-28,WikiLeaks says Stratfor emails to expose sinister spies and insider traders 
2012-02-28,"Russia's Aging, Lonely Leader --- 

German film-maker wins Vladimir Putin's confidence, shoots intimate profile. Behind the tough-guy facade he claims to discover a ""joyless, exhausted"" loner, soon to turn 60 and ""stubbornly fending off physical decline"""
2012-02-28,BBC News - French election: Hollande wants 75% tax on top earners
2012-02-28,"Syria referendum called ""a sham"": Only 5% of the population turned out to vote"
2012-02-28,Canada Wildlife Officers Kill 145 Black Bears in Tar Sands Region
2012-02-28,MEGAUPLOAD Kim Dotcom may be going back to jail
2012-02-28,"New Section of The Great Wall Discovered in Mongolia - A British explorer unearths an extension of the world wonder, the 1st section believed to exist outside China's borders"
2012-02-28,Top French court strikes down law punishing the denial of the Armenian genocide as unconstitutional as it infringes on freedom of expression.
2012-02-28,"Meanwhile in Athens - after finally starting a new cafe/bookstore, the owner is not allowed to sell or give away coffee or to actually sell books.  "
2012-02-28,Syria storms out of U.N. rights meeting
2012-02-28,"For sale: French village.  Asking price $475,000"
2012-02-28,S&P Declares Greece in Default
2012-02-28,Intelligence officials say Israel not planning to tell the US in advance of any strike on Iran.
2012-02-28,Fresh footage shows Indonesian abattoir cruelty
2012-02-28,"Argentina turns away UK cruise ships - 

2 liners prevented from docking at Ushuaia on country's southern tip as tensions build over future of Falkland Islands"
2012-02-28,Anonymous Hits Interpol Site After 25 Arrested.
2012-02-27,WHO Declares India Polio-Free!
2012-02-27,East Africa's high-speed internet access is severely disrupted after a ship dropped its anchor onto fibre-optic cables off Kenya's coast.
2012-02-27,"""89 Percent"" of Syrians Voted to Keep Assad in Power until 2028"
2012-02-27,"North Korea: Ready to go to war with U.S., South Korea - CNN.com"
2012-02-27,WikiLeaks begins disclosing intelligence firm's e-mails
2012-02-27,"Beijing's Feral Cat Problem Comes Back With a Vengeance  Four years after ""cleansing"" the city of its strays in advance of the Olympics, somewhere between 500,000 and 5 million cats have returned to the city.
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2012-02-27,"Iranian film 'A Separation' wins Oscar for Best Foreign Film, pleas for the people of Iran to be recognized for their contributions to culture"
2012-02-27,Nobel Peace Prize jury announces 231 nominees have been submitted including Bradley Manning and Al Jazeera
2012-02-27,"22 Carnival Cruise Ship Passengers Robbed in Mexico - The tourists were on a bus in the jungle near Puerto Vallarta when hooded gunmen took cameras, money, watches & other valuables. One cruise line had already suspended  stops in Puerto Vallarta because of the  drug war. "
2012-02-27,Murdoch's Sun had 'culture of illegal payments' to officials says police chief
2012-02-27,"UK Chancellor's simple truth - ""There is no more money."""
2012-02-27,EFF: This Isn't a Hoax: Pakistan Requests Proposals for a National Filtering and Blocking System
2012-02-27,"Farmers Helpless as New Virus Attacks Lambs - A 1,000 farms across Europe have been hit by a disease causing 1000s of dead births or deformities resulting in death. Nobody knows how bad it'll get, as the lambing season is not even in full swing. The disease is invisible until birth.

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2012-02-27,North Korea says it is ready for a war with US and South Korea
2012-02-27," Armed Thai Officials Raid Wildlife Center After Chief Criticizes Elephant Poaching  -  They took 103 animals from the center, which is partly funded by Australians, who say many, including endangered species, were injured by the men, some in balaclavas to hide their identities.


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2012-02-27,"Latin American Authorities Worried Entire Prison System About to Explode - The drug war has placed astonishing strains on what were already corrupt, crumbling prisons, which serve as lucrative postings for civil servants who collect bribes from inmates"
2012-02-27,FARC says theyll stop kidnapping ... possible first steps towards peace talks after decades of conflict with Columbian govt.
2012-02-27,WikiLeaks publishes security think tank emails
2012-02-27,Anti-Putin protesters form human chain in Moscow
2012-02-27,"Afghanistan rises in revolt against US occupation as a US colonel and major were killed by an Afghan official, who was then reportedly allowed to walk out of the building by Afghan security"
2012-02-27,Norways Statoil  has discovered oil 120 miles off the Brazilian coast in the Atlantic Ocean - Statoil is calling the field a high-impact discovery
2012-02-27,"Via Rail derails west of Toronto, unconfirmed reports of passengers trapped"
2012-02-27,Russia averts plot to assassinate Putin.
2012-02-27,"Putin blasts Western countries for ""abusing human rights rhetoric"""
2012-02-27,"Himalayan Sherpas Lament Climate Change Devastation - On the ground, mountain communities are already alarmed by dramatic shifts in weather patterns.  ""Right from the beginning we saw the effects of climate change on tea plantations in Ilam district."""
2012-02-26,Scotland moves toward vote on independence
2012-02-26,"Are They Really Religious? --- 


An Egyptian author denounces aggressive, superficial Islamic piety. Policemen insist on sacred right to grow beards, yet torture and abuse detainees. Hospital staff abandon patients in intensive care to pray"
2012-02-26,"Japanese Ship Violates Shark Fishing Ban - The fishing vessel has been fined $125,000, Marshall Islands officials said, in the 1st levy of its kind in the territory's waters"
2012-02-26,"Insult to WWII heroes: Graves of British troops smashed and desecrated by Libyan Islamists in protest over U.S. soldiers' Koran burning
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2012-02-26,"Why The Super-Rich Love The UK --- 


""The UK has a gigantic sign hanging over it saying, 'Rich People! Come and Live Here! You Won't Have to Pay Any Tax!' It is an extraordinary policy for any developed nation"""
2012-02-26,"2  Missing as Fire Guts Antarctic Research Station - Brazilian navy says fire destroyed the entire station, & is still not under control"
2012-02-26,Nato has withdrawn all its personnel from Afghan ministries
2012-02-26,"Vatican eyes 1,500-year-old Bible held in Turkish capital"
2012-02-26,"Ordinary Russians train to observe presidential vote - Since the Russian parliamentary election in December, which was widely seen as fraudulent, thousands of people have been volunteering to monitor the presidential vote on 4 March. "
2012-02-26,"Anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrn make good on its threats to take file-sharing sites offline in Sweden. During the last 48hrs, police in Sweden and the Netherlands swooped on key staff and hardware connected to a long-standing private BitTorrent tracker"
2012-02-26,Kim Jong Um threatens powerful retaliatory strike 
2012-02-26,China faces political pressure as it considers sending 30 refugees back to North Korea. 
2012-02-26,"Ai Weiwei declares: Police in China can do whatever they want; after 81 days in arbitrary detention you clearly realise that they dont have to obey their own laws, Ai says when I finally sit down with the burly, bearded artist in a room adjoining his home studio."""
2012-02-26,Zimbabwe: HIV-positive maid laces child's porridge with menstrual blood 
2012-02-26,72 yr old Nepalese Pensioner crowned world's shortest man.
2012-02-26,Britain leads dash to explore for oil in war-torn Somalia | World news | The Observer
2012-02-26,A strong earthquake has struck southern Taiwan
2012-02-26,France bans the use of 'mademoiselle' in official documents after advocacy campaign by French feminist organisations Dare To Be Feminist and The Watchdogs.
2012-02-26,"Human chain formed by thousands during Anti-Putin protest
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2012-02-26,G20 inches toward $2 trillion in rescue funds 
2012-02-26,Tibet: Does China care what other countries have to say? China is quick to censor discussion about Tibet inside its own borders.
2012-02-26,"Colombia's FARC to free captives, stop kidnapping for ransom"
2012-02-26,"One dead, dozens trapped in Ontario train derailment"
2012-02-26,Malaysian protest over rare earths refinery plan
2012-02-26,Rising oil costs strain debt-ridden Europe
2012-02-25,"Hamas ditches Assad, backs Syrian revolt"
2012-02-25,"Many people with Asperger's syndrome have difficulties in the job market and workplace, but they also have special abilities that many employers crave. A Danish company has found a way to bring the two together and is exporting its successful job-placement concept to other countries."
2012-02-25,"News of the World had official policy of deleting emails that ""could be unhelpful in the context of future litigation"", despite legal obligation not to do so"
2012-02-25,Canadian man gets arrested after his daughter drew a  picture of a gun in school. 
2012-02-25,"Iran warns Israel not to attack its nuclear facilities - 

Iranian general says attack would lead to collapse of Israel amid rising international tension over uranium enrichment"
2012-02-25,North Korea stays afloat with fake U.S. $100s.
2012-02-25,Supreme Court of India says police attacking protestors who were sleeping in the night is violation of fundamental rights.
2012-02-25,"Afghanistan Nato officers shot dead in Kabul ministry

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2012-02-25,"One billion people worldwide live in slums, a number that will likely double by 2030."
2012-02-25,BBC debunks newspaper reports that claimed 55% of Syrians do not want President Assad to resign
2012-02-25,"Canada: Ottawa hits pause on Web surveillance act - ""The Harper government is temporarily parking controversial legislation that would grant new powers to authorities to police the Internet while it consults on how to rewrite it to assuage privacy concerns among Canadians and within caucus."""
2012-02-25,"Iran has failed to cooperate with efforts to verify that its nuclear program is purely peaceful,  International Atomic Energy Agency says"
2012-02-25,Pakistani health workers punished for helping U.S. find bin Laden
2012-02-25,Haiti's prime minister resigns after four months
2012-02-25,Nelson Mandela admitted to hospital
2012-02-25,Spanish duke Inaki Urdangarin in court over corruption
2012-02-25,Ruling favors Berlusconi in corruption trial 
2012-02-25,Dead bodies to be burned to heat UK swimming pool
2012-02-25,"China mocks international conference to aid Syrian opposition
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2012-02-25,Yemen bomb attack 'kills at least 21 people'
2012-02-25,"Myanmar Declares War On Opium --- 


Reuters reporter visits former conflict area to see Burmese government's campaign to eradicate opium poppies in action. Where poppies thrive not just on cool weather and high altitude, but poverty and conflict"
2012-02-25,BBC News - Church 'does not own marriage'
2012-02-25,Egyptian woman faces prosecution on Sunday after crackdown on Non Government Organizations (NGOs)
2012-02-25,Palestinian killed in West Bank clashes - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2012-02-25,Why the super-rich love the UK
2012-02-24,Report: London no safer for all its CCTV cameras
2012-02-24,"Woman ""unknowingly"" scams more than $30,000 from Nigerian scam artists"
2012-02-24,Lack of Vatican co-operation over child sex abuse led to closure of embassy
2012-02-24,2 teens sent to prison for S. Korean bullying suicide
2012-02-24,Mexican scientists successfully test vaccine that could cut heroin addiction
2012-02-24,Crisis in Syria Looks Very Different on Satellite Channels Owned by Russia and Iran
2012-02-24,"Japan Earthquake: Before and After [pics]
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2012-02-24,BBC News - Dutch prince Johan Friso may never wake up
2012-02-24,Sources: Arab nations arming Syrian opposition
2012-02-24,Protests over Koran Burning - Germany Closes Afghan Military Base Early
2012-02-24,"In Iran, nationalism stirs: Faced with sanctions and talk of war, some Iranians are turning inward."
2012-02-24,Israeli Court Rules To End Military Exemption for the Ultra Orthodox.
2012-02-24,"European Central Bank President Mario Draghi warned beleaguered euro-zone countries that there is no escape from tough austerity measures and that the Continent's traditional social contract is ""gone""."
2012-02-24,"""Lonely Deaths"": Family of three, ashamed to ask for help, starves to death in Japan"
2012-02-24,BBC News - Donald Trump accused of bullying Scottish government
2012-02-24,Iran holds up access to Parchin for better IAEA deal. It is ready to offer access to any sites requested by the agency as part of an agreement under which the IAEA would stop accusing Iran of carrying out covert nuclear weapons experiments.
2012-02-24,Family of three die from apparent starvation in Japan
2012-02-24,"A president refusing to give up power despite advancing age and legal limits. Young men in the streets throwing rocks at the police while choking on tear gas. That situation was not supposed to happen in Senegal, a rare part of West Africa where free voting has occurred since the late 19th century."
2012-02-24,News Corp to avoid trial after one hacking case settled - The British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's empire will be spared an embarrassing trial after singer Charlotte Church agreed to a settlement  over phone-hacking scandal
2012-02-24,"When Disposing Of Sacred Texts, Respect is Key  - 
Many religious leaders agree that burial is the most reverent way to handle sacred text"
2012-02-24,"
 
Oil-sands vote ends in deadlock - European Union states fail to agree on whether to recognize oil sands, such as those in Canada, as high polluters"
2012-02-24,China deports North Korean defectors: Activists say the North Korean refugees face death and beatings back home
2012-02-24,"Incredible Footage Reveals Life Under Siege in Homs, Syria -- The 11-minute report shows mourners rallying over dead bodies without coffins, children suffering from shrapnel wounds in makeshift hospitals, and armed fighters doing battle with government snipers in the street."
2012-02-24,Somalia 'air strike kills foreign al-Shabab militants'. It is unknown who carried out the attack. 
2012-02-24,"Predictions For Syria --- 


Deeply troubling assessment from reporter recently back from two-month assignment. Regime can survive for a long time. ""Syria is crumbling before our eyes, and a thoroughly modern nation is likely to be set back many decades"""
2012-02-23,"Finally, Outrage in China Against Bear Farming"
2012-02-23,Imagine a country where the state spends more on preschool child care than on its defence budget.
2012-02-23,"Nearly 30 Buddhist statues at the Maldives National Museum were destroyed by vandals - Officials say the attack was motivated by religious extremism. The collection was totally, totally smashed. The whole pre-Islamic history is gone. "
2012-02-23,Church of Scientology in Australia demands right to underpay workers 
2012-02-23,Syrian leaders listed by UN for crimes against humanity
2012-02-23,"England riots: almost 1,000 people jailed so far, figures show. Average sentence of 14.2 months is four times the average jail term handed down by the courts for similar offences in 2010 "
2012-02-23,UN slams Canada for First Nations treatment
2012-02-23,"Giant Argentine train crash kills at least 40, hurts 550 when train plowed into a Buenos Aires platform"
2012-02-23,Syria: Tanks enter Homs after 20 day artillery barrage
2012-02-23,"Greek Deal Leaves Europe on the Road to Disaster --- If Europes new plan for Greece succeeds, nobody will be more surprised than the politicians who designed it."
2012-02-23,Wife Admits: Slain Iranian Nuke Scientists Ultimate Goal Was the Annihilation of Israel
2012-02-23,"Charlotte Church settles over phone hacking with News 
Corp"
2012-02-23,Why the world isn't intervening in Syria
2012-02-23,"""It's being called the 'negative salary.'""  Some Greeks might have to pay for their jobs."
2012-02-23,"Youcef Nadarkhani, Iranian pastor, sentenced to death for converting to Christianity"
2012-02-23,9 die in 2nd day of Afghan protests over Quran burnings
2012-02-23,Russia warns against 'hasty conclusions' over Iran.
2012-02-23,"In Hong Kong, for the first time, more people identify themselves as Hong Kongers, rather than Chinese. It's a feeling that's at the center of growing discontent between Hong Kong residents and native Chinese"
2012-02-23,China media calls for democracy at World Bank 
2012-02-23,"Afghan soldier kills two NATO troops at protests
| Reuters"
2012-02-23,"Mugabe scoffs at calls to retire:  In power since 1980, Zimbabwe's president declares himself ""fit as a fiddle"" as he celebrates his 88th birthday."
2012-02-23,The next head of state of Sweden is born today
2012-02-23,"Iran talks failure sparks confrontation fears:  The U.N. nuclear watchdog's latest mission to Iran failed to budge a defiant Tehran over its disputed nuclear program, sending oil prices to a nine-month high over fears of an increasing risk of confrontation with the West."
2012-02-23,BBC News - US and North Korea hold nuclear talks
2012-02-23,[Australia] PM Gillard has called for a vote on Monday between her and resigned Foreign Minister Rudd
2012-02-22,France to EU: Stop Monsanto's Corn
2012-02-22,Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigns
2012-02-22,Afghan police rescue 41 child suicide bombers as they were about to be smuggled across the mountains into Pakistan
2012-02-22,"Swedish foreign minister has acted as an informant for the United States since the 1970s, says Wikileaks"
2012-02-22,Syria: Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin killed in Homs - Telegraph
2012-02-22,Syrian live streamer killed after being watched by millions
2012-02-22,"As the drums beat for war with Iran, the UNs former weapons inspector warns that military intervention would be a disaster"
2012-02-22,Nuclear Inspectors Say Their Mission to Iran Has Failed
2012-02-22,European Commission suspends ACTA ratification
2012-02-22,Syria: 'Now this is a war'
2012-02-22,"Syria is hitting Homs with world's heaviest mortars--Russian made ""tulip"" system"
2012-02-22,"The term ""mademoiselle"" is about to disappear from French administrative paperwork."
2012-02-22,"Chevron Nigeria gas well fire ""may burn for months"" - The fire is burning in a 40m-wide area on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, 10km off the Nigerian coast"
2012-02-22,"The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom --- Top-down, international regulation is antithetical to the Net, which has flourished under its current governance model"
2012-02-22,Kevin Rudd resigns as foreign minister of Australia
2012-02-22,Murderer pardoned after saving hundreds from deadly prison fire
2012-02-22,EU To Refer ACTA To EU's Top Court For Legal Clarification
2012-02-22,"U.N.s Iran visit ends in failure,  inspection team blocked from visiting key sites and prevented from speaking with Iranian nuclear scientists"
2012-02-22,Two Western Journalists Killed in Syria Shelling
2012-02-22,"American, French journalists killed in Syria"
2012-02-22,"Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin killed in Homs, Syria"
2012-02-22,Why do Pakistani lawyers want to ban the countrys favourite soft drink? (A clue: its made by minorities) 
2012-02-22,"African Leaders Reject U.N. Call For Homosexual Equality
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2012-02-22,Iran says it is ready to help identify those behind a series of bomb blasts in Thailand.
2012-02-22,Swede who survived two months in car 'wanted to hibernate'
2012-02-21,"Leaked Memo Blows The Lid Off Of The Entire Greek Bailout: That everything undertaken so far is destroying the Greek economy, and that further reforms will only make it worse."
2012-02-21,China tries to bully Norway
2012-02-21,Standard and Poor are being sued in Australia for the AAA rating they assigned to toxic structured-finance products
2012-02-21,Nearly 300 Elephants Slain in Cameroon - There is a Serious Poaching Problem
2012-02-21,Putin Calls for $772 Billion Upgrade to Rebuild Military
2012-02-21,"Russians revive Ice Age flower from an Ice Age squirrel's treasure chamber, a burrow containing fruit and seeds that had been stuck in the Siberian permafrost for over 30,000 years."
2012-02-21,"Monaco prince bloodied after brawl in NYC bar - The prince & his entourage ""were being completely obnoxious"" "
2012-02-21,"Worked to death:Working conditions are so bad workers in Cambodia collapse due to being exposed to strong chemicals in hot and poorly ventilated environment while working 12-14 hours a day. Last year, more than 200,000 workers went to the streets over the issue. "
2012-02-21,"Canada threatens trade war with EU over tar sands - 
The row over the EU's plan to label tar sands oil as highly polluting escalates as Canada says it 'will not hesitate to defend its interests'"
2012-02-21,Iran has started a 4-day military exercise aimed at protecting its nuclear sites from an attack
2012-02-21,Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is being questioned by French police investigating a suspected hotel prostitution ring.
2012-02-21,Croatian President Invites Anonymous for Consultation over Controversial ACTA Law
2012-02-21,"Researchers have unearthed a forest in northern China preserved under a layer of ash deposited 300,000 years ago."
2012-02-21,"""The people in Greece and peripheral countries must wake up to the fact that they are not dealing with reasonable people on the other side of the negotiating table."""
2012-02-21,"Civilisation faces 'perfect storm of ecological and social problems': Abuse of the environment has created an 'absolutely unprecedented' emergency, say Blue Planet prizewinners"
2012-02-21,"Oil jumps to 9-month high above $105 in Europe as Iran cuts supply to Britain, France"
2012-02-21,Iranian military commander has said Iran would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered
2012-02-21,Mexico Prison Riot Was a Diversion For Escape
2012-02-21,"Portugal plays by the rules, but economy slumps: ""You have young without employment, and you have old people without money, and so there is no future for a country like that."""
2012-02-21,"Protests, Self-Immolation Signs of a Desperate Tibet - 
Chinese authorities tighten security around Tibet after a series of demonstrations demanding more religious & political freedoms. Self-immolation protests have led to violent confrontations, & some monasteries are emptying."
2012-02-21,Japanese mayor denies Nanjing massacre
2012-02-21,South Korea suicide toll doubles over a decade
2012-02-21,Iran Warns of Pre-Emptive Action in Nuclear Dispute
2012-02-21,Koran Burning at Bargam Air Base Draws the Ire of Thousands
2012-02-21,"Pakistani Interior Minister Wants Interpol to Arrest Pervez Musharraf - Pakistan has never forgiven the former president for the death of former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, & now will ask Interpol to arrest him for failing to protect her from the deadly 2007 suicide attack that killed her "
2012-02-20,Indian High Court  rules that the right to abort a pregnancy in a marriage rests with the wife and not husband. 
2012-02-20,UK government to demand access to all phone & internet user data
2012-02-20,"Icelandic Anger Brings Debt Forgiveness - ""Since the end of 2008, the islands banks have forgiven loans equivalent to 13 percent of gross domestic product, easing the debt burdens of more than a quarter of the population"""
2012-02-20,"Two masked gunmen stormed into a small museum at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece on Friday, smashing display cases with hammers and making off with dozens of antiquities up to 3,200 years old, authorities said."
2012-02-20,Poland withdraws from ACTA ratification
2012-02-20,India wants Italian ship captain to surrender after marksmen shot dead two Indian fishermen
2012-02-20,"""Japanese researchers have released the findings of a study suggesting that the risk of an earthquake measuring magnitude 7 or above striking the Tokyo metropolitan area within the next four years could be as high as 70 percent"""
2012-02-20,Future will be shaped by the rise of the angry young man 
2012-02-20,"Europe's finance ministers plan to approve a second bailout for Greece on Monday but Hans-Werner Sinn, the head of Ifo, a top German economic think tank, warns that the money will only help international banks -- not the Greeks. He argues that Greece can only solve its crisis if it quits the euro."
2012-02-20,"Iranian ships reach Syria, China warns of civil war | Reuters"
2012-02-20,"Putting Foxconn's Wage Rises in Context: Anti-Apple Protests Have Nothing To Do With It, China is Running Out Of Underemployed Farmers"
2012-02-20,'Dozens of UN troops seized' in Darfur - Al Jazeera English
2012-02-20,"Afghan Textbooks to Cut Out Much of the Country's Post-1973 History:  Education has been one of Afghanistan's few bright spots since the Taliban fell, but the government is taking a big step backward."
2012-02-20,Lloyds Bank strips five directors of more than 1 million in bonuses:  Lloyds Banking Group is to strip five directors of more than 1 million in bonuses as a penalty for a financial scandal that cost the taxpayer-backed bank 3.2 billion last year. 
2012-02-20,Iranians desperate as dark economic clouds gather
2012-02-20,North Korea raises alert for live-fire drill | Reuters
2012-02-20,"The cool new Palestinian geeks: Peeks
The West Bank and Gaza Strip is home to hundreds of tech companies, creating everything from websites to smart phone apps."
2012-02-20,Germany's governing coalition and the two major opposition parties have agreed to jointly nominate Joachim Gauck as the country's presidential candidate.
2012-02-20,"2 years after the earthquake, Haiti is trying to clear tent cities - International aid workers must get 20,000 poor people living before the National Palace to pack up their meager belongings in the most notorious camp in Haiti & go home... But where's home?"
2012-02-20,South Korea begins live-fire military drills despite North Korea's threat to attack
2012-02-20,Pakistani Taliban Turn to Kidnapping to Finance Operations - NYTimes.com
2012-02-20,"Teenage Tibetan monk self-immolates, dies ... denouncing Chinese policies in Tibet and demanding the return of the Dalai Lama"
2012-02-20,2 teens sent to prison for S. Korean bullying suicide
2012-02-20,"Venezuelan republic of crime --- The recent kidnapping of Carlos Pujalte, Mexicos ambassador to Venezuela, has cast an unflattering light on the latter countrys declining public safety"
2012-02-20,"Biotech crops poised for massive global expansion, agricultural tech group reports | Vancouver Sun"
2012-02-19,Swedish man survives for months in snowed-in car - Yahoo! News
2012-02-19,Iran 'halts oil sales to France and Britain'
2012-02-19,Hundreds of thousands march in Spain
2012-02-19,"The Sense Of An Ending --- 
""By engineering rigged elections that nobody bothered or dared to protest, Putin managed to conceal his regime's deepest secret, namely that Russia, rather than being misgoverned, is governed very laxly if at all"""
2012-02-19," China, the United States and two dozen other countries are now looking at coordinated retaliation  including putting pressure on European airlines and other industries  if Europe tries to enforce a law requiring airlines to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions. 
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2012-02-19,Taiwan's Foxconn raises wages for Chinese workers
2012-02-19,Latvia rejects making Russian an official language
2012-02-19,Iran stops oil sales to French and British companies
2012-02-19,Israel airstrike hits Gaza targets: Strike follows rocket attacks on southern Israel
2012-02-19,"After journalist blasphemes Muhammed, Grand Mufti of the KSA wants to ban twitter while nephew of King owns 3% of it."
2012-02-19,Algeria seizes missiles smuggled from Libya
2012-02-19,"More than 10,000 march in Damascus anti-Assad protest"
2012-02-19,"CNN - A computer programmer from Canada faces imminent execution in Iran for the actions of another person, which he had no control over, a human rights group says."
2012-02-19,Zimbabwe: Chinese arrested for eating rare tortoises 
2012-02-19,A mother from southern Sweden has been reported to health authorities for allegedly holding her son prisoner for years in a fantasy world inhabited by Smurfs and space aliens.
2012-02-19,Iraq gun and bomb attacks hit Baghdad and Baquba
2012-02-19,Execution of web programmer in Iran may be imminent
2012-02-19,Eastern Europeans fuel fight for Internet freedoms 
2012-02-19,North Korea threatens attack over planned artillery drills in South Korea
2012-02-19,Anti-gay curriculum in schools not covered by Equality Act in UK
2012-02-19,Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan - Telegraph
2012-02-19,"Thousands of Australians were cut off by floodwaters on Saturday as heavy rain broke river banks across the vast eastern outback and some families battled with deadly snakes for rooftops, rescuers said."
2012-02-19,Riot police guard Greek assembly as protesters gather
2012-02-19,Syria's economy may bring down Assad: Damascus regime crippled by foreign sanctions and slowly disintegrating
2012-02-19,Officials say a prison riot in northern Mexico has left about 20 people dead 
2012-02-18,BBC News - Gordon Brown earns 1.4m since leaving office. Donates every penny to charity. 
2012-02-18,"""For Switzerland's largest bank, the hits just keep coming. . . . UBS now appears to be at the center of the financial world's latest scandal: an alleged conspiracy by traders and brokers to rig the price of derivatives around the world by manipulating a key interest rate."""
2012-02-18,"Australian bank ANZ rises interest rates, fires 1000 employers and sends excecutives on $1.75m holiday cruise."
2012-02-18,"Polish MP smokes pot in pro-drug campaign |
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2012-02-18,Cocaine found on capsized cruise ship captain's hair
2012-02-18,Eleven months after the tsunami and earthquake ravaged Japan new pictures show the incredible progress being made in the multi-billion pound clear up
2012-02-18,Canada 'Muzzling its Scientists' - Speakers at a major science meeting being held in Canada said communication of vital research on health & environment issues is being suppressed
2012-02-18,"An international arbitration panel ordered Ecuador to stop its courts from enforcing an $18 billion judgment against Chevron, on the same day a US judge put up a new hurdle standing in between indigenous Ecuadoreans seeking to collect award"
2012-02-18,Iranian warships have entered the Mediterranean Sea for only the second time since the 1979 revolution
2012-02-18,EU Court of Justice: Social Networks Cant Be Forced to Monitor and Filter to Prevent Copyright Infringement
2012-02-18,Eastern Europeans fuel fight for Internet freedoms
2012-02-18,"Why China Succeeds in Africa: Chinas investment in Africa is far more nuanced than cozying up to dictators. Rather than indulging in alarmism, the West could learn something."
2012-02-18,Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec parents are not allowed to withdraw their children from a mandatory class on ethics and religion.
2012-02-18,"The New York Times: ""If Switzerland stonewalls, the Justice Department can indict banks that benefit from tax evasion and seize their assets in the United States...At some point, the Swiss government will find that result a lot more costly than handing over information on American tax cheats."""
2012-02-18,"Chinese Labor, Cheap No More"
2012-02-18,"China detains several hundred Tibetans, says Human Rights Watch"
2012-02-18,"Latvian vote on status of Russian language this Saturday could widen rift in society. For ethnic Latvians, the referendum is a brazen attempt to encroach on Latvias independence."
2012-02-18,The 24 N. Korean defectors to be expelled from China back to N. Korea by Feb 20
2012-02-18,Poland's Tusk gores ACTA
2012-02-18,"Syrian forces fire on anti-Assad crowd in capital
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2012-02-18,"A financial clearinghouse used by virtually every country and major corporation in the world agreed Friday to shut out Iran from its respected network, an unprecedented escalation of global economic pressure to halt Iran's suspected drive for nuclear weapons."
2012-02-18,Haiti government says president attacked
2012-02-18,"""Switzerland's banks no longer want American clients but now Swiss citizens living in the United States are finding it hard to keep accounts back home. . . . Swiss expatriates are increasingly irritated by their dealings with banks in their homeland and are venting their frustrations online."""
2012-02-18,France's former currency is devalued to zilch:  Hundreds line up at the Bank of France in Paris on the last day to convert old francs to euros. Nostalgia and doomsday predictions are in the air.
2012-02-18,"New poll reveals majority support for socialism in Venezuela. If the presidential elections were held today, 58.2 percent of citizens would vote for the reelection of Hugo Chvez, and 34.5 percent for the opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski."
2012-02-17,$6 Trillion in counterfeit US bonds found. Am I wrong for thinking this should be bigger news?
2012-02-17,German president Christian Wulff resigns in corruption scandal
2012-02-17,"Canadians respond to new privacy bill by trending #TellVicEverything tweets, where they tweet the public safety minister about their mundane lives "
2012-02-17,"Adolf Hitler had a son with a French teenager while serving as a soldier during the First World War, according to new evidence."
2012-02-17,Italy plans to tax Vatican on commercial properties
2012-02-17,"Wikileaks expressed ""outrage"" at not being granted a speaking slot at UNESCO event: ""The Media World after WikiLeaks and News of the World."""
2012-02-17,Kalashnikov 5: Brand-new AK-12 rifle unveiled
2012-02-17,Olympic Ban on Saudi Arabia Is Urged Over Lack of Female Athletes
2012-02-17,UN calls for Syrian president to step down
2012-02-17,Dutch Prince Johan Friso 'buried by Austria avalanche'
2012-02-17,"Poachers Slaughter 200 Elephants in Cameroon Park in 6 Weeks - 

Armed groups from Chad & Sudan blamed for unprecedented killing fueled by demand for ivory"
2012-02-17,Mexico President Felipe Calderon's message to US: 'No more weapons!'
2012-02-17,British tanks to be sent to Germany for storage so army can sell land in UK
2012-02-17,"Poachers have killed more than 200 elephants in Cameroon in just six weeks, in a ""massacre"" fuelled by Asian demand for ivory."
2012-02-17,Germany president resigns over finances scandals
2012-02-17,The wife of former Liberian president Charles Taylor has introduced a bill making homosexuality  liable to a death sentence.
2012-02-17," Japan Slowly Wakes Up to Doomsday Debt Risk -  Capital flight, soaring borrowing costs, tanking currency & stocks & a central bank forced to pump vast amounts of cash into local banks -- that is what Japan may have to contend with if it fails to tackle its snowballing debt"
2012-02-17,"Anthony Shadid, one of the finest reporters in the Middle East, has died while on assignment in Syria"
2012-02-17,India is Burning: How Rapid Growth is Destroying its Environment & Future - The nation's emerging environmental calamity threatens to overshadow -- and undermine -- its phenomenal development
2012-02-17,German prosecutor asks for President Christian Wulff's immunity from prosecution to be lifted
2012-02-17,"How Chinese Energy Politics Will Reshape the Middle East - 
Chinas going to import a lot more oil from Iran & the Arab world over the next 2 decades. America will import far less. Those 2 facts will profoundly change the geopolitics of the Middle East.


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2012-02-17,"Armed militias in Libya are committing human rights abuses with impunity, threatening to destabilize the country and hindering its efforts to rebuild, Amnesty International said Thursday"
2012-02-17,Rupert Murdoch to launch new newspaper in UK
2012-02-17,Record $6 Trillion of Fake U.S. Bonds Seized in Mafia Probe
2012-02-17,"Armed Robbery at Ancient Olympia museum in Greece, Dozens of artefacts reported to have been stolen."
2012-02-16,"Bill C-309, if passed, would make it a crime to protest in a mask.  Could be up to a five year sentence."
2012-02-16,Acta loses more support in Europe as Netherlands and Bulgaria join Poland and Germany in refusing to support it.
2012-02-16,UK Parliament members concluded that the Internet plays a major role in the radicalization of terrorists and called on the government to pressure ISPs in Britain and abroad to censor online speech
2012-02-16,An EU court rules that social networking sites can't be compelled to install general filters to prevent illegal trading of music and other copyrighted material.
2012-02-16,"After revolution in Egypt, women's taste of equality fades: Women were at the vanguard in the protests that ousted Hosni Mubarak. But long-held sexism has reasserted itself at the hands of the military and the Islamists."
2012-02-16,Israel has threatened to tear down solar panels and wind turbines in Palestinian villages
2012-02-16,"Greece Is on Pace for the Worst Recession in Modern History  The Greek economy shrank nearly 7% in 2011, the fifth straight year the country has been in a recession. GDP has shriveled by a sixth since 2006, and unemployment has tripled over that period to 20%."
2012-02-16,Acta is sinking: EU Court of Justice rules out private and automatic Censorship
2012-02-16,Monsanto found guilty in French court of poisoning a farmer with weedkiller. 
2012-02-16,"UK shuts down popular blog RnBXclusive...the owners arrested for allegedly defrauding the music industry. In addition, SOCA threaten RnBXclusive users with 10 yrs in prison if they downloaded music through the site"
2012-02-16,"N. Korean helicopter crashes, killing NK Minister of Commerce along with the commercial director of North Pyongan Province and related cabinet officials"
2012-02-16,"Canada wants warrantless Internet spying, says 
critics support child porn "
2012-02-16,Honduras govt report says most inmates in deadly prison fire were not convicted - The Washington Post
2012-02-16,NATO admits 8 Afghan children killed in air strike
2012-02-16,The Swedish Government wants to implement a change in the law which has the potential to make Sweden one of the toughest countries in the world to share files.
2012-02-16,Dubai : 19 year old Indonesian girl kills her abusive 87 year old Singaporean employer.
2012-02-16,French film ban raises autism issue
2012-02-16,Saudi Arabia's religious police have arrested more than 140 people for celebrating Valentine's Day.
2012-02-16,"Facing a backlash, Ottawa moves to retool cybercrime bill"
2012-02-16,"Rare Look at China's Energy Machine - 
A photographer gains an inside look at China's massive power complex.  Its energy use, production, & ambitions are best captured by superlatives: The country is the world's largest energy consumer & leading source of greenhouse gas emissions"
2012-02-16,Iran wants early resumption of nuclear talks: letter
2012-02-16,"World's oldest hooker makes $80,000 a year from sex services at age of 97!"
2012-02-16,Greece's Model Mayor - Reform Hero Takes on Corruption in Thessaloniki
2012-02-16,"Facing backlash, Canada Conservatives eye rewrite of online-surveillance bill"
2012-02-16,Prosecutors Try to Lift German President's Immunity - They've asked the federal parliament to lift President Christian Wulff's immunity over an escalating home loan scandal
2012-02-15,Bulgaria refuses to ratify ACTA
2012-02-15,Dutch Parliament Rejects ACTA On Human Rights Violations
2012-02-15,Academics vote 'shitstorm' as German's best English loanword
2012-02-15,Iran Cuts Oil Exports to Europe; Begins Using Its Own Nuclear Fuel
2012-02-15,Greece is Now the Unhappiest Nation in Europe
2012-02-15,"Iran activates nuclear reactor, says underground bunker is fully operational"
2012-02-15,Return of the toy protesters. Siberian authorities ban new protest because toys 'are not citizens of Russia'
2012-02-15,"Honduras prison fire kills at least 272 inmates, official says: another describes ""hellish"" scenes."
2012-02-15,"Gaza Strips only power station, which supplies the Palestinian enclave with up to two-thirds of its energy needs, has been shut down due to a shortage of fuel smuggled in from neighboring Egypt"
2012-02-15,"Palestinian man arrested by Israel, held without charge, is on day #59 of a hunger strike."
2012-02-15,"Iran Foreign Minister: ""Iran is the biggest victim of terrorism"""
2012-02-15,'These are clearly crimes against humanity':  The Head of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth says the Assad regime is committing crimes against humanity and condemns Russia and China for their callous indifference towards Syrian lives. 
2012-02-15,"An Observer in Athens: ""The Greek people have gone to war against the system"""
2012-02-15,How secret renditions shed light on MI6's licence to kill and torture
2012-02-15,Italy prosecutors seek 5-year jail term for Berlusconi ... on charges of paying British lawyer David Mills a $600K (382K pound) bribe to lie about the former prime minister's business interests
2012-02-15,RSF: Israeli troops take aim at photojournalists covering protests in West Bank
2012-02-15,Iran stops oil exports to six EU countries.
2012-02-15,Syria won't accept peacekeepers: Syrian Ambassador to China
2012-02-15,Hundreds of inmates burn to death in massive Honduras prison fire
2012-02-15,"Metal, code, flesh: Why we need a 'Rights of the Internet' declaration."
2012-02-15,"Russian Submarine Fire Last Year Almost Resulted In Nuclear 'Catastrophe' - Vlaast magazine has a story, unfortunately not online, that says that the ship was at the time carrying 16 missiles, each full of fuel, with 4 nuclear warheads on each missile."
2012-02-15,"In letter, Iran says it's ready for nuclear talks - Yahoo! News"
2012-02-15,At least 200 killed in Honduras prison fire
2012-02-15,"Bahrain deports 6 Americans for ""illegal"" activities"
2012-02-15,"As Sarkozy seeks new term, French are wary of 'Merkozy':  An embattled French President Nicolas Sarkozy is touting his strong ties with powerful German chancellor Angela Merkel as he prepares to announce his bid for a second term today. "
2012-02-14,Canadian legislation will require internet service providers to log internet activity of all customers and provide information to government and police. The government says anyone who is against the bill is siding with child pronographers
2012-02-14,"(Canadian) Conservative Party wants warrant-less searches of everyone's internet history, saying all that oppose this support child porn."
2012-02-14,Athens in Flames [pics]
2012-02-14,"Dresden stands up to neo-Nazi march - For years, neo-Nazis have marched on the anniversary of the 1945 Dresden air raid. In 2011, tension with counter-demonstrators escalated into clashes. But this year, the city seemed to have learned from past mistakes. "
2012-02-14,China cops beat Tibet monk as he burns
2012-02-14,Malaysia Celebrates Valentine's Day by Arresting Unmarried Couples
2012-02-14,Rome dropped its bid for the 2020 Olympics on Tuesday after Premier Mario Monti said the Italian government would not provide financial backing for an estimated $12.5-billion project at a time of economic crisis.
2012-02-14,"
Millions of young people worldwide are unemployed - are we creating a lost generation?"
2012-02-14,"WTF: India gives gallantry award to the police officer who stripped a woman naked, gave her electric shocks and shoved stones in her private parts."
2012-02-14,Motorcycle hitman uses magnetic bomb against Israeli diplomat -- same method as killed the Iranian scientist.
2012-02-14,China to deport 29 North Korean defectors back to North Korea after several of them tried to reunite with family in South
2012-02-14,"The Way Greeks Live Now --- 


A glimpse into harsh reality of life in Greece, where half of all under 25s are now out of work. And yet despite economic turmoil ""somehow everyday life rumbles on, in a collective trance, shot through with gallows humor"""
2012-02-14,"'Iranian' bomber injured in Bangkok. Other explosions were reported in the same busy commercial district of the Thai capital, injuring four others."
2012-02-14,"Antarctic water PR stunt involving Vladimir Putin comes unstuck - 

Head of Russian scientific expedition admits contents of presentation case were not actually from ancient sub-glacial lake"
2012-02-14,"JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and HSBC are among at least seven firms facing a Canadian probe into whether they participated in a conspiracy to manipulate prices on interest-rate derivatives"
2012-02-14,"
Los Zetas, Mexico's number 2 drug cartel, paid hundreds of dollars to ordinary people to buy 203 assault rifles, handguns and a sniper rifle in Texas"
2012-02-14,Vladimir Putin ridiculed after demanding Russians have more sex to halt declining population
2012-02-14,"The one year anniversary of Bahrain's suppressed protest movement erupted in clashes as security personnel fanned out through the capital, Manama."
2012-02-14,Homs is being bombarded by rocket fire
2012-02-14,The Twitter followers who encouraged a Saudi journalist accused of blasphemy may be charged with the same crime
2012-02-14,Argentina's transport workers' union says it will boycott ships flying the British flag because of the dispute over the Falkland Islands
2012-02-14,CANADA - Proposed bill for expanded surveillance tabled in Commons
2012-02-14,"""Canada stepped up pressure on Washington on Monday [13 February 2012] to rewrite its controversial Volcker rule to remove restrictions on Canadian bank activities that it says do not threaten the U.S. financial system."""
2012-02-14,Monsanto found guilty of poisoning in pesticide case
2012-02-14,"Stem cells taken from patient's heart heal heart attack scars, regrow healthy muscle"
2012-02-13,Monsanto is found guilty of chemical poisoning in France. The company was sued by a farmer who suffers neurological problems that the court found linked to pesticides.
2012-02-13,"Maldives: Islamists Storm National Museum, Destroy Entire Collection of 12th-Century Buddhist Statues"
2012-02-13,"Last Of The Cave People: ""A nomadic people in Papua New Guinea were rumored to be living in remote caves in the forest. When we found them, they sent a surprising message to the modern world."""
2012-02-13,"Osama Bin Laden told his children: ""Live in Peace in the West. Get an Education."""
2012-02-13,Video Shows Syrian Anti-Aircraft Tank Firing Randomly Into Peoples' Homes
2012-02-13,Democracy is ending in the land where it began
2012-02-13,"Amazon Defenders Face Death or Exile - 


Brazilian activists who inform on illegal loggers laying waste to the rainforests can expect a visit from the gunmen"
2012-02-13,BBC News - Delhi blast hits Israeli diplomat's car
2012-02-13,Osama bin Laden's told his children 'not to follow him down path of jihad'  
2012-02-13,Saudi Writer Is Facing a Possible Death Sentence Over Tweets on Prophet
2012-02-13,Riots spread as Greek lawmakers OK austerity bill 
2012-02-13,"Israel says bombs target embassies in India, Georgia
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2012-02-13,NATO says found Afghan children dead after air strike
2012-02-13,"
Iran: 30 million lose email access "
2012-02-13,"Archaeologists strike gold in quest to find Queen of 
Sheba's wealth "
2012-02-13,What Greek Austerity Looks Like
2012-02-13,China has urged Iran to cooperate more closely with the global nuclear watchdog and rejoin talks on its nuclear program that has caused a rift with the West.
2012-02-13,Supply of Childhood Leukemia Drug May Run Out Within Weeks
2012-02-13,"Libya Tells UN Rights Council: Gays threaten continuation of human race

Libyas post-suspension return marked by Islamist policy on gays
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2012-02-13,"Athens mayhem raises fears of Greek social explosion. ""We refuse to stand against our parents, our brothers, our children,"" the Greek Police Federation said."
2012-02-13,"Greece lies bankrupt, humiliated and ablaze: is cradle of democracy finished? The violence, looting and chaos engulfing the country underlines growing rift between the Greek people and their politicians
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2012-02-13,"The Russians are leaving  Russia: Highly qualified middle-class professionals, feeling ignored by the country's economy and political system, are emigrating in search of greener pastures. "
2012-02-13,Irish TD's to filter letters of complaint from public as Spam
2012-02-13,Israeli air raid kills Palestinian in Gaza
2012-02-13,"Car Bombs in India and Georgia Targeted Israeli Officials -- Israel has confirmed that a car bomb that went off at its embassy in New Delhi was targeting one of its diplomats, while another bomb near its embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia has been defused."
2012-02-12,"Drug War Revolt in Central America - ""Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said Saturday he will propose legalizing drugs in Central America in an upcoming meeting with the regions leaders."""
2012-02-12,"Eight arrests as Murdoch 'throws staff to the wolves'. Five senior 'Sun' journalists, two MoD staff and a police officer taken in dawn swoop as new front opens in bribery scandal
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2012-02-12,"Canada ISPs not subject to content rules, Supreme Court says"
2012-02-12,I fear for a social explosion: Greeks can't take any more punishment. EU policy of forced austerity is driving country to economic collapse.
2012-02-12,Murdoch media empire engulfed in scandal as Scotland Yard's net spreads
2012-02-12,"Pig-Farm Breaches Human Rights - Plans to build a US-style mega farm, housing 25,000 pigs with over a 1,000 a week slaughtered, poses health risks to those in historic Foston & to imprisoned women nearby - ""Objections are mounting, because of new evidence of risks to the health of people."""
2012-02-12,"Protests in Greece: Historic cinemas, cafes and shops went up in flames in central Athens on Sunday as black-masked protesters fought Greek police outside parliament, while inside lawmakers looked set to defy the public rage by endorsing a new EU/IMF austerity deal."
2012-02-12,"The temperature in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have risen to 82 degrees on Feb. 12, a situation that could force the government to revoke the declaration of an equivalent of cold shutdown."
2012-02-12,Human rights abuses could be covered up under new justice bill proposals in the UK
2012-02-12,"British police arrest five at Murdoch's Sun newspaper





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2012-02-12," As e-waste becomes more valuable, the German Post Office enters the recycling game - Post offices will collect old mobile phones, household electronic devices, used printer cartridges, & any other e-waste that's small enough to fit in an A4-size envelop  "
2012-02-12,Syrian government forces are using detained civilians as human shields on tanks.
2012-02-12,"A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Pacific coast of Central America, killing more than 24,000 people in El Salvador and Nicaragua since 2000 and striking thousands of others with chronic kidney disease at rates unseen virtually anywhere else"
2012-02-12,Saudi Arabia threatens to go nuclear 'in weeks' if Iran gets bomb --- SAUDI Arabia would launch a military nuclear program immediately if Iran successfully developed atomic weapons. 
2012-02-12,Greek parliament approves new austerity bill
2012-02-12,"About 24,000 people will be displaced from towns in the Amazon to make way for the world's third biggest dam.""Belo Monte is finishing our community. We had no option. For me, the saddest part of this story is to know that everything I helped create here I'm now seeing it all be destroyed."""
2012-02-12,Photos of Greece in turmoil.
2012-02-12,"Australia under pressure again to tighten slaughterhouse regulations after the airing of secretly filmed footage of animals being clubbed with iron bars & repeatedly shocked in the face with electrical prods - An official called it ''gross mistreatment''.  ''Strict measures will be ramped up.'' 


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2012-02-12, Iran prepares suicide bomb boats in Gulf
2012-02-12,"Fukushima reactor readings raise reheating concern: Temperature inside No 2 reactor may have risen to 82C, and Tepco reportedly steps up cooling efforts
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2012-02-12,Nun sets herself on fire in China
2012-02-12,"Over 100,000 rally in Lisbon against austerity"
2012-02-12,"A Jerusalem court has started debating the meaning of ""Fascism"" as the right wing group ""Im Tirtzu"" sues activists"
2012-02-12,Greek Parliament approves another round of austerity measures
2012-02-12,Younger Castro steers Cuba to a new revolution
2012-02-11,Massive Street Protests Wage War On ACTA: Hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets to prevent their countries and the European Parliament from putting the free Internet at risk by ratifying ACTA
2012-02-11,Kim Jong-un assassination turns out to just be a birthday party. Seriously.
2012-02-11,U.S. official: No evidence North Korean leader is dead
2012-02-11,"Five employees of The Sun, were arrested today over allegations of inappropriate payments to police and public officials."
2012-02-11,Iran to unveil 'great nuclear achievements'
2012-02-11,Protests over Greece's austerity cuts turn violent
2012-02-11,Striking Belgian firefighters hose down the cops | The Raw Story
2012-02-11,Second protester shot dead in Saudi Arabia 
2012-02-11,"Syrian general gunned down, state TV says"
2012-02-11,"Greek Police Union Wants to Arrest EU, IMF Officials"
2012-02-11,"5 staff at The Sun, 3 others arrested in UK inquiry over alleged media bribes to officials"
2012-02-11,"Pollution from unauthorized factories said to cause catastrophic health issues in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, where they were built in order to evade Israeli environmental standards."
2012-02-11,Respected journalist John Pilger on Australia's ABC talks about what Julian Assange is up against.
2012-02-11,Iran partially blocks encrypted network traffic and shuts down HTTPS protocol.
2012-02-11,"Iran to announce ""very important"" nuclear achievements: state TV"
2012-02-11,Syria satellite images show government is using artillery and mortars against Homs
2012-02-11,"Argentina accuses the UK of sending a nuclear-armed submarine to the South Atlantic, and makes an official complaint to the UN over the Falklands."
2012-02-11,US Officials Say Kim Jong Un Assassination Rumors Untrue
2012-02-11,"
Eight people held over payments inquiry: Eight people have been arrested over allegations of corrupt payments to police and public officials, Scotland Yard has said"
2012-02-11,Russia Accuses West of Arming Syrian Rebels
2012-02-11,"The worlds losing its workers. How will we compete? --- About 11 per cent of the worlds people are over 60 at the moment. In the next 25 years that will double, to almost a fifth, and one in six of those people will be over 80"
2012-02-11,"In Afghanistan, a new approach to teaching history: Leave out the wars: We arent mature enough to come up with a way to teach such a sensitive history, "
2012-02-11,Anonymous vows crusade against Israel
2012-02-11,Horror escalates in Syria as U.N. tries again to reach resolution - CNN.com
2012-02-11,New clashes in Saudi Arabia leave 'protester' dead.
2012-02-10,11 current Latin American leaders call for legal drug regulation as an alternative to the war on drugs. 
2012-02-10,The British govt about to unveil proposals to block the Internet for copyright enforcement purposes
2012-02-10,"Anonymous threatens cyber crusade against Israel - accusing it of ""Crimes against humanity"""
2012-02-10,"Belgian firefighters soak police in protest!
I never thought I'd see firehoses turned on the police."
2012-02-10,"Donald Trump Accuses Alex Salmond of Wanting to Destroy Scottish Coast - 

Billionaire attempts to derail wind farm plans with letter to first minister  & by ceasing work on his Aberdeenshire golf resort.  Trump opposes the wind farm, saying it'll ruin the view from his  resort. "
2012-02-10,World gets ready for ACTA protests
2012-02-10,"Iran sending upto 15,000 elite troops to Syria "
2012-02-10,"Overfishing of EU fisheries is costing 2.7bn (3.2bn euros) a year & 100,000 jobs - 1/3 of Britain's fish consumption could be met if stocks were allowed to recover.  But separate research shows 1/2 of fishermen wouldn't be willing to give up their livelihoods."
2012-02-10,Rhino dies in anti-poaching demo by conservationists
2012-02-10,Afghan children killed in NATO air strike
2012-02-10,"RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp
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2012-02-10,Israel and Iran: Closer to take-off --- Momentum is growing for an Israeli airstrike on Iranwith or without American support | The Economist
2012-02-10,Sane man lives in Romania mental hospital for 80 years
2012-02-10,"Iran Begins Blocking Sites Using HTTPS Protocol  effectively censoring major bank sites, Google, Gmail, Facebook and many other commercial sites."
2012-02-10,Roman Catholic Church leaders have unveiled an Internet teaching project to help clergy around the world root out pedophiles in their ranks and protect children from potential abusers.
2012-02-10,BBC News - Tibetans set themselves alight in protests
2012-02-10,As many as 126 reported killed as Syrian attacks escalate - CNN.com
2012-02-10,Putin to dismantle United Russia after election
2012-02-10,"In Rare, Blunt Speech, Saudi King Criticizes Syria Vetoes"
2012-02-10,Japan Scrambles Fighters to Meet Russian Bombers
2012-02-10,"A group of Ecuadoreans take offensive against a Hague arbitration panel that they claim will meet in secret, without transparency or accountability, to determine the fate of an $18.2 billion environmental judgment they won against Chevron"
2012-02-10,"Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence accused of kidnapping and torturing 11 men, four of whom have been found dead"
2012-02-10,"India Explores Economic Opportunities in Iran, Denting Western Sanctions Plan"
2012-02-10,"Iraq executes 14 people in one day, 65 so far this year"
2012-02-10,"Islamists in Egypt halt filming of TV series - Islamist students halted the filming of an Egyptian television series at Cairo's Ain Shams University protesting against the ""indecent"" clothing of the actresses"
2012-02-09,"Charlotte Church stands alone as hacking victims settle. Singer's refusal to accept pre-trial deal means Murdoch empire still faces damaging court case
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2012-02-09,"It's a bloodletting in Syria. Civilians are facing tanks. There's every indication the dictatorship is moving to crush, once and for all, the eleven-month-old rebellion against the 40-year dictatorship of the Assad family."
2012-02-09,Israel teams with terror group to kill Iran's nuclear scientists
2012-02-09,"Indian POliticians get caught watching porn during meeting: ""...was not looking at porn but watching video of a women being raped by several men..."""
2012-02-09,Mexico makes historic 15 ton  methamphetamine seizure
2012-02-09,Vatican official: Sexual abuse silence deadly for Church
2012-02-09,"The Knights Templar, a violent, pseudo-religious cartel from the neighboring state of Michoacan unfurled banners in a Mexican city that Pope Benedict was scheduled to visit, telling rival traffickers to keep out."
2012-02-09,"North Koreas super-sized hotel is set to open  23 years behind schedule. It's taller than the Chrysler building, wider than a city block, and made entirely of concrete. "
2012-02-09,"Afghanistan's Opium Child Brides  As the heroin trade suffers, more Afghan poppy farmers feel they have no choice but to marry off their daughters, sometimes to unsavory and far-away men, to pay their debts."
2012-02-09,'We are seriously dying here. It is really war': Residents of Homs say the Syrian army is carrying out a ferocious bombardment against helpless civilians
2012-02-09,High demand for sea turtles in China sends poachers toward Philippines
2012-02-09,Iraq executes scores of prisoners in first 40 days of 2012
2012-02-09,Falkland Islands newspaper the Penguin News causes uproar after calling the Argentinian President a bitch
2012-02-09,"Women labourers give opium to infants to keep them quiet while working in Indian state Rajasthan
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2012-02-09,"Russia's young people are growing up with more freedom than ever. Twenty years after the end of communism, the first post-Soviet generation is transforming the country -- whether the once and future president likes it or not."
2012-02-09,Anarchy in Aceh: Criminalizing punk rock under Islamic law
2012-02-09,"Syrian forces renew bombardment in Homs
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2012-02-09,Greek Austerity Moves Leave Nation's Economic Safety Net In Tatters
2012-02-09,British businesses could be forced to appoint fixed quotas of women to their boards of directors under radical plans being considered by the UK Government.
2012-02-09,"Vagabond King --- 

Profile of Valentine Strasser, made president of Sierra Leone at 25 by military coup in 1992; forced out after four years; tried to study in Britain; returned, lives with his mother, drinks gin by the roadside, reminisces"
2012-02-09,Germany Expels Four Syrian Diplomats
2012-02-09,"Russian city of St. Petersburg bans spreading of ""homosexual propaganda"""
2012-02-09,"Thousands of Maldivians condemn 'coup':  Supporters rally in Male to demand Mohamed Nasheed's return to power, a day after he was forced to quit as president."
2012-02-09,Germany is investing heavily in renewables and it's one of the few economies thriving in Europe
2012-02-09,"Targeting teachers image: 'Dirty war' against Colombia's unions --  Few bright spots in the world's most dangerous place for labor organizers.

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2012-02-08,"For the first year in its history, India has no reported cases of polio."
2012-02-08,Nicaraguas push to generate 94 percent of its own electricity from renewable resources  by 2016 without damaging the environment  has united the country.
2012-02-08,"An undercover police officer ""chased himself round the streets"" for 20 minutes after a CCTV operator mistook him for suspect."
2012-02-08,"Monsanto, the creator of chemical weapon Agent Orange, returns to Vietnam - this time to sell GM crops and weed-killing chemicals in Vietnam; many outraged

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2012-02-08,UK denies Alan Turing postumous pardon for homosexuality
2012-02-08,Saudi Arabia Promises To Go Nuclear if Iran Does
2012-02-08,"A poll of Arab public opinion by the University of Maryland and Zogby International, which included Egypt, asked respondents to ""name two countries that are the biggest threat to you"": 88% named the United States, and 77% named Israel; only 9% chose Iran"
2012-02-08,"Massive 40-Foot Shark Pulled From the Arabian Sea -- ""estimates put it at around 40 feet (about the size of school bus), while largest confirmed whale shark on record was over 41 feet and weighed more than 47,000 pounds."" "
2012-02-08,Gadhafi regime missiles missing 
2012-02-08,"Iran's parliament summons Ahmadinejad:  President to be questioned over a range of accusations, a first since the country's revolution in 1979."
2012-02-08,Nokia to End Phone Assembly in Europe - It'll end the assembly of cellphones in Europe by year-end as it shifts production to Asia in its latest attempt to cushion its finances
2012-02-08,"A Top Cop in China Disappears. Medical leave or asylum? - 
China's rumor mill is ablaze over the whereabouts of Wang Lijun, who 'went on vacation-style treatment.' What happens next could be a blow to a top Communist Party contender. "
2012-02-08,Over 2/3 of Irans lawmakers endorse cutting off oil sales to the European Union before EU sanctions on their country go into effect
2012-02-08,"Europe may be brutally cold right now, but in Freisland (Netherlands) they wait with bated breath in the hopes that conditions will be right for the Elfstedentocht, a traditional 200km, 11-city ice skating race, for the first time in 15 years."
2012-02-08,"
Time to Act on Companies Selling Mass Spy Gear to 
Authoritarian Regimes "
2012-02-08,Senior scientologist charged with perverting justice 
2012-02-08,Anonymous Hacks Syrian President Bashar Assad's Emails
2012-02-08,"A380 fleet to be checked for wing cracks: The entire fleet of A380 superjumbos is to be checked for cracks on their wings after orders from the European safety regulator.
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2012-02-08,Argentina to raise Falklands UK 'militarisation' at UN
2012-02-08,"Theif turns in stolen mobile phone containing suspected child porn, ends up going to jail."
2012-02-08,TEPCO injecting more water into Fukushima nuclear power plant reactor because temperature at base of pressure vessel has risen.
2012-02-08,"Syrian troops have continued shelling the city of Homs for the fifth straight day, killing scores of people."
2012-02-08,"Maldives: Muslim hardliners smashes Buddhist statues in national museum
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2012-02-08,Spanish police rescue Ryanairs Michael OLeary from angry mob
2012-02-08,"Maldives president quits after 'coup d'etat' -  Security forces threatened ""bloodbath"" if Mohamed Nasheed remained in power, his party says."
2012-02-07,Lake Vostok surface reached
2012-02-07,The last World War I veteran has died.
2012-02-07,UK Government 'may sanction nerve-agent use on rioters'.
2012-02-07,"Honour killings un-Islamic, ... fatwa declares in wake of Shafia trial "
2012-02-07,Iran defaults on rice payments to India
2012-02-07,Japan population to shrink by a third by 2060
2012-02-07,"Lead Poisoning 'Worst in Modern History' - 
A lead poisoning epidemic in Nigeria has killed 400 children & affected thousands, but cleanup hasn't even begun in many areas"
2012-02-07,Syria: Homs attack is a game-changerThe onslaught in Syria marks a new chapter in which further bloodshed appears inevitable.
2012-02-07,"The network of trolls, journalists and bloggers paid to ensure flattering coverage of Vladimir Putin"
2012-02-07,RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp
2012-02-07,"Live feed from Syria gives window into violent crackdown, shows shelling and gunfire in Homs."
2012-02-07,"Met Police unlawfully failed to warn victims of News of the World phone hacking
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2012-02-07,President of Maldives Steps Down After Police Coup
2012-02-07,"Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE Recall Ambassadors From Syria, Expel Syrian Diplomats"
2012-02-07,"Turkey is preparing a new initiative with those countries who oppose the Syrian government, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, describing Chinas and Russias veto of a U.N. resolution on Syria a fiasco."
2012-02-07,"""Britain was forced to plead with the US to take part in the flotilla challenging Iranian power in the Gulf after American commanders decided the Royal Navy had nothing to contribute to the mission."""
2012-02-07,"Olive glut puts skids under oil producers at risk. A second bumper harvest could see Spanish farmers driven from the land they have worked for generations
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2012-02-07,Another European government falls amidst eurocrisis: Romania's government collapsed - the latest European government to give way amid popular resentment toward austerity measures
2012-02-07,It's Time To End the Greek Rescue Farce
2012-02-07,"There is a widespread belief that Germany is the big winner of the euro crisis, as investors stash their money in the euro zone's last safe haven, driving interest rates on German bonds down to record lows. But the idea is just a myth. Indeed, the crisis could end up costing Berlin dearly."
2012-02-07,Irish Urge Children to Leave Amid Job Losses
2012-02-07,"In Syria, a once-quiet village tips into revolution:  Anadan, in the shadow of Syria's second-largest city, has expelled Bashar Assad's forces. It's another tug on the tightrope the president is walking."
2012-02-07,"Latin America's growing taste for whisky:  The whisky business gets a boost from Latin America's new middle-class.
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2012-02-07,"Are NGOs fanning unrest in Egypt? As rights groups come under scrutiny over foreign funding, we ask if the ruling military is hunting for a scapegoat."
2012-02-07,"French airport workers strike over right to strike:  Hundreds of striking aviation workers gathered outside Pariss main airports Monday to protest against a draft law designed to protect passengers from industrial action, which they say threatens their right to strike. "
2012-02-06,Passengers at airports across Australia will be forced to undergo full-body scans or be banned from flying under new laws to be introduced this week.
2012-02-06,Sarkozy ally says all civilisations not equal:  French interior minister stands by his remarks as critics denounced his comments as dangerous and xenophobic.
2012-02-06,"""Ignoring a U.S. threat to cut off aid, Egypt on Sunday [5 February 2012] referred 19 Americans and 24 other employees of nonprofit groups to trial before a criminal court on accusations they illegally used foreign funds to foment unrest in the country."""
2012-02-06,"BBC News - Three Tibetans have set fire to themselves in south-west China, reports say, in the latest apparent protest against rule from Beijing."
2012-02-06,U.S. Closes embassy in Syria
2012-02-06,"""A new taste for eating elephant meat -- everything from trunks to sex organs -- has emerged in Thailand and could pose a new threat to the survival of the species."""
2012-02-06,"Google, Facebook take down 'offensive' India content:  The firms have pulled down web pages deemed offensive to Indian political and religious leaders, in compliance with a court directive issued during an ongoing civil lawsuit against more than 20 Internet giants.
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2012-02-06,Romania's government resigns following protests
2012-02-06,"North Korea using old, US-made drones: ""N. Korea recently bought several US MQM-107D Streakers from a Middle Eastern nation that appears to be Syria, and is developing unmanned attack aircraft based on them."""
2012-02-06,China is buying up companies in Europe and tip toeing around the euro debt. Very Sun Tzu indeed. 
2012-02-06,China orders airlines not to pay Europe for carbon emissions
2012-02-06,"Norway Mass Killer Decries ""Cultural Destruction"" --  Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway, said Monday his massacre was necessary to prevent his country's cultural destruction."
2012-02-06,Facebook and Google remove 'offensive' India content
2012-02-06,"Syrian and Libyan demonstrators hurled rocks, eggs and tomatoes at the Chinese embassy in Tripoli on Monday, after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution backing an Arab plan urging Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to give up power"
2012-02-06,"Russia's Line In The Sand --- 


Why Russia won't support UN condemnation of Syria's President Assad. Not just solidarity among autocrats. Russia feels that it got burnt over Libya. It doesn't trust the Syrian opposition. And it trusts the US even less"
2012-02-06,Alberto Contador handed two-year ban for doping and is stripped of 2010 Tour de France title by the CAS
2012-02-06,ACTA: Europe braced for protests over anti-piracy treaty (xpost r/evolutionreddit) 
2012-02-06,"Beijings South China Sea Gamble:  If China is right, then there is enough oil under the South China Sea to feed global consumption for several years. But Beijing may be making an aggressive bet on the wrong horse.
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2012-02-06,6th Feb 'They are still picking up the bodies' Direct report from Homs in Syria
2012-02-06,Czech government just suspended process of ACTA ratification
2012-02-06,Why India chose Rafale
2012-02-06,"Google, Facebook pull web pages on order from India, which deemed content ""anti-religious,"" or ""anti-social"""
2012-02-06,USGS: 6.8 quake strikes off coast of Philippines' 3rd-largest island - CNN.com
2012-02-06,"US closes embassy in Damascus, evacuates personnel"
2012-02-06,"Mega Snow Storm Leaves 33,000 Without Power In Rome, And Food Supplies Are Running Low."
2012-02-05,"Iranian Court Upholds Death Sentence for Software Designer: Canadian resident - arrested while visiting his ailing father - is charged with ""insulting the sanctity of Islam"" and ""corruption on earth,"" because his photo-uploading software was ""used by a porn website without his knowledge"" "
2012-02-05,Nobel peace prize jury under investigation over accusations they have drifted away from the prize's original selection criteria
2012-02-05,N. Korea is open to talks with S. Korea
2012-02-05,"Call Us Nazis If It Makes You Happy --- 

When Germany asserts its interests, as in the euro crisis, critics invoke its Nazi past. How to react? ""We must not let ourselves be intimidated. A friendly imperviousness, an unoffended rebuff, are the most judicious responses"""
2012-02-05,Chevron refuses to apologize in Ecuador pollution case so $18 billion damage award stands
2012-02-05,"Honour killings un-Islamic, fatwa declares in wake of Shafia trial"
2012-02-05,"Blast hits gas pipeline connecting Egypt, Israel & Jordan"
2012-02-05,"Syria releases the 7/7 'mastermind --- He has ""been released as a warning to the US and Britain about the consequences of turning their backs on President al-Assads regime"""
2012-02-05,"Saudi women ask courts to take up their lawsuits against the ban on female driving - No laws prohibit them from driving, but religious edicts have banned it & officials comply. Among those filing is Manal al-Sherif, who was detained for nearly 2 weeks after posting a video of herself driving.

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2012-02-05,"France: Googles Free Map Service Unfair To Commercial Map Sellers: Court ordered Google to pay 500,000 Euros to local map company for unfair practices that constitute an abuse of the dominant position of its Google Maps application."
2012-02-05,Tens of thousands brave Moscow cold to protest against Putin
2012-02-05,India tells Britain: We don't want your aid - Telegraph
2012-02-05, Syria: UN veto gives Assad licence to kill - opposition
2012-02-05,"Egyptian police incited massacre at stadium, say angry footballers"
2012-02-05,"1,000 prisoners in Kyrgyzstan sew their mouths shut in protest."
2012-02-05,"Fidel Castro launches his memoirs ""Guerrilla of Time"""
2012-02-05,Assad's forces free to bomb dissenters as Russia and China veto UN resolution: Scores of people in the Syrian opposition stronghold Homs are killed while thousands join protests around the world
2012-02-05,"Alexander Yellin became famous a decade ago for the song he wrote that became the anthem of Vladimir Putin, praising him as the perfect Russian man. But now, as Putin runs for re-election and his popularity wanes, Yellin has written the anthem of the anti-Putin crowds"
2012-02-05,Murders soar in Brazil city during police strike
2012-02-05,Cairo street battles enter fourth day:  Tax office in capital set on fire amid continuing anger at authorities' failure to prevent Port Said football violence.
2012-02-05,Carnival cruise ship passengers struck with virus
2012-02-05,Fidel Castro publishes his 1000 page memoir in two volumes
2012-02-05,"In a Dispute That Tests European Rules to Protect Ecosystems, Plans to Foul Falmouth Bay by Digging a Channel for Giant Cruise Liners has Residents Split - A decision to dredge may lead to relaxation of EU rules governing other UK habitats. Others say it'll create jobs & add tourists. "
2012-02-05,'The Arab Spring Is Coming to China' 
2012-02-05,North Korean central government pitting two branches of the secret police against each other in order to root out political dissidents
2012-02-04,"Marietje Schaake: ""As a Member of the European Parliament, I very much welcome the increased attention ACTA has received in the past weeks. It has taken a while for massive outcry to emerge, but we are seeing protest voices getting louder and louder"" -- We Need Copyright Reform, Not ACTA!

    
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2012-02-04,European Commission inadvertently reveals that ACTA will indeed bring censorship to the Internet
2012-02-04,Poland freezes acta ratification
2012-02-04,"Muslim family jailed for life after 'despicable' honour killing of three teen daughters who dared to date boys.
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2012-02-04,Swedes out in force to protest ACTA 
2012-02-04,Syria: Over 200 dead  after 'massacre' in Homs.  Friday evening shelling by security forces on eve of UN vote on removal of Bashar al-Assadr
2012-02-04,Tens of thousands of people are marching in Russia's capital Moscow in protest at Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's grip on power
2012-02-04,"Following the growing ACTA protests in Europe and signs of US meddling, Poland's PM makes it clear that Poland will not ratify ACTA for the time being, leading to speculation that the EU may not actually join ACTA "
2012-02-04,Jerusalem's Armenians outraged as city approves Jews-only parking lot in Old City
2012-02-04,"Isotopes hint at North Korean nuclear test. Data 
suggest that the country has experimented with a 
fusion boost to its fission weapons"
2012-02-04,At least 217 Syrian protesters killed in Homs
2012-02-04,"Europe is too emotional about fracking, says Shell chief "
2012-02-04,China and Russia veto UN resolution condemning Syria
2012-02-04,"Canadian Muslim jailed for using the words ""blow away"" in a text message"
2012-02-04,Expert claims that 16 million Chinese women are married to gay men
2012-02-04,Japanese Government wages war against Yakuza
2012-02-04,Fox Flub: Russian Vostok Lake Scientists Safe
2012-02-04,"Tunisia plans to expel Syrian ambassador, end recognition of Assads regime"
2012-02-04,BBC News - Oldest woman in Cuba celebrates her 127th birthday
2012-02-04,Unrest in Tibet leads China to cut off internet and mobile phone service in a 30 sq mile radius. 
2012-02-04,"'Scores dead' in fighting in Syria's Homs: Activists say ""hundreds"" killed or injured as government forces use tanks and machine guns in central city."
2012-02-04,"Ahmadinejad: Iran to increase military spending ""by more than two fold"""
2012-02-04,"Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfire looms."
2012-02-04,US 'disgust' as Russia and China veto UN Syria resolution
2012-02-04,"At least 105 people killed in Syria's Homs-rights group
| Agricultural Commodities
| Reuters"
2012-02-03,"Slovenia's ambassador apologizes to her children and her nation for signing ACTA, calls for mass demonstrations in Ljubljana tomorrow (xpost R/evolutionReddit)"
2012-02-03,Scientology condemned in France for organized fraud
2012-02-03,Anonymous hack into phone conversation between FBI and Scotland Yard
2012-02-03,"Thailand has become the first nation to openly endorse Twitters decision to allow state by state censorship. The move is no surprise  Thailand recently jailed an elderly man with cancer for sending 4 text messages criticizing the King, despite being unable to prove he sent them."
2012-02-03,Iran is about to lose access to SWIFT payments.  This could be devastating...
2012-02-03,No recent contact with Russian team digging to mid-Neogene Lake in Antarctica
2012-02-03,Mass Killings Uncovered Near Damascus
2012-02-03,"130 million Tweets everyday are not worth reading, researchers find  - Telegraph"
2012-02-03,Libyan diplomat Omar Brebesh dies under torture
2012-02-03,"Some in India wonder whether their countrymen can take a joke -- A Jay Leno joke draws a rebuke from an Indian Cabinet minister, and political cartoons lead to treason charges. Some Indians say their countrymen are overreacting."
2012-02-03, Two former Credit Suisse traders admitted on Wednesday to conspiring to manipulate the value of about $3 billion in subprime mortgage-backed securities in order to hide losses as the U.S. real estate market began to collapse in 2007.
2012-02-03,Serbia re-nationalizes its steel industry buying back a sprawling steelworks from US Steel Corp.
2012-02-03,The UNs highest court confirmed Friday that Germany has legal immunity from being sued in foreign courts by victims of Second World War Nazi atrocities
2012-02-03,"Witnesses of soccer riot in Egypt recount horrific violence that killed 74 people, say police blocked exits and cut power in retaliation for role fans played in uprising."
2012-02-03,At least 37 people have been killed in South Sudan during a shoot-out at a peace meeting aimed at ending recent violence
2012-02-03,"ACTA on the edge in Europe? Poland suspends ratification, Greece gets hacked"
2012-02-03,"New mutiny in Mexico's Ciudad Juarez: A threat sends 2,000 officers into hiding as cartels fight to control Juarez."
2012-02-03,How Greece used 'magic' to make its debt disappear
2012-02-03,Anonymous 'hack FBI and Scotland Yard phone call'
2012-02-03,The End of Great Britain? Scottish Separatists Have High Hopes for Referendum 
2012-02-03,Iran Rebuffs Nuke Inspectors Trying to Visit Suspected Weapons Site
2012-02-03,"Swiss Question 12 Banks as Libor Probe Widens - Switzerland is investigating European, US, & Japanese banks suspected of conspiring to manipulate interbank lending rates used to set interest rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars of securities"
2012-02-03,Iran 'retaliating for scientists' deaths'
2012-02-03,Egypt gunmen snatch US tourists 
2012-02-03,Cold weather death toll passes 100 in Ukraine
2012-02-02,Bulgarian ISPs Rise against ACTA (xpost r/evolutionreddit)
2012-02-02,Spain orders $500M in gold found under the Atlantic by US treasure hunters back home.  US courts agree.
2012-02-02, Kim Jong Un Looking at Things [pics]
2012-02-02,At least 40 dead in Egypt Football violence
2012-02-02,Famous Egyptian actor sentenced to three months in jail for defaming Islam
2012-02-02,"Why Britain and Argentina are tussling, again, over the Falklands "
2012-02-02,Seized cash triggers political furor in Mexico -- The discovery in Mexico of almost $2 million cash in the luggage of a state government official has triggered a round of mud-slinging in the run-up to the presidential election in July.
2012-02-02,Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books
2012-02-02,the power of reddit makes the news!!
2012-02-02,"Barak: If sanctions fail, Iran must face military strike"
2012-02-02,Major new leak at Japan's nuclear plant - Kyodo
2012-02-02,"South Korean indicted for re-tweeting messages from North Korean government.  Lampooning charged as violating a law that makes it a crime to praise, sympathize or cooperate with North Korea."
2012-02-02,Hacked neo-Nazi websites reveal Canadian connections
2012-02-02,"Gaza protesters throw shoes, stones at convoy of UN chief Ban Ki-moon
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2012-02-02,Times newspaper investigated for email hacking
2012-02-02,"Ecuador Creating Alternative to Neo-Liberal Model - Ecuador raising taxes on wealthy, higher royalties on oil companies and making large social investments "
2012-02-02,"""In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects...Now, a veritable treasure lies beneath the pristine Italian waters"""
2012-02-02,Afghanistan: Leon Panetta signals end to US combat role
2012-02-02,"Hundreds of Egyptians take to streets of Cairo, saying the army council was behind the soccer riots that killed 74"
2012-02-02,EU antitrust authorities rejected plans of a tie-up between Deutsche Brse and NYSE Euronext to become the world's largest stock market operator. The entity's near-monopoly in derivatives trading was found unacceptable.
2012-02-02,Egyptian parties refuse to commit to womens rights
2012-02-02,"Macedonia Muslims Riot, Burn Historic Church After Christians At Carnival Mock Koran"
2012-02-02,The revelation that lawmakers for the Left Party are under observation by the German intelligence service has triggered a debate about the agency's powers. At what point should spies be allowed snoop on elected representatives?
2012-02-02,Europe freeze: More deaths in Ukraine and Poland 
2012-02-02,British MP calls for pardon for 'hero' Turing
2012-02-01,"Acta goes too far, says MEP-Kader Arif, the lead Acta negotiator in the European Parliament, says Acta potentially cuts access to lifesaving generic drugs and restricts online freedom"
2012-02-01,Disgraced British banker loses his knighthood
2012-02-01,Poland 'may not ratify ACTA' (xpost R/evolutionReddit)
2012-02-01,The Nobel Peace Prize committee under investigation for not following Nobels original intentions contained in his will.
2012-02-01,"As tensions rise, Iranians fear that they're on the road to war with U.S."
2012-02-01,Saudi Oil Minister Calls Global Warming Humanitys Most Pressing Concern
2012-02-01,A review has exonerated the actions of officers who twice strip-searched a 12-year-old girl during a drug raid.
2012-02-01,Western media show bias labeling Nanjing massacre film The Flowers of War' as anti-Japanese nationalistic propaganda while lauding Holocaust films
2012-02-01,"The U.S. military said in a secret report that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, are set to retake control of Afghanistan after NATO-led forces withdraw, raising the prospect of a major failure of Western policy after a costly war."
2012-02-01,"Leave isolated Amazon natives alone, Peru says, after pictures of ""uncontacted"" tribe members published "
2012-02-01,"In Israel, A Nonstop Debate On Possible Iran Strike Soon"
2012-02-01,"Angry Birds CEO embraces piracy, calls music industry attempts ""futile"""
2012-02-01,"Europe's space industry, cash-strapped as a result of the debt crisis, wants to step up cooperation with China, which has an ambitious program and is building a moon-landing vehicle and capsules for manned missions. Such an alliance would likely cause tensions with the US."
2012-02-01,Four Radical Islamists Admit Plot To Blow Up London Stock Exchange
2012-02-01,1 million packs of birth control pills recalled for inadequate dose
2012-02-01,Polish President wants ACTA civil rights clarification (xpost R/evolutionReddit)
2012-02-01,Oil now leaking from stricken Carnival cruise ship
2012-02-01,"At least 73 killed, 200 injured at soccer riot in Port Said Egypt today"
2012-02-01,"India is the most dangerous place in the world to be born a girl, with females almost twice as likely to die before reaching the age of five, according to new UN figures."
2012-02-01,Aussie bus boss wows staff with $16M in bonuses 
2012-02-01,"The Norway town that forgave and forgot its child 
killers"
2012-02-01,Entire Village of Sodeto Wins Lottery - Except for one guy
2012-02-01,Four men admit London Stock Exchange bomb plot ...  pleaded guilty to engaging in conduct in preparation for acts of terrorism
2012-02-01,"Drones for Human Rights -- ""DRONES are not just for firing missiles in Pakistan. In Iraq, the State Department is using them to watch for threats to Americans. Its time we used the revolution in military affairs to serve human rights advocacy."""
2012-02-01,Osama Bin Laden Death Photos May Be Released 
2012-01-31,"Sarkozy Confirms 'Robin Hood' Tax For France. 0,1% tax on financial transactions"
2012-01-31,"Nearly $1 trillion in illicit capital left Mexico from 1970-2010, averaging about $50 billion a year this past decade, and most of it going to the U.S."
2012-01-31,Chinese dissident on trial after using Skype to send poem
2012-01-31,Doctors Without Borders suspended its work in the Libyan city of Misrata last week because prison officials repeatedly brought torture victims in for treatment -- only to return them to interrogation after they received medical care. 
2012-01-31,Rebel hero who has 'betrayed' the last of Aceh's orang-utans - Governor has dismayed supporters by allowing the destruction of a Sumatran forest where the apes live
2012-01-31,"Lost In Translation: Because Of Twitter Joke, Brits Denied Entry To U.S."
2012-01-31,"Last shipment of gold bars arrives at Caracas airport, 160 tons repatriated from European and American banks to Venezuela's central bank"
2012-01-31,"""India said...it may use its own currency...to pay for oil imports from Iran in the face of a US-led sanctions campaign aimed at forcing Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme. India has said it will continue to import oil from Iran, joining China in refusing to bow to intensifying US pressure"""
2012-01-31,Mexican official stopped with $1.9 million in luggage 
2012-01-31,Julian Assange's extradition battle enters final round
2012-01-31,China Rushes to Clean Up Cadmium Spill
2012-01-31,Ukraine's  top file sharing website shut down by authorities.
2012-01-31,"BBC News - Pakistan is helping Afghan Taliban, says Nato report"
2012-01-31,Mexico envoy in Venezuela kidnapped - Crime on the rise in Venezuela. 
2012-01-31,Gulf Arabs have plans against Hormuz closure: official - Reuters
2012-01-31,"Japan's Yazaki Corporation and Denso Corporation,  auto parts manufacturers, have admitted guilt and will pay the US $548M in fines for price-fixing violations"
2012-01-31,At least 60 people have died as a result of a cold snap in Eastern Europe.
2012-01-31,Thousands of cars circle central Moscow in anti-Putin protest
2012-01-31,"Eurozone unemployment hits new record, 10.4%"
2012-01-31,Occupy Mexico? How about 'End the Drug War'? Most Mexicans would rather stop the bloodshed than occupy the country.
2012-01-31,U.N. Says ex-Haiti dictator must be tried for Human Rights abuses. 
2012-01-31,"Seven chemical company officials are detained over industrial waste that polluted a river in China's southern Guangxi region, state media reports."
2012-01-31,Unemployment at record high across the eurozone
2012-01-31,French Rafale jet beats Eurofighter in $10bn India deal
2012-01-31,Destroyer ship HMS Dauntless set for Falklands
2012-01-30,Carlos Fuentes: legalise drugs to save Mexico - Telegraph
2012-01-30,"India, which imports 12 per cent of its oil from Iran, will not scale down its petroleum imports from Tehran despite US and European sanctions"
2012-01-30,Drug companies join forces to combat deadliest tropical diseases: Bill Gates gets pharmaceutical giants to promise drug giveaways and unprecedented pledge to share research on new antidotes
2012-01-30,Afghan woman slain for giving birth to daughter
2012-01-30,"Three Afghan-Canadians convicted on all charges of murdering four relatives in so-called ""honor killing"""
2012-01-30,Shafia family found guilty of first degree murder in Canadian honour killing
2012-01-30,CNN crew detained amid Chinese Tibet crackdown
2012-01-30,Sarkozy announces French financial transaction tax
2012-01-30,Iraq Is Angered by U.S. Drones Patrolling Its Skies 
2012-01-30,Greece edges closer to bankruptcy
2012-01-30,"Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite: ""It was a dark and dingy room, where an elderly woman asked me to take off my panties, made me sit on a low wooden stool with my legs parted and then did somethingI screamed out in pain,"" recalls Mustansir, of her childhood experience
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2012-01-30,Mysteries of Data Pool 3 give Rupert Murdoch a whole new headache
2012-01-30,Afghan woman is killed 'for giving birth to a girl'
2012-01-30,"Norway Court Convicts Two in Bomb Plot -- A Norwegian of Chinese Muslim origin with alleged links to al Qaeda was convicted Monday of plotting to blow up a Danish newspaper that had printed cartoons of Islam's Prophet Mohammad, and was sentenced to seven years in prison."
2012-01-30,"UN: World lacks enough food, fuel as population soars
| Reuters"
2012-01-30,Japan's population faces dramatic decline
2012-01-30,Venezuela's Hugo Chavez warns banks of nationalisation
2012-01-30,Thailand backs Twitter Censoship Policy
2012-01-30,"Unions Trying to Reverse Austerity With Strike in Belgium - The 3 groups have come together, organising the largest general strike in almost 20 years"
2012-01-30,"Spanair collapses, stranding 20,000 people"
2012-01-30,NZ begins demolishing Christchurch suburbs
2012-01-30,Strong earthquake hits Peru's central coastline
2012-01-30,Vladimir Putin labelled a 'tyrant' by Russian rock band
2012-01-30,Iran reissues death sentence against webdev who had been accused of running a porn-site!
2012-01-30,A 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck on the coast of central Peru
2012-01-29,"European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA"
2012-01-29,Doctor accused of working on a virus that only targets black people
2012-01-29,Central banks are printing money to a degree never seen in human history
2012-01-29,Doctors Without Borders has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation
2012-01-29,"Thousands protest conservative Islam in Tunisia --- Retired teacher says ""We spent our lives educating people, and now some want us to go back in time 14 centuries"" "
2012-01-29,"Most EU states sign away internet rights, ratify ACTA treaty. European Parliament observer resigns in protest
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2012-01-29,An official Chinese newspaper says Beijing must punish the Philippines economically for proposing closer military ties with Washington.
2012-01-29,U.N. nuclear team arrives in Iran
2012-01-29,Thousands of cars flying white ribbons circle central Moscow in anti-Putin protest
2012-01-29,Greece rejects German plan to surrender control over its budget:  Greek officials have flatly refused to consider a German plan that would see it relinquish control over its budget. Greece's leaders meanwhile have edged closer to a deal with private investors in ongoing debt talks.
2012-01-29,"The Super-Resistant Bacteria That Has India ""Hell Scared"""
2012-01-29,Dangerous chemical pollutes drinking water in China - Emergency workers in southern China are pouring sacks of neutralising powder into drains leading to the Liujiang River as they try to tackle a chemical spill
2012-01-29,France announces 0.1 percent transaction tax from August
2012-01-29,Anger at further Royal Bank of Scotland bonus payouts: David Cameron faces calls to rein in pay at bailed-out bank after revelations more staff could receive large bonuses
2012-01-29,"One mans idea on creating housing in Haiti starts to take shape. check out Rosen's ""Little Haiti Houses""."
2012-01-29,"Thwarted on US oil pipeline, Canada looks to China"
2012-01-29,Swiss Government study reveals that pirating INCREASES sales!
2012-01-29,"Canadian PM Declares""I think what's happened around the Keystone is a wake-up call, the degree to which we are dependent or possibly held hostage to decisions in the United States, and especially decisions that may be made for very bad political reasons,"" "
2012-01-29,"Exotic animal trade grows in Asia: ""Rare animals have become status symbols. They are trophies for people to demonstrate their wealth and the collateral damage of Asia's economic rise,"" says director of a wildlife conservation group"
2012-01-29,"Is Sweden ditching Social Democracy? - The party that built modern Sweden faces lowest poll results in a century.
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2012-01-29,"Hugo Chavez warns he could nationalize some banks

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2012-01-29,Fake drugs given to NHS patients still untraced - Only 8 people out of several thousand who received counterfeit drugs from the NHS in an incident in 2007 have been identified.
2012-01-29,"The Working Class Rises Up Across Latin America - 

Maids, parking valets, & other domestic workers push back against ill treatment in ""the world's most unequal region""."
2012-01-29,"A Canadian jury on Sunday found an Afghan father, his wife and their son guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as ""cold-blooded, shameful murders"" resulting from a ""twisted concept of honor."""
2012-01-29,Syria army moves to wrest Damascus suburbs from rebels
2012-01-28,"Copyright Industry Calls For Search Engine Censorship: At a behind-closed-doors meeting with a UK govt dept, Hollywood and major music labels want Google, Bing and Yahoo to de-list popular filesharing sites such as The Pirate Bay, and give higher ranking to authorized sites"
2012-01-28,"""Ireland's Sopa"" to pass without parliamentary vote."
2012-01-28,Anonymous targets Europe's SOPA: Critics say ACTA is even worse than SOPA as it allows for closed door negotiations and can't be repealed. The European Parliament is due to vote on it in June
2012-01-28,Twitter Boycott Planned To Protest Twitter's Censorship Plan
2012-01-28,The Royal Bank of Scotland has spent more than $4m (2.5m) of British taxpayers' money to influence politicians reforming US financial law since it was bailed out by government
2012-01-28,"Under EU sanctions, 95% of the world's oil tankers will be banned from carrying Iranian oil."
2012-01-28,UN tells Israel to halt demolition of Palestinian homes
2012-01-28,"
If required by law, Twitter says now ready to 
censor "
2012-01-28,Public Eye Awards: Brazilian mining giant Vale and UK-based Barclays bank given the dubious honor of being named the world's most destructive international corporations
2012-01-28,Police arrest four staffers of Murdoch's Sun tabloid and a policeman
2012-01-28,"3 yrs ago, Icelanders brought down the conservative govt responsible for the collapse of the banking system. A new left-wing govt pledged to look after the welfare of the average Icelander, but opinions differ whether it has managed to do that "
2012-01-28,"Syrian rebels capture seven Iranians, including five members of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, in Homs - where most civilian deaths have occured"
2012-01-28,"UK police arrest Murdoch tabloid staff, raid offices - Police arrested four current and former staff of Rupert Murdoch's best-selling Sun tabloid and a policeman on Saturday in a probe into suspected payments by journalists to officers for information"
2012-01-28,Iran is gearing up for elections and it isn't pretty - arrest of at least 10 reporters and new Internet restrictions
2012-01-28,Arab League suspends Syria mission
2012-01-28,"Senegal Protesters to March on Presidential Palace - They should expect it to be worse than June 23.  From tomorrow onwards, our youth will come out here in the streets. The ruling is unacceptable.  The president has been granted an 'illegal' 3rd term & singer Youssou NDour's candidacy rejected."
2012-01-28,"East Africa Is the New Epicenter of a Shadow War --- The rescue of two Americans from Somalia was not simply a daring mission, but part of a new shadow war"
2012-01-28,From S. Korea with love: Warm socks sent to North by balloon
2012-01-28,"Fury in Senegal as court approves 85-year-old Abdoulaye Wade's bid for a third term, disqualifies opponent"
2012-01-28,"UK couple who raised their child as ""gender neutral"" for 5 years so the infant's ""real personality"" could shine through finally revealed he is a boy"
2012-01-28,Topless Protesters At Davos Forum: Three Shirtless Ukrainian Women Detained
2012-01-28,"A cancer-causing cadmium discharge from a mining company has polluted a long stretch of two rivers in southern China, and officials warned some 3.7 million people of Liuzhou in the Guangxi region to avoid drinking water from the river, state media reported on Friday."
2012-01-28,"Britain could not reclaim the Falklands if Argentina invades, warns General Sir Michael Jackson"
2012-01-28,Anonymous hacker group threatens Turkey over the denial of the Armenian Genocide
2012-01-28,"Why is Egypt barring 6 Americans from leaving? Egypt clamps down on U.S. groups promoting democratic reforms  potentially endangering the $1.3 billion in U.S. aid the Egyptian army gets each year 

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2012-01-27,"Gates donates $750 million to fight AIDS, TB and malaria"
2012-01-27,"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: ""The U.S. 'wants to control everything' and takes decisions unilaterally on key questions . . . 'Sometimes I get the impression the U.S. doesn't need allies, it needs vassals.'"""
2012-01-27,"Divers find large, unexplained object at bottom of Baltic Sea."
2012-01-27,Twitter to begin censoring content in some countries 
2012-01-27,Aboriginal protesters torch Australian flag outside Parliament
2012-01-27,North Korean government labels cell phone users as war criminals during the 100-day mourning period for late leader Kim Jong-il
2012-01-27,"Corruption scandal shakes Vatican as internal letters leaked ... former top official had been transferred against his will after complaining about irregularities in awarding contracts
| Reuters"
2012-01-27,Spanish Unemployment Rises to 22.9%
2012-01-27,"Women, children killed in violence-torn Syria city "
2012-01-27,Scots Begin Bid for Vote on Independence!
2012-01-27,Julia Gillard's shoe held to ransom by Aborigine protesters
2012-01-27,"Netherlands joins growing chorus for burqa ban, Dutch to introduce law next week banning face coverings, including burqas or niqabs."
2012-01-27,"The View of Apple from China -- ""If people saw what kind of life workers lived before they found a job at Foxconn, they would come to an opposite conclusion of this story: that Apple is such a philanthropist."""
2012-01-27,European Parliament says its website victim of DDOS attack following new signatures to ACTA
2012-01-27,Russia bars liberal from election
2012-01-27,EU Report: Israel attempting to separate East Jerusalem from the west bank so it can remove Arabs and allow in Jews
2012-01-27,Bomb attack near funeral in Baghdad kills 28 people
2012-01-27,"Costa Cruises Offers $14,000 to Every Passenger of Doomed Ship - Global - The Atlantic Wire"
2012-01-27,Libya: Torture and death widespread in prisons
2012-01-27,"The Drug war in Mexico by the Numbers: A guide to the latest drug-war deaths, lords and trafficking routes."
2012-01-27,Azerbaijan Says it Thwarted an Iranian Plot to Kill an Israeli Ambassador
2012-01-27,Britain Releases Partial List of Those Declining Knighthood
2012-01-27,"Ex-ruler charged with genocide in Guatemala - He's accused of masterminding an attack that killed almost 1,800 Ixil tribe members, causing 29,000 to flee between 1982-83. The tribe were said to be helping leftist insurgents."
2012-01-27,French breast implant company boss 'charged'. Former head of company at the centre of health scare affecting women worldwide charged with 'involuntary injury'.
2012-01-27,"Libyan militias accused of torture:  Charities say prisoners face mistreatment amid western concern over Tripoli's failure to tackle security and political issues
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2012-01-26,"Fidel Castro lambasted the Republican presidential race as the greatest competition of ""idiocy and ignorance"" the world has ever seen"
2012-01-26,How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the 1 Percent
2012-01-26,"Doctors Without Borders is halting its work in detention centers in the Libyan city of Misrata because detainees are ""tortured and denied urgent medical care."" "
2012-01-26,"SOPA coming to Canada, warns Michael Geist "
2012-01-26,"Europe proposes a ""right to be forgotten"" - 

The European Commission proposes new set of data protection rules that'd give EU citizens a much greater say over how their personal data is collected & storedincluding the right to have it deleted entirely. The response from businesses has been mixed."
2012-01-26,"Clooney satellite project shows the Sudan army is preparing a major assault
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2012-01-26,"The 'Human Costs' of an iPad -- ""Oddly, it is Apple's own internal reports that reveal most of these problems to Western observers, but attempts to correct the issues and improve the fortunes of laborers have a tendency to clash with the company's own insistence on low costs and high volume."""
2012-01-26,ACTA: The International Treaty You've Never Heard of That Could Affect Internet Freedom
2012-01-26,"'Strict Muslim' raped four women at knifepoint to 'punish them for being on the streets at night'

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2012-01-26,"A mentally insane bus driver in India ran over people and vehicles and continued speeding, a college student chased him down with his motorcycle, jumped in the bus, and dragged the bus driver out."
2012-01-26,The EU signs up to Acta (Wired UK)
2012-01-26,Chinese forces open fire on Tibetan protesters. Deadly clashes between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese security forces have spread to a second area in southwestern China.
2012-01-26,"200 Aboriginals storm building, Australian Prime minister rushed out by police and security"
2012-01-26,"Chevron to face criminal charges over Brazil spill.
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2012-01-26,Iran won't move toward nuclear weapon in 2012 - ISIS report
2012-01-26,The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has been shot dead on the road to Damascus
2012-01-26,"One in three children tested in Fukushima have been found to have lumps in their thyroid. This corresponds to 1,143 children."
2012-01-26,Schoolchildren at a school in South Africa's northern Limpopo province are boycotting classes over claims that their teachers are pestering female pupils for sex.
2012-01-26,North Korea threatens to punish mobile-phone users as 'war criminals'
2012-01-26,"China says EU ban on Iran oil not ""constructive"":  China on Thursday criticized the European Union for banning oil imports from Iran, Beijing's third biggest crude supplier and a major trading partner."
2012-01-26,"The Devastating Costs of the Amazon Gold Rush - 
Spurred by rising global demand for the metal, miners are destroying invaluable rainforest in Peru's Amazon basin"
2012-01-26,Ahmadinejad: Iran ready for nuclear talks - CBS News
2012-01-26,Sexy interracial poster sparks furor in South Africa 
2012-01-26,"Revenge for EU Sanctions:
Iran Set to Turn Off Oil Supply to Europe"
2012-01-26,Chvez's daughter posts picture of herself posing with dollars
2012-01-25,"Europe is considering a sweeping new law that would force Internet companies like Amazon.com and Facebook to obtain explicit consent from consumers about the use of their personal data, delete that data forever at the consumers request and face fines for failing to comply."
2012-01-25,Forced Sterilization for Transgendered People in Sweden
2012-01-25,All EU member states to sign ACTA treaty on Thursday
2012-01-25,Judge says taking similar-looking photos is piracy
2012-01-25,"More than 1,300 Kyrgyz prisoners have sewn their lips together as part of an ongoing protest at poor living conditions"
2012-01-25,Online protests in Poland over anti-piracy pact: 100 Polish websites shrouded their pages in black to protest against Warsaw's plan to sign a multilateral anti online piracy accord this week
2012-01-25,"Portugals President Complains About His Pension Cut - His remarks spark storm of indignation, prompting protesters to gather outside the presidential palace to sarcastically donate money & food to the head of state "
2012-01-25,The Freedom to Be Free: Battle Lines Drawn in Global Copyright Confrontation --- Recent weeks have seen spectacular arrests and mounting tension between those who would like to make it harder to share copyrighted material online and those who champion Internet freedom
2012-01-25,"Group of French artist-hackers prowls Paris at night, restoring neglected artifacts "
2012-01-25,Anonymous brings down several government sites in Ireland
2012-01-25,"Gaddafi's green flag raised in Libyan town after bloody uprising... as civil war fears rise
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2012-01-25,The Pirate Bay declares 3D printed physibles as the next frontier of piracy 
2012-01-25,Danish and American aid worker hostages in Somalia rescued by US Navy SEALs in overnight raid
2012-01-25,Japan's 1st trade deficit since 1980 calls into question how much longer it can rely on exports to help finance a huge public debt
2012-01-25,Chevron Says It's Still Trying to Put Out Rig Fire That's Been Burning for 10 Days off Nigerias Coast
2012-01-25,"Mexico drug war boosts security business: Amid the violence, Mexico's rich get ID chips, armored cars and gunmen on call"
2012-01-25,Students at a London school were told a mystery speaker was going to come and talk to them. It was Bill Gates. 
2012-01-25,"Bus rampage through crowded Indian streets kills 9
 injuring more than two dozen as he mowed down pedestrians and rammed other vehicles."
2012-01-25,Mutiny underway in PNG
2012-01-25,"Mexico City Being Buried in Trash - Closure of huge landfill last month has triggered illegal dumping across the metropolis & left officials trying to figure where to take 12,000 tonnes of waste a day"
2012-01-25,"An example of International campaign finance. Intelligence reports received by India's Electoral Commission suggested that upwards of $2 billion in so-called ""black money"" will be spent to influence the state elections this year."
2012-01-25,"Hong Kong protests: Chinese professor sparks outrage over ""dog"" comments"
2012-01-25,"Proposed EU data protection rules include ""right to be forgotten"", allowing people to have data held about them deleted if there are no legitimate grounds for retaining it"
2012-01-25,"There has been a military mutiny in Papua New Guinea, with a group of rebel soldiers taking the commander of the country's defence force captive in Port Moresby."
2012-01-25,Who Are Boko Haram and Why Are They Terrorizing Nigerian Christians?
2012-01-24,"Rick Falkvinge: Its Time To Go On The Offensive For Freedom Of Speech: ""the copyright industry gets insane amounts of money for doing absolutely nothing, and use that money to buy laws that give them even more money and restrict our freedoms of speech. That is repulsive.'

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2012-01-24,"More than 50 countries have banned asbestos products but India cannot get enough. It imports the mineral from Canada, risking a future health crisis.
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2012-01-24,Julian Assange to host own TV show
2012-01-24,France Has Angered Turkey By Passing A Bill Recognizing The Armenian Genocide
2012-01-24,"Massive change to UK drug laws.  ""Courts will be told for the first time to reduce sentences for cannabis possession if it is being used for medicinal purposes"""
2012-01-24,SOPA equivalent in Canada Bill C-11 
2012-01-24,"George Soros Warns Of Financial Collapse, Class Warfare And The Rise Of Evil"
2012-01-24,"The numbers are grim: China's property bubble is heading for a spectacular burst, and its effect on the country's economy will be widespread."
2012-01-24,"Human Rights Watch reports 'serious violations' in Israel, Palestinian territories"
2012-01-24,Iceland: New law on religion introduced that would make religious and philosophical organisations equal before the law?
2012-01-24,"In China, 78 percent of software is pirated, compared to 20 percent in the US"
2012-01-24,Muammar Gaddafi diehard supporters capture Libya town of Bani Walid: local official
2012-01-24,"Polish Town in Shock as Blood Bubbles From Drains - 
Residents of a small Polish town called in the police & ambulance service to investigate after blood began streaming out from under manhole covers (With Video)"
2012-01-24,Four NK government officials murdered in what is an unprecedented crime for North Korea
2012-01-24," Orange to waive data charges for users in Middle East and Africa to access Wikipedia on mobile devices
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2012-01-24,India leases Russian nuclear submarine
2012-01-24,UK government debt passes 1 trillion mark
2012-01-24,"When Mythology Becomes Fact: the 1.2 million people who ""left"" Greece in 2010 - Did it really even happen?"
2012-01-24,High-profile Spanish judge has gone on trial accused of violating a 1977 amnesty law by investigating civil war and Franco-era crimes
2012-01-24,Deadly blasts in Baghdad's Sadr City 
2012-01-24,What It's Like To Be Gay in Tajikistan
2012-01-24,Egypt to end 30-year state of emergency (x/post mideastpeace)
2012-01-24,Chinese professor calls Hong Kong residents 'dogs of British imperialists'
2012-01-24,Google to Update Privacy Policy to Cover Wider Data Use. (Worldwide).
2012-01-24,"Forces loyal to Libya's late leader Muammar Gaddafi have launched a series of attacks across several cities, killing seven fighters who helped topple the former regime, officials and residents say."
2012-01-23,Sir Richard Branson - Its time to end the failed war on drugs 
2012-01-23,"While the captain watched from shore, heroes stayed aboard - The purser aided 100s into lifeboats & searched until trapped in a submerged area of the ship for 36 hrs.  A janitor fell overboard while helping & died.  A violinist aided children with lifejackets.  His body was found inside the wreck."
2012-01-23,"Germany has the economic strengths America once boasted -- Germany with its manufacturing base and export prowess is the U.S. of yesteryear, an economic power unlike any of its European neighbors. It has thrived on principles America seems to have lost."
2012-01-23,SOPA-like law to be unveiled in the next 10 days in Ireland
2012-01-23,"U.N. asked to probe U.S. efforts to squelch Spain torture probe - ""When arguably the leading human rights country in the world is engaged in torture and then gives impunity to those torturers, it sends a pretty bad message,"" ..."
2012-01-23,"Iran vows to close straight after EU bans Iranian oil, ""If any disruption happens regarding the sale of Iranian oil, the Strait of Hormuz will definitely be closed"""
2012-01-23,Toyota finds way to avoid using rare earth metals
2012-01-23,"Britain, US and France send warships through Strait of Hormuz"
2012-01-23,Interpol faces legal threat for helping oppressive regimes hunt dissidents
2012-01-23,"List of top 4,000 tax debtors (owing a combined 14 billion euro) released by Greek govt. A view of the extent of tax evasion."
2012-01-23,"Nigeria's ""witch children"" find refuge at center: Children branded as witches by church ministers are often abused and abandoned, but a center cares for them.
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2012-01-23,21-year-old Palestinian daughter locked up in 1-1/2 meters big bathroom for 10 years only to let her out at 1 AM to clean 
2012-01-23,"EU imposes Iran oil embargo
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2012-01-23,"Bank Of Canada governor, Canada must look to Asia -- US unlikely to fully recover"
2012-01-23,"Saudi female driver who defied ban dies in fatal accident - A Saudi woman who defied a driving ban in the kingdom was injured and her companion killed when their car overturned in the northern Hael province, a police spokesman said on Monday."
2012-01-23,Russia to deliver combat jets to Syria ... in a show of support for President Bashar Assad's regime
2012-01-23,The road to creating the world's first low-cost machine for making sanitary towels began with a Man in India who wore a sanitary towel himself.
2012-01-23,Taliban releases horrific video of executions of 15 Pakistani soldiers  | Mail Online
2012-01-23,Asia Bibi was sentenced to death for blasphemy in November 2010 after drinking water from a well reserved for Muslims and allegedly making derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammed 
2012-01-23,French parliament votes to make it a crime to deny 1915 killings of Armenians was genocide
2012-01-23,BBC News - EU proposes 'right to be forgotten' by internet firms
2012-01-23,"Russian police mistake marathon for gay pride parade

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2012-01-23,The welfare reform bill will erode women's financial independence
2012-01-23,"France's Senate to vote on controversial bill  criminalizing denial of the Armenian ""genocide"""
2012-01-23,The Iranian oil embargo: does this mean war?
2012-01-22,Australia: 'Wikileaks cables revealed US Embassy sanctioned a conspiracy by Hollywood studios to target Australian comm company iiNet through the local court-system... aiming to establish a common-law precedent which would make ISPs responsible for the unauthorised file-sharing of their customers.'
2012-01-22,"Anonymous attack polish government sites, Poles getting mad over ACTA passing."
2012-01-22,The rise of the overclass --- Weve all heard of the 'underclass: now its mirror image  a super-rich elite that is equally cut off from the rest of us  is defining the political debate
2012-01-22,Islamists Win 70% of Seats in the Egyptian Parliament
2012-01-22,"FOXCONN: Yes, Our CEO Called Our Employees ""Animals"", But He Didn't Mean it as an Insult - 
A clarification & apology from Apple's iPhone-maker"
2012-01-22,"AFP: Iraq becoming 'police state', says rights group"
2012-01-22,Costa Concordia: 'insulting' cruise offer to survivors - 30% off - Telegraph
2012-01-22,"China restores 23,000 hectares of wetlands"
2012-01-22,"Could Ecuador be the most radical and exciting place on Earth? A decade ago, Ecuador was a banana republic, an economic basket case. Today, it has much to teach the rest of the world
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2012-01-22,Flaming-horned bull fatally gores man in Spain.
2012-01-22,"London's Police Force Spent $54,000 On Calling A Talking Clock In Just Two Years"
2012-01-22,Conservative Wins First Round in Finnish Presidential Vote. Faces Green Candidate in Second Round. 
2012-01-22,Pakistan arrests man that spent 3 years posing as a army general
2012-01-22,"Afghanistan: The Best Way To Peace --- 


Wide-ranging review-essay. In brief: Western occupation of Afghanistan has been even more incompetent and self-destructive than the Soviet one."
2012-01-22,Falklanders: We are the luckiest working-class people on earth --  But oil and David Cameron put its sovereignty back on the agenda. 
2012-01-22,Egypt pardons jailed blogger as generals brace for anniversary protests
2012-01-22,"Nigeria stunned by Kano attacks that killed more than 150. The carefully orchestrated strikes in the northern Nigeria city of Kano are reminiscent of Al Qaeda attacks, and dwarf previous assaults by the Islamic group Boko Haram, which claimed responsibility. The toll is expected to grow."
2012-01-22,"Boko Haram, a shadowy Islamist sect that started out as a clerical movement opposed to western education but has become the biggest security menace facing Africa's top oil producer"
2012-01-22,Croatia says 'yes' to EU membership.
2012-01-22,Thousands of Yemenis protest in capital Sanaa over immunity deal for president
2012-01-22,Canadian resident faces execution in Iran after appeal is rejected
2012-01-22,"Madagascar turns away exiled former president:  Coup leader closes main airports forcing commercial flight carrying Marc Ravalomanana to turn back to South Africa
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2012-01-22,"Syrias Zabadani is liberated, but for how long? - The residents of this pretty mountain resort town still seem dazed with disbelief that they have somehow succeeded in driving out the Syrian army"
2012-01-22,"Nigeria stunned by Kano attacks that killed more than 150
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2012-01-22,Two die of A(H1N1) swine flu in Mexico
2012-01-21,Gulag for Gaijin: Do you see this gun? he said... I have the legal authority to use this if you refuse to get on that flight. Now are you going to buy that ticket?
2012-01-21,"Rate of abortion is highest in countries where practice is banned. In Africa and Latin America researchers found that 95 to 97 per cent of abortions were unsafe
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2012-01-21,Ivory Coast: On the second farm we visited we found trafficked children. Let's call them what they are: slaves. 
2012-01-21,"Costa Concordia staff filmed telling passengers to return to their cabins, saying everything is fixed, 40 minutes after impact "
2012-01-21,"Indonesian atheist attacked, arrested for claiming God does not exist on Facebook"
2012-01-21,Appeals court refused again to block indigenous Ecuadoreans from collecting on an $18.2 billion judgment against Chevron for a massive oil contamination in the Amazon
2012-01-21,"Plane nosedives 6,000 feet after pilot presses wrong button "
2012-01-21,"Former BP Boss Gets 12m From Iraqi Oil Venture - 

Tony Hayward, who left BP  with a 10m pension pot after the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe,  pockets 1st tranche of payments from Kurdistan oil venture with Genel Energy"
2012-01-21,"At least 120 people were killed in Bombings in Northern Nigerian City, by more than 24 explosions: Boko Haram, whose name means Western education is sacrilegious claims responsability"
2012-01-21,"Canada Plays its China Card:  Resource-rich Canada and resource-hungry China seem in some ways like natural partners. After a slow start, they just might be."
2012-01-21,"Pressed by the U.S., Honduras' lawmakers amend constitution to allow extradition treaties (from /r/strictlyworldpolitics)"
2012-01-21,The Secret Document That Transformed China
2012-01-21,"Indonesian police say a civil servant who posted ""God does not exist"" on Facebook faces a maximum penalty of five years behind bars for blasphemy."
2012-01-21,"Egyptian Frustration As Tourists Stay Away: ""Tourism sees 32% drop in visitors as ongoing street violence hits vital industry"""
2012-01-21,Egypt's Islamists Secure 75 Percent of Parliament
2012-01-21,"Beijing Releases Key Air Pollution Data for 1st  Time  - after clamor by citizens on social networking sites tired of breathing in gray & yellow air - An environmental consultant who's studied Beijing's pollution data since 2006, said he's ""already a bit suspicious"" of Beijing's PM2.5 data"
2012-01-21,"Divers  Find Woman in Stern of the Costa Concordia, Raising Deaths to 12 - ""They're going into every single cabin. It takes 45 minutes."" In the submerged part divers are using witness accounts as to which paths people may have  taken. Italy is co-ordinating the search for bodies & the fuel recovery."
2012-01-21,16-year-old Dutch girl Laura Dekker becomes youngest to sail around the world solo
2012-01-21,"Syrian army deserters on Saturday seized the town of Douma just northeast of Damascus after fierce fighting, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement, as escalated violence throughout the country killed left 94 people dead, including 60 from the town of Idlib alone."
2012-01-21,"Students in Nepal burn tires, block roads to protest fuel price increases"
2012-01-21,U.K. Revokes Iran's Press TV License - WSJ.com
2012-01-21,His dear leader: Meet North Korea's secret weapon - an IT consultant from Spain 
2012-01-21,Prisoners 'tortured' by former Libyan rebel fighters
2012-01-21,"Report: Turkey intercepts material for missiles, chemical weapons on Iranian trucks"
2012-01-21,"Egypt pardons nearly 2,000 prisoners; Islamists take three quarters of parliament"
2012-01-20,Thailand recognizes Palestinian state
2012-01-20,Cruise Captain not the only one to fall into life boat: Second and third in command also tripped and fell into same lifeboat
2012-01-20,Hallelujah! Canadians agree it's time to legalize marijuana
2012-01-20,Five Muslim men in  UK are guilty of stirring up hatred by handing out leaflet advocating death penalty for gay people
2012-01-20,Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke dead at 29
2012-01-20,Undercover police had children with activists they spied on
2012-01-20,"5 unemployed Moroccan men set themselves on fire after demonstrating against a lack of jobs, especially for university graduates"
2012-01-20,Cruise ship's cook says captain ordered dinner after crash
2012-01-20,Senior al Qaeda figure killed in drone strike
2012-01-20,"When faced with a non functional printing press, the staff from a Japanese newspaper hand wrote copies to keep reader up to date with vital information during the crisis"
2012-01-20,"Iran calls for Israel to be ""punished"""
2012-01-20,Cuban hunger striker Wilmar Villar dies in jail
2012-01-20,"Myanmar president vows no turning back on democratic reforms, calls for lifting sanctions "
2012-01-20,"Foxconn Chief's Unfortunate Animal-Worker Comparison - 
Though it's spinning the CEO's comparison of his workforce to zoo creatures as cultural mis-communication, it doesn't change the fact it treats workers like animals. The remark came after the firm was accused of pushing its workers to suicide. "
2012-01-20,Multiple explosions in Northern Irish city of Derry blamed on dissident republican group - possibly the real IRA
2012-01-20,Crocodile swallows 10 year old girl whole.
2012-01-20,BBC News - First video of Fukushima nuclear reactor interior
2012-01-20,Four French troops shot by Afghan soldier
2012-01-20,Cuba offers to swap US spy for 5 Cubans imprisoned in the US
2012-01-20,"Moammar Gadhafi had undeclared chemical weapons, monitors say"
2012-01-20,"The use of Sharia, or Islamic religious law, is growing in Britain, with thousands of Muslims using it to settle disputes each year. Some women's groups are objecting."
2012-01-20,Afghanistan: France suspends training ops after Afghan soldier shoots dead 4 French troops and maiming 16 others
2012-01-20,Six Nato soldiers killed in Afghan helicopter crash
2012-01-20,"A series of about 20 explosions has rocked Kano, the main city in the north of Nigeria."
2012-01-20,Pakistan's Culture of Honorable Corruption 
2012-01-19,"Cruise Captain Says He 'Tripped' Into Lifeboat, Couldn't Get Out"
2012-01-19,"Long dismissed as a playboy, Kim Jong Il's eldest son has become an outspoken and dangerous critic of the regime"
2012-01-19,"Julian Assange - 
Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the 'Times,' his stint in solitary & the future of journalism"
2012-01-19,Canadian MPs are screwing taxpayers by getting their pension contributions matched 23 TIMES
2012-01-19,"Mali army repels Tuareg rebel attacks:  After serving with pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya, tribal fighters engage Malian troops in effort to seize northern towns. "
2012-01-19,Russia will offer Washington no explanation for arms deliveries to Syria and together with China will prevent the U.N. Security Council from approving any military intervention in the conflict
2012-01-19,"Mexican Murder Training Camps Are Very Real & Very Scary - 
""They'd give them a machete. If not, they'd give them a sledge hammer & they'd tell them to kill the people they'd tied up,"" said a Zetas hitman in a Texas court yesterday--a glimpse of how terrifying Mexican drug cartels really are."
2012-01-19,Russia vows to block Western military intervention in Syria as clashes continue 
2012-01-19,Britain admits 'fake rock' plot to spy on Russians
2012-01-19,The 10 Fastest-Growing (& Declining) Cities in the World - A new survey from the Brookings Institution ranks the world's 200 largest metropolitan economies -- which account for half of global GDP -- from 1-200
2012-01-19,Afghanistan blasts kill 13 in Helmand province
2012-01-19,"Mein Kampf To Be Published in Germany? British publisher insists he wants to demystify Hitlers book, while critics see profit motive."
2012-01-19,Norway spy chief Kristiansen quits after revealing they have agents in Pakistan
2012-01-19,Gaza rights groups accuse Hamas of abuses - Al Jazeera English
2012-01-19,BBC News - Argentina outraged at Cameron's 'colonialism' remarks
2012-01-19,"Iranian actress causes scandal with nude photos ---  
Paris-based actress Golshifteh Farahani banned from returning to Iran after posing nude for French magazine"
2012-01-19,The Bangladesh army says it has foiled a coup planned against the government
2012-01-19,"Keystone XL pipeline proposal rejected - Prime Minister Harper profoundly disappointed.  TransCanada will apply again, CEO says."
2012-01-19,France Easily Sells Bonds as Sarkozy Attacks S&P - It was almost like Standard & Poors stripping France of its AAA credit rating never happened.   Paris was able to sell almost 8 billion euros worth & offered a lower rate of interest to investors than before.
2012-01-19,"Egypts military rulers and the Interior Ministry have devised plans to confront protesters during 25 January anniversary celebrations:  includes batons, loud speakers, colored chemicals that will stain ones skin (for six months) and live ammunition aimed at feet if necessary."
2012-01-19,Russia warns against Iran strike
2012-01-19,Mexican army frees kidnapped children from kidnapping gang
2012-01-19,China begins to turn against Iran
2012-01-19,Nuke support in UK hits record high
2012-01-19,Sorry Day for Murdoch as High Court Hears Hacking Apology - News International hopes to settle claims -- but lawyer says more victims emerge every day
2012-01-18,The Mexican navy says it has seized 195 tonnes of chemicals which can be used to make the drug methamphetamine
2012-01-18,BBC News - Israel launches air strike on northern Gaza Strip
2012-01-18,"51 people, mostly women and children, killed in South Sudan"
2012-01-18,"Ethiopia: Tens of thousands forced off land for foreign investors, HRW says --  Under Ethiopia's ""villagization"" program, about 70,000 people have been forcibly relocated from agricultural areas slated for development by foreign investors, a Human Rights Watch report says.
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2012-01-18,"The World Bank says the global economy is on the edge of a new financial crisis, deeper and more damaging than the one that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

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2012-01-18,Shangri-La joins fight against shark fin soup
2012-01-18,"Should captain go down with his ship? | Captain 
Francesco Schettino is under fire for abandoning 
ship while passengers remained aboard"
2012-01-18,Chevrons burning rig begins to collapse (Nigeria)
2012-01-18,"EU launches legal action against Hungarian reforms:  The European Union has launched legal proceedings against Hungary over controversial reforms to the judiciary, banking sector and data protection authority which it says contravene EU law."
2012-01-18,"Greek rescue blocked by hedge fund greed. Financiers who bought 'distressed' Greek debt insist on making vast profits from the crisis
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2012-01-18,German Euro-Deputy: S&P Downgrade Part Of American 'War Against The Euro'
2012-01-18,BBC News - Concrete balls to deter Indonesia 'train surfers'
2012-01-18,Currency crisis in Iran as sanctions start to bite
2012-01-18,"In Haiti, former dictator Baby Doc Duvalier is thriving ... facing charges of crimes against humanity Baby Doc Duvalier is living a nice life here after his sudden return from exile "
2012-01-18,Ceasefire 'agreed' in Syrian mountain town: Opposition says army to withdraw from Zabadani after deal agreed by town leaders and deputy defence minister.
2012-01-18,Israeli Hackers Kill Saudi and UAE Stock Markets
2012-01-18,Israeli Hackers Bring Down Saudi Stock Exchange Website
2012-01-18,Syrian troops fighting rebels in the town of Zabadani near Lebanon agreed on Tuesday to a ceasefire as the U.N. Security Council diplomats held prolonged talks on a proposed Russian resolution on Syria.
2012-01-18,"China says government to be more open, but strict Internet controls to remain ... Officials will expand the use of government spokespeople, boost the overseas reach of state media, and promote the use of microblogs to interact with the public"
2012-01-18,Ethiopian gunmen kill five foreign tourists
2012-01-18,"Pakistan rejects U.S. envoy visit, reviewing cooperation with US/NATO with no firm timeline"
2012-01-18,Activists and Japanese whalers clash at sea:  Three activists says they have cuts and bruises after clashing with a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean.
2012-01-18,"Syria: 20 miles from Damascus, an oasis of fragile freedom"
2012-01-18,UK Times (News Ltd) editor opposes any regulation of media as it would chill/hinder free speech. Fails to mention that lack of regulation or oversight led to his appearance at Leveson Enquiry.
2012-01-18,Slow response to East Africa famine 'cost 'lives'
2012-01-17,"MIT study shows that the increased presence of local female political leaders in India has had a marked impact on adolescents and their families, raising the career aspirations and educational performance of young women."
2012-01-17,Iran's nuclear scientists are not being assassinated. They are being murdered
2012-01-17,Liberal party of Canada endorse marijuana legalization
2012-01-17,The Pirate Bay: PIPA/SOPA Wont Stop Us!
2012-01-17,Captain of sinking cruise ship in Italy abandoned the ship and was ordered to go back. He didn't.
2012-01-17,Its a girl: The three deadliest words in the world
2012-01-17,"Norway authorities take away Indian couple's kids, say feeding with hands wrong"
2012-01-17,"London has them. And Amsterdam. And Copenhagen. Now Sweden plans a 4-lane superhighway, just for bicycles."
2012-01-17,"Kim Jong Nam: In a new book, Kim Jong Il's eldest son says the new North Korean regime is bound for disaster.
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2012-01-17,"Damning Tape of Cruise Ships Captain - As the captain of the stricken Costa Concordia was appearing in court, & the death toll rose to 11, a recording emerged purporting to show heated radio exchanges between him & the harbour master"
2012-01-17,How Iceland came back from economic meltdown and what it means for U.S. and Europe
2012-01-17,"Human Rights Watch states $32 Billion Missing in Oil-rich poverty-stricken Angola; $7.1 billion transferred into escrow accounts overseas and $24.9 billion that appear as ""an unexplained discrepancy in government accounts."""
2012-01-17,"The worlds top oil exporter, Saudi Arabia, said on Monday it could increase oil production by about 2 million barrels per day (bpd) almost immediately, a day after Iran threatened its Gulf neighbors not to compensate for any shortfall in its oil exports if sanctions bite too harshly."
2012-01-17,Ethiopia's government has been accused of forcing tens of thousands of people off their land so it can be leased to foreign investors.
2012-01-17,"In India, the Challenge of Building 50,000 Colleges - 
To become an economic powerhouse, India needs to educate as many as 100 million young people over the next 10 years  something never done before. "
2012-01-17,"Listen Schettino, there are people trapped aboard, you go with your lifeboat under the prow of the ship on the port side and you go aboard the ship using the rope ladder. You go aboard and you tell me how many people there are. Is it clear? I'm recording this conversation, Commander Schettino"
2012-01-17,Is America Helping Israel Kill Iranian Scientists? The View From Iran
2012-01-17,Israel's 'national suicide' 
2012-01-17,China's 'Strong' GDP Report Actually Reveals How Easily The Country Could Go Into A Hard Landing
2012-01-17,Dutch lab that created deadly bird flu virus attacks America for redacting its research
2012-01-17,French parliament report accuses Israel of water 'apartheid' in West Bank 
2012-01-17,"Pakistan's government goes on trial: The Pakistan government, a key US ally, is on verge of collapse."
2012-01-17,"Why Are Tibetan Monks Setting Themselves on Fire? The rising practice of self-immolation follows severe government restrictions, an ebbing Tibetan identity, and reports of torture"
2012-01-17,Israel need not choose between a nuclear Iran and war. A third alternative is a nuclear-free zone
2012-01-17,"Ship's captain was 'showboating', admits cruise firm - Wanted to give the head waiter a better view of his home "
2012-01-16,"UK Owner of TVShack, a linking only website, is to be extradited to the US and faces up to 10 years in prison for supposed copyright infringement."
2012-01-16,Israeli 'Rosa Parks' causes storm by refusing to go to the back of the bus: Tanya Rosenblit stayed in her seat on a bus when Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men demanded that she move to the back.
2012-01-16,"Brazil's Falling Birth Rate: A 'New Way Of Thinking' -- ""There are a lot of reasons for the drop in [the fertility rate in] Brazil, and most of them have to do with the modernization, this new way of thinking. Women are modern, and they take care of their own lives"""
2012-01-16,"Iran says it has evidence U.S. behind scientist's killing
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2012-01-16,Assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists increases the likelihood that they will develop an atomic bomb
2012-01-16,"Ar a time when the current Conservative Government has cut public spending dramatically, the Education Secretary, who has also cut teachers' numbers, has proposed that the British Taxpayer fund a new yacht for the Queen, at a cost of at least 60m."
2012-01-16,"Give Queen a new 60m royal yacht for diamond jubilee, says UK Education secretary"
2012-01-16,Associated Press opens a full news bureau in North Korea
2012-01-16,Russia would regard any military intervention linked to Iran's nuclear program as a threat to its own security
2012-01-16,"Imprisoned Tymoshenko fears for her life, says daughter - Ukrainian opposition figure Yulia Tymoshenko, jailed on corruption charges, allegedly fell unconscious after taking medicine from prison doctors. Her daughter told DW the regime is trying to physically break Tymoshenko."
2012-01-16,"The leader of the Pakistani Taliban, the militant movement that poses the gravest security threat to the country, is believed to have been killed by a U.S. drone strike"
2012-01-16,"Cruise ship captain may have made 'significant' error, company says"
2012-01-16,Pakistani dad kills daughter in brutal axe murder for dating a Christian
2012-01-16,"Heads of elite universities' earnings exceed 333,000 on average, despite squeeze on institutions' overall budgets, and an increase in university fees at the students' expense."
2012-01-16,Africa losing billions in tax evasion from multinational corporations through payment transfers
2012-01-16,Canadian Naval officer charged with leaking secrets to foreign interests
2012-01-16,Israel's law keeping Arab families apart
2012-01-16,Romanian protesters clash with riot police:  Romanian riot police used tear gas against protesters who threw rocks and set fire to newspaper stands and rubbish bins in central Bucharest in a fourth day of street demonstrations against government austerity measures Sunday.
2012-01-16,"EU rules have forced Goldman Sachs, which publishes full-year results on Wednesday, to disclose it pays its top UK staff an average of 4m."
2012-01-16,Baghdad Detains U.S. Contractors
2012-01-16,"Prosecutors say captain of wrecked Italian luxury liner purposely sailed close to shore to greet a friend with a blast of the ships horn - When it started sinking, he beat many passengers off the ship"
2012-01-16,Cruise disaster: Captain 'neared Italian rocks to greet friend on shore
2012-01-16,"An interview with 0xOmar, the Saudi hacker who has been wreaking havoc on Israel"
2012-01-16,Chevron Corp. says an offshore rig being run for its subsidiary near Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta has caught fire and officials are still trying to account for all the workers there.
2012-01-16,Iran makes arrests in killing of nuclear scientist
2012-01-15,Monsanto to face biopiracy charges in India
2012-01-15,Israeli intelligence officers have been posing as CIA agents to recruit Pakistani terrorists in a covert war with Iran
2012-01-15,Richard Dawkins celebrates a victory over creationists
2012-01-15,"Israel flunks nuclear safety test - gets low marks on pervasiveness of corruption, legislation and quantities of nuclear material"
2012-01-15,"Iran accuses US and Britain of role in killing of nuclear scientist ... sent a diplomatic letter to the US saying that it has ""evidence and reliable information"" that the CIA provided ""guidance, support and planning"" to assassin"
2012-01-15,"Three dead, 40 missing in Italian ship disaster"
2012-01-15,"France steps forward with Robin Hood tax, a levy of between 0.01 and 0.1 percent on financial transactions, such as the trading of stocks and bonds"
2012-01-15," Hong Kong Women Protest Against Mainland Mothers - Pregnant women & mothers pushing strollers took to the streets to oppose the growing number of mainland Chinese giving birth in the city, which has semi-autonomous status, entitling a child to rights of abode & education"
2012-01-15,"Hungary far right demands exit from EU, burns flag at rally"
2012-01-15,Russian aircraft-carrier arrives in Syria to Russias only military base outside the old Soviet Union bring relief to Syrian regime
2012-01-15,"Do Some Cultures Have Their Own Ways Of Going Mad? --- 
""Arctic hysteria"" afflicts only Greenland Inuit. ""Dhat syndrome"" is peculiar to India. Cape Verdians fear ""sleeping blood"". What about Westerners? Are their mental illnesses also bound to national and local cultures?"
2012-01-15,The leader of Qatar has said that Arab troops should be sent to Syria to stop a deadly crackdown that has claimed the lives of thousands of people over the past 10 months.
2012-01-15,Couple rescued 24 hours after cruise ship capsizes off Italy
2012-01-15,Iran vows retaliation against Israel for scientist
2012-01-15,South Sudan Ethnic Massacres Follow Independence 
2012-01-15,"Warming To Life In The Hot Zone --- 
Two researchers head to a village in northern Kazakhstan to see what life is like on a former nuclear test site. Their first thought, on arrival? The inhabitants simply must be relocated. Here's why they changed their mind"
2012-01-15,"At least nine people are injured as Romanian riot police fire tear gas during clashes with anti-austerity demonstrators in the capital, Bucharest."
2012-01-15,"S Korean cargo ship split by blast: An unexplained explosion leaves vessel half-submerged, with a number of people reported to be dead and injured."
2012-01-15,Romania anti-austerity protest turns violent
2012-01-15,BBC News - What future for Afghan woman jailed for being raped?
2012-01-15,"El Salvador's bitter civil-war legacy:  Street-gang culture responsible for one of Latin America's highest homicide rates, is blamed on conflict of the 1980s"
2012-01-15,"

Hundreds of UK scientists to be relocated as Shell shifts most research & development work to Germany by 2014"
2012-01-15,"Captain Arrested on Suspicion of Manslaughter & Abandoning Ship Amid Growing Anger After Ship Runs Aground - 3 are dead & 41 unaccounted for.  ""We were having supper when the lights went out, we heard a boom & a groaning noise, & all the cutlery fell."" They were told it was electrical problems. "
2012-01-15,"  India Orders Crack Down in the Andaman Islands After Exposure of 'Human Safaris' Embarrass Officials -  Footage has surfaced of a police officer ordering partly naked Jarawa women to dance for tourists in return for food.  It's being called a ""national disgrace"".

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2012-01-15,Chinese Premier Wen calls for farmers' land rights to be protected and criticized a widespread land-grab development policy
2012-01-14,"""A British student can be extradited to the United States for running a website linking to sites carrying pirated TV shows and films, a court has ruled."""
2012-01-14,Canadian Government Declares All Same Sex Marriages Legal and Valid
2012-01-14,Russia fears Israel is pushing U.S. toward Iran war
2012-01-14,"Key reformer quits Egyptian Presidential race: ""My conscience does not permit me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless it is within a democratic framework,"""
2012-01-14,China Forces shoot at Tibetans
2012-01-14,France to lose AAA credit rating
2012-01-14,Cruise ship runs aground off Italy; deaths reported
2012-01-14,"S&P downgrades nine euro countries:  Massive credit drop blamed on countries not having dealt with financial issues in a ""sufficient size and scope""."
2012-01-14,Mossad 'posed as CIA to recruit fighters' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2012-01-14,Argentina starts 'squid war' against Falkland Islands  - Telegraph
2012-01-14,"India's government to prosecute Facebook, Yahoo! and Google, in case over obscene content posted online"
2012-01-14,China's skyscraper craze 'may herald economic crash'
2012-01-14,Iran: Paranoid or under siege? Mounting pressures and attacks ratcheting up pressures motivating tough talk from Tehran.
2012-01-14,Kosovo police clash with protesters at Serbia border
2012-01-14,"In surprise amnesty, Myanmar releases high-profile  political prisoners -- Myanmar freed hundreds of political prisoners Friday in an amnesty that could pressure the West to lift sanctions as one of the world's most reclusive states opens up.
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2012-01-14,"Unemployment rate 'astronomical', says Spanish PM"
2012-01-14,"French, Saudi warplanes collide in Saudi"
2012-01-14,Tesco executive sold shares before profit warning
2012-01-14,"India Threatens to Block Google and Facebook ""Like China"""
2012-01-14,BBC News - Tunisia uprising: Country marks year since Ben Ali fled
2012-01-14,"Russia would regard any military intervention linked to Iran's nuclear program as a threat to its own security, Moscow's departing ambassador to NATO warned on Friday."
2012-01-14,"Controversial Chinese Chemical Plant Believed to Have Resumed Production - 

Locals report smoke billowing up from the plant's chimney, which was shut down after 10,000 people took to the streets"
2012-01-14,Beijing limits democracy tourists to Taiwan 
2012-01-14,"Cocaine: The New Front Lines --- 
Colombia's success in curbing the drug trade has created more opportunities for other countries. What happens when coca farmers and their allies are in charge?"
2012-01-14,"Gen. James Mattis, the Marine Corps head that rules over the US Central Command, won approval late last year from the White House to deploy the massive surge to the tiny West Asian country Kuwait, which is separated from Iran by only a narrow span of the Persian Gulf."
2012-01-13,Scotland Yard Report Finds British Citizen Was Tortured in Secret CIA Site
2012-01-13,"A German Catholic priest, 46, admits 280 counts of sexual abuse involving three boys in the past decade, saying he did not think he was doing harm."
2012-01-13,"India marks a year without recorded cases of polio, a milestone for a country with a huge population and widespread poverty."
2012-01-13,Brazil passes law stating sending emails after work hours is considered overtime. 
2012-01-13,S.African rangers kill poachers in Kruger park
2012-01-13,Fears of 'Taliban video' backlash - the 40 second video that appears to show a group of marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters.
2012-01-13,British engineer faces prison for 'insulting Islam' in the UAE
2012-01-13,Somali Pirates Attack Spanish Warship and Lose
2012-01-13,Are the assassinations of Iranian scientists an act of terrorism?
2012-01-13,"Vladimir Putin: Too busy for presidential debates, not too busy to shoot a whale with a crossbow."
2012-01-13,"""Russia would regard any military intervention linked to Iran's nuclear programme as a threat to its own security, Moscow's departing ambassador to NATO warned ...'Iran is our neighbour,' [said] Dmitry Rogozin...'And if Iran is involved in any military action, it's a direct threat to our security.'"""
2012-01-13,Afghan life expectancy has improved by 18 years since 2001
2012-01-13,"Illegal South African rhino killings hit record high:  Final 2011 death toll of 448 represents one rhino lost every 20 hours, a slaughter driven by increased Asian demand for horn
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2012-01-13,BBC News - 'Piracy' student Richard O'Dwyer condemns treaty
2012-01-13,Worlds biggest freight shipper (Maersk) finds initial trials of algae-produced diesel successful!
2012-01-13,Six months in labor camp for N. Koreans who didn't cry at despot's funeral
2012-01-13,"""Pakistans prime minister telephoned the top British diplomat in the country this week expressing fears that the Pakistani army might be about to stage a coup."""
2012-01-13,Kim Jong Il's Eldest Son To Dish the Dirt on the Political Situation in North Korea in His Forthcoming Book.
2012-01-13,Totally Resistant TB: Earliest Cases in Italy
2012-01-13,Mob burns elderly couple
2012-01-13,"North Korean state media reported that Kim Jong-il's body will be preserved to ""look the same as when he was alive"" and put on public display."
2012-01-13,Israeli agents pose as Americans to create terrorist factions in Pakistan and Iran. 
2012-01-13,Steve Bell cartoon on video of US marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters 
2012-01-13,"Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, faces 22 years in prison for filming Turkish orphanages"
2012-01-13,Iran accepts nuclear talks offer 
2012-01-12,Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon's last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a campaign to force the indigenous population from its land.
2012-01-12,"300 Chinese Foxconn Workers 'Threaten Mass Suicide' At XBox Plant, Reports Claim"
2012-01-12,Tens of Thousands living in 6x2ft rabbit cages in Hong Kong... Landlords charging $200 a month per cage
2012-01-12,"Mexicos drug war kills more than 47,000 in 5 years"
2012-01-12,Britain to grant Scotland binding independence vote ... Britains government confirmed Tuesday it would happily offer Scotland the powers it needs to sever centuries-old ties to England
2012-01-12,The mafia is now Italys largest bank'
2012-01-12,Children 'dumped in streets by Greek parents who can't afford to look after them any more'.   4-year-old found clutching note: 'I can't afford her'.  Country also running out of medicine.  What is fast becoming the most tragic human consequence of the Euro crisis.
2012-01-12,"Foxconn Claims it's Resolved its Worker Issues After Employees Threaten Suicide - The iPhones & Xboxes maker disputes the number of their employees who apparently hate their lives so much they threatened to kill themselves, saying it was 150  & not 300, as  reported by China"
2012-01-12,North Korea Sending Citizens To Labor Camp For Insufficiently Mourning Kim Jong Il 
2012-01-12,Dutch ISPs Ordered To Block The Pirate Bay
2012-01-12,"Kim Jong Il's body to go on permanent display in Pyongyang
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2012-01-12,he Harper government has served notice that thousands of same-sex couples who flocked to Canada from abroad since 2004 to get married are not legally wed.
2012-01-12,Russian ship stopped carrying arms bound for Syria
2012-01-12,"EMI sues Irish state for not fulfilling its obligations under European law which would otherwise allow for the blocking, diverting or interrupting of internet communications which breach copyright law"
2012-01-12,Heart attack: Mexican medics drop heart for transplant in front of press
2012-01-12,Haiti: 2 Years After the Quake [pics]
2012-01-12,Canadian military containers from Afghanistan arrive missing equipment and full of rocks and sand
2012-01-12,Brazil says no evidence loggers burned indigenous girl.
2012-01-12,"Afghanistans President Karzai condemns video showing desecration of bodies: ""This act by American soldiers is simply inhuman and condemnable in the strongest possible terms."
2012-01-12,Iran's currency in freefall --- Iran's currency has slid 20 percent against the dollar in the last week despite central bank intervention
2012-01-12,Iran Says Scientists Murder Reveals Global Terror Campaign
2012-01-12,UK's Duchess of York charged in Turkey with illegally filming orphans for a 2008 TV documentary
2012-01-12,Opium price rises by 133% in Afghanistan 
2012-01-12,"Holland bans khat leaves: Chewing of khat can make you happy, but it can also lead to psychosis.
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2012-01-12,"Why Are England and Scotland Splitting? - 
To understand the secession, look at the problems in the EU"
2012-01-11,"Due to pressure from ultra-Orthodox groups, women will be banned from speaking at an Israeli conference - on gynecology."
2012-01-11,Iran blames the US and Israel for the assassination of a nuclear scientist. 
2012-01-11,"Gay marriage a threat to humanity's future: Pope
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2012-01-11,Magnitude 7.3 earthquake reported off the coast of Sumatra.
2012-01-11,"Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours, urge top economists"
2012-01-11,"Mafia is Italy's biggest business. The mafia is now the country's biggest business enterprise, with an annual turnover of 140bn (116bn), - Telegraph"
2012-01-11,Civic authorities in India's Bihar state have dumped heaps of stinking garbage outside a shopping complex to penalise its owner for evading taxes.
2012-01-11,Car bomb kills nuke scientist in Iran: Finger pointed at Mossad
2012-01-11,"A Catholic Church child safety co-ordinator who was in charge of investigating sexual abuse allegations was jailed for 12 mnths for internet pedophilia offences...



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2012-01-11,Britain's last Guantnamo Bay prisoner held without charge after 10 years
2012-01-11,Doomsday Clock Moved One Minute Closer to Midnight
2012-01-11,"A university professor and nuclear scientist has been killed after a suspected bomb exploded in a car in northern Tehran, reports say.
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2012-01-11, Uzbekistans brutal regime thrives with Western complicity.
2012-01-11,"""Deeply indebted and nearly bankrupt, this Mediterranean nation was forced to adopt tough austerity measures...But as Greece's economy slides into free fall, critics are scanning the devastated landscape here and asking a probing question: Does austerity really work?"""
2012-01-11," 'No Doubt that Bloodshed in SyriaWill Continue' --- Syrian President Bashar Assad insisted once again on Tuesday that the uprising in his country is the work of terrorists and foreigners. With the death count continuing to rise, many observers say he has completely lost touch with reality."
2012-01-11,German prosecutor shot by defendant in Bavarian court
2012-01-11,"Hundreds of Foxconn employees threaten commit mass suicide to protest working conditions
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2012-01-11,"India's cabinet has agreed to allow single-brand foreign retailers to open stores in the country, clearing the way for companies such as Starbucks and Ikea.
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2012-01-11,"Pakistan PM fires top defense official for ""gross misconduct"" as tensions with the military exploded following an army warning to the civilian leader"
2012-01-11,Asia skyscraper building boom may be sign of impending economic collapse.
2012-01-11,"Natalee Holloway suspect Joran van der Sloot pleads guilty to killing woman in Peru 
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2012-01-11,"Pakistan court 'may disqualify president, PM' "
2012-01-11,Iran's nuclear scientists are mysteriously being killed. Who's behind it? 
2012-01-11,French Journalist Killed in Syria
2012-01-11,Magnetic bombs kill university professor working at Iranian nuclear facility
2012-01-10,Australia Tells Japan Whalers to Stay Out of it Waters  - Again
2012-01-10,"Top German cop installed spyware on his daughter's computer to monitor her Internet usage, gets hacked in retaliation"
2012-01-10,"""McDonald's restaurants are fighting back against thieves by blasting suspected robbers with an invisible DNA spray as they attempt to flee. The spray...remains on the suspect's skin for two weeks and on clothes for up to six months"" "
2012-01-10,North Korea announces prisoner amnesty
2012-01-10,"Swiss want six holiday weeks, Swiss voters are likely to give themselves two weeks of extra holidays when they go to the polls for a referendum this March, a new survey shows.


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2012-01-10,A group of holy men in India's Karnataka state are seeking to outlaw a century-old ritual in which low-caste Hindus roll in the remains of food eaten by members of a higher caste.
2012-01-10,"Mexico's Anti-Abortion Backlash - 
In just 2 years, half the countrys states have passed extreme fetal-rights amendments.  The Catholic Church headed a ""personhood"" sweep was so fast & successful that no one had ever seen anything like it.  Women with ""suspicious miscarriages"" face prison."
2012-01-10,"Thomas Friedman draws jeers as he talks Islamism, democracy at the American University in Cairo.  Applause for student who said: You cant come here with a smile and preach to us on democracy when youve been demeaning Arabs and supporting war crimes in Gaza and Iraq..we dont welcome you here"""
2012-01-10,Plant found in Brazil capturing worms underground
2012-01-10,The Greek parents 'too poor' to care for their children
2012-01-10,Iran jamming Al Jazeera broadcasts
2012-01-10,The Greeks Are Confused By A New Law That Would Classify Pedophiles And Pyromaniacs As 'Disabled'
2012-01-10,India reports completely drug-resistant TB strain.
2012-01-10,"Greeks Go Back To The Land --- 


University graduates become snail farmers. A nuclear physicist trains to become a ship engineer. Not such unusual stories when urban employment is so high. Many are returning to rural areas, others are going to sea"
2012-01-10,More Monks Die by Fire in Protest of Beijing: The deaths suggest that self-immolation is gaining favor as a form of political protest for Tibetan clergy. And they underscore the challenges the Chinese authorities face in controlling more than five million ethnic Tibetans 
2012-01-10,American has 20 days to appeal Iranian death sentence
2012-01-10,29 Chinese Fishermen Suing ConocoPhillips & China National Offshore Oil Corp   for $34 million over economic losses following oil leaks in Bohai Bay
2012-01-10,"Over 40% of Indian children are malnourished, report finds"
2012-01-10,"After years of preparation, a project that would reshape the geography of Canadas energy landscape is entering public hearings. "
2012-01-10,"Bulgaria's Organized Crime Unit Raids Large Torrent Sites, Arrests 17-Yr-Old Admin"
2012-01-10, Bahrain unrest: policeman is jailed for having joined protests
2012-01-10,Fukushima nuclear plant worker in coma after collapsing at site
2012-01-10,Chinese writers sue Apple for copyright violation
2012-01-10,Nationwide 'Occupy' strike paralyzes Nigeria 
2012-01-10,Doomsday Clock Moved 1 Minute Closer to Midnight
2012-01-09,"Over Half of Germany's Renewable Energy Owned by Citizens & Farmers, Not Utility Companies"
2012-01-09,"Stephen Hawking, unable to deliver 70th birthday speech."
2012-01-09,Extremist Jews prevent women from voting in Israel
2012-01-09,"Indigenous Amazonian Child Burned to Death by Loggers - 
""It was just pure evilness. She is from another tribe, they live in the woods, & have no contact with white people,"" said one witness."
2012-01-09,Workers at a Hyundai Motor engine factory have suspended production there after an employee set himself on fire to protest the company's alleged suppression of union activities
2012-01-09,"RIM, Nokia and Apple added backdoors to their mobile software which the Indian Military's intelligence service then used to spy on the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. The backdoors were added in exchange for Indian market presence"
2012-01-09,Haiti 2 years later: Half a million still in camps
2012-01-09,Iran death sentence for 'CIA spy' Amir Mirzai Hekmati
2012-01-09,'OCCUPY NIGERIA': Huge Strike Brewing As President Moves To End Fuel Subsidies
2012-01-09,"The Pirate Bay Shows Futility of Domain and DNS Blocks: In Oct 2011, a court in Finland ordered an ISP to block The Pirate Bay to stop copyright infringement among its subscribers. Today, the blockade took effect..."
2012-01-09,"China is planning a military base in Pakistan, India Today reported, citing ""a secret report prepared by the government's joint intelligence committee.""
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2012-01-09,8 Mighty Rivers Run Dry from Overuse
2012-01-09,Body of self-immolated Tibetan monk 'publicly paraded' in China
2012-01-09,"Picasso and Mondrian paintings stolen from the National Gallery in Athens, Greece."
2012-01-09,Japan embassy firebombed in Seoul
2012-01-09,Irans President Reaches Venezuela in his Latin American Tour
2012-01-09,"""Want another sign of just how bad Greece's economy is?  Its agricultural industry is growing."" "
2012-01-09,"Seoul Searching - Germans Give Pep Talks on Korean Unification - Currently, a delegate of veteran German politicians -- from the former east and west -- are advising the government in Seoul on how the country might reunify if the opportunity arises in the future."
2012-01-09,Malaysian court finds opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim not guilty of sodomy.
2012-01-09,Israeli court indicts 5 right-wing extremists - CNN.com
2012-01-09,Iran sentences American man to death in CIA case - Yahoo! News
2012-01-09,"After the final round in Egypt's elections, the Muslim Brotherhood is set to get 41% of the seats, the Salafis 20%, and the three main liberal parties 20% together.  Former Mubarak loyalists got 4%, and most of the rest goes to independents."
2012-01-09,"Danish warship captures suspected pirate mothership, frees 14 Pakistani and Iranian hostages and arrests 25 pirates."
2012-01-09,"Grim Toll As Cocaine Trade Expands in Honduras -- A new UN report shows Honduras to have the highest murder rate in the world. With Mexico's drug cartels looking for new routes to the U.S. market, the grim toll in Honduras is likely to get worse."
2012-01-09,India on Track to Be Declared Polio-Free Next Month
2012-01-08,"Abortion a bigger problem than joblessness, says Catholic Church. Bishop warns of UNESCO plan to ""make half the world population homosexual"" "
2012-01-08,"'Slave-like conditions' on Swedish army base in Afghanistan, kitchen staff at the Swedish military base in Afghanistan have been working under ""slave-like conditions"", being forced to pay for employment."
2012-01-08,"Israel said on Saturday that it will respond to cyber-attacks in the same way it responds to violent terrorist acts, by striking back with force against hackers who threaten the Jewish state.
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2012-01-08,Iranian government thanks U.S. for rescue of fisherman held captive by Somali pirates.
2012-01-08,Brazils Insidious New Pregnancy Registration Law Violates the Privacy of Women: '...a Ceauescu-like law requiring all pregnant women to register their pregnancies with the state.'
2012-01-08,"Tiger Skins & Bones Seized in Thai Customs Swoop - 
Officials found 4 boxes of tiger parts worth tens of thousands of dollars in the post, believed to be destined for China.  ""The way they processed these tigers, I think they were meant for furniture or decoration."""
2012-01-08,"In Africa, using ants and termites to increase crop yields: Researchers are confirming what African farmers already know: Termites and ants can be used to increase soil fertility and crop yields"
2012-01-08,A large Russian naval flotilla led by an aircraft carrier has docked in the Syrian port of Tartus in what Damascus state media hailed as a show of solidarity by close ally Moscow
2012-01-08,Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde reveals that the words of an MPAA lawyer several years ago inspired the creation of the the Missionary Church of Kopimism. But a Catholic bishop has labeled it farcical since it has no God
2012-01-08,Venezuela Will Not Recognize World Bank Ruling in Exxon Case
2012-01-08,Western Oil Firms Remain as US Exits Iraq: The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil
2012-01-08,"Is China's rise going to lead to conflict with America? State-controlled Global Times newspaper: ""China needs to enhance its long-distance military attack ability and develop more ways to threaten US territory in order to gradually push outward the front line of its 'game' with America"""
2012-01-08,Israel Charges 5 Settlers in West Bank Base Clash: The indictment was the first sign of a crackdown on settlers whose provocative actions have been described by some Israeli officials as homegrown terrorism
2012-01-08,Karachi boys punch their way out of violence: Teenagers living in slums turn to sport in bid to avoid cycle of drugs and violence in Pakistani city 
2012-01-08,"
Stricken New Zealand cargo ship breaks apart"
2012-01-08,Inside Turkmenistan's Surreal Presidential Election
2012-01-08,"Germany once admired British workmanship  but that was a long time ago: Over the North Sea lies the richest country in Europe, its success built on the manufacturing industry that Britain has spurned"
2012-01-08,"Thousands of email addresses and encrypted passwords, including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well as politicians and Nato advisers, have been revealed on the internet following a security breach by Anonymous. "
2012-01-08,Thousands massacred as two tribes go to war in South Sudan:UN peacekeepers tell residents to flee as raiders approach
2012-01-08,Haiti 2 Years Later: Half A Million Still In Camps
2012-01-08,Arab League demands Syria to stop violence
2012-01-08,Syria sniper shot high when officers ordered him to kill  --- Syrian snipers have killed hundreds of protesters during the ten-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad.
2012-01-08,Police find 5 severed heads in northern Mexico
2012-01-08,Japanese Coastguard Detains three Sea Shepherd Activists
2012-01-08,Iran welcomes U.S. rescue of Iranian fishermen
2012-01-07,"Totally drug-resistant, a deadlier form of TB hits India, A new entity, ominously called Totally Drug-Resistant TB (TDR-TB), has been isolated in the fluid samples of 12 TB patients Mumbai hospital."
2012-01-07,A View Inside Iran [pics]
2012-01-07,US navy rescues Iranian hostages held by pirates
2012-01-07,"Iran squeezes Web surfers, prepares censored national intranet: 'Before they can log on, Iranians are required to provide their name, father's name, address, telephone number and national ID...'"
2012-01-07,"Italian officials combating [. . .] tax evasion hit the jackpot in a swoop on a posh ski resort, catching 42 drivers of Ferraris and other luxury cars who had declared incomes of less than 30,000 euros ($38,700) a year."
2012-01-07,"Pervez Musharraf, who resigned as Pakistan's president in 2008, will be arrested on arrival in the country later this month; a Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for Musharraf in February over allegations he played a role in the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto"
2012-01-07,Chevron Fails in U.S. Court Bid for Order to Shield Its Ecuadorean Assets
2012-01-07,Karzai demands Bagram be handed over inside a month. Afghans report Americans abusing detainees.
2012-01-07,A 15-year-old boy from Paris was tortured and drowned on Christmas Day by his relatives after they accused him of practising witchcraft
2012-01-07,"To Escape Rising Seas, Entire Island Nation of Maldives Considering Moving to Australia"
2012-01-07,The Dog That Didn't Bark --- Algeria looked ripe for revolution. What happened?
2012-01-07,Ten of Britain's biggest shopping malls install equipment to spy on shoppers via their mobiles
2012-01-07,"Chinese investment in Portuguese power grid raises eyebrows, Portugal is selling its over 20 percent stake in the country's dominant electricity supplier to China's state-owned Three Gorges."
2012-01-07,US Rules Against Chevrons Bid Not to Pay Ecuador $18 Billion in Environmental Damages 
2012-01-07,Jamaica 'to cut ties with British monarchy'
2012-01-07,"Airbus A380 fleet should be grounded, say engineers after cracks found in wings"
2012-01-07,"As many as 20 Christians were killed Friday in north-eastern Nigeria, in a fresh violence claimed by the Islamtist Boko Haram sect"
2012-01-07,UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: No amnesty for gross human rights violations in Yemen 
2012-01-07,The leader of Nigeria's main umbrella group for Christians says its members will defend themselves as attacks by a radical Muslim sect continue.
2012-01-07,Hot air balloon crash kills 11 in New Zealand
2012-01-07,Pervez Musharraf Will Return to Pakistan
2012-01-07,NZ hot air balloon crash: 11 killed
2012-01-07,"Facing Isolation, Ahmadinejad to Visit Latin American Allies"
2012-01-07,BBC News - Argentine President Fernandez 'did not have cancer'
2012-01-07,Iranians Tell of Six Weeks of Fear With Somali Pirates - NYTimes.com
2012-01-06,Iran Is Now Gearing Up For Its 'Greatest Wargames Ever' In The Strait Of Hormuz
2012-01-06," Damascus bomber kills 25, 46 wounded"
2012-01-06,Copyright is against my religion: Kopimism officially recognized by Sweden
2012-01-06, 'Europe's biggest' free wi-fi zone set for London
2012-01-06,"Iran Mounts New Web Crackdown --- New rules will impose layers of surveillance in the country's popular Internet cafes, as Tehran's political establishment comes under increasing strains from economic turmoil and threats of more international sanctions."
2012-01-06,"Zimbabwe's ""female rapists,"" accused of semen harvesting, strike again. Gangs of female rapists ""are on the prowl again,"" sexually assaulting and collecting sperm from male hitchhikers."""
2012-01-06,Pirate Party boarding German politics as people are tired of the mainstream
2012-01-06,Syrian defector says government has lost control of 'human monsters'
2012-01-06,"Turkey arrests its former chief-of-staff and 13 journalists for ""plotting to overthrow the government"""
2012-01-06,"Haiti Cholera Death Toll Nears 7,000, Up From 544 Nov. 8  - It's ""one of the largest cholera outbreaks in modern history to affect a single country."""
2012-01-06,Ethiopia troops 'to quit Somalia' 
2012-01-06,Report: Syria troops fire on Arab League monitors  - 
2012-01-06,"3,000 dead in South Sudan Pibor County ethnic massacre"
2012-01-06,"Israel Police struggling to suppress Jewish extremists in West Bank, says senior officer"
2012-01-06,Iran Calls Threat of Sanctions From European Union Economic War
2012-01-06,Beijing's 'Culture War' Isn't About the U.S.It's About China's Future (X-Post from r/china)
2012-01-06,Doctors and residents blame US weapons for catastrophic levels of birth defects in Fallujah's newborns.
2012-01-06,Third ratings agency downgrades Hungary to junk
2012-01-06,News International Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks's former PA arrested
2012-01-06,"Iranians brace for war with Western nations; buying up ""critical"" supplies from stores. "
2012-01-06,The Madness of North Korea --- Can an entire people go mad? Sometimes it certainly seems so.
2012-01-06,Turkey arrests former army chief over 'plot to bring down government'
2012-01-06,Rumor of N. Korean nuclear explosion prompts brief stock panic in South
2012-01-06,US court allows Ecuador to collect on a $18.2B judgement against Chevron for toxic waste dumping
2012-01-06,"After Qaddafi Comes in the Lead, Amnesty International Pulls Online Poll On Human Rights Heroes"
2012-01-05,US Threatened To Blacklist Spain For Not Implementing Site Blocking Law
2012-01-05,Armed commandos will protect India's tigers
2012-01-05,"Chevron accused of racism as it fights Ecuador pollution ruling:  Oil giant vows to continue fight after appeals court rules it must pay $18bn for dumping toxic waste in Amazon basin
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2012-01-05,"EU Agrees to Embargo on Iranian Oil -- European governments have agreed in principle to ban imports of Iranian oil, EU diplomats said Wednesday, dealing a potentially heavy blow to Tehran that crowns new Western economic sanctions imposing real pain just months before an Iranian election."
2012-01-05,Mount Etna erupts: sends out a 5000-metre-high column of volcanic ash
2012-01-05,"Justice Delayed 30 years in Guatemala:  Over 440 men, women and children were massacred to make way for the Chixoy Dam - a World Bank project"
2012-01-05,B.C. man slain in Mexico 'stood up' to thieves
2012-01-05,Israeli police have issued restraining orders to a dozen settlers barring them from entering the occupied West Bank
2012-01-05,Can Turkey prevent a US war with Iran? Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu is headed to Iran amid escalating tensions with US.
2012-01-05,The 27 members of the European Union may be on the brink of announcing an embargo on Iranian oil.
2012-01-05,"Caught on camera, the horrifying moment bus plunges down ravine on 'world's most dangerous road'


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2012-01-05,'Secret' Environment Canada presentation warns of oilsands' impact on habitat
2012-01-05,"Inside The 'Ndrangheta --- 


Profile of Calabrian mafia. Main business: Cocaine wholesaling. ""Our customers in Germany are mostly pimps and a large biker gang. We deliver in units of 50 to 70 kilograms."" Biggest headache: How to invest all the profits"
2012-01-05,"Reversal of Fortune - A crusading lawyer helped Ecuadorans secure a huge environmental judgment against Chevron. But did he go too far?  This trial is historic. This is the first time a small developing country has had power over a multinational American company.
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2012-01-05,"Japan Plans Futuristic Farm in Disaster Zone - Unmanned tractors will work fields where pesticides will have been replaced by LEDs keeping rice, wheat, soybeans, fruit & vegetables safe until robots can put them in boxes"
2012-01-05,"Canada resists ""tough on crime"" policies from south 
of the border"
2012-01-05,"Canada Faces Calls to Stop its Commercial Seal Hunt - ""It's time for the govt to face the reality that commercial sealing is neither viable nor necessary.""  Seal pup deaths have dramatically increased due to warming.  Russia banned the import of harp seal pelts. EU allows only Inuit seal products."
2012-01-05,"Hosni Mubarak ordered shoot-to-kill at Tahrir Square, say prosecutors:  Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was responsible for killing some 800 Tahrir Square protesters, said prosecutors in the second day of Murbark's trial in Cairo."
2012-01-05,"North Korea bulks up its military: Seoul may be hoping for the best, but is preparing for the worst.
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2012-01-05,2012 to be a decisive year in Mexicos deadly drug war as the country elects a new president & figures out how to combat the cartels - Heavy majorities support military deployment & other anti-crime operations. About 1/3 want to negotiate with the cartels or legalize drugs
2012-01-05,Mexico: Clash between rival gangs has left 31 inmates dead
2012-01-05,31 inmates killed in northern Mexico prison fight
2012-01-05,Hindu group 'flew Pakistan flag to create tension' -Six members of a right-wing Hindu group have been arrested in India's southern Karnataka state for raising Pakistan's national flag on a government building.
2012-01-05,Belarus (ex republic of USSR) has outlawed browsing foreign Web sites
2012-01-05,EU moves to ban Iran crude oil
2012-01-04,"China has reportedly cut two-thirds of TV entertainment shows as part of a government campaign to reign in ""excessive entertainment."""
2012-01-04,"'In November 2005, a US marine squad killed 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, in the village of Haditha. This week, the squadron leader in charge, will face voluntary manslaughter charges...'"
2012-01-04,India's sub-$50 Android tablet claims 1.4 million orders in two weeks
2012-01-04,German president urged to resign over threats to newspaper editor
2012-01-04,Ecuador appeals court rules against Chevron in oil case:  An Ecuadorean appeals court has upheld a ruling that Chevron should pay damages totalling $18.2bn (11.5bn) over Amazon oil pollution. 
2012-01-04,Swiss bankers charged in $1.2 billion tax fraud 
2012-01-04,Coca-Cola implicated in the propping of African dictator. The ethics of doing business with a known tyrant.
2012-01-04,"Romanian State Companies to Donate 85% of Profit - In a controversial move, the Romanian government has ordered state companies to transfer most of their 2012 profits to the state budget."
2012-01-04,"Czech author Josef Skvorecky, who took a stand against communist authorities in his native country by publishing banned works, has died aged 87. "
2012-01-04,Iranian Paliament prepares bill to bar foreign warships from Persian Gulf
2012-01-04,Japanese whalers & Protestors in Water Cannon Clash
2012-01-04,"Bangladesh's ""Wall of Death"": Life at the India-Bangladesh border is hostile and strange, and often deadly."
2012-01-04,"Chinese Airlines Refuse to Pay EU Carbon Tax - 

Airlines ponder legal challenge to carbon emissions scheme, while Chinese government may resort to 'retaliatory measures'"
2012-01-04,"Armed clashes erupt in central Tripoli: Ex-rebels who remain organised in militia brigades are visible in many parts of the Libyan capital, and some have taken control of former government buildings, using them as headquarters"
2012-01-04,"Why Spains New Government is Drinking Austerity Kool-Aid & How This Threatens the Global Economy - 
European elites push economic myths that benefit the rich & screw the rest. Spain's program means even higher public deficits, fewer jobs, & slowed growth"
2012-01-04,Ecuador Upholds $18 billion Ruling Against Chevron for Polluting Amazon Rainforest Over 20 Years Ago
2012-01-04,"""In November 2005, a Marine squad killed 24 Iraqis, some of them women and children, in the village of Haditha. Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich led the squad of Marines, and on Wednesday he'll face voluntary manslaughter charges at Camp Pendleton."""
2012-01-04,"Iran, U.S. play cat and mouse with the worlds oil"
2012-01-04,Breivik's insanity disputed by 4 new experts
2012-01-04,"Egypt Elections: Illiterate voters just one hurdle in path toward democracy - 
In one Nile Delta town participating in Egypt elections, a judge said he had to help fill in ballots for as many as 90% of voters, who couldn't read & write"
2012-01-04,BBC News - China tycoon 'ate poisoned cat-meat stew'
2012-01-04,"Syrian activists say government armor still in cities:  Opposition activists said on Wednesday armored vehicles were still in the streets of Syrian cities ready to act against protesters, contradicting statements by Arab League peace monitors that troops had withdrawn."
2012-01-04,Protest Against Corruption Erupts in Eastern China
2012-01-04,File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden
2012-01-04,"Greece: The history behind the collapse --- Professor of geopolitics at Sorbonne seeks to explain peculiarities of Greece's political administration, dysfunctional economy. And the lessons Europe must learn from his country's near failure"
2012-01-03,Shell oil company refuses to clean up its African oil spill.
2012-01-03,Doctors Without Borders loses contact with 130 staff members in South Sudan; clinic destroyed
2012-01-03,"World's 1st Hybrid Sharks Discovered Near Australia -  Scientists have found not 1, not 2, but 57.  While the idea may bother some, marine biologists say these offspring of 2 genetically distinct species represent an extraordinary & totally unprecedented discovery in the world of sharks."
2012-01-03,Indian activists have reacted angrily after 12 doctors were fined less than $100 each for conducting secret drug trials on children and patients with learning disabilities.
2012-01-03,Everyone Is Starting To Worry That Hungary Is Sliding Into Dictatorship
2012-01-03,Iran threatens to take action if U.S. carrier returns to Persian Gulf.
2012-01-03,Belarus Has Outlawed Browsing Foreign Websites - Forbes
2012-01-03,"How To Be A Dictator --- 


""The brilliance of the Soviet regime was not just that you relied on few people, but that there were lots of replacements. This put your core circle on notice that they were easily replaced. That made them horribly loyal"""
2012-01-03,"Taliban says it will open a""political office"" in Qatar to negotiate with the U.S. for the first time."
2012-01-03,China Set to Punish Another Human Rights Activist - First the police crippled Ni Yulans legs. Then the authorities took away her license to practice law.  Know the court is expected to sentence the couple on charges that include picking quarrels and disturbing public order.
2012-01-03,"Israeli companies can profit from West Bank resources, court rules"
2012-01-03,"""Iran will not repeat its warning"" - US told to keep aircraft carrier out of Persian Gulf"
2012-01-03,"German joblessness falls to lowest since reunification, but in Spain unemployment climbs to record high"
2012-01-03,"For the first time in its history, Israel allows 6 Arab farmers to sell eggs"
2012-01-03,China's City Dwellers to Breathe Unhealthy Air 'for Another 20-30 Years' - despite recent moves to tighten controls on air pollution dangerous smogs
2012-01-03,"Hong Kong Government Offices Hit by Deadly Bug - 
Massive disinfection work was carried out at Hong Kong's new government headquarters, after the bacteria was found & one minister was hospitalized"
2012-01-03,China Warns of Culture War by West
2012-01-03,Australia urges Fiji to restore democracy
2012-01-03,NATO to pull $30B worth of gear from Afghanistan 
2012-01-03,It took 18 years but Stephen Lawrence's family finally has justice
2012-01-03,Operation Blitzkrieg - Anonymous has a new target in its sights: Germany's far-right scene. The group has launched a new WikiLeaks-style website publishing confidential data obtained from the far-right NPD party and other extremist groups. 
2012-01-03,"Murder probe after body found on Queen Elizabeth's estate
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2012-01-03,"About 12,000 people were slain last year in Mexicos surging drug violence...and more than 50,000 people have been killed during President  Calderons US-backed military confrontation with organized crime and drug trafficking, which began in 2006"
2012-01-03,"Brazil Fines Chevron a 3rd Time - for not properly managing an offshore oil field that leaked 2,400 barrels of oil last month. Chevron says it's ""confident that it has always acted in a diligent & appropriate way."" 

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2012-01-03,China: Chinese Muslims clash with police over mosque demolition
2012-01-02,A seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered in a tribal sacrifice and her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth
2012-01-02,1500 have died of floods in the Phillipines in more than a week
2012-01-02,"Website Blocking Law Implemented By New Spanish Govt: Previously legal sites may be blocked by ISPs or shut down completely, all within 10 days of a rightsholder complaint"
2012-01-02,"'Ambulance' Drivers Saving Dying Koalas Fed Up With Being Abused by & Having Trucks Trashed  - ""There's no respect any more."" A rescuer was threatened while trying to save a koala hit by a car.  ""He kept saying 'just leave the f***er to die',"" says rescue service founder.











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2012-01-02,How the Brazilian government and environmentalists have drastically reduced the destruction of the Amazon 
2012-01-02,"One of China's best known dissidents, missing for 20 months, is now said to be in a Xinjiang prison - Gao Zhisheng, an attorney who's defended activists & religious minorities, is an outspoken critic of the Chinese government"
2012-01-02,"It Keeps Getting Worse - Untested Fuel Additive Used in the Breast Implants That's Triggered a Worldwide Scare - 300,000- 400,000 women in 65 countries from Europe to Latin America have implants made by a French firm with the sub-standard gel."
2012-01-02,The Coming Collapse of China
2012-01-02,The Syrians have lost their fear. Is it time for a no-fly zone?
2012-01-02,"Indias drug trials fuel consent controversy, local subsidiaries of Novartis, Pfizer, Merck, Glaxo SmithKline and Boehringer Ingelheim had been running clinical trials on patients without any consent."
2012-01-02,"China's tomb raiders laying waste to thousands of years of history:  Bulldozers and dynamite used to strip priceless artefacts from remote sites, with booty sold on to wealthy collectors
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2012-01-02,"The Sunni-Shia War --- The old history wont go away. The danger is that Arab rulers start thinking that citizens cannot be loyal to the state unless they have exactly the same religious beliefs as their rulers.
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2012-01-02,"Like father, like son: North Korea's Kim Jong Un looking at things"
2012-01-02,"""Afghan President Hamid Karzai called for an investigation into the torture of a 15-year-old girl, who police say they rescued after she was locked in the basement of her in-laws' house, starved and her nails pulled out."""
2012-01-02,Bahrain teenage protester's funeral sparks new unrest
2012-01-02,"North Korea urges troops to be 'human bombs,' as Kim Jong-un visits tanks
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2012-01-02,End of the pro-democracy pretense for Arab spring support
2012-01-02,Two men were killed and 561 other people were wounded as Italians celebrated the New Year with massive displays of illegal and homemade fireworks
2012-01-02,"
Iran's dangerous trade game --- 
The anti-sanctions strategy relied on trade with Gulf states, but the UAE didn't play ball. Now Iran is meting out punishment"
2012-01-02,The Race for Antarctica
2012-01-02,Weekly Attacks: Neo-Nazis Target Left Party Officials
2012-01-02,Police have found evidence that private investigators working for newspapers hacked into the email account of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown while he was finance minister
2012-01-02,20 tonnes of dead fish wash up on Norwegian beach
2012-01-02,"Mexico deports nearly 50,000 Central Americans"
2012-01-02,Iran currency plunges in value after sanctions
2012-01-01,7.0 Magnitude Earthquake hits Eastern Japan
2012-01-01,Vancouver unveils free crack pipe program
2012-01-01,Chinese man dies of bird flu
2012-01-01,French Government Deny BitTorrent Piracy Allegations: Over 250 IP addresses belonging to the French Ministry of Culture have been linked to illegal downloads 
2012-01-01,Arab League monitor confirms that Syrian regime using snipers against civilians
2012-01-01,Iran Says it's Produced its 1st Nuclear Fuel Rod
2012-01-01,Ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators caused outrage on Sunday by dressing children as Holocaust victims to protest against what they see as persecution of devout Jews seeking gender separation in Israel
2012-01-01,"George Whitman: A bibliophile in Paris --- Obituary of Paris bookshop owner, George Whitman. Shop was more commune than commercial enterprise. Hard-pressed travellers slept among the shelves. Customers minded the till. Carpets stuck down with pancake batter | The Economist"
2012-01-01,Member of the doomsday cult behind a deadly Tokyo subway gassing turns himself in after 17 years on the run
2012-01-01,"India has ordered 22 social networking sites -- including Facebook, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft -- to remove all ""anti-religious"" or ""anti-social"" content in the next 45 days"
2012-01-01,An international arbitration body has awarded Exxon Mobil Corp. nearly $908-million in a dispute with Venezuela over compensation for the nationalization of its assets 
2012-01-01,Bahrain teenager dies as police crush protest.
2012-01-01,Iran fires radar-beating missile during Gulf drill
2012-01-01,Squadron of 12 Spitfire aircraft being built in Oxford
2012-01-01,Russia arrests New Years protesters
2012-01-01,7.0 earthquake hits eastern Japan
2012-01-01,Iran unveils and successfully tests first domestically made nuclear fuel rods
2012-01-01,"Was Al Qaeda really to blame for the Damascus suicide bombings? -- Syria blamed Al Qaeda for twin suicide bombings in Damascus  an unlikely story.
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2012-01-01,North Korea Calls for 'Human Shields' to Protect New Leader
2012-01-01,"India announced on Sunday that it will open up its stock market to individual foreign investors for the first time, in a major economic reform designed to boost overseas investment."
2012-01-01,Egypt army fast-tracks elections in response to recent protests
2012-01-01,"Gaddafi supporters 'try to blow up Tripoli power grid'
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2012-01-01,Images of ultra-Orthodox Jews dressing up as Nazi concentration camp inmates during a protest drew widespread condemnation Sunday and added a new twist to a simmering battle over growing extremism inside Israel's insular ultra-Orthodox community.
2012-01-01,"Arab League calls for the immediate withdrawal of the monitoring mission in Syria, saying it was allowing Damascus to cover up continued violence"
2012-01-01,Clashes as tensions rise in southeast Turkey:  Angry crowds attack local government official a day after 35 Kurdish civilians killed in botched raid are laid to rest.
2011-12-31,"Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel would like to see gender separation in public, and some have stooped to harassing women to get their way. With thousands of Israelis protesting against the growing influence of the super-religious, the rift in Israeli society is getting deeper."
2011-12-31,Ukraine Sends Yulia Tymoshenko to Remote Prison Camp
2011-12-31,"Britain Plagued by Epidemic of Metal Theft -  Manhole covers, lead from church roofs, electric cables, even memorial statues & plaques with the names of war dead are vanishing in the face of rising demand from Asia & a recycling industry that pays in cash and asks no questions"
2011-12-31,France approves soda tax
2011-12-31,"Another Shady Land Deal in Africa, This One Assisted by the U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania - It'll displace over 160,000 people & commercially develop the sitewhich includes lands serving as refugee resettlement areas since 1972for large-scale crop cultivation, beef, & poultry, & biofuel production"
2011-12-31,Kim Jong-Un Just Issued His First Threat Of War Against South Korea
2011-12-31,"Is Egypt's military worse than Mubarak? -- After a violent raid on rights groups, some say Egypt's military has gone too far.
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2011-12-31,North Korea officially names Kim Jong Un Supreme Commander of its 1.2 million-strong military
2011-12-31,UAE to buy U.S. missile-defense system for $3.48B
2011-12-31,"500,000 march in Syria as Arab League spots pro-Assad snipers "
2011-12-31,"How the 'Year of the Protester' played out in Europe - 
The protests in the Middle East & US may have garnered more attention, but 2011 was just as much a year of awakening in southern Europe, where young people are worried about their future. "
2011-12-31,"""Hounded by the economic crisis that shows no signs of letting up and by political leaders of all stripes, Portugal's conservative Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho sent out an unprecedented message to his fellow citizens: Emigrate."""
2011-12-31,Moscow rally halted amid arrests:  Russian police have arrested protesters trying to attend a Moscow rally.
2011-12-31,Iran said it had delayed promised long-range missile tests in the Gulf on Saturday and signaled it was ready for fresh talks with the West on its disputed nuclear program
2011-12-31,Iran test-fires missiles in international waters
2011-12-31,"Riot police, protesters are clashing in Bahrain in one of the most widespread days of protest in months"
2011-12-31,Brazil gears up for new freedom of information law
2011-12-31,"The spectre of 1932: How a loss of faith in politicians and democracy could make 2012 the most frightening year in living memory
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2011-12-31,Twenty elections that could change the world in 2012
2011-12-31,Russia hands over Nerpa nuclear sub to India
2011-12-31,"Most of the deaths caused by Cyclone Thane in S India were due to collapsing walls, electrocution, drowning, & severe cold. Up to 1.2 million people live in the affected area, with almost 80,000 in low-lying coastal land."
2011-12-31,Syria: Arab League observers witness government snipers in Deraa
2011-12-31,"China's Shaky Economic Foundation --- Beijings success in quelling daily unrest fails to address the fundamental problem: a development path built on an eroding foundation of unjust land grabs, environmental destruction and  social polarization "
2011-12-31,US to sell $3.5b in missile technology to the United Arab Emirates
2011-12-31,Nigeria declares State of Emergency in the Northern region due to recent spasm of violence from Islamist insurgency.  All borders are closed.  
2011-12-30,Mexican Drug War - Five Years Later (images)
2011-12-30,"US sells over 80 F-15s to Saudi Arabia, worth $30 billion"
2011-12-30,"2 Doctors Without Borders workers shot in Somalia
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2011-12-30,99-year-old divorces wife after he discovered 1940s affair
2011-12-30,Hacker Community trying to Circumvent Internet Censorship with Amateur Satellites
2011-12-30,Syrian security forces fire nail bombs at tens of thousands of protesters in Douma
2011-12-30,How India is Winning the Future With Solar Energy  - China is showing a new interest in Indias growing demand
2011-12-30,"India fails to pass anti-corruption law, attention now turns to electoral politics, and who takes the blame
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2011-12-30,"Kurds protest over deadly Turkey air raid:  At least 35 killed in air raid in southeastern part of country, prompting violent protest in Istanbul."
2011-12-30,"Hugo Chavez blames the U.S. for the fact that he developed cancer, and speculates that the U.S. has weaponized cancer and is giving it to Latin American leaders."
2011-12-30,"After all the street protests, India fails to pass anticorruption law"
2011-12-30,US warships cross Hormuz despite Iranian threats
2011-12-30,"New Contraceptive Rule in China Sparks Outrage - ""This amounts to asking people to register before they make love.""  Women buying emergency contraceptives must give their real names & ID card numbers."
2011-12-30,"The Lies that Europe's Politicians Tell Themselves ---
The euro zone has been built on lies, the idea that the common currency could work without political union. But Europe's politicians are currently suffering from an equally fatal delusion -- that they have time to fix the crisis."
2011-12-30,The Spanish government will increase the length of the work week for the civil service to 37.5 hours from the current 35 hours in austerity measure.
2011-12-30,Snipers rule the streets in the besieged Syrian city of Homs
2011-12-30,"North Korea warned on Friday South Korea and ""other foolish politicians around the world"" should not expect it to change its policies"
2011-12-30,Turkey forced to admit victims of bombing were not Kurdish separatist fighters
2011-12-30,UK: Thatcher Considered Jailing Reporters
2011-12-30,A woman in French city Brittany was slapped with a 35 ($45) fine after police spotted her driving her car wearing a full-face veil.
2011-12-30,The Associated Press: Hundreds of thousands of Syrians protest govt
2011-12-30,Nuclear submarine on fire in northern Russia
2011-12-30,"Despite the Arab League's presence, Syrian troops fired into crowds of thousands of unarmed protesters, killing dozens"
2011-12-30,"Beate Zschpe is allegedly the only surviving member of the German neo-Nazi terror cell, which is suspected of murdering at least 10 people, but she refuses to talk. In an exclusive interview, SPIEGEL ONLINE spoke with her public defender about the case and what he thinks of his client. "
2011-12-30,North Korea Restores Order to Kim Funeral With Photoshop
2011-12-29,PERU has banned GM crops production for 10 years
2011-12-29,Protester 'banned' from flight home for Christmas after he was found carrying anarchist literature.
2011-12-29,"Japan Way Ahead in Global Plastic Recycling Race - 

At 77%, country's plastic recycling rate is about twice that of the UK, & well above the 20% figure for the US"
2011-12-29,Saudi women no longer need male OK to vote or seek office
2011-12-29,Nuclear submarine on fire in northern Russia.
2011-12-29,"France approves soda tax:France's top constitutional body on Wednesday approved a new tax on sugary drinks that aims to fight obesity while giving a boost to state coffers.

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2011-12-29,Kim Jong Un declared N. Korea's 'supreme leader'
2011-12-29,China Lays Out 5-Year Space Plans
2011-12-29,There Will Be No Friday This Week In Samoa
2011-12-29,"Iran Plans to Test Advanced Missiles, Intelligent Torpedoes"
2011-12-29,Egypt police raid U.S.-based pro-democracy groups
2011-12-29,Israel denies immigrant status to Jews suffering from psychiatric problems 
2011-12-29,"Either Your Phone Plays Taliban Ringtones, or You Die -  Vendors in Kabul are doing a brisk trade in Taliban ringtones. Because Afghans report that the Taliban kill travelers at clandestine checkpoints if they dont hear one of their messages on someones phone."
2011-12-29,"The Plane That Would Bomb Iran: ""Any adversary knows that the B-2 can enter relatively unseen with the power and accuracy to destroy. Merely by having the B-2, we can better influence the decision-making process in rogue nations..[it's] a diplomatic instrument as much as it is a military instrument"""
2011-12-29,A judge in Chile has closed the case on the death of President Salvador Allende after an authoritative autopsy confirmed it was suicide
2011-12-29,All Eyes on German Renewable Energy Efforts - This tiny village of 37 gray homes & farm buildings clustered along the main road in a wind-swept corner of rural eastern Germany seems an unlikely place for a revolution
2011-12-29,Appears Japanese Tsunami Debris Already Hitting B.C. Shores -  Beachcombers are noticing a significant uptick in debris of Japanese origin  a sign that items swept out to sea by the tsunami has found their way here earlier than expected
2011-12-29,McDonalds Closes All Their Restaurants in Bolivia 
2011-12-29,"UK Doctors Sued for Creating 'Valium Addicts' - 
Patients take legal action after being damaged by over-prescription of drugs.  A report estimated in 2009 there were 1.5 million involuntary tranquilliser addicts in the UK."
2011-12-29,Turkey confirms 35 people killed in airstrikes were mistaken for Kurdish rebels
2011-12-29,"Western companies provide spy software to authoritarian regimes, the software has been used to track political opponents."
2011-12-29,Debris from the Japan tsunami arrives in Canada
2011-12-29,"In Russia, a new badge of honor for Putin critics: a jail term -- The frequent arrests of one veteran anti-Kremlin activist, Sergei Udaltsov, have gained him a broader base of support among Russia's opposition than he could previously claim. "
2011-12-29,Syrian forces open fire on protestors in Damascus
2011-12-29,Syrians Fire On Protesters Despite Presence Of Monitors
2011-12-28,BBC News - Why Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their medals
2011-12-28,"The U.S. Fifth Fleet said it will not allow any disruption of traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran threatened to stop ships moving through the strategic oil route."
2011-12-28,Uruguay Senate backs bill to allow abortions
2011-12-28,Thirty war graves of Muslim soldiers who fought in World War I have been attacked and defaced in French city Carcassonne.
2011-12-28,"Anonymous activist Barrett Brown: ""We're in a state of conflict with the Government. Either we are going to jail or we're going to win."""
2011-12-28,Afghan police have rescued a teenage girl who was beaten and locked up in a toilet for over five months after she defied her in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution.
2011-12-28,Israel to rally against Jewish extremism
2011-12-28,Japan leads the way in sexless love
2011-12-28,"The World's Worst Human Rights Observer --- As Arab League monitors work to expose President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown, the head of the mission is a Sudanese general accused of creating the fearsome ""janjaweed,"" which was responsible for the worst atrocities during the Darfur genocide"
2011-12-28,"China bullet train crash 'caused by design flaws':  A bullet train crash which killed 40 people in China in July was caused by design flaws and sloppy management, the Chinese government says."
2011-12-28,"India's Techies Angered Over Internet Censorship Plan
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2011-12-28,Afghan child bride kept locked in toilet for 5 months for defying in-laws who tried to force her into prostitution
2011-12-28," Venezuela is offering free surgeries for women to remove faulty ""French-made"" breast implants, the country's top health official said."
2011-12-28,Cyprus announces major natural gas find
2011-12-28,Sea Shepherd Ship Severely Damaged by Rogue Wave
2011-12-28,What Really Frightens the Oil-Rich Arab Monarchies
2011-12-28,Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood vows to protect churches 
2011-12-28,A powerful political group led by the anti-US cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called for Iraq's parliament to be dissolved and early elections to be held.
2011-12-28,"Seven hurt as bomb hits Arabic school in Nigeria -- Assailants threw a crude homemade bomb into an Arabic school in southern Nigeria's Delta state overnight, police said, wounding seven people and escalating tensions between Muslims and Christians after a spate of church bombings across the nation."
2011-12-28,"Iran Threatens to Block Oil Shipments, as U.S. Prepares Sanctions"
2011-12-28,Venezuela's Chavez asks: Could U.S. have technology to cause cancer?
2011-12-28,"For Somali Women, Pain of Being a Spoil of War"
2011-12-28,"Russian court is to decide whether a religious text central to the global Hare Krishna movement is extremist and should be banned, in a case that has angered Hindus around the world"
2011-12-28,BBC News - US warns Iran over threat to block oil route
2011-12-28,"Turkey has given permission for the South Stream gas pipeline to be built across its territories, giving the project a clear run into the lucrative energy markets of Europe."
2011-12-27,The Russian media has lost its fear of Putin. History tells us the end must be nigh.
2011-12-27,"How Anger Took Elites by Surprise ... everywhere, the conventional wisdom was turned upside down by people who turned out to be angrier than their elites had suspected"
2011-12-27,Egypt bans military's forced virginity tests
2011-12-27,Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery now faces being hanged after international outcry
2011-12-27,"Ciudad Juarez has 10,000 homicides in the past 4 years. More than Afghanistan's civilian casualties in the same period."
2011-12-27,"Chinese meat glows in the dark, meat purchased in Sichuan province radiates blue light
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2011-12-27,Man caught with 247 animals in suitcase
2011-12-27,"Iraqis who worked as interpreters for the US army are facing death threats as the process for special visas slows.
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2011-12-27,"How China's Gender Gap Is Creating Too Many Single MenAnd Hurting Women -- With 120 males born for every 100 females, Chinas deliberate gender imbalance will mean lifelong bachelorhood for millions of men, but the impact on women is just as severe."
2011-12-27,Pirates hijack Italian tanker with 18 on board off Oman
2011-12-27,Israeli ultra-orthodox Jews clash with police
2011-12-27,Cuba begins banking reforms 
2011-12-27,"If you could tweet on behalf of your country -- what would you say? In Sweden, one citizen per week is getting the chance to tweet from the nation's official @Sweden Twitter account."
2011-12-27,6.9 magnitude quake hits southeastern Russia
2011-12-27,China gets approval for Afghanistan oil exploration bid
2011-12-27,"The essay that has Chinese talking: 'On Wanting Freedom'
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2011-12-27,China harvesting organs of minorities and political prisoners in Xinjiang
2011-12-27,Iran 'to block Hormuz strait' if sanctions applied
2011-12-27,Egyptian court rules against virginity tests
2011-12-27,"Iran threatens to block oil exports through Hormuz strait in sanctions row. Country reacts to threat of sanctions on its crude oil after UN watchdog's report into state's nuclear ambitions
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2011-12-27,BBC News - Ethiopia jails Swedish journalists on terror charges
2011-12-27,Iran seeks death penalty for American 'CIA spy'
2011-12-27,Coup attempt 'fails' in Guinea-Bissau
2011-12-27,Radio Zeta: How Mexicos Drug Cartels Stay Networked
2011-12-27,The Depressing Reality of Egyptian Politics: Its Islamists vs. the Military -- Is a battle between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood what Egyptian citizens had in mind for a new democracy? A look at the unraveling of a revolution
2011-12-26,Famous Australian tv chef loses his wife and 3 kids in a house fire. Suffers burns to 40% of his body tryin to save them. All on Christmas night. 
2011-12-26,7 year old Israeli girl is afraid to walk the 300 meters between home and school because of the violence she has faced from ultra-Orthodox men who say her clothes are too revealing. 
2011-12-26,Brazil Overtakes UK as 6th-Largest Economy 
2011-12-26,"Belgium Is In Deep Financial Trouble Due To Bank Bailouts, But Now, Finally, A Bank CEO Is Getting Sued"
2011-12-26,"Because the U.S. is regarded in China as a Christian nation, many parents see Christian schools as part of mainstream American culture"
2011-12-26,"Largest protest since collapse of Soviet Union rocks Russia.  100,000 demonstrators"
2011-12-26,More than 40 patients have died in the last five days amid an ongoing strike by doctors at public hospitals in India's Rajasthan state.
2011-12-26,"Five bombs exploded in Nigeria at churches on Christmas, killing dozens and maiming hundreds of church-goers"
2011-12-26,Yuan at all-time high to the US dollar.
2011-12-26,South Korea's former First Lady Lee Hee-ho travels to Pyongyang to offer condolences over the death of  Kim Jong-il.
2011-12-26,"China jails dissident Chen Xi for 10 years - 
 Veteran dissident is the 2nd within 4 days to be convicted of inciting subversion through online essays"
2011-12-26,"China city tightens control of microblogs, Shanghai will require microblog users to register under their real names from Monday, the latest local government in China to implement the rule after a spate of violent protests."
2011-12-26,"A Murder Foretold --- 
Story of a murky political intrigue in Guatemala and how one attorney, investigating controversial murder case, accurately predicted his own assassination. Long, powerful article with a plot straight out of a John Grisham novel"
2011-12-26,"The Soviet Union's Afterlife:  Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved."
2011-12-26,Sea Shepherd Now Using Drones To Hunt Japanese Whalers
2011-12-26,Indonesian police fire on gold mine protesters
2011-12-26,"Arab League official wounded in Syria shelling, Mustashar Mahgoub was injured in an attack in Homs; locals report tanks firing machineguns and mortars into residential areas."
2011-12-26,North Korean power-behind-throne emerges as neighbors meet
2011-12-26,"New Delhi's homeless wait out biting cold:  India's homeless are waiting out the biting cold winter, which has already killed over 100 people, mostly in Uttar Pradesh."
2011-12-26,"China, Japan strengthen financial, currency ties ... To support the growing economic and financial relations between China and Japan"
2011-12-26,France won't arrest former war crimes court official
2011-12-26,'Anonymous' hackers hit US security firm Stratfor
2011-12-26,"Fukushima investigation reveals failings, Japan's response was confused and riddled with problems, including an erroneous assumption an emergency cooling system was working and a delay in disclosing dangerous radiation leaks."
2011-12-26,Brazilian economy 'overtakes UK'
2011-12-26,"London police are investigating after man was stabbed to death on Oxford Street, one of the world's busiest shopping streets, at about 13:45 GMT today."
2011-12-25,"Anti-Putin protest in Russia draws largest crowd since 1991:  Mikhail Gorbachev, who resigned as Soviet president 20 years ago Sunday, has urged Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to follow his example and step down. "
2011-12-25,"Dutch Parliament: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
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2011-12-25,"What is the Mysterious Nodding Disease Spreading Across Uganda? - It seems like an amusing ailment: the major visible symptom is nodding a lot while you eat.  But this new disease is spreading fast in Africa, & claiming lives as it goes."
2011-12-25,"The Closing of Chinese Minds - ""In 1979, a group of Chinese editors was about to visit the United States. Asked what they would like to see, one solemnly replied: 'We want to know how the party secretary of New York controls The New York Times.'"""
2011-12-25,"US airlines have suffered a defeat in the EU's highest court, which upheld a law on Wednesday that will require airlines to pay for carbon emissions on flights to and from Europe. The new rule goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2012. US officials have warned that the move will have repercussions. "
2011-12-25,"Typical Xmas in Australia - Cyclone North, ex Cyclone East coast, Heavy storms South, FWIW The Cyclone to the north is probably as big as France and Germany, the eye is probably as big as Holland."
2011-12-25,"Greek Hospitals Turning Away Expectant Mothers Who Can't Pay New Fees
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2011-12-25,"Iranian woman to be executed by stoning or hanging for adultery, judiciary official says"
2011-12-25,Church in Nigerian capital Abuja hit by explosion 
2011-12-25,"Drinks and joy as defectors embrace Kim's death ...  More than 21,000 North Koreans now live in South Korea. For many, the news of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's death stirred mixed emotions"
2011-12-25,Mikhail Gorbachev calls for Putin to resign
2011-12-25,"Pope Benedict XVI urges faithful to see through ""superficial glitter"" of Christmas
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2011-12-25,"Why the Scots want independence from the English: the more life in Scotland feels like life in England, the stronger the desire to assert a distinct identity."
2011-12-25,"Gruesome discovery of a half-sunken boat & at least 38 dead Haitians were found by the Cuban Coast Guard.  87,  including 4 children, were rescued. They were trying to flee their country.

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2011-12-25,North Korea invites South Korean delegations to Kim Jong Il's funeral
2011-12-25,"Could Revolution Come to Putin's Russia? -- Saturday's mass demonstrations in Moscow may draw comparisons to the Arab Spring or Occupy Wall Street, but Russia -- and Putin's ""democracy"" -- is unique"
2011-12-25,"No Christmas Rescue for Stricken Russian Ship - Rescue ships had to turn back due to ice.  Another to try reaching it by the 26th.  The Sparta, with 32 aboard, has been leaking & trapped in ice since Dec. 16."
2011-12-25,"Occupy London protesters & church in harmony at Christmas - 
Shared values of community & supporting one another resonated particularly strongly, & there was a spike in numbers of people visiting to pledge support over the festive period."
2011-12-25,"Al-Qaida leadership almost wiped out in Pakistan, key players in al-Qaida escaping to north Africa"
2011-12-25,"After two months in custody for ""inciting violence,"" Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah is released from jail"
2011-12-25,Anti-whaling activists use drones to monitor Japanese fleet
2011-12-25,Aussie traveler contracts HIV from getting tattoo in Bali
2011-12-25,Deadly blast rips through Christmas service in Nigeria
2011-12-25,Yemeni president Saleh to go to US
2011-12-25,"Yemeni president says he'll leave country, head to U.S."
2011-12-24,Why America's Death Penalty Just Got Us  -- The European Union is now blocking importation of lethal injection technology into the United States 
2011-12-24,Awkward silence as nations boycott Kim-Jong-Il tribute in united nations. 
2011-12-24,"Girl's baptism banned by judge after court battle - ""the father was not religious and believed a decision about baptism should be left until the girl was older so that she could have proper input"""
2011-12-24,$25 Computer About to Go Into Production in Britain - The bare bones Raspberry Pi PC will be sold in 2 configurations. Model A for $25 (16) lacks a network connector & Model B for $35 (22) has an Ethernet socket.
2011-12-24,Kim Jong Il's death could prompt North Korean elite to flee
2011-12-24,"Thousands take to Moscow streets, calling for fair elections"
2011-12-24,"'Russia will be free': Huge rally increases pressure on Vladimir Putin 
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2011-12-24,"Turkey accuses France of genocide in Algeria: Prime Minister Erdogan ramps up diplomatic spat, saying French killed 15% of Algeria's population during postwar occupation"
2011-12-24,"Cuba to release 2,900 prisoners as goodwill gesture"
2011-12-24,"CIA has suspended drone attacks in Pakistan, U.S. officials say
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2011-12-24,"A huge explosion at a gasoline and diesel pipeline in Colombia killed 11 people, injured nearly 100, and destroyed dozens of homes"
2011-12-24,Iraq's Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi has said Iraq's government was behind Thursday's series of bombings that killed nearly 70 people in Baghdad
2011-12-24,"Is Egypt Flying Apart at the Seams? --- Ten months after the revolution, Egyptians are mired in frustration. The supreme council is less and less popular, and everyone  election winners and losers alike  fears the future."
2011-12-24,"Russians still nostalgic for Soviet comforts. ""To many Russians of the previous generation, their memories of the Soviet Union are like a fairy tale of a golden age..."""
2011-12-24,"Kim Jong Eun, the new leader of North Korea, will be the youngest person ever to have authority over a nuclear arsenal."
2011-12-24,"North Korea: ""Grave consequences"" if South Korea doesn't allow citizens to attend Kim Jong-Il's funeral"
2011-12-24,"Best Of 2011: Hitler vs. Stalin: Who Was Worse? --- 


Brilliant essay that asks history's most loaded question, and answers it with meticulous balance sheet. Stalin was first with ethnic killing campaigns; murdered more people than Hitler; but fewer than we used to think"
2011-12-24,Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday accused France of committing genocide in Algeria more than 60 years ago. He said French colonialists massacred 15 percent of Algeria's population starting in 1945.
2011-12-24,"Thousands take to Moscow streets, calling for fair elections "
2011-12-24,Something fishy in Pyongyang
2011-12-24,Canada's TD Bank played critical' role in $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme
2011-12-24,"Syrian city besieged by military tanks under orders of President Bashar al-Assad, killing more than a dozen civilians and destroying buildings"
2011-12-24,"China has announced a currency swap with Pakistan in the latest step to gradually expand use of the tightly controlled Chinese currency abroad.
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2011-12-24,China's Real Estate Woes as the Bubble Bursts
2011-12-24,Mass rally in Moscow raises pressure on Putin
2011-12-23,BBC News - Volkswagen turns off work email after work hours for staff. Wants to reduce the blurring of lines between home and work.
2011-12-23,"Quake of 5.9 magnitude strikes New Zealand's Christchurch
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2011-12-23,'Blue bra girl' rallies Egypt's women vs. oppression 
2011-12-23,"British bankers prepare to sue for bonuses: Bankers seem to have an expectation that they are entitled to a bonus under almost any circumstances, which has been fed by over 20 years of high bonus rounds."""
2011-12-23,Mysterious metal ball from space falls in Namibia
2011-12-23,French lawmakers passed a measure on Thursday to make it a crime to deny the mass killing of Armenians in 1915 by Ottoman Turks was a genocide
2011-12-23,"Online speed camera warnings to be banned, people who reveal the location of Swiss speed cameras on the internet face fines of up to 10,000 francs ($10,700), under new laws.


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2011-12-23,Kremlin Nervous As Protesters Return To Streets of Russia
2011-12-23,The End of the Chinese Dream ---  China's 1% are even more obnoxious than America's
2011-12-23,Bill that could 'break the Internet' delayed until 2012
2011-12-23,"Another Soyuz rocket launch fails, Russia's recent poor launch record has continued with yet another Soyuz rocket failure."
2011-12-23,"Argentine government takes control of newsprint in an effort to ""improve the quality of information and the plurality of opinions"" "
2011-12-23,Iran announces it will soon hold massive war games in international waters near the Strait of Hormuz
2011-12-23,"Bruised but defiant: Mona Eltahawy on her assault by Egyptian security forces

Mona Eltahawy's tweets about her assault in Cairo made global headlines. Here she tells her full, extraordinary story for the first time
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2011-12-23,"When Kim Jong Il died, the holiest mountain in North Korea glowed red, according to state media stories that serve to bookend the tale of Kim's sacred birth at Mount Paektu."
2011-12-23,Outrage after Chinese Tiananmen activist jailed for nine years
2011-12-23,"Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian oil spill, the largest in the African nation since 1998, highlights the different world responses to oil spills."
2011-12-23,A Spanish company is suing the city of Hamburg for more than 2 million after its cucumbers were wrongly blamed for a deadly E.coli outbreak last spring
2011-12-23,Mikhail Gorbachev slams Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev over response to protests | The Australian
2011-12-23,North Korea Warns South to Show Respect for Kim Jong-il
2011-12-23,Russian Oil Rig Sinking Casts Doubt on Arctic Plan - The sinking of a rig that left over 50 crew dead or missing is intensifying fears that Russian companies searching for oil in remote areas are unprepared for emergencies  & could cause a disastrous spill in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
2011-12-23,"BBC News - Ex-councillor 
Robert Payne jailed for 
killing kittens"
2011-12-23,"Selling used goods as new appears endemic in the electronics retailing industry in Australia, with Harvey Norman & JB Hi-Fi stores regularly engaging in the practice, sparking investigation by NSW Fair Trading - Buyers are finding previous owners' photos, pirated movies & porn on 'new' devices.

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2011-12-23,Canada rejects 'comical' al-Qaeda link to Damascus blasts
2011-12-23,"A Chinese court sentenced a veteran activist to nine years in prison for inciting subversion, in what appears to be the most severe punishment handed down in a crackdown to prevent the spread of Arab Spring-style democratic uprisings."
2011-12-22,"Canada ""honor killings"" on trial: An Afghan immigrant allegedly killed his daughters. ""They betrayed everything."""
2011-12-22,"Bankers Are Using the Eurozone Crisis to Wage Warfare on Working People & Seize Control of Governments - 
Wages & living standards are to be scaled back & political power shifted from elected government to technocrats governing on behalf of big banks & financial institutions"
2011-12-22,"In Pictures: Fire Destroys ""Temple of Knowledge"" in Egypt"
2011-12-22," Brazil's Great Untold Environmental Disaster -
Cerrado, the world's largest savannah, contains 5% of the world's biodiversity, but is being destroyed at an incredible rate to make way for monocultures with devastating long-term effects "
2011-12-22,Pakistani girl burned by US drone looks for new life
2011-12-22,Iraq bombs kill at least four in Baghdad
2011-12-22,"Mexico Disbands Entire Police Force In Veracruz
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2011-12-22,"NATO Forced to Admit Airstrikes Killed Dozens of Libyan Civilians, Contradicting Initial Denials."
2011-12-22,"Vietnamese Investors Sink Savings Into Golf Memberships - 
Some are investing in golf-club memberships in a last-gasp bid to protect their savings from being ravaged by soaring inflation & a fading currency"
2011-12-22,"""An Indonesian girl who was thought to have died when a huge tsunami devastated the island of Sumatra in December 2004, has been found alive and reunited with her parents, local media reported on Thursday [22 December 2011]."""
2011-12-22,Polish secret police 'conspired to prevent Lech Walesa winning Nobel Prize': Poland's communist secret police organised an elaborate ruse to trick the Nobel Peace Prize committee into thinking Lech Walesa was a collaborator in an attempt to stop the Solidarity activist receiving the honour. 
2011-12-22,Turkey recalls its ambassador to France after French Parliament makes it a crime to deny the WWI-era Armenian genocide
2011-12-22,Protests in a small town in China appear to have escalated with residents smashing cars and hurling bricks even though officials sought to calm tempers by suspending a plan to build a power plant
2011-12-22," Medieval Economy is Kim Jong Ils Legacy as Minerals Untapped - North Koreas leader inherits an economy that was outstripped by South Korea in the 1970s, shrank after the collapse of communism in Europe, & now struggles under its stated policy of self-reliance"
2011-12-22,US admits fault for the killing of 24 Pakistan soldiers.
2011-12-22,Raul Castro expected to end decades-old travel ban for Cuban Citizens
2011-12-22,Sectarian violence erupts in Baghdad 
2011-12-22,Violence in Zhanaozen threatens Nazarbayev legacy (Video of police firing on Kazakh protesters)
2011-12-22,"Iraq: What Remains --- Many Americans continue to see in Iraq a reflection of their own countrys ideals and contradictions. They will remember Iraq as an American trauma. But it was, above all, an Iraqi trauma."
2011-12-22,"Italy finalizes severe austerity budget with a vote of 257 to 41, new budget includes tax hikes, pension delays, spending cuts, changes to employment law and more, aims to balance Italy's budget by 2013"
2011-12-22,"In Tunisia, how to build a democracy"
2011-12-22,"A New Zealand cargo plane flew to Antarctica & parachuted sea pumps & hull patches to a leaking Russian ship crippled after striking ice last week. Rescue ships are still days away.  Crew include 15 Russians, 16 Indonesians & 1 Ukrainian.  A S. Korean ice-breaker may arrive by Dec 25."
2011-12-22,"Noam Chomsky asks Hugo Chavez to free judge Maria Lourdes Afiuni, who has been jailed since 2009"
2011-12-22,"Twins born in Brazil with two heads, one heart"
2011-12-22,"The dragon goes shopping in South America - China is buying commodities and fuelling economic growth, but some worry the communist giant is creating dependency."
2011-12-21,"Assad losing control as 10,000 soldiers desert Syrian military"
2011-12-21,US targeted over failure to condemn Israel: frustrated members of the U.N. Security Council pointed a finger at the United States for blocking any condemnation of Israel's accelerated settlement construction in Palestinian territory
2011-12-21,In Finland 69 Patriot missiles found in a ship destined to South Korea
2011-12-21,"A Chinese village protest that tested the ruling Communist Party for over a week ended on Wednesday after officials offered concessions over seized farmland and the death of a village leader, in a rare spectacle of the government backing down to mobilized citizens."
2011-12-21,"S Korea launches 
propaganda balloons over the border"
2011-12-21,Canada bans face veils at citizenship ceremonies
2011-12-21,North Korea moves to collective government
2011-12-21,North Korean heir expected to share power
2011-12-21,Chinese Atheists Lured to Find Jesus at U.S. Christian Schools
2011-12-21,South American states ban Falklands vessels from ports
2011-12-21,Moody's affirms Australia's AAA rating
2011-12-21,"Five Polish soldiers killed by Afghanistan bomb:  A roadside bomb has killed five Polish soldiers in a Nato convoy in eastern Afghanistan, Poland's heaviest single loss of life since the mission began."
2011-12-21,Kim Jong-un issued military order before announcement of father's death
2011-12-21,Wives of missing Russian rig workers criticize company officials:  The wife of the Russian oil rig's captain says towing the Kolskaya platform through icy waters was a suicidal mission. Thirty-nine workers are missing.
2011-12-21,No Ordinary Counterfeit - New York Times
2011-12-21,Qaddafi Son Seif al-Islam Is Alive and Held by Rebels
2011-12-21,Egyptian Women Rally Around The Girl in the #BlueBra Dragged Away by Army
2011-12-21,"Iran: Despite rising rhetoric among officials, Iranians don't think war is likely."
2011-12-21,"Canada hunts for rare earth metals as China cuts back - 
A steep decline in Chinese exports of rare earth metals used in hi-tech gadgets has started a global search for metals & hopes are high for major finds in Canada.  The Japanese are desperately searching all over, as well as Europe. "
2011-12-21,"Hungary's constitutional court has overruled sections of a new media law, claiming it interferes with press freedom. It is the latest challenge to what many see as an undemocratic consolidation of government power."
2011-12-21,Five Iranian technicians kidnapped in Syria's Homs
2011-12-21,BBC News - The 'Iranian Schindler' who saved Jews from the Nazis
2011-12-21,Mass breast implant recall in France
2011-12-21,Syria crisis: Almost 200 people have died in two days of clashes
2011-12-21,"North Korea 'pledge' to Kim Jong-un, son of Kim Jong-il
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2011-12-20,"Thousands Of Rare Documents Burned In Egypt Clash: ""This is equal to the burning of Galileo's books"""
2011-12-20,Kazakhstan's hardline president has switched off part of mobile and internet to try and stop an Arab Spring style uprising.
2011-12-20,"Egyptian Women Defend Their Role in the Revolution, 10,000 March Against the Army's Brutality"
2011-12-20,Car manufacturer SAAB declares bankruptcy after GM rejects Chinese offer
2011-12-20,"Egyptian Military Official: Protesters ""Deserve to Be Thrown into Hitler's Ovens"""
2011-12-20,Thousands of Women Mass in Major March in Cairo - NYTimes.com
2011-12-20,"The speculative scrum driving up food prices. Bankers, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds are gambling on hunger by speculating on food supply. "
2011-12-20,"A Blow Against Child Marriage - 
In N India, where 1 in 2 girls wed before age 18, the rate of child marriage is dropping& an innovative program is paying girls to stay unmarried"
2011-12-20,Germany captures 43% of the world's solar power
2011-12-20,North Korea Seals Chinese Border
2011-12-20,Tunisias newly elected president calls for countrys Jewish population to return: Tunisias Jews are full citizens and those that had left are welcome to return.
2011-12-20,Egyptian police open fire on protesters Photos ... hundreds of Egyptian soldiers in riot gear swept through Cairo's Tahrir Square early Dec. 19 and opened fire on protesters
2011-12-20,"China seeks rebel village concessions as new protest flares ... Communist Party authorities trying to get residents to call off a march to government offices
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2011-12-20,Retired general says Egyptian protesters deserve to be thrown into Hitlers ovens. 
2011-12-20,"Kim Jong Ils economic legacy, in one chart"
2011-12-20,"Philip Morris Challenges Plain Cigarette Packs in Australia - It claims the law banning logos & requiring they be sold in drab, olive-brown packets ""acquires the firm's valuable brands & intellectual property"""
2011-12-20,"Against All Odds: How 'Crazy' Kim Jong Il Outfoxed the World - Underestimated since he took power in 1994, the North Korean leader was shrewder, smarter, and saner than the popular caricatures give him credit for"
2011-12-20,"Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he has warned American officials that his government is ""serious"" about selling Canadian oil to Asian markets"
2011-12-20,"A Rocky Russia-India Defense Union:  India replacing China as the worlds largest arms importer should leave plenty of scope for Russian manufacturers. But the two sides dont always see eye to eye.
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2011-12-20,Young Russian protesters want change but lack a leader:  Whether they can translate their frustration to the political arena remains an open question.
2011-12-20,"Iraq's Nuri al-Maliki is acting like Saddam Hussein in trying to silence opposition and he risks provoking a new fightback against dictatorship, one of Maliki's predecessors as prime minister said on Tuesday."
2011-12-20,"Squeamish science students in India might not have to grapple with cutting up rats or frogs for much longer. The regulatory body, University grants commission would phase out almost all animal dissection and replace it with teaching using computer simulations and models. "
2011-12-20,Turkey main opposition party submits draft to recognize genocide in Algeria and Rwanda by the French
2011-12-20,"Turkey threatens France over stance on killing of Armenians by Ottomans:  French parliament to debate proposal to prosecute people who deny mass killings were an act of genocide
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2011-12-20," Mexico Shuts Down 'World's Biggest Garbage Dump' - 
Greenhouse gas emissions will be reduced by a minimum of 2,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year.  It's taken in over 76,000,000 tons of trash.  "
2011-12-19,North Korea Leader Kim-Jong Il has died
2011-12-19,"The Land of No Smiles: Photographer entered North Korea by posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory; images rarely captured and even more rarely distributed in the West, show stark glimmers of everyday life in the world's last gulag"
2011-12-19,North Korea Says Its Leader Kim Jong Il Has Died
2011-12-19,"Twitter, the coordinating tool of the Arab uprisings, has sold a $300million stake to a member of the Saudi Royal family."
2011-12-19,Number of journalists imprisoned worldwide has shot up more than 20 percent to its highest level since the mid-1990s.
2011-12-19,N. Korea test-fires short-range missile | YONHAP NEWS
2011-12-19,Religious Israel Youth Clean up Defaced Mosque in Protest of Price-tag Vandalism
2011-12-19,Japan Takes Sea Shepherd to Court over Violence
2011-12-19,Israeli woman refuses to take back seat
2011-12-19,"North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il, 69, Has Died"
2011-12-19,N Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies
2011-12-19,Automaker Saab files for bankruptcy in Sweden
2011-12-19,Bus Halted When Woman Refuses Ultra-Orthodox Demand to Sit in the Back of the Bus
2011-12-19,N. Korea to make 'special' broadcast at noon
2011-12-19,"World's Youngest Professor appointed, at age 19"
2011-12-19,Syrian government threatens to execute 21 rebels in the next 24 hours
2011-12-19,Day of shame in the Middle East: Female protesters beaten with metal poles
2011-12-19,"VIDEO: North Koreans publicly mourn leader Kim Jong Il's death  Sobbing, wailing and prostrating on the pavement after death. "
2011-12-19,German Intelligence Agency reportedly sabotaged Neo-Nazi Terror Investigations 
2011-12-19,"More protesters have been killed in clashes with army soldiers in Cairo, bringing the 4-day death toll to at least 14 - All were killed by gunshots"
2011-12-19,"Egypt kills 3 more protestors, bringing the death toll for four days of clashes to 14"
2011-12-19,"Julian Assange could be handed over to US, supporters claim"
2011-12-19,"Without Iraq 'Arab Spring May Have Broken Out Earlier' - The US has officially declared the war in Iraq to be over. President Obama said that America was leaving behind a ""sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq."" German commentators ask if the conflict was worth the toll."
2011-12-19,"3 strikes-style anti-filesharing mechanism killed in Ireland, but govt promises site blocking by ISPs

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2011-12-19,"Philippines mulls mass graves after typhoon kills hundreds
| Reuters"
2011-12-18,"Vaclav Havel, Czech Anti-Communist Hero and first Democratically elected President, Has Died"
2011-12-18,A picture of a female Egyptian protester who was stripped from her black abaya and abused by army men has met with angry tweets criticizing the countrys Supreme Council of the Armed Forces 
2011-12-18,"UK teenager wins settlement from London Met police after being harassed, threatened and detained for photographing a military parade last year. Police said photographing the soldiers was silly, gay, stupid and a possible threat under the UKs Terrorism Act"
2011-12-18,Outrage over woman's beating fuels new Egypt protests
2011-12-18,The brave women of the Middle East: Female protesters brutally beaten with metal poles as vicious soldiers drag girls through streets by their hair in day of shame 
2011-12-18,"Japanese less likely to trust officials, main media, since disaster:  For many older Japanese, the government remains a trusted, paternal overseer. But younger Japanese are now consulting the Internet and other information sources, rather than depending on major media."
2011-12-18,"Egypt clashes kill 10, undermine Army narrative of democratic transition -- This weekend's renewed violence in Egypt, including the documented use of live ammunition against unarmed protesters, has further eroded confidence in the ruling military council."
2011-12-18,"North Korean labor camps in Siberia 

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2011-12-18,Former Czech President Vaclav Havel Dies at 75
2011-12-18,"Deadly Gas Enters the Arab Spring: Activists across the Middle East are reporting a mysterious toxin, possibly a banned nerve agent, in the thick clouds of tear gas used by security forces to suppress anti-government protests"
2011-12-18,"Top 24 Deep Space Pictures Of 2011 --- 


One for all you budding astronomers. A gallery of the most important deep space images of the year, each one with helpful, comprehensible annotations. Awe-inspiring and educational. Don't miss the beautiful shot of the Orion Nebula"
2011-12-18,"""Israel's political leaders and chief rabbis on Sunday [18 December 2011] condemned persistent efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to shunt Israeli women to the back of public buses, a year after the country's Supreme Court outlawed the practice."""
2011-12-18,Putin regrets that USSR did not fight for survival
2011-12-18,Iran TV shows 'CIA spy' speaking of alleged mission
2011-12-18,"Israel seeks builders for over 1,000 settler homes ... part of a settlement plan it accelerated after Palestinians won recognition by a U.N. body, but a move which complicates a return to negotiations"
2011-12-18,Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood faced a growing backlash from protesters in Tahrir Square after it was accused of collaborating with the country's military leaders to prevent an immediate transition to civilian rule. 
2011-12-18,"British Fishing Industry Makes Controversial EU Deal - It cuts days at sea but increases net size. It's called a 'bitter blow' over quotas - It doubles NE herring quota, raises cod catches 150%, SW haddock 25%,  NE haddock, NE & SW whiting 15%, & Channel sole catches 9%.

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2011-12-18,"Clegg attacks Conservative plans to give married couples tax breaks - Nick Clegg is to attack Tory plans to introduce tax breaks for married couples, claiming ministers must not try to preserve a 1950s model of family life in aspic. "
2011-12-18,"Beijing Tightens Cyber Controls -- China is launching its strongest official measure yet to quell electronic expressions of discontent, clamping down on its versions of Twitter that have increasingly fueled once-rare protests and threaten to undermine its leaders' firm hold on power. "
2011-12-18,Arab Spring: Women in the line of fire
2011-12-18,Russian journalist who investigated government corruption gunned down
2011-12-18,"Typhoon Washi leaves 1,400 dead or missing in Philippines"
2011-12-18,Police issue arrest warrant against Iraqi vice president for the recent parliament blast
2011-12-18,Oil Rig With Dozens on Board Sinks in Russia
2011-12-18,"Troops Beat Cairo Protesters After Clashes - 
Demonstrators beaten in Tahrir Square in 2nd day of clashes that have killed 10 & wounded over 430. Military police openly beat women protesters in the street & slap elders in the face."
2011-12-17,"The founder of a Russian newspaper that investigated government corruption has been shot dead in the North Caucasus region, in what an international watchdog called ""a lethal blow to press freedom"""
2011-12-17,"UK Police sued by women who were ""duped into forming long term relationships with undercover policemen"""
2011-12-17,"Egyptian soldiers charge Tahrir Square, beating protesters and burning tents"
2011-12-17,Tunisia unveils statue to honor the man whose self-immolation started the Jasmine Revolution
2011-12-17,Israeli prisons are being refilled with almost exactly the number of Palestinians that were released in October's prisoner exchange. The 470 arrested since then include 70 children and 11 women.
2011-12-17,"'Alliance between banks and governments at the heart of eurozone crisis':  The 'monstrous irresponsibility' of European banks contributed to the current euro crisis, says Edmund Phelps. But at its core lies a fatal collusion between governments and banks, argues the Nobel Winner in Economics. "
2011-12-17,Tens of millions of dollars in diamond profits are said to be bypassing the treasury of Zimbabwe and ending up with President Robert Mugabe and his supporters
2011-12-17,Uk bankers' secret meetings with ministers: Fears are growing that banks are successfully thwarting Govt's plans to overhaul the British banking system and Treasury is weakening some of the key reforms due to intense lobbying
2011-12-17,Iran Says It Has Arrested Suspected US Spy
2011-12-17,Philippine Floods Kills More Than 400
2011-12-17,"Iran gained control of the drone by overwhelming the GPS signal that was guiding the aircraft with an Iranian signal, an Iranian engineer told The Christian Science Monitor on condition of anonymity"
2011-12-17,Iran 'blinded' CIA spy satellite with a laser burst
2011-12-17,"Arab Spring anniversary: how a lost generation found its voice -- It started with a death in Tunisia, spread to Egypt, Libya, Bahrain and Syria. But one year on, the youth revolt has gone truly global
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2011-12-17,"Bhagavad Gita faces 'extremist' branding, ban in Russia"
2011-12-17,Chinese Protesters Take Over Their Town: Why Beijing Should Expect More  -- Eventually the siege will end but the fundamental challenge to Beijing will not
2011-12-17,"Boat sinks off Indonesia coast, hundreds missing ... boat carrying 380 migrants, most of them from the Middle East, sank off the coast of east Java in Indonesia and hundreds are still missing"
2011-12-17,"Tonga revealed to be hub in global drug trade: Tongan Speaker of Parliament met with Columbian kingpin last year, and recently took a bribe to allow drugs to move through Tonga "
2011-12-17,India : Rich nations cannot hold hostage' interests of majority
2011-12-17,"Cesaria Evora dies, age 70"
2011-12-17,Former Tunisian Regime Goes Beyond Spying On Internet Traffic... To Rewriting Emails & More
2011-12-17,"Germany's alleged witches have been largely forgotten. But thanks to efforts by a small group of activists, a number of German cities have begun absolving women, men and children who were wrongly accused of causing plagues, storms and bad harvests."
2011-12-17,"The Bioterrorist Next Door --- 
Eye-opening detail on scientists who have engineered a killer bird-flu: ""I can't think of another pathogenic organism that is as scary as this. I don't think anthrax is scary at all compared to this."" Should governments stop them?"
2011-12-17,Russian journalist gunned down in violent republic of Dagestan ... Masked killer fired 14 rounds at Khadzhimurad Kamalov as he left his newspaper's office in Makhachkala
2011-12-17,Brazil dam company wins Belo Monte appeal: A judge in Brazil has revoked a decision which had halted work on the Belo Monte dam in the Amazon region. 
2011-12-17,"At least seven people were killed and hundreds injured in Cairo on Friday when Egyptian security forces attempted to forcibly clear a camp of protesters calling for an end to military rule, just a day after historic parliamentary elections. "
2011-12-16,Christopher Hitchens dies at 62
2011-12-16,Police include Occupy movement on terror list - Yahoo!
2011-12-16,Dutch report finds thousands of children were sexually abused in Catholic institutions
2011-12-16,Moscow airport police find 18 canisters of nuclear sodium destined for Iran
2011-12-16,"Julian Assange can appeal against extradition: The supreme court says the WikiLeaks founder's appeal raises questions of general public importance on extradition law
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2011-12-16,Gaddafi's death may be war crime: ICC prosecutor
2011-12-16,The Secret City:  The popes pornographic bathroom
2011-12-16,Victoria's shameful secret: Luxury underwear is made from  cotton picked by 'abused child slaves
2011-12-16,Brazil Now Seeking Permanent Ban on Chevron - after oil spill impedes offshore drilling at a time the country wants to up its output 
2011-12-16,"Officials in the Netherlands for decades failed to protect thousands of children who suffered sexual abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions, an independent inquiry has found"
2011-12-16,End of anonymity in Chinese microblogging - Weibo users will be forced to register with real names
2011-12-16,BBC News - Russia becomes WTO member after 18 years of talks
2011-12-16,Assange Granted Appeal Against Extradition
2011-12-16,"Oil Leaks From Cargo Ship Beached on French Coast - It ran aground off Erdeven beach, a huge nature preserve of dunes & wildlife - People  are warned to stay indoors as rescuers pumped fuel from the hold  (With Photo)"
2011-12-16,Iran official: We tricked the U.S. surveillance drone to land intact
2011-12-16,"Russia supports Canada's withdrawal from Kyoto protocol - 


Russia's foreign ministry has reaffirmed that Moscow will not take on new commitments"
2011-12-16, Inside China's protest village Wukan in Guangdong. A revolt against corruption breaks out and holds out against government forces.
2011-12-16,Israel announces new 'depth' command for long-range (far from Israel's borders) military operations
2011-12-16,BBC News - Thousands abused in Dutch Catholic institutions
2011-12-16,"Skeptics cast doubt on Fukushima status, even as Japan declares nuclear reactors 'stable' "
2011-12-16,"ICC prosecutor says there are ""serious suspicions"" Moammar Gadhafis death was a war crime"
2011-12-16,Japan declares crippled nuke plant stable
2011-12-16,"Deaths from Indian toxic alcohol poisoning rise to 160, with hundreds more critically ill"
2011-12-16,"Victoria's Secret: Child Slaves Forced to Pick Organic ""Fair Trade"" Cotton"
2011-12-16,Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi death may be war crime: ICC prosecutor
2011-12-15,"Police shave mohawks off punks at Indonesia concert - Police in Indonesias most conservative province raided a punk-rock concert and detained 65 fans, buzzing off their spiky mohawks and stripping away body piercings because of the perceived threat to Islamic values."
2011-12-15,"	 Chevron admits it hasnt been able to stop Brazil oil leak - Last month Chevron spilled over 100,000 gallons of oil off the coast. They tried to plug the well with cement, but Chevron had to admit it didn't work."
2011-12-15,"Canada's environmental minister is called a ""piece of shit"" by an opposition MP after Canada  withdraws from Kyoto"
2011-12-15,Junkyard Gives Up Secret Accounts of Massacre in Iraq
2011-12-15,"The European Union Parliament has made a statement opposing SOPA, particularly in reference to the ability of the US to seize domain names.
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2011-12-15,Iceland just became the first Western European country to recognize Palestine
2011-12-15,"France's faulty breast implants scandal: More than 30,000 women have had breast implants filled with industrial silicone instead of medical-grade fillers"
2011-12-15,Vladimir Putin lashes out at America for killing Gaddafi and backing protests 
2011-12-15,Russia's experiencing its biggest protests since the fall of the Soviet Union. Are we witnessing a political awakening?
2011-12-15,BBC News - French ex-President Jacques Chirac guilty of corruption
2011-12-15,"Suspected Jewish extremists torch second Palestinian mosque, deface it with Hebrew graffiti"
2011-12-15,Human Rights Watch says it has identified 74 Syrian commanders and intelligence officials who ordered troops to indiscriminately shoot unarmed protesters
2011-12-15,N Korean soldiers flee into China - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
2011-12-15,Former French president Jacques Chirac found guilty of corruption
2011-12-15,"A Massacre In Jamaica --- 
In 2009 the United States requested the extradition of drug-lord Christopher Dudus Coke from his stronghold in Tivoli Gardens, Kingston. One year later, Prime Minister Golding sanctioned the request. Then all hell broke loose"
2011-12-15,China's real estate bubble is bursting -- economy on the verge of collapse.
2011-12-15,The reputation of the Netherlands as the go-to country for a legal joint will begin to vanish like a puff of smoke next year as sales to foreigners of cannabis and hashish in coffee shops are banned.
2011-12-15,14 bomb-sniffing dogs on way to Afghanistan died in truck
2011-12-15,Chinese village besieged after protests - Police seal off roads and food supplies to village in southern province after rallies against government land seizures.
2011-12-15,"The German capital's entire local train system broke down on Thursday afternoon, leaving thousands stuck in trains on the tracks."
2011-12-15,Iran to exhibit US and Israeli drones
2011-12-15,"Chinese villagers in standoff with riot police call on government to intervene: Wukan village residents have barricaded themselves in over a land dispute in which one person has died
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2011-12-15,French Presidents Residence Busted For BitTorrent Piracy
2011-12-15,Syrian rebels kill dozens of Assad's forces in fresh clashes
2011-12-15,"Netanyahu wants right-wing extremists labeled ""anarchists"" instead of ""terrorists"""
2011-12-14,"""For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt.""  Wukan denizens clash with Chinese police and run all Party officials out of their town."
2011-12-14,"It is on in China: A dispute between farmers and Communist Party officials exploded into open rebellion; villagers chased away government leaders, set up roadblocks and began arming themselves with homemade weapons"
2011-12-14,Mexico: Violent clash between student demonstrators and police. Two students shot dead.
2011-12-14,7.3 Earthquake strikes Paupa New Guinea.
2011-12-14,"IRAN: ""If the world wants to make the region insecure, we will make the world insecure"""
2011-12-14,Armed gang steals millions from Dubai royal family
2011-12-14,"Iran rejects calls to return US spy drone, saying it is now their property and demands apology for invading Iranian airspace"
2011-12-14,"
Britain's fledgling shale gas industry could be stopped in its tracks after dramatic new evidence established a link between fracking & water pollution"
2011-12-14,2 Leaders in Russian Media Fired After Election Articles
2011-12-14,"Witness to an Uprising: What I Saw in Bahrain  An English instructor living in Manama saw a would-be revolution brutally repressed outside his window, so he tried to document it on video, and that's when his troubles started"
2011-12-14,"Norways tax office risks facing pimping charges if it insists on taxing a 29-year-old Lithuanian prostitute, the womans lawyer has said.
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2011-12-14,Shock as retreat of Arctic sea ice releases deadly greenhouse gas - Russian research team astonished after finding 'fountains' of methane bubbling to surface.
2011-12-14,Putin Ally Resigns as Speaker of Parliament after election fraud is exposed
2011-12-14,Prices Spike as Butter Shortage Spreads in Norway - A seller auctioned 500 gm (1.1 lbs) of butter for 30 times the normal price.  A Russian was caught smuggling 90 kg (200 lbs) of butter from Germany into Norway. Authorities warn not to buy butter from strangers.
2011-12-14,How Do You Prove Someone's a Witch in Saudi Arabia? --- Call the religious police's Anti-Witchcraft Unit and get them to set up a sting operation.
2011-12-14,"Social scientist Wilhelm Heitmeyer has been publishing studies on German attitudes for a decade. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses his latest results, which show that Germans' relationship to minorities and the disadvantaged has become increasingly hostile. "
2011-12-14,BBC News - French colonel 'killed himself in pro-Hmong protest'
2011-12-14,Satellite spots China's first aircraft carrier at sea
2011-12-14,"Two File-Sharers from Finland Fined Total of $725,000, Others Asked To Pay Thousands
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2011-12-14,Jailed Afghan rape victim freed
2011-12-14,"Hong Kong is the world's most developed financial market, according to a World Economic Forum report, overtaking the US and the UK for the first time."
2011-12-14,China's abandoned 'Wonderland' theme park
2011-12-14,"""God helped us trap and capture the US surveillance and targetting drone. We have nearly finished decrypting its information and will use that information to mass produce an even better version of it. No, we're not giving it back."" - Senior Iranian Official, Parviz Sorouri"
2011-12-14,European parliamentarian challenges EU Commissioner to a prune-eating contest after committee ruled that prunes do not have a laxative effect
2011-12-14,"How Big Is The North Korean Army? --- 


It's a secret. Or it would be, if the government hadn't kindly published two sets of census data, one national and one local. The national one shows about 700,000 people who aren't captured locally. About right for an army"
2011-12-13,Deadly blasts rock Belgian city
2011-12-13,"Beijing air pollution goes from 'hazardous' to off the charts, literally"
2011-12-13,Canada becomes first nation to pull out of Kyoto Protocol
2011-12-13,"Massive methane leak off the coast of Russia. Hundreds of plumes detected, some over a kilometer wide."
2011-12-13,"We will reverse-engineer US drone and mass produce it in the near future, says top Iranian MP"
2011-12-13,"An Italian man has opened fire in two markets in central Florence, killing two Senegalese traders and injuring three others"
2011-12-13,Hizbullah outs 10 CIA spies on Lebanese television
2011-12-13,"Syria crackdown has killed 5,000 people, UN says"
2011-12-13,Tunisias assembly elects human rights activist as interim president [Washington Post]
2011-12-13,2008 email alerted James Murdoch to hacking -- the first documentation that he may have been notified of the wider problem long before he has admitted.
2011-12-13,Minister in charge of Australia's broadcasting standards drops the f-bomb on live TV
2011-12-13,"Chinese Fishermen File Suit Against ConocoPhillips - Over 100 fishermen filed a lawsuit today seeking compensation, blaming oil spills from some of its offshore wells for damage to their sea cucumber catches"
2011-12-13,"Ten Years Of Medical Marijuana - Wide range of medical marijuana users find relief in pot, despite government misgivings."
2011-12-13,Iran Plans to Hold Military Drill to Close Strait of Hormuz; Oil Surges to $100
2011-12-13, A Fake Challenger for Vladimir Putin? - Billionaire New Jersey Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov has declared his intention to run against Vladimir Putin for the Russian presidency in March. But opposition figures say his candidacys a sham to help legitimize the election.
2011-12-13,"Crisis looms for private schools in Saudi Arabia as 9,000 teachers quit"
2011-12-13,"In a blast to Climate Change legislation, Canada to withdraw from Kyoto Protocol. "
2011-12-13,Canada under fire over Kyoto protocol exit. Environment Minister Peter Kent: ''Kyoto is not the path forward for a global solution for climate change.''
2011-12-13,"Iran must chose between a bomb or survival: Israel ... ""We believe that in order to stop the Iranian military nuclear project, the regime in Tehran should face a dilemma -- whether to have a bomb or to survive,"""
2011-12-13,"Persistent drought in Romania threatens Danube's power - 


Drop in the level of the river's waters means that nuclear reactor may have to close down"
2011-12-13,Pressure for EU net neutrality rules
2011-12-13,"India and China, the new Great Game ... ""China to open first military base in Indian Ocean."""
2011-12-13,"Russia accuses West of 'immoral' stance on Syria:  Russia's foreign minister has accused the West of an ""immoral"" stance on Syria, saying it should condemn the opposition as well as security forces."
2011-12-13,"Deadly attack in Liege, Belgium"
2011-12-13,"Satellite navigation systems may share your every move...when, where and how long you took all collected by company. "
2011-12-12,A South Korean coastguard was stabbed to death by a Chinese fisherman Monday in an operation to apprehend a Chinese vessel operating illegally near South Korean waters
2011-12-12,"As Canada's govt attempts to drag the country back into the last century with its drug and crime policies, a new drug reform umbrella group - Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC) - emerges to fight for smart, sensible, evidence-based alternatives"
2011-12-12,Man throws shoes at Iranian president Ahmadinejad
2011-12-12,UK police to test laser that 'blinds rioters':  The shoulder-mounted laser emits a blinding wall of light capable of repelling rioters
2011-12-12,Burning for Freedom: Self-Immolation in China -  Tibetan Buddhists have been burning themselves alive in China as an act of political protest
2011-12-12,"Poland ""Treatment Not Jail"" Drug Law Now in Effect"
2011-12-12,"'Cleansed' Libyan Town Spills Its Terrible Secrets --- 


A few months ago, Tawergha in northern Libya was a town of 30,000 inhabitants. Now it lies empty. What happened to the people who lived there? And what does it say about reconciliation in post-Gaddafi Libya?"
2011-12-12,Israel agrees to further expand major Israeli settlement in the West Bank.
2011-12-12,"Could the desert sun power the world? Green electricity generated by Sahara solar panels is being hailed as a solution to the climate change crisis
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2011-12-12,Zimbabwe thinks about using Chinese yuan
2011-12-12,Russian Billionaire (and NBA owner) Mikhail Prokhorov to Challenge Putin for Russia's Presidency
2011-12-12,"Mysterious explosion kills 7, injures 16 in Iran"
2011-12-12,"Salafist party vows to ban alcohol, beach tourism in Egypt"
2011-12-12,"Cambodia: prison labor concerns -- A new law legalizes the use of prison labor by private companies, putting Cambodia's ""sweatshop-free"" reputation on the line.
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2011-12-12,"Britain is ruled by the banks, for the banks.

Is David Cameron's kid-glove treatment of the City remotely justified, when it neither pays its way nor lends effectively?
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2011-12-12,"Member of the Iranian parliament's National Security Committee said on Monday that the military was set to practice its ability to close the Gulf to shipping at the narrow Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil transit channel in the world, but there was no official confirmation."
2011-12-12,Canada to withdraw from Kyoto Protocol
2011-12-12,"The Web vs. Putin: Taking on Russia's Old Guard with New Technology  -- The Kremlin seems powerless to stop the online activists as Russians lose their fear. For the first time, Vladimir Putin seems vulnerable."
2011-12-12,New Canadians will now have to show their faces when swearing the oath of citizenship
2011-12-12,"Super-Rich Israelis No Longer Ashamed To Flaunt Their Wealth: ""Israel, despite socialist roots, now has a huge income gap. Displays of riches, such as a $2-million wedding and a 'Real Housewives'-style show, draw awe and contempt."""
2011-12-12,BBC journalist killed in New Zealand street attack  - Telegraph
2011-12-12,Al-Qaeda fighters tunnel out of Yemen jail
2011-12-12,"""Its very likely China will see a trade deficit in the next quarter, said Shen, who previously worked at the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank."
2011-12-12,Putin dismisses election anullment
2011-12-12,"A Chinese man accused of rioting in Guangdong province dies in police custody, with analysts saying his death could stoke tensions.
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2011-12-11,Forced marriages are to become a criminal offence in UK
2011-12-11,Japan causes outrage after confirming it's diverting millions of pounds tagged for the reconstruction of its tsunami-devastated coast to protect its annual Antarctic whale-hunt from environmental activists 
2011-12-11,Pakistan says U.S. drones in its air space will be shot down
2011-12-11,"A man convicted of raping his daughter has been sentenced by a Saudi court to receive 2,080 lashes over a 13-year prison term."
2011-12-11,"North Korea furious at South's Christmas lights plan:  North Korea has warned South Korea of ""unexpected consequences"" if it lights up a Christmas tree-shaped tower near their tense border."
2011-12-11,"Moscow protesters want 'free elections, not revolution'"
2011-12-11,Palestinian shot by tear-gas canister in West Bank dies
2011-12-11,"Outrage at UK's $1bn Loan to Brazil Oil Giant - UK broke promise to champion British firms investing in clean energy, say Greenpeace & World Wildlife Fund - The firm was involved in 18 major spills between 1975-2001 resulting in 150 killed.  In 2010, it shut down for safety reasons."
2011-12-11,Moscow yesterday 
2011-12-11,Mexico Drug Gangs Up Ante With High-Tech Tunnels - Features include a hydraulic lift entrance opened by a fake water tap & elevator & electric rail tracks.  One tunnel stretched 2.5 miles. (With Photo)
2011-12-11,"Jeffrey Sachs: ""That's not a free market, that's a game"". The controversial economist talks about the collapse of the global financial system and how to end the crisis.
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2011-12-11,"Magnitude 6.7 earthquake rocks Guerrero, Mexico"
2011-12-11,"Scotland Yard: 800 Were Hacked By The News of 
the World"
2011-12-11,Germany is the most grown-up country in the world today - it really represents the age of educated middle-class culture.
2011-12-11,Romania must come clean over secret prisons | Amnesty International
2011-12-11,Russian Government television fully covered Saturdays protests in Moscow 
2011-12-11,"A Clear Frustration in Europe. Cameron 
manoeuvred himself into a populist corner from 
which he would no longer emerge. ""Europe doesn't 
need you"". ''In a crisis, a partner must above all be 
loyal and ready to compromise"".  ""The other 
partners must now marginalize Britain""."
2011-12-11,"Tory MP regrets stag party's Nazi toasts, SS costumes and waiter taunts"
2011-12-11,One person was injured in southern Lebanon Sunday when a rocket apparently fired toward Israel hit a Lebanese border village
2011-12-11,"On Russian TV News, in Startling Shift, Straightforward Account of Days Events"
2011-12-11,British Prime Minister David Camerons veto of E.U. pact splinters his coalition
2011-12-11,Internet poses increasing danger to Kremlin's authority:   The Internet has proven instrumental in challenging the Kremlin and mobilizing demonstrators to rally in protest of voting irregularities and accusing the government of election fraud.
2011-12-11,"Chinas Amateur Spying Problem:  Many see Chinas economic espionage as state directed. Actually, marketization of its defense and high-tech industries means there are plenty of freelancers.
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2011-12-11,"Two local politicians from Norways populist Progress Party have called for fines to be issued to people who give money to beggars.
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2011-12-11,"Beyond Guantnamo, a Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates"
2011-12-10,Nationwide protests under way in Russia
2011-12-10,"Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a Rogue Label"
2011-12-10,"Mrs. Clinton warns India, China and other countries that restrictions on the Internet threatened not only basic freedoms and human rights, but also international commerce and the free flow of information"
2011-12-10,"China Awards Peace Prize to Putin.  ""The Confucius Peace Prize was hastily launched last year as an alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize which had just honored imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo."""
2011-12-10,Women's rights in Israel challenged by ultra-Orthodox  including singing in public.
2011-12-10,Dutch apologize for 1947 execution-style massacre of hundreds of Indonesians
2011-12-10,"""Putin Out,"" Russian protesters chant"
2011-12-10,Police now believe 803 had phones hacked in U.K. media scandal
2011-12-10,Moscow election protest draws thousands: Demonstrations held in at least 50 other Russian cities
2011-12-10,"Chavez's 40-year plan to cure Venezuela's ills: ""Socialism, socialism and more socialism"""
2011-12-10,Nobel Peace Prize awarded in Oslo. The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize is presented jointly to three women at a ceremony in Oslo
2011-12-10,"One in three toys made in China contains heavy metals, and one in 10 excessive levels of lead, while labels do not warn of the presence of such substances, according to new research.
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2011-12-10,Only 6 Countries in the World Have Sound Pension Systems.
2011-12-10,"Photos of people protesting in Moscow, Russia taken from helicopter. Massive "
2011-12-10,Saudi Universities Offer Cash in Exchange for Academic Prestige
2011-12-10,"Syrian Forces Kill 43 Protesters, Children, Activist Says"
2011-12-10,Fake Twitter chatter drowns out Russian protesters
2011-12-10,"Thousands Gather in Russia to Protest Legislative Elections - Marchers in Moscow protest what they called fraudulent elections, forcing the Kremlin to confront a level of public anger that has not been seen since Vladimir Putin first became president."
2011-12-10,Thousands Gather in Russia to Protest Legislative Elections
2011-12-10,Australian leads immunisation revolution (Vid)
2011-12-10,"Russia: The long life of Homo Sovieticus --- Soviet politics was ""an artificial construct of doublethink, paternalism, suspicion and isolationism"". Putinism is more of the samewith ""new characteristics such as cynicism and aggression"". Change needed. Don't hold your breath"
2011-12-10,"Tens of thousands of Russians join nationwide vote protest
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2011-12-10,"Germany violated civil rights by not compensating everyone injured by a tangled property dispute stretching across the country's Nazi and socialist eras, the European Court of Human Rights ruled"
2011-12-10,Research In Motion execs who caused plane to be diverted 'chewed through restraints'
2011-12-10,Portugal raids pension funds to meet deficit targets
2011-12-09,Iranian TV airs footage of captured US drone
2011-12-09,A German chemical company says it can recycle rare metals from old solar panels  effectively washing them off in a chemical bath so the different elements can be reused.
2011-12-09,"""The spent batteries Americans turn in for recycling are increasingly being sent to Mexico, where their lead is often extracted by crude methods that are illegal in the United States, exposing plant workers and local residents to dangerous levels of a toxic metal."""
2011-12-09,"French court fines first women for full-face veils ... court slapped fines on women for wearing the full-face covering Islamic niqab veil for the first time Thursday, case could have legal implications across Europe"
2011-12-09,War on Iran has already begun. Act before it threatens all of us.
2011-12-09,Madam who ran gang that forced hundreds of women to work as prostitutes in China has been executed
2011-12-09,Russia's middle class: a growing problem for Putin
2011-12-09,Malawi to review homosexuality ban after US aid threat
2011-12-09,Eurozone countries go it alone with new treaty that excludes Britain
2011-12-09,Russian Government Says It Will Permit Massive Protest This Weekend
2011-12-09,Exxon's deal with the Kurds inflames Baghdad.  The oil giant has defied Iraq's government by signing up to drill in disputed territory
2011-12-09,"Europe's Great Divorce --- 


""The EU's tectonic plates have slipped momentously along same the fault line that has always divided itthe English Channel."" British PM David Cameron says it was ""a tough decision but the right one"" for his country. Is he correct?"
2011-12-09,Dutch state apologizes for 1947 Indonesia massacre
2011-12-09,"Has Europe Reached its Articles of Confederation Moment?: America under the Articles of Confederation was a mess, not unlike Europe today. Could it lead to a stronger European Union?"
2011-12-09,Official: New euro accord to include 23 countries
2011-12-09,Palestinian seriously wounded at West Bank protest by Israeli forces
2011-12-09,"China executes rogue trader, millions still missing
| Reuters"
2011-12-09,"Croatia has signed a treaty to make it the 28th member of the European Union from mid-2013, becoming the EU's second ex-Yugoslav member after Slovenia."
2011-12-09,"UN rights chief presses Syria for access, confirms at least 1,000 security forces killed"
2011-12-09,"Israel carried out more airstrikes in Gaza early Friday, killing one Palestinian"
2011-12-09,Japanese whalers sue Sea Shepherd
2011-12-09,Drone Program Attacked by Human-Rights Groups
2011-12-09,"Were sorry, Japanese government tells Canadian POWs"
2011-12-09,Sudan: Rebels pose challenge to BashirGrowth of rebel groups creates arc of revolt around Khartoum regime.
2011-12-09,"In Syria, a boy lies dead in his home. ""We are not safe, this government is murderous, It is killing people, it is killing its own people.""

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2011-12-08,A Russian Awakening? - Russia's once apolitical youth has taken to the streets of Moscow and launched the largest demonstrations since the collapse of the Soviet Union 
2011-12-08,Japan will spend $29 million of its Tsunami disaster budget to hunt whales.
2011-12-08,Putin accuses US of being behind Russian protests.
2011-12-08,"Bell Pottinger caught rewriting Wikipedia entries - 
The extent of lobbying company's internet manipulation to alter its clients' reputations revealed"
2011-12-08,Inside Romania's secret CIA prison 
2011-12-08,Bill Gates developing nuclear reactor with China
2011-12-08,"Scottish Judge decrees the ancient right to catch salmon with a fly more important than the riverside garden decking owned by a lawyer, who told the fly fishermen to switch to shorter rods & different lures if his greenery was interfering with their fly fishing"
2011-12-08,Vladimir Putin accuses Hillary Clinton of encouraging Russian protests
2011-12-08,"Militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons attack and destroy at least 22 oil tankers parked in Pakistan, carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan."
2011-12-08,"Fukushima Daiichi operator considers plans to dump treated water into sea. Tepco says it is running out of space to store water and may dump it, prompting protests from fishing groups."
2011-12-08,"Assad says only ""crazy"" leaders kill own people"
2011-12-08,"Medvedev's Twitter obscenity shocked ... ""It has become clear that if a person writes the expression 'party of swindlers and thieves' in their blog then they are a stupid sheep getting f****d in the mouth :)"""
2011-12-08,Palestinian mosque in the West Bank torched.  Police suspect the attack is the work of radical Israeli settlers.
2011-12-08,Package sent to Deutsche Bank CEO was bomb
2011-12-08,"Poland to Germany:  ""You have become Europe's indispensable nation. You may not fail to lead: not dominate, but to lead in reform."""
2011-12-08,"Copyright Trolls Auction Off 90 Million in File-Sharing Settlements, a German law firm has started an auction to sell the unpaid settlements of 70,000 alleged file-sharers to the highest bidder.
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2011-12-08,"Leaked Strauss-Kahn Hotel Footage Creates its Own Mystery - 
A compilation of Sofitel Hotel surveillance videos shows him checking out May 14 as well as his accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, apparently reporting his alleged sexual assault to hotel managers"
2011-12-08,Donations to charities in China plunge after scandals ... Charitable donations in China have plunged more than 80 percent because of public mistrust
2011-12-08,49 penguins freed after rescue from New Zealand oil spill
2011-12-08,"Twilight In Damascus --- 


Syrian notebook. The regime has much more violence in reserve. Things will get worse before they get better. But the revolt has endured, it's everywhere, it's not going to crumble. Assad is doomed. Everyone knows it"
2011-12-08,Egypt's Islamists claim most seats in run-offs ... Muslim Brotherhood won a majority of run-off contests
2011-12-08,Syria says pipeline blown up by rebel saboteurs:  A Syrian pipeline carrying oil from the east of the country to a vital refinery in Homs was blown up Thursday in what the official news agency SANA said was an act of sabotage by an armed terrorist group.
2011-12-08,"Mexico earns a rare victory against crime, thwarts Qaddafi son's plans "
2011-12-08,"Egypt's military will have final say on country's new constitution: Scaf generals say they will have final approval over new political system, whatever the outcome of the election
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2011-12-08,Over 20 NATO tankers torched in Pakistan in 1st attack since Islamabad closed the border to protest coalition airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani troops last month
2011-12-07,Petition to pardon computer pioneer Alan Turing started
2011-12-07,"Turnout is near 100% and 99.48% voted for Putin's party, United Russia. In Chechnya. ""I haven't heard about results like that since the Soviet times."""
2011-12-07,"Election fraud in Russia caught on video: ballot-stuffing, erasable ink and more"
2011-12-07,"Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet Union leader, has called for Russia's elections be rerun due to fraud."
2011-12-07,Massive Attack and Thom Yorke from Radiohead back Occupy London protest with secret gig
2011-12-07,"Beijing ""chokes"" under heavy blanket of smog."
2011-12-07,THE LEADERS of Germany and France today declared a federalised Europe is the only way to solve the sovereign debt crisis gripping the continent.
2011-12-07,Saudi Arabia sentences Australian man to 500 lashes over 'blasphemy'
2011-12-07,Anxious Greeks Emptying Their Bank Accounts
2011-12-07,China arrests 600 in huge child trafficking bust
2011-12-07,"Putin's Last Election ---  
His party monopolised media, stuffed ballot boxes, leaned on local officialsand still got less than 50% of the vote. For years he promised to end corruption, improve public services. He didn't. Now Russians have had enough"
2011-12-07,Australian given 500 lashes for blasphemy in Saudi Arabia
2011-12-07,"Police clashed with demonstrators protesting vote fraud in Moscow and at least two other major Russian cities Tuesday, as anger boiled over against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his ruling United Russia party.

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2011-12-07,Google stands up to censorship request by Indian govt.
2011-12-07,"Honduran journalists face 'growing threat': Journalists in Honduras are facing growing danger, the country's human rights commissioner has warned. "
2011-12-07,"Prices Soar as Chinese Bid for Spirits & Tonics Fortified With Rhino Horns & Tiger Bones - This is a year after Prime Minister Wen Jiabao  reaffirmed a ban on such products. Tiger bone wine promises to ""stave off chills, improve circulation & eliminate fatigue"". 
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2011-12-07,A court in China has rejected Apple's lawsuit accusing a Chinese technology company of infringing its iPad trademark.
2011-12-07,Egyptian Salafist Leader: Coptic Christians should not hold high political office in Egypt; government should monitor women's attire and force tourists to abide by Islamic law
2011-12-07,Egyptian Surgeon has proof that depleted Uranium ammo was used against protesters in Egypt Tahrir square
2011-12-07,YouTube tram woman will spend Christmas in jail
2011-12-07,"Protesters surround the US Embassy in Toronto, 
drawing attention to election fraud and genocide in 
the Congo"
2011-12-07,"'Silent coup' rumors swirl in Pakistan after president leaves
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2011-12-07,Earthquake funds used to subsidise Japan's whaling
2011-12-07,"Pakistan President Zardari ""suffers heart attack"""
2011-12-07,"Mexico's war on drugs blights resort of Acapulco:  Five years after President Caldern declared war on Mexico's drug traffickers, residents in Acapulco are haunted by fear and violence
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2011-12-06,Russia has sent interior ministry troops to Moscow and increased the alert level of security forces after a protest of thousands of people opposing Vladimir Putin 
2011-12-06,Iran Revolutionary Guard prepare for war
2011-12-06,"China gave a jolt to United Nations-led climate talks by appearing to call for binding emissions cuts, prompting some industrial powers to reconsider their positions at a conference where few had expected real progress."
2011-12-06,Greenpeace activists successfully break into nuclear power plants in France to show security flaws
2011-12-06,"Dozens of corpses were recovered from the streets of Homs, Syria this week, some of them dismembered, decapitated and bearing signs of torture, activists and residents said Tuesday. 
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2011-12-06,"After a court ordered two of the largest Belgian Internet service providers to prevent their users accessing The Pirate Bay, the local anti-piracy outfit is now urging other ISPs to do the same. Internet providers who refuse to give in to this request within 10 days will be taken to court."
2011-12-06,Thousands protest against Putin in Moscow 
2011-12-06,Iranian forces go on war alert
2011-12-06,Muslim women not used to drinking walk free after attack on woman
2011-12-06,Canadian victory for online privacy.
2011-12-06,India wants websites to screen content about countrys leaders ... Indias top telecom official said Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory remarks
2011-12-06,India not warming up to walmart
2011-12-06,French move to ban prostitution by punishing clients
2011-12-06,"Mexican presidential front-runner struggles to name three books:  Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico's leading presidential contender, was unable to name three books that had influenced him, and could only name one he had read ""parts of""  the Bible.
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2011-12-06,"Russia: Troops on streets of Moscow to police post-election protests
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2011-12-06,"Funny Money --- 
In 2004 Canadian police stopped a suspicious vehicle on the highway. Inside they uncovered stacks of C$20 notes. Near perfect counterfeit. A forgery so widespread it forced a radical re-think of the entire nation's physical currency"
2011-12-06,"60% of Germans believe the euro is not a good idea, according to a poll released Sunday in a German news magazine, nearly a decade after euro coins and notes were introduced.

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2011-12-06,"China is surprise good guy at Durban climate conference: 
World's biggest carbon emitter says it might sign an agreement to change its ways.
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2011-12-06,"The conference on Afghanistan aimed to paint an optimistic future for the country. But the country's inhabitants have no illusions: They know that their military cannot protect them, and that the warlords are jockeying for position. Meanwhile, the Taliban are just waiting for the Americans to leave."
2011-12-06,Monkey arrested by Pakistan for crossing India border - not faking news
2011-12-06,"Twin attacks on Shi'ite holiday kill dozens in Afghanistan - An apparent suicide bomber has attacked a Shi'ite shrine in central Kabul, killing over 50 people, while a bicycle bomb exploded in northern Mazar-i-Sharif, killing at least four."
2011-12-06,"New Jerusalem park a 'ruse' to set up new settlement, activists say: Residents and leftists claim plan designed to block development of two Palestinian neighborhoods in eastern half of city"
2011-12-06,"How Investigators Unravelled Europe's Biggest-Ever Fake-Medicine Scam ---
Story of sting operation that ensnared one of China's most prolific drug counterfeiters. From Viagra to Tamiflu, Kevin Xu was making millions exporting fake medicines to Europe. His downfall? His wife's love of diamonds"
2011-12-06,Mexico drug war casualty: Citizenry suffers post-traumatic stress
2011-12-06,Police criticised after tent dress torn off Occupy Melbourne protester
2011-12-05,Julian Assange wins the right to take his case against extradition to the UK supreme court.
2011-12-05,"Iceland arrests failed bank CEO, a top trader and a broker"
2011-12-05,"Pile-up on Japanese expressway claims 14 luxury cars, including eight Ferraris and a Lamborghini, in what may be the most expensive car wreck of all time."
2011-12-05,"A humanitarian worker was raped after being stopped at a security checkpoint in Egypt. She contacted the British embassy in Cairo for help, but diplomatic staff failed to offer any assistance and says they insisted she travel alone to report the incident to Egypt's security forces"
2011-12-05,"English riots were 'a sort of revenge' against the police. Rioters interviewed for our study say they sought retribution for what they saw as police abuse of power in their communities
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2011-12-05,Fukushima: Inside the Exclusion Zone [pics]
2011-12-05,Chinese government cites self immolation as an act of terrorism
2011-12-05,Evidence of electoral fraud in Russia: turnout of 146% in some areas and 99.48% support for united russia in Chechnya
2011-12-05,"The young protesters who toppled President Mubarak wanted freedom, but instead they are getting Islamic radicals who want to introduce a strict new moral regime."
2011-12-05,Britain's top secret invasion plans stolen in Iranian embassy attack... good job they were for invading France in 1943
2011-12-05,Antarctic's hidden world revealed - Ever wondered what Antarctica would look like without all that ice?
2011-12-05,South Korea has launched an internet television channel to inform its young people about North Korea and the potential consequences of reunification
2011-12-05,"More than 100,000 Vietnamese have been killed or injured by land mines or other abandoned explosives since the Vietnam War ended nearly 40 years ago, and clearing all of the country will take decades more"
2011-12-05,Occupy the Kremlin: Russia's Election Lets Loose Public Rage
2011-12-05,China is experiencing the worst crackdown since 1989 with a rising number of enforced disappearances of activists
2011-12-05,"The hidden ""cold war"" between Tehran and its enemies, especially longtime foe Saudi Arabia, is escalating fast, bringing with it wider risk of conflict"
2011-12-05,"OECD urges raising taxes on high earners: 'average income of the richest 10% of the population in developed economies is now 9 times that of the poorest 10%, having been 5 times as large in the 1980s.'"
2011-12-05,Germans ask: Why doesn't eurozone like us? -- Images of Greek protesters waving signs of German Chancellor Merkel in Nazi uniform have troubled Germans. Many in struggling eurozone countries resent Merkel's hard line.
2011-12-05,"Obituary: Socrates --- 


Footballer. Named after philosopher. Trained as doctor. Captained Brazil's much-admired World Cup team in 1982. Drank and smoked far too much. Died at 57. Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy"
2011-12-05,Pakistan seeks Australia uranium after India ban lifted
2011-12-05,"Why ""conflict diamonds"" are so controversial: 'A major international environmental group pulls out of the process to guarantee that diamonds do not come from conflict zones, saying the Kimberley Process had refused ""to evolve and address the clear links between diamonds, violence and tyranny.'"
2011-12-05,"Argentina is quietly reaching out to Iran, worrying key Western powers and Israel as they try to tighten Tehran's international isolation over its nuclear program, U.N. diplomats"
2011-12-05,Israeli ministers have hit back Hillary Clinton after the top American diplomat was quoted expressing concern over the future of Israel's democracy and the rights of women
2011-12-05,"UK's DPM, Nick Clegg threatened to introduce new laws to clamp down on executive pay; warns the private sector must take its share of the pain in the ""age of austerity"""
2011-12-05,Explosion Seen as Big Setback to Irans Missile Program
2011-12-04,"Iran downed US drone plane by hacking, not shooting it."
2011-12-04,"45,000 evacuated in Germany to defuse WWII-era bomb found in Rhine"
2011-12-04,"At last! Bank Boss Told to Pay Back Bonus - 
Lloyds plans to strip former chief Eric Daniels of 1.5m payout"
2011-12-04,France withdraws embassy staff from Iran
2011-12-04,Head of Russia's only political watchdog detained as elections begin
2011-12-04,Egypt's Islamists win 65% in first round of legislative elections
2011-12-04,"Big 6 Energy Firms Face Fresh Accusations of Profiteering - 
Household electricity bills have soared beyond wholesale cost fluctuations  Lack of transparency in power company costs & prices make it very hard to judge what is going on"
2011-12-04,Most Britons believe children will have worse lives than their parents 
2011-12-04,"Least corrupt place? New Zealand. Worst? Somalia, North Korea"
2011-12-04,Bahraini doctors who gave medical care to anti-government protesters have received prison sentences of five to fifteen years. 
2011-12-04,"Pakistan friendly fire deaths were due to ""errors"" by US officers"
2011-12-04,"D.E.A. Launders Mexican Profits of Drug Cartels: The agents handled shipments of illegal cash across borders to identify how criminal organizations move their money, where they keep their assets and, most important, who their leaders are"
2011-12-04,Russian Elections: Vladimir Putin's United Russia Could Lose The Majority Of Seats
2011-12-04,Vladimir Putin set to lose majority amid complaints of electoral violations
2011-12-04,Sweden only country vetoing EU sanctions against Syria
2011-12-04,Latin America launches new economic alliance - Latin American leaders have met in Caracas to launch a new alliance that some hope will help them stand up to the United States. But finding common ground could prove difficult. 
2011-12-04,"In Russia, ultra-nationalists turn on Putin: They openly mock him and his fellow leader Dmitry Medvedev with almost the same vigor as they do migrants."
2011-12-04,"Independent Russian Websites Hacked, Disabled On Election Day"
2011-12-04,China's poverty line: Life at the bottom of the middle kingdom
2011-12-04,Iran - US war: A clash of imaginations
2011-12-04,New centre-left party takes surprise victory in Slovenia
2011-12-04,Another Asian wake-up call - A drop in external demand means Asia must focus on its own 3.5bn consumers.
2011-12-04,"Putin party suffers setback in Russia vote: Exit polls show United Russia with less than 50% of votes, as leader claims victory in legislative election."
2011-12-04,Israel's right wing frenzy: Conservatives propose new bills to take on citizenship and leftist aid groups
2011-12-04,Australia's Labor party backs uranium sales to India
2011-12-03,Swiss Government Declares Downloading for Personal Use Legal
2011-12-03,"Rebecca Coriam: Lost At Sea --- 
An amazing look at how a young woman disappeared from a Disney crew ship - a shockingly common occurrence. This story could be told as a simple unsolved crime, but the reporter unearths a much larger narrative"
2011-12-03,Swiss Govt: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
2011-12-03,"The Pirate Party Effect: Threatened by the rise of the Pirates, the German Greens Party scrambles to draw up digital policies to hold on to voters "
2011-12-03,Australias Ruling Party Endorses Gay Marriage 
2011-12-03,"UK High Street banks are charging ""eye-watering"" rates of interest on overdrafts: A customer borrowing 100 for 28 days without the consent of Santander would repay 200, for example...  an annualised percentage rate (APR) of 819,100%"
2011-12-03,"New 'Super-Earth' Found With Fine-Tuned Telescope Readings: ""NASA's orbiting Kepler probe initially detected the super-Earth - a distant rocky planet about the size of the Earth - in our Milky Way galaxy about 350 light years from our solar system."""
2011-12-03,"Student Bay Admin Prosecuted in Sweden: After a process lasting more than 3yrs, the 23-yr-old man from Sweden has finally been prosecuted for his role in the operations of Student Bay, a site dedicated to the sharing of textbooks"
2011-12-03,Saudi report claims women at wheel will have sex
2011-12-03,British soldier has been jailed for stabbing a 10-year-old Afghan boy with a bayonet for no reason
2011-12-03,"How Assad Stayed In Power --- Russia has blocked UN action. It sees Syria as buffer against Turkey, ally against US, and base for projecting power into Middle East. Danger comes from Turkeywhich has been slow to back Syrian rebels, but is doing so now"
2011-12-03,Iceland Arrests Former CEO Of Failed Bank
2011-12-03,Myanmar approves first peaceful protest law
2011-12-03,Yemen protests and crackdown continue despite deal: Saleh still acting presidential
2011-12-03,"At least 23 people were reported killed in Syria on Saturday as violence intensified in the eighth month of unrest against President Bashar al-Assad, pushing the death toll close to 4,600, according to a leading activist group."
2011-12-03,Fukushima worse than previously thought: Tepco data shows Japanese nuclear plant narrowly averted bigger catastrophe
2011-12-03,US not invited as Hugo Chvez launches Latin group
2011-12-03,Islamists and secularists clash in Tunisia
2011-12-03,The corruption map
2011-12-03,Vietnam police use fishing nets to capture motorbike street racers
2011-12-03,Russias election watchdog head detained before vote 
2011-12-03,North Mexico wilts under worst drought on record
2011-12-03,"Riot Police Block Most Affected by Climate Change from Entering Climate Conference in South Africa: ""We are the ones who suffer most of the consequences of climate change. We look after families. So why are we not there in the conference?"""
2011-12-03,Canadians raise $36.6M for Movember
2011-12-03,"Europe's new rules will be mostly ""Made in Germany"" "
2011-12-02,"A win-win on drugs? Fighting gangs by legalizing pot: Copenhagen voted overwhelmingly to remove its cannabis prohibition.  
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2011-12-02,"One of Britain's biggest unions has demanded that the BBC sack popular ""Top Gear"" host Jeremy Clarkson for saying public sector workers on strike should be executed in front of their families"
2011-12-02,"2 days before the parliament elections in Russia Livejournal is shut down by the government. It's like Reddit for the Russian opposition, so it is a big blow"
2011-12-02,Anti-piracy group BREIN is caught up in a huge copyright scandal in the Netherlands
2011-12-02,Syria bans iPhones from country due to protest footage
2011-12-02,The moment protesters found a plain-clothes cop in their midst - Crime - UK - The Independent
2011-12-02,"In UK, eight policemen accused of perverting the course of justice over wrongful conviction of 3 men for the murder of prostitute Lynette White in 1988 walked free after a ""serious error""... investigators destroyed files of documents
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2011-12-02,Pakistan military ordered to return fire if attacked by Nato forces
2011-12-02,Legendary natural history documentary maker Sir David Attenborough has spoken out about the dangers of climate change.
2011-12-02,"Italian TV bans mention of condoms on World Aids Day, claims newspaper. The alleged ban was the result of a request from Italy's ministry of health. "
2011-12-02,"Egypt: 'Virginity test' case postponed, victim applauded as hero"
2011-12-02,Germany's Angela Merkel announces Europe-wide 'fiscal union'
2011-12-02,BBC News - New Icelandic volcano eruption could have global impact
2011-12-02,Syria now in state of civil war says United Nations as death toll passes 4000 mark
2011-12-02,Putin prepares the Russian empire to strike back 
2011-12-02,Moderate Egyptians haunted by rising prospect of Islamist rule
2011-12-02,"India and China: Commence ""cold peace"""
2011-12-02, Attack on UK embassy in Iran 'had support of the state'
2011-12-02,BBC News - Kremlin accused of trying to gag election monitors
2011-12-02,Chevron's South American Headaches Continue; Brazil Shuts Down Oil Well
2011-12-02,Pakistan Chief Of Army suspends 'chain of command' system to thwart Nato's aggression
2011-12-02,"Syrian army defectors are targeting military convoys sent to reinforce President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown on popular unrest, a senior rebel said, increasingly taking the fight to Assad's forces in response to what he called state brutality."
2011-12-02,"For Long-Suppressed Libyan Minority, New Freedom Brings an Identity Crisis - 
After centuries of being told their culture is forbidden, can Berbers figure out what it means to be Amazigh today?"
2011-12-02,"The Kremlin's Dangerous Flirtation with Nationalism:  Ahead of Russia's parliamentary elections on Sunday, the pro-Kremlin parties are using nationalist rhetoric in a bid to exploit growing right-wing sentiment in the country. But it's a dangerous game, they could pose a threat to Vladimir Putin."
2011-12-02,"Syrian crackdown should be referred to International Criminal Court, UN human rights chief says "
2011-12-01,Women held against her will on Scientology cruise ship for 12 years!
2011-12-01,Nearly 50% of the Young People in Greece and Spain Are Unemployed 
2011-12-01,"This weekend, a large section of the German city of Koblenz will come to a standstill as bomb experts gingerly defuse a massive World War II bomb that recently emerged from the Rhine River due to low water levels "
2011-12-01,Australia ranked least corrupt country in the G20
2011-12-01,"Japan nuclear meltdown ""maybe worse than thought"". TEPCO said their latest calculations showed the fuel inside the No. 1 reactor at the tsunami-hit plant could have melted entirely, dropping through its inner casing and eroding a concrete base. "
2011-12-01,"Factories stalling worldwide - ""Manufacturing activity is contracting across Europe and most of Asia, data showed on Thursday, and a Chinese official declared that the world economy faces a worse situation than in 2008 when Lehman Brothers collapsed."""
2011-12-01,No right to pray for Muslim pupil at German school:  Germany's top administrative court has ruled that a student does not have an automatic right to pray at school.
2011-12-01,German prosecutors have confirmed they are investigating claims that Iran planned to attack American military bases in Germany if the US launched air strikes against Iranian targets
2011-12-01,Islamists Set to Win 65% Majority in Egyptian Elections.
2011-12-01,"Enraged by a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 soldiers, Pakistan is considering withdrawing its support for the U.S.-led war on terror if its sovereignty is violated again"
2011-12-01,A mental health nurse has broken her silence about working inside Australia's immigration detention system.
2011-12-01,BBC News - Hungary outlaws homeless in move condemned by charities
2011-12-01,"China 'hiding up to 3,000 nuclear warheads in secret tunnels': An unconventional project by US university students has concluded that China's nuclear arsenal could be many times larger than current estimates, drawing the attention of Pentagon analysts.
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2011-12-01,"New Zealand tops the list of the worlds cleanest governments, followed by Finland and Denmark, while Somalia and North Korea tied for the dubious distinction of most corrupt"
2011-12-01,"NATO attack on Pakistan no mistake, sources say
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2011-12-01,Karzai: Afghan rape victim free to decide if she wants to stay in prison
2011-12-01,India: Angry snake charmer lets loose snakes in a govt. office after being denied land
2011-12-01,"Mexico unearths 1,800 foot drug tunnel"
2011-12-01,Norway accused of hypocrisy over Indonesian deforestation funding: Oil-rich country's sovereign wealth fund accused of investing in companies destroying rainforest
2011-12-01,A Colombian court has sentenced a soldier to 54 years in prison for killing three people and passing them off as rebels killed in combat
2011-12-01,China's manufacturing activity falls to a 32-month low
2011-12-01,"Under Pet-Hating Dictator, a Hard Life for Man's Best Friend"
2011-12-01,Germany probing alleged Iran plot to attack U.S. bases on its soil. Prosecutor General confirms report in Bild reported that a German businessman is suspected of espionage for purpose of sabotage
2011-12-01,"In Ecuador, a young shark ""massacre"":  A legal loophole has endangered some shark species  and enriched fishermen. -- Ecuador allows fishermen who accidentally catch sharks in their nets to sell them, without any methods to determine whether the sharks were netted on purpose.
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2011-12-01,Muslim Brotherhood says leads Egypt's vote count
2011-11-30,"UK experiencing the worst disruption to services in decades as more than 2 million public sector workers stage a nationwide strike, closing schools and bringing councils and hospitals to a virtual standstill"
2011-11-30,Suez Port Employees Reveal 21-Ton US Tear Gas Order for Interior Ministry: workers refuse to receive initial 7 ton shipment as the interior ministry looks to restock after firing tear gas at protesters in Egypt for six days last week
2011-11-30,"""Privacy is for paedos; fundamentally nobody else needs it"" - Paul McMullan at the Leveson Inquiry"
2011-11-30,Australian state legalises same-sex civil unions
2011-11-30,The UK is to expel all Iranian diplomats following the storming of its embassy in Tehran
2011-11-30,Occupy Montreal protesters branded by police with numbers only visible under a UV light
2011-11-30,Intelligence officials quoted as saying that satellite images show this week's reported blast at Iran's Isfahan nuclear plant was 'no accident.'
2011-11-30,Georgetown students about to release major paper that sheds light on Chinas tunnel system that may be hiding a large nuclear arsenal
2011-11-30," Every year, 12,000 women and girls are trafficked from Nepal to a life of sexual servitude in India. Many can never go back.
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2011-11-30,"Hague says Iran will face 'severe consequences' over embassy attack:
Foreign secretary says despite apology Tehran had breached Vienna convention in failing to protect a diplomatic mission
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2011-11-30,"In an impassioned speech, Poland appeals to Germany to save Europe"
2011-11-30,"Nigerian senate passes anti-gay bill, defying British aid threat"
2011-11-30,Turkey imposes economic sanctions on Syria
2011-11-30,Belgium will finally have a federal government after the longest formation ever. The formation of a new federal governement took 538 days
2011-11-30,"Norwegian disbelief at Breivik 'insanity': The Norwegian public, politicians and experts alike are expressing surprise at the verdict of the forensic psychiatrists assessing Anders Behring Breivik"
2011-11-30,Presidential elections in South Ossetia result in surprise defeat for Moscow favorite; court annuls vote.
2011-11-30,"""Privacy is for paedos"": former News of the World man and tabloid veteran Paul McMullan. ""...in 21 years of invading people's privacy I've never found anybody doing any good""."
2011-11-30,BBC News - Eurozone unemployment rate rises to 10.3%. Youth unemployment in Spain rose to 48.9%.
2011-11-30,UK diplomats 'pull out of' Iran
2011-11-30,"There is mounting speculation that the euro zone will break apart, or even that the single currency will be abandoned altogether. It often sounds as if such scenarios wouldn't be so bad for Germany. In fact the consequences would be catastrophic for Europe and for its largest economy. "
2011-11-30,"Israel to release frozen PA funds -  PM's office says it intends to unfreeze money after Palestinians halted ""unilateral moves"" at UN."
2011-11-30,"UK expels Iran diplomats after embassy attack
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2011-11-30,"With the euro on the brink, all eyes are on Germany. Romano Prodi, a former Italian prime minister and the ex-president of the European Commission, says in an interview that Germany, as the most powerful country on the Continent, must finally step up and show the courage to resolve the debt crisis."
2011-11-30,"German exports reach record highs despite debt crisis - In 2011, over a trillion euro's worth of German goods were sold abroad. Deutsche Welle spoke to the head of the Federation of German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services to find out whether next year will be as good."
2011-11-30,"China says big climate deal is 'too much'
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2011-11-29,Anders Behring Breivik 'not accountable for attacks'. Psychiatrists have found that Anders Behring Breivik was insane at the time of the crime.
2011-11-29,"Medical journal calls on hospitals to scrap parking fees - Canada's top medical journal is calling for an end to universally loathed hospital parking charges, calling parking fees a barrier to health care that should be scrapped."
2011-11-29,"Canadians willing to shell out $6.3 billion towards saving the arctic circle's 15,000 remaining polar bears, $420,000 a head -  Environment Minister Peter Kent: If you were to ask me, Id say, priceless "
2011-11-29,Racist woman on UK train arrested
2011-11-29,"""...an unnamed officer with the Toronto Police Service wrote: '...we were given specific direction...anyone with a backpack was to be searched and if they refused...then they would be arrestable...'"""
2011-11-29,Denmark aims for 100 percent renewable energy in 2050. Danish government proposals on Friday called for sourcing just over half of its electricity from wind turbines by 2020 and all of its energy from renewable sources in 2050.
2011-11-29,Iranian students have broken into the British embassy in Tehran
2011-11-29,Israeli newspaper: Nearly 100% of all Israeli military court cases in West Bank end in conviction for the Palestinian defendants.
2011-11-29,"Nigeria approves Bill criminalising gay marriage - Nigeria's senate voted on Tuesday to criminalise gay marriage, instituting prison terms of more than a decade for violations in a nation where gays and lesbians already face discrimination and abuse."
2011-11-29,Rockets from Lebanon landing in the north of Israel
2011-11-29,BBC News - Iran protesters break into UK embassy in Tehran
2011-11-29,Russia activates missile early warning radar system
2011-11-29,Is a U.S. Mining Company Funding a Violent Crackdown in Indonesia?
2011-11-29,"Taiwan's voters have the upper hand: Political parties are forced to reach out to a well-informed electorate
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2011-11-29,BBC News - Pakistan blocks BBC World News TV channel
2011-11-29,Stalin's Daughter Dies
2011-11-29,"China bans ads during TV drama shows ... in ""culture boost"""
2011-11-29,Iranian mob storms British Embassy in Tehran
2011-11-29,"Canada Says Kyoto Protocol 'Biggest Blunder,' May Withdraw "
2011-11-29,"Canada Tosses Wheat Board with the Chaff: Evan Berger say: "".. we are giving back a property right, a freedom of choice, to farmers who make large investments, who have the wherewithal to sell their grain to whomever, whenever, at what price they see fit,"""
2011-11-29,Irate Pakistan closes border to US: Two essential US supply routes into Afghanistan are shuttered
2011-11-29,"Euro Area Is Coming To An End --- The markets have sent Germany a message. It's no longer a safe haven, and there is no painless solution to euro troubles. This is the beginning of the end for the currency zone. Here's why, and how it's likely to play out"
2011-11-29,Turkey Tuesday raised the option of military intervention in neighboring Syria while Russia rejected even an arms embargo as Damascus tries to stifle anti-government protests.
2011-11-29,"Poor rural villages show China's economic dilemma, Should China bail Europe out or help its own poor farmers?
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2011-11-29,"Islamic militant group al-Shabab bans 16 aid groups  including a half dozen U.N. agencies  from central and southern Somalia, a decision likely to harm Somalis already suffering from drought and famine"
2011-11-28,"A Chinese entrepreneur's bid for 30,639 hectares (120 sq mi) of Iceland was denied, prompting the investor to say it reveals western ""hypocrisy & deep prejudice"".  Iceland limits foreigners buying property to protect its independence & ensure citizens - rather than foreigners - benefit."
2011-11-28,"Record numbers of young Japanese do not have boyfriends or girlfriends, and many do not want one."
2011-11-28,Wyclef Jean squandered Haitian relief funds: report - Yahoo! News
2011-11-28,Pope faces lawsuit in Germany for not wearing seatbelt
2011-11-28,"War on Drugs: Latin American leaders consider legalizing both marijuana and cocaine. Meanwhile, the US remains firmly opposed to legalizing marijuana, as federal authorities crack down on dispensaries and growers. The White House does not support legalization, mostly because ""it isn't good for you."""
2011-11-28,"Rick Falkvinge: The Copyright Industry  A Century Of Deceit: ""Every time something new appears, the copyright industry has learned to cry like a little baby... and succeeds practically every time to get legislators to channel taxpayer money their way or restrict competing industries.""
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2011-11-28,Julian Assange: Internet Has Become 'Surveillance Machine'
2011-11-28,"Children Of The Revolution --- 
Chinese Communist Party leaders mostly have enough sense to make a show of austerity. Their children aren't nearly so tactful. Generation of princelings drives around in Ferraris. Public backlash reaches dangerous level"
2011-11-28,Afghans Say Pakistan Fired First in NATO Attack
2011-11-28,Rupert Murdoch offered a 13 y'old Charlotte Church 'good press' in return for singing at his wedding... for free.
2011-11-28,UK secretly helping Canada push its oil sands project: Canadian interests and oil lobby win coalition's support for highly polluting process in runup to European fuel quality vote
2011-11-28," UN report - Syrian military murdered 256 children, sexually abused kids"
2011-11-28,"Rick Falkvinge, founder of the first Pirate Party in Sweden, has earned a spot in Foreign Policys prestigious list of Top 100 Global Thinkers"
2011-11-28,A Kenyan court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir over alleged war crimes in Darfur. 
2011-11-28,"Polls open in Egypt's landmark elections: Egyptians vote for first time since Hosni Mubarak was toppled, as protests continue across country for tenth day."
2011-11-28,Syria troops 'have killed 250 children'
2011-11-28,Peace Corps pulls out of Kazakhstan due to rife incidents of sexual assaults against female volunteers
2011-11-28,Euro Zone on the Brink - A Continent Stares into the Abyss
2011-11-28,France overturns ban on planting GM crops
2011-11-28,"Syria: United Nations documents credible evidence that high-ranking officers consistently, across the country, issued orders to shoot at civilian homes and unarmed protesters, and records evidence of systemic torture and sexual violence against those in custody"
2011-11-28,"French President Sarkozy worries about the Internet 'stealing audience share' from 'regulated' TV services. Further asks: ""Who would buy the film or music if you can access it free of charge?"" "
2011-11-28,Stalin's only daughter dies in US
2011-11-28,Pakistan denies provoking NATO strike
2011-11-28,Document: 1600 Fukushima Workers Thought to Be Exposed to High Radiation
2011-11-28,Islamists win most seats in Moroccan vote 
2011-11-27,Vancouver Mayors Say Legalize Marijuana:  anti-pot policies have failed to reduce marijuana's availability and that prohibition has fueled violence in British Columbia communities
2011-11-27,"This Russian anti-gay bill is nothing short of medieval barbarity - 
If St Petersburg gets its way, the state-sanctioned hatred of LGBT people could spread across eastern Europe"
2011-11-27,"Israel threatens to cut off power, water to Gaza"
2011-11-27,"The African boom. After decades of war, disease, and plummeting living standards, the continent is on the rise. What happened?"
2011-11-27,Pakistan tells NATO to leave air base
2011-11-27,Sexual assault of French journalist Caroline Sinz in Tahrir Square caught on video 
2011-11-27,"Fresh Wave of Killings by Hunters Takes Indonesian Orangutan to Brink of Extinction - Conservationists urge authorities to take action.  ""So far in the entire history of orangutan conservation here, only 2 people have ended up in jail because of illegal activities related to orangutans."" "
2011-11-27,What Really Happened to Strauss-Kahn? 
2011-11-27,"FPI Sues Pirate Bay Admins in Finland, Demands Further ISP Blocks"
2011-11-27,"""Death to Al-Saud"" Chants by thousands in Saudi Arabia Eastern Province: A Game Changer?"
2011-11-27,"Prepare For Riots In Euro Collapse, Foreign Office Warns: ""British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single currency, amid new fears for Italy and Spain."""
2011-11-27,A tank tries to run over protesters in Saudi Arabia 
2011-11-27,Adidas Launches $1 Sneakers in India
2011-11-27,More than a dozen die in Jurez massacre
2011-11-27,"Libya's former rebels have illegally detained thousands of people, including women and children. An estimated 7,000 detainees are being held, including women, children and black Africans -- and many have been tortured"
2011-11-27,"It Is Not Inevitable That The EU -- Or Democracy -- Will Survive This Mess: ""Europe may well muddle through with technocrats and tighter straitjackets, but the rule of the people must be guarded"" "
2011-11-27,"Engineers Return to China Leads to Jail & Limbo  - The problem is, he cannot find out exactly who wants him & why"
2011-11-27,UAE court jails 5 internet activists to prison terms after finding them guilty of charges including insulting the Gulf state's leaders
2011-11-27,Pakistan Cuts Off NATO Supply Route
2011-11-27,Police in Germany say they have cleared thousands of protesters who were trying to block a trainload of nuclear waste.
2011-11-27,"Vladimir Putin rallies obedient crowd at party congress:  Echoes of Soviet era as Russian PM formally accepts nomination to run for president in front of chanting supporters
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2011-11-27,Afghanistan says it will take over security in half of country
2011-11-27,"
Perched near the Arctic Circle, the Swedish town of Luleaa hopes to become vibrant European data traffic hub "
2011-11-27,"Colombian Rebels Executed 4 After Holding Them Hostage for 10 Years - 
 Their bodies were found in chains, 3 shot in the head & 1 in the back.  One police sergeant managed to escape. The rebels have a policy of killing hostages if troops approach their camps, & this was a botched rescue."
2011-11-27,Human rights activist convicted of tax evasion in Belarus 
2011-11-26,"India's poorest states has established a bicycle subsidy for school girls, which has caused the number of girls enrolled in school to more than double"
2011-11-26,Britain unites with smaller countries to block US bid to legalise cluster bombs
2011-11-26,"""Many had conceived children and the girl children, some just babies only a few months old, were being raped as well."" "
2011-11-26,Iceland Rejects Chinese Billionaire's Land Plan
2011-11-26,"Fury erupts as India opens door to Wal-Mart, other big foreign firms:  One lawmaker says she'll burn down any store the foreign retailer opens in the country. The uproar highlights the divide between the emerging middle class and the poor."
2011-11-26,Italy collapse would be the 'end of the euro' 
2011-11-26,"Pakistan demands USA vacate suspected drone base, sets fifteen-day deadline"
2011-11-26,Officials: NATO chopppers kill 25 Pakistani troops
2011-11-26,"Egyptian officer suspected of being 'The Eye Hunter,' targeting & shooting protester's eyes in Cairo's Tahrir Square."
2011-11-26,Russian backlash over Putin booing denial
2011-11-26,Protesters dig in to keep pressure on Egypt army 
2011-11-26,"Nato helicopters have fired on a military checkpost near Pakistan's Afghan border, killing up to eight soldiers"
2011-11-26,China to Cancel College Majors That Don't Pay
2011-11-26,NATO forces 'attack' Pakistan military post
2011-11-26,"Pakistani woman suspected of killing, cooking husband"
2011-11-26,Philippines overtakes India as call center hub. The growth reflects in part the maturation of the outsourcing business and in part a preference for American English.
2011-11-26,Indonesia's 'Golden Gate Bridge' collapses; 3 dead
2011-11-26,Mexican president accused of war crimes 
2011-11-26,"There are over 21,000 school-aged children living on reserves in Manitoba. If current education trends hold true, eight in 10 of them will never graduate from high school."
2011-11-26,Chavez repatriates Venezuela's foreign gold reserves
2011-11-26,Hungary's debt downgraded by Moody's to junk status
2011-11-26,"Prison Echoes --- 
Iranian writer, Shahrnush Parsipur, whose novels are banned in her home country, recalls her imprisonment in early years of the Islamic Republic. A record of terrible suffering and injustice, with mass executions carried out by heavy machine gun"
2011-11-26,Pakistan stops NATO supplies after raid kills 28
2011-11-26,India's waste pickers brave landfills to live
2011-11-26,"Venezuela Receives First Gold Shipment From Europe
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2011-11-25,"Two bankers that a week ago caused the collapse 
of two banks in Latvia and Lithuania are arrested 
today in London. Lithuania says their banks will be 
liquidated, the government should not waste 
taxpayers' money trying to help ""a plane that won't 
fly."""
2011-11-25,Wind power to make up half of Danish energy use by 2020 & the country aims to be 100% free of fossil fuels by 2050
2011-11-25,"Egypt police detain, beat, sexually assault US-based journalist Mona Eltahawy; other journalists also targeted : ""The whole time I was thinking about article I would write,"" she writes, ""Just you fuckers wait."" "
2011-11-25,Aussie man stays with is house during a huge bush fire then watches it go over his head submerged in his neighbours pool wearing SCUBA gear.
2011-11-25,6 Afghan children 'killed by Nato air strike'
2011-11-25,Egypt's leaders label female protesters 'prostitutes'
2011-11-25,Thai Facebookers warned not to 'like' anti-monarchy groups
2011-11-25,Snowless Scandinavians wonder 'where's winter?' 
2011-11-25,North Korea threatens 'a sea of fire' upon South Korea
2011-11-25,"Writer/Activist Mona Eltahawy Arrested, Beaten, Sexually Assaulted By Police In Cairo"
2011-11-25,"Swedish researcher defines 'now', philosophy researcher published a paper on time perception, where a now is described as two seconds long, and made up of a past and a present.

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2011-11-25,"Boy, 14, 'posed as spy to arrange his own murder'"
2011-11-25,Korean high school student kills mother.  Keeps body at home for 8 months.
2011-11-25,"Nearly three-quarters of Britons think it is inappropriate for children under 12 to own a mobile phone, despite the fact that most kids already have them | Reuters"
2011-11-25,Church tells patients to give up HIV drugs after claiming they were 'healed' - Sky News
2011-11-25,Ganzouri regains PM job amid rival protests in Cairo
2011-11-25,America woman and partner attending family wedding in Pakistan murdered in suspected honour killing 
2011-11-25,"'Cure for cancer' rumour killed off Vietnam's rhinos 
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 The belief that powdered rhino horn cured cancer 
is being blamed for surge in demand that has wiped 
out 3 species"
2011-11-25,Pakistan To Take Up Deadly U.S. Drone Strikes In United Nation
2011-11-25,Sierra Leone: Timber! - A story of corruption that is stripping the west African country bare. (video report)
2011-11-25,Portugal flights grounded by general strike over austerity measure
2011-11-25,Italy Borrowing Costs Almost Double as Euro Tumbles
2011-11-25,"Can S. America China-ify its Economy Without Destroying the Amazon?
 - A new, under-the-radar infrastructure is cutting huge swaths of the Amazon to reorient it toward trade with China. 'The South America Project' is the watchdog. 75% of deforestation occurs within a 30-mile strip along highways."
2011-11-25,Belgium credit rating downgraded by S&P:  Belgium has had its credit rating downgraded by ratings agency Standard & Poor's.
2011-11-25,"BBC - Nuclear power 'gets little public support 
worldwide'"
2011-11-24,EU court rules that ISP can't be forced to block file sharing
2011-11-24,Brazil suspends Chevron's drilling rights
2011-11-24,"Slavery thrives in Chinese prisons, selling products to the West"
2011-11-24,"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemns international supporters of Arab pro-democracy protests, expresses nostalgia for Mubarak regime."
2011-11-24,Iran 'arrests 12 CIA agents'
2011-11-24,Saleh steps down
2011-11-24,"The Axis of No:  How the Arab Spring made accidental allies out of Moscow and Beijing. 
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2011-11-24,"Video shows Egypt's Central Security Forces unilaterally breaking a two-hour old truce with protesters unprepared for the latest wave of tear gas attacks.  Crowds were chanting ""peaceful, peaceful"" and ""Whoever loves Egypt, doesn't wreck Egypt""."
2011-11-24,Russia reminds the U.S. it still has nuclear missiles.
2011-11-24,"The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which underwrites AIDS treatment for about half the people getting it in developing countries, announced Wednesday that it will make no new grants for the next two years because of the worldwide economic downturn."
2011-11-24,The Iranian Threat by Noam Chomsky
2011-11-24,"Cameroon jails men over gay sex. A court in Cameroon sentences three men to five years in prison for homosexual acts, which are illegal in the central African nation"
2011-11-24,"Frustrated Delhi man slaps one of India's most (allegedly) corrupt politicians: Sharad Pawar  The actual video, interview with the man & reactions from India's top level leaders"
2011-11-24,"Libyan rebels detaining thousands illegally, Ban Ki-moon reports"
2011-11-24,Mona Eltahawy: I was sexually assaulted by Egypt police
2011-11-24,Egyptian Military Using Nerve Gas on Protesters
2011-11-24,Report: U.S. carrier sent to Syrian coast as tensions flare
2011-11-24,European debt crisis rattles Germany
2011-11-24,"Libyan government holding 7,000 prisoners, UN says"
2011-11-24,Portugal braces for general strike against austerity cuts
2011-11-24,Swiss grapple with history of forced child labor
2011-11-24,"The decadence of the West --- Chinas governing class has its eye on history. Ours has its eye on the next election and next quarters earnings. If the time horizons remain this different, and the stewardship gap this huge, whos a better bet to come out stronger in the decades ahead?"
2011-11-24,"Twelve suspected CIA agents have been arrested in Iran, according to an Iranian politician. They were allegedly working with Israeli's intelligence service, the Mossad"
2011-11-24,"Jailed Afghan rape victim has sentence reduced, remains in jail."
2011-11-24,"Mubaraks Playbook:  Rambling and self-justifying speeches, promised concessionsthe Supreme Councils tactics seem familiar"
2011-11-23,"James Murdoch resigns as director of Sun, Times and Sunday Times"
2011-11-23,Afghan woman's choice: 12 years in jail or marry her rapist and risk death
2011-11-23,"Portugal decriminalized all drug use in 2000. Since then, contrary to expectations, drug use hasn't risen significantly - and use among adolescents decreased. "
2011-11-23,Murdoch's News Corp accused of trying to bribe Australian senator
2011-11-23,"Egyptian Army Captain joins revolutionaries in Tahrir, says the armed forces belong to the people, and ""should never be above the people."", and attempts to pass constitutional amendments that put the military council above the rest of Egyptian society are ""a very dangerous issue."""
2011-11-23,"Canadian RCMP watch porn on the job instead of investigating missing women. Harassed female officer and shared their 'fantasy' with her: ""They wanted to see Willie Pickton escape from prison, track me down and strip me naked, string me up on a meat hook and gut me like a pig."""
2011-11-23,"Tear Gas in Tahrir Square - 
""I havent felt such clarion will since the revolution. It feels like another one may be beginning "" - Everyone is angry. You can sense it. Everyone has lost patience. The more violent they are, the more people come.




    
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2011-11-23,"Russia Prepares to Destroy U.S. Shield, Medvedev Says - Businessweek"
2011-11-23,"Uganda  the Coffee King Desperate for a Downpour - Villagers have no scientific understanding of why it's hotter & there's less rain, but they instinctively believe it's because there are fewer trees. Though among the lowest polluters in the world, they argue they should plant more trees.


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2011-11-23,Thailand lese majeste man jailed for 20 years. A man who sent text messages deemed insulting to Thailand's monarchy has been jailed for 20 years.
2011-11-23,Peruvian mayor claims metal in the drinking water is making his town gay
2011-11-23,African Union declares the Lord's Resistance Army terrorists
2011-11-23,Signal picked up from Russia's stranded Mars probe
2011-11-23,"Landmine use 'highest since 2004' despite record clearances:  More countries deployed anti-personnel mines last year than in any year since 2004, an international survey of landmines has found."
2011-11-23,"The Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has apologised for the killing of more than 13,000 Kurds by the Turkish military in the late 1930s. "
2011-11-23,"Libyan PM snubs Islamists, names cabinet of secularists."
2011-11-23,Turkish PM apologizes over 1930s killings of Kurds
2011-11-23,"Mining tax a step closer for Australia after passing lower house - 

30% levy on the biggest profits from minerals boom will fund infrastructure, pensions & business tax cuts"
2011-11-23,MOSCOW (AP)  Russia's president threatened on Wednesday to deploy missiles to target the U.S. missile shield in Europe if Washington fails to assuage Moscow's concerns about its plans
2011-11-23,General Strike to be held in Greece
2011-11-23,Clandestine photos from Syria  Some of the few that made it out of the country
2011-11-23,"German 10-year bond auction a ""disaster"""
2011-11-23,UNESCO Promotes Syria to Human Rights Position
2011-11-23,"
The right to die in Canada: An emotional plea from a disabled woman reignites the debate"
2011-11-23,"In West Africa, a Radio Station (Built From Podcasts)  - 
It's one of the most turbulent regions in the world. That's why West Africa Democracy Radio is promoting open society through their broadcasts they've hacked together from technology designed for music sharing "
2011-11-22,Voice of Russia: The US and the West have long criticized China for stifling dissent and for censorship but now they are not only joining China but they are taking censorship even further and attempting to censor the whole world
2011-11-22,"Pope Benedict XVI backtracks, says AIDS is an ethical problem that needs medical solution, and NOT spread by condoms."
2011-11-22,South Korean Legislator Sets Off Tear Gas Bomb in the National Assembly
2011-11-22,The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) provisions are so vague that it will go against fundamental freedoms and lead to privatized online censorship!
2011-11-22,Swedish man bursts into flames while waiting for train
2011-11-22,Occupy Vancouver complies with eviction notice and moves one-block away
2011-11-22,"Rich nations 'give up' on new climate treaty until 2020:  Ahead of critical talks and despite pledge for new treaty by 2012, biggest economies privately admit likelihood of long delay
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2011-11-22,"Egyptians Confront Police Violence, Forced Virginity Tests, & Torture to Save Their Revolution"
2011-11-22,Egyptian government resigns
2011-11-22,China Sentences to Death Tycoon in Real Estate Funding Scam--To Restore Consumer Confidence
2011-11-22,Extent of injuries to children in private UK jails revealed
2011-11-22,Tibetan Monks/Nuns Burning Selves over Chinese Occupation of Tibet
2011-11-22,South African state secrecy bill is passed.
2011-11-22,"Archbishop Tutu condemns South Africa 'secrecy bill':  Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu has strongly condemned a new media law, which South African MPs are set to vote on shortly."
2011-11-22,"Egyptian calling for ""Second Revolution"" as death toll rises"
2011-11-22,"Egypt's Military Accepts Cabinet's Resignation, Sets Elections for Next Year - 

The ruling military council in Egypt has accepted the resignation of the country's entire cabinet in the face of demonstrations that have increased in fervor over the last 4 days, & offered to end its rule by July 2012."
2011-11-22,"British firm loses at least $19,500 after being swamped with orders. 102,000 cupcakes! Small bakery burned by Groupon."
2011-11-22,"Facebook, taking its cue from China apparently, censors Ai Weiwei photos featuring nude artist + women"
2011-11-22,"South African National Assembly passes Protection of State Information Bill, which allows any organ of state to classify any document, with jailtime for whistleblowers."
2011-11-22,"Egypt activists call for 'million-man' rally Tuesday, demand transition to civilian government "
2011-11-22,"Final Qaddafi Regime Kingpin Captured - 
The last major figure from the ousted regime has been caught: Intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi."
2011-11-22,Egypt military 'agrees new government'
2011-11-22,"Israeli rape crisis centers get record number of calls following Katsav verdict
42 percent of calls dealt with rape or attempted rape, 23.4 percent with incest, 10.4 percent reported indecent act, 7.9 percent over sexual harassment at work. "
2011-11-22,"Budget Cuts Threaten Denmark's Renown Science Assessment Body - The world leader at involving the public in science policy is on the chopping block.  ""It's a loss for the person in the street."" Its demise will save 6m Danish kroner (less than 1m) now & 1.3m each year. ""We were sacrificed."""
2011-11-22,Crowds In Tahrir Immediately reject Offer for July Exit of Ruling Military Council
2011-11-21,"Egypt - Pile of bodies spotted in Tahrir Square, surrounded by police."
2011-11-21,"This is How Terrifying Cairo is Tonight - 
Horrifying video & images are emerging of Egyptian security forces beating protesters in Cairo, as reports of military units firing into the crowds continue to spread."
2011-11-21,"Pakistani government orders all text messages sent from mobile phones that contain any of a list of over 1000 ""obscene"" words be censored. Phone networks struggling to cope.  "
2011-11-21,"Tragically, widespread newspaper abuse has become so endemic, it has crippled the country's ability to conduct a sensible debate about the ""war on drugs"" - Charlie Brooker/The Guardian"
2011-11-21,Latest update on Egypt unrest: 22 dead and 1500 injured
2011-11-21,Israeli right wing group mapping Jerusalem businesses that employ Arabs: The goal of Hebrew Labor project is 'to warn the public' against buying from businesses that employ Arabs.
2011-11-21,Violence in Cairo may be leading toward a second uprising
2011-11-21,Russian Martial Arts Fans Boo Putin at Televised Event
2011-11-21,BBC News - UK's debts 'biggest in the world' It's five times more than the value of everything we produce.
2011-11-21,Chevron takes full responsibility for oil spill off the coast of Brazil. 
2011-11-21,"Right-wing group mapping Jerusalem businesses that employ Arabs - Meir Ettinger, a resident of the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar, says goal of Hebrew Labor project is 'to warn the public' against buying from businesses that employ Arabs."
2011-11-21,"Egypt's Military Takes Off the Mask  -- ""The military justice system should never be used to investigate or prosecute civilians. Military courts are fundamentally unfair, as they deprive defendants of basic fair trial guarantees."""
2011-11-21,"Report: Hezbollah captures U.S. spies in Lebanon, Iran"
2011-11-21,"Spanish socialists hit record low in Spanish elections, conservatives obtain absolute majority."
2011-11-21,Deadly New Clashes in Egypt's Tahrir Square [pics]
2011-11-21,Egypts Civilian Government Submits Offer to Resign
2011-11-21,A Credit Crisis in China's Most Enterprising City Is Making the Country Nervous
2011-11-21,"Globally, Aids-related deaths are at the lowest level since their 2005 peak, down 21%, figures from UNAids suggest."
2011-11-21,U.S. spy rings busted in devastating blow. Iran and Hezbollah round up more than a dozen CIA spies after what some are calling major tactical blunders.
2011-11-21,"Turkey warns Assad against ruling through violence: ""You can remain in power with tanks and cannons only up to a certain point,"" Turkish PM Erdogan said. "
2011-11-21,Turkish bus ambushed by Syrian gunmen
2011-11-21,Bahrain has charged 20 members of its security forces with abusing protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations
2011-11-21,"In Tahrir Square, unmoved by cabinet resignation, tens of thousands of people chanting: 'The people want the downfall of the Field Marshal (Scaf head Mohamed Hussein Tantawi)."
2011-11-21,Bangladesh war crimes trial begins in Dhaka:  A leader of a Bangladesh Islamist party has gone on trial accused of crimes against humanity during the country's independence struggle against Pakistan.
2011-11-21,"The New Wild West: West Africas Petroleum Act,  guided by agreements with oil companies, was rushed through as an emergency bill, & few people were consulted. Oil should be an economic boon for the country, but watchdog groups fear devastating impact on humans & environment"
2011-11-20,"Medical myth is dooming the rhino to extinction: 'Driven by an urban myth in Asia - that a Vietnamese politician had his liver cancer cured by powered rhino horn - the price of horn has shot up to $38,000 per kilo, more than the price of cocaine, and approaching the price of gold.'"
2011-11-20,"Little-Known Canadian Pipeline Plan Threatens British Columbia & Great Bear Rainforest - One of the largest unspoiled temperate rainforest left in the world, it's home to 1,000-yr-old Western Red Cedar, 90 metre Sitka Spruce, salmon, moose, & wolves.  "
2011-11-20,"Mexico has a stunning 7.8 million young people who neither work nor study, according to a new government study. The so called ni nis or neither nors are believed to be a major cause of instability in Mexico, with the unemployed youth providing an army of potential recruits for drug cartels.
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2011-11-20,"Ministers are planning legal action to restrict public protests during the Olympics, amid fears that Britain could be disrupted by lengthy and high-profile demonstrations."
2011-11-20,Dozens of Israeli women strip in support of Egyptian blogger
2011-11-20,It's not just our leaders who are in a crisis. Democracy itself is failing.
2011-11-20,New Italian government does not include a single elected politician - Telegraph
2011-11-20,"Iceland government probes why a Chinese tycoon 
wants a big chunk of its land"
2011-11-20, Egypt protests: More violence in Tahrir Square. 2 killed and 600 injured
2011-11-20,Kenya finds cleaner government is just a keystroke away:  Kenya is promoting cleaner government by computerizing many of the tasks that used to be handled by bureaucrats  who might seek bribes to expedite requests.
2011-11-20,Pirate To Join European Parliament As Youngest Member: Amelia Andersdotter will be the second Pirate Party member to take a seat at the European Parliament in Brussels 
2011-11-20,Egyptian riot police have clashed for a second day with rock-throwing protesters demanding that the ruling military quickly announce a date to hand over power to an elected government. 
2011-11-20,"Secretive North Korea is expected to register the one millionth cellphone user on its new 3G network by the end of the year, barely four years after people were thrown into prison camps, or possibly even executed, for owning one."
2011-11-20,"When bankers were good.Far from being socially useless, Victorian financiers campaigned to end slavery, built homes for the poor and saved fallen women. "
2011-11-20,Dominican presidential candidate and head of one of the parties that make up the current government favors drug legalization: Luis Acosta Moreta says drug prohibition creates corruption and social decay
2011-11-20,"Japans nuclear crisis leaves behind wasteland: In the 12-mile zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the world has stood still since March 11. Some 78,000 people lived here; only a handful have been permitted to return."
2011-11-20,"Khmer Rouge trio face trial in Cambodia:  Survivors recall torture and executions as former ""Brother Number Two"" and two other Pol Pot-era officials face justice."
2011-11-20,"Syria Baath Party in Damascus hit by rockets: At least two rocket-propelled grenades have hit a building of Syria's governing Baath Party in the capital Damascus, residents and activists say."
2011-11-20,Egyptian forces burn protest tents in Tahrir: CAIRO (AP)  Egyptian soldiers and police set fire to tents in the middle of Cairo's Tahrir Square and fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a major assault Sunday to drive out thousands of protesters after two days of clashes.
2011-11-20,"China vice premier sees chronic global recession:  A long-term global recession is certain to happen and China must focus on domestic problems, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan has said."
2011-11-20,Three Killed and hundreds inured in an Egyptian police and army assault on protesters in Tahrir Square
2011-11-20,BBC News - How much has Egypt really changed?
2011-11-20,"Center-right wins Spain election
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2011-11-20,Germany: The reluctant superpower
2011-11-20,Arab League rejects Syria demand
2011-11-19,"New video footage captured by a tuna industry whistleblower has been released by Greenpeace, which reveals the routine slaughter of other marine species, including whale sharks, rays and whales"
2011-11-19,"Chinese poet Liao Yiwu recently moved to Germany, where his books are best-sellers. His self-imposed exile has allowed him to finally publish his memoir, which reveals the abuses and torture he suffered during his years in prison. The book is a shocking indictment of the Chinese justice system."
2011-11-19,Chinese Fund Managers Sentenced to Death
2011-11-19,Europe bans 'naked' airport scanners over cancer fears
2011-11-19,"  Chinese Fund Managers Sentenced to Death after 
Cheating Investors out of 1 Billion USD  "
2011-11-19,"Agent Orange --- Photo gallery from Vietnam. The war ended in 1975 but children are still being born with birth defects, allegedly as a result of the US military's use of Agent Orange during the conflict"
2011-11-19,"In a blunt warning amid an escalating crisis, the Harper government declared Friday that Canada stands ready to join with other nations in preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon."
2011-11-19,'Gaddafi's son captured' in Libya
2011-11-19,"China bristles at US troop build up in Australia:  US decision to send 2,500 troops to Australia has not gone over well in China.
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2011-11-19,Shoplifters caught stealing from a Dollar Store in northern Sweden can avoid being reported to police if they agree to wear full-body sign outing them as a thief.
2011-11-19,"Spains brain drain pain: young talent heads abroad for a better future, with 21 percent unemployment, the brightest flee to Germany, the US and even Brazil.
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2011-11-19,"Turkey and Jordan, backed by Western and Arab powers, are preparing to set up two ""safe zones"" for civilians inside Syria if President Bashar Assad did not sign on to an Arab plan aimed at ending a bloody crackdown on anti-regime protesters by Saturday. "
2011-11-19,"Neutrinos still faster than light --- The Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), which runs the Gran Sasso lab, has just confirmed the earlier result based on a re-examination of the old data. Crucially, it also replicated the finding with an all-new batch of neutrinos."
2011-11-19,Ethiopian troops 'cross border into Somalia'
2011-11-19,Britain's 'most wanted' killed in a CIA drone attack in Pakistan
2011-11-19,"Otaku Culture And Cultural Soft Power --- 
Japan's economic collapse offset by boom in Internet-driven youth and marginal culturesmanga, cinema etcwhich sent Japan's national cool quotient soaring. Lost status as industrial power, gained status as cultural superpower"
2011-11-19,Masked gunmen attack Brazilian Indian leader in shock execution - Survival International
2011-11-19,"China's Green Growth Potential ""Could Create 9.5 Million New Jobs' - 
There's a  ""Jeckyl & Hyde"" nature to the environmental situation in China, which can claim both the world's biggest investment in new energy & the most dangerous levels of pollution"
2011-11-19,Norway: an Eden with wifi
2011-11-19,"Violence Erupts in Cairo, Even as Military Cedes Political Ground"
2011-11-19,Hidden in Plain Sight - Facts and Myths about Germany's Far-Right Extremists
2011-11-19,Peruvian Government Accused Of Secretly Sterilizing Thousands Of Women
2011-11-19,"China won't be riding to the rescue any time soon --- There are risks involved trillions of dollars stashed in China, and trillions in debt accumulating on the other side, all waiting to tip into disarray. "
2011-11-19,Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the crackdown on anti-government unrest in his country would continue in the face of pressure from the Arab League to end it.
2011-11-19,"""Nobody"" leads polls ahead of Greek election"
2011-11-18,Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment
2011-11-18,Bill would make wearing masks during riots a crime
2011-11-18,"""By my calculations, at least 10 times as many girls are now trafficked into brothels annually as African slaves were transported to the New World in the peak years of the trans-Atlantic slave trade."""
2011-11-18,Indian activist who fought mining companies brutally murdered by a mob of 25-30 men
2011-11-18,"President Santos of Colombia is very brave, because any political leader who advocates the legalization of narcotic drugs will become a prime target of the prohibition industry. He has chosen to do it anyway"
2011-11-18,EU Parliament Massively Commits to Net Neutrality and Open Internet
2011-11-18,"European parliament opposes Us's anti-piracy law.
""The integrety of the global internet and communication must be protected by not taking unilateral decisions regarding taking down ip-adressess or domains"""
2011-11-18,"In Egypt, tens of thousands of protesters on Friday gathered in Cairo and Alexandria for a mass rally to push the county's military rulers to hand over power to a civilian government"
2011-11-18,Goldman Sachs conquers Europe 
2011-11-18,"Occupy London Stock Exchange protestors say they have ""repossessed"" empty offices in east London belonging to Swiss bank UBS.
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2011-11-18,"Slaves freed after CNN documentary
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2011-11-18,Report: Russia warships to enter Syria waters in bid to stem foreign intervention
2011-11-18,Neutrino experiment repeat at Cern finds same result
2011-11-18,Israel effectively annexes Palestinian land near Jordan Valley
2011-11-18,Vietnam plans to pour $600 million into building Southeast Asia's most advanced space center
2011-11-18,Being 'Out' in Saint Petersburg Could Soon be Illegal for Gays
2011-11-18,"Thousands of Kuwaitis storm Parliament, demand resignation of corrupt Prime Minister. "
2011-11-18,Russian military chief warns of nuclear war
2011-11-18,"Privatisation, But No Private Property --- 
Who owns Russia's wealth? In the end, nobody. Law doesn't protect property rights. State seizes, extorts whatever it can. Yet the state is itself a mass of competing mafias. Economy is a permanent struggle for control"
2011-11-18,Eurozone debt web: Who owes what to whom? interactive Pie graph 
2011-11-18,"Dozens hurt as Coptic Christians demanding justice for October massacre are attacked in Cairo, Egypt"
2011-11-18,Wave Of Suicides Among Indian Farmers
2011-11-18,Tens of thousands protest in Egypt: Rally called by both Islamist and secular groups aimed at pressing military rulers to hand power to civilian government.
2011-11-18,"Crisis in Europe, Transformation in China:  Chinese leaders know that, with Europe and the U.S. struggling, they can't rely on exports forever. China's future may hinge on whether its leaders can make the necessary changes in time."
2011-11-18,"Nepal begins reintegration of Maoist fighters:  Thousands of former fighters will be asked whether they want to join army or accept up to $11,500 to start new lives."
2011-11-17,"Save the Internet: The US Congress is debating a law that would give them the power to censor the world's internet - creating a blacklist that could target YouTube, WikiLeaks and even groups like Avaaz!"
2011-11-17,"The State Wants To Know What You're Up To. But Why Do We Let It? --- Biting commentary on Britain's surveillance society. Now so bad that councils want to film and record all conversations in taxis. This isn't about diminishing evil, it's about a desire to control."
2011-11-17,"The next financial crisis will be hellish, and its on its way"
2011-11-17,Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem fight to remove women from public sphere  
2011-11-17,"Belarus, The Land Of No Applause --- 
Economy a wreck, president-for-life a wild-eyed thug. Belarus slews from authoritarianism into totalitarianism. Law prohibits ""action or inaction that has been planned beforehand and is a form of public expression"""
2011-11-17,"Climate change is causing our oceans to become increasingly acidic, threatening to alter life as we know it."
2011-11-17,Thousands storm parliament in Kuwait
2011-11-17,"Hundreds of passengers traveling from India to Britain were stranded Thursday in Amritsar, India, by the charter airline Comtel, which was asking them to kick in money to cover the cost of fuel and fees. Passengers will not be allowed to leave unless they paid 10,000 rupees (about $200) each"
2011-11-17,"Israeli DF says if he were Iran he would ""probably"" want a nuke. ""I don't delude myself that they are doing it just because of Israel. They look around, they see the Indians are nuclear, the Chinese are nuclear, Pakistan is nuclear..."""
2011-11-17,Russias military chief: Potential conflicts near Russian borders may grow into nuclear war
2011-11-17,"Protests in Italy turn ugly ahead of Monti unveiling crisis plan.In Palermo, Sicily, demonstrators hurled eggs and smoke bombs at a bank, and protesters threw rocks at police who battled back with pepper sprays."
2011-11-17,"Eyeing China, India to enter ICBM club in 3 months"
2011-11-17,"Interest rates have jumped sharply for France, Belgium, Austria, Finland and the Netherlands. This has fueled fears that the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis could be about to spread even further."
2011-11-17,Mexico's presidential rival has a new answer to the drug war: He would send the army back to their barracks and focus on growing the economy
2011-11-17,The discovery of a neo-Nazi terror cell in Germany has many concerned about the country's reputation. With good reason. Racism and xenophobia have deep roots in German society -- and the vocabulary used to describe the right-wing extremist crime spree is telling.
2011-11-17,"Eurogroup head Jean-Claude Juncker: ""Germany has higher debts than Spain, the only thing is that no one wants to know about that"""
2011-11-17,India minister says Funds meant to provide work to India's rural poor have been diverted by corrupt officials spent on toys.
2011-11-17,"""You can take our balls, but you can't take our freedom"" - Students at Earl Beatty School in Toronto protest the ball ban. "
2011-11-17,"France needs to upgrade all nuclear reactors

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2011-11-17,Radioactive caesium has been detected above the safety level in rice for the first time in Japan since the nuclear crisis began at the Fukushima plant.
2011-11-17,"Plane passengers 'held to ransom' and forced into 20,000 whip-round for fuel"
2011-11-17,"The book was banned and the author jailed before it was published, but on Wednesday a group of fellow journalists and writers in Turkey launched Ahmet Siks The Army of Imam at an annual book fair"
2011-11-17,Vatican takes legal action over pope-imam kissing ad
2011-11-17,"Brazil 2010 census shows changing race balance, for the first time, non-white people make up the majority of Brazil's population, according to preliminary results of the 2010 census. "
2011-11-17,"The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority sends mobile phone operators a list of hundreds of ""obscene"" words to be banned from text messages."
2011-11-16,"EU has banned the use of X-ray body scanners in European airports, parting ways with the US TSA which has deployed hundreds of the scanners as a way to screen millions of airline passengers for explosives hidden under clothing"
2011-11-16,China: Man sets fire to himself in Tiananmen Square
2011-11-16,"Young UK jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits. People taking up work experience places  providing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour  face losing benefits if they quit
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2011-11-16,Chevron's Oil Spill Off Brazil Could Be 10 Times Bigger Than Official Estimates
2011-11-16,"The internet lost its collective mind earlier this week, when a Reddit user stumbled across what appears to be a monumental military/science experiment going on in a Chinese desert"
2011-11-16,"The New Young Turks: Over-Educated, Tech-Savvy, and Jobless
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2011-11-16,The BBC has dropped a climate change episode from its wildlife series Frozen Planet to help the show sell better abroad. 
2011-11-16,"UK: Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits
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2011-11-16,"Turkey to Syria: ''No regime can survive by killing or jailing'
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2011-11-16,Did U.S. troops bring democracy? Iraqis have doubts
2011-11-16,Syrian deserters strike military target
2011-11-16,"France's nuclear watchdog said it had detected traces of radioactive iodine in the air last week after similarly low contamination was reported by the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Austria."
2011-11-16,Oil price again flirting with $100 per barrel
2011-11-16,"The central bank of Canada introduced a polymer-based $100 bill. The thin, shiny, high-tech, recyclable bill is reportedly almost impossible to rip and thought to be nearly counterfeit-proof."
2011-11-16,"Six Palestinian activists calling themselves ""freedom riders"" after the campaigners of the American civil rights movement have been arrested while attempting to enter Jerusalem on an Israeli bus carrying settlers through the occupied West Bank."
2011-11-16,"GERMANY - Scandal grows over Secret Service link to Neo-Nazis (one agent had Mein Kampf copy and was called ""Little Adolf"")"
2011-11-16,Lessons from Iceland: How to reorder a failed society
2011-11-16,"""To Troll A Predator"" guys under investigation."
2011-11-16,City of London to restart legal action to evict Occupy protesters 
2011-11-16,"The Large Grids in China's Desert are spy satellite calibration targets, used to orient satellites in space; their size indicates that the cameras have poor resolution. "
2011-11-16,WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday applied for the chance to take his extradition appeal to Britain's Supreme Court
2011-11-16,"Russians are leaving the country in droves: Some chafe at life under Vladimir Putin's rule, but for many others, economic limitations are the prime motivator. Experts say the numbers have reached demographically dangerous levels."
2011-11-16,Study finds parts of Japan no longer safe for farming
2011-11-16,"Chechen poet Ruslan Akhtakhanov shot dead in Moscow:  A prominent poet from Chechnya, Ruslan Akhtakhanov, has been shot dead in Moscow. "
2011-11-16,"Israeli Army May Need To Hit Gaza, General Says
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2011-11-15,What We Can Learn From the Dutch About Teen Sex
2011-11-15,Syria's 'bloodiest day' leaves scores dead:  At least 70 people reportedly killed over past 24 hours as security forces clash with defectors.
2011-11-15,Israel continues withholding on $100M in taxes owed to Palestinians 
2011-11-15,Egyptian womens group calls on men to try the veil
2011-11-15,Hacking Update: At Least 28 Murdoch Employees Appear In PIs Detailed Notes 
2011-11-15,China peace prize awarded to Russia's Putin
2011-11-15,"Deutsche Bank CEO under investigation for giving false testimony:  Prosecutors are investigating the head of Germany's biggest bank, Josef Ackermann, on charges that he gave false testimony during the 2002 bankruptcy trial of German media tycoon Leo Kirch."
2011-11-15,"Swiss police on Tuesday evicted anti-banker protesters from the Lindenhof, an ancient square in one of the oldest parts of Zurich "
2011-11-15,"China Tightens Media Grip, insisting that media outlets dont report on stories that appear in social media until theyve been verified. 
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2011-11-15,WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange launches new extradition appeal
2011-11-15,"Interview With Iranian Foreign Minister: 'We Are Prepared for Everything' - Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, 62, dismisses accusations that Iran is building a nuclear bomb as Western propaganda and accuses Tehran's enemies of waging a secret war against it. "
2011-11-15,Europeans accuse Berlin of using the euro crisis to boost German power
2011-11-15,Mossad linked to massive explosion at Iranian facility
2011-11-15,"Radioactive soil in Japan unsafe for farming, say scientists ... after taking a second look"
2011-11-15,"Mongolia bids to keep city cool with 'ice shield' experiment - 
Geoengineering trial aims to 'store' winter temperatures in a giant block of ice that will cool & water Ulan Bator in summer "
2011-11-15,"Less Than 1% of Sharks Caught in Atlantic Protected - 
Most shark species are still being caught & killed despite heading towards extinction, Oceana report says"
2011-11-15,Israel allows building material into Gaza for first time since 2006
2011-11-15,Pakistan puts hand up for Aussie uranium
2011-11-15,President Obama is expected to announce a troop presence in Australia
2011-11-15,"Five years later: Mogadishu little changed: Five years after channel's launch, Al Jazeera returns to Somali capital and finds people still living in fear."
2011-11-15,"Hokey Pokey --- 

Fund manager discusses continuing euro crisis. ""There is no way to meaningfully restructure Italian debt without wiping out the capital base of Europe's banks, and forcing the nationalization of the entire European banking system"" "
2011-11-15,"Deadly protest over chemical plant in northern Egypt.  One dead and at least 11 people injured in clashes between army and protesters, who have sealed off the port town of Damietta.  Protests, that have lasted six days, are against pollution from existing plant and plans to build two more."
2011-11-15,Israeli officials lied to Gaza ship crew
2011-11-15,"Jordan's king is the first in the region to urge Assad to step down
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2011-11-15,Egyptian activists nude self-portrait causes online fury
2011-11-14,"Scottish school removes concrete play area and replaces with ""Urban Jungle"" containing trees, hills, boulders and tunnels.  Over a 2 year period results in 80% fewer accidents! "
2011-11-14,Roman Catholic church's paedophile investigator jailed for possessing thousnds of child porn images
2011-11-14,"Indonesians killed 750 endangered orangutans in a year - Such practices, never before quantified, are believed to be a more serious threat to the existence of the red apes"
2011-11-14,"Fury over young activist publishing nude self-photo:  In an unprecedented move, a young Egyptian female on Sunday dared to publish a nude photo of herself, along with other nude photos, on her blog as an act of free personal expression."
2011-11-14,Norway's Anders Behring Breivik in open court hearing
2011-11-14,New arrest as Germany links neo-Nazis to 10 murders
2011-11-14, Murdoch Paper Was Spying On The British MPs Investigating It
2011-11-14,"Arab leaders shouldn't kill their people? --- Arab Spring endures. Arab League freezes Syria's membership, because government has killed thousands of opponents. It may not stop Assad, of course. But since when did Arab leaders care about regimes killing their own people?"
2011-11-14,"Indigenous pygmy groups are being exploited by the Congo's ethnic Bantu people, and sometimes subject to slavery, according to a study by a Congolese human rights grou"
2011-11-14,"
Self-immolations spread from Tibet: The plight of Tibetans looks more desperate than ever"
2011-11-14,"Iran buried Monday a senior military officer it called the ""architect"" of its missile defences, killed in a massive explosion at a Revolutionary Guards' arms depot that authorities said was an accident."
2011-11-14,Roman Catholic church's paedophile investigator jailed for possessing thousnds of child porn images[Fixed Source]
2011-11-14,"'Iran opposition will unite with government should Israel attack'. Former president Mohammad Khatami, a harsh critic of Ahmadinejad, says all Iran factions will unite if faced with Israeli military strike."
2011-11-14,A Glimpse Into North Korea
2011-11-14,"Undercover policeman admits spying on Danish activists - 
Mark Kennedy says he infiltrated community centre, obtaining intelligence that helped police storm it and close it down"
2011-11-14,King Abdullah of Jordan has said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should step down in the interest of his country. 
2011-11-14,No cheering allowed for Japanese fans at North Korean soccer game in Pyongyang. 
2011-11-14,"British newspaper throws open its office doors, letting readers peer over reporters' shoulders -- digitally, at least.  'Guardian' editor says that in the wake of the phone hacking scandal, which shut down Murdoch's 'News of the World', people have a greater interest in seeing how news is made."
2011-11-14,"Rape Cases Soar in Somali Camps -  Armed gangs of young men are roaming around, often high on khat, raping women who have no clan support.   ""Almost all the rapists get away with it & know they can get away with it."" "
2011-11-14,"Neo-Nazis Suspected in Long Wave of Crimes, Including Murders, in Germany"
2011-11-14,"Thailand's Disastrous, Slow-Moving Flood"
2011-11-14,Visualizing how we got to 7 billion
2011-11-14,Deadly blast hits China city Xian
2011-11-14,Free-trade agreements: Opening up the Pacific | The Economist
2011-11-14,Egypt's Copts in peril: The country's Christian minority losing hope of winning rights
2011-11-13,Shark fin soup disappearing from the menu at Chinese weddings: Couples marrying in Hong Kong and mainland China swayed by conservation groups' campaign to ban shark trade
2011-11-13,Silvio Berlusconi has officially resigned.
2011-11-13,"Israel has refused to reassure President Barack Obama that it would warn him in advance of any pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear capabilities, raising fears that it may be planning a go-it-alone attack"
2011-11-13,Arab spring + European autumn = Mediterranean crisis.   Almost all the countries round the Med are gripped by instability or uncertainty; one of the oldest and most fruitful nurseries of human progress in history.
2011-11-13,"If we dont change direction soon, well end up where were heading, warns International Energy Agency - Unless dramatic action is taken by 2017, so many additional billions of tons of emissions will be locked in that a temperature increase exceeding 2 degrees will become inevitable. 
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2011-11-13,"Cigarette Clampdown - 
Australia passes law to make packets even off-putting - Australians are already confronted by graphic images of death & disease on cigarettes packs.  But come Dec, warnings will be bigger, more gruesome & on a monochrome paper backing."
2011-11-13,"Brazilian Forces Invade Rio's Largest Slum - 
Brazil sent 3,000 troops into Rocinha, the hillside shanty town overlooking Rio de Janeiro, to drive out crime & violence in advance of the 2014 World Cup"
2011-11-13,"Swiss Muslims outraged after pig carcass, swine heads, litres of blood found at proposed mosque site.  Flyer: This ""was done to protest against the growing expansion of Islam in Switzerland"".  Police: ""We can't say yet it is a hate crime in those words, but it could've been done to stop the mosque"""
2011-11-13,"Egypt Elections To Be Monitored by Occupy Wall Street: GA approved $29,000 to send 20 observers, to ""work to protect and support the civilian monitoring efforts of Egyptian activists on the ground and constitutes a concrete stand against the use of American weapons against peaceful demonstrators."""
2011-11-13,UK Drugs policy advisor under fire over links to pharmaceutical company
2011-11-13,Emirates to buy 50 Boeing 777s worth $18 billion
2011-11-13,"After former Indian President Abdul Kalam boarded his plane in JFK, US security personnel forced crew to open doors, checked his jacket and boots for explosives. [xpost from /r/WTF]"
2011-11-13,"Staring into the abyss: The euro crisis might wake Europe up. But more likely, argues Edward Carr, it will lead to compromise and decline"
2011-11-13,The eBay ambulance that went to Libya....so he bought an ambulance for the rebels and drove it from his house in Manchester to his home country
2011-11-13,"'Naked marriages' on rise in China - 
As costs soar in the cities, more couples in China are opting for 'naked marriages' - those without the once-required trappings of a house, a car, & other goods"
2011-11-13,Video: Activist reports of killings in Syria
2011-11-13,Geist: US could claim millions of Canadian domain names in piracy battle
2011-11-13,"Sudan rebels form alliance to oust president: Rebels in Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan say they want to replace Bashir's government with democratic system."
2011-11-13,"Libya: Fighters clash near Tripoli, several dead"
2011-11-13,Another Iranian nuclear scientist murdered in Tehran
2011-11-13,"Iran says Duqu malware under 'control' - The virus takes advantage of a previously unknown vulnerability in a Windows font-parsing engine to plant malicious code.
Similarities between Duqu & Stuxnet have prompted speculation that the same culprits might be involved."
2011-11-13,"How Greece Exposed Europe's Potemkin Democracy - 
Its not surprising that  Greeces proposed referendum elicited such outrage. Europe doesnt work like that."
2011-11-13,Demonstrators return to protest against financial markets: Demonstrators showed up in force in two of Germany's major cities to protest against the influence of the global financial markets over the political process. The protests came as the eurozone faces an uncertain future.
2011-11-13,"Legends of the Euro Fail -- Paul Krugman




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2011-11-13,"Topless Ukrainian Activist Detained in Vatican After Protesting Under Pope's Balcony - 
Feminists take their fight for women's rights to the Holy See"
2011-11-12,ISPs in the Netherlands argue that blocking The Pirate Bay would be useless as it could take down the entire network; feel this type of censorship violates basic human rights such as freedom of expression
2011-11-12,BBC News - Italy crisis: Silvio Berlusconi resigns as PM
2011-11-12,BBC News - Iran explosion at Tehran military base.
2011-11-12,"Tunisia's democracy blooms as model for Arab Spring:  Smooth elections, a coalition between moderate Islamists and secularists, and an explosion of civic life are propelling Tunisia forward as a model for the Arab Spring."
2011-11-12,"Up to 200,000 Quebec students stage massive protest over tuition hike with support from social activist organizations and unions"
2011-11-12,German sports clothing manufacturer Puma is developing biodegradable products. The sports clothes can be recycled or thrown on a compost heap.
2011-11-12,"Arab League votes to suspend Syria effective Nov. 16; calls on army to stop the killing of civilians, may impose economic and political sanctions.  Qatari PM issues call to all opposition parties to meet at Leage HQ ""to agree a unified vision for the transitional period"""
2011-11-12,"""The collapse of the eurozone would cause a crash that would instantly wipe out half of the value of Europes economy, plunging the continent into a depression as deep as the 1930s slump, the president of the European Commission has warned."" "
2011-11-12,"Egypts Military Guards Its Own Power: Business holdings shrouded in secrecy, estimated 5%-45% of  economy.  They ""have no notion of what democracy is about.. want a stable political system where they can keep their privileges.. exercise some power over the future of Egyptian policy as a whole."
2011-11-12,"French nuclear firm fined 1.5m for spying on Greenpeace. The energy company's former nuclear security chief was sentenced to three years in prison for employing a firm to hack into the energy watchdog's computers
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2011-11-12,"Egyptian military puts thousand of protesters through military trials. Even as Egypt prepares for parliamentary elections at the end of this month, observers say the army insists on remaining above the law, and silencing its critics."
2011-11-12,Journalists allowed inside Japan's Fukushima plant for first time ... tell of devastation
2011-11-12,"Police investigating phone-hacking at the NoW  have recovered a series of bombshell emails held by the newspaper at a data storage facility in India; police want to question James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks about their contents
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2011-11-12,NPR.org » Western Black Rhino Declared Extinct
2011-11-12,"In Argentina, graffiti goes highbrow -- A vibrant tradition of street art has become a bona-fide movement
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2011-11-12,"Police arrest EDL members to ""avert planned attack"" on Occupy London protesters."
2011-11-12,"Dangerous Volcano Spurs Rival Nations to Cooperate - 
The volcano beneath a calm-looking lake has grown restive, inspiring a rare collaboration between Chinese & Korean scientists"
2011-11-12,Mexico's interior minister killed in helicopter crash: Its war against brutal drug cartels suffered a devastating blow the crash killed the countrys top security official in charge of the fight against cartels
2011-11-12,"Saudi, French, Turkish Diplomatic Missions in Syria attacked by crowds: ""We sacrifice our blood and our soul for you, Bashar"".  Diplomat:  ""They did a fair bit of damage to the Saudi embassy. We do not have the full picture from Latakia, but the attacks there appear to have been really bad"""
2011-11-12,"Kidnapped baseball player Ramos found alive in Venezuela
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2011-11-12,"China strains Germanys solar dominance: Can an industry built on government support survive low-cost Asian competition?
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2011-11-12,"UK police arrested more than 170 far-right activists near Londons main war memorial, saying the officers acted to prevent a breach of the peace"
2011-11-12,"Lebanon:  Hezbollah leader Nasrallah blasts US over Iran, Syria, Hariri.  ""The United States needs to put up a smoke screen ... and has launched a campaign of intimidation that talks about attacks against Iran and Syria so as to deflect attention from its searing defeat in Iraq"""
2011-11-12,Greece turns to Iranian oil as default fears deter trade
2011-11-12,"Brazilian 'drug lord' sees reign as 'king of the hill' ends: Rio's most wanted man, who allegedly presided over 35m cocaine racket, caught in boot of Toyota Corolla while fleeing"
2011-11-11,"A seven-year-old Argentine boy has defied doctors' predictions that he would never walk, with help from a homemade rehabilitation device built by his father."
2011-11-11,"Put warning labels on skinny models: Norwegian minister, Giant images of airbrushed and digitally altered fashion models could soon come with warning labels if Norway's equality minister succeeds in pushing through a new action plan. "
2011-11-11,"Shell oil spill in Niger Delta has wrecked the lives of 70,000, will take over 30 years to clean, and will cost over $1 billion"
2011-11-11,Mexican cartel calls Anonymous bluff - murders another blogger
2011-11-11,Israel accidentally kills rabbi mistaken for Palestinian militant
2011-11-11,"Mexican drug cartel tries to silence Internet, kills four chat room users"
2011-11-11,"Facebook facing legal action in Germany over its facial-recognition feature. ""Facebook has introduced this feature in Europe, without informing the user and without obtaining the required consent. Unequivocal consent of the parties is required by both European and national data protection law."" "
2011-11-11,Mystery Radiation Detected 'Across Europe'
2011-11-11,UNESCO operations halted after losing US funding
2011-11-11,Iraq's Stolen Memory:  All the archive of Saddam's era were taken to the US after the invasion and Iraqis want them back
2011-11-11,"Egypt court bars members of ousted Pres. Mubarak's party from running in elections: Those who have wasted the rights and freedoms of others, restricted democracy.. and forged the will of the people in all elections for the past 30 years ... have no right to demand the rights they denied the people"
2011-11-11,"2 Malaysian States Now Punish People for the ""Crime"" of Homosexuality.   Malacca's chief minister, Mohd Ali Rustam said, """"So many people like to promote human rights, even up to the point they want to allow lesbian activities and homosexuality."""
2011-11-11,"Economists say three scenarios are most likely to threaten the euro zone: a member withdrawal; national resistance to union; and a one-size-fits-all monetary policy creating economic havoc. Correction: that should read ""said."" This was twelve years ago."
2011-11-11,Mexican interior minister killed in crash - CNN.com
2011-11-11,"Minimum wage hike coming to Guangdong, the world's factory.  "
2011-11-11,A Chinese mine where 21 workers were killed was being operated illegally
2011-11-11,A group of armed men have stoned a woman and her daughter to death in Afghanistan.
2011-11-11,"""Pakistan - The Ally From Hell,"" a must read for foreign policy/nuclear enthusiasts"
2011-11-11,"Israel has accelerated the installation of anti-missile defenses on its airliners, as Libya leaks SAMs.  The locally made 'C-Music' system, costing $1M to $1.5M  per plane, uses a laser to ""blind"" heat-seeking missiles.  Target date of 2013 for fitting most of the El Al fleet."
2011-11-11,"To Save Our Economy, Ditch Taiwan - NYTimes.com"
2011-11-11,"European Union bans its own film on Afghan women in jail for ""moral crimes"""
2011-11-11,4 Reasons Why Italy's Economy Is Such a Disaster
2011-11-11,BBC News - S&P accidentally announces downgrade of French debt
2011-11-11,Ireland's former richest man declared bankrupt
2011-11-11,CCTV shows buildings collapsing in second Turkey earthquake
2011-11-10,"Mexico City mayor calls drug policy 'schizophrenic': ""If the US is legalizing marijuana and we're over here killing ourselves on the street over marijuana, that does not make sense,"" says Ebrard referring to California's efforts to decriminalize the sale and use of cannabis"
2011-11-10,"The world's last surviving Sikh warrior master who has devoted his life to learning an ancient martial art is - from Wolverhampton, it has emerged."
2011-11-10,Occupy Movement: Chileans take to the streets with calls for a radical overhaul of the country's for-profit university system
2011-11-10,Former Israeli president Katsav loses rape appeal ... and will go to prison for seven years
2011-11-10,"India court sentences 31 people to life terms for killing Muslims
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2011-11-10,Tom Watson labels James Murdoch 'mafia boss' (VIDEO)
2011-11-10,Australia cigarette 'plain packaging' law passes Senate
2011-11-10,"Tasers: 'If officers have a new toy, they like using it'"
2011-11-10,Africa's Western black rhino declared extinct
2011-11-10,Study finds thousands of forced marriages in Germany - The German family ministry has for the first time published a study of forced marriage in Germany. The report is based on the findings of hundreds of consultation centers across the country.
2011-11-10,"Iran's Supreme Leader Warns US, Israel Against Strike:  ""Anybody who takes up the idea of an attack on Iran, should get ready to receive a strong slap and an iron fist"" ;  ""[Iran] not a nation that only sits and watches threats coming from straw powers, which are internally eaten by worms"""
2011-11-10,"Human Rights Watch issues report entitled ""Egypt: Military Virginity Test Investigation a Sham"" ;  anonymous General tells CNN: ""We didn't want them to say we had sexually assaulted or raped them, so we wanted to prove that they weren't virgins in the first place"""
2011-11-10,Uganda man jailed for killing gay activist David Kato
2011-11-10,Dan Snow test fires a machine gun from a WW2 Spitfire which has been recovered from a peat bog in Co Donegal where it had lain buried for 70 years.
2011-11-10,"Roubini: Italy Is Doomed And Will Exit EU Unless ECB, Germany Step In"
2011-11-10,Banker Lucas Papademos - who led Greece's transition from the drachma to the euro - is named interim prime minister
2011-11-10,"Officials close Great Pyramids of Giza Friday, due to widespread fears of international masonic and other rituals on 11/11/11 .  ""Numerologists are anxiously awaiting Friday, when the digital alignment of ones occurs at 11:11 am, which some believe will lead to unusual events."""
2011-11-10,EDF fined for spying on Greenpeace nuclear campaign
2011-11-10,Turkey earthquake topples hotel
2011-11-10,UK Students Fighting for 'Education for the 99%' Met With Heavy Policing: 20 people arrested in the latest display of anger against the Conservative-led government's austerity measures
2011-11-10,"Egypt: Passengers attempted to open plane door mid-flight at 8,000 ft. Security on-board the Cairo-bound flight thwarted the attack and tied him to seat. Among the 143 passengers was Egypt's Islamic Mufti.  Suspect is ""disgruntled"" from losing his job recently."
2011-11-10,"""Twitter account to tweet names of Canadas 119,000 fallen soldiers"""
2011-11-10,"Turkish police fire tear gas in quake city:  ""How can you fire pepper spray on people who have already suffered so much?"" asks one survivor searching for a tent in the freezing temperature"
2011-11-10,"Iran nuclear report: Why it may not be a game-changer after all
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2011-11-10,"FRONTLINE: Ramita Navai goes undercover for a rare look at the uprising from inside Syria. If we didnt shoot at protesters, they would shoot us, one defector told Navai."
2011-11-09,Italy's Berlusconi Agrees To Resign After Passing Austerity Bill
2011-11-09,Israel imposing steep court fees to prevent lawsuits: Palestinians who lost family members in the Israeli offensive in Gaza say they cannot seek compensation due to near-impossible barriers placed by Israel
2011-11-09,Woman suffering from severe senile dementia has become the first person in the Netherlands to be given euthanasia even though she could no longer express her wish to die
2011-11-09,Fossil Fuels Got More Aid Than Clean Energy: IEA
2011-11-09,"Former Mossad Chief Seeks to Avert Israeli Attack - Is Israel planning an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities? For months now, former Mossad chief Meir Dagan has been publicly warning against such prospects. He's hoping to prevent what he believes could be a catastrophe."
2011-11-09,Germany and France have begun talks to break up the eurozone amid fears that Italy will be too big to rescue
2011-11-09,"World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns"
2011-11-09,Gangsters decapitate Mexican blogger: The fourth blogger is killed in Nuevo Laredo
2011-11-09,Alcohol worse than ecstasy on shock new drug list
2011-11-09,Nearly half of China's millionaires are considering leaving the country.
2011-11-09,The Unmaking of Israel: How government policies have caused the surge in ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel. 
2011-11-09,Woman claims laughing cops strip searched her
2011-11-09,"Toronto's Tea Party mayor on the rocks -- With Rob Ford's record, Toronto ought to be feeling some buyer's remorse "
2011-11-09,"IMF chief warns Europe could push world economy into ""lost decade""
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2011-11-09,Huge police presence ahead of student demonstration in UK: The largest single police presence to be deployed in Britain since this summers riots will be on the streets today as anarchists threaten to turn the student protest into a sea of rage
2011-11-09,A gag order is issued on all Israeli officials in wake of UN report. 
2011-11-09,United Kingdom backs American bid to overturn ban on cluster bombs
2011-11-09,Sweden: Teen girl held as sex-slave for a year
2011-11-09,"Greeks pull savings from banks as crisis deepens - Greeks withdrew as much as 5 billion euros -- nearly 3 percent of total deposits -- after outgoing Prime Minister George Papandreou's shock call last week for a referendum on a euro zone bailout, said one banker, who declined to be named."
2011-11-09,"Nepal's other revolution: Red turns to pink -- Thanks (unexpectedly) to Maoist rebels, Nepal is emerging as Asia's pioneer for sexual minority rights.
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2011-11-09,"The French governments second round of austerity measures has gone down a storm with the national press, who say it could serve as the last straw for voters fed up with President Nicolas Sarkozy, just six months before the presidential election. "
2011-11-09,14th century timepiece unearthed in Qld farm shed (Australia)
2011-11-09,"Up to a third of Hong Kong's 50,000 or so factories in China could downsize or shut by the end of the year"
2011-11-09,Fifa ban the poppy from England kit
2011-11-09,If you thought Italy was bad... : Italy's finances look shaky but some of its neighbours in the eurozone  and the UK  might be even worse off
2011-11-08,"The artist Ai Wei Wei has been ordered to pay a fine of 1.6 million euros. To show their solidarity, people in China and elsewhere have made donations that have added up to a six-figure sum in just three days. "
2011-11-08,"Sarkozy calls Netanyahu a ""liar"", Obama also expresses displeasure with the Israeli PM"
2011-11-08,UK Police will have the right to fire rubber bullets on student protesters as they prepare for huge London demonstration: Scotland Yard revealed that the baton rounds have been authorised; the non-lethal 'rubber bullets' would be used only in an emergency such as to rescue officers from attack 
2011-11-08,"A group of Russian scientists came out of an isolation chamber after over 500 days, proving that sending humans to mars may soon be feasible "
2011-11-08,WikiLeaks founder 'abandoned' by Australian govt - KEVIN Rudd and his foreign affairs department have been accused of all but ignoring pleas from Julian Assange's legal team to protect the WikiLeaks founder from a possible death penalty in the US.
2011-11-08,The Hajj and Eid al-Adha 2011 [pics]
2011-11-08,"The Sicilian Mafia: Seven year old jailed, tortured and thrown into acid"
2011-11-08,Silvio Berlusconi 'vows to resign'
2011-11-08,BBC News - Sarkozy called Israeli PM Netanyahu a liar
2011-11-08,BBC News - Italian crisis: Silvio Berlusconi loses majority
2011-11-08,Cancer spreads to last Tasmanian Devil refuge
2011-11-08,Berlusconi agrees to resign!
2011-11-08,"Ministers are considering making CCTV compulsory in slaughterhouses in England, Scotland and Wales to help enforce laws against animal cruelty"
2011-11-08,Sarkozy calls Netanyahu a 'Liar' while talking to Obama. Obama replies that he has to deal with him everyday!  
2011-11-08,Olympus admits hiding losses for decades
2011-11-08,UN nuclear agency: Iran 'studying nuclear weapons'
2011-11-08,"Falun Gong practitioners who have held a long, silent protest in front of the Chinese Consulate here claim the city of Vancouver colluded with the Chinese Communist Party to write a bylaw aimed at ending the vigil; calls bylaw unconstitutional bylaw "
2011-11-08,"Mexican jail raid finds  two peacocks, 100 fighting cocks, two bags of pot, 19 prostitutes, dozens of recent-model plasma televisions, several bottles of alcohol, and lots and lots of knives."
2011-11-08,Botswana: Country Pushes to Legalise Prostitution
2011-11-08,"Libya's Berbers feel rejected by transitional government:  Libya's Berbers, or Amazigh, played a crucial role in the battle against the Gadhafi regime. Now they say they feel let down by the transitional government which has as yet to recognize them and their language."
2011-11-08,"Syrian troops storm Homs district in new offensive, 100 killed over weekend. Despite committing to Arab League cease-fire plan, Assad regime scrambles to clear out Baba Amr, a major center of resistance"
2011-11-08,Australian Senate passes landmark Carbon Tax legislation. 
2011-11-08,Prostitutes and peacocks found in Mexican jail ... during surprise inspection
2011-11-08,"Met accused of trying to scare off protesters with warning letter. Force writes to anyone previously arrested for public order offences before demonstration in central London on Wednesday
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2011-11-08,"UN says Syria death toll has passed 3,500"
2011-11-07,UK ban on blood donation by gay men has been lifted (from r/globalhealth)
2011-11-07,"Russia: Israeli threat of strikes on Iran 'a mistake' -- Military action against Iran would be a ""very serious mistake fraught with unpredictable consequences"", Russia's foreign minister has warned."
2011-11-07,Key lesson from Iceland crisis is 'let banks fail'
2011-11-07,News International hired investigators to spy on hacking victims' lawyers...
2011-11-07,"The warning that Greece was spiraling out of control sounded in mid-2009, in a draft report from the IMF. It never reached the outside world. Greek officials complained, so the final version played down the risk that Athens would default."
2011-11-07,"
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2011-11-07,"After shocking incidents, Chinese struggle to instill kindness"
2011-11-07,France unveils $138bn bid to slash deficit:  French PM announces austerity measures and tax rises totalling $138bn in bid to eliminate budget deficit by 2016.
2011-11-07,"Underneath Mexico City's bustle lie Aztec wonders:  Excavations in the middle of downtown Mexico City have unearthed sacred Aztec sculptures, giving archaeologists a glimpse into ancient rituals."
2011-11-07,German gold reserves are off limits: economy minister --   Germany rejects G20 proposals that would see national central banks contribute reserves to an IMF-backed vehicle designed to boost the financial firepower of the eurozone rescue war chest.
2011-11-07,"NZ recording industry fires first ""guilty until proved innocent"" shots at alleged pirates: The first complaints have gone out to ISPs, and as a result  the first Detection Notices have reached the first alleged offenders"
2011-11-07,"Iran will be able to build nuclear bomb within months, IAEA says. Western experts say IAEA report to reveal Iran has already acquired knowledge, technology, and resources to achieve nuclear capability"
2011-11-07,Palestine versus the United Nations: The Palestinian bid for statehood has placed the UN in a quandary
2011-11-07,Asian rhino horn mania drives extinction: the last of Vietnam's rhinos are killed
2011-11-07,"European elites should be wary of the Greek spring.

The fear of 'contagion' shouldn't be just about the euro  this Greek resistance could spread across Europe
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2011-11-07,"Berlusconi denies resignation rumours: Italian PM says reports he plans to resign are ""baseless"", but looming vote could take matters out of his hands."
2011-11-07,"Carlos the Jackal, feared Cold War terrorist, goes on trial in France"
2011-11-07,Italy 'needs 300bn euro loan to stand still'
2011-11-07,"The safety of medicines in the UK has been cast into doubt by a fraud inquiry at the European regulator responsible for licensing pharmaceutical drugs across the EU, based in Canary Wharf, London"
2011-11-07,Soviet scientists helped Iran build nuke; Ahmadinejad denies nuclear bomb
2011-11-07,"European leaders are hoping China will be a major contributor to a $1.4-trillion bailout fund, but many in the Asian nation are uncomfortable with that prospect. One reason: Europeans are still better off than Chinese."
2011-11-07,"Europe's labour laws and welfare systems make workers lazy, says Chinese finance chief"
2011-11-07,Nicaragua: Ortega wins third term despite constitutional ban.
2011-11-07,Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi close to resigning
2011-11-07,The World from Berlin: 'The Common Currency Endgame Has Begun' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
2011-11-06,"Italians rally against Berlusconi: We are not credible. Im ashamed of how other European countries see us, said one man. It is pitiful. This man (Berlusconi), this marionette, must go away"
2011-11-06,Next month the Dutch parliament is expected to approve a ban on halal and kosher methods of slaughtering animals for food
2011-11-06,"Bank of Canada head Mark Carney, who acknowledges the Occupy protests as ""entirely constructive"", has now been appointed chairman of the international Financial Stability Board."
2011-11-06,Tunisias Islamist-led government rejects laws to enforce religion
2011-11-06,"Former Indian President who is also a scientist - ""Economic growth will need massive energy. Will we allow an accident in Japan, in a 40-year-old reactor at Fukushima, arising out of extreme natural stresses, to derail our dreams to be an economically developed nation?"""
2011-11-06,"UK BT block isn't working: Newzbin has issued a downloadable client to its customers that stops the block, and says 93.5% of active UK visitors have downloaded the block-stopping software"
2011-11-06,"Pirate Party banned from Gamex, Swedens largest gaming exhibition, for being too controversial"
2011-11-06,Mexican mayor gunned down ahead of elections 
2011-11-06,"Public health journal publishes cannabis use guidelines ""Given the prevalence and age distribution of cannabis use in Canada, a public health approach to cannabis use is overdue,"""
2011-11-06,"Rallies were held in Washington, D.C., and across the globe in support of financial transaction taxes, also called Robin Hood taxes"
2011-11-06,"Chinese economic miracle fuels surge in carbon emissions:   Greenhouse gas output hits record high as China overtakes US to become world's biggest polluter
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2011-11-06,"Archbishop of York attacks high-paid executives: Dr John Sentamu has attacked the salaries of top executives saying that huge differences between the rich and poor ""weaken community life and make societies less cohesive"".
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2011-11-06,Death at Occupy Vancouver camp dooms it to being dispersed. 
2011-11-06,"Israel government, security services websites down in suspected cyber-attack"
2011-11-06,Egyptians Call for Day of Action on November 12th to Revive Their 'Stifled' Revolution. Links between Cairo and Occupy movement strengthen as anger grows at actions of military junta.
2011-11-06,Greece reaches agreement on unity government; Papandreou will resign
2011-11-06,Cracks Signal Massive Iceberg Forming In Antarctica
2011-11-06,"Police in China's Shandong province have broken up a human trafficking ring which specialised in buying babies from poor migrant couples to sell on to wealthy families.
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2011-11-06,Now Berlusconi faces his biggest test. The future of the euro now depends on ability of Italy's premier to rein in his country's spending 
2011-11-06,Would Obama Greenlight An Israeli Attack On Iran? --- There's much talk in Israel about bombing Iran. Hard to judge if Netanyahu/Barak are serious or just trying to intimidate Tehran. But doubtful they'd launch attack without US green light. Here's why they're unlikely to get one
2011-11-06,"IAEA to reveal Iran building nuclear weapons at base near Tehran
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2011-11-06,Quebec battling major measles outbreak
2011-11-06,"Banks will be good citizens: Banks have ignored their social responsibilities since the 2008 financial crisis. At Barclays, I'm determined to change that, says its CEO"
2011-11-06,"Israel army, intel websites down after hacker threat"
2011-11-06,"China buys space tracking station in Australia, sees Dongara as major step for its ambitious space program  - China also has space stations in Pakistan, Chile, Kenya & Namibia"
2011-11-05,A senior Indian police officer was on Friday night forcibly dumped into an insane asylum after claiming the cheif minister was corrupt.
2011-11-05,"British student fights extradition to US over TVShack link site: His attorney argued that O'Dwyer should not be sent to the US because operating a ""link site,"" which links to copies of copyrighted movies but does not actually host them, is not a crime under British law"
2011-11-05,"One day, dinner with a 16-year old Pakistani kid at event to explain US drone policy. Next day, kid killed by drone strike."
2011-11-05,Anonymous calls off outing of cartel after release of kidnapped member
2011-11-05,"Mexican member of Anonymous released by the Zetas drug cartel ahead of a threat by the Web group to expose details of the crime ring's activities, Mexican television reports"
2011-11-05,"Rhino poaching in South Africa has hit a new record high, with 341 of the animals lost to poachers so far this year as black-market demand for rhino horn soars, wildlife group WWF said."
2011-11-05,"Global carbon dioxide output soaring: US department of energy says greenhouse emissions rose six per cent in 2010, far more than recent worst case scenario."
2011-11-05,"Four million migrating birds will be killed by illegal Spanish hunters this year, many dying a slow, sticky death in traps that literally glue the animals to the ground ...and sold to restaurants for tapas"
2011-11-05,"Increasing earthquake activity and harmonic tremors on the Canary Island of El Hierro.  Residences frightened, running out of food.  Landslides happening.  Beginnings of a major eruption?"
2011-11-05,"John R. Opel, Who Made I.B.M. a Colossus, Dies at 86."
2011-11-05,"Interns work  and should be paid, lawyers warn ministers. Government legal advice suggests employers are breaking law by not following national minimum wage rules"
2011-11-05,"A one-month old baby, said to hold a diploma, was on the Nigerian government payroll, officials have discovered, exposing the levels to which corruption runs in Africa's most populous country."
2011-11-05,"Ireland closes its Vatican mission following sex scandals, filling its luxurious Vatican embassy with Italian ambassadorial staff instead."
2011-11-05,"24 Hours at Fukushima, A blow-by-blow account of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl"
2011-11-05,European Union: we'll make UK cut bank bonuses
2011-11-05,Farc leader Alfonso Cano killed
2011-11-05,Bedouin battle to stay in their villages ends in rubble
2011-11-05,"Swimming Naked In China --- 
""Its obvious that high economic growth has concealed many high-risk and illegal activities and practices that may have bolstered growth, but also sowed the seeds for financial mass destruction"". Here's what China has been hiding"
2011-11-05,"Contingency plan --- If Syria was serious when it signed an agreement with the Arab League to call off its troops and enter into negotiations with the opposition, it has a funny way of showing it.

Already since Wednesday, 40 pro-democracy protesters have died at the hands of security forces

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2011-11-05,"Pakistan lies. It hosted Osama bin Laden. Its government is barely functional. It hates the democracy next door. It is home to both radical jihadists and a large and growing nuclear arsenal. Its intelligence service sponsor attacks on American troops. With a friend like this, who needs enemies?"
2011-11-05,"Greece prepares for departure of George Papandreou:  Greece's new leader is likely to be Evangelos Venizelos, who has been reassuring eurozone leaders on bailout crisis"
2011-11-05,BBC News - Nigeria Boko Haram attack kills 63 in Damaturu
2011-11-05,Anonymous says Facebook attack was never real.
2011-11-05,The Privileges of Chinas Elite Include Purified Air
2011-11-05,Saudi Arabia marks first day of Hajj - Security becomes logistical challenge as millions of Muslims make pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site.
2011-11-04,"China to phase out incandescent lightbulbs:  Energy-inefficient lightbulbs will be phased out in five years in a bid to save energy and curb climate change
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2011-11-04,Honduras arrests 176 police in corruption purge
2011-11-04,French paper reprints Mohammad cartoon after firebomb
2011-11-04,"'15,000 strong' army gathers to take on Syria: An insurgent army which claims to be up to 15,000 strong is being coordinated from Turkey to take on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, which risks plunging the region into open warfare.
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2011-11-04,New figures for 2010 mean that levels of greenhouse gases are higher than the worst case scenario outlined by climate experts just four years ago.
2011-11-04,"Girl, 3, eats leftovers for 2 days after mom dies"
2011-11-04,"How the Rise of Islamic Banking is Changing Turkey - Islamic banks do not charge interest, & share the profit & loss risks of their customers"
2011-11-04,News Corp. Journalist Arrested As Hacking Scandal Widens
2011-11-04,"Fadel Soliman, a Muslim, gets kicked out of a Norwegian plane because ""He was behaving suspiciously."". Only he was, in fact, a Muslim scholar on his way to give a lecture about terrorism."
2011-11-04,Israeli navy boards Gaza-bound vessels
2011-11-04,BBC News - Tibetan Buddhist nun burns herself to death in China
2011-11-04,Fukushima residents' urine now radioactive
2011-11-04,Greece PM Papandreou wins confidence vote
2011-11-04,The 29 Global Banks That Are Too Big To Fail according to the G-20
2011-11-04,"Israeli army test-fires missile and practices evacuations, raising fears it may be planning an attack on Iran"
2011-11-04,"Tibet is burning: What compels a Buddhist nun to burn herself alive?
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2011-11-04,"Nature Studies by Michael McCarthy: Exhausted, deforested landscapes show the truth about over-population
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2011-11-04,Chinese hospital staff dispose of live baby 
2011-11-04,"'If justice doesn't start now, Libya will become a second Afghanistan' - As Libyans begin to enjoy their new-found freedom, the country faces a myriad of problems in the months ahead. A former exiled Libyan tells Deutsche Welle about the dangers of Libya turning into the next Afghanistan."
2011-11-04,The infant mortality rate in India's capital city and its environs rose 18.5% between 2009 and 2010 due to a collapse of the public health system.
2011-11-04,"Chinese mine owners exploit Zambian workers, says rights group:  Human Rights Watch accuses Chinese owners of endangering Zambian miners.
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2011-11-04,Greece's Leader Kills Referendum 
2011-11-04,Pakistan Carts Its Nukes Around In Delivery Vans
2011-11-04,Piracy is NOT Theft: Problems of a Nonsense Metaphor
2011-11-04,"Ugandan journalist fights for gay rights: Homosexuals in Uganda risk being discriminated against, beaten up and raped. Lillian is a Ugandan journalist, who has been granted asylum in Germany. She was lucky, as many asylum applications are denied. "
2011-11-03,"Iran claims to have proof of US-led terror plots, plans to expose it"
2011-11-03,"Six police officers who used baseball bats to smash 
up a suspect's car WILL keep their jobs."
2011-11-03,"In 2002, 26 men bought and, to preserve her virginity, anally raped  a 13 year old girl in Mardin. After eight years, Turkish court rules minimum penalty on the grounds that she consented to the act. "
2011-11-03,"Over the last two decades, thanks largely to government policy, the poverty rate in Brazil has halved. With this, income inequality has also fallen sharply."
2011-11-03,"Greek government on brink of collapse


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2011-11-03,"Greece will be cut adrift if bail-out is refused, says EU"
2011-11-03,Human rights groups have presented evidence that the bodies of African refugees have been found in the Sinai desert with organs missing
2011-11-03,"Russia's shrinking population mars Putin's superpower ambitions:  Despite Putin's efforts, Russian men die young and women have too few babies. Here's why that matters.
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2011-11-03,"Palestine to sign a free trade agreement with Latin America's most powerful trade organization, the Mercosur, which includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay."
2011-11-03,"Following up on its takedown of a Tor-based child pornography host, a group within the Anonymous hacktivist group has published the IP addresses of 190 alleged pedophiles"
2011-11-03,"Ordinary Greeks Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands - 
Grassroots refusal to put up with austerity is quickly gaining momentum, as people give up on mainstream politics"
2011-11-03,"News of the World phone hacking: number of possible victims is almost 5,800, police confirm"
2011-11-03,Murdoch writes off $91m for shutting News of the World in hacking scandal
2011-11-03,"Study Deepens Mystery of Arsenic in Bengal Basin's Groundwater - ""This is one of the worst mass poisoning cases in this history of mankind"", says geologist.  It's caused a water shortage, illness, & death in a region of over 60,000,000, leaving them unable to use the water even for washing dishes."
2011-11-03,Fracking company in UK - we caused 50 tremors in Blackpool  but we're not going to stop
2011-11-03,Egyptian junta pledges to free hundreds after damning prison letter is published
2011-11-03,"Palestinians militants open fire, launch mortar shells at IDF force working on fence in northern Gaza Strip"
2011-11-03,"Britain is reportedly moving to support a US strike on Iran, while a poll shows many Israelis in favor of a strike by their country"
2011-11-03,"Greece Wont Hold Referendum on Bailout, Finance Minister Venizelos Says"
2011-11-03,"Syria: Military tanks open fire in Homs in defiance of peace accord, killing 7 civilians"
2011-11-03,Japanese government wants to build back-up of Tokyo
2011-11-03,Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou appears to heading for defeat in a vote of confidence after mounting opposition within his own party to a surprise referendum call on the EU bailout plan.
2011-11-03,"China's great gender crisis : Chinese families have long favoured sons over daughters, meaning the country now has a huge surplus of men. Is it also leading to a profound shift in attitudes to women?"
2011-11-03,"Tanks mounted with machine-guns have opened fired in the Syrian city of Homs, activists have reported.  Despite plan to end bloodshed"
2011-11-03,"Greek crisis: Papandreou 'to offer to resign'
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2011-11-02,Wikileaks' Julian Assange loses extradition appeal
2011-11-02,"In anticipation of a coup, Greece's prime minister fires all head military leadership"
2011-11-02,New Documents Shows News Corp. Approved $1.2 Million Payoff After Learning of Fatal Evidence
2011-11-02,Plane carrying 230 passengers crash lands in Warsaw
2011-11-02,Israel rushes settlement growth after Unesco accepts Palestinians
2011-11-02,"Paris offices of French magazine which published edition 'edited by Prophet Muhammad' damaged by petrol bomb
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2011-11-02,"Julian Assange will on wednesday learn the verdict in his fight against his extradition to Sweden
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2011-11-02,Canada cuts its 10M$ yearly contribution to UNESCO
2011-11-02,Japanese MP nervously drinks Fukushima water under pressure from journalists
2011-11-02,"Netanyahu trying to persuade cabinet to support attack on Iran
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2011-11-02,India plans 'safer' nuclear plant powered by thorium
2011-11-02,Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu Considers Pre-Emptive Attack On Iran To Prevent Nuclear Capability | World News | Sky News
2011-11-02,Hacker Group Backs Away From Threat To Mexican Cartel
2011-11-02,Canada Freezes Voluntary Contributions to UNESCO After Palestine Vote
2011-11-02,"Israel to speed up settlement construction in Jerusalem, West Bank - CNN.com"
2011-11-02,"The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has thrown his weight behind the St Pauls Cathedral anti-capitalist protesters as he called for a new tax on banks. - Telegraph"
2011-11-02,Anonymous retreats from Mexico drug cartel confrontation
2011-11-02,Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou insists that a referendum on a EU bailout will go ahead despite turmoil on world markets and stunned reactions from other eurozone countries.
2011-11-02,"French magazine attacked after it portrays Mohammed
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2011-11-02,"Kyrgyzstan's election winner says US air base poses risk, must shut by 2014 after lease ends"
2011-11-02,"Arab League set to announce plan to end Syrian uprising:   President Bashar al-Assad's government has reportedly agreed to a plan to end the Syrian uprising. Leaked details include the release of all political prisoners, a new constitution, and free elections."
2011-11-02,Libya: Al Qaeda flag flown above Benghazi courthouse
2011-11-02,Fukushima suffers setback as officials detect signs of nuclear fission. Traces of radioactive gas are detected at Fukushima's No 2 reactor  one of three that suffered core meltdown.
2011-11-02,Israel test fires missile; Iran in crosshairs
2011-11-02,Israel 'punishes' Palestinians over UNESCO
2011-11-01,"Israel to shift tax burden to the rich and corporations: Israel's protest movement celebrates its first tangible success.
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2011-11-01,S. Korea Plans $50B Fund for Reunification
2011-11-01,China to assemble a permanent space station in ten years!
2011-11-01,Israel punishes Palestinians for Unesco membership: Withholding tax revenues and accelerating settlement construction - But it's Palestines bid for membership that will kill peace talks.
2011-11-01,Palestinians hit by cyber-attack following success at UNESCO
2011-11-01,US soldier jailed for raping South Korean teenager
2011-11-01,Syria has been planting landmines along the country's border with Lebanon as Syrian refugees leave the country to escape the government's crackdown against protesters
2011-11-01,Hacking Update: News Of the World Lawyer Warned Email Was Fatal To Our Case Ahead Of Crucial James Murdoch Meeting  
2011-11-01,"China 'targeted 48 chemical and military companies in hacking attack':   Attacks are latest in a long line of internet hacks aimed at industrial and military targets traced back to China
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2011-11-01,"A 5-Year-Old Girl Is Dying in Brazil Because Insurance Refuses to Pay for US$10,000 Surgery "
2011-11-01,The father of a girl who narrowly escaped Norway's summer massacre is campaigning for the country to ban Call of Duty. 
2011-11-01,"Inflation grips China.  The $600 billion stimulus launched in 2008 is all but spent. They've stopped paying migrant workers, with more cuts on the way."
2011-11-01,"Nearly half of China's wealthiest citizens are considering emigrating, with the United States and Canada the most popular destinations, according to a new report from the authors of China's rich list."
2011-11-01,Displacement of Palestinians 'a war crime'
2011-11-01,BBC News - Israel to speed up settler homes after Unesco vote
2011-11-01,Markets Slide After Surprise Referendum Is Set by Greece
2011-11-01,Occidental Petroleum Corp. gave millions of dollars to the Colombian army unit that carried out the cold-blooded murder of three union activists
2011-11-01,"Libya elects little-known scientist new prime minister
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2011-11-01,Law firm documents add to heat on James Murdoch
2011-11-01,Japanese MP drinks decontaminated water
2011-11-01,Protesters gather in southern France for G20:  Security tightened in city of Nice as anti-capitalism activists rally on eve of gathering of top world leaders.
2011-11-01,Live coverage of significant new evidence about the News of the World phone-hacking scandal that is emerging from a tranche of documents published by the culture select committee
2011-11-01,European shares tumble on Greek referendum news
2011-11-01,Ai Weiwei ordered to pay $2.2m in taxes
2011-11-01,Israel approves ground operations in Gaza
2011-10-31,UNESCO gives Palestinians full membership
2011-10-31,"British Prime Minister threatens to withhold international aid from ""anti-gay"" countries"
2011-10-31,"Fast cars and loose fiscal morals: there are more Porsches in Greece than taxpayers declaring 50,000 euro incomes'."
2011-10-31,More revelations on the official police-spread malware that Germany's Chaos Computer Club discovered in the wild and reverse engineered: pretty much everything the German police said in their defense turns out to be a lie!
2011-10-31,"Anonymous hackers threaten Mexican drug cartel: Hacker group says it will expose identity of Zetas gang and supporters in retaliation for the kidnapping of a group member
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2011-10-31,"The destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan was responsible for the biggest discharge of radioactive material into the ocean in history, a study from a French nuclear safety institute said."
2011-10-31,US withdraws Unesco funding after it accepts Palestinian membership 
2011-10-31,"Palestine secures seat in UNESCO despite US threats: The US, Canada, Germany and Israel voted against the bid. Russia, China and France voted in favor... and the UK abstained"
2011-10-31,UNESCO approves Palestinian membership bid
2011-10-31,"One ""Mystery Man"" with radiation detector and bike Tweets two major radiation hotspots in Tokyo authorities confirm."
2011-10-31,Unesco Approves Full Membership for Palestinians
2011-10-31,Greece to hold bailout referendum
2011-10-31,Libya Confirms Chemical Weapons Found
2011-10-31,"London's Met police using surveillance system to monitor mobile phones: ... covering an area of 10 sq km, the system forces hundreds of mobile phones per minute to release their unique IMSI and IMEI identity codes, which can be used to track a person's movements in real time.'"
2011-10-31,"The Shadow Superpower --- 
Introduction to the shadow economic world of ""System D"", or ""l'economie de la dbrouillardise."" A black market economy, free of regulation and taxation. With 1.8 billion jobs and a $10 trillion global market, is it the future?"
2011-10-31,"An Australian man visiting China made a ""horrifying"" discovery at a restaurant in the southern city of Guangzhou: a caged live koala, on sale and available ""braised or stewed."" "
2011-10-31,"China arrests 12,000 in online drug bust "
2011-10-31,Greeks threatened with power cuts if they fail to pay property tax
2011-10-31,UNESCO votes to admit Palestine; U.S. cuts off funding - The Washington Post
2011-10-31,"London cops recording movements & association with mobile tracking device: ""blanket & indiscriminate"""
2011-10-31,"Experts say it will take at least 30 years to close Japans tsunami-hit nuclear power plant
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2011-10-31,Man jailed for posting sex images of ex-partner online
2011-10-31,Live koalas being sold at Chinese restaurant
2011-10-31,Palestinians win seat at Unesco
2011-10-31,China denies it is behind hacking of U.S. satellites
2011-10-30,"Russia has not put its clocks back for winter this year, after President Dmitry Medvedev decided the country would stay permanently in summertime."
2011-10-30,"Occupy London could be protected by Christian ring of prayer: Coalition of Christian groups plan to prevent forcible attempts to remove tents outside St Paul's Cathedral
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2011-10-30,Online hackers threaten to expose cartel's secrets - 
2011-10-30,Work for free  or not at all: the bitter choice for young graduates
2011-10-30,Christmas comes early for Germany after 55-billion-euro accounting error
2011-10-30,"The protesters seem more adult than politicians and plutocrats. With a few nylon tents and some amateurish banners, the Occupy movement has rattled the establishment
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2011-10-30,"African male rape victims speak, fight shame of war horror"
2011-10-30,"Saudi Prince offers $900,000 to the person who captures an Israeli soldier | Reuters

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2011-10-30,Canada Mandatory Minimum Crime Bill Set to Pass: The govt has been trying for years to pass a harsh drug crime bill that includes mandatory minimum sentences for growing as few as six marijuana plants
2011-10-30,"Spanish Indignados: Millions turned out for Spain's Occupy protests and inspire others abroad; Occupy Wall Street pale in size compared to their Spanish cousin, which may be taking a leading role in an increasingly globalized and coordinated movement"
2011-10-30,"Canadian man beaten, jailed by 10-15 religious police in unprovoked attack in Saudi Arabia"
2011-10-30,Horror of South Africa's 'corrective rape'
2011-10-30,Germany's 'Occupy' protesters return to voice anger:  Thousands of people in Germany have rallied again to protest over the gap between rich and poor. Activists camping outside the European Central Bank in Frankfurt have vowed to remain for the next two weeks.
2011-10-30,Google refuses official requests to take down YouTube video of police brutality
2011-10-30,"U.S. moves to sell attack helicopters to Turkey - ""... an unusual proposal to take three AH-1W ""SuperCobra"" attack helicopters from the U.S. Marine Corps inventory and sell them to Turkey.""
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2011-10-30,"London's Metropolitan Police spends millions of pounds on secret spy planes capable of eavesdropping on mobile phone calls
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2011-10-30,"More Egyptians Finding It Difficult to Make Ends Meet --- 
40% of Egyptians say they are finding it very difficult to get by, the highest percentage to say so since the overthrow of Mubarak. Fewer than  30% of Egyptians are getting by on their present income, down from 43% in late 2010"
2011-10-30,"Greens Insist Feds Should Override States & Protect Water Supply From Mining, Arguing States are ''Clearly Failing'' to Regulate the Industry - ""The federal government should have a ''regulatory role'' in protecting groundwater & food security from mining."""
2011-10-30,Man slain in central Oslo; 'GOD' written in blood
2011-10-30,There have been violent protests in the central Chinese province of Henan after a policeman suspected of drunk driving crashed his car and killed five people
2011-10-30,"Egypt anger erupts after top blogger, activist Alaa detained by military"
2011-10-30,Arab League warns Assad of foreign intervention if violence continues
2011-10-30,China copes with promise and perils of one-child policy
2011-10-30,Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire reached
2011-10-30,"Three Australian soldiers shot dead in Taliban sleeper agent attack in Afghanistan - A ROGUE Afghan soldier has opened fire and killed three Australian army trainers and wounded six others in the volatile south of Afghanistan, NATO and a local commander have confirmed."
2011-10-29,Anonymous send a warning to drug cartel Los Zetas [Spanish language]
2011-10-29,"Many in China Sympathise with OWS: Income inequality, a feeling of disenfranchisement, and a sense of injustice are fueling popular curiosity about the movement, in which a number of Chinese see parallels with their own complaints against their govt"
2011-10-29,Occupy Europe: How a generation went from indifferent to indignant - CSMonitor.com
2011-10-29,"Swedish court bans niqab-wearing women, three women wearing head scarves completely shielding their faces were denied entry to a Gothenburg courtroom
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2011-10-29,Rise of the Drones: 50 people killed in one day by drone attacks
2011-10-29,Fukushima decommissioning will take at least three decades
2011-10-29,Elected: Michael D Higgins - Ireland's most anti-American President
2011-10-29,Egyptian anger grows after latest case of death by torture. Critics say Essam Ali Atta's death shows junta is failing to dismantle Mubarak's brutal security apparatus.
2011-10-29,"Arab League 'urgently' tells Assad to end violence --- Following killing of 40 pro-democracy protesters in Hama and Homs, Arab ministers express ""severe discontent"" with Syrian leader."
2011-10-29,"Ash cloud rises above Chilean volcano, officials warn large eruption possible - The Washington Post"
2011-10-29,Protesters burn government building in Tunisia as some votes are nullified
2011-10-29,The race is on to find Libya's missing missiles
2011-10-29,Deadly Attack Strikes NATO Bus in Kabul
2011-10-29,"Press censorship threatens Egypt's 'unfinished revolution'
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2011-10-29,Kabul attack kills 13 Americans: A suicide attack in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday targeted a convoy of foreign troops.
2011-10-29,"US and Europe play the blame game - In the European debt crisis, blame is being passed back and forth across the Atlantic between the US and European nations themselves. But this week's crisis summit in Brussels relieved some of the tension."
2011-10-29,BBC News - Suicide attack targets foreign troops in Kabul
2011-10-29,Japan to offer nuclear plant technology to India
2011-10-29,"""Anonymous"" threatens to expose cartel's secrets"
2011-10-29,"Congo's militias mobilising again, leading peace activist warns"
2011-10-29,"His health - the one thing he couldn't fix.  Jimmy Saville, veteran UK broadcaster, dies age 84"
2011-10-29,"The world is at the mercy of irrelevant pygmies like Silvio Berlusconi and Nicolas Sarkozy
Gone are the statesmen of stature  todays leaders are a motley set of lechers and buffoons.
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2011-10-29,"Egyptian prisoner tortured to death, activists say"
2011-10-29,No exit date for Kenyan mission in Somalia
2011-10-29,"With the Fight in Egypt Failing, Wael Ghonim Is Out of Sight --- Google's Wael Ghonim was the face of Egypt's revolution.  Islamists and even regular Egyptians have disparaged him on all sorts of contradictory chargeshes a freemason, an American infiltrator , an Israeli spy, an Islamist, a traitor"
2011-10-28,"Britain's top directors condemned as ""elite greedy pigs"" after a 49% pay rise last year, while average workers failed even to keep up with inflation"
2011-10-28,"Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos says he would support worldwide legalization of ""softer drugs"" such as marijuana ""provided everyone does it at the same time."" "
2011-10-28,Canadas homicide rate hits 44-year low
2011-10-28,"Over 200 Cambodian workers fainted this week in a factory which manufacturers clothes for Swedish fashion giant H&M.
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2011-10-28,Paris police have arrested around 20 Christian fundamentalists who burst into a theatre and threw stink bombs to protest against a play featuring the face of Christ drizzled with fake excrement.
2011-10-28,Gaddafi killer faces prosecution
2011-10-28,UK royal succession laws changed - daughters to have equal rights as sons
2011-10-28,How can I be proud of my China if we are a nation of 1.4bn cold hearts?
2011-10-28,"In the fifth year of a terrible war in Mexico that has exhausted the military, consumed the presidency of Felipe Calderon and left more than 43,000 dead in drug violence, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, the founder of the Sinaloa cartel, reigns supreme"
2011-10-28,"Fukushima released 'twice as much' radioactive material as first thought. Far more radioactive caesium released into the atmosphere than previously estimated, according to study"
2011-10-28,"Helsinki Court orders Finnish ISP Elisa to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay. The ISP has to block the domain names and IP addresses of the worlds most-visited torrent site by end of next month or face 100,000 euro fine"
2011-10-28,Rape being used to cure Lesbians.
2011-10-28,"Singing Geneva banker: 'The global economy is about to crash'
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2011-10-28,"Thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square Friday to press the ruling army to speed up the transfer of power to civilian rule, and an Islamist leader said his followers would stage a sit-in if the army does not respond."
2011-10-28,Iranian grand Chess master Maghami was expelled from an international chess tournament after refusing to play an Israeli
2011-10-28,Bangkok Flooding: Putting Pets Before People [pics]
2011-10-28,German flag burned on the streets as Greeks react angrily to historic Eurozone deal
2011-10-28,Church of England shaken to its foundations as row over anti-capitalism protest escalates.
2011-10-28,6.9 Magnitude Earthquake Near the Coast of Central Peru
2011-10-28,"Syrian forces 'kill dozens' in Homs and Hama: Activists say at least 36 people killed, mainly in Homs and Hama, as protesters call for no-fly zone to protect them."
2011-10-28,Egyptians march to Tahrir Square in solidarity with #OccupyOakland
2011-10-28,Gaddafi's chemical weapons were hidden despite pledge to Tony Blair 
2011-10-28,Warning for China's Economy: Wenzhou's cutthroat network of private credit came tumbling down this spring.
2011-10-28,FTSE 100 directors' earnings rose by 49% last year
2011-10-28,4-year-old Palestinian girl is rendered quadriplegic by Israeli military training in occupied West Bank
2011-10-27,Bangkok Underwater [Pics]
2011-10-27,"Wife-sharing haunts Indian villages as girls decline

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2011-10-27,Israel rejects Palestinian lawsuit over IDF missile that struck family home
2011-10-27,N. Korea nationals who witnessed Arab Spring forbidden to return home. 
2011-10-27,South Sudan will change the language of schooling to English
2011-10-27,"The European Union has reached a ""three-pronged"" agreement it says is vital to resolving the Greek debt crisis.  As part of the deal, banks have agreed to take a 50% loss on Greek debt."
2011-10-27,Police chiefs 'authorised undercover police officers to give false evidence in court'.
2011-10-27,"Russia: Putin advances Eurasian Union - As the West stumbles, Putin aggressively forges ahead with a new Soviet-style union."
2011-10-27,"Irish See Opportunity in Greeces Debt Hole - Why is it acceptable to write down Greek debt, when the Irish pay private bankers debts? "
2011-10-27,French government 'banning vegetarianism' in school canteens
2011-10-27,"Hugo Chvez announces 50% pay raise for the military - Chvez said that the salary increase for military officers would be ""retroactive to September."" ""They deserve it for the hard work done,"" in our country."
2011-10-27,Sub-Saharan Africa is being sold misguided agricultural policies based on flawed Chinese farming tactics.
2011-10-27,Pope expresses 'great shame' for violence in God's name 
2011-10-27,Eurozone crisis: banks agree 50% reduction on Greece's debt
2011-10-27,Uncharted submarine wreck found off PNG
2011-10-27,Brazil rejects Europe debt purchase plan
2011-10-27,Syrian army defectors are growing and becoming more organized
2011-10-27,St. Paul's Chancellor Quits Over Plans to Remove Protesters
2011-10-27,"If the Libyan war was about saving lives, it was a catastrophic failure"
2011-10-27,"More than 2,000 people marched Thursday through Johannesburg to demand jobs and a greater share of South Africa's riches"
2011-10-27,"Another Container Ship Hits Rocks in New Zealand - ""They're saying the damage to the ship has been superficial but they're getting that seen to right now."""
2011-10-27,"Hundreds of migrants protest tax dispute in east China, blocking roads, torching vehicles"
2011-10-27,The Breivik Interrogations: Norway Massacre Suspect Reveals All But Motive
2011-10-27,"Hamas boosting anti-aircraft arsenal with looted Libyan missiles
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2011-10-27,North Korea bans citizens working in Libya from returning home
2011-10-26,Apple Continues To Insist Only It Can Use An Apple In A Logo; Threatens Small German Cafe
2011-10-26,"London's Metropolitan Police discovers existence of a secret mobile phone within News International's east London HQ that was used in more than 1,000 incidents of illegal hacking"
2011-10-26,"A top US government official believes that the internet is under fierce attack by authoritarian governments worldwide, and that the situation is rapidly deteriorating.
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2011-10-26,"Remember that high speed train accident in China in July? Within hours of the incident, local officials began burying the wreckage. Video showed bodies still inside the carriages as they were shoved by backhoes into newly dug slit trenches."
2011-10-26,Javan rhino goes extinct in Vietnam after last rhino poached
2011-10-26,"Colombian President Santos: Marijuana should be legalized worldwide - The Colombian head of state said that legalizing softer drugs could be a way forward, ""provided everyone does it at the same time."""
2011-10-26,"China will tighten its censorship of social media networks, the Communist Party said on Wednesday. Internet users will be punishable for publishing what the Party deems ""harmful information"".
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2011-10-26,"The bodies of 267 people have been found in Sirte, Libya; many appear to have been executed - Al Jazeera"
2011-10-26,"A Tibetan Buddhist monk doused himself in fuel and set himself ablaze in far western China on Tuesday, the tenth ethnic Tibetan this year to resort to the extreme form of protest"
2011-10-26,Australia is allowing the hunting of an endangered Great White Shark due to 3 fatalities that haven't been proven to actually be associated with the shark 
2011-10-26,Saif al-Islam is proposing voluntarily handing himself in to the International Criminal Court
2011-10-26,"Engineers, academics accuse feds of misleading public about oil supplies"
2011-10-26,EU politician wants Internet surveillance built into every operating system
2011-10-26,The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in March released far more radiation than the Japanese government has claimed. So concludes a study that combines radioactivity data from across the globe to estimate the scale and fate of emissions from the shattered plant. 
2011-10-26,Arab World Opinion Turns Overwhelmingly Against Syria's Assad
2011-10-26,New Tunisian Government Promises Dignity For Gays
2011-10-26,"Iceland: Genealogical website helps couples avoid incest, and of course, to see if Bjork is a cousin."
2011-10-26,"UK to introduce ""two strikes and you're out"" mandatory life sentences for serious crimes"
2011-10-26,"Turkey asks for quake help, Israel sending special equipment "
2011-10-26,"Why the image of French police is taking a beating:  A handful of Frances most renowned police officers have recently been implicated in a string of scandals involving drugs, prostitution, bribes, and spying on journalists, resulting in a storm of negative attention for French law enforcement. "
2011-10-26,"Hundreds of Yemeni women have set fire to a pile 
of female face and body veils on a main street in 
Sanaa to protest the government's brutal 
crackdown against the country's popular uprising."
2011-10-26,Occupy Melbourne protesters turn on police in city
2011-10-26,Gaddafi's driver on the endgame: 'He didn't seem to know what to do'
2011-10-26,Switzerland has denied visas to President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace and five top Zimbabwean officials
2011-10-26,"Pope Approves Of Occupy Wallstreet, Oh Joy!"
2011-10-25,"The bankers' blockade of WikiLeaks must end: Whether you support WikiLeaks or not, the blockade by Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and others is a sinister attack on free speech"
2011-10-25,Toronto city council bans sale and consumption of shark fin. 
2011-10-25,"The Man Who Knew Too Much 
Libyans may be celebrating the killing of Muammar al-Qaddafi, but you'd better believe that Western governments are breathing a sigh of relief themselves."
2011-10-25,"Nicolas Sarkozy tells David Cameron to 'shut up' in euro clash. ""We are sick of you criticising us and telling us what to do,"""
2011-10-25,"Last rare rhinoceros in Vietnam killed by poacher, group says "
2011-10-25,"A moderate Islamist party, committed to democracy and pluralism, is in the lead in Tunisia's first democratic election."
2011-10-25,"'Occupy' Blocked In China, Joins Banned Search Terms On Microblog "
2011-10-25,Turkish Tanks Enter Northern Iraq.  Turkish warplanes bombing the Haftanin region. 
2011-10-25,Rhino poached to extinction in Vietnam
2011-10-25,India to outperform China by 2013 
2011-10-25,"Man offered 300,000 to artificially 'grow' a hamburger, raising questions about the future of animal farming and welfare."
2011-10-25,Euro collapse is now perhaps unavoidable
2011-10-25,Morales signs new law forbidding construction of Amazon road
2011-10-25,"Wounded Syrian protesters being tortured in hospital, claims Amnesty"
2011-10-25,Berlusconi government on verge of collapse over EU economic reforms 
2011-10-25,Japanese nurse sentenced to hanging in Malaysia
2011-10-25,Berlusconi's Government Risks Collapse --- Italy could be left without a government just as it tries to convince its European partners that it will get its ailing economy back on track
2011-10-25,China's Occupy Wall Street Strategy: From Headline News to Banned Search Topic
2011-10-25,"China's one-child policy means benefits for parents  if they follow the rules - 
Rule-abiding parents get benefits such as preferential hospital treatment, 1st choice for government jobs & extra land allowances  but rich parents can afford to flout the rules"
2011-10-25,"Economics has met the enemy, and it is economics"
2011-10-25,"Tunisia's moderate Islamist party Ennahda claimed victory in the country's first democratic elections, saying it would reach out to two centre-left parties to form a ""stable political alliance"". Official results are expected Tuesday afternoon. "
2011-10-25,"Mass killings, arbitrary detention under new Libyan regime"
2011-10-25,Photos: Thailand's worst floods in half a century
2011-10-25,Murdoch sons rebuked by News Corporation shareholders
2011-10-25,"Euro rescue postponed yet again, Italy fails to agree on reforms"
2011-10-24,Japan 6 months later... Hard work pays off
2011-10-24,"
Deal struck to stop poor nations becoming West's toxic waste dump - UN accelerates global ban on export of hazardous waste, including old electronics, discarded computers, & mobile phones, from developed to developing countries"
2011-10-24,BBC News - WikiLeaks suspends publication of classified US files
2011-10-24,Good News Everyone. India 'close to wiping out polio'
2011-10-24,Former Irish leader made all decisions in a pub as economy collapsed
2011-10-24,"Gaddafi loyalists executed in Sirte, HRW found  53 decomposing bodies, apparently Gaddafi supporters, at an abandoned hotel in Sirte, and some had their hands bound behind their backs when they were shot"
2011-10-24,"In South Korea, too many college grads, too few jobs"
2011-10-24,"Skype and Sensibility: Estonia Lives the European Dream --- The Estonians, with little debt, an enthusiastic attitude toward Europe and a stoic approach to austerity measures, are a model EU nation in the midst of a crisis"
2011-10-24,Libya: Frame-by-frame analysis shows that Gaddafi was sodomized with what appears to be a knife as he was being taken to the truck
2011-10-24,Cristina Kirchner re-elected as Argentina's president in landslide: One of country's biggest ever electoral victories makes Kirchner first woman in Latin America to retain top office
2011-10-24,At least 32 people have died and more than 100 injured after a bridge collapsed at a political event in the Indian tea-producing region of Darjeeling.
2011-10-24,BBC News - Berlin police arrest man for torching 100 luxury cars
2011-10-24,"Don't Force Statehood On Somalia --- 
""The model for Somalia is Switzerland. Don't laugh!"" Here's why a decentralised confederation system would work. And, for some counterarguments, read the four heavy-duty responses to the article"
2011-10-24,A cyber attack on Japan's biggest defense contractor likely netted military data on warplanes and information on nuclear power plants
2011-10-24,Rights group: Bodies of 53 apparent Gadhafi loyalists found in Libyan hotel
2011-10-24,Norways annual telethon - approx. 38M$ raised for clearing landmines
2011-10-24,Video footage shows 'Gaddafi's killer'
2011-10-24,State govt in Australia seeks to issue up to $12k fines if you insult its gaming minister Michael O'Brien
2011-10-24,Scouts Canada takes a page from the Vatican regarding management of pedophilia hush money. Get your kids raped and earn big! 
2011-10-24,Photos: Hundreds Dead In Turkey Earthquake
2011-10-24,Turkey accepts Iranian aid for quake victims
2011-10-24,"Bransons, space tourists anxious for maiden flight
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2011-10-24,UK riots analysis reveals gangs did not play pivotal role
2011-10-24,"
China makes single largest grain donation to Africa: official
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2011-10-24,Sri Lankan President accused of War Crimes in Australian court 
2011-10-23,"285 Indian girls shed 'unwanted' names: Activists say the name ""unwanted,"" which is widely given to girls across India, gives them the feeling they are worthless and a burden"
2011-10-23,7.3 magnitude earthquake rocks Turkey
2011-10-23,"I think I'd rather be trapped in a mine: Six divers are currently trapped in a hyperbaric recompression chamber bolted onto the deck of their ship, which sank in 70 meters of water."
2011-10-23,Iraqi Prime Minister: We made the call - not America - to pull troops after immunity was denied 
2011-10-23,"Israel offers aid to Turkey in wake of massive earthquake:  Defense Minister Barak instructs top official to contact Ankara, despite the deep diplomatic crisis that has engulfed the two nations in recent years."
2011-10-23,"UK parliamentary committee suggests that websites need to reveal the identity of anonymous comments, or be liable for what's in those comments"
2011-10-23,The strange and evil world of Equatorial Guinea
2011-10-23,"Norwegian energy giant Statoil confirmed Friday that a large new oil discovery in the North Sea announced earlier this year is twice as big as previously thought.
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2011-10-23,Karzai: Afghanistan would back Pakistan in war with U.S.
2011-10-23,Irans Ahmadinejad condemns Syria for killings and massacre
2011-10-23,"Polls open in historic Tunisia election: Birthplace of Arab Spring holds first democratic elections in decades, as Tunisians pick a constituent assembly"
2011-10-23,"Switzerland's extreme-right poised for historic win in Sunday elections, Amid nasty anti-immigration attacks, the Swiss Peoples Party rises."
2011-10-23,Large 7.3 magnitude earthquake hits Turkey
2011-10-23,"India's Silent War
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2011-10-23,"The Cleanest Place In Africa: ""Once synonymous with genocide, Rwanda is now a budding police state. It's also a stunning African success story."""
2011-10-23,Palestinian Bid to Join Unesco Could Imperil Funds: U.S. legislation mandates a cutoff to any United Nations agency that accepts the Palestinians as a full member.
2011-10-23,BBC tracks down Gaddafi's AWOL spy chief in Dubai - confronts him about claims  he personally tortured prisoners. 
2011-10-23," Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested in central Budapest on Sunday against the center-right government, demanding more transparent legislation and protection for the country's free-market democracy."
2011-10-23,Karzai Says Afghanistan Would Back Pakistan in a Conflict
2011-10-23,Collapse of Belgian-French bank Dexia in Europe highlights spreading global risk
2011-10-23,"Pakistan: Indian helicopter violates airspace -- Army spokesman says crew of four taken into ""safe custody"" after incident near Skardu in country's northeast."
2011-10-23,Tunisia Casts Historic Vote
2011-10-23,"Deadly earthquake hits eastern Turkey

Death toll could be up to 1,000 after magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes Van province, bringing down buildings"
2011-10-23,"Approaching its first national election since the ouster of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the former strongman, Tunisia faces a fierce debate over the sources of political spending while voters will choose an assembly to govern the country while simultaneously writing a new constitution. "
2011-10-23,"Turkey's main seismography center says the quake could have killed up to 1,000 people."
2011-10-22,Obama: All U.S. troops out of Iraq by Dec. 31. The war will finally be over - Lynn Sweet
2011-10-22,"German Pirate Party hit double digits in the polls for the national elections: With one in ten Germans embracing the ideas of the young party, the Pirates are on course to gain serious influence in one of the worlds major political arenas"
2011-10-22,U.S. official: Saudi Crown Prince dies
2011-10-22,Rupert Murdoch and sons re-elected to News Corp. board
2011-10-22,"University of Wales, the second-largest university in the country with a 120-year history has been abolished following a visa scandal."
2011-10-22,"BitTorrent Throttling ISPs Exposed: Comcast was slowing down in 2008, but only 3% last year. In Canada, Rogers has the worst track record as it systematically throttles more than three-quarters of all BitTorrent traffic"
2011-10-22,"Like many newly emerging democracies, Libya didn't overthrow Qaddafi when it was bulging with youth. It toppled Qaddafi after its youth bulge matured."
2011-10-22,"As Libya takes stock, Moammar Kadafi's hidden riches astound: New estimates of the former leader's assets  more than $200 billion  are called 'staggering.' If they prove true, he would rank among the world's most rapacious leaders."
2011-10-22,Qaddafi Was Worth More Than $200 Billion  By Far The Richest Person In The World
2011-10-22,More than one in five people in Spain live below poverty line 
2011-10-22,"Tunisians prepare for the election tomorrow, the first in the Arab Spring"
2011-10-22,'Unwanted' Indian girls get new start in name ceremony
2011-10-22,Shareholders deal blow to Murdoch
2011-10-22,Heir to Saudi throne Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud has died.
2011-10-22,UK government rejects renewed call from Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to decriminalize drug possession
2011-10-22,Facebook to give German state privacy exemption
2011-10-22,Hugo Chavez cancer claim doctor flees Venezuela:  A doctor who said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had only two years to live has fled the country saying he fears for his life.
2011-10-22,Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been implicated in a police probe into pimping at a French luxury hotel which has uncovered evidence that he attended sex soirees with prostitutes paid for by businessmen.
2011-10-22,"Occupy protesters vow to stay at St Paul's cathedral, demonstrators say they are prepared to stay at London landmark until government changes direction"
2011-10-22,"Turkish forces have killed at least 49 Kurdish militants in two days during clashes near the Iraqi border, the country's military says."
2011-10-22,"Hashish Harvest in Bekaa: The People Behind the 
Plant | Al Akhbar English"
2011-10-22,Iran's Ahmedinejad criticizes the killings in Syria.
2011-10-22,"St Paul's Cathedral in London is losing 16,000 a day because of protest camp "
2011-10-22,Clues to Gaddafi's death concealed from public view
2011-10-22,"
 Germany arrests two Russians for spying since Cold War
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2011-10-21,700 metres of the Great Wall of China collapses due to excessive mining
2011-10-21,"Yue Yue, the little girl run over by two trucks, has now died."
2011-10-21,Global warming 'confirmed' by independent study
2011-10-21,"Basque separatist group Eta says it has called a ""definitive cessation"" to its campaign of bombings and shootings."
2011-10-21,India mulls law to make private sector bribes a criminal offense
2011-10-21,"Gadhafi's last words: ""Do you know right from wrong?"""
2011-10-21,Protesting students seize Chile's Senate building
2011-10-21,"David Attenborough: 'I'm an essential evil' David Attenborough's latest TV series, Frozen Planet, is being heralded as his take on climate change. Now 85, he explains why - finally - he's speaking out on the issue, and shares the joys of a long life spent filming sex and death in the wild"
2011-10-21,Syrian protesters to Assad: You're next
2011-10-21,Police move in on Occupy Melbourne as protesters defy eviction order.
2011-10-21,"Swedish Court: Snapping pics of sleeping woman's breasts 'not a crime' - Two young men who bared and took pictures of the breasts of a passed-out 18-year-old woman are not guilty of sexual molestation because the girl wasn't aware that she was being molested at the time, a Swedish court has ruled."
2011-10-21,Robert Fisk: You can't blame Gaddafi for thinking he was one of the good guys
2011-10-21,Gaddafi daughter in hospital after watching her father lynched on TV
2011-10-21,Mogadishu massacre - 70 AU troops killed
2011-10-21,Qaddafi Was Captured Alive -- Who Killed Him?
2011-10-21,Iraq rejects US request to maintain bases after troop withdrawal
2011-10-21,Iceland's President declares support for Occupy Wall Street - protests organized by social media and technological developments are healthy for society
2011-10-21,Obama: Iraq war will be over by year's end; all troops coming home - CNN.com
2011-10-21,Hacking Update: News Corp To Pay $4.8M To Family Of Murdered Girl; Allegations Tip Of The Iceberg 
2011-10-21,"Messengers of Death: Are Drones Creating a New Global Arms Race?
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2011-10-21,Hundreds demonstrated against the growing criminalization of homelessness in Budapest
2011-10-21,"India sixth largest contributor to global wealth -- 
Report: Indias total wealth rose by $1.3 trillion to reach $4.1 trillion in 2011; expected to top $8.9 trillion by 2016"
2011-10-21,"UK Met facing mounting crisis as activist spying operation unravels: ..virtually nothing was known about the secretive police units which, for four decades, had been surreptitiously disrupting the activities of political campaign groups"
2011-10-21,"Turkey sends 10,000 troops to Iraq border who are backed up by F-16 warplanes, helicopter gunships and drones."
2011-10-21,Guatemala apologises to Arbenz family for 1954 coup:  Guatemala's government has apologised to the family of former President Jacobo Arbenz who was toppled in 1954 in a CIA-backed coup. 
2011-10-20,Libyan forces 'capture Gaddafi' - local TV reports.
2011-10-20,Whistleblowers murdered in India illustrate the fatal hazards of exposing corruption
2011-10-20,"Report into undercover police delayed, allegations that police chiefs had authorised undercover police officers to give false evidence in court."
2011-10-20,Russia is pressing for a UN resolution aimed at keeping thousands of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles purchased by former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi from getting into the hands of armed groups and terrorists.
2011-10-20,"Its time for the UN to formally apologize for having legitimized Gaddafis regime by electing Libya to its Human Rights Council last year, to the Security Council in 2008-2009, and as General Assembly president in 2009,"
2011-10-20,Muammar Gaddafi killed
2011-10-20,"At 105, Celebrated Chinese Linguist Now A Dissident: Zhou Youguang --""Ordinary people no longer believe in the Communist Party. ... People ask me if there's hope for China. I'm an optimist. I didn't even lose hope during the Japanese occupation and World War II."""
2011-10-20,"A Jew Of No Religion --- 
Yoram Kaniuk, novelist, 81, wins court victory in Israel. He can be Jewish by nationality, but an atheist by religion. Sounds like progress. But raises new questions about church and state relations, and what it means to be Jewish"
2011-10-20,"In Syria, protests mutate to armed resistance amid economic meltdown"
2011-10-20,"GM crops fail to increase yield but vastly increased  use of chemicals and the growth of ""superweeds"": The study accuses Monsanto of controlling 95% of the Indian cotton seed market and massively pushing up prices"
2011-10-20,"Libya: The End of Qaddafi and the Fall of Sirte [pics]
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2011-10-20,Authorities knew that Rupert Murdoch's News of the World tabloid had hacked into the phone of murdered teenager Milly Dowler nine years before the scandal over the practice exploded.
2011-10-20,Gaddafi removed from truck apparently alive - video
2011-10-20,"Bolivian natives triumphantly enter La Paz after a 2-month march from the Amazon opposing construction of a highway through their homeland -  The road is to be built through the pristine Isiboro Secure National Park & Indigenous Territory  inhabited by 50,000 native people "
2011-10-20,"Police spies unit 'crossed the line', says Lord Macdonald: Former director of public prosecutions accuses Metropolitan police of 'monumental misjudgment' in allowing undercover officers to give false evidence
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2011-10-20,"""With injuries to the leg, torso and head, the former dictator was found alone in the drain pipe, surrounded by the bodies of his guards who had been shot as they fled Sirte from the west."""
2011-10-20,Mainstream Press Account In Australia Makes The Case For Why 'Piracy' Is Not The Problem
2011-10-20,"The Venezuelan Supreme Court today basically belongs to President Chvez. Ever since his supporters packed the court in 2004, its rulings have repeatedly sought to protect the presidents political agenda, not to uphold basic human rights. "
2011-10-20,Benjamin Netanyahu is ridiculed in Israel for his attempts to capitalize on the release of Gilad Shalit
2011-10-20,Ratings agency forecasts are throwing entire countries into financial crises by driving up interest rates on bonds. Now the EU is considering a ban on ratings for countries that are in the process of negotiating economic bailout packages.
2011-10-20,Mexican police: Head of shelter charged with prostituting women residents - CNN.com
2011-10-20,Basque group ETA ends armed independence campaign
2011-10-20,"The Rise and Fall of Muammar Gaddafi [pics]
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2011-10-20,"Qaddafi's death leaves a Libya that must build itself from scratch:  Muammar Qaddafi's government was one of a kind, with no independent institutions. That means Libya's new government has nothing, good or bad, to build on."
2011-10-20,"Canada's Supreme Court rules that hyperlinks on websites the link to defamatory content do not constitute publication, shielding content sharers from liability, should they inadvertently post links to libelous material"
2011-10-19,We now have an effective vaccine for Malaria
2011-10-19,"Shark massacre reported in Colombian waters: Environmental authorities say up to 2,000 hammerhead, Galpagos and whale sharks were slaughtered for their fins
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2011-10-19,Canada Supreme court rules that people cannot be held liable for how they use hyperlinks on websites
2011-10-19,French Court Orders ISPs to Block Access to Site That Allow[s] Civilians to Post Videos of Alleged Police Misconduct
2011-10-19,"Switzerland sold arms and ammunition to long-term clients Egypt and Bahrain during the ""Arab spring"" protests, according to a report by Amnesty International."
2011-10-19,"From South Africa, a faster and easier way to apply condoms"
2011-10-19,"Dalai Lama's prayers for Tibetans is 'terrorism in disguise', says China
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2011-10-19,"In the largest protest seen in decades, hundreds of thousands of citizens have thronged the centre of Athens and other cities on the first day of a 48-hour general strike."
2011-10-19,"Chvez opponent can run for president, but can't take office, says court:  Venezuela's Supreme Court said that opposition leader Leopoldo Lpez can't take office, even if he beats Hugo Chvez in next year's presidential race, despite an international court ruling otherwise."
2011-10-19,Report: Turkey launches incursion into Iraq - USATODAY.com
2011-10-19,China hails woman who rescued bleeding toddler left for dead
2011-10-19,"Turkish forces are reported to have launched airstrikes and sent ground troops into northern Iraq, in pursuit of Kurdish PKK rebels who killed at least 26 Turkish soldiers.
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2011-10-19,At least 21 Turkish soldiers have been killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels at several police and army posts in southeast Turkey
2011-10-19,"'New Stuxnet' worm targets companies in Europe: ""Although the virus appears to have been spying on the systems it infiltrates - rather than attempting to vandalise them - experts say its code is so similar to the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran, that it may have been engineered by the same people."""
2011-10-19,Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was due on Wednesday to push for closer ex-Soviet integration after the surprise announcement of a free-trade zone being created in the former communist bloc.
2011-10-19,Somali kidnappers say French woman dead
2011-10-19,"As the Arctic sea ice nears record lows, the Northeast Passage opens up"
2011-10-19,"Japan says it needs to clear 2,419 square kilometres of radiation-contaminated landan area larger than greater Tokyo. "
2011-10-19,Researchers warn of new Stuxnet worm
2011-10-19,Kenyan and pro-Somali government forces claim to have captured a key al-Shabab base and killed 75 of its fighters.
2011-10-19,"The disease killing Europe's plane trees
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2011-10-19,Social network sites may be changing people's brains as well as their social life
2011-10-19,Kurdish rebels kill 24 Turkish soldiers  - Telegraph
2011-10-19,"Hanoi hotel's secret bunker used by anti-war activist  Jane Fonda found after 40 years, Bomb shelter uncovered by workmen at historic Metropole."
2011-10-19,"Palestinian militants vow to abduct a 'new Gilad Shalit'
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2011-10-18,Occupy Wall Street Spreads Worldwide [pics]
2011-10-18,"Twitter chief: We will protect our users from Government, Twitter's chief, has stood by the companys decision not to suspend the service during the UK riots or disclose user identities to authorities.
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2011-10-18,Interview with German Opposition Leader: 'Commercial Banking Should Be Split From Investment Banking' 
2011-10-18,"Occupy Italy: Police raid homes after riots
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2011-10-18,"On 31 October, world population reaches 7 billion."
2011-10-18,The Atlantic bluefin is so depleted as to qualify as a threatened species: last year 140% more bluefin tuna meat from the Mediterranean Sea continue  entered the market than was reported as caught
2011-10-18,"Occupy Wall Street-style protest in Indonesia leads to closure of world's largest gold mine:    Clashes between protesting Indonesians and security forces at US-owned mine have also left four dead.
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2011-10-18,Hamas frees Israel's Gilad Shalit in prisoner swap 
2011-10-18,"UK Lobbying clean-up is delayed- after lobbying 
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2011-10-18,"Egypts 1st Post-Revolution Political Prisoner, Blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad May Die a Martyr. Imprisoned for criticizing the Military. On hunger strike,now refusing water. A Coptic Christian with controverisal views, he has received little attention from  activist & pro-rights groups in Egypt.

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2011-10-18,There has been a fall of nearly 40% in the number of deaths from malaria worldwide in the past decade
2011-10-18,"'Zetas drug-cartel boss' captured in Mexico - Al Jazeera English
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2011-10-18,"Spanish society has been shaken by allegations of the theft and trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, which started under Franco and continued up to the 1990s.
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2011-10-18,"BBC goes inside the besieged centre of Syrian resistance to secretly film what life is like, ""There's no electricity, water or communications."""
2011-10-18,"Chinese toddler's parents thank her rescuer, a rag picker and trash collector "
2011-10-18,"Bureaucracy in Greece Defies Efforts to Cut It: Stories of eye-popping waste and abuse of power among Greeces bureaucrats are legion, including officials who hire their wives, and managers who submit $38,000 bills for office curtains. 
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2011-10-18,Ahmadinejad likens claims of Iranian assassination plot to Iraq WMD. Iranian president says US claims of Iranian involvement in an alleged plot to kill Saudi ambassador will prove false.
2011-10-18,"Bail Us Out of Trouble? No Way, Say Greeks - 
  It might seem crazy to protest a bailout meant to help your country out of its self-imposed mess, but, for many Greeks, there's more than just money at stake - Why so many in the broke country don't want the EU's help"
2011-10-18,"EU stem cell patent ban is 'unbelieveable setback', say researchers"
2011-10-18,"From traders to the homeless, protesters at the ""Occupy Sydney"" campaign in Martin Place say they have received more support from the public than expected"
2011-10-18,11year old tasered by RCMP for brandishing a pen. 
2011-10-18,"'Paramilitaries' rise from Mexico's cartels - The gangs Mexico deserves, but not the ones it needs"
2011-10-18,"'When Al-Shabaab militants called the Somali national womens basketball team captain, Suweys Ali Jama, and told her she had two options: to be killed or to stop playing basketball, she decided that neither was really an option at all.'"
2011-10-18,"New vaccine 'to cut malaria risk by half' - Al Jazeera English
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2011-10-18,Strikes cripple Greece in 'critical' week for eurozone:  Greece has been waiting for two months for the next installment of its international aid - money it needs to remain solvent. But protests against measures needed to secure the tranche have plunged the country into chaos.
2011-10-17,"Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff takes hard line on corruption, fires chief of staff and ministers: 'People are making it clear in the streets and elsewhere that long-tolerated sins such as bribery, graft and other acts of corruption are no longer tolerable.'"
2011-10-17,Thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital Tunis Sunday in a show of support for a television station subjected to violence after airing a controversial film that offended Muslims. 
2011-10-17,"Engstrom: ""Todays copyright legislation is out balance, and out of tune with the times. It has turned the entire young generation into criminals in the eyes of the law, in a futile attempt at stopping the technological development. Yet file sharing has continued to grow exponentially."""
2011-10-17,Police called after passengers stranded on plane or an entire day
2011-10-17,Occupy Wall Street returns to Canada
2011-10-17,"Online Sex Education: Parents' Porn Fears Exaggerated, Experts Say "
2011-10-17,St. Paul's Cathedral tells police to move along at Occupy LSX protest
2011-10-17,"Arab League finally steps up, calls for Syria to end violence"
2011-10-17,"

   

Qantas Admits Losing Child - Airline staff not only lost the boy's paperwork, but failed to even realize he was in their care "
2011-10-17,Top French cop arranged prostitute-filled orgies for Dominique Strauss-Kahn
2011-10-17,Head of French Spy Agency arrested after allegedly spying on a journalist for Nicolas Sarkozy
2011-10-17,Calls to suspend Sri Lanka from Commonwealth
2011-10-17,"As anti-capitalism demonstrations sweep through Germany, activists have set up tent-cities in Frankfurt and Hamburg, vowing to stay as long as they can."
2011-10-17,S.African hospital reports 'superbug' outbreak
2011-10-17,Israel tense as prisoner swap looms: Gilad Shalit to be swapped Tuesday for a thousand Palestinian prisoners
2011-10-17,BBC News - Pc denies killing Ian Tomlinson at G20 
2011-10-17,"A prominent organization of Indian Sunni clerics has urged Muslims to reject hardline Wahabi Islam, which it said was giving the community a bad name, and called for limiting the influence of Saudi Arabia."
2011-10-17,Senegal Curbs a Bloody Rite for Girls and Women
2011-10-17,"Hermes calls on shareholders to protest at News Corp AGM: Shareholder advisory service withdraws support for board members Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch"
2011-10-17,Kenya deploys troops in Somalia after kidnappings
2011-10-17,Outcry in China over hit-and-run toddler left in street
2011-10-17,Russian spies using Canadian passports poses troubling threat 
2011-10-17,"A court in Sweden has heard the case against a woman accused of sharing 45,000 music tracks online. Even in the home of The Pirate Bay the sheer scale is a record-breaker, and the prosecution has already hinted at a jail sentence...










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2011-10-17,"Jordans King Abdullah has sacked Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit, a conservative former army general and asked International Court of Justice judge Awn Khasawneh to form a new government"
2011-10-17,"Hamas vows to try to kidnap more IDF soldiers:
Meshal says Hamas won't stop kidnapping efforts until 'all of our prisoners in Israel are freed.'"
2011-10-16,"""The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline...The decision to pull out fully by January [2012] will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential for"""
2011-10-16,"Wall Street Protests Hit Over 1,500 Cities Around World"
2011-10-16,EU considering massive cuts to food aid for poor. The European Union is considering a roughly 75 percent cut in funding for a program that helps feed 18 million of its poorest citizens. The cuts...would come at a time of rising unemployment and consumer food prices in many parts of Europe.
2011-10-16,Thank-you cards from China pose mystery for WWII vets
2011-10-16,Germany will prosecute tax fraudsters using stolen data it bought about its citizens who secretly deposited assets in HSBC bank in Luxembourg
2011-10-16,Child Slaves Made Your Halloween Candy. Stop Buying It: The connection between major candy bar manufacturers and child slavery is one of the world's best-kept secrets
2011-10-16,"Protesters take anti-greed message to world's streets:  Demonstrators in cities across the globe turned out in force on Saturday to express their anger at the governments, banks and speculators they blame for the economic downturn. "
2011-10-16,"Kenyan troops pursue al-Shabab into Somalia: Truckloads of Kenyan troops have crossed border and are stationed about 100km inside Somalia, military source says."
2011-10-16,"An anti-capitalist protest in London's financial district has entered its second day, with some protesters camped outside St Paul's Cathedral."
2011-10-16,"Tokyo's radiation ""hot spots"" traced back to radium-filled bottles found under the floor of a nearby home"
2011-10-16,"Israel plans new settlement of 2,600 that will isolate Arab East Jerusalem"
2011-10-16,"Senegal Curbs a Bloody Rite for Girls and Women, over the past 15 years, the majority of villages where genital cutting was commonplace have now committed to stop."
2011-10-16,"Mediterranean Shipping Co.,  charterer of the ship that's leaking oil & wreaking environmental havoc off New Zealand, pledges to help with clean-up cash, though it says it's not legally liable - Cost is expected to exceed the $12.1m liability cover - depending on how much more oil leaks "
2011-10-16,India vs. Pakistan On Water - Irrigation & hydroelectric projects in the Indus River Valley are draining the river's flow - One of the potentially catastrophic consequences of the fragile water balance is the effect on political tensions
2011-10-16,G20 tells euro zone to fix debt crisis in eight days
2011-10-16,UK- One in seven nursing homes breaking the law on feeding patients
2011-10-16,"Deadly clashes erupt in Yemen:  Medics report at least 13 deaths as pro-government forces fire on protesters in the capital, Sanaa."
2011-10-16,UK Ministers to consider plans for a register of lobbyists
2011-10-16,Europe on the breadline: Spanish activists show how politics could be run
2011-10-16,Room for one more? World population to reach 7 BILLION in next few days 
2011-10-16,Egypt's military rulers ban discrimination: Measure comes a week after 26 people were killed in clashes involving minority Coptic Christian protesters and military.
2011-10-16,Arab League to Discuss Suspending Syria
2011-10-16,Bank of Canada head calls Occupy protests 'entirely constructive' 
2011-10-16,Hollande set to challenge Sarkozy in presidential vote
2011-10-16,"London anti-bank protesters camp out at St Paul's 
Cathedral - Police told by church to move on"
2011-10-15,U.S. troops deploying to Central Africa to hunt down Lord's Resistance Army
2011-10-15,Jail Sentence for Pirate Bay Co-Founder Made Final By Swedish Appeal Court
2011-10-15,"At least 1,000 people are demonstrating in London's financial district as part of a worldwide protest against alleged corporate greed."
2011-10-15,"Occupy Wall Street going Global, all the way to Argentina"
2011-10-15,A Palestinian mayor explains how Israeli army starves his village of water
2011-10-15,Protesters storm Goldman Sachs office in Milan
2011-10-15,Occupy Wall Street protests spread to major cities around the world
2011-10-15,"The Canadian Auto Workers endorsed Occupy Wall Street on Friday, giving a boost to the nascent Canadian movement as activists across the country prepare for their own demonstrations against corporate greed and inequality."
2011-10-15,U.N. Official Urges World to Stand Up for Syrians
2011-10-15,"Rome protest against corporate greed turns violent,
Police fire tear gas as protesters riot.
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2011-10-15,"Unions are offering their support to the Canadian version of Occupy Wall Street: CAW, Service Employees International Union, and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada have all endorsed the movement and said some of their members will take to the streets on Saturday"
2011-10-15,UN names journalism one of the most dangerous professions in the world
2011-10-15,BBC News - In pictures: Worldwide protests over economic crisis
2011-10-15,IMF representative pelted with eggs
2011-10-15,"Occupy Wall Street comes to Germany:around 5,000 demonstrators marched through Frankfurt to the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB), while almost 10,000 took to the streets of Berlin. Several thousand joined protests in Munich, Cologne and other cities.
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2011-10-15,"How Berlusconi survived once again: The Italian PM is under siege. Today, he won yet another no-confidence vote. Here's how."
2011-10-15,Occupy Australia takes off -- thousands in Melbourne and around the country
2011-10-15,Live in Rome: 'Occupy' protest
2011-10-15,"Egypts Military Rulers Expand Their Power, Raising Alarms
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2011-10-15,Yemeni government loyalists kill 12 at protest rally in capital
2011-10-15,"These photos are the closest look yet of the stricken ship off New Zealand - 'There's an unnerving sound of steel ripping against steel.'  4,200 volunteers have registered & about 2,000 are involved in clean-up efforts.  The rest are being turned away. "
2011-10-15,Syrian forces kill leading activist in tribal east
2011-10-15,Yemen security forces fire on protesters; 12 dead and many more wounded
2011-10-15,Wall Street Journal Europe Doles Out Cash And Favors To Inflate Circulation Numbers
2011-10-15,"At least 430 people, mainly children, have died from an outbreak of encephalitis in a deeply neglected region of India that borders Nepal - 

""The situation is grim & the epidemic is worse than previous years... there are no empty beds at the hospital."""
2011-10-14,The Oslo terrorist attacks didn't change anything: Norwegian police maintain their stance of not bearing arms
2011-10-14,"Spanish cooperation buids a solar plant in Palestinia, provides electricity to 40 families of Emnaizel, a school and a medical center. Israel decides to demolish it in two weeks."
2011-10-14,"A series of corruption scandals has shaken Austria. Entrepreneurs have allegedly received multi-million commissions for non-existent services, and there are reports of cash-stuffed plastic bags changing hands in Vienna's back alleys. The population is losing faith in the political establishment. "
2011-10-14,This Is What Millions Of Young People In China And India Are REALLY Thinking
2011-10-14,"Third Iranian nuclear scientist shot dead, likely assassinated."
2011-10-14,Violent crime plunged in London after summer rioters were locked up in jail
2011-10-14,Reuters: Wall Street sit-in goes global Saturday
2011-10-14,Key shareholder group calls for Rupert Murdoch's eviction from News Corp board at annual meeting 
2011-10-14,"Oil Spill Disaster on New Zealand Shoreline: Salvage teams are racing to offload as much remaining oil as possible while cleanup crews are hard at work, coping with New Zealand's worst environmental disaster in decades [pic]"
2011-10-14,"14 Shamans Murdered in Peru -- Fourteen traditional healers have been brutally murdered in Peru in the past 20 months, allegedly at the urging of a local mayor; Protestant Sect Members Suspected; Irrecoverable Loss"
2011-10-14,S. Korea Creating Task Force for U.S. Troop Crimes
2011-10-14,Free Syrian Army poses growing threat to Assad:  Significant soldier defections have cast attention on the anti-regime Free Syrian Army. But the fledgling rebel force is still far from being a match for the Syrian regular army. 
2011-10-14,Mexicans demand international human rights investigation
2011-10-14,UK Defence Secretary Fox resigns
2011-10-14,Head of India's poorest state (the shoe/statue lady) opens 10 million theme park
2011-10-14,"EFF: In conjunction with the Christian organization Mothers' Union, UK PM David Cameron enacts plan with major ISPs - BT, TalkTalk, Virgin, and Sky - to block access to pornography, gambling, self-harm, and other blacklisted websites"
2011-10-14,Iceland's New Constitution
2011-10-14,"China Issues Currency Warning to US: Senate measure could ""seriously interfere with Sino-US economic relations."""
2011-10-14,"Norwegian extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who has confessed to twin attacks in July that killed 77 people, says there are ""up to 80 cells"" in Europe engaged in anti-Islam crusades like his"
2011-10-14,"Syria uprising: UN says protest death toll hits 3,000"
2011-10-14,Spain credit rating downgraded ahead of G20 meeting:  Standard & Poor's has downgraded the eurozone's fourth largest economy by one notch
2011-10-14,"Tokyo radiation hotspot 'not linked to Fukushima':  Elevated levels of radiation found in a residential area of Tokyo are almost certainly not connected to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, say officials."
2011-10-14,"Financial loss after Fukushima disaster estimated at $74 billion
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2011-10-14,"Berlusconi survives a confidence vote, barely holding onto power"
2011-10-14,"UK Energy firms' profits per customer rise 733%, says Ofgem"
2011-10-13,"Arrest Bush when he visits B.C., Amnesty tells Ottawa  - The rights body says both Canadian and international law oblige Canada to detain Bush and investigate him for war crimes and torture."
2011-10-13,New Zealand Oil Spill In Pictures - It's the country's worst ever maritime environmental disaster
2011-10-13,Used-car salesman as Iran proxy? Why Iran assassination plot doesn't add up for experts.
2011-10-13,Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is named the most powerful person in the art world by an arts magazine - China complains about political bias. 
2011-10-13,'Food insecurity' comes to London - Shoppers at London's Spitalfields market are in for a shock when food prices rocket by up to 800 per cent as part of a British Red Cross campaign highlighting the cost of living in developing countries.
2011-10-13,"North Korea has threatened war against South Korea over balloons drifting over the nations' border that contain leaflets denouncing Kim Jong-il's regime.
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2011-10-13,19 people arrested in Poland in connection with Anders Breivik mass killing in Norway
2011-10-13,"Bomb explodes at Londonderry City, Northern Ireland"
2011-10-13,"Radiation spikes in Tokyo neighborhood. An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area."
2011-10-13,"6.2 earthquake hits off the coast of Bali, Indonesia"
2011-10-13,MEXICO CITY  Mexico's Defense Department says troops have captured the No. 3 figure in the Zetas drug cartel
2011-10-13,"Tremors in the ground beneath an Icelandic volcano could be the first warning signs of a long-awaited eruption that would have the potential to dwarf the chaos caused by Eyjafjallajokul last year, experts say."
2011-10-13,"Germany ready to impose financial transaction tax - Germany is prepared to introduce a tax on financial market transactions on its own if it is unable to bring its European partners on board, according to Finance Minister Wolfgang Schuble."
2011-10-13,Kurds take their struggle online: Many accuse the Turkish Prime Minister of doublespeak on Palestinians' rights versus Turkey's own Kurdish issues.
2011-10-13,"US signs free trade deals with South Korea, Panama, Colombia. "
2011-10-13,The Guardian Unearths a Wall Street Journal Scandal 
2011-10-13,"BBC News - Children Trafficked for Juju. Over the last four years, at least 400 African children have been abducted and trafficked to the UK"
2011-10-13,BlackBerry users cut off for fourth day
2011-10-13,"Egyptian military junta defends conduct - Public figures, infiltrators and even the Coptic Christian protesters themselves are blamed for Sunday's deadly riots"
2011-10-13,Radiation hotspots not linked to Fukushima: Japan's science minister announced Thursday that the radiation has been traced to material stored in a house
2011-10-13,"Chinese national oil companies are now the biggest beneficiary of Iraq's oil resources, beating the oil majors. "
2011-10-13,Robert Fisk: Democratic governments don't deal with terrorists  until they do
2011-10-13,Container with toxic chemical topples into ocean from crippled New Zealand ship
2011-10-13,Smuggled Libyan weapons flood into Egypt - The end of the peaceful revolution
2011-10-13,"Bride kidnapping happens around the world, from China to Mexico to Russia to southern Africa. In each of these lands, there are communities where it is routine for young women and girls to be plucked from their families, raped and forced into marriage."
2011-10-12,UK government forgives Goldman Sachs $15.6 million (10M pounds) in interest when Goldman Sachs' tax avoidance scheme failed.
2011-10-12,"German officials admit using spyware on citizens, as Big Brother scandal grows"
2011-10-12,France said on Wednesday it was tightening immigration rules to require would-be citizens to provide written proof that they speak enough French to manage their daily lives.
2011-10-12,"BP to risk worst ever oil spill in wildlife-rich British waters off Shetland Islands - Internal report warns of ecological disaster if new well bursts. BP is making contingency plans to fight the largest oil spill in history, as it prepares to drill over 4,000 feet down"
2011-10-12,Iran agents 'planned US terror attacks'
2011-10-12,"New Zealand Arrests Stricken Oil Ships Captain  - I want answers, said Prime Minister John Key. Every year around the world there are ships that get into grief, but not ones that plow into an extremely well documented reef in very calm waters at high speed as this one did."
2011-10-12,"Israel, Hamas reach Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal"
2011-10-12,Child sacrifice a thriving business for Ugandan witch doctors. 
2011-10-12,"The killing of Saudi ambassador in the US would have ensured the Middle East went up in flames. Former CIA agent Robert Baer thinks: ""This stinks to holy hell. The Quds Force are very good. They don't sit down with people they don't know and make a plot..."""
2011-10-12,"US Officials concede gaps in U.S. knowledge of Iran plot
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2011-10-12,Liberals Are Losing the Battle for Egypt's Future
2011-10-12,'Honor killing' targets Turkey's LGBTs
2011-10-12,Australian Carbon Tax Law Passed
2011-10-12,WikiLeaks: Richard Branson funded a plot to overthrown Robert Mugabe
2011-10-12,BBC News - Uncovering the business of child sacrifice in Uganda
2011-10-12,Opponent of Georgian president is stripped of citizenship in run-up to election
2011-10-12,"A senior Indian lawyer has been beaten up in his chambers during a live TV interview, in an attack he says was provoked by his stance on Kashmir."
2011-10-12,"Ignoring China, India inks oil exploration pact with Vietnam"
2011-10-12,"Thousands rally in support of Syria's Assad:  Tens of thousands take to streets of Damascus in solidarity with Syrian president, chanting slogans against US and EU."
2011-10-12,China again sends another 20 North Koreans back to NK for certain torture or death rather than sending to SK
2011-10-12,"Ukraine May Soon Have Pariah Status Like Belarus - Europe and the United States have blasted the Tuesday verdict that sentenced former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to seven years in prison, saying the trial was politically motivated."
2011-10-12,Bangladesh has unveiled a domestically made laptop which officials claim is one of the cheapest in the world.
2011-10-12,EU-prostitutes may work in Sweden - The Swedish police cannot continue to deport prostitutes from other EU countries. This was stated by the Migration court today.
2011-10-12,"Cracks are appearing in a container ship stuck on a reef off a New Zealand holiday spot, as weather forecasts worsen fears that the vessel may break up and spill more fuel and containers carrying toxic materials into the sea.
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2011-10-12,"Oil Spill:  New Zealand Fears Ship Breaking Up - Containers from the ship, which hit a reef a week ago, began falling into the sea today, while cracks are appearing in the vessel. The captain has been charged with 'operating a vessel in a manner causing unnecessary danger or risk'"
2011-10-11,"France forces TV ads to pipe down, new rules have been introduced as a response to complaints from viewers that TV ads are much louder than the programmes they are interrupting.
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2011-10-11,Occupy Wall Street protests have now spread to Ireland
2011-10-11,"Shareholder service advises ousting Rupert Murdoch, two sons and 10 other directors from NewsCorp board"
2011-10-11,98 of the FTSE 100 companies use tax havens
2011-10-11,German police find explosive devices on Berlin railway
2011-10-11,"Japan will offer 10,000 foreigners free airfares to visit the country next year, in an attempt to boost the tourism industry "
2011-10-11,"
			Six Adults and One Child in China --- Even if we were to discount population projections going forward, the world is on the verge of a global demographic precipice  one in which the the increase in proportion of elderly far outweighs that of the increase in proportion of children"
2011-10-11,British special forces have stormed an Italian ship hijacked by Somali pirates
2011-10-11,World's oldest working car sold for $4.6m
2011-10-11,Netanyahu seeks to legalize outposts built on private Palestinian land
2011-10-11,"Coptic Christians in Egypt, already dealing with a massacre, are now contending with the state-run version of events, which has convinced many Egyptians that Christians were at least partially responsible for the violence."
2011-10-11,U.N. Finds Systematic Torture in Afghanistan
2011-10-11,UK Government lets Goldman Sachs off 10m tax bill after failed avoidance scheme.
2011-10-11,"Italy to use military to guard merchant ships against pirates
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2011-10-11,Ukraine judge rules ex-PM Tymoshenko exceeded powers 
2011-10-11,New Zealand oil leak gets 5 times worse
2011-10-11,"US man faces 15 years in jail for insulting Thai monarchy
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2011-10-11,Former Wall Street Journal Publisher to Testify Before British Parliament on News Corp Phone Hacking
2011-10-11,"In Russia, a Demographic Crisis and Worries for Nation's Future:  The country's plunging population crisis -- low birth rates and high death rates -- has serious implications for the future of the world's largest nation"
2011-10-11,Egypt government denies report that cabinet resigned
2011-10-11,"Drama grips French presidential primary:   Anti-globalization candidate wins big in Socialist primary, upending France's presidential race  again."
2011-10-11,Egypt: Anti-military chants at protesters' funeral 
2011-10-11,Hungary seizes live weapons from Brad Pitt World War Z film 
2011-10-11,Electricians occupy Londons Oxford Street
2011-10-11,Rivers of Ice: Amazing photos of disappearing glaciers in the Himalayas
2011-10-10,BBC News - Police called after man takes picture of his own daughter in shopping centre
2011-10-10,At least 19 dead in Cairo after a peaceful Christian protest is attacked. Protest escalates into riots against military rule.
2011-10-10,Forcing someone to marry against their will could become a criminal offence under plans set out by UK Prime Minister David Cameron
2011-10-10,"Nono said she never reported her abuse to police. She belongs to a silent majority of gay South African women who have been victimized by corrective rape, a controversial term describing the practice of straight men raping lesbians to correct their sexual orientation."
2011-10-10,Iran actress sentenced to one year in jail+90 lashes for her role in a movie...
2011-10-10,Europeans more worried about climate change than economic crisis
2011-10-10,Moscow gets its first official bike lanes. [with pictures]
2011-10-10,UK doctors are being told the antibiotic normally used to treat gonorrhoea is no longer effective because the sexually transmitted disease is now largely resistant to it.
2011-10-10,"For her starring role in an Australian film shot in Tehran, Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes"
2011-10-10,North Korea's 'Hotel of Doom' to open 24 years after construction  
2011-10-10,U.N. Finds Systematic Torture in Afghanistan
2011-10-10,Egyptian political forces slam ruling military council for attack on Copts
2011-10-10,"Afghanistan's intelligence agency and police force have been ""systematically"" torturing detainees including children at a number of jails, in breach of local and international laws"
2011-10-10,"New Zealand oil spill reaches shore as bad weather holds up response - 
Tarballs appear on Bay of Plenty beaches as stricken freighter Rena  has made the water ""highly toxic"".  Fears high that the containment ship is going to break apart."
2011-10-10,At least 31 people were killed across Syria in a series of shootings on Sunday
2011-10-10,Exclusive footage taken on an AlertNet visit to North Korea shows malnourished children in the countryside after a savage winter and summer floods worsen chronic food shortages
2011-10-10,"Syria warns against recognising opposition - Foreign minister vows to take ""tough measures"" against any state that recognises newly-formed National Council."
2011-10-10,Egypt erupts in violence: Egypt's military blames sectarian clashes for Cairo's recent violence. Everyone else blames the military.
2011-10-10,"Hundreds of ""Indignants"" who marched from France, the Netherlands and Spain, defied a ban to occupy Brussels park to protest EU-ordered austerity measures"
2011-10-10,"Children to be banned from blowing up balloons, under EU safety rules"
2011-10-10,Coptics Criticize Egypt Government Over Killings 
2011-10-10,"France's Socialist Comeback?--For years, the French left has been weak and disorganized. But Sunday's vote shows the party has a chance at beating Sarkozy."
2011-10-10,More than 30 killed in Syrian clashes; defector appeals for aid to oust Assad
2011-10-10,Women who violate headscarf law should be stripped of passports: Iranian lawmaker
2011-10-10,Ultra-Orthodox Jews picket girls' school
2011-10-09,"(German hacker club) CCC reverse engineers German government trojan found in the wild, builds GUI for it"
2011-10-09,"Occupy Wall Street-style protests spreading to Britain - People are not stakeholders in democracy, in the workings of the nation anymore."""
2011-10-09,"""Palestinian officials urge Blair to quit"" as he is accused of using his position to further business interests while lobbying against Palestine"
2011-10-09,"In Finland, 79 children between the ages of four and 19 developed narcolepsy after receiving the Pandemrix, swine flu vaccine in 2009 and 2010; Finnish govt and insurance companies will pay for their lifetime medical care"
2011-10-09,Hugo Chavez condemns horrible repression of Wall Street protests
2011-10-09,"A manager at a South Pole research station is campaigning for her own evacuation, accusing 'big business and big government'"" of stranding her in Antarctica after she suffered a stroke."
2011-10-09,"'Bridenapping'  a growing hidden crime: In at least 17 countries around the world, young girls are being abducted, raped and forced into marriage"
2011-10-09,"The race is on to contain an oil spill in New Zealand, which is threatening to become the country's worst maritime disaster"
2011-10-09,"TIL the UN has a World Intellectual Property Organization, and naturally they feel the Web would have been better if it was patented and its users had to pay license fees"
2011-10-09,At least 19  killed as death toll climbs in clashes between Copts and Egypts security forces
2011-10-09,"Riots erupt as Christians protest in Cairo, 1 dead"
2011-10-09,"Saudi beheading of eight Bangladesh workers condemned:  The public execution of eight Bangladeshi migrant workers in Saudi Arabia has been condemned by a leading human rights group in Bangladesh, Ain O Salish Kendra. "
2011-10-09,Bilderberg 2011: The opposition steps up
2011-10-09,"Crime Lords Of Tokyo --- 
Great pictures of Yakuza members, associates, andespeciallytheir tattoos. With some nice snippets of text, including a gang boss's apologia for his work: ""There are affairs in this society that no one can handle. No one but us"""
2011-10-09,UK Protesters against NHS reforms occupy Westminster Bridge
2011-10-09,Unicef criticises Britain for jailing children over riots
2011-10-09,Egypts ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) says it will not allow the countrys next president the constitutional authority to appoint the armed forces chief.
2011-10-09,"Climate Change And The End of Australia --- 
Rivers are drying up. Reefs are dying. Fires, floods, droughts and locust plagues are ravaging the continent. Australia is one of the world's most intensive users of fossil fuels. Now the climate gods are taking their revenge"
2011-10-09,"Arab graves vandalized in Israeli city. Some were smashed, others were spray painted with ""death to all Arabs."""
2011-10-09,"Camila Vallejo, 23, Chile revolution leader"
2011-10-09,Man with girl in car escapes Saudi religious police in 140-km chase
2011-10-09,"""Greece is near bankruptcy and must give up part of its sovereignty to obtain the large debt forgiveness it needs to survive, a leading conservative member of German parliament was quoted as saying on Saturday [8 October 2011]."""
2011-10-09,Coming Soon: The Drone Arms Race
2011-10-09,2 Tibetan former monks set themselves on fire in latest protest against China
2011-10-09,China has signed off a set of rules for its small but booming wealth management sector to temper rapid growth and prevent banks from exploiting loopholes to beat regulation.
2011-10-08,"Women in 27 Bangladeshi villages, where drinking water is generally scooped from a river or canal, were taught to cover the urns they used for fetching water with an old sari folded in 4. Over the next 18 months the rate of cholera in these villages dropped by about 50% (x-post from /r/water)"
2011-10-08,Ten Years in Afghanistan - German General Says NATO Mission Has 'Failed'
2011-10-08,"New Zealand facing one of its largest ecological disasters as authorities forecast a ""significant"" oil spill from a big container ship grounded off Tauranga Harbour  - Bad weather is now threatening an already complicated salvage operation of the ship, which hit Astrolabe Reef Wednesday morning"
2011-10-08,Physicist languishes in French prison for two years without trial: French intelligence services say he is a dangerous terrorist... family members and colleagues argue that he is a brilliant young physicist singled out because of his academic background
2011-10-08,British PM supports gay marriage in the UK
2011-10-08,Netherlands to classify high-potency cannabis as hard drug
2011-10-08,Kidnapped my boy? You're forgiven
2011-10-08,2 Tibetans Set Selves on Fire in Latest Protest 
2011-10-08,"Yemen president 'to step down'
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2011-10-08,"UK Pensions have lost a third of value in three years -
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2011-10-08,U.S. soldiers accused of raping teenage girls in South Korea
2011-10-08,Russia calls on Syria's Assad to reform or stand down
2011-10-08,Massive corruption scandal continues to broil the Islamic Republic
2011-10-08,Pakistan doctor faces treason charges over U.S. vaccine ruse
2011-10-08,Yemen president says ready to quit after Nobel Peace Prize given to Yemeni leading woman activist Tawakkul Karman
2011-10-08,"Muslim, Christian graves in Jaffa defaced with racist slogans in suspected 'Price Tag' attack"
2011-10-08,"Syrian forces fire on Kurdish funeral, two dead"
2011-10-08,"Germany intends to step up its assistance in Libya by offering visas for medical treatment to those wounded in the civil war. The visas are to be issued with minimal bureaucracy, according to German officials. "
2011-10-08,Christian fears rise as Islamists grow more assertive in post-Mubarak Egypt - The Washington Post
2011-10-08,The other side of Nobel-prize winning Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. How she's seen in Liberia. (The Independent)
2011-10-08,"In case of necessity Turkey is prepared to break out war with Syria, said Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's foreign minister ..."
2011-10-08,Arms Dealers And Loan Peddlers Took Down Greece
2011-10-08,"Mad Hatter's tea party that is the eurozone crisis --- 
Alice in Wonderland has nothing on the absurd world of Europe's financial policymakers"
2011-10-08,Google breaks South African embargo on Dalai Lama
2011-10-08,Moody's cuts rating on 12 UK banks: the full report
2011-10-07,Brutal eviction of Palestinian family in Jaffa caught on tape
2011-10-07,"Showing how futile Internet censorship can be, The Pirate Bay registered new domain name to allow Belgian users to access the site and bypass a recent court order that requires ISPs Belgacom and Telenet to initiate DNS blockades of 11 domains connected to The Pirate Bay"
2011-10-07,"New Danish Minister of the Economy & Interior favors bicycles over freeways - ""I rather invest in cycle tracks than freeways."" -  In Copenhagen, 80% of commuters already bicycle to work every day, even in winter. "
2011-10-07,Footage offers glimpse of North Korean hunger crisis:  Occasionally the veil is pulled back from the secretive state of North Korea and the world gets a glimpse of what life is like there.
2011-10-07,"Billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros has lost a case at the European Court of Human Rights to have his criminal conviction for insider dealing quashed.
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2011-10-07,Saudi Arabia to quash unrest with an iron fist: Authorities in Saudi Arabia vow to use force to quell recent unrest.
2011-10-07,"Syrian troops 'kill Syrian farmer in Lebanon': Syrian forces have crossed into Lebanese territory and shot dead a Syrian man living in a border area, reports say."
2011-10-07,Doctor accused of helping CIA find Bin Laden should be charged with high treason  Pakistani state commission 
2011-10-07,The Canadian government is pitching a controversial oil-sands pipeline through the United States as the ethical choice for energy consumption
2011-10-07,"A year after Liu Xiaobo won the Nobel Peace Prize, he Remains Imprisoned"
2011-10-07,Chilean students protest after 'failed talks': Thousands march through the streets of Santiago after their demands for education reform go unmet.
2011-10-07,Chavez: Houses on Caribbean islands will be seized
2011-10-07,10 years of war: Afghans speak out
2011-10-07,France Urges Turkey to Recognize Armenian Genocide
2011-10-07,"Australian boy, 14, held in Bali for buying marijuana"
2011-10-07,"Europeans fear climate change more than financial turmoil. Climate change was the second most serious issue facing the world, after poverty
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2011-10-07,"32 bodies found at several locations in Veracruz, Mexico; official says New Generation drug gang responsible"
2011-10-07,"Bank of England chief Mervyn King issues stark warning of looming crisis |
			The Australian"
2011-10-07,"Who put the contract out on Politovskaya?  -- There's been progress into the investigation into the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Yet who ordered the killing remains unknown. Five years later, there's nothing more than speculation. "
2011-10-07,Australia and New Zealand are to airlift equipment to the Pacific nation of Tuvalu to help it deal with a severe water shortage caused by drought. 
2011-10-07,Israeli Arab village left without water as water company demands payment
2011-10-07,It's only a matter of time until Netanyahu falls
2011-10-07,"Mexico's Zeta Killers kill 32, revive debate about the 'good-guy cartel':  The 'Zeta Killers' have been linked to the deaths of 67 people. While they claim to be fighting the Zetas drug cartel, experts say they are likely just a criminal group adopting the guise of a 'good-guy cartel.'"
2011-10-07,"Australia's Slot Canyons --- 
""The Swiss have mountains, so they climb. Canadians have lakes, so they canoe. The Australians have canyons, so they go canyoneering, a hybrid form of madness halfway between mountaineering and caving."""
2011-10-07,"
      Moody's cuts credit ratings on UK banks RBS and Lloyds


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2011-10-06,Italian Wikipedia shuts down. (ddl is the first stage of a law)
2011-10-06,14 year old faces 12 years in brutal prison 'for possession of marijuana'
2011-10-06,Shell oil company paid militants who destroyed Nigerian towns
2011-10-06,I knew it: Putin didn't go SCUBA diving and find those ancient Greek artifacts all by himself. The whole thing was staged.
2011-10-06,Swedish poet Transtroemer wins Nobel Literature Prize
2011-10-06,Settlers' mosque-burning campaign expands into Israel | Reuters
2011-10-06,"The death toll in Syria has risen to more than 2,900 people killed since the pro-democracy protests began in March, the United Nations human rights office has said. "
2011-10-06," Worsening Women Shortage Due to Ultrasounds - Parents  knowing the sex of their foetus has left Asia short of 117 million women, mostly in China & India, according to a UN report out today"
2011-10-06,Dozens of settlers surround IDF patrol in West Bank and assault soldiers
2011-10-06,"Ugandan villagers evicted to make way for British forestry firm -  22,000 people have been evicted so far from their homes & land (with video)"
2011-10-06,"Floods drown Asia's rice bowl -  Massive floods have ravaged vast swathes, threatening to further drive up food prices & adding to the burden of farmers, the region's poorest.  Over 100 Cambodians, nearly 1/2 of them children, have died in the worst flooding in a decade."
2011-10-06,"Afghans rally in Kabul, demand NATO troops leave  "
2011-10-06,"European Union Moves Toward Banning Tar Sands - ""We're sending a clear signal to fossil fuels suppliers' - This also casts doubt on the future of other controversial energy sources such as shale gas, with its fracking"
2011-10-06,U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the U.N. Security Council has failed in its responsibility to the Syrian people by not passing a resolution condemning the regime's brutal crackdown on civilian protesters.
2011-10-06,World's highest webcam; Mount Everest
2011-10-06,UNESCO clears way for Palestine seat vote 
2011-10-06,Erdogan brands Israel a regional threat
2011-10-06,On the emptiness of Saudi voting reforms for women.
2011-10-06,Ship Stuck On New Zealand Reef Leaking Oil - The slick extends 3 mi (5 km) from the ship
2011-10-06,Toyota back to pre-quake production
2011-10-06,A Pakistani commission investigating the US raid that killed Osama Bin Laden says a doctor accused of helping the CIA should be tried for high treason.
2011-10-06,Gadaffi's private zoo liberated. Volunteers race to rescue exotic animals left to die
2011-10-06,Police violence against journalists in yesterday's protest in Greece
2011-10-06,"Nato's bombing campaign in Libya, now in its seventh month, will continue despite the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi's regime, alliance officials said today."
2011-10-06,Unesco clears way for Palestinian membership vote with the US voting against!
2011-10-05,A 33-year-old man  died when he tried to protect a woman who was being mugged on a Paris metro train 
2011-10-05,Russia introduces chemical castration for pedophiles
2011-10-05,"New Zealand condemns Japan's whaling in Antarctic waters, telling Japan it's being ""entirely disrespectful"" in their ""neighborhood"" "
2011-10-05,Assad: Syria will shower Tel Aviv with rockets if attacked by foreign powers
2011-10-05,"Fact Checking if Ahmadinejad really said ""Israel should be wiped off the map."" Turns out he didn't exactly say that"
2011-10-05,"Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said the South African government is worse than its apartheid predecessor
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2011-10-05,The worlds first solar power station that can work at night has been officially opened in southern Spain.
2011-10-05,Canada's new flawed copyright law Bill C-11 is expected to fly through House of Commons.
2011-10-05,"China & India predicted as climate leaders - An ""extraordinary war against science in the US & elsewhere will see nations trailing in China's wake."" 
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2011-10-05,2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Daniel Shechtman for the discovery of quasicrystals
2011-10-05,"Greece hit by new 24-hour general strike
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2011-10-05,"Putin proposes forming a ""Eurasian Union"" of former Soviet nations, saying the bloc could become a major global player competing for influence with the US, EU and Asia."
2011-10-05,BBC News - Italy wiretap law: Wikipedia hides pages in protest
2011-10-05,World's hottest chilli contest leaves two in hospital - Telegraph
2011-10-05,Global Warming Irony
2011-10-05,Turkey to sanction Syria despite UN veto
2011-10-05,Bahrain medics to face civilian court retrial; attorney general effectively nullifies verdict of special security court
2011-10-05,Guantnamo film shows plight of Canadian national detained at 15
2011-10-05,"Vigilantes arming themselves with swords, knives, & clubs; houses ablaze; activists & football hooligans chanting racist slogans __ Protests in Bulgaria started after teen was run down allegedly by order of Roma underworld boss. It's the worst ethnic tension there since 1990."
2011-10-05,Syrian state-run TV has aired an interview with a young woman who was reported to have been beheaded and mutilated by security agents while in custody.
2011-10-05,Oktoberfest 2011 - The Big Picture
2011-10-05,"China angry over Burma's decision to suspend work on 2.3bn dam: Beijing threatens legal action as Burma halts dam because it is 'against the will of the people'
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2011-10-05,"The Cult: The Twisted, Terrifying Last Days Of Assads Syria --- None of you donkeys matters at all! The important thing is that no one be permitted to upload any videos onto YouTube! No pictures, either! "
2011-10-05,Police to investigate whether Australian lawmaker paid for prostitues with official credit card
2011-10-05,"Loss of Egyptian Natural Gas Supplies Costs Israel $
2.68 Million Per Day"
2011-10-04,"Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Saul Permutter, Brian P Schmidt and Adam G Riess for for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
2011-10-04,Amanda Knox acquitted of Murder Charge!!!
2011-10-04,UK prime minister uses the USA as an example of a country full of fat people
2011-10-04,Germans want absolute ban on drink-driving  
2011-10-04,"Hugely embarrassing: Daily Mail jumps gun on ""Amanda Knox guilty""

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2011-10-04,Spanish fleet accused of illegal catches are receiving multimillion-euro payouts from European Union taxpayers - Commission urged to end corrupted fisheries policy
2011-10-04,Libyan hospital treats an ill BBC journalist - refuses payment and asks for BBC branded souvenirs instead.
2011-10-04,Huge suicide blast kills many in Mogadishu
2011-10-04,"Study: Drunken Swedes choose knives to kill - The average murderer in Sweden and neighbouring Finland are drunk men armed with knives who kill on the spur of the moment, according to a new study."
2011-10-04,"Japan to Go Ahead With Whale Hunt - Commercial whaling has been banned since 1986, but Japan claims to be conducting 'research', counting the whale population. 
Whalers will have heightened security after last year's clashes with activists, says Japanese fisheries minister."
2011-10-04,"China and Russia veto UN resolution on Syria: The move, drafted by France along with Britain, Germany and Portugal, received nine votes in favor and four abstentions."
2011-10-04,Hostile Crowd Forces Libyan Jew Out Of Synagogue
2011-10-04,The Puppet President: Medvedev's Betrayal of Russian Democracy
2011-10-04,Japan reveals huge size of Fukushima clean-up area
2011-10-04,Swiss warn massive ice chunk may break off glacier and fall into Lauterbrunnen valley
2011-10-04,Japan confirms whaling fleet to sail 
2011-10-04,A history of religious violence in Pakistan
2011-10-04,Japan to Hold Whale Hunts Despite Activist Threats
2011-10-04,North Korea's Mass Games: The Pursuit of Perfection [Pics]
2011-10-04,Police beating peaceful protesters on a lovely Amsterdam day
2011-10-04,"Belgium officials ordered to clock out for smoke, with each minute sliced off their wages."
2011-10-04,Al Shabaab bomb kills 65 in Somalia
2011-10-04,"Water, water everywhere  but this island nation now has barely a drop to drink & has declared a state of emergency"
2011-10-04,"Saudi Arabia blames riots on 'outside forces': Fourteen hurt in Gulf city, officials say, as Saudis vow to come down on ""division instigators"" with an ""iron fist""."
2011-10-04,Denmarks Fatty Foods Tax is in Effect
2011-10-03,"In praise of chaos:
Governments attempts to control the internet 
should be resisted"
2011-10-03,Wall Street occupation spreads to Canada
2011-10-03,"Hole 5 times the size of Germany found in ozone above Arctic,  allowing more ultraviolet radiation to hit Canada, Europe & Russia this spring"
2011-10-03,British Reporter Says Hell Name Names in Phone Hacking Scandal.
2011-10-03,"The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Bruce A Beutler, Jules A Hoffmann and Ralph M Steinman, for 'revolutionising our understanding of the immune system'"
2011-10-03,Official Chinese Newspaper Calls for War Against Vietnam and the Philippines to Secure Natural Resources in the South China Sea
2011-10-03,"""The Russian secret service authorised the 'elimination' of individuals living overseas who were judged to be enemies of the state and ordered the creation of special units to conduct such operations, according to a document passed to The Daily Telegraph."""
2011-10-03,Shell accused of fuelling violence in Nigeria by paying rival militant gangs
2011-10-03,"In most places around the globe, violence has stopped making sense "
2011-10-03,Activists throughout Canada set to show solidarity with Wall Street protesters: Organizers in Toronto and several other Canadian cities say they plan to follow the New York example
2011-10-03,Mosque Set on Fire in Northern Israel
2011-10-03,Dutch city bans foreign tourists from cannabis coffee shops
2011-10-03,Thousands of Spanish newborns were taken at birth and sold to childless couples from 1960 to 1989
2011-10-03,Lengthy jail terms for Bahrain protesters - Thirty-six people given prison sentences of between 15 and 25 years for taking part in anti-government rallies.
2011-10-03,Muslim Mob Torches Coptic Church in Egypt
2011-10-03,"Avoiding Taxation: Greeks Turn To Barter Networks   - While eurozone toys with self-destruction and Greece's economy spirals out of control, more and more Greeks are turning to an ancient form of commerce. Barter. Were in an uncharted area. Maybe it's the beginning of the future"""
2011-10-03,"Iran ""totally rejects"" Palestine U.N. statehood bid"
2011-10-03,"Hamas PM: Only armed resistance will liberate Palestine - 
Haniyeh tells Tehran conference two-state solution, as proposed by the United States, European Union will fail, and that negotiations with Israel are a ""mirage."""
2011-10-03,"Israel risks Middle East isolation, warns US official"
2011-10-03,Merkel and the Euro: Is Germany's Finance Minister Going Rogue?  Criticism of Finance Minister Wolfgang Schuble is growing within the government parties. Some believe that Schuble wants to exploit the crisis to push through his vision of a United States of Europe
2011-10-03,Today a Tibetan Monk set himself on fire over Chinese occupation.
2011-10-03,"Denmark Passes World's 1st Fat Tax, Making Food Sin Taxes a Reality in Europe"
2011-10-03,"Japan's big manufacturers expect conditions to improve in the next three months, according to the Bank of Japan's Tankan survey."
2011-10-03,Putin and Medvedev
2011-10-03,Greece to miss deficit targets despite austerity
2011-10-02,German Politician Violates His Own Two-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan: Siegfried Kauder was hosting at least two photos on his website which were taken from a photo sharing site without permission
2011-10-02,"Thousands of Australian schoolchildren are being forced to sing an alternative version of the Australian national anthem that installs ""Christ"" as the country's head of state and removes any reference to the Southern Cross"
2011-10-02,"Invasion of the body scanners in UK: We'd all better get used to it  privacy could soon be a thing of the past, even at stations
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2011-10-02,UK Home Secretary calls for the scrapping of the Human Rights Act: warns that the Act is hampering the Home Offices struggle to deport dangerous foreign criminals and terrorist suspects
2011-10-02,Forests across the world dying off as climate warms: Millions of acres of pines in northern and central Rockies are dying - just one among many types of forests that are showing signs of distress these days
2011-10-02,Goodbye to The Yakuza: New Laws Take Effect in Japan 
2011-10-02,Bulgarian nationalists stage anti-Roma rally: Hundreds protest in central Sofia as tension with impoverished and ostracised minority group escalates.
2011-10-02,Greece to Miss Deficit Targets for 2011-2012 - ABC News
2011-10-02,"Egypt's ruling military council has decided to amend an article of an election law, state media report, following demands from protesters."
2011-10-02,Somali pirates kidnap disabled French woman on Kenyan island 
2011-10-02,David Cameron agrees with Theresa May that the Human Rights Act should be replaced by a British Bill of Rights
2011-10-02,Syrian dissidents form leadership council: Most serious step yet to unify fragmented opposition 
2011-10-02,Pakistan's blasphemy laws continue to provoke murder and mayhem: The death sentence passed on assassin Mumtaz Qadri sparked demonstrations in Pakistan. Qadri killed a politician for supporting a Christian condemned for blasphemy
2011-10-02,"The First In-Depth Look At A Nazi 'God Of Death' --- Reinhard Heydrich, one of the principal orchestrators of the Holocaust, was the only high-ranking Nazi to be assassinated. Usually seen as ""young, evil god of death"". But what made him follow such a path of terror?"
2011-10-02,Niger won't extradite Saadi Gaddafi to Libya 
2011-10-02,Why Being Forced into Military Labor Can Be a Death Sentence for Convicts in Burma
2011-10-02,"In Yemen, One Islamist Is Dead, Many More in Arms"
2011-10-02,"Bulgarian rally links Roma to organised crime: About 2,000 Bulgarians have marched in the centre of the capital, Sofia, in an anti-Roma protest."
2011-10-02,"New-wave Chinese tourists head to Taiwan:  Marking a cross-strait thaw, Taiwan seeks to turn goodwill into tourist dollars.
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2011-10-02,Nation o' Drinkers: Scotland Takes on Alcohol Abuse
2011-10-02,"NATOs Libya mission could end next week, U.S. general says "
2011-10-02,The default retirement age in the UK has been fully abolished after being phased out from April this year.
2011-10-02,Could Pakistan dump the U.S. for 'all-weather friend' China?
2011-10-02,Palestinians rally in support of 6.000 hunger striking prisoners in Israeli jails
2011-10-02,Plutonium detected outside Fukushima nuclear plant
2011-10-01,The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door to supervised drug injection clinics across the country in a landmark decision on Friday that ordered the federal government to stop interfering with Vancouvers controversial Insite clinic. 
2011-10-01,A member of the British Parliament is urging the countrys government to ban churches from performing any marriages if they also refuse to perform same-sex marriages.
2011-10-01,"Yemen: over 1,400 killed since the clashes between pro-democracy protesters and security forces began in February"
2011-10-01,Cigarette vending machines banned in England
2011-10-01,Chinese state TV launches to 'America the Beautiful'
2011-10-01,"For Greek rich elite, the taxman cometh: Greece names and shames tax cheats"
2011-10-01,"Gold or Water? A Deadly Debate - To protect their water supply, Salvadorans are trying to ban corporate gold miningand facing threats and violence as a result."
2011-10-01,Japan's whale hunt to resume: reports  -- Media reports in Japan say the country will go ahead with this season's whaling hunt in the Antarctic.
2011-10-01,Rwanda genocide court jails former ministers: Two former Rwandan ministers have been sentenced to 30 years in jail by the UN war crimes tribunal for involvement in Rwanda's genocide in 1994. 
2011-10-01,A Pakistani anti-terrorism court today convicted and sentenced to death a police guard who assassinated the Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer in January for calling for changes in the country's controversial blasphemy law. 
2011-10-01,"Falling Man --- Profile of Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh. Far-sighted reformer in 1990s; now his skills seem to have deserted him. ""His timidity, complacency and intellectual dishonesty will make him a tragic figure in our history"
2011-10-01,Dutch Coffee Shops close their doors to most cannabis tourists
2011-10-01,Italys tottering prime minister -- How much longer can Silvio Berlusconi go on?
2011-10-01,Hundreds of left-wing activists protest throughout West Bank
2011-10-01,"Holy Vladimir, Pray for Us. A Russian Sect Honors Putin as a Saint"
2011-10-01,"Source: UN wont advance Palestinian statehood bid until diplomacy option exhausted -- United Nations panel considering Palestinian application for full UN membership will drag on dealing with technical matters for several weeks, says a senior Western diplomat."
2011-10-01,"The Indians are throwing money at their own favourites in Afghanistan, he says, and the Russians and Iranians are doing the same. So Pakistan must play the game too. Except we have no money. All we have are the crazies. So the crazies it is."
2011-10-01,"Myanmar calls surprise halt to controversial China-backed dam: Critics led by pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi have argued that the dam would hurt the ecology of the Irrawaddy River, displace at least 10,000 people and submerge culturally important sites."
2011-10-01,"Syria unrest: Troops 'retake most of Rastan' -- Syrian forces have retaken most of the central town of Rastan after days of fighting with defectors who had joined protesters, an activist group says."
2011-10-01,"The Death of Jihad's English-Language Mouthpiece --- 
Anwar al-Awlaki was one of al-Qaida's most important propagandists and influenced a number of attackers and jihadists"
2011-10-01,"Conservation Program Mourns Big Cat Lost in Tragic Fight: A critically endangered South China tiger has killed another of its kind, sad news for efforts to save this rarest tiger subspecies from extinction"
2011-10-01,"Brazil announces troop pullout of Haiti:  Defence minister says partial withdrawal will begin next March as UN cuts stabilisation force accused of outstaying welcome
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2011-10-01,"A letter from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, expressing concern about the future of our planet with respect to the birth of the seven-billionth person. "
2011-10-01,"We, the women of entire Jammu and Kashmir, from both sides of the LoC desire peace ... and an immediate end to the protracted conflict. We demand the inclusion of women in all peace-building and peace negotiations/dialogue on Kashmir."
2011-10-01,"Iranian pastor faces death for rape, not apostasy"
2011-09-30,Australian girl gets court to place her on airport watch list to stop her parents from forcing her into an arranged marriage in Lebanon.
2011-09-30,"Mexico City considers fixed-term marriage licences:
Politicians propose bill to help newlyweds avoid pain of divorce with marriage contracts of minimum of two years"
2011-09-30,"Filipina maid wins landmark Hong Kong case:  High Court ruling could could lead to more than 100,000 foreign maids winning right to residency. "
2011-09-30,Islamist cleric Anwar al-Awlaki 'killed in Yemen'
2011-09-30,Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says he decided not to run for a second term because Vladimir Putin is both more popular and more authoritative.
2011-09-30,"Another billionaire stands up to the Kremlin: In Moscow, NY Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov spoke truth to power and promised bold change. It didnt go well."
2011-09-30,"UK cod collapse due to overfishing & politics - 

Criticism follows EU's recommendation to stop cod 
fishing in Irish Sea & off west Scotland"
2011-09-30,Spain Nationalizes 3 Banks After Cash Injections
2011-09-30,"Anwar al-Awlaki, , American-Born Al Qaeda Leader, Is Killed in Yemen"
2011-09-30,"S. Korea's education obsession: ""The mission is as simple as it is counterintuitive: to find children who are studying after 10 p.m. And stop them."""
2011-09-30,Top French cop arrested on drug trafficking claims
2011-09-30,A Taiwan military tribunal confirmed that Air Force private Chiang Kuo-ching had been wrongfully executed in August 1997 for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl!
2011-09-30,"Error & Trial: Are 6 Italian Scientists Facing Manslaughter Charges &  Prison  for Failing to Predict an Earthquake, or Failing to Clearly Communicate Their Findings?  - Their Hearing Resumes This Weekend "
2011-09-30,Explosions Rock Royal Dutch Shells Singapore Refinery -  Worst fire there in 23 years shuts down Shell's biggest refinery  
2011-09-30,"UK Ministers are preparing for a massive expansion in electronic tagging of offenders, with private security companies being invited to bid for more than 1bn worth of contracts "
2011-09-30,"India's workaholic Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has not taken a holiday since he took the top job in 2004
"
2011-09-30,BBC News - Drug bust at Boeing defence plant in Pennsylvania
2011-09-30,"Serbia bans gay parade, all gatherings "
2011-09-30,BBC News - Banned activist Raed Salah wins UK unlawful detention case
2011-09-30,"China manufacturing eases for 3rd month, prices up"
2011-09-30,Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has said he will not stand down as promised if his opponents are allowed to stand in elections to succeed him. 
2011-09-30,"Undercover Al Jazeera reporter in Bahrain - ""48 hours in Sanabis"""
2011-09-30,Al-Qaeda cleric Awlaki killed in Yemen:  Government officials say US-born religious scholar with links to al-Qaeda was targeted in al-Jawf province air strike. 
2011-09-30,"Dalai Lama Man of Many Faces: Exile, Spiritual Leader, Politician [Pics]"
2011-09-30,Iran Announces It Is Sending Its Navy To Patrol Waters Near The U.S.
2011-09-29,"Denmark taxes fatty products - Denmark is to impose the world's first ""fat tax"" in a drive to slim its population and cut heart disease."
2011-09-29,Saudi King Abdullah has revoked a sentence of 10 lashes imposed on a woman for breaking the ban on women driving in the conservative kingdom
2011-09-29,Christian Pastor sentenced to death in Iran
2011-09-29,A court in Bahrain jails 20 medics who treated protesters for up to 15 years
2011-09-29,"Europe supports Palestinian statehood - The right of Palestinians to advance in the international community as an independent state is ""unquestionable,"" the European Parliament declared."
2011-09-29,"Just 60 babies a year adopted in England - 
Thousands of children are being held in limbo in care homes, secure units & temporary fostering"
2011-09-29,Australian women will be allowed to serve in front-line combat roles after the government said it was dropping all gender restrictions for the military
2011-09-29,"I Can Find An Indicted Warlord --- 
His name is Bosco Ntaganda. He owns a bar, a farm and a mansion in Goma, eastern Congo. And the ICC has a warrant out for him. So why isn't he in jail? Because his gang pretty much runs Goma. If you cross him, he kills you. Or worse"
2011-09-29,France threatens military action against Iran
2011-09-29,Fracking & Drilling Coming to the Famous Waters of Bath - There's great concern the shale boom will ruin the deep water sources that supply the natural hot springs
2011-09-29,MEXICO: Supreme Court ruling says life begins at conception 
2011-09-29,Japan 'scared' of telling truth to Fukushima evacuees: A former adviser to the Japanese cabinet has revealed the government has known for months that thousands of evacuees from around the Fukushima nuclear plant will not be able to return to their homes.
2011-09-29,"Be afraid -- Unless politicians act more boldly, the world economy will keep heading towards a black hole"
2011-09-29,"Egyptian security forces have stormed the offices of Al-Jazeera Egypt, confining its journalists to one room and confiscating equipment."
2011-09-29,Saudis export anti-Christian and anti-Jewish textbooks across the world : Report
2011-09-29,The human cost of chocolate
2011-09-29,"In Africa, an Election Rejects Chinese Involvement"
2011-09-29,"Nokia to axe another 3,500 jobs"
2011-09-29,Japan tsunami: 10m yen donation found in Tokyo toilet
2011-09-29,Water supply nearing limit for food production
2011-09-29,"just to relax, here's a little game: how much do you know about italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi?"
2011-09-29,Palestinian statehood bid kicked into committee by UN security council
2011-09-29,Western governments shy about defending human rights; liberty declined for the fifth year in a row. 
2011-09-29,"Rampant cheating at Chinese games exposed: The Chinese desire to win at all costs has created a culture of rampant cheating among athletes, including one team of men who donned wigs to compete in a female dragon boat race, according to a report by sports officials."
2011-09-29,"

Al Jazeera correspondent Gabriel Elizondo paints a shocking portrait of life in the Brazilian Amazon through the story of a couple who lived & died for the rainforest"
2011-09-28,Japans ruling party proposed a 9.2 trillion yen ($120 billion) tax increase and selling the governments stake in Japan Tobacco Inc. to fund rebuilding from the March 11 earthquake and nuclear disaster.
2011-09-28,"'Voting is worthless'? Global protests share contempt for democracy - From India to Israel to Spain, and even on Wall Street, demonstrators appear to have little faith in the ballot box"
2011-09-28,More Trouble For Chevron: Company Loses Latest Stage of Amazon Pollution Battle: A US appeals court unfroze an $18 billion damages award over contamination of an indigenous tribe's land in Ecuador
2011-09-28,Israel allows settler expansion
2011-09-28,"Israel, Rejecting Palestinian Demands, Plans Housing Outside 1967 Boundaries"
2011-09-28,Europe and US condemn Israel settlement plans
2011-09-28,"Yemen's Unhappy Ending - Sometimes, the bad guys win."
2011-09-28,"Putin, the last Czar"
2011-09-28,Hunt on for Russian nuclear smuggler...
2011-09-28,"NATO soldiers, Kosovo Serbs injured as border violence flares"
2011-09-28,"After being threatened with a lawsuit by the Hollywood-funded anti-piracy outfit BREIN, a Dutch payment provider has handed over the personal details of a torrent site owner"
2011-09-28,European Commission presents financial transaction tax
2011-09-28,Al qaida tell Ahmadinejad to end 9/11 conspiracy theories.
2011-09-28,Bulgaria's Ethnic Clash  Riots sparked by Roma indifference
2011-09-28,Israeli Parliamentarians Respond to Bid for Statehood by Calling for Annexation of West Bank
2011-09-28,India To Begin Production of Nuke Missile
2011-09-28,"Indian army to hold joint exercises with 16 friendly forces (US, UK, France, Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Maldives, Seychelles, Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand)"
2011-09-28,"Was the BBC victim of a hoax? No, say the Yes Men"
2011-09-28,AP reveals details of corporate espionage campaign that calls into question ethics of former News of the World editor Piers Morgan
2011-09-28,"Syria 'targeting Homs scientists': A nuclear physics professor has been killed outside his home in the Syrian city of Homs, the latest in a series of deaths of scientists in the city."
2011-09-28,"Syrian tanks pound anti-Assad fighters for 2nd day
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2011-09-28,Chinese police sorry for failure to unearth deadly sex dungeon
2011-09-28,A military court in Bahrain upholds life sentences for eight Shia activists convicted over their role in protests earlier this year.
2011-09-28,The World from Berlin: Obama's Euro-Crisis Lecture Is 'Pitful and Sad'
2011-09-28,Return of the Islamists - A Questionable Form of Freedom for North Africa
2011-09-27,"Turkey's PM asks: Why are UN sanctions promoted as a means of dealing with Iran and Sudan, but taboo with regards to Israel?"
2011-09-27,"BBC Speechless As Trader Tells Truth: ""The Collapse Is Coming...And Goldman Rules The World"""
2011-09-27,Iraq to buy US warplanes worth $3 billion
2011-09-27,Blast destroys Egyptian gas pipeline supplying Israel and Jordan
2011-09-27,Saudi woman to be lashed for defying driving ban.
2011-09-27,"Share Traders More Reckless Than Psychopaths, Study Shows"
2011-09-27,"Ireland tortured its children, says Amnesty - The abuse of thousands of innocent children in state- and church-run institutions in Ireland amounted to torture, a scathing report from Amnesty has found."
2011-09-27,"The Watchtower, the magazine for Jehovah's Witnesses, is under investigation by British police, after complaints that it is in breach of religious hatred laws
"
2011-09-27,"Mikhail Gorbachev, the man who presided over the break-up of the Soviet Union, has warned Russia risks ""six lost years"" if Vladimir Putin returns to the presidency."
2011-09-27,"""Two thousand years after they were written and decades after they were found in desert caves, some of the world-famous Dead Sea Scrolls went online for the first time on Monday [26 September 2011] in a project launched by Israel's national museum and the web giant Google."""
2011-09-27,The 'Worm' That Could Bring Down The Internet : NPR
2011-09-27,BBC denies market trader who earlier claimed he 'dreamed of another recession' was a member of the 'yes men' hoax group
2011-09-27,An explosion destroyed an Egyptian pipeline in Sinai that supplies Israel and Jordan with gas.
2011-09-27,"Mutilated woman, slain brother become symbols of Syria's pain - CNN.com"
2011-09-27,"French police round up Roma people in 
Marseille"
2011-09-27,Powerful Typhoon Nesat hits Philippines
2011-09-27,World's Engineers Say They've Solved Carbon Crisis
2011-09-27,UK Liberal Democrats Overwhelmingly Back Overhaul of Drug Laws
2011-09-27,Brazilian cops arrested in judge assassination probe
2011-09-27,SAUDI ARABIA: Woman sentenced to flogging for driving
2011-09-27,Egypt's 1st post-Mubarak election to begin Nov. 28
2011-09-27,"Strauss-Kahn seeks dismissal of assault case, claiming diplomatic immunity - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has filed for a civil case against him to be dropped on the grounds of diplomatic immunity. He said the ""false"" sexual assault claims had hampered efforts to right the economy."
2011-09-27,Young Iranians risk police raids to party together
2011-09-27,Dalai Lama made to wait for South African visa - Delay in granting visit visa to Tibetan spiritual leader triggers speculation that Beijing is pressuring Pretoria.
2011-09-27,"Ireland Printing Its Old Currency, Just in Case - Ireland's central bank reportedly is printing Ireland's old currency in case the country leaves the eurozone."
2011-09-26,"Egypt's revolution has become a military coup: Egypt's army, which continues to cement  and flaunt  its grip on power, appears to have hijacked the revolution"
2011-09-26,Cancer drug trial halted in UK for being too successful: Doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London concluded that it would have been unethical not to offer it to all 922 cancer patients on the trial after the drug was shown to ease pain and cause only minor side-effects
2011-09-26,"Barcelona Holds its Very Last Bullfight - Fans mourn, opponents cheer"
2011-09-26,Britain's Lib Dems overwhelmingly adopted a resolution supporting the decriminalization of drug possession and the regulated distribution of marijuana...
2011-09-26,UK bans marching for 30 days
2011-09-26,"RIP Wangari Maathai, Africa's first female Nobel Laureate & renowned environmentalist"
2011-09-26,Saudi Arabia to give women right to vote
2011-09-26,Saffron could displace opium poppies as Afghans cash crop of choice - The Globe and Mail
2011-09-26,"Greek students interrupt state TV news programme. The youths held up a banner reading ""Stop watching and get out onto the streets"""
2011-09-26,"You Were Expecting Statehood? --- 
As the Palestinians learned last week, the U.N. serves the interests of great powers. Just as it was meant to."
2011-09-26,Two Tibetan Monks Set Themselves On Fire In China
2011-09-26,"Online activists hack official Syrian sites:  Several government websites defaced by Anonymous, as crackdown on protests in Homs and elsewhere continues."
2011-09-26,"HRW urge the Canadian gov't to ""be prepared"" to bring criminal charges against former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney when he visits Vancouver on his book tour next week"
2011-09-26,"A mass grave with the remains of 1,700 prisoners killed during a notorious crackdown by Muammar Gaddafi's regimehas been found, the country's new rulers say."
2011-09-26,Greece prepares to default within the euro
2011-09-26,"BRICS plan to revive the global economy 
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are worried about the world economy and they want fundamental reforms."
2011-09-26,"Will The IMF Save The World? --- 
""A potential recession in the eurozone and a weak recovery in the United States does not make for a world crisis. Beware people who demand that the world be saved  usually they are making the case for a bailout of some kind"""
2011-09-26,"Zambian election results check Chinese influence in Africa:  The election victory of ""King Cobra"" Michael Sata is a blow to Beijing.
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2011-09-26,"Iran, India, Pakistan, & Mongolia have most polluted cities in the world - 
World Health Organisation's 1st global survey of fine particle pollutants says Canadian & US towns among cleanest"
2011-09-26,Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Proved Israel Doesn't Want Peace
2011-09-26,Sarkozy aide's wife claims he handled 'bags of cash' for illegal political funds - Europe - Independent.co.uk
2011-09-26,Woman decapitated in Mexico for web posting...
2011-09-26,UN Security Council to consider Palestinian membership
2011-09-26,Israel and Palestine give up on America
2011-09-26,Turkey 'hunts down' Israeli commandos on Facebook
2011-09-25,BBC News - Women in Saudi Arabia 'to vote and run in elections'
2011-09-25,"Pirate Party - Children of Marx and Microsoft - They demand transparency and direct democracy, and almost one in ten voters in Berlin gave them their vote. The Pirate Party is no longer just a party for Net-nerds in hoodies, but represents demands from across society. "
2011-09-25,BBC News - Muslim peace conference condemns terrorism
2011-09-25,"Obama rescinds Bush order, sends 55 'bunker buster' bombs to Israel"
2011-09-25,China cancels dog meat festival after tens of thousands complain online
2011-09-25,Mecca for the rich: Islam's holiest site 'turning into Vegas'
2011-09-25,"On The Desert Trail Of Tony Blair's Millions --- 
Tony Blair has an interlocking web of jobs, and professional and commercial interests. Among them, he works simultaneously for JP Morgan, his own consultancy and as a Middle East envoy. Whatever happened to ""conflict of interest""?"
2011-09-25,[French link] The French left wins a majority in the Senate for the first time in the 5th Republic
2011-09-25,Tony Blair had six secret meetings with Col Gaddafi in the three years after he left Downing Street
2011-09-25,The World Bank has announced it is increasing funding for the drought in the Horn of Africa to nearly $2bn. 
2011-09-25,India backs Palestine: PM at UN General Assembly 
2011-09-25,"Iran, Russia, and China are considering a joint missile shield in response to a NATO missile shield"
2011-09-25,Red squirrel and hedgehog on verge of extinction in UK
2011-09-25,Police find decapitated body of Mexico newspaper editor
2011-09-25,"Tony Blair is Making a Lot of Money - 
New investigations by the British press are about to reveal how"
2011-09-25,Amnesty International: New evidence of Syria brutality emerges as womans mutilated body is found
2011-09-25,Gunfire heard from a compound believed to house the CIA office in Kabul.
2011-09-25,West Bank tensions grow as Jewish women settlers learn how to use guns
2011-09-25,"Turkey imposes arms embargo on Syria, PM 
Erdoan says they have ""cut all contacts"" with 
Damascus."
2011-09-25,Arrests in Nigeria after gang-rape posted on internet: The Nigerian police have arrested two people in connection with the gang-rape of a woman posted on the internet. 
2011-09-25,Turkeys prime minister has signaled a joint military offensive with Iran against their common enemy: Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq.
2011-09-25,Worried Greeks Fear Collapse of Middle Class Welfare State
2011-09-25,Radioactivity in Japan Rice Raises Worries: Radiation Levels Prompt More Tests
2011-09-25,Mass grave found near Tripoli prison
2011-09-25,A Plea for the Palestinian Cause - Abbas Appeals to the World's Conscience
2011-09-24,Yao Ming urges Chinese to give up shark fin soup - New campaign hopes to stop shark-finning -- slicing off the fins of live animals & then throwing them back in the water to die 
2011-09-24,Medvedev proposes Putin for president in 2012
2011-09-24,"Abbas officially submits Palestinian application for full 
UN membership"
2011-09-24,Canada's crime plans bewilder international observers
2011-09-24,"Russia may legalize cannabis for agriculture, industrial use"
2011-09-24,President Felipe Calderon OK on legalizing pot
2011-09-24,Universities in Bahrain should reinstate all students  who were expelled for attending peaceful protests
2011-09-24,"BBC News - Big firms to get hotline to ministerial ""buddies"""
2011-09-24,"EU given six weeks to protect itself against 'inevitable 
Greek default'"
2011-09-24,Russia's Medvedev backs Putin for president
2011-09-24,China Detains Journalist for Article on Sex Slaves - NYTimes.com
2011-09-24,"""If he wore a condom, it wasn't rape"": Rape cases rarely appear in the Chinese justice system."
2011-09-24,Bullfighting in Barcelona to end with Catalonia ban
2011-09-24,"Belgian parties reach 2nd breakthrough in 2 weeks 
in record talks to form new government"
2011-09-24,"Ex-officials: Iran nuclear effort hit by sabotage -- assasinations, computer viruses, unexplained explosions, equipment failures"
2011-09-24,"Talent shows in China: No voting please, were Chinese | The Economist"
2011-09-24,Chavez foe launches presidential bid in Venezuela
2011-09-24,"Peru's new government changes its drug-fighting tactics: ""We need to move from eradication to reduction."""
2011-09-24,Syria: The revolution will be weaponised. Journalist Nir Rosen discusses armed struggle with army officers who have defected to join the opposition.
2011-09-24,"UN agency confirms raw uranium in Libya 
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2011-09-24,"Mission Clarity: Pope Benedict's Blunt New World -- It has been billed as Pope Benedict XVI's most difficult trip abroad to date. But so far in Germany, the pope has not sought to shy away from controversy. His bluntness has surprised many -- and could transform the visit into a rousing success"
2011-09-24,"You Should Be Ashamed! --- Russian democracy, civil society, and economy may all look bad from the outside. But to hear Putin talk, its the West that should be embarrassed."
2011-09-24,Damned if we do impose sanctions on Syria. And damned if we don't --- Foreign companies are enriching Assad's brutal regime  but even the Syrian people are divided on the issue of sanctions
2011-09-24,"Bogota mayor Samuel Moreno jailed pending trial: The mayor of the Colombian capital, Bogota, has been sent to prison pending his trial on corruption charges. "
2011-09-24,Bolivian official held at highway protest: Marchers opposed to a highway that Bolivia plans through an indigenous-inhabited nature preserve have briefly detained the foreign minister in the country's eastern lowlands.  
2011-09-23,Scientists claim to have broken the absolute speed barrier - particles travelling faster than the speed of light.
2011-09-23,"The ""first"" Syrian woman (18 years old) to be killed in custody - decapitated, arms cut off, and skin removed - all to put pressure on her activist brother to turn himself in."
2011-09-23,Bill Clinton: Netanyahu to blame for failure of peace process
2011-09-23,"In a suburb of Vancouver, anti-war activists are protesting that George W. Bush not be allowed in the city for an upcoming summit, calling him a mass murderer."
2011-09-23,Muslim nations demand Israel open its nuke program to IAEA viewing
2011-09-23,"Wikileaks cables: Chevron tried to shake off multibillion environmental claims in Ecuador by lobbying government officials, even as it blasted opponents for allegedly playing to the courts' corrupt and political side"
2011-09-23,"A man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous combustion, an Irish coroner has ruled. It is believed to be the first case of its kind in Ireland."
2011-09-23,Polio outbreaks in China have been confirmed
2011-09-23,Russia wants UN to ban anti-government propaganda on Internet
2011-09-23,Palestinians to make statehood bid at UN
2011-09-23,World now has 'more people dying from obesity than malnutrition'
2011-09-23,President Abbas receives ovation at UN
2011-09-23,Palestinian statehood goes to UN in key moment for peace process
2011-09-23,"Thousands riot in south China over gov's land grab: ""sticks, bricks and fists"""
2011-09-23,British lawyer leading fight against News International crosses Atlantic to initiate proceedings targetting Rupert Murdoch and his son James.
2011-09-23,Best and worst countries to be a woman.
2011-09-23,Ahmadinejads anti-U.S. speech prompts walk-out at UN assembly
2011-09-23,Police with the worst records of targeting black people have decided to stop recording the ethnicity of the people stopped
2011-09-23,Palestinian Statehood: Abbas Submits Formal Proposal To The UN
2011-09-23,Thousands of jubilant Palestinians cheer their president submit his historic request for recognition of a state of Palestine to the UN
2011-09-23,"Germany Has 5 Trillion Euros of Hidden Debt, Handelsblatt Says"
2011-09-23,India's Bias for Boys Leads to Illegal Gender Selection Abortions
2011-09-23,China police detain man over 'sex slaves' in basement
2011-09-23,Abbas Submits Palestine Statehood Bid to UN
2011-09-23,IAEA won't discuss Israel's 'nuclear capabilities' after Arab proposal dropped:  Behind-the-scenes diplomacy at the International Atomic Energy Association leads to Arab states withdrawing their motion.
2011-09-22,"Child rapist to get less time than pot grower (Canada) 
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2011-09-22,"Sonapur  Dubai's City Of Gold --- 
The men who build Dubai are housed out of town in cramped and dilapidated concrete quarters. They are granted very few rights and treated like indentured labour. This photo essay shows a little of what their lives are like"
2011-09-22,France Breaks with Obama on Palestinian Statehood Issue
2011-09-22,"China on Thursday angrily demanded the Obama admin cancel its plans to upgrade Taiwans aging fleet of F-16 fighter jets, warning that the decision will harm U.S.-China ties overall & military cooperation between the two countries."
2011-09-22,"Greeks Ask: Why All the Suffering? - 

Greeks are wondering what the end game is. 
Increasingly Greeks see themselves as victims. One paper opined that the country was being placed on a ""sacrificial altar""."
2011-09-22,French women fined for breaching veil ban:  Paris court issues its first ruling on controversial new law passed in April after parliamentary approval.
2011-09-22,"China disgusted by antics of 'capital playboys', an elite group of young property developers from rich families with money to burn, time to kill, film-star girlfriends & a sense of entitlement"
2011-09-22,"Surprisingly, Norwegians are less open to extended anti-terror measures after the recent terrorist attack on Oslo and Utya"
2011-09-22,Global Stocks Tumble After Grim Forecast by the Fed
2011-09-22,The Curious Case Of The Vanishing Chinese City
2011-09-22,"Sarkozy calls for observer state status at UN, while Obama urges more negotiations over Palestine"
2011-09-22,"UK to pay victims over 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre - Britain said Thursday it will offer compensation payments to the families of people killed and wounded on Bloody Sunday, a nearly 40-year-old massacre by British paratroopers in Northern Ireland that fueled Irish Catholic support for the IRA."
2011-09-22,"India temple: Last treasure vault stays shut  - The final vault at a temple in India's Kerala state should not be opened until treasure already recovered is fully documented, the Supreme Court says."
2011-09-22,"Oxfam Warns of Spiralling Land Grab in Developing Countries - 
Many of world's poorest ""being left worse off by unprecedented land deals"", despite claims by governments & speculators"
2011-09-22,"Gas field to turn Blackpool into Dallas-on-sea - 
Huge scale of natural gas field in England found"
2011-09-22,Poll: 70% of Israelis say Israel should accept UN decision
2011-09-22,"Red Cross: Obese outnumber hungry
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2011-09-22,Suicide bomber with hidden explosives has killed Hamid Karzai's chief peace envoy in the heart of Kabul.
2011-09-22,Venezuela in talks on $6 billion settlement with Exxon
2011-09-22,Police in the UK stop recording race of people they stop
2011-09-22,Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff urges reform at UN: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has demanded a greater role for emerging nations in addressing the global economic crisis. 
2011-09-22,"Company Said to Push Ugandans Off Land - According to Oxfam, the Ugandan government and a British forestry company forcibly expelled more than 20,000 people from their homes here in recent years."
2011-09-22,Scottish clan wants its tropical paradise returned
2011-09-22,Julian Assange on hacking
2011-09-22,Further accusations against Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige of violence.
2011-09-21,Al Jazeera news director resigns after WikiLeaks disclosure reveals that the network edited its coverage of the Iraq war because of pressure by the US government
2011-09-21,"Mexican President Caldern Hints at Drug Legalization Again - [If] the consumption of drugs cannot be limited, then decision-makers must seek more solutionsincluding market alternativesin order to reduce the astronomical earnings of criminal organizations."
2011-09-21,Italy puts 7 scientists on trial for manslaughter for failing to predict earthquake that killed 300.
2011-09-21,35 bodies found on a road in peak hour traffic in Mexico...
2011-09-21,"Palestinian foreign minister says he was ""amazed"" by US efforts to persuade other countries not to support the membership effort"
2011-09-21,The world's first unauthorized autobiography: A draft of Julian Assange's book will be published after he backed out but didn't return the money.
2011-09-21,Iran Has Released Jailed Americans
2011-09-21,Website of Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education gets hacked (NSFW)
2011-09-21,"Saudi Arabia executes man convicted of ""sorcery"""
2011-09-21,Turkey has come up with a radical solution for tackling crowd violence at soccer matches - ban the men and let only women and children in.
2011-09-21,Could the Pirate party's German success be repeated in Britain?
2011-09-21,"Scottish nuclear fuel leak 'will never be completely cleaned up' - 
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has abandoned trying to remove all contamination from the north coast seabed"
2011-09-21,"UK Government considering removing living allowance from terminally ill people. Oh, and sending them worrying letters about it BEFORE it goes into law. Because if you're terminally ill, you need the extra stress.  "
2011-09-21,Explosion in Amsterdam
2011-09-21,Turkey bombs Kurdish rebels in Iraq
2011-09-21,Typhoon heads towards Fukushima. Storm leaves four dead in central Japan as 130mph winds threaten to cause damage at nuclear plant.
2011-09-21,Al Jazeera head quits after CIA links row
2011-09-21,"Al Jazeera's Wadah Khanfar on why he quit. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Khanfar discusses his decision to resign and dispelled suspicions that it was linked to political pressures: There have always been pressures, but our editorial policy has never been swayed."
2011-09-21,"Palestinian refugees will not become citizens of a new Palestinian state, according to Palestines ambassador to Lebanon"
2011-09-21,China's Railways Ministry - worlds 4th-largest employer - refuses to compensate high-speed crash victims
2011-09-21,Mexico: 35 bodies dumped on busy roadway by gunmen as motorists watched in horror
2011-09-21,Thirteen killed or missing as typhoon hits Japan
2011-09-21,'Hell on earth': Detailed satellite photos show death camps North Korea still deny even exist
2011-09-21,"BBC News - India: Half a dollar a day 'adequate', says panel"
2011-09-21,New Zealand teen banned from the internet after making bomb threats against the government in a Youtube video.
2011-09-20,Italy Proposes Law That Will Ban People From The Internet Based On Single Accusation Of Infringement From Anyone
2011-09-20,"Oktoberfest 2011 [pics]
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2011-09-20,A US court has overturned a block on Ecuadoreans collecting damages totalling $18.2bn from Chevron over Amazon oil pollution
2011-09-20,"World's Deadliest Volcano Rumbles - it blew up two centuries ago with 10 times the force of Krakatoa and caused a ""year without a summer"" "
2011-09-20,Al-Jazeera's director-general's career at the top of the most important news organisation in the Arab world ended on Tuesday when he was replaced by a member of the Qatari royal family. It was an abrupt and dramatic move that  raises fears for channel's independence.
2011-09-20,Saudi Arabia beheads Sudanese man convicted of 'sorcery'
2011-09-20,"UN leader Ban Ki-moon Monday accused big business of putting public health at risk ""to protect their own profits"" as he launched a summit on everyday diseases killing tens of millions each year."
2011-09-20,"Hugo Chavez orders Venezuela's $29 billion in international reserves out of traditional havens in Switzerland, Britain and the U.S. to banks of its principal creditor nations - China and Russia."
2011-09-20,Explosion rocks downtown Turkish capital
2011-09-20,What Wikileaks Tells Us About Al Jazeera: Is the rapidly expanding Middle East satellite television network and voice of the Arab Spring as independent as it claims?
2011-09-20,Head of Al Jazeera resigns
2011-09-20,"Who Are the Pirates from Berlin? --- 
They are handy with computers and are interested in issues relating to the Internet. Is that all? Many Berliners have been scratching their heads about the true identity of Germany's youngest political party. But the answer is simple: They're the new Greens."
2011-09-20,"China closes solar-panel plant after protests. The solar-panel plant in the Chinese city of Haining was the target of four days of demonstrations by villagers who said it was causing air and water pollution. Its operator, JinkoSolar, apologizes.
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2011-09-20,"'Ready for change': Pirate Party is the real winner in Berlin state election  -- With 8,9 percent of the vote, the Pirate Party has successfully cleared the five-percent hurdle to win seats in Berlin's state parliament. It's the party's chance to make its debut in Germany - but what is its platform?"
2011-09-20,China says supports Palestinians' U.N. aspirations
2011-09-20,Robert Fisk: Why the Middle East will never be the same again
2011-09-20,Economy enters 'dangerous phase'
2011-09-20,"EU issues warning after Turkey, Cyprus energy exploration row escalates:  Turkey's energy minister has threatened to launch a gas and oil exploration in the eastern Mediterranean if Cyprus doesnt abandon off-shore drilling plans. The EU has called on both countries to resolve the dispute."
2011-09-20,More than a million people in central and western Japan have been urged to leave their homes as a powerful typhoon approaches.
2011-09-20,"Abbas presses Palestinian UN bid, despite warnings"
2011-09-20,New Devastating Pakistan Floods [pics]
2011-09-20,Chinese bank stops FX trades with European banks
2011-09-20,"Japanese defense contractors get hit by cyberespionage effort: Attackers target missile, ship-building, and submarine facilities"
2011-09-20,"Happy birthday, number seven billion"
2011-09-20,Does Germany Owe Greece $95 Billion from WW II?
2011-09-19,"First projections see German Pirate Party at 8,5 % in Berlin state elections"
2011-09-19,Pirate Party enters Berlin parliament after historical election win: With an estimated 9% of the total vote they exceeded the 5% floor needed to enter the Berlin parliament; they will get 15 seats
2011-09-19,"An ""American Idol"" style show in China was canceled because the voting process was viewed as too representative of Western Democracy"
2011-09-19,"Britain's junior partner in government calls for criminal penalties for personal possession to be scrapped, introduction of regulated market in cannabis"
2011-09-19,"China's State Run Newspaper: ""If the US chooses to fly in the face of world opinion and block the Palestine UN bid next week, not only will Israel become more isolated but tensions in the region will be heightened even more."" "
2011-09-19,"IKEA founder pledges to double charitable spending following revelations that at the age of 17 he had been an active recruiter and a registered member of the Svensk Socialistisk Samling (SSS), the successor to the Swedish Nazi party. 

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2011-09-19,Saudi Arabia sued over 9/11 attacks
2011-09-19,OPEC Plows Billions in Profits into Quieting Arab Masses - Saudi Arabia spends $43 billion on poorer citizens & religious institutions. Kuwaitis gets free food for a year. Algerian civil servants receive 34% pay rise. Desert cities in United Arab Emirates to get uninterrupted electricity. 
2011-09-19,"Mideast riddle: Strange stone structures caught on camera. They stretch from Syria to Saudi Arabia, can be seen from the air but not the ground, and are virtually unknown to the public"
2011-09-19,The navigator of the Tu-134 plane that crashed in June 2011 in northern Russia killing 47 people was drunk
2011-09-19,Police in Brazil say they have arrested two men suspected in the killings of two Amazon activists earlier this year.
2011-09-19,"Big energy & mining groups 'hide accounts using secrecy jurisdictions' - 
Report claims resource-rich countries are losing out because data from Shell, BP, & Glencore subsidiaries are unavailable"
2011-09-19,US and European negotiators have urged Israel to refrain from taking punitive measures against the Palestinians if they press ahead with their bid to win recognition of a home state at the United Nations. 
2011-09-19,"Chinese villagers accuse police of suppressing solar panel factory protest - 
Riot police disperse protesters accusing firm of dumping toxic waste in Haining"
2011-09-19,"Over 5000 killed in Syria: A new report more than doubles the death toll in Syria, rights groups launch charter for the recording of civilian casualties in conflict."
2011-09-19,"Israeli PM says Palestine UN bid 'will fail'. Netanyahu tells cabinet meeting PLO attempt to become full UN member cannot succeed, saying talks are the only solution. "
2011-09-19,Sweden hit by 'substantial' oil spill 
2011-09-19,China and India Making Inroads in Biotech Drugs: Chinese and Indian drug makers have taken over much of the global trade in medicines and now manufacture more than 80 percent of the active ingredients in drugs sold worldwide.
2011-09-19,Archeologists unearth evidence of zombie scare in medieval Ireland
2011-09-19,Italy seeks Chinese bailout: Beijings role highlights the speed of U.S. decline and rise of BRICs
2011-09-19,Protesters storm elite military base in Yemen
2011-09-19,"The end of an era in Iran --- This year, we have elections at the end of the year ... everyone should be vigilant and attentive in order to guard the elections as a gift of God. "
2011-09-19,"In Arab world, support for UN gambit close to unanimous - Poll shows 8 of 10 Palestinians support unilateral statehood declaration."
2011-09-19,Turkey threatened on Monday to give naval escorts to Turkish exploration vessels off Cyprus unless the Greek Cypriot government halted plans for a U.S. oil company to start drilling for natural gas. 
2011-09-19,"Yemen protesters storm elite military base; 50 die
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2011-09-18,"The Titanic disaster meant a life of shame for its CEO. Not so BP's Tony Hayward - 
'Moving on' from the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe, he's now set to make millions from a Kurdistan oil deal"
2011-09-18,"""I found it peculiar that, even though the Americans have significantly worse fundamental data than the euro zone, that they tell us what we should do,"" said Maria Fekter, finance minister of Austria. ""I had expected that, when he [Mr. Geithner] tells us how he sees the world, that he would listen"""
2011-09-18,A 39-yr-old father has been arrested on murder charge for apparently knifing one of two burglars who broke into his home
2011-09-18,Norway FM: We will recognize Palestinian state
2011-09-18," In Chile, a 23-year-old woman has been leading student protests against the government. Her actions pose a serious challenge to the government and may lead to a significant overhaul of the country's education system."
2011-09-18,First Results - Pirate Party: 8.5% in Berlin state elections
2011-09-18,"Matt Taibbi: The $2 Billion UBS Incident - 'There is much hand-wringing in the financial press as the UBS incident has reminded the whole world that all of the banks were almost certainly lying their asses off over the last three years, when they all pledged to pull back from risky prop trading.'"
2011-09-18,Tony Blair made secret visits to Muammar Gaddafi
2011-09-18,Turkey: We don't need U.S. mediation to end crisis with Israel
2011-09-18,Australia Recognizes Third Gender on Passports
2011-09-18,Berlusconi wiretaps reveal boast of spending night with eight women.Conversations show that Italian PM resented meetings with the Pope and world leaders interfering with his partying
2011-09-18,6.8 earthquake hits North-East India at around 12:40 GMT; No reports of casualties or damages yet.
2011-09-18,Siemens to quit nuclear industry.
2011-09-18,"Netanyahu tells weekly cabinet meeting that he's not worried about General Assembly: ""It is possible to pass any resolution there""; says he's convinced US veto will ensure bid stops in Security Council."
2011-09-18,Egypt and Israel:  Feeling the heat of isolation - Egyptians relish Israels growing discomfiture in the region. But they do not want another war
2011-09-18,"Germany has called for the eurozone to go it alone if necessary and implement a financial tax despite opposition from the US and UK. EU finance ministers, meanwhile, called for European banks to be strengthened. "
2011-09-18,London Symphony Orchestra suspends four musicians who signed a letter opposing Israeli musicians' concert in London. 
2011-09-18,"Caving to the Kremlin --- Alexander Litvinenko died a horrible, painful death in London five years ago. The suspect, whom Britain wants to extradite, sits in Moscow. But is the British prime minister giving up the chase in favour of business and trade?"
2011-09-18,"Indonesian women stage ""skirt protest"" over rape remarks"
2011-09-18,"Chinese villagers vent fury outside solar plant: Hundreds of Chinese villagers have spent three days camped in protest outside a solar panel plant, accusing it of dumping toxic waste into a river."
2011-09-18,"Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats vowed to fight ""ruthless"" and ""extreme"" forces in the Tory party to protect the British people from right-wing policies that would widen inequality and benefit the rich"
2011-09-18,Gay British Muslims seek marriage 
2011-09-18,Experts: Possibility of evacuating parts of Tokyo can no longer be ignored  Fukushima worse than Chernobyl 
2011-09-18,"Bahrain Boils Under The Lid Of Repression --- 
The inconvenient Arab uprising. For the US, at least, which keeps its Fifth Fleet in the island Gulf state and has been conspicuously quiet about brutal suppression of anti-government protests"
2011-09-18,"Pakistan may block Google, Youtube to deny terrorists communication source"
2011-09-17,"Women's ""sex strike"" ends fighting in Philippine villages"
2011-09-17,The end of Israel as we know it: Israel now finds itself isolated like no other time in the past 35 years. 
2011-09-17,"Amazon pollution victims ask New York judge to award $8 billion in Chevron money & to oust judge who blocked their claim - 
Ecuador's Secoya people, whose health was allegedly damaged by polluted water dumped by the oil giant, take fight to courts"
2011-09-17,"Famine Ravages Somalia in a World Less Likely to Intervene - Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death?"
2011-09-17,"Belgian Company Leads the Way In Landfill Mining - 
seeks waste for recycling and energy generation, 
while reclaiming land"
2011-09-17,Greek man sets himself on fire because bank will not refinance his mortgage.  
2011-09-17,"In China, what you eat tells who you are -- In a nation reeling from tainted-food scandals, organic products are mostly reserved for the rich and political elite. Chinese government officials have exclusive suppliers, who do not advertise."
2011-09-17,"Catholic bishops criticize opposition plans to boycott pope: Germany's political opposition plans to boycott a speech by the pope to parliament out of concern that it violates state neutrality. Catholic bishops, meanwhile, have criticized the move as unjustifiable."
2011-09-17,Appeals court cast doubt of the jurisdiction claimed by NY federal judge who prevented Ecuadorean natives from enforcing an $18.2B verdict against Chevron for dumping billions of gallons of toxic oil waste into Ecuador's water supply
2011-09-17,"Is the world about to watch 750,000 Somalis starve to death? "
2011-09-17,"Former Premier Of China Speaks --- 
Newly published speeches show Zhu Rongji to have been smart, forceful, sceptical when running China's economy a decade ago. His was the genius that kept the economy growing without overheating. Successors pale by comparison"
2011-09-17,Military whistleblower tells of 'indiscriminate' Israeli attacks: Israeli troops fired tear gas during a curfew in a West Bank village to stop peaceful demonstrations
2011-09-17,"Social democrats oust the Liberal-Conservative 
government in Denmark"
2011-09-17,"Berlusconi is caught describing himself as ""prime minister in my spare time"""
2011-09-17,"The Depressing Tale Of Johann Hari --- 
Theres a lot of media talk about Johann Hari, who admitted to stealing quotes from other journalists and passing them off as his own. And using a fake identity to attack journalists on Wikipedia. "
2011-09-17,Libya's rebels given seat on UN
2011-09-17,In Egypt protesters call for an end to the widely despised Emergency Law that allows civilians to be tried in state security courts and detained indefinitely
2011-09-17,"Turkey ""may act with Iran against PKK in Iraq"""
2011-09-17,Wiretaps: Berlusconi resented world leader meetings; enjoyed having sex with 8 girls a night much more. Putin speaks out in support.
2011-09-17,"Tiny Burkina Faso Confronts Gadhafi's Enormous Legacy --- 
A window on former Libyan leader's influence in Africa. Probably a bumpy road ahead as Libya's new leadership reels in his extensive aid, investment and patronage networks across the continent"
2011-09-17,"Europe on Brink of 1930s-Style Economic Catastrophe: Gordon Brown
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2011-09-17,Ant-Gaddaffi forces pushed back
2011-09-17,"Finland's FM admitted last night's crisis meeting of European finance ministers was unlikely to resolve the dispute over her country's demand for collateral before extending loans to Greece - adding to fears over whether the eurozone will be able to get on top of its crippling debt woes. 
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2011-09-17,Ethiopia: Crackdown on Dissent Intensifies
2011-09-17,"Moscow destroys central mosque: Some longtime Muscovites, Muslim and not, were unconvinced, saying it was a historic monument that should have been preserved "
2011-09-16,A glimpse of North Korea - The Big Picture
2011-09-16,"It took three years, but the music industry has finally won. The Council of the European Union, where the various member state governments all have a say, voted without discussion to increase the copyright term in sound recordings from 50 to 70 years!"
2011-09-16,Praying in Paris streets outlawed
2011-09-16,Phone hacking: Met Police use Official Secrets Act to force Guardian to reveal sources
2011-09-16,Egypt Protesters Call for End to 'Emergency Law'
2011-09-16,Anti-Roma Protests Turn Violent in the Czech Republic - For weeks there have been riots between Czech locals and newly settled Roma in northern Bohemia. What started as a series of brutal but isolated fights has grown into a popular movement in small towns along the eastern German border.
2011-09-16,"There aren't many doctors in the village of Hari Ke Kalan, in the Punjab region of northern India. But for $1, residents can get an appointment in a health clinic with a physician appearing on a large-screen TV beamed in over broadband Internet"
2011-09-16,Russian officials try to keep quiet the reporting of a toxic cloud in Chelyabinsk.  
2011-09-16,Chinese netizens angered by princelings  spoiled children of the rich and powerful
2011-09-16,A U.S. firm is planning a massive oil palm plantation in Cameroon. But critics argue that the project would destroy some of the key remaining forests in the West African nation and threaten species-rich reserves
2011-09-16,Mexico: Bodies of two people found hanging with sign warning websites from reporting on drug-related violence
2011-09-16,The $2 Billion Swiss banking giant UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass
2011-09-16,Drug cartels now extorting teachers in Acapulco
2011-09-16,"WikiLeaks disclosures upset Mugabe:  Cables from Harare embassy show even Mugabe's allies want him to go.
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2011-09-16,China Consolidates Grip on Rare Earths: By closing or nationalizing dozens of the producers of rare earth metals - which are used in energy-efficient bulbs and many other green-energy products - China temporarily shuts down most of the industry and crimping the global supply of the vital resources
2011-09-16,Swiss Catholic Church reveals scale of sex abuse by priests
2011-09-16,"Bring back the cane to improve pupil discipline, say parents in UK"
2011-09-16,Spain revives wealth tax to tackle debt - Spains Socialist govt has approved the re-introduction of a tax on the countrys wealthiest as part of efforts to tackle its budget deficit. The govt had scrapped a previous wealth tax in 2008. 
2011-09-16,Eight charged with supplying prostitutes to Berlusconi
2011-09-16,Pakistan companies ejected from London arms fair for 'promoting cluster bombs'
2011-09-16,Abbas lays out Palestine UN bid
2011-09-16,"Vladimir Putin: Berlusconi's Critics Are Just Jealous Of His Womanizing
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2011-09-16,The situation seems to be worsening: Bodies hanging from bridge in Mexico are warning to social media users - CNN.com
2011-09-16,S Korea holds North defector 'in poison-needle plot'
2011-09-16,"Prison doesn't achieve anything, says  UK Justice Secretary, speaking ahead of official figures, published yesterday, which showed that the prison population has hit another record high. "
2011-09-15,Iran blocks Tor; Tor releases same-day fix
2011-09-15,US tycoon Donald Trump's plea to Scotland's first minister over 'ugly' wind farm to be built near his luxury golf resort
2011-09-15,"Berlusconi calls German Chancellor Merkel an ""unfuckable lard-arse"""
2011-09-15,Dutch Doctors campaign against 'risky and painful' circumcision of boys 
2011-09-15,India to Give 6.8 million free Laptops to School children.
2011-09-15,Taliban and Nato engage in online flamewar on Twitter
2011-09-15,"Driver refuses to let Australian Prime Minister on bus with other leaders, tells her to get on the spouses' bus instead"
2011-09-15,Did anyone else miss the news that Egypt revived its emergency laws last week?
2011-09-15,"Psychological Profile Of Anonymous Leadership --- Leaked FBI document. Looks real. Anonymous ""a potential threat to national security"". Leaders include Sabu, who ""shows compulsive behavior"" by correcting spelling on chat logs; Kayla, who ""claims to be a girl"", but probably isn't"
2011-09-15,"Exposed After Eight Years --- 
More revelations on privacy breaches by UK media. Lead investigator from 2003 inquiry says authorities knew about vast scale of industry's illegal acts for past eight years. But they were too ""frightened"" to question journalists"
2011-09-15,BBC News - New Australian passports allow third gender option
2011-09-15,Today Denmark got its first female prime minister. Helle Thorning-Shmidt! (article not quite updated)
2011-09-15,Egypt's Military rulers activate Mubaraks repressive media policies
2011-09-15,"Rogue trader costs UBS $2bn

Shares in the Swiss bank dropped 10% after it reported the 'unauthorised trading' loss  which could push it into the red
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2011-09-15,"West Bank villagers' daily battle with Israel over water

Al-Amniyr villagers in the West Bank face a catch-22: if they obey the law they cannot collect water. But if they fail to water the land, they lose it anyway
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2011-09-15,BBC News - China losing edge as low-cost manufacturer. Indonesia and Bangladesh are benefiting most as rising costs in China force firms to switch production
2011-09-15,Welsh miners trapped after colliery tunnel collapses 300ft underground
2011-09-15,"China has called for major strategic concessions from Europe before agreeing to rescue the eurozone, chilling hopes for immediate purchases of Italian bonds. "
2011-09-15,Hungarian toxic chemical sludge spill firm fined:  An aluminium producer in Hungary has been fined 472m euros ($646m) over a spillage of toxic sludge last year.
2011-09-15,"Malaysia to scrap strict security laws: Two controversial laws which allowed indefinite detention without trial will be abolished, prime minister says."
2011-09-15,Poland warns of war 'in 10 years' as EU leaders scramble to contain panic
2011-09-15,Syrian opposition unites in new council: Syrian National Council of about 140 people to present united front against government following talks in Istanbul.
2011-09-15,"Ahmadinejad's Impotence --- 

""The paradox of today's Iran is that it is the ruling elites who have rendered the president politically irrelevant, not the protesters demonstrating in downtown Tehran. For many Iranians, this is a blessing and also a tragedy"""
2011-09-15,BBC News - UK taking legal action against European Central Bank
2011-09-15,"The Eurozone Debt Crisis: Is This A Banking Problem? --- 
 ""Europe has built a monetary union with an inherent flaw  the absence of a sovereign safety net, since the debts accumulated by member states have been incurred in a currency that none controls"""
2011-09-14,Vladimir Putin: Action Man [pics]
2011-09-14,Sex-abuse victims urge the International Criminal Court to prosecute Pope Benedict XVI for crimes against humanity
2011-09-14,"Philip Murphy, the US ambassador to Germany, has written an open letter admonishing German jerks for racially abusing a black member of his staff in Berlin recently."
2011-09-14,"The jobless young: Left behind --- The harm todays youth unemployment is doing will be felt for decades, both by those affected and by society at large | The Economist"
2011-09-14,In India: A Hindu Woman set on fire for giving birth to girl
2011-09-14,"China Cracks Down on ""Gutter Oil,"" a Substance Even Worse Than its Name
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2011-09-14,The good news: Court exonerates wrongly convicted man of rape and murder charges. The bad news: he was executed 14 years ago.
2011-09-14,"Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip violates international law, a panel of human rights experts reporting to a U.N. body said on Tuesday, disputing a conclusion reached by a separate U.N. probe into Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship."
2011-09-14,Internet troll jailed after mocking deaths of teenagers
2011-09-14,News Corp shareholders file new claims
2011-09-14,Israel to forcibly evict Bedouins from West Bank
2011-09-14,Peru declares state of emergency in Amazon
2011-09-14,"
    U.N. experts say Israel's blockade of Gaza illegal
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2011-09-14,"Desperate Guatemalans Embrace an Iron Fist: 'That is how desperate this country has become as gangs and Mexican drug cartels run fever-wild, capturing territory and corrupting institutions so that Guatemala will remain a safe haven for cocaine, guns, money laundering and new recruits.'"
2011-09-14,EU declares end to environmentally harmful subsidies
2011-09-14,Record numbers of golden eagles poisoned in Scotland in 2010
2011-09-14,African women say rebels raped them in Libyan camp
2011-09-14,"Drug-resistant TB spreading fast in Europe
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2011-09-14,Credit rating agency Moody's has downgraded two French banks because of their exposure to Greek debt
2011-09-14,"Iran TV bans shirtless men and ""love triangles"""
2011-09-14,"Banned Chinese writer Liao Yiwu escapes to America, speaks for first time: ""In China, the biggest problem is brainwashing"""
2011-09-14,"High Unemployment, yet Highly Skilled Workers in Short Supply | The Economist"
2011-09-14,"Netanyahu orders evacuation of Israel embassy in Jordan, fearing violent protests - Premier, FM Lieberman order diplomatic staff in Amman to return a day ahead of schedule over expected anti-Israel rallies. "
2011-09-14,Top EU officials warn that the EU itself could fall apart in the near future.
2011-09-14,Worlds biggest airport planned
2011-09-13,"Japan Earthquake, Six Months Later [Pics]"
2011-09-13,Saudi Arabia threatens split with US if Obama vetos Palestinian statehood bid
2011-09-13,Iran president: US hikers to be freed 'in 2 days'
2011-09-13,UN recognition of a Palestinian state receives public approval in Europe
2011-09-13,"Israel watches its old alliances crumble
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2011-09-13,"Israel Fears Complete Isolation - Israel's relations with Turkey are ruined, the Palestinians plan to seek UN recognition for their own state, the embassy in Cairo was stormed: Jerusalem is under massive pressure. Even hard-line Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is starting to sound conciliatory."
2011-09-13,"Britain is set to change its financial laws. Officials say it's an attempt to prevent taxpayers from ever again having to spend tens of billions of dollars to save banks from collapse. Among other things, banks would be required to set aside more money as a cushion against possible losses."
2011-09-13,Japanese Seniors: Send Us To Damaged Nuclear Plant. The Skilled Veterans Corps for Fukushima consists of more than 500 seniors who have signed up for a job that has been called courageous  and suicidal.
2011-09-13,Chinese language learning to be compulsory in Pakistani Schools from 2013
2011-09-13,"How China dominates solar power - 
Huge loans from the Chinese Development Bank are helping Chinese solar companies push American solar firms out of the market"
2011-09-13,The woman who wants to be Egypt's first female president
2011-09-13,As much as half of North Korea's army is starving as food shortages that were previously affecting only the civilian population worsen and begin to affect institutions tasked with protecting Kim Jong-Il's regime. 
2011-09-13,Church of Scientology in Australia facing back-pay claims: Global consequences.
2011-09-13,"Indonesia: An estimated 30,000 mentally ill people suffer in chains and cages due to stigma and lack of access to treatment"
2011-09-13,No end in sight for oil in the Gulf of Mexico - Features - Al Jazeera English
2011-09-13,Shin Bet: Israel's extreme rightists organizing into terror groups - Peace Now activist targeted with threatening graffiti in latest settler 'price tag' attack. 
2011-09-13,"Why some Egyptians see military rulers as worse than Mubarak: Egypt's military rulers this weekend broadened the use of the country's emergency law, a despised tool of Mubarak's regime, instead of lifting as they had promised to do."
2011-09-13,"Egypt plans to revive emergency law: Egyptian security forces said they will protect government buildings with live ammunition.
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2011-09-13,"Suicide bombers, gunmen attack U.S. embassy, NATO headquarters in Kabul"
2011-09-13,Australia Navy cadet filmed rape 'to be accepted'
2011-09-13,You've Been Trumped: Tycoon's ruthless efforts to build Scottish golf resort - How potential environmental damage has been disregarded because of the perceived benefits to the local economy
2011-09-13,Euro-Zone Exit Scenarios:  Germany Plans for Possible Greek Default  - The rest of the euro zone is losing patience with Greece. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schuble is no longer convinced that Athens can be saved from bankruptcy.
2011-09-13,"Italian government 'in bond buying talks with China': China's largest sovereign wealth fund is considering buying Italian assets, according to a report in the Financial Times. "
2011-09-13,Missing: Tons of US-Supplied Nuclear Weapons Material
2011-09-13,"Dalai Lama: ""Mexico is not so violent,"" blames media for reporting the crisis"
2011-09-12,Star of Spartacus blood and sand - dies aged 39
2011-09-12,"Egypt security forces raid Al Jazeera channel, arresting its staff
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2011-09-12,The head of Britain's biggest union has urged a campaign of strikes and civil disobedience
2011-09-12,Taliban release statement on 10th anniversary of 9/11 attacks -- categorically deny any involvement in 9/11
2011-09-12,"Lloyd's insurance says the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its banks and charities, which sponsored al Qaeda, should pay the more than $215 million the insurer has spent on insurance settlements to families of the victims of 9/11"
2011-09-12,Pope marks 9/11 by warning that religion cannot justify violence
2011-09-12,Five arrested after police rescue 24 men kept as slaves on travellers' site
2011-09-12,BBC News - EU extends music copyright to 70 years
2011-09-12,Poisonous Rhinos Discourage Poachers
2011-09-12,"
      Turkish PM saw Gaza raid as grounds for war
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2011-09-12,"Parents say Indian hospital infected 23 kids with HIV
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2011-09-12,More Than 60 People Have Burnt To Death After A Petrol Pipeline Exploded In Kenya
2011-09-12,German minister advises colleagues to shun Facebook
2011-09-12,New Evidence of Pakistan's Hand in the Death of a Journalist
2011-09-12,"Swarm Troopers --- 
""In Brazil, an army is being unleashed. It is an army like no other: The soldiers' mission is to copulate rather than fight."" And the troops are mosquitoes and caterpillars. Genetically modified to destroy their own kind "
2011-09-12,David Cameron has raised the Alexander Litvinenko case at the start of his bridge-building visit to Russia.
2011-09-12,"Nuclear power plant explosion in France, radiation leaks feared."
2011-09-12,Former French President Jacques Chirac and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin received an estimated $20 million in illegal cash from West African leaders
2011-09-12,"Explosion at French Nuclear Plant, risk for radioactive leak."
2011-09-12,"Turkish Prime Minister apparently saw the Gaza flotilla raid of last year as ""grounds for war"" between Israel and Turkey. "
2011-09-12,"Ten Years After September 11 - Terrorism is an affront to the human rights movement.Yet all too often, those leading the counterterrorism charge adopted the ends-justify-the-means logic of the terrorists, thus further eroding the value of human rights"
2011-09-12,"Home of Israeli left-wing activist defaced in latest 'price tag' act: ""Death to Traitors"""
2011-09-12,British Parliament Invites Former IRA Supporter Peter King To Testify About Muslim Radicalization: King will reportedly be the first member of Congress to ever address a committee of Parliament
2011-09-12,150 Kenyans Incinerated While Gathering Gasoline From a Leaking Pipeline (With Video)
2011-09-12,Key military witness fails to show up at trial of Mubarak
2011-09-11,"Egypts military has arrested 12,000 civilians & tried them by military tribunal, eclipsing Mubarak's 30 yr total"
2011-09-11,"Syrian soldiers executed for refusing to fire on protestorsdefectors increase, but no senior officers. "
2011-09-11,The Decade of 9/11: War Without End
2011-09-11,Chile: the other 9/11 anniversary
2011-09-11,"Israel approves plan to relocate 30,000 Bedouin from unrecognized villages"
2011-09-11,Egyptian commandos save 6 Israelis in embassy attack
2011-09-11,"With its Cairo embassy ransacked, its ambassador to Turkey expelled and the Palestinians seeking statehood recognition at the United Nations, Israel found itself on Saturday increasingly isolated."
2011-09-11,Shots fired from Egypt toward IDF vehicle on Israel border
2011-09-11,Taliban 'offered bin Laden trial before 9/11'
2011-09-11,77 US troops wounded and 2 Afghans killed in attack on NATO outpost. Blast reportedly leaves 20-foot hole in the wall.
2011-09-11,"Mexican mother presses the case of her missing police officer son vanishing on his way to help police a violent town.
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2011-09-11,"Spanish warship rescues hostage from pirates: Troops from a Spanish warship stormed a pirate skiff in the Gulf of Aden and rescued a French hostage missing from her yacht but found no trace of her husband, the EU anti-piracy mission said."
2011-09-11,Gaddafi's son caught in Niger
2011-09-11,"Greece on verge of default as doubt grows over 8bn bailout
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2011-09-11,"Arab Spring Over, Islamists, Generals and Old Regimes Battle for Power From Tunisia to Syria --- Winter is coming "
2011-09-11,Libyans Find Mass Grave of Slain Detainees - TIME
2011-09-11,Germany's Euro question
2011-09-11,"US tells Israel, Turkey to 'cool it' amid tensions (AP)"
2011-09-11,Indian police have detained two people in connection with a bomb blast that killed 14 people outside a New Delhi court house last week
2011-09-11,Angry crowd attacks journalists reporting on embassy attack in Egypt
2011-09-11,Trying to lock away carbon dioxide in Iceland
2011-09-11,"Egyptian Prime Minister Offers to Resign in Wake of Cairo Riots
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2011-09-11,"NATO military base in central Afghanistan attacked with significant injuries
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2011-09-11,Muslim protesters burn US flag outside embassy in London
2011-09-11,Japan marks six months since disasters: Ceremonies take place in Japan to commemorate six months since northeast coastline was devastated by quake and tsunami.
2011-09-10,"EU Officially Seizes The Public Domain, Retroactively Extends Copyright 20 years"
2011-09-10,"France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain want to develop plan European Union military HQ"
2011-09-10,"Pakistan flooding disaster reaches epic proportions- 2 million homeless -- Arguably the biggest global story that is getting the least attention here in the west are the monsoon induced floods in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Pakistan is by far the hardest hit"
2011-09-10,Ship carrying at least 600 sinks off Tanzanian coast; at least 45 dead and hundreds missing - 680News
2011-09-10,"Protesters in Egypt breach wall, enter Israeli Embassy"
2011-09-10,A Follow Up On China's Most Famous Empty City
2011-09-10,"UN Secretary General: Palestinian statehood is 'long overdue' -  Ban Ki-moon says supports two-state solution for Middle East peace, adding that it was up to UN members whether or not to recognize an independent Palestinian state."
2011-09-10,"Oil discovery in Cuba gets notice:  The US is watching closely as Cuba prepares to exploit deep-water reserves.
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2011-09-10,"Cops under investigation for shooting civilians should be vague about how many times they fired their guns, a Canadian police lawyer recommends"
2011-09-10," Egyptians attack Israel embassy, ambassador said to flee


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2011-09-10,Al Jazeera - Israel Pulls Envoy After Egypt Embassy Attack
2011-09-10,Israel facing 'diplomatic tsunami' with Arab neighbors
2011-09-10,North Korea's children starve as Kims lead anniversary rally
2011-09-10,"Three dead, 1,049 injured in Israeli embassy protests in Cairo"
2011-09-10,UK poppy-growing program kept hush-hush
2011-09-10,'Hundreds missing' in Zanzibar ferry disaster
2011-09-10,Palestinians forge ahead with UN statehood push. Are they ready?
2011-09-10,BBC News - Libya: Concerns over missing weapons
2011-09-10,"In Tripoli, forgiveness reigns for now: Libya's National Transition Council in Tripoli is stressing reconciliation instead of revenge. But not all Libyans are convinced the goodwill will last."
2011-09-10,"Former Pakistani President Gen Pervez Musharraf has said he is determined to return to Pakistan by March 2012, even if he is arrested. "
2011-09-10,"The huge Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in an uncontrolled fall in late September or early October. Much of the spacecraft is expected to burn up during re-entry, but some pieces are expected to make it intact to the ground "
2011-09-10,Sixth Egyptian soldier shot by Israel dies in hospital as a result of his injuries
2011-09-10,"South Africa: ANC Youth League president Julius Malema declares an ""economic war"" against the ""white minority"""
2011-09-10,BBC journalist 'mistakenly' shot dead by NATO troops in Afghanistan
2011-09-10,Israel asks U.S. to help protect embassy in Cairo after protesters attack building
2011-09-09,Turkish Prime Minister: Turkish navy will escort any aid vessel to Gaza.
2011-09-09,"Vancouver lawyer Gail Davidson seeks Dick Cheney's arrest - The cofounder of the Lawyers Against the War wants Canada either to bar the [Cheney] from entering the country or, if hes allowed in, to arrest and prosecute him for torture, war offences, and crimes against humanity."
2011-09-09,An 85-year-old World War II veteran who was jailed for six months in July for recording court proceedings with a trick pen has been freed by the Court of Appeal
2011-09-09,"Magnitude 6.7 Quake Hits Vancouver Island, Canada"
2011-09-09,Nato-led forces killed BBC reporter in Afghanistan
2011-09-09,A U.S. military plane was forced down by a North Korean electronic attack in March
2011-09-09,"Food Emergency: How the World Bank & IMF Have Made African Famine Inevitable - 
Lending policies pushed by the World Bank & IMF transformed a self-sufficient, food-producing Africa into a continent vulnerable to food emergencies & famine "
2011-09-09,"Australopithecus sediba skeletons found at the Cradle of Humankind site in South Africa are dated at 2 million years old, suggesting that the hominid species could be a missing link between apes and humans. "
2011-09-09,European Union tells Turkey to back off
2011-09-09,Turkish forces to escort aid to Gaza.
2011-09-09,"""Red Alert"" arrest warrant for Colonel Gaddafi and his son Saif Al-Islam issued by Interpol"
2011-09-09,"In Shift, Irans President Calls for End to Syrian Crackdown: President Ahmadinejad of Iran became the most recent, and perhaps the most unexpected, world leader to call for President Assad to end his violent crackdown of an uprising challenging his authoritarian rule in Syria. "
2011-09-09,"Gaddafi forces threw detainees in metal containers with little water and air on a brutally hot day, and refused to let them out despite cries for help. 19 Suffocated"
2011-09-09,Miss Colombia admonished for not wearing underwear
2011-09-09,Germany: The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has allowed neo-Nazism to fester in its rural areas by neglecting the needs of local people and failing to confront xenophobia head-on
2011-09-09,Russia pins Soyuz failure to production line defect
2011-09-09,"Anti-Israel sentiment high in Egypt: But now, some Egyptians are also turning on their own governments handling of the diplomatic row. 
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2011-09-09,S&P raises Israel's credit rating from A to A+ 
2011-09-09,Francs for nothing: The Swiss drive down the value of their currency
2011-09-09,"WikiLeaks cables reveal Australian 'middle power diplomacy' on green issues - 
Documents show a country under Kevin Rudd pulled in different directions by the US, China & Japan"
2011-09-09,"Heat-Seeking Missiles Are Missing From Libyan Arms 
Stockpile - NYTimes.com"
2011-09-09,The European Central Bank's chief economist has resigned. Jrgen Stark's decision to step down was reportedly due to a disagreement over the bank's policy of buying up EU sovereign debt to try to calm the markets.
2011-09-09,"Fukushima nuclear disaster: PM at the time feared Japan would collapse - 
Naoto Kan said that Tepco considered abandoning plant after it was hit by tsunami"
2011-09-09,Abbas urged to reconsider Palestinian statehood bid: Abbas says Palestinian statehood recognition request reaches point of no return.
2011-09-09,China to build world's biggest airport
2011-09-08,"The lifetime ban on blood donations by homosexual and bisexual men will be lifted in England, Scotland and Wales"
2011-09-08,"Former head of MI5 (British intelligence): ""Torture is never right, even when lives are at risk"" and waterboarding by the US was a ""profound mistake"""
2011-09-08,"The Palestinians have officially launched their bid to join the United Nations as a full member state, saying they will stage a series of peaceful events ahead of the annual meeting of the UN General Assembly later this month"
2011-09-08,Italy grinds to a halt as THREE million strike over austerity package.
2011-09-08,""".xxx"" domain suffix introduced in order to ""promote a responsible approach to adult content""."
2011-09-08,Forty-seven percent of rich Chinese considering emigrating from China to protect their assets
2011-09-08,"An Iraqi man died after suffering an ""appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence"" in a ""very serious breach of discipline"" by UK soldiers, a year-long inquiry has found."
2011-09-08,"South African murder rate dropped by 6.5% in 2010/2011,now *only* 15940 murders per year."
2011-09-08,"United Nations: ""The pursuit of austerity measures and deficit cuts is pushing the world economy toward disaster in a misguided attempt to please global financial markets"""
2011-09-08,"The future for Kiribati, a low-lying Pacific nation threatened by rising seas, is so dire that the government is contemplating relocating the entire population to man-made islands resembling giant oil rigs"
2011-09-08,Saab bankruptcy likely 'in days'
2011-09-08,"In Fukushima, students face up to realities of nuclear disaster"
2011-09-08,British Police Found Not Guilty in Kettling Children
2011-09-08,"Did you know the civil war in Sudan did not end with the South's independence?  Two Sudanese states that fought on the South's side are part of the north state, and war is spreading through both of them now."
2011-09-08,"Sarkozy administration, apparently, as part of a telecom bill in France, has added a clause that forces all French ISPs to have clauses concerning copyright infringement in their terms of service, which also force ISPs to ignore some basic principles of net neutrality"
2011-09-08,"The Swiss village of Lauterbrunnen is a magnet for thrill seekers looking to take part in the dangerous extreme sport of BASE jumping. In high season, they can be seen plummeting down through the air every minute or so. But a series of deaths has outraged locals."
2011-09-08,"India, Mongolia Foster Closer Defense Ties Due to China's Growing Military Power"
2011-09-08,Abuse and murder of Iraqi by British army 'appalling' - Europe - Al Jazeera English
2011-09-08,Heat-Seeking Missiles Are Missing From Libyan Arms Stockpile
2011-09-08,"Two men were arrested in Berlin on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack, after the police tracked their purchases of bomb-making materials"
2011-09-08,Big Sucking Sound in Burma is China's Resource Grab
2011-09-08,"Wikileaks: Taiwan suggested possible deal with China - Taiwan's president said China could ""offer to eliminate"" missiles targeting the island in exchange for a US pledge to stop selling weapons to his government."
2011-09-08,"Fitch Ratings said Thursday that China's credit risk has increased because local governments have become heavily indebted, with a lack of disclosure by financial institutions compounding the problem."
2011-09-08,Anders Breivik's manifesto reveals a subculture of nationalistic and Islamophobic websites that link the European and American far right in a paranoid alliance against Islam.
2011-09-08,Syrian forces pound city; Arab League is turned away
2011-09-07,"WikiLeaks: Every law proposal, every ordinance, and every govt report hostile to the net, youth, and civil liberties in Sweden in recent years have been commissioned by the US govt and industry interests"
2011-09-07,43 die as Russian jet carrying KHL hockey team crashes after takeoff
2011-09-07,Three Men Hanged For Having Gay Sex In Iran
2011-09-07,China Increasingly Making Dissidents Disappear
2011-09-07,After 9/11: airports 'wasting billions' on needless security checks for passengers
2011-09-07,"Remember the Indian Chief Minister who used a private jet to fly a pair of sandals? She's lashing out against the allegations and is calling Julian Assange ""insane"". Wikileaks diplomatic cables from refer to her as ""corrupt and paranoid"""
2011-09-07,"Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium - Telegraph"
2011-09-07,James Murdoch Is Toast as Ex-Employees Say He Knew Payoff Implications  
2011-09-07,Cuba launches world's first vaccine against lung cancer 
2011-09-07,At least 45 people were injured and nine dead in a blast this morning outside one of the entry gates to the Delhi High Court complex crowded with visitors seeking entry into the premises. Internal security secretary said it was a medium to high intensity blast. Delhi has been put on high alert.
2011-09-07,Turkey set to sign military pact with Egypt after cutting trade ties with Israel.
2011-09-07,"Politics in emerging markets:  The new middle classes rise up - 
Marxs revolutionary bourgeoisie finds its voice again"
2011-09-07,"BBC News - Swiss move to make its safe-haven less attractive. ""I'm quoting it at length, because it's unlike any press release you're likely to have seen from a major central bank"""
2011-09-07,Pro-democracy uprisings are continuing in the Middle East and the Palestinians could soon declare statehood. SPIEGEL spoke with Arab League General Secretary Nabil Elaraby about the Syrian regime's use of violence and how the US has failed to force Israel to negotiate in good faith.
2011-09-07,UK abortion amendment defeated in the House of Commons
2011-09-07,"China's state-owned firms profited $313 billion in 2010, but only handed in 5% to treasury; lavish spending out of control"
2011-09-07,Death of a Syrian Doctor
2011-09-07,Why China wants a G3 world
2011-09-07,Jesus thumbs-up ad 'disrespectful'
2011-09-07,"EFF: In South Korea, the Only Thing Worse Than Online Censorship is Secret Online Censorship"
2011-09-07,"India and Bangladesh sign pact on border demarcation, ending a 4-decade old dispute."
2011-09-07,"Israeli settlers vandalize IDF vehicles, apparently in retribution for demolition of three illegal homes in Migron"
2011-09-07,"Libyan fighters say Gaddafi 'surrounded': Military council official says toppled leader trapped within 60km radius and will be captured or killed soon.
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2011-09-07,Swedish artist plunges to his death in Germany
2011-09-07,The Swedish car maker Saab Automobile files for bankruptcy in a self-managed reconstruction process.
2011-09-06,Turkish PM suspends all ties with Israel
2011-09-06,Nigeria shifting currency reserves from US dollars to Chinese yuan
2011-09-06,"Swiss National Bank says it will buy all other currencies in unlimited quantities, causing the Franc to drop 8% instantaneously."
2011-09-06,"Indian politician(yes, statue/sandal jet lady) calls Julian Assange 'mentally ill' and offers to house him in an insane assylum after the leaked US embassy cables described her as ""a first-rate egomaniac""."
2011-09-06,"China is acquiring the means to win without fighting  to establish itself as Asias dominant power by eroding the credibility of Americas security guarantees, hollowing out its alliances and eventually easing it out of the region. "
2011-09-06,The French Interior minister has admitted that the secret service spied on a journalist from the newspaper Le Monde to trace the source of a leak that embarrassed President Nicolas Sarkozys party.
2011-09-06,"Reluctantly, Europe Inches Closer to a Fiscal Union - ""The idea is to create a central financial authority [...] that could eventually turn the euro zone into something resembling a United States of Europe."""
2011-09-06,Taiwan Developing New Air-To-Surface Missile: Lawmaker - Designed to Stop a Chinese Invasion as it is Being Staged
2011-09-06,The African Union and the famine: Look the other way 
2011-09-06,The government in Pakistan's Sindh province has decided to make the Chinese language a compulsory subject in schools.
2011-09-06,"U.N. study savages U.S., European economic policy - The pursuit of austerity measures and deficit cuts is pushing the world economy toward disaster in a misguided attempt to please global financial markets, the annual report of the United Nations economic thinktank UNCTAD said on Tuesday.


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2011-09-06,Phone hacking: James Murdoch 'told of hacking email'
2011-09-06,Turkey threatens naval action over Cyprus drilling
2011-09-06,"Man 'seizes child hostage' outside Sydney court: A man with a suspicious backpack - possibly a bomb - is holding a child at a courthouse in a suburb of Sydney in Australia, local media say."
2011-09-06,Woman severs tongue of would-be rapist
2011-09-06,"In a SPIEGEL interview, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schrder, 67, discusses the German government's learning curve in the euro crisis and his idea of a United States of Europe. He also addresses allegations that his government helped set the stage for the current common currency woes."
2011-09-06,Libyan army convoy in Niger may be Gaddafi deal | Reuters
2011-09-06,News Corp. Announces Layoffs as Phone Hacking Testimony Begins
2011-09-06,Turkey to impose more sanctions against Israel: Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country will implement further sanctions against Israel.
2011-09-06,Libyan army convoys flee across Sahara carrying looted cash and gold
2011-09-06,"The cost of doing business in Mexico now involves bribing drug cartels.
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2011-09-06,"Since the election of President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010, Ukraine has experienced a significant and alarming deterioration in its democratic framework. "
2011-09-06,"UBS Quantifies Costs Of Euro Break Up, Warns Of Collapse Of Banking System And Civil War"
2011-09-06,German hikers missing in Afghanistan found dead
2011-09-06,Major setback for agrobusiness: European Court of Justice stops honey that contains traces of pollen from genetically modified crops 
2011-09-05,Wikileaks: The chief minister of India's Uttar Pradesh state sent an empty private jet to get a pair of sandals from Mumbai.
2011-09-05,"Iceland says it was ""bullied"" over bank debt: Iceland's president accused European countries on Sunday of having bullied it into agreeing to guarantee repayment of the debts of a failed bank, reviving a dispute with Britain and the Netherlands whose citizens are owed billions."
2011-09-05,Giant crocodile captured alive in Philippines. 
2011-09-05,Tony Blair is one of Rupert Murdoch's 'closest friends' and godfather to his daughter as revealed by Murdoch's wife
2011-09-05,World War II in Photos: The North African Campaign (45 photos)
2011-09-05,"Over 60% of deforested areas in Brazilian Amazon are used for grazing cattle, while only 5% is used for agriculture, finds new government study - ""Having less than 1 head of cattle per hectare is unacceptable.   It's a waste..."" "
2011-09-05,"Libya: Newly found documents in Tripoli show that on July 16, state-controlled Chinese arms companies offered to sell $200 million worth of rocket launchers, antitank missiles, portable surface-to-air missiles designed to bring down aircraft, and other weapons and munitions to Gaddafi."
2011-09-05,"Eighteen dead, more than 50 missing and half a million evacuated as Typhoon Talas rips through Japan


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2011-09-05,Rome monuments attacked by vandals
2011-09-05,Palestinians Expect 140 Nations to Back Bid
2011-09-05,"Japan pummeled again: typhoon rages through western Japan, at least 20 dead"
2011-09-05,Turkish navy to escort aid ships to Gaza.
2011-09-05,"


5 people, including managers of 2 companies, have been charged with dumping toxic waste into China's Chachong Reservoir that could affect the drinking water for tens of millions of people"
2011-09-05,"Peak of Insanity?
Dutch Dream of Building Artificial Mountain"
2011-09-05,Council of Europe demands truth on CIA 'black sites'
2011-09-05,Syrias brave demonstrators: What makes unarmed protesters defy snipers and tanks for months?
2011-09-05,"Tony Blair revealed as godfather to Rupert Murdoch's daughter: In an interview with Vogue, Wendi Murdoch reveals that Tony Blair godfathered one of her daughters when they were baptized in the River Jordan. "
2011-09-05,Are Turkey and Israel on a collision course?
2011-09-05,A retired Russian Police officer has been charged for organising the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya-
2011-09-05,Does hard work pay off? Ask the Mexicans 
2011-09-05,It is revealed that Former Prime Minister Tony Blair is godfather to Rupert Murdoch's daughter.
2011-09-05,Rendition apology demanded from MI6 and CIA by Libyan
2011-09-05,Turkey to sign strategic alliance with Egypt
2011-09-05,"Iran arrests teenagers for staging public waterfight, calling it 'very ugly immoral acts.'"
2011-09-05,Israeli passengers arriving in Turkey detained by local police after their passports taken away from them
2011-09-04,Doctors Without Borders: Somalia can't be helped
2011-09-04,"War and corruption are responsible for famines, not droughts  "
2011-09-04,UN Soldiers Caught On Video Raping A Haitian Teenager
2011-09-04,Angst for the educated: A university degree no longer confers financial security
2011-09-04,"Over 35,000 people convicted of ""terrorism"" in the ten years since 9/11"
2011-09-04,Turkey decides to challenge the Gaza blockade at International Court of Justice
2011-09-04,"The appearance of one new ""legal high"" a week makes ban policy ""ridiculous""
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2011-09-04,"""General Vo Nguyen Giap, who led the Vietminh against France and the Peoples Army of Vietnam against the United States, is 100 today."""
2011-09-04,"More Afghan soldiers deserting the army, NATO statistics show  "
2011-09-04,"Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant connected to national grid: Iran's first nuclear power station has been connected to the country's electricity grid, state news reports."
2011-09-04,New Wikileaks Docs Show Canadian Ex-Minister Bernier Offered To Leak Copyright Bill to US 
2011-09-04,"Gaddafi son near Tripoli, meeting tribal leaders and preparing to retake the Libyan capital: spokesman"
2011-09-04,"Canadas Severed-Feet Mystery - 
Since 2007, 11 human feet have washed up on the shore near British Columbia& no one knows why. The spooky case that has authorities grimacing"
2011-09-04,The CIA reportedly worked with the intelligence services of Gaddafi's regime
2011-09-04,Racism on the rise in Europe
2011-09-04,Report: Turkey navy to escort aid ships to Palestinians in Gaza - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
2011-09-04,Germany's CDU suffers losses in regional poll: Opposition Social Democrats celebrate gains over conservatives in Chancellor Merkel's home state.
2011-09-04,WikiLeaks: Hezbollah uses scare tactics on journalists
2011-09-04,"African Union peacekeepers shot and killed Malaysian journalist covering the famine in Somalia, while a new burst of violence erupted in the central part of the country"
2011-09-04,"Israel promises reform after massive protests, but will it deliver?"
2011-09-04,Libya rebel commander wants MI6 and CIA apologies
2011-09-04,"Canadians feel ""pity"" instead of ""envy"" for America in light of economic downturn"
2011-09-04,"2 Mexicans deny terrorism, face 30 years for tweet"
2011-09-04,Libyan intelligence documents show ties to CIA
2011-09-04,Spanish health ministry asks Twitter to delete profiles that promote anorexia
2011-09-03,"Millions Are Starving in the Horn of Africa, but Nobody's Talking About it - 
The UN calls the ongoing drought & famine in Somalia the ""worst humanitarian disaster"" in the world"
2011-09-03,"Files found at a Libyan government building show strong cooperation between the CIA and Muammar Gaddafi's intelligence agencies, including shipping terror suspects to the North African country for interrogation"
2011-09-03,"Hookers in Germany must plug prostitution parking meter to work on the streets, Bonn officials rule
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2011-09-03,Mysterious person in radiation suit appears on Fukushima webcam
2011-09-03,China Increasingly Uses Tactic of Making Dissidents Vanish - NYTimes.com
2011-09-03,New species of ancient rhinoceros found in Tibet
2011-09-03,Vatican admits 'grave failures' in child sex abuse scandal
2011-09-03,News Corp. compiled secret dossier on lawyer representing phone hacking victims
2011-09-03,China offered Gaddafi huge stockpiles of arms - Memos found in Tripoli reveal 
2011-09-03,"""400,000 people protest across Israel"""
2011-09-03,New Shark Species Found in Food Market
2011-09-03,"Vatican rejects Irish criticism over sex abuse - Earlier this summer an official report in Ireland found the Vatican had tried to block authorities from investigating sexual abuse cases. On Saturday, a month and a half later, the Catholic church struck back."
2011-09-03,BBC News - Italian town Filettino declares independence. The mayor says there is enormous enthusiasm about declaring the independence of the new principality. 
2011-09-03,"12,000 Iraqi Civilians Died in Suicide Bombings, 
Study Says - NYTimes.com"
2011-09-03,Egyptian military closing Gaza tunnels
2011-09-03,Assange could be prosecuted for the unplanned WikiLeaks release.
2011-09-03,"Germany urges Turkey to end spat with Israel - As tensions mounted between former allies Turkey and Israel, Germany joined the EU and the United Nations Saturday in urging the countries to resolve the diplomatic spat."
2011-09-03,"India, China lose: Turkey, Argentina the new growth kings
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2011-09-03,"Moussa Koussa's secret letters betray 
Britain's Libyan connection - The Independent"
2011-09-03,"So, was this a war for oil?"
2011-09-03,"China begins ""anti-corruption"" classes beginning in grade school, use real-life execution cases as text-book examples"
2011-09-03,Why Is The Middle East Still In Thrall To 9/11 Conspiracy Theories?
2011-09-03,Wounded Syrian protesters being abused in hospitals - Security forces have kidnapped the wounded and even corpses in an effort to crush the anti-government movement
2011-09-03," Mozambique offered farmers from Brazil 50-yr leases on 15 million acres of land: an area equivalent to over 1/2 the acreage under cultivation in Iowa. The price is right: $5.30 per acre vs. a going rate of up to $8,800 per acre in Brazil."
2011-09-03,"Central Somalia clashes claim 30, many wounded:  Heavy fighting in a town in central Somalia has left at least 30 people dead and 100 wounded. "
2011-09-02,"Hackings Stunning Victim List - 
Scotland Yard has a list of 3,870 people whose phones were tapped. From the ""schoolboy killer"" to Prince William, the scandal's huge scope."
2011-09-02,"Hungary Introduces 'Fat Tax' - In an effort to address rising obesity rates and health care costs, Hungary on Thursday implemented a law imposing special taxes on foods with high fat, salt and sugar content. The move comes as other European countries also consider policies to fight obesity. "
2011-09-02,Turkey Cuts Military Ties with Israel and Expels Israeli Ambassador
2011-09-02,"New Zealand's ""Copyright Amendment Act"" went into effect today at midnight; anyone caught downloading copyrighted content illegally could face fines of up to $15,000 and have their Internet cut off"
2011-09-02,"UN Peacekeepers Traded Food for Sex - ""A random poll of 10 underage girls by aid group Save The Children U.K. in 2009 found that eight performed sexual acts for Benin peacekeepers on a regular basis in order to secure their most basic needs."""
2011-09-02,Wikileaks released ALL US diplomatic cables
2011-09-02,Libyan Rebels round up black Africans
2011-09-02,Canadian Court Sides With Online Anonymity
2011-09-02,"Internet can destroy Communist control over China, party supporters fear
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2011-09-02,Wikileaks cable: UN peacekeepers in Ivory Coast traded food for sex with underage girls; are barred from serving in the UN following investigation 
2011-09-02,Wikileaks Releases Entire 65 Gigabyte Uncensored Cablegate Archive (With Or Without Bank Of America Disclosure)
2011-09-02,Rupert Murdoch receives $12.5m bonus
2011-09-02,"Indian and Pakistani troops exchange fire
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2011-09-02,"Turkey expels Israel envoy after Gaza flotilla report, freezes military ties: Speaking to reporters, Turkish FM says Anakra disagrees with Palmer Commission report's support of Israel's blockade of Gaza, intends to aid Turkish families of Gaza flotilla raid to file suit against Israel."
2011-09-02,WikiLeaks: MPAA behind Aussie ISP lawsuit (but don't tell anybody)
2011-09-02,Mexican journalists found dead in Mexico City
2011-09-02,Speculating with Lives: How Global Investors Make Money Out of Hunger
2011-09-02,EU agrees Syrian oil import ban
2011-09-02,'Sleeping gas' thieves target super-rich at Italian billionaires' resort
2011-09-02,U.N. Report Finds Israeli Blockade Legal but Raid Flawed - NYTimes.com
2011-09-02,"Germany's Bundesbank has issued a thundering denunciation of Europe's rescue policies and actions by the European Central Bank, alleging that EU treaty law has been ""completely gutted"".
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2011-09-02,"Russia, in swift about-face, recognizes Libyan rebels: The Kremlin opposed NATO's air war and called for negotiations between the rebels and Qaddafi. But its concern about keeping billion-dollar contracts with Libya seems to have caused the switch."
2011-09-02,Muammar Gaddafi urges followers to turn Libya 'into a hell'
2011-09-02,"China's village of the bachelors: no wives in sight in remote settlement - Surplus of males caused by preference for sons means poor subsistence farmers have no chance of finding a mate
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2011-09-02,"More arrests in Rupert Murdoch phone hacking scandal
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2011-09-01,"Al Jazeera English reporting evidence found in Libya of a former US Ambassador, and a currently serving congressman have been providing advice to Gadaffi on how to cling to power."
2011-09-01,Huge WikiLeaks Security Breach Causes Unredacted Documents To Flood The Web
2011-09-01,Turkey warns Israel: You have one day to apologize for Gaza flotilla raid or sanctions begin
2011-09-01,"Rainforest Activist Asks for Protection After Death Threats - 
Rubber tapper fears for his life because landowners have offered a $50,000 contract for his death - Hundreds of such killings have been recorded since the 1980s"
2011-09-01,"Second giant ice island set to break off Greenland glacier. Astonished scientist says he was ""completely unprepared for the gob-smacking scale of the breakup, which rendered me speechless."""
2011-09-01,"You Are Nobody: Thousands find themselves stateless in the Dominican Republic. Over the past seven years, the Dominican government has re-written its Constitution, re-interpreted old laws and passed new ones, effectively eliminating birthright citizenship.  "
2011-09-01,China confronted Indian warship off Vietnam.
2011-09-01,"""The Arab Spring is . . . a primer on wishful thinking in the face of the real world."""
2011-09-01,SAfrica: Black farmers sell farms back to whites 
2011-09-01,"Conrad Black on prison life: ""Its quite Spartan, and you are subject to the authority of unskilled labour frequently masquerading as figures of much more natural or earned authority than they actually possess"""
2011-09-01,Thousands of young Portuguese professionals emigrating to booming economies of Brazil and Angola
2011-09-01,"Iran says cheap ""Made in China"" Qurans full of typos"
2011-09-01,What if the China Model Goes Bad?  Chinas economic growth has been remarkable. But continuing to rely on the notion of a benevolent dictatorship is a serious mistake.
2011-09-01,Child obesity swells as Italy forgets eating habits
2011-09-01,China to cut income tax for 60 million people - only 8% of population will be paying taxes now.
2011-09-01,How Cameron's secret unit choked off oil supplies to Gaddafi's frontline forces
2011-09-01,"Thousands march at Bahraini boy's funeral: Shia groups say 14-year-old died after teargas canister hit him, a charge denied by the Gulf Arab state's government."
2011-09-01,The Disinvited: The New Libya's New Racism
2011-09-01,Last resident of town near Fukushima refuses to leave
2011-09-01,Polish-Jewish sociologist compares West Bank separation fence to Warsaw Ghetto walls 
2011-09-01,"WikiLeaks fends off cyber-attack after release of unedited cables - The United States and Australia have condemned WikiLeaks for publishing unredacted diplomatic cables, saying the move puts lives in danger. WikiLeaks counters that it is committed to making information free for all."
2011-09-01,Iran Concerned West Will Benefit From Arab Uprisings
2011-09-01,"West Africa Rising: Guinea to sign $5.8 billion mining deal with Chinese firm - China Power Investment would finance the construction of a coal power plant, a deep water port, and a refinery in exchange for digging rights."
2011-09-01,Nepal's former Maoist rebels hand over their weapons: Nepal's governing former Maoist rebels have handed over their weapons to a multi-party committee tasked with overseeing the peace process. 
2011-09-01,"Hair-splitting, brazen denials and six decades of dirty tricks - The tobacco industry."
2011-08-31,Worlds 7 billionth person about to be born
2011-08-31,"In many German cities, Muslim arbiters, or ""peace judges,"" are settling criminal cases before law enforcement can bring the cases to court. That is undermining Germany's rule of law, according to a new book."
2011-08-31,"China jails Tibetan monks for 13 years as ""accessories to murder"" for burning suicide"
2011-08-31,"A tale of two cities: It's been 2 years since the city 
of Windsor Ontario had a murder - minutes away 
230 homocides in Detroit since January"
2011-08-31,Germany kiboshes body scanners at airports - Body scanners being tested at Hamburg Airport are so error prone that the German government has decided not to introduce them across the country for the time being.
2011-08-31,Pakistan to ban encryption software
2011-08-31,French Report: Legal Punishment for Filesharing as Severe as Manslaughter
2011-08-31,The Gadhafi Family Album
2011-08-31,Special forces raid BP Moscow offices
2011-08-31,Pakistani Man Murders Six Daughters in Honor Killing
2011-08-31,"When Germany eliminated conscription this year, an extensive civil service program for conscientious objectors also came to an end. A new program launched to replace it, however, has not found enough volunteers. Now, many service organizations are facing shortages."
2011-08-31,"Hong Kong has seized nearly two tonnes of elephant ivory worth about $1.7 million hidden in a shipment from Malaysia and detained a local man over the haul, customs authorities said Wednesday. "
2011-08-31,Chinese factory workers make vehement appeals to i-pad giant APPLE for providing medical compensation for poison affected workers who worked in making touchscreens for i-phone.
2011-08-31,"In southern Mexico, about 500 indigenous Mayans - some of them linked to Zapatista rebels - have converted to Islam and pray in a mud-hut mosque."
2011-08-31,"Fewer young Swedes use condoms - Every other Swede aged 25 to 35-years-old opts not to use a condom when having sex with a new partner, a new survey shows, raising fears of an explosion in sexually transmitted diseases."
2011-08-31,"A Spanish town is recreating the annual Celtic wedding festival of Lughnasadh, which sees couples get married for just one year "
2011-08-31,Boeing rejected Gaddafi proposal for spying on Libyans; other companies had less compunctions
2011-08-31,Libyan man murders three daughters after they were raped by pro-Khadafy troops
2011-08-31,NATO Propaganda Leaflets Found in Tripoli [Pics]
2011-08-31,"Former Qaddafi Mercenaries Describe Fighting in Libyan War -- ""We would kill three or four in the front of the crowd and they all ran away"""
2011-08-31,"How dentists are saving Borneo's rainforest - 
Dentists are offering free treatment to patients who oppose illegal logging"
2011-08-31,Exxon to replace BP in $500bn deal to develop Russia's Arctic oil
2011-08-31,The WikiLeaks website crashed in what appeared to be a cyberattack following the publication of State Department cables
2011-08-31,"Sarkozy warns against preventive strike on Iran
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2011-08-31,"AU fears Libyan rebels killing Blacks. Libyan rebels may be indiscriminately killing Black people because they have confused innocent migrant workers with mercenaries, the chairman of the African Union said Monday."
2011-08-30,Chinese doctors to call for bear farms to be closed
2011-08-30,Japanese breakthrough will make wind power cheaper than nuclear
2011-08-30,Israel sends 2 warships to Egyptian border; Iran set to send fleet to area as well
2011-08-30,News Corp. Hunkers Down: Murdochs to Testify Under Oath -- A British High Court will hear the testimonies of top News Corp. executives in October
2011-08-30,Futuristic 'airships' planned for North
2011-08-30,"Blair and Bush planned Iraq war without second UN vote, letter shows"
2011-08-30,"Israeli military arms settlers in preparation for Palestinian protests. West Bank settlers are given training before protests predicted to coincide with a Palestinian petition for UN recognition
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2011-08-30,"Homelessness could spread to middle class in the UK, Crisis study warns"
2011-08-30,6 die as 'trashslide' buries houses in Philippines
2011-08-30,China Struggles to Protect Dwindling Panda Population
2011-08-30,"Israel Sends Two More Warships to Red Sea Egyptian Border - ""part of a military reinforcement there following warnings that militants are planning another attack on southern Israel from Egyptian soil"" "
2011-08-30,"Suspect says Mexico casino fire set over unpaid extortion money: Five are arrested in the deadly Monterrey arson as public outrage mounts, with some calls for the president and state governor's resignation over the rising toll from the bloody drug war."
2011-08-30,"Strauss-Kahn returns to IMF, gets warm applause"
2011-08-30,"Suspected North Korean cyberattack on a bank raises fears for S. Korea, allies"
2011-08-30,"Russia and China's Energy Dispute and the Struggle for Eurasian Dominance - ""Russia is prepared to return to China the $10 billion received in 2009 and to stop transporting Russian oil to China, unilaterally abrogating the 20-year contract."""
2011-08-30,BBC journalist killed during Taliban attack 'may have been shot by US forces'. 
2011-08-30,"Big oil companies may have to give up Iraq gas: Many of the world's biggest energy companies may have to surrender most of the gas from Iraq's vast southern oilfields to a processing and export project led by Shell, a final draft contract between Baghdad and Europe's biggest company"
2011-08-30,Nato fighter in mid-air collision with Lithuanian plane
2011-08-30,Indian government victim of major targeted malware attack
2011-08-30,Syrian protesters 'killed' after Eid prayers: Seven people reportedly shot dead by security forces at the start of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday.
2011-08-30,Foreign Firms Helped Gadhafi Spy on Libyans
2011-08-30,Important rebel leaders in Libya are allied to al-Qaeda
2011-08-30,Julius Malema supporters clash with South Africa police:South African police have fired stun grenades at supporters of controversial ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema ahead of his disciplinary hearing.
2011-08-30,"Libyan Rebels Reportedly Used Tiny Canadian Drone 
- NYTimes.com"
2011-08-30,"Turkish airstrike campaign 'killed 160 Kurdish rebels' -- Turkish jets bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq in a series of air strikes last week which killed up to 160 rebels, Turkish officials say."
2011-08-29,"Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound"
2011-08-29,Disney's best-selling Cars toys are being made in a factory in China that uses child labour and forces staff to do three times the amount of overtime allowed by law
2011-08-29,"Chinese artist Ai Weiwei remained largely silent after 81 days of imprisonment and a government order to not speak out after his release. He has just written a scathing critique calling Beijing ""a constant nightmare"""
2011-08-29,A story missing from our media: Iceland's on-going revolution
2011-08-29,African Union says Libyan rebels may be indiscriminately killing black people
2011-08-29,"Germany and Greece plan biggest solar panel array 
ever: 10GW of generating capacity"
2011-08-29,"The Baltic miracle continues: The economies of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania surge ahead 20 years after their independence from the Soviet Union."
2011-08-29,"Al-Jazeera Network demands Israeli authorities immediately release Samer Allawi, Al-Jazeeras Afghanistan Bureau Chief. Mr Allawi was arrested by Israeli official without reason while on vacation with his family in the occupied West Bank."
2011-08-29,"US misused our intel to justify Iraq War, says German ex-spy chief"
2011-08-29,Gaddafi's wife and three children in Algeria
2011-08-29,Catholic clergy 'abused children for decades in County Donegal'. Report is expected to claim police were complicit in cover-up of sexual abuse by priests and lay members of the church.
2011-08-29,Thai censorship critic strikes back at snitch Web host
2011-08-29,"China's biggest relocation project yet:  Plans to move 3 million people and reroute the Yangtze River are underway.
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2011-08-29,"Tax us more, say wealthy Europeans"
2011-08-29,"One of Taiwan's best regarded hospitals mistakenly transplanted HIV-infected organs into five patients after a hospital staffer misheard the donor's test results by telephone.



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2011-08-29,Scared Mexicans try under-the-skin tracking devices - The Washington Post
2011-08-29,"Gaddafi's girl executioner: Nisreen, 19, admits shooting 11 rebel prisoners, now she is shackled to hospital bed awaiting justice"
2011-08-29,"Nigeria: Too Big to Fail -- From corruption to sectarian division to terrorism, Africa's most populous country (and one of its most oil-rich) could find itself spiraling out of control"
2011-08-29,Bird flu fear as strain mutates
2011-08-29,"Syria forces surround town after 'defections': Troops backed by tanks deployed around Rastan after ""tens of soldiers"" from the area reportedly defected."
2011-08-29,Labour seeks law change to stop News Corp renewing BSkyB bid
2011-08-29,Nepal elects Maoist leader as new prime minister
2011-08-29,The daughter also rises --- Women are storming emerging-world boardrooms | The Economist
2011-08-29,Taiwan hospital transplants 5 HIV-infected organs
2011-08-29,Libya: Stench of dead bodies and garbage fills streets 
2011-08-28,"Sweden's Moderate Party has announced that it will not stand in the next church elections which take place in 2013, signalling an intention to cut political ties with the Church of Sweden."
2011-08-28,Human slaughterhouse discovered in Tripoli - Telegraph
2011-08-28,"UK doctors prepare to challenge the Govt's decision not to order an inquest into the death of weapons expert Dr David Kelly; accuse Govt of being ""complicit in a determined and concerted cover-up"""
2011-08-28,Libya: Torture was rife in Gaddafis prisons but to execute detainees days before they would have been freed is a sickening low in the governments behavior
2011-08-28,"53 bodies discovered in southern Tripoli, apparently 
executed by retreating Gaddafi forces."
2011-08-28,Indias Parliament Gives In to Protests on Corruption Bill
2011-08-28,Egypts Muslim Brotherhood declares war on the bikini
2011-08-28,"Eight killed, six missing as typhoon ravages Manila"
2011-08-28,"Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi is ready to begin talks to transfer power, according to his spokesman"
2011-08-28,Malta strips Gaddafi of his honours
2011-08-28,In Iran an alleged Israeli assassin has been sentenced to death for killing nuclear scientist.
2011-08-28,"Libya rebels fear for Gaddafi prisoners.  Up to 50,000 prisoners are unaccounted for."
2011-08-28,Norwegian police arrest man with weapons and explosives cache
2011-08-28,"I.M.F. Chief Chastises Policymakers:  Trichet: ""Income inequality is ultimately a threat to society."""
2011-08-28,"Libyan capital Tripoli faces water, power crisis: Living conditions in Tripoli are becoming increasingly desperate, with most of Libya's capital without water, electricity or proper sanitation."
2011-08-28,Al-Qaida's No. 2 (Atiyah Abd al-Rahman) killed in Pakistan
2011-08-28,"Areas near Japan nuclear plant may be off limits for 
decades"
2011-08-28,"Ken Loach: 'the ruling class are cracking the whip'.
The leftwing film director talks about the riots, his early work on television"
2011-08-28,"Arab League recognises Libyan NTC: The regional bloc re-admits Libya's membership, turning over the country's seat to the rebels' political leadership."
2011-08-28,Anna Hazare: India campaigner ends hunger strike
2011-08-28,"UK Home Secretary Theresa May banned all marches in Tower Hamlets, east London, and four neighbouring boroughs for a 30-day period"
2011-08-28,"Spain follows Germany, France and writes debt ceiling in constitution - Spain is to amend the constitution to enshrine a public debt ceiling in the constitution, following similar measures in Germany and France. The government also set out labor reforms to combat high unemployment."
2011-08-28,"Libya Rebels Say Qaddafi Uses Human Shields to Defend Sirte
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2011-08-28,"Hiroshima, Mon Ami: ""History's Most Awkward Handshake"""
2011-08-28,"In booze-soaked Spain, the party may soon be over"
2011-08-27,"In Saudi Arabia only the boldest dare to speak out, Khaled al-Johani was one of them. He's not been seen since.  Look at the shock on the BBC reporters face. Hear him speak. The bravest man in Saudi"
2011-08-27,"Underground river 'Rio Hamza' discovered 4km 
beneath the Amazon - up to 6000km long, it flows 
at just 1 mm/hr"
2011-08-27,"Brazil considers  broad new ""cybercrime"" bill, that, among other things, will criminalize both file sharing and ripping a CD to a computer"
2011-08-27,Kim Jong-il tells China he is ready for denuclearization talks
2011-08-27,"Pregnant in Putin's Russia --- Russia is in a demographic crisis, shedding 2.2 million people (or 1.6 percent of the population) since 2002"
2011-08-27,At least 25 police and soldiers have been killed after hundreds of Taliban crossed the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan 
2011-08-27,Why Are Finland's Schools Successful?
2011-08-27,Mosquitoes 'disappearing' in some parts of Africa
2011-08-27,U.S. official: Al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader killed in Pakistan
2011-08-27,Libya: Hundreds of bodies found decomposing at Tripoli hospital
2011-08-27,"Gaddafi escapes to Algeria? --- Convoy crosses Libyan border to neighboring Algeria; rebels estimate Gaddafi was among passengers, Egyptian news agency says"
2011-08-27,"Austrian women held captive in basement  again. For the third time in recent years, an Austrian man is accused of raping women and holding them captive in his basement. This time, they are his mentally disabled daughters."
2011-08-27,Rebels settle scores in Libyan capital 
2011-08-27,Indian parliament affirms anti-graft proposal
2011-08-27,"Germany did not give its approval to the international military mission in Libya, to the irritation of its NATO allies. Now, after the rebel victory in Tripoli, Berlin is looking for a role in rebuilding the country."
2011-08-27,Iran warns of regional crisis if Syria falls (AP)
2011-08-27,"China is Outfitting Its Subs With Controversial ""First-Strike"" Nuclear Warheads"
2011-08-27,"Doors open on terrible secrets of a crumbling police 
state in Tripoli - The Globe and Mail"
2011-08-27,Syrian forces 'in mosque attack'
2011-08-27,China announces support for Palestinian UN statehood bid
2011-08-27,"The makers of Nurofen Plus have recalled all remaining stock, saying sabotage is suspected in some packets.after three packs were found to contain an antipsychotic drug."
2011-08-27,"There's no humanitarian crisis, but U.N. mission to Syria finds that civilians are subject to ""excessive force"""
2011-08-27,Morning protests erupt in Syrian capital: Live fire reportedly used as security forces surround a mosque in the Kafarsouseh district in western Damascus.
2011-08-27,"A UN investigative team has wrapped up its visit to Syria, concluding that ""there is an urgent need to protect civilians"" from excessive force."
2011-08-27,"Syrian Weapons Sites Worry U.S., Israel --- Intelligence Services Allege Significant Stockpiles of Gases, Missiles at Military Bases Could Be Targets Amid Unrest
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2011-08-26,"""Most important of all, the United States should support the Palestinians' bid for recognition as a state at the United Nations. Israel has demanded for decades that the Palestinians drop violence and turn to diplomacy to achieve their goals. That is what going to the United Nations is. Diplomacy."""
2011-08-26,"Grenade attack at Casino Royale in Monterrey, Mexico. 8 confirmed dead, 12 injured and over 40 trapped. "
2011-08-26,"How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw 
stones"
2011-08-26,"Saudi beheading accomplishments-""The beheading of Ruyati  executed in June for her killing of an allegedly abusive Saudi employer  stirred such revulsion"
2011-08-26,"Explosion hits UN building in Abuja, Nigeria"
2011-08-26,Libyan activist freed from prison after 14 years of virtual isolation. He had no idea of the uprising occurring in his country and thought that the rattling of gunfire and thuds of explosions this past week were Gods trumpets heralding the moment of his death.
2011-08-26,A suspected meteorite has been caught on film soaring across the sky over the Peruvian city of Cusco (Video)
2011-08-26,Evidence suggests Gadaffi's daughter did not die in 1986 bombing as claimed
2011-08-26,"Mexican gunmen set casino on fire, killing 32 and injuring dozens more"
2011-08-26,"Dangerous cybercrime treaty pushes surveillance and secrecy worldwide: Canada and Australia are using the controversial Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime treaty to introduce new invasive online surveillance laws, many of which go beyond the Convention's intended levels of intrusiveness"
2011-08-26,WikiLeaks: US diplomat posed as Korean tourist in undercover visit to China tiger farm
2011-08-26,"The Lap of Luxembourgery --- ""In the dark heart of Europe lies a nation rotten to the core. A secret banking haven. Where democracy is a joke."" We're talking Luxembourg. World's highest per capita GDP. Just as well. Also highest debt: $3.76m per capita"
2011-08-26,"The Kingdom of Magical Thinking - Widely assumed to be a fabulously wealthy welfare state, Saudi Arabia is in fact an economic basket case waiting to happen. "
2011-08-26,Blast Hits U.N. Building in Nigeria 
2011-08-26,China and Russia boycott sanctions against Syria
2011-08-26,"Pakistani slain governor Salman Taseer's son abducted: The son of assassinated Punjab governor Salman Taseer, who was killed in January for opposing the blasphemy law, has been abducted, Pakistan police say."
2011-08-26,Dangerous Cybercrime Treaty Pushes Surveillance & Secrecy Worldwide
2011-08-26,The Crimes of Col. Qaddafi - By Christopher Hitchens
2011-08-26,Gaddafi feared full US invasion.. attempted to enlist a Left-wing US congressman to travel to Libya as part of a stop the war lobbying campaign
2011-08-26,Teen shot in Chile anti-Pinera protest dies. Local radio said witnesses blamed police for firing the shots.
2011-08-26,Bolivian Mennonites jailed for serial rapes
2011-08-26,European farmers buying knock-off pesticides containing solvent the EU banned because it's a huge problem for pregnant women
2011-08-26,"Kim Jong-il: Tactical genius --- ""To survive as a fierce little dinosaur in a world of mammals entails not only sharp venomous fangs to snarl at everyone, but also animal cunning. Keep 'em scared, and then outwit them. """
2011-08-26,"As Venezuelas crime rate soars, devotion to a very particular group of saints known as the Santos Malandros (Thug Saints) is becoming widespread. "
2011-08-26,32 dead in attack on casino in northern Mexico
2011-08-25,"In the ruins of Gadhafi's lair, rebels find album filled with photos of his 'darling' Condoleezza Rice"
2011-08-25,Syrian Army shooting live rounds at civilian homes proving a blatant disregard for civilians.
2011-08-25,"Some 12 million people around the world do not have citizenship of any country, and are being denied basic human rights as a result, the UN has warned."
2011-08-25,Strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake shakes central Peru
2011-08-25,Colombia Supreme Court decriminalizes drugs for personal use
2011-08-25,"300,000 anti-dengue mosquitoes released in Australia in effort to block spread of the disease"
2011-08-25,Syrian cartoonist's hands broken as 'warning' 
2011-08-25,"2,730 Bodies Found in Unmarked Graves in Jammu and Kashmir"
2011-08-25,British SAS leads hunt for Gaddafi.
2011-08-25,"Paypal founder now looking to create start-up ""countries"" "
2011-08-25,"Libyan rebels say Muammar Gaddafi surrounded - ""he man who led Libya for four decades was hiding in the buildings with some of his sons."""
2011-08-25,Syrian forces beat up political cartoonist Ali Ferzat
2011-08-25,Gaddafi's Fleeing Mercenaries Describe the Collapse of the Regime
2011-08-25,China proposes banning torture testimony; new law will not explicitly forbid physical maltreatment
2011-08-25,"A fresh abuse scandal shocked Austrians on Thursday when police revealed that a father in a small village had allegedly held his daughters prisoner for more than 40 years, sexually abusing them repeatedly. The case came to light only by chance, and the alleged perpetrator has been arrested."
2011-08-25,North-west Africas minority: Springtime for them too? -- The Berbers join the Arab revolt
2011-08-25,Google to pay $500m over Canadian drug adverts
2011-08-25,"Arctic sea routes open as ice melts: Two major Arctic shipping routes have opened as summer sea ice melts, European satellites have found."
2011-08-25,Mexican terrorists target nanotech researchers with package bombs
2011-08-25,Tripoli Fighting: Rebels 'Corner Gaddafi' in apartments
2011-08-25,"Visa and MasterCard credit cards are no longer valid 
in Syria under new U.S. sanctions (AP)"
2011-08-25,"Indian lawmakers agreed to discuss stringent anti-corruption law proposed by reform activist, Anna Hazare, whose eight-day fast demanding the legislation has drawn burgeoning support and tested the scandal-tainted gov't"
2011-08-25,Ukraine turns nuclear missile base into a museum 
2011-08-25,CNN: Rebels believe they have surrounded Gadhafi near compound
2011-08-25,China says Google has not sought approval on Motorola bid 
2011-08-24,Brazilian Wind Power Now Cheaper Than Natural Gas
2011-08-24,"To save 2.4bn a year, Spain's socialist government has passed a law forcing doctors and pharmacies to prescribe generic drugs rather than the more expensive brand names sold by pharmaceutical companies"
2011-08-24,"A new era in U.S. foreign policy: ""The Libya intervention is so significant precisely because it did not follow the traditional pattern of U.S.-led interventions..."" --Fareed Zakaria"
2011-08-24,"UN: 13-year-old Palestinian boy killed by Israeli fire last weekend, was actually killed by a Palestinian rocket that misfired."
2011-08-24,Overpopulation isn't causing the famine in the Horn of Africa.  It's the political economy.
2011-08-24,Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday he will only recognize a Libyan government led by his friend and ally Muammar Gaddafi and accused the United States of inciting the country's civil war.
2011-08-24,349 Cable Leaks from Libya were released
2011-08-24,"Facebook 'Like' button declared illegal in German state: Data protection comm's office ordered website owners to ""immediately stop the passing on of user data to Facebook in the USA by deactivating the respective services"" and threatened to take legal action if they fail to comply"
2011-08-24,"Five years after journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in Moscow, Russian police now believe the contract killing may have been organized by one of their own. A retired officer was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of being involved in the murder."
2011-08-24,Clooneys satellite project shows new evidence of mass burials in Sudan
2011-08-24,Palestinian elections postponed again.  This time indefinitely.
2011-08-24,Captive journalists walk free from Tripoli hotel
2011-08-24,"Japan: Fukushima robot operator publishes tell-all diaries and videos, now offline"
2011-08-24,Brazil's plans to extract an unprecedented 30 billion barrels of oil from reserves locked in deepwater sub-salt fields 60 miles off the coast & up to 5 miles underwater.  It's spending $226 billion to reach it -- $127 billion will be spent on exploration & production alone.
2011-08-24,"Japan gets downgraded amid great challenges - Japan's credit rating has been downgraded days before the nation was due to see its sixth new leader in five years, with Prime Minister Naoto Kan set to resign over his handling of the March 11 disasters."
2011-08-24,"North Korea 'ready to impose nuclear moratorium', declares Kim Jong-il"
2011-08-24,"Gaddafi vows no surrender after rebels overrun Tripoli compound: Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi vowed ""martyrdom or victory"" in an audio message delivered from hiding."
2011-08-24,The UN and Red Cross confirm being attacked by the Israeli military during the 2008 war on Gaza
2011-08-24,Russia: Cargo rocket crashes in Siberia 
2011-08-24,"Moody's cuts Japan's debt rating on deficit concerns: Rating agency Moody's has cut Japan's long-term sovereign debt rating, citing concerns about the size of the country's deficit and borrowing levels."
2011-08-24,Turkey prepares for ground assault on Kurdish rebels in Iraq - Turkish forces have begun massing on the Iraqi border ahead of an expected attack on Kurdish rebels in the neighboring country's mountainous northern region. The attack would follow days of airstrikes on the area.
2011-08-24,"A Defiant Qaddafi Speaks to a Tripoli Radio Station -- Qaddafi says residents must ""cleanse"" Tripoli of rebels"
2011-08-24,CIA is helping New York Police to spy on Muslim communities in th US
2011-08-24,The One Billion Dollar Question: Who Are the Libyan Rebels?
2011-08-24,Zimbabwean farmers grow Nigeria's green revolution
2011-08-23,"Three years after the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, the financial industry has become a threat to the global economy again. Governments missed the chance to regulate the industry, and another crash is just a matter of time."
2011-08-23,Nato drops leaflets on Tripoli (pics of the designs)
2011-08-23,"Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam NOT captured, as previously reported"
2011-08-23,"Scientists say farming needs to become 'holistic' - Radically overhauling farming could both boost food production and protect the environment, scientists say. Paying for environmental services is one step that could also help people and the planet at the same time."
2011-08-23,"The company that does the disabilities ""assessments"" for the UK government (the ones with the 40% - 70% error rate in favour of ""no, you're fine"") is attempting to shut down websites critical of them via legal threats. "
2011-08-23,"Inspired by Libya, Chinese Netizens Want China's Communist Regime Also Overthrown"
2011-08-23,"Germany lost a giant today: Loriot, our funniest and most humane humorist of the last decades. He was loved by everyone and no one could make fun of the ""german character"" like him."
2011-08-23,Libyan rebel interviewed by SkyNews wearing Gaddafi's hat
2011-08-23,"Andy Coulsen, disgraced former press adviser to 
David Cameron, was being paid by News 
International while working for the Conservative 
Party."
2011-08-23,"Australia Passes CO2 Offset Laws, Carbon Pricing Next - 
Parliament endorsed world's 1st national scheme that regulates the creation & trade of carbon credits from farming & forestry, to complement govt plans to put a price on carbon emissions from mid-2012"
2011-08-23,Cisco and Abuses of Human Rights in China - Are companies that build and market equipment for the purpose of surveilling and censoring pro-democracy activists in authoritarian regimes culpable when those activists are imprisoned or tortured?
2011-08-23,"Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Lasts an Entire Day - ""At least one Palestinian is killed and others are injured after a rocket fired from an Israeli drone hit a civilian vehicle in west Rafah, in south Gaza Strip, medical sources said"""
2011-08-23,"An Indian effort to pioneer a non-surgical, reversible vasectomy has run into an unexpected hurdle: no volunteers"
2011-08-23,How to get $12 billion of gold to Venezuela
2011-08-23,"Libyan rebels asks leader of UKs Libyan Jews to run for office in Libya that ""should include women and Jews"""
2011-08-23,Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam NOT in rebel custody after all.
2011-08-23,North Korean leader arrives by armoured train on first visit to Russia in nine years.
2011-08-23,Dominique Strauss-Kahn: **prosecutors** ask judge to dismiss sex charges
2011-08-23,"Both the Philippines and Vietnam shop for warships in territory dispute with China.
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2011-08-23,"""The fighting is not yet over in Tripoli, but the scramble to secure access to Libyas oil wealth has already begun."""
2011-08-23,Nearly 100 PKK members killed in Turkish air raids in north Iraq
2011-08-23,"
      Ferry runs aground after captain stuck in toilet
| Reuters

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2011-08-23,Japan's Premier Naoto Kan Stepping Down
2011-08-23,Proof that the Chinese government launching online attacks
2011-08-23,E.U. Elites Keep Power From the People
2011-08-22,Canadian Opposition Leader Jack Layton Dies.
2011-08-22,Saif Al Islam Captured. Green Square Liberated. Libya is almost free!
2011-08-22,"Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not"
2011-08-22,Wiki war: 3500 unpublished leaks destroyed forever as Assange hits out
2011-08-22,Professor Juan Cole: Top Ten Myths about the Libya War
2011-08-22,Poland Sold Arms to Libyan Rebels
2011-08-22,"Rhinos threatened with extinction to meet demand for bogus cancer cure: 'Once a rhino's horn has been hacked off, they leave the animal to bleed to death. The price of rhino horn is 35,000 per kg, making it more expensive than gold.'"
2011-08-22,NATO is bombing Gaddafi compound in Tripoli
2011-08-22,Canadian opposition leader Jack Layton dies at 61
2011-08-22,Gaddafi's son captured live on television
2011-08-22,From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Japan to Declare Wide Area 'Uninhabitable' Due to Radiation
2011-08-22,Syrian pro-democracy protesters emboldened by Libyan rebels' success
2011-08-22,Gadhafi says he'll stay in Tripoli 'until the end'
2011-08-22,"The United States, the European Union (EU) and Arab nations want to set up an international inquiry into atrocities by Syrian government forces."
2011-08-22,"Japanese government expected this week to declare a large zone around the Fukushima plant uninhabitable, perhaps for decades"
2011-08-22,"Amid violent crackdown, Syria's protesters get creative: Evolving tactics, like flash mobs and night rallies, keep Syria's uprising non-violent in the face of a brutal crackdown."
2011-08-22,"In Ireland, Ghosts of Towns That Never Were - 
 
With photos of ghost estates, where homes are unfinished or empty  & haunting"
2011-08-22,Deadly Tornado in Ontario
2011-08-22,112 year old ex-Army man joins anti-corruption protests in India
2011-08-22,Coulson got hundreds of thousands of pounds from News Int 
2011-08-22,Human trafficking outpaces drug trafficking
2011-08-22,Libyan Rebels pull back from heavy fighting.
2011-08-22,"Japan: 6,000 people hold a protest against Fuji TV, upset that they are airing too many Korean Dramas"
2011-08-22,"Rebels Control 90 Percent of Tripoli, Amidst Fighting"
2011-08-22,Peter Ackroyd: 'Rioting has been a London tradition for centuries' 
2011-08-21,"Monsanto and the mortal danger to traditional agriculture: Contrary to their mendacious propagandized promises of solving the problem of world hunger...bio-tech companies are instead in the process of destroying the world's ecosystems, and thus the natural food chains and life cycles"
2011-08-21,"Egypt called on Israel Saturday to immediately halt punitive strikes on the Gaza Strip - ""Egypt denounces the use of force against civilians in any circumstance and strongly advises Israel to immediately stop its military operations against Gaza"" "
2011-08-21,"With the elections for the Berlin state parliament just four weeks away, the German Pirate Party is on course to an impressive election win"
2011-08-21,"Gadhafis son, Saif al-Islam captured as rebels enter Tripoli"
2011-08-21,"Rhinos threatened with extinction to meet demand for bogus cancer cure - 
Poaching in South African nature reserves has reached epidemic levels, driven by soaring demand for their horns"
2011-08-21,Slovakian Minister to propose voluntary sterilization of Roma women.
2011-08-21,'Multiple blasts and gunfire' in Tripoli
2011-08-21,Crank who targeted science writers lured into threatening police: Montreal police arrested a suspect who has been targeting the atheist and skeptic communities with online threats and harassment for years
2011-08-21,Protests all over India against corruption
2011-08-21,Russia stands by Assad.
2011-08-21,"Meet the Irish teen who tracks and kills Gaddafi snipers
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2011-08-21,"England's riots shouldn't be blamed on 'moral decline', says Tony Blair -- Former prime minister gives verdict on unrest and says that politicians are 'missing the point' talking about a broken society"
2011-08-21,"Coco Chanel: Nazi agent? --- New book alleges fashion designer worked for German military intelligence in France during WWII. ""Chanel was a consummate opportunist. The Nazis were in power, and Chanel gravitated to power. It was the story of her life"""
2011-08-21,"Sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn to be dropped on Tuesday, prosecutors say"
2011-08-21,Thousands of Sunflowers Planted in Fukushima to Combat Radiation in Full Bloom (PHOTOS)
2011-08-21,Libyan Rebels Pass Defense Ring Near Tripoli - NYTimes.com
2011-08-21,Syrias uprising: Bashar goes ballistic
2011-08-21,Syria raises tension with Turkey in new border move: President Bashar al-Assad increases military patrols along frontier to dissuade Turkey from intervening in domestic unrest
2011-08-21,2011-08-20 Statement by Julian Assange on the reported destruction of WikiLeaks source material by Daniel Domscheit-Berg
2011-08-21,"Indian inquiry confirms graves in Kashmir hold more than 2,000 unidentified bodies"
2011-08-21,A Battle Is Under Way For The Forests Of Borneo : NPR
2011-08-21,"In Arid South African Lands, Fracking Controversy Emerges: The contentious practice of hydrofracking to extract underground natural gas has now made its way to South Africas Karoo. But opposition is growing amid concern that fracking will deplete and pollute the areas scarce water supplies"
2011-08-21,Canada mulls warrantless internet info-gathering powers for police
2011-08-21,"Climate change driving species out of habitats much faster than expected. Animals and plants have adapted to warming by moving regions up to three times faster than previously thought, report shows
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2011-08-21,"Egyptian ""Flagman"" Climbs Flagpole of Israeli Embassy in Egypt and Pulls the Flag Down - Thousands of Egyptians Protesting Recent Violence Cheer Him On "
2011-08-20,Monsanto sued by Indian government for releasing GMO eggplant without authorization from traditional varieties. Le Monde article and India News
2011-08-20,"Argentina censors more than 1,000,000 blogs hosted on Blogger because they are all on the same IP address as two blogs ordered blocked by a judge"
2011-08-20,Iran sentences American hikers to 8 years in prison for illegal entry and espionage
2011-08-20,'Gadhafi is finished': Rebels advance in Libya
2011-08-20,"Corruption in India: ""You pay for a birth certificate, a death certificate,"" said a 30-year-old software engineer and one of thousands who marched in Delhi to support Hazare. ""All your life you pay. And for what? For things that should be free."""
2011-08-20,"Two Chechen teens responsible for saving 23 at Utoya, and hitting A B Breivik with rocks before being fired upon."
2011-08-20,Wirklich? Germany declares Facebook Like button illegal
2011-08-20,"Shell finally stops North Sea leak after 10 days - 
Scottish government launches investigation into safety procedures "
2011-08-20,Qaddafi and Two Sons Rumored To Have Fled Libya
2011-08-20,British police issue warning on Twitter to anyone considering supporting internet attacks against companies and governments
2011-08-20,5 southern African countries have agreed to create a giant conservation zone in the Okavango & Zambezi river basins that stretches over an area 1/2 the size of France
2011-08-20,"For far too long, the Germans have allowed the Europe debate to be led by a small number of experts, meaning they bear partial responsibility for the current chaos. But there is still a way to achieve a better Europe and get ordinary people to care about the EU -- through direct elections."
2011-08-20,"German privacy watchdog declares Facebook's ""like"" button illegal"
2011-08-20,Bodies found in Mexico might be kidnapped marines
2011-08-20,"Rebels claim to take 'revolution' inside Tripoli, clashes reported"
2011-08-20,The cost of revolution --- Facts and figures of the Arab Spring
2011-08-20,Fukushima: Radiation reports overshadow progress at plant - 45 percent of children living up to 30 miles from the Fukushima plant tested positive for radiation exposure.
2011-08-20,Libyan Rebels Say They Control Zlitan 
2011-08-20,10 Most Corrupt Indian Politicians
2011-08-20,High food prices driving unrest: The waves of social unrest and political instability seen recently around the world have coincided with large peaks in global food prices
2011-08-20,"Environmental activism in China: Poison protests draw 12,000"
2011-08-20,"Burning Cars In Berlin Again --- 
35 cars were torched in Berlin this week. It's hard to say why. But something is going on in Germany. There is a crisis of identity. "
2011-08-20,Rocket salvo hits south of Israel
2011-08-20,Doorstep rubbish collections have been scrapped in Britain for the first time since they were introduced more than 130 years ago.  - Telegraph
2011-08-20,Europe's Turn to the Right: What is the link between the Norway killers actions and the ideas he espoused? 
2011-08-19,"Japanese police say people have returned $78 million in missing cash after quake.  ""The fact that a hefty 2.3 billion yen in cash has been returned to its owners shows the high level of ethical awareness in the Japanese people,"""
2011-08-19,"Spanish Police Brutality: they hit a girl in her face, then they hit the photographer who watched it [video]"
2011-08-19,Tent Collapsed By Storm. Six Die At Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium
2011-08-19,"Julia Tymosjenko suddenly falls victim to mysterious disease, just like the last head of the political opposition in Ukraine"
2011-08-19,"""For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet . . . 'The movie sent chills down my spine,' says Craig DeForest of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado."""
2011-08-19,Study shows powerful corporations really do control the world's finances
2011-08-19,"Civilians 'shot dead' at Syria protests: At least 22 people reportedly killed after UN claims government may be guilty of ""crimes against humanity""."
2011-08-19,Reindeer herder finds remains of baby mammoth in Russia's Arctic
2011-08-19,Over 50 killed as suicide bomber explodes in Pakistan mosque
2011-08-19,FOUR Stages Collapse at Pukkelpop Festival in Belgium 
2011-08-19,6.4 and 6.2  Earthquakes hit Japan
2011-08-19,Israel plane kills three Egyptian police near border
2011-08-19,"Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez announced plans to nationalize the country's gold mining industry and withdraw $11B in gold reserves from U.S. and European banks.
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2011-08-19,"Vietnam's prime minister has put the country on alert as an outbreak of hand, foot & mouth disease continues to surge, killing 81 children & sickening over 32,000 people nationwide so far this year"
2011-08-19,"Chile officially recognized 9,800 more Pinochet victims, increasing the total number of people killed, tortured or imprisoned for political reasons to 40,018"
2011-08-19,OPEC states that Venezuela has worlds largest oil reserves
2011-08-19,"England rioters: young, poor and unemployed"
2011-08-19,Syrian forces kill 20 despite Assad pledge
2011-08-19,"Egypt protests to Israel over police deaths following Sinai retaliation - ""Egypt filed an official complaint with Israel following yesterday's deaths at the border between Israel and Egypt.""
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2011-08-19,"Russia, once almost a democracy: Today, Vladimir Putin presides over an authoritarian government in the Russian White House, a bulky 20-story skyscraper on the edge of the Moscow River. Occasional demonstrations in favor of democracy are small and largely ignored, except by the police. "
2011-08-19,"Egyptians Defend Viral Video Activist Charged in Military Court - 
Asmaa Mahfouz is facing prosecution for speaking out again. Presidential candidates, NGOs, & ordinary Egyptians are rallying to her defense& decrying the use of military trials for civilians."
2011-08-19,"Magnitude 6.8 quake jolts Japan off Fukushima, tsunami advisory
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2011-08-19,New schools in Pakistan are attempting to de-radicalize captured Taliban members.
2011-08-19,"Zimbabwe: Farm Invasions Continue Across Country - The remaining white commercial farmers across the country are facing intensified threats by mobs of land invaders, as the lawless invasions of farms continue."
2011-08-19,Prison or Rape? 
2011-08-18,Need a warrant to unmask Internet users? Not if Canada gets its way
2011-08-18,Multiple terror attacks hit southern Israel
2011-08-18,"Mexico Doesn't Need Monsanto's Wonder Seeds, Either"
2011-08-18,"Chile's Students Strike for Free & Public Education - 
Chilean students are no longer willing to accept mountains of debt to gain an education, & they've taken over university campuses demanding accessible education for all of the country's students"
2011-08-18,US President calls for Assad to step down in Syria
2011-08-18,"Leaders of more than 40 Muslim countries have agreed on a major aid program for Somalia at an emergency conference. Turkey, which organized the meeting, is taking on an increasingly active role in Africa."
2011-08-18,"Canada pushing the limits of state surveillance: ""lawful access legislation will compel ISPs to disclose customer info to authorities without a court order, i.e. law enforcement agencies will have a freer hand in spying on the private lives of Canadians"
2011-08-18,Honest Japanese return $78 million in cash found in earthquake rubble. 
2011-08-18,Peru suspends US-funded coca eradication programme: Prime minister announces anti-drugs scheme will be halted while the government re-evaluates its strategy
2011-08-18,"Foreign students stage walkout at Hershey's chocolates protesting their unpaid labor during ""cultural exchange"" program"
2011-08-18,"Hundreds of thousands of people have been demonstrating for social justice in Israel. The protests are uniting a divided nation, and have brought Jews and Israeli Arabs together. Could the movement also help bring about a reconciliation with the Palestinians?"
2011-08-18,Hugo Chavez to nationalize Venezuelan gold industry
2011-08-18,Assisted Suicide in the U.K. could be 'revolutionised' as groundbreaking legal case gets underway.
2011-08-18,"For sale in Sweden: Three-bed house, includes skeleton"
2011-08-18,Brawl breaks out during Vice Prez Biden's speech in China: Chinese officials vs. reporters
2011-08-18,Otters return to every county in England
2011-08-18,"Russia's Cruellest Month: ""It's no wonder that Wikipedia has an entry for Russia's August Curse."""
2011-08-18,"Fighting China's Golden Shield: Cisco sued by Chinese political prisoners for allegedly providing the technology and expertise used by the Chinese Communist Party to monitor, censor and suppress the Chinese people"
2011-08-18,"Pakistani military wants veto on drone strikes, says too many civilians have been killed
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2011-08-18,Turkish warplanes bomb Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq
2011-08-18,"On World Youth Day visit, pope urges Spain to preserve Christian roots: The pope arrived in the Spanish capital Thursday, after thousands turned out in Madrid to protest the tax-payer funded visit, which is estimated to cost taxpayers millions of euros."
2011-08-18,Panama Expands Canal to Increase Shipping Capacity  
2011-08-18,"Libya: The Ghadaffi regime now wants a ceasefire and a peaceful solution, as cities surrounding Tripoli continue to fall and rebels vow to enter the city by the end of the month "
2011-08-18,Turkish planes attack PKK bases in northern Iraq
2011-08-18,"I do not agree with what you wear, but I'll defend to 
the death your right to wear it."
2011-08-17,Argentina: Judge orders all ISPs to block the sites LeakyMails.com and Leakymails.blogspot.com - which publish relevant documents exposing corruption of the political class and the powerful in Argentina
2011-08-17,The Dutch government has released 100 million euros in frozen assets from Moammar Gadhafi's regime to the World Health Organization. The funds will buy medical supplies for victims of the ongoing conflict in Libya.
2011-08-17,"'They Were Truly Idiots' --- Mikhail Gorbachev, 80, discusses the last days of the Soviet Union, his failure to resolve problems with the Communist Party and the ensuing bloodshed he says still troubles him today. He also accuses Vladimir Putin of pulling the country ""back into the past."""
2011-08-17,Catholic student arrested in Madrid (Spain) while planning sarin gas attack against a secular demonstration during World Youth Day
2011-08-17,England: Four years' jail for inciting disorder on Facebook
2011-08-17,"Photo of bag-carrying ambassador charms China - ""we don't do things for ourselves"""
2011-08-17,Legalising drugs a solution to the violence in Mexico?
2011-08-17,"Syria is having embassy staffers photograph and track anti-regime protesters abroad, send the info back to Syria, and then torturing protesters' families still living within the country [article also in comments]"
2011-08-17,Dag Hammarskjld: evidence suggests UN chief's plane was shot down
2011-08-17,Hamas rulers ban students with scholarships to study in the US from leaving Gaza
2011-08-17,"Phone hacking: James Murdoch admitted that News International paid hush money to a phone hacking victim, despite telling MPs that they didn't try to buy his silence
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2011-08-17,Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for Wealth Tax to be imposed on white South Africans.
2011-08-17,"For Two Nights in a Row, Luxury Cars in Berlin Are Lit on Fire"
2011-08-17,"Nearly five years since the Mexico's president Calderon declared war on drug cartels, there has been no drop in violence or trafficking"
2011-08-17,Britain Will Force Convicted Rioters to Clean Up
2011-08-17,The explosive truth behind Fukushima's meltdown. Japan insists its nuclear crisis was caused by an unforeseeable combination of tsunami and earthquake. But new evidence suggests its reactors were doomed to fail.
2011-08-17,Spanish police prevent terrorist attack: fundamentalist arrested for plotting chemical attack against those protesting the cost of the Pope's visit.
2011-08-17,"""Russia showed off its next generation stealth fighter for the first time at a highly-publicized air show today [16 August 2011], as the best and most expensive stealth fighter jets America has to offer sit idle on the tarmac."""
2011-08-17,The riots in Britain were political  and they are part of a wider global anger at governments that commit daylight robbery
2011-08-17,"The Catholic archdiocese of Dublin is close to a ""state of financial collapse"", according to leaks"
2011-08-17,Israel protests have wide support: Benjamin Netanyahu could be in trouble.
2011-08-17,"Poaching Threatens Swedish Wolves - Extinct by the 1970s, the population has since re-established itself after a few migratory Finnish wolves appeared.  Today, all 250 Swedish wolves have descended from these few founding individuals.
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2011-08-17,"UK Teenager given 120 hours' community service, a 12-month youth rehabilitation order and a 3 month 6am - 7pm curfew for supporting the riots."
2011-08-17,"As New Zealand braces itself for a 3 strikes-style scheme law, TelstraClear CEO Allan Freeth says  punishing consumers isnt the answer and that business models requiring new legislation in order to function are flawed and need to be changed"
2011-08-17,"Reporters Without Borders condemn decision by Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to prosecute a blogger, Asmaa Mahfouz, over several messages criticizing the council that she posted on Facebook and Twitter"
2011-08-16,Indian police arrest 73 year old anti-corruption activist sparking peaceful demonstrations throughout the country
2011-08-16,Devastating Evidence Puts Murdochs Back in the Crosshairs - Global - The Atlantic Wire
2011-08-16,Second oil leak has sprung in the North Sea - Shell says 1st one under control
2011-08-16,London Riots - Mother of 13-year-old who smashed up shop blames government.
2011-08-16,"India anti-graft activist Anna Hazare detained 
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2011-08-16,Reporter Implicates Murdoch Execs and Cameron Aide in News of the World Hacking Scandal; Alleges Cover-Up.
2011-08-16,"Breivik called the police 28 minutes before he was taken and asked to be transferred to Delta force to surrender. He received a response he didn't understand and asked that the call be transferred to Delta. No one called back, and he coninued shooting."
2011-08-16,"Israel arrests Al-Jazeera reporter  Israeli military prosecutors have accused a senior Palestinian journalist with the Arabic language Al-Jazeera satellite network of being a member of Hamas, an accusation that he denies his lawyer said Tuesday."
2011-08-16,"Libya rebels cut all fuel pipelines to Tripoli -- Libya's leader Muammar Qaddafi appears to be running out of options as rebels close in on Tripoli, but an end to his regime could still be a long way off."
2011-08-16,"Phone hacking: 'orchestrated cover-up' of hacking at News of the World
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2011-08-16,Phone hacking: News of the World reporter's letter reveals cover-up
2011-08-16,"10,000 Palestinians flee under fire during last three days, no information on their whereabouts"
2011-08-16,UK riots: IDS considers ending looters benefits
2011-08-16, Clive Goodman's letter to News International | Media | guardian.co.uk 
2011-08-16,Scud missile fired by Gaddaffi's forces
2011-08-16,"Anna Hazare detained ahead of mass fast 
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2011-08-16,"U.S. diplomat enrages members of Indian ethnic group after calling them 'dark' and 'dirty' in speech

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2011-08-16,Egypt considers audacious plan to build a fixed link between North Africa and Saudi Arabia 
2011-08-16,"Two Facebook users who urged people to join in a riot (that did not happen) via the online service, are jailed for four years."
2011-08-16,Turkey Warns Syria to Stop Crackdown
2011-08-16,Gadhafi fires first scud missile
2011-08-16,Germans recoil as Europe seeks more handouts amid debt crisis: German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets with French President Nicolas Sarkozy today to coordinate a strategy for coping with Europe's expanding debt crisis.
2011-08-16,PET bottles become radiation detectors in Japan
2011-08-16,Jamaica Observer: Food security threat - We have no food reserves.
2011-08-16,Syria brings in Iranian snipers to quell protests
2011-08-15,Pakistan let China see stealth chopper from bin Laden raid
2011-08-15,Excellent war map of fighting in Libya
2011-08-15,Essex police charge man over water fight planned on BlackBerry Messenger
2011-08-15,29-year-old Tibetan monk dies in self-immolation protest in southwest China. He was heard calling for the return of the Dalai Lama and freedom for the Tibetan people.
2011-08-15,"North sea oil spill 'worst for a decade' - 
The government has described the leak as 'substantial' & estimates that it could be several hundred tons"
2011-08-15,25 Ordinary Citizens Write Icelands New Constitution With Help From Social Media
2011-08-15,Israel approves 277 new homes in West Bank settlement
2011-08-15,The World Should be Watching Tahrir Square
2011-08-15,"Russia's Arctic 'sea grab' - Russia is expected within months to claim to the United Nations its right to annex about 380,000 square miles of the Arctic."
2011-08-15,"At least 34 people have been killed in a twin bombing in the south-eastern Iraqi city of Kut, Iraqi officials say."
2011-08-15,Second Tibetan Monk Immolates Himself - NYTimes.com
2011-08-15,Syria unrest: 'They are shooting anything that moves'
2011-08-15,"South Korea's president is calling for peace and cooperation with North Korea as the rivals try to set aside decades of animosity and pursue dialogue. 
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2011-08-15,"Rebels have taken the key town of Zawiya, and appear to have Tripoli surrounded on three sides. How much longer can Gaddafi hold out?"
2011-08-15,Hello World: Israel is Out-Classing You in Civil Disobedience
2011-08-15,BlackBerry Ban lifted in Saudi Arabia.... after 20-year old brit was arrested for a water fight
2011-08-15,A Politically Dangerous Proposal - Europe Pressures Merkel to Accept Euro Bonds
2011-08-15,"Radiation contamination leaves Fukushima schools 
unable to drain pool water"
2011-08-15,Iraq foots the bill for its own destruction
2011-08-15,Govt says North Sea oil leak biggest in decade
2011-08-15,German boy told to clean up calls cops over 'forced labour'
2011-08-15,Pittsburgh Father and Son Return to Libya to Fight Against Gadhafi.  Die Clutching Each Other in Their First Battle.  Listen
2011-08-15,China orders petrochemical plant shutdown after protests
2011-08-15,"BBC News - Syria unrest: Palestinian refugees flee camp, says UN"
2011-08-15,German Far-right party stirs uproar with 'step on gas' election ad... 
2011-08-14,"Julian Assange: ""The looters and rioters who torched Britains neighbourhoods are doing Big Brother a favour by giving the government more latitude to destroy citizens rights and freedoms."""
2011-08-14,Oil leak in North Sea confirmed by Shell
2011-08-14,"China argues that Western liberalism is a facade, an easy prescription for other countries, but quickly dropped when push comes to shove"
2011-08-14,"Syrian gunboats pounded the Mediterranean coastal city of Latakia with heavy machine-gun fire Sunday, killing at least 19 people in the latest wave of the regime's crackdown on anti-government protests. "
2011-08-14,The Israeli government formally acknowledged the therapeutic utility of cannabis and announced newly amended guidelines governing the state-sponsored production and distribution of medical cannabis to Israeli patients
2011-08-14,"AFP: Turkish PM to visit famine-hit Somalia, cancels all Ramadan Banquets in favor of sending donations"
2011-08-14,"They Never Told Us These Things --- 
Much of the uranium for the Manhattan Project came from a mine in north-west Canada. The indigenous people who worked there had no idea what use the material would be put to, or how their own health would suffer"
2011-08-14,"News from Fukushima: ""The equivalent of 29.6 times of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, or in terms of uranium about 20 atomic bombs, were released by the accident, [...]"""
2011-08-14,David Camerons net-censorship proposal earns kudos from Chinese state media 
2011-08-14,"Historian causes furor by blaming black culture for U.K. riots: ""The whites have become black""."
2011-08-14,"Illegal logging: from the rainforest to your dining room - Vietnams booming furniture trade feeds off precious Lao jungles, where logging is legally forbidden. "
2011-08-14,"$60m is needed by Dec to Save Last Great Wilderness - Oil was found & Ecuador gave us a choice: give us money & we'll not drill.  1/6 sq-km has 47 amphibian/reptile species, 550 bird, 200 mammal, more bats & insects anywhere, more tree species than all N. America, & 2,000 fish species "
2011-08-14,"Israel protests spread to 18 cities: More than 100,000 take to Israel's streets as protests show no sign of slowing down."
2011-08-14,"My friend, walking in Damascus, was arrested for wearing white"
2011-08-14,Boy Gets Robot Hand From Mercedes F1 Team.
2011-08-14,Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific has sacked a pilot and a stewardess after photographs of them engaged in oral sex in a cockpit appeared online
2011-08-14,Hundreds rally in Nepal for sexual rights
2011-08-14,Taiwan begins to deal with its amateur spies caught by China
2011-08-14,Mushrooms Join Growing List of Radioactive Threats to Japans Food Chain - Bloomberg
2011-08-14,"Elephant and rhino poaching 'is driven by China's economic boom': The ivory trade has doubled in Guangzhou and Fuzhou. A stuffed rhino head was the subject of a bidding war between Chinese herbalists in an auction where it eventually fetched 35,000"
2011-08-14,Syria: Hama hospitals 'closed after army attacks'
2011-08-14,Bashar Al-Assad's warships shell their own city.
2011-08-14,England riots: Police hit out at U.S. 'supercop' plan
2011-08-14,"Maliki of Iraq Backs Syria's Assad, With Nudge From Iran - NYTimes.com"
2011-08-14,"Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to eat certain dip products imported from the US because of possible contamination - 2 Canadian companies warn not to eat certain veal that may be contaminated with E. coli & ready-to-eat meats sold at certain deli counters up to Aug. 10 

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2011-08-13,"To end her cub's torture on a Chinese bile farm, mother bear kills the cub and then herself.  Reddit, PLEASE, what can we do to stop this horror???"
2011-08-13,"EFF - British Prime Minister Does a 180 on Internet Censorship: David Cameron is practically tripping over himself in his eagerness to sacrifice liberty for security:""...when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them."""
2011-08-13,US censures report on drone casualties. Possibly up to 168 children have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan
2011-08-13,"UK: ""So if we're turning off social media for 'safety', why aren't we shutting down television networks at the same time? Why aren't politicians demanding that news channels, with their greater reach and potential to panic the public, be turned off during exceptional circumstances"""
2011-08-13,David Cameron wants to evict rioters from their government subsidized homes
2011-08-13,Greek Government Proposes Drug Decriminalization
2011-08-13,"Aggression during G20 rally perpetrated by police, judge rules (Canada)"
2011-08-13,New Zealand Parliament may lose Internet access due to insane new copyright law
2011-08-13,"Hardline Brazil judge gunned down: Patricia Acioli, known for taking a hard line against criminals and corrupt police officers, was shot in her car near Rio de Janeiro"
2011-08-13,"Italy Agrees on $65 Billion in Austerity Measures. Measures also include a solidarity tax on high earners: an additional 5 percent tax on incomes above $128,000 a year and 10 percent on incomes above $213,000 a year for the next two years. "
2011-08-13,"Cop U-Turns on top of hill, kills oncoming motorcyclist. Fined $250."
2011-08-13,Oil leak detected on North Sea platform
2011-08-13,Cameron backs eviction for London rioters
2011-08-13,Shaming of our spooks: MI6 produced bogus Iraq war evidence under pressure from Downing Street
2011-08-13,London riots: Wandsworth council moves to evict mother of charged boy
2011-08-13,British Leader Seeks Public Housing Evictions for Rioters and Their Families  
2011-08-13,"Secret Papers Reveal Truth Behind Soviet Collapse --- Newly published papers from end of Gorbachev presidency show last Soviet leader as harsh, confused, deluded in talks with Helmut Kohl and George Bush. On the Tiananmen massacre: ""We must be realists: 3,000 people, so what?"""
2011-08-13,A gay cabinet minister expecting a child with her girlfriend may be news in other countries - but not in Australia.
2011-08-13,Why UK Rioters Won't Be Protected by BlackBerry Messaging System: Police may already be sifting through communications for incriminating messages
2011-08-13,"""The whites have become black"" - David Starkey's view that ""Black culture"" caused the London Riots."
2011-08-13,"Nancy Wake --- An obituary of Vera Wake, ""the white mouse"". A double agent and surely one of the only women to fox the Gestapo so completely"
2011-08-13,UK Councils are going ahead with evicting families of looters with the first of the cases before the courts today.
2011-08-13,"Average UK student debts 'could hit 53,000'"
2011-08-13,"Hash in the Holy Land - In a move expected to increase medicinal marijuana use 6-fold, the Israeli govt will oversee its distribution & use.  
It's triggered snarky rejoinders about a conspiracy to reduce 100s of 1,000s of demonstrators protesting the cost of living to hazy passivity. "
2011-08-13,UK Police using facial recognition technology to crack down on those responsible for the riots
2011-08-12,"""If we don't want our young people to tear apart our communities then don't let people in power tear apart the values that hold our communities together."" - A nice little take on the riots"
2011-08-12,Coal-Black Alien Planet Is Darkest Ever Seen
2011-08-12,"Going Godless - Non-believers are often more educated, more tolerant and know more about God than the pious. A new wave of research is trying to figure out what goes on in the minds of an ever-growing group of people known as the ""Nones""."
2011-08-12,"'Fishermen in slavery' in NZ waters: Indonesian seafarers are being beaten, raped and forced to eat rotten food in slum-like conditions aboard Korean-owned fishing boats, according to a New Zealand study.

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2011-08-12,Police arrest 20 y.o. man for robbery of Malaysian student
2011-08-12,Pakistani soldier filmed shooting dead unarmed man in a Karachi park is sentenced to death 
2011-08-12,Sentencing begins for UK rioters: student with no previous gets 6 months for stealing 3.50 of bottled water from Lidl. 4 months for using threatening language to a policeman. Law student denies involvement and is refused bail.
2011-08-12,"Surprise in UK as many accused looters turn out to be middle class, employed "
2011-08-12,Japan considers canning whaling program
2011-08-12,"""Marx was right: capitalism can self-destruct"". Economist Nouriel Roubini says the risk of a global recession is greater than 50%, and the next 2 to 3 months will reveal the economy's direction. Roubini also says he's putting his money in cash. ""This is not the time to be in risky assets,"" he says."
2011-08-12,Japan's nuclear agency hides radiation results
2011-08-12,Iran offers to send peacekeeper troops to UK
2011-08-12,Africa Rising - Africa Taking its self out of Poverty (A story I have waited years for) 
2011-08-12,"It's a Pattern: Oddly enough, English rioters not looting bookstores"
2011-08-12,Dutch stamp collector goes missing in North Korea.  Winds up in newspaper praising elections.
2011-08-12,"China pushes US oil giant, ConocoPhillips, to get to work cleaning up massive oil spill &, while they're at it, to issue a public apology for missing its deadline "
2011-08-12,Shell fighting oil leak off Scottish coast
2011-08-12,"Having followed the debates on religion and freedom of expression at the United Nations over the last several years, I have become accustomed to passing on bad news. Now that there is some good news, almost no one has noticed."
2011-08-12,Ed Miliband Links Riots to Banking and Expenses Scandals.
2011-08-12,"Drug Dealing, Counterfeiting, Smuggling: How North Korea Makes Money"
2011-08-12,David Cameron is widely ridiculed for suggesting social media blocks
2011-08-12,"New leukemia treatment 'exceeds expectations' - 
turns HIV variant into cancer-killer"
2011-08-12,Japan ignored own radiation forecasts
2011-08-12,The Pakistani paramilitary soldier who shot an innocent and unarmed man on video and watched him bleed to death is sentenced to be executed.
2011-08-12,"Vladimir Putin scuba dives in Black Sea - 
Wearing a wetsuit and showing off his scuba diving skills Vladimir Putin collects ancient artefacts from the bottom of the Black Sea as he continues to portray an action man image to the Russian public. "
2011-08-11,"Google admits handing over European user data to US intelligence agencies, most likely in violation of European Union data protection laws"
2011-08-11,"Oh dear... David Cameron wants to stop people using social networks if they are using it for ""ill"" and is asking the police if they need new powers to do this."
2011-08-11,"""If the UK government restricts social networking in answer to the riots, what separates it from the Arab tyrannies and China?"""
2011-08-11,"Broadcasters defy Cameron's call to hand riots footage to police. BBC and ITN say police must follow proper procedure of obtaining court order to avoid compromise of editorial standards
"
2011-08-11,"Is News Corp In Charge of Fox? Or Vice Versa? Even Rupert Murdoch is Afraid of Roger Ailes. ""You know Roger is crazy,"" Murdoch recently told a colleague, shaking his head in disbelief. ""He really believes that stuff."""
2011-08-11,China releases 600 million bees to combat moths
2011-08-11,"Finland joins the Ottawa Convention, banning the use 
of anti-personnel land mines."
2011-08-11,"A Mexican terrorist organization sent an explosive device to a professor due to his research in nanotechnology. The group claims to be against the ""nanotechnology revolution"" in fear of a nanomachine take over that will mean the end of civilization"
2011-08-11,The Gorbachev Files: Secret Papers Reveal Truth Behind Soviet Collapse
2011-08-11,Migration of men from Armenia leaves whole villages almost entirely populated by women
2011-08-11,"
The British media is a gang of hypocrites, says China's state-run magazine Global Times in wake of riots.
"
2011-08-11,Cameron Denies Poverty as a Cause for Riots in London
2011-08-11,Britain considers mask ban; may use army if unrest continues
2011-08-11,UK tells Iran happy to talk human rights after riot criticism
2011-08-11,Riots: Tiny Sikh news station coverage shames major TV channels
2011-08-11,"Israel to build 1,600 more settler homes as a response to country's economic protests. 2,700 more homes will be approved shortly"
2011-08-11,"With budget cuts leading to the loss of facilities that kept many inner-city youths occupied, experts predict a rise in crime (July 29)"
2011-08-11,Hostage situation at the Estonian Ministry of Defence
2011-08-11,"Secret network of racists exposed in Denmark, preparing for a showdown with immigrants and traitors."
2011-08-11,Many London rioters were from the middle and upper classes
2011-08-11,Anarchy and Austerity: Why London Won't Be the Last City to Burn
2011-08-11,"Israel approves guidelines for medical marijuana
"
2011-08-11,Norway's killer may have filmed his massacre
2011-08-11,"London rioters: a primary school worker, a postman, an 11-yr old boy w/2 phones, millionaires daughter"
2011-08-11,"Why Are They Using Baseball Bats Instead of Cricket Bats in the U.K. Riots?
"
2011-08-10,"This why they're rioting. An interview with Darcus Howe, a West Indian Writer, that the BBC will never play again. "
2011-08-10,"As looters and rioters smashed up shops, looted and fought with police in Camden Town, Philippa Morgan-Walker, 25 and her husband, Jonny Walker, 31, made tea for the police who were protecting their street. Some of the officers had been on duty for more than 30 hours.
"
2011-08-10,Facebook to Die on Novemeber 5th? Anonymous says
2011-08-10,"The YouTube man who was mugged by rioters pretending to help him is Asyraf Haziq, a Malaysian student"
2011-08-10,"Al Jazeera English has quashed several planned rebroadcasts of Shouting in the Dark, an hourlong documentary about Bahrains crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that had its debut last week and brought complaints from Bahraini authorities."
2011-08-10,"Drug dealers may have wiped out ""uncontacted"" Amazon tribe"
2011-08-10,"London Riots: 'Bleeding, I Called 999. A Tired Man Told Me To Go Home' --- ""Unlike Los Angeles or Paris, the riots are not happening in ghettos where nobody goes. They are happening amid the organic gastropubs and latte bars. The hardening of liberal opinion in London is palpable"""
2011-08-10,S. Korea opens fire after North artillery shelling
2011-08-10,Student Protests in Chile - scenes from the streets
2011-08-10,"Women Rapists Terrorise Men: ""Police in Zimbabwe are on the trail of a group of women who have been raping men, usually at gunpoint, since last year."""
2011-08-10,"After the fourth night of riots in England, observers are asking what is behind the wave of violence. German commentators argue that the unrest reflects a deep-seated malaise at the heart of British society."
2011-08-10,"London rioters point to poverty and government corruption. ""Everyone's heard about the police taking bribes, the members of parliament stealing thousands with their expenses. They set the example. It's time to loot"""
2011-08-10,BBC News - Koreas 'exchange fire' near Yeonpyeong island
2011-08-10,London riots: Mosque worshippers ward off gangs as they ambush Whitechapel Road
2011-08-10,"London rioters are not 'protesters', admits BBC"
2011-08-10,"Not just London. In Birmingham, 3 Men - thought to have been protecting their community die after being run over "
2011-08-10,"'Cameron has lost legitimacy, should go,' Libya says (Gaddafi gets in on the trolling!)"
2011-08-10,UK Riots 2011: Tariq Jahan (Murdered Son's dad) speaks. Heartbreaking.
2011-08-10,"Iran Vows to Unplug Internet: Iran will begin transitioning to a 'national Internet,' aimed at Muslims on an ethical and moral level,"" says Iran's  head of economic affairs. Eventually, it could replace the global Internet in Iran, as well as in other Muslim countries"
2011-08-10,China's aircraft carrier leaves shipyard for first sea trial
2011-08-10,"British rioters the spawn of a bankrupt ruling elite
"
2011-08-10,"Shouldn't we Applaud the British government for not sending in the army in the English riots.  Isn't this what sets ""western democracy"" apart from places like Syria and Libya."
2011-08-10,Speigel:  How Obama disappointed the World
2011-08-10,"Syria expands offensive near Turkey border: Tanks storm two northwestern border towns, local residents says, as international community steps up pressure on Assad."
2011-08-10,Water cannons now in effect for London riots
2011-08-09,This is serious Reddit - London riots spreading.   Looting and violence in three London areas in broad daylight - more expected. Birmingham too.
2011-08-09,"Speculations circle as to why the London riots have 
become so big, but the answer is quite obvious"
2011-08-09,"The Loud Awakening of Israel's Secular Middle Class -- In the largest protests in the country's history, more than 300,000 people demanded economic reform and help from the government "
2011-08-09,There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored
2011-08-09,"David Cameron announces recall of parliament over riots. Prime minister also says number of police officers on streets of London will be increased by 10,000 to 16,000. "
2011-08-09,Tottenham's young people are rioting as they see no future
2011-08-09,"Devastating pictures of before and after of the London riots. If you're in the city, stay safe. "
2011-08-09,"UK Riots have spread to new areas of London and looting has erupted in the cities of Birmingham and Leeds, as Britain's worst clashes in decades extended into the third night."
2011-08-09,"Libyan rebels retake Bir al-Ghanam, which puts them only 85 km from the capital Tripoli"
2011-08-09,Anger in Japan Over Withheld Radiation Forecasts
2011-08-09,"Google will fund Bletchley Park restoration project: Bletchley Park is where Alan Turing, the father of Computer Science, and his team broke German ciphers and likely shortened World War II by 2 years"
2011-08-09,"A list of all the websites Rupert Murdoch owns, and  two browser add-ons to block them."
2011-08-09,"Riots have broken out in Liverpool, UK."
2011-08-09,Last Australians troops depart Iraq 
2011-08-09,"London riots: police 'prepare to use plastic bullets' if violence continues.  Previously, British security forces using the non-lethal projectiles killed fourteen people, including nine children. "
2011-08-09,Video: London riots: Woman confronts rioters in Hackney - Telegraph
2011-08-09,"Sales Of Aluminum Bats On Amazon.uk Are Up Over 5,000% As Riots Continue
"
2011-08-09,Britain's Home Minister says water cannon and the army will not be called in to handle riots
2011-08-09,Riots: the underclass lashes out
2011-08-09,"Interesting development in the UK: IPCC determines that Mark Duggan actually didn't shoot at police before they killed him, the police really did overrespond perhaps"
2011-08-09,Australias Aborigines forced off of their land by government 
2011-08-09,Al-Jazeera: London Burning day 3 in pictures
2011-08-09,"
After Attack, Reclusive Amazon Tribe Feared Missing"
2011-08-09,"'Special US commandos are deployed in about 75 countries around the world'...""An almost industrial-scale counterterrorism killing machine""."
2011-08-09,"ConocoPhillips Slow to Clean Up Oil Spill in China's Bohai Sea - 
The US company has yet to stop the leak -  The slicks, which have spread 1,200 sq km (460 sq miles) since the leak was discovered  June 4, are alarming environmentalists, fisherman & coastal communities "
2011-08-08,"NHS among developed world's most efficient health systems, says study, the United States healthcare system was among the least efficient and effective."
2011-08-08,Shit's going down in Chile. Protesting students are demanding the government hold a national referendum on solving the countrys educational problems.
2011-08-08,Official: Rebekah Brooks has NOT resigned from News International
2011-08-08,Before and after pictures from the Tottenham riots
2011-08-08,Iran cracks down on forbidden water pistol fights: Authorities in southern Iran arrested 17 boys and girls who took part in a water pistol fight at a seaside park. They could face charges of publicly committing haram  a forbidden act  after they splashed water on each other
2011-08-08,EFF: Spanish Court Rules That Linking to Potential Copyright Infringing Material Is Not Copyright Infringement
2011-08-08,A torture camp run by Zimbabwe's security forces is operating in the country's rich Marange diamond fields
2011-08-08,"
Saudi king demands end to Syrian crackdown 
"
2011-08-08,"
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon accelerated in June, with 300 sq km destroyed, a 17% increase over May"
2011-08-08,"The famine in Somalia has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of five"
2011-08-08,London riots - BBC live coverage
2011-08-08,"Rice Futures Trading Halted in Tokyo as Radiation Fears Cause a 40% Surge, Triggering Circuit Breakers"
2011-08-08,"North Korea turns to online game hacking to raise cash - 
Crushed by antinuclear weapons sanctions the regime is hacking computer games to make money"
2011-08-08,"Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain have all recalled their ambassadors from Syria"
2011-08-08,Remaining countries with AAA credit ratings. Australia leads a small group whose ability to pay isn't questioned
2011-08-08,Bayer threatens to quit Germany over nuclear shutdown: German companies may relocate production to countries with lower energy costs
2011-08-08,Bayer threatens to leave Germany over high electricity costs: German chemical giant Bayer has warned that it may be forced to leave the country because of a rise in energy prices. The firm is already looking at increasing its foothold in emerging economies such as China.
2011-08-08,"Bahrain protests to Qatar over al-Jazeera film: 
Doha-based news channel under fire over 
documentary showing how Facebook was used to 
target pro-democracy activists"
2011-08-08,Five days of war. Looking back at the Russia-Georgia conflict 3 years ago.
2011-08-08,Oil hits eight-month low after S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating
2011-08-08,"Australia's Antarctic claim 'at risk' - It holds the largest claim to Antarctica, but risks losing it in any race to unlock the frozen continent's potentially vast mineral & energy resources"
2011-08-08,The Somali Army has captured Mogadishu
2011-08-08,War heroine Nancy Wake dies
2011-08-08,"After Fukushima, Japan's 'authority myth' is crumbling."
2011-08-08,"Beyond debt woes, a wider crisis of globalization?"
2011-08-07,London riot intensifying 
2011-08-07,"Phone hacking: Rebekah Brooks of News Intl. may have resigned her position, but ""she remains on the company payroll."""
2011-08-07,Riot breaks out and police cars set on fire in Tottenham after a father of four was shot dead by police.
2011-08-07,"
	US special forces killed in Afghanistan crash - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
"
2011-08-07,"31 U.S. troops, 7 Afghans killed in Taliban attack on NATO helicopter: In a rare event, Taliban insurgents shoot down a Chinook helicopter with a rocket-propelled grenade near Kabul. It's the largest single-incident loss of military lives since the war's start."
2011-08-07,"Italian bond market, the world's 3rd largest, is teetering on collapse - the European Central Bank votes whether or not to bail them out at noon EST today."
2011-08-07,Japanese people start hoarding last year's rice for fear that this year's crop may be radioactive
2011-08-07,"London regroups after 'worst riots in years': Authorities call for calm in aftermath of riots that former police chief called ""a glimpse into the abyss""."
2011-08-07,Top Gear lies about electric cars
2011-08-07,Fukushima City resorts to secret dumping to deal with piles of radioactive dirt
2011-08-07,"Doubts emerge over fatal shooting of Mark Duggan, which sparked two days of rioting."
2011-08-07,"According to police estimates, 300,000 protesters took to the streets across Israel in what constitutes the largest-ever protest in the countrys history."
2011-08-07,"Torture efficiency, western style: Under UK's secret torture policy, intelligence officers were instructed to weigh value of information sought against pain inflicted."
2011-08-07,"In Afghanistan, the rise and fall of ""Little America"""
2011-08-07,"On The Trail Of George Orwells Outcasts --- 


80 years ago Orwell published his famous work Down and Out in Paris and London. Could the same poverty and destitution he described still exist today? Retracing his steps reveals some awkward truths."
2011-08-07,Initial ballistics tests of bullet that hit police officer's radio in Mark Duggan killing show it was a police issue round
2011-08-07,"Germany has requested that the U.N. Security Council meet on Monday to discuss the worsening violence in Syria, a spokesman for the German mission at the United Nations said."
2011-08-07,Cuba opening to private enterprise spurs service sector start-ups
2011-08-07,Angry crowds have attacked riot police in north London following a protest at the fatal shooting of a man by armed officers earlier in the week.
2011-08-07," Syrian military defied growing condemnation and deployed dozens of tanks into the restive city of Deir al-Zour, killing at least 20 people, activists said. "
2011-08-07,"
      Germany doubts larger fund can rescue Italy: report

"
2011-08-07,"Somalia famine: Rebels leave Mogadishu - 
Islamic extremist rebels withdraw from Somalia capital, food distribution to improve."
2011-08-07,"Students Pressure Chile to Reform Education System through ""Kissing Protests"" and Hunger Strikes"
2011-08-07,"China's foreign minister has arrived in Sudan, the first high-level visit by Khartoum's key ally since South Sudan became independent in July. "
2011-08-07,Arab League calls on Syria to halt violence as more than 60 die in latest Assad crackdown: Activists say casualties escalating by the hour as security forces launch attack on the city of Homs; Arab League chief says Syria government must expedite steps toward reform.
2011-08-06,US Embassy cables depict a far-reaching campaign to prevent Haiti's democratically elected leader from returning to the country after the 2004 coup.
2011-08-06,Chess federation president barred from presenting prizes at the British chess championships in Sheffield... because he was wearing a gay rights T-shirt
2011-08-06,"Who Is The Guilty Party? --- 
On the difficulties of trying to be honest in China. Writer buys flat. Previous owner has rigged electricity meter to show only 10% of consumption. You'd think the power company would want to put it right, yes? But nothing is simple"
2011-08-06,"Turkey confirms seizure of Iranian arms shipment to 
Syria"
2011-08-06,"China: ""The only way the Americans have come up with to improve economic growth has been to take on new loans to repay the old ones... maintaining economic growth and excessive consumption by means of debt financing, hence masses of economic bubbles, which eventually triggered the financial crisis"""
2011-08-06,"Private Robot Armies And The Future Of War --- 
In a decade or so the world's armies, terrorists and hobbyists will own thousands if not millions of cheap drones, piloted by algorithms. Scary enough. But what if a bot-net hijacks them? Traditional and cyber warfare converge"
2011-08-06,Populist Polish politician found hanged in his party office in Warsaw
2011-08-06,Philippines Untouchable Soldiers
2011-08-06,Internet-savvy Chinese are using social networking to share their complaints about extravagant government spending. Even the state-controlled media are starting to grumble. 
2011-08-06,Sudan blocks South's oil shipment 
2011-08-06,"""[T]here were two weeks when we had none of the paper towels we use for wiping gel off patients. We were using toilet paper and kitchen towels. That was six months ago."" Austerity & Greece's crumbling health service."
2011-08-06,"Hama, Syria: 40 Premature babies DEAD in hospital chambers as electricity is shut off by the government"
2011-08-06,Hacking whistleblower was ignored
2011-08-06,"""Killer shrimp"" are costing Britain billions of pounds to tackle - It's the worst alien invader of England & Wales' waterways "
2011-08-06,Deaths reported during Syria protests: Activists say at least 12 people killed as thousands take to the streets on Muslim fasting month's first Friday.
2011-08-06,"200,000 evacuated as China braces for Typhoon Muifa"
2011-08-06,"Doctors Without Borders stops work in Bahrain after 
raid"
2011-08-06,An entire Mexican police force resigns over attacks from cartels.
2011-08-06,Somalia's al-Shabab rebels leave Mogadishu
2011-08-06,"New 5-star hotel opens in blockaded, Hamas-ruled Gaza for the elite amid widespread poverty"
2011-08-06,Turkey Dials Back Plan to Expand Censorship 
2011-08-06,Syrian tanks roll out in force - Residents flee tank assaults on Deir ez-Zor and Homs even as government promises free general elections by year's end.
2011-08-06,MP on News Corp execs: It now seems to be everyone for themselves. The edifice is cracking. Theyre all fighting like rats in a sack. 
2011-08-06,Emergency G7 summit called as markets continue to fall - Telegraph
2011-08-06,At least 10 killed in Somali refugee camp firefight
2011-08-05,"'People are being slaughtered like sheep': Gunmen in plainclothes are randomly shooting people in the streets of the besieged Syrian city of Hama and families are burying their loved ones in gardens at home for fear of being killed themselves if they venture out to cemeteries, a resident says."
2011-08-05,Ethiopia 'using aid as weapon of oppression'. Villages who voted for the opposition are starving near well-fed communities
2011-08-05,BBC News - Wall Street and global markets tumble on debt fears
2011-08-05,"Syria has killed over 2,000 demonstrators during the Arab Spring"
2011-08-05,"Based on Portuguese example, Britains Liberal Democrats want inquiry into decriminalising drug possession"
2011-08-05,Philippine President meets with MILF separatists
2011-08-05,"Internet Evolution - 
The War on Web Anonymity "
2011-08-05," Iranian youths arrested for public water pistol fight in Tehran, due to government fears of mixed-gender play and the effective use of social media"
2011-08-05,New Zealand bans sale of 43 legal weed products designed to mimic marijuana high
2011-08-05,"Riot police in the Chilean capital, Santiago, are 
using tear gas and water cannon to break up 
demonstrations by students demanding educational 
reform."
2011-08-05,Another British Journalist Admits to Phone Hacking  This Time at the Guardian  
2011-08-05,Chile student protests against Right Wing government explode into violence
2011-08-05,"Sex strike works in Colombia, authorities bow to demands "
2011-08-05,Gadhaffi's retreating forces leave landmines
2011-08-05,"Syria demonstrators rally despite crackdown: Friday protests across the nation, a day after Assad announces political concessions and US says he has lost legitimacy."
2011-08-05,"Officials in China Seized Infants for Black Market, Parents Say"
2011-08-05,"Fjordman (the Norwegian ""counterjihad"" blogger who inspired Breivik) reveals identity"
2011-08-05,"26 police officers resign in northern Mexico town
"
2011-08-05,"China's Manhattan Knock-Off -- On a peninsula southeast of Beijing, developer Vincent Lee literally wants to build a copy of New York City"
2011-08-05,"

Niger Delta left with $1bn oil pollution clean-up bill - 

Damage worse than thought, says UN"
2011-08-05,NATO Airstrike Kills Gadhafi's Son
2011-08-05,"Libyan rebels claim Gaddafi son killed: Rebel spokesman says Libyan army commander Khamis Gaddafi killed in NATO airstrike on Zlitan, a claim government denies."
2011-08-05,Has Turkey taken an authoritarian turn? Some say Turkey's civilian government has conspired to discredit the military and consolidate power.
2011-08-05,EFF: Mexican Newspaper Uncovers Systemic Monitoring Plans of Public Online Sources
2011-08-05,Yingluck Shinawatra Voted In As Thailand's First Female Prime Minister 
2011-08-04,"Facebook facial recognition software violates privacy laws, says Germany - Social network must stop programme and delete data already collected on users  or face fines up to 300,000, says official"
2011-08-04,A Muslim woman punched a man in the face after he had photographed her on a busy Toronto intersection; claims that her religious rights had been violated
2011-08-04,"'Bomb' device attached to Mosman schoolgirl was a 'very, very elaborate' hoax

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2011-08-04,"Shell admits liability for huge Nigeria oil spill. 'BP did more in six months for the US communities than Shell has done in 50 years for the Ogoniland,' activist says."
2011-08-04,India to give $2bn to fund bailouts in Europe
2011-08-04,"UK copyright law shake-up will give 8bn boost to economy: Business Sec, Vince Cable, ""We are removing the barriers to the intellectual property system to encourage innovation. We need a legal framework that supports consumer use rather than one that sees it as regrettable."" "
2011-08-04,"Policies that have frustrated Palestinians for years are now being applied to middle-class Israelis, too"
2011-08-04,"Pet owners get to keep their dogs thanks to wave of fierce protests after Chinese city ordered 30,000 pet dogs seized & killed in bid to stop spread of rabies -  The plan was criticized as unscientific & inhumane by experts"
2011-08-04,"The secret British interrogation policy that could never be made public: ""Tony Blair's government was guilty of developing something close to a criminal policy"""
2011-08-04,Stocks collapse on global slowdown fears 
2011-08-04," Niger delta oil spills clean-up will take 30 years, says UN"
2011-08-04,"UK officials were allowed to interrogate tortured prisoners, document shows."
2011-08-04,Japan drives down yen as crisis grips world financial markets - Bank of Japan sells more than one trillion yen to stem currency's value
2011-08-04,"For Syrians living in the city of Hama, it's a recurring nightmare  the sounds of tanks rolling into the city center, and screams. Activists say hundreds killed in Syria."
2011-08-04,"Syrian army intensifies Hama assault: ""I saw with my own eyes one young boy on a motorcycle who was carrying vegetables being run over by a tank."""
2011-08-04,French court orders probe of IMF chief Lagarde's role in a much-criticized $400 million arbitration deal in favor of a controversial tycoon.
2011-08-04,Italy likely to default 
2011-08-04,"Canadian government accused of 'unprecedented' tar sands lobbying - 
'Friends of the Earth Europe' claims ministers have attempted to undermine European fuel legislation that would affect exports"
2011-08-04,"Chile police, students clash in banned protests"
2011-08-04,Swedish man caught trying to split atoms at home
2011-08-04,"Canada Fires Environment Ministry Scientists &  Meteorologists, Hires Oil Lobbyists"
2011-08-04,BBC News - Piers Morgan 'needs to explain hacking comments'
2011-08-04,A French court on Thursday ordered an investigation into new IMF chief Christine Lagarde's role in a much-criticized $400 million arbitration deal in favor of a controversial tycoon.
2011-08-04,Shouting in the Dark - The story of the Arab revolution that was forgotten by the world
2011-08-04,"Smolensk air crash: Poland sacks top military officers - Thirteen top Polish military officers have been fired, and a deputy defence minister has resigned, over last year's air disaster in western Russia."
2011-08-03,Police in Sydney are trying to defuse a bomb that has been strapped to a teenage girl
2011-08-03,Greece to decriminalize drugs.
2011-08-03,"MP who doggedly hunted News Corp execs was warned by Rebekah Brooks she would pursue him ""for the rest of his life"""
2011-08-03,Italy approves draft law to ban burqa 
2011-08-03,"Randi Zuckberg: ""I think anonymity on the Internet has to go away"""
2011-08-03, Israel's secular middle class strikes back --- Protest over housing costs starts to turn into confrontation with the government. Could crack open issue of why so much taxpayers' money is spent supporting unproductive ultra-Orthodox
2011-08-03,Chinese agency downgrades U.S. credit rating
2011-08-03,"Ex-soldiers sentenced to 6,000 years in prison for Guatemalan massacre"
2011-08-03,"Saudi Arabian lawmakers have put a draft law before the Shura Council that would ""in effect criminalise legitimate dissent."""
2011-08-03,Ukraine to save bears from forced vodka drinking
2011-08-03,FINALLY! U.N. Security Council condemns Syria over crackdown
2011-08-03,NATO investigates BBC reporter's death in Afghanistan. A local news agency has suggested he was killed by US troops.
2011-08-03,Paralysed woman's tries to claim 6m damages from friend's father after getting drunk and diving into the shallow end of his pool. Fails.
2011-08-03,"Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon accelerated in June, with over 300 sq kilometers destroyed, a 17% increase over the previous month"
2011-08-03,One of our islands is missing
2011-08-03,Egypt: Trial of ex-President Hosni Mubarak to open
2011-08-03,"Libya Allying With Islamists, Qaddafi Son Says: ""The liberals will escape or be killed,"" vows Seif el-Islam el-Qaddafi . . . ""Libya will look like Saudi Arabia, like Iran. So what?"""
2011-08-03,"Head of Radioisotope Center at University of Tokyo, Prof. Kodama, testifies on how serious Fukushima fallout really is"
2011-08-03,"Syrian tanks occupy main Hama square, shell city-residents and besiege protest hubs --- ""All communications have been cut off. The regime is using the media focus on the Hosni Mubarak trial to finish off Hama,"" one of the residents told Reuters "
2011-08-03,"As Italy Crumbles, Berlusconi Hosts Another Bunga Bunga Party"
2011-08-03,"Poll: Muslims, atheists most likely to reject violence"
2011-08-03,"Cull of 30,000 pet dogs ordered after deadly rabies outbreak in Chinese city of Jiangmen but experts say plan unscientific and inhumane"
2011-08-03,"Rape as a Weapon of War: Men Suffer, Too - Global Spin - TIME.com"
2011-08-03,"""I have always been interested in physics and chemistry,"" Handl said, adding he just wanted to ""see if it's possible to split atoms at home."""
2011-08-03,"Interview with an Utya survivor - "" 'This is police, you're safe.' That's the trick he used. """
2011-08-02,Israel agrees to negotiate over pre-'67 lines
2011-08-02,Fatal Radiation Levels At Fukushima Now 'Off The Scale'
2011-08-02,"It's not just Apple and Ikea, China also fakes these stores: Disney, Nike, D&G, McDonald's, Starbucks and more"
2011-08-02,Japanese officials are shocked after finding a new record high of radiation at Fukushima contrary to their expectations.
2011-08-02,Seeing North Korea from the Inside
2011-08-02,"The people of Iceland have now twice voted not to repay international debts incurred by banks, and bankers, for which the whole island is being held responsible. With the present turmoil in European capitals, could this be the way forward for other economies?"
2011-08-02,Swede busted for building a nuclear reactor in his kitchen
2011-08-02,The Audacity of the World Ignoring Somalia
2011-08-02,Korean journalist predicts collapse of North
2011-08-02, News International ordered mass deletion of emails nine times 
2011-08-02,Phone-hacking scandal: Key figure at News International arrested
2011-08-02,"key figure at News International, has been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and corruption."
2011-08-02,Italy Burqa Ban: Muslim Veil Law Passes Parliamentary Commision
2011-08-02,Israeli high court finds in favor of Palestinian property rights.
2011-08-02,Syrian protesters demand action to halt killings by Bashar al-Assad regime:  Activists appeal to international community to increase pressure as condemnation mounts over escalating bloodshed
2011-08-02,Norway Withdraws Jets from Libya Ops
2011-08-02,"Israel's supreme court ordered the evacuation of a hilltop outpost where some 250 Jewish settlers live without further delay, upholding a petition made by Palestinians and an anti-settler group over five years ago"
2011-08-02,Japan Nuclear Crisis: Record High Radiation at Crippled Japan Nuke Plant 
2011-08-02,Murdoch cream-pie thrower gets 6 weeks in jail
2011-08-02,"Saudi Arabia's Kingdom Holding Co., run by billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, said its associate firm, Jeddah Economic Co., had signed a 4.6 billion Saudi riyal ($1.23 billion) deal with Bin Laden Group to build the world's tallest tower in Jeddah"
2011-08-02,"The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory"
2011-08-02,Egypt army breaks up protest in Cairos Tahrir Square 
2011-08-02,"China Aims To Renew Status As Scientific Superpower. China was probably the world's earliest technological superpower, inventing the plow, the compass, gunpowder and block printing. Then, science in the Middle Kingdom languished for centuries."
2011-08-02,Philippine capital hit by massive floods
2011-08-02,"Turkeys Generals Resign --- 
Good analysis of tension between the military and governing AKP. Problem is that the healthy process of asserting civilian control is being undertaken by a party that's intolerant of dissent and has been politicising the bureaucracy"
2011-08-01,Murdoch's News International ordered tech firm to mass-deleted emails.
2011-08-01,"HSBC posts $11.5 billion profit, announces plan to slash 25,000 more jobs"
2011-08-01,Murdoch Hacked Us Too --- Excoriating attack on News Corp. Not just a UK issue. And there's a lot more to it than mere tabloid vulgarity and right-wing attack-dog politics
2011-08-01,GETTING BIN LADEN: What happened that night in Abbottabad
2011-08-01,Chinese government censors all reports on railway crash amid unrest
2011-08-01,"EU fishing fleets discarded 2.7bn (2.1m) of dead or dying cod to avoid breaking regulations, claims report, fueling  bitter debate
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2011-08-01,"Doubting Assurances, Japanese Find Radioactivity on Their Own"
2011-08-01,Chinese newspapers defy government ban on negative coverage of bullet train crash
2011-08-01,"North Korea 'keen' for six-party nuclear talks: North Korea says it is eager to resume six-party talks on its nuclear programme ""at an early date"" and ""without preconditions""."
2011-08-01,Major retail chain in Norway will stop selling violent video games after massacre
2011-08-01,"In a dramatic policy shift, Israel's prime minister has agreed to negotiate the borders of a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 cease-fire line."
2011-08-01,The Rise of the Macro-Nationalists
2011-08-01,"Chinas $2 Trillion Hole ---              
The US debt negotiation ceilings are going to the wire. China, the biggest holder of Treasury debt, is watching on helplessly as it gets taken to the financial cleaners."
2011-08-01,"Banking giant HSBC has said it will cut 25,000 jobs by 2013 and exit operations in 20 countries"
2011-08-01,"Norway PM Jens Stoltenberg warns against 'witch hunt': Norway's Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has warned his compatriots not to launch a ""witch hunt"" following the deadly attacks of 22 July."
2011-08-01,"A deadly weekend attack in China's restive Xinjiang region was masterminded by ""terrorists"" trained in Pakistan"
2011-08-01,Civilians killed as protesters chide 'silent' West
2011-08-01,Syrian Army Kills Dozens in Assaults on Restive Cities - NYTimes.com
2011-08-01,"Ritual killings and even cannibalism flare up in Liberia's election campaigns.
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2011-08-01,"Syrian forces have killed nearly 142 people, including at least 100 when the army stormed the flashpoint protest city of Hama to crush dissent on the eve of Ramadan"
2011-08-01,Jordan's King Abdullah II Gets a Star Trek Theme Park
2011-08-01,"A War Without Corpses: In Colombia's most violent city, crime statistics get better even as the situation gets worse"
2011-08-01,Lebanese Army opens fire on Israel-Lebanon border.  One soldier hurt.
2011-08-01,Ramadan Massacre: Videos Show Horror of Syria's Deadliest Day
2011-08-01,"The EU has announced new sanctions against Syrians involved in the violent crackdown against anti-regime protesters. Protests and violence continued on Monday, a day after Syrian forces killed at least 80 people."
2011-07-31,Pictures of all the Norway victims (with brief bios)
2011-07-31,Afghans Rage at Young Lovers; A Father Says Kill Them Both
2011-07-31," 'Eco-pirate' Paul Watson is in danger of losing his boat. Sea Shepherd flagship impounded in Scottish port after Maltese tuna fishery sues for 850,000 in damages"
2011-07-31," Could Iceland be a model for debt-ridden Europe? Iceland effectively said ""stuff you"" to the banks' creditors. "
2011-07-31,Nigeria: Government vows to prosecute parents who reject polio vaccines for their children. These vaccines were suspended in 2003-2004 because Muslim leaders said they were causing infertility and it was a Western depopulation plot. 
2011-07-31,"Israel struggles with free speech issues. ""public support for free-speech rights is declining in Israel and that more than one in three Israelis now say there is 'too much' free speech."""
2011-07-31,Foxconn to replace workers with 1 million robots in 3 years
2011-07-31,Official London anti-terrorist publication says anarchists should be reported to local police 
2011-07-31,BBC News - NoW investigator Glenn Mulcaire releases statement saying he was instructed to hack
2011-07-31,"Whos Grabbing Africas Land? U.S. Speculators, Including Universities"
2011-07-31,"Mexico 'drug enforcer admits 1,500 killings'"
2011-07-31,"Brazil grapples with its violent history:  For the first time, Brazil is allowing access to documents that might unmask torturers from the military dictatorship.
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2011-07-31,"Guatemalan war rape survivors: 'We have no voice' - More than 100,000 women were raped in the 36-year Guatemalan civil war. Despite violent retributions, they are now breaking their silence"
2011-07-31,Syria Kills 145 in Hama on Ramadan Eve
2011-07-31,Iraq to buy 36 U.S. fighter jets
2011-07-31,"Blair to face withering fire in Iraq report 
Chilcot criticisms said to zero-in on WMD, 'sofa-style', secret pledge to Bush, and post-invasion plans"
2011-07-31,Somalia is Dying. Why Don't We Care?
2011-07-31,Magnitude-6.4 earthquake hits off Japan 
2011-07-31,Chinese Nuclear Accident Alleged
2011-07-31,Venezuela plans 'to release 40% of prisoners'
2011-07-31,Libyan rebels admit to killing their leader
2011-07-31,"Knife attack and explosions leave several dead in Xinjiang, China"
2011-07-31,"Spanish tradition of bullfighting saved, reclassified as ""artistic discipline"" despite protests from animal rights groups."
2011-07-31,"BT on site-blocking: ""We believe in an open internet - we won't do any other blocking. We will never stop our customers getting to any service they want to get to...unless a court orders us to."""
2011-07-31,Fish Swim in Israels Desert
2011-07-30,"Norwegians provoked by Fox News' coverage of 
terrorism"
2011-07-30,"""Linking is not a crime"": Czech Pirate Party declares war on Big Content"
2011-07-30," How Germany plans to succeed in a nuclear free, low-carbon economy"
2011-07-30,"Relatives of banana-plantation workers, political and social activists, and other civilians killed by Colombian paramilitary forces may sue Chiquita over claims of torture, extrajudicial killings, war crimes and crimes against humanity, a federal judge ruled"
2011-07-30,5 metric tons of cocaine discovered aboard sunken narcosub off Honduras
2011-07-30,"Peter Svaar from Norway's broadcaster NRK was one of the first reporters at the scene of the Oslo bomb blast, and describes finding out that it was a former classmate who carried out the attacks"
2011-07-30,Belarus Law Prohibits People From Standing and Doing Nothing - NYTimes.com
2011-07-30,Future of Egypt thrown into uncertainty
2011-07-30,All of Turkey's top military commanders resign in protest
2011-07-30,Mexican police arrest more than 1000 in human trafficking raids
2011-07-30,Plane crashes at Guyana airport - 150 people onboard
2011-07-30,Mubarak to be tried in Cairo
2011-07-30,"Unraveling the Mystery of Murderous Minds ---  Prison psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple asks why we feel compelled to understand monsters like Anders Breivik, but no need to explain others' righteous behavior"
2011-07-30,"Vietnam shoe plant fire kills 17: At least 17 people have been killed in a fire at a shoe factory in northern Vietnam, police and local media say."
2011-07-30,Norway shooting: 'The Anders Breivik I knew'
2011-07-30,"Phone-hacking: British police widen investigations to 
computers"
2011-07-30,World population to hit 7 billion this year
2011-07-30,Turkish Military Chiefs Step Down En Masse
2011-07-30,"Thousands march in Israel, demanding social change"
2011-07-30,"Syrian forces shot dead at least 20 civilians in attacks on pro-democracy demonstrations across the country Friday, the Syrian human rights organization Sawasiah said."
2011-07-30,Growing Evidence That Libyan Rebels Killed Their Military Chief
2011-07-30,"Hinckley C nuclear power station: Work on the UK's first nuclear power station to be built in 20 years has got the green light, but there is still strong opposition
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2011-07-30," Irish property crash:A massive firesale of 850 properties has been launched by Ireland's bad bank, including pubs in Somerset, apartment blocks in Canary Wharf and hotels in Cork"
2011-07-30,Killed top Libyan Rebel killed by lieutenants 
2011-07-30,Two Indian soldiers killed in Kashmir border clash
2011-07-29,"Guardian: Let's Stop Assuming the Police are on Our Side - From mass arrests to surveillance, confidence in the Metropolitan police is at an all-time low"
2011-07-29, It was asked why we have not heard about Murdoch Phone hacking here you go. The latest on the Murdoch Phone hacking
2011-07-29,World population to surpass 7 billion in 2011
2011-07-29,Arctic scientist who exposed climate threat to polar bear is suspended. US government conducts 'integrity inquiry' on federal biologist amid lobbying by oil firms for Arctic permits
2011-07-29,Canadians raise $2.9-million for East African famine victims 
2011-07-29,Gaddafi is stronger than ever in Libya
2011-07-29,North Korea seeks peace treaty with US 
2011-07-29,Japan considers end to Antarctic whaling.
2011-07-29,Norway prime minister urges nation to embrace freedom: Evil has brought out the best in us. Hatred engenders love.
2011-07-29,Anonymous no more --- You cant hidefrom anybody | The Economist
2011-07-29,"China's state-run media have labelled US domestic politicians ""dangerously irresponsible"" for wrangling over debt.

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2011-07-29,"In his rage against Muslims, Norway's killer was no loner"
2011-07-29,Hacking judge tells press: I need your help to weed out corruption
2011-07-29,"Tunisian court sentences ousted president Ben Ali to 
16 years jail for corruption"
2011-07-29,Turkey: Military chiefs 'resign en masse'
2011-07-29,Poland finds Russia at fault for presidential jet crash: A Polish report has found that Russia was partly to blame for the air crash last year which killed then-President Lech Kaczynski.
2011-07-29,Morrissey: Norwegian killings are 'nothing' compared with McDonald's and KFC
2011-07-29,Miracle Transplant: Wearing the Face of Dead Man
2011-07-29,Palestinians prepare for massive uprising
2011-07-29,"There are fewer undocumented immigrants in California because many are now finding the American dream south of the border...
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2011-07-29,Tens of thousands of Egyptian Islamists pour into Tahrir Square calling for a state bound by strict religious law
2011-07-29, Turkey's top military chiefs 'resign' over divisions with government 
2011-07-29,"Berlin's drive to recruit foreign workers proves unpopular: The economic crisis has cost many skilled workers in nations like Greece or Spain their jobs. Some of them now want to try their luck in Germany. That makes labor experts happy, but many Germans are opposed to the idea."
2011-07-29,Hosni Mubarak will see trial from inside metal cage
2011-07-29,Israels citizenry seems to have collectively blown a fuse.
2011-07-28,"Children in nuclear-hit Fukushima are to undergo 
regular cancer tests - for the rest of their lives."
2011-07-28," Syrian protesters 'forcibly disappeared' at rate of one every hour, say activists "
2011-07-28,"Oslo Massacre: ""Despite...Breiviks known ultra-right associations, the media is at great pains to obscure the political issues raised by his atrocity and portray him as nothing more than a lone psychopath."""
2011-07-28,Anger over China high-speed rail accident leads to unusually vocal protests against the government's handling of the aftermath
2011-07-28,"Libyan rebel officials say Abdel Fattah Younes, who was leading the rebels'
military campaign against Muammar Gaddafi, is dead."
2011-07-28,Killer Algae Hits Brittany Beaches -  Toxic gas could be as fatal to humans as to the dead boars washing ashore
2011-07-28,"19yo LulzSec Anonymous ""spokesman"" arrested in London."
2011-07-28,"In the Thai Buddhist mind, almost nothing is so disturbing as harming a monk. That is exactly why insurgents shoot monks at close range."
2011-07-28,"Ibrahim Qashoush's lyrics moved thousands of protesters in Syria who sang his jaunty verses at rallies, telling President Bashar Assad, ""Time to leave."" So when his body was dumped in the river flowing through his hometown, his killers added an obvious message: His throat was carved out.
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2011-07-28,BBC News - BT ordered to block pirate links
2011-07-28,Mexican judge finds 14-year-old U.S. citizen guilty of beheadings - CNN.com
2011-07-28,"The United Nations has begun sending emergency humanitarian aid to Somalia in a bid to help millions there suffering from a crippling drought affecting the Horn of Africa. Still, aid groups say millions can't be reached."
2011-07-28,Swedish neo-Nazi site charged with hate speech for allowing a reader comment containing racial slurs to remain on the site.
2011-07-28,Cuba is close to recognizing civil unions for same-sex couples
2011-07-28,Faces of 38 of the victims from Norway after police has released their names 
2011-07-28,At last! Egypt's Hosni Mubarak to face trial in Cairo
2011-07-28,Norway killer's manifesto praises Japan for not adopting multiculturalism
2011-07-28,The Norway attacks (The Big Picture)
2011-07-28,Scotland Yard: LulzSec spokesman arrested
2011-07-28,UK Prime Minister adviser suggests abolition of consumer rights and jobcentres 
2011-07-28,"Heavy fighting erupts in Somalia after the first aid 
delivery arrives to Mogadishu."
2011-07-28,"For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, here is a brief BBC guide to the Palestinian UN recognition bid."
2011-07-28,China demands US to halt spy plane flights near Chinese coast
2011-07-28,BBC News - Why do social networks insist on having your real name?
2011-07-28,The Breakup: Why Ireland Is No Longer the Vatican's Loyal Follower
2011-07-27,UK Bans Make-Up Advertisements for being Misleading
2011-07-27,"""If you devote your life to spewing anti-Islamic hatred, you should not be surprised if someone comes along and kills in the name of that hatred. In fact, you should expect it."""
2011-07-27,Anonymous launches operation to turn Breivik into a joke
2011-07-27,"If convicted, Anders Behring Breivik could be sent to this Norwegian prison, the most humane in the world"
2011-07-27,A New Way to Fight Mexico's Vicious Cartels: Legalizing Marijuana
2011-07-27,"North Korea has forced 100,000 college students into construction labor without proper meals, even though there is no manpower shortage."
2011-07-27,Bravo UK! L'Oral's Julia Roberts and Christy Turlington ad campaigns banned for excessive airbrushing  
2011-07-27,Norways prime minister said extremist views are legitimate but violence is not. 
2011-07-27,Star Wars prop maker wins copyright battle with Lucas
2011-07-27,North Korea demands peace treaty with the US
2011-07-27,Buddhists arm themselves against Thailand's Islamic insurgency
2011-07-27,UN recognises global body for homosexuals: Gays and lesbians granted consultative status at world body amid opposition from African and Islamic countries
2011-07-27,Main Lesson From The Murdoch Scandal? Corporate conglomerate power run unregulated causes great public harm and lacks the checks and balances required for there to be any accountability.
2011-07-27,Japanese police practice arresting protesters to prepare for towns upcoming dolphin hunts
2011-07-27,Ex-Berlusconi minister defends Anders Behring Breivik.  Northern League member says Norwegian killer's ideas are in defence of western civilisation
2011-07-27,"A 19-year-old man has been arrested in the Shetland Islands as part of an investigation into hacking groups, Anonymous and LulzSec."
2011-07-27,UK:Murdoch given secret defence briefings had meetings with gov. ministers in current cabinet over 60 times.
2011-07-27,Ally of Berlusconi says Norway killer had 'some excellent ideas'
2011-07-27,Piers Morgan Admits Dodgy Journalistic Practices in 2009 BBC Interview.
2011-07-27,Chinese police have quelled a mass riot sparked by rumours that a disabled fruit seller had been beaten to death by local officials.
2011-07-27,"Lawrence Summers On The Euro Crisis --- 
""There is no politician who will ignore the laws of physics when building a bridge. But there is a tendency in politics in every country to suppose that the laws of economics are flexible and can be adjusted to political necessity"""
2011-07-27,Japan: angry Fukushima citizens confront government (video)
2011-07-27,Islamophobes attempt distance themselves from Oslo perpetrator
2011-07-27,"Britain Recognizes Libyan Rebels, Expels Gadhafi  Envoys"
2011-07-27,"Anders Breiviks embrace of Israel is the latest sign of a shift among reactionaries in Europewith fascism and Zionism going hand in hand, fueled by Islamophobia, says Michelle Goldberg. "
2011-07-26,"Internet users ""have a reasonable expectation of anonymity"" that the courts must protect: ruling by a Canadian Superior Court judge"
2011-07-26,A German tourist is being hailed as a hero for rescuing at least 20 teens from gunman's rampage on Utoya island
2011-07-26,"Glenn Beck compares Norway's dead teenagers to Hitler youth: Glenn Beck, the leading Right-wing American broadcaster, has prompted outrage after comparing the teenage victims of the Utoya Island massacre to the Hitler Youth."
2011-07-26,"Today I'm proud to be Norwegian: ""Youth parties 
see surge in recruitment"" following the terrorist 
attack on the Labour youth party"
2011-07-26,"Israel has erupted in protest -- yes, you read that right: Israel joins Egypt, Syria and many others in an increasingly global struggle for social justice"
2011-07-26,"Glenn Beck slammed by the Norwegian government for on-air comments he made comparing the teenage victims to the Hitler Youth
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2011-07-26,BP reports quarterly profit of $5.3BILLION!
2011-07-26,"150,000 people are gathered in Oslo right now, to honor the victims of the terrorist attack. ""Tonight, the streets are filled with love,"" the Crown-Prince opened his speech."
2011-07-26,"For five years to 2008, the Fukushima plant was rated the most hazardous nuclear facility in Japan for worker exposure to radiation and one of the five worst nuclear plants in the world on that basis."
2011-07-26,"Who pollutes: The rich or the poor?:
India's prime minister is allowing India's environment to be destroyed in order to cater to powerful foreign investors."
2011-07-26,Rupert Murdoch's Media Empire Has Made the World Worse in a Dozen Ways
2011-07-26,Access to Amnesty Internationals website has been blocked in Saudi Arabia following the organizations criticism of a draft anti-terror law that would stifle peaceful protest in the kingdom
2011-07-26,Former DEA and CIA Operatives: Los Zetas May Attempt to Overthrow Mexican Government in 2012 (Using U.S. Government Weapons) 
2011-07-26,China's propaganda instructions for the high speed rail crash
2011-07-26,Vatican's ambassador to Ireland has been recalled to Rome in protest over Ireland's scathing report on church's poor handling of child abuse by priests
2011-07-26,"Neglecting The Lithuanian Holocaust --- 
Holocaust memorial defaced with the words ""Hitler was right"". Nobody seems to have noticed or cared much. Tells you plenty about Lithuania's indifference to its Holocaust history. Outrage is reserved for victims of Soviet occupation"
2011-07-26,British Blogger Says He Has Recording That Proves Piers Morgan Knew About Phone-Hacking
2011-07-26,"Gulf oil spill victims weary of wait for payouts - In other news, BP may be broken up and sold for $100 billion"
2011-07-26,"The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that hacking was rife at Murdoch paper - has since been hired by the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch"
2011-07-26,"Norway: Police ponder new Anders Behring Breivik charge - Norwegian police are considering charging the man who admitted killing 76 people in Friday's attacks with crimes against humanity, prosecutor Christian Hatlo has said."
2011-07-26,"Hamas hangs 2 convicted of spying for Israel:
Father and son convicted of helping Israel target Hamas leader executed in Gaza"
2011-07-26,"Anders Behring Breivik appears insane, says his lawyer"
2011-07-26,The victims of the Oslo bombing and Utya massacre. Updated as more names are released.
2011-07-26,China has ordered a 2-month nationwide safety review of its railways amid public anger at a deadly crash between 2 bullet trains
2011-07-26,Plane crash kills 78 in Morocco - CNN
2011-07-25,"Firsthand account of Utya Massacre (crosspost from r/linux, of all places) "
2011-07-25,"Experts Baffled By Mysterious Underground Chambers --- More than 700 small tunnel networks have been found in southern Germany. There are hundreds more in Austria. Who built them, when and why? Archeologists are only just beginning to piece together the answers"
2011-07-25,"In the media, Breivik has been characterised as a deranged loner. Nothing could be further from the truth. Breivik's acts were entirely consistent with others by European fascists. More importantly, Breivik's ideas firmly reflect mainstream right-wing discourse."
2011-07-25,Charlie Brooker on the UK's media trying desperately to find which Muslim group committed the Norwegian atrocities.
2011-07-25,Hackers hit Italian cyber-police: Hackers have started to release gigabytes of secret documents stolen from an Italian cybercrime unit.
2011-07-25,"One of the gunman in Norway's first victims: Off-duty police officer who went straight ahead towards the gunman when the shooting started, he's also the crown princess's step brother. "
2011-07-25,Oslo attacks: Why did so many experts blame Islamic terrorists? - By Christopher Hitchens 
2011-07-25,Norway Killer Anders Behring Breivik may be part of a bigger anti-Islamic Right Wing network that is preparing to carry out similar attacks in Europe.
2011-07-25,The Vatican has recalled its envoy to Ireland following Taoiseach Enda Kenny's trenchant criticism of the Holy Sees role in covering up cases of clerical child sex abuse.
2011-07-25,1.5 million Russians are addicted to heroin
2011-07-25,"Japan has passed a law that will enable the police and contractors to monitor internet activity without restriction to ""cleanse"" the Internet of any ""bad"" Fukushima radiation news.
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2011-07-25,Norwegian gunman 'has accomplices'
2011-07-25,"A Ridiculous Rapid Response: Why did so many ""experts"" declare the Oslo attacks to be the work of Islamic terrorists?"
2011-07-25,China's effort to muzzle news of train crash sparks outcry
2011-07-25,Hacker Claims to Have Obtained 8GB Worth of Multinational Content - Threatens to Release it Soon
2011-07-25,"Norway attacks: ""Breivik was my friend on Facebook. I've seen what fed his hatred. I was once a member of Sweden's nationalist party, but vile online propaganda drove me away."""
2011-07-25,"At least 100,000 attend Oslo anti-violence rally
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2011-07-25,NPR: Norway Suspect Claims to be Part of Terror Network
2011-07-25,"Teenage Afghan asylum seeker who fled to Norway two years ago one of dozens still hospitalized having sustained four gunshot wounds. Still holds a positive view of his adopted home. ""I have experienced much good in Norway, so much good,"""
2011-07-25,Staff across all of News International newspapers warned not to delete or destroy documents relating to any of the phone-hacking investigations
2011-07-25,Giant sinkhole found under a bed in Guatemala City
2011-07-25,"BP not making money, so break it up in a deal worth $100 billion"
2011-07-25,"Anti-Vaccination Groups are developing in places where Vaccinations are needed the most, the developing world."
2011-07-25,"Why China's Deadly Train Crash Seems So Suspicious - 
Angry internet users question the government as the death toll reaches 35"
2011-07-25,"Analysis: Norway massacre exposes incendiary immigration issue

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2011-07-24,"At about 2:08 and 3:00, Norwegian PM Stoltenberg says, ""Tomorrow we will show the world that Norway's democracy grows stronger when it is challenged  and that the answer to violence is even more democracy, even more humanity, but never navet."" "
2011-07-24,S. Korea enacts 'chemical castration' law for pedophiles
2011-07-24,"Norway PM quotes young survivor in memorial speech: ""If one man can show this much hate, think how much love we can show together"""
2011-07-24,"Why I'm taking the UK police to court for kettling me: I'm 16 and went to protest peacefully with my friends about our future, but we were held for 10 hours without food or water"
2011-07-24,"Norwegians defy gunman by sticking to open, tolerant society"
2011-07-24,Private detectives employed by News International are even now compiling dossiers for future use on politicians who attack Murdoch
2011-07-24,This Murdoch scandal has exposed the scale of elite corruption: lifted the lid on how power is really exercised in 21st-century Britain  in which the unreformed City and its bankers play a central part.
2011-07-24,I'm starting to think that the Left might actually be right - Telegraph
2011-07-24,Norwegian killer made this video (confirmed by Norwegian media)
2011-07-24,Violent clashes erupt in Egyptian capital: At least 231 injured after knife-wielding men attack pro-reform protesters marching to defence ministry in Cairo.
2011-07-24,Norwegian terrorist sent manifesto to Finnish politicians just before attacks
2011-07-24,"The Taliban executed an 8-year-old boy, by hanging, in southern Afghanistan..."
2011-07-24,Norway attacks: We can no longer ignore the far-right threat 
2011-07-24,"Corrupt police officers should be locked up and the key ""thrown away"""
2011-07-24,Norway's killer describe 8 robbery attempts by muslims as his reason for his hatred
2011-07-24,"Phone hacking: 7/7 victims fear police passed 
numbers to News of the World"
2011-07-24,The Demand For Water Will Increase Five Times By 2050
2011-07-24,"Oslo attacker says attacks were ""gruesome but 
necessary"""
2011-07-24,2000 y/o bell found in ancient Jerusalem sewer
2011-07-24,What did the Oslo killer want? | FP Passport
2011-07-24,"Man Blamed For Norway Attacks ""Wanted A Revolution""; Called Massacre ""Ultimate Love Gift"""
2011-07-24,"A Conversation With The Dalai Lama --- 
Charming interview with Tibetan spiritual leader. Got on well with Mao, valued his leadership advice, was then casually told ""religion is poison"". Says today's CCP leaders should do like him and retire. Cheerful discussing own death"
2011-07-24,"Faced with inhumanity, we must be more human - Opinion - Al Jazeera English (must Read)
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2011-07-24,"Kenyan Mau Mau survivors to sue British government: London court rules that elderly Kenyans can sue British government for abuse.
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2011-07-24,Belgian ban on full veils comes into force
2011-07-23,"""You wont destroy us. You won't destroy our democracy. We are a small but proud nation. No one will bomb us to silence."" - Norwegian PM"
2011-07-23,"Deadly famine in Horn of Africa. NBC is making this a top news priority, kudos to them for getting the word out. "
2011-07-23,At least 80 killed at Norway youth conference 
2011-07-23,China bullet train derails; coaches fall off bridge
2011-07-23,Phone hacking was rife under Piers Morgan when he was editor of a UK tabloid claims ex reporter. 
2011-07-23,Canada deported Chinas most wanted man on Friday after dismissing his arguments that he could be tortured or executed if he was returned home.
2011-07-23,Norway police now saying: 'Eighty killed' in island shooting
2011-07-23,"10 year old boy to Utya shooter: ""You've killed my dad. Leave us alone."""
2011-07-23,Norwegian spree killer has EDL links
2011-07-23,Palestinian president says Israel's refusal to halt settlement building has forced his people to seek recognition at UN
2011-07-23,"Man killed in Iran shooting was student, not nuclear scientist: A mix-up over names apparently led to initial reports that the man slain in Tehran was a scientist involved in the country's nuclear program."
2011-07-23,Norwegian mass murderer shares his thoughts
2011-07-23,UK: Female genital mutilation laws to be toughened against families
2011-07-23,"""SlutWalk"", a protest against a Canadian police officer who advised women to avoid dressing like sluts to avoid rape, changed in India: ""even if we are covered head to toe in a sari or a burqa, we get molested and raped"""
2011-07-23,"This Is Iraq --- 
Photo essay from Iraq, framed around work of the Red Cross. Shows decrepit nature of basic infrastructure, struggles of those maimed or widowed. Not always comfortable viewing. Some very well-conceived shots"
2011-07-23,"Libya rebels claim strike on regime officials: Rebels say rare RPG attack hit meeting in Tripoli attended by Gaddafi's son, intelligence chief and prime minister."
2011-07-23,"At least 80 people killed in Utya massacre outside Oslo, Norway"
2011-07-23,Anders Behring Breivik (32) arrested after Utya shooting and explosions in Oslo (picture in article).
2011-07-23,"80 people now confirmed dead in Norway shooting, number expected to rise."
2011-07-23,"Britain's phone hacking scandal: for some, News of the World was not the only culprit"
2011-07-23,First photos from Bullet Train crash in China
2011-07-23,Iran nuclear scientist assassinated
2011-07-23,Belgium bans full facial veils in public. Offenders can receive fines and up to a week in jail.
2011-07-23,British Scientists Have Secretly Created More Than 150 Human-Animal Hybrids
2011-07-23,"Taliban hang 8-year-old boy in Afghanistan
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2011-07-22,Huge explosion in downtown Oslo
2011-07-22,LulzSec claims to have 4GB of News International emails
2011-07-22,"James Murdoch lied to parliament, according to former News International executives."
2011-07-22,"A whole block just exploded in Oslo, Norway.  Initial reports say it is a terrorist attack."
2011-07-22,"Posted last week, but buried beneath the bigger stories: ""Why Does Al-Qaeda Have a Problem With Norway?"""
2011-07-22,BBC News - Norway: Major blast near prime minister's office in Oslo
2011-07-22,"Huge explosion i Norwegian capital, windows blown out in area surrounding government buildings"
2011-07-22,East Africa's famine: Millions of human beings are starving.
2011-07-22,"Oslo, just a few minutes after the terror attack."
2011-07-22,"The Bin Laden Vaccine: Yes, vaccinations are a CIA plot"
2011-07-22,Shooting at Norwegian Social Democratic Youth (AUF) summer camp
2011-07-22,James Murdoch Accused of Lying to Parliament
2011-07-22,"More violence in Norway as a man, dressed as a police officer, has entered a AUF (youth) camp outside Oslo and started shooting. "
2011-07-22,"Egypt's military rulers ban foreign election observers: Egypt's ruling military council said foreigners won't be allowed to monitor Egyptian elections, scheduled for November. That has some local activists worried about the credibility of the vote. "
2011-07-22,"Speaker of The House says UK ""parliament has rediscovered its balls"" over Murdoch hacking affiair"
2011-07-22,The 'For Neville' email: two words that could bring down Murdoch
2011-07-22,Large explosion in Oslo at Prime ministers office. Many people hurt.
2011-07-22,Greece defaults... selectively. 
2011-07-22,"James Murdoch knew of phone hacking, former News executives say
"
2011-07-22,"Al Shabaab kidnaps, interrogates new Somali minister for women within hours of her appointment being announced"
2011-07-22,"UN report claims North Korea and Iran are exchanging illicit missile technology, using China as a transit hub."
2011-07-22,"Eleven killed during mass protests in Syria

"
2011-07-22,"Indian Government Blocks Leading File-Sharing Services - RapidShare, MegaUpload, MediaFile, HotFile and many more are blocked at ISP level
"
2011-07-22,Australia: Forklift mishap destroys $1m of shiraz wine
2011-07-22,Explosion rocks Norwegian PM's office
2011-07-21,"The Times of London (a News International paper) publishes ""most offensive cartoon yet"" in response to hacking scandal"
2011-07-21,Ghana orders the arrest of ALL homosexuals in the western region of the country
2011-07-21,Wanted: New Birth Control Choices for Men
2011-07-21,How Finland became an education leader: Harvard professor Tony Wagner explains how the nation achieved extraordinary successes by deemphasizing testing
2011-07-21,"Aussie police shut Greenpeace HQ, seize evidence."
2011-07-21,Brazil indicts 3 people for the murder of 2  environmental activists in the Amazon  - The couple had been opposing the eviction of rural workers from land owned by a local farmer
2011-07-21,"Canada's crime rate at lowest level in almost 
40 years"
2011-07-21,Waterfalls flow upwards in extreme winds (southern Australia)
2011-07-21,Scotland Yard's Most Senior Officers Tried To Convince Guardian Not To Cover Murdoch Hacking Scandal
2011-07-21,Irish PM in unprecedented attack on Vatican: Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has launched an unprecedented attack on the Catholic Church in parliament. 
2011-07-21,"Ghana Calls For Arrest of All Gays, Officials Warn Lynching Could Follow"
2011-07-21,Police close Australia Greenpeace HQ after activists destroy genetically modified wheat crop
2011-07-21,"Russian oligarch Lebedev (who already owns 4 UK newspapers), plans to buy News of the World and give it a ''slightly different spin''."
2011-07-21,'Neo-Nazi pilgrimage' grave of Rudolf Hess destroyed
2011-07-21,Australia may seize Guantanamo prisoner's book cash
2011-07-21,Killing of infants on the rise in Pakistan
2011-07-21,Looks like the people of Malawi are the next group trying to overthrow their oppressive regime. 18 protesters killed today.
2011-07-21,"James Murdoch contradicted by his legal manager
"
2011-07-21,"News International dropped by Olympics partner 
after hacking scandal"
2011-07-21,British phone-hacking probe expands beyond Murdoch papers
2011-07-21,Critique of Cloud by Richard Stallman: Internet users need to swim against the stream if they want to protect their privacy.
2011-07-21,BBC News - Chinese state oil firm buys Canadian oil sands producer
2011-07-21,NZ denies Israel spying charge
2011-07-21,Suspected Serbian War Criminal Goran Hadzic Captured.  Path to that nation's EU accession may now be open.
2011-07-21,"While most Arab states sit on the fence, Qatar is standing up to Damascus over an attack on its embassy"
2011-07-20,"Rupert Murdoch's News International has been found by a parliamentary committee to have ""deliberately"" tried to block a Scotland Yard criminal investigation into phone hacking"
2011-07-20,"Suppressed Report Found Busted Pirate Site Users Were Good Consumers: some pirate site users treat these services as a preview to buy more DVDs, visit the cinema more often and on average spend more than their honest counterparts at the box office"
2011-07-20,BBC News - You're hired: How the apprentice gets ahead in Germany. Germany may have an ultra-modern economy but one of the pillars at the very centre of it is very traditional: the idea that people learn a skill on the job.
2011-07-20,NZ quake may have revealed Israeli spy ring
2011-07-20,"News Corp tabloid employees come forth with stories of Rebekah Brooks' reign. The Harry Potter correspondent had to wear a Potter costume to work and *officially change his name*. When he showed up in normal clothes on Sept. 11, 2011, he was chewed out and ordered to put on his full Potter regalia."
2011-07-20,"In Egypt, Fighting For A $50-A-Month Factory Job --- Factory workers block road to protest over unpaid wages. The result? ""'Run them over. The blood money for each one is 50 pounds ($8).' The engine revved, once, then a second time. On the third time, the truck lurched forward"""
2011-07-20,Iran says it shot down a US spy plane over nuclear site 
2011-07-20,UN declares famine in Somalia
2011-07-20,"Irish PM Enda Kenny has strongly criticised the Vatican for what he said was an attempt to frustrate a government inquiry, accusing it of downplaying the rape of children to protect its power and reputation."
2011-07-20,"Booming Cotton No Boon to African Farmers - The price has multiplied by three or four times, so at our level it should be multiplied three or four times as well, Kafando said. Instead, he said, the monopolies are getting fat, and we are the ones who are feeding them."
2011-07-20, Murdochs Are Blocking Inquiries
2011-07-20,Egypt's military rulers refuse to allow international election monitors to observe upcoming parlimentary elections
2011-07-20,How An Australian Oligarch Is Using Dirty Tricks And Libertarian Lies To Fleece Aborigines Out Of Billions
2011-07-20,"Great white shark jumps from sea into research boat off South Africa's Cape 
"
2011-07-20,At least one Israeli killed in New Zealand's Christchurch Earthquake may have been an Israeli Spy. Now SIS (the Security Intelligence Service) is investigating whether there were others.
2011-07-20,"Pakistans military has spent millions in a covert effort to tilt American policy against Indias control of Kashmir, including funneling campaign donations."
2011-07-20,Saudi Arabian woman to be tried for driving during medical emergency
2011-07-20,David Cameron refuses to deny that he discussed the BSkyB bid with senior executives at News International since the election.
2011-07-20,"Riots have broken out in Malawi's capital, Lilongwe, as opposition groups protest against President Bingu wa Mutharika's government."
2011-07-20,Uproar after prisoners hold toga party in Russian jail - Russia's prisons service has launched an inquiry after photos emerged of toga-clad inmates holding a lavish party complete with caviar and fast food.
2011-07-20,"'Degrading treatment' in Lebanon's prisons:
Inmates can wait years for a trial, facing torture and cruel treatment in overcrowded jails. "
2011-07-20,Greenpeace Twitter injunction backfires for Cairn Energy with hundreds of people around the world breaking the injunction on behalf of the environment group.
2011-07-20,Syrian forces 'surround Damascus suburb': Residents of Harasta say entrances blocked by elite forces as foreign minister gives warning to US and French diplomats.
2011-07-20, Taliban mobile phones and website 'hacked' by U.S. intelligence 
2011-07-20,"World Bank to hear Koch arbitration against 
Venezuela "
2011-07-19,Rebekah Brooks' husband 'accidentally' has computer thrown out
2011-07-19,"China Executes Corrupt Officials for Taking Bribes 
"
2011-07-19,"Nearly One Quarter Of Met Police Press Officers Worked For News International, Police Chief Says"
2011-07-19,"The first (named) reporter to blow whistle on News of the World executives being aware of phone hacking has been found dead. His death is currently being treated as ""unexplained, but not thought to be suspicious"""
2011-07-19,LIVE NOW - Phone Hacking - BBC news coverage
2011-07-19,"Why India Can't Feed Her People --- 
Production of food per head is shrinking. And much of what is grown is lost or wasted. Main culprits are primitive farming methods and poor distribution infrastructure. India ""wastes more grain each year than Australia produces"""
2011-07-19,"'Someone's coming to get me': Terrified phone-hacking whistleblower feared for his life before he was found dead.
"
2011-07-19,"Former Fox News Producer Claims The Network's ""Brain Room"" Led To Hacking"
2011-07-19,Reuters did a special report on Murdoch's hands-on supervision of his papers 
2011-07-19,"Giant Oil Spill Reaches Chinese Coast - It's polluted about 4,250 sq kilometres (1,650 square miles)"
2011-07-19,"NZ 'three strikes' copyright bill comes into effect 1st Sep 2011: A NZ$25 charge has been set, which rights holders will have to pay if they want an ISP to deal with an infringing user. But AFACT want ISPs to pay the copyright costs"
2011-07-19,"Syria forces fire on funeral procession; 10 die
"
2011-07-19,"German Economics Minister Philipp Rsler, who was adopted into a German family from Vietnam at a young age, insists that he never had problems because of his background. He speaks about integration, discrimination and what it means to be German."
2011-07-19,Egyptian state television has begun broadcasting live coverage of the corruption trials of officials who served under President Hosni Mubarak.
2011-07-19,Taliban execute 13 Pakistani police officers
2011-07-19,India: 'Massive' uranium find in Andhra Pradesh
2011-07-19,"[BBC] Murdochs hearing: A day of high drama and 
farce"
2011-07-19,Murdochs to face phone-hacking grilling. News Corporation chief and son to answer questions in British parliament as scandal intensifies.
2011-07-19,Murdoch may lose grip on News Corp
2011-07-19,Libyan rebels pushed back from Brega: Rebels tackle host of land mines outside Brega after coming under fire from Gaddafi forces.
2011-07-19,Italy PM Berlusconi placed under formal investigation on suspicion of pressuring state TV to shut news talk show
2011-07-19,"Iranian animal lovers are ignoring a fatwa on dog ownership and frequenting popular websites like Woof Woof Iran Digital Pets and Persianpet to pick their favorite canine, study dog grooming or swap pet tales"
2011-07-19,Top British police going up before Parliament - live transcripts
2011-07-19,"Israeli navy intercepted a French-flagged flotilla headed for Gaza
"
2011-07-19,More UK Police Complicity Revealed: CPS drops charges against 109 UK Uncut activists
2011-07-18,David Cameron's meetings with Rupert Murdoch's executives in a year exceed those with all other news organisations put together. Not a single figure from the BBC was granted an audience.
2011-07-18,News Corp shares hit two-year low on hacking arrest
2011-07-18,Top Chinese gymnast found begging on the street .
2011-07-18,Rupert Murdoch is considering stepping down as CEO of News Corp
2011-07-18,Video of explosion of soviet arms depot in Abadan
2011-07-18,"One man has been scouring the coast of Japan on foot with nothing but a chainsaw, a shovel and three photographs for hours everyday for the last 5 months in the hopes of finding his missing wife and daughter."
2011-07-18,"LulzSec hacks the site of Murdoch's other tabloid paper 'The Sun' and reports on his ""death"""
2011-07-18,Zahi Hawass to no longer appear in every single TV special on Egypt
2011-07-18,"British Police Commissioner resigns due to phone hacking. Takes 
swipe at Prime Minister David Cameron in resignation speech: ""I'll 
take responsibility: what about you?"""
2011-07-18,Australia govt steps up rhetoric over Murdoch papers
2011-07-18,"Climate sceptic Lord Monckton told he's not member of House of Lords - 
Clerk of parliaments publishes letter on Lords' site saying peer is not and has 'never been a member of the House of Lords'"
2011-07-18, Police examine bag found in bin near Rebekah Brooks's home 
2011-07-18,Israel rapped for jailing palestinian kids as young as 12
2011-07-18,Sex in mosque riles angry mob: Villagers swarm mosque after teen couple discovered undressed in bathroom
2011-07-18,"A senior adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai was shot and killed in his home in Kabul yesterday, less than a week after the assassination of Karzais half brother. "
2011-07-18,"Sean Hoare, the whistleblower reporter who alleged widespread hacking at the News of the World, has been found dead"
2011-07-18,"Police gun down rioters in China's Xinjiang, at least 4 dead"
2011-07-18,"London's top counterterrorism official resigns, the latest high profile perpetrator of the phone-hacking scandal "
2011-07-18,Senior London police officer John Yates resigns in U.K. phone hacking inquiry
2011-07-18,Syrian Forces Mass Near Town Where Many Soldiers Have Defected
2011-07-18,"Territorial rights and the Internet: ""This Painting is Not Available in Your Country"""
2011-07-18,Sun website hacked by LulzSec
2011-07-18,Palestinians planning 'massive' diplomatic push for state recognition
2011-07-18,WATCH: Unbelievable Footage Of The Arms Depot Explosion Turkmenistan Tried To Cover Up
2011-07-18,Thousands rally in Morocco over reform plan: Both backers and critics of reforms have held protests across the Kingdom after its recent referendum.
2011-07-17,Rebekah Brooks has been arrested over the UK newspaper phone hacking scandal
2011-07-17,The rape of men
2011-07-17,New body blows for Rupert Murdoch: Scotland Yard officer says that News Int execs  including Mr Murdochs son James  are being investigated for any alleged role in covering up the extent of industrial scale phone hacking
2011-07-17,"N.Korea prison escapee Kim Hye-sook on her life in prison: ""'I saw prisoners turned to honeycomb by the bullets'"""
2011-07-17,Britain's most senior police chief resigns over phone hacking scandal. 
2011-07-17,"Elisa, one of Finland's largest ISPs, refuses to block The Pirate Bay even though they are being sued by the government and music copyright lobbyists; ""the basic censorship strategy is flawed and successfully blocking The Pirate Bay would prove technically difficult"""
2011-07-17,Scotland Yard and News International became so intertwined that they wound up sharing the goal of containing the [hacking] investigation.
2011-07-17,"Starvation in Africa: Desperate women bind their stomachs to deaden hunger pains, eating next to nothing so children can be fed."
2011-07-17,China's Ghost Cities and Malls: China's hypergrowth fueled by building giant cities no one lives in
2011-07-17,Why My Father Hated India.
2011-07-17,Calling out the Vatican: Irish report says Catholic Church has not helped stop sex abuse.
2011-07-17,Britain's metropolitan police chief has resigned over phone hacking scandal
2011-07-17,"Meet the Indonesian workers who make your Nikes at $0.50 hourly wages: In 2001, Nike pledged some reforms following revelation its developing world workers were children. But a new AP investigation finds that poor labor conditions still persist in many Nike factories"
2011-07-17,"Phone-hacking scandal is an utter PR disaster for 
the Murdochs"
2011-07-17,Italy's crusade against BitTorrent sites has reached unprecedented level - censors proxy that bypasses BTjunkie and Pirate Bay Block 
2011-07-17,BBC News - Miliband calls for News International's power to be limited
2011-07-17,Tunisia's draft constitution may ban ties with Israel
2011-07-17,News Corp. shareholder woes deepen: The Serious Fraud Office have launched a preliminary inquiry into allegations News International paid corrupt police officers
2011-07-17,"Wealthy Britons prepare to flee. More than half of the UK's millionaires have fled or are thinking of fleeing the country's economic ""storm clouds"" "
2011-07-17,Scotland Yard Commissioner resigns. Britain's most senior police officer sensationally resigned tonight over revelations surrounding the phone hacking scandal. 
2011-07-17,Obama holds talks with Dalai Lama despite China protest
2011-07-17,"Iraq's Arab Spring: the forgotten frontier --- The country, largely ignored by the international media, is about to agree to long-term American ""occupation-lite"""
2011-07-17,"Egypt's iconic antiquities chief, Zahi Hawass, fired"
2011-07-17,A spate of exceptionally brutal rapes in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has shocked India. Many of the victims were young girls. 
2011-07-17,Kim Jong-il blames deer musk for women's soccer failure
2011-07-16,The United Nations recently declared that disconnecting people from the Internet is a violation of human rights.
2011-07-16,The scale of private links between David Cameron and News International exposed for the first time: The Prime Minister met Murdoch's executives on no fewer than 26 occasions in just over a year since he entered Downing Street
2011-07-16,"
Head of Brazil's Environmental Protection Agency Says it's Not His Job to Protect the Environment -  Suggests indigenous tribes standing in the way of progress should be dealt with harshly"
2011-07-16,Israeli army kills Palestinian college student
2011-07-16,A revolutionary artist. How the British burnt his shocking images from the 1943 Bengal Famine. And how we can finally see them today. 
2011-07-16,Japanese Crane Manufacturer Cuts Ties With Iran following reports that its cranes have been used to stage public executions in Iran
2011-07-16,"Eavesdropping scandal: UK govt defends Murdoch 
ties, as Foreign Secretary Hague admits ""there is 
something wrong here"""
2011-07-16,The bodyguard who assassinated President Hamid Karzai's brother had been working closely with US Special Forces and the CIA before he was recruited by the Taliban ...
2011-07-16,Women Tolerate Beatings for Life Changing Mobile Phones
2011-07-16,"Our Man In Damascus --- 
Assessment of Robert Ford US ambassador to Syria: ""There's no evidence that the Syrian government is willing to reform at the speed demanded by the street protesters. If it doesnt start moving with far greater alacrity, the street will wash them away"""
2011-07-16,Brazil is building nuclear attack submarines that promise to dramatically alter the balance of power off the South American coast
2011-07-16,Spanish Bishops go on a land grab.It turns out that bishops can issue ownership certificates just as though they were government workers.
2011-07-16,Tentacles of phone-hacking scandal grow tighter around UK PM Cameron.
2011-07-16,"Largest protests so far in Syria sees a million protest, opposition groups will meet to draw a roadmap. "
2011-07-16,"TEPCO denies nuke crisis compensation to kindergartens, nursing homes and clinics"
2011-07-16,Resignations heap pressure on James Murdoch
2011-07-16,India's Tata group to launch 'world's cheapest homes'
2011-07-16,"Thirty-one of the Chilean miners who endured 69 days trapped underground sue the government for  $540,000 in compensation each"
2011-07-16,Canada mulls ways to fund Libyan rebels with frozen Gadhafi assets 
2011-07-16,"British government, police under pressure over 
Murdoch links"
2011-07-16,Somalia crisis one of 'largest in decades' 
2011-07-16,"Dow Jones CEO resigns amid phone-hacking scandal
"
2011-07-16,Quadriga withdraws award for Putin - Berlin-based Werkstatt Deutschland on Saturday reversed its decision to award Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin the prestigious Quadriga prize due to massive criticism.
2011-07-16,Burmese Daze: Making Sense Of Myanmars Mess
2011-07-16,60 tied to Zetas escape prison in Nuevo Laredo
2011-07-15,"Wikileaks: New Zealand's Three Strikes Law was Pushed, Bought and Paid for by the US"
2011-07-15,"George Clooney's Satellites Capture Piles of Bodies, Mass Graves in Sudan"
2011-07-15,"UK Cyclists use viral video to track down alleged attacker. Six weeks later, the police had failed to make an arrest despite having clear photographs of the assailant and the numberplate."
2011-07-15,News International have just confirmed that Rebekah Brooks has resigned
2011-07-15,CBC provides an interactive list of Rupert Murdoch's holdings
2011-07-15,"Indonesian maid spared from beheading in Saudi Arabia, only because her government paid ""blood money"" for her life"
2011-07-15,"Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton resigns amid News Corp 
phone hack scandal"
2011-07-15,Murdochs Are Next Target as Brooks Steps Down
2011-07-15,"OSCE, the worlds largest security-oriented intergovernmental organization, issued report that explicitly states that a three strikes law is a disproportionate response to dealing with copyright infringement"
2011-07-15,Activist takes Germany to court over nuclear warheads - A Cologne court has begun hearing the case of an activist intent on having Germany remove US nuclear warheads being stored at a military base located in western Germany.
2011-07-15,"Syrians mount biggest protests so far, 12 killed

"
2011-07-15,The Bacon Uprising -  How China's demand for cheap pork is devastating Brazil's rainforest
2011-07-15,"Pro-whaling Japan, Iceland, & a number of Caribbean & African nations walk out of meeting in protest of a proposed whale sanctuary in the South Atlantic

"
2011-07-15,News Corp faces storm clouds ahead; could Fox News be finished?
2011-07-15,"China will eventually surpass the United States as the world's premier superpower, if it hasn't already, according to the latest survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project"
2011-07-15,`N. Korea purges 30 officials involved in inter-Korean talks 
2011-07-15,Bethlehem's taps run dry as West Bank Israelis continue to fill their swimming pool - The National
2011-07-15,Gaddaffi's regime officially not recognized by more than 30 states.
2011-07-15,Silvio Berlusconi may have screwed Europe  not just Italy
2011-07-15,"EU now wants to ban ratings agencies from warning that countries may be in financial trouble
"
2011-07-15,Iraq to execute Saddam's half-brothers within a month
2011-07-15,"Hadopi, French copyright cops: we're swamped with ""three strikes"" complaints"
2011-07-15,"As thousands of Syrians flood streets in anti-gov't rallies across country, security forces open fire; 14 killed"
2011-07-15,BP Unveils Drilling Rules Tougher Than US Regulations
2011-07-15,The Mexican army says it has discovered a huge field with mature marijuana in the northern state of Baja California.
2011-07-14,"Colombian army colonel admits his unit murdered 57 civilians, then dressed them in uniforms and claimed they were rebels killed in combat."
2011-07-14,"Workers making Converse sneakers in Indonesia say supervisors throw shoes at them, slap them in the face and call them dogs and pigs. Nike, the brand's owner, admits that such abuse has occurred among the contractors that make its hip high-tops but says there was little it could do to stop it."
2011-07-14,Murdochs Ordered to Testify or Be in Contempt - Bloomberg
2011-07-14,"""They [The Murdochs] had no option but to drop the bid. But now the real issue is how to avoid further humiliation. They are in retreat with no real business in the UK anymore, just a set of disintegrating assets."""
2011-07-14,Israelis and Palestinians to march in Jerusalem in support of Palestinian independence.  The first joint Jewish-Arab march in 20 years.
2011-07-14,Coke and KFC to go into N. Korea
2011-07-14,Company ends contracts with Iran after cranes used in public hangings
2011-07-14,"An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine --- 
American visitor to London wakes up in middle of night with burning eyes. Needs prompt medical attention. Negotiates US health insurance firm, British NHS. Nice light-touch narrative with a few political barbs "
2011-07-14,Rupert Murdoch being undone by old-fashioned journalism
2011-07-14,"Rupert Murdoch refuses to stand before Parliament Select 
Committee despite summons."
2011-07-14,Uprising in Belarus: Internet Generation Takes on Europe's Last Dictator
2011-07-14,"Japanese PM: ""We will aim to become a society which can exist without nuclear power."""
2011-07-14,CIA's fake vaccination programme criticised by Mdecins Sans Frontires
2011-07-14,The True Cost of Being Gay in Beijing
2011-07-14,"Republic of South Sudan gains UN membership: General Assembly vote, by acclamation, makes country 193rd member of the United Nations."
2011-07-14,Rebekah Brooks to face questioning by MPs; Rupert and James Murdoch summonsed
2011-07-14,"42% of Britons will get cancer, statistics show."
2011-07-14,Riots erupt in Northern Ireland 
2011-07-14,"Turkey arrests 15 al Qaeda suspects in Ankara, Yalova, and Bursa; were planning attacks on US targets in the country"
2011-07-14,World Population to hit 7 BILLION by October
2011-07-14,"Hungary is set to impose the world's most comprehensive junk-food tax, which the government hopes will improve eating habits while helping to rebalance its healthcare budget."
2011-07-14,"Seven Estonians have been freed in Lebanon, after being kidnapped nearly four months ago."
2011-07-14,"After just six months, 2011 has already been the costliest year of natural disasters ever"
2011-07-14,Murdochs Now Say They Will Appear Before Parliament
2011-07-14,Christopher Hitchens: It took another dog to eat Murdochs dog
2011-07-13,"A simple invention, a bottle of water and a couple teaspoons of bleach, is bringing light to the slums of the Philippines."
2011-07-13,BBC News - News Corp withdraws bid for BSkyB
2011-07-13,Rupert Murdoch is bleeding cash trying to save plummeting News Corp: The growing phone hacking scandal has sent News Corp's shares down 13% since the story first broke; the share price collapse had wiped more than $5bn off the market value of News Corp; Murdoch has personally lost $2bn
2011-07-13,"An Austrian atheist has won the right to be shown on his driving-licence photo wearing a pasta strainer as ""religious headgear"""
2011-07-13,"Israeli police will not face trial over killing girl 
because while the courts agree there is ""no debate"" 
the police shot her, it happened in 2007 and that is 
too long ago now."
2011-07-13,Mumbai: Explosions shake India's financial hub
2011-07-13,"""And let me also say this. The people involved... however high or low they go must not only be brought to justice they must also have no future role in the running of a media company in our country."" 

- British PM David Cameron"
2011-07-13,"Some of the world's most famous clothing brands, including Nike, Adidas Puma, and H&M are using suppliers that pour toxic chemicals into China's rivers"
2011-07-13,"UK student Richard ODwyer, operator of TVShack.net, is facing extradition proceedings to US. His mother asks that people help Richard so that he can face justice at home"
2011-07-13,CIA's Fake Vaccination Drive Angers Public Health World
2011-07-13,Egypt to sack 700 police over killing of protesters
2011-07-13,Nearly half of Swazi women in their 20s and Swazi men in their 30s are HIV positive. Nearly half.
2011-07-13,UN torture official accuses US of rule violations 
2011-07-13,"A bank in Ireland has been banned from paying bonuses, except where permitted by the Government or following a court order, for two years as a condition of the latest State bailout. "
2011-07-13,Full Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Released
2011-07-13,"Mumbai rocked by three bomb blasts - at least 10 dead, 100 reported injured"
2011-07-13,"Radioactive meat circulating on Japanese market: The meat, delivered late last month, has made its way to consumers and most likely has been ingested, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said"
2011-07-13,"Three bomb blasts have been reported in Mumbai in the crowded Dadar, Opera House and Zaveri Bazar areas;  at least 15 injured"
2011-07-13,"Most Irish drink harmfully and more than anyone else in Europe - Most Irish people drink in a harmful manner and our per capita consumption of alcohol is among the highest in Europe, a new report from the HRB reveals today. "
2011-07-13,Egypt to sack 700 police over killing of protesters: Almost 700 senior police officers in Egypt are being removed from their jobs over the killing of protesters during the revolution earlier this year.
2011-07-13,"
      Israeli PM agrees to renew peace talks based on 1967 lines
    "
2011-07-13,Riots in Northern Ireland-in pictures 
2011-07-13,"Japan intends to send its whaling fleet back to the Antarctic this year, a senior official has said"
2011-07-13,"Greece suffered another sovereign downgrade on Wednesday, when the Fitch agency slashed its credit worthiness by three notches further into junk status and only one grade above default."
2011-07-13,Who is more powerful - Murdoch or Parliament? 
2011-07-12,Campaign to boycott Rupert Murdoch is gathering pace
2011-07-12,"The News International phone tapping scandal escalates spectacularly: new accusations that then British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and 10 members of the British Royal Family were tapped by Murdoch's other two flagship newspapers, The Sun and The Sunday Times."
2011-07-12,"Serbia wants U.N. to honor scientist & inventor Nikola Tesla's birthday - 
"
2011-07-12,"Do we Need a Hippocratic oath for journalists? Does the media ""ventriloquise the concerns of the elite""?"
2011-07-12,"Canadian parents wrongly convicted of killing their children, as pathologist made gross errors in his autopsies"
2011-07-12,Karzai's brother shot dead in Kandahar: Ahmed Wali Karzai was president of provincial council and one of the most powerful men in Afghanistan.
2011-07-12,Gordon Brown Says Newspaper Hired Known Criminals As Murdoch Attempts Damage Control in Light of New evidence that Other Murdoch Newspapers Are Implicated
2011-07-12,"Copper mining will crush ancient Afghan site: Teams in Afghanistan scramble to save artifacts before a Chinese company starts mining work at Mes Aynak, an area filled with the ruins of 5th century Buddhist monasteries."
2011-07-12,Gaddafi is prepared to leave
2011-07-12,"Here is the Human Rights Watch report ""Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees"" "
2011-07-12,"Few bother to contribute to Australia's official Classification debate on Internet filter and game ratings, and the majority of those want censorship: Only 80 public submissions have been made, and 80% of those are from people who believe in government intervention for the sake of child protection"
2011-07-12,"NY Times: The Israeli Parliament on Monday passed legislation banning any public call for a boycott against the state of Israel or its West Bank settlements, making such action a punishable offense"
2011-07-12,"News International: my son's medical records were hacked, says Gordon Brown"
2011-07-12,Welcome to Murdochia ---  Murdoch's controversial media empire extends far beyond the English Channel -- and it's been no stranger to scandal across the globe.
2011-07-12,Watchdogs slam Israel law making boycott calls illegal
2011-07-12, Rupert Murdoch invited to appear before MPs. Commons culture select committee also invites James Murdoch and Rebekah Brooks to answer questions about phone hacking
2011-07-12,"Shark Fishing Banned in Honduras, Bahamas - 73,000,000 sharks killed annually mainly for their fins prized in China"
2011-07-12,"News Corp shares down 4.4% in early Tuesday 
trading; bank rates News shares a 'sell' as analyst 
cuts his valuation of company by 18%"
2011-07-12,News of The World phone hacking scandal infects Rupert Murdoch's other newspapers in the UK: his were the only nationals to have lost sales over the weekend
2011-07-12,Explosion rocks Egyptian gas pipeline: Egyptian state TV says masked gunmen have blown up country's pipeline that supplies gas to Israel and Jordan.
2011-07-12,Israel Bans Pro-Palestinian Boycotts
2011-07-12,"Chinese Space Station shipped to launch site, ready for launch in September"
2011-07-12,"China criticizes the US for spending too much on its military: The US is spending too much on its military ""in light of its recent economic troubles,"" and should look after taxpayers "
2011-07-12,A race for land is destroying the Guatemalan rainforest - The fastest rate of deforestation in the world 
2011-07-12,News Corp.s Lost $7B Shows Investor Concern
2011-07-11,"US suspends Pakistan military aid, withholding $800m as diplomatic relations reach a standstill"
2011-07-11,"ISPs, academics, and citizens oppose EU anti-piracy legislation: It threatens basic human rights while stifling innovation"
2011-07-11,"Anonymous warns UK Met Police: Tuesday will be ""the biggest day in Anonymous's history"" amid allegations of corruption and hacking"
2011-07-11,"Huge demand for fish empties British waters in just 6 months - 
Britain's coastal waters are so overfished that they can supply the nation's chip shops, restaurants & kitchens for little more than 6 months of every year"
2011-07-11,"A married couple from Pakistan have filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, alleging that, after their plane was diverted following a fake hijacking threat, they were singled out and escorted from the plane in handcuffs for no reason other than their names."
2011-07-11,Shareholders sue News Corp. over British hacking scandal. The lawsuit accuses News Corp. of large-scale governance failures.
2011-07-11,Protesters in cities throughout Egypt threaten to bring the country to a standstill
2011-07-11,Two Chinese miners found alive after a week underground
2011-07-11, News International papers targeted Gordon Brown 
2011-07-11,"Anonymous leaks 90,000 mililtary emails. Some of which contain maps of where burried treasures are located on government land"
2011-07-11,"Israeli government c'tee approves bill outlawing boycotts on Israel: The bill makes publicly calling for a boycott that could harm Israel economically, culturally or academically a civil violation."
2011-07-11,News Corp. begins to turn against Rupert Murdoch
2011-07-11,"Mexican Army Frees Kidnap Victims - 
20 people held for ransom in a tiny shack in Monterrey  freed by soldiers"
2011-07-11,Nick Clegg calls for Murdoch to drop BSkyB deal 
2011-07-11,"Canada is withdrawing from a UN nuclear disarmament conference in protest of North Korea's presidency of the body, the Canadian foreign minister has said."
2011-07-11, CIA organised fake vaccinations to obtain Osama bin Laden's family DNA | World news | The Guardian 
2011-07-11,Revelations that hundreds of US Customs and Border Patrol agents may be involved in systemic corruption by taking bribes from Mexican drug cartels are straining relationships on the border 
2011-07-11,"Phone Hacking Scandal Widens: News International Targeted Gordon Brown, BSkyB Bid Delayed - Many Murdoch Properties Implicated in Crimes."
2011-07-11,Police Officer sold royal family contact details to NOTW
2011-07-11,101 missing after boat sinks in Russia - The Boston Globe
2011-07-11,Former British PM Gordon Brown to announce he was a victim of phone hacking
2011-07-11,"Assad loyalists storm US and French embassies in Damascus --- Large crowds break into US Embassy while French guards manage to hold off attack using live fire; Washington to summon Syrian diplomat over ""slow response,"" says Syria failed to protect US diplomats."
2011-07-11,BBC News - Cyprus: Eight dead in blast near Zygi naval base
2011-07-11,"The contagion that has forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek bailouts from the rest of Europe now is threatening Italy, as investors demand ever-higher interest rates on Italian government bonds."
2011-07-11,"World's Biggest Sleaze Mogul Also Getting Rich from Christian Moralizers: In addition to being a phone-hacking Darth Vader, Rupert Murdoch is also one of the leading religion publishers in the world. "
2011-07-10,James Murdoch Could Be Prosecuted In Phone-Hacking Scandal - News Corp Succession Plan Suddenly In Doubt
2011-07-10,"Murdoch's Watergate? --- 
""Too many of us have winked in amusement at the salaciousness without considering the larger corruption of journalism and politics on both sides of the Atlantic."" Powerful critique of Murdoch empire with a sting in the tail"
2011-07-10,"Before South Sudan was even officially recognized as a country, it became host to one of the continent's largest land deals - a 49-year lease of 600,000 hectares of land to US-based firm NTD. For around $25,000, NTD has full rights to exploit all natural resources in the land during this period."
2011-07-10,"Over more than three decades, no one dared question the perversion of politics by and for Rupert Murdoch"
2011-07-10,"Strong earthquake rocks northeastern Japan, Tsunami warnings for the coast: happening now"
2011-07-10,"British leader of the opposition who called for Rebekah Brookes to be sacked was threatened by News International: ""You have made it personal about Rebekah, so we'll make it personal about you."""
2011-07-10,A 13 year old boy in India jumps the fence into Army quarters to pluck almonds. An annoyed retired army officer shoots and kills him
2011-07-10,"Roman-era shipwreck reveals ancient medical secrets: A first-aid kit found on a 2,000-year-old shipwreck has provided a remarkable insight into the medicines concocted by ancient physicians to cure sailors of dysentery and other ailments"
2011-07-10,Taiwan to bar fishermen from killing sharks for fins
2011-07-10,Portugal Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary of Decriminalizing Drugs
2011-07-10,"The closing of UK tabloid ""The News of the World"" was in the works for at least four months and was as much an effort to shed jobs to save money and to shift resources to broadcasting as it was a response to the outcry over the phone hacking scandal"
2011-07-10,Los Zetas Kingpin: We Bought Guns Directly From U.S. Government
2011-07-10,Celebrating 100 years since Machu Picchu's Rediscovery --- Wonderul collection of photographs taken at the ruins of Machu Pichu taken in July 1911. Other explorers had visited before but American Hiram Bingham was first person to reveal the 'lost city of the Incas' to the world
2011-07-10,Middle classes are Britain's new homeless: State safety nets are gone 
2011-07-10,"""Life is a precious gift. We are born to live, and we can only live in love."" The Troubadour de Las Pampas, Facundo Cabral, has been assasinated."
2011-07-10,Protest singer Ibrahim Kashoush had his throat cut by the Syrian  Mukhabarat (Warning Gruesome Images)
2011-07-10,Australia plans to impose carbon tax on their worst polluters
2011-07-10,Malaysian Protests in Pictures. This really needs more attention.
2011-07-10,European cities make car use expensive and just plain miserable enough to tilt drivers toward more environmentally friendly modes of transportation
2011-07-10,"Vigilantes Attack Speed Cameras in Australia, France, UK"
2011-07-10,Syria's 'secret doctors' risk their own lives to treat injured civilians at secret clinics.
2011-07-10,"Australia to introduce carbon tax ($25 for every metric tonne) on country's 500 largest polluters, as it unveils largest such scheme outside Europe"
2011-07-10,"Over more than three decades, no one dared question 
the perversion of politics by and for Rupert Murdoch"
2011-07-10,"South Korea's pupils going paperless by 2015 - 

Education ministry to spend $2 billion digitising all textbooks"
2011-07-10,BBC News - News of the World: What was it like on the inside? The NoW was different. Journalists were both feared and loathed. 
2011-07-09,First fully lab grown organ successfully transplanted.
2011-07-09,South Sudan becomes an independent nation
2011-07-09,"One-arm man arrested for clapping, mute person for shouting in Belarus; sadly not an Onion article."
2011-07-09,"Government documents reveal Canada's Net Neutrality enforcement failure: Rogers throttled bandwidth for many protocols, including World of Warcraft; Bell Canada throttled traffic from Hotfile.com"
2011-07-09,Malaysia: Hundreds detained over banned rally - Malaysian police have detained more than 440 people as they tried to assemble for a banned protest in the capital Kuala Lumpur.
2011-07-09,Prime Minister of Australia (Julia Gillard) Stops same sex couples from getting married in New York
2011-07-09,BP wants future spill claims limited
2011-07-09,At least 17 killed in northern Mexico bar massacre
2011-07-09,"Thousands Fill Egypt's Tahrir Square: Demanding faster reforms and prosecution of Mubarak era officials, protesters gather to put pressure on military rulers"
2011-07-09,US summons Syrias ambassador after receiving alarming reports of Syrian diplomats conducting video and photographic surveillance of people participating in protests in the United States.
2011-07-09,"When Sweden Rules The World --- ""Sweden, this anomalous oblong nation of 9 million, wedged as comfortably as an axe into Europes forehead, has enriched the world with a wildly disproportionate number of creations. Some nutty, some mythical, some not even Swedish"""
2011-07-09,Berlusconi firm fined $982 million in bribery appeal
2011-07-09,In Pictures: Protests suppressed in Malaysia
2011-07-09,Is the age of the Murdoch establishment nearly over?
2011-07-09,United Nations: Texas' execution of Mexican national broke international law because he was not granted consular access
2011-07-09,Freedom flotilla ship heads to Gaza
2011-07-09,Israel blocks pro-Palestinian 'flytilla' activists
2011-07-09,"Human Rights Watch releases testimonies of Syrian military defectors who say they were ""ordered to shoot to kill"" when cracking down on protesters"
2011-07-09,Mafia's toxic dumping 'increases cancer rates'
2011-07-09,Japan's nuclear industry credibility crumbles amid email scandal
2011-07-09,Rebekah Brooks: The Queen of Willful Blindness --- If you want to learn about one discredited womans job being saved at the expense of the biggest selling newspaper in the English-speaking world then read this
2011-07-09,Murdoch heads to UK after third hacking arrest
2011-07-09,Ukranian city of Odessa is a sex trafficking trade hub for countries across the northern hemisphere
2011-07-09,Israel detains 120 foreign activists
2011-07-09,"The German parliament has granted its approval for testing carbon capture and storage technology, which enables coal-fired power plants to liquify their pollutants and store them underground. Critics claim the potential dangers of the technology have been inadequately addressed."
2011-07-08,"15-year-old boy tortured to death in Syrian prison for ""failing to praise president"""
2011-07-08," James Murdoch should answer to the police, Cameron suggests"
2011-07-08,Andy Coulson (former editor of the News of the World and David Camerons ex-personal communications director) has been arrested over the Phone Hacking Scandal
2011-07-08,"Hugh Grant's best role yet  scourge of News International: The Hacked Off campaign has brought out a new authority in the actor, as he fearlessly calls Rupert Murdoch to account"
2011-07-08,"Rebekah Brooks won't resign as News Int's chief executive because if she goes the spotlight will fall on to Rupert Murdoch's son, James."
2011-07-08,Rupert Murdoch's bid to take full control of BSkyB has been thrown into disarray.
2011-07-08,Canada ends combat mission in Afghanistan
2011-07-08,Visa Again Blocks Funds For WikiLeaks
2011-07-08,Thousands of Egyptian protesters have gathered at Tahrir Square in central Cairo to press for speedier reforms from the government.
2011-07-08,Horn of Africa drought: 'A vision of hell'
2011-07-08,"Syrian singer slaughtered after writing, leading anti-Bashar song"
2011-07-08,Electronic Frontier Foundation to Microsoft and Cisco: Stop choosing to become little tech helpers to China's repressive regime and instead choose to be a force for good
2011-07-08,"At 98, Gay Concentration Camp Survivor Shares Story - Rudolf Brazda, who may be the last living gay man to have survived the terror, shares his life story in a newly published book."
2011-07-08,James Murdoch could face criminal charges on both sides of the Atlantic
2011-07-08,"In Israel, a Tsunami Warning, Noam Chomsky"
2011-07-08,"'Shoot on sight' orders as violence soars in Karachi, Pakistan"
2011-07-08,FRANCE: Israel extends a no fly ban to European activists. Airlines are denying boarding for European passengers. Mandatory interrogation prior embarking. 
2011-07-08,"Syrian security thugs were joking while kicking an elderly man in the face, they are selling that sick video clip of it to an opposition TV"
2011-07-08,'A criminal cover-up' at Murdoch HQ: Cameron abandons Rebekah amid claims of an email wipe-out at the News of the World. 
2011-07-08,"Agony And Ivory --- On illegal ivory trade. ""We are greeted by the nauseating stench of rotting flesh. Fifty yards from the blood trail, the dead, decomposing elephant is kneeling in a pool of its own fluid, which is swarming with flies"""
2011-07-08,"Sins of the Flesh: Church Shaken by Sexual Abuse Allegations in Africa - Following a series of abuse cases in Europe and North America, revelations have emerged of sexual abuse by priests in a number of African countries."
2011-07-08,Iceland declares it will support a proposal for Palestinian independence
2011-07-08,2.5 hours to show you don't want News International to dominate UK TV
2011-07-08,News of the World resources used to undermine police investigation of murder; what did Rebekah Brooks know?
2011-07-08,News of the World editor arrested 
2011-07-07,12 year old girl ends life to donate eyes to dad & a kidney to her brother
2011-07-07,"What The Papers Wont Say --- 
On Britain's phone-hacking scandal. Obviously, News of the World and News International are to blame. But so are politicians of both sides, for being frightened of Rupert Murdoch. And other newspapers, for keeping quiet about it"
2011-07-07,Powerful 7.8 earthquake hits New Zealand
2011-07-07,"For The Moment, Visa And MasterCard Reopen Payments To WikiLeaks"
2011-07-07,NYT supports UN report that warned against overzealous attempts by democratic states to  censor the Internet. Nobody should be banned from the Internet. It is a fundamental tool for enabling free speech
2011-07-07,"More Advertisers Boycott News Of The World: Ford, Mitsibushi, The Co-operative Group, Vauxhall, Lloyds Banking Group and Virgin Holidays have suspended adverts in the News Of The World over phone hacking claims"
2011-07-07,James Murdoch announces News of the World to close amid phone-hacking scandal (BBC)
2011-07-07,North Korea paid Pakistan for nuclear weapons technology
2011-07-07,The Royal British Legion has cut ties with the News of the World as its campaigning partner amid claims the paper may have hacked into the mobile phones of bereaved military families.
2011-07-07,Now London Police probe the 'The Sun'
2011-07-07,"While a bit dated, this shows that the wikileaks cables paint a far more nuanced picture of American diplomacy than simply one of nefarious manipulation"
2011-07-07,"The ""Big Three"" rating agencies can determine the fate of entire countries. Now Portugal is under pressure after Moody's downgraded its debt to junk status. European politicians want to create an alternative, even though they helped give so much power to the agencies in the first place."
2011-07-07,"Just so you don't think that 'News of the World' was a one time thing, here are the Top 10 NewsCorp scandals"
2011-07-07,David Cameron is in the sewer: The disgusting revelations concerning his friends and associates from Rupert Murdochs News International has permanently and irrevocably damaged his reputation
2011-07-07,Rupert Murdoch Meets His Ahab
2011-07-07,Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson to be arrested over phone hacking
2011-07-07,Today Kenya becomes the first country in Africa to launch a national open data initiative. 
2011-07-07,"Another priest, more victims of predatory sexual behavior, but this time in a country basically run by the Vatican. (They only reopened the case after the Vatican found the priest guilty.) Extra points for guessing the country before reading. "
2011-07-07,South Sudan: the birth of a new republic
2011-07-07,Iraq abuse ruling by European court says UK failed human rights role | World news | guardian.co.uk 
2011-07-07,Last Wild Camels in China Could be Saved with Embryonic Transfer Technique Perfected in U.A.E.
2011-07-07, Pakistan Expands Nuke Arsenal
2011-07-07,Is Murdoch free to destroy tabloid's records? | Reuters MediaFile
2011-07-07,Portugal Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary of Decriminalizing Drugs 
2011-07-07,EU Upset by Microsoft Warning About US Access to EU Cloud: Members of European Parliament demand to know what lawmakers intend to do about the conflict between the EU's Data Protection Directive and the US Patriot Act
2011-07-06,"Vietnam Era Weapon, Agent Orange, Being Used to Clear the Amazon"
2011-07-06,The Bahamas announces ban on commercial shark fishing.
2011-07-06,"My Summer At An Indian Call Center --- Writer learns to pitch mobile phone contracts to Australians. ""College was unknown there until recently, so speak slowly. Technologically they're somewhat backward. If you call on a Friday night, they'll be smashed"""
2011-07-06,The families of 7/7 London terror attack victims may have had their phones hacked by the News Of The World as they waited for news after the bombings.
2011-07-06,Anonymous post source code and blacklist data of a Dutch ISP after the ISP decided to act on gov't requests to censor Internet traffic
2011-07-06,"Anti-PowerPoint Party formed in Switzerland, wants a referendum on banning the use of presentation software"
2011-07-06,"French company fined 25,000 euros for altering Wikipedia article of its competitor; they tracked the company based on the IP address of the submission
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2011-07-06,A Silk Road for the 21st century: Freight rail linking China and Germany officially begins operations 
2011-07-06,Sex workers say they will die to save brothels
2011-07-06,Australia launches world-1st plain cigarette pack laws
2011-07-06,"The Portuguese are dismayed that the spelling of their language is being driven by Brazil, a former colony."
2011-07-06, Somalia food crisis reaching 'unimaginable proportions'
2011-07-06,"Can a biography of the Prophet of Islam, be told without controversy or cliches? It would appear not. But the BBC is going fr it."
2011-07-06,Spanish island to be first in world to be powered solely by renewable energy
2011-07-06,"Pyeongchang, South Korea named as host city for 2018 Winter Olympics "
2011-07-06,"In South Korea, all textbooks will be e-books by 2015"
2011-07-06,EU parliament backs national bans on GM crops
2011-07-06,US airlines sue EU over emissions caps - US-based airlines have launched a challenge against the European Union over including them in the EU's emissions trading scheme. The companies say the bloc doesn't have the right to regulate intercontinental air travel.
2011-07-06,The European Commission has strongly criticised international credit ratings agencies following the downgrade of Portugal by Moody's.
2011-07-06,Iceland to Debate Prescription-Only Cigarettes
2011-07-06,"Murdoch's  ""News of the World""  investigator targeted families of dead soldiers.

Relatives of members of armed forces killed in combat told their details appear in Glenn Mulcaire's notebooks
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2011-07-06,"World Trade Organization rules Tuesday that Beijing violated global rules by restricting exports of nine raw materials used in the manufacturing of high technology products. 
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2011-07-06,China shows the world nuclear can be safe by developing liquid fuel thorium reactors
2011-07-06,Swiss company cancels deal to sell cement to Gaza flotilla organizers
2011-07-06,Generations of Pork - How Greece's Political Elite Ruined the Country
2011-07-05,"Oil spill off China coast will hurt fishing industry, causing 
 long-term environmental damage - Spill was kept hidden from public for weeks 









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2011-07-05,A law passed this morning allows Australian police officers to remove the burqa (or any head coverings) or face 12 months in prison
2011-07-05,Putin: Who gave NATO right to kill Gaddafi?
2011-07-05,Mexican police arrest Zetas 'cartel boss'
2011-07-05,Pakistan spy agency behind death of reporter who wrote embarrassing reports suggesting militants had infiltrated the country's military
2011-07-05,Ontario Court to rule on whether law that makes public nudity criminal is unconstitutional 
2011-07-05,Horn of Africa hit by worst drought in 60 years
2011-07-05,North Korean military's morale 'Weakening'.  An increasing number of North Korean military officers and soldiers are caught watching South Korean films or soap operas in barracks
2011-07-05,"Homosexuality a ""disease,"" says India health minister at AIDS conference"
2011-07-05, Egypt clashes after police released on bail. Riots erupt in Cairo court after seven police officers accused of killing protesters during uprising are freed 
2011-07-05," Met police kettled pupils aged 11 during fee protests, court told | UK news | The Guardian "
2011-07-05,"A Syrian soldier speaks: At great personal risk, a soldier inside Syria tells it like it is.
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2011-07-05,"More than 1,100 people have been shot dead in political violence in the Pakistani city of Karachi since the start of the year."
2011-07-05,There has been an alarming rise in clashes between settlers and Palestinians in West Bank
2011-07-05,Britain's richest man to build giant Arctic iron ore mine
2011-07-05,How Obama's views turned from criticism of US policy towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to preventing Americans from participating in the Gaza flotilla.
2011-07-05,"Pakistan's powerful spy agency ISI ordered the killing of a Pakistani journalist who had written scathing reports about the infiltration of militants in the country's military, according to American officials"
2011-07-05,"Hama under attack, again. Syrian tanks, soldiers, 
and snipers are descending on the ""liberated city"" 
which only days ago witnessed the largest anti-
government protests seen since the beginning of 
the uprising."
2011-07-05,"Amnesty International has called for a UN-backed investigation into the violence in Syria, saying the regime's crackdown on pro-democracy protesters may constitute crimes against humanity."
2011-07-05,Gaddafi would go in exchange for security: Report
2011-07-05,Five things you can do to demand Murdoch owned News of the World tabloid be fully investigated before News International buy a controlling stake of BSkyB
2011-07-05,"UN President: ""We Won't Accept Regimes Who Kill Their People"""
2011-07-05,"British MPs are alarmed by 6.3bn of ""missing""  defence assets"
2011-07-05,"Mexico captures alleged Zetas gang founder 'El Mamito', Jesus Rejon Aguilar, a Mexican army deserter
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2011-07-05,Zimbabwe: Man sentenced to 189 years in jail for cattle theft. 
2011-07-04,Mystery woman drives by a burning building; gets out of car; runs into building and rescues child and then disappears. 
2011-07-04,"The WikiLeaks You Missed: From blatant bribery in India to Hugo Chvezs war on Dominos pizza, here are the highlights from the last four months of the secret State Department cables."
2011-07-04,The UN is aiding a corporate takeover of drinking water; billions of dollars are being given out to the most ardent promoters of water privatization
2011-07-04,"Missing Milly Dowler's voicemail was hacked by Rupert Murdoch's ""News of the World"" newspaper"
2011-07-04,Iceland considers making cigarettes pescription-only.
2011-07-04,Rare Earth Deposits 1000X those on land found in the Pacific.
2011-07-04,Leaked Emails Reveal UK Government Conspiracy To Downplay Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
2011-07-04,Hidden treasure unearthed at Indian temple valued at $22-billion
2011-07-04,Danish company prevents US prison officials from using a drug it makes to execute prisoners
2011-07-04,South Korea will spend $2.4 billion buying tablets for students and digitizing materials in an effort to go completely digital in the classroom by 2015
2011-07-04,A pipeline carrying gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan has been hit by an explosion
2011-07-04,"In Australia, NSW police given power to remove veils"
2011-07-04,"Otto von Habsburg, the last crown prince of Austria Hungary, dead at 98.  He accomplished a lot in his life, despite having his country torn apart and disown him."
2011-07-04,"As part of compromise intended to end flotilla affair, Greece offers to transport humanitarian aid to Gaza using Greek governmental ships. Israel accepts offer."
2011-07-04,G20 Toronto - 1 Year Later - Pressing for a public inquiry.
2011-07-04,EU cloud data can be secretly accessed by US authorities
2011-07-04,"Gaza flotilla: Some questions for the activists sailing to Gaza. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
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2011-07-04,"Russia discovers American-style ""capitalism"";  completes record bailout of fifth largest bank"
2011-07-04,French See Strauss-Kahn Case as American Folly 
2011-07-04,"Pakistani Military Still Cultivates Militant Groups, a Former Fighter Says"
2011-07-04,Yemen's youth have lost control of the revolution they began
2011-07-04,Computer-Hacking Group Targets Apple In Latest Attack
2011-07-04,Germany ends conscription
2011-07-04,Treasure worth $22 billion discovered in secret vaults of Indian Hindu temple
2011-07-04,"""Robocops"" to patrol 2014 World Cup using glasses equipped with facial recognition software."
2011-07-03,"Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data: MD of Microsoft UK, says that cloud data - regardless of where it is in the world - is not protected against the US Patriot Act"
2011-07-03,"North Korea: someone put a piece of graffito on the wall of a Pyongyang College, so almost all student are drafted into manual labor on the outskirts of the city until April next year"
2011-07-03,"BEIJING, China  Woman catches toddler who fell 10 stories"
2011-07-03,"Why are Europeans paying less for faster internet connections than US citizens on average. The reason why this is the case, says the report, is one simple word: government!"
2011-07-03,The shah jailed my father. Khomeini jailed my sister. Then came my turn to scream.
2011-07-03,Kuwait will put on trial two citizens for criticizing Gulf Arab ruling families on Twitter
2011-07-03,"Once Greece Goes... --- 
Excellent read on the EU, eurozone crisis, and coming default(s). Focuses on Greece, of course, but also interesting on Germany and reasons for the divide between politicians and public opinion in both those countries"
2011-07-03,"Thailand Elects 1st Female Prime Minister
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2011-07-03,Turkey recognizes Libyan rebels as countrys legitimate government
2011-07-03,"Noam Chomsky denounces Hugo Chvez for 
'assault' on democracy, accuses him of 
concentrating too much power in his own hands"
2011-07-03,The United Arab Emirates: Getting twitchy about democracy. The Arab awakening is making one of the richest of the Gulf states nervous
2011-07-03,Secret chamber in an Indian Temple discovered with over $11 Billion dollars of gold and silver treasure.
2011-07-03,"Last year 14,000 people were murdered in Venezuela, three times more than Iraq"
2011-07-03,"Top Euro Leader Warns That Greek Sovereignty Will Now Be Massively Limited

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2011-07-03,"Biofuels land grab in Kenya's Tana Delta fuels talk of war - 
Villagers vow to resist as wildlife vanishes and they are driven from their land to make way for water-thirsty crops"
2011-07-03,Islamist Group attacks Cinema showing film about secularism.
2011-07-03,S. Korea to submit claim on East China Sea shelf to U.N. this year
2011-07-03,"A huge treasure has been found in a Hindu temple in southern India  gold and silver jewelry, coins and precious stones worth billions of dollars."
2011-07-03,Royal couple heckled in Montreal
2011-07-03,"Israel welcomes Gaza flotilla delays
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2011-07-03,French outrage peaks over Strauss-Kahn reversal
2011-07-03,"Chavez defends dictator friends in Middle East: Hugo Chavez tarnishes his revolutionary image by siding with the Middle East despots amid protests.
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2011-07-03,"Budhrai Debbarma: The first man in independent India, the first of 1.2 billion, to be asked by the government to identify himself by his caste."
2011-07-03,"Britain's rivers ""being ruined by demands of water companies"" - Extraction causing harm, with consumers likely paying the cost "
2011-07-03,Belarus: Lukashenko vows to quell 'revolution plot' - Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko says recent protests against his rule are an attempt to foment revolution in the former Soviet republic.
2011-07-02,Portugal drug law show results ten years on - Health experts in Portugal said Friday that Portugal's decision 10 years ago to decriminalise drug use and treat addicts rather than punishing them is an experiment that has worked.
2011-07-02,"WikiLeaks and Datacell to sue Visa & MasterCard for engaging in an unlawful, U.S. influenced, financial blockade"
2011-07-02,"Greece arrests captain of US Gaza-bound boat over ship's ""seaworthiness"" and for ""jeopardizing passengers' safety""
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2011-07-02,The Least Free Places on Earth in 2011  
2011-07-02,"Brown University Study: US wars leave 225,000 dead, cost $4.4 trillion."
2011-07-02,A world with too much freedom is better than one with not enough
2011-07-02,Propaganda exposed:  Official Israeli government websites were forced to remove a video clip of a man claiming to be an American gay rights activist who was banned from participating in the flotilla to Gaza after it was revealed to be a hoax. 
2011-07-02,China's President Hu Jintao has warned the Communist Party that corruption could cost it the support of the people - in a speech marking 90 years since the party was founded.
2011-07-02,The Church of England is reviewing its policy towards same-sex relationships & considering allowing gay clergy to be ordained as bishops
2011-07-02,Gaddafi threatens to strike Europe  
2011-07-02,"Jellyfish keep UK nuclear plant shut. An invasion of jellyfish into a cooling water pool at a Scottish nuclear power plant kept its nuclear reactors offline on Wednesday, a phenomenon which may grow more common in future."
2011-07-02,"New Internet Filtering in Pakistan: ISP Mobilink now requires all users add proxy 10.215.2.32 port 3128 to browse Internet, with censorship of some political keywords and also web pages hosting news related to Balochistan"
2011-07-02,"Hours after search giant Google unveiled networking service Google+, the Chinese govt got the service blocked in the country"
2011-07-02,"Kim Jong-il's half-brother placed under house arrest in Pyongyang because his resemblance to his father and founder of the nation, Kim Il-sung, could derail the transfer of power to the Dear Leader's son"
2011-07-02,Japan's desperate 'nuclear gypsies'. Rights groups say country's poorest people are being exploited to repair Fukushima plant.
2011-07-02,"300,000 protest in Syrian town of Hama. Assad fires local Governor."
2011-07-02,More than 500 slaves rescued from brick kilns 
2011-07-02,"Gaddafi threatens attacks in Europe against  ""homes, offices, families,"" unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya"
2011-07-02,"British farmers forced to pay the cost of supermarket price wars - 
As profits soar at the supermarkets, food producers say they are being forced out of business by unfair buying practices"
2011-07-02,French Government Plans to Extend Internet Censorship
2011-07-02,"China has its controversial one-child policy. But in India, health officials are taking a different steer on population control, offering prizes - including a car - for sterilization."
2011-07-02,"Hotel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of raping her was reportedly ""doing double duty as a prostitute, collecting cash on the side from male guests."""
2011-07-02,Mexican marines kill 15 cartel suspects in battle
2011-07-02,"Moroccans overwhelmingly approved constitutional reforms aimed at addressing demands for greater democracy. Members of the ""February 20"" protest movement, however, say the king still retains too much power.
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2011-07-02,"The Danish parliament in Copenhagen moved on Friday to reintroduce limited border controls in the country by deploying additional customs agents starting Tuesday. In Germany and Brussels, politicians believe the country could be violating the Schengen Agreement on passport-free European travel. "
2011-07-01,"""Being told to kill peaceful civilians is the most brutal thing that ever happened to me,"" says defected former sniper."
2011-07-01,A Incredible Rare Look At Life In North Korea [pics]
2011-07-01,"Hama, Syria: thousands of anti-government 
protesters unfurl a mile-long flag. Today is dubbed 
""the Friday of Go Away"" by Syrian activists."
2011-07-01,Danish company restricts death penalty drug
2011-07-01,Bahrain orders citizens living abroad to spy on other expats and sign 'loyalty pledges'
2011-07-01,12 people killed in Jurez in less than 24 hours
2011-07-01,Hugo Chavez admits cancerous tumor.
2011-07-01,"Germany - When advisers working for a bank recommend a particular stock or bond to an investor, as of July 1 they will also have to hand over a leaflet laying out how the particular financial instrument will work, what risks are involved and how market fluctuations can affect future yields.  "
2011-07-01,"Marathon length:
China celebrates opening of the world's longest sea bridge - supported by 5,200 pillars"
2011-07-01,"A group set up to counter lobbying from the Banking 
sector was officially launched today"
2011-07-01,"Massive anti-government protest in Qaboun, suburb 
of Damascus, today (Friday July 1, 2011). Activists 
claim more than 30,000 people in attendance in 
Qaboun alone. The Syrian government's promises 
of ""dialogue"" have done nothing to keep protesters 
off the street."
2011-07-01,The abuses of austerity: A new plan to cut Greeces debt looks doomed to fail
2011-07-01,"Greece to Receive Up to $124 Billion in New EU, IMF Financing "
2011-07-01,"Rebels in Libya's west gain ground: Aided by NATO airstrikes, they move within 50 miles of the capital. But they sense a bloodbath coming, with civilians caught in the crossfire."
2011-07-01,Dominique Strauss-Kahn Will Be The Next President Of France
2011-07-01,Gaza-bound boat: Greek commandos forced us back
2011-07-01,Japanese Cancer Expert on the Fukushima Situation
2011-07-01,Danish drugmaker seeks to prevent use of drug it makes in American executions
2011-07-01,"Fukushima children test positive for internal radiation exposure
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2011-07-01,Morocco to vote on King Mohammed's reforms: Moroccans are preparing to head to the polls to vote on a series of constitutional amendments and reforms.
2011-07-01,"It's All Greek to Them --- 
What Europeans just don't get about Greece. Hint: Despite appearances, they're not all lazy anarchists."
2011-07-01,Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez reveals he has been stricken with cancer and has undergone surgery in Cuba
2011-07-01,"China arrests 36 for fraud on Alibaba and other sites: Chinese police have arrested 36 people connected with operating an online fraud on Alibaba.com and other websites, the company has said."
2011-07-01,"China's communists mark 90th, hail party's success"
2011-07-01,"For three months in a row, deforestation rates in the Amazon have risen as much as 400% compared with same months last year"
2011-06-30,Russian court bans Scientology literature as extremist
2011-06-30,Chinese faked photograph leaves officials floating over street of shame
2011-06-30,Turkey tells West it might launch offensive against Syria
2011-06-30,"Daughters of the brothel - former sex workers try to end trafficking in India - Al Jazeera English
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2011-06-30, North Korean defector learns to live outside the world's biggest prison | World news | guardian.co.uk 
2011-06-30,The presidency of U.N.s Conference on Disarmament is now held by North Korea
2011-06-30,Bolivia protests for right to grow coca: Bolivia has withdrawn from a UN convention that puts coca leaves in the same league as cocaine and heroin
2011-06-30,Scottish nuclear reactor must be shut down after cooling filters get clogged with jellyfish
2011-06-30,Denmark Police Wants to Ban Anonymous Internet Use: They are recommending that identities be verified before someone is able to log on to the internet
2011-06-30,"""More than four million PCs have been enrolled in a botnet security experts say is almost ""indestructible""."" - Oh Fuck. "
2011-06-30,British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a co-ordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known
2011-06-30,"Belarussian police have arrested at least 100 people holding a ""silent rally"" against the government in the capital, Minsk."
2011-06-30,US extends drone strikes to Somalia
2011-06-30,Girls are being 'converted' into boys in Indore - by the hundreds every year - at ages where they cannot give their consent for this life-changing operation.
2011-06-30,"French woman sues secretive Catholic society, Opus Dei, claiming to have been brainwashed by them"
2011-06-30,China opens world's longest sea bridge
2011-06-30,"France confirms Libya arms drops. By arming civilians, France becomes first NATO country to admit supplying weapons to rebel-controlled areas in Libya."
2011-06-30,Gaza aid flotilla: Irish crew accuse Israel of sabotage
2011-06-30, China is Heading for a Hard Landing
2011-06-30,The Syrian military and the governments security forces have largely withdrawn from one of the countrys largest cities.
2011-06-30,An Unbelievable Video Of Police Brutality In Greece Today
2011-06-30,Germany votes to end nuclear power by 2022
2011-06-30,"Rights lawyers in China harassed, tortured"
2011-06-30,South African lesbians fear corrective rape --BBC
2011-06-30, China opens world's longest sea bridge - 26 miles long
2011-06-29,North Korea slashes food rations to 150 grams of rice per day.  One hundred grams of rice produces about 250-350 calories
2011-06-29,BBC News- Stabbing burglars 'will be legal'
2011-06-29,Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks
2011-06-29,Russia cuts off power to Belarus
2011-06-29,"Police forces can no longer put anyone out on bail for more than 96 hours without either being in a position to charge or release them.

After the four days is up, officers can no longer question suspects and can only re-arrest them if they have new evidence, the ruling says.  - UK"
2011-06-29,Protesters turn Athens into war zone after vote in favor of austerity bill 
2011-06-29,Almost 40 million Brazilians climbed to middle class in the last eight years
2011-06-29," Five Saudi women drivers arrested, says activist. For the past two weeks Saudi women have been driving through the capital, Riyadh, and other cities in a challenge to the ban."
2011-06-29,France confirms arming Libyan rebels
2011-06-29,Fresh clashes in Cairo's Tahrir Square: 590 injured as police fire tear gas at thousands frustrated by slow pace of change since Egypt's revolution
2011-06-29,Bin Laden was detached from al Qaida's new generation of commanders and buying and selling gold before he died
2011-06-29,"Part of The Think Tank Google Ideas, Google has invited former extremists  gang members, religious radicals and neo-Nazis  to meet with activists, survivors, academics and public sector officials in Dublin to discuss ways of ""de-radicalizing"" violent extremists using modern technology. "
2011-06-29,Two French journalists who were kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been freed after more than 500 days in captivity.
2011-06-29,Protesters in Cairo call for resignation of military council chief Gen Mohamed Tantawi
2011-06-29,Arab uprising 'prompts Chinese crackdown': Rights groups say Beijing moving against dissidents after fears of copycat Arab revolt.
2011-06-29,"Sony shareholders, at annual meeting, demand senior management resign, citing the company's destroyed reputation in the aftermath of repeated security breaches"
2011-06-29,"Dublin Dr Pepper oldest and original bottler sued by Dr Pepper Snapple group.. Give it a read if you've ever tried the stuff
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2011-06-29,More than 500 slaves rescued
2011-06-29,Moldovan police seize enriched uranium
2011-06-29,Clinton Stirs Controversy At African Union Summit By Saying African Economies Would Fail Without Womens Toil
2011-06-29,"Battle breaks out in Tahir Square, once again"
2011-06-29,"Is free speech on the way out?  India faces new threats to freedom of speech as technology advances and citizens gain more access to information.
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2011-06-29, Six Moldovan 'uranium smugglers' arrested
2011-06-29,"A 16-yr-old website owner from Liberec, faces years in prison for linking to copyrighted material after being caught by Czech Anti-Piracy Union"
2011-06-29,Chinas ruling Communist Party will face a challenge in 2012 from a record number of independent candidates running in local elections without the partys direct approval.
2011-06-28,Netherlands bans kosher and halal animal slaughter
2011-06-28,France to invest one billion euros in nuclear power 
2011-06-28,Canadians Win Battle to Keep Asbestos Off of Hazardous Materials List (?!)
2011-06-28,"Hackers are being radicalised by government policy
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2011-06-28,Afghans build super-cheap internet out of rubbish
2011-06-28,Israeli forces attack clown demonstrators
2011-06-28,North Korea shuts down universities for 10 months 
2011-06-28,Scandinavian activists in the Gaza-bound flotilla say someone sabotaged their ship's propeller while the vessel was docked in a Greek port
2011-06-28,General Strike brings Greece to a halt
2011-06-28,"Egyptian policeman sentenced to death for killing protesters
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2011-06-28,Greek Police Using Teargas On Protesters And Riots Are Breaking Out At Syntagma Square
2011-06-28,China told to reduce food production or face 'dire' water levels: Food must be imported and water use tightly regulated to protect dwindling supply
2011-06-28,Stunning photographs floods in China 
2011-06-28,Libya rebels capture Gaddafi arms bunker near Zintan: Libyan rebels have captured a major complex of underground weapons bunkers from Col Muammar Gaddafi's forces in the west of the country. 
2011-06-28,Water use in China & the Middle East is an environmental Ponzi scheme
2011-06-28,"'We May Be Naive, But We Are Not Idiots' - He built Pakistan's nuclear bomb and is accused of having sold his knowledge to Libya and Iran. In an e-mail interview, he now explains why he accepted sole blame for the accusations at the time and points a finger at the Pakistani army. "
2011-06-28,World Bank appoints Lehman's Risk Officer 2002 - 2007 as Treasurer 
2011-06-28,"The Country Where Slavery Is Still Normal: How a perfect storm of ethnic divisions, natural disaster, and political turmoil made Mauritania a 21st-century slave state"
2011-06-28,UN ratifies Venezuela for sixth consecutive year as a territory free of illicit drug cultivation
2011-06-28,Germany has agreed to supply bomb components and other military ordnance to NATO forces involved in the Libya conflict. Berlin originally abstained from a UN Security Council vote to back the intervention.
2011-06-28,Greek protests turn violent
2011-06-28,South Korea braced for North Korean 'provocation' as tension mounts
2011-06-28,"City of Sydney officially declares 1788 settlement of Australia an invasion |
			News.com.au"
2011-06-28,"The Truth about 88 --- Openly Nazi symbols such as the swastika are banned in Germany, so neo-Nazis get around the law by using coded combinations of letter and numbers. A new book explains the meaning of such codes, and reveals that far-right style is becoming increasingly diverse and hard to spot."
2011-06-28,"48-hour general strike has left Athens at a standstill - A 48-hour general strike has begun in Greece, bringing public transport and services to a halt. As protesters gather in Athens, the Greek government continues to debate a fresh round of austerity plans."
2011-06-27,"Video smuggled out of North Korea. Children begging, army starving. More evidence of famine within the secretive State. "
2011-06-27,"In Zurich, tram operators can change traffic lights in their favor with a touch of a button and make cars wait for them.  Just one way Europe is making driving less convenient to encourage mass transit, cycling and walking."
2011-06-27,French president says post-Fukushima abandonment of nuclear 'makes no sense' as he announces push for new technology.
2011-06-27,"The melted nuclear fuel is sinking toward water under the ground...underground barrier needed"" - TEPCO says ""wait."
2011-06-27,Serengeti Highway Canned: Victory for Animals!
2011-06-27,Journalist Robert Fisk faces libel action for pointing out Bahrain-Saudi alliance
2011-06-27,"'The German Government Will Pay Up' - Leading German economist Stefan Homburg argues that euro-zone members should not bail out Greece, who is making a profit from the crisis and explains why he himself is buying Greek bonds. ""I believe in the boundless stupidity of the German government."" "
2011-06-27,Fantastic photos from the German invasion of Poland and the Winter War
2011-06-27,"Please Hacker Don't Hurt Us: The Media's Coverage 
Of LulzSec Has Been Cowardly and Pathetic"
2011-06-27,"Google chairman warns of censorship after Arab Spring: The use of the web by Arab democracy movements could lead to some states cracking down harder on internet freedoms, Google's chairman says."
2011-06-27,"Flotilla will be allowed to unload cargo at port of El-Arish in Egypt, where it will be checked and then transferred to Gaza via land."
2011-06-27,"4 top Khmer Rouge leaders face trial for first time - Charges include genocide & 'crimes against humanity' over deaths of up to 2,000,000 Cambodians under Pol Pot's regime, 1975-79"
2011-06-27,Bill Gates puts his money to work in the developing world
2011-06-27,TEPCO halts cooling water circulation due to leaks in the 4km-long pipe system. NHK TV also reported that TEPCO started the system without checking it for leaks first -- it only ran for 90 minutes.
2011-06-27,"Bolivia moves to end dependence on foreign seed firms: Bolivian President Evo Morales, has signed a new law which aims to ensure food security for his country. "
2011-06-27,"Enter the dragon 'to save the euro: It is in the interest of cash-rich China to help resolve the eurozone debt crisis, but Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, who is visiting Britain and Continental Europe, will want a share of the Wests buying power in return"
2011-06-27,Arab kings: How to keep your crown -- The kings of Morocco and Jordan have made some shrewd pre-emptive moves 
2011-06-27,"Saudi Arabian Torment Of Migrant Workers --- ""I worked from 5am to 1am, almost every day. I got up to make the children breakfast, got them ready to go to school, cleaned the house all day, and in the evening my employers would go out and come back at midnight and want dinner"""
2011-06-27,"After sustaining a 10cm long open chest wound while trimming her horses mane, Swedens emergency response services refused to send an ambulance, suggesting the 11-yr-old girl take aspirin instead"
2011-06-27,French banks agree to defer Greek loans 
2011-06-27,ICC (International Criminal Court) issues Gadhafi arrest warrant 
2011-06-27,Activists: Israeli pressuring Greece to stall Gaza flotilla
2011-06-27,Peru revokes licence of Canadian mining firm Bear Creek
2011-06-27,"Russia to privatize state airline Aeroflot - Russia will sell almost its entire stake in the state-owned airline Aeroflot as part of a national programme to get the government out of business, a senior official said Monday."
2011-06-27,"Greek unions urge huge anti-austerity strike turnout - Air traffic, buses, trains, postal services and hospitals are all expected to be hit, while police in Athens were also preparing to handle big demonstrations in Syntagma Square."
2011-06-26,"Haiti: Leaked cables expose new details on how Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levis worked with US to block increase in minimum wage and how the country's elite used police force as own private army"
2011-06-26,All MPs under 30 in India's Parliament are children of MPs. 
2011-06-26,"""One million Iraqi civilians lost their lives. Somebody should be accountable. How will people have trust in international law if it applies only to the poor and weak-the Milosevics and Kim Jong Ils or whoever-and not to the strong and powerful?"" ~ Nobel Peace Prize Winner ElBaradei"
2011-06-26,Suicide bomber kills 25 in attack on Afghan maternity ward. This is what rock bottom looks like.
2011-06-26,Israel warns foreign journalists: Joining Gaza flotilla is illegal
2011-06-26,Bolivia prepares to withdraw from UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs to protest its classification of coca leaves as an illegal drug
2011-06-26,"Global mining company Rio Tinto caused war in Papua New Guinea, supplying helicopters and troops: Sir Michael Somare, Prime Minister of PNG"
2011-06-26,Germanys season of angst: why a prosperous nation is turning on itself
2011-06-26,At least one Australian ISP is wavering on plans to begin blocking illegal websites next month because of fear of reprisals from internet vigilantes.
2011-06-26,"DR Congo mass rape in Fizi: '170 attacked': The number of reported victims of a recent mass rape campaign by gunmen in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to about 170, the UN says."
2011-06-26,Hugo Chavez in 'critical' condition in Cuban hospital
2011-06-26,"""This is no time for gloating, neither for Americans nor for Europeans. For both sides are in deep economic trouble, only in different ways."""
2011-06-26,Fukushima: Boric acid being added to No.3 reactor fuel pool
2011-06-26,"Report: Hezbollah moves missiles from Syria to Lebanon, fearing fall of Assad regime"
2011-06-26,Ethiopia Court Jails Over 500 Muslims for Mass Church Burnings
2011-06-26,Syria: a cornered Assad is losing his marbles --- Assad cant offer amnesty to the Syrian people; theyll decide whether or not to offer amnesty to Assad.
2011-06-26, The secret scandal of Britain's caste system --- Why isn't the Equality and Human Rights Commission taking action against this prejudice?
2011-06-26,"Parents getting their baby girls 'surgically converted into boys' [Madhya Pradesh, India]"
2011-06-26,Fierce fighting south-west of Tripoli: Rebels have been engaged in fierce firefights with government forces in mountain plains about 80km (50 miles) south-west of Tripoli.
2011-06-26,"Peru halts Canadian company's mining project after deadly protests by anti-mining activists, mostly local Aymara Indian farmers. At least 5 activists were killed when riot police fired tear gas and live ammunition at protesters"
2011-06-26,Sunflowers to clean radioactive soil in Japan
2011-06-26,BBC News - Syria send more troops to Turkey and Lebanon borders
2011-06-26,Tipping Point For The European Union? 
2011-06-26,French troop's withdrawal from Afghanistan stirs mixed reaction
2011-06-26,China and Vietnam to ease maritime tensions: Pledge to resolve dispute over oil- and gas- rich South China Sea comes after high-level talks between the two nations.
2011-06-25,"Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water To Africa? --- 
 Surprising for such a high profile celebrity. No wasting cash or backing out when problems start, just clever innovation, hard work and measurable results. Could it be ""a big idea done right""?"
2011-06-25,"EU refuses to back down on placing pollution tax on airlines, despite China putting Airbus order on ice  & growing U.S. discontent "
2011-06-25,Wealth of worlds richest rose nearly 10 percent in 2010
2011-06-25,What makes Russians happy
2011-06-25,Video shows part of man's hellish 11-hour Toronto G20 arrest ordeal
2011-06-25,Most Greeks say they have little confidence in a political class that they see as corrupt and unaccountable.
2011-06-25,"British hacker Ryan Cleary refused bail, diagnosed with autism"
2011-06-25,Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
2011-06-25,"What the Arab revolts leave unanswered --- There is nothing sacred or permanent about the borders of any country, especially Arab countries that were mostly created by the handiwork of European colonial officers.  "
2011-06-25,"Saab faces bankruptcy, can't pay employees."
2011-06-25,"'I Fear the Net Will Soon Become a War Zone' ---Kaspersky is one of Russia's top Internet virus hunters and IT entrepreneurs. He discusses a raft of recent hacker attacks on multinationals, the ""total professionals"" behind the Stuxnet virus and his fear of both personal and widespread cyber violence"
2011-06-25,Colombian women on sex strike until road is paved
2011-06-25,The head of Hezbollah has said two of the Lebanese Islamist group's members have confessed to working for the CIA.
2011-06-25,Mexican artist's painting reported for breaking Irish blasphemy laws
2011-06-25,"On Facebook page of Netanyahu's son, a parade of anti-Islamic remarks"
2011-06-25,Goldman Vet Named Euro Central Bank Chief
2011-06-25,"China to remain long-term investor in Europe's debt
| Reuters

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2011-06-25,"
	Hezbollah 'captures CIA spies' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
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2011-06-25,Security Forces Makes Mass Arrests Across Syria
2011-06-25,"Syrian protesters killed in massive demonstrations, as EU expands sanctions"
2011-06-25,Uncontacted Amazon Tribe of 200 Indians Discovered [Images/Video] 
2011-06-25,Human Trafficking in the middle east: Manolas story
2011-06-25,"While Germany, Italy, & Switzerland reject nuclear power, developing countries & Middle Eastern oil economies are forging ahead, with Egypt most likely to rise above others in nuclear power "
2011-06-25,Pakistans thriving customization industry has turned highways into a panorama of color - creating magical buses and trucks
2011-06-25,BBC News - Egypt drops plans for IMF loan amid popular distrust
2011-06-24,"Amsterdam fights for your right to smoke pot: The proposed ban on allowing foreigners to purchase cannabis will increase crime, Amsterdam officials say."
2011-06-24,A former Rwandan women's minister has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the genocide and the rape of Tutsi women and girls.
2011-06-24,Hospital director in Japan paid gang member 10 million yen to find him a kidney donor
2011-06-24,"""Jews and Israelis, or passengers carrying any non-Islamic article of faith, will not be able to fly code-share flights from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia under Delta Air Line's new partnership with Saudi Arabian Airlines that is set to begin in 2012...Religious items such as Bibles that are not related"""
2011-06-24,Seized bin Laden cellphone provides link to Pakistani spy agency
2011-06-24,"Cellphone Offers Clues of Bin Ladens Pakistan Ties: Osama bin Laden, the former Al Qaeda leader, used the militant group Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, which has links to Pakistani intelligence, as part of his support network."
2011-06-24,"Muslim Tory minister says Pakistan's treatment of women fails Islam. Lady Warsi says women are being denied rights granted 1,400 years ago in Qur'an"
2011-06-24,South Africa now on a trajectory to Zimbabwehood. Top ANC cadres making exit plans as the Rainbow Nations dream spirals down the drain.
2011-06-24,A top army officer in Zimbabwe has accused Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of being a security threat.
2011-06-24,HIV/AIDS: Anal sex HIV risk misunderstood among heterosexuals
2011-06-24,"More mass rape in Congo, say aid groups and local media"
2011-06-24,"Report faults Romanian legal system for Roma housing discrimination: Amnesty International finds that the Roma minority in Romania lacks legal protection from forced evictions, and that Roma families are often left in sub-standard housing conditions"
2011-06-24,Croatia gets green light to join EU.
2011-06-24,Greece granted 120bn EU bailout
2011-06-24,David Cameron wins battle to keep Britain out of second EU bail-out for Greece 
2011-06-24,GM marijuana problem growing in Colombia - Farmers say the enhanced plants are more powerful & profitable
2011-06-24,Mexico Replaces Police With Soldiers In Border Area : NPR
2011-06-24,Mexican Congress Says No To ACTA
2011-06-24,"An ally of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been arrested, according to Iran's state media."
2011-06-24,"Syria protesters 'shot outside mosque': Reports of 15 deaths in protests across country, including six said to have been shot as they left a mosque in Damascus."
2011-06-24,"How does one say ""doubleplusgood"" in Chinese?"
2011-06-24,Leaked IRC logs identify LulzSec members and show a disorganised group obsessed with its media coverage and suspicious of other hackers
2011-06-24,"Syrian forces fire on protesters, at least 12 dead"
2011-06-24,"Special report on Japan's ""throwaway"" nuclear workers: ""I can only think that to the power companies, contract workers are just disposable pieces of equipment"" "
2011-06-24,No evidence of Libya Viagra rape claims. But war crimes? Plenty.
2011-06-23,LEAKED: UK copyright lobby holds closed-door meetings with gov't to discuss national Web-censorship regime
2011-06-23,"Taiwan Blogger Imprisoned For Negative Restaurant Review. Fined and jailed for contending the food was ""too salty"""
2011-06-23,Japan has issued a tsunami alert after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake
2011-06-23,"World's wealthiest people now richer than before the credit crunch, says study"
2011-06-23,"The Dutch have passed a law prohibiting internet providers from slowing down traffic unless it's to ease congestion, preserve security or block spam."
2011-06-23,"Toronto police will never again use the controversial crowd control technique known as kettling, which was employed during last years G20 summit"
2011-06-23,"Somali man, who tried to kill the Danish cartoonist who drew a cartoon about the Prophet Muhammad, sentenced to 10 years. "
2011-06-23,Dutch Lawmakers Adopt Net Neutrality Law
2011-06-23,"Ryan Cleary, arrested LulzSec member, threatens to kill self if comp taken away"
2011-06-23,Cannibalism Comes To North Korea
2011-06-23,Nuclear experts killed in Russia plane crash helped design Iran facility
2011-06-23,Rightwing Geert Wilders cleared of hate [anti-Islamic] charges by Netherlands court
2011-06-23,"Nazi hunting - How France first ""civilized"" the Internet: The online world is looking nervously at Europe, whose leaders are about to join force to bring ""civility"" to the Internet. France leads the cheering squad"
2011-06-23,"While we are all consumed by the politics of the day, our oceans are dying faster than scientists have previously thought."
2011-06-23,"How European Elites Lost a Generation --- The European Union is in bad shape. Not only is the common currency in a shambles and the economies of many member states moribund, but young Europeans no longer see how the EU helps them. Millions of them are taking to the streets to demand a future. "
2011-06-23,"Grid of straw squares turns Chinese sand to soil - China has struggled to keep the deserts that cover more than a quarter of the country from gaining ground, but soil stabilization and sustainable livestock-farming are beginning to slow rates of desertification."
2011-06-23,"North Korea's Meth Export - On rapid rise of crystal meth addiction in China and its likely source, North Korea. Horrendous that poverty in Kim Jong-Il's kingdom forces people to ""take it for things like cancer. This drug is their sole form of medication"""
2011-06-23,"The daughter of Muammar Gaddafi has launched a lawsuit for murder following the death in April of four members of her family, including her 4-month old daughter, during a Nato air strike. Legal papers were submitted to the prosecutor's office in Brussels on Tuesday by a French lawyer."
2011-06-23,"A German Internet platform has been awarded a prize for its role in uncovering plagiarism that forced the popular former defense minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg to step down. More than 1,000 users collaborated on GuttenPlag Wiki. "
2011-06-23,Danish Police want to ID you to use the Internet
2011-06-23,"""Sri Lankas bloody secret - If what Sri Lankas Killing Fields shows doesnt constitute crimes against humanity, nothing does"" - Views - livemint.com"
2011-06-23,Flash flood hits Beijing
2011-06-23,Staples breached Canadian privacy law by not wiping customer data off laptops and storage devices before reselling them
2011-06-23," About 100 women have been sexually assaulted and many more injured in the latest mass rape by suspected rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, international aid workers and local media reported Thursday."
2011-06-23,"New concerns emerge over North Korea's nuclear program:  Satellite images show fresh construction at the Yongbyon nuke site.
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2011-06-22,A home-made heroin substitute is having a horrific effect on thousands of Russia's drug addicts
2011-06-22,Italy Overwhelmingly Says 'No' to Water Privatization
2011-06-22,Canada keeps asbestos off UN hazardous list.
2011-06-22,"After charging two men with raping a teenage tourist in Dubai, the government charges her with having 'sexual urges'"
2011-06-22,"Defying the tradition of ""honor"" killings, Syrians protesters vow to marry girls raped by regime thugs"
2011-06-22,Egypt declines World Bank loan as incompatible with national interest
2011-06-22,"Amsterdam's famous cannabis ""coffee shops"" coming to an end, tourists are to be banned from buying marijuana by the end of the year"
2011-06-22,Dutch parliament votes yes on net-neutrality.
2011-06-22,"Majority of 1,105 people arrested during G20 have been released without charge: Toronto police said they had reasons to arrest people, whether or not the charges held up in court"
2011-06-22,Ban Ki-moon wins second term as UN Secretary General
2011-06-22,"Ai Weiwei Released On Bail, Chinese State News Agency Says"
2011-06-22,Russian government bars opposition party from participating in elections
2011-06-22,Chinese artist Ai Weiwei freed: State media's claim that release on bail followed confession to tax evasion yet to be confirmed directly by activist.
2011-06-22,Bahrain sentenced 10 activists to life imprisonment for plotting a coup during protests
2011-06-22,Israel to Allow Building Cargo to Enter Gaza
2011-06-22,Syria says EU sanctions amount to declaration of war
2011-06-22,Magnitude 6.7 quake rattles northern Japan - CNN.com
2011-06-22,"China told the United States on Wednesday to restrain other countries from provoking Beijing in disputes over contested territories in the South China Sea, warning that Washington risks becoming embroiled in an unwanted conflict."
2011-06-22,Riots in Belfast
2011-06-22,"Flood of US weapons in Afghanistan and Pakistan fueling militant groups, experts say"
2011-06-22,"Anti-government protesters have once again taken to the streets in Bahrain, demanding an end to the rule of Al Khalifa dynasty and departure of Saudis forces. "
2011-06-22,Bloody sectarian riot erupts in Northern Ireland
2011-06-22,Germany's Green Party is growing in size and influence. But with power comes responsibility and a party convention this week will go a long way in determining whether the erstwhile protest party is ready. There are signs that it may not be.
2011-06-22,Bitcoin 'will recover' from crash
2011-06-22,South Korean military apologises for firing at a  passenger aircraft after mistaking it for North Korean warplane
2011-06-21,19-year-old suspected of being mastermind behind computer hacking group LulzSec arrested in UK
2011-06-21,"The cores at Fukushima are laying on the concrete and melting THROUGH the foundations of the reactors. The government wants to build an subterranean dam, but TEPCO is fighting against it."
2011-06-21,"The British Are Now Preparing For Greece To Go Bust, And The End Of The Euro."
2011-06-21," Dutch parliament set to approve bill that, if passed, will set an example in Europe as the strongest ""net neutrality"" law on record"
2011-06-21,Loyalists open fire on police as 500 riot in Belfast - The violence is being described as some of the most serious seen in Northern Ireland for years.
2011-06-21,"As the world becomes more interconnected, it becomes harder to stand up for human rights. But, says Germany's Deputy Foreign Minister, it becomes all the more important."
2011-06-21,2011 Failed State Index
2011-06-21,Bank of Canada unveils new plastic bills.
2011-06-21,"""Video footage of a Tamil journalist apparently executed in the final stages of Sri Lanka's bloody civil war underscores the need for an urgent international inquiry, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.""  - CPJ"
2011-06-21,Report: Mexico catches top leader of La Familia drug cartel 
2011-06-21,Vancouver: After the Riot [pics]
2011-06-21,Hong Kong declares scarlet fever outbreak - Thousands infected  in the city & elsewhere in China
2011-06-21,The UK government may have lost the 2011 census to Lulzsec
2011-06-21,"Syrian security forces have shot dead seven people after government supporters and opponents clashed in three cities, activists say."
2011-06-21,Chilean court blocks plan to build five dams and hydroelectric plants in the countrys Patagonia region
2011-06-21,Australia's two major airports face 48 hour shut down as Chilean ash cloud drifts across the south of the country
2011-06-21,Greek government wins confidence vote
2011-06-21,"Time wars --- 
How a huge new clock in Mecca is reviving a century-old clash over what time it is"
2011-06-21,"A Map without Israel - Swatiskas intertwined in the Star of David, a map of the Middle East with Israel missing, boycotts of Israeli products: Germany's far-left Left Party, many feel, has a growing anti-Semitism problem. The issue threatens to divide the party."
2011-06-21,NATO airstrike in Libya kills 19 civilians
2011-06-21,Running out of money for food? Buy riot gear! --North Korea
2011-06-21,"Palestinian President Abbas says that Palestinians will not turn to the UN if they are given an alternative solution from Israel, US and Europe
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2011-06-21,Industrial Strength Censorship : What Sarkozys Civilised Internet Looks Like
2011-06-21,Germany frees last Red Army faction activist
2011-06-21,"NATO confirms drone helicopter lost in Libya: US surveillance drone lost near Zliten, as Libya's state television says aircraft was downed Apache attack helicopter."
2011-06-20,World's oceans in 'shocking' decline
2011-06-20,Vancouver police received 1M pics and 1000 hrs of video of the Stanley Cup riot
2011-06-20,"A minor girl is raped and hanged from a tree inside a police station. Police brutality touches a new low in Uttar Pradesh, India"
2011-06-20,LulzSec and Anon uniting for global hacking attacks
2011-06-20,"""War crimes: The world has seen the evidence. Now we must act - In Sri Lanka, Libya, Bahrain and elsewhere, human rights abuses are being recorded and the evidence is on the internet"" The Guardian
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2011-06-20,"Postcards from Hell, 2011"
2011-06-20,"Brazil's high court OKs 'Marijuana Marches' - The court ruled in favor of 'Marijuana Marches' as an expression of free speech, overturning several state bans."
2011-06-20, What makes the IMF think it's right about Greece? Much of the world remains mired in the worst downturn since the Great Depression; a downturn that the IMF totally failed to predict
2011-06-20,"'We Will Not Get Involved' in Syria - The US has been critical of Germany for not supporting NATO in the mission in Libya. SPIEGEL spoke to German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizire about Berlin's skepticism of getting involved in Libya and Syria, and about the future of the NATO alliance."
2011-06-20,"Israel arrests four girls, two 15 year-olds, a 16 year-old and a 20 year-old for torching Palestinian vehicles as well as other acts of revenge against Palestinians as part of an a unofficial revenge policy by right-wing Israeli extremists."
2011-06-20,"Madrid 'Euro-pact' protesters take to streets: Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Madrid and other Spanish cities in a mass march against austerity measures, social spending cuts and unemployment. "
2011-06-20,The 2011 Failed States Index.
2011-06-20,"Internet body throws open domain names - Big corporate firms will soon be able to replace "".com"" with their own suffixes that identify their own brand"
2011-06-20,Very interesting Bilderberg insight from a guy who was a member for 10 years.
2011-06-20,"Germany set to turn back to coal, gas and imports to fill energy gap left by its exit of nuclear power"
2011-06-20,"With 1.2 Billion Inhabitants, India Can't Find Anyone To Be Their Hangman"
2011-06-20,"Almost half the world's refugees are from Iraq or Afghanistan, according to a new U.N. report"
2011-06-20,Libyan rebels have proof of  rape and torture of women by Gaddafi loyalists
2011-06-20,6.5 Earthquake hits Chile
2011-06-20,"Nato admits civilians died in Tripoli bombing raid
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2011-06-20,"BP, Shell ban hoodies at Gold Coast petrol pumps after armed robbery epidemic "
2011-06-20,Civilians including two toddlers among nine dead as NATO admits Tripoli raid killed innocent Libyans.
2011-06-20,"The committee called the disappearance of the money a ""financial crime"" but said U.N. Security Council resolutions prevent Iraq from making a claim against the United States."
2011-06-20,"European governments failed to agree on releasing a loan payment to spare Greece from default, ramping up pressure on Prime Minister George Papandreou to first deliver budget cuts in the face of domestic opposition. 

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2011-06-20,World's biggest airliner loses wingtip after striking building at Paris Air Show - two months after doing the same thing in New York
2011-06-19,"
	Missing Iraq cash 'as high as $18 billion' - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
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2011-06-19,"Ban upheld on anti-abortion activists approaching pregnancy centre visitors - A German court has told anti-abortion campaigners they must not speak to women near a pregnancy advice centre in Freiburg, in the conclusion of a months-long conflict. "
2011-06-19,Japan is dangerously contaminated by radioactivity over a  far larger area than previously reported. New data shows  radioactive contamination exceeds safety standards at a distance of 90 to 125 miles from Fukushima.
2011-06-19,"Vancouver riot participant, Nathan Kotylak, apologizes. (The guy that was lighting the rag in the police car.)"
2011-06-19,"UN Human Rights Council passed ""historic"" resolution that seeks equal rights for all regardless of sexual orientation"
2011-06-19,The E. coli outbreak in Germany has been passed from human to human for the first time
2011-06-19,NATO airstrikes accidentally kill rebels again
2011-06-19,China floods - More than two million people are now reported to have been affected by deadly floods (worst since 1955) in eastern China. 
2011-06-19,(Reuters) Mexican teenage girls train as drug cartel killers
2011-06-19,"

Germany confirms human E. coli transmission"
2011-06-19,"Russia: Large population decline (20% expected by 2050) is described by Putin as Russia's ""most acute problem."" Causes are high death rate related to alcoholism, low birth rate, and high rate of abortions."
2011-06-19,"Greeks revolt, polls show majority population opposed to austerity program"
2011-06-19,"Pensioner faces '500,000 bill' to challenge bank. Bank of Ireland's refusal to waive legal costs threatens to deny justice to bond-holders"
2011-06-19,"Cost of metals used in hi-tech devices soars as China limits supplies:   Europium oxide, used in energy-saving lightbulbs, plasma TVs and smart phones, has leaped from $1,260 a kg to $3,400
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2011-06-19,Western Governments Blamed for Asia's Shortage of Women - Accused of exporting sex selection technology
2011-06-19,"Further protests in Athens, protesting at Syntagma Square"
2011-06-19,"Food Prices Soar Due to Floods in China
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2011-06-19,Libyan rebels running out of money. The economy is in shambles.
2011-06-19,One Million Solar-Powered Homes in Bangladesh
2011-06-19,"Exposed 500,000 face big offshore tax penalties"
2011-06-19,"Syrian forces 'prevent refugees from fleeing': Government troops sweep through northwestern border region to stem an exodus of refugees to Turkey, activists say."
2011-06-19,South Korean marines fire at civilian jetliner after mistaking it for North Korean military
2011-06-19,Reputed drug cartel associate 'El Zucaritas' arrested
2011-06-19,Libyan documents implicating Gaddafi in war crimes found
2011-06-19,A Scotland Yard officer will appear in court tomorrow accused of killing Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests. 
2011-06-18,The Guardian exposes the Bilderberg group in fine style
2011-06-18,British Student Faces Extradition to the US for Linking to Copyrighted Material
2011-06-18,Wi-Not? South Korea's Seoul To Blanket The City With Free Wi-Fi
2011-06-18,"UK: Supreme Court rules that sex offenders who have had their names publicly registered, eventually will have their names removed  to protect their human rights."
2011-06-18," You can blame the Greeks  but they've been betrayed by their leaders - 
Shocking examples of kleptocracy by the political elite explain the ferocity of the reaction. And it is this which has repercussions for the rest of Europe"
2011-06-18,UK Tory MP sparked anger by suggesting that disabled people should work for less than the minimum wage
2011-06-18,Corrupt Chinese Officials Have Stolen $120-billion Since Mid-1990s
2011-06-18,Dutch government says goodbye to multicultural society.  -- Minister Piet Hein Donner of Internal Affairs states that the Netherlands will start a new integration policy
2011-06-18,"South Korean military shoots at civilian passenger plane, mistaking it for North Korean aircraft"
2011-06-18,British student is facing extradition to the United States and up to five years in jail for running TVShack.net.
2011-06-18,"Radiation in Japan: Chronic Nosebleeds, Diarrhea, Lack of Energy in Children in Koriyama City, Fukushima "
2011-06-18,Vancouver rioter caught!
2011-06-18,TEPCO suspends cleanup at Fukushima plant after rapid rise in radiation levels.
2011-06-18,"Japan Tea with over 1,000 Bq/kg of cesium found in Paris"
2011-06-18,Poor women used as guinea pigs in India for clinical trails.
2011-06-18,Buildings and mountains appear in China out of thin air. Local residents amazed at the beautiful mirage.
2011-06-18,Jerusalem rabbis condemn dog to death by stoning
2011-06-18,"
	US drops charges against bin Laden - Americas - Al Jazeera English
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2011-06-18,Mikhail Gorbachev: The West Could Have Saved the Russian Economy
2011-06-18,"Pakistani Rangers Involved in Shooting of Unarmed Citizen Face Terror, Murder Charges"
2011-06-18,South Korean troops mistake Chinese passenger plane for North Korean military aircraft and open fire.
2011-06-18,Austrians aghast at Chinese copy of Alpine village
2011-06-18,UK  Vets urge ban on adverts for antibiotics to farmers
2011-06-18,"Efraim Halevy, former head of Mossad, talks to The Economist about growing tensions between America and Israel, the Arab spring and stalled Middle East peace negotiations."
2011-06-18,Fukushima's Plan To Put Radiation Badges On Children Not Pleasing Parents
2011-06-17,"Lone man stands up to rioters in Vancouver. ""This is our city. What the fuck are you doing?"" (crossposted from r/canada)"
2011-06-17,"Today, Saudi women defy driving ban and take the driver's seat en masse!"
2011-06-17,South Korea rejects North's demands for return of defectors
2011-06-17,Fukushima: It's much worse than you think
2011-06-17,Disturbing Images of The Vancouver Riots. 
2011-06-17,"Ban on 'gang culture' haircuts in school is 'indirect racial discrimination', judge rules "
2011-06-17,This photo essay of a Ukrainian interrogation room is so incredible that I had assumed the lead image was just a staged photo illustration. It's not; it took the photographer 5 years to be allowed access.
2011-06-17,French burka ban descends into farce 
2011-06-17,"Israeli President warns: ""We're galloping at full speed toward a situation where Israel will cease to exist as a Jewish state.""  He states that those rejecting the 1967 borders (e.g. Israeli PM Netanyahu) will lose the world's support."
2011-06-17,"The liabilities of the Greek Government, including pensions, is $1.2 trillion dollars, which is more than $250,000 for every taxpayer"
2011-06-17,"Canada, a nation that takes pride in its reputation for peaceful coexistence, wrestled with questions about possible flaws in the national character after a riot in Vancouver"
2011-06-17,"Suicide rates are increasing in Japanese regions most effected by the tsunami and nuclear disasters |
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2011-06-17,Danish F-16s running out of bombs over Libya 
2011-06-17,"One in four Britons to have names on police database - A quarter of Britains population will have their names logged on a new police database despite millions of those having had no convictions, it has emerged."
2011-06-17,"Dubai says no to body scanners -- Full-body scanners will not be introduced at Dubai International Airport, police have confirmed"
2011-06-17,"Chinese officials stole $120 billion, between mid 1990 to 2008, fled mainly to US."
2011-06-17,"Fatal floods hit China forcing over 500,000 to flee: Days of torrential rain have forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people in central and southern China. "
2011-06-17,Satellite Pictures Of Chinese Ghost Cities
2011-06-17,Vote as I say: Independent candidates for elections appear to be a spontaneous step too far for the Communist Party 
2011-06-17,First Rhino Poached in Swaziland in 20 years (warning: somewhat graphic photos and video)
2011-06-17,Morocco's King Mohammed VI has announced proposals for constitutional amendments in a landmark speech.
2011-06-17,Syrian people refuse to back down to intimidation
2011-06-17,Austerity anger in Greece threatens the government  and the whole European economy
2011-06-17,Syrian forces open fire on protesters; 16 killed
2011-06-17,Vancouver Looter Turned In By Parents
2011-06-16,Vancouver Canuck fans riot after Stanley Cup loss. (Live)
2011-06-16,Japan: three months after the quake
2011-06-16,"Obituary: Mietek Pemper --- 

Polish Jew, born 1920. Friend of Oskar Schindler. Secretary to commandant of Plaszow labour camp, Amon Goeth. Persuaded Schindler to save Jews from Auschwitz by employing them to build arms for Nazis. Drew up ""Schindler's List"""
2011-06-16,Sri Lanka: Killing Fields video evidence 'builds case for war crimes' - Channel 4 News
2011-06-16,Taiwan deletes simplified Chinese from official sites
2011-06-16,"For The First Time Ever A Woman Is Running For The President Of Egypt.   They call her ""the woman who is like a hundred men."" She calls herself ""a girl of the revolution."""
2011-06-16,Thousands of Vancouverites volunteer to clean up the city after last nights riots.
2011-06-16,"Pakistan is blocking food and water from reaching a remote base used by the US for its secret drones programme, severely hampering counter terrorism strategy, according to a senior American official."
2011-06-16, Brazil says pro-marijuana rallies are legal  
2011-06-16,The magical realism of body counts 
2011-06-16,6.6 earthquake hits Papua new guinea
2011-06-16,China and allies back Russia against U.S. missile shield
2011-06-16,Egypt's al-Karama party wants to cancel peace treaty with Israel 
2011-06-16,June 17 is I will drive the car myself day in Saudi Arabia. Correspondent Caryle Murphy finds out what's it like driving while female in Saudi Arabia.
2011-06-16,Police commander and his wife slain in Jurez
2011-06-16,"In Greece, we see democracy in action.  Thousands of people come together daily in Syntagma to discuss the next steps. The parallels with the classical Athenian agora, which met a few hundred metres away, are striking."
2011-06-16,Video provides evidence that undercover police provoked the violence at Barcelona parliament demonstration.
2011-06-16,Turkey says it will do everything can to help people fleeing Syria.
2011-06-16,"A powerful explosion has hit the Nigerian police headquarters in the capital, Abuja, officials say."
2011-06-16,"Syrians vow to overcome violent crackdown by Assad's troops, ""The violence is keeping many at home but it is not breaking the movement'  demonstrators refuse to bow to government pressure"""
2011-06-16,"India: A famous yoga instructor, who has a TV show with 30 million viewers, began a hunger strike to oppose government corruption and was joined by tens of thousands."
2011-06-16,The world's most dangerous countries for women
2011-06-16,Europe Faces Lehman Moment as Greece Unravels
2011-06-16,"Photos: Riots, fire, destruction after Vancouver's loss"
2011-06-16,Wooly mammoth tusks among items seized by Russia customs
2011-06-15,"US, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and others at UN condemn ""three strikes"" Internet laws, say the laws violate human rights"
2011-06-15,Canada to legalize prostitution? Ontario court case could make prostitution and brothels legal. 
2011-06-15,"A 300-acre luxury hotel, villa, golf course, & an airport funded by British taxpayers are to be built for the rich on one of the most remote inhabited places in the world, the Atlantic island of St Helena - Plans don't bode well for it's wildlife, flora & fauna, that astonished even Charles Darwin"
2011-06-15,"""Sri Lanka's Killing Fields"" is disturbing, revolting, horrific, and without question one of the best pieces of TV journalism on conflict. Channel 4 has brilliantly captured this story in all its horror. I strongly recommend you brace yourself and watch it while you still can. "
2011-06-15,Yet another Amazon activist killed execution style.
2011-06-15,Incredible pictures of Libyan Rebels' armaments.
2011-06-15,"Anonymous declares phase one of ""the plan."" The people vs. the system."
2011-06-15,Angry youths hurled petrol bombs at Greece's Finance Ministry and tens of thousands of protesters marched on parliament to oppose govt efforts to pass new austerity laws
2011-06-15,"Road Rage in Russia --- 
Moscow's elite has decided it doesn't need to follow the traffic laws."
2011-06-15,"In controversial move, BBC airs assisted suicide on TV "
2011-06-15,"South Korea building a ""utopian"" metropolis from scratch 40 miles from Seoul"
2011-06-15,Pakistan reported to have arrested five people for allegedly giving information to the Central Intelligence Agency before the raid that killed Osama bin Laden
2011-06-15,"Bahrain to sue British newspaper The Independent 
over reporting by Robert Fisk"
2011-06-15,Nigeria's pastors 'as rich as oil barons'
2011-06-15,'Falklands sovereignty is not negotiable. Period! UK's Cameron
2011-06-15,Greek state starting to lose grip on functions of state
2011-06-15,"Drug War: 500 Cops Raid Mohawk Communities In Canada In Search Of Pot, Coke and XTC - Police won't disclose the quantity of drugs seized, Lino Maurizio noted, given ""these people don't keep a lot of drugs in their residences for a long time."" "
2011-06-15,Wave of Unrest Rocks China
2011-06-15,EU ministers seek to ban creation of 'hacking tools'
2011-06-15,Indian anti-corruption activist dies
2011-06-15,"""Pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested some of the Pakistani informants who fed information to the Central Intelligence Agency in the months leading up to the raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, according to American officials."""
2011-06-15,"China has been accused of trying to cover up the extent of lead poisoning among children, and of blocking effective testing and treatment"
2011-06-15,"Live streaming of riots and protests outside the Parliament in Athens Greece. Inside, MPs will vote on new austerity measures."
2011-06-15,Governor's bodyguards found dismembered in Mexico
2011-06-15,"Afghanistan worst place in the world for women, but India in top five
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2011-06-14,LulzSec strikes again
2011-06-14,"$6.6bn in US cash for Iraq rebuilding 'stolen' - Middle East, World News - Independent.ie"
2011-06-14,"Goodyear blimp pilot advises passengers to jump ship moments before its explosion in Germany. Pilot and Australian native, Mike Nerandzic, died a hero."
2011-06-14,Turkey Arrests 32 Anonymous Members
2011-06-14,"More than 70 percent of 29,284 firearms found in Mexico originated in the US"
2011-06-14,Resisting the Arab Revolution - First Cracks Appear in Saudi Arabia's Forced Calm
2011-06-14,"Bill Gates pledges an extra $1bn to fight disease, asks for help to save another 4 million lives."
2011-06-14,"1,000's of protesters and security forces clash in China "
2011-06-14,"New Egypt? 7,000 civilians jailed since Mubarak fell "
2011-06-14,The Same Financial Firms Responsible For Our Economic Crisis Are Driving Us Toward a Global Food Disaster
2011-06-14,THE Syrian government's attempts to conceal the extent of the crackdown in the country have taken on an Orwellian quality.
2011-06-14,"The Italians have cast their ballots -- and for the second time in a few weeks, Silvio Berlusconi was left holding the short stick. The country voted against nuclear energy and against the privatization of waterworks. But it has also become clear that the country has tired of its leader."
2011-06-14,32 Anons arrested in Turkey after government website attacks
2011-06-14,Greece has finally become the country with worst credit rating
2011-06-14,"In Mexico, Growing Popular Movement Calls for End to Drug War - Traumatized by years of violence that have done little to curb the trade, Mexican activists are touring the country, demanding a new approach."
2011-06-14,"Source of Libya viagra-mass-rape story: a woman who claims she sent out 70000 questionnaires and received 60000 responses, of which 259 women reported sexual abuse at the hands of soldiers"
2011-06-14,"Syrian Unrest Stirs New Fear of Deeper Sectarian Divide --- After recent events, Turkish and American officials say they believe that some of the business elite have begun to turn against the Assad regime"
2011-06-14,Nepal free of landmines five years after civil war
2011-06-14,Japan's cabinet approves bill to bailout TEPCO who will face a total of 10 trillion yen ($124 billion) in compensation claims and will have to raise its electricity charges by 16 percent from next year to cover the costs
2011-06-14,"McKinney said: ""NATO air strikes, quite unlike what NATO says, keep hitting non-military targets""."
2011-06-14,China 'will not use force' in South China Sea disputes
2011-06-14,"Kings sexual proclivities confound even Swedes: 
King Carl XVIGustaf has plunged the monarchy into a crisis because of allegations that he visited strip clubs, allowed a friend to pay a gangster to cover up the scandal and lied to his subjects.

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2011-06-14,Violent Crime Soars in Athens
2011-06-14,Arab League states call for suspension of Syria
2011-06-14,"South China Sea: China vs. Vietnam -  Amid the escalating dispute over territorial waters, Chinas rivals are toying with a simple idea: change the name of the sea.
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2011-06-13,"Mexican drug cartels have taken cruelty up a notch, says one drug trafficker: kidnapping bus passengers for gladiatorlike fights to the death"
2011-06-13,"Andersen Cooper exposes the onslaught by the Syrian government in the most complete manner we have seen yet - elderly getting beaten up, children tortured and brutalized, and soldiers defecting and escaping."
2011-06-13,Christchurch hit by 5.5 earthquake
2011-06-13,BBC News - Germany recognises Libya rebels as sole government
2011-06-13,"Despite the Berlusconi-controlled media encouraging voters to stay home, 57% of Italians turn out to vote in national referendum: 95% of those vote to maintain public, non-profit water services, to repeal nuclear development initiatives, and to block trial immunity for ranking government officials."
2011-06-13,"King Abdullah of Jordan has bowed to demands for reform, saying future cabinets will be formed according to an elected parliamentary majority. "
2011-06-13,Gay girl in Damascus is really a guy in Turkey
2011-06-13,British fear 'American-style' healthcare system
2011-06-13,"6.0 and 5.5 Earthquakes hit Christchurch, New Zealand in quick succession "
2011-06-13,Third day of riots in China
2011-06-13,New setback for Berlusconi. Referendum in Italy cancels nuclear power projects and privileges for prime minister
2011-06-13,China's 'Wealth Drain': New Signs That Rich Chinese Are Set on Emigrating
2011-06-13,Chinese migrant workers have clashed with police for a third consecutive night outside the southern city of Guangzhou. 
2011-06-13,"A prototype airport checkpoint has been revealed, designed to help passengers get to their boarding gate with dignity"
2011-06-13,Belgium goes a year from elections without government
2011-06-13,Syria Gay Girl in Damascus blog a hoax by US man
2011-06-13,Israel plans to destroy 35 villages; angers residents who have lived in the Negev for years.
2011-06-13,The Japanese city of Hiroshima has pulled out of the bidding to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
2011-06-13,BBC News - US Navy 'stopped North Korean vessel bound for Burma'
2011-06-13,Jordan Protesters have pelted the motorcade  of the King with stones and bottles
2011-06-13,The response to Fukushima was marked by crippling mistrust
2011-06-13,Germany's Nuclear Phaseout - Irate Power Companies to Sue Berlin For Damages
2011-06-13,"Two years after Iran's marred election, hard-liners anything but triumphant: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was declared the 2009 winner by a landslide, and his aides have been dismissed by conservative rivals and clerics as a ""deviant current"" in Iran's theocracy"
2011-06-13,Syrian troops detain hundreds of villagers: Assad has launched a retribution attack on village of Jisr al-Shughour after deaths of troops
2011-06-13,"Libyan rebels have broken out toward Tripoli from the opposition-held port of Misrata, cracking a government siege as fighters across the country mounted a resurgence in their revolt against Muammar Gaddafi."
2011-06-12,"Chinese citizens claim Cisco Systems played a role in getting them tortured and thrown into labor camps by helping the Chinese government create the ""Great Firewall of China,"" a vast Internet censorship system that the Communist Party uses to spy upon citizens and stifle free speech"
2011-06-12,"Openly gay candidate tripped up by controversy in Irish elections: David Norris, who would be Europe's first openly gay president, was considered the front-runner until media associated him with pedophilia.
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2011-06-12,Recently Canadian IP Council floated false claims about the scope of counterfeiting in Canada to try bolster claims for increased border measures. The council now try to justify the fake claims with more false numbers
2011-06-12,"65 years after Gandhi used ""satyagraha"" to lead a movement against British rule in India, Gandhism is back, this time against corrupt politicians, bureaucrats and businessmen stashing stolen wealth abroad"
2011-06-12,"After 10 years, no security unit is fit to take over from coalition in Afghanistan"
2011-06-12,Jailed Iranian activist Hoda Saber 'dies on hunger strike'
2011-06-12,A list (w/ pictures) of giant Chinese infrastructure projects
2011-06-12,Britain may elect the House of Lords starting in 2015
2011-06-12,"Jordans king bows to popular demands for elected Cabinets, constitutional changes"
2011-06-12,Today Italians vote on nuclear power and Berlusconi's immunity
2011-06-12,China to begin operating new 300 km/hr bullet train between Shanghai and Beijing
2011-06-12,Diver Bill Warren plans mission to recover Osama bin Laden's body
2011-06-12,Congolese children toil in mines to pay their school fees: The International Labor Organization (ILO) says there are some 200 million child laborers worldwide. The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to many underage miners.
2011-06-12,"Chris Busby, who earlier published a study showing that Fallujah has an epidemic of birth defects, is about to publish a study in the Lancet that proves that the US used enriched uranium in Fallujah, a type of uranium that is far more radioactive than plain uranium."
2011-06-12,The Fall of the House of Assad
2011-06-12,Syrian army 'cracking' amid crackdown - Testimonies from defected soldiers give a dramatic insight into the split apparently emerging in the security forces.
2011-06-12,"'Syrian army defectors tell of rape, indiscriminate murder' --- 
Army deserters who fled to Turkey reportedly claim Syrian soldiers ""raped women in front of their husbands and children,"" said soldiers were ordered to shoot at unarmed civilians, Hezbollah men serving as regime snipers."
2011-06-12,"Syrian troops accused of firing on locals trying to flee Jisr al-Shughour: Survivors claim government forces shot escaping residents, ambulance men and soldiers who laid down their arms"
2011-06-12,Thousands flee Syria across Turkish border 
2011-06-12,"Pakistan's General Problem --- 
Pakistani military outsourced soldiering to freelance militants. Shopped for insurgents in markets, set up ""factories"" for them in the mountains. Now reaping what it has sown. Pakistan is an ""international jihadi tourist resort"""
2011-06-12,The ash cloud from a Chilean volcano is disrupting flights in Australia
2011-06-12,"Twin blasts in Peshawar of Pakistan kill 35, injure over 100"
2011-06-12,"French television news station France 24 was apparently hoaxed into reporting the resignation of Lamia Shakkour, the Syrian ambassador in Paris."
2011-06-12,Paramilitary police patrolled the streets of a central Chinese city Saturday following a riot over the death of city councilman in police custody
2011-06-12,"Britain's soil is as dry as a desert, study shows"
2011-06-11,"Swiss banks to pay billions of dollars in fines and hand over account info of thousands of wealthy tax evaders to US


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2011-06-11,5 WikiLeaks Hits of 2011 That Are Turning the World on Its Head -- And That the Media Are Ignoring
2011-06-11,Canadian intellectual property lobbyists caught faking counterfeit data so they could try to enact new border measure provisions that could lead to the searching of luggage as travellers enter Canada
2011-06-11,"Video captures shooting of unarmed man, sparks unprecedented anger"
2011-06-11,"A day after a young Macedonian man was beaten to death in the city of Skopjes main square, some 300 people have gathered to protest police brutality and the silence of officials. Stop police brutality!"
2011-06-11,"Helicopters open fire to disperse Syrian protesters
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2011-06-11,"Hundreds of people have been taking part in a week-long ""peace caravan"" in Mexico to protest against the violent drugs war"
2011-06-11,"Teens Locked Up and Forced to Give Birth to Kids Sold into Slavery: How Can This Happen, and What Can We Do About It?
Last week, BBC broke the story of what has been dubbed a ""baby farm"" in southern Nigeria. Now that we know this, what are we going to do about it? "
2011-06-11,I.M.F. Hit by Sophisticated Cyberattack
2011-06-11,"Choking on the Three Gorges --- 
Chinas government at last owns up to problems at its monster dam"
2011-06-11,Pakistan troops caught on film shooting unarmed teenager dead at point-blank range: Footage of Sarfaraz Shah's shooting likely to further undermine faith in Pakistan's security forces
2011-06-11,"Mexican 'peace caravan' demands end to drugs war: Hundreds of Mexicans taking part in a ""peace caravan"" to protest against the violent drugs war have arrived at their destination of Ciudad Juarez"
2011-06-11,"A disgraced Russian army colonel who murdered a Chechen teenage girl was gunned down in a brazen, contract-style killing in downtown Moscow Friday"
2011-06-11,E. Coli Outbreak: Scientists 'Find EHEC Bacteria at Sprout Farm' - cientists have finally managed to prove that the pathogens that caused a deadly E. coli epidemic in Germany were found on sprouts at a farm in Lower Saxony. 
2011-06-11,"After a muslim preacher claimed that Islam allows men to buy sex slaves, a female politician in Kuwait now argues that Muslim men should be allowed to buy Russian women as slaves."
2011-06-11,A Russian colonel who was jailed for murdering a Chechen teenager has been shot dead in central Moscow.
2011-06-11,Syrian army helicopters open fire on protesters
2011-06-11,The African Union Calls on Gaddafi to Step Down
2011-06-11,Iceland Is Crowdsourcing Its New Constitution
2011-06-11,"'Many killed' amid fresh Syria protests - Activists say at least 23 people have been killed, most of them after the army shelled town in northern Idlib province."
2011-06-11,Beheading increase in Saudi Arabia
2011-06-11,Bahrain: The loathing persists -- In the long run the ruthlessness of the ruling family may not ensure its survival 
2011-06-11,International Monetary Fund hit by large and sophisticated cyberattack
2011-06-11,Somali minister killed by niece 
2011-06-11,"Anti-nuclear protests in disaster-hit Japan
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2011-06-10,"More than 300 Tibetan monks have disappeared after being rounded up by Chinese security forces at a monastery for ""re-education."""
2011-06-10,"One Thatcher ally told the Guardian: ""Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Margaret. Sarah Palin is nuts."""
2011-06-10,Spanish police says that they have arrested the leaders of Anonymous in Spain
2011-06-10,Formula One race in Bahrain officially cancelled by Grand Prix organisers amid accusations of human rights abuses in government crackdown on protesters
2011-06-10,"Anonymous to NATO: ""Don't challenge us. You won't like it if you challenge us."""
2011-06-10,"Goldman Sachs investigated for $50m bribe of 
Libyan official after loosing 98% of Libya's $1.3bn 
sovereign wealth fund."
2011-06-10,"The World Is Consuming More Oil Than It Produces, And Survived 2010 By Drawing Down Reserves"
2011-06-10,The man who screwed an entire country 
2011-06-10,Leaked cables reveal Israel's plan to battle UN recognition of a Palestinian state
2011-06-10,Hacker group Anonymous takes down government website in Turkey to protest censorship
2011-06-10,"Heads of state, CEOs and NATO officials are gathering at the top secret Bilderberg conference this week in Switzerland.With these meetings perhaps shaping the future of the globe, All Media  is being shutout from covering the event."
2011-06-10,A U.N. resolution has justified the targeting of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and a made him legitimate target.
2011-06-10,Full List Of 2011 Bilderberg Conference Attendees
2011-06-10,High levels of radioactive cesium detected in Japan's Tea
2011-06-10,Somali interior minister Abdishakur Sheikh Hassan killed in suicide blast; the bomber was his niece
2011-06-10,Hackers warn British NHS over security
2011-06-10,"Scientists in Argentina have cloned the world's first transgenic cow, using human genes that will allow the animal to produce the equivalent of mothers' milk."
2011-06-10,"Bilderberg 2011 security fence, or 'a massive white fence of embarrassment'?: ""Suppose Rockefeller, Kissinger, and the Queen of the Netherlands have the interests of the general public written in big red letters at the top of their conference agenda. Then why the fence?"" "
2011-06-10,BBC News - Croatia cleared for EU membership in 2013
2011-06-10,China warns neighbors: Stop oil search in Spratlys
2011-06-10,"Russia has halved electricity supplies to Belarus over unpaid bills, piling on pressure for it to privatise lucrative assets."
2011-06-10,"Shrek, a renegade Merino sheep that hid in caves to avoid being sheared, became a national icon in New Zealand, a country said to have more sheep than people."
2011-06-10,"Gates blasts NATO, questions future of alliance"
2011-06-10,American-Sourced Weapons Account for 70% of Seized Firearms in Mexico: ATF
2011-06-10,"Chinese Official died during interrogation for bribery, triggering protests."
2011-06-09,The Netherlands first country to anchor net neutrality in law 
2011-06-09,WikiLeaks: US knowingly supported rigged Haitian election
2011-06-09,Nigeria: The Cost of Oil (In Photos)
2011-06-09,"The nuclear fuel in three of the reactors at the Fukushima has melted through the base of the pressure vessels and is pooling in the outer containment vessels, a ""melt-through"" ""far worse than a core meltdown"" and ""the worst possibility in a nuclear accident""."
2011-06-09,"Gaddafi ordered mass rape as a weapon, International Criminal Court claims "
2011-06-09,Aussie Gay Bar Wins Right To Ban Women - A GAY venue in Collingwood has won the right to ban women to ensure its patrons are not subjected to attempts by predatory females to turn them straight. 
2011-06-09,New Zealand Justice Minister: Govt Will Not Reconsider Internet Disconnection
2011-06-09,"France refuses citizenship to man for his ""degrading attitude"" toward women"
2011-06-09,"Autism diagnoses take South Korea by surprise -- Some families are in denial after U.S. and Korean researchers discover in a Seoul suburb the highest rate of autism ever measured in a general population.



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2011-06-09,"North Korea defectors take to the ""Underground Railroad"""
2011-06-09,Canada's Auditor General slams government over secrecy on G8 spending plans
2011-06-09,Peru approves 10 year ban on GM crops.
2011-06-09,"Hedge funds use ""land grabs"" in Africa to boost their profits in the food and biofuel sectors. They've also displaced millions of farmers in the process."
2011-06-09,"UK & other European countries must be forced by law to restock their seas so fishing industry has long-term future, demands the European Fisheries Commissioner"
2011-06-09,Obama's secret War: Drone strikes renew in Yemen amidst civil unrest
2011-06-09,Missing gay blogger in Damascus Might be a hoax
2011-06-09,"In Saudi Arabia, Royal Funds Buy Peace for Now --- The kingdom is spending $130 billion to pump up salaries, build housing and finance religious organizations, effectively neutralizing any opposition."
2011-06-09,European parliament refuses to release expenses report.
2011-06-09,Citigroup reports hundreds of thousands of breached online banking accounts.
2011-06-09,Chile volcano's ash cloud forces flight cancellations across South America
2011-06-09,"Pirate Bay, MegaUpload, and others blocked by Malaysian government order to ISPs"
2011-06-09,"Toxic radioactive caesium has been found in sludge at a treatment plant in Fukushima, while radioactivity has also been found in sewage in Tokyo. "
2011-06-09,Silvio Berlusconi's record. The man who screwed an entire country
2011-06-09,Survey: strontium widespread in Fukushima
2011-06-09,Radioactive strontium detected 62 km from Fukushima No. 1 plant: Shit's hitting the fan now.
2011-06-08,F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone says Bahrain Grand Prix will be cancelled after 11 F1 teams objected
2011-06-08,Germany has been doing well economically: carrot & stick social programs have pushed people back to work; average real wages up 30% since 1985; tougher down payment rules on houses prevented a bubble; taxes hiked and spending cut to reduce deficits.
2011-06-08,The UN has declared that Internet access is a human right
2011-06-08,Net neutrality to be added to Dutch telecommunications act
2011-06-08,"Innocent passerby shot dead by cops in... Montreal, Canada!? "
2011-06-08,"Iran's women soccer team banned from Olympics, because of headscarves"
2011-06-08,"Russia defies growing consensus with declaration of 'total war on drugs' - Under new laws being drawn up addicts would be forced into treatment or jailed, and dealers 'treated like serial killers'."
2011-06-08,TIL North Korea runs state-sponsored restaurants all over Asia...the waitresses come from the upper crust of North Korean society and essentially live like prisoners in their workplaces.
2011-06-08,"Carbolic acid has spilled into a river that supplies drinking water to Hangzhou in eastern China, knocking out supplies to more than 500,000 people and creating a run on bottled water"
2011-06-08," Fukushima nuclear plant may have suffered 'melt-through', Japan admits"
2011-06-08,BBC News - China aircraft carrier confirmed by general
2011-06-08,Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone has said that he believes the Bahrain Grand Prix will not go ahead as planned as the teams and drivers involved did not want to take part
2011-06-08,So Where's Japan's Radiation Going?
2011-06-08,David Cameron warns Syria that Britain will not stand silent.
2011-06-08,Australia issues a blanket ban on all live cattle exports to Indonesia after brutality exposed last week
2011-06-08,How Greek Protesters See The EU In One Simple Photograph
2011-06-08,The Big Picture:  Chile's Puyehue volcano.
2011-06-08,Ahmadinejad is facing increased political attacks from the supreme leader from continually overstepping his bounds.
2011-06-08,"In Greek Port, Storm Brews Over Chinese-Run Labor"
2011-06-08,"Wrongly convicted woman freed after 17 years in jail: judge blames pathologist who convicted her, now exposed as a fraudster. She was an easy target for Smith and she was an easy target, I fear, for the criminal justice system,"
2011-06-08,Japan doubles nuclear radiation leak estimate
2011-06-08,'Farting Camels Must Die to Save the World' Australian carbon plan to unleash kill-choppers against dromedaries
2011-06-08,"Yemenis protests after talks rejected: Thousands gather outside vice-president's residence after government rejects proposed dialogue as ""ridiculous""."
2011-06-08,Japan raises spectre of Fukushima 'melt-through' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
2011-06-08,Fighter jets intercept Russian bombers after flying into Dutch airspace
2011-06-07,Anonymous Message to NATO
2011-06-07,Jewish-American actor and Star Trek icon Leonard Nimoy voices his support for a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
2011-06-07,A prominent member of Switzerlands largest political party has called upon federal authorities to arrest Henry Kissinger as a war criminal if he attends the 2011 Bilderberg conference of global power brokers which is set to begin on Thursday at the Hotel Suvretta House in St. Moritz.
2011-06-07," Bankers and politicians have turned food into a betting game -- The result is soaring prices and starving children
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2011-06-07,Macedonia erupts after young man beaten to death by special police in public square.
2011-06-07,"Japan govt now admits 40% of total Chernobyl 
radiation was released in the first week at 
Fukushima"
2011-06-07,"Brigette DePape, 21, stepped onto the floor of the Canadian Senate and she held up an anti-Harper sign. She was  removed from the Senate chamber, detained by security officials, and fired from her job"
2011-06-07,"Mexican drug gangs building own tanks as war 
intensifies"
2011-06-07,"A European Generation Takes to the Streets --- hundreds of young people have been camping out in central Madrid. And others across Europe have now begun following their example. Protests in Lisbon, Paris, Athens and elsewhere show that Europe's lost generation has finally found its voice."
2011-06-07,Iceland's ex-PM Geir Haarde becomes the first world leader to face charges in relation to the global financial crisis
2011-06-07,Egypt accepts Muslim Brotherhood as legal party - Brotherhood gains official political legitimacy for first time in its 80 years.
2011-06-07,"Germany's four leading nuclear-producing energy firms - Eon, RWE, EnBw and Swedish-based Vattenfall - have cried foul on Merkels plan to phase out nuclear plants. RWE has already filed a lawsuit "
2011-06-07,"The rising cost of food. According to the UN's latest update on global food prices, the cost of basic foods is still 37% higher than it was last year."
2011-06-07,BBC News - Evidence is mounting that Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban
2011-06-07,"Syrians in north flee, fearing ""major massacre"""
2011-06-07,Kettling of children at tuition fees protest challenged
2011-06-07,BBC News - China executes student for murder of hit-and-run victim
2011-06-07,Rebels take major city in Yemen
2011-06-07,Saudi Arabia plans to build 16 nuclear reactors by 2030
2011-06-07,Japan doubles Fukushima radiation leak estimate
2011-06-07,"Saudi house backs women voting right - in 2015-without being permitted to run for office.
Women are not allowed at all to drive, cannot travel without authorisation from their male guardian. When in public, they have to cover from head to toe."
2011-06-07,"World food prices set to stay high despite record food production, says UN food agency"
2011-06-07,Prime Minister Stephen Harpers Conservative Party Website Hacked
2011-06-07,Tripoli hit by Nato air strikes
2011-06-07,NATO strikes rock Libyan capital: Several explosions reported near Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's compound following rare daytime attacks.
2011-06-06,German cabinet approves a plan to shut down all its 17 nuclear power plants by 2022; eight reactors will be shut down immediately.
2011-06-06,"Bahraini doctors and nurses charged with ""plotting to overthrow the monarchy"" for treating protestors; protests & violence continue."
2011-06-06,Video of Bashar al-Assad's forces planting weapons on civilians after massacring them on the way to aiding people in Daraa [NSFW]
2011-06-06,Bribery in India: A website for whistleblowers
2011-06-06,Mexico's 'Holy Death' cult rapidly growing
2011-06-06,"Hello, my name is Nikolay, I am 24 years old and I died serving in the Russian army. The bullet hit me right between the eyes; I died instantly."
2011-06-06,"Australian climate scientists receive death threats.
Universities move staff into safer accommodation after a large number of threatening emails and phone calls
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2011-06-06,US Missile Strikes Kill 16 in Pakistan
2011-06-06,Love in a time of torture - how a girl's note got a Syrian protestor through a month of sadistic torture
2011-06-06,"The Arab uprising you most likely haven't heard about, Morocco's Arab Spring"
2011-06-06,"German-grown bean sprouts are the most likely cause of the deadly E.coli outbreak that has killed 22 people and made more than 2,000 ill across Europe, officials said last night. "
2011-06-06,"Greece Back on the Brink --- Greece needs even more money -- EU officials estimate that a new bailout will cost over 100 billion euros rather than the previously assumed 60 billion.  The economy is shrinking, and ambitious privatization plans are illusory."
2011-06-06,Egyptian 10-year-old expelled for inciting a revolution in Kuwait
2011-06-06,"Humala claims victory in tight Peru poll - Americas - Al Jazeera English (8 out of 10 South American countries now left-leaning)
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2011-06-06,"The Revolution Blows Up --- 
Egypts stock market is tanking and its rich are taking their money to Zurich. Will an economic plunge ruin the Arab Spring?"
2011-06-06,"3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms"
2011-06-06,Turkish police opens fire on peaceful Armenian protestors and arrests dozens
2011-06-06,Tokyo office workers are starting work early to exploit daylight hours and save power. 
2011-06-06,Meet the Nepali Soldier Who Held Off 30 Taliban Attackers Alone - The Atlantic Wire
2011-06-06,"Fukushima Radiation Jumps To Record Levels, As Tepco Warns That Heavy Rain Will Cause Toxic Pools to overflow"
2011-06-06,The Knesset will examine possible legalization of marijuana 
2011-06-06,"Oxfam report: Food prices 'could double' by 2030
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2011-06-06,BBC News - Chile judge orders Pablo Neruda death probe
2011-06-06,Iraqi government cracks down on protests as reform pressure builds
2011-06-06,"12th Day of Protests In Greece, Asking ""Where Did Our Money Go?"""
2011-06-05,"NSFW: Syrian Internet Restored, Dramatic Footage Emerges [VIDEO]"
2011-06-05,"Argentina accuses world's largest grain traders - ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Dreyfus - of huge tax evasion: All four traders submitted false declarations of sales and routed profits through tax havens or their headquarters, in contravention of Argentinian tax law"
2011-06-05,Noted professors launch new college: A group of the world's leading academics have launched a new British university which they hope will rival Oxford and Cambridge.
2011-06-05,Tens of thousands of people have attended a candlelight vigil in Hong Kong to mark the 22nd anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown in Beijing.
2011-06-05,Thousands march in Tel Aviv in support of Palestinian state based on 1967 borders
2011-06-05,"The Brazilian tribe that played by our rules, and lost: The Kayap people's battle to save their land from flooding as the Bel Monte dam is built follows a pattern across the Americas"
2011-06-05,"'Blood was everywhere': 63 killed at Syria pro-democracy protest, activists say "
2011-06-05,"Where Prisoners Can Do Anything, Except Leave"
2011-06-05,"Yemeni crowds celebrate after president Ali Abdullah Saleh transfers power, flies to Saudi Arabia"
2011-06-05,Israeli troops fire on Palestinian protesters
2011-06-05,"Why Are The French So Determined To Run The IMF? --- If economics isn't your area, this will make the scales fall from your eyes. Superb, concise commentary on eurozone financial troubles and the IMF, by the fund's former chief economist"
2011-06-05,"South Africa -""The Clashing Rainbow Colours"": leaders of the ruling ANC, including the President, played the race card remorselessly, in a bid to block the slow but steady rise of the Democratic Alliance, led by a white woman."
2011-06-05,Europe to open first solar-powered railway tunnel
2011-06-05,India cracks down on hunger strike led by yoga guru Baba Ramdev 
2011-06-05,"UN Declares Internet a ""Fundamental Human Right"""
2011-06-05,"Italian voters run out of sympathy for Berlusconi: Residents of Arcore, home to Berlusconi's bunga bunga parties, elect a housewife as their mayor"
2011-06-05,"""A young female page has lost her job following a very ballsy protest against the Harper regime. During the Speech from the Throne, which is read by the Queen's representative in Canada, the Governor General, the page held up a sign carrying the message 'Stop Harper'."" "
2011-06-05,An Arctic oil rig forced to stop drilling by environmental activists demanding to know owner's respond to an oil leak on the scale of Deepwater Horizon spill
2011-06-05,Pictures from ravaged city of Misrata (Libya).
2011-06-05,"Yemen president flies to Saudi for treatment,potentially offering a face-saving end to his three decade rule.
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2011-06-05,Mexicans protesting a military crackdown on drug cartels launched a convoy protest that will travel through some of Mexico's bloodiest towns on its way to the US border
2011-06-05,BBC News - Peru election: Exit polls suggest Humala victory
2011-06-05,Indian police break up yoga guru's anti-corruption protest
2011-06-05,Mexico catches state leader of Zeta cartel
2011-06-05,Radiation at Fukushima Unit 1 'Highest Since Crisis Began'; Steam Rising Through Reactor Floor 
2011-06-04,"WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti 
So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap"
2011-06-04,"Weve Never Seen Such Horror --- Human Rights Watch --- Shocking report on crimes against humanity committed by Syrian security forces in past two months. Details of systematic killings, beatings, electroshock torture and detention of people seeking medical care (54-page PDF)"
2011-06-04,"Lone British soldier is surrounded by 30 Taliban soldiers and fights them all off, with limited supplies/ammo."
2011-06-04,Julian Assange claims FBI tried to bribe Wikileaks staff
2011-06-04,"Tiananmen protesters still jailed in China, 22 years on"
2011-06-04,"French President Sarkozy, on behalf of the G8, says that the Internet should be controlled by government because governments are the only legitimate representatives of the will of the people. [Hitler, Stalin, and Mao would totally agree.]"""
2011-06-04,"France bans the words - 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' - from TV, radio"
2011-06-04,"Activism of all stripes is increasing on a worldwide scale via a mass awakening in the (still) free market of ideas to be found on the Internet.  Many of the deceptions that formerly took years to expose, are now routinely uncovered by alternative media in a matter of weeks or even days."
2011-06-04,"Nobody is coming to Sony's defense as it continues to be attacked. That says a lot about how the public sees Sony, but is Sony getting the message?"
2011-06-04,"Chiquita failed to halt multi-million-dollar compensation cases being brought by 4,000 Colombians who claim they or their relatives were tortured or killed in banana-growing areas by paramilitaries paid by the company"
2011-06-04,"French court rules that merely having the word ""torrent"" in your domain means you are encouraging infringement"
2011-06-04,Greece agrees to more cuts and tax rises as price of next bailout. Fury on streets.
2011-06-04,US strike 'kills' key Pakistan militant Ilyas Kashmiri (considered by some to be a possible Osama bin Laden successor)
2011-06-04,Air radiation at Fukushima I #1 hits highest recorded level so far
2011-06-04,"Hackers have broken into the networks of both the Iranian and the Dubai governments, stealing more than 10,000 email messages as well as system usernames and passwords and releasing them online."
2011-06-04,"Wikileaks: no bloodshed inside Tiananmen Square, cables claim"
2011-06-04,"'US drone kills Pakistan al-Qaeda leader': Ilyas Kashmiri, thought to be mastermind of several deadly attacks, reportedly killed in strike in South Waziristan."
2011-06-04,France bans any promotional mentions of 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' from TV & Radio news
2011-06-04,Syria appears to have begun shutting off internet links to the rest of the world. Approximately two-thirds of all Syrian networks became unreachable by Friday afternoon as part of a process that began early in the morning.
2011-06-04,Julian Assange says Wikileaks may take out a superinjunction to protect sources - Telegraph
2011-06-04,Syrians poured into the streets despite the shutdown of much of Syrias Internet network: Protesting the authoritarian rule of President Bashar al-Assad fueled by escalating anger over the torture and killing of a 13-yr-old boy
2011-06-04,Global Commission on Drug Policy: legalise cannabis and ecstasy.
2011-06-04,"Radiation in No. 1 reactor building at highest level yet. Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Saturday it has detected radiation of up to 4,000 millisieverts per hour in the building housing the No. 1 reactor at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant."
2011-06-04,"Despite strong objections of indigenous groups, activists and environmentalists, Brazil approves huge hydroelectric power plant along the Xingu river in Amazon rainforest"
2011-06-04,United Nations Declares Internet Access a Basic Human Right: The report comes the same day that a monitoring firm found two-thirds of Syria's Internet access has been shut down without notice
2011-06-03,MI6 attacks al-Qaeda in 'Operation Cupcake': British intelligence hacked into an al-Qaeda online magazine and replaced bomb-making instructions with a recipe for cupcakes
2011-06-03,Biomass map of popularly eaten fish populations in 1900 versus 2000 - they're practically extinct now!
2011-06-03,"UN report: ""three strikes"" Internet laws violate human rights"
2011-06-03,European racism and xenophobia against immigrants on the rise
2011-06-03,"Nepal census recognizes 'third gender', believed to be a world first"
2011-06-03,"Australia raises the minimum wage to us $16.50 
per hour... any young people in the USA interested 
in a ""working holiday""?"
2011-06-03,Facebook shuts down account of Ukrainian opposition civil journalist
2011-06-03,"Brazil has launched a welfare scheme to lift millions out of extreme poverty by 2014, which President Dilma Rousseff calls her government's key priority."
2011-06-03,"In South Africa, Wal-Mart refuses to buy local, threatens WTO action, and wins "
2011-06-03,The IMF itself should be on trial
2011-06-03,Bahraini begins trial of Shiite woman arrested for insulting the Sunni ruling family through a poem she read out during a wave of anti-regime protests
2011-06-03,Bahrain Formula 1 race reinstated
2011-06-03,"An Argentine court has ruled that the heirs to the country's main media group must submit to DNA-testing, to see if they were born to left-wing prisoners killed by the military in the 1970s."
2011-06-03,Yemen's President Saleh 'wounded in palace attack'
2011-06-03,"Terrorist in Chile blinded, has hands amputated after accidentally detonating bomb he was planting

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2011-06-03,"Hundreds attend faith healing schools linked to fundamentalist Bethal Church - A WAVE of ""supernatural"" schools that claim to teach people how to heal the sick and even raise the dead are netting tens of thousands of dollars for fundamentalist Christian church coffers."
2011-06-03,"China: The Economics of Killing SomeoneIn a streak of hit-and-run cases, the driver has returned to intentionally kill the victim."
2011-06-03,Israel government 'reckless and irresponsible' says ex-Mossad chief
2011-06-03,Russia bans European vegetable imports
2011-06-03,German E. coli outbreak is a killer hybrid 
2011-06-03,China calls US culprit in global 'Internet war'
2011-06-03,"Syrian forces kill 27 in Hama, ""crackdown"" intensifies"
2011-06-03,The president of Yemen Ali Abdullah Saleh and many senior government officials reportedly injured in shelling of presidential palace.
2011-06-03,"For Arab despots, the skies are limited --- Arab despots are realizing, to their horror, that the future may hold little different for them than what it held for Ratko Mladic. Will this alter the behavior of leaders in the Middle East? It should"
2011-06-03,150 boat migrants die off Tunisia
2011-06-02,"Global leaders - ""Global war on drugs has failed"""
2011-06-02,"WTF? NATO leaders have been warned that Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security and they promise to ""persecute"" its members"
2011-06-02,Julian Assange awarded top UK Journalism Prize
2011-06-02,Banned video by Serbian Government. No media is allowed to publish it. Police beating a protestor. 
2011-06-02,Global war on drugs 'a failure': High-level panel declares international anti-drug measures a failure and suggests legalising cannabis and other drugs.
2011-06-02,"Ive Gone And Done It Now --- 
Egyptian Muslim discards hijab while on trip to Europe. ""I wanted to know what it would feel like. I wanted to know how peoples perceptions of me would change."" Turned out to be fun, liberating. But not yet ready to try at home"
2011-06-02,Italy's top seismologist charged with manslaughter for failing to predict 2009 earthquake
2011-06-02,"Decriminalise possession of drugs, celebrities urge government"
2011-06-02,"Google says computer hackers in China broke into the Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior government officials in the U.S. and political activists."
2011-06-02,"NSFW Syrian security forces shoots mourners of dead protesters, killing 11. Homs city 5-21"
2011-06-02,Canada tries to hide Alberta tar sands carbon emission
2011-06-02,"As vaccination drops, pertussis and measles on the rise worldwide."
2011-06-02,"More and more Israelis apply for a foreign passport, not for easier travel but because something has gone terribly wrong here. "
2011-06-02,Student Locked up for reading a poem at pro-democracy rally in Bahrain
2011-06-02,Self-confident females terrify the old Arab tyrannies
2011-06-02,Pakistani journalist who wrote about military's links to Al Qaeda is found slain
2011-06-02,"E-coli outbreak in Europe is a new strain; experts studying bacteria, that has caused 18 deaths in Europe, say it has never been seen in an outbreak before"
2011-06-02,"A Chinese agribusiness firm is to buy a large swath of land in Patagonia. Critics fear it will bring heavy agrochemical use and ecological degradation, and strain the region's water resources"
2011-06-02,Two ships from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are now speeding toward Libyan seas - to protect the Atlantic bluefin tuna from poachers
2011-06-02,Russia Bans Fresh Vegetables from EU because of growing E. coli outbreak in Germany - Spain's farmers lose millions of euros
2011-06-02,"Pro-Government Cyber Attacks In The Middle East --- While Syrian troops confront protesters on the streets, another less bloody battle is being waged in cyberspace. Anti-government and Western websites are coming under attack from a group calling itself the ""Syrian Electronic Army"""
2011-06-02,"Chinese hacking of Gmail accounts of journalists, Chinese human rights activists, etc. traced to a Chinese Voc/Tech School in Jinan, China known for churning out cooks, hairdressers, and Chinese Army computer scientists"
2011-06-02,Alleged Libyan rape victim deported from Qatar back to Libya - CNN.com
2011-06-02,Two-thirds of Pakistanis do not believe Bin Laden was killed last month by a team of U.S. Navy SEALs [WTF?]
2011-06-02,"Al-Shabaab, the Somali militant group that has pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda, announced that a suicide bomber who attacked a military position earlier this week was a Somali-American from Minnesota"
2011-06-01,The elderly of Japan want to help their country one last time with the nuclear crisis
2011-06-01,"Syria's sadistic regime:  13 year old 'Rebel', shot, kneecapped and had genitals removed before being killed.  Family arrested for making this public."
2011-06-01,"A senior member of the Church of Scientology in Australia has been charged by police for intimidating a young girl who wanted to report sexual abuse allegations within the church. 
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2011-06-01,"Chiquita sued over Colombian paramilitary payments: ""A company that pays a terrorist organization that kills thousands of people should get the capital punishment of civil liability and be put out of business by punitive damages."""
2011-06-01,Pak Journalist Who Wrote Of Terrorist Link To Navy Found Murdered -- A Pakistani journalist who had written about alleged links between the nations navy and the al-Qaeda terrorist network was found dead in an abandoned car near the capital city of Islamabad
2011-06-01,Monkey accused of witchcraft burned alive by South African mob
2011-06-01,A Western businessman who has had the rare chance to travel throughout North Korea has sent these images of daily life to the BBC News website. These are his observations from within the normally secretive state.
2011-06-01,Belgium Church sex abuse plaintiffs to sue Vatican: Dozens of Belgians who say they were abused as children by Roman Catholic priests have announced the launch of a legal case against the Vatican.
2011-06-01,Massive Gmail phishing uncovered by Google. Signs point to China.
2011-06-01,"As Chinas Workers Get a Raise, Companies Fret"
2011-06-01,"15 dead in Germany from a virulent E. Coli outbreak. 
The first ever outbreak of this particular strain."
2011-06-01,"Australia proposes anti-swearing law: Gold Logie winner Karl Stefanovic tweeted his outrage. ""Just [heard] the government wants to fine people for swearing. That's bullshit."""
2011-06-01,Raiding a Brothel in India - NYTimes.com
2011-06-01,"Japan Nuclear Crisis: Stricken Fukushima Nuke Plant now Leaking Oil: Oil was leaking into the sea from heavy oil tanks for reactors 5 and 6 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday, adding the spill may have been ongoing since the March 11 quake and tsunami. "
2011-06-01,"
Iran's parliament voted on Wednesday to take Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to court over his takeover of the country's vital oil ministry."
2011-06-01,"Atheism in the land of a thousand gods
A scrappy group of young Indians takes on karma  and dogma"
2011-06-01,"Assad's general amnesty offer looks like too little, too late, especially now that Syrian protesters have are rallying in memory of a martyr -- and he was just 13 years old when security thugs killed him."
2011-06-01,The Sordid Sexual History of Dominique Strauss-Kahn - A conspiracy to keep DSKs true identity out of the spotlight.
2011-06-01,"European Food Outbreak Soars - Those hit 1/3 bigger than thought, & a stunningly high number of patients are suffering from deadly complication that shuts down kidneys"
2011-06-01,Iranian opposition activist Haleh Sahabi has died after scuffles with security forces at her father's funeral
2011-06-01,"Billions of dollars of food are lost every year in the post-harvest phase in Africa. - ""land, water and non-renewable resources such as fertilizer and energy are used to produce, process, handle and transport food that no one consumes."
2011-06-01,"Fuck this; fines for swearing in VIC, Australia."
2011-06-01,Europe's Slow-Motion Financial Collapse
2011-06-01,Syrian regime killed 30 kids. The use of live ammunition against demonstrators has reportedly left at least 30 children dead. UNICEF has not been able to independently verify the number of the victims and the circumstances of their death.
2011-06-01,"Teenage victim becomes a symbol for Syria's revolution: Mutilated body of Hamza al-Khatib given to family as state TV says injuries were faked by conspirators
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2011-05-31,Archaeologists find sealed tunnel underneath Teotihuacan temple
2011-05-31,"13-year-old Syrian boy arrested, brutally tortured, beaten, burned, slashed, penis cut off, murdered"
2011-05-31,"Egypt: general confirms ""virginity checks"" forced on female protesters by military  "
2011-05-31,"Australia Suspends Live Cattle Exports to Indonesia After Cruelty Exposed on Film, Which Shows Them Being Beaten, Whipped & Kicked Prior to Slaughter - '...it was taking 4 throat cuts to kill an animal instead of 1.'"
2011-05-31,Journalist Who Reported on Pakistan Links to al-Qaeda Found Dead
2011-05-31,Japan Considering Plan to Require Solar Panels on All New Buildings
2011-05-31,"Al-Jazeera footage appears to show western special forces on the frontline in Libya, ""evidence for the first time of allied boots on the ground""."
2011-05-31,Dutch Government Moves Ahead With Weed Ban For Foreigners
2011-05-31," Drug laws: 40 years on, only a complete change of approach will do"
2011-05-31,"The prices of staple foods will more than double in 20 years unless world leaders take action to reform the global food system, Oxfam has warned."
2011-05-31,"UK: 'Spy cameras' are used to target student protesters in an attempt to ""criminalise protest""."
2011-05-31,"Bangladeshi woman cuts off penis of man she says tried to rape her, submits it as evidence"
2011-05-31,Explosives detonate in 3 IKEA stores across Europe 
2011-05-31,Iceland to ban tobacco?
2011-05-31,"Libyan government gave $1.3bn to Goldman Sachs 
for investment. Less than 1 year later 98% of it was 
gone."
2011-05-31,200 Japanese pensioners volunteering to tackle the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima power station
2011-05-31,Turkish court has ordered the arrest of the highest-ranking active-duty military officer charged with plotting to overthrow the government.
2011-05-31,"Syrian protesters denied medical care: Doctors have been physically prevented from giving life-saving care to patients.
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2011-05-31,Former French minister Jack Lang accused of having a pedophile orgy with Moroccan boys.
2011-05-31,Introducing fines for swearing in Australia
2011-05-31,14 dead in Germany as cucumber crisis grows
2011-05-31,Serbia sends Mladic to The Hague
2011-05-31,"Egypt admits to forcing ""virginity tests"""
2011-05-31,BBC News - Italy elections: Voters give Berlusconi bloody nose
2011-05-31,"During five weeks spent filming undercover, a reporter captured footage of vulnerable patients being repeatedly pinned down, slapped, dragged into showers while fully clothed, taunted and teased "
2011-05-30,Giant waterspout 'tornado' caught on camera off Australia
2011-05-30,"Brazil's rainforest faces new threats:  Deforestation in the Amazon has increased by almost 500 percent compared to last year.
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2011-05-30,Saudi prince calls for lower oil prices . . .  World turns upside down.  
2011-05-30,PHOTOS: A Rare Glimpse Into Daily Life In The Capital Of North Korea
2011-05-30,Germany to shut down all nuclear plants by 2021/22
2011-05-30,"I was standing in two fist-sized pools of smeared, sticky blood, trying to sort out why there were seven angry Syrians yelling at me."
2011-05-30,"Scientologist charged with perverting course of justice, in which she allegedly trained an eleven year old girl to lie about her own sexual abuse within the Church"
2011-05-30,"
Greeks yank billions out of country's banks as debt crisis worsens
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2011-05-30,Belgium to ban the burqa soon
2011-05-30,"Guatemala's murder rate is now twice that of Mexico's. And in neighboring Honduras, which faces a similar problem with drug traffickers, the situation is even worse: Honduras now has the highest homicide rate in the hemisphere."
2011-05-30,Canada: The Supreme Court says a person must be conscious in order to consent
2011-05-30,Sweden critical of German nuclear decision
2011-05-30,Chinese dog eaters and dog lovers spar over animal rights
2011-05-30,GREECE: There Are New Emergency Bailout Talks That Could Spell The End Of National Sovereignty
2011-05-30,Silvio Berlusconi has lost control of Milan and Naples in key local elections
2011-05-30,Wikipedias bold bid for World Heritage status
2011-05-30,"In 2 years, Iran plans to unplug the Internet and is now creating its own."
2011-05-30,Spain Affirms Intentions to Recognize the Palestinian State Before September
2011-05-30,Greeks inspired by the Spanish Indignant or Indignados movement held their largest protest so far in Athens 
2011-05-30,Vietnam accuses China in seas dispute: Vietnam's foreign ministry has accused China of increasing regional tensions in an escalating territorial dispute. 
2011-05-30,Doomed Flight AF 447: Questions Raised about Airbus Automated Control System - initial analysis of the plane's data recorder hints at errors made by the pilots. But questions have also been raised about the A330's automated control systems.
2011-05-30,"In a sign of eroding support for besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, eight generals and about 100 soldiers defected from the Libyan army and fled to Italy"
2011-05-30,Pakistani journalist disappears after writing about secret link Pak Navy & Al-Qaeda that led to Naval base attack
2011-05-30,China orders death penalty in deadly food scandals
2011-05-30,"Yemeni forces kill 20 protesters in Taiz: Soldiers bulldozed and set fire to protesters' tents as they cleared a central square where a peaceful sit-in demonstration against the rule of President Saleh had continued for the past four months, protest organizers said"
2011-05-29,"Hundreds of women report rapes by Qaddafi forces
 --- ""First they tied my husband up,"" the woman wrote. ""Then they raped me in front of my husband and my husband's brother. Then they killed my husband."""
2011-05-29,India pledges support for Palestine
2011-05-29,Egypt: Hosni Mubarak fined for cutting internet. Let this be a warning for other world leaders.
2011-05-29,"China drought affecting over 34,000,000 people, leaving farmers & livestock without water & parching their grain"
2011-05-29,Leading world politicians urge 'paradigm shift' on drugs policy.
2011-05-29,Foxconn workers in China speak out: Workers complained for weeks about dust that led to deadly explosion
2011-05-29,Why China Is Really In Big Trouble  
2011-05-29,"""I told you the truth, you dont like the truth"", Omar Khadr shouts at a Canadian Security Intelligence Service agent. The accused, then aged 16, breaks down: ""Ya Ummi! (Mummy!)"", he cries in Arabic"
2011-05-29,Iran to create its own Internet
2011-05-29,"Malta has voted ""Yes"" in a non-binding referendum on legalising divorce, Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi has conceded, local media report."
2011-05-29,Kindergarten teacher sings songs to kids while guns blaze outside
2011-05-29,Report: Some areas in China under martial law after protests 
2011-05-29,Here's What's Going To Happen When Greece Defaults - it won't be pretty.
2011-05-29,Syria protests escalate over apparent torture and killing of a 13-year-old boy by the security services
2011-05-29,"The tobacco giants ruthlessly exploits the developing world - its young, poor and uneducated: The West now consumes fewer of the world's cigarettes, but the developing world's share has risen sharply to 76% in 2009"
2011-05-29,"Gulf Cooperation Council, a shish kebab of hereditary monarchies, emirates and outright theocracies, sitting on oceans of oil, embark on  internal repression all across the Persian Gulf using Erik Prince's mercenaries and western arms."
2011-05-29,"Mexico detains 36 members of La Familia cartel & 10 members of the Zetas drug gang, including suspects in armed attack on police helicopter
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2011-05-29,Arab League seeks UN recognition of Palestine
2011-05-29,"Taliban suicide bomber injures top NATO general in Afghanistan, kills Afghan police chief"
2011-05-29,"Mladic's Crimes Have Shaped The World We Live In --- 
""We have the man who ordered the largest mass murder in Europe since the Second World War and now he will face trial."" It may not be a comfortable experience for European countries. But better this than a corpse lying in a compound"
2011-05-29,"In Russia, Prisons for Police Thrive"
2011-05-29,TEPCO has restored the cooling system of the nuclear reactor and fuel pool at the No. 5 after it stopped working late on Saturday.
2011-05-29,"The Planning Commission of India has set the poverty line at Rs 20 a day. Earn more than that and you are not poor. Oh, and if you live in a village, dont earn more than Rs 15. The Rich Indians Respond"
2011-05-29,Police in Mexico say they have killed 11 suspected members of the powerful La Familia drug cartel after a shoot-out at a ranch in western Jalisco state. 
2011-05-29,Murder of Activists Raises Questions of Justice in Amazon
2011-05-28,Third Brazilian environmentalist killed in a week in Amazon Rainforest region 
2011-05-28,"""The United Nations warned on Wednesday [25 May 2011] of a possible crisis of confidence in, and even a 'collapse' of, the U.S. dollar if its value against other currencies continued to decline . . . the U.N. economic division said such a development . . . would imperil the global financial system."""
2011-05-28,"Iceland is the worlds most peaceful nation, Somalia worst; US improves to 82nd, behind Gabon and just ahead of Bangladesh"
2011-05-28,"Dubai's skyscrapers, stained by the blood of migrant workers. Dubai seems to be a place where the worst of western capitalism and Gulf Arab racism meet in a horrible vortex
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2011-05-28,"Dutch govt to start banning tourists from buying cannabis from ""coffee shops"" and impose restrictions on Dutch customers by the end of the year"
2011-05-28,Russia sells 21 helicopters to U.S. forces in Afghanistan
2011-05-28,"Cancer Now #1 Cause of Death in China, With Lung Cancer Leading"
2011-05-28,UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring
2011-05-28,"Like many before, Amazon activists silenced by gun."
2011-05-28,Dozens arrested in Russian gay rights rally 
2011-05-28,UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring | World news | The Observer
2011-05-28,Dutch government to ban tourists from cannabis shops
2011-05-28,Spanish Police beating peaceful demonstrators
2011-05-28,Gay pride parade erupts into violence in Moscow
2011-05-28,"Water Emerges as Hidden Weapon - 
Libya's enormous aquatic reserves could become a new weapon of choice if govt forces opt to starve coastal cities that heavily rely on free flowing freshwater"
2011-05-28,"As E. coli outbreak spreads, Germany bans cucumbers from Spain - Cucumbers from the Netherlands & Denmark are also suspect"
2011-05-28,"Why Spaniards are protesting: The demonstrations look like the Arab Spring, but have different aims"
2011-05-28,Air France Crash Explained
2011-05-28,China declares martial law in parts of the northeast's inner Mongolia autonomous region
2011-05-28,Air France crash report shows confused cockpit: tilted nose up to gain speed 
2011-05-28,"Egypt-Gaza border permanently opened for the first time in four years. Women, children, and men over the age of 40 can cross freely. Men 18-40 can if they obtain a visa. Trade still prohibited."
2011-05-28,Gaza-Egypt crossing point operates normally for first time in years
2011-05-28, G8 summit: Gaddafi isolated as Russia joins demand for Libyan leader to go | World news | The Guardian 
2011-05-28,Amnesty International: Celebrating 50 Years Of Fight For Human Rights
2011-05-28,Anti-riot police clear Cataluna square - EuroNews: Spanish police in anti-riot gear fired rubber bullets and swung truncheons to disperse peaceful protesters in Barcelona [Video - 0.54]
2011-05-27,Agribusiness wins and Brazil does away with laws to protect large swaths of rainforest 
2011-05-27,Spanish police is charging tough against pacifist protesters in Barcelona!
2011-05-27,Spanish police beating peaceful protestors in the Plaa Catalunya in Barcelona [Vid]
2011-05-27,Category 5 Typhoon Heading For Japan.
2011-05-27,"Thousands of Egyptians are gathered on Cairo's Tahrir Square for a so-called ""second revolution"""
2011-05-27,"Thousands return to Tahrir Square for ""day of anger"" demonstrations, pressing military rulers for speedier reforms."
2011-05-27,"Italy: Seven seismologists being tried for manslaughter for failing to predict 2009 L'Aquila earthquake, which killed about 300 people"
2011-05-27,"Russia agrees to mediate Gaddafi exit; Moscow changes tack at the G8 meeting in France, saying Gaddafi has 'forfeited legitimacy' to rule Libya"
2011-05-27,Fukushima's tsunami plan was a single page: Document reveals TEPCO had ruled out the possibility of a tsunami large enough to knock the plant offline 
2011-05-27,Europe's Web of Debt [pic]
2011-05-27,"Rwanda genocide mastermind arrested: Bernard Munyagishari, a former Hutu militia leader wanted on charges of murder and rape in connection with the Rwanda genocide, is caught in Democratic Republic of Congo after 17 years"
2011-05-27,Jurez police captain gunned down at home
2011-05-27,"The price of protesting in Syria: ""there was the welcome party before the interrogation. They pushed us to the floor, security forces stood on our back and jumped hard. Five or six of them. One jumps, finishes his turn, and the next one takes over,"" "
2011-05-27,"Greece ""cheated"" to join Euro through deception former European Central Bank Chief Economist Otmar Issing said. "
2011-05-27,Egyptians Gather for Second 'Day of Anger': Thousands gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square to protests against the military's handling of the post-revolution phase
2011-05-27,"Radioactive water appears to be leaking from a waste disposal building at Fukushima nuclear complex, says operator Tepco"
2011-05-27,AF447: Description of the Air France crash chronology from the BEA (Must read!)
2011-05-27,"Outrage over Syria's shoot-to-kill policy/
Amnesty International says government should be put on trial for killing protesters. [Title of video]"
2011-05-27,Protesters 'shot dead' by Syrian forces: More deaths reported as several towns witness fresh demonstrations against president Assad's one-party rule. 
2011-05-27,"G8 summit: laws apply on Internet just like ""everywhere else"""
2011-05-27,Video: Police brutality in Spain
2011-05-27,"As of this Sunday, crossing the Egypt-Palestine border will be permitted without a visa"
2011-05-27,"BBC News - ""Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa defends military's role"" but ""The UN-commissioned report said that tens of thousands of civilians died in the final phase of the war - most of them killed in shelling by government forces."""
2011-05-27,Harper blocks mention of 1967 border in G8 Mideast statement 
2011-05-27,Greek PM fails to win opposition support for austerity measures again
2011-05-26,Police arrest man suspected to be Ratko Mladi
2011-05-26,"Turkey becomes a heavily censored dictatorship: There are now one million Internet sites blocked: All internet cafes in the country must undertake special filters use one that blocks a plethora of sites.  Google, BBC, Facebook, eBay, Amazon and the site of the Turkish Human Rights Association. "
2011-05-26,Egypt Permanently Reopens Its Gaza Border Crossing
2011-05-26,4 Muslims in East London who bashed a religious teacher because he was a non muslim teaching Islam jailed.
2011-05-26,"Witness: Shattered humanity inside Syria's security apparatus - ""The young man was dangling upside down, white, foaming saliva dripping from his mouth. His groans sounded more bestial than human [...]"""
2011-05-26,Ratko Mladic hunt: Serbian police arrest suspect 
2011-05-26,French MP compares gay weddings to 'unions with animals' 
2011-05-26,"In a backwards move, Brazil suspends sex education videos due to pressure from evangelical groups which argued that the videos encouraged homosexual behavior"
2011-05-26,"Internet regulation makes G8 agenda - finding a way to regulate the internet that is acceptable to governments, industry and civil society"
2011-05-26,The only man brave to protest on Saudi Arabia's day of rage has suffered in prison for his BBC interview 
2011-05-26,UK Police have defended themselves amid claims of heavy-handedness after using a helicopter and two officers to find a schoolboy who kicked a football through a greenhouse
2011-05-26,"Mladic isn't the only war criminal arrested: Hutu Bernard Munyagishari, alleged mastermind of Rwandan genocide, will also be brought to justice"
2011-05-26,"""The personal data of millions of passengers who fly between the US and Europe, including credit card details, phone numbers and home addresses, may be stored by the US department of homeland security for 15 years, according to a draft agreement between Washington and Brussels leaked to the Guardian"
2011-05-26,"Manal Al Sharif, the woman who got arrested in Saudi for driving a car, is kept in prison for another 10 days."
2011-05-26,Three Chinese government buildings bombed
2011-05-26,"""Mr Netanyahu does not need to persuade even his American congressional sponsors of his desire to move forward in peace. He merely needs to persuade them that he has done enough to continue to pretend that the absence of peace is not his fault."""
2011-05-26,Wikipedia Lobbies UN To Be On Its World Heritage List
2011-05-26,"Netanyahu chooses to make things worse with Capitol Hill speech, BBC calls him ''stuck in the past""
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2011-05-26,Thousands of immigrants lured to Spain by dreams of a better life now live in squalor
2011-05-26,They found the ancient city of Tanis!  Who's going to find the Well of Souls?  and then...who will become raiders of the lost ark???
2011-05-26,Japan finds its voice: Protests against the government's handling of the nuclear crisis are now common.
2011-05-26,"The Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic 
- wanted over the Srebrenica massacre - has been 
arrested, the Serbian president confirms."
2011-05-26,The Ten Most Wanted - updated now that Bin Laden is dead and Mladic has been captured. 
2011-05-26,Saudi Religious Police force a woman out of a travel fair because she wore a colored Abaya.
2011-05-26,Lapdance monastery shut after raunchy nun stunt
2011-05-25,Egypt finds 17 lost pyramids: A satellite survey used infra-red images to detect underground buildings
2011-05-25,"What a difference a year makes: in 2010, France was trying to sell Libya the Rafale aircraft. In 2011, France is bombing Libya with the Rafale."
2011-05-25,"Amazon rainforest activist shot dead: Jos Cludio Ribeiro da Silva killed in ambush in the Brazilian Amazon, six months after predicting his own murder
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2011-05-25,"Chevron face shareholders after huge $18bn Ecuador fine. An Ecuadorian tribal leader: ""The court, which Chevron chose, found them guilty of poisoning our rainforest, and our families. ..  [we] demand that Chevron cease its lies and pay to clean up the contamination that is choking our communities."""
2011-05-25,Head of Afghan girls' school killed by Taliban 
2011-05-25,China orders suspension of death sentences: China has apparently introduced new standards to reduce the number of criminals it executes.
2011-05-25,Denmark bans marmite
2011-05-25,"Norway plans billion-dollar clean energy initiative for poor. Norway wants to channel billions of dollars to renewable energies in developing nations, building on a scheme to protect tropical forests to which Oslo has been the biggest donor."
2011-05-25,"Netanyahu Address Congress: No right of return for Palestinians, No dividing Jerusalem, and tells Fatah to tear up historic deal with Hamas"
2011-05-25,Egyptian pyramids found by infra-red satellite images
2011-05-25,"Former head of Pakistan's ISI is ""100 per cent sure"" a Taliban attack on a major naval air base in Karachi was an ""American operation""."
2011-05-25,US and IAEA officials knew that the Fukushima nuclear power plant suffered a nuclear meltdown within 3.5 hours of the Japan earthquake and subsequently hid it from the public.
2011-05-25,French group calls for large demonstration in Paris this weekend to show solidarity with tens of thousands of youth demonstrating against austerity programs in Spain
2011-05-25,Three Months of Civil War in Libya [pics]
2011-05-25,Assange: 'Dramatic Increase' in Whistle-Blowers Despite Bradley Manning Case
2011-05-25,"Israel's PM received a rapturous reception from Congress, but US Jewish opinion at large is frustrated with his intransigence."
2011-05-25,Six Italian seismologists and one government official will be tried for the manslaughter of those who died in an earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila on 6 April 2009.
2011-05-25,"Libyan parents hope for long-sought answers in HIV mystery -- More than 400 children were infected with the AIDS virus at a children's hospital in the 1990s. Moammar Kadafi called it a deliberate act by foreign workers, but some now openly question his role."
2011-05-25,Atomic agency outs Iran's nuke warhead project
2011-05-25,"Egypt is to open the Rafah border crossing into Gaza permanently to Palestinians from Saturday, Egyptian state news agency Mena has said."
2011-05-25,"Iran is considering imposing sanctions on U.S. officials for human rights violations, attempting to turn the tables after years of sanctions imposed by the West."
2011-05-25,"Indian Maoists 'kill and dismember' 10 policemen -- Ten policemen, including one senior officer, have been killed and dismembered by Maoist rebels in India's Chhattisgarh state, police say"
2011-05-25,"""The greatest Amazon River disaster in history"""
2011-05-25,"In Israel, Netanyahu Seen as Stalling Peace Talks"
2011-05-25,Ash cloud reaches Germany 
2011-05-24,Police officer will be charged with manslaughter over the death of Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests
2011-05-24,"NSFW A tank shoots brave Syrian protesters, killing a child. 20th May"
2011-05-24,Mubarak to be tried for death of protestors
2011-05-24,A police officer will face trial for manslaughter over the death of newspaper seller at the G20 protests.
2011-05-24,Female Saudi doctor appeals to top court for right to choose a husband
2011-05-24,Israel extends 63 year-old state of emergency for another year. 
2011-05-24,Russia says a fifth of defense budget stolen
2011-05-24,"Germany nuclear shutdown by 2022 may mean blackouts, Merkel warned; energy firms say solar and wind power may not make up shortfall in winter"
2011-05-24,"""We will shove the rifle up your ass"" A Syrian protester yells at a sniper. An encounter between protesters and a very close sniper shooting them."
2011-05-24,Fukushima Japan: Reactors 2 & 3 meltdowns now confirmed. Fukushima = Level 21 (3x7) nuclear accident.
2011-05-24,Lance Armstrong Tour de France titles could be in jeopardy - The Washington Post
2011-05-24,Terror Trial Witness Ties Pakistani ISI to the 2008 Mumbai Attacks
2011-05-24,The London Metropolitan Police officer caught on film pushing Ian Tomlinson to the ground shortly before his death at the G20 protest will face a manslaughter charge
2011-05-24,Leaked WikiLeaks Cables Pushing Pakistan to Brink
2011-05-24,"Human Rights Law Foundation files lawsuit against Cisco, claims it designed surveillance system to help the Chinese govt track and suppress dissidents"
2011-05-24,British Banks Paid Bonuses Using Government Aid
2011-05-24,The world's most powerful internet and media bosses are gathering in Paris for a two-day meeting hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
2011-05-24,"Energy Shortages Spreading: Rationing in China, Pakistan, Venezuela, Japan, Argentina; China Resorts to Punitive Prices to Curb Demand"
2011-05-24,Anti-abortion group drafted in as sexual health adviser to UK government
2011-05-24,"'Blast' at new Iran oil refinery as Ahmadinejad visits: One person has been killed and at least 20 hurt in an explosion at a refinery in Iran during a visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian media say."
2011-05-24,Asian people 42 times more likely to be held under terror law
2011-05-24,Hosni Mubarak to Face Trial for Killing of Protesters
2011-05-24,"Amid international indifference, targeted repression continues in Bahrain and Yemen"
2011-05-24,"Two more reactors at Japan plant suffer meltdown, operator says"
2011-05-24,Blast hits Iran refinery as Ahmadinejad visits
2011-05-23,Egypt sentences Police Officer to death for killing protesters 
2011-05-23,"The war on drugs in Mexico, decreed by Caldern, part-funded by millions of dollars in U.S. govt aids, has not only failed to curb the trade but intensified horrific violence, corruption and human-rights abuses - 37,000 Mexicans have been murdered, often tortured and brutalized before their deaths"
2011-05-23,"South African rapture believers stuck with huge hotel bill. Instead of going to heaven, a group of South Africans who checked into a Johannesburg hotel to await the end of the world now have a big bill to pay."
2011-05-23,"EU backs Obama's call for Mideast peace treaty based on 1967 borders; Swedish foreign minister slams Netanyahu's rejection of the borders saying ""the only defense that is possible is peace""."
2011-05-23,Pakistani naval base under attack - At least four killed as special forces continue to battle armed men who attacked naval aviation facility in Karachi.
2011-05-23,[Wikileaks] Saudi Arabia and UAE spending $100 million annually in Pakistan on religious organizations.
2011-05-23,"Byron Sonne: Canadian security geek jailed for taunting G20 security theatre; who lost everything - his marriage, his home, his livelihood - because he couldn't figure out how to contain or express his disgust with the state's increasing encroachment on personal liberty"
2011-05-23,Israel approves 294 more illegal settlements in the West Bank
2011-05-23,Cisco sued for helping China monitor Internet
2011-05-23,"Prison in Norway with Rapists, murders and drug dealers, has no walls, no bars, and no locks. Also lacking are murders and suicides. "
2011-05-23, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Accuses the Europeans of Emptying the Clouds So That Iran Would Have No Rain
2011-05-23,NSFW  A child girl shot in the eye by Syrian security forces.
2011-05-23,US ran 'secret terror hunt' in Sweden: report
2011-05-23,China detains 300 Tibetan monks for 'legal education' after a monk set himself on fire
2011-05-23,New autopsy to determine cause of death of former Chilean President Salvador Allende. Allende died during the 1973 coup that brought Pinochet to power.
2011-05-23,"US intensifies drone attacks in Pakistan: Despite death of Osama bin Laden, drone attacks continue to pound North Waziristan"
2011-05-23,"Unbelievable: Syrian security forces open fire on a women protest, killing four."
2011-05-23,AFP: Israel 'approves new West Bank settler homes'
2011-05-23,"Into the Fire, Documentary on the Toronto G20 Riots."
2011-05-23,EGYPT: Hosni Mubarak reportedly may go to court within 72 hours
2011-05-23,Ambulances on stand by at Ben Gurion Airport (Tel Aviv) for emergency landing of a plane w/ 279 ppl on board. [pic]
2011-05-23,"U.K. Soldiers Can't Die in Iraq Anymore: Eight years and 179 dead after arriving, final British troops pull out"
2011-05-23,The Real Reason for NATO Attacking Libya
2011-05-23,"Nato has been bombarding pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya since 31 March 2011 in Operation ""Unified Protector."" Here is an interactive/unfolding map of targets by the day they were reported. "
2011-05-23,"Saudi woman drives, goes to jail"
2011-05-22,Volcano just erupted in Iceland.....i kid you not.
2011-05-22,Very Graphic: Dead Syrian protesters kept in a refrigerated truck.
2011-05-22,NSFW Syrian soldiers laughing at dead men who tried to smuggle food into the besieged city Daraa.
2011-05-22,"In Brazil, a march for the legalization of marijuana which was banned, turned into confrontation on the Avenida Paulista, as military police attacked the demonstrators with tear gas and rubber bullets"
2011-05-22,"Shock after Dutch priest endorses pedophilia: the priest - identified as 73-year-old ""Father Van B."" - served on the board of ""Martijn,"" a group that campaigns to end the Dutch ban on adult-child sex"
2011-05-22,Australian Gov't cancels funding program which assists ISPs to offer internet filtering options to customers; citing a lack of interest in the project
2011-05-22,Saudis arrest woman for driving a car
2011-05-22,French publish rape accuser's name: Major media commit a serious breach of journalistic ethics
2011-05-22,"UK law firm demand Twitter hand over the name, email address and IP address of the person naming a married sports celebrity who has a gagging order on the press or TV in the UK talking about his affair."
2011-05-22,"US cable: Saudi, Emirati donors provide $100 million to radical Islamic schools in Pakistan"
2011-05-22,"Saudi Arabia, UAE funded jihadi networks in Pakistan: Wikileaks cable : A U.S. diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks said financial support estimated at $100 million a year was making its way from those Gulf Arab states to a jihadist recruitment network in Pakistans Punjab province..."
2011-05-22,Chinese suggest invading Somalia
2011-05-22,"Sunday, 22 May 2011---Britain's eight-year presence in Iraq formally comes to an end today, when the remaining 170 troops depart, spelling the end to one of the most controversial military campaigns ever conducted in recent British history."
2011-05-22,"Inspired by Arab Spring, Spain's youthful 15-M movement spreads in Europe: Young Spaniards railing against political stagnation and high unemployment are protesting in 166 cities across the country and have sparked other protests in Europe."
2011-05-22,Now Butt Out: New push seeks to outlaw cigarettes
2011-05-22,Pakistan invites China to build a naval base.
2011-05-22,"Egyptian policeman who killed peaceful protesters during the revolution earlier this year, is sentenced to death."
2011-05-22,BBC News - Blasts rock air base in Pakistan
2011-05-22,"In a boost to Libya's rebels, the European Union opened a diplomatic office Sunday in their eastern stronghold and pledged support for a democratic Libya where Moammar Gadhafi ""will not be in the picture."""
2011-05-22,"Spain's Socialists punished in local elections

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2011-05-22,"Yemeni president to step down, calling deal a coup"
2011-05-22,Switzerland will stop using nuclear power after Japanese crisis; nuclear plants currently supply 40% of Swiss power
2011-05-22,The CIA was recently caught by Swedish intelligence doing illegal reconnaissance in Sweden.
2011-05-22,"Hezbollah Supportive of Egyptian, Tunisian Uprisings But Not Syria's"
2011-05-22," Valparaiso protesters in clashes with police to protest against a hydro-electric dam project in southern Chile, which they say will destroy 6,000 hectares of forest."
2011-05-21,"[Spain update] The Electoral Committee has forbidden protests on Saturday. When this submission is exactly 5 hours old, we'll see who backs down: the police or us. Here's a live video stream to see it yourselves."
2011-05-21,Congo soldiers explain why they rape.
2011-05-21,"Spain protesters defy ban to remain in Madrid square: Tens of thousands of Spanish protesters have defied a government ban and camped out overnight in a square in the capital, Madrid."
2011-05-21,"Ukraine's top weather forecaster has been forced off the air after she used a bulletin to rant against the government, saying that the recent sunny spell made up for the country's lawlessness and injustice."
2011-05-21,Chinese police are seeking the man who allegedly threw an egg and shoes at the computer scientist famous for designing the Great Firewall of China. The attack  if true  is a particularly bold one for China and underscores how strongly people feel about the country's strict internet censorship.
2011-05-21,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Europe 'stealing Iran's rain'  - Telegraph
2011-05-21,"Security Analyst Byron Sonne is finally out on bail, after a year imprisoned on charges stemming from being critical of G20 security. But the Canadian government has already destroyed his parent's savings, his clearances, and even his marriage."
2011-05-21,"An Open Letter to the Ambassador of Germany in Australia: ""I write to you with regard to events that have transpired on Friday, the gravity of which have led me to question the democratic integrity of the Federal Republic of Germany."""
2011-05-21,Governments Order You Tube To Censor Protest Videos 
2011-05-21,"Gang blinds Indian woman, accused of witchcraft, with scissors"
2011-05-21,At least 30 dead after forces fire at crowd in Syria
2011-05-21,Graphic: A Syrian child shot in his belly by the security forces during the protests. (He says: I am in pain)  
2011-05-21,"Gentlemen, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. "
2011-05-21,"Philippine Air Force reports seeing two jets, believed to be Chinese, over disputed islands in the South China Sea"
2011-05-21,"Dominique Strauss-Kahn posts $1 million bail, agreeing to live with an electronic monitor in a Manhattan flat (one rented by his wife) -- only to have the building's residents refuse him, forcing his lawyers to find housing elsewhere"
2011-05-21,A Look at the Root Causes of the Arab Revolution - Rising Literacy and a Shrinking Birth Rate
2011-05-21,"UK Teachers, nurses, civil servants and members of the armed forces will be poorer in retirement as well as having to work longer. Leaked paper reveals ministers want to raise retirement age to 66 and increase contributions by 3.3%."
2011-05-21,"Winfried Kretschmann, 62, is the new governor of Baden-Wrttemberg and the first-ever leader of a German state from the Green Party. In an interview, he talks about redefining economic growth, his plans to make industry more environmentally friendly and the future of nuclear power in Germany."
2011-05-21,"Georgia: Thousands of protesters, gathered on Freedom Square as part of the campaign to force President Saakashvili to resign."
2011-05-21,Saudi woman who defied driving ban and posted a video of herself behind the wheel is detained.
2011-05-21,"China accuses artist-activist, Ai Weiwei, of tax evasion "
2011-05-21,"Mexican federal police capture Gilberto Barragan Balderas, leading member of the Gulf drug cartel at what appeared to have been his birthday party"
2011-05-21,Brazilian police attacks peaceful marijuana march in Sao Paulo
2011-05-21,Tepco president quits as firm reports $15bn loss
2011-05-21,"Thousands have taken to the streets this week in Barcelona, Madrid and other large cities."
2011-05-20,Wikileaks releases the Pakistan Papers
2011-05-20,China Gives Pakistan 50 Fighter Jets
2011-05-20,police shuts down german pirate party servers (scroll down for english text)
2011-05-20,Spain protests spreading across Europe!!!!
2011-05-20,Norway Stops Aid Payments To Greece
2011-05-20,Amazonian Tribe has no concept of time
2011-05-20,"""Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein froze payment of 235 million kroner ($42 million) in European Economic Area grants to Greece because the government didn't meet the obligations linked to the funds."""
2011-05-20,NATO aircraft sank eight warships belonging to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's forces in overnight attacks
2011-05-20,Watch the protests in Spain live right now. Wow!
2011-05-20,China 'Asks USA To Respect Pak Sovereignty' |  China has warned in unequivocal terms that any attack on Pakistan would be construed as an attack on China. The warning was formally conveyed by the Chinese foreign minister at last week's China-US strategic dialogue talks in Washington
2011-05-20,WikiLeaks: Pakistan's airmen were being radicalized and were sabotaging Pakistani F-16s deployed for security operations along the Afghan border
2011-05-20,"Journalist missing in Libya was killed six weeks ago, but the regime opted to hide news of his death"
2011-05-20,Tahrir Square in Madrid --- Young people in Madrid have occupied the city's Puerta del Sol square in protest against high unemployment and the political establishment.
2011-05-20,Wiki Report:  Russia sabotaged Iran nuclear Programme
2011-05-20,Spain's Icelandic Revolt; Protests Spread to Italy
2011-05-20,NATO destroys 8 Libyan warships
2011-05-20,The Second Egyptian Revolution Has Been Scheduled For May 27
2011-05-20,"The Myth of a Lazy Southern Europe --- Merkel earlier this week strongly hinted that Southern Europeans take too much vacation and retire too early. It is an image many Germans share of Greece, Spain and Portugal. But how true are these clichs?"
2011-05-20,"""This is not an honor killing. I hope all of us will stop using this term. It has nothing to do with honor. It only has to do with taking the life of a human being"""
2011-05-20,A Defiant 'Spanish Revolution' in pictures.
2011-05-20,"Syrian forces 'fire on Homs protesters': Witnesses say at least nine killed, including two boys, in latest protests against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad."
2011-05-20,"A German insurer hosted a sex party for top agents that featured prepaid prostitutes and transformed an historic bathhouse into ""an open-air brothel."""
2011-05-20,Deadly Clashes in Afghanistan: German Soldiers Fired Deliberately at Protesters
2011-05-20,"China has expanded export quotas for rare earth metals, further tightening its grip on the minerals used in a number of high-tech electronics."
2011-05-20,Syrian Forces Kill 17 During Friday Protests
2011-05-19,"As the Japanese government and TEPCO struggle to bring the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant under control, a group of pensioners has decided to put their lives at risk to save younger people from radiation.
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2011-05-19,"Randal Munroe, creator of XKCD, responds to Ben Stein's comments about Dominique Strauss-Kahn"
2011-05-19,"The Middle East is running dry. The most water-stressed nations on Earth are all in the Middle East and North Africa. Add surging populations and food and energy costs, and trouble seems inevitable"
2011-05-19,"Designer of China's ""Great Firewall"" reportedly pelted with shoes and egg"
2011-05-19,Israel rejects total pullback to 1967 borders
2011-05-19,First Habitable Planet Confirmed by French Scientists
2011-05-19,"Company Director doesn't give his staff a wage rise because they would only ""mismanage"" their money"
2011-05-19,TEPCO posts photos of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant getting hit by the tsunami (links below the 2nd photo)
2011-05-19,You Need To Be Watching What's Developing In Spain Right Now
2011-05-19,Whistleblower says Russian troops fed dog food
2011-05-19,China acknowledges Three Gorges dam 'problems'
2011-05-19,"How Does a Socialist Public Servant Pay for $3,000-a-Night Hotel Suites and First-Class Flights?"
2011-05-19,Israeli attach expelled from Russia over spying allegations
2011-05-19,Russia threatens nuclear build-up over U.S. missile shield
2011-05-19,China has drastically cut the number of deaths from HIV-Aids by handing out free drugs.
2011-05-19,"""An opinion poll in France, taken before his first court appearance on Monday and released on Wednesday, showed that more than half the population believe Strauss-Kahn was set up."""
2011-05-19,"Ethiopia rebels say govt troops killed 100 civilians;1 UN worker dead, 2 missing"
2011-05-19,Levels of ocean radionuclides at least order of magnitude higher than Chernobyl.
2011-05-19,A swarm of bees delays flights at Philippine airport
2011-05-19,"Women in Turkey
Behind the veil: Womens influence in politics is growing, but it is still small"
2011-05-19,"Second Iranian ""flotilla of solidarity"" with 120 supporters of Bahraini dissidents blocked from entering kingdom "
2011-05-19,"Military tanker plane loaded with 158,000 pounds of fuel just crashed"
2011-05-19,"Support for Swedish NATO membership drops - Fewer Swedes support Swedish membership in NATO and roughly half are outright opposed to the idea, a new poll shows."
2011-05-19,Mexico town stands up to drug gangs with barricade
2011-05-19,Triple bombing kills 27 at Iraqi police station
2011-05-18,Filipino president says he's ready to accept excommunication from church for promoting free access to condoms
2011-05-18,"Madrid, Spain, right now. The protests keep on growing."
2011-05-18,"For the second consecutive day, thousands of people have taken the streets of Spain"
2011-05-18,"Syrian security forces open fire on an ambulance attempts to rescue an injured man, the driver and the medic receive direct hits."
2011-05-18,Canadians kept in dark from a very long list of toxins introduced into drinking water due to shale gas 'fracking' and Exxon Mobile goes on Shale Gas ad-spree on hulu
2011-05-18,Guatemalans sue US for deliberately spreading illness in 1940s experiment
2011-05-18,Germany vs. Greece - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday evening blasted Greece and demanded that Athens raise the retirement age and reduce vacation days. 
2011-05-18,"Autocrats Gain Ground in Middle East --- 
Burning churches in Cairo, dead and wounded in Syria, Libya and Yemen, and a deathly silence in Bahrain. The Arab protest movement has come to a standstill, and the kings, emirs and sultans are rallying to launch a counterrevolution."
2011-05-18,"Chilling Story Of Genius In A Land Of Chronic Unemployment --- Meet the ""Yahoo boys"" of Nigeria, successors of the 419 scammers. Astounding computer skills, masters of human manipulation. New con involves online dating. ""We use our brains to get what we want. For us its the only way to live"""
2011-05-18,"Protests in Afghanistan turn violent: Thousands of Afghans, claiming NATO again killed civilians, take to the streets"
2011-05-18,North Korea's Food Shortage: 'We Cannot Leave the Children to Die'
2011-05-18,Naked sex workers try to set themselves on fire in Seoul protest [NSFW]
2011-05-18,Gaddafi's Wife & Daughter flee to Tunisia [no Al Jazeera English article up yet]
2011-05-18,"Japanese Cabinet adviser:  Radioactive water dumped into Pacific Ocean because of ""strong request"" from the United States"
2011-05-18,U.S. slaps sanctions on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six other top officials for crackdown on pro-democracy protesters
2011-05-18,Canadians secretly added to U.S. security list: WikiLeaks
2011-05-18,Spanish youth rally in Madrid echoes Egypt protests
2011-05-18,Ethiopia is facing 30% inflation along with an impending drought. Things aren't looking great. Wondering why none of this is even being spoken of in international media
2011-05-18,Medvedev warns of new Cold War over US missile defense system
2011-05-18,"Bin Laden killing 'may set precedent' MPs are told - Osama Bin Laden's death may come to be seen as a precedent for ""targeted killings"" by states in the future, a report written for MPs has suggested."
2011-05-18,Democracia Real Ya: The organization behind the protests in Spain
2011-05-18,"By any rational standard, Stephen Harper and his minions should have been obliterated at the polls on May 2; instead, they will form a majority government based on 40% of the popular vote. "
2011-05-18,Al-Jazeera journalist Dorothy Parvez released
2011-05-18,Korean sex workers protest brothels crackdown
2011-05-18,Blackwaters Erik Prince is setting up no-Muslims battalion for Abu Dhabi to use against revolution... and Iran (approx. 2:46)
2011-05-17,"Gadhafi's new weapon: Fill an inflatable boat with explosives, put mannequins in it, and send it out to sea in search of a humanitarian aid ship to destroy"
2011-05-17,"Saudi woman drives her own car for four days, world doesn't implode."
2011-05-17,Cooling system of Fukushima plant's No. 1 reactor was not functioning before tsunami
2011-05-17,The good news:  Thailand jungles mask surprise rise in tiger numbers
2011-05-17,Where is Khaled? Saudi man goes missing after giving interview to the foreign press.
2011-05-17,Italy upgrades palestinian delegation in Rome to embassy status
2011-05-17,Pakistani troops open fire on ISAF helicopters at Afghan border
2011-05-17,"McDonalds Replaces Cashiers with Touch-Screens:
European restaurants test self-checkout model"
2011-05-17,All 17 German nuclear reactors now look set to close by 2022 at the latest.
2011-05-17,UK government's terrorism watchdog has warned police not to misuse anti-terror laws to round up innocent people - particularly in the run-up to the Olympics
2011-05-17,"World in the Throes of a Human Rights Revolution, Says Amnesty International"
2011-05-17,TEPCO admits nuclear meltdown occurred at Fukushima reactor 16 hours after quake
2011-05-17,Bomb found on bus in Ireland ahead of queens visit
2011-05-17,"Guatemala: 27 massacred, decapitated in Petn by paramilitary drug gang Los Zetas"
2011-05-17,"Six weeks after Chinese authorities scooped him up at the Beijing airport to be held on vague charges, acclaimed international artist Ai Weiwei was finally permitted to see his wife on Sunday. It marked the first time anyone from the outside world had seen Ai since his detention."
2011-05-17,"US to deploy troops if Pak nukes come under threat - US troops will be deployed in Pakistan if the nation's nuclear installations come under threat from terrorists out to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden, the Sunday Express can reveal."
2011-05-17,Tanks storm southern city as Syria denies mass grave
2011-05-17,"Denmark wants the North Pole - The Danish government is planning to officially announce that it is to lay claim to the North Pole, according to a draft Danish-Faroese-Greenland strategy which Information has obtained."
2011-05-17,Fukushima Daiichi cooling system was shutdown manually ahead of Tsunami possibly to prevent damage to the reactors. Japanese gov will urge TEPCO to explain how and why the measure was taken.
2011-05-17,Japanese Officials Ignored or Concealed Dangers
2011-05-17,"Illegal Trade in Bear Bile Flourishes throughout Asia: its used in traditional medicine is rampant throughout 12 Asian countries, despite national and international laws banning or limiting the practice"
2011-05-17,Syrian mass grave found near Deraa
2011-05-17,President of Guatemala delcares state of emergency over massacre.
2011-05-17,"TEPCO documents reveal chaos at Fukushima nuke plant after quake, tsunami"
2011-05-17,"German paper: Iran is building rocket launch bases in Venezuela
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2011-05-16,How one Japanese village defied the tsunami
2011-05-16,"While most of the world is debating the future of nuclear power in their countries, Poland's parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor for the construction of the countries first Nuclear reactor. "
2011-05-16,Former Israeli soldiers break the silence on military violations
2011-05-16,"""A once unimaginable movement is emerging from within Israel's insular Orthodox Jewish community: homosexuals demanding to be accepted and embraced, no matter what the Bible says."""
2011-05-16,"Turkish government wants users to install filters before accessing the Internet, and the list of blocked websites is classified -- thousands protested both online and on the streets against this new Internet controls"
2011-05-16,Egypt in crisis talks as Muslim mobs attack Christian churches
2011-05-16,Thousands flee as a Canadian town burns to the ground
2011-05-16,Israeli soldiers open fire on demonstrators
2011-05-16,"""Selfish jerks: 1. Earth: 0. Two tiny islands in the heart of a South Asian marine reserve sunk into the sea after fisherman plundered the coral reefs that kept them afloat."""
2011-05-16,Japan widens the evacuation zone around Fukushima
2011-05-16,"Tens of thousands march in Spain to protest against austerity measures, banks, politicians"
2011-05-16,"'Catastrophic' picture emerges of Syrian town: ""At least eight people were killed Sunday in Talkalakh  the most recent casualties from a government crackdown that already has killed more than 800 people nationwide since mid-March [...]"""
2011-05-16,"""The Vatican told bishops around the world Monday [16 May 2011] that it was important to cooperate with police in reporting priests who rape and molest children and said they should develop guidelines for preventing sex abuse by next May. But the suggestions in the letter...are vague and nonbinding"""
2011-05-16,"At least 27 people decapitated in Guatemala
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2011-05-16,Palestinians test tactic of unarmed mass marches
2011-05-16,"Solvakia, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic have decided to form a battle group by 2016, to check growing Russian influences in the former Soviet zone."
2011-05-16,"""I played dead when they stabbed me in the stomach. Then I hid and left at around 5am and I came across a pile of human heads,"" he said. Wow...I don't even know what to say to that."
2011-05-16,Netanyahu: Israel willing to cede 'parts of our homeland' for true peace
2011-05-16,"China: Ai Weiwei's wife allowed visit. Artist described as ""tense, conflicted"" during first contact since he was detained."
2011-05-16,"Fukushima Reactor 1 melted down, 2 and 3 may 
have too"
2011-05-16,"India removes 142 alleged terrorists from blacklist, clearing Sikh separatists to travel freely"
2011-05-16,Ayatollah claims that Ahmadinejad has been bewitched by a senior aid
2011-05-16,"""Israeli naval forces fired warning shots at a Malaysian ship carrying aid to Gaza as it approached the shore, forcing it to withdraw to Egyptian waters"""
2011-05-16,"Arab protesters descend on Israeli borders: Thousands of Arab protesters marched on Israel's borders with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on Sunday in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations,"
2011-05-16,Iran and North Korea appear to have been regularly exchanging ballistic missile technology.
2011-05-15,Louis Vuitton's sued artist Nadia Plesner for her painting that included a child from Darfur holding a designer purse. European Court rules freedom of expression about Darfur more important than Louis Vuitton's trademark
2011-05-15,"Blackwater hired by the crown prince of Abu Dhabi to put together an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the U.A.E., according to former employees on the project, American officials and corporate documents obtained by The New York Times."
2011-05-15,"Dominique Strauss Kahn, head of the IMF, arrested in New York on charges of sexual assault."
2011-05-15,Thousands of pictures stitched together for a fully interactive 360 degree view of space.  Breath taking.
2011-05-15,Where Are the Human Rights Groups? Where Are the Media? -  The case of the Yemeni poet who just had his tongue cut out appears to be one of the most horrifying crimes against those who dare to express their views in public.
2011-05-15,Australian dies planking. 
2011-05-15,IMF head arrested for sexual attack
2011-05-15,"Fukishima pressure vessels 1, 2, and 3 likely to be damaged and leaking water. Building 4 explosion due to #3."
2011-05-15,"9 Killed as Israel Clashes With Palestinians on Four Borders - ""deadly clashes erupted on Sunday as thousands of Palestinians  marching from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank  confronted Israeli troops to mark the anniversary when Arabs mourn Israels creation"""
2011-05-15,IDF opens fire as mass numbers infiltrate from Syria; four reportedly killed {CNN also reports heavy fire at Gaza crossing -could be a bad day}
2011-05-15,Blackwater founder creating an 800-member battalion of foreign troops to thwart uprisings UAE
2011-05-15,"
French political bigshot who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid today  getting hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport"
2011-05-15,Japanese engineers have abandoned their latest attempt to stabilise a stricken reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant. 
2011-05-15,Thousands protest Turkish internet censorship bill in Istanbul
2011-05-15,"David Mitchell: If Scotland does secede, I won't be alone in mourning for my country."
2011-05-15,"1 killed, 16 hurt as truck plows into cars, pedestrians in suspected Tel Aviv terror attack"
2011-05-15,"Amazing footage of massive peaceful crowd chanting in Sana'a, Yemen"
2011-05-15,"Police: Mothers strangle their 2 newly married daughters in honor killing in northern India
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2011-05-15,The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it may take a number of years to remove damaged nuclear fuel rods from the Number 1 reactor.
2011-05-15,Japan's nuclear crisis has influenced a protest movement in India that is violently opposing plans to build the world's largest nuclear plant.
2011-05-15,Council of Europe committee rules that mobile phones and computers with wireless internet connections should be banned from schools
2011-05-15,"In northeast India coal towns, many miners are children: Thousands of underage workers as young as 8 leave school to work in coal mines under perilous conditions. India officially upholds mining safety standards & forbids child labor, but loopholes in laws allow widespread abuses."
2011-05-15,"Witness expected to testify in Chicago trial that he laid the groundwork for the 2008 Mumbai, India terrorist attack with $25,000 from an officer in Pakistans powerful intelligence service."
2011-05-15,Eight killed as Israeli troops open fire on Nakba Day border protests 
2011-05-15,Former owner of Blackwater 'training private foreign legion'
2011-05-14,Neo-Nazi March stopped by counter-protesters in Berlin
2011-05-14,"Fukushima: Gaseous and liquid releases continue unabated.  With a meltdown at Unit 1, Unit 4 leaning and facing possible collapse, several units contaminating ground water, and area children outside the exclusion zone receiving adult occupational radiation doses. Situation worsens"
2011-05-14,"China says Ai Weiwei will ""be punished""."
2011-05-14,"Qatar-based al-Jazeera provided intense coverage of the uprisings in the Middle East, almost cheering along the protesters. But when tanks from Saudi Arabia rolled in to neighboring Bahrain in, the  networks reporting was only sporadic and markedly neutral, critics say."
2011-05-14,"Acid blinding sentence postponed by Iran after international outcry: In a literal application of the sharia law of an eye for an eye, Majid Movahedi was scheduled to be rendered unconscious in Tehran's judiciary hospital while his victim, Ameneh Bahrami, dropped acid in both his eyes!"
2011-05-14,Pornography found in bin Laden hideout
2011-05-14,"How North Koreans get their laughs: By reinterpreting Party slogans, North Koreans show their sense of humor as well as their growing dislike of the regime."
2011-05-14,"The governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay are drafting laws to curb acquisition by foreigners of extensive tracts of their fertile agricultural land.
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2011-05-14,India's Supreme Court has ordered a two-month ban on the production and sale of a widely used pesticide that can cause nerve damage to humans and wildlife.
2011-05-14,"Third worker dies at Japan nuclear plant after conducting repair work on one of the stricken nuclear reactors
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2011-05-14,Fukushima Daiichi plant worker dies
2011-05-14,"An Iranian man found guilty of using acid to blind a woman who refused to marry him now will have the same done to him as punishment  and she'll be the one who carries out the sentence, her lawyer says."
2011-05-14,BBC News - Singapore founding father Lee Kuan Yew resigns
2011-05-14,The European Union is warning Denmark its plans for customs checks may violate EU law and the Schengen free travel agreement.
2011-05-14,Could the UK lose Scotland? What Scottish secession would mean for the union
2011-05-14,"Turkey threatened to drop out of a United Nations panel investigating Israel's deadly raid on the aid flotilla, saying the wording of the draft report was in favor of Israel."
2011-05-14,What four miles of Yemeni protesters looks and sounds like
2011-05-14,Flood of North African refugees to Italy ends EU passport-free travel
2011-05-14,Uganda anti-gay bill pushed out of parliament!
2011-05-14,"Greek crisis forces thousands of Athenians into rural migration. Debt, unemployment and poverty is causing mass unrest and thousands to seek a cheaper lifestyle outside the capital
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2011-05-14,A worker at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant fell unconscious at work on Saturday and later died.
2011-05-14,"Japanese officials detect radioactive incinerator ashes in Tokyo, other prefectures"
2011-05-14,"World population to reach 10 billion by 2085. In 1950, 32% of the worlds people lived in todays rich countries. By 2100, only 13% will."
2011-05-14,"Egypt Muslim Brotherhood leader to Washington Post: ""We are not threatening Israel. [...] Israel is not under threat from Arabsit is under threat from inside Israel, from its leaders like Netanyahu and Lieberman. It is under threat from Israelis."""
2011-05-14,Pakistan's Reaction To Osama's Killing Shows It's A Country Of Contradictions
2011-05-13,SEAL helmet cams recorded entire bin Laden raid - CBS Evening News - 
2011-05-13,"""Authorities at Bangkok's international airport arrested a first-class passenger Friday [13 May 2011] whose suitcases were filled with baby leopards, panthers, a bear and monkeys. The animals had been drugged and were headed for Dubai."""
2011-05-13,"In a twist of irony, Wikileaks has coerced its volunteers into signing draconian confidentiality agreements"
2011-05-13,Osama's neighbours say Pakistan knew: Pakistani security agents told them to stay inside and turn off their lights
2011-05-13,Woman Beheaded in Shop in Teneriefe
2011-05-13,The Taliban has admitted to twin bomb attacks against a Pakistani paramilitary academy. 80 cadets were killed and 120 wounded in this effort to avenge Osama Bin Laden's death.
2011-05-13,Syrians try to rescue dying mother and son after being shot by government forces (NSFW)
2011-05-13,Ten of thousands of Egyptians rally in Tahrir Square against attacks on Christians and in solidarity with Palestinians and Arab revolutionaries
2011-05-13,Mexico's drugs war escalates as eight headless bodies discovered in Durango
2011-05-13,SEAL helmet cams recorded entire bin Laden raid
2011-05-13,"Thousands of people rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday calling for national unity after attacks on Egyptian churches, and solidarity with the Palestinians."
2011-05-13,"Moammar Gadhafi may have fled Tripoli and a top Catholic official in that city reports that the Libyan strongman has been hurt, the Italian foreign minister said Friday."
2011-05-13,Bahrain targets Shia religious sites: At least 28 mosques and Shia religious institutions have been destroyed since the crackdown on Shia-led protests began in Mid-March
2011-05-13,"Confirmed quake/tsunami dead reaches 15,000, of which 12,838 have been identified; 9,506 missing; 500 new deaths attributed to indirect post-quake trauma such as stress and illness (Japanese report)."
2011-05-13,"""The mission to destroy bin Laden, and his network, sparked the creation of a chillingly bureaucratic process for deciding who would be on 'kill lists,' authorized for death at the hands of the CIA. It revolutionized the use of pilotless drones to find and attack militants; drove the controversially"
2011-05-13,"Pakistani Taliban ""avenges"" Bin Laden killing by blowing up: Other Muslim Pakistanis..."
2011-05-13,Europe moves to end passport-free travel in migrant row
2011-05-13,"Gadhafi has very likely left Tripoli and has most likely been wounded, Italian foreign minister says"
2011-05-13,Democratically elected communists ousted in election
2011-05-13,"TEPCO Admits Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 'In State of Meltdown', Fuel Rods Exposed: 
Radiation said leaking from holes in bottom of container vessel..."
2011-05-13,"The U.N. panel investigating Israels deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla faces a major stalemate, with Turkey threatening to drop out over wording in a draft report that it sees as favoring the Israeli view.
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2011-05-13,"Scientists cure cancer, nobody takes notice."
2011-05-13,Fukushima farmers ordered to abandon their livestock
2011-05-13,Japan reactor leak 'serious setback'--Radioactive water pouring from troubled reactors is hindering efforts to bring the nuclear power plant under control.
2011-05-13,Top Pakistani Spy Denounces U.S. Before Parliament
2011-05-12,"Israel revokes residency of 140,000 Palestinians in West Bank. Any resident who temporarily left the state after 1967 for vacation/work/study is targeted. PLO calls it ""war crime""."
2011-05-12,"Heartbreaking Video: During Daraa siege, people couldn't even pick up dead bodies  [NSFW] "
2011-05-12,Organic farming  India's future perfect? India's struggling farmers are starting to profit from organic living. Not only are incomes of organic farmers soaring  by 30% to 200%  but their yields are rising as the pesticide-poisoned land is repaired through natural farming methods. 
2011-05-12,"Two Scalps in One Day - 
Germany's Anti-Plagiarism Activists on a Roll
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The online community of anti-plagiarism activists in Germany are uncovering academic cheating and caused another leading FDP politician to resign "
2011-05-12,"""For a man on the run, Osama bin Laden seemed to do very little running. Instead, he chose to spend long stretches - possibly years - in one place and often in the company of his family."""
2011-05-12,Fukushima fuel Rods Fully Exposed
2011-05-12,"After a trial lasting almost 18 months, John Demjanjuk, a retired American autoworker who has been the subject of more than three decades of legal proceedings over his Nazi-era past, was convicted by a court here on Thursday of helping to force some 28,000 Jews to their deaths during the Holocaust. "
2011-05-12,More than one in 10 Mexican households forced to pay a bribe in 2010
2011-05-12,Security forces in Bahrain are targeting medics for arrest and torturing them to get false and forced confessions 
2011-05-12," An FBI report kept secret for 25 years said the Soviet Union ""quite likely fabricated"" evidence central to the prosecution of John Demjanjuk."
2011-05-12,'Drone strike' kills several in Pakistan
2011-05-12,"It is simply not possible that the policies being inflicted on Greece, Ireland and now Portugal will reduce the debt burden of those countries  the very opposite will happen, as was seen from Zambia in the 1980s to Argentina at the beginning of the last decade. "
2011-05-12,"The amount of water leaking from one of the reactors at Fukushima is much greater than previously thought, plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday, a finding that points to severe damage to the reactor and could force a change in plans for stabilizing the unit."
2011-05-12,"Geert Wilders on Canada: ""1. Canada should ban the burka; 2. Theres no such thing as moderate Islam; 3. The Muslims are taking over; 4. Brown people go home; 5. Muslims are a threat to gay rights."""
2011-05-12,Chinese Frauds Account For 80% Of Nasdaq Permanent Trading Halts
2011-05-12,David Cameron has triggered a row with military chiefs by insisting that hundreds of British troops must be withdrawn from Afghanistan within weeks.
2011-05-12,Japan Nuclear Reactor Damage Worse Than Expected
2011-05-12,Fukushima: Reactor 4 Building in Danger of Collapse?
2011-05-12,Iran bans books from International book fair
2011-05-12,Activist battles Kenyan tradition of rape 'beading'
2011-05-12,Kan orders slaughter of all livestock in 20-km hot zone
2011-05-12,"NATO tries assassinating Gaddafi again.  3 dead, 27 wounded in new missile attack."
2011-05-12,"Syrian army shells neighborhoods
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2011-05-12,"Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has waded into the debate over super-injunctions, saying current privacy laws are a ""human rights violation""."
2011-05-12,Fuel rods in the core of the No. 1 reactor are fully exposed.
2011-05-11,The entertainment industries' copyright lobby supports an LEWP proposal to introduce Europe-wide firewall to censor and block illicit websites: The Pirate Bay team is rallying public support to defend the free Internet and end this threat
2011-05-11,Statement From the Family of Osama bin Laden
2011-05-11,Japan's TEPCO likely to pay $50 billion worth of claims for those affected by the nuclear meltdown. Their solution? Cut the President and 6 Exec VPs salaries to ZERO. 
2011-05-11,Ugandas anti-gay bill disappears from parliaments agenda after global outcry
2011-05-11,"Egypt has announced that it will open its border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis, reversing Egypt's collusion with Israel's blockade. "
2011-05-11,"Israel admits it covertly canceled residency status of 140,000 Palestinians"
2011-05-11,UN report: Israel confiscated 35% of Jerusalem territories for settlements
2011-05-11,"Libyan rebels have captured Misrata airport, driving back troops loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi"
2011-05-11,"Congo: 433,785 women raped in 1 year."
2011-05-11,Deadly earthquake rocks Lorca in southern Spain
2011-05-11,"Saudi conservatives ""would prefer to keep their girls illiterate than sending them to schools where they would have to sit with boys."""
2011-05-11,Greece will crash. Deficit-reduction targets have been missed and the economy is a mess.
2011-05-11,"Christian extremists in Ugandas parliament are about to subject gay men to punishment of biblical proportions. They have introduced a bill that seeks life imprisonment for gay sex and, for repeat offenders, the death penalty "
2011-05-11,Irish Minister: Copyright monopoly Is Bad For Our Businesses And Economy
2011-05-11,"""The proposed Third Intifada is meant to involve the entire Arab world."" Now free to demonstrate, Egyptians are planning a million-man march for May 15th to support the Palestinians."
2011-05-11,Ugandan parliament drops bill that would jail gay people for life
2011-05-11,German railway nixes Israel rail project
2011-05-11,"Libyan officials confirmed that Gaddafi had been in the home of Saif al-Arab, when at least two bombs dropped by Nato jets hit the family compound. Gaddafi not seen in public since then."
2011-05-11,India releases list of 50 most wanted fugitives hiding in Pakistan
2011-05-11,"Syrian security forces have killed 18 people, including 8-year-old boy"
2011-05-11,Radiation Found in 19 Japanese Containers in Rotterdam; Five Quarantined.
2011-05-11,Missing Al-Jazeera (and former Seattle) journalist Dorothy Parvaz reportedly deported to Iran after being captured in Syria.
2011-05-11,Japan: The Environment Ministry estimates that the maximum amount of electricity possible from wind power generation in northeastern Japan would exceed the energy now being generated by domestic nuclear plants.
2011-05-11,Pakistani parliamentarians were stunned on Tuesday when a lawmaker led prayers for al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden
2011-05-11,Egypt to lift restrictions on building churches
2011-05-10,Japan Prime Minister will give up his salary until the nuclear crisis is over. 
2011-05-10,"Tony Blair used 400,000 pounds from a fund for disadvantaged children to set up an office in a five-star hotel in West Asia"
2011-05-10,Microsoft closing in on $7 billion deal to buy Skype.  
2011-05-10,"As the Arab Spring proves, Bin Laden had already lost: By the time he was killed, bin Laden had already lost the battle for the hearts and minds of a new generation of Arabs."
2011-05-10,Indian Supreme Court:  'Honour' killers should hang
2011-05-10,Christians in Egypt say they are under organized attack. 
2011-05-10," How An Italian Pilot Began The Air War Era --- 
In Libya, almost exactly a century ago, a young Italian pilot carried out the first ever air raid. His extraordinary letters home begin: ""Today two boxes of bombs arrived. We are expected to throw them from our planes"""
2011-05-10,"NATO may have decided killing Gaddafi best way to end war: Rumors he may be dead or seriously wounded are starting to surface, as he has not been seen in public since April 30th."
2011-05-10,"SYRIA: Amateur video said to show government agents crushing protest
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2011-05-10,UK police trained secret terror squads
2011-05-10,"Indian women were subjected to ""virginity tests"" in the 1970s before being allowed entry into the United Kingdom"
2011-05-10,"Dozens of academics have called for the ""immediate reinstatement"" of a Nottingham University lecturer, who was suspended for writing an article criticising the university's treatment of a student arrested by anti-terror police in 2008"
2011-05-10,"Blindfolded, beaten and tortured: grim new testimony reveals fate of Bahrain's persecuted doctors"
2011-05-10,Russia considers chemical castration for sex offenders. 
2011-05-10,"Six orphan girls aged between 12 and 18 have been flogged in Saudi Arabia after being convicted of ""acts of mischief"" and ""attacking"" the head of their orphanage"
2011-05-10,"The Indian Supreme Court warned that perpetrators of 'honour killings' could face death penalty, saying that the crime meets the ""rarest-of-rare"" criterion laid down by it to award capital punishment. "
2011-05-10,Bosnia facing a serious crisis.
2011-05-10,13 killed in clash on Mexico-U.S. border lake
2011-05-10,"At least 82 dead in southern Sudan, including women and children, as rebels continue attacks ahead of region's independence in July"
2011-05-10,EU slaps sanctions on top Syrians including president's brother
2011-05-10,"The Coming Euro Crack-Up --- 
""The European project wont go quietly into the night. But it might go noisily into the ashcan of history if the Germans decide they can't convert the Greeks into hard-working, tax-paying euro-citizens worthy of continuing handouts"""
2011-05-10,"""Some observers allege that the sudden emergence of Salafis is orchestrated by Saudi Arabia, which seeks to abort the Egyptian revolution for fear that the same revolutionary model would be reproduced on its soil."""
2011-05-10,Japan Scraps Plan for New Nuclear Plants
2011-05-10,"Rights group: More than 750 killed, 9,000 people detained in Syria government crackdown on dissent "
2011-05-10,400 insurgents attack police in northeast Afghanistan
2011-05-09,"Mexico's failed war against the drug gangs - Mexicans are calling for an end to the battle against organised crime that has cost 40,000 lives"
2011-05-09,Ecuador bans 500-yr-old tradition of bullfighting; voters in a referendum held on Saturday also outlawed cockfighting and casino gambling
2011-05-09,Coastal cities in Japan now flood at high tide due to shifting by quake
2011-05-09,The Pakistan government has decided not to conduct an inquiry of any kind at any level whatsoever about the Abbottabad incident to find those responsible for intelligence failure and violation of Pakistani borders and sovereignty.
2011-05-09,Malawi expels UK diplomat after UK remarks that the country doesn't tolerate criticism.
2011-05-09,"Nato units left 61 African migrants to die of hunger and thirst. Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised."
2011-05-09,"'Being gay is a sin': Swedish Salvation Army - Leading members of the Salvation Army in Sweden told an undercover journalist that homosexual sex is a sin and offered to ask God to help ""free"" the reporter from the condition."
2011-05-09,"In the ancient Bahraini village of Aali, where some graves date to 2000 B.C., a mosque had stood for more than 400 years - one of the handsomest Shiite Muslim mosques in this small island nation. Today, only bulldozer tracks remain"
2011-05-09,"Wikileaked Gitmo interrogations reveal Pakistani ISI sent terrorists to India where they bombed, kidnaped and killed Kashmiri people."
2011-05-09,Pakistan spy agency's alleged role in Mumbai terrorist attacks to be revealed
2011-05-09,"Concerted Media Efforts To Smear UK Tax Protesters; the group's core argument, that the state could save billions by pursuing corporate tax avoidance instead of cutting public services, is gaining ground."
2011-05-09,A ship carrying up to 600 migrants trying to flee Libya has sunk just off the coast of the North African country
2011-05-09,It gets worse. Pakistan maybe headed to a military coup after the ISI outed the identity of the CIA station chief.
2011-05-09,The Taliban released a video of a Canadian man captured this year in a volatile province of central Afghanistan and said he would be put on trial for spying unless Canada's government accepted unspecified demands for his release.
2011-05-09,Tripoli finally beginning to rise up against Gadaffi!
2011-05-09,"Osama Bin Laden Aided by Rogue or Retired Elements of Pakistani Intelligence, Government Official Says"
2011-05-09,Japan Earthquake: Two Months Later
2011-05-09,"Tens of thousands of Mexicans march for peace, demand end to violence - They called for Public Security Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna to resign"
2011-05-09,"Oil Wealth, U.S. Backing Enables Saudi Arabia to Crush Dissent in Bahrain and at Home"
2011-05-09,Libyan gang-rape victim Eman al-Obeidy flees to Tunisia
2011-05-09,"The Royal Navys latest 1.2 billion nuclear submarine, HMS Astute, has been towed back to base after it suffered a technical issue with hydraulics,  a malfunction which could have killed the entire crew."
2011-05-09,Japan and US plan to jointly build nuclear waste  storage facility in Mongolia
2011-05-09,"Osama bin Laden must have had Pakistan support network, says Obama"
2011-05-09,Rio's innovative solution for getting rid of it's slums for the Olympics: removing them from Google Maps
2011-05-09,"A military crackdown on Syrias seven-week uprising escalated Sunday, with reinforcements sent to two cities, more forces deployed in a southern town and nearly all communications severed to besieged locales"
2011-05-08,"When a Toronto cop went on a routine visit to Osgoode Hall Law School to advise the students on personal safety, little did he know that he would unwittingly inspire a movement that has caught fire across Canada and the US"
2011-05-08,"Turkey's plan to require Internet users to choose one of four content-filtering packages is unconstitutional and violates the right to freedom of expression, says experts"
2011-05-08,Hamas breaks up pro-bin Laden rally in Gaza
2011-05-08,Muslims attack church in Egypt: 6 killed and 120 injured
2011-05-08,Osama bin Laden's death: What the Arab papers say 
2011-05-08,"Pakistan Still Holding Bin Laden's Wives, Children.  Pakistani authorities, who were deeply embarrassed by the raid, are not allowing the CIA access to them, the Foreign Ministry said."
2011-05-08,Europe's debts - mapped
2011-05-08,Japan Nuclear Crisis: Fukushima Groundwater Contamination Worst in Nuclear History
2011-05-08,U.S.-Japan joint survey reveals high radiation beyond evacuation zone
2011-05-08,"Greece: 'Only tourism can save us' - With debts of 340bn, Greece is turning to its cultural heritage to attract a better class of visitor and make tourism the engine of the Greek economy."
2011-05-08,"PETROL pumps across the UK will start running out of fuel tomorrow, according to a protest group plotting to bring the country to a standstill."
2011-05-08,Former Mossad chief: Israel air strike on Iran 'stupidest thing I have ever heard'
2011-05-08,"Mexicans Thinking Egyptian - 
Can the Growing Protest Movement Save Mexico's Democracy?"
2011-05-08,Egyptian military arrests 190 in church attack 
2011-05-08,China sets up new agency to tighten Net control;  official says most governments also censor unsavory Internet content
2011-05-08,The story of the conflict between Iranian President Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamene'i
2011-05-08,Move Japans parliament to Fukushima says lawmaker: A Japanese lawmaker said that his country should move its parliament to Fukushima to provide an economic boost and show confidence in a region struck by a nuclear crisis after a massive earthquake.
2011-05-08,"Muslim mobs in military-ruled Egypt set churches on fire, 12 killed overnight. "
2011-05-08,Osama Bin Laden Videos Released by Government
2011-05-08,Scottish independence: Cameron gives green light; he will not put up any legal or political objections to a vote.
2011-05-08,Osama was in active control of Al Qaeda 
2011-05-08,"As many as 8,000 people are missing or in detention in Syria since the unrest began in mid-March, according to Insan, a Syria-focused human-rights group based in Spain. Between 650 and 850 people have been killed since then, according to estimates of various human rights groups.

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2011-05-08,"The UK's wealthiest people have rebounded from the recession increasing their worth by 18% in the past year, the Sunday Times Rich List says."
2011-05-08,"Cuba dissident Juan Wilfredo Soto 'dies after arrest': A Cuban government opponent has died several days after being arrested and allegedly beaten by police, dissidents have said. "
2011-05-08,Egypt vows to tackle interfaith violence
2011-05-07,The four Mounties involved in the Taser death of Robert Dziekanski in October 2007 will face criminal charges
2011-05-07,A Canadian Court of Appeal rules that Toronto judge was justified in freeing alleged Al Qaeda collaborator given the gravity of human rights abuses committed by the US in connection with his capture in Pakistan
2011-05-07,Pakistan leaks Bin Laden death scene photos
2011-05-07,Mexican President Calderon faces mounting anger over failed anti-drug polices and violence: Massive demonstration set for Sunday in Mexico City to denounce the government's failure to stem the bloodshed
2011-05-07,Gaddafi forces bombards Misratas port using new type of weapon -- Chinese-made variant of a Grad rocket that opens in flight and drops mines to the ground
2011-05-07,Bali bomber captured down the road of Osama bin Laden compound
2011-05-07,Clinton raises alarm on rising food prices
2011-05-07,"China's Growing Interests in Siberia - There are just 6 million Russians left on the Siberian side of the border with China. Ninety million Chinese, backed by a voracious economy, live on the other side. "
2011-05-07,EU approves $124 million in aid to PA after Israel blocks transfer of Palestinian funds
2011-05-07,Al-Qaeda statement on bin Laden's death
2011-05-07,"The power struggle between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is continuing to escalate, even interrupting Friday Prayer.

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2011-05-07,Philippine city holds mass circumcision for boys
2011-05-07,"Protesters in Yemen seeking to oust the president release tens of thousands of colorful balloons with the message ""Leave, Ali.""
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2011-05-07,"""Contrary to a widely held belief that Bin Laden was on dialysis to treat a kidney ailment, Pakistani investigators said...that his youngest wife told them that he was healthy..that Bin Laden had long recovered from two kidney surgeries a decade or more ago in southern Afghanistan, in part by using"""
2011-05-07,"Five dead, 54 wounded in Egyptian sectarian clashes -- Five people were killed and more than 54 were wounded in a sectarian clash in Egypt on Saturday over a Christian woman who had allegedly converted to Islam, health officials said"
2011-05-07,"Conservatives are 'ruthless, calculating and thoroughly tribal', says Business Secretary Vince Cable "
2011-05-07,Arrests show Ahmadinejad under increasing pressure from Irans clerics - The Washington Post
2011-05-07,Humorous Portuguese response to Finland's block on Portugal's bailout
2011-05-07,Syria: Revolution on campus  The protest movement spreads to Damascus University
2011-05-07,"The most surprising demographic crisis --- 
A new census raises questions about the future of Chinas one-child policy.  "
2011-05-07,"After Osama, China fears the next target"
2011-05-07,AV referendum: Yes campaign handed thumping defeat with Lib Dems wounded as UK votes to maintain first-past-the-post
2011-05-07,Euro falls on rumours Greece is to quit the eurozone
2011-05-07,Tepco starts flooding No. 1 reactor vessel.
2011-05-07,Venezuelas Chavez enacts three new laws to dignify urban life
2011-05-06,Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously approves same-sex civil unions.
2011-05-06,"UK journalist suggests that the unemployed, or people on low incomes, should not be allowed to vote... ""Its time to restore the link between paying something into society and voting on decisions about how it is run"""
2011-05-06,"Germany: Cops attend a peaceful protest undercover... get mazed and punched in the face by cops on duty ""for no reason""."
2011-05-06,"Pakistan, who has received over $20 billion in U.S. aid since the September 11 attacks,  pays U.S. lobbyists to deny it helped bin Laden"
2011-05-06,Al-Qaida confirms Osama bin Laden's death
2011-05-06,Scotland likely to hold referendum for independence from the United Kingdom
2011-05-06,What Happened to Air France Flight 447? --- The vanishing of Flight 447 was easy to bend into myth. No other passenger jet in modern history had disappeared so completely  without a Mayday call or a witness or even a trace on radar.
2011-05-06,New Zealand parliament site shut down by Anonymous following copyright law changes.
2011-05-06,Hamas leader calls to keep truce with Israel
2011-05-06,Spanish court surprises everyone by imposing sentences of 439 years each to Somali pirates.
2011-05-06,Canadian Roman Catholic bishop pleaded guilty to trying to import child pornography after he was arrested returning from a trip to Thailand
2011-05-06,"Egypt presidential frontrunner Moussa puts Israel on notice: ""Mubarak had a certain policy, it was his own policy and I don't think we have to follow this,"" he said. ""We want to be a friend of Israel, but it has to have two parties, it is not on Egypt to be a friend. Israel has to be a friend, too."""
2011-05-06,Osama bin Laden dead: hi-tech secret may end up in China
2011-05-06,"Syrian activists are preparing to take to the streets on Friday for what they are calling a ""day of defiance"""
2011-05-06,The real meaning of Bin Laden's death
2011-05-06,"Liberal Democrats suffer ""bloodbath"" in UK elections: The Liberal Democrats have paid a heavy electoral price for their decision to form a coalition with the Conservatives last year"
2011-05-06,"China Tries to Silence American Advocacy Site With Attacks, FBI Fires Back"
2011-05-06,5.3 quake jolts Fukushima.
2011-05-06,"A suicide bomber drives a car packed with explosives into a police headquarters in the Iraqi city of Hilla, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens more. "
2011-05-06,"China blasts US government for operation that killed Osama - China holds that the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of any country should be respected, said Jiang Yu, a spokeswoman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry"""
2011-05-06,Protesters 'shot dead' in Syrian 'day of defiance'
2011-05-06,"Whatever the legality of Osama bin Laden's apparent execution, he was certainly a murderer. But what are US drone attacks?"
2011-05-06,War Dogs: There's a reason they brought a dog to the raid on Osama bin Laden...because they are awesome.
2011-05-06,"Assassination
A messy business
When a state kills its enemies remotely, the law gets tangled"
2011-05-06,"Kidnappings scare rich Russian parents: After 16-year-old disappears, Russians fear return to violence"
2011-05-05,Last World War I combat vet dies in Australia...
2011-05-05,The Economist's obituary on Bin Laden
2011-05-05,"CNN, CBS confirm: No Bin Laden death photos to be released"
2011-05-05,"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Facebook, Google, and Yahoo are being used by the U.S. intelligence community to build dossiers."
2011-05-05,"MEXICO CITY   April was perhaps the cruelest month yet. More than 1,400 gangland killings were clocked, by one newspaper's count, giving April the highest death toll of the 53 months since President Felipe Calderon unleashed the military and federal police against the country's crime syndicates"
2011-05-05,The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.
2011-05-05,Oil spill in Canada's Alberta 'biggest in 35 years'
2011-05-05,Infectious polio virus stolen during car hijacking
2011-05-05,Ahmadinejad allies charged with sorcery
2011-05-05,Portugal Bailout by Europe to Hit $116 Billion 
2011-05-05,Syria launches Internet sniffing attack against Facebook's SSL-encrypted website by presenting users with false SSL certificate
2011-05-05,Four dead after eating raw beef at Japanese barbecue restaurant
2011-05-05,"""Most Wanted Nazi,"" 97-year-old Sandor Kepiro, tried in Hungary"
2011-05-05,Progress made at Fukushima nuclear plant: Workers have entered a reactor building at Japans Fukushima nuclear plant for the first time since it was damaged by Marchs earthquake and tsunami.
2011-05-05,Canadian journalist for Al-Jazeera detained in Syria. 
2011-05-05,Pakistani Army Chief Warns U.S. on Another Raid: Pakistan said it would reconsider its relationship with America in the event of another similar operation
2011-05-05,At least 21 people were killed and up to 75 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Iraq seen as retaliation for Osama bin Laden's killing.
2011-05-05,The head of the CIA admitted yesterday that there was no live video footage of the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound as further doubts emerged about the US version of events.
2011-05-05,Pakistani officials have told GlobalPost that the Pakistani army had full knowledge of the U.S. raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden and that it played a larger role in the operation than previously acknowledged.  
2011-05-05,"Osama bin Laden Raid: ""Two senior Pakistani security officials . . . said there was no firefight because the inhabitants never fired back. 'The people inside the house were unarmed. There was no resistance,' one of the officials said. 'It was cold-blooded,' said the second official when asked if"""
2011-05-05,Burma -  Crisis in Shan State
2011-05-05,"Pakistan Islamist party pushes for mass rally Friday - Pakistan's most influential Islamist party urged its followers to hold mass protests on Friday, to demand the government withdraw its support for the US war on militancy."
2011-05-05,Why the U.S. mistrusts Pakistan's spies
2011-05-05,Workers enter Japan nuclear reactor building
2011-05-05,97 year old on trial for Nazi war crimes
2011-05-04,"British about to vote against ending of 2 party rule 
in referendum, after a NO campaign funded by 
bankers, hedge-fund managers and big business."
2011-05-04,"Osama unarmed when shot dead, US admits "
2011-05-04,Images reveal scale of North Korean political prison camps
2011-05-04,Bin Laden's will says his children must not join al-Qaida
2011-05-04,"""Osama bin Laden had cash totaling 500 Euros and two telephone numbers sewn into his clothing when he was killed -- sure signs that he was prepared to flee his compound at a moment's notice"""
2011-05-04,Details on Bin Laden death photo.
2011-05-04,"North Korea's political prisoners: 200,000 and counting. They are kept in slave pens."
2011-05-04,The Goal Was Never to Capture Bin Laden: Why the Navy SEALs were told to take no prisoners
2011-05-04,Photos show three dead men at bin Laden raid house
2011-05-04,"Surveillance, Not Waterboarding, Led to bin Laden"
2011-05-04,French president Nicolas Sarkozy: France could recognise Palestine by the end of the year
2011-05-04,"Russia's largest search engine, Yandex, confirmed that it passed confidential data to the country's state security service, FSB "
2011-05-04,Al Jazeera: The Afghan reaction to Osama's death
2011-05-04,Recently-released WikiLeaks doc: Detained al Qaeda members have predicted nuclear reprisals if Osama bin Laden were captured or killed
2011-05-04,"In Australia, anti-cluster bomb campaigners are furious that the government secretly worked with the US to weaken a key international treaty to ban the notorious weapons"
2011-05-04,Pictures the results of US special forces' assault on Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad. [NSFW] - Graphic Images
2011-05-04,The operator of Japans Fukushima nuclear power plant says that seawater radioactivity fifteen kilometers offshore has risen significantly. TEPCO reports it is 600 times the maximum allowed by law.
2011-05-04,"Ian Tomlinson unlawfully killed, inquest rules"
2011-05-04,"Saudis shifting most of its domestic energy use to Solar and Nuclear power, diverting more oil to export"
2011-05-04,Absinthe Legalised In France
2011-05-04,"For 10 years, Osama bin Laden filled a gap left by the Soviet Union. Who will be the baddie now?"
2011-05-04,"Revised UN report says Earth's population will hit 9,000,000,000 by 2041, 9 years earlier than previously projected"
2011-05-04,"""I have seen a great number of poorly Photoshopped images in my time as a photographer and I can tell by the pixels that it is a fake"" "
2011-05-04,Mubarek may face the death penalty for ordering 800 citizens' deaths
2011-05-04,"Pakistan denies knowledge of Bin Laden's location and US operation to kill Bin Laden, warns that such unilateral actions are unacceptable"
2011-05-03,Sony announces second data breach with theft of 25m more user details
2011-05-03,Here's what the WHOLE world thinks of Osama's death.  Bonus Robert Fisk interview goodness.
2011-05-03,This is just wrong: Bahrain charges doctors and nurses who treated injured anti-government protesters; they will stand trial in military court
2011-05-03,Conservatives win majority in Canadian election
2011-05-03,NZ pushed to create copyright laws by US government
2011-05-03,"The New Zealand Law Commission urges overhaul   legalizing medical marijuana, decriminalizing drug possession and small-time drug dealing, and doing away with drug paraphernalia laws"
2011-05-03,New Yorker: Bin Laden compound was in Pakistani Army territory - inconceivable that they wouldn't have known about it
2011-05-03,"Tomlinson unlawfully killed at G20 protests, inquest rules"
2011-05-03,Air France cockpit voice recorder has now been located
2011-05-03,"Tornado strikes Auckland, NZ; roof has collapsed at city's largest shopping center "
2011-05-03,"Argentinians light trains on fire in anger over chronic delays, fail to improve scheduling situation."
2011-05-03,Vatican offends many by hosting Mugabe
2011-05-03,Alberta pipeline leak largest since 1975
2011-05-03,"Inquest finds G20 bystander ""unlawfully killed"" by British police officer"
2011-05-03,China: A total of 53 officials involved in the sale of melamine-tainted milk have been punished days after 14 people were convicted of selling tainted milk powder and two of them sent to prison.
2011-05-03,Ian Tomlinson unlawfully killed by PC at G20 protest an inquest jury has found.
2011-05-03,Palestinian factions sign reconciliation deal in Egypt
2011-05-03,"Japan : Radiation leaks from fuel rods suspected at 
Tsuruga plant"
2011-05-03,Bin Laden was unarmed
2011-05-03,Phone call by Kuwaiti courier led to Osama Bin Laden
2011-05-03,SEALs Capture OBL Hard Drives
2011-05-03,Global Freedom of Press at Lowest Level in More Than Decade
2011-05-03,Pakistan admits Bin Laden intelligence failure
2011-05-03,UK: Five arrested near Sellafield Nuclear Plant under Terrorism Act. London men stopped by officers policing nuclear site in Cumbria.
2011-05-03,North Korea has started a drive to confiscate mobile phones smuggled from China in an attempt to suppress news from the outside world
2011-05-02,Bin Laden is Dead
2011-05-02,"I think it's weird that the body of the most wanted man since 2001 was simply thrown into the ocean, shortly after being killed."
2011-05-02,Six wind farms were given six-figure payments to switch off their turbines because the Scottish grid network could not absorb all the energy being produced.
2011-05-02,"From the memory hole: ""Bush rejects Taliban offer to surrender bin Laden"" - Oct. 2001"
2011-05-02,WikiLeaks: Osama bin Laden 'protected' by Pakistani security
2011-05-02,Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead
2011-05-02,You are NOT allowed to commit suicide: Workers in Chinese Foxconn factories forced to sign pledges
2011-05-02,Taiwanese animation shows us how Bin Laden was killed
2011-05-02,Osama in Pakistan: India says 'I told you so'
2011-05-02,"New EU rules came into force banning hundreds of herbal remedies. The laws are aimed at protecting consumers from potentially damaging ""traditional"" medicines"
2011-05-02,Radiation level now 3300 times limit at No. 2 reactor.
2011-05-02,Furious parents in Fukushima have delivered a bag of radioactive playground earth to education officials in protest at moves to weaken nuclear safety standards in schools.
2011-05-02,Hamas: Bin Laden death 'assassination' of 'a holy warrior'
2011-05-02,"Juan Cole: Osama was a relic of the cold war and the age of dictators, with no place in modern Arab society. The new generation of Arab dissidents yearn for liberty, not theocratic repression."
2011-05-02,"Switzerland locates almost $1B in assets held by Gaddafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali "
2011-05-02,"Obama: 'Osama wasn't a Muslim leader, he was a mass murderer of Muslims'"
2011-05-02,Robert Fisk: Was he betrayed? Of course. Pakistan knew Bin Laden's hiding place all along | The Independent
2011-05-02,"Indian village laborer cracks country's top college entrance exam, but doesn't have money to travel to the college interview."
2011-05-02,Al-Jazeera Journalist Missing in Syria
2011-05-02,"Pakistan, You Got Some `Splainin To Do"
2011-05-02," Rallies erupt the world over on May Day, as workers demonstrate for their rights. "
2011-05-02,Osama bin Laden to be buried at sea.
2011-05-02,Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood has said the United States has no more reason to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan after the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin-Laden.
2011-05-02,The Japanese government is about to begin releasing data projecting the spread of radiation that it initially withheld for fear of causing panic.
2011-05-02,"""That bin Laden could be in Abbottabad [Pakistan] unknown to authorities 'is a bit amazing' says Hamid Gul, a former Pakistani intelligence chief . . . Aside from the military 'there is the local police, the Intelligence Bureau, Military Intelligence, the ISI, they all had a presence there.'"""
2011-05-01,Fears in China as another human rights lawyer disappears
2011-05-01,Hong Kong workers to enjoy minimum wage for first time
2011-05-01,Sweatshops have gone digital.  NGO study reveals excessive work hours and draconian rules for workers in factories in China making components for Apple
2011-05-01,"Gaddafi son's killing puts NATO in firing line. 
Russia and Venezuela join Libyan regime in accusing NATO of attempting to assassinate Muammar Gaddafi"
2011-05-01,"Half A Miracle --- 
Remarkable story of how Medelln, Colombia's drug capital, became as safe as Washington. Unexpected victory for urban planning - placing beautiful architecture in poorest, crime-ridden areas - and social reintegration programmes"
2011-05-01,One of the two flight recorders belonging to an Air France plane that crashed in 2009 off the coast of Brazil has been recovered
2011-05-01,"This slaughter happened yesterday, April 29, in Syria, city of Homs. This is what's going on in Syria."
2011-05-01,Iraqi lawmakers approve $400M payment to Americans who claim they were abused by Saddam Hussein
2011-05-01,"In tears, Nuclear Adviser to PM Kan quits over raising safe limits for children ""20 times too high"""
2011-05-01,India rejects US fighter jets over Eurofighter : The best article that explains the decision
2011-05-01,Fears in China as another human rights lawyer disappears
2011-05-01,"2,000 people protest in Taiwan's capital against the increasing income gap and demand better work conditions"
2011-05-01,"Fukushima: ""All the fuel rods have been melted down"", says one of the most ardent proponents of nuclear power."
2011-05-01,"Oil giant Sinopec caught in extravagant spending on bonuses, liquor"
2011-05-01,"Smoke seen at Italian embassy in Libyan capital
"
2011-05-01,Germany braces itself for invasion of Polish workers as it follows EU immigration rules 
2011-05-01,Iran leader Ahmadinejad returns to work after 'boycott'
2011-05-01,"Kunming (China) -> Singapore, overland in 10 hrs by 2020. Chinese government and ASEAN stepping up cooperation through Kunming-Singapore High-Speed Railway project."
2011-05-01,Scepticism surrounds 'Gaddafi son's death': Benghazi celebrates but NATO offers no confirmation of Libyan announcement
2011-05-01,Saudi Oil Production Doesnt Add Up
2011-05-01,"Following unity deal, Israel suspends tax transfer to PA"
2011-05-01,Libya: UN to remove international staff from Tripoli
2011-05-01,"Mass Graves In Kashmir --- 
Chilling account of visit to Kashmir to assess human right's abuses. As India argues for a seat on the UN security council, it ""must adhere to its own repeated commitment to peace in Kashmir and international conventions and laws"""
2011-05-01,"Iran: Outside the spotlight, Arab uprising smolders in country's southwest
"
2011-05-01,Libya launches revenge attacks on British targets after Gaddafi 'assassination' attempt
2011-04-30,Uruguay legalizing marijuana
2011-04-30,Facebook accused of shutting down activists pages
2011-04-30,"Wildcat Unions Springing Up In Chinese Factories, Demanding Higher Wages, Humane Conditions and The Right To Organize"
2011-04-30,Egypt warns Israel: Don't interfere with opening of Gaza border crossing
2011-04-30,"GERMAN police arrested three alleged members of al-Qaida who had been planning attacks in the country. The three were Moroccans living in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and were caught with ""large amounts of explosives"""
2011-04-30,Gaddafi's youngest son killed in NATO strike 
2011-04-30,"Syria sends tanks into civilian population of 120,000; 62 killed; Total death toll exceeds 500"
2011-04-30,Mubarak 'could face death penalty'
2011-04-30,Pakistan government has declared an Education Emergency. Less than a third of the students could subtract 3-digit numbers
2011-04-30,UK Protest groups claim Facebook has taken down dozens of pages in a purge of activists' accounts
2011-04-30,"Toshiso Kosako, an advisor to Japanese Prime Minister on the nuclear crisis said he will resign in protest of the handling the Fukushima Daiichi power plant crisis, saying the government has belittled the laws and regulations"
2011-04-30,New EU regulations on herbal medicines come into force
2011-04-30,Australian government conspired to hide knowledge of the torture of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mamdouh Habib while he was temporarily held in Egypt
2011-04-30,UK police criticised for pre-emptive strikes against protesters of the Royal wedding: Officers use blanket stop and search powers and arrest 52 people across London
2011-04-30,Taliban announce beginning of spring offensive
2011-04-30,"Unraveling The Mengele Mystery: ""More than 30 years after the infamous Nazi doctor died under mysterious circumstances, an internal police report reveals just how much effort Israel invested in tracking him down."""
2011-04-30,Iranian President Ahmadinejad missing amid possible power struggle
2011-04-30,"Syrians prepared to bury scores of people killed in a ""day of rage"" against the regime, with activists vowing a week of new protests as the US and Europe imposed sanctions on Damascus"
2011-04-30,Turkey internet censorship: 138 words and terms banned from the internet
2011-04-30,"Fresh violence hits Syrian town: Deraa hit by shelling and heavy gunfire, as funeral processions for scores of people killed in protests get underway."
2011-04-30,Gadhafi Calls for Cease-Fire Talks with NATO
2011-04-30,"Western Colleges Risk Moral Catasrophe In The UAE --- 
As elite Western Universities seek greener (financial) pastures in the Emirates, they must not compromise what makes them elite - freedom of inquiry. This can be tricky in a place with strict media laws and censored text books"
2011-04-30,President of Yemen backs away from agreement to step down
2011-04-30,U.N. condemns Syria in protester deaths
2011-04-30,South Korea to stage live-fire exercises near the same island that was shelled in November. 
2011-04-29,France Dropping Concrete Bombs In Libya 
2011-04-29,Tunisian Army engages Gadaffi Troops
2011-04-29,"In Brazil, an estimated 35 million people joined the middle class between 2003 to 2009, and 20 million more are expected to be included by 2014. Unemployment is at a relatively low 6.5 percent"
2011-04-29,"""A prominent Japanese radiation specialist has resigned...""inexcusable"" standards for school children in Fukushima"" "
2011-04-29," Egypt is charting a new course in its foreign policy that has already begun shaking up the established order in the Middle East, planning to open the blockaded border with Gaza and normalizing relations with two of Israel and the Wests Islamist foes, Hamas and Iran."
2011-04-29,"Syrian army may be cracking as death toll rises to over 500: ""Battalions of the fifth division were protecting people, and returned fire when they were subjected to attacks by the fourth division."""
2011-04-29,Lara Logan breaks her silence on being assaulted by a mob of several hundred men in Tahrir Square
2011-04-29,Bahrain 'torture service' official to attend royal wedding 
2011-04-29,China Releases Human Rights Activist Teng Biao
2011-04-29,Tunisia furious as Libya fighting spills over border
2011-04-29,Turkey - which already bans more websites than any other European country - will soon require all Internet users to choose from one of four filter profiles operated by their ISPs
2011-04-29,Egypt to open Gaza border crossing -- Egypt's foreign minister says Cairo will permanently open the Rafah border crossing to ease Israel's blockade on Gaza
2011-04-29,"On May 1, Germany will open its labor market to citizens of eight east European countries that joined the European Union in 2004."
2011-04-29,60 girls groomed for sex at takeaway shops in Blackpool 
2011-04-29,"How the World Let Qaddafi Get Cluster Bombs: Libyan government forces are deploying the horrific - and, throughout much of the world, banned - weapons against rebels, proving that we will have to do more if we want to end their use"
2011-04-29,Could uprisings spread from northern Africa to south of the Sahara? The prevalence of unfair electoral systems plus huge numbers of angry young people with mobile phones should make African autocrats increasingly uncomfortable
2011-04-29,Uganda erupts in anger against president: Violent protests reach capital after opposition leader's arrest
2011-04-29,Head teachers are set to join an unprecedented wave of strikes that will bring almost every school in England and Wales to a standstill
2011-04-29,Spanish Unemployment Rate Rises to More Than 21% as Inflation Accelerates
2011-04-29,Exiled Tibetans elect political heir to Dalai Lama
2011-04-29,Palestine rivals Fatah and Hamas on verge of historic deal
2011-04-29,"A brave Syrian man in Deraa defying the security forces, screaming in their face, and barley escapes the scene alive. "
2011-04-29,"TEPCO - Amerium, Curium Found With Plutonium At Fukushima. Which means?"
2011-04-29,Bristol burns once more as Tesco riots return to streets of Stokes Croft
2011-04-29,Egypt-Israel gas pipeline attacked by Egyptians; fire could rage for days
2011-04-28,"World-famous and beloved Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been ""disappeared"" by China's state security forces. Every trace of Ai's life and art have been erased from the Chinese internet, and his only hope may be a global outcry for his release. "
2011-04-28,Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks
2011-04-28,"A Filipino Catholic bishop says a pending bill's supporters are no better than ""terrorists."" A former mayor of Manila believes the bill is ""worse than martial law."" -- the bill is in support of condoms"
2011-04-28,North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is willing to hold talks with South Korea or with the United States or with the six powers on any subject any time and without any preconditions
2011-04-28,"Christiania, hippy freetown in the middle of Copenhagen since 1971, faces last stand"
2011-04-28,Iranian parliament starts preparing for Ahmadinejad impeachment
2011-04-28,Four Bahrain protesters sentenced to death.
2011-04-28,"In Shenyang, China a Fund is Established for Japanese man who sacrificed himself to save 20 Chinese trainees from the tsunami"
2011-04-28,Moroccan tourist cafe terrorist attack leaves at least 15 dead
2011-04-28,"In Philippines, MILF orders its rogue commander to stop staging rebellion and immediately return to their fold"
2011-04-28,Bahraini trainee pilots suspended from UK flying school after attending protests.
2011-04-28,Blast Hits Main Square in Marrakech
2011-04-28,Residents evacuate as volcano spews ashes in Ecuador.
2011-04-28,"Hundreds quit Syria's ruling party to protest crackdown

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More than 200 members have quit Syria's ruling Baath party to protest at President Bashar Assad's brutal crackdown on opponents"
2011-04-28,China risks getting old before it gets rich - The Economic Times
2011-04-28,New Venezuelan taxes on windfall oil revenue will let socialist President Hugo Chavez boost spending on popular social programs by billions of dollars ahead of his re-election bid next year.
2011-04-28,Almost one in five British businesses admit using interns as cheap labour
2011-04-28,Turkish government bans websites with URLs containing words like 'free' 'hot' 'gay' 'animal' 'pic' and the number '31'. 
2011-04-28,AL Jaz: Syrian military turn on their own
2011-04-28,"Recurrent attacks on Copts has Egypt slated for US religious freedom blacklist: ""Violence against Coptic Christians and other religious minorities continues unabated without the government bringing the perpetrators to justice"""
2011-04-28,French riot police protest ban on drinking on the job
2011-04-28,"""Our program does not include negotiations with Israel or recognizing it.  It will not be possible for the interim national government to participate or bet on or work on the peace process with Israel."""
2011-04-28,Saudi-backed Bahraini military court sentenced several protesters to death...inciting more protests.
2011-04-28,"Doctor at the scene says Yemeni forces opened fire on a massive anti-government demonstration in the capital Sanaa, killing 12 protesters and wounding some 190 others"
2011-04-28,Hundreds of Syrians flee unrest into northern Lebanon
2011-04-27,Fatah and Hamas sign reconciliation deal: Palestinian factions agree to form interim government and fix general election date following talks in Cairo
2011-04-27,"The highest level of radiation so far has been reported at Fukushima. Robots detected 1,120 mSv per hour in the Reactor 1 building. That means it takes about 15 minutes before workers are exposed to their lifetime dose."
2011-04-27,Putin: Who gave NATO right to kill Gaddafi?
2011-04-27,Christiania closes its borders [google translated]
2011-04-27,WikiLeaks: Guantanamo detainee is now Libyan rebel leader.
2011-04-27,China to build 60-tonne space station 
2011-04-27,Mass resignations from Syria's ruling party
2011-04-27,"Hamas and Fatah 'agree to end feud', plans to form 
interim government, and hold parliamentary and 
presidential elections."
2011-04-27,Black box found for Brazil-France crash
2011-04-27,'Not OK' for pastors to operate machine guns: Swedish church - The Church of Sweden has ruled that pastors are not allowed to man machine gun turrets while serving in the field with Swedish troops in Afghanistan.
2011-04-27,Christiania shuts down for business- English article from Jyllands-Posten.
2011-04-27,"""Those who have seen war are never the same again. We see the world through different eyes, and I consider that a privilege. I am the custodian of all these stories, and I belong to a fortunate tribe."""
2011-04-27,Weeping wombs of Kasaragod: Several women in Kerala (India) are aborting their foetuses fearing endosulfan deformities
2011-04-27,"It has been dubbed a crazy project, but Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday unveiled a mega canal scheme that aims to redraw the map of Istanbul."
2011-04-27,Explosion rocks Egypt gas pipeline
2011-04-27,"Syria neighbors fear future without Assad family -- From Israel to Iran, Syria's neighbors are starting to contemplate the possibility of a future without the Assad family as Lords of Damascus, and, whether friends or foes, some don't like what they see."
2011-04-27,Guantanamo Files: Al-Qaida assassin 'worked for MI6'
2011-04-27,TIL that the World Bank's chief economist defected from Taiwan to Communist China in 1979
2011-04-27,China in no mood to listen in U.S. rights talks
2011-04-27,Communication between NATO and Libya's rebels is so bad that the rebels have to rely on a single air traffic control tower to know when Western airstrikes are coming.
2011-04-27,BBC News - Brazil Air France Rio crash flight recorder found
2011-04-27,Army blocks access by car to Palestinian Neighborhood with more than 150 residents
2011-04-27,Syrian crackdown of tanks and infantry reinforcements sent to besieged city  
2011-04-27,Misrata has come under attack by Libyan government forces attempting to retake the besieged city.
2011-04-27,Syria Tries to Defend Its Record to United Nations
2011-04-26,"TIL Fukushima workers only eat two meals a day -  crackers and vegetable juice for breakfast, and a packet of rice with chicken for dinner. In the evenings, they gather around in a safe room to cheer ""Let's do our best!"" and clap once, before  going to sleep on the floor."
2011-04-26,Bahrain arresting doctors because they have accurate statistics on injured or killed protestors
2011-04-26,"Over half of Egypt wants to end 30-year peace treaty with Israel - ""only 36 percent of Egyptians are in favor of maintaining the treaty, compared with 54 percent who would like to see it scrapped"""
2011-04-26,"Syria's military shows signs of division amid crackdown -- Some soldiers reportedly refused to open fire against civilians in Deraa today, sparking clashes between units. "
2011-04-26,"NDP leapfrogs Liberals to land
into second spot in astonishing twist in Canadian election race"
2011-04-26,"Channel 4 to air 'horrific' Sri Lanka footage | Media | guardian.co.uk - Investigation fronted by Jon Snow to include mobile phone films that appear to show war crimes
"
2011-04-26,Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Raises Minimum Wage 26.5%
2011-04-26,Guantnamo Bay files: Al-Qaida assassin 'worked for MI6'
2011-04-26,"Amateur video purportedly shows tanks rolling into Deraa and a young girl shot in Damascus, while hundreds of mourners protest over mounting deaths as government crackdown continues."
2011-04-26,"TOKYO  Angry farmers brought two cows to Tokyo, shouting and punching the air Tuesday in a protest to demand compensation for products contaminated by radiation spewing from Japan's crippled nuclear plant"
2011-04-26,"The UN has said widespread shelling by the Sri Lankan government killed most of the tens of thousands of civilians who died in the final months of the 25-year-long war, in 2009."
2011-04-26,Vlad Putin: Libya coalition has no right to kill Gaddafi
2011-04-26,"Egypt's former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, on trial for killing protesters; faces the death penalty if found guilty"
2011-04-26,"Thailand and Cambodia fortified their border positions on Tuesday after four days of artillery and mortar battles killed seven Cambodian soldiers and five Thai troops, while both sides tried to dominate nearby ancient Hindu temple ruins"
2011-04-26,Poll: Over half of Egyptians want to cancel peace treaty with Israel
2011-04-26,Black money comes mainly from India: Assange appealed to Indians to absolutely not lose hope that the names of those with secret Swiss accounts will come out at one point in the future
2011-04-26,"Russian corruption: crooked officials steal multi-billion-dollar company, $230M tax refund, then murder campaigning lawyer"
2011-04-26,South Koreans rethink Japan earthquake aid after Japan made a couple of moves that angered them
2011-04-26,"Beyond the Sarcophagus: The Overwhelming Challenge of Containing Chernobyl -- Work on the new sarcophagus meant to contain Chernobyl's reactor 4 is a decade behind schedule. But significant problems will remain even once it is complete. For one, it is only meant to last for 100 years. "
2011-04-26,"Reopening of Blackwater Case Confuses Iraqi Victims: To be honest, I think the case will be dismissed again, says a victim who sustained two bullet wounds in the shooting and hit with 60 pieces of shrapnel, many which are still in his body"
2011-04-26,"Amid brutal crackdown, Syria poised to join UN Human Rights Council"
2011-04-26,A collection of graphic shocking videos from Syria taken by citizens as security forces crackdown on waves of peaceful protesters (Warning! NSFL)
2011-04-26,"NATO To Bomb Palaces, Headquarters, Communication Centers And Other Prominent Institutions As Part Of No-Fly Zone Enforcement"
2011-04-26,Mexican police free 51 workers taken hostage
2011-04-26,Mexican Narco-Traffickers Revelation Exposes Drug Wars Duplicity |Bill Conroy | the narcosphere
2011-04-25,Syrian Forces Open Fire On Demonstrators (NSFW)
2011-04-25,"Russia - How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed my partner when he tried to expose them."
2011-04-25,"A crowd of officers then surrounds a young woman who is holding hands with a little girl aged about six. The child shouts out ""freedom"" and punches one tiny fist into the air. She is grabbed by police, starts to cry, and is pushed with the woman into a police car. "
2011-04-25,Hundreds of Taliban inmates use tunnel to escape from Kandahar prison
2011-04-25,UK to sign tax disclosure deal with Switzerland: UK citizens will have to hand over millions of pounds in backdated taxes on secret bank accounts
2011-04-25,"How to treat monopolies: Mexico agency confirms $1B fine for (world's richest man, Carlos) Slim's company"
2011-04-25,Hundreds of Taliban members 'escape prison': Afghan government officials confirm that some 540 Taliban members have escaped from Kandahar prison.
2011-04-25,"Thousands of Syrian troops backed by tanks swept into the town of Daraa on Monday, firing on residents and leaving bodies lying in the streets, witnesses said"
2011-04-25,"Protesters in Saudi Arabia: ""Down with the Khalifas, Down with Israel, Down with Wahhabism!"""
2011-04-25,Russian police on Sunday freed the son of software tycoon Eugene Kaspersky
2011-04-25,"Second computer worm 'hits Iran'
"
2011-04-25,Delhi Commonwealth Games chief Suresh Kalmadi arrested on corruption charges
2011-04-25,"Syrian Army Storms Town Where Uprising Began: tanks enter Dara'a, at least five confirmed killed, more bodies lay in the streets. "
2011-04-25,NATO air strike hits Gaddafi compound. Reuters reports it was an attempt on Gaddafi's life.
2011-04-25,25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster [pics]
2011-04-25,Here we go again!! Real IRA makes threat to PSNI officers
2011-04-25,"At least 18 said killed as Syrian forces in tanks, APCs fire on protesters --- 
Following weeks of protests, Syrian security forces appear to planning major security operation; all land border crossings with neighboring Jordan closed."
2011-04-25,"Death toll reaches 14,358 from the Great Quake-Tsunami in Japan"
2011-04-25,"Behind front-lines, Libyan rebels escalate media war"
2011-04-25,"Tanks and snipers in Daraa, Syria. [Video]"
2011-04-25,"In shift, US considers sanctions against Syria's Assad regime"
2011-04-25,Italy 'to join attacks in Libya': Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has approved the use of his country's air force in Nato's Libya mission. 
2011-04-25,Powerful blasts shake Tripoli
2011-04-25,"""Thirty years ago we used to think Japan was the number one fishing country in the world, with the best catching and processing methods, but that's really no longer the case,"" Ryosuke Sato, chairman of the Kesennuma Fisheries Cooperative Association, said . . . ""We've been in terminal decline."""
2011-04-25,"Nigerian Constitution must be set aside for Sharia, says Boko-Haram
"
2011-04-24,"Al Jazeera's Beirut Bureau Chief resigns in part due to ""scant coverage of the bloodshed in Bahrain""."
2011-04-24,Bahraini student in UK lost his scholarship and was threatened after participating in peaceful protest in UK
2011-04-24,Chinese police detained up to 40 Christians who tried to converge at the site of a banned Easter service Sunday and placed 500 more under house arrest.
2011-04-24,"In Rome, 150 Roma whose camp had been dismantled took refuge in one of this citys ancient basilicas, creating a standoff on Saturday with city officials"
2011-04-24,"Yemen: President agrees to step down, but protesters reject conditions for his resignation, which included immunity"
2011-04-24,"At least 500 dead in Nigeria election riots
"
2011-04-24,Royal wedding invitation to crown prince of Bahrain draws criticism
2011-04-24,Higher Education: Is it really the next bubble?
2011-04-24,"For Ireland's hardcore dissidents, 'the Queen is a legitimate target'"
2011-04-24,"In a bid to curb childhood obesity, Malaysian students will be graded on their weight."
2011-04-24,In Burma a small army of NGO volunteers are inoculating 3.4 million children from a rare strain of the polio virus that has re-emerged three years after the country was declared polio free
2011-04-24,A growing number of French farmers reach the breaking point : Financial problems are thought to have been behind the suicides of more than 300 French farmers last year. Despite receiving the highest subsidies in the EU
2011-04-24,Iraqis rally against extending U.S. troops presence
2011-04-24,"Israeli Minister's Nephew killed, 4 wounded from Palestinian Police gunfire in Nablus"
2011-04-24,"Security forces raided homes across Syria, arresting regime opponents, as funerals were held on Sunday for protesters and mourners killed in a bloody crackdown which activists said cost 120 lives."
2011-04-24,"10,000 Protesters march the streets of Casablanca protesting for a ""New Morocco"""
2011-04-24,Brazil hit by deadly floods and landslides: Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 10 people in southern Brazil.
2011-04-24,Libya rebels: Dozens dead in Misrata fighting. 'The last 24 hours have been one of the hardest and saddest days in the last 65 days'
2011-04-24,Thousands of anti-government protesters are standing their ground in the capital of Yemen
2011-04-24,Japan to launch massive search for quake bodies
2011-04-24,Bosnia's future: Divided and unruled
2011-04-24,Syrian President Bashar al-Assad faces indictment by the International Criminal Court
2011-04-24,Kuwait pledges $181 million to Libyan rebels
2011-04-24,"TIL Peru had an election, the lefty won. Will face Fujimori's daughter in runoff. "
2011-04-24,Fidel Castro speaks on American Hypocrisy
2011-04-23,Germany expels openly homophobic imam - Authorities in Germany have ordered the expulsion of a visiting Islamic preacher who argues that homosexuals should be condemned to death. The move comes after Bilal Philips gave an open-air address in Frankfurt.
2011-04-23,"Berlusconi tells joke on tape:

""Look I am getting old. This morning I was chasing my secretary to do her on the table and she said: 'Prime Minister we only did it two hours ago.' So you see my memory is going."""
2011-04-23,NSFW: CNN's Amber Lyon reports on the slaughtering and violent crackdown on activists in Bahrain. 
2011-04-23,What happens when you try to leave the Church of Scientology?
2011-04-23,Five women brutally murdered in Mexico beach resort
2011-04-23,Thousands march in Hong Kong to demand release of China's Ai
2011-04-23,Yemen's President Accepts Deal To Step Down
2011-04-23,Massive two-day anti-U.S. protest begins in NW Pakistan
2011-04-23,"Nearly 300 Roma women and children fled their homes in northeastern Hungary on Friday as members of a far-right paramilitary group arrived for what was being billed as a three-day ""training camp"""
2011-04-23,"Nigeria's 580million dollar innovative investment for its 2011 elections reduced voter fraud to an all-time low, marking what might be a history of rigged elections in African countries"
2011-04-23,Spanish court bans atheists protest on Holy Thursday because it might offend Spanish Catholics
2011-04-23,Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh Accepts Deal to Step Down
2011-04-23,"Turkish-German woman's Playboy cover stirs controversy - The first Turkish-German woman to appear on the cover of the German Playboy described the photos as an ""act of liberation"" from her strict upbringing. The story has reignited the debate on integration, Islam and gender."
2011-04-23,"Libyan rebels claim to have taken back Misurata: ""Misurata is free, the rebels have won. Of Gaddafi's forces, some are killed and others are running away"""
2011-04-23,Austrian turning dirt in his back yard stumbled onto 650-yr-old buried treasure  hundreds of pieces of jewelry and other precious objects
2011-04-23,Pakistan: 25 killed in massive drone attack in North Waziristan
2011-04-23,"Libyan children suffering rape, aid agency reports"
2011-04-23,"Foreign investors land-grabbing in Ethiopia - ""In Ethiopia, we have had hundreds of foreign investors grabbing fertile land at incredibly low cost. The scale of the spree is unprecedented. Investors are describing the deal as green gold."""
2011-04-23,"Sony's Ohga, credited with developing CD, dies"
2011-04-23,British Girls Leading The Way In Britishness
2011-04-23,Yemeni president agrees to step down
2011-04-23,Bahrain opposition says authorities demolished Shiite mosques as part of crackdown on dissent
2011-04-23,Syria uprising: 'We will continue until the fall of the regime'
2011-04-23,Deadly drone raid sparks Pakistan protest - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English
2011-04-23,Holy shit! 85.32 percent turnout for state elections in India. I did not know that was possible.
2011-04-22,"Totally sick: Pakistan acquits five of the six men who gang-raped a woman in the name of ""honor"""
2011-04-22,Mexico wants to sue U.S. gun makers
2011-04-22,"Chinese authorities crack down on dissident Tibetan monks and attack protesters, killing two"
2011-04-22,Son of Kaspersky CEO Kidnapped
2011-04-22,French Riot Police outraged that they can no longer drink alcohol during lunch while they work. 
2011-04-22,France threatens to 'suspend' Schengen Treaty due to influx of Tunisian and Libyan migrants from Italy; Germany to reinstate border control.
2011-04-22,"""Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the 'shame of a needless war' in Iraq."""
2011-04-22,Death toll rising in Syria: At least 90 people were reportedly killed and dozens were injured when Syrian security forces fired live bullets and teargas to disperse Good Friday protests in several cities.
2011-04-22,French riot police threaten to strike over alcohol ban
2011-04-22,"Syrian security forces shoot protesters - Dozens reported dead in bloodiest day of uprising so far as ""Great Friday"" demonstrations rock several cities."
2011-04-22,Austrians hail a 'fairy-tale find' of medieval riches
2011-04-22,Venezuela's Chavez Hikes Windfall Tax on Oil Firms
2011-04-22,North Korea warned it will launch attacks against people sending leaflets over the border
2011-04-22,Third day of Shanghai strike threatens China exports
2011-04-22,'Al-Qaeda envoy' Moganned killed in Chechnya
2011-04-22,Pirates Selling Shares As Piracy Hits All Time High
2011-04-22,20 more unarmed protestors killed by Syrian soldiers.
2011-04-22,Australia: Asylum seekers burn center -- Violence occurred after requests for asylum turned down
2011-04-22,"Syrian forces kill 72 at 'Good Friday' protests
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2011-04-22,Syrian Troops Kill Protesters
2011-04-22,After 25 years there is no clear consensus about how many have and will die because of the Chernobyl debacle.
2011-04-22,Thailand and Cambodia in fresh border clash: At least six soldiers are reported to have been killed and several wounded in fighting between Cambodia and Thailand over their long-disputed border.
2011-04-22,France seeks change to Schengen border agreement
2011-04-22,"Misrata rebels strike back against Gaddafi snipers: Libya rebels seize tallest buildings, favoured by pro-Gaddafi snipers"
2011-04-22,Left and right clash at Tel Aviv rally to support Palestinian state
2011-04-21,"Director of ""Restrepo"" and Photographer Chris Hondros killed in Misurata, Libya."
2011-04-21,Everyone within 20km of Fukushima will be forcibly evacuated and roads blocked to prevent entry
2011-04-21,Bahrain: Activist Zaynab Al-Khawaja's letter to President Barack Obama as she began her hunger strike.
2011-04-21,"More than 80,000 people are claiming incapacity benefits because they are addicted to alcohol and drugs or are obese"
2011-04-21,Libya: 'mission creep' claims as UK sends in military advisers
2011-04-21,Japan considers banning access to evacuation zone
2011-04-21,Chinese oil giant Sinopec has stopped exporting oil products to maintain domestic supplies. 
2011-04-21,"6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes off east coast of Honshu, Japan, less than 2 hours after 5.8 shaker"
2011-04-21,"Next war in line: At least 20 South Sudanese army soldiers have been killed in a clash with rebel fighters.

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2011-04-21,"Bahraini protester ends hunger strike after becoming convinced that ""being silent in a tomb and not able to speak is not in the interests of my family."""
2011-04-21,China tries to scare motorists into safer driving
2011-04-21,Leaked Report Shows England Hit With Three Nuclear Incidents In February
2011-04-21,Japans cyclone season approaches.
2011-04-21,Have Oman and Qatar escaped the Arab revolts?
2011-04-21,Rioters torch Australia asylum seeker detention centre
2011-04-21,"Russian migration official fired in racism row: Claimed the ""survival of the white race was at stake"" in migration policy"
2011-04-21,Small amounts of radioactive iodine found in breast milk
2011-04-21,"War photographer, Oscar-nominated film director killed in Libya
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2011-04-21,Effeminate boys are being sent to a special camp to be retrained in Malaysia.
2011-04-21,Japan Government Declares 12-Mile Area Around Plant A No-Go Zone
2011-04-21,TEPCO admitted Wednesday that nuclear fuel in reactor No. 1 could still be melting.
2011-04-21,Fukushima evacuees face arrest if they return home
2011-04-21,Prince Charles wins some kind of a record
2011-04-20,"Internet protests have started in New Zealand after its government passed a controversial ""three strikes"" filesharing bill under urgency"
2011-04-20,Brave Saudi guy speaks out on television.
2011-04-20,Oscar Nominated Documentary Filmmaker And Photographer (Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros) Reportedly Killed In Libya
2011-04-20,British tourist beaten to death by Dubai police - Left alone in an empty cell without water or food for three days
2011-04-20,Vladimir Putin reveals plan to boost Russian birth rate to reverse Russia's declining population.
2011-04-20,The growing rift between Putin and Medvedev could be the beginning of a two-party system in Russia
2011-04-20,India's PSLV-C16 rocket today successfully launched into orbit the latest remote sensing satellite Resourcesat-2 that would study and help manage natural resources along with two nano satellites.
2011-04-20," The conventional wisdom that Al Qaeda will rise from Yemen's ashes is being challenged by average Yemenis, who for the first time in history are claiming their freedom as individuals. "
2011-04-20,"Iran central banker: Lift sanctions or face spike in oil prices - ""oil prices will rise above $150 a barrel if economic sanctions against the Islamic theocracy are not lifted soon."""
2011-04-20,Taliban suicide bomber penetrates Ministry of Defense in Kabul
2011-04-20,"Japanese government targets ""harmful rumors""; TEPCO - ""We don't measure the level of plutonium""  2 articles"
2011-04-20,"Tsunami warnings, written in stone over 100 years ago, saved lives in Japan -- and some who ignored them died"
2011-04-20,"Photojournalists Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros killed in Libya"
2011-04-20,"Revolutions benefits passed over Egypts factory 
workers"
2011-04-20,"Europe's new telecoms law comes into effect May 25, and it avoids any explicit net neutrality rules; Commissioner pledges to name and shame bad non-neutral ISPs"
2011-04-20,"Supporting Ai Weiwei, Change.org falls victim to Chinese hackers | Penn Olson"
2011-04-20,Two suspects in the killing of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni die in a Hamas raid in Gaza.
2011-04-20,"I Escaped From Auschwitz --- 


Kazimierz Piechowski, 91, was one of only 144 prisoners to break out of the death camp. He and three others stole the commandant's car. That was when the Nazis began tattooing inmates with prison numbers, for easier recapture"
2011-04-20,Scores dead in Nigeria post-poll violence
2011-04-20,Libyan war accelerates Chinese debate over non-intervention
2011-04-20,"Ministry of Defence ordered to disclose involvement 
in US-led rendition"
2011-04-20, The coming Balkan war - Washington Times
2011-04-20,Britain to send military advisers to aid Libyan rebels
2011-04-20,Report: government cyberattacks against own citizens intensifying
2011-04-20,Dozens killed in Nigeria riots
2011-04-19,"Castro resigns as head of Cuban Communist party, allows Cubans to buy and sell property for first time since 1959"
2011-04-19,Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq. Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq.
2011-04-19,70 days jail for burning Koran in UK
2011-04-19,"
'I will never be cut': Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation - video"
2011-04-19,Iceland Declares Independence from International Banks
2011-04-19,China is scary as hell
2011-04-19,"Death toll in Libya reaches 10,000"
2011-04-19,Hungary Is a Disgrace for Europe
2011-04-19," Banks can't spell ""Gadhafi"" either, so they can't freeze his assets. "
2011-04-19,"Carl-Henric Svanberg, President of BP and known patron of ""the small people"", does it again: Claims ""Most would agree that the world can withstand a few degrees of warming"" in Swedish interview"
2011-04-19,"Israeli Intellectuals Press for Palestinian State - 
NYTimes.com"
2011-04-19,Fidel quits Communist Party leadership as Cuba looks to reform
2011-04-19,More Bombs in Northern Ireland
2011-04-19,"Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs creates project team to combat rumors deemed harmful to Japanese security in the wake of Fukushima. They begun sending ""letters of request"" to internet providers and others demanding that they take adequate measures"" in response to ""illegal information""."
2011-04-19,"CEO of ThyssenKrupp in Italy sentenced to 16.5 years 
for the deaths of seven workers after a fire"
2011-04-19,Bahrain escapes censure by West as crackdown on protesters intensifies - Middle East - Independent.co.uk
2011-04-19,Bulgarian nationalist attacked Jehovah witnesses meeting [violent video] 
2011-04-19,N.Korea's Nuclear Facilities 'a Disaster in the Making'
2011-04-19,"UN Report - A copy of the report obtained by The Australian found credible allegations that tens of thousands of Tamil civilians were killed deliberately targeted by Sri Lankan artillery firing into ""no-fire zones"".| The Australian"
2011-04-19,How could bodies pile up again in a place just 90 miles from the U.S. border where 72 migrants were slaughtered eight months ago...And how could these new horrors emerge only five months after state and federal authorities announced with much fanfare that they were mounting a coordinated offensive
2011-04-19,Japan consumers may bail out nuke plant owner
2011-04-19,Australia deports criminal to UK.
2011-04-19,"French minimum wage to rise again
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2011-04-19,Estonia Tops List for Internet Freedom
2011-04-19,Kurdish protesters clashed with police in Turkeys southeast and thousands gathered in Istanbul and Ankara after 12 pro-Kurdish politicians were banned from running in elections
2011-04-18,"A FINNISH EUROSCEPTIC party that opposed immigration, the Euro, and bailouts for struggling European countries has won a fifth of votes in the countrys general election."
2011-04-18,Religious protesters in France vandalise the famous 'Piss Christ' photograph
2011-04-18,S&P Puts Negative Outlook on U.S. AAA Rating
2011-04-18,Each Of Ireland's Surviving Banks Downgraded To Junk
2011-04-18,Italy passes new law that basically ends Berlusconi's trial
2011-04-18,"Gaddafis men use rape as weapon of war --- More than 100 women are victims, says doctor as siege of Misrata continues"
2011-04-18,Chocolate boss Ferrero dies in bike accident
2011-04-18,Pakistan: Teenager tells of failed suicide bomb mission
2011-04-18,Ukraine seeks $1 billion to seal Chernobyl
2011-04-18,"To protect female shoppers, young Saudi men asked to be accompanied by their families"
2011-04-18,"If the Saudis are 'dumping' Obama, should we be upset... or tell them not to let the door hit them on the way out?"
2011-04-18,The UN looks set to update its estimated number of civilians killed during the Sri Lankan civil war from 7000 to the tens of thousands - Hindustan Times
2011-04-18,Professsor for environmental and technology Sociology: nuclear plants safer than coal or water dam plants
2011-04-18,Local election in the Balearic Islands:  Candidate Sole Sanchez poster censored (NSFW?)
2011-04-18,The horror movie that is the reality of being captured by Gaddafi's forces
2011-04-18,"Protesters in Syrian city hold sit-in: Calls made for overthrow of President Assad, a day after 30 demonstrators were reportedly killed by security forces."
2011-04-18,"""Pope Benedict led Roman Catholics into Holy Week celebrations, telling a Palm Sunday crowd that man will pay the price for his pride if he believes technology can give him the powers of God."""
2011-04-18,Radiation Still Rising at Japanese Nuclear Power Plant.
2011-04-18,"Finnish elections: Unprecedented gains for populist True Finns, all other major parties lose seats"
2011-04-18,Robots in Japanese reactors detect high radiation
2011-04-18,Hiring of Pakistani fighters for Bahrain angers Iran
2011-04-18,Government: Drug cartel leader 'El Kilo' caught in Mexico
2011-04-18,"The eggs roll by, but life at Bournville has a darker side. New owner Kraft won't guarantee long-term jobs, so Cadbury workers fear this is their final Easter"
2011-04-18,Libya was to be lauded for it's human rights record by the UN Human Rights Council. We've been had!
2011-04-18,Tepco Cancels Plan To Build 2 New Reactors At Fukushima.
2011-04-17,Armenia makes Chess a compulsory subject in schools - about time we taught kids some logic.
2011-04-17,"World Bank president warns that the world is ""one shock away from a full-blown crisis"""
2011-04-17,Two teenage Palestinians admitted to carrying out the brutal murder of five Israeli family members
2011-04-17,Raul Castro proposes term limits in Cuba
2011-04-17,Germany to close all nuclear plants.
2011-04-17,Morgan Stanley Defaulted on a Loan and Walked away from Offices in Tokyo
2011-04-17,Belarus is stuck somewhere in the 1960s; the thought of a serious terror attack has about as much relevance as a Martian invasion
2011-04-17,Internet mistake reveals UK nuclear submarine secrets
2011-04-17,France stops all Italian trains carrying north African immigrants 
2011-04-17,The West Versus China: A New Cold War Begins on Libyan Soil
2011-04-17,Bahrain braced for new wave of repression: New arrests and death of a female student fuel sectarian tensions with troop movements signalling another government crackdown on protests
2011-04-17,Keep a weather eye on next month's G8 gathering of ministers and Web mogulsa potential oligarchy in the making 
2011-04-17,France shuts border to trains from Italy to stop north African migrants and political activists from entering country.
2011-04-17,Suicide bomber explodes in Mosque in Java
2011-04-17,"Conditions May Be Deteriorating at Japanese Nuclear Power Plant. Intensely radioactive water from reactor Unit 2 is filling a nearby tunnel faster than workers can empty it, and radioactive levels of seawater near the plant increased sixfold following an aftershock on Saturday."
2011-04-17,Cuba's communists are set to redefine what Cuba means by socialism at a historic gathering today
2011-04-17,Mexico: A leader of the powerful Zetas gang cartel has been arrested in connection with the deaths of more than 140 people
2011-04-17,In their conference: Star of Egyptian revolt blasts worlds elites as partners in crime
2011-04-17,TEPCO Releases 3 Videos From Unmanned Helicopter Drones Above Fukushima (See comments for links to the other two videos)
2011-04-17,BBC News - EU bail-out nerves as Finland holds general election
2011-04-17,China Orders Banks to Raise Reserves to Combat Inflation
2011-04-17,TEPCO said it aims to bring the crisis under control within six to nine months.
2011-04-17,World finance chiefs spank U.S.
2011-04-17,Communists open Congress in Cuba
2011-04-17,Hungarian mothers to get extra votes for their children in elections
2011-04-16,"In China, a death sentence for a young businesswoman chills entrepreneurs. (""What she was convicted of was raising and pooling money outside the official system, which is common among Chinese entrepreneurs."")"
2011-04-16,"""Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - the BRICS group of fastest growing economies - Thursday [14 April 2011] signed an agreement to use their own currencies instead of the predominant US dollar in issuing credit or grants to each other."""
2011-04-16,Police made sixth arrest in their investigation of Anonymous that launched a series of cyber attacks on major firms it saw as anti-WikiLeaks
2011-04-16,"Ian Tomlinson died of fall injuries from push by police officer at G20 protest, says pathologist"
2011-04-16,The Law In China: the government now dismisses the idea that one function of the law is to defend people against the arbitrary exercise of state power.
2011-04-16,Is net neutrality disappearing? France's President Sarkozy holding a summit next month to decide the future of the Internet...
2011-04-16,Mass demonstrations in Budapest against the new constitution
2011-04-16,"They just kidnapped us in San Fernando. If anything happens, just tell my parents, thanks, I love them. "
2011-04-16,"A five-day stand-off between monks and armed police at a Tibetan monastery in western China could become ""explosive"", the Dalai Lama has warned."
2011-04-16,"Arnold Gundersen, nuclear expert: ""I absolutely disagree with the scientists who say that Fukushimas not going to hurt anyone. The numbers Ive seen, from reputable scientists, are that Fukushima is going to kill 200,000 from increased cancers over the next 50 years."""
2011-04-16,"Radioactivity Rises in Sea Again off Japan Nuclear Plant: Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, signaling the possibility of new leaks at the facility, the government said Saturday."
2011-04-16,U.S. offers unmanned chopper to help remove Fukushima spent fuel
2011-04-16,Atomic Deserts: A Survey of the World's Radioactive No-Go Zones
2011-04-16,Bahrain strips grants and tuition payments from its students who protested the kingdom in the UK
2011-04-16,"Pregnant Thieves in China: The purpose of our pregnancy is for convenient thefts. Otherwise, we are not going to get pregnant. We all have learned the law, knowing that the pregnant women wont get punishment, they claimed without any repentance."
2011-04-16,"Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have massed in Belgrade, Serbia to call for early elections, amid growing anger over the economy and corruption"
2011-04-16,Syria's emergency law to be lifted
2011-04-16,"Levels of radioactivity have risen sharply in seawater near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant in northern Japan, signaling the possibility of new leaks at the facility, the government said Saturday."
2011-04-16,Qaddafi Troops Fire Cluster Bombs Into Civilian Areas
2011-04-16,Bahrain cracks down on protesting footballers
2011-04-16,'Foreign Policy Suicide': Berlin's Hesitancy in the UN and the World
2011-04-16,Unemployed foreigners under threat. Will have to leave 
2011-04-16,"Bolivia protests challenge Evo Morales: Protesters in Bolivia have blocked main roads and clashed with police, on the ninth day of nationwide demonstrations against the government. "
2011-04-16,Sri Lanka: The leaked UN war crimes report: Key points and context
2011-04-16,Big aftershocks continue to jolt Japan
2011-04-15,"Libya Rebels Execute, Behead, Mutilate Gaddafi Army after they Surrender..."
2011-04-15,"Suddenly, Everyone Is Realizing That The British Are Sending The US A Huge Warning"
2011-04-15,"US blocked UN access to Bradley Manning - World 
Politics, World - The Independent"
2011-04-15,Woman who attempted suicide while pregnant is accused of murder
2011-04-15,"Wife, child of man beaten to death by Police left with no source of income"
2011-04-15,Video of brutal beating by South African police on a protester at a service delivery protest. He later died of his wounds [NSFW]
2011-04-15,"Widow, 74, labelled a terrorist and ordered out of Canada - thestar.com - A widow who fled Sri Lanka after her husbands assassination has been ordered to return"
2011-04-15,"Outcry over Muslim 'morality police' in Oslo, Norway"
2011-04-15,Kidnapped Italian in Gaza Strip found dead
2011-04-15,"The (1) breadth, (2) duration and (3) methods of repression utilised in China's latest crackdown challenge the idea that the CCP is slowly liberalising."
2011-04-15,UAE to try 14-year-old girl on adultery charges
2011-04-15,Croatian 1990s War Criminals Convicted at The International Court of Justice in Hague (about time!)
2011-04-15,"Hospitals show ugly truth about Bahrain, as US looks the other way"
2011-04-15,Melted nuclear fuel likely settled at bottom of crippled reactors
2011-04-15,Body of kidnapped Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni found in Gaza
2011-04-15,"U.S., allies see Libyan rebels in hopeless disarray: ""The realistic outlook, U.S. and European officials said, is for an indefinite stalemate between the rebels -- supported by NATO air power -- and Gaddafi's forces."""
2011-04-15,"Family facing deportation from Canada because their 8 year old daughter suffers from cerebral palsy and is deemed an ""excessive burden"" on the health care system. "
2011-04-15,"Japan Discloses Data on Radioactive Water Release. More than 10000 metric tons of low-level radioactive water was discharged from the quake-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex
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2011-04-15,Radioactive water building up at Fukushima plant #2 faster than it can be pumped out
2011-04-15,"India court grants bail to India activist Binayak Sen: India's Supreme Court has granted bail to leading public health specialist and human rights activist, Dr Binayak Sen."
2011-04-15,NATO says Gadhafi must go but won't force him out
2011-04-15,Conservatives ask Elections Canada to nullify student votes; xpost from r/Canada
2011-04-15,Thousands of protesters demand reform in Syria
2011-04-15,Body count from mass graves in Mexico rises to 145
2011-04-15,Finnish nationalists challenge EU bailouts in election that has Europe on edge
2011-04-14,Jamaica to Look Again at Decriminalizing Marijuana
2011-04-14,Briton 'beaten to death' in a Dubai police cell after being arrested for swearing
2011-04-14,Japan's crisis: one month later - STUNNING Photos
2011-04-14,"UK activists win case against Metropolitan Police at the G20 protests -- High Court ruled police kettling was ""not justified"""
2011-04-14,Thousands could sue over police kettling at G20 protests
2011-04-14,"Syria: 'Don't kill more than 20 protesters in one day' --- March 23 Syrian intelligence document details strategy to counter rebel sentiment, create links between rebels, ""Zionist regime."""
2011-04-14,Last Two Speakers of Dying Language Refuse to Talk to Each Other
2011-04-14,"Tepco says fuel rods in the spent-fuel-pool of reactor #4 are damaged, fission may have resumed. New plan: move the spent fuel somewhere, somehow."
2011-04-14,"Remember Tunisia's uprising? They remember their old dictator, Ben Ali, and are charging him with 18 counts including conspiring against the state, voluntary manslaughter, and drug trafficking"
2011-04-14,Russia won't allow hunting of polar bears this year
2011-04-14,"Police in Moscow discover what they are calling an ""underground town"" housing illegal immigrants from Central Asia in a Soviet-era bomb shelter in the city"
2011-04-14,Libyan rebels supplied with anti-tank weapons by Qatar
2011-04-14,"North Korea identifies arrested American journalist: Man identified as Jun Young-Su will be charged with ""crimes against the nation,"" state media says."
2011-04-14,"Norwegian royal guard soldiers fled and hid under 
their beds when the alarm sounded that the royal 
family was under attack."
2011-04-14,China decides to ban Time Travel.
2011-04-14,'Secret Syria Document' posted on Facebook details brutal tactics against protesters
2011-04-14,Berlusconi will not seek reelection
2011-04-14,Israelis in Eilat want to throw 'african infiltrators [refugees]' out of the country
2011-04-14,"""Irradiated"" student evacuee bullied at new school in Japan"
2011-04-14,"I've seen a lot of comments on reddit about Mexico lately. To have a better understanding of the complexity of the problem, listen to this episode of Fresh Air."
2011-04-14,"American Christian settlers in Palestine: About 
1,000 Americans have signed a document 
requesting to convert to Judaism, move to Israel, 
and settle in Samaria."
2011-04-14,Mexican police implicated in mass graves.
2011-04-14,Australian Navy rescues hostages from pirates
2011-04-14,Fukushima raw milk is being sold again after radiation is measured to be below the government's acceptable limit.  Meanwhile France just days earlier warns pregnant women and small children to avoid milk. So who is right?
2011-04-14,Pro-Palestinian Activist kidnapped by Gaza Islamists
2011-04-13,"The Canadian Cannabis laws have been declared invalid, in 90 days it will be fully re legalized."
2011-04-13,"Bolivia is drawing up a draft UN treaty which would give Mother Earth the same rights as humans, including the right to life, to pure water and clean air.
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2011-04-13,"""The clatter of helicopter blades echoed across the jungles of northwestern Ecuador...The police had received a tip that a gang of Colombian drug smugglers had set up a clandestine work site here...And whatever the traffickers were building, the tipster had warned, was truly enormous."""
2011-04-13,Susan Manning calls on British foreign secretary to check her son's physical and mental health in maximum security custody
2011-04-13,New Zealand's trying to pass a previously rejected three-strikes Internet disconnection law by attaching it to legislation dealing with the earthquakes in Christchurch.
2011-04-13,"US WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning's Jail 
Conditions Criticized By Germany's Parliament"
2011-04-13,Rebels Hijack Gadhafi's Phone Network
2011-04-13,MEXICO: 39 killed in Ciudad Juarez in four days
2011-04-13,"WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning treatment may be 
'illegal and unconstitutional'"
2011-04-13,"""The scam was not complicated. Coins taken out of 
circulation are destroyed and sold as scrap metal. 
Often, however, one and two euro coins are merely 
split in two. A group in China would simply 
reassemble the coins."""
2011-04-13,Hugh Grant wears wire to turn tables on journalist about Phone-hacking
2011-04-13,Syria: Thousands come out to protest imprisonment of hundreds of Syrian men arrested by authorities in recent days
2011-04-13,"Armenian nuclear power plant still operating with out containment structures, just like Chernobyl.  And it sits on ""some of Earth's most earthquake-prone terrain"""
2011-04-13,"MEXICO  Mexican investigators have found a total of 116 bodies in pits near the U.S. border, 28 more than previously reported"
2011-04-13,Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman faces corruption charges
2011-04-13,"Libyan rebels: 10,000 people killed by pro-Gadhafi forces, 30,000 wounded, 20,000 missing"
2011-04-13,"Nokia will lay off up to 6,000 next week - Microsoft partnership more ""takeover"" than deal"
2011-04-13,"Governor of Santa Cruz, Bolivia was shot after attempting to stop a mugging"
2011-04-13,British Banker Dies in Plunge from Singapore Hotel Rooftop Bar.
2011-04-13,"""North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is unlikely to bow to pressure to surrender his nuclear capability because he believes it is vital for 'regime survival,' the U.S. commander in South Korea said on Tuesday [12 April 2011]."""
2011-04-13,"Indonesian clinic touts smoking as cancer cure - The 'treatment' for the emphysema sufferer includes the blowing of smoke from 'divine cigarettes' infused with 'nanotechnology' to remove their cancer-causing 'free radicals"", through a tube into her diseased lungs."
2011-04-13,Japan's crisis: one month later
2011-04-13,"In new protest, Syrian women block main highway "
2011-04-13,Oil above $122
2011-04-13,Pressure at fukushima reactor vessel 1 at around 10bars (quite a lot) and rising
2011-04-12,U.N. diplomat charged with investigating claims of torture is denied private meeting with WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning
2011-04-12,The burka is already banned in Turkey and banned in Syrian universities. Are these countries with predominantly Muslim populations 'racist' and Islamophobic for banning the burka?
2011-04-12,"Japan to raise Fukushima crisis level from 5 to 7, the worst on the international scale."
2011-04-12,University students film tsunami striking Nakatsugawa City  (Caution Advised)
2011-04-12,The Netherlands is demanding fluency of their official language for citizenship.
2011-04-12,Syrian soldiers shot for refusing to fire on peaceful protesters
2011-04-12,"Egyptian blogger found guilty by military of ""insulting the military"" and of publishing false news. He is sentenced to 3 years. ""The lawyers were not present, the verdict was handed out almost in secret"""
2011-04-12,It's official: Fukushima 1 is a Level 7 disaster 
2011-04-12,How Iceland broke the rules and got away with it
2011-04-12,"""Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it put on hold C.I.A. drone strikes aimed at militants in northwest Pakistan, a sign of the near collapse of cooperation"" "
2011-04-12,U.N. expert frustrated with U.S. over WikiLeaks soldier 
2011-04-12,Palestinian institutions ready for statehood: U.N.
2011-04-12,Fukushima reactor #4 is on fire (it's a new one)
2011-04-12,Bolivia grants rights to nature
2011-04-12,Atomic Deserts: A Survey of the World's Radioactive No-Go Zones
2011-04-12,Mass Graves Found in Mexico - BBC
2011-04-12,"Japan Prepares To Raise Level Of Nuke Crisis To The Most Severe - ""The government is also expected to expand the evacuation zone -- both signs that the crisis is getting worse, not better.""

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2011-04-12,This is what history looks like in Mexico
2011-04-12,Mubarak hospitalized by heart attack
2011-04-12,Priceless Egyptian Treasures Returned
2011-04-12,Syrian security forces attack village: Witnesses says Syrian security forces opened fire indiscriminately on villagers in Baida
2011-04-12,"Pakistan asks US to stop drone raids, cut CIA operations"
2011-04-12,"Syrian opposition says 200 killed in protests --- 
Assad's security forces crack down on pro-democracy protesters; Syrian rights group petitions Arab League to impose sanctions."
2011-04-12,"""I am frustrated by my lack of access to Bradley E. 
Manning,"" says the UN Special Rapporteur on 
Torture"
2011-04-12,the poor simply do not exist in the mental map of the wealthy.  Running out of real estate in Brazil's slums.
2011-04-11,Anti-porn MP caught surfing sex websites during parliament
2011-04-11,MIT NSE Nuclear Information Hub - this is the only source I've seen re:Fukushima that seems at all reliable.  Please upvote so everyone can see.
2011-04-11,Canada's New Democratic Party promises national broadband and net neutrality
2011-04-11,French police arrested two veiled women just hours after the country's new ban on wearing the burka in public came into force
2011-04-11,Ghost cities in China: so surreal 
2011-04-11,Another earthquake in Japan at 7.1 magnitude
2011-04-11,"""All countries, including Ireland, should hold a referendum on bank bailouts. The reckless lending of private financial institutions in Ireland is being turned into public debt without a public debate"" - Interview with Icelandic MP"
2011-04-11,Legal scholars attack 'degrading' treatment of WikiLeaks soldier
2011-04-11,France starts implementing burka ban
2011-04-11,"An explosion has ripped through a subway station in the centre of the Belarusian capital, Minsk"
2011-04-11,"Rupert Murdoch's flagship tabloid ""British Sunday"" admits to hacking phones of royal family's household staff, politicians, celebrities, athletes"
2011-04-11,Dubai Police came to take him at 3:30am
2011-04-11,Arab League to ask UN to implement no-fly zone over Gaza
2011-04-11,Roundup-Ready Crops May Be Causing Animal Miscarriages and Infertility
2011-04-11,"Former rugby player who took an axe to the men who ""gangraped his daughter"" doesn't actually have a daughter"
2011-04-11,Ivory Coast: French soldiers 'hand Gbagbo to rebels'
2011-04-11,UN rights expert denied WikiLeaks suspect visit
2011-04-11,Voters in Iceland rejected deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands $5-billion for their citizens' deposits in failed online bank.
2011-04-11,"From Moscow to Mecca: As this part of Russias empire frays, fundamentalist Islam takes a stronger hold "
2011-04-11,Vancouver radiation tests show iodine-131 in rainwater at almost 100 times above US drinking water limit.
2011-04-11,Indonesia anti-porn MP quits for watching porn
2011-04-11,Bolivia is set to pass the world's first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans -- The Law of Mother Earth
2011-04-11,Japan Fails to Stop Radioactive Discharge Into Ocean
2011-04-11,"FBI destroyed thousands of UFO reports, 1949 memo reveals"
2011-04-11,"Radiation risks from Fukushima ""no longer negligible""."
2011-04-10,Something bad happened at the Fukushima power plant in the last 48 hours...
2011-04-10,Murdoch faces flood of hacking claims - could face criminal charges
2011-04-10,"A massive Russian cargo plane roared into Atlanta on Friday to pick up one of the worlds largest concrete pumps, which has been retrofitted to pour water on a Japanese nuclear power plant stricken by an earthquake and tsunami.(pic)

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2011-04-10,Icelanders reject debt repayment plan 
2011-04-10,"Those hero Japanese workers at the stricken nuclear power plant? Day labor, Temp workers... "
2011-04-10,"Rupert Murdoch to be implicated?  Please, let it be so!"
2011-04-10,Police in Northern Ireland have said that a 500lb bomb left in a van may have been destined for a town centre.
2011-04-10,Mexican drug cartels targeting and killing children - Is this what winning the war on drugs looks like?
2011-04-10,UK and Netherlands to sue Iceland over lost deposits
2011-04-10,"Fukushima gov. slams TEPCO, govt for 'betrayal',"
2011-04-10,"Kosovo elects first woman President, and she is only 35 years old. "
2011-04-10,BBC News - Iceland sets to reject Icesave repayment deal
2011-04-10,Rupert Murdoch faces rush of phone hack claims
2011-04-10,Japanese citizens turning in cash found in tsunami zone
2011-04-10,woman barred from SkyTrain for wearing button displaying the f-word
2011-04-10,Taliban takes over abandoned US base.
2011-04-10,WikiLeak says Israel ruled out military option on Iran years ago: 2005 report says senior defense officials did not believe an attack similar to Israel's assault on Iraq's Osirak reactor was possible.
2011-04-10,Turkey leads world in imprisoning journalists.  Study finds Turkey surpasses Iran and China with 57 jailed journalists; reporters can be imprisoned for up to 3 years before trials begin.
2011-04-10,Muammar Gaddafi has accepted a roadmap for ending the conflict in Libya
2011-04-10,Yemen security forces again open fire on protesters: At least 2 killed and scores of pro-democracy protesters wounded as Yemen president rejects international calls for him to step down.
2011-04-10,"Military Crackdown On Protesters In Egypt
"
2011-04-10,Syrian security forces beat up dead protester then drag his bloodied corpse (graphic)
2011-04-10,"Ciudad Juarez, Mexico: How cartels have turned the city's youth into hit men and cannon fodder  17-year-old Jose Antonio has seen more firefights and murders than many soldiers serving in Iraq or Afghanistan"
2011-04-10,Northern Ireland bomb attempt 'threatened mass murder': Police say bomb found in van on main Belfast to Dublin road could have resulted in huge devastation and loss of life
2011-04-10,"Egypt's ruling generals ""ready to use force"" to clear Cairo square."
2011-04-09,Man goes on killing spree in Dutch shopping mall. At least 5 to 10 people killed. 
2011-04-09,People power finally takes Govt. of India by surprise. Agrees on a stronger anti-corruption bill.
2011-04-09,Dutch government cutting more than one in six of all military jobs as part of spending cuts aimed at balancing the budget.
2011-04-09,"Egyptian military beats protesters, fires shots in Cairo's Tahrir Square"
2011-04-09,Egyptian soldiers attack protesters in Tahrir square.
2011-04-09,A redditor's pics of Cairo's Tahrir Square being cleared out by the military last night.
2011-04-09,"Egypt: Gunfire reported as soldiers storm Cairo's Tahrir Square, where protesters had been joined by army officers."
2011-04-09,Over one million protesters in Cairo's Liberation square demand military rulers lift the blockade on Gaza.
2011-04-09,[VIDEO] Gaddafi honestly can't say they are not firing at anyone and then not expect this. NATO watches tank fire shell and then responds.
2011-04-09,WikiLeaks: Yemen tricked Saudis into nearly bombing president's rival
2011-04-09,Japan's mafia aid effort.
2011-04-09,"A total of 72 bodies have been found in mass graves in northeastern Mexico, believed to have been migrants kidnapped from a bus headed to the U.S. border."
2011-04-09,TEPCO contractors reject higher radiation dose limit for workers
2011-04-09,Stranded and alone: 75-year-old man found alive at his devastated farmhouse four weeks after Japan earthquake and tsunami
2011-04-09,"Japan's government has announced it will ban farmers from planting rice in soil contaminated by radiation from the tsunami-flooded nuclear power plant, adding another food central to Japanese culture to the list of items raising concerns."
2011-04-09,Mass murder and rape in Ivory Coast.
2011-04-09,Germany: Freak sandstorm causes deadly motorway pile-up
2011-04-09,USA to fund $20m Pakistani remake of Sesame Street 
2011-04-09,Britain's defense ministry has confirmed that a Royal Navy officer was shot dead by a fellow sailor aboard a nuclear powered submarine.
2011-04-09,"A year after crash of polish plane in Smolensk, 
Russians changed text on a memorial plate."
2011-04-09,Rebels repel assault on Misurata 
2011-04-09,"Rage on: The lavish lifestyle of Teodorin, son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator and US friend"
2011-04-09,A Syrian shot dead by security while he was in a funeral for another Syrian shot at by the regime's security
2011-04-09,"Sesame Street heads to Pakistan: US government aid agency sponsors $20m Pakistani remake of the American kids' TV show
"
2011-04-09,Syrian protests turn deadly; 32 reported killed
2011-04-08,"""A human skull dated to about 2,684 years ago with an 'exceptionally preserved' human brain still inside of it was recently discovered in a waterlogged U.K. pit...The brain is the oldest known intact human brain from Europe and Asia...it's one of the best-preserved ancient brains in the world."""
2011-04-08,"Russia reveals plans for base on the moon - Russia has announced that it intends to build a base on the moon within 20 years, which it plans to use as a staging post for a manned mission to Mars."
2011-04-08,"UN finds more than 100 dead bodies in the Ivory Coast, some of which were burned alive"
2011-04-08,"Chinese gov.to use the ""happiness of the people"" as a new yardstick to measure the performance of officials, replacing the 30-year-old yardstick of GDP growth. "
2011-04-08,UNICEF: Snipers targeting children in Libya city
2011-04-08,"Thousands of protesters have left Cairo's Tahrir Square headed to the Israeli embassy, demanding the flag be taken down and the gas supply from Egypt to Israel to be blocked"
2011-04-08,Poland Edges Toward Drug Decriminalization
2011-04-08,Banker goes to prison [Iceland].
2011-04-08,German newspaper publishes the original NRC Assessment about Fukushima concluding that Tepco made mistakes and the situation is worse than they are letting on.
2011-04-08,Russian artists Voina who drew 210-foot penis on St. Petersburg drawbridge get award from Ministry of Culture
2011-04-08,"Russia's FSB (domestic security service) proposes to enhance control, possibly ban communication providers like Skype, Gmail and Hotmail. Kremlin assures there are no such plans at the moment."
2011-04-08,Climate talks stall over rich-poor rifts: Poorer nations condemn US stubbornness at UN summit
2011-04-08,"""A Royal Navy officer was killed and another is fighting for their life after a shooting on board a top nuclear submarine [HMS Astute]. A sailor...was arrested after the incident earlier today [8 April 2011]. Both victims were officers serving on the state-of-the art submarine..."""
2011-04-08,Ethnically motivated killings in Ivory Coast.
2011-04-08,Canada Changes Position On GM Wheat! GM varieties are NOT contemplated at this time.
2011-04-08,Israeli missile defense system intercepts Hamas rocket
2011-04-08,Old man stranded in Japanese town since the tsunami/earthquake.  Just 12 miles from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
2011-04-08,Milk poisoning kills children in China
2011-04-08,"Heads Up, Mexico: You May be Next "
2011-04-08,"Egypt protesters demand Mubarak trial - Thousands gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square, calling for prosecution of the ousted president and his regime. "
2011-04-08,Iceland is voting tomorrow to reject the Icesave bill. Its goal is to enslave the Icelandic population third world style with huge debt followed by austerity measures and prostitution of our natural resources. 
2011-04-08,British High Courts award damages to a man wrongfully caught up in the Operation Ore child porn investigation: many of the accused were nothing more than victims of credit-card fraud
2011-04-08,Japan earthquake and tsunami debris floats across the Pacific toward the US west coast.
2011-04-08,Five Russian journalists kidnapped by Libyan rebels today... and released several hours later
2011-04-08,Brazilian gunman kills 11 children...
2011-04-07,New 7.4 earthquake in Japan! Tsunami warning issued
2011-04-07,Mexican protest in over 20 cities -- against the drug-related violence sweeping the country
2011-04-07,"Former Mexican president urges drug legalization - Legalization of drugs in Mexico would not only lead to lowered violence and drug consumption but also boost its economy, former Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday."
2011-04-07,"Tired of violence, Mexicans ready for mass protests"
2011-04-07,"Civil war recently broke out in Ivory Coast, where cell phones are one of the main ways of communicating, but people can't get to stores to buy credit.  So one phone company is giving all customers a bunch of free texts and calls."
2011-04-07,WHO warns of post-antibiotic era
2011-04-07,I.M.F. supports Palestinian bid for state
2011-04-07,"Mystery plane bombs Sudan, Israel blamed: Two killed in airstrike on car close to Port Sudan on Red Sea"
2011-04-07,The Roots of the Cte d'Ivoire Crisis: How the demand for chocolate helped fuel the country's civil war
2011-04-07,Japanese Citys Cry Resonates Around the World
2011-04-07,"School shooting in Rio de Janeiro leaves at least 13 deads, details still unfolding"
2011-04-07,Inside report from Fukushima nuclear reactor evacuation zone
2011-04-07,Saudi Twitter community hears about a child that has gone missing ... groups up to look for him ... finds him after only 3 hours
2011-04-07,Stone Markers from Japan's past: Tsunami Warnings From Ancestors Were Forgotten
2011-04-07,"Video tour of Fukushima evacuation zone. Cracked streets, smashed cars, wandering dogs, and dosimeters. (Warning: ear piercing dosimeter alarm beginning @ 2:00 - turn volume down) "
2011-04-07,David Cameron has suggested that Britain and the legacy of its empire was responsible for many of the world's historic problems
2011-04-07,"Bahrain has taken on the likeness of a police state with mass arrests and reports of torture.  Emergency laws give the security forces the right to search houses at will without a warrant and dissolve any organization, including legal political parties, deemed a danger to the state"
2011-04-07,"The Real Meaning of 'Bunga Bunga' - 
Berlusconi's sex scandal shows a racist, sexist side of Italy"
2011-04-07,"""Palestinians in a West Bank town say Israeli troops have rounded up some 200 women as part of a search for the killer of five Israelis in a nearby settlement last month"""
2011-04-07,"Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates has been insisting for months that he would not ask the EU for help. But on Wednesday he announced he was doing just that, after bond yields reached an unsustainable level. The bailout could amount to as much as 80 billion euros."
2011-04-07,"Israeli army invades Palestinian village, kidnaps residents, imposes curfew."
2011-04-07,"GlobalPost correspondent James Foley, and 3 other foreign journalists, have been detained by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi"
2011-04-07,"Saudis So Unhappy' With Obama They Sent Emissaries to China, Russia Seeking Enhanced Ties"
2011-04-07,"Harsh confrontation between IDF soldiers, Israeli leftist protesters"
2011-04-07,Mau Mau compensation case to begin: Four Kenyans who allege they were tortured during the suppression of the Mau Mau uprising are starting legal proceedings against the UK government.
2011-04-06,"Julian Assange: ""WikiLeaks is the intelligence agency of the people"""
2011-04-06,Japan: Radioactive leak plugged!
2011-04-06,"Video of police assault on Ian Tomlinson, who died at the London G20 protest in 2009: It shows Tomlinson, who was not part of the demonstration, being assaulted from behind and pushed to the ground by baton-wielding police"
2011-04-06,75 Year old Georgian Woman shuts down Armenian internet for 12 hours.
2011-04-06,International Energy Agency says peak oil happened in 2006
2011-04-06,Wikileaks: Afghan School Success A Myth - Confidential documents give a bleak picture of Afghan schools supported by the West.
2011-04-06,Portugal calls for EU financial bail-out
2011-04-06,"The cop who pushed Ian Tomlinson to the ground during the G20 protests told an inquest into the newspaper seller's death that he had been ""in fear for my life"""
2011-04-06,David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems
2011-04-06,"New Israeli-Palestinian peace proposal presented 
and endorsed by Mossad and Shin Bet chief, among 
others. Sovereign Palestine, 1967 borders, return 
fo the Golan Heights to Syria"
2011-04-06,"In post-Mubarak Egypt, abductions of women have become a phenomenon spread against the background of lawlessness"
2011-04-06,"English surgeons protest long wait times for major operations that keep patients in severe pain for months & other surgeries being outright denied in order to save money for the National Health Service. ""GPs were told not so send as many patients to hospital[...]"""
2011-04-06,Japans tsunami-ravaged towns forgot wisdom left by their ancestors centuries ago
2011-04-06,NHK: Radioactivity at Fukushima Daiichi No. 1-3 exceeds capacity of monitoring devices
2011-04-06,"Japan is ""very sorry"" about irradiating the ocean without prior notice, and promises never to do it again."
2011-04-06,Military and medical experts call on doctors to use their position of trust in society to build support for action on climate change.
2011-04-06,"Ai Weiwei's detention suggests the bad old days are returning in China --- 
A brutal crackdown on dissenters seems to signal a return to totalitarian repression"
2011-04-06,"Tokyo Electric Power Company ""called the initial offer 'payment for their troubles,' and would not detail how much money is being offered to each community. But Kousei Negishi, who is the manager of general affairs for Namie, said that it was..about $12 for each of Namie's roughly 20,000 residents."""
2011-04-06,"First mention in a Chinese newspaper of the detention of Ai Weiwei:  ""Ai Weiwei chooses to have a different attitude from ordinary people toward law. However, the law will not bend for mavericks just because of the Western media's criticism."" "
2011-04-06,Sweden With Entitlements & Health Care Surpasses America Economically
2011-04-06,"Gadhafi, in letter, asks Obama to end air strikes - Yahoo! News"
2011-04-06,"""Academic researchers worldwide, including veterans of research on the Chernobyl accident, are poring over releases of data on population exposure rates to radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. But they are finding that making any sense of the data is proving very difficult."""
2011-04-06,Sudan accuses Israel over Port Sudan air strike: The Sudanese government says Israel carried out an air strike on a car near the city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast which killed its two passengers.
2011-04-06,Over a barrel: Oil could hit $200-$300 on Saudi unrest
2011-04-06,"Syria's only casino has been shut down and a ban on teachers wearing the Islamic veil reversed, in an effort to reach out to conservative Muslims."
2011-04-05,Pro-Palestinian Jewish Activist Shot Dead in Jenin by Palestinian Terrorists
2011-04-05,Germany to phase out nuclear power
2011-04-05,Japan stops radioactive leaks into sea from reactor
2011-04-05,"ElBaradei: If Israel Attacks Gaza, Egypt Will Strike Back
"
2011-04-05,Ciudad Juarez has experienced a 4-day murder spree resulting in 41 dead within 96 hours
2011-04-05,"Ecuador has ""declared the U.S. ambassador to the country 'persona non grata' over Wikileaks cables and wants the envoy to leave immediately"
2011-04-05,Japan's ocean radiation hits 7.5 million times legal limit: High readings in fish prompt the government to establish a maximum level for safe consumption
2011-04-05,"Radioactive iodine-131 readings taken from seawater near the water intake of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant's No. 2 reactor reached 7.5 million times the legal limit, Tokyo Electric Power Co. admitted Tuesday"
2011-04-05,Al Jazeera demands the immediate release of one correspondent and two cameramen still detained by Gaddafi's forces.
2011-04-05,Tapes emerge a day before Berlusconi goes on trial for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute and using his office to cover it up.
2011-04-05,"Palestinian human rights group condemned hamas for building, storing, and operating rockets in densely populated areas"
2011-04-05,Concern for missing Chinese artist Ai Weiwei - Acclaimed artist's apparent detention draws international condemnation while his whereabouts remains a mystery.
2011-04-05,Leading Israelis push for two-state solution with new peace initiative
2011-04-05,Oil could hit $200-$300 on Saudi unrest-Yamani
2011-04-05,Mystery plane kills two in Sudan air raid
2011-04-05,"Iman al-Obeidi, Libya Woman Who Claimed Rape, Speaks With CNN Anderson Cooper (VIDEO)"
2011-04-05,Phone hacking: Two senior Murdoch press journalists arrested in the UK
2011-04-05,The world's worst human rights abusers continue to get pass from UN Human Rights Council
2011-04-05,Saudi Arabian Haia officers get training to combat black magic
2011-04-05,British PM tells Pakistan elite: 'Many of your richest people are getting away without paying much tax at all  and that's not fair'
2011-04-05,David Cameron: Britain caused many of the world's problems
2011-04-05,Veteran Police Officer in Toronto Jailed for 90 Days for Breaking Prisoner's Arm. 
2011-04-05,41 die in four days in Juarez killing spree
2011-04-05,"Chaos reigns as Anonymous attacks toilet paper, Sweden, itself"
2011-04-05,"TEPCO Offers Apology Money over Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: $12 a Head
"
2011-04-04,"UN set to recognize Palestine as a sovereign nation, including all of the West Bank and Gaza. "
2011-04-04,"Defiant Japanese Boat Captain Rode Out Tsunami: ""I talked to my boat and said you've been with me 42 years. If we live or die, then we'll be together, then I pushed on full throttle . . . I climbed the wave like a mountain. When I thought I had got to the top, the wave got even bigger."""
2011-04-04,"Ai Weiwei, an outspoken critic of the Chinese government and Chinas best-known artist, is missing. His whereabouts are unknown after being detained by police. His arrest is part of a wider government crackdown on dissidents in which many have been criminally detained, arrested, or disappeared."
2011-04-04,Japanese Mayor Pleads for His Starving Town
2011-04-04,it' time - the global initiative for drug policy reform
2011-04-04,"Tepco prepares to dump 11,500L of radioactive water 
into the Pacific"
2011-04-04,Ivory Coast Crisis - 1000 killed in a single day in village of Duekoue.
2011-04-04,"French and UN helicopters have fired on military camps operated by Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo, in an effort to halt attacks on civilians."
2011-04-04,"Muslim Brotherhood advocates Egyptian modesty police -- Call adds to concerns among liberals that the country is going Islamic after attacks on Muslim mystic tombs, Christians"
2011-04-04,Russian journalist attacked by man after failed pick up attempt. Calls cops only to find out the man is the local police chief...
2011-04-04,"France: The prevailing sentiment among opponents of the government's debate on religion is that the government is exploiting division, fear of Islam and xenophobia for political gain."
2011-04-04,"Gaddafi wants truce with rebels, seeks Turkey to mediate"
2011-04-04,61% of Israeli voters over 55 would support a peace deal. Only 37% under 35 would approve. Worrying.
2011-04-04,2 Qaddafi Sons Are Said to Offer Plan to Push Father Out and Create Democracy
2011-04-04,Operation Payback: Anon to target Sony in row over information sharing.
2011-04-04,Norway's Parliament has agreed to the EU data directive
2011-04-04,Muslims in France Ask to Use Empty Churches 
2011-04-04,Bodies of victims in 2009 Air France flight 447 found in underwater wreckage
2011-04-04,"Troops fire on Yemen protest, murdering at least 6 civilians"
2011-04-04,First shots fired from UN/French forces in the Ivory Coast
2011-04-04,Tsunami dog reunited with owner
2011-04-04,Head of U.N. Panel Regrets Saying Israel Intentionally Killed Gazans
2011-04-04,"Fukushima officials want to release 11,500 tons of radioactive water into the ocean. That's classified as over 100 times more radioactive than legal limits"
2011-04-04,"Thousands are missing in Mexico - 
A Mexican human rights group says more than 5,000 people have been reported missing since the War on Drugs began"
2011-04-04,"Syrian cell phones, internet down"
2011-04-03,And India wins the Cricket World Cup
2011-04-03,"Mexican Documentary: banning it has resulted in even more people seeing it 
"
2011-04-03,Wreckage from Air France jet found in Atlantic
2011-04-03,"More than 1,000 civilians have been killed in a western Ivory Coast town"
2011-04-03,"Hundreds under house arrest in China and dozens ""disappear"" in the past few weeks in what democracy activists say is the worst crackdown in a decade."
2011-04-03,"Scientists have created genetically modified cattle that produce ""human"" milk in a bid to make cows' milk more nutritious."
2011-04-03,Israel wants UN to bury Gaza crimes report: Calls for shelving Goldstone Report that said it had committed war crimes during its 2008-2009 Gaza offensive
2011-04-03,Mubarak has left Egypt
2011-04-03,Anonymous takes on NASDAQ OMX Group and Sweden's Elite Wallenberg Family Corporations.
2011-04-03,"Koch Industries Registers To Lobby Alberta Canada 
Gov't "
2011-04-03,"Fukushima Workers Muzzled. Distortions, lies, message control, and misinformation from TEPCO. Outrage rising in Japan."
2011-04-03,List of people killed in Bahrain since 14th February 2011 | Bahrain Center for Human Rights
2011-04-03,The European Union has found a solution to the problem of radioactive contamination in food. The radiation limits for fish from Japan have been raised 20-fold.[Video]
2011-04-03,"Head of Religious police in district of Meccah fired for claiming mixing of sexes is permitted and congregational prayer is not obligatory,  under Islam."
2011-04-03,Bahrain bans main opposition newspaper
2011-04-03,"""German utility RWE AG says it has filed a lawsuit against the government's decision to take older nuclear power plants temporarily off the grid in the wake of Japan's Fukushima disaster."""
2011-04-03,6.7 Magnitude Earthquake strikes near Indonesia
2011-04-03,Chinese police detain artist Ai Weiwei
2011-04-03,A 64-year-old cabbage farmer from Fukushima prefecture killed himself one day after the government imposed restrictions on the sale of produce from the region. (Translated)
2011-04-03,Head of U.N. Panel Regrets Saying Israel Intentionally Killed Gazans
2011-04-03,Moscow cops confiscate copies of book outing corrupt authorities
2011-04-03,French forces take over Abidjan (Ivory Coast) airport...
2011-04-03,Crack under japanese nuclear reactor leaking radioactive materials into Pacific Ocean
2011-04-03,"Dozens of people helped create an autonomous zone in Trafalgar square this evening, pitching eleven tents and establishing a planned 24-hour occupation to campaign against government cuts and to show solidarity with arrestees at last week's protests [pics]"
2011-04-03,Turkish nuclear plans on Mediterranean raise fears
2011-04-02,"Those books found in cave in Jordan labeled ""most important find in Christian history"" are actually forgeries created within the last 50 years"
2011-04-02,"This is appalling and unacceptable: Father of alleged Libyan rape victim, Eman al-Obeidy, says she is still missing."
2011-04-02,"Royal Navy medic who 'conscientiously objected' to Afghan war after reading files on WikiLeaks, faces court martial"
2011-04-02,Brazil banks sued for Amazon deforestation: Brazil's biggest bank - the state-run Banco do Brasil - is being sued for allegedly funding deforestation in the Amazon. 
2011-04-02,Protesters return to Egypt's Tahrir square
2011-04-02,Japan tsunami dog rescued after three weeks at sea
2011-04-02,"In the UK, unemployment centers are tasked with tricking people into losing benefits"
2011-04-02,"""At least 800"" people were killed in one city alone in Ivory Coast earlier this week, according to the International Red Cross."
2011-04-02,"This Attack Is Different --- 
Kabul-based aid worker on what comes next after mob of enraged Afghans kills UN staff in area considered peaceful. ""This is not the beginning of the end for the international community in Afghanistan. This is the end."""
2011-04-02,"Turkish police raid publishing house, newspaper, to confiscate and erase copies of unpublished book, dubbed an ""illegal organizational document""; mere possession of draft book declared a crime"
2011-04-02,Czech Constitutional Court rejects EU data retention law (that requirs ISPs and telecom companies to store customers' communication data for months)
2011-04-02,Reconsidering the Goldstone Report on Israel and war crimes
2011-04-02,Japan finds radioactive water leaking into the sea at nuclear plant
2011-04-02,"NATO airstrikes kill Libyan rebels: Coalition jet struck pro-democracy forces in country's east, killing at least seven"
2011-04-02,"
Policeman killed in Northern Ireland car bombing."
2011-04-02,"""Tepco said the water was coming directly from the reactor and the radiation level was 1,000 millisieverts an hour. The annual limit of radiation exposure allowed for Fukushima workers is 250 millisieverts."""
2011-04-02,The trial of a navy medic who refused to go to war suffered a false-start when the judge was urged to stand down from the case
2011-04-02,"Mass killings in Cote d'Ivoire: UN blames both sides for killing nearly 1,000 people last week in small town of Duekoue"
2011-04-02,"Libyan rebels ""receiving covert training"" from US and Egyptian special forces"
2011-04-02,"Islamic Radicals in Egypt are now leaping aboard the democracy bandwagon, alarming those who believe that religious radicals are seeking to put in place strict Islamic law through ballots. "
2011-04-02,Experts: Scrapping Fukushima plant could take decades
2011-04-02,Armenia Sinking into Poverty
2011-04-02,"Nine killed and 81 injured in Kandahar protest against US burning of Qur'an, the day after mob killed seven at UN compound"
2011-04-02,"Saudi says 5,080 convicted of terrorism crimes"
2011-04-02,The trials of Nunavut: Lament for an Arctic nation
2011-04-01,"Afghan Mob Kills 10 UN Workers (to protest Koran-
burning by Florida Pastor Terry Jones)"
2011-04-01,Saudis admit they supported Libya attack to mute US criticism of Bahrain
2011-04-01,AC/DC's drummer Phil Rudd has his marijuana conviction overturned because it would affect his globe-trotting lifestyle
2011-04-01,"World's largest concrete-pump, with 70-foot boom, en route to Fukushima. ""Our understanding is, they are preparing to go to next phase and it will require a lot of concrete""."
2011-04-01,"As panicked buzzwords like ""radiation"" and ""meltdown"" are being thrown around, many have forgotten what the real disaster is here."
2011-04-01,"Fukushima Mother: 'They Have Accepted They Will All Probably Die.' The Fukushima workers, it turns out, aren't talking because they've been asked not to"
2011-04-01,Workers At Japanese Nuclear Plant Expect to Die.
2011-04-01,"Siege begins at presidential palace in UN-backed, media-ignored ""forgotten revolution"" in Ivory Coast"
2011-04-01,"Russian President Medvedev to Tests Limits of Power With Plan to Oust Putin Allies
"
2011-04-01, High Radiation Level Readings Were NOT An Error: Radioactivity surges again at Fukushima 
2011-04-01,Federal Reserve lent money to Gaddafi's bank during econ crisis
2011-04-01,France ditches carbon tax as social protests mount.
2011-04-01,"A Koran-burning by a Florida pastor two weeks ago reportedly sparked a protest today in Kabul that resulted in the deaths of 10 U.N. workers, including possibly the leader of the U.N. mission."
2011-04-01,"""Jumpers"" offered big money to brave Japan's nuclear plant"
2011-04-01,"France's 101st, in the Indian Ocean..."
2011-04-01, India 'to surpass China in population growth'
2011-04-01,"Entomb? Cement pumps flown in to nuke plant.
Same company that helped seal in Chernobyl is sending equipment "
2011-04-01,Dog rscud aftr floating for 3 wks aftr tsunami
2011-04-01,Chinese authorities found three companies linked to Google Inc that broke tax rules and are investigating possible tax avoidance
2011-04-01,"Gadafi's forces are winning on the ground, but key 
ministers are defecting. Why?"
2011-04-01,"7 civilians have been killed and 25 hurt after a coalition air strike in eastern Libya, a doctor has told the BBC."
2011-04-01,Women vie for votes in Nigeria
2011-04-01,"Crews 'facing 100-year battle' at Fukushima. ""...one expert says the radiation leaks will be ongoing and it could take 50 to 100 years before the nuclear fuel rods have completely cooled and been removed."""
2011-04-01,180 Japanese who volunteered for the 'suicide mission' to try and save the Tukushima nuclear station from meltdown. These guys..these guys are true heroes.
2011-04-01,Dr. Michio Kaku says three raging meltdowns under way at Fukushima.
2011-03-31,"There are not many occasions where you could say an axe murdering rampage was justified, but this is one of them"
2011-03-31,"Muslim girl, 14, lashed to death for adultery by Sharia law, even though was a rape victim"
2011-03-31,Britian's going to start privatizing prisons come October! And they're prepared to call in the army should there be strikes against the move! I'm speechless!
2011-03-31,"Indias population is now pegged at 1.21 billion, an increase of more than 181 million in the last 10 years"
2011-03-31,"The IAEA has found cesium-137 concentrations of up to 3.7 megabecquerels per square meter, 40km from Fukushima Dai-ichi. After Chernobyl, the deposition level triggering compulsory relocation was 1.48 MBq/sq.m."
2011-03-31,"Of the top 10 countries with the most executions per year, 7 are Islamic and 2 are communist.  The US is ranked 5th on this list."
2011-03-31,chief economic adviser to India's Ministry of Finance argues that paying bribes should be legal
2011-03-31,Brazils Lula Tells Portugal To Reject IMF Bailout
2011-03-31,"Up to 1,000 bodies left untouched near nuclear plant due to radiation fears. :("
2011-03-31,"Japan nuclear refugees feel ""betrayed"" by TEPCO: ""We were told again and again it was safe"" 
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2011-03-31,Kosovo's Mafia: How the West ignores allegations of organized crime at the highest levels of a new democracy
2011-03-31,Struggling stewardess exposed euro coin fraud ring
2011-03-31,"A New Palestinian Movement: Young, Networked, Nonviolent"
2011-03-31,Confidence Slips Away as Japan Battles Nuclear Peril 
2011-03-31,"Radiation level in seawater hits new high near Fukushima plant - ""a concentration of 4,385 times the maximum level permitted under law"""
2011-03-31,Saudi officials say they gave their backing to Western air strikes on Libya in exchange for the United States muting its criticism of the authorities in Bahrain
2011-03-31,Egypt extends olive branch to Iran; seeks to normalize ties
2011-03-31,US allows Libyans to sell their oil.
2011-03-31,Ivory Coast fighters descend on main city
2011-03-31,Qadaffi forces laying land mines
2011-03-31,NATO Warns Rebels Against Attacking Libyan Civilians
2011-03-31,"AFRICA: Gaddafi's regime has been ordered to appear before Africa's highest court to face charges of ""massive violations of human rights"" for killing peaceful demonstrators in the early days of the uprising."
2011-03-31,"Debating the merits of a press prize for Venezuela's Chvez:  A top Argentine university awarded a press prize to Hugo Chvez, who has pumped millions of dollars into community radio and TV stations. He has closed another 40."
2011-03-31,Bahrain steps up arrests of activists
2011-03-31,"The hole in Ireland's banks is 21bn, equivalent to well over a third of all revenues received by the Irish government."
2011-03-30,"Earliest Christian writings in existence discovered in Jordanian cave - 70 new books almost 2,000 years old"
2011-03-30,"Facebook has removed a page calling for a new Palestinian uprising against Israel after more than 350,000 people signed up to it."
2011-03-30,"UN Chief: Israel occupation 'morally and politically unsustainable, must end'"
2011-03-30,Spain's unemployed: one in five under 30 still looking for that first job
2011-03-30,"German Green party politician Malte Spitz used privacy law to force his cell phone carrier to reveal what it knew about him. The result? 35,831 different instances when his mobile phone transferred information over a 6-month period"
2011-03-30,"""The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor"""
2011-03-30,Facebook drops Palestinian uprising page after Israel protest.
2011-03-30,Wilders 'anti-Islam' trial to go ahead: Court rules case will continue against Dutch politician Geert Wilders on charges of inciting hatred against Muslims.
2011-03-30,"Prominent Bahraini blogger Mahmood Al-Yousif arrested. His latest tweet simply says ""Police here for me"""
2011-03-30,The Libyan Foreign Minister has Defected
2011-03-30,"Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s own engineers had warned in 2007 that the Fukushima nuclear plant faced a 10 percent chance of being ""test[ed] or overrun"" by a tsunami in the next 50 years."
2011-03-30,Israel considering annexing West Bank settlements
2011-03-30,98-Year-Old War Vet tries to take out 2 police officers with an axe and knife. He's now the oldest person to ever be held in custody by Scottish police.
2011-03-30,"How China and Others Are Altering Web Traffic: ""Invisible"" servers let governments quietly intercept and modify their citizens' online communications"
2011-03-30,Police suspend effort to remove corpse near troubled nuclear plant due to radiation levels of the body
2011-03-30,Bahrains protest movement fades beneath government suppression
2011-03-30,Syrian president addresses the nation.
2011-03-30,Complicated: Israel kidnaps a guy to get information about kidnapped guy
2011-03-30,Japan to decommission four nuclear power plants
2011-03-30,"Berlusconi: ""Migrants must leave Italy"""
2011-03-30,Japan sea radioactivity 'rises'
2011-03-30,While fighting against massive maiming and rape the Libyan Rebels form their own Central Bank 
2011-03-30,The Long Arm of Mossad: A Palestinian engineer vanishes from a train carriage in Ukraine -- and reappears later in an Israeli jail. He's being held without charge. Suspicion is mounting that the man is a Hamas insider with vital information.
2011-03-30,Ouattara forces enter Cote d'Ivoire's capital: Forces loyal to internationally recognised winner of presidential election are parading through streets of the capital.
2011-03-30,Australian Prime Minister Hacked
2011-03-29,Australian woman sues a five-star hotel in the United Arab Emirates after she was drugged and raped by co-workers and jailed for eight months for adultery
2011-03-29,Israel threatens to take action if UN recognizes Palestinian statehood
2011-03-29,Syria's Government Has Resigned
2011-03-29,Russia Eliminates Daylight Saving Time.
2011-03-29,"""A little English village church has just made a remarkable discovery. The ornate old Bible that had been sitting in plain view on a table near the last row of pews for longer than anyone could remember is an original King James Bible - one of perhaps 200 surviving 400-year-old original editions..."""
2011-03-29,Japan on Maximum nuclear alert
2011-03-29,"Bolivian President Evo Morales is on a mission to legalize coca leaves, which has legitimate uses aside from being turned into cocaine"
2011-03-29,Dutch bankers' bonuses axed by people power
2011-03-29,EU to ban cars from cities by 2050
2011-03-29,North Korea asks South Korea for help on a possible volcano eruption.
2011-03-29,Egyptian Cabinet passes a law criminalizing protests 4 days after a protest invoked constitutional referendum passed.
2011-03-29,British government finally apologises for a soldier who shot a 12-year-old girl in the back as she walked to church. Soldier not jailed.
2011-03-29,Wikileaks: A pink box found at one of the 26/11 Mumbai attack sites that India would not give to FBI 
2011-03-29,Libyan Rape Victim Still Being Held In Gadhafi Compound
2011-03-29,French Constitutional Council Validates Internet Censorship
2011-03-29,"Pakistan's secret dirty war. Mutilated corpses bearing the signs of torture keep turning up, among them lawyers, students and farm workers"
2011-03-29,"Syrian government resigns amid unrest, announces that emergency law and restrictions on civil liberties will be overturned"
2011-03-29,WSJ.com - The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun
2011-03-29,"China's most prestigious seat of learning, Peking University, is planning to screen students for 'radical thoughts"
2011-03-29,"Pro-Libya, Anti-US Protest Held in Uganda"
2011-03-29,"President: Yemen is ""a ticking time bomb"""
2011-03-29,"Gaddafi troops force rebels back: Pro-government forces have intensified their attacks on Libyan rebels, driving them back tens of kilometres over ground they had taken in recent days."
2011-03-29,"Taliban Seize District in Eastern Afghanistan from 
Afghan police"
2011-03-29,Deaths and thousands infected with dengue in Paraguay and Bolivia 
2011-03-29,NFK: Crane in Reactor #3 collapsed onto fuel rods (1:40)
2011-03-28,"Details emerge on US ""kill team"" in Afghanistan- ""The boy did as he was told. He stood still.
The soldiers knelt down behind a mud-brick wall...As the grenade exploded [they] opened fire, shooting the boy repeatedly at close range with an M4 carbine and a machine gun."""
2011-03-28,"Libya Rape Accuser Missing - The Libyan govt said late Sunday that Eman al-Obeidi, the woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel and tried to tell foreign journalists about being raped by Gaddafi's men, has been released. But no one who knows al-Obeidi has heard from her."
2011-03-28,"Email between workers at Fukushima: ""Crying is useless. If were in hell now all we can do is to crawl up towards heaven."""
2011-03-28,"""When the tsunami hit and Hideaki Akaiwa realized his wife was in grave danger, he defied all odds by finding scuba gear, swimming under the waves to their home, and saving her. He then went for his mother, saving her too, and has been out almost every day looking for survivors."""
2011-03-28,[NSFW & GRAPHIC] Video: Gaddafi forces bomb house killing children and occupants in Misratah last Friday
2011-03-28,"Chinese students screened for 'radical thoughts' and 'independent lifestyles', provoking angry reactions from undergrads. "
2011-03-28,New shocking video of the japanese tsunami
2011-03-28,Radioactive water is pooling outside Fukushima's reactors at levels exceeding one sievert an hour.  Work to contain the disaster is hampered as just four hours exposure could mean death within two months.
2011-03-28,Dutch bankers' bonuses axed by people power
2011-03-28,Woman alleging Libyan abuse is free
2011-03-28,"Libya: Rebels take Ras Lanuf, Brega , Uqayla, Bin Jawad"
2011-03-28,"United Arab Emirates: Drugged, raped, then jailed for 'adultery'"
2011-03-28,Egyptian military says Mubarak under house arrest
2011-03-28,WikiLeaks stories from Nigeria. Editor reveals that he shows up in one cable with a US diplomat who reported their conversation with such accuracy that he wants to hire him as a reporter for the newspaper 
2011-03-28,"Libyans call woman who claimed gang rape a prostitute
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2011-03-28,"Latest helicopter footage of Fukushima, zoom-in on ruined reactors - russia today"
2011-03-28,"Iranian diplomat asks hotel to remove Israeli flag ahead of embassy event, but Arab-Israeli manager tells him: 'If you don't like it, use another venue' "
2011-03-28,"Gaza cops use beatings, stun guns on female reporters"
2011-03-28,Chinese battery factory poisons village with lead
2011-03-28,Libyan revolutionaries claim Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte has fallen
2011-03-28,"For all the public anxiety over exposure to radioactivity, Japan is fighting an equally critical health emergency on another front as tens of thousands of evacuees face serious health problems and a future clouded by trauma."
2011-03-28,Radiation leak found outside Japan nuclear reactor
2011-03-28,"Professor Juan Cole's open letter to the Left, on Libya"
2011-03-28,Fukushima reactor may have suffered partial meltdown.
2011-03-28,Their professor says he's going back to Libya to be the rebel finance minister
2011-03-27,"Massive demonstration today in Britain. 400,000 protest against budget cuts for the people and tax-breaks for the rich."
2011-03-27,Report of a huge radiation spike at Japan nuclear plant was FALSE.
2011-03-27,"Woman cries for help, says abused by Gaddafi men"
2011-03-27,UK cuts taxes for the richest the day after 250000+ march in protest of government spending cuts
2011-03-27,Tripoli Shock: Minders Snatch 'Rape Victim'
2011-03-27,Should lying be illegal? Canada's broadcasters debate.
2011-03-27,"Female medic awarded Military Cross for bravery: 
Lance Corporal Kylie Watson twice risked her life under heavy fire to treat two gravely wounded Afghan soldiers"
2011-03-27,Germany: Angela Merkel 'to lose key state election' - Green Party  benefits greatly from nuclear accident in Japan
2011-03-27,Libyan rebel commander admits his fighters have al-Qaeda links
2011-03-27,Borneo tribes: 30-year regime has destroyed everything
2011-03-27,"Tony Blair's priest fixed papal knighthoods for cash: 
Senior Catholic took up to 50k donations for honours."
2011-03-27,Veena Malik -  Pakistani actress defies mullah accusing her of immoral behavior. We desperately need more women like her. I sincerely hope shell be safe
2011-03-27,New Libyan rebel leader spent much of past 20 years in suburban Virginia
2011-03-27,Sixth police spy in protest movement unmasked
2011-03-27,"Radiation 10-million-times normal levels detected at 
No.2 reactor"
2011-03-27,Saudi Arabia: Arrests for Peaceful Protest on the Rise
2011-03-27,"Pakistan:  A Revolution Against Whom?  ""In Pakistan  we get rid of our dictators every ten years or so There is no 'regime' to overthrow  the first question is: an uprising against whom?"""
2011-03-27,"TOKYO  Workers were evacuated Sunday from one of the contaminated turbine buildings at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after a massive spike in radioactivity measurements. But the Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates the facility, said hours later that the reading was a mistake"
2011-03-27,Hundreds of thousands of protesters march in London. [VIDEO]
2011-03-27,"""A woman at the centre of the trial involving serious allegations of violent assault by Colonel Gaddafis nephew has given disturbing new evidence about how senior members of the Libyan regime were able to flout the law with impunity under Tony Blairs Government.""
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2011-03-27,Desperate Tripoli woman violently dragged away by Colonel Qaddafis security forces before horrified reporters
2011-03-27,"Libya: Nato assumes control of military operation ""with immediate effect"""
2011-03-27,Radioactivity soars in Japan reactor: 10 million times higher than normal.
2011-03-27,"""The gains signify that the rebel forces have reclaimed all of the territory they lost to Gadhafi's forces at the start of the war."""
2011-03-27,"Magnitude-6.5 quake off Japan, small tsunami alert"
2011-03-26,"Canadian Non-confidence vote passes, Canadians are headed to the polls"
2011-03-26,"India has allowed the right to euthanasia because of an extreme case where a young girl was strangled into unconsciousness with a dog chain while being raped. She was plunged into a vegetative state from which she never recovered. Thirty-seven years later, the courts say she could be allowed to die."
2011-03-26,"Japan: The students and teachers at Ookawa school knew what to do when the tsunami warning sounded. But they never thought it would happen to them, so they didn't go to higher ground and drowned. "
2011-03-26,"Britons reclaim their common law rights under the Magna Carta, seize courtroom and arrest corrupt judge. FREEEEEDOM!!!"
2011-03-26,"Pro-democracy protests in Jordan turn violent as government-hired thugs and security forces attack the protest camp, leaving over a hundred injured and one dead"
2011-03-26,"""... a young Palestinian activist told me that his friends were feeling more positive toward the US than they had in years because of the military action in Libya. ""It's on Al-Jazeera all the time,"" he said"""
2011-03-26,Libyan rebels take control of city of Ajdabiya from government after coalition warplanes pound pro-Gaddafi forces
2011-03-26,"Tons of relief goods have been delivered to victims of Japan's catastrophic earthquake and tsunami from a dark corner of society: the ""yakuza"" organized crime networks."
2011-03-26,Levels of radioactive materials soaring in sea near nuke plant
2011-03-26,"""Papers please"" ruled unconstitutional in Ireland"
2011-03-26,"200,000 people across Germany take to the streets to protest nuclear power"
2011-03-26,"Today, an estimated 250k gathered to marched on London to protest against the spending cuts. Right now a hardcore are taking on big business and the police and taking direct action."
2011-03-26,Hamas states that it will agree to a ceasefire if Israel stops attacking the Gaza Strip. 
2011-03-26,"Microsoft Compromises Users Privacy: No HTTPS in Arab Countries, Iran"
2011-03-26,"Now hospitalized Japanese nuclear plant workers were exposed to ""2 to 6 Sievert"" of radiation after stepping in a puddle of radioactive water"
2011-03-26,"The three workers who recently received radiation burns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant were  low-paid and poorly trained temporary employees. Two of them were not wearing high boots, and their feet and ankles sustained radiation burns from the contaminated water."
2011-03-26,"UN: One million flee Cote d'Ivoire violence - West African country ""close to civil war"", UN hears, while humanitarian officials warn of ""massive displacement""."
2011-03-26,A gun was pointed at Sky News after a woman tried to tell foreign journalists about being raped and tortured by Libyan officials
2011-03-26,Is Syria reaching the point of no return?
2011-03-26,Mass protest against spending cuts breaks out in London
2011-03-26,Growing unrest on island of prisoners in Australia
2011-03-26,"Canadians Protest in Montreal Demanding Immediate Actions Against The Violation of Human Rights in Bahrain, Libya, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia"
2011-03-26,March 26 - Libyan rebels reclaim Brega
2011-03-26,Libyan Woman Struggles to Tell Media of Her Rape
2011-03-26,"Japan faces new setback in fight to avert disaster at Fukushima plant: Prime minister urges vigilance after safety officials said break in nuclear reactor may have caused big radiation leak
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2011-03-25,A serious leak of classified information has just taken place - senior Gadhafi aide was told to take bodies from a morgue and place them at the scene of the bomb damage. Will Eric Holder announce investigation to find out who is responsible for this leak?
2011-03-25,Canadian Government expected to fall Friday 
2011-03-25,"France court finds Monsanto falsely advertised Roundup as being ""biodegradable"" and that it ""left the soil clean."""
2011-03-25,Video of police shooting a 14-year-old boy several times comes to light.
2011-03-25,"""We will be one of the strongest economies in the world"" - Swedish historian proposes full federal union of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland by 2030. Such a union would number 25 million and have a GDP similar to that of Spain and India."
2011-03-25,Germany abolishes military conscription
2011-03-25,"Tanker Breaks in Half on Rocks at Nightingale Island, 20,000 endangered Rockhopper Penguins may be oil-coated, and rats onboard have infested the formerly rodent-free island, which may be more damaging than the oil for the Penguins. "
2011-03-25,"Egyptian decree bans strikes and protests, showing the real character of the military regime that now controls Egypt. "
2011-03-25,Germany's highest civil court ruled that Deutsche Bank should have warned its customers of the risks of an exotic investment product it sold in the run-up to the financial crisis!
2011-03-25,Nothing to see here -  Possible Reactor Core Leak in Fukushima 
2011-03-25,Possible breach of the No. 3 containment reactor vessel at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This is the one with the plutonium fuel rods.
2011-03-25,"As many as 1,000 bodies being removed from a mass grave in Zimbabwe - likely victims of waves of political violence that have wracked the country since 2000"
2011-03-25,"Fukushima plants have 10X the nuclear fuel that Chernobyl had, and fallout is reaching similar levels seen in the 1986 disaster."
2011-03-25,Another Gurkha gets a medal - single-handedly fought off 'at least' a dozen Taliban
2011-03-25,Scientists plan to drill all the way down to the Earth's mantle
2011-03-25,Canada's Harper government has toppled
2011-03-25,Syria 'ready to explode' as desperation grows
2011-03-25,"Comodo on Certificate Authority attack: ""...All of the above leads us to one conclusion only: that this was likely to be a state-driven attack"""
2011-03-25,Brazil town's Nazi twin mystery solved
2011-03-25,Japanese nuclear safety officials said Friday that they suspect that the reactor core at one unit of the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant may have breached
2011-03-25,U.A.E. Commits Planes to Enforcing Libya No-Fly Zone
2011-03-25,Africans want UN to act in Ivory Coast
2011-03-25,Amnesty International: At least 55 protesters believed to have been killed in Syria
2011-03-25,Documents show that Jamal the son of  deposed Mubarak ordered  Sharm El Shiek bombing and the gas pipeline
2011-03-25,Video footage of five Brazilian police officers shooting a teenage boy at point blank range has emerged
2011-03-24,7.0 Earthquake Hits Burma
2011-03-24,"25 dead in Syria and rising rapidly - government has 'declared war,' killing protesters INDISCRIMINATELY"
2011-03-24,"N.Korea's Kim Jong-il sends $500,000 to quake-hit Japan
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2011-03-24,"""European governments  including Britain and France  sold Libya more than $470 million worth of weapons [in 2009], including fighter jets, guns and bombs ... the Obama administration was working to provide the Libyan dictator another $77 million in weapons"
2011-03-24,"Egyptian women protesters detained, tortured, forced to take ""virginity tests""."
2011-03-24,Fukushima workers in hospital after radiation exposure
2011-03-24,Libyan rebels in Benghazi said they have created a new oil company to replace the national oil corporation 
2011-03-24,"Iran hackers compromise partner account at SSL certificate company and obtain fraudulent SSL certificates for Skype, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo e-mail servers (among others); likely so they can spy on their own citizens"
2011-03-24,"Libyan army in possession of  one of the most lethal"" anti-aircraft weapons available. Where did they come from?"
2011-03-24,Ivory Coast wonders: Where's our UN intervention?
2011-03-24,Fukushima Engineer Says He Covered Up Flaw at Shut Reactor No. 4
2011-03-24,Massive Earthquake Strikes Thailand
2011-03-24,"""A new, much-dreaded, short-range anti-aircraft missile made in Russia has turned up in the hands of Libyan government forces."""
2011-03-24,"Unfortunately, Japan's nuclear crisis is far from over. Salt accumulation, cover-ups, destroyed piping, spent-fuel fires, rising temps & radiation."
2011-03-24,"African states call for tougher action on Ivory Coast from UN: 500,000 already forced from their homes"
2011-03-24,"Wikileaks: US diplomatic cables suggested Canadian TV seeks to twist current events to feed long-standing negative images of the US."" Not really, say Canadian producers and officials "
2011-03-24,"Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey has announced her country is developing a project to open up all crossings to the Gaza Strip, which has been suffocating for the last five years from an Israeli blockade."
2011-03-24,Human rights groups say that more than 100 people may have been killed when troops opened fire on a mosque in Syria
2011-03-24,Libyan Government takes reporters to find a house hit by Western air strikes and then they get 'lost'
2011-03-24,Nato takes over Libya no-fly zone
2011-03-24,"RSA SecurID Tokens Hacked, Australian Companies Vulnerable"
2011-03-24,French warplanes have shot down a Libyan plane in the first incident of its kind since enforcement of the UN no-fly zone began
2011-03-24,"Syria at flashpoint, activists use social media to call for Friday protests; move comes after security forces stormed a mosque in Daraa town that left many dead"
2011-03-24,"UAE: Dubai police have seized 16,000 Turkish-made pistols hidden in a sea cargo shipment bound for Yemen

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2011-03-24,Airstrikes fail to deter Gaddafi forces: Residents say forces loyal to the Libyan leader shell area near Misurata hospital as explosions are heard in Tripoli
2011-03-23,Israel passes new Nakba Law to punish public institutions for any reference to the Israeli occupation of Palestine in 1948 as a catastrophe or 'Nakba'
2011-03-23,Japanese man dons scuba suit and swims through tsunami to rescue wife
2011-03-23,Women not allowed to vote in Saudi elections
2011-03-23,Gaddafi's air force 'defeated' - BBC
2011-03-23,WikiLeaks: How the Organization of the Islamic Conference took over the UN Human Rights Council
2011-03-23,"Syrian forces raid mosque and open fire on protesters, kill 6 people"
2011-03-23,First photos of so-called Fukushima Fifty the crew working around the clock to prevent a meltdown 
2011-03-23,Portuguese Prime Minister Resigns
2011-03-23,Neutron beam observed 13 times at crippled Fukushima nuke plant -- so it means chain reaction was observed?
2011-03-23,That news about the 6 Libyan villagers shot during the rescue of the downed US pilots? Confirmed by the BBC and witnesses. FWIW Channel 4 News is a highly credible source and has been for decades.
2011-03-23,There is a small war starting along Gaza border
2011-03-23,"Bahrain protest crackdown defended by European Union envoy 
EU foreign policy adviser Robert Cooper downplays violence against pro-democracy protesters saying 'accidents happen'  Hypocrite much?"
2011-03-23,Canadians Protest in Ottawa Demanding Immediate Actions Against The Violation of Human Rights in Bahrain
2011-03-23,"The Path of Protest: Ever since a man in Tunisia burnt himself to death in December 2010 in protest at his treatment by police, pro-democracy rebellions have erupted across the Arab world."
2011-03-23,Germany weaning itself from nuclear power for good in the wake of Japans disaster
2011-03-23,Syrian forces 'open fire on protesters'
2011-03-23,"Japan's Quake Damage May Swell to $309 Billion, Four Katrinas"
2011-03-23,"LIBYA: Libya Rebels give Gadhafi supporters 24 hours to hand over weapons. ""Homes were raided, neighbors dragged off, suspects executed. They were accused of being reactivated by Gadhafi, like al-Qaida activates sleeper cells."""
2011-03-23,"Massacre in Daraa,Syria unknown number dead"
2011-03-23,"Following the Libyan money trail, they expected millions but found billions"
2011-03-23,"New law: Cambodian women can't marry broke, older men - A foreign ministry officials explains the government wants to stamp out ""fake marriages and human trafficking"" and cites cases of Cambodian women ""used as slaves"" abroad."
2011-03-23,A Neo-Nazi from Victoria has been working as a private military contractor in Afghanistan.
2011-03-23,"As Ivory Coast heads for civil war, thousands seek safety in Liberia."
2011-03-23,Tokyo water supply deemed unsafe for consumption by children after radioactive iodine exceeds limits
2011-03-23,"Protesters in front of the Saudi Embassy in Ottawa demanding it halts the killing of the innocent including children, nurses, and doctors, and demanding it to leave Bahrain. (2nd Video)"
2011-03-22,"Canada's Government has for the first time in its history, been found in contempt of Parliament. "
2011-03-22,"Religion may become extinct in nine nations, study says"
2011-03-22,"China is now cutting off phone calls mid-sentence when words like ""protest"" are used"
2011-03-22,Ex-Israeli president jailed for rape: Moshe Katsav sentenced to seven years in jail for rape and other crimes
2011-03-22,"US fighter jet crash lands in field near Benghazi. One pilot rescued by rebel soldiers, another rescued by US military forces."
2011-03-22,US jet crashes in eastern Libya. Locals queue up to shake the US pilots hand.
2011-03-22,"""Until a week ago, a tsunami was one of the most mysterious of natural events, its devastating power usually evident only in the aftermath. Yet from the first moments the earth started to shudder on March 11 [2011], Japan's tsunami was one of the most recorded disasters ever to be captured on film"""
2011-03-22,"""One aircraft conspicuous by its absence over the skies of Libya is the Air Force's vaunted F-22 Raptor air dominance fighter. The Lockheed Martin-built jet was likely benched due to its inability to communicate with other coalition aircraft and its limited ability to hit ground targets..."""
2011-03-22,"""To safely enclose and robotically dismantle the 25-year-old makeshift confinement sarcophagus at Chernobyl, contractors are now erecting a massive steel structure weighing more than 29,000 metric tons."""
2011-03-22,"Across the Arab world, freedom is now a prospect
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2011-03-22,Turkey group plans new Gaza flotilla with at least 15 ships
2011-03-22,"Japan crisis:  They are desperate, they have no other food to eat, says a policeman guiding some emergency traffic at a nearby intersection. You could call it stealing, but we understand that at these times there is perhaps no other choice. "
2011-03-22,"UK police planning to use new, untested kettling tactic to control the crowd in upcoming TUC massive anti-cuts protests on March 26 "
2011-03-22,Lights restored at Japan nuclear reactor
2011-03-22,Libyan Rebels praise courage of Kamikaze pilot that killed Gaddafi's son
2011-03-22,"Radiation 1,600x the norm 20km around the plant"
2011-03-22,Explosions Rock Libyan Capitol
2011-03-22,Israel's military intelligence admits to monitoring international organizations.
2011-03-22,Israeli President Sentenced To 7 Years In Prison On Rape Charges
2011-03-22,"Just a month before a powerful earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi plant at the center of Japans nuclear crisis, government regulators approved a 10-year extension for the oldest of the six reactors at the power station despite warnings about its safety. "
2011-03-22,Satellite snaps extent of Japan's post-quake blackout
2011-03-22,Ivory Coast: UN warns of forgotten humanitarian crisis
2011-03-22,Olympic gymnastic legend Nikolai Andrianov (15 gold medals) dies at 58
2011-03-22,Smoke spews from 2 reactors at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
2011-03-22,Wikileaks: Indian lawmakers were paid millions of dollars to vote in favor of a civil nuclear deal with the U.S.
2011-03-21,"""War On Drugs has failed and should be abandoned 
in favour of evidence-based policies"" - former heads 
of MI5, CPS, BBC"
2011-03-21,"Per terrawatt/hour of energy generated, coal kills 161 people - compared to 0.04 deaths from nuclear"
2011-03-21,Fukushima's 2 reactors under control after cooling functions restored
2011-03-21,Yemen's Military Joins Protesters after Friday Violence - President Saleh now Stands Alone
2011-03-21,"Japan quake death toll passes 18,000 "
2011-03-21,"Worth Mentioning: France/President Sarkozy spearheaded the UN resolution for the no fly zone, and were among the first to ready their planes. Total, the petrol company is French. Here's a wikileaks cable from 2009 about Total and Libya"
2011-03-21,Pictures of the allied bombs destroying Qaddafi's forces
2011-03-21,Japanese fury at sensationalist foreign reporting of earthquake
2011-03-21,Private security firm in UK given police powers
2011-03-21,Google says China deliberately disrupted e-mail service to thwart internet campaign for mid-east style protests in China
2011-03-21,Japan: The floodgate that didn't work to stop the tsunami [Video]
2011-03-21,Guatemalan president and wife divorce so that she can run for president.
2011-03-21,"More than 8,000 Libyans killed in revolt: rebel spokesman"
2011-03-21,Artillery Shell lands next to Civilian Crowd in Misrata Mar 21 - Regime claims ZERO civi casualties in western Libya
2011-03-21,Smoke Rising from Fukushima Reactors 2 and 3 (again) - Workers Evacuated Pending Evaluation
2011-03-21,"Yemen President Fires Entire Cabinet: ""...now entering into some form of an end game."""
2011-03-21,Double standard seen in Arab response to Libya
2011-03-21,"Egyptians approve constitutional changes, paving way to new elections "
2011-03-21,"A nuclear industry whistleblower who helped design protective containment vessels for reactors has attacked the Japanese government, its nuclear industry and regulators over their safety record."
2011-03-21,"When the massive tsunami smacked into Fukushima Daiichi, the nuclear power plant was stacked high with more uranium than it was originally designed to hold"
2011-03-21,"Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has said it would be ""unwise"" to have coalition forces try to kill Col Muammar Gaddafi in military strikes in Libya"
2011-03-21,Abu Ghraib 2: New photos show US soldiers posing with dead body in Afghanistan
2011-03-21,Top Yemeni General announces he is joining the protests: major blow for the regime.
2011-03-21,WikiLeaks cable links defecting Yemeni general to smuggling rackets
2011-03-21,Illegal Israeli settlers stab Palestinian in occupied West Bank
2011-03-20,"Really sad news. Mohammed Nabbous (the guy in the video), founder of Libya AlHurra TV, who has been hosting a livestream from Benghazi has been shot dead. He leaves behind a young wife and unborn child."
2011-03-20,Wyclef Jean shot in Haiti
2011-03-20,"BBC - Why is US backing force in Libya but not Bahrain, Yemen?"
2011-03-20,"The Arab League on Sunday criticized Western military strikes on Libya, a week after urging the United Nations to slap a no-fly zone on the oil-rich North African state."
2011-03-20,"Woman 80, grandson 16 found under rubble in Japan after 9 days."
2011-03-20,"""Working overnight into Sunday, engineers have successfully restored power to cooling pumps in two reactors at the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant"""
2011-03-20,US Fires Cruise Missiles at Libyan Air Defenses!
2011-03-20,Google accuses China of interfering with Gmail email system
2011-03-20,Gadafi supporter vow to be human shield for him...until phone start ringing telling them of UN missile attack really happened. After that they slowly run away...
2011-03-20,Gaddafi forces are in ruins after air strikes
2011-03-20,Protesters in libya drive through town with pile of dead mercenary's on the hood of their vehicle [NSFW] Gore
2011-03-20,"While the Libyan revolution holds on by a thread, with hopes bolstered by international intervention, the movements for democratic change in Bahrain and Yemen have already been brutally put down."
2011-03-20,WAR: French plane opens fire in Libya
2011-03-20,"Opsss.. Syria, the country that 'expert' says less likely to revolt is catching democracy Flu, Thousand of people now is rising up against goverment... "
2011-03-20,Now Saudis take to the streets to demand the release of prisoners held without trial
2011-03-20,"Bahrain and Yemen declare war on their protesters: With 42 killed in Sanaa, regimes show they will keep power at any cost"
2011-03-20,Fallout from Wikileaks: Carlos Pascual resigns as U.S. ambassador to Mexico.
2011-03-20,Bahraini medics recount hospital horror
2011-03-20,Penalties for Forced Marriage: Berlin Passes New Integration Measures
2011-03-20,"In Bahrain, home of a US Naval fleet, hospitals are under siege as US-trained Saudi soldiers maintain Manama crackdown."
2011-03-20,"Global economic forecasting company IHS Global Insight reported this week that China has now become the world leader in manufacturing output, ending Americas 110-year-long run as the worlds biggest manufacturer, according to published reports. "
2011-03-20,Fears of a 'counter-revolution' in Egypt. Activist says he is one of many beaten and tortured by police one month after Mubarak's ousting. 
2011-03-20,Venezuela's Chavez Denounces Military Action in Libya
2011-03-20,Libya: why Col Gaddafi will fight to the bitter end
2011-03-20,'Fukushima Fifty' cut off from family (concern: more about information than radiation leaks) 
2011-03-19,"Lest We Forget - From rooftops, snipers kill 46 Yemeni protesters today."
2011-03-19,"Bahrain Police Killing People by Drive by Shootings

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2011-03-19,"Alright, I think this may be the last of the Japan tsunami videos but it's by far the most horrifying and indicative of the devastation"
2011-03-19,French fighter jets deployed over Libya
2011-03-19,"French plane has fired the first live fire shots in Libya, targetting a vehicle at 1645GMT"
2011-03-19,North Waziristan tribes declare war against US!
2011-03-19,Egyptians free voting for the first time in decades.
2011-03-19,Tragedy in Berlin Zoo: Celebrity Polar Bear Knut Is Dead
2011-03-19,Gaddafi's letters to Obama and the UN. In case you didn't think he was on crack.
2011-03-19,"Gaddafi ends cease fire: Attacks power station in Benghazi, pro-Gaddafi forces made several incursions into the city center prompting clashes with rebels"
2011-03-19,"Going Down In Flames Over Benghazi, Libya. Photographer: Patrick Baz"
2011-03-19,"Libya: French military jets on 'reconnaissance': French military jets on reconnaissance missions have flown over ""all Libyan territory"" on Saturday, French military sources say."
2011-03-19,Nerve Gas Used against Protesters in Bahrain
2011-03-19,French warplanes destroy four tanks used by Gaddafi forces
2011-03-19,"Crowd hurls rocks at Egyptian presidential hopeful Mohammad El-Baradei, preventing him from voting - ""A crowd of angry men pelted the Egyptian reform campaigner and Nobel laureate with rocks and smashed his car windows outside a polling center."""
2011-03-19,Fighter jet 'shot down' over Benghazi (footage)
2011-03-19,"Sarkozy shouts at EU foreign minister, had to be 
restrained by Cameron."
2011-03-19,"""Gaddafi has lost all legitimacy. He cannot stay in power in Libya. Whatever happens, he has to go,"" 
- UN chief Ban Ki-moon"
2011-03-19,France takes action against Libya
2011-03-19,"Tibet's Quiet Revolution --- 
Dalai Lama's retirement from politics opens up diaspora leadership succession to younger, secular candidates. Aim is to make the government in exile more democratic, self-sufficientand capable of surviving Dalai Lama's death"
2011-03-19,French Mirage and Rafele fighters seen over Benghazi. Pro-Gadaffi tanks are the likely target.
2011-03-19,Yemen's US-backed leader fails to stop uprising: 'Witnesses said protesters chased security authorities out of the city of Dar Saad and were now in control.'
2011-03-19,Anti-Government Protesters Run Off Bahrain Police 
2011-03-19,Newspaper banned by Mugabe is back on sale
2011-03-19,Japan delayed its response to the nuclear crisis over concerns about damaging the power station assets unnecessarily
2011-03-18,Libya Calls Immediate Ceasefire
2011-03-18,Power cable reaches Japan nuclear plant
2011-03-18,"""Gaddafi is a liar"" and ceasefire a sham as Misurata attacked"
2011-03-18,GOOD NEWS FROM JAPAN: Tokyo Electric Power Co has connected the external transmission line with the stricken Daiichi nuclear power plant and confirmed that electricity can be supplied
2011-03-18,"At least 5 of the 50 'heroes' working at the japanese reactors are already dead, with half the others seriously injured..."
2011-03-18,"Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah attempts to prevent protests, gives $66.7 billion to build 500,000 housing units and $4.3 billion for more hospitals; also gives another two months' wages for all govt workers and two extra payments for university students, raises minimum wage, gives more to unemployed"
2011-03-18,Sandra Bullock donates $1 million for Japan relief
2011-03-18,"UN passes resolution for intervention in Libya. 10 in favor, none against, five abstain."
2011-03-18,Japan: One week later [pics]
2011-03-18,"Resilient Japan: An 8.9 earthquake, a 33-foot tsunami, crises at their battered nuclear plants - the people of Japan have withstood the last week with admirable tenacity"
2011-03-18,"
The Saudi King Just Unveiled A Big List Of Bribes So That His Citizens Don't Revolt"
2011-03-18,Bahrain police shooting at independent cameraman filming
2011-03-18,Japanese workers successfully connect power cable to crippled reactor
2011-03-18,Fukushima nuclear alert level raised to 5
2011-03-18,"Wall Street Journal: ""Egypt is arming Libya rebels"""
2011-03-18,"China shutters 130,000 Internet cafes as part of its ongoing efforts to control how citizens access the Internet and what content will be available to them."
2011-03-18,Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that British Tornado and Typhoon aircraft are being deployed immediately to enforce a United Nations no-fly zone in Libya.
2011-03-18,Gaddafi's forces still shelling cities. 'Ceasefire' seems to be only words..
2011-03-18,Japan crisis is much worse than Three Mile Island 
2011-03-18,U.S. Drone Attacks Resume in Pakistan After Acquittal of CIA Operative Raymond Davis for Double-Murder. This is like something out of really bad movie.
2011-03-18,Military strikes on Libya within hours: France
2011-03-18,Syria is Officially in full Revolution mode - March 18 - The regime most capable of matching Gdog's brutality
2011-03-18,Driver videos the moment the Tsunami engulfed his car 
2011-03-18,Tokyo passengers set off radiation detectors at OHare
2011-03-18,Gaddafi says he will retaliate against foreign military intervention with attacks on passenger airplanes
2011-03-17,Raw video of an unarmed protester co-operating with riot police in Bahrain shot in the chest and head (NSFW). Need to spread the word.
2011-03-17,"Britain, France and US line up for airstrikes against Gaddafi: Security council expected to pass resolution calling for states to protect Libyan civilians"
2011-03-17,"Julian Assange warned privately by Australian 
intelligence official about ''dirty tricks'' from the US 
intelligence community, including the possibility of 
sexual entrapment."
2011-03-17,Quebec Bans Fracking For Oil/Gas
2011-03-17,"For me, this really hit home. I cried."
2011-03-17,Obama administration will seek UN approval for air strikes on Libyan military targets seeking to create no-fly and no-drive zones
2011-03-17,"Riots across Pakistan after double murder-accused CIA agent Raymond Davis ""buys"" freedom"
2011-03-17,"Modern day hero: This guy decided not to wait for rescue workers. With a scuba suit on, he waded through flooded streets of Japn to rescue his wife, and later his mother. He continues to look for more survivors."
2011-03-17,Security council Passes No Fly Zone resolution
2011-03-17,"1st person view of the tsunami in Japan. I saw other angles, but this is unbelievable..."
2011-03-17,"Canada - In a historic move, opposition MPs on a House of Commons committee have produced a draft report declaring the Harper government in contempt of Parliament."
2011-03-17,"REBELS ARE CARRYING OUT MASSACRES AGAINST BLACK LIBYANS: ""We had 70 or 80 people from Chad working for our company. They cut them dead with pruning shears and axes, attacking them, saying you're providing troops for Gadhafi. The Sudanese, the Chadians were massacred. We saw it ourselves."""
2011-03-17,Gaddafi says he will attack civilian and military targets in the Mediterranean if there is any foreign military action against Libya.
2011-03-17,Helicopters Dropping Water On Reactor 3
2011-03-17,"UN authorises no-fly zone over Libya
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2011-03-17,"""The Air Force's super-stealthy F-22 Raptor fighters likely would see their first combat action if a no-fly zone is set up by the U.S. and its allies over Libya, a senior defense official [Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz] said Thursday [17 March 2011]."" "
2011-03-17,Problems with Transparency: EU eyes a halt to SWIFT data sharing with US
2011-03-17,Japan tsunami as seen from inside a car hit by the wave
2011-03-17,Israeli spy ring uncovered by Egyptian authorities.
2011-03-17,"Searching for survivors in Otsuchi, Japan on March 15, 2011. Photo credit: REUTERS/Aly Song"
2011-03-17,"Hillary Clinton said Bahrain and Saudi Arabia were ""on the wrong track"" and demanded that Bahrain show restraint with demonstrators and keep hospitals open"
2011-03-17,Bahrain police killing people by drive by shootings. (video)
2011-03-17,Riots in Pakistan after double murder-accused Davis buys freedom
2011-03-17,Kentucky woman arrested for Bosnian war crimes; accused of torturing and murdering ethnic Serbs at prison camps
2011-03-17,"A Tibetan monk in western China set himself on fire in an anti-government protest, then was beaten and kicked by police, prompting hundreds of monks and others to rally."
2011-03-16,"A Japanese home adrift in the Pacific Ocean, photographed by U.S. Navy Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dylan McCord. [PIC]"
2011-03-16,Brave men in Japan stay back to help contain the nuclear plants.  Honor and courage in their blood.
2011-03-16,A video from Japan
2011-03-16,**BREAKING NEWS**(15MAR2011 10:51PM EDT) Work to Prevent Meltdowns at Japanese Nuclear Plant Suspended; All Workers Evacuated Due to Radiation Surge
2011-03-16,"Japan earthquake: Japan warned over nuclear plants, WikiLeaks cables show -  Japan was warned more than two years ago by the international nuclear watchdog that its nuclear power plants were not capable of withstanding powerful earthquakes, leaked diplomatic cables reveal."
2011-03-16,"A pilot has defected from Gadaffi's army in a spectacular suicide attempt to take down his stronghold, Baab Al Aziziyah in the heart of Tripoli"
2011-03-16,[NSFL]Worst gore that I've seen. I'm only posting so that maybe media picks it up and pressure is put on Bahrain (A protester in Bahrain is brought to a hospital with his head and brain in pieces hanging).
2011-03-16,"EU to force social network sites to enhance privacy -- 'Right to be forgotten' would ensure users of Facebook and other sites could completely erase personal data.
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2011-03-16,Six socialist activists in Zimbabwe are facing the real possibility of a death penalty. Their crime? Watching  a video about the uprisings in Egypt and Libya.
2011-03-16,"Bolivia: ""The source would also testify and prove that, in order to carry out that coup, the CIA, State and Justice departments had to combine forces to protect their drug dealing assets by destroying a DEA investigationUS v Roberto Suarez, et al. How do I know? I was that inside source."""
2011-03-16,My friend is the only missing JET in Japan. His family and friends are desperate to find information
2011-03-16,"Japanese PM: ""You're the only ones [to deal with this problem]. Retreating [from the power plant and its problems] is simply not an option. Be ready for anything. If you pull out now, that'll be the end of TEPCO, period."""
2011-03-16,BAHRAIN: Video from Bahrain showing riot police vandalizing cars allegedly to blame protesters for the vandalism.
2011-03-16,Man jumps into burning tanker and drives it away from gas station. Hero.
2011-03-16,"WikiLeaks cables show Japan warned over nuclear plants: Japan was warned more than two years ago by the international nuclear watchdog that its nuclear power plants were not capable of withstanding powerful earthquakes, leaked diplomatic cables reveal."
2011-03-16,World's largest paedophile ring uncovered (BBC)
2011-03-16,U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says all the water is gone from one of the spent fuel pools at Japan's most troubled nuclear plant. Nothing to stop a meltdown.
2011-03-16,"France says Japan lost control, French should leave"
2011-03-16,"Robber killed by an headshot, in Brazil. He was about to cut his hostage's eye."
2011-03-16,China suspends all new nuclear projects 
2011-03-16,"The chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave a significantly bleaker appraisal of threat posed by the Japanese nuclear crisis than the Japanese government, saying on Wednesday that the damage at one crippled reactor was much more serious than Japanese officials had acknowledged. "
2011-03-16,BREAKING: Tepco has confirmed that a fire has broken out at reactor four with smoke pouring from the reactor. NHK is reporting that the fire is inaccessible because of radiation levels.
2011-03-16,What if Qaddafi wins? Then what?
2011-03-16,Smoke rising near troubled Fukushima nuke plant reactor 3 (yes 3)
2011-03-16,"A good explanation, from the Union of Concerned Scientists blog, about the spent fuel pools problem."
2011-03-15,"Germany's new boom: making money by making stuff; UK and US increasingly relied on the financial sector, Germany concentrated on manufacturing"
2011-03-15,"Outrageous: Bahrain forces shooting medical personnel, seizing 6 ambulances, using them to fire on protesters"
2011-03-15,"While my heart aches at what is happening in Japan and Libya, I feel that we have a responsibility to not let the World forget about what is happening in Haiti.  Oh, Wait.  The World HAS forgotten about Haiti.  Here's hoping for some homepage love, Haiti.  "
2011-03-15,"I'm in Japan and we just got rocked again.  6.0 earthquake hits Shizuoka, Kanagawa, & Tokyo."
2011-03-15,"How quickly we forget! From 2005: Japan Proves Truly ""A Friend Indeed"" After Hurricane Katrina."
2011-03-15,The website Couchsurfing has set up a page for displaced people in Japan in need of a home to find temporary accommodation with those with a room/bed to spare.
2011-03-15,Holy shit - Footage of Tsunami making first contact with land.
2011-03-15,Executives from Tokyo Electric Power Co. bow in unison to apologize over the crisis at their nuclear plants.  This is something you would *not* see in the US
2011-03-15,ABC admitted it sought out Julian Assange so he could ask PM Julia Gillard a controversial question on last night's Q&A program: Assange asked Ms Gillard if she had shared intelligence on its citizens with foreign powers and whether the Australian people should charge her treason
2011-03-15,"Egypt's ""January 25 Revolution Youth Coalition"" has refused to meet Clinton during her visit to Egypt due to her negative attitude towards the revolution at its beginning and due to U.S. policy in the region...groups demanded a formal apology for U.S support to Mubarak's regime in the past decades"
2011-03-15,Excellent N.Y. Times infographic explaining what's happening at the Japanese nuclear plants
2011-03-15,Norwegian union votes to support Israel boycott
2011-03-15,"Chinese Netizens Admire Japans Post-Earthquake Behavior - Even in an Emergency, the Japanese have shown an impeccable national character"
2011-03-15,"Don't Let Qaddafi Win --- 
Ignore the ""realists."" If we do nothing, the situation in Libya can only get worse.
By Christopher Hitchens"
2011-03-15,"Despite a bitter past,  China acts fast in aiding Japan"
2011-03-15,"And so the wave continues; protests begin in Damascus, Syria."
2011-03-15,Opposition Libyan site reports that rebels flying a MiG 23 and a helicopter sink two pro-Gadhafi warships
2011-03-15,"Fourth Fukishima reactor, #4, is on fire.  That's 4/4 now.
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2011-03-15,"In other news, Saudi Arabia sends troops into Bahrain to quell protests. Shi'ites call it war "
2011-03-15,New Danish immigration minister: become like us or stay away
2011-03-15,"Over 5,000 newly released WikiLeaks cables relating to India lift the lid on Indias use of systematic torture in Kashmir, and plenty more."
2011-03-15,"Tokyo governor forced to apologize for suggesting that the tsunami was ""divine punishment"" for the ""egoism"" of the Japanese people."
2011-03-15,Libyan rebels arrest 'Gaddafi death squad' that killed journalist
2011-03-15,Al Jazeera received Qatari foreign ministry instructions to avoid the Bahraini protests and add sectarian angle to the coverage.(English journalist confirmed this)
2011-03-15,"Nuclear experts have thrown doubt on the accuracy of official information issued about the Fukushima nuclear accident, saying that it followed a pattern of secrecy and cover-ups employed in other nuclear accidents. "
2011-03-14,"While my heart aches at what is happening in Japan, I feel that we have a responsibility to not let the world forget about what is happening in Libya. Help keep Libya on the homepage."
2011-03-14,"Yemeni Government forces have opened fire on unarmed demonstrators with poison gas, teargas and live bullets; there is however no international outcry."
2011-03-14,"Japan: An elderly man trapped in his house was rescued after three days. He says in a strong voice, ""I am fine. I experienced the 1960 tsunami so I am fine. Let's rebuild again!"""
2011-03-14,"0221: Urgent: Explosion at Reactor 3

0220: Sea level has dropped five metres off Fukushima, confirming imminent arrival of tsunami - Japanese TV."
2011-03-14,"Tokyo didn't go dark. But it dimmed itself, a VOLUNTARY POWER-CONSERVATION measure in the wake of Friday's catastrophic earthquake. "
2011-03-14,2000 Bodies Found on Japanese Shore 
2011-03-14,Japan Earthquake Swarm Animation (every second=1 hour)
2011-03-14,Libyan Rebels Recapture Brega
2011-03-14,Saudi Troops Arrive In Bahrain To Suppress Protests
2011-03-14,WikiLeaks: U.S. State Department estimates 50% of mexican police works for drug cartels
2011-03-14,"China requests compensation from New Zealand due to deaths of its citizens in recent earthquake, citing 'loss of future breadwinners' for families"
2011-03-14,Fresh footage of huge tsunami waves smashing town in Japan
2011-03-14,Japan - Vast Devastation [pics]
2011-03-14,"By the time the outside world agrees on a response to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafis bloody onslaught against a popular revolt, it could all be over."
2011-03-14,REPORT: Nuclear fuel rods are now fully exposed at Japan reactor
2011-03-14,US aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan passed through radioactive cloud from stricken Japanese nuclear power plant; crew received one month's worth of radiation in one hour; US helicopters flying 60 miles north of plants also became coated with particulate radiation
2011-03-14,Bahrain protestor shot TWICE by police in point blank range with a tear gas gun [NSFW]
2011-03-14,Libyan Rebels Warn: Gaddafi's Army Will Kill Half A Million
2011-03-14,Second hydrogen explosion at Fukushima nuclear plant Reactor 3. (Last explosion was Reactor 1)
2011-03-14,"Can the United States feed China? --- China is at war. It is not invading armies but expanding deserts. As old deserts grow, as new ones form and as more and more irrigation wells go dry, Beijing is losing a long battle to feed its growing population"
2011-03-14,"The Revolution in Egypt did not come out of nowhere and did not take only 18 days, it was years in the making.  Check out this cool PBS Documentary on the Egyptian Revolution."
2011-03-14,"Every Dutch national should hand over a sample of their dna for inclusion in a national data bank to help solve crime says Rotterdam police chief Frank Pauw. If you want to make the world safer, there is a price to pay, Pauw is quoted as saying. "
2011-03-14,Saudi Arabian forces prepare to enter Bahrain after day of clashes
2011-03-14,"LONDON: International powers should consider arming Libyan rebels and need to take swift action to prevent Muammar Gaddafi's forces from crushing a rebellion, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday."
2011-03-14,BBC News - Libya: Rebels say Brega re-taken from Gaddafi troops
2011-03-13,Google you're awesome
2011-03-13,crazy video of the ground shifting during the quake 
2011-03-13,Groundbreaking New UN Report on How to Feed the World's Hungry: Ditch Corporate-Controlled Agriculture
2011-03-13,Japan: Earthquake from the 22nd floor of an office building shaking for a whole 5 minutes (Video)
2011-03-13,"This jaw-dropping, breathtaking, stunning picture was taken by Mainichi Shimbun on 11 March 2011 in Miyako, Japan."
2011-03-13,Why you don't have to fear the Japanese nuclear plant
2011-03-13,Japan tsunami survivor found clinging to roof 10 miles out at sea
2011-03-13,Nonviolent Bahraini Protester Shot Point Blank by Riot Police Mar 13 [NSFW] 
2011-03-13,"When Japanese officials decided to vent radioactive steam from a severely overheated reactor vessel they knew a hydrogen explosion could occur, and it did. The decision still trumped the worst-case alternative - total nuclear meltdown... At least for the time being."
2011-03-13,"Death toll in Japan exceeds 10,000 in one state alone; millions of survivors left without drinking water, electricity and proper food"
2011-03-13,Head of the Whistleblowing Airline Employees Association Goes Missing
2011-03-13,Stop spreading FUD about the Fukushima reactors. PLEASE READ THIS: Fukushima Nuclear Accident  a simple and accurate explanation
2011-03-13,Photo of a large boat teetering on top of a building.
2011-03-13,Amazing ground video of the tsunami!
2011-03-13,"Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami"
2011-03-13,Japan's earthquake now upgraded to 9.0 magnitude.
2011-03-13,The Gaddafi regime has taken back significant chunks of territory from the anti-government rebels. 
2011-03-13,"""A Japanese man who was swept 15 kilometres out to sea in the tsunami was plucked to safety yesterday [13 Mar 2011] after being spotted clinging to wreckage, officials said. A Maritime Self-Defence Force destroyer rescued Hiromitsu Shinkawa, 60, after discovering him floating on a piece of roof..."""
2011-03-13,Volcano erupts in southwestern Japan
2011-03-13,"Share this with your friends:  Fukushima situation as explained by a PhD, PE nuclear engineer"
2011-03-13,"As if Japan didn't have enough to deal with: ""Shinmoedake volcano in southwestern Japan erupted Sunday sending ash and rocks up to four kilometers into the air"""
2011-03-13,"Mall ground full of people shifting during Japan quake, looks like macabre Disney ride"
2011-03-13,Japanese officials operating under assumption that nuclear meltdown is now underway at two plants
2011-03-13,"New dramatic video: Tsunami wave spills over seawall, smashes boats, cars"
2011-03-13,"1:20 PM Australian EST (about 30 minutes ago)
Japan nuke plant operator says top of fuel rods three metres above water.

(Kyodo)"
2011-03-12,Japans Strict Building Codes Saved Lives
2011-03-12,Inside Sendai Airport - during the tsunami
2011-03-12,"Dubai On Empty -  ""This was a civilization that was bought wholesale. The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie's warning about wealth: 'there is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else'"""
2011-03-12,"Hi reddit! Made this site so you can track protests around the world, tell me what you think"
2011-03-12,Fukushima reactor explosion on tape.
2011-03-12,"BREAKING: Fukushima Nuclear Plant, radiation now measured at 1000x normal levels."
2011-03-12,Explosion At Japanese Nuclear Plant; Not Nuclear; No Meltdown
2011-03-12,Recent mystery deaths in Thailand are just too coincidentally linked not to notice. A high school friend's wife is a victim in this story.  Please help us to get some U.S. attention to this issue. 
2011-03-12,Video of High-Rise Buildings in Tokyo Swaying From the Earthquake.  The Engineers Can Be Proud of Their Work!
2011-03-12,"BBC LIVE 1252: Japan's Fuji TV has run a screen caption saying that as many as 10,000 people are missing in the town of Minamisanriku in Miyagi prefecture.  Found this series of pictures of the Area"
2011-03-12,Tsunami from the ground in Japan
2011-03-12,Massive explosion (at 1:45) rocks Japanese suburban neighbourhood in quake aftermath
2011-03-12,"Al Jazeera cameraman ambushed, shot and killed by Libyan regime."
2011-03-12,"Missing ship feared lost after Japan 8.9 magnitude earthquake, tsunami found with all aboard alive"
2011-03-12,Gadhafi mansion in London now occupied by Libyan rebels.
2011-03-12,Explosion rocks Fukushima nuclear plant
2011-03-12,Bahraini police opened fire on anti-government protesters who were heading toward the Royal Court in Manama. Over 770 injured in Bahrain. 
2011-03-12,"Remember the 20 year-old female college student who became the police chief of a Mexican town 5 months ago? Fearing for her life, she has fled to the US and applied for asylum."
2011-03-12,Japan's fears of nuclear mayhem recede as nuclear reactor starts to cool
2011-03-12,Factbox: Experts on explosion at Japan nuclear plant
2011-03-12,"I live 5000 miles away from Japan in Santa Cruz, CA. All the beaches are closed and helicopters are circling above. 4 boats sank in the harbor due to the tsunami. It's a frightening testament to the power of this mega-earthquake."
2011-03-12,Israel: Family of 5 of including a baby murdered in the West Bank.
2011-03-12,Protesters hit the streets in Portugal
2011-03-12,"End operations in Afghanistan, Karzai tells NATO"
2011-03-12,A Palestinian organization just officially claimed responsibility for today's terror attack (3-month-old baby and 4 others murdered in their sleep)
2011-03-11,Massive 7.9 earthquake in northeastern Japan. Someone post links please? Many domestic sites are crashing. Tsunami warning for Sendai.
2011-03-11,"Danish artist Nadia Plesner paints an African child holding a bag and a chihuahua, resembling Paris Hilton. Louis Vuitton sues her and wins in court. "
2011-03-11,Video of tsunami hitting japan. Devastating.
2011-03-11,"Putin proposes scrapping visas between Russia, US"
2011-03-11,Stunning Photos of Japan's earthquake and Tsunami (19 images)
2011-03-11,"Magnitude 8.8 quake near the east coast of Honshu, Japan"
2011-03-11,Japan earthquake shifted Earth's axis by 10cm (about 4 inches)
2011-03-11,"""Why is it being described as a civil war when people are united, and the government and its hired forces are killing us?"""
2011-03-11,Google releases japan earthquake person finder to help find loved ones affected by the qake
2011-03-11,The containment building at Fukushima Unit 1 is overpressurized with radioactive steam and will be vented to atmosphere.
2011-03-11,Indonesia volcano erupts
2011-03-11,New Scientist: Japan's quake updated to magnitude 9.0
2011-03-11,"""The earth's axis has reportedly shifted 10 inches as a result of the earthquake. The force was so strong that it moved the island of Honshu 8 feet to the east""  USGS geophysicist Ken Hundnut said."
2011-03-11,"
Entire Japanese City On Fire After Earthquake: ""The city of Kesennuma in northern Japan is completely engulfed in flames following the biggest earthquake in the country on record."""
2011-03-11,Impressive video of the tsunami in Tokio after the 8.9 earthquake
2011-03-11,"A truly brave Cameraman films the intense fighting in Misratah, Libya on the 10th March"
2011-03-11,Judge orders Twitter to give up data on Wikileaks
2011-03-11,Raw Video: Tsunami Slams Northeast Japan [VID]
2011-03-11,4.5 Earthquake just hit Hawaii
2011-03-11,Japan declares 'nuclear emergency' after quake
2011-03-11,"Japan's 8.9 magnitude earthquake triggers tsunami: TV pics show vast wall of water carrying debris and even fires across a large swathe of coastal farmland near Japanese city of Sendai, with a population of 1 million"
2011-03-11,Huge whirlpool created after Japan quake [video]
2011-03-11,"REPORT: 88,000 People Are Missing In Japan"
2011-03-11,Reports now indicate cooling system has failed at Fukushima No. 2 Plant; temperature of coolant water has topped 100 C
2011-03-11,Amazing photos from Libya as rebels flee Ras Lanouf (pics)
2011-03-10,"Dalai Lama to retire, citing that the Tibetan people deserve a freely elected leader."
2011-03-10,Julian Assange police investigator a friend of sex assault accuser
2011-03-10,France recognises rebels as Libyan government
2011-03-10,Interrogator in Assange case is friends with one of the two women who reported Wikileaks-founder of sexual abuse
2011-03-10,Saudi police open fire at protest
2011-03-10,Libya: Sky News March 8- Incredible footage The Battle for Zawiyah Libya (Video)
2011-03-10,Police fire on protesters in Saudi Arabia
2011-03-10,France Becomes First Country to Recognize Libyan Rebels
2011-03-10,"Saudi Arabian police open fire at rally in the eastern part of the kingdom, which means its likely lead by Shiites and is also directly on top of the vast oil reserves - the world's largest. "
2011-03-10,Interrogator in the Assange case friend with woman accusing Wikileaks founder
2011-03-10,"An abandoned and unfinished 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, Venezuela houses an organized community of roughly 2,500 Squatters."
2011-03-10,"Dalai Lama steps down as Tibetan leader
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2011-03-10,Cameroon Bans Twitter in an attempt to stave off opposition protests
2011-03-10,"North Korea nears completion of EMP bomb, could permanently damage electronics if exploded 25 miles above ground [fixed link]"
2011-03-10,'Nerve gas' used on Yemen protesters 
2011-03-10,Palestinian family ordered to share East Jerusalem home with Israelis
2011-03-10,Protests and violence spread to Saudi Arabia; police open fire on hundreds of protesters with guns and stun grenades in eastern city of Qatif
2011-03-10,Reports: Saudi Police Fire At Protesters
2011-03-10,Russia announces ban on arms sales to Libya
2011-03-10,Guatemala to sue US for intentionally infecting 700 Guatemalans with syphilis in the 1940s
2011-03-10,Christians in Egypt Attacked - 13 Dead
2011-03-10,Libya: Nicolas Sarkozy to urge 'targeted air strikes'
2011-03-10,"Yemeni army storms university, wounding 98."
2011-03-10,Royal Bank of Scotland chief executive got 7.7million pay package even though the bailed-out bank lost more than 1billion.
2011-03-10,Britain demands Gaddafi ultimatum after BBC staff 'tortured' in Libya
2011-03-09,Chinese dissident creates a Facebook account using a name without documentation to avoid arrest. Facebook bans him. Then Mark Zuckerberg creates a profile for his dog. 
2011-03-09,"LONDON  Police have arrested nine people, including two of Britain's wealthiest entrepreneurs, on suspicion of fraud in connection with the 2008 collapse of Iceland's Kaupthing bank"
2011-03-09,"Raped 13-yr-old Peruvian, tries to commit suicide by jumping out of window, survived but paralyzed. Doctors not only refused to operate as she was pregnant, but also denied her abortion"
2011-03-09,"People Don't Know When They Are Lying To Themselves - 
Interesting new research on cheating hints that we should view humans as rationalising rather than rational animals. In many instances ""cheaters not only deceive themselves, but are largely oblivious to their own lies"""
2011-03-09,PAKISTAN: A 16 year old girl was gang raped almost for one month -- perpetrators were released by the police
2011-03-09,Russian media has a very different take on the unrest in Libya
2011-03-09,Libya : Military Tank Runs Over Car People inside it in Benghazi
2011-03-09,"Nine people, including property tycoons Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz, were arrested on Wednesday over the collapse of the Icelandic bank Kaupthing."
2011-03-09,"Cigarettes to vanish from shelves in England - England will join several countries, including Canada, Ireland and Finland, in removing cigarettes from tobacconists' shelves."
2011-03-09,"At women's march in The New Egypt (TM), men prove women's point by scolding, shoving, beating, groping them, and telling them to ""go home where they belong"""
2011-03-09,Not The Onion: 'Cost of slaves falls to historic low'
2011-03-09,"In Juarez, women just disappear"
2011-03-09,"[LIBYA] Huge explosion, Benghazi, Libya. Recent upload. No information as to the cause. Are there any Arabic speakers who could translate?"
2011-03-09,"British judge grabs sex offender by throat to stop him escaping from court
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2011-03-09,Doctors in Yemen say nerve gas used on protesters
2011-03-09,Libya's Escalating Conflict [pics]
2011-03-09,The US government is facing a potential lawsuit on behalf of Guatemalans who were deliberately given gonorrhoea or syphilis in medical tests decades ago.
2011-03-09,"Finally sensible domestic policy: Any no-fly zone over Libya must have international backing and not be a U.S.-led effort, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday"
2011-03-09,Eleven people died in fighting between Christians and Muslims in Egypt after church gets burned to ground in the deadliest unrest since the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak
2011-03-09,"Gaddafi offers 500K dinars ($410,900) reward ""for whoever captures and hands over"" the ""agent spy"" Abdul Jalil - Libyan minister turned rebel leader"
2011-03-09,Japan stealth jet prototype set to fly in 2014
2011-03-09,Gaddafi jets take off from Tripoli 
2011-03-09,UK petrol prices have almost reached a record-breaking US$10 per gallon
2011-03-09,Reports that Mubarak was involved in 2005 terrorist attack that killed 80 in Egyptian tourist town
2011-03-09,"Libya Rebels Bombarded by Planes and Tanks in Vicious Fight for Zawiyah: UK insists 'can't stand aside', US weighs up military options"
2011-03-08,BitTorrent User uses $4 Seedbox and Saves 172 BBC Websites From Extinction to expose the cost savings of this proposed exercise as nothing more than a charade to appease the detractors to a strong BBC and to curry favour with the David Cameron government.
2011-03-08,Wikileaks cables leaked information regarding global food policy as it relates to U.S. officials  in the highest levels of government  that involves a conspiracy with Monsanto to force the global sale and use of genetically-modified foods.
2011-03-08,Israeli Defense Minister: Israel may ask US for additional $20 billion in military aid in response to Arab pro-democracy upheavals
2011-03-08,Gaddafi deploys tanks and hundreds of troops in all-out effort to take Zawiyah
2011-03-08,19 yr old Montreal Graffiti artist brutally attacked & killed by a couple of teens angry that he was covering their graffiti with his - One of the teens was sentenced today - 3 years max!
2011-03-08,"Gaddafi's wife owns some 20 tons of gold, which would make her worth around $1 Billion "
2011-03-08,"Should individuals have a ""right to be forgotten""? A doctor in Spain botched a surgery 20 years ago, now he wants the newspaper article purged from Google claiming it's ""personal information"" [article pasted in comments]"
2011-03-08,Yemeni army fires at student protesters
2011-03-08,"International women's day in Cairo: Protesting women harassed, attacked, and reports of shots fired"
2011-03-08,Ivory Coast Woman Protesters massacred by Presidents henchmen (warning Graphic)
2011-03-08,Anonymous hackers vow to avenge accused WikiLeaks source Army pfc. Bradley Manning from jail abuse
2011-03-08,The revolutionaries in Libya have their website
2011-03-08,Rebels demand Gaddafi step down within 72 hour and stops all bombings and rebels appeal for help from the world pleading for a 'no fly zone'
2011-03-08,"Gaddafi wanted guarantees of personal safety for him and his family and a pledge that they not be put on trial. The offer was rejected because it would have amounted to an ""honorable"" exit for Gaddafi and would offend his victims."
2011-03-08,"Whites only nightclubs in Warsaw? - Three out of eight nightclubs tested for racial discrimination in Warsaw at the weekend refused entry to black people, a report by the Institute of Public Affairs reveals."
2011-03-08,'Corrective Rape': Fighting a South African Scourge
2011-03-08,"Pakistani authorities have released details of a letter threatening all who support repeal of Pakistan's blasphemy law.

The note was found along side the body of Shabaz Bhatti, the Christian minister of minorities following his assassination this week."
2011-03-08,"Libyan revolutionaries speak out: ""The West's war machine won't help us win"""
2011-03-08,"The Penny Has Dropped - ""Israelis must find it hard to accept that their state is one of the least popular countries in the world."" (BBC Global Poll: 21% have a positive opinion)"
2011-03-08,"""The myth of a free market""
Why is this not covered by US news?"
2011-03-08,US group fights ban on Israel 'war crime' bus ads
2011-03-08,Lukashenko's dictatorship frontpage on the Independent
2011-03-08,Tuareg 'blue warriors' arrive to boost Gaddafi loyalist force
2011-03-08,"Egyptian Romeo and Juliet lead to deadly clashes and a church burning - ""The violence was triggered by a feud between two families, which disapproved of a romantic relationship between a Christian man and a Muslim woman"""
2011-03-08,Don't Dismiss a Jasmine Moment in China: The Chinese government is taking the possibility of pro-democracy protests seriously--and that's what activists want
2011-03-07,"Pink Floyd band member Roger Waters joins a campaign of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel."
2011-03-07,"WikiLeaks Blows The Lid Off The Sex Parties And Drug Usage Among The Saudi Royals - ""The full range of worldly temptations and vices are available -- alcohol, drugs, sex -- but strictly behind closed doors...""
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2011-03-07,Leaked classified memo: Obama asking Saudi king Abdullah to arm Libyan rebels
2011-03-07,Report: Gaddafi agrees to leave power if his safety is guaranteed
2011-03-07,"Losing the information war - ""The war, she says, is being won by networks that offer ""real news"". She praised Al Jazeera and said that it is changing peoples' minds and attitudes"" -Hillary Clinton"
2011-03-07,21 Airlines Fined For Fixing Fees
2011-03-07,UK SAS team that were being held by rebels in Libya have been freed.
2011-03-07,"Israel grouped with Iran, North Korea as world's least popular countries"
2011-03-07,Facebook group calls on members to promote peaceful protest by writing 'Free Palestine' on all forms of Israeli currency. Founders hope Netanyahu 'gets the message'
2011-03-07,Israeli Cabinet: Demolish all West Bank outposts built on private Palestinian land by end of 2011 - Haaretz 
2011-03-07,An Israeli diplomat says his country must learn from the collapse of apartheid South Africa
2011-03-07,Egyptians find torture tools in secret police raid
2011-03-07,"""Israel is one of the least popular countries in the world, according to a survey conducted by Globescan for the BBC in 27 different states.  "
2011-03-07,North Korea jams GPS signals in South Korea
2011-03-07,"Next in line?  After arresting 63 journalists, Turkey is now blocking Blogger, claiming it's being used to ""pirate soccer games""."
2011-03-07,Canada's PM: The Nation Is Me
2011-03-07,NY Times: China actively trying to prevent foreign journalists from reporting on anti-govt protests
2011-03-07,"Israeli police, heavily armed with automatic projectile launchers, injure 15 while razing to the ground a West Bank farming community"
2011-03-07,This can't end well: Zimbabwe to sell uranium to Iran
2011-03-07,China says Dalai Lama has to reincarnate
2011-03-07,Gadaffi dropping bombs on rebel forces and civilians
2011-03-07,North Korea launches cyber attacks against South
2011-03-07,"""The United States will put improved relations with Beijing at risk if it does not stop selling arms to Taiwan, China's Foreign Minister said on Monday [March 7, 2011]."""
2011-03-07,How a British special forces team was captured by Libyan rebels
2011-03-07,U.S. Forces Take Over Key Afghan City That Will Be Retaken By Taliban When Marines Leave
2011-03-06,"Libyan government claims: ""Everything is safe. Tripoli is 100 per cent under control. What you are hearing is celebratory fireworks. People are in the streets, dancing in the square."" He warned, however: ""I would like to advise not to go there for your safety."""
2011-03-06,"Women on the Frontlines in Bahrain ""Sixty percent of the protestors are women, she says. The reason for this is that a lot of men are in jail or dead and 15-year-old boys are just picked off the street and tortured."
2011-03-06,Banksy bailed out Russian dissident graffiti artists from horrific St Petersburg prison
2011-03-06,WikiLeaks cables recount how U.S. pressured allies
2011-03-06,The government of Mexico has formally asked the United States for details of the ATF operation Fast and Furious
2011-03-06,"Volunteers Heading Unarmed to Take On Gaddafi: ""It's a trip we may not return from, but there's no turning back now. Revolution or death."" "
2011-03-06,"During Egyptian revolution, police abandoned their posts protecting St. Catherine's Monastery (which maintains a mosque on its grounds). Bedouins stepped in to protect the monks and the monastery."
2011-03-06,"Libyan rebels declare Republic of Libya has been created, Mustafa Abdul Jaleel is president, Abdul Hafid Abdul Qader Ghoga is deputy president"
2011-03-06,Al Jazeera speaks with Anonymous
2011-03-06,"""Thugs"" continue to attack protestors in Cairo:  While Egyptians rally for reform of social services, plainclothes thugs attack them with machetes and bricks. "
2011-03-06,Libyan rebels reported to have captured 8 members of the elite SAS and a British diplomat.
2011-03-06,HSBC threatens to move HQ from London to Hong Kong if Government does not go easy on bankers.
2011-03-06,"China has mounted a huge security operation in the capital in response to renewed online calls for protests. 

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2011-03-06,Germany's new Interior Minister: Islam not part of Germany
2011-03-06,Afghan president rejects US apology over killings
2011-03-06,"""Since the warming of relations between Libya and Britain, officers travelled frequently to Tripoli between 2008 and 2009 to train police, and Britain has authorised the export of tear gas, crowd-control ammunition, small-arms ammunition and door-breaching projectile launchers."""
2011-03-06,London imam subjected to death threats for supporting evolution
2011-03-06,"Former French President Jacques Chirac to stand trial
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2011-03-06,Official: France to recognize Palestinian state in September
2011-03-06,Thousands gather outside Bahrain palace
2011-03-06,"Karzai Rejects U.S. Apology for Deaths of 9 Boys
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2011-03-06,"SAUDI ARABIA: Protests 'contradict' Islamic law and are banned, Interior ministry declares [Updated]"
2011-03-06,"Marine Le Pen more popular than President Sarkozy, says French poll"
2011-03-06,Here is what Gadhafi's son told CNN about what's going on in Libya.
2011-03-06,Syrias Love Revolution - Syria uprising to be led by women unable to find economically independent husbands
2011-03-05,ATF Agent Admits To Reporter That He Was Ordered To Let Guns Cross Into Mexico On Orders From The Justice Dept.
2011-03-05,Anti-govt. protests held in Saudi Arabia
2011-03-05,Saudi Arabia bans all protest and marches
2011-03-05,"Happening now on Twitter:  Egyptian protester raid of State Security HQ reveals a huge cache of intelligence, including sex tapes and documents relating to rendition."
2011-03-05,Britain seizes Libya-bound ship carrying 100m cash.
2011-03-05,"Ilan Baruch, Israeli Diplomat: ""I can no longer represent Israel."""
2011-03-05,"20-year-old female police chief flees Mexico, may apply for asylum in US."
2011-03-05,Jordan rejects constitutional monarchy
2011-03-05,"Saudi Arabia activists warned that ban on protests will be enforced 
In a sign that the ultraconservative kingdom is growing nervous about discontent in its midst and on its borders, Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry warns that public demonstrations are a violation of Sharia law."
2011-03-05,"China plans to track Beijing citizens through their mobiles. Government claims technology will ease transport congestion, but experts warn it could be used to control dissent
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2011-03-05,Three schools blown up in northwest Pakistan
2011-03-05,Human Right Groups are warning that innocent black civilians are being raped and murdered by rebels in the eastern part of Libya
2011-03-05,"Indian nurses in Libya refuse to return home, say economic crisis back home is worse than the political turmoil in Libya"
2011-03-05,"China sees over 100,000 protests per year.  Perhaps the reason that the Jasmine Revolution failed there is b/c the police are just too ""good"" at suppression."
2011-03-05,Saudis mobilise thousands of troops to quell growing revolt - Robert Fisk
2011-03-05,Gaddafi's 'tanks fire at residential areas' 
2011-03-05,"In Egypt, crowd cheers newly appointed prime minister Essam Sharaf"
2011-03-05,CBC News - Libyan rebels suffer heavy casualties: reports
2011-03-05,"British Battalion ""The Black Watch"", On Stand-By to Deploy to Libya"
2011-03-05,"Mexican president Calderon says WikiLeaks caused ""severe damage"" to US-Mexico relations"
2011-03-05,Gaddafi's son in total denial
2011-03-05,"Tortured By Al Qaeda In Pakistan --- 
Former Afghan consul general in Peshawar recounts 26 months of captivity after being kidnapped. Hours of torture, and ""hundreds of questions"" about CIA, Blackwater and ""the center of the drones."" Eventually let go"
2011-03-05,People on Twitter troll PRC security forces into closing popular shopping malls to shutdown phantom protests
2011-03-05,A Middle East Without Borders?
2011-03-05,Az Zawiyah rebels are slaughtered right now. I'm speechless.
2011-03-04,These photos are fucking amazing - from the BBC's 'Human Planet' series.
2011-03-04,"In London, it will soon be illegal to: lie down on the ground, give away food or drink for free or be homeless"
2011-03-04,"The Man Who Plowed Into A Group Of Bikers Is A Brazilian Central Banker, And He's Charged With Attempted Murder
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2011-03-04,Ok now the Mexican drug war is interesting: Mexican army soldiers caught transporting cocaine by the ton... 
2011-03-04,The Double Irish - How Companies Bypass High Income-Tax Rates in the US and UK (Graphic)
2011-03-04,"A young boy directs traffic on a busy intersection in Benghazi, Libya, hoping that his new role will help stabilize the country."
2011-03-04,WARNING GRAPHIC NSFW:  UNARMED women just wanting to claim their choices in the presidential election were brutally murdered by the militias and mercenaries of Gbagbo.
2011-03-04,Man filming the violence in Libya is suprised when Gaddafi's hired gunmen turns the corner and starts spraying bullets at the cameraman. ( Watch the corner of the left building near the end)
2011-03-04,Gaddafi trying to smuggle out money
2011-03-04,Indian police have detained two people after an angry mob of fired workers burned to death a senior executive of a steel factory.
2011-03-04,Indians take the whole workers struggle thing very seriously: Sacked steel workers set their boss on fire
2011-03-04,Full-face veils outlawed as France spells out controversial niqab ban.
2011-03-04,Six women shot dead at protest as 'illegal' Ivorian leader clings on
2011-03-04,PFC Manning reportedly forced to strip naked for 7 hours last night
2011-03-04,Ivory Coast: Power and water cut to 'those who don't believe'
2011-03-04,The former head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service has credited WikiLeaks and other secret-spilling sites with sparking the revolutions sweeping the Middle East.
2011-03-04,Apple supply chain workers in Asia fall ill again: Toxic chemical n-hexane is central to a new outbreak of sickness in eastern China
2011-03-04,UK facing 1970s-style oil shock which could cost economy billions
2011-03-04,Stephen Harper (Canadian PM) trying to re-brand 'Canadian Government' for 'Stephen Harper Government'
2011-03-04,Libya revolt: Rebels say no talks unless Gaddafi goes - Rebels in eastern Libya have said they will not negotiate unless Col Muammar Gaddafi quits and goes into exile. 
2011-03-04,53 peacekeepers killed in Somalia offensive
2011-03-04,"One Journo with an ounce of integrity left, ended his working relationship for a filth-rag. A darn good read!"
2011-03-04,BBC has decided that there are no protests in Iraq
2011-03-04,"In Athens, 300 non-documented migrants, mostly from the Maghreb, have entered the 35th day of a hunger strike. Many have been taken to hospital in pre-comatose condition and are reaching a state of non-reversible organ failure and subsequent death"
2011-03-04,"Mazda recall 65,000 cars due to ""spiders in the fuel system"""
2011-03-03,"Can we stop referring to what's happening in Libya as a ""protest""?  We have armed rebel forces engaging in guerilla combat with bazookas and heavy artillery, taking and losing cities.  This is officially a civil war."
2011-03-03,"The Ivory Coast president, Laurent Gbagbo, has cut off electricity and water supplies to millions of people in the north of the country ""for political reasons"", the UN has said."
2011-03-03,CNN Anchor Interviews Al Jazeera Anchor Who Interviewed Libyan Rebels
2011-03-03,Reports that Egypt's military junta is already handing out jail sentences to activists
2011-03-03,"Bradley Manning, accused Wikileaks source, may face Death penalty"
2011-03-03,N Korea threatens war over leaflets
2011-03-03,"New Activist-Recommended Prime Minister Appointed Today in Egypt! """"First we ousted Mubarak. Second, we got rid of Shafiq. We have become again the owners of this country,"" said Bassem Kamel, a member of the Youth Coalition, an umbrella group of activists who launched the protests Jan. 25. "
2011-03-03,"Anons, ""Simply Wake Up on March 9th and know, the world is one...wake up look to the east and the rising sun."""
2011-03-03,"Rupert Murdoch given approval to buy pretty much all UK satellite TV.  Coming soon: Fox News, UK Division!  "
2011-03-03,Complete List Of Which EU Countries Sold Weapons To Libya 
2011-03-03,"Everyone enjoys a righteous uprising like the ones now tearing across the Middle East. But even while we might be rooting for the anti-government protesters, whenever we fill up the gas tank were reminded that. like it or not, our own welfare is inextricably tied to those embattled despots."
2011-03-03,Rupert Murdoch's global empire (infographic)
2011-03-03,Nine Afghan Boys Collecting Firewood Killed by NATO Helicopters
2011-03-03,Global food prices hit record high - Europe - Al Jazeera English
2011-03-03,"Pakistan: Court Rules CIA Killer Raymond Davis Has No Immunity -  Thursday's decision is at least a temporary blow to the US, which insists Davis was considered a diplomat and was acting in self-defence against the dead men, whom he called robbers."
2011-03-03,China Adds New Limits on Foreigners
2011-03-03,Gaddafi ACCEPTS Peace Plan Proposed By Chavez
2011-03-03,Saudi Arabia: Early stirring of revolt
2011-03-03,Killing over blasphemy law deepens misery of Pakistani Christians
2011-03-03,Three Dutch soldiers captured in Libya while evacuating westeners
2011-03-03,"Is Syria the Next Domino? - Until now, Syrias rulers have relied on their anti-Israel, anti-Western rhetoric to protect themselves. In the last few years, when Israeli planes struck targets in Syria, there was no answer from the regime even when Israeli planes flew over the presidential palace."
2011-03-03,"Chicas Kalshnikov - 
Interviews with women who work as killers for Mexican drug cartels. ""Yaretzi was on her twenty-sixth murder, but she was arrested with two AK-47s before she could complete the job. That is why we are here, on the prison patio"""
2011-03-03,"Opposition Carries on Fight against Gadhafi: 'If the Americans Come, They Would Steal our Revolution'"
2011-03-03,UN inspectors attacked as Ivory Coast heads towards civil war
2011-03-03,[LIBYA]Battle for Brega
2011-03-02,The problem with Google Earth: people will get mad when they see the scale of your huge palace next to insanely crowded slums. Just ask the King of Bahrain...
2011-03-02,"My father recieved Non Hodgkin's Lymphona cancer after serving in the Bosnian war, and now after 25+ years peacekeeping for his country they deny him a pension. Please help get the word out, VAC is taking my dad's last days away from him.
(chronicle herald article included) "
2011-03-02,"Libya's Bankers Exposed: Goldman, JP Morgan And Citi"
2011-03-02,A summary of what WikiLeaks has uncovered so far. Staggering.
2011-03-02,Pakistani Minister for Minority Affairs Assassinated 
2011-03-02,"Veteran Israeli diplomat resigns in protest to Israeli foreign policy: ""blaming global anti-Israeli occupation views on anti-Semitism is simplistic and artificial"""
2011-03-02,"Democracy Virus Has Dictators Fretting: First it was Ben Ali in Tunisia, then Mubarak in Egypt. Now Libya's Gadhafi is under pressure. From Cuba to China, dictators are watching events in the Arab world with alarm, with full knowledge that ideas are spreading to their populations via the Internet"
2011-03-02,"Bank of England governor blames spending cuts on bank bailouts. 'The price of this financial crisis is being borne by people who absolutely did not cause it'
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2011-03-02,"China wants ALL trades settled in Yuan.  Does not 
hide intention to challenge other reserve currencies 
(namely the Dollar)."
2011-03-02,Zimbabwean army helping Gaddafi in Libya 
2011-03-02,"Two shot dead at Frankfurt Airport - ""a bus at Terminal 2 used by the US military was targeted. The bus driver and one US soldier are thought to have been killed in the shooting."""
2011-03-02,TIL that you're not allowed to broadcast false or misleading news in Canada.  I also learned that some people want to change this.
2011-03-02,"I'm not even religious, but God speed you tough bastards."
2011-03-02,Violent suppression of protest at Toronto's G20 - CBC documentary [video]
2011-03-02,Canada sends warship to Libya
2011-03-02,"Gorbachev tells Putin not to run for president - He said the ""vertical of power"" that the Kremlin has built to oversee the country's politics and economics ""has rotted to its core"" and issued a direct challenge to the country's de-facto leader, Putin, to step aside."
2011-03-02,Zimbabwe: More Activists Arrested As Mugabe Hits Panic Button
2011-03-02,US soldiers shot and killed at German airport
2011-03-02,"Declaration Of Cyber-War - 
Intimate history of Stuxnet computer virus, apparently designed to paralyse Iranian nuclear centrifuges. Does excellent job of explaining with minimal jargon why this virus was so innovative, complex, devastating"
2011-03-02,SAS Ready To Seize Col Gaddafi's Stores Of Mustard Gas 
2011-03-02,Can you guess the most censored countries? 
2011-03-02,UPDATE: Sudan youth group calls for mass demonstrations on March 21st; Members of ruling party already urging Bashir to bring about immediate reforms. [xpost /r/Sudan]
2011-03-02,Social networking causes problematically-large street parties in Brazil
2011-03-02,"UN suspends Libya from Human Rights Council - Libya has become the first country to be suspended from the UN Human Rights Council, after the rest of the world condemned the Gaddafi regime's ""gross and systematic violations"" of the rights of its people."
2011-03-02,German unemployment down to 7.9%
2011-03-01,Anonymous Open letter To The World [Time to make the world what it should be!]
2011-03-01,Wikileaks among nominees for 2011 Nobel Peace Prize
2011-03-01,Tony Blair used his final foreign trip as prime minister to sign a confidential deal with Muammar Gaddafi to train Libyan special forces and supply him with Nato secrets. 
2011-03-01,German Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg has stepped down after he was found to have copied large parts of his university doctorate
2011-03-01,"Afghanistan, February 2011 [pics]"
2011-03-01,"Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters took to the streets today in Yemen, calling for the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule."
2011-03-01,"Saudi Arabia sends tanks to Bahrain - Witnesses said that the causeway was blocked as ""15 tank carriers carrying two tanks each were heading towards Bahrain"""
2011-03-01,Saudi Arabia Ripe for Revolution.
2011-03-01,Al-Arabiya Director-General: Where Was All This Bold Criticism of Al-Qadhafi during the 40 Years of His Tyranny?
2011-03-01,"Right after the Israeli film Strangers No More a documentary film that focuses foreign children wins an Oscar, Israel is planning a mass expulsion of these children"
2011-03-01,"Why I dont give money to Africa: Dictator's son orders a $380 million luxury yacht, with a cost of almost three times more than his country spends annually on health and education"
2011-03-01,Son of Equatorial Guinea's dictator had plans drawn up for $380m superyacht - that's three times the worth Equatorial Guinea's health and education bill
2011-03-01,"BREAKING: Iran forces fire teargas, clash with protesters!"
2011-03-01,"Is NATO trying to silence reports on civilian casualties in Kunar? - A crisis is brewing over alleged civilian casualties in northeastern Afghanistan, while US forces temporarily detain journalists covering the incident."
2011-03-01,Ice Age Child Found in Prehistoric Alaskan Home 
2011-03-01,"Westerners, be careful the company you keep - If Western governments want to have any credibility in the post-revolutionary Arab world, they need to stop hiring people, even as ""envoys,"" who are already in the pay of current or former Arab dictators. "
2011-03-01,"Iran is threatening a boycott of the 2012 olympics because it says the logo is ""racist."""
2011-03-01,Israel vows to raze all illegal outposts built on private Palestinian land
2011-03-01,"With Russia's $650 billion rearmament plan, the bear sharpens its teeth:  If Russia can reduce reliance on its aging Soviet-era nuclear missile deterrent, analysts say it could create a 'whole new ball game.'"
2011-03-01,FAKE Jasmin revolution in China...
2011-03-01,Israeli settlers hit back after army demolishes their West Bank homes: Call for a 'day of rage' as hardliners attack Palestinian villages and block roads in Jerusalem
2011-03-01,"Libya: Russia, China join France in opposing military action by foreign countries against Gaddafi "
2011-03-01,"Gaddafi ""delusional,"" unleashes more jets to bombard pro-democracy activists"
2011-03-01,Son of African dictator builds 380 million dollar yacht... yeah that seems legit.
2011-03-01,"Saddi Gaddafi is ""bothered with traveling issue"" regarding new sanctions because he ""spent most of his life traveling"": ""I have some hobbies after I quit football. I do some hunting, I go to safari. In Libya there is no safari, so I got to go to safari, I got to hire a lawyer."""
2011-02-28,African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immune from prosecution for war crimes due to a clause in this weekend's UN resolution that was demanded by US
2011-02-28,"Wikileaks goes after the Saudi royal family - ""Besides the huge monthly stipends that every Saudi royal receives, the cables detail various money-making schemes some royals have used to finance their lavish lifestyles over the years."""
2011-02-28,World wide peaceful protest against the banking/corporate elite and what they are doing to us and our planet. April 15-17. Lets make this big!!!
2011-02-28,"Reddit, there's a group of young men and women trying to bring an end to one of Africa's tyrannical regimes and they could use your help. Sudanese forces are beating and imprisoning peaceful protesters demanding fair elections, fair wages and an end to corruption and injustice. "
2011-02-28,CIA operative in Pakistan a terrorist organizer and recruiter: Does this surprise anyone?
2011-02-28,[NSFL - graphic content] Motorist mows down dozens of cyclists at high speed in Porto Algere Brasil (Feb 25 2011)
2011-02-28,Silvio Berlusconi sex case witness has car torched
2011-02-28,Men Found Buried Alive At Gaddafi Compound 
2011-02-28,"Iran has arrested opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, the opposition website Kaleme said on Monday. 
""Sources say that they have been arrested and transferred to Heshmatiyeh jail in Tehran,"""
2011-02-28,Libyan Soldier Kills Battalion Commander
2011-02-28,Libya Photos: Inside a  Modern War Room
2011-02-28,African Dictator son orders Yacht worth $380 Million: His timing couldnt be worse. Popular uprisings in the middle east may spread to other countries!
2011-02-28,Fidel Castro expected to step down as Cuba party chief 
2011-02-28,Rebel army may be formed as Tripoli fails to oust Gaddafi
2011-02-28,Gaddafi says 'all my people love me'
2011-02-28,A Facebook page calls for mass protests in Syria to oust President Bashar al-Assad
2011-02-28,Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan urges Turks not to Assimilate into German society
2011-02-28,Foreign journalists roughed up in China. Why is this not getting more attention?
2011-02-28,"Robert Mugabe ready to offer Gaddafi asylum. This comes just days after 46 people in Zimbabwe were arrested for watching videos of the Egyptian protests. Reedit, what can we possibly do about these assholes?"
2011-02-28,"Kenya, Ethiopia may attack al Shabaab"
2011-02-28,British contractor in Iraq gets 20 years for 2 killings.
2011-02-28,China's latest Five Yr Plan calls for creating self-sustaining growth based on domestic consumption and reducing China's reliance on exports
2011-02-28,Muslims and Christians Work Together in a New Egypt
2011-02-28,BUSTED: Notorious Nepalese Rhino Poaching Syndicate Shall Kill No More!
2011-02-28,Argentina's ex-military leaders tried over baby thefts from political prisoners
2011-02-27,Tunisia's Prime Minister Resigns!
2011-02-27,"Shit hits the fan in Croatia - riots spread to the popular Europe's resort country, demanding the resignation of corrupt prime minister Kosor's government"
2011-02-27,Small Girl Shot In Head with 14.5mm Bullet in Libya [NSFW]
2011-02-27,"Egyptian prison guards are gunning down inmates
-- at least 200 prisoners have been killed"
2011-02-27,"UN Security Council unanimously orders sanctions against Libya, and refers Muammar Gaddafi to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity."
2011-02-27,Libyan army taking people to alleys and executing them.
2011-02-27,"Hugo Chavez interviewed by the BBC. ""democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.  Only the rule of law sets you free. The only way to save the world is through democratic socialism."""
2011-02-27,"Over 600 Videos and COUNTING of the Protests in Libya. We need people to see this. [WARNING: MANY VIDEOS ARE HIGHLY GRAPHIC.]
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2011-02-27,"""Crowded into an empty classroom which was stinking of unwashed bodies and reeking of fear, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's defeated mercenary killers awaited their fate."""
2011-02-27,Study: 60% of Saudi men financially exploit their wives - Some Saudi men use wives salaries to marry again
2011-02-27,"William Hague, United Kingdom Foreign Secretary: ""...I signed a directive revoking his [Muammar Gaddafi] diplomatic immunity in the United Kingdom but also the diplomatic immunity of his sons, his family, his household. So it is very clear where we stand on his status as the head of state."""
2011-02-27,Egypt Revolution not over: Cairo's Tahrir Square was again the scene for bloody violence as the Egyptian army moved to quash continued protests for civilian rule.
2011-02-27,"""Government scientists have released research that millions of acres of Chinese agricultural land and over 12 million tons of Chinese grain are contaminated by toxic metal pollution, according to...the China Economic Weekly, a state-run magazine."""
2011-02-27,"China locks down over ""Jasmine"" protests. Bloomberg reporter ""beaten up badly by thugs"" thought to be plainclothes Chinese police."
2011-02-27,Tunisian Prime Minister Resigns
2011-02-27,"As so many people are struggling for freedom around the world, we should be mindful of what Eisenhower said fifty years ago."
2011-02-27,Saudi intellectuals call for sweeping reforms
2011-02-27,"North Korea threatens to attack South over military 
drills, propoganda balloons"
2011-02-27,"ZAWIYA, Libya (AP) - Hundreds of armed anti-government forces backed by rebel troops who control the city closest to the capital Tripoli prepared Sunday to repel an expected offensive by forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi surrounding Zawiya."
2011-02-27,Libyan militias prepare to join forces before assault on Tripoli
2011-02-27,"The price of food is at the heart of this wave of 
revolutions"
2011-02-27,Map of current status of cities in Libya
2011-02-27,"Gadhafi faces another damaging desertion. His ""voluptuous'"" blond Ukrainian nurse Galyna Kolotnytska is going home."
2011-02-27,North Korea Warns of Military Response Against South Over Leaflet Drops - Bloomberg
2011-02-27,RAF C130 shot at taking off in Libya
2011-02-26,Egypt's Military Council Strikes Back at Protesters While the World's Eyes are Focused on Libya
2011-02-26,<NSFW> My uncle was killed today after praying Friday prayer in Libya
2011-02-26,Egypt committee proposes 4-year presidential term
2011-02-26,"Arabs telling Americans: You can do it, too."
2011-02-26,Libya: <<NSFW / NSFL>> Snipers Shooting People in the head (video)
2011-02-26,"A woman in Tripoli plea for help from the rest of the world: "".. only way we can fix this is if somebody takes action, if you just make Libya a no-fly zone. He's bringing African mercenaries because he has so much money... They go inside to kill us, to rape us, to destroy our country.."" "
2011-02-26,"Protests spread to another Arab country, Oman."
2011-02-26,Gaddafi forces abandon parts of Tripoli
2011-02-26,"Libya is important, but don't forget Bahrain - an article on the importance of Bahrain's revolution on the rest of the region"
2011-02-26,British SAS on the ground in Libya secure airstrips as RAF fly in Hercules aircraft to rescue 150 oil workers.
2011-02-26,The end of China's cheap denim dream.The era of Chinese factories churning out dirt-cheap goods is over. 
2011-02-26,"NEW DELHI: ISRO scientists have discovered a giant underground chamber on the moon, which could be used as a lunar base by astronauts for inter-planetary missions. Scientists using data gathered from Chandrayaan-I, found a 1.2 km long buried, uncollapsed and near horizontal lava tube."
2011-02-26,How bankers destroyed the global economy
2011-02-26,"Major Yemen tribes join protesters:
Powerful tribal leaders, including those of the Hashid and Baqil, pledge to join protesters against the government."
2011-02-26,Serbian military pilots reportedly took part in the bombing of protesters in the Libyan cities of Tripoli and Benghazi. This claim was made public after two Libyan pilots fled to Malta
2011-02-26,Egyptian Army attacks coptic monasteries
2011-02-26,Libya: UK officials tell Gaddafi loyalists to defect or face war crimes trial
2011-02-26,"No Ambulances for protesters in Libya, so this driver of a Hyundai risks his life to drive the injured..."
2011-02-26,"Zimbabwe Law professor arrested, tortured for showing videos of news reports about uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia to students and activists"
2011-02-26,"Iraq 'Day of Rage' protests followed by detentions, beatings"
2011-02-26,"As protests crackdowns continue, West lines up to sell arms"
2011-02-26,"Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cautioned the West Thursday that attempts to meddle in the rebellions of the Arab world may sweep extremists to power.  ""You have to give people the chance to choose their own fates and their own futures,"" "
2011-02-26,"Wikileaks cables are less than 2% complete, here's a nice little perspective..."
2011-02-26,"SOLVED : Mercs is supplied by Mugabe, Gaddafi forever bro.., now he is shaking like chocolate milkshake and punish to death anyone opening youtube. Majority of income is from Libya, so if Gadaffi fall, soon Zimbabwe may follow. (what? the title is to long?)"
2011-02-26,PAKISTAN: Two more disappeared persons are extrajudicially killed in Balochistan to destroy evidence of abduction by law enforcement agencies  Asian Human Rights Commission
2011-02-25,protests spread to North Korea
2011-02-25,Merkel rebukes Israeli PM Netanyahu for failing to advance peace. 'You haven't made a single step'
2011-02-25,Vatican: Priests in 23 countries have been sexually abusing and raping nuns for years
2011-02-25,"South Korea drops leaflets into North about democracy protests in Egypt, Libya & the Middle East."
2011-02-25,Al-Jazeera in Talks With Comcast Over U.S. Distribution
2011-02-25,South Korea's Internet To Be 200 Times Faster Than In U.S.
2011-02-25,All diplomats at the Libyan embassy in New Delhi have now defected. Not just the ambassador but the entire embassy Al Jazeera has learned. This is an excerpt of the press release sent to Al Jazeera.
2011-02-25,South Korea floods North Korea with balloons telling them of Middle East protests
2011-02-25,"Saudi youths call for rally in Jeddah - A group calling itself Jeddah Youth for Change has distributed printed statements, calling on the people to join a demonstration near al-Beia Square in Jeddah on Friday."
2011-02-25,Holy shit. This is what revolution and conflict sounds like. NPR talking with a man on via phone as you can hear the army attack a square full of protesters. Protesters are able to fight them off and commandeer a tank. 
2011-02-25,Protesters set fire to Gaddafi family palace
2011-02-25,A Day in High School Hell - Diary of a Chinese Student
2011-02-25,"100,000 people pack Tunis to demand Prime Minister Ghannouchi step down"
2011-02-25,45 Zimbabweans arrested and charged with treason for watching a video of the Egyptian revolution
2011-02-25,Taliban walk into Afghan bank and massacre scores of customers (Video)
2011-02-25,Egypt: Thank You World Media!
2011-02-25,"S.Korea drops leaflets into North about Egypt, Libya"
2011-02-25,No to Military Intervention in Libya - We should not repeat the mistake of Iraq. The United States -- or Europe -- should not send troops to Libya...
2011-02-25,"Raymond Davis, the American spook arrested for murdering two people in Pakistan, may have been the acting head of CIA there"
2011-02-25,"Ugh...More Libyan bloodshed could prompt U.S., NATO intervention"
2011-02-25,"The ""New Libyan Army"" as the rebels are calling themselves, are planning for a major offensive to liberate Tripoli from Gadhafi!"
2011-02-25,"BAGHDAD  Demonstrations turned violent across Iraq on Friday, as protesters burned buildings and security forces fired on the crowds."
2011-02-25,Why N.Koreans Are Starving
2011-02-25,Mercenaries gather in Tripoli for final battle
2011-02-25,Helium balloons to be floated to North Korea will carry propaganda leaflets with news of the popular uprisings sweeping the Middle East
2011-02-24,"90% of Libya in Rebel Hands: Qaddafi is left only with Tripoli, about 1 million people, where the streets are ghostly and marauding security forces hotrod it through the streets, sometimes firing indiscriminately"
2011-02-24,Switzerland Freezes Assets of Qaddafi
2011-02-24,Fear in Saudi Arabia: King Abdullah announces $36bn in financial support measures to avert the kind of popular unrest that has toppled leaders across the region
2011-02-24,BREAKING:  Ghadafi's son joins the Libyan protesters!
2011-02-24,Charges initiated against Pope for crimes against humanity
2011-02-24,"Late last year the U.S. agreed to sell $60 billion in weapons to Saudi Arabia, the largest arms deal ever. Just in time for the regional fireworks to begin."
2011-02-24,"""The riots are expanding even into North Korea. 
Hundreds of protesters have collided with the 
authorities"""
2011-02-24,"What is this shit about putting sanctions on Libya?  All that's going to do is make the people suffer even and do nothing to slow down Qaddafi.  If anything, it will help him."
2011-02-24,"Something to think about:  Every story referencing ""Gaddafi Shot"" is about today's oil trading."
2011-02-24,"Monsanto's GM seeds are more expensive and after a few years, weeds can become tolerant to Roundup Ready and other glyphosate herbicides so farmers must return to conventional farming practices anyway. Therefore, there is no benefit to planting GM crop"
2011-02-24,Algeria lifts 19-year-old state of emergency
2011-02-24,German navy sends 3 warships to Libya (google translate)
2011-02-24,Anti-Gaddafi Forces Surround Tripoli
2011-02-24,"Al Arabiya ""At least 10,000 dead and 50,000 wounded in Libya."""
2011-02-24,"Zimbabwe charges 46 with treason for watching 
videos of Egypt protests"
2011-02-24,European Union considering sending humanitarian intervention force in to Libya. 
2011-02-24,Libya protests: Gaddafi says Bin Laden to blame
2011-02-24,South African Government Confirms Sale Of Arms To Libya
2011-02-24,Libya: Captured Mercenaries (video)
2011-02-24,"Barack Obama tells Gaddafi: Libya violence must stop - US president finally breaks silence on Libya to condemn ruling regime and make threat of sanctions
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2011-02-24,"""Among other things, Mr Gaddafi has ordered security services to start sabotaging oil facilities,"""
2011-02-24,"A Facebook page calling for revolution in Saudi Arabia receives backing of hundreds of users demanding an elected ruler, greater freedom for women and the release of political prisoners"
2011-02-24,"Chinese oil facilities in Libya attacked and looted.  More than 30,000 Chinese citizens are currently present in Libya."
2011-02-24,A UN First! Both Israel and Palestine Co-Sponsor Resolution Condemning Libya Violence
2011-02-24,Young Boy Shot in Head - Libya - EXTREMELY GRAPHIC.
2011-02-23,Is anyone listening to Gadaffi right now? He is batshit insane.
2011-02-23,"Libya: Horrific Twitter posts, videos and pics direct from Libya--WARNING:HIGHLY,HIGHLY GRAPHIC SOME OF THESE ARE NSFL!"
2011-02-23,"BREAKING NEWS: Libyan military aircraft CRASHES after crew REFUSES TO BOMB city of Benghazi, reports Libyan newspaper Quryna. "
2011-02-23,Egyptian soldiers wouldn't shoot their own citizens. Why do Libyans shoot theirs? Because they are not Libyans doing the shooting. They are $2000 per day mercenaries. 
2011-02-23,"LA Fire Department sending 74 search and rescue specialists to Christchurch. Cheers guys, NZ appreciates it. "
2011-02-23,Julian Assange is very likely to be extradited.
2011-02-23,Libyan warship defects to Malta. 
2011-02-23,"Q: What do Bahrain, Libya and China have in common? A: They are all current members of the UN Human Rights Council. "
2011-02-23,40% of Dubai's property is VACANT...
2011-02-23,1/5 of Bahrain's population shows up to protest
2011-02-23,This must be a joke: Ahmadinejad urges Gaddafi to agree with peoples desires
2011-02-23,Malta turns back Libyan plane with Qaddafi's daughter aboard
2011-02-23,Starving N. Korea begs for food
2011-02-23,"Gaddafi: ""I shall remain here defiant."" Says he's ready to die a martyr. With over 1000 dead now, I hope he gets his death wish soon."
2011-02-23,"The Facebook Revolution is coming to Saudi Arabia on March 20th, page listing 12 demands for reform already has thousands of followers"
2011-02-23,"""The Guardian always stands up to defend BP. In cable 07BAKU1268 The Guardian deleted the remarks from an Azeri businessman, who said that BP was violating laws and forcing up prices. In cable 08BAKU671 they deleted a critical phrase about BP"""
2011-02-23,"Libya: 2,000 reported killed in Benghazi, 1,000 in Tripoli"
2011-02-23,"Hey /r/worldnews. Twenty minutes ago a siren sounded and two rockets landed within hearing distance from me - Beersheba, Israel."
2011-02-23,Chinese activists seized after call for 'jasmine revolution'
2011-02-23,WikiLeaks Cables Detail Qaddafi Familys Exploits
2011-02-23,"Egyptian flag flies between Church and Mosque in Alexandria, Egypt."
2011-02-23,Greece was paralysed on Wednesday morning as thousands of workers walked off the job to protest at the governments austerity measures. Strike has brought maritime traffic and train services to a halt and disrupted transport.
2011-02-23,"Libya's ex-justice minister on Wednesday was quoted as telling a Swedish newspaper that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988.
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2011-02-23,Over 500 Indian workers sue US firm for human trafficking
2011-02-23,"Libya is now divided in two, with the east largely in the hands of dissidents and the West still under the thumb of Qaddafis security forces"
2011-02-22,"Large quake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand"
2011-02-22,Nearly all of Libya's foreign diplomats (including the Libyan ambassador to the U.S.) are urging nations to impose a no-fly zone in Libya to stop Gaddafi from attacking civilians with jets & helicopters.
2011-02-22,"BREAKING: Lybia  using FUCKING PLANES to kill protesters.
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2011-02-22,Eastern part of Libya falls as military refuses to kill citizens
2011-02-22,Libya's Interior Minister has announced his defection and support for the revolution.
2011-02-22,Israeli soldiers strip a Palestinian child and urinate on him... and then the kid gets taken to court
2011-02-22,Gaddafi is going mental on Al Jazeera right now.
2011-02-22,"Britain and the US have caused instability in the Middle East by supporting autocratic regimes that suppress human rights, David Cameron has said 
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2011-02-22,Libya's intelligence agency is behind the powerful jamming that has disrupted Al Jazeera television's signal across much of the Middle East and North Africa
2011-02-22,"BREAKING: magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits Christchurch, New Zealand - video from near the epicentre."
2011-02-22,"Gaddafi has ordered security services to start sabotaging oil pipelines, cutting off flow to Mediterranean ports.
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2011-02-22,"The global media's attention is focused on the revolutions sweeping through North Africa and the Middle East. But not all revolutions are blessed with this level of attention. The West African nation of Gabon is currently also in popular revolt. What, you haven't heard of it?"
2011-02-22,IRAN: Iranian protesters charging and overtaking police [VIDEO]
2011-02-22,Military using live ammunition on protesters in  Ivory Coast
2011-02-22,"Four U.S. citizens on a yacht hijacked by Somali pirates last week are dead, a U.S. defense official says.  "
2011-02-22,Amazing graphic shows before and after pics of New Zealand Earthquake
2011-02-22,"Gaddafi just gave another speech: ""Protesters are a small group of young people on drugs. They are sick."" "
2011-02-22,Earthquake in New Zealand [pics]
2011-02-22,A group of Libyan army officers have reportedly issued a statement urging fellow soldiers to join the people and help remove Gaddafi from power. AJE Live blog  2.00AM.
2011-02-22,Students In Zimbabwe Arrested For Watching Coverage Of Arab Uprisings
2011-02-22,Google Maps - mapping of the protests spreading across the Middle East on this master map. 
2011-02-22,2 000 000 Egyptians in Tahrir Square singing Free Palestine! 
2011-02-22,"Huge quake hit Christchurch, NZ- 6.3 magnitude at 5kms depth - bigger even than the original Sept 4 quake :("
2011-02-22,Petraeus suggests Afghans burned their own children to exaggerate civilian casualty claims
2011-02-22,Blogger able to give real updates about whats happening in Libya
2011-02-21,"Thousands of Tunisians marched through the capital on Saturday demanding the separation of mosque and state in one of the largest demonstrations since the overthrow of Mr. Ben Ali. Protesters held up signs saying, Politics ruins religion and religion ruins politics. Hamdullah!"
2011-02-21,Gaddafi burns his soldiers in their barracks for refusing to shoot protesters  VERY GRAPHIC Video of the aftermath
2011-02-21,"Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer labeled ""anti-Semitic"" for condemning Zionist atrocities."
2011-02-21,Libyan Air Force bombs protestors!
2011-02-21,My favorite protest sign of Libya
2011-02-21,"Protesters in Libya have overrun army bases, seized weapons, and taken control of Benghazi. The protesters reportedly now have tanks, and ""intense gunfire"" is being reported from Tripoli. Ghadafi's son is warning of a civil war."
2011-02-21,"IRAN: Tens of thousands of mourn the deaths of slain protesters, gather in public areas Sunday calling for the end of Iran's ""religious dictatorship"", are met by ""an extraordinary number"" of security forces and Basij militia who beat, shoot, and gas them"
2011-02-21,Decentralizing the Internet So Big Brother Cant Find You
2011-02-21,Mikhail Gorbachev lambasts Vladimir Putin's 'sham' democracy
2011-02-21,"Protests in Jordan are also getting short shrift in the media. By the type Mubarak had stepped down in Egypt after 18 days of protests, Jordan had it's sixth Friday in a row of protests for political reform."
2011-02-21,"Al Jazeera Arabic reports that adverts in Geni and Nigeria asking for mercenaries, offering up to US $2000 dollars per day. From AJE liveblog at 1.20 AM."
2011-02-21,Gaddafi son: 'We will eradicate them all'
2011-02-21,Libyan planes defect to Malta to avoid bombing own citizens
2011-02-21,Japan to excavate WWII human experimentation site
2011-02-21,"Anyone else getting sick of this type of BS coming from the UK and the US regarding Egypt. They're the ones that supported Mubarak for 30 years, now they're scrambling to look like the nice guys. "
2011-02-21,"Libya's second largest city, Benghazi, has fallen to anti-government forces after a crack army unit defected to the opposition."
2011-02-21,"Qaddafi Son Warns of 'Rivers of Blood' as Libya Revolt Spreads  ""Instead of weeping over 84 dead people, we will weep over hundreds of thousands of dead,"" Saif al-Islam Qaddafi said on state television. ""Rivers of blood will flow."""
2011-02-21,"Chancellor Angela Merkels Christian Democratic Union suffers major defeat on Sunday in Hamburg election, Social Democrats make big gains and will form new government"
2011-02-21,"Chinese police crush online call for Middle East-style revolution
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2011-02-21,Military bases and tanks seized in Libya
2011-02-21,"Studies using a submersible found a layer, as much as 10cm thick in places, of dead animals and oil (gulf oil spill)"
2011-02-21,"What's going on in Bahrain and why? Some facts, some history, and my own views as a Bahraini."
2011-02-21,FROM A LIBYAN AMERICAN:  WHERE IS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY?
2011-02-21,"Gaddafi leaves Libya - Libya's Muammar Gaddafi has left his country for Venezuela or Brazil, as protests calling on him to step down have turned violent, a report says. "
2011-02-21,Zimbabweans arrested viewing Mideast news 
2011-02-20,"Members of a Libyan army have defected and ""liberated"" Libya's second city from troops supporting veteran leader Muammar Gaddafi"
2011-02-20,Watch China in the next few hours. 2pm Sunday local time a Jasmine Revolution is set to start across 13 Chinese cities. Authorities are beginning the crackdown
2011-02-20,"Eyewitness from Lybia: ""900 killed - Muammar's special forces are executing doctors."""
2011-02-20,"""Chinese workers at a company in Israel have been forced to agree not to have sex with or marry Israelis as a condition of getting a job."""
2011-02-20,"Breaking:  Gaddafi on plane to Venezuela, his two sons in shoot out with each other ~ Aljazeera Live (no link yet)."
2011-02-20,Moamer Kadhafi to EU: Stop supporting pro-democracy rallies in Libya or I'll flood Europe with illegal immigrants
2011-02-20,"Judge Napolitano WikiLeaks Rant: ""If we allow the Governments of the world to label Assange a terrorist, and allow them to shut down Wikileaks, it will be one giant leap towards tyranny."""
2011-02-20,"Heavy weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles, are being used by mercenaries to murder scores of pro-democracy campaigners in Colonel Gaddafi's Libya with the death toll already ""well into three figures"""
2011-02-20,China tries to stamp out 'Jasmine Revolution'
2011-02-20,Libya Update: Gaddafi Losing Control Of Military?
2011-02-20,Calls for change sweeping the Arab world have now spread to the kingdom of Morocco [aljazeera]
2011-02-20,Libya: Young boy killed by sniper 
2011-02-20,Libya - Hovering helicopters fired into the crowds and the hospital was receiving a steady stream of injured people
2011-02-20,"Bahrain protesters hold steady, spend night in square: Tough as nails. When you think about the extreme violence inflicted upon this group by the king, they know what may likely be ahead today or tomorrow. Even so, they continue"
2011-02-20,"Protests now reach China, 13 cities joined the first day of the ""Jasmine Revolution"" 2.0 version , for updates use #CN220 (pic via @@JunlingHu in Beijing)"
2011-02-20,Libya protests: Gaddafi sends in snipers to silence the dissent
2011-02-20,Robert Fisk: These are secular popular revolts  yet everyone is blaming religion
2011-02-20,Lara Logan sexual assault: how Egyptian women are reacting. 
2011-02-20,President of Iceland rejects the third Icesave bill and sends it to a public referendum
2011-02-20,Meanwhile in Afghanistan: 64 civilians have been killed in recent Nato air strikes
2011-02-20,Video of Libyan anti-government protesters arming after the brutal crackdown by the authorities.
2011-02-20,"Denmark's supreme court on Friday ruled that Copenhagen's ""free city"" of Christiania, founded in 1971,  belongs to the state and cannot be freely used by the ""squatters"".
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2011-02-20,"Female Foreign Correspondents Code of Silence, Finally Broken"
2011-02-20,China Jasmine Revolution? 13 major cities. 2 pm local time Sunday = Midnight CST
2011-02-20,"Unconfirmed Reports indicate Gaddafi Flees Abroad, Possibly Venezuela"
2011-02-19,So much for that.  US VETOES U.N. resolution condeming Israeli settlements
2011-02-19,Police gunning down protestors in Bahrain - video
2011-02-19,1000s Of Protesters Retake Bahrain Square
2011-02-19,Libya is off the Internet.
2011-02-19,Libyan students in the US told by embassy to attend pro-Ghaddafi rallies in DC or risk having their scholarship money revoked 
2011-02-19,Shit is really hitting the fan in the Middle East... Guardian Live Updates
2011-02-19,Lybia: 84 people killed in past three days during rallies calling for ousting of Muammar Gaddafi
2011-02-19,"Bahrain police retreat, protesters reoccupy Pearl Square"
2011-02-19,Libya machine gunning protestors and launching mortars at them. 
2011-02-19,"Protesters reoccupy Bahrain's Central Square: ""I don't care whether I die or live, but if I die I'll bring you freedom. If I live, I'll live the freedom with you"""
2011-02-19,"Helicopters fire at demonstrators in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, a doctor who witnessed the incident tells CNN.  DAMN!"
2011-02-19,Israeli bulldozers raze Palestinian land in Jerusalem.
2011-02-19,Report: Helicopters fire on Libya protesters
2011-02-19,"""The international community is watching...why isn't anyone helping us?"""
2011-02-19,"Human Rights Watch claims that Libyan security forces have killed 84 people over the past three days.
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2011-02-19,Bahrain massacre: They didn't run away. They faced the bullets head-on
2011-02-19,Delirious Joy in Bahrain
2011-02-19,"Bahrain military withdraws; protesters swarm landmark, Protesters in Bahrain retake Pearl Roundabout"
2011-02-19,"Libyan protesters risk 'suicide' by army hands 
Gaddafi confronts the most serious challenge to his 42-year rule by unleashing army on unarmed demonstrators"
2011-02-19,"LIBYA: African mercenaries imported by Kadafi to quash protests, Al Arabiya reports"
2011-02-19,Israeli army demolishes mosque.
2011-02-19,"Libyan security forces has killed least 46 protestors:  Gaddafi has ""permitted use lethal force against unarmed protesters calling for political change"" "
2011-02-19,Bahrain Police shooting at unarmed women demonstrators
2011-02-19,Israeli President Peres calls Palestinian President Abbas to discuss peace process in wake of failed UN settlement resolution
2011-02-19,"Palestinian envoy: U.S. veto at UN 'encourages Israeli intransigence' on settlements
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2011-02-18,Senior officers in Iran's Revolutionary Guards have written a letter to their commanding officer demanding assurances that they will not be required to open fire on anti-government demonstrators. 
2011-02-18,Egyptian flock to buy previously banned books
2011-02-18,"Bahrain Forces open on hundreds of mourners, sending people running away in panic amid the boom of concussion grenades (!)"
2011-02-18,"""We are calling for help. We are calling for all the countries in the world. We call for help here in Bahrain."""
2011-02-18,"Thug Life - 
Think Mubarak was bad? Kosovo's leaders are accused of being organ-smuggling, drug-dealing goons -- and the West is looking the other way."
2011-02-18,"Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the company was ""very proud"" of employee Wael Ghonim, a leader in the antigovernment protests that toppled Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak last week."
2011-02-18,Yemen holds 'Friday of Fury' as thousands of demonstrators mass in cities across the country
2011-02-18,Secret plan to destroy WikiLeaks revealed
2011-02-18,Group plans to beam free Internet across the globe from space.
2011-02-18,Glenn Greenwald: US Justice v World 
2011-02-18,Libya now blocking internet access amidst revolts and protests
2011-02-18,German Defense minister relinquishes Ph.D. over plagiarism charges
2011-02-18,"Fresh protests hit Iraqi cities: Thousands turn out across country, demanding better service delivery and jobs from government."
2011-02-18,"Why Germany Must End its Deployment in Afghanistan - The war in Afghanistan is based on four lies, including the premise that NATO allies are there to fight international terrorism, writes conservative ex-parliamentarian Jrgen Todenhfer."
2011-02-18,Bahrainis' anger turns on US-backed royal family - Thousands of mourners called for the downfall of Bahrain's ruling monarchy as burials began Friday after a deadly assault on pro-reform protesters that has brought army tanks into the streets of one of the most strategic Western allies in the Gulf.
2011-02-18,Iranian lawmakersincluding former supportershave moved to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for law violations that could land him in prison.
2011-02-18,Soldiers fire on protestors in Bahrain crackdown. 
2011-02-18,Deadly Attacks Against Protesters in Bahrain [pics]
2011-02-18,"Hilary Clinton chides Israels settlements as illegitimate while in the same breath, the US vetoes a UN resolution on condemning those same settlements as illegal. 14 to 1 against"
2011-02-18,"Egytian Military practicing the same injustices that Mubarak was ousted for?  Three innocent protesters arrested and detained (among hundreds of others).  ""They were beaten, whipped, exposed to electric shocks and suspended from the door frames of their cells."""
2011-02-18,Helen Thomas: Jews didn't have to leave Europe following Holocaust
2011-02-18,Bahrain troops and helicopters open deadly fire on hundreds of fleeing funeral mourners and journalists amid the boom of concussion grenades
2011-02-18,Scenes from Hospital in Bahrain difficult to watch
2011-02-18,"An inside look into the growing protests in Bahrain. What the US, Israel and Al-Qaeda has to do with it."
2011-02-18,Another Arab country erupts in protest: Djibouti: Thousands protests calling for the President to step down 
2011-02-17,"In a dramatic departure from longstanding policy, the United States intends to support a United Nations Security Council resolutions censuring Israel for building settlements in Palestinian territory."
2011-02-17,"Killing two people and injuring many, Bahrain police carry out a surprise, nighttime attack on square where protesters camp out."
2011-02-17,"A ""loosely organised"" group of hackers has been targeting oppressive regimes and has said this is just the beginning."
2011-02-17,An unprecedented cyber attack on the Canadian government from China has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information.
2011-02-17,Libya murdered 16 protesters
2011-02-17,"Belgians mark 'no-government world record' with nude protests, free beer and chips"
2011-02-17,"Belgium's 250 days without a national government, a world record previously held by Iraq"
2011-02-17,"If you live in a democracy, and dont have freedom of information, its not a democracy. And people have to understand that if you dont have freedom of information online, its not going to be offline, either. "
2011-02-17,Protests banned in Bahrain
2011-02-17,A map of world alcohol consumption
2011-02-17,British forests saved after huge backlash from public
2011-02-17,Update: Bahrain protesters violently dispersed from the center square.
2011-02-17,"""As long as they (Iranians) are not conducting some sort of belligerent operation I think they would have a right to go through the canal like any other country,"" said James Kraska, professor of international law at the US Naval War College."
2011-02-17,Only nine percent of investigations into Israeli citizen violence against Palestinians and their property result in indictments.
2011-02-17,"Argentina is accusing the US military of attempting to smuggle arms, drugs and spy equipment into the country under the pretext of a police training course."
2011-02-17,Why Are Food Prices Going Crazy?
2011-02-17,The authorities in Egypt have arrested three ex-ministers for corruption
2011-02-17,Bloody crackdown in Bahrain: Four killed as police raid Tahrir-style protest in capital.
2011-02-17,Riot police in Bahrain sweep in on sleeping protesters with tear gas in attempt to clear a main square.
2011-02-17,Baghdad wants U.S. to pay $1 billion for damage to city
2011-02-17,"The former Egyptian interior minister has been arrested for corruption, he is widely blamed for the brutality used by riot police during recent protests"
2011-02-17,This is cloak and dagger stuff: an American employed by US Embassy in Lahore shoots two Pakistani citizens.
2011-02-17,Bahrain: terror as protesters shot. Live updates
2011-02-17,"Our attention spans are too short, scope too small... any follow up on what's happening in Cote d'Ivoire? "
2011-02-17,"In sharp reversal, U.S. agrees to rebuke Israel in Security Council - By Colum Lynch | Turtle Bay"
2011-02-16,Japan suspends Antartic whaling - BBC
2011-02-16,CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests
2011-02-16,"Mubarak ordered Tiananmen-style massacre of demonstrators, Army refused. Mubarak ordered the Egyptian Third Army to crush the demonstrators in Tahrir Square with their tanks. Fathers who had spent their lives serving the Egyptian army told their sons to disobey."
2011-02-16,"Will popular uprisings have the same effect on Qaddafi as they did on Mubarak? The mere fact that people are lifting up their heads in a brutal police state like Libya is an incredible testament to human courage. 
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2011-02-16,Violent protests break out in Libya
2011-02-16,Kim Jong Il celebrates 69th birthday as North Koreans starve
2011-02-16,CBS Reporter Lara Logan sexually assaulted by Egyptian mob
2011-02-16,An Israeli General has taken credit for the Stuxnet virus attacks during his retirement party
2011-02-16,China in push to develop thorium nuclear reactors
2011-02-16,Japans whaling fleet gives up under the pressure of anti whaling boats in Antarctic waters.
2011-02-16,"""As news of Logan's assault in Egypt broke, the victim-blaming machine kicked in"""
2011-02-16,"Anti-government protests spread to Libya - demonstrators demand Libyan PM's resignation, but not Gadhafi's."
2011-02-16,Argentina Holds Confiscated U.S. Air Force Cargo
2011-02-16,Middle East protests - Country by country
2011-02-16,At least 211 killed in clashes in south Sudan
2011-02-16,"Iraq to slash politicians salaries amid protests - The new legislation will result in savings of at least $19 million annually, and will see Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's salary cut by nearly two-thirds, cabinet secretary general Ali al-Alaak told AFP."
2011-02-16,"Libya ""day of rage"" planned on 17th Feb with a rap protest video to get protestors out"
2011-02-16,"Berlusconi knew girl was underage, had sex with her anyway"
2011-02-16,"Most civilian aid for Afghanistan lost | Up to 80 per cent of international help to Afghanistan is lost to international and local corruption schemes, insists Pino Arlacchi, Italian Member of the European Parliament and the former UN anti-drug and crime chief."
2011-02-16,"CNN: ""Remarkable display of bravery in Iran, 
Brutality and hypocrisy by the regime"" Feb 15, 2011"
2011-02-16,Bahrain protesters keep up pressure
2011-02-16,Israel says Iran warships to transit Suez for Syria
2011-02-16,"Iran protester's death 'hijacked by regime'
Saane Zhaleh, who was killed in clashes between protesters and security forces, is being falsely described as a pro-government militia member, according to his family"
2011-02-16,2  agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were attacked Tuesday afternoon while driving between Mexico City and Monterrey1 dead 1 wounded 
2011-02-16,Stop blaming Italians for Berlusconi: It's not voters' admiration for a Casanova prime minister that keeps Berlusconi in power  it's his control of the media
2011-02-15,Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on charges of paying for sex with an underage girl and abuse of power.
2011-02-15,"Wikileaks, Bank of America and Glenn Greenwald: ""It was the DOJ that recommended HB Gary to Bank of America. And their actions fit the DOJ's agenda to destroy WikiLeaks. The DOJ will conveniently look the other way."""
2011-02-15,Defector admits to WMD lies that triggered Iraq war
2011-02-15,Bahraini Protestors take the main square!
2011-02-15,"In a case that has dragged on for nearly two decades, Chevron has been fined by an Ecuadorian court for dumping billions of gallons of toxic materials into the amazon"
2011-02-15,Dalai Lama's nephew killed on Florida walk for Tibet
2011-02-15,"Egypt: Is The Revolution Being Co-Opted? - ""We still have the same cabinet appointed by Mubarak. The emergency state is still enforced. Old detainees are still in detention and new ones since the 25th of January remain missing. There is no public apology for the killings."""
2011-02-15,Yemenis Trying To Oust Leader Protest For 5th Day
2011-02-15,The inside story of Egyptian soldiers refusing orders to massacre people in Tahrir Square
2011-02-15,"""Day of Rage"" protests across Iran, Algeria, Bahrain and Yemen. [Videos]"
2011-02-15,"Emboldened by the successes in Tunisia and Egypt, Gabon's people took to the streets this weekend to demand the resignation of President Ali Bongo"
2011-02-15,"In Bahrain, protesters bridge Sunni-Shiite divide to challenge monarchy."
2011-02-15,"Bahraini police fire at protesters, at least 1 killed"
2011-02-15,"Jordan: King's Bodyguards Shoot Protesters, not mentioned in the MSN news"
2011-02-15,$2m drug submarine seized by Colombian navy
2011-02-15,"BBC News - FBI ""overstated"" evidence used in anthrax letters case"
2011-02-15,Unrest Grows in Bahrain as Police Kill a 2nd Protester 
2011-02-15,King Tut Statues Stolen From Egypt Museum
2011-02-15,"Another admitted liar on the ""Iraq had WMDs"" team. ""Janabi holds little regrets on what he did, admitting that he is comfortable despite the 100,000-person civilian death toll and thousands of soldiers killed."""
2011-02-15,According to eye witnesses - Saudi Armed forces go through King Fahad Bridge towards Bahrain.  (Link in Arabic).  This could get ugly for the protestors
2011-02-15,Argentina accuses US of trying to smuggle weapons into country
2011-02-15,"In Canada, 26 record labels have secretly filed a massive lawsuit against isoHunt, BEFORE the Canadian DMCA was introduced."
2011-02-15,Hilary Clinton says she supports Iranian protestors: 
2011-02-15,"Beijing looks warily at Egypt uprising
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2011-02-15,"Egyptian Newspaper Elbashayer: sources said that Hosni Mubarak passed away this Tuesday, and that it will be revealed to the public later on tomorrow."
2011-02-14,Breaking: Anti-Government Protests Spread to Iran.  Thousands march together today.
2011-02-14,Citizens of Algeria vow to hold a protest every Saturday until the government falls
2011-02-14,Chevron Fined $8.2 Billion in Ecuador Pollution Case
2011-02-14,"Mubarak and family amassed $70 billion: He may be the richest man and they the richest family on Earth. All this happened when millions of Egyptians lost their farms, while more than 40% live on less than $2 a day"
2011-02-14,Protests spread to Iran and Bahrain in 'day of rage'
2011-02-14,"With signs reading Enough! and We want a country that respects women, thousands took to the streets across Italy on Sunday in coordinated demonstrations against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, but their outpouring of frustration did not look poised to bring about political change. "
2011-02-14,Shame of Britain's Muslim schools: Secret filming shows pupils beaten  | Mail Online
2011-02-14,"Tunisia Style: Iranians defy government ban to join rally in Tehran, with demonstrations and street clashes in Bahrain and Yemen"
2011-02-14,Revealed: how energy firms spy on environmental activists
2011-02-14,"Egypt Echoes Across Region: Iran, Bahrain, Yemen"
2011-02-14,Iran praises Egyptian protests one day and cracks down on its own people's protests soon after.
2011-02-14,2/14:  Bahrain (Islamic island nation) protesters terrorized by rampaging firing police force (video). 
2011-02-14,Peak oil: We are asleep at the wheel - Saudis have overstated their oil reserves
2011-02-14,France calls for new global finance system
2011-02-14,"Bahrain Now Bracing For Its Own Day Of Rage After Giving Every Family $2,660 Fails"
2011-02-14,"An estimated one MILLION women protested in 280 cities in Italy on Sunday, to demand action against Berlusconi over the latest scandals and for fair opportunities for women at work"
2011-02-14,Taliban war crimes: Human rights groups finally notice
2011-02-14,"""The Iranian leaders who cheered the popular overthrow of an Egyptian strongman last week have promised to crush an opposition march planned for Monday in solidarity with the Egyptian people."""
2011-02-14,Egypt opposition leader escapes assassination attempt  
2011-02-14,Egypt: Now police demonstrate - Cairo policemen march to demand higher wages and more respect.
2011-02-14,Ecuador court orders Chevron to pay $8 billion
2011-02-14,Amateur film of Iranian protests. From BBC News
2011-02-14,"Julian Assange, Swedish Prime Minister Reinfeldt and Karl Rove: interview with Brian Palmer, voted 2002 Best Lecturer by the student body of Harvard University. 'Sweden has become somewhat of a voluntary vassal state of the USA.'"
2011-02-14,"Thousands of Italian women march in protest of Berlusconi in particular, and degradation of Italian women in general."
2011-02-14,Egyptians and Tunisians collaborated to shake Arab history - A two-year collaboration of dissidents gave birth to a new force  a pan-Arab youth movement dedicated to spreading democracy in a region without it.
2011-02-13,Algeria shuts down internet and Facebook as protest mounts  
2011-02-13,Egypt: Americans scorn AlJazeera but it playd greater role in promoting democracy in Arab world than anything US did
2011-02-13,NaziLeak: The leak of thousands of confidential e-mails from members of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party shows the group is soaked in racist and neo-Nazi ideology... and illegally misappropriates public funds.
2011-02-13,"Egyptians Can Claim Mubaraks Stolen Billions: From Feb 1, Swiss law allows for money deposited in Swiss banks by Third World dictators to be reimbursed to the legitimate governments of the dictators countries of origin (!) "
2011-02-13,Egypt's Army dissolves parliament
2011-02-13,"From meeting with Bradley, from getting to know him and from watching his state degrade over time, the only conclusion I can reach is that this is torture. "
2011-02-13,Iranian anti-government protests planned for Monday.
2011-02-13,DAE feel that facebook is getting far too much credit in the mainstream media for the Egyptian revolution?
2011-02-13,Iran opposition to hold demonstrations on Monday despite government warnings 
2011-02-13,"Canada's lead weapons treaty negotiator has been removed from his post after American negotiators complained he was ""too tough and aggressive"" on behalf of Canada in disarmament talks.
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2011-02-13,"Chinese Stereotypes of Westerners: ""Americans are stereotyped as the good guy, the evil characters are French and English, and the dumb characters are German."""
2011-02-13,"Canadian woman strip-searched by U.S. border guards after failing to declare ""raspberries"""
2011-02-13,Yemens police beat back protesters intent on overthrowing president: Police armed with sticks & daggers on Sunday beat back thousands of protesters marching through the capital in a 3rd day of demonstrations calling for political reforms & the resignation of the president.
2011-02-13,"Sex trafficking in the UK - Powerful crime investigation told through story of Romanian's abduction and violent imprisonment as prostitute in Manchester. Raped by different men 50 times a week. Hers is just one story; up to 5,000 others still to be told"
2011-02-13,"Assange has been talking about these BofA documents since (at least) October of 2009. At what point does this become a ""Pics, or it didn't happen"" situation?"
2011-02-13,Army private 'pressured to implicate Assange'
2011-02-13,"10,000 Algerian protesters, defying a ban on demonstrations, shouted: ""Power Out,"" and ""$155 Billion, and We're Still Poor,"" a reference to the oil producer's estimated foreign-exchange reserves"
2011-02-13,"Here we go again, another western support regime closes down the internet in the face of popular revolt"
2011-02-13,Egypt: Al Jazeera owned this story the last 18 days.
2011-02-13,Iraq man dies of self-immolation to protest rising unemployment
2011-02-13,"How the Egyptian protesters fooled the police. Twenty January 25 protests were announced via the Internet, but twenty-one were planned. The announced 20 were prevented from reaching Tahrir Square by riot police. The secret 21st protest succeeded."
2011-02-13,"Day of protests in 200 Italian cities against Berlusconi: Hundreds of women will take to the streets of Italys cities, calling on Berlusconi to resign after prosecutors requested he be sent to trial for having sex with an underage prostitute"
2011-02-13,"A US official told The Sunday Telegraph: Hosni Mubarak used the 18 days it took for protesters to topple him to shift his vast wealth into untraceable accounts overseas, Western intelligence sources have said"
2011-02-13,U.S. Jewish groups congratulate Egyptians on ousting Mubarak 
2011-02-13,Brotherhood won't seek power in Egypt
2011-02-12,Egypt: Hosni Mubarak used last 18 days in power to secure his fortune
2011-02-12,Egypt : done. Next stop : Algeria
2011-02-12,"Algeria, 3000 protesters meet 30,000 police."
2011-02-12,Some very good pics of the clean-up in Cairo's Tahrir Square
2011-02-12,Police in Algiers clubbed demonstrators down
2011-02-12,Tahrir Square reacts to resignation
2011-02-12,"""By dumping Hosni Mubarak, America's closest and most important Arab ally, [U.S. President] Barack Obama has signalled to Muslims throughout the Middle East that repressive rulers can no longer rely on Washington and are vulnerable to ouster by uprising."""
2011-02-12,"Anonymous claims to be in possession of Stuxnet 
Virus"
2011-02-12,Police in Algeria are deployed ahead of a democracy rally which has been banned by the government
2011-02-12,(Xpost - Videos) Raw video of Egyptian Army announcing Mubarack resignation
2011-02-12,Police and protestors clash in Algeria
2011-02-12,Corrupt cops being arrested in Brazil
2011-02-12,Egypt: Hosni Mubarak used last 18 days in power to secure his fortune
2011-02-12,"CIA officials learned of Egyptian military's plan to remove Mubarak, but Egyptian president decided at the last minute to change the ending. "
2011-02-12,A Revolution Co-opted By The Regime It Opposes - Egypt is returning to the 1952 model of ruling the state via a council of army officers - Have the Egyptian people been outflanked and had the clock turned back half a century on them to the very system that produced Mubarak in the first place?
2011-02-12,Egypt military promises to abide by Israel peace deal
2011-02-12,"	

Israel unprepared for Mubarak's fall: 
Critics say Israeli leaders were 'in denial' and now have few options. "
2011-02-12,214 high quality shots of Tel Aviv graffiti --most awesome
2011-02-12,The domino effect: Is there more to come in the Middle Eastern Arab world ?
2011-02-12,A new civilian spirit in Cairo - volunteers cleaning streets this morning
2011-02-12,Egypt military pledges transition to civilian rule
2011-02-12,China bids to ease drought with $1bn emergency water aid. World's biggest wheat producer resorts to desperate measures in attempt to protect harvest from worst drought in 60 years
2011-02-12,The Stuxnet virus was aimed at five distinct industrial facilities in Iran
2011-02-12,Musharraf Wanted In Connection With Bhutto's Death  
2011-02-12,Armed Yemeni government supporters break up protest.
2011-02-11,BREAKING NEWS: Mubarak will NOT step down. Will NOT bow to foreign pressure.
2011-02-11,"BREAKING: Mubarak steps down, military council to run Egypt"
2011-02-11,Muslim Brotherhood rejects Khamenei calls for Iran-style Islamic state 
2011-02-11,Hosni Mubarak has announced he is stepping down as President and has transferred control of Egypt's affairs to the high council of the armed forces.
2011-02-11,French President says multiculturalism has failed
2011-02-11,Names and faces of killed Egyptian protesters (crosspost from /r/Egypt)
2011-02-11,Swiss freeze Mubarak assets
2011-02-11,"Someone seems to have hacked the site of the Cairo NDP, Hosni Mubarak's ruling party"
2011-02-11,"With the economy projected to grow 3 percent this year, Icelands decision to let the banks fail is looking smart -- and may prove to be a model for others. "
2011-02-11,Reports from Iran say several opposition activists have been arrested and international broadcasters are being jammed.
2011-02-11,The International Monetary Fund issues report calling for replacement for the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
2011-02-11,"Algeria prepares for day of protests: 
Pro-democracy alliance expected to defy ban on demonstrations. "
2011-02-11,"""I think the Mubarak regime is trying to bait the crowd in Tahrir Square""  --Fareed Zakaria"
2011-02-11,"Many Egyptians are placing their trust in the army. But then there's blogger Kareem Amer, just released from prison after 3 days, who tells of the brutality and torture he witnessed there."
2011-02-11,"Tanks guarding the presidential palace in Cairo turned their turrets away from approaching demonstrators, eliciting a huge cheer from the crowd.
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2011-02-11,"Witnesses: Egyptian army withdraws from positions near presidential palace ... ""the withdrawal of the troops could be a warning to the president that the army may not be able to protect him if protesters decided to march towards the palace"""
2011-02-11,15 Egypt army officers join protesters
2011-02-11,HOSNI MUBARAK HAS STEPPED DOWN!
2011-02-11,Egypt: the wait [pics]
2011-02-11,One of the most startling tales from the past few years of North Korean history concerned the North's leader Kim Jong-il bringing in Italian pizza chefs while his people foraged for scraps of food 
2011-02-11,"Iran takes credit for the Egyptian revolution. Stay classy, Iran."
2011-02-11,"Protest leaders decide to head to Presidential Palace today. Also, more than 10,000 protesters surround Egypt State TV building"
2011-02-11,"This is just the beginning:  protests continue to ripple across Mideast, North Africa"
2011-02-11,Mubarak assets frozen by Swiss government
2011-02-11,Winners of the World Press Photo Contest 2011 [pics]
2011-02-10,Another Egyptian police van runs over protesters but is overpowered and tipped over [video]
2011-02-10,My university claims it doesn't have enough money for teaching.  Turns out they have been using it to source information on Iran for the US embassy. Wikileaks I love you.
2011-02-10,A third of Russians think the sun revolves around the earth. If only there was some sort of smart-ass remark to make fun of this...
2011-02-10,28 hours in the dark heart of Egypt's torture machine 
2011-02-10,Cables: FBI trained Egypts state torturers
2011-02-10,The Egyptian military has been secretly detaining and torturing those it suspects of being involved in pro-democracy protests
2011-02-10,North Korea has ordered all its embassies to appeal to foreign governments for food aid
2011-02-10,"Mubarak: ""I will not leave Egypt until I die."" Egypt: ""WE CAN TOTALLY HELP YOU WITH THAT."""
2011-02-10,"""The greatest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle to the ultra-rich that this country has seen in a century [...] UK will be only the second country in the world to allow money that has passed through tax havens to remain untaxed when it gets here. The other is Switzerland."""
2011-02-10,Strike wave across Egypt: `The working class has entered the arena with full force'
2011-02-10,"Saudis told Obama to back Mubarak - Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. [paywall, partial content available on frontpage]"
2011-02-10,The current Cairo generation are feeling betrayed by the wishy-washy Obama adminstration's support of the current Egyptian regime instead of democracy
2011-02-10,"Cuba welcomes its new internet cable link with Venezuela, opening a breach in the US economic blockade. "
2011-02-10,"Thousands of judges and lawyers have taken to the streets in unprecedented protests against Nicolas Sarkozy, paralysing the legal system and shutting down almost all France's courthouses this week."
2011-02-10,Live coverage of Mubarak's speech in Cairo's Tahrir Square
2011-02-10,Scientists in Europe want to give robots their own internet to communicate and teach each other what they learn about us. What Could Go Wrong?
2011-02-10,Wael Ghonim: Negotiation days with Mubarak are over
2011-02-10,'Saudi king told Obama he'd fund Mubarak if U.S. halted Egypt aid'
2011-02-10,"Egypt: Why is Israel so Blind?
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2011-02-10,WATCH LIVE: President Hosni Mubarak Addresses The Egyptian People
2011-02-10,"China will spend at least 6.7 billion yuan ($1.02 billion) to divert water to affected areas, construct emergency wells and irrigation facilities, and take other measures - to battle the ongoing drought in the northern regions."
2011-02-10,Omar Suleiman: Egypts torturer-in-chief threatens to unleash dark bats of the night to terrorize the people
2011-02-10,"Indonesian man whose five-year sentence for ""blasphemy"" enraged Muslims had also insulted Catholics, who declined to go on a rampage"
2011-02-10,"Human rights Groups accuse the Egyptian army of 
involvement in both disappearances and torture  
abuses Egyptians have for years associated with the 
notorious state security intelligence (SSI) but not 
the army."
2011-02-10,Furious Egyptian demonstrators vowed to launch their most spectacular protest yet in Cairo on Friday 
2011-02-09,The suffering of Southern Africa under AIDS in one figure
2011-02-09,Anonymous sends an open letter to the UK government over the arrest of 5 of its members related to the DDoS attacks on Paypal et al.
2011-02-09,"Muslims return favor, join hands with Christian protesters for Mass in Cairo's Tahrir Square"
2011-02-09,"Cairo: Week 3, day 16, and with every passing hour, the regime digs in deeper"
2011-02-09,Three Christian churches in Indonesia destroyed by mob wanting stiffer penalty for Christian man given five year sentence for blasphemy against Islam.
2011-02-09,The Government's Case Against Julian Assange Is Falling Apart
2011-02-09,"The US has called on the Egyptian government to lift its 30-year-old state of emergency immediately and calls comments by Egyptian Vice-President Omar Suleiman that the country was not ready for democracy """"particularly unhelpful""."
2011-02-09,Fiber-optic communications cable arrives in Cuba  promising a bandwidth bonanza for a country saddled with exorbitant telephone rates and among the slowest Internet connection speeds on the planet.
2011-02-09," Internet causes cancer - 
New ultra-Orthodox marketing campaign uses scare tactics to prevent community from Web surfing. 'Internet causes disease, adversity,' "
2011-02-09,North Korea walks out of talks (again)
2011-02-09,"The UN's food price index is at its highest point in over a decade, and Unilever warns that it's going to get worse. "
2011-02-09,"An Israeli conspiracy that never existed - by Abdulateef Al-Mulhim, Commodore (Retd.), Royal Saudi Navy. "
2011-02-09,Ex-WikiLeaker claims defectors took control of leaks from Assange
2011-02-09,"Investigate The Vatican - 
Fine expos of Scientology in ""New Yorker"" this week. But are Scientology's doctrines any crazier than those of Roman Catholicism? Is the Pope a better man than L. Ron Hubbard was? How about more investigating of the Vatican?"
2011-02-09,Protest in Egypt Takes a Turn as Workers Go on Strike 
2011-02-09,"Oil prices could spiral out of control by 2012, US fears."
2011-02-09,Pirates seize Greek tanker carrying $200m of oil
2011-02-09,Russia eliminates daylight saving time 
2011-02-09,"	

Protests in Egypt escalate: 
Thousand marched on parliament to demand its member's resignation. "
2011-02-09,Protest in Egypt Takes a Turn as Workers Go on Strike
2011-02-09,Brutal Crackdown in Belarus
2011-02-09,"Mexico violence not an 'emergency,' White House says. "
2011-02-09,BBC News - Southern Sudan minister shot dead by ministry driver
2011-02-09,South Sudan minister shot dead - Africa - Al Jazeera English
2011-02-09,WikiLeaks: Suleiman told Israel he would 'cleanse' Sinai of arms runners to Gaza
2011-02-08,The Church of Scientology is Under Investigation for Slave Labor
2011-02-08,Shocking 'Egypt images' emerge - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2011-02-08,Louis Theroux: The Ultra Zionists
2011-02-08,"Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak may be the world's richest man with an estimated fortune of $70 billion dollars, according to reports."
2011-02-08,The Last POW - story of a Japanese man who has been in Soviet Union since he was captured during WWII.
2011-02-08,Wikileaks Releases Cables On Egypt VP Omar Suleiman's Connections With Israel
2011-02-08,"6000 Workers Sit In, As The First Suez Canal Strike Has Begun"
2011-02-08,"Mass demonstrations continue in Cairo: The release of Wael Ghonim, a cyber activist and Google executive, rallied protesters in Cairo."
2011-02-08,Syria set to remove firewall that bans Facebook and YouTube.
2011-02-08,"'Sheik al-Torture' is now a democrat
(Pepe Escobar) ""The Egyptian revolution is being dissolved right in front of the world's eyes by an optical illusion..."""
2011-02-08,52% of Americans have heard little or nothing about the demonstrations in Egypt.
2011-02-08,Assange Extradition Trial  Day II |Live Updates|
2011-02-08,Suspected U.S. spy drone crashes in Yemen; witnesses say al-Qaida carried wreckage away
2011-02-08,Tony Blair's sister-in-law thinks Blair should be tried for war crimes.
2011-02-08,"Swedish PM slams Julian Assange's claims  --  ""I can only defend what everyone in Sweden already knows: that we have an independent, non-coerced judiciary""."
2011-02-08,Egyptian Ex-Interior Minister Habib el-Adly under investigation for masterminding Coptic church bombing on New Year's Eve.
2011-02-08,Egypt's new VP Suleiman: The CIA's man in Cairo
2011-02-08,"Normally cited as an example of good governance, Sweden is now fending off attacks from Assange's lawyers who charge the country is pursuing their client at the behest of the US for leaking classified government and military documents."
2011-02-08,Scientology fury at FBI probe
2011-02-08,Al Jazeera English correspondent reports on his detention; military roughed up protesters whom they detained.
2011-02-08,"Wael Ghonim, one of the instigators of the Jan25 movement and a Google executive, gave his first interview last night after 12 days in detention. This writer calls it ""one of the most moving moments of television"" he has ever seen."
2011-02-08,"Violence against medical staff and increased levels of mental illness are taking a toll on Juarez...A gritty border town with about 1.3 million residents, Juarez is the most violent city in Mexico - with more than 3,100 murders in 2010."
2011-02-08,"Still No Water Or Electricity In Iraq 8 Years After 'Liberation' By American Empire - ""It is a tragedy. Even during the Middle Ages, people were not living in this situation,"" said engineer Furat al-Janabi. "
2011-02-08,Wael Ghonim DreamTV interview playlist - part 1 intro - parts 2+3 interview - subtitled (use CC)
2011-02-08,Blogger's release 'reignites' Egypt - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2011-02-07,Einstein was right - honey bee collapse threatens global food security  - Telegraph
2011-02-07,"California-based Boeing subsidiary, Narus, sells deep-packet inspection to Egypt to track social media use"
2011-02-07,Assange Extradition Trial Begins
2011-02-07,Shocking videos emerge from Egypt showing civilians shot by snipers and police
2011-02-07,The Netherlands has withdrawn its ambassador to Iran in protest of a Dutch-Iranian woman's death at the hands of Iranian authorities. The move came amid revelations she may have died during torture.
2011-02-07,WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatens to sue 'The Guardian' newspaper for libel
2011-02-07,"Jerusalem council set to approve Jewish housing in Arab neighborhood - ""it will be necessary to evict a number of Palestinian families living on the site in order for construction to commence"""
2011-02-07,Journalist shot and killed by police in Cairo
2011-02-07,"Talks fail to end Egypt protests - pro-democracy protests continue at Tahrir Square: ""This is not a revolution made by the parties. The parties have been there for 30 years and they've done nothing. This is the people's revolution."""
2011-02-07,"In 2011, there are 100 uncontacted tribes worldwide"
2011-02-07,Leaked files show details of Julian Assange rape allegations 
2011-02-07,"ElBaradei: The Israelis Have A Peace Treaty With Mubarak, Not With The Egyptian People"
2011-02-07,"REPORT: Mubarak To Leave Egypt, Go To Germany For ""Health Check"" And Hand Over Power"
2011-02-07,Leaked cables reveal anger at regime may make Libya the next Arab domino to fall.
2011-02-07,BBC News - Rock guitarist Gary Moore dies at 58
2011-02-07,"South African President: When you vote for the ANC, you are also choosing to go to heaven. When you don't vote for the ANC you should know that you are choosing that man who carries a fork..."
2011-02-07,Iran's 'Day of Rage' - Green Movement leaders embarass Iranian regime by proposing demonstration in support of Egyptian and Tunisian revolts
2011-02-07,Al Jazeera Hopes Reports From Egypt Open Doors in US
2011-02-07,Perth surrounded by flames as fires rage out of control 
2011-02-07,"Jesus, the Economist gets it wrong AGAIN, saying Egypt's situation affirms George Bush's Arab ""freedom agenda."" Actually, a lot of Egyptians HATE the U.S. now because we supported Mubarak for so long, just like Saudis and Iranians hate us for supporting their past or current authoritarian regimes."
2011-02-07,"Tunisia's former governing party is to be suspended and its offices closed, the interior ministry has announced."
2011-02-07,Bashir accepts Sudan vote to secede
2011-02-07,US envoy's business link to Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak revealed
2011-02-07,"Egypt: Mubarak has changed his Facebook status to ""it's complicated"""
2011-02-07,"Journalists leaving Egypt --  ""The atmosphere has been constantly worsening and journalists have become targets,"" a Finnish photographer said."
2011-02-06,"""We dont want Omar Suleiman to take Mubaraks place. We are not O.K. with this regime at all...We want a president who is a civilian. "
2011-02-06,Egyptian police shoot a defenseless boy .. Atrocious
2011-02-06,EGYPT: Young boy murdered by police in cold blood
2011-02-06,"Egyptian Police Shoot Unarmed Man Dead in Alexandria, 31/01/2011"
2011-02-06,It's not radical Islam that worries the US ; it's independence | Noam Chomsky 
2011-02-06,"Anti-Mubarak activists bruised, tired, hungry: ""Maybe we'll be tired for a month, but we will be able to live in freedom for the rest of our life."""
2011-02-06,"Meanwhile along the Thai and Cambodian border, solders are trading fire for the third straight day"
2011-02-06,"Cameron says multiculturalism has failed in Britain and it was time to replace Britain's ""passive tolerance"" with an ""active, muscular liberalism"" to send a message that life in Britain revolves around certain key values such as freedom of speech, equal rights and the rule of law."
2011-02-06,"Ripple effects of the Egyptian uprising are now spreading to Gaza, where some groups are planning a new rally next week... making the Hamas government nervous"
2011-02-06,"France rocked by news of aid to Tunisia and Egypt - France trained Egyptian police officers in crowd control and sent tear gas to Tunis. And its foreign minister vacationed in Tunisia after the uprising, using the jet of a man linked to the ousted president."
2011-02-06,Citizen video obtained by AJE shows the green laser seen apparently targeting anti-gov ppl with gunfire.
2011-02-06,Political science professor: There is no reason for American journalists to accept the premise that President Hosni Mubarak is the only thing standing between chaos and/or Islamic theocracy in Egypt
2011-02-06,"Iranian opposition to mullahs: If you dig these Egypt protests so much, why not let us march too?"
2011-02-06, Will The West Endorse Human Rights Violator Omar Suleiman To Be Egypt's President? 
2011-02-06,"""When a white person holds objectionable views  racism, for example  we rightly condemn them. But when equally unacceptable views or practices have come from someone who isnt white, weve been too cautious, frankly even fearful, to stand up to them. "
2011-02-06,"American Warships Heading to Egypt.  Yesterday, 
the Los Angeles Times reported: The Pentagon is 
moving U.S. warships and other military assets to 
make sure it is prepared in case evacuation of U.S. 
citizens from Egypt becomes necessary,"
2011-02-06,"Rape case against the WikiLeaks chief 'weak' - Details in a police file of the rape case against Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, reveal a series of apparent contradictions and inconsistencies in the evidence against him."
2011-02-06,Ex-Israeli soldier admits leaking secret military files
2011-02-06,"""I'm a huge fan of Top Gear. But this time I've had enough,"" by Steve Coogan "
2011-02-06,"Egypt protesters hold firm: Tens of thousands in Tahrir Square demand that Mubarak quit, as the ruling party's top leadership resigns"
2011-02-06,"France Suspends Arms, Riot Equipment Sales To Egypt"
2011-02-06,"Egyptian government holds talks with Muslim Brotherhood - Egypt's largest opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood, agreed to join talks with President Hosni Mubarak's embattled regime Sunday, a historic turning point in relations between the state and the banned group."
2011-02-06,"Jordanian Monarchy under pressure: ""Queen Rania is viewed as glamorous, sophisticated, and widely admired abroad. She has come in for particular criticism, accused of controlling court appointments and funneling business to her family. But mostly she is said to be insensitive to her subjects [...]"""
2011-02-06," 	
Iranian TV channels say no to pasta, pizza - 
Cooking shows ordered to shun Italian, French dishes, highlight Iran's achievements instead"
2011-02-06,Mubarak family fortune could reach $70bn. This is Mubarak has to plan his exit very carefully  prosecution for (a) corruption and (b) criminal brutality is all the rage these days. 
2011-02-05,"Muslim Brotherhood tells Irans Islamic Leader Khamenai this is ""People's Revolution"" not an ""Islamic Revolution"" "
2011-02-05,Al Jazeera has tried to leverage its visibility on Twitter with Promoted Tweets and a Promoted Trending Topic to get into one place that's harder to access than Egypt - U.S. TV markets. It wants entrance into a market that has largely shut it out for mostly unspecified reasons.
2011-02-05,"WikiLeaks cables: millions in overseas aid to Africa 
was embezzled"
2011-02-05,Kiev attempts to criminalize underwear exhibition on one's own balcony.  Topless protesters fight back (NSFW)
2011-02-05,"Israel wants to hire PR firms in 10 countries to improve its reputation. Norwegian PR firms have refused.
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2011-02-05,"""American commentators in general, view the revolution as all about the United States and Israel. It's almost as if the Egyptians don't matter."""
2011-02-05,Egyptian Security Forces Shoot an Unarmed Man in Cold Blood (Warning: Graphic Video) 
2011-02-05,2 Detained Reporters in Egypt Witnessed Secret Polices Methods Firsthand - NYTimes.com
2011-02-05,"Why the Egyptian Army Wont Shoot Protesters: ""My monthly wage is 1,100 Egyptian pounds (188 dollars)... No one can afford to live on these wages."""
2011-02-05,Chevron resorts to intimidation tactics: Its lawyers have threatened the trial judge overseeing the  environmental trial where the company faces a potential judgment in the billions of dollars
2011-02-05,Drop the Case Against Assange: Prosecution of WikiLeaks would badly damage the US' credibility in claiming to be a vital advocate of an open global Internet
2011-02-05,Natural gas pipeline from Egypt to Israel attacked.
2011-02-05,UN condemns Israeli destruction of Palestinian water systems
2011-02-05,China has a water shortage due to pollution and population. They're hoping to solve it with massive desalination plants. 
2011-02-05,"Erdogan tells Mubarak to step down, offering Turkey's own political model as a way forward"
2011-02-05,Pro-Mubarak protestor claims he was recruited from prison by an Egyptian official.
2011-02-05,"""What a pathetic old brute Mubarak has become, telling ABC that he'd love to give up power, really he would, but he's afraid Egypt would collapse into chaos without his steady hand at the wheel..."" "
2011-02-05,"Egypt bans ex-officials from leaving country, freezes bank accounts - Egyptian Attorney General takes measures against several senior businessmen and political figures amid massive protests charging the government with corruption."
2011-02-05,"Daily Kos: Seriously, Israel. Media. Bloggers. wtf?"
2011-02-05,Scott Horton: The reason why Mubarak is trying to squeeze a few more months out of his 3-decade career in office and avowing his intentions to stay in Egypt rather than packing for the Riviera
2011-02-05,Mubarak's Third force terror tactic: unleashing his 'personal' thugs in a failed attempt to silence protestors seeking an end to his regime
2011-02-05,Democracy Now: Live Coverage On Egypt
2011-02-05,"List of Human Rights Activist still missing in Egypt, likely in the hands of Secret Police."
2011-02-05,Gaza feeds hungry Egyptian troops in role reversal | Underground tunnels generally used to smuggle goods into Gaza are moving traffic in the opposite direction in the wake of the popular uprising in Egypt.
2011-02-05,BBC News - Egypt unrest: Hosni Mubarak must stay - US envoy
2011-02-04,Horrific video of 20+ Egyptian citizens being run over by a diplomatic vehicle in the streets of Cairo Jan 28.
2011-02-04,Vodafone admits that the Egyptian government forced it to send text messages to help organize the Pro-Mubarak demonstrations
2011-02-04,Demand Al Jazeera in the US!
2011-02-04,"One of my professors (Egyptian, and Egyptian History Expert) wrote this article detailing the situation there for outsiders. There seems to be a lot of you who would like to know more, so I hope this helps. (small .pdf warning)"
2011-02-04,First ever aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe released
2011-02-04,Egypt's neighbors are getting nervous - Algerian government has agreed to end its 19-year state of emergency.
2011-02-04,"Mubarak's family has an estimated net worth of $50 - $70 BILLION dollars, a portion of which happens to have been invested in Vodafone."
2011-02-04,"Egypt's 'final push' protests begin as Protesters flood Tahrir Square, for 'Day of Departure': ""The feel here is that today is the final day for Mubarak, it's time for him to go"""
2011-02-04,WikiLeaks cables: Britain 'refused to speak with doomed British hostage'
2011-02-04,Remember when Vodafone handed the Egyptian government protesters' data in 2009? They won't deny they're doing it again right now.
2011-02-04,"Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard demonstrates misunderstanding of key issues concerning Mr Assange, the Australian citizen facing extradition proceedings, and the actions of WikiLeaks."
2011-02-04,"Somali man convicted of terrorism for breaking into the home of a Danish cartoonist who had caricatured the Prophet Muhammad, triggering violent protests across the Muslim world, has been sentenced to nine years in prison"
2011-02-04,"TIL the pope cannot be an organ donor because he has saintly giblets: ""If papal organs were donated, they would become relics in other bodies if he were eventually made a saint."""
2011-02-04,Mubarak's Hired Thugs - Rural Poor Paid to Attack Opposition Supporters
2011-02-04,"Amid mass protests, 'Anonymous' topples Egypt gov't websites"
2011-02-04,"Egyptian Protester: ""If we cant bring this to an end, were going to all be in the slammer by June."""
2011-02-04,"Berlusconi calls Mubarak wise man, urges continuity"
2011-02-04,"Chinese use honeytraps to spy on French companies, intelligence report claims"
2011-02-04,Human Rights Watch urges EU and United States to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority after security forces broke up up a pro-Egypt rally on the West Bank
2011-02-04,Hosni Mubaraks net worth estimated at USD 40 to 70 Billion
2011-02-04,Fidel Castro: 'Mubarak's fate is sealed'
2011-02-04,New anti-government protests in Albania
2011-02-04,"""We all helped suppress the Egyptians. So how do we change?"""
2011-02-04,"The Obama administration is discussing with Egyptian officials a proposal for President Hosni Mubarak to resign immediately, turning over power to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman"
2011-02-04,Egyptian Population Density
2011-02-03,Canadian Government to reverse CRTC decision on Internet billing. (UBB)
2011-02-03,"I don't know if this fits into r/worldnews, but it has to be seen by the world. Mubarak's ""security"" forces drive through the crowd"
2011-02-03,14 year old girl whipped to death by Islamic clerics
2011-02-03,Fox News Team Severely Beaten in Cairo and Hospitalized. (Greg Palkot & Olaf Wiig)
2011-02-03,"Mubarak supporters open fire at demonstrators in Cairo
| Reuters"
2011-02-03,"One of our Web producers reports that almost everyone in the square seems injured, is bandaged and limping. The mood there is ""pretty fatalistic"" with the anti-government protesters certain that the pro-Mubarak forces are ""there to eliminate them""."
2011-02-03,"More than 20,000 anti-government protesters have gathered in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, for a ""day of rage"" against President Ali Abdullah Saleh."
2011-02-03,"""A 14-year-old girl in Bangladesh, Hena Begum, died after allegedly being raped by her 40-year-old cousin and punished with a public lashing."""
2011-02-03,"
Danish cartoonist's attacker guilty"
2011-02-03,Anderson Cooper of CNN Attacked in Cairo [HD]
2011-02-03,"Mohamed ElBaradei urges world leaders to abandon Hosni Mubarak 
Criminal acts by government-backed thugs and a regime killing its own people make negotiations impossible, says Nobel laureate"
2011-02-03,"Video:  Egyptian protester killed by Mubarak's hired thugs.  DEAD MAN, very sad footage"
2011-02-03,Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak says he would like to resign immediately but fears the country would descend into chaos if he did so
2011-02-03,"""A revolution is coming - a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough - but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not. We can affect its character; we cannot alter its inevitability."""
2011-02-03,Call to free Al Jazeera journalists
2011-02-03,"It was vicious and ruthless, bloody and well planned, a final vindication of all Mubarak's critics and a shameful indictment of the Obamas and Clintons who failed to denounce this faithful ally of America and Israel."
2011-02-03,Police open fire on Yemeni protesters
2011-02-03,"The British telecommunications company Vodafone is being accused of sending out text messages urging pro-Mubarak supporters to ""confront"" protesters"
2011-02-03,"Gunmen open fire on protesters in Tahrir Square, People are too tired to be terrified"""
2011-02-03,Immigration officer fired after putting wife on list of terrorists to stop her flying home 
2011-02-03,"Gunfire erupts in Cairo's streets, Health Ministry reports injuries in the thousands as military intervenes"
2011-02-03,Egyptian Protest Helmets
2011-02-03,Tens of thousands march against Yemen's president
2011-02-03,"Rapid developments in Egypt: Omar Suleiman holds dialogue with opposition groups, Elbaradei refuses to participate until Mubarak goes. A retired Egyptian army general tells the BBC that the army is ready to intervene to protect protesters as early as tomorrow. "
2011-02-03,"Fidel Castro: Mubarak Is Finished - ""Mubaraks fate is sealed, not even the support of the United States will be able to save his government."" "
2011-02-02,Clashes have broke out between pro and anti-government demonstrators in Tahrir Square as protesters claim Mubarak concessions 'insufficient' 
2011-02-02,Mubarak says he won't stand for re-election in September and will aid a peaceful transition of power.
2011-02-02,Hundreds of pro-Mubarak supporters attack protesters in Cairo's central square. Situation is escalating.
2011-02-02,"""...it is absurd to think of this as simply clashes between two rival groups. The pro-democracy protesters are unarmed and have been peaceful at every step. But the pro-Mubarak thugs are arriving in buses and are armed  and theyre using their weapons."""
2011-02-02,Internet back up in Egypt
2011-02-02,Pro-Mubarak supporters are recognizably police dressed as civilians
2011-02-02,Tony Blair: Mubarak is 'immensely courageous and a force for good'
2011-02-02,Noam Chomsky about Egypt: This Is The Most Remarkable Regional Uprising That I Can Remember
2011-02-02,Anonymous hits Egyptian government sites with fresh DDoS attacks
2011-02-02,"President Saleh of Yemen pledges not to run for re-election in 2013 after 32 years in power. As a kicker, he promises that his son will not run for President, either."
2011-02-02,"What Western governments have to say to Mubarak is irrelevant and, frankly, offensive. They've been supporting the dictatorship politically, financially and militarily for 30 years."
2011-02-02,"VIDEO: 'We Can't Get Out': Protestors blocked from leaving Tahrir Square as Army lets in
pro-Mubarak thugs to attack them"
2011-02-02,Cyclone Yasi begins. To fellow redditors living in Queensland stay safe aite.
2011-02-02,"Turkey's prime minister backs Egyptian protesters, urges Mubarak to look around"
2011-02-02,Now this is my kind of news photo [NSFW]
2011-02-02,WikiLeaks: US and China in military standoff over space missiles 
2011-02-02,WikiLeaks' documents reveal more 9/11 suspects
2011-02-02,Yemen's leader says he won't stand for re-election or pass the presidency to his son
2011-02-02,"ElBaradei accuses Egyptian govt of ""scare tactics"" ""My fear is that it will turn into a bloodbath,"" he added, calling the pro-Mubarak demonstrators a ""bunch of thugs""."
2011-02-02,Raw Video: Dramatic New Images of Pro-Mubarak Thugs attacking Pro-Democracy protestors with camels and horses
2011-02-02,"""Well, it is simple really.  The global elite install a new puppet that they control (such as ElBaradei), and then they get him to agree to huge new loans from the IMF or the World Bank to fix the broken Egyptian economy."""
2011-02-02,"BAGHDAD  Security forces linked to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki are operating a ""secret detention site"" and elite teams are torturing detainees at a separate facility, Human Rights Watch charged on Tuesday."
2011-02-02,"The cries of loathing for Mubarak are becoming familiar, the posters ever more intriguing. ""Neither Mubarak, nor Suleiman, and we don't need you Obama  but we don't dislike USA..."""
2011-02-02,WikiLeaks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
2011-02-02,"Egypt: Reporters Under Attack - Al Jazeera targeted specifically
		
		The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan"
2011-02-01,"For Egypt protests, Google has enabled feature to post to Twitter with just a voice connection"
2011-02-01,Al Jazeera Offers Up Egypt Coverage To Anyone Who Wants To Use It Under Creative Commons License
2011-02-01,The King Of Jordan just dismissed his government in an attempt to not be the next Egypt
2011-02-01,Al Jazeera is reporting two million people have showed up in Cairo and hundreds of thousands of protesters are marching in other cities.
2011-02-01,Julian Assange running for Nobel Peace Prize 
2011-02-01,"Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan: ""No government can survive against the will of its people. The era of governments persisting on pressure and repression is over. . . . We are all passing, and will be judged on what we leave behind."""
2011-02-01,"Al Jazeera: ""If we have to use Flip cams in Egypt, we will. If we have to use online in the US, we will."""
2011-02-01,A video interview with a well-spoken protester in Tahir Square
2011-02-01,Nobody is hearing about protests Sudan because the Government is heavily censoring the press
2011-02-01,"New cables released by Wikileaks reveal that the U.S. government has been quietly anticipating as well as cultivating Omar Suleiman, the Egyptian spy chief, as the top candidate to take over the country should anything happen to President Hosni Mubarak."
2011-02-01,Human Rights Watch: Looters included undercover Egyptian police
2011-02-01,"Report: Huge ISPs want per-GB payments from Netflix, YouTube... as well from end users"
2011-02-01,Egyptian army vows not to use force on protesters - says their demands are legitimate
2011-02-01,Hamas blocks Egypt solidarity demonstrations in Gaza; Human Rights Watch reports that Gazan police thwarted local efforts to protest Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
2011-02-01,Prominent Muslims joined Jews and Christians in prayer at Auschwitz on Tuesday in a gesture of interfaith solidarity
2011-02-01,"""Stirrings of popular dissent are already underway in Yemen and Jordan too. All the other US-backed monarchies and pseudo-democracies across the region are feeling the heat. The US empire in the region is crumbling."""
2011-02-01,"Impoverished Indian families caught in deadly spiral of microfinance debt: Small loan schemes devastate the lives of millions of poor people and reveal the dark side of India's economic boom
"
2011-02-01,"Fears that Egypt's uprising may set off escalating protests in the tense Shia region of Saudi Arabia, home to the world's richest oilfields. "
2011-02-01,Egyptian Girl leaves message for all outside of Egypt. 'I am not scared this time'. 
2011-02-01,"Iran began 2011 by hanging 8 accused drug traffickers on New Year's Day and that was just day one. By the end of January, Iran had executed at least 56 drug offenders"
2011-02-01,Mubarak gives a statement on state television saying he will stand down at the next elections in September
2011-02-01,"100 dogs in Vancouver, Canada killed after business slows after 2010 Winter Olympics"
2011-02-01,"""To the great people of Egypt, your armed forces, acknowledging the legitimate rights of the people,"" stress that ""they have not and will not use force against the Egyptian people,"" said the statement."
2011-02-01,"Egyptian author Ahdaf Souief on Jan 24 in India, ""It's all young people... And it's all really without a leadership, but it's there, it's keeping the streets alive, we've never had as much civil unrest in Egypt as we've had in the last 5 years... And that is good"""
2011-02-01,Official: Egypt's Mubarak will not seek re-election
2011-01-31,5 Al-Jazeera Journalists Just Got Arrested In Egypt
2011-01-31,Reddit Londoners: Please come protest at Gamal Mubarak's house in London tomorrow (Monday)
2011-01-31,Al Jazeera's website has seen a 2500% increase in traffic...60% of that is from the U.S.
2011-01-31,"Ugandan lesbian awaiting deportation from England, faces certain torture for her sexuality"
2011-01-31,"It is being predicted that Tropical Cyclone Yasi, now barrelling towards the Queensland coast, could be its worst storm in recorded history, deluging the already flood-ravaged state with up to 40 inches of rain. Islands across the Great Barrier Reef are being evacuated and coastal ports closed."
2011-01-31,The Egyptian Army states that it will NOT use force against protesters.
2011-01-31,"Its spreading, the Syrians are planing a revolution in February 5th."
2011-01-31,'Mega protest' planned in Egypt - Al Jazeera English
2011-01-31,"Libya, with Africa's largest oil reserves and the world's ninth largest, imposes a state of emergency ""for fear of demonstration and rallies."""
2011-01-31,Bradley Manning says he's hopeful about the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt and is excited by young people using technology to organize the protests
2011-01-31,WikiLeaks: Britain secretly advised Libya how to secure release of Lockerbie bomber
2011-01-31,"""If they fire on the Egyptian people, Mubarak is finished,"" she said. ""And if they don't fire on the Egyptian people, Mubarak is finished."" Of such wisdom are Egyptians now possessed."
2011-01-31,Noam Chomsky provides excellent break down of the situation in Egypt..
2011-01-31,"Indian Navy destroys pirate mother ship, arrests pirates"
2011-01-31,"China censors Egypt protests: 
Government of China trying to limit public knowledge of the unrest in Egypt. "
2011-01-31,The former Jordanian Foreign Minister says No Arab country is safe and no leader is immune from Tunisia's fate if they do not take immediate steps to improve democratic rights.
2011-01-31,Egypt Now In FULL Internet Blackout
2011-01-31,"
2214: Egypt's last working internet service provider, Noor Group, is now down, according to a US web monitoring organisation."
2011-01-31,What may be the largest cyclone EVER is approaching Australia
2011-01-31,Is Syria next? Opposition movements calling for mass protests against Assad
2011-01-31,Libya Bans Soccer Matches in Fear of Anti-Government Protests
2011-01-31,Learn from our mistakes - Letter from an Iranian to the people of Egypt
2011-01-31,"As protests simmer in Tunisia, and news shifts to Egypt, reforms risk being forgotten."
2011-01-31,Egyptian Army Will Not Use Force Against Protesters
2011-01-31,"At least 50,000 people in Tahir Sq as Egypt protests enter day 7"
2011-01-30,"Age old tactics coming into play: Al-Jazeera reports that looters on motorcycles have been apprehended by the crowds, turn out to carry government arms, ID's"
2011-01-30,"""State TV announces Al Jazeera's broadcasting license and press cards are being revoked. Our bureau is packing up. #jan25"""
2011-01-30,"Muslim Brotherhood accept Mohammed Elbaradei as leader of Opposition, declare the need for free and democratic elections - ""religious goals need to be put on the back-burner"""
2011-01-30,Not cool - Looters destroy mummies in Egyptian Museum
2011-01-30,"When it comes to politics, there is so much bad news. Here's some good news: The UK government is scrapping the ID cards and is destroying the National Identity Register"
2011-01-30,"Tell everyone: Egypt's revolution is sweet and peaceful
No one wants the Muslim Brotherhood to take over, no one wants violence  just elections and a new constitution"
2011-01-30,Egyptian Army Intervenes To Protect Protesters From Police Brutality
2011-01-30,"""The USA does not support democracy, they're supporting Israel, which is like their baby,"" said Ahmed, a 26-year-old Cairo resident. ""They think Egypt is functional because it's in favor of their considerations."""
2011-01-30,Footage of Egyptians being attacked and police vans driving over the top of people
2011-01-30,Egyptian newspaper Al Masry Al Youm reports that Egypt's defence minister has joined protesters in Tahrir Square. 
2011-01-30,Protests Spread To Saudi Arabia
2011-01-30,Wikileaks ISP refuses data hand-out to Swedish government: Will run all customer traffic through an encrypted VPN service
2011-01-30,Before the army arrived young Egyptians created a human chain at the museum's front gate to prevent looters from making off with any of the artifacts.
2011-01-30,"A colleague in Sudan asked me to post his video of protests there. #Jan30, #Sudan, #Sudanjan30"
2011-01-30,"The Syrians are watching:  In the tea shops and internet cafes of Damascus, Syrians are asking what events in Egypt may mean for them."
2011-01-30,It appears that the Tor network itself has gained bandwidth capacity and geographical scope thanks to people concerned with the situation in Egypt.
2011-01-30,Hillary Clinton says U.S. not pushing for ouster of Egyptian President Mubarak - Clinton makes clear in TV interviews Sunday that the United States is not demanding that President Hosni Mubarak step down. She also backs away from earlier threats to pull Egypt's billions of dollars in aid.
2011-01-30,"Regardless of the multiple attempts by the Egyptian authorities to deter and impede our reporting, Al Jazeera continues its comprehensive coverage of the landmark events unfolding in Egypt, Wadah Khanfar, the news organisations's director general said."
2011-01-30,"China blocked the word ""Egypt"" from micro-blog searches in a sign that the Chinese government is concerned that protests calling for political reform in the country could spill into China's internet space."
2011-01-30,Jewish settlers shoot 2 Palestinians
2011-01-30,"""No Arab and Muslim human being can bear that some infiltrators, in the name of freedom of expression, have infiltrated into the brotherly people of Egypt"" - Saudi King"
2011-01-30, Egypt: Death throes of a dictatorship 
2011-01-30,Statues of Tutankhamun damaged/stolen from the Egyptian Museum
2011-01-30,EGYPT: Al Jazeera shutdown. Australian consular officials attempting to contact its citizens in Egypt directly. US reportedly telling citizens to leave. Is the crackdown about to commence?
2011-01-30,An Open Letter to President Barack Obama
2011-01-29,The most AMAZING video on the internet. Listen to the man at 0:45 seconds.
2011-01-29,Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim Against *40* Men
2011-01-29,"Al Jazeera shines in protest coverage: 
Middle East network applauded for covering protests despite obstacles. "
2011-01-29,'This is the Arab world's Berlin Wall moment'
2011-01-29,Huge anti-government protest in Albania
2011-01-29,When the former president of Tunisia left he took 1.5 tons of gold with him. That's 58.5 million dollars worth of gold. What a dick.
2011-01-29,"The goal of the protesters in Egypt seems to be to oust dictator Mubarak, and I say we help them by not dropping this issue until he is gone or they give up.  Thanks Reddit World News for being a great source of information on this situation!!"
2011-01-29,"53 dead in Egypt protests on Saturday, 23 in 
Alexandria, 15 in Suez and 15 in Cairo."
2011-01-29,"Egypt protests: protesters defy curfew in Cairo: Tens of thousands of demonstrators remain on the streets of Egypt's major cities, despite a curfew"
2011-01-29,"Incredible video footage showing Cairo demonstrators taking control of bridge, pushing back police"
2011-01-29,"""The oligarchs in the royal palaces of the Arab world have long lost touch with the realities of their countries and are not aware of the needs of their people. And these are, after all, strikingly simple: Can I pay for my bread? Can I find work? What are my personal prospects?"""
2011-01-29,"Egypt police open fire on protesters at ministry:  Al Jazeera TV
| Reuters"
2011-01-29,"Without Egypt, Israel will be left with no friends in Mideast"
2011-01-29,"New student protests in England - Nobody rioting, so little coverage..."
2011-01-29,This is the Wikileaks document revealing the American government is backing protesters behind the Egypt uprising
2011-01-29,"""The Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty is the pillar of the structure in the Middle East,"" said Edward P. Djerejian, a former American ambassador to Israel and Syria. ""If the '79 agreement goes asunder, everything falls apart. Everything falls apart."""
2011-01-29,"Egypt has arrested over 1000: 
UN human rights chief calls for lifting of emergency law, free use of social networks"
2011-01-29,Biden: Mubarak Should Not Step Down - Biden...said President Hosni Mubarak should not step down and downplayed the protests spreading across the Mideast as generally unconnected. 
2011-01-29,World Watches Al Jazeera To See What Happens Next In Egypt 
2011-01-29,Egypt: Mubarak fails to quell riots -- Neither Mubarak's words nor tanks stop angry demonstrators calling for his ouster.
2011-01-29,"The Egypt Protests...WARNING: SOME IMAGES ARE GRAPHIC. Images 21-23 depict Mohamad Atef, the man whose death was recorded on video"
2011-01-29,"for people like me who missed the beginning, and is now overwhelmed with information about what's going on in Egypt.  "
2011-01-29,"White House wobbles on Egyptian tightrope - While the US favours Egyptian political reform in theory, in practice it props up an authoritarian system for pragmatic reasons of national self-interest."
2011-01-29,"France has maintained its ban on gay marriage, with a constitutional court ruling that a lesbian couple with four children do not have the right to tie the knot."
2011-01-29,China Blocks 'Egypt' on Top Twitter-Like Service - CBS News
2011-01-28,Anonymous is getting around Egypt's Internet blackout by mass-faxing WikiLeaks cables to Cairo.
2011-01-28,"Mubarak speaks, dismisses government and says he will name a new government tomorrow.  Sounds like he's not going anywhere."
2011-01-28,"Yeah Canada! - ""Tunisian dictator's family  'not welcome' in Canada"": PM"
2011-01-28,Open Letter from Anonymous to the UK Government
2011-01-28,"Jack Shenker in Cairo reports signs that the police are siding with protesters. ""The regime is already falling"" he was told"
2011-01-28,"Chilling video of the Egyptian protests: ""Regardless of whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, or an Atheist, you will demand your goddamn rights, and you will have them one way or the other."""
2011-01-28,Egyptian shot in street protests
2011-01-28,Fuck the European Parliament - WikiLeaks ISP anonymizes all traffic to neutralize data retention laws
2011-01-28,"Egypt has apparently done what many technologists thought was unthinkable for any country with a major Internet economy: It unplugged itself entirely from the Internet to try and silence dissent. 
"
2011-01-28,"Here we go again... ""Thousands Protest in Jordan"" - Al Jazeera"
2011-01-28,[IMG] Graph showing internet traffic to and from Egypt
2011-01-28,"""War zone"" is an understatement. Suez is burning, North Sinai is burning and Egypt is a state of zero tolerance. The government that justifies killing its own people does not have any right to exist, and it must be taken down! [AP Raw footage of a man shot down in protests]"
2011-01-28,"""Anonymous"" -- Operation Egypt: A Press Release "
2011-01-28,Another house of cards about to fall?...Thousands of Jordanians march to press for reform
2011-01-28,"Sniper murders Egyptian protester. Can we please have the left, the right and the MSM in the U.S. rally around this pro-democracy protest."
2011-01-28,"Boeing-owned Narus has sold Egypt ""Deep Packet Inspection"" (DPI) equipment that can be used by the regime to track, target and crush political dissent over the Internet and mobile phones."
2011-01-28,Egypt police are preparing to torch vehicles as a pretext for putting down the demonstration.
2011-01-28,It begins... Wealthy and famous Egyptians flee country on board private jets
2011-01-28,"WikiLeaks Cable: ""thousands of Egyptian military officers trained by US"""
2011-01-28,"In Jordan, thousands protest over economic policies -- call for the government to resign!"
2011-01-28,Mubarak: I will ask the government to step down. I will designate a new government tomorrow.
2011-01-28,"Footage of an Egyptian protester getting shot (not graphic, but distressing)"
2011-01-28,'Army out' in Egyptian capital
2011-01-28,All internet and text messaging shut down in Egypt.
2011-01-28,"Police threaten, swipe camera from CNN crew in Cairo"
2011-01-27,"Egyptian police violently beat British journalist, smooth move Egypt, now we know what is happening to those 100s of people arrested."
2011-01-27,And so it continues...Anti-government rallies hit Yemen
2011-01-27,"In one fell swoop, the candor of the cables released by WikiLeaks did more for Arab democracy than decades of backstage U.S. diplomacy."
2011-01-27,"Anonymous warns Egyptian Regime that they will ""make sure the international media sees the horrid reality you impose upon your people"""
2011-01-27,Swedish ISP will anonymize all its users' traffic. 
2011-01-27,"Thousands of Yemenis are demonstrating in the capital Sanaa, calling on Ali Abdullah Saleh, president for more than 30 years, to step down."
2011-01-27,An amazing compilation video of the Egyptian riots going on currently. 
2011-01-27,"The fact that we are supporting the Mubarak regime may not be immediately obvious to most Americans, but it is the central fact about America to every Egyptian alive.

"
2011-01-27,"Some army units in Suez ""are refusing to support the crackdown against the people."" Which means the government may be about to lose control over the Suez Canal. "
2011-01-27,"Tunisia, Egypt...now Yemen is protesting with thousands calling on their president to leave after 30 years in power"
2011-01-27,"Shell faces hearing over Nigeria. 
Oil giant accused of abusing human rights and destroying the environment at Dutch parliamentary hearing."
2011-01-27,Anonymous Asks For DDoS Attack On Key Egyptian Sites
2011-01-27,"Canadian Govt Spends $40 Million To Monitor Media - The Harper government spends more money keeping track of what the media is saying than it does soliciting the opinions of ordinary Canadians, a Citizen analysis of contracting records shows."
2011-01-27,From Tunisia to Egypt and now Yemen; thousands are calling for a change in government
2011-01-27,"In an interview with spokesman PJ Crowley, an Al Jazeera reporter tries to tease out the US State Department's differing reactions to rebellion in Tunisia and Egypt.  If you're looking to understand US Foreign Policy in the ME, this is the video to watch."
2011-01-27,Complete Internet blackout in Egypt
2011-01-27,Clooney's satellite project shows troops near Sudan's border
2011-01-27,Protests in Egypt - live updates
2011-01-27,"Germany says it is suspending payments to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria until it gets answers about corruption allegations raised in articles by The Associated Press."
2011-01-27,"Yemenis take to the streets calling for President Saleh to step down  
As unemployment rises and oil and water reserves dwindle, thousands demand an end to president's 32-year reign"
2011-01-27,Mohamed ElBaradei says he is ready to assume power in Egypt if the people calls for him to do so
2011-01-27,Yemenis follow the example of Tunisia and Egypt to fight for their rights 
2011-01-27,"Ugandan gay rights activist murdered.  David Kato, 43, was an activist with Sexual Minorities Uganda who was pictured and named by the anti-gay tabloid in a story that called on readers to ""hang"" gay rights advocates."
2011-01-27,"from 2009 assessment: ""U.S. security and military aid to Egypt ... does not aim to strengthen Egyptian military power against any external threat... Instead, this aid is devoted mainly to strengthening the regimes domestic security and its ability to confront popular movements."""
2011-01-27,"""Russia said on Wednesday [january 26, 2010] that NATO should investigate last year's computer virus attack on a Russian-built nuclear reactor in Iran, saying the incident could have triggered a nuclear disaster on the scale of Chernobyl."""
2011-01-26,Cairo residents in Egypt remove passwords from their wi-fi routers so protesters can communicate with the world
2011-01-26,An Egyptian protester faces a water canon vehicle solo. 
2011-01-26,"Mahmoud Saad, a talk show host in the Egyptian state-run TV, has announced that he will no longer appear on TV starting tonight after he came under pressure from top government officials to defame protestors as rioters destroying the country."
2011-01-26,"Woman mayor shows her horrific scars after surviving two assassination attempts by Mexican gangs

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2011-01-26,"Jack Shenker, the Guardian's reporter in Cairo, was beaten and arrested alongside protesters in the capital last night. He made this remarkable recording while locked in the back of a security forces truck next to dozens of protesters. "
2011-01-26,"Google, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook now all reported blocked in Egypt"
2011-01-26,Egyptian President's family and likely successor have fled to London.
2011-01-26,"How the Tunisian government was stealing the entire country's Facebook passwords, and how Facebook responded"
2011-01-26,Guardian reporter beaten and arrested in Cairo: 'People are being hauled out by police and beaten'
2011-01-26,"Insane footage from protests in Egypt as protesters climb on top of water cannon as it speeds through a crowd, running over people"
2011-01-26,The Guardian's detailed live updates on the growing protests in Egypt
2011-01-26,"Egypt president's son, family flee to Britain"
2011-01-26,Protesters Just Torched A Government Building In Egypt
2011-01-26,Anonymous hacktivists attack Egyptian websites 
2011-01-26,A dam breaking in Egypt
2011-01-26,Egypt Protests: Riot police fight back
2011-01-26,El Baradei to fly to Egypt on Thursday
2011-01-26,"""The people of Tunisia shouldn't have had to wait for Wikileaks to learn that the U.S. saw their country just as they did. It's time that the gulf between what American diplomats know and what they say got smaller."""
2011-01-26,"Guardian reporter beaten, detained at Egypt protests; records audio throughout"
2011-01-26,Britain rolls back some unpopular post-9/11 security rules
2011-01-26,Robert Fisk: A new truth dawns on the Arab world
2011-01-26,Tunisia seeks arrest of ex-leader for theft and currency offences
2011-01-26,What's Happening in Egypt Explained
2011-01-26,"The Arab crisis: food, energy, water, justice "
2011-01-26,Suzanne Mubarak of Egypt has fled to Heathrow airport in London
2011-01-25,Tunisia-like riots now breaking out in Egypt
2011-01-25,Live Updates of the Protests in Egypt - it is growing. 
2011-01-25,First protester killed in Egypt
2011-01-25,"""We want a revolution. We don't want Hosni Mubarak."" ~Egyptian Police Captain"
2011-01-25,Peru officially recognizes Palestinian state
2011-01-25,Norwegian Wouldn't | Norway Say NO! to Walmart and Other Unethical Companies
2011-01-25,"Tens of thousands of people are protesting against the Egyptian government, chanting the same slogans as the Tunisian's: ""The people want to overthrow the govt!"" Twitter and other social media blocked.  Shit is getting real."
2011-01-25,"Twitter blocked in Egypt amid unrest. The revolution will not be televised, not twittered, 3 dead, 100 injured, 10 kidnapped by the brutal Egyptian police "
2011-01-25,German firms vow to stop selling execution drug to US
2011-01-25,"UK Economy expected to grow in fourth quarter of 
2010 - actually shrank!"
2011-01-25,Egypt's 'day of revolt' inspired by unrest in Tunisia
2011-01-25,"Leaked 'Palestine Papers' Show Bad Faith Negotiating By Israel and U.S. - What's striking about these documents is the degree to which the U.S. pressures the Palestinians, and how much American diplomats are in cahoots with Israel. "
2011-01-25,"Egypt warns protesters of arrest: Egyptian activists have called for a mass rally on Tuesday dubbed as the ""Day of Wrath"". "
2011-01-25,Al-Jazeera angers Palestinians
2011-01-25,Egypt Protests: Thousands Fill Streets To Protest Mubarak On 'Jan 25' (with epic banner picture)
2011-01-25,Egyptian take to streets in unprecedented protests 
2011-01-25,EU 'deplores' Israeli sentencing of Palestinian non-violent activist
2011-01-25,Indian US spy for China Noshir Gowadia jailed for 32 years.
2011-01-25,Condoleezza Rice: send Palestinian refugees to South America
2011-01-25,"Human Rights Watch releases its 2011 World Report online, accuses world governments of taking a mild stance on repression and abuses"
2011-01-25,Egypt: Protests inspired by Tunisia and fanned by social media break out all over
2011-01-25,"Experts cry ""Copy Cat"" at China's new Stealth Fighter , claim it was made by reverse engineering an American Knighthawk stealth fighter that was downed in 1999 during the Kosovo war "
2011-01-25,Report: Iran hangs 2 men who made videos of post-election turmoil - CNN.com
2011-01-25,"Didn't think they'd have the balls for this..Former Tory peer Lord Taylor is found guilty of making 11,277 in false parliamentary expenses claims. "
2011-01-25,Daily Kos: Tunisians Thank Anonymous as North Africa Explodes
2011-01-24,Blast rocks Moscow's main airport
2011-01-24,"""For most of the last two years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that it is Israel alone that is willing to make the hard concessions for the sake of peace. These documents show it is the Palestinian Authority that were willing to make considerable concessions."""
2011-01-24,UK Police are accused of inciting illegal protest by posting messages to activist websites to incite and expand the very protests they are expected to manage.
2011-01-24,Two Iranian opposition activists are hanged for distributing footage and photos of protests
2011-01-24,"For the TL;DR-minded, a brief analysis of what the Palestinian leaks reveal"
2011-01-24,Israel rejected Palestinian offer of almost all Jerusalem: leaked docs
2011-01-24,This speech has been weighing on my mind greatly since I saw it. More people need to know who John Pilger is and the work he does. [VIDEO]
2011-01-24,"""The world is watching Chinas economic surge with understandable awe  while politely and passively ignoring the countrys ecological disintegration."""
2011-01-24,"A $21.7B development/health fund supported by the Gates Foundation, Bono and others has seen two-thirds of some grants eaten up by corruption."
2011-01-24,"Papers reveal how Palestinian leaders gave up fight over refugees:

 Negotiators agreed just 10,000 to return
 PLO agreed Israel could be a 'Jewish state'
 US suggested Palestinians live in Latin America
"
2011-01-24,'Norwegian of the year' to be deported from Norway
2011-01-24,Tony Benn: 'Protest is vital to a thriving democracy' - World Politics - Independent.co.uk
2011-01-24,Amnesty International: Inhumane Treatment of WikiLeaks Soldier Bradley Manning
2011-01-24,Bellicose Telegraph climate sceptic has complained to the BBC of being 'intellectually raped' on Horizon during an interview with Nobel prize-winner
2011-01-24,Tunisian rioters destroy a Ferrari belonging to the President's family (pics)
2011-01-24,"Professor Rashid Khalidi: Leaked ""Palestine Papers"" Underscore Weakness of Palestinian Authority, Rejectionism of Israel and U.S."
2011-01-24,"Egypt: An unlikely alliance of youth activists, political Islamists, industrial workers and hardcore football fans have pledged to join a nationwide ""day of revolution"" on Tuesday"
2011-01-24,Egyptian opposition warns of an explosion of the masses - National day of protest set for Tuesday
2011-01-24,BBC News - BBC to cut online budget by 25%
2011-01-24,China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people 
2011-01-24,German foundation refuses to return Nefertiti bust
2011-01-24,"Over the past 10 years Indian security forces have killed almost 1,000 people, mostly Bangladeshis, turning the border area into a south Asian killing field"
2011-01-24,"South Korea: ""These talks will be different."""
2011-01-24,Ivory Coast's election stalemate [pics]
2011-01-24,Tomorrow (Jan. 25th) is the day we find out if Egypt is serious like Tunisia. 
2011-01-23,"China bans zoos from having circuses. No more monkey fights, no more pulling out baby tigers' teeth, and no more feeding live animals to predators."
2011-01-23,Israel inquiry finds Gaza aid flotilla raid 'was legal'
2011-01-23,"""Undercover police cleared 'to have sex with activists'"" -- another example of unethical policing"
2011-01-23,Secret papers reveal slow death of Middle East peace process
2011-01-23,"Silvio Berlusconi continued to make payments of thousands of euros to an alleged call girl even after the announcement that he was at the centre of a prostitution investigation, new evidence from the scandal shows."
2011-01-23,"Sex, Death and the Gods explores the complex world of India's Devadasi, girls devoted to a goddess and then sold for sex at puberty"
2011-01-23,"Guardian UK: If Chilcot is our finest inquisitor, thank heavens for WikiLeaks: Tony Blair's evasions at the Chilcot inquiry continue to be an insult to the British public"
2011-01-23,"Al Jazeera has released nearly 2,000 internal documents - minutes, e-mails, memos and more - from a decade of negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority. Search the database for key words, or browse the papers by dates, locations and participants"
2011-01-23,Secret papers: Palestinians weak and increasingly desperate
2011-01-23,Chinese stealth fighter jet may use US technology
2011-01-23,"Egypt's frustrated young wait for their lives to begin, and dream of revolution"
2011-01-23,Palestinian journalist held in prison for 50 days without trial for insulting PM Abbas... on his Facebook page
2011-01-23,"""Policemen, who barely a week ago were crushing demonstrations, were standing arm in arm with protestors"" - Just an extraordinary revolution"
2011-01-23,"New documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union show ""unjustified homicide"" of detainees."
2011-01-23,"Drawing inspiration from the revolt in Tunisia, thousands demand ouster of Yemen's president"
2011-01-23,Leaked documents show PA and PLO leaders pleading with dismissive US officials in face of Israel's unyielding negotiators.
2011-01-23,"Victim tells of ordeal in Tunisia's jails: Savagely beaten after being pushed from an upstairs window by police, a newly released Adem Boukadida talks of a corrupt regime's daily brutality"
2011-01-23,Swedish minister of migration gives the exact same answer 15 times in a row to avoid a question.  
2011-01-23,Dutch frigate opens fire on pirate ship | Radio Netherlands Worldwide
2011-01-23,"Egypt blames Palestinian Qaeda-linked group for bomb
| Reuters"
2011-01-23,The Death of the Peace Process?
2011-01-23,"430,000 Japanese Hepatitis B sufferers settle with state for $39bn over needle reuse"
2011-01-23,"China's New Stealth Fighter May Use US Technology: ""Balkan military officials and other experts have told The Associated Press that in all probability the Chinese gleaned some of their technological know-how from an American F-117 Nighthawk that was shot down over Serbia in 1999."""
2011-01-23,Israeli politics: Can the doves take off again? - A split in Israels Labour party may give the peace-minded left a new lease of life
2011-01-23,"What the Palestine papers tell us  Guardian associate editor Seumas Milne and Middle East editor, Ian Black, discuss the leak of secret notes from years of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians."
2011-01-22,"In Norway, Start-ups Say Ja to Socialism - Small country. Big taxes. And no cheating: tax returns are a matter of public record. Yet Norway has one of the highest rates of start-up activity in the developed world. Socialism works so well here that even entrepreneurs like it"
2011-01-22,"Tunisia suddenly has Press Freedom - all restrictions have vanished. Newspapers report freely, journalists work through the night"
2011-01-22,The end of The World: Dubai island development sinks back into sea after being scuppered by financial crisis
2011-01-22,Russia's Own WikiLeaks Takes Off |  The Moscow Times
2011-01-22,Algerian democracy rally broken up
2011-01-22,Three shot dead in anti-government clashes with police in Albania
2011-01-22,"New Zealand : The Green party shocked by Wikileaks report at the scale of Australia's spy agencies' compliance with its US counterparts and spying on China, North Korea & Iran    "
2011-01-22,Norway: Still awesome :-)
2011-01-22,"Tunnel to link German and Danish islands Fehmarn and Lolland in ten years, traversing a 17.6 km portion of sea and giving Germany its most direct road and rail link to Scandinavia yet."
2011-01-22,Nearly a third of Zimbabwe's 5.5m registered voters are dead. Others appear to be up to 120 years old.
2011-01-22,"UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon slams Israel's refusal to halt West Bank settlements, saying refusals seriously hampers peace talks.
""Settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory are illegal under international law"" he told a UN committee dealing with Palestinian issues on Friday."
2011-01-22,"Jewish leaders in San Francisco not happy about upcoming proposal in city ballots this year to bring into law, the end of Circumcision. Anyone caught  performing a Circumcision will be charged with a misdemeanor , $1000 fine or up to a year in jail or both."
2011-01-22,Protest is vital to a thriving democracy
2011-01-22,The UK's Most Unpopular Man: Tony Blair no longer draws a crowd
2011-01-22,"4 out 5 Egyptian women claim to have been sexually harassed - In Egypt, a film sparks debate about sexual harassment"
2011-01-22,Irish PM Brian Cowen steps down as Fianna Fail leader
2011-01-22,The Caligulan court of Silvio Berlusconi laid bare - Telegraph
2011-01-22,"I Was a Rare Earths Day Trader - Inside the Rare Earths Bubble - ""How a naval confrontation in the South China Sea created a global investment bubble -- and cost me half my life savings."""
2011-01-22,Japanese rocket lifts off carrying supplies for International Space Station
2011-01-22,"Egypt Proactively Preparing For Tunisian-Style 
Rioting: Airport Intercepts 59 Outbound Gold 
Shipments Worth Tens Of Millions...central bank of 
Tunisia had parted with 23% of its gold stash 
courtesy of now deposed president who fled the 
country with a 1.5 ton shipment of gold,"
2011-01-22,"Hundreds of political prisoners in Tunisia yet to be released, many of whom were jailed after unfair trials and use of torture
"
2011-01-22,Egyptian steals wife's kidney to sell on black market
2011-01-22,"4 Dead in Albanian Protests, Government Refuses Early Elections, Read the Comments too, I'd like to know more about this"
2011-01-22,"It's time to expand the UN Security Council. But who gets a seat? Nigeria, South Africa are potential African members. Japan, India would serve as democratic counters to China. Brazil,Mexico are potential LatAm reps. Italy, Germany argue they deserve seats. The decision will be challenging"
2011-01-22,Auditor General of Pakistan slaps Pakistan army with whopping $1.3 billion 'bill' for using Lahore stadium illegally for commercial purposes for decades.
2011-01-21,Iceland Doing it Right : Special prosecutor into the banking crisis confirms raids and arrests have been made today.Central Bank of Iceland is among the institutions under investigation.One of the arrested parties is former National Bank of Iceland treasury boss.
2011-01-21,Norway announces it will be among the first to recognize Palestinian State IF negotiations with Israel fail to make headway by september. 
2011-01-21,"Footage of Israel demolishing Palestinian lands and building settlements, filmed by a racist Israeli settler"
2011-01-21,"His home firebombed, his dog burned, and invaded by masked men, this man defended himself by firing his gun to scare his attackers.  Police charge the homeowner.  The message?  Cops have a monopoly on force."
2011-01-21,A smoking gun letter reveals Vatican directly ordered pedophiles be protected
2011-01-21,"Blackwater founder secretly backing Somali militia: 
Erik Prince supports private security in Africa to override rampant piracy and Islamic radicalism "
2011-01-21,"G20 Officer tells protester he has no civil rights: ""This ain't Canada right now."""
2011-01-21,"South Korea's special forces rescue sailors, kill Somali pirates"
2011-01-21,"South Africa's CCB ""poisoned the water supply at a Namibian refugee camp, bombed a South African kindergarten, and even attempted to bewitch Bishop Desmond Tutu with a baboon fetus."" Now one of its officers is teaming up with Blackwater's founder..."
2011-01-21,The push to legalize pot in Mexico. (Video)
2011-01-21,Killings of rhinos nearly triple in South Africa
2011-01-21,"Tony Blair heckled as he expresses regret for this loss of life in the Iraq war - Relatives of those killed in the conflict shouted out Its too late, as an emotional Mr Blair told of his sorrow at the bloodshed, while two female witnesses walked out and another turned her face away. "
2011-01-21,Landslides in Brazil [pics]
2011-01-21,Jordanians have staged growing protests in the past week as they try and copy the Tunisian uprising to get their government to step down.
2011-01-21,Hu says China not a military threat to any nation
2011-01-21,Third of Zimbabwe's registered voters are dead
2011-01-21,Obama must call Israeli settlements illegal
2011-01-21,"Russian Orthodox Church calls for dress code, says miniskirts cause 'madness': Women, said Archpriest, can't be trusted to clothe themselves properly. It is wrong to think that women should decide themselves what they can wear in public places or at work..."" "
2011-01-21,One of the largest hauls of illegal chimpanzee and gorilla parts is seized by officials in Gabon.
2011-01-21,"UK ID Cards Are No More!
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2011-01-21,"Iceland's Central Bank governor to US Federal Reserve governor ""Hey man you got a BILLION dollars i can borrow man...c'mon man its only a BILLION dollars ? "" - revealed by Wikileaks 
that Iceland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs were not even consulted about the -multiple- requests.  "
2011-01-21,"Palestinian mob throws eggs and shoes at the vehicle French Foreign Minister's car. ""They were angered by a demand made by Alliot-Marie that Hamas leadership let Red Cross representatives visit kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who holds dual Israeli and French citizenship."""
2011-01-21,RuLeaks posts photos of alleged 'Putin Palace'
2011-01-21,"""My attack is on the Prime Minister of Australia,"" he said yesterday. ""I hate the parliament in Canberra. I want to go straight for the jugular vein and advise the parliament that they have no right to legislate. They should immediately step down and let the Muslims take over."""
2011-01-21,"Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has obtained internet access, two months after she was freed from years of house arrest. "
2011-01-20,"The WikiLeaks disclosures are significant precisely because they expose govt deceit, wrongdoing and brutality, but the damage to innocent people has been deliberately and wildly exaggerated - fabricated - by the very people whose misconduct has been revealed."
2011-01-20,"After failed peace talks, US aid to Israel questioned: Despite giving Israel $3 billion in military aid a year, US lacks leverage"
2011-01-20,"What Does Wikileaks Have on Bank of America?: BofA now moving into high gear on damage control, creating a ""war room"" to fight off an upcoming release of WikiLeak documents"
2011-01-20,"Brisbane Floods before and after, super slick interface"
2011-01-20,British Prime Minister demands release of Blairs secret letters to Bush on Iraq War
2011-01-20,SURPRISE! Dictator responsible for killing thousands has charges filed against him because he was dumb enough to return home to Haiti expecting a hero's welcome
2011-01-20,"Under Paris -  
Strap on a helmet, explore the tunnels beneath Paris. Where you may encounter bones, rats, geologists, mushrooms, bachelor parties, pockets of explosive gas, and a pond in the foundations of the Opera used for training firemen"
2011-01-20,Private letters between Tony Blair and President George Bush ahead of the war in Iraq were kept so secret that they had to be destroyed.
2011-01-20,"WikiLeaks: Ireland ignored public opposition to suspected US rendition flights through its territory, and looked for ways to co-operate with alleged US abuses while avoiding liability and political fallout"
2011-01-20,"Canada: Harper Government Orders National Archives to Show Movie Critical of Iran After It Was Cancelled Because of Threats
"
2011-01-20,"Ask A Tunisian -  
Super-helpful interview with Anis Allagui, Tunisian expat living in North America, who gives a simple, clear, apparently well-informed explanation of recent events in his home country. Key point: so far, the army are the good guys"
2011-01-20,"For years prohibitionists, including the DEA, have claimed that the tolerant marijuana policies of the Netherlands have made that nation a nest of crime and drug abuse. But now the country is to close 8 prisons for lack of criminals."
2011-01-20,Berlusconi in deep trouble as call girl wiretaps rock Italy
2011-01-20,Two million young Italians not studying nor working
2011-01-20,British woman held in Dubai over love triangle case on possible charges of sex outside marriage  a criminal offence in the UAE
2011-01-20,25 Tons of Bombs Wipe Afghan Town Off Map | Danger Room | Wired.com
2011-01-20,"South Korean government buries one million pigs 
alive"
2011-01-20,Finland to ban 'aggressive begging' --  an attempt to curb the presence of Roma beggars on city streets.
2011-01-20,"Spain treating Google like a magazine publisher, may force them to censor search results"
2011-01-20,Israeli Investigation Finds IDF Soldiers Did Nothing Wrong During Gaza Peace Boat Massacre - First part of Turkel report on lethal flotilla raid in May 2010 expected to rule that troops acted properly during takeover of Turkish ship; experts say world unlikely to endorse findings.
2011-01-20,China's economy grows 10.3 per cent - Business - Al Jazeera English
2011-01-20,"Violent Seismic Activity Tearing Africa in Two -  in recent months, seismic activity has accelerated in northeastern Africa as the continent breaks apart in slow motion. "
2011-01-20,"Downing Street ordered a 'Cover up' over Straw's bid to talk Blair out of Iraq invasion, explosive new evidence reveals"
2011-01-20,"While You Were Reading About Ukrainian Nurses 
Real news was buried in WikiLeaks -- like this revealing cable on Iran's nuclear ambitions"
2011-01-20,"Tunisia ministers quit ruling party, political prisoners freed "
2011-01-19,"Several thousand Israelis protested in Tel Aviv waving the Israeli flag and Palestinian ones: ""We came to protest against the government's policies and the lack of democracy in our country"""
2011-01-19,"The fact is that Amsterdam's heroin-addict population has been stable or falling for two decades. That's even though, since 2002, the Dutch authorities have been doing something even more radical than Portugal's for heroin users: they've been giving them free heroin."
2011-01-19,Venezuela will connect Cuba to a high-speed fiber optic cable next month undermining US sanctions
2011-01-19,Swiss banker who gave Wikileaks details of rich tax evaders has been found guilty of breaching Switzerland's strict bank secrecy laws.
2011-01-19,Vatican letter told Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report child abuse
2011-01-19,Musicians killed after not playing encore. Mexico is really getting weird now.
2011-01-19,An uprising in Tunisia [pics]
2011-01-19,"Russian WikiLeaks under attack after photos allegedly reveal Putin's private, $1 billion 'palace'"
2011-01-19,"This guy was arrested for blogging in his country, and is now in charge of their internet."
2011-01-19,"Goldman Sachs bankers to receive $15.3bn in pay 
and bonuses | Business | guardian.co.uk"
2011-01-19,25 Tons of Bombs Wipes Afghan Town Off the Map: Its hard to understand how turning an entire village into dust fits into Americas counterinsurgency strategy
2011-01-19,"WikiLeaks: US advised to sabotage Iran nuclear sites 
by German thinktank | World news | The Guardian"
2011-01-19,"Bolivia is on a mission to legalize the chewing of coca leaves. The United States, one of the world's biggest cocaine consumer, is not convinced."
2011-01-19,In Dutch News: mentally disabled 18 year old spend his life mostly chained to a wall and hasn't been outside since 2007; case will be discussed in parliament today
2011-01-19,"Noam Chomsky asks Iran to release detained Americans: I hope that theyll be released without a trial. If there is one, Id be happy to testify on their good record and their dedication to worthy and important causes."
2011-01-19,Bolivia energises campaign to legalise coca leaf
2011-01-19,"Pirates hijacked record number of ships in 2010. Ransoms paid to Somali pirates averaged $5.4 million last year, compared with $150,000 in 2005. A total of $238 million was paid out."
2011-01-19,"Two more people in Algeria set themselves on fire, bringing the total number of attempted public suicides to seven"
2011-01-19,Video: Man Steals Tunisian President's Ferrari Using a Forklift 
2011-01-19,"A 7.4 magnitude earthquake hits South West Pakistan. In 2005, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake took 70,000 lives..."
2011-01-19,Chinas Currency Isnt Our Problem. Even if the RMB is Undervalued it's not Holding Back the US Economy.
2011-01-19,Swiss bank whistleblower just got arrested for handing documents to Wikileaks
2011-01-19,'Baby Doc' Duvalier charged with corruption in Haiti 
2011-01-19,"Canadian tourist accuses Mexican police of raping her

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2011-01-19,"As a symbolic gesture, Palestinians on Tuesday raised their flag for the first time over the PLO diplomatic mission in Washington."
2011-01-18,"Mauritanian Islamic leaders issue a fatwa banning 
female genital mutilation (FGM)"
2011-01-18,"French mansion has been unlocked after being sealed 100 years as a time capsule, now reopened as a museum"
2011-01-18,Tony Blair misled Parliament by claiming that Britain could legally attack Iraq in the face of UN opposition despite being given clear advice to the contrary
2011-01-18,"Meanwhile in Kuwait : Emir grants $4 billion and free food for 2.2 years for all 1 million Kuwaiti citizens , even covers newborns born until feb 1 to celebrate 50 years of Independence  "
2011-01-18,"Report: Pope John Paul II's Vatican warned Irish 
bishops not to report child rape"
2011-01-18,Newly revealed 1997 letter from the Vatican warned Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report all suspected child-abuse cases to police 
2011-01-18,"Israeli man arrested for alleged involvement in Bosnia genocide - Aleksander Cvetkovic, who moved to Israel with his Jewish wife and their children in 2006, was accused of helping Bosnian Serb forces gun down about 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Europe's worst massacre since World War Two"
2011-01-18,Eco-terrorism: the non-existent threat we spend millions policing. Spying on environmental activists serves no one's interests except for big corporations.
2011-01-18,"English Is Here to Stay - 
Why learn Mandarin? China wont make you speak it."
2011-01-18,Two Chinese state controlled banks lend more to developing countries than the World Bank
2011-01-18,A case of whisky which spent more than 100 years buried in the Antarctic has returned to Scotland. 
2011-01-18,9yo Timorese girl dies requiring heart valve surgery after no hospital willing to accept her 
2011-01-18,"After Tunisia, electrified Arab world sets sights on brewing revolt in Egypt"
2011-01-18,Iran has already hanged 47 people this year: executes more people per capita than any other country
2011-01-18,"Russia's Medvedev backs independent Palestine
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2011-01-18,WTF: Every Kuwaiti citizen [1.5 mil] will receive US$ 3500 per person grant and free food rations for 14 months. This doesn't include rest of 2.5 mil expat population who actually does all the work. BTW Kuwait is 5th richest country in the World.
2011-01-18,The Tunisian job: How president's wife 'fled with $60m in gold bullion' 
2011-01-18,"Dad: Arizona girl's corneas saved vision of 2 kids
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2011-01-18,"Rise of the Hans, the New tribalism - China's strength based on ethnic cohesion: 90% Han. Ethnic nationalism also strong among other rising powers: Russians, Persians, Arabs, Brazilians. Europe's post-nationalism failing. Is the world moving back to tribalism?"
2011-01-18,Dmitry Medvedev says Moscow recognises independent state for Palestinians.
2011-01-18,Vatican letter urged Irish bishops not to report sex-abuse cases to police
2011-01-18,"Juan Cole: Tunisia Uprising ""Spearheaded by Labor Movements, by Internet Activists, by Rural Workers; It's a Populist Revolution"""
2011-01-18,What Arab newspapers are saying about Tunisia
2011-01-18,"Murdoch, UK establishment in deep shit."
2011-01-18,"Does anyone doubt that if Tunisias president had been overthrown by an Islamic Revolution, there would have been 24/7 coverage of it in US media?"
2011-01-17,"Swiss whistleblower to hand over data on hundreds of offshore bank account holders to WikiLeaks
"
2011-01-17,"53% of Germans feel they have ""no special responsibility"" towards Israel because of their history"
2011-01-17,South Sudan vote backs secession. We're about to witness the creation of a new nation here folks.
2011-01-17,"No judicial independence in Venezuela: Hugo Chavez has judge imprisoned for 30 years for ""spiritual corruption"" after she grants bail to a man illegally held without trial for three years"
2011-01-17,"Israeli officials fear a 'domino effect': 
Guyana follows 7 Latin American countries in backing Palestinian state."
2011-01-17,International arrest warrant issued for Qatari Royal family member convicted of sexually abusing girls under 15.... Good luck finding this news in any arab papers
2011-01-17,"Tunisian president's wife fled the country with 1,5 TON GOLD (Le monde, french press)"
2011-01-17,Arrested Pirate Party Member Becomes Tunisian Minister  
2011-01-17,"Th Palestinian Authority is determined to ask the United Nations to declare the settlements illegal, despite USA opposition"
2011-01-17,Why did we never know how rotten Tunisia was? 
2011-01-17,Berlusconi's harem of 14 women revealed
2011-01-17,"Four Years On, Rupert Murdoch Phone-Hacking 
Scandal Is Still Growing"
2011-01-17,"Burnings spread to Egypt, Algeria in Tunisia echo
| Reuters"
2011-01-17,"Massive protests in Jordan, government on high alert for fears of becoming another Tunisia"
2011-01-17,Killings of newborn babies on the rise in Pakistan
2011-01-17,The Economist's Lexington on the Arab protests.
2011-01-17,"Undercover police do sleep with the people they are spying on, and I should know, says one woman"
2011-01-17,Russia warns of Iranian Chernobyl'
2011-01-17,Venezuela has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world leader in oil reserves
2011-01-17,Stuxnet virus attack: Russia warns of 'Iranian Chernobyl'
2011-01-17,"Mexican ""Zetas"" drug cartel is quietly spreading a reign of terror virtually unchallenged, all the way to the Mexican border with Guatemala -- and across it. "
2011-01-17,Haiti: Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier Returns from Exile - As if things werent bad enough.
2011-01-17,"Ecuador sends Venezuela 5,000 metric tons of crude palm oil using the new ""Sucre""  Virtual Currency"
2011-01-17,WikiLeaks: Turkey allowed US 'extraordinary rendition' - Some 24 CIA flights landed at ncirlik airport in southern Turkey between 2002 and 2006 with the knowledge of the Turkish military.
2011-01-17,Former dictator 'Baby Doc' back in Haiti after 25 years
2011-01-16,Swiss whistleblower Rudolf Elmer plans to hand over offshore banking secrets of the rich and famous to WikiLeaks
2011-01-16,"Tunisia: the first Arab popular revolution, rather than euphemism for a coup
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2011-01-16,Joint U.S.- Israeli Project Created Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran
2011-01-16,"Berlusconi paid to sleep with Ruby when she was 17, and subsequently had her freed from a Milan police station  where she was being held on suspicion of theft  by fooling officers into thinking she was the granddaughter of the Egyptian president."
2011-01-16,Tunisia:`All Arab dictators are shaking on their thrones' -- Left and Arab voices on the insurrection
2011-01-16,"Algerian man douses himself with gasoline and burns to death , echoing trigger that toppled the leader of neighboring Tunisia."
2011-01-16,Thousands of Israelis rally in defence of human and civil rights - Tel Aviv sees largest demonstration in years as people protest against parliamentary investigation into funding of rights groups
2011-01-16,Stuxnet Worm Used Against Iran Was Tested in Israel (NY Times)
2011-01-16,Quebec: Muslim immigration consultant arrested for helping hundreds in Middle East collect benefits from Canada
2011-01-16,"Former dictator ""Baby Doc"" Duvalier returns to Haiti "
2011-01-16,Early results from Southern Sudan's referendum indicate the region has voted overwhelmingly to split from the north and form a new country.
2011-01-16,Another harsh blow to Mexican authorities.  Police commander abducted in Veracruz.
2011-01-16,"The Taliban is to drop its opposition to the education of girls in Afghanistan, the country's education minister has told British media."
2011-01-16,Chinese Mothers...in Hong Kong react to  the Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior essay 
2011-01-16,Spain demands US clears earth from site of 1966 nuclear bomb mishap 
2011-01-16,Man sentenced to death in Egypt over Copt killings
2011-01-16,NY Times reveals what everyone assumed. Stuxnet worm was tested in Israel. 
2011-01-16,"Iran to display shot down U.S. drones, top Iranian official says"
2011-01-16,YouTube - Massive Protests in Tunisia Push President to Flee
2011-01-16,"French President Sarkozys New Years resolution: to catch 10,000 illegal downloaders a day "
2011-01-16,Cables From American Diplomats Portray U.S. Ambivalence on Tunisia
2011-01-16,Continuing riots in Tunisia- new president sworn in as the former flees
2011-01-16,Europe's biggest far-right parties -- country-by-country
2011-01-16,Violence in Tunisia as Ben Ali loyalists carry on fight
2011-01-16,Presidents-for-Life Going Out of Fashion 
2011-01-15,"Current Tunisian govt in State of Emergency after days of protests by students due to unemployment, limited freedoms, inflation. Live rounds fired at protesters. 'Revolution' started after an unemployed student burned himself to death in an act of protest. Lets get this story more air time."
2011-01-15,Australian floods: Why were we so surprised? Meteorologists warned Australians six months ago to prepare for a soaking. And nobody did a thing ...
2011-01-15,"Chinese authorities begin to implement new controls on the content of phone text messages ...  lists emerge showing hundreds of banned keywords, including ""democracy"", ""human rights,"" and ""telling the truth"" "
2011-01-15,A wounded fox shot its would be killer in Belarus by pulling the trigger on the hunter's gun as the pair scuffled
2011-01-15,This is how we do it in Australia.
2011-01-15,"From Algeria to Tunisia to Jordan, the Arab world's discontent is turning into REVOLT! Don't ignore them! "
2011-01-15,A new danger is stalking Australian flood victims - bull Sharks are swimming the city streets
2011-01-15,"In India, 96.5% kids go to school - a big step towards universal elementary education"
2011-01-15,Report: Belarusian mobile operators ratted out demonstrators to police - Gave geo locations
2011-01-15,"This WikiLeaked cable helped spark Tunisia's revolution, yet U.S. vice president calls Assange a terrorist"
2011-01-15,Berlusconi now placed under official legal investigation on suspicion of sex with underage prostitute and of abusing his position to pressure the police. Potential sentence: 15 years in jail. 
2011-01-15,The Wikileak that made Tunisians so upset...
2011-01-15,"Tonight we are all Tunisians. It was the final 
testament to the brutality of a dictator who has had 
the support of European leaders and various 
presidents of the United States."
2011-01-15,Israel has it's own Rally to restore sanity.
2011-01-15,In peril -  the Arab status quo - A dictators fall in Tunisia resounds in a region full of governments that dont work.
2011-01-15,Bangladesh arrests leader behind 'beggar amputees'
2011-01-15,"Jordanians march against inflation: Thousands vent anger in Amman and other cities against government's
inability to rein in prices and poverty."
2011-01-15,Tunisia: Will revolt spread in North Africa?
2011-01-15,Iraqi soldier guns down two US troops in Mosul drill
2011-01-15,"Google criminally charged for illegally collecting private information
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2011-01-15,More censorship in Venezuela
2011-01-15,The Dalits of india are building a temple in the honor of English language: they believe it can liberate them from the oppressions of the caste system
2011-01-15,"Tunisias president toppled by Twitter Revolution (and he fled into the arms of The House of Saud, never ones to turn their back on a maleficent despot in need, like Idi Amin, who spent the remainder of his years in Jedda after a career that featured slaying 100,000 Ugandans)"
2011-01-15,Ghana : 600 Liberian women refugees stage Naked protest to express their unwillingness to integrate into the Ghanaian society...demand resettlement into US and $1000 instead of the $100 given to them by the UN refugee agency HCR
2011-01-15,BP and Russia strike up an Arctic oil deal.
2011-01-14,"Haiti reconstruction firms only get $1.60 for every $100, rest goes back to American companies."
2011-01-14,BREAKING: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi formally under investigation for using teenage prostitute and abusing his position as PM
2011-01-14,"Afghan Taliban ""end opposition to educating girls"""
2011-01-14,PM replaces Tunisia president - Africa - Al Jazeera English
2011-01-14,"A nice primer explaining what's happening in Tunisia, for idiots like me who need a tl;dr version of everything"
2011-01-14,Guyana becomes 6th South American state to recognize Palestinian independence 
2011-01-14,"Police to review evidence of phone hacking by Rupert Murdoch flagship British paper, the News of the World, despite attempts by Murdoch's corporation to stop details of hacking becoming public"
2011-01-14,Third undercover police spy unmasked as scale of undercover police network within the UK environment protest movement emerges
2011-01-14,Israel demolishes homes and classroom in West Bank village
2011-01-14,The news half of Australia has been waiting for - Flood poses no risk to beer supplies 
2011-01-14,Silvio Berlusconi investigated in teenage prostitution case
2011-01-14,Emergency rule imposed in Tunisia
2011-01-14,Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stre in the West Bank: Norway considering recognizing an independent Palestinian state in September this year - will depend on progress made by then.
2011-01-14,The fall of Tunisias president marks the first time that protests have overthrown an Arab leader
2011-01-14,Palestinian Foreign Minister says that the Goal of gaining greater international recognition of the Palestinian State will help to get Israel back to negotiations
2011-01-14,"Japan's military, citing worries about North Korean belligerence and an increasingly aggressive China, wants to cooperate in unprecedented ways with the United States"
2011-01-14,"Dramatic changes may be coming in Israel: Demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country."
2011-01-14,Tunisia riots: US warns Middle East to reform or be overthrown
2011-01-14,Pirates operating off the Somali coast have kidnapped six crew from a Danish ship thought to have been transporting weapons in the Gulf of Aden.
2011-01-14,A brave little Australian hero. A teenager who was scared of water drowned in the Queensland floods after begging rescuers to save his younger brother first. 
2011-01-14,"Russian officials told to learn languages after ""Institute of Protein Research"" mistranslated as ""Squirrel Institute"""
2011-01-14,Arab bloggers cheer on Tunisia's Revolution and expressed hope that their own nations might follow this example
2011-01-14,"The Tunisian president and dictator, Ben Ali, flees the country after protests"
2011-01-14,Tunisia protests: 'The fear has gone  I've been waiting 20 years for today'
2011-01-14,"Glenn Beck - the Hate Preacher (german article, translated with Google)"
2011-01-13,"Aussie here: Just want everyone to know that Brazil and Sri Lanka are suffering flooding too, and probably need more aid than we do. (120,000 homeless, hundreds dead)"
2011-01-13,Wikileaks volunteer detained by U.S. agents
2011-01-13,Italy's Constitutional Court Thursday struck down key parts of a law that would protect Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from prosecution.
2011-01-13,"Pregnant Al Jazeera reporter objects to 'humiliating' Israeli security checks: 'When I was told to take off my bra, that was enough for me'
"
2011-01-13,The Rise of the New Global Elite: Why the world's super-rich are a nation unto themselves
2011-01-13,WikiLeaks Exposes the Danger of Pakistans Nukes
2011-01-13,WikiLeaks contributes to Bradley Manning defence fund: honours pledge to help pay legal fees
2011-01-13,"Gay slur in lyrics disqualifies Dire Straits hit from Canadian radio play 
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2011-01-13,"Mexican official: 34,612 drug-war deaths in 4 yrs"
2011-01-13,"Tunisia president not to run again, vows to broaden political freedoms and allow freedom of speech"
2011-01-13,Youth under 18 banned from using tanning beds in Victoria BC.
2011-01-13,Toy Salesman Admits Raping 96 Boys
2011-01-13,Demand For Quinoa A Boon For Bolivian Farmers
2011-01-13,South Sudan vote passes threshold - Celebrations erupt as turnout of registered voters exceeds necessary 60 per cent in South Sudan referendum
2011-01-13,A Boat Ride through Brisbane - A much closer look at the floods.
2011-01-13,Shocking documentary about the genocide of white Africans in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. (netflix)
2011-01-13,China snubs US: Why did China test its J-20 stealth fighter while Secretary Gates was in town?
2011-01-13,"Magnitude 7.3 - LOYALTY ISLANDS
2011 January 13 16:16:41 UTC 
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2011-01-13,"Violent clashes spread to centre of Tunisian capital - The latest clashes in anti-government protests that began nearly a month ago were taking place a short distance from the central bank building in the city's main commercial area, also the location of the main bus and tram station."
2011-01-13,Acid tanker capsizes on Rhine
2011-01-13,UN: Israeli settlement expansion illegal
2011-01-13,"Thailand: 60,000 Red Shirt protesters bring Bangkok to a standstill"
2011-01-13,"Poll: 35 percent of East Jerusalem Palestinians would prefer Israeli citizenship
In new survey, 40 percent of East Jerusalem Palestinians say they will move elsewhere in Israel if their neighborhoods become part of a future Palestinian State."
2011-01-13,Israel Kidnaps Eight Palestinians In the West Bank
2011-01-13,UNESCO awards Venezuela for providing free access to internet
2011-01-12,"West African farmers have succeeded in cutting the use of toxic pesticides, increasing yields and incomes and diversifying farming systems as a result of an international project promoting sustainable farming practices."
2011-01-12,"Sweden 'buying US time' in Assange case - ""We are hearing that the Swedish are prepared to drop the rape charges against Julian as soon as the Americans demand his extradition,"" he said, citing sources in Washington and Stockholm."
2011-01-12,"Mexicos Drug War Eliminates a Police Force in Chihuahua: Bit by Bit, a Mexican Police Force Is Eradicated"
2011-01-12,"'I'm French, f--- you!': smoker on flight charged with assault "
2011-01-12,UK Teacher fired for sledding with students
2011-01-12,"British court eases bail conditions for Wikileaks founder - Assange, who was granted bail for $315,000 on December 14, is now allowed to reside in London and no longer has to report to police every day."
2011-01-12,"A group of 47 frontline al-Qaeda commanders, including a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, have been identified in an Interpol alert on behalf of Saudi Arabia, in an unprecedented disclosure of Saudi citizens in key terrorist roles."
2011-01-12,"Brazils Drug Czar: Lets Look at Portugals Experience with Decriminalization - Pedro Abramovay, the drug czar of the new Brazilian administration, said that Portugals experience with drug decriminalization should be considered as an alternative to Brazils current anti-narcotics policy."
2011-01-12,"""Senior political source"" claims Hezbollah and allies to resign their ministers and cause the collapse of Lebanon's government. ""The resignation statement has been written and will be announced at 4.30 p.m."""
2011-01-12,"China's Eco-Disaster - 

Terrifying review of Jonathan Watts's book, ""When A Billion Chinese Jump"". China could save world by shifting towards renewable energy. But that's not going to happen. Government sees green activists, not polluters, as the threat"
2011-01-12,Life in jail is the sentence for two Pakistani Muslim blasphemers (for tearing down and trampling a poster of a gathering to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad - usually this is a death sentence)
2011-01-12,"Haiti, one year later [pics]"
2011-01-12,"Assange fears death penalty, but vows more leaks "
2011-01-12,"UN's Ban Ki-moon ""deplores"" Israel demolition of hotel"
2011-01-12,Teenager swept away after saving his brother from Toowoomba floods
2011-01-12,More than 220 people die in Rio de Janeiro state as flooding and mudslides hit south-eastern Brazil. 
2011-01-12,Assange: Wikileaks has 'insurance' files on Murdoch - Press Gazette
2011-01-12,[PBS] FRONTLINE - The Battle For Haiti -    An in depth documentary about Haiti 1 year after the earthquake 
2011-01-12,At least 21 demonstrators killed by government forces in Tunisia
2011-01-12,"Hindu holy man reveals truth of terror attacks blamed on Muslims - Asia, World - The Independent"
2011-01-12,Contractor Hid in Iraq for Seven Years Over US Rape Charge
2011-01-12,Jordan Financial Minister states that Israel's refusal of the Palestinian two-state solution exposes Israel as an 'apartheid' state
2011-01-12,"Tony Blair to appear before Iraq war inquiry on 21 January - Former prime minister summoned to second appearance before Chilcot inquiry to answer questions about legal advice ahead of 2003 invasion.
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2011-01-12,South Sudan vote 'passes threshold'. 60 per cent benchmark needed to validate secession referendum has been met by fourth day of voting.
2011-01-12,"As if making the oldest known leather shoe wasn't enough, a prehistoric people in what's now Armenia also built the world's oldest known winery, a new study says."
2011-01-11,"Uh, reddit? Brisbane, AU (one of our largest cities) is currently being washed away. Massive floods, death toll rising. "
2011-01-11,Julian Assange 'faces execution or Guantnamo detention'
2011-01-11,BREAKING: Government troops are killing protesters in Tunisia. [NSFW Very Graphic]
2011-01-11,How the Arizona Shooting is Being Viewed in Europe: symptomatic of a superpower in decline and at the mercy of radical politics.
2011-01-11,"Pakistan will implode if the US does not leave Afghanistan - The continuing US presence in Afghanistan fuels extremism in neighbouring Pakistan.
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2011-01-11,North Korea border guards kill five defectors on the Chinese side of their shared border
2011-01-11,"If you're near the Brisbane river, you should be evacuating now."
2011-01-11,The Great Food Crisis of 2011
2011-01-11,"10 dead, 78 missing as 'instant tsunami' hits Australia town"
2011-01-11,Is China headed for financial meltdown? China may be losing control of its economy to dubious financial engineering and loan sharks.
2011-01-11,Photos from flooded Brisbane
2011-01-11,Clusters of Galaxies containing hundreds of billions of Suns discovered. I'm so impressed by how lucky and special we are that we are able to see so far in the Universe. 
2011-01-11,"Floods in Queensland, Australia now cover over 386,000 Sq Miles; Same size as MT, NM & AZ ... and growing."
2011-01-11,Banks given go-ahead to pay unlimited bonuses by UK government
2011-01-11,Deadly Australian floods spark evacuations in Brisbane
2011-01-11,Highly venomous snakes threaten Aussie flood victims
2011-01-11,Daily Telegraph - China: a force fit for a superpower. The technology and firepower of the Peoples Liberation Army are growing so fast that observers are no longer curious but concerned. The sea is where the 21st century content for materials and markets will occur.
2011-01-11,North Korea border guards kill five defectors to China for the first time in years after pursuing them across the frozen river border
2011-01-11,Cars floating away in Queensland Australia  Flood
2011-01-11,A karaoke marathon held last week by Icelandic singer Bjrk helped double the signature count on a petition she hopes will lead to a referendum on foreign ownership of Icelandic natural resources
2011-01-11,"Turns out the ""old man plane disguise"" case was part of a larger illegal immigrant smuggling operation."
2011-01-11,Polish cleaner blows the lid on 'dirty' Germans 
2011-01-11,"North Korea's Forgotten Prison Camps -  There are an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 people in a total of six concentration camps operated by the government in the central and northeastern areas of the country."
2011-01-11,British banks cleared to pay unlimited bonuses 
2011-01-11,"Iranian human rights lawyer gets 11-year prison term, including 5 years for allegedly appearing in videotaped message without veil"
2011-01-10,"Russia's Murrow moment - Leonid Parfyonov's stunning speech to Russian TV executives in November was ignored by Russian state television, but you can watch it on YouTube. His audience listened in deadpan shock as Parfyonov said out loud what everyone in Russia knows to be the truth."
2011-01-10,"US forces have fired so many bullets in Iraq and Afghanistan - 250,000 for every insurgent killed - that US ammunition-makers cannot keep up with demand. As a result the US is having to import supplies from Israel"
2011-01-10,"Sodomy is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, but gay life flourishes there. Why it is easier to be gay than straight in a society where everyone, homosexual and otherwise, lives in the closet"
2011-01-10,Plane carrying 105 people crashes in Iran
2011-01-10,"500 lawyers have signed up to defend Pakistan Governor Taseer's killer, but his wife cannot find a single criminal lawyer for prosecution"
2011-01-10,"The Royal Family is to be granted absolute protection from public scrutiny in a controversial legal reform. Letters, emails and documents relating to the monarch, her heir and the second in line to the throne will no longer be disclosed even if they are in the public interest. "
2011-01-10,A trial against six environmental activists has been suddenly dropped after an undercover police officer switched allegiance and offered to testify on their behalf. 
2011-01-10,BBC - Spain's Basque rebels Eta call 'permanent truce'
2011-01-10,McCarthyism sweeps through Israel: Israeli lawmakers set up committee to investigate human rights groups for un-Israeli activity.
2011-01-10,"Good News for Peace: Muslim and Christian, Egyptians stand together against violence"
2011-01-10,"Car getting effortlessly washed down the street as a result of the flooding in Queensland, Australia [vid]"
2011-01-10,"60 Minutes Video: ""Bribes or Death in Mexico"": murder of the mayor of a Mexican city, where powerful drug gangs seem to be giving authorities a choice of ""silver or lead"" - join us and we will pay you or don't and we'll kill you.

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2011-01-10,"""WikiLeaks cables confirm US knowledge of Indonesian militarys crimes"" - Leaked US embassy cables demonstrate that Washington was well aware of ongoing human rights abuses in Papua even as it pursued closer ties with the TNI."
2011-01-10,"""In Zimbabwe it's literally cheaper to print on money than paper. So that's exactly what we did."""
2011-01-10,Brazil has warned that the world is on course for a full-blown trade war as it stepped up its rhetoric against exchange rate manipulation.
2011-01-10,"Incredible footage - At least two dead, others missing after Queensland's floods dramatically intensify."
2011-01-10,Israel academics to boycott college
2011-01-10,"David Burgess: the extraordinary life and death of a human rights lawyer - ""On an autumn evening last October, a slight, pretty woman with a mass of curly hair fell underneath a tube train"". Except that she was a man. One of Britain's finest lawyers. And she was pushed. Amazing, compelling story"
2011-01-10,New laser to dazzle pirates on the high seas
2011-01-10,"Massacre in Tunisie Jan, 1 2011"
2011-01-10,Dozens missing in Toowoomba floods - amazing video of cars washing down streets
2011-01-10,Pope says sex education an 'attack on religious freedom' 
2011-01-10,Tunisia closes schools and universities following riots
2011-01-10,"Floods continue to batter Australia - 
One person killed and others trapped in cars as Queensland continues to deal with worst flooding in decades"
2011-01-10,German investigators have found excessive levels of cancer-causing dioxin in eggs and some chicken meat.
2011-01-09,"WARNING: all 637,000 @wikileaks followers are a target of US gov subpoena against Twitter, under section 2. B"
2011-01-09,"BBC asks: ""If confidential details of overseas Twitter users are disclosed to the US authorities, how keen will an international audience be to trust this or other American social networks in future?"" Should social networks give up data to help in legal proceedings? "
2011-01-09,A new country is about to be born. Lets all hope South Sudan finally becomes free. 
2011-01-09,"WikiLeaks: Brazil did not see Chavez as a threat, refused US offers to share intelligence "
2011-01-09,"""When the hearing went ahead after five hours, no public prosecutor turned up because of fears for their safety"""
2011-01-09,Sound familiar? Chinese teams teaching Taliban how to use man portable SAM's for use against NATO forces
2011-01-09,Meanwhile in Denmark... 46% of expat foreigners dont feel wanted or welcome in Denmark.
2011-01-09,"My telephone conversation with David Pitchford, 
the guy who is suing Julian Assange, Jan 9th."
2011-01-09,"U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates: "". . . my general line for those both at home and around the world who think the US is in decline is that history's dustbins are filled with countries that underestimated the resilience of the United States."""
2011-01-09,Hamas urges armed factions in Gaza to halt rocket attacks
2011-01-09,"Bulldozers begin work for Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem - Bulldozers began tearing down a former hotel building Sunday to make way for a Jewish housing development in an Arab neighborhood of East Jerusalem, pushing ahead with a contentious project that has raised concerns in Washington."
2011-01-09,Africa's Hour - Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to give up power isn't just a crisis for the Ivory Coast -- it's a moment of truth for the whole continent.
2011-01-09,Pakistan rally backs blasphemy law 
2011-01-09,"The 1,700-year-old Christian monastery hidden deep in Egypt's desert"
2011-01-09,"Hackers celebrate North Korea heir's birthday
| Reuters"
2011-01-09,"""Modern China is determined to become the world's leading knowledge innovator. This has been planned for decades and will inevitably start to happen - very soon. Innovation is a Chinese tradition."""
2011-01-09,German secret service knew where Adolf Eichmann was hiding since 1952 (use Google translate)
2011-01-09,Israel demolishes historic hotel to make way for new settlement 
2011-01-09,"After demolishing home by mistake, occupation soldier had to ""go back and tear down the other house"""
2011-01-09,Thousands head south for Sudan vote - Africa - Al Jazeera English
2011-01-09,Four killed in fresh clashes in Tunisia
2011-01-09,"Tomorrow, Sudan will vote on a referendum for Southern independence from the North"
2011-01-09,Chinese troops enter Indian territory again
2011-01-09,New Subreddit to aggregate all news on the ongoing Tunisian Revolt.  Please help the story of the Tunisian people get more exposure! 
2011-01-09,German minister urges tough action over dioxins scandal
2011-01-08,44 % of Danes think that religion makes the world a worse place
2011-01-08,US tells Twitter to hand over WikiLeaks supporter's messages
2011-01-08,"Vladimir Putin signed a 20-page executive order requiring all public institutions in Russia to replace proprietary software, developed by companies like Microsoft and Adobe, with free open-source alternatives by 2015."
2011-01-08,Copy of the Subpoena served to Twitter regarding WikiLeaks for those interested
2011-01-08,Chile recognizes independent Palestinian state 
2011-01-08,Life in an apartheid theocracy: An Israeli activist who defied orthodox Jewish custom by leading a group of women in open prayer at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall has been told to expect years in prison for breaching the peace.
2011-01-08,"1 dead 4 injured as Israeli soldiers come under mortar fire at Gaza border .... news may not go mainstream because they were attacked by their own army aka ""Friendly Fire"" "
2011-01-08,"Egyptian Muslims act as ""human shields"" for Coptic Christmas mass"
2011-01-08,"Wikipedia Comes Of Age - Academic publisher on the relative authority of Wikipedia. ""It is not the bottom layer of authority, nor the top, but the highest layer without formal vetting. It serves as an ideal bridge between the validated and unvalidated Web"""
2011-01-08,Chile recognizes Palestinian state
2011-01-08,"A senior Hamas leader on Thursday accused Israel of carrying out ""countless holocausts"" against the Palestinians while saying the Nazi genocide was a ""lie."""
2011-01-08,Feds subpoena Twitter for info on WikiLeaks backer  Iceland Member of Parliament Birgitta Jnsdttir
2011-01-08,Greenland close to unavoidable meltdown - Politiken.dk
2011-01-08,"Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr returns to Iraq from Iran urging followers to resist the United States ""with all means"""
2011-01-08,"Thousands of Tunisia lawyers strike: The lawyers demand an end to beatings by police, following what they say is
police brutality against protesters."
2011-01-08,French suspect Chinese link in industrial spying at Renault:  Company suspends three senior executives in what is potentially one of the biggest commercial espionage cases in recent years.
2011-01-08,Lawmaker: U.S. subpoenaed Twitter information linked to WikiLeaks
2011-01-08,[BBC] Has Pakistan passed the tipping point of religious extremism?
2011-01-08,World economy faces deepening turmoil 
2011-01-08,"Blackwater in the Holy Land?  ""Jerusalem: a cauldron of nationalistic and religious acrimony, a persistent flashpoint for global crisis. Exactly where you want to put the worlds most notorious private security firm."""
2011-01-08,Russian president to visit Palestinian territories
2011-01-08,Twitter Subpoenaed by The Empire for Wikileaks Accounts
2011-01-08,Spain's national broadcaster bans bullfighting - reducing interest in a tradition
2011-01-08,How 'The Guardian' fell out with Julian Assange
2011-01-08,"Israel's Supreme Court gave the green light on Thursday for the continued operation of gender-segregated ""modesty buses"" serving ultra-Orthodox Jews."
2011-01-07,"Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as ""human shields"""
2011-01-07,Too far. The UK government is about to sell the country's forests to timber companies.
2011-01-07,"Wikileaks: Companies including Coca Cola, Hewlett Packard & Motorola complained of widespread corruption by Israeli officials at Gaza crossing; trucks stalled if firms did not pay bribes."
2011-01-07,WikiLeaks: Secret whaling deal plotted by US and Japan | Environment | guardian.co.uk
2011-01-07,"Israeli soldiers break into an apartment at dawn and execute the WRONG man with many bullets to the head and chest WHILE HE WAS A SLEEP, then they simply decide to arrest the right man from the floor below and leave. "
2011-01-07,Spain rejects 'US influenced' copyright bill
2011-01-07,"Czech doctors resign en masse, saying that being paid lower wages than a mechanic or waiter isn't OK any more."
2011-01-07,"Birgitta Jonsdottir tweets: ""usa government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. do they realize i am a member of parliament in iceland?"""
2011-01-07,"The Real Drugs Crisis: The top secret database worth $35,000,000,000 in blood money, that you didnt even know existed"
2011-01-07,"Israeli soldiers shot and killed an unarmed, 65-y.o. Palestinian man in his bedroom, in what appeared to be a case of mistaken identity. The mans wife said he was sleeping and she was praying when soldiers burst into the apt before dawn, entered the bedroom and immediately opened fire. "
2011-01-07,Is Wikileaks About to Release Its Bank Cache?
2011-01-07,World on brink of social unrest over food prices - Violence in Algeria could be the start of protests over rising costs of essential commodities such as grain and meat.
2011-01-07,More Turks leaving Germany than coming in. More Turkish Germans are heading back to their home country - motivated by factors like better job opportunities in Turkey and not wanting to feel like a foreigner.
2011-01-07,More than 30 women raped and beaten in DR Congo attack
2011-01-07,Shift of Earth's Magnetic North Pole Impacts Tampa Airport
2011-01-07,Pirate Party Slams Anti-Piracy Outfit for Filing Illegal Complaints
2011-01-07,Palestinians are hoping for a United Nations vote next week condeming ongoing Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory (Will the USA abstain or veto it ?)
2011-01-07,Cables released by WikiLeaks reveal how the British government provides training to a Bangladeshi government paramilitary force specialising in executing political opponents.
2011-01-07,The Last Stand of General Sanchez: Why the commander who was in charge of all troops in Iraq thinks some of his superiors should go to hell
2011-01-07,Columbia Journalism Review calls out journalists on not even being able to report the number of WikiLeaks cables correctly.
2011-01-07,Israeli pilot describes a 'good strike' that killed 15 Gazans as part of the assassination of a Hamas military leader in 2002 - (that included 8 children and 3 women)
2011-01-07,"Family of dead Palestinian woman rebut IDF claims that she wasn't killed by tear gas, saying it's a smear campaign"
2011-01-07,"Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei ""says the Chinese government has pledged never to be the first country to use nuclear weapons - at any time or under any circumstances. He says reports that China is considering changing the policy are 'groundless and out of ulterior motives.'"""
2011-01-07,"The Man Who Spilled the Secrets | Vanity Fair on collaboration between mainstream media, especially the Guardian, and Wikileaks. Portrays Julian Assange as prima donna. Lots of new detail, and a good read"
2011-01-07,Food riots break out in Algeria
2011-01-06,Italy becomes the first country to ban plastic bags nationwide!
2011-01-06,Five Myths About the Chinese Communist Party
2011-01-06,The little red book that swept France:  The latest call to (non-violent) arms has turned a 93-year-old war hero into a publishing phenomenon.
2011-01-06,Furore over 'censored' edition of Huckleberry Finn
2011-01-06,"Together, Slim, Gates, Buffett, and Ambani control more wealth than the world's poorest 57 countries. "
2011-01-06,China hiding military build-up: WikiLeaks
2011-01-06,Population 7 Billion - By 2045 global population is projected to reach nine billion. Can the planet take the strain?
2011-01-06,"Israelis bribed to admit U.S. goods to Gaza: WikiLeaks
| Reuters"
2011-01-06,The slow death of tolerance in Egypt | guardian.co.uk
2011-01-06,Why Bradley Manning is fighting for his sanity
2011-01-06,"The damaged blow out preventer from oil rig
Ripples of Deepwater Horizon are felt around the world. The Presidential panel's report examining Deepwater warns a disaster is likely to happen again without significant change in industry practice and government policies. "
2011-01-06,"Doing the terrorists dirty work for them --  ""Swedish society itself is pursuing what was surely one of the aims of the failed Islamist militants: to instil a sense of insecurity and paranoia across society"""
2011-01-06,The day Julian Assange threatened to sue The Guardian over the US embassy cables story | Media | guardian.co.uk
2011-01-06,Romania tries to tackle its recession by forcing its witches to pay income taxes. 
2011-01-06,"Pakistan's very unhappy new year  Cut off from IMF funding, civil unrest, terrorism, hyper-inflation, daily assassinations of Pakistanis by drones, war....."
2011-01-06,"Mossad's new director says that a military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would be counterproductive and would exact an enormous diplomatic, economic and military price."
2011-01-06,"Increased numbers of policemen are being deployed in transport hubs across London, UK amidst fears of a terrorist attack taking place in the next few days."
2011-01-06,Anonymous joins Tunisian activists to call for end to the government's stifling of online dissent
2011-01-06,Ivory Coast: Gbagbo 'expels UK and Canada envoys'
2011-01-06,UK students to launch new wave of protests 
2011-01-06,"Food Price Surge Puts Strain On India's Poor
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2011-01-06,WikiLeaks XXVIII: Organized Crime Squeezing the Life Out of Bulgaria
2011-01-06,Pakistan's government nears collapse again
2011-01-06,Saudi Arabia 'detains' Israeli vulture for spying
2011-01-06,"""Taseer died for the Christians and now we are feeling broke and scared. If they can kill the governor of Punjab then who am I?"""
2011-01-05,"Cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv says Israeli officials wanted Gaza's economy ""functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis."""
2011-01-05,"Over 3,000 birds fall dead in AR, over 500 in LA; 83,000 drum fish wash up on shore; 20,000 fish in Chesapeake Bay; 15 tons of fish wash up dying on shores of Brazil. In four days."
2011-01-05,"Assange: WikiLeaks does not have concerns for ""US national security"", but rather for human beings"
2011-01-05,Greek professor of linguistics at Cambridge University credited with identifying an endangered Greek dialect which is spoken in a remote mountainous region in northeastern Turkey and is believed to be a linguistic gold mine because of its close similarities to ancient Greek.
2011-01-05,"President Ahmedinejad ""had harsh words for the West during a speech..on Tuesday [4 Jan 2011], telling them to 'respect other nations and their rights. Stop aggression and invasion...In doing so, nations will forgive you and give you an opportunity to make up for your past errors and heinous crimes'"""
2011-01-05,WikiLeaks: Chinese attacks on Google came from the top
2011-01-05,"""France is the country that conducts the most industrial espionage on other European countries, even ahead of China and Russia, said leaked US diplomatic cables quoted today by Norway's Aftenposten."""
2011-01-05,"Chinese adult children must, by law, visit parents regularly - China's new Elder Law"
2011-01-05,40% of French and Germans believe the presence of a  muslims is a menace. 70% think muslims are not well integrated 
2011-01-05,Israeli PM appeals to US to free CONVICTED SPY
2011-01-05,"Pedophile Priest Tony Walsh Face Slashed In Jail
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2011-01-05,The Rise of the New Global Elite - The Atlantic
2011-01-05,Birds fall dead from the sky in Sweden too! WTF is happening!? O.o
2011-01-05,"I had no idea, but Greg Palast has been arrested! His latest blog is private but the slug says 'busted by BP in Azerbaijan'"
2011-01-05,"WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse; ""there is no justification for demanding we allow residents of Gaza to live normal lives while shells and rockets are fired from their streets"" - Olmert"
2011-01-05,"Israeli air strikes hit Gaza. Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes Tuesday at two cities in Gaza, but there were no immediate reports of casualties, Palestinian and Israeli officials said."
2011-01-05,Romania's witches forced to pay income tax - are planning to use cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government.
2011-01-05,Police in the UK have banned ITN from a press conference because they highlighted bungled investigation into Joanna Yeates murder
2011-01-05,"""The Pentagon underestimated the speed at which China has developed and fielded a ballistic missile that may be capable of hitting a maneuvering U.S. aircraft carrier, the head of [United States] Navy intelligence said today [January 5, 2011]."""
2011-01-05,Mexico overtakes US in percentage of population that is overweight 
2011-01-05,BBC News - Palestinians look for int'l support after failure of direct Israel talks
2011-01-05,"""In what appears to be the first diplomatic casualty from the latest WikiLeaks revelations, the U.S. ambassador to Libya has returned to Washington and is likely to leave his post, U.S. officials said Tuesday [January 4, 2011]."""
2011-01-05,"Uganda court bans media outing people as Gay following campaign to expose gays in October alleging that gays had plans to recruit one million ""innocent kids"" by 2012."
2011-01-05,"Mongolia is experiencing a huge resource-based economic boom, but will it become another Nigeria?"
2011-01-05,"France top culprit in industrial espionage - France is the country that conducts the most industrial espionage on other European countries, even ahead of China and Russia, said leaked US diplomatic cables quoted on Tuesday by Norway's Aftenposten."
2011-01-04,Punjab(Pakistan) governor Salman Taseer assassinated in Islamabad
2011-01-04,Some Christians have predicted the end of days by May 21st.  I'm challenging them to bequeath me their property on May 22nd.
2011-01-04,"If Youre Homeless In Japan, Here Are Your Options"
2011-01-04,"And so it starts...Sri Lanka considers banning mini-skirts , removal of billboards featuring scantily-clad women ...The Lakbima News newspaper said mini-skirts could be banned if the cultural ministry had its way under a ""new era of moral purity."""
2011-01-04,"Saudi Arabia announces that all online publishing (news, forums and blogs) must be registered and licensed     
    
	- Arab News"
2011-01-04,A 15-year-old girl is more likely to die in childbirth than finish school in Southern Sudan
2011-01-04,"As Hungary takes over the rotating presidency of 
the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbn 
has introduced a new law aimed at gagging the 
media. The Facebook generation is up in arms. But 
Orbn remains largely unchallenged in his country, 
where most people have other worries."
2011-01-04,"WikiLeaks: Drug Enforcement Agency Goes 
Global, Beyond Drugs. The US Drug Enforcement 
Administration has grown into a global intelligence 
organization whose reach extends far beyond 
international drug trafficking."
2011-01-04,A huge Dragon tower to be built on border between Wales and England
2011-01-04,"""The extremely long history of incorrect Israeli predictions about when Iran will obtain a nuclear bomb"""
2011-01-04,"Remember the Iranian nuclear scientist who defected to the US, then years later suddenly claimed he'd been kidnapped by the CIA in Mecca, then returned to Iran with a parade? He's now being tortured in Iran."
2011-01-04,"The Dubai Job - How Mossad killed top Hamas official Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Dubai a year ago. Epic story sourced from Dubai's chief of police. Much cloak-and-dagger detail, including wigs, lock-picking, forged passports, undetectable poisons"
2011-01-04,Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Face New Limits Under EU
2011-01-04,Nazi-era mass grave discovered in Austria - A hospital cemetery in western Austria could contain the remains of up to 220 disabled people thought to have been killed by the Nazis as part of their euthanasia programme.
2011-01-04,Flooding in Australia
2011-01-04,Reynaldo Dagsa was taking a picture of his family when he was fatally shot [PIC]
2011-01-04,Volunteer Cyber Army Emerges in Estonia.
2011-01-04,"Cartels carve bloody swath through Central America: In Guatemala, alleged members of Zeta cartel say war will start in this country."""
2011-01-04,Greece plans to build a 12.5km fence at border with Turkey to prevent immigrants from entering the country.
2011-01-04,Argentina's 'impressive' bank heist -  Al Jazeera 
2011-01-04,"Iran invites nations to nuclear plants: 
Iran to open its atomic sites to some world powers, US not invited."
2011-01-04,Japan to Propose Closer Military Ties With S. Korea
2011-01-04,"Crocodiles, snakes are danger in flooded Australia - Bloomberg"
2011-01-04,"U.S. agents are armed with insider information that could help lead them to top Mexican drug-cartel leaders, thanks in part to a Houstonian who was a member of an arms-trafficking group that sent more than 300 military-style weapons to Mexico."
2011-01-04,"Mountain Revolt - Bavarian Farmers Threaten Bid for 
Olympic Games"
2011-01-03,"Wikileaks releases cable of the July 1990 meeting between then-US Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, and Saddam before the Kuwait invasion: Saddam's message of friendship to President Bush"
2011-01-03,"""The WikiLeaks saga has a message . . . Your day is over. There needs to be a better, more open, more transparent way of conducting policy and politics. Because wherever democracy is broken, the social internet will find a way around. In China, in Iran and yes, even in our precious European Union."""
2011-01-03,7.1 magnitude earthquake hits Chile.
2011-01-03,Lack of Jobs in Southern Europe Frustrates the Young - even multiple degrees and five languages are not enough to land a paying job
2011-01-03,"The Village Where the Neo-Nazis Rule.  Hitler salutes in the street, firing practice in the forest: Neo-Nazis have taken over an entire village in Germany, and authorities appear to have given up . The place has come to symbolize the far right's growing influence in Germany."
2011-01-03,Settlers set fire to home as seven Palestinians sleep inside
2011-01-03,Actor Pete Postlethwaite dies :(
2011-01-03,"WikiLeaks: Israel Plans Total War on Lebanon, Gaza - The paper says that US cables quote Gen. Ashkenazi telling the US congressmen, ""I'm preparing the Israeli army for a major war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite."""
2011-01-03,"Leaks reveal USA and Germany are collaborating on next generation spy satellites called the HiROS project. The spy satellites will make it possible to monitor any spot on earth, down to 50 cm - with fresh images 3-5 times a day."
2011-01-03,Vietnam's Mammoth Cavern - Photo Gallery - A massive cave complex has been discovered in Vietnam and the pictures are incredible. This is the cave that Donald Trump would claim. It has a jungle. You can build a skyscraper in part of it. Waterfalls? Got those too. 
2011-01-03,"Aftershocks: Welcome to Haiti's Reconstruction Hell - Dispatches from the tent cities, where rape gangs & disaster profiteers roam"
2011-01-03,Wikileaks: US recommends drawing up list of countries for 'retaliation' over opposition to genetic modification 
2011-01-03,"Gunther von Hagens, the German anatomist famous for his ""Body Worlds"" shows of preserved corpses, has told a German newspaper that he is suffering from Parkinson's disease. He is preparing to become an exhibit himself, he said. "
2011-01-03,"Nearly 200,000 Indian farmers have killed themselves in the past decade. "
2011-01-03,Mention of indian caste system in Malaysian text book has Malaysian Indian Congress up in arms who said they would rather forget such a thing ever existed and don't need to be reminded of it
2011-01-03,"Anonymous lends a hand to Tunisian protesters: Take down Tunisian government and stock exchange websites, deface with manifesto"
2011-01-03,N Korea to spend 100 million on new offices & cribs for jr dictator
2011-01-03,'The English language has almost doubled in size in the past century as we are living in a rich linguistic peak'
2011-01-03,China boasts breakthrough in nuclear technology
2011-01-03,Investigation closes in on German weapons company - Police recently searched the offices of German arms company Heckler & Koch in connection with allegedly illegal weapon exports to Mexico used in the drugs war. One manager involved in the deal has already resigned.
2011-01-03,Ugandan high court rules Rolling Stone newspaper cannot out homosexuals as planned.  Three men already outed receive damages.
2011-01-03,Japan Pushes Away Skilled Immigrants Despite Aging Population
2011-01-03,"Anticipating a WikiLeaks disclosure, Bank of America has begun scouring its own records for damage control."
2011-01-03,Greece decides to construct a fence along its border with Turkey to fend off an ongoing flood of economic migrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
2011-01-03,Israel extends a six-month ban on the immigration of Palestinian Arabs married to Israelis.
2011-01-02,"German Interior Minister: ""WikiLeaks is irritating and annoying for Germany, but not a threat. . . . One might also ask, however, if a government is acting intelligently when it organizes its entire diplomatic correspondence on a network that can be accessed by 2.5 million people."""
2011-01-02,"Her father killed the boy and four of his brothers, and when he discovered that his own mother had helped her granddaughter, he killed his mother too. The harsh reality of Afghan women."
2011-01-02,"An anonymous group of Palestinian students has created a document to express their frustration born of Hamas's violent crackdowns on 'western decadence', the destruction wreaked by Israel's attacks and the political games played by Fatah and the UN"
2011-01-02,"The Guardian's New Year resolutions: ""Visa, Mastercard Grow a pair. Stop boycotting WikiLeaks. You're happy to process payments for dubious top-shelf soft porn publishers. So why have you stopped handling donations for Julian Assange's iconoclastic organisation?"""
2011-01-02,"""The diplomatic telegrams that WikiLeaks published shows that the U.S. considers the entire world to be its security zone."""
2011-01-02,"Chinese police's flight to congo to ""rescue"" 11 chinese women trafficked there backfires after all the women unanimously agree its better to live and earn there, then in china ."
2011-01-02,"Small town of Zug, Switzerland is the headquarters of over 29,000 global companies (nearly 1 for every person in town). These ""headquarters"" exist as nothing more than post-office boxes in the town center..."
2011-01-02,"'Israel Navy chasing Gaza-bound Asia 1' - Two warships with Israel's Navy are reportedly chasing a vessel from Asia 1, an Asia-sourced Gaza-bound aid ship in international waters"
2011-01-02,A European anti-Islam movement grows: Paris conference brings together speakers from across Europe to rail against the dangers of Islamization
2011-01-02,"Britain's anti-terror control orders condemned as 'trademark of despots' - 
Human rights groups across the world attack one of the 'most serious violations' of natural justice in developed democracies"
2011-01-02,Wikileaks: Mexico unable to control 'lawless' border with Guatemala 
2011-01-02,"Afghan security guard high on hash and opium manning security post shoots at ducks... unfortunately ""ducks"" turn out to be a group of marines killing one of them."
2011-01-02,"Ten Russian ships, 600 crew trapped in sea ice"
2011-01-02,Warning Of Genocide In Ivory Coast
2011-01-02,Ciudad Juarez residents flee Mexico's 'dying city'
2011-01-02,1000 indian farmers to travel to cuba to understand the disadvantages of using chemical fertilizers...
2011-01-02,Spanish revellers stub out cigarettes as new law takes force
2011-01-02,"IDF chief: ""I am preparing the Israeli army for a large scale war, since it is easier to scale down to a smaller operation than to do the opposite."""
2011-01-02,"PA official: Chile, Uruguay to recognize Palestinian state"
2011-01-02,Palestine: Brazil to Host First Palestinian Embassy in Western Hemisphere - International News - AllMediaNY
2011-01-02,Germans more hostile to Muslims than other Western Europeans
2011-01-02,"Israeli fighter jets strike Gaza Strip - Israeli warplanes have pounded positions in the central and northern Gaza Strip, leaving at least two people injured"
2011-01-02,"Iran says shot down two ""western drone reconnaissance"" aircraft in Gulf"
2011-01-02,"Classified maps show security in Afghanistan is worsening, despite Obama's assurances the war is 'on track'"
2011-01-02,Russia-China oil pipeline opens
2011-01-01,"Wikileaks cable reveals U.S. conspired to retaliate against European nations if they resisted GMOs

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2011-01-01,Latin American countries recognize the Palestinian state
2011-01-01,"""China's first known stealth aircraft just emerged from a secret development program and was undergoing high-speed taxi tests late last week at Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute's airfield. Said to be designated J-20, it is larger than most observers expected--pointing to long range . . . loads."""
2011-01-01,2011 arrives around the world. - The Big Picture
2011-01-01,WikiLeaks hackers say Zim websites shut down - Cyber activists say they have brought down Zimbabwean government websites after the president's wife sued a newspaper for publishing a WikiLeaks cable linking her with illicit diamond trading.
2011-01-01,"Bomb hits Egypt church at New Year's Mass, 7 dead
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2011-01-01,YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy - Silvio Berlusconi mad at Google - obligation to publish corrections within 48 hours - obligation not to broadcast content inappropriate for children - AND legally responsible of all published content
2011-01-01,"AP Interview: Abbas says recognitions hit Israel  ""These recognitions of a Palestinian state [by Brazil, Argentina and Ecuador] will help us to convince the Israelis on the necessity to reach a two-state solution,"" said Abbas."
2011-01-01,Former Marxist guerrilla sworn in as president of Brazil: Dilma Rousseff is Brazil's first female president
2011-01-01,"The re-sentencing of Russia's No.1 dissident, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, wasn't unexpected, but the sheer brazenness of it is a striking and dangerous sign of bad things to come."
2011-01-01,"German exports are tipped to reach a record high in 2011, with the country's main trade association forecasting sales abroad should crash through the 1 trillion barrier for the first time."
2011-01-01,"Deadly blast outside Egypt church  
 
At least 21 people are killed in an attack on a Christian church in the northern Egyptian city of Alexandria."
2011-01-01,Half-naked female inmate hanged from north Mexico overpass
2011-01-01,"The Top 14 Astronomy Pictures of 2010 out of thousands of incredible images of the sky are taken from worldwide observatories on the ground and in space, from spacecraft, and from amateur astronomers."
2011-01-01,"Protests rallies prevent changes to Pakistan's blasphemy law: Stops bill seeking to eliminate the death penalty, criminalize incitement, and penalize false accusations"
2011-01-01,"Expats' 'Daily Show'-style VOA program enthralls Iranians, irks their government"
2011-01-01,"Dilma Rousseff, first woman to be president in Brazil takes power"
2011-01-01,Explosions hit two Egyptian Orthodox Churches
2011-01-01,"Ivory Coast president refuses phone call from Barack Obama: Ivory Coast is ""on the brink of genocide"""
2011-01-01,End human rights imperialism now | guardian.co.uk - Human-rights organisations wrong to demand all governments pursue liberal western values. 
2011-01-01,"Japan population shrinks by record in 2010

Deaths in Japan swell to new high in 2010 as population shrinks for fourth straight year

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2011-01-01,"Estonians began using euro bills and coins on January 1. Many in the small Baltic country have seen currencies come and go over the past decades and have mixed feelings about yet another currency change.
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2011-01-01,"This Year, Change Your Mind - 
Make a new-year resolution to stay mentally fit. Learn a language. Take up beekeeping. Anything to keep your mind active, engaged, flexible and playful. Brain has amazing capacity to grow and adapt, even late in life. -  The Guardian"
2011-01-01,Egypt bomb kills new year churchgoers | World news | guardian.co.uk
2011-01-01,"Eight-year-old dies after being boiled alive
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2010-12-31,Julian Assange Threatens To Name Arab Leaders With CIA Ties
2010-12-31,"When I hear someone say that soldiers defend our freedom, my immediate response is to gag. But I can think of one exception. If theres a soldier anywhere in the world whos fought and suffered for my freedom, its Pfc. Bradley Manning"
2010-12-31,"An area of Australia larger than France and Germany combined is currently underwater in the worst flooding in recorded history. 200,000 people are currently cut off with water levels still rising. More links in comments."
2010-12-31,"'Dancing Boy' Scandal Taints Both Americans and Afghans - To win over Afghan locals, American contractor DynCorp bankrolled 'bacha bazi' parties -- the culturally accepted practice of pedophilia by men against boys."
2010-12-31,"The Bradley Manning ""soldiers defend our freedom"" article was plagiarised from this Independent story. I thought it was great, but you should read about the other under-appreciated heroes of 2010, too."
2010-12-31,"India: High-profile human rights activist gets life for treason, exposing cracks in justice system"
2010-12-31,"Gunmen have kidnapped a 28-year-old woman who was the last police officer in the town of Guadalupe, Mexico. About 10 unidentified gunmen set fire to the home of Erika Gandara and torched both cars parked outside for good measure before abducting her..."
2010-12-31,"Unexpected events largely ignored in Western media: In Tunisia, unthinkable public unrest saw thousands demonstrate against the regime of President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali(!)"
2010-12-31,Palestine to open embassy in Brazil - President Mahmoud Abbas lays cornerstone in Brasilia on land for the Palestinians' first embassy in western hemisphere.
2010-12-31,Survey: 53% of Jewish-Israelis oppose full equal-rights for Israeli-Arabs 
2010-12-31,"A strike is taking place across Pakistan to protest against possible changes to the blasphemy laws, which carry mandatory death sentence for anyone who insults Islam. "
2010-12-31,China makes Skype illegal
2010-12-31,A thousand people took to the streets of Buenos Aires to celebrate a year of marijuana activism and call for the right to grow their own plants
2010-12-31,"Wikileaks: The chief of the Revolutionary Guard angrily slapped Iranian President Ahmadinejad in early 2010, as Tehran was still dealing with the fallout from last year's election!"
2010-12-31,"Lebanon is staring into the abyss - 
Whatever the tribunal into the death of Rafik Hariri decides, it will pour petrol on Lebanon's raging fire"
2010-12-31,"War Nerd: Market Lessons from the Pashtun - ""If all these neocons who worship the Ancient Greeks really want to know what their precious Greeks were like, they should go live in a Pashtun village."""
2010-12-31,Macedonia Faiths Unite Against Gay Marriage - Leaders of five main religious communities demand constitutional changes to rule out same-sex marriage and gay adoption.
2010-12-31,"Estonia adopts the euro tomorrow, amidst fear from much of the public."
2010-12-31,Homeless man who squatted in apartment to avoid arctic weather conditions over Christmas then left it as he found it is jailed...
2010-12-31,"Cuba cuts subsidy for toiletries - President Raul Castro says monthly ration book will also be slashed to overhaul economy and prevent financial crisis.
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2010-12-31,A Litany Of Wikileaks Evidence That US Behaves Like Rogue State And The Spanish Case Against American War Criminals Is Alive And Well.
2010-12-31,"200,000 Austalian citizens have been affected flood waters. In Northeastern Australia military aircraft dropped supplies to towns cut off by floods. 200,000 people have been affected by waters covering an area larger than Texas and Montana combined."
2010-12-31,"South African poultry industry accused of racism for taking out-of-date frozen chicken returned to suppliers , washing them in chlorine , injecting them with flavoring  , repackaging them with new expiry date and selling them to smaller family run businesses"
2010-12-31,"EFF's 2010 Trend Watch Update on Global Internet Censorship: ""Wikileaks has been subject to an astonishing amount of informal government pressure, which convinced a string of Internet hosting companies to drop the site. These are troubling developments."""
2010-12-31,"The Lucrative Business of Polluting - The Kyoto Protocols allows companies to continue polluting at home by assisting in emissions reductions abroad. If its critics are right, however, the system is being massively abused and actually discourages reductions that might otherwise be made."
2010-12-30,Chinese villager with a history of speaking out against government abuse found dead due to a traffic accident. Except Chinese netizens suspect that he may have been held down by four men as he was run over by a truck.
2010-12-30,Juarez is dying.
2010-12-30,Europe to ban hundreds of herbal remedies
2010-12-30,Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav convicted of rape.
2010-12-30,France to bring in non-Windows tablet tax
2010-12-30,"Why Corporate Capital and Finance Are Waging an All-Out Cyberwar Against Wikileaks: Long famed for hiding money for everyone from Nazis and drug lords to spies and dictators, the Swiss government's banking arm has decided that WikiLeaks and Assange are just too hot even for it to handle"
2010-12-30,"China shuts down 60,000 porn websites "
2010-12-30,Germany: Final ruling says police must not use video monitoring against protesters; the practice impairs the right do demonstrate.
2010-12-30,Young Botswana boy chased and stabbed with spear for trying to run away from his own circumcision ceremony
2010-12-30,TIL sometimes the British have to hide their castles.
2010-12-30,"Third Reich poster child - The incredible true story of a mans gradual realisation he was the product of a Nazi breeding scheme, a man bred to the purely beautiful  the child and pride of the bygone utopia of a pure Aryan world."
2010-12-30,"Nigeria's first porn movie a big hit . Local shopkeepers reaction ""Some people will even come here and pretend as if they want to go home to watch the movie so that they can criticize it but deep down in their hearts, they like it."
2010-12-30,"U.S. dominates Middle East arms market
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2010-12-30,I guess some Ex-Presidents can be held accountable for their actions.  Ex-President of Isreal convicted of Rape
2010-12-30,"Boy, 8, fighting for his life after jumping into boiling hot thermal spring
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2010-12-30,Cryptome writes WikiLeaks obituary: Sites purpose now dead in the water
2010-12-30,"WikiLeaks backers say Zimbabwe websites shut down
| Reuters"
2010-12-30,"U.K. envoy said Israel ready to use nuclear bomb in 1980, newly released cables reveal - Documents, released under Britain's 30-year rule, include Marget Thatcher saying that Israel's settlement policy was 'absurd.'"
2010-12-30,"Restaurant apologises after police called over festive Christmas menu
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2010-12-30,"Canadian WikiLeaks mirrors: ""...questions are being raised about the liability of Canadians and Canadian web companies creating and hosting [WikiLeaks mirror] sites - thereby facilitating the spread of confidential diplomatic information - should governments pursue legal action.""

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2010-12-30,"Security guards in Uganda to check women's breasts for ""bra bombs"" ... in other news thousands of men claim to be security guards overnight..."
2010-12-30,"Read thoughtfully the last five paragraphs in James Kurth's excellent article titled ""The Vatican's Foreign Policy"" (published in 1993)."
2010-12-30,"Venezuela condemns ""imperial"" U.S. visa reprisal
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2010-12-30,The struggle for East Jerusalem - Palestinian communities in East Jerusalem are waging a campaign of popular resistance against Israeli land confiscation.
2010-12-30,Dubai's finances: Debt forgetfulness - The bailed-out emirate insists that it is bouncing back.
2010-12-29,USA forced Sweden's hand on piracy and Pirate Bay crackdown
2010-12-29,Paris to ban SUV's from driving city streets
2010-12-29,WikiLeaks cables revealed 'secret concerted U.S. effort to stop a crusading Spanish judge from investigating a torture complaint against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and five other senior Bush lawyers.'
2010-12-29,"German Kindergartens ordered to pay copyright for songs - Up until this year, preschools could teach and produce any kind of song they wanted. But now they have to pay for a license if they want children to sing certain songs."
2010-12-29,"Israel is discriminating against Palestinians living in the occupied territories by depriving them of water, electricity and roads - Human Rights Watch "
2010-12-29,South Korea says it will prepare for unification with North.
2010-12-29,"Since there must always be two sides to every 
story, the BBC invites a Christian who supports the 
execution of gay people to comment on Sir Elton 
John's newborn child."
2010-12-29,"Terror suspects arrested in Sweden and Denmark  --  Five men planed to ""kill as many people as possible"" at Danish daily. "
2010-12-29,"The Israeli armys ""looting"" of books belonging to Palestinian intellectuals, where as many as 30,000 Arabic books and manuscripts, some of them rare and valuable, ended up in Israels National Library."
2010-12-29,Nigerias deal to drop Dick Cheney's charges called illegal
2010-12-29,Wired: Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs
2010-12-29,WikiLeaks: US declined to cooperate in Dubai Probe of Mabhouh Killing
2010-12-29,"Rabbis' wives urge Israeli women: Stay away from Arab men - A new letter signed by 30 women suggests that girls who date non-Jews will be cut off from their 'holy race'.
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2010-12-29,"WikiLeaks clones popping up in Europe and beyond - The perceived successes of WikiLeaks have catalyzed would-be whistle-blowers to launch their own crusades for transparency. The most recent is PirateLeaks.cz, launched by the Czech Pirate Party. "
2010-12-29,"Israeli security services deny Palestinian detainees access to legal advice or family before confessions are signed, according to a report by an Israeli and a Palestinian rights group."
2010-12-29,Lawyers in Nigeria accuse the government of acting illegally by agreeing to settle criminal bribery charges against Cheney out of court
2010-12-29,Pancho Villa's Heir Fighting Drug Cartels in Mexico
2010-12-29,"French War On File Sharing Begins: more than 100,000 internet-users warned that they have been caught accessing pirate material.
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2010-12-29,Denmark 'foils terror attack': Police arrest five suspects linked to a plot against newspaper that printed controversial cartoons of Prophet Muhammad.
2010-12-29,The British armed forces are drawing up contingency plans to evacuate hundreds of thousands of British residents and tourists from Dubai and other Gulf cities in the event of war with Iran.
2010-12-29,Future Shock? Welcome to the New Middle Ages
2010-12-29,India Joins U.S. Effort to  Stifle Iran Trade 
2010-12-29,No police in Mexico town after last officer kidnapped
2010-12-29,"'Let them do it!': Chavez dares U.S. to cut ties 
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2010-12-29,Christian Association of Nigeria and Nigerian Muslims' spiritual leader make a joint statement condemning politicians for inciting religious violence
2010-12-28,"The Paper That Finally Changed The Law on Drugs: Published in The Lancet, the paper demonstrates  clear scientific evidence that opposes UK drugs policy. The Government respond by removing from law the need to have a scientist on the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs!"
2010-12-28,"Portugal's drug policy pays off: US which has been  waging a 40-yr, $1 trillion war on drugs, is looking for answers in tiny Portugal"
2010-12-28,"For six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen possessed but refuses to publish the key evidence in the arrest of Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source. Adrian Lamo - an informant - gave Poulsen the full chat logs between Manning and Lamo. Wired was free to publish them"
2010-12-28,Wikileaks will be the death of big business and big government: The Wikileaks revolution isnt only about airing secrets and transacting information. Its about dismantling large organizations - from corporations to government bureaucracies. It may well lead to their extinction
2010-12-28,Britain's banks attempt to suppress student's expos of chip and pin ATM security
2010-12-28,WikiLeaks: Swedish government 'hid' anti-terror operations with America from Parliament
2010-12-28,Britain risks Israeli anger by extending diplomatic recognition to Palestinians  
2010-12-28,6 Million Fish Dead in Bolivian Ecological Disaster
2010-12-28,George Clooney launches satellite project to monitor Sudan and prevent civil war
2010-12-28,New Venezuelan law makes foreign financing of political organisations illegal
2010-12-28,"Israeli warplanes violate Lebanon's airspace several times, considered a violation of the peace treaty of the Israeli-Lebanese war of 2006. "
2010-12-28,BBC News - Bank bonuses in global disclosure call - banks will soon have to show (in detail) how much their top managers are making.
2010-12-28,"17,368 Indian farmers committed suicide in 2009!"
2010-12-28,"45 years ago, a joint Indo-US espionage mission lost 5 kilograms of plutonium in the Himalayas. Its still missing."
2010-12-28,"South Korean president ramps up aggressive stance towards North  - South Korea's armed forces will ""respond relentlessly"" if they are attacked again by North Korea"
2010-12-28,"No Israel apology on Turkish ship raid: Netanyahu
| Reuters"
2010-12-28,"Iraq Wants the U.S. Out: Prime Minister, in Interview, Says Troops Must Leave Next Year as Planned"
2010-12-28,"German airports are considering assigning passengers to risk categories based on age and ethnicity, and checking them accordingly. Critics say the move would foment racism, breach anti-discrimination laws and fail to boost security. "
2010-12-28,Christmas bomb plot: nine men remanded over plan to 'blow up Big Ben and Westminster Abbey'
2010-12-28,"Law on Internet to prosecute rumormongers 'unconstitutional' - A law that provided the legal grounds to indict Minerva, a well-known Internet commentator, for spreading misleading information on the Internet was ruled unconstitutional, Tuesday."
2010-12-28, Why is the north magnetic pole racing toward Siberia?
2010-12-28,"WSJ obtains Wikileaks financial data: spending up, donations down - Boing Boing"
2010-12-28,Did Pfizer Bribe Its Way Out of Criminal Charges in Nigeria?
2010-12-28,Bolivian Bus drivers announce a strike in response to the 83% increase in the price of gasoline and the 73% increase in the price of diesel fuel 
2010-12-28,Iran hangs man convicted of being Israeli Mossad spy.
2010-12-27,"Al Jazeera has put out their Top 10 stories of 2010.  I think it's more deserving of our traffic and attention than Time's Bogus Person of the Year gag, not to mention all the other pointless polls people try to influence.  "
2010-12-27,"WikiLeaks has not been convicted of a crime. The US Justice Department has not even pressed charges. Nonetheless, the financial industry is trying to shut it down! This decisions came after Assange said it will release data revealing corruption in the financial industry"
2010-12-27,PirateBay Take-down and Changes to Swedish Intellectual Property/Civil Liberties Legislation Exposed to be Heavily Influenced by the American Government According to WikiLeak Cables Released to the Swedish Piracy Party (Google Translate)
2010-12-27,"For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has refused to publish key evidence in the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source.  Wired is owned by Conde Nast, owners of reddit.com"
2010-12-27,"Wikileaks: The DEA has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and uses eavesdropping operations against world politicians"
2010-12-27,"""The government of Syria was active in organizing the 2006 riots that erupted across the Arab world following the publication of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, Oslo daily Aftenposten reported Monday [December 27, 2010], quoting US diplomatic cables released by website WikiLeaks."""
2010-12-27,How did the media miss this? Wikileaks cable exposes secret ninja contract killers in Iran 
2010-12-27,Today Khodorkovsky was convicted once more - because he dared to oppose Russian Prime Minister Putin. Here is the trancript of his closing statement: A moving and powerful plea for democracy. Worth a read.
2010-12-27,"Syrian support for attack on Danish embassy 
[WikiLeaks]"
2010-12-27,"WikiLeaks cyber warriors, a virtual game of dominoes that was set off by WikiLeaks and Julian Assange and is being carried on by global media, free speech activists and cyber warriors who want access to the information that only WikiLeaks is willing to share, plus a still life 2009 retrospective."
2010-12-27,German prosecutors are investigating whether two Russian dissidents living in Berlin have been poisoned
2010-12-27,"More than 1,500 stage protest in central Moscow against xenophobia following the deadly shooting of a Russian football fan"
2010-12-27,Nigerian Muslims Slaughter 38 Christians 
2010-12-27,South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has told his nation it must unite in the face of military aggression from the North.
2010-12-27,Khodorkovsky verdict lays bare Russian injustice
2010-12-27," Fred Hargesheimer, a World War II Army pilot whose rescue by Pacific islanders led to a life of giving back as a builder of schools and a teacher, died here Thursday. He was 94."
2010-12-27,Merkel Government Split ahead of Mandate Vote - Most in Germany would like to see their troops return home from Afghanistan ASAP -- and Foreign Minister Westerwelle has adopted the position as his own. But many in the Merkel government disagree and Westerwelle has powerful detractors.
2010-12-27,Cuban medics in Haiti put the world to shame (UK Independent)
2010-12-27,WikiLeaks: rule of law in Mikhail Khodorkovsky trial merely 'gloss'. US dismisses Russian efforts to show due process in tycoon's trial as 'lipstick on a political pig'
2010-12-27,Afghan police part of the problem--Corruption in the law-enforcement service has become so endemic that a provincial governor has decided to speak out.
2010-12-27,"Britain's big freeze death toll hits 300 every day: Nearly 300 more people a day died when freezing temperatures hit at the start of this month, new figures show."
2010-12-27,Train Carrying Gifts for N. Korea's Heir Derailed.
2010-12-27,"Rabbi threatens civil war at rally: ""There will be a civil war and the creation of a new, autonomous entity...should the government evacuate even the smallest West Bank settlement."""
2010-12-27,"Opposition to the Euro Grows in Germany - The number of grassroots initiatives against the common currency is increasing, and political observers say a Tea Party-style anti-euro movement could do well."
2010-12-27,Thousands rally in Moscow against ethnic violence
2010-12-26,"The real heroes of the Haitian earthquake disaster are from America's arch-enemy Cuba, whose 1200 doctors and nurses have put US efforts to shame"
2010-12-26,"Vatican emerges from WikiLeaks as a key player on the global scene: ""What's amazing is that the Vatican accomplishes all this with a relatively tiny diplomatic corps -- a few hundred bishops and priests who were hand-picked and trained at a little-known diplomatic academy in downtown Rome."""
2010-12-26,"Wikileaks: Disturbing development in the African uranium mining industry -- abysmal safety and security standards in the mines, nuclear research centres, and border customs are enabling international companies to exploit the mines and smuggle dangerous radioactive material across continents"
2010-12-26,"South Korea says it will keep a giant Christmas tree near the border with North Korea lit until January 8, amid threats from North Korea. This is getting a little ridiculous."
2010-12-26,Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev: The razing of Bedouin villages by Israeli police shows how far Israel will go to achieve its aim of Judaising the region
2010-12-26,"Following Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, and Venezuela, Ecuador recognizes Palestine as an independent state within the 1967 borders."
2010-12-26,"Kafkas Castle is collapsing - You cant reason with 
the absurd, as IKEA found when it tried to build a 
model business in Russia. Institutional corruption is 
out of control. Kafkas Castle is finally collapsing. 
This is good news, as Russians, ordinary Russians 
are losing their fear."
2010-12-26,"Armenian police target teenage rock cult: emo could ""damage our gene pool""."
2010-12-26,Assange signs $1.5m book deal.
2010-12-26,"""I fought for Egypt in the 1967 and 1973 wars, and was a PoW in Israel...and yet my country seems to want to eradicate me"""
2010-12-26,"Assange to write autobiography to cover legal costs and keep Wikileaks afloat: ""I don't want to write this book, but I have to"""
2010-12-26,The leader of Germany's opposition Social Democrats has said his party will not back an extension of the country's Afghanistan troop deployment without concrete moves to scale down the Bundeswehr's mission.
2010-12-26,"Assange signs deals for his autobiography worth more than 1 million: ""I have already spent 200,000 for legal costs and I need to defend myself and to keep WikiLeaks afloat."""
2010-12-26,The present political balance of power has created a Knesset that has become an assembly line of legislation that is dragging Israel down to the bottom of the list of civilized countries.
2010-12-26,Assange signs $A1.5m book deal
2010-12-26,North Korean troops boast on state TV of attacks on the South
2010-12-26,"Thousands flee Ivory Coast for Liberia amid poll crisis: About 14,000 people have fled Ivory Coast to neighbouring Liberia following last month's disputed Ivorian presidential election, the UN says. "
2010-12-26,UN agency condemns Arab home demolitions in Jerusalem
2010-12-26,"Is Israel a Theocracy: Palestinians who wish to become citizens of Israel are to be made to pledge allegiance to the country as a ""Jewish state"" under a controversial plan unveiled by Netanyahu"
2010-12-26,"Icy rain has shut down Moscow's largest airport, coated roads with ice & left over 200,000 people & 14 hospitals without electricity"
2010-12-26,India's languishing countryside: A village in a million | The Economist
2010-12-26,Mossad chief to apologise for illegal use of UK passports in Dubai killing
2010-12-26,Wikileaks:  Iran recruiting Ninja Assassins!
2010-12-26,India is new top stop for world leaders seeking deals
2010-12-26,"""As this adolescent century unfolds, four competing civilizations will shape it. This new contest of civilizations could determine the balance of power between nations and regions for generations. """
2010-12-25,"Assange said that his website is due to release thousands of documents related to Israel, particularly dealing with the Mabhouh assassination in Dubai and the Second Lebanon War"
2010-12-25,"Indian pediatrician, dedicated life to helping sick children in tribal India, arrested by ""democratic"" regime for treason.  Reddit, let's bring attention to this injustice!"
2010-12-25,Bradley Manning's Holiday Statement
2010-12-25,"WikiLeaks reveals true face of Israel: Military intelligence chief sought Hamas takeover to declare Strip as hostile entity, turning it into a large prison camp by blocking it from land, air and sea"
2010-12-25,Ireland is using the National Pension Reserve Fund to bailout unstable Irish Banks. Somehow this seems like a bad idea to me. 
2010-12-25,"Tsunami warning issued after quake in Pacific - A warning has been issued for Vanuatu, New Caledonia & Fiji following a 7.6 magnitude earthquake below the Pacific seabed"
2010-12-25,"""On September 6, 2007, Israel destroyed the nuclear reactor built by Syria secretly, apparently with North Korea's help,"" wrote former US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice"
2010-12-25,Indian spacy agency ISRO's GSLV rocket explodes in mid air  :-(
2010-12-25,"Female bomber kills 45 at Pakistan food center
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2010-12-25,"Venezuela's new laws: Penalties for spreading political dissent on the Internet, grant decree powers to Chvez and prevent legislators from breaking with his political movement"
2010-12-25,The murder mystery of Pakistan's former prime minister Benazir Bhutto has taken a new turn as recently arrested police officials have disclosed the names of the ISI officials who could be connected to her assassination. 
2010-12-25,"Ecuador recognizes Palestine state   Ecuador formally recognized Palestine as an independent state on Friday, following the lead of its neighbors Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay earlier this month."
2010-12-25,"10,500 square meter crater opens up in Romanian town"
2010-12-25,Einstein's theory is proved - and it is bad news if you own a penthouse 
2010-12-25,The under-appreciated heroes of 2010 (by Johann Hari of the Independent) 
2010-12-25,"The demolition of press freedom in Hungary. ""Without any significant protest from the EU or the European press, Hungarys Fidesz party has won overwhelming parliamentary support to pass a new media law that will effectively deprive the country of freedom of the press."""
2010-12-25,Immigration in Canada: A smaller welcome mat | The Economist
2010-12-25,"The End Of Men --- US parents prefer daughters over sons. Even Asia following suit. Why? Because women outperform men in advanced, post-industrial economies. More productive, more employable, better educated"
2010-12-25,"Afghanistan is seeing higher levels of violence this year than last year at this time, with 20% more civilians killed and the number of ""security incidents"" up by 66%, the United Nations says in a new report."
2010-12-25,43 killed outside World Food Programme distribution area in Pakistan
2010-12-25,Global flu warning after UK hit
2010-12-25,New strain of MRSA superbug found in Isle of Man
2010-12-25,The Dire State of the US Economy
2010-12-25,Holiday Statement from Bradley Manning
2010-12-25,"Australia says it's ""unfortunate"" that Denmark has cancelled plans to receive & destroy 1,000s of tons of hazardous waste, blaming Denmark's decision on politics rather than safety concerns"
2010-12-24,"Julian Assange is the man of the year for the French newspaper ""Le Monde"""
2010-12-24,Hungary just passed the most draconian anti free speech law in the European Union. How do we put a stop to this wrecking ball politicians are swinging at our freedoms?
2010-12-24,Iraqi man kills his own 19 year old daughter after discovering that she was recruited as a suicide bomber
2010-12-24,Amnesty are urgently asking you to stand up and say something about Habibollah Latifi due to be executed in Iran on the 26th.
2010-12-24,"WikiLeaks: Israel Destroyed Syrian Nuke Facility - In a leaked diplomatic cable obtained by the daily Yedioth Ahronoth, then-US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice wrote the Israelis targeted and destroyed the Syrian nuclear reactor just weeks before it was to be operational."
2010-12-24,"I discovered that in China, in this society, women in villages have no human rights. They [local family planning officials] even said that I am under their management, that I do not have a choice, that whatever they say I have to do. "
2010-12-24,Bus company will not run Israeli war crimes ad (from r/politics)
2010-12-24,"Mexico's Forever War: Ends 2010 with more than 11,000 drug-related killings, up from approximately 6,600 last year"
2010-12-24,"EU begins investigation into Hungary's new anti-
freedom of speech law"
2010-12-24,Cuba begins to publish leaked U.S. documents
2010-12-24,"""A judge yesterday called for the prosecution of three Swiss engineers suspected of smuggling nuclear weapons technology following allegations that the US pressured Switzerland to destroy incriminating evidence to conceal their work for the CIA."""
2010-12-24,JERUSALEM  A wave of protests and discriminatory acts by Jewish Israelis against Arabs and Africans is worrying rights activists and has prompted an unprecedented appeal for calm from Israel's prime minister.
2010-12-24,"Korean Crisis: The view from the defectors -- Human rights are guaranteed and no one dies of hunger here, but in North Korea those basic needs are met only if you work incredibly hard."
2010-12-24,Whistle-blower alerts Govt to Israeli agents destroying files | Trinidad Expresss
2010-12-24,Danish court rules climate summit arrests illegal. Each person who took the case to court until now will get around 1000$
2010-12-24,"After 7 hour Interruption, Furious Passengers Riot in Buenos Aires Surprising Police and Protestors  (VIDEO) - Hispanically Speaking News"
2010-12-24,"The Economist: ""Europe: the inside story"" gives a 3 minute light overview of the current EU political scene - as a non-EU person this was very helpful to me"
2010-12-24,Chevron's dirty tricks in Ecuador's huge environmental lawsuit exposed
2010-12-24,"As speculators and increasing demand drive up Beijing's real estate prices, those who cannot afford the rent are going underground -- literally. Hundreds of cellars and air-raid shelters are being rented out as living spaces in the Chinese capital."
2010-12-24,Haiti urged to halt cholera anti-voodoo lynchings - The head of Haitis voodoo religion appealed to authorities on Thursday to halt bloody lynchings of voodoo priests by people who blame them for causing the Caribbean countrys deadly cholera epidemic.
2010-12-24,Gbagbo denied access to Ivory Coast state funds
2010-12-24,Frances wars over women
2010-12-24,Why the two-state solution is the only way to save Israel
2010-12-24,German Defense minister calls on Berlin to name a street after Ronald Reagan 
2010-12-24,"North Pakistan clashes 'leave 27 dead'

3 soldiers and 24 militants have been killed in a tribal region of north-western Pakistan, officials have said."
2010-12-23,UN's top torture official now investigating WikilLeaker Cpl. Brad Manning's pre-trial prison conditions.  USA may soon be labelled a nation that engages in torture.
2010-12-23,Bomb explodes at Swiss embassy in Rome
2010-12-23,"Wikileaks: All 250,000 cables reported leaked in Norway"
2010-12-23,WikiLeaks to release Israel documents in six months
2010-12-23,"The ""Capitalist"" United States vs ""Socialist"" Germany: Guess who has the second highest trade surplus in the world?"
2010-12-23,Bolivia formally recognizes Palestine as independent state 
2010-12-23,WikiLeaks strategy: Bank of America buys up hundreds of abusive domain names for its senior executives and board members as a defensive strategy against the future publication of damaging insider info from WikiLeaks
2010-12-23,Sad end to story of a mother who sought justice for her murdered daughter in Mexico: she herself has been killed 
2010-12-23,Assange warns of 'digital McCarthyism' - msnbc interview
2010-12-23,"Gay rights advocates score hard-fought victory: U.N. restores reference to sexual orientation, dropped last month from a resolution opposing the unjustified killing of minority groups"
2010-12-23,UN changes its mind. It's not okay to kill gay people anymore.
2010-12-23,"A Nation Descends into Violence - The Mexican government has been using the army to fight the nation's drug cartels for about four years. It isn't working. Some critics say the army is part of the problem, even if the occasional mission removes a kingpin. Felipe Caldern has no one else to trust."
2010-12-23,WikiLeaks: Call of Duty
2010-12-23,How Wikileaks killed Spain's anti-P2P law
2010-12-23,"John Pilger's excellent video: ""The War You Don't See"""
2010-12-23,Sir David Frost Interviews Julian Assange Upon Release from Jail
2010-12-23,"Ex-Bush strategist Karl Rove likely plays lead role in Sweden's effort to prosecute Assange: Swedish PM has a friendship with Rove for 10 years, reportedly asked him to help with his 2010 re-election in Sweden and ""hired Karl when he got thrown out of the White House."""
2010-12-23,"U.S. ambassador to Australia in Op-Ed asserts that WikiLeaks damages free expression by choking private talks. (A commenter calls it ""a scarily Orwellian piece attacking one of Australia's most famous heroes, Julian Assange."") "
2010-12-23,"One trader owns 80-90% of the copper in London Metal Exchange warehouses; or, about half the worldwide exchange-registered copper stockpile."
2010-12-23,"WikiLeaks to publish 'sensitive' Israel cables - ""Sensitive and classified documents"" on Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon and January's assassination in Dubai of Hamas militant Mahmud al-Mabhuh would be released, Assange said."
2010-12-23,Ex-Argentina leader jailed for life - Former military dictator Jorge Videla convicted of murder of at least 31 political prisoners during 1970s' Dirty War.
2010-12-23,New Zealand Discloses Military UFO Files (Link to Original Documents)
2010-12-23,"Putin reinforces Russian nationalism: Prime minister's words, actions in the wake of race riots strengthen ideology."
2010-12-23,Web filtering: Why a Great British Firewall will be useless. Ed Vaizey's plan to block pornography online is doomed to fail because it simply won't work
2010-12-23,"""South Korean Army's K-9 self-propelled guns fire live rounds during military exercises early today [December 23, 2010] on the Seungjin Fire Training Field, 20 miles (30 kilometers) from the Koreas' heavily fortified border."" Photo credit: Park Ji-ho / Yonhap"
2010-12-22,Spanish parliament rejects anti-downloading law that would have allowed the courts to close down p2p websites. Wikileaks revealed the US bullied Spain into trying to pass this law. Rest of the world: it's your turn to stand firm against those who try to impose internet censorship. You can do it too!
2010-12-22,WikiLeaks smoking cable: Israel said it had secret accord with U.S. over expanding settlements even as Obama said in Cairo they must stop
2010-12-22,Is it really happening in Europe? More than 600 in jail including five presidential candidates and nobody cares?!
2010-12-22,Russian newspaper gets unlimited access to the WikiLeaks database
2010-12-22,"Julian Assange Renews Membership In Australian Journalists' Union - ACTU president Ged Kearney will present a membership card to Mr Assange's Australian lawyer, Rob Stary, at a ceremony in Melbourne on Thursday morning."
2010-12-22,"The Secret Behind the Travel Mayhem - 
Why is five inches of snow shutting down Londons Heathrow airport? Because its more concerned with being a mall than plowing runways."
2010-12-22,We now know the Tory government want to sell ALL state-owned English forest
2010-12-22,"Julian Assange about secrets, leaks and why he will not go back to Sweden - Al Jazeera interview"
2010-12-22,"Argentina has sentenced 15 former military and police officers to life in prison for taking part in human rights violations during Argentina's ""dirty war"""
2010-12-22,Nuclear Arms reduction treaty ratified by US senate
2010-12-22,"Fossil hunters uncover complete 252m yr old underwater world, including plants, fish and large reptiles, in Luoping, China"
2010-12-22,Your tax dollars at work: Israeli to deploy new tanks to Gaza
2010-12-22,Unknown Hemorrhagic fever outbreak that started in Abim Uganda Last month has yet to be identified.
2010-12-22,Spain Rejects Proposed Legislation to Shutdown P2P Sites
2010-12-22,Julian Assange will be Le Monde's man of the year  according to AFP via RIA Novosti (use Google Translate)
2010-12-22,Forests size of Russia 'could be restored' 
2010-12-22,Toronto G20 Police Officer Finally Charged With Assault
2010-12-22,Apple removes iPhone Wikileaks app from iTunes
2010-12-22,S Korea to hold 'mega drill' 
2010-12-22,UN office for torture issues in Geneva looking into Bradley Manning's treatment
2010-12-22,Argentina former leader Jorge Videla jailed for life
2010-12-22,WikiLeaks cables: Syria believed Israel was behind sniper killing. Assassination of Syrian president's top security aide caused anxiety among the political elite
2010-12-22,"Ahead Of Possible Wikileaks Assault, Bank Of America Buys Insulting Domains  Live News Wire"
2010-12-22,"WikiLeaks cables: Vatican vetoed Holocaust 
memorial over Pius XII row"
2010-12-22,Israel had secret accord with U.S. over expanding settlements even as Obama said they must stop
2010-12-21,Reporters without borders to host mirror site of Wikileaks
2010-12-21,"Assange: ""Our technology means we don't know who is submitting us materials. But the name Bradley Manning was first heard by us when we read an article about his arrest in Wired magazine."" "
2010-12-21,"When I was in Iraq, something happened to me that I can only explain by saying that I
lost my mind. At some point while I was in Iraq, I stopped seeing Iraqi's as good and
bad, as men, women, and children. I started seeing them all as one, and evil, and less
than human."
2010-12-21,"Assange lost tooth, was housed with child killers in prison. WikiLeaks founder says he has enough material to make major US bank head resign"
2010-12-21,Popes child porn 'normal' claim sparks outrage among victims
2010-12-21,"Apple confirms its culture of censorship and joins Bank of America, Paypal, Mastercard, Visa, Amazon and others to be Boycotted! Freedom of Information prevails!"
2010-12-21, China bans English words in media. China's state press and publishing body said such words were sullying the purity of the Chinese language.
2010-12-21,Wikileaks: US threatened retaliation to bully EU into accepting biotech crops
2010-12-21,"UN drops 'sexual orientation' from protected minorites list: ""Even if those [Arab and African] countries do not support gay rights, you would think they would support our right not to be killed."""
2010-12-21,Harry Potter actress was 'beaten and branded a prostitute by her family after dating man who was not a Muslim'  
2010-12-21,"WikiLeaks cables: Bangladeshi 'death squad' trained by UK government - Rapid Action Batallion, accused of hundreds of extra-judicial killings, received training from UK officers, cables reveal.
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2010-12-21,Israel's not so subtle ethnic cleansing:  Israel encourages building in settlements while refusing building permits in Palestinian areas.  This and other tricks have led to 31% of Palestinians being pushed out of some areas according to Human Rights Watch
2010-12-21,Assange: People affiliated with Wikileaks have already been assassinated
2010-12-21,RAcist rally in Israel against rending properties to Arabs spills over into rally about ethnic purity in everything... again
2010-12-21,"ABBAS Asked ISRAEL to attack Hamas, WikiLeaks cables show."
2010-12-21,White phosphorus fired against human targets in broad daylight - Afghanistan
2010-12-21,"WikiLeak cables to Spanish newspaper El Pais confirm that the US bullies Spain into proposed controversial website blocking law, and unleashing the fury of Spanish Internet users"
2010-12-21,"Former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt slams 'foolish' US pursuit of Wikileaks - That seems like revenge and it is, Schmidt told weekly Die Zeits magazine in an interview to be published Thursday."
2010-12-21,Israel orders ambassadors abroad to immediately begin public relations campaigns to combat increasing support and recognition of the Palestinian state by S. American and EU states
2010-12-21,"Assange on time in prison: lost tooth, was housed with child killers; police so concerned he would be assassinated they cut short a press conference after four minutes."
2010-12-21,Vince Cable 'declares war' on Murdoch takeover in secret tapes
2010-12-21,Freedom of press just died in Hungary today
2010-12-21,Magnitude 6.3 earthquake hits southern Iran
2010-12-21,UK Business Secretary Vince Cable stripped of responsibilities related to media and telecoms by PM David Cameron for daring to investigate Rupert Murdoch's News Corp
2010-12-21,"
Israeli security officials suggest promoting Arab integration as a means of stopping radicalization"
2010-12-20,"Visa, Mastercard and PayPal all enable donations to be made to US-registered groups funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank in defiance of international law."
2010-12-20,All Internet porn To be blocked in the UK - Customers would have to request to get porn turned on
2010-12-20,"Assange: ""We have clearly stated motives, but they are not antiwar motives. We are not pacifists. We are transparency activists who understand that transparent government tends to produce just government. And that is our sort of modus operandi... to get out suppressed information into the public"""
2010-12-20,"""Sweden gave us a home, treated us well, and offered us things that others, Arabs, non-Arabs, Muslims and non-Muslims, refrained from doing."""
2010-12-20,WikiLeaks: India 'systematically torturing civilians in Kashmir'
2010-12-20,"Repression of Italian student protests: The specter of a police-state. ""Protests against education ""reform"" and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government last Tuesday in Rome were met with brutal force by Italian police and paramilitary units."""
2010-12-20,"WikiLeaks cables: Diplomatic dispatches reveal world of smugglers, ex-military fixers and radioactive materials found in unlikely locations."
2010-12-20,John Pilger - The War You Don't See
2010-12-20,"Meanwhile in Belarus: Lukashenko wins, thousands protest, Nieklajeu beaten up (literally)."
2010-12-20,Wikileaks:  Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan offered Mr Robert Mugabe a lucrative retirement package in an overseas haven if he stood down as Zimbabwe's president
2010-12-20,South Korea island residents told to move to bunkers
2010-12-20,(URGENT) S. Korea begins live-fire artillery drills from island near N. Korea
2010-12-20,"We all owe Israel's racist rabbis a vote of thanks - Rabbis who signed a ruling against leasing to Arabs have put an end to the notion of rabbinic authority and have freed us to be Jews on our own terms.
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2010-12-20,"HRW Report: Palestinians face systematic discrimination because of their race, ethnicity, and national origin, depriving them of electricity, water, schools, and access to roads, while Jewish settlers enjoy all of these benefits"
2010-12-20,British tuition hike: Jody McIntyre: 'What the government are trying to do is to widen the gap between the rich and the poor'
2010-12-20,Pope Says Sexual Abuse Scandal Has Hit Unimaginable Dimension
2010-12-20,10th human foot washes up on BC coast.
2010-12-20,"Former UK drug minister and Defense Minister Bob Ainsworth calls for all illegal drugs, including cocaine and heroin, to be legalized!!"
2010-12-20,India: The government cracks down on sex-selective abortions and proposes a cash-incentive plan to encourage families to have girls
2010-12-20,"Officially, Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko won re-election with almost 80 percent of the vote on Sunday. The opposition, though, is accusing his government of massive fraud. Protesters in Minsk were savagely beaten and at least four opposition candidates have been arrested."
2010-12-20,Swedish government 'hid' anti-terror operations with America from Parliamentary Scrutiny
2010-12-20,"Cablegate: MPAA, RIAA, BSA weighed in on Frances Internet disconnection law | Raw Story"
2010-12-20,Wikileaks: Sudans President Bashir stole billions | NewsBreakingOnline.com
2010-12-20,Europe Turns against Germany
2010-12-20,"In a clear violation of UN Sanctions, Chevron discussed oil project with Iran LAST YEAR!"
2010-12-19,Assange: Calls ABC Reporter a 'Tabloid Schmuck' & Exits Interview
2010-12-19,BBC: Halliburton Recently Paid a Quarter BILLION Dollars to have Nigeria Drop Its Charges Against Dick Cheney in Pipeline Bribery Case
2010-12-19,"Naomi Wolf on Assange charges: ""Anyone who works in supporting women who have been raped knows... that Britain and Sweden, surely under pressure from the US, are cynically using the serious issue of rape as a fig leaf to cover the shameful issue of global collusion in silencing dissent."""
2010-12-19,Bradley Manning's holding conditions in detail - from his lawyer David E. Coombs
2010-12-19,Israeli Settlers Stoning Palestinians
2010-12-19,"Wikileaks response to BofA's payment ban: ""Does your business do business with Bank of America? Our advise is to place your funds somewhere safer."""
2010-12-19,""" Aljazeera is not sympathetic to al-Qaeda or Muslim radicalism. Unlike US network news, they dont consider themselves our nannies, that they should filter the news for us and protect us from hearing the words of enemies."""
2010-12-19,Iranian riot police out in force as food and fuel subsidies end
2010-12-19,"In South Korea, concern over the North's possible collapse"
2010-12-19,Lawyers cry foul over leak of Julian Assange sex-case papers |  The Australian
2010-12-19,"In other news, Britain panics like a little girl at a few inches of snow."
2010-12-19,Katie Couric interviews Julian Assange regarding whether or not he knew or had contact with Bradley Manning - a great interview!
2010-12-19,"The War You Don't See - John Pilger's documentary 
about the media's failures in reporting about the 
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. [Video]"
2010-12-19,Russia 'seriously concerned' over Korea tensions as North Korea threatens retaliation for South Korean military exercises; Russia calls UNSC meeting
2010-12-19,Gender pay gap 'down to women's lifestyle choices'
2010-12-19,Venezuela congress grants Chavez decree powers  Chvez is now legally the dictator of Venezuela. 
2010-12-19,"Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum: ""WikiLeaks is the expression of a new reality . . . The balance between the private sphere and transparency has been radically altered. Governments, companies and decision-makers must accept to find themselves permanently in a glass room"""
2010-12-19,"""A top North Korean general offered Sunday [December 19, 2010] to help return the remains of several hundred U.S. troops killed during the Korean War, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said."""
2010-12-19,U.N. Delegates Debate Control Of Internet: Little-noticed debate at UN is one that focuses on the future of the Internet. On one side are countries favoring more governmental controls. On the other are the advocates of Internet freedom
2010-12-19,WikiLeaks lawyers: Sweden smeared Assange with selective police files release.
2010-12-19,"Protesters try to storm government HQ in Belarus: Thousands of opposition protesters in Belarus have tried to storm the government headquarters, following the country's presidential election."
2010-12-19,"US Vice President Joe Biden puts Justice Department on exploring legal pursuit of ""high tech terrorist"" Julian Assange "
2010-12-19,"
An eccentric former British army captain, owner of an 18th century manor as well as a popular London war correspondents club, has taken the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange,  under his wing "
2010-12-19,"John Pilger: Swedes are smearing Assange and encouraging the US. Chief prosecutor, after making her own inquiries, cancelled the arrest warrant. It was only the intervention of a leading political figure, Claes Borgstrom, that reactivated the case!"
2010-12-19,Caterpillar bulldozers militarize their machines specifically to demolish Palestinian homes for the Israeli army
2010-12-18,Bank of America says it won't process payments intended for WikiLeaks
2010-12-18,"""What has WikiLeaks done, after all? . . . it has globalised the conflict between citizen and state. The argument is no longer between a few Britons and those who operate the Official Secrets Act. It is no longer about a few Americans . . . running up against the Department of Homeland Security..."""
2010-12-18,"This is why they protest in London: government plans to cut  81bn in services over four years. Using loopholes, rich individuals and corporations will avoid paying 100bn in taxes over 4 years. "
2010-12-18,Julian Assange: My life is under threat
2010-12-18,10 days in Sweden: the full allegations against Julian Assange
2010-12-18,Bolivia recognizes independent Palestinian state
2010-12-18,"""[Against Wikileaks]Schroeter... gave as an example the need for secret negotiations to reach agreement on the Treaty of Versailles. But since the treaty bears substantial responsibility for the rise of Hitler and WW2, it has a fair claim to being the most disastrous peace treaty in human history."""
2010-12-18,"UK: Burglars accidentally shot (in the dark) by farmer hunting foxes. Report incident to hospital. Police marksmen and helicopter scrambled to arrest farmer... who has a firearms license. Burglars released without charge, charges dropped against farmer 3 months later"
2010-12-18,Australia rejects Israeli ordered Media censorship on Al-Manar
2010-12-18,"""First-time lawmakers of South Korea's ruling Grand National Party will have propaganda leaflets dropped on North Korea on major holidays in the North . . . The leaflets are aimed to let North Koreans know the truth about their country."""
2010-12-18,How Ironic. 
2010-12-18,"Police Brutality, Western Australia - man tasered 41 times in a week"
2010-12-18,BBC News - Bank of America stops handling Wikileaks payments
2010-12-18,"The crew of a Chinese trawler and a South Korean patrol ship have clashed, leaving one fisherman dead and two missing, South Korean officials say."
2010-12-18,Nigeria agrees to drop corruption charges against Dick Cheney and Halliburton in exchange for a $250 million settlement. 
2010-12-18,South Korea stages mass evacuation drill amid tension
2010-12-18,'9/11 was an inside job': Full speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at UN - Iran's president sparked a mass walk-out by US delegates yesterday after telling a UN summit that most people believe the American government was behind the 9/11 attacks.
2010-12-18,"Incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has demanded that all foreign peacekeepers leave the country immediately, escalating a dispute over last month's presidential election."
2010-12-18,"WikiLeaks India: Torture in Kashmir, Hindu radicalism worse than Islamic terror"
2010-12-18,"Law And The Russian System - 
Corruption in Russia. Ubiquitous, acknowledged. ""Soft legal constraints"". Laws are there to be brokenso long as you follow the unwritten rules for breaking the written rules. People know it's a bad system, but fear change"
2010-12-18,"WikiLeaks' revelations about RBS call into question 
the FSA's findings | Business | guardian.co.uk"
2010-12-18,WikiLeaks: UN offered Robert Mugabe a lucrative retirement overseas
2010-12-18,English Defense League (EDL) is poised to fuel the interfaith confrontation in UK
2010-12-18,"South Korea said Saturday it will go ahead with artillery drills on a border island shelled by North Korea last month despite Pyongyang's threat to retaliate again, as Russia and China expressed concerns over tension on the volatile peninsula.

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2010-12-18,Palestinians call for state recognition without peace deal | RT
2010-12-17,"Richard Stallman: The actions against MasterCard and Amazon are not 'hacking'. People are just finding a way to protest in a digital space, the internet equivalent of a mass demonstration | guardian.co.uk"
2010-12-17,"The French Government Can Now Censor the Internet. This black list will be defined by the government only, without requiring the intervention of the legal system."
2010-12-17,"Julian Assange interview with BBC hours after his bailout, 13 min."
2010-12-17,"""Now WikiLeaks has laid bare the lies and collusion, we pledge to not just witness but actively participate in its fight for democracy"""
2010-12-17,Google's Satellite Images Reveal Chinese 'Ghost Cities'
2010-12-17,WikiLeaks breaks no Australian laws: Australian Federal Police
2010-12-17,The Lebanese army has dismantled two Israeli spy systems planted in the mountains above Beirut.
2010-12-17,"Mexicos Drug War Leaves 30,196 Dead in Four Years"
2010-12-17,WikiLeaks: Cables reveal U.S.-Cuban cooperation over drug smuggling
2010-12-17,WikiLeaks cables: Sudanese president 'stashed $9bn in UK banks' - Speculation that Omar al-Bashir siphoned $9bn in oil money and deposited it in foreign accounts could fuel calls for his arrest
2010-12-17,CIA chief in Pakistan leaves after drone trial blows his cover.
2010-12-17,"""North Korea warned the South to cancel an artillery drill that it said will provoke stronger retaliation than shelling last month that killed four people. Retaliation to the drill will be 'deadlier' than on Nov. 23 [2010], state-run Korean Central News Agency said..."""
2010-12-17,"Mexico's drug war: Number of dead passes 30,000. This is getting out of hand!"
2010-12-17,"Ciudad Juarez, Mexico - Gunmen have killed a mother protesting in front of the governor's office in northern Mexico to demand justice for her slain daughter.

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2010-12-17,"""The last day of the G20, protesters ended up at Queen and Spadina. Soon after stopping the crowd police boxed them in and began grabbing them out 1 by 1 to arrest people. They were standing there peacefully, many people weren't even protesting they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time..."""
2010-12-17,A new Cold War is starting in Asia as Japan is boosting its military to counter China. 
2010-12-17,Austrian man convicted for yodelling while Muslim neighbours prayed  - Telegraph
2010-12-17,"WikiLeaks army comes out to defend freedom of speech - ''Our freedoms are things we have won, our rights are things we hold because we've exercised them in the past,'' he said. ''Our anti-terrorism laws are such that almost anything anyone can do can fall under their umbrella.''"
2010-12-17,Women with seditious eyes must cover up
2010-12-17,Scores die as drones renew attack on Pakistan's Khyber
2010-12-17,CIA top spy flees Pakistan over lawsuit - The US central intelligence agency (CIA) has been forced to call back its top spy in Pakistan after he was accused of killing civilians in unauthorized drone attacks.
2010-12-17,Eamonn McCann: Why the US is up in arms over WikiLeaks
2010-12-17,South African politicians beaten by Israeli soldiers
2010-12-17,Japan is changing its defence policy in response to the shifting balance of power in Asia.
2010-12-17,"More warnings from North Korea for retaliation of greater ""intensity and scope"" next week. [WashingtonPost]"
2010-12-16,"""We now know that Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are instruments of US foreign policy"" - Julian Assange"
2010-12-16,"UK, not Sweden, behind efforts to keep Assange in jail - the British are lying"
2010-12-16,"WikiLeaks Big Oil spills: BP covers up blowout, blackmails Azerbaijan"
2010-12-16,"An Italian court increased sentences for 23 CIA agents convicted in absentia of abducting an Egyptian imam in one of the biggest cases against the US ""extraordinary rendition"" program"
2010-12-16,"Former-Labour minister calls for all drugs to be legally available, claiming 'the war on drugs does not work'"
2010-12-16,"Greece paralyzed by general strike, protests - Some 20,000 protesters chanting ""no sacrifice for the rich"" marched through Athens Wednesday as a general strike against austerity measures grounded flights, closed factories, and disrupted hospital and transport services."
2010-12-16,UK may ban student protests
2010-12-16,Canadian PM: I Will Defend Israel 'whatever the cost'
2010-12-16,"Police attack protesters during Greek general strike. ""Police brutally attacked demonstrators, who fought back, as an estimated 100,000 people took to the streets in a general strike that brought Greece's major cities to a standstill."""
2010-12-16,UK police chief wants to BAN PROTESTS
2010-12-16,"Things are getting bad and about to get worse in Cote d'Ivoire. Following the disputed elections, troops fired on protesters killing at least 9."
2010-12-16,"Quebec Judge's fuck-up corrected by Texas judge, but too late.  One kid dead, another wounded when homicidal nutcase loses custody."
2010-12-16,European Court of Human Rights ruling will force Ireland to reconsider its abortion laws.
2010-12-16,Italian court ups sentences for 23 CIA agents
2010-12-16,"BREAKING NEWS: Critically Endangered Black Rhino Slaughtered in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania"
2010-12-16,	French minister praises Assange's support of media freedom
2010-12-16,Wikileaks's Julian Assange speaks of his relief at being freed.
2010-12-16,Iraq's war on Christians - Oil and geopolitics prevent the United States and Western European countries from speaking out against what amounts to genocide against Christians in the Middle East.
2010-12-16,"TV psychic had to be stopped, says child sex victim"
2010-12-16,High Court justice Duncan Ouseley rejected prosecutors' argument that Assange should stay in prison and granted him conditional bail.
2010-12-16,Ireland is still in denial over abortion: Every year thousands of Irish women travel abroad for abortions.
2010-12-16,"Police Make Preventative Arrests in Moscow - Police detained anyone whom they considered a potential threat, dragging them to waiting police buses. The situation in Moscow is under the control of law enforcement agencies,"" police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said."
2010-12-16,"Kosovo prime minister implicated in election fraud, 
murder, organ harvesting, and drug trafficking"
2010-12-16,Sweden's far-right seizes on terrorist attack: Anti-immigrant parties use Stockholm bombing for political gain
2010-12-16,Vatican could give master classes when it comes to Machiavellian power play
2010-12-15,The inhumane detention conditions of Bradley Manning - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
2010-12-15,Iceland Considers Revoking Visa/MasterCard Licenses For Wikileaks Ban
2010-12-15,"British police tactic ""kettling"" challenged on 
multiple breaches of the European Convention on 
Human Rights including: Article 5 - the right not 
to be unlawfully detained; Article 10 - the right to 
freedom of expression; and Article 11 - the right 
to freedom of assembly"
2010-12-15,"My name is Jody McIntyre and I didnt begin fighting for equality on the 9th December, the night that I was thrown from my wheelchair and dragged across the road by a riot police officer."
2010-12-15,WikiLeaks: Swedish government 'hid' anti-terror operations with America from Parliament
2010-12-15,Palestinian firefighters who helped put out Israeli forest fire denied permits to attend ceremony in their honor
2010-12-15,Bloggers Under Fire Worldwide - an emerging pattern of internet censorship and repression against those who speak out online
2010-12-15,Wikileaks cable from Ghana reveals that Ghanaian officials avoid arresting drug barons and that smugglers may actually be moving cocaine through President Mills' private lounge at Kotoka airport
2010-12-15,"The city of Juarez, Mexico has just had its 3000th murder this year.  In 2007, the number of homicides was 300."
2010-12-15,UK may ban further student marches should the levels of violence which have marred the recent protests continue
2010-12-15,Julian Assange denied freedom - bail ruling is being appealed. Another 48 hours in custody
2010-12-15,"European Commission demands Britain justifies the widespread fingerprinting of children in schools because of ""significant concerns"" that the policy breaks EU privacy laws"
2010-12-15,Prime Minister of Kosovo may have been leader in a black market organ-smuggling ring
2010-12-15,"Halliburton Offers Nigeria $250 Million in Exchange for Dropping Charges Against Cheney, Company"
2010-12-15,S. Korea stages largest-scale civil defense drill amid tension with N. Korea
2010-12-15,Worldwide sexual abuse network unveiled after Norwegian police followed up on a lead about a ex-police officer under investigation for attempted sexual abuse of a minor. 
2010-12-15,"Russia: Frost At The Core - 
""The tensions between the declining performance of the Russian economy, the expectations of the population and the corruption of the bureaucracy will erode the system, whoever is president"""
2010-12-15,RBS 'blocks FSA publication of bank investigation'
2010-12-15,"Ten Biggest Africa Stories of 2010 - Unless we live there, or have some professional interest, most of us probably couldn't name even one Africa story from 2010  - The New Yorker"
2010-12-15,Red Cross says Afghan conditions worst in 30 years
2010-12-15,Leaked Cable: Hike food prices to boost GM crop approval in Europe
2010-12-15,Prime Minister of Kosovo is head of organ harvesting and drug ring in Eastern Europe: report
2010-12-15,27 asylum seekers die as boat sinks off Australia
2010-12-15,"Cuba has launched its own online encyclopedia, similar to Wikipedia, with the goal of presenting
its version of the world and history."
2010-12-15,American ambassador says Norwegians are self-righteous moralists and calls the country a loose cannon
2010-12-14,"Relatives of Spanish cameraman killed in Baghdad use WikiLeaks to press for justice: After years of delays, the family of a Spanish journalist killed in a 2003 US attack on a Baghdad hotel turns to WikiLeaks documents that suggest the US and Spain colluded to prevent legal action!"
2010-12-14,BBC reporter accuses protester with cerebral palsy of rolling threateningly towards police before he was dragged from his wheelchair.
2010-12-14,Halliburton bribes its way out of bribery charges.
2010-12-14,Disabled man dragged from his wheelchair by police during student protest in England
2010-12-14,Disabled protestor pulled from his wheelchair and dragged along street by police at student protests. And the media is confused why some protestors ceased to be peaceful? [Video + Story]
2010-12-14,Daily Kos: Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange (Michael Moore)
2010-12-14,"WikiLeaks: Julian Assange granted bail but remains locked up - ""They clearly will not spare any expense to keep Mr Assange in jail. This is really turning into a show trial."""
2010-12-14,Kosovon human organ harvesting ring uncovered 
2010-12-14,"World's Most Intelligent Man - 
William Sidis (18981944). Could spell in English at age 1. Typed in French and German at 4. Entered Harvard at 11. Nervous breakdown at 12. Professor at 20. Predicted black holes. "
2010-12-14,Wikileaks founder Julian Assange granted bail
2010-12-14,Violence has erupted in Rome after PM Silvio Berlusconi survived parliamentary confidence votes.
2010-12-14,"EU shelves recognition of Palestine - Foreign ministers from European Union say they will recognise a Palestinian state ""when appropriate"""
2010-12-14,Silvio Berlusconi survives confidence vote in Italy's senate 
2010-12-14,Ceremony to honour firefighters cancelled after Israel denies entry permits to Palestinians who helped battle blaze.
2010-12-14,Wells Fargo Laundered 378.4 Billion Mexican Narco-Insurgent Dollars
2010-12-14,"Hugo Chavez, the Venezualan president, has announced plans to pass laws by decree for the next six to 18 months."
2010-12-14,"Tony Blairs ex-roommate shut down inquest
into death of Iraq whistleblower: report"
2010-12-14,Wikileaks protest march to go ahead in Sydney today despite police refusing permission
2010-12-14,"Richard Holbrooke was right: ""You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan"""
2010-12-14,US Congressional Research Report into charging Wikileaks under the Espionage Act [pdf]
2010-12-14,"""Charges make me more determined"" - Assange "
2010-12-14,"As Berlusconi survives a confidence vote, rioters demand a change in government"
2010-12-14,"Billy Bragg - Student Protesters: This was supposed to be a generation of slacktivists but instead they have taken the initiative, demanding that tax avoiders take their share of the pain, too."
2010-12-14,"'Prepare for all-out cyber war' - UK Government sites 
braced for attack by pro-WikiLeaks 'hacktivists'"
2010-12-14,Right-wing hooligans terrorize Russia: Soccer fans combine with extremists to beat and kill minorities
2010-12-13,"WikiLeaks copycats are popping up all over the world: IndoLeaks, BrusselsLeaks And BalkanLeaks"
2010-12-13,NKorea threatens SKorea with nuclear war
2010-12-13,"What would you say if China threatened to issue an international warrant for the head of the BBC because they published news of the Nobel Peace Prize? Now, how about the US and WikiLeaks?"
2010-12-13,"Assange: The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the more leaks induce fear & paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie. Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, mass leaking leaves them vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance"
2010-12-13,Secret Virginia Grand jury meets to decide fate of WikiLeaks founder - Extradition and Espionage 
2010-12-13,Assange: Prime Minister Julia Gillard may get me killed
2010-12-13,"China and the Nobel ceremony -- China setup a new ""Confucius peace prize"" (to rival the Nobel) and their first recipient for it has ""never heard of such an award and had no plans to accept it""."
2010-12-13,Kuwait shuts down local al-Jazeera office for covering opposition protest meeting.
2010-12-13,Iran condemns violence against students in Britain. (I found it hard not to editorialize this title)
2010-12-13,Pakistani journalist sues CIA for drone strike that killed relatives
2010-12-13,"$52bn of American aid and still Afghans are dying of 
starvation "
2010-12-13,Stockholm bomber was thrown out of Luton mosque for trying to recruit extremists
2010-12-13,Afghan president says he'd 'choose the Taliban' over U.S.
2010-12-13,North Korea warned today that US-South Korean co-operation could bring nuclear war to the region. 
2010-12-13,"China takes censorship to a new level by erasing from an internet blog an image of the empty chair that highlighted the absence of Liu Xiaobo, the Nobel laureate, from the peace prize ceremony in Oslo "
2010-12-13,Massive gang shooting spree on Vancouver's west side injures 10 people
2010-12-13,Ukraine to open Chernobyl area to tourists in 2011
2010-12-13,Japan to Shift Its Military Toward Threats From China
2010-12-13,"In order to foster good relations with the US, North Korea urged them to send Eric Clapton to Pyongyang because of Kim Jong-Il's second son's devotion to the rock star"
2010-12-13,Liu Xiaobo Poetry Remembering Tiananmen Square Massacre to be Published in English
2010-12-13,"Nobel Laureate's house in Beijing is torn down, wife missing."
2010-12-13,"China's Oil Juggernaut: From Texas to Sudan, China is snatching up oil fields. But will it play fair on the global market?"
2010-12-13,"Swedish military officer warned of attacks in advance | If you can, avoid Drottninggatan today. A lot can happen therejust so you know, the message said."
2010-12-13,Report: Federal Grand Jury Considering Charges Against WikiLeaks Assange
2010-12-13,"""Brazil had capitalism without capital - it took a socialist metalworker to make capitalism work here,"" says President Lula to 60 Minutes. Brazil is off and running with jobs, industry, and resources. "
2010-12-12,"In 2005, Bush and Blair discussed bombing Al-Jazeera's news headquarters."
2010-12-12,"One person has been killed and at least one other hurt as two explosions rocked the centre of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, reports say."
2010-12-12,Police officers 'tried to stop hospital staff treating injured protester'
2010-12-12,Worldwide protests call for release of Julian Assange
2010-12-12,"Some areas of the world have a 20% child mortality rate due to lack of basic medicines, but have access to Coca-Cola.  This org wants to use their distribution channels to solve this problem."
2010-12-12,"Being kettled was a shocking experience: the 
media should scrutinise police tactics in 
contravening our basic rights "
2010-12-12,"A village in China where through community 
ownership and cooperative investment, everybody 
has at least a car, a house, and $250,000usd in the 
bank."
2010-12-12,Wikileak cables reveal the background of pro-dictator U.S. policy
2010-12-12,Mexican Police Kill Head of La Familia cartel
2010-12-12,"WikiLeaks backlash: The first global cyber war has begun, claim hackers"
2010-12-12,"Swedish police say Stockholm attacks were terrorism  -- One man dead and two injured after attack in central Stockholm, as witnesses describe suicide bomber blowing himself up"
2010-12-12,Iranian students burn Koran
2010-12-12,The 'Real Jew' Debate - NYTimes.com : A level of vitriol previous reserved for the Samaritans and Arabs is now directed at Jews that dare to criticize the direction of Israel
2010-12-12,Canada faces a flood of heroin and addicts - Treatment centres in cities around Canada are struggling to cope with a surge of addicts  many younger than ever before
2010-12-12,UN stifled report on Ivory Coast death squads that now run rampant
2010-12-12,"Redefining Corruption: Greece is corrupt, but Western European and US-style cronyism is far more efficient at separating the yokels from their money."
2010-12-12,Chinas Army of Graduates Struggles for Jobs
2010-12-12,"Someone's serious concerns about legal action due to 
flotilla massacre"
2010-12-12,Chinas army of graduates is struggling
2010-12-12,"Man sentenced to be blinded with acid by Iranian court |  IRAN'S supreme court has upheld a sentence of blinding with acid for a man who blinded his lover's husband, under the Islamic ""eye-for-an-eye"" justice code, a government daily said."
2010-12-12,"Lockerbie: The scandal of the decade? --- 
The WikiLeaks cables offer more evidence the British government was complicit in the release of the Pan Am bomber"
2010-12-12,Pro-free-speech rallies held in several international cities to protest the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
2010-12-12,"British Police Look to Water Cannons to ""Deal With Protesters""after rioters attacked officers with metal poles, smashed windows and even vandalised a car carrying the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall during protests against rises in university fees"
2010-12-12,"Being born a poster child for the Third Reich - How is it discovering youre the product of a Nazi breeding scheme, Heinrich Himmlers godson and the bastard child of a war criminal?"
2010-12-12,Japan to Shift Its Military Toward Threats From China
2010-12-11,London tuition fee protest [pics]
2010-12-11,"Something is Rotten: The Strange Case of Interpol's Red Alert on Assange, and the US Attack on WikiLeaks"
2010-12-11,WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange 'to be charged with spying by the US'
2010-12-11,WikiRebels - The Documentary
2010-12-11,Cables Show Ireland ceded to Vatican pressure to grant immunity to Church Officals is sex abuse scandal
2010-12-11,"Charlie Stross: Invaders from Mars - Why do we feel politically powerless? Because power in society has been ceded to corporate entities, whose priorities are not those of human beings. ""We are living in the aftermath of an alien invasion"""
2010-12-11,WikiLeaks cables: Pope wanted Muslim Turkey kept out of EU
2010-12-11,"PayPal, Amazon.com, Visa and MasterCard may have instantly crumbled under government pressure to drop WikiLeaks but other companies, some of them small, independent start-ups, haven't wussed out and are helping to keep WikiLeaks afloat by providing funding sources and hosting the site"
2010-12-11,"Academics are calling the Ontario government's condemnation of a university student thesis an attack on scholarly freedom, but those offended by the controversial paper insist they won't let ""hate"" hide behind the veil of academia.
 "
2010-12-11,Bankers' bonuses to face strict limits in Europe
2010-12-11,"Corruption In America Increases By The 4 Largest Amount In The World (Right Behind Cuba, Dominica And Burkina Faso!)"
2010-12-11,"John Pilger speaks out on charges against Julian Assange ""The importance of WikiLeaks cannot be overestimated."""
2010-12-11,WikiLeaks Can Still Get Cash  Thanks To Pirate Bays Co-Founder - via flattr.com
2010-12-11,"China and the Nobel peace prize: The empty chair - China expected comparisons with the Soviet Union, which responded similarly when Andrei Sakharov won in 1975. It is unlikely they fully realised that their behaviour would be equated even more prominently with that of Nazi Germany | The Economist"
2010-12-11,The Japanese government plans to boost its deployment of Patriot Advanced Capability-3 interceptor missiles at air bases across Japan to counter the threat of North Korea's ballistic missiles ...
2010-12-11,"Russia was tracking the assassins of dissident spy 
Alexander Litvinenko before he was poisoned but 
was warned off by Britain, which said the situation 
was ""under control"""
2010-12-11,MEXICO  The eccentric leader of the brutal La Familia drug cartel was killed in a shootout during two days of fighting between federal police and gunmen
2010-12-11,Why Toronto Top Cop Bill Blair should be FIRED for G20 fiasco
2010-12-11,Wikileaks: Brazil President Lula backs Julian Assange
2010-12-11,"Suicide bomber blows up car in a crowded street in Stockholm, Sweden "
2010-12-11,"The Haitian cholera strain carries a mutation that makes it more intense and could allow it to spread further, U.S. researchers say."
2010-12-11,"UK Police must not be seen as arm of the state, warns top officer. ""Repeated clashes with demonstrators risks damaging reputation of police force"""
2010-12-11,Mexican military kills leader of powerful 'La Familia' cartel
2010-12-11,"Bankers outraged as ""European regulation of 
banking pay is now set to be the most stringent in 
the world"""
2010-12-11,Vladimir Putin Sings Blueberry Hill in front of cheering American glitterati.   
2010-12-10,"Wikileaks. Brazil's President Lula defends Assange: ""Instead of blaming someone who has disclosed these documents, those who wrote them should be blamed"""
2010-12-10,Wikileaks Reveals U.S. Tax Dollars Fund Child Sex Slavery in Afghanistan
2010-12-10,"""They're entitled to be paid it, [and] we're entitled to tax it"" - Ireland proposes to tax banker's bonuses at 90%"
2010-12-10,Pfizer payout miilions over chemical testing on Nigerian Town - Wikileaks
2010-12-10,"Why did they put Assange in jail, is that democracy at work? - Vladimir Putin"
2010-12-10,Venezuela's Hugo Chavez says he'll govern from tent while flood evacuees use presidential palace
2010-12-10,Burma's nuclear plans (weapon development with North Korea?) exposed by WikiLeaks
2010-12-10,Massive Student Protests Rock UK
2010-12-10,"Wikileaked cable: Based on calculations from campaign observers around Iran who witnessed the vote counts, Mousavi received approximately 61% of the 42 million votes cast in 2009s election, followed by Karroubi (10-12 million)... Ahmadinejad received a maximum of 4-5 million votes"
2010-12-10,"The 24-hour Athenian democracy: ""We are Everywhere. We are everyone. We are Anonymous."" "
2010-12-10,"Report: Assange accuser flees to Middle East, may not be cooperating with police"
2010-12-10,"London student protestor ""struck by truncheon"" has brain injury"
2010-12-10,Nobel peace prize awarded to China's Liu Xiaobo
2010-12-10,WikiLeaks protest kicks off in Melbourne
2010-12-10,"You know you are an Asshole Country when the only other time someone else did it, It was Hitler's Germany."
2010-12-10,"Iceland Recovering - No Bank Bailouts, No Euro"
2010-12-10,What I Found In North Korea - Pyongyangs Plutonium is No Longer the Only Problem  
2010-12-10,"Defying Chinese outrage, exiled dissidents, ambassadors from dozens of countries, Norwegian royals and other dignitaries will gather around an empty chair Friday to hail absent Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo."
2010-12-10,Paypal gives in
2010-12-10,Rethinking terrorist blacklists: the policy of blacklisting is now facing a fundamental crisis of legitimacy.
2010-12-10,An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery appeared last night to have been released
2010-12-10,"""The Vatican refused to allow its officials to testify before an Irish commission investigating the clerical abuse of children and was angered when they were summoned from Rome..."""
2010-12-10,Diplomat's Son Takes Out 'Bad Day' on Puppy...
2010-12-10,"""Downloads of [Anonymous' DDoS] LOIC software 
have grown 60-fold, from 390 to 23,479 in the 
last week."""
2010-12-10,Parliament Committee to review Visa & Mastercard operating licenses in Iceland due to Wikileaks ban.
2010-12-09,"WikiLeaks payment firm to sue Visa, MasterCard"
2010-12-09,"Popular US television shows including Friends and Desperate Housewives have done more to stifle Islamic extremism in Saudi Arabia than hundreds of millions of dollars spent on propaganda, according to a leaked diplomatic cable."
2010-12-09,"Russia calls for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be given the Nobel Peace Prize - A source from inside president Dmitry Medvedev's office told Russian news agencies: 'Public and non-governmental organisations should think of how to help him. 'Maybe, nominate him as a Nobel Prize laureate.'"
2010-12-09,In other news..Indian Ambassador to US singled out and received 'pat down' from TSA because she was wearing 'sari' and Indian traditional dress
2010-12-09,"Dutch ""high tech crime team"" arrests 16 year old boy as the main suspect for the attacks on Paypal and Mastercard."
2010-12-09,"Scott Adams, Dilbert Creator, on Sweden -  ""If your condom breaks, that's jail time. What I'm saying is that the Club Med in Sweden is a nervous place"""
2010-12-09,"WikiLeaks to Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age, provide extraordinary evidence of Washingtons direct involvement in the anti-democratic coup against former PM Kevin Rudd last June"
2010-12-09,Anonymous - Operation Payback - WikiLeaks ACTA Laws Message 
2010-12-09,Can Topless Women Keep Muslim Extremists Out of Denmark?
2010-12-09,Assange's attorney: Swiss violating their reputation for banking secrecy; Assange contacted Scotland Yard about US action
2010-12-09,"Irish government seeks 90% bank bonus tax - 
Irish Finance Minister Brian Lenihan said on Thursday he would impose a 90% tax on bankers bonuses, in a move to try to silence critics who have said the banking sector drove Ireland into the ground."
2010-12-09,Student protests in London on higher tuition fees; live coverage by The Guardian
2010-12-09,"US dispatches have cleared up one of the most baffling weapons affairs of the recent past. In 2008, pirates hijacked a ship full of tanks and other military hardware. Kenya apparently intended to send the materiel on to Southern Sudan. But they were unprepared for the US reaction."
2010-12-09,"Anon described as ""a loose band of people who share the same kind of ideals and wish to be a force for chaotic good."" Lightning Bolt."
2010-12-09,"There is no bigger waste of money than nuclear weapons. When we buy them, they just sit there getting dusty and rusty. When they do work, they destroy the entire planet, thus making the investment in the project a waste of time and money anyways."
2010-12-09,"WikiLeaks vs The Machine - US government tells 
firms to pull plug on whistleblowing website as 
Hackers cause chaos with revenge attacks on 
Assange's 'enemies'"
2010-12-09,"World is getting more corrupt, says transparency poll"
2010-12-09,"148 states call for transparency over depleted 
uranium use in UN vote - UK, US, Israel and France 
voted against"
2010-12-09,The EU Is Going to Destroy Ireland 
2010-12-09,The CIA's El-Masri Abduction: Cables Show Germany Caved to Pressure from Washington
2010-12-09,Russian official: WikiLeaks Julian Assange should receive Nobel prize
2010-12-09,"""Austria is not the 51st state of the US."""
2010-12-09,Iranian woman sentenced to stoning has been freed
2010-12-09,"North Korea issued a statement that claimed possession of all waters around South Korea-controlled Yeonpyeong Island, clarifying for the first time that its Nov. 23 attack of the island was motivated by a different view of the inter-Korean maritime boundary in the Yellow Sea than is widely held."
2010-12-09,"Govt to take over all mines in Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe is in the cusp of a sweeping change in its mining policy with the government set to take over all the alluvial diamond deposits and mining of gold, platinum and other metals."
2010-12-08,MC Hammered: Mastercard downed under DDOS overnight
2010-12-08,WikiLeaks: Texas Company Helped Pimp Little Boys To Stoned Afghan Cops
2010-12-08,The Vicepresidency of Bolivia is hosting the Wikileaks cables on their official website!
2010-12-08,"""The Australian government on Wednesday [December 8, 2010] blamed the United States, not the WikiLeaks founder, for the unauthorised release of about 250,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables and said those who originally leaked the documents were legally liable."""
2010-12-08,BREAKING: Nigeria Actually Goes Ahead and Files Charges Against Cheney in Halliburton Bribery Scheme
2010-12-08,Julian Assange for the Nobel Peace Prize
2010-12-08,Wau Holland Foundation takes legal action against PayPal over suspended WikiLeaks funds
2010-12-08,PayPal Busted for Bogus Wikileaks Excuse
2010-12-08,"Argentina, Uruguay recognize Palestinian state"
2010-12-08,Remember that Afghan girl recently on the cover of time because her nose and ears were cut off after she tried to leave her marriage? Well Afghan police caught the cowards that did it!
2010-12-08,WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. Twisted Ethiopia's Arm to Invade Somalia
2010-12-08,N. Korea firing shells into Yellow Sea near disputed border
2010-12-08,"As Nigeria charges Dick Cheney with corruption
Nigerian officials say Cheney's former company, Halliburton, is preparing to plea bargain"
2010-12-08,Shanghai Students Are the World's Best; U.S. Doesn't Crack the Top 15
2010-12-08,"WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, and the dark side of Internet freedom  -  interview with new-media scholar, on geopolitical fallout from Wikileaks affair. Assange should be handled with care. He's emerging as hero of powerful global geek movement for Internet freedom"
2010-12-08,"Glenn Greenwald Calls Julian Assange's Arrest ""Pure Authoritarianism"": ""What is really going on here is a war over control of the Internet, and whether or not the Internet can actually serve its ultimate purpose."" "
2010-12-08,Assange could face trial in US - Swedish and US diplomats in informal talks with a view to Assange being delivered into US custody
2010-12-08,PayPal says US advised it to stop Wikileaks payments 
2010-12-08,"UNDERGROUND PARTY SCENE IN JEDDAH: Jeddahs elite youth is thriving and throbbing. The full range of worldly temptations and vices are available -- alcohol, drugs, sex -- but strictly behind closed doors. - Wikileaks"
2010-12-08,More Latin American countries recognise Palestinian state  Argentina and Uruguay have announced that they would recognise a Palestinian state based on the borders that existed before the Arab-Israeli war of 1967  
2010-12-08,Iceland firm sues Visa for blocking WikiLeaks 
2010-12-08,Danish police have arrested a man on charges of genocide in Rwanda 16 years ago.
2010-12-08,Scores killed in Chile prison fire 
2010-12-08,"Apparently there were two precision air bombings in Sudan in 2009, who the fuck is responsible for that?"
2010-12-08,"Ontarios ombudsman: The G20 summit regulation that expanded police search powers entrapped legitimate protesters and ""likely"" violated the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. ""Here in 2010 is the province of Ontario conferring wartime powers on police officers in peacetime."""
2010-12-07,Wikileaks: May I remind you that the same collective now being persecuted as a 'terrorist organisation recently received Amnesty International's New Media Award for reports on human rights abuses in Kenya.
2010-12-07,I'm going to be very unhappy if they capture Julian Assange without so much as a single snowmobile chase.
2010-12-07,Wikileaks: Swiss bank closes Julian Assange's account
2010-12-07,"Facebook issues statement saying that it will NOT ban content from WikiLeaks: ""[It] does not violate our content standards nor have we encountered any material posted on the page that violates our policies."""
2010-12-07,WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been denied bail by a judge after surrendering to British authorities over a Swedish arrest warrant
2010-12-07,Live with the WikiLeakable world or shut down the net. It's your choice
2010-12-07,"Dianne Feinstein: Prosecute Assange Under the 1917 US Espionage Act - 1st Amendment would not apply. In other news, US law is now de-facto worldwide law and anyone, anywhere can be held to it even if they aren't US citizens and weren't in the US when the ""crime"" was committed. "
2010-12-07,"Julian Assange Vows ""Poison Pill"" Release Of Damaging Secrets If Arrested Or Killed"
2010-12-07,Icelandic Journalist takes over for Julian Assange because of arrest.
2010-12-07,"In this sewer, we reptiles of British journalism hold our heads high: As WikiLeaks has shown, power loathes truth revealed. Disclosure is all we have when politicians are cowed, lawyers fall silent and audit is polluted... the press is the last best hope when democratic oversight fails"
2010-12-07,More state secrets leaked! Except this time it's by a former Iranian diplomat about North Korea so I guess we are cool with it.
2010-12-07,"Indigenous Peruvian won appeal in landmark human rights and environmental lawsuit against U.S. oil giant Occidental Petroleum for contaminating Amazon rainforest, poisoning communities - case will be heard in LA!"
2010-12-07,WikiLeaks to keep releasing cables despite Assange arrest
2010-12-07,"""As far as I can see, [Assange] hasn't broken any Australian law, nor does it appear he has broken any American laws."""
2010-12-07,Julian Assange arrested by British police
2010-12-07,"19 Countries to Miss Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony - Beijing has pressed for a boycott of the event, which will recognize the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo"
2010-12-07,"Kenyan Prime Minister orders a nationwide crackdown on homosexuals. While gay men face 5 to 14 years in prison, the law does not extend to homosexual women"
2010-12-07,"Julian Assange has been arrested for having unprotected sex with two women. It's call ""sex by surprise"" in Sweden. The fine is about $715."
2010-12-07,"UN peacekeepers were the most likely source of the cholera epidemic sweeping Haiti, according to a leaked report by a French disease expert. "
2010-12-07,"Assange lawyer: WikiLeaks will unleash a ""thermonuclear device"" of government files containing the names of spies, sources and informants if he's killed or brought to trial. Will they push the button?"
2010-12-07,The income of a medieval English worker is double that of todays workers in Zaire and Burundi.
2010-12-07,Julian Assange is going to be prosecuted by the US not only under the Espionage Act
2010-12-07,'Nineteen countries' shun Nobel: China and 18 other countries say they will not attend Friday's Nobel Peace Prize...
2010-12-07,Argentina announced Monday that it recognizes the Palestinian territories as a free and independent state within their 1967 borders
2010-12-07,Hugo Chavez blames heavy rain on Capitalism. I think he might be redditor. 
2010-12-06,Razor 1911: Because of the recent efforts to close down wikileaks. We have decided to join up in the mass-mirroring of the site. For free journalism on a free internet.
2010-12-06,"Just a reminder, only 837 documents out of 251,287 have been released so far by Wikileaks."
2010-12-06,"""Even if you take down the server in Sweden, it's too late,"" Swiss Pirate Party VP Pascal Gloor says. ""There are hundreds of mirrors of WikiLeaks now. It's a test for Internet censorship. Can governments take something off the net? I think not."""
2010-12-06,Payback: Bank That Froze Julian Assange's Bank Account Has Now Been Taken Down By Hackers
2010-12-06,Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain's proposed copyright law
2010-12-06,Julian Assange is top of the TIME person of the year poll! 
2010-12-06,"""At the centre of a tightening web of death threats, sex-crime accusations and high-level demands for a treason trial, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatened to unleash a 'thermonuclear device' of completely unexpurgated government files if he is forced to appear before authorities."""
2010-12-06,"The Swiss Bank Post Finance today issues a press release stating that it had frozen Julian Assange's defense fund and personal assets (31K EUR) after reviewing him as a ""high profile"" individual."
2010-12-06,Revenge of the Persians: Iran has methodically hunted down and killed 182 pilots who bombed Iran during the Iran-Iraq war
2010-12-06,Fresh doubts raised over how Dr Kelly is said to have killed himself after being named as the prime source of a BBC report accusing Tony Blairs government of lying to take Britain into war. But the lack on fingerprints on the pill packets cast fresh doubt
2010-12-06,"China Clones, Sells Russian Fighter Jets - For almost 20 years China bought fighter planes from post-Soviet Russia. Now it's worked out how to make them better and cheaper in China. It's no longer a valued customer of Russia. It's a lethal competitor"
2010-12-06,"""Leaked diplomatic memos said that European Union President Herman Van Rompuy told America's ambassador that the EU no longer believes in success in Afghanistan, and that European troops are still there 'out of deference to the United States.'"""
2010-12-06,WikiLeaks' Assange Calls for Obama to Resign if Shown to Have Approved UN Spying - World Watch - CBS News
2010-12-06,"""MasterCard pulls plug on WikiLeaks payments"""
2010-12-06,"Facing ""hundreds of death threats,"" Julian Assange
considering seeking asylum in Switzerland."
2010-12-06,WikiLeaks will release encrypted 'doomsday file' if Assange is detained or the website is permanently removed from the internet
2010-12-06,"A pair of suicide bombers disguised as policemen killed 50 people Monday in an attack targeting a tribal meeting called to discuss the formation of an anti-Taliban militia in northwest Pakistan
"
2010-12-06,"Wikileaks: China's GDP is man-made, unreliable"
2010-12-06,"Roughly 5,500 classified cables from the US Embassy in Baghdad paint a grim picture of why America's stunning military victory over Iraq devolved into disaster: The Americans allowed themselves to get entangled in the Sunni-Shiite conflict while being systematically outmaneuvered by the Iranians."
2010-12-06,"Assange Accuser Worked with US-Funded, CIA-Tied Anti-Castro Group"
2010-12-06,Wikileaks: European arrest warrant for Julian Assange arrives in UK
2010-12-06,Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to take out protection against the risk of a sovereign default by China as one of its top trade trades for 2011
2010-12-06,"14-year Mexican Assassin is Actually American;Charged with Beheading, max penalty is 3 years- US is silent - Hispanically Speaking News"
2010-12-06,Hitchens: Julian Assange should turn himself in.
2010-12-06,"A Paris court has said Continental Airlines was ""criminally responsible"" for the crash of a Concorde supersonic jet 10 years ago, and fined it 200,000 euros (170,000)."
2010-12-05,"""Reporters Without Borders condemns the blocking, cyber-attacks and political pressure being directed at cablegate.wikileaks.org"""
2010-12-05,Assange accuses Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard of betraying him as an Australian citizen in her eagerness to help the US attack him and his organisation
2010-12-05,Plea to ban WikiLeaks in Pakistan dismissed by Court ... judge said nothing is greater than the truth.
2010-12-05,Dick Cheney Wanted in Nigeria for Halliburton Bribes - The Daily Beast
2010-12-05,"WikiLeaks Hasn't ""Leaked"" Anything"
2010-12-05,Britain is going to scrap the requirement to have scientific advisors on drugs policy.
2010-12-05,Wikileaks to release some UFO files!
2010-12-05,WikiLeaks: Julian Assange's lawyer denounces Swedish arrest warrant as 'political stunt'
2010-12-05,North Korea fattens up people for the family reunions between Koreas
2010-12-05,BBC summary of what has been learned from the leaked US embassy cables
2010-12-05,"WikiLeaks: Australia's Kevin Rudd told the US that force might be needed to integrate China into the international community if ""everything went wrong""."
2010-12-05,Leaked cables show Saudi minister of petroleum helped craft toothless Copenhagen climate accord 
2010-12-05,John Pilger - Wikileaks - The War You Don't See: Award winning journalist speaks about the absurdities put forward by members of the American government
2010-12-05,"WikiLeaks's main server in France has gone offline, say Swiss supporters "
2010-12-05,"The roof falls in on Ireland's Millionaires Row. Shrewsbury Road in Dublin was the sixth most expensive street in the world. Now, post-crash, homes have been abandoned and the tycoon residents have run for the hills"
2010-12-05,"Iran tells neighbours 'We'll never use force against you' - ""We have never used our force against our neighbours and never will because our neighbours are Muslims,"" said Iran's foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki."
2010-12-05,Ex-Colombian drug smuggler relates how he piloted custom-built submersibles that can transport three-and-a-half tons of pure cocaine to  US
2010-12-05,"KEVIN Rudd warned Hillary Clinton to be prepared to use force against China ''if everything goes wrong"" --Wikileaks Cables"
2010-12-05,"Mexican troops captured a 14-year-old U.S. citizen that specialized in be-headings as an assassin for one of Mexico's most vicious drug gangs. He admits to killing four people, earning $2,500 for each murder."
2010-12-05,Swiss Post considers whether to close the Postfinance bank account opened by Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
2010-12-05,"Should We Blame the United States? No, Blame Can. . .Iran!"
2010-12-05,"Pakistani cleric says if the government does not hang a Christian mother convicted of blasphemy against Islam, then his mosque will offer a reward of $6,000 to anyone who kills her"
2010-12-05,"WikiLeaks: Leaked US cables portray Chinas leadership obsessed with threat posed by the Internet to their grip on power  and by the opportunities it offered them, through hacking, to obtain secrets stored in US computers"
2010-12-05,WikiLeaks's French server goes offline
2010-12-05,"Palestinian firefighters help Israel: ""I hope it could be a good opening for cooperation, more humanitarian assistance, and peace"" says Ibrahim Ayish, Palestinian firefighters' team leader."
2010-12-04,Paypal bans Wikileaks just before midnight Friday
2010-12-04,"Wikileaks is not dead, only the url.  you can access 
WikiLeaks through www.wikileaks.ch or directly at 
213.251.145.96."
2010-12-04,"Wikileaks Cables - Leading Chinese politician 
ordered attacks on Google after Googling his own 
name and finding critical articles"
2010-12-04,UK. People invade stores in push for government to tax the rich and big companies more instead of making budget cuts
2010-12-04,Pakistan Judge Upholds Right of WikiLeaks to Publish Freely
2010-12-04,US army warns soldiers in Iraq against viewing WikiLeaks
2010-12-04,"""As part of efforts to block the release of documents obtained by WikiLeaks, there is an escalating campaign, led by the US government, to bring down the organizations web site."""
2010-12-04,"Russias Shadow War on Georgia, WikiLeaked"
2010-12-04,"Why Farmers Are Flocking to Manure - Chemical fertiliser prices are rising. Supplies of potash from Canada are dwindling. Farmers may be forced back to using ""something so repugnant that the word itself was scrubbed from polite conversation"""
2010-12-04,"""Wet work"" in Iran: Prof. Majid Shahriari, who died when his car was attacked in North Tehran Monday, Nov. 29, headed the team Iran established for combating the Stuxnet virus rampaging through its nuclear and military networks"
2010-12-04,WikiLeaks: Gadaffi nearly caused nuclear disaster after UN tent snub
2010-12-04,WikiLeaks cables: Yemen offered US 'open door' to attack al-Qaida on its soil
2010-12-04,Wikileaks files show UK considered 'paranoid' by US
2010-12-04,"Why Amazon Caved - 
Harvard researcher discusses Amazon's decision to boot Wikileaks. Highlights contradiction that, whereas we think of internet as public space, it's owned by private companies, who can do what they like"
2010-12-04,"AstraZeneca raided in EC competition investigation. Europe's competition watchdog has raided a string of pharmaceutical companies including AstraZeneca over possible collusion in delaying the introduction of cheap, generic drugs."
2010-12-04, Irish Goverment Will Be Decimated In Election 
2010-12-04,"The next war in the Ivory Coast: World leaders have criticised a decision by Cote D'Ivoire's constitutional court to reverse the results of Sunday's vote, warning that it could plunge the country back into civil war"
2010-12-04,Easter Island land dispute clashes leave dozens injured
2010-12-04,"Do Ask, Must Tell - You won't believe what the Turkish military makes gay recruits do"
2010-12-04,"Carne Ross, former British Ambassador to the U.N., mocked and derided Keller (editor of NY Times) for being guided by the U.S. Government's directions on what should and should not be published"
2010-12-04,Lebanon 'gave Israel army tips' on how they might defeat Hezbollah.
2010-12-04,Only 51 percent of Israelis said that Jewish and Arab citizens should have equal rights. 33% supported putting Arabs in internment camps if war breaks out.
2010-12-04,North Korea's Kim Jong-un: Portrait of a leader in the making
2010-12-04,"""""After almost half a century of Israeli occupation its Palestinian population has shrunk from over 200,000 to fewer than 60,000. . On a nearby wall, someone had daubed in Hebrew: Bless God for not making me a gentile."""
2010-12-04,"BBC Radio debate about what the future bodes for 
government secrecy given the Wikileaks cables - 
includes John Negroponte and a contributor to the 
Wikileaks project"
2010-12-03,WikiLeaks vanishes from web as US company removes DNS support | Media | guardian.co.uk
2010-12-03,Chinese drive their new motorcycles and cars like they are still on bikes. Disaster results. 
2010-12-03,Mexican police chief who took the job men didnt want is shot dead
2010-12-03,Assange not actually accused of Rape. Dude just didn't use a Condom and is being busted by some random Exclusive-to-Sweeden law.
2010-12-03,You've heard the talking point: there's nothing we didn't know in the leaks. Well the German Foreign Minister's chief of staff was just fired because they showed he was spying for Uncle Sam.
2010-12-03,"Russia, Qatar win race to host World Cups"
2010-12-03,Brazil recognizes Palestinian state - based on borders at the time of Israel's 1967 conquest of the West Bank!
2010-12-03,"Want to know what actually happened between Julian Assange, the women he was with, and the accusations of rape? Read this story that actually includes the police report from Sweden. Rape? No. A woman scorned? Absolutely."
2010-12-03,"Julian Assange: ""The Cable Gate archive has been spread, along with significant material from the US and other countries to over 100,000 people in encrypted form. If something happens to us, the key parts will be released automatically."""
2010-12-03,"PM Vladimir Putin speaking English.  I don't why this was interesting to me, but it was."
2010-12-03,WikiLeaks is Back in Switzerland
2010-12-03,Is it just me or does the BBC News and television network seem more neutral and less opinionated than US news networks and television?
2010-12-03,WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord
2010-12-03,"I think Reddit needs a ""Good News"" subreddit."
2010-12-03,"The British are protesting US plans to extradite Gary McKinnon, a hacker with Asperger's Syndrome who accessed Department of Defense computers."
2010-12-03,"Germany accuses US over 'missing' Afghan funds, WikiLeaks cables show - Berlin claims that 50m contribution disappeared into US treasury coffers with 15% 'administrative fee' taken by army"
2010-12-03,"WikiLeaks cables claim first scalp as German minister's aide is sacked - Helmut Metzner admitted acting as a mole for the US embassy during negotiations to form a government.
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2010-12-03,South Korea to bomb the bejesus out of North Korea if they attack again. 
2010-12-03,Live Q&A with Julian Assange (1300GMT)
2010-12-03,"WikiLeaks: France adds to US pressure to ban website - French companies are banned from hosting websites that have been deemed ""criminal"" and ""violate the confidentiality of diplomatic relations."""
2010-12-03,Wikileaks.org no longer exists. Domain now hosted in Switzerland as wikileaks.ch
2010-12-03,"A ""leading Chinese academic said the North's attack was a misjudgment for which it would pay a high price. 'The immediate cost might be military strike..the longer-term cost might be large-scale war, resulting in the disappearance of North Korea as a country,' Renmin University's Pang Zhongying said"
2010-12-03,"""Spain has closed almost its entire airspace after air traffic controllers called in sick en masse."""
2010-12-03,Breaking : Amazon defies western democracies.
2010-12-03,Lebanese Newspaper Publishes U.S. Cables Not Found on WikiLeaks
2010-12-02,"If you truly support WikiLeaks, why not support Bradley Manning, the US solider who leaked the documents in the first place?"
2010-12-02,"Monsanto GMO sugarbeets to be destroyed, court concludes USDA illegally approved biotech crop"
2010-12-02,Wikileaks Cables Reveal That Canada Is Boring
2010-12-02,Julian Assange and one of the most relevant and intelligent speeches ever...the Oslo Freedom Forum speech
2010-12-02,"Not the Onion: Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in $180 million bribery case, issue Interpol arrest warrant "
2010-12-02,Britain allowed USA to store cluster bombs on its territory despite international ban
2010-12-02,"Avoiding US Censorship, Torrent Sites May Flee To China  "
2010-12-02,"Missing The Point Of WikiLeaks - 
With or without Julian Assange, future large leaks are inevitable. The technology is out there. That's good, if we want to ""challenge the institutions that control our fate, by bringing their secrets to light"""
2010-12-02,"Russia Below The Surface - At last, an unflinching account of corruption in Russia. Drawn from Wikileaks cables, in which diplomats say privately what no reputable source would say publicly. The crooks are the government. And vice-versa"
2010-12-02,Cuba to gradually embrace Capitalism 
2010-12-02,Atlantic bluefin tuna on the brink of collapse: WWF teamed up with supermarket chains and restaurants to press countries to set stricter fishing regulations for bluefin tuna
2010-12-02,"WikiLeaks an American conspiracy, Afghans say"
2010-12-02,WikiLeaks cables: Alexander Litvinenko murder 'probably had Putin's OK'
2010-12-02,Perhaps the reason North Korea stopped shelling is because SK bloodied their nose with its return fire.
2010-12-02, self-styled 'hacktivist for good' who claimed to have carried out the denial of service attacks which took down WikiLeaks over the weekend has been raided by police.
2010-12-02,"WikiLeaks cables: Secret deal let Americans sidestep 
cluster bomb ban"
2010-12-02,"Unpluggable: How WikiLeaks embarrassed and enraged America, gripped the public and rewrote the rules of diplomacy"
2010-12-02,Only 17% of the public believes the Israel's self-definition as a democracy should take precedence over its self-definition as Jewish
2010-12-02,New WikiLeaks revelations show Ireland blocking U.S. ammunition transfers to Israel after the Second Lebanon War in 2006
2010-12-02,"Ambassador reports Sri Lankan President responsible for ""alleged war crimes"""
2010-12-02,"Man killed with crossbow at Toronto library - 
The man was pronounced dead at the scene after being struck down by the projectile, known as a bolt, police told CBC News."
2010-12-02,Boss orders female staff to wear red bracelets when they are on their periods
2010-12-02,"Julian Assange, defending our democracies (despite their owners' wishes)"
2010-12-02,WikiLeaks expose US tactic to ignite clash among Muslim nations: ex-Pak Army chief
2010-12-02,"Despite accusations that Julian Assange is on the run, The Independent has learnt that Scotland Yard has known his whereabouts for more than a month but has yet to receive official instructions to arrest him."
2010-12-01,"Noam Chomsky on declaring Wikileaks a 'terrorist organization': ""Outlandish. ... One of the major reasons for government secrecy is to protect the government from its own population."""
2010-12-01,And suddenly the Julian Assange rape claims reappear...
2010-12-01,North Korea 'likely to attack again'
2010-12-01,"Sweden celebrates 100 years with no capital 
punishment"
2010-12-01,"Back in 2009, Assange: We've got 5GB of Bank of America leaks"
2010-12-01,"Iraq spent $85Mill. on a detector for guns, ammunition, drugs, truffles, bodies, and ivory. They were unpowered and worked on the same principle as a Ouija board.  Now they realize they don't work, but are still using them."
2010-12-01,Wikileaks:  Israel Overestimating Iranian Nuclear Program
2010-12-01,The Arctic ice is melting and what are northern countries doing? Racing for resources.
2010-12-01,WikiLeaks cables: Pakistan opposition 'tipped off' Mumbai terror group
2010-12-01,"(too funny:) ""Iran outraged as Star of David revealed on airport"""
2010-12-01,10 Conversations That Just Got a Little More Awkward 
2010-12-01,Switzerland has voted to automatically expel foreign residents convicted of certain crimes
2010-12-01,"China, one of the biggest Internet censors, took no chances and blocked WikiLeaks website amid embarrassing claims made in leaked U.S. diplomatic memos posted there"
2010-12-01,China Blocks UN Action Against North Korea
2010-12-01,Moscow's Bid to Blow Up WikiLeaks
2010-12-01,"Russia will build up forces without New START, Putin says"
2010-12-01,"Wikileaks: ""Venezuelan Intelligence Services (DIM 
and SEBIN) are conducting HUMINT and TECH 
operations against [US] Embassy staff, as well as 
political opposition leaders and are controlled by 
the Cuban Intelligence Service operating in 
Venezuela."""
2010-12-01,"Woah, now wikileaks reveals dirt on russia - WikiLeaks cables condemn Russia as 'mafia state'"
2010-12-01,Lawyer: Assange is being persecuted in Sweden
2010-12-01,"It's Probably a Stretch, But Assange Should Probably Stay Out of the US and UK"
2010-12-01,"Russia will have to build up its nuclear forces if the United States fails to ratify the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty the two countries signed this year, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin "
2010-12-01,"""A senior Spanish investigator alleged to the US that Moscow's strategy was to use 'organised crime groups to do whatever the government of Russia cannot acceptably do as a government'. Recent operations included gun-running to the Kurds 'in an attempt to destabilise Turkey' and 'arms trafficking'.."
2010-12-01,"WikiLeaks Assange mother says she does not want him ""hunted down and jailed"""
2010-12-01,Hamas says it would honor a referendum on peace with Israel
2010-12-01,wikileaks:xMossad chief calling to use UN tribunal on the  assassination of Hariri to pressure foes to achieve Israel political goals 
2010-11-30,"Ecuador offers WikiLeak's founder Assange residency, no questions asked."
2010-11-30,Wikileaks cables reveal China 'ready to abandon North Korea'
2010-11-30,"Jon Stewart on Saudi Arabia: ""...we give them money for oil, that allows them to buy weapons from us with a little left over to fund terrorist groups that we must then send our military over to fight, which costs a lot of money and fuel...."""
2010-11-30,"A retired French electrician living on the Riviera has stunned the art world and left Picasso's heirs in ""a state of shock"" after coming forward with 271 undocumented works of Picasso...."
2010-11-30,WikiLeaks' Next Target: Assange hints that they may soon be going after the people who torpedoed the world economy
2010-11-30,"Add Iran to the list of nations with more progressive drug policies than the US. And the evidence that their policies are working is ""overwhelming."""
2010-11-30,"Wikileaks evades hackers' DDoS with shift to 
Amazon. The US government would not be able to 
remove the diplomatic cables from the internet by 
ordering Amazon to take down the Wikileaks pages 
- partly because the cables are not actually hosted 
there."
2010-11-30,"Harpers - Despite El-Masris protests that he was not al-Masri, he was beaten, stripped naked, shot full of drugs, given an enema and a diaper, and flown first to Baghdad and then to the notorious salt pit, the CIAs secret interrogation facility in Afghanistan."
2010-11-30,China blocks access to WikiLeaks
2010-11-30,"Chinese officials confirm that they want an ""independent and peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula"" and cannot afford to give the North Korean regime the impression it has a blank cheque to act any way it wants."
2010-11-30,"""Yes, I'm extremely dangerous for those who want to have instability in our region. I'm extremely dangerous for those who want to create new tensions,"" - Turkish Foreign Minister referring to Wikileaks disclosure.."
2010-11-30,Double Kill: Two Iranian nuclear scientists assassinated by passing motorcyclists who attached magnetic bombs to their cars.
2010-11-30,Nasa scientist who testified at the trial of 114 activists who planned to break into a coal plant near Nottingham says their anger was justified. 
2010-11-30,WikiLeaks boss Assange refused protection by Australian government as full investigation launched
2010-11-30,Cambridge University students refuse to abandon sit-in
2010-11-30,"China 'backs Korean reunification' and 'would not stop the North's collapse,' according to leaked cable"
2010-11-30,BBC News - Ecuador offers Wikileaks founder Assange residency
2010-11-30,Will My Breasts Blow Up this Airplane?
2010-11-30,"Seoul, South Korea, prepares emergency shelters ""amidst mounting tensions"" in the Korean Peninsula"
2010-11-30,"Iran accuses West, Israel for assassinating nuclear scientist"
2010-11-30,"""North Korea is a very dangerous country . . . It's like having a rattlesnake living in the corner of your living room. You don't want to go over and mess with it; but at the same time, you're not sure how to get rid of it."""
2010-11-30,"South Korean defense minister Kim Tae-young on why the South's retaliation was delayed 13 minutes and not forceful enough, ""This isn't StarCraft."""
2010-11-30,Iran admits that the Stuxnet virus caused damage to their nuclear program
2010-11-30,Wikileaks Cablegate: Brazil frames suspected terrorists on narcotics charges
2010-11-30,"Obama to Slovenia: ""I'll talk to you for 20 minutes, but only if you take these prisoners off my hands.""  You know you're a crappy country when you have to negotiate to even *talk* to the president, let alone get concessions."
2010-11-29,The hypocrisy of the media attack on Wikileaks - The traditional media has become so toothless it is reduced to attacking Wikileaks for doing its job properly.
2010-11-29,Wikileaks cable leak: Guardian
2010-11-29,WikiLeaks asked the US for help redacting potentially injurious information.  The US refused.
2010-11-29,"""Defense Minister Kim Tae-young said Monday [November 29, 2010] that fighter jets and warships of South Korean and U.S. forces will immediately strike North Korean targets should the North launch an attack on the South's soil again."""
2010-11-29,"Inside North Korea - exclusive footage  -  video obtained exclusively by The Sunday Telegraph shows harrowing images of emaciated, fearful North Koreans suffering from food shortages and government oppression."
2010-11-29,WikiLeaks: Red Crescent (Red Cross) smuggled weapons for Iran in Lebanon
2010-11-29,Among the more epic stories out of the wikileaks cables - 75 year-old American escaped Iran riding a horse over a freezing Turkish mountain range
2010-11-29,"The job of the media is not to protect power from embarrassment - It is for governments  not journalists  to guard public secrets, and there is no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks' revelations.
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2010-11-29,Wikileaks: NY Times release
2010-11-29,Survey: More than one third of South African men admit to having committed rape. That is all.
2010-11-29,"""South Korea's President, Lee Myung-bak, has taken responsibility for failing to protect the country and said the South would abandon its longstanding policy of not responding militarily to the North's hostile acts."""
2010-11-29,BBC News - Iran nuclear scientist killed in bomb attack
2010-11-29,"Wikileaks: US says Berlusconi is ""feckless, vain, and ineffective as a modern European leader"". Surely not"
2010-11-29,"Am I the only one surprised by the fact that the Prime Minister of Turkey is beating Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Julian Assange for Person of the Year?"
2010-11-29,"Europe OKs $112.53 billion Ireland bailout
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2010-11-29,WikiLeaks: Ayatollah Khameni has terminal cancer
2010-11-29,"Iranian nuclear scientist was killed and another injured when they and their wives were attacked by ""terrorists"""
2010-11-29,"Asia Bibi, a Christian, has been sentenced to death after falling foul of the Pakistan's blasphemy law"
2010-11-29,Rio's drug war [pics]
2010-11-29,"France: Wikileaks Threatens Democracy - ""Authority and democratic sovereignty are threatened by such practices,"" Francois Baroin said of the WikiLeaks release of classified U.S. documents. ""If there was such a thing as a French WikiLeaks, we would have to be inflexible (in dealing with it)."""
2010-11-29,Maybe the UN should look for a more neutral location for it's headquarters: WikiLeaks: US diplomats 'have been spying on UN leadership'
2010-11-29,Canadian Forces have for four years captured children accused of co-operating with the Taliban and transferred them to notorious Afghan security unit suspected of torture
2010-11-29,Sarkozy's war on journalism - Is the French government resorting to increasingly repressive measures to silence the press?
2010-11-29,"China Makes Urgent Announcement: Calls For Emergency Six Nation Consultation On Korean Crisis, Says US/ROK Exercises Bringing War to Peninsula"
2010-11-29,"A Caucasus Wedding - 
William Burns | US Govt/Wikileaks | 
Shrewd, funny, informative account of big-money wedding in Russian Caucasus, from America's then-ambassador in Moscow. Much drinking. Many guns. Guests include Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen president"
2010-11-28,"Saudi Male Guardianship = Slavery. Year after year, the 42-year-old Saudi surgeon remains single, against her will. Her father keeps turning down marriage proposals, and her hefty salary keeps going directly to his bank account."
2010-11-28,"Here we go again... Explosion sounds of artillery fire heard on Yeonpyeong Island, S. Korean official says"
2010-11-28,"Der Spiegel: Wikileaks to release 251,287 cables and 8,000 diplomatic directives, 1966-present, none classified as ""top secret"", only ""secret"""
2010-11-28,Chanos vs. China - The influential short-seller is betting that China's economy is about to implode in a spectacular real estate bust. A lot of people are hoping that Chanos - who called Enron right - is wrong this time.
2010-11-28,Wikileaks: Guardian coverage
2010-11-28,Wikileaks: The whole release is here
2010-11-28,"North Korea's undercover journalists reveal misery of life in dictatorship: ""With its ruthless dictator, network of forced labour camps and iron grip of its ruling party, North Korea is the last country one might expect to see a middle-aged woman berating a policeman for demanding a bribe."""
2010-11-28,"Wikileaks release: in Russia, fear of damage to future US relations "
2010-11-28,"Wikileaks documents show that China was indeed behind attacks on Gmail, US and SK have been talking about a collapsed NK, US has been bargaining with other countries for Guantnamo prisoners, Saudi remains the chief donors of terrorist groups, US clashed with Europe over human rights, and more!"
2010-11-28,US embassy cables: Saudi king urges US strike on Iran 
2010-11-28,"WikiLeaks Archive - North Korea gave Iran powerful mid-range missiles capable of hitting Moscow; Obama gets China, Russia on board with much stricter Iranian sanctions"
2010-11-28,this page is operated by the North Korean government
2010-11-28,"WikiLeaked cable from Bob Gates: Russian 
democracy has disappeared and the government 
was an oligarchy run by the security services"
2010-11-28,Oops: S. Korean artillery mistakenly fired on DMZ
2010-11-28,Wikileaks: Saudi Arabia urges US attack on Iran
2010-11-28,South African government wants to use UAVs to hunt rhino poachers
2010-11-28,WikiLeaks Archive  Cables Uncloak U.S. Diplomacy - NYTimes.com
2010-11-28,WikiLeaks 'to highlight Putin and Berlusconi's special relationship' 
2010-11-28,Wikileaks: US spying on UN leadership
2010-11-28,"Cuba to send medical reinforcements to Haiti. ""The new delegation brings the number of Cuban medical workers in the country to 1,300."""
2010-11-28,New WikiLeaks files 'to reveal American criticism of Mandela'
2010-11-28,"""As prophesied, the boy priest grew up to become one of Liberia's most notorious warlords: General Butt Naked."""
2010-11-28,Wikileaks: Israel urged US to attack Iran
2010-11-28,China wants to resume talks aimed at denuclearizing North Korea amid rising military tensions surrounding the Korean Peninsula.
2010-11-28,Japan spots Chinese vessels near disputed islands: report
2010-11-27,"Taliban: ""...[The Americans] have no right to tell us about democracy and human rights. That's an Afghan issue and it will be decided by the Afghans.
The Americans behave with arrogance ...They don't belong here. They are foreigners, outsiders."""
2010-11-27,"""In what could be a crucial development, state-owned newspapers in China have blamed North Korea for this week's attack; one even editorialised that North Korea could be a country without a future. The North may have gone too far this time. . . ."""
2010-11-27,"Nigeria raids Halliburton, arrest 12 in bribery case."
2010-11-27,"Hitchens defeats Blair in religion debate: ""Is it good for the world to worship a deity that takes sides in wars and human affairs, to appeal to our fear and to our guilt - is it good for the world?"""
2010-11-27,"Canadian Senate pass government's crime bill, S-10, which institutes mandatory minimum sentences for a number of non-violent drug offenses, including a six-month sentence for growing five pot plants "
2010-11-27,"""The segregation of Jews and Arabs in Israel of 2010 is almost absolute. For those of us who live here, it is something we take for granted. But visitors from abroad cannot believe their eyes: segregated education, segregated businesses, separate entertainment venues"""
2010-11-27,Thousands protest against Irish bailout | World news | guardian.co.uk
2010-11-27,"Former Miss Universe tweeted ""Tonight I want to ask you to join me in a prayer for peace, that these attacks between the Chinas do not make our situation worse."""
2010-11-27,China warns U.S. to stay out of it's economic zone. 
2010-11-27,The freeze being negotiated between the US and Israel is ultimately designed to legitimise illegal Jewish settlements.
2010-11-27,"UK Police wants the power to shutdown websites: Lawyer ""deeply concerned"" about this proposal if it meant police could act before a conviction had been secured"
2010-11-27,From the classified disasters diverted file: Libya tried to blackmail the world with weapons-grade uranium last year. 
2010-11-27,"US Diplomats say the person responsible for leaking the cables to Wikileaks has been arrested, according to Italy's Foreign Minister.
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2010-11-27,Mining below Johannesburg left huge pit now rapidly filling with blood red water. Millions of gallons of the toxic water is rising at rate of 50 ft a month
2010-11-27,North Korea accused South Korea of using civilians as human shields around artillery positions on an island attacked by the North
2010-11-27,South Korea Marines vow 'thousand-fold' revenge as protesters demand tougher response
2010-11-27,Study: More than 1 in 3 South African men admit to rape
2010-11-27,"Reddit, can you help spread the news of this protest event to the US before December 7th? Its pretty big in Europe but we need you guys in as well!"
2010-11-27,"Missing radioactive rods found by FedEx
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2010-11-27,Ipsos Reid poll: The world is deeply divided on the question of whether religion is a force for good in the world - Saudis agree but not the Swedish
2010-11-27,Chinese pupils trash dinner hall in protest at cost of meals 
2010-11-27,Brazil police 'retake' Rio slum
2010-11-27,"Portugal passes austerity budget as speculative attack on Spain intensifies. ""The European debt crisis intensified Friday, as speculators continued their latest attacks on Spain and Portugal. Meanwhile tensions rose between Germany and European officials over..."""
2010-11-27,"Haiti spirals into violence: Campaign teams attacked, journalists ambushed and murders have spiked ahead of Haiti elections"
2010-11-27,US expecting 'worst case' Wikileaks release
2010-11-26,"""I didn't understand quite how bad things had become in this country until I saw armed cops being deployed against schoolchildren in the middle of Whitehall."""
2010-11-26,"Pregnant woman survives after being stabbed 24 times, shot in the leg, and dumped in a ravine.  Oh and the baby made it as well."
2010-11-26,"Iceland allowed it's banks to fail - and is doing all 
the better for it"
2010-11-26,Video footage shows mounted police charging a crowd of UK student protesters during this week's tuition fees demonstration. Met police issue denial but witnesses tell of terrifying ordeal
2010-11-26,'Artillery fire' heard near South Korea island [11/26]
2010-11-26,Russia finally admits Stalin did order massacre of Polish officers
2010-11-26,Student protests: video shows mounted police charging London crowd
2010-11-26,Iceland to elect citizens' panel to rewrite constitution
2010-11-26,"'Wikileaks documents show Turkey helped al-Qaida' - Wikileaks is planning to release files that show Turkey has helped al-Qaida in Iraq, according to London-based daily Al-Hayat. The newspaper also reported that the US helped the PKK, a Kurdish rebel organization."
2010-11-26,"The IMF riot is painfully predictable. When a nation is, ""down and out, [the IMF] takes advantage and squeezes the last pound of blood out of them."
2010-11-26,"""If the eurozone falls apart, it will be because Germany did not do enough to save it. If the eurozone is saved, it will be thanks to Germany. This is the greatest challenge to German statecraft since the country was peacefully united 20 years ago."""
2010-11-26,Russian Parliament finally admits Stalin ordered Katyn Massacre
2010-11-26,"""If Germany realizes that it faces never-ending, and ever-rising, costs to keep the euro zone intact, and that the victim states will not ditch the euro of their own volition, it might be pushed into a radical move: Remove itself from the euro zone and put the mark back into action."""
2010-11-26,"Dear Reddit, I've never hated my country or its people more than I do today."
2010-11-26,"Is anyone else getting a little nervous about the horrible timing of this Korea situation and the Wikileaks release, said to be damning to the US?"
2010-11-26,Israeli soldiers who made Palestinian boy search 'bomb' bags are freed
2010-11-26,"""We're going to have a system where the middle classes are discouraged from breeding because it's jolly expensive  But for those on benefits, there is every incentive. Well, that's not very sensible."""
2010-11-26,"Mass Exodus From Finnish Church: During a recent live televised debate church representatives called homosexuality a ""sin"" and questioned gay couples ability to raise a family"
2010-11-26,Iceland elects ordinary folk to draft constitution
2010-11-26,"Flying in Europe? Don't fear a pat-down, as European Union governments take different approach than US to airport security"
2010-11-26,"The Pirate Bay Appeal Verdict: Sadly, Guilty Again!"
2010-11-26,N. Korea warns planned U.S.-S. Korea exercises bring peninsula 'closer to brink of war' as Seoul names new defense chief 
2010-11-26,"The costs and consequences of the single 
European currency falling apart are too high for it 
to be allowed to happen"
2010-11-26,Italian students swarmed the Colosseum in Rome and the Leaning Tower of Pisa as part of nationwide protests against proposed budget cuts in the university system
2010-11-26,South Korea defense minister quits
2010-11-25,Three teenage boys have been rescued after drifting in the Pacific Ocean for 50 days in a small boat. The boys had started drinking seawater and had eaten just one seagull during their ordeal.
2010-11-25,Chinese villagers 'descended from Roman soldiers'
2010-11-25,Georgian Delegation Hires 80 Prostitutes during Lisbon NATO summit
2010-11-25,Erdogan: Turkey will not remain silent if Israel attacks Lebanon
2010-11-25,Pressure mounts on Pakistan's president to pardon Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy
2010-11-25,"Chief Ministers for 20 years have been giving away prime real estate to relatives, servants, drivers, maids! Each property costs more than US$ 440,000!"
2010-11-25,South Korea to bolster troops against Pyongyang
2010-11-25,Armoured carriers enter Brazil slum as security forces prepare to take on drug gangs.
2010-11-25,"Former President charged with raping former employee while serving as tourism minister, sexually assaulting two others as president, and obstructing justice"
2010-11-25,"North Korea warned of additional military attacks if South Korea makes ""reckless military provocations again"""
2010-11-25,"Israeli activists say Jerusalem police are kidnapping children, interrogating kids as young as 8 years old"
2010-11-25,Boys alive after 50 days adrift in Pacific
2010-11-25,South Korean Defence Minister Resigns 
2010-11-25,Europe's debt contagion could spread from Ireland to Portugal  and then Spain
2010-11-25,Worse than Fritzl: Argentine fathers 10 children with his daughter
2010-11-25,"This week, an international commission is meeting to determine the fate of the Atlantic bluefin. Experts estimate the Atlantic bluefin population has declined up to 85% from its original numbers "
2010-11-25,"Obama's humiliating offer to Netanyahu: it was made thanks to Dennis Ross (the President's top Middle East adviser), who seems to think that an ""all carrots, no sticks"" policy is the best way to deal with Bibi. He's wrong."
2010-11-25,"BRIC leaders discuss ""multipolar"" world order, including alternatives to the U.S. dollar as global reserve currency"
2010-11-25,Mexico drugs baron admits tourist deaths mistake
2010-11-25,"Brazil Marines join slum battles, 30 people killed"
2010-11-25,"Looked at the picture. Read the quote, ""I will never let you go when I see your soul in the afterlife."" Stop, tears. Stop."
2010-11-25,"Superbug reported in DK

An NDM-1 infection has been seen for the first time in Denmark."
2010-11-25,"Ireland to rise again, with or without the euro."
2010-11-25,North Korea threatens more attacks on South 
2010-11-25,"News Corps paywall around ""the Times"" is paying off wonderfully. Readership has dropped by 99.9% and most of those get it free with a print subscription."
2010-11-24,All 29 trapped New Zealand miners are believed to be dead following a second explosion in the Pike River Coal mine
2010-11-24,"U.S. aircraft carrier heads for Korean waters as South Korea warns North Korea of ""enormous retaliation"""
2010-11-24,"Swedish cartoonist not afraid after new death threat: ""It's too cold and there is too much snow for someone to try an amateur terrorist act."""
2010-11-24,It has begunChina and Russia drop U.S. Dollar in favor of their own currencies for bilateral trade.
2010-11-24,'S. Korea may strike N. Korea's missile base'
2010-11-24,British national student walkouts begin at 11:00am today
2010-11-24,"100 years since the last Swedish execution - Today it is exactly 100 years ago since the last execution was conducted in Sweden. It was the first, and last, time a guillotine was used as a form of execution."
2010-11-24,Iranian 'self-developed' S-300 anti-aircraft missiles: oil drums welded together thrown in the back of a truck
2010-11-24,"China, Russia to stop using the US Dollar for bilateral trade"
2010-11-24,North Korea: South attacked us first
2010-11-24,"People who make large donations to political parties expect to gain influence and shape future policy, and it is ""absolutely natural and unobjectionable"" for them to do so, a major donor to the Conservative party said today"
2010-11-24,Ireland unveils tough austerity plan
2010-11-24,"Can anybody tell me whether this is true or false? RT news claims S.Korea has admitted to firing the first shot; I can't find any substantiating evidence, but would like to be sure."
2010-11-24,"Ten people suspected of planning terrorist attacks in Belgium were arrested in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands on Tuesday. The raids were the culmination of months of investigation into international jihadist activities."
2010-11-24,"North Korea's well-rehearsed performance: As the smoke clears, the US and South Korea scramble to respond"
2010-11-24,The world's first tiger summit wrapped up today with donor pledges of almost $330m aimed at making the great cat worth more alive than dead.
2010-11-24,Saudi Employer Hacks Off Maid's Lips 
2010-11-24,UN General Assembly Votes To Allow Gays To Be Executed Without Cause...  
2010-11-24,Cool Associated Press interactive infographic about the North vs. South Korean military matchup
2010-11-24,"Seismic change in The Vatican's stance on condoms confirmed. ""You cannot anymore raise the objection that any use of the condom is an intrinsic evil."
2010-11-24,"Iran's parliament revealed it planned to impeach President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but refrained under orders from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, exposing a deepening division within the regime."
2010-11-24,29 miners confirmed dead after New Zealand mine explosion :(
2010-11-24,"Irish unveil harshest cuts, tax hikes in history ~ Preview of what is in store for the US?"
2010-11-24,"Putin Says Russian Yuan Trade to Start Next Month
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2010-11-24,"China, Russia quit dollar in trade settlement"
2010-11-23,"North Korea has fired several artillery shells across its western maritime border, prompting return fire from South Korea"
2010-11-23,"Americans favor end of sanctions against Cuba by 2-1 margin, but count on GOP to stall any freedom to travel bills"
2010-11-23,"""I am urging you Iranians in Sweden to please email Ericsson and object and say, 'Why are you selling the Iranian government software with which it can control its people',"" Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi said."
2010-11-23,"India deploys 36,000 extra troops on Chinese border"
2010-11-23,"South Korean island of Yeongpyeong, after the firing of North Korean artillery - Photos"
2010-11-23,Kuwait bans the use of DSLR cameras in public places by anyone other than accredited journalists.
2010-11-23,North Korea fires artillery onto South Korean island. Reports saying South Korea firing back.
2010-11-23,"378 trampled to death in Cambodia. (Nov 23, 2010)"
2010-11-23,"Israel Defense Forces uses Facebook to catch 1,000 draft-dodging women who avoid military service by declaring that they're religiously observant "
2010-11-23,N. Korea shells S. Korean island.
2010-11-23,"Veterans: Soviets in Afghanistan - More than 600,000 troops participated in the Soviet Union's decade-long war in Afghanistan, the USSR's largest military operation since WWII. Yet for many in...former Soviet countries, the conflict is one they would rather forget and is regarded with humiliation."
2010-11-23,BBC News - German Army to Suspend Conscription in 2011
2010-11-23,"Hm.  South Korea just said that it will only retaliate if there are ""additional provocations"".  Sounds like they've swallowed that frog - bravo for them"
2010-11-23,South Korea threatens to launch missiles at North Korea after deadly clash. 
2010-11-23,"ABSURD: Kuwait bans all photography, except for use by journalists"
2010-11-23,Mexican hitman's chilling tale 
2010-11-23,"North Korea opens fire on inhabited South Korean island 14 Soldiers and 2 Civilians injured, South Korea returns fire"
2010-11-23,Two South Korean marines have reportedly died now. Here is the first video footage of the North Korean artillery fire that did it.
2010-11-23,"For months, the secret talks unfolding between Taliban and Afghan leaders to end the war appeared to be showing promise, if only because of the appearance of a certain insurgent leader at one end of the table, who has now turned out to be an impostor."
2010-11-23,"Meanwhile, in North Korea..""In a military provocation, the South Korean puppets started firing over the region of the Yeonpyeong Island in the Chosun West Sea from 13:00, despite our repeated warnings. "
2010-11-23,Four S. Korean soldiers wounded by N. Korean artillery fire: military officials 
2010-11-23,"'A Large Proportion of Catholic Clerics and Trainee Priests Are Homosexual' - David Berger, a gay theologian who has written a book about his experiences as a senior theologian in the Catholic Church, speaks to SPIEGEL about homophobia and the church's shift to the right."
2010-11-23,Secret maritime history of the Aborigines in settling of Australia
2010-11-23,NATO's top civilian envoy to Afghanistan: Kids safer in Afghan cities than NYC 
2010-11-23,Somali Piracy Is a Problem for the World
2010-11-22,"Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the world wide web, warns that we need to defend the web, or else it could break up into fragmented islands, led by Apple, Facebook and Google."
2010-11-22,"BBC News - Tigers threatened by extinction as only 3,000 left"
2010-11-22,"Vladimir Putin and World Bank chief stage a campaign to double the number of tigers in the wild by 2022, the highest level political meeting to ever discuss a single species."
2010-11-22,"A Russia Today news crew has been detained in the U.S. as they filmed a rally near a military training academy dubbed by critics the 'School of Assassins'. A cameraman and a correspondent have been taken into custody in the state of Georgia, along with a number of activists."
2010-11-22,WTF...Vatican directive on child protection wont make abuse reporting mandatory
2010-11-22,29 Miners trapped in a coal mine in New Zealand. Haven't been heard from in 3 days. Rescuers are yet to enter the mine.
2010-11-22,At least 339 people killed in stampede in Cambodia's Water Festival
2010-11-22,'These are human beings we are dealing with' -- Fighting Prisoner Rape in South Africa
2010-11-22,"Gallery of photos from November 15th apartment fire in Shanghai, which claimed 58 people [pics]"
2010-11-22,"[6 year old] A-Long doesnt actually believe that there is anything bad about living alone, because he has Old Black."
2010-11-22,Ireland is having a Lehmans moment: The next 24 hours will be vital  and not just for Ireland.
2010-11-22,"Iraq has run out of money to pay for widows' benefits, farm crops and other programs for the poor, the parliament leader on Sunday told lawmakers who have collected nearly $180,000 so far this year in one of the world's most oil-rich nations."
2010-11-22,Ireland fears civil unrest as bank crisis deepens 
2010-11-22,Cell ringtone sparks Indonesian tribal war
2010-11-22,"Cuba cutting everything but security - Cuba is making drastic cuts in public employment and spending but not in its security apparatus, Communist Party documents show."
2010-11-22,"Chihuahua, Mexico - Cartels threaten to hurt students if teachers don't give up their Christmas Bonuses"
2010-11-22,Japan's justice minister resigns after causing outrage for joking about how easy his job was.
2010-11-22,TSA Forces Woman To Cut Off Her Nipple Rings With Pliers (Video)
2010-11-22,US Embassy: Beijing Air Quality Is 'Crazy Bad' -- NPR
2010-11-22,Republic of Ireland confirms EU financial rescue deal
2010-11-22,"WHO: A billion people cannot afford any health services, and paying for healthcare pushes about 100 million people a year into poverty "
2010-11-22,Israeli Soldiers Avoid Jail in Human Shield Case - Truthdig
2010-11-22,Debt-Crippled Ireland Asks EU for Massive Bailout.
2010-11-22,"Football betting now legal in Vietnam - The Ministry of Finance has decided to legalise football betting for two reasons. First, it wants have control over football betting, which - despite the ban - has been carried out on a massive scale..."
2010-11-22,BBC News - North Korea nuclear plant confirms US suspicions
2010-11-21,An amsterdam artist overlayed modern photos of the city with WW2-time pictures she found at a flea market
2010-11-21,Pope Benedict says condom use justified - for male prostitutes
2010-11-21,UN removes sexual orientation from list of discriminatory grounds for executions - OKs executing gays.
2010-11-21,Rights group Amnesty International: The U.S must prosecute former President George W. Bush for torture if his admission in a memoir that he authorized waterboarding holds true
2010-11-21,Israeli court-martial passed suspended jail sentences to two soldiers who forced a Palestinian boy to search for suspected booby-traps on their behalf during the Gaza Strip war.. basically they would go free
2010-11-21,"So what would a better security system look like for our airports? Some suggest ""Israelification"" - a 6-layer security protocol Israel uses: no nudie-scanner, not looking for liquids, your shoes, they just look at you, your face, your eyes"
2010-11-21,Intelligence documents used to argue that Iran had a covert R&D nuclear weapons programme in 2003 had a fatal flaw: the drawings showed the wrong missile warhead 
2010-11-21,Wrongly deported Iranian was tortured: Aland Salimi says police in Baghdad beat and starved him after he was flown to Iraq from Britain
2010-11-21,Indonesian government steps up heat on S. Arabia over worker abuse
2010-11-21,"Monsoon, the fashion retailer, pioneered ethical shopping but internal audits reveal its suppliers used child labour and underpaid workers"
2010-11-21,Report: North Korea claims it is enriching uranium at new plant
2010-11-21,BBC News - Flock of 500 sheep vanishes in eastern Georgia
2010-11-21,AIPAC: Fighting for survival
2010-11-21,Ireland asks for 70bn EU bailout to rescue banks
2010-11-21,"Honor Killing in Iraqi Kurdistan -  More than 12,000 women were killed in the name of honor in Kurdistan from 1991 to 2007"
2010-11-21,Now Britain's Men-Only Clubs Have to Let in the Ladies
2010-11-21,Rise of the robots and the future of war
2010-11-21,"Mideast politics: Egypt on the brink
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2010-11-21,Cougar hires Nigerians to kill young rugby player who has spurned her love....picks the wrong Nigerians
2010-11-21,"When the U.N. ranked the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in 1971, there were only 25 nations. Now there 50 with the dubious distinction of being the ""poorest of the world's poor"" -- what happened?"
2010-11-21,U.S. expert saw hundreds of centrifuges in North Korea.
2010-11-21,"India, China buying U.S. coal mines, shale gas fields"
2010-11-21,British mercenaries hired to take on the Somali pirates 
2010-11-21,Japan plans troop deployment near disputed islands: Nikkei
2010-11-21,"The endgame for the peace process: Future historians will argue over the precise moment when the Arab-Israeli peace process died.
 
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2010-11-20,92% of 1000 afghan men interviewed in Helmund and Kanhdahar provinces unaware of 9/11 according to UN study
2010-11-20,One of the Most Highly Decorated Military Personnel in Your Country turns out to be a Psychotic Torturer and Killer.  How Should that Nation Respond?  Here is One Response.
2010-11-20,"Indonesian maid tortured in Saudi Arabia, another beaten to death: In room 365 at the orthopedic ward in King Fahd Hospital in Madina, Mustapa looked deformed as if her scalp had been peeled offburns are scattered all over her lean body."
2010-11-20,Bankers did more economic harm 'than IRA' - The Irish Times 
2010-11-20,"Portugal's drug policy: Treating, not punishing"
2010-11-20,IRA threatens to blow up bankers.
2010-11-20,"Is this the nastiest film ever made? -                     One US distributor fainted as he tried to leave a screening of A Serbian Film earlier this year, hit his head on the door and ended up needing stitches. The film's British sales agent was left hurriedly trying to clear up the pool of blood."
2010-11-20,"No visa for you -- Official US visa refusal rates for 2010, sorted by country"
2010-11-20,"According to information obtained by German security authorities, al-Qaida and associated groups are believed to be planning an attack on the Reichstag building in Berlin, the headquarters of Germany's parliament"
2010-11-20,BBC News - Obama: Missile defence shield for all Nato members
2010-11-20,"Lao: These are the scars of the U.S. government's nine-year-long ""secret"" bombing campaign over this small, landlocked country that borders Vietnam to the east. U.S. bombing records show that over 20,000 missions involving the release of roughly 46 million cluster munitions occurred"
2010-11-20,Dutch government attempts to ban sale of marijuana to tourists  - Telegraph
2010-11-20,Deep rooted corruption in Indian media exposed. Whole Indian media silent. 
2010-11-20,"Fake bomb made in the US caused Germany terror alert
German interior minister says suspicious package found in Namibia was manufactured to test airport security"
2010-11-20,US tanks go in to Afghanistan amid warnings over air strikes toll
2010-11-20,"Gazans shocked at how many neighbors, coworkers, officials are 'spying' for Israel"
2010-11-20,Israeli wanted by Colombia for training right-wing militias released in Russia
2010-11-20,Thailand: Red Shirts flood centre of Bangkok again
2010-11-20,"Northern Mexico's state of anarchy 
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2010-11-20,Berlusconi aide was 'liaison' with mafia: court ruling
2010-11-20,Cholera protesters in Haiti capital stone U.N. patrol 
2010-11-20,Pope Benedict XVI  Male prostitutes permitted to use condoms.
2010-11-20,"Bolivia's army declares itself ""socialist,"" ""anti-
capitalist,"" and ""anti-imperialist."""
2010-11-20,Electrical car blamed for ferry fire
2010-11-20,"Europpean Soccer Star calls for Revolution:  Decemeber 7th is ""Banker Mutiny Day""!!"
2010-11-19,"Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, advises George W. Bush not to bring his book tour to Britain, because ""he might never see Texas again."""
2010-11-19,"At the end of the Haj, Saudi King Abdullah calls for moderation, saying, ""The perpetrators of terror represent none but themselves even though they appear in the guise of Islam, which is, in fact, far away from them.""
      
    
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2010-11-19,"Remember the Reddit story about Costa Rica becoming the happiest country since it abolished its military?  Now Nicaraguan troops are camped on its territory, facing no opposition."
2010-11-19,"For the first time in more than 70 years, the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony may be postponed, amid intensive efforts by the Chinese government to disrupt the event. "
2010-11-19,Worm Was Perfect for Sabotaging Centrifuges - Experts dissecting the computer worm suspected of being aimed at Irans nuclear program have determined that it was precisely calibrated in a way that could send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control.
2010-11-19,"Julian Assange hits back at Sweden over rape arrest warrant - WikiLeaks editor says Swedish authorities behaviour is not a prosecution, but a persecution.'"
2010-11-19,"Johann Hari: The religious excuse for barbarity - Halal and kosher butchery made sense in the sixth century when you needed to be sure your meat was fresh, No excuse for it in modern times. Just plain cruel. If this is religion, it doesn't deserve respect."
2010-11-19,'Miners missing' after NZ explosion: As many as 30 workers are reportedly missing after an explosion
2010-11-19,"Ortegas Land Grab - 
Nicaragua has invaded Costa Rican territory. How will the U.S. respond?"
2010-11-19,27 New Zealand miners missing after explosion
2010-11-19,French farmer fined for 'deworming' ducks with cannabis
2010-11-19,Cannabinoids Reduce Multi-Drug Resisant Infections
2010-11-19,Experts call for ban on HGVs in Britain's cities to protect cyclists
2010-11-19,Wikileaks founder wanted by Interpol to answer rape charges
2010-11-19,"Few Afghans know reason for war, new study shows"
2010-11-19,"Escalation in Gaza: For first time since July, and after assassination of two senior Army of Islam members, Palestinians fire Grad rocket into Israel."
2010-11-19,A Hunger Strike Divides Switzerland
2010-11-19,"Russias Cyrillic Cybernauts - 
No need for a Chinese-style ""great firewall"" to contain Russia's internet. Kremlin can just pick up the phone, and talk to Mail.ru, which went public this month, and which controls 70% of Russian page-views"
2010-11-19,Why Desperate Haitians Want to Kick Out UN Troops: The crisis follows decades of economic exploitation and gifts with chains attached  no wonder its citizens are angry
2010-11-19,"British government reports all spending over 25,000."
2010-11-19,"As a group of international experts arrived in Dublin on Thursday, the Irish government finally seemed to admit that it was unable to cope with its massive banking crisis alone."
2010-11-19,Modern Warfare:  Computer worm was designed to send Irans nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control
2010-11-19,"12 acres of West Bank land burned - by ""peace activists"""
2010-11-19,Scientists Capture Antimatter Atoms in Particle Breakthrough!
2010-11-19,"Abdelrahman was arrested on October 30 by the security services in Khartoum. No-one knows where he is being held. As a consequence of operating as an independent journalist, he has been accused of crimes against the state - an extremely serious offence in Sudan. "
2010-11-18,Remand request issued for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange - The Local
2010-11-18,"Almost all borrowers in one of Indias largest states have stopped repaying their loans, egged on by politicians who accuse the industry of earning outsize profits on the backs of the poor"
2010-11-18,"13 dead, as strange disease spreads in Uganda: We were suspecting viral hemorrhagic infection, but results from Uganda Virus Research Institute have ruled out Ebola, Marburg and Lassa. "
2010-11-18,Here we go again. Bomb in Luggage found in Nambia on the way to Germany. Lets see what new security bullshit gets create this time.
2010-11-18,"Dutch government wants to ban tourists from buying cannabis in ""coffee shops,"" where hash is on sale legally"
2010-11-18,"Labour MP Tom Watson has tabled a motion on net neutrality, succinctly explaining some complicated issues"
2010-11-18,Julian Assange challenges Swedish arrest ruling 
2010-11-18,Chinese woman sentenced to a year in labour camp over tweet
2010-11-18,"Here is a link to the blog by Anna Arden, who is accusing Julian Assange of rape. It is blocked online and I don't know how these guys got it, but Sweden needs to pay attention to the sanity of it's citizens before wrecking Assange's life."
2010-11-18,"What's the newest propaganda for occupying Afghanistan? A rerun of the Iraq refrain: There'll be ""eye-watering violence"" if we leave."
2010-11-18,Why 300 million more people are suddenly poor
2010-11-18,"Suu Kyi, UN Secretary General Ban call for release of Myanmar Political Prisoners"
2010-11-18,Drug Cartel Violence Erupts in Mexico's Border Towns | CNN International
2010-11-18,Arrest order for Wikileaks' Julian Assange issued in Sweden
2010-11-18,China sentences woman to labor camp for Twitter post
2010-11-18,French Embassy in Tehran Attacked By Iranian Regime Security Personnel
2010-11-18,"Pentagon says 2014 Afghan deadline ""aspirational""
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2010-11-18,India's microcredit industry may be near to collapse 
2010-11-18,"Is China drunk on its new great-power status, or is its assertiveness abroad a symptom of weakness at home?"
2010-11-18,"South Africas largest circulation weekly newspaper, the Sunday Times, this month reached a milestone: It is the first national paper to publish an edition in Zulu."
2010-11-18,Hong Kong diagnoses first bird flu case in seven years
2010-11-18,"Chinas Censors Misfire in Abuse-of-Power Case -  grievance focuses on what Chinese mockingly call the guan er dai and fu er dai  the second generation, children of privileged government officials and the super-rich."
2010-11-18,"Economic crash to drive 100,000 out of Ireland"
2010-11-18,Unemployed English Girl to Wed Soldier from Welfare Family 
2010-11-18,"Japan is ageing faster than any country in history, with vast consequences for its economy and society."
2010-11-17,"Major spy scandal as Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Iceland catch the U.S. watching their citizens"
2010-11-17,Freedom Of Speech 1 - Police 0. British police try to take down website that advises student protestors on how to avoid arrest. More than 70 websites respond by publishing this same advice
2010-11-17,Evangelical Christians in Brazil have banned the use of USB connections after claiming the technology is the mark of Satan-worshippers.
2010-11-17,"UK Government comes out against net neutrality: ""the market should decide the extent to which service providers can charge for preferential content delivery and slow down other traffic"""
2010-11-17,BBC picks up the TSA touching my junk story
2010-11-17,Ireland: ANGRY protesters gathered at the home of disgraced former banker to demand he be thrown in jail
2010-11-17,"Tigers Near Extinction: The total number worldwide is fewer than 3,500. Three subspecies - Javan, Bali, and Caspian tigers - vanished during the 20th century. A fourth, the South China tiger, has not been seen in the wild for more than 25 years and is assumed to be extinct"
2010-11-17,"Canada's Senate kills climate change bill
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2010-11-17,Madagascar military officers claim they have taken the island in a coup
2010-11-17,"Europe's corruption capital: How corruption in Greece prolongs its recession, which is pushing a continent to the brink"
2010-11-17,Australia wants to censor all images of smoking on the web.Good luck with that.
2010-11-17,How China swallowed 15% of 'Net traffic for 18 minutes
2010-11-17,China's 'Me Generation' Sends Divorce Rate Soaring  
2010-11-17,"Muslims set fire to at least 10 houses belonging to Coptic Christians in a southern Egypt village over rumors that a Christian resident had an affair with a Muslim girl, security officials said."
2010-11-17,"""Darfur, Zimbabwe, Burma, North Korea, anywhere that the concept of human rights doesn't exist, it's always the Chinese at backstop. And always for reasons that you could write down in three words: blood for oil."" Extensive Hitchens interview"
2010-11-17,"The suffering of Iraq's Christians - Some call us agents of the West, a Chaldean patriarch said. But when the American bombs fall, they are not especially aimed at Muslims or Christians. Theyre for everybody."
2010-11-17,Kim Jong-Un purging senior party and military officials in North Korea
2010-11-17,Sudan registers to vote to split country: Thousands line up to be able to vote on a referendum that could divide Sudan in half
2010-11-17,Get ready to kiss goodbye to net neutrality in the UK
2010-11-17,Israeli retreat on Lebanon border may split village
2010-11-17,Organs and bones were illegally harvested from the bodies of dead nuclear industry workers at Sellafield
2010-11-17,"World's newest nation would start almost from scratch. Doesn't even have a Treasury. ""Paychecks"" are handed out in paper bags full of cash. And that's the good news."
2010-11-17,"Prime Minister of Madagascar vows to squash rebellion: ""I don't know what mosquito bit them, but they have broken ranks and committed an error."""
2010-11-17,"Yemen's New Escort Service - Starved for revenue and riddled with corruption, the Yemeni navy and coast guard have adopted a novel fundraising strategy: guns for hire."
2010-11-17,"Rogue Trader Jerome Kerviel, sentenced to five years in jail for losing almost 5 billion euros of his employer's money - 
'I Was Merely a Small Cog in the Machine'"
2010-11-16,"While you're getting groped by the TSA, here's a reminder of how it's done in Israel: High security, little bother"
2010-11-16,Second squadron of 20 F-35s is an offer hard to refuse say Israeli defense officials considering it will be free
2010-11-16,"R. Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen opposes transfer of $150M in aid promised to Palestine; ""as long as the Palestinian leaders receive unconditional aid they have no reason to change their ways and be committed to peace."""
2010-11-16,"McDonald's, KFC, PepsiCo & Mars Invited to Write UK Policy on Diet & Health"
2010-11-16,Death sentence for migrant worker - Reddit! I think we should give this news some priority.
2010-11-16,"Preparing for 2016 Olympics, Brazil invades slums, which are so dense & dangerous it's like attacking a foreign country"
2010-11-16,Guantnamo Bay detainees to be paid millions in compensation for alleged UK complicity in torture and extraordinary rendition.
2010-11-16,"Haitians riot, blame UN troops for cholera: Protesters hurl rocks, set fire to police station"
2010-11-16,"Mexican paper reports drug war, despite threats"
2010-11-16,My eyes are sweating: Hero dog who survived the Afghan war is mistakenly put down at an animal shelter.
2010-11-16,Haiti rioters attack UN troops - Anti-UN riots spread to several Haitian cities as protesters blaming foreign peacekeepers for a deadly outbreak of cholera exchanged gunfire with soldiers.
2010-11-16,More and more Irish people are leaving the stricken country
2010-11-16,Mexico's $80M boom industry: Bulletproof cars
2010-11-16,"The toll in the collapse of a five-story residential building in the India capital, New Delhi, climbed to 55 killed and at least 70 injured"
2010-11-16,"How I Became An Oligarch - 
Speech from Russia's third-richest man. Life story, reflections on business environment, what it takes to get ahead. ""Of all the types of human activity, entrepreneurship is in some sense the closest to war"""
2010-11-16,The difference between life and death in Haiti is now an ordinary bar of soap.
2010-11-16,Pakistan vs. Haiti - Which Received More Aid? (Raw Image)
2010-11-16,Extradition of 'arms dealer' Viktor Bout goes ahead
2010-11-16,Bunga-Bunga Nation: Berlusconi's Italy Hurts Women 
2010-11-16,"Sultan of the Muslim World | Modern Turkey born as Muslim state. Secular nationalism guided foreign policy for decades. But no more. AKP has exploited post 9/11 geopolitics to restore Muslim identity, bid for leadership of Muslim world"
2010-11-16,"While the US government is entertaining mind boggling deficits, a crises plagued economy and printing money like a tin-pot dictatorship. It is more than happy to fund others colonisation enterprises."
2010-11-16,UK government settles out of court with 16 Guantanamo detainees who were held by US forces
2010-11-16,"Google says China is breaking net laws: 
Company says China violates WTO rules by limiting net access."
2010-11-16,UK: London Metropolitan Police force closes down anti-police blog on the authority of a single police officer.
2010-11-16,Ireland isn't working: Celtic Tiger becomes sick man of Europe
2010-11-15,"Boris Johnson: George W. Bush cant fight for freedom and authorise torture. If the Wests aim is to spread the rule of law, it cannot be achieved by vile means"
2010-11-15,"Taliban Commander:  ""There are no al-Qa'ida fighters in Afghanistan any more. I have fought in the south and in the east as well as here. In seven years of operations I have not seen a single al-Qa'ida fighter. Not one."""
2010-11-15,"Settlers torch West Bank olive trees - Israeli settlers have torched hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in the occupied West Bank, in another sign that extremists are targeting a key product of the Palestinian economy."
2010-11-15,Maariyamma is likely to be killed by her children because they cannot afford her. She is just one of many old parents in a southern Indian state dying in this way. But no one blinks at these ritual murders.
2010-11-15,Ireland's young flee abroad as economic meltdown looms.
2010-11-15,"""A two-year-old girl suffering from leukemia died while waiting for an urgent referral to an Israeli hospital. Since January 2009 a total of 33 patients have died while waiting to access hospitals outside Gaza."""
2010-11-15,Police in Egypt have been accused of beating a teenager to death and dumping his body in a canal.
2010-11-15,"""Hong Kong is officially the world's most wasteful city, generating at least 6.5m tonnes of rubbish last year. """
2010-11-15,Netanyahu presents security cabinet with Clinton's incentive of 20 F-35 fighter planes and security guarantees in exchange for 90-day West Bank building moratorium
2010-11-15,An Entire Village Flees Mexican Drug Violence  
2010-11-15,A Russian Banker And His 7-Man Team Beat Up A Dutch Energy Executive
2010-11-15,Greece's Deficit Revised to Largest in EU as Debt Tops Italy's
2010-11-15,"'Unlawful sex': lovers sentenced to 100 lashes - A Filipina maid and her Bangladeshi lover will receive 100 lashes and be deported for having sex out of wedlock in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, a newspaper said on Monday."
2010-11-15,U.K. Politician Arrested for 'Glib' Twitter Threats
2010-11-15,Hard questions about the new American handouts with an Israeli settlement representative you will not see elsewhere
2010-11-15,The Internet's new billion: New web users in countries like Brazil and China are changing the culture of the internet.
2010-11-15,Interpol hunts two Israelis for Kosovo organ trafficking
2010-11-15,UK Peer: Israel feeds global terrorism - A long-time politician with the UK Liberal Democratic party says the Israeli regime is feeding global terrorism by mistreating Palestinians. 
2010-11-15,Mexico Arrests 12-Year-Old Cartel Hitman
2010-11-15,TSA Caves On Molesting Pilots
2010-11-15,Impending indictments in Hariri killing could shake Lebanon to its core
2010-11-15,At least 32 killed in building collapse in Indian capital
2010-11-15,Shanghai high-rise on fire
2010-11-15,"Letter From Iran - 
Satellite TV channel co-owned by Rupert Murdoch floods Iran with Colombian soap operas. Critics say ""tales of material aspiration and shots of well-built women in halter tops undermine Islamic identity"""
2010-11-15,British wife of a millionaire businessman killed in South Africa
2010-11-14,"Deadly terrorism existed before 9/11: We've been dealing with the same threats for decades. But we used to be a lot calmer about it, less self-defeating "
2010-11-14,"Under the guise of developing ""climate-ready"" crops, the worlds largest seed and agrochemical corporations are pressuring governments to allow what could become the broadest and most dangerous patent claims in intellectual property history."
2010-11-14,Singer James Blunt 'stopped World War 3' -- refused order from US General to attack Russian troops
2010-11-14,Haiti cholera death toll passes 900
2010-11-14,"The world's best pound-for-pound fighter, the Philippine congressman Manny Pacquiao, wins his eighth world boxing title in eight weight divisions. It's never been done before and probably won't ever be again"
2010-11-14,France has a new anti-hero: bank robber Tony Musulin. French join up to fan club after security guard pulls audacious robbery without a shot fired
2010-11-14,Forget GDP: These Are the Most Advanced Countries in the World - Norway is number one! 
2010-11-14,Sinn Fin leader Gerry Adams to run for election in the Irish Republic 
2010-11-14,"Israel, the world leader in water recycling, has developed a billion dollar industry of exporting its waste water reuse technologies and expertise"
2010-11-14,"Capitalism's tough reality for many Russians: 'Churchill famously described Russia as a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma...'"
2010-11-14,Experts argue that Ireland will need a bailout from other members of the eurozone
2010-11-14,Lauren Booth: I'm now a Muslim. Why all the shock and horror? 
2010-11-14,BBC News - Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Muhammad arrested in Lebanon
2010-11-14,Netanyahu Agrees to Push for Freeze in Settlements
2010-11-14,"'Slaughter the Jews!!' -- 40 Angry Palestinians with knives try to beat up a single Israeli student at an Italian University
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2010-11-14,Aung San Suu Kyi 'willing to meet Burma's generals'
2010-11-14,"Hassan Nasrallah gave Lebanon Thursday one last chance to save the country, otherwise his party will ""cut off the hand"" of anyone who tries to arrest any of its members. What kind of superiority could make anyone that condescending? "
2010-11-14,General Sir David Richards: Why we cannot defeat al-Qaeda 
2010-11-14,Somali pirates free British couple
2010-11-14,Is humanitarian aid bad for Africa? - Most of us believe that humanitarian aid is a morally pure way to respond to suffering in the world. But what if our good intentions are just a newer version of colonialism?
2010-11-14,"The West can only contain not defeat militant groups such as al-Qaeda, the head of the UK's armed forces has said"
2010-11-14,Memoirs Trigger New Row Over Iraq: Bush Made Empty Promises to Schrder
2010-11-14,A more pragmatic take on Aung San Suu Kyi
2010-11-14,"After Suu Kyis Release, Dangerous Time Sets In: ""There is no rule of law in Burma,""...""[They're] not releasing her out of respect that she has an important role to play in Burmas political process and national reconciliation."" "
2010-11-14,Bangladesh - More violence over Dhaka eviction
2010-11-13,"Poll: Wikileaks Assange leading Time 'Person of the Year' - Assange, an Australian who has become a thorn in the side of the Pentagon with his releases of secret US military documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, had received 21,736 votes as of Friday."
2010-11-13,A Jewish surgeon refuses to operate on a patient and walks out of the operating room after discovering a nazi tattoo on the patient's arm.
2010-11-13,World Battles Naked Body Scanners: People from all walks of life are rejecting the mass implementation of radiation spewing airport body imaging machines and fighting back against the molestation and groping that women and children are being subjected to at the hands of TSA officials.
2010-11-13,"The Shadow Scholar - Ghost-writer of college papers tells all. ""It's not implausible to write a 75-page paper in two days. It's just miserable. I don't need much sleep, and when I get cranking, I can churn out four or five pages an hour"""
2010-11-13,Drug expert told police Iraq whistleblower David Kelly was 'murdered'
2010-11-13,"Spanish priest arrested over '21,000 child porn images'"
2010-11-13,"New Zealand pro-cannabis protesters bomb police station with cart full of burning marijuana. Activists demonstrate outside parliament in ""one of the happiest protests the political precinct had seen in a long time."" "
2010-11-13,"This man is facing trial in Venezuela just for showing a Tshirt that states ""I shit in your revolution"" (Spanish inside)"
2010-11-13,Heart Attack: McDonald's and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy 
2010-11-13,"Thailand may dump the dollar: 
Thai leader calls for country to use China's Yuan instead of US Dollar."
2010-11-13,Cambodia's first gay town -- Make no mistake: This is not a place to celebrate sexuality. This is a place for survival.
2010-11-13,Vietnam: The Legacy of Agent Orange
2010-11-13,"A mysterious blogger who set off an uproar in the Arab world by claiming he was God and hurling insults at the Prophet Muhammad is now behind bars  caught in a Facebook sting.  The case of the unlikely apostate, a shy barber from a West Bank town, is highlighting the limits of tolerance of the PA"
2010-11-13,Christian woman sentenced to death in Pakistan 'for blasphemy'
2010-11-13,"Teaching the love of death and war: ""Cuba has condemned the release of a new video game in which United States special forces try to kill a young Fidel Castro. State-run media said the game, Call of Duty: Black Ops, attempted to legitimise murder and assassination in the name of entertainment."""
2010-11-13,"The new head of Britain's armed forces, Gen Sir David Richards, has warned that the West cannot defeat al-Qaeda and militant Islam."
2010-11-13,Myanmar activist Aung San Suu Kyi finally released
2010-11-13,Kosovo 'organ trafficking' exposed
2010-11-13,Why on Earth Would Americans Vote the Old Bush-Cheney Agenda Back into Power? Europeans Are Perplexed
2010-11-13, The dog that didn't bark | The curious silencing of Chinas prime minister and his views on political reform
2010-11-13,'Fort Madness:' Britain's Bizarre Sea Defense Against the Germans - 
2010-11-13,China jails mild scandal activist who campaigned for compensation for victims
2010-11-13,"Hey, Reddit, dont get spunbefore you celebrate, you might want to read this: Why it isn't necessarily good news that Burma's most famous dissident may be released."
2010-11-13,"""In 2006, a priest was kidnapped, then found 
beheaded and dismembered; 15 churches have 
been bombed and many other priests killed. Iraqi 
refugees tell me that Christian women have 
suffered kidnap and rape"""
2010-11-13,"Defying Trend, Canada Lures More Migrants"
2010-11-12,"Cyber attack on Nobel peace prize website launched. Stay classy, China."
2010-11-12,Neglected ruins of Pompeii declared a 'disgrace to Italy' 
2010-11-12,"""Under international law, the former President's admission to having authorized
acts that amount to torture are enough to trigger the USA's obligations to
investigate his admissions and if substantiated, to prosecute him.""
 Claudio Cordone, Amnesty International "
2010-11-12,The Danish Peoples Party wants pictures of bare breasts in an introduction film to scare away fundamentalists
2010-11-12,Assertive Chinese Held in Mental Wards 
2010-11-12,"Topless feminists in Kiev, Ukraine protest against Iranian stoning sentence."
2010-11-12,Aung San Suu Kyi release: Burma's military rulers are reportedly on the verge of releasing the country's pro-democracy leader from house arrest.
2010-11-12,European Commissioner Lambasts Copyright Middlemen
2010-11-12,How the mittelstand drive Germany's economy: A surging German economy gives it little reason to cooperate with US at G20 summit
2010-11-12,Disney world in which Chinese children 'toil for 76 hours a week'
2010-11-12,Pakistan sentences Christian woman to death for blasphemy 
2010-11-12,Photos showing brutal massacre of Tamils by the Sri Lankan army have been obtained by Al Jazeera
2010-11-12,"Canadian Universities: ""Too Asian"" - White Canadian studentsas interviewed heresteer clear of universities with high Asian enrolment. Too much academic competition, not enough fun. Same situation in CA UC system.  Reasonable viewpoint, or thinly-veiled racism?"
2010-11-12,BREAKING: Burma generals sign Aung San Suu Kyi release order 
2010-11-12,Aung San Suu Kyi 'could be released later today' 
2010-11-12,'I Am Spartacus:' Man Convicted For Tweet; Virtual Protest Erupts
2010-11-12,Chilean government supports Muslim school girl use of hijab
2010-11-12,"In Haiti, residents of the capital's largest slum have been demonstrating over the cholera outbreak. The protesters say the government and the UN have failed to protect them and vent their anger at NGO's in the country. "
2010-11-12,A Chinese vase discovered during a routine clear-out of a bungalow in northwest London has sold at auction for a record 43million!
2010-11-12,Costa Rica Gives Nicaragua Another 24 Hours (to remove it's troops)
2010-11-12,Haiti cholera outbreak prompts fresh UN aid plea
2010-11-12,"ANCYL threatens to close down Twitter, South African internet users respond in the time-honoured traditions of the internet"
2010-11-12,"""What kind of mentality is that? I can't believe that I need to listen to this in the year 2010 in a Europe that is supposed to be the centre of tolerance and human rights. Others learned these values from you and now you're turning your backs on these values."""
2010-11-12,"Croatia Considers VAT on Food and Medicine - In an effort to meet int'l debt obligations and bring the national budget closer to balance, the government of Jadranka Kosor is considering the introduction of VAT on items such as milk, bread and medicines."
2010-11-12,"Since Time magazine instituted its Man of the Year issue in 1927, there have been many embarrassing moments. What is the history of this accolade and why have the editors of the magazine insisted so often on getting it wrong?"
2010-11-11,"Chinese Premier says ""I believe freedom of speech is indispensable for any country"" in interview; interview then censored by gov't in China"
2010-11-11,China puts everyone who know Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo under house arrest. Still unclear who will receive the award on his behalf.
2010-11-11,Respected indigenous Colombian healer arrested at Houston Int'l Airport for possession of the traditional medicine Ayahuasca (with permission from the Colombian government). He's now facing 20 years in prison.
2010-11-11,A heterosexual couple will request a civil partnership - available only to same-sex couples in the UK - to take a stand against system segregates couples according to their sexuality
2010-11-11,Norway declines funding for mosque-building projects from Saudi Arabia due to the lack of religious freedoms in the donor country.
2010-11-11,Russian assassin 'sent to kill double agent who betrayed Anna Chapman'
2010-11-11,Thousands Of Students Protest In London Against Tuition Fees And Smash Windows And Start Fires
2010-11-11,"Israeli warplanes bombard Gaza Strip - Amid international efforts to return Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) to direct talks, Israeli warplanes have once again bombed Palestinian targets. "
2010-11-11,Princess Hijab is a graffiti artist who daubs hijabs and burkas on advertising posters in the Paris Metro.
2010-11-11,China Sentences Tainted Milk Powder Activist to Jail  - 2 Years For Speaking Out Against An 'Accident' That Killed 6 And Sickened 300K.
2010-11-11,Mother of five sentenced to death for blasphemy
2010-11-11,"Gold prices break a new record, but in this digital age, isn't basing the global economy on hefty slabs of metal a bit like promoting horse and buggies as a solution to Beijings traffic? Not according to the World Bank."
2010-11-11,Demonstrator who threw extinguisher off roof 'should face attempted murder charge'
2010-11-11,"El Ponchis, the gangland hitman who is terrorising Mexico.... at the age of 12"
2010-11-11,"Australia's High Court upholds rights of asylum seekers processed ""offshore"" by government to avoid allowing appeals"
2010-11-11,Pentagon says mystery plume was caused by plane
2010-11-11,"Ireland's Fate Tied to Doomed Banks - . ""The story reads like one of those epic lyric tragedies of old, where no one ever learns from their mistakes, and errors compound endlessly"""
2010-11-11,China buys up the world | The Economist
2010-11-11,Anti-corruption campaigners have called on Western governments to follow France's lead in allowing an investigation into the assets of three African leaders accused of looting their countries to fund lavish purchases in the rich world.
2010-11-11,Why cocaine is the drug of choice for British youth 
2010-11-11,Lines of Latitude - Lawyer issues verdict on Japan-China clash over disputed Diaoyu/Senkaku islands. Japan doubly wrong. Wrong in history to claim ownership of islands. Wrong in law to claim 200-mile zone around them
2010-11-11,"South Africa, Congo close to huge land deal - The deal - part of Congo's plan to improve food security by allowing South African farmers to lease land for up to 105 years to grow maize, soya beans as well as for poultry and dairy - will be one of the biggest land agreements on the continent."
2010-11-11,"If sanctions dont work on Iran, what would Lindsey Graham do?  ""sink their navy, destroy their air force and deliver a decisive blow to the Revolutionary Guard. In other words, neuter that regime."""
2010-11-11,US rebukes Israel on settlements 
2010-11-11,"The secrets of evolution unearthed in Highlands, Scotland"
2010-11-10,"Why children are horrifically good soldiers - Theyre small enough to transport easily in large numbers, yet big enough to handle modern lightweight arms...They have no real sense of fear and, when indoctrinated young enough, their capacity for loyalty and for barbarism exceeds that of adults."
2010-11-10,An Albino gets elected to Tanzanias parliament. One of his goals?  Stop the gruesome trade in albino body parts that has emerged in recent years.  
2010-11-10,Pilots Association urges airline pilots to opt out of TSA naked body scanners
2010-11-10,"Chinese Justice - Fuck China, Stop purchasing their tainted shitty products..."
2010-11-10,Norwegian Nobel Committee hacked - China could you be more obvious?
2010-11-10,Ex-German leader Gerhard Schroeder says George Bush is lying in new book
2010-11-10,Iran fails to get seat in UN women's rights agency; but Saudi Arabia did. WTF?
2010-11-10,"China jails tainted milk activist Zhao Lianhai 2 & 1/2 years for ""inciting social disorder"""
2010-11-10,Is there no end to the lies that George Bush will tell? 
2010-11-10,Sarkozy signs bill increasing pension age despite protests
2010-11-10,Former United Kingdom Intelligence Chief all but calls George W. Bush a Liar
2010-11-10,"""It takes a certain minimal intelligence for the truly dim to have a notion of their own dimness, but this is denied George Bush. He has the self-awareness of a bison"""
2010-11-10,"Iraqs Christians urged to flee en masse after more attacks: About 400,000 Christians left in Iraq, down from 800,000 before Bushs invasion"
2010-11-10,A father who organized a support group for other parents whose children were sickened in one of China's worst food safety scandals was convicted and sentenced Wednesday to 2 1/2 years in prison for inciting social disorder
2010-11-10,The Arab myth of western women
2010-11-10,"Oil curse reaches Uganda. Before the oil has even started flowing, it has already caused conflicts over land, speculative buying, and murder - ""Oil has monetised things such as land which used to be free, and because people are not used to that the whole social fabric is likely to change."""
2010-11-10,"Thousands of Yemeni tribesmen vowed to back the government's efforts in its battles against al-Qaida: ""We will fight against al-Qaida group as it harmed the reputation of the country, Yemeni tribes and Muslims...We expressed our sorrow to all countries and people who were harmed by al-Qaida."""
2010-11-10,Top 10 List of Most Corrupt Countries
2010-11-10,"About Costa Rica, Nicaragua, their mutual border, and Google  |  Did Nicaragua really use Google Maps' cartography to justify seizing a bit of Costa Rica? Well, it's a bit more complicated than that, with plenty of history attached. Here's the full story. With lots of maps"
2010-11-10,"A fund dedicated to collecting reparations for Holocaust
survivors from the German government was defrauded of
more than $42 million over 16 years by a group that
included six employees and custodians of the fund. "
2010-11-10,Deadly red-backs invade New Zealand
2010-11-10,"'Our Export Success Shows How Competitive German Products Are' - In interviews, Germany leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, are defending their country's trade surpluses and warning against currency wars. Her words are unlikely to find a warm welcome in Washington."
2010-11-10,"Save UK carrier force by scrapping Tornado, call from Marine General"
2010-11-10,Aristocracy still owns a third of Britain's land
2010-11-10,North Korea's nuclear chief arrested for 'passing secrets to a foreign power'
2010-11-09,"Don't know if you noticed already, but there is some heavy anti-nuclear protest going on in Germany this weekend. (50.000+ protesters)"
2010-11-09,World Bank head calls for monetary system linked to gold.
2010-11-09,EU condemns Israeli building in east Jerusalem
2010-11-09,"Muslim woman has her veil torn off by French extremist in Paris in first recorded case of ""Burka rage"""
2010-11-09,"UK English still rules the World, contrary to popular believe over American English according to International Study"
2010-11-09,EU new data strategy will give consumers the right to be forgotten  to ask for your data to be completely removed once it has served its original purpose. Dateline 15 January 2011 for your comments to proposed legislation
2010-11-09,"EU-India free trade agreement threatens access to HIV drugs - The EU is ""pushing for data exclusivity, which means Indian generics manufacturers would no longer be able to use existing studies to make identical drugs"""
2010-11-09,"Ireland slowly locates its ""disappeared"": The body of a man killed by the IRA in 1973 is found buried on a beach"
2010-11-09,Update on the Hungarian midwife facing five years in Hungarian prison for championing home births
2010-11-09,"30,000 Dutch households to receive marijuana-scented scratch cards in a bid to uncover illegal urban cannabis plantations"
2010-11-09,"Sweden to probe U.S. surveillance: 
U.S. embassy had a surveillance system in place since 2000."
2010-11-09,EU threatens to block Chinese bids for public contracts - The European Union will block access for Chinese companies bidding for publicly funded contracts unless businesses from Europe get the same access in China
2010-11-09,"An article about the aspects of criticizing Israel in Germany: Kristallnacht commemorations in Germany will include a speech by Alfred Grosser, a prominent Franco-German intellectual who escaped the Nazi regime in 1933 and has become a critic of Israel sparking Jewish ire"
2010-11-09,"Mexico, drug war: Extreme violence causing widespread social problems"
2010-11-09,"First ladys handshake with conservative Muslim raises Indonesian eyebrows
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2010-11-09,Kim Jong-Un promoted to North Korean #2 position following death of National Defence Commission vice chairman.
2010-11-09,"France has offered to grant asylum to 150 Iraqi Christians, including those wounded in church attack."
2010-11-09,Cruise ship stranded without power after fire
2010-11-09,Lesbian couple in Australia banned from high school formal
2010-11-09,"The actual shock of losing everything and having to build yourself up again has occupied people's energies for a very long time. Now, it's time to reclaim our history, our culture, our towns, our architecture, our geography before the Israelis demolish everything.
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2010-11-09,"A Swiss proposal to automatically expel criminal foreigners appears to have the backing of a majority, six weeks ahead of nationwide ballot on the issue."
2010-11-09,600 People Arrested For Opposing Nuclear Plant In India
2010-11-09,"Sri Lanka launches porn star man-hunt - Sri Lankan have newspapers published pictures of people police said had acted in locally produced pornographic films, part of a court-ordered crackdown and the latest sign of growing social conservatism."
2010-11-09,"The Middle East's only democracy?! ""[Israeli] Supreme Court okays Jewish-only buildings in Jaffa."""
2010-11-09,"Report: 1,000 Wild Tigers Killed in Last Decade - CBS News"
2010-11-08,"If you knowingly make false statements about your 
opponent in an election in the UK, you risk the 
election being ruled void after you win."
2010-11-08,"Chilean tourist severely beaten by Jewish extremists 
in Jerusalem, mistaken for Arab."
2010-11-08,World famous British drugs counsellor caught smoking crystal meth with Thai hooker in Bangkok hotel
2010-11-08,"Leading Israeli playwrights, actors and artists say they will not cross the ""Green Line"" - Israel's frontier before it captured the West Bank in 1967 - to perform in the new theater in Ariel, an Israeli enclave of 19,000 people."
2010-11-08,Obama backs India's quest for U.N. permanent seat
2010-11-08,"UK Conservative Party: ""Make long-term unemployed do manual labour"""
2010-11-08,"A fresh report from the Danish Actionaid Denmark, Greenpeace and Noah organisations among others suggests that biofuel produced from maize or palm kernels causes two-and-a-half times as much CO2 emissions as traditional fuel. "
2010-11-08,"Irish Banks: Worse To Come - 
Ireland bust. Government can't afford to cover guarantees to banks. Mortgage crisis just beginning. Attempts to cut other spending like ""rearranging deckchairs, when the iceberg of bank debt will sink us"""
2010-11-08," Red Guards Apologize Forty-four Years Later -  At Beijing school reunion, Red Guards in their 60s apologise to teachers in their 80s for Cultural Revolution hooliganism. But no ceremony for teachers killed: ""inconsistent with harmonious mood"""
2010-11-08,Last week's blowout of an engine on an Airbus A380 after taking off from Singapore has raised fresh concerns about the superjumbo aircraft and cast doubt on the quality of the Rolls-Royce engines that some of them are equipped with.
2010-11-08,British Navy sonar blamed for 33 whale deaths in Ireland
2010-11-08,"Israel announces 1,300 illegal settler homes for East Jerusalem as Netanyahu starts US visit."
2010-11-08,A currency war is brewing between the EU and the US - and Britain is caught in the middle
2010-11-08,"Drug Lord's Death Brings Hope, Fear To Mexican City "
2010-11-08,"Servicemen at 'UK's Abu Ghraib' may be guilty of war crimes, court hears | UK news | The Guardian"
2010-11-08,MEXICO: Violence erupts in Juarez after alleged hit man was slain
2010-11-08,Israel to build more homes in East Jerusalem - The announcement comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Obama administration officials about stalled peace talks with the Palestinians.
2010-11-08,"Israeli police demolish mosque in the Negev where Arabs live in villages that are unrecognized by the government, without municipal services like water and electricity."
2010-11-08,"10,000 Burma refugees flee border fighting"
2010-11-08,"For Afghan Wives, a Desperate, Fiery Way Out - NYTimes.com"
2010-11-08,Der Spiegel Interview With German Finance Minister Schuble
2010-11-08,"Emerging from hell, the dust-caked and bloodied survivors of Mount Merapi's worst eruption yet (w/pics)"
2010-11-08,"A bush bargain? Remote Australian town offers houses for next-to-nothing to lure families ; DIY skills essential, just A$1 a week,"
2010-11-08,Decent countries: individuals with dual citizenship from certain countries like Spain are being asked to sign a document in the IDF in which they declare their understanding that their service in the army may result in loss of their foreign citizenship
2010-11-08,Bar graph: Which countries have the world's highest standard of living (HDI)?
2010-11-07,"The Taliban called on the US Congress on Sunday to send
a ""fact-finding mission"" to Afghanistan to investigate what
they called the lies and propaganda spread by American
military chiefs to prolong the war."
2010-11-07,"Now Sweden accuses U.S. embassy of spying: 
Sweden joins Norway in alleging embassy spied on its citizens."
2010-11-07,Israeli newspaper exposes how gov't helps E. Jerusalem settlements
2010-11-07,Suu Kyi too hot for Asia's most brutal regime to handle
2010-11-07,"Journalist brutally beaten in central Moscow, has his fingers smashed"
2010-11-07,"18 bodies in mass grave are those of kidnapped travellers, Mexican officials say"
2010-11-07,A member of the far-right Swedish Democrats has embarrassed his fellow politicians by by going off on a racist rant in a pub while visiting Iceland.
2010-11-07,World renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei put under house arrest 
2010-11-07,Western focus on HIV prevents us from curing a billion people
2010-11-07,"Google's explanation on the boundary between Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and the faulty Google map that led to the brief accidental Nicaraguan invasion of Costa Rica last week."
2010-11-07,Sudan Deliberately Starving Non-Arab Refugees...
2010-11-07,"High enriched uranium which could be used to make a nuclear bomb is on sale on the black market along the fringes of the former Soviet Union, according to evidence emerging from a secret trial in Georgia."
2010-11-07,"Swedes in shock at King Carl Gustaf sex scandal - ""Strip clubs, illegal clubs, rented ladies who are naked under their fur coats. Women were simply desserts, used as sweets to be served with the coffee,"" wrote Katrine Kielos in the daily Aftonbladet newspaper."
2010-11-07,Feel-good story of the day - Chilean miner crosses finish line at NYC Marathon
2010-11-07,413 Afghan parliamentary candidates charged with election fraud
2010-11-07," The Moral Hazards of Humanitarian Aid: What Is to Be Done? - Journalists too uncritical of aid agencies. They should treat them sceptically, scrutinise consequences of their work, just as they do when dealing with politicians, corporations, interest groups"
2010-11-07,'Sexual predators': Gang of Asian men weep as they are jailed for total of 32 years for abusing white girls as young as 12
2010-11-07,Aung San Suu Kyi to be released days after Burmese election | World news | The Guardian
2010-11-07,Press freedom in Iraq takes a step backward
2010-11-07,US 'has no better friend' than Australia
2010-11-07,"NATO to keep nuclear weapons - NATO leaders are unlikely to agree to reduce the defense organizations tactical nuclear stockpiles when they meet later this month, defense officials said Saturday."
2010-11-07,"Korean Banksy draws a rat on a G20 Summit promotion poster. A government official says he is ""defaming the global event"", issuing an arrest warrant, which is later rejected by the court."
2010-11-07,Vladimir Putin's latest stunt - driving an F1 race car.  What's next? Will he pop up to the International Space Station for vodka and caviar?
2010-11-07,Voting under way in Myanmar - Polling stations open in country's first elections in 20 years with odds heavily stacked against opposition parties.
2010-11-07,"""Elections"" in Burma: officials outnumber voters at some polling stations"
2010-11-06,"EU proposes online right 'to be forgotten' - Websites could be compelled to delete all data held on users at their request, if new European laws come into force."
2010-11-06,"Spain's gays and lesbians to stage 'kiss-in' in front of Barcelona's cathedral on Sunday, during pope's visit"
2010-11-06,Renowned scholar Noam Chomsky says U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was illegal since to date there is no evidence that al-Qaeda has carried out the 9/11 attacks.
2010-11-06,"British Election Overturned Because of ""False Statements"": The Independent reports that former British immigration minister Phil Woolas ""lost his seat as an MP today after an election court ruled that he knowingly made false statements about an opponent in May's general election."" "
2010-11-06,Haiti Today - amazing Big Picture photo spread - boston.com
2010-11-06,"US Federal Reserve stokes global currency war. Brazilian president-elect: ""The last time there was a series of competitive devaluations... it ended in World War Two."""
2010-11-06,Russia Proposes Stopping Daylight Saving Time 
2010-11-06,"Does Britain really need the military? - ""Our defence spending is misdirected and extravagantly out of date. To guard me from unreal foreign attack the government spends 45bn, but to guard my home and hearth from crime it spends just 6.4bn"""
2010-11-06,"Over 600 women and girls recently raped along the Congo-Angola border during a mass expulsion of illegal immigrants. UN calls Congo the worst place in the world for sexual violence, and even the presence of international peacekeepers has not been able to stop it"
2010-11-06,Let them eat cheese: Irish government hands out block of cheddar to every family 
2010-11-06,"Yemen wants US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki captured, dead or alive... the same Anwar al-Awlaki who dined at the Pentagon months after 9/11."
2010-11-06,"Berlusconi government to outlaw street prostitution: Opposition critics, Senator Donatella Poretti of the Italian Radicals says, ""if it weren't so terribly serious, you'd die laughing."" "
2010-11-06,Reputed Drug Kingpin Killed In Mexico Shootout
2010-11-06,North Korea gets a new PDA.  (seriously)
2010-11-06,WikiLeaks defectors working on alternative whistleblower site
2010-11-06,Impunity and Israel: the UK will quickly amend a law that has allowed requests for arrest warrants against visiting Israeli officials over alleged war crimes.
2010-11-06,"Chinas Taoism Revival - Chinese religious revival under way, tolerated uneasily by government. Buddhism for middle class, Islam for minorities, Christianity for yuppiesand huge rural boom in Taoism, which mixes religion and philosophy"
2010-11-06,Remember the Chinese artist who wanted to hold a party to mark the destruction of his Shanghai studio? He has been placed under house arrest by the authorities. 
2010-11-06,"Warrant out for Mandela husband - Nelson Mandela's son-in-law is a ""fugitive from justice"" - evading arrest on a rape charge while rubbing shoulders with Hollywood actors and producing movies such as The Bang-Bang Club and Leon Schuster's Schuks Tshabalala."
2010-11-06,"""The CIA can neither confirm nor deny the 
existence or nonexistence of records responsive to 
your request [of copies of all records of plans to 
assassinate Julian Assange]"""
2010-11-06,Emergency crews on Friday recovered the charred remains of the victims of Cuba's worst plane crash in two decades in which all 68 people on board were killed
2010-11-06,Malaysia: The minimum wage farce
2010-11-06,"Surviving Floods, Droughts, and Poachers' Bullets to Save the Elephants | Beautiful Photos"
2010-11-06,Gas avalanche incinerates villagers after volcano blast 
2010-11-06,Villagers Defend Kosovar Refugee: A Roma Teen's Fight to Stay in Germany
2010-11-05,The passenger in question was observed at the beginning of the flight to be an elderly Caucasian male who appeared to have young looking hands. During the flight the subject attended the washroom and emerged an Asian looking male that appeared to be in his early 20s.
2010-11-05,"A statue of the Virgin Mary started weeping in an outdoor shrine in Windsor, Ontario. A crowd gathered. The locals got annoyed. The city fathers ordered the statue's removal because it didn't have a permit. I fucking love Canada. "
2010-11-05,"The Kalahari Bushmen, who have lived in Southern Africa for more than 20,000 years, are now being starved off their land to make way for lucrative diamond extraction by Botswana government which partly owns diamond retailer De Beers!"
2010-11-05,"Secret British military video of interrogation techniques in Iraq submitted during high court proceedings shows a prisoner threatened, intimidated, subjected to sensory deprivation and complaining of starvation (Warning: some viewers may find material disturbing)"
2010-11-05,"America, you're not the only ones at it. Interrogation techniques at 'Britain's Abu Ghraib' revealed."
2010-11-05,"China is reported to have written to EU embassies in Oslo, urging them not to take part in the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony for the Chinese dissident Liu Xiabo on Dec. 10, but Denmarks ambassador says he will be attending."
2010-11-05,Cleaning blood from the floor of a mosque: Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for mosque strike [PIC]
2010-11-05,"China warns Western countries: Stay away from the Nobel ceremony, or else... "
2010-11-05,China 'concerned' over YouTube video - Tokyo probes Senkaku ship collision upload
2010-11-05,Explorer who discovered the worlds biggest copper deposit in Chile stakes claim in Paraguay to what he says may be the worlds largest titanium find - an area the size of London
2010-11-05,WikiLeaks founder says may seek Swiss asylum
2010-11-05,"WTF? In Hungary, a midwife faces five years in Hungarian prison for championing home births"
2010-11-05,"Plane with 68 onboard crashes in Cuba, no survivors reported"
2010-11-05,"Margot Wallstrm, U.N.'s Special Rep on Sexual Violence in Conflict: ""I want to say we cannot and should not accept [sexual violence in war and conflict as collateral damage]. Sexual violence in .. is criminal. No other human rights violation is routinely dismissed as inevitable."""
2010-11-05,"A bomb went off at a mosque during Friday prayers in Pakistan's north-west, killing at least 50 people and trapping others under debris after the roof collapsed."
2010-11-05,"Death toll rises to 122 as Indonesia volcano torches villages: ""We're totally overwhelmed here!"" "
2010-11-05,Russia's military reform leaves officers behind
2010-11-05,No news today - the BBC are on strike
2010-11-05,"""The name of my complex is Merapi View. Weve got a view all right. And a soundtrack."""
2010-11-05,"Top 5 countries to live in: Norway, Australia, New Zealand, United States, Ireland - says the UN Human Development Report 2010"
2010-11-05,"Saudi King gets number 3 on Forbes Most Powerful People list - one spot behind Barack Obama, and one spot ahead of Vladimir Putin"
2010-11-05,"Iraqis claim torture by UK soldiers - ""There are credible allegations of serious, inhumane practices across a whole range of dates and facilities concerning British military detention in Iraq,"" Michael Fordham, representing the Iraqi group."
2010-11-05,"Second Qantas jet returns to Singapore after engine trouble.  WTF, this is the same engine from the same company from the same airport.  Something is going on."
2010-11-05,"Food & Water Europe report says GE salmon will not feed the world: ""The company producing this [transgenic] fish.. is the only one who will be profiting from it, despite misleading claims that this product could be a means to feed growing populations around the world."""
2010-11-05,"Anger as Irish Govt plans handouts of cheddar to the poor. Agriculture minister says it's a ""means of contributing towards the well-being of the most deprived citizens.."""
2010-11-04,Canadian couple wins $11.2 million jackpot and gives away the entire thing. 
2010-11-04,Nearly 100 Toronto police officers will be disciplined for removing their badge numbers or name tags at the G20 summit
2010-11-04,"A court in Vinnytsya, Ukraine, ordered a trade union activist to undergo a forced psychiatric examination after prosecutors argued that he has an ""excessive awareness of his own and others' rights"" and an ""uncontrollable readiness to defend these rights in unrealistic ways."""
2010-11-04,Out of a Dan Brown novel: A mysterious organisation offers to pay off 5 billion British debt.
2010-11-04,"WikiLeaks founder urges US to investigate alleged abuse by its troops, as US faces UN grilling over human rights record"
2010-11-04,Senkaku Footage Leaked on to Internet: Shows Chinese Trawler Ramming Japanese Patrol Boat
2010-11-04,"ACAPULCOIn another grisly turn in Mexico's drug war, police have recovered 18 bodies from a mass grave . . . the victims were from a tourist group kidnapped in Acapulco a month ago"
2010-11-04,"The next human to plant a foot on the moon's surface is most likely to be Chinese or Indian  and that ""small step"" could happen as soon as 2020"
2010-11-04,Two gang-raped nurses expelled from hostel in Pakistan - A hospital probe committee has decided to expel from the hostel two trainee nurses who were gang-raped in this Pakistani city. The reason: The victims violated the rules.
2010-11-04,Qantas plane (A380) makes emergency landing in Singapore - explosion reported
2010-11-04,Burma hit by massive online attack ahead of its first election in 20 years. 
2010-11-04,Lonely carnage abounds in Japan's 'suicide forest' - CNN.com
2010-11-04,20 tons of pot seized in an underground tunnel in California!
2010-11-04,"Sundays election could legitimize Burmas military rulers, but why?  It was Burmas army, which gang-raped their women and forced their men into slavery."
2010-11-04,Poor Haiti can't catch a break. Potential hurricane heads their way as millions still live in tents.
2010-11-04,Airbus A380 plane landed in Singapore with smoke coming out of its underside after and reported mid-air air explosion.
2010-11-04,"Albino candidate overcomes prejudice - Tanzania's first elected albino MP said yesterday the result was a breakthrough for albinos in the east African country, where scores have been murdered for their body parts to be used in sorcery."
2010-11-04,BBC News - Haiti cholera deaths rise sharply
2010-11-04,Colossus: the giant Gazan prison - The blockade imposed on Gaza is a powerful psychological device aimed at wringing concessions from Gazans and Hamas.
2010-11-04,"""Zweimal Hitler bitte""  - We feel the absence of Germany's shoulder at the European wheel "
2010-11-04,Singapore convicts author of death penalty book
2010-11-04,Why Do Christians Remain Silent About the Persecution of Christians in Muslim-Majority Societies? Why Do Feminists Remain Silent About the Persecution of Women in Muslim-Majority Societies?
2010-11-04,"Mass grave found in Mexico: Bodies of at least 18 people found in grave close to city of Acapulco, after 20 men were reported missing in September."
2010-11-04,Iran Tightens Security as Subsidy Cuts Loom 
2010-11-04,"China: Report exposes Foxconns oppressive work regime. ""A report on conditions inside the Chinese factories of giant electronics manufacturer Foxconn has provided graphic details of the exploitation facing young employees."""
2010-11-03,"Why is Shoppers Drug Mart pulling 3,500 copies of Adbusters, my magazine, off its shelves? ""A week ago, in the National Post, the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) accused Adbusters of anti-Semitism for publishing side-by-side photographs of the Gaza and Warsaw ghettos..."""
2010-11-03,"A Piece Of Their Mind - Four-year-old conjoined twins Tatiana and Krista from Vernon BC, share not just a skull but part of their brains. ""One will look at a toy. The other can reach across and grab it, even though her own eyes couldnt possibly see it"""
2010-11-03,Did a shadowy organisation just offer to buy the British government? It's all on official record...
2010-11-03,The American government is illegally running surveillance of Norwegian citizens  
2010-11-03,"Canadian poker pro Terrence Chan: [I am] done with America - turned back at the border twice. Just wanted to complete in the no-gi World Championships in Long Beach, train some jiujitsu and some muay thai..."
2010-11-03,YouTube begins removing al-Qaeda videos
2010-11-03,"""Globalisation is unravelling before our eyes."""
2010-11-03,10-Year-Old Gives Birth in Southern Spain
2010-11-03,Greece Suspends Outgoing Airmail After Wave of Bombs
2010-11-03,"Khodorkovsky gives his verdict - SOME words become history years after being spoken. Others carry historic weight as soon as they are uttered. The last words spoken today by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as his 18-month trial drew to a close, belong to the second category."
2010-11-03,Rivers run dry as drought hits Amazon
2010-11-03,"The diary of German author Ernst Jnger, has been published for the first time. Its dispassionate description of life and death on the Western Front is a cold indictment of war -- even though Jnger embraced the conflict throughout as a glorious test of manhood"
2010-11-03,Inner Mongolia was once one of the poorest areas of China. Not anymore. The Inner Mongolian city of Ordos now has the highest per capita GDP of any city in China. This rags-to-riches story has come to symbolize the rapid development of a nation as a whole. But it's come with some growing pains. 
2010-11-03,"Lada's Theme - blogpost from documentary maker behind ""The Power Of Nightmares"", this time focusing on Lada cars and the rise of Boris Berezovsky. It couldn't happen here, could it?"
2010-11-03,The Consequence of Oil
2010-11-03,South African doctors fear for their lives
2010-11-03,"Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up the oil pipeline in
south Yemen, the day Sanaa launched a major operation
to arrest a Saudi bomb-maker accused of being behind a
foiled bomb plot involving U.S.-bound parcels."
2010-11-03,Israel halts 'dialogue' with UK over war crimes law
2010-11-03,Ministry of Sound Forced To Suspend File-Sharing Shakedown
2010-11-03,BBC News - Indonesia volcano Mount Merapi in new eruption
2010-11-03,"Oklahoma voters ban judges from using Islamic law when deciding cases. Muslim community calls it an attack on Islam, prepares to sue"
2010-11-03,Turkey reinstates YouTube ban days after lifting it
2010-11-03,Tamil refugee: `Why I fled to Australia'
2010-11-03,"Around the world, concern over the global impact of U.S. elections"
2010-11-03,Somalia vows to release child soldiers in army
2010-11-02,Paris girl survives six-storey fall unharmed - bounces off cafe awning into arms of passing doctor.
2010-11-02,"Germany bans electronic voting machines. Germany has joined 11 U.S. states, the Netherlands, and other countries which have banned electronic voting of one form or another.CIA expert: Electronic voting not secure."
2010-11-02,"In Western Saraha, more than 20,000 Sahrawis have left the cities in a mass protest of Moroccan occupation. Moroccan forces have now blockaded the ""protest camps"" barring food, water, medicine and movement, effectively turning them into concentration camps."
2010-11-02,Israel's Deputy Prime Minister was forced to cancel a trip to London in order to avoid a lawsuit related to his role in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Aid Flotilla.
2010-11-02,"Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi claims: ""Better to be passionate about girls than be gay"""
2010-11-02,An Iranian woman whose sentence of execution by stoning for adultery provoked a worldwide outcry will instead be hanged for murder on Wednesday
2010-11-02,Talk to Me Like I'm Stupid: Sharia Law in the UK
2010-11-02,"What the French are protesting is Sarkozy's corrupt, anti-labor, anti-democracy government"
2010-11-02,North Korea has offered to give samples from its torpedoes to refute claims made by the US and other countries that the rogue communist nation sank the USS Cheonan.
2010-11-02,"Britain and France sign historic 50-year defence 
agreement"
2010-11-02,"The Justinian Plague, which killed between 40-50% of the population of Eastern Roman Empire, which in turn allowed for the Arab take over of the Byzantine provinces, has been found, by geneticists, to have originated in China."
2010-11-02,Afghan Police Unit Defects to Taliban 
2010-11-02,"Malalai Joya, Afghan female member of parliament who had the courage to publicly denounce the presence of warlords in the Afghan government, now says that for Afghans, Obama is ""a second Bush."""
2010-11-02,Angela Merkel:  Germany Has a Duty to Reduce Massive Debt 
2010-11-02,Kindle bypasses the Great Firewall - perfect for gaining access to blocked sites for Chinese buyers
2010-11-02,Rape in Iran's prisons: the cruellest torture - Telegraph
2010-11-02,New easier to pronounce Icelandic volcano may be preparing to erupt. 
2010-11-02,UK and France agree to joint development and testing of nuclear warheads
2010-11-02,Virus breakthrough raises hope over ending common cold
2010-11-02,"Saudi journalist to be lashed in public - 
Reporter accused of instigating protests at government power company"
2010-11-02,"In Indonesia a new law has been passed that
stipulates all babies should be exclusively
breastfed for the first six months of life. From
early next year, anyone who stands in the way
of this will be fined up to 100m rupiah (7,000;
$11,000) and sentenced to up to a year in prison."
2010-11-02,"La Violencia - more on Mexico's drug wars, this time a book extract, always enthralling. ""My sons had become part of it all, they were among people who would laugh while cutting someones fingers off"""
2010-11-02,Japan recalls ambassador over Russia island row
2010-11-02,"Bradistan | British Pakistani writer remembers her childhood in Bradford, northern England. ""It was obvious that we were here to stay. But that didn't mean here to integrate."" "
2010-11-02,"Germany: Envio workers contaminated with both PCB and dioxin. ""The Dortmund pollution scandal has intensified with new evidence of dioxin contamination, as well as the Envio firms business transactions with criminal elements in Kazakhstan."""
2010-11-01,"Australian man saves woman from an attacking Great White by grabbing its tail. As the girl started to sink to the bottom, he grabbed her and brought her to the surface and on board the boat"
2010-11-01,The Danish Peoples Party is looking to ban al-Jazeera and al-Arabiya. Experts says other stations are worse.
2010-11-01,Israel's Labour party threatens to leave coalition - A senior Labour Cabinet minister has insisted that his party will leave Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government unless the Prime Minister takes the steps necessary to resume direct peace talks with the Palestinians. 
2010-11-01,Surrey woman jailed for false rape claim
2010-11-01,"Study: Alcohol 'most harmful drug,' followed by crack and heroin - CNN.com"
2010-11-01,"The loneliest shop in the world - Mulka Store, in Australian outback. Only shop in 70,000 square miles. Run by ex-policeman turned anthropologist. Fine stock of medieval armour. Best selection of duelling pistols outside Europe"
2010-11-01,Internet users in China will soon be required to reveal their identities before they surf the web. 
2010-11-01,"""Exterminate Iraqi Christians"": 52 hostages and police were killed when security forces raided a Baghdad church to free more than 100 Iraqi Catholics held by al-Qaida"
2010-11-01,Baghdad Catholic Massacre: Death Toll Reaches 58 (Photos / Video)
2010-11-01,"2,000 rally in Moscow, demand freedom of assembly"
2010-11-01,UK Gov to force ISPs to police content
2010-11-01,Israeli soldier jailed over Palestinian prisoner photo
2010-11-01,Cluster bomb ban begins to work with stockpiles already being destroyed.
2010-11-01,"Just how bad is the Conservative government in Canada - ""A federal agency that oversees scientific research in polar areas, including work on climate change, has been left leaderless for more than two years by the Harper government."""
2010-11-01,Sex abuse victims march in Rome
2010-11-01,"Foreign-Funded U.S. Chamber Of Commerce 
Advocates For Weakening Law Against Bribing 
Foreign Governments"
2010-11-01,'Jesus had HIV' sermon sparks South African fury
2010-11-01,How California's Pot Proposition is Agitating Latin America - TIME
2010-11-01,How digital technology gets the news out of North Korea
2010-11-01,"""Canada's Omar Khadr has been sentenced to 40 years behind bars for his war crimes, but will be free in eight because of a plea deal."""
2010-11-01,Mujercito the Cat Leads Chilean Internet Revolution
2010-11-01,Evacuees cringed and fled for cover Monday as an erupting volcano  one of 22 showing increased activity in Indonesia  let loose booming explosions of hot gas and debris in its most powerful blast in a deadly week
2010-11-01,"""Intelligence that helped cracked the ink bomb plot may have come from a leading member of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsular who turned himself in."""
2010-11-01,"HRW: The Kimberley Process should not allow the export of further shipments of diamonds from Marange until there is meaningful progress to end smuggling and abuses by the army. Without these kinds of reforms, international consumers risk purchasing ""blood diamonds."""
2010-11-01,Sacked UK drugs adviser David Nutt in new report: Alcohol more harmful than heroin or crack
2010-10-31,"""Jon Stewart's ""Rally to Restore Sanity"" in Washington has sparked more than 1,160 mini-rallies in 84 countries, morphing into something of a global political happening."""
2010-10-31,Amazing Landslide - Brazil
2010-10-31,"In Quest for a 'Legal High,' Chemists Outfox the Law - Eye-opening report on ""laboratory-adept European entrepreneurs"" who make and sell synthetic recreational drugs, such as mephedrone, Nopaine. When governments ban a particular drug, makers just change the formula"
2010-10-31,"Vietnam has agreed to help supply Japan with rare earths, as Tokyo tries to reduce its dependence on China.
"
2010-10-31,"India: A movement spreads to stop rape survivors from being subjected to the indignity of the ""finger test""."
2010-10-31,Yemen says UPS planes never take off or land in it
2010-10-31,Iraqi Catholics saved from extremists by Muslim police force.
2010-10-31,Only 2 survivors remain from Nazi camp Treblinka - They are believed to be the last two survivors of the most chillingly efficient killing machine of the Nazi Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp in occupied Poland.
2010-10-31,"New Zealand, Denmark and Singapore have the cleanest governments. Iraq and Afghanistan rank near rock-bottom out of 178 countries where nearly three-quarters of the countries surveyed showed serious corruption problems"
2010-10-31,"10-31-10 Updates: 449 Dead, 270 Injured, 96 Missing after 7.7 Earthquake,Tsunami, Two Volcano Eruptions, In Indonesia | Videos | Photos"
2010-10-31,"""woman busted in Yemen for role in cargo plane bomb plot, was 'set up'"""
2010-10-31,"Life in Hell: Mogadishu mayor works amidst gunfire, struggles to remove garbage and provide lights to a city torn apart by war"
2010-10-31,Suicide bomber wounds 15 in Istanbul
2010-10-31,"Queen's English still rules: We say tomato... as does most of the world, says 10 year study"
2010-10-31,"Top hacker retires; experts brace for his return - Anonymous Russia-based programer created malicious software used to steal $100m this year. He sold the spyware to criminal gangs, offered 24/7 support. Now he says he's retiring"
2010-10-31,"Supporting Palestinian rights on your campus may be labeled ""discrimination"" in the near future"
2010-10-31,"Iran, Saudi Arabia expected to join new U.N. agency on women"
2010-10-31,"Mohammed al-Shaibah, Air Cargo Director for Yemenia Airways said to Yemen Post, No UPS cargo plane left Yemeni lands over the land 48 hours. These accusations are false and baseless."
2010-10-31,Yemen Bomb Plot: Key Questions Raised
2010-10-31,Rescue crews find 135 missing people after Indonesia quake - CNN.com
2010-10-31,Flooding in Central and West Africa has killed over 300 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more.
2010-10-31,"The two sites ""are an integral part of the occupied Palestinian territories and that any unilateral action by the Israeli authorities is to be considered a violation of international law, the UNESCO Conventions and the United Nations and Security Council resolutions."" - UNESCO"
2010-10-31,"Dilma Rousseff, Lula's successor, elected first female President of Brazil"
2010-10-31,"Honduras: Return of Death Squads Killing Opposition Activists, and Teachers "
2010-10-31,"Haiti nine months after the quake: Poor tell West, Nothing! Nothing! Weve seen nothing!"
2010-10-30,"Facing $113 Billion in Potential Damages, Chevron Lawyers Seek Any Opportunity to Delay: The evidence clearly shows Chevron used illegal practices that resulted in the massive destruction of the rainforest in Ecuador and the decimation of indigenous groups and other local residents"
2010-10-30,Former Mexican President Vicente Fox on California marijuana legalization: 'May God let it pass'
2010-10-30,"Outcasts  inmates of the Black Eagle | Glimpse inside maximum-security Russian prison colony for murderers, in Sverdlovsk. Fantastic detail, colour, prisoners' stories. ""She was drunk, she started insulting me, and I poked a knife in her"""
2010-10-30," If Roman Polanski wanted to make a film in New Zealand, the government would be more than happy to lower the age of consent to 13."
2010-10-30,"MEXICO CITY (AP) - The director of a maximum-security federal prison notorious for the escape of Mexico's top kingpin was arrested for alleged ties to drug gangs, authorities said Friday"
2010-10-30,"Intercepted device likely a cell phone, photo analysis shows  "
2010-10-30,"""Young people here are changing their minds and attitudes. No one is harassing us to think one way. Religion is available, and I worship God, but people who are praying and going to the mosque are also playing billiards and going to the coffee shops."
2010-10-30,Yemen astonished at explosives link
2010-10-30,"In this land of cotton and alfalfa fields, residents live terrified by the drug cartels. People living in Jurez y Reforma have gotten used to seeing killings, kidnappings, houses and shops on fire, and the constant presence of the Mexican army"
2010-10-30,Turkish document defines Israel as 'central threat'
2010-10-30,Arundhati Roy's controversial speech on the Indian state and the insurgencies across India (crosspost from /r/India)
2010-10-30,"Hondurans Denounce Return of Death Squads. ""Death squads have reappeared in
Honduras since the June 28, 2009 military coup, and they are targeting
teachers, human rights activist Berta Oliva charged..."""
2010-10-30,New North Korea sanctions imposed by Canadian Government
2010-10-30,"""Apparently it is more important to save the Greeks and liberated countries than the Indians and there is reluctance either to provide shipping or to reduce stocks in this country,"""
2010-10-30,"Playboy's Power Games - Colourful, chatty profile of Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian billionaire buyer of New Jersey Nets basketball team. Shows him as super-fit, super-smart, modest, funny. Good readespecially for Prokhorov himself!"
2010-10-30,Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is having a brief meeting with United States secretary of state Hillary Clinton at the East Asia summit in Vietnam.
2010-10-30,"President Obama grants waivers to Chad, the Congo, Sudan, and Yemen, which use child soldiers but are strategically important to the US. The waivers mean military aid will continue."
2010-10-30,"Honduras, August: pro-government forces shut down opposition radio, beat journalists, torture and assassinate teachers and members of resistance."
2010-10-30,"The head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as MI6, has criticized the leaking of secret information. John Sawers also praised his staff for the dangerous and important work they do and said it was important for people to understand why secrecy is ""not a dirty word."""
2010-10-30,Pak PM: Nationalization of educational institutions was blunder - PM Gilani declared that Pakistan Peoples Party had made a blunder in its first government in 1972 by nationalizing tens of thousands of schools and colleges in the country.
2010-10-30,"Text Messages, Radio Warn Haitians Of Cholera Risks  "
2010-10-30,Haneda Airport Reopens to International Flights Sunday
2010-10-30,"Yemen Arrests Woman for Sending Mail Bombs - CBS 
News"
2010-10-30,"Turkish Flotilla ""Peace"" Group Visits Terrorists and Plays At War"
2010-10-30,The investigation into this week's terror attempts is turning to potential culprits. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Saturday that the parcel bombs sent from Yemen have hallmarks of the militant group al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.  
2010-10-29,"Cambodians beaten, raped and killed at illegal detention camp funded by UN | World news | The Guardian"
2010-10-29,Germany moves to outlaw forced marriages 
2010-10-29,"A new trade agreement being negotiated behind closed doors by officials from the United States, European Union and other countries could drastically reduce internet freedom."
2010-10-29,"Brazil is the world's biggest exporter of beef, poultry, orange juice and sugar cane. It also supplies a quarter of the world's soybeans. A group of scientists is credited with turning Brazil into the agricultural superpower it is today."
2010-10-29,"When devastating floods hit Pakistan, the world rushed to help. But while the horror has slipped from our TV screens, millions remain stranded"
2010-10-29,Zimbabwe Activists Use $100 Trillion Dollar Notes To Make Flyers Protesting Against Mugabe's Dictatorship [with pics]
2010-10-29,Earth-sized worlds much more common than giant planets
2010-10-29,"Nasa's plan to colonize galaxy. First prototype to take us ""between worlds"" to be done in the next few years."
2010-10-29,Russia's Shiveluch volcano erupts
2010-10-29,"Iraq war logs reveal 15,000 previously unlisted civilian deaths"
2010-10-29,French protesters call for bank run Dec. 7 2010
2010-10-29,UN Committee votes overwhelmingly in favour of transparency in Depleted Uranium use
2010-10-29,"Armed men rumbled into a gritty neighborhood of the Mexican capital Thursday and gunned down six men hanging around a convenience store, fueling fears that one of the world's largest cities is falling prey to the cartel-style violence that has long terrorized other parts of the country"
2010-10-29,"Australias central bank chief highlights rise of China. ""The Reserve Bank governor pointedly referred to the loss of US global economic domination, the 'shift in the world economy's centre of gravity towards Asia' and the rise of China, which is now Australia's top export destination."""
2010-10-29,"Soaring above India's poverty, a 27-storey home: ""There are nine elevators, a spa, a 50-seat theater and a grand ballroom. Hundreds of servants and staff are expected to work inside. And now...after several years of planning and construction, the residents are about to move in. All five of them."""
2010-10-29,Ugandan lawmaker: Death penalty for gays will be law soon
2010-10-29,"Time Will End in Five Billion Years, Physicists Predict"
2010-10-29,Iran likely to become a member of new UN Women agency board
2010-10-29,Four Vietnamese girls whose lives are being changed by the chance to go to school
2010-10-29,China claims supercomputer crown
2010-10-29,London: Bomb found on Yemen to Chicago cargo flight
2010-10-29,China says talks with Japan have been 'ruined'
2010-10-29,"Former Aussie PM John Howard: ""It was neither unreasonable nor implausible of the Americans to believe that WMDs possessed by Iraq might, at some time in the future, be handed to a terrorist group for use against the US or others, with horrific consequences."""
2010-10-29,He's not even making the troll face...
2010-10-29,Wikileaks Iraq War Logs: Pentagon Response to Publication of Logs
2010-10-28,"No terror arrests in 100,000 police counter-terror searches."
2010-10-28,Germany's role in the world: Will Germany now take centre stage? | The Economist
2010-10-28,Rebellion against 'redundant' airline security rules grows
2010-10-28,"The Australian government just got caughtflying  Afghan fighters allied to Matiullah Khan back to Australia for military training. Thats Matiullah Khan, the notorious warlord the Dutch forces accused of murder and extortion."
2010-10-28,Iraq War Logs Reveal Details of Dubious Apache Attacks
2010-10-28,"Israeli Rabbi: Don't Sell Housing Or Land To Non-Jews - Selling a house or land in Israel to anyone who is not Jewish is forbidden, Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef said during a Thursday morning halacha lesson."
2010-10-28," 	

Famed writer faces arrest for remarks: 
Arundhati Roy has expressed opinions in favor of Kashmiri separatism."
2010-10-28,"Wikileaks Iraq War Logs: 15,000 New Civilian Deaths Uncovered in Leaked Files"
2010-10-28,"In another life, she might be a university student or a farm girl. Here, she is a prostitute servicing Chinese men in a drug-riddled city on the China-Myanmar border."
2010-10-28,"Almost 30,000 people have died in drug-related killings across Mexico over the past four years."
2010-10-28,"Surging price of oil forces US military to seek 
alternative energy sources"
2010-10-28,Wikileaks Iraq War Logs: Hundreds of Civilians Gunned Down at Checkpoints
2010-10-28,Vladimir Putin's 'black eye' sparks rumours.
2010-10-28,Why WikiLeaks and the Pentagon Papers are not the same 
2010-10-28,Zimbabwe: Destitution and fear among remaining White farmers - A handful of Zimbabwes remaining white farmers say security in the commercial farms was deteriorating at an alarming rate following the brutal murder of former Zimbabwe Tobacco Association head and top tobacco grower Jobus Joubert.
2010-10-28,"Bin Laden threatens France: ""The equation is very clear and simple: as you kill, you will be killed; as you take others hostages, you will be taken hostages; as you waste our security we will waste you waste your security,"" "
2010-10-28,NZ town evacuated after dynamite find
2010-10-28,Sweden alarmed by series of 'racist' shootings
2010-10-28,The Death of Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner Opens Political Vacuum in Argentina
2010-10-28,Foreclosure in Spain Can Mean Lifetime Debt to the Bank
2010-10-28,Mohammed is now the most popular name for baby boys born in UK ahead of Jack and Harry  
2010-10-28,Somali Islamists publicly execute 2 teenager spy girls
2010-10-28,"In Icy Tip of Afghanistan, War Seems Remote - NYTimes.com"
2010-10-28,The Iron Chancellor in the Euro Trap
2010-10-28,Haiti cholera outbreak: Did aid organizations fail to stop a disease that has sickened thousands?
2010-10-27,WikiLeaks ready to drop a bombshell on Russia. But will Russians get to read about it?
2010-10-27,"Colombia's President says Prop 19 could ""revise the global strategy toward drugs"""
2010-10-27,Thirty Congolese women on the border of Angola and Congo were held in a dungeonlike prison and systematically raped by uniformed men
2010-10-27,Japan's young men seek a new path
2010-10-27,Gorbachev: Nato victory in Afghanistan impossible
2010-10-27,"Argentina's former president, Nestor Kirchner, has 
died, after reportedly suffering a heart attack."
2010-10-27,A high school teacher who says she has been abused on a social networking website by her pupils has called for the sites to become accountable for defamation as newspapers are
2010-10-27,"Think you've had a hard day? Volcano, tsunami and earthquake kill hundreds in Indonesia . . ."
2010-10-27,"Thousands Join Massive Protest in Romania - Ten of thousands of Romanians have joined large-scale protests in Bucharest against austerity measures, as the countrys government prepares to face a no-confidence vote in parliament."
2010-10-27,"GlaxoSmithKline ordered to pay out $96 million to 
whistleblower"
2010-10-27,UN Statement on Wikileaks Iraq files
2010-10-27,"A Globalized God | Organised religion on the rise around the world. Cause and effect of globalisation. Pentecostalism, Islam spreading fastest. Growing role in international relations, as religion shapes national foreign policies"
2010-10-27,EU plans to clamp down on carbon trading scam
2010-10-27,Spanish prostitutes ordered to wear reflective vests for their own safety
2010-10-27,Leading anti-apartheid campaigner and Nobel Peace Price winner Desmond Tutu begs singers to call off Israel tour - South African Times
2010-10-27,"70,000 people in Myanmar are homeless in wake of cyclone"
2010-10-27,Dual disasters in Indonesia [pics]
2010-10-27,France Riots Over Pension Reforms While Americans Lose Their Homes in Record Numbers With Hardly any Protest
2010-10-27,I pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice: Arundhati Roy
2010-10-27,Somalia seen as most corrupt nation---US slips out of top 20 least corrupt
2010-10-27,"Israeli MP cancels visit to Spain fearing arrest - Avi Dichter was head of Shin Bet when a Hamas leader was assassinated in an attack which killed 15 Palestinians, including 11 children - Arab News"
2010-10-27,"The politics of Egypt's feeble statistics | Authoritarian governments across Middle East, notably in Egypt, see national statistics as dangerous. Rulers want freedom to lie. Transparency leads to public debate, demands for accountability."
2010-10-27,UK should not put up with US airport security  BA chairman
2010-10-27,"Tariq Aziz, Saddam's former Foreign Minister, has been sentenced to death, but is the decision justice or vengeance?"
2010-10-27,"Bin Laden threatens France: ""The way to preserve your security is to end all aspects of your injustices against our Muslim nation, the most important of which is for you to withdraw from Bush's loathed war in Afghanistan"". "
2010-10-26,Iceland turns from banks to freedom of speech. Iceland wants companies from around the world to set up their servers there and publish material online without the fear of ruinous lawsuits or censorship.
2010-10-26,"WikiLeaks Files Show Torture, Civilian Deaths and Contractor Abuses"
2010-10-26,[Commentary] Sarkozy's Perfect Storm - The French are not just protesting to stop the retirement age from being raised. They are also fighting to save their country from government sleaze and the dismantling of democracy.
2010-10-26,"Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered a 
government takeover of the local unit of U.S.- 
owned glass manufacturer Owens-Illinois Inc."
2010-10-26,Tariq Aziz sentenced to death by hanging
2010-10-26,"The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in breach of the Geneva conventions"
2010-10-26,Iran loads fuel into its first nuclear reactor
2010-10-26,"Henry Morgentaler, a physician and Auschwitz survivor, ran a decades-long campaign to legalize abortion in Canada. After prison, persecution and death threats, he won."
2010-10-26,Film Of What Is Reported To Be Settlers Setting Fire To Palestinian Vehicles In Qusra
2010-10-26,Sherpa Who Scaled Mt. Everest 19 Times Is Feared Dead After Hit by Avalanche | Updates as of 10/26/2010
2010-10-26,"112 Dead, 500 Missing after 7.7 Earthquake Triggers Tsunami in Indonesia | Videos | Photos"
2010-10-26,"Former British PM, Tony Blair, 'to be called back' to Iraq war inquiry to answer questions about 'gaps' in his evidence"
2010-10-26,"Israel is relieved not to be the only war criminal - The voice of joy, the voice of rejoicing is heard in Israel: The Americans and British have also committed for war crimes, not only us.
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2010-10-26,Wikileaks Iraq War Logs: Obama Administration Handed Over Detainees Despite Reports of Torture
2010-10-26,"Syrian Prez: US creates chaos in every place it enters - ""Is Afghanistan stable? Is Somalia stable? Did they bring stability to Lebanon in 1983?"" Assad asked, referring to US intervention in Lebanon's 15-year civil war that ended in 1990."
2010-10-26,At least 103 people were killed and 150 others were missing after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck off Sumatra on Monday and triggered a tsunami
2010-10-26,"Report: War-torn states (Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia) are still the most corrupt in the world. Some countries have become more corrupt in the past year, particularly, Hungary, Italy and the US."
2010-10-26,Scottish citizens finally have the right to legal counsel before being questioned by police. 
2010-10-26,Powerful earthquake in Indonesia. Tsunami strikes village
2010-10-26,"Tariq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former deputy prime minister, has been sentenced to death for role in ""eliminating religious parties"""
2010-10-26,Russia's military could be drawn back into Afghanistan for the first time since the Red Army was forcibly expelled by US-backed mujahideen fighters in 1989
2010-10-26,Students aim to bolster French protests
2010-10-26,"British Gov to relax immigration laws to attract top talent, will likely decimate the UK IT industry."
2010-10-26,"More than 9.8 million people are held in penal
institutions throughout the world. Almost half of these are in the US (2.29m), Russia (0.89m) or China (1.57m) [pdf]"
2010-10-26,Slovenia elects its first black mayor
2010-10-25,"Afghanistan's President Karzai admits that his office receives $2 million a year in cash from Iran, which he uses for ""presidential expenses.""  Says that he expects it to continue.  He says that the US also provides him with ""bags of money."""
2010-10-25,Two-thirds of the West African nation of Benin - one of the poorest in the world - is under water!
2010-10-25,WikiLeaks taunts Pentagon with server mirrors in USA  Hosting with Amazon AWS
2010-10-25,"IDF put a Palestinian peace activist behind bars for 9 months based on solely on the testimony of a mental disabled man (a man whom, using interrogation, contradicted himself multiple times and also confessed to crimes he obviously didn't commit.)  Once in court the charges where thrown out."
2010-10-25,"Torture, killing, children shot  and how the US tried to keep it all quiet"
2010-10-25,Apache attack's child victims speak out: Cockpit video of gunship attack that killed 19 and gravely injured two children
2010-10-25,Afghan leader Hamid Karzai confirms report of cash payments from Iran
2010-10-25,7.7-magnitude quake hits off Indonesia's Sumatra island
2010-10-25,The next emperor: China prepares for political succession; and why the west should be wary.
2010-10-25,Sherpa Who Scaled Mt. Everest 19 Times Is Feared Dead After Hit by Avalanche
2010-10-25,Cholera outbreak spreads to Haiti capital
2010-10-25,"Iraq protester throws shoes at Australia former prime minister John Howard, live on television (incl: video)"
2010-10-25,Nicolas Sarkozy most unpopular French president in more than 50 years
2010-10-25,"New Zealand protests to keep ""The Hobbit"". Thousands of New Zealanders have taken to the streets to demand that two films in the ""Hobbit"" franchise continue filming in New Zealand."
2010-10-25,"Facts don't matter, just pander to 'yellow peril' and scare the shit out of American workers."
2010-10-25,First rule of Afghan War: Watch where you step
2010-10-25,Iraq war logs: British blunder may have let al-Qaida kingpin Zarqawi go free 
2010-10-25,"Debt, the public's burden - Once deeply in debt, Hume said, governments almost always go deeper to escape the consequences of earlier excesses. "
2010-10-25,Zambian miners shot by Chinese managers
2010-10-25,"Secret Anti-Piracy Negotiations, 3 Strikes, And a Taxpayer Funded Campaign  "
2010-10-25,"Massive magnitude 7.5 quake in the Kepulanuan Mentawai region, Indonesia."
2010-10-25,Atlantic Wire: Summary of the impact of the WikiLeaks War Logs
2010-10-25,U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects
2010-10-25,"'Child cancer skyrocketing in Iraqi city'. ""Leukemia (a type of blood cancer) among children under 15 has increased by about four times,"" said Dr. Janan Hasan of the hospital inaugurated on Thursday in the southern port city of Basra."
2010-10-25,Works from Iran's Underground Art Scene
2010-10-24,"Albanian Muslims saved 2,000 Jews during World War II because of a code of faith and honor called ""Besa"""
2010-10-24,Wikileaks: UN calls for US to investigate torture claims revealed in leaked reports - The United Nations has called for the US to investigate whether its officials knew about alleged torture and other ill-treatment of detainees held by Iraqi security forces.
2010-10-24,Explicit sex books help drop Uganda's HIV rate. Local authors tell it like it is.
2010-10-24,"What did Ireland get wrong, Rupert? For the past decade Dublin has followed all the advice proffered by neoliberal economists and wealthy businessmen like Murdoch."
2010-10-24,"Military privatisation running amok: A convoy of Blackwater guards shot up a civilian Iraqi vehicle, then fired shots over the heads of a group of US soldiers before speeding away in their armoured truck. When the dust cleared, the Iraqi driver was dead and his wife and daughter were injured..."
2010-10-24,98% of the funds donated to Netanyahu came from abroad
2010-10-24,"Outrage, Applause, Indifference - US Reacts to WikiLeaks Iraq Documents"
2010-10-24,Israelis fired 308 bullets at Gaza bound aid ship 
2010-10-24,"WikiLeaks Iraq war logs: Nick Clegg calls for investigation of abuse claims - Any suggestions that the rules of war have been broken or torture condoned are 'extremely serious', says deputy PM."
2010-10-24,"Iran has been giving Hamid Karzai bags, literally plastic bags, stuffed full of cash."
2010-10-24,"Apache helicopter (""Crazy Horse 18"") fired missiles at two ""bongo trucks"", killing 6 people and wounding one: ""Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids to a battle,"" joked a pilot after hearing that a young girl was among his victims"
2010-10-24,Grameen Bank and `microcredit': The `wonderful story' that never happened
2010-10-24,"Islamophobia Spawns Crooked, Multi-Million Dollar Industry To Capitalize On Hyped-Up Fear"
2010-10-24,"The Secret Iraq Files: Al Jazeera has obtained access to almost 400,000 classified American documents. Torture, claims of murder at the checkpoint - revelations that make a mockery of the rules of combat. This special programme reveals the truth about the war in Iraq"
2010-10-24,A Birthday Party Is The Latest Site Of Bloodshed In Ciudad Juarez. Article Includes Picture Of The Carnage Cleanup Effort.
2010-10-24,Wikileaks Iraq War Logs: Torture Widespread in Iraqi Detention Facilities
2010-10-24,The new slaves: Children forced to work as farm labourers
2010-10-24,"Haiti cholera epidemic hits capital 
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2010-10-24,Taiwanese woman 'will marry herself due to social pressure'
2010-10-24,How China's Censor Machine Works
2010-10-24,Julian Assange awarded Sam Adams Award for Integrity
2010-10-24,Rubbish riots in Naples (with fireworks!)
2010-10-24,Mexico: 13 dead in massacre at Ciudad Juarez party
2010-10-24,France: The movement is far from over; Olivier Besancenot defends mass mobilisations to defeat Sarkozy
2010-10-24,Iraqi PM personally ran secret army squad
2010-10-23,Why is Saudi Arabia stockpiling US weapons?
2010-10-23,"Open for business: the brothel with 1,800 prostitutes -""I give the girls breakfast, lunch and dinner and they get to keep whatever they make. Do you call that exploitation?"" "
2010-10-23,"Another crash, this time in the currency markets occurred after hours on Friday - ""DXZ Flash Crash Detonates Entire Currency Complex"""
2010-10-23,BBC News - Excerpts: Wikileaks Iraq war logs
2010-10-23,"Mexico: Gunmen Kill 13, Wound 15, at Party in Ciudad Juarez"
2010-10-23,"France Shut-down Over Retirement Age Battle - 
Workers are enraged that Sarkozy is re-neging on his campaign promise to not raise retirement age. "
2010-10-23,"The European extreme right is peddling Islamic hatred from France to Denmark, from Italy to Sweden."
2010-10-23,A UN human rights rapporteur says continued settlement construction will probably make Israel's occupation of Palestinian land irreversible.
2010-10-23,Iraq war logs: US spy balloons blew towards Iran | World news | guardian.co.uk
2010-10-23,"Under pressure from the government, the French Senate voted Friday to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62, a victory for President Nicolas Sarkozy after days of street rage, acrimonious debate and strikes that dried up the supply of gasoline across the country."
2010-10-23,Haiti is in trouble again: deadly cholera outbreak has killed 196 already
2010-10-23,Is Turkey turning its back on the West?  No. But it might if Europe and America cannot come to terms with its success 
2010-10-23,Cuba unveils new tax code for small business
2010-10-23,"This October Has 5 Fridays, Saturdays, & Sundays, But That Happens Way More Often Than Once Every 823 Years"
2010-10-23,"China manipulates currency value, world responds by promising not to retaliate."
2010-10-23,Dark-skinned Swedes live in fear of racist gunman
2010-10-23,"WikiLeaks Founder on the Run, Chased by Turmoil (an interesting New York Times article on Julian Assange)."
2010-10-23,Gaza hardliners launch arson attack on family leisure park : Hamas government is accused of turning a blind eye to crackdown on behaviour in the city by Islamic extremists
2010-10-23,"The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Russia had violated the rights of gay activists by refusing to allow them to openly protest, and ordered the government to pay a fine and damages amounting to about $40,000."
2010-10-23,Brazil Enjoying a Growing Number of Potential Housing Buyers
2010-10-23,Europe Spending Itself to Death - Nicolas Sarkozy's problems in France are a foretaste of fundamental challenges to Western democracies: the inability to govern with growing sovereign debt.
2010-10-23,Death toll rises from Haitian cholera outbreak
2010-10-23,BBC News - Child contact vetting system set for major review
2010-10-23,BBC News - Mexico gunmen kill 12 young people at party
2010-10-23,"Not as much a war as an attempt to keep control over a playground where the bullies have automatic weapons and high explosives.  Does anyone see any way that this situation can be ""won""?"
2010-10-22,Crocodile on plane kills 19 passengers
2010-10-22,"Moon Not Only Has Water, but Lots of It"
2010-10-22,"Haiti: At least 138 people dead, 1,500 infected in its first cholera outbreak for almost a century"
2010-10-22,Al Jazeera first to release WikiLeaks Iraq files: US military order not to investigate Iraqi torture.
2010-10-22,Vatican Banking Fraud Probe Widens: Church 'Astonished' It Must Adhere to Money Laundering Laws
2010-10-22,A Belgian woman convicted of murdering her fellow skydiver and love rival by sabotaging her parachute has been jailed for 30 years.
2010-10-22,"Iraq: The War Logs - Massive leak reveals serial detainee abuse and 15,000 unknown civilian deaths "
2010-10-22,"'Staggering' global wealth disparity: 
1,000 billionaires worldwide, but average income is $10,000."
2010-10-22,"""A small airliner crashed into a house, killing a British pilot and 19 others after a crocodile smuggled into the aircraft in a sports bag escaped and started a panic."""
2010-10-22,Google under fire for using tax loopholes to save $3bn 
2010-10-22,"Israeli Taliban Torch Palestinian Girls' School, Destroy Olive Trees -  Israeli squatters just set fire to the store room of a Palestinian girls school...The Israeli illegals left behind graffiti saying regards from the hills."
2010-10-22,"Wikileaks' US docs include assertion that 3 US hikers 
were in Iraq when seized by Iran."
2010-10-22,"US-trained cartel terrorises Mexico - ""Founders of the Zetas drug gang learned special forces techniques at Ft. Bragg before waging a campaign of carnage."""
2010-10-22,Enraged BBC Newsman Destroys Protester's Sign
2010-10-22,Leaked Letter Exposes Sarkozys Repressive Anti-Piracy Agenda
2010-10-22,Ugandan gays attacked after being 'outed' by newspaper
2010-10-22,"David Kelly, UK weapons inspector who was source of BBC's 'sexed up' report on Iraq WMD, died of self-inflicted wounds, previously secret files reveal"
2010-10-22,Nuclear submarine 'HMS Astute' runs aground 
2010-10-22,"Indonesian officials have admitted its soldiers tortured several Papuan men, after footage being circulated online showed the men being beaten and humiliated. "
2010-10-22,"Ex-Florida State University football player may become the first American in 16 years to be caned in Singapore after he overstayed his visa

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2010-10-22,BBC's political editor Nick Robinson loses temper with anti-war protester - grabs his sign to stamp on it [video]
2010-10-22,Watching the Watchers - Al Qaeda's bold new strategy is all about using our own words and actions against us. And it's working.
2010-10-22,"The paradox of blinking | China's rising global power has attracted relatively little opposition, mainly because China has wisely kept a low profile. Confrontation with Japan may signal a new and more reckless approach"
2010-10-22,"Myanmar gets new flag, official name, anthem"
2010-10-22,Britain: Con-Dem government to roll back social gains won since WWII
2010-10-21,"Front-page Uganda newspaper story featured a list of 100 homosexuals, with a bright yellow banner across it that read: ""Hang Them."" Alongside their photos were the men's names and addresses"
2010-10-21,China fails to block UN report alleging it sold weapons to militias in Darfur in violation of an arms embargo
2010-10-21,Berliners strip in protest at city's sky-high rents.The movement is sending shock waves through the normally orderly world of Berlin estate agents
2010-10-21,Saudi prince jailed for life for murdering servant 
2010-10-21,A new online game has taken the internet by storm in China about fighting Chinese enforcers who have become deeply unpopular with the public
2010-10-21,Somali schoolboy tells of how Islamists cut off his leg and hand
2010-10-21, Elite Canadian Soldier pleads guilty to 88 charges ranging from stealing women's and girls' lingerie  to sexual assault and murder
2010-10-21,How Speculators Are Crippling the Copper Industry
2010-10-21,"""The results are stark, and prove decisively that not all terrorists are Muslims.  A whopping 99.6% of terrorist attacks in Europe were by non-Muslim groups; a good 84.8% of attacks were from separatist groups completely unrelated to Islam.""
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2010-10-21,"Driver of the bulldozer which killed Rachel Corrie testifies, contradicting his own affidavit."
2010-10-21,"One of the most overlooked and underreported humanitarian crises - More than 10,000 Sahrawis have organized a mass exodus from Western Sahara cities to protest the Moroccan occupation"
2010-10-21,French police open blockaded depots: President orders forced reopening of fuel depots closed by workers striking over planned pensions overhaul.
2010-10-21,The Anti-Defamation League has listed Jewish Voice for Peace in the top 10 anti-Israel groups.
2010-10-21,"Nice Guy Nato Using Afghans As Human Shields - After being questioned and having biometric data taken, Dawood claimed he was taken home to fill sandbags as they turned his home into a firing point. ""They made us walk in front,"" he said, ""so if there was a mine we'd hit it."""
2010-10-21,Settlers Race to Build Units in West Bank - NYTimes.com
2010-10-21,Germans Unfazed by Google Street View
2010-10-21,Putin aide Sobyanin confirmed as Moscow mayor
2010-10-21,"African Union calls for blockade of Somalia - The African Union sought U.N. approval Thursday for a naval and air blockade of Somalia, as well as more troops and aid to fend off piracy and terrorism in the struggling Horn of Africa nation."
2010-10-21,Cuban dissident wins top EU rights prize
2010-10-21,Assange slams Wired for misinformation re WikiLeaks
2010-10-21,"North Korea ready for third nuclear test, say reports | World news | guardian.co.uk"
2010-10-21,"'Viva Palestina' activists deliver tons of aid to Gaza Strip - Most of the activists arrived at the Egyptian port El-Arish on flights from Syria, while just 30 activists made the journey with the aid supplies by ship. "
2010-10-21,"""Coalition Routs Taliban"" in Southern Afghanistan"
2010-10-21,The Rise of the Green Party in Germany
2010-10-21,Why France and Britain are looking for new ways of combining their shrinking armed forces
2010-10-20,"Canada's ""Most Conservative City"" elects Muslim Mayor"
2010-10-20,Dead Sea Scrolls will be available online
2010-10-20,"The UK surveillance state marches on: ""Every email, phone call and website visit is to be recorded and stored after the Coalition Government revived controversial Big Brother snooping plans"""
2010-10-20,"A major Jewish religious figure in Israel has likened non-Jews to donkeys and beasts of burden, saying the main reason for their very existence is to serve Jews"
2010-10-20,"Carter: Palestinians live in 'cage' - Former US President Jimmy Carter said yesterday that Palestinians are ""living in a cage"" in Gaza and that the militant group Hamas must be included in all major efforts for peace."
2010-10-20,Every email and website to be stored by UK government
2010-10-20,Norwegians Find Perfectly Preserved Stone Age Site - A Norwegian camping ground is the site of what may become one of Europe's most significant archeological discoveries. Archeologists have found an almost perfectly preserved Stone Age settlement...
2010-10-20,China Said to Halt Some Mineral Shipments to U.S. and Europe as It Flexes Its New Economic Power
2010-10-20,"Bad parents should be sterilised - PARENTS with a history of child abuse should be forced to have sterilisations, a former Victorian ombudsman says. "
2010-10-20,"Uganda newspaper publishes 'gay list,' calls for their 
hanging"
2010-10-20,"Israeli soldier at the controls of a bulldozer that crushed to death 23-yr-old Rachel Corrie in Gaza in March 2003, is to testify anonymously. Family criticises decision to give evidence from behind screen"
2010-10-20,Britain plans to cut its armed forces by 8% by 2015
2010-10-20,"Palestinian school set on fire, vandalized with 'regards from the hills' graffiti"
2010-10-20,"Thousands of Tibetan students have staged protests in northwestern China, angry at being forced to study in the Chinese language"
2010-10-20,Chinese Rare Earth Embargo Spreads 
2010-10-20,Carter in Syria: Israel must fully lift Gaza blockade | Former U.S. President meets with Syrian President Assad and Hamas politburo chief Meshal in Damascus.
2010-10-20,"Beyond the Church's Reach - An increasing number of Polish women are travelling to Germany for abortions. Even as Poland has modernized and become more European, its laws have failed to keep pace."
2010-10-20,Tibetan students in China protest over language policy
2010-10-20,"Afghanistan debate drives MP to tears - INDEPENDENT MP Andrew Wilkie has broken down in tears while calling for Australian troops to come home from Afghanistan ""within months"". 
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2010-10-20,"Ugandan paper outs 100 'top' gays in country - Rights activists say at least four homosexuals attacked after appearing in list published by 'Rolling Stone' paper that included photos. 
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2010-10-20,"Strikes in Europe: ""Governments, whether conservative or nominally 'left,' are cutting jobs and wages and slashing social programs in complete disregard for the overwhelming opposition of the population."
2010-10-20,Lebanon: the real story behind Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit
2010-10-20,Afghan officials cancel 1.3m votes  more than 20% of parliamentary election's ballots invalid after fraud investigation
2010-10-20,Sarkozy Stands Firm on Pension Reform as Protests Cripple France
2010-10-20,"Devastating budget cuts to hit Britain U.K. Finance Chief George Osborne announced a program of devastating cuts to the country's budget today, taking away hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs and billions of dollars from welfare. "
2010-10-19,"Here is a country with 5% unemployment, lowest income inequality, healthcare for all, has high life expectancy, low infant mortality, near top in numeracy and literacy, low on crime, incarceration, homicides, mental illness and drug abuse. In all these it beats both the US and China by a mile!"
2010-10-19,Saudi prince found guilty of murdering his servant in London Hotel
2010-10-19,"When Saudi King Abdullah appeared in a newspaper photo with 40 veiled women, he broke a taboo by mixing with the opposite sex in public. Since then, the King has crimped the power of conservative Muslim clerics - prohibited unauthorized fatwas and backed female employees in supermarkets"
2010-10-19,"You get checked for porn when you enter Australia, sad thing is they don't give you some if you don't have any. "
2010-10-19,Chechnya parliament 'is attacked'
2010-10-19,"Nobel Peace Prize Inspires Chinese Dissidents - Young people have been disseminating Liu's ""Charter 08"" reform manifesto. Even veteran Communist Party functionaries are calling for more freedom."
2010-10-19,"For the first time, an ICE high-speed train operated by German rail rolled into London on Tuesday. Deutsche Bahn hopes the test run is a sign of things to come, but France is unhappy."
2010-10-19,"6 of 10 Chinese demand Norway apologize: ""more than 75 percent of respondents had no idea who the winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize was."""
2010-10-19,Two Chinese nationals arrested for firing into a crowd of Zambian workers protesting poor working conditions at their Chinese-run mine
2010-10-19,"Fiji Loses it's ""birth certificate."""
2010-10-19,"Osama bin Laden living in comfort in Pakistan, says Nato official"
2010-10-19,"If Ahmadinejad's visit to Lebanon signalled anything, it's that the balance of power is shifting in the Middle East. And as that happens we'll most likely see even more leaders and movements in this region take stands against the policies of western governments."
2010-10-19,China has halted some shipments to the United States of rare minerals vital to industry due to anger over a US probe
2010-10-19,Raped women used as pawns in Congo war
2010-10-19,Man detained by police in Egypt for insulting religion in TV debate
2010-10-19,Biggest pot bust in Mexican history
2010-10-19,"United Nations: ""Israeli settlement construction is a violation of international law"""
2010-10-19,Gunmen storm Chechen parliament 
2010-10-19,"Iran tells Iraqi prime minister 'get rid of America'  - Iran has demonstrated its hold over the future of Iraqi politics, telling Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, to ""get rid of America"" as he arrived to ask Tehran's blessing for a second term in office."
2010-10-19,UK Prime Minister Cameron announces 8% cut to defense budget 
2010-10-19,Mike Leigh cancels Israel trip over loyalty oath
2010-10-19,Vatican newspaper: Homer Simpson is a true Catholic
2010-10-19,The central question for many in Middle East has for years been: Why is it  since we are a superior people (Arabs) with a superior religion (Islam)  that we are behind the West and what can we do about it?
2010-10-19,Top UN envoy survives Iraqi roadside blast
2010-10-19,Striking French Dockworkers Clash with Riot Police 
2010-10-18,Leave it to a damn engineer.
2010-10-18,Drug addicts across the UK are being offered money to be sterilised by an American charity
2010-10-18,"Wife-beating allowed under sharia law, UAE court rules"
2010-10-18,French gas stations 'run dry'
2010-10-18,"Man marrying twice in one day. Both women agreed to live ""as sisters and as friends""..."
2010-10-18,"
Iran loses most of its ballistic missile launchers in mysterious blasts at the secret Imam Ali Base - First the Stuxnet virus, now deep sabotage. Iran is taking a pounding."
2010-10-18,China threatening to block the release of a UN report that details its sales of weapons to Darfur in violation of an arms embargo
2010-10-18,"The World's Jon Stewarts - The Daily Show star has it easy. A list of the world's most influential political satirists shows that in dangerous places, telling jokes can be hazardous to your health."
2010-10-18,Violent Anti-Japanese Protests Erupt in China
2010-10-18,"'Cuban pilots flew 150,000 Jews from Arab states to Israel' - In the first years of the state, Cuban planes and pilots brought nearly 150,000 Jews to Israel from Iraq, Iran, Yemen and India, the official Cuban newspaper Juventude Rebelde (Rebel Youth) reported on Saturday. "
2010-10-18,"Arab League urges world leaders to boycott OECD conference in Jerusalem: Call issued in light of continued Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank comes after Turkey, Britain and Spain said they would not attend."
2010-10-18,Extensive research into the causes of suicide terrorism proves Islam isn't to blame -- the root of the problem is foreign military occupations.
2010-10-18,"Think slavery is a thing of the past? Think again -
				Home News, UK - The Independent"
2010-10-18,"In the next 40 years, an unprecedented number of women will be in positions of power, Muslim immigration to the West will rise, and office workers will be unchained from their cubicles, a report released last week says."
2010-10-18,Three peers to be suspended from Lords over expenses claims 
2010-10-18,"U.S. says Chinese businesses and banks are bypassing U.N. sanctions against Iran
"
2010-10-18,"With Statehood, Palestinians Ready To End All Claims"
2010-10-18,"French strikes hit airlines, trucking, gas pumps"
2010-10-18,Debasing a foundational idea -- Israel's future depends on its ability to prevent and solve tensions between being 'Jewish' and being 'democratic.'
2010-10-18, WikiLeaks Didnt Blow U.S. Afghan Intel Sources
2010-10-18,"Homosexual attacks rise a year after Uganda's anti gay bill - Today marks one year since the introduction of an Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Ugandas parliament that seeks to impose the death penalty on ""repeat offenders"" and HIV-positive gay men convicted of aggravated homosexuality."
2010-10-18,House arrest for child run down by settler (in Israel)
2010-10-18,French workers show how to fight austerity: strike wave has shut down thousands of gas stations; Charles De Gaulle airport may need to close tonight.
2010-10-18,"Blotting Out Sun May Soon Be Banned  Yes, really  A U.N. treaty"
2010-10-18,Scout in Mumbai attacks was DEA informant while in terror camp
2010-10-17,"Blackwater, through Total Intelligence [also owned by Blackwater's founder, Erik Prince], seeks to become the ""intel arm"" of Monsanto and infiltrate activist groups organizing against Monsanto"
2010-10-17,The greatest attack ad ever?
2010-10-17,"Black people are 26 times more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police in England and Wales, the most glaring example of ""racial profiling"" researchers have seen"
2010-10-17,"Sweden tops government ranking - while US lags - Sweden's open government, lack of corruption and clear laws make the country top new global government effectiveness ranking."
2010-10-17,Has democracy ceased to exist in parts of Mexico because of drug cartel influence? How did the country get to this point? 
2010-10-17,"French-speaking population increases by 20 million between 2007 and 2010, almost entirely thanks to Africa"
2010-10-17,"Doctors Without Borders on US food aid: ""Foods we would never give our own children are being sent overseas as food aid to the most vulnerable children in malnutrition hot spots in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia. This double standard must stop."" "
2010-10-17,The Economic Hit Man Confesses Again
2010-10-17,"Mexico: With a presidential election less than two years away, drug cartels send messages to the government and citizens to back down. The law-abiding must decide whether it is better to give in ... or battle on. "
2010-10-17,"""These are dark-skinned people, not Europeans like you and me,"" declared Milan's vice-mayor during their crackdown on the Roma."
2010-10-17,The 1 billion hostage trade: How kidnapping became a global industry
2010-10-17,"Angela Merkel, Germany's Chancellor, has said that the country's attempt to create a multicultural society has ""utterly failed"""
2010-10-17,British director Mike Leigh cancels Israel trip to protest loyalty oath
2010-10-17,Defiant millions take to the streets in battle over Nicolas Sarkozy's cuts
2010-10-17,French workers strike against pension reform
2010-10-17,Protests threaten France shut down: Tens of thousands of people to take to the streets over pension plans as fears of a fuel shortage increase
2010-10-17,"Massive Hospital ship arrives in Kenya, set to tour Africa. 8 decks, 32 departments, 428 medical support staff. Free treatment. Provided by the Chinese."
2010-10-17,"""Look me in the eyes ... I said the eyes."" - Play on famous Wonderbra ad aims to increase sensitivity toward handicapped people."
2010-10-17,The Great Deflation - Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened 
2010-10-17,Swiss Complete Largest Tunnel Ever to Star Wars Theme 
2010-10-17,Iranian judge sentenced a man accused of stealing chocolate from a candy shop to have his hand cut off!
2010-10-17,Chinese Christians barred from attending South African international evangelical conference
2010-10-17,"After the Pakistan Floods, Why Relief Help Was Slow to Arrive"
2010-10-17,"The propaganda smears on WikiLeaks. On the eve of a new leak, widely trumpeted Pentagon accusations about the whistleblowing site have proven false "
2010-10-17,"Deadly disease major threat to global public health - 

Number of cases of dengue has more than doubled in last decade, according to the World Health Organization"
2010-10-16,"Meanwhile, in China 1261 people died in coal mines in the first half of 2010.  It's not as glamorous as the Chilean rescue?"
2010-10-16,"Ten years ago, Portugal became the first Western nation to pass full-scale, nationwide decriminalization. That law abolished criminal sanctions for all narcotics - not just marijuana but also hard drugs. By any metric, Portugals drug-decriminalization scheme has been a resounding success"
2010-10-16,Merkel says German multicultural society has failed
2010-10-16,"Iran infuriated by stoning film, just fine with real stoning"
2010-10-16,"During Fujimori's regime, Peru engaged in systemic sterilisation of poor, indigenous, rural women in a program of coercion and deceit under the guise of an anti-poverty plan. Health authorities were given 'quotas' to meet, and all the victims belonged to the same indigenous ethnic group"
2010-10-16,"""we learned that USAID, part of the Department of State, was supplying fertilizer for opium production."" - Afghanistan"
2010-10-16,Paris' Charles de Gaulle ITL could run out of fuel supplies as early as this Monday due to 10 out of 12 refineries and depots being blockaded by pension strikers
2010-10-16,UK companies selling pensions take 80 percent in fees and commissions. 
2010-10-16,WikiLeaks Iraq - To Upstage Afghanistan? 
2010-10-16,A Dissident Defends Us All - NYTimes.com
2010-10-16,A straight-talking engineer was behind Chile's mine rescue operation
2010-10-16,Turkey schools flout hijab ban
2010-10-16, Where others fear to tread:  The decision by a Chinese business school to set up in Africa highlights Western schools' reluctance to engage with the continent
2010-10-16,"Arabs object to Israeli settlements: 
Israel permits new construction, threatening viability of peace talks."
2010-10-16,China mine blast kills 20 and leaves 17 trapped
2010-10-16,"The development of Germanys renewable energy sources will mean record green electricity surcharges for consumers in 2011, increasing power bills by up to 112 per year, according to industry experts."
2010-10-16,Mine blast in China traps 16. Not THIS again!
2010-10-16,"Just a year ago, Reynosa  a dusty, sprawling city of half a million people across the border from McAllen, Texas  was a relatively peaceful part of the country. Now its one of the most dangerous places in Mexico."
2010-10-16,"China: Awarding Nobel Peace Prize to human rights activist, imprisoned dissident Liu Xiabo, encourages crime"
2010-10-16,BBC News - China's leaders meet to discuss the next five-year plan for its economy. Rumour has it that political reform may even be on the agenda.
2010-10-16,The Russian Masterpiece You've Never Heard of - Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate has more to say about human freedom than any other Russian novel of the century. That's probably why it was locked up for so long.
2010-10-16,"China - Henan, 20 miners killed and 17 trapped after a collapse"
2010-10-16,"France replies to EU executive on its expulsion of Roma, to give assurances that it will fall in line with EU laws on free movement or face legal action"
2010-10-16,Australian Government to release children asylum seekers from mandatory detention
2010-10-16,"In Rough Slum, Brazils Police Try Soft Touch"
2010-10-15,"WikiLeaks says Funding Has Been Blocked After Government Blacklisting: Founder Julian Assange hits out at decision by Moneybookers, which collects the whistleblowing website's donations"
2010-10-15,British government urges councils to stop giving tax breaks to Scientology
2010-10-15,"Chinese Premier calls for reform and says ""democracy and freedom are irresistible"" !!"
2010-10-15,"Israel ends settlement freeze, approves 238 new east Jerusalem homes and derails recently renewed Mideast peace talks"
2010-10-15,Now in my country: Four miners trapped in a mine 150 meters deep in Ecuador.
2010-10-15,French woman faces fine for tearing niqab from tourist's face
2010-10-15,"In Italy, a Muslim woman has been killed by her husband for opposing her daughter's arranged marriage. The daughter was gravely injured after being attacked by her brother"
2010-10-15,Swiss near breakthrough on world's longest tunnel
2010-10-15,"On Sept. 15 2010, the United States tested a nuclear weapon - ""Japan responded with dismay to the first U.S. subcritical nuclear test carried out under the Obama administration."" "
2010-10-15,India plans to write its own OS
2010-10-15,"Two Views on Mideast Peace - 
Interesting perspective from Amos Oz: Israelis, Arabs both victims of Europe. Arabs suffered ""imperialism, colonialism, repression""; Jews, ""persecution, genocide"". Each sees in the other its former oppressor
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2010-10-15,"Over one in six Germans believe the Jews have too much influence and over one in eight Germans would welcome a 'Fhrer' to run the country ""with a firm hand"""
2010-10-15,Russia agrees to build nuclear plant in Venezuela
2010-10-15,"""The US will give ~$5 million this year to aid UXO removal in Laos. Compare that to the $17 million spent every DAY for nine years on bombing Laos."""
2010-10-15,"Britain, outlier nation - Too American to fit in with Europe. Too European to share the Tea Party's radicalism. Too Western to find new allies in the BRICs. Too posh for Australia. Conservative Britain is a lonely country"
2010-10-15,German study released this week indicates that xenophobic feelings are spreading from extremists at the margins of society to the middle-class heart of the European country
2010-10-15,Israeli threatens to kill everyone on Qantas flight after not receiving free upgrade
2010-10-15,"The rule of law thrives best in Sweden, the Netherlands but is sorely lacking in Pakistan, Kenya, and Liberia"
2010-10-15,Fresh claims US is running secret prison in Afghanistan
2010-10-15,"India's richest man builds world's first billion-dollar home - An Indian businessman has built the world's most expensive home - valued at $1 billion, with three helipads, its own air traffic control, a six-floor car park, a staff of 600, a four-storey hanging garden and a cinema."
2010-10-15,"Ahmadinejad says ""Zionists will disappear"" in a fiery speech two miles from Israel in Lebanon"
2010-10-15,Palestinians furious at Israeli plan to build more homes in east Jerusalem 
2010-10-15,"World's s sexiest computer hacker, Kristina Svechinskaya, to appear in court in connection with multi-million dollar internet fraud scam"
2010-10-15,'Plot' to kill Pakistan PM foiled--Police officials say they have arrested seven men and foiled a plot to kill the prime minister and other leaders.
2010-10-15,"Half off! France ""fights piracy"" by subsidizing digital music"
2010-10-14,33rd miner rescued!  Is anyone else absolutely astounded at how they've managed to pull off this entire operation?
2010-10-14,"""Before we can recognize Israel as a Jewish state you must present us with a map that clearly shows the bordes of the state you want us to recognize."" Booyakasha!"
2010-10-14,"""This is our cry for help"" - In Congo where 300 women and 4 boys were gang-raped by Congolese/Rwandan Rebels"
2010-10-14,"Israeli columnist argues: Israel's new law that requires all new citizens swear loyalty to Israel as a ""Jewish state"" is another sign that Israel is turning away from the liberal and secular values of modern Western civilization."
2010-10-14,"Rape 'impossible' in marriage, says Muslim cleric in the UK"
2010-10-14,That couple on trial in Australia for abortion? Found not guilty after less than an hour of jury deliberation.
2010-10-14,"Rinderpest virus has been wiped out, scientists say, If confirmed, rinderpest would become only the second viral disease - after smallpox - to have been eliminated by humans."
2010-10-14,"""Did you turn out the lights? Fellow mine rescuers hail unsung hero who was FIRST down the shaft and the LAST man up."" Ladies and gentlemen, meet mine rescue expert Manuel Gonzalez!"
2010-10-14,"Zhao Fei was awaiting trial in China for killing his former Norwegian girlfriend. He turned himself in and admitted to the murder. However, the same day the Nobel Peace price was awarded he was released, free of all charges."
2010-10-14,Police to tweet every incident they're involved in for a day. In Manchester. There's going to be a helluva lot of tweeting 
2010-10-14,Europe's Capital of Anti-Semitism - Budapest survived fascism and communism and blossomed after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Now the Hungarian capital is experiencing a rebirth of anti-Semitism. The far-right Jobbik party is part of the government and Jews are being openly intimidated.
2010-10-14,"When the CIA swooped in and took him, they badly damaged Italys work against terrorists. The case, in other words, looked like a good example of how the war on terror made the West less safe from terrorists"
2010-10-14,"World Financial System Not Sustainable: No sovereign government should ever, under any circumstances, give over democratic control of its money supply to bankers."
2010-10-14,Nobel prize; Japan says release of China's Liu Xiaobo 'desirable' 
2010-10-14,"On Friday, the German History Museum is opening postwar Germany's first-ever comprehensive exhibition on Adolf Hitler. Curators went out of their way to avoid creating an homage -- yet they are still concerned about attracting cheering neo-Nazis and angry protesters."
2010-10-14,"Belgian Cardinal Lonard writes a book : ""AIDS is an immanent justice"" (sorry, google translated link; better translation follows in comments)"
2010-10-14,Russia refuses route for NATO supplies
2010-10-14,"Syria, Hezbollah and Iran: An Alliance in Flux | STRATFOR"
2010-10-14,CCTV captures Mafia handing out beating. Don't mess with the Camorra 
2010-10-14,Some of The Most Emotional Moments of the San Jose Miners Rescue (62 Photos)
2010-10-14,"Afghans allege prison abuse: 
Report claims Afghan detainees abused at secret US detention center."
2010-10-14,Greek police storm Acropolis unpaid wages and lay-offs protesters
2010-10-14,Palestinian negotiator denies official request for border map of Israel
2010-10-14,German president Wulff gets worms in salad at Kremlin dinner
2010-10-14,BBC News - China's trade surplus falls to $16.9bn
2010-10-13,First Miner hoisted to freedom in Chile
2010-10-13,A Mexican police commander investigating the reported shooting of an American tourist on a border lake was decapitated and his head was found in a suitcase outside a Mexican Army base
2010-10-13,Chinese communist elders issue free speech appeal
2010-10-13,Four teenagers charged on hate crime against beating a Muslim kid who they called a terrorist.
2010-10-13,"Goodbye Great Recession. Hello bedlam: As 2010 ends, global security is nosediving"
2010-10-13,"Mass protests shake French government. ""Over three million workers marched against unpopular pension cuts Tuesday, as the political establishment fears a radicalization of workers struggles that could escape the control of the trade unions."""
2010-10-13,Former KGB officer says Britain should stop trying to extradite him for Alexander Litvinenko's poisoning
2010-10-13,38 tigers and 134 leopards have been killed this year in India by poachers
2010-10-13,"Iraq vet who rescued the wounded children after the Wikileaks ""Collateral Murder"" incident was denied mental counselling by commanding officers. "
2010-10-13,Right-Wing Attitudes On the Rise in Germany
2010-10-13,"A Mexican police commander investigating the disappearance of an American tourist on a border lake plagued by pirates was killed, U.S. and Mexican officials said Tuesday. The San Antonio Express-News is reporting that Rolando Flores' head was delivered to the Mexican military in a suitcase."
2010-10-13,Chinese Scientists behaving badly | Recent events show China needs to clean up its scientific act
2010-10-13,"The rescued miners may stand to make a tidy sum from book and newspaper deals, but no-one has profited more from their ordeal than Chiles president, Sebastian Pinera. "
2010-10-13,Italy to combat prostitution by cutting trees.
2010-10-13,"India to help Vietnam enhance, upgrade its armed forces"
2010-10-13,"43 die after bus ignores warning, collides with train in Ukraine"
2010-10-13,Suspected US missiles strikes kill 11 in Pakistan
2010-10-13,China's Wind Power To Grow Five-Fold In Next Decade
2010-10-13,"Three-year-old Iraqi child saved in Israel: Following life-saving surgery for inborn heart defect, child's mother says: We love Israel, not afraid to return to Iraq"
2010-10-13,"Nazi Re-enactor Just Tip of the Iceberg: The GOPs 
Long History with Nazi Allies"
2010-10-13,"The bizarre trial of Dutch political leader Geert Wilders, for having allegedly insulted Islam and incited hatred against Muslims, may have major long term repercussions on Europe.  You may not agree with his politics, but his trial will be a watershed for European democracy."
2010-10-13,Rescuer Descends Into Chile Mine Shaft - NYT
2010-10-13,"Dan Plesch of the Centre for International Studies U.K.'s military spending on the chopping block. The cash-strapped United Kingdom has been cutting programs and services left and right, including military spending. "
2010-10-13,"Pushed to alleviate security concerns before the citys double-billing on the international stage, Rio officials have embarked on an ambitious plan to wrest control of the slums, such as City of God, from ruthless drug gangs who ruled for years with big guns and abject terror."
2010-10-13,Pension Reform Protest - Third Wave of Strikes Shuts Down France
2010-10-12,"Could this be the worst piece of business in the history of the world? Last Thursday, Dublin Finance Minister Brian Lenihan handed Allied Irish Bank $4.2 billion of taxpayers' money to save it from going under. He could have bought the entire bank that morning for $832 million."
2010-10-12,"In Queensland, where abortion is still a crime, a woman is on trial for medically terminating her eight-week pregnancy, and faces a jail term of up to 7 years"
2010-10-12,"The Metro Police have a couple of problems: abuse of powers, and racial discrimination within the force. However, the Commissioner has hit upon a solution, which he is lobbying the Government to adopt: make it harder to bring suits against the police."
2010-10-12,"Sex Crimes and the Vatican - a BBC documentary. *Warning, this might make you rage*"
2010-10-12,"Australian cop bashes victims while in custody, sentenced to 27 months jail and loses job. Video of assault within article."
2010-10-12,"Think Again: Global Aging - A gray tsunami is sweeping the planet -- and not just in the places you expect. How did the world get so old, so fast?"
2010-10-12,North Korea leader's eldest son 'opposes dynasty'
2010-10-12,"Breaking the Silence nominated for EU peace prize -
documents testimony of soldiers who served in the West Bank and Gaza; right-wing group calls on parliament members not to let it win award. -- Haaretz"
2010-10-12,Netherlands Antilles ceased to be a country yesterday
2010-10-12,Kazakhstan Prisoners Disemboweling Themselves To Protest Prison Conditions - UN Gets Involved
2010-10-12,Why the CBC banned Creative Commons music from its shows
2010-10-12,"Fishermen at the Japanese town made famous by the controversial Oscar-winning documentary ""The Cove"" shrugged off protests by animal rights activists on Tuesday to carry out their grisly annual dolphin hunt."
2010-10-12,France hit by third national strike in a month
2010-10-12,"Israeli troops accused of shooting children in Gaza -At least 10 Palestinian children have been shot and wounded by Israeli troops in the past three months while collecting rubble in or near the ""buffer zone"" created by Israel along the Gaza border. "
2010-10-12,"BREAKING: Chile's trapped miners finally set to escape (12 Oct, 0935)"
2010-10-12,Chilean miners soon to be rescued 
2010-10-12,"After the January assassination of a top Palestinian official in Dubai, Police had lots of surveillance footage of the perps. Yet they haven't found any of the 30 suspects identified. It seems ubiquitous electronic surveillance is no match for a sufficiently advanced adversary."
2010-10-12,Thailand military: the lovely conscripts - Thailands military struggles with a flood of transgender draftees.
2010-10-12,India Adds Economic Power to Security Council Bloc With Brazil
2010-10-12,Somali Pirates Hijack Japanese Breakbulk Ship
2010-10-12,"BREAKING: Law passed to strip foreign-born criminals of French nationality in France (12 Oct, 1420)"
2010-10-12,Tanker and container ship collide off Dutch coast
2010-10-12,"Two German Journalists Arrested in Iran - Two German reporters have been arrested in Iran after trying to interview the lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who has been condemned to death by stoning. The case is likely to cause diplomatic tension between Germany and Iran."
2010-10-12,Australian police Tasers 'used on mentally ill'
2010-10-12,Pakistan's Rulers Have Sold Countrys Sovereignty To US: Imran - Imran Khan said blind allegiance of the rulers to the US had emboldened the Nato forces to such an extent that they now even started killing the Pakistani forces after violating the countrys geographical boundaries. 
2010-10-11,"""The 33 trapped Chilean miners have moved to stop any individual from profiting at the expense of the group, drawing up a legal contract to share the proceeds from the story of their ordeal."""
2010-10-11,Pentecostal churches in Uganda pressuring HIV-positive youths to stop taking their ARVs
2010-10-11,"Mr Liu's wife has apparently been placed under house arrest after he dedicated the award to the ""martyrs"" of Tiananmen Square in 1989."
2010-10-11,French Constitutional Court Decision Upholds Ban on Wearing Veils in Public Places because it puts women in a condition of exclusion and inferiority manifestly incompatible with the constitutional principles of liberty and equality. 
2010-10-11,Norway says China has canceled a ministerial meeting apparently in response to the award of the Nobel peace prize to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo
2010-10-11,Far right rioters attack Serbian gay pride march
2010-10-11,Afghan tribal leaders tried to negotiate for the British aid worker's release.  Coalition bombings turned away their mission.  They implored that only negotiation would secure her freedom.  They were ignored.  A military rescue operation was chosen instead.  The hostage is now dead.
2010-10-11,"PA adopts textbook, banned in Israel, offering both sides' narratives - Palestinian Education Ministry's adoption of book marks first time Israeli position is presented to West Bank schoolchildren - still banned from use by the Israeli Education Ministry"
2010-10-11,"German minister warns of reverse discrimination - In the country's ongoing integration debate, Germany's federal Minister for Family Affairs, Kristina Schroeder, has now warned that many Germans have been subjected to growing reverse discrimination by immigrants."
2010-10-11,"Iranian separatist group claims kidnapping of nuclear scientist, threatens release of state secrets"
2010-10-11,"Outrage over Swedish arms sales to Saudis - Were talking about one of the worlds worst dictatorships. We cant send weapons to dictatorships that should be buying food instead, Green Party defence policy spokesperson Peter Rdberg said."
2010-10-11,"Americans Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen and Christopher Pissarides, a British and Cypriot citizen, won the 2010 Nobel economics prize Monday for developing theories that help explain how economic policies can affect unemployment."
2010-10-11,Israel Declares for Ethnic Nationalism Oath: Persons applying for Israeli citizenship to affirm the Jewish and democratic character of Israel
2010-10-11,Greek policeman gets life in prison for murder that sparked riots 
2010-10-11,"African leaders in human albino trade - A lobby group says politicians are involved in the trade of human albino body parts in Africa and use them as charms to bring them good fortune.
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2010-10-11,"Young woman British aid worker who was alleged to have been killed by her Taliban captors may have ""accidentally"" died in a grenade attack by U.S. forces during a botched rescue operation"
2010-10-11,"A kidnapped British aid worker may have been killed by her American rescuers, rather than her Taliban captors, officials said Monday."
2010-10-11,"Hungarian police arrested the managing director of the company at the center of a toxic sludge disaster, as the body of the last missing person was recovered, bringing the death toll to eight"
2010-10-11,"Death by stoning case: Iran arrests son, lawyer, and journalists "
2010-10-11,India to get UN Security Council seat as a non permanent member
2010-10-11,The Miners are finally going to get out tomorrow night.
2010-10-11,"""Israel's economy is widely seen as a high-tech success story. Yet to many Israelis the real players in their economy are not programmers or venture capitalists. Rather, they are the 20 or so Israeli families who control banks, supermarkets, telecoms, real estate, gas stations, and utilities . . ."""
2010-10-11,"European populism focuses on Islam and immigration, but it may be mobilising a wider rage against elites expressed by people who feel unrepresented, or fear being left behind economically. They share a feeling of losing their sense of national, social, or religious belonging. "
2010-10-11,"Fearing civil war, Lebanese citizens arm themselves"
2010-10-11,Officer guilty of boy's murder that sparked Greek riots
2010-10-10,"Hard up farmer digs up Roman helmet on his land and hopes to sell it for about 32,000 dollars. Instead it earns him about 3.67 million"
2010-10-10,"Clown elected to Brazilian congress, ""It couldn't get 
any worse. Vote for me"""
2010-10-10,"CNN streaming live from North Korean party parade - 
amazing imagery"
2010-10-10,"Far-right British political parties linked with Tea Party activists: Details emerge of contacts between English Defence League and extremist US groups in a 'war on Islamification"""
2010-10-10,Protesters attack police at Belgrade Gay Pride parade
2010-10-10,"Former editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia began a two-year prison sentence for publishing pictures of scantily clothed women, riling free speech activists in the world's most populous Muslim nation"
2010-10-10,Iran Confirms Espionage at its Nuclear Facilities
2010-10-10,Intellectuals held in mainland China crackdown after Liu Xiaobo gets Nobel peace prize
2010-10-10,Hungary workers race to build dam as reservoir crack widens and threaten to unleash second torrent of toxic sludge on village of Kolontar
2010-10-10,"The English Defence League, a far-right grouping aimed at combating the ""Islamification"" of British cities, has developed strong links with the American Tea Party movement"
2010-10-10,China detains Nobel Peace Prize winner's wife: U.S. rights group
2010-10-10,"After more than two months trapped deep in a Chilean mine, 33 miners were so giddy with confidence, they were arguing over who would be the last to take a twisting 20-minute ride to daylight and the embrace of those they love.

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2010-10-10,"The New Great Game -  a bitter struggle over natural resources and strategic bases between the British and Russian colonial powers, are seeing history repeat itself."
2010-10-10,Serbia riots leave scores injured
2010-10-10,Rupert Murdoch Invades Iran
2010-10-10,North Korea Opens Up Internet for National Anniversary
2010-10-10,"Police clash with anti-gay protesters in Belgrade, Serbia.."
2010-10-10,"Royal Marines have spoken for the first time of an horrific ""Black Hawk Down"" battle to save a helicopter crew trapped in enemy territory"
2010-10-10,Wife of Chinese Nobel winner under house arrest
2010-10-10,"Violence flares at EDL protest: A huge police operation of 2,000 officers kept rival factions apart as the English Defence League (EDL) and Unite Against Fascism (UAF) held demonstrations in Leicester"
2010-10-10,OECD protest over Israeli minister's Jerusalem remarks--The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has said it could cancel a conference in Jerusalem over remarks by an Israeli minister
2010-10-10,"A man accused of the slaughter of 15 young people at a Ciudad Juarez birthday party, the killing of a U.S. Air Force sergeant and the assassination of a Mexican reporter targeted for his organized crime coverage, says his confessions were false and extracted through torture."
2010-10-10,"All hail the boy emperor -- the first sighting by foreign journalists of Kim Jong Un, who is the third son of Kim Jong Il and still in his late 20s"
2010-10-10,Chinese researchers to relaunch 'Bigfoot' search
2010-10-10,"Chancellor Angela Merkel met Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Berlin, with a range of agendas. Among them was the issue of integration in Germanys Muslim minority, a much-debated topic in recent weeks."
2010-10-09,"Canadian couple who discovered that their fetus was likely to have Down's Syndrome decided that they wanted to have an abortion. The problems was the fetus was being carried by a surrogate, who wanted to carry the pregnancy to term."
2010-10-09,Lightning kills entire soccer team during game.
2010-10-09,China forces wife of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo to leave Beijing
2010-10-09,Breakthrough in Chile mine rescue
2010-10-09,"The Real Challenge from China: Its People, Not Its Currency - Fareed Zakaria's debut TIME article"
2010-10-09,"SUNLIGHT! Chile miners have a way out now, and all it needs is final testing before they can start to evacuate."
2010-10-09,The threat of International Criminal Court prosecutions of Israel moves from theory to reality: Relatives of the dead and their lawyers ask the ICC to open a case against Israel for the deadly attack on the Gaza Aid Flotilla in international waters.
2010-10-09,"""The Nobel committee once again displayed its arrogance and prejudice against a country that has made the most remarkable economic and social progress in the past three decades."" - Chinese Newspaper Editorial"
2010-10-09,Blast kills Afghan governor
2010-10-09,"On the Hungarian red sludge: This morning the goverment evacuated Kolontar (the closest town to the reservior), and ready to evacuate Devecser, since there is a great possibilty that another spill happens. The northern part of the dam is showing numerous cracks, and reports show it will fall down."
2010-10-09,"French court approves veil ban: Country's highest legal authority gives the green light to a ban on facial veils, despite previous warnings against it"
2010-10-09,Russian students pose in lingerie for a pro-Putin calendar celebrating Vladimir Putin's 58th birthday.
2010-10-09,Mexico's President Calderon opposes marijuana legalization in California
2010-10-09,Tens of thousands take part in Munich anti-nuclear protest - Opponents of the German government's plans for nuclear power claim success after a major demonstration in Munich. The event was the largest of its kind in Bavaria for more than two decades.
2010-10-09,Iran says Western spies infiltrated its nuclear program
2010-10-09,Angry China Blocks Nobel Prize Celebration- The police in Beijing on Friday broke up a banquet honoring the dissident Liu Xiaobo for winning the Nobel Peace Prize. 
2010-10-09,NATO tankers torched in new attack in Pakistan
2010-10-09,Iran acknowledges espionage at nuclear facilities
2010-10-09,China's Burden of Shame - Today's Nobel Peace Prize announcement is a reminder that the Chinese people will never earn the full respect of the world until their government respects them first.
2010-10-09,"Pakistan will reopen a border crossing today, which had been closed for a week in protest of a NATO helicopter attack which killed two of their soldiers. During this time almost 150 trucks with supplies were stranded and destroyed"
2010-10-09,French national police force  la Gendarmerie  accused of operating a secret and illegal database of Roma and other travelling minorities
2010-10-09,Nato tankers again hit in Pakistan
2010-10-09,NATO Sends More Troops to North Kosovo
2010-10-09,"The 22.5 million Turkish members of Facebook may lose access to the popular social-networking site, as a result of a court case filed by an opposition leader.  A government minister who has defended Turkeys bans on YouTube and other popular websites hinted  that Facebook could share the same fate."
2010-10-09,Which are the best - and worst-run countries in Africa? 
2010-10-08,"The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 goes to Liu Xiaobo ""for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China""."
2010-10-08,"Belgian police beat up protesters, tear the clothes off one protester when she refuses a strip search in front of men, and abduct another and threaten her with rape"
2010-10-08,China has angrily condemned the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo
2010-10-08,"China's best-known dissident, who is serving 11 years in prison, is probably unaware he has won the Nobel Peace Prize."
2010-10-08,"'You will all die': Crazed man's vow to terrified passengers as he tries to open exit door mid-air after praying in Hebrew

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2010-10-08,"No right to a lawyer during interrogation, Supreme Court rules (Canada) "
2010-10-08,WTF woman warned over 'child grooming' for giving a child a 'cookie' at school where she works . . .
2010-10-08,"Late soldier's letters tell of rapes at camp: ""Capt. Nichola Goddard, who in 2006 became the first female Canadian combat death, wrote to her husband that women working at bases in Afghanistan were often victims of sexual harassment or assault [...]"""
2010-10-08,"Britain is so broke, that they are considering to have France service their nuclear warheads"
2010-10-08,Israel's new 'loyalty oath' will require non-Jewish citizens (and only non-Jewish citizens) to swear allegiance to the Jewish and democratic state of Israel. Jews will not be required to take the oath because many ultra-Orthodox Jews are known to be disloyal to the Israeli state. 
2010-10-08,Whale Wars: Sinking claim exposes Sea Shepherd feud - apparently they sunk their own ship
2010-10-08,"Immigrants should pay 5,000 pounds to use public services: UK MP"
2010-10-08,"Three major Asian space powers - China, India, Japan - suffered satellite failures during the second half of 2010 "
2010-10-08,Chilean miners braced for release as drill breakthrough due in hours
2010-10-08,2 more bodies found in Hungary's red sludge 
2010-10-08,Jewish Settler leader runs over rock throwing youths in Silwan 
2010-10-08,Trapped Chilean miners show hidden depths after two months underground 
2010-10-08,Interpol seeks arrest of serving Pakistani army officers over Mumbai attacks
2010-10-08,57 NATO tankers set ablaze in fresh assaults
2010-10-08,Arsenic and mercury in Hungary spill 
2010-10-08,"Why The Natives Revolted - The [Tony] Blair mindset seems to say that Americans, Israelis, and British...can react forcefully with war and sanctions to the policies that anger or hurt them, while Arabs and Asians...are not allowed to activate a similar human condition and reaction."
2010-10-08,In defence of South African academics' successful call for a boycott of Israel
2010-10-08,"The recent statement by German President Christian Wulff that ""Islam belongs in Germany"" has provoked something of a conservative backlash. The German press is divided on whether the presence of Muslims in Germany is self-evident or cause for concern."
2010-10-08,New Delhi's sewage system is choked by thousands of condoms which have been flushed down the toilets in the athletes' village. 
2010-10-08,"In Hunt for Dubai Hit Men, Tantalizing Trail Goes Cold "
2010-10-07,Hungarian sludge spill reaches Danube river (PICTURES)
2010-10-07,"Representatives of US security agencies want further concessions from the EU to ensure free access to police computers, bank transfers and airline passenger data in the fight against terror. But members of the European Parliament have said they will resist the moves."
2010-10-07,"American Jew charged with attempted espionage | Elliot Doxer, 42, allegedly wanted to ""help our homeland,"" gave confidential documents to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli."
2010-10-07,"A  thrilling investigation into Viktor Bout, black-market Russian arms dealer, recently captured in Thailand. Portrays him as intelligent, calm, exacting businessman. No scruples, no ideology"
2010-10-07, A Kenyan cabinet minister who called for greater acceptance of gays by society has been accused of promoting 'un-African' acts and asked to resign.
2010-10-07,The touching journal of a tragic soldier who foretold his death and wrote how disgraceful his equipment was before being killed in action two weeks later is going on display
2010-10-07,China's True Intentions in Congo - Using military aid to secure mining operations in war-torn Eastern DRC
2010-10-07,"Mexican president Felipe Calderon suggests abolishing 2,000 local police departments throughout Mexico due to endemic corruption"
2010-10-07,Seized Vietnam boat shows China double standard
2010-10-07,"French court rules burqa ban constitutional, the last step before clearing the law for passage"
2010-10-07,The Indian state of Kerala is famous as the land of coconuts. But climbing trees has been the only way to pick them. Until now...
2010-10-07,"The case against NATO - Nine years after September 11, it no longer makes sense (if it ever did) to be asking Canadian and British soldiers, among others, to risk their lives for what has always been an American war in Afghanistan."
2010-10-07,Top disaster relief officials in Hungary say the toxic spill has killed all water life in the small Marcal river. Higher-than-normal pH levels have also been recorded in a tributary of the Danube.
2010-10-07,"2 Mozambicans killed for 'witchcraft' - Two men, both at least 70 years old, were lynched by their families in central Mozambique because they were suspected of witchcraft, the state-run daily O Pais reported on Thursday."
2010-10-07,"Israel Is Now Punishing Palestinians Shamelessly: What is delaying treatment of a 47-year-old Palestinian woman, if not punishment of someone who opposes her foreign rulers?"
2010-10-07,Report: Israel unleashed American-made WMD's on defenseless neighbors
2010-10-07,We donated our xkcd: volume 0 profits to Room to Read to promote literacy in the developing world - now we're visiting each location. Here's Laos.
2010-10-07,Interpol issues notice against 2 Pakistan Army majors in 26/11 Mumbai attacks case
2010-10-07,And the Nobel Peace Prize Goes to 
2010-10-07,Hungary: Toxic red sludge has reached the Danube
2010-10-07,Vietnam demands release of fishermen
2010-10-07,Nato contractors 'attacking own vehicles' in Pakistan
2010-10-07,Baby dies after monkey snatches it from home 
2010-10-07,Pressure grows on David Cameron's press officer Andy Coulson as police contact former colleague over News of the World phone hacking scandal
2010-10-07,Interactive Pictures Highlighting the Toxic Sludge Tidal Wave Surging Through Hungary
2010-10-06,Australian study: the only effect of legalizing prostitution is an improvement in the health of sex workers
2010-10-06,"BREAKING - FBI Arrests 133 In Puerto Rico Corruption Case. Many Are Police Officers (6 Oct, 1255)"
2010-10-06,"The French capital is notorious for its traffic jams. Now the mayor of Paris has come up with a bold new plan to rid his city of tens of thousands of cars. If he pulls it off, the e-car sharing scheme may become a trailblazer for other congested cities around the world. "
2010-10-06,"In the last 10 days, Israeli settlers have launched a ""massive building campaign"" in the occupied Palestinian territories.  Construction has begun for over 350 brand new buildings exclusively for Jewish settlers."
2010-10-06,"""Vote Cameron, Get Murdoch"". Channel 4 Dispatches investigates the staggering intimidation News International holds over the police, politicians and rival media outlets and how David Cameron's press officer knew of illegal phone hacking when he was the editor of the News of the World."
2010-10-06,"Tax minimum wage workers - Minimum wage workers should be taxed to help boost the public finances, business leaders claimed today."
2010-10-06,"The Death of Egypt's Free Press: In the run-up to November's parliamentary elections, President Hosni Mubarak's allies are silencing what remains of the independent media."
2010-10-06,"For the first time since its founding three decades ago, a poll suggests the German Green party has overtaken the Social Democrats in popularity, bolstering the Greens' claim that they are the main opposition party."
2010-10-06,"Germany has moved a step closer to ridding its soil of atomic weapons, bowing out of the nuclear sharing agreement under which its fighter jets can be used to drop US bombs, media reported on Wednesday."
2010-10-06,"Hungary remains in a state of emergency in the wake of a toxic sludge spill that has left seven villages swamped. Fears have been raised that the sludge could pollute the nearby Danube, Europe's second longest river."
2010-10-06,"
More bodies (and other strange sights) on Brazil's Street View. A Tumblr feed called Street Viu was set up so Brazilians could offer their most interesting images from the new service. In just a few days this feed has offered quite a fascinating look at what the Google cameras captured."
2010-10-06,"After an earthquake in Christchurch New Zeland Red Cross can't give aid money away as people generally don't need it, so tell people to use it to by flat screen TV's and go on holiday. Meanwhile in the rest of the world people in real need go without. "
2010-10-06,Oktoberfest Revellers Drank Record 7 Million Liters of Beer
2010-10-06,Man caught with uranium in Purulia 
2010-10-06,Owners of the Boston Red Sox buying Liverpool FC for about 300 million
2010-10-06,The Specter of Protectionism - World Faces New Wave of Currency Wars - An American bill imposing punitive tarifs on countries that undervalue their currencies is set to unleash a new trade war between the US and China. But in fact the whole global currency system is in a state of jeopardy.
2010-10-06,"Today AIPAC is working hard to prevent an extension of the Israeli settlement freeze in the occupied Palestinian territories, contravening the wishes of the President of the United States."
2010-10-06,Maths prodigy is the youngest Cambridge fresher since 1773
2010-10-06,"In Israel, there is an unspoken ban on performing the works of anti-Semitic composer Richard Wagner. The announcement that an Israeli orchestra will perform at the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth has caused a stir at home. "
2010-10-06,Blast near UK embassy in Yemen
2010-10-06,Linguists uncover 'hidden' language in north India
2010-10-06,"Together, mainland China and India currently contain nearly two out of every five people in the worldand are equal in size to the world population in 1950. See their demographics compared."
2010-10-06,"Report: Ethiopian Jews Allegedly Being Given Controversial Birth Control Drug. ""There is a raging controversy in Israel where feminists and doctors have accused health officials of using a controversial birth control drug Depo Provera on female Ethiopian immigrants."""
2010-10-06,Chilean miners could be out by the weekend
2010-10-06,"In an apparent concession to the increasingly outspoken opposition to Stuttgart's train station renovation plan, the state premier of Baden-Wuerttemberg has agreed to stop demolition related to the project."
2010-10-05,"In Israel, a chief education official was fired after denying evolution and global warming."
2010-10-05,An Israeli military court on Sunday convicted two soldiers of using a Palestinian child as a human shield by forcing him to check for booby traps during the 2008-2009 Gaza war.
2010-10-05,"The worst-ever chemical accident in Hungary: ""It's an ecological catastrophe"""
2010-10-05,Bangladesh court rules against compelling women to wear burqa
2010-10-05,Graphene yeilds a nobel prize in physics.
2010-10-05,Former Societe Generale trader Jerome Kerviel was found guilty of breach of trust by a Paris court on Tuesday for his role in a trading scandal that cost the bank close to 5 billion euros ($7 billion).
2010-10-05,"A new, more draconian tax on bonuses should be 
slapped on banks, a leading Liberal Democrat said 
tonight after the Royal Bank of Scotland chairman 
admitted that regulation was the only way to 
restrain the annual bonanza for bankers."
2010-10-05,"""An Israeli military court convicted two soldiers on Sunday of using a 9-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield by forcing him to check bags for explosives..."""
2010-10-05,Video showing an Israeli soldier belly-dancing next to a woman who is a blindfolded and handcuffed
2010-10-05,"Well, thank god for the European Parliament"
2010-10-05,Lost Language Found In Use in India
2010-10-05,"U.S. drones kill German citizens: 
Militants in Pakistan allegedly training for Mumbai-style attacks."
2010-10-05,"In the aftermath of the flotilla incident, Turkey's trade relations with Israel grew by over 40% - wait what?"
2010-10-05,"Stay classy, IDF"
2010-10-05,"A ""rogue trader"" must pay back 4.9 billion euros in damage for illicit trading to his former employer, the French bank Socit Gnrale... A perfect scapegoat was found, I guess we can all go grab our sticks and pitchfork and start blaming traders again..."
2010-10-05,Parisian flat containing 2.1 million painting lay untouched for 70 years
2010-10-05,Nobel prize for Physics goes to team from University of Manchester for work on graphene
2010-10-05,Money Is Power - A Inside View of the IMF's Massive Global Influence - Extensive Article on the Growing Influence of the International Monetary Fund
2010-10-05,The Philippine House of Representatives has approved a bill criminalising the improper singing of the country's national anthem.
2010-10-05,"Car bomb explodes near Londonderry shopping centre, Northern Ireland"
2010-10-05,The slow scamper of the black squirrel
2010-10-05,"European soldiers are training 2,000 Somalis to 
help build a national army to defend a weak, 
Western-backed government in Mogadishu, Somalia"
2010-10-05,"Australia police say 13 Taser shocks were too much - Police say a graphic video of an unarmed man Tasered 13 times shows an unacceptable misuse of stun guns, as questions are raised about how much the devices are used in Australia."
2010-10-05,BBC News - Deadly sludge escape kills three in western Hungary
2010-10-05,Indonesia's president has cancelled a trip to the Netherlands citing a court case launched by Malukan separatists who want him arrested over human rights abuses.
2010-10-04,Panama court overturns US tycoon's will to leave $50m to poor children - says it should go to his millionaire family instead
2010-10-04,"Japan's Okinawa island is the reluctant host of US military bases. Residents hate the US bases that Japan can't give up. In April,  90,000 residents gathered to protest, in the biggest show of opposition for 15 years"
2010-10-04,"French women cause a stir in niqab and daisy duke shorts in anti-burka ban protest, aka ""the NiqaBitches"""
2010-10-04,"Millions march in France against austerity as opposition to Sarkozy grows. ""The growing mass opposition to President Nicolas Sarkozys pension cuts was expressed Saturday on the streets of Francebetween a million and 3 million people participated in 240 demonstrations throughout the country."""
2010-10-04,"""Congo is the U.N.s crowning failure, If the women being raped were the daughters or wives or mothers of the power elites, I can promise you this war would have ended about 12 years ago."""
2010-10-04,You can attack Israeli policy without being anti-Jewish - Roger Waters
2010-10-04,"ACS Law firm hate piracy, but think it's ok to steal others lawyers work. Pot Kettle Black in extremis!"
2010-10-04,"The CIA and American military are currently interrogating a German jihadist at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. His warnings of impending attacks in Europe, apparently financed by Osama bin Laden, have alarmed US authorities -- but the German intelligence community is more skeptical."
2010-10-04,"True cost of cheap pineapples in UK supermarkets: 
Workers in developing nations endure injury, chemicals, low wages and union repression so British consumers can pay less"
2010-10-04,Geert Wilders trial for inciting racial hatred opens in Netherlands: Accused of provoking hatred against Muslims with remarks comparing Islam  to nazism and by calling for a ban on the Qur'an
2010-10-04,Silvio Berlusconi condemned by Vatican newspaper for 'deplorable' jokes: Italian PM filmed telling jokes depicting Jews as money-grabbers and using Italian language's most offensive religious oath
2010-10-04,British IVF pioneer Robert Edwards wins Nobel prize
2010-10-04,Israeli Soldiers Convicted of Using Boy as Shield
2010-10-04,"Canadian court tossed out key provisions of its anti-prostitution laws, saying they did more harm than good"
2010-10-04,Who's Threatening Whom? - A map of US military bases encircling Iran.
2010-10-04,Bulgarians proud to see one of their own as president of Brazil
2010-10-04,Indonesian minister draws fire for posting anti-gay comments on Twitter and joking about people with AIDS.
2010-10-04,Israel says it has launched a 'widespread' investigation into an attack on a West Bank mosque blamed on Jewish settlers.
2010-10-04,ACS:Law Boss: I Feel Defeated And Could Go Bankrupt
2010-10-04,Dutch anti-Islamist MP Geert Wilders goes on trial
2010-10-04,Israeli soldiers used child as human shield
2010-10-04,"Britain Cuts Child Benefits for Wealthier Families - Mr. Osborne said that families making 44,000 pounds per year  about $70,000  would not qualify for the benefit, which pays 20.4 pounds per week for a first child and 13.40 for subsequent children. "
2010-10-04,8 German nationals killed in U.S. drone attack in NW Pakistan
2010-10-04,"Study Shows that Marijuana Does Not Necessarily Make You Stupid: For years, marijuana has been blamed for the short-term memory loss in users, but now research has found that not all marijuana effects memory in the same way."
2010-10-04,NATO Oil Tankers Detonated as Pakistan Resistance Intensifies 
2010-10-03,China offers to buy Greek debt.
2010-10-03,"Hundreds of girls are being forced by UK's Islamic schools to wear the Islamic veil. Move is heavily criticised by mainstream Muslims as setting ""dangerous precedent"" and that children attending such schools were being ""brainwashed"""
2010-10-03,"U.N. Report finds Israel ""summarily executed"" U.S. citizen on flotilla"
2010-10-03,"Afghanistan has formally banned eight foreign private security firms, including the controversial company formerly called Blackwater, a spokesman for Afghan president Hamid Karzai said."
2010-10-03,Has anyone else heard of the labour strikes in China?
2010-10-03,"Seven out of 10 teachers want to quit, (UK survey)"
2010-10-03,BBC's map of Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Holy shit. How can anyone possibly believe they're going to give any of these back?
2010-10-03,"Airbus, the world's biggest aeroplane maker, will carry out a greater proportion of engineering work in India in the future as a direct result of a dearth of qualified engineers in the UK, Germany and France."
2010-10-03,"Syrian Actress, Igraa, Tests Boundaries Again - After 15 years of self-imposed seclusion, she has returned as a ferocious critic of the Islamist wave sweeping the Middle East, and her courage has drawn the admiration of a younger and more constrained generation of actors and filmmakers."
2010-10-03,Ireland's young are on the march again. The financial meltdown is turning it into a land of emigrants once more.
2010-10-03,"France to take Roma fingerprints: Despite criticism over its Roma deportations, France is moving to prevent those who leave the country from returning"
2010-10-03,2 Israelis Convicted for Using Boy as Shield in Gaza War - NYTimes.com
2010-10-03,A glimpse of the unbridled sadism that pervades the IDF: An IDF unit prevents bleeding pregnant woman from going to the hospital... listen to the commander cooing as he tells the ambulance to turn around and go the way it came
2010-10-03,Australia's dark heart
2010-10-03,20 kidnapped in Mexican resort city of Acapulco
2010-10-03,"The Japan Syndrome - China's teetering on the verge of its own lost decade, and a meltdown in Beijing would make Japan's economic malaise look like child's play."
2010-10-03,CIA backed by drones in Pakistan
2010-10-03,China's premier: Freedom of speech 'indispensable'
2010-10-03,"""Betrayal"" - Excellent Canadian documentary about the effects of child abuse in the Catholic Church."
2010-10-03,"Ireland: At economic ""ground zero"""
2010-10-03,Ahmadinejad verbally pwned by own parliament
2010-10-03,9/11 conspiracy theories rife in Muslim world AP 
2010-10-03,"Taxpayer money funneled to Taliban: USAID report finds Afghan subcontractors were likely paying a ""protection tax"" to local insurgents, including the Taliban."
2010-10-03,"Hizbullah have turned a Lebanese bunker into a theme park of wars against Israel, complete with tanks and rocket launchers."
2010-10-03,France v the world: How the Romani row has dented Frances international standing 
2010-10-02,"The Flotilla Attack may bring major consequences says UN Expert: Because Israel attacked in international waters a ship that was populated and flagged by a signatories of the ICC Rome Statute, it is now possible that Israel will be brought before the International Criminal Court to face charges."
2010-10-02,"U.N. Report finds Israel ""summarily executed"" U.S. citizen on flotilla"
2010-10-02,We often make the mistake of believing that Americans were better behaved 50 or so years ago.
2010-10-02,CIA Escalates Campaign in Pakistan - The U.S. military is secretly diverting aerial drones and weaponry from the Afghan battlefront to significantly expand the CIA's campaign against militants in their Pakistani havens.
2010-10-02,The EU is taking the UK government to court for invasion of internet privacy. This is what the EU is for.
2010-10-02," A bumpier but freer road - India's growth should soon outstrip China's, because India has a younger population and a freer economy. But can India can stay ahead, given its poor infrastructure, low skills, bad schools, patchy government?"
2010-10-02,Foxconn raises pay rates by two third at Chinese factory to combat low morale
2010-10-02,Egypt's new political dawn: The emergence of Mohamed ElBaradei as a political player has led Egyptians to dream of a more democratic society. 
2010-10-02,"A new computer game where players assume the roles of border guards and shoot people trying to escape from communist East Germany has unleashed a storm of controversy in Germany. The game's creator says he wanted to teach young people about history, but he has been accused of glorifying violence."
2010-10-02,"US apologises for '40s syphilis study in Guatemala - Enough said, now move along. If you say you're sorry that is the main thing isn't it?"
2010-10-02,"North Korea's New Collective Leadership - Clear, brisk interview with foreign-policy expert, on Kim Jong-Il's succession strategy. Which consists of putting country in hands of an untested 26-year-old, his alcoholic aunt, and her husband, the army boss"
2010-10-02,"The battle over the rebuilding of the central train station in Stuttgart, Germany, has escalated massively. Angela Merkel has pushed strongly for the project this week, and the harsh response by police to protesters could come back to haunt both the chancellor and her party."
2010-10-02,France to Take Roma Fingerprints - Truthdig
2010-10-02,"In spite of the upswing in their country's fortunes under President Lula da Silva, many Brazilians continue to leave their home in search of a better life in the United States. Yet Mexico's drug war represents a dangerous hurdle in the path of many illegal migrants."
2010-10-02,"Nokia runs all the way to the bank with  bankless money transfer by phone, aimed at people living on under $2 a day"
2010-10-02,Former Pakistani military ruler Musharraf launches new political party 
2010-10-02,Afghan insurgents caused Canadian chopper crash - An investigation by Canadian military officials has confirmed that insurgents in Afghanistan were responsible for forcing down a Chinook helicopter in August.
2010-10-02,Travel Advisory: China Warns Nationals Against Travel to Japan Following Right Wing Attack on Chinese Tour Bus
2010-10-02,BBC News - Druidry to be classed as religion by Charity Commission
2010-10-02,Iran 'detains western spies' after cyber attack on nuclear plant
2010-10-02,China Launches Moon Probe 
2010-10-02,Indonesian train crash kills at least 36
2010-10-02,Chinese Spring for $6K Toilets - Chinas surging economy has created a new middle class leading to a demand for fancy toilets
2010-10-02,"Pakistan floods: 'When the children come running, it makes my heart drop'"
2010-10-02,China Makes Greece An Offer They Can't Refuse
2010-10-01,"Canada just passed the ""Combating Terrorist Act"" which will allow terrorism suspects to be jailed without trial for up to 12 months. So far no mainsteam Canadian media has even reported it."
2010-10-01,"US infected Guatemalans with syphilis in 1940s - A college professor has discovered that the US govt in the 1940s infected Guatemalans with sexually transmitted diseases in an experiment conducted without the knowledge of the 1,500 men and women - some of them patients in a mental hospital."
2010-10-01,US medical tests in Guatemala 'crime against humanity'
2010-10-01,Live video of the crazy ass shit that's going on in Quito right now - police and military are shooting at each other outside Correa's hospital
2010-10-01,"Norway: ""Israeli subs banned from testing in our waters"""
2010-10-01,Chile miners: An infographic showing what they get
2010-10-01,This is what happens when you try to cut wages and raise the retirement age; Spaniards turn Russell Crow Gladiator on that ass in a heartbeat. (20 Photos)
2010-10-01,Ancient giant penguin unearthed in Peru
2010-10-01,Iceland's politicians forced to flee from angry protesters. Thousands take to the streets of Reykjavik as anger erupts over the impact of the financial crisis
2010-10-01,"Germany's police used water cannons, batons and pepper spray against peaceful protesters including school children "
2010-10-01,Computer experts discovered biblical reference embedded in the code of the Stuxnet worm that has pointed to Israel as the origin of the cyber attack
2010-10-01,"Body scanners used as porn by airport security, Nigeria"
2010-10-01,Good job Iraq!  You just broke the world record for the country that has gone the longest between holding parliamentary elections and forming a government. 
2010-10-01,Angry Police Teargas Ecuadorian President - State of Emergency Declared.
2010-10-01,You Don't Bring a Praseodymium Knife to a Gunfight 
2010-10-01,"On October 1, 1965, the CIA overthrew Indonesia's President Sukarno. But there is more to it than that. It's another story of 20th century mass murder; a major war crime by the U.S. government."
2010-10-01,Spanish fathers entitled to breastfeeding leave - CNN.com
2010-10-01,Fuck 3D I want Super Hi-Vision.
2010-10-01,The three main UK parties are led by Oxbridge-educated white men in their 40s who are all former advisers. 
2010-10-01,US sorry over deliberate sex infections in Guatemala
2010-10-01,Chile's mines minister says an attempt to rescue 33 trapped miners will begin in the second half of October - earlier than previously predicted.
2010-10-01,"Australian soldiers charged with multiple child killings in Afghanistan - Three special forces commandos were charged this week by the Australian Director of Military Prosecutions over the killing of five Afghan children on February 12, 2009."
2010-10-01,Ecuador army and police exchange fire at hospital 
2010-10-01,UN report says DR Congo killings may be genocide
2010-10-01,"Government investigating herbal prozac - For hundreds of years, indigenous South Africans have chewed a plant which they say reduces stress, relieves hunger, sedates and elevates moods."
2010-09-30,Less than 2% of websites on Scandinavia's child porn internet filter is actually child porn
2010-09-30,"U.N. rights body backs critique of Gaza flotilla raid. United States is the only country voting ""No"""
2010-09-30,"Ecuador troops take over Quito airport (30 Sep, 1142)"
2010-09-30,"Bishops threaten Philippine president with Excommunication for offering birth control to married couples. ""Birth control is Abortion!"" says Church."
2010-09-30,New bank bail out increases the deficit of Ireland from 12% to 32% of GDP. When will banks stop stealing our money?
2010-09-30,Pakistan has just closed the most important border crossing for trucks supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan
2010-09-30,"Ecuador declares emergency as police protest, president is attacked"
2010-09-30,Pakistan has banned NATO supply convoys to Afghanistan after fighting between NATO troops and militants led to the killing of three Pakistani soldiers
2010-09-30,Dubai police chief says Mossad threatened him over Hamas killing - Dubai's police chief says he received death threats from the Israeli spy agency Mossad linked to his investigation into the January assassination of a senior Hamas leader.
2010-09-30,World's first 'cyber superweapon' attacks China
2010-09-30,Jordan deliberately jammed al-Jazeera World Cup coverage
2010-09-30,"More than 7,000 complaints lodged against UK banks every day"
2010-09-30,Anglo Irish Bank failure would 'bring down' Ireland
2010-09-30,"Man, sons convicted of stoning El Paso woman to death"
2010-09-30,"Researchers believe at least 58 million children in China are growing up without one or both parents, who have left to find work."
2010-09-30,Why the US doesn't talk to Iran 
2010-09-30,UFOs in Montreal? Strange sights reported in my city
2010-09-30,Tour de France champion Alberto Contador tests positive
2010-09-30,"""Sometimes, for a day or two we don't even have bread, nor flour to make bread. There's a store nearby that, when we are truly desperate, lets us take a bag of bread on credit. I owe them a lot of money...""-- Hungry in Gaza"
2010-09-30,"Stuxnet origin may be, oh surprise, Israel"
2010-09-30,Sri Lanka's president has confirmed a two-and-a-half-year jail term for former army chief Sarath Fonseka.
2010-09-30,Pakistan Cuts Off NATO Supply Route: Lorries prevented from crossing into Afghanistan in apparent retaliation for recent deadly cross-border NATO raid
2010-09-30,Eight Germans and two British brothers are at the heart of an al-Qaida-linked terror plot against European cities
2010-09-30,BT embroiled in ACS:Law porn list breach
2010-09-30,"German Conservative Parties Agree To End Conscription - Both parties want to keep conscription as a part of Germany's constitution, the Grundgesetz, leaving open the option for its return in the future."
2010-09-29,"This week, Germany will FINALLY finish paying reparation for World War One!"
2010-09-29,"UN report shows conclusively that during Mavi Marmara raid, US citizen Furkan Dogan and five Turkish citizens were murdered execution-style by Israeli commandos "
2010-09-29,"'America used to be our enemy No 1. But now it's al-Qa'ida,' say former insurgents"
2010-09-29,Denmark plans to be fossil-fuel free by 2050
2010-09-29,Gay film festival attacked by masked Islamic protesters
2010-09-29,Canada's Anti-Prostitution Law Rejected
2010-09-29,Iceland's parliament has voted to refer former Prime Minister Haarde to a special court over his role in the financial crisis.
2010-09-29,European cities hit by anti-cuts protests
2010-09-29,Iranian court sentences man to 19 and a half years in prison for blogging
2010-09-29,Mystery airstrike as Somalia collapses
2010-09-29,Most Overweight Nations
2010-09-29,"Thanks to the Ontario Supreme Court's ruling, it is now legal to run a bawdy house, communicate for the purpose of prostitution, and live off the avails of prostitution."
2010-09-29,Wal-Mart's African Adventure Begins. Pay Attention.
2010-09-29,"Hitmen kill Mexican mayors as drugs war intensifies - When criminals beat small-town mayor Gustavo Sanchez to death with rocks this week, Mexicans were horrified but no longer shocked by the latest attack on a local leader in the countrys vicious drugs war. "
2010-09-29,China cracks down to keep melamine out of food. 
2010-09-29,India Launches Project to ID 1.2 Billion People
2010-09-29,"In Afghanistan, pipe dreams of peace"
2010-09-29,The Son Also Rises - FP looks at the world's autocrats-in-training who are waiting to take over their fathers' regimes.
2010-09-29,Iraq's militia leaders reveal why they turned on al-Qaeda
2010-09-29,Protestors from more than 30 European countries have taken to the streets over government plans to introduce spending cuts.
2010-09-29,One in five plant species face extinction 
2010-09-29,Just what Zimbabwe needs - the arrival of Wal-Mart...
2010-09-29,EU to Begin Proceedings Against France Over Expelling Gypsies
2010-09-29,"Six-year-old Evelyn Armendariz was hiding in fear under a bed in her father's Jurez home when a gunman shot her twin sister, Eileen, right above her."
2010-09-29,'Mumbai-style terror plot' against UK uncovered
2010-09-28,Tapes describe U.S. servicemen killing civilians for sport
2010-09-28,"Since 2000, 7,454 people killed as a result of the Israel-palestine conflict: 6,371 Palestinians and 1,083 Israelis"
2010-09-28,"Israeli court recognizes Jewish pre-1948 property deed in East Jerusalem, allowing for the legal eviction of dozens of Palestinian families who will be replaced by Jewish families."
2010-09-28,"Russia is exporting 60 tons of mammoth ivory to China per year, and scientists estimate there is plenty more where that came from. "
2010-09-28,More Israelis have been killed in car accidents than in all of the countrys wars combined.  
2010-09-28,Parents Of Soldier Say They Warned Army About Thrill Kill Sergeant - ABC News
2010-09-28,"Aid ship carrying eight Jewish activists from Europe, Israel, and the US was seized by Israeli navy off the coast of Gaza"
2010-09-28,"Since 2006, over 28.000 people have died as the result of the drug war in Mexico"
2010-09-28,"Settlement freeze? It was barely a slowdown
What took place in the past few months is, in the best case scenario, not more than a negligible decrease in the number of housing units that were built in settlements. By Dror Etkes "
2010-09-28,Taser firm that supplies weapons to UK police forces had its licence revoked for supplying unauthorized weapons to cops in the stand-off with gunman Raoul Moat
2010-09-28,"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday abruptly sacked veteran Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, a powerful political opponent who criticized the Kremlin and then defied pressure to resign"
2010-09-28,Continent of Fear: The Rise of Europe's Right-Wing Populists
2010-09-28,"Tony Blair received early torture warning, court told"
2010-09-28,"A Dutch woman ""guerilla chick"" is thought to have been killed in last Wednesday's Colombian army raid on a Farc camp."
2010-09-28,"Pakistan has lodged a protest with Nato after forces killed more than 30 insurgents in a rare, cross-border air raid. "
2010-09-28,"
North Korea's Kim Jong-Il appoints son, Kim Jong Un, to a four-star genearl, fueling speculation he'll lead next."
2010-09-28,"Mexico landslide buries hundreds of homes, 1,000 people feared dead or injured"
2010-09-28,"ACS:Law could face 500,000 fine for porn list leak"
2010-09-28,People's Republic of China threatens Nobel Prize Committee
2010-09-28,Canadian court overturns prostitution laws
2010-09-28,"The worst drought in the last 30 years has ignited more than 47,000 fires in Bolivia over the last few months - 9.9 million acres burned so far"
2010-09-28,New Al Qaeda Number Three Killed Before his Seat Got Warm
2010-09-28,Medvedev fires Moscow's mayor: Is this a turning point in his presidency?
2010-09-28,Luzhkov dethroned by Medvedev!
2010-09-28,Insurance firms are establishing a private navy to take on Somali pirates
2010-09-27,"Since 2003, over 200,000 people have died as a result of the Darfur conflict (source: United Nations)"
2010-09-27,"Israel allowed its halt in construction in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to expire Monday, defying a U.S. call to extend the moratorium and risking a Palestinian withdrawal from peace talks"
2010-09-27,Why is the world's worst violence ignored? - Congo: 800 times deadlier than the conflict in Israel-Palestine (video)
2010-09-27,Face to face with the world's most repressive regime - London Independent reporter sneaks into N. Korea
2010-09-27,"Georgia is replacing Russian with English as the country's second language, two years after a major war with Moscow."
2010-09-27,Barclays bank bricked up by businessman furious at refusal to lend
2010-09-27,"Nuclear-armed and non-NPT signer, Pakistan gets the chair of UN IAEA board
"
2010-09-27,"More Media on BBC Special: Secrets of Scientology-Sweeney has returned to investigate the church again. Mr Shouty and Cruise: The Rematch-Three years ago, while making a Panorama programme about Scientology, I made the mistake of exploding in front of the sects own cameras. [more]"
2010-09-27,Chinese police investigate illegal jails 'where complaining citizens are held': Company allegedly charges local authorities fees to prevent provincial petitioners reaching Beijing officials
2010-09-27,The Pirate Bay Appeal Starts Tomorrow 
2010-09-27,Kim Jong Un is exactly what North Korea does not need
2010-09-27,"NATO helicopters entered Pakistan to kill insurgents
| Top News
| Reuters"
2010-09-27,"Eta, the Basque separatist group, has said it is willing to declare a permanent, verifiable ceasefire in a bid to settle its long-running conflict with the Spanish government."
2010-09-27,Three Australian soldiers charged with manslaughter over deaths of 5 Afghan children in 2009
2010-09-27,Australia faces worst plague of locusts in 75 years 
2010-09-27,"Homeless Bedouin take on the State of Israel: ""This used to be my home. That's my home now,"" he adds, pointing to one of several dozen makeshift wooden structures which villagers have thrown up in wake of the last police action"
2010-09-27,Merkel Admits She Still Tends to Stockpile - Introspection and nostalgia are rife ahead of the 20th anniversary of German reunification -- and  Merkel has joined the trend explaining how her habits still bear the hallmarks of growing up in communist East Germany.
2010-09-27,"Israel calls for end to UN Gaza investigations - Israel called on Monday for an end to United Nations Human Rights Council investigations into its actions in the 2008-09 Gaza conflict, insisting that the body was ""obsessively biased"" against it."
2010-09-27,'Taxation without Representation' - European Union Up in Arms over US Travel Tax
2010-09-27,Why Kofi Annan's envoy to Africa's last colony resigned in protest
2010-09-27,"NATO launches airstrikes into Pakistan, 50 dead"
2010-09-27,"The seismic activity at the base of Brarbunga stratovolcano, which also happens to be the highest mountain in Iceland, has picked up materially over the last 48 hours"
2010-09-27,China and India: the great game's new players 
2010-09-27,French minister Rachida Dati mixes up oral sex with inflation
2010-09-27,"Roads So Bad in Gulu, Uganda that Residents have taken to Planting Cassava in Them as a form of protest"
2010-09-26,Germans are leaving Catholicism in larger and larger numbers 
2010-09-26,Plague breaks out in Tibet
2010-09-26,Indian authorities have arrested a computer scientist for refusing to divulge the source of an electronic voting machine that he and a team of researchers used to expose holes in the country's election system
2010-09-26,Israel is guilty of everything the US is accusing Iran of and accused Iraq of doing
2010-09-26,"The Pakistani minister for defence production 
resigns after accusing the military of carrying out 
assassinations, including that of Benazir Bhutto."
2010-09-26,Israel has never lacked enemies but now it risks losing its friends
2010-09-26,Global resistance has halted introduction of GM crops by biotech giants
2010-09-26,"Afghan 'vote-rigging videos' emerge: 
Al-Jazeera obtains video apparently showing police ignoring fraud."
2010-09-26,"Brazil looks likely to elect an extraordinary leader next weekend - The former guerrilla set to be the world's most powerful woman
				Americas, World - The Independent"
2010-09-26,"Obesity spreading in China ""wherever there are fast food restaurants"""
2010-09-26,How the Chilean Miners Are Surviving Underground
2010-09-26,Chile miners: Family joy as rescue capsule arrives
2010-09-26,"Jewish aid ship sails for Gaza :
Vessel manned by activists attempting to breach Israel's blockade of coastal strip set sails from northern Cyprus. "
2010-09-26,"Today is the day where Israel chooses whether to continue to expand Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.  Obama, the UN, the EU and Russia have all asked Israel to not resume building."
2010-09-26,"Mexican police arrest drug lord Margarito Soto Reyes aka ""The Tiger"""
2010-09-26,"Ed Miliband left-wing? Theyre having a laugh: ""The portrayal of Ed Miliband as a leftie shows how far to the right Britain has travelled"""
2010-09-26,'You may now turn over your papers' - This week those hoping to become All Souls fellows will sit 'the hardest exam in the world'. 
2010-09-26,U.S. Gift for Iraqis Offers a Primer on Corruption
2010-09-26,UN Warned of Major New Food Crisis at Emergency Meeting in Rome
2010-09-26,Chile miners escape route arives
2010-09-26,"Arabs claim Israeli discrimination: ""[...] Israel's declaration of independence, the equivalent of a constitution, states that all citizens are equal but the one-fifth of the population who are Palestinian, believe they are less equal than others [...]"""
2010-09-26,Twitter feeds and blogs tell hidden story of Mexico's drug wars 
2010-09-26,Egypt and Thirsty Neighbors Are at Odds Over Nile 
2010-09-26,"Hershey's Markets To Kids But Is Likely Implicated 
In Child Labor, Trafficking And Forced Labor | 
Economy | AlterNet"
2010-09-26,Channel islanders attack Street View car. Another blow to Google's Domesday Book
2010-09-25,"Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov created a preserve outside St. Petersburg that contains one of the worlds largest collections of rare seeds and crops. Now, scientists and conservationists are waging an international campaign to save the reserves fields from being bulldozed for housing development"
2010-09-25,7 elephants killed by a train when they ran on the tracks to protect their young.
2010-09-25,Greetings from North Korea
2010-09-25,"Pakistan erupts after US jailing of 'daughter of the nation' Aafia Siddiqui - Thousands take to the streets to protest as scientist convicted of attempting to kill US soldiers gets 86 years
"
2010-09-25,First Black Elected Official Defies Racism In Russia 
2010-09-25,"Father Jailed for 14,400 years for Raping Teenage Daughter "
2010-09-25,Sex Scandal Threatens a Georgia Pastors Empire
2010-09-25,And the new British Labour party leader is.......Ed Milliband
2010-09-25,Journalists often have to tell stories about what is broken in the world. So it comes as a nice divergence to tell a story about something that is functioning well. Enhancing food security is seen in Brazil as a basis of all other poverty initiatives. AJE correspondent explains how it works.
2010-09-25,"China is on this treadmill to hell, he says, because so much of its GDP growth comes from construction which cant be sustained. If China were to slow down the construction industry, its GDP growth would go negative very quickly."
2010-09-25,Widespread fraud in Afghan elections may spell end of government's legitimacy
2010-09-25,Nine Storey Apartment Built Of Wood in Nine Weeks By Four Workers
2010-09-25,Japan rejects apology on China boat row.
2010-09-25,"""Iran would consider ending higher level uranium enrichment, the most crucial part of its controversial nuclear activities, if world powers send Tehran nuclear fuel for a medical research reactor"""
2010-09-25,Learning from China: Cubas communist leaders set to roll out new capitalist reforms
2010-09-25,"What happens when an Australian Muslim cleric calls for the beheading of a Dutch politician?

Not much."
2010-09-25,Perceptions of Drug War Mean Mexican Tourist Destinations See Sharp Downturn In Business
2010-09-25,US to seek stronger ties with Somali breakaway regions Somaliland and Puntland
2010-09-25,How slums can save the world
2010-09-25,"""The pilot informed our central control here that he was landing in Stockholm,"" he said.

He added the suspect was ""of Pakistani origin."""
2010-09-25,"Pakistan erupts after US jailing of 'daughter of the nation' Aafia Siddiqui

-  The Guardian"
2010-09-25,Afghan Elections - Evidence is mounting that fraud in last weekends parliamentary election was so widespread that it could affect the results in a third of provinces
2010-09-25,"163 Nations Stayed to Hear Ahmadinejad, 27 Did Not"
2010-09-25,Police arrest passenger after plane makes emergency landing in Sweden 
2010-09-25,India drops the chili bomb. What has added spice to India's diet for centuries may be the next addition to its defense arsenal.
2010-09-24,British Queen 'tried to use state poverty fund to heat Buckingham Palace'
2010-09-24,"Ahmadinejad gives controversial UN speech, stating that some saw the 9/11 terrorist attacks as part of a US conspiracy to protect Israel. Result: US and other Western delegations walk out in protest."
2010-09-24,"Israeli navy kills Gaza fisherman: As the Palestinian fisherman's boat approached the limits of waters where Israel permits Palestinian maritime traffic (as a result of Israel's naval blockade of Gaza), an Israel military boat open fire on the small fishing vessel."
2010-09-24,The US and other Western delegations at the UN General Assembly walk out in protest as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questions the events of 9/11.
2010-09-24,"5 die in Mozambique drinking contest - The deaths occurred ""in the different stages"" of a competition to see who could finish off five bottles of brandy fastest, reported Noticias newspaper.
"
2010-09-24,France Starts Reporting 'Millions' of File-Sharers
2010-09-24,"Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic? - For three decades, the writer and journalist Gideon Levy has been a lone voice, telling his readers the truth about what goes on in the Occupied Territories."
2010-09-24,Scenes from China - The Big Picture [pics]
2010-09-24,U.K. mulls breaking up big banks. A government probe in Britain is looking at whether some of the country's biggest banks should be broken up. London bureau chief Stephen Beard talks with Steve Chiotakis about whether this plan is really on the table and what other reforms may happen.
2010-09-24,"Half of Romanians 'Yearn for Communist Past' - Forty-nine per cent said their life was better before December 1989, with a higher standard of living and job security being given as the main arguments, according to the poll."
2010-09-24,Voters tried to use SQL-injection to sabotage Swedish election.
2010-09-24,Handyman jailed for planting child pornography on his boss's computer in an attempt to get him fired and get a promotion
2010-09-24,Iranian president: 9/11 was a U.S. conspiracy
2010-09-24,"While Nicaragua was on holiday, the Sandinista government of Daniel Ortega reprinted the Constitution. It now includes a law that was left dead 20 years ago."
2010-09-24,"DR Congo mass rape ""defies belief"", says UN"
2010-09-24,Breaking News: Toddler killed by tear gas in East Jerusalem
2010-09-24,"Will the meeting in Rome result in action against food speculation?  The idea that speculating on food prices has become a way for western financial institutions to make money at the cost of lives is abhorrent
"
2010-09-24,China denies ban on rare earth metals to Japan.
2010-09-24,"Mexican Journalists Flee Drug War, Seek Asylum - The war has claimed more than 28,000 lives and has become one of the most dangerous stories in the world. Some journalists have taken the ultimate step: fleeing to the US to seek political asylum."
2010-09-24,"Playing Beethoven in Kinshasa - In the Congolese capital Kinshasa, just surviving is hard enough. But one group of people spends hours traveling across town to sit in a sweltering compound and practice Handel."
2010-09-24,"Thursday  September 23, 2010's editition of The Daily Show the had  King Abdullah II of Jordan
King Abdullah II of Jordan believes Iran has taken away the moderate voice by hijacking the Israeli-Palestinian issue. "
2010-09-24,"King Abdullah II of Jordan on TheDaily Show with Jon Stewart | ""If peace talks fail, expect war by the end of the year."""
2010-09-24,What could possibly go wrong?
2010-09-24,"Revealing Wilde letters sold for 30,000"
2010-09-24,"The Pirates Are Winning! - Pirate economy so big, entrenched, popular, that it would have captured the state, if only there were a state in Somalia to be captured 

 by Jeffrey Gettleman | The New York Review of Books"
2010-09-23,"How the CIA ran a secret army of 3,000 assassins"
2010-09-23,Granddaughter of Titanic's Second Officer reveals family secret about the sinking: Titanic sank because an officer steered INTO the iceberg instead of away from it as he was ordered.
2010-09-23,"Vigilantes in Mexico take on kidnap gang - ""The crowd, now grown to nearly 2,000 people, exploded again. Crowd members broke into the barracks with trucks, took the two boys outside and beat them, witnesses said."""
2010-09-23,"Ahmadinejad warns US of war with 'no limits' - ""The United States has never entered a real war, not in Vietnam, nor in Afghanistan, nor even World War II."" "
2010-09-23,Fidel Castro: Israel has right to exist.
2010-09-23,UN Gaza aid probe finds 'clear evidence' against Israel
2010-09-23,"Mentally handicapped Danes lobotomised until 1983 - Many mentally handicapped Danes, including children, were lobotomised between 1947 and 1983, and many died from the operation, a historian behind a soon-to-be-published book on the topic told Danish media Thursday."
2010-09-23,A computer virus that some experts say may have been written by 'another nation state' could be targeting Iran's power-plants. 
2010-09-23,CIA operates a large attack drone spy network in addition to Counterterrorist Pursuit Teams
2010-09-23,Hundreds Die of Lead Poisoning in Nigeria
2010-09-23,Colombia: No. 2 FARC commander killed
2010-09-23,"Again, shame for India, and for me as an Indian.."
2010-09-23,"Italy abandons full body scanners, claiming them to be ""Slow and Ineffective."" Score one for privacy!"
2010-09-23,"New shelter constructed over Chernobyl ruins - The New Safe Confinement is a 108-meter tall sliding arch structure, which will cover the existing sarcophagus, which had been hastily built as a temporary measure after the nuclear disaster in 1986."
2010-09-23,Colombia - Government confirms the death of FARC military leader 'Mono Jojoy' [Google Translate]
2010-09-23,"Dickens in Lagos - To understand life in Lagos, it helps to read Dickens, and vice-versa. The great cities of the developing world are a century or two behind the West, full of the colour and characters of 19th-century novels "
2010-09-23,"CWG in India: It is well known that India, and the Great Indian Bureaucracy, are extremely corrupt. But has the corruption crossed all bounds and is running amok? I don't recall any international event being managed so ineptly and with such disregard to a country's image and honor."
2010-09-23,Israel rejects UN criticism of its Gaza war probe
2010-09-23,Analysis: Many Israelis and Palestinians live as if peace has already arrived
2010-09-23,UN condemns brutality of Israeli raid on aid flotilla
2010-09-23,"The U.S. delegation walked out of the U.N. speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Thursday after he said some in the world have speculated that Americans were actually behind the Sept. 11 terror attacks, staged in an attempt to assure Israel's survival."
2010-09-23,"CIA running secret army of 3,000 Afghan paramilitaries"
2010-09-23,"Colombia - Leaked documents reveal that Colombia's intelligence agency DAS spied on anyone suspected of opposing former President Alvaro Uribe, including wiretapping government officials close to the then-president."
2010-09-23,Four Japanese investigated in China for illegally videotaping military targets
2010-09-23,No. 2 FARC Leader Killed
2010-09-22,"""what you have is evidence about what real aggression is, which is the President of the United States is always insinuating that we reserve the right, at any moment, at any time, at our will, to go on to military attack on Iran, even if they dont attack us."""
2010-09-22,"China's crackdown on human trafficking frees 16,517 abducted women and children"
2010-09-22,Bill Clinton: Russian immigrants in Israel are an obstacle to peace
2010-09-22,Al Jazeera has called on the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) to immediately release two of its cameramen arrested in Afghanistan over the last 72 hours.
2010-09-22,Mexico building a wall on part of the border with Guatemala.
2010-09-22,"Some Afghan Boys Are Girls - 
Fascinating, quirky feature on Afghan obsession with sons. Parents with a string of daughters can elect to dress and raise one as a boy, in the hope of getting a son next. Schools and society turn a blind eye
"
2010-09-22,UN finds Israel broke international law in attack on Gaza-bound flotilla 
2010-09-22,Indias commonwealth games are finished before they ever started
2010-09-22,Bombing at Military Parade in Iran kills 12
2010-09-22,A Palestinian has been killed after a Jewish settlement guard opened fire at a group of men in an Arab neighbourhood of East Jerusalem.
2010-09-22,Israel Rules Out Signing Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Official: Asking Israel to Sign NPT Violates International Law
2010-09-22,"With the country suffering from a drought, the Fijian dictatorship tries to stop tourism declines by banning the Met Service from reporting on the weather"
2010-09-22,11 accused of rhino poaching in S African court today. - On World Rhino Day.
2010-09-22,"Report: India to be the fourth most powerful nation/bloc in the world after the United States, China, and the European Union"
2010-09-22,Chinese mine bosses circumvent law saying they have to work in the mines like a boss
2010-09-22,Riots Erupt Near Temple Mount of Shot Palestinian
2010-09-22,False ceiling collapses at Commonwealth Games venue
2010-09-22,Israeli police storm Jerusalem mosque compound 
2010-09-22,Rabid vampire bats kill five children
2010-09-22,Flood refugees threaten Pakistan's political stability
2010-09-22,India tries to save reputation and avert Commonwealth Games crisis
2010-09-22,Train crash kills 21 in India.
2010-09-22,UN experts: Israel flotilla raid broke int'l law
2010-09-22,"Charges on South Africa 'kidney trafficking syndicate': ""[...] Netcare's hospital in Durban allegedly conducted more than 100 operations in 2001-03 in which poor Brazilians and Romanians were paid to donate kidneys to wealthy Israelis [...]"""
2010-09-22,Women take majority in Swiss cabinet for first time
2010-09-21,Germany is planning a direct rail link between Frankfurt and London: Journey time under 4 hours.
2010-09-21,Oktoberfest 2010 - The Big Picture [pics]
2010-09-21,Vatican Bank investigated over money-laundering
2010-09-21,Kim Jong-il dictatorship could end within days
2010-09-21,"In Sicily, Defying the Mafia - Organised public resistance to Sicily's Cosa Nostra now possible, even successful. Confiscated Mafia assets used for social projects. "
2010-09-21,"In his recent autobiography, Tony Blair expresses regret at introducing a freedom of information regime, saying there is ""no description of stupidity, no matter how vivid, that is adequate."" That should be enough to convince anybody that it was a good idea."
2010-09-21,Why It's OK To Negotiate With the IRA but Not Hamas? 
2010-09-21,"Oil jackpot in Greenland. A sad day for sustainable energy and the environment in general, since this heralds a golden age for Arctic offshore drilling."
2010-09-21,Delhi Commonwealth Games Village Leaves Competitors `Shocked' - Bloomberg
2010-09-21,Persecuted journalists in Mexico vow to continue covering the drug violence
2010-09-21,India: Commonwealth Games bridge collapses
2010-09-21,Vatican Bank Tied to Money Laundering Scandal
2010-09-21,"Reform On The Range: Cubans Heed The Call To Farm - ""Having this land, you realize how productive it can be,"" Pena says. ""When you're growing your own food, you have independence, and that gives you a sense of security."""
2010-09-21,Vatican perplexed by money laundering probe
2010-09-21,"The Seven-Headed President: 
Switzerland Celebrates Europe's Strangest System of Government"
2010-09-21,South Korea Considering Underwater High-Speed Rail Tunnels to China and Japan 
2010-09-21,High speed rail network extends into central China
2010-09-21,"Nine Nato troops killed in helicopter crash. Nine Nato troops have died in a helicopter crash, making 2010 the deadliest year yet for coalition troops in Afghanistan. "
2010-09-21,India's Unfolding Intifada in Kashmir
2010-09-21,North Korea to Hold Party Congress to Choose Leaders Next Week
2010-09-21,"Cliches of the Century: 
Ten easy ways to illustrate China vs. India -- and miss the point entirely"
2010-09-21,"""Afghan families have many reasons for pretending their girls are boys, including economic need, social pressure to have sons, and in some cases, a superstition that doing so can lead to the birth of a real boy."""
2010-09-21,Nothing sexy about Amsterdam's Red Light district 
2010-09-21,"Kremlin vs. Moscow Mayor - 
Dirty Power Struggle Could Backfire on Medvedev"
2010-09-21,280 crocodiles escape 
2010-09-20,"Wounded in action: An infantry unit fights its way out of an ambush in Kunar Province, Afghanistan (Holy hell. One of the soldiers takes a bullet to the helmet, but survives--it's all caught on camera.)"
2010-09-20,"A former CNN Iraq correspondent suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder says his employers wouldn't run footage he filmed of what he describes as a war crime by US troops, an Australian news source reports."
2010-09-20,The battle to save Russia's Pavlovsk seed bank. Scientists and conservationists are waging an international campaign to save Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov's Pavlovsk seed bank from being turned over to housing developers
2010-09-20,"Israeli FM's ""no loyalty, no citizenship"" campaign: Israeli-Arabs (1/5th of Israels population, not including Palestinians under occupation) who aren't willing to swear allegiance to Israel as a uniquely Jewish state, could lose the citizenship."
2010-09-20,"Iraq's Bar Association to defend Iraqi soldier who killed US soldiers - ""The occupation imposed on Iraq has forced slavery on our people...Iraqis have been born free, refusing humiliation and slavery, so the sons of our people have risen to defend the land and...resist the occupation forces."""
2010-09-20,"Mexico newspaper cuts drug war coverage after slaying, appeals to cartels: ""We ask you to explain what you want from us, what we should try to publish or not publish, so we know what to expect."" "
2010-09-20,Israeli Vows to Sell Arms to Russias Enemies: Move Aimed at Punishing Russia for Selling P-800s to Syria
2010-09-20,"David Cameron insists ""The UK is a country of faith"""
2010-09-20,"Mexican paper asks drug cartels to guide its news coverage.  Biggest newspaper in Ciudad Jurez decides to restrict its drug war coverage after killing of second employee in two years
"
2010-09-20,'Asian unicorn' spotted for first time in a decade
2010-09-20,"A Canadian's Response: ""... someone with the handle of 'canuckcutie' wrote a stinging and thoughtful response objecting to my criticism of Canada. I thought it was worth reprinting here ...""  Michael Moore"
2010-09-20,"I think, therefore Im guilty - the intellectual trend in Britain is a remorseless slide towards a dark age of intolerance, reverting to a reason-suppressing, heresy-hunting culture in which certain opinions are being turned into thought crimes."
2010-09-20,Missing Iraqi artifacts found in premiers storage.
2010-09-20,France on full alert for suicide bomb threat on Paris transport
2010-09-20,"Colombia thanks Ecuador for military assistance, Ecuador denies help"
2010-09-20,Swedish Pirate Party Runs Aground in Election  
2010-09-20,Netherlands cancels tour by Israeli mayors because participant list includes settlement representatives.
2010-09-20,"Pope's visit: Blimey. What to say to the Pope?  - Mayor of London wonders how best to welcome Pope Benedict: ""Long time no See ... I felt like a woad-painted savage called upon to explain the religious back-sliding of the tribe"" "
2010-09-20,"Mexican newspaper to cartels: ""We ask you to explain what you want from us, what you want us to publish or stop publishing... you are the de facto authority in the city now"""
2010-09-20,"In an effort to approve energy efficiency, Chinese county of Anping is instituting 22 hour blackouts in homes, factories and public buildings every 3 days"
2010-09-20,Pakistan still needs your help.
2010-09-20,Thailand: `The Red Shirts will fight on!' -- Eyewitness account of the September 19 Red Shirt protest
2010-09-20,Teetering on the apocalypse 
2010-09-20,China media warn Japan over escalating sea row
2010-09-20,UK Proposes All Paychecks Go to the State First - Everybody should just work at their job and the government should just give everyone what allowance they feel they deserve to get.
2010-09-19,"Just in case you havent noticed, Germanys foreign secretary has married his boyfriend last week."
2010-09-19,"Mex. blogger talks on perils of narco-life, followed by graphic images [NSFW]"
2010-09-19,UK Police chief issues call to decriminalise cannabis and redirect resources
2010-09-19,"Soldiers 'killed Afghans for sport': 
Unprovoked killing last winter started 'months-long shooting spree.'"
2010-09-19,Sweden's lost innocence - far-right party voted into hung parliament
2010-09-19,Sales assistant tried to steal 72 year old's $15 million winning lottery ticket
2010-09-19,5 Jaw-Dropping Stories in Wikileaks' Archives Begging for National Attention
2010-09-19,'The Roma Are a European Problem'
2010-09-19,Gunmen torch a Gaza beach club shuttered by Hamas. Hamas shut down the park because it had hosted parties in which men and women mingled.
2010-09-19,BBC News - Niger facing catastrophic hunger crisis
2010-09-19,"""Islamophobia"" in Holland down; Jew-hatred up - anti-semitic incidents ballooned by 48%, the number of anti-Muslim incidents in 2009 went down by 17%, from 116 to 96. An average Jew in Holland is more than 450 times likely to be the victim of a hate crime than the average Muslim"
2010-09-19,Abducted Mexico police found dead
2010-09-19,"China has said it is temporarily
suspending top-level exchanges with
Japan over a Chinese ship captain's
detention following a collision near
disputed islands."
2010-09-19,Women in Egypt get hi-tech aid to beat sexual harassment
2010-09-19,Armed men kidnap 9 Mexican police officers; 2 officers found dead as manhunt begins
2010-09-19,China suspends ministerial-level exchanges with Japan  
2010-09-19,"Gaza water park burned down after shut down by Hamas - gunmen set fire to ""Crazy Water"" park closed for allowing mixed bathing; witnesses say at least 25 assailants took part."
2010-09-19,"In what is set to become a historic election in Sweden, a non-socialist government appeared headed for re-election to a second term, a first in the country's political history."
2010-09-19,Sizing up China's cities | The Economist
2010-09-19,"Obama's Envoy Holbrook To Pak Army: Stop Focusing On Flood Relief, Start Killing More Pashtuns - Richard Holbrooke said that his country would not accept any slackness on part of the Pakistan Army in the fight agst the Taliban due their engagement in flood relief efforts."
2010-09-19,"Ballot-stuffing in Afghan election: 
'Widescale fraud' casts doubt on legitimacy of Afghan democracy."
2010-09-19,"Mike: 'Shameful' Canada Not What it Used to Be | ""This country was so generous to those of my generation who did not want to kill Vietnamese and opened the doors.""  Michael Moore today in Toronto"
2010-09-19,Interpol chief's (FaceBook) identity stolen
2010-09-19,Iran denies seizing U.S. troops at Pakistan border
2010-09-19,What has the Pope's UK visit achieved?
2010-09-18,"Netanyahu: ""Within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will...produce a nuclear bomb. [The nuclear threat] must be uprooted by an international front headed by the US."" 2010? Nope, try 1995. "
2010-09-18,"""I do not mind dying if it helps to improve the situation of my people"": Interview with a female Afghan candidate for parliament"
2010-09-18,Robert Mugabe's darkest secret: An 800bn blood diamond mine run with China's Red Army
2010-09-18,Communists lured to their deaths by MI6 with promise of sex - Telegraph
2010-09-18,How right wing extremists could hold Sweden to ransom 
2010-09-18,"Pope in London: ""Sorry about touching all those little boys. God will forgive us"" "
2010-09-18,Tony Blair Defends the Iraq War: What I Thought I Had to Do
2010-09-18,Pope apologizes on abuse as thousands protest in London 
2010-09-18,Bomb suspect 'targeted' Danish paper Jyllands-Posten - Danish police think a man hurt in a blast was making a letter bomb to use against a newspaper which published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. 
2010-09-18,"John Freeborn, British Fighter Pilot, Dies at 90 "
2010-09-18,"Rumours about Abu Ghraib-like photos stemming 
from a Danish Afghanistan deployment in 2002"
2010-09-18,"Dominican Republic or Bust - Postcard from Haiti's other half, ""an oasis of heaving bosoms, tropical breezes, brightly colored birds, salty food, beer, merengue, and the happiest-looking German sex tourists Ive ever seen"" "
2010-09-18,"Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his ""deep sorrow"" for the ""unspeakable crimes"" of child abuse within the Catholic Church."
2010-09-18,Waughnabes - The return of snobbery in Cameron's Britain
2010-09-18,"Thailand: Sept 19 coup, four years on... bloodbath at Ratchaprasong, four months later"
2010-09-18,Robert Mugabe's real darkest secret - he's a chicken
2010-09-18,Africa leads fall in HIV infections
2010-09-18,Venezuela's economy: Disappearing dollars 
2010-09-18,Tens of thousands protest in Berlin against government's proposed extension of the lifespans of Germany's atomic reactors
2010-09-18,"Arab League rejects ""Jewish state"""
2010-09-18,Teenage girls can change the world - The Globe and Mail
2010-09-18,Thailand: Thousands demand release of political prisoners (+ photo essay)
2010-09-18,Surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge indicted
2010-09-18,"On Saturday, Afghan voters will again head to the voting booth, this time to elect members to the Afghan National Assembly, known as the Wolesi Jirga. This election, the second in the history of the legislative body, was initially scheduled for late May"
2010-09-18,Radical Islam on rise in Balkans
2010-09-17,"Egyptian newspaper manipulate picture with Obama and other world leaders in an attempt to make their president Mubarak look like the top dog
Spoiler: ""This look shopped..."""
2010-09-17,Murdoch's Watergate. The U.K. phone-hacking scandal will undo the media mogul.
2010-09-17,"Remember the story about the Arab man who was arrested for rape after he falsely told an Israeli woman that his name was David? Well, it turns out that the case against him is built on much more than just a name. "
2010-09-17,"Six London street cleaners arrested, searched, homes raided and possessions seized as evidence - based on an overheard conversation about the Pope. So far, no evidence found against them."
2010-09-17,Zimbabwe's jailing of doctors is an outrage: Charges against American medics highlight the Mugabe regime's repression
2010-09-17,"EU forced to apologise as Sarkozy goes on the attack over Nazi 'insult': the French president demanded, and received, an apology from the European justice commissioner, Viviane Reding, who earlier this week had compared France's anti-Roma campaign to Nazi persecutions during the Second World War"
2010-09-17,Guerrilla of Arabia: How one of Britain's most brilliant military tacticians created the Taliban's battle strategy - Asia - Independent.co.uk
2010-09-17,"Mao's great leap forward: ""parents were forced to bury their children alive...80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death..."" "
2010-09-17,"Way to take another thing from us, guys. Best country for entrepreneurs? Hint: It's no longer the US."
2010-09-17,"Darfuri men were shot dead at point blank range during a surprise Arab militia raid on a busy market this month in which at least 39 people were killed and almost 50 injured, eyewitnesses said on Friday"
2010-09-17,A significant point in history happened at about 1.30pm this afternoon (Sept 15). Douglas Carswell MP announced a bill that would end fractional reserve banking.
2010-09-17,Prominent Pakistani politician murdered outside his London home
2010-09-17,14 South African peacekeepers were dumped in the middle of rebel-held territory in Congo by Russian helicopter crews
2010-09-17,"According to a witness, Israel soldiers burst into a house in the West Bank last night and shot a Palestinian associated with Hamas three time in the neck and head while he was still in bed.  According to the IDF, the Palestinian was running towards IDF soldiers refusing to stop."
2010-09-17,Oktoberfest has officially begun!
2010-09-17,"Watch: As Israel Slides Toward Fascism, Citizens and Supporters Swear Their Loyalty. ""Swearing a loyalty oath to Israel as an ethnic state is gaining legitimacy; a video produced by the authors shows the willingness of Israeli residents to pledge allegiance."""
2010-09-17,10 statistics that show Turkey drifting away from the West
2010-09-17,"Danger, danger: The Pope is leading an assembly of children in west London"
2010-09-17,"The Velvet Surrender - 
Russia reconquers the Czechs."
2010-09-17,6.3. quake hits northeast Afghanistan
2010-09-17,"Imran Farooq, murdered Pakistani politician, 'thought he would be safe in London'  - Telegraph"
2010-09-17,Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev arrested in Poland
2010-09-17,Mexico's drugs war: in the city of death
2010-09-17,"BBC News - Urgent call on EU to stop billion-euro ""alien invasion"""
2010-09-17,Rescuers working to release 33 trapped Chilean miners have achieved a pivotal breakthrough by drilling an escape shaft through to the underground chamber occupied by the men.
2010-09-16,"Israeli media sources have confirmed that an Israeli soldier shot and killed a handcuffed Palestinian youth on Tuesday morning in Tel Aviv. Soldier says that he ""was shot accidentally from his weapon."" The 18 yr old Palestinian was killed instantly as a result of the shot in the back."
2010-09-16,Giant Cave Explored in Borneo - PICTURES!!!
2010-09-16,Iraq approves $400 million settlement for Americans victimized by Saddam's regime
2010-09-16,"Eikaiwa Underworld - English teacher in Japan gets Tony-Soprano-like mobster as client, hears string of storiesretold hereabout running nightclubs in Tokyo, gambling in Las Vegas, dealing with Mafia "
2010-09-16,"Canada and Russia are locked in a decades-old dispute over which country owns vast stretches of the Arctic. The UN is set to decide the border dispute, and both the governments appear convinced that their claim is the strongest."
2010-09-16,Cartoonist who inspired Draw Mohammed Day is in hiding
2010-09-16,"Germany is once again dreaming of a permanent presence on the UN Security Council and is hoping to secure a non-permanent seat in a vote next month. But hopes of reform seem slim, given that the current permanent members are reluctant to give up any of their influence."
2010-09-16,BBC News - Rare antelope-like mammal caught in Asia
2010-09-16,A ruthless sister risks becoming North Korea's next ruler
2010-09-16,Court: Top Khmer Rouge cadre charged with war crimes. Four of the top former surviving Khmer Rouge cadre were charged with war crimes in Cambodia by a U.N.-backed war crimes tribunal for their role in the late 1970s genocide that left nearly one-quarter of the country's population dead.
2010-09-16,"French President Nicolas Sarkozy has described comments by an EU commissioner about Roma deportations from France as ""outrageous""."
2010-09-16,"Nicolas Sarkozy tells Luxembourg to take in Roma:
French president angered by EU justice commissioner's attack as party defends expulsion policy as 'applying EU regulations'"
2010-09-16,"Israeli Army to open probe into shooting deaths of two Palestinian farmers - State tells court family petition to investigate incident unnecessary, as probe into whether shooting was justified already scheduled to begin next month."
2010-09-16,"South African Unions Want To Force Private School Kids Into Govt Schools - The union...says that there is an urgent need to ""eliminate the three-tiered education system...and to redistribute resources toward ordinary public schools in working-class and poor communities""."
2010-09-16,"Japan falls in global university rankings, overtaken by China for first time"
2010-09-16,"A Taliban commander in northwest Pakistan:  Missile Strikes ""Incredible and Accurate"" "
2010-09-16,Missing journalist stokes fears of Soviet-era media crackdown in Ukraine
2010-09-16,Life After Guantanamo: Two Former Inmates Arrive in Germany
2010-09-16,"""Printers in this city near the Afghan border say they have produced thousands of fake voter registration cards at the request of Afghan politicians for use in that country's parliamentary elections on Saturday."""
2010-09-16,Tea Parties of the World 
2010-09-16,Cambodian garment workers call off strike
2010-09-16,"Cuba may link up to Glonass system, Russia's satellite navigation system"
2010-09-16,"Scandals cloud Pope's UK visit.  On the eve of Pope Benedict's visit to Britain, victims of child abuse at the hands of Catholic priests have demanded that the pontiff hand over all information on paedophile clergy to authorities."
2010-09-16,Driving out the Unwanted - Sarkozy's War Against the Roma
2010-09-16,Egyptian paper doctors peace talks photo in favor of Mubarak
2010-09-15,"Joint letter opposing Pope UK state visit signed by Dawkins, Fry, Pratchett, many others"
2010-09-15,France bans the burqa
2010-09-15,French Senate Passes Ban of Full Muslim Veils
2010-09-15,"""French people back the burqa ban by a margin of more than four to one...Clear majorities also backed burqa bans in Germany, Britain and Spain, while two out of three Americans opposed it, the survey found."""
2010-09-15,"Would the Grand Ayatollah of Iran get a taxpayer funded state visit to your country? No? Then why does the Pope, who is not even the supreme leader of a country, get one to mine?"
2010-09-15,Hamas shoots Phosphorus shells at Israeli civilians
2010-09-15,"I know the national debt is bad, but why is the U.S. selling Saudi Arabia $60 Billion in arms? That's a MONSTROUS deal!"
2010-09-15,"Power Struggle in Egypt - For years, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has used manipulated elections to remain in power. "
2010-09-15,"Three hurricanes, Karl, Igor and Julia, are heading to Mexico, US, and Caribbean"
2010-09-15,"Russia and Norway sign maritime border agreement, ending 40 year dispute over fishing and oil rights in the Barents Sea"
2010-09-15,"Iran's economy slide to the bottom -  there has

  

been insignificant growth in real per capita incomes over the past 30 years since the Revolution. "
2010-09-15,Payback: Iran reportedly donates $25 million to Turkish PM Erdogan's party
2010-09-15,The Bordello State 
2010-09-15,Pope's tour attacked in open letter
2010-09-15,"Flat-Nose, Stocky and Beautugly"
2010-09-15,FP Explainer: Could Britain Arrest the Pope? 
2010-09-15,Murdoch's Watergate
2010-09-15,Privacy Tool for Iranian Activists Disabled After Security Holes Exposed
2010-09-15,Spanish ex-premier calls for legalising drugs worldwide  
2010-09-15,"Cuba announces firing of half a million state workers. ""With its announcement that over 500,000 state workers will be fired over the next six months, the Castro regime is carrying out its most sweeping attack on Cuban workers since it came to power more than half a century ago."""
2010-09-15,"'Chapo' Guzman, Sinaloa cartel taking over cocaine trade in Australia - El Paso Times"
2010-09-15,BP chief Tony Hayward to face MPs on Gulf oil spill
2010-09-15,Pope's aide compares Britain to 'third world' 
2010-09-15,Russian official sacked for making boys kiss his feet
2010-09-15,Drone Strikes Peak; Can They Help End the Af-Pak War? 
2010-09-14,IMF fears 'social explosion'
2010-09-14,"Child sex abuse, and other church failings, lead Belgians to formally renounce religion"
2010-09-14,"Israels accountability : Soldiers seldom punished for killing Palestinians. out of 148 cases in which 288 Palestinians were killed between 2006 and 2009, only 22 resulted in the opening of a Military Police Investigation Unit probe."
2010-09-14,"In a rare example of openness, China has set up a website for citizens to express their views to top leaders - and users have wasted little time in firing unusually blunt criticisms at the government."
2010-09-14,Zulu king condemns photos of virginity tests at annual dance
2010-09-14,CNN: Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abused Palestinian Children
2010-09-14,Please help find the identity of one-legged bomber who has put Copenhagen into bombscare turmoil
2010-09-14,"Salvadoran police have unearthed three barrels full of cash worth 30 million dollars. Sorry, I think it's 20, wait, 14 million. 14 million dollars."
2010-09-14,Who really wields power in Russia - A corrupt security service on a longer leash than the KGB  a new book tells a very different story to the official one
2010-09-14,"UK had no idea in Iraq aftermath - The UK government and military leaders had ""absolutely no idea"" what to do after invading Iraq, a prominent veteran of the 2003 war has claimed."
2010-09-14,"The international aid system is easily manipulated, and always profits the elite."
2010-09-14,Iranian fatwa: Kill those who burn Qur'an
2010-09-14,"French Parliament Completes Passage of Law Banning Full Facial Veils -- ""The government has repeatedly said the law isnt aimed at Frances Muslims"""
2010-09-14,Tehran plays games with jailed hikers
2010-09-14,"Settlers receive 22% more budget grants than other Israelis, probe shows"
2010-09-14,Capitalist storm clouds loom over Havana after state cuts 1m jobs
2010-09-14,"Victims, Rapists Speak Out on Rape as Weapon of War in Congo"
2010-09-14,Taliban increasingly eyeing its role in politics
2010-09-14,"""Dizzy With Success"": The accelerating degeneration of life in America's Afghanistan."
2010-09-14,"France bans full veils in public - The French parliament passed a law Tuesday prohibiting wearing a full-face veil in public, meaning a ban will come into force early next year if it is not overturned by senior judges."
2010-09-14,"Sex, the Saudis, and selling out "
2010-09-14,Fastest drill resumes work in Chile mine
2010-09-14,"Pope John Paul II was in the Netherlands for four days in May of 1985, and his visit was a disaster. "
2010-09-14,The Global Economy 'Still Has Deep-Seated Structural Problems'
2010-09-14,"Irish leader Brian Cowen denies being drunk or hungover during early morning national broadcaster RT interview. These scurrilous suggestions ""sssshhould be left in the dusssshtbin,"" he slurred."
2010-09-13,"Should the Pope face charges?
A renowned lawyer makes the case that the Pope should have his day in court for harbouring pedophiles"
2010-09-13,British soldiers are smuggling heroin out of Afghanistan ... MoD launches probe
2010-09-13,"Mandela 'breathed fire' over Iraqi war - Nelson Mandela was so upset over Britain invading Iraq in 2003 that he called a government minister and ""virtually breathed fire"" about why it was a mistake, reveals the ex-minister."
2010-09-13,There are 4 million kg of whale meat stockpiled in Japan
2010-09-13,Pakistan's enemy is not America or India or any other external power. It is Pakistan's own culture of hypocrisy.
2010-09-13,The Web Braces for Biggest Wikileaks Dump to Date
2010-09-13,Remember 9/11? Remember the Saudi Arabia link? Barack Obama to authorise record $60bn Saudi arms sale
2010-09-13,"UK: History is disappearing from state schools as growing numbers of head teachers view it as a worthless subject"""
2010-09-13,"Mexican marines have captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, a presumed leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva cartel"
2010-09-13,"Thousands 'tortured, held without trial in Iraq'"
2010-09-13,"Cuba to cut 500,000 gov't workers; reform salaries - Cuba announced Monday it will cast off at least half a million state employees by mid-2011 and reduce restrictions on private enterprise to help them find new jobs."
2010-09-13,"In the largest US arms deal ever, Obama plans to offer advanced aircraft to Saudi Arabia worth up to $60 billion, as part of policy aimed at shoring up Arab allies against Iran"
2010-09-13,"Woerthgate affair: Main French newspaper files complaint against counter-intelligence agency which, under presidential orders, tried to illegally shut a newspaper source on the multiple corruption affairs of the Employment minister, Eric Woerth"
2010-09-13,Animal massacre to kick off Euro 2012: Call for boycott over plan to kill stray animals.
2010-09-13,"Cuba to lay off 500,000 in 6 months, allow private jobs"
2010-09-13,Asylum for gay Saudi diplomat? 
2010-09-13,Chinese submarine plants flag two-miles deep at the bottom of the South China Sea
2010-09-13,Local Sweden Democrat: 'ban' practicing Muslims
2010-09-13,"Kosovo Winemakers Face Bitter Harvest - Growers have accumulated the equivalent of 16 million unsold bottles, owing to the Serbian blockade on Kosovo products and the overall economic crisis."
2010-09-13,Plane crashes in eastern Venezuela with 47 people on board.
2010-09-13,Putin Stunts Hint At Another Presidency Bid
2010-09-13,"Canada's military won't probe heroin allegations - 
The military was reacting to reports in the Sunday Times and the BBC that Canadian and British troops have been sending large quantities of heroin out of Afghanistan on military aircraft taking troops back to Britain."
2010-09-13,"Youths run riot in anti-Asian protest
By Papua New Guinea correspondent Liam Fox"
2010-09-13,"Amnesty: Iraq holds up to 30,000 detainees without trial"
2010-09-13,Chinese Remake the Made in Italy Fashion Label 
2010-09-12,"Tal al-Mallouhi is a highschool student arrested in Dec 2009 by Syrian security agents for her blog containing poems and articles supporting the Palestinian Cause. She has been in prison ever since. She is 19 years old. Her life could now be in grave danger. Reddit, your help could save her life."
2010-09-12,Canadian pot activist Marc Emery gets five years in U.S. prison
2010-09-12,Turkey votes 'yes' to amending military-era constitution: reports  
2010-09-12,Above the Law - Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress Dissent - One of the authorities newest tactics for quelling dissent in Russia is confiscating computers under the pretext of searching for pirated Microsoft software.
2010-09-12,"The Problem is Empire, not Islam - In order to arrive at a correct solution to a problem, it is necessary to arrive at a correct diagnosis. The problems facing our country are not rooted in the Islamic religion or with Muslims. The problems are rooted in U.S. foreign policy."
2010-09-12,North Korean soldiers in exile to Rebel against the North Korean regime.
2010-09-12,"Saudi diplomat: 'My life is in danger' - The diplomat, Ali Ahmad Asseri, the first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles, has informed U.S. DHS officials that Saudi officials have effectively terminated his job after discovering he was gay and was close friends with a Jewish woman."
2010-09-12,"German Identity, Long Dormant, Reasserts Itself "
2010-09-12,"China Explores a Frontier 2 Miles Deep - China has unveiled a submersible designed to go deeper than any other in the world, giving it access to 99.8 percent of the ocean floor and its minerals."
2010-09-12,Australian Lawyer Alex Stewart smokes pages from the Koran and Bible
2010-09-12,"Iran: women on the frontline of the fight for rights - From the mother sentenced to death by stoning to the lawyer arrested for defending opposition activists, women are prominent symbols of Iran's struggle for democracy"
2010-09-12,OZ Govt Anti-drug Campaign's 'Worrying' Link to Scientology: Concerns have been raised about a partnership between the Australian Federal Government and a drug awareness group run by members of the controversial Church of Scientology.
2010-09-12,"""By some estimates, the quake left about 33 million cubic yards of debris in Port-au-Prince -- more than seven times the amount of concrete used to build the Hoover Dam. So far, only about 2 percent has been cleared, which means the city looks pretty much as it did a month after the Jan. 12 quake."""
2010-09-12,Tony Blair uses political influence to save Palestinian firm (owned by JP Morgan)
2010-09-12,"Chavez's obsession with past turns creepy -- and he's not alone
"
2010-09-12,Congo examines mass graves to find proof of revenge genocide on Hutus
2010-09-12,"""Eleven men are dead, because someone, somewhere, decided that they wanted to save money, or to make more money"""
2010-09-12,"Chinese diplomat gets drunk off his ass at a United Nations dinner: ""I know you never liked me, Mr Secretary General. Well, I never liked you either!"""
2010-09-12,Iraq to pay for U.S. abuse claims vs Saddam regime
2010-09-12,Entrepreneurs Rise in Ashes of Indias Caste System 
2010-09-12,Air Zimbabwe fires striking pilots
2010-09-12,Rwanda's Paul Kagame begins new term amid controversy surrounding possible Congo genocide
2010-09-12,"The Pakistani flood has mostly been caused by incompetent dyke and levee management done by non technical people instead of by geologists, hydrologist and hydro-archeologists who understand river system behavior. Treachery? Conspiracy? Treason?"
2010-09-12,"Even after a 110-billion euro bail out and the introduction of severe austerity measures, Greece's economy is still shrinking faster than expected. Can the nation rebound?"
2010-09-12,Turkey prepares to vote in constitutional referendum
2010-09-11,"""In Abu Ghraib,"" she says, ""women were tortured by the Americans
much more than the men. One woman said she witnessed five girls being raped. Most of the women in the prison were raped  some of them left prison pregnant. Families killed some of these women  because of the
shame."""
2010-09-11,"Did 9/11 make us all go mad? Nine years, two wars, hundreds of thousands dead - and nothing learnt"
2010-09-11,An investigation by The New York Times has found that the British tabloid News of the World may have hacked into the voicemail of hundreds of British citizens. This scandal now includes a member of the new British government.
2010-09-11,"Perspective: Iraq Civilians Experience September 11th Every 8.23 Days. Since The US Led Invasion, Afghanistan & Iraq Have Experienced The Equivalent Of 348 September 11th's."
2010-09-11,"The Case of the Pope:How Canon Law shields paedophile priests. ""One reason for the huge amount of child abuse is that the perpetrators know they will almost certainly get away with it"" "
2010-09-11,"""Quel horreur! Retire at 62?"" French do not like ""Anglo-Saxon"" culture. BBC."
2010-09-11,Honour killings - excellent six part series by Robert Fisk (long)
2010-09-11,British-born Palestinian singer 'assaulted' at Tel Aviv airport.  Security agents alleged there was a bomb planted in her microphone. 
2010-09-11,DR Congo bans mining for mobile phone minerals
2010-09-11,"Algeria bans ""Jewish"" Korans bearing Star of David on their covers"
2010-09-11,Christians in Gaza Fear for Their Lives as Muslims Burn Bibles and Destroy Crosses - In 2007 Nobody Cared about this 
2010-09-11,Is Pakistan heading for a coup? 
2010-09-11,Referendum in Turkey raises fears of too much Islam in government 
2010-09-11,Europe has no choice but to put the pensioners to work
2010-09-11,"The other 9/11.
A short on the fall of Chile's government in the '70s"
2010-09-11,"North Korea after He's gone - The one exception to the lack of long-term thinking may be China. Andrei Lankov raises the possibility of China attempting to avert collapse by installing a hard authoritarian, pro-growth regime in North Korea."
2010-09-11,"Days of Reflection for the Man Who Defined Singapore - Interview with Lee Kuan Yew, now 87. Reflective, vulnerable, still combative. ""Im not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honorable purpose"" "
2010-09-11,"Gunmen killed 25 people in a series of drug-gang attacks in Ciudad Juarez, marking the deadliest day in more than two years for the Mexican border city"
2010-09-11,"Funding hate:the 2008 990 filings for Chernick's charitable foundation, including funds for Jewish settlement in East Jerusalem, The Investigative Project on Terrorism, MEMRI, The Center for Security Policy, over $900k to the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles"
2010-09-11,"France furore over Castro ""racial holocaust"" remark"
2010-09-11,Britain could reduce numbers in armed forces as part of budget cuts
2010-09-11,"Greek anger at PM's economy speech  - George Papandreou vows to stay on course with government's austerity drive as 20,000 protest against cuts."
2010-09-11,Derry's Bloody Sunday happened in Belfast...writes man who ordered 200m inquiry...Tony Blair
2010-09-11,Over 800 have died due to cholera in Nigeria: the treatment is just giving fluids/ORS; yet children are dying.
2010-09-11,Hamas threat to West Bank rival Palestinian Authority |  The Australian
2010-09-10,"Weary of drug war, Mexico debates legalization - 
A debate about legalizing marijuana and possibly other drugs  once a taboo suggestion  is percolating in Mexico, a nation exhausted by runaway violence and a deadly drug war."
2010-09-10,Beyond Hiroshima: The non-reporting of Falluja's cancer catastrophe
2010-09-10,Qur'an burning: Nato troops shoot at Afghan protesters
2010-09-10,"Arab regimes' autocratic nature masks their vulnerability - Arab regimes have ""an almost insatiable urge to control"", but aren't very good at it. They work against society, not with it. Violence, autocracy, should be seen as symptoms of weakness "
2010-09-10,"Three-hour wave of Juarez slayings may be tied to abduction of child - 24 people were reported slain in a wave of multiple killings that shook Jurez over a three-hour period Thursday night,"
2010-09-10,Economist's views on Muslims spark controversy in Germany
2010-09-10,Scandal knocks at No. 10 Downing Street: A prime minister's aide is intimately linked to the furor over high-profile phone tappings
2010-09-10,Ahmadinejad: Koran burning will bring about Israel's annihilation - Iran president calls U.S. pastor's plan to burn copies of Koran on Sept. 11 anniversary a violation of the teachings of all religions.
2010-09-10,Iraqi prank TV show :  Planting fake IEDs in celebrity cars. 
2010-09-10,Koran-burning protests sweep Afghanistan - BBC News
2010-09-10,Ramadan 2010 through the eyes of the Boston.com readers
2010-09-10,Narcotics war reaps nothing but killing fields - Two human heads left in a cooler box on the plaza? A mystery. The 18 houses burned in a single night? An enigma. The doctor and his family who disappeared? A rumour. 
2010-09-10,The incredible shrinking prsident - When Sarkozy first burst into the French political consciousness he was unlike any other recent leader the country had known. He dared to tell the French what they did not care to hear. What a shrunken version of that politician now occupies the presidency.
2010-09-10,The organizers of Oktoberfest have banned smoking this year from the world's biggest beer tents. Now they have to find a way to mask the lurking smells the cigarette smoke once hid.
2010-09-10,"Truck full of pig manure explodes in Germany - The manure had become too warm, creating too much pressure in the tank and eventually bursting a glass panel, local fire officials said. The manure was sprayed over a large area."
2010-09-10,Good news and bad news on the Castro front
2010-09-10,"Israeli Air Force strikes Gaza Strip targets - 
Hamas' Gaza headquarters reportedly bombed; Strike response to rocket fire"
2010-09-10,Philippines: Police torture five men inside their headquarters
2010-09-10,"Top ranking Chinese official to the UN gets drunk and says ""I really don't like him: he's an American and I really don't like Americans"""
2010-09-10,Denmark best country in the world to do business in.
2010-09-10,Struggle in Poland over Jewish war diaries
2010-09-10,"Suspected bomber
apprehended in 
copenhagen [ongoing] "
2010-09-10,"""Iranian secret nuclear site disclosed"" Is this real or a phony excuse for war like ""Iraq WMD""?"
2010-09-10,"Why Do Terrorists Blow Themselves Up? - The genesis of suicide bombings is rooted in intractable asymmetrical conflicts pitching the state against non-state actors over political entitlements, territorial occupation and dispossession."
2010-09-10,"Sarrazin's Truths: Political Correctness Is Silencing an Important Debate. ""It is clear that intimidation from the politically correct thought police of the media ... no longer work."""
2010-09-09,"Afghan insurgents give captive reporter a cell phone to show them the Internet, so he tweets his whereabouts. "
2010-09-09,"Terrorism : Suicide attack in Russia kills 15, wounds over 100"
2010-09-09,"Olympic Disaster in Vancouver, Taxpayers on Hook for $1 Billion ""Ghost Town"""
2010-09-09,Anti-Israel boycotts are gaining speed
2010-09-09,What America Left Behind in Iraq - It's even uglier than you think.
2010-09-09,UK MPs 'were too scared to testify in court' against Rupert Murdoch
2010-09-09,"Merkel to honor Mohammed cartoonist at press award
| Reuters"
2010-09-09,How could this POSSIBLY go wrong?
2010-09-09,"Robert Fisk: The lie behind mass 'suicides' of Egypt's young women - 
Part three of our series demolishes the official claim that Egypt, where a farmer decapitated his own daughter, has no 'honour' killings"
2010-09-09,The Other 9/11
2010-09-09,"Burn-a-Qur'an pastor used flock as slaves, says ex-worshipper - Emma Jones, the pastor's daughter from his first marriage, has described her father's church as a ""cult."""
2010-09-09,Assassination of Mexican mayor is third in less than a month
2010-09-09,China's UN diplomat in drunken rant against Americans
2010-09-09,Iran to release one of three US hikers
2010-09-09,Former NKorea soldiers launch group to topple regime
2010-09-09,Creepy Biometric IDs to Be Forced Onto India's 1.2 Billion Inhabitants
2010-09-09,"
Romania attempts to tax witches and fortune tellers
Proposals to tax witches and fortune tellers in Romania were voted down by senators.
The politicians who had drafted the new law claim it is because they feared they would be cursed if they passed the plans. "
2010-09-09,"Back to Russia, With Love - 
Russian Spy Anna Chapman Finds Celebrity at Home"
2010-09-09,Is Mexico at threat from a drugs insurgency?
2010-09-09,Thailand - Three unexploded bombs found in Bangkok
2010-09-09,Higher education and wages - Plenty of university graduates are working in low-skilled jobs 
2010-09-09,"According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, Brazil is close to electing its first woman president, Dilma Rousseff, of the Workers' Party"
2010-09-09,Fidel Castro: Cuban economics doesn't work
2010-09-09,Women targeted in latest Juarez killings - El Paso Times
2010-09-09,Britain's Afghan envoy resigns amid clash with NATO and US officials - convinced the military focused counter insurgency effort was headed for failure
2010-09-08,"""For them, there is no safe place. They are raped when harvesting crops; when going to market; when fetching water and firewood; when carrying their babies; when in their homes at night, among their loved ones."""
2010-09-08,Prison break: 680 have escaped.
2010-09-08,European Parliament calls for immediate disclosure ACTA -- Finally! 
2010-09-08,Al Jazeera English documentary: A look at how the swell of Chinese globalisation is having an impact on the coast of Africa.
2010-09-08,"A tradition in Masonry is to crave the faces of Masons into the Gargoyles, this time the Mason was a Muslim and the project was a Catholic Church.  Rightist groups are now accusing Islam of taking over their Churches."
2010-09-08,"As students around the world head back to school, many of the lessons they're learning are not only false -- they're dangerous"
2010-09-08,Book: 'Racist' Churchill let millions of Indians starve to death
2010-09-08,Israel worried by America's proposal for international force in Palestinian territory
2010-09-08,"A now-discharged US sergeant who served in Iraq secretly planted grenades in the cars of Iraqis at check points, for a prank. He's caused controversy because he filmed himself and the reaction of drivers as a joke, and posted it on YouTube."
2010-09-08,Report: Castro says Cuban model doesn't work
2010-09-08,Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds.  Excellent Vanity Fair article about the problems of Greece
2010-09-08,"59% of Israeli teens dont want Arab students in their class - The survey...also revealed that 59% of teens aged 15 to 18 believe that Arab students should not have equal rights in schools.     
    
	- Arab News"
2010-09-08,"Brazil has conducted its latest census 100% digitally, using 150,000 smartphones"
2010-09-08,Ironic update in the Assange case: There's a leak in the police dept.
2010-09-08,China blacks out towns to meet energy goal 
2010-09-08,Trapped in a Chilean mine - moving photos [pics]
2010-09-08,"The Menacing Nature Of The Herd Mentality - Comradeship is usually a good thing. Crowds are often fun. But in politics (and on reddit) they are dangerous. They encourage simplicity and selfishness, override individual conscience. Crowd easily becomes mob "
2010-09-08,Fidel Castro criticises Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
2010-09-08,N.Korea prepares for leader succession with first congress of ruling party in 30 years
2010-09-08,Palestinian militants fired a mortar round from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday narrowly missing a kindergarten in a kibbutz in southern Israel
2010-09-08,"A diplomatic row has intensified
between China and Japan after
collisions between two
Japanese patrol boats and a
Chinese trawler on Tuesday."
2010-09-08,Lone Chinese dissident decries an era of mediocrity
2010-09-08,"""I'm a Roman Catholic... I don't know if I've ever seen a Roman Catholic cut anybody's head off, slice somebody's throat or abuse women."" Really???"
2010-09-08,Film industry hires cyber hitmen to take down internet pirates
2010-09-08,"Clinton sees drug ""insurgency"" in Mexico - Government has lost control to cartels"
2010-09-07,Two redditors are climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro for charity and will do your bidding at the peak. Don't squander this opportunity to let your upvotes do something awesome.
2010-09-07,"It is estimated it will take 3,000 years to clear Laos of all the explosive remnants left behind from United States bombers over 30 years ago. More than 20,000 people have died from unexploded ordnance since conflict ended."
2010-09-07,Fidel to Ahmadinejad: 'Stop Slandering the Jews'
2010-09-07,"Mossad in America | Israels intelligence agencies target the United States intensively. Among nations considered to be friendly to Washington, Israel leads all others in its active espionage directed against American companies and the Defense Department."
2010-09-07,"Australian Election: 17 days after poll, 2 out of 3 rural/regional independent members of parliament support a Labor minority goverment with Julia Gillard as Prime Minister"
2010-09-07, France -  Plan to Raise Retirement Age Sets Off Strikes
2010-09-07,"Britain's parliament, police, a Murdoch paper, and adviser to PM implicated in voicemail hacking scandal"
2010-09-07,British policeman jailed for 6 months for cell attack on woman
2010-09-07,"""The rest of the email displays a fundemental disdain for a pluralistic America and reveals chilling levels of Islamophobia and hatemongering."""
2010-09-07,"Church's plans to burn Qur'an will endanger troops, US commander warns"
2010-09-07,Freed Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access
2010-09-07,"Manilas water crisis exposes impact of privatisation. ""Julys week-long rationing of water highlighted the reality: millions of people are denied the basic right to potable water and sanitation while private firms rake in profits at their expense."""
2010-09-07,Weird: UK police ask for help in case of slain intelligence agent
2010-09-07,"Greenpeace Japan Anti-whaling Activists Found Guilty of Theft
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2010-09-07,Captured Journalist Tricks Captors Into Revealing He is Alive
2010-09-07,"Creepy Biometric IDs to Be Forced Onto India's 1.2 Billion Inhabitants. ""Fears about loss of privacy and government abuse abound as India gears up to biometrically identify and number its 1.2 billion inhabitants."""
2010-09-07,"Chinas young officers and the 1930s syndrome.
Chinas military spending is growing so fast that it has overtaken strategy, said Professor Huang Jing from the School of Public Policy. The young officers are taking control of strategy and it is like young officers in Japan in the 1930s."""
2010-09-07,"Mexican soldiers open fire on family's car at military checkpoint, killing father and son"
2010-09-07,Death toll continues to climb in Guatemala landslides
2010-09-07,"Foreign powers should stop interfering in the case of an Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning, Iran's foreign ministry has said."
2010-09-07,Mexican officials: Gunmen behind massacre of 72 have been killed
2010-09-07,TV anchor stabbed to death outside his Kabul home
2010-09-07,The mosque menace is not confined to Lower Manhattan. In many European countries similar alarms are sounded: The Muslims are coming!
2010-09-07,French citizens barred from American military bases
2010-09-07,"Dutch neo-Nazi donates sperm 'for whites only' - A Dutch neo-Nazi has offered to donate his sperm to four fertility clinics in the Netherlands in an effort to promote what he calls ""a strong white race""..."
2010-09-06,Peace deal 'not possible' as Israel announces settlement building to resume
2010-09-06,End of a nation? Get ready for the break-up of Belgium
2010-09-06,Extraordinary Story of Corruption and Stealing in Russia. Russian Government turns on it's biggest investor and tries to silence the lawyers once they discover the truth. [VIDEO]
2010-09-06,Tony Blair scraps London book signing. Former PM cancels scheduled appearance at Waterstone's store in Piccadilly days after eggs and shoes were thrown at him in Dublin
2010-09-06,"French officials unfazed as thousands rally for Roma. ""Tens of thousands of people have protested in cities across France against a gov't law-and-order crackdown that has targeted Roma Gypsies."""
2010-09-06,An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her.
2010-09-06,"Game conservation in Africa: Horns, claws and the bottom line - Northern white rhino down to last eight animals. Lions may vanish by 2020. Governments have failed to protect. Can private initiativessuch as tourism, farming, charitydo any better? "
2010-09-06,"Britain's Secret Slaves: ""Over 15,000 domestic workers leave their families to come to Britain every year. Charities claim that many are not only badly treated but that they are living as slaves [...]"""
2010-09-06,Huge fireball crosses Colombia
2010-09-06,Poll: Half of Israeli teens don't want Arab students in their class
2010-09-06,A school in Northern Ireland was evacuated today after an 8 year old found a pipe bomb in the playground and brought it into class
2010-09-06,UK to significantly reduce the number of foreign student visas
2010-09-06,Afghan Mineral Deposits Could Completely Revolutionize Nation's System Of Corruption
2010-09-06,Two million French people to strike over Sarkozy's pensions reform
2010-09-06,"The British home secretary is defending the government's handling of alleged newspaper phone hackers, accused of eavesdropping on royalty and other British nobles to publish sensational stories in the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World newspaper."
2010-09-06,"Thilo Sarrazin's controversial new book on Muslims in Germany has not only generated opprobrium from the political elite, it has also generated a mass following from the population at large. The tome may be full of inaccuracies, but it has struck a nerve."
2010-09-06,The elephant in the room - Excluding Hamas from current and future Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations is an exercise in futility. 
2010-09-06,"In Baghdad, police chief explains why it's tough to enforce the rule of law"
2010-09-06,Merkel says violence of Muslim youths is a problem in Germany
2010-09-06,Raj Patel: Food rebellion -- Mozambicans know which way the wind blows
2010-09-06,Turkey now officially part of Europe's electrical grid
2010-09-06,"Afghans denounce American church's plans to burn the Islamic holy book on Sept. 11: ""We know this is not just the decision of a church. It is the decision of the president and the entire United States"""
2010-09-06,"God no longer male, Scottish Episcopal Church rules"
2010-09-06,Israeli-Russian defence deal: Show of unity comes after strains in ties over Russian arms contracts in the Middle East.
2010-09-06,IDF document: policy principle: separating Gaza from West Bank
2010-09-05,"I tracked down a man who killed 14,000 people"
2010-09-05,What we could learn from Portugal's drugs policy: A decade ago Portugal took a radical new approach to illegal drugs by treating users as people with social problems rather than as criminals
2010-09-05,'I would sit there wondering how people could be that bad' 
2010-09-05,Japan: Creating a zero-waste city from scratch
2010-09-05,"Greenpeace activists followed up on Japanese whaling whistle-blower, but that case got dropped, and now they're to be jailed for theft, for the evidence they took and publicized to expose corruption."
2010-09-05,"As Sarkozy expels the Gypsies from France, it should be remembered that this genius musician spent most of his youth in Romani camps near Paris playing banjo, guitar and violin.  Jean 'Django' Reinhardt."
2010-09-05,"Israeli aircraft have carried out three bombing raids on the Gaza Strip, killing one man and injuring another. "
2010-09-05,"Iran orders 99 lashes for woman facing execution, rights group says"
2010-09-05,New Zealand earthquake: picking up the pieces
2010-09-05,ETA declares ceasefire in challenge to Spanish government to open talks  - Telegraph
2010-09-05,BBC News - Baghdad suicide bomb attack at army base kills seven
2010-09-05,"French protest over Roma expulsions: 
Thousands of people demonstrate against government measures they say are being used to target country's Roma community."
2010-09-05,Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes at book signing--Former prime minister attacked by anti-war protesters in Dublin as he promotes memoirs
2010-09-05,Brussels plans 'treasury' for EU
2010-09-05,Grandma Cha Sa-soon finally got her license  on her 960th try.
2010-09-05,"Israel foreign minister: Peace 'not achievable' | 
Peace deal not possible 'in next year or next generation.'"
2010-09-05,Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat: Hamas may be willing to accept a peace deal with Israel should the agreement resolve the core issues at hand
2010-09-05,Dagestan suicide attack kills 5 at Russian army base
2010-09-05,Iran orders 99 lashes for woman facing execution after they saw the photo of a woman without a head scarf in a newspaper
2010-09-05,"The US will probably keep thousands of soldiers in Iraq beyond the official departure date of end 2011, despite Obama's official announcement last week marking the end of the US combat mission"
2010-09-05,"Israeli military aircraft documents recent explosion at Shiite group's weapons cache; shows Hezbollah operatives concealing rockets, transferring weapons"
2010-09-05,Second South African nurse hospitalized after attack by strikers
2010-09-05,"South Africa: Civil servants strike -- Government employees close schools, hospitals and challenge President Jacob Zuma and ANC."
2010-09-05,"France protests against security crackdown, Roma Expulsion"
2010-09-05,"In Christchurch, dawn breaks on a nightmare"
2010-09-04,Tony Blair pelted with eggs and shoes in Dublin
2010-09-04,Tony Blair honoured with free breakfast and footwear in Dublin.
2010-09-04,"Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake - South Island, New Zealand"
2010-09-04,"""Muslims cost the state more than they contribute""- Thilo Sarrazin, member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and former senator of finance for the State of Berlin."
2010-09-04,"Food riots erupt in Mozambique. ""Protests continued in Maputo, Mozambiques capital city, for a third day on Friday in response to increased bread prices and the general rise in the cost of living. At least 10 people are dead, and more than 400 have been wounded."""
2010-09-04,"Taliban facing 'financial crisis', general claims - Telegraph"
2010-09-04,"Russia's finance minister: ""Smoke and drink more"""
2010-09-04,Rare earths: Digging in | The Economist
2010-09-04,"""If youre wondering why the Arab world is not very excited about the prospects of Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, perhaps the place to look is not there, but rather in the underlying political governance and decision-making systems that define the Arab world.""
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2010-09-04,200 women and some baby boys gang-raped by rebels near Congo U.N. base.
2010-09-04,Two more dead in fresh clash between Armenia and Azerbaijan
2010-09-04,Swedish men reveal their dream women 
2010-09-04,Iran on verge of economic calamity because of government policies
2010-09-04,Could the international marriage market be another casualty of the global recession? Internet dating sites in India report that educated women there are now less interested in meeting US men who work on (unstable) Wall Street and more interested in marrying resident civil servants. 
2010-09-04,"Child grooming case mother warns it could happen to any family | Speaking after nine men are convicted of exploiting daughter, 14, parents praise police, CPS and charity for support"
2010-09-04,"Adam Phillips on the happiness myth - Brilliant essay on contradictions of seeking happiness. ""What we are lacking when we are unhappy is not always happiness, any more than what an alcoholic is lacking is a drink"" "
2010-09-04,Panicked Afghans nearly collapse Kabul Bank after loan scandal
2010-09-04,"Game conservation in Africa: Horns, claws and the bottom line "
2010-09-04,"Car bomber kills 2, wounds 25 police in Tajikistan
| Reuters"
2010-09-04,Wilders pulls out of Dutch coalition talks
2010-09-04,No room for sex pests at reed dance in South Africa
2010-09-04,The trend of collective punishments towards Muslims spreads to the University of California. All Muslims at UCI being punished for the actions of a few irresponsible protesters.  
2010-09-04,Israeli bid to access sensitive EU personal data resisted
2010-09-04,The new Netanyahu?
2010-09-04,Anti-immigrant German Central Bank director sacked
2010-09-03,"Associated Press standards editor to staff: ""Combat in Iraq is not over, and we should not uncritically repeat suggestions that it is, even if they come from senior officials. The situation on the ground in Iraq is no different today than it has been for some months."""
2010-09-03,Israel: Soldier admits to looting Turkish aid flotilla ship
2010-09-03,"Russian Submarine Hunts Clues to Century-Old Mystery. Legend has it that almost a century ago a series of railway wagons stuffed with gold sank into the depths of a lake in Siberia. This week, researchers, exploring the depths by submarine, may have found the Russian royals' lost gold."
2010-09-03,Cheerleaders cover their skin to avoid offending the Iranians at US vs Iran basketball game
2010-09-03,"Hamas, 10 other groups pledge to continue targeting Israelis"
2010-09-03,"The European Commission has suspended plans, resisted by Ireland, to allow the transfer to Israel and storage there of sensitive personal data on European citizens"
2010-09-03,Russian spy found dead on beach may have been killed
2010-09-03,"United Nations now says 240 women, girls, and babies may have been raped in DR Congo town."
2010-09-03,"Energy in Brazil: The sugar industry produces food, fuel and environmental benefits. How fast it grows may depend on an argument about how it should be regulated"
2010-09-03,"Murdoch Reporters's Phone-Hacking Was Endemic, Victimized Hundreds - Andy Coulson, currently media advisor to British Prime Minister David Cameron, is accused of having encouraged the hacking during his tenure as editor of Murdochs News of the World paper"
2010-09-03,13 Palestinian armed groups vow to step up attacks against Israel
2010-09-03,Europe deporting Iraqi refugees now that combat operations are over
2010-09-03,Pakistani news site tries hard to blame India and the West for Cricket match fixing scandal
2010-09-03,High-profile Portugal child sex abuse 'proved'
2010-09-03,"Spanish 'Mecca' disco angers some Muslims
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2010-09-03,Karzai moves to assure Afghan depositors: The Kabul Bank intervention sparks a rush of withdrawals
2010-09-03,"Testing Chvez - If the polls are reliable, it seems that Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez will be tested on September 26. For the defenders of Venezuelan democracy, the test will come the morning after"
2010-09-03,The Peanut Solution
2010-09-03,"Suicide blast rips through Pakistan city, 43 dead"
2010-09-03,"NATO attack kills 10 civilian campaign workers in Afghanistan.  Press release calls it a ""precision air strike"". US SecDef says he's not aware of civilian casualties and that the attack hit its intended target.  In other news, US complains Karzai is not doing enough to fight corruption."
2010-09-03,Russia extends ban on Aug. wheat exports
2010-09-03,A virtual counter-revolution | The Economist
2010-09-03,"Israeli and Palestinian leaders begin framework talks 
on a peace deal"
2010-09-03,Mexico drug war: the new killing fields
2010-09-03,Iran opposition leader's home attacked
2010-09-02,"Israel is willing to make a sweeping concession - dividing control of Jerusalem - as part of a historic final peace pact with Palestinians and drop its demand that Jerusalem would ""remain the undivided capital of Israel"""
2010-09-02,"In just ten years, Brazil has turned itself into one of the world's breadbaskets. Is Africa next?"
2010-09-02,"""There was no room on our deck so we just started pushing helicopters overboard. We figured humans were much more important than the hardware.""  -  Valor at the Vietnam War's End, a 3-part series from NPR. "
2010-09-02,US told EU to hide ACTA from public
2010-09-02,"Here is an English translation of the executive summary from the leaked German military study which predicted a severe global energy crisis dramatically shifting the balance of world power brought on by peak oil. [It's lengthy, but you'll be astounded at the global ramifications and consequences]."
2010-09-02,Tony Blair: We must be prepared for attack on Iran
2010-09-02,Another Gulf oil rig explodes off La. coast
2010-09-02,Top British law enforcement official moves toward re-opening investigation into mysterious 2003 death of WMD inspector...
2010-09-02,"Germany has been making some good decisions lately. First the Monsanto ban, now: The German government has tabled a draft bill that would ban employers from profiling job applicants on social networks such as Facebook and prevent clandestine video surveillance at work. "
2010-09-02,Pakistani officers ditch Pentagon meeting after airport detention
2010-09-02,China: Too cheap to avoid a traffic jam
2010-09-02,"10 civilians are killed and 2 others are wounded after being struck by NATO during an election campaign in Rostaq, Afghanistan. Originally, a spokesman had said a ""precision air strike"" had hit a militant vehicle."
2010-09-02,Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai in panic as graft probe closes in
2010-09-02,Mozambique bread riots spread as police shoot protesters 
2010-09-02,"Iraq set to become one of Americas biggest markets for arms exports; Deals worth $13 billion for Abrams tanks and other equipment are currently being negotiated, and a $3 billion F16 fighter contract is set to follow."
2010-09-02,Why Israelis Don't Care About Peace with Palestinians 
2010-09-02,"Mahmoud Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president, wants the US to bail out Afghanistan's biggest bank which is in danger of collapse."
2010-09-02,Shock: Tony Blair apologizes for killings in Iraq
2010-09-02,"HSH Nordbank - Germany's Nordbank Embroiled in Frame-Up Allegations - German state-owned bank HSH Nordbank is caught up in a furor of allegations that it used break-ins, bugging and planting of child pornography on a laptop computer to engineer the ousting of high-level employees."
2010-09-02,Netanyahu and Abbas to Begin Direct Mideast Peace Talks
2010-09-02,German Military: Peak Oil could lead to collapse of democracy
2010-09-02,Fidel Castro regrets discrimination against gays in Cuba
2010-09-02,"The Chinese government on Wednesday began to require cellphone users to furnish identification when buying SIM cards, a move officials cast as an effort to rein in burgeoning cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes"
2010-09-02,"In South Africa's public sector strike, workers have switched off fridges at the Durban mortuary, cut identification tags off bodies and mixed the bodies up...."
2010-09-02,Syria holds Lebanon Shiite cleric as suspected Israeli spy
2010-09-01,Monsanto Uprooted :: Germany Bans Cultivation of GM Corn
2010-09-01,"Sweden to reopen WikiLeaks rape case against Julian Assange: ""There is reason to believe that a crime has been committed"""
2010-09-01,"Castro admits 'injustice' for gays and lesbians during revolution: ""They were moments of great injustice ... if someone is responsible, it's me.""
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2010-09-01,"""US man nabbed for blasphemy in Indonesia"", could face 5 years in jail for unplugging loudspeaker of mosque that woke him during the night."
2010-09-01,"""Peak Oil"" and the German Government: Military Study Warns of a Potentially Drastic Oil Crisis"
2010-09-01,"Leaving Iraq, Remembering Roy - 
Remarkably moving piece of writing. US officer pays tribute to brave young interpreter who joined Americans after al-Qaeda beheaded two of his classmates. Spoiler: it doesn't end happily
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2010-09-01,Oil Balls Landing on Indian Beaches
2010-09-01,Ian Tomlinson (protester killed at G20 in London) update: pathologist who conducted the autopsy suspended from the Home Office register of forensic pathologists for misconduct amid questions about his post-mortem examination of Mr Tomlinson
2010-09-01,4 Israelis wounded in shooting attack near Hebron
2010-09-01,Sharia Justice Compassion: 90-year-old Saudi to get 100 lashes
2010-09-01,At least six killed in Mozambique protests over bread prices
2010-09-01,The Stig's identity revealed over legal battle
2010-09-01,"""I've watched the death of too many civilians, women and children getting killed for doing nothing more than stepping out of the their house. ... Pulling troops from Iraq, they're just going to be sent to Afghanistan.""  Ethan McCord, ground troop involved in WikiLeaks video"
2010-09-01,"After more than 7 years of war, Iraqis are still scrambling to forge a working government"
2010-09-01,"Armenian troops commit sabotage act on Azerbaijani territory, both sides have losses"
2010-09-01,Next step in gradual phasing out of incandescent lightbulbs has begun in the EU. Two more years and they'll all be gone.
2010-09-01,"Ikeshima: Goodbye to old King Coal - Beautiful, sad, photo-essay about near-deserted Japanese island, once home of country's last working coalmines. Twelve children in school built for 1,500. One restaurant. Lots, and lots, of rust  "
2010-09-01,Ghanaian prostitutes in Nigeria on strike (somewhat NSFW)
2010-09-01, Is Germany Becoming Islamophobic?
2010-09-01,"North Korea vowed to strengthen military ties with 
China on Wednesday, days after the North's leader 
Kim Jong-il finished a visit aimed at bolstering the 
bond with his isolated country's sole major 
supporter"
2010-09-01,Pakistan government air raid kills 45 militants and their families
2010-09-01,"Warning, getting fat may cause travel problems. Man arrested and detained by the authorities in Amsterdam on the basis that he did not resemble the person in his passport photograph."
2010-09-01,International law enforcement agencies have combined to dismantle an alleged organised child exploitation network that had been operating via the social networking site Facebook
2010-09-01,I am a refugee
2010-09-01,"Blasts kill up to eight in Pakistan's Lahore, 100 hurt"
2010-08-31,"To offset the spate of negative stories on the Israeli Defense Force here's the ""Combatant's Letter"", Signed by 500+ Soldiers that refuse to serve in the occupied territories. "
2010-08-31,"Et tu, Israel? ""A singer who performed in front of a 'mixed audience' of men and women was
lashed 39 times to make him 'repent', after a ruling by a self-described
rabbinic court on Wednesday."""
2010-08-31,BREAKING The bloodiest fist of one of the biggest drug cartels in Mexico just fell.
2010-08-31,An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday.
2010-08-31,How to Kill Goyim and Influence People: A rabbinical guidebook for killing non-Jews has sparked an uproar in Israel and exposed the power a bunch of genocidal theocrats wield over the government
2010-08-31,Ramadan 2010 - The Big Picture
2010-08-31,"Israel set to build wings for some 800 F-35s - ""Israel is in talks to build the wings for about a quarter of the United States's new F-35 stealth fighter aircraft... Lockheed Martin currently plans to build some 3,200 F-35s costing about $96 million each.""
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2010-08-31,Fidel Castro accepts responsibility for persecution of Cuban gays
2010-08-31,Unicef ambassador Ewen McGregor speaks on behalf of the 3.5million children and millions more who have been affected by the Pakistan floods. :(
2010-08-31,Tasmania has approved laws recognising same sex marriage.
2010-08-31,"For years, the people living in a small village in 
Russia were kept ignorant in that they were living 
in the most radioactively polluted place on earth."
2010-08-31,4 Israelis killed in West Bank shooting attack
2010-08-31,"Fake goods are fine, says EU study "
2010-08-31,You all remember what happened at Haiti. Here's a video from Aljazeera of Haiti after 6 months.
2010-08-31,"Fidel Castro says he feels ""revived"""
2010-08-31,"Afghan Government Moves to Bailout Leading Bank - The sudden intervention by the Afghan government to shore up a deeply troubled bank sent shock waves through the capital, prompting fears among American and Afghan officials about the integrity of the countrys financial system."
2010-08-31,French Riviera Hijacked By Russian Mafia
2010-08-31,"800,000 refugees in Syria drought, most relocated to camps, have no access to electricity or running water, no schools, many children must work to sustain their families"
2010-08-31,Disaster prompts resurgence for Pakistan Army
2010-08-31,Brito dies waiting for an aswer from President Chvez
2010-08-31,"Four Israelis killed in shooting attack near Hebron, including a pregnant woman, one day before start of peace talks"
2010-08-31,Argentina has ruled that search engines are not responsible for the content of sites that they index. The court overturned a lower court's ruling against Google and Yahoo! Argentina.
2010-08-31,Mubarak signals Egypt succession by taking son to Washington
2010-08-31,BBC News - Iranian insults against Carla Bruni-Sarkozy unacceptable - France
2010-08-31,Tony Blair: I knew Gordon Brown would be a disaster
2010-08-30,"Mexico fires 3,200 (9%) of it's federal police."
2010-08-30,"Largest world's plant DNA collection in Pavlovsk, Russia is about to be bulldozed after court decision "
2010-08-30,"100 Russian skinheads  Attack Crowd of 3,000, Kill 14-Year-Old"
2010-08-30,"Graduates in the UK warned of a record 70 applicants for every job, some sectors have over 200 applicants for every available job"
2010-08-30,Vladimir Putin says 'unsanctioned' protesters can expect police brutality
2010-08-30,"U.S. staff move kids out of Mexico City: 
U.S. consulate workers in Monterrey told to relocate children as drug war rages."
2010-08-30,Net Nutrality is now law in Chile
2010-08-30,"More than 3,000 Mexican federal police fired for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption"
2010-08-30,"Syrian man dies at the age of 125 - According to his personal identity card, Othman Ebrahim Ahmad was born in 1885. He had a good memory up to his death, Mohammad, one of his sons said in Saadiya."
2010-08-30,Iran media call French first lady 'prostitute'
2010-08-30,"S. Korea's incoming PM abruptly quits: 
S. Korean prime minister-designate Kim Tae-ho resigns amid probe."
2010-08-30,Drunk baboons plague Cape Town's exclusive suburbs  
2010-08-30,"Interview With Iran's Foreign Minister -  Spiegel plays hardball. Great questions. Begins with stoning, then on to election-rigging, corruption, nuclear weapons. Mottaki dodges, blusters. All interviews should be like this "
2010-08-30,Labour's New Message? Tax The Rich - Ed Miliband has called on Labour to propose raising taxes for the better-off and impose a 5bn-a-year tax on the banks as he marks out a new dividing line with his elder brother David.
2010-08-30,Australia prepares for locust plague
2010-08-30,Not guilty. Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinain schoolgirl | An IDF officer who claimed he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday.
2010-08-30,"At least 6 people dead, 13 wounded in shooting near Bratislava (Slovakia). Gunman is believed to be 15 years old. What. The. Fuck."
2010-08-30,Japan colonial presence felt 100 years on: Seoul and Korea must put aside differences in the face of unpredictable North Korea
2010-08-30,Obama to Widen Sanctions on North Korea for S.Korean boat attack
2010-08-30,Hurricane Earl grows to Category 4
2010-08-30,Rebels attack Chechen leader's home and have bloody clash with his personal security guards
2010-08-30,Korea and Japan: A 100-year war of words 
2010-08-30,Sarkozy's crackdown on Roma camps adds fuel to criticism at home and abroad
2010-08-30,Indonesian Volcana Erupts Again
2010-08-30,Phillipines Solicitor General loses marriage anulment appeal... for relying on Wikipedia as an authority
2010-08-29,"11-year-old rape victim forced to give birth after 
being denied abortion"
2010-08-29,"Fidel Castro: ""Any time Bush would stir up fear and make a big speech, Bin Laden would appear, threatening people with a story about what he was going to do."""
2010-08-29,"What. The. Fuck. "" An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week."""
2010-08-29,Asian shopkeepers in one of the biggest Muslim areas in Scotland are backing a boycott of Israeli produce.
2010-08-29,"Palestinian President to Israel: We understand Israel's need for security, but it is not an excuse to expand settlements and steal lands."
2010-08-29,"Prime Minister Netanyahu threatens to withdraw funding from theaters whose actors refuse to perform in city located beyond Green Line, says 'the last thing we need is boycotts from within.'"
2010-08-29,Urine-powered fuel cells to offer pee power to people: India
2010-08-29,New Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign
2010-08-29,Red alert issued as Indonesian volcano erupts
2010-08-29,Palestinians prepare to battle 'Zionist editing' on Wikipedia
2010-08-29,A volcano in western Indonesia spewed hot lava and sand high into the sky early Sunday in its first eruption in 400 years.
2010-08-29,"SPIEGEL Interview with Iraq's Ayad Allawi: 
'Every Corner in the Region Is Frightened'"
2010-08-29,Thousands flee Indonesian volcano 
2010-08-29,"Pakistan town of 250,000 flooded amid fight to rebuild levees | BBC"
2010-08-29,Philippines: Call for an independent inquiry on the hostage killings
2010-08-29,Afghan government forces out prosecutor pursuing cases against corrupt governors and ambassadors
2010-08-29,"Hong Kongers denounce Philippine government over bus shooting: 80,000 people in Hong Kong marched Sunday to demand justice for eight dead"
2010-08-29,The long road to Syria -  New book reveals full story behind bombing of Syrian reactor by Israel
2010-08-29,Karzai abuses presidential power to obstruct corruption investigations
2010-08-29,Long-dormant volcano erupts in Indonesia
2010-08-29,"The spiritual leader of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party wishes death for all Palestinians, including the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. "
2010-08-29,Secrets and Lies: Kim Jong Il's Shadowy Visit to China - TIME
2010-08-29,Long-dormant volcano erupts in Indonesia
2010-08-29,Pakistan stunned by new match-fix claimsPakistan has been left reeling by the latest allegations of match-fixing to plague the country's beloved cricket team with former stars and officials demanding life bans for any players implicated.
2010-08-29,"New bloodshed in volatile Caucasus region There has been more bloodshed in Russia's North Caucasus region over the weekend, with at least 28 militants and four policemen killed in clashes, according to Russian security services."
2010-08-28,"Archeologists Find Gateway to the Viking Empire - For a century, archeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. This summer, it was found. "
2010-08-28,Fidel Castro: Osama Bin Laden Is A US Agent - CBSNews 
2010-08-28,The Taliban through their own eyes [video]
2010-08-28,Does Your Language Shape How You Think? You bet
2010-08-28,"Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War.
A specially upgraded Akula stood off Faslane, where the British nuclear force is based, and waited for a Trident-carrying boat to come out for its three-month patrol to provide the Continuous At Sea Deterrent. "
2010-08-28,Amazing pictures of WWI-era Britain in colour for the very first time  | Mail Online
2010-08-28,Fidel Castro: Osama bin Laden Is a U.S. Agent - Fidel Castro says al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is a bought-and-paid-for CIA agent who always popped up when former President George W. Bush needed to scare the world. 
2010-08-28,Wired youth forget how to write in China and Japan
2010-08-28,Super Cars of Summer Parade in London Streets - NYTimes.com
2010-08-28,Antarctic cold snap kills millions of aquatic animals in the Amazon
2010-08-28,"Good Idea Sarkozy... ""A budget-airline ticket from Bucharest to Paris costs just 60  and, as the Daily Mail has learned, many of those sent home have vowed to use the money given to them by the French government to fund their journey back."""
2010-08-28,Swedish opposition party pledges to pull out Afghan troops - Sweden's opposition coalition will start bringing home troops in Afghanistan in early 2011  if it wins next month's election.
2010-08-28,Bono vs. Putin - A rumble in the Khimki forest leaves just one man standing.
2010-08-28,"Foreign and Afghan troops killed 24 insurgents as they fought off pre-dawn attacks on two bases in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, with the Taliban saying suicide bombers the fighters"
2010-08-28,Bradford: Smoke bombs thrown at English Defence League protest
2010-08-28,Lord's Resistance Army spreads reign of terror in South Sudan
2010-08-28,Italy pays its people to go on vacation
2010-08-28,Bahrain bans media from reporting on Shiite activists detained ahead of October elections
2010-08-28,Italian hotels shocked by Israeli behavior
2010-08-28,Lebanese ruling party: Disarm all militias
2010-08-28,"Bedouins, members of Israel's Arab minority who are settled in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, are fighting government plans to relocate them from their traditional homes."
2010-08-28,"PNA welcomes bigger role by EU in peace talks
"
2010-08-28,CCTV images released following attempted Cheshunt theft 
2010-08-28,"The PRC is the most populous state in the world, inhabited by over 1.3 billion people. "
2010-08-28,"The long history of anti-Semitism in Muslim lands
"
2010-08-27,Vietnam Adopts George Washington's Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy - Gen. Vinh reconfirmed the three pillars of Vietnams defense policy: not joining in any military alliances or becoming a military ally of any country; not allowing any country to set up military bases in Vietnam...
2010-08-27,City of Toronto first in North America to formally endorses harm reduction on drug use
2010-08-27,Found: BP's Missing Oil
2010-08-27,"Westerners vs. the World - Western social science relies on behavioural studies using Western participants. But in matters such as fairness, individualism, conformism, Westerners are outliers by world standards "
2010-08-27,Israeli education ministry approves new 'whites-only' settlement school.
2010-08-27,"Decoding of wheat genome hailed as most significant breakthrough in wheat production in 10,000 years"
2010-08-27,"The clock has run out on Facebook to revamp its privacy rules to avoid a public showdown with Canada's privacy czar over how it protects personal information
"
2010-08-27,Newsweek asking the tough questions: Is WikiLeaks Too Full of Itself?
2010-08-27,Israeli Actors Boycott Theater in an Illegal Settlement
2010-08-27,Iran issues fatwa against pets: Many people in the West love their dogs more than their wives and children
2010-08-27,Flooding has displaced an additional 1 million people in Pakistan in the past 48 hours: 17 million affected
2010-08-27,"Way braver than me.  Video of the upbeat Chilean miners trapped deep underground for at least weeks, if not months."
2010-08-27,Passengers mistakingly told to prepare for a crash landing
2010-08-27,"Australian commandos face likely charges over child deaths during ""capture or kill"" mission"
2010-08-27,"Police in Japan have arrested
the daughter and
granddaughter of a centenarian
believed to be Tokyo's oldest
man whose mummified
remains were found last month."
2010-08-27,"Police in the central Indian state
of Madhya Pradesh say they are
investigating the disappearance
of several hundred tonnes of
explosives."
2010-08-27,U.K. think tank says foreign policy will cause domestic terrorism
2010-08-27,"""How Much Does It Cost To Run A Failed State?"""
2010-08-27,"Burqa Bans, Halal Debate: Are the French Taking Secularism Too Far? What say you?"
2010-08-27,Denmark Turns Down Obama's Request for F-16s - Denmark has turned down a NATO request to send F-16 fighters to Afghanistan as it believes it has done enough for the international military mission there.
2010-08-27,Prosecutor in Mexico Massacre Feared Dead
2010-08-27,Spain Rethinks Afghanistan After Shooting
2010-08-27,"George Mitchell, told Lebanese Army chief of staff Jean Kahwaji that Israel was ready to implement a plan to destroy within four hours all Lebanese military infrastructure, including army bases and offices"
2010-08-27,Tornado hits Essex as forecasters give hope of sunshine for Bank Holiday weekend
2010-08-27,Fidel Castro: Osama bin Laden a 'subordinate' of George W. Bush
2010-08-26,"An Arab democracy, with a Muslim Prime Minister and a Christian President, allowed the building of a synagogue, squarely in the center of their Ground Zero in the heart and pride of downtown Beirut"
2010-08-26,"Saudi couple hammer 24 nails into Sri Lankan maid
"
2010-08-26,No visa required: Who has most freedom to travel? 
2010-08-26,"CIA warns of violent American Jews - A CIA document released by Web site Wikileaks on Wednesay expresses concern that the US had become an ""exporter of terrorism,"" specifically mentioning American Jews in Israel."
2010-08-26,Mexico: bleeding to death in the war on drugs
2010-08-26,German pop star escapes jail after failing to tell lovers she was HIV positive
2010-08-26,Brazil has revolutionised its own farms. Can it do the same for others?
2010-08-26,900 abuse cases in Dutch clergy
2010-08-26,Kim Jong-il makes surprise China visit
2010-08-26,Canadian court case won't just look at Mormon polygamists; Muslims under scrunity too
2010-08-26,Rare fire tornado filmed in Brazil
2010-08-26,Germany debates ending the draft. 
2010-08-26,"When not at work, Vladimir Putin enjoys sushi, long walks on the beach, and pwning all manner of large mammals with a crossbow"
2010-08-26,No Smoking: Cuba drops cigarettes from ration book
2010-08-26,9 tons of fake medicine seized in East Africa
2010-08-26,2 Greek fighter jets collide in mid-air 
2010-08-26,France to drain lake under Mont Blanc glacier
2010-08-26,"Protests in Chile to save Punta de Choros.
Coal-fueled  thermoelectic powerplan threatens ecosystem."
2010-08-26,Letter from a trapped miner
2010-08-26,"Swaziland: Small country, big struggle"
2010-08-26,"In Pakistan, Taliban Hints It Will Attack Relief Workers"
2010-08-26,Palestinians attack forces in Silwan  
2010-08-26,Venezuela: More Deadly Than Iraq?
2010-08-26,"South Africa: COSATU calls `total shutdown', condemns state `scabbing', violence"
2010-08-26,"Hitler descended from Jews?
DNA tests of Hitler's relatives suggest link to North Africa, Jews."
2010-08-25,Criminalization of drug use is spreading HIV
2010-08-25,BBC News - Fort Carson soldiers' killing spree after Iraq combat
2010-08-25,Former Swedish chief prosecutor demands explanation for Assange arrest order
2010-08-25,Catholic priest behind 1972 IRA bombing was protected by church and government officials
2010-08-25,Wikileaks Releasing CIA Paper Today [CNN]
2010-08-25,Russia returns to Afghanistan to fight drug war and smuggling with U.S. approval
2010-08-25,Marines find 72 bodies in northern Mexico
2010-08-25,UK: MI6 worker found murdered in London flat
2010-08-25,"Pakistan is a failed state, not because of Zardari, and not because of America."
2010-08-25,The European Union's top diplomat has slammed Israel for convicting a Palestinian activist who leads protests against the West Bank separation barrier
2010-08-25,The biggest megalopolis youve never heard of hides in the fog
2010-08-25,"Nearly 600 Israelis have signed up for a campaign of civil disobedience, vowing to risk jail to smuggle Palestinian women and children into Israel for a brief taste of life outside the occupied West Bank"
2010-08-25,"The Anarchic Republic of Pakistan | ""Deep state"" of military and intelligence officials, supported by US, is nourishing terrorism, ruining country. Civilians helpless, politicians corrupt. ""A creeping coup dtat by the forces of darkness"" "
2010-08-25,Finland Suspends Swine Flu Shots After Vaccine Linked With Neurological Disorder: Finlands National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has suspended the use of the H1N1 vaccine over fears that the shot is linked with narcolepsy.
2010-08-25,Iran: Blogger May Face Charge of Waging War Against God
2010-08-25,British spy found murdered in London flat
2010-08-25,"Hamas: Exiled leader Meshaal deems Abbas too weak in upcoming talks (""fatal blow"" to the Palestinian cause), urges Egypt and Jordan to boycott"
2010-08-25,"Avigdor Lieberman, told Israel Radio: he realized that resuming settlement construction would antagonize both the U.S. and the Palestinians. But he said that maintaining tight restrictions on building would ""punish"" tens of thousands of people in the settlement"
2010-08-25,Iran Test-Fires New Version of Fateh Missle To Add To Its Growing Arsenal 
2010-08-25,"Hair Today, Prime Minister Tomorrow - Funny piece, serious point. Working-class Turkish men have moustaches. Politicians must do same, to get votes. Opposition party doing much better after dumping clean-shaven leader for man with whiskers
"
2010-08-25,Devastating series of attacks across Iraq kill 55 
2010-08-25,Bolivian killing of Irish national allegedly linked to CIA.
2010-08-25,Mexican president says violence is progress in drug war
2010-08-25,"Bodies of 72 People Found in Mass Grave in Northern 
Mexico After Shootout"
2010-08-25,"France in Afghanistan 'As Long As Necessary' - ""France will remain engaged in Afghanistan, with its allies, for as long as necessary and for as long as the Afghan people wish,"" said President Nicolas Sarkozy."
2010-08-24,"There's a traffic jam in China that's 60 miles long and has already been going on for 10 days. ""It could last for weeks"""
2010-08-24,"The Facebook list threatened 69 people with death if they didn't leave town.  In the past ten days, three teenagers on that list have been murdered."
2010-08-24,"The 72-Hour Expert - ""If you spend 72 hours in a place youve never been, talking to people whose language you dont speak, and you come back as the worlds biggest know-it-all, youre a reporter"" "
2010-08-24,Arabic to become compulsory in Israeli schools
2010-08-24,"On the Beijing-Tibet Expressway, a traffic jam began on August 14th.  It hasn't ended yet, and is now over 100 kilometers long."
2010-08-24,"Hong Kong has expressed angry
shock at the Philippines after
the deaths of eight of its
tourists in a bus hijack,
cancelling all travel to the
country."
2010-08-24,It's official: OIL companies cannot be held accountable (protected by the UN)
2010-08-24,"The police, the Catholic Church and the government conspired to cover up a priest's role in one of the worst atrocities of terrorism in Northern Ireland Troubles"
2010-08-24,"Illegal Israeli Settlers Raid Palestinian House, Terrorize the Family, Burn Crops in Tulkarem and Nablus
"
2010-08-24,"Israel is not cooperating with the UN Human Rights Council's probe of May's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, and it was unclear if investigators will be able to speak with Israeli soldiers involved"
2010-08-24,"Somali militants storm hotel, 31 reported dead "
2010-08-24,"Germany plans major restructuring of military - reducing the armed forces from 250,000 to 163,000"
2010-08-24,Ten things the Philippines bus siege police got wrong
2010-08-24,"Malaysian activists on Tuesday applauded a decision by Norway's state pension fund to blacklist timber firm Samling Global, which is accused of rampant environmental destruction in Borneo."
2010-08-24,"Megacities - Over the next two decades, the world will see a burst of urban expansion at a speed and on a scale never before witnessed in human history. But not all the world will take part. When you hear about the coming urban age, it's really a story about rising Asia"
2010-08-24,A 63cm-wide rocket hand-built by two self-employed engineers will next week herald the unlikely arrival of a new breed of space pioneers  the Danonauts
2010-08-24,"In porn, a story of Iraq's politics"
2010-08-24,BBC News - Plane crash kills 42 in north-eastern China
2010-08-24,"India and China:A Himalayan rivalry -- Asias two giants are still unsure what to make of each other. But as they grow, they are coming closerfor good and bad "
2010-08-24,Iran unveils two assault boats
2010-08-24,"Ahmadinejad: Israel is too weak to attack Iran's nuclear facilities - ""Israel is too weak to face up to Iran militarily,"" the Iranian president said, adding that Jerusalem did not have ""the courage to do it... and I do not think its threat is serious."""
2010-08-24,BBC News - Manila police admit bungling deadly bus siege
2010-08-24,Shunning of scans jars anti-abortion lobbyist
2010-08-24,"According to the Jerusalem municipality education budget for 2008-9, an average of 2,372 shekels (400) was spent on each child in the Jewish elementary school system, compared with 577 shekels on each child in the Arab elementary system"
2010-08-24,Inside story on WikiLeaks | Al Jazeera
2010-08-23,"CEO of Scandinavian megabank: ""Let banks crash"" - Banks should not be treated differently than other firms"
2010-08-23,Wikileaks founder says Australian intelligence warned him on August 11 to expect personal attacks.
2010-08-23,Four Israeli warplanes and one spy drone have illegally flown over Lebanon's airspace in the third day of provocative violations of the country's sovereignty.
2010-08-23,33 trapped Chilean miners alive after 17 days 
2010-08-23,"A few months before South Sudan's referendum, the North, to prevent local shortages, changes the oil revenue stream from US dollars to local currency violating the peace agreement and causing... no one's going to read this article, are they?"
2010-08-23,Former cop takes tourist bus hostage in Philippines
2010-08-23,The Taliban was in secret peace talks with Afghan govt. until Pakistan arrested their peace envoy with CIA help
2010-08-23,"Cannabis electric car being made in Canada - 
The car's body will be made of an impact-resistant composite material produced from mats of hemp, a plant from the cannabis family."
2010-08-23,Germany slapping RFID tags on its populace for the sake of brisker bureaucracy
2010-08-23,Human trafficking victims tell stories of modern-day slavery
2010-08-23,Norwegian government divests from 2 firms that help build Israeli settlements.
2010-08-23,Whites-only fund fights to stay white - A high court ruling which made an educational fund for poor white girls available to girls from all races was disputed in the Supreme Court of Appeal.
2010-08-23,"Afghan President Hamid Karzai renewed his demand that private security firms in Afghanistan disband by years end, saying they are a source of corruption thats undermining support for the war against the Taliban insurgency."
2010-08-23,"Japanese Mayor Defends ""Cove"" Dolphin Hunts"
2010-08-23,"Bodies hung from bridge in Cuernavaca, Mexico"
2010-08-23,The driver of a bus seized by a heavily armed gunman in the Philippine capital says all remaining hostages inside the bus have been killed.
2010-08-23,"Bloody end to bus hostage drama
"
2010-08-23,NZ raises legal age for buying alcohol
2010-08-23,"French soldiers killed in Afghanistan - Two French soldiers were killed and three more have been wounded in fighting in Afghanistan, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office has said."
2010-08-23,"Indonesian government sits idly by as Islamic Defender's Front, called thugs by most, runs amok with ""vigilante justice"""
2010-08-23,Report: Water supplied in Gaza unfit for drinking; Israel prevents entry of materials needed to repair system
2010-08-23,Increased export of Norwegian arms - The value of Norwegian arms export has trebled over the last five years. The partly state-owned Kongsberg Group and Nammo alone have exported arms and ammunition worth NOK 12.5 billion since 2004.
2010-08-23,"South Africa: ANC government uses police, army and courts against strikers. ""Strikers at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto and Helen Joseph hospital in Johannesburg were attacked by South African police using water cannon and rubber bullets last week."""
2010-08-23,Wycleaf Jean disqualified from Haitian Presidential Election
2010-08-23,Trapped Chilean miners found alive after 17 days
2010-08-22,Police have arrested the person who showed Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) can be tampered with in India in a sting operation
2010-08-22,"Albino girl, 11, killed and beheaded in Swaziland for witchcraft"
2010-08-22,33 miners trapped underground in Chile for 17 days are all alive!
2010-08-22,Afghan President Karzai skirts diplomacy by directly asking U.S. citizens to pressure Congress to recall mercenaries
2010-08-22,"Entering a Death Spiral? Tensions Rise in Greece as Austerity Measures
Backfire. ""The austerity measures that were supposed to fix Greece's problems are dragging down the country's economy."""
2010-08-22,TEDTalks: Julian Assange: Why the World Needs WikiLeaks
2010-08-22,Iran Opens Its First Nuclear Power Plant
2010-08-22,Crises of Capitalism-  Cool animated video
2010-08-22,"Documents show Canada turned down NATO plea for more troops - Canada turned down a direct plea from NATO to sent more troops into southern Afghanistan in the run-up to last year's Afghan presidential election, federal documents say."
2010-08-22,"Severe Flooding Hits Northeast China  ---  

More than 127,000 people were evacuated in northeastern China after torrential rains battered the area & led to severe flooding along the border with North Korea"
2010-08-22,Women Being Warned and Targeted in Chechnya
2010-08-22,South Pacific sea levels  Best records show little or no rise?! 
2010-08-22,"The Palestinian Authoritys decision to negotiate directly with Israel drew strong condemnation over the weekend from most of the Palestinian factions, whose leaders and spokesmen accused President Mahmoud Abbas of surrendering to American and Israeli pressure"
2010-08-22,"More than 5,000 evacuated as floods hit North Korea"
2010-08-22,Task Force 373: a symptom of deeper policy disasters. Is the US really going to become known as a global Manhunters Inc? 
2010-08-22,The UN's former chief weapons inspector Hans Blix: Russia-Iran nuclear power plant 'positive'
2010-08-22,US Oil Companies lobbied Lockerbie Senator to protect Libya
2010-08-22,Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated the country's first domestically-built long-range unmanned bomber
2010-08-22,"British Support for Afghan War Falls - According to Angus Reid only 33% of UK citizens support the war in Afghanistan while 57% oppose it. Support for the mission has fallen since June, when 38% of British respondents said they supported the effort."
2010-08-22,My Kushy New Job: Wells Tower's Experience at a Marijuana Coffee Shop: Big Issues: GQ
2010-08-22,Young Afghan couple stoned to death
2010-08-22,Top 10 List of Green Brands
2010-08-22,Saudi Arabia urged not to deliberately paralyse man as retribution punishment--Amnesty International has urged the Saudi Arabian authorities not to deliberately paralyse a man in retribution for similar injuries he allegedly caused during a fight.
2010-08-22,WikiLeaks Lawyer Says Pentagon Given Access to Unpublished Secret Documents - Newsweek
2010-08-22,A Van Gogh painting worth $50 million has been stolen from a museum in Cairo
2010-08-21,Arrest warrant and rape charges against Julian Assange dropped
2010-08-21,"WikiLeaks founder Julien Assange accused of rape in Stockholm, wanted by Swedish police."
2010-08-21,Wikipedia Editing for Zionists
2010-08-21,Assange no longer wanted
2010-08-21,Wyclef Jean Barred from Haiti Election
2010-08-21,Australia heads for first hung parliament since 1940
2010-08-21,Julian Assange accused of two cases of rape according to swedish newspaper
2010-08-21,"Was Dr David Kelly, a British government expert in germ warfare, murdered in run up to Iraq war?"
2010-08-21,Iran to supply Lebanon with anti-missile system
2010-08-21,Iran hopes Russia's next step be delivery of S-300 missiles system: MP
2010-08-21,Iran to fire up first nuclear power station
2010-08-21,"North Korea opens a Twitter account. South Korea blocks its citizens from accessing the content, threatening offenders with jail."
2010-08-21,"It is reported in the media that relief operations for around 700,000 persons could not be carried out because an airbase in Jacobabad district, Sindh province, is controlled by the US forces."
2010-08-21,"Chomsky: For South African sanctions, against Israeli sanctions.  For Jewish right of return, against Palestinian right of return. ""I regard myself as a supporter of Israel."
2010-08-21,Hundreds of people protest over killing of civilian by NATO troops in Afghanistan
2010-08-21,Egyptian Police Recover Stolen Van Gogh Painting Valued at $50 Million
2010-08-21,Australia set to vote a 20 year old into parliament
2010-08-21,Smear campaign suspected in Assange arrest 
2010-08-21,"Venice's first female gondolier, in its 900 years history."
2010-08-21,Moscow city governments plan to come up with a Code of the Muscovite to instruct immigrants how to behave
2010-08-21,Iran to start up first nuclear reactor
2010-08-21,Wikicong launch Net offensive
2010-08-21,"Government urged to reveal 'true' national debt of 4.8 trillion, or 78,000 for every person in the UK. "
2010-08-21,Floodwaters threaten city of half-million in Pakistan
2010-08-21,After hearing that Fidel Castro regulary wrote a newspaper column I wanted to find it online. None of the MSM who quoted it of course provided the link so here's a direct link to the english version.
2010-08-20,Saudi Hospitals Asked to Maim Man as Punishment: A Saudi Arabian judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a mans spinal cord as punishment
2010-08-20,Dutch Muslim Group Fined Over Cartoon Depicting Holocaust Denial
2010-08-20,"BP says a lot of the oil is gone. Well, a 22-mile-long oily plume was found near the well site today."
2010-08-20,"U.N. study says Israel is ""devastating"" Gaza: Shifts in diet, reductions in the quantity of food consumed, poor sewage treatment and limited access to education"
2010-08-20,Germany plans to legalize medical marijuana
2010-08-20,"Palestinians learn about the Holocaust in Israel: ""If we say that the Holocaust happened, then we accept that Israelis are human just like us, we do not want to consider Jews as humans because of all the suffering that we go through"""
2010-08-20,Pakistan's acceptance of a $5 million flood aid donation from India could be a confidence-building measure between the two long time enemies
2010-08-20,France begins Roma deportations: 'They are trying to get rid of us all'
2010-08-20,"Officer held for stealing, selling Gaza flotilla laptops"
2010-08-20,Pakistan floods : Biggest emergency on the planet declared by UNICEF
2010-08-20,"""The British state will soon be spending more on management consultants than on upgrading its nuclear weapons"""
2010-08-20,"In war there are no rules, says Israeli ex-soldier - Showing no signs of remorse, Eden Abergil, the former IDF soldier who caused a worldwide stir by posting pictures of herself posing next to blindfolded Palestinian, has defended her action by saying in war there are no rules."
2010-08-20,U.S. Tells Israel That Iran's Nuclear Threat Is Not Imminent
2010-08-20,Israel and the Palestinians to resume direct talks
2010-08-20,"""Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."" The UK remembers the Brits, Poles, Chez, Canadians, New Zealanders, and numerous others who defended its skies during the Battle of Brittan.   "
2010-08-20,Parents in Johannesburg renting children to beggars for $3/day.
2010-08-20,"The female victims of Pakistan's flood - Women face starvation, disease and sexual assault. They're also not supposed to get aid from male relief workers "
2010-08-20,Wyclef Jean said to be out of Haiti presidential race 
2010-08-20,"A huge electricity power cut has
plunged Russia's second city, St
Petersburg, into darkness."
2010-08-20,Thailand Will Extradite 'Merchant Of Death' To U.S.
2010-08-20,France Driving Out The Gypsies
2010-08-20,Mexican museum displays 'narco bling' weaponry confiscated from drug lords
2010-08-20,Two Films That Blew Bilderberg Wide Open: Fidel Castros spotlight on the Bilderberg clique is part of a global awakening
2010-08-20,Afghans mark Independence Day with anti-occupation protests
2010-08-20,2010 marks the 20th anniversary of the Human Development Report. This year the report is set to change with input from Oxford to incorporate poverty in a new way...
2010-08-19,Israel Places Order For 20 Joint Strike Fighters; U.S. Taxpayers Pick Up The Tab
2010-08-19,"A huge trove of newly declassified documents subpoenaed during a 1962-1964 Senate investigation reveals how Israels lobby pitched, promoted, and paid to have content placed in Americas top news magazines with overseas funding"
2010-08-19,North Korea: Pyongyang on its knees - only potatoes to stave off famine
2010-08-19,"Israel barring Gazans' access to farms, fishing zones, has leveled farmland and destroyed personal property situated in restricted areas in efforts to keep Palestinians out"
2010-08-19,"How would you feel if I roughed up your mom/dad/sister/brother, blindfolded and tied them, and then took a photo next to them in such a state while making a duck face and acting as if they were simply an irrelevant part of the background? Would it be perfectly ok for me to do that to your family?"
2010-08-19,Two Israel soldiers suspected of flotilla theft: media
2010-08-19,"Iraq war was illegal repeats Clegg - Deputy PM Nick Clegg has restated his view that the Iraq War was illegal, saying: ""I don't think the legality of that invasion has been proven."""
2010-08-19,"Scores die in Baghdad bombings.  ""I was soaked with blood from the body parts and wounded and dead people falling over and beside me."""
2010-08-19,Philip K. Dick And Orwell Predictions Coming To Life
2010-08-19,Visualizing the Wikileaks War Logs -- An Animated Map of Afghanistan
2010-08-19, A Saudi judge has asked several hospitals in the country whether they could damage a man's spinal cord as punishment
2010-08-19,French aid group Help Doctors accuses Hamas of closing down health clinic and seizing medical equipment.
2010-08-19,Finland: a country of extremes. Newsweek has proclaimed Finland the best country in the world. But some Finns disagree
2010-08-19,"Gaza: UN urges lifting of Israeli restrictions on access to land and sea
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2010-08-19,Indian poor starve while grain rots in depots
2010-08-19,"Indias government-run hospitals provide low-cost treatment to the poor, but there are increasing claims that patients are being used as guinea pigs in drug trials for western pharmaceuticals without their knowledge."
2010-08-19,"Koreans want ACTA to include ""Internet morality"" language. What could possibly go wrong?"
2010-08-19,"Fewer than half of Americans think Netanyahu 
government wants peace: Poll"
2010-08-19,How Russia's FSB Colonized Abkhazia 
2010-08-19,"""If I werent a journalist and if writing was not an act of defiance, I know Id be throwing stones in the streets of Kashmir"""
2010-08-19,"Brazil is booming and brimming with business opportunitieslike the ""US in the 1950saccording to billionaire businessman Sam Zell. He said if Brazil continues on the same course, he predicts that the ""fiscally conservative"" nation will soon be one of the top two countries in terms of growth. "
2010-08-19,All-woman Lebanese aid ship to set sail for Gaza Sunday
2010-08-19,Outrage in Philippines over police torture video
2010-08-19,Pakistan flood homeless toll put at over 4 million
2010-08-19,'North Korean jet' crashes in China - Asia-Pacific - Al Jazeera English
2010-08-18,"WikiLeaks gets new host -- Sweden's Pirate Party - The whistleblower website WikiLeaks will place several new servers with the Swedish Pirate Party, the group which campaigns for more freedom on the Internet said Tuesday."
2010-08-18,Role reversal Saudi comedy provokes anger among male population
2010-08-18,Wikipedia editing courses launched by Zionist groups
2010-08-18,Palestinian acheives the impossible: bringing Israeli soldiers to justice for the shooting of his 10yr old daughter. 
2010-08-18,51 people killed in Juarez over weekend - El Paso Times
2010-08-18,"Britain: Call to re-open inquest into death of Dr. David Kelly. ""The call for a re-opening of an inquest into the July 2003 death of Ministry of Defence weapons expert Dr. David Kelly has been taken up by high-ranking establishment figures."""
2010-08-18,North Koreans air force pilot crashes near border with China in an attempt to defect to Russia.
2010-08-18,Brazil bans satire ahead of Presidential election. [Not The Onion]
2010-08-18,"Thailand blocking WikiLeaks, says official"
2010-08-18,"Mexican Drug War Strikes Again: Mayor of The Affluent City, Monterrey, Kidnapped and Found Dead"
2010-08-18,Muslim fear as Ramadan festival clashes with 9/11 anniversary
2010-08-18,A Dutch city seeks to end drug tourism as crime rates rise
2010-08-18,Moscow bans Vodka between 10:00 pm and 10:00 am
2010-08-18,"Israel's settler movement is set to invade wikipedia, bent on giving it 'Zionist editing'"
2010-08-18,"What a coincidence: The day before the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration agreed on a plan to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan by force if it refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, according to a report by a bipartisan commission of inquiry."
2010-08-18,"People may one day have to change their names in order to escape their previous online activity, Google boss Eric Schmidt has warned."
2010-08-18,North Korean Plane Crashes in China
2010-08-18,"Greece reassures Arab allies over Israel ties
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2010-08-18,3 Reasons Israel won't bomb Iran
2010-08-18,Iran Bans More Newspapers And Publications
2010-08-18,"Romania expels Russian diplomat
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2010-08-18,Expert: Lockerbie Bomber could live for years
2010-08-18,North Korea creates Twitter and YouTube presence
2010-08-18,New pictures emerge of Israeli troops posing with handcuffed Palestinian prisoners
2010-08-18,"Israeli homophobia is ignored in the US 
""Israel Nature and Parks Authority workers refused to let a gay couple with two children enter two sites over the weekend, claiming the family's membership was for straight couples only. 
""A couple is a man and a woman, not a man and a man,"""
2010-08-17,Noam Chomsky: The Real Reasons the U.S. Enables Israeli Crimes and Atrocities
2010-08-17,"Parents complain that their kids are getting rashes and becoming ill from the school's Wi-Fi, demand it be turned off"
2010-08-17,Take that Sweden! Newsweek crowns Finland as the world's best country.
2010-08-17,"Australia should become a republic when Queen Elizabeth II dies, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has said just days ahead of a general election."
2010-08-17,"To the rest of the world, if you wanted to know how fucked up our Prime Minister is in Canada, the following article pretty much sums it up: ""Harper gallery leaves MPs speechless"" "
2010-08-17,What's It Like To Be A Tourist in North Korea?
2010-08-17,"""Jewish 'Community leaders are battling to stop an exhibition of paintings by children from Gaza'"""
2010-08-17,"Karzai's ""impossible"" decree: A push to oust private security firms from Afghanistan puts ""fear of god"" into foreign forces"
2010-08-17,"Private security companies will have to end operations in Afghanistan in four months' time, President Hamid Karzai has ordered."
2010-08-17,Top UK doctor: drug laws should be reconsidered with a view to decriminalising illicit drugs use
2010-08-17,Newsweek just announced the 100 best countries in the world. Are you surprised about their choices?
2010-08-17,Activists Urge France to Repay 'Independence Debt' to Haiti
2010-08-17,China overtakes japan as second largest economy
2010-08-17,"This girl's father, Bassam, is an incredible man dedicated to nonviolence - ""Israel ruled responsible for death of Palestinian girl"""
2010-08-17,Pakistan Flood: Photos
2010-08-17,A large suicide bombing strike hit Iraqi army recruits killing 41 and injuring at least 112
2010-08-17,"To find the arsenic that poisons millions in Bangladesh, trace a winding path from clouds to underground aquifers and back up the village well

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2010-08-17,"Israeli abuse pictures 'common'
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2010-08-17,Brazilian TV and radio broadcasters are legally forbidden from making fun of candidates ahead of the nation's election.
2010-08-17,"David Kelly: forensic experts say Hutton inquiry scientifically sound. Doubts ascribed to 'partial knowledge',"
2010-08-17,Blow-by-blow account written in a tell-all letter from prison by the prime-accused of a Train Sabotage in India
2010-08-17,Israeli in Facebook pictures says 'I did nothing wrong'
2010-08-17,Boy with no chin: Doctors say nothing more can be done....surely not?
2010-08-17,"Civil suit verdict: Israeli border guards had either been negligent or disobeyed orders in fatally shooting Abir Aramin, a 10 yr old Palestinian girl, in the head with a rubber bullet, calling the incident ""totally unjustifiable."" "
2010-08-17,Pentagon report: China extending military reach
2010-08-16,NASA satellite view of the extent of the massive flooding in Pakistan (before vs. after)
2010-08-16,"Superb Aljazeera documentary on the issues involved in any possible Israeli-Iran War, the politics, the weapons, the likely routes of attack and the likelihood of wider escalation. Well worth your time. [VID]"
2010-08-16,See if you find honest reporting of this in the US corporate mass media: Arrests of Guatemalan Police Death Squads reveal connection to organized crime and CIA.
2010-08-16,"""Like Mr bin Laden, Mr Gingrich is apparently still relitigating the victories and defeats of religious wars fought in Europe and the Middle East centuries ago. He should rejoin the modern world, before he does real harm."""
2010-08-16,"British kickboxer picks fight with U.S. marine, gets ""humiliated"" in Muay Thai bar fight, follows marine to hotel and stabs him to death. "
2010-08-16,Egypt seizes explosives on ship coming from Israel
2010-08-16,Muslim countries ditch Pakistan in hour of need; US leading all relief efforts
2010-08-16, Barack Obama personally warned Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erodgan that the US will not sell weapons to Turkey if it does not change its position towards Israel
2010-08-16,"Over 15,000 likely dead in Russian heat wave"
2010-08-16,Female Israeli officer poses for Facebook in front of blindfolded Palestinian prisoners - The photos...show the uniformed officer smiling and posing next to bound and blindfolded Palestinian soldiers. 
2010-08-16,Journalist Exposes How Private Investigation Firm Hired by Chevron Tried to Recruit Her as a Spy to Undermine $27B Suit in Ecuadorian Amazon
2010-08-16,Russia: Loss of 25 percent of Russian wheat crop worries international grain markets
2010-08-16,Storm over Israeli abuse photos   - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
2010-08-16,"Almost everywhere else in Europe, returning Jews found their homes had been broken into, and everything of value stolen. When the Danish Jews returned , they discovered that their homes, pets, gardens and personal belongings were cared for by their neighbors."
2010-08-16,French Thieves Use Their Breasts to Distract Victims 
2010-08-16,Afghan Couple Stoned to Death on Taliban Orders Upon Sharia Law
2010-08-16,Is Africa still being looted? World Bank dodges its own research
2010-08-16,North Korea vows 'merciless counterblow' to U.S. and South Korea.
2010-08-16,"Israeli IDF solider poses next to abused prisoners, and post images on Facebook"
2010-08-16,China Passes Japan to Become No. 2 Economy - NYTimes.com
2010-08-16,North Korea succession: Kim Jong Il appoints Jang Song Taek caretaker for Kim Jong Eun
2010-08-16,Assange hired for Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet in hopes of gaining WikiLeaks journalistic protections
2010-08-16,President Barack Obama has warned the Turkish prime minister that Ankara's position on Israel and Iran could lessen its chances of obtaining US weapons
2010-08-16,Canadian Cities Declare War on Cars
2010-08-16,"Iran Opposition: Sanctions Helping Ahmadinejad --   News from Antiwar.com  Two candidates from last years Iranian Presidential Election, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir-Hossein Moussavi issued a joint letter today warning that the various sanctions against Iran are actually helping Ahmadinejad."
2010-08-15,South Korean president proposes plan to reunite with North Korea
2010-08-15,WikiLeaks to apply for Swedish licence in order to guarantee that the website is covered by Swedish whistleblower protection laws. 
2010-08-15,"Afghanistan finds 1.8 billion barrel oilfield: 
Afghanistan says it has discovered an oilfield with 
an estimated 1.8 billion barrels in the north of the 
war-ravaged country."
2010-08-15,"Mexico - Drug cartel blocks off 13 major roads in Monterrey, dragging drivers out of vehicles."
2010-08-15,Israel to purchase F-35I fighters
2010-08-15,"Rally held to bring back Jinnahs Pakistan, purge the country of religious extremism"
2010-08-15,Julian Assange interview in Stockholm from Saturday Aug 14th
2010-08-15,Israel destroying oldest Muslim cemetery in East Jerusalem
2010-08-15,Police were called to a beach at Anzio south of Rome by a furious mother who said the way the attractive sunbather was rubbing lotion on her body had troubled her sons aged 14 and 12.
2010-08-15,"U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon: Pakistan floods worse he has ever seen, urges faster foreign aid. Only a quarter of the $459 million aid needed for initial relief has arrived, contrasting with the $1 billion the US gave them in military aid last year."
2010-08-15,Russia bans grain exports.  Prices of bread (especially pita bread) expected to rise at least 20%.
2010-08-15,"""I will never forget the destruction and suffering I have witnessed today."""
2010-08-15,"8 dead, 12 hurt at off-road race in Calif. desert"
2010-08-15,Lebanon 'kills Fatah al-Islam militant leader'
2010-08-15,"N.Korea warns of 'severest punishment' over war games - ""The North's army and people will ""deal a merciless counterblow"" to the allies """
2010-08-15,Russia wildfires: NASA satellite image shows over 360 'hot spots'
2010-08-15,"
France urged to repay Haiti billions paid for its independence: 

Leading activists write to Nicolas Sarzoky urging president to repay more than 17bn to help earthquake-hit country rebuild
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2010-08-15,"30 more Seals found with 'Corkscrew' wounds, any educated guesses Reddit about cause?"
2010-08-15,Suspected Mossad agent lands in Israel after released in Germany
2010-08-15,Asia stops to remember end of World War II
2010-08-15,"Peacekeepers abducted in Darfur
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2010-08-15,Agricultural Bank of China raises $22.1 billion in world's largest public offering
2010-08-15,Cambodia seeks help to avoid 'armed conflict' in Thai border spat
2010-08-15,"Goldberg's War: Goldberg himself has never, as far as I can tell, acknowledged that he may have been mistaken in some of his earlier assessments, or questioned his own reporting. "
2010-08-15,Pawning spurs gold market
2010-08-14,60000 names and passport numbers sold on the black market by official FIFA ticket agency 
2010-08-14,"""A vast expansion of a program paying to keep [Germany's] workers employed, rather than dealing with them once they lost their jobs, was the most direct step taken in the heat of the crisis."""
2010-08-14,Obama backs mosque near ground zero
2010-08-14,"Germany to Phase Out Conscription - Germany is planning to effectively eliminate conscription, a newspaper reported Aug. 13, as part of a major cost-cutting drive that will see troop numbers slashed and military priorities reassessed."
2010-08-14,"WikiLeaks says it won't be threatened by Pentagon
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2010-08-14,Roughly half of Niger's population--7.3 million persons--are in desperate need of food
2010-08-14,India finally offers flood aid to Pakistan after 'baffling' delay
2010-08-14,Talk of War Crimes as Polish Troops Blow Up Afghan Home for Fun
2010-08-14,Canada offers another $31-million in aid to Pakistan  
2010-08-14,21 Faces of The Pakistan Flood
2010-08-14,"Experts call for full inquest into death of government weapons inspector David Kelly involved in Iraq weapons evaluation, dismissing the conclusion of the inquiry by Lord Hutton as ""unsatisfactory""."
2010-08-14,Northern Ireland - Children hurt in Lurgan explosion intended for police
2010-08-14,Turkish officials deny Der Spiegel's claim on use of chemical weapons  
2010-08-14,"srael's foreign diplomats have refused to work with Mossad spies ""anywhere in the world"" after agents effectively broke a strike picket line"
2010-08-14,"Landslides strike Zhouqu County, China - The Big Picture "
2010-08-14,U.S. soldiers demoralized by fight in Afghanistan
2010-08-14,North Korea Rattles Sabers for an Heir - NYTimes.com
2010-08-14,"PKK announces ceasefire in Turkey
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2010-08-14,20 million now homeless from Pakistan floods
2010-08-14,Afghan Government to Build 1680km Gas Pipeline
2010-08-14,Hong Kong baseball athlete hit by stray bullet in Venezuela during game.
2010-08-14,Ecuador finds narco-sub shipyard
2010-08-14,Russian anger at wildfire fiasco stirs echoes of 'Kursk' submarine tragedy
2010-08-14,More than one million people 'take out payday loans' in the UK...
2010-08-14,"Young woman beaten, raped and murdered by son of IRGC commander in Iran "
2010-08-13,"Experts call for inquest into the death of David Kelly, the British scientist who was found dead after casting doubt on the government's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction"
2010-08-13,"U.S. marijuana legalization could cause a recession in Canada, where pot is the most profitable agricultural product"
2010-08-13,Al Jazeera investigates fraud and corruption in US pharmaceutical industry
2010-08-13,A serving officer in the United States Army is removed from the Omar Khadr's jury after informing the court of his belief that the American-run prison camps in Guantnamo Bay ought to be shut down. 
2010-08-13,"Record speeding fine of 650,000 ($1 011 920,  789,163 ) given to motorist in Switzerland, the penalty calculated on basis of his income and speed of 300kph (186mph)."
2010-08-13,"More than 150 Irish artists have announced that they will not perform or exhibit in Israel, or accept any funding from any institutions connected to the Israeli government"
2010-08-13,"""What does a Jewish-Israeli man have do to with refurbishing a mosque? The answer is simple: I'm sick and tired of the hatred."""
2010-08-13,"Bollywood Superstar Aamir Khan Shines the Spotlight on What's Caused an Estimated 150,000 Farmer Suicides in India"
2010-08-13,"Iran to gain nuclear power as Russia loads fuel into Bushehr reactor. After years of delay, uranium-packed fuel rods for 1,000-megawatt plant will be installed next week"
2010-08-13,"Phytoplankton bloom off east coast the size of Newfoundland, visible from space"
2010-08-13,"CIA evidence of an Israeli nuclear test
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2010-08-13,"A war on drugs? No, this is a war on the Mexican people"
2010-08-13,"Henry Kissinger believes that containing Iran will depend on showing its leaders that we're willing to go to war. I mean, it worked so well with Iraq, right?"
2010-08-13,"UN: Wartime rape no more inevitable, acceptable than mass murder "
2010-08-13,New findings suggest that stone tools may have been used up to 3.4 million years ago.
2010-08-13,Poland: Fresh evidence regarding CIA rendition flights
2010-08-13,Strong 7.2 Quake hits the Mariana Islands Region near Guam.
2010-08-13,Romania says it will stand by Israel in event of conflict with Iran
2010-08-13,"Post-USSR Russian Orthodox revival leads to discrimination, bigotry.  Major employer threatens to fire any woman having abortion, any couple not married in Russian Orthodox church by October."
2010-08-13,Russia Says It Will Begin Fueling Iran Nuclear Plant
2010-08-13,"Pakistan flooding: Aid officials note ""the absence of substantial commitments from the Gulf states"""
2010-08-13,China's government is investigating reports that a brand of powdered milk caused infant girls to grow breasts. 
2010-08-13,I return to my country because of the racism in France (Via Google Translate)
2010-08-13,Arab students: We're being kept out of TAU dorms because we didn't serve in IDF
2010-08-13,Iran is not going to stone to death adulterous woman. They are going to hang her.
2010-08-12,Big surprise: Pope decides priests who protect pedophiles should keep their jobs.
2010-08-12,"Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza - Crime reporter invites three Japanese gangsters to rate new Yakuza video-game. ""I like that you can grab ashtrays or billboards and beat the crap out of the punks bothering you"""
2010-08-12,"
Top-Earning Sportsman Of All Time - 
And it's not Tiger Woods. A Lusitanian Spaniard named Gaius Appuleius Diocles earned the equivalent of $15bn in the course of a 24-year career as chariot-racer in ancient Rome
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2010-08-12,"Russia: In a new twist to the situation, officials have confirmed that some forests that were contaminated with radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have now burned (w/pics from Boston Big Picture)"
2010-08-12,Ecuador hit by 6.9-magnitude earthquake
2010-08-12,The deadly fires have exposed a key problem in today's Russia: No one knows what's going on.
2010-08-12,"How a Nigerian criminal created an empire, cost Shell $30 Billion and changed the game of insurgency worldwide"
2010-08-12,Car bombers again stalk Belfast as a new breed of anti-British republicans is acting to reignite tensions in Northern Ireland
2010-08-12,"Rare 2,200-year-old gold coin found in Israel"
2010-08-12,Almost half [China's] doctors have no better than a high school degree... Many village doctors did not make it past junior high school.
2010-08-12,Vietnam to observe 2nd annual Agent Orange Day
2010-08-12,Shocking Images of Dead Kurdish Fighters: Turkey Accused of Using Chemical Weapons against PKK
2010-08-12,Doctors brace for more cases as Indian superbug hits Canada
2010-08-12,"China's air defense system will be impregnable to regional air forces, and mostly impregnable to US naval air power. The only US Air Force B-2A Spirit and F-22 Raptor aircraft will be capable of penetrating a post-2015 PLA air defense network."
2010-08-12,Chinese Hospitals Are Battlegrounds of Discontent
2010-08-12,Kim Jong-il cleans house - The Globe and Mail
2010-08-12,What Happens If (When) Israel Bombs Iran
2010-08-12,Israeli terrorist suspected of Palestinian killings 'freed'
2010-08-12," Sanctions helping Tehran, says top dissident "
2010-08-12,"With Washington determined to stick to its timetable for a pullout, an Iraqi general has called into question whether his troops are ready to defend Iraq against a stubborn insurgency and external threats."
2010-08-12,Do not be alarmed if South Africans announce that they were held up by robots.
2010-08-12,Moscow 'hiding heatstroke cases' after death rate jumps
2010-08-12,India rejects UK scientists' 'superbug' claim: Is this just another game by the medical tourism industry?
2010-08-12,"Colombia - Car bomb explodes in Bogot in front of private radio station, injuring nine."
2010-08-12,Lord's Resistance Army rebel group is abducting civilians in central Africa and forcing them to join
2010-08-11,"Germany's super-rich have rejected an invitation by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to join their 'Giving Pledge' to give away most of their fortune. The pledge has been criticized in Germany, with millionaires saying donations shouldn't replace duties that would be better carried out by the state."
2010-08-11,Putin puts out two wildfires in central Russia (!)
2010-08-11,"US engineer sold military secrets to China, Including Stealth Technology"
2010-08-11,"A man, helped by Israeli and international activists, can be seen in the video trying to dismantle his own house before the bulldozers got to it  in order to save the materials from destruction  but was prevented from doing so by Israeli police. Reference: Bedouin village razed for the third time."
2010-08-11,Swedish Pirate Party: Cartoons are not child porn
2010-08-11,Man grows pea plant inside lung
2010-08-11,Chinese general says China must embrace democratic reform.
2010-08-11,FIFA investigate North Korea punishment claims
2010-08-11,New 'superbug' hits UK hospitals
2010-08-11,North Korea offers to pay off Czech debt with ginseng
2010-08-11,China Bans Reporting on Deadly Mudslide
2010-08-11,"Delhi Govt takes away $1.5 billion from wages, pension, metro development funds to pay for Commonwealth Games 2010"
2010-08-11,Britain and Iceland go to war over the mackerel
2010-08-11,"Australia appears before a UN panel, accused of human rights violations against Aboriginal people and asylum seekers"
2010-08-11,Russia deploys S-300 air defense system in Abkhazia
2010-08-11,Iran offers to support Lebanese army if U.S. withholds military aid
2010-08-11,Spain's electric car sales off target: just 16 have been sold.
2010-08-11,"Human trafficking racket busted in India for selling over 200 children in West Asia, including Saudi Arabia"
2010-08-11,In Ukraine we got cows exploding
2010-08-11,Interview with Architect Albert Speer: 'Calamity of Postwar Construction Came from Rejecting History'
2010-08-11,Colombia and Venezuela to restore diplomatic ties after 4 hour meeting in Santa Marta between Chvez and Santos.
2010-08-11,Thailand: Freedom of speech is a severe danger to the ruling class
2010-08-11,"Hold onto your hats. A new version of the Zeus trojan, called Zeus3, has wreaked havoc on thousands of bank accounts worldwide, stealing just over $1 million. The best part? Theres pretty much no way to detect the trojan if its on your system. Hooray for humanity, right?"
2010-08-11,Mutant superbug threatens to spread worldwide
2010-08-11,IDF troops beat up Haaretz reporter
2010-08-10,"""So, drug consumption is the responsibility of the person who consumes; of the family who is responsible for educating; and of the education system and the socioeconomic context. What we have to do is legalize the production, the sale and the distribution."" - Former Mexican president Vicente Fox"
2010-08-10,US tank crew wanted for murder | The Spanish government wants a three-man US army tank crew to stand trial for the death of cameraman Jose Couso in Baghdad in 2003.
2010-08-10,"Iran to get rid of its dollar and euro reserves in response to the latest U.N. sanctions over its contested nuclear program: ""We consider these currencies dirty and won't sell oil in dollar and euro"""
2010-08-10,Man becomes only person to have ever trekked the 4000 mile length of Amazon river.
2010-08-10,"Former Mexico president supports legalizing drugs to end violence.
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2010-08-10,The Taliban publicly flogged and then executed a pregnant Afghan widow by firing three shots into her head for alleged adultery.
2010-08-10,I went to see what was up with Russia burning... and found out that the Congo is burning even worse... 
2010-08-10,Japan apologizes to SKorea for colonial rule
2010-08-10,"600,000 Workers Drop Dead Every Year From Overwork In Chinas Factories: Well never know the names of all the people who paid with their limbs, their lungs or their lives for the goodies in my home and yours."
2010-08-10,Redditor posts graph showing the spread of combat in Afghanistan using WikiLeaks's war logs
2010-08-10,French interior minister calls for withdrawal of citizenship for the practice of polygamy or female genital mutilation
2010-08-10,Google offices raided by Korean police
2010-08-10,"U.N. declares Pakistan floods the worst natural disaster ever:: Number of people suffering exceeds 13 million  more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake."
2010-08-10,A group of human-rights organizations is pressing WikiLeaks to do a better job of redacting names from thousands of war documents it is publishing: Could jeopardize the safety of Afghans who aided the U.S. military.
2010-08-10,China zoos in 'barbaric' animal abuse: report
2010-08-10,The district commander ordered his body guard to open fire on the afghan civilian. The body guard refused at which time the district commander shot him in front of the civilian
2010-08-10,The Geopolitics of Google Earth: Governments are using the images to find tax cheats and illegal pot plantations
2010-08-10,Pakistan drowns in misery [pics]
2010-08-10,"Afghanistan civilian deaths up 31% this year, says United Nations.  Report says child victims have risen by 55% as Taliban target more Afghans, while deaths caused by foreign troops fall"
2010-08-10,Israel threatens to quit UN probe into flotilla shooting
2010-08-10,The Price of an Afghan Life [graphic pic]
2010-08-10,Lebanon crisis feared as indictments near in assassination of Rafiq al-Hariri
2010-08-10,"Silvio Berlusconi has easily survived a series of corruption and sex scandals. Now a revolt by a former ally could pose a serious threat to the Italian prime minister, who many feel is on his last legs politically. Berlusconi has the summer recess to plot his survival."
2010-08-10,"Israeli police re-raze Bedouin village: ""They destroyed the village for the third time in two weeks"""
2010-08-10,Fast fashion is driving third world workers into starvation conditions 
2010-08-09,"More than 800 Russian wildfires have been reported since they first ignited nearly a week ago. The wildfires, a result of the country's worst heat wave in recorded history, have claimed 52 lives thus far and left more than 3,000 people homeless (w/pics)"
2010-08-09,Japan became rich as America's compliant vassal state. Now Japan's efforts to move on are being thwarted by the US.
2010-08-09,"Interview with Eric Morgolis: US media ignoring explosive testimony in UK.  MI5 told Blair that Iraq was no threat.  US intelligence created stories in the middle east about Iraq and when they were reported, used it to garner support."
2010-08-09,"Milk powder + Hormones + Girl Children developing breasts, = CHINA once again... (companies name is Synutra) + product still being sold..."
2010-08-09,Israel releases Mordechai Vanunu after three months in prison
2010-08-09,Iran Sentences Baha'i Leaders to 20 Years in Prison
2010-08-09,U.S. Supersizes Afghan Mega-Base as Withdrawal Date Looms 
2010-08-09,Moscow authorities have been forced to acknowledge that the heat and smoke of the last week have doubled the citys mortality rates
2010-08-09,Oil firm wins battle to identify chatroom users
2010-08-09,Switzerland is the small exception in a united - and ever bigger - Europe. 
2010-08-09,"Landless and illiterate, drowned by debt, Mr. Bhuria and his ailing children have staggered into the hospital ward after falling through Indias social safety net.  His daughter, Nani, is 4 and weighs 20 pounds. His son, Jogdiya, is 2 and weighs only eight."
2010-08-09,"South Korea uncovers explosive, flammable and corrosive automotive refrigerant from China"
2010-08-09,U.N. to return to Somalia after 17 Years
2010-08-09,Iran To Execute 18-Year-Old Ebrahim Hamidi On False Charge Of Sodomy
2010-08-09,This Is How It Feels to Be Under a Nuclear Attack (NSFW)
2010-08-09,Netanyahu Says Israel Wont Allow Panel to Question Soldiers
2010-08-09,The daily mortality rate in Moscow has doubled and morgues are overflowing amid an acrid smog caused by the worst heatwave in Russia's thousand-year history
2010-08-09,"Admission by Admiral Mullen that the U.S. has plans to attack Iran to prevent that country from acquiring nuclear weapons, is being treated with the utmost seriousness in political, intelligence and military circles in Tehran."
2010-08-09,"China's Warhol Gets Dirty: ""I hate the Chinese propaganda machine so much"""
2010-08-09,"
Discovering Narrative: The Value Of Ignorance - 
Top journalist, author of ""Black Hawk Down"", on learning the trade. ""You would be amazed at how much more a guy will tell you with a beer in his hand""
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2010-08-09,German police shut down the Hamburg mosque where the 9/11 hijackers met before their suicide attacks on the US in 2001
2010-08-09,Germany's Justice Ministry says it is looking into the possibility of jailing an 88-year-old man more than 60 years after his conviction for Nazi war crimes in the Netherlands
2010-08-09,No-frills hotels arrive in the UK (it's even extra for a clean room)
2010-08-09,North Korea fires artillery off west coast.
2010-08-09,Nasrallah has implicated Israel for the murder of the former Lebanese PM -- Among the material presented was what he described as Israeli reconaissance footage intercepted by Hezbollah of areas frequented by the former PM.
2010-08-08,Roald Dahl's darkest hour 
2010-08-08,Finalist dies at World Sauna event in Finland!!
2010-08-08,This video is creating a large controversy in France right now.  Look for the part starting at the two-minute mark.
2010-08-08,President Karzai Calls for Ban on Private Security Companies in Afghanistan. 
2010-08-08,"Pope acts against incest priest's group. The Legionaries of Christ, the Roman Catholic group that combines an estimated 21bn fortune with intense moral turpitude and extreme conservatism, is facing its nemesis this month."
2010-08-08,"Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy on the basis of ""judge's knowledge"", a legal loophole that allows for subjective judicial rulings where there is no conclusive evidence
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2010-08-08,"The groom unleashed a volley of rapid aerial shots with an AK-47 rifle to celebrate his nuptials, but quickly lost control of the weapon and accidentally raked the guests with bullets"
2010-08-08,Lawyer in Iran stoning case asks for asylum in Norway (the guy escaped to Turkey on horseback - what a ninja)
2010-08-08,North Korea seizes South Korean fishing boat.
2010-08-08,"WikiLeaks: Lack of Swedish publishing license means it does not enjoy constitutional source protection, experts say"
2010-08-08,Taliban issues press release to counter TIME magazine's cover photo of mutilated girl.
2010-08-08,Detained Belarusian Investigator of KGB Corruption Hospitalized - at KGB Hospital
2010-08-08,"Mexican federal police protest in Juarez, accuse commanders of corruption"
2010-08-08,"Iran will offer full support to Lebanon and Syria in the event of an Israeli attack, said Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki "
2010-08-08,Kick-ass Helicopter Pilot in Pakistan
2010-08-08,"'If attacked, Iran will annihilate US'"
2010-08-08,Russian troops dug a five-mile canal to protect nuclear arms site from wildfires caused by record heatwave
2010-08-08,Taliban response to TIME magazine cover of girl with her nose cut off
2010-08-08,"Massive ice island breaks off Greenland. A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S."
2010-08-08,"Cuba has told one-fifth of its government workers that communism hasn't worked out for them and they'll have to find jobs in the ""private"" sector.
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2010-08-08,Video of forced eviction in Paris suburb prompts shock reactions from French politicians as well as advocates for immigrants and housing rights
2010-08-08,Speed camera switch-off sees fewer accidents
2010-08-08,Green MP Caroline Lucas has joined the campaign to force US tycoon Donald Trump to change his plans to build a luxury golf course on the Aberdeenshire coast.
2010-08-08,NKorea seizes SKorean fishing boat amid tension
2010-08-08,127 killed as mudslides devastate China town 
2010-08-07,Al Jazeera Video: Chinese poor locked up at night
2010-08-07,France starts removing Roma camps
2010-08-07,Taliban kills 10 in Afghanistan. The dead include six Americans who were part of a medical team. The Taliban claims the workers were spies and preachers of Christianity.
2010-08-07,Little Britain: How the rest of the world sees us
2010-08-07,Vote No On Wyclef Jean: Why the Former Fugee's Run For the Haitian Presidency Is Totally Misguided
2010-08-07,"Enola Gay navigator has 'no regrets'
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2010-08-07,France: Sarkozy's Gypsy crackdown begins
2010-08-07,"Russian heatwave kills 5,000 as fires rage out of control "
2010-08-07,"Style Notes | Editor's memo. ""We wrote that 'too many bomb disposal experts' had died in Afghanistan, which prompted a reader to ask what an acceptable number would have been""
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2010-08-07,"Wikileaks attack data by year and type, projected onto regional map of Afghanistan"
2010-08-07,"In Cairo, An End To The Cacophony Of Calls To Prayer : NPR"
2010-08-07,"The Pink Floyd rock music classic ""Another Brick in the Wall"" has been transformed by a Canadian band, with permission, to reflect dissent young Iranians have for their government. "
2010-08-07,"BREAKING - Colombia confirms that their government has filed a case against Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez to the ICC, and against the Venezuelan state to the IACHR [Translation from Spanish]"
2010-08-07,American-Palestinian Yale Professor threatened by Israeli Military Tribunal for videotaping and posting protests on Youtube 
2010-08-07,Blair must be arrested
2010-08-07,Residents flee as acrid smog blankets Moscow
2010-08-07,"Foxconn, the Chinese maker of Apple's iPhone, faces fresh suicide fears as 14th worker dies"
2010-08-07,Taliban Kill 10 on Aid Trip in Afghanistan
2010-08-07,South Africa loses its War on Poverty
2010-08-07,King Abdullah May Have Just Dodged Overthrow From Family Coup
2010-08-07,"Uribe's appointment to flotilla probe guarantees its failure:
""The commission is composed of four persons, one chosen by Turkey, one chosen by Israel and two chosen from a list provided by Israel."""
2010-08-07,'Imam Idol': A Reality Show's Search for a Muslim Role Model
2010-08-07,'Kashmir burns again as India responds to dissent with violence - The hospitals are filling up with gunshot victims but angry protesters say the world is blind to their plight.'
2010-08-07,"'If attacked, Iran will annihilate US' - You've been warned.. (also spiffy hat)"
2010-08-07,Russia digs trenches to secure N-sites
2010-08-06,"Pentagon demands return of the 90,000 documents from Wikileaks.  Methinks the pentagon doesn't understand how the internet works."
2010-08-06,Calling Gaza a prison camp is an understatement
2010-08-06,"'The Kremlin's Central Control Is the Real Disaster' - Moscow is engulfed in smog, 500 fires are still blazing across Russia and the deadly wildfires could pose a nuclear threat. The German press on Friday says the overcentralization of power is partly to blame for the disaster."
2010-08-06,"For the first time since the dark days of the Taliban, 29 women have been recruited to serve in the Afghan army "
2010-08-06,"NORTH KOREA About 23 Christians arrested, 3 executed"
2010-08-06,Video: British troops in Afghanistan: 'We try to help them ... but it just seems pointless'
2010-08-06,"Sean Penn has questioned the motives of Wyclef Jean's bid for the Haitian presidency and criticised his ""obscene demonstration"" of wealth. "
2010-08-06,Wyclef Jean Officially Running For President Of Haiti After Filing Papers
2010-08-06,Kenyans vote 'yes' for birth of a second republic
2010-08-06,Chinese poor locked up at night
2010-08-06,"Hiroshima 65 years later: US attends ceremony, but offers no apology: Its good theyve come, but why has it taken 65 years?"
2010-08-06,"The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World. 
They may have been dubbed the ""Internet generation,"" but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend."
2010-08-06,UAE confirms oil tanker attack
2010-08-06,Australians about to revolt - Riots in the streets... :)
2010-08-06,[AHRC Open Letter] MYANMAR: Request to intervene on complaint of severe torture by police
2010-08-06,"The number of fires in Russia grow, death toll reaches 50"
2010-08-06,Vietnam: Writers Honored for Commitment to Free Speech
2010-08-06,40 US billionaires pledge half of wealth to charity
2010-08-06,Pakistan's Great Flood: A photo essay of worst disaster in country's history
2010-08-06,Activists clash with Taiwan police over China envoy
2010-08-06,A bomb explosion at Zamboanga airport in the southern Philippines has killed two people and injured 24.
2010-08-06,BBC News - North Korea hit by severe flooding as a result of ongoing torrential rain.
2010-08-06,Disease and regret weigh on atomic-bomb survivors
2010-08-06,"Leh flash floods: 100 killed, over 350 injured."
2010-08-06,"Mexico: Calderon considers debate on legalizing drugs after 28,000 people have been killed in drug violence since he launched a crackdown against cartels in 2006"
2010-08-05,A South African journalist who wrote an expose on the new chief of police has been arrested and is being held by the police even though a prosecutor has refused to press charges. Detention without trial!
2010-08-05,Police filmed dragging women and babies during protest
2010-08-05,"The trash is two feet deep, so compacted you can walk on it, and is blocking the world's biggest power plant of any kind"
2010-08-05,"
Children found starving in rural Australia"
2010-08-05,"Mexico: Cartels Move Beyond Drugs, Seek Domination/ Control of The Government"
2010-08-05,Archives Show That Churchill Ordered a UFO Cover-Up
2010-08-05,A British woman was arrested and charged with indecency after walking through a Dubai shopping mall wearing a bikini
2010-08-05,Russia bans exports of grain
2010-08-05,"British Gas customer wins 2,000 payment for 'wasted time'"
2010-08-05,When running a plane accident drill at an airport - don't forget to tell the airport it is just a test.
2010-08-05,"SKorea begins naval drills despite NKorean warning
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2010-08-05,"New Gaza aid flotilla that will carry lawmakers, musicians, artists and sports stars from around world"
2010-08-05,Indonesian military slaughter Papuan activist. Footage circulates web
2010-08-05,"An Iranian website calling the Holocaust ""the great lie"" and depicting an alternative version of events in Jewish history in cartoon form has been launched"
2010-08-05,Chinese missile could shift Pacific power balance
2010-08-05,"Two drunk teenagers rescued from mountain, consonants"
2010-08-05,An in-depth look at the Geneva-based bank director who blew the whistle on UBS tax evasion. 
2010-08-05,"Cubas Ral Castro unveils plan for massive job cuts. ""President Ral Castro Sunday outlined plans that could eliminate the jobs of over one million Cuban state workers, while promoting the growth of private enterprise in the countrys service sector."""
2010-08-05,Vladimir Putin bans grain exports as drought and wildfires ravage crops. More than a third of cultivable land in Russia destroyed
2010-08-05,UFO sightings were taken so seriously in the 1950s that incidents were discussed at the highest level by Britain's senior intelligence chiefs
2010-08-05,"Oil-fouled Gulf still has a long recovery ahead. Even after stuffing the blown-out Gulf of Mexico well with enough mud to pack down the oil, federal officials weren't ready to declare victory over the stubborn spill yet. "
2010-08-05,"CHINA Sichuan, thousands hold police station under seige for hours"
2010-08-05,"Naomi Campbell, the model, admitted that she was given ""dirty rocks"" by the former Liberian ruler Charles Taylor as she gives evidence at his war crimes trial"
2010-08-05,"Three senior officials in the region - from the UN, the Israeli government and Hamas - asked what they considered to be the top five humanitarian needs of the 1.5 million Palestinians living in the Strip. Israel's response: ""There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza and there never has been"""
2010-08-05,Iranian ex-diplomat in Norway: alleged attack on Ahmadinejad was a PR stunt
2010-08-04,"28,000 deaths caused by the war on drugs in Mexico. Finally, president Felipe Calderon agrees to discuss about drug legalization."
2010-08-04,"Israeli troops south of border when Lebanon fired, U.N. says"
2010-08-04,A photographer captures the tragic death of a firefighter in a oil spill in China over 47 photos.
2010-08-04,TV cameras capture the distressing moment a 5yr-old Palestinian boy sees his father arrested for stealing water
2010-08-04,"One fine June day, the author is launching his best-selling memoir, Hitch-22. The next, hes throwing up backstage at The Daily Show,  in a brief bout of denial, before entering the unfamiliar countrywith its egalitarian spirit, martial metaphors, and hard bargains of people who have cancer."
2010-08-04,Peru suffers deadly outbreak of bubonic and pneumonic plague 
2010-08-04,Oldest university on earth is reborn after 800 years -
2010-08-04,New Evidence About Prisoners Held in Secret CIA Prisons in Poland and Romania
2010-08-04,Iran denies grenade attack on Ahmadinejad
2010-08-04,Pakisan flooding in photos. (photo essay)
2010-08-04,Sudan sentences 19 young Muslim men to 30 lashes and a fine for breaking moral codes by wearing women's clothes and makeup
2010-08-04,Israeli rabbis are set to ban the burka for a small group of radical Jewish women who have taken to wearing it.
2010-08-04,Lebanon: We fired first at IDF unit near Israel border
2010-08-04,Six of South Africa's 13 traditional monarchies will no longer be recognized.
2010-08-04,"Iran claims to have S-300 surface-to-air missiles
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2010-08-04,A 26-year-old man is arrested in China following a knife attack at a school in which at least three children were killed. 
2010-08-04,"DR Congo frees 11,506 children from mines"
2010-08-04,"Israeli troops ""on own side"" in Lebanon clash, UN says"
2010-08-04,Berlusconi's Nemesis: Will Silvio Berlusconi's former ally be the one to end his reign?
2010-08-04,Germany Looks to Tighten Up Public Drinking Rules
2010-08-04,It's official: Saudi Arabia bans BlackBerries
2010-08-04,Israel continues uprooting trees on Lebanon border after fatal clash
2010-08-04,BP says 'static kill' to stop oil leak was successful
2010-08-04,BBC News - Danish politics rocked over Kinnock tax status
2010-08-04,"Kenya votes on new constitution amid high security
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2010-08-03,"Hey reddit, just a reminder: as of this weekend, Iran has now imprisoned three hikers for a year to use as international political bargaining chips. It's unjust, and no one seems to care anymore. I don't really know how to help them, but here's their story."
2010-08-03,ISRAEL will expel 400 native-born children of non-Jewish foreign workers to help safeguard the country's Jewish identity.
2010-08-03,"Germanys constitutional court in Karlsruhe ruled on Tuesday that the law denying unwed fathers custody rights to their children without the mothers permission is unconstitutional, opening the way for automatic dual custody."
2010-08-03,"Israel, Lebanon forces exchange fire on border"
2010-08-03,"South Africa's former police commissioner, the former head of interpol, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment."
2010-08-03,"Christopher Hitchens: I know Hugo Chavez and, yes, hes truly insane	"
2010-08-03,Mexico's Drug Cartels Use Force To Silence Media
2010-08-03,"Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: ""Although music is halal, promoting and teaching it is not compatible with the highest values of the sacred regime of the Islamic Republic."""
2010-08-03,"Mongolian neo-Nazis: Anti-Chinese sentiment fuels rise of ultra-nationalism - Alarm sounds over rise of extreme groups such as Tsagaan Khass who respect Hitler and reject foreign influence
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2010-08-03,"Mexican government allows marriage between gay couples in Mexico City, and they are about to allow adoption to them!"
2010-08-03,Iran says the Brazilian president did not have enough information when he offered refuge to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning.
2010-08-03,Wheat prices have doubled over the last two months. Experts predict that bread prices may skyrocket as a result causing another food crisis.
2010-08-03,Jordan: Proof that rockets fired from Egypt 
2010-08-03,Israel-Lebanon troops exchange fire.
2010-08-03,It's Time for Germany to Change Its Immigration Laws
2010-08-03,"Russian rapper jailed for insulting police - ""Forget it, swallow it, be silent"""
2010-08-03,How does stoning work in Iran? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
2010-08-03,Germany gave hit list to secret US unit
2010-08-03,"British city wants to buy all its councilors an iPad, claiming it will save around 90,000.  Here's the kicker.  The council plans to axe 1,000 jobs if it can't find 100mil to slash by 2015."
2010-08-03,"Hamas denies any involvement with the rocket attacks that struck near Eilat, the Red Sea, and Jordan Monday, killing a Jordanian and wounding three more at the Intercontinental Hotel in Aqaba"
2010-08-03,"Geert Wilders, whose anti-immigration party doubled its vote in June's elections, is set to play a key role in the new government. His party is to join the Netherland's first minority coalition since World War II."
2010-08-03,"In a bid to increase revenues, the Greek authorities are employing all kinds of clever tricks to crack down on tax cheats, including using Google Earth to find undeclared swimming pools. But efforts by the government to liberalize markets could unleash a wave of civil unrest."
2010-08-03,Price for a potential Israeli strike on Iran? A Palestinian state. 
2010-08-03,Clash of civilizations in the classroom - German pupils in the minority [Documentary]
2010-08-03,"Bubonic plague breaks out in Peru.  1 dead, 31 infected. "
2010-08-02,Dutch troops withdraw from Afghanistan
2010-08-02,"Inmates of a prison in Cebu, Philippines are given less food, smaller beds and few benefits of any kind if they do not dance to Michael Jackson songs for tourists."
2010-08-02,"US, Canada, Britain & Australia refuse to support call for `the human right to water and sanitation'"
2010-08-02,Peru declares state of emergency amid plunging temperatures: Hundreds of children died from freezing conditions that have seen temperatures plummet to a 50-year low of -24C
2010-08-02,"British child prodigy, aged 7yrs, dubbed 'Mini Monet', sells latest paintings for 150,000!"
2010-08-02,"Ahmadinejad Challenges Obama to TV Debate: ""We are ready to sit with his Excellency Obama, face to face, free and before media, to put the world's issues on the table to find out whose solution is better"""
2010-08-02,BBC Admits al Qaeda Never Existed
2010-08-02,"Israel is now deporting small children who were born in Israel, speak Hebrew and have never seen their parents' native countries."
2010-08-02,"5 rockets fired from Sinai, two fall into the Red Sea, two fall on Jordan, one on Israel, four people injured. "
2010-08-02,UN announces panel to investigate Gaza flotilla raid
2010-08-02,"Half of Indias population lives below the poverty line. ""According to an Oxford University study, 55 percent of Indias population of 1.1 billion, or 645 million people, are living in poverty. Using a newly-developed index, the study found that about one-third of the worlds poor live in India."""
2010-08-02,Three-quarters of UK non-Muslims believe Islam negative for Britain
2010-08-02,Layers of trash floating in the Yangtze river are threatening to jam China's massive Three Gorges hydro-electric dam.
2010-08-02,Israel and Hamas may be headed for another war as violence escalates in Gaza
2010-08-02,"WikiLeaks will fund itself via Flattr, Pirate Bay founder's startup"
2010-08-02,A huge explosion destroyed the home of a senior Hamas commander and injured 24
2010-08-02,"As Drug War Turns Into Quagmire, Fear Rules Mexico"
2010-08-02,UN Declares Water a Fundamental Human Right -- U.S. Abstains from Voting on Resolution.
2010-08-02,Bedouin village razed in Negev as lsraelis cheer on
2010-08-02,"53.7% of Palestinians want rocket attacks to stop, 43.7% support them"
2010-08-02,"Now that Hezbollah's leader has indicated that ""undisciplined members"" may have taken part in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a challenge has emerged for his son. Will Saad Hariri, the current prime minister, dare to challenge a group he shares power with?"
2010-08-02,Police arrest third suspect in Jewish terrorist affair: Israeli security forces arrested a man suspected of assisting Jewish terrorist Chaim Pearlman in stabbing several Arabs in East Jerusalem over an extended period of time. The suspect was released several hours after being taken into custody
2010-08-02,"A string of rockets was fired early Monday toward the Israeli resort city Eilat, and one hit in neighboring Jordan, killing one person and wounding four"
2010-08-02,"Cambodia in clasp of cluster bombs.
At least 26 million cluster bombs were dropped on Cambodia by the United States during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 70s.
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2010-08-02,Indonesia Embarks on Fruitless Campaign to Ban Pornography
2010-08-01,"Wikileaks has posted a massive 1.4 GB heavily encrypted file on it's dedicated ""Afghan War Diary"" page labeled simply ""Insurance"". Possibly in response to the harsh rhetoric issuing from the US DoD regarding Julian Assange, the new file was quietly uploaded with no explanation."
2010-08-01,A home visit by Tokyo officials to a local resident to congratulate him on his 111th birthday instead led to a police search that uncovered his three-decade-old skeleton
2010-08-01,Brazil offers asylum to Iranian woman facing stoning
2010-08-01,Brazil's super cool president offers asylum to imprisoned Iranian woman who has been sentenced to death by stoning
2010-08-01,More than 70 countries make being gay a crime
2010-08-01,The Afghan Taliban say they have one thing in common with the Americans: theyre both getting played by Pakistan.
2010-08-01,"The Netherlands pulled its troops out of Afghanistan on Sunday, after serving there with distinction for four years. The withdrawal is seen as a blow for the NATO-led coalition, who had wanted the Dutch to stay on."
2010-08-01,"As Germany's wild boar population has skyrocketed in recent years, so too has the number of animals contaminated by radioactivity left over from the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown. Government payments compensating hunters for lost income due to radioactive boar have quadrupled since 2007."
2010-08-01,Wikileaks volunteer detained
2010-08-01,BBC News - Cheetahs will run again in India
2010-08-01,This analysis of right-wing politics and its impact on science shows how a handful of individuals have managed to obscure the truth on issues that range from the dangers of smoking to global warming
2010-08-01,"Pakistan withdraws from terror talks in Cameron protest
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2010-08-01,"Mass, Militant Actions in Bangladesh Result in Near Doubling of Minimum Wage."
2010-08-01,Syrian President Bashar Assad warns the chances of war are increasing
2010-08-01,"Sweden's dark side: Retired police chief Lindberg  jailed for rape and assault. At the time of his apprehension he was allegedly on his way to meet a 14-yr-old girl in a hotel encounter. It was said that in his car was a bag containing leather whips, handcuffs and a blindfold!"
2010-08-01,"Millions spent on doctor 'gagging orders' by NHS, 
investigation finds."
2010-08-01,"Zahra Soltani was mis-identified by media as Iranian protest shooting victim Neda.  Coerced by the Iranian authorities into claiming the shooting was faked, she's now a refugee in Germany."
2010-08-01,"Record rains, but Pakistan is dying for water. Lack of clean drinking water leaves 600 children dead from disease every day"
2010-08-01,"UN rights body tells Israel to end Gaza blockade: ""Israel maintains that the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights does not apply to the occupied West Bank and Gaza, although it says that the treaty does apply to Jewish settlers there, committee member Christine Chanet said [...]"""
2010-08-01,Cluster bomb ban comes into effect
2010-08-01,EU to be given prominent UN role 
2010-08-01,East Africas most corrupt country
2010-08-01,"After 4 exhaustive years, Dutch become 1st NATO member to quit Afghanistan operation."
2010-08-01,German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has angered conservatives in his own government coalition this week by keeping open the possibility of full European Union membership for Turkey.
2010-08-01,Israel's strategic blunder with Turkey
2010-07-31,"
25,000 Deaths In Mexico - 
Attack on US-funded drug war in Mexico. It kills thousands of civilians, enriches corrupt Mexican army and officialdomand yet has no visible impact on drug trade. Who is fooling who?
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2010-07-31,"WikiLeaks Posts Mysterious ""Insurance"" File"
2010-07-31,Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing
2010-07-31,WikiLeaks suspect held in solitary confinement
2010-07-31,"New international ban on cluster munitions will take effect on Saturday and over 100 have signed it since 2008. Holdouts include Russia, Israel and the US"
2010-07-31,Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland reports from East Jerusalem on how a small group of Israeli and international activists are helping rebuild Palestinian homes that have been repeatingly demolished.
2010-07-31,Spanish judge re-issued international arrest warrants for 3 US soldiers over the death of a Spanish TV cameraman in Iraq 7 yrs ago by American tank fire
2010-07-31,"1 million affected, 800 dead, as flood crisis worsens in Pakistan"
2010-07-31,China to invest $40 billion in Iranian oil and gas
2010-07-31,Vatican police crackdown on scantily-clad tourists with uncovered knees or shoulders sparks hypocrisy claims
2010-07-31,Forest fires raging in western Russia
2010-07-31,Iranian woman facing stoning: 'I'm afraid of dying'
2010-07-31,ACTA: Will Corporate-Run US Government Destroy the Internet? | bytestyle.tv THREATENING YOUR PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET (VIDEO) 
2010-07-31,"""The master plan for Jerusalem follows the Israeli Government and Jerusalem Municipality policy of demographic and ethnic control, aimed at preserving demographics in the city at 70% Jewish to 30% Arab. This policy is clearly stated on the Jerusalem Municipality's website."""
2010-07-31,Shocking scenes as French police use force to remove woman and small children from a makeshift tent housing camp in a French suburb
2010-07-31,Cameron Won't Return Kohinoor Diamond To India
2010-07-31,"The Hamas operative killed in the IDF strike in Gaza Friday was a senior official who survived five assassination attempts by Israel, an announcement by Hamas' military wing the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades stated on Saturday"
2010-07-31,Army Broadens Inquiry Into WikiLeaks Disclosure
2010-07-31,Outsourcing Motherhood. 
2010-07-31,Are you a Mexican druglord? Try Wachovia.
2010-07-31,"Blockade helps Hamas recruit, says ambassador "
2010-07-31,Castro accuses US of abusing spies
2010-07-31,"Meet the new Russia, same as the old Russia: Russia gets 1984-like Soviet-era 'thought crime' law "
2010-07-31,"For 26 years, Gregoria Aguilar has been mourning the loss of her son, son-in-law and nephew, who were killed in the biggest massacre committed by the Maoist Shining Path guerrillas in Peru's highlands"
2010-07-31,"Italy: Somehow the new version of Media and Wiretapping Bill (""gag rule"") still includes a small clause aimed at directly restricting online free speech, the so-called blog-killing provision"
2010-07-30,"North Korea World Cup team shamed in six-hour grilling in front of 400 government officials, students and journalists. Coach punished for ""betraying"" Kim Jong-un. But they got off lightly apparently..."
2010-07-30,Israeli settlers throw out a Palestinian family from their home of 70 years
2010-07-30,Leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel killed
2010-07-30,"Fueled by the minerals that are used in phones and computers, war and rebellion have ravaged the Congo for 12 years. The UK government is now being sued for failing to hold accountable the firms who purchase these 'conflict minerals.'   "
2010-07-30,U.N. rights body tells Israel to end Gaza blockade
2010-07-30,"Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in Future of Web Monitoring"
2010-07-30,Brazil faces uphill struggling curtailing lucrative trade in underage sex 
2010-07-30,July is deadliest month of Afghan war for US - Boston.com
2010-07-30,The world is insanely unprepared for germ warfare
2010-07-30,"Russia Exported $50 Million In Diamonds To Guinea Late Last Year, But No One Can Explain Who Bought Them Or Why"
2010-07-30,Beijing Wary Of Rising Tide Of Veterans' Discontent
2010-07-30,"Iraq's Garden of Eden - Saddam Hussein drained the unique wetlands of southern Iraq as a punishment to the region's Marsh Arabs who had backed an uprising. Two decades later, one courageous US Iraqi is leading efforts to restore the marshes. Not even exploding bombs can deter him from his dream."
2010-07-30,"The video showed the five staff being made to kneel and forced to eat food which had apparently been urinated on by one of the students.

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2010-07-30,Military kills Mexican drug lord Ignacio Coronel
2010-07-30,"President Sarkozy looks into stripping French citizenship from anyone of foreign origin who ""threatened the life of a police officer""!"
2010-07-30,"After the leaking of 92,000 classified documents, the Taliban has now confirmed it is poring through them, and intends to hunt down and punish any suspected spies named."
2010-07-30,"Gaza children set new kite flying world record: 7,202 children fly as many kites to enter Guinness Book of World Records as part of UN-run summer camp"
2010-07-30,Chernobyl zone shows decline in biodiversity
2010-07-30,India: No Country For Old People?
2010-07-30,"Ethnic cleansing in the Israeli Negev. ""The razing of a Bedouin village by Israeli police shows how far the state will go to achieve its aim of Judaising the Negev region."""
2010-07-30,Dutch troops to leave Afghanistan soon
2010-07-30,"Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, said that she thinks of nothing other than hugging her children  which she described as her ""only hope""  and that she was mentally broken when authorities flogged her 99 times in front of her then 17-year-old son, Sajad"
2010-07-30,"Having found Duch guilty of the worst cruelty and thousands of the most gruesome murders ever recorded, they handed down a sentence that is roughly what mid-level drug dealers have received in courts in Thailand."
2010-07-30,"In ironic twist, Iran detained US hikers critical of Israel and America."
2010-07-30,Afghanistan's Other War: Army vs. Police
2010-07-29,UN declares clean water a 'fundamental human right'
2010-07-29,Leaked documents from the Afghanistan war appear to confirm that Australian forces are backing a local war lord who has been extorting money from NATO convoys carrying supplies to Coalition forces.
2010-07-29,"Anti-US Protestors Arrested At Base In Sweden - ""The USA is the world's biggest and most aggressive fighting country in the world... When Sweden allows the US Air Force to come here and train, we make ourselves accessories to the USA's war crimes,"" activist Maja Backlund said."
2010-07-29,Is Israel a liability for the US?
2010-07-29,Life Inside A Colombian Prison...w/ pictures
2010-07-29,The publication of the war logs by WikiLeaks has sparked a new debate about Germany's involvement in the conflict. The Social Democrats are threatening to withhold support for an extension of the mission's mandate if the government does not provide answers about alleged wrongdoings.
2010-07-29,"Man shows up in court to face G20 five-metre charges, discovers they dont exist: Toronto Police Chief said, the five-metre zone around the fence is for the protection of the security barrier. When the summit ended, Chief Blair said there never was a five-metre law!"
2010-07-29,"Russia's FSB can now officially ""warn"" citizens about to commit a crime by detaining them for up to 15 days."
2010-07-29,Morocco's Marijuana economy goes up in smoke as authorities clamp down on a culture that was previously acceptable
2010-07-29,"About Wikileaks:  There is no doubt that Obama himself, his top aides in the White House and Pentagon and the leading circles in the media were well aware of these atrocities. That makes all the more criminal the presidents decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan"
2010-07-29,British Prime Minister David Cameron: We cannot allow Pakistan to look both ways and promote the export of terror to India
2010-07-29,Business reporter in China is wanted by the police after he exposed insider trading in a listed firm.
2010-07-29,"Wikileaks recent release of military documents included a list of afghan informants, hundreds of names, their location, and their father's names.  "
2010-07-29,Lindsey Graham Is Considering Bill That Would End Birthright Citizenship
2010-07-29,"An 80-year-old Roman Catholic priest was found stabbed to death in his church in the city of Oaxaca, in southern Mexico"
2010-07-29,Why The Shaming Of The North Korean Soccer Team Is Actually A Really Big Story
2010-07-29,Couple in custody after 8 dead babies found in plastic bags
2010-07-29,Russia boosts secret service powers
2010-07-29,Kim Jong-il on the way out? He has started transferring his personal wealth to his youngest son and anointed successor.
2010-07-29,"""Made in China - but for how long?"" the looming decline of low end manufacturing in China from the Chinese perspective"
2010-07-29,Ireland prepares for a fire sale of national assets to pay debts.
2010-07-29,Afghan Women Fear Their Fate Amid Taliban Negotiations
2010-07-29,Rains trigger landslide in China (amazing pic)
2010-07-29,Chinese get oiled to clean oil spill
2010-07-29,Israel cracks down on dissent
2010-07-28,Catalonia bans bullfighting in landmark Spain vote
2010-07-28,US cannot account for $8.7B in Iraqi funds
2010-07-28,Israel demolishes Bedouin village leaving 300 Bedouins homeless | Al Jazeera English
2010-07-28,New York Times caught white-washing the wikileaks story.
2010-07-28,Apathetic Canadians have allowed their government to trample freedoms -- but opposition is mounting.
2010-07-28,"Remote-controlled drones are supposed to be the miracle weapon of the Afghanistan conflict, taking out Taliban fighters with precision missiles and protecting Western forces. But the WikiLeaks war logs files show that system failures, computer glitches and human errors are plaguing drone missions."
2010-07-28,"BBC News - Lawyer defending woman sentenced to death in Iranian adultery case goes missing after being called to prison for ""questioning"""
2010-07-28,Catalonia bans 'outdated and cruel' sport of bullfighting.
2010-07-28,"A boy, aged five, who was wrongly accused by a supermarket of stealing a bag of crisps has won 7,500 in damages for defamation of character"
2010-07-28,"France to dismantle illegal Gypsy camps, deport Roma to Romania and Bulgaria"
2010-07-28,Guy buys photos at a garage sale for $45. Turns out they're worth $200m
2010-07-28,UK's NHS plans to shame obese people into fitness by calling them fat.
2010-07-28,Infographic: Where Did the Money to Rebuild Iraq Go? 
2010-07-28,"Israeli High Court of Justice scratches its head at violent, sexist segregation on buses, forced and implemented by religious nuts"
2010-07-28,Plane crashes in Pakistan capital on flight from Turkey
2010-07-28,Oil Tanker Ship Hit in Apparent Attack Near Strait of Hormuz
2010-07-28,"China's Three Gorges dam close to maximum capacity as heavy rains persist: Chinese officials for years have boasted the dam could withstand floods so severe they come only once every 10,000 years!"
2010-07-28,"'Scores die' in Afghan village raid: ""A Nato rocket attack on a village in Afghanistan last week killed 52 civilians, including women and children [...]"""
2010-07-28,ISI paid blood money to attack Indians - Wikileaks
2010-07-28,"Israel is gradually relinquishing the rule of law and becoming a tribe: ""The killing of an Arab is immediately associated with ""the Middle Eastern reality."" A demand for restraint becomes ""living in a bubble."" [...]"
2010-07-28,"Iran stoning case woman fainted on hearing sentence, says cellmate"
2010-07-28,"Israel's sex trade booming | Human trafficking in Israel rakes in more than USD billion a year, findings in annual parliamentary survey show."
2010-07-28,"Was Saddam Hussein a danger to the world? No, says Hans Blix (Chilcot Inquiry)"
2010-07-28,Most Israelis have been brainwashed to the point where they are beyond reason and prefer to live with the fear of annihilation (fear planted and nourished in them by Zionist propaganda) rather than the comfort of peace and security.
2010-07-28,Pakistan plane crashes in Islamabad - CENTRAL/S. ASIA - Al Jazeera English
2010-07-27,"""There's a wide discrepancy, and we need to know."" Canadian military: The loss of four Canadian soldiers in September 2006 was the result of insurgent activity. Newly released WikiLeaks document: The Canadian soldiers weren't killed by the Taliban but rather by friendly fire from U.S. forces."
2010-07-27,"British Prime Minister David Cameron calls Gaza a ""prison camp"", a blunt description from a major Western leader about the besieged Palestinian territory."
2010-07-27,How ISI paid Taliban to hit Indians - Wikileaks
2010-07-27,Church children beaten and branded for witchcraft by preachers in the UK
2010-07-27,"Cameron: ""Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp."""
2010-07-27,WikiLeaks fallout: The Taliban and the ISI -- Pakistani intelligence fooled only those who didn't pay attention.
2010-07-27,UK soldier: Jail better than Afghan war - A former British soldier who was previously jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan has told an anti-war rally that every second he spent behind bars was worth his decision.
2010-07-27,Nobel Peace Prizes 'are being awarded illegally'. Norwegian author claims the committee behind the coveted award routinely violates the terms of Alfred Nobel's will.
2010-07-27,"The daily newspaper Hankyoreh reported yesterday that Russia has concluded the sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan was a sea mine accident, not a torpedo attack by North Korea."
2010-07-27,"Pakistan Taliban: ""India is our domain, and we will attack to take possession of it...whether they are Hindus or Jews, they all are the same"""
2010-07-27,"Bin Laden among latest Wikileaks Afghan revelations - New details, including reports on Osama Bin Laden dating from 2006, have emerged from 90,000 US military files leaked to the Wikileaks website."
2010-07-27,"Cameron backs Turkey's bid to join EU:  ""I believe it is just wrong to say that Turkey can guard the camp but not be allowed to sit in the tent. "
2010-07-27,A clear majority of Danes support the idea of injection cabins for addicts.
2010-07-27,Wiki points to Australian cover-up - CLASSIFIED US Defence Department documents leaked to the WikiLeaks website this week suggest the Australian Defence Force covered up the killing of an Afghan policeman by Australian troops.
2010-07-27,It's No Secret: Afghanistan Is a Quagmire - The most shocking thing about the War Diary may be that it fails to shock. The documents illustrate how futileand tragically wastefulit is to send more young men and women to fight and die in Afghanistan.
2010-07-27,Mock Trial; How America is helping to whitewash the Cambodian genocide.
2010-07-27,Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is 'a hacker fighting for the freedom of information'
2010-07-27,Israel demolishes Bedouin village
2010-07-27,"Four reasons to believe in Brazil, according to The Economist"
2010-07-27,"India kills 200 ""witches"" a year"
2010-07-27,WikiLeaks Has 3 Times More Documents on Iraq Than It Just Released on Afghanistan
2010-07-27,New Oil Spill In Battle Creek Michigan This Time By Canadian Company
2010-07-27,"Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
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2010-07-27,Wikileaks 'source' bradass87 - the former army analyst facing 52 years in prison
2010-07-27,Black Sea challenge by U.S. set to keep Russia on edge
2010-07-26,Wikileaks+Guardian.co.uk: Afghanistan: The war logs. Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation. Includes interview with Wikileaks' Julian Assange.
2010-07-26,"Prisoners in a northern Mexico  jail were allowed out at night to carry out murder-for-hire jobs using jail guards weapons and vehicles, revealing a level of corruption that is stunning even in a country where prison breakouts are common as guards look the other way."
2010-07-26,"Wikileaks: Pakistan state spy services meet directly with the Taliban to organize networks of militant groups against American soldiers in Afghanistan and assassinate Afghan leaders, all to ensure their US war on terror funding."
2010-07-26,No one who's been paying attention should be surprised by the WikiLeaks documents about the war in Afghanistan. By Fred Kaplan 
2010-07-26,Wyclef Jean is going to run for President of Haiti
2010-07-26,"United Students Against Sweatshops forces Nike to pay $1.54 million to help 1,800 workers in Honduras  who lost their jobs when two subcontractors closed their factories"
2010-07-26,"Wikileaks Afghanistan files: every IED attack and roadside bomb, with co-ordinates"
2010-07-26,Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free Holocaust debate
2010-07-26,Wikileaks founder Julian Assange live news conference. Now.
2010-07-26,Former KGB Agent: Weapons Expert David Kelly Did Not Commit Suicide
2010-07-26,Afghanistan war logs: How US marines sanitised record of bloodbath after killing 19 civilians.
2010-07-26,"Whatever happens, Israel can always count on U.S. evangelicals - Thousands of Christian activists descended on Washington this week in a show of strength by America's pro-Israel Christians."
2010-07-26,"WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: ""I Enjoy Crushing Bastards"""
2010-07-26,"Pakistans military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating militants"
2010-07-26,As many as 200 women are tortured and lynched every year in India after being accused of practising witchcraft.
2010-07-26,"""These leaked documents against me are fiction and nothing else"" said Pakistan Intelligence officer"
2010-07-26,"VIDEO: He may by now be one of the most well known whistleblowers of all time. He publicly makes enemies of those who probably have no compunctions about ordering his assassination. Julian Assange, about how WikiLeaks operates, what it has accomplished, and about what drives him."
2010-07-26,"In Disclosing Secret Documents, WikiLeaks Seeks Transparency: It operates from servers in several countries, including Sweden and Belgium, where laws provided more protection for its disclosures"
2010-07-26,"WikiLeaks founder says the release of U.S. military documents is like opening the files of East Germany's secret Stasi police and that ""appears to be evidence of war crimes"""
2010-07-26,Brazilian tribes took 100 workers hostage at construction site of hydroelectric plant in southern Amazon which they say was built on ancient burial site
2010-07-26,Chile Reject Catholic Church's call to pardon dozens of imprisoned military officials convicted of human rights violations
2010-07-26,Palestinian doctor still has hope even after IDF killed 3 of his daughters and a niece when they fired a shell into their bedroom.
2010-07-26,Strange bedfellows? Mossad chief reportedly visited Saudi Arabia for talks on Iran.
2010-07-26,"Guards and officials at a prison in northern Mexico let inmates out, lent them guns and sent them off in official vehicles to carry out drug-related killings, including the massacre of 17 "
2010-07-26,US-South Korea military exercises begin: All eyes are on Pyongyang as the US leads maneuvers in the Sea of Japan.
2010-07-25,"Female circumcision will be inflicted on up to 2,000 British schoolgirls during the summer holidays  leaving brutal physical and emotional scars. Yet there have been no prosecutions against the practice"
2010-07-25,"At least 15 people trampled to death at Loveparade in Duisburg, Germany"
2010-07-25,"An Arab Israeli convicted of 'rape by deception' of a Jewish woman, gives his side of the story in an exclusive interview"
2010-07-25,Putin sings patriotic songs with expelled Russian spies and says those who betrayed them will end up in gutter
2010-07-25,"Yet again Formula 1 cheats fans and proves it is not a genuine competition, as race leader Massa is forced to give way to Ferrari team mate, Alonso. Sadly, F1 is little more than a series of formation laps pretending to be a race"
2010-07-25,"When womens rights activist Wajiha Al-Huwaidar flew out of Saudi Arabia last week for a holiday in Italy with her family, she was hoping for a brief respite from what she describes as the gender apartheid kingdom.

She wasnt so lucky."
2010-07-25,10 killed and 15 injured in mass panic at Germany's Love Parade
2010-07-25,Wikileaks obtained and multiple sources are now reporting on a huge cache of documents related to the US war in Afghanistan. 
2010-07-25,"At least 1,100 people dead or missing in Chinese floods"
2010-07-25,"A hedge fund manager named Anthony Ward has all but cornered the market in cocoa. By one estimate, he has bought enough to make more than five billion chocolate bars."
2010-07-25,"Ecuador president, Rafael Correa, imposes oil nationalization law"
2010-07-25,Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care
2010-07-25,Chavez: US and Colombia plan to attack Venezuela
2010-07-25,"A global network of lobby groups has spent nearly $100 million to push use of deadly asbestos, a known carcinogen, in developing nations "
2010-07-25,UK Diplomat claims his Iraq Inquiry evidence was blocked
2010-07-25,Australian Senate censors print link to cartoon
2010-07-25,"""something snapped"" after the Gaza assault, in which about 1,400 Palestinians were killed. ""It released Israel from the last of its humanitarian constraints,"" she says. ""Now everything is possible."""
2010-07-25,"Great Britain appoints man who works ""to create an Islamic state under sharia law in Europe"" as the Muslim community's liaison to police"
2010-07-25,Blood on the Tracks - The dangerous journey to El Norte.
2010-07-25,"WikiLeaks strikes again! ""Massive leak of secret files exposes truth of occupation of Afghanistan."" "
2010-07-25,The 'bomb magnet' soldier blown up 15 times in Afghanistan
2010-07-25,China's huge Three Gorges dam threatens to overflow 
2010-07-25,Taliban captures two U.S. soldiers
2010-07-25,China: Uighur blogger sentenced to 15 year imprisonment for endangering national security
2010-07-25,You've heard what has happened in Fallujah. Perhaps the world is now ready to hear the full horrifying truth. 
2010-07-24,"The 10 happiest countries on Earth: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, and Australia"
2010-07-24,Chinese deal with their own largest oil spill; Are not afraid of showing black oil filled beaches.
2010-07-24,"Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu may have declared a freeze on new settlements, but construction is continuing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlers are receiving contributions from American foundations that enjoy tax breaks, including groups that see Biblical prophecies being fulfilled."
2010-07-24,North Korea Warns of Nuclear Response to Naval Exercises
2010-07-24,Iran aims to send man into space by 2019
2010-07-24,North Korea has warned that it is prepared to use its nuclear weapons as part of a sacred war against the United States and South Korea.
2010-07-24,BBC NEWS: Church denounces gay priests after magazine reveals secretly recorded sexual encounters.
2010-07-24,"Iran has signed a $1.3bn pipeline deal to ship gas to Turkey, the Iranian oil minister has said."
2010-07-24,A landmark 20-year study of Faroese children has found that high levels of methyl mercury and other contaminants in the whale meat are harmful to a childs neurological development
2010-07-24,DId you know that the US spends more on the military than the rest of the world COMBINED?
2010-07-24,"N. Korea declares ""sacred war"" against U.S, South Korea"
2010-07-24,"Reddit, the gruesome Faroe Island whale massacre happened one more time 4 days ago. Let's make this known, perhaps the 2011 edition can be called off."
2010-07-24,Britain Plans to Decentralize National Health Care - NYTimes.com
2010-07-24,"North Korea says it will use its ""nuclear deterrent"" in response to joint US-South Korean military exercises this weekend."
2010-07-24,"Oh my: ""Record-high water levels at China's massive Three Gorges Dam have called into question Beijing's claims that the world's largest hydroelectric project has capacity to withstand a massive flood."""
2010-07-24,Mass grave in northern Mexico contains 38 bodies
2010-07-24,Reports emerge the UK used depleted uranium weapons in Iraq
2010-07-24,"Time to stop being junior to Uncle Sam - America's power should not be confused with its being right. It is rare that we can learn much from our European partners, but they shook off the compulsion to be obsequious to America long ago. So should we. "
2010-07-24,Doubts surface on North Korea's role in ship sinking.
2010-07-24,"Details of flourishing gay 'scene' in the Vatican exposed. Pope's vicariate of Rome condemns double life of priests. ""Coherence calls for them to come clean."""
2010-07-24,Ten people die after mass panic at love parade
2010-07-24,Only 0.3% of files on BitTorrent confirmed to be legal
2010-07-24,Priest Enrages Parishioners By Serving Communion To Dog
2010-07-24,"In light of the Israeli/Palestinian sex debacle, here is John Safran making Israeli / Palestinian babies [humor]"
2010-07-24,Germany Weighs Tax on the Obese
2010-07-23,I am a Chinese web user. Today is a very happy day for me.
2010-07-23,"The Vietnam war ended 35 years ago, but children are still being born with birth defects from chemical poisoning from Agent Orange, contaminated with deadly dioxin, sprayed by the US forces"
2010-07-23,"Australian government 'releases' Internet snooping proposal with 90% of the document blacked out so as not to cause ""premature and unnecessary debate""."
2010-07-23,"UK acts to prevent arrest of Pope: Gov't worried over plans by Dawkins and Hitchens to have Pope arrested for crimes against humanity, because of his alleged cover-up  of priestly assaults on children"
2010-07-23,"Chronicling the Holocaust from Inside the Ghetto - Roughly 50 men and women in the Warsaw Ghetto chose a special form of resistance. In a secret archive, they documented their path to doom for future generations, chronicling the Nazis' crimes as they were being perpetrated."
2010-07-23,Catholic sex scandal as undercover reporter 'films priests at gay clubs and having casual flings'
2010-07-23,A magnitude 7.3 quake has hit the Moro Gulf in the Philippines.
2010-07-23,Doubts surface on North Korea's role in ship sinking
2010-07-23,"A top court in Germany has ruled that the country's domestic intelligence agency may monitor the far-left Left Party. Commentators on Thursday argue that the party may have many failings, but a desire to overthrow democracy isn't one of them."
2010-07-23,War On Drugs Helps Spread AIDS (and no one in power cares)
2010-07-23,"Jordan River Too Polluted for Baptisms: The site of Jesus' baptism is dangerously contaminated, urges tourists to stay out of the river's waters"
2010-07-23,Hugo Chavez severs ties with Colombia
2010-07-23,7.3-magnitude earthquake strikes off Philippines
2010-07-23,France to sell two Mistral-class warships to Russia
2010-07-23,Israel to release Turkey ships seized during Gaza flotilla raid
2010-07-23,UK: Health inequality as severe as during the great depression
2010-07-23,Chinas Dangerous Arrogance | An increasingly assertive China is creating its own Monroe Doctrine for Asias seasand threatening longstanding freedoms.
2010-07-23,Remember that controversial agreement so the US could use seven Colombian military bases? The Colombian Constitutional Court might declare it unconstitutional next month.
2010-07-23,Porn suddenly available in China
2010-07-23,India unveils $35 computer for students
2010-07-23,"Parody of the Jay-Z Alicia Keys song, New York, based around the very unromantic Welsh town of Newport, becomes internet sensation. Includes video"
2010-07-23,BBC News - Trafigura found guilty of exporting toxic waste
2010-07-23,Turkey: Political reform falters as violence spreads at a rapid pace
2010-07-23,Australian government blocks out 90% of document on web-spying plans
2010-07-23,"When Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, visited Vietnam on Thursday she extolled the country's ""unlimited potential"" and strong trade relations with the US. But the words must have rung hollow for Ngyuen Ngoc Phuong, who has seen his potential destroyed by American chemical poisoning. "
2010-07-22,The police officer filmed pushing a man to the ground during the 2009 G20 protests will not face charges over his death.
2010-07-22,The IMF has forgiven Haiti's $268 million dollar debt to the fund
2010-07-22,Ian Tomlinson collapsed and died after a police officer struck or pushed him. Today it was announced there would be no prosecution into the death. 
2010-07-22,Botswana Bushmen denied access to water. The Botswana government capped a well to drive natives out of their homeland.
2010-07-22,"Archaeologists have discovered a second henge at Stonehenge, described as the most exciting find there in 50 years"
2010-07-22,"Hugo Chavez puts army on alert and breaks ""absolutely all"" relations with Colombia, who presented photos and maps it said showed 1,500 FARC terrorists hiding in Venezuela."
2010-07-22,Israeli troops kill Palestinian near settlement in West Bank
2010-07-22,"Kosovo's independence is legal, UN court rules - 
Decision in favour of Kosovo's independence could have far-reaching implications for other separatist movements
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2010-07-22,"Nigeria has been facing massive, weekly oil spills for decades."
2010-07-22,"A fifth of UK girls pregnant by 18, survey reveals"
2010-07-22,"German MP calls for 'fat tax' to cover healthcare costs
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2010-07-22,Chinese police beat the wrong person - bringing to light routine beatings of citizens with grievances.
2010-07-22,Nelson Mandela's daughter caught in shoot-out
2010-07-22,International Court of Justice in The Hague rules that Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia is legal
2010-07-22,"Lebanon plans to file a complaint about Israeli ""espionage"" at the United Nations, according to the country's information minister, Al-Jazeera reported Thursday."
2010-07-22,Ottawa orders affirmative-action overhaul - The Conservatives say race and ethnicity shouldn't enter into the hiring process for federal jobs and have ordered a review of affirmative action policies.
2010-07-22,China struggles to contain disasters 
2010-07-22,Berlin and Paris aim to block voting rights for EU deficit offenders
2010-07-22,Gunmen murder Greek investigative journalist and major contributor to the most popular Greek newsblog
2010-07-22,"Only in Israel: Torah-only education, Rabbis want to keep public ignorant; in 20 years job market will be nonexistent"
2010-07-22,"Afraid for their jobs, Venezuelan workers protect factory from being stormed"
2010-07-22,State Dept Plans to Take Over Iraq Operations With Its Own Army --   US State Department is hastily assembling its own army of contractors to continue the war past the end of the Status of Forces Agreement deadline.
2010-07-22,"Swedish women vote to keep their tops on - Swedes, long famous round the world for their relaxed attitude to nudity, are now some of Europes biggest prudes, according to a new survey.
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2010-07-22,"Kosovo independence legal, says UN court. What will Russia do?"
2010-07-22,Former MI5 chief delivers damning verdict on Iraq invasion
2010-07-21,"A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with an Israeli woman who believed he was Jewish because he introduced himself as ""Daniel""."
2010-07-21,"Castro daughter: ""No one is punished for free speech in Cuba. If free and inconvenient thoughts were a crime in our country, I would have been a good candidate for prison, with my advocacy for sexual self-determination. Those people are in prison because they are mercenaries paid by Washington"""
2010-07-21,Germany sets up suicide bomber hotline for Islamic radicals who want help to quit extremism
2010-07-21,"""A degree is a degree, whether it's fake or real"" - Pakistani Politician. "
2010-07-21,"Israel to buy 19 advanced F-35 warplanes in a $3 billion deal from US, that would give it a significant military advantage"
2010-07-21,Google pledges to obey China censorship laws and stop automatically switching mainland users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site
2010-07-21,"In Israel, a convicted Jewish terrorist gets IDF guard for his vineyard in the occupied West Bank"
2010-07-21,Former MI5 chief demolishes Blair's defence of the Iraq war
2010-07-21,Hundreds of dead penguins wash ashore in Brazil.  Scientists say flightless birds likely starved to death but unsure why
2010-07-21,China oil spill after pipe blast 'worse than thought'
2010-07-21,China police 'mistakenly beat boss's wife'
2010-07-21,"Palestinian man to appeal rape-by-deception conviction.  Lawyer says, ""There was a short foreplay a few minutes before; during the foreplay, the guy tells a few lies, the lady tells a few lies. They both have one goal, and that is to go to bed together."" "
2010-07-21,"We warned Iraq invasion would raise terror attack risk, says ex-MI5 chief - THE invasion of Iraq triggered a massive upsurge in terrorist activity against the UK, the former head of MI5 said yesterday."
2010-07-21,China rushes to keep oil from international waters
2010-07-21,Images of the July 17 oil spill in Dalian China
2010-07-21,"Toxic Spill at Chinese Copper Mine Kills Nearly 1,900 Tons of Fish"
2010-07-21,Growing Old Alone- Cleanup after unnoticed death now a growing industry
2010-07-21,"Israel: We will restrict use of white phosphorus munitions and seek to limit civilian casualties in future wars by deploying with troops a ""humanitarian affairs officer"""
2010-07-21,British PM David Cameron flew on a regularly scheduled commercial British Airways jet to DC in order to save money
2010-07-21,"Israeli UN Ambassador: Israel is the most isolated, lonely country in the world, and the biggest threat to its existence is not Iranian nuclear proliferation"
2010-07-21,"24-Yr Old Canadian Soldier Killed In Afghanistan - 
Sapper Brian Collier was killed by a bomb in Afghanistan Tuesday. Collier was killed while on a foot patrol in the village of Nakhonay, in the eastern part of Panjwaii District."
2010-07-21,Israel plans to have anti-missile system operational in 4 months
2010-07-21,The Pentagon Announced That Inmates At Guantanamo Are Being Shipped To Africa
2010-07-21,US announces new sanctions against North Korea
2010-07-21,Participants in a regular UK YouGov survey were recently confronted with an odd request to download software that would track users' surfing habits
2010-07-20,Everyone knows designer sunglasses are a rip-off. But did you know they're all made by the same company?
2010-07-20,Spider-infested ship turned back from Guam 
2010-07-20,"BP is trying to hire top Gulf scientists.  The fine print?  The scientists would be prevented from testifying about what they find for 3 years.  It is not about them testifying for BP, it is about preventing them from testifying against BP."
2010-07-20,Newspaper publishes investigation about clothing retailers and child labour. Article disappears.
2010-07-20,North Korea executes an ex-Cabinet official who was in charge of talks with South Korea
2010-07-20,"Scandinavia Bubbling With Happiness :) ""One theory why is that they have their basic needs taken care of to a higher degree than other countries.""  Jim Harter, Gallup"
2010-07-20,The Swedish Pirate Party Launches The World's First Pirate ISP
2010-07-20,'One of Britain's most senior lawyers has delivered a dramatic boost to the campaign to change the law on drugs'
2010-07-20,Geneticists say Chinese and Tibetans were once one. Neither group likes the idea.
2010-07-20,"One man's quest for peace, one school at a time, has become required reading for the US military. ""Al-Qaida and the Taliban are looking at [Afghanistan]  over generations, ... and we're looking at it in terms of annual fiscal cycles and presidential elections."""
2010-07-20,Sicilians commemorate murdered judge Paolo Borsellino - At least one Italian secret service agent reportedly knew in advance about the carefully planned murder
2010-07-20,"Fmr MI5 Director Understands 'Blowback', Says Iraq War 'Triggered UK Bomb Plots' - Britain's support for the war in Iraq was connected to a series of deadly bombings in London and sparked a rise in domestic attack plots that ""swamped"" security services, a former intelligence chief has said."
2010-07-20,Accusations of child witchcraft on the rise in Africa
2010-07-20,North Korean official in charge of Seoul diplomacy executed
2010-07-20,"Pakistans Elite Pay Few Taxes, Widening Gap"
2010-07-20,Israeli Anti-Rocket System Is Ready: Analysts believe the system has a far-reaching impact on the big picture of arms control and global stability
2010-07-20,US Taxpayers subsidizes the corrupt rich and powerful in Pakistan who refuse to pay their taxes
2010-07-20,Palestinians  living in East Jerusalem are now being forcefully evicted from the homes they were born and raised in because Israel says they are 'disloyal' to the Israeli state. Israel isn't even trying to make up excuses anymore.
2010-07-20,South Korea is to seize property and assets from descendants of people they have identified as Japanese collaborators up to 100 years ago. 
2010-07-20,Floodwaters just 20m below maximum capacity on China's Three Gorge's Dam; waterflow strongest ever
2010-07-20,First female Lutheran bishop resigns over mishandling of sex abuse case - looks like it's not just men!
2010-07-20,"Afghanistan president calls for Nato troop withdrawal by 2014: ""Our Afghan national security forces will be responsible for all military and law enforcement operations"""
2010-07-20,Black parents give birth to white baby. Is this common?
2010-07-20,"""The Israeli economy is one of the most 
concentrated in the Western world. Ten business 
groups control 160 public companies,"" Bank of 
Israel researcher Constantine Kosenco told IDF 
Radio"" "
2010-07-20,"Record heat in Moscow leads denizens to take ""ill-advised dips"" in the river.  This leads to 77 people drowning...most of whom were drunk."
2010-07-19,Wanted by the CIA: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
2010-07-19,"In Japan, thousands of young men are retreating to their bedrooms and refusing to come out. Why?"
2010-07-19,"""If the Vatican is trying to restore the impression that its moral sense is intact, issuing a document that equates pedophilia with the ordination of women doesnt really do that."""
2010-07-19,Israeli bloggers hold online campaign to convince authorities to connect palestinian village to water supply
2010-07-19,"Dutch Politician Forms Anti-Islam Coalition.Controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders has said he is forming an international ""freedom alliance"" to amplify his anti-Muslim message across the West.The aim of the alliance is to end immigration of people from Muslim nations"
2010-07-19,"During the worst of the global financial meltdown, Berlin pumped tens of billions of euros into the economy and spent hundreds of billions propping up German banks. Now, the country is reaping the benefits as Germany is once again Europe's economic motor."
2010-07-19,Syria bans face veils at universities
2010-07-19,"In Japan but surrounded by U.S. influence, Okinawa struggles with split identity -- Americans, imagine for a second what it would be like to have a Japanese military base in your city."
2010-07-19,"Drug gang kills 17 partygoers in Mexico: ""kill them all"""
2010-07-19,"China is now the world's biggest energy consumer, knocking the U.S. off a perch it held for more than a century"
2010-07-19,"Iran urges US to drop 'cowboy logic' over nuclear issue - ""We are for negotiations, but to do so you have to sit down like a good boy,"" Mr Ahmadinejad said, referring to the US in a speech broadcast live on state television."
2010-07-19,"The President of Ireland signed a Civil Partnership Bill for gay couples this morning. The new law provides gay couples with most of the same rights and responsibilities as marriage - tax, social welfare, inheritance."
2010-07-19,"While the prime minister is dispensing promises about easing restrictions in the territories, Israel is expelling hundreds of shepherds from the Jordan Valley "
2010-07-19,Syria bans full Islamic face veils at universities
2010-07-19,Wide-eyed primate caught on camera for first time
2010-07-19,Germany opens motorway for a party 
2010-07-19,The first Palestinian solar-powered car - built from scratch by students with scant resources
2010-07-19,Iran calls for 'more fair' world body than UN - 
2010-07-19,"Bill Clinton and Bill Gates urge more efficient use of funds to fight Aids in the world: ""Too much money is spent on reports that sit on shelves. I was president for eight years and I had no idea it was as bad as it was. We can fix this"""
2010-07-19,Swiss bank to lift lid on hidden Franz Kafka works
2010-07-19,"Wikileaks Reopens for Leakers | Threat Level | 
Wired.com"
2010-07-19,Last Year's Deadly Mudslide;  Did an Underground Nazi Factory Cause Disaster?
2010-07-19,Syria bans face veils at universities
2010-07-19,Tobacco giant Philip Morris found to be purchasing tobacco from landowners using child labor in horrible conditions in Kazakhstan (Video)
2010-07-19,"A company in Dubai has agreed to buy 30,000 bottles of melted glacial water from Greenland for $52, 40 pr. specially produced glass bottle with a glass top."
2010-07-18,"On Monday, The Washington Post (c/o Wikileaks) is going to publish an interactive website exposing Top Secret Federal government contractor details"
2010-07-18,EU Authorities announces that implementation of Net Surveillance Directive is unlawful: Directive compels all ISPs and telecos in Europe to retain telecom and internet traffic data of their customers
2010-07-18,"""My project has saved BP 
so far no recognition "" - Les Goldstein, the plumber who invented the cap. (translated article)"
2010-07-18,In October Scotlands new Sexual Offences Act will come into force: It will be illegal to communicate with someone sexually  either in writing or in speech  without obtaining their consent...
2010-07-18,Britain will not introduce law banning women from wearing the burka - such a move would be rather un-British
2010-07-18,Details of techniques used to inflict pain deliberately on children in privately run jails have been revealed for the first time.
2010-07-18,"How Iron Maiden Can Save The World - ""[Iron Maiden] and the fans, we're like one big family,"" said Bruce Dickinson, echoing the words of amazement an Egyptian friend of mine uttered when we first saw the scene in Dubai. ""Finally, a real community,"" he said with an almost palpable feeling of joy."
2010-07-18,Uzbek women accuse state of mass sterilizations
2010-07-18,"Why States Should Never Enforce Religious Law: Israeli police arrested woman for reading the Torah at the Western wall, which orthodox Jews say is forbidden by the Bible"
2010-07-18,"Hamas are banning women from smoking water pipes in cafes, claiming it violates tradition and leads to divorce."
2010-07-18,"Defying Church, Argentina Legalizes Gay Marriage: President Cristina Fernndez staked her political reputation on passing the law, deepening her often bitter feud with the country's Catholic hierarchy"
2010-07-18,Wanted by the CIA: The man who keeps no secrets (Julian Assange tells Matthew Bell why governments fear Wikileaks)
2010-07-18,Chinese oil pipeline explodes
2010-07-18,"Banning of Burka not only in France but also in... Syria -  Syrian higher education minister prohibits face veils, saying they negate academic values"
2010-07-18,Literal Blowback: Weapons Sent To Central American Fascists During The Cold War Are Now Being Used By Drug Cartels Against Local Governments And American DEA Agents
2010-07-18,Child prison secret restraint tactics 'revealed'
2010-07-18,"Unicef report: Rise in African children accused of witchcraft. Some as young as eight have been been burned, beaten and even killed as punishment"
2010-07-18,South Korea counts the cost of being the most wired nation on earth 
2010-07-18,"Listening to Global Voices - Ethan Zuckerman TED talk, about the global flow of news and information."
2010-07-18,"The mother of a German soldier killed while on duty in Afghanistan is trying to sue the government over his death, accusing the army of having sent his unit into danger without sufficient equipment or backup."
2010-07-18,Iran Says Pakistan Is Harboring Rebels
2010-07-18,Hurricane drowns Mexico's economy - Destruction could be costliest in country's history
2010-07-18,"Baghdad suicide bomber kills at least 43 people and injured 40 more....Meanwhile, there are fears that the political uncertainty could hinder the planned withdrawal of all US combat troops from Iraq ."
2010-07-18,Why Venezuela's Chavez Dug Up Bolivar's Bones?
2010-07-18,Pakistan: Losing lives to form trade unions
2010-07-17,"Israeli PM Netanyahu: 'the only way to deal with the Palestinians is to ""beat them up, not once but repeatedly, beat them up so it hurts so badly, until it's unbearable...America is a thing you can move very easily"""
2010-07-17,"The Iranian Regime's Numbered Days - 
The country's conservative and influential merchant class is on strike. This does not bode well for Ahmadinejad's government."
2010-07-17,Conservative MP refuses to hold meetings with Muslim women wearing full Islamic dress at his constituency surgery unless they lift their face veil
2010-07-17,The Polish Catholic church is losing its members in droves due to the recent spate of pedophile priest-related  sex scandals and increasing secularism amongst Polish youth
2010-07-17,"Once allies, Turkey may soon be severing its ties with Israel"
2010-07-17,Germans Deaf to U.S. `Nonsense' as Exports Power Growth 
2010-07-17,Majority of Brits want burkas banned
2010-07-17,Charlie Brooker: The news
2010-07-17,Tony Blair Directly Involved: US Sought Rendition of British Nationals to Guantnamo.
2010-07-17,Car bomb in Mexican drug war changes ground rules
2010-07-17,Divers find oldest champagne in Baltic wreck
2010-07-17,Palestine's dying keffiyah industry - an iconic symbol dies as it becomes a global fashion accessory
2010-07-17,Persian Isolation - A Quiet Axis Forms Against Iran in the Middle East
2010-07-17,"Roma oppression in Kosovo. ""After the destruction of their homes and forced expulsion from South Mitrovica in Kosovo in 1999, the Roma people were displaced to temporary UN camps at the foot of mountains of toxic lead waste. Ten years later, families are still there suffering..."""
2010-07-17,The Saudi succession: When kings and princes grow old 
2010-07-17,Australian PM calls for elections on Aug' 21
2010-07-17,"More than a thousand civilians have been killed in the war in Afghanistan this year alone, an Afghan rights group has reported."
2010-07-17,Skeleton of Simon Bolivar exhumed in Venezuela
2010-07-17,"Israeli settlements have been dumping untreated waste directly into a sewage canal running through occupied West Bank, affecting Palestinian villages. Israelhas banned plans by the Palestinian Authority to  build pipes & pumps to treat and divert wastewater away from the affected villages."
2010-07-17,Hundreds killed in Darfur fighting 
2010-07-17,North Korean Propaganda Posters
2010-07-17,A new armed group is threatening to launch a violent campaign for the reunification of Somalia.
2010-07-17,India unveils new rupee symbol
2010-07-17,Three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan - The deaths follow a particularly difficult few weeks for Nato forces in the country.
2010-07-17,"CNN fires journalist for expressing regret at the death 
of Lebanese cleric"
2010-07-16,"Our biggest gadget makersincluding HP and Applemay get their raw ingredients from genocidal militias in Congo. A new movement has begun to trace rare metals to the conflict mines they come from, and it won its first major victory this week."
2010-07-16,Woman Arrested at G20 for Assaulting Cop with Bubbles
2010-07-16,"Israel's foreign minister wants to hand Gaza responsibility to International Forces and to lift blockade entirely: Turning it into a fully ""separate"" and ""independent"" entity"
2010-07-16,THE SINGAPORE SOLUTION. How did a sleepy little island transform into a high-tech powerhouse in one generation? It was all in the plan.
2010-07-16,"Africa has more Serial-Killers than U.S. and Europe - Given to ritual murders and a sedentary lifestyle, African serial killers are quite peculiar."
2010-07-16,"Parents who fail to help an obese child eat and exercise could be guilty of neglect, experts say"
2010-07-16,British PM David Cameron is opening up the Shetland Isles to deep-sea drilling
2010-07-16,"Time Magazine: US-Israeli Attack On Iran Back On The Table - ""There really wasn't a military option a year ago,"" an Israeli military source told me. ""But they've gotten serious about the planning, and the option is real now."" Israel has been brought into the planning process..."
2010-07-16,"Scores of Russians have died in the past few weeks 
because of drinking too much vodka during a 
record-setting heatwave.  When I'm thirsty, the 
first thing I also want is vodka."
2010-07-16,"Having multiple husbands has been practiced here for centuries, but in a single generation it has all but vanished."
2010-07-16,"Chomsky: Is the U.S. Gearing Up for the Destruction of Iran? - Iran sits at the top of US concerns about keeping control of Middle East oil-producing regions, preparing for serious violence if other means do not suffice."
2010-07-16,"The Murder of Natalya Estemirova -  Medvedev told  Angela Merkel that investigators have identified and are hunting for the killer of human rights activists Natalya Estemirova. Many, though, think he's wrong. For one, the primary suspect is dead. For another, no one believes he did it."
2010-07-16,How would you fight against traffic hooligans in Russia?
2010-07-16,"Vatican declares ordination of women a ""grave crime"" same as sex abuse"
2010-07-16,"Osama bin Laden is alive, says son Omar"
2010-07-16,Free Mexico honeymoon for first Argentine gay newly-weds - Mexico City has offered a free honeymoon to the first gay couple to marry in Argentina under a new law.
2010-07-16,Making Way for the Pipeline; A Treasure Trove in the Baltic Sea
2010-07-16,"Uganda Wants Its 'Peacekeeping' Troops To Launch Military Offensive In Somalia - ""We are now going to go on the offensive and get these people,"" [Pres. Yoweri Museveni] said. Al-Shabab said the attacks had avenged the indiscriminate shelling of civilians by peacekeepers in Mogadishu. "
2010-07-16,Sunni Terrorist Group Strikes in Iran Killing 27
2010-07-16,Death sentence for Israeli spy in Lebanon
2010-07-16,"Red Sea: the other oil spill -- As BP caps Gulf Coast leak, Egypt wrestles with response to its own spill."
2010-07-16,"On Goldman Sachs' $550m fine: ""The giant vampire squid carries on vampiring"""
2010-07-16,British Government Says Release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was a mistake
2010-07-16,"Aussie War Chief Explains Rationale For Afghan War: ""We have clearly defined goals...: to deny sanctuary to terrorists, to help stabilise Afghanistan and to support our alliance with the United States,"" he said."
2010-07-16,U.S. Says Scientist Was a C.I.A. Informant While Still in Iran 
2010-07-15,Argentina Senate approves same-sex marriage. First country in Latin America to grant same-sex marriages all the rights of heterosexual unions
2010-07-15,"How about some *real* world news? Sudan is preparing for referendums that could lead to southern Sudanese independence, and possibly a stop to the bloodshed"
2010-07-15,"Vatican offends both women and victims of pedophile priests, by saying pedophelia is pretty much at the level of sin of ordaining a woman priest.  A twofer!"
2010-07-15,"BP Admits It Lobbied British for Libyan ""Pan Am Flight 103 bomber"" Transfer, While seeking a billion dollar oil exploration deal with Libya"
2010-07-15,You ever have one of those days where every single thing you read in the news just makes you feel hopeless for the future of the world?
2010-07-15,"Hugo Chavez: ""The pope, who despite what they say is no ambassador on earth for Christ. Christ is in the people"" "
2010-07-15,"""The Vatican today made the ""attempted ordination"" of women one of the gravest crimes under church law, putting it in the same category as clerical sex abuse of minors, heresy and schism."""
2010-07-15,"India has a new symbol for its currency following a public contest with 3,000 submissions"
2010-07-15,U.S based terrorist who was involved in the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed confesses that Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI orchestrated the attacks. 
2010-07-15,Israel approves initial reading of bill that will make it illegal for Israelis to openly support anti-occupation boycott
2010-07-15,"SHOCK! Billions of pounds 'wasted' trying to help Afghanistan - BILLIONS of pounds blown on trying to rid Afghanistan of opium and most of the military's cash-for-work projects have been a complete waste of time and money, Afghanistan's finance minister said."
2010-07-15,Ukraine says No to NATO | Ukraines President Viktor Yanukovich has signed a decree that cancels the countrys previous plans to join the North Atlantic alliance.
2010-07-15,"Argentina legalizes gay marriage in historic vote - Argentina early Thursday legalized same-sex marriages to become the first country in an overwhelmingly Catholic region, Latin America, to grant same-sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples."
2010-07-15,"Countries promised $5.3 billion to Haiti, so far only 2% of that has been handed over, by 4 countries: Norway, Australia, Brazil and Estonia - CNN"
2010-07-15,Healthcare crisis in North Korea forces Kim Jong Il to use his touching healing powers 
2010-07-15,Rwandan opposition party leader found beheaded
2010-07-15,"Arab autocracy: Thank you and goodbye - 
For good or ill, change is coming to Egypt and Saudi Arabia soon "
2010-07-15,"Iranian scientist Shahram Amiri returns home, says US kidnapped him and subjected him to ""the harshest mental and physical torture"""
2010-07-15,Guantanamo torture lawsuits against Britain get green light - A High Court judge has ruled that former Gitmo detainees can proceed with lawsuits accusing Britain of complicity in torture overseas. The UK govt had sought a suspension of the lawsuits to allow an independent inquiry to begin its work.
2010-07-15,A Kingdom Divided: How 9/11 led a preeminent scholar to challenge the House of Saud's teachings on Islam
2010-07-15,"""Jewish terrorist"" arrested in Israel"
2010-07-15,Outspoken Chinese blogs shut down
2010-07-15,Israelis convicted in shooting - An Israeli military court has convicted a former Israeli commander and one of his soldiers over the shooting of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian demonstrator.
2010-07-15,"Denmark Debates a Lower Minimum Wage for Immigrants - A Danish politician has suggested paying immigrants half the current minimum wage. The idea has gone down well with center-right parties, but it's opposed by the left -- and the far right."
2010-07-15,And now another reason to hate BP...
2010-07-14,"2010 Hottest Year on Record so far according to NASA.  That's right.  The Earth has never been hotter than it is right now, at least since we've been keeping records."
2010-07-14,"South Korea, which derives 40% of its electricity from nuclear power, wants to reprocess the waste into usable fuel. The US says no way."
2010-07-14,"Politicians in Pakistan have been left red-faced after an investigation found dozens of MPs have fake university degrees.
The chief minister of Balochistan Province, Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raisani, told the press: ""A degree is a degree, whether it is fake or genuine."""
2010-07-14,900-year-old Song dynasty drains save Chinese city from deadly floods
2010-07-14,"India considers a ""sterilization first"" policy as population spirals out of control"
2010-07-14,"Britain's actually almost 4 trillion in debt, about 4 x higher than previously acknowledged"
2010-07-14,"South Korea has deployed sentry robots capable of detecting and killing intruders along the heavily-fortified border with North Korea, officials said on Tuesday."
2010-07-14,"BBC report on the UK's premier scientific bodies ""cease and desist"" letter to EXXON asking them to stop funding groups distorting their views on Global warming.   "
2010-07-14,Chinese factories now compete to woo laborers
2010-07-14,"Half a million Israelis live on stolen West Bank land. ""A report finds an estimated 300,000 living in 121 official settlements, plus 100,000 in smaller unofficial 'outposts'. The remainder in 12 neighbourhoods annexed to Jerusalem."""
2010-07-14,"Chile approves net neutrality (google translation from a spanish blog, sorry about that)"
2010-07-14,Interesting BBC piece revealing Japan's bizarre high tech / low tech cultural juxtaposition
2010-07-14,"Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri, who defected to the US, is now on his way back home to Tehran after a very messy and public re-defection"
2010-07-14,Four West Australian police officers are being investigated over allegations they misused Tasers on colleagues during an apparent initiation ritual.
2010-07-14,"Threat to peace talks as Israelis demolish home - Israeli bulldozers razed six buildings in East Jerusalem, including three Palestinian homes, marking the end of Israeli efforts to refrain from contentious demolitions that could undermine peace talks."
2010-07-14,The Taliban is training monkey soldiers for Jihad. Makes sense: you don't want to mess with a monkey with an AK-47.
2010-07-14,"Israeli Driver: 'No black Ethiopians on my bus' - The driver added: ""All of these kushim [a derogatory term for Africans] should be sent back to Ethiopia. You are a stupid nation, and you damage our land."""
2010-07-14,French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in public
2010-07-14,Two more journalists shot and killed in Mexico
2010-07-14,Australian drunk survives attempt to ride crocodile
2010-07-14,"Amy Goodman: Haiti, Six Months After the Earthquake - Truthdig-July 12 marked the six month anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed as many as 300,000 people and left much of the country in ruins.
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2010-07-14,Classified documents reveal UK's role in abuse of its own citizens
2010-07-14,"""So we have an Act of Parliament which expressly grants to the Treasury power to disapply ... any rule of law"" - Lord Chief Justice criticises UK's authoritarian laws"
2010-07-14,German policeman wins extra week of holiday for time spent getting dressed
2010-07-14,Anti-Semitic Alliance - The Shared Extremism of Neo-Nazis and Migrant Youth in Germany
2010-07-13,"""So that's OK then. It's fine to abuse young girls, as long as you're a great film director"""
2010-07-13,After four years of relative seclusion Fidel Castro makes a televised address warning of imminent nuclear conflict in the Middle East.
2010-07-13,"91 Israelis file a $1.2 billion lawsuit in a US federal court against al-Jazeera: ""The network 'intentionally reported live coverage of locations of missile strikes inside of Israel to aid Hezbollah"""
2010-07-13,South Korea deploys robots capable of killing intruders along border with North 
2010-07-13,Israel faces worldwide dockworkers boycott for flotilla massacre and Gaza siege
2010-07-13,"Burka Ban: French Parliament Votes To Ban Veils Covering Face, Muslim Burka And Niqab Affected"
2010-07-13,Iran says a nuclear scientist it claims was abducted by the US has taken refuge in its interest section at Pakistan's embassy in Washington
2010-07-13,"""Israel razed on Tuesday an inhabited Palestinian home in East Jerusalem for the first time in eight months, effectively ending an unofficial freeze of such internationally-condemned demolitions."""
2010-07-13,US and UK credit rating downgraded by Chinese
2010-07-13,Did BP Negotiate a Terrorist's Release in Exchange for Libyan Oil?
2010-07-13,"UK Opposes criminalization of illegal file sharing, citing that the penalties are not appropriate"
2010-07-13,"'Walls of fat' removed from London's sewers - A team of ""flushers"" equipped with full breathing apparatus has been drafted in with shovels to dig out an estimated 1,000 tonnes of putrid fat."
2010-07-13,"If the public fears a cyberwar because the powers that be says there is danger, that makes it easier to put into place systems that watch and record everything you do online, provide justification for cutting off the Internet during an emergency and other measures. (warning PDF)"
2010-07-13,European Union member states have agreed the additional funds needed to construct Iter (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor).
2010-07-13,The Jewish school where half the pupils are Muslim
2010-07-13,The organisers of a Libyan aid ship bound for Gaza say it's been confronted by an Israeli military vessel and ordered to change its course for Egypt. They also say the boat - called 'Hope' - is refusing to alter its destination and will continue to head to the Palestinian territory. 
2010-07-13,Israelis sue Al-Jazeera over Lebanon war reporting
2010-07-13,"Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, when Bosnian Serbs killed around 8,000 Muslim men and boys. German commentators point out that there are still plenty of unanswered questions, including whether blame for the genocide has been correctly attributed."
2010-07-13,Afghan soldier kills Nato troops
2010-07-13,United Arab Emirates issues religious edict against vuvuzelas
2010-07-13,Afghan soldier kills 3 Brit troops during joint patrol
2010-07-13,"Missing Iranian scientist found in US - A missing Iranian nuclear scientist that Teheran claims was kidnapped by the CIA has sought refuge in the Pakistani embassy in Washington, according to an Iranian state radio report cited by Reuters."
2010-07-13,"Policeman arrested for smuggling drugs to prisoners - Police said this is not the first time a police officer has become involved in smuggling drugs to prisoners in exchange for money.
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2010-07-13,Russia longs for breather in fierce heatwave
2010-07-13,French MPs vote to ban Islamic full veil in public
2010-07-12,BANGLADESH: A man dies in police custody after refusing to pay bribes; his relatives are warned not to pursue the case
2010-07-12,North Korean soldiers defect to China fuelling fears of imminent military clash
2010-07-12,"Terrorists target World Cup fans in Uganda, watching final game : At least 64 killed"
2010-07-12,"Anger in Costa Rica over deal to 'invite' 46 US warships    Opposition leaders in Costa Rica are furious over an agreement that allows 46 US warships and 7,000 US Marines to enter the country as part of an anti-drug effort."
2010-07-12,Swiss authorities reject US extradition of Polanski
2010-07-12,Israel and the lobby are pushing us to war with Iran.
2010-07-12,Al Qaeda group bombs Ugandan World Cup parties: death toll now 65 (Photos)
2010-07-12,Ireland to block EU-Israel data transfer
2010-07-12,Facebook installs 'panic button' for children
2010-07-12,"Oil companies complicit in Sudan civil war, report alleges. ""A recent report by a group of NGOs alleges that an oil consortium led by Swedish firm Lundin Petroleum may have been complicit in 'war crimes and crimes against humanity' in Sudan."""
2010-07-12,No freedom flotilla for the people of Darfur.  Sudan government incited violence kills 221 in June
2010-07-12,Conroy and Gillard delay controversial web filtering plan.  The Australian government has succumbed to pressure and delayed the introduction of its mandatory internet filtering scheme.
2010-07-12,"Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro will appear on Cuban television and radio on Monday evening to discuss his theory that the world is on the verge of nuclear war, the Communist Party newspaper Granma said in its Monday online edition."
2010-07-12,Two men who organised a controversial art exhibition showing in Moscow in 2007 have been found guilty by a Russian court of inciting hatred.
2010-07-12,BBC News - Twin blasts in Uganda capital Kampala kill at least 64
2010-07-12,Will Brazil be able to successfully host the 2014 World Cup? Al-Jazeera reports that maybe they won't.
2010-07-12,"Iran Air is now forbidden from landing most of its airplanes in Europe, due to ""safety concerns"""
2010-07-12,"26 Year Old Woman Raped and Murdered by Basij Members for 'Bad Hijab' - The intentions of the savage Basij members was to put a stop to the ""improper"" way women in society dressed"
2010-07-12,Gaza farmers risk being shot by Israeli patrols: Foreigners acts as human shield to protect Palestinians
2010-07-12,Israel's military probe into the attack on the Gaza aid convoy has found Israeli forces guilty of serious errors
2010-07-12,'Shining India' makes its poor pay price of hosting Commonwealth Games
2010-07-12,China: New government transparency rules strike chord with public
2010-07-12,"Creating Order in the Euro Zone - Fearing a lasting burden on taxpayers, the German government is preparing a set of insolvency rules for countries in the euro zone. It would require private investors to bear some of the financial burden and force the affected countries to give up some sovereignty."
2010-07-12,"Dubai: full body scanners at airports violate ""personal privacy"" and may have side effects on passengers."
2010-07-12,Palestinians in Hebron have their doors welded shut to protect Jewish settlers.
2010-07-11,It was a helluva run: Colton Harris-Moore arrested in Bahamas
2010-07-11,"Al Jazeera found that stoplights that lead to Jewish settlements and neighbourhoods stay green for an average of a minute and a half. In Palestinian areas, it's 20 seconds. One light in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem is green for less than 10 seconds"
2010-07-11,18 terabytes of uncut rushes put together by Phil Goodwin who has worked for 14 years as a cameraman for the BBC in Afghanistan
2010-07-11,"An academic backlash has erupted in Israel over 
proposed new laws, backed by the government of 
Binyamin Netanyahu, to criminalise a handful of 
Israeli professors who openly support a campaign 
against the continuing occupation of the West Bank."
2010-07-11,Ireland seeks to block Israel access to data on EU citizens
2010-07-11,The Country that Hates Everyone
2010-07-11,4 Arrested in South Africa Trying to Sell Nuclear Device
2010-07-11,Syrian troops overwhelmed by diarrhea epidemic!
2010-07-11,Haunting Images of the Massacre That Shamed Europe and the UN
2010-07-11,"Report: At least 33 dead after two explosions hit Kampala, Uganda"
2010-07-11,Threatening World Order: US and Israel Quietly Announce Plans to Reconstitute Their Nuclear Stockpiles
2010-07-11,Hamas vows to punish collaborators with Israel as remorse ultimatum is over
2010-07-11,Guatemala's navy captured a makeshift submarine loaded with five metric tons of cocaine bound for the United States.
2010-07-11,"With nonviolent struggle, we can win the media battle.  They always used to say that Palestinians are killers. With nonviolence, we can show that we are victims, that we are not against Jews but are against occupation."
2010-07-11,Israel says won't let Libyan aid ship reach Gaza
2010-07-11,"New pictures show Castro in rare public appearance 
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2010-07-11,Pyramid Construction Supervisor's Tomb Found : Discovery News
2010-07-11,Sri Lanka war crimes rift with U.N. widens over protests 
2010-07-11,Cuba 'starts freeing dissidents' after hunger strike
2010-07-11,Afghanistans Qalah-ye Zal District Governor killed after bomb detonates inside car
2010-07-11,Libyan ship: We're going to Gaza 
2010-07-11,"Of course Rupert Murdoch's evil, but that doesn't mean he's wrong "
2010-07-11,Physicists' research casts doubt on idea that North Korean torpedo downed vessel
2010-07-11,"In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging to the Edge"
2010-07-11,Galloway sums up the israel palestine conflict in an interview
2010-07-10,"France denies citizenship to Muslim immigrant who failed to ""assimilate into French society"""
2010-07-10,"A Muslim immigrant who called for ""the slaughter of Jews"" in online postings has become the first person to be charged with promoting genocide in Canada"
2010-07-10,"Math Class in the Morning, Turning Tricks at Lunchtime - They are still children, only 12 or 13 years old. They fall in love for the first time and wind up with a pimp. Parents and police are struggling against the hold so-called loverboys have over young girls, but often it's already too late."
2010-07-10,Iran imposes media blackout over stoning sentence woman
2010-07-10,South Africa black-owned farms 'failing' 
2010-07-10,More than a million people are marching in Barcelona to call for greater autonomy for the Catalan region.
2010-07-10,"Brazil moves to update its copyright law, with a twist; penalize anyone who ""hinders or impedes"" fair use rights or obstructs the use of work that has already fallen into the public domain."
2010-07-10,"Dubai airports nix full-body scanners ""out of respect for privacy of individuals and personal freedom"""
2010-07-10,"Drug bust at Israel airport, Hasidic Jews arrested"
2010-07-10,"For Propaganda to Work, It Must First Be Believable: The Captured Palestinian Missile Launching Garbage Truck"
2010-07-10,"Palestinian demographics and cross border fungibles could break down Israel's ring-fenced security, causing even more of its nervous east European-origin Jews to migrate back to their homes in Russia, Poland and elsewhere"
2010-07-10,More than 100 dead in blast in northwest Pakistan
2010-07-10,Painting depicting politicians at Nelson Mandela's autopsy have sparked anger in SA; ruling ANC party compares it to 'witchcraft' and call it racist
2010-07-10,Chinese Naval Fighter begins roll-out.  What does it remind me of?
2010-07-10,"The sad reality is that todays oppressed are quite often yesterdays oppressors, and todays victims tomorrows victimizers. "
2010-07-10,"UK fugitive kills himself to evade capture, which begs the question, why is it considered more humane to lock someone up for the rest of their life rather than execute?"
2010-07-10,Belgium Church Panel On Sex Abuse Shuts After Raid
2010-07-10,"In Haiti, the Displaced Are Left Clinging to the Edge: The largest urban disaster in modern history"
2010-07-10,The village makes the villain. 
2010-07-10,Mozambique's `recolonisation'
2010-07-10,Professor's hand chopped off for insulting Muhammad
2010-07-10,Global Elite Designed Sanctions to Kill and Impoverish the People of Iran
2010-07-10,"The ""Chinese military awoke [on June 28, 2010] to find as many as 462 new Tomahawks deployed by the U.S. in its neighborhood. 'There's been a decision to bolster our forces in the Pacific,' says Bonnie Glaser, a China expert . . . 'There is no doubt that China will stand up and take notice.'"""
2010-07-10,How Guatemala nearly went 'narco'
2010-07-10,INDONESIA Moluccas clashes between Christians and Muslims three dead and five injured
2010-07-09,Iran: woman 'adulterer' will not face stoning
2010-07-09,"BP has 24 hours to give answers on oil well, US government says"
2010-07-09,Companies brace for end of cheap made-in-China era
2010-07-09,Australian Government Temporarily Backs Down on the Internet Filter Issue.
2010-07-09,"""In all [last week], the Chinese military awoke to find as many as 462 new Tomahawks deployed by the U.S. in its neighborhood."""
2010-07-09,Iran to U.S.: No talks until you clarify stance on Israel nukes - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the United States must make its position on Israel's nuclear strategy clear before talks on Tehran's atomic program could resume.
2010-07-09,"
STOP BUYING FOOD PRODUCTS MADE IN CHINA...

Chinese authorities have seized 64 tonnes of milk powder and products laced with the same deadly toxic additive that sparked an uproar in 2008."
2010-07-09,"Russian-built submersibles would be able to cap the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the captain of one of the vessels has said"
2010-07-09,China renews Google's license
2010-07-09,"Poverty within white South Africa, in pictures"
2010-07-09,"Here is the cached post the UK and US don't want any body to see. Fadelalah was a decent man, from  the  lady who knew/met him several times, he is no spiritual leader of Hizbulah."
2010-07-09,BBC News - Iran woman escapes stoning death for adultery
2010-07-09,"things are getting hot : UK deletes a blog post made by their ambassador in lebanon (Frances Guy) that praises late Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanon's top Shiite cleric"
2010-07-09,PAKISTAN: A trade union leader and his brother are murdered during strike negotiations
2010-07-09,Italian journalists strike over Berlusconi wiretap bill
2010-07-09,"Haryana, the caste barrier is broken. A Dalit elected head of an Indian village"
2010-07-09,Bookstore CEO and wife of billionaire saves Iranian woman from stoning.
2010-07-09,Japan increases its airspace at the expense of Taiwan
2010-07-09,Israel is still bitching against anyone who mourns the Lebanese deceased cleric
2010-07-09,Well-known human rights organization denounces CNN's firing of Mideast editor
2010-07-09,"This kid can't catch a break: horrible name, horrible father, horrible timing to commit a horrible act and now a horrible time in prison. "
2010-07-09,BBC News - UK envoy's praise for Lebanon cleric draws Israel anger
2010-07-09,Deep Throat - The depravity of Major League Eating. 
2010-07-09,Real-life Shaolin Soccer: Chinese monks starts soccer team
2010-07-09,"CNN fires British ambassador for praising deceased 
Lebanon cleric"
2010-07-08,CNN Drops 20-year-veteran news editor after twitter post mourning the death of pro-women's rights Hezbollah leader.
2010-07-08,"With 6 countries imposing the death penalty on gay people and 80 making gay sex illegal, British judges say gay refugees must get asylum"
2010-07-08,PROMISES BROKEN: Hundreds of fishermen dont get their BP checks
2010-07-08,"Irish block EU plan to allow data transfer to Israel - 
The Irish Times - Thu, Jul 08, 2010"
2010-07-08,"Obama orders investigation of Turkish aid foundation after Israeli peace activist slaughter - The United States is investigating whether to add the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or HH, to its official list of terrorist organizations."
2010-07-08,"UK treasure hunter finds 52,000 Roman coins"
2010-07-08,A penguin has been found wandering the streets of Dublin after she was stolen from the zoo in a suspected prank.
2010-07-08,BBC News - Three held in Norway 'al-Qaeda bomb plot'
2010-07-08,"As many of you may know, The Pirate Bay is down, here is the reason."
2010-07-08,"4,300-year-old tombs found in Egypt"
2010-07-08,Controversy over South Korea's sunken ship - Physicists' research casts doubt on idea that North Korean torpedo downed vessel
2010-07-08,"AARP on Iran's health care system: ""That system has eliminated
health disparities between rural and urban populations over the last 30
years, reducing infant mortality in rural areas by tenfold."""
2010-07-08,"If Earth stopped spinning, how would land, water reconfigure in absence of centrifugal force? Computer simulation supplies answer: one equatorial megacontinent, two great polar oceans"
2010-07-08,Chinese Firm Drops Local IQ Standards for U.S. Hires
2010-07-08,Fox Plans Arabic News Channel
2010-07-08,Iranian woman condemned to be stoned receives reprieve.
2010-07-08,"Poverty among Holocaust victims in Israel is something of a dirty secret and there's a sense of bitterness and betrayal: ""We helped found the state of Israel and built it. They should make our final years better"""
2010-07-08,"Britain condemns planned stoning to death for adultery of a woman in Iran: ""stoning is a medieval punishment that has no place in the modern world"""
2010-07-08,"Afghanistan: Now it's America's war - There is little doubt that the new British Government would like to bring the troops back from a war it has inherited, and one which is proving increasingly costly in both human and financial terms."
2010-07-08,"The Corruption Hunter Network form club: Sounds like a band of comic-book superheroes, but they are real  prosecutors and investigators who fight governmental and institutional wrongdoing world-wide"
2010-07-08,"Iran halts woman's death by stoning - but she could still face death penalty, and 12 other women still face death by stoning"
2010-07-08,European Parliament approves sending European citizens' financial data to U.S. authorities as part of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program
2010-07-08,Cuba Releasing 1/3 of Country's Political Prisoners!
2010-07-08,How Kim Jong-il Ruined World Cup Propaganda Push for Heir
2010-07-08,Russia Frees Scientist in Exchange for the Russian spy Anna Chapman
2010-07-07,A woman who suffered severe facial burns during the 7/7 terror attacks in London five years ago is showing off her new face to the world
2010-07-07,Mullets Are Officially Illegal in Iran
2010-07-07,Messopotamia is still being looted. Still.
2010-07-07,Over $200 Million In Tax-Exempt Funds Have Been Sent To Extremist Jewish Settlers By American Non-Profits In The Past 10 Years
2010-07-07,"Two gay men who said they faced persecution in their home countries have the right to asylum in the UK, the Supreme Court has ruled. "
2010-07-07,IDF objector sprays 'Free Gaza' graffiti on Warsaw Ghetto wall
2010-07-07,"The Case Against Kissinger Deepens One of the key figures to stand in the way of Chilean generals plotting to overthrow Allende was the Chilean army commander-in-chief, Rene Schneider, who was killed during a botched kidnapping attempt by military right-wingers in 1970"
2010-07-07,Britain prepares for the collapse of BP
2010-07-07,Queen Elizabeth II makes first U.N. speech since 1957
2010-07-07,"
Charges have been laid against the soldier who released the Iraq bombing videos to Wikileaks."
2010-07-07,"Moscow curators face 3 years in prison for exhibit that offended Russian Orthodox Church-A Lesson for America??;The church has become an instrument of censorship like it was during czarist times,"" said Gleb Yakunin, 76, a priest and Soviet-era dissident...""It wants to control culture"
2010-07-07,Son urges Iranian courts to stop mother's death by stoning
2010-07-07,"Israel allows Palestinian newspapers into Gaza, Hamas bans them"
2010-07-07,Private information on innocent European citizens will be handed over to U.S. law enforcement authorities under an agreement slated for approval by the European Parliament this week
2010-07-07,Russian government offers 'spy swap' deal to US
2010-07-07,"UK Terrorism Stop & Search Power Violates Rights - 450,000 people stopped & searched, zero people successfully prosecuted"
2010-07-07,Cuba has agreed to free 52 political prisoners and allow them to leave the country in what would be the island's largest mass liberation of dissidents since Pope John Paul II visited in 1998.
2010-07-07,China executes top official for corruption
2010-07-07,"Police question Belgian cardinal in child abuse probe
"
2010-07-07,Canadian Court Rules ISPs Not Broadcasters: May Require Net Neutrality and Block Content Levy
2010-07-07,"IDF investigation of Gaza war crimes, including 
point-blank killing of civilians in front of their 
families, has yielded a scapegoat ... What is clear is 
that the members of the Al-Samouni family were 
not killed due to the error of a single soldier.  - 
Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News"
2010-07-07,"Poland to extradite Israeli agent to Germany
"
2010-07-07,Burma: Does today's most notorious military dictatorship pose a third potential nuclear threat after North Korea and Iran?
2010-07-07,"Send a postcard to Benjamin Netanyahu.  Download 
and print."
2010-07-07,"Report: Secret document affirms U.S.-Israel nuclear partnership, despite the fact that Israel is not a signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty"
2010-07-06,"Israeli judge: ""We must learn from the Nazi tactics,"" to improve the State of Israel's PR efforts in the world"
2010-07-06,"""Four journalists have filed complaints with Ontario's police watchdog, alleging physical assaults and threats of sexual violence by police during the Toronto G20 summit, their lawyer says."""
2010-07-06,"Some half a million Israelis are now living over the 
Green Line: more than 300,000 in 121 settlements 
and about one hundred outposts, which control 42 
percent of the land area of the West Bank - 
B'Tselem"
2010-07-06,Israeli soldiers to be prosecuted for using Palestinians as a human shield in last Gaza War
2010-07-06,Colossal waste of money: South Africa's 10 new stadiums face uncertain future
2010-07-06,Ugandan LGBT Advocate Found Beheaded
2010-07-06,"Exposed: The truth about Israel's land grab in the West Bank - Jewish settlers, who claim a divine right to the whole of Israel, now control more than 42 per cent of the occupied West Bank, representing a powerful obstacle to the creation of a Palestinian state"
2010-07-06,US scientists create HIV-resistant cells
2010-07-06,"Death by Remote: But Is It Legal? - ""extrajudicial executions ... are punishable as a war crime"" says 1998 UN report"
2010-07-06,"This spring, it looked as though the Catholic Church was finally going to confront charges of sexual abuse head on. Following recent police raids in Belgium, however, the Vatican has once again closed ranks. In the internal Holy See debate, the conservatives have regained the upper hand."
2010-07-06,Pakistan: Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar 'arrested'
2010-07-06,Money laundering in Zimbabwe: You're doing it wrong
2010-07-06,Cockney to disappear from London 'within 30 years'
2010-07-06,"NYT: ""As the United States seeks to end a four-decade Jewish settlement enterprise, the American Treasury helps sustain the settlements through tax breaks on donations to support them."""
2010-07-06,A U.S. geologist has been sentenced to eight years in a Chinese prison for allegedly violating state secret laws.
2010-07-06,Clinton criticizes Russia for occupying Georgia
2010-07-06,"Turkey wants Israel apology, Israel rejects demand "
2010-07-06,Have you ever heard of these tunnels?
2010-07-06,"Pressure on Sarkozy over allegations he took illegal gifts
"
2010-07-06,"Seoul wants 'clear and firm' UN message to N.Korea
"
2010-07-06,Mexico thwarts Hezbollah bid to set up South American network 
2010-07-06,Two-Thirds Of Iran Air Fleet Banned From Flying Into EU
2010-07-06,"Anti-Beer Demonstrators Arrested at Beer Festival - First of all, this event was not against alcohol in general, but against substandard beer and against the culture of people getting together en masse and drinking this horrible beer..., said organizer Andrei Pesotsky."
2010-07-06,Swedish party leader sets USD 20.000 on fire to kick off campaign
2010-07-06,"Poll: Most Germans Want to Dump Euro, Return to Deutschmark - More than half of Germans reportedly want to go back to the deutschmark, 11 years after they dumped it for the euro.
"
2010-07-05,"To check mates claim, chess champion Bobby Fischer is exhumed in Iceland."
2010-07-05,"British Medical Association labels gay conversion therapy harmful, discredited"
2010-07-05,"What was happening at G20 in Toronto, Canada - Police surround and attack small group of protesters at Queen and Spadina  "
2010-07-05,Toronto G20 Police threaten to rape and torture journalist and female protesters. Male officers strip search and cavity search females. 
2010-07-05,"Why do you hate us? [the US officer asked], Because you blow down our doors, enter our houses, pull our women by the hair and kick our children. We cannot accept this. We will fight back, and we will break your teeth, and when your teeth are broken you will leave...It is just a matter of time."
2010-07-05,"An ugly paradox of the 21st century is that some of our elegant symbols of modernity  smartphones, laptops and digital cameras  are built from minerals that seem to be fueling mass slaughter and rape in Congo."
2010-07-05,Iranian mother of two to be stoned to death
2010-07-05,"Police at G20: ""There is no civil rights here in Ontario, how many times do you need to be told that?"" (4:55) - repost from /r/canada"
2010-07-05,Consensus on ACTA Transparency Breaks Down: U.S. Opposing Release of Secret Copyright Treaty
2010-07-05,"Taser abuse covered up by police: Report shows Police used tasers far too often and in a dangerous manner.
 "
2010-07-05,Turkey: Hundreds of Kurdish children jailed on terror charges
2010-07-05,The power of nightmares: Chinas proposed sale of nuclear reactors to Pakistan will intensify nuclear rivalry with India. But the damage will go far wider 
2010-07-05,Leaked Luntz Poll: Majority of Americans dont support Israeli flotilla raid
2010-07-05,The European Union has agreed to new rules limiting banker's bonuses in an effort to curtail short-sighted investments. It is the latest EU effort to apply the lessons learned from the financial crisis.
2010-07-05,"Airports in England, Germany, the UAE have refused to give fuel to Iranian planes"
2010-07-05,"BREAKING: Israel drops all restrictions on the free 
flow of consumer goods into the Gaza Strip, 
restricting only a short blacklist of weapons and 
construction materials which could be used by 
militants."
2010-07-05,"Billions of dollars are being secreted out of Kabul to help well-connected Afghans buy luxury villas in Dubai. Amid concerns that the money could be the result of corruption, American politicians have temporarily cut off aid to the Afghan government."
2010-07-05,Lockerbie Bomber Not Dying After All
2010-07-05,BBC News - China jails US geologist for stealing state secrets
2010-07-05,"BP boss building 1.3m Spanish villa to ""escape"" oil spill mess"
2010-07-05,Thousands Arrested in Fuel Price Protests in India
2010-07-05,Racism in Mexico rears its ugly head: Are Mexicans Racist?
2010-07-05,Australian Tomato prices are expected to increase after more than 5 million plants were poisoned at two north Queensland properties.
2010-07-05,Swiss close to deciding on extradition of Roman Polanski
2010-07-05,Iraq: female genital mutilation continues in Kurdish Iraq
2010-07-04,"Finland's ""right to broadband"" law is all about preventing the gov't from cutting off citizens' Internet access for bullshit political reasons"
2010-07-04,"Haitian Farmers Fight Back Against Monsanto - Concerned that giant multinational corporations are attempting to gain a larger foothold in the local economy, they call on farmers to burn any Monsanto seeds already distributed, and demand that the government reject further shipments."
2010-07-04,Lebanon's Shia Muslim leader dies - the CIA attempted his assassination in 1985 with a car bombing that killed some 80 civilians
2010-07-04,5 yr olds & the truth - study into false sexual abuse stories
2010-07-04,This may be Britain's Abu Ghraib - The allegations of torture by British soldiers in Iraq bear chilling comparison with America's worst excesses
2010-07-04,"US warships headed to Costa Rica in order to fight ""War on Drugs"""
2010-07-04,Jaroslaw Kaczynski has conceded defeat in Poland's presidential elections after exit polls suggested he had lost to Bronislaw Komorowski.
2010-07-04,"The precise compilation of western casualties contrasts with almost criminal neglect in tracking the numbers of Afghan civilians killed since 2001. If Afghanistan is the ""good war"" then why are we not demanding to be accurately told how many skeletons there are in the Afghan closet?"
2010-07-04,Compromise between Hong Kongs democrats and Chinese officials will allow a majority of legislators to be elected by popular vote for the first time in Hong Kongs history
2010-07-04,Iran 'has proof US kidnapped missing scientist'
2010-07-04,Ecuador authorities seize 30 meter drug-smuggling sub
2010-07-04,A Russian oligarch is facing the biggest divorce payment in history after his wife demanded a 3.8 billion settlement
2010-07-04,Why does the world buy into Tony Blair? 
2010-07-04,PAKISTAN: The ISI severely torture a soldier for five years on false charges of spying for India
2010-07-04,BBC News - Call to ban rugby scrums in schools
2010-07-04,"Will Europe still be a military power in the 21st century?  

This question would seemed absurd in the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, or 20th centuries, all of which had their different versions of European military power. "
2010-07-04,Saudi King Halts Oil Exploration to Save Wealth
2010-07-04,"This video is for all the people who were mad at the vandalism and said ""Cops are just people trying to do their job!""  Where is your outrage now that its pretty clear this was a set up? "
2010-07-04,Permission granted : Tensions flare again as Israel proposes to expand settlements
2010-07-04,Private armies getting stronger in the Philippines
2010-07-04,WHO: Medical equipment still banned from Gaza
2010-07-04,Indonesian Islamists Threaten Christians
2010-07-04,1Mbps Broadband Becomes a Legal Right... in Finland
2010-07-04,"Good job BP, Miami  now faces up to 80% chance of BP Oil"
2010-07-04,Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah dies at 74
2010-07-03,"I was told I was going to be raped, I was told I was going to be gangbanged, I was told that they were going to make sure that I was never going to want to act as a journalist again."
2010-07-03,"Netanyahu: No apology, no compensation to Turkey over Gaza flotilla - ""Israel cannot apologize for our soldiers being forced to defend themselves against the mob that almost slaughtered them,"" Netanyahu said during an interview with Israel's Channel 1."
2010-07-03,"Swedish 'sex purchase law' very effective - A Swedish law punishing the purchase -- not sale -- of sex, has been so effective it has slashed street prostitution in half."
2010-07-03,The three richest men in the world have more money than the poorest 48 countries.
2010-07-03,Hitler Film Reveals India's Nazi Fascination - CBS News
2010-07-03,"Brazilian taskforce frees more than 4,500 slaves after record number of raids on remote farms."
2010-07-03,"DEA, Ecuadoran officials seize real drug submarine"
2010-07-03,China 'jails Tibet activist for five years' for publishing a pro-Dalai Lama article on his website
2010-07-03,"Palestinian PM gives Israeli PM concrete proposal for final borders: gives control over Jewish Quarter, Western Wall to Israel, allows for land swaps of 2.5% of West Bank (for annexation of Israeli settlements) and a land corridor between West Bank and Gaza."
2010-07-03,Iran remembers victims of airliner shot down by US
2010-07-03,"250 dead in oil explosion and no one cares since it 
happened in the Congo. "
2010-07-03,"100 people feared dead after oil tanker exploded, setting fire to a village in DR Congo"
2010-07-03,A person criticises the the Thailand government on Facebook. The next day he is arrested and jailed for 2 months pending trial. 
2010-07-03,"Kenya: Christian preachers exploit the sick, 
promising miracle cures for the terminally ill at a 
price (vid)"
2010-07-03,"No spending please, we're German - Berlin has been portrayed by Washington as the selfish bogeyman of the global recession. But Germans aren't being cheap: They're being themselves."
2010-07-03,"Iran: Ahmadinejad calls new US sanctions against 
Iran ""pathetic"", warning ""they would regret their 
bullying""."
2010-07-03,Buffett donates $1.93bn in shares to five charities.
2010-07-03,"When oil began to spill from the overturned tanker, local residents attempted to collect the oil. One was smoking a cigarette, causing the tanker to explode"
2010-07-03,Algerians seek damages for France for the 17 nuclear tests France conducted in the 1960s.
2010-07-03,"Congo: 270 feared dead after an oil tanker 
overturned and exploded, setting fire to a village "
2010-07-03,Goldman Sachs: The Pirates of Poison in the Gulf
2010-07-03,"Ethnic Turks Encounter 'Kltrschock' - More ethnic Turks are now moving out of Germany than in. As the German economy lags, a Western education helps professional Turkish Germans find work in a booming Muslim nation. But they aren't always welcomed ""home."""
2010-07-03,Campaign for Iranian woman facing death by stoning 
2010-07-03,"A warm welcome to guardian.co.uk for all former readers of the Times - On the day that Rupert Murdoch's London Times puts up its online pay wall, the still-free Guardian sets out its stall to new readers, and sticks a few stilettos in the Times's back along the way"
2010-07-03,General Motors now sells more cars in China than in the USA.  How long before it's a Chinese car company with an American subsidiary?
2010-07-02,   Sweden ends compulsory military service   
2010-07-02,Mexican gang gunfight near US border leaves 21 dead
2010-07-02,Is Canadian Copyright Minister An Agent of Foreign Influence?
2010-07-02,"On March 21, 2010, the Syrian security forces opened fire with live ammunition on a crowd of 5,000 in the northern Syrian town of al-Raqqah. The crowd had gathered to celebrate the Kurdish festival of Nowruz. Three people, including a 15-year-old girl, were killed. Did you know about this?"
2010-07-02,Canadian copyright astroturf site revealed as front for recording industry lobby
2010-07-02,How Long Does it take for the Average Chinese Worker to Buy a Home?
2010-07-02,How an MI5 'weapons dealer' tricked a Real IRA leader
2010-07-02,"This is the story of how some of the richest people in the world - Goldman, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and more - have caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world"
2010-07-02,"The former head of interpol, South Africa's former police commisioner, has been found guilty of corruption."
2010-07-02,42 killed at Sufi shrine in Pakistan by two suicide bombers
2010-07-02,"Male 'Virginity Test' Helps Free Three Men Accused Of Rape 
"
2010-07-02,"The British, never fond of children, have lost all knowledge or intuition about how to raise them; as a consequence, they now fear them, perhaps the most terrible augury possible for a society."
2010-07-02,Deadly blasts hit Lahore shrine: At least 41 people have been killed and hundreds injured after suicide attacks in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore
2010-07-02,"China: Six people are killed and ten others injured 
after a space shuttle simulator ride plunged to the 
ground at an amusement park in Shenzhen"
2010-07-02,A new espionage case is putting pressure on ties between Germany and China. German prosecutors are investigating senior Chinese officials who they believe spied on Falun Gong supporters in Germany.
2010-07-02,"Germany's left has its own tales of abuse. One of the goals of the German 1968 movement was the sexual liberation of children. For some, this meant overcoming all sexual inhibitions, creating a climate in which even pedophilia was considered progressive."
2010-07-02,FIFA may ban Nigeria from world football because President Goodluck Jonathan has suspended the team for two years. TIL the president of Nigeria is named Goodluck Jonathan.
2010-07-02,"Many moons ago Rhodesia was having problems with terrorists based in zambia, this is a live recording of how they took out the terrorists without messing with zambians i.e.: how we should have handled Afghanistan. "
2010-07-02,"Pakistan Mosque Suicide Bombers caught on CCTV: First detonates as he is being chased by security, second enters moments later(SFW)"
2010-07-02,"Two suicide bombers have carried out a deadly 
attack on a Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city 
of Lahore, killing 42 people."
2010-07-02,The Glittering Prizes: War Crime Continues to Pay - [Tony Blair's peace prize] is of course most appropriate; for there are currently in excess of one million human beings enjoying eternal peace thanks to the war of aggression that Blair was instrumental in unleashing against Iraq.
2010-07-02,New tax doubles price of tobacco in Egypt
2010-07-02,"UN report calls for world to ditch dollar, migrate to new global currency"
2010-07-02,"Hamas, a threat to its own people"
2010-07-02,Russia set for drink-driving ban
2010-07-01,"UK government launches ""Your Freedom"" - seeks public's opinion on which laws should be repealed (Digital Economy Bill seems to have quite a few detractors already...)"
2010-07-01,Blair to receive US peace medal (not the Onion)
2010-07-01,"May I introduce Germany's new first lady! 
And yes that is a real tattoo.  "
2010-07-01,UK Iraq Whistleblower 'Was Too Weak To Have Killed Himself - Dr David Kelly was found dead in woodland near his home in Oxfordshire in 2003 after he was exposed as the source of a BBC report that questioned the govt's case for war in Iraq.
2010-07-01,NinjaVideo and many other streaming video sites shut down in the past hours...by the Dept of Homeland Security? 
2010-07-01,Seven years after we liberated them the citizens of Baghdad get less than five hours of electricity per day.  What was it like before we delivered democracy?
2010-07-01,"Icelandic leader in milestone gay marriage - Iceland's prime minister made history last week when she wed her girlfriend, becoming the world's first head of government to enter a gay marriage."
2010-07-01,Australia to ban ultra-skinny models
2010-07-01,"Without US aid, Israeli state would fail  Israel is a regional superpower with solid economy and strong army, but if the American administration decides to stop military, financial, economic and political aid, any Israeli government would fall to its knees."
2010-07-01,"""Palestinian leader gives interview to Israel; Israeli Prime Minister announces agreement to release 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the 1 IDF soldier held captive by Hamas."" Looks like progress is being made. :D"
2010-07-01,Children beaten by Bangladeshi police as they join garment workers' strikes
2010-07-01,"Iran declares boycott on Coca Cola, Intel and 'Zionists' "
2010-07-01,Amnesty International Calls For Public Inquiry Into G20 Policing 
2010-07-01,Somalia in the Good Old Days
2010-07-01,More men seek help with forced marriages
2010-07-01,Two sentenced to death in Iran for killing demonstrators in custody
2010-07-01,G20 cops threatened women with rape
2010-07-01,China strike wave continues 
2010-07-01,"Sweden Ends Compulsory Military Service - Sweden on July 1 ended 109 years of obligatory military service, setting the Scandinavian nation on the way to becoming a fully professional army."
2010-07-01,Ryanair to sell 5 tickets for standing-room only flights 
2010-07-01,Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband internet access a legal right for all citizens.
2010-07-01,Deaths in Turkey clashes with Kurds 
2010-07-01,"France is embarking on a grand experiment  how to diversify the overwhelmingly white grandes coles, the elite universities that have produced French leaders in every walk of life "
2010-07-01,Russia to deliver 50 armored vehicles to Palestine
2010-07-01,"UN summer camp in Gaza attacked - ""Two dozen masked men have vandalised a UN summer camp for children in Gaza, burning and slashing tents, toys and a plastic swimming pool."""
2010-06-30,"b""South Korea's parliament votes to legalize chemical castration as punishment for convicted child sex offenders"""
2010-06-30,b'Pope rebukes cardinal who exposed abuse: \nPublic dressing down for man praised for criticism of church abuse cover-ups.'
2010-06-30,"b'This depression is similar to the Great Panic of 1873; The US and Europe are heading towards deflation, tens of millions will never work again. ""It is the victory of an orthodoxy [..] whose main tenet is that imposing suffering on other people is how you show leadership in tough times.""'"
2010-06-30,"b'The Niger Delta has experienced oil spills on par with the Exxon Valdez disaster every year for the past half-century, according to one report. But it has never received the attention being paid to the U.S. Gulf Coast'"
2010-06-30,"b'G20 Toronto - So Black Block get green light to rampage, yet innocent people get the shit beat out of them'"
2010-06-30,"b'Half of Afghanistans 476 women prisoners were detained for moral crimese.g., refusing to marry, or attempted adultery.'"
2010-06-30,"b""The German economy is rapidly improving, with many manufacturers struggling to keep up with demand. But not all are happy with the country's recovery. Many say that Germany's export gains are coming at the expense of its trading partners."""
2010-06-30,b'Two Egyptian police officers charged with brutal death of blogger/activist'
2010-06-30,b'Russia sending armoured vehicles to West Bank'
2010-06-30,b'Police Lied About Law Demanding G20 Protesters Show ID'
2010-06-30,"b'Afghanistan, June, 2010, in pictures'"
2010-06-30,"b'""The Karzai government is crumbling before our eyes, and if we delude ourselves that this is not the case, we could yet face a replay of 1842."" --Why the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan'"
2010-06-30,"b'Today, a Mafia hit in Montreal. A journalist is threatened against photographing mafia members at the scene. ""Blood flows soon like a smashed head on a dashboard.""'"
2010-06-30,b'Greek anger over austerity measures spills on to Athens streets - thousands of bewildered tourists being stranded'
2010-06-30,"b'War by other means: By paying local police, the US may be funding the Taliban by another name'"
2010-06-30,b'G20: Jailed female protesters say they were strip searched and threatened '
2010-06-30,"b'Journalist couple gunned down in Mexico, motive not yet established'"
2010-06-30,b'Greece bombings: groups of southern European anarchists with unclear aims and tenuous links are blamed'
2010-06-30,b'UK firm paid bribes to sell Iraqis toxic fuel additive'
2010-06-30,"b'In a bid to maintain its presence in mainland China, Google to stop redirecting users in China to uncensored site'"
2010-06-30,"b'Hundreds Die in New Darfur Clashes, Nobody Notices'"
2010-06-30,"b""BBC News - Russian spy suspect missing in Cyprus, say police - why you don't let a suspected spy out on bail"""
2010-06-30,"b'Airport body scanners deliver radiation dose 20 times higher than first thought, warns expert.'"
2010-06-30,"b""Iraq inquiry: secret documents showing Tony Blair's frustration published (Lord Goldsmith personally handed Mr Blair a draft legal note warning that he did not accept that prior UN Security Council resolutions relating to Iraq could be used to justify war. )"""
2010-06-30,"b""Apartheid loves apartheid: Israel's secret relationship with racist South Africa revealed"""
2010-06-29,"b'Iceland legalizes gay marriage, allowing the prime minister to finally marry her partner '"
2010-06-29,b'Mexican Candidate for Governor Is Assassinated'
2010-06-29,"b'The Bishop of Bayeux went to jail rather than give \r\nauthorities information about a priest who had \r\nraped a minor. ""I congratulate you for not turning \r\nin a priest to the civil administration...I am \r\ndelighted to have a colleague...who...has \r\npreferred prison to turning in his son-priest.""'"
2010-06-29,b'BP in the Persian Gulf: How an Oil Company Helped Destroy Democracy in Iran'
2010-06-29,b'Egypt: The law that gives police limitless power sparks massive protests after the violent death of blogger Khaled Said at the hands of police'
2010-06-29,"b""Australia's new Prime Minister an atheist"""
2010-06-29,b'Turkey bars Israeli plane from using airspace'
2010-06-29,b'Trader gets drunk. Buys 7 million barrels of crude \r\noil. Artificially pushes up price of oil. Hilarity ensues. '
2010-06-29,b'FBI arrests 10 Russian Spies in U.S.'
2010-06-29,b'FBI breaks up alleged Russian spy ring in deep cover'
2010-06-29,b'26 Indian police killed in Maoist ambush'
2010-06-29,"b""UK police claim they don't need law to stop teenage photographer taking pictures\n"""
2010-06-29,"b'Turkish Jews used by Israeli navy as translators give most even-handed account so far of raid on Gaza flotilla. Debunks wilder accusations about incident, suggests Turks, Israelis both to blame.'"
2010-06-29,"b'Israel may have eased its blockade of the Gaza Strip in response to international pressure, but life for many of the Palestinians living there has so far changed little. Even hardliners in Israel are starting to recognize that the blockade only helps to strengthen Hamas.'"
2010-06-29,"b""Chinese companies 'rent' white foreigners as fake employees or business partners"""
2010-06-29,"b'China and Taiwan have signed a historic trade pact, seen as the most significant agreement since civil war split the two governments 60 years ago.'"
2010-06-29,"b""For the first time, Asia's millionaires have more money than Europe's millionaires"""
2010-06-29,"b'Tibetan monk regrets uprising after going through Chinese ""re-education""'"
2010-06-29,"b""She heard what sounded like a crack, and the last words she heard her mother utter were: 'Neena, your father is killing me' """
2010-06-29,"b'Russia rejects US spy allegations - Moscow says allegations of a Russian spy ring in the US are baseless, as an 11th suspect is arrested in Cyprus.'"
2010-06-29,b'That [Afghans] attack occupying forces and the govts those forces support means nothing more than that they want to rid their land of foreign troops. That doesnt make them anti-American terrorists. It makes them Afghans. Lets leave their country to them.'
2010-06-29,b'Barred from Jerusalem for being Palestinian'
2010-06-29,b'Billions flown out of Kabul in suitcases'
2010-06-29,"b""Rig survivor: 'It was a crematorium'"""
2010-06-29,"b""Dr David Kelly: The damning new evidence that points to a cover-up by Tony Blair's government"""
2010-06-28,b'Blackwater in a secretive deal tried to arm and train Christian armies in Southern Sudan and receive half of its mineral wealth in violation of U.S sanctions.'
2010-06-28,b'More than $3 billion in cash has been openly flown out of Kabul International Airport in the past three years. U.S. investigators believe top Afghan officials and their associates are sending billions of diverted U.S. aid and logistics dollars and drug money to financial safe havens abroad.'
2010-06-28,b'An experimental sonic weapon has been approved for limited use against crowds in Toronto.'
2010-06-28,"b""May Toronto's G20 be the last - It's not just the $1bn policing; the failure to tackle the financial crisis or climate change exposes a forum without credibility"""
2010-06-28,b'Turkey bans Israel military planes from its airspace'
2010-06-28,b'What Actually Happened at the G20 Protests '
2010-06-28,b'The Battle of Toronto (G20 Protests)'
2010-06-28,"b'Noam Chomsky:  Irans military spending is relatively low compared to the rest of the region, and less than 2% that of the US. Iranian military doctrine is strictly defensive, designed to slow an invasion and force a diplomatic solution to hostilities. '"
2010-06-28,"b'Andrew Roberts, credit chief at RBS:  ""We cannot stress enough how strongly we believe that a cliff-edge may be around the corner, for the global banking system (particularly in Europe) and for the global economy. Think the unthinkable.""'"
2010-06-28,"b'Birth of a new ocean - ""In 2005, a 60km long stretch of the earth opened up to a width of eight metres over a period of just ten days.""'"
2010-06-28,"b""Russia alarmed by CIA view of Iran's weapons. """
2010-06-28,b'Mexican singer Sergio Vega has been shot dead only hours after he had denied reports he had been murdered. '
2010-06-28,"b'""The servant\'s baby was severely malnourished. When we tried to help, her grandfather sold the fortified milk we provided. In India, if there isn\'t enough to go around, a girl child is ignored, and sometimes left to die.""'"
2010-06-28,b'Police Strategy at G20. '
2010-06-28,"b'Another UN-organized summer camp burned down in Gaza for ""corrupting Gaza\'s youth with [...] human rights lessons ""'"
2010-06-28,"b""BBC News - Gaza gunmen 'set fire to UN summer camp for children'"""
2010-06-28,"b""Why China's currency has two names"""
2010-06-28,"b'""Corruption Suspected in Airlift of Billions in Cash From Kabul"" - Ya think?'"
2010-06-28,"b""Iceland's Prime Minister now the first world leader with a same-sex spouse."""
2010-06-28,"b'Leftist anarchists in Berlin have reportedly been harassing Muslim immigrants showing their support for the German football team during the World Cup, tearing down national flags and even setting one on fire.'"
2010-06-28,"b'""China, Taiwan prepare to sign landmark trade pact"" Wait what?!'"
2010-06-28,b'Chris Hannah of Propagandhi on the G20 protest.'
2010-06-28,"b""A bit of good news : Borneo's crocodiles no longer endangered say Wildlife officials in Malaysia."""
2010-06-28,b'The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police engaged in Purposeful Provocation'
2010-06-28,"b""A burden beyond their age. Cairo's 'lost boys,' far from their families, hustle street work in the Egyptian capital, collecting garbage, washing cars and hauling bricks, sending their meager earnings home to their villages."""
2010-06-27,"b""Who here doesn't sympathize with G20 rioters destroying people's property? """
2010-06-27,b'G20: Riots break out in Toronto'
2010-06-27,"b""I saw two officers hold a journalist. The journalist identified himself as working for 'the Guardian.' He talked too much and pissed the police off. Two officers held him a third punched him in the stomach. The man collapsed. Then the third officer drove his elbow into the man's back."""
2010-06-27,b'The mainstream media is reframing and leaving out important information about the situation in Toronto during the G20. This is what is really going on.'
2010-06-27,b'The Mysterious World Cup Fans From North Korea'
2010-06-27,"b""Video of Mark Webbers 190mph crash in today's Formula 1 race in Spain. Webber's car does somersault after hitting Heikki Kovalainen's Lotus. Both drivers OK"""
2010-06-27,b'Icelandic Prime minister Jhanna Sigurardttir marries her girlfriend'
2010-06-27,"b""Iceland:  Reporters Without Borders hails them as a 'pioneer' for media freedom, with the passage of the IMMI (Icelandic Modern Media Initiative)"""
2010-06-27,b'It is rotten luck to be a delicious animal in a land where people are hungry. '
2010-06-27,"b'Marie-Monique Robin: ""If Monsanto were a private person, it would be convicted as a great criminal, but current law protects the criminal companies, which are never held accountable for the damage they cause.""'"
2010-06-27,"b""Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prizewinner who predicted the global crisis, delivers his verdict on the Chancellor Osborne's first Budget; says it will take the UK deeper into recession and hit millions  the poorest  badly"""
2010-06-27,b'Israeli Soldier Dances Around Handcuffed and Blindfolded Palestinian Woman'
2010-06-27,b'French strike over plans to raise retirement age'
2010-06-27,b'Iran : Mother of two to be stoned to death.'
2010-06-27,"b'NY Times: zionist terrorism during the Mandate of Palestine was romantic. This is the same time when Americans, British and other nationals were slaughtered by zionist terrorists.'"
2010-06-27,b'Israeli foreign minister wants Palestinians stripped of citizenship and relocated'
2010-06-27,"b'More strikes hit auto plants in China. ""In a continuing wave of unrest, strikes in auto parts suppliers this week halted production at major assembly plants owned by Toyota, Nissan and Honda in the southern province of Guangdong.""'"
2010-06-27,b'Iranian Woman convicted of having sex with two men who murdered her husband sentenced to death by stoning. Her children write letter distributed in nine languages in desperate bid to save her life'
2010-06-27,"b'Article: ""The members of the G-8 are worried and believe absolutely that Israel will probably react preemptively, Berlusconi told reporters.  Headline: ""G-8 \'fully believes\' Israel will attack iran, says Italy PM"". Spinning 101: get that headline right!'"
2010-06-27,b'In Pictures - G20 Day of Protest'
2010-06-27,"b""US-Israeli relations suffer 'tectonic rift' """
2010-06-27,"b'Pakistan\'s ""Madrassa Myth""; The Brookings Institute has released a new paper that suggests militancy is fueled by the poor state of the education system in the country, not the small number of madrassas in the country (the majority of which have no links to militant groups or their recruiting)'"
2010-06-27,"b""Iceland's openly gay prime minister gets married as new law allowing gay marriage takes effect. [w/ pics]"""
2010-06-27,"b""Zimbabwe's streetchildren challenge the illusion of change """
2010-06-27,b'Iran says Egypt barring Gaza aid ship from canal'
2010-06-26,b'A Swiss man has been sentenced to five months in jail and three strokes of a cane for spray-painting graffiti on a train in Singapore.'
2010-06-26,b'Turkey cancels water sales to Israel '
2010-06-26,"b'Human Rights Watch criticizes Hamas treatment of Schalit. The treatment of the 23-year-old soldier, captured exactly four years ago, by his Hamas captors is ""cruel and inhuman"" and matches a U.N. definition of torture because he is denied any outside contact.'"
2010-06-26,b'China Rewrites History of Korean War. '
2010-06-26,b'Apparently Icelandic politics is awesome.'
2010-06-26,"b""The First OILCANE Will Be Worse Than Anything We've Seen. Water temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean are now running as warm or warmer than they did during the record setting season of 2005. This is significant. """
2010-06-26,b'North Korea party to pick new leadership'
2010-06-26,b'North Korean Prison Camps'
2010-06-26,"b""Stalin's statue in his Georgian hometown has been taken down, to be replaced with a monument for the victims of the 2008 Georgian war with Russia"""
2010-06-26,"b'Icelanders elect punk anarchist comedian, who started the ""Best Party"" just last year, mayor of Reykjavik'"
2010-06-26,b'Man arrested and left in wire cage under new G20 \r\nlaw'
2010-06-26,"b'Iraqs Ancient Ruins Face New Looting - Thousands of important sites have been left unprotected, allowing what officials say is a resumption of brazenly illegal excavations'"
2010-06-26,b'Taliban commander killed dressed as woman'
2010-06-26,"b""London air pollution 'worst in Europe'"""
2010-06-26,b'Police powers expanded for G20: New regulations give police right to search anyone near security fence'
2010-06-26,"b'Pakistan to start monitoring seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, for content it deems offensive to Muslims'"
2010-06-26,"b""Pakistan's spy agency is said to collaborate with the Taliban"""
2010-06-26,"b'True, not true? ""Israel \'Plots Tehran Raid\'""'"
2010-06-26,"b'G-20 Protests, and Secret Police Powers to Arrest Without Probable Cause - ""Ontario secretly changed its Public Works Protection Act to allow police... to arrest people if they fail to identify themselves to a police officer... It has now been expanded to include the area around the G20 summit""'"
2010-06-26,"b""Cuts in Germany's environment and development budget mean Germany will not deliver the financial aid to help developing countries deal with climate change it promised at the Copenhagen climate summit last December, media reports say."""
2010-06-26,b'Thirty-three boys have died from botched circumcisions conducted in traditional initiation rites in South Africa'
2010-06-26,"b""Battle for the Nile as rivals lay claim to Africa's great river"""
2010-06-26,"b""'Iran lawmakers to join Lebanon Gaza-bound aid ship'"""
2010-06-26,"b'Thousands of demonstrators are on the streets of Taipei, venting their anger at a trade deal with China, to be signed on Tuesday.'"
2010-06-26,b'The Greek government is now selling the Greek Islands to pay off its debts.'
2010-06-25,b'A top German court has ruled that it is not a criminal offence to cut off the life support of a dying person if that person has given their consent. '
2010-06-25,"b'New Papua tribe discovered - ""Their houses are in trees, their life is stone age""'"
2010-06-25,"b""Israel's Mistake: German Minister Denied Entry To Gaza Strip (spiegel commentary)"""
2010-06-25,b'BP sends Fake Journalists to Gulf'
2010-06-25,"b'Canada: Protesters who get within five metres of the G20 security fence and refuse to provide ID, or leave could get arrested according to new powers granted by Queens Park to police for the duration of the G20 summit.\n'"
2010-06-25,"b'Killing Time - For Conscripts, German Military Service is Battle against Boredom'"
2010-06-25,"b'""Another one entered and he said, \'Listen, you\'re not staying here. Yafo is just for Jews. Get out of Yafo,\'"" Rachayel says. The men continued to threaten and intimidate her, repeatedly saying that the Arab presence in Yafo is only temporary.'"
2010-06-25,"b'The world worked together to help bring apartheid to an end, writes Kader Asmal. So why allow it to live on in Israel/Palestine?\n'"
2010-06-25,"b'In 2008, Bush said ""fuck you"" to the world\'s nuclear nonproliferation regime by approving a deal with India. Now China is returning the favor by providing nukes to ber-proliferant Pakistan '"
2010-06-25,b'Gangland shootouts no longer shock in Mexican town'
2010-06-25,"b'As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone,'"
2010-06-25,b'The junk food generation: British children getting fatter at twice the rate of Americans\n\n'
2010-06-25,b'PHILIPPINES Key witness in the Maguindanao massacre case killed'
2010-06-25,"b'In villages across northern India, the most dangerous choice young people could make is one most of us take for granted  choosing their own partner'"
2010-06-25,"b""BBC News - Details of secret US-UK 'spying pact' released"""
2010-06-25,"b'Claims of African economic growth hide stark divisions of rich and poor. ""Recent reports show growth of a stark divide between rich and poor in Africa.""'"
2010-06-25,b'Iran will not send aid ship to Gaza - CNN.com'
2010-06-25,"b""Germany Warns US Not to Become 'Addicted to Borrowing' - The US has heavily criticized German austerity measures in recent days. Now, Germany's finance minister has fired back, warning against becoming addicted to deficit spending..."""
2010-06-25,"b'US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has told the BBC that the world ""cannot depend as much on the US as it did in the past""'"
2010-06-25,"b'The poor are turned into real slaves in Yemen, this one has lost his freedom for talking with the media'"
2010-06-25,b'Stalin has been toppled'
2010-06-25,b'Iranian Photojournalist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison; Another Journalist Released on Bail'
2010-06-25,"b'How lessons in the dark arts of special ops led McChrystal to the edge\n\t\t\t\tAmericas, World - The Independent'"
2010-06-25,"b""N.Korea Boosts Propaganda for Kim Jong-il's Son"""
2010-06-25,"b'BP is burning rare sea turtles alive, blocking efforts to save them'"
2010-06-24,b'First female Prime Minister of Australia'
2010-06-24,b'Cash-strapped North Korea has demanded the United States pay almost $US65 trillion ($75 trillion) in compensation for six decades of hostility.\n\nLMAO...'
2010-06-24,"b'How Canadian Heritage Minister Lied About Calling DMCA Critics ""Radical Extremists""'"
2010-06-24,"b'Early Britons, 16,000 years ago, were cannibals, using sophisticated butchering techniques to strip flesh from the bones of men, women and children '"
2010-06-24,"b'Why the Irish Support Palestine: Once upon a time, Ireland was a huge supporter of Jewish aspirations in the Promised Land. What happened?'"
2010-06-24,"b'""One reason why Israel is singled out for so much attention is because its supporters are so very vociferous, pushing their agenda at every opportunity...Another reason for my disproportionate interest in this conflict is that I feel I have been lied to'"
2010-06-24,b'Why Palestinians are second-class citizens in Lebanon'
2010-06-24,"b'And this is why I sometimes give up hope on the human race. We love eating tuna, so we will kill the tuna.'"
2010-06-24,b'European MPs to Israel: Lift Gaza blockade completely'
2010-06-24,b'French Strike Over Plans to Raise Retirement Age'
2010-06-24,"b'North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, blamed for Cup loss'"
2010-06-24,"b'Police raid the headquarters of the Catholic Church in Belgium - ""police sources say church has been withholding information from its independent inquiry into sex abuse scandal.""'"
2010-06-24,b'Police raided the headquarters of the Belgian Catholic church following accusations of pedophilia involving Church figures'
2010-06-24,"b'Venezuela says to nationalize 11 oil drills belonging to U.S. company, says minister'"
2010-06-24,b'Kyrgyzstan: Is the West worried enough?\n'
2010-06-24,b'Report: U.S. hikers seized by Iranian police in Iraqi territory '
2010-06-24,b'For all those who dont know what BP did to Planet Earth.'
2010-06-24,"b""ACTA treaty would interfere with citizens' fundamental rights and liberties, increase border searches and disconnect people from the Internet"""
2010-06-24,"b'4 More British soldiers die, in Afghan crash'"
2010-06-24,b'Spanish train kills 12 festival goers crossing the tracks near Barcelona. At least 13 others were injured.'
2010-06-24,"b'Does Germany\'s savings plan threaten to disrupt the fragile economic recovery in Europe and elsewhere in the world? On Thursday morning, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had rejected such criticism from US President Barack Obama. -""I don\'t think we should relent""'"
2010-06-24,b'Five Americans Found Guilty In Pakistan Of Terrorism'
2010-06-24,"b""Israeli Prof Amitai Etzioni Urges Obama To Bomb Iran - He maintains that President Obama's attempts at dialogue have failed, and drastic steps must be taken to prevent the U.S. losing its Middle East dominance to Tehran."""
2010-06-24,b'Belgian Catholic offices raided in sex abuse probe'
2010-06-24,b'Le Monde has run out of cash.  It will close in a few weeks. \n\n'
2010-06-23,b'As Jews we should stand as a beacon for human rights not as an internationally known perpetrator of atrocities.'
2010-06-23,"b""Hamas: We won't let Red Cross visit Shalit  """
2010-06-23,"b'Canadian Heritage Minister Calls Opponents of Canadian DMCA ""Radical Extremists""'"
2010-06-23,"b""World's rich got richer amid '09 recession"""
2010-06-23,"b'Boy of 10 tries to take his life 10 times. ""We\'re walking on eggshells,"" says his mom. ""He\'s angry . . . and every day he tells me \'I wish I was dead""'"
2010-06-23,"b'Australian Prime Minister likely to be voted out at ballot tomorrow, Australia may have its first female Prime Minister'"
2010-06-23,b'Uproar in Israel over top secret prisoner '
2010-06-23,b'Is Kyrgyzstan the next Rwanda?  [Article from Foreign Policy]'
2010-06-23,b'Spanish senate narrowly votes to support ban of Islamic body veil'
2010-06-23,"b""Canada's economy is suddenly the envy of the world: No financial meltdowns here, Canada boasts, and world leaders want in on the secret """
2010-06-23,"b""Workers at Swedish docks launched a week-long boycott of Israeli ships and cargo on Wednesday, to protest Israel's recent raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla"""
2010-06-23,b'How a clunky old Soviet rocket outlasted the space shuttle.'
2010-06-23,"b'Whaling \'peace deal\' falls apart: ""It legitimises scientific whaling in the Southern Ocean (by Japan), and does not substantially reduce catches""'"
2010-06-23,"b'Underwater collision forces BP to remove containment cap. Meanwhile, a boat captain working on oil disaster clean up, died of a gunshot wound. Wait, what?!'"
2010-06-23,b'BP oil spill fallout: Britain has doubled rig inspections. Bulgaria scrapped plans for a new oil pipeline. Chinese and French oil giants are upgrading equipment and procedures designed to prevent spills'
2010-06-23,b'Canadian Heritage Minister Calls for Confrontation Against Critics of Canadian DMCA'
2010-06-23,"b'WWI Postcard Reaches Bosnia After Century of Traveling Around the Globe - Edhem Bicakcic used a photo of his army unit resting somewhere in Hungary during World War I as a postcard for his family in Sarajevo, but the loving message took nearly a century to reach its destination. '"
2010-06-23,"b'Soros says Germany could cause Euro collapse: ""If the Germans don\'t change their policy, their exit from the currency union would be helpful for the rest of Europe""'"
2010-06-23,"b""McDonald's marketing has the effect of conscripting America's children into an unpaid drone army of word-of-mouth marketers, causing them to nag their parents to bring them to McDonald's."""
2010-06-23,"b""Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak dismissed Israel's recent lifting of restrictions on the Gaza Strip"""
2010-06-23,"b'Brazil floods kill dozens and leave 1,000 people missing'"
2010-06-23,b'Hitler fails to shut Wikileaks'
2010-06-23,b'Netanyahu to human rights activists: Sail to Tehran'
2010-06-23,b'Malaysia seeks emergency UN session on Gaza flotilla deaths - Haaretz '
2010-06-23,b'He reminded the jury prosecutors say Patel ignored surgical restrictions imposed on him by US medical authorities and launched into major operations at Bundaberg seven weeks after he arrived in 2003.'
2010-06-22,b'Arrest of an alleged Mossad agent in Warsaw could adversely affect German-Israeli relations. Berlin Officials say the Mossad went too far in obtaining a German passport for alleged use in the murder of a Hamas official - especially as they apparently used a fake story of Nazi persecution to get it.'
2010-06-22,"b""Postcards from Hell: The world's most failed states"""
2010-06-22,"b'North Korean players may face ""re-education"" on their return home, exiles suggest '"
2010-06-22,"b'Israel\'s \'Prisoner X\': ""He is simply a person without a name and without an identity who has been placed in total and utter isolation from the outside world""'"
2010-06-22,b'Top Vatican priest sexually abused not only young seminarians under his control but also abused his own children'
2010-06-22,"b'Some 98% of climate scientists that publish research on the subject support the view that human activities are warming the planet, a study suggests. It added there was little disagreement among the most experienced scientists. '"
2010-06-22,"b'50 years on, Belgians face trial for Congo war crimes'"
2010-06-22,"b'Google targeted by BPI for linking to illegal \r\ndownloads - British Recording industry association \r\nsends cease-and-desist order to search engine, \r\nasking it to remove links to infringing websites'"
2010-06-22,"b'Norway\'s foreign minister has described the G20, which will meet this weekend in Toronto, as the ""greatest setback"" for the international community since World War II. In an interview Jonas Gahr Stre explains why the organization won\'t function in the long run.'"
2010-06-22,"b'Doctor confronts another doctor at a medical conference: ""Why are you still practicing . . . You are incompetent, you are a convicted killer"" See video from 0:30 secs'"
2010-06-22,"b""Mainland China to become world's top manufacturer, ending America's 110-year reign"""
2010-06-22,"b'Sweden condemns pig cannibalism - In Sweden, Scan and other large meat producers have agreed not to use blood or animal fat in animal feed for pigs, among others.'"
2010-06-22,"b'Combat engineer Canadas 148th military death in Afghanistan - Sgt. James MacNeil, 28, of Glace Bay, N.S., was killed Monday morning while on a foot patrol in Nakhoney, about 20 kilometres southwest of Kandahar.'"
2010-06-22,"b'Reddit helps campaign to raise enough money to build a water well in Africa! Meet Maggie Moran, the sixteen year old that made this happen.'"
2010-06-22,b'The world would love to be Canadian '
2010-06-22,b'Israel asks UN to shelve aid ship raid inquiry'
2010-06-22,b'BPI Wants Google To Stop Linking To The Pirate Bay'
2010-06-22,"b'Road shipments to Gaza begin :Lorries bring goods allowed under Israel\'s ""liberalised"" policy to Palestinian enclave.'"
2010-06-22,"b""The Known Unknowns - Rumsfeld's not the only one to encounter this epistemological puzzle: Known unknowns are everywhere, waiting to trip us up. Here are a few of the most enigmatic."""
2010-06-22,"b'The Associated Press: Saudi convicts 15 men, women for mingling at party'"
2010-06-22,b'Israel launches spy satellite'
2010-06-22,"b'Judicial officials say a Saudi court has convicted four women and 11 men for mingling at a party and sentenced them to flogging and prison terms.\nThe fourth woman, a minor, was sentenced to 80 lashes and was not sent to prison.'"
2010-06-22,b'Philippines: Three journalists killed in a week'
2010-06-22,"b""Bailout cash 'will not be returned' - Taoiseach Brian Cowen has admitted that taxpayers will never get back the 22 billion euro pumped into Anglo Irish Bank."""
2010-06-22,"b'Pakistan PM Gilani: Pakistan not bound by US sanctions against Iran - Pakistan will go ahead with a plan to import natural gas from Iran even if the US levies additional sanctions on the country, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said.'"
2010-06-21,"b""Israel announces plan to demolish 22 Palestinian Arab homes in East Jerusalem.  Palestinian homeowners ask why their alternative proposal that doesn't require their homes being razed wasn't discussed."""
2010-06-21,"b""7 million people are starving in Niger; all they're asking for is 10 million dollars"""
2010-06-21,"b'""Hellish heatwave"" in Pakistan sets hottest temperature in Asia\'s history, 53.5C (128.3F); in India, hundreds die, death toll expected to rise as record temperatures soar up to 122F'"
2010-06-21,b'The final inquiry report on the death of Robert Dziekanski has concluded the RCMP were not justified in using a Taser against the Polish immigrant and that the officers later deliberately misrepresented their actions to investigators.'
2010-06-21,"b'New Poll: ""The majority of Palestinians support a peace agreement with Israel and believe that the Palestinian Authority should use non-violent means to achieve their political goals.""'"
2010-06-21,b'Kim Jong Il Gamble Backfires Dramatically'
2010-06-21,"b'""They cut my cousin. I was very afraid. I was crying and crying. My mother is very fat; I knew if I could run she could not catch me, but she held me too strong. I could not get away. There was a lot of blood from that place. I cried and cried. I hated my mother.""'"
2010-06-21,"b'Abnormal radiation detected at Korean border - ""Concentration of gas linked to nuclear blast was 8 times higher than normal""'"
2010-06-21,b'India to seek extradition of US Bhopal boss'
2010-06-21,"b'Israel\'s Defense Minister: ""The only Gaza resident in need of humanitarian aid is captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit""'"
2010-06-21,b'White-collar workers are Chinas newest underclass'
2010-06-21,"b""'Mariam' gets green light to set sail: All-female Lebanese aid ship to head to Cyprus first. (Ahoy! There's a shitstorm coming)"""
2010-06-21,b'French find e-mail passwords in Google Street View data'
2010-06-21,"b'Kyrgyzstan atrocities: Fear stalks the streets of Osh, as rumors of mass killings and rapes run wild.'"
2010-06-21,b'Whats Wrong with Being the Worlds Most Peaceful Country?'
2010-06-21,"b'David Cameron: Britain should reflect on role in Afghanistan - ""We are paying a high price for keeping our country safe, for making our world a safer place, and we should keep asking why we are there and how long we must be there.""'"
2010-06-21,"b""Israel to demolish 22 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem to 'make room for a tourist centre'."""
2010-06-21,"b'Afghan president Hamid Karzai earns $525  a month,'"
2010-06-21,"b'Hamas says Israel deceitful over Gaza - ""The Israelis are deceiving the world to avoid the recent wave of international criticism,"" Hamas Minister of Economy Ziad al-Zaza said in an interview with al-Quds Radio on Monday. '"
2010-06-21,"b'Upon the ""new"" discovery of Afghan natural resources, Blackwater snags $120 million contract in the region'"
2010-06-21,"b'The Bundestag, the German parliament, yesterday approved legislation reducing the length of compulsary military service from the current nine months to six months.'"
2010-06-21,"b""BP's British shareholders to join US class actions over oil spill"""
2010-06-21,b'Failed State Index 2010'
2010-06-21,b'US warns Pakistan gas pipeline deal with Iran defies new sanctions'
2010-06-21,"b'UN staff moved out of Afghanistan - \r\nThe UN has begun relocating some of its 300 foreign staff in Afghanistan to other locations because of worries about rising violence, officials have said.'"
2010-06-20,b'Nigerians astonished at attention paid to BP spill; the Niger Delta has endured the equivalent every year for 50 years.'
2010-06-20,"b'Millions in Bangladesh poisoned by arsenic-contaminated water: WHO calls it ""the largest mass poisoning of a population in history."" '"
2010-06-20,b'What about compensation for Bhopal? It took 17 years for the Indian government to obtain $470m compensation on behalf of the victims of the Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal  a paltry sum compared to the $20B fund set up by BP'
2010-06-20,"b""Missing from the World Cup? China --- \n'We're 1.3 billion people; can't we find at least 11 guys who are good at soccer?' """
2010-06-20,b'New Zealand Prime Minister apologises to China after Green Party Co-leader calls for Chinese democracy and a free Tibet. It looks like free trade trumps free speech.'
2010-06-20,"b'A batch of about 70,000 mozzarella balls which turned blue upon opening has been confiscated by food authorities in Italy, officials say.'"
2010-06-20,"b'Germanys Development Minister Dirk Niebel has harshly criticised the Israeli government after it refused him entry into the Gaza Strip at the weekend. - ""The refusal of entry [..] into the Gaza Strip is a big foreign policy mistake..""'"
2010-06-20,"b'Thanks to legislation, Americans are becoming financial refugees, in some cases renouncing their citizenship'"
2010-06-20,b'Gaza Convoy Activists Claim Israeli Soldiers Using Debit Cards Stolen in Raid'
2010-06-20,b'Internet Freedom under pressure in Denmark'
2010-06-20,b'Gunmen kill mayor of border town in Mexico drug war '
2010-06-20,"b""BP Tells Cleanup Workers They'll Be Fired If They Wear Respirators"""
2010-06-20,b'DUBAI: Alleged victim of gang rape sentenced to one year in prison'
2010-06-20,b'Cost of Afghan and Iraq wars rises above 20billion'
2010-06-20,b'Israel security cabinet approves loosening of Gaza blockade - Haaretz '
2010-06-20,"b""Tonnes of radioactive waste casts doubt over London's Olympic stadium legacy: Olympic site could be rendered useless after the 2012 Games"""
2010-06-20,"b'12 American Warships, Including One Aircraft Carrier, And One Israeli Corvette, Cross Suez Canal On Way To Red Sea And Beyond'"
2010-06-20,"b'Fidel Castro claims US sank South Korean ship, cause \r\nhe would know.'"
2010-06-20,"b'Israel is to significantly ease the Gaza blockade, with all civilian goods now expected to be let into the territory and reveals Gaza blockade restrictions'"
2010-06-20,b'Pakistan FM vows to implement Iran gas pipeline project despite U.S. warning'
2010-06-20,b'Chaos hits French World Cup camp'
2010-06-20,b'Arab-Israeli Parliamentarian Fights Death Threats'
2010-06-20,"b""Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Gabriela Shalev, has resigned"""
2010-06-20,"b'Japanese hard right intimidates theater owners from showing ""The Cove"" - This is disgusting.  (go ahead - downmod for editorializing).'"
2010-06-20,"b'Twin car bombings in central Baghdad kill 18 - At \r\nleast 18 people have been killed and 42 wounded in \r\na twin car bombing in central Baghdad, Iraqi \r\nofficials say. '"
2010-06-19,"b""Police to be considered on criminal charges after \r\ntazering a man 5 times who then died. This would \r\nNOT have been investigated if a bystander hadn't \r\nfilmed the police murdering him."""
2010-06-19,"b'In honor of the great Manute Bol - Sudan\'s ""Basketball Warrior"" - who passed away today at age 47 after dedicating his life to improving the conditions in his native country. Rest in peace you kind, decent, benevolent soul.'"
2010-06-19,b'Priceless!! Israeli mission to UN caught lying while attempting to double deal the UN United Nations Correspondents Association ... includes email exchanges'
2010-06-19,"b""BP Tells Cleanup Workers They'll Be Fired If They Wear Respirators"""
2010-06-19,b'Italian seismologists indicted for manslaughter for not predicting a 6.3 magnitude earthquake'
2010-06-19,b'Chinese security man-handle NZ Member of Parliment waving Tibetan flag... in New Zealand!'
2010-06-19,b'North Korea lifts restrictions on private markets as last resort in food crisis'
2010-06-19,"b""Manute Bol is dead because of a skin disease he contracted while trying to improve people's lives in Sudan"""
2010-06-19,b'Sweden gives green light to new nuclear reactors'
2010-06-19,b'Bangladesh: 77m poisoned by arsenic in drinking water'
2010-06-19,"b'Muslims illegally occupying streets of Paris to pray, depriving shop owners of business for two and a half hours, and preventing residents of the street from entering or leaving their apartments. Muslim guards block the street.'"
2010-06-19,b'Israel to Take Action Against Lebanese Aid Ships'
2010-06-19,b'The belief that things will end well in Afghanistan is dwindling in Germany. An increasing number of security experts recommend an orderly withdrawal and even those who were involved in sending the Bundeswehr on the mission are now voicing doubts about ultimate success.'
2010-06-19,"b'Turkish Jets Raid Northern Iraq, Clashes Kill 23'"
2010-06-19,"b""A missile, suspected to have been fired by an unmanned US drone, is reported to have killed 13 people and wounded seven others after it struck a house in the Mir Ali area of Pakistan's North Waziristan."""
2010-06-19,b'Why Indian farmers are committing suicide: World Bank forced India to open up its seed sector to global corporations like Monsanto; corporate seeds need fertilizers and pesticides and cannot be saved... poor peasants forced to buy new seeds for every planting season'
2010-06-19,b'Gaza Freedom Flotilla #2 - Will Carry 4000 Passengers'
2010-06-19,b'Mexico considering suing BP'
2010-06-19,"b'In Nigeria, Oil Spills Are a Longtime Scourge'"
2010-06-19,b'The Associated Press: UN chief urges international Israeli raid probe'
2010-06-19,"b'Robert Fisk: German captains, U-boats and other lies about Ireland'"
2010-06-19,"b'Up to 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from drinking water in recent decades, according to a Lancet study.'"
2010-06-19,b'Egypt - Young activists death mobilises public opinion against police violence'
2010-06-19,"b'Russian nuclear arms expert found dead in Bugibba, Malta. Suicided?'"
2010-06-19,"b""I'll be downmodded for saying this, but Eritrea really sucks: all young people are forced to work for government by ex-guerilla government. A kid got a $200K scholarship abroad, was caught trying to leave, and immediately got drafted into a hellhole."""
2010-06-18,b'What BP is doing to America is pretty much what American companies have done and are doing to the rest of the world'
2010-06-18,"b'Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds:  The entry of Monsanto seeds into Haiti is ""a very strong attack on small agriculture, on farmers, on biodiversity, on Creole seeds ... and on what is left our environment in Haiti.""\nTues'"
2010-06-18,"b""One of the largest protests in Jerusalem's history: White jews protesting the fact that they have to spend time in class with black jews. """
2010-06-18,"b""The Ecuadorian rainforest disaster is still considered the world's largest oil-related catastrophe. Chevron dumped more than 18.5 billion gallons of toxic waste  about 4 million gallons per day for more than two decades - and the world paid almost no attention"""
2010-06-18,"b'It turns out that the ref that cost the US the game against Slovenia today has been guilty of terrible calls during clutch moments in the past, and Tunisian fans had set up a Facebook page calling for his removal'"
2010-06-18,b'Wikileaks founder fears for his life'
2010-06-18,"b'The Council of Senior Ulema, the highest body of Muslim clerics in Saudi Arabia, has issued a fatwa against terrorism, saying that committing terrorist acts, and even funding them, was against Islamic law!!'"
2010-06-18,"b'In the first action of its kind in north African waters, Sea Shepherd activists freed hundreds of endangered bluefin tuna from a cage being towed behind Italian trawler'"
2010-06-18,"b""BP Using Mercenaries To Prevent Journalists From Talking To Workers. According to video (shown) the media needs to stay at least 100 feet from BP workers. Here's one killer quote from the BP-hired security guard when the reporter asks why he's preventing people from accessing a public beach"""
2010-06-18,b'Facebook founder faces death sentence in Pakistan'
2010-06-18,"b'France bans Hamas TV for hate and violence. In other news, there was Hamas TV channel in France. WTF'"
2010-06-18,"b""On the other side of the world from the Gulf Coast in Africa they've been dealing with an oil spill that gushes the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez every year for the past 50 years... """
2010-06-18,b'Turkey freezes billions of dollars worth of defense deals with Israel and will not send ambassador back'
2010-06-18,b'Aung San Suu Kyi -  still under house arrest in Burma - turns 65 on Saturday. '
2010-06-18,b'Mexico Bans Junk Food For Children'
2010-06-18,b'WikiLeaks Preparing to Release Video of U.S. Massacre in Afghanistan '
2010-06-18,"b'Amnesty International has accused the Israeli authorities of subjecting jailed nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by holding him in solitary confinement. '"
2010-06-18,b'Iceland passes legislation making it the safest place in the world for freedom of expression by offering legal protection to whistle-blower Web sites like WikiLeaks'
2010-06-18,"b""16 crude skimming barges have been idled by the coast guard .... because there aren't enough life vests on board"""
2010-06-18,"b'Danish girls are entering puberty earlier and develop breasts a full year earlier than they did 15 years ago, according to a new study.'"
2010-06-18,"b""Four North Korean players didn't show up for Brazil match - are they defecting???"""
2010-06-18,"b""While the U.S. is watching an oil volcano, Israel is having 1960's-style segregation riots."""
2010-06-18,"b'Where is the REDDIT OUTRAGE compared with the Flotilla one?  400,000 Flee in Kyrgyzstan, U.N. Says '"
2010-06-18,"b""Death toll in Kyrgyzstan clashes could be 'much higher':  Could be close to 2000."""
2010-06-18,b'White Jews sent to jail for refusing to let their children go to school with black Jews.'
2010-06-17,"b'First Australia wanted the ISP Filter, then ISP data retention on net activity... now they want to link it all to our PASSPORTS!!!'"
2010-06-17,b'1 buys 1000 litres of tap water. Or one bottle.'
2010-06-17,"b""Afghanistan Through Teenagers's Eyes- What happens when you give cameras to a group of Kabul teens."""
2010-06-17,"b'Manhunt for Wikileaks Founder, and Alleged Leaker of Video Showing Iraq Killings Held for 2 Weeks Without Charge'"
2010-06-17,b'Wondering why there are so many empty seats at World Cup games?'
2010-06-17,"b""South Korean media says North Korea's Dear Leader -- Kim Jung-Il -- asked China for J-10s fighters during his recent visit there, but was rebuffed."""
2010-06-17,"b'Iceland Passes WikiLeaks Law - Truthdig Video- The Icelandic parliament has approved protections for journalists, making the island nation perhaps the safest place in the world to afflict the comfortable and speak truth to power.\n\n'"
2010-06-17,b'Chavez set to nationalize the last opposition TV station.'
2010-06-17,"b""Kyrgyz violence level 'alarming' """
2010-06-17,"b'""Something fundamental has changed in China\'s legal system.""'"
2010-06-17,"b""Mexico's deadly drug violence claims hundreds of lives in past 5 days"""
2010-06-17,b'British Muslims spit at British troops'
2010-06-17,"b""Turks infuriated over ban on Google sites: Turkish activists have initiated a legal challenge against the government's controversial move to block Google services"""
2010-06-17,"b'100,000 Askenazi protesters come out in support of segregated schools'"
2010-06-17,b'Cuba braces to contend with BP oil spill'
2010-06-17,"b""Turkey to cut 'all ties' with Israel"""
2010-06-17,b'Israeli police have been placed on high alert in view of protests planned by Ultra-Orthodox Jews against a court order to jail parents who refuse to let their daughters attend a religiously integrated school.'
2010-06-17,"b'KOREA Seoul warns, North has 180,000 soldiers ready for war'"
2010-06-17,b'More than 160 children have died of lead poisoning in Nigeriain recent weeks [graphic Vid]'
2010-06-17,b'Israel says it will ease Gaza land blockade'
2010-06-17,b'Deadly flash floods hit southern France'
2010-06-17,"b'Syria President: ""Israeli flotilla raid increased chances of war and proved that they are another pyromaniac government that you cannot achieve peace with""'"
2010-06-17,b'African leaders are meeting in Chad to push the idea of planting a tree belt across Africa from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east. '
2010-06-17,b'Jews and Turks: Centuries of Goodwill'
2010-06-17,"b""European leaders are meeting today amid growing fears that Spain, Europe's fifth-largest economy, is preparing to ask for a bailout which would dwarf the 110bn rescue plan for Greece."""
2010-06-16,b'Australia soon to become the first Western democracy to join Iran and China where Internet access is restricted by the state'
2010-06-16,"b""Two 19 year olds were beaten with iron rods and then electrocuted to death by their own families as they belonged to different sub-castes and had 'planned' to elope"""
2010-06-16,"b'WikiLeaks Founder Has Garani Massacre Video, \r\nAccording to New Email - The Daily Beast'"
2010-06-16,"b'Iceland passes ""Wikileaks law"". What will that mean for journalists?'"
2010-06-16,b'Canadian version of Fox News is in the works.'
2010-06-16,"b'Turkey\'s Prime Minister - ""Its not possible for a Muslim to commit genocide.""'"
2010-06-16,"b'Kyrgyzstan carnage: 700 feared dead as looting, riots surge'"
2010-06-16,"b""Egypt: Israel wants to 'dump' Gaza on us. It is time for Egyptian leadership to raise to this challenge"""
2010-06-16,b'Three powerful earthquakes have struck Indonesia within half an hour of each other.'
2010-06-16,b'France to raise retirement age - The French government has unveiled plans to raise the retirement age to 62 in a sweeping overhaul of the pensions system that labour unions have vowed to fight to the end.'
2010-06-16,b'Was the swine flu a fake pandemic?'
2010-06-16,"b""'Internet a risk to nation' - INDONESIA'S communications minister said on Wednesday a celebrity sex video scandal showed the Internet was a threat to the nation and vowed to issue a decree to curb its use."""
2010-06-16,b'Michael Andersen: I am ashamed that European media and politicians do not understand the tragedy in Kyrgyzstan'
2010-06-16,"b'""Israeli company leads charge to supply world with vuvuzelas.""   Let\'s see what reddit does with this.'"
2010-06-16,"b'Matthew Simmons: The Relief Well Will Fail, And An Undersea Oil Lake May Be Covering 40% Of The Gulf'"
2010-06-16,"b'Over the past month, heavy rainfall has caused massive amounts of flooding in Europe - Dozens have lost their lives, many thousands evacuated their homes, some repeatedly. [pics]'"
2010-06-16,"b'Chilling, blunt and gruff author paints the picture of what Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, the most violent city in the world, is like'"
2010-06-16,"b'Britain Acknowledges ""Bloody Sunday"" Killings. ""A long-awaited British judicial inquiry into \'Bloody Sunday\'when British paratroopers shot dead fourteen demonstrators in Northern Irelandhas found the killings were \'unjustified\' and lays heavy blame on the army.""'"
2010-06-16,"b'35 year oil industry veteran cites recently gathered data to say oil leak near 120,000bpd and the oil beneath the surface has spread to potentially cover 40% of the Gulf.'"
2010-06-16,"b""Was The New York Times' story on minerals in Afghanistan smart or the result of Pentagon PR?"""
2010-06-16,"b""The Copyright Lobby's Astroturf Campaign in Support of the Canadian DMCA"""
2010-06-16,b'Wikileaks Commissions Lawyers to Defend Alleged \r\nArmy Source | Threat Level | Wired.com'
2010-06-16,b'WikiLeaks versus Wired: war of words continues'
2010-06-16,"b'Direct action gets the goods: Greek anarchists take over supermarket, burn money'"
2010-06-16,"b""They can't work, they can't claim benefits, they have nowhere to live. And their only means of survival is one 10 food voucher a week. """
2010-06-15,b'Breaking news: All serious crimes in the UK have been solved.'
2010-06-15,"b'Absolutely heartbreaking. These kids in villages across Nigeria are beaten, tortured, burned, starved, and murdered because some idiot religious figure deemed them witches '"
2010-06-15,b'Awareness Of Outside World Growing In North Korea'
2010-06-15,b'Irish to expel Israeli diplomat over Hamas killing'
2010-06-15,b'British paratroopers unlawfully killed Bloody Sunday marchers in 1972: Saville Report released'
2010-06-15,"b'An American construction worker claiming to be \r\nhunting Osama bin Laden was arrested carrying a \r\nsword, a pistol and night-vision goggles in Northern \r\nPakistan.'"
2010-06-15,"b'Here we go again...(North Korea Diplomat) ""If the Security Council releases any documents against us, condemning or pressuring us ... then myself as diplomat, I can do nothing. ... The follow-up measures will be carried out by our military forces""'"
2010-06-15,b'Ireland expels Israeli diplomat: Investigation concludes Israel responsible for forged passports used.'
2010-06-15,b'CIA Rendition Case Reaches Top European Court'
2010-06-15,b'BBC News - Irish to expel Israeli diplomat over Hamas killing'
2010-06-15,b'Somalia ban viewing of WC 2010: Those caught watching will be given a maximum of 30 lashes in public. Two fans killed while watching game.'
2010-06-15,"b""Iranian aid ships head for Gaza -  Iran is sending aid ships to blockaded Gaza, state radio said Monday  a move likely to be considered provocative by Israel which accuses Tehran of arming the Palestinian enclave's Hamas rulers."""
2010-06-15,"b""The Catholic Church in Germany has been hit by revelations of theft, opaque accounting and extravagance. While the grassroots faithful are being forced to make cutbacks, some bishops enjoy the trappings of the church's considerable hidden wealth."""
2010-06-15,"b""Maybe you don't see an irony in the individual getting screwed and screwed again by the same corporations and bailed-out banks who are so forthcoming with their advice for our politicians"""
2010-06-15,b'Bloody Sunday dead all innocent'
2010-06-15,b'Israeli Nuclear Missile Boats Off Iranian Coast'
2010-06-15,b'Israeli intelligence agents photographed members of the Rachel Corrie aid mission before the ship left dock in Dundalk. The first mate of the vessel has claimed that during their time in Israeli custody they saw photographs of several members of the group clearly taken in Ireland. '
2010-06-15,"b'38 years later, a 5,000 page report costing $285M and taking 12 years results in Bloody Sunday victims all being found innocent!'"
2010-06-15,"b""Jordan is set on becoming the Middle East's newest nuclear power, Jordanian King Abdullah told the Wall Street Journal in an interview over the weekend"""
2010-06-15,"b'A 12-year-old Indian-American activist tried to issue summons for Warren Anderson, former chief of Union Carbide over the deadliest 1984 gas disaster in Bhopal.'"
2010-06-15,b'Iran to Cut Mineral Exports to Sanction Supporters'
2010-06-15,"b'""It has been revealed that the current food crisis in North Korea is so appalling that rations for the military are being distributed to the general public.""'"
2010-06-15,"b""N. Korea warns U.N. of military 'follow-up'  - North Korea"""
2010-06-15,b'Now Ireland expels Israeli diplomat in passports row over murder of Hamas official'
2010-06-15,"b'Ireland expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai killing: ""An Israeli government agency was responsible for the misuse and the manufacture of the forged Irish passports associated with the murder""'"
2010-06-14,b'Red Cross says what no one dares: Gaza blockade is illegal'
2010-06-14,b'Iceland passes gay marriage law in unanimous vote'
2010-06-14,b'Afghan mineral deposits story is propaganda'
2010-06-14,"b'""In nearly 50 years Don Ritchie, 84, has saved at least 160 people at The Gap, a rocky cliff at the entrance to Sydney Harbour""'"
2010-06-14,"b'According to Unicef, only two countries have not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which prohibits the use of soldiers younger than 15: the United States and Somalia. Coincidentally, Somalia is employing child soldiers with American money.'"
2010-06-14,b'Final minutes of Polish military flight 101 carrying many of the leaders of Polish government '
2010-06-14,"b'US Army to spend as much as $100 million to expand its Special Operations headquarters in northern Afghanistan. Construction is supposed to take a year. At which point, the U.S. is allegedly supposed to begin drawing down its forces in Afghanistan. Allegedly.\n\n'"
2010-06-14,"b""Video Confirms, Israeli Commandos Boarded Ship Brandishing Silenced Uzi's"""
2010-06-14,b'Australian government to monitor all Internet usage'
2010-06-14,"b'Red Cross Report: Gaza Strip is about to enter its fourth year of blockade. Gazans continue to suffer from unemployment, poverty and warfare, while the quality of health care system has reached an all-time low'"
2010-06-14,b'Aftermath of Dubai Assassination - Israel Against Extradition of Suspected Mossad Agent to Germany'
2010-06-14,"b'I listened to the survivors of the Israeli raid on the Free Gaza flotilla. Their story, which is backed by photos, clearly invalidates the narrative of the Israeli government.'"
2010-06-14,"b'Russia gone... Constitutional? Medvedev refuses to send troops to calm ethnic riots between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan because ""[i]t is an internal conflict, and so far Russia doesn\'t see conditions for participating in its resolution"".'"
2010-06-14,"b'Gaza economy collapsing under siege 95% of factories are closed, 93% of water is polluted.'"
2010-06-14,b'Armed ethnic clashes rage in Kyrgyzstan; thousands flee '
2010-06-14,b'Depleted uranium used by US tanks in Iraq and Afghanistan is poisoning and disabling kids in Northern India (including the Punjab and Delhi)'
2010-06-14,"b'British politician David Trimble has been asked by Israel to oversee their internal raid inquiry as one of two international observers. He previously had a report on Northern Ireland published by a UK group called ""Conservative Friends of Israel""'"
2010-06-14,b'Briton Jeff Savage and Australian Conor Purcell have been held for one month without charge in a Thai jail in the wake of the Bangkok riots'
2010-06-14,"b""Stalin's harvest: What lies behind the violence in Kyrgyzstan """
2010-06-14,b'Is Belgium Coming Apart?'
2010-06-14,b'Loosening Blockade of Gaza is not Enough: Most children do not even have clean water to drink'
2010-06-14,"b""Two police officers and an army sergeant who were held hostage by Colombia's Farc rebels for 12 years have been rescued in an operation by the country's security forces."""
2010-06-14,b'Belgian election win for party that wants to split nation'
2010-06-14,"b'Report: Pentagon seeks WikiLeaks founder Assange, \r\nfearing cables will be published -'"
2010-06-14,"b'The Somali government is fielding hundreds of child soldiers, some as young as 9, according to rights groups and the United Nations.'"
2010-06-13,b'Israels Greatest Loss: Its Moral Imagination - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | I called a friend in Israel to inquire about the mood of the country. He told mein a voice trembling with emotionthat the worlds outpouring of condemnation of Israel is reminiscent of the dark period of the Hitler era.'
2010-06-13,"b'Polish authorities have arrested at the request of Germany a suspected Mossad agent thought to have played a role in the Dubai assassination of a Hamas commander, German prosecutors said.'"
2010-06-13,"b'REVEALED: Flights, girls and cash buy Japan whaling votes'"
2010-06-13,"b'""When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of it. It was the saddest darn thing to look at,"" said a BP contract worker who took the Daily News on a surreptitious tour of the wildlife disaster unfolding in Louisiana.'"
2010-06-13,b'Mobs Slaughter Uzbeks and Burn Towns in Kyrgyzstan '
2010-06-13,b'Iranian President says aid flotilla will carry escort of volunteer marines ready to teach Israelis a lesson'
2010-06-13,b'South Africa ponders vuvuzela ban'
2010-06-13,"b'Egyptian police brutality: young man tortured to death because he refused to be inspected in an internet cafe by non-uniformed police men. (note: a Google translate link, last  paragraph translation is a mess)'"
2010-06-13,b'Japan Accused Of Bribing Nations To Lift Ban On Whaling'
2010-06-13,b'Iranian ships ready to sail to Gaza'
2010-06-13,b'Poles arrest a man who allegedly faked German passport used by Mabhouh assassins'
2010-06-13,b'Saudi Arabia: We will NOT give Israel air corridor for Iran strike (London Times report was wrong)'
2010-06-13,b'Israel shakes down China'
2010-06-13,"b'The Reproductive Revolution; the population bomb is being defused. It is being done without draconian measures by big government, without crackdowns on our liberties - by women making their own choices.'"
2010-06-13,"b""Abbas to Obama: I'm against lifting the Gaza naval blockade"""
2010-06-13,b'World cup: Ruthless Germany hammer Australia'
2010-06-13,"b'Ethnic rioting spreading across southern Kyrgyzstan, 80 dead and 1,000 wounded'"
2010-06-13,"b'Nicole Johnston reports from Gaza, where it has been reported that about 14 per cent of children suffer from stunted growth due to malnutrition.'"
2010-06-13,"b'McChrystal Faces a ""Iraq 2006 Moment"" in Afghanistan  by Gareth Porter  -- Antiwar.com  Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal confronts the specter of a collapse of U.S. political support for the war in Afghanistan in coming months comparable to the one that occurred in the Iraq War in late 2006.'"
2010-06-13,"b'Iran: Moscow must abide by S-300 deal, Tehran warns it is capable of producing similar defense systems'"
2010-06-13,"b""BP's Long History Of Destroying The World.  The oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is a final onslaught launched from the grave of colonialism, perpetrated by a corporation that can compete with Goldman Sachs """
2010-06-13,b'Poland arrests alleged Mossad spy regarding hit-squad slaying of Hamas agent in Dubai'
2010-06-13,"b'""activists on board the aid convoy were robbed of an estimated 3.5 million dollars in cash and equipment by Israeli commandos""'"
2010-06-13,b'Japan bribed with cash and prostitutes to keep whaling'
2010-06-13,"b'Up to 150,000 men of Jewish or partially Jewish heritage fought for Hitler  '"
2010-06-12,b'Saudi will shut down air defenses to allow Israel to bomb Iranian Nuclear facilities'
2010-06-12,b'Scenes from the Gulf of Mexico - The Big Picture'
2010-06-12,b'Australia getting more Big Brother every day: now plans to log all your online activity and access it without a warrant.'
2010-06-12,b'Public prosecutors in Germany are looking into a war crimes complaint filed against Israel by two members of parliament with the far-left Left Party and a human rights activist who were on board the Mavi Marmara when Israeli troops stormed it 11 days ago.'
2010-06-12,b'Physicist Michio Kaku tells Keith Olberman why nuking the BP well would be a very bad idea.'
2010-06-12,b'BREAKING: Cultures of Resistance releases full 1 HR RAW footage from the Mavi Marmara'
2010-06-12,b'Israeli agent involved in Dubai assassination arrested in Poland on German arrest warrant'
2010-06-12,b'Video footage has been released that shows a US \r\nborder patrol agent shooting dead a 15-year-old \r\nMexican boy. '
2010-06-12,"b'""If you grew in these circumstances,faced with these choices,would you choose to live in this world,or in the glorious afterlife?"". Inside a School of Suicide Bombers [TEDTalk]'"
2010-06-12,b'Finland considers legalizing use of unsecured Wi-Fi citing lack of harm caused'
2010-06-12,b'A Booming Business in Illegal Cannabis Plantations in Germany - German cannabis plantations are now edging imports from Morocco and Afghanistan out of the market. The trend began after the Dutch government began driving growers out of the country.'
2010-06-12,b'Kyrgyzstan declares state of emergency'
2010-06-12,"b'  Maos Secret Famine Exposed  Behind Paywall - \nYang Jisheng used position as official journalist to research and publish truth about China\'s ""Great Leap Forward"" in 1958-61. Perhaps 40m died in world\'s worst man-made famine\n'"
2010-06-12,b'Chairman of Goldman Sachs International Was - Until Last Year - Also Chairman of BP'
2010-06-12,b'Vladimir Putin Hints At Return To Russian Presidency In 2012'
2010-06-12,"b""In preparation of a new report on Bloody Sunday to be published Tuesday (and about to change history), here's a summary of the events of that day"""
2010-06-12,"b""Bangladesh 'Eve teasing' craze takes a terrible toll."""
2010-06-12,b'Cape Town runs out of earplugs following deafening Vuvuzela onslaught'
2010-06-12,b'Israeli Official Threatens to Kill Turkish PM'
2010-06-12,b'North Korea warns it will launch a military strike on South Korean loudspeakers'
2010-06-12,b'Venezuela orders arrest of anti-Chavez TV boss '
2010-06-12,"b'To save Africa, reject the legitimacy of its states.'"
2010-06-12,"b'Rebel group in Congo kills 102 civilians per month, abducts children for soldiers, porters, and sex slaves  UN'"
2010-06-12,"b""OECD's much-watched set of broadband metrics: S. Korea has the lowest cost at $1.76, UK - $1.98, Japan - $2.33..."""
2010-06-12,"b'7.7 quake hits west of Indian islands - ""The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami watch for India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia.""'"
2010-06-11,b'Abby Sutherland FOUND alive and well. 16 year old sailor found.'
2010-06-11,b'Video shows the border patrol agent shot the teenager 3 times in Mexico territory....'
2010-06-11,b'A moving article on the daily lives of North Koreans.  NYTimes'
2010-06-11,"b'""Simply put: There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.""'"
2010-06-11,b'Video of Israeli commandos executing American'
2010-06-11,b'The company operating the Deepwater Horizon will shortly pay out a total of $1 Billion in dividends to share holders. That company is US company Transocean. '
2010-06-11,"b'Pining for a Soviet Paradise - Back in June 1990, I never would have thought that on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Declaration of State Sovereignty I would witness crowds of people  including young people  eulogizing the Soviet Union and shedding tears over the fall of a great power.'"
2010-06-11,b'Gaza flotilla captain: Activists prepared attack against IDF raid - Haaretz'
2010-06-11,"b'North Korea shows that, in the right circumstances, people will strive under any hardship, tolerate any government lie. '"
2010-06-11,"b""Japan's financial collapse is next: Japan PM Naoto Kan warns of 'collapse' under debt pile"""
2010-06-11,b'Spain seeks EU backing on plan to lift Israeli blockade of Gaza'
2010-06-11,"b""It's Official: There was No Humanitarian Aid on Mavi Marmara (300 wheelchairs, 300 new mobility scooters, 100 special mobility scooters for the disabled, Hundreds of crutches, 250 hospital beds, Four tons of medicine...) """
2010-06-11,b'Pope begs forgiveness for institutional child abuse - world dubious.'
2010-06-11,b'Looks like we might have to worry more about the effect of Corexit 9500 then the effect of oil on our environment.'
2010-06-11,"b'UK PM Cameron: No more troops for Afghanistan - British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday ruled out sending more troops to Afghanistan, saying Britain\'s forces should not stay on ""for a day longer"" than necessary.\r\n      \r\n    \r\n\t- Arab News'"
2010-06-11,b'Gaza Fishermen Under Siege'
2010-06-11,"b""WTF! Countries have no longer the right to self-defense: The US and Israel are concerned the S-300 missiles might be used to PROTECT Iran's nuclear facilities from possible attack."""
2010-06-11,"b""IDF-hired driver: 'Why did they kill so few?' - Driver hired by IDF to transport soldiers posts sign on font of bus criticizing commandos who took part in Gaza flotilla takeover for small number of casualties."""
2010-06-11,b'Australian billionaires take to the streets for tax protest'
2010-06-11,b'Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland killings to be ruled unlawful'
2010-06-11,"b""Australian government considering retaining everyone's browsing history for up to ten years"""
2010-06-11,b'Another person being charged with Holocaust denial. '
2010-06-11,b'U.S. Fury at BP Stirs Backlash Among British'
2010-06-11,b'First amateur images of Osh riots in Kyrgyzstan'
2010-06-11,b'Are growing tensions in Slovakia creating the conditions for another European conflict? '
2010-06-10,"b""The Supremo in His Labyrinth - A horrifying first-hand account of Kim Jong Il's private life, from a former bodyguard"""
2010-06-10,"b'Amnesty International links the US to a deadly air raid in Yemen that killed dozens of civilians, with photo evidence.'"
2010-06-10,b'Dutch offered US ships to help skim oil 3 days after the spill. US was not interested'
2010-06-10,"b'Israeli Blockade Isn\'t About Security | \r\nIsraeli government documents describe the blockade not as a security measure but as ""economic warfare"" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory. '"
2010-06-10,b'Hungary equates Communism to Nazism - Hungarian lawmakers have passed a bill equating Communist era crimes to the Holocaust and banned denying it under threat of imprisonment.'
2010-06-10,"b'Banksters, Corrupt Politicians Face Prosecution - in Iceland'"
2010-06-10,b'North Korea has sent a letter to the UN Security Council rejecting claims it sank a South Korean warship and warning the council not to debate the issue. '
2010-06-10,"b'Hamas: Obama\'s call to ease Gaza blockade ""meaningless""'"
2010-06-10,b'The Politically Incorrect Guide to ENDING POVERTY :: convincing the poorest countries to establish foreign-run charter cities within their borders'
2010-06-10,b'Netanyahu nominates right-wing conservative and a professor looking to be the next Israel ambassador to the UN for inquiry commission; serving IDF soldiers and officers barred from giving testimony'
2010-06-10,"b""AMNESTY: Tribal Pakistan is a 'human rights-free zone'."""
2010-06-10,b'We are damned lucky for striking Chinese workers'
2010-06-10,"b""Foreign policy cant be carried out with heroism but with reason. The Turkish Foreign Ministry should publicly disclose correspondence made with Israel so that we may all learn whether Israel warned Turkey or not, says Kemal Kldarolu, Turkey's opposition Party leader."""
2010-06-10,b'Views of North Korea Show How a Policy Spread Misery - NYTimes.com'
2010-06-10,"b""Cherie Booth (wife of Tony Blair) cleared of misconduct after suspending a Muslim's jail sentence because he was 'religious'"""
2010-06-10,"b'Turkey: On the day of the Gaza flotilla raid, 7 Turkish sailors were killed by Kurdish terrorists... using rockets.'"
2010-06-10,b'Abbas tells U.S. Jews: I would never deny Jewish right to the land of Israel - Haaretz '
2010-06-10,b'What Does Snack Food Have To Do With Keeping Weapons Out Of Gaza ?'
2010-06-10,"b'Somali Defense Minister and warlord Yusuf \r\nMohammed Siad, who was leading a fight against \r\nIslamic insurgents in the country, resigns from \r\ngovernment.'"
2010-06-10,"b'Former officers of Bosnian Serb army sentenced to life for genocide in connection with the 1995 massacre of 7,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica'"
2010-06-10,b'Mexican Army Captures Zetas Commander In Charge of Monterrey '
2010-06-10,b'Bloody Sunday killings to be ruled unlawful'
2010-06-10,"b""`People's Daily' columnist -- `Time to defend Chinese workers' rights'"""
2010-06-10,"b'""You don\'t have to be Naomi Klein to realize that somewhere along a production line that can manufacture supermarket jeans for 2, someone is getting at best short-changed, and at worst exploited.""'"
2010-06-10,"b""Saudi man convicted of 'engaging in immoral movements in front of other shoppers' gets four months in prison, 90 lashes"""
2010-06-09,b'Striking Infographic: Tallest Mountains to Deepest Trench (Gives good sense of Deepwater Horizon drilling depth)'
2010-06-09,"b'Tony Blair: \'I am 100% on Israel\'s side\' - ""There are no questions at all. There have been rockets fired from Gaza, there are people in Gaza who want to kill innocent Israelis,"" Blair said. ""When it comes to security, I am 100% on Israel\'s side.""'"
2010-06-09,b'Iran begins Mass Executions in Advance of One-Year Anniversary of Iranian Uprising '
2010-06-09,"b'Over 100,000 unexploded WWII bombs are believed to litter Germany. Just last week, three specialists died while trying to diffuse one. '"
2010-06-09,"b'Israeli govt looking for internet volunteers. ""The goal is to create a public diplomacy track parallel to the one used by the Foreign Ministry, whose message does not bear the fingerprints of the Israeli govt""'"
2010-06-09,"b""Is Burma The Next North Korea? Evidence Suggests Burma Is Developing A Nuclear Weapon To Use Against It's Citizens In Case Of Civil Unrest (Excellent Al-Jazeera Report)"""
2010-06-09,b'BBC News - Dramatic CCTV footage shows moment Haiti quake hit palace'
2010-06-09,"b'Oil Consortium Behind War Crimes in Sudan: ""First aerial bombardment, then ground troops killed the remaining population and set villages on fire. Finally they declared the area safe and the oil companies came in"" '"
2010-06-09,"b'""[The Chinese] are not like these Wall Street fucks pushing financial investments on paper. The Chinese deal in real things, in merchandise. And they will help the real economy in Greece."" -Deputy Greek Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos '"
2010-06-09,"b'""All I saw in Israel was cowards with guns""'"
2010-06-09,"b'Not every blogger is a crank: British teacher predicted Eurozone problems based on demographic differences, and is now being courted and cited by economic community.'"
2010-06-09,"b""Blackwater (Xe) is for sale. Wouldn't it be funny if some Saudi or rich Taliban guy buys them?"""
2010-06-09,b'Why Jews need to abandon the myth of exceptionalism'
2010-06-09,b'Why Israel ignores global criticism of Gaza flotilla raid - Israelis see international criticism as hyperbole linked to centuries of anti-Jewish persecution  and something that can be ignored.'
2010-06-09,b'Mexican boy killed at US border'
2010-06-09,b'Moving the Markets - Europe Looks to Break US Ratings Monopoly: Few doubt that US ratings agencies contributed greatly to the global financial crisis. Europe is exploring the possibility of creating its own ratings agency.'
2010-06-09,"b'Kenya Wants America To Do To Somalia What It Did To Iraq & Afghanistan - We have asked the US govt to provide leadership to forge a concerted international effort to stabilise Somalia,"" Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki said.'"
2010-06-09,"b""Yoga heritage: don't even think about stealing it, says Indian government"""
2010-06-09,b'New video of Haiti earthquake shows the crumbling of the palace.'
2010-06-09,b'Zimbabwes new independent daily ends state news monopoly'
2010-06-09,"b'Predator Drones: As Washington expands its drone strikes in Pakistan, the number of civilians killed in the attacks keeps rising. Hundreds of people have died since 2004 and critics say the program only helps fuel the conflict and creates new militants rather than eliminating them.'"
2010-06-09,b'U.N. Security Council approves Iran sanctions on 12-2 vote: Obama administration succeeded in securing support from China and Russia. Brazil and Turkey voted against the resolution'
2010-06-09,b'Ministers are bringing forward measures requiring many immigrants marrying UK citizens to prove they have a command of English'
2010-06-09,"b'The Limits of Public Opinion: Arabs, Israelis and the Strategic Balance | STRATFOR'"
2010-06-09,b'CHINA A wave of strikes hits Shanghai'
2010-06-08,"b'Reuters under fire for removing weapons, blood from images of Gaza flotilla - Haaretz '"
2010-06-08,b'Museum stops exhibition about homosexuality in religion - The museum of World Cultures in Gothenburg cancels a planned exhibition about homosexuality in religion in order to avoid disturbing religious groups.'
2010-06-08,b'China claims North Korean Border Guards kill three people on the Chinese side of the border.'
2010-06-08,b'Bilderberg 2010: Help us identify the delegates '
2010-06-08,"b""Russian Soldiers 'looted Polish crash dead' - \r\nFour Russian soldiers have been charged with stealing bank cards from the wreckage of the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others."""
2010-06-08,"b'Amnesty links US to Yemen attack - ""A US cruise missile carrying cluster bombs was used in an attack in Yemen that killed 55 people, most of them civilians, Amnesty International has said.""'"
2010-06-08,b'Van der Sloot confesses to Peru slaying - Americas- msnbc.com'
2010-06-08,"b'Cop sees landscape artist with Tourette\'s punching himself in the face. Cop calls man ""retard,"" handcuffs him on phony theft rap.'"
2010-06-08,"b'Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan - \r\nSgt. Martin Goudreault, 35, died Sunday while on foot patrol roughly 15 kilometres southwest of the city of Kandahar, Brig.-Gen. Jon Vance said.'"
2010-06-08,b'Turkey to cancel defense agreements with Israel after flotilla attack'
2010-06-08,b'Roman gladiator cemetery found in England'
2010-06-08,b'Human Gene Patent Challenged In Australian Court'
2010-06-08,"b'The Israeli flotilla attack:  victimhood, aggression and tribalism - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com'"
2010-06-08,b'It Takes 26 Years After Thousands Die To Give Union Carbide Execs A Slap On The Wrist'
2010-06-08,b'Shell has been spilling oil in Nigeria for years with impunity'
2010-06-08,"b'Lost WWII battlefield discovered in jungles of New Guinea, including remains of dead where they fell.'"
2010-06-08,b'Cocaine worth $1bn seized in The Gambia - headed for Europe.'
2010-06-08,b'Former CIA analyst alleges China-Saudi nuclear missile deal'
2010-06-08,b'International Subsidies for Oil Equal $557 BILLION; [Cutting Subsidies] This is the only single policy item that could make such a major change in the global energy and climate-change game. '
2010-06-08,"b'""Since I was abducted and brought to the US I was heavily tortured and pressured by US intelligence"" - Iranian nuclear scientist who ""defected"" to US'"
2010-06-08,"b'NZ student tasers pregnant woman - A New Zealand medical student who used a Taser to repeatedly shock a nine-month pregnant woman, causing her to go into labour, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder in the United States.'"
2010-06-08,"b'One year after Tehran erupted in protest, ""nothing has changed, but everything has changed.""'"
2010-06-08,"b'Turkish Prez Erdogan: Israel Will Pay For Flotilla Raid - A week after the Israeli commando raid on a Gaza-bound Turkish ship, which left nine people dead, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would ""no longer be silent on Gaza becoming a giant prison.""'"
2010-06-08,"b'Spanish Youth Part of the Lost Generation - At almost 20 percent, Spain suffers the second-highest unemployment rate in the European Union. But the rate for those just entering the job market is twice as high.'"
2010-06-08,"b'World Peace Index 2010 released - USA 85th out of 149 countries, New Zealand most peaceful.'"
2010-06-07,"b'After over two decades in Indian courts, the Bhopal disaster chemical executives have been found guilty'"
2010-06-07,"b""Israeli students plan counter-flotilla\nFlotilla organized to aid Turkey's oppressed Kurds, Armenians; to show up world's hypocrisy """
2010-06-07,b'Egypt to strip men married to Israeli women (of Jewish descent) of their citizenship.  Children of such marriages will also no longer be citizens.'
2010-06-07,"b'""Israel get the hell of Palestine. This people are occupied. Is their land. Go back to Poland, Germany, USA, wherever"" (yeah included Israel) - Helen Thomas'"
2010-06-07,"b'North Korea holds a rare second session of its \r\nparliament, with Choe Yong-rim appointed to \r\nreplace Kim Yong-il as Premier.'"
2010-06-07,"b'US cruise missile parts found in Yemeni village where 52 died - A US cruise missile armed with cluster ammunition was used in an attack in Yemen in December which resulted in the deaths of 52 people, more than half of them women and children, according to AI.\n\t\t\t\tMiddle East, World - The Independent'"
2010-06-07,"b""Israel's siege mentality is actually making the country weaker """
2010-06-07,b'Nigeria: Marriage of Muslim senator to 13-year-old girl sets up showdown between civil and Sharia law'
2010-06-07,"b'Israelies think that artists that canceled shows are supporting terror: ""Cultural terror against the State of Israel and against art in general""'"
2010-06-07,"b""Lesbian couple weds in Portugal's 1st gay marriage - Teresa Pires and Helena Paixao, divorced Portuguese mothers in their 30s who have been together since 2003, married in a 15-minute ceremony at a Lisbon registry office."""
2010-06-07,"b'Remembering D-Day, 66 years ago - The Big Picture'"
2010-06-07,b'Reuters edited Flotilla photos'
2010-06-07,"b""China's 'cancer villages' reveal dark side of economic \r\nboom"""
2010-06-07,"b'Mexico: 6 bodies found in a cavern near a tourist resort of Cancun. 3 had their hearts cut out and the letter ""Z"" carved on their abdomens, a possible reference to the Zetas drug gang.'"
2010-06-07,"b'Bhopal convictions too little, too late. Seven former employees of Union Carbide in India face up to two years in jail after being convicted of causing death by negligence over the Bhopal disaster of 1984.'"
2010-06-07,"b""FAIR calls out NYT, WPost, LATimes, AssocPress for ignoring the facts and believing Israel's spin."""
2010-06-07,b'Israel has confiscated and censored all video evidence recorded by passengers during the military raid.  Can this be seen as anything but an admission of guilt?'
2010-06-07,"b'WHO suicide rates per 100,000 people per country.  Oh man, Lithuania and Belarus, what is going on with your men?  :('"
2010-06-07,b'South African Bill to block all porn: Tier-one filtering on internet and mobile smut!'
2010-06-07,b'4 Palestinian divers killed near Gaza by Israeli Navy. '
2010-06-07,b'Israeli navy kills 4 Palestinian divers off Gaza coast'
2010-06-07,b'GDP vs National debt  by country'
2010-06-07,"b'Egypt: Gaza blockade a failure, border stays open'"
2010-06-07,"b""Troubled teens 'sent to Siberia'"""
2010-06-07,b'Radical Cutbacks: German Government Agrees on Historic Austerity Program'
2010-06-06,b'Pixies cancel Israel concert - Cancellation comes on the heels of cancellations by Klaxons and Gorillaz Sound System in wake of Gaza flotilla raid.'
2010-06-06,b'Report: Turkish PM May Sail to Gaza Himself'
2010-06-06,"b'IDF Admits It Doctored Flotilla Audio Clip! Media people, time to correct your stories...'"
2010-06-06,b'Israel under fire for apparently doctoring flotilla recordings'
2010-06-06,b'Looks like we are growing a pair: EU to propose lifting Israeli blockade of Gaza'
2010-06-06,"b'Pixies pull out of gig in Israel\nThe group was to have performed a single gig in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, but pulled out just days after a deadly Israeli naval raid on an international aid flotilla, which has provoked a huge international backlash.'"
2010-06-06,b'Turkish Newspaper releases photos of Israeli commandos on Flotilla'
2010-06-06,b'Shot Australian says Israelis left him to bleed after a bullet hit an artery in his leg'
2010-06-06,b'An Irish-American activist has been hospitalised after allegedly suffering beatings at the hands of Israeli security forces.'
2010-06-06,b'BBC- Egyptian court rules that men married to Israelis should have citizenship stripped'
2010-06-06,b'Russia proposes global fund to insure against large-scale environmental disasters like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill'
2010-06-06,"b'Who\'s running Reykjavik? Anarcho-surrealists. ""Nobody needs to be frightened of the Best Party because it\'s the best. And we only want what is bestif we didn\'t, we\'d be called the Worst Party or the Bad Party.""'"
2010-06-06,b'Gaza blockade: Iran offers escort to next aid convoy | World news | The Guardian'
2010-06-06,"b'Gaza convoy tapes edited, Israel acknowledges'"
2010-06-06,b'So Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising'
2010-06-06,b'Australian Internet provider denies supporting censorship'
2010-06-06,"b""Israel's ambassador to the U.S. says his country rejects the idea of a having an international commission look into Israel's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla."""
2010-06-06,"b'In Vietnam, cluster bombs still plague countryside: At the present rate, UXO clearance will take 300years.'"
2010-06-06,b'Greenpeace Activist Harpooned by French Fisherman'
2010-06-06,b'What are the Bilderberg Group really doing in Spain?'
2010-06-06,b'Kidnapped by Israel and abandoned by Britain '
2010-06-06,"b""1,500 revellers took part in a water fight event organised in central london, ended with six people were arrested, another was taken to hospital and one of London's busiest shopping areas was closed after a mass water fight got out of hand.\n"""
2010-06-06,"b""Think we'd be better off without a government? BBC News article on how that worked out for Somalia"""
2010-06-06,b'S.Korea Refers N.Korea to UN Security Council'
2010-06-06,b'WTF: IDF admits doctoring audio of flotilla raid'
2010-06-05,b'An Irish aid ship is headed to Gaza. A Nobel Peace \r\nPrize laureate and a former-United Nations official \r\nare among the 11 passengers. Prime Minister \r\nBenjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not allow the \r\naid ship to reach Gaza.'
2010-06-05,"b'a 60-year-old manwas shot four times in the temple, chest, hip and back. A 19-year-oldwas shot five times from less that 45cm, in the face, in the back of the head, twice in the leg and once in the backand five of the victims were shot either in the back of the head or in the back The Guardian'"
2010-06-05,"b'Israeli navy intercepts Irish aid ship, jams all radar and cuts all communication prior to boarding.'"
2010-06-05,b'Fifa blocking condom distribution at World Cup venues: because encouraging safe sex in a country with the highest number of HIV carriers is just stupid'
2010-06-05,"b""Israeli navy 'intercepts' Rachel Corrie Gaza aid ship"""
2010-06-05,b'Experience: I run a brothel in a country village .'
2010-06-05,"b'The Gaza Blockade Is Illegal and the Flotilla Attack Was an Illegal Act of War - ""Gaza is not an independent state at war with Israel. Gaza is occupied by Israel, and, as such, an entirely different set of international laws apply.""'"
2010-06-05,"b""Photographer tries to take pic of controversial building site in Latvia. He's chased away. Using Twitter, a flash mob returns three days later and..."""
2010-06-05,"b""The other side of the Gaza blockade - Taysir Al Burai is severely disabled. He requires round-the-clock medical care. If he were allowed to leave Gaza, he could make a full recovery. But Israel won't let him"""
2010-06-05,b'Gaza flotilla: Aussie accent is a surreal sound amid chaos of raid'
2010-06-05,b'Report: Israel Willing To Allow Gaza Aid Shipments With International Inspections'
2010-06-05,"b'IDF Releases Apparently Doctored Flotilla Audio, Press Reports As Fact'"
2010-06-05,"b'Noam Chomsky lectures on Israel, Palestine and US policy @ Brown University'"
2010-06-05,"b'Millions of documents stored at the World War II code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, are set to be digitised and made available online.'"
2010-06-05,b'UFO spotted over eastern Australia. Similar to one seen in Norway'
2010-06-05,"b'Days before the first anniversary of the antigovernment protests that rocked Iran, the nations supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, renewed his attack on opposition leaders on Friday, saying that they had betrayed the values of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.'"
2010-06-05,"b'Haaretz opinion: Turkey is not an enemy, should seek to rebuild ties; calls for political courage to lift Gaza blockade'"
2010-06-05,b'BREAKING: The crew of the Rachel Corrie has permitted IDF soldiers to board'
2010-06-05,b'Israel issues last minute appeal to Rachel Corrie to stop.'
2010-06-05,"b""Israeli navy 'intercept' Rachel Corrie Gaza aid ship"""
2010-06-05,b'China: Journalists and netizens held for referring to 1989 Tiananmen massacre'
2010-06-05,"b'Sweden, Norway Act Against Israel'"
2010-06-05,b'It should be noted that Hamas has refused to allow any of the aid carried by the other six flotilla ships into the Gaza Strip thus far. Five days have passed since trucks were loaded with cargo and were ready to enter Gaza.'
2010-06-05,"b""Defector's Evidence Indicates Myanmar Has Nuke Program"""
2010-06-05,"b'Fijian dictator: promised return to democracy is unnecessary, the people ""don\'t want an election""'"
2010-06-04,"b""History repeating -- In 1947, a ship full of Jewish refugees tries to break Britain's blockade on Palestine. The Brits boarded and killed 3, wounding others. It was a PR disaster for Britain and paved the way for the founding of modern Israel."""
2010-06-04,"b""Meanwhile, away from Israel: 300,000 and counting have been killed in Darfur and it's not slowing."""
2010-06-04,"b'Autopsies released for 9 activists who were killed by Israeli commandos, 5 died from head shot wounds, one shot at extremely close range. '"
2010-06-04,"b'NYT: Reporters Dispute Israeli Account of Raid; activist ""shot from above""; tried to protect the video footage and photos, but all the materials of the press members were taken away'"
2010-06-04,"b'Israel rejects world\'s criticism: Worldwide condemnation is an ""international offensive of hypocrisy"" because ""this wasn\'t a love boat, it was a hate boat"" and if we don\'t blockade ""there would be an Iranian port in Gaza""'"
2010-06-04,"b'""If I can\'t have the internet, neither can you,\'\' while her sister cried out, ""No Kathleen, I love you, I love you, please stop\'\'.'"
2010-06-04,b'China Freaks Out The World By Announcing Restrictions On Export Of Metals Crucial For National Defense'
2010-06-04,"b'Six Giant Banks Made $51bil last year; The other 980 Lost Money; the proprietary trading operations of an oligopoly of banks, saved from disaster by Uncle Sam and subsidized with cheap money from the central bank, was the single driving force behind the renewed surge in their stock.'"
2010-06-04,"b""Canadian Copyright Minister Rejects 3 Strikes and You're Out System"""
2010-06-04,"b""Rights in Russia - Putin Pushes New Law to Curtail Opposition -Proposed legislation would allow Russia's intelligence service to imprison people for more than two weeks -- without involving the courts."""
2010-06-04,"b""Burma 'trying to build nuclear weapon'"""
2010-06-04,b'Japan has a new Prime Minister'
2010-06-04,b'Journalist aboard the Gaza aid boat asserts that the Israelis opened fire as they were boarding which provoked an angry reaction and an attack on the commandos'
2010-06-04,"b'Turkey suspends all infrastructure projects with Israel: No more ""talk about commercial and economic matters""'"
2010-06-04,b'Al Qaeda has threatened to kidnap Saudi princes and ministers in order to secure the release of a female al Qaeda operative arrested by Saudi forces'
2010-06-04,"b""Hungary in 'Grave' State, Official Says - Its clear that the economy is in a very grave situation, Peter Szijjarto, spokesman for Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said today in Budapest. I dont think its an exaggeration at all to talk about a default."""
2010-06-04,"b'Video of the IDF attack on one of the other ships of the flotilla. Unfortunately you cannot see much, but the audio has some value.'"
2010-06-04,"b'French charity files legal complaint - for kidnapping, false imprisonment, armed violence, ship hijacking - after Gaza fleet raid'"
2010-06-04,"b'Bavarian Beer Finds Fans on the Horn of Africa - Bratwurst, beer mugs, waitresses in dirndls and folksy slogans on the wall. It sounds like a beer hall in Bavaria. But this bar is actually in Addis Ababa, where an Ethiopian brewer has built a culinary monument to his former home in Germany.'"
2010-06-04,"b'""Rachel Corrie"" activist ship is 150 miles from Gaza, continuing at a steady pace, with 1,000 tonnes of aid and supplies'"
2010-06-04,"b""An investigation by an anti-government Myanmar \r\nbroadcaster has found evidence that it says shows \r\nthe country's military regime has begun a \r\nprogramme to develop nuclear weapons."""
2010-06-04,b'International Donations Not Always Welcome in Gaza'
2010-06-04,b'Everest team leaves blind British climber to die'
2010-06-04,b'Israel may ease Gaza blockade after US contact'
2010-06-04,"b'Apartment block with metal grilles on its windows and no fire escape is engulfed by fire in Bangladesh, more than 100 dead'"
2010-06-03,b'Israel must lift Gaza blockade immediately: UN chief'
2010-06-03,"b'Israel is caught in a vicious circle. The more its hawks think the outside world will always hate it, the more it tends to shoot opponents first and ask questions later, and the more it finds that the world is indeed full of enemies.'"
2010-06-03,"b'A test-run of issuing free heroin to addicts in Copenhagen appears to be successful, with initial results showing reduced crime and prostitution and improved health and life quality for those taking part in the project.'"
2010-06-03,"b'Gaza flotilla: yes, Downing Street HAS dropped Israel '"
2010-06-03,b'Israeli leftists denounce deadly flotilla raid'
2010-06-03,"b'""They used smoke bombs followed by gas canisters. They started to descend on to the ship with helicopters.\n\n""It [the violence] was extremely bad and brutal. The ship turned into a lake of blood. '"
2010-06-03,b'South Africa recalls Israeli ambassador over flotilla raid - CNN.com'
2010-06-03,b'Joran Van der Sloot arrested in Chile'
2010-06-03,"b'Egypt-Gaza border crossing opened ""indefinitely""'"
2010-06-03,"b'Remember Neda, the girl we watched die on the streets of Tehran last summer? Her family just gave their first interview.'"
2010-06-03,b'Hamas stops flotilla aid delivered by Israel'
2010-06-03,b'Demands for expulsion of Israeli envoy in Ireland'
2010-06-03,b'BP pays out. (To whom? Oil pollution victims? Noooo...)'
2010-06-03,b'Robert Fisk: Western leaders are too cowardly  to help save lives'
2010-06-03,"b""Israel had 'no other choice' over raid... Except for the other choices they had."""
2010-06-03,"b""Korean war 'may break out at any moment': North Korea"""
2010-06-03,b'Niki Enchmarch was on the top deck standing next to a Turkish man who was holding a camera. An Israeli soldier shot him in the middle of the forehead. It blew off the back of his skull and he died. '
2010-06-03,b'Israel resists international probe into Gaza ship raid'
2010-06-03,b'Irish ship Rachel Corrie was sabotaged by Israeli intelligence says report'
2010-06-03,"b'New Aid Ship Heads For Gaza, Fleet Of 3 More Ships On The Way Soon'"
2010-06-03,b'Osama Bin Laden Flying First Class to Washington'
2010-06-03,b'The gamblers betting on Britain going bust - \nHedge funds are wagering billions on the UK defaulting'
2010-06-03,"b'American-Turkish high school student was shot 4 times in the head, once in the body by the IDF during the Aid Flotilla Attacks.'"
2010-06-03,b'French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces allegations on arms deal used to fund political campaigns.'
2010-06-03,"b'MK Hanin Zoabi, Arab member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla told to ""Go to Gaza, Traitor""; parliament in utter chaos.'"
2010-06-02,"b'Ireland to Israel: ""If any harm comes to any of our citizens, it will have the most serious consequences.'"
2010-06-02,"b'Member of the Israeli parliament who was on board the international flotilla corroborate the videotape showing that Israeli forces were firing  before they boarded: They wanted many deaths to terrorise us""'"
2010-06-02,"b""The United States has blocked demands at the UN security council for an international inquiry into Israel's assault on the Turkish ship carrying aid to Gaza that left nine pro-Palestinian activists dead"""
2010-06-02,"b'BBC News - Gunman kills several in west Cumbria, UK'"
2010-06-02,b'And thus Glenn Greenwald destroyed an Israel lobby lapdog [vid]'
2010-06-02,b'Nicaragua suspends diplomatic ties with Israel'
2010-06-02,"b'It took its time, but... TOP OFFICIALS from several Government departments and the Garda have recommended the expulsion of an Israeli embassy security officer after concluding that Israel forged Irish passports used by suspects in the murder of a Hamas official in Dubai.'"
2010-06-02,b'It has long been known that German civilians fell victim to Czech excesses immediately following the Nazi surrender at the end of World War II. But a newly discovered video shows one such massacre in brutal detail. And it has come as a shock to the Czech Republic.'
2010-06-02,"b'A half-century ago, Afghan women pursued careers in medicine; men and women mingled casually at movie theaters and university campuses in Kabul'"
2010-06-02,"b""UK Redditors, if you haven't already done so please sign this petition to lobby the government to push for an *international* investigation into the flotilla attacks"""
2010-06-02,"b'Turkish PM : ""It is no longer possible to cover up or ignore Israel\'s lawlessness. This bloody massacre by Israel on ships that were taking humanitarian aid to Gaza deserves every kind of curse.""'"
2010-06-02,b'Japan PM to step down for failing to move US base on Okinawa'
2010-06-02,"b'First reports from flotilla activists: witnesses from two other vessels report being attacked with tear gas, rubber bullets, and stun guns.'"
2010-06-02,"b'World War Two bomb explodes in Germany, three dead'"
2010-06-02,b'Nutmeg is coming to destroy Israel'
2010-06-02,b'Barney Frank: people are howling for Israel to pay a price that dont seem disturbed that North Koreans killed 46 South Koreans by torpedoing a South Korean boat. I think we have a right to ask for some consistency.'
2010-06-02,"b'Israel will respond ""in like"" with the same commando units with the same level of force, and are willing to take further criticism regarding their response towards future convoys.'"
2010-06-02,b'Toxicology tests have reportedly found that two teenagers who were thought to have died as a result of taking mephedrone  leading to a successful campaign to ban it  had not taken the drug.'
2010-06-02,"b'Think S. Korea is free? Police are investigating Internet users for expressing dissenting opinions about the warship incident online. ""If found guilty, they could be jailed for up to five years or fined.""'"
2010-06-02,"b""Why is Gaza under blockade? What's the impact? Israel says there is no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, UN strongly disagrees."""
2010-06-02,"b""McDonald's New Gay Friendly Ad"""
2010-06-02,"b'A heatwave strikes India and South Asia, reaching \r\n53C and is reported to have killed many hundreds \r\nof people.'"
2010-06-02,"b""UN report says CIA drone strikes in Pakistan 'illegal'"""
2010-06-02,"b'In the 62 years of its existence, Israel has never been at peace and continues to be surrounded by enemies even today. ""A perpetual paranoid State.""'"
2010-06-02,b'Turkey likens Israeli raid on aid ship to 9/11 attacks'
2010-06-01,"b""While everyone gets caught up in the details of the IDF-Turkish flotilla incident, here's a good perspective on the bigger picture and strategic implications. Produced by Stratfor, a global intelligence company."""
2010-06-01,"b'UN Security Council condemns acts in international waters, requests release of ships and civilians, full investigation ""conforming to international standards"", and unimpeded distribution of humanitarian assistance in Gaza.'"
2010-06-01,"b'Activists Send New Boat to Challenge Gaza Blockade as Egypt Lifts Its Side of the Blockade to ""alleviate the suffering of our Palestinian brothers after the Israeli attack on the flotilla""'"
2010-06-01,"b'It is a fact that it is ordinary people, activists, call them what you will, who now take decisions to change events. Our politicians are too spineless, too cowardly, to take decisions to save lives'"
2010-06-01,"b""David Grossman writing in The Guardian - The best article I've read in a while from a moderate patriotic Israeli expressing how monday's events illustrate just how messed up Israel has become."""
2010-06-01,b'First passenger accounts of Israeli attack on flotilla begin to emerge: IDF fired BEFORE boarding'
2010-06-01,b'PAKISTAN: Women Intensify Push to Pass Law Against Acid Attacks'
2010-06-01,"b""Pentagon claims to have killed Al Qaeda's top chief in Afghanistan...for the second time."""
2010-06-01,b'Australia launches legal action against Japan over whaling'
2010-06-01,"b'""They\'re going to have to stop the blockade of Gaza, and one of the ways to do this is for us to continue to send the boats"". Two new aid ships on their way to Gaza'"
2010-06-01,"b'New Hungarian Government replacing hundreds of government websites with ""OMG""'"
2010-06-01,b'Israeli Publicity Machine Cranks Into Gear Over Raid On Mavi Marmara'
2010-06-01,"b""Israelis haven't expressed much sympathy for Gaza freedom flotilla activists attacked in an Israeli raid Monday. But they're upset that their government walked into what they say was a trap, and botched the mission.\r\n\r\n"""
2010-06-01,"b""I've had a vasectomy"""
2010-06-01,"b""India's economy grows 8.6%"""
2010-06-01,b'Turkey: All options are on the table'
2010-06-01,"b'Israel Holds Hundreds of People Seized During Raid on Freedom Flotilla, While UN Condemns Israel acts and More Ships Depart Toward Gaza'"
2010-06-01,b'Presenting a Dutch proposal to stop the oil within days'
2010-06-01,"b""It's Official - Another BP Failure - Efforts To End Flow From BP Well Are Over, Coast Guard Says"""
2010-06-01,b'Egypt opens Gaza border after Israel ship clash'
2010-06-01,b'Life inside the North Korean bubble'
2010-06-01,b'Israel planning massive attack on Gaza: Ahmadinejad'
2010-06-01,"b'A member of the Israeli Knesset (legislative branch of the Israeli government) on board the Marmara ship when it was ambushed by IDF troops, has told reporters that the intention of the raid was to kill as many on board as they could in order to ward off others from attempting to reach Gaza by sea. '"
2010-06-01,"b""Swingers' case tests sexual limits in China.  A  professor is sentenced to prison for starting a sex club. Many people say he committed no crime."""
2010-06-01,"b""Lesson: if you're willing to die for your cause, punch a soldier in the face and try to get him to shoot you."""
2010-05-31,"b'BREAKING: Israel attacks aid flotilla in international waters  at least 2 people murdered, 30 injured'"
2010-05-31,"b'Youtube video of the aid flotilla attack: Clearly shows gunfire and civilian casualties BEFORE Israeli troops board, despite Israeli claims of self-defence.'"
2010-05-31,"b'Nick Clegg, UK Deputy PM (Dec 22, 2009) : ""Lift the Gaza blockade. The suffering is shocking. And nobody will benefit from the radicalism that confinement engenders.""'"
2010-05-31,"b""Imagine a country where your mobile phone is taken from you at the airport with no explanation or apology, where there's no access to the internet, where your minders watch every move and you're reported if you try to leave your hotel alone. And football is a state secret..."""
2010-05-31,"b'Israeli commandos kill 16 Free Gaza activists in international waters, wound at least 60 others'"
2010-05-31,"b'President of Germany resigns for this remarks he made during a surprise visit to Afghanistan: ""Military deployments are necessary in an emergency to protect our interests, for example, when it comes to trade routes""'"
2010-05-31,b'Turkey threatens action; Israel on alert'
2010-05-31,b'Israel attacks Gaza aid fleet'
2010-05-31,"b""Helium balloons float propaganda, DVD's, money, and small radios into North Korea"""
2010-05-31,b'China issues new rules banning evidence obtained through torture in death penalty cases'
2010-05-31,"b'State of alert throughout Israel. ""Brink of war or new Intifada""'"
2010-05-31,"b'Israel defending the indefensible: ""The Israeli military\'s justification that its soldiers were lynched and hence were defending themselves adds insult to death.""'"
2010-05-31,"b'Report: Israel attacks Gaza flotilla, 10 die'"
2010-05-31,b'Protesters try to storm Israeli consulate in Turkey '
2010-05-31,b'Close-Up Footage of Mavi Marmara Passengers Attacking IDF Soldiers'
2010-05-31,b'Japan plans to build robot moon base by 2020'
2010-05-31,b'Turkey: Future Gaza Aid Ships Will Have Military Escorts'
2010-05-31,b'As she asked him about fuel prices he suddenly poured petrol over her from a jug he was holding. He then set her alight'
2010-05-31,"b""Nigeria's Agony Dwarfs the Gulf Oil Spill. The US and Europe Ignore It"""
2010-05-31,b'French President Sarkozy said Africa should be given a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council: Lack of representation on the peacekeeping body is unacceptable'
2010-05-31,"b'Former German Foreign Minister: ""How many bailouts will the people of the Western democracies tolerate before the crisis of the global financial system turns into a crisis of Western democracy? The answer is clear: not many more.""'"
2010-05-31,b'No weapons on stormed Turkish ship: Report'
2010-05-31,b'New Zealand animal welfare advisors think animals may experience pain if their throat is cut and they bleed to death without being stunned...'
2010-05-31,"b'Al-Jazeera anchorwomen resign over being accused of not dressing ""conservatively"" enough'"
2010-05-31,"b""Much Of China's And India's Fresh Water Now Tainted By Pollution And Largely Unusable"""
2010-05-30,"b'Get ready for a crazy summer. Undercover investigation by The Guardian reveals plot by the \'English Defence League\' to target Muslim communities, stoke violent racial/religious unrest, and provoke ""mayhem and disorder"" this summer across the UK.'"
2010-05-30,b'In front of 120 million viewers random guy jumps on stage (at 1 min 10 secs) to join the Spanish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest and tries to look like part of the act before being hustled off by security guards'
2010-05-30,b'White Poverty In South Africa [pics]'
2010-05-30,b'The people of El Salvador are fighting against a Canadian mining giant that was lawfully denied permits for a gold and silver mine that would devastate the local environment and threaten the health and livelihoods of residents'
2010-05-30,b'It has been estimated that the mineral wealth in the belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter equals about 100 billion dollars for every person on Earth'
2010-05-30,b'The government distributed pamphlets advertising a wonder drug that would increase the height of short people. Those who responded to the pamphlets were sent away to uninhabited islands along to rid the next generation of their substandard genes.'
2010-05-30,"b'This should really be in WTF: ""Israel stations nuclear missile subs off Iran""'"
2010-05-30,b'Canadian boy to return home after 2 years in U.S. foster care after being picked up by Oregon police for not wearing his bike helmet'
2010-05-30,"b'Despite overwhelming negative response, the Australian government is still going to censor the internet'"
2010-05-30,b'Shell Oil tried for crimes against humanity'
2010-05-30,"b""Another Danish pharmaceutical company has withdrawn products from Greece in protest at the government's decision to cut the prices of medicines by 25%."""
2010-05-30,"b'Nigerian oil spills? I am saddened by the ""Meh.""'"
2010-05-30,"b'More than 50,000 Greeks with diabetes are left without insulin after Novo Nordisk, the world\'s leading supplier of the drug, withdraws from Greece in a ""brutal capitalist blackmail"" after being asked to reduce the cost of its medicine by the Greek government.'"
2010-05-30,"b'""Mystery faults"" develop simultaneously in two \r\nships attempting to break Israel\'s blockade of Gaza'"
2010-05-30,b'Japan party quits coalition over US base'
2010-05-30,"b""'The Best Party', a parody party in Iceland seems to be winning the capital's municipal elections! """
2010-05-30,b'China urges region to step back from Korea clash'
2010-05-30,"b'Rick Steves: A Perspective on Iran; Rick Steves sheds light on Iran, calling it the most misunderstood country he has ever visited.'"
2010-05-30,"b""The Palestinian Authority is considering introducing its own currency called the 'Palestinian pound'"""
2010-05-30,"b""An international children's rights charity has said it has evidence that Palestinian children held in Israeli custody have been subjected to sexual abuse in an effort to extract confessions from them."""
2010-05-30,b'Guatemala volcano rains chaos '
2010-05-30,b'Gaza-bound aid ships leave Cyprus - Al Jazeera'
2010-05-30,b'Pigeon held in India on suspicion of spying for Pakistan'
2010-05-30,"b'Oxford Tradition Comes to This -  Death (Expound) - Many candidates, including some of the best, seemed at a loss when confronted with this exercise, '"
2010-05-30,b'North Korea rally heightens tensions on the peninsula'
2010-05-29,b'The war is over!\n\n'
2010-05-29,"b'Who else is scared that in the coming days they will open reddit and on the front page it\'s going to say ""North and South Korea are at full scale war, Missiles have been launched!"" '"
2010-05-29,b'Brazilian Police Chief Shot Dead Live On The Air During Radio Interview'
2010-05-29,b'Malawi gay couple recently sentenced to 14 years in prison given Presidential pardon'
2010-05-29,"b""Russia wants '100% proof' N.Korea sunk ship"""
2010-05-29,"b'Chinese environmental whistleblower imprisoned, tortured'"
2010-05-29,b'Attacks on two mosques packed with worshippers from a minority sect in Pakistan. At least 80 people were killed and dozens wounded.'
2010-05-29,b'Police Use Ice Cream Music to Breakup Teen Rioters'
2010-05-29,b'Big volcanic eruptions in Guatemala & Ecuador'
2010-05-29,"b""Can Erdogan slay Turkey's zombies? - Three letters: W,Q and X absent from the Turkish alphabet but part of the minority Kurdish language, are still officially illegal to utter or print in Turkey, despite the fact a sixth of the population, or 12 million people, are Kurds.  """
2010-05-29,"b""European Muslims' Jewish Friend, Job Cohen, leader of the Dutch Labor Party."""
2010-05-29,b'Israel rejects Middle East nuclear talks'
2010-05-29,"b'""EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on Friday called for an immediate end to Israels Gaza blockade, as an aid flotilla prepared to set sail for the enclave despite the embargo.""'"
2010-05-29,"b'Israeli official describes agreement calling for a Mid-East nuclear-free zone as \'hypocrisy\' ... US President Barack Obama backed the deal but said he was ""strongly opposed"" to Israel being singled out ... Hint to Obama: Israel is the only ME country that didn\'t sign the NPT.'"
2010-05-29,b'Chinese workers go on strike!  Honda workers shut down production'
2010-05-29,b'Water begins flowing from Pakistani lake '
2010-05-29,b'Russian Parliament Voting Scandal (Video)'
2010-05-29,"b""Botticelli's Venus and Mars 'high on drugs' """
2010-05-29,"b'Israel\'s navy to enforce bizarre list of 100s of approved and disapproved items as international aid flotilla attempts Gaza landing.  A long list of items are banned ""just because"" including concrete, cilantro, margarine, jam, and fresh meat.'"
2010-05-29,b'Taliban capture Afghan district on Pakistan border'
2010-05-29,"b""The Freedom Flotilla sailing to the Gaza Strip is exposing the partisan nature of the response of the United Nations and the international community to Israel's three-year siege on Gaza. The siege -- enforced by land, air and sea"""
2010-05-29,b'Drawn from the shadows- An interview with Banksy.'
2010-05-29,b'BBC News - Rwanda arrests US lawyer Erlinder for genocide denial'
2010-05-29,"b'Pakistan, Iran sign major gas pipeline pact'"
2010-05-29,b'Israels response  = When hell freezes over... '
2010-05-28,"b'China ""will not protect"" whoever sank a South Korean warship'"
2010-05-28,"b""If, as the Japanese claim, they are hunting whales for scientific purposes why is Peter Bethune being charged for 'obstructing business'?"""
2010-05-28,"b'""Dont you just wish you lived in Gaza? Dont you just envy those people who get to raise their kids amid such abundance? Look at all the stuff theyve got"" - ""SO WHO are these goddamn Jew-haters and their boats""'"
2010-05-28,"b'The Israeli Navy also sets off to confront the \r\ninternational flotilla carrying 10,000 tons of \r\nhumanitarian aid as hundreds of people on board \r\nattempt to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza \r\nStrip.'"
2010-05-28,"b'UK Children as young as four ""to be fingerprinted to borrow school books from library"" with a system developed by Microsoft'"
2010-05-28,"b""Oil leak shown on Spillcam is not the only leak.  Some now allege that there is a much larger leak BP isn't showing us. [vid]"""
2010-05-28,b'Berlin court rules Muslim student may not pray at school.  Overturned earlier ruling requiring school to provide him a private prayer room.'
2010-05-28,"b""Contributions from Belgium, Canada, Finland, \r\nFrance, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the \r\nNetherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and \r\nSwitzerland allow the World Bank to cancel $36 \r\nmillion in Haiti's remaining debt following January \r\n2010 devastating earthquake."""
2010-05-28,b'UK PhD student specializing in 19th century homicides accused of murdering three prostitutes.  With a crossbow. And dismembering them. '
2010-05-28,"b'Once Upon a Time in Afghanistan... | Photo-essay on Afghan life in 1960s, with illustrations from contemporary guide book. Amazing, chastening, to see Westernised country with well-functioning factories, unveiled women, hospitals, buses, telecommunications'"
2010-05-28,b'TEDTalks: Inside a school for suicide bombers'
2010-05-28,"b'Israel\'s Gaza blockade baffles residents: ""Frozen salmon  we never had it before the blockade,"" said perplexed salesman Abed Nasser, examining a frozen chunk of fish'"
2010-05-28,b'Israel allows Palestinians on highway 443 to Ramallah  but blocks the exit'
2010-05-28,"b'Israeli FM Lieberman: Gaza aid convoy ""is violent propaganda against Israel. There is no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. We respond in the most humane way possible'"
2010-05-28,"b""Toronto police get 'sound cannons' for G20: Long-range acoustic devices can be used for crowd control"""
2010-05-28,"b""Israel's new 'best friend'?"""
2010-05-28,b'A complete ban on digitally distributed pornography is being considered by the South African government.'
2010-05-28,"b'Britain communications regulator, Ofcom, publishes their plan to curb piracy. '"
2010-05-28,b'Toll from Jamaica violence climbs to 73 '
2010-05-28,"b'Bad cop, no Donut: ""Their bulletproof vests squeeze like corsets, their gun belts lie hidden under rolls of fat. Mexicos police officers may not catch as many criminals as they should, but they have the reputation of rarely missing a taco stand.""'"
2010-05-28,"b""Piracy is still piracy, even if it's carried out by a state called Israel"""
2010-05-28,b'China joins talks on Korea crisis'
2010-05-28,b'David and Goliath style plan to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip: Israel Defence Force to stop the entrance of the aid flotilla into Gaza'
2010-05-28,"b'Australia to bring case to International Court of Justice against Japan over ""scientific"" whaling'"
2010-05-28,b'Suspected sabotage derails train in India; 71 dead'
2010-05-27,b'Deal signed today: Norway has announced $1bn in aid to protect forests in Indonesia.'
2010-05-27,"b'""Israel committed war crimes in Gaza"" says a 430-page Amnesty annual report, that also accuses Hamas'"
2010-05-27,b'UK to abolish national identity cards'
2010-05-27,"b""Colombia set to elect the world's first Green head of state"""
2010-05-27,"b""Pope admits church's guilt in abuse scandal"""
2010-05-27,"b'Israel vs. Boats: \nIsraeli government vows to prevent flotilla carrying civilians supplies,\nelderly Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and\nretired U.S. army colonel from reaching Gaza'"
2010-05-27,b'Israel to stop Gaza aid ships'
2010-05-27,"b""North Korea warns it will meet war with 'all-out war'"""
2010-05-27,b'North Korea scraps South Korea military safeguard pact'
2010-05-27,b'Nets slung around Apple factories to deter suicidal employees'
2010-05-27,"b'Libya opens doors to US tourists - ""Effective immediately, visas are being approved for US citizens for travel to Libya. We are pleased with the new developments and giving the opportunity to US citizens to return to Libya and explore this magical and scenic land.""'"
2010-05-27,"b""Mexican mayor held on drug charges in 'unprecedented' case"""
2010-05-27,b'Death toll rises to 60 in Jamaica as drug-related violence continues; PM vows to restore order'
2010-05-27,b'Israel: Gaza aid convoy can unload cargo in Ashdod for inspection'
2010-05-27,"b'Torture inquiry should leave no stone unturned, says Amnesty - Investigation into human rights abuses promised by William Hague needs to be independent and must look at criminal responsibility, says organisation.'"
2010-05-27,"b""Germany is already facing a demographic nightmare as birth rates fall despite a slew of family-friendly policies. Now, new statistics show that more people are leaving the country than immigrating -- adding to concerns about the country's shrinking population."""
2010-05-27,"b'The Sudanese government says it will no longer \r\nengage in peace talks with the Justice and Equality \r\nMovement, promising to prosecute its leaders \r\ninstead.'"
2010-05-27,"b'BP oil well ""top kill"" bid continues, no update yet. IN RESPONSE of Los Angeles Times report that had quoted a Coast Guard admiral saying the oil spill  top kill procedure had succeeded in blocking the leak'"
2010-05-27,b'Israel sets up tents for Gaza-bound activists'
2010-05-27,b'Lehman Brothers suing J.P. Morgan Chase & Co'
2010-05-27,"b""Thailand a`full-blown military dictatorship' + interview"""
2010-05-27,"b""Protest planned at Western Wall against Rahm Emanuel son's bar mitzva"""
2010-05-27,"b'Second Iceland volcano \'could erupt\' in near future.\r\n""""An eruption in the short term is a strong possibility,"" experts said, referring to Katla, which is larger and fiercer than Eyjafjoell, in a report from the University College London (UCL) institute for risk and disaster reduction.""'"
2010-05-27,b'7.2 quake hits South Pacific nation of Vanuatu'
2010-05-27,b'Dogs and cat living together - hell frozen over - Japan takes action against online kiddie porn'
2010-05-26,b'North Korea Severs All Ties with South Korea'
2010-05-26,"b'Charges dropped against former Attorney General who struck and dragged a cyclist, killing him.'"
2010-05-26,b'Catholic Church admits to 100 cases of sex abuse by priests in 10 yrs for Italy'
2010-05-26,b'I was just watching the live feed from the spill site and it looked like something collapsed.'
2010-05-26,"b'The Rothschild banking family is pushing for the privatization of the UKs motorway network that would force Brits, who already pay road tax, to enrich the coffers of private corporations intimately tied in with the Rothschilds by means of road tolls and pay-by-mile schemes.'"
2010-05-26,b'Voting in the Russian Parliament. A physically fit MP is able to cast 9 votes during each round. '
2010-05-26,b'Russian BitTorrent site admin kidnapped and beaten at gunpoint'
2010-05-26,b'Turkish Govenment calls on the Israelis to lift their siege of Gazan civilians and warns them not to block the aid flotilla'
2010-05-26,"b'The Corporate Stranglehold: How BP Will Make out Like Bandits from Its Massive, Still Gushing Oil Disaster-The existing $75 million cap on damages for offshore drilling companies is a bailout every bit as disgusting as those recently bestowed upon Wall Street'"
2010-05-26,b'Canadian Government Introduces Patriot Act-style Privacy Law Reforms'
2010-05-26,"b'Women lacked the authority to stand for a local election community post of local secretary, and they must only be heard through their husbands ... says the chief Rabbi of a West Bank settlement'"
2010-05-26,"b'Shouldnt the world welcome the actions of two significant, responsible and democratic states to intervene and help check the foolishnesses of decades of US policy on Iran?'"
2010-05-26,"b'Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas came out against Iran on Wednesday, calling his people ""hijacked, at the hands of the Iranians."" '"
2010-05-26,"b""Palestinians complain of 'tree massacre' - Residents of Nahlin told Ynet that dozens of soldiers in jeeps and bulldozers raided the village. In total, 500 plants, including olive trees, fig trees, prickly pear cactus plants, almond trees and grape vines, some hundreds of years old, were uprooted."""
2010-05-26,b'Ask a Korean: What you need to know about and what to think about on the Korean tensions'
2010-05-26,"b""German bank 'blown up by robbers in botched raid'"""
2010-05-26,b'Laura Ling reveals details about the human trafficking story she and producer Euna Lee were investigating before being apprehended and then held in North Korea'
2010-05-26,b'Culture Minister wants creationist views on the origin of the universe to be represented in national museum.'
2010-05-26,b'Flood Of Frogs Shuts Down Major Greek Highway'
2010-05-26,b'Monsanto: The Corporation Poisoning Our Environment.'
2010-05-26,b'A schoolboy threw a plastic bottle at President Nicolas Sarkozy during a visit to discuss violence in French schools'
2010-05-26,"b'A Yemeni airstrike targeting al Qaeda missed its mark today and killed a mediator by mistake, prompting members of his tribe to blow up a crude oil pipeline in clashes that followed'"
2010-05-26,"b""France's Phony Secularism: Secularists should leave Muslim women and their clothes alone"""
2010-05-26,"b'""If there is no reduced deforestation, we will not pay. If there is reduced deforestation, we will pay,"" Mr Stoltenberg told the press conference.'"
2010-05-26,"b""B'nai Brith leader pleads guilty to child porn charges."""
2010-05-25,"b'Kenyan Judges rule that Islamic Courts in Kenya \r\nare discriminatory, unconstitutional, and illegal.'"
2010-05-25,"b""Journalism and 'the words of power'... how we are spoon fed thoughts and opinions without realising it"""
2010-05-25,b'Australia expels an Israeli diplomat after a probe \r\nreveals Israel was behind the forging of four \r\nAustralian passports linked to the murder of a \r\nHamas operative in Dubai. What?!'
2010-05-25,"b'Two gay rights activists arrested in Zimbabwe for hanging a letter from San Francisco mayor Willie Lewis Brown on their own office wall. The letter praised their organisation and criticised Mugabe\'s stance on gay rights. The charge is ""undermining the authority of the president"".'"
2010-05-25,"b'Could this be what WikiLeaks was hinting at when they said the next few weeks would bring their ""greatest challenge""? If WikiLeaks got ahold of the same secret Petraeus order that the NYT got, it could be HUGE.'"
2010-05-25,b'South Korea to retaliate against North by blaring propaganda across the border'
2010-05-25,"b'Swedish Opposition Party Wants All U.S. Bases Removed From Foreign Countries - ""A Red-Green government will demand that the U.S. dismantle its nuclear weapons and military bases outside its borders"".'"
2010-05-25,b'UK ID card scheme will be scrapped with no refund to holders'
2010-05-25,b'N. Korea leader to Army: Prepare for war'
2010-05-25,b'N. Korea . . . the gig is up! '
2010-05-25,b'Guinness could really be good for you - A pint of the black stuff a day may work as well as a low dose aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks. '
2010-05-25,b'Dozens killed in Jamaican violence on drug kingpins compound'
2010-05-25,"b'Stalin blocked attempts to kill Hitler - Soviet dictator Josef Stalin blocked two attempts to kill Adolf Hiter during World War Two, fearing that his replacement as Nazi leader would make peace with the Western Allies, a top Russian general said on Tuesday.'"
2010-05-25,"b'Al Jazeera English talks about how N Korea has maintained ""war footing"" since 1953.'"
2010-05-25,"b'UK Labour Leader: \'Iraq War Was Wrong\' - ""It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives. Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.""'"
2010-05-25,"b""Chinese engineers propose world's biggest hydro-electric project in Tibet"""
2010-05-25,b'Fears grow that banks could send euro crisis global'
2010-05-25,"b'Israeli President Shimon Peres on Monday categorically denied a report that he offered nuclear warheads to South Africa in 1975, when he was defense minister.'"
2010-05-25,b'Seems Deepwater had an explosion just weeks before it was destroyed...'
2010-05-25,b'Kim Jong Il Orders Military to Prepare for Combat'
2010-05-25,"b'In response to the ridiculous anti-UK replies in the case of the rape of a 8 year old girl, heres a follow up article with some more information.'"
2010-05-25,"b""Burka ban rejected by Australian law-makers. Some saying such a law infringes on women's rights"""
2010-05-25,b'Man charged with knowingly spreading HIV'
2010-05-25,b'Irish Justice Minister warns about slandering online'
2010-05-25,"b""Japan will slaughter dozens of its top Wagyu stud bulls as a foot-and-mouth outbreak continues its rapid spread through the country's south."""
2010-05-24,b'Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime'
2010-05-24,"b""Ireland's largest ISP begins disconnecting users who are accused of piracy"""
2010-05-24,"b'Twenty masked gunmen in Gaza attack and burn to the ground a summer camp for children run by UNRWA for ""teaching schoolgirls fitness, dancing, and immorality.""'"
2010-05-24,"b'How the South Korean ship, the Cheonan, was sunk'"
2010-05-24,"b'Israel \'tried to sell nuclear weapons\' - ""If Obama and co. were serious about a sustained process of nuclear diminution, an early part of that process has to be an Israel that comes out of the closet'"
2010-05-24,"b'Besides being a very unhealthy beverage, Coca-Cola has another dirty secret; the Coca-Cola Company has been involved in some kidnappings involving union leaders and organizers at its Colombia bottling facilities. Many of those kidnapped have been severely tortured and even murdered by company thugs'"
2010-05-24,"b""Let's not forget how Royal Dutch Shell had Human Rights Activist Ken Saro Wiwa executed """
2010-05-24,b'4 Year Old Saved By Store Owner '
2010-05-24,b'The Federal Government is expelling an Israeli diplomat after it found Israel faked Australian passports which were used in a hit on a top Hamas commander in Dubai.'
2010-05-24,"b""BP calls in Kevin Costner's $26m vacuum cleaners to mop up huge oil spill"""
2010-05-24,"b'French people protest in Cannes over Algeria film, \r\nwhich made them look evil'"
2010-05-24,"b""Norwegian press gives the real story about what's happening with the gulf oil cleanup... We really aren't getting the whole story here.  (Use Chrome or Google page translation)"""
2010-05-24,"b'A state of emergency has been declared in parts of \r\nthe Jamaican capital, Kingston, after police were \r\nattacked by armed gangs trying to prevent the \r\narrest of an alleged druglord.'"
2010-05-24,b'Bahrain suspends al-Jazeera'
2010-05-24,"b'Andrew Wakefield, doc who first ""linked"" vaccines and autism, is barred from practicing medicine in the UK.'"
2010-05-24,b'Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu jailed.'
2010-05-24,b'South Korean President Halts Trade with North: They must pay for sinking one of our navy ships'
2010-05-24,b'Uzbek Man Jailed for Seven Years for HIV Prevention Efforts'
2010-05-24,b'Mordechai Vanunu jailed by Israeli court for unauthorised meetings... how telling the truth can land you in prison'
2010-05-24,b'Syrian President Bashar Assad said Monday that he is willing to sign a peace agreement with Israel in exchange for the Golan Heights.'
2010-05-24,b'Heres to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out. Do not be afraid of the language of class warfarethe rich versus the poor...'
2010-05-24,"b'Satanic cult teens \'sacrificed\' victims then ate them.  \nSeven young members of a satanic sect have gone on trial in Russia accused of four gruesome murders in which they ""ritually sacrificed"" their victims before cooking and eating parts of them.'"
2010-05-24,"b"" Israel minister Lieberman 'abused trust,' say police"""
2010-05-24,"b""Documents Confirm Israel's Nuclear Weapons. \r\nIsrael offered to sell nuclear warheads to South Africa's apartheid regime in 1975 'for potential strikes against neighboring states'"""
2010-05-24,b'Australia expels Israeli diplomat over Dubai hit'
2010-05-23,"b'Ten thousand tons of cargo, 800 passengers, 50 nationalities, nine vessels - one aim - to break the siege on Gaza.'"
2010-05-23,b'Scottish woman approached in the street and offered \r\n200 to be sterilised by US group'
2010-05-23,"b""Another one bites the dust: Polish catholic priest arrested in Brazil accused of having a pedophilic 'erotic dungeon'"""
2010-05-23,"b""New UK Defence Secretary wants to speed up withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan, says the UK isn't a 'global policeman'"""
2010-05-23,b'Two Italian grocery chains to boycott Israeli produce'
2010-05-23,"b""The world's poor spend 2% of their income educating their children, and 4 to 8% on alcohol and tobacco. """
2010-05-23,b'The Catholic Church requests the public to donate \r\nat least 1 million to church collections today to \r\nfund three big open air masses at which Pope \r\nBenedict XVI will present while in the UK. The rest \r\nof the money is paid for by the British government.'
2010-05-23,"b'Anti-Islam movement reaches Poland: Eastern Europe has had little tension over Muslim immigration, but that could change.'"
2010-05-23,"b""Japan's Prime Minister breaks campaign promise, caves to pressure to continue U.S. Military Base in Okinawa"""
2010-05-23,b'Israeli Soldier Shoots Bound Palestinian [video]'
2010-05-23,"b'Taliban win 1,600 bounty for each Nato soldier killed'"
2010-05-23,"b""Broke Britain 'can no longer afford role in Afghanistan'"""
2010-05-23,b'Councils have used anti-terrorism laws to try to catch people donating goods outside charity shops and to make sure dogs are wearing collars'
2010-05-23,"b'Israeli government approves Schalit law, the bill denies visitation rights to Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails.'"
2010-05-23,b'Japans PM apologises over US military base'
2010-05-23,"b""Saudi 'emo' girls busted by religious cops"""
2010-05-23,"b'In a democracy they would have been put on trial, says Imad Falluji, a former leader of Hamas who abandoned it in the mid-1990s. Under Hamas military rule they were simply tortured and executed. '"
2010-05-23,b'North Korea Demands Access to Sunken Warship Investigation'
2010-05-23,"b""Prosecution asks to subpoena Naomi Campbell in war crimes trial because of new evidence of 'Blood Diamond' gift from former Liberian president Charles Taylor\n"""
2010-05-23,b'Britain considers policy shift on Afghanistan - So Should We!'
2010-05-23,b'Non-crew in cockpit of Polish plane'
2010-05-23,b'Kim Jong ordered the attack on South Korean warship'
2010-05-23,b'Astronomer Copernicus reburied as hero in Poland'
2010-05-23,"b""The Cuban government's role in the economy is \r\ndiminishing as self-employment and private \r\nownership of barber shops and beauty salons are \r\nlegalized. (w/vid)"""
2010-05-23,"b""Government 'secretly ditched' Japan whaling case"""
2010-05-22,"b""Canada 'marijuana seed dealer' extradited to US - may face up to 25 years in US jail for a crime punishable by only a $200 fine in Canada"""
2010-05-22,"b'Russians Capture, Raid and Destroy Pirate Ship (video)'"
2010-05-22,"b'Hamas is set to destroy 180 Gaza houses in order to erect an Islamic religious center. Palestinian Center for Human Rights says Hamas has already destroyed 20 homes, forcing 150 people to live in tents.'"
2010-05-22,b'SAUDI ARABIA: Woman Opens Fire on Religious Police Officers'
2010-05-22,b'The secret life of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange '
2010-05-22,"b""John Cleese plans 'alimony tour' to pay his ex-wife """
2010-05-22,"b""Armed with a netbook, medical supplies and a bicycle, Bangladesh's InfoLadies are giving millions of poor people access to crucial information on their doorsteps that will improve their chances in life """
2010-05-22,"b'Fijian dictator plans to ""modernise"" the country by introducing public floggings, dress codes for women'"
2010-05-22,"b'7 Abandoned Wonders of the Former Soviet Union: Deserted Cities, Buildings, Bases and More [pics]\n'"
2010-05-22,b'Owner of Kyrgyzstan fuel depot speaks out: Could American officials be prosecuted for corruption?'
2010-05-22,b'Toyota investing $50m in electric car firm Tesla Motors'
2010-05-22,b'Pink Hitler posters provoke fury in Italy'
2010-05-22,b'160+ dead in Air India crash'
2010-05-22,b'BBC News - How France maintains its grip on Africa'
2010-05-22,b'Brazil orders Polish priest arrested in abuse case'
2010-05-22,"b""In Havana, it's illegal for Cubans to migrate to Cuba"""
2010-05-22,b'EU staff demand more money in the midst of debt crisis'
2010-05-22,"b'Six survivors in the horrific plane crash in Mangalore, India'"
2010-05-22,b'Freedom Flotilla begins journey to Gaza'
2010-05-22,b'AUSSIES heading to South Africa for the World Cup are in more danger of becoming a victim of violence than in Afghanistan.'
2010-05-22,b'German torpedo sank South Korea ship: report '
2010-05-22,b'Thai government talks reconciliation'
2010-05-22,"b'According to Clinton, evidence is overwhelming in Korean warship sinking.'"
2010-05-22,"b""Chinese gov't: All geo data about China must be stored on servers inside China"""
2010-05-22,b'Clinton Sees House She Helped Build at China Expo'
2010-05-21,"b'South African newspaper, Mail & Guardian, challenged in court over intention to publish Muhammad cartoon by veteren satirist Zapiro; M & G win, and the cartoon is on newstands today.'"
2010-05-21,b'Palestinians make surprisingly large land offer to Israel: Giving up twice the West Bank territory'
2010-05-21,"b'Australian Scientology president\'s daughter slams ""toxic"" church'"
2010-05-21,"b""S. Korea Says North Will 'Pay' For Ship Sinking"""
2010-05-21,b'Child-witch hunting Pentecostal preacher Helen Ukpabio: perhaps one of the most horrid people in the world.'
2010-05-21,"b'Israeli Soldiers Settle Dispute With Bedouin By Killing His Camel - Following an argument that lasted several minutes, the soldiers left the tent, but one of them kneeled down and fired at the camel.'"
2010-05-21,"b""Lithuania court rules swastikas are part of the country's cultural identity"""
2010-05-21,b'7 big oil accidents waiting to happen'
2010-05-21,"b'Foxconn, the Chinese company that makes iPods and iPads, has had another employee suicide bringing them to total of 8 this year'"
2010-05-21,b'London 2012 Olympic mascots soon to be terrifying children everywhere'
2010-05-21,b'Rape case defendants to be given anonymity - Times Online  (and other measures of the new UK government)'
2010-05-21,b'Nun excommunicated after approving life-saving abortion at Catholic hospital.'
2010-05-21,b'Report: PA willing to have NATO forces in future state'
2010-05-21,b'Russian politics have gotten so weird that now the Kremlin is executing raids against the Russian chess federation to install the right chess master at its head'
2010-05-21,"b""Palestinians mark 'Nakba' with tears and questions.Claudette Habesch stood at the gate of what had once been her family house, tears in her eyes as she pointed to the garden shaded by a large date palm."""
2010-05-21,b'Brazil-Turkey Deal with Iran Undermines Big Power Politics'
2010-05-21,b'North Korea says South pushing towards war'
2010-05-21,b'North Korea warns of war amid evidence of torpedo attack in March'
2010-05-21,"b""Dubai gets a massive restructuring plan for it's massive debt"""
2010-05-21,"b'The U.S. Begins Massive Military Build Up Around Iran, Sending Up To 4 New Carrier Groups In Region'"
2010-05-21,"b'Converting to Catholicism to teach - ""Unemployed, non-religious educators are turning to Catholicism in an attempt to secure a coveted teaching position""'"
2010-05-21,b'Hotel guilty of discriminating against a guest who was participating at a conference on ethnic discrimination at the time. '
2010-05-21,b'Historical Levels of flooding coming to Warsaw'
2010-05-21,b'UK family shot dead in eastern Pakistan'
2010-05-21,b'The 8 most hated financial products'
2010-05-20,"b'Five paintings by Picasso, Matisse and other great artists have been stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.'"
2010-05-20,b'Canada to introduce the most draconian copyright bill ever written next week.'
2010-05-20,b'North Korea Threatening War if Punished for Sinking South Korean Ship'
2010-05-20,"b""Oh Australia, what will you do next? Australian customs officials now require you to declare any pornography you are carrying, even if it's legal."""
2010-05-20,"b'Of all the possible scenarios for why North Korea would have been involved in the Cheonan incident, the one that should worry us the most is the possibility that it was NOT Kim Jong Il who gave the orders. '"
2010-05-20,b'Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Seeds'
2010-05-20,b'World Cup bomb plot detailed by al-Qaeda suspect. Planned to target the Dutch and Danish teams/fans in revenge for cartoons drawn of the Prophet Muhammad'
2010-05-20,b'2012 Mascots.. what?'
2010-05-20,b'Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the \r\nfirst synthetic living cell'
2010-05-20,"b""Australian 'Family Values' MP David Campbell \r\nResigns After Being Filmed Leaving Gay Sex Club"""
2010-05-20,b'All hell is breaking loose in Thailand.  Stock exchange is on fire.'
2010-05-20,b'Belgian cardinals prevent priests to be in a private room with children.'
2010-05-20,"b""Top Scientologist 'covered up sex abuse'"""
2010-05-20,b'Seoul says N Korea sank patrol ship  '
2010-05-20,"b""Britain's first abortion television advert in spite of ban. Great Britain, Even Greater."""
2010-05-20,"b'""Australian customs officers have been given new powers to search incoming travellers\' laptops and mobile phones for pornography""'"
2010-05-20,"b""A Thai Writer's Response to the Western Media's Inaccurate Portrayal of the Thai Crisis"""
2010-05-20,"b'White South Africans, concerned about racism and crime, have launched a Facebook petition to return to Holland, where their ancestors lived 300 years ago.'"
2010-05-20,b'Unwitting East German Defectors Revisit Decision to Stay or Go - A group of East Germans were presented with a unique dilemma when the plane they were on got hijacked to West Berlin in 1978: Should they defect to the West or return home?'
2010-05-20,b'China Builds Up Amphibious Forces.'
2010-05-20,b'Now pakistan blocks youtube.'
2010-05-20,b'Merkel warns of potential failure of the European Union; Bans risky trading practices'
2010-05-20,b'Extradition of computer hacker Gary McKinnon put on hold'
2010-05-20,b'North Korea condemned by world powers over torpedo attack'
2010-05-20,"b'The same judge who issued the warrant to search Gizmodo editor Jason Chens apartment has now ordered it unsealed, ruling against the San Mateo County district attorneys office which had argued that unsealing the documents may compromise the investigation. '"
2010-05-19,b'Crackdown in Bangkok [pics]'
2010-05-19,"b""Scientology president's daughter slams 'toxic' church, describes lonely childhood of forced separation from parents"""
2010-05-19,b'Top Italian policemen get up to five years for violent attack on G8 protesters '
2010-05-19,"b'""How can I disturb social order? What happens in my house is a private matter.""  -- Swingers on trial in China. '"
2010-05-19,"b""Germany bans naked short selling and the trading of naked credit default swaps involving euro zone debt. The bans target two types of speculative trading that have been blamed for exacerbating the financial crisis and Europe's sovereign debt crisis."""
2010-05-19,"b"" Non-crew in cockpit in Polish president's plane crash"""
2010-05-19,"b""Abu Dhabi woman reports gang rape and is charged with illegal sex. The court's reasoning: She had agreed to be in a car with a man, so she had agreed to sex."""
2010-05-19,"b'Former ministers: legalise all drugs! - Save the country, legalise drugs. Under this striking banner, two former Dutch government ministers (for Foreign Affairs and Health) are launching their revolutionary plan.'"
2010-05-19,"b'Experts feared that it would happen -- and now it has. The devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has come in contact with a strong ocean current. As a result, the oil could end up further afield, with unforeseen and potentially devastating consequences.[+gallery]'"
2010-05-19,"b'Brazil wants Iran sanctions dropped: ""I think that ignoring this agreement would be despising a peaceful solution""'"
2010-05-19,b'Britain rejects Falkland Islands talks with Argentina'
2010-05-19,"b'I did not know that boycotting your occupier\'s goods, the ones that are produced on your stolen land, is an ""act of hate""!'"
2010-05-19,"b""World's fish stocks may vanish in 40 years - More than 20 million people employed in the fishing industry may need to be retrained for other work over the next 40 years if the final collapse of fish stocks in the world's oceans is to be avoided, the UN has warned."""
2010-05-19,"b""President of France's cabinet approves bill to ban full Islamic veil """
2010-05-19,b'White House okays missile defense aid for Israel'
2010-05-19,"b""Pakistan will block Facebook because of 'Draw Muhammad Day'."""
2010-05-19,b'BREAKING VIDEO: Troops move in on Red Shirts camp'
2010-05-19,b'WikiLeaks founder has his passport confiscated'
2010-05-19,b'Refugee advocates say at least nine asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka by the Howard government were killed and those sent back in past year have been held in police custody and some assaulted.'
2010-05-19,b'Euro drops to new four-year low against US dollar'
2010-05-19,b'Tensions getting high on University of Victoria campus after police intervene between pro- and anti-bunny factions.'
2010-05-19,b'Facebook is a major influence on girls: 40% of girls identified Facebook as one of the most important things in their lives - compared with 6% of boys.'
2010-05-19,b'New photocopy rules in Tibet city'
2010-05-19,"b'Based on investigations of the wreckage, South Korea will formally blame North Korea for sinking one of its navy vessels in March.'"
2010-05-19,"b'The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that German laws on preventive detention is a violation of their human rights. Now Germany will be forced to release almost 200 felons, including convicted rapists and multiple murderers. The first offender has already been released.'"
2010-05-18,b'Elvis Costello and Santana cancel show in Israel supporting an academic and cultural boycott to protest its occupation of Palestinian territory'
2010-05-18,"b'Saudi woman beats up virtue cop - According to the Saudi daily Okaz, a woman allegedly laid into the religious policeman, punching him repeatedly, and leaving him to be taken to the hospital with bruises across his body and face.'"
2010-05-18,b'South Korea will formally blame North Korea on Thursday for launching a torpedo at one of its warships '
2010-05-18,b'Portugal legalizes same-sex marriage'
2010-05-18,"b'Hypocrisy at its height, Museum of Tolerance built on a 1000 year old Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem.'"
2010-05-18,"b'France has first \'burka rage\' incident.  A 60-year-old lawyer ripped a Muslim woman\'s Islamic veil off in a row in a clothing shop in what police say is France\'s first case of ""burka rage"". \r\n'"
2010-05-18,b'Berlin Set to Relax Cannabis Laws - A new marijuana policy could make it legal for individuals to posses up to 15 grams (0.5 ounces) of the drug in the German capital. The regulation would make Berlin among the most cannabis-friendly in Europe.'
2010-05-18,"b""2010 Dakar Rally Did $566,000 In Damage To Chile's Archaeological Sites"""
2010-05-18,b'Former Dutch Liberal leader says legalise all drugs'
2010-05-18,b'UK Police call for remote button to stop cars'
2010-05-18,"b""Abuse victims' fury as Cardinal Sean Brady, head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, refuses to quit for his part in a secret canonical tribunal in 1975 at which two minors were made to swear oaths of silence about their allegations against the paedophile priest Father Brendan Smyth"""
2010-05-18,"b""Screaming demands for financial reforms and an end to corporate lobbying, hundreds of people have been rallying in Washington. Protesters want Wall Street banks held accountable for the economic meltdown. 'Too Big to Fail' Not Too Big to Jail"""
2010-05-18,"b'Israel offered to withdraw from the Golan Heights in exchange for Syria cutting its ties with Iran and the ""resistance movements"". Syria responds saying that ""reality proves Israel is not working for peace"" '"
2010-05-18,"b'So basically, the right to strike has been abolished in Britain'"
2010-05-18,"b'It is ""open season"" on journalists in Russia'"
2010-05-18,"b'Somalia, the Perfect Failed State - Somalia, which has been without a functioning government for almost two decades, serves as a warning for what could happen to other failed states.'"
2010-05-18,"b""'We've run out of cash' England is screwed."""
2010-05-18,"b'Hey reddit, how about condemning this?  A Court in Egypt is to rule next month on whether Egyptian men married to Israeli women are to be stripped of their citizenship.'"
2010-05-18,b'The Swedish Pirate Party Becomes The Pirate Bays New Host After Another Attempt To Take It Down By Hollywood Studios'
2010-05-18,b'South Korea: North responsible for torpedo attack on warship'
2010-05-18,"b""The agreement on the transfer of Iran's enriched uranium, achieved via Turkish-Brazilian mediation, is an important victory for Iranian diplomacy and a debacle for Israeli policy"""
2010-05-18,b'Bangladeshi children take a steroid commonly used to fatten cattle in order to make them look a bit more developed and because the customers like them to have a bit more curves.'
2010-05-18,"b'Vietnamese girl in one of the unforgettable images of the Vietnam War , has been reunited by the BBC with Christopher Wain, the ITN correspondent who helped save her life 38 years ago.'"
2010-05-18,"b'17,000 Form Human Chain At U.S. Base In Japan'"
2010-05-18,"b'New Iran sanctions plan agreed, Hillary Clinton says'"
2010-05-17,"b'Chomsky said the interrogators had told him he had written things that the Israeli government did not like. ""I suggested they find any government in the world that likes anything I say,"" he said.'"
2010-05-17,"b'Hamas destroys dozens of homes in southern Gaza... wait, what?\n      \n    \n\t- Arab News'"
2010-05-17,b'Protests turn deadly in Thailand [pics]'
2010-05-17,"b'""It\'s the greatest bank robbery in world history, and the BANKS ARE DOING THE ROBBING!""'"
2010-05-17,"b""Heterosexual couple in court battle for their right to the civil union 'partnership' homosexual couples are allowed..."""
2010-05-17,"b""Israel's apartheid road: Israeli army still banning Palestinians from using highway 443. It's bare-faced segregation"""
2010-05-17,"b""Teen's murder sparks Facebook privacy plea"""
2010-05-17,"b""London gets a new bus - 'new Routemaster' design unveiled"""
2010-05-17,"b'""It\'s over"" in Iran: One year after pro-democracy protests, residents whisper the regime has won.'"
2010-05-17,"b'""[T]he chances of a successful succession from the first-generation dictator to his son are roughly one in four, and no grandson of a first-generation dictator has ever succeeded in taking over a regime and consolidating his power.""'"
2010-05-17,"b'Robert Fisk: ""We know all about Guantanamo"". I was wrong. Prisoners could be threatened with ""nightmarish scenarios"" like rendition to Egypt or Israel where, ""they would disappear""'"
2010-05-17,"b""BP's Oil Spill is Latest Crime in a History of Plunder"""
2010-05-17,b'G.M. Posts Its First Profit in 3 Years as Sales Rise 40 Percent'
2010-05-17,b'There is a new proposal in Sydney where developers have the right to bulldoze ecologically sensitive land as long as they protect land somewhere else.'
2010-05-17,b'Thai government is preparing a massacre.'
2010-05-17,"b""'Honor killings' aimed at suppressing castes in India"""
2010-05-17,b'Senior Mexican politician goes missing'
2010-05-17,"b'Iran Accepts Shipping Uranium to Turkey: 1,200 kilograms, of low enriched uranium to be stored for one year, then they would have the right to receive 120 kilograms of material enriched to 20 percent from Russia and France'"
2010-05-17,"b'Retired man spends 7 years on 5,000-piece jigsaw puzzle only to discover one piece is missing'"
2010-05-17,"b""Death in Dubai: Suspect in Mabhouh killing 'had genuine British passport'"""
2010-05-17,b'Chavez asks Venezuelans to use Twitter to blow the whistle on currency speculators'
2010-05-17,"b'After 18 hours of negotiations, Turkey and Brazil seal nuclear fuel swap deal with Iran, details awaited'"
2010-05-17,"b""How Liverpool docks became a hub of Europe's deadly cocaine trade"""
2010-05-17,"b""'Many dead' in India bus attack by Maoists"""
2010-05-17,b'A Message from Argentina: Our Sympathies to the People of Greece! '
2010-05-16,"b""Shit's about to get real in Thailand..."""
2010-05-16,b'One more employee from Foxconn (Iphone manufacturer) falls off building and dies'
2010-05-16,"b'Dubai - Couples who publicly kiss are jailed, yet the \r\nstate turns a blind eye to 30,000 imported prostitutes'"
2010-05-16,b'Iran:Farzad Kamangar Executed'
2010-05-16,"b'Were not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. Its not relevant to the response effort"" -BP'"
2010-05-16,"b""South Korea's navy fires warning shots at intruding North Korean patrol boats. """
2010-05-16,"b'Scientists fear BP spill far worse than thought - ""one of the plumes is 16 kilometres long, nearly five-kilometres wide and 91 metres thick""'"
2010-05-16,b'Volcanic ash closes UK airports'
2010-05-16,"b'The hypocrisy of child abuse in many Muslim countries...one former warlord boasted of having up to 3,000 boys over a 20-year period, even though he was married, with two sons.'"
2010-05-16,"b""Why are British women's breasts getting bigger?"""
2010-05-16,b'Spains Jobless Find It Hard to Go Back to Farm'
2010-05-16,"b""Like all political jargon, the word 'progressive' has been stripped of meaning"""
2010-05-16,b'Russia to supply Syria with arms'
2010-05-16,b'PAKISTAN: A girl of 14 year was gang raped to take revenge from her father for nominating accused persons in a theft case'
2010-05-16,"b'""Once were all finally distracted from the possibility of the Gulf of Mexico being turned into a dead sea by the next 24/7 crisis - expect repeats. After all, what happens when, in the tough oil era, the BPs of this world hit the melting Arctic with their deep water rigs in really bad climates?""'"
2010-05-16,"b""New book suggests Canada's Government is pushing the Evangelical Christian Agenda."""
2010-05-16,b'A hero finally brought to heel by his opponents: Judge Baltasar Garzn suspended over Franco investigation'
2010-05-16,b'Puerto Rico just had an earthquake! It was around 5.41 according to the latest update.'
2010-05-16,b'Labour hid scorched earth debts'
2010-05-16,b'Redshirts warn of civil war as Thai troops told to shoot on sight'
2010-05-16,b'Google Says It Mistakenly Collected Wi-Fi data including web usage data from its StreetView vans'
2010-05-16,b'Carnage and curfew in Bangkok'
2010-05-16,b'A moderate earthquake has rattled the eastern Dominican Republic and western Puerto Rico | Global News Hound'
2010-05-16,"b'The American Taliban Are Coming: ""The drone war over Pakistan - covert, mercenary and a mix of both - is considered not only by Pashtuns but by most of Pakistani public opinion for what it is: a US-conducted war - an extra-judicial, systematic mass killing of ""unknown"", ""invisible"" people.'"
2010-05-16,b'Magnitude 5.7 Earthquake in Puerto Rico 1:16AM GMT -4'
2010-05-15,"b""Remember that plane crash that killed off the Polish government? Russia refuses to turn over the Polish jet's black boxes. """
2010-05-15,b'beautifully shot time lapse footage of the volcano is iceland.'
2010-05-15,b'The love story begins [pic]'
2010-05-15,b'Google has admitted that for the past three years it has wrongly collected information people have sent over unencrypted wi-fi networks.'
2010-05-15,"b""Mexican Head of Political Party PAN tweets that ex Presidential Candidate Diego Fernandez de C's body has been found in a military camp (translated)  """
2010-05-15,b'16 year old Jessica Watson completes her solo circumnavigation'
2010-05-15,b'USSR planned nuclear attack on China in 1969'
2010-05-15,"b'Turkish article on Greek crisis: ""The core problem (in Greece) seems to be the delusion that most socialists seem to believe: that governments have unlimited wealth, and the only matter is how hard can you press them to distribute it?""'"
2010-05-15,"b'Jewish settlers shoot dead Palestinian youth.  The body of a Palestinian teenager was found in the occupied West Bank on Friday, and Palestinian police and witnesses said he had been shot dead by Jewish settlers after he threw rocks at their car.'"
2010-05-15,b'Roman Polanski accused of sexually assaulting British actress when she was 16 '
2010-05-15,"b""Bangkok bloodshed: 'Live fire zone' declared"""
2010-05-15,b'Racial tensions mount in Greece: Greek economic crisis accelerates clashes between immigrants and locals.'
2010-05-15,b'UK politician who was mocked on Reddit for thinking IP stood for intellectual protocol is stabbed in the stomach by 21-year-old woman wearing an orange headscarf and veil'
2010-05-15,"b""Hugo Chvez's Government: The Wrecking Of Venezuela - Venezuelans are starting to fall out of love with their president. Will they be allowed to vote him out of power?"""
2010-05-15,"b'  Banknote Of Ill-Repute  -  \nBritish police ban 500 note, used almost exclusively for money-laundering. ""You can swallow 150,000 in 500 notes, or hide 20,000 of them a cigarette packet""\n'"
2010-05-15,b'Turkey positions missiles to repulse Israeli aerial incursions'
2010-05-15,b'Japan sinks (even) lower on gender discrimination report'
2010-05-15,"b'Don\'t worry about that pesky oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, it\'s ""relatively tiny"" - Tony Hayward, BP CEO'"
2010-05-15,"b""Iran's Homeless Dissidents - Asylum Requests Still Pending a Year after the Green Revolution"""
2010-05-15,b'What happens to the Iraqis that work for the United States after the U.S. leaves?'
2010-05-15,b'Former Mexican presidential candidate kidnapped'
2010-05-15,"b""Ahmadinejad 'backs Brazil plan for nuclear fuel swap'"""
2010-05-15,b'US Embassy warns against any travel to Bangkok'
2010-05-15,b'Sarkozy threatened to quit euro in showdown with Germany'
2010-05-15,b'A Russian-Uzbek challenge to the US '
2010-05-14,b'Kabul rises again [pics]'
2010-05-14,"b""Israeli settler 'kills Palestinian teenager' with a bullet in his back"""
2010-05-14,b'Can suicide bombers be funny?'
2010-05-14,"b'Thai troops fire on redshirts as crisis escalates. One protester shot dead as thousands join Bangkok standoff, Photographer and journalist also shot in night of violence'"
2010-05-14,"b'Ten-year-old Dutch boy Ruben van Ashout will always be known as the ""lone survivor"" or ""miracle boy"" of the Afriqiyah Airways tragedy. But how do such survivors cope with life after all others have perished?'"
2010-05-14,"b'Renegade Thai general shot in head, aide says'"
2010-05-14,"b""Spanish judge who indicted Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden was suspended for overstepping his jurisdiction in a probe of atrocities committed during and after Spain's ruinous civil war"""
2010-05-14,"b'Fresh from Gulf disaster, BP urges Canadian legislators to drop regulations'"
2010-05-14,b'Leaked Russian document: Could Medvedev era tilt more pro-West?'
2010-05-14,"b""Bill Gates' cloud-whitening trials 'a dangerous experiment'"""
2010-05-14,"b'Fighting child sex trafficking in Tanzania: Poverty, broken families and social attitudes make it difficult to fight exploitation.'"
2010-05-14,b'May 6 Meltdown trader identified'
2010-05-14,b'Regulators at the Minerals Management Service exempted 27 offshore drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico from in-depth environmental analysisafter the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. One of the exemptions went to BP. Deepwater Horizon had been exempted. '
2010-05-14,"b""Indonesia 'uncovers plot to kill president' and foreigners in a Mumbai style attack"""
2010-05-14,"b""For almost 400 years, the residents of Oberammergau have performed their world-famous Passion Play. But the play's avant-garde director, who is determined to erase traces of anti-Semitism from the piece, has left locals at odds over how to reconcile modern Christianity and tradition."""
2010-05-14,"b""Japanese government blocks a ban on child pornography on the grounds that it would infringe individuals' freedom of expression"""
2010-05-14,"b""US Pilots' Snapshots Reveal Extent of Germany's Post-War Devastation - In May 1945, US pilots embarked on hundreds of reconnaissance flights, aboard the same bombers which had razed much of Germany to the ground. Instead of launching bombs, however, they shot photographs..."""
2010-05-14,b'Greek Economic Crisis: Turkish PM and delegation in Greece to discuss disarmament. Unprecedented talks on ceasing centuries of hostility. '
2010-05-14,"b'\n\nAmnesty has condemned the executions in Iran of four Kurdish political activists and an Iranian man, all convicted of moharebeh (enmity against God).'"
2010-05-14,b'Sick Businessman Lodges Physical Abuse Complaint Against Ryanair'
2010-05-14,b'India diverts funds from poor to pay for Delhi games\n\n'
2010-05-14,"b'Portugal to hike taxes, cut wages in austerity drive'"
2010-05-14,"b""Former covert Israeli forces 'training Kurds in Iraq' """
2010-05-14,"b""Iraqi election commission finds no fraud in the country's election"""
2010-05-14,b'Thai General Shot; Army Moves to Face Protesters'
2010-05-13,"b""The British Home Office denies Iranian LGBT rights activist and documentarian Kiana Firouz's request for asylum. If deported, she faces 300 lashes and public hanging for unrepentant homosexuality. MAKE SOME NOISE."""
2010-05-13,"b'Swedish artist Vilks: ""I\'m ready to go up again. This must be carried through. You cannot allow it to be stopped."" - As a matter of principle, Uppsala University should give him the opportunity to finish his lecture, otherwise ""what you get is a mob deciding what can be discussed at the university.""'"
2010-05-13,"b'Hugo Chavez: ""I\'m afraid to inform you that gas platform Aban Pearl sank a few moments ago. The good news is that 95 workers are safe""'"
2010-05-13,b'SPAIN seeks arrest of 13 CIA agents.'
2010-05-13,b'Taiwan writes UN womens rights convention into domestic law'
2010-05-13,b'Incoming British FM Wont Rule Out Attacking Iran and vowed to see British law changed so as to hold Israeli officials immune from war crimes charges'
2010-05-13,b'Interior Minister: Israel will never freeze construction in Jerusalem'
2010-05-13,b'Greece MUST leave the euro. People are not seeing the big picture here. '
2010-05-13,b'Human Rights Watch: IDF wantonly destroyed homes during Gaza war'
2010-05-13,"b""Iran 'sentences Newsweek man in absentia to 13 years'"""
2010-05-13,"b'London has 500,000 surveillance cameras, more than any other city in the world: An average Person can be filmed 300 times in a single day In London'"
2010-05-13,b'Thai General shot during interview'
2010-05-13,b'Gulf oil spill: firms ignored warning signs before blast.'
2010-05-13,b'France prepares to ban burqa'
2010-05-13,b'The Russian security forces have killed three people suspected of organising the suicide bombings in the Moscow metro after they resisted arrest.'
2010-05-13,"b'China has suffered two more attacks against young children, in an unprecedented spate of violence that has seen eight stabbings in just over a month.'"
2010-05-13,b'Military proposes medal for troops showing restraint'
2010-05-13,"b'At the beginning of this year, a wannabe neo-Nazi burned down the ""House of Democracy"" in the small town of Zossen just south of Berlin. The case lays bare the deep roots of extremism in eastern Germany.'"
2010-05-13,b'Outsourcing unit to be set up in Indian jail - undertake back-office work for banks'
2010-05-13,"b'Sperm donor shortage dampens Aussie hopes: Australia has a total of only 30 ""official"" sperm donors. Why?'"
2010-05-13,"b'Portugal unveils crisis tax to cut deficit - Jos Scrates, Portugals prime minister, on Thursday announced tough new austerity measures, including a crisis tax on wages and big companies, designed to more than halve the countrys gaping budget deficit in less than two years.'"
2010-05-13,b'Russia warns U.S. against unilateral Iran sanctions\r\n'
2010-05-13,b'Chinese authorities have issued arrest warrants for three police officers suspected of torturing man who was wrongfully convicted of murder and jailed for 10 years.'
2010-05-13,"b""French prostitutes oppose reopening brothels - The sex workers union, which represents more than 250 prostitutes in France, is adamantly opposed to government meddling in its business and would rather maintain as much independence over its members' livelihoods as possible."""
2010-05-13,b'News Flash:  Russia not as forgiving and delicate in dealings with Somali pirates.'
2010-05-12,b'Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico [pics]'
2010-05-12,"b'Police force their way into home and handcuff a 63 year old man for having a poster saying ""David Cameron--Wanker"" in his window'"
2010-05-12,b'Man who gambled on his life dies'
2010-05-12,b'North Korea reports nuclear fusion success'
2010-05-12,"b""Protesters attempt to storm Irish parliament.  \r\nProtesters angry at Ireland's multi-billion efforts to bail out its banks have tried to storm the entrance of the Irish parliament and several have been injured in scuffles with police. """
2010-05-12,"b""World's Largest Open Border - Bullshit. Young Quebec girl accosted and left stranded in downtown Windsor after attempting to cross the border WITH HER FUCKING PASSPORT."""
2010-05-12,b'The EU has given Estonia a green light to join the Eurozone in 2011'
2010-05-12,"b""Egyptian Emergency Law Is Extended for 2 Years: giving Gov't the right to arrest people without charge, detain prisoners indefinitely, limit freedom of expression and assembly, and maintain a special security court"""
2010-05-12,"b'Sweden has expelled a high-ranking Syrian diplomat for allegedly planning to abduct his daughter, Swedish media report.'"
2010-05-12,"b'US planned nerve gas attack on Australian troops: Newly declassified files reveal that US military scientists wanted to bomb and spray 200 ""mainly Australian"" troops with the deadly nerve agents in the 1960s'"
2010-05-12,b'The UK has a new Prime Minister'
2010-05-12,"b'Personal cellphone data end up for sale at Mexico flea market. The government had asked everyone to register their phones, but many refused, citing fears of spying or other misuse of the data. It turns out they were right.'"
2010-05-12,b'Samsung declares war on free speech'
2010-05-12,"b'This is the fith time in a few weeks, what is going on in China?  ""Man kills eight at Chinese nursery"" '"
2010-05-12,"b'""My tweet was silly, but the police reaction was absurd"" Guardian.co.uk blogger on his arrest and prosecution for Twitter airport comment.'"
2010-05-12,"b'A regiment of eunuchs should be established to guard India\'s borders and leading politicians, a state minister said, citing their ""loyalty and integrity""'"
2010-05-12,"b""Acid attacker jailed for 30 years for avenging family's 'dishonour'"""
2010-05-12,"b""Another school massacre in China. It's more than a coincidence now. Is this a new form of terrorism against the state?"""
2010-05-12,"b'Citing the Bible, PM of Israel says that ""Jerusalem"" and its alternative Hebrew name ""Zion"" appear 850 times in the Old Testament and that this proves it is the ""indivisible"" capital of Israel'"
2010-05-12,"b'7 children, 2 adults hacked to death with kitchen cleaver in China kindergarten attack '"
2010-05-12,b'North Korea Claims Nuclear Fusion'
2010-05-12,b'Lone survivor in plane crash this morning (BBC)'
2010-05-12,"b'Breaking News: Another school-stabbing in China leaves seven dead, at least another 20 wounded'"
2010-05-12,"b'BP throws kitchen sink at oil Geyser. Plans to dump ""junk"" in the well; Tires, balls, and other crap.'"
2010-05-12,b'MI5 faces allegations over torture of British man in Bangladesh'
2010-05-11,"b""BBC News - Gordon Brown 'stepping down as Labour leader'"""
2010-05-11,b' New Zealand women are regularly getting drunk and cruising around in packs looking for men to have sex with.'
2010-05-11,b'Kosovo Albanian mass grave found under car park in Serbia'
2010-05-11,b'Gordon Brown Resigns As Prime Minister and Labour Leader With Immediate Effect '
2010-05-11,"b'If the only metric of success is to kill members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban, then certainly drone attacks have been successful, but if the objective is to win the global war on terror and to defeat the radicalisation agenda in this part of the world then I think there are a lot of questions.""'"
2010-05-11,b'Samsung sues a British columnist for libel over a satirical spoof.'
2010-05-11,b'Australian smokers get a rude shock with graphic new cigarette packaging policy'
2010-05-11,b'A Father saving his Son'
2010-05-11,b'4 people are missing after a house in Quebec just \r\nsuddenly sank into a 9-metre deep sinkhole. Holy \r\nshit.'
2010-05-11,"b""Red Cross confirms 'second jail' at US Bagram airbase, Afghanistan. Former prisoners tell BBC they were held at this secret jail and subjected to abuse. """
2010-05-11,"b'S. Korea plays tough, North wont get free World Cup coverage'"
2010-05-11,"b'Birth Defects in Fallujahs Children. Up to 15 times as many chronic deformities in infants, compared to a year ago. Cases include include a baby born with two heads, babies with multiple tumors, and others with nervous system problem. Still wondering why they hate us?'"
2010-05-11,"b'Wanted by Interpol: Sigurur Einarsson, former Chairman of Kauping, one of the fallen Icelandic banks.'"
2010-05-11,"b'Dear BBC, I hope you survive the latest UK government'"
2010-05-11,b'Amateur Video Of Gulf Oil Slick - Damage Appears To Be Much Worse Than BP Admits'
2010-05-11,b'China suffers seventh child stabbing attack in a month'
2010-05-11,"b'""Legal Highs"" now illegal in Ireland.'"
2010-05-11,b'The accidental hero. How Cornish sailor saved islanders'
2010-05-11,"b""Nothing matters except the church's image"""
2010-05-11,"b'Iraqi insurgents kill 102 in a series of suicide \r\nbombings from Mosul to Basra in Iraq, the highest \r\nnumber in one day this year, and jeopardizing a \r\nplanned US withdrawal.'"
2010-05-11,b'French parliament condemns full Islamic face veil'
2010-05-11,b'Ireland introduces immediate blanket ban on legal highs.'
2010-05-11,"b""Mexico's Army seizes huge drug-cartel weapons cache"""
2010-05-11,b'Russia says may build nuclear power plant in Syria'
2010-05-11,"b""Apparantley, Israel's Commitment to Human Rights was Good Enough for the OECD, which voted Israel in Unanimously Yesterday."""
2010-05-10,"b""China clears murderer after 'victim' shows up alive -- 10 years later. Apparently torturing for 'confessions' with chilli water and fireworks doesn't always work."""
2010-05-10,"b""Briton jailed for kiss in Dubai condemns Emirate's 'hypocrisy'"""
2010-05-10,"b'In Belgium, there are no national political parties, no national newspaper, no national TV channel, no common school curriculum or higher education, and no national football team. There is, however, the national debt, running at 80% of GDP.'"
2010-05-10,"b""After an election that left no party with a clear majority, the final decision over who becomes Britain's next prime minister could lie in the hands of one woman who never votes: The queen."""
2010-05-10,"b'Iran Executes Five Activists, Sending Message to Critics'"
2010-05-10,"b""Mali imam living in fear after backing women's rights"""
2010-05-10,b'The China model === The Beijing consensus is to keep quiet.  \nIn the West people worry that developing countries want to copy the China model. Such talk makes people in China uncomfortable'
2010-05-10,b'Journalist Assaulted for Reporting on Corruption in India'
2010-05-10,"b'US and British troops march through Red Square for the first time, past the mausoleum of Vladimir Lenin, as Russia celebrates the 65th anniversary of the end of WW II'"
2010-05-10,"b'According to Australian opposition leader, the Earth was hotter when Jesus was around than it is today. Citation needed!'"
2010-05-10,b'Ordinary Greeks angry at government and rioters: But youth see debt crisis as evidence that the capitalist system is broken.'
2010-05-10,"b'40,000 Prostitutes Ready For The World Cup'"
2010-05-10,"b'In Uganda, AIDS War Is Falling Apart '"
2010-05-10,b'Mercury high in Japanese town that hunts dolphins'
2010-05-10,"b""'Its not a bailout for Greece. Its a bailout for European banks'"""
2010-05-10,"b'Central Obrera Boliviana, the largest union in Bolivia and long-time ally of president Evo Morales, has called for an indefinite strike starting tomorrow asking for a bigger increase in wages than the 5% announced last week.'"
2010-05-10,b'Mass grave find shows Serbia slowly facing up to past'
2010-05-10,b'Merkel coalition routed in German state voting'
2010-05-10,b'EU parliament urged to investigate H1N1 outbreak'
2010-05-10,b'British Pagan police get right to take festivals as holiday'
2010-05-10,"b'Bombings, drive-by shootings kill at least 84 across Iraq'"
2010-05-10,b'A man in central China was freed after nearly 10 years in prison for murder after his alleged victim turned up alive ... in a case that raises concerns about police using torture to extract confessions.'
2010-05-10,"b""WWII's Operation Mincemeat - The Germans did not realizeuntil it was too latethat William Martin was a fiction. The man they took to be a high-level courier was a mentally ill vagrant who had eaten rat poison; his body had been liberated from a London morgue..."""
2010-05-10,"b""What's In a Name?  When it comes to oil spills, apparently its a lot. [WashPost]"""
2010-05-10,b'Interview with Economist Nouriel Roubini:  More crises will come and go before world leaders agree on true reform. Breaking up huge banks would be a good place to start.'
2010-05-09,"b""Polish pop star faces two years' prison for blasphemy; made negative statement about the Bible in TV interview."""
2010-05-09,b'Whistleblowing Swedish model sought by Indian police'
2010-05-09,b'2nd blast hits Russian mine - contact lost with rescuers...'
2010-05-09,b'Man arrested at Karachi airport with batteries and electrical circuit found in shoes.'
2010-05-09,"b'12 dead, 83 trapped in Russia mine after blasts'"
2010-05-09,"b'I find it really hard to believe the japanese govt.: ""We hunt whales for Science!"" when I see articles like this.. '"
2010-05-09,"b""Israel's 'security measures' - don't make me laugh  - """
2010-05-09,b'Tory-Lib Dem coalition threatened by secret hardline memo on Europe'
2010-05-09,b'Strong Earthquake Hits off Coast of Sumatra (again)'
2010-05-09,b'Chinese workers exposed to hazardous chemicals while working on iPhones. Apple to blame?'
2010-05-09,b'Costa Rica inaugurates new president: Laura Chinchilla'
2010-05-09,"b""Hey reddit, don't forget to celebrate Nazi defeat tonight! The Moscow Victory Day ( ) Parade begins at 2AM EST. Includes foreign contingents, ICBM launchers, Vintage tanks, planes, and a horse."""
2010-05-09,b'Pope accepts resignation of German bishop in sex probe | Reuters'
2010-05-09,b'Mossad agent in Dubai assassination also wanted in New Zealand'
2010-05-09,b'Philippines faces election failure'
2010-05-09,"b""Magnitude 7.4 earthquake hits near Indonesia's Aceh, tsunami alert issued"""
2010-05-09,b'Five headless bodies found near Acapulco '
2010-05-09,"b'Questions about the UK election aftermath from an ""ignorant American""'"
2010-05-09,"b'The blast took out all of the interior walls where everyone was hanging out having -- I am not making this up -- a party to celebrate seven years of accident-free work on this rig, the transcript said.'"
2010-05-09,b'Chavez rockets to No. 1 on Twitter in Venezuela'
2010-05-09,b'Man stabs eight to death in latest China killings'
2010-05-09,b'Air travel hit as volcano hurls up new ash cloud.  It has forced the closure of airports in Spain and Portugal.'
2010-05-09,b'Britain last had a hung parliament in March 1974 -- This is how The Economist greeted its arrival'
2010-05-09,"b'Coal mine explosion in Russia kills 12, traps dozens'"
2010-05-09,"b'NADINE DORRIES, the Conservative MP, faces the first expenses complaint of the new parliament after a row about a 10,000 claim she paid to a friends company.'"
2010-05-08,"b""Lib Dems get 80% the number of votes Labour have, yet 20% the number of seats. Care about electoral reform? Let's do something about it."""
2010-05-08,"b'Israel does not accept U.N. proposal for a Middle East free of Atomic Weapons: US will reassess its 40-year-old ""don\'t ask, don\'t tell"" policy toward Israeli nuclear arsenal'"
2010-05-08,"b'Australia burka armed robbery sparks burka ban debate - As Australian senator observed, the garb ""represents the repressive domination of men over women which has no place in our society and compromises some of the most important aspects of human communication."" '"
2010-05-08,"b'Israeli: This settlement is unauthorized and should not be developed any further, claims it will stop settlement construction and provide a clear timeline. Does not do so and instead authorizes settlers to loot as much as they can from the Palestinians'"
2010-05-08,"b""General Election 2010: Lib Dems may demand Gordon Brown's exit """
2010-05-08,b'BREAKING:  Russia probably killed all 10 pirates they arrested'
2010-05-08,"b'Brazil has signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, but experts suspect it may be working on a nuclear bomb. The country is allowed to legally enrich uranium for its nuclear submarines, but nobody knows what happens to the fuel once it is on restricted military bases.'"
2010-05-08,"b'New BBC report from Iraq: At least under Saddam Hussein, Mustafa said, Iraq was the safest country on earth. '"
2010-05-08,b'Greece: The opposition (Nea Dimokratia - the party largely responsible for the current economic crisis) expel one of the few decent politicians in Greece for voting in favour of the PASOK austerity measures. Partisanship in Greece is worst than in the USA. '
2010-05-08,b'A report by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said Japan had refused to answer any questions and seized navigation information from the whaling ship as part of its own inquiry.'
2010-05-08,"b'Turkish legislators approve constitutional changes said to strengthen position of Islamist ruling party - \nOpposition parties allege that the amendments ""designed to give the Islamic-rooted government leverage over the largely secular judiciary""'"
2010-05-08,"b""What it's like in Baghdad after 'liberation' - The litany of Iraq's current problems is too long to list, but it starts with virtually non-existent basic services like electricity supply, and ends with the continuing violence which claims the lives of hundreds of Iraqis every month."""
2010-05-08,"b'Romania braces for austerity. ""Austerity"" is banker-speak for ""loot the people and give it all to us"". '"
2010-05-08,b'Clegg speaks to pro-PR protesters in London'
2010-05-08,"b""Pope accepts German Bishop's resignation for beating children, pedophilia probe underway."""
2010-05-08,"b'  The Need For Speed - Fantastic piece of crime reporting. Has everything: drugs, beatings, motorcycle gang called the Nomads, whistleblower whose wife was gang-boss\'s ""nanny, cleaner, and tester of amphetamines""\n'"
2010-05-08,b'Palestinians agree to new peace talks with Israel '
2010-05-08,"b'South Korea finds North sank ship, paper says'"
2010-05-08,"b""Yesterday, on May 7, Canada's Supreme Court held that a journalist's right to keep sources confidential is not absolute but must be balanced with other public interest rights."""
2010-05-08,"b""Train operators accused of 'astronomical' fare rises"""
2010-05-08,"b'Ash cloud closes 19 Spanish airports, could spread'"
2010-05-08,"b'""I knew they wouldn\'t suspect an under-18 for voting Tory,"" he said.'"
2010-05-08,b'The earthquake in Qinghai - \nFrom whence cometh my help'
2010-05-08,b'Vladimir Putin snubs Britain and US over VE Day celebrations '
2010-05-08,b'Palestinian Leaders Approve Peace Talks With Israel'
2010-05-07,"b'No wonder the Greeks are FURIOUS. You\'d be mad, too, if your ""austerity"" had to pay for the gambling losses of rich bank... Hey, wait a sec...'"
2010-05-07,"b'Thought you should know... 3,235,000 gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico so far.'"
2010-05-07,"b'Medvedev denounces Stalin for mass crimes against the Russian people - President Medvedev has issued a stinging repudiation of the Soviet Union, condemning it as a totalitarian state that had deprived Russians of their basic rights.'"
2010-05-07,"b'Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: Osama Bin Laden Is in Washington, D.C.'"
2010-05-07,"b'If a candidate in the UK election gets less than 5% \r\nof the vote, they lose their 500 deposit. How much \r\nhas this election cost the BNP? I made an app to \r\nfind out.'"
2010-05-07,"b'Vietnam, 35 years later - The Big Picture'"
2010-05-07,"b""Israeli General 'tried to cover up truth about death of Rachel Corrie'"""
2010-05-07,"b""Hezbollah says it's ready for fresh war with Israel  and stronger now"""
2010-05-07,"b'Archival Discovery Reveals a Ruined Berlin - Forgotten for decades, a trove of post-war photographs from 1945 has recently been unearthed. The snapshots illustrate the devastation of the German capital and capture the desperation of the city in the weeks after the end of World War II.'"
2010-05-07,"b""Scottish island 'crime' would be first in 40 years"""
2010-05-07,"b'What happened today was no fat finger: it was simply the impact of everyone in the HFT community going from port to starboard on the boat, at precisely the same time.'"
2010-05-07,b'UK: Voters declare their anger as thousands are turned back at polling station door'
2010-05-07,b'Argentina denounces British pirates after oil discovery in Falklands waters'
2010-05-07,"b'Oil Struck near Falklands Islands, UK Defense Minister Claims ""Legitimate right"" to the oil'"
2010-05-07,"b'Germany says the Allied victory in World War II was a ""liberation""'"
2010-05-07,b'Monks with Guns'
2010-05-07,"b'On a positive note, Britain elects the first Green Party MP'"
2010-05-07,b'Nick Clegg: Party with most seats to govern [meaning: I will work to form a coalition with the conservative party first]'
2010-05-07,b'Greek Protest Dog'
2010-05-07,b'Seven new albino killings have been reported in Tanzania and Burundi amid signs that the lucrative trade in their body parts has not waned'
2010-05-07,b' Is there anyone from New Zealand out there? Just interested to know your views on proportional representation as it could become a possibility for the UK'
2010-05-07,b'Gulf of Mexico oil slick: Sarah Palin fuels anti-British sentiment'
2010-05-07,"b'Let me get this clear, the Greeks DO NOT RETIRE AT 54. Here is just one link to prove it.'"
2010-05-07,b'War No More: Swiss government to debate whether army still needs to be able to fend off attack'
2010-05-07,b'Germany votes to bail out Greece'
2010-05-06,b'How China and India Sabotaged the UN Climate Summit - Secret recordings obtained by SPIEGEL reveal how China and India prevented an agreement on tackling climate change at the crucial meeting. The powerless Europeans were forced to look on as the agreement failed.'
2010-05-06,"b'Russian special forces storm oil tanker, free ship'"
2010-05-06,b'A Russian MP has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to investigate claims by a regional president that he has met aliens on board a spaceship'
2010-05-06,b'Icelandic bank former CEO arrested - is this only the beginning?'
2010-05-06,b'BNP Candidate gets in a fist-fight with some constituents.'
2010-05-06,b'Meet the 92 year-old teacher finally calling it a day'
2010-05-06,"b'Kasab (caught Pakistani terrorist) gets death sentence on 4 counts, life on 5 counts for attack on Mumbai in 2008'"
2010-05-06,b'Can someone please explain the British election?'
2010-05-06,b'Dutch try to ban pot sales to foreigners. Coffee shop owners argue the ban is against free trade regulations. Can free trade save stoners?'
2010-05-06,"b'The UK Election, Live on the BBC.'"
2010-05-06,"b'Believe it or not, there are people in the world who find this picture obscene.'"
2010-05-06,b'President of Nigeria Dies After Long Illness  - NYTimes.com(Expect emails if your related)'
2010-05-06,"b'Tall girls, more cattle: A Sudanese tribal chief explains one of the realities of his village, where daughters are still traded for longhorns.'"
2010-05-06,b'Mumbai attack gunman Qasab sentenced to death '
2010-05-06,"b'Catholic Brazilian archbishop said adolescents are ""spontaneously homosexual"" and that ""society today is pedophile, that is the problem. So, people easily fall into it""'"
2010-05-06,b'The Italian island ofunemployment'
2010-05-06,b'Former CEO of Icelands failed Kaupthing Bank arrested'
2010-05-06,b'Magnitude 6.4 quake hits southern Peru'
2010-05-06,"b'France more dangerous than Greece for EU economy - The French economy is in deep trouble as well, and the importance of such an economic giant within the eurozone is far and far greater.'"
2010-05-06,"b'Brazilian archbishop said adolescents are ""spontaneously homosexual"" and in need of guidance'"
2010-05-06,b'U.K. is broke.  Call in the IMF to tell us how bad it really is. - \nThe next government needs the backing of the big boys to drive through cuts. Its much worse than we think'
2010-05-06,b'The Mother of All Bubbles: Huge National Debts Could Push Euro Zone into Bankruptcy'
2010-05-06,"b'Paraguay orders company to stop bulldozing forest that is home to a group of Ayoreo-Totobiegosode, ""the last group of uncontacted Indians outside the Amazon basin""'"
2010-05-06,b'Settlers clash with Israeli forces razing West Bank homes - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News'
2010-05-06,b'The French navy has closed in on the black boxes of an Air France jet that crashed in the Atlantic nearly a year ago raising hope that light will be shed on the disaster that left 228 dead.'
2010-05-05,"b""Greeks Struggle with Sick-Man Status - They've emptied their bank accounts, abandoned vacations and started taking the bus. Now, they fear for their jobs: The Greeks bemoan the difficult crisis that has taken over their country. Above all, they feel humiliated by Germany."""
2010-05-05,b'At least three people have been killed in the Greek capital as protesters set fire to a bank during a general strike over planned austerity measures.'
2010-05-05,b'This was news to me: apparently Nick Clegg speaks Dutch fluenty - Arjen van der Horst interviews Nick Clegg in Dutch [video]'
2010-05-05,b'Three dead in Greek riots.'
2010-05-05,b'Greece brought to halt by general strike over cuts'
2010-05-05,b'Argentina passes gay marriage bill including adoption of children'
2010-05-05,"b""I'm in Athens this week. Here are my photos from today's protest/riot at Parliament."""
2010-05-05,"b""Johan Hari travelled to the council that David Cameron's described as a 'model' of conservatism to see what his 'Big Society' will do to Britain. This harrowing article will make you think twice about voting for the Tories."""
2010-05-05,"b'""Child pornography is great. It is great because politicians understand child pornography. By playing that card, we can get them to act, and start blocking sites. And once they have done that, we can get them to start blocking file sharing sites"".'"
2010-05-05,b'Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family'
2010-05-05,"b'Greek general strike halts flights, trains, ferries and paralyzes public services as unions protest spending cut.'"
2010-05-05,"b""Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of Russia's Kalymkia region, says in TV interview he has met ET's and had been on their spaceship."""
2010-05-05,"b'Woman in burqa puts flight, airport on alert  '"
2010-05-05,"b'What do the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico and the Greek crisis have in common? Both are man-made disasters. But while BP plans to shoulder the costs of the catastrophe it has caused, the financial wizards behind the euro crisis are not being held to account.'"
2010-05-05,b'Massive Riots in Greece Against Harsh Financial Cuts: Three Reported Killed'
2010-05-05,"b""BBC News - India Supreme court says truth drug test 'illegal'"""
2010-05-05,"b'""Numerous groups of pirates are currently holding more than 350 hostages as well as about 20 ships at various bases around the country""'"
2010-05-05,b'All university educated Prime Ministers who have won an election since 1935 went to Oxford'
2010-05-05,b'Eyjafjallajokull is back: Flights grounded as volcanic ash cloud returns'
2010-05-05,"b'Greece riots: 100,000 fight against harsh cuts in Athens financial crisis protests '"
2010-05-05,b'Sir Elton John has been banned from performing in Egypt over his views on homosexuality and religion'
2010-05-05,b'Sudan: Fresh Clashes Erupt in Darfur'
2010-05-05,"b'Settlers intend to vandalize mosques, defense \r\nofficials learn '"
2010-05-05,"b'Job interviews for imams in Israel are\nconducted by the Shin Bet, Israels secret\npolice, not senior clerics '"
2010-05-05,b'Screaming man causes mass panic at Dutch war memorial'
2010-05-04,"b""When the Soviets had leaking oil wells they couldn't seal, they nuked them"""
2010-05-04,b'Iran offers to help contain US oil spill'
2010-05-04,b'Europe to Lift Airplane Liquids Ban in 2013'
2010-05-04,b'Woman becomes first in Italy to be fined 430 for wearing burqa'
2010-05-04,"b'Jessica Watson, 16 year old, nears the end of her solo round the world yacht journey'"
2010-05-04,"b'British Government cannot use secret evidence in Guantnamo torture case, British appeal court rules'"
2010-05-04,b'Army to be sued for war crimes over its role in \r\nFallujah attacks'
2010-05-04,b'6.4-magnitude quake strikes Chile'
2010-05-04,b'Nepal as a country is shut down due to a Maoist strike'
2010-05-04,"b'""I Was Wrong About Israel""'"
2010-05-04,b'Settlers torch West Bank mosque.  ARSONISTS torched a mosque in the north of the occupied West Bank before dawn local time today in an attack blamed on Jewish settlers. '
2010-05-04,"b""Arab states: Israel's nuclear program is destabilizing Mideast - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News"""
2010-05-04,"b'North Korea and Israel have a lot in common. Neither is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and both employ their nuclear weapons in elaborate games of peek-a-boo with the international community.'"
2010-05-04,b'First Australian since 1952 to win world snooker championship'
2010-05-04,"b""Greece's swollen bureaucracy is taking the hardest hits as the country struggles to fix its failing economy. Civil servants are responding with massive strikes. But critics say the country's public sector is inefficient, expensive and hopelessly overstaffed."""
2010-05-04,b'European court weighs cannabis ban for foreigners - A Dutch city has banned foreigners from its cannabis-selling coffee shops. A European court will now decide whether this is legal.'
2010-05-04,"b""It looks like BP will be on the hook for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.  Great.  That's progress.  Now lets get the Wall Street firms that engineered the financial crisis to pay for the mess they created too."""
2010-05-04,b'Chaos breaks out at a dutch memorial service. '
2010-05-04,b'   Children in Sweden have best lives  '
2010-05-04,b'Chinese Govt. restricting access and information about school attacks.'
2010-05-04,"b'Russia\'s president, Dmitry Medvedev, today ordered an urgent inquiry into why a prisoner who died last week in custody was refused medical treatment  with doctors advising her to sleep ""standing up"".'"
2010-05-04,"b""Ahmadinejad Calls U.S. Arsenal Disclosure 'Positive'"""
2010-05-04,"b""The Myth Of The 'Greatest Generation': The History Of Allied War Crimes In WWII - The issue of war crimes is an incredibly sensitive one. But, in this case, the evidence is overwhelming."""
2010-05-04,"b""I hate Tories. And yes, it's tribal """
2010-05-04,b'Settlers torch mosque - stay classy Israel!'
2010-05-03,b'Christian preacher arrested for saying homosexuality is a sin'
2010-05-03,"b'Israeli documents detailing the collective punishment over Gazans revealed: Large range of goods currently forbidden to enter Gaza are jam, chocolate, wood for furniture, fruit juice, textiles, and plastic toys'"
2010-05-03,b'Iran offers help in fighting Gulf of Mexico oil leak'
2010-05-03,b'Kim Jong-il is in China trying to negotiate desperately needed food aid.'
2010-05-03,b'This is what you do with terrorists. Give them a fair trial and convict them.'
2010-05-03,b'Greece erupts as men from IMF prepare to wield axe'
2010-05-03,"b""Charlie Brooker: Which leader's public persona do you prefer?"""
2010-05-03,"b'Journalist freed from Gaza jail (with a ""We know where you live"") vows to fight for imprisoned journalists'"
2010-05-03,b'Ireland to re-impose flight bans'
2010-05-03,b'Deepwater Horizon oil spill: turtle deaths soar amid fight to save wildlife (The picture accompanying this article makes me so sad...)'
2010-05-03,"b'Human trafficking and sex slavery take place at the doorstep of the South African World Cup Stadiums, but FIFA looks away, says Benjamin Skinner, author of A crime so monstrous '"
2010-05-03,"b""Europe's Amazing Web Of Debt"""
2010-05-03,"b""Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi talked to the SPIEGEL about his friendship with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the 'youthful exuberance' of his sons, and why he thinks Switzerland is a mafia."""
2010-05-03,"b'Pakistani Man Convicted in 2008 Mumbai Attacks - in a regular court, not a military tribunal'"
2010-05-03,b'Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher. '
2010-05-03,"b""Congo Rebels Are Savages - Cut Lips From Woman For 'Talking Too Much'..."""
2010-05-03,"b""The fear factor: A year after the 'green' uprising, Iranians are no closer to breaking free"""
2010-05-03,"b'Uganda To Obama: Stop Treating Us Like Your Colony - Said Tamale Mirundi: ""USA is arrogant. They think they can organize for us elections in our own country. We are an independent state. They are our business partners and not our masters.'"
2010-05-03,b'The Mother of All Bubbles - Huge National Debts Could Push Euro Zone into Bankruptcy - Extensive and thorough analysis of the current situation in Europe'
2010-05-03,b'Islamist Insurgents Seize a Pirate Base in Somalia - NYTimes.com'
2010-05-03,b'Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left Sunday for the United States to take part in a conference on nuclear nonproliferation'
2010-05-03,b'Sole Surviving Gunman of Mumbai Attacks Has Been Convicted by an Indian Court.'
2010-05-03,b'Egyptians Protest 30 Years of Emergency Law'
2010-05-03,"b'110 Billion Euro Package - European promises of solidarity with Greece were not enough. Over the weekend, euro zone finance ministers agreed on a 110 billion package for Athens in return for even more Greek austerity measures. Whether it will be enough remains open.'"
2010-05-03,b'US and Russia to propose ban on WMD in Middle East.  Tough global talks ahead in review of nuclear treaty as Egypt aims to put pressure on west over Israel'
2010-05-02,"b'More than 3,000 European Jews, including prominent intellectuals, have signed a petition speaking out against Israeli settlement policies and warning that systematic support for the Israeli government is dangerous.'"
2010-05-02,b'North Korean sense of humour'
2010-05-02,b'New luxury prison in Norway'
2010-05-02,"b'Greek Wealth Is Everywhere, Just Not on Tax Forms - Tax investigators studied satellite photos of the area where 324 residents checked the box on their tax returns admitting that they owned pools and came back with a decidedly different number: 16,974 pools.'"
2010-05-02,"b'Brazil and Norway, two other major oil-producing nations require an acoustic switch on their wells as last-resort protection against underwater spills. The U.S. considered requiring a remote-controlled shut-off mechanism several years ago but guess what...'"
2010-05-02,"b""Mexico's crime syndicates increasingly target authorities in drug war's new phase"""
2010-05-02,"b""Island of music and murder, With 268 armed gangs or neighbourhood 'corner crews' locked in deadly turf wars, Jamaica is one of the most violent societies on earth."""
2010-05-02,b'South Korea vows to retaliate over warship sinking'
2010-05-02,b'Question about the Greek debt. What did they spend all that money on?'
2010-05-02,"b'France admits killing Afghan kids, The French army has admitted killing four children with a missile strike in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan.'"
2010-05-02,"b'Nuclear submarines went to sea with potentially disastrous defect.  British vessels Turbulent and Tireless allowed to leave port with safety valves sealed off, risking catastrophic explosion, leaked memo reveals.'"
2010-05-02,"b'What does it mean for Greece? Well to start with Civil servants will lose up to two months in wages, with salaries and pensions being frozen during the three-year programme.'"
2010-05-02,b'At least 45 dead in Somalia mosque attack'
2010-05-02,"b""Bolivia has nationalised at least four power companies, expanding state control over the Latin American nation's key industries."""
2010-05-02,b'Electoral dysfunction: Why democracy is always unfair - Ensuring a free vote is a matter for the law. Making elections fair is more a matter for mathematicians. '
2010-05-02,b'The UK is getting ready to use a new type of speed cameras that can calculate a motorists speed using satellites.'
2010-05-02,"b""Does this makes sense?  Radical tax on debt put to parties - Households should pay a new tax on every pound of debt they owe, according to one of Britain's leading economists. """
2010-05-02,"b""Maoist strike shuts down Nepal; gov't urges talks"""
2010-05-02,"b'Thousands across the globe stage marches, protests on May Day'"
2010-05-02,"b""Even Israel's biggest lovers are growing impatient."""
2010-05-02,b'Andy Borowitz: Goldman Sachs Reveals it Shorted Gulf of Mexico'
2010-05-02,"b'A man has been arrested over an alleged 300,000 fraud and money-laundering operation which led to the closure of a charity founded by Prince Charles'"
2010-05-02,b'Increasingly powerful Conservative grassroots organisation numbers 37 prospective candidates among its members'
2010-05-02,"b'15,000 kids skip school to protest oil pollution in Kuwait'"
2010-05-02,"b""BA caught short as all airliner's toilets fail"""
2010-05-01,b'Linguists discover dying languages in New York City'
2010-05-01,b'Family Portraits of all 56 ethnic groups in China'
2010-05-01,b'Wed: Guy stabs 15 children at a primary school. Thurs: Different guy stabs 28 kindergartners. Fri: Third guy attacks pre-schoolers with a hammer and sets himself on fire.'
2010-05-01,"b""WWII: Inside Hitler's Bunker - Photo Gallery - Never-before-published LIFE photos."""
2010-05-01,"b""'Hey Man, Good Food' - G-8 Chefs Baffled By Laura Bush's 'Poisoning' Claims"""
2010-05-01,"b'French spy, the CIA, and the Syrian reactor - Nice little story about how France beat CIA to get close-in pictures of Syrian nuclear reactor after 2007 Israeli bombing. French military attach coolly drove out to site and took them himself'"
2010-05-01,"b'Why Greece is bankrupt: breathtaking tax evasion - 20% of doctors in a rich neighborhood claim to earn less than $13K, and over half claim less than $40K.'"
2010-05-01,"b'Men who force women to wear burka would face 15,000 fine in France '"
2010-05-01,b'Life in the German empire - Germanys fortunes are now intimately linked to a circle of countries that have become economic colonies'
2010-05-01,b'Putin stuns Ukraine with surprise gas deal'
2010-05-01,"b""Draining glacial lakes causes a big chill - The idea that the melting that produced glacial lakes could ultimately have an enormous cooling effect on the climate may seem counterintuitive, but it's based on fairly straightforward geography. """
2010-05-01,b'A German scientist has developed one of the first translation programs suitable for everyday use. Sheer computing power gives the Google software surprisingly good results -- perhaps the best yet seen created by a machine.'
2010-05-01,"b""'Hoodies, louts, scum': how media demonises teenagers"""
2010-05-01,"b'""Dutch Navy Releases Video of Storming of Ship Taken by Pirates"" from April 5th 2010 [FOXNews]. Very neat.'"
2010-05-01,"b""BP's chief executive Tony Haywood is flying to Louisiana later to personally oversee the emergency mop-up operation."""
2010-05-01,"b""India's Dirty War - A violent struggle over resource-rich land is pitting billionaires against Maoists. Thousands of villagers have been killed and displaced."""
2010-05-01,"b""Iran's Ahmadinejad claims multiple documented \r\nlinks between Washington and various extremist \r\nterrorist organisations around the globe."""
2010-05-01,"b'A catastrophe looms on Louisianas coast  --  \nAs the oil begins to wash ashore, David Usborne reports from a community powerless to save itself'"
2010-05-01,"b'Once anarchic, Rwanda now borders on Orwellian: Where genocidal gangs once roamed, an oppressive, thought-controlling police state has arisen.'"
2010-05-01,"b""Spanish Unemployment Tops 20%, Hurting Deficit Fight  - Spain's economic crisis is far more important to the EU than Greece. In addition to massive unemployment and a stagnant economy, one of Spain's biggest problems at the moment is ability to rollover 225 billion of euro denominated debt."""
2010-05-01,b'Egypt declares state of emergency at Gaza border'
2010-05-01,b'Taiwan carries out first death sentences in 5 years'
2010-05-01,b'Bolivia Nationalizes Power Companies '
2010-05-01,b'Canada Sounds the Alarm: Significant and imminent decline in both Canadian natural gas production and natural gas exports to the US'
2010-05-01,"b""Wall Street's game of risk with Greece"""
2010-04-30,"b""Belgium's lower house of parliament has voted for a law that would ban women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public. No-one voted against it"""
2010-04-30,b'US threatens Israel with not protecting it with UN veto if settlements building goes ahead'
2010-04-30,"b'The White Womans Burden | Disarmingly candid account of what it\'s like to be a white woman, married to an Indian, in India. ""My husband is neither loudspoken, nor imposing. As a result, he often gets mistaken as my guide""'"
2010-04-30,b'Rescuing girls from sex slavery '
2010-04-30,b'China said Friday that a Chinese diplomat in the U.S. was beaten and injured by Houston police and urged an investigation to ensure diplomatic practices are not violated.'
2010-04-30,b'Improving the quality of content at /r/worldnews (we need your help)'
2010-04-30,b'Gonorrhea Could Become Untreatable'
2010-04-30,b'China lifts travel ban on people with HIV and Aids '
2010-04-30,b'Not just the Catholic Church: Sexual abuse scandal rocks Boy Scouts of America after $18.5m payout'
2010-04-30,"b'Geopolitically optimised map of Europe. What if countries were moved to other parts of the continent where they would be happier, among friends?'"
2010-04-30,"b'The Pakistani military, long reluctant to heed American urging that it attack Pakistani militant groups in their main base in North Waziristan, is coming around to the idea that it must do so, in its own interests.'"
2010-04-30,"b""Betrayer and Betrayed: New Documents Reveal Truth on NATO's 'Most Damaging' Spy - For years, from his senior position in Estonia's Defense Ministry, Herman Simm leaked highly sensitive NATO intelligence and the names of Western spies to Russia's foreign intelligence service"""
2010-04-30,"b'A Russian company is marketing a devastating new cruise missile system which can be hidden inside a shipping container, giving any merchant vessel the capability to wipe out an aircraft carrier.'"
2010-04-30,b'Brazilian street vendors are hawking a video of an elderly priest molesting an altar boy. Dom Phillips reports from Brazil on the popes brewing crisis in South America.'
2010-04-30,"b""Palestinians who throw rocks from hundreds of meters away as a symbolic protest are shot at by the IDF, Israeli 'settler' fires on group of Palestinian  and Israeli protesters and the IDF join in."""
2010-04-30,"b""Official investigation into Icelandic banks' collapse finds evidence of mismanagement, possibly fraud. Banks lent heavily to controlling shareholders and legislators, ramped up share prices"""
2010-04-30,"b""What Russia gets from the Ukraine gas deal (Hint: It's not just a place to dock its Black Sea Fleet.)"""
2010-04-30,b'Man attacks preschool children with hammer in China.(WTF?)'
2010-04-30,"b'Three Houston police officers have been restricted to desk duty after they followed a Chinese diplomat into the parking garage of the Chinese Consulate, arrested the man and injured him.'"
2010-04-30,b'Ghost estates testify to Irish boom and bust'
2010-04-30,b'Fears of Euro Zone Domino Effect - Will Greek Contagion Bring Portugal Down?'
2010-04-30,b'Greece plans tough new austerity measures'
2010-04-30,b'GET KONY: How an American biker-turned-orphanage-running preacher is hunting down the head of the death-dealing Lords Resistance Army in Africa'
2010-04-30,b'Chinese Activist Gao Zhisheng Disappears Again Weeks After Release'
2010-04-30,b'26 basic questions about Iran with answers that might surprise you'
2010-04-29,b'China has lost a 2000 Olympics bronze medal because the gymnast was proven to have been underage.'
2010-04-29,b'Women flock to Senegal for sex'
2010-04-29,"b""When Palestinians violently react to Israels criminal behavior they're murdered by Israel, when they peacefully react they're murdered by Israel but with much less coverage"""
2010-04-29,"b'To people bitching about CNN, it sucks, so just stop watching it and checking their site.'"
2010-04-29,"b'  Can You Disappear In Surveillance Britain?\n\nBriton shocked by government data-gathering, angered by ubiquitous closed-circuit television, tries to disappear for a month, pays detectives to track him down. Publicity stunt, but revealing\n'"
2010-04-29,b'Israeli Soldier Sprays Pepper Spray Directly Into The Eyes Of Handcuffed Palestinean Youth (PIC) '
2010-04-29,b'Taliban leader has been killed seven times by US'
2010-04-29,"b'Many observers assign a large part of the blame for the 2008 financial crisis to the ""big three"" credit rating agencies, which gave their AAA seal of approval to worthless investments. Now those same agencies are helping to bring the euro zone to its knees -- and no one is trying to stop them'"
2010-04-29,"b'""The precepts of any one religion  any belief system  cannot, by force of their religious origins, sound any louder in the general law than the precepts of any other. If they did, those out in the cold would be less than citizens..."" UK Law keeps religion at bay - hooray!'"
2010-04-29,b'Newest Israeli Tourism Map wipes away West Bank. '
2010-04-29,"b'Spain downgraded, Europe debt crisis widens'"
2010-04-29,b'Drone pilots could be tried for war crimes.'
2010-04-29,b'Israeli soldiers Wednesday opened fire on a group on non-violent protesters in Gaza killing a 20-year old Palestinian.'
2010-04-29,"b'""The so-called Vatican City, a political nonentity covering about 0.17 square miles of Rome, was created by Benito Mussolini in 1929 as part of his sweetheart deal between fascism and the papacy.  ... Its bogus claim to statehood is now being used to give asylum to men like Cardinal Law.""'"
2010-04-29,"b'Gaza tunnel deaths: 4 die in smuggling tunnel after toxic gas pumped in, then dynamite used to blow it up.'"
2010-04-29,"b""Bishop: Priests think child abuse 'doesn't break celibacy'"""
2010-04-29,"b""Report: Afghan violence up 90% | \nDefense officials see 'encouraging trends' even with 240% spike in IED's."""
2010-04-29,"b""Flocking eastern European here. Just sayin' - Wrong reaction to Brown."""
2010-04-29,b'Burka banned in Belgium..'
2010-04-29,b'Top secret space plane has Americas enemies scared. Is it a space bomber? Thats what the Iranians are asking - and they have every reason to be spooked'
2010-04-29,b'Australian Prime Minister launches double attack on smokers'
2010-04-29,"b'Australia Bans Logos, Branding From Cigarette Packs'"
2010-04-29,"b""ID cards required to use public internet - UAE gov't"""
2010-04-29,b'Space balloon wipes out car [Video]'
2010-04-29,b'Harsh realities in Mexico'
2010-04-28,b'Not Even in South Park? '
2010-04-28,b'WTF CNN? Compare CNN to *real* world news with this new mashup.'
2010-04-28,"b'Israel transferring people from West Bank to Gaza, splitting families and disregarding international law'"
2010-04-28,"b""Amateur model known as 'Katya' revealed as Russian honeytrap bait"""
2010-04-28,"b'Russias President Dmitry Medvedev,has ordered Soviet files concerning the massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers, intellectuals and priests in the Katyn woods to be opened.'"
2010-04-28,"b'Routine torture, including electric shocks and sexual abuse, was inflicted on detainees held in a secret prison in Baghdad'"
2010-04-28,b'German tabloids campaign for Greece to leave the euro'
2010-04-28,"b""Israel has given itself the right to forcefully move Palestinians out of the West Bank who don't have a permit. 'Permit' is not defined at all, it can be anything the person in charge wants it to be. This is setting precedent to force thousands of Palestinians to move to Gaza"""
2010-04-28,"b'Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been caught on microphone describing a voter he had just spoken to in Rochdale as a ""bigoted woman"".'"
2010-04-28,"b'It would impossible to reveal secret MI5 files about the 7/7 London terror attacks, a court has been told.'"
2010-04-28,"b'Okinawans say the U.S. military has been responsible \r\nfor a number of blights in Okinawa, from serious \r\ncrimes like rape and drunken driving, to \r\nenvironmental and noise pollution.'"
2010-04-28,"b""Rating Agencies Strike Again - First they were off about how good U.S. mortgage securities were. Now they're causing havoc in the EU by downgrading the bond ratings of several countries."""
2010-04-28,"b""Ireland's bombed head shops spark debate over Irish drug policy. """
2010-04-28,b'Shell profits surge by 49%....always great to hear big oil doing so well'
2010-04-28,b'Greece infection spreads as stricken nations debt is rated junk'
2010-04-28,"b'EU on the edge of the abyss - If the Greek crisis is not addressed, Portugal will come under intense pressure, contagion might then spread to Ireland, Italy or Spain, the other euro-area countries with some mixture of big budget deficits, poor growth prospects and high debts.  '"
2010-04-28,"b'Greece might need up to 120 Billion Euros, according to German parliamentarians.'"
2010-04-28,b'Israeli Law Enforcement Cracks Down on Alleged Political Corruption - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could be sent to prison if he is convicted in a high-profile corruption trial'
2010-04-28,b'Suntanned women to be arrested under Islamic dress code '
2010-04-28,b'Freedom of the press in Turkey further under \r\nattack: Journalist faces prison threat for reporting \r\non judiciary crisis in Turkey'
2010-04-28,"b""Lawmakers in Ukraine scuffled with each other, throwing punches and eggs, as parliament met Tuesday to ratify a treaty with Russia that extends the latter's navy presence in the Ukraine's Crimean peninsula until 2042."""
2010-04-28,"b'The Argentinian Supreme Court overturned pardons of a dictatorship-era president and economy minister, paving the way for them to be tried for kidnapping and extortion.'"
2010-04-28,b'Kim Jong Ils new plan may be to attack and occupy Seoul'
2010-04-28,"b'Greece bans short-selling as panic spreads, Shares tumble across Britain, Europe and Asia after the cost of insuring Greek debt against default hits a 14-year high '"
2010-04-28,"b'A US Coast Guard official says if leaks from an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico are not stemmed soon, they could cause one of the worst spills in US history.'"
2010-04-27,b'Flight traffic in Europe'
2010-04-27,b'The party is over in Iran'
2010-04-27,b'Chinese Tycoon Donates a Billion Dollars to Charity '
2010-04-27,b'Israeli man jailed for 10 years for tricking women into sexual acts by claiming his semen was holy and had healing powers.'
2010-04-27,"b'90,000 protest U.S. base in Japan: \nOkinawans demand 2006 agreement with U.S. for Marine base be scrapped.'"
2010-04-27,"b""Dozens of World War I photographs, including some from Australia's Gallipoli campaign, have been saved by a quick-thinking removalist in Canada."""
2010-04-27,"b'Eyjafjallajokull volcano, images from Iceland over the past few days...'"
2010-04-27,"b""Senate investigation finds Goldman Sachs 'profited at clients' expense' """
2010-04-27,"b'""Smoke bombs were set off in the chamber. Glue was poured into voting machines. The legislative leader directed the session behind umbrellas held by his aides, to protect him from projectiles.""'"
2010-04-27,b'A Muslim Frenchman at the center of a firestorm over polygamy says keeping mistresses is the French way of life. '
2010-04-27,b'The Battle of Umbrellas and Eggs took place in the Ukraine parliament today.'
2010-04-27,b'   Russia and Norway ends 40-year Arctic dispute  '
2010-04-27,b'Vatican to fund adult stem cell research in America. Donating several million dollars to University of Maryland school of medicine'
2010-04-27,"b'Police State Canada 2010 and the G20 Summit | In June, downtown Toronto will essentially be on lockdown with rights and liberties severely restricted.'"
2010-04-27,"b""Part of the reason the Greeks are in trouble is because they can't print money like the United States."""
2010-04-27,"b""Skeptics of the World, Unite! --- \nWe're awash in conspiracy theories -- and that's not a good thing. A plea for a genuine culture of skepticism."""
2010-04-27,b'Democratic Iraq? Nope. Iraqi Court Bans 52 Candidates.'
2010-04-27,b'Russia and Norway solve 40-year-long maritime border dispute.'
2010-04-27,b'Russian Marketing Missiles & Launchers In Ready-To-Use Shipping Containers'
2010-04-27,b'Indian Man Dies From Radiation Incident.'
2010-04-27,"b'Afghan protesters torched NATO supply vehicles in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, hours after allegations emerged that U.S. and Afghan troops had killed three civilians, including two brothers, in their home.'"
2010-04-27,b'Bio-artificial trachea made in Iran - Iranian doctors have carried out an in situ transplant of bio-artificial trachea in humans for the first time in the world'
2010-04-27,"b'Child pornography is great, the speaker at the podium declared enthusiastically. It is great because politicians understand child pornography.'"
2010-04-27,b'Muhammad cartoon controversy protest in London in 2006--more provocateurs?'
2010-04-27,"b""The Mystery of Poland's Presidential Plane Crash Deepens"""
2010-04-26,"b'European push to ban burqas appalls Afghan women. ""What is the difference between forcing women to wear a burqa and forcing them not to? It is discrimination.""'"
2010-04-26,"b'China To Force Sterilize 10,000 To Curb Births'"
2010-04-26,b'Church scandals next wave: Abused girls'
2010-04-26,b'A cruise missile in a shipping container - on sale for 10m'
2010-04-26,b'From North Korea: understatement of the year'
2010-04-26,"b""Iran has struck a secret deal with Zimbabwe's Mugabe regime to mine its untapped uranium reserves for its nuclear programme"""
2010-04-26,b'Toyota says its global sales have surged by more than a quarter despite the carmaker having to recall millions of vehicles worldwide because of safety concerns.'
2010-04-26,b'Who knew? The polish president had a backup twin who is now running for the presidency.'
2010-04-26,"b'Slum clearance, South Africa-style'"
2010-04-26,"b'China opens missile plant in Iran - Unlike Russia, China ""has been very successful in offering Iran technology and capabilities that are actually wanted, as opposed to those that might be \'nice to have.\''"
2010-04-26,b'Haiti Wants Food Aid to Stop'
2010-04-26,"b'UK authorities breached obligations to protect citizens by not acting on details they had about the 7/7 bombers before the attacks, a court has heard.'"
2010-04-26,"b'Mexico: Jurez nears 5,000 killings'"
2010-04-26,b'Japan says it is not interested in cutting its whaling program in the Antarctic in return for being allowed to resume commercial whaling in coastal waters.'
2010-04-26,b'Honduran Slain in Hospital by Killer Disguised as Nurse'
2010-04-26,b'Officials: East Jerusalem construction in de facto freeze '
2010-04-26,"b""Hunted for body parts, Tanzania's albinos get help from B.C. man - Canadian businessman puts up $1-million to shut lucrative trade with African witch doctors"""
2010-04-26,b'Afghan protesters torched 16 NATO convoy trucks carrying fuel for Western troops'
2010-04-26,b'The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights has accused Hamas of acting illegally when it halted the salients first-ever rap concert during the weekend. '
2010-04-26,b'Thousands protest in Ukraine over deal with Russia'
2010-04-26,b'How is that democracy we delivered you working out?'
2010-04-26,b'Israel is cracking down on the Palestinian Authoritys financial support of nonviolent public protest against the occupation in the West Bank.'
2010-04-26,b'Family wins human rights case over a school which reprimanded their son for not eating like a Canadian.'
2010-04-26,b'China: We will not go along with US Sanctions'
2010-04-26,b'Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People: New Book'
2010-04-25,"b'The Radical ""Muslim"" Group That Threatened South Park Creators Was Founded and Run by Joseph Cohen, a Former Israeli Radical Who Used to Live in a Settlement in the West Bank '"
2010-04-25,b'Israelis shoot Maltese photographer as she films Gaza demonstration'
2010-04-25,b'The rootless world of the super-rich.'
2010-04-25,"b""Defense geeks: Free PDF of RAND's exhaustive 270 page study of 89 insurgencies and how they ended!"""
2010-04-25,b'Lebanese to stage march for secularism'
2010-04-25,"b'China to build dam on Brahmaputra River - a river of extreme importance for agriculture, transportation and industry for millions in India and Bangladesh '"
2010-04-25,"b'South Koreas sunken warship \n- \nIf North Korea did deliberately destroy a South Korean warship, what next?'"
2010-04-25,"b'Young Arab women are undergoing ""hymenoplasty"" surgery to hide any sign of sexual activity before marriage which, if found out, they risk being ostracised or even murdered '"
2010-04-25,"b""For nations living the good life, the party's over, IMF says"""
2010-04-25,b'Japanese island set for mass rally against US bases'
2010-04-25,b'PAKISTAN: A young Hindu girl is detained and forcibly converted by a Madrassa; police refuse to act'
2010-04-25,b'Afghanistan: drug addiction growing'
2010-04-25,b'Breaking News:  Danish sex education to actually educate Danes about sex!'
2010-04-25,"b""If they were crooks, wouldn't they be richer? \nMillions of poor Indians are considered criminal by tradition. Most are nothing of the sort"""
2010-04-25,b'Never Seen Footage of the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks'
2010-04-25,"b'Egyptian foreign minister calls Israel ""Enemy"" in Lebanon. Says Egypt will stand by Lebanon and Syria if they are attacked.'"
2010-04-25,b'Afghan schoolgirls poisoned by Taliban?'
2010-04-25,"b'Demonstrators gather at rally in Okinawa, Japan, to protest against a US military air base on the island'"
2010-04-25,b'Lebanese march in Beirut to demand secularism'
2010-04-25,"b""UK's leading actors urge voters to protect licence fee and keep BBC safe """
2010-04-25,"b""Afghan spy chief: 'I told MI5 that prisoners were being tortured'"""
2010-04-25,b'New York: UN press corps revolts'
2010-04-25,b'Hamas security forces break up Gaza Strip`s first major hip-hop concert.'
2010-04-25,"b'Tony Blair, Very Close to being Indicted for War Crimes in Malaysia\n'"
2010-04-25,"b""The Chinese laboratories where scientists are already at work on the new 'meow meow'."""
2010-04-24,"b'After Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group, Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris wanted to counter the fear. She has declared May 20th ""Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.""'"
2010-04-24,"b'Consumer waste from the ""Great Pacific Garbage Patch"" is turning a Hawaiian beach ""into plastic"".\nThey found more plastic particles than sand, as they dug a hole on what has been described as ""the world\'s dirtiest beach"".'"
2010-04-24,b' Internal Goldman Sachs e-mails released on Capitol Hill Saturday show firm used bets on mortgage securities in a bid to profit as the housing market began to plummet several years ago.\nDocuments show that Goldman executives knew their bets would profit the firm.'
2010-04-24,"b'UK foreign secretary: ""You\'ve punished us enough \r\nabout Iraq"". Go fuck yourself Milliband. '"
2010-04-24,"b'Reddit, today is the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.'"
2010-04-24,"b""Ocean debris turning Hawaiian beach 'in to plastic'"""
2010-04-24,b'Long-Hated One-Child Rule May Be Eased in China - New Problem? Not Enough Children.'
2010-04-24,b'North Korea seizes South-owned resort'
2010-04-24,"b""Super-rich 'become richer again'"""
2010-04-24,"b""  Three's A Crowd - \nHistorian evokes parallels from 1920s, offers shrewd advice to Nick Clegg: LibDems should refuse alliance with new Labour, present themselves as heirs to libertarian strain in old Labour\n"""
2010-04-24,b'Mexico: 7 Mexican Police Officers Killed in Ciudad Juarez'
2010-04-24,b'Haitians are quitting their jobs and leaving their homes to join tent cities where everything is free. The Haitian government says the aid is ruining the economy and wants it stopped.'
2010-04-24,b'Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Rejects U.S. Plea To Stop Illegal Settlements'
2010-04-24,b'Deadly New Fungus Emerging in Oregon Expected to Spread '
2010-04-24,b'N.Korea Announces Seizure of S.Korean Properties'
2010-04-24,b'How geography and old empires shape todays Europe'
2010-04-24,"b'The bishop of the Belgian city of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, has resigned after admitting sexual abuse of a boy earlier in his career.'"
2010-04-24,b'Chinese Military Seeks to Extend Its Naval Power'
2010-04-24,"b""In Nigeria's conservative Islamic north, women are barred from ruling, except in the kingdom of Kumbwada. Here, an ancient curse keeps males off the throne, according to locals. Male pretenders who dare to try will be buried within a week. """
2010-04-24,"b'Only in Saudi Arabia, could assault, abuse, and defamation be called examples of ""bloopers."" God Bless the Kingdom. '"
2010-04-24,b'The man who filmed a video that appeared to depict gunshots being fired in the immediate aftermath of the Polish plane crash has apparently been stabbed to death in what many are claiming was a deliberate assassination to silence the individual from making public whatever it was he saw.'
2010-04-24,"b""Venezuela requests banker's extradition from US"""
2010-04-24,b'German Soldiers in Afghanistan Wear Protest on Their Sleeve'
2010-04-24,b'Greece Welcomes Its New IMF Overlords With Day Of Rioting And National Strikes'
2010-04-24,b'South Korea raises bow of sunken warship (must be a giant crane!)'
2010-04-23,"b'A Saudi law firm claiming to represent 94,000 descendants of the ""prophet"" Mohammed sues Danish newspapers. Now a new group countersues on behalf of all the non-Muslims whom Mohammed defamed and insulted in the Koran, demanding offending passages be changed or removed.'"
2010-04-23,"b""Murdoch's newspaper The Sun has been found to be discarding political poll results it has commissioned if they don't say what it wants"""
2010-04-23,"b'Rupert Murdoch\'s son James storms Independent newsroom, furious about declaration ""Rupert Murdoch wont decide this election  you will""'"
2010-04-23,"b""'Sun' censored poll that showed support for Lib Dems """
2010-04-23,"b'Belgium to ban Islamic veils in public, making it the first European country to ban the wearing of the burqa or niqab'"
2010-04-23,"b'Five Israelis, including a retired army general, charged with organ trafficking'"
2010-04-23,"b""Boobquake - Purdue student using the combined force of cleavage from across the world to test Iranian cleric's claim that immodesty causes earthquakes. Spread the word!"""
2010-04-23,b'Britain is a country with a large liberal-left majority.'
2010-04-23,"b""Airline pilot cleared of role in 9/11 after 'nine years of hell' - Lotfi Raissi eligible for up to 2m compensation after wrongful imprisonment and damage to health"""
2010-04-23,"b'Chinese premier publicly commemorate Tiananmen Square hero for the first time since 1989, subtly encourages political reform'"
2010-04-23,"b'In yet another snub to Obama, Netanyahu: There will be no building freeze in Jerusalem'"
2010-04-23,b'Netanyahu Commits to Colonizing East Jerusalem; First Palestinian Expelled under new Policy'
2010-04-23,b'France also bans Female Muslim tourists from wearing their veils in public'
2010-04-23,"b'Obesity in Australia: ""We\'ll soon be fat as Americans,"" health experts warn as obesity overtakes smoking as the biggest killer of Aussies.'"
2010-04-23,"b'""Your only hope for rescue is the destruction of the Jews before they destroy you!"" Hitler said in a 1942 message, one of thousands broadcast across the Middle East in an attempt to woo the Arab world. '"
2010-04-23,b'The saviour of Sarajevo barred from public office for being a Jew'
2010-04-23,b'Car Bomb Explodes Outside Northern Ireland Police Station'
2010-04-23,"b""'Ninja slug' among rainforest finds"""
2010-04-23,b'German bishop accused of beating children decades ago when he was a priest has resigned'
2010-04-23,b'Stranded US citizens get a real taste of Irish hospitality'
2010-04-23,"b'Soaring unemployment, pay freezes for millions, but... Billions more for bankers'"
2010-04-23,b'Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard: South Park creators should voice protest.'
2010-04-23,b'Internet spoofs unspoofable Conservative poster'
2010-04-23,"b'The prison population in England and Wales has reached a record high, exceeding 85,000 for the first time.'"
2010-04-23,"b'Dozens of gunmen blockade the street, raid two hotels, and abduct six people after searching most of the fifth floor at 3:00 AM in Monterrey, Mexico'"
2010-04-22,b'1 canadian dollar > 1 US dollar'
2010-04-22,b'UK Election: Todays front pages. Are these newspapers or attack ads?'
2010-04-22,"b""South Korea's military believes a torpedo fired from a North Korean submarine sank its navy ship last month, based on intelligence gathered jointly with the United States, a news report said on Thursday."""
2010-04-22,b'Top Gear Takes Blame for Volcano Eruption in Iceland '
2010-04-22,b'Belgian law banning burqua calls for fine or jail.  First such law in Europe set to take effect.'
2010-04-22,"b""Rupert's Son James Murdoch Storms Into Rival Newspaper's Newsroom shouting 'What Are You F*@!ing Playing At?'"""
2010-04-22,"b'Despite what the media tells you, crime in Britain is at a thirty year low'"
2010-04-22,"b'Southern Sudan brews beer: Out of reach of the Islamic Khartoum government, beer is made and drunk.'"
2010-04-22,"b'""With women hidden out of sight in Afghan society, rich and powerful men turned their attention to boys aged 11 and up, dressing them in feminine clothes, adorning them with bells and trinkets and training them as twirling, dancing dolls.""'"
2010-04-22,"b""South Korean ship sunk by crack squad of 'human torpedoes' """
2010-04-22,b'Afghan Massacre Survivor To Obama: You Be The Judge (VIDEO)'
2010-04-22,b'Ryanair announces it will refuses to obey EU passenger rights laws and will not cover hotel and meal expenses for stranded passengers - lawbreakers need to be punished - complain to the European Commission '
2010-04-22,"b'Movie theaters and bars were forced to close for 24 hours, video games disappeared from the Internet and televised movies and soap operas were abruptly replaced by an emotional news loop produced by the countrys central broadcaster.'"
2010-04-22,b'Dozens injured in Bangkok blasts'
2010-04-22,"b""Iceland volcano: why we were lucky we weren't wiped out"""
2010-04-22,"b'Jerusalem must be shared by both Israelis and Palestinians, an Israeli activist group says, in response to the recent Washington Post ads.'"
2010-04-22,"b""IDF walks into a Palestinian village and starts shooting at people. They claim Palestinians were throwing rocks at the 'soldiers'. Turns out the IDF was fibbing, well either that or Palestinians can throw rocks 100 meters far with perfect accuracy."""
2010-04-22,"b'Rockets hit Jordan ""from Egypt.""  Two small missiles were launched from the Sinai, allegedly aimed at Israel.'"
2010-04-22,"b""What's the worst company in the USA? Cash4Gold, Bank of America, Ticketmaster, and Comcast round out the top four"""
2010-04-22,"b'Apparently, a guy who shot a video of gunfire at the \r\npolish plane crash site was murdered a few days \r\nago.'"
2010-04-22,"b""CNN and Ha'artez each have an article quoting a poll about what American Jews think of how Obama is handling Israel and the Middle East.  They completely contradict one another ..."""
2010-04-22,"b""Google 'not interested' in privacy, say information tsars"""
2010-04-22,"b'The Corrupt Reign of Emperor Silvio - Another terrific piece from Stille, on Berlusconi\'s sex scandals. He has ""transformed the political life of a major nation into a reality TV show in which he is star, producer, and network owner""'"
2010-04-22,b'Taiwan Touch Panel Sceen Workers Struggle For Basic Rights'
2010-04-22,"b'The hotel assault was reportedly mounted by up to 50 gunmen who seized cars to block streets, slowing the police. '"
2010-04-21,"b'Explicit mention of religion is seen as ""un-British"", a bit ""American"" and a ""turn-off"" to the electorate.'"
2010-04-21,"b'Yesterday, Israel delivered demolition warrants to Palestinians in Halhul village in the West Bank, informing that their homes and water reservoir will be destroyed.'"
2010-04-21,"b""Argentina's former military President has been sentenced to 25 years for human rights abuses: Guilty of involvement in 56 cases of murder, torture and kidnappings"""
2010-04-21,b'Experts Warn of Impending Phosphorus Crisis'
2010-04-21,b'France to put forward a bill to ban the wearing of Islamic veils in public places'
2010-04-21,"b""'South Park' creators warned: Poking fun at Muhammed could invite deadly Muslim rage\n"""
2010-04-21,"b'Filmed deep underground on the border between Gaza and Egypt, the mobile phone footage obtained by the BBC is conclusive proof of what has been rumored in Gaza since last year - the tunnelling operation is now so advanced that entire brand new cars are now being smuggled into Gaza.'"
2010-04-21,b'UK Generals: Britain should be prepared to scrap its nuclear deterrent'
2010-04-21,b'Iran Facts vs. Iran Hype'
2010-04-21,b'Brazil priest *DETAINED* after pedophilia accusation'
2010-04-21,"b'Brazil, US, UK lead number of requests to Google for user data and censorship'"
2010-04-21,"b""Top Russian judge Eduard Chuvashov 'assassinated in revenge attack' after sentencing gangs of racist murderers, and while investigating corrupt FSB men """
2010-04-21,"b'Hitachi claims they ""didn\'t know"" that the 25% shareholder of Hitachi South Africa is a front company for the ruling party (which awarded a $5bn tender to Hitachi South Africa).'"
2010-04-21,b'Two North Korean assassins arrested in South Korea'
2010-04-21,b'Those naughty Germans'
2010-04-21,b'Draft of Secretive International Copyright Treaty Leaked -- Confirms Fears About Internet Freedom'
2010-04-21,b'Global bank tax urged by IMF'
2010-04-21,"b""North Korea 'plotted to kill high profile defector' . Two North Koreans, said to have been posing as defectors themselves, have been arrested on suspicion of being on a mission to kill Hwang Jang-yop."""
2010-04-21,"b""Airlines - led by Ryanair (oh surprise) - say they'll defy European regulations on covering 'passenger care' costs"""
2010-04-21,b'Australians (in 1919) edit film of Gallipoli showing Irish and New Zealand soldiers fighting so that it looks like Australian soldiers instead '
2010-04-21,"b""German troops in Afghanistan call on Angela Merkel to explain why they're at war - 'They want the Chancellor, their ultimate boss, to finally find the clear words to put the war against the Taliban into black and white,' Bild Zeitung, Germanys biggest daily paper, said today."""
2010-04-21,b'Afghan Snipers Using Old Rifles Issued by CIA'
2010-04-21,b'Is the Aral Sea coming back from the dead?'
2010-04-21,"b""'Truth Is Often The First Casualty Of War' - Germany's defense minister is set to testify about his knowledge of a deadly attack in Afghanistan that resulted in civilian deaths. German commentators say the inquiry into whether politicians lied is essential."""
2010-04-21,b'The World Bank releases all its collected statistics for free'
2010-04-20,b'Burials in Tibet. NOT FOR SENSITIVE SOULS! [pics]'
2010-04-20,"b""Now we know the truth. The financial meltdown wasn't a mistake  it was a con"""
2010-04-20,b'Google now publicly displaying government requests to remove data from their sites.'
2010-04-20,"b'Iraqi secret prison revealed, a torture and holding cell for minority Sunni leadership.'"
2010-04-20,"b'Goldman Sachs: A great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money'"
2010-04-20,"b""Sherpa team plans to clean Everest's death zone """
2010-04-20,b'China just pricked its housing bubble. First-home buyers must pay no less than 30 percent of the the property price if the area is above 90 square meters. 2nd-home has to pay 50% down payment.'
2010-04-20,"b""Goldman Sach's wasn't the only company behind the con."""
2010-04-20,"b'Dozens protest over Egyptian MP\'s statement ""No need to use water cannons to disperse demonstrators; they must open fire at them with live bullets.""'"
2010-04-20,"b'Iraq: Secret torture jail? Hey look over there, we just killed two senior al Qaida leaders!'"
2010-04-20,"b""Secret prison revealed in Baghdad, held hundreds of Sunni men at the facility. The U.S. fears that the news will stoke instability. (Q: Didn't the US support Saddam Hussein when he was doing the same thing?)"""
2010-04-20,b'Secret prison revealed in Baghdad'
2010-04-20,"b'Zimbabwe\'s Mugabe bashes gays again: ""Those that engage in such acts are insane. We cannot tolerate this, otherwise the dead will rise against us.""'"
2010-04-20,b'I hate my country!!!'
2010-04-20,b'UK going after Goldman Sachs too. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is starting a formal enforcement investigation into Goldman Sachs in relation to recent fraud allegations.'
2010-04-20,b'How an Icelandic volcano helped spark the French Revolution'
2010-04-20,b' IMF proposes two big new bank taxes to fund bail-outs'
2010-04-20,"b'No deal with Cameron after the election, say Lib Dem voters. '"
2010-04-20,b'The volcano eruption in Iceland has strengthened and a new ash cloud is spreading south and east towards the UK'
2010-04-20,"b'Al-Qaeda Chief In Iraq: Captured, Killed, Never Actually Existed, Re-Captured, Now Killed Again'"
2010-04-20,b'UK airports set to reopen'
2010-04-20,b'Catholic Church in Latin America finally uncovers its pedophile priests'
2010-04-20,b'Costa Rican election result hides complex reality'
2010-04-20,b'Water aerobics class halted by croc in pool'
2010-04-20,"b""Promiscuous women are responsible for earthquakes.  It's a price worth paying."""
2010-04-19,b'Irish Government in secret talks about internet censorship'
2010-04-19,"b""Nick Clegg's rise could lock Rupert Murdoch and the media elite out of UK politics """
2010-04-19,b'Millions stolen from Iraq rebuilding: Special task force is analyzing every transaction and person connected to Iraq reconstruction funding in order to hold people accountable'
2010-04-19,b' two girls living in Northern Ireland have been made the subject of a court order to stop them being forced into marriage in Pakistan'
2010-04-19,b'Dramatic footage of ash and lightning above Iceland volcano'
2010-04-19,"b'Forget Eyjafjallajokull, Mt. Katla Is Now Getting Ready To Rumble'"
2010-04-19,"b""$2 billion wind-energy project in Romania, largest in world, 5x larger than Europe's current largest, 3x proposed offshore Massachusetts project"""
2010-04-19,b'Iceland volcano causes fall in carbon emissions as eruption grounds aircraft'
2010-04-19,"b'Tibetans need your help in the wake of the recent earthquake, over 100,000 are homeless.'"
2010-04-19,b'Palestinian state certain - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak says Israel must eventually give Palestinians their independence.'
2010-04-19,"b'TOKYO  Thousands of people rallied on a remote Japanese island Sunday, protesting against a possible government move to relocate a major U.S. air base there.'"
2010-04-19,b'Lesbian couple becomes first same sex couple to sign joint birth certificate'
2010-04-19,"b'The Israeli Embassy reopened in Wellington, New Zealand, today, after an eight-year absence. Apparently the relationship was screwed after two reported Mossad agents were caught and jailed for trying to illegally obtain New Zealand passports in 2004, while 2 others escaped.'"
2010-04-19,b'Military Increasingly Convinced of N.Korean Sub Attack'
2010-04-19,"b""BBC News - Nick Clegg brands Labour and Conservatives 'desperate'"""
2010-04-19,"b""Britain 'handed over prisoners in Afghanistan to be tortured'"""
2010-04-19,b'Saudi poachers boast of killing endangered animals in YouTube video'
2010-04-19,"b""Afghan children are dying: The government told them it was finally safe to come back - even built them a clinic, a school, a playground. But what good's a playground when you have nothing to eat?"""
2010-04-19,"b'Defense Minister Ehud Barak said there is no reason for a war to break out this summer: Israel must allow the Palestinians to ""rule themselves""'"
2010-04-19,"b'Melbourne Gangland killer Carl Williams, beaten to death in prison.'"
2010-04-19,"b""India's unease about strategic power, and its resemblance to a gigantic European Union united only by the English language, reflects its ongoing search for a new international identity. In this quest, India is impaired by its lack of practice in the exercise of power on a grand scale."""
2010-04-19,b'Should Pope Benedict step down? The case against him for collusion in child sex-abuse is much stronger than the case against a number of Irish bishops who have been forced to resign.'
2010-04-19,"b'Catholic Church in Worst Credibility Crisis Since Reformation, Theologian Tells Bishops'"
2010-04-19,"b'The economic impact of the Iceland volcano cloud: ""European countries wouldn\'t get any growth this year""'"
2010-04-19,"b'Yemeni lawmaker: Banning child marriage unIslamic, part of Western agenda; also ""imagine a young man of 13 or 14 years of age who wants to have sex.  This is a violation of his rights.""'"
2010-04-18,b'Now charlatans will know to beware the geeks '
2010-04-18,b'Priest says he was bullied into taking fall for Pope in abuse scandal'
2010-04-18,"b'Charlie Brooker: ""David Cameron is like a hollow Easter egg, with no bag of sweets inside. He\'s nothing. He\'s no one.""'"
2010-04-18,b'CNN cannot grasp the concept of working remotely. - Stranded PM runs Norway remotely'
2010-04-18,b'Air chaos to last weeks as even more volcanic ash belches out'
2010-04-18,"b'Goldman Sachs to announce $4bn profit row (50%+ y/y) on the back of the strength in its fixed income division, the very division which the fraud charges stem from'"
2010-04-18,"b""Cuba's most famous cigar maker, Alejandro Robaina, has died aged 91."""
2010-04-18,b'Ahmadinejad calls for U.S. to destroy its nuclear arsenal first'
2010-04-18,"b'Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm | Brilliant throughout. Commentary on the text well worth reading: why is there no Lenin-pig? But the second half of the piece, history of the book immediately after publication, is the must-read'"
2010-04-18,b'EU test flights to assess impact of volcanic ash on aircraft'
2010-04-18,"b""The image Microsoft doesn't want you to see: Too tired to stay awake, the Chinese workers earning just 34p an hour"""
2010-04-18,"b'The volcanic ash hanging over Europe has mushroomed into a dark 1.5 billion dollar cloud over the airlines and other travel industry sectors, with no hope of a silver lining, analysts warned.\n'"
2010-04-18,b'New Canadian studies suggest seasonal flu shot increased H1N1 risk'
2010-04-18,b'Finnish fighter jets damaged by volcanic cloud'
2010-04-18,b'Aussie government cans Human Rights Act as election looms'
2010-04-18,"b'Venezuela Secures $20 Billion Loan From China, Chavez Says'"
2010-04-18,b'Ash cloud will last for another week: Now layer of fine dust is settling on top of the ash cloud and volcano is still erupting  (excellent pics) '
2010-04-18,b'  Air traffic disruption: country-by-country  '
2010-04-18,"b'Volcano chaos could continue for months  --  \nThe Icelandic volcano causing travel chaos across Europe could go on erupting for months, geologists have warned.'"
2010-04-18,"b""Brazil's Chamber of Deputies approves bill granting access to public information"""
2010-04-18,b'Europe cut off from the UK. Gordon Brown calls meeting. '
2010-04-18,b'Brazil secures Chinese pledge for heavy investment'
2010-04-18,"b""So it's shagging that has brought all this disaster. Those dang Icelandics must be a frisky little lot then?"""
2010-04-18,b'FBI agent dismisses CIA spys claim of Iran ties to Pan Am 103 bomb'
2010-04-18,"b'""European airlines on Sunday stepped up pressure to reopen the skies by carrying out passenger-free test flights despite the layer of volcanic ash that kept most planes across the continent grounded for a fourth day."" (Glad I\'m not one of the crew members)'"
2010-04-17,b'U.S. Accuses Goldman Sachs of Fraud'
2010-04-17,b'That bloody volcano has trapped Sir David Attenborough \r\nin the Arctic circle. At the age of 83 is assuredly the most \r\nawesome person of our lifetime.'
2010-04-17,b'Extramarital sex fuels earthquakes: Senior Iran cleric'
2010-04-17,b'It is now illegal to possess non-photographic visual depictions of child sexual abuse in England and Wales. '
2010-04-17,"b""The Vatican's second-highest authority says sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests"""
2010-04-17,b'Bombers dressed in burkas kill 41 in Pakistan'
2010-04-17,b'Planes or Volcano?.... Information Is Beautiful'
2010-04-17,"b""Benazir Bhutto 'left to mercy of assassins by security chief'"""
2010-04-17,b'Judge may be kept from his grandsons bar mitzvah for authoring UN report critical of Israel (and Hamas.)'
2010-04-17,"b""While we are on the topic, let's not forget this."""
2010-04-17,b'Israel seizes 4 water pumps in Jordan Valley'
2010-04-17,b'Gen McChrystal: No Proof Iran Sending Fighters or Weapons to Afghanistan'
2010-04-17,"b'270 Palestinians kids -under the age of 18, are currently held in Israeli prisons '"
2010-04-17,b'The next Olympics could possibly be fucked '
2010-04-17,b'Experts: No end to volcano ash in sight'
2010-04-17,b'Live feed from the Eyjafjallajkull eruption in Iceland.'
2010-04-17,"b""China's grim irony: The huge magnitude of Maos crimes is sometimes cited as a reason for forgetting those crimes. If this society ever allowed itself to talk about who suffered what and who did whatit would open itself to an explosion of recrimination and revenge"""
2010-04-17,"b""Brothers in Arms: Israel's relationship with apartheid South Africa"""
2010-04-17,"b""Bubble Jet from Torpedo 'Likely' Cause of South Korean Shipwreck"""
2010-04-17,"b""President of Iran calls on UN Sec'y Gen'l to investigate 9/11 and the resulting invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan."""
2010-04-17,b'Get ready for decades of Icelandic fireworks'
2010-04-17,"b""Benazir Bhutto's murder mystery - \nA UN report on the killing of Benazir Bhutto makes awkward reading for Pakistans army"""
2010-04-17,b'Airport Crisis Spreads as Ash Moves East'
2010-04-17,"b'AN OPEN LETTER OF RECONCILIATION & RESPONSIBILITY TO THE IRAQI PEOPLE \r\nFrom Current and Former Members of the U.S. Military - We write to you, your family, and your community with awareness that our words and actions can never restore your losses...'"
2010-04-17,b'Iran to open nuclear summit'
2010-04-16,"b""Iceland's disruptive volcano - The Big Picture"""
2010-04-16,"b'Ultimate infographic about the volcano - it has maps, stats, jet engine schematics, volcano cross-section, mount everest, ozone layer, ...'"
2010-04-16,"b'Netanyahu\'s nephew: ""Israel is collectively punishing more than 1.5 million Palestinians by sealing them off in the largest open-air prison on earth.""'"
2010-04-16,"b'""We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped""-true British stiff upper lip'"
2010-04-16,b'Sheikh to Terrorists: Go to Hell'
2010-04-16,b'Rape on the rise in Cambodia: Victims of rape suffer from stigma while perpetrators are rarely held accountable.'
2010-04-16,"b""'Safer' not to defrock paedophile priests, says Catholic Church official"""
2010-04-16,b'IDF soldiers have been printing shirts bragging about shooting pregnant women and rape. IDF higher ups are pissed off but not at the soldiers for wearing them but at the shop for printing the shirts'
2010-04-16,b'A man who repeatedly disturbed his neighbours by \r\nshouting at political programmes on his television \r\nhas been jailed for 16 weeks.'
2010-04-16,"b'Stranded in Oslo, John Cleese takes taxi to Brussels for $5400 - class.'"
2010-04-16,b'The U.N. slams a deliberate failure to adequately probe the Benazir Bhutto assassination in Pakistan.'
2010-04-16,"b'Digital Economy Act: This means war. Cory Doctorow explains how banking surveillance, control and censorship into the very fabric of our networks, devices and laws is the absolute road to dictatorial hell'"
2010-04-16,b'Afghan police marksmanship with their AK-47s has always been poor - because U.S. contractors failed to train them how to adjust their sights'
2010-04-16,"b'Animated ash plume model predictions from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, through to Saturday 17th April 2010, 02:00'"
2010-04-16,"b'""75% chance that \'Monster volcano\' awakens"" - Dagbladet.no via google translate'"
2010-04-16,"b'In third incident this week, Israeli settlers torch two more Palestinian vehicles.  This time they left behind the words in spray-painted graffiti: ""Thank you God, for not making me a Gentile.""'"
2010-04-16,"b""Three men have been jailed in China's Fujian province after posting material online on behalf of a woman trying to investigate her daughter's death."""
2010-04-16,"b""US Fizzes As Bolivia Produces The Real Thing - [The new Bolivian soft drink] is made from the coca leaf, a mild stimulant that wards off fatigue and hunger...Coca is also the raw ingredient of cocaine, the narcotic that is the primary target of the US-led ''war on drugs.''"""
2010-04-16,b'Israel Still Not Prepared to Join Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty'
2010-04-16,"b'Death toll tops 1,100 in China quake'"
2010-04-16,"b'Pope breaks his silence on child abuse, urges ""Christians"" to repent while complaining that people are picking on the church - victims groups all dismissed his comments'"
2010-04-16,"b'Bhutto assassination could have been prevented, says UN report'"
2010-04-16,b'Black Box from Polish jet suggests possible mistakes before the crash.'
2010-04-16,b'U.S. doubles special forces in Afghanistan'
2010-04-16,"b""How China's unfair currency policies are exporting unemployment all over the world -- and why baby steps won't solve the problem."""
2010-04-15,"b'After finding two groups of males the force  executed all of them using silenced weapons.  Unfortunately, it appears that the Special Ops team had not entered the sleeping quarters of an IED cell, but the dormitory of a private school for boys.\n'"
2010-04-15,b'All London flights grounded as volcanic ash from Iceland closes UK airports'
2010-04-15,"b""Zionists groups have banned Justice Richard Goldstone from his own grandson's bar mitzvah as punishment for his role in the UN fact finding mission that found evidence of Israeli and Hamas war crimes."""
2010-04-15,b'From a Veteran to the Freedom Fighter Who Shot Me'
2010-04-15,b'This is why your UK flight has been cancelled. Volcanic ash spreading above the UK and Nordic areas. [PIC]'
2010-04-15,"b""H(.)(.)ters in China: The massive contradictions that are busting out in a sexually repressed society... they're just huge."""
2010-04-15,"b'Russia shuts plutonium arms plant:  The closure of the reactor came after Mr Obama and Mr Medvedev signed a nuclear disarmament treaty, described by both sides as a major step towards improving strained US-Russian relations. '"
2010-04-15,"b'Legalize It: 22,000 Dead in 3-year Mexican Drug War '"
2010-04-15,"b'There he was, five decades later, the priest who had raped Joe Callander in Massachusetts. The photo in the Roman Catholic newsletter showed him with a smile across his wrinkled face, near-naked Amazon Indian children in his arms and at his feet.'"
2010-04-15,"b'US adoptions of Russian children have been halted, a week after a Russian boy was rejected by his adoptive mother in the American state of Tennessee.'"
2010-04-15,b'Six-figure salaries the norm at top charities '
2010-04-15,b'So UK redditers who do you think won the first election debate? '
2010-04-15,b'Australia faces huge locust plague'
2010-04-15,b'The Digital Economy Bill has betrayed the young: \r\nPositive engagement with the digital generation \r\ninterests the political classes only when they want \r\nsomething from us'
2010-04-15,"b""Gay outrage over cardinal's child abuse comment"""
2010-04-15,"b'Africans combine Islam, Christianity and paganism without batting an eye.'"
2010-04-15,"b'Volcano ash alert hits UK flights (TIL there\'s a ""Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre"")'"
2010-04-15,"b'Charity that sued UK Ministry of Defence has named two men who ended up in the infamous ""dark prison"" at Bagram in Afghanistan after being handed to US forces by members of the SAS'"
2010-04-15,b'Goldstone banned by SA Zionists'
2010-04-15,"b""Syria: Israel's Scud accusation may be pretense for attack"""
2010-04-15,b'Desperate battle to shore up Chinese quake dam'
2010-04-15,"b""Russian security forces release hitlist of 'black widow terrorists'"""
2010-04-15,b'A Catholic priest is one of eight men police arrested during a prostitution sting.'
2010-04-15,b'Russia suspends U.S. adoptions'
2010-04-15,b'A huge ash cloud is moving over the UK \r\n- 90% of flights cancelled!'
2010-04-14,b'Australia is Piiiiiiiissed - Arrests Crew Members of Chinese Coal Ship that trashed the Great Barrier Reef'
2010-04-14,"b'My friend, Aamir, 17, was murdered in Cardiff on Sunday. [news link]'"
2010-04-14,"b""Scientists say they have found clear proof that meat from whales captured under Japan's whaling programme is being sold in US and Korean eateries."""
2010-04-14,"b""Anti-rape condom ready for SA World Cup - The Rape-aXe, as it is called, is a condom women can insert themselves. The interior has tiny spines which, in case of rape, attach to the man's penis."""
2010-04-14,"b'Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village yesterday in the middle of the night.  Mosque was ransacked, 300 olive trees are uprooted (which serve as income for farmers), 2 cars were set ablaze and racist slogans were spray-painted in Hebrew around town.'"
2010-04-14,"b'Not all sex workers are victims (UK): We are facing not a feminist measure, but an ideology that sees women as unable to be sexually independent and free of their own actions. '"
2010-04-14,"b""Japan annual whale hunt 'halved by activists': Clashes at sea between Sea Shepherd and the whaling ships paralysed the hunt for days """
2010-04-14,b'6.9-magnitude earthquake hit western China '
2010-04-14,b'A volcano erupts under a glacier in Iceland. Hundreds evacuated.'
2010-04-14,b'Vatican comment draws gay anger'
2010-04-14,"b""Cleric's support for men and women mingling in public sparks furor in Saudi Arabia: Sheikh Ahmed al-Ghamdi recently declared that nothing in Islam bans men and women from mixing in public places like schools and offices."""
2010-04-14,b'Polish crash site in Russia [Vid]'
2010-04-14,b'Israel confiscates ALL visiting iPads'
2010-04-14,b'Millions of cellphones off-line in Mexico'
2010-04-14,b'Terrible earthquake kills hundreds in China - 7.1 magnitude quake. At least 300 estimated dead'
2010-04-14,"b""Stern, serious, socialist North Korea has carved out a spot in TV history for having one of the world's longest running comedy shows, despite it being mostly devoid of jokes for the decades it has been on the air."""
2010-04-14,"b'Iraq Vets: Coverage of Atrocities Is Too Little, Too Late'"
2010-04-14,"b""Stephen Colbert's surprisingly-frank interview with Wikileaks' Editor/Co-Founder Julian Assange."""
2010-04-14,"b'Islamic extremists threaten Somali radio stations over ""un-Islamic"" music, make most of them broadcast animal, ocean and gunfire noises'"
2010-04-14,b'6.9 earthquake near China/India border. Another correct prediction.'
2010-04-14,b'Quake kills 67 people in remote Chinese Qinghai region '
2010-04-14,b' row about how to name the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories has scuppered a 43-nation scheme for managing Mediterranean water resources.'
2010-04-14,b'A US priest has urged Pope Benedict XVI to step down'
2010-04-14,b'Vatican reacts to gay abuse claim'
2010-04-14,"b'China shows of its ""Shock and Awe"" Fighter Jets'"
2010-04-13,b'Immersion in propaganda: how North Koreans see themselves'
2010-04-13,"b'Israel Celebrates Holocaust Irony Week -- A Day after Israel stops to remember the holocaust, they implement a law that allows Israel to deport 10s of thousands of Palestinians for not showing their ""papers"", something even Palestinians who were born in the west bank do not have.'"
2010-04-13,b'US Military warns of impending oil shortages.  How many of you are aware that your way of life is soon going to change dramatically and permanently?'
2010-04-13,b'WikiLeaks plans to post video showing US massacre of Afghani civilians'
2010-04-13,b'The greatest reason to strike EVER'
2010-04-13,"b'Microsoft allegedly outsourcing child labor in China: ""We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work.""'"
2010-04-13,"b""The case against Benedict rests on international law's potential to judge all alike. No wonder the powerful are resisting it."""
2010-04-13,"b'""The Americans are constantly killing our civilians and the government is\nnot demanding an explanation. We demand justice from the Karzai\ngovernment and the punishment of those soldiers responsible.""\n local resident Mohammad Razaq'"
2010-04-13,"b'Cameraman calls Muslim father a ""fucking terrorist"" \r\non national television'"
2010-04-13,"b""Unrest in China's cities - \nThe simmering anger of urban China"""
2010-04-13,b'Australian state government announces intention to ignore rulings handed down by courts and keep people in prison after their sentences have ended'
2010-04-13,"b""Mexican cartel sends 'a large number of gunmen' to help another cartel wage war against the Zetas, a gang notorious for beheading their enemies."""
2010-04-13,b'Anti-American anger grows in Afghanistan'
2010-04-13,"b""Smart, experienced observers of the Middle East are talking, and AIPAC isn't going to like it."""
2010-04-13,b'Brazil rejects new Iran sanctions '
2010-04-13,b'Canada to send all of its enriched uranium stockpiles to the US'
2010-04-13,"b'Turkey, Brazil Come out against new Iran sanctions at Security Summit'"
2010-04-13,b'Israeli hypocrisy this Holocaust Remembrance Day | Al Jazeera Blogs'
2010-04-13,b'Israel warns citizens to leave Sinai amid evidence of a Palestinian kidnapping plot'
2010-04-13,"b""'Hungary has Turned into a Grubby Hive of Nationalism'"""
2010-04-13,"b'Glacier breaks in Peru, causing tsunami in Andes'"
2010-04-13,b'WHO Appoints H1N1 Cover-Up Committee'
2010-04-13,"b""Pope's birthplace sprayed with abusive graffiti - ABC News"""
2010-04-13,b'Kyrgyz president offers to resign  '
2010-04-13,b'The housing bubbles in Miami and Dubai may be followed by China.'
2010-04-12,"b'The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell : With a diligent enough effort, one can morally justify nearly anything.'"
2010-04-12,"b'Dawkins comments on Times article: ""I did NOT say \'I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI"" or anything so personally grandiloquent ... The Sunday Times is a Murdoch newspaper\'.'"
2010-04-12,"b'The Vatican finally decides that ""bishops and other high-ranking clerics should report such crimes to police"" , but only if required by law. The remains of anything humane has finally bled out of the Vatican.'"
2010-04-12,"b'The man behind Wikileaks: We have had to spread assets, encrypt everything, and move telecommunications and people around the world to activate protective laws in different national jurisdictions'"
2010-04-12,"b'Ahmadinejad urges UN chief Ban Ki-moon to launch an investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States'"
2010-04-12,b'Hamas is forcing other Gaza Palestinian factions to guarantee they do not launch rockets or mortar bombs at Israel'
2010-04-12,b'What is a Zimbawe Prison like.'
2010-04-12,"b""Bishop 'blames Jews' for criticism of Catholic church record on abuse. I want a ringside seat!"""
2010-04-12,"b""Vatican forgives Beatles for 'Satanic' messages, rather than focus on the international abuse scandal"""
2010-04-12,b'Blast rocks MI5 office near Belfast'
2010-04-12,b'Priest accused of child porn possession'
2010-04-12,"b'Fr. Maciel was the greatest fundraiser of the modern Roman Catholic church. Behind that exalted faade, however, Maciel was a notorious pedophile, and a man who fathered several children by different women!'"
2010-04-12,b'2010 Pulitzer Prize winners'
2010-04-12,"b""Russian leader gently snubs Bush: 'Obama is a thinker'"""
2010-04-12,b'Poland Mourns [pics]'
2010-04-12,b'Tasmanian Hookers Learn Tough Side Of Supply-And-Demand Economics.'
2010-04-12,"b'Afghan Civilians Attacked By NATO Troops: Four Killed, 18 Wounded In Kandahar'"
2010-04-12,"b""Digital Economy Act likely to increase households targeted for piracy: Fears increase that law firms may hone in on innocent web users who don't illegally download"""
2010-04-12,b'Obama is a great guy to deal with - Medvedev'
2010-04-12,b'Riots on the streets of Bangkok - 25 dead'
2010-04-12,b'Graffiti rules ! - The government of Venezuela is increasingly making street art a central element of its promotion of a state ideology.'
2010-04-12,"b""Conviction a nurse for patients' deaths does not add up: Imagine I am firing a thousand machinegun bullets into the side of a barn. I remove my blindfold, find three bullets very close together and paint a target around them. Then I announce that I am an Olympic standard rifleman."""
2010-04-12,b'Today the Icelandic nation gets a first hand look into the reasons why the economic collapse was so bad here....'
2010-04-12,"b""BBC News - Apollo 13: Nasa's finest hour?"""
2010-04-12,b'Top anti-racism judge shot dead in Moscow'
2010-04-11,b'Muslim staff escape NHS hospital hygiene rule'
2010-04-11,b'UN judge calls for prosecution of Pope Benedict'
2010-04-11,b'New Research Sheds Light on Soviet Plans for World War III - The significance of a massive Communist-era bunker in the former East Germany. Was it to be used as a command post in the event of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe? Europe was closer to the nuclear abyss than was previously believed.'
2010-04-11,"b'Even in death, African gays are still abused'"
2010-04-11,"b'I Was Hacked in Beijing - most foreign journalists have come to assume our phone conversations are monitored. We have learned to remove our cellphone SIM cards when meeting dissidents. At the office, we often reflexively lower our voices when discussing politically sensitive topics.'"
2010-04-11,"b""'Cure' is found for skin cancer, claim scientists"""
2010-04-11,"b""Turkey says that the world is turning a blind eye to Israel's nuclear weapons"""
2010-04-11,b'Road rage against self-declared VIP in Moscow '
2010-04-11,b'South Korea enforces first ban on abortions'
2010-04-11,b'Australia to prosecute over Barrier Reef ship crash'
2010-04-11,"b'Richard Dawkins: Ratzinger ... should remain in charge of the whole rotten edifice - the whole profiteering, woman-fearing, guilt-gorging, truth-hating, child-raping institution - while it tumbles ... about his ears.'"
2010-04-11,b'Vladimer Putin expresses his deep feelings about the Polish tragedy.'
2010-04-11,"b""'Devil horns' grandmother now quite enjoying her horns"""
2010-04-11,b'Pakistan May Have Secretly Freed Captured Taliban Leaders'
2010-04-11,"b'19 dead, over 800 injured as protesters and military units clashed in Thailand'"
2010-04-11,b'IDF order will enable mass deportation from West Bank  - Haaretz'
2010-04-11,b'Apartheid in Israel: tens of thousands of Palestinians to be evicted from the occupied West Bank'
2010-04-11,"b'How Ironical...  Viva Palestine Hero beaten by....  ""They called me a filthy Kaffir"" said Galloway, ""and shouted that no one should shake the \'filthy Kaffir\'s hand\' "".  '"
2010-04-11,"b""Israel's military has issued new orders that could lead to the expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank."""
2010-04-11,b'Eugenics - the newest American export'
2010-04-11,"b'Royal maids are up in arms after being roped in to work evenings, on top of their day jobs, for no extra pay.'"
2010-04-11,"b'Israeli nuclear arsenal 100 to 300 warheads, almost equal to Britain'"
2010-04-11,b'The Chinese government increasingly employs people to peddle its views online'
2010-04-11,b'Wikileaks on US massacre fear CIA stalkers'
2010-04-11,b' Slum disappears in Rio mudslide; 200 feared dead'
2010-04-10,"b'The AP has obtained a letter penned in 1985 by the future pope, resisting calls to defrock a child-molesting priest because doing so would harm ""the good of the universal church.""'"
2010-04-10,"b""UN urged to accept 'ecocide' as international crime. The proposal would declare mass destruction of ecosystems a crime on a par with genocide"""
2010-04-10,b'Colombia jails pedophile Catholic priest'
2010-04-10,b'Oil found on the coast of Ireland that could supply them for 12 years'
2010-04-10,b'The guy who was driven over in the wikileaks video was still alive when they cut his body in two parts. I hope all of you who condoned the behavior of these retards feel ashamed.'
2010-04-10,b'Cartoon of priest fellating Christ on the cross makes German mag cover'
2010-04-10,b'Plane crashed with polish President on board'
2010-04-10,"b'The rapid acidification of the oceans directly caused by anthropogenic CO2 is an equal or greater threat to the world than warming, scientific study finds'"
2010-04-10,b'Tragedy in Smolensk - The symbolism of the tragedy to many Poles is almost unbearable.  In 1943 General Sikorski died in a plane crash. Many Poles believe that he was murdered because of his resolute determination to expose the Katyn massacrewhich the Soviet Union blamed on the Germans.'
2010-04-10,"b""Iceland's new poor line up for food """
2010-04-10,"b""Kyrgyzstan's head reveals overthrown president left only $80m in the budget"""
2010-04-10,b'Photo gallery of Polish politicians who died in plane crash.'
2010-04-10,b'Thailand: Japanese cameraman fatally shot in clashes between troops and Red Shirts'
2010-04-10,"b'A Swedish neo-Nazi is on trial in Poland for stealing the ""Arbeit Macht Frei"" from Auschwitz.  Ironically, he\'s facing 10 years for the effort.'"
2010-04-10,"b""The Israel Defense Forces' license to kill: leaked documents reveal IDF assasinations of Palestinians in defiance of Israeli High Court decision outlawing them"""
2010-04-10,b'Another pedophilia scandal rocks Vatican'
2010-04-10,b'Report in the Lancet says that developing nations slash health funding if sent aid'
2010-04-10,"b'Please Reddit - what is happening in this Mexican narco vid? - Are these officers getting coked up, or a gang? - Need Spanish speaker'"
2010-04-10,b'Spanish judge faces charges for investigating crimes of the fascist regime'
2010-04-10,b'Death toll from contagious disease in China doubles'
2010-04-10,b'Some security personnel were seen throwing down\ntheir shields and riot gear and shaking hands with\nthe protesters'
2010-04-10,b'Probably the worst strike in the world - Carlsberg workers protest free beer at work ban'
2010-04-10,b'Pope Benedict accused of delaying unfrocking of sex abuse priest'
2010-04-10,b'Vatican defends Pope in paedophile letter row'
2010-04-10,"b""China's March deficit shows currency not cause of trade imbalance: spokesman"""
2010-04-09,"b""I don't know about you, but I can't trust Reddit to be my aggregator of political/world news."""
2010-04-09,"b'Iraq War Vet: ""We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us""'"
2010-04-09,"b""The 'Full Version' of The Wikileaks Video Is Missing 30 Minutes of Footage"""
2010-04-09,b'bottled water - its a racket'
2010-04-09,"b""Yemen child bride 'bleeds to death'"""
2010-04-09,"b'U.S. woman returns adopted son to Russia by putting him on a plane with a letter reading, in part, ""I no longer wish to parent this child""'"
2010-04-09,b'Two British policemen jailed for cruelty against woman in custody'
2010-04-09,"b""Israeli PM says he won't go to Nuclear Summit """
2010-04-09,"b'Man goes to Dubai, poses as a top U.S. plastic surgeon and proceeds to perform numerous botched ""kitchen table"" cosmetic surgeries.  Now he has been arrested.  This is Dubai we\'re talking about.  I just wonder what part do you get cut off for this offense?'"
2010-04-09,"b'The copyright battle now concerns us all. ""Draft text confirms reports of world body to oversee copyright, intellectual property""'"
2010-04-09,"b'Bangladesh, High Court: You can not impose the veil on women'"
2010-04-09,"b'Bishop in the Catholic Church admits the church has an archive of abusive priests. Says he is considering sharing it with the police but reminds us that the church is above the law. Reason for not coming forward sooner? It was said under ""confession""..'"
2010-04-09,"b'As democracy unravels at home, the west thuggishly exports it elsewhere'"
2010-04-09,"b""Legal fight over Plumpy'nut, the hunger wonder-product """
2010-04-09,b'Al Qaeda threatens to attack World Cup Football finals'
2010-04-09,"b'Wikileaks predicted it would be accused of editorializing for calling the Apache footage murder; take a closer look at the Orwell quote that opens the edited version; it\'s from an Orwell essay entitled ""Politics and the English Language""'"
2010-04-09,"b"" \t\n\nRatzinger 'stalled pedophile case': \nAP obtains letter signed by future Pope discouraging action against priest."""
2010-04-09,"b'Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a visit to the US where he was to attend a summit on nuclear security, Israeli officials say.'"
2010-04-09,"b'Digital Economy Bill:  ""tell the rightsholders we\'ll see them in court."" - Talk Talk (UK ISP)'"
2010-04-09,"b'After a two-year battle that has killed more than 5,000 people, Mexico\'s most powerful kingpin now controls the coveted trafficking routes through Ciudad Juarez. That conclusion by U.S. intelligence adds to evidence that Joaquin ""El Chapo"" Guzman\'s Sinaloa cartel is winning Mexico\'s drug war.'"
2010-04-09,"b""Thailand's red-shirt protesters occupy TV station """
2010-04-09,b'The True Inside Story of the Catastrophic Mexican Drug Wars'
2010-04-09,"b""Kyrgyzstan: a Russian revolution? - Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin moved quickly today to recognise the new powers-that-be in Kyrgyzstan while disavowing any role in the overthrow of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev's regime."""
2010-04-09,"b'Family found living in a filthy two-storey house with 600 free roaming rabbits, a cat and dog. Nearly all of the rabbits have been euthanized so far.'"
2010-04-09,"b""Japan's debt problem: Sleepwalking toward disaster"""
2010-04-08,b'Crisis in Kyrgyzstan [pics]'
2010-04-08,"b""189 to 47. Your MPs didn't give a shit. Digital Economy Bill passed."""
2010-04-08,b'Six men arrested in Israel for organ traffic: IDF brigadier-general among them'
2010-04-08,"b'Excellent overview of the Digital Economy Bill, and what it means for UK citizens. TL;DR: Yep, still fucked.'"
2010-04-08,"b""UK Digital Economy Bill provokes anger at political 'stitch-up'"""
2010-04-08,"b'The Armenian Genocide and the Turks - The month of April marks the 95th anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide. An unusual television documentary shows what motivated the murderers and why Germany, and other countries, remained silent.'"
2010-04-08,b'British Army builds fake Mosques on its firing range.'
2010-04-08,"b""Why do Finland's schools get the best results?"""
2010-04-08,"b'Nazia Quazi, a 24-year old Canadian/Indian woman with a CS degree, has been trapped against her will in Saudi Arabia by her abusive father for 2 years.'"
2010-04-08,"b'The opposition in Kyrgyzstan says it has dissolved parliament and taken power, after a bloody uprising forced the president to flee the capital'"
2010-04-08,"b'BBC Journalist thrown out of South African press conference with the words: ""Don\'t come here with that white tendency, go out bastard, bloody agent."" '"
2010-04-08,"b'BBC News - US President Barack Obama and the Russian leader, Dmitry Medvedev, are due to sign a landmark nuclear arms treaty in the Czech capital, Prague.'"
2010-04-08,b'My (former) intern and (forever) friend is in the middle of the Kyrgyzstan Crisis.  Here is his report.'
2010-04-08,"b'New landslip hits Rio de Janeiro: dead toll has risen to 150, dozens of people remain unaccounted for after the heaviest rains in decades'"
2010-04-08,b'Airline considers fee for lavatory use '
2010-04-08,"b'Axing came out of blue, says radio psychic'"
2010-04-08,b'Israel gag order lifted: Israeli reporter is revealed to be accused of espionage for giving Haaretz newspaper top-secret information'
2010-04-08,"b'Wikileaks: Excellent interview with local witnesses made the day after the 2007 attack on civilians (forward to 13:40). According to locals the man that was run over by the Bradley to the sound of chopper pilots laughing, was still alive.'"
2010-04-08,"b'A recent example is the US air force video, which it published, noted Hemming. Copyright exists with the US Government, who under the Bill could, and would want to, apply to ban WikiLeaks from the UK. That provision is clearly in the Bill. Welcome to Oceania.'"
2010-04-08,b'1963 letter shows former pope knew of abuse'
2010-04-08,b'NATO Admits U.S. Forces Killed Innocent Pregnant Women in Afghanistan'
2010-04-08,"b'Qatari Diplomat Arrested as ""Shoe Bomber"", Causes Massive Terror Panic: in-flight air marshall grew suspicious and asked why the bathroom smelled of smoke, Modadi mockingly retorted that he was trying to set his shoes on fire'"
2010-04-08,b'Reuters staff unhappy by Reuters coverage of killings'
2010-04-08,"b""UK MPs: Chavs 'should not get benefits'"""
2010-04-08,"b""Gold Fraud Bombshell: Canada's Only Bullion Bank Gold Vault Is Practically Empty...WTF?!"""
2010-04-07,"b""Kyrgyz Protests against high gas prices and overall government corruption, I'm in Bishkek now...just ran home to escape gun fire..."""
2010-04-07,b'7.8 earthquake hits Indonesia - Tsunami warnings issued'
2010-04-07,"b""Military says they can't find its copy of the video of journalists getting killed: yet another reason why we all need wikileaks"""
2010-04-07,"b""Thrill of the chaste: The truth about Gandhi's sex life"""
2010-04-07,b'Just got a chance to watch the unedited wikileaks video.  Why are the pedestrians that get killed with the missiles not getting more attention?'
2010-04-07,"b'N.Y. Times, Weekly Standard join in a falsehood - \r\n""WikiLeaks failed to release the full video and \r\ninstead selectively edited it""'"
2010-04-07,"b'""For the past 15 years, Israel has been channeling hundreds of millions of shekels it had collected in the West Bank into its state coffers when it was supposed to go to the Palestinians.""'"
2010-04-07,"b""I'll stop Google taking our news for nothing, says defiant Miserable Old Git"""
2010-04-07,b'Palestinians Try a Less Violent Path to Resistance - Nonviolent protests in the Palestinian areas'
2010-04-07,b'17 dead in Kyrgyzstan ant-government protests.'
2010-04-07,b'Egypt riot police break up pro-democracy rally'
2010-04-07,b'Over 70% of Israelis support a 2-state solution living side by side with the Palestinians in peace.  And a lot of other interesting statistics too.'
2010-04-07,"b'Catholic Church child abuse scandal continues to grow, bishop in Norway admits abuse after being exposed in media'"
2010-04-07,b'Lawsuit: Chiquita Brands funded death squads in Colombia'
2010-04-07,"b""When are you people going to get it!? The United States is protecting the Opium fields in the middle east. This isn't a war against terror -- it's a war for money."""
2010-04-07,"b""British redditors, the Digital Economy Bill has passed its second reading, and awaits its final reading tonight. Does this mean we're fucked?"""
2010-04-07,b'Turkish PM: Israel is the main threat to Mideast peace'
2010-04-07,"b""Disturbing video of extreme aggression in the Brussels subway. The 22-year-old victim's neck is broken and he is now in a coma."""
2010-04-07,b'Rio de Janeiro flooding death toll surpasses 100 '
2010-04-07,"b""Russia's 'Black Widows': Terrorism or Family Revenge?"""
2010-04-07,b'Would this ever happen in America? Two British marines discharged after hitting Afghan prisoner with a rubber boot.'
2010-04-07,b'Report: Shit hitting fan in Kyrgyzstan.'
2010-04-07,b'Israeli general arrested running organ-trafficking ring.'
2010-04-07,"b'Kageyama Asako: Marines Go Home: Anti-Base Activism in Okinawa, Japan and Korea'"
2010-04-07,"b'North Korea sentences US citizen, who entered country illegally through China, to 8 years of prison and a fine of $700,000.'"
2010-04-06,"b""Shouldn't we be more outraged about how we were lied to, and about how Wikileaks was almost silenced before they published this video?"""
2010-04-06,"b'MSNBC Blocking Searches for ""Wikileaks""'"
2010-04-06,"b'Wikileaks founder on MSNBC: We have more tapes, including killing of 97 civilians in Afghanistan, will release soon'"
2010-04-06,"b""Hi Reddit, I don't know how to get upvoted, but I leave you a few pictures of the 7.2 earthquake in my hometown city of Mexicali, Baja California"""
2010-04-06,b'The family of the murdered Reuters photographer video burst into tears last night as they saw the leaked video for the first time.'
2010-04-06,"b'An independent, expert assessment of the Wikileaks footage by veteran Anthony Martinez: ""The point at which I cannot support the actions of Crazyhorse 18, at all, comes when the van arrives somewhere around 9:45 and is engaged.""'"
2010-04-06,"b'I believe youve killed the church, Holy Father:  Only a morally bankrupt Pope could call news of his role in a child abuse cover-up petty gossip.'"
2010-04-06,b'Magnitude 7.8 quake shakes Indonesia'
2010-04-06,b'Greenwald: Iraq slaughter not an aberration'
2010-04-06,"b'On Thursday the World Bank votes on whether to grant  a South African state owned utility a $3.75bn loan, a large chunk of which is used to finance contracts with a company which is a front for the ruling ANC party.  Please help expose this corruption so that the World Bank makes the right decision.'"
2010-04-06,b'70 killed as Maoists ambush Indian CRPF team - The Times of India'
2010-04-06,b'Democracy Now: In depth coverage of Wikileaks Video'
2010-04-06,b'North Korean Red Star operating system details emerge'
2010-04-06,b'Wayne Leary: Hero Father saves 10-year old daughter by pushing her away from a speeding car and dies instead'
2010-04-06,"b'Nigerian police fail at irony, kill protestors against \r\ncop brutality'"
2010-04-06,b'this really confirms what weve said all along: that a transparent investigation of this incident hasnt taken place and needs to - Iraqis respond to Collateral Murder'
2010-04-06,"b'It took a couple of days for a reporter to find someone in El Paso to escort her to Jurez, Mexico, where drug-related crime has been raging recently. When she finally did, this is what she saw.'"
2010-04-06,b'Map made by Reuters of the events leading up to the Collateral Murder video'
2010-04-06,b'At least 72 Indian soldiers killed in Maoist ambushes'
2010-04-06,b'The sex abuse scandal facing Catholics looks a lot like the Watergate. Is the Catholic Church on a similar pathway to the resignation of a pope?'
2010-04-06,b'Gordon Brown calls 6 May general election'
2010-04-06,"b""Canadian researchers have uncovered a vast 'shadow network' of online espionage based in China  that used seemingly harmless means such as e-mail and Twitter to extract highly sensitive data from computers around the world. """
2010-04-06,"b""  Weird World Of Waziristan - \nRambling but always interesting account of social change in Afghanistan, especially 1920s modernisation under King Amanullah. Historic embedded video includes Mullah Omar with prophet's cloak\n"""
2010-04-06,b'US fight Taliban with heavy metal music'
2010-04-06,"b'Mother of children wounded in Apache attack that killed their father had to sell her home, this video shows she and her children'"
2010-04-05,b'Wikileaks has released the announced video showing the deaths of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists.'
2010-04-05,b'6.9 Earthquake just hit in Mexico'
2010-04-05,b'WikiLeaks is planning to release video of an Afghan massacre and the subsequent cover-up this morning at 9:00 AM at the National Press Club. Will they make it?'
2010-04-05,b'Collateral Murder - Wikileaks video showing cover-up of murder of civilians and journalists through US forces in Iraq'
2010-04-05,"b""Finally!! The BBC covers the posting of the wikileaks 'killing' video."""
2010-04-05,b'Great Barrier Reef rammed by Chinese coal ship'
2010-04-05,"b'With the release of the Wikileaks video, the frontpage of CNN has Tiger Woods and the frontpage of AlJazeera English has the Wikileaks video.'"
2010-04-05,"b'""not a single case where we have...hurt someone has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or weapons in it and, in many cases, had families in it... We\'ve shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force.""'"
2010-04-05,b'U.S. Admits Role in Killing of Afghan Women - NYTimes.com'
2010-04-05,b'Nato kills women in Afghanistan; denies when asked about it; finally admits to it when overwhelmed with evidence'
2010-04-05,"b'Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinian Resident, Throw Acid At Him'"
2010-04-05,b'If you cant access youtube right now. Here is the transcript of the wikileaks video.'
2010-04-05,"b'The 2 main UK political parties, who are for the Digital Economy Bill, have broken their own rules.'"
2010-04-05,"b'So far Al Jazeera is the only news network to pick up the  ""Collateral Murder"" story. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a watershed or a whisper.'"
2010-04-05,"b'MSNBC Panel discusses Wikileaks\' ""Collateral Murder"" Video--more videos to be released.'"
2010-04-05,b'Photo Essay: photographer enters North Korea by posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. '
2010-04-05,"b""Wikileaks releases video of journalist's murder"""
2010-04-05,b'Missing link between man and apes found'
2010-04-05,b'China rescues 114 from flooded mine'
2010-04-05,"b""Satellite time-lapse photography captures today's earthquake kicking up plumes of dust in Mexico."""
2010-04-05,"b""BBC News - WikiLeaks posts 'killing' video"""
2010-04-05,b'Secret tape reveals Tory backing for ban on gays'
2010-04-05,b'Wikileaks video shows helicopter footage in iraq of civilians and reporters being identified as hostiles and gunned down. Scary shit'
2010-04-05,b'South Africas ruling party ANC is planning Zimbabwe-style land invasions of white farmers after the FIFA 2010 World Cup'
2010-04-05,"b""US special forces 'tried to cover-up' botched Khataba raid in Afghanistan"""
2010-04-04,b'Legal immunity cannot hold. The Vatican should feel the full weight of international law'
2010-04-04,"b'When scandal hits Israel, the Israeli government muzzles the entire press Iran-style.  A reporter is jailed and Israeli press risks being shut down simply for reporting on the story.  The IDF chose to disobey a court order and Israeli law by killing instead of arresting a Palestinian. '"
2010-04-04,"b'Pure Racism: ""A group of Swedes who were on their way to Israel for a field trip with a peace initiative was stopped at the airport in Tel Aviv on Friday.3 persons with Palestinian background was interrogated for 8 hours before they were rejected - but the 4 with jewish background were admitted.""'"
2010-04-04,b'India buys $7B in Arms from Russia'
2010-04-04,b'Japan Indicts Anti-Whaling Activist'
2010-04-04,b'S. African white supremecist Afrikaans Resistance Movement leader bludgeoned and hacked to death while taking a nap... by his own employees.'
2010-04-04,"b'A top member of a South African white supremacist group said Sunday that the slaying of their leader was ""a declaration of war"" by blacks against whites, as the president appealed for calm amid growing racial tensions in the once white-led country.'"
2010-04-04,"b'Catholic Cardinal: the Roman Catholic faithful will not be swayed by ""petty gossip"" about child sex-abuse allegations.'"
2010-04-04,"b""North Korea's Kim may have entered China: report """
2010-04-04,"b'In a gesture of goodwill to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Defense Minister Ehud Barak has approved the rare transfer of large amounts of cement, shoes and clothing to the Gaza Strip'"
2010-04-04,"b""Pope's Immunity from Prosecution May Be Challenged"""
2010-04-04,"b""Hamid Karzai: 'If you and the international community pressure me more, I swear that I am going to join the Taliban'"""
2010-04-04,"b""Rise of Hungary's far-Right Jobbik party stirs disturbing echoes of the 1940s"""
2010-04-04,b'Wall of water could engulf Shangri-La'
2010-04-04,b'Death penalty decreasing worldwide'
2010-04-04,"b""Now that India's children have a right to receive at least eight years of education, the gnawing question is whether it will remain on paper or become a reality."""
2010-04-04,b'Muslims disrupt Antwerp speech by Flemish/Dutch writer Benno Barnard'
2010-04-04,b'Three explosions reported in Baghdad'
2010-04-04,"b'senior cardinal has said the Roman Catholic faithful will not be swayed by ""petty gossip"" about child sex-abuse allegations'"
2010-04-04,b'A Dubai appeals court  on Sunday upheld a one-month prison sentence for a British couple convicted of kissing in a restaurant.'
2010-04-04,"b'Public editor rebukes International Herald Tribune for agreeing to restrain news coverage of Lee family, paying damages for a single glancing reference. Suggests pulling out of Singapore'"
2010-04-04,b'At least 30 killed as triple car bomb hits Baghdad'
2010-04-04,b'Can the Pope be forced to step down? '
2010-04-04,b'The iPad Gets Jailbreaked In Less Then 24 hours.'
2010-04-04,b'Crucifix banned at hospital where Muslims allowed to wear headscarves'
2010-04-03,"b'Outrage at anti-Semitism comparison by Pope preacher: ""They\'re sitting in the papal palace, they\'re experiencing a little discomfort, and they\'re going to compare themselves to being rounded up or lined up and sent in cattle cars to Auschwitz?"" said Peter Isely. ""You cannot be serious."" '"
2010-04-03,"b'Catholic Church abuse hotline in Germany melts down on first day as 4,000 people phone in...'"
2010-04-03,b'This is going to go down like a bomb in USA! Russia and Venezuela announce nuclear union'
2010-04-03,b'The heroin epidemic advancing on Russia'
2010-04-03,b'Iraqi artists denied entry to Britain for their own exhibition'
2010-04-03,b'New Zealand government suspends democracy until 2013'
2010-04-03,"b'Vatican waited years to defrock Arizona priest: ""There\'s no doubt that Ratzinger delayed the defrocking process of dangerous priests who were deemed \'satanic\' by their own bishop.""'"
2010-04-03,"b""S Africa far-right leader Terreblanche 'killed'"""
2010-04-03,b'Hugo Chvez arrests critics; locks up judges who give unfavorable opinions.  '
2010-04-03,b'UK Government drugs advisor quits over criminalisation of mephedrone. He is the 7th to resign since David Nutt was sacked.'
2010-04-03,"b'Church in Ireland has lost all its credibility, says Archbishop of Canterbury'"
2010-04-03,b'Muslims & Christians Take Turns at Slaughter in Nigeria'
2010-04-03,"b'Even in France, which is mulling banning the burka, many see the step as a curtailment of religion. Others see it as speaking to fears of Islamic radicalism.'"
2010-04-03,b'Rescuers Enter Chinese Mine Where 153 Are Trapped'
2010-04-03,"b'Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Saturday warned Israel against launching a fresh assault on the Gaza Strip, saying such action would bring it ""closer to certain death"".'"
2010-04-03,"b'Pakistan parliament degrades presidential powers, strengthening its democracy'"
2010-04-03,b'The Niqab(Burka) Obsession '
2010-04-03,b'Israel arrests soldier and gags media in militant assassination cover-up '
2010-04-03,b'Chinese male-female disparity? No problem... Just go to Vietnam! (Chinadaily)'
2010-04-03,"b'In post-Google China, censorship is unfazed'"
2010-04-03,"b'Instead of facing trial, war criminal lives like king'"
2010-04-03,"b'Mugabe and Tsvangirai reject rights for gay people in new Zimbabwe Charter. Mugabe says gays ""worse than cats and dogs"", and it seems as if Tsvangirai tacitly agrees.'"
2010-04-03,"b'Japanese district mayor in Tokyo, goes on paternity leave - the first local government leader ever to do so! '"
2010-04-03,"b""Did Hezbollah Kill Hariri? | A new tribunal is digging up old secrets about the Lebanese prime minister's assassination. And no one is likely to be happy with the results."""
2010-04-03,"b'WaPo Wants Immunity for War Crimes - Attacking another country... is the most serious crime on the books. If, as all serious studies suggest, over a million people have been killed by the invasion and occupation of Iraq, then there have been over a million murders.'"
2010-04-02,"b'In inaugural Easter message, new Catholic bishop blames atheism for ""Nazism, Stalinism, Pol-Pottery, mass murder and broken relationships.""'"
2010-04-02,"b'""Germans have to notify the government when they renounce their religion... the number of Catholics leaving the church in Munich has tripled.""'"
2010-04-02,"b'Vatican Says Sex Abuse in Catholic Church was Homosexual Problem, not Pedophilia.  Stop ... Does That Mean that Sexual Abuse of Young GIRLS is Okay??'"
2010-04-02,b'A very beautiful and majestic village in iran + 14 pics'
2010-04-02,"b'Great news, everyone! The Vatican draws parallels between Jewish persecution and criticism received over the ongoing pedophilia-laced scandal.'"
2010-04-02,"b""Only known printed copy of Haiti's Declaration of Independence in 200 years discovered by Duke University graduate student in London"""
2010-04-02,b'UK Drugs Adviser resigns over mephedrone'
2010-04-02,"b'Israeli planes carry out several attacks on Gaza (Friday, 1 April) '"
2010-04-02,"b""US spends $6 billion to train police in Afghan - they sell bullets to the Taliban - it's a giant freaking free-for-all with our money"""
2010-04-02,b'Mexico drug gangs turn weapons on army'
2010-04-02,b'Israel threatens new Gaza offensive'
2010-04-02,"b""The 'young sun paradox' proposed by Carl Sagan and George Mullen in 1972  the Earth had liquid oceans for its first billion years even though the sun was only 70 percent as bright as it is now."""
2010-04-02,"b'The Little Nukes That Got Away - From a portable tripod launcher, it could be fired at the enemy as close as 1,000 feet or up to 13,000 feet away. The Davy Crockett was a weapon for nuclear war at close range.'"
2010-04-02,"b'Holy Week around the world, 2010 [pics]'"
2010-04-02,b'Thirteen Israeli air strikes hit Gaza Strip '
2010-04-02,"b'Agent Orange and Vietnam\'s Forgotten Victims: ""The American airplanes came right toward me and dropped a mist in the jungle, and the next day, the trees were dead.""'"
2010-04-02,b'Land activist killed in Brazilian Amazon '
2010-04-02,"b'ACLU publishes volumes of data on civilian casualties in Iraq, Afghanistan'"
2010-04-02,b'CIA given details of British Muslim students'
2010-04-02,"b'Man sentenced to death for being ""sorcerer"" will not be beheaded this week.'"
2010-04-02,"b""Life in 'Tin Can Town' for the South Africans worse than Apartheid"""
2010-04-02,b'In Zimbabwe police seize pictures of human rights abuses instead of arresting the perpetrators of atrocities.'
2010-04-02,"b""Afghanistan, already world's largest producer of opium, overtakes Mexico in production of hashish.. """
2010-04-02,"b'Yes, because calling out pedophile priests and their protectors is just like anti-Semitism...'"
2010-04-02,"b'Sea Shepard member indicted in Tokyo for illegally boarding, could spend up to 15 years in prison or pay $5,000 for anti-whaling activities '"
2010-04-01,"b""Israeli journalist held secretly under house arrest for months, Israel's Shin Bet intelligence service has banned news media from mentioning the case or identifying the reporter--LET'S EXPOSE THIS"""
2010-04-01,b'Unbelievable ... Catholic League head Says Abuse not pedophilia because boys were post-pubescent '
2010-04-01,b'Palestinian children are so dehumanized they no longer have a will to live. '
2010-04-01,b'Vatican: Pope has immunity in sex abuse trials '
2010-04-01,"b'""Newly leaked CIA report analyzes how U.S. Government can best manipulate public opinion in Germany and France to ensure that those countries continue to fight in Afghanistan. Celebrates fact that governments of those two nations continue in defiance of overwhelming public opinion""'"
2010-04-01,b'Writer Simon Singh wins libel appeal'
2010-04-01,b'Indian law goes into effect today making education compulsory and free for all kids 6-14'
2010-04-01,b'US Justice Dept sues KBR for improper costs in Iraq\n'
2010-04-01,b'Vatican Shoots the Messenger ... Lashes Out At The New York Times Over Sex Abuse Coverage'
2010-04-01,b'Police officers must face trial by jury'
2010-04-01,"b'To those who say moderate Muslims should take a stand against hardliners, I present Hissa Hilal, a heroic poet and finalist in an ""Arab Idol"" competition, ""Million\'s Poet.""'"
2010-04-01,"b""Lebanon and Saudi Arabia are in the midst of a low-level diplomatic feud over a Lebanese man sentenced to die in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft. In other news, it's 2010."""
2010-04-01,b'18 gunmen die in attack on two army bases in Mexico'
2010-04-01,"b'Pirates fire at US Warship, US Warship pwns pirates. '"
2010-04-01,b'Letter shows Pope Paul VI knew of child abuse decades ago'
2010-04-01,"b'Israel faces Year Zero: Jewish moderates, Palestinians and even some right-wing settlers are increasingly talking about the unthinkable: A One-state Solution.'"
2010-04-01,b'Israel has no good reason to keep the Gaza Strip closed off.'
2010-04-01,b'Sweden bans fake boobs over explosion risk - The PIP implants were outlawed by the French drug administration after a slew of reports that they had a tendency to burst due to an erroneous mixture of silicon.'
2010-04-01,b'George Soros and CIA behind WikiLeaks according to ex-NSA Wayne Madsen [ha!]'
2010-04-01,b'NZ to back Japanese whale hunt'
2010-04-01,"b""India : Stop treating army men like 'beggars', SC to govt"""
2010-04-01,"b'Rushed From Haiti, Then Jailed for Lacking Visas'"
2010-04-01,"b'Payback time for Mugabe and cronies as White farmers grab properties - AfriForum a civil rights group that brought the application on behalf of the farmers, seized a luxury property belonging to the Zim govt, in what they say is a significant step towards compensation for Zim farmers...'"
2010-04-01,b'More Than Two-Dozen Countries Complicit In US Torture Program'
2010-04-01,"b""Saddam Hussein's shift to petro-euros was a reason the US attacked Iraq. Is this why Iran will be attacked? """
2010-03-31,b'Fox News Ripping Content Straight from the Depths of Reddit'
2010-03-31,"b""South African musicians not featured in World Cup opening concert controlled by Fifa; threaten to have a free concert. One concert name proposed: 'Fuck Fifa'."""
2010-03-31,b'More suicide bombings in Russia.  '
2010-03-31,"b""First they lose their parents; then they're placed inside a catholic orphanage; then the German bishop Walter Mixa decides to punish them."""
2010-03-31,"b'Theyre Not Brainwashed, Theyre Just Miserable - What North Koreans really want.'"
2010-03-31,"b""Statistical analysis on the interlocking and complex Celtic symbols shows they're actually a written language."""
2010-03-31,b'The UK Government Wants to Open Our Mail.'
2010-03-31,"b'""The message being is Israel is going to ban \r\npeaceful marches, what does it consider legitimate \r\nopposition to their occupation.""'"
2010-03-31,"b'Afghanistan, March, 2010 - The Big Picture'"
2010-03-31,b'Fox News Reporter Justin Fishel Lies About Iranian Nuclear Program'
2010-03-31,b'Four men were jailed for after being found guilty of carrying out a 1.75m robbery in the first English criminal trial to be heard without a jury in 400 years. The total cost to the taxpayer of the trials is estimated to be at least 25m  more than 14x the amount stolen.'
2010-03-31,b'UK: G20 police officer Delroy Smellie cleared of assault '
2010-03-31,"b'Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Lingua franca of the third millenium will be mutant version of English, simplified and stripped of Anglo-American cultural baggage.'"
2010-03-31,b'Afghan farmers die in suicide blast'
2010-03-31,"b""It's not just the Vatican, Jehovahs Witness paedo carried out 40 years of rape"""
2010-03-31,"b'Bombs kill 12 in Russia, days after metro attacks'"
2010-03-31,"b'Palestinian reporters blacklisted, accused of treason for visiting Israel '"
2010-03-31,"b""Opposition mounts to UK's Digital Economy Bill"""
2010-03-31,b'The Quake - Frontline documentary on the Haiti Earthquake [Full Video]'
2010-03-31,"b""Uganda's rebels in murderous spree - Lord's Resistance Army blamed for killing 321 in northeastern Congo"""
2010-03-31,b'Russian media slams the Kremlin over its handling of the subway bombings'
2010-03-31,"b'The banners range from the benign to the inflammatory. We didnt share the profits, were not paying for the crisis, one sign reads...Still a third, reflecting the anarchy some have endorsed, suggests repaying the Greek government in Molotovs, not loans.'"
2010-03-31,b'Arrests in China over dead babies'
2010-03-31,"b""Bombs kill 12 in Russia's Dagestan region"""
2010-03-31,"b""Serbia's parliament apologised for the 1995 killing of thousands of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica"""
2010-03-30,"b'British Redditors, we have 7 days left before the Digital Economy Bill is rushed through Parliament without debate.'"
2010-03-30,"b'""If you come to France  and something happens to you, you won\'t be asked for your credit card before you\'re rushed to the hospital."" Sarkozy pokes fun at the U.S. Healthcare debate.'"
2010-03-30,"b""Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to protect Palestinian homes. Her family has been met with hostility while pursuing a civil suit after calling the investigation a 'whitewash.'"""
2010-03-30,b'CIA:  Iran capable of producing nukes\nUSA:  Washington Times and CIA are capable of producing lies'
2010-03-30,"b""Sinead O'Connor writes a wonderful op-ed on the Irish Catholic Church's sex scandal"""
2010-03-30,b'Thousands of homeless people are being forced off the streets of South Africa to hide the scale of poverty there from World Cup fans.'
2010-03-30,"b""South Korea ship 'may have hit mine'"""
2010-03-30,"b'When you hear of innocent Afghans becoming ""collateral damage"" - don\'t just think of them as a number. Think of them as Human Beings. '"
2010-03-30,"b'A gang of robbers have dug their way into the vault of a Parisian bank and emptied almost 200 private safes, police said.'"
2010-03-30,"b'Secularist Allawi defeats incumbent ""half-sectarian Shiite"" Prime Minister Maliki in Iraqi elections'"
2010-03-30,"b""Korean War mine dating back to the 1950-53 Korean War 'sunk' South Korean navy ship"""
2010-03-30,"b""Hitmen kill 10 youths in Mexico's drug-hit north"""
2010-03-30,b'19 black widows still at large and poised to launch fresh attacks. Large-scale terror campaign may be about to begin'
2010-03-30,"b'When the ABC asked Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang for his reaction to the comments, there was an angry reply.\n\n""We express serious concern about the Australian comments,"" Mr Qin said.'"
2010-03-30,"b'British MPs call for review of arms exports after Israeli assault on Gaza---""UK arms exports to Israel should not be used in the occupied territories.""'"
2010-03-30,"b'Amnesty International on Tuesday challenged the Chinese authorities to reveal how many people they execute and sentence to death, as the organization published its world overview of the death penalty for 2009. '"
2010-03-30,"b""British soldiers 'survive on spam for up to 50 days'"""
2010-03-30,b'China: Crunch Time'
2010-03-30,"b'Gao Zhisheng, Chinese human rights lawyer, is free again.'"
2010-03-30,"b'Sold, raped and jailed, a girl faces Afghan justice'"
2010-03-30,"b'Pakistan\'s child soldiers: ""Children are tools to achieve God\'s will. And whatever comes your way, you sacrifice it.""'"
2010-03-30,b'Pope accused in yet ANOTHER new U.S. predator priest case'
2010-03-30,"b'Gold Market Manipulation: Biggest scam in the history of financial markets, in excess of $1 trillion, a matter of national security.  How is this not on the front page of every MSM outlet?! [whistle-blower interview]'"
2010-03-30,"b'The students, ages 8 to 21, were on their way to pick up scholarships when apparent drug gang members opened fire and threw grenades after their vehicle failed to stop at a checkpoint.\r\n'"
2010-03-30,b'Canadians investigating sex abuse charges against \r\ndoctor who used electroshock therapy on gays'
2010-03-29,b'Large explosion in Moscow Subway.'
2010-03-29,"b'Morally bankrupt and no longer even trying: When you read about the complete collapse of the Atlantic bluefin tuna population and its eventual extinction in a few years from now, remember that it was Canada (aside from Japan), that was responsible'"
2010-03-29,b'I wish Redditors would bear this in mind when submitting news links about the UK...'
2010-03-29,b'Did you know that for the last three years until today Israel has been completely blocking all shipments of clothes and shoes to the Gaza Strip?  Was this really necessary?'
2010-03-29,"b'Catholic Church will not be intimidated by sex abuse claims, Pope says; Insists claims are ""petty gossip""'"
2010-03-29,b'World War II Veterans Must Pay To Sing War Songs'
2010-03-29,b'153 trapped in China coal mine!'
2010-03-29,b'UK government set to rush through the Digital Economy Bill (which was part-written by the BPI) with only a brief reading and minimal debate'
2010-03-29,"b""One of Romania's most powerful criminals has warned his country must do something to stop the wave of Gypsy child crime that is sweeping Europe or face a backlash against Romanians."""
2010-03-29,"b'Jim Rogers: Greece Should Have Been Left to Die - ""The Greeks have never lived within their means, and I suspect this time they won\'t either, until they\'re forced to by either bankruptcy or by someone just refusing to give them loans,"" Rogers says.'"
2010-03-29,"b'Israel defiant Against US pressure to halt construction: ""We are the ones who have exclusive responsibility for Israels fate and future.""'"
2010-03-29,"b'French teachers walk out over violence - Since the beginning of the year, French schools have seen a string of attacks'"
2010-03-29,"b'Israel allows clothes, shoes into blockaded Gaza for first time in three years'"
2010-03-29,b'James Lovelock: It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while [to combat climate change]'
2010-03-29,b'Police Chief in Mexcio beheaded'
2010-03-29,"b""Blood and Treasure: Why one of the world's richest countries is also one of its poorest."""
2010-03-29,"b'Singapore\'s Leaders at it Again: NYT journalists Sued for ""Libel""'"
2010-03-29,"b""Interview with Turkey's Prime Minister - 'There Can be No Talk of Genocide' [against the Armenians]"""
2010-03-29,"b""Hardship deepens for South Africa's poor whites"""
2010-03-29,b'BBC | French students shy of real world'
2010-03-29,b'Did Iraq Just Elect a Mass-Murderer?'
2010-03-29,b'More Internet Censorship coming up in Europe?!'
2010-03-29,b'Mine from North Korea may have sunk South Korean naval ship'
2010-03-29,b'Pakistan: Fresh clashes kill 30 in near Afghan border'
2010-03-29,b'Colombian rebels release one of two soldiers promised this week. '
2010-03-27,"b'WikiLeaks to release video of civilians, journalists being murdered in airstrike'"
2010-03-27,b'The priest who abused deaf boys for 24 years: Father Murphy was the only adult his pupils could communicate with  and he betrayed them'
2010-03-27,"b""Before you start mouthing off about Hitler, you'd \r\nbetter know your Nazis - David Mitchell"""
2010-03-27,b'Mexican Police Chief DECAPITATED By Drug Cartel'
2010-03-27,"b""'The Pope should resign. He should offer himself up to authorities for prosecution, like the sacrificial lamb hes supposed to represent here on earth.'"""
2010-03-27,b'The Swiss Army and the Porcupine Principle'
2010-03-27,"b'Over 3,000 White farmers have been killed since 1994 in South Africa.'"
2010-03-27,"b'CIA leak shows plans to market Afghan war to Europeans - A CIA expert has called for optimistic Afghans and their womenfolk to be recruited as flag-wavers for the NATO mission, to persuade sceptical Europeans to support the war, according to a document leaked on Friday'"
2010-03-27,"b'Holocaust scholars on Thursday attacked a bid to include images of kissing lesbians in a monument dedicated to the thousands of homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis, saying it distorted history.'"
2010-03-27,"b""'What Is So Bad About Dying?'"""
2010-03-27,"b'The UK government needs to be ""less deferential"" towards the US and more willing to say no to Washington, a group of MPs have said.'"
2010-03-27,"b""'Special relationship' between UK and US is over, according to British MPs"""
2010-03-27,"b""The world's first zero-carbon city is being built in Abu Dhabi and is designed to be not only free of cars and skyscrapers but also powered by the sun."""
2010-03-27,"b'""the youngest person to die was a three-year-old girl who was burned to death, some people were killed by having their heads smashed with axes"" - New massacre uncovered in Congo is one of their worst to date. '"
2010-03-27,"b'Depleted by an American-backed offensive and seemingly desperate for new conscripts, the Lords Resistance Army, one of the most infamous armed groups in Africa, has killed hundreds of villagers in this remote corner of Congo and kidnapped hundreds more, marching them off in a vast human chain.'"
2010-03-27,"b""BBC News - Sunk South Korea naval ship Cheonan 'split in half'"""
2010-03-27,"b""Following in Switzerland's Footsteps - International Right-Wingers Gather for EU-Wide Minaret Ban"""
2010-03-27,"b""The IDF 'Death Zone' Policy: if a Palestinian steps within 300 meters of the Gaza/Israel border on Gaza's side the IDF is ordered to shoot at them and based on what has happened they are allowed to shoot with lethal intent"""
2010-03-27,b'Cloud seeding brings rainfall to drought-hit SW China province'
2010-03-27,"b'Honduras: Two journalists gunned down in ambush, bringing media death toll in March to five'"
2010-03-27,b'Seoul has no evidence it was North Korea that caused South Korean warship to blow in half'
2010-03-27,"b'Immunization drive aims to stop polio, once thought eradicated in Guinea- UNICEF.'"
2010-03-27,b'Church of Greece agrees to pay tax'
2010-03-27,"b'Russia Bans Hitler\'s ""Mein Kampf"" as Extremist'"
2010-03-27,b'BBC News - Switzerland casino is robbed by armed gang'
2010-03-26,"b'S.Korean naval ship sinking with 100 on board, North Korean torpedo attack suspected!'"
2010-03-26,"b""Christopher Hitchens: Catholic Church Wants 'Wiggle Room' For Rape And Torture Of Children"""
2010-03-26,"b'How Saudis really see Americans: If you believe a new Burger King ad, Americans are clueless about the Mideast.'"
2010-03-26,"b""Israel remains defiant amid allies' growing anger"""
2010-03-26,"b'Islamists give gay activists 3 days to leave Indonesia. Activists from the Front for the Defence of Islam gave the delegates from 13 countries attending the meeting of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Association until Sunday to leave Indonesia.'"
2010-03-26,"b""Child abuse scandal is war 'between church and world'"""
2010-03-26,"b'Iceland just passed a law banning all strip clubs, making it the first country to ban stripping for feminist rather than religious reasons'"
2010-03-26,b'How to launder a million dirty dollars'
2010-03-26,"b'Vatican turns on senior Irish clergy. Irish Catholic Church "" effectively placed it in receivership"".'"
2010-03-26,b'Israeli Tanks Move Into Gaza After Deadly Clashes'
2010-03-26,"b'British government exaggerating terrorist threat, say MPs'"
2010-03-26,b'Ian Tomlinson family waits for answers one year on from G20 protests'
2010-03-26,"b'""We\'re still asking for our independence, no more, and no less. There\'s a lot of oppression here. The secret police are everywhere. There\'s no freedom of speech."" - Life in Africa\'s last colony'"
2010-03-26,"b'""The boys were dealt with using ""community resolution"", an alternative way of dealing with less serious crime."" - BBC'"
2010-03-26,b'Allawi wins most Iraq poll seats'
2010-03-26,b'Australian victims of nuclear testing sue the U.K.'
2010-03-26,b'Saudi prince arrested in Lebanon over drugs'
2010-03-26,b'Israel condemned at Arab summit'
2010-03-26,"b'Quick before it goes behind a paywall and we never see another link to the website again, have a laugh and check out the name of the author!'"
2010-03-26,b'Jerusalem to dominate Arab summit'
2010-03-26,b'China adding missiles near Taiwan: navy official'
2010-03-26,"b""UK's newspaper and media company, Independent, pays Russian billionaire and Gorbachev cohort Alexander Lebedev 9.25 million pounds to take over its operations."""
2010-03-26,"b'IRAQ Elections: Allawi wins by slight margin, al-Maliki rejects results'"
2010-03-26,"b'To increase European support for the war in Afghanistan, the CIA wants to recruit ""Afghan women to act as public relations ambassadors...""'"
2010-03-26,"b""Christopher Hitchens: Catholic Church Wants 'Wiggle Room' For Rape And Torture Of Children (VIDEO)"""
2010-03-25,"b'Blair Strikes Oil in Iraq. ""In the 3 years since he stepped down as prime minister, Blair pocketed more than $30 million in oil revenues from secret dealings with a South Korean oil consortium, UI Energy Corporation. Despite his best efforts to keep his connection to UI secret, word is spreading...""'"
2010-03-25,"b'WIKILEAKS(PDF) CIA ""public apathy enables leaders to ignore voters"" Cia details how to get war support.'"
2010-03-25,"b""Not exactly the bitch slap Israel needs from the US, but it's a start."""
2010-03-25,"b'Fidel Castro: ""Truly unusual that 234 years after the Declaration of Independence in 1776, that the U.S. government has passed [a law for] medical attention for the vast majority of its citizens, something that Cuba achieved for its entire population half a century ago""'"
2010-03-25,"b'73% of Russians view US as ""an aggressor trying to take control"" of all countries in the world. '"
2010-03-25,b'The Vatican has attacked the media over charges that the Pope failed to act against a US priest accused of abusing up to 200 deaf boys two decades ago.'
2010-03-25,"b'For years, Dutch law enforcement officials have been listening in on conversations between lawyers and their clients. The prosecutors office itself now wants to put an end to the practice.'"
2010-03-25,b'UK police asks Internet cafes to monitor customers '
2010-03-25,"b'Ciudad Jurez is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, in spite of the fact that it is ""the most violent zone in the world outside of declared war zones.'"
2010-03-25,b'Police chief beheaded in north Mexico'
2010-03-25,b'China overtook the US during 2009 to become the leading investor in renewable energy technologies.'
2010-03-25,b'Owner of the only remaining TV station in Venezuela critical of Hugo Chavez has been arrested.'
2010-03-25,b'CIA prepared birthday cake for double agent who bombed Afghan base and killed seven CIA employees'
2010-03-25,"b""Google booted from China's number two carrier"""
2010-03-25,b'Signs of Big Bang in North Korea?'
2010-03-25,"b""Israel and Hamas forces 'clash on Gaza border': Arab media reports two Israeli troops have been killed east of Khan Younis"""
2010-03-25,b'Pakistani jets kill nearly 50 in tribal region'
2010-03-25,b'China Is Beating the Pants Off the U.S. in Clean Energy - China invested nearly twice as much money$34.6 billionin clean energy projects in 2009'
2010-03-25,b'DID THE POPE protect a pedophile?'
2010-03-25,b'\nBeijing to sweeten stench of rubbish crisis with giant deodorant guns'
2010-03-25,b'Times and Sunday Times websites to charge from June'
2010-03-25,b'A cloud of smog hovers over Mongolias capital'
2010-03-25,"b""Israel and Hamas forces 'clash on Gaza border': Two Israeli troops killed, retaliation expected"""
2010-03-25,"b'\'Misleading\' police advert banned: The ASA said the advertisement broke its rules on being ""legal, decent, honest, truthful"". The advertiser? The UK Government ...'"
2010-03-25,"b""This author's whole life was building towards this moment... (check his name)"""
2010-03-24,"b'Pope Benedict XVI  failed to defrock an American priest who molested hundreds of deaf boys, despite receiving letters from a number of American bishops pleading with him to act'"
2010-03-24,"b""Sinead O'Connor: 'There should be a full criminal investigation of the pope'"""
2010-03-24,"b""North Koreans who fled to China describe acute shortages and anger after a disastrous currency devaluation. As an ailing Kim tries to secure his son's ascension, some people are beginning to speak out."""
2010-03-24,"b' Victims of sexual abuse by priests demonstrated at the Vatican on Thursday demanding that Pope Benedict open up files on pedophile Catholic clerics worldwide and immediately defrock all ""predator priests.""'"
2010-03-24,"b'U.S./Russia agree to cut nuclear arsenals to only 1,500 nukes.  Also, U.S./Russia agree that they need 1,500 nukes.  '"
2010-03-24,b'Interesting: Locals kill Afghan suicide bomber before he can detonate his vest'
2010-03-24,"b'Despite row, U.S. and Israel sign massive arms deal'"
2010-03-24,b'Remember that British Policeman caught striking a woman at the G20? Hes in the dock for Common Assault. In his defence he thought the juice box and camera she had in each hand looked like weapons'
2010-03-24,"b'The terror threat facing the UK has been overstated by the Government since the 9/11 attacks in America, a group of MPs and peers signal today. '"
2010-03-24,"b""U.N. Human Rights Council says Israel should pay Palestinians reparations for loss and damages suffered during last year's war in the Gaza Strip"""
2010-03-24,"b""Russian bombers 'intercepted in British airspace' - CNN.com"""
2010-03-24,"b""Purple protests on streets of Rome. Protestors are outraged by Berlusconi's huge influenceover the country's television and media and his attacks on  the county's judges."""
2010-03-24,"b""A good BBC piece on how a wide range of Israeli's feel about the building of new homes in East Jerusalem.  You may be surprised at what they are saying."""
2010-03-24,b'Strip clubs banned in Iceland'
2010-03-24,"b'Israel braces for more expulsions in Mossad row: Australia, France, Germany and Ireland are all investigating the suspected theft of the identities of their nationals'"
2010-03-24,"b""Israeli soldiers 'used child to check for booby-traps' """
2010-03-24,b'Bush handwipe video was doctored'
2010-03-24,"b'Yemen: where men marry children  Fathers marry off pre-teen daughters here for many reasons, not least to remarry themselves.'"
2010-03-24,"b'A Female Approach to Peacekeeping: When female soldiers are present, the situation is closer to real life, and as a result the men tend to behave'"
2010-03-24,"b""Burma's Looming Guerilla War: Junta Prepares to Take on the Ethnic Militias"""
2010-03-24,"b'WikiLeaks Followed by CIA and State Department | WikiLeaks is currently under an aggressive U.S. and Icelandic surveillance operation,'"
2010-03-24,"b""UK: Why did Gordon Brown Sell Britain's Gold Reserves?"""
2010-03-24,"b""'It's Time for Turkey to Snap Out of Its Self-Delusion' - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again suggested that Germany establish Turkish-language high schools for its immigrant population of Turkish descent. Regardless of the idea's merits, it is unlikely to endear him to Merkel"""
2010-03-24,b'60 million people in China are struggling under worst drought conditions in a century'
2010-03-24,b'Islamic court in Nigeria bans Twitter and Facebook for debating on amputation under Sharia law'
2010-03-23,"b""CNN Wikileaks iReport: Reddit, PLEASE view and comment on this story so it can get vetted and put on the CNN website. We really need to raise awareness of what's happening to Wikileaks. Thank you and please upvote this. I'm not a karmawhore, this is just a throwaway."""
2010-03-23,"b'Israels No renting to Arabs policy: Since the Jewish couple offered to rent their home to Arab friends, their life has been a living hell.'"
2010-03-23,"b'At least a full version of the ACTA has leaked. Not the definitive version, but enough to see what the future may become.'"
2010-03-23,"b'Thousands of Canadians protest Ann Coulter after she told a Muslim to ""take a camel"" (instead of a flying carpet, of course) '"
2010-03-23,b'Nigeria bans internet discussion of its first Islamic wrist amputation for theft'
2010-03-23,b'Chile: The earthquake picture I never sent'
2010-03-23,"b""Canadians didn't stop Ann Coulter from speaking - her own security did. And then she blamed it on Canadian police. What a bitch. """
2010-03-23,"b""Tony Blair in citizen's arrest scare as Brussels journalist tries to detain him over 'war crimes'"""
2010-03-23,"b'Kafkas Castle is collapsing | You cant reason with the absurd, as IKEA found when it tried to build a model business in Russia. Institutional corruption is out of control. Kafkas Castle is finally collapsing. This is good news, ordinary Russians are losing their fear. Now theyre just angry'"
2010-03-23,b'Has Germany just killed the dream of a European superstate?'
2010-03-23,"b""FBI protects key terrorist in Mumbai attacks, won't let Indian authorities interrogate him nor won't let lawyer of the families of the 166 victims question him in his upcoming trail in Chicago reason suggested is he has ties to U.S intelligence"""
2010-03-23,b'Google fined for uncensored dirty jokes'
2010-03-23,b'The Coming China-India Conflict: Is War Inevitable?'
2010-03-23,b'UN passes three resolutions condemning Israel over repeated human rights violations. Now guess who voted against them all?'
2010-03-23,"b""China hits back at Google's uncensored Hong Kong servers - searches disabled or links blocked"""
2010-03-23,b'GoDaddy.com plans to stop registering domain names in China'
2010-03-23,b'Legality of US drones questioned'
2010-03-23,"b""Airport guard 'misused scanner'"""
2010-03-23,"b""Mideast peace effort is a charade. Something's changed in the U.S. when this headline can make it on CNN.com and actually be about Israel's lack of interest in any deal."""
2010-03-23,b'Top ten reasons East Jerusalem does not belong exclusively to Jewish-Israelis'
2010-03-23,b'NATO habitually lying about killing innocent civilians'
2010-03-23,"b'Growing Opposition To EU Membership In Norway - The opposition to Norwegian membership in the EU is growing. The March survey shows that if a national referendum had been held today, 56% of the voters would have said no to Norwegian membership.'"
2010-03-23,"b""Just hours after Israeli PM's meeting with Obama, Israel announces 100 more houses in East Jerusalem."""
2010-03-23,"b""Schneier on Airport Security: Bringing lots of liquids on a plane at Schiphol. This would worry me, if the liquid ban weren't already useless"""
2010-03-23,b'Ottawa joins the war on photography'
2010-03-22,"b""Israels latest FU to US - We'll do what we want with East Jerusalem, it's not up for negotiation."""
2010-03-22,"b'Australia: ""nearly 55% of stories analysed were driven by some form of public relations. Many journalists and editors were defensive when the phone call came. Most refused to respond, others who initially granted an interview then asked for their comments to be withdrawn out of fear.""'"
2010-03-22,"b'Air pollution levels in Hong Kong have reached a record high, prompting government warnings to people to avoid going out.'"
2010-03-22,"b'Every year, more people die from unsafe water than from all forms of violence, including war\n'"
2010-03-22,b'Cyprus to run out of drinking water'
2010-03-22,"b'New Study: Israel in recent years has spent > $17 billion building 12 million square meters of roads, homes and factories for Jewish settlers in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.'"
2010-03-22,b'India will Use Hottest Chili in the World to Fight Terrorism'
2010-03-22,b'UK to expel Israeli diplomat over fake British passport used in assassination in Dubai'
2010-03-22,"b""India's unbearable lightness of being"""
2010-03-22,b'Jeremy Paxman interviews Ann Coulter...love his work'
2010-03-22,b'UK Foreign Secretary: Israel Is Behind The Cloned British Passports Used In Hamas Killing In Dubai'
2010-03-22,b'BREAKING: Britain To Expel Israeli Diplomat Over Duplication Of Passports'
2010-03-22,"b'How New Labour can you get? 4 British MPs, including three Blair-era Cabinet ministers, caught trying to sell their influence for thousands of pounds. ""I\'m a bit like a sort of cab for hire, I suppose"", Stephen Byers told undercover reporters masquerading as reps of a US company.'"
2010-03-22,"b'Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asserted Israel\'s ""right to build"" in Jerusalem, following a row with the US over plans for new homes in the city.'"
2010-03-22,b'Silvio Berlusconi to push for change to Italian constitution for greater powers'
2010-03-22,"b'Venezuela arrests Chavez critic for ""conspiracy""'"
2010-03-22,"b""Germany's effort to rein in its expensive social welfare system has been ruled unconstitutional. How it now moves to balance its books as well as meet what it considers basic human needs could set a model for others"""
2010-03-22,"b'""The vast majority of Russian prisoners  724,000 out of a total prison population of 862,000  still live in freestanding barracks, rough-hewn, low-slung buildings of wood or brick encircled by barbed wire, usually in a remote place."" Medvedev seeks to reform Soviet-aged prison system.'"
2010-03-22,"b""UK's police state: Police in Nottingham city were out tackling knife crime---a search centre was set up where a full body scanner checked suspects. """
2010-03-22,b'Vladimir Putin was most likely involved in the 1999 Russian apartment bombings. The American voting public ought to have been aware of this. The conventions of the news media and of our overall societal structure are such that this will never be widely known.'
2010-03-22,b'German elderly kidnap financial advisor over failed invesments'
2010-03-22,"b'Hillary tells AIPAC, the occupation is hurting the US around the world'"
2010-03-22,"b""World's cleverest man turns down $1million prize after solving one of mathematics' greatest puzzles\n\n"""
2010-03-22,"b'Ex-Nazi assassin jailed for life - At 88, how long will that be?'"
2010-03-22,"b""Remember the British MP's caught red handed \r\nselling political influence for cash? Here they are ON \r\nCAMERA boasting about their corruption"""
2010-03-21,"b""Charlie Brooker: The most dangerous drug isn't meow meow. It isn't even alcohol..."""
2010-03-21,"b""This week's Economist is banned in Thailand, due to its critical, honest look at the political unrest in the country. Well worth a read."""
2010-03-21,b'British inquiry into Iraq war turns toward Bush'
2010-03-21,b'Google Pulls Out Of China'
2010-03-21,b'Bushmen mark eight years without water'
2010-03-21,b'A policeman struck a G20 protester twice with a metal baton after mistaking a carton of orange juice in her hand for a weapon'
2010-03-21,b'Beautifully-illustrated 9-min video explaining the complexities of the world food market: How is it that 1 in 7 people go hungry?'
2010-03-21,b'Nuclear physicist gone without a trace'
2010-03-21,b'India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile'
2010-03-21,b'Quebecers rally to put secularism on agenda'
2010-03-21,"b""hey worldnews.reddit, I've spent the last week in Bangkok taking photos of the massive red shirt protests. Here are my photos & a roundup. AMA"""
2010-03-21,b'China Says That It May Go from Giant Trade Surplus to Trade DEFICIT in March'
2010-03-21,"b'WHO finds drug-resistant TB on the rise in Russia, China, and India.'"
2010-03-21,"b""Israeli Jews steal more land from Palestinians, says the Palestinians made them do it and it's for their own good."""
2010-03-21,"b'UN: Polluted water killing, sickening millions - ""More than half of the world\'s hospital beds are filled by people suffering from water-related illnesses""'"
2010-03-21,b'PROTEST FAIL: Students protest tuition fee hike by destroying school property bought by the money from tuition fees'
2010-03-21,"b'""Day of Wrath"" protests occur simultaneously in 20 Russian cities.'"
2010-03-21,b'How the UN got scammed for millions: The peace profiteer'
2010-03-21,"b'""We have a woman that has been shot; she needs help. Stop shooting. There is no reason to be shooting at people like this. You are in THEIR village.""'"
2010-03-21,"b""Ireland greets pope's apology with skepticism, calling the pope's analysis flawed"""
2010-03-21,b'Israeli leader flies for talks with Obama as four more teenager killings raise tension in West Bank'
2010-03-21,b'A looming earthquake in Nepal could be catastrophic  worse than Haiti or Chile'
2010-03-21,"b""War is coming - Israel to ask US for bombs in the fight against Iran's Nuclear sites """
2010-03-21,b'Berlin Divided on Greece: Merkel Takes on the EU and Her Own Finance Minister.'
2010-03-21,"b'Germans Oppose Greek Aid, Poll Shows - Fierce German resistance to helping crisis-hit Greece has emerged in a Financial Times opinion poll that strengthens the hand of Angela Merkel, the chancellor, b/f a possible European showdown this week over financial aid for Athens.'"
2010-03-20,b'UK government in full damage control: members of Parliament caught red handed selling political influence for cash'
2010-03-20,b'A rather aggressive border closing ceremony...'
2010-03-20,"b'Obama And The United States Won\'t Stop Israeli Aggression Because They Can\'t... ""The relationship has become so one-sided that America is forced to apologize when Israel spits in America\'s face""'"
2010-03-20,"b""Revealed: Tony Blair's secret oil links to Middle East - THIS is why they went to war with Iraq"""
2010-03-20,"b'After two students are killed during a gunfight, the director of one of the best private universities in Mexico calls the United States corrupt and suggests changing the drug policies in both countries.'"
2010-03-20,b'Volcano eruption under a glacier in Iceland'
2010-03-20,b'Academic Paper in China Sets Off Alarms in U.S.'
2010-03-20,b'Death stalks the frozen land of Genghis Khan: \nMongolia is experiencing the worst famine in a generation'
2010-03-20,"b""The US finally seems to be losing patience now that Netanyahu's behaviour is endangering its troops"""
2010-03-20,b'Palestinians shot dead by Israeli troops near Nablus'
2010-03-20,b'Israeli education ministry censors Universal Declaration of Human Rights'
2010-03-20,"b""British MP's caught on camera in sting operation showing them selling their services for """
2010-03-20,b'UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon enters Gaza to show solidarity with Palestinians'
2010-03-20,"b'Rise of the Red Tories: ""We are living in a modern-day version of serfdom, living in dependency to the banks. It is time to break up the banks. This (believe it or not) is supposedly the new ideology of the UK\'s Conservative Party. But how serious are they?'"
2010-03-20,b'Explosives found aboard India plane'
2010-03-20,"b'Venezuela announces power penalties, cuts power to Sony offices'"
2010-03-20,"b'Palestinians: Protestor injured by IDF fire dies - bullet wounds appear to be from LIVE bullets, not rubber.'"
2010-03-20,"b""Leftists defeat Sarkozy's conservatives"""
2010-03-20,"b'EU Naval Force Confront Somali Pirates, So They Jump Overboard.'"
2010-03-20,b'Senior al-Shabab commander assassinated in Somalia'
2010-03-20,"b'South Sudans road to independence with almost no skills, resources. Not medicine, not government, not even agriculture. A society before civilization'"
2010-03-20,b'Chinese Academics Paper on Cyberwar Sets Off Alarms in U.S.'
2010-03-20,"b""During Gaza visit, UN chief calls Israel siege 'unsustainable and wrong' """
2010-03-20,b'A new campaign urges standard European Union regulations to fight female genital mutilation'
2010-03-20,b'UN chief says Gaza suffering under Israeli blockade'
2010-03-19,b'The Catholic church and paedophilia: The pope should say plainly and loudly that sexual abuse of children is not just sinful. It is criminal'
2010-03-19,"b'Dear BBC, please stop putting 30 second adverts before 10 second videos'"
2010-03-19,"b""Homosexuality and the Srebrenica Massacre: Dutch Leader Calls US General's Gay Remarks 'Disgraceful"""
2010-03-19,b'Tony Blair waged an extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq. The secret is now out.'
2010-03-19,b'Ireland to hold referendum on removing blasphemy law from constitution'
2010-03-19,b'UN chief Ban Ki-moon demands Israel settlements halt'
2010-03-19,"b'""It\'s wrong - people telling us what we can and can\'t eat, foreigners eat cows. ... Catching dolphins is part of that village\'s tradition.""'"
2010-03-19,"b'The Game of Death: The Milgram Experiment has been repeated, disguised as a French reality show. The results are still the same.'"
2010-03-19,b'Pres. Obama addresses Iran.'
2010-03-19,b'The German archdiocese led by the future Pope Benedict XVI ignored repeated warnings by a psychiatrist treating a priest accused of sexually abusing boys'
2010-03-19,"b""I'm Not the Messiah, Says Food Activist... but His Many Worshippers Do Not Believe Him | \nMembers of religious group believe London-born author has come to save the world"""
2010-03-19,"b'Everyone knows Japan fought against the ban that would have helped save the bluefin tuna from imminent collapse, but few realize that Canada was also strongly against the ban. And Canada also opposed a proposal to ban the devastating practice of bottom trawling. WTF is wrong with Canada anyway?!'"
2010-03-19,b'Israeli Army shoots dead stone throwing Palestinian kid [Al Jazeera]'
2010-03-19,"b'Turkish PM: why pressure Iran, not nuclear Israel? ""Erdogan: countries with nuclear weapons not in moral position to lecture other nations on nuclear."" (How dare he point out this hypocrisy!?!)'"
2010-03-19,"b""Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal goes global"""
2010-03-19,"b""Dozens charged over Turkey 'plot': False flag terror attacks to bring down government"""
2010-03-19,"b""Fareed Zakaria: The Israeli Prime Minister says his nation's security is his top priority. Too bad he's undermining it."""
2010-03-19,"b""Beijing has been shrouded in orange dust as a strong sandstorm blew hundreds of miles from drought-struck northern China to the nation's capital."""
2010-03-19,"b'Orde Wingate, one of finest British commanders of WW2 was as bent as nine-bob note. Rarely washed, tried to cut his own throat, forced 40,000 Italian troops to surrender'"
2010-03-19,"b""Dr Norman Finkelstein's appearance at the University of Waterloo was a combative one with lots of heckling and cheering throughout the speech. As we've come to expect, he delivered a blistering message on Israel that was the polar opposite of the mainstream mantra. (video)"""
2010-03-19,b'This quiet experiment in northern China appears to \r\nshow that the Government can slow down or halt \r\npopulation growth while allowing families more \r\nthan one child.\r\n'
2010-03-19,b'[North Korea Census 2008] Korean Peoples Army estimated to number 700 thousand troops'
2010-03-19,b'PAKISTAN: A Hindu teenager is told to marry her alleged rapist'
2010-03-19,"b'Russia\'s ""day of wrath"" - Thousands protest in largest show of discontent since Putin came to power.'"
2010-03-19,b'Cambodians banned temporarily from marrying Koreans: diplomat'
2010-03-18,b'Atlantic Bluefin tuna ban collapses at UN after Canada teamed up with Japan to prevent fishing ban as the only way to save the critically endangered species from extinction. WTF?!!'
2010-03-18,"b'All 33 children taken from Haiti, ranging in age from 4 months to 12 years, turn out to have parents and have been reunited. '"
2010-03-18,"b""New Zealand rejects indoor 'cubical farming' for cows as unnatural. New Zealand milk and meat will still be the best in the world - naturally grass fed"""
2010-03-18,"b""Dutch fury at US general's gay theory over Srebrenica """
2010-03-18,b'Scientists have created the first device to render an object invisible in three dimensions.'
2010-03-18,"b'Social Immobility: Report finds the U.S. ranking well below Denmark, Australia, Norway, Finland, Canada, Sweden, Germany and Spain in terms of how freely citizens move up or down the social ladder.'"
2010-03-18,"b""Two bomb disposal experts have received the George Cross, S/Sgt Schmid posthumously, S/Sgt Hughes for disarming three IED's by hand, without any protective clothing, while under enemy fire. """
2010-03-18,b'Three million dollars on hookers '
2010-03-18,b'Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa'
2010-03-18,"b""TV presenter gets death sentence for 'sorcery'"""
2010-03-18,b'Growing pedophilia scandal reaches the top of the Vatican'
2010-03-18,"b'Bring back the brothel, says female French MP '"
2010-03-18,"b'Sarkozy Opposes IMF Loan to Greece, Widens Rift With Germany'"
2010-03-18,"b""Israel's Troubling Tilt Toward Apartheid - Today a virulent form of Zionism is turning Israel in the direction of an intolerant apartheid state."""
2010-03-18,"b""Isle of Wight rapist caught by daughter's DNA"""
2010-03-18,"b""The Pentagon's Propaganda Networks"""
2010-03-18,"b""Lines in the Mideast sand - How Israel has again crossed a line with its US ally, and why Obama can't let that happen."""
2010-03-18,"b'MI5: Britain ""four meals away from anarchy""'"
2010-03-18,b'Strongly worded statement from Middle East peace envoys calls for pullout from Palestinian territories within 24 months'
2010-03-18,b'Euro retreats vs dollar on nagging Greece worries\n'
2010-03-18,"b'US Trade Representative has already ""told members of Congress it is their intention to marginalize the participation by consumer interest organizations in the new [ACTA] forum.""'"
2010-03-18,"b""Germany: Responsible for Europe's crisis? Germans are shocked to hear their thrifty ways blamed for causing the Euro's instability."""
2010-03-18,"b'To be eligible for employment as a Somali pirate, a volunteer should already possess a...........'"
2010-03-18,b'Anti-British extremists have firebombed a branch of HSBC in Argentina - sparking fears of a dramatic escalation in the Falklands row. [Sun...]'
2010-03-18,b'Nigeria recalls ambassador to Libya after Khadaffi recommends Nigeria break into 2: a Christian and a Muslim part.'
2010-03-17,"b'UK - The Lib Dems would restore people\'s right to privacy which has been ""trampled"" on by the government, party leader Nick Clegg is to say.'"
2010-03-17,"b'In Thailand, a populist political party wins by a landslide . As PM, the partys leader enacts policies that halve poverty. The established elites fight back, eventually staging a military coop. We had to stop democracy to save democracy, they say. '"
2010-03-17,b'A 29-year-old tourist from the Philippines has spent five days in custody after Australian Customs officials mistook iced tea for drugs.'
2010-03-17,b'Should flight attendants be allowed to refuse to fly with a pilot they believe to be suicidally depressed?'
2010-03-17,b'Irish Catholic church paid child sex abuse victim to keep quiet'
2010-03-17,b'Palestine names street after Rachel Corrie'
2010-03-17,b'Finally - Irelands most corrupt banker arrested. '
2010-03-17,b'Adolf Hitler widely admired in Pakistan.'
2010-03-17,"b'Gaza fires rockets at civillians in Southern Israel, kills kibbutz worker'"
2010-03-17,"b'A series of explosive child sex abuse scandals has hit Western Europe in recent months, sending the Catholic Church into damage-control mode. This is the list.'"
2010-03-17,b'Silvio Berlusconi in protection deal with mafia'
2010-03-17,b'Silvio Berlusconi caught trying to stifle media'
2010-03-17,b'UN body rejects bluefin tuna ban'
2010-03-17,b'North Korean finance official blamed for currency crisis executed by firing squad'
2010-03-17,"b""Briton is recognised as world's first officially genderless person."""
2010-03-17,b'Fresh tensions between Canada and Russia emerged Wednesday after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told a session of his Security Council that his country must be prepared to defend its claims to Arctic mineral riches.'
2010-03-17,b'Police or provocateurs?'
2010-03-17,b'51 Headless Vikings in English Execution Pit Confirmed'
2010-03-17,b'Retired U.S. general links Srebrenica genocide to \r\ngays in Dutch army'
2010-03-17,"b""Paris Club forgives Afghanistan's debt, a deal worth 1 billion dollars."""
2010-03-17,"b'   Three jailed for Auschwitz sign theft   -- Two-and-a-half years in prison for stealing the infamous ""Arbeit Macht Frei"" sign from the Auschwitz death camp.'"
2010-03-17,"b'Vatican ends ""wall of silence"" over child abuse scandal'"
2010-03-17,b'Central Bank Gold Holdings Expand at Fastest Pace Since 1964  - Bloomberg.com'
2010-03-17,b'North Korean finance chief executed for botched currency reform'
2010-03-17,b'Web inventor calls for government data transparency'
2010-03-16,"b'Spanish music rights organization SGAE brings link site to court. Outcome: ""if an individual uses P2P networks like eDonkey or BitTorrent to obtain copyright material for non-profit reasons, the act is completely legal"". Whoops!'"
2010-03-16,b'Pepsi to pull drinks from schools worldwide'
2010-03-16,"b'The New York Times again refers to settlements as ""suburbs"" and ""neighborhoods,"" omitting the fact that they are illegal under the Geneva Convention, as ruled upon by the World Court. Orwell was right, the biggest lie of all is omission.'"
2010-03-16,b'Israel virtually destroyed a school in Gaza and now they refuse to allow it to be repaired. I guess Israels policy is to deny Palestinians education then mock them for being uneducated.'
2010-03-16,b'A great read from 1982 when Ronald Reagan threatened to impose sanctions on Israel for the Siege of Beirut.'
2010-03-16,"b'To prove how tolerant they are of ethnic minorities, Turkey threatens to expel 100,000 Armenians'"
2010-03-16,"b'Dubai jail 2 Indians for sending text messages.  Judge says SMS showed they planned to ""commit sin"" i.e have extra-marital sex.'"
2010-03-16,"b""Israeli Army Policy: We will allow Palestinians to record stuff, because you know, we don't do anything that is bad, Reality: IDF soldiers attempt to prevent filming for fear they will be caught doing something bad. Official Policy vs. Reality strikes again in Israel"""
2010-03-16,"b""Does Israel's settlement expansion have the support of the American people?  Short Answer: NO."""
2010-03-16,"b""Israel is not only doing the Islamic Resistance Movement's bidding - Washington is beginning to relate to the Netanyahu government as if it were Hamas"""
2010-03-16,b'U.S. general Petraeus: Israel-Palestinian conflict foments anti-U.S. sentiment'
2010-03-16,"b' Game show contestants turn torturers in a new psychological experiment for French television, zapping a man with electricity until he cries for mercy -- then zapping him again until he seems to drop dead.'"
2010-03-16,"b'In a Desert in China, a Trove of 4,000-Year-Old European Mummies'"
2010-03-16,b'Construction workers for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics have gone unpaid since December. Many are without food and forced to quit the job.'
2010-03-16,b'Chile: Why were new buildings prone to destruction? Apartment owners are turning to legal action after their homes collapsed.'
2010-03-16,b'Pakistani court charges 5 Americans with terrorism'
2010-03-16,"b'Brazil president steps between Israel and Iran: ""The world leaders I spoke to believe that we must act quickly, otherwise Israel will attack Iran""'"
2010-03-16,"b""Playboy accidentally played out on children's TV"""
2010-03-16,"b' Riots rock Jerusalem as Hamas calls for new \'intifada\'. ""Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces across east\nJerusalem on Tuesday in the worst rioting in years as a senior Hamas leader\ncalled for a new \'intifada,\' or uprising.""'"
2010-03-16,"b""Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel says she wants the eurozone to be able to exclude one of its members in future if that is necessary to avert a crisis."""
2010-03-16,b'The children of Sialkot now toil in the local brickworks'
2010-03-16,b'Mexico urges US help in drug war '
2010-03-16,"b'Turkey PM says the country could deport up to 100,000 Armenians'"
2010-03-16,"b""Australian families have made serious allegations of corruption within Australia's inter-country adoption program with Ethiopia."""
2010-03-16,b'Afghanistan Enacts Law That Gives War Criminals Blanket Immunity'
2010-03-15,b'Australia gets rid of the death penalty for good'
2010-03-15,b'China to connect its High Speed Rail all the way to Europe.'
2010-03-15,b'Study finds 55 percent of newspaper stories are placed'
2010-03-15,b'US backs down as per usual in row with Israel.'
2010-03-15,"b'Mother who killed 6 babies tells court ""I won\'t do it again""'"
2010-03-15,"b'While Finland declares that Internet Access is a fundamental right, Canada is cutting funding for community Internet access sites'"
2010-03-15,b'Monsanto admits their technology doesnt work!'
2010-03-15,"b'As 100,000+ protesters gather in Bangkok, Thai Prime Minister rejects a demand from protesters to resign and call elections.'"
2010-03-15,b'Final destination Iran? | Hundreds of powerful U.S. bunker-buster bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in preparation for a possible attack on Iran.'
2010-03-15,"b""Obama's patience wearing thin with Israel"""
2010-03-15,b'Remember Rachel Corrie'
2010-03-15,"b'Thai protesters have splashed hundreds of litres of their own blood outside government headquarters in a ""sacrifice for democracy""'"
2010-03-15,"b""The world's shortest man, He Pingping, has died at the age of 21, a Guinness World Records spokesman said. """
2010-03-15,b'The short sad life of whites in Africa'
2010-03-15,"b'Russian oligarch and ex- KGB agent Alexander Lebedev to buy British paper The Independent. The Indy, created in 1986 by 3 journalists from the Telegraph, attracted staff from Murdoch broadsheets and challenging The Guardian for centre-left readers, and The Times as a newspaper of record. '"
2010-03-15,"b'Hamas calls for ""intifada"": ""Martyrs by the millions, onwards to Jerusalem""'"
2010-03-15,"b""Booming Business: Germany Now World's Third Largest Arms Exporter"""
2010-03-15,"b""Lieberman who do you really work for?  Obvious not the health of the American people since you oppose healthcare reform.  And obviously not for our Troops beacuse you're endangering them by our blind support for Isreal.  """
2010-03-15,b'How Your Twitter Account Could Land You in Jail in the U.S.'
2010-03-15,b'Saakashvili Staged TV Report of Russian Invasion  - BusinessWeek'
2010-03-15,"b'In a break from the usual atmosphere in the \r\nworldnews reddit, I present possible GOOD news \r\nfrom Sri Lanka.'"
2010-03-15,"b'Krugman to China\'s Currency Appeasers -  ""The respectful thing would be to assume that everything (China\'s Leaders) say in public about the issue is a lie""'"
2010-03-15,"b'Michael Foot, dead at 96, was a class act. An erudite party rebel famed for rousing oratory, he ended up with the ""magnificent and hopeless"" quest of leading a split Labour party in the dark 80s. ""The crowd of mourners were mostly greyold socialists saying farewell to a dream that never came true.""'"
2010-03-15,b'Shark fin - A multi-billion dollar trade'
2010-03-15,b'TV news chief kidnapped in Venezuela'
2010-03-14,"b'In short, right now America has China over a barrel, not the other way around.'"
2010-03-14,"b'How to Track a Crisis: A small Kenyan-born organization called Ushahidi, has become a hero of the Haitian and Chilean earthquakes and may have something larger to tell us about the future of humanitarianism, innovation...'"
2010-03-14,"b""Israel-US ties at 'historic low'"""
2010-03-14,"b""We can't go round injecting our brains with Tralfamadorian grey matter, because it doesn't exist. Instead the closest thing we have is LSD, which must be pumped into the water supply"""
2010-03-14,"b'Wyclef Jean Paid His Mistress $105,000 Through His Haiti Charity'"
2010-03-14,"b""Sweden's PM apologizes for 'genocide' vote  - Do you think the massacres of Armenians by Ottoman Turks should be labeled genocide?"""
2010-03-14,b'Shanghai prepares for Expo 2010 [PICS]'
2010-03-14,b'Israels apartheid: Making Palestinians pay for Hitlers crimes'
2010-03-14,"b'Iran sentences 6 protesters to death. The protesters wanted to celebrate a thousand-year old annual tradition (""the Feast of Fire""), which was deemed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as having, ""...no religious basis and is harmful and must be avoided.""'"
2010-03-14,b'Muslim gangs imposing sharia law in British prisons'
2010-03-14,"b'General Petraeus, responsible in part for the successful surge in Iraq, asked for Israel-Palestine to be put under his regional command.'"
2010-03-14,b'British couple appealing Dubai kiss conviction - A man and a woman kissing is against the law. Dubai - a place to be.'
2010-03-14,"b""Married for a Minute: Is Iran's mullah-backed system of temporary marriage a godsend for the sexually frustratedor religious prostitution?"""
2010-03-14,b'Fathers in the UK will now be able to spend the night in the maternity ward with their new baby'
2010-03-14,b'Democracy proposed for Britain - Labour has plan to ditch the House of Lords '
2010-03-14,b'COMPUTER hackers linked to the Russian mafia robbed Royal Bank of Scotland customers of 6million in 12 hours.'
2010-03-14,"b""How Dubai unraveled a homicide, frame by frame  A mix of old-fashioned legwork and high-tech razzle-dazzle, scouring hundreds of hours of surveillance videos, helped police home in on suspects in a Hamas man's slaying, blamed on Israel's Mossad."""
2010-03-14,b'The Australian Government says it has been swamped by overseas requests for camels since efforts to control feral camels in Central Australia attracted international media attention.'
2010-03-14,"b'80pc of Chileans without power\n\nA vast area of earthquake-hit Chile, including the capital city of Santiago, has been plunged into darkness by a massive blackout, the National Emergency Office said.'"
2010-03-14,"b'Man threatens massacre at Stockholm college on 4chan, arrested.'"
2010-03-14,"b'The White House is raising the stakes with Israel, calling it an ""insult"" and an ""affront"" that the Jewish nation would continue plans to build 1,600 new apartments'"
2010-03-14,"b""Pope's friend, a German cardinal, suspended for children sex-abuse conviction"""
2010-03-14,"b'In an effort to stop growing Palestinian protests against the Wall, Israel declares the West Bank villages of Bil\'in and Ni\'lin a ""closed military area"" until August 17.'"
2010-03-14,"b""5 Reasons Why Russia Isn't China."""
2010-03-14,b'Europe trashes ACTA as Obama praises it'
2010-03-13,"b""Oh shit. Venezuela's Chavez calls for internet controls: 'The Internet cannot be something open where anything is said and done'"""
2010-03-13,"b'Israeli ""War Tourists"" Watch Bombs Drop on Gaza while sipping Cappucino. '"
2010-03-13,"b'How Dubai unraveled a homicide, frame by frame '"
2010-03-13,b'British couple face jail time in Dubai over kiss'
2010-03-13,"b'Israel Punks Itself: Its new ad campaign, which claims settlements are ""restored villages"" and that most Palestinians are actually economic immigrants from other countries, is drawing ridicule at home and abroad.'"
2010-03-13,b'Sweden to recognize Armenian genocide'
2010-03-13,"b""Don't celebrate these billionaires, be horrified by their existence"""
2010-03-13,b'Clinton berates Netanyahu over settlements'
2010-03-13,"b'In April 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a nonbinding resolution urging that every reference to Palestinian refugees raised in international forums be matched by a similarly explicit reference to the uprooting of Jewish communities from Arab countries. '"
2010-03-13,"b'Egypt: Copts ask, ""is the State Security there to protect all citizens or just the Muslims?""'"
2010-03-13,"b'Burying myths, uncovering truth: In the aftermath of fighting or repression, people are often told to forget things. But in free societies, selective memory cannot be imposed for ever'"
2010-03-13,"b""China warns Google's partners to censor search results even if Google wont. If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible and you will have to bear the consequences."""
2010-03-13,b'Is the Pope Toast?'
2010-03-13,b'Powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes Indonesia'
2010-03-13,"b'Fake Russian Attack Report Throws Georgia in Panic - An anchor of Imedi TV has apologized for the panic the report might have created, saying, We just wanted to show what the most terrible day in Georgias history could be like.'"
2010-03-13,b'Thousands attend anti-Berlusconi protest in Rome'
2010-03-13,"b""Berlin's police will allow children to legally make a noise."""
2010-03-13,b'Nato covered up botched night raid in Afghanistan that killed five'
2010-03-13,b'UK plans to cut the drink driving limit to less than a pint of beer or a glass of wine '
2010-03-13,"b'10,000 Bikers in Wootton Bassett tribute to fallen \r\nsoldiers'"
2010-03-13,b'Black fathers urged to be more involved with their children'
2010-03-13,b'Video: Inside Scotland Yards deep infiltration squad'
2010-03-13,"b""Israel's announcement of plans to build 1,600 homes for Jews in East Jerusalem was destructive to peace efforts, a top aide to Barack Obama says"""
2010-03-13,b'SARKOZY faces likely defeat.'
2010-03-13,"b'A bantustan was a territory set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa , as part of the policy of apartheid [pic].'"
2010-03-12,"b'""We must start to accept that 5% of the population at any given time is bonkers. There are no steps to be taken to stamp this out and no lessons to be learnt when a man with a beard boards a plane with an exploding dog.""'"
2010-03-12,"b'A great NBC piece aired during the Olympics on what happened on September 11th when 39 transatlantic flights were redirected to the small town of Gander, Newfoundland in Canada. [Vid]'"
2010-03-12,b'On the Spot with Kim Jong-il - The Big Picture'
2010-03-12,b'Eleven Siberian Tigers starve to death at Chinese Zoo'
2010-03-12,b'US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has sharply rebuked Israel over its recent decision to build new settlements in East Jerusalem.'
2010-03-12,b'The likelihood of a woman dying in childbirth in the US is five times greater than in Greece - WHO'
2010-03-12,"b'Pope will struggle to survive abuse scandal - ""The latest revelations are so potentially damaging to the reputation of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that speculation was mounting last night that they could severely, perhaps even irreparably, damage his moral authority as Pope Benedict XVI.""'"
2010-03-12,b'Google 99.9 Percent Sure to Shut Down in China (Update1) - BusinessWeek'
2010-03-12,b'China to build high speed rail lines: London to Beijing to Singapore'
2010-03-12,b'Three killed after man walks in on threesome'
2010-03-12,"b'The bankers lied. And Darling, a mere puppet on their string, knows it: Britain has paid a horrific price for allowing the City to dictate credit policy. Yet there is no inquiry, no questioning, only silence!'"
2010-03-12,"b'Over 40 people have been killed in a wave of bombings in the Pakistani city of Lahore.  It is suspected that the army was the main target, though mostly civilians were killed.'"
2010-03-12,"b'""The Pope Was Drawn Directly into the Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal for the First Time Tonight as News Emerged of His Part in a Decision to Send a Paedophile Priest for Therapy. The Priest Went on to Reoffend and Was Convicted of Child Abuse but Continues to Work as Priest in Upper Bavaria.""'"
2010-03-12,"b""Pope is 'shocked' to hear of abuse case in Munich while he was archbishop"""
2010-03-12,"b'""In Argentina, any success is viewed as suspicious, unless it is won on the football pitch."" An article describing in detail just how corrupt Argentina can be.  '"
2010-03-12,b'Pakistani Army Paying Pensions to Families of Lashkar-e-Taiba Operatives Who Carried out Mumbai Massacre...'
2010-03-12,b'Israel seals off the occupied Palestinian territory of West Bank - no one will be allowed in or out for 48 hours'
2010-03-12,"b'Unique Arctic ""doomsday"" stockpile of all the world\'s crop seeds has reached the half-million species mark'"
2010-03-12,"b""'They herded us into one place and started chopping with machetes...'"""
2010-03-12,b'Thailand braces for mass protests'
2010-03-12,"b""Several dozen Palestinian women scuffled with Israeli troops today. Four arrested, none injured. Firebombs thrown. However, the settler movement still isn't getting the hint."""
2010-03-12,b'China warns Google to comply with censorship laws'
2010-03-12,"b'IRAQ: Women Miss Saddam. Since Iraqis overthrew the British-installed monarchy, Iraqi women had most of the rights that Western women do. Now their Constitution states: ""Islam is the official religion of the state and is a basic source of legislation.""'"
2010-03-12,b'Rachel Corrie case stirs fresh pain and hope -- Family of activist killed by Israeli bulldozer sues in an Israeli court.'
2010-03-12,b'Azerbaijan: Appeal Court Leaves Bloggers in Jail'
2010-03-11,"b'A former Scientologist who says she was a ""child slave"" and alleges she saw a six-year-old boy chained up in a ship\'s hold is disappointed the Senate has blocked a full inquiry into the religious organisation.'"
2010-03-11,b'Breaking: Second Earthquake Strikes Chile - Magnitude 7.2'
2010-03-11,"b""Does anybody else find it absurd that the US and NATO have been fighting the Taliban since 2001 and still haven't won? """
2010-03-11,"b'Sweden Recognizes Armenian, Assyrian and Greek Genocide'"
2010-03-11,"b""Two Israeli soldiers face up to 3 years in prison for forcing a Palestinian boy to open up suspected 'booby traps'"""
2010-03-11,b'Police State: Homeland Security Shows Us Its Mobile Mind Screening Checkpoints  '
2010-03-11,b'Clinton warns Netanyahu that U.S.-Israeli relationship is at risk'
2010-03-11,"b""Israel: Jewish group urges supermodel not to marry Leonardo DiCaprio, because he's not Jewish"""
2010-03-11,b'Found in a burial pit: Fifty-one Scandinavian Vikings decapitated by Anglo Saxons'
2010-03-11,b'Russia to build 12 nuclear reactors in India'
2010-03-11,"b""The world's billionaires saw their wealth grow by 50 percent last year, and their ranks swell to 1,011, from 793, according to the latest Forbes list of billionaires. The combined net worth of these 1,011 individuals increased to $3.6 trillion, up $1.2 trillion from the year before."""
2010-03-11,"b""Police State: UK develops 'Intelligent CCTV'"""
2010-03-11,b'You wonder why Greece is fucked? Hairdressers have the right to retire with a full pension at age 50. '
2010-03-11,"b""China's oil demand increases an 'astonishing' 28% in January, says International Energy Agency"""
2010-03-11,b'Israel seals off occupied West Bank'
2010-03-11,b'Japan arrests activist who boarded whaling ship'
2010-03-11,b'The practice of torture by the United States is a highly negative influence on the world.'
2010-03-11,b'Greece debt: EU agrees bailout deal'
2010-03-11,"b'""Could the Israeli government make it any more obvious they have no intention of sharing the Over-Promised Land with its other inhabitants?""'"
2010-03-11,"b'UN Report says half of the food sent to Somalia is diverted to corrupt contractors, UN workers and militants'"
2010-03-11,"b""Lehman Brothers' former heads criticised for lapses. Yeah, because a slap on the wrist is definitely an appropriate response.."""
2010-03-11,"b'Anti-whaling activist arrives in Tokyo, is arrested by authorities'"
2010-03-11,b'Palestinian Loss of Land: 1946-2000'
2010-03-11,b'Brazilian president Lula said world leaders are afraid that Israel may attack Iran if a diplomatic solution over the countrys nuclear program is not reached quickly.'
2010-03-11,b'The real reason behind Greek economic problems'
2010-03-10,"b""I know it has been said before, but Al Jazeera English is one of the best news outlets out there.  It's a shame most Americans think they're in cahoots with terrorists."""
2010-03-10,"b""50-year french mystery of the 'cursed bread' solved: CIA spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment"""
2010-03-10,"b'A new government commercial currently running on one of Britains most popular radio stations is selling one thing  fear  by encouraging Londoners to report their neighbors as terrorists if they use cash, enjoy their privacy, or even close their curtains.'"
2010-03-10,"b'This photos are taken in the mental institution, and you will get to see that most of the people are with some physical disability too. The conditions are terrible and this people dont get the proper medical care.'"
2010-03-10,"b'""The Devil resides in the Vatican"" says Vatican Chief Exorcist.'"
2010-03-10,b'Facebook may sue the Daily Mail - Awesome! '
2010-03-10,b'Joe Biden: Israel undermining peace effort'
2010-03-10,b'(France) Teacher Sprayed with Gas after Denouncing al-Qaeda...'
2010-03-10,"b'Poll asked ""Should whether Arab citizens should be granted rights equal to that of Jews in Israel?"" 49.5% of Israeli high school students answered NO.'"
2010-03-10,"b'The human rights situation in Iran has rapidly degenerated into government-led ""killings of election protesters and acts of politically motivated torture, beatings and rape""'"
2010-03-10,"b""Israel's Labor Party may quit the governing coalition over settlement decision."""
2010-03-10,"b'Behold! The World\'s Most Traveled Man: 806 ""countries"" in ten years.'"
2010-03-10,b'Morocco says it will take a tough line on proselytizing -- two days after 20 Christians are expelled for trying to convert children'
2010-03-10,b'8 reporters kidnapped in Mexican city'
2010-03-10,b'Murdoch(jnr): illegal downloading no different from stealing a handbag '
2010-03-10,b'China now has more billionaires than any other country besides the United States'
2010-03-10,b'Iran unveils new cruise missile'
2010-03-10,"b""Hungary criminalises holocaust denial - Truth needs no 'law' to protect it."""
2010-03-10,"b'7 Years After Killing, Family of Slain US Peace Activist Rachel Corrie Heads to Israel for Wrongful Death Suit Against Israeli Govt'"
2010-03-10,b'Nationwide strike brings Greece to a standstill '
2010-03-10,"b""Mexican Carlos Slim Huan overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man, according to the Forbes 'rich list'. In related news, the Mexican GDP per capita in PPP is US$10,600."""
2010-03-10,"b'Climate change is a fact, says China'"
2010-03-10,"b'Why the Greeks are protesting: Cuts in ""bonus pay"" bite into income that civil servants rely on'"
2010-03-10,"b'ANC defends \'Kill the Boer\' song - The ruling ANC defended youth leader Julius Malema for singing, ""shoot the boers, they are rapists"", saying the lyrics of the song had been quoted out of context.'"
2010-03-10,b'Battle Ground Athens: second general strike leads to pitched battles | libcom.org'
2010-03-09,b'Holland proposes giving anyone over 70 the right to die if they have simply had enough and consider their lives complete'
2010-03-09,"b""Love thy neighbor: Protected by the IDF, settlers destroy natural spring used by Palestinians for farming near Salfit by pouring cement into the spring. I can't for a single moment imagine how it must be to live amongst these vile people."""
2010-03-09,b'India wants to give women 1/3 of legislative seats.  Vote was 186-1'
2010-03-09,"b'Having been removed in favor of Nazis, members of the Jewish family have been sheltering this winter in a tent on the sidewalk opposite their home of more than five decades.'"
2010-03-09,"b'Chomsky: Aid Should Go to Haitian Popular Organizations, Not to Contractors or NGOs '"
2010-03-09,"b""Trial begins over the death of Rachel Corrie. She was killed while she was trying to stop Palestinians' homes being demolished in Gaza."""
2010-03-09,b'Is this what Israel is becoming?  Israeli Settlers (who earlier evicted Palestinians from their home) sing songs that praise mass murderer Baruch Goldstein.  [Video]'
2010-03-09,"b'  At least 3,000 protesters, including Israelis and Palestinians, have rallied in an Arab quarter of east Jerusalem to protest the eviction of Palestinians from their homes there in favor of Jewish settlers.rally'"
2010-03-09,"b""US Vice-President Joe Biden has condemned Israel's approval of 1,600 new homes for ultra-Orthodox Jews in East Jerusalem."""
2010-03-09,"b""When a tsunami crashed into an asylum in Chile, two unlikely heroines, one schizophrenic, the other mentally disabled, formed a team to save their friends' lives. With water up to their necks, they dragged other patients to safety. [video]"""
2010-03-09,b'Muslim woman expelled from Canadian school for refusing to remove her niqab veil'
2010-03-09,"b'Microsoft\'s Bing search engine is filtering out ""offensive"" words in Arab countries. Words like: gay, bisexual, lesbian and transvestite'"
2010-03-09,b'Billionaires and Mega-Corporations Behind Immense Land Grab in Africa | 20+ countries are selling or leasing land for intensive agriculture on a shocking scale in what may be the greatest change of ownership since the colonial era. '
2010-03-09,b'I was just following a bee.'
2010-03-09,b'Pakistani pols who refused airport body scans hailed as heroes in Pakistan'
2010-03-09,b'China: 70-Year-Old Grandmother Beaten & Buried Alive By Property Developers Trying To Take Her Land'
2010-03-09,"b'One American official recently conceded that Somalias best hope was the governments new military chief, a 60-year-old former artillery officer who, until a few months ago, was assistant manager at a McDonalds in suburban Germany.'"
2010-03-09,"b""Catholic Sex Abuse Accusations Spread Across Europe; Was Pope's brother involved in cover-ups?"""
2010-03-09,"b""A third of the world's jailed journalists are imprisoned in Iran; China is next with 24 jailed journalists followed by Cuba with 22"""
2010-03-09,b'Israeli court to hear civil case over death of Rachel Corrie in Gaza'
2010-03-09,"b""Parents want Israel to answer for daughter's bulldozer death"""
2010-03-09,"b'""Jihad Jane"" Colleen LaRose from Pennsylvania recruited Muslims in Ireland to kill Swedish cartoonist, Lars Vilks'"
2010-03-09,"b""China's exports rise 46% from a year ago"""
2010-03-09,"b""Canada learns that foreign ownership means increased suffering for Canada's workers. """
2010-03-09,b'Bluefin tuna trade ban gains European Union backing'
2010-03-08,b'Soldier throws back grenade'
2010-03-08,"b""(Nigeria) Over five-hundred Christians, mostly women and children, are hacked to death by Muslim raiders with machetes in a night-time attack on their village. The killers yelled 'Allah Akbar,' as they chopped."""
2010-03-08,"b""Germany Is Tired of Paying Europe's Bills"""
2010-03-08,"b""Israel 'approves' 1600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem homes - just as 'peace talks' start, whilst the US vice president is visiting, following on from the 100+ new homes in the occupied West Bank.  No doubt it will again be the fault of the Palestinians the peace process fails?"""
2010-03-08,b'Europe bars Wall Street banks from government bond sales '
2010-03-08,b'Seven people have been arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad'
2010-03-08,"b'A dozen previously unknown shipwrecks, some of them believed to be up to 1,000 years old, have been discovered in the Baltic Sea'"
2010-03-08,b'Brazil slaps trade sanctions on US over illegal US subsidies for cotton'
2010-03-08,"b""Pope's brother Georg Ratzinger linked to child abuse claims\n"""
2010-03-08,"b'Joe Biden coming to Israel to jump start peace talks. Israel tells Biden to f*ck off and approves the building of 1,600 new homes in occupied East Jerusalem.'"
2010-03-08,"b'Baden-Powel, founder of The Scouts, held talks with senior Nazis in 1937 to foster closer ties with The Hitler Youth, newly declassified documents reveal.'"
2010-03-08,"b""France's disneyland couple Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruniare apparently both having affairs"""
2010-03-08,b'Chile: Nine Days Later'
2010-03-08,b'Dutch Pirate Party has decided to join the national elections'
2010-03-08,"b'At first, it seemed like an isolated incident of abuse at one Catholic school in Berlin. But now, in little over a month, it has ballooned into a massive scandal'"
2010-03-08,b'How paedophile priest was allowed to evade justice'
2010-03-08,"b'The biggest offensive of the Afghanistan War against what it was told was a ""city of 80,000 people"", Marjah, this picture obediently reported by major news media is one of the clearest and most dramatic pieces of misinformation of the entire war'"
2010-03-08,b'Crackdown on dangerous dogs in the UK to make microchips compulsory for all.  New plans also require compulsory third-party insurance.'
2010-03-08,b'LIFE and Google bring us 10 million historic images'
2010-03-08,b'Indonesia defies doomsayers to become a surprise success story '
2010-03-08,b'Women and girls rejoice at the retreat of the \r\nTaliban in the Swat Valley in Pakistan... time for a \r\nnew beginning'
2010-03-08,"b""It's terror check chaos as dozens miss US flights"""
2010-03-08,"b'Israel, Syria announce intent to develop nuclear power'"
2010-03-08,b'Bad things happen when empires fall apart'
2010-03-08,"b'UNICEF estimates that more than 20,000 children lost their parents in the Jan. 12 quake and its aftermath. Relatives or neighbors are caring for many of these children. Others, such as a group of boys in a Port-au-Prince park, are fending for themselves. '"
2010-03-07,b'Almost four in five people worldwide see internet \r\naccess as fundamental right'
2010-03-07,"b""Japan says won't comply with bluefin tuna ban\n"""
2010-03-07,"b'Nigeria: Muslims Attack Christian Village, 300 Hacked to Death Including Women and Children With Machetes...'"
2010-03-07,b'Muslim herdsmen armed with guns and machetes attacked three Christian villages outside Jos. More than 120 dead'
2010-03-07,b'Muslim leader calls for elements of sharia family law to be introduced in Australia'
2010-03-07,"b'Iceland voters reject debt deal with Britain and the Netherlands. ""I voted no. We have to send a message that these countries are not going to profit from this situation."" '"
2010-03-07,"b'Revealed: Nazi spy duped by failed actor in Montys Double hoax - In 1944 a washed-up, boozy Australian actor named Meyrick Clifton James experienced one of the oddest career revivals in history...'"
2010-03-07,"b'Here in the UK we have the worlds largest DNA database, with 1 in 10 of the population included in it. That must be quite effective I hear you say. Well actually fewer than one in every 1,300 crimes is solved using it, I would have to reply.'"
2010-03-07,b'Five-Hundred People Slaughter in Religious Clashes in Nigeria'
2010-03-07,"b'A tribe in India is going through similar oppression to the Na\'vi in Avatar... and they\'ve appealed to James Cameron for help because ""he will understand.""'"
2010-03-07,"b'On the same day that Gordon Brown insisted that the illegal Iraq war was the ""right"" thing to do, Lance Corporal Joe Glenton was sentenced to nine months imprisonment for refusing to return to Afghanistan to fight a war he believed to be unjustified and a senseless loss of life'"
2010-03-07,b'Turkey earthquake kills 51; scientists say earthquake frequency not rising'
2010-03-07,"b'Israel is expected to unveil plans this week to build a nuclear power plant, reports say.'"
2010-03-07,"b""Germany's ARD TV drama sparks Scientology's ire"""
2010-03-07,b'Turkish earthquake kills dozens\nAt least 38 people dead after magnitude 6 earthquake strikes east of country in early hours of morning'
2010-03-07,b'Vancouver man to sue makers of Academy Award-nominee Avatar'
2010-03-07,"b'U.S. Eases Software Export Restrictions to Iran, Cuba and the Sudan'"
2010-03-07,"b'The US sends two peace envoys, Israel sticks up two fingers.'"
2010-03-07,b'BBC News - Mapping the growth of the internet'
2010-03-07,"b'Turkey: ""homosexuality is a disease"", says Minister'"
2010-03-07,b'Third Hong Kong acid attack in six months'
2010-03-07,b'Trio of asylum seekers leap from block of flats in suicide pact after asylum bid rejected. '
2010-03-07,"b'Buddhist Thailand: Islamists open fire on a father and his three daughters, killing him and a 7-year-old.'"
2010-03-07,"b""Blood Rubies: Are Your Dollars Propping Up Burma's Junta? """
2010-03-07,b'Australia and NZ clash on whaling'
2010-03-06,"b""Berlusconi's party messes up registration of his candidates in forthcoming elections. He 'changes' the law to re-admit them, violating Italian Constitution (article 73: don't change election regulations with emergency laws)."""
2010-03-06,b'RAF helicoptor pilot shot between the eyes by Taliban flies 20 to safety - Telegraph'
2010-03-06,b'Australian writer sums up insensibility of War on Drugs in four paragraphs.'
2010-03-06,"b'Waste watchers? British trash bins being fitted with microchips, raising surveillance fears'"
2010-03-06,"b'""White woman says attack was racist""'"
2010-03-06,b'Bob Geldof has challenged the BBC to substantiate its report that millions raised for famine relief in Ethiopia were diverted to pay for weapons.'
2010-03-06,"b'Ahmadinejad: Sept. 11 attacks a ""big lie""'"
2010-03-06,b'How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab '
2010-03-06,b'Iceland rejects plan to repay Icesave debts'
2010-03-06,"b""Indonesia: Forced church closings spike. All is not well for Christians in country with the world's largest Muslim population."""
2010-03-06,"b""Liberia, emerging from decades of war, thought its debt problems were finally over after western countries cancelled most of it. Then they found out they'd been tricked by a few private fund owners who pretended to participate in the deal.  (BBC, full length version)"""
2010-03-06,"b'Israeli film directory whose film is up for an Oscar: ""The film technically represents Israel, but I don\'t represent Israel. I cannot represent a country that does not represent me.  There\'s a Palestinian director, an Israeli director, Palestinian actors and Israeli actors.""'"
2010-03-06,"b""BBC News - Boeing 747 survives simulated 'Flight 253' bomb blast"""
2010-03-06,"b'AP Wrong, Pakistani Officials Say American-al-Qaida has not Been Arrested'"
2010-03-06,b'A Muslim magazine has apologised after two of its journalists pretended to be Roman Catholics and took Holy Communion in a church'
2010-03-06,"b""Mosquito nets 'fail to curb malaria' in Malawi"""
2010-03-06,b'Bob Geldof has challenged the BBC to substantiate its report that millions raised for famine relief in Ethiopia were diverted to pay for weapons.'
2010-03-06,b'Sri Lankan General to go on hunger strike after being detained for daring to run for president'
2010-03-06,"b'The head of Chinas central bank has given the strongest signal yet that the country will move away from pegging its currency to the dollar, but he said any changes would be gradual.'"
2010-03-06,"b""The European Commission is planning an EU-wide minimum tax on carbon as part of the EU's green energy agenda - but the UK opposes such a move."""
2010-03-06,"b""Iraqs die to cast a vote, but in America we're too good/lazy/apathetic/etc.  What happened to us???"""
2010-03-06,"b""Real-life 'Avatar' happening in Orissa, India"""
2010-03-06,"b'Socialized Medicine Saved Me: When Pulitzer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks was diagnosed with cancer overseas, she didnt hightail it back home, to the best health care in the world- she stayed in Australia, home to a humane, rational system'"
2010-03-06,b'Passenger ships stuck in ice for hours off Swedish coast'
2010-03-06,"b'Egyptian blogger was detained for criticizing army, is now released'"
2010-03-05,"b'London 2012 Olympics -- ""Police will have powers to enter private homes and seize posters""'"
2010-03-05,b'No to Nynorsk: Norwegian county of Rogaland moving towards doing away with Nynorsk in favour of Bokml in order to strengthen the Norwegian language'
2010-03-05,b'Iceland rejects Icesave bill in referendum'
2010-03-05,b'Your daily dose of North Korean insanity'
2010-03-05,b'The teenager is believed to be the first person \r\ncharged under Australian law with offensive \r\nbehaviour for listening to music.'
2010-03-05,"b'""The internet is a net to trap people,"" Chinese blogger in translation'"
2010-03-05,"b""Lost Jewish tribe 'found in Zimbabwe'"""
2010-03-05,b'Blackwater Iraq allegations prompt US review'
2010-03-05,"b'Guatemala: top cops busted, death squads exposed'"
2010-03-05,b'Hailstorm brings chaos to Melbourne'
2010-03-05,b'Bitterness and unease in bankrupt Zimbabwe'
2010-03-05,"b""First contact: The man who'll welcome aliens"""
2010-03-05,"b'In Baghdad, Sunnis await elections with unease '"
2010-03-05,"b'Oil, the other Iraq election issue'"
2010-03-05,b'Icelandic referendum set to snub UK repayment demand '
2010-03-05,"b""'Superpower: Exploring the extraordinary power of the internet.' [BBC] """
2010-03-05,b'Photos of Palestinian daily suffering!! worth checking out!!'
2010-03-05,"b'Turkish PM says U.S. vote to ""greatly harm"" ties'"
2010-03-05,b'Egyptian queens burial chamber discovered in Egypt'
2010-03-05,"b'ChinaDaily: Yuan to remain ""stable,"" ""opposes politicizing monetary issues,"" ""stimulus package benefits world""'"
2010-03-05,"b""Middle-aged British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates could be 'free in a fortnight'"""
2010-03-05,"b""Thousands of beachgoers shrugged off [tsunami] alerts following Chile's huge earthquake."""
2010-03-05,"b""UK child-killer's return to jail sparks debate. (James Bulger's murderer from 1993)"""
2010-03-05,"b'A man believed to be a sumo wrestler ripped out a cash machine weighing 90kg (200lb) and made off with it on his shoulders, police in Moscow report.'"
2010-03-05,"b'Kidnapping for ransom is one of the most profitable and widespread criminal enterprises in Pakistan. But it is one that has, until now, been fairly well hidden.'"
2010-03-04,b'Poland Looks Inward After Film Puts Mall Girl Culture on View'
2010-03-04,b'Rats that find land mines are saving lives in Africa. This is how they are trained'
2010-03-04,b'Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem celebrate massacre of 29 Palestinians by Jewish terrorist'
2010-03-04,b'Two dead as giant waves hit cruise ship...WOW'
2010-03-04,b'Jews praying at Western Wall pelted with rocks following an Islamic sermon on a recent Israeli decision to include two West Bank shrines on a list of national heritage sites'
2010-03-04,b'Man executed by firing squad for using cell phone'
2010-03-04,"b""Japan's Princess Aiko 'bullied at school'"""
2010-03-04,"b'Tobacco giant, Philip Morris, files lawsuit against Uruguay, charging that new health measures involving cigarette packaging amount to unfair treatment of the company!'"
2010-03-04,"b""Mexican gov't official fired for painting teen's buttocks as punishment for graffiti tagging"""
2010-03-04,"b'Unemployed Woman with 11 Children from 5 Different Fathers Enjoys $60,000 salary from British Taxpayers'"
2010-03-04,b'Priest gets suspended sexual assault sentence'
2010-03-04,"b""Respected Danish journalist admits 'I was a Mossad agent'"""
2010-03-04,"b'""All that the Pakistani Taliban wanted was money and that\'s all they talked about. They were not religious men. We did not see any one of them offering prayers even once."" - A rescued hostage'"
2010-03-04,b'Airline pilot arrested in Amsterdam for flying 13 years with bogus licence'
2010-03-04,b'The unlelected house is the only one with any sense: House of Lords makes moves to scrap bill clause which would let the government and corporations  spy on us all'
2010-03-04,b'Japan will not comply if a ban on international trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna is imposed'
2010-03-04,b'Maoists plan to overthrow Indian government '
2010-03-04,"b""Australian woman 'decapitated during freak lawnmower accident'"""
2010-03-04,"b'""I am sorry for what I did and hope that my \r\ndaughter does not suffer any more in heaven""- girl \r\ndies after parents become obsessed with raising \r\nvirtual baby while their real daughter lay abandoned \r\nand unfed'"
2010-03-04,"b""Germany convicts 4 'Sauerland group' bomb plotters (with help from the CIA)"""
2010-03-04,"b'A proposal to remove donor organs from patients who are dying before they are actually dead, published today in the Dutch medical journal Medisch Contact, has met with fierce criticism.'"
2010-03-04,b'Death toll from Chilean earthquake sharply revised down from 802 to 279.'
2010-03-04,"b'Dozens of ships that had been trapped in ice in the Baltic Sea off Stockholm, some for several days, have been freed'"
2010-03-04,"b""Papal aide, Vatican men's choir in gay prostitution ring"""
2010-03-04,b'Irish foreign minister speaks out against Gaza blockade in I.H.T. Op-ed.'
2010-03-03,b'The silent rebellion begins: 2 women refuse full body scanning at Manchester and give up their flight to retain their right to privacy.'
2010-03-03,"b""Disturbing story of Falluja's birth defects"""
2010-03-03,b'Wow... Amazing pics of Colorful India..'
2010-03-03,b'Chinas Human-flesh search engines - a form of online vigilante justice in which Internet users hunt down and punish people who have attracted their wrath.'
2010-03-03,b'How 12-year-old girl saved her Chilean island from catastrophe'
2010-03-03,b'Dutch anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders is major winner in local elections'
2010-03-03,b'Can I refuse an electronic strip search at an airport without being detained?'
2010-03-03,b'Divorced Before Puberty... wtf? '
2010-03-03,b'A Saudi woman who filed harassment claims in Saudi Arabia without being accompanied by a male relative has been sentenced to 300 lashes and 18 months in jail.'
2010-03-03,b'What it means to go to Ben Gurion airport with an Arab friend'
2010-03-03,b'Earthquake (6.4) hits Taiwan this time'
2010-03-03,b'North Korean man executed for making cell phone call'
2010-03-03,"b""Six years ago, there were claims that the U.S. used white phosphorous and depleted uranium in Fallujah.  Today, there's a disturbingly large number of cases of birth defects there."""
2010-03-03,"b""Birth defects 'have risen since US Falluja operation'"""
2010-03-03,"b'A US congressional panel has described the killing of Armenians by Turkish forces during World War I as genocide, despite White House objections.'"
2010-03-03,b'Bishop asks parishioners for cash to help to pay abuse claims'
2010-03-03,"b'I always felt bad for thinking this was a scam, but it looks like I was right: Millions of Ethiopian famine aid was used to buy weapons '"
2010-03-03,b'Backlash from Simon Singh libel case puts chiropractors on ropes: One in four chiropractors in Britain are under investigation as a result of campaign by Singh supporters'
2010-03-03,b'US panel: Armenia killings genocide'
2010-03-03,"b""Iceland's economic and political future hangs in the balance as it heads towards a referendum on how to compensate Britain and the Netherlands for money lost in the collapse of an Icelandic bank."""
2010-03-03,b'Shades of Watts: Italy has been hit by a new outbreak of race riots after an Egyptian man was stabbed to death in Milan. '
2010-03-03,"b""Armenia killings called 'genocide': \nHouse panel angers Turkey, Obama by calling 1915 killings 'genocide.'"""
2010-03-03,"b'Like the harvesting organs scandal Israel will keep denying this until someone from the Government comes clean in the next 10 years, then they will say it was a practice they stopped 10 years ago'"
2010-03-03,b'Mexico City sees gay marriage law'
2010-03-03,"b""First Australia didn't like video games.  Now, it doesn't like real games.  How far is this going to go?"""
2010-03-02,"b'Investigation reveals the 1985 Live Aid and Band Aid which raised $250 million, had 95% of that money diverted to support Ethiopian rebels and to buy weapons.'"
2010-03-02,"b""Because a number of you have asked about my post-reddit life, here's my first entry as a Kiva Fellow in Armenia"""
2010-03-02,b'Irish Catholic Bishop Asks Parishioners to Help Cover Costs of Sex Abuse Lawsuits; Parishioners and abuse victims disgusted.  So am I.'
2010-03-02,b'The night when the lights when out in Chile.'
2010-03-02,b'Dubai seeks arrest of Israeli prime minister and Mossad chief over murder of Hamas leader'
2010-03-02,b'Victory for freedom of expression in New Zealand: court rules that naked bicycle riding is legal'
2010-03-02,b'New U.S. Embassy In London To Cost $1 Billion (PHOTOS)'
2010-03-02,b'Australia plans to dump toxic waste on tribal lands'
2010-03-02,"b'All of the 4 arrested had been trained by the CIA and, possibly, Israel.'"
2010-03-02,"b'On Feb. 20, four Muslim women took a conspicuous step to protest gender segregation in Muslim mosques by refusing to relegate themselves to a cordoned-off prayer zone for women and instead worshiped with the men at the Islamic Center of Washington, D.C. '"
2010-03-02,b'Pakistan reveals the Talibans secret underground cave network'
2010-03-02,"b'\'Son of Hamas\' who spied for Israel: ""I have gone from being a prince in my country to the lowest possible level, of being a traitor""'"
2010-03-02,b'Giant Rogue Waves hit cruise ship; 2 passengers killed when 26 foot waves hit off the French port of Marseille'
2010-03-02,b'Two people have been killed and six injured as giant waves slammed into a cruise ship in the Mediterranean'
2010-03-02,b'Two Thirds of Afghan Police Drop Out Before Training Completed: It would take another 82 years to have a properly trained police force'
2010-03-02,"b""Ethiopia aid 'spent on weapons'"""
2010-03-02,"b'Dear Reddit: The past 8 months have been hell for us Iranians abroad. So I just wanted to say that we are very proud to have won this award, and I want to share it with you. '"
2010-03-02,b'75% of Germans do not want to be chipped.'
2010-03-02,b'Saudi woman senteced to 300 lashes and jailed for 18 months for appearing in court without a male.\n'
2010-03-02,b'How the settlers backed by the IDF and Israeli government have created an apartheid state in Israel.  13 minute clip from 60 minutes really puts the Palestinians hell on earth into perspective'
2010-03-02,b'Ugandas environment dilemma as the countrys forest cover dwindles\n'
2010-03-02,b'Chas Freeman: This time apartheid has western complicity'
2010-03-02,"b""Dubai seeks Israeli PM's arrest over hotel murder. """
2010-03-02,b'Apartheid in Israel: The mayor of Jerusalem has announced a plan to demolish an area of Arab East Jerusalem to make way for an upmarket district of luxury hotels and gardens.'
2010-03-02,"b'U.S. commanders Unsure Who\'s Behind Iraq Attacks: ""The big-time players aren\'t there anymore. The organized terrorists aren\'t there anymore.""'"
2010-03-01,b'BREAKING NEWS: German Federal Constitutional\nCourt rules against internet and telephone data storage! Fuck yeah!'
2010-03-01,b'Massive head of pharaoh unearthed in Egypt'
2010-03-01,"b""Chile's massive earthquake has likely altered the distribution of the Earth's overall mass, scientists from NASA say. As a result, the length of a day is now a little shorter than it was before Saturday's magnitude 8.8 earthquake.\r\n"""
2010-03-01,b'12-year-old Palestinian Child To Be Prosecuted As An Adult By An Israeli Military Court'
2010-03-01,b'Muslim scholar issues unequivocal condemnation of suicide bombers acting in the name of Islam'
2010-03-01,"b'Over-protected children missing out on ""dangerous"" childhood'"
2010-03-01,"b'So, in short, the BBC have decided to bend over and take it in the Ass from James Murdoch et al.'"
2010-03-01,b'Chinese police forced to resign amid allegations of torture and prisoner abuse. '
2010-03-01,"b'The Other Africa: The usual image of Africa as a continent mired in conflict and squalor is unfair and misleading. Yes, African has some failed states, but most of its 53 countries are mostly peaceful, agreeable places.'"
2010-03-01,"b'Fatwa to condemn terrorism to be issued: ""Suicide bombings and attacks against civilian are not only condemned by Islam, in other words, render them to be unbelievers destined for hell""'"
2010-03-01,"b'Changing face in Poland: Skinhead puts on skullcap. ""When I look at an old picture of myself as a skinhead, I feel ashamed. Every day I try and do teshuvah."" '"
2010-03-01,b'Israel is recording details of Israelis who protest with Palestinians rights activist in an effort to block these Israelis at checkpoints.'
2010-03-01,"b'Dubai will identify Israelis by ""physical features and the way they speak""'"
2010-03-01,"b'Former Serbian leader Karadi denies the Srebrenica genocide, calls war ""just and holy""'"
2010-03-01,"b'Chilean Army fails to regain control from looters, sends 10.000 soldiers to the earthquake region'"
2010-03-01,"b""Irish town representatives voted to remove a page signed by the Israeli ambassador from its guestbook in protest at Israel's diplomatic record."""
2010-03-01,b'Chile Update: Worse than originally thought. '
2010-03-01,"b'200 Russian tanks found abandoned in forest: ""It is like you can sit behind the wheel, start up the engine and drive off and nobody would notice!""'"
2010-03-01,b'France announced yesterday that it has entered into exclusive negotiations on the sale of four of its sophisticated Mistral-class assault ships to Russia. If completed it would be the first major arms sale of a Western nation to Russia since World War 2.'
2010-03-01,b'EWG: Uzbekistan authorities have instructed health workers to surgically sterilize women as part of a government campaign to reduce the birth rate in the authoritarian ex-Soviet nation.'
2010-03-01,b'The Taliban made life unbearable for non-islamic minorities causing migrations within Pakistan'
2010-03-01,b'Ex U.S. army colonel to make anti-war speech at major Canadian University'
2010-03-01,"b""Plainclothes police broke into Mr Panahi's family home and arrested him, his wife and daughter and 15 other guests"""
2010-03-01,b'Chinese model ready to sick authorities on her ex-boyfriend who posted explicit video'
2010-03-01,"b'Martin Ssempa, Ugandan minister with close ties to Rick Warren and a supporter of the bill to put homosexuals to death in that country, is showing gay porn during church services to get people all fired up to kill the gays'"
2010-02-28,"b'Dear World, Canada will be closed from noon to 3pm (PST) on Sunday.'"
2010-02-28,b'CANADA WINS 3-2 IN OVERTIME'
2010-02-28,b'Happy Holi - festival of colours - to all our Indian readers. Looks like a lot of fun.'
2010-02-28,b'NATO sinks Somali pirate mothership'
2010-02-28,b'Christians throw rocks at Voodoo practitioners honoring Haitian dead'
2010-02-28,"b'There are calls for Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to split from the US and Canada. Cascadia is not a bad idea.'"
2010-02-28,"b""Man's family isn't buying the official story that he died from drinking a glass of water"""
2010-02-28,"b""UK's X-Files to be destroyed from now on"""
2010-02-28,b'Rio narco war: These boys have become little Taleban who think they have nothing to lose'
2010-02-28,b'53 people killed by combination of tempest and high-tides in France. Most people drowned during the night in their own home.'
2010-02-28,"b'Storms batter France, National Emergency declared'"
2010-02-28,"b""France's national railway provoked a race row after producing a poster warning passengers to be on the look out for Romanians. """
2010-02-28,b'Israelis to be denied UAE entry over assassination scandal.'
2010-02-28,"b""UN's climate link to hurricanes in doubt"""
2010-02-28,"b'Gamers have flooded a government inquiry to \r\nsupport the case for an R18+ rating for games, but \r\na Christian group opposed to the change has \r\nwarned that the strong response was the result of a \r\nbiased consultation process and that little weight \r\nshould be attached to the submissions.'"
2010-02-28,"b'People travelling to the United Arab Emirates who are suspected of having Israeli citizenship will not be allowed to enter the country regardless of what passport they hold, Dubai police chief Dahi Khalfan Tamim said Monday.'"
2010-02-28,"b""Why business won't save the world"""
2010-02-28,b'An iceberg the size of Connecticut is heading towards Australia!'
2010-02-28,"b""A senior military official from Iran, the world's fourth-largest exporter of crude, said on Sunday the country could make European countries suffer by cutting off energy supplies and could target any adversary with its missiles."""
2010-02-28,b'Russian tanks found abandoned in Urals forest'
2010-02-28,"b'Prominent Israeli and father of Israel soldier held by Hamas, Noam Shalit, calls for the UN to implement Goldstone report.'"
2010-02-28,"b""'No clues' in disappearance of Australian nuclear scientist - What was he Working on?"""
2010-02-28,"b'Afghanistan bans coverage of attacks, will detain offending journalists'"
2010-02-28,"b""New IAEA chief says 'Iran not cooperating' - Is Iran really hiding something or is the UN getting the ball rolling for military action?"""
2010-02-28,b'Over A Quarter Of A Thousand Earthquakes Have Shaken The Earth in The Last Week'
2010-02-27,b'Amazing picture showing how the energy from the Chilean earthquake will dissipate across the Pacific. [pic] '
2010-02-27,"b""Eta 'leader' arrested in France"""
2010-02-27,"b""Its enormous need for water is on course to make the capital, Sana'a, the first in the world to die of thirst. """
2010-02-27,b'Tens of thousands of Italians have demonstrated in Rome against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi'
2010-02-27,"b""Britain's Judiciary in unprecedented attack on the Government and secret services over American torture. """
2010-02-27,b'Sixty million people in the developing world are leaving the countryside every year. The squatter cities that have emerged can teach us much about future urban living '
2010-02-27,"b'Lest we forget, Russia and the US have not talked down reducing ready arms from 1,675 deployed nuclear warheads in almost eight years.'"
2010-02-27,b'Europe wary of following Dubai killers trail: No serious investigation to trace the movement of suspects through Europe'
2010-02-27,"b""Why Chile's devastation is less than Haiti's"""
2010-02-27,b'Remember the article about the guy who was fined by British Police for blowing his nose whilst driving? They have decided not to prosecute.'
2010-02-27,b'Australia abandons Israel in UN vote'
2010-02-27,"b'California is at greater risk for default than Greece, warns JP Morgan chief'"
2010-02-27,"b'Deadly storm lashes Spain, Portugal and France '"
2010-02-27,b'Amorous British backpackers to blame for spread of STDs in Australia'
2010-02-27,b'Tsunami kills 5 in Robinson Crusoe islands'
2010-02-27,"b""The death toll from Chile's earthquake has more than doubled to 708 and is expected to rise!"""
2010-02-27,b'Yemen declares state of emergency in southern city'
2010-02-27,"b""Iceland secretly pressured US to defend it against British 'bullying' """
2010-02-27,b'Massive iceberg just broke off of Antartica'
2010-02-27,b'Somalis Write Poetry for Peace'
2010-02-27,"b'The population issue far outstrips political, moral and socioeconomic interests. It is related to the survival of the nation, which is why governments and private donors pour in money to help Indonesia keep its birth rate under control.\n'"
2010-02-27,"b'Nato draws up payout tariffs for Afghan civilian deaths - Average compensation paid by Britain to bereaved families falls from 7,300 to 2,900'"
2010-02-27,"b""Has BBC 6 Music fallen on deaf ears? James Murdoch, News Corporation's chairman and chief executive in Europe and Asia, steps up to buy 6 Music"""
2010-02-27,b'Hamas man was drugged with muscle relaxant then smothered'
2010-02-27,"b""Israel's heritage sites: A row about holy places threatens to engulf the Holy Land in new violence"""
2010-02-26,"b'Earthquake with a magnitude of 8.5 reported near Concepcion, Chile '"
2010-02-26,"b'Hey Canada, we want to say something to you: Stay classy. Except this time we\'re not being sarcastic (sorry about that): ""The Canadian crowd raised a chant of ""U-S-A!"" while the players got their bouquets.""'"
2010-02-26,"b'Hawaii - Tsunami Warning has been issued - will arrive @ about 11:19 HST Sat Feb 27, 2010'"
2010-02-26,b'Track Chilean 8.8 Earthquake Tsunami Size in Real Time'
2010-02-26,b'Massive earthquake of 8.3 magnitude strikes Chile!'
2010-02-26,"b'Life is elsewhere - In Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, more and more people are choosing to emigrate to other continents in a quest for better living conditions.\n'"
2010-02-26,"b""I'd like to remind reddit that the Taliban used to destroy opium crops. """
2010-02-26,b'Disaster pictures from Chile [The Big Picture set]'
2010-02-26,"b'Imagine the surprise of international inspectors almost two weeks ago when they watched as Iran moved nearly its entire stockpile of low-enriched nuclear fuel to an above-ground plant. It was as if, one official noted, a bulls-eye had been painted on it.'"
2010-02-26,"b'Tsunami Model for Chilean earthquake - Earthquake Research Institute, Tokyo'"
2010-02-26,"b'Egypt\'s Nuclear Option: President El Baradei? ""For someone like myself to be unable to run for president, this is a disaster. How can a constitution bar 99 percent of the people from running?""'"
2010-02-26,b'Chile Earthquake: Tsunami Hits New Zealand '
2010-02-26,b'Internet Not Working in Chile - all sites with .cl are dead at the moment'
2010-02-26,b'Israelis rush to join Mossad after Mahmoud al-Mabhouh killing'
2010-02-26,"b""UK Troops to remain in Afghanistan for '5 more years'"""
2010-02-26,b'Mystery of dead Briton and the right-wing cult'
2010-02-26,b'Live feed of Coconut Island in Hilo (where tsunami is supposed to hit first)'
2010-02-26,"b'Hawaii Tsunami Warning Information.  (Wave arrival estimates: 11:05 a.m. Hilo, 11:20 a.m. Maui, 11:35 a.m. Oahu, 11:50 a.m. Kauai, 9-12 ft. surge estimates.)'"
2010-02-26,"b'""I thought I\'d blown a tire ... but then I saw the highway moving like it was a piece of paper and I realized it was something much worse""'"
2010-02-26,"b'Hawaii prepares evacuations ahead of tsunami (Sat Feb 27, 2010 10:04am)'"
2010-02-26,b'Syrias population control strategy under scrutiny - Damascus government accused of failing to encourage contraception to deal with soaring birth rate.\n'
2010-02-26,b'Italian oil slick reaches key farm center of Parma'
2010-02-26,"b'Live feed of Chile-related twitpic images, updated every 2 minutes. May be NSFW'"
2010-02-26,"b""'Israel pressing U.S. not to send new envoy to Syria' """
2010-02-26,"b""\nUK troops to remain in Afghanistan 'for five years'\n"""
2010-02-25,b'Gaddafi calls for jihad against Switzerland '
2010-02-25,"b'Afghanistan, February, 2010 - The Big Picture'"
2010-02-25,"b'Born Hamas, turned Shin Bet: How the son of a Hamas founder ended up an Israeli agent.'"
2010-02-25,"b""Say goodbye to your $1.4bn fortune... we're having that thanks. """
2010-02-25,b'Israeli government videos portray Europeans as gullible'
2010-02-25,"b'Dubai hit squad underestimated police: expert - ""Israeli operatives badly bungled the job"" '"
2010-02-25,"b'""The Federal Reserve is examining the stratagems devised by Goldman Sachs and other big banks to help Greece mask its burgeoning debt over the last decade."" Say what?'"
2010-02-25,b'Danish newspaper apologises in Muhammad cartoons row'
2010-02-25,"b'Libya\'s Muammar Gaddafi has called for a jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland - ""Let us wage jihad against Switzerland, Zionism and foreign aggression"" '"
2010-02-25,b'Greeces problems deepened as the Federal Reserve disclosed it was investigating Goldman Sachs and other banks that helped the country mask its debts'
2010-02-25,"b'BBC cuts to 6Music, Asian Network, magazines, web, sport, imports. Still not enough for the Murdochs '"
2010-02-25,b'Lebanon arrests six suspected of spying for Israel '
2010-02-25,"b""The Falklands can no longer remain as Britain's expensive nuisance """
2010-02-25,b' UN debates call for Gaza probe  '
2010-02-25,"b""Violent French husbands 'may be tagged' """
2010-02-25,b'Judges release criticism of MI5 agents in Binyam Mohamed case'
2010-02-25,b'EU: Israeli goods made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank cannot be considered Israeli'
2010-02-25,"b'3,000 square kilometers of iceberg breaks off Antarctica '"
2010-02-25,b'UK court orders disclosure of spy agency criticism'
2010-02-25,b'Top judge speaks out against MI5 over Binyam Mohamed torture row '
2010-02-25,b'Iceberg the size of Luxembourg breaks off ice shelf.'
2010-02-25,"b'A former top level US intelligence official says the assassination in Dubai of a Hamas operative has all the hallmarks of the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.'"
2010-02-25,b'Iraq to Rehire Saddam-Era Army Officers'
2010-02-25,b'American Intelligence Agents to Be Embedded in Mexican Law Enforcement'
2010-02-25,b'Rising populations are at core of overseas aid issue\n'
2010-02-24,"b'The British PoW who broke into Auschwitz  and survived: In 1944, Denis Avey swapped identities with a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz. Now, at 91, he reveals why he did it'"
2010-02-24,b'Australian web-filter minister caught censoring his own site.'
2010-02-24,"b'Tel Aviv, Israel introduces Municipal program to prevent Arab boys from dating Jewish girls'"
2010-02-24,b'Royal Bank of Scotland announces 3.6bn of losses. RBS is expected to pay 1.3bn in bonuses to its staff.'
2010-02-24,b'Australia warns Israel on Dubai assassination plot'
2010-02-24,"b'Berlin Takes On Washington - German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has been vocal in his demands that the US remove its nuclear weapons from German soil. Now he is calling for NATO to discuss the issue at an upcoming meeting, despite outspoken American opposition to his proposal'"
2010-02-24,"b'Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on Thursday for a ""jihad"" or armed struggle against Switzerland, saying it was an infidel state that was destroying mosques.'"
2010-02-24,b'European Union high court said Thursday the disputed area is not part of Israel and Israeli goods made there are subject to EU import duties. '
2010-02-24,b'NATO admits false intelligence lead to deaths of 8 boys'
2010-02-24,"b""UN takes conservative line against Latin America's growing drug reform movement - The U.N. body says it is particularly concerned by a 2009 law in Mexico that decriminalizes possession of small amounts of cannabis, cocaine, heroin and other drugs."""
2010-02-24,"b""Israeli writer Alon Hilu's acclaimed historical novel tackles the most sensitive of Zionist taboos head-on"""
2010-02-24,b'Hooded gunmen kill 13 in southern Mexico'
2010-02-24,"b'Six more Britons, including a 23-year-old woman, have discovered their identities were stolen by an alleged Mossad hit squad in the murder of a Hamas leader last month. '"
2010-02-24,b'Gordon Brown to Tony Blair: YOU RUINED MY LIFE'
2010-02-24,b'Vancouver faces a  $1 billion hangover From the Olympic party'
2010-02-24,"b""Hospital left patients 'sobbing and humiliated'"""
2010-02-24,"b'Communism has lost the capacity to inspire the Chinese. As the dominant political tradition in China, Confucianism is the obvious alternative.'"
2010-02-24,"b""Patient is called back to the hospital after Mastectomy... Good news and bad. The good; You don't have cancer."""
2010-02-24,"b""A former Rwandan military officer accused of ordering the killing of up to 50 people has been jailed for 25 years by a U.N. court trying masterminds of the country's 1994 genocide. Six months for each person killed..."""
2010-02-24,b'Argentina steps up pressure on Falklands'
2010-02-24,"b""Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir says the seven-year conflict in his country's Darfur region is over."""
2010-02-24,"b'From now on, the Iranian government has announced, any airline which refers to the waterway between Iran and Arab states as the Arabian Gulf rather than the Persian Gulf will be banned from its airspace. '"
2010-02-24,"b'A 11 year old boy was sexually abused, bound, gagged and beaten, prodded with a fork, whipped with a wire, sprayed down with vinegar and forced to eat chilli peppers as well as his own vomit by two sisters a court in Leicester has heard.'"
2010-02-24,b'French President Sarkozy admitted Frances error of judgment but stopped short of an apology in connection with the Rwandan 1994 genocide '
2010-02-24,b'Was Mossad on a fantastic adventure in Dubai?'
2010-02-23,"b'Italian thugs upload youtube video showing them beating up an autistic kid. Youtube takes video down within hours. 4 google employees charged, 3 found guilty. WTF?!'"
2010-02-23,"b""Spain has approved a sweeping new law that eases restrictions on abortion, declaring the practice a woman's right and doing away with the threat of imprisonment, in part of a drive toward liberal policies that has angered conservatives and the Catholic Church."""
2010-02-23,"b""Rupert Murdoch's media giant News International could face a judicial inquiry after a highly critical parliamentary report today accuses senior executives of concealing the truth about the extent of illegal phone hacking by its journalists"""
2010-02-23,"b""The son of one of Hamas' founders served as a top informant for Israel for more than a decade, providing top-secret intelligence that helped prevent dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks against Israelis"""
2010-02-23,"b'Russia will not support ""crippling"" sanctions against Iran, including any that may be slapped on the Islamic Republic\'s banking or energy sectors'"
2010-02-23,b'Afghan President Karzai Approves Removal of Foreign Observers from Electoral Watch Panel That Exposed Massive Fraud in Last Election'
2010-02-23,b'International Intellectual Property Alliance is \r\nputting countries on a piracy watchlist because they \r\nuse open source software'
2010-02-23,"b""Haaretz exclusive: Hamas founder's son worked for Shin Bet for years  """
2010-02-23,"b""I don't want my fourteen-year-old learning about Napoleon as he's too young to invade Italy"""
2010-02-23,b'Greek row with Germany over debt turns nasty as Mayor of Athens demands 70 billion in World War II reparations'
2010-02-23,"b'""Israel has a publicly-stated policy of violating the sovereignty of any and all countries in order to kill or abduct its opponents.""'"
2010-02-23,b'Iran arrests Jundullah terror group leader Abdolmalek Rigi - allege he was returning from an American base in Afghanistan'
2010-02-23,b'The US deliberately enticed the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan in 1979. (Interview excerpt from 1998; link to original interview unavailable as near as I can tell) '
2010-02-23,"b""Royal Bank of Scotland set to announce 5bn loss. That's just great, we bailed them out"""
2010-02-23,b'Dubai identifies 15 new suspects in Hamas killing'
2010-02-23,b'Six more British passports used in Dubai assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh'
2010-02-23,"b""Top Turkish officers charged over 'coup plot' after more than 40 officers were arrested on Monday in the continuing power struggle between the Turkish government and military. (4 coups since 1960)"""
2010-02-23,"b""Israel's 'miracle' anti-rocket defense plan raises anxieties"""
2010-02-23,b'Jailed Cuban dissident dies after prolonged hunger strike'
2010-02-23,"b""Australia to face-scan visitors from 'terror-risk' countries"""
2010-02-23,"b'Iran Says Capture of Rebel Is Blow to U.S. (Actually, they said terrorist)'"
2010-02-23,"b'Nearly 25% of all mortgages are underwater - Feb. 23, 2010'"
2010-02-23,b'UN: Aboriginal program violates human rights'
2010-02-23,b'Putin warns power utilities controlled by four billionaires they face fines unless investment commitments are met'
2010-02-23,b'Twelve officers charged over Turkey coup plot\n'
2010-02-22,"b""This is why we (the U.S.) can't have nice things."""
2010-02-22,"b""Exposed: Dark secret of the farm where tigers' bodies are plundered to make 185 wine"""
2010-02-22,b'New immigration law in Austria requires prospective immigrants to have a basic proficiency in German'
2010-02-22,"b""Latin American and Caribbean nations have backed Argentina's claim of sovereignty to the Falkland Islands in a dispute with Britain over plans to drill for oil off the islands in the Atlantic"""
2010-02-22,b'How Birthrate Is Turning Modern Conventional Warfare on Its Head'
2010-02-22,b'Mossad Under Suspicion: EU Demands Israeli Cooperation over Dubai Killing'
2010-02-22,"b""It's illegal for migrant workers in Israel to have children."""
2010-02-22,"b""A Mossad Operation Gone Awry? - The assassination Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is widely believed to have been the work of the Mossad. But why would Israel's legendary intelligence service allow the identity of its agents to be compromised? (extensive and insightful)"""
2010-02-22,b'Slavery isnt Sexy: A Hard Look at the Underbelly of the Olympics '
2010-02-22,b'China tells schools to ban Oxfam'
2010-02-22,b'Americas bloc excluding US and Canada is proposed'
2010-02-22,b'Head of UK anti-bullying charity turns out to be a bully'
2010-02-22,b'Palestinians are rioting to stop Israel from stealing their Heritage.'
2010-02-22,"b'Iran \'arrests Sunni militant\' - Terrorist leader ""Mr Rigi had been in a US military base 24 hours before his capture""'"
2010-02-22,b'Colonel Imam a battle-creased Pakistani officer who wears a British paratroopers jacket: I have the Green Beret but the Taleban beret is better'
2010-02-22,b'Palestinian president and Hamas leader: Israeli declaration of heritage sites on occupied land is a serious provocation that will ignite War'
2010-02-22,"b""Homeless victims of Haiti's earthquake say that police are halting deliveries of food and water to try to force them to leave their camp on the grounds of the prime minister's office."""
2010-02-22,b'A Swedish man went into a police station to lodge a complaint that his hash turned his girlfriend into a dolphin.'
2010-02-22,b'Israeli politician Tzipi Livni applauds Dubai Hamas killing'
2010-02-22,"b'A massive car bomb has exploded outside a courthouse in Northern Ireland, the first such attack in the province for over a decade.'"
2010-02-22,b'NATO commander makes televised apology to Afghans'
2010-02-22,"b'Car bomb explodes at Newry courthouse, Northern Ireland. '"
2010-02-22,b'China tightens Internet controls'
2010-02-22,b'Dalai Lama: China denies problem in Tibet'
2010-02-22,"b'Europe has demilitarized too much, underfunded defense budgets are ""directly impacting operations"" in Afghanistan, says US'"
2010-02-21,"b'Remember Professor Nutt, the UK drug advisor who was sacked after stating scientific facts about drugs? The British government has responded to the petition which asked for Nutt to be reinstated.'"
2010-02-21,b'Netherlands government falls over refusal to extend Afghanistan mission: Fears withdrawal may prompt other countries to follow suit'
2010-02-21,b'British MPs demand end to public funding of Homeopathic medicine.'
2010-02-21,"b'33 civilians were killed in a Nato air strike in southern Afghanistan. The value of the bombs used to kill them could have given so much wealth to this people, that this is fucking insane.'"
2010-02-21,b'Plans to cut off internet connections of illegal filesharers dumped - Small Victory'
2010-02-21,"b'An Israeli court will soon decide on the demolition order of Khan Al Ahmar, a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank - so that Israeli homes can be built in its place. '"
2010-02-21,b'Swiss brothers smuggling nuclear bomb secrets for AQ Khan network were CIA assets... says Swiss court'
2010-02-21,b'China sells $34.2bn of US treasury bonds'
2010-02-21,"b'Officers planned False Flag Operation: \n52 Turkish military leaders planned to blow up mosques, airliners.'"
2010-02-21,b'The Israeli Air Force introduces a fleet of pilotless aircraft that can reach Iran'
2010-02-21,b'Devastation on Madeira  '
2010-02-21,b'Victims of a 1983 terror bombing in Berlin want compensation from the Syrian government. Now they have asked a court to seize ancient Syrian artwork currently on display in Germany in the hope of putting pressure on Damascus'
2010-02-21,b'Surprise! Religious Racism Evident in Relief for \r\nHaitian Earthquake Victims'
2010-02-21,"b""The excited pet dog of a German man on the run from the law led police to his master's hiding place."""
2010-02-21,"b""Better public relations won't improve Israel's image abroad"""
2010-02-21,b'Killing of Hamas official is not murder'
2010-02-21,b'Taliban beheads two from non-Islamic minority.'
2010-02-21,b'Israeli named in Dubai probe disappears: report'
2010-02-21,"b""It's Mourning in Canada..."""
2010-02-21,"b'As speculators attack the euro, Europe is facing a growing threat of national bankruptcies which would be dramatic for the whole of the continent, especially German banks, which are highly exposed to risky debt. EU politicians are willing to pay almost any price to help the beleaguered countries'"
2010-02-21,"b""Dozens held in Turkish 'coup plot'"""
2010-02-21,b'Israel army introduces new drone with range to reach Iran.'
2010-02-21,b'Pakistan captures another Taliban leader'
2010-02-21,b'Dutch Government Collapse: The High Price of the Political Crisis'
2010-02-21,b'Gordon Brown to give evidence to Iraq inquiry next week'
2010-02-20,b'A huge step forward for a backward country: Saudi women to be allowed to argue cases in court.'
2010-02-20,"b'Israeli immigration officials copied British passports used by hit squad, ministers told  - Telegraph'"
2010-02-20,b'Ever seen the sophistication of a western approved ethnic cleansing? '
2010-02-20,"b'""\'Why have I got to meet these fucking people?\' he yelled at Wood. \'Why are you making me meet these fucking people?\' [Gordon] Brown then roughly shoved aside the stunned adviser.""'"
2010-02-20,b'Chinese censors tormented by mythical animal'
2010-02-20,"b""The Story the New York Times Won't Touch"""
2010-02-20,"b'Users are witheringly referred to as the muertos vivientes  the living dead  of Buenos Aires.  A story about Paco, and the towns it destroys.'"
2010-02-20,"b'Extremist Israeli Settlers Attack, Wound, Palestinian Child in Hebron'"
2010-02-20,b'\nHair extension industry built on Indian sacrifices'
2010-02-20,b'Airport staff may be responsible for importation of drugs and weapons into many countries'
2010-02-20,b'Dubai assassination squad carried diplomatic passports'
2010-02-20,"b""Israel touts new fleet UAV's capable of reaching Iran."""
2010-02-20,b'Around 200 residents of a southern Italian town have been evacuated after an enormous landslide split the side of a hill. No one was hurt.'
2010-02-20,"b""Israel's women soldiers share stories of hate and despair"""
2010-02-20,b'Lufthansa pilots have voted to go on strike for four days next week. The industrial action will bring chaos to German airports and will cost the airline tens of millions of euros.'
2010-02-20,b'London Fashion Week: catwalk row over size 14 models'
2010-02-20,b'The new McCarthyism is Israel'
2010-02-20,"b'Welcome to the office, the new Stasi state '"
2010-02-20,b'Oil drilling begins in the Falkland Islands'
2010-02-20,"b""The Warlord's Tune: Afghanistan's war on children"""
2010-02-20,"b'Returnees aim to revitalize Sierra Leone - Thousands who fled civil war, now come back with skills and hopes.'"
2010-02-20,b'Energy profits soar as bills go through roof'
2010-02-20,"b""Dutch troops 'to leave Afghanistan as planned' - PM"""
2010-02-20,b'AFP: Afghan police move into Taliban stronghold'
2010-02-20,b'Current Worldwide Homicide/Murder Rates! [CHART]'
2010-02-19,b'What a surprise...'
2010-02-19,"b'""The whole idea of communism is dead in North Korea, and its most recent \'Constitution,\' \'ratified\' last April, has dropped all mention of the word... It is based on ... an ideology of the most unapologetic racism and xenophobia.""'"
2010-02-19,"b""Selectively applying and breaking the law in Israel, Israelis who throw rocks at Palestinians are protected by the military, Palestinian children who throw rocks at Israelis are arrested under conditions which break Israels 'Youth Law'"""
2010-02-19,"b""BBC News - Dutch government 'collapses' in row over Afghanistan"""
2010-02-19,b'Japan gets the nod to kill whales again'
2010-02-19,"b""Britain 'knew Mossad was using fake passports for Dubai hit' - Israeli agents tipped off British intelligence that they were going to carry out an 'overseas operation' using fake British passports before assassinating a Hamas official in Dubai, the Daily Mail reported. """
2010-02-19,b'Lost Nazi nuke-project uranium found in Dutch \r\nscrapyard'
2010-02-19,"b""Assisted suicide: law to be decriminalised 'by back door' from next week"""
2010-02-19,b'BBC News - Incredible Footage of Madeira Floods and Mudslides'
2010-02-19,"b'""I wanted to throw a wedding feast for you. Instead, we have a funeral."" Olympic luger Kumaritashvili is buried in his hometown in Georgia.'"
2010-02-19,"b""Pakistan air strike 'kills 30' in South Waziristan """
2010-02-19,b'Dutch government collapses over Afghan commitment - An Immoral War Takes European Toll'
2010-02-19,b'London mayor cuts funding for Black History Month'
2010-02-19,b'Baghdad before the war. '
2010-02-19,"b""'I know I have sinned, and I have to be punished. Strangely however, I felt that the caning was not a form of punishment but was an opportunity for me to repent and return to the right path'"""
2010-02-19,b'Scary Shit from Hungary'
2010-02-19,b'Britain denies any advance warning of plan to murder Hamas leader '
2010-02-19,b'When China Rules the World'
2010-02-19,"b""Michel Chossudovsky, who's from an independent Canadian policy research group, believes that what Iran says hardly matters, because the U.S. is planning for war... [video]"""
2010-02-19,b'Dutch government collapses Amid disagreement over Afghanistan'
2010-02-19,"b""Iran's science progress fastest in world: Canadian report"""
2010-02-19,b'Bishop Walter Mixa faces continuing criticism for claiming the sexual revolution was partially to blame for the widespread abuse of children at German Catholic schools.'
2010-02-19,b'St. Trinians and beyond -- Ronald Searle at 90'
2010-02-19,b'Britain at risk of worse deficit crisis than Greece'
2010-02-19,"b""Zahra's Paradise. A 7-languages webcomic on Iranian reality from the 16th of June, after the contested election of Ahmadinejad. New episodes every Mon, Wed, Fri at 12 NY time."""
2010-02-18,b'Military coup in Niger'
2010-02-18,"b""Coup Attempt Under Way in Niger, Official Says -- Smoke was seen rising from the presidential palace amid heavy gunfire in Niger's capital, Niamey."""
2010-02-18,"b""Canada's last World War I veteran has passed away"""
2010-02-18,"b'Obama meets Dalai Lama, angering China'"
2010-02-18,b'The truth about the Mossad'
2010-02-18,"b""Russia 'very alarmed' by Iran nuclear report"""
2010-02-18,"b""A new bill to fight child pornography has been signed into law by Germany's president. There's only one problem: The government has decided it no longer wants it. They are now in the awkward position of relying on opposition help to repeal the legislation."""
2010-02-18,"b'Russian police say they have arrested a man who hacked a video billboard to show a porn movie, bringing traffic to a standstill on a busy Moscow road.'"
2010-02-18,"b""If you haven't seen it, this is the entire 30 minute video detailing the assassination operation from the arrival in Dubai, to the hit of Mahmoud al Mabhouh. Completely sfw and can be watched without audio."""
2010-02-18,"b""Chavez says 'desperate' UK flouts law in Falklands. Calls on the British to return the islands to Argentina."""
2010-02-18,b'The government in the Indian state of Meghalaya has confiscated textbooks showing pictures of Jesus Christ holding a cigarette and a can of beer.'
2010-02-18,b'Australian PM threatens Japan with legal action if whaling not stopped by November'
2010-02-18,"b'In U.S., Canada Places First in Image Contest; Iran Last'"
2010-02-18,"b""The potential greatness that is /r/worldnews; or, Have you ever heard the one about how Tamils aren't Palestinians?"""
2010-02-18,b'Swedish court ruled autism not caused by MMR vaccine'
2010-02-18,"b""True battleground location of Bosworth Field (ended the English War of the Roses) is a mile away from where previously thought. Archeologists cite finding cannonballs, armour shards and King Richard's personal boar emblem as proof."""
2010-02-18,b'Irish government knew of forged hit squad passports two weeks ago\n'
2010-02-18,b'Latest Drone Strike Targets Haqqani. The death of Haqqani would mark another in a stunning series of successes against the Taliban leadership in Pakistan timed with the U.S. offensive across the border in southern Afghanistan.'
2010-02-18,"b""Ever read a headline submitted to /r/worldnews and just not know what to do with it? You don't know what it means, why it happened, or how it affects the world? Some of us decided there should be a subreddit for peeling back the layers."""
2010-02-18,b'Rift Widens as U.S. and China Pursue Conflicting Goals '
2010-02-18,b'Bankers refuse to leave the UK'
2010-02-18,"b'Former Mexican foreign minister calls for North American union, unified currency'"
2010-02-18,b'UK denies advance knowledge of fake UK passports'
2010-02-18,b'Australians enlist fierce Australian meat ants in the quest to control cane toads'
2010-02-18,b'Britons whose identity stolen to get new passports'
2010-02-17,b'Dude arrested for lighting a cigarette on the olympic torch'
2010-02-17,b'The community of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel is half a million strong and growing. They live in a parallel universe cut off from the modern world in tight-knit communities where everything revolves around religion. Only a few dare to abandon this life -- and the price for doing so is high.'
2010-02-17,"b'Hired and armed by the CIA in the 1960s, the Hmong remain trapped in enemy jungle, forgotten by America and the world'"
2010-02-17,"b'What could have been another tragedy at Vancouver has turned into a dream of olympic glory for Slovenian XC skier Petra Majdi. She fell down a unprotected 9 foot drop during warm up, broke 4 ribs and pierced her lung - but then won bronze in agonizing pain.'"
2010-02-17,"b""IDF bans 45,000 Palestinians from using major road built on their land to please 150 'settlers', High Court rules the IDF cannot do that, so the IDF caves in and allows Palestinians to use the road, except Palestinians are still banned from using the roads during Sabbath. Israel? Secular?"""
2010-02-17,"b'A N Korean woman\'s account of what life is like in N Korea. She said, ""People in N Korea were merely breathing, they were not living.""  '"
2010-02-17,b'INTERPOL has issued Red Notices for 11 internationally-wanted individuals who have been charged by UAE authorities with co-ordinating and committing the murder of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai.'
2010-02-17,b'George Will Mocks GOP Obsession With Sarah Palin - Sarah Palin...is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.'
2010-02-17,b'Swiss prostitutes armed with defibrillators'
2010-02-17,b'Dubai police call on Interpol to help arrest Mossad head - things are hotting up '
2010-02-17,"b""UK 'determined' over Israeli secret service assassination row"""
2010-02-17,"b'In the US they are called the military industrial complex.  In Iran they are called Pasdaran.  Whatever name you call it, in whatever historic context, the results are always the same.'"
2010-02-17,"b'British government releases tons of UFO documents; 6,000 pages of sightings'"
2010-02-17,b'British threat to Israel over Dubai Hamas assassination'
2010-02-17,b'India Worries as China Builds Ports in South Asia'
2010-02-17,"b'Plane crashes into Northwest Austin office building, man was possibly targeting IRS'"
2010-02-17,b'BT cotton is causing suicides to skyrocket in India.'
2010-02-17,"b""Government Trojans, Orwellian Doublespeak and 'A Serious Threat to Internet Neutrality' - The lower house of the French parliament has approved a draft bill that will allow the state unprecedented control over the Internet"""
2010-02-17,"b'More than two dozen words are banned for non-Muslims by a law that ostensibly seeks to prevent them from trying to convert Malaysias Muslims. But in a country where religion and ethnic politics intertwine, many people see the issue as a reflection of the countrys persistent political turmoil.'"
2010-02-17,b'Saudi royal held over aides murder in London hotel'
2010-02-17,"b'Haiti ""restavek"" tradition called child slavery '"
2010-02-17,"b""'Dubai police chief 99% sure Israel behind Hamas killing'"""
2010-02-17,b'UK calls in Israeli ambassador as Dubai killing row escalates'
2010-02-17,b'China has much to lose from Iran sanctions'
2010-02-17,"b'We need judges to investigate our spies, not spies to berate our judges'"
2010-02-16,"b'Student is arrested for giving South African president\'s motorcade the finger, and for swearing. Minister of Police says ""No individual is permitted to use foul language [or] swear"". What the fuck, now we can\'t swear at public figures?'"
2010-02-16,b'Hamas military leader assassinated in Dubai by a group of professionals wearing disguises.'
2010-02-16,b'Dubai assassins stole identities of six UK citizens living in Israel'
2010-02-16,"b'Israel makes life very hard for Palestinians, says ICRC'"
2010-02-16,b'Israeli settlers disobey the order to stop building'
2010-02-16,"b'Rocket strike that killed 12 Afghan civilians was not a ""rogue missile"" but hit its intended target, according to the British commander'"
2010-02-16,b'Egyptian police seized more than three tonnes of explosives set to be smuggled into the Palestinian Gaza Strip'
2010-02-16,"b'70 journalists were killed in 2009, making it the worst year since records began 30 years ago'"
2010-02-16,b'Dubai Hamas assassination: a smiling killer and mystery of forged UK passports'
2010-02-16,b'Not satisfied with having screwed up the US economy Goldman Sachs branches out to screw up Greece too...'
2010-02-16,"b'France used soldiers as guinea pigs in nuclear tests in the 1960s, deliberately exposing them to radiation from atomic blasts to test the effects.'"
2010-02-16,"b""Japan's foreign minister says an anti-whaling activist being held onboard a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean will be taken to Tokyo and will not be released to a third country."""
2010-02-16,b'Electric prod marks suggest Al-Mabhouh was tortured before he was assassinated. How unprofessional.'
2010-02-16,b'Argentina will take measures to stop British oil drilling off Falklands'
2010-02-16,b'Is Argentina looking for another Falkland conflict? '
2010-02-16,b'Britons had passport stolen by Mossad death squad used to assassinate a Hamas leader in Dubai'
2010-02-16,"b""Murder arrest over Ray Gosling's BBC confession"""
2010-02-16,"b""Africa's first high-speed train: South Africa's new Gautrain to launch for World Cup 2010."""
2010-02-16,b'Russian S-300 delivery to Iran delayed  '
2010-02-16,b'UK ferry company allowed to carry on destroying marine life '
2010-02-16,b'Obama Administration will not rule out attacking Iran over its decision to enrich uranium to 20 percent. Same as Bush.'
2010-02-16,b'British nationals named among suspects deny role in murder of Hamas official'
2010-02-16,"b'Dubai Hamas assassination: how it was planned, according to the Telegraph'"
2010-02-16,"b'Israel smokescreens world community about the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai: ""Israel never responds, never confirms and never denies,"" Mr. Lieberman said. ""There is no reason for Israel to change this policy.""'"
2010-02-16,"b""Afghanistan Taliban 'using human shields', attempting to draw NATO fire to areas with high levels of civilians"""
2010-02-15,"b""Human bones could reveal truth of Japan's 'Unit 731' experiments"""
2010-02-15,"b'British Columnist : ""We not only have a right to use torture, we have a duty."" The arrogant bastard goes on to suggest and justify torturing the ""wife and children"". '"
2010-02-15,b'This is fucking terrifying: the man who led the \r\npeaceful demonstration against the Mohammad \r\ncartoons in Oslo last Friday says that gays deserve \r\nto be stoned to death. (Article inside)'
2010-02-15,"b""CCTV shows 'international hit squad' at work in Dubai"""
2010-02-15,b'BBC presenter Ray Gosling admits on live television that he killed AIDS-stricken lover.'
2010-02-15,"b'Dubai names suspects wanted for killing of Hamas commander: Arrest warrants for 11 ""Israeli agents with European passports""'"
2010-02-15,b'The government seems intent on pressing ahead with the use of body scanners without addressing any of the privacy concerns and safeguard issues raised.  The commission is right to suggest that security measures cannot simply be introduced without due respect for the rule of law.'
2010-02-15,b'Icelandic resolution could legally make the country a haven for protection of freedoms of expression and information.  '
2010-02-15,"b'""Amnesty International has lost sight of its original purpose ... It\'s now incumbent on any member who takes the original charter seriously to withdraw funding until Begg is cut loose ... and until Sahgal has been reinstated.""'"
2010-02-15,b'European hit squad killed Hamas leader'
2010-02-15,b'Suspected killers of Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh were travelling on fake passports. Includes passport photos.'
2010-02-15,"b""Seeds of discontent: the 'miracle' crop that has failed to deliver---A new 'ethical' biofuel is damaging the impoverished people it was supposed to help\n"""
2010-02-15,b'British sources: Three Irish passport-holders accused of taking part in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai were most likely Mossad agents carrying false documentation'
2010-02-15,b'French authorities deliberately exposed soldiers to nuclear testing in the Sahara'
2010-02-15,b'I recently discovered the War Nerd.  I wish this guy was still around.  Good article on the strategy of the Iraq War.'
2010-02-15,"b""Yet another plot twist to the Dubai assassination: at least 5 Israelis share names with assassins, but photos don't match, and they still have their passports. """
2010-02-15,b'Argentina has said any boat sailing between it and the Falkland Islands will now need a government permit.'
2010-02-15,"b'Top Taliban commander captured, U.S. official says'"
2010-02-15,b'Soldiers take time out from war to treat 7-year-old caught in crossfire'
2010-02-15,b'US Marines and Afghan troops are bogged down by sniper fire and home-made bombs on the third day of their biggest offensive since the overthrow of the Taleban in 2001'
2010-02-15,"b'New Delhi, India known as ""rape capital"" of South Asia as the practice of ""Eve Teasing"" continues unabated, or why some Indian men can\'t take a hint. '"
2010-02-15,b'Iran Defends Human Rights Record Before U.N. Council '
2010-02-15,b'An 11-person team of trained killers with European passports carried out the assassination of a senior Hamas official in a Dubai hotel.'
2010-02-15,"b""'Iran Won't Simply Sit There and Accept an Attack'"""
2010-02-15,b'Switzerland to Gadaffi: You are not welcome here. Gadaffi to most of Europe: You are not welcome HERE'
2010-02-14,b'Anonymous planning large anti-censorship nation-wide protests across Australia [PIC]'
2010-02-14,"b'10,000 protesters block 6,500 neo-nazis from marching in Dresden on 65th anniversary of allied bombing. They formed a huge human chain around the center of the city.'"
2010-02-14,"b'My father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel (Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum): Peak Oil forecast for 2015. '"
2010-02-14,b'Three quarters women said if a victim got into bed with the assailant before a rape they should accept some responsibility.'
2010-02-14,b'As Israeli soldiers we hang our heads in shame over Gaza '
2010-02-14,"b'Two Greenpeace activists are on trial in Japan after trying to expose alleged embezzlement in the whaling fleet, which is heavily government subsidised.'"
2010-02-14,"b'U.S. congressman Brian Baird says U.S. should break Israel Gaza blockade: ""roll-off ships and roll them right to the beach and bring the relief supplies in, in our version of the Berlin airlift""'"
2010-02-14,b'Mexicans march against drug war and Mexican officials are beginning to agree with them.'
2010-02-14,"b'Legal Advisor for Haiti ""Adoption"" Case Implicated in El Salvadorian Child Prostitution Ring'"
2010-02-14,b'Incredible Pictures of Israeli Attack in Gaza: Operation Cast Lead (Warning:Graphic)'
2010-02-14,b'Brussels train crash: at least 20 people feared dead '
2010-02-14,"b'In Taiwan, fetching young women in outrageous outfits sell betel nuts. Is this a tourist draw, or national shame? '"
2010-02-14,b'Canada looks to China to exploit oil sands rejected by US'
2010-02-14,b'Arrest warrant issued for disgraced American cyclist Landis - Accused of hacking into a French drug-testing laboratory!'
2010-02-14,b'How widespread is the opposition to Iranian government?'
2010-02-14,"b""Assassins of Hamas chief 'used British passports'"""
2010-02-14,"b""Male 'Pill' on trial"""
2010-02-14,b'Russian Northern fleet vessel continues pirate hunt '
2010-02-14,b'Anti-whaling activists face trial in Japan | World news | guardian.co.uk'
2010-02-14,"b'UK Parliament opens its doors for anyone to get married there, including gay couples'"
2010-02-14,"b'""...while indigenous peoples make up around 370 million (5%) of the worlds population, they constitute around one-third of the worlds 900 million extremely poor rural people.""'"
2010-02-14,"b""Pope summons Ireland's bishops: \nGroup of 24 called to Vatican to discuss revelations of pedophilia."""
2010-02-14,"b'Black police organisation must be scrapped, say white officers'"
2010-02-14,b'Spotlight proves too much for the 7 year-old samba queen at Rio carnival'
2010-02-14,b'Teenage domestic violence tackled by advert campaign; study suggested a quarter of girls aged 13 to 17 had experienced physical violence from a boyfriend and a third had been pressured into sexual acts they did not want.'
2010-02-13,"b""Jerusalem mayor trying to order Arab homes in majority Arab neighbourhood to be demolished.  State prosecutor has already ordered the homes be evacuated.  Why not go all the way?  I Didn't know evil had limits."""
2010-02-13,"b'Iceland Looks to Create Information Haven - a ""Switzerland of bits""'"
2010-02-13,"b'Moazzam Begg: \'British intelligence were there at every stage of my detention\' -- ""I am a British citizen and the British intelligence services were, as far as I\'m concerned, complicit in the torture of their own citizens  the ones they\'re supposed to protect.""'"
2010-02-13,"b'20,000 evacuated from Caen to defuse WWII bomb'"
2010-02-13,"b""Villagers forced to move as Burmese junta allows Chinese electricity giant to build seven hydro-electric dams in Burma's northern region of Kachin. The biggest of them - the Myitsone Dam - will see the forced displacement of 15,000 people from surrounding villages"""
2010-02-13,"b'""Why did the Iranians hate us so much?""'"
2010-02-13,b'Robert Kissel found out his wife was having an affair with a TV repairman in the US and planned to seek divorce just before she killed him. She drugged him using a milkshake laced with Rohypnol and hours later bludgeoned him to death with a metal ornament in their luxury apartment in Hong Kong.'
2010-02-13,b'Doctors Haunted by Haitians They Couldnt Help'
2010-02-13,b'Afghan civilians killed in strike by Nato rockets'
2010-02-13,"b""First phase of Afghan offensive 'gone to plan'"""
2010-02-13,"b'20,000 people evacuated in Caen for a large mining operation'"
2010-02-13,b'Brits forced to give up European expat dreams'
2010-02-13,b'Police unable to save girl from icy river because of health and safety - Telegraph'
2010-02-13,b'Sino-US Cyber War: More to Fear than we Know?'
2010-02-13,b'GM of Chilean mint dismissed for misspelling the name of the country'
2010-02-13,b'The Year of the Tiger: The Chinese century'
2010-02-13,b'Profiteers of the Greek finance crisis'
2010-02-13,"b'Pakistan court strikes down presidents order - ""Pakistan\'s Supreme Court suspended the presidential appointment of two top judges in an emergency ruling late Saturday that could cause a destabilizing clash between the judiciary and the unpopular, Western-backed government.""'"
2010-02-13,b'Wall St. Helped Greece to Mask Debt Fueling Europes Crisis'
2010-02-13,"b'Reem Asaad, an economics professor from Jeddah, organised the boycott through her Facebook page, as public protests are illegal in Saudi Arabia.'"
2010-02-13,b'Germany: How to fight neo-Nazis?'
2010-02-13,b'Missionaries Doing What Missionaries Always Did'
2010-02-13,"b""UFO sceptic has close encounter with 'alien' in British park."""
2010-02-13,b'Australian grandmother beats off attacking shark - then for the fun of it enters into Fight Club '
2010-02-13,"b'To suppress a gathering of artists, from afar, through boycott or any other means of exerting pressure, is wrong"" - James Cameron'"
2010-02-12,"b""Men's Olympic Luger Said to be Dead"""
2010-02-12,b'Biggest offensive since 2001. Number superiority: 15-30 soldiers to 1. Taliban are retreating from their largest and most lucrative stronghold. BIGGEST Afghan battle is expected to take place in the next few weeks.'
2010-02-12,"b'""There are still over one million landmines in Cambodia. At the rate they are going now, it will take 50-100 years to finish. If I could teach villagers to de-mine the way I do. It is fast, easy, and cheap. We could have the whole country de-mined in 3-5 years."" - Aki Ra'"
2010-02-12,"b""Norway plans to build the world's most powerful wind turbine"""
2010-02-12,b'Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities.'
2010-02-12,b'Iran president: Era of nuclear weapons over'
2010-02-12,b'Vancouver 2010 - Georgian luger dies after horrifying crash at Whistler track'
2010-02-12,"b""Palestinians dressed as the Na'vi stage a protest against Israel's separation barrier"""
2010-02-12,"b'Fail: First Female President of Costa Rica ""opposed to same-sex marriage, abortion and the morning after pill""'"
2010-02-12,b'German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a member of all-female pop group No Angels with causing bodily harm for failing to inform sexual partners that she was HIV positive. '
2010-02-12,"b'Paul Farmer, Founder of Partners in Health which operates in Haiti, gives fantastic talk about the situation'"
2010-02-12,b'Iran disrupting satellite transmissions'
2010-02-12,"b""'US to expand military centers in Pakistan'"""
2010-02-12,b'Nato launches major Afghan assault'
2010-02-12,"b""Palestinian Protesters Dress As 'Avatar' Characters"""
2010-02-12,b'Major offensive launched in Afghanistan by NATO.'
2010-02-12,"b""6 Arrested In Mentally Challenged Woman's Torture Death"""
2010-02-12,b'3 killed in Alabama university shooting'
2010-02-12,"b""Cuban doctors help Haiti - Cuba's socialist system successfully mixes politics, medicine and diplomacy"""
2010-02-12,b'Coalition Begins Major Afghan Offensive'
2010-02-12,b'USA accidentally admits that Iran has no nuclear weapons program'
2010-02-12,"b'Head of Russian space mission proposes plan to save Earth from apocalyptic collision with Apophis - equal to 100,000 Tunguskas'"
2010-02-12,b'China quake activist jailed for inciting subversion'
2010-02-12,b'New Zealand: What has happened to real wages since 1982?'
2010-02-12,"b""Earth 'to be wiped out' by supernova explosion with force of 20 billion billion billion megatons of TNT"""
2010-02-11,"b'Indians are being urged to hand over a note worth zero rupees when asked for a bribe, in a bid to stamp out corruption among officials.'"
2010-02-11,"b'Saying that body scanners violate Islamic law, Muslim-American groups are supporting a fatwa  a religious ruling  that forbids Muslims from going through the scanners at airports.'"
2010-02-11,b'Iraq asks France to return 895 million U. S. dollars for undelivered jet fighters that Saddam Hussein payed'
2010-02-11,"b""The damage done to Israel's image by allegations of Gaza war crimes in a UN report has ignited a war between the right and left in the Jewish state"""
2010-02-11,b'Olympic luger dies after crashing'
2010-02-11,"b'RIP Frisbee inventor guy - never had a patent and never got rich, but Wham-O voluntarily paid him a modest royalty.'"
2010-02-11,"b'""Asked whether China\'s treatment of dissidents might negatively affect its image overseas, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu responded, \'There are no dissidents in China.\'""'"
2010-02-11,b'Iceland aims to become haven for investigative journalism.'
2010-02-11,"b'The right-wing Canadian government doesn\'t tolerate criticism of Israel: cuts $2.1 million in funding to NGO that suggested in a policy newspaper that there should be a ""one-state solution"" where both Israelis and Palestinians have equal rights.'"
2010-02-11,"b""Chilean mint issues coins with 'Chile' spelled wrongly.  No one notices."""
2010-02-11,"b'Plane seat safety tests faked - Discovered : ""After a company employee blew the whistle""'"
2010-02-11,"b""China decries Barack Obama's plan to meet Dalai Lama"""
2010-02-11,b'The 73-year-old had apparently been concerned about the frequent theft of potatoes from his farm. He was arrested after an intruder set off one of the tripwire-style mines in August and was injured in the blast. '
2010-02-11,b'The torture memos show how illegal wars turn even the nicest people bad'
2010-02-11,"b'Goldman Sachs suspected of foul play on ""Robin Hood Tax"" poll | The Guardian'"
2010-02-11,"b'Mud Volcano Was Man-Made, New Evidence Confirms'"
2010-02-11,b'Journalists harassed while attempting to enter Canada from the United States to cover protests and other events related to the Olympic Games.'
2010-02-11,b'Dalai Lama: Blackballed from Thailand'
2010-02-11,"b'Ahead of Olympics, Vancouver assaults civil liberties '"
2010-02-11,"b'Yemen has announced a truce with northern Shiite rebels, aimed at ending a war that has raged on-and-off since 2004 and that drew in neighbouring Saudi Arabia. Here is some background about the rebels.'"
2010-02-11,b' \nPolice investigate claims Prince Andrew hit a police officer with his car while driving into Buckingham Palace'
2010-02-11,"b'Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, mounted stiff resistance tonight to any swift bailout of Greece, as a rift opened up between European capitals over how best to tackle the risks posed to the euro.'"
2010-02-11,"b'""Letting poor people vote is dangerous.""'"
2010-02-11,"b""Britain 'faces fuel shortages and dearer food by 2015'"""
2010-02-11,"b'China alarmed that the West - particularly the United States - is using e-cards and Twitter to weaken it militarily, create political dissent and to ""sow chaos"".'"
2010-02-10,"b""European Parliament has blocked agreement that allows US anti-terror officials to monitor Europeans' bank transactions"""
2010-02-10,b'Blackwater (now XE) given 7 days to leave Iraq'
2010-02-10,b'brokep of TPB-fame releases a new project - flattr'
2010-02-10,"b'UK Reveals Intelligence Docs: ""very least cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by the United States authorities at Gitmo'"
2010-02-10,"b'Japanese murder exposes world of hired marriage wreckers: Couples dislike of direct confrontation rather than pleading face to face, may hire a splitter-upper to seduce the other away'"
2010-02-10,b'Iran has called for the dismantlement and removal of all weapons of mass destruction from across the globe.'
2010-02-10,"b""Iran declares itself a 'Nuclear state' as thousands of pro-government Iranians rally to mark the 31st anniversary of the nation's islamic revolution"""
2010-02-10,"b'UK school bans Valentine cards to spare pupils ""emotional trauma.""'"
2010-02-10,"b""Vancouver's best kept secret: downtown Eastside is home to 40% of Vancouver's robberies and assaults, features North America's only legal heroin injection center, and has an HIV rate of 30% - on par with Botswana."""
2010-02-10,"b""Thirty-eight percent of world's surface in danger of desertification"""
2010-02-10,"b'A Huge Meteorite has slammed into Mexico, leaving a 100 foot crater! Mexico meteorite impact was so massive it broke windows in homes many kilometers from the epicenter and people reported buildings swaying and mass confusion.'"
2010-02-10,"b'Japan apologizes for colonial rule of Korea (which went a bit further than a ""tragic incident"")'"
2010-02-10,b'It takes a BBC reporter to cover Obamas war. (video)'
2010-02-10,b'Iraq asks France to return 895 million U. S. dollars for undelivered jet fighters that Saddam Hussein payed '
2010-02-10,b'Euro MPs block bank data deal with US'
2010-02-10,"b'Iran crushes opposition protests with violence: It means they won and we lost. They defeated us. They were able to gather so many people""'"
2010-02-10,"b'The New Israel Fund, a powerful Israeli anti-Zionist organization: ""Israel must recognize the [Palestinian] refugees\' right of return, on the basis of UN Resolution 194""'"
2010-02-10,b'Scientologists flown to Haiti by John Travolta to help in the relief effort plan to set up a permanent base'
2010-02-10,"b'Venezuela tries to make it rain: In desperate need of water, Venezuela is ""bombing"" clouds and praying for rain.'"
2010-02-10,b'Lebanon PM Vows to Stand With Hezbollah in Event of Israeli Invasion'
2010-02-10,"b'Is Britain a ""broken society"" as the Conservatives claim? The statistics say a resounding No. But public opinion, driven by media hysteria, says yes.'"
2010-02-10,"b'Blizzards in the United States, a heatwave in Brazil, killer floods in Mexico and drought in Ecuador. El Nio wallops the Americas.'"
2010-02-10,"b""In the 1970's 10,000 Iraqis died and 100,000 were permanently brain-damaged from mercury treated wheat"""
2010-02-10,b'Row over plan to build Jewish museum of tolerance on site of Muslim cemetery'
2010-02-10,"b'An unidentified man has become a hero in Argentina after he pushed a stalled van off railroad tracks, narrowly escaping being hit by the train. '"
2010-02-09,b'Al Jazeera has obtained exclusive footage that appears to show Nigerian security forces ordering a number of people to lie in the road and then shooting them at close range. '
2010-02-09,"b'Drug-related violence is once again on the rise in Latin America. Former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, 78, told SPIEGEL that the drug war has failed and that it is time to try a new strategy: decriminalization.'"
2010-02-09,"b'They knew: The UK government has just lost their Court of Appeal case, and the judges have ruled that they must publish this incriminating information relating to the torture of a UK resident, so here it is (scroll down on page).'"
2010-02-09,b'Austrian millionaire gives away fortune which made him miserable '
2010-02-09,b'Operation Titstorm: Anonymous target internet censorship in Australia bringing down government servers'
2010-02-09,"b'True Snowpocalypse: Worsening Crisis in Mongolia - Herd animal losses are mounting, now at over 1.85 million affecting some 180,000 families (720,000 people approximately).'"
2010-02-09,b'Survey finds that 42% of Britons would emigrate if they could'
2010-02-09,"b'British soldiers having ""fun"" in Spain: ""Diners said they were held by up to four men at a time while the others punched, kicked and threw tables and bottles at them.""'"
2010-02-09,"b'""On the playing field before them, about 60,000 people did wild synchronized-gymnastics routines. The 15 of us who made up the audience watched from a marble dais. We were the only spectators. Fifteen audience members for a 100,000-man extravaganza."" - Vice Guide to North Korea.'"
2010-02-09,"b'Israeli warplanes have hit southern Gaza with missiles in response to rocket fire from Hamas, airport disused'"
2010-02-09,"b""Binyam Mohamed torture evidence must be revealed, judges rule - High court ruling compels British government to disclose what MI5 and MI6 knew of refugee's treatment in Guantnamo Bay"""
2010-02-09,"b'Honda issues global airbags recall: defective airbags can overinflate and burst, spraying potentially deadly metal shards'"
2010-02-09,"b""This is about the war we made in Gaza, and what it did to Israel. This is about how Israel's conduct of the war has done more damage to the Jewish state than all the thousands and thousands of Palestinian rockets and mortar shells put together"""
2010-02-09,"b""Iran's Feb. 11 surprise"""
2010-02-09,"b""A generation in denial: Millions face retirement poverty because they've remortgaged their homes and saved too little\n\n"""
2010-02-09,"b'From sabotaging loudspeakers to circumventing Internet firewalls, Jason Shamswho spent months fighting in the streets of Tehranreveals some of the underground machinery that fuels the protests.  -The Daily Beast'"
2010-02-09,"b'Terrifying ordeal for passengers stranded between floors after a lift broke as they were descending in the Burj Khalifa tower, the worlds tallest building'"
2010-02-09,"b'One misses the days when those working for peace and standing up for wars victims were merely pinko-commie queers. Now, theyre anti-Semites'"
2010-02-09,b'Iran suspends gmail access for the nation'
2010-02-09,b'Today the British government lost its appeal - In 2002 a British subject by the name of Binyam Mohamed was arrested in Pakistan.  He is the man who claims he was tortured by a scalpel slicing his genitals'
2010-02-09,b'Helmand Vice: Majority of Afghan police fail British drug test'
2010-02-09,"b""The pro-Russia Viktor Yanukovych has won Ukraine's presidential election"""
2010-02-09,"b""Israel's Answer to War Crimes? Better Marketing"""
2010-02-09,b'Iran blocks Gmail permanently in favor of a state-run e-mail system.'
2010-02-09,"b""Second stage of Haiti's medical emergency has begun, with diarrheal illnesses, acute respiratory infections and malnutrition beginning to claim lives by the dozen"""
2010-02-08,"b'Blair acknowledged that Israel was part of the equation on invading Iraq, and that the Israeli government was being actively consulted in the planning for the war'"
2010-02-08,"b'Students interrupted Israel ambassador\'s lecture at Irving University in LA over 10 times, shouting ""killers"" and ""how many Palestinians did you kill?"" 12 arrested'"
2010-02-08,"b""Goldman Sachs helped the Greek government to mask the true extent of its deficit with the help of a derivatives deal that legally circumvented the EU Maastricht deficit rules. At some point the so-called cross currency swaps will mature, and swell the country's already bloated deficit."""
2010-02-08,"b""Shame and Fear - Inside Germany's Catholic Sexual Abuse Scandal.  Close to 100 priests and members of the laity have been suspected of abuse in recent years. After years of suppression, the wall of silence appears to be crumbling."""
2010-02-08,b'Victorian Time Capsule Found in Britain.'
2010-02-08,b'Haitian man found alive in rubble 4 weeks after earthquake'
2010-02-08,"b'Saudi girl, 12, wants to divorce husband, 80.'"
2010-02-08,b'Cows now outnumber humans in New Zealand. This sucks. Sheep jokes were much funnier. '
2010-02-08,b'China jails activist who investigated deaths of children in schools destroyed by Sichuan earthquake'
2010-02-08,"b'When it Rains, it Pours: Toyota Recalls 437K More Worldwide, This Time Over Brake System Software Failure'"
2010-02-08,"b""Blair used 'Soviet-style' propaganda: \nFrench govt. accused British PM of propaganda in run-up to Iraq war."""
2010-02-08,"b""Iran has asked the UN nuclear agency to oversee it's uranium enrichment"""
2010-02-08,b'Show-off French philosopher BHL is a laughing stock after citing spoof fictional philosopher'
2010-02-08,"b'""In its attempt to fool regulators, the company is understood to have developed software that would display acceptable-looking readouts on screens whenever inspectors from the Transport Ministry came to observe the testing procedures."" - Good job developer !'"
2010-02-08,"b'Indian Government not to allow cultivation of genetically modified Brinjal, for now.'"
2010-02-08,b'China sentences earthquake activist to five years in prison - for alleged email comments about the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown'
2010-02-08,"b""Italy says dozens of members of Iran's hardline religious Basij militia have tried to attack its embassy in Tehran, but Iranian media described the incident as a student protest and did not mention any violence."""
2010-02-08,"b'Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday that Iran is set to deliver a ""punch"" that will stun world powers this week'"
2010-02-08,"b'Supporters of the Iranian Government attacked the Italian Embassy: ""Death to Italy"", ""Death to Berlusconi""'"
2010-02-08,"b'Venezuela - ""Electricity emergency"" declared by President Chavez while inaugurating his new radio talk-show'"
2010-02-08,b'Slippery Jack Straw leaves Iraq Inquiry grasping for answers'
2010-02-08,b'Iran FM: Israel is a crazy country run by crazy people'
2010-02-08,"b""Italy said dozens of members of Iran's hardline religious Basij militia had tried to attack its embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, but Iranian media described the incident as a student protest and did not mention any violence."""
2010-02-08,"b""Hugo Chvez's new radio show will not appear on any listings and will pounce without warning, day or night, on to the airwaves: first a harp playing folk music, then a familiar voice."""
2010-02-08,b'Obama considered labeling the Christmas Bomber as an Enemy Combatant'
2010-02-07,b'Chevron hires twelve public relations firms to discredit indigenous Indians in Ecuador...in response to $27 billion lawsuit filed against the oil giant for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Amazon between 1964 and 1990'
2010-02-07,"b'The world capital of rape: ""Jeanne and other girls were regularly tied spread-eagle and gang-raped, and she soon became pregnant. The rapes continued, sometimes with sticks that tore apart her insides and left her dribbling wastes constantly.""'"
2010-02-07,"b""Father of the year waterboarded daughter, 4, because she couldn't recite alphabet"""
2010-02-07,b'China has found another 170 tons of tainted milk powder in an emergency crackdown that has made it increasingly clear many products discovered in the countrys 2008 milk scandal were repackaged for sale instead of destroyed. '
2010-02-07,b'Costa Rica elects for first time a woman for the presidency'
2010-02-07,"b'""It\'s revolting. After pillaging the country, they flee with their ill-gotten gains at the very mention of the word tax.""'"
2010-02-07,b'Australian arrested for anti-Israel activities: lawyer - campaign by the Israeli government to silence pro-Palestinian foreigners'
2010-02-07,b'Tony Blairs former spin doctor Alastair Campbell breaks down during TV interview about Iraq. Declares: People are not interested in the truth anymore'
2010-02-07,b'Activists uncover Japanese whale meat embezzling scandal; send evidence to prosecutors. Prosecutors charge activists with theft of a cardboard box. UN finds Japanese authorities breached their human rights.'
2010-02-07,"b'A new documentary explores how worldwide fish stocks are shrinking, and warns that seafood might disappear entirely, Video about 4 minues'"
2010-02-07,"b'Israel banned a Palestinian geographer expert on settlements from traveling abroad for six months, citing unspecified security concerns'"
2010-02-07,b'India: Widows struggle mightily after a rash of farmer suicides'
2010-02-07,"b'Blackwater-esque private security companies are chomping at the bit for huge paydays offering their services in the reshaping of Haiti, including High Threat terminations, and dealing with worker unrest."" '"
2010-02-07,"b""Opposition leader Viktor Yanukovich claimed victory in Ukraine's presidential elections, Orange Revolution buried"""
2010-02-07,b'A devastating war between Israel & Hezbollah is on the horizon: Israel is preparing to invade Lebanon with massive ground troops'
2010-02-07,"b'Climate scepticism on the rise, BBC poll shows '"
2010-02-07,b'Iran detains 7 spies tied to US-funded radio station'
2010-02-07,b'Portuguese police foil massive attack on Spain'
2010-02-07,"b""2/3 of China's $2.4 trillion currency reserves are \r\nheld in dollars. If it dumped the US treasury bonds \r\nChina would trigger a collapse of the dollar, world \r\nmarkets and another global recession"""
2010-02-07,b'Netanyahu makes every anti-Iran effort in Russia'
2010-02-07,"b'Can robots fight our battles? The seductive vision, and hope, of those manufacturing and researching the future of military robotics.'"
2010-02-07,b'Pro-Israel lobby has been making a concerted effort to strengthen its presence in Europe'
2010-02-07,b'France has agreed to sell Russia an advanced warship and is considering a request from Moscow for three others'
2010-02-07,b'Still purchasing food made/processed in China?'
2010-02-07,b'Thousands pack funerals for Pakistan bomb victims'
2010-02-06,"b'With tears in her eyes, she said, ""My husband hired three men and got me raped in front of him because I was tired of his abuse and demanded the divorce that Islam gave me a right to. He didn\'t even respect me as the mother of his children...I just want justice in the name of God.\'\''"
2010-02-06,"b""G7 nations to cancel Haiti's debt"""
2010-02-06,b'A woman has been tortured by her neighbours for two days and forced to eat human waste before she finally gave in and confessed to practising witchcraft.'
2010-02-06,"b""Large explosion at a power plant in Connecticut, US causing mass casualties - 'gas pipeline exploded'"""
2010-02-06,b'Chinas hawks demand cold war on the US'
2010-02-06,b'Why Costa Rica scores well on the happiness index'
2010-02-06,b'Is America Waging a covert war in Pakistan? [TimesOnline]'
2010-02-06,"b""Rape on the rise in Haiti's camps """
2010-02-06,b'Police seize 1.5 tonnes of explosives in ETA Portugal cache'
2010-02-06,"b""US of Who? Why China is no longer interested in following America's lead."""
2010-02-06,b'The US Department of Justice has said that it is still not satisfied with a deal that would allow search giant Google to build a vast digital library.'
2010-02-06,"b""Blogger describes Xinjiang as an 'internet prison'"""
2010-02-06,"b""Our society is afraid of unpopular truths that accurately \r\nbut controversially describe why we're in such a big \r\nmess. Most people don't want any trouble, so they keep \r\nquiet."""
2010-02-06,b'Chile safeguards its food export success'
2010-02-06,"b'Annual immigration must be slashed by three-quarters if the UK population is not to reach 70 million by 2030, a senior MP warned today.\n'"
2010-02-06,b'A 47-year-old tribesman gathering food in a north Malaysian forest has fought off a tiger attack armed only with a rock.'
2010-02-06,b'Veiled Threats Directed against Russia: U.S. Expands Missile Shield Into Black Sea'
2010-02-06,"b""Uganda gay bill 'will be changed'"""
2010-02-06,b'Hitchens Has No Clothes: A response to Vidal Loco'
2010-02-06,b'Haitian lawyer for jailed Americans fired - Groups other attorney says attempt was made to bribe their way out'
2010-02-06,b'Two Swedish military officers and a local interpreter killed in Afghanistan'
2010-02-06,b'Bleak Portrait of Haiti Orphanages Raises Fears'
2010-02-06,b'My theoretical grasp of the workings of the universe makes voodoo sound like an evidence-based discipline.'
2010-02-06,b'Foreign student visas to be cut by UK'
2010-02-06,b'From a Calcutta brothel to a New York university'
2010-02-05,"b"" \t\n\nUganda's 'kill gays' friends' bill:  \nAnti-gay law worse than thought - Friends who don't rat out friends face death."""
2010-02-05,"b'I wonder if the average working Irish citizen is aware that their ambassador is building a 24,000 sqft house in Canada.  '"
2010-02-05,"b'Secret summit of top bankers - ""Representatives from 24 central banks and monetary authorities including the US Federal Reserve and European Central Bank landed in Sydney to meet tomorrow at a secret location ...""'"
2010-02-05,"b""Kim Jong-il's regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought."""
2010-02-05,"b""Germany's foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, backed the idea of a permanent European army Saturday. """
2010-02-05,b'Hamas backtracks on apology over harming civilians'
2010-02-05,b'President Evo Morales of Bolivia champions gender equality at the highest levels of government'
2010-02-05,"b""Canadian Polygamist Leader Has 25 Wives, Can't Remember Names Of 121 Children"""
2010-02-05,b'No wives for 24 Million Chinese Men'
2010-02-05,"b'North Korea releases U.S. activist. North Korea claims that he ""changed his mind about North Korea after receiving kind treatment, showing \'sincere repentance\'.""'"
2010-02-05,b'New Russian military doctrine: More liberties in terms of use of nuclear weapons due to NATO increasing threat'
2010-02-05,"b""Australia's silence on death penalty - National angst over death sentences imposed by Indonesia on Aussie drug smugglers."""
2010-02-05,"b'The ""miracle babies"" of Mexico City: 25 years later -- As survivors are pulled from Haiti\'s rubble, a look at the fate of the newborns saved after Mexico City\'s 1985 earthquake.'"
2010-02-05,"b'This is what people need to know about Somalia: ""In December 2006, neighboring Ethiopia invaded Somalia, with the tacit backing of the U.S. Their aim was to overthrow a nascent Islamist government, which managed to bring peace to much of Somalia for a six-month stint in 2006.""'"
2010-02-05,"b""Video//\n\nHostesses hit back\nJapan's hostesses are forming a union to tackle unscrupulous club managers and owners.   """
2010-02-05,b'Population Growth: the Challenge Australia Cannot Ignore\n'
2010-02-05,b'G7 nations pledge to cancel debts with quake-hit Haiti '
2010-02-05,"b'More than 100,000 march in support of Chavez in Venezuela'"
2010-02-05,b'BAE admits guilt over corrupt arms deals'
2010-02-05,b'Recycling human waste in India (video).'
2010-02-05,b'Afghan police kill 7 boys collecting firewood'
2010-02-05,b'BAE Systems handed 286m criminal fines in UK and US'
2010-02-05,b'IRAN (Is Not The Problem) - Documentary'
2010-02-05,"b'You cannot turn into Mr. Promises, who makes promises just to pull the wool over peoples eyes, to break into positions of power, and then goes about solving his own personal problems without thinking about fulfilling your promises."" --Putin attempts to criticize his own party after protests.'"
2010-02-05,"b""What advocates of big Australia haven't yet done is spelt out clearly the benefits from such a huge population increase.\n"""
2010-02-04,b'Turkish girl buried alive by family in honour killing'
2010-02-04,"b'Dubai Police warned that if it is proven that Mossad is behind the assassination of Hamas commander, they will seek an international arrest warrant against Israeli PM Netanyahu'"
2010-02-04,"b'Israel Stole $2B from Palestinian Workers, Israeli economists have revealed'"
2010-02-04,"b'As Generose lay bleeding near her husbands corpse, the soldiers cut up the amputated leg, cooked the pieces...and ordered her children to eat their mothers flesh. One son refused. If you kill me, kill me, he told the soldiers, as his mother remembers it. But I will not eat a part of my mother.'"
2010-02-04,"b'Frances laws, which uphold a strict separation of church and state, prohibit civil servants from wearing conspicuous religious symbols or clothing  including a large crucifix, the Jewish kippa, or the Islamic headscarf  at work.  Headscarf-wearing officer to appear before disciplinary committee.'"
2010-02-04,b'Airline bomb suspect singing like a bird -- without any torture. Imagine that.'
2010-02-04,"b""Shackleton's whisky recovered from South Pole ice"""
2010-02-04,"b'Thousands of tons of trash are thrown into the sea each year, endangering humans and wildlife. A classified German government report indicates that efforts by the United Nations and the European Union to clean up our oceans have failed entirely.'"
2010-02-04,"b""Free Gao: the human rights lawyer 'disappeared' by China one year ago today"""
2010-02-04,"b'BBC News: 13-year-old girl flees her suicide bomber family, 9-year-old sister sent to Paradise'"
2010-02-04,"b'Hitlers copyright on Mein Kampf has long been used to keep his inflammatory manifesto off the shelves in Germany. But with the expiration date looming in 2015, there is a developing showdown here over the first German publication of the book since the end of World War II.'"
2010-02-04,"b""CIA Video Of U.S. Missionaries' Plane Being Shot Down In Peru (VIDEO)"""
2010-02-04,"b""I can say Americans are lazy and boorish morons. That's fine. If I say the same about Nigerians, I'm jailed\r\n"""
2010-02-04,b'Romania has agreed to host missile interceptors as part of a new US defence shield'
2010-02-04,b'Italian judge fines parents of rapists for failures in upbringing'
2010-02-04,"b'""Politics is working"" in Northern Ireland as leaders announce that police powers will transfer from London to Belfast'"
2010-02-04,"b'Germany Confronts the Meaning of War - For years, Germans were just fine thinking of Afghanistan as merely a reconstruction effort -- and their political leaders were happy to keep that misconception alive. But since the bombing in Kunduz that killed several civilians, all of that has changed. '"
2010-02-04,b'Norwegian women allowed to have abortions in Sweden based on gender of baby'
2010-02-04,"b'There is only one voice in Israel: the voice of repression, occupation, racism, and war\n""Yesterday Chazan received an e-mail from Jerusalem Post editor-in-chief David Horovitz, informing her the newspaper would cease publishing her column.'"
2010-02-04,"b""Pirate bill could 'breach rights'"""
2010-02-04,b'Weapons manufacturer BAE Systems handed 286m ($447m) criminal fines in UK and US'
2010-02-04,"b""Israeli commander: 'We rewrote rules of war for Gaza attacks'"""
2010-02-04,b'Onion Ring More Popular than Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper'
2010-02-04,b'Music industry threatens to sue individuals for illegal file sharing after iiNet court ruling.'
2010-02-04,b'Haiti: The corporate vultures circle'
2010-02-03,"b'Islamic justice: 16-year-old girl lashed 101 times for conceiving after rape, while the rapist was pardoned'"
2010-02-03,b'Australian ISP iiNet wins copyright court case against major film and TV studios'
2010-02-03,"b""Dr. Aafia disappeared with her children in 2003 while visiting her parents in Pakistan. CIA listed her as a secret detainee in 2007. In 2008, she was found to be in FBI's custody in Afghanistan. With one child believed to be dead, she has now been found guilty of attempted murder of US soldiers."""
2010-02-03,"b'50% of the Dutch want pot legalized, vs. 25% in favor of prohibition, poll shows (Dutch link)'"
2010-02-03,b'Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies in India'
2010-02-03,"b""Australian 'nude photos' banker gains web support"""
2010-02-03,b'Swift (processing transaction for over 8000 banks) refuses to hand over European bank transaction details to the USA. (Dutch link)'
2010-02-03,b'British Muslims are forgoing legal marriages in favor of religious ones. This allows the husbands to simply change the locks on the house one day with the wife having no recourse.'
2010-02-03,"b""Uganda's proposed anti-homosexuality bill - life in prison for homosexual acts, death penalty for 'serial offenders'..."""
2010-02-03,"b'India: ""Anyone exposing the illegal actions of the police  the rapes and killings of adivasis over the last five years  has been targeted. Himanshu Kumar, a Gandhian, has been evicted from the area; Dr Binayak Sen was jailed.""'"
2010-02-03,"b'In Mexico, drug cartels are starting to run the rehab clinics.'"
2010-02-03,"b'Boa Sr, 85 years old, and the last speaker of the Andamanese language Bo dies, adding another language to list of extinct human languages. '"
2010-02-03,b'Yemen to Soon Have the Worlds First Waterless Capital\n'
2010-02-03,"b'Israel accused of not being serious about peace, wants to push for war. '"
2010-02-03,"b""Exclave's 10,000-strong protest rocks Russian politics """
2010-02-03,b'iiNET wins court case against Hollywood heavyweights'
2010-02-03,b'Sinn Fein believes it has basis for Northern Ireland deal '
2010-02-03,"b'Video shows plane with US missionaries shot down in CIA operation in Peru, killing a baby and the mother'"
2010-02-03,b'Huge blazing fireball sighted in sky above Ireland'
2010-02-03,"b'Sophisticated Taliban Bombing Kills 3 US Troops, Embarrasses Pakistan Gov. by Revealing US Troop Presence on Ground'"
2010-02-03,b'Pakistan president is a little superstitious.'
2010-02-03,"b""Gen. Petraeus says strike on Iran could spark nationalism. So don't push it Israel."""
2010-02-03,b'The US-Germany divide on Iran: Will the two allies stick together in imposing sanctions on the Islamic Republic?'
2010-02-03,b'Truth over delusion: Hugo Chavez did not accuse the U.S. of causing the Haitian earthquake'
2010-02-03,"b'This has been kept very quiet.... India currently has ""at least 1000 troops"" deployed in Afghanistan.'"
2010-02-02,b'Harvard student expelled from Israel because she had an essay on her computer hard drive that was sympathetic to Palestinians.'
2010-02-02,b'33 Haitian children returned to their parents after good christians try to kidnap them'
2010-02-02,b'This deserves nobel peace prize.. it has changed so many lives for the better...$28 Artificial limb..Wow..'
2010-02-02,b'AC/DC singer attacks Bono and Bob Geldof over charity lectures '
2010-02-02,b'China cancels 80% of Iraq debt: 8.5-billion-dollar '
2010-02-02,b'Riots in North Korea amid food shortages'
2010-02-02,"b'The German government intends to purchase a CD containing information about tax evaders with Swiss bank accounts, even though members of the ruling coalition have warned against dealing with ""thieves."" In its quest again tax cheats, Berlin is even prepared to risk a falling-out with Switzerland.'"
2010-02-02,b'A foreign national who forced his French wife to wear the burqa is denied French citizenship'
2010-02-02,b'France to support bluefin tuna trade ban.'
2010-02-02,"b""According to some you are trying to 'destroy Israel' if you are a charity organization trying to help refugees"""
2010-02-02,"b""Tony Blair 'lied' to parliament, his cabinet and public over Iraq war\n"""
2010-02-02,"b'Psychological trauma and its effects on the children of Gaza: ""73% of Gaza children are still suffering from psychological and behavioral disorders, including psychological trauma, nightmares, involuntary urination, high blood pressure, and diabetes.""'"
2010-02-02,"b'Iran just executed two demonstrators from the green movement, for protesting.  Yatollah Ahmad Jannati praised the head of Irans judiciary and called on him to hang more demonstrators.'"
2010-02-02,"b'Presence of foreigners is growing in South Korea, so are complicated reactions to them'"
2010-02-02,b'Attacker throws animal semen over schoolgirls'
2010-02-02,"b'South African Leader Criticized Over Birth of his 20th Child, the mother being a much-younger family friend and not one of his three wives.'"
2010-02-02,"b""Three US Marines are among at least 10 people killed in an attack near a girls' school in Pakistan, 63 girls injured"""
2010-02-02,b'China leads race to return to moon'
2010-02-02,b'Vaccine-Autism Study Is Retracted'
2010-02-02,"b' Iran has successfully launched a rocket carrying a mouse, turtle and worms into space for research purposes. The launch of the Kavoshgar-3, which is part of an ambitious Iranian space program that has worried Western powers who fear the technology could also deliver warheads.'"
2010-02-02,"b""UK's ANPR cameras: secretly placed and read the numberplate of every passing vehicle, with the data held for two years in the National ANPR Data Centre, regardless of whether the vehicle is linked to crime."""
2010-02-02,b'Search and Surveillance Bill before Parliament In New Zealand'
2010-02-02,"b'The chance of another big earthquake in Haiti in the near future is great enough that people in Port-au-Prince should sleep in tents  not even in buildings that survived the Jan. 12 quake apparently unscathed, geologists said Monday'"
2010-02-02,b'Iraqi Court overturns ban on hundreds of candidates for next months national election'
2010-02-02,b'Scientists unlock HIV Secret'
2010-02-01,b'Internet uprising overturns Australian censorship law'
2010-02-01,b'Scientologists land in Haiti - screw everything up.'
2010-02-01,"b'""FBI and Pakistani police have tortured us."" read a scrap of toilet paper tossed by one of the suspects from the window of the vehicle.'"
2010-02-01,"b""Afghanistan, one of the world's poorest countries, is sitting on mineral and petroleum reserves worth an estimated one trillion dollars."""
2010-02-01,b'China warns Obama not to meet Dalai Lama'
2010-02-01,"b""Twenty years ago today, FW de Klerk addressed South Africa's Parliament  and stunned the world."""
2010-02-01,b'United Kingdom to block air travelers who refuse nude scan'
2010-02-01,b'Iran to hang nine more over election unrest '
2010-02-01,"b""What the hell is going on in Australia these days? -South Australia's Attorney-General has defended tougher laws on political comment made on the internet. - ABC News """
2010-02-01,"b'As details from the Sept. 4 bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan continue to emerge, it has become more apparent that German commanders both disregarded NATO rules of engagement and misled the US pilots who carried out the attack. One pilot says he would have refused to attack had he been told the truth.'"
2010-02-01,"b""McDonald's abroad outsources its food supply chains to private industry. Today, 20 years after the first McDonald's in Russia, private industry has taken over the last import ingredient: hamburger buns. McDonald's Russian hamburgers are now 100% Russian."""
2010-02-01,b'UN find challenges Israeli version of attack on civilian building in Gaza war'
2010-02-01,"b""Russia Faces Neo-Nazi Threat: Country's Extremists Killed 71 People Last Year"""
2010-02-01,b'Berlusconi: Bring Israel into the EU'
2010-02-01,"b'European Union must stop letting Israeli spies use its passports to carry out ""targeted assassination"": Hamas'"
2010-02-01,"b'Israel slaps wrists of officers in charge of white phosphorous shelling of a Gaza UN compound, claims: ""The most important thing that... we have absolutely nothing to hide.""  '"
2010-02-01,"b""Britain's secret plan to oust Saddam Hussein drawn up two years before Iraq invasion"""
2010-02-01,"b""Why does the Catholic church think that being a paedophile preist is OK but being gay isn't. Pope Benedict attacks government over Equality Bill"""
2010-02-01,"b'Haitian parents that gave kids to U.S. Baptist missionaries arrested too: They promised schooling, soccer fields and even a swimming pool in a ""better place""'"
2010-02-01,b'Israel feels under siege. Like a victim. An underdog '
2010-02-01,b'Naked man pursues Google'
2010-02-01,"b'During the final months of the war between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE, the government confined nearly 300,000 people in what the government called ""welfare camps"" in the north. Since early 2008 virtually all civilians fleeing the fighting had been confined in these camps.'"
2010-02-01,"b'An Indonesian man has been given compensation after a cigarette he was smoking exploded, taking out six teeth.'"
2010-02-01,"b'I interviewed John Lennon, and he was no ultra-left radical'"
2010-02-01,b'Israel attack in flour mill confirmed by UN report: Carried out for the purpose of denying food to the civilian population in direct violation of the Geneva Convention and customary international law'
2010-01-31,b'Israel admits using white phosphorus: Punishes top officials on attack in a UN compound'
2010-01-31,b'Terry Pratchett ready to be test case for suicide law'
2010-01-31,"b""BBC Panorama - A Walk In The Park was left out of the US media. Shocking, I know. It also can't be viewed on BBC's website from the US."""
2010-01-31,"b""If Italy gets stuck with recent fertility levels, and fails to top up with foreign migrants, it will lose 86% of its population by the end of the century, falling to 8 million compared with today's 56 million. Spain will lose 85%, Germany 83% and Greece 74%."""
2010-01-31,b'Plan to oust Saddam drawn up two years before \r\nthe invasion'
2010-01-31,"b""Chinese reactions to USA's arms sales to Taiwan (in translation from Chinese web forums)"""
2010-01-31,"b""Haitian PM: Arrested US Baptists are 'kidnappers'"""
2010-01-31,b'Israel admits white phosphorus use - reprimands top officers'
2010-01-31,"b""Wow, what a great university: 30% of ADMITTED \r\nstudents can't pass an English proficiency exam at \r\nthe minimum level"""
2010-01-31,"b'Here in Italy, this is the iPhone TOP TEN apps. Yes, a lot of people around here are buying that one.'"
2010-01-31,"b""Ahmadinejad: 'Iran will deliver telling blow to global powers on Feb. 11' """
2010-01-31,"b""As food distribution improves, Haitians want U.S to 'take over'."""
2010-01-31,"b""Wells Fargo's Awesome Refusal to Waive Haiti Donation Fees: Goalposts of Greed Moved Back"""
2010-01-31,"b'Iraq to sue US, Britain over use of 2,000 tonnes of depleted uranium in bombs'"
2010-01-31,"b""Alarm at Mumbai's teenage suicide trend"""
2010-01-31,"b""Woman forced into hiding by Britain's worst stalker attacks police failures"""
2010-01-31,"b""Idahoans' rescue effort strikes nerves in Haiti: An orphanage says some supposed orphans had families, who had been told their children were going on holiday."""
2010-01-31,"b'Israel closes probe of shooting of US protester - ""No crime"" - Big surprise'"
2010-01-31,b'Japanese protest US military presence: \nActivists gather in Tokyo to protest Marine base on Okinawa.'
2010-01-31,"b""Leaked climate change emails scientist 'hid' data flaws - Key study by professor Phil Jones was based on suspect figures"""
2010-01-31,b'Spanish judge to probe Guantanamo torture claims.'
2010-01-31,"b""The 'explosive admission' in Israel's Gaza report"""
2010-01-31,b'10 US Baptists detained trying to take 33 children from quake zone across border'
2010-01-31,"b'China targeting Sikorsky, Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon and Boeing in US arms deal sanctions'"
2010-01-31,b'At least 41 people have been killed and 106 injured by a female suicide bomber in north-east Baghdad'
2010-01-30,"b'Game Changer: China Plans to Open Military Bases Worldwide - It has been speculated upon in open-source intelligence circles for years. So, there is little surprise for the rest of the world when it hears of Chinas first major foray in its new role as a Superpower.'"
2010-01-30,"b""Orphaned, Raped and Ignored: Congo's forgotten war, possibly the most lethal conflict since World War II"""
2010-01-30,"b""there are things which we just don't face in our society, things we're not willing to talk about. With respect to Afghanistan, one of the things that we don't want to face and talk about is the presence of drug trafficking in the plans of the CIA for controlling remote areas of this world."""
2010-01-30,b'Thousands protest in Tokyo against U.S. military presence in Japan'
2010-01-30,b'China threatens sanctions over $6 billion US arms sale to Taiwan'
2010-01-30,b'Israel poisoned Hamas leader'
2010-01-30,b'Firefighters clash with police in Northern Spain during a protest against privatization of the emergency services'
2010-01-30,"b'Gunmen murder a dozen teens, 2 adults, injure many more at house party in Mexico. ""The men drove up in four SUVs, went into the house and shot at everyone""'"
2010-01-30,"b""Israel's remarkable new steps to solve its organ shortage"""
2010-01-30,"b'Haitian police have arrested 10 United States citizens caught trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country in a suspected illicit adoption scheme, authorities say.'"
2010-01-30,b'Switzerland to hold referendum on whether animals are entitled to lawyers to protect them from abuse.'
2010-01-30,b'Petition to bring Tony Blair to trial for war crimes'
2010-01-30,"b'Reddit worldnews, I am shocked at what the comments on the post about Bill Moyers revealed today.'"
2010-01-30,b'Last reel for Miramax as Disney closes studio'
2010-01-30,"b""Japan's whalers are at sea again, harvesting meat that few will eat """
2010-01-30,b'Ed Miliband declares war on climate change skeptics'
2010-01-30,"b'If someone was a suspect in a murder in a first world country one would expect the suspect to be given a fair trial, in a country with no modern justice system one would expect the suspect to be killed by thugs. In Israel the thugs wear uniforms and work for the government.'"
2010-01-30,"b'Israel denies Gaza war crimes in report to UN, but refuses an independent investigation. I wonder why ?'"
2010-01-30,b'Russia to sell almost 2 billion in arms to Libya.'
2010-01-30,"b""The rise of 'the African Taliban'"""
2010-01-30,"b'""I would simply like Tony Blair to look me in the eye and say he was sorry. Instead, he is in there smirking.""  Theresea Evans of North Wales, whose 24-year-old son, Llywelyn, was killed in Iraq.'"
2010-01-30,"b""In Iran, a few shadowy men guarantee the regime's increasingly shaky grip on power. Will they stay loyal?"""
2010-01-30,b'UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article  - Telegraph'
2010-01-30,"b'Local police hold 10 Americans, including a pastor suspected of trafficking Haitian children '"
2010-01-30,b'Moscow police break up anti-Kremlin protest'
2010-01-29,"b'Bloomberg: Maybe A Secret Banking Cabal Does Run The World After All  -- wait, WHAT?'"
2010-01-29,"b'To gasps from the gallery, Blair said we should be \r\nproud of the war '"
2010-01-29,"b""China threatened to impose sanctions on U.S. arms firms and cut cooperation with Washington unless it cancels a $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan, in an unprecedented move signaling Beijing's growing global power."""
2010-01-29,"b""Britain's newspapers have expressed shock at Tony Blair's defiant insistence he had no regrets about removing Saddam Hussein, blasting what they saw as the former prime minister's blind self-belief."""
2010-01-29,b'do not watch this if you ever want to feel safe on a plane again'
2010-01-29,"b'Togo football team quit the last African Nations Cup due to two members of its delegation being murdered; now the team is fined US$50,000 and banned from the next two African Nations Cup.'"
2010-01-29,b'Tony Blair refuses to regret overthrowing Saddam Hussein and says that even without him having weapons of mass destruction he would have still invaded Iraq? I fail to see how that was his business...'
2010-01-29,b'Nineteen-year-old Arash Rahmanipour was executed in Iran on January 28 after being convicted of waging war against God and attempting to overthrow the Iranian regime'
2010-01-29,"b""US halts Haiti victim evacuations in 'medical bill row'"""
2010-01-29,b'U.S. Approval of Arms Sales to Taiwan Angers China'
2010-01-29,b'Where Is The Color Green? '
2010-01-29,"b""Okay Blair, you're supposed to be a peace envoy, you now want to go to war with Iran?"""
2010-01-29,"b'Another Finkelstein video: Less dramatic and more rationale this time, explains how real survivors are being cheated by fakers and phonies'"
2010-01-29,b'The Russians are supplying Libya arms worth $1.8 billion'
2010-01-29,b'China Is Leading the Race to Make Renewable Energy!'
2010-01-29,"b'China freezes US military ties: \nAfter Taiwan arms sale, China lays sanctions, ends arms control talks.'"
2010-01-29,b'China mulls military base on Pak soil - Is it a tactic to counteract Indian and US influence in the area?\n\t\t\t\t\t'
2010-01-29,b'NATO airstrike kills 4 Afghan soldiers in mix-up'
2010-01-29,b'Paulson: Russia tried to collapse US banks'
2010-01-29,"b'Mounting Stresses, Failing States'"
2010-01-29,"b'Tony Blair was branded a murderer and liar but unrepentant, unforgiven, Blair says: Id do it again'"
2010-01-29,b'Italy follows France with a bid to ban the burqa'
2010-01-29,b'US-Taiwan arms deal leads China to threaten sanctions against US companies'
2010-01-29,"b""With increasing numbers of natural disasters and more people in harm's way, the capacity of donor nations and the world at large to respond to future crises may be stretched too thin.\n"""
2010-01-29,"b""The trial of Geert Wilders: What started as a plan to bully Islam's critics into silence has resulted in the Qur'an being put on trial."""
2010-01-28,"b""We raised $100K for haiti without breaking a sweat. Wikileaks has shutdown due to lack of funds. Let's fix this."""
2010-01-28,b'Israel has assassinated a senior Hamas military commander in Dubai'
2010-01-28,b'11 Iranian Protesters sentenced to Death'
2010-01-28,"b'Bills Gates pledges $10 *billion* to vaccine research, largest donation in history'"
2010-01-28,"b'Supreme Court of Canada ruled on that the interrogation of the only Canadian citizen, 15 years old, held at the Guantnamo Bay violated his rights'"
2010-01-28,"b'Medical students routinely practice doing internal \r\npelvic examinations while surgery patients are \r\nunconscious, and without getting specific consent'"
2010-01-28,b'LIVE: Tony Blair Faces Iraq Inquiry (0930 GMT to 1700 GMT)'
2010-01-28,b'BBC website readers air their views on Tony Blair and the war in Iraq and the consensus seems to be that he should be tried for war crimes.'
2010-01-28,"b'The Hamas leader that Israel apparently killed in Dubai? Well, yeah, Hamas says he died of cancer in the Palestinian media...'"
2010-01-28,"b""Blackwater's Youngest Victim: Nine-year-old Ali Kinani died from a gunshot wound to the head in the Nisour Square massacre. His father may be the one man standing between Blackwater and total impunity."""
2010-01-28,"b'Families of Iraq war dead voice anger at Blair: ""I would simply like Tony Blair to look me in the eye and say he was sorry. Instead, he is in there smirking""'"
2010-01-28,b'Russia unveils Fifth Generation Fighter - PAK FA \r\n[VID]'
2010-01-28,"b'The Taliban has won the war in Afghanistan, now the coalition of the willing is negotiating the terms of its surrender which it will present to the Taliban, it involves over half a billion dollars in payment in exchange for an end to hostilities.'"
2010-01-28,"b""Blind faith in a mere mortal brought too many parents to jail. Meet Dr. C. Smith; quack pathologist and head of Canada's largest children's hospital."""
2010-01-28,"b'65 years after the Holocaust ended, many Jews are asking: Is its memory being abused? Does Israel use Holocaust as a blackmail weapon? Norman Finkelstein and Israel W. Charny debate. [video]'"
2010-01-28,"b""Tony Blair opened himself up to a charge of misleading Parliament today when he told the Iraq Inquiry that the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's WMD programme had not increased after 9/11. Jail liar Tony Blair!!"""
2010-01-28,"b'People who administer bone-crushing handshakes to prove the strength of their personalities should be charged with assault, says a Labour MP.'"
2010-01-28,b'Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair denies he made a secret deal with Bush about Iraq'
2010-01-28,b'Argentine President  says Bacon Is Better Than Viagra'
2010-01-28,b'Italy opens first prison for transsexuals!'
2010-01-28,"b'Eat Indian, love Indians: campaign in Australia'"
2010-01-28,"b'Ireland has embarked on the most difficult public art commission in the history of the state"" -- a monument to those abused for decades at schools and orphanages run by religious orders; even more difficult now because one group of victims says the funds should instead be donated to Haiti.'"
2010-01-28,"b""Russian police this week raided the offices of a prominent environmental group that had protested government plans to reopen a controversial paper mill on the shores of Siberia's Lake Baikal."""
2010-01-28,"b""Homeopathy protesters to take 'mass overdose' outside Boots (sort of a reminder)"""
2010-01-28,"b'All countries chip in for the Haiti relief effort: Ghana ($3 million); Democratic Republic of Congo ($2.5 million pledge); and Sierra Leone ($100,000). Others are Cambodia ($50,000); Liberia ($50,000) and Senegal ($1 million)'"
2010-01-27,"b'Howard Zinn, arguably one of the most important scholars of our time, is dead. '"
2010-01-27,"b""Danish Bank wont invest in Israeli companies who's reportedly been involved in construction of Jewish settlements and the Apartheid Wall in the West Bank."""
2010-01-27,"b""When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When he's a rabbi firebombing a mosque"""
2010-01-27,"b'[Video] Dr Finkelstein responds to crocodile tears of a zionist: ""If you had any heart in you, you would be crying for the Palestinians""'"
2010-01-27,"b'Howard Zinn (RIP) & Noam Chomsky discuss The Lord of the Rings ""One of the problems with the perspective offered by the Man-Elf coalition is that you have to try so hard to get at the truth of the conflict, at what is really going on; it\'s so obscured by their propaganda and relentless militarism.""'"
2010-01-27,"b""Haiti girl rescued after 15 days. I can't even go without reddit for 15 hours..."""
2010-01-27,"b""Watch all of Democracy Now!'s excellent reports from Haiti. See what the main stream media isn't showing you."""
2010-01-27,"b'Agriculture in much of India is dying. The village economy is in crisis, assailed by migration to the cities, decades of ecological neglect, and the growing unsustainability of farming. According to a recent report, almost 200,000 farmers committed suicide between 1997 and 2009.'"
2010-01-27,"b'Street vendors openly sell U.S.-donated rice by the cupful from bags marked ""not for resale.""'"
2010-01-27,"b""Two former prisoners of Auschwitz are suing the \r\nBush family for their part in Hitler's rise to power"""
2010-01-27,"b""Israel Defence Minister says the conflict with Palestinians poses a greater threat to Israel than Iran's nuclear program"""
2010-01-27,b'The construction of a museum of tolerance in Jerusalem  on the site of an ancient Arab cemetery  has involved mass exhumations.'
2010-01-27,"b'The way Britain is governed has gone wrong and is in urgent need of reform, a group of former Whitehall chiefs has warned'"
2010-01-27,b'Haiti govt gets only 1 cent of every US aid dollar'
2010-01-27,"b""North Korea fires artillery towards South for second day in a row. Doesn't this worry anyone?"""
2010-01-27,b'Is google back in China? Wait... Goojje?'
2010-01-27,b'Hans Rosling: World development (TED)'
2010-01-27,b'India plans to launch its first manned space mission in 2016.'
2010-01-27,"b""UK's migrant workers oppression, Dubai is heaven in comparison but the tabloids are British """
2010-01-27,"b""HRW claim Hamas 'DID target civilians in Gaza war'"""
2010-01-27,"b'If I sign then that means I am selling my birthrights away.  Wape said later, the police came with their gun.\n'"
2010-01-27,b'Sarkozy: US Dollar Should No Longer be Primary Reserve Currency'
2010-01-27,"b'Traffickers targeting Haitis children, human organs, PM says'"
2010-01-27,b'Low-slung teen fad switches to armpit huggers by fifth decade'
2010-01-27,"b'Egypt\'s poor turn to booze - ""Bouza"" is cheap and nasty, but popular alcohol frowned upon by the authorities'"
2010-01-26,"b'Dr. Norman Finkelstein: ""Every single member of my family on both sides were exterminated...I consider nothing more dispicable then to use their suffering and their martyrdom to try to justify the torture, the brutalization, the demolition of homes that Israel daily commits against the Palestinians""'"
2010-01-26,b'UN report indicates clear evidence of UK role in torture'
2010-01-26,"b""Chavez Writes Off Haiti's Oil Debt to Venezuela"""
2010-01-26,b'Shoe thrown at Israel chief judge hitting her face'
2010-01-26,b'A bit of insight into the warped mentality of the ultra-religious settlers in the West Bank.  People like this are the true enemies of peace.'
2010-01-26,"b'Peru in a state of emergency: over 7,000 people are left homeless due to severe flooding and mudslides in several regions'"
2010-01-26,"b'Yesterday, they threw water bottles back at us and said, We dont want your water""  Why would the Haitians do this?'"
2010-01-26,b'BREAKING: South Korea returns artillery fire from North. Why would they shoot back? '
2010-01-26,b'Secret detention may amount to crime against humanity: UN report'
2010-01-26,b'Canadian Surgeons go to Haiti on own accord. Now asking government to pay for their troubles.'
2010-01-26,"b'Blackwater employees indicted for murder in Afghanistan were hired after pasts of cocaine use, assault and battery, and going AWOL.'"
2010-01-26,b'Hugo Chavez says U.S. is using earthquake as pretext for occupying Haiti'
2010-01-26,"b""WHO 'exaggerated swine flu danger' - Who Made the Profits?"""
2010-01-26,"b'Robert Fisk: The tree-lined bunkers that could change the face of the Middle\nEast. The border looks peaceful, but Hizbollah and Israel are preparing for war. ""This is no game. The Israeli army wants to revenge itself on the Hizbollah,\nwhich humiliated it in 2006.""'"
2010-01-26,b'Plan considered to buy off Taliban'
2010-01-26,b'Honduras: Cesar Silva and Edwin Renn Fajardo Argueta documented government repression in 2009. This is the video Cesar and Edwin tried to share. This is the video Cesar was tortured for. This is the video Edwin died for.'
2010-01-26,"b'""some object to the practice in some regions of beating dogs to death to release the blood into the meat.""'"
2010-01-26,"b'Canada\'s spin on ""homegrown"" extremism - A man plotting mass murder in Toronto sought to profit financially from his terrorism'"
2010-01-26,"b'The Iraq inquiry isnt going anywhere fast, so many lies!'"
2010-01-26,b'Embarking on single-child policy in Bangladesh\n'
2010-01-26,"b""30,000,000,000 square feet of commercial real estate being constructed in China. That's one cubicle for every man, woman and child in the country."""
2010-01-26,b'Massive new effort to end the war in Afghanistan by trying to buy off the Taliban: US$500-million for jobs and protection'
2010-01-26,"b'Supreme Leader of Iran: ""Israel poses major threat to Muslim world, one day regional nations will definitely witness the destruction of the Zionist regime""'"
2010-01-26,b'Constituent harassed by Telegraph readers after sending email to Tory PPC'
2010-01-26,"b""Worst year 'since Holocaust' for antisemitism; the \r\nCommunity Security Trust recorded more \r\nantisemitic incidents in the first six months of 2009 \r\nthan it has done in any previous entire year"""
2010-01-25,b'France considers banning the burqa'
2010-01-25,"b""Turkey's prime minister: Israel Commits War Crimes. Israel Response: You are anti-Semite."""
2010-01-25,"b""Airline passengers have 'no right' to refuse naked \r\nbody scanners"""
2010-01-25,"b""Haiti's head Voodoo priest question Church of Scientology operation"""
2010-01-25,"b'My cousin, who says that she is hungry and has been sleeping in bushes with dead bodies nearby, stops me. Dont cry, she says. Thats life. No, its not life, I say. Or it should not be. It is, she insists. Thats what it is. And life, like death, lasts only a little while.'"
2010-01-25,"b'Israel cracks down on NGO workers: Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, Save the Children lose work permits'"
2010-01-25,"b'Canada is quickly turning into a police state! Suggesting that a pie in the face is ""terrorism"" is what\'s intimidating!'"
2010-01-25,"b""US Television is reporting riots in Haiti. What they don't tell you is that their own camera crews started the riots."""
2010-01-25,b'China to jail people who eat dogs or cats'
2010-01-25,b'The Great Australian Internet Blackout'
2010-01-25,"b'Markus Reinhardt, head of security for the Davos World Economic Forum which starts tomorrow has been found dead of an apparent suicide.'"
2010-01-25,"b'Italian official: ""The Americans are extraordinary, but when you are facing a situation in chaos they tend to confuse military intervention with emergency aid, which cannot be entrusted to the armed forces...it was pathetic""'"
2010-01-25,"b""Japan 'May Rethink' US Futenma Air Base After Election: Residents of the Japanese city of Nago, on Okinawa, chose a candidate opposed to the hosting of an American air base"""
2010-01-25,"b'Government ordered police to use all means, including force, to prevent demonstrators across Serbia that blocked roads and railway lines. Both police union of Serbia and Independent Union of Police, announced they will not respect this decision and ""will not fight the hungry workers""'"
2010-01-25,b'Fox News leaves false report on Haiti uncorrected |  Raw Story'
2010-01-25,"b""Britain awaits Blair's Iraq testimony - London police brace for protests outside Chilcot commission.\n"""
2010-01-25,"b""British film-makers uncover Trajan's hidden Roman aqueduct """
2010-01-25,"b""Venezuela - Thousands of students marched to protest the government's widely criticized suspension of a TV station opposed to President Hugo Chavez."""
2010-01-25,b'A Jew a Muslim and some Christians '
2010-01-25,"b""Trying to tame Tokyo's adult playground"""
2010-01-25,b'Ministry of Justice lists eco-activists alongside \r\nterrorists'
2010-01-25,"b'Report: Al Qaeda Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat, Hype or Reality?'"
2010-01-25,b'Just received this short press release from Christian Peacemaker Teams in the West Bank; doubt any news sources will pick up on it'
2010-01-25,"b'Worst. Plan. Ever?: Britain and Japan have agreed to head an international fund, expected to total up to $500 million over the next five years, as part of a broad plan to help lure Taliban fighters away from the insurgency.'"
2010-01-25,b'The new Miss England is an Iraqi war veteran who received a commendation for bravery when she disarmed an Iraqi insurgent. She is also very beautiful!. How did we end up with a Carrie Prejean'
2010-01-24,b'Excellent new BBC documentary on Israeli settlers in east Jerusalem. Not sure how long this will stay up on YouTube. Highly recommended viewing...'
2010-01-24,b'Former UK ambassador: CIA sent prisoners to Uzbekistan to be raped with broken bottles and boiled alive'
2010-01-24,"b'Ireland dumps electronic voting machines, goes back to fully accountable pen and paper.'"
2010-01-24,"b""Israel's prime minister has declared his country would retain parts of the West Bank forever\n"""
2010-01-24,"b'Italian teen stabs father in fight over PlayStation. ""Police said the argument broke out when the [father] offered his son advice on tactics to improve his play""'"
2010-01-24,b'Displeased but polite Canadian throws cream pie in the face of Fisheries Minister to protest the seal hunt'
2010-01-24,"b""Israel calls UN Gaza report 'anti-Semitic'"""
2010-01-24,b'BBC News - Ethiopian Airlines jet crashes into sea off Beirut'
2010-01-24,b'Israel: After Operation Cast Lead in Gaza there were more anti-Semitic incidents in 2009 than in any year since World War II'
2010-01-24,"b'Report: Israel opens Gaza crossings, lets in aid'"
2010-01-24,"b""37 dead, 100 wounded in three Iraq bombings \r\nshortly after 'Chemical Ali' is executed"""
2010-01-24,b'Guatemala moves to arrest ex-president on US \r\nrequest'
2010-01-24,"b""Fidel Castro on Haiti: Cuba `sends doctors, not soldiers'"""
2010-01-24,"b'Former PM of Malaysia: Jews ""had to be periodically massacred""'"
2010-01-24,b'Israel underlines refusal to abandon settlement program; wonders why the Arabs are trying to kill Jews.'
2010-01-24,"b'Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister prevented the entry of a Belgian minister into the Gaza Strip. ""Your visit will only bolster Hamas  and legitimize it'"
2010-01-24,"b'Osama Bin Laden: ""America will never dream of living in peace unless we live it in Palestine. Therefore, with God\'s will, our attacks on you will continue as long as you continue to support Israel""'"
2010-01-24,"b""China's most senior negotiator on climate change calls for open mind on causes, suggests that it may have nothing to do with human activity"""
2010-01-24,"b""A minority government that represents less than half of Canada decided that they can prorogue parliament in the same year that we're going to be hosting the Olympics, the G8 and G20 summits..."""
2010-01-24,b'Senior Whitehall lawyers to tell probe the Iraq war was illegal'
2010-01-24,b'Child soldiers are commonly seen as helpless victims of unscrupulous recruiters. But most are not. '
2010-01-24,b'An Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 people crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in flames early today just minutes after takeoff from Beirut.'
2010-01-24,"b""BBC News - 'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq"""
2010-01-24,"b""Hamas: Egypt's steel wall benefits the Israeli occupation because it has killed the last lifeline keeping the Gaza Strip alive after two and a half years of siege"""
2010-01-24,"b'""When there is an emergency, it triggers a vanity parade. Lots of people go there anxious to show that their country is big and important, showing solidarity,""  Italian head of civil protection'"
2010-01-23,"b'Cannibalism, child junkies, beaches full of human shit, murder for fun.. Fascinating documentary by Vice magazine about Liberia, one of the most hardcore fucking places on the planet.'"
2010-01-23,"b""A bunch of people came to my village to hang out. They weren't very nice."""
2010-01-23,b'Evidence relating to the death of UK Govt weapons inspector David Kelly is to be kept secret for 70 years...unbelievable!'
2010-01-23,b'Truth over delusion: Hugo Chavez did not accuse the U.S. of causing the Haitian earthquake'
2010-01-23,"b""Photographers fed up with being stopped and searched by British police under UK's terrorism laws gathered in London to protest against the practice"""
2010-01-23,"b'China to US: shut up about ""so-called Internet freedom""'"
2010-01-23,"b""Scientologists 'heal' Haiti quake victims using touch"""
2010-01-23,b'15% of the Entire Population of Port Au Prince has been killed'
2010-01-23,"b'""Our message is clear: We are planting here, we will stay here, we will build here, this place will be an inseparable part of the state of Israel forever,"" Binyamin Netanyahu. Is there any hope for peace??!!'"
2010-01-23,"b'Iraq war was illegal, top lawyer will tell Chilcot inquiry'"
2010-01-23,"b'Haiti deathtoll hits 150,000'"
2010-01-23,"b'US to lift 21-year ban on haggis: Smuggled and bootlegged, it has been the cause of transatlantic tensions for more than two decades. But after 21 years in exile, the haggis is to be allowed back into the United States.'"
2010-01-23,"b""Photographers attend a mass picture-taking gathering organised by the group I'm A Photographer, Not A Terrorist! in protest of stop and search action by police in Central London on January 23, 2010."""
2010-01-23,b'Text Messages in China to Be Scanned for Illegal Content'
2010-01-23,"b'I am sorry, but Tibetans are not the peace-loving, serenely religious culture people make them out to be  '"
2010-01-23,b'Italy Government wants to clamp down on online video... WTF?!'
2010-01-23,b'More Saudi airstrikes in Yemen.  113 Saudis dead \r\nsince start of conflict.  What exactly is going on \r\nthere?'
2010-01-23,"b'Video Game Addict Stabs Mother To Death, Plays More Counter-Strike'"
2010-01-23,b'Cable networks cut anti-Chavez station RCTV off the air after order from the government.'
2010-01-23,b'News from the regime that launches agressive wars against its neighbors routinely: Israeli minister suggested that Israel was heading for a new war with Lebanon'
2010-01-23,"b'Dear CNN, every time that Bin Laden ""makes"" a new terror video, how about you fucking keep it to yourself? '"
2010-01-23,b'Jihad du Jour: Suicide Bomber Takes Out Two Children...'
2010-01-23,b'Drugs brings more money to Mexico than oil.'
2010-01-23,b'The Vice Guide to Liberia '
2010-01-23,"b'UNICEF says there should be a moratorium on new adoptions, warning that vulnerable children could be at risk of trafficking or abuse'"
2010-01-22,b'Haiti 360....AMAZING!'
2010-01-22,"b'Ex-wife lies about child sex abuse during custody battle. Although acquitted, husband loses kids, house and job while fighting allegations and decides to charge her for perjury.  Ex-wife threatens to Kill Bill.'"
2010-01-22,"b'Somali Pirates want to send loot confiscated from rich countries to Haiti: ""The humanitarian aid to Haiti can not be controlled by the United States and European countries; they have no moral authority to do so. They are the ones pirating mankind for many years""'"
2010-01-22,"b""UK Terror level raised to 'severe': So...is there an election coming up?"""
2010-01-22,"b'Orwell has nothing on this: CCTV in the sky - police forces in the UK planning on using military-style spy drones for ""routine monitoring"" of civilians. '"
2010-01-22,"b""China's absolute levels of poverty and illiteracy have doubled since 2000. In India, they've been halved. The urban-rural income gap has steadily declined since the early '90s. Over the past decade, economic growth in rural India has outpaced growth in urban areas by almost 40%."""
2010-01-22,b'I was a British Ambassador at the time of the events covered by the Iraq Inquiry. I know many of the witnesses and a great deal of the background. I can therefore see right through the smooth presentation. Jack Straw was the smoothest of all - but he told lie after lie. '
2010-01-22,b'Venezuelan oil could be double that of Saudi Arabia'
2010-01-22,"b'Hamas ""Will not recognize Israel""'"
2010-01-22,"b'Despite the fact China is facing fast aging and sex ratio imbalance, the country will continue its low-birth policy due to the pressure of population growth.\n'"
2010-01-22,"b'Iraq littered with contamination: Over 40 sites with radiation or dioxins linked to cancer, birth defects, ill health.'"
2010-01-22,b'Legal row as social networkers escape in suicide machine'
2010-01-22,"b'""Almost a third of the runners who finished in the top 100 have since been disqualified for cheating in the race in the southern port city of Xiamen.""'"
2010-01-22,b'The number of people surviving on less than $1 a day shrank rapidly in the decades leading up to 2006'
2010-01-22,"b'Haitian woman, aged 84, found alive in quake rubble after 10 days'"
2010-01-22,"b""\nIsraelis protest over 'fascist' Jerusalem settlements"""
2010-01-22,"b'Found this great and simple live news ticker, thought Reddit might like it! '"
2010-01-22,b'The Iraqi government has spent over $80 million on useless teched-up dowsing rods to detect bombs.'
2010-01-22,b'China vs. Google: Beijing fights back'
2010-01-22,b'US Marines End Role in Iraq as Attention Shifts to Afghanistan'
2010-01-22,"b'Choose between veil and right to vote, rules SC of India.'"
2010-01-22,"b'Haiti\'s suffering is a result of calculated impoverishment. ""Haiti\'s poverty is treated as some baffling quirk of history...when in reality it is the direct consequence of a uniquely brutal\nrelationship with the outside world  notably the US, France and Britain \nstretching back centuries.""'"
2010-01-22,"b""The IMF has made a loan of $100 million to Haiti. It's interest-free, but that's not good enough. Haiti needs grants, not loans. They say they are working to cancel all Haitian debt, but we need to hold them accountable."""
2010-01-22,"b'Nearly 80 percent of the 300,000 conflict-related deaths in Darfur were due to diseases like diarrhea, not violence, Belgian scientists said on Friday.'"
2010-01-22,"b""Belarus Calls Russia's Oil Export Duties Illegal - NYTimes.com"""
2010-01-21,"b'Im proud: the Dutch collect over  41 mln for Haiti, government doubles it all, totaling  83,448,252 (Dutch link)'"
2010-01-21,"b'""A TSA worker was staring at her. Then he pulled a small, clear plastic bag from her carry-on. Inside the bag was fine, white powder.""\r\n'"
2010-01-21,"b""If this guy doesn't look badass I don't know who does."""
2010-01-21,"b'A BBC Newsnight investigation has found that a so-\r\ncalled ""bomb detector"", thousands of which have \r\nbeen sold to Iraq, cannot possibly work.'"
2010-01-21,"b'Russian Policeman who accused the country\'s police force and judiciary of ""massive corruption"" is arrested after already being fired'"
2010-01-21,"b'So, Hamas representative DENIES that he offered recognition of Israel\'s ""right to exist on Palestinian land"" and nullify its charter'"
2010-01-21,b'China condemns US call for unrestricted internet'
2010-01-21,"b'India: ""We hide in jungles during day, come to village at night. We dont want to be arrested by police who come to our villages during day."" Security forces destroyed foodgrains from previous harvest. Civil rights team members strangled, assaulted repeatedly  right outside police station.'"
2010-01-21,b'China is now making a very real effort to export its culture to the worlds poorest continent. It will be interesting to see how mutual the traffic is.'
2010-01-21,"b'Human rights campaigners who have been struggling for years to eliminate female genital mutilation in West Africa got a boost this week as news emerged that a group of Muslim clerics and scholars in Mauritania had declared a fatwa, or religious decree, against the practice. '"
2010-01-21,"b'The scanner caught a subject\'s cell phone and Swiss Army knife -- and the microphone he was wearing -- but missed all the components to make a bomb that he hid on his body... Full-body scanners: they\'re not just a dumb idea, they don\'t actually work."" '"
2010-01-21,"b'China rebuffs Clinton warning that ""who disrupt the free flow of information in our society pose a threat to our economy, our government and our civil society. Countries or individuals that engage in cyber-attacks should face consequences and international condemnation""'"
2010-01-21,"b'Heavy Fighting in Nigeria between Christian and Muslims continues. More than 460 people died and 18,000 are homeless due to the continuing violence which began on Sunday.'"
2010-01-21,"b""German TV highlights failings of body scanners (Worth looking even if you don't speak german)"""
2010-01-21,b'Haiti earthquake aid pledged by country'
2010-01-21,"b'Venezuela steps up aid effort to Haiti, questions US military deployment'"
2010-01-21,"b'""The North Koreans broke my body. But they could not reach my soul,"" she says. '"
2010-01-21,"b""Hugo Chavez says U.S. possess an earthquake weapon that caused Haiti's earthquake"""
2010-01-21,"b'""You are seeing apartheid in action, you cant believe what you are seeing,"" he said. Israel has no right to be doing a thing in the West Bank, under any international law; ""they shouldnt be taking an inch of it."" '"
2010-01-21,"b""Europe applauds Obama 's initiative to restrict the activities of big U.S. banks and calls for an international agreement"""
2010-01-21,b'Turkish police on Friday rounded up 120 people suspected of links to the al-Qaida terror network in simultaneous pre-dawn raids in 16 provinces'
2010-01-21,"b'Juarez, the Bagdad of Mexico, right on the US border, is now occupied by the Mexican Army to protect it from drug gangs.'"
2010-01-21,"b'Israel has paid the United Nations $10.5 million for property damage and injuries the world body suffered during Israel\'s attack on Gaza a year ago. The U.N. agrees that ""the financial issues relating to those incidents ... are concluded,"" spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters. Eh?'"
2010-01-21,"b'Police kill man in Haiti over allegedly stolen rice, article includes graphic footage of the incident'"
2010-01-21,"b'Everyone knows about hitting a child at 30 mph versus hitting them at 40 mph, but how many people know you should always drag a bloodied intruder back into your house before calling the police?'"
2010-01-20,"b""Hamas accepts Israel's right to exist"""
2010-01-20,"b'Out of the utter horror of Haiti, comes a picture of incredible joy - arguably one of the best pictures of all time'"
2010-01-20,"b'China has no troops outside its borders; Russia has a small handful in its former territories in Abkhazia, Armenia, South Ossetia and Transdniester. The U.S. has hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in six continents.\n'"
2010-01-20,"b""Chavez says US 'weapon' caused Haiti quake"""
2010-01-20,"b'NZ army to remove Bible citations from armaments - they are inappropriate and could stoke religious tensions, New Zealand said Thursday'"
2010-01-20,"b'We cheer when a Haitian child is rescued from the rubble, but ignore the thousands of Gazan children who are suffering malnutrition and being buried by Israeli policy'"
2010-01-20,b'Russias central bank started buying Canadian dollars in a sign of increased diversification of assets away from the US dollar'
2010-01-20,b'Overweight passengers who cannot squeeze into a single plane seat are to be charged double to fly with Air France'
2010-01-20,"b""Hamas senior representative has accepted Israel's right to exist and would be prepared to nullify its charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel,"""
2010-01-20,"b'USAF Airman 1st Class Perry Aston took this aerial shot of vitally important, very busy Toussaint Louverture International Airport from a USAF OC-135B Open Skies Observation Aircraft flying 15,000 feet above Haiti on 16 January 2010. [PIC]'"
2010-01-20,"b""Former Malaysian PM Says 9/11 Staged for 'Attacking Muslims'..."""
2010-01-20,b'Israel moves to launch university in West Bank settlement'
2010-01-20,"b'Haiti boy, 5, survives nearly 8 days under rubble'"
2010-01-20,"b""Surgeon seeks to prevent 'unnecessary amputations' in Haiti's earthquake zone"""
2010-01-20,"b""Husband Strangles Mother of Five for 'Becoming Australian'..."""
2010-01-20,"b""Europe's airport security dilemma - It's up in the air whether European airports will have body scanners"""
2010-01-20,"b""China says its economy expanded by 8.7% in 2009, exceeding even the government's own initial expectations."""
2010-01-20,b'How often has the U.S. and NATO killed the Taliban in groups of 30 during 2009? The answer may surprise you'
2010-01-20,b'Amy Goodman reporting from Port au Prince and interviewing Dr Evan Lyon of Partners in Health. Great on the ground reporting.'
2010-01-20,"b'""Under various pretexts, abusive governments are attacking the very foundations of the human rights movement."" - HRW World Report 2010'"
2010-01-20,b'NATO military chief seeks to strengthen ties with Russia in war with Afghanistan'
2010-01-20,"b""Geert Wilders: 'I want Muslim fanatic to speak in my defence'"""
2010-01-20,b'UK MPs kicked out of ACTA talks. '
2010-01-20,b'Russia: Journalist dies after police beating'
2010-01-20,"b'By failing to see beyond Chavez, one of the most significant dynamics ignored. Venezuelans have taken over factories; occupied urban, rural lands; launched radio, television stations; built centers for culture, popular education. Often in ways that go beyond expectations of government'"
2010-01-19,b'Haiti Struck By Major Earthquake for 2nd Time in 8 Days'
2010-01-19,"b'We\'ve all seen and heard reports of complaints that Americans were ""not letting the aid in,"" and now I understand why.'"
2010-01-19,"b""'The world does not welcome the White Houses Google' -- China has signalled a change of approach to the Google crisis, with state media describing the companys threat to pull out of the country as a political conspiracy by the US government."""
2010-01-19,b'Air France may bar obese passengers from flights'
2010-01-19,"b""Remember the guy who was jailed in the UK in December for hitting an intruder with a cricket bat? He's been freed by appeal. """
2010-01-19,"b""Israel 'pushing aid groups out' of Palestinian areas"""
2010-01-19,"b'FBI arrests 22, US, UK and Israeli weapons dealers in a massive sting operation'"
2010-01-19,b'Palestinian President proposes that the Obama administration negotiate the final borders of a Palestinian state with Israel'
2010-01-19,"b'How my father went from the prison of the shah to the prison of Khamenei. Right now, he is in solitary confinement in Evin prison in Tehran'"
2010-01-19,"b'""Iraq war illegal,"" Tony Blair aide said: \nAide to British PM secretly warned Iraq war would be illegal in 2002.'"
2010-01-19,b'One in a million: the girl in a tartan dress who symbolises the orphan crisis facing Haiti.'
2010-01-19,"b'Two brothers, aged 10 and 12, tortured victims aged 9 and 11. Absolutely sick. [BBC News]'"
2010-01-19,"b""The NHS in England provides better value for money than elsewhere in the UK, a research group's study suggests."""
2010-01-19,b'Chinese Communist Party: The Dictactorship of Talent'
2010-01-19,"b""China's Baidu sues U.S. company over cyber-attack"""
2010-01-19,b'An MIT urban design expert explains why devastated cities are nearly always rebuilt  but why Haiti faces special challenges to reconstruction.'
2010-01-19,"b""Toronto Hydro admits it can't control stray voltage, asks residents to tread carefully lest they or their children are stung by electricity coursing below city sidewalks... wtf?!"""
2010-01-19,b'Mexico City to punish tweets on police checkpoints'
2010-01-19,b'6.1-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti Wednesday morning.'
2010-01-19,"b""Iran's political winds are shifting - Is the government on the verge of collapse?"""
2010-01-19,b'Mother jailed for murdering brain-damaged son - this is fucked'
2010-01-19,b'The New York Times is to make frequent readers pay to view their content. I wonder how long that will last?'
2010-01-19,b'Olympic ski resort in Whistler seized by lenders!!!  To be auctioned off in the middle of the freakin Olympics!!'
2010-01-19,b'UNICEF warns against rushing to adopt Haitian children.'
2010-01-19,b'Something seems odd about the SEED Emergency Housing Shipping Containers for Haiti...'
2010-01-18,"b'Syria\'s Mufti: Islam commands us to protect Judaism--""If the Prophet Mohammed had asked me to deem Christians or Jews heretics, I would have deemed Mohammed himself a heretic""'"
2010-01-18,"b""Hard to argue that it's not a holy war when Christian extremists are all too happy to provide some dogma into the mix: U.S. Military Weapons Inscribed With Secret 'Jesus' Bible Codes because Killing people and quoting the bible makes Jesus dance"""
2010-01-18,b'China bans Avatar for being subversive'
2010-01-18,b'Earthquake Magnitude 6.0 hits Guatemala\n'
2010-01-18,b'Costa Rican sugar exports blocked after Legislative Assembly rejects US-led copyright reform  '
2010-01-18,"b'Nigerian Muslims and Christians unite side by side to promote peace on earth and raise loads of money for the Haiti disaster.  No, just kidding, at least 149 people have been killed during two days of violence.'"
2010-01-18,"b'The trial of the century starts tomorrow against Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. His free speech is our free speech. Netherlands, the world is watching!'"
2010-01-18,"b'UK has ""no doubts"" about its claim to the Falkland Islands. A recent law passed in Argentina, with whom the UK fought a war in 1982, begs to differ.'"
2010-01-18,b'China to save its oldest cliff Buddha from collapse '
2010-01-18,"b""Iran has arrested 19 activists from the Women's Movement, Women Journalists and Civil Activists """
2010-01-18,"b'For once, a piece praising Americans for their effort \r\nin the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake.'"
2010-01-18,"b'Cell phone minerals fuel Congo conflict - Sales of coltan, used in cell phones, fund groups that brutalize eastern Congo'"
2010-01-18,"b""Look! In the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's Superman! NO! It's ANDERSON COOPER!"""
2010-01-18,b'European Navy Watches As Pirates Slaughter Each Other Over Ransom Money'
2010-01-18,"b'GoDaddy Donates $500,000 To Haiti'"
2010-01-18,b'Haiti: we dont need soldiers  theres no war here'
2010-01-18,b'Nigerian Army ordered in as 200 die in Christian-\r\nMuslim riots.'
2010-01-18,"b'2,000-year-old temple dedicated to Cat goddess found in Egypt'"
2010-01-18,"b'Guantanamo triple-suicide victims were suffocated, claims magazine '"
2010-01-18,b'UN Afghanistan survey points to huge scale of bribery'
2010-01-18,"b'The entire premise of combating al-Qaeda as though it were an enemy army, using the Pentagon as the lead agency, while simultaneously militarizing the CIA, needs to be questioned'"
2010-01-18,"b""BBC: Suddenly The Afghan Security Realize What They're Looking At & Run For Their Lives! [vid]"""
2010-01-18,"b'Haiti: ""There are no security issues,"" says Dr. Evan Lyon of Partners in Health, in Port-Au-Prince. Reports of violence in the city have been overblown by the media and have affected the delivery of aid and medical services'"
2010-01-18,"b'Message From Ecuador to Chevron CEO John Watson: ""We don\'t want to continue dying of cancer."" [vid]'"
2010-01-18,"b'Israel is arresting a growing number of prominent opponents to its policies toward the Palestinians, say critics who are accusing the government of trying to crush legitimate dissent.'"
2010-01-17,b'Terrorism has killed fewer people in the last 30 years than Americans with handguns in the last eight months.  Meanwhile:  More people will die in Haiti this week than Hiroshima. Our perspective of events is warped.'
2010-01-17,"b'Pennies for Haiti, Billions for Israel'"
2010-01-17,b'French government minister accused the Americans of trying to occupy Haiti instead of helping it'
2010-01-17,"b'Amnesty International: Israel ""collectively punishing"" Gaza by restricting the entry of food, medical supplies, educational equipment and building materials'"
2010-01-17,b'BBC News - Mauritania fatwa bans female genital mutilation'
2010-01-17,"b'Not the Onion: IDF saves one baby in Haiti, prevents scores of Palestinians from reaching Hospital in Gaza'"
2010-01-17,"b""Cuba's Rescue Effort in Haiti"""
2010-01-17,b'Worst modern earthquake happened in China with over 242k dead in 1976. They then refused all aid.'
2010-01-17,"b""Monsanto strikes again! Indian government approves commercial release of genetically modified brinjal or aubergine (Bt brinjal). Storm of protests from activists and farmers' groups"""
2010-01-17,"b'Haiti -- No, Mister! You Cannot Share My Pain!'"
2010-01-17,"b'Islamic Solidarity Games, due to be held in Iran, called off because of a dispute with Arab countries over what to call the Gulf'"
2010-01-17,b'A brief history of US involvement in Haiti. From the coup against Aristide to the US occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934.'
2010-01-17,"b'90-year old Canada history magazine changes name. What was wrong with ""The Beaver""?'"
2010-01-17,"b""We can't defeat Taliban with the military: UK Army chief"""
2010-01-17,"b'Haiti\'s elite spared from much of the devastation: ""But we did okay here. We have everything cleaned up inside. We are ready to open. We just need some security. So send in the Marines, okay?"" WTF?!'"
2010-01-17,"b'Unlike Qatar, Iran and Jordan, Saudi Arabia is not providing any assistance at all to the people of Haiti.'"
2010-01-17,"b'Charlie Brooker: Years ago, I had an idea for a futuristic pair of goggles that visually transformed homeless people into lovable animated cartoon characters.'"
2010-01-17,"b'Chinese Snowstorm: over 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed in Xinjiang'"
2010-01-17,b'Among those who need to be subpoenaed are the former president and vice-president of the United States.'
2010-01-17,b'Chavez orders takeover of French hypermarket chain'
2010-01-17,b'Casper the commuting cat killed by hit-and-run driver'
2010-01-17,"b'A bit of honesty from a politician: British MP: Israel and Egypt\'s blockade of Gaza is \'evil\'. ""Israeli officials who authorized the use of white phosphorous in densely\npopulated Gaza should be tried for war crimes, a British Labour Party\nlegislator said Friday...""'"
2010-01-17,b'Somali pirates collect $5.5-7 million ransom -- and are almost immediately attacked by another band of pirates.'
2010-01-17,b'Chavez says U.S. occupying Haiti in name of aid'
2010-01-17,"b'Palestinians are offering donations and financial support for the victims of Haiti\'s devastating earthquake: ""We feel for them the most because we were exposed to our own earthquake during Israel\'s war on Gaza""'"
2010-01-16,b'Sandra Bullock gives $1 million to Haiti relief'
2010-01-16,b'Australia has nearly unlocked Medieval trait: Film \r\ndistributors are alarmed by new laws that quietly \r\ncame into effect in South Australia this week \r\nrestricting the promotion and display of R-rated \r\nmovies such as Fight Club.'
2010-01-16,b'Senegal offers land to Haitians'
2010-01-16,"b'Adults in Scotland are drinking the equivalent of 46 bottles of vodka each in a year, a study has suggested.'"
2010-01-16,b'Cuban health team that Bush refused to allow in New Orleans after Katrina is serving in Haiti'
2010-01-16,"b""Heavily armed gang members who once ran Haiti's largest slum like warlords have returned with a vengeance since the earthquake damaged the National Penitentiary allowing 3,000 inmates to break out"""
2010-01-16,"b'Romania to introduce fat tax, in battle against obesity '"
2010-01-16,"b""Iran's political winds are shifting """
2010-01-16,"b'Inside noted ring of diamond thieves - ""Pink Panthers"" talk about their spectacular heists estimated at $350 million.'"
2010-01-16,"b""Seed Vault will store frozen seed samples to protect the world's food supply from natural disasters and war."""
2010-01-16,b'Anger at US builds at Port-au-Prince airport'
2010-01-16,b'Spanish lawmaker horrified to learn that the FBI used an online photograph of him to create an image showing what Osama bin Laden might look like today'
2010-01-16,b'We ripped license plates off cars to use as splints. We took shirts off of people to use as tourniquets '
2010-01-16,b'Senegal offers land to Haitians'
2010-01-16,b'South Korean teacher beats at-risk students with shovel; shouts profanity at them; berates them if theyre failing... and the students love him '
2010-01-16,b'US prevents arrival of Caribbean aid team in Haiti'
2010-01-16,b'German government warns against using MS Explorer'
2010-01-16,b'Italy proposes mandatory licenses for people who upload video'
2010-01-16,b'Associated Press: Numerous firebombed churches = rum bottle thrown at mosque'
2010-01-16,b'Iranian dissident Masoud Ali Mohammadi killed by Arab hitman?'
2010-01-16,"b'""Gender Testing Hangs Before the Olympic Games as a Vexing Mess""'"
2010-01-16,"b'Swede gives 100 million SEK, about $14 million USD, to help Haiti children'"
2010-01-16,"b""The UK's soft-crime initiative is now a multimillion-pound industry: parking fines levied last year totalled 330m, with another 100m from speed cameras."""
2010-01-16,"b'Girl killed, 4,000 homeless in Manila slum fire '"
2010-01-16,"b""Sarkozy backs off Muslim veil ban: It's 'unworkable' """
2010-01-15,"b""France Calls for Cancellation of Haiti's Debt"""
2010-01-15,b'Photoshop Disaster [featuring FBI]'
2010-01-15,"b'Australia is safe once again. ""Female Ejaculation Films To Be Banned In Australia"" - Thank you, you fucking fundamentalist christian lunatics that have nothing better to do. That is all. '"
2010-01-15,b'Hate crime increases in areas with BNP councillors.'
2010-01-15,b'British Legislator: Israelis who authorized the use of white phosphorous in densely populated Gaza should be tried for war crimes'
2010-01-15,"b'Just what is China? Pretty strong opinion piece on the country, its practices economic and political, and its essential nature.'"
2010-01-15,"b""Businessman Mirko Fischer sues British Airwars 'for \r\ntreating men like perverts'"""
2010-01-15,"b""Bah's in Iran face execution"""
2010-01-15,"b""6 Years Ago Haiti asked for Reparations.  A call for $21 billion from France aims to lift Haiti's bicentennial blues."""
2010-01-15,b'Canada to give immigration priority to Haiti earthquake survivors'
2010-01-15,b'Desperation grows: Mass grave found outside Port-au-Prince '
2010-01-15,"b""Prominent Chinese civil rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has 'disappeared' while in the custody of the Beijing Public Security Bureau.  They claim not to know where he is."""
2010-01-15,"b'Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, tensions rise'"
2010-01-15,b'Iraq erasing Jewish heritage sites; plan to build mosque atop tomb of Ezekiel'
2010-01-15,"b""Alibaba says Yahoo 'reckless' on Google stance"""
2010-01-15,"b'Jeremy Scahill - The poor are left to suffer and die, and the Rich bring in their mercenaries. Blackwater was paid 950$ per man per day by the Department of Homeland security at a time when the average people in New Orleans were dying of starvation'"
2010-01-15,"b'Had they truncheoned the civilian who filmed them to the ground, the unwritten police form book suggests they might have expected tight-lipped support from their superiors'"
2010-01-15,b'Amazing footage of a baby rescued after being buried in Rubble for 3 days in Haiti [Vid]'
2010-01-15,b'Hope for Haiti - Solar Powered Rural Health Hospitals Saving Lives Now'
2010-01-15,"b'Haiti earthquake: With an eye to both short and long-term needs, IFRC increases appeal to 100 million USD'"
2010-01-15,b'Fidel Castro: The lesson of Haiti'
2010-01-15,"b""Haiti's Earthquake Destruction: TIME Exclusive Photographs """
2010-01-15,b'Operation Pierre Pan May Start at Miami Hospitals '
2010-01-15,b'The Russia-Belarus Oil Dispute and Western Oil Supplies'
2010-01-15,"b'Israeli ultra-orthodox rail against net use - Sensing a threat, the rabbis have forced the closure of several ultra-orthodox websites.'"
2010-01-14,"b'""It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid,"" White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said about Pat Robertson\'s Haiti Remarks'"
2010-01-14,"b'Researchers confirm that the Chinese goverment was behind the attack on Google. ""the government of China has been engaged for months in a massive campaign of industrial espionage against US companies.""'"
2010-01-14,b'Haiti 48 hours later - The Big Picture'
2010-01-14,"b'Political Massacre of 57 people in the Philippines: He shot the victims as soon as they were brought to him. They were on their knees, crying and shouting for mercy. Those killed included 30 reporters and news media workers.  '"
2010-01-14,b'David Nutt - the sacked drugs panel chief - start own Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs to rival governments own panel.'
2010-01-14,"b'OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty, Walks Free'"
2010-01-14,"b""Naomi Klein: don't let the disaster capitalists exploit the Haiti disaster. Countries in periods of extreme crisis are desperate for any kind of aid and are not in a position to negotiate fairly the terms of that exchange."""
2010-01-14,"b""Remember that 'woman warned by UK police for carrying a knife in her own home' story? Guess what - it's not quite as simple as that!"""
2010-01-14,"b'Chinese human rights activist, Feng Zhenghu, has been camping out, sleeping on a bench and surviving on handouts at the Narita International Airport in Japan since Nov. 4, 2009.'"
2010-01-14,"b'Haiti ""apocalypse"": ""More doctors, fewer journalists"" man yelled angrily at a foreign media crew. Gunfire is echoing across the capital, as survivors endure a third night on the streets with little food, water or medical supplies'"
2010-01-14,b'Google agrees to take down Encyclopedia Dramatica link to page about Aboriginals.'
2010-01-14,"b'Canadians, donate money to help in Haiti and your government will match your contribution!'"
2010-01-14,"b'How Haiti, the most profitable French colony, became such a desperate and destitute country.'"
2010-01-14,"b'Arctic permafrost leaking methane at record levels, figures show'"
2010-01-14,b'Finland aims to eliminate smoking'
2010-01-14,b'10 Satellite Photos of Haiti Before and After the Earthquake '
2010-01-14,b'Clerics threaten to declare holy war if foreign troops land on Yemeni soil'
2010-01-14,"b'Uganda president slows anti-gay bill - President Museveni urges caution on controversial bill, citing foreign policy'"
2010-01-14,b'Japan Ends Naval Support for Afghan War'
2010-01-14,"b""JP Morgan's $9bn payout stokes bonus fury """
2010-01-14,b'Revealed: The ghost fleet of the recession anchored just east of Singapore'
2010-01-14,b'Israeli travel to Turkey dropped 44% in 2009'
2010-01-14,b'Belgium beer dispute hits supply of Stella Artois'
2010-01-14,"b'Ecuador: ""We are drawing up an inventory of all the unproductive private lands to distribute  around one and a half million hectares. This is why they are desperate to destabilise us so quickly. With an unequal distribution of income, price represents not the intensity of preference.""'"
2010-01-14,b'Mongolia to abolish the death penalty'
2010-01-13,b'Please go to www.redcross.org and donate at least $10 to help out the people of haiti. I know the reddit community can make a difference!'
2010-01-13,"b'Haiti: how your donation could hurt - After every major disaster, misguided donations actually worsen the suffering'"
2010-01-13,"b'China gives first response to Google threat: Internet is ""open"" to business ""according to the law""'"
2010-01-13,"b'""Holy shit. We just saw a gigantic shark eat what looked like a person in front of our house, that shark was huge. Like dinosaur huge.""'"
2010-01-13,b'Researchers identify command servers behind Google attack'
2010-01-13,b'British cops videotaped sledding on their riot shields'
2010-01-13,"b'Russia\'s government has launched a crusade against alcohol abuse, describing it as a ""national disaster""'"
2010-01-13,b'US editor banned from entering Israel'
2010-01-13,"b""Family shut out of their home by squatters who moved in over Christmas. Now risk becoming homeless because they cannot afford both the mortgage and rent for another property. Police tells them are 'racist' for questioning the squatters' right to live in Britain on benefits."""
2010-01-13,"b""'Israel is losing the media war to Al Jazeera' """
2010-01-13,b'Fleet of rogue jet aircraft regularly crisscrossing the Atlantic Ocean linked to Al Qaeda'
2010-01-13,"b'Two men who ""showed no mercy"" to their own grandfather as they tortured him in south London have been jailed for life for his murder.'"
2010-01-13,"b"" Israel restricts Palestinian lawyers' access to West Bank detainees"""
2010-01-13,"b""Haiti 'cursed by pact with devil' says US evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson"""
2010-01-13,b'Pat Robertson Cites Haitis Earthquake As What Happens When You Swear A Pact To The Devil -true story...'
2010-01-13,b'Haiti: the land where children eat mud. This was *before* the earthquake.'
2010-01-13,b'BBC News - Should we be free to criticise serving soldiers?'
2010-01-13,b'Remember the Lawyer that recorded a video posted in youtube saying that the president of Guatemala was going to kill him and then was killed? International investigation finds that the murder was actually planned by himself. WTF'
2010-01-13,"b""Partners in Health, a major nonprofit based in Haiti's Central Plateau, is currently absorbing and providing care for much of the flow out of Port-au-Prince.  Here is their page on the situation."""
2010-01-13,"b'University Prof Tim Lang forecasts ""a perfect storm"" as population growth, diminishing resources and climate change that will create shortages in food, water and energy.'"
2010-01-13,b'Turkey warns Lebanon that Israel may be planning attack'
2010-01-13,"b'Since zebras are too expensive to bring in to Gaza, the owner of a local zoo has painted his white donkeys, to the delight of local children.'"
2010-01-13,b'A man who was trying to help a woman get back her stolen purse stabbed to death: Unbelievable: robbers killed a man for a handbag!'
2010-01-13,"b'Pakistan is fast moving from being a water-stressed country to a water-scarce country, mainly due to its high population growth and water is becoming a key development issue.'"
2010-01-13,"b'Haiti scams are spreading: experts. (If you know of any, or have useful information for others, here might be a good place to post them)'"
2010-01-12,"b'Dear World, The Chinese government stole intellectual property from us and others. The censorship is crazy over there and we are seriously considering ceasing our Chinese operation. - signed google.'"
2010-01-12,"b""Toronto woman dies pushing baby from car's path"""
2010-01-12,b'7.3 Mag Earthquake off the Haitian Coast. Tsunami alert issued!'
2010-01-12,"b""Google 'may end China operations over Gmail breaches' """
2010-01-12,"b'Google ""no longer willing to continue censoring our \r\nresults"" on its Chinese search engine.'"
2010-01-12,b'Just another day in Mexico: Police found the dismembered body of a man whose face had been skinned and stitched onto a soccer ball.'
2010-01-12,"b'Man faces 20 years in jail for writing on an airline comment card: ""I hope we don\'t crash and burn or worse yet, landing in the ocean, living through it, only to be eaten by sharks, or worse yet, end up on someplace like gilligans Island, stranded, or worse yet, be eaten by a tribe of headhunters""'"
2010-01-12,b'Hellloooo everybody... Haiti was hit with a 7.0 earthquake this morning. Is it shitty to anyone else that Jay Leno is topping the news because he may be retaking his late night spot?'
2010-01-12,"b""Almost seven years later, the most catastrophic legacy of the Iraq war is shaping up to be the more than 2 million refugees who are locked in limbo on its borders with no hope of moving on. Here's what daily life is like in the monotonous depths of a humanitarian nightmare."""
2010-01-12,"b""Much of Haiti's capital destroyed by earthquake """
2010-01-12,"b'Iran\'s anti-government demonstrators have taken their protests to a new venue: writing ""Death to the Dictator"" and other opposition slogans on bank notes'"
2010-01-12,"b'In a plot twist worthy of Agatha Christie,  assassinated lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg masterminded his own murder to frame the president.'"
2010-01-12,"b""Tape recording of Nazi officers describing the moment they found Adolf Hitler's body in his Berlin bunker has been discovered"""
2010-01-12,b'A new civilization has been uncovered in western Amazonia.'
2010-01-12,"b'What kills people in these disasters isnt just nature but its interconnection with poverty, and in Haiti its imperative to arrange not only the earthquake response  digging people out of rubble  but also a public health response'"
2010-01-12,"b""I like Google as much as the next Redditor but how \r\ndoes cyber attack = now we care about human \r\nrights + no more censoring results or we leave? \r\nSomething doesn't add up."""
2010-01-12,b'British Muslim soldier: Islamists should treat UK as their own country'
2010-01-12,b'Hey reddit. Anyone know any good charities for those that want to help the folks in Haiti who had enough misery in their lives before getting shit on by the earthquake?'
2010-01-12,b'Blair aid unapologetic for UK contributions to lies about Iraq'
2010-01-12,"b'Google fed up Chinese hacking human rights advocates, may leave China'"
2010-01-12,b'A global fiasco is brewing in Japan'
2010-01-12,b'It is half a century since she began her seminal work studying chimpanzees in Africa. But Jane Goodall says her work is far from finished'
2010-01-12,"b""The world's loneliest police beat.After 22 years on Tristan da Cunha, Conrad Glass has still to make an arrest"""
2010-01-12,"b'So they arrested ""El Teo"" in mexico. If you remember, this is the guy that would make a stew with the bodies of his rivals so the families would not even have a body to bury.'"
2010-01-12,"b'A landmark class action case is under way in a New York federal court, with victims of apartheid in Holding Corporations Accountable for Apartheid Crime in South Africa: IBM, Fujitsu, Ford, GM and banking giants UBS and Barclays'"
2010-01-11,b'Why would a former Guantanamo Bay prison guard track down two of his former captives - two British men - and agree to fly to London to meet them?'
2010-01-11,"b""Barred from using lead in children's jewelry because of its toxicity, some Chinese manufacturers have been substituting the more dangerous heavy metal cadmium in sparkling charm bracelets and shiny pendants."""
2010-01-11,"b""Israelis use clever 'Catch-22' ruse to put thousands of Palestinians between a rock and a hard place, then destroy their homes and schools to make room for an Israeli Military 'training area' in an 'occupied territory' outside of Israel's own border."""
2010-01-11,"b'Michael Chertoff, Former Department of Homeland Security, is the head of the Chertoff Group, the lead cheerleader for what is being called the Full Body Scanner Lobby - Chertoff is also the spokesman for Rapiscan a body scanner manufacturer.'"
2010-01-11,"b'Italians fight back against surveillance society by publicizing the location of CCTV cameras  and to ""out"" those set up illegally'"
2010-01-11,b'Stop-and-search powers ruled illegal by European court'
2010-01-11,b'UK Stop and search powers ruled illegal by \r\nEuropean court'
2010-01-11,b'Bolivian Government To Produce Coca Colla  Its The Real Thing From Coca Leaves'
2010-01-11,b'Avatar audience is being depressed because the Pandora world is unachievable.'
2010-01-11,"b'Islam4UK to be banned, says UK Home secretary, takes effect this Thursday if parliament agrees'"
2010-01-11,"b'You might wonder why U.S. military drone strikes kill so many civilians.  It will all become clear, once you learn whom the CIA relies upon to identify targets...'"
2010-01-11,"b""Piracy isn't all bad. Kenya fishermen see the upside: more fish."""
2010-01-11,"b""An investigation in the Netherlands has concluded that the Dutch government's support of the invasion of Iraq had no legal backing and did not fully inform parliament about its plans in the run-up to the conflict."""
2010-01-11,"b'In Britain you can now be arrested for writing an email you did not write, because it contains a word that rhymes with another word that some official thinks is racist, but no one complained about. '"
2010-01-11,b'Israeli Prime Minister: we will never share Jerusalem with Palestinians'
2010-01-11,b'Iraq invasion violated international law: Dutch inquiry finds that invasion was not justified under UN resolutions'
2010-01-11,"b'Annoyed about your bottle of water not being allowed on a plane? To this woman, it was a bottle of diabetes transplant cells.'"
2010-01-11,b'Taliban may be descended from Jews'
2010-01-11,"b""Christiane Amanpour does a shamefully bad job of holding Robert Mugabe to account for his actions.  Couldn't they have found someone familiar enough with the situation to answer his propaganda?  A pathetic interview."""
2010-01-11,"b'Britain is criminalizing membership in Islam4UK, a radical Islamic group that has incited outrage by planning a protest march through the streets of a town made famous for its somber ceremonies honoring British soldiers killed in Afghanistan. '"
2010-01-11,"b""Nigeria's missing president: the country hasn't seen him for more than 50 days, leaving a leadership void"""
2010-01-11,b'Iranian nuclear physicist killed in bombing. With love from Mossad.'
2010-01-11,"b'Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history.'"
2010-01-11,"b'H1N1-Gate: Big Pharma, WHO triggered organized panic, European health head claims.'"
2010-01-11,"b'China operates what is, by several measures, the world\'s fastest rail line: ""WuGuang"" line trains clocked peak speeds of up to 394 kph, averaging  312kph in nonstop runs four times daily'"
2010-01-10,"b""A pilot's life: exhausting hours for meagre wages """
2010-01-10,"b'The Russian commander of the 40th army in Afghanistan, and the current Ambassador to NATO make some interesting points in this op-ed.'"
2010-01-10,"b""Emirates' sadistic sheikh who used 'an automatic rifle, whips, electric cattle prods, wooden planks with protruding nails and even his Mercedes SUV to torture his victim.' [Video extracts warning: the images may be disturbing] """
2010-01-10,b'A teenager who poured bleach over a woman at a restaurant in Leeds has been detained for 12 months.'
2010-01-10,b'Skewed China birth rate to leave 24 million men single'
2010-01-10,b'Italians cheer as police move hundreds of African immigrants out of town after clashes with locals that leave scores injured\n'
2010-01-10,b'Mexican woman tells of ordeal with cross-border child traffickers'
2010-01-10,b'Tijuana reels amid a surge of violence'
2010-01-10,b'Poverty and despair - life on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation'
2010-01-10,b'More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses by 2020.'
2010-01-10,"b'Israeli media defending the murder of children because of ""rockets""'"
2010-01-10,"b'The sex scandal that has transfixed Northern Ireland in recent days has a cinematic echo: a 60-year-old ""Mrs. Robinson"" who was caught in an affair with a man who was 19 at the time.'"
2010-01-10,"b'""The lucky ones are brutally interrogated and released. Some turn up dead, their bodies bearing the marks of torture. Other families face the anguish of never knowing the fate of a father, brother or son.""  Families of muslim North Caucasus region are pointing fingers at Moscow.'"
2010-01-10,"b""Israel has approved plans to erect a wall along part of Israel's border with Egypt. """
2010-01-10,"b""Take that England... Chinese reaction to Akmal Shaikh's execution"""
2010-01-10,"b""British troops 'tortured Iraqi woman' - Body Dumped by Roadside in a British-issue Body Bag"""
2010-01-10,b'Solomon Islands - Doctors at the Honiaras National Referral Hospital (NRH) are worried about the population increase in the country.'
2010-01-10,b' Inside the insular and secretive Eritrea'
2010-01-10,"b""A cross-party group of MPs and peers have called on the main parties to make a manifesto pledge not to allow the UK's population to exceed 70 million."""
2010-01-10,"b""Could the Pakistani Government Fall over Karachi Violence? What would it Mean for Obama's War on al-Qaeda?"""
2010-01-10,b'Jeremy Clarkson Last hurrahs of the petrol age review'
2010-01-10,"b""Chernobyl nuclear accident: At the children's cancer hospital in Minsk, Belarus, and in eastern Ukraine, doctors are seeing highly unusual rates of cancers, mutations and blood diseases linked to the accident that happened 24 yrs ago"""
2010-01-10,b'Jurist Josipovic wins Croatia presidential election\n'
2010-01-10,"b""All but one of the 17 families who lost relatives in Baghdad's Nusoor Square killings have agreed to settle their claims against the security contractor formerly known as Blackwater"""
2010-01-10,"b""British soldiers 'tortured and executed Iraqi grandmother'"""
2010-01-09,"b'Chevron could face damages of $27.3bn, the biggest environmental lawsuit in history because ""from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped 18 billion gallons of toxic waste and formation water directly into streams, rivers, and the jungle floor"" of the Ecuadorian Amazon '"
2010-01-09,"b'Israel rejects US ""Loan Threat"", saying they don\'t really need the money'"
2010-01-09,"b""Chvez ordered two F-16 jets to intercept a U.S. military plane that twice violated Venezuelan airspace, in what he called the latest provocation in Venezuela's skies"""
2010-01-09,"b'There have been more attacks on churches in Malaysia, in a growing dispute over the use of the word Allah by non-Muslims'"
2010-01-09,b'Plane packed with 35 tonnes of North Korean arms to Iran intercepted. New Zealand company suspected of foul play.'
2010-01-09,"b""'Career women make bad mothers' billboards pulled"""
2010-01-09,"b'Iceland says Cant pay, wont pay  and it is right  -  '"
2010-01-09,"b'Iranian state television has made a documentary about the death of Neda Agha Soltan, a young Iranian woman who was shot dead during the June postelection protests in Tehran, suggesting she was an agent of the United States and Britain who staged her own death. ...'"
2010-01-09,"b'Remember the UAE Sheikh videod running over and torturing a guy over some missing grain - well surprise surprise he got off since ""he was drugged and unaware of his actions""'"
2010-01-09,b'Young Malaysians of various races and professions got together at the Malaysian capitol and handed out flowers to passers-by in a gesture of goodwill in the wake of the recent religiously-motivated arson attacks on four churches'
2010-01-09,b'Looks like Mexico did not fall apart after they decriminalized possession of small amounts of drugs'
2010-01-09,b'Bangladesh endorses one-child policy'
2010-01-09,"b""My husband, a school teacher and farmer from the Palestinian village of Bilin, jailed for protesting Israel's apartheid wall"""
2010-01-09,b'Socialist Party of Malaysia: `No more racism! Freedom of religion to all! '
2010-01-09,b'Indian man attacked and set alight in Melbourne'
2010-01-09,"b""China becomes the world's largest exporter"""
2010-01-09,"b'""in other times, when they brought me to the roadblock the entire village chased me and beat me, and nearly killed me. I prefer to sit in prison than to go back."" '"
2010-01-09,b'Germany investigates whether CIA deployed a Blackwater hit team in the country'
2010-01-09,b'Canadian spared beheading by Saudi court. '
2010-01-09,b'China pressures Indonesian economy - A new regional trade deal raises tensions between two rising economic powers'
2010-01-09,"b""Crime lord's fake penis falls off during a raid. Attached to it was his street cred."""
2010-01-09,"b'Hugo Chavez ordered soldiers to seek out businesses that raise prices after a sharp devaluation of the bolivar currency last week, saying his government will not tolerate price speculation.'"
2010-01-09,"b""'We Regret Driving Out the British,' Say Yemenis..."""
2010-01-09,"b""Over 200 dead in India's cold snap"""
2010-01-09,"b""Ahmadinejad: Iran and Syria will create a 'New World Order' """
2010-01-08,b'Top Imams affiliated with the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada have issued a fatwa calling those terrorists who attack the United States and Canada evil.'
2010-01-08,b'Human sacrifices increase in Uganda; blood and body parts used in spell-casting to gain wealth'
2010-01-08,b'An Indian man is in a serious condition in hospital after being set on fire in the street in Melbourne early this morning.'
2010-01-08,"b""Muslims and Christians set fire to each others' homes and shops near the southern Egyptian town"""
2010-01-08,"b'Putin warns Russia is prepared to go on the weapons offensive.  In order to preserve a balance, while we arent planning to build a missile defence of our own, as its very expensive and its efficiency is not quite clear, we have to develop offensive strike systems.'"
2010-01-08,"b""A beauty pageant winner from Canada's east coast says she will join this year's seal hunt after an anti-hunting group altered photos of her wearing sealskin."""
2010-01-08,"b""Iran's hardline president has ordered the formation of a team to study the damages the country suffered from the 1941 Allied invasion in order to demand compensation."""
2010-01-08,"b'Yemen: the mood in Sanaa - Many worry they will be collateral damage in the next front of America\'s ""war on terror""'"
2010-01-08,"b""Politician who said homosexuality could be cured is under fire for getting her teenage lover a 50,000 pound loan. Her politican husband didn't disclose the loan. """
2010-01-08,"b'""I caused a mass riot in India, leaving 185 people arrested so far, and about 100 business owned by Larry Summers oligarch-friends [Mukesh Ambani], smoldering in ruins."" '"
2010-01-08,b'Israel launches air strikes in Gaza'
2010-01-08,"b""'CIA bomber' shown vowing revenge"""
2010-01-08,b'Canadians give thumbs up to full body scanners at airports'
2010-01-08,"b""BBC - We're all Icelanders now"""
2010-01-08,b'Three independent experts confirm authenticity of video footage which shows extra-judicial killings of bound and naked Tamil rebels by Sri Lankan troops. And a former army general states that the government ordered rebels to be killed and not allowed to surrender at the end of the war last year.'
2010-01-08,b'So this is what happens when you put a major sports tournament in Angola'
2010-01-08,b'Italy deployed extra police and evacuated migrants on Saturday from a southern town after residents violently attacked African farm workers protesting against their conditions.'
2010-01-08,"b""Border oil dispute worsens fears about Iran's influence over Iraqi government - washingtonpost.com"""
2010-01-08,"b'In an instance of shocking apathy, a sub-inspector of police, brutally attacked by a gang, bled to death, as his cry for help went in vain, even after two state ministers with their convoy stopped by and saw his plight.'"
2010-01-08,"b'Abdul Majeed Zandani, A Yemen religious leader, says the growing interest in activities in Yemen is part of a plot to occupy the country.  He also has a KICK ASS beard!!'"
2010-01-08,"b""Yesterday's news - Ady Gil collision from three views, including on the Ady Gil."""
2010-01-08,b'Two more arrested in suspected New York bomb \r\nplot (reuters)'
2010-01-08,"b""China Is Now The World's Biggest New Car Market"""
2010-01-08,"b""Iran reformist Mehdi Karroubi's car shot at"""
2010-01-08,"b""Greeces public debt: Can't afford to keep people as healthy as before, but can still afford 10,000 riot police to attack its own people."""
2010-01-07,"b'23-year-old British woman on holiday in Dubai told police she had been raped, only to be arrested herself for having illegal sexual intercourse'"
2010-01-07,b'Portugals parliament approves same-sex marriage'
2010-01-07,"b""I think you're trying to seduce me Mrs. Robinson.  Ireland rocked by scandal as First Minister's 58 year old wife is caught in an affair with her 19 year old lover.  """
2010-01-07,"b'No taxes, no customs duties, no government patents, no government copyrights: a secessionist area within the Ivory Coast is flourishing, and the UN, the BBC, and bureaucrats find this astounding'"
2010-01-07,b'French man earns bravery medal for diving into an icy river and saving a pregnant woman who was trapped inside a crashed car in northeastern France.'
2010-01-07,"b'Costa Rica is one of the very few countries to have abolished its army, and its also the happiest nation on earth'"
2010-01-07,b'Norway Time Hole Leak Plunges Northern Hemisphere Into Chaos | Pakistan Daily (Did someone forget to take their pills this morning?)'
2010-01-07,b'Study: Bankers worth less to economy than Hospital Cleaners'
2010-01-07,"b'Attacks after Malaysian court rules Christians can call their God ""Allah""'"
2010-01-07,"b'Video footage allegedly showing Sri Lankan troops executing Tamil Tiger rebels last year is authentic, a UN envoy has concluded. WARNING: very graphic footage!'"
2010-01-07,b'Two former Blackwater guards charged with Afghan murder'
2010-01-07,b'And so the protest boat hit by the Japanese Whalers has sunk.  I hope someone gets in trouble.'
2010-01-07,b'Israel will pay US $10m in compensation for damage caused to United Nations buildings in Gaza during the assault a year ago'
2010-01-07,b'Canada no longer a haven for war resisters - Prime Minister Harper wants to send back 200 American asylum-seekers'
2010-01-07,b'Looks like chemical fingerprint of the bomb that killed seven CIA agents may match the kind produced by Pakistani intelligence...'
2010-01-07,b'United Nations peacekeeping forces last week discovered a large number of buried explosive devices in southern Lebanon about a kilometer from the border with Israel. '
2010-01-07,"b'Israel bombs Gaza again, three killed.'"
2010-01-07,"b""Europe's Jobless Rate Unexpectedly Hits 11-Year High"""
2010-01-07,"b'Blackwater Settles Massacre Lawsuit by Paying Families of Dead Iraqis $100,000 Each. Blackwater says it is pleased with the outcome'"
2010-01-07,"b'""I\'m sure the hundreds of thousands of women who \'flashed\' all their friends yesterday had the best of intentions. You know what I didn\'t do? Think about breast cancer. That\'s what this is mostly about: not cancer, but flirting.""'"
2010-01-07,b'Northern Irish fundamentalist Christian politician caught having an affair with a man 40 years her junior. After gaining him government favors and 50000'
2010-01-07,"b""It's Cold in England. How different is 2010 from 1963?"""
2010-01-07,b'China hit with $2.2 billion software piracy lawsuit'
2010-01-07,"b""BBC News - 'Not guilty' plea in Detroit plane bomb case"""
2010-01-07,b'Chart showing deaths of Israelis and Palestinians since the second Intifada. Guess which one has born the brunt? '
2010-01-06,"b'Three Americans go to Uganda and teach thousands (including police, national politicians, etc.) how gays and their agenda are trying to destroy Ugandan families and sodomize their children.  Result: a bill to impose a death sentence for homosexual behavior.'"
2010-01-06,"b'Soviet General, 1986: ""After seven years in Afghanistan there is not one square kilometre left untouched by the boot of a Soviet soldier. But as soon as they leave the place, the enemy returns and restores it all the way it used to be. We have lost this war.""'"
2010-01-06,"b""Very quietly, China has become the world's second-largest producer of scientific knowledge. If it continues at this awe-inspiring rate, China will overtake the US before 2020 and the world will look very different as a result"""
2010-01-06,"b""Investor who made huge fortune off predicting Enron crash now predicting China's bubble is about to burst"""
2010-01-06,"b'2,000 Egyptian riot policemen attacked and injured volunteers of the Viva Palestina aid convoy that were inside the port of Al Arish preparing to drive the convoy vehicles to Gaza to deliver medical and other humanitarian supplies'"
2010-01-06,b'UK government plans to implement loophole to prevent people from being prosecuted for war crimes'
2010-01-06,"b'France wants tax on Google. ""We are not going to be stripped of our heritage for the benefit of a big company, no matter how friendly, big or American it is.""'"
2010-01-06,"b""EU website hacked. Spanish president's photo with replaced with one of Mr. Bean."""
2010-01-06,"b""UN concludes video showing Sri Lankan soldiers apparently executing naked Tamils 'appears to be authentic'."""
2010-01-06,"b'KFC accused of racism over Australian advertisement, a case of American cultural insularity - ""They have a tendency to think that their history is more important than that of other countries.""'"
2010-01-06,b'Afghan war kills three children a day'
2010-01-06,"b'A church was set on fire in Malaysia early Friday by unidentified attackers amid a growing conflict in the country over the use of the word ""Allah"" by non-Muslims'"
2010-01-06,b'Google is a very useful and powerful search engine but do You know how much information that You give away when You make use of it?'
2010-01-06,"b'Over 1 billion people do not have access to safe, clean drinking water.'"
2010-01-06,b'Denmark politicians demand more stringent immigration rules after cartoonist attack... in a country that already has one of the strictest immigration policies in Western Europe!'
2010-01-06,"b""Iran to try 5 people  in connection with riots on the charge of 'moharebeh' - an Islamic term meaning warring against God - which carries the death sentence"""
2010-01-06,b'A BBC investigation has cast doubt on key evidence in the case against the Libyan convicted of blowing up a US jet over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988.'
2010-01-06,b'Canadian Transport Minister John Baird confirms that Ottawa ordered airline body scanners months ago'
2010-01-06,b'Burmese whistle-blowers sentenced to death'
2010-01-06,b'Ending the culture of female genital mutilation'
2010-01-06,b'1970s-style rationing as UK National Grid cuts off gas to factories '
2010-01-06,b'Sudan on the brink of another civil war'
2010-01-06,"b'Palestinian Christian groups are boycotting celebrations of Orthodox Christmas in Bethlehem, accusing their Church of selling land to Israelis.'"
2010-01-06,b'Attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt Leaves 7 Dead'
2010-01-06,"b'The conspiracy theory presented in a documentary made for Iranian TV suggests that Ms. Agha-Soltan first sprayed fake blood on her own face, while pretending to have been shot, and then was later killed by the two men who seemed to be trying to save her life.'"
2010-01-05,"b'These images depict the untouched stomach contents of baby birds in one of the worlds most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent. (pics)'"
2010-01-05,b'Slovakian authorities plant explosives on unsuspecting airport passengers; Innocent Irish man arrested as a result.'
2010-01-05,"b""Ady Gil/Sea Shepherd 'cut in half' by Japanese whaling vessel """
2010-01-05,b'Fourteen suspected terrorists died Tuesday night when the bus they rigged with explosives blew up prematurely.'
2010-01-05,"b""Reddit if a bomb had exploded on this flight and there were suggestions that government agents planted the explosives people would say 'no way conspiracy theory nutcase...' but...."""
2010-01-05,"b""An investigation by BBC's Newsnight has cast doubts on the key piece of evidence which convicted the Lockerbie bomber, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi. """
2010-01-05,"b""'Stealth' boat's bow sliced off in whaling clash [incl. video]"""
2010-01-05,"b""2.4 million pounds of plastic pollution enter the world's oceans every hour"""
2010-01-05,"b'In defiance of the ban on minarets, a Swiss man has affixed one to his shoe store'"
2010-01-05,b'New toxic milk case in China kept secret for a year'
2010-01-05,"b'Koreans fear ""witch hunt"" on the web'"
2010-01-05,b'In Iran: intelligent + political = no more education for you.'
2010-01-05,b'Mystery: Thousands of Dead Octopuses Wash Up on Portugal Beach'
2010-01-05,"b'The average American generates 4.39 pounds of trash per day and up to 56 tons of trash per year. Only 1/10th of all solid garbage in the USA gets recycled. Every year, 14 billion pounds of trash are dumped into oceans.'"
2010-01-05,b'Israeli delegation halts UK trip over war crimes arrest threat'
2010-01-05,b'Aussie hurdler Rawlinson has breast implants removed for Olympics'
2010-01-05,b'France tops list of best places to live in the world for fifth year in a row... but Britain languishes in 25th'
2010-01-05,"b""Islamists Stop 'Enemies of Allah' From Feeding Starving Somalis..."""
2010-01-05,b'How CIA was fatally duped by Jordanian double agent'
2010-01-05,b'Penniless Gurkhas turn to UK charities after Joanna Lumley campaign'
2010-01-05,"b'South African President Zuma marries again ""There are plenty of politicians who have mistresses and children that they hide so as to pretend they are monogamous. I prefer to be open.""'"
2010-01-05,"b""Bad blood: The Japanese finance minister's decision to quit is down to more than poor health"""
2010-01-05,"b'Kazakhstan now the biggest exporter of uranium at 13,900 tons. Already fishy business brewing with Iraq.'"
2010-01-05,"b'One killed, 4 wounded in Israeli airstrike on Gaza'"
2010-01-05,"b'The WHO\'s ""false pandemic"" flu campaign is ""one of \r\nthe greatest medicine scandals of the century,"" \r\nclaimed Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, chairman of the \r\nPACE Health Committee.'"
2010-01-04,b'New airport scanners break child porn laws'
2010-01-04,"b'Indian eye clinic founded by a single doc has treated 27 million patients, performed more than 3 million life-changing eye surgeries, for slightly more than the cost of a meal at McDonalds. (Video)'"
2010-01-04,b'The president of Iceland refuses to sign a legislation to reimbuse nearly $5.7bn lost by British and Dutch savers in the failed Icelandic banks.'
2010-01-04,"b'87% are illiterate, 1 in 3 experience physical, psychological or sexual violence, 44 yrs is the average life expectancy rate, 70 - 80% face forced marriages... Afghan women'"
2010-01-04,"b""Russia follows the EU in rejecting US poultry imports because of chlorine washing, and may not allow a current 30,000 tonne import into the country. That's a lot of meat."""
2010-01-04,b'Teenager who killed his girlfriend by dousing her in petrol and setting her alight has been sentenced to at least 21 years behind bars'
2010-01-04,b'Sweden allows wolf hunting after 45 year because having 237 wolves in the entire nation is a few too many'
2010-01-04,b'BBC News staff photographer accosted by police for... taking a picture... of a sunset... at one of Londons biggest tourist attractions. Bloody cretins.'
2010-01-04,"b'Another New Years Eve, another round of car torchings in France. And another wave of reader complaints that we dont brand these arsonists as Muslims. What echoes through these comments is the force of conviction without proof.'"
2010-01-04,b'Why Are We So Blind to the True Horrors of War?'
2010-01-04,"b'she was pinned down in a guava orchard and raped by a farmhand who wanted to cure her of her attraction to girls. She said that she was impregnated and infected with H.I.V., but that her grandmothers reaction was simply,  You are too stubborn. '"
2010-01-04,"b'Canada Goes After Yes Men For Copenhagen Parody, Knocks Out 4500 Websites'"
2010-01-04,b'Israel okays four new Jewish residences in East Jerusalem funded by an American millionaire.'
2010-01-04,"b'Burma to hold first elections in 20 years, Burmese told by dictator to make ""correct choices."" The last election was ruled ""invalid"" after the military overwhelmingly lost.'"
2010-01-04,b'Shell is embroiled in major row with World Bank and green energy companies for refusing to honour warranties on solar power systems sold to Sri Lanka'
2010-01-04,b'Icelandic president refuses to sign bill approved by congress about paying back IceSave account holders in Britain and Holland. The bill will now be subject to a national vote.'
2010-01-04,"b'Photographs of Afghan children - no matter where in the world, kids are just kids'"
2010-01-04,"b'Iran bans contact with foreign organisations, including the BBC '"
2010-01-04,b'Italy class-action suit planned against Microsoft seeking compensation for Windows software pre-installed on computers for people who did not want it.'
2010-01-04,"b'CIA Blast Blamed on Double Agent """"It looks like an al Qaeda double agent... It\'s very sophisticated for a terrorist group that\'s supposedly on the run.""'"
2010-01-04,"b'""Russia has completed a new oil pipeline and port complex that sets Russia up to become a more powerful oil exporter than Saudi Arabia. The ramifications for Europe and Asia are profound: The shape of the global economyand the global balance of powerwill be altered forever.""'"
2010-01-04,b'Magazine Report Angers Politicians: Did the CIA Plot to Kill German Citizen?'
2010-01-04,"b""Gulf countries face water shortages. The region's rapid population growth and accelerated socio-economic development have increases water demands from less than 5 billion cubic metres in 1970 to more than 32 in 2005."""
2010-01-04,b'Bolivia refuses to be U.S. slave: VP\n'
2010-01-04,b'Even Al Jazeera Sees It Coming'
2010-01-03,"b'""The North Korean human rights crisis by murder rate is the worst in the world... What is happening in North Korea is genocide.""'"
2010-01-03,"b'""But, for a week or so after landing, a form of what might be called Ameristalgia makes us conscious of a rudeness in British life"" -A Letter From London'"
2010-01-03,b'Women Sent to the Back of the Bus in Israel '
2010-01-03,"b'Chris Hedges: ""Clumps of his skin had peeled away, and what was left of it was translucent...As he was lifted from the stretcher to the ER bed, he screamed Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, Daddy, then Put me to sleep, please put me to sleep.'"
2010-01-03,"b""No, really: Iran's Foreign Ministry has lashed out at France over resorting to violence in dealing with protesters in the country, describing it as violation of human rights."""
2010-01-03,"b'Pakistan: Over 700 Civilians Killed in US Drone Strikes, when did the US go to War with Pakistan exactly?'"
2010-01-03,"b""World's tallest building opens in Dubai"""
2010-01-03,"b'TSA to require advanced screening for mainly Muslim countries such as Libya, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Afghanistan and others. Just for a little variety, Cubans will also be required to go through advanced screening.'"
2010-01-03,"b'Quake leaves 20,000 homeless in Tajikistan'"
2010-01-03,"b""Hey Reddit, I was searching for the oldest article posted on the BBC's website, and this is what I found."""
2010-01-03,"b""Web users reported an outage of China's strict Internet controls, known as the Great Firewall, for several hours this morning, allowing them brief access to banned websites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter."""
2010-01-03,b'Tougher US air screening for passengers arriving by air from 14 nations which the authorities deem to be a security risk'
2010-01-03,"b'""the writing on the banner behind al-Zawahiris head was added to the image afterward and at the same time as the logo of IntelCenter, which released the video""'"
2010-01-03,b'In pictures: Italian doctor in Kabul who provides free care to amputees [10 pics]'
2010-01-03,b'Bomber who killed seven C.I.A. in Afghanistan was a Jordanian asset'
2010-01-03,b'A real hero dies. A leader of the Norwegian resistance who helped carry out one of the most daring acts of sabotage of World War II (they made a movie) and a Sailor on Kon-Tiki'
2010-01-03,"b""New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced New Zealand giving police and SIS the power to monitor all aspects of someone's online life. Now all mobile calls, texts, email, internet surfing, online shopping, chatting and social networking can be monitored anywhere in New Zealand. """
2010-01-03,"b""Bolivia: MAS win Presidency and 2/3 control of Congress - 'Like Morales, Allende spoke of a peaceful, democratic revolution and, in spite of relentless attacks, believed the capitalist opposition would ultimately have to respect his democratic mandate'"""
2010-01-03,"b'Steady economic growth is an underreported news story  and to our own detriment. As human beings, we are prone to focus on very dramatic, visible events, such as confrontations with political enemies or the personal qualities of leaders, whether good or bad.'"
2010-01-03,"b""Not sure how this works, but here's a suggestion for a WorldNews subreddit logo..."""
2010-01-03,b'Africas Population Growth and its Developing Healthcare Challenges'
2010-01-03,b'BBC News - Extremist Islamic group defends Wootton Bassett parade'
2010-01-03,b'The Whitewash of Serb Atrocities'
2010-01-03,"b'Israeli Arab MK (parliament member): \'Settlers are a malignant tumor.\'\nVerbal spat erupts at Knesset civil rights debate; MK Rotem wishes Palestinian state ""death by cancer."" Now who would you agree with?'"
2010-01-03,"b'Bolivia demands access to Pacific Ocean: by ""constructing the Arica tunnel\''"
2010-01-02,"b""Police raid Georgian LGBT center: The women's \r\ngroup was holding a meeting when the police \r\narrived. The police called them perverted, sick and \r\nsatanists and threatened to distribute photographs \r\nof them and reveal their sexual orientation publicly, \r\nand one of the officers threatened murder."""
2010-01-02,"b'Irish atheists intentionally break new blasphemy law, commit blasphemy by quoting: Twain, Carlin, Zappa, Christ, Dawkins, Hitchens, the Pope, and more!'"
2010-01-02,"b'IRAN: Video shows gunman opening fire on demonstrators, who fight back'"
2010-01-02,"b'The Darwin Awards team is proud to announce the \r\nlate, the great, the 2009 Darwin Award Winners! '"
2010-01-02,"b'Outrage over Iceland plan to reimburse the losses \r\nof foreign investors in bank collapse using taxpayer \r\nmoney -- 12,000 euros per citizen'"
2010-01-02,b'A wealthy British Nazi sympathiser was behind the theft of the infamous sign above the Auschwitz death camp.'
2010-01-02,"b'Capsule hotels, built for salarymen who missed the train home, are becoming a last resort for Japans  unemployed.'"
2010-01-02,b' Gordon Brown promises full body scanners at UK airports'
2010-01-02,b'N. Korea calls for end to hostilities with U.S. '
2010-01-02,b'Eye Hospital in India Restores Sight With Free Surgeries: Why does it look like India is doing a better job of taking care of their poor with making sure they have eye care than in the United States?'
2010-01-02,b'Why Poland Accounts For Half of Britains Criminal Extraditions'
2010-01-02,"b'Impoverished women can be hard to reach, and even if they are given folic acid pills they sometimes wont take them for fear that they actually are birth control pills. So micronutrients instead are often added to such common foods as salt, sugar, flour or cooking oil.'"
2010-01-02,"b'Oil-rich Venezuela ushered in 2010 with rationing of  electricity use in malls, businesses and billboard'"
2010-01-02,b'Venezuela rations water supplies'
2010-01-02,b'Two Belgian bankrobbers have been named the Darwin Award winners of the year after killing themselves while trying to crack open a cash machine. The pair used so much dynamite that they destroyed the entire bank building '
2010-01-02,"b'Burj Dubai, the worlds tallest building opens for business this week  if it can find any'"
2010-01-02,"b'Prince Charles was so convinced Blair was wrong to take Britain to war in Iraq he broke Royal tradition and actively campaigned against the invasion... according to UK tabloid, News of the World'"
2010-01-02,"b""Darfuristan: How the world's campaign to stop a genocide created a quagmire"""
2010-01-02,"b""The idea might be hard to accept in the United States, but on a worldwide scale, the decade of the 2000's will go down as a big success."""
2010-01-02,b'Students snowed in for two days at highest pub in UK '
2010-01-02,b'Somali pirates seize British super-freighter '
2010-01-02,"b'Tajikistan earthquake leaves 20,000 people homeless'"
2010-01-02,"b'Remember the shortages in the US for H1N1 vaccines a few months ago? France ""bought 94 million doses...but so far only about five million people in France are recorded as having been vaccinated since...October"" and is now trying to sell their surplus.'"
2010-01-02,b'Images of lethal mudslides in south-eastern Brazil'
2010-01-02,"b""Afghan MPs snub Karzai's new cabinet, reject 17 out of 24 of his nominees"""
2010-01-01,"b'Way to end 09 on a high note: No U.S. combat-related deaths in Iraq in December. Downvote this to hell for being positive and about Iraq, but it is good to see fewer people dying.'"
2010-01-01,"b'Iraq shocked as judge drops Blackwater charges - ""so many innocent Iraqi people - young, students - were shot by someone who liked to shoot unarmed people.""'"
2010-01-01,b'Danish police shoot and wound man in home of Kurt Westergaard (creator of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad )'
2010-01-01,"b'Iraqi prisoners ""were sexually humiliated by female British soldier"" - Fourteen new cases of sexual abuse have been made against a secretive British Army interrogation unit'"
2010-01-01,"b'""The man who shamed Nigeria"" - Nigerians struggle to understand why a privileged son tried to become a suicide bomber'"
2010-01-01,b'Israeli Arabs and Jews protest against Gaza blockade. '
2010-01-01,b'Neodymium is one of 17 metals crucial to green technology. Theres only one snag  China produces 97% of the worlds supply. And theyre not selling'
2010-01-01,b'A Somali man was shot as he allegedly tried to enter the home of Danish political cartoonist Kurt Westergaard -- known for his controversial depictions of the Muslim prophet Mohammad.'
2010-01-01,"b'Shooting Handcuffed Children - The occupied government of Afghanistan and the United Nations have both concluded that U.S.-led troops recently dragged eight sleeping children out of their beds, handcuffed some of them, and shot them all dead. '"
2010-01-01,b'Hundreds of cars torched in France at New Year | Reuters'
2010-01-01,b'Iran in serious crisis --opposition leader Mousavi'
2010-01-01,"b'China says 5,394 arrested in Internet porn crackdown'"
2010-01-01,b'Lithuania forced to shut down reactor according to new EU regulations.'
2010-01-01,b'Harvard Takes it Back and Says Swine Flu was Oversold'
2010-01-01,"b'2009: Saudi Arabia opened its first ever coeducational university, where men and women can even take the same classes together - and with one of the largest endowments in the world.'"
2010-01-01,b'Iraqi Reaction to Blackwater Immunity'
2010-01-01,b'Walls never work: in the Middle East or in Ireland '
2010-01-01,"b""Danish police shoot intruder at cartoonist's home"""
2010-01-01,b'Honduras coup protest photo presented as Iranian'
2010-01-01,b'Praising a terrorist in the Washington Post: defining courtesy'
2010-01-01,"b""Tehran's thugs cannot last: Any government that imagines it has a divine warrant will perforce deal with its critics as if they were profane and thus illegitimate by definition."""
2010-01-01,b'Attempt to Kill Danish Cartoonist Fails '
2010-01-01,b'Role reversal: Iran issues deadline for West to comply with its demands'
2010-01-01,"b""Somali pirates' cash suspected cause of Kenya property boom"""
2010-01-01,b'Life under the Apartheid Israeli Regime supported from Western countries [pics]'
2009-12-31,b'Czech Republic Decriminalizes All Major Drugs for Personal Use - Starting Tomorrow'
2009-12-31,"b'Don\'t Mess with Yemen: ""It is extraordinary to see the US begin to make the same mistakes in Yemen as it previously made in Afghanistan and Iraq."" '"
2009-12-31,"b""Gaza sees rise in malformations with newborns as a result of Israel's use of prohibited weapons"""
2009-12-31,b'7 CIA operatives killed and 6 wounded by Taleban suicide bomber that penetrated deep into a U.S. base in Afghanistan'
2009-12-31,"b'Honduras: State henchmen shot owner of Radio Globo  one of few media outlets to speak out against coup. Radio Globo had resorted almost exclusively to broadcasting online from secret locations. Canal 36, shut down altogether after equipment destroyed, signals interrupted, editors assassinated.'"
2009-12-31,"b""Tibetan 'living Buddha' Phurbu Tsering jailed by China"""
2009-12-31,b'At least 75 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a volley ball game in a pro-government town in northwest Pakistan.'
2009-12-31,b'Pakistani Taliban just killed 32 people with a suicide bomber at a sports game'
2009-12-31,b'New internet piracy law comes into effect in France'
2009-12-31,"b'During a religious pilgrimage to Mecca, Sibat was arrested by the Saudi religious police and charged with sorcery. He was coerced into confessing, and then tried without a lawyer. His coerced confession was used against him and he was sentenced to death in Medina on November 9, 2009.'"
2009-12-31,b'North Korea has issued a New Year message calling for an end to hostile relations with the US. I think they mean it this time.'
2009-12-31,"b""Travel restrictions crimp shopping sprees: Venezuelans must tell the government where they're traveling and what they're buying"""
2009-12-31,"b'Police officers around the world often use pepper spray to restrain people who are out of control. But after a series of unexplained deaths, researchers now suspect the spray, which is derived from chili peppers, could be fatal if the subject has been using cocaine or other drugs.'"
2009-12-31,b'The only woman in the French Foreign Legion'
2009-12-31,"b'Noble Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi: ""The [Iranian] Government Took My Sister Hostage"" '"
2009-12-31,"b'Oh, boy. This trip could be interesting'"
2009-12-31,"b""Americans are in Afghanistan murdering children, claiming it's 'self defense'.  No, these Americans are not soldiers; they are, well, nobody knows who in hell they are, except that it seems obvious they are there because they're making lots of money at the expense of American taxpayers."""
2009-12-31,"b'Man shot dead his former girlfriend and killed four others at shopping centre in the Finnish city of Espoo, before turning his gun on himself'"
2009-12-31,b'Egyptian security forces attack Gaza protester'
2009-12-31,b'Juan Cole: Top Ten Good News Stories from the Muslim World in 2009 that You Never Heard About '
2009-12-31,"b'Pope puts children first, (plus suitable pic)'"
2009-12-31,b'Top general to be tried for rights abuses - Why Never in the US?'
2009-12-31,"b'37 Catholic priests, nuns and missionaries killed worldwide in 2009 - Twice as Many as in 2008!'"
2009-12-31,b'Does anyone else feel like there is a rather concerning void in the amount we are able to learn from some Reddit topics?'
2009-12-31,"b""Mousavi 'ready to die' for reform"""
2009-12-30,b'Jerusalem Post asks the Taboo Question'
2009-12-30,"b'King Stephen Harper shuts down Canadian Parliament, AGAIN. '"
2009-12-30,"b""For seven years, Jennipher was forced to breastfeed the puppies of her husband's hunting dogs."""
2009-12-30,b'Several hundred people have joined demonstrations on the Israel-Gaza border to protest against the Israeli blockade of the territory. Keep it up!!'
2009-12-30,b'4 Reported Dead in Finland Mall Shooting'
2009-12-30,b'Hot debate over anti-homosexuality bill - Death penalty for gay sex is included in proposed Ugandan legislation'
2009-12-30,b'The Dutch government has said that it will commence using full-body scanners on flights to the US.'
2009-12-30,"b'""In most places, being a star means ranking top of the class, but in Iran it means your name appears on a list of students considered a threat by the intelligence ministry. It also means a partial or complete ban from education.""'"
2009-12-30,"b'Afghan attacks kill 8 purported CIA employees, 5 Canadians '"
2009-12-30,"b""Flashback - Yemen seizes 'Israel-linked' cell"""
2009-12-30,b'Man wrongly convicted of raping a 8yo boy freed after 35 years'
2009-12-30,"b'Holy Crap!  Finally, a Catholic Official is ACTUALLY sentenced in court for his sex abuse crimes!  ...in Argentina'"
2009-12-30,b'New fabricated intelligence claims Iranian has plans of importing purified uranium'
2009-12-30,"b""Iceland's parliament has approved a controversial payout of nearly $6bn to Britain and the Netherlands, which had compensated tens of thousands of savers who had money with a failed Icelandic bank."""
2009-12-30,b'Harper suspends parliament to dodge torture investigation and restructure senate. '
2009-12-30,"b'2007: Nazi attack puts anarchist in coma. 2008: Yuri Mishutkin attacked again by fascists who also assaulted him in past. Yuri fought back with knife, hit once. 1 attacker dies. Convicted of exceeding limits of self-defence. Ordered to pay family of attacker. Sentence overturned. New trial to come.'"
2009-12-30,"b""Japan: Agriculture must be rebuilt ahead of oil's 'noble' limits """
2009-12-30,"b""North Korea's New Year's wish of seeing the destruction of a massive concrete wall dividing the Korean peninsula never seems to come true -- mostly because it doesn't exist."""
2009-12-30,"b""Eight Americans killed by Afghanistan bomb 'were CIA agents'\n"""
2009-12-30,"b'Four Canadian soldiers and one Canadian reporter killed and five injured in an IED strike - Straight from the source, with stock images of Soldiers.'"
2009-12-30,b'North Korea calls for end to hostile relations with U.S.\n| Reuters'
2009-12-30,b'Canadian reporter and 4 soldiers killed in Afghanistan'
2009-12-30,"b""Nigeria doctor 'impregnated girls and sold the babies'"""
2009-12-30,b'Sometimes it seems like nearly every woman in Cebu of child-bearing age is pregnant.'
2009-12-30,b'The heirs to Argentinas most powerful media empire have been ordered to take DNA tests that could establish whether they were part of a forced adoption scheme during the countrys darkest era. '
2009-12-29,"b""This site publishes first had reports out of Iran.  Lots of eye witness accounts.  It is run by Iranian exiles with close contacts on the ground.  Let's show these people some love for risking it all to get the information out."""
2009-12-29,b'U.S. Soldiers Are Waking Up!'
2009-12-29,"b""Ayatollah Khamenei's Jet Checked, Iran Supreme Leader May Flee To Russia If Necessary"""
2009-12-29,b'[Video] Iranian Police Car running over protesters'
2009-12-29,b'What Every U.S. Citizen Should Know About Iran'
2009-12-29,"b""The 'Israelification' of airports: High security, little bother """
2009-12-29,b'Afghan officials: US-led troop dragged ten civilians from their beds and shot them dead during a night raid. '
2009-12-29,"b'Ridiculous: ""Senior officers say the chemicals will be \r\ntreated as illegal until tests show otherwise as they \r\ntry to protect young people from using dangerous \r\ndrugs which have not been banned.""'"
2009-12-29,"b""Israel's Supreme Court orders the military to stop blocking Palestinians from using a highway that runs through the West Bank."""
2009-12-29,"b""one of the world's wettest places dries up.."""
2009-12-29,"b""Media fails to mention 'sharp dressed man' escorted flight 253 bomber until allowed to board plane"""
2009-12-29,b'Afghans burn Obama effigy over civilian deaths'
2009-12-29,b'Israeli nuclear whistleblower under house arrest'
2009-12-29,b'See - China have the right idea when it comes to dealing with those Somalian pirates'
2009-12-29,b'Iran 27 Dec 09 Police Car running over people - The youtube on the front page is broken.'
2009-12-29,"b'2 sisters attacked by ""smart"" Israeli drone  in Gaza, \r\nlast year - video '"
2009-12-29,b'Israelis-only highway through West Bank declared illegal in landmark case'
2009-12-29,b'Like a bull moose head-butting a train - The moose: Canadian democracy. The train: the prime minister and his government.'
2009-12-29,b'Sadness over British man executed in China'
2009-12-29,b'British Hostage Released In Iraq After Two Years!'
2009-12-29,b'France to rethink carbon tax plan.'
2009-12-29,b'Obama plans on attacking Yemen over failed bomb attempt'
2009-12-29,"b""'Apartheid \r\nRoad' \r\nopened \r\nto \r\nPalestinians \r\n- \r\nMiddle \r\nEast \r\n- \r\nIndependent.co.uk"""
2009-12-29,b'Army Historians Document Early Missteps in Afghanistan'
2009-12-29,b'USA spooks report: Either Israeli or UK forged nukes report on Iran'
2009-12-28,"b'It is a fact that a woman born in South Africa has a greater chance of being raped, than learning how to read.'"
2009-12-28,"b'Israel planning to build 700 new houses in East Jerusalem, going back on their word and disrupting the peace. '"
2009-12-28,b'U.S. Intelligence Found Iran Nuke Document Was Forged'
2009-12-28,"b'Britain has been given a warning by Iran\'s foreign minister that it will receive ""a punch on the mouth"" if it does not ""stop the nonsense"".'"
2009-12-28,"b'NOAM CHOMSKY: Gaza: One Year Later: ""You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads.""  Moshe Dayan'"
2009-12-28,b'No significant slowing in population growth. Humanity has been consistently gaining more than 79 million people (almost another Germany) each year since 1999.'
2009-12-28,"b""The story you won't see on the front page of Reddit: A Holocaust survivor joins a hunger strike supporting Gaza"""
2009-12-28,"b""China's executes mentally ill British man. I really thought they'd back down..."""
2009-12-28,b'Published Document States Khamenei Is Planning to Escape to Russia - looks like the final play is beginning'
2009-12-28,"b'U.S. airstrike kills 10 Afghan civilians, 8 schoolboys, amidst controversy: he said / she said- Karzai slams U.S. and NATO forces refute charges'"
2009-12-28,"b'One Year Later, Palestinians Live in Rubble While Israel Blocks Aid (with US support)'"
2009-12-28,b'I guess we are all going to have to remove our underwear along with our shoes!'
2009-12-28,"b'Putin: Russia needs to develop ""offensive strike systems"" to preserve strategic balance with the United States, without producing its own missile defense.'"
2009-12-28,"b'Colombia is preparing to attack Venezuela in an\noperation that will be made to look like its objective is a base of\nColombian guerrillas, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said.'"
2009-12-28,"b""Police arrest nuclear whistleblower - Vanunu the Guy Who Told All about Israel's Nukes!"""
2009-12-28,b'Keep up with the latest events in Iran here.'
2009-12-28,"b'After massive protests shook Iran this past summer, Iran singled out Gene Sharp, an obscure American political scientist in his 80s as a key figure behind the unrest. Since the early 1970s, his work has served as the template for taking on authoritarian regimes from Burma to Belgrade.'"
2009-12-28,b'First gay marriage in Latin America occurs in \r\nArgentina. God promptly brings down his Wrath and \r\nsmites the entire continent. That last bit was not \r\ntrue.'
2009-12-28,b'Israeli police arrest nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu for allegedly breaking parole conditions.'
2009-12-28,b'Striking photos of the decade: An Australian perspective (well worth the watch)'
2009-12-28,b'Israeli op-ed compares compares settlement freeze to  1960s civil rights struggle; Palestinians still not people.'
2009-12-28,"b'Two men in Malawi charged with ""gross public \r\nindecency"", for getting engaged.'"
2009-12-28,b'Iran arrests pro-reform opposition figures '
2009-12-28,b'Israels Supreme Court has ruled that a major access highway to Jerusalem running through the occupied West Bank could no longer be closed to most Palestinian traffic. '
2009-12-28,"b'The Thai government has completed the deportation of more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong back to their homeland in neighbouring Laos.'"
2009-12-27,"b'Khan Younis massacre:"" The men of the town were told to line up in the main square and were then systematically shot so their bodies lay in a long row. Some who stayed in their homes were killed there."" It is not only Israeli leaders who did not show empathy: it is entire Israeli public""'"
2009-12-27,"b""Mentally ill Briton to be executed for drug smuggling in China tomorrow! Let's get this some attention."""
2009-12-27,b'At least 15 dead in Tehran street battles'
2009-12-27,"b""Most Americans don't know there is a major war happening right now in Mexico. War broke out in Mexico in December 2006 when the newly elected president Felipe Calderon sent 6,500 troops to Michoacan state to fight the drug cartels."""
2009-12-27,b'Jailed Briton in China does not know he will be executed Dec 29th'
2009-12-27,"b""Opposition leader's nephew among nine dead amid rioting and bloodshed in Iran"""
2009-12-27,b'UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Gazans were being denied Basic Human Rights and urged Israel to end its unacceptable and counterproductive blockade. '
2009-12-27,b'Netanyahu wants Israeli force on Palestinian border'
2009-12-27,"b""Turkey seeks return of Santa Claus' bones"""
2009-12-27,"b""Interview with German Environment Minister Norbert Rttgen: 'China Doesn't Want to Lead, and the US Cannot'"""
2009-12-27,b'Mafia prince Nick Rizzuto Jr. shot dead in Montreal'
2009-12-27,b'Al-Qaeda claims responsibility for attack on plane'
2009-12-27,"b'Dameer Centre for Human Rights reported ""high levels of deformed births and miscarriages"", and that the use of radioactive and toxic ammunition by the Israeli army on Gaza resulted in significant deterioration in the health of Palestinians'"
2009-12-27,"b""Iran's government cracked down on its opponents arresting two outspoken critics as well as several aides to main opposition leaders after eight people died in fierce clashes in Tehran"""
2009-12-27,"b'Be careful what you wish for. [Mousavi] was at the heart of a regime that executed dissidents, took U.S. hostages and launched a fatwa against author Salman Rushdie.\n'"
2009-12-27,"b'Then came Absolutely Fabulous. Her character, Patsy, drank, smoke, swore, took cocaine and had sex with younger men'"
2009-12-27,"b'Awaiting Gaza March, Holocaust Survivor Stages Hunger Strike'"
2009-12-27,"b'Suicide bomber kills 30, extremists accused of trying to start sectarian war. '"
2009-12-27,b'Somali pirates were paid $4 million in ransom to release a hijacked Chinese cargo ship carrying coal and 25 sailors who had been in captivity for two months'
2009-12-27,"b'25,000 passengers hit by delays at British airports'"
2009-12-27,b'Israel to Build 700 Homes in East Jerusalem.'
2009-12-27,b'British man to be executed in China for smuggling heroin'
2009-12-27,"b'In a quick, one-day operation, Thai soldiers with riot shields and clubs have evicted more than 4,000 Hmong asylum seekers from a holding center and forcibly repatriated them to Laos, where they say they face retribution from their government.'"
2009-12-27,"b""A comprehensive review of Britain's much-loved libel laws planned"""
2009-12-27,b'Is there an anti megaphone out there or some other counter action?'
2009-12-26,"b""China has overtaken Japan to become the world's second-biggest economy"""
2009-12-26,"b""Venezuela's Chavez threatened to expel Toyota unless it produces an all-terrain 4x4 vehicles for public transport in poor and rural areas"""
2009-12-26,"b'Why was he ever allowed to fly? Syringe bomber had been barred from Britain, was on a terror list and even his father had warned U.S.'"
2009-12-26,"b'Iran protests leave nine dead, reports claim'"
2009-12-26,"b'Knut Haugland, the last surviving member of the 1947 Kon-Tiki raft expedition, has died in Norway.'"
2009-12-26,b'National Iranian Armed Resistance Forces (NIRU) declares their existance in Iran - Statement'
2009-12-26,"b""Iranian Opposition Website: Mousavi's Nephew reported 'killed' in violent clashes in Tehran."""
2009-12-26,"b'Iranian town tries to save protestors from being hanged, are shot at by Iranian Regime'"
2009-12-26,b'Deaths reported in Iran clashes'
2009-12-26,"b'The Detroit airplane bomber and the ""shoe bomber"" both used PETN in their attempts. Would it have worked or are these wannabes terrorists that are good for media ratings?'"
2009-12-26,b'28-yo man from US crosses border to North Korea on Christmas Day to raise attention on North Korean human rights'
2009-12-26,b'More on the protests breaking out all over Iran.'
2009-12-26,b'UN Human Rights expert Richard Falk urges the US and its European allies to threaten Israel with economic sanctions if it does not immediately end its illegal blockade of Gaza'
2009-12-26,"b'Sergei Magnitsky was our attorney who died under excruciating circumstances in a Moscow pre-trial detention center. His story is one of extraordinary bravery and heroism, and ultimately tragedy. It is also a story about how Stalinism and the gulags are alive and well in Russia today.'"
2009-12-26,"b'I\'m dying, he told himself, ""because when you \r\ncough blood, it\'s something really bad.""'"
2009-12-26,b'Brazil Aims to Prevent Land Grabs in Amazon '
2009-12-26,b'30 Years Ago: The Afghan Coup Which Stands At The Beginning Of 30 Years Of War And Chaos In Which We Are Involved Right Now!'
2009-12-26,b'Mexican State Legislatures Make Abortion Illegal'
2009-12-26,"b""Afghanistan's wild, wild west - View from a place where most Afghans feel stuck between the Taliban and U.S. troops."""
2009-12-26,"b""Pressure mounted on Tiwari to quit after the tape allegedly showing him in bed with three women was broadcast Friday, prompting the opposition and women's right groups to hold street protests in Hyderabad, the state capital, demanding his resignation."""
2009-12-26,"b'Who is this Nigerian guy who tried to blow up a plane in Detroit? A privileged, dream student.'"
2009-12-26,b'Is it too hard to use the Convoy system like in WW2'
2009-12-26,"b""Family of London man, condemned to death in China for drug smuggling, 'plea for compassion'"""
2009-12-26,b'Origami aeroplane association enthusiast sets flight record '
2009-12-26,b'Mexico weighs options as lawlessness continues to grip Ciudad Juarez '
2009-12-25,"b""China unveils world's fastest bullet train """
2009-12-25,"b""In the year since Israel launched its devastating military offensive in Gaza,it has faced intense international condemnation and accusations of war crimes. Israel's response? Threats  of much harsher action."""
2009-12-25,b'Two Irish Catholic bishops resign during Christmas mass over church cover-up of child abuse'
2009-12-25,"b'On Dec. 26, 2004, a massive undersea earthquake off Indonesia unleashed energy equivalent to 550 million Hiroshima atomic explosions, and triggered a tsunami that killed 230,000 people in 14 Asian and African countries'"
2009-12-25,b'Guttenberg: Afghanistan will never be model western democracy'
2009-12-25,b'Iranian riot police clashes with anti-government protesters'
2009-12-25,b'China sentences a former literature professor who helped draft a manifesto that demanded open elections and the rule of law to 11 years in prison for subversion'
2009-12-25,b'Security stepped up at airports worldwide after airline incident'
2009-12-25,"b""British paper names Iranian protester Neda 'person of the year'"""
2009-12-25,"b'Ukraine, having embraced capitalism, finds that even zoo animals are starved and made to live and die in terrible conditions. During Soviet times, the zoos facilities might have been relatively spare, but the care was far better.'"
2009-12-25,b'US diplomatic car allegedly tried running over an Israeli guard recently at an IDF checkpoint in the West Bank'
2009-12-25,"b'China moves to reduce internet access for their citizens to only the government-approved ""whitelisted"" sites'"
2009-12-25,"b'A prominent opposition journalist in Kyrgyzstan, whose autocratic president has been courted by the United States, died on Tuesday after being thrown  from a sixth-story window, his arms and legs bound with duct tape. Yes, things are so much better under capitalism. '"
2009-12-25,"b'Caught in Thai-Cambodian crossfire - Convicted of spying, Sivarak Chutipong became casualty in Southeast Asian political drama'"
2009-12-25,b'Uzbekistan holds election as West watches'
2009-12-25,"b""Neda Soltan is Times Person of the Year: Neda was not political. She did not vote in her country's election, but was appalled by the rigging of the result. Since she was shot in a democracy protest, her face has become an opposition symbol"""
2009-12-25,b'Farmers marvel at skills of Captain Miles Malone'
2009-12-25,b'More Irish Bishops Resign Over Abuse Scandal'
2009-12-25,"b""Welcome to Gaza's Killing Fields where Palestinian Children live. It is sad that what seems so obvious to rest of the world escapes the minds of apologists for Israeli state terror."""
2009-12-25,b'Pakistani Muslims Wish Their Christian Neighbors Merry Christmas by Threatening to Burn Them Alive... '
2009-12-25,b'Art is flourishing in Palestine '
2009-12-25,b'Dozens of villagers in the Kenyan district of Kisii are falling prey to superstitious groups accusing them of witchcraft. A group of youths tortured five suspected witches before setting them on fire. [video]\n'
2009-12-25,"b'New scheme for population control soon: Azad - ""There will be no law, no force, but only through awareness, efforts will be made to control population.""'"
2009-12-25,"b""Why does CNN constantly claim to be 'the best news network out there'.."""
2009-12-25,"b'Yo, /r/worldnews, can we stop grouping jews with zionists? It only hurts your case.'"
2009-12-24,b'Woman knocks down Pope Benedict at Christmas Mass.'
2009-12-24,b'Ugandan President Museveni says he will block the anti-gay bill from becoming law.'
2009-12-24,"b""Venezuela's Chavez threatens to kick out carmakers unless they share their technology with local businesses"""
2009-12-24,b'Woman who knocked down pope had pasta in her pocket - PASTAFARIAN?!'
2009-12-24,"b'450 people from 21 countries, including 30 from the USA, have traveled for 3 weeks all the way from London to Jordan in a 210 vehicle convoy loaded with humanitarian relief supplies for the people imprisoned in Gaza.'"
2009-12-24,"b'Chvez declares Angel Falls is no more: World\'s tallest waterfall gets new name, Kerepakupai-Mer, which in indigenous Pemon language means ""waterfall of the deepest place.""\n'"
2009-12-24,b'Drug tests catch out 10 police (UK)'
2009-12-24,"b'Once the worlds fourth-largest lake, the Aral Sea has almost disappeared altogether -- thanks to a grand Soviet public works project that diverted the water into the desert to grow crops'"
2009-12-24,"b""Cool Saudi Feminist calls for woman's right to have 4 husbands, male dominated Saudi sent her flowers, Oops I mean death threats"""
2009-12-24,"b'According to satellite surveys, as much as 80 percent of former prime land lies uncultivated. '"
2009-12-24,b'Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has vowed to defeat the organised crime in the country by 2013.'
2009-12-24,"b""Don't blame the system for winter travel chaos. Stay put."""
2009-12-24,b'Christmas Eve around the world included the Pope \r\nbeing pushed at Mass; an Israeli man being shot \r\nand killed in the West Bank; and the killing of at \r\nleast 26 people across Iraq'
2009-12-24,b'Pope knocked down before Xmas mass'
2009-12-24,b'The solar salesman who put his cow on the market to bring power to the people in Africa'
2009-12-24,b'Pig farts spark Australia gas scare - I shit you not reddit'
2009-12-24,b'Bin Laden daughter flees to Saudi embassy in Iran '
2009-12-24,b'Traumatic Brain Injuries:  Growing evidence shows that Progesterone should be considered as an optional treatment'
2009-12-24,"b'The Pakistan Supreme Court has ordered the Pakistan Government to recognize transgendered, intersex, and ""Eunuch""\'s as a distinct gender from male and female.'"
2009-12-24,"b""Here's a video the Taliban released this morning of an American soldier they captured 5 months ago. He's 23 and a prisoner on Christmas."""
2009-12-24,b'Fireworks set off aboard airliner'
2009-12-24,"b'Five VA men may face terrorism charges, Pakistan police say'"
2009-12-24,"b""Ayatollah Montazeri's Legacy:  In death he may have become the inspiration for the most significant opposition the regime has faced since the 1979 Islamic Revolution"""
2009-12-23,"b""Police enter a private backyard without permission for police dog training, shoot and kill the property owner's dog when it defends its territory"""
2009-12-23,"b'Incredible Article On The Man Who Shot The Romanian Dictator Ceasescu And His Wife 20 Years Ago: ""The verdict was read out after a few hours. The Ceausescus were sentenced to death. They had ten days to appeal, but the sentence was to be carried out immediately. A nod to Kafka.""'"
2009-12-23,b'Racial pecking order of UAE displayed in a car advertisement'
2009-12-23,"b'Unlearned lessons of the Soviet invasion - The U.S., like the Soviet Union, is learning the hard way on Afghanistan.'"
2009-12-23,"b""Iran's central bank has said defaced banknotes are to be made invalid, after the appearance of opposition slogans on money, local media report."""
2009-12-23,b'200 Israeli teenagers have pledged to disobey any orders to evacuate settlements during their military service: Jewish law as written in the Torah forbids the dismantling of Jewish-built homes'
2009-12-23,"b'Barcelona: People using the street as a toilet, taking drugs, having sex...Residents take pictures and send them to the mayor to protests. Happy Christmas!'"
2009-12-23,b'Who was Grand Ayatollah Hosein Ali Montazeri and how did he come to realize that the theocracy he helped build for Iranians was ultimately unlivable?'
2009-12-23,"b'Ugandan official on gays: ""Killing them might not be helpful""; life imprisonment would be better.'"
2009-12-23,b'Outrage at Mexico drug gang reprisal killings'
2009-12-23,b'Russia will work on a new generation of atomic weapons and missiles to strengthen its nuclear deterrent says President Medvedev'
2009-12-23,b'Bangladesh - The population bomb is ticking'
2009-12-23,"b""Member of Israel's parliament says the regime still continues to steal organs from the bodies of Palestinians"""
2009-12-23,b'Israel threatens another large-scale Gaza war'
2009-12-23,b'European Friends of Israel sues Hamas for war crimes in Belgium'
2009-12-23,"b""Osama bin Laden's daughter found hiding in Saudi Embassy in Tehran"""
2009-12-23,b'Cuba lets cardinal give X-mas message on state TV'
2009-12-23,"b""Store opens adults-only Santa's Grotto"""
2009-12-23,b'France once home to the Atlantic Sturgeon:  This discovery is of major importance for the reintroduction of sturgeons into European rivers'
2009-12-23,b'Loan wolf? Prizewinning photographer faces fakery \r\nclaims'
2009-12-23,b'Peru forensic team finds bodies of 25 children killed in Ayacucho during internal war'
2009-12-23,b'Russia and Georgia have agreed to reopen a border crossing that has been closed since July 2006.'
2009-12-23,"b'Christians Leaders United for War: ""The tyrannical Iranian regime shall never threaten the world with nuclear weapons""'"
2009-12-23,"b'""I don\'t want to get married again until after I am dead."" '"
2009-12-23,b'How health and safety is killing Christmas. no ... not a joke post. '
2009-12-22,b'How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room.'
2009-12-22,"b'RCMP conduct training exercise on private property without consent, shoot and kill family dog. '"
2009-12-22,b'Israel plans to demolish 900 Palestinian houses in Jerusalem to built settlements'
2009-12-22,"b'In Germany, a Disturbing Rise of Extreme Right-Wing Violence: Politically and racially motivated crimes by the far right hit a record high of more than 20,000'"
2009-12-22,"b'Jane was raped by a U.S. Navy sailor in 2002 in Japan: ""I feel that the courts of Japan have made a mockery of rape victims ...moreover rapists will be able to roam free as they have in my own case, ready to rape again, until true justice rings through the air."" '"
2009-12-22,b'The family of a marine involved in taking down a Mexican drugs cartel leader have been massacred in a revenge attack.'
2009-12-22,b'The 13-metre (43-ft) high billy goat has been torched 24 times since it was first erected in Gavle in 1966. '
2009-12-22,b'Palestinian President: Peace talks possible only when Israel stops settlements'
2009-12-22,"b'Israeli newspaper: What Israel fears most is a Palestinian popular struggle for equal rights.  Over the past few months, the efforts to suppress the struggle have increased.'"
2009-12-22,b'British were waterboarding prisoners in Northern Ireland in 1970s'
2009-12-22,"b'Hundreds of protesters, led by born-again clerics, \r\ncultural leaders, and university undergraduates, \r\ndemonstrate in the Ugandan capital in support of a \r\nlaw to kill gay people for being gay'"
2009-12-22,"b'Report says 225,000 Haiti children work as slaves.'"
2009-12-22,b'Lithuanian stable used for CIA interrogations'
2009-12-22,b'More Clashes reported in Iran'
2009-12-22,"b'Russia and the United States tend to view Ukraine as a key battleground in a cosmic proxy war between East and West. Both have a bad habit of trying to pick winners in Ukrainian politics. These interventions, nave in their own ways, tend to backfire, often at Ukraines expense.'"
2009-12-22,b'Canadian court orders woman to turn over Facebook history to assess her capacity for work '
2009-12-22,"b'Philip Weiss on organ thefts: ""I say its further evidence of this great challenge in Jewish history, learning respect for the other""'"
2009-12-22,"b'What is dangerous about a popular struggle is that it is impossible to label it as terror and then use that as an excuse to strengthen the regime of privileges, as Israel has done for the past 20 years.'"
2009-12-22,"b""Pakistan's transvestites to get distinct gender to ensure their rights"""
2009-12-22,b'Christian caught with 5m cocaine haul claims he thought the coke parcels were bibles'
2009-12-22,b'Revenge in Drug War Chills Mexico'
2009-12-22,"b' Sodano explained that the case, a class action to make the Vatican accountable for child sexual abuse by priests in the US, was a violation of the internationally recognised principle of sovereign immunity.'"
2009-12-22,b'Iran comes out on top in secret simulated war games '
2009-12-22,"b""A bomb killed two men and damaged a historic church in a northern Iraqi city on Wednesday, one day ahead of Christmas Eve services that will be heavily guarded for fear of more attacks on the country's Christian minority"""
2009-12-22,"b'The first female freedom fighter in the Arab world, Jamila, she fought the French occupation, tortured by them , helped liberate Algeria, now abandoned and penniless '"
2009-12-21,"b'Laura Dekker, a 13 year old girl who ran away from her Dutch home because Dutch courts would not let her sail around the world has been found in the Caribbean'"
2009-12-21,"b'This is why Zionism is racism ""Jerusalem Mayor Barkat has rejected the recommendation of professionals for a well-baby clinic for  some 100,000 Arabic-speaking residents but the 7,000 Israelis will receive the baby clinic '"
2009-12-21,b'Mexico City becomes the first city in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage'
2009-12-21,b'Secret neo-Nazi documents published: 11 membership lists about to go online (Wikileaks asking for volunteers with database skills to be able to expand fields and dumping to text)'
2009-12-21,b'BBC News - Iranian crowd stops execution and frees convicts'
2009-12-21,b'Israel to seek another 1b euros Holocaust in reparations from Germany (The gift that keeps giving...)'
2009-12-21,"b'""[Priest] said his advice did not contradict the Bibles eighth commandment, not to steal, saying Gods love for the poor and despised outweighed the property rights of the rich.""'"
2009-12-21,"b""State Terrorists' dilemma, the woman is a Mossad agent accompanied by a guard assigned, not for her safety but to keep her mouth shut on horrific state secrets  """
2009-12-21,"b'd.bags in Reuters, AFP, AP and CNN, here are the torture stories you are avoiding in Egypt'"
2009-12-21,b'The British army subjected prisoners in Northern Ireland to waterboarding during interrogations in the 1970s'
2009-12-21,"b'Mexico City became the first capital in Catholic, often macho Latin America to allow same-sex marriage on Monday when city legislators passed a law giving gay couples full marriage rights.'"
2009-12-21,b' Serbia to apply for EU membership  '
2009-12-21,"b""Canadian Mint's missing $15 million blamed on 'accounting errors'; Mint changes accounting methods after shady investigation"""
2009-12-21,"b'Facebook fuelling divorce, research claims - Telegraph'"
2009-12-21,"b""What isn't widely reported is that Cambodia has now received $1.2bil. in aid for returning the Uyghur asylum seekers"""
2009-12-21,"b""If you don't know much about relations between Russia and Chechnya, now's a good time to learn. """
2009-12-21,b'Gunmen kill family of Mexican drug war hero  '
2009-12-21,b'Sabotage cuts Iraqi oil pipeline'
2009-12-21,b'Egyptian bloggers expose police abuse and torture'
2009-12-21,"b'Chinese villagers jailed for hunting, eating tiger'"
2009-12-21,b'Pakistani court sentences two men to have their noses and ears cut off'
2009-12-21,"b""World 'failed Gaza over Israeli blockade' according to aid groups"""
2009-12-21,b'US warns Japan over relocation of Futenma airbase'
2009-12-21,"b""Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi is fired as head of Iran's Arts Institution, his only public post."""
2009-12-21,b'Mexico City allows gay marriage with landmark law'
2009-12-20,b'Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs'
2009-12-20,b'The day the music won. Simon Cowell defeated by Rage Against the Machine in UK Christmas chart '
2009-12-20,"b""Israel's chief Rabbi today said settler terrorism in the West Bank reminded him of the Nazi Kristallnacht against the Jews."""
2009-12-20,b'BBC News - Police in Poland find sign stolen from Auschwitz gate'
2009-12-20,b'Fidel Castro: The truth about what happened at Copenhagen'
2009-12-20,"b""Hugo Chavez has accused the U.S. of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane, and ordered his military to be on alert and shoot down any such aircraft in the future."""
2009-12-20,b'Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs'
2009-12-20,b'There is no investment in development that costs so little and brings benefits that are so far-reaching and enormous.'
2009-12-20,b'USAID: Understaffed and overwhelmed in Afghanistan'
2009-12-20,"b'Grand Ayatollah Montazeri: ""From the beginning of the revolution, we have been chanting slogans of independence, liberty, Islamic republic. The complaint I have is why the slogans we have been chanting since then haven\'t been fulfilled."" May he be granted in death what he was denied in life.'"
2009-12-20,"b'Thousands of Maoist protesters in Nepal enforce the second day of their nationwide general strike, shouting anti-government slogans and paralyzing much of the country as businesses remain shuttered and vehicle traffic almost nonexistent in the capital, Katmandu.'"
2009-12-20,"b""Dear World Leaders,\r\n\r\nThis relationship isn't working out. Its time for us to explore other government opportunities. We've tried to make it work. But it's not us  it's you (really). \r\n"""
2009-12-20,b'Saudi air strikes kill 54 civilians: Yemen rebels'
2009-12-20,"b'Tens of thousands of Iranian mourners turned the funeral procession of the country\'s most senior dissident cleric into an anti-government protest Monday, chanting ""death to the dictator"" and slogans in support of the opposition amid heavy security.'"
2009-12-20,"b'Steadicam, One long shot, 5 min 20 seconds with no editing. Robert Carlyle '"
2009-12-20,"b""What became of Romania's neglected orphans?"""
2009-12-20,b'Israel admits to organ thefts'
2009-12-20,"b""Chavez accuses U.S. of sending spy plane into Venezuela's airspace"""
2009-12-20,"b'Man handles 5,000 worth of stolen goods. Fined 3.2m and faces 10 years in prison. How is such a fine justified?'"
2009-12-20,b'Why does Pakistan hate the United States? - By Christopher Hitchens'
2009-12-20,"b'O Martin! Where are thou? Despite all you did 400 years ago, Simony continues. '"
2009-12-20,b'Guerrillas take to government - One-time rebels now hold key political positions across Latin America.'
2009-12-20,"b'Remembering a truly great man: Montazeri demonstrated that no one, even a charismatic and powerful man such as Ayatollah Khomeini, could influence him when it came to defending the truth. He showed that power meant nothing to him if it came at the expense of defending the rights of the oppressed.'"
2009-12-20,"b'Italian town where a White Christmas is a police matter. ""On orders from the local council, controlled by the conservative Northern League, police have been carrying out house-to-house searches for illegal immigrants in an action dubbed Operation White Christmas.""'"
2009-12-20,b'Britain accuses China over climate talks - report'
2009-12-19,"b'Sarah Palin kicked out of hospital fundraiser in \r\nCanada. Palin has said that ""Canada needs to \r\ndismantle its public health-care system and allow \r\nprivate enterprise to get involved and turn a profit""'"
2009-12-19,"b""General Electric is using England's draconian libel laws to silence a doctor who discovered one of their products, Omniscan, is crippling and even killing patients."""
2009-12-19,"b""'A young woman walks into a bar, drinks too much and carelessly flirts with the man next to her. He follows her and rapes her. The jurors mutter that she has no one to blame but herself. She is more than just an idiot.' In rape cases, 'no' means 'no' to everyone except the British juries!"""
2009-12-19,b'Drug giant GE Healthcare uses UK libel law to gag doctor: Some kidney patients at his hospital contracted a potentially deadly condition after being administered the drug Omniscan'
2009-12-19,"b'George Orwell put fish and chips first among the home comforts that helped keep the masses happy and ""averted revolution"".'"
2009-12-19,b'Catalan Parliament passes landmark vote to ban bullfighting'
2009-12-19,b'UK Unable to Stop Female Genital Mutilation...'
2009-12-19,b'Police expect Mumbai-style terror attack on City of London'
2009-12-19,"b""Peter Tatchell is standing down as a Green party parliamentary candidate after assaults by Robert Mugabe's thugs and Russian neo-Nazis."""
2009-12-19,"b""Iran claims that oil field its troops took over yesterday belongs to them because it's on their side of the Iraq border."""
2009-12-19,b'Bush shoe protester says worldwide fame has still \r\nleft him a poor man'
2009-12-19,"b""Israel harvested organs off dead Palestinians, says \r\nformer head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute"""
2009-12-19,"b' Teenager found on fire in Leeds street, UK'"
2009-12-19,"b""China plans world's fastest train service on Dec 26"""
2009-12-19,"b'Five years after scrapping its trials, Monsanto calculates that the time is now ripe for GM wheat to make a comeback'"
2009-12-19,"b'Food for sex rampant in Sri Lankan refugee camps, says British medic'"
2009-12-19,b'Philippines raises volcano alert as eruption nears'
2009-12-19,b'Uighurs seeking asylum deported to China'
2009-12-19,"b'The glorious state of Israel, run by the chosen people of god (tm), forces Palestinians to act as spies in exchange for medical treatment'"
2009-12-19,"b'With a small elite enjoying a decent lifestyle and a majority being excluded from it, the Earth can sustain six billion people. For everyone to have adequate mobility, food and self-development, then it is one or two billion.'"
2009-12-19,b'Antillean islands used for spying: Chavez'
2009-12-19,b'Egypt  Two MB students remain in detention despite courts decision'
2009-12-19,b'Steps to create an Israel-Palestine\nA one-state solution in the area is not as farfetched as it might seem.'
2009-12-19,"b""Iran officials on murder charges over inmates' deaths"""
2009-12-19,"b""Sri Lankan guards 'sexually abused girls' in Tamil refugee camp"""
2009-12-18,"b""Prague TV Tower - World's Largest Spherical \r\nPanorama (18 Gigapixel!!) + MegaZoom"""
2009-12-18,"b'""Identifying Israel as a racist, warmongering apartheid state is no longer a radical view, shared mainly by anti-Semites and ""Arab lovers"" - it has become the mainstream opinion.""'"
2009-12-18,b'Portugal has drawn up a proposal to allow gay marriage'
2009-12-18,b'Copenhagen fails! No binding agreement. No Emission Reduction Targets. Sigh :-('
2009-12-18,b'Vancouver goes Draconian over Olympics'
2009-12-18,"b'Thieves steal Auschwitz\'s ""Work Sets You Free"" sign'"
2009-12-18,"b'Israel gets billions in aid, again. How about  some ""Never Again!""?'"
2009-12-18,"b'Bones of Medieval women found in a village abandoned in 1400s during the Black Death prove the legends of large, well muscled women from there to be true.'"
2009-12-18,"b""Iran's hard-line judiciary acknowledged for the first time Saturday that at least three prisoners detained after June's disputed presidential election were beaten to death by their jailers"""
2009-12-18,b'Colombia to build new military base on Venezuelan border'
2009-12-18,b'Israeli doctors give sight to blind Gaza baby\n'
2009-12-18,b'Palestinians fire on Egyptians building tunnel barrier on Gaza border'
2009-12-18,"b'The Palestinians were not the ones who slaughtered the Jews of Eastern Europe, yet they are the ones being slaughtered today by the Zionists. The FACT that this is denied by so many people is  sickening. '"
2009-12-18,"b'Thousands of international solidarity activists will take part in the ""Gaza Freedom March"" to end Israel\'s blockade'"
2009-12-18,b'Four Eurostar trains stuck in Channel tunnel'
2009-12-18,b'Iran acknowledges prisoners were beaten to death '
2009-12-18,b'Israelis move to seize a beautiful building built by a Palestinian entrepreneur and given to the custody of the Belgian government when he and his family fled Jerusalem in fear for their lives.'
2009-12-18,"b'Trains stuck in Channel:  Four trains have broken down in the Channel Tunnel due to cold weather, as snow is expected to cause further disruption in parts of Britain.'"
2009-12-18,b'Smugglers along the border of Egypt and the Gaza Strip will continue moving goods through tunnels despite the recent construction of an underground wall.'
2009-12-18,b'Bolivia seizes land from owner of opposition TV network'
2009-12-18,"b'Nigeria rebels attack oil pipeline, putting a two-month truce with the government in doubt'"
2009-12-18,"b'Beate Arnestad, director of the documentary film, ""My daughter the terrorist,"" in an interview with CNN. The film follows 2 young, Catholic female LTTE fighters and the final end of the war. One point they would manicure their nails,- same time polishing the weapons.'"
2009-12-18,"b""London 'damaged' by bonus tax, Barclays chief meows"""
2009-12-18,b'Rwanda - Population Growth Raises Concerns'
2009-12-18,b'The Ugly Canadian\n\nThe deep well of affection and respect around the world that Canada has drawn on for decades has been slowly poisoned by the Harper government'
2009-12-17,"b'Uninsured American living in Japan sees a doctor: ""...when I get 3 prescriptions filled in 5 minutes and they are SORRY they have to charge me a whopping 30 bucks for it, and I see people back home paying many times that, I have to wonder how we\'re managing to do things just this wrong.""'"
2009-12-17,"b'Greece in revolt: All media on 24h strike. No news broadcasts on radio, TV or internet. Almost 60% of police may quit jobs if they have to wear identifying insignia. Strikers have occipied broadcasting headquarters of ERT3, the Salonica state channel.'"
2009-12-17,"b'""1,420 Palestinians killed, 446 of them children, 5,320 injured, 1,855 of them children, 4,000 houses destroyed, 16,000 houses damaged,  '"
2009-12-17,b'Iran seizes oil well in southern Iraq? Here we go again.'
2009-12-17,b'More than 70 air strikes conducted by Saudi warplanes over the past 24 hours.'
2009-12-17,b'Former French president Jacques Chirac indicted for embezzlement! '
2009-12-17,b'Israel shuts down all commercial crossings with Gaza and armored vehicles raze agricultural lands'
2009-12-17,b'Rich countries cheating the rest of the world: Confidential UN Document'
2009-12-17,b'The infamous sign at the entrance of Auschwitz has been stolen'
2009-12-17,"b'At age 45, after giving birth to 13 children in her village of thatch roofs and bare feet, Beatrice Adongo made a discovery that startled her: birth control.'"
2009-12-17,"b""Remember that Irish co. Steorn, that claimed to have built a working perpetual motion machine that could produce clean, free energy out of a few magnets and some plastic discs? Well, they're back again!"""
2009-12-17,"b'Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the only gunman captured alive in last years Mumbai attacks that killed more than 160 people, today unexpectedly retracted his confession about his role in the attacks.'"
2009-12-17,"b'North Korean hackers may have stolen US war plans: The plan allowed for the deployment of 700,000 US troops in the event of a full-scale war'"
2009-12-17,"b""3 years only for stealing $ 242 million, who wouldn't do that """
2009-12-17,"b'The American Right Gets Crazy With Chavez Speech in Copenhagen: ""When he said there was a silent and terrible ghost in the room and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.""'"
2009-12-17,b'The impunity of Israel and its allies will carry a price'
2009-12-17,"b'Tulay Goren was killed in 1999 for living with her boyfriend whom her family disapproved of because he was from a different branch of Islam. Today, her father, Mehmet Goren was given a life sentence with a minimum of 22 years'"
2009-12-17,"b'US Jewish groups have raised US $750,000 to fly Last Yemeni Jews out of the country, in a programme initiated by the State Department but a Rabbi wants free flights to America to stop'"
2009-12-17,"b'George Monbiot: ""Copenhagen was not about saving the biosphere: it was just a matter of saving face. A clearer and less destructive treaty than the text that emerged would be a sheaf of blank paper, which every negotiating party solemnly sits down to sign.""'"
2009-12-17,"b'Mexican army burns massive pot field, conducts operations against drug lords.'"
2009-12-17,"b""State-sponsored terrorism: Leader of loyalist terror gang part of the British security forces' intelligence services for years"""
2009-12-17,b'All hell breaking loose in Greece!'
2009-12-17,"b""The sole surviving gunman in last year's Mumbai attacks says he was framed and that the guy in the pics holding an AK47 is just a look alike!"""
2009-12-17,"b""Man gets angry, sprays racist graffiti saying 'fucking niggas', said he was going to 'take back the town' by killing blacks then went off and murdered a black teenager was apparently not motivated by racism but just 'anger and frustration'"""
2009-12-17,b'So you call yourself Jewish? '
2009-12-16,"b'Hugo Chavez: If Climate Were Bank, U.S. Would Have Saved It'"
2009-12-16,b'Two British soldiers in Afghanistan sacrificed their lives preventing Taliban suicide attack in marketplace'
2009-12-16,"b""Brazil boy found with 40 needles in 'black magic rite' - arrest made"""
2009-12-16,b'Scientists crack entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers'
2009-12-16,b'Indians banned from entering first Haagen Dazs outlet in India.'
2009-12-16,"b""Israeli FM: 'Anti-Israel is the new anti-Semitism.'  How did he pack all of that wrong in one short sentence? """
2009-12-16,"b'UK: Father jailed for minimum of 22 years for murder of his 15-year-old daughter who ran away to live with man from different Islamic sect. It was a matter of ""honor"". '"
2009-12-16,"b'Reg Keys, who ran against Tony Blair as an independent candidate, and who lost his son in the war, explains in BBC interview why Tony Blair *is* a war criminal.'"
2009-12-16,"b""Obama told China: I can't stop Israel strike on Iran for much longer"""
2009-12-16,"b""Yemen claims to have killed up to 30 al Qaeda militants, including 8 would-be suicide bombers. As well as fighting al Qaeda militants, the Arab world's poorest country is battling a separate Shi'ite rebellion in the north and separatist unrest in the south."""
2009-12-16,"b'In September 2008 Ecuador became the first country in the world to declare constitutional rights to nature, thus codifying a new system of environmental protection'"
2009-12-16,"b""Globalization: South Korea's Daewoo Logistics has a 99-year lease on 3.2 million acres of farmland on the dirt-poor tropical island of Madagascar"""
2009-12-16,"b'Egypt is building an underground barrier with Gaza and said it was a ""sovereign right"" that would increase pressure on the enclave\'s Hamas rulers.'"
2009-12-16,b'The BBC suffered criticism from lawmakers \r\nWednesday for inviting debate on whether \r\nhomosexuals should be killed'
2009-12-16,"b""Canada on climate change - Harper's government is content to follow the U.S. on climate change policy"""
2009-12-16,"b""Vet puts out plea to catch dog owner who inflicted the worst injuries he'd ever seen.  Attack stopped only when a passer-by intervened and the owner ran off."""
2009-12-16,b'Climategate goes SERIAL: now the Russians confirm that UK climate scientists manipulated data to exaggerate global warming '
2009-12-16,b'Livni arrest warrant ::: We face a choice - Apply international law or treat it as the farce it has become -- Financial Times --'
2009-12-16,b'Japan unveils massive package to fight climate change'
2009-12-16,b'Brazil Votes to Accept Venezuela into Mercosur'
2009-12-16,b'Irish MP lets off some steam'
2009-12-16,"b""At 1.4 bn, India's population to surpass China's by 2025: US Census"""
2009-12-16,b'Why An Agreement In Copenhagen Could Make Things Worse'
2009-12-16,b'Tzipi Livni arrest warrant provokes Britain-Israel diplomatic row  - Telegraph'
2009-12-16,"b'Successful prosecutions for racist, religious, \r\nhomophobic and disability-related crimes in the UK \r\nhave gone up from 8% to 82% in four years'"
2009-12-15,"b""Internet search giant Google has come out in opposition to the Federal Government's push to introduce mandatory ISP filtering."""
2009-12-15,b'The official Bishop for the British armed forces would just like to apologize for expressing his admiration for the Taliban'
2009-12-15,"b""Iran's jails: An inside view - Tehran's most notorious prison may be better but abuses have been reported in new jails"""
2009-12-15,b'Vietnam signs billion-dollar contracts to buy submarines and fighter jets from Russia'
2009-12-15,"b""Putting the 'war' back into drug war: Attacks by Mexican drug cartels are being likened to a military campaign"""
2009-12-15,"b'""I\'ve lost my world and I\'ve lost my religion"" - former Iranian Basij militia member who witnessed killings and tried to stop rapes during the uprising that followed the disputed Presidential election'"
2009-12-15,"b'Im not a traitor. Im a man with a conscience who did what he did out of a deep belief after much thought and many doubts. I knew I had to do it, I had no choice. Somebody had to do it. I contributed my share by making public what the public ought to know & they shut my mouth behind the prison walls.'"
2009-12-15,"b'Israeli Police Officer Beaten, Seriously Injured By \r\nSettlers'"
2009-12-15,"b'BBC\'s Have Your Say: ""Should homosexuals face \r\nexecution?"" Some of these comments are fucking \r\ndisgusting.'"
2009-12-15,"b""Britain's former spy chief, Sir John Scarlett, misled the Iraq inquiry by exaggerating the reliability of crucial claims about Saddam Hussein's ability to launch weapons of mass destruction, according to the leading Ministry of Defence expert """
2009-12-15,"b'""We don\'t do body counts."" Gen Tommy Franks on Iraqi civilian deaths'"
2009-12-15,"b""Woman raped and assaulted by police in Australia: \r\n''Just get dressed. You can get us into a lot of \r\ntrouble for this.''"""
2009-12-15,b'This map plots every road death in Great Britain from 1999-2008 - use it to search for accidents by postcode or police authority.'
2009-12-15,"b'Alejandra Maria Torres stands topless on a street after being beaten, doused with petrol and set on fire during a lynching in Guatemala City. So far this year 219 people have been lynched.'"
2009-12-15,b'Turkey finds 39 leftists guilty after 28-year trial'
2009-12-15,b'Priest jailed for three years for sexually abusing an altar boy '
2009-12-15,b'Climate summit President resigns after secret negotiating text prepared by rich countries leaked'
2009-12-15,b'Jewish school broke race relations legislation by restricting its admissions'
2009-12-15,b'UK to review war crimes warrants after Tzipi Livni \r\narrest row'
2009-12-15,b'Net filter will restrict euthanasia info: Nitschke'
2009-12-15,b'Geologist denies creating earthquakes during experiments'
2009-12-15,"b'Oh fuck - Multiple electrical failures cause car to get stuck in cruise control, In wrong lane, at 60mph on freeway. Driver could not change gear, break, or turn off ignition.'"
2009-12-15,b'Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu condemns British for Livni arrest warrant\n'
2009-12-15,b'In the family way - Some developing countries have failed to follow the broader demographic transition to lower fertility levels that has occurred in past decades in the western world.'
2009-12-15,b'A simple plan for victory in Afghanistan...'
2009-12-14,"b""US oil tycoons think they are 'entitled' to Iraq's oil fields, assume invasion was launched on their behalf."""
2009-12-14,b'Israeli newspaper: Extremist Israeli rabbi who excuses killing non-Jewish babies is being funded by US tax dollars.'
2009-12-14,b'Amnesty International called on Saudi Arabia on Monday to stay a sentence of 40 lashes against a 75-year-old woman for breaching a sex segregation law. She was in the company of two men who were not close relatives. The men are also to be flogged. '
2009-12-14,"b'Girl, 15, sentenced to eight years over bullying death of Rosimeiri Boxall '"
2009-12-14,b'Italian student tells of arrest while filming for fun (big brother nanny state)'
2009-12-14,b'China bans individual web domain names and has launched a review of millions of existing personal websites in the toughest government censorship drive so far on the internet'
2009-12-14,"b'""We can forgive our long dead ancestors for starting this war, but we can in no way forgive those who press for its continuation."" (a quote from an excellent site) '"
2009-12-14,"b'Never mind Copenhagen, an environmental catastrophe is going on right now  contaminated water is poisoning babies in Gaza'"
2009-12-14,"b'Angry settlers beat and seriously injured a female Israeli police officer Tuesday, police said, as she tried to enforce a government ban on new housing construction in Jewish West Bank settlements.'"
2009-12-14,"b""Simon Singh,The noted science writer considers his forthcoming libel action and the campaign to reform England's libel laws"""
2009-12-14,"b'50,000 Residents flee as Philippines volcano threatens to erupt'"
2009-12-14,b'Israel fury over British war crimes warrant for Tzipi Livni '
2009-12-14,"b""Queen of England's husband mocks man blinded in bomb attack"""
2009-12-14,b'UK ponders law change after Tzipi Livni arrest warrant'
2009-12-14,b'Green light for internet filter plans.  ISP level internet censorship plan for Australia.  Material to be censored determined by conservative-christian lobby group.  '
2009-12-14,b'Fidel Castro says US on offensive'
2009-12-14,b'yikes... what a vile piece of drum-beating propaganda in a major newspaper. World War Three coming?'
2009-12-14,b'Bangladesh government to encourage single-child families'
2009-12-14,b'The Deaths of Two young Kashmiri women has ignited violent protests. One side says they were raped and murdered. The police say they drowned in ankle deep water.  '
2009-12-14,b'Another Mexican reporter seeks asylum in U.S. after getting death threats'
2009-12-14,b'Sarkozy fights Google over classic books'
2009-12-14,b'Kim Jong Il: Concerned citizens want the notorious leader of North Korea tried at the ICC.'
2009-12-14,"b'13-yr-old Simpokolwe: ""My stepfather ordered me to quit school and get married to a 77-year-old man because he said I was too old for standard four. I refused, and told him I wanted to continue with my education."" '"
2009-12-14,"b'Anti-leak guide gets leaked on to the internet, they \r\nsaid it was unleakable'"
2009-12-14,b'US to expand drone attacks into Pakistani cities'
2009-12-13,"b'Copenhagen Climate Talks SUSPENDED, In Chaos, As Countries Walk Out Of The Conference'"
2009-12-13,"b'Italy - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi punched in the face, left bleeding from the mouth'"
2009-12-13,"b""Cleaners 'worth more to society' than bankers"""
2009-12-13,"b'The ""Arab Gandhi"" is near death in a hunger strike against the illegal occupation of her homeland'"
2009-12-13,"b'Power to the masses! The Australian Government has released a discussion paper which briefly summarises the key arguments for and against an R 18+ classification for computer games, and is seeking input from the public.'"
2009-12-13,b'Three Americans who were holidaying in Iraq and hiked into Iran by accident are to face trial. Swiss diplomats are helping them. '
2009-12-13,"b""Drone strikes could be coming soon to major cities in Pakistan, not just in the country's hinterland"""
2009-12-13,b'British Airways Christmas strike - Thank you! I will never fly with you again! '
2009-12-13,"b'Czech Republic is the Netherlands of Eastern Europe. Legal prostitution, lowest religiosity in Europe and now legal pot! Long live esk Republika!'"
2009-12-13,"b'In Russia a bank robber hypnotized tellers into giving her over $80,000.'"
2009-12-13,b'Dubai got a $10 billion lifeline from oil-rich Abu Dhabi to save one of its prized companies from imminent default '
2009-12-13,"b'Berlusconi has fractured nose, broken teeth from attack with replica Cathedral.'"
2009-12-13,"b'In Afghanistan, the number of... Taliban < foreign troops < private security contractors < Afghan army & police '"
2009-12-13,"b'Odd news: unmarked vehicles operated by foreigners using falsified registration numbers keep getting stopped in Pakistan, and the US consulate keeps bailing them out.'"
2009-12-13,b'British court issued Gaza arrest warrant for former Israeli minister Tzipi Livni'
2009-12-13,"b'Italy Bans Breast Enlargement for Girls Under 18, Berlusconi not happy.'"
2009-12-13,b'U.K. no longer vacation destination for ISRAELI war criminals. British court issues arrest warrant against Israeli opposition leader for role in GAZA massacre.'
2009-12-13,b'Arrest warrant issued in London against Israeli War Criminal Tzipi Livni'
2009-12-13,b'Can we call this thug a torture expert \r\nwith exceptional torture skills?'
2009-12-13,b'Poor nations threaten walkout at Copenhagen if developed countries try to strongarm them'
2009-12-13,"b'More than 1,400 civilians were deliberately killed this year in eastern Congo and the presence of 19,000 United Nations peacekeepers did not stop the slaughter. Bloodshed has been fueled by ethnic tensions, competing commercial interests, land disputes and regional politics.'"
2009-12-13,b'Russian Interior Minister: Ordinary citizens have the right to defend themselves against police officers who launch illegal attacks on them'
2009-12-13,"b'Obama Administration tip off Thai officials to major North Korea arm smuggling cargo plane, Thais seize tons of weapons'"
2009-12-13,b'Outraged Brits want Blair prosecuted for war crimes'
2009-12-13,"b'Israel, especially under the hardline nationalist government of Benjamin Netanyahu, has begun to overreact almost systematically to the perceptible erosion of international support for its irredentist claims on the West Bank.'"
2009-12-12,"b'Im sorry but we had to blow up your \r\nlaptop.  What.all my client case \r\nnotes and testimony, writing, pictures, \r\nmusic and applications. Years of work. \r\n(graphic pictures)'"
2009-12-12,"b""Patrick Stewart: 'People would never believe my father could be responsible for these things'"""
2009-12-12,"b'""Tony Blair\'s admission that Britain would have backed the Iraq war even if he knew it did not have weapons of mass destruction sparked outrage Sunday and calls for his prosecution for war crimes."" (Few calls for Bush to be prosecuted in the US!)'"
2009-12-12,"b'Nearly 1,000 arrested in Copenhagen at protest rally - mostly ""preventative"" arrests.'"
2009-12-12,"b'""Critics said the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq said was driven by oil, but United States oil majors were largely absent from an Iraqi auction of oil deals snapped up instead by Russian, Chinese and other firms.""'"
2009-12-12,"b""UK gov't scientist and UN weapons inspector David Kelly, who ppposed Iraq invasion was murdered, say six top doctors"""
2009-12-12,"b""Hundreds of Iranian men uploaded facebook pictures of themselves as women, dressed in Hijab, to protest a student's imprisonment."""
2009-12-12,"b'Berlusconi suffers broken nose, 2 broken teeth after attack at rally in Milan'"
2009-12-12,b'Report: 968 protesters in Copenhagen  are now detained after a mass rally to demand an ambitious global climate pact'
2009-12-12,"b""A deterioration of Asian security may force Australia to develop it's first nuclear weapons ever."""
2009-12-12,"b""France to resume 'black box' hunt"""
2009-12-12,b'Italy is to introduce legislation that will make it illegal for girls under 18 to have breast enhancement or other plastic surgery'
2009-12-12,b'Zimbabwe President Mugabe re-elected as ZANU-PF leader'
2009-12-12,b'Anti-Muslim graffiti found on French mosque -Police say assailants have scrawled a Nazi slogan and hung pig feet on a mosque in southern France.'
2009-12-12,"b'Briton Mohammed Ezzouek, a victim of rendition from Kenya to Somalia, says UK agents were complicit in his torture'"
2009-12-12,b'Learn From Vietnam: No Winning In Afghanistan'
2009-12-12,"b""'The last time I was in the Tardis was in 1966.' There was a slight pause, and he said: 'I wasn't even born then.' """
2009-12-12,"b""Italy's PM Silvio Berlusconi punched in the face --about time!!"""
2009-12-12,"b""Widespread oil theft by drug traffickers deals major blow to Mexico's government - washingtonpost.com"""
2009-12-12,b'Santa Claus banned from visiting locked-up children in UK asylum detention centre'
2009-12-12,"b""Political turmoil built today over the burning of an image of Iran's revolutionary founder, which was aired, in a controversial move, on state television"""
2009-12-12,b'Six injured in latest Hong Kong acid attack'
2009-12-12,b'COPENHAGEN: a pivotal economic showdown between the U.S. and China'
2009-12-12,b'I Could Use a Job With the US Federal Government! '
2009-12-12,"b""Billionaire tycoon set to win most votes in Chile's presidential election. Runoff expected."""
2009-12-11,"b'""If you buy into the Many Worlds Intepretation of quantum physics, there must be a parallel universe in which I crossed the US/Canada border ... In that other timeline I was not punched in the face, pepper-sprayed, shit-kicked, handcuffed, thrown wet and half-naked into a holding cell ...""'"
2009-12-11,b'Official: The remains of Adolf Hitler were burned in 1970 by Soviet KGB agents and thrown into a river in Germany'
2009-12-11,b'Tony Blair admits: I would have invaded Iraq \r\nanyway'
2009-12-11,"b'Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border'"
2009-12-11,b'Swiss shoe-shop owner builds mock minaret to defy ban'
2009-12-11,"b""While they're trying to pass a law making it legal to kill gays, Uganda has passed another law banning female circumcision..."""
2009-12-11,b'Blair: Iraq War was right even if there were no WMDs'
2009-12-11,"b""For those of you who don't know: Sudan is still fucked"""
2009-12-11,"b'Free speech? Not in Canada... At the Winter Olympics in February officials will be patrolling city streets and venues, scouring for anythingpeople, protests, postersdeemed anti-Olympics in order to ""protect the Olympic message"" '"
2009-12-11,"b'Why I believe Blair should stand trial - and even face charges for war crimes, by General Sir Michael Rose.'"
2009-12-11,"b'On Dec. 1, two British High Court judges, Lord Justice Laws and Mr. Justice Owen, dealt what looked like the final blows to the British governments policies of imprisoning terror suspects without charge or trial on the basis of secret evidence '"
2009-12-11,"b'BBC report on US marines operation ""Angry Cobra"" in Afghanistan. Strangely reminiscent of reports from Vietnam'"
2009-12-11,"b'The Considerate Taliban - 12 news reports of separate air strike incidents since the start of the year in which the number of Taliban or insurgent casualties was reported to be 30, in most cases citing US military officials.... Not 29, not 31.... Thirty.'"
2009-12-11,"b""US Iraq jail an 'al-Qaeda school'"""
2009-12-11,"b""Iranian men don hijabs in protest at student's arrest"""
2009-12-11,b'Copenhagen climate summit issue that no one dares to talk about.'
2009-12-11,b'Turkeys political elite is obsessed with joining the European Union. But senior players in the EU  in a rare moment of clarity amid their delusional fantasies of a federal Europe  are reluctant to let in a country which is increasingly hard to distinguish from the rest of the Islamic world.'
2009-12-11,b'Iraq awards international companies\nwith contracts to develop 10 of its oilfields.  See how it stacked up.'
2009-12-11,"b""Journalist threated by UN Police and People who don't want Climate-gate questioned."""
2009-12-11,"b'British toff Lord Monckton confronts climate change ""Hitler Youth"".  '"
2009-12-11,b'Officially sanctioned Islamic sharia court to be established in Wales -- The principle of one law for all is now dead'
2009-12-11,b'Man jailed over Baby P death attacked in prison'
2009-12-11,"b""FARC guerrilla leader 'Ivan Marquez' has an office in Caracas, Venezuela according to Ecuador's Truth and Transparency Commission."""
2009-12-11,"b'Pieces of old Paris, from lamp post to 40 iron steps from Eiffel Tower going on auction block'"
2009-12-11,"b""Tony Blair attacked over Iraq war 'justification'"""
2009-12-10,"b'Israeli minister has announced there will be 10,000 new settlers in the occupied West Bank over the next 10 months'"
2009-12-10,b'A man who was jailed for rape after going to the aid of a drunken teenager in Edinburgh has been declared a victim of a miscarriage of justice'
2009-12-10,b'Jewish settlers are suspected of being behind an attack on a mosque in the north of the occupied West Bank.'
2009-12-10,"b'Uganda just doesn\'t understand human rights: ""This \r\nwhole concept of human rights grates my nerves. It \r\nhas made people un-african, mean and self-\r\ncentered. One can now shamelessly stand up and \r\ntell you: ""I do as I please. You have no business in \r\nmy affairs.""'"
2009-12-10,b' Argentina might become the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage'
2009-12-10,b'UK food labels are set to distinguish between goods from Palestinians in the occupied territories and produce from Israeli settlements'
2009-12-10,b'From snapshot to Special Branch: how my camera made me a terror suspect'
2009-12-10,"b'Is the Chinese government secretly buying hundreds of thousands of cars and parking them somewhere? While auto sales are strong in China, gasoline sales are flat. '"
2009-12-10,"b'Furious over a confiscatory currency ""reform,"" citizens of the world\'s most repressive state have begun publicly criticizing their government'"
2009-12-10,"b'Congolese government soldiers, who had been supplied with ammunition and food by United Nations peacekeepers, killed hundreds of civilians, gang-raped girls and even cut the heads off some young men.'"
2009-12-10,b'New state in India'
2009-12-10,"b""Japan's 9/11 Victims to Press for Criminal Investigation of 9/11\n"""
2009-12-10,b'UK and US talked of toppling Saddam in 2001'
2009-12-10,b'Dutch man reports theft of ecstasy pill collection'
2009-12-10,"b""Turkey's top court has closed the only pro-Kurdish party in parliament for having links to PKK Kurdish rebels. The EU had warned that banning the party would violate Kurdish rights and might jeopardize Turkey's bid for membership."""
2009-12-10,b'A poor boy in Africa drops out of school due to poverty. Builds a windmill at age 14. Garners international attention.'
2009-12-10,"b""Britain's libel laws under attack"""
2009-12-10,b'Woman faces witchcraft charge in fraud case (in Canada!)'
2009-12-10,"b'US judge declares Swiss banker, lawyer fugitives, both accused of helping rich Americans evade taxes by hiding assets in Swiss banks'"
2009-12-10,b'Iranian state media attempts to humiliate jailed student activist by releasing picture of him wearing a female headscarf'
2009-12-10,b'Cairo is covertly constructing an underground steel barrier along the 13km-border with Gaza to cut smuggling into the Strip'
2009-12-10,b'Swiss businessman has built a muslim minaret on his company building in protest of his fellow citizens recent referendum decision to ban minarets'
2009-12-10,"b""North Korea agrees nuclear 'co-operation' with US"""
2009-12-10,b'US Marines train Afghan new police: illiterate young farmers with no formal training who had been plucked off the streets only weeks before'
2009-12-10,b'Innocent Guantnamo Torture Victim Fouad al-Rabiah Is Released In Kuwait (But the worst part about this story is that the mainstream media has buried it.)'
2009-12-09,"b""China's empty city, built for no reason other than to maintain an 8% growth rate! Madness! [VID]"""
2009-12-09,"b'Russia confirmed that it was one of their missiles that was observed over northern Norway yesterday, launched from a nuclear submarine and built to carry nuclear warheads'"
2009-12-09,b'Swedish Pirate Party Proposes Internet Bill of Rights in the European Parliament and wants your suggestions'
2009-12-09,b'Please let the world know: Supreme Court maintains censorship of the press in Brazil'
2009-12-09,"b'More girls in India are refusing to become child brides -Despite a 2006 law banning the age-old practice, most parents in rural India still want to marry off their daughters before the legal age of 18.'"
2009-12-09,b'Scotland to abolish Double Jeopardy rules.'
2009-12-09,b'Egypt building underground metal wall to curb smuggling into Gaza'
2009-12-09,"b'What really matters is not minarets, but that we all, Muslims included, commit to the essentials of a free society'"
2009-12-09,"b'Greece: Riot police that gave elderly woman brain injuries visits her at hospital, says it was ""accident"". After beating her, he had also attacked doctor who tried to give her first aid.'"
2009-12-09,b'Norwegian fisherman says he was nearly hit by the Russian fail-missile while at sea'
2009-12-09,"b""UK's richest man could make more than 1bn from carbon trading scheme"""
2009-12-09,"b'Venezuela: ""workers have now taken over the [rice packaging] company and made it 100% operative...  they showed that they dont need a capitalist manager to advance in the production of food""'"
2009-12-09,b'Afghanis are not exactly in agreement with the Nobel Committe and with Obama that he is the person deserving a Nobel Peace Prize.  Here are a few comments from Afghanistan...'
2009-12-09,b'Pakistani police: 5 Americans have al-Qaida link'
2009-12-09,"b""Somali bomber 'was from Denmark'"""
2009-12-09,b'Report: Nigerian police killing civilians'
2009-12-09,"b""Brazil police 'kill 11,000 in six years'"""
2009-12-09,b'U.K. government urges businesses: Label products from settlements '
2009-12-09,"b""Old news, but worth the read: Rio's drug wars by The Guardian."""
2009-12-09,"b'Despite the growth in world food production, fears of a food crisis remain very high because population growth has outstripped food production in the poorer half of the world population.'"
2009-12-09,b'India to form new southern state'
2009-12-09,b'Britain taxes bank bonuses'
2009-12-09,b'Britain cut out of key decisions on Iraq says MI6 chief '
2009-12-09,b'Copenhagen Summit: developing nations warn of failure without US reverse'
2009-12-09,b'Membership for the Balkans: Brussels Paves Way for Next EU Expansion '
2009-12-08,b'BBC Investigation shows how much of a rip-off Cash4Gold is'
2009-12-08,b'Three Irish women are challenging the Irish anti-abortion law in the European Court of Human Rights.'
2009-12-08,b'Mystery as spiral blue light display hovers above \r\nNorway'
2009-12-08,b'Czech Govt Allows 5 Cannabis Plants For Personal Use From 2010'
2009-12-08,b'A photographer was stopped by a squad of seven officers who pulled up in three cars and a riot van (nanny state)'
2009-12-08,"b'66%  of Saudi girls are beaten, 33% \r\nare tortured with hot irons, not much \r\nhas changed since their old habit of \r\nburying them alive '"
2009-12-08,b'Pakistan President has assets beyond his means of $1.5 billion'
2009-12-08,"b""European: America's favourite insult """
2009-12-08,b'Super-tax on bank bonuses: why the heck not?'
2009-12-08,b'Venezuela - Students shot while protesting for basic services in the country. One dead.'
2009-12-08,"b'Half of all journalists jailed around the world worked online as bloggers, reporters, or Web editors. Most of them are freelancers with little or no institutional support.'"
2009-12-08,"b""Landowner stunned to find 1,000 yr. old anchor while draining his land to plant potatoes on Scotland's Isle of Skye."""
2009-12-08,"b'A brave step forward, a respected Arab human rights body calls out Arab states abuses.'"
2009-12-08,b'Copenhagen talks in disarray after draft leak'
2009-12-08,"b'Surprise, the world is stable! ""the appropriate response to claims that America is about to collapse or conquer the world... is a bored yawn.""'"
2009-12-08,"b""Blair 'was told Iraq had disarmed - but still went to \r\nwar'"""
2009-12-08,"b""Justice: Israeli High Court Denies Palestinian Student's Petition to Finish University"""
2009-12-08,"b""Iran shows again why it's the leader in human rights. """
2009-12-08,"b'Rio and So Paulo police together kill more than 1,000 people every year says human rights watch. In our society the poor become homo sacer.'"
2009-12-08,b'Second stalled wheel may doom Mars rover'
2009-12-08,b'Vast waves attract Hawaii surfers - Hang 11'
2009-12-08,"b""Argentine president feuds with media conglomerate - What's behind Argentina's attempt to decentralize the media?"""
2009-12-08,b'A student in Ukraine died after his jaw was blown off reportedly by exploding chewing gum.\n'
2009-12-08,"b'Tradition! For 40 minutes, they trampled the bellowing, groaning bull, tried to break its neck by wrenching its head around by the horns, pulled its tongue out, stuffed sand in its mouth and even tried to tie its penis in a knot.'"
2009-12-08,b'UK proposes 50% tax on banker bonuses'
2009-12-07,"b'Remember Tony Blair\'s ""45-minute"" WMD claim? He got it from a taxi driver'"
2009-12-07,"b'""...the record industries could use songs as long as \r\nthey pinky swore they would get authorization and \r\npay the artist for it eventually."" And yet individual \r\ndownloaders are sued for millions of dollars.'"
2009-12-07,b'The US cash behind Israeli extremist settlers: IRS records identified 28 US charitable groups that made a total of $33.4m in tax-exempt contributions'
2009-12-07,b'Thieves in Brazil have stolen more than $6m while everybody watched a soccer game'
2009-12-07,b'Car bombs cause carnage in Baghdad: at least 101 killed and 182 wounded'
2009-12-07,"b""Copenhagen climate conference in disarray following leak of document that would effectively mean 'screw you 3rd world'"""
2009-12-07,"b'Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?  The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty.'"
2009-12-07,b'EU proposes two-capital Jerusalem'
2009-12-07,b'83% of Mexicans support using the Mexican army to fight drug traffickers; only 30% want U.S. forces deployed to Mexico to fight drug traffickers.'
2009-12-07,b'Hacked email climate scientists receive death threats'
2009-12-07,"b'Four car bombs exploded in Baghdad in quick succession, killing at least 101 and 182 injured'"
2009-12-07,"b'$100,000 dinosaur robot stolen from Mexico exhibition'"
2009-12-07,b'Judge accuses 3 Pinochet associates of poisoning former Chilean president Eduardo Frei with low doses of mustard gas and thallium. '
2009-12-07,"b""Afghanistan's president has warned that it will take 15 years before it is able to pay for the costs of maintaining its own security forces"""
2009-12-07,b'Mongolians Damages Great Wall of China'
2009-12-07,"b""Afghanistan 'unable to pay for own troops for 15 years'"""
2009-12-07,"b'This is number 1,789, or thereabouts, in my long running series, ""What the hell is going on in this country?""'"
2009-12-07,"b""Israel's justice minister starts process of Talibanization: Religious Law Must Become Binding, the Torah contains ''a complete solution to all the things we are dealing with''"""
2009-12-07,"b'Fundamentalists block entire Paris streets by praying, preventing the inhabitants of the area from going out or returning to their homes, the shopkeepers from working, and ordinary citizens from circulating normally.'"
2009-12-07,b'Karzai Says Afghan Army Will Need Help Until 2024.'
2009-12-07,b'Series of coordinated attacks  including three car-rigged bombs striking near government sites  killing 112 people and wounding 197 in Baghdad.'
2009-12-07,"b""The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is holding hearings examining whether Kosovo's declaration of independence was legal, with Russia and the U.S. arguing from opposite sides of the table."""
2009-12-07,"b'A Chinese woman managed to enter Japan illegally by having plastic surgery to alter her fingerprints, thus fooling immigration controls, police claim.'"
2009-12-07,"b'Uganda: Cholera, Yellow Fever, Ebola, Plague On the Rise'"
2009-12-07,b'Afghan Drug Lords and Corrupt Officials Smuggling Millions To Dubai'
2009-12-06,b'Tomorrow 56 newspapers in 45 countries take the unprecedented step of speaking with one voice through a common editorial.'
2009-12-06,"b'While Warner, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal are dragging file-sharers to court for copyright infringements, they are themselves facing up to $60 billion in damages for the same offenses.'"
2009-12-06,"b""UK economy to drop out of world's top 10"""
2009-12-06,"b""Iran's old slogans - Slogans that Iranians used 30 years ago to call for an end to the Shah's regime are now thrown back at the Islamic regime which replaced it."""
2009-12-06,"b""Lesbians getting the 'gay' raped out of them."""
2009-12-06,"b""Evo Morales wins landslide victory (63%) in Bolivian presidential elections, bolstering his efforts to empower the country's indigenous majority under a socialist banner"""
2009-12-06,b'Palestinian fury over evictions '
2009-12-06,"b'History is full of leaders who cannot bear the result of their portraiture. When nearly all the worlds leaders were in NY for a meeting of the UN, Platon, a photographer for The New Yorker, tried to hustle as many of them in front of his lens as possible.\n'"
2009-12-06,"b'Average speed cameras installed in neighbourhoods \r\nfor the first time, tracking drivers for a distance in \r\norder to eliminate the tactic of slowing down for \r\nspeed cameras and then speeding up'"
2009-12-06,b'MARG BAR DIKTATOR!! Students protest against the government of Iran'
2009-12-06,"b""Ireland's top Roman Catholic leaders will hold talks with Pope Benedict this week to formulate the Vatican's response to an Irish government report on a 30-year cover-up of sexual abuse of children by priests."""
2009-12-06,"b""The North Korean Army is on standby and ready to quell any protests against last week's drastic currency reform."""
2009-12-06,"b""Three weeks after the shooting, Sri Lanka's army chief General Sarath Fonseka was reported as saying the military had to overlook traditional rules of war and kill Tamil Tiger rebels who had come under white flags to surrender."""
2009-12-06,b'Yukos comes back to bite Putin: international law at work (for once)'
2009-12-06,"b""97% of climatologists believe in anthropogenic global warming, but many redditors disagree. Isn't this like evolution vs creationism all over again, except with dire consequences if we're wrong?"""
2009-12-06,"b'Iran-""After the election the chants were only about people getting their votes back, but now it is more about the system and leaders themselves  ""'"
2009-12-06,b'Nicolas Cage has been given an award for his humanitarian work by the United Nations: Global Citizen of the Year'
2009-12-06,"b""Minerals at heart of Congo's latest war"""
2009-12-06,"b'Previously, only the US and Japan had produced 10 million cars in a single year. Now, China joined the rank.'"
2009-12-06,"b""UK ministers accused of lying to the parliament in an attempt to cover up Britain's role in the so-called extraordinary rendition of two men captured in Iraq and sent to Afghanistan for interrogation"""
2009-12-06,"b'Tehran University cordoned off, arrests made on day of student protests all over the country. (Google translate from Farsi)'"
2009-12-06,b'Police in Greece clash with rioting protesters as thousands marched in Athens to mark the death of a teenager'
2009-12-06,"b""Bolivian President Evo Morales easily won his second five-year term, solidifying the revolution he promises to bring to the country's long-oppressed indigenous majority"""
2009-12-06,"b'Blair was urged by senior British officer to delay Iraq invasion because post-war planning was ""woefully thin""'"
2009-12-06,"b""Thousands of people protested to demand that the army leave Mexico's most violent city, accusing troops of provoking a surge in drug-war killings and running protection rackets"""
2009-12-05,"b'Crazy shit going down in the Philippines. 57 people slaughtered, 47 people arrested under martial law, including the leader of a Muslim region. Thousands of troops sent in.'"
2009-12-05,"b""Meet the man who will soon become the first person to walk all the way from the source of the Amazon to its mouth. 'Hardcore' is so inadequate to describe this guy..."""
2009-12-05,b'Mother Theresa was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty.'
2009-12-05,b'Tabloid fearmongering results in self fulfilling prophecy whereby police think there is a law against photography'
2009-12-05,"b' A Russian scientist this week said Russia has fallen behind the U.S. in an arms race: the race to arm sea mammals, that is. It turns out, the U.S. military does employ teams of dolphins and sea lions to patrol for weapons and intruders'"
2009-12-05,b' Top climate scientists share their outlook - This is such a good report and from the Financial Times. I did not expect such quality - and the insights on some of the key climate people is most interesting.'
2009-12-05,b'The CIA Given Permission To Access EU Bank Records'
2009-12-05,b'for the rape and drugging of a 13 year old girl you are banished to your luxury chalet in the Swiss Alps'
2009-12-05,b'Iran Blocks Internet on Eve of Rallies - CBSNews'
2009-12-05,"b'Greece: ""police repression has turned many of the usually anti-anarchist media against the ministry... Minister of Public Order has held meetings with the owners of major stations and journals giving them directions on how to broadcast news in the following days""'"
2009-12-05,"b'Israeli security agents held a Palestinian patient for three weeks without charge, interrogated him repeatedly and offered access to hospital care if he agreed to become an informant...'"
2009-12-05,b'Japan Launches Satellite to Spy on N.Korea'
2009-12-05,b'The Queen has issued a strong warning to newspapers not to publish paparazzi pictures of the royal family.'
2009-12-05,b'Yemen teeters on brink of failure -- latimes.com'
2009-12-05,"b'So now the US wants Holland to stay in Afghanistan the ""Dutch Approach"" is suddenly the way to go. Have you ever heard of it?'"
2009-12-05,b'A new report finds that the World Bank is not doing enough to protect indigenous rights under its mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). '
2009-12-05,b'Riots break out in Greece'
2009-12-05,b'Philippines : Martial law declared in massacre province'
2009-12-05,b'...And the fallout from the Swiss minaret ban continues. Now Iran is super-pissed.'
2009-12-05,b'China pays web surfers to find porn'
2009-12-05,"b'Jonathon Porritt, one of Gordon Browns leading green advisers, is to warn that Britain must drastically reduce its population if it is to build a sustainable society.'"
2009-12-05,"b'KABUL--The Taliban said in a statement Saturday it would provide a ""legal guarantee"" that they would not intervene in foreign countries if international troops withdraw from Afghanistan.'"
2009-12-05,b'14 killed in clashes in Mexico'
2009-12-05,b'Ex-army chiefs testify about alleged Turkish coup plot'
2009-12-05,"b'Global warming solutions are hurting indigenous people, says U.N.'"
2009-12-04,b'Draw ignites FIFA World Cup fever'
2009-12-04,b'Dr David Kelly: Legal Action To Prove Weapons Expert Was Murdered'
2009-12-04,"b""Why switzerland has the lowest crime rate in the world and why it's the least likely to be taken over by a ruthless dictator.....the Sig SG 550!"""
2009-12-04,b'Amanda Knox was found guilty of the Meredith Kercher murder and will spend 26 years in prison'
2009-12-04,b'At least 109 people have died following an explosion at a nightclub in the Russian city of Perm'
2009-12-04,"b'Ottawa boy ordered to shut down his radio station - """"They said I need a licence,"" Saad said. ""I didn\'t know. I said, \'OK, I\'ll apply for the licence but I can\'t shut off the station.\'""'"
2009-12-04,b'Canadian climate researchers targetted by hackers: break-ins at University of Victoria campus'
2009-12-04,"b""Dubai's burst bubble: A state-of-the-art metro train system opened in Sept at a cost of $7.6 billion. At 9.30am on a Thursday the station at Dubai airports cavernous Terminal 3 is empty. The train into the city, capable of carrying more than 640 people, has 21 on board """
2009-12-04,"b""Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. cements ties with Saudi Arabian prince who is also involved with the Carlyle Group."""
2009-12-04,"b""Doctors call for weapons expert's untimely death to be reinvestigated"""
2009-12-04,b'Fire in Russian nightclub kills 109. Video of the start of the blaze.'
2009-12-04,b'Amanda Knox Found Guilty'
2009-12-04,"b""Pentagon emails ask if Canadians are 'bad guys'"""
2009-12-04,b'Rise in suicides in Saudi Arabia'
2009-12-04,b'Italys government rocked by accusations made in court by a Mafia hitman that Berlusconi had made commitments to Sicilys Cosa Nostra'
2009-12-04,"b""Didn't the North Koreans already handle the China portion of this?"""
2009-12-04,"b'Massive protests in UK regarding climate change, trying to be heard at the summit in Copenhagen'"
2009-12-04,"b'Evidence points to cannibalism, human sacrifice at 7,000 yr. old site in Germany'"
2009-12-04,"b""Hanoi is turning into a corrupt executive's vision of Orange County, CA - check out these photos of luxury cars on the streets in a country where GDP is just over $1000/per person for evidence"""
2009-12-04,"b'Saudi filmmakers persist in making movies where their work is often branded too racy or ""un-Islamic,"" and banned'"
2009-12-04,b'Beast of Kandahar is acknowledge by the Air Force'
2009-12-04,"b""IEEE Cover Story: Securing Power in the Gaza Strip,The Palestinian power plant has endured bombings, embargoes and blockades: Can it ever fully power Gaza's grid?"""
2009-12-04,b'Philippines under martial law after brutal massacre'
2009-12-04,b'Tens of thousands stage anti-Berlusconi protest in Rome'
2009-12-04,b'Saudi Arabia: Witchcraft and Sorcery Cases on the Rise | Human Rights Watch'
2009-12-03,b'Ruins of Pompeii added to Google Street View'
2009-12-03,"b'A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity...older then Ancient Greece, or Egypt.'"
2009-12-03,"b'Shitstorm in Spain over proposed law to shut down sites, because of copyright infringement, without a court order.'"
2009-12-03,"b'UK closes X Files-style unit: ""No UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat, resources are focused on the top priority - the frontline in Afghanistan""'"
2009-12-03,"b""Israel last week: We'll freeze settlement expansion. Israel today: Let's build 84 more housing units."""
2009-12-03,b'Iranian Crackdown Goes Global'
2009-12-03,b'Cigarette smuggling rises in Canada'
2009-12-03,b'Grim fate of injured hunter trapped in well shocks Spain'
2009-12-03,b'Settler runs over a Palestinian in front of soldiers [vid]'
2009-12-03,b'Thug who stabbed a man five times awarded more compensation than his victim was offered.'
2009-12-03,"b""Explosion in Russian nightclub 'kills scores'"""
2009-12-03,"b'UFO investigations unit closed by Ministry of Defence - In over 50 years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom'"
2009-12-03,b'Copenhagen Conference: Prostitutes Offer Free Climate Summit Sex'
2009-12-03,b'Pakistani suicide bombers kill at least 37 inside mosque  '
2009-12-03,b'Mexico City police freed 107 people who were forced to work under slave-like conditions in a clandestine factory making shopping bags and clothing clasps'
2009-12-03,"b""'Cavemen' brothers inherit a share of a 4 billion fortune."""
2009-12-03,"b'Jews back Muslims on minaret ban... Please, Swiss people you must keep banning all Jew and Islamic things and peace will be achieved!'"
2009-12-03,"b""The kilometre-high skyscraper, the underwater hotel, the cloud on stilts: The Dubai architecture you couldn't make up.\n"""
2009-12-03,"b""Dubai's ruler writes poetry, rides horses across the desert in and hobnobs with royals like the Queen of England. Mixing extravagance with boundless ambition, he commanded the desert city-state's meteoric rise  and helped sow the seeds, some observers say, of its debt crisis."""
2009-12-03,b'Google boss Eric Schmidt: Newspaper executives looking for someone to blame'
2009-12-03,"b'Silvio Berlusconi, Italian sex symbol, linked to mafia in court evidence '"
2009-12-03,"b""Uganda's 'Appalling' Anti-Homosexuality Bill': UK's Gordon Brown and Canada's Stephen Harper call the legislation unacceptable, and now Sweden is adding its voice"""
2009-12-03,b'Nepalese ministers are preparing to hold a cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to raise awareness of the effects of climate change.'
2009-12-03,"b'""Fifth of Scots have poor literacy"" Fifth of Scotch whistles innocently.'"
2009-12-03,b'Rawalpindi mosque attacks kills 26 - Is this Jiahd?'
2009-12-02,"b'One of the saddest days in Canadian history - ""The Senate Committee studying C-15, a bill that would bring mandatory minimum prison sentences for marijuana to Canada, has given its approval with minor amendments.""'"
2009-12-02,"b'Israels army is recruiting soldiers for a new unit that is waging a virtual public relations battle on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter'"
2009-12-02,b'Hamas to introduce death penalty in Gaza for drugs'
2009-12-02,b'Swiss leader calls for Jewish cemetery ban after ban on Muslim minarets'
2009-12-02,"b'It was the deadliest industrial accident in history. On Dec. 3, 1984, clouds of poisonous gas leaked from a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, and were carried on the breeze to nearby slums, killing 4,000 people in one day. Over the next few years, countless more died.'"
2009-12-02,"b""Mandelson declares war on Rupert Murdoch's media empire"""
2009-12-02,"b'WTF!? UK police questioning photographers for taking innocent pictures of tourist destinations, landmarks and even a fish and chip shop'"
2009-12-02,"b'Rape victim, age 13, stoned to death for having sex\nI could not have picked a more horrifying, tragic example to prove the point of my last three blogs (part 1, part 2, conclusion). WARNING: The details that follow are very disturbing.'"
2009-12-02,b'FIFA to make changes after Thierry Henry handball'
2009-12-02,b'Peruvian police force concocts story about criminal gang of human fat smugglers to bury a story that they run a drug-related death squad'
2009-12-02,b'Reform movement for English libel law gathers momentum'
2009-12-02,b'Denmark rife with CO2 fraud '
2009-12-02,b'Spate of Maid Suicides Sheds Light on Abuse (Lebanon)...'
2009-12-02,"b'The World Bank has agreed to loan India $1bn (600m) over the next five years to clean up the Ganges, one of the most polluted rivers in the world'"
2009-12-02,"b""Iranian arms merchant says 'war is coming'"""
2009-12-02,b'Deadly bus explosion in Syria has hit a crowded bus carrying Iranian pilgrims'
2009-12-02,"b""Honduras: `The election was a farce, new regime will not be recognised' -- National Resistance Front"""
2009-12-02,b'The research paper from the Italian doc that found the new treatment for Multiple Sclerosis [PDF]'
2009-12-02,"b'""Musk lake"" is a sarcastic name for the sewerage bit that flooded recently killing 100 person in the second largest Saudi city that has no drainage network although Saudi reaped 2 trillion dollars from oil '"
2009-12-02,"b""Honduras' Congress overwhelmingly voted against reinstating President Manuel Zelaya, shrugging off international pressure four months after a coup that has isolated one of the poorest countries in the Americas"""
2009-12-02,b'Apartheid in Israel: Arabs cannot reside in Jerusalem despite the Arab identity of the city'
2009-12-02,"b'Mongolia to introduce national, unconditional basic income for all citizens'"
2009-12-02,"b'Iran\'s state television will ban makeup for women, ""abnormal"" music and unruly children, an Iranian newspaper reported'"
2009-12-02,"b'Police forces that ""name and shame"" criminals must remove the details from their websites after a month: new rules on data protection and human rights'"
2009-12-02,"b""A UN report that's expected to be published in two weeks claims that that Nevada-based company's purchase of minerals looted from eastern Congo is helping to finance a decade-long war that has claimed the lives of millions of civilians"""
2009-12-01,b'A 26-year-old doctor who exposed the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from a delivery salad laced with an overdose of blood pressure medication'
2009-12-01,"b'North Koreans in shock after the Govt decide to revalue the won currency -- existing notes are swapped with new ones at exchange rate of 100 to one, knocking two zeroes off their value!'"
2009-12-01,b'Smokers who drop cigarette butts in the City face an 80 fine following the launch of a new crackdown. '
2009-12-01,"b'What emerges from these 12,000 pages of documents is how the diocese became complicit in hiding, obfuscating and harming children in its flock. Young. Defenseless. Trusting. Sheep to be sure. That, in my mind, makes the diocese as culpable as their child-preying pedophilic priests'"
2009-12-01,"b'In 2008, Israel revoked the residency of 4,577 East Jerusalem Arabs - 21 times the average of the previous 40 years.'"
2009-12-01,b'EU Palestine move enrages Israelis'
2009-12-01,"b'College girl gets duped into having sex with shaman, only to realise she got conned a few months later. im ashame of my people...'"
2009-12-01,"b""Copenhagen climate change talks must fail, says top scientist - World's leading climate change expert says summit talks so flawed that deal would be a disaster"""
2009-12-01,"b""What to Do About Europe's Secret Nuclear Weapons?"""
2009-12-01,b'Israel stripped Palestinians of Jerusalem residency status last year at a faster rate than at any time in the history of the Jewish state'
2009-12-01,b'Monbiot: The Most Urgent Threat to World Peace is  Canada. The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century'
2009-12-01,"b'The Kosovars, Turks, and other Muslims can go home, feel accepted, and build as many minarets as they like. The Swiss on the other hand will eventually be dispossessed of their one and only homeland.'"
2009-12-01,b'RBS board to quit if chancellor vetoes 1.5bn in bonuses. Winwin?'
2009-12-01,"b'Oops, Italian police have crashed their most valuable patrol car, a 165,000-euro (150,000) Lamborghini.'"
2009-12-01,"b'Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard enraged by Schalit deal, urges PM to kill Hamas prisoners'"
2009-12-01,"b""An international view on Obama's speech at West Point: Never Before Has a Speech Felt So False """
2009-12-01,"b'Russia shifts stance on Iran, Ahmadinejad defiant'"
2009-12-01,"b'U.S. foreign policy to rescuing Muslims or trying to help free them from tyranny  in Bosnia, Darfur, Kuwait, Somalia, Lebanon, Kurdistan, post-earthquake Pakistan, post-tsunami Indonesia, Iraq and Afghanistan: a narrative that says America is dedicated to keeping Muslims down is thriving'"
2009-12-01,"b""Iran's Ahmadinejad betrays Khomeini's promises and plans to phase out state subsidies for food and gas, thus producing an inflation rate of up to 60%. \n"""
2009-12-01,"b'Indonesia has banned the film Balibo, which depicts the deaths of six foreign journalists in East Timor'"
2009-12-01,"b'A Libyan court sentenced two Swiss businessmen to 16 months in prison for violation of residency laws, just two days after a vote in Switzerland to ban the construction of minarets sparked criticism in the Muslim world.'"
2009-12-01,b'Islamist group claim Russian train bomb attack'
2009-12-01,"b'The mayor of a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank has been arrested for disrupting police trying to stop unauthorised construction work saying they acted ""like animals""'"
2009-12-01,b'Climate change sceptics have been forced to change their own graph showing a decrease in global temperatures after admitting that they got it wrong'
2009-12-01,"b""In Hong Kong and Taiwan, yesterday's gruesome crime is today's digital cartoon."""
2009-11-30,"b'""We have seen new kinds of cancer that were not recorded in Iraq before war in 2003, types of fibrous cancer and bone cancer. These refer clearly to radiation as a cause""'"
2009-11-30,b'Former Miss Argentina dies after ass surgery '
2009-11-30,b'Pirate Bay refuses to shut down. remains elusive. '
2009-11-30,"b""Hugo Chavez threatens to nationalize private banks for refusing to lend to the poor and for failing to sufficiently aid in the country's development."""
2009-11-30,"b'Sacked by text, the Indian workers who built Dubai '"
2009-11-30,"b'""We are not a backward people, and we are \r\ncapable of fighting for democracy, human and \r\nwomen\'s rights in Afghanistan. In fact the only way \r\nthese values will be achieved is if we struggle for \r\nthem and win them ourselves.""'"
2009-11-30,"b'UK again shows no backbone in extradition request.""It is quite astonishing that two boys who have been found not guilty in the court in which they were tried have now been sentenced in their absence to three years\' imprisonment. ""'"
2009-11-30,"b'East Jerusalem should be Palestinian capital, says European Union - Israel accuses EU of destroying prospects of renewed peace talks '"
2009-11-30,b'Five British yachtsmen have been detained by the Iranian navy'
2009-11-30,b'Maziar Bahari was jailed under the ridiculous assumption that he was a spy because of working with Jason Jones of the Daily Show [VIDEO]'
2009-11-30,"b'An Italian town\'s ""Operation White Christmas"" aims to kick immigrants out before December 25th.'"
2009-11-30,"b'As flooding continues in the Philippines, with little international aid or publicity, streets become canals and natives quietly adjust to living in a seemingly permanent flood zone instead of on dry land. '"
2009-11-30,"b'Amy Goodman Detained at Canadian Border, Questioned About Speechand 2010 Olympics'"
2009-11-30,"b""Iran prison doctor for the protestors 'was poisoned', prosecutors say"""
2009-11-30,b'Venice flooded by seasonal high tide'
2009-11-30,b'20 Signs That The U.K. Has Become The Most Oppressive Big Brother Society On Earth'
2009-11-30,"b'American troops did not expect to play a role in stabilizing Iraq after overthrowing Saddam Hussein, a key adviser to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Monday.'"
2009-11-30,"b""Canada's image lies in tatters. It is now to climate what Japan is to whaling.\n\t\t\t\tComment is free |\n\t\t\t\tThe Guardian"""
2009-11-30,b'A new law has come into force making it a criminal offence for people to cause a nuisance or disturbance in NHS hospitals.'
2009-11-30,"b'Chinese state media reveal secret, illegal jails'"
2009-11-30,"b'It is a great honor for me to stand here tonight as the first Somali journalist to win this award. By recognizing me, you are also recognizing the courage of the small band of working journalists still in Somalia.'"
2009-11-30,"b'Israeli military now hiring professional trolls -- unit forming to ""fight enemies"" online'"
2009-11-30,b'Report: Teenage suicide bomber kills Pakistan provincial lawmaker in his house'
2009-11-30,"b'The party is over in Dubai. It officially ended for the freewheeling emirate late Wednesday afternoon when Dubai World, the government-controlled investment conglomerate, announced a six-month ""standstill"" on debt repayments.'"
2009-11-30,b'Northern Ireland - 50% rise in new HIV cases in year '
2009-11-29,b'Somali pirates hijack oil tanker going to US'
2009-11-29,"b'Denmark approves new pre-crime arrests ahead of Copenhagen climate protests.  Danish Ministry of Justice states new powers include ""pre-emptive"" detention to 12 hours and apply to international activists. Protesters charged with hindering the police face 40 days in prison. '"
2009-11-29,b'One in five HIV sufferers in Africa was infected by medical staff using dirty needles and clinical equipment'
2009-11-29,"b""Apparently it's not good enough to make homosexuality illegal, now Uganda may go even further and put gays to death - along with anyone who advocates on their behalf"""
2009-11-29,"b""According to scientist calculations, considering world economy as in input/output physical engine, global warming can't be stopped unless civilization collapse or building a new nuclear plant a day"""
2009-11-29,"b'""They talk of Gandhi and in the same breath complain about how things stopped in Tehran! Are they crazy? It took him 30 years. He went back to prison again and again."" Seems that many expected events in Iran to unfold like a movie, where bullets miss the good guys and the bad guys are easily beaten.'"
2009-11-29,b'Blair Adviser: Bush Spoke of Iraq Soon After 9/11 '
2009-11-29,"b'Honduras ""democracy"": Opposition radio ""80% of time off air because Army broadcasting powerful signal on same wavelength, particularly when station broadcasting news, opinions against de facto government."" On election day, trade union HQ attacked with machine gun fire.'"
2009-11-29,b'Hugo Chavez could nationalize private banks unless they comply with the law'
2009-11-29,"b""It gets worse: Tony Blair 'asked for Iraq war options in June 2002' """
2009-11-29,b'Dubai Has Always Been Bankrupt -- Morally and Environmentally'
2009-11-29,"b""Iran's announces that it intends to build another 10 uranium enrichment plants after international demands for it to stop work on a previously-secret underground site."""
2009-11-29,"b'Thousands of pages of declassified U.S. documents on the 1989 murders of six prominent Jesuit clerics in EL Salvador, indicate the CIA and U.S. State Department had foreknowledge'"
2009-11-29,"b'General Sir Michael Rose: Why I believe Blair should stand trial, and face charges for war crimes'"
2009-11-29,b'South Korean navy ship rescues North Korean soldier'
2009-11-29,b'Kenyans draw weapons over shrinking resources'
2009-11-29,b'Journalists protest massacre in Philippines: At least \r\n30 members of the press were killed in the largest \r\nattack on the media ever'
2009-11-29,b'Where in the World Is the Pakistani Taliban? '
2009-11-29,"b'Irans most senior cleric denounced the role of the volunteer militia force known as the Basij in the crackdown against protesters, decreeing that the assailants have acted against religion and must pay blood money to those who were injured or their families.'"
2009-11-29,"b'The Organization of American States (OAS) have condemned the Honduran elections as illegitimate and refused to send observers. So has the United Nations and the European Union, as well as UNASUR and ALBA'"
2009-11-29,b'Honduran President Manuel Zelaya Requests International Tribunal '
2009-11-29,b'U.A.E. Removes Sunday London Times From Newsstands'
2009-11-29,"b'IEA changes it\'s mind on ""Peak Oil"" again.  Now says demand for oil in OECD countries has peaked, is in permanent decline.  Really, I hadn\'t noticed any countries actively reducing their need for oil ??'"
2009-11-29,b'Dubai Worlds Debt Not Guaranteed by Government '
2009-11-29,"b""Africa uses male circumcision to help fight AIDS, but it isn't the sole solution."""
2009-11-28,"b""The former PM is said to be furious that his reputation could be 'shredded' during the inquiry. Devestating official memo from top law officer warned Blair that the war *IS* illegal. Officer was bullied and ostracized."""
2009-11-28,"b""Bhopal: On 3 Dec 1984, clouds of poison leaking from a Union Carbide pesticides plant brought death to thousands in this city. A quarter of a century later, victims of the world's worst industrial disaster are still being born. And still there's been no trial!"""
2009-11-28,b'Pedophile priests protected not only by Church but also by police who decided that the crimes of the Catholic Church were outside their remit'
2009-11-28,b'Switzerland votes on Muslim minaret ban'
2009-11-28,b'Blair was told Iraq war illegal: report'
2009-11-28,"b'Man Sentenced for Killing Sister over Western Clothes, Make-Up...'"
2009-11-28,b'Emir of Abu Dhabi to buy Dubai for US$ 80 billion'
2009-11-28,"b'Wikipedia Losing Volunteers - ""Many people are getting burnt out when they have to debate about the contents of certain articles again and again..."" '"
2009-11-28,"b'Two Afghan teenagers say they were beaten by \r\nAmerican guards, photographed naked, deprived of \r\nsleep and held in solitary confinement at secretive \r\nBagram ""black"" prison run by U.S. Special \r\nOperations forces'"
2009-11-28,"b'Iraq: The war was illegal  ""Then Attorney General Goldsmith was \'pinned to the wall and bullied into keeping quiet\' while the Prime Minister kept the Cabinet in the dark"" - The Chilcot inquiry'"
2009-11-28,b'UK child protection paranoia: Parents who want to accompany their children to Christmas carol services and other festive activities are being officially vetted for criminal records in case they are paedophiles'
2009-11-28,"b'Why Arabs do not revolt against their corrupt \r\ndictators, 70 million illiterate among other things'"
2009-11-28,b'Irans government today announced plans to build 10 new uranium enrichment plants'
2009-11-28,"b'Iraq invasion was of questionable legitimacy, says British diplomat'"
2009-11-28,"b'It seems the pious policewoman and the even more pious judge took no notice of the law which stipulates that Christians are exempt from sharia law, that a child under 18 cannot be whipped or placed in the dock without her family present (Never mind a lawyer)'"
2009-11-28,b'Dubai bankruptcy is a taste of things to come'
2009-11-28,"b'Rwanda joins the Commonwealth  - Rwanda joined the Commonwealth on Sunday, becoming only the second country which was not formerly a British colony to be admitted to the group.  '"
2009-11-28,"b'Is Your Seafood Harvested by Slaves? Life is hell for Thailands fishermen slaves, a largely Burmese workforce lured into the Thai fishing industry by brokers'"
2009-11-28,b'Prime Minister of Vanuatu loses parliamentary seat over blunder'
2009-11-28,"b""Mysterious 'Saddam Channel' hits Iraq TV"""
2009-11-28,b'Ok what is going on here? Read this and tell me your Opinion'
2009-11-28,"b'Homemade bomb derailed Russian train, killing at least 39: officials'"
2009-11-28,"b'Driven down by debt, Dubai expats give new meaning to long-stay car park (Times online article, Feb 2009)'"
2009-11-28,b'Swiss minaret vote: Projections suggest ban backed.  Another thing added to the ban list.  Geesh.'
2009-11-28,b'Moscow - Overpopulated With People and Cars'
2009-11-27,"b'Everyone started running toward us, Ms. Nuez said. We thought there was a fight. Then we saw this guy with blood coming out of his mouth, and the killer right behind him, putting this thing away. I didnt know what it was. Instinctively, Ms. Nuez reached for her camera...'"
2009-11-27,"b'Dubai: Tourists imprisoned for sesame seeds, jet lag pills, over-the-counter cold medications and painkillers'"
2009-11-27,"b'On the extreme, inescapable limitation of human mind: Uganda proposes death penalty for HIV positive gays'"
2009-11-27,"b'unfreeze, Israel  approved 28 new schools for \r\nsettlements in the West Bank, a day after it \r\nannounced a 10-month halt to new residential \r\nbuilding'"
2009-11-27,"b""Interesting Analysis of the US and UK 'special relationship'"""
2009-11-27,"b'Sikh advocate brutally beaten, forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan'"
2009-11-27,"b'A meeting of self-styled ""freegans"" is taking place in Bristol, culminating in a meal assembled from waste food. Freegan Mark Boyle is marking his first year of living without cash with a festival of ""freeconomics"". '"
2009-11-27,b'A girl of 16 has received 50 lashes in Sudan for wearing a skirt '
2009-11-27,"b'Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democracy in Iran. The Iranian government confiscated her medal and diploma and is holding it ransom for $410,000.'"
2009-11-27,b'Israel Greets Start of Settlement Freeze With New Construction'
2009-11-27,b'The Swedes found a new use for bunnies.'
2009-11-27,"b""For 15 months, Binyam Mohamed has watched as 2 British High Court judges have tried to release info conveyed by US intel services to their UK counterparts regarding his torture. But the judges have been thwarted by David Miliband, who said disclosure would threaten Britain's intel sharing with US"""
2009-11-27,"b'Sin Patron: Stories From Argentina\'s Worker-Run Factories - ""there is no law. It only exists for the powerful. We announced that we didn\'t want to shoot anyone, but...""'"
2009-11-27,"b""Dog Meat Mafia - A report into the seedy world of South East Asia's booming dog meat trade"""
2009-11-27,b'Scores killed or hurt in Russia train crash'
2009-11-27,b'Islam in the Land of the Rising Sun'
2009-11-27,"b'10,000 E. African albinos in hiding after killings'"
2009-11-27,"b'UN climate scientists turn on each other: UN Scientist Declares Climategate colleagues Mann, Jones and Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process  They are not credible any more '"
2009-11-27,b'President Sarkozy works to get bail for a pedophiliac rapist.'
2009-11-27,b'What happens if Dubai goes under?'
2009-11-27,b'Philip Morris ordered to pay $300 million to smoker'
2009-11-27,b'Military Spending Worldwide'
2009-11-27,b'We Are Becoming A Servile State'
2009-11-27,"b'In Yemen, traditions and chaotic governance block efforts to build a sustainable water supply'"
2009-11-27,"b'A Honduran teacher active in resistance against the coup was kidnapped and then shot, presumably by agents of the illegitimate government. '"
2009-11-26,"b'The use of condoms and other contraceptives are not to encourage sexual promiscuity, but to give Filipino women, especially mothers, the chance to determine the size of their family and to ensure health, a UN official said Wednesday.'"
2009-11-26,b'Female victims of Philippines political massacre on \r\nMonday victims shot in genitals'
2009-11-26,"b""'What I saw was a bunch of filled-in trenches with people's arms and legs sticking out of them. For all I know, we could have killed thousands'. How the mass slaughter of a group of Iraqis went unreported."""
2009-11-26,b'A Chinese magazine has published an article that details a secret network of detention centers used to prevent aggrieved citizens from lodging complaints against the Chinese government.'
2009-11-26,b'This pretty much sums up the situation in Dubai.'
2009-11-26,"b""The world as you've never seen it before"""
2009-11-26,"b""BBC News - Iraq war legitimacy 'questionable'  - Well no shit!  Thanks for the info BBC."""
2009-11-26,"b'Brazil President: ""We want to preserve the Amazon, but they will have to pay the price for this preservation because we never destroyed our forest like they mowed theirs down a century ago""'"
2009-11-26,"b""Prosecuting American 'War Crimes': The International Criminal Court claims jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan"""
2009-11-26,"b'""Billions of human beings lifted out of poverty. That task ought to be viewed with a little respect.""'"
2009-11-26,"b'Norway says Iran confiscated Nobel Peace Prize from Iranian activist - this is the ""first time a Nobel Peace Prize has been confiscated by national authorities""'"
2009-11-26,b'Germany General who defended massacre of Afghani civilians resigns upon revelation of evidence he was lying.'
2009-11-26,"b""Dubai's Fantasy Island Gamble in the Persian Gulf Comes to an Ugly End"""
2009-11-26,b'Bulgaria: We are in contact with aliens'
2009-11-26,"b'""To force a peaceful, vulnerable, misguided UFO fanatic like Gary thousands of miles away from his much-needed support network is barbaric,""'"
2009-11-26,b'IAEA demands that Iran freeze work on the Qom nuclear facility immediately. '
2009-11-26,"b'Ireland: 250,000 strike. ""Media wanted strike to be marked by incidents of hostile general public. Many workers on pickets around the country confided that they were nervous of such a response; such has been the campaign of vilification in the pro-capitalist press.""'"
2009-11-26,"b'Iran confiscates Nobel Peace prize of Iranian human rights lawyer (yes, the actual medal) '"
2009-11-26,"b""US President Obama wrote a letter to Brazil's President Lula.  Apparently the letter was leaked in Brazil.  Do any Brazil redittors have the text?"""
2009-11-26,"b""German labor minister Franz Josef Jung resigned from Merkel's cabinet on Friday"""
2009-11-26,"b'On the anniversary of the Munbai attacks, India faces a far more vast and powerful enemy to her liberty - her own government.'"
2009-11-26,b'A state-run magazine has published an article that details a secret network of detention centers used to prevent aggrieved citizens from lodging complaints against the Chinese government.'
2009-11-26,"b""On the hunt for China's child snatchers """
2009-11-26,b'Swiss to vote on mosque minarets ban'
2009-11-26,"b""Massacre victims 'shot in genitals'"""
2009-11-25,"b""Italian Professor of Medicine makes a startling breakthrough while treating his wife. It's possible he has found a cure for multiple sclerosis"""
2009-11-25,b'Dubai is going bust.. Major govt. owned Investment company asks for a delay in its debt repayments'
2009-11-25,"b""In Japan, 'Herbivore' Boys Subvert Ideas Of Manhood """
2009-11-25,b'Widespread child sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Dublin was covered up for decades by senior clerics'
2009-11-25,"b'Here is why domestic violence campaigns focus on ""Women and Girls""'"
2009-11-25,"b'Israeli Mossad trainee gets caught planting fake bomb under car, Israeli TV says it hoped the agency\'s operatives were ""more effective abroad"".'"
2009-11-25,b'The Nine Nations of China'
2009-11-25,"b'Canada warned that prisoners turned over to Afghanistan were sexually abused, beaten, stabbed, shocked, and burned.'"
2009-11-25,b'US refuses to sign anti-landmine treaty'
2009-11-25,b'The dark side of the internet'
2009-11-25,b'Police in Kent have at last acknowledged that arresting people for being too tall might not be a very good idea.'
2009-11-25,b'Over a Hundred Massive Icebergs Heading Towards New Zealand (Photos)'
2009-11-25,"b'Brazil and Iran: Welcome To The Luladinejad Axis - When Lula talks, world leaders do listen - ""I told Obama, I told Sarkozy, I told Merkel - This is not only Lula talking - it\'s BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China) talk. '"
2009-11-25,"b""Computer hacker Gary McKinnon is 'facing a US trial'"""
2009-11-25,b'Iran seizes Nobel winner Shirin Edabi’s medal - Times Online'
2009-11-25,b'UK banks will be forced to publish the number of staff earning more than 1m under Walker Review proposals'
2009-11-25,b'BBC News - Irish Church accused of abuse cover-up'
2009-11-25,b'Women to be jailed in Mexico for having an abortion'
2009-11-25,"b""The world's 10 fattest countries"""
2009-11-25,"b'Those killed included at least 12 journalists,  making Monday the deadliest single day for journalists anywhere in the world.'"
2009-11-25,"b""Obama must keep in mind that South Asia is a tar pit filled with failed and dysfunctional states, save for one long-established democracy of 1.2 billion people that is the second-fastest-growing major economy in the world, a check on China's rising ambitions, and a natural ally of the United States."""
2009-11-25,"b'When Massacres Go Wrong: ""Most of the victims were relatives, lawyers and supporters of Ismael Mangudadatu, a rival of the Ampatuan family. Twenty-seven of them were journalists covering the event and fifteen are reported to have been innocent motorists who happened to have been passing by.""'"
2009-11-25,b'Former Colombian general sentenced to 40 years in prison for colluding with rightwing death squads in Mapiripn massacre'
2009-11-25,"b""The World's Children (Photo Gallery)\r\n"""
2009-11-25,b'Death toll at 57 in Philippine massacre '
2009-11-24,"b'In the future an immigrant arriving in Germany may have to sign an ""integration contract."" The contract would require the immigrant show respect for freedom of speech and women\'s equality.'"
2009-11-24,"b'Every school pupil in England is to be taught that \r\ndomestic violence against women and girls is \r\nunacceptable, as part of a new government \r\nstrategy.  Excuse me?  Only women and girls?'"
2009-11-24,b'Why white skin is all the rage in Asia'
2009-11-24,b'Britain heard US drumbeat for invasion before 9/11'
2009-11-24,b'Britain has been voted one of the worst places in the world for expats to live; Canada the best.'
2009-11-24,"b'Switzerland votes on a ban of minarets to stop ""Islamisation"" of society'"
2009-11-24,"b'US rejects landmine ban treaty supported by more than 150 countries. The state department explained the decision on Tuesday, saying a policy review had found the US could not meet its ""national defence needs"" without landmines.'"
2009-11-24,"b""The 00's: A Decade from Hell"""
2009-11-24,"b'The Roman Catholic order of Christian Brothers, once the largest provider of residential care for boys in Ireland, has offered a payout of 161 million euros ($240 million) in compensation, drawing harsh criticism from a group called the Irish Survivors of Child Abuse.'"
2009-11-24,"b""Dealing with [the Americans] corporately is akin to dealing with a group of Martians. If it isn't on the PowerPoint slide, it doesn't happen. """
2009-11-24,"b'The body of a United Nations worker, who had been missing for 24 years, has been found in eastern Lebanon'"
2009-11-24,"b'""He thought of New Jersey as a kind of paradise. To him, he had to suffer on this world in order to go to paradise  in order to drink wine and have sex with at least 72 virgins and then others if he wanted to He hated me and was jealous of me because I had been to New Jersey.""'"
2009-11-24,"b""Bankrupt?: Dubai's main investment fund seeks debt payment delay"""
2009-11-24,"b""Berlusconi is named `Rockstar of the Year' by Rolling Stone magazine"""
2009-11-24,b'Vibrational Medicine: Scientists Kill Viruses by Blasting them with Resonant Frequencies'
2009-11-24,"b'Despite ""sporadic"" contacts between al-Qaeda members and Iraq in the 1990s, there was no ""serious collaboration"". The 9/11 attacks actually drove Iraq and al-Qaeda further apart'"
2009-11-24,"b""Iraq inquiry: British officials heard 'drum beats' of war from US before 9/11"""
2009-11-24,b'Venezuela: Chavez calls for new international organisation of left parties'
2009-11-24,b'Switzerland to vote this weekend on banning minarets from the country.'
2009-11-24,"b'Rupert Murdoch, we will truly miss your tabloids with all the hoaxes you pissusless boggar'"
2009-11-24,b'Randi possibly wrong about the Belgian thought to be in a coma.  (Click Listen to the Story)'
2009-11-24,"b""Economics of China's secret jails exposed"""
2009-11-24,b'Carte blanche to the Olive grove destroyers!..Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din reports that there have been no indictments on all 69 complaints it lodged on attacks that destroyed thousands of trees.'
2009-11-24,b'Philippine local Police Chief detained after massacre. The killings represent the worst single incident of election-related violence in the nations history. '
2009-11-24,"b'The government has declared war on thousands of thirsty, marauding camels threatening residents and destroying water mains in Central Australia.'"
2009-11-23,"b'Wow, it turns out the guy who was ""paralyzed but fully aware for 23 years"" isn\'t.. he\'s a vegetable and the people saying he\'s communicating are really faking his communication. '"
2009-11-23,"b""Prof Nutt (Gov't scientist who was sacked over Cannabis research) cuts presenter down to size on Sky News"""
2009-11-23,b'UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files'
2009-11-23,"b""The world's biggest animal sacrifice begins today"""
2009-11-23,b'Screw you Murdoch. BBC have no plans to charge for online news'
2009-11-23,b'Leaked documents reveal Tony Blair lied about Iraq'
2009-11-23,"b'Microbiologist who warned that flu vaccine was bioweapon & arrested by FBI for allegedly trying to bomb White House was expert in manipulation of virii, with 28 publications'"
2009-11-23,"b""India's parliament is up in arms over the leak of a report, 17 years in the making, on the destruction of a mosque, the Babri Masjid, in 1992. The report exposes the complicity of India's right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party in the riot and clashes that followed."""
2009-11-23,b'Bank of England gave SECRET bailout loans to RBS and HBOS'
2009-11-23,b'DNA nation: British police keep a much larger DNA database than anyone else. USA is 5th'
2009-11-23,"b""An activist in China has been sentenced to 3 years in prison for blogging about poorly built schools that collapsed during China's massive earthquake last year, which killed thousands of children."""
2009-11-23,"b""Australian airport takes away a paralympian's wheelchair and he ends up crawling through the airport to board his plane."""
2009-11-23,"b""'Cruel, illegal, immoral': Human Rights Watch condemns UK's role in torture. Pressure for inquiry grows as torturers themselves allege British complicity."""
2009-11-23,b'Police routinely arresting people to get DNA'
2009-11-23,b'China executes two over tainted milk powder scandal'
2009-11-23,"b""There are fears in Japan that a potentially deadly Australian invader is beginning to close in on some of the country's most crowded urban areas."""
2009-11-23,"b'In Afghanistan, People hate the Americans from the bottom of their hearts '"
2009-11-23,"b'The number of deaths by cause over the past 300 days - this really puts the swine flu ""pandemic"" into perspective'"
2009-11-23,"b""Political dynasties die hard in Philippines - Against death toll from Monday's violence, now at 46, political warlordism looms large"""
2009-11-23,"b'UK role in torture of its own citizens in Pakistan condemned by HRW as cruel, counter-productive and in clear breach of international law'"
2009-11-23,b'Drunk police accused of beating a man to death.'
2009-11-23,b'Call girl who made Berlusconi look bad receives death threats'
2009-11-23,b'Blackwater secret war in Pakistan exposed - Taliban \r\nassertions that Blackwater bombed civilians need to \r\nbe investigated'
2009-11-23,"b'Kelvin Thomson stepped up his population-control campaign last week, releasing a 14-point plan to cap Australias population at 26 million.'"
2009-11-23,"b""Russia is Telling Blond, Blue-Eyed People to Breed. It's Working."""
2009-11-22,b'Adopted man decides to look for his real parents. Turns out his dad is Charles Manson.'
2009-11-22,"b'If this is proven correct, it will be a very, very big discovery because we\'ll completely change the way we think about MS, and how we\'ll treat it,""'"
2009-11-22,"b""Iran uses interview from 'The Daily Show' as proof Canadian journalist was a spy; jails and tortures him for 118 days"""
2009-11-22,"b""Children should be allowed to get dirty, according to scientists who have found being too clean can impair the skin's ability to heal | isn't that a bit obvious? """
2009-11-22,"b""The authorities knew it was deadly more than 100 years ago, but it was only banned entirely in 1999. Asbestos fibres can lie dormant in victims' lungs for up to half a century; deaths from asbestos in Britain will continue to rise, peaking at 5,000, until 2016"""
2009-11-22,"b'Russia has now turned into a ""criminal state"", according to the man who was once its leading foreign investor.'"
2009-11-22,"b""New Japanese gov't finds documents proving nuclear weapons pact with US that the last Japanese gov't claimed didn't exist."""
2009-11-22,"b'Secret files show UK courts were misled over 9/11 suspect Lotfi Raissi, an innocent man accused of training the 9/11 hijackers who was jailed for five months'"
2009-11-22,"b'An Interview with Matthew Hoh, the diplomat who resigned over the Afghanistan war: ""If Matthew Hoh could tell you one thing to help you understand the U.S.s predicament in Afghanistan, hed tell you the presence of our ground combat troops is not doing anything to defeat al-Qaida.""'"
2009-11-22,"b'Saudi scholar condemns new university for allowing the mingling of men and women which he called a great depravity. Mingling is apparently like what Southern racists used to call integration, men and women working, studying and socializing together. '"
2009-11-22,"b""Russia 'is now a criminal state' -- 'They basically said to him if you sign the following false confessions then we'll give you medical treatment, otherwise we won't'"""
2009-11-22,"b""A Chinese dissident was sentenced on Monday to three years in prison after criticising the government's response to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake that killed about 90 000 people."""
2009-11-22,"b'Brazil is trying to make its name in the field of diplomacy, by meeting with Irans president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday. America has thus far failed to work positively with Iran, could Brazil take over as the Middle East moderator??  '"
2009-11-22,"b""A British company sells 85 million $ worth of fancy dowsing rods to Iraq's government, they are now being used to 'detect' bombs at checkpoints."""
2009-11-22,"b""Drug war hits Mexico's Mennonites"""
2009-11-22,b'Chinese Human Rights Lawyers Interrogated for trying to meet Obama'
2009-11-22,"b""UK men 'deserting' Indian brides"""
2009-11-22,"b""Does humanity's error come down to a simple lack of \r\nmaturity, like a six-year-old confronted with a choice of \r\ndinner between broccoli and ice cream?"""
2009-11-22,"b'Haiti - Id never seen so many people working so hard with so little to show for it. Whatever effort you make, it gets almost eaten up by population growth. You are basically running to stand still.'"
2009-11-22,"b""Iran's \r\nplan \r\nto \r\nditch \r\nTehran \r\nechoed \r\nin \r\nAncient \r\nWorld \r\n- \r\nMiddle \r\nEast \r\n- \r\nIndependent.co.uk"""
2009-11-22,"b""Would-be Mexican President says 'mafia' has taken over"""
2009-11-22,"b""Let God Sort 'Em Out: Airstrike accidentally kills Afghan soldiers and policemen"""
2009-11-22,b'World Population Highlights 2007: Overview of World Population'
2009-11-22,"b'Not Clinton: ""I have not had sex with her and the idea that I would have sex between meetings in my office in Parliament Office while Parliament was sitting is so patently ridiculous""'"
2009-11-22,b'Could it get more surreal than this? Israeli state claims part of an Arab while its owners reside in it.'
2009-11-21,b'Support a Senate Inquiry into the Church of Scientology'
2009-11-21,"b'Several Palestinians have been injured after Israeli aircraft carried out airstrikes against targets in the Gaza Strip, officials say.'"
2009-11-21,"b'Yesterday Hamas announced an agreement with other militants to halt rocket fire into Israel.  Within hours, Israeli fighter jets bombed multiple locations in Gaza and injured seven Palestinians.  Does Israel want peace?'"
2009-11-21,"b'Pakistan coming disaster: Half its 180 million population is under 20, 66% are under 30. Pakistans population should exceed 260 million by 2030, and 335 million by 2050.Only half of children go to primary school, a quarter to secondary school and just 5% receive higher education.'"
2009-11-21,"b'Hamas threatens other Palestinians: ""Anyone in Gaza who co-operated with the poll would be \'dealt with by the ministry or by other means\'""'"
2009-11-21,b'Hamas in Gaza says it has reached an agreement with other militant groups to stop firing rockets into Israeli territory.'
2009-11-21,b'Hamas reaches agreement with other militant groups to stop firing rockets into Israeli territory.  Israel responds with A) Lifting the blockade. Or. B) Launching Israeli Air strikes against Gaza'
2009-11-21,b'Shocking levels of racism are commonly accepted in Israel'
2009-11-21,"b'Iran has begun five days of large-scale war games to simulate attacks on its nuclear sites, officials said, warning it will retaliate if provoked.'"
2009-11-21,b'I really feel that the lack of effort this year has really paid off.'
2009-11-21,"b'Coal mine blast kills 42 in China, 66 trapped '"
2009-11-21,b'At Least *421* Die in Chinese Mine Explosion'
2009-11-21,b'Israeli aircraft strike Gaza targets - Military says action is retaliation for Palestinian rocket fire'
2009-11-21,"b""Canadian government was fending off calls for a public inquiry on torture after senior diplomat formerly stationed in Kabul claims troops 'handed over for severe torture a lot of innocent people'"""
2009-11-21,"b'Chavez describes himself as a ""brother"" of presidents Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Ahmadinejad of Iran.'"
2009-11-21,"b'Shots have been fired at police in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Finger pointed at dissident republicans'"
2009-11-21,"b""Israelis and former Israelis are behind many of the world's Internet sites that sell counterfeit or other illegal drugs involved in pharmaceutical crimes, providing useless or dangerous products to people who think they are getting the real thing"""
2009-11-21,"b'Australian troops using hard drugs in Afghanistan, Iraq'"
2009-11-21,b'Fatah Officials Warn of Third Palestinian Intifada'
2009-11-21,"b'UAE deportations raise questions in Lebanon - As more than 200 Lebanese await answers over why they were ejected from the U.A.E., experts point to paranoia in Gulf nations over Iran.'"
2009-11-21,"b'IAF launches fresh strikes against Gaza weapons factories, smuggling tunnels '"
2009-11-21,"b'Security forces in Afghanistan have killed or captured more than 30 high-level militants, including many accused of participating in roadside bomb attacks, military officials said.'"
2009-11-21,b'Indonesian authorities say they believe most of the 226 passengers who were aboard a ferry which has sunk near Batam Island will be rescued.'
2009-11-21,b'Sri Lanka allows freedom of movement for war displaced civilians '
2009-11-21,"b'An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin\'s ""On the Origin of Species"" found in a family\'s guest lavatory in southern England.'"
2009-11-20,"b'Well, now we\'re fucked. British Government to allow snooping on cloud storage, give powers to ""any person as may be specified with or for the purposes of facilitating prevention of reduction of online infringement of copyright"", speed limitations/disconnections for offenders, etc.'"
2009-11-20,"b""Do music artists fare better in a world with illegal file-sharing? The graph the record industry doesn't want you to see."""
2009-11-20,b'Why the olives? Israeli settler vandals savage another olive grove; It will take 10 years for the trees to bear fruit again'
2009-11-20,"b'Japanese whalers set sail yesterday on their annual mission to kill hundreds of the marine creatures for alleged scientific purposes, causing diplomatic problems for their government.'"
2009-11-20,"b""Colombia says its military on 'maximum alert' after Venezuela destroyed two border bridges."""
2009-11-20,b'53% of Israelis polled prefer ethnic cleansing as a final solution to the Palestinian problem'
2009-11-20,"b""Apartheid in Israel: Palestinians don't have the right to build a Football Stadium"""
2009-11-20,"b""Someone has stolen Mussolini's Brain and tried to sell it on Ebay. No joke."""
2009-11-20,"b""Galileo's lasting message to the catholic church"""
2009-11-20,b'Swine flu kills four in Saudi Arabia on Hajj pilgrimage'
2009-11-20,"b'Lebanese General tells military, prepare for Israeli attack'"
2009-11-20,"b""Four in 10 Australians believe Australia's projected population of 35 million by 2049 will be too many people, according to an Age/Nielsen poll."""
2009-11-20,b'At an informal secret meeting the heads of government of the 27 EU member state appointed Herman Van Rompuy to be the first President of the European Union.'
2009-11-20,b'Dalai Lama praises Obama for urging China-Tibet talks'
2009-11-20,b'W5 investigates intriguing new theory about MS'
2009-11-20,b'H1N1 Mutation Discovered'
2009-11-20,"b""America's farmer-soldiers in Afghanistan - An Indiana National Guard unit is helping Afghan farmers to help themselves."""
2009-11-20,b'Afghanistan War Casualties'
2009-11-20,b'Wife punished cheating husband with her suicide and killing his 3 daughters'
2009-11-20,"b'Mario Borghezio, Italian member of the European Parliament is a crazy conspiracy kook: He speaks out against all three EU president candidates being bilderberg and trilateral commission members.'"
2009-11-20,"b'AGW or MBP? 180MB of leaked (well, hacked) emails and documents blow the lid off of widespread data manipulation, collusion and suppression of valid scientific debate on global warming'"
2009-11-20,b'Dancing with Evo Morales.  Documentary about the life and origins of the Bolivian president.  '
2009-11-20,b'A UK couple has been kidnapped by pirates. The pirates have issued ransom demands. The UK government is refusing to do anything. These people are going to be killed unless something is done.'
2009-11-20,b'Hackers leak scientists e-mails stolen about climate change research.  Now with more climate change debate!'
2009-11-20,"b'\r\nOf State Borders, Wars and Refugees:  In our latest post at Left Focus Lev Lafayette considers the history of refugees with a critique ranging from Europe to Africa and beyond.  His is a passionate plea for the rights of refugees  as against to nationalist populism and opportunism.  '"
2009-11-19,"b'FIFA and Germany helped finance a soccer stadium in the Palestinian territories.  Now that it is almost complete, Israel has decided to tear it down.'"
2009-11-19,b'Depressed woman loses benefits over Facebook photos'
2009-11-19,b'Illegal Israeli settlements are diverting water in occupied territory.'
2009-11-19,b'New poll: 53% of Israelis think ethnic cleansing is the solution to the conflict '
2009-11-19,b'British TV documentary on Israel lobby is accused of antisemitism'
2009-11-19,"b'Regarding Afghanistan: ""In 1981, we gave them 100 mln. of free assistance. And all of that went to the elite. And there was nothing in the hamlets  no kerosene, no matches.""\n Marshall Sokolov, Soviet Minister of Defense'"
2009-11-19,"b""How the British lied to put a killer in power: Indonesia's President Sukarno was overthrown in 1966 and up to half a million people massacred. The BBC, the Observer and Reuters were all duped into carrying false stories manufactured by agents. """
2009-11-19,b'50 oil tankers loitering off British coast as they lie in wait for fuel price hike\n'
2009-11-19,"b""Katrina flooding blamed on 'monumental negligence' of Army Corps of Engineers"""
2009-11-19,b'Flood photos of severe weather in England and Scotland -- and yes Cockermouth is a real place'
2009-11-19,b' If the UK left the EU what would the consequences be?'
2009-11-19,b'Cockermouth is flooded'
2009-11-19,b'Peru arrests four people accused of killing dozens -  harvesting their fat and selling it to Europe for cosmetics'
2009-11-19,b'Four people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing dozens of people in order to sell their fat and tissue for cosmetic uses in Europe.'
2009-11-19,b'Portuguese Government prohibits fees in transactions involving ATM cards (via google translate)'
2009-11-19,"b""We all know that the 'new world order' is just a crazy conspiracy, but a South Korean newspaper just told South Koreans that they must be ready for it."""
2009-11-19,"b'Diplomat says Canadians handed over innocent Afghans to torture, covered it up'"
2009-11-19,"b""Rabbi admits 'cocaine and prostitute marathon'"""
2009-11-19,"b""Court Rejects UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband's Bid to Suppress CIA Evidence: Court accused Miliband of wanting to suppress info about CIA activities even though details had already been disclosed by the US"""
2009-11-19,"b'India: ""Its the CRPF [police] that beat up doctors who go into jungle to treat patients. They beat teachers too. They behead a child in front of his grandfather, rape Adivasi [indigenous] women at will. Green Hunt will result in genocide of Adivasis. Those who survive will become Naxalites.""'"
2009-11-19,"b'Israel does not only steal Palestinian water, they pollute the water that does go through to Palestinians to prevent them from using it [VID]'"
2009-11-19,"b'Just like any other pack or rabid animals, ""Tea partiers turn on each other.""'"
2009-11-19,"b'Palin: \'Jews need a place to live\'  --  ""...Palin disagrees ...that Israel halt settlement construction, although her reason for that opinion is puzzling to some (or at the least demonstrates she\'s not familiar with the term ""natural growth"" that much of the debate has revolved around). ""'"
2009-11-19,b'US yet to ratify child rights pact'
2009-11-19,b'The dark truth about Latin American energy.'
2009-11-18,"b'CAUGHT: Guy who dropped dog from a bridge in Latvia. Arrested, with PICS. Translated article.'"
2009-11-18,"b'The official inductees of the 2010 Sweatshop Hall of Shame are: Abercrombie and Fitch, Gymboree, Hanes, Ikea, Kohls, LL Bean, Pier 1 Imports, Propper International, and Walmart'"
2009-11-18,b'Van Rompuy is the first president of Europe'
2009-11-18,b'Russia confirms death penalty ban'
2009-11-18,b'Dont ask: A new law against homosexuality in Uganda could set a nasty trend | The Economist'
2009-11-18,"b""For the first time, Africa's population exceeds a billion (1,000,000,000)"""
2009-11-18,"b'An open letter to Obama from a Gaza resident: We, the Palestinian people, are fed up!'"
2009-11-18,"b'The Tijuana of the Caspian - Where Iranians go for booze, sex and pork.'"
2009-11-18,"b'South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry said Thursday.'"
2009-11-18,b'Red Cross Red Crescent report about albinos who are being hunted for their body parts'
2009-11-18,"b'Israel emulating the ""witch-hunt"" tactics of the U.S. academic monitoring group Campus Watch'"
2009-11-18,b'UK Judge allows secret services to hide evidence in Guantnamo torture cases'
2009-11-18,b'Tony Blair out of race to become European Council president'
2009-11-18,"b""Ireland: Hey immigrants, the economy is shitty so we'll pay you to leave."""
2009-11-18,"b""UK: As the Queen's speech dominates the news, what you didn't hear about - High Court rules trials can be held in secret"""
2009-11-18,"b'""There are stupid women who come to the Western Wall, put on a tallit and pray,""Jewish woman arrested over shawl .'"
2009-11-18,"b'Suicide bomber in Pakistan kills 19 at courthouse in Peshawar, it is the 10th bombing in six weeks in the city as Taliban militants retaliate for a Pakistani offensive along the Afghan border'"
2009-11-18,b'State Department says Israel discriminates'
2009-11-18,b'Russian court extends moratorium on death penalty; full ban expected'
2009-11-18,"b'Abbas: Only solution is to declare Palestinian state; with peace negotiations stalled and another illegal settlement in E. Jerusalem approved by the Israelis, Palestinians say they intend to seek recognition of statehood at United Nations '"
2009-11-18,"b'Van Rompuy takes EU presidency, Lady Ashton \r\nnominated as foreign minister'"
2009-11-18,b'Big Oil and Big Coal Spend Big to Kill Clean Energy Bill'
2009-11-18,"b""Indonesian Elementary School Students Set Fire To \r\n'2012' Film DVDs - The Jakarta Globe"""
2009-11-18,b'Lions kill white tiger in Czech zoo'
2009-11-18,"b'Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine to set up ""joint army"" '"
2009-11-17,b'Israel approves 900 settler homes'
2009-11-17,b'7 men survive 2 MONTHS adrift in the Pacific. [BBC]'
2009-11-17,"b'Israeli settlers in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank have been harassing a Palestinian family walking home, then beat and robbed two internationals who accompanied them.'"
2009-11-17,"b'Virtually legal: In many countries, full jails, stretched budgets and a general weariness with the war on drugs have made prohibition harder to enforce'"
2009-11-17,"b'For roughly the same cost as stationing 40,000 troops in Afghanistan for one year, we could educate the great majority of the 75 million children worldwide'"
2009-11-17,"b'Mexico\'s Juarez on path to anarchy -  2000 dead so far this year. ""We have an unsustainable economy - a globalised economy - which pays very low wages. That allowed an alternative economy to be created which also globalised - drugs. Both economies are playing here.""'"
2009-11-17,"b'Athens in siege: police Hq attacked, hundreds detained and many wounded'"
2009-11-17,"b'Inside Dignitas: Assisted Suicide in Switzerland - ""We don\'t discuss moral questions. What moral? Which moral? Catholic? Muslim? Buddhist? We are just working of the atheist basis of self-determination""'"
2009-11-17,b'Australia: This is growing now... Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has concerns about Scientology'
2009-11-17,"b'Former Nazi SS man, aged 90, on trial for the murder of 58 Jewish forced labourers in 1945...'"
2009-11-17,"b'Silicon Sweatshops: Despite strict ""codes of conduct,"" labor rights violations are the norm at Apple, Nokia and Dell factories'"
2009-11-17,"b""New Zealand tops Denmark as world's least corrupt nation"""
2009-11-17,"b' A treasure trove of Tibetan art and manuscripts uncovered in ""sky high"" Himalayan caves could be linked to the storybook paradise of Shangri-La, says the team that made the discovery'"
2009-11-17,b'Afghaniscam | Mother Jones'
2009-11-17,b'Canadian troops could soon be outfitted to fight in Canadian cities. So even in Canada the people are seen as the enemy by those in power. '
2009-11-17,b'Australian Justice is Coloured: An opinion on the young Aboriginal boy who had to go to court over recieving a stolen freddo frog. '
2009-11-17,"b""Spain Codifies 'The Right to Broadband'"""
2009-11-17,"b'Independent judiciary a threat to national security, says Foreign Office official'"
2009-11-17,"b""John Pilger: The Theft of West Papua's mineral wealth. Let the Bird of Paradise go Free...\nThe province's courageous resistance movement """
2009-11-17,"b'Afghanistan, Iraq Near Bottom of Corruption Index'"
2009-11-17,b'School massacre prevented'
2009-11-17,"b'""If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn\'t have declared their independence from it."" \n Stephen Colbert'"
2009-11-17,b'Escalation of Afghanistan War: Canada Faces a Fateful Decision.'
2009-11-17,"b'Ecuador energy crisis cripples production, disrupts cities - UPI.com'"
2009-11-17,"b""'Cosmic rays' may have caused Qantas jet's plunge"""
2009-11-16,"b""This kicks The Weather Channel's ass."""
2009-11-16,"b'Australian Senator says Scientology is a criminal organisation, calls for police enquiry.'"
2009-11-16,b'Australia: Independent senator Nick Xenophon has accused the Church of Scientology of being a criminal organisation.'
2009-11-16,b'More than 500.000 private messages from 9 / 11 leaks at wikileaks this week'
2009-11-16,"b'The grave of Neda Soltan, the Iranian demonstrator whose murder was captured on a cellphone video has been desecrated by the Ahmadinejad regime in an attempt to stifle political dissent'"
2009-11-16,"b""Obama to China: Stop censoring the internet. China to Obama: I think we're going to censor you on the internet"""
2009-11-16,"b""Two-thirds of Iraq's Christians have died or fled the country due to the Iraq War. Nice going, American Christians."""
2009-11-16,"b'Australian Independent Senator on the senate floor,  demanded a senate inquiry into Scientology calling it a criminal organisation that coerced abortions, assault, imprisonment, covering up sexual abuse, embezzlement of church funds and blackmail'"
2009-11-16,b'Japanese politicians used a secret bottomless state fund to bribe opponents and help fund their election campaigns'
2009-11-16,"b""Staff at T-Mobile sold millions of customers' personal records."""
2009-11-16,"b'Corruption, country by country. The 2009 Transparency International index in full'"
2009-11-16,b'The most organized lobby in the world is real and it kick ass'
2009-11-16,"b'""The massive ordnance penetrator, or MOP, now being rushed into development to be carried on B-2 and B-52 bombers. The most likely targets? Iran and North Korea.""'"
2009-11-16,"b""Hunger 'kills 17,000 children per day'"""
2009-11-16,"b""12 Afghans killed, 30 wounded after rockets slammed into a market northeast of Kabul, missing a meeting between France's top general in Afghanistan and dozens of tribal elders and senior local officials"""
2009-11-16,b'The European Union has followed the United States in saying it is not ready to recognize Palestinian statehood'
2009-11-16,b'UK police plans to put details of violent men on register - and those who drive their wives and girlfriends to suicide could be charged with killing them!'
2009-11-16,b'Why Pakistan is winning ITS war against the Taliban?'
2009-11-16,"b'In order to further violate the International Laws, Israel gives the green light for the construction of 900 houses in occupied East Jerusalem'"
2009-11-16,"b'Russian rappers groove with Putin. ""I have to say that young people involved in these arts in our country give them their own Russian charm. Because rap...is being filled with social content, discusses problems of the youth.""'"
2009-11-16,b'Israel approves new homes in east Jerusalem'
2009-11-16,"b'One man, four frauds ... and mystery of the missing 8m'"
2009-11-16,b'Protesters: IDF used .22-caliber ammo at West Bank fence - Haaretz - Israel News'
2009-11-16,b'How America is snooping on YOU.'
2009-11-16,b'West Bank Israeli Soldiers Refuse Orders to Help in Dismantling Illegal Settlements'
2009-11-15,"b""Gay Puerto Rican teen decapitated, dismembered \r\nand burned. Police response: 'people who lead this \r\ntype of lifestyle need to be aware that this will \r\nhappen'."""
2009-11-15,"b""I just received a SIX PAGE reply from the Attorney General who's vetoing the r18 classification for games in Australia! (as rage inducing as you would expect)"""
2009-11-15,"b'Huge rise in infant deformities in Falluja: ""Most are in the head and spinal cord... also a very marked increase in the number of cases of less than two years [old] with brain tumours.""'"
2009-11-15,"b'200 Italian women responded to an ad asking for ""attractive girls between 18 and 35 years old, at least 5 foot, 7 inches tall, well-dressed but not in mini-skirts or low cut dresses."" They expected a party. What they got was Muammar Gaddafi.'"
2009-11-15,"b'At first its like a video on British health care.  Then, all of a sudden, Israelis show up to ask, ""papers, please.""'"
2009-11-15,"b'China now controls 95% of the global market for rare metals used to make iPods, wind farms and electric cars'"
2009-11-15,"b'""Deep in the heart of the Amazon rain forest, there are people who have lived off the water for a long time who are now forced to eat canned tuna fish because the fish in the river are dead or diseased,"" Joe Berlinger director of ""Crude"" - about an environmental lawsuit against oil giant Chevron'"
2009-11-15,b'A group of Israeli soldiers disobeyed orders on Monday to help in the dismantling of several structures that Jewish settlers had built without government authorization in the occupied West Bank.'
2009-11-15,"b'The Dark Side of Dubai: Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive, an uglier story is emerging.'"
2009-11-15,"b'After discovering that the iconic Pirate Bay logo had not been officially registered, a Swedish company has hijacked the trademark as their own, with an eye on commercial exploitation.'"
2009-11-15,b'80% of us will not pay for news anymore.'
2009-11-15,b'Book about killing gentile children becomes bestseller in Israel'
2009-11-15,b'Can you imagine if it were your daughter?'
2009-11-15,b'Two kite surfers from West Sussex took advantage of strong winds on the south coast to realise an ambition to jump over Worthing pier.'
2009-11-15,"b""The third Israeli town in 6 months has added 'Zionist loyalty' to their bylaws """
2009-11-15,"b""Why won't Israel stop building settlements? Because this is Palestine's condition for peace talks to resume."""
2009-11-15,b'Israel says declaring a state could lead to annexation of more of the occupied West Bank.'
2009-11-15,"b'Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of \r\nlaunching an ""organized campaign"" of lies and \r\nmisinformation against it in the wake of the \r\norganization\'s support of the Goldstone report'"
2009-11-15,b'Palestinians call for EU to back independence'
2009-11-15,"b""Most of the world's seven thousand languages will no longer be spoken by the end of this century"""
2009-11-15,"b'Tragically, millions of people continue to knowingly poison themselves for lack of an alternative source of water.'"
2009-11-15,b'The only soldier convicted in connection with the death of Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa today dramatically accused a former Army officer of prisoner abuse. '
2009-11-15,"b""It's an easy mistake to make. You break into a house, steal a few things, then discover a computer and decide to log into Facebook. Police arrest 26 year old """
2009-11-15,b'Zambia journalist acquitted of pornography charges that were brought against her several months ago for sending photos of a woman giving birth in a hospital parking lot.'
2009-11-15,"b'People Republic of China\'s official media ignore Obama\'s message on Internet freedom while Web sites delete stories. Is there a Chinese word for ""irony""?'"
2009-11-14,"b'Netherlands to levy ""green"" road tax by the kilometre from 2012: ""Each vehicle will be equipped with a GPS device that tracks how many kilometres are driven and when and where."" '"
2009-11-14,"b'""Chinese don\'t like Africans. They don\'t like black skin.""'"
2009-11-14,"b'Israeli has destroyed 25,000 Palestinian houses   in Jerusalem '"
2009-11-14,b'What right does Israel have to stop whether or not a people can have their country recognised by the other countries?'
2009-11-14,b'12 year old Aboriginal boy in court today over recieving a stolen freddo frog chocolate from his friend!'
2009-11-14,"b""Palestinians to seek endorsement of statehood - They plan to ask the United Nations for its support without Israel's consent"""
2009-11-14,"b'Order Out of Chaos: CIA, Blackwater Responsible for Bombings, Assassinations in Pakistan'"
2009-11-14,"b'Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem protest outside the Intel office, against the plant operating on the Jewish day of rest.'"
2009-11-14,"b""Surreal drama of Zambia 'porn' trial"""
2009-11-14,"b'Film ""Sugar Babies"" takes on ""Big Sugar"" in Dominican Republic and in Florida, ignored by the mainstream media'"
2009-11-14,"b'If you are an Israeli citizen and you beat up a Palestinian, even kill him or her, theres a 90 percent chance you will get away with it.'"
2009-11-14,"b""Now that Silvio Berlusconi has been convicted by an Italian court, he's trying to constrain the country's judicial system. """
2009-11-14,b'Iran urges Russia to fulfill S-300 missile supply contract'
2009-11-14,b'The British National Party will be joined in the European parliament\nby far-right parties from across the continent. But how much support\nare fascists and racists really picking up? Tom Walker investigates.'
2009-11-14,b'US active role in the Yemen war'
2009-11-14,b'APEC leaders drop climate target -- Copenhagen conference now pointless'
2009-11-14,"b'CIA: Pakistani spy agency pays off: \nHundreds of millions go to the ISI, despite fears of corruption.'"
2009-11-14,"b""Kosovo's Serbs turn their anger on 'betrayal' of minority status. First elections since independence in 2008 will be all-Albanian affair as Belgrade's abandoned followers boycott polls."""
2009-11-14,b'I was wondering the other day why I was so mad about Israel and Palestine. The shit we are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan is worse. Is our anger misplaced? Are they just holding a mirror and we dont like what we see?'
2009-11-14,"b'I was in the tub, and I had my back turned, and somebody raped me while I was in the water'"
2009-11-14,"b""Gordon Brown is to offer a formal apology for the UK's role in sending tens of thousands of children to a new life in Commonwealth countries during the 20th century, many without the consent of their families."""
2009-11-14,"b""Kosovo local elections offer hope - Some Serbs have decided to run, and vote, despite Belgrade's protests."""
2009-11-14,"b'""Nato braced for attack as President Hamid Karzai is sworn in""'"
2009-11-14,b'700 French troops launch eastern Afghan offensive'
2009-11-14,b'In Australia you can go to jail for \r\ndonating money to the 1.5 million \r\nstarving Palestinians on in Gaza Strip '
2009-11-13,"b'Obama has authorized more predator drone strikes in Pakistan in 10 months than George W. Bush authorized in three years, killing over 500 people.'"
2009-11-13,"b""Italian court finds 23 CIA operatives guilty in absentia for the abduction of a Muslim cleric.\r\nThe trial was the first by any government over the Central Intelligence Agency's extraordinary rendition program.\r\n"""
2009-11-13,"b'Duke Professor Finishes Yale\'s Job, Prints Mohammed Images in New Book - ""Muhammad: The \'Banned\' Images""'"
2009-11-13,"b""Girls shouldn't expect to 'have it all' says school head"""
2009-11-13,"b""Incredible. Right now, even Liberia's national parliament doesn't have a full copy of the law. Why not? Because the few volumes that do exist have been quietly copyrighted -- and subsequently held ransom -- by Philip Banks, the man in charge of Liberia's legal reform."""
2009-11-13,"b""'Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology' - wiki interviews author who escaped Scientology and is now suing the church."""
2009-11-13,b'Nurse who was sacked for filming abuse of elderly patients gets her job back.'
2009-11-13,b'So I was watching CNBC the other day (am I the only one?) and my head imploded when this segment came on...'
2009-11-13,"b""The official explained to Netanyahu that if there was \r\na peace, investment would push Israel's growth \r\nrate from 5% a year to 7%. The Israeli PM \r\nresponded that if the country had 5% growth, it did \r\nnot need peace."""
2009-11-13,"b'On communist rebels in India: ""You have an army of very poor people being faced down by an army of rich that are corporate-backed. I am sorry but it is like that.""'"
2009-11-13,"b'A Spanish region\'s new approach to sex education has provoked anger by suggesting children be taught ""self-exploration and self-pleasure"".'"
2009-11-13,"b'In Minas Gerais state in Brazil nearly 30% of the married women admitted to having an ""extra"" relationship. Now Brazilian police are hunting for a mysterious blogger who claims to be waging a lone crusade against unfaithful wives.'"
2009-11-13,b'China accused of Abuses in Secret Jails. The jails were secret because officials in China are subject to a national civil service system that penalizes them based on the number of complaints received in Beijing about them.'
2009-11-13,"b'Boy wins compensation for attack by another three-year-old with a car jack: ""My son was hit 11 times on his head and face with a car jack, his attacker kept on lashing out even though Jay was screaming out in pain and covered in blood.""'"
2009-11-13,"b'Venice may be brimming with Renaissance treasures, churches and palaces, but it has staged a ""funeral"" to mourn the decline of its most precious resource  people'"
2009-11-13,"b'Fascism for progressives: BNP leaders vote ""overwhelmingly"" to change the party\'s constitution so non-white members can join.'"
2009-11-13,"b'The newspaper said the civilians claimed British soldiers in Iraq copied sexual and physical abuse from photographs taken at the notorious US-run Abu Ghraib jail in Baghdad, which emerged in 2004.'"
2009-11-13,"b'Note to self: Never, ever take dietary advice from Hugo Chavez'"
2009-11-13,b'Venezuela Government Turns Tear Gas on Mayor Over Land Conflict'
2009-11-13,"b'Amazing 300,000 Starling Birds Cloud Video - EzineAll.com'"
2009-11-13,"b'Brothers in arms - The Juniper Cobra missile defense exercise between Israel and the US came to an end this week, culminating in the mostly ceremonial firing of several Patriot missiles into the Mediterranean.'"
2009-11-13,"b'Pakistan military runs terrorist training camps, says French judge'"
2009-11-13,"b'Swine Flu Count: 4,000 Dead, 22 Million Ill'"
2009-11-13,"b""Iceland's National Assembly is a unique attempt to capture the wisdom of the crowd. This is probably the first time that a statistically representative sample of a whole nation is brought together for a whole day of discussions. The results are in and will be available on the web."""
2009-11-13,b'The poorest region in Spain is paying for a campaign to promote onanism [real story]'
2009-11-12,"b'""The idea that an oil company was participating in the drafting of the Iraqi Constitution leaves me speechless""'"
2009-11-12,"b""The Mexican Civil War broke out three years ago. Total dead are now around 14,000 and the government might be on the verge of collapse. This isn't in some alternate Universe. This is really happening."""
2009-11-12,b'Huge rise in birth defects in Falluja'
2009-11-12,"b'The gang hurled racist abuse at him, constantly referring to the colour of his skin, yet police refused to classify the attack as racially-motivated -- Teen savagely beaten by a gang of 15 youths.\n'"
2009-11-12,"b""'I agreed to become a suicide bomber' - 14 year old boy | BBC NEWS"""
2009-11-12,b'Ex-soldier faces jail for handing in gun'
2009-11-12,"b""Switzerland's federal data protection commissioner wants Google to ensure that all faces and car plates are blurred, remove pictures of enclosed areas such as walled gardens and private streets, and declare at least one week in advance which town and cities it plans to photograph and post online."""
2009-11-12,b'Sell drugs in shops - UK think tank'
2009-11-12,"b'Researchers find 2 Japanese supersubmarines, designed to launch two folding-wing bombers on kamikaze missions against U.S. cities, sunk by U.S. at end of World War II'"
2009-11-12,"b""Israel 'personally attacking human rights group' after Gaza war criticism"""
2009-11-12,"b'In 1982, a Pakistani military C-130 left the western Chinese city of Urumqi with a highly unusual cargo: enough weapons-grade uranium for two atomic bombs...'"
2009-11-12,"b'Saudis bombard Yemeni rebels, now Some 240 villages in Saudi Arabia have been evacuated and scores of schools closed due to fighting which has now spilled over from Yemen'"
2009-11-12,b'Costa Rica may be the first country to go entirely carbon neutral'
2009-11-12,"b""The Nation: American People's Money being used to Sponsor Taliban - 12 Nov, 09"""
2009-11-12,"b'Since the Honduran coup detat systematic human rights violations have occurred. At least three people have vanished, nearly 10 have been extrajudicially executed, and hundreds of people have been detained. '"
2009-11-12,"b""Suicide bombers have struck at two headquarters run by Pakistan's security forces, killing at least 17 people"""
2009-11-12,b'How the US army protects its trucks  by paying the Taliban'
2009-11-12,b'Afghanistan Ambassador warns Obama against adding troops. It is about time as Obama asks for new options!'
2009-11-12,b'Israeli road restrictions in the West Bank '
2009-11-12,"b'Drug Trafficker and Mexicos most wanted man, Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, has made the list of Forbes Most Powerful People'"
2009-11-12,"b""Prison officer jailed for having inmate's baby"""
2009-11-12,b'Canadian Soldiers out of Kandahar by 2011: defence chief'
2009-11-12,"b'Nytimes tells Germany to get bent: ""In the spirit of this discussion, I trust that you will not mention my clients names in your article""'"
2009-11-12,b'Suspected Hemorrhagic Pneumonia Outbreak Hits Ukraine'
2009-11-12,"b""China's ghost city and ghost mall - who you gonna \r\ncall?"""
2009-11-11,"b'Christian janitor rises above the barriers of caste, creed and sectarian terrorism and gives his life to save Muslim university students in Pakistan.'"
2009-11-11,"b""WHAT?!  Afghanistan is so rife with corruption that the US is basically funding the very people they're fighting!  We're talking obscene amounts of money!"""
2009-11-11,b'A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it. The report...received overwhelming support Thursday in the 192-member General Assembly.'
2009-11-11,b'An Australian Special Forces explosives detection dog has been found alive and well almost 14 months after going missing in action (MIA) in Afghanistan.'
2009-11-11,"b'As the US caves in to Israeli demands on settlements and breaks the promises given in Cairo, the Economist wonders, is Israeli political jewjitsu just too strong for Obama? '"
2009-11-11,b'UN Official: Penalize Israel Over Gaza '
2009-11-11,b'A prominent Chinese dissident says he has been stuck in limbo at Tokyo airport for nine days because China refuses to let him return home.'
2009-11-11,"b""Security firm Blackwater 'paid off Iraqi officials after civilian deaths' """
2009-11-11,"b'Dublin, Ireland brought to standstill. 70,000 blast government for targeting ordinary people for the rich'"
2009-11-11,"b'...the rational solution is to take the drug market back from the unregulated anarchy of criminal gangs, and transfer it to pharmacists, off-licences, and doctors who operate in the legal economy.'"
2009-11-11,b'US Military use of torture and terror: 1900 - Present'
2009-11-11,"b'Roberts propositioned the ""girl"", unaware he was chatting to his wife, the court was told. '"
2009-11-11,"b""Human Rights Watch: China's Secret Black Jails \r\nHide Severe Rights Abuses"""
2009-11-11,b'Medvedev calls for economic reform - standing a bit further from Putin'
2009-11-11,b'Swine flu deaths in Europe doubling by the week'
2009-11-11,b'Apartheid in Israel: 21-year-old Palestinian female student in Bethlehem University was deported two weeks ago to Gaza. '
2009-11-11,"b'The Plunder of Iraq\'s Oil. ""As the direct result of the Iraq war, major American and other transnational energy conglomerates are now gaining control over some the largest oilfields in the world.""'"
2009-11-11,b'UK: Gang beats up Leicester student who came to \r\naid of girl wearing headscarf'
2009-11-11,b'Tuna in peril as catches reach triple the limit '
2009-11-11,"b'A campaign in Extremadura (Spain) ""The pleasure is in your hands"" is said to consist of masturbation workshops for teenagers. Controversy raises because it is considered a waste of money. '"
2009-11-11,"b'Report criticises excessive use of dementia drugs: Overall in the UK, 180,000 people with dementia are on anti-psychotic drug, with only around 36,000 getting any benefit'"
2009-11-11,b'Six-year limit on DNA retention of innocents'
2009-11-11,b'N.Korea warns South it will pay for clash'
2009-11-11,b'All new UK nurses must have degree under new rules in the biggest shake-ups of medical education in the history of the NHS'
2009-11-11,b'Mr. Splashy Pants whale could soon be safe: End of Japanese whale hunting in sight'
2009-11-10,b'Whistleblower cop is YouTube sensation - A Russian police officer has released a series of videos calling out corruption'
2009-11-10,b'The officer reportedly mistook a pipe the boy was carrying for a gun and shot him dead. The boy was 3 years old.'
2009-11-10,"b""Its amazing how far we've come: France and \r\nGermany hold joint Armistice Day commemoration \r\nfor the first time in history"""
2009-11-10,b'Man renting himself out as a punchbag for stressed women'
2009-11-10,"b'Food: Is Monsanto the answer or the problem? -Great title, crappy article. The grand praise and fluff criticism of Monsanto in this article is a prime example of  journalism in the interest of business. the article smacks of sterilization.'"
2009-11-10,b'The DNA of innocent people arrested in England and Wales should be held for no longer than six years'
2009-11-10,b'Gorbachev Says Obama Should Start Afghan Withdrawal '
2009-11-10,"b""German thug stabs and kills pregnant muslim woman in a courtroom.  Bailiff shoots woman's muslim husband, assuming that he is the attacker."""
2009-11-10,b'Top Blackwater staff authorized attempted bribes of Iraqi officials in the wake of the 2007 Nisour Square massacre.'
2009-11-10,"b'Ukraine epidemic kills 189;  1,122,000 infected, and 57,286 hospitalized.'"
2009-11-10,b'U.S. Intelligence: Iran Possesses Trillions Of Potentially Dangerous Atoms'
2009-11-10,"b""Hollywood's attempt to force DRM measures on BBC's HDTV broadcasts fails after intense public pressure"""
2009-11-10,b'Itaip dam fails and puts Brazil under massive blackout. So Paulo and Rio with no electricity for more than 3 hours.'
2009-11-10,b'Blackwater Said to Approve $1 Million in Iraqi Bribes After Shootings '
2009-11-10,"b'President of Eritrea in a rare interview: ""Why would you want to have allies? It\'s a sign of weakness.""'"
2009-11-10,"b'Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh says the US has a rapid-response unit ready to secure Pakistan\'s nuclear weapons in the event of a mutiny or ""any nuclear incident""'"
2009-11-10,"b'""You can keep on putting troops in, and you could have 200,000 troops there and the country will swallow them up as it has done in the past. There are many empires who tried to make Afghanistan a stable and different country ...""\n Obama National Security Adviser James Jones'"
2009-11-10,"b'Russia, India, China to Forge Common Approach to Global Issues'"
2009-11-10,"b""Brazil's 2 largest cities hit by blackouts"""
2009-11-10,"b'Chinese scientists have artificially induced the second major snowstorm to wreak havoc in Beijing this season, state media said, reigniting debate over the practice of tinkering with Mother Nature.'"
2009-11-10,b'What Goldstone says about the US'
2009-11-10,"b'""They will not require the permission of a judge or a magistrate to obtain the information"". Britons: Big Brother is watching.'"
2009-11-10,"b'Abu Abbas prepares to exit office in frustration, having achieved little as a ""partner for peace."" Tragic. '"
2009-11-10,b'Blackwater may have tried to bribe their way out of the Nisour Square killings in order to remain in Iraq.'
2009-11-10,"b'When it comes to scary, life-threatening situations, being stranded on a sheet of Arctic ice that has snapped off and is drifting out to sea in the dark is one thing. Knowing there are three hungry polar bears stalking you is another.'"
2009-11-09,b'Three more government drug advisers resign after Nutt sacking'
2009-11-09,"b""UK ministers cancel 'Big Brother' database: Plans to store information about every phone call, email and internet visit have in effect been abandoned by the Government"""
2009-11-09,"b'Rupert Murdoch wants to find ways to block Google from indexing his news sites. I guess meta name=""robots"" isn\'t good enough for him.'"
2009-11-09,b'Mikhail Kalashnikov celebrates his 90th birthday today. He still works at the same factory where he invented one of the worlds most iconic guns 62 years ago.'
2009-11-09,"b""Fat in Japan? You're breaking the law"""
2009-11-09,b'China Executes 9 for Role in Uighur Riots'
2009-11-09,b'Cannabis use in Europe'
2009-11-09,"b'""The morning I finally decided to give up using cash, the whole world changed.""'"
2009-11-09,"b'""The state of English libel laws is so embarrassing that a number of US states have enacted legislation to protect their citizens from our courts.""'"
2009-11-09,"b""Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council. """
2009-11-09,b'A law that demands consent to internet cookies has been approved and will be in force across the EU within 18 months'
2009-11-09,"b'Inch By Inch, House By House: How Israel Won the Settlement Battle...Again.'"
2009-11-09,"b""Rupert Murdoch vows to take all of Newscorp's websites out of Google, abolish fair use, tear heads off of adorable baby animals"""
2009-11-09,b'Chavez to troops: Prepare for war with Colombia'
2009-11-09,b'Time bomb effect of one-sided news: Only 12% of Europeans claim to trust the media yet new research shows that even the most hardened Europeans may change their political views if they are bombarded with enough biased news.'
2009-11-09,"b'Statement from school the media reported to have ""banned a girl trying to raise cancer money to save her dying dad"" '"
2009-11-09,"b'AIPAC head who was indited for espionage, wants Obama and Netanyahu to stop talking about Palestinians and start talking about bombing the crap out of Iran.  '"
2009-11-09,b'Ban Ki-moon is expected to transmit the Goldstone report to the UN Security Council soon--which accuses both Israel and the Hamas militants of war crimes during the 22 day Gaza conflict'
2009-11-09,"b""An elderly, half-blind cat had a noose placed around its neck before being strung over a bridge by two teenagers, a Melbourne Children's Court heard today."""
2009-11-09,"b'The Berlin Wall, 20 years gone - The Big Picture [pics]'"
2009-11-09,"b""Brazil pledges deep emission cuts in 'political gesture' to rich nations """
2009-11-09,b'IMAGINE the United States is in ruins from civil war and boatloads of its citizens are seeking safe haven in Australia - would we turn them away? Not a chance.'
2009-11-09,"b'There has been a clash between ships from the rival navies of North and South Korea, according to the South Korean news agency Yonhap'"
2009-11-09,"b'""If Mr Netanyahu believes that he has achieved a victory by refusing to halt the settlements, he is wrong. It is more like a project of national suicide.""'"
2009-11-09,"b'The British Government has dissolved the \r\nParliament of the Turks and Caicos islands after \r\n""Many millions were blown on items like a bullet \r\nproof car for the premier, the use of a jet, body \r\nguards, lavish summer parties and a fleet of Range \r\nRovers for ministers""'"
2009-11-08,"b'In honor of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinian demonstrators topple a part of the 8 meter settlement wall that cuts through their village.  Israel responds by shooting live ammunition at the protesters'"
2009-11-08,b'Girl Guerrilla Fighter Photo Essay: 40% of the PKK in Iraq is female'
2009-11-08,"b""Government's chief scientist backs David Nutt on cannabis - Telegraph"""
2009-11-08,"b'20 Years later, the residents of Eastern Europe have a simple question: If capitalism is really so much better than Socialism, why are our lives still miserable? '"
2009-11-08,b'Thousands of protestors on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa demand the removal of US military base there'
2009-11-08,"b'Turkey PM Erdogan announced he\'ll welcome Sudan\'s leader in spite of his Darfur indictment: ""It is not possible for those who belong to the Muslim faith to carry out genocide""'"
2009-11-08,"b""OUTFOXED : Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism"""
2009-11-08,b'Official US Air Force Document Reveals the True Intentions Behind the US-Colombia Military Agreement'
2009-11-08,"b'A court was played a 10 minute recording of a Wearside couple whose nightly sex sessions were said to have ruined the lives of neighbours. ""The noise sounds like they are both in considerable pain. I cannot describe the noise. I have never ever heard anything like it.""'"
2009-11-08,"b'Pro-rape Facebook group created by students at an elite all-male Australian college was up for several months, included tags such as ""anti-consent""'"
2009-11-08,"b'""If there is one issue where a global consensus seems to emerge from the survey it is this: there are majorities almost everywhere wanting government to be more active in regulating business.""'"
2009-11-08,b'The forgotten history of the Africans who fought in WWII'
2009-11-08,b'BBC poll across twenty seven nations shows only 11% think that global capitalism is working.'
2009-11-08,b'China Executes 9 for Role in Ethnic Riots'
2009-11-08,b'UK surveillance plan to go ahead'
2009-11-08,"b""Cofee on the web - the forensic software the UK Police didn't want you to know about, is available on the web. Now to be used for data stealing? """
2009-11-08,b'Militants behead Philippine teacher.'
2009-11-08,"b'Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 124 people'"
2009-11-08,b'Iran charges three detained Americans with espionage '
2009-11-08,"b'Babies and Children, a threat to Israel?'"
2009-11-08,"b'El Salvador flooding, mudslides kill 124'"
2009-11-08,b'Berlin Wall Anniversary: Many Berliners feel that the true cause for celebration has been overlooked'
2009-11-08,b'Burma claims it will release Aung San Suu Kyi'
2009-11-08,"b""Iranian anti-stoning campaigner awarded Dutch \r\nHuman Rights 'Tulip'"""
2009-11-08,"b'Prime Minister of Turkey about Sudan\'s indicted President on crimes against humanity: ""Because a Muslim couldn\'t do such things. A Muslim could not commit genocide.""  Tell that to the 500,000 dead and increasing every day.'"
2009-11-07,b'U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant society'
2009-11-07,"b'Lord Drayson, UK Science Minister admits the sacking of David Nutt, has caused ""serious concern"" among the scientific community'"
2009-11-07,"b'\'Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist."" Dennis Kucinich'"
2009-11-07,"b'""Do you notice that Western media are ignoring the news of Saudi air force bombing of villages in Yemen? Can you imagine the international uproar if Syria air force were to bomb villages in Lebanon?""'"
2009-11-07,"b""'I will kill 10 of these people for each IED we find' |\n\t\t\t\tWorld news |\n\t\t\t\tguardian.co.uk"""
2009-11-07,"b'Hasan praised suicide bombers, loudly criticized US policies, argued (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients over the worth of their sacrifices, and refused, in the name of Islam, to be photographed with female colleagues. Yet no action was taken against him.'"
2009-11-07,b'The inhabitants of Easter Island in the South Pacific have voted to restrict immigration amid overpopulation fears.'
2009-11-07,b'Is it time to pull out of Afghanistan? - Times Online'
2009-11-07,b'Two-thirds of Brits against war in Afghanistan: BBC'
2009-11-07,b'Security guard drives away with 10 million while his two colleagues were inside their office. '
2009-11-07,b'The shitstorm as a result of the collapse of one or more of the big five banks (at least $420 trillion in interest rate derivs) would basically wipe out anyone and everything in its path. No exceptions.'
2009-11-07,b'Israel barrier cuts off family'
2009-11-07,"b'Goldstone disappointed by US, Israel reactions to his report'"
2009-11-07,"b""Plenty of powerful people have an interest in the mercenary behind the 'Wonga Coup' keeping his mouth shut"""
2009-11-07,"b""Diwali spotlights Nepal's untouchables - In a modern Nepal, the ancient musician caste grasps at the old and races to catch up"""
2009-11-07,"b'The current situation in Afghanistan is similar to, Chicago Police in the 1920s fighting Al Capone, but turning a blind eye to the gun shops where he buys his weapons and ammunition, and even paying protection money to the owners of those shops.'"
2009-11-07,"b'Brave Australian teenager rescues one, then another'"
2009-11-07,b'Follow the Money'
2009-11-07,"b'Secret police agents abducted and beat award-winning blogger Yoani Sanchez, whose online reports chronicle the dark side of everyday life in communist Cuba, on her way to a march for non-violence'"
2009-11-07,"b'Omar Bashir cancels visit to Istanbul after Western pressure, and he looks *unhappy*'"
2009-11-07,"b'After troop deaths, British establishment rallies behind Afghan war.'"
2009-11-07,b'The son of notorious drug lord Pablo Escobar plays a central role in a film about his fathers violent legacy'
2009-11-07,"b'With the amount of money and time we put into making our weapons and training our soldiers, how do things like this keep happening?'"
2009-11-07,b'Palestinian teen arrested by Israeli police another struck in the head by settlers.'
2009-11-07,b'China - Human Rights Activist Denied Entry to Shanghai Eight Times'
2009-11-06,"b'Ukraine epidemic kills 109, 763,000 infected, and 34,000 hospitalized. Last Friday 40,000 infected and 900 hospitalized.  '"
2009-11-06,"b'57% of Brits think Afghan victory is impossible, and 73% want a pullout.'"
2009-11-06,"b""13-year-old schoolboy confronts BNP leader Griffin at memorial for Pathan Indians: 'Isn't this against your party's policy?' """
2009-11-06,b'Three doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City.'
2009-11-06,b'A brand new set... of lies. \nLeave it to CBC to set us all straight. Long live the free press.'
2009-11-06,"b""Anne Frank diary offends Lebanon's Hezbollah"""
2009-11-06,b'Islamists in Somalia stone a man to death for adultery but spare his pregnant girlfriend... until she gives birth.'
2009-11-06,"b'Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time refusal to acknowledge the existence of homosexuality and will launch a survey of gay attitudes and behaviors in its three biggest cities next year.'"
2009-11-06,"b'We announce to the world that our objective is to establish an independent Islamic State in Afghanistan. We do not plan to invade or impose Islamic Sharia on any other country, especially the European countries, concludes the Taliban statement.'"
2009-11-06,b'Russian ultranationalist admits murdering a human rights lawyer and a journalist.  He shot them both at point-blank range - in broad daylight.'
2009-11-06,"b'A new Internet freedom provision means that European countries can still adopt ""three-strikes"" rules targeting P2P users, but they must presume innocence, guard privacy, and allow for judicial appeal'"
2009-11-06,b'Ho Chi Minh City has seen its population increase by 41.14 percent or more than two million people over the last decade.'
2009-11-06,"b'With Blair out of the picture, the EU is trying to decide what kind of personality it wants for the new position of president'"
2009-11-06,"b'There\'s No There There: IAEA Inspects Iran Nuclear Site; Finds ""Nothing To Be Worried About""'"
2009-11-06,b'China-India border dispute comes to the boil.\n \nDalai Lama finds himself caught in the middle as worlds most populous nations  both nuclear armed  flex their muscles'
2009-11-06,b'British PM urges global financial tax'
2009-11-06,b'Interview with Matthew Hoh - the officer who resigned a few weeks ago in protest over the Afghan war - explains his reasons'
2009-11-06,"b""Cuba's best-known blogger Yoani Sanchez said state security officials seized and assaulted her in an effort to block her participation in a march against violence."""
2009-11-06,"b'Analysis: Andean ""Cold War"" raises risks for Colombia and Venezuela'"
2009-11-06,b'French company EDF Energy wants Britain to fix the market if it builds nuclear plants: British families could be forced to pay up to 227 extra on their annual energy bills to help fund the project'
2009-11-06,"b""CIA men jailed for 'extraordinary rendition' kidnap \r\nof Muslim cleric"""
2009-11-06,b'A taste of the conflict and mass movement of populations that may spread across the world if population growth outstrips natural resources.'
2009-11-06,"b'Privatisation debate in Queensland, Australia\r\n\r\nAnna Bligh and Andrew Fraser have a Plan for Queensland. Unfortunately, it is the wrong plan. And it has not been subject to the critical examination that it deserves.'"
2009-11-06,b'Israel: Remote control occupation?'
2009-11-06,"b'Reported Cases in Ukraine Double Again To 871,037'"
2009-11-05,"b'We broke the law, admits CIA agent convicted of rendition'"
2009-11-05,b'Saudi forces keep up Houthi assault -Jets and ground forces hit Yemeni rebel fighters for third consecutive day'
2009-11-05,"b""Mystery of Argleton, the 'Google' town that only exists online"""
2009-11-05,b'Afghanistan: Five British troops are killed by an Afghan colleague and a fragile trust is broken'
2009-11-05,"b'All over Latin America, and especially in the Andes, a political awakening is emboldening Indians who have lived mostly as second-class citizens since the Spanish conquest.'"
2009-11-05,b'Shamanism makes a comeback in Mongolia'
2009-11-05,b'Spain resists deal with Somali pirates '
2009-11-05,"b""Paraguay's president, Fernando Lugo, has sacked the head of the armed forces, after warning some officers were plotting a coup against him."""
2009-11-05,b'Thousands of Ivory Coast victims look to be losing the money that Trafigura paid for poisoning them. The entire settlement is about to be stolen by unnamed local powers. '
2009-11-05,"b'Russian police officer video message to Putin; talks about police brutality, issues and corruption'"
2009-11-05,"b'France: Thousands of cleaners strike. 30 sites, including company HQ, occupied. ""They are doing so with the support of unions and other groups who have joined with them to denounce the exploitation of undocumented workers""'"
2009-11-05,b'The UN backs Gaza war crimes report '
2009-11-05,"b'Nanoparticles could damage DNA at a distance, study suggests'"
2009-11-05,b'Toxic waste victims could lose 30m as court freezes Trafigura compensation'
2009-11-05,"b'Amazingly, not from The Onion: Hutterite Colony heartbroken over stolen tractor.'"
2009-11-05,b' Saudi air force hits Yemen rebels after border raid   '
2009-11-05,"b""Turkey: Where genocide's just not so bad"""
2009-11-05,b'UN endorses Goldstone report'
2009-11-05,b'Dear United States: How many countries do you have to be at war with to be disqualified from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize?'
2009-11-05,"b""Ft. Hood: 'Muslims Should Stand Up and Fight the Aggressor'...When the majority of victims of terrorism are muslim.... not so much"""
2009-11-05,b'Overpopulation: The Facts - by History Channel Staff'
2009-11-05,b'Palestinian President Mahmoud has confirmed he is not seeking re-election'
2009-11-05,b'Doubts renewed over Iran aims '
2009-11-05,b'New chemical Element Discovered'
2009-11-05,"b""Abbas withdraws from Palestinian presidential race; PA officials: decision is in protest of the US administration's failure to exert pressure on Israel to stop construction work in the West Bank settlements. """
2009-11-04,b'Professor David Nutt: The population is with me'
2009-11-04,"b'Israel: ""migrant workers will receive shelter, food and medical care . . .  would perform manual labor outside the camps, but would not earn a salary. They would stay at the camp until their asylum claims are decided, which could take months or years."" Slaves?'"
2009-11-04,"b""ExxonMobil to pay Iraq $50bn in fees, plus $2 per barrel of oil moved, for exclusive development of Iraq's largest petroleum reserve (West Qurna oilfield)."""
2009-11-04,b'Five British soldiers gunned down while preparing for tea -- by Afghan policeman they were training '
2009-11-04,b'Dutch among lowest cannabis users in Europe: report'
2009-11-04,b'File-Sharers Protected Under Proposed EU Legislation'
2009-11-04,"b'College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia: ""Routine infant male circumcision performed on a healthy infant is now considered a non-therapeutic and medically unnecessary intervention... previously-thought prophylactic public health benefits do not out-weigh the potential risks."" [PDF :(]'"
2009-11-04,"b""A Venezuelan's account of Venezuela's ban on video games."""
2009-11-04,"b'Palestinians might have to abandon the goal of an independent state if Israel continues to expand Jewish settlements, the chief Palestinian negotiator said.'"
2009-11-04,"b'Italy, the CIA, and rendition - What Wednesday\'s stunning verdict in Rome means for the ""War on Terror""'"
2009-11-04,b'Danish firm launches vitamin-rich chewing gum for 3rd world kids to help fight malnutrition and blindness'
2009-11-04,b'Mexican mayor announces death of political rival hours before his body was found and two days before it was identified'
2009-11-04,b'36 Containers from Iran - Israel Stops German Ship \r\nCarrying Weapons for Hezbollah'
2009-11-04,b'U.N. Set to Endorse Inquiry Into Possible War Crimes in Gaza '
2009-11-04,"b'\n\nThe antigovernment protesters in Iran, who had been careful to distance themselves from America, have just asked the West not to sell them out.'"
2009-11-04,b'This is what the Nazis did to the Jews - Who are now doing it to the Palestinians.  [Video]'
2009-11-04,b'Buying Itself Out of a Recession - Countries Ask \r\nHow Germany Avoided Mass Unemployment'
2009-11-04,b'Ex-KGB spy gunned down in Moscow'
2009-11-04,b'UK: Asset-seizing powers out of control as legal powers voted in to deal with terrorism and organised crime are being used for minor offences. '
2009-11-04,"b'The alternative left for Palestinians is to ""refocus \r\ntheir attention on the one-state solution where \r\nMuslims, Christians and Jews can live as equals'"
2009-11-04,b'Duh?: Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister'
2009-11-04,"b""Saudi jets 'bomb Yemen rebels' """
2009-11-04,"b'Frustrated by the peace process, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will not stand in 2010 elections'"
2009-11-04,"b'Every few weeks you have to sow fear, every few months you need to make threats, and once every year or two you have to have another little war'"
2009-11-04,"b'Iran\'s Arabic-language television channel, Al-Alam - ""The World""- has been taken off the air in Egypt and Saudi Arabia'"
2009-11-03,"b'Unbelievable Video of Iranian Police beating protesters in the latest clash on November 4. Reddit, please let the world see how these animals are trying to suppress Iranian people right now.'"
2009-11-03,"b'Seriously, what a fucking joke: ""West hails Hamid Karzai as \'legitimate\' president"" '"
2009-11-03,b'Pirate Party Gets Second Seat in European Parliament'
2009-11-03,"b""I don't see how it helps much in the long run...but really, for a man accused of raping 5 children and leaving one to die in the desert, I'm not going to feel a bit ill at this example of Saudi justice"""
2009-11-03,b'Czech leader signs Lisbon Treaty '
2009-11-03,b'A first ... CIA station chief and 23 others convicted for kidnapping in Italy'
2009-11-03,"b'In the drugs debate, politicians are intoxicated by cowardice '"
2009-11-03,"b'David Nutt - Gov\'ts should get real on drugs: ""...imagine being seated at a table with two bowls, one containing peanuts, the other the illegal drug MDMA (ecstasy). Which is safer to give to a stranger?""'"
2009-11-03,"b'Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes Internet Disconnection Policies, and a Global DMCA'"
2009-11-03,b'Kenyas Maasai warriors are known for being fearless lion killers but times have changed and the countrys lions population is in danger of being wiped out. Now the Maasai in southern Kenya are taking part in an initiative to preserve the big cats.'
2009-11-03,"b""Mariatu Kamara, who survived Sierra Leone's War: We're not going to kill you,' one boy said. We want you to go to the president and show him what we did to you. You won't be able to vote for him now. Ask the president to give you new hands.'"""
2009-11-03,"b""Jewish settlers aren't just illegally occupying Palestinian land, now they're breaking into Palestinian homes and occupying them too - elderly woman evicted from her home with the help of armed guards"""
2009-11-03,b'Italy: Verdict expected soon in CIA rendition case where 26 American officials are charged with kidnapping a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan more than six years ago'
2009-11-03,"b'100ds tons of weaponry, ten times the size of the Karine A shipment of 2002, were seized in an overnight raid by the Israeli navy, some 100 nautical miles west of Israel, officials said. The ship seized was sailing under an Antiguan flag. '"
2009-11-03,"b'The rumors of 25,000 yearly human trafficking cases in UK appear to have been slightly exaggerated.'"
2009-11-03,"b""Britain accused of 'genocide denial' over Armenia"""
2009-11-03,"b'Mexico mayor: ""Black Saldana, who apparently is the one who was asking for my head, was found dead today."" Problem was that the barefoot, blindfolded corpse of ""Black Saldana"" wasn\'t found for another 3 1/2 hours, and he wouldn\'t be identified for 2 days!'"
2009-11-03,b'An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs. '
2009-11-03,b'Venezuelas soccer team massacre has heightened tensions with Colombia.'
2009-11-03,b'America is performing its familiar role of propping \r\nup a dictator '
2009-11-03,"b'Mother Theresa was a fanatic and a fundamentalist and a fraud, and millions of people are much worse off because of her life'"
2009-11-03,"b'A video posted on the internet shows Mohawk Warriors using a backhoe to dig up and cart away a century-old border marker between Canada and the U.S. on the Akwesasne reserve near Cornwall, Ontario, Canada'"
2009-11-03,"b'Saudi Arabia  As millions of Muslims begin arriving in Mecca for this years pilgrimage, Saudi officials face a unique challenge: how to prevent this sacred rite from becoming an inadvertent incubator and global transmitter of swine flu.'"
2009-11-03,"b'""... [W]e were told they had sent our children overseas and they would be visiting us every five years."" A group of parents in Sierra Leone has accused a charity of sending more than 30 children abroad for adoption without consent during the country\'s civil war.'"
2009-11-03,"b""Bangladesh: Hundreds of women trying to get pay that's 3 months late turns into battleground of thousands. Police kill 3, injure 100. 16 police injured, one critically."""
2009-11-02,"b'Wild bear kills two terrorists.Yes,a wild BEAR kills two TERRORISTS in india.'"
2009-11-02,"b'""We are talking about an end to privacy itself, unlimited powers of search and seizure - in short, a New Zimbabwe in place of New Zealand""'"
2009-11-02,"b""In the past 40 yrs, the permanent resident population of Venice has decreased by half. At the current rate of emigration - about 800 residents a yr - demographers predict there will not be a single Venetian left by 2030. But it's not flooding that's driving away the natives."""
2009-11-02,"b""Border guard's refusal to shoot let the Iron Curtain drop; defiant move changed history"""
2009-11-02,"b""Irish accent beats French as world's sexiest"""
2009-11-02,"b""Norway's second-largest university to vote on Israel boycott"""
2009-11-02,"b'About 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by Hutu militias within 100 days during the 1994 genocide. Now the United Nations genocide court in Tanzania seems to be reneging on its promise to transfer Rwandan convicts to serve the remainder of their sentences in their homeland'"
2009-11-02,"b'In Afghanistan, US troops fight and die, and a Chinese firm is awarded a $3 bn. copper mining contract'"
2009-11-02,"b""*le sigh* Naturopaths' prescribing rights getting expanded in Ontario, Canada"""
2009-11-02,b'U.N. Cant Account for Millions Sent to Afghan Election Board'
2009-11-02,b'David Cameron to tell voters that (contrary to previous promises) the Conservative party will NOT hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if it has already become law.'
2009-11-02,"b'""It\'s like playing chess with a monkey, you get them to checkmate, and then they swallow the king."" EU Diplomat on nuclear negotiations with Iran'"
2009-11-02,b'A new ocean is forming in Ethiopia. 35-mile rift in the Ethiopian desert will eventually connect the Red Sea and Arabian Sea.'
2009-11-02,b'North Korea claims to have weaponized plutonium'
2009-11-02,"b""Hamas 'tests long-range rocket' """
2009-11-02,"b""UK's broadband tax will force 100,000 homes to give up internet connection, warns CEO"""
2009-11-02,b'A third of threatened species now face actual extinction'
2009-11-02,b'Israel has released six members of the Palestinian parliament from jail after holding them for up to three years - some were never charged with an offence. '
2009-11-02,"b'Hillary Clinton speaks to Arab leaders in Morocco, defends remarks praising Israel'"
2009-11-02,b'Nepal: Nighttime photo of communists marching with torches against government'
2009-11-02,"b'Mexico\'s cursing problem. ""The generation younger than 30 sees the use of bad words as more natural, and they use them not only in front of friends but in front of their parents or bosses.""'"
2009-11-02,b'The Irish Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a premier Dublin golf club can continue to bar women from membership'
2009-11-02,"b'Settler Colonialism: Return to the Middle Ages. ""The Palestinians have been under a racist settler form of colonialism for over sixty years; and they are targeted with a campaign of ethnic cleansing launched by armed gangs of settlers supported by Israels police and army.""'"
2009-11-02,"b'Karzai vows to battle corruption, build an inclusive government, win the war and a peace Nobel Prize, ban opium, ban Ki-moon, reach the moon...'"
2009-11-02,"b'Diamond producers meet on ""conflict diamonds""; calls for an international ban on Zimbabwe\'s diamond sales'"
2009-11-01,"b'""You are no longer innocent till you\'re proven guilty."" Police Minister responds: ""It\'s fantastic, isn\'t it?""'"
2009-11-01,"b""Turkey PM to Israel: If you don't want Iran to have nukes, give yours up."""
2009-11-01,"b'Ten stories that appear in the papers again and again, but never seem to actually happen'"
2009-11-01,"b'Adnan Hussain, aged 14, lost all of his immediate family in the market place explosion in Peshawar earlier this week'"
2009-11-01,"b""Two Colleagues Quit in Protest of Nutt's Sacking"""
2009-11-01,"b""'Puzzlers' reassemble shredded Stasi files, bit by bit - putting them back together could take hundreds of years. A computerized system would help, but it's costly"""
2009-11-01,b'A woman has pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing documents likely to be useful for a terrorist purpose.'
2009-11-01,"b'British driver sentenced to 21 months for texting before fatal crash, but texting occurred well before the accident, and the victim had been texting too.'"
2009-11-01,"b'Karzai ""Wins"" a 2nd Term in Afghanistan. Oh, Crap.'"
2009-11-01,"b'Canadian general and defense chief calls NATO a corpse, says its Afghan mission is ""abyssmal"" with no strategy or leadership.'"
2009-11-01,b'Israeli police have arrested a Jewish settler whom they say has confessed to a string of high-profile hate attacks.'
2009-11-01,b'Afghan comedy over ? Karzai called a winner (2nd round scrapped)'
2009-11-01,"b'""I thought she was 15. She didn\'t tell me she was 11""'"
2009-11-01,b'What it feels like to grow up with prostitutes (SFW)'
2009-11-01,"b'South Africans fighting along side Israeli Army during the Gaza ""War"".'"
2009-11-01,"b'No new faces in Afghanistan, just the same old warlords and drug traffickers'"
2009-11-01,"b""Water rationing for Venezuela's capital city"""
2009-11-01,"b""Karzai's opponent drops out of the race, believing it wouldn't be free or fair.  Election in Afghanistan cancelled"""
2009-11-01,b'Computer Programmer lives in house with decomposing body'
2009-11-01,b'South Sudan awaits oil bonanza'
2009-11-01,"b""Since we've all been talking about H1N1 lately: Gitmo detainee's set to receive H1N1 vaccine ahead of most US citizens."""
2009-11-01,"b""Thailand's ex-premier is on the run, and he wants the internet to know about it"""
2009-11-01,"b""WSJ picks up on story from Spain's El Pais newspaper, and asks Asst Sec of State Shannon whether it's true he's actively lobbying the Honduran congress for Zelaya's return. He denies it - as it happens the claim in El Pais' story is much, much worse. """
2009-11-01,"b'Obama backs Karzai, despite vote rigging.'"
2009-11-01,b'LEDs Light Up Auckland War Memorial Museum'
2009-10-31,"b'Pneumonic plague (not H1N1) has claimed 1,500 lives in Ukraine? Do we have any Redditors from that region that can tell us more?'"
2009-10-31,"b""Cern's LHC is back on. (Wow, respect is due considering the damage caused. I didn't realise how bad it was.)"""
2009-10-31,b'The report that got David Nutt fired.'
2009-10-31,"b""US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday night rejected Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's demand that Israel freeze all settlement activity as a precondition to negotiations. """
2009-10-31,"b""Silvio Berlusconi says he will stay on as Italy's PM even if convicted of bribery, tax fraud and false accounting"""
2009-10-31,b'Government adviser fired for saying alcohol is more dangerous than drugs'
2009-10-31,b'Blogger Humiliates 11 Town Counselors into Mass Resignation in UK'
2009-10-31,"b'Once government and editors and television management have decided on the ""story"", you can be sure that an Israeli ""wall"" will become a ""security barrier"" or a ""fence"", a pro-Western Arab dictator a ""strongman"" and ""occupied"" Israeli territory will become ""disputed""'"
2009-10-31,"b'Mexican farmworker activist, 14 others slain '"
2009-10-31,b'Jewish terrorist arrested over 2 murders and other attacks - 14 years after Rabin murder'
2009-10-31,b'EU plans to force all cars to have aircraft-style black box recorders to help the police and insurance firms identify who is responsible for any crash. They are already standard on 2/3 of US cars. '
2009-10-31,b'Australia oil well catches fire.Engineers have been struggling for more than 10 weeks to stop the leak'
2009-10-31,b'A Walk to Beautiful: a stunning documentary about a problem you (probably) never knew existed.'
2009-10-31,b'Fan dressed as sheep set alight\n'
2009-10-31,b'Growing Qat in Yemen- More than half of this countrys scarce water is used to feed an addiction.'
2009-10-31,"b'Scott Ritter: ""...assumptions made in the McChrystal report are so far removed from reality as to be ludicrous""'"
2009-10-31,b'Web addresses to go multilingual'
2009-10-31,"b""The UK's Prevent program faces serious criticism from Muslims and civil liberties groups."""
2009-10-31,b'Italy arrests Naples mafia boss in chicken farm raid'
2009-10-31,b'Karzai Rival Withdrawing From Runoff But Not Calling For Boycott'
2009-10-31,b'Iran claims it has evidence on U.S. involvement in terrorist attack'
2009-10-31,"b'Corrupt politicians will put an end to our republic but they do not have to cannibalize us, follow the Roman Empire or not it is up to them!'"
2009-10-31,b'Abdullah pulls out of Afghan election'
2009-10-31,"b'Once a mighty tree falls, it is only natural that the earth around it shakes...'"
2009-10-31,b'Some of the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers onboard Australian Customs ship the Oceanic Viking have threatened to kill themselves rather than go to Indonesia.'
2009-10-30,"b'Following his comments regarding Ectasy, LSD, and Cannabis, the British Government chief drug adviser Professor David Nutt has been sacked - for telling the truth.'"
2009-10-30,b'Sacked drugs adviser accuses Gordon Brown of meddling in cannabis decision'
2009-10-30,"b'UK Drug adviser, Professor David Nutt, sacked for comments'"
2009-10-30,b'Obama Lifts a Ban on Entry Into U.S. by H.I.V.-Positive People'
2009-10-30,"b'We Were Warned About the ""Mysterious"" Ukrainian Virus 2 Months ago by Joseph Moshe. He Was Promptly Arrested as a Terrorist!'"
2009-10-30,"b'Under international law, it is illegal for an occupying \r\npower to change the demographic situation of the \r\nterritory they have occupied'"
2009-10-30,"b""The bright side of economic ruin: McDonald's will leave your country"""
2009-10-30,b'Patients in UK who wait too long for treatment that they need from the NHS will get free private care'
2009-10-30,"b'The Honduran ""crisis"" ended last night with an agreement by both parties to allow Congress to vote on whether and how Zelaya returns to power. '"
2009-10-30,"b""Dozens of children  sent from Afghanistan by their parents in the hope of finding a better life in Britain  are sleeping rough on the streets of Calais following the demolition of the town's last remaining asylum camp"""
2009-10-30,b'Island of St Helena faces economic collapse unless Britain builds them an airport soon'
2009-10-30,"b""Abdullah Abdullah 'may quit Afghan poll' : too many corrupt officials remain in charge. Karzai's win could be even more embarrassing for Western partners."""
2009-10-30,"b'Uganda has the highest unmet need for contraception in east Africa, but lacks the resources to address the problem'"
2009-10-30,"b""Remember the Indian girl who had killed the Pakistani terrorist who entered her house? Her house' been attacked again."""
2009-10-30,b'Pakistan road blast kills seven'
2009-10-30,b'Mexican columnist seeks protection after death threats'
2009-10-30,"b'Canada, Greenland to set up polar bear commission'"
2009-10-30,"b'Kohl, Gorbachev and Bush Sr. mark anniversary of fallen Berlin Wall'"
2009-10-30,"b'Can we all please pitch in and hire a professional cartographer for India and China? It\'s like when my brother and I had to clean ""our halves"" of the room, but could never agree on where to draw the line - except that there was no chance people would die as a result of our bickering.'"
2009-10-30,b'Putin in new Ukraine gas warning'
2009-10-30,b'Camorra boss seized in farm raid '
2009-10-30,"b""Chile's congress sits empty - Chile's lawmakers don't want to work on Thursday. In fact, as of mid-November, they won't work at all."""
2009-10-30,"b'Kimi Raikkonen, the worlds second- highest paid athlete is dropped by the Ferrari Formula One team.'"
2009-10-30,"b'Indira Gandhi - amazing leader, flawed democrat (why not read this and learn something new today?)'"
2009-10-30,b'The new McCarthyism'
2009-10-29,b'Unidentified viral outbreak in Western Ukraine. State of Emergency Declared.'
2009-10-29,b'The universality of war propaganda: A soldier with the Russian army in Afghanistan recounts what they believed about their mission '
2009-10-29,"b""Nigeria's space agency is no joke. It has launched satellites and aims to put Africans into space"""
2009-10-29,b'Mafia killing in Italy caught on camera'
2009-10-29,"b'American Fascism: ""Some of the other evidence the feds seized that shows he promotes riots? Steampunk magazine, for one. Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs. Anarchist political-theory books. A needlepoint depiction of Lenin that belonged to Madisons wifes grandmother.""'"
2009-10-29,b'Only a matter of time: UK drugs adviser sacked for comments'
2009-10-29,b'An example to follow? Ecuador to override drug patents in order to provide affordable medications'
2009-10-29,"b'Matthew Hoh- Explains Why He Resigned From His Position- ""we are involved in a 35-year-old civil war...we are not the lead character in that war, that it\'s an internal conflict.""- One of the most cogent strategic evaluations of the situation from a US official I\'ve heard (Text and video)'"
2009-10-29,b'Removal of David Nutt risks discouraging experts from giving opinion'
2009-10-29,b'Artificial hymens available to the Middle East are causing an uproar in Egypt.'
2009-10-29,b'U.S. Navy ship accidentally fires on Polish port '
2009-10-29,"b""Remember the woman who died during a radio station's 'hold the wee' contest to win a Nintendo Wii? Well, the family won $16 million in damages."""
2009-10-29,"b'More people seek asylum due to sexual orientation: \r\n""I had no choice. Where I\'m from, heterosexual \r\nmen practice hate crimes against us like a sport, \r\nand the police do nothing to stop it.""'"
2009-10-29,"b""Swiss Banking Is Finished: Switzerland's decision to start playing ball with other governments on issues like tax evasion and the arrest of Roman Polanski has destroyed the country's reputational capital, which formed the core of its banking system."""
2009-10-29,b'Mafia hit caught on tape...Naples'
2009-10-29,b'Israel endorses Iran nuclear plan'
2009-10-29,b'Global jump in swine flu deaths '
2009-10-29,b'Paraguayan landowner calls for the creation of armed groups to liquidate communists'
2009-10-29,"b""Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday."""
2009-10-29,b'Dhondup Wangchen spent five months interviewing ordinary Tibetans about their hopes and frustrations living under Chinese rule. The resulting documentary was smuggled out and shown at film festivals and on the internet. He now faces charges of state subversion.'
2009-10-29,"b'A Palestinian student has been handcuffed, blindfolded and forcibly expelled to the Gaza Strip by Israeli troops just two months before she was due to graduate from university'"
2009-10-29,"b'Honduras\' ousted president, government sign pact: ""This signifies my return to power in the coming days"" said Zelaya'"
2009-10-29,"b'National right-wing newspaper to close in Canada: ""Canwest says National Post could close after Friday""'"
2009-10-29,"b""Honduras rivals 'close to deal' """
2009-10-29,b'While many in the Western world work towards ending prohibition the Canadians Conservative government is building more prisons to deal with the new mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Prison budget: $88.5-million in 2006-07 to $195.1-million this year. Projected $211.6-million in fiscal year 2010-11.'
2009-10-28,"b""The British Government's chief drug adviser has sparked controversy by claiming ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less dangerous than cigarettes and alcohol. """
2009-10-28,"b'If you are a UK citizen, please consider signing this petition to abolish the proposed law that will disconnect alleged illegal filesharers without trial.'"
2009-10-28,"b""The man who used a digital camera to record the death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport says he feels guilty he didn't try to help the Polish immigrant even though others honoured his actions Tuesday with a citizen-journalism award."""
2009-10-28,"b'More than 500 UK officers smashed their way into thousands of safety-deposit boxes: ""When I got my box back, 9,000 cash and some smaller items of jewellery were missing - a gold baby\'s bracelet and a gold ring""'"
2009-10-28,"b'Remembering Afghanistans Golden Age: For 30 Years, Afghanistan Enjoyed Liberal Reforms, Universal Education, And Participatory Governance. What Went Wrong?'"
2009-10-28,"b'Mafia-free products: The Italian Libera Terra label guarantees that wine, olive oil and pasta are free from Mafia influence'"
2009-10-28,b'DETROIT: Leader of radical Islam group killed in FBI raid'
2009-10-28,"b'U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Thursday it was ""hard to believe"" that no one in Pakistan, who receives billions from the US to fight terrorism, knew where al Qaeda leaders were hiding'"
2009-10-28,"b'NYT: Ahmed Wali Karzai, brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the countrys booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the CIA.'"
2009-10-28,"b""The two men at the center of Scotland's largest known child abuse network have been jailed for life."""
2009-10-28,b'Insider trading and suicide in Canada: a buddy story'
2009-10-28,b'Canada gives Rwandan war criminal Desire Munyaneza life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocides.'
2009-10-28,b'Equivocation in talks to welcome it into the European Union may send Turkey back into the arms of the Middle East.'
2009-10-28,b'Collateral damage is big business: Leading banks have funded cluster bomb-makers to the tune of $5 billion in the past two years despite an international accord to ban the weapons.'
2009-10-28,b'UN torture representative barred from entering Zimbabwe'
2009-10-28,b'More than 60 members of the Iraqi security forces arrested in connection with the double suicide bombing in Baghdad '
2009-10-28,b'The Troubles of Koreas Influential Economic Pundit'
2009-10-28,b'More than life. Many journalists are killed each year around the world only because they tell the truth '
2009-10-28,b'Second gas leak in Timor Sea'
2009-10-28,"b'Somali man, aged 112, weds girl, 17. Man already has 18 children by five wives, says he would like to have more with his new wife.'"
2009-10-28,b'In the jungle with the Colombian army - A reporter embeds with the army and observes why winning the war remains difficult'
2009-10-28,"b""Japan: 'Comfort women' bill gets new life"""
2009-10-28,"b'Kenya to launch homosexual census, controversial because homosexuality is illegal in the country.'"
2009-10-28,b'Two coyotes have attacked and killed a 19-year-old folk singer in a national park in eastern Canada'
2009-10-28,"b""'Mystery ship' returns to Malta - fast response by Russians raises questions about its true cargo"""
2009-10-27,"b'Just one more reason that Metallica sucks: frontman James Hetfield told German TV that part of him was proud the US military chose the bands music to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay... It represents something that they dont likemaybe freedom, aggression I dont know Freedom of speech.""'"
2009-10-27,"b'Dirty bastard: Sarkozy spent 250,000 of EU budget on shower he did not use'"
2009-10-27,"b'""Even before I became a feminist in 1967, I had already learned that the (imperfect) West is still a far better place for a woman to live than is the most hospitable, beautiful, wealth-encrusted Muslim country""'"
2009-10-27,b'UK - People who persistently download illegal \r\ncontent will be cut off from the net.'
2009-10-27,b'Vigilante justice spreads across Mexico - More Mexicans turn to the lynch mob as crime spirals out of control'
2009-10-27,"b'I am suspect A on the Spotter Card printed by the Guardian, and I am, in the eyes of the police force, a ""domestic extremist"".'"
2009-10-27,"b'Brother of Afghan leader, who is supposedly apart of the illegal opium trade in Afghanistan, has been on the CIA payroll for 8 years, says officials. What the fuck?'"
2009-10-27,"b'""a group of musicians, including REM, Pearl Jam and The Roots filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to find out whether their music was played at the detention facility at Guantnamo Bay.""  '"
2009-10-27,"b""80 people killed by a large car bomb in Pakistan while Clinton arrives to discuss US concerns about the increasing numbers of attacks and the security of the country's nuclear weapons"""
2009-10-27,b'DC Lobbyist Indicted for Conspiring to Violate Sudanese Sanctions and to Act as Illegal Agent of Sudan'
2009-10-27,"b'EU taxpayers funded a custom-built 276,000 euros (250,000) shower for French President Nicolas Sarzoky, auditors say - but he never used it.'"
2009-10-27,b'Cops sell confiscated drugs. And this is news?'
2009-10-27,b'6 UN employees killed in a Taliban attack in Kabul'
2009-10-27,"b'Hezbollah violates UN ceasefire, fires Katyusha rocket into Kiryat Shmona.'"
2009-10-27,b'Houses demolished in east Jerusalem'
2009-10-27,b'Iraq approaches IAEA for approval to revive peaceful Nuclear programme that was bombed by Israel in 1981'
2009-10-27,"b""Making this ruthless liar EU president is a crazy plan. But I'll be backing Blair"""
2009-10-27,b'Berlusconi says communist prosecutors and judges out to destroy him'
2009-10-27,"b'Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president, on Wednesday denied reports that he has received regular payments from the CIA for much of the past eight years.'"
2009-10-27,b'The arrogance of Berlusconi knows no bound - Italian women are taking a stand against this buffoon they call Prime Minister'
2009-10-27,b'The dirty little secret of modern economics is that the models created by central banks and governments to manage the economy say almost nothing about finance.'
2009-10-27,b'Hamas vows to prevent Palestinian elections in Gaza'
2009-10-27,"b'TALIBAN gunmen have stormed a UN hostel in central Kabul, killing at least three UN staffers in an assault that the Islamists warned marked a bloody countdown to new Afghan elections.'"
2009-10-27,"b'Erdogan: Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Israel in Gaza is a Fact, We Cannot Remain Silent about Targeting Civilians with White Phosphorus'"
2009-10-27,b'There is something about the Piccard family'
2009-10-26,"b'The Church of Scientology was almost shut down today in France. Instead they were fined $900,000 and jailed 6 of their leaders. Found guilty of fraud.'"
2009-10-26,"b'US diplomat resigns over Afghan war: ""Like the Soviets, we continue to secure and bolster a failing state, while encouraging an ideology and system of government unknown and unwanted by its people""'"
2009-10-26,"b""A French soldier's opinion of his American counterparts."""
2009-10-26,"b'Scandinavian social democracies (and the Swiss) at the top of prosperity index that focuses on economic growth, health and freedom'"
2009-10-26,"b'Denying Palestinians the running water they need, Israelis are also contaminating with dead chickens and soiled baby diapers the rainwater cisterns of Palestinians who have no running water.'"
2009-10-26,b'Israel is denying Palestinians adequate access to clean water while allowing almost unlimited supplies to Israeli settlers.'
2009-10-26,"b'Police in Britain have defined political activism as domestic extremism and are treating people who attend demonstrations as criminals, cataloguing them on multiple national databases as well as tracking their vehicle license plates to enable them to be targeted for stop and search harassment.'"
2009-10-26,"b'Karadzic heard discussing mass slaughter Muslims in phonetap evidence: ""it will be a black cauldron where 300,000 Muslims will die. They will disappear. That people will disappear from the face of the earth""'"
2009-10-26,b'An American father wants his children back - Japan says no'
2009-10-26,b'Scientology convicted of fraud in France | News.com.au'
2009-10-26,"b'Report: Israel ""denies Palestinians water""'"
2009-10-26,"b""War weary Europeans test leaders' resolve - Public support for the Afghan war dwindles in several countries contributing troops"""
2009-10-26,"b""Castro's sister 'spied for CIA'"""
2009-10-26,b'EU lawyers draw up list of IDF officers suspected of Gaza war crimes. Existing legislation enables arrest warrants to be issued against these officers if they enter certain EU countries. '
2009-10-26,"b""Iran 'to accept UN nuclear deal' """
2009-10-26,b'Ships collide off southern Japan '
2009-10-26,b'A Paris court on Tuesday convicted the Church of Scientology of fraud and fined it more than half a million euros  but stopped short of banning the group as requested by prosecutors.'
2009-10-26,b'EU removes Uzbekistan arms embargo despite continuing concerns about human rights.'
2009-10-26,b'Ehud Olmert could face war crimes arrest if he \r\nvisits UK'
2009-10-26,"b""Al-Qaida's umbrella group in Iraq claimed responsibility for the twin suicide bombings in the heart of Baghdad that killed at least 155 people, including 24 children trapped in a bus leaving a day care center."""
2009-10-26,b'UK govt wants paedophile checks even for those not working with children. Already 11.3 million  including parents who take pupils to sports events  face backgrounds checked to allow them to work with children'
2009-10-26,b'One reason that too many Arabs are poor is rotten education... Discuss...'
2009-10-26,"b'The Democratic Republic of Congo is grappling with rampant rape, which has become an every day practice and is used as a weapon of war'"
2009-10-26,b'If you need any more proof about the dumbing down of the UK university system you need look no further.'
2009-10-26,b'Fraud Plagues Sugar Subsidy System in Europe'
2009-10-25,"b""Three undercover officers accused of inciting protesters to attack riot police at the 2007 North American leaders summit in Montebello are being summoned to testify before Quebec's independent police ethics committee. (Help get the word out Reddit, this is huge)"""
2009-10-25,"b""The 'benefit' of Somalia's pirates : Massive factory trawlers scared away, so poor local fishermen are able to catch up to $350 worth of fish per day."""
2009-10-25,b'Birth Control Bill Has Enemies in Philippines - Religious figures say a bill that would expand the poors access to birth control is contrary to Catholic teaching.'
2009-10-25,"b'UK: Police are gathering the personal details of thousands of activists who attend political meetings and protests, and storing their data on a network of nationwide intelligence databases.'"
2009-10-25,"b'The secret to a happy marriage for men is choosing a wife who is smarter and at least five years younger than you, say UK experts. Amen to that.'"
2009-10-25,b'U.S. unlikely to remain dominant superpower in this century unless it starts acting like an adult. '
2009-10-25,"b""11 members of Iran's Revolutionary Guard have been arrested after illegally entering Pakistan."""
2009-10-25,"b""West Bank land belongs to Jews, says Israeli army judge. - It's in the bible, you know..."""
2009-10-25,"b'The new British census will demand to know who you are sleeping with and their name, sex, age and address. '"
2009-10-25,"b'Glimmer of hope for autistic hacker who broke into Pentagon military networks to look for information on UFOs. Gary McKinnon, who lives in the UK, faces possible lengthy jail term in the US, but new medical evidence could stop him being extradited to America'"
2009-10-25,"b""Who'd want to be a government critic in Russia? Popular human rights activist who led protests against Russian security forces is slaughtered while driving his car"""
2009-10-25,"b""Saudi Arabia's king has pardoned a woman journalist sentenced to 60 lashes for her role in a television program in which a Saudi man spoke about his sexual exploits."""
2009-10-25,b'Let Palestinians have nukes - Moamer Gaddafi'
2009-10-25,b'Marijuana Economics'
2009-10-25,b'Sometimes the police do get justice'
2009-10-25,b'Copenhagen to subsidize the destruction of the rainforest (palm plantations count as forest) '
2009-10-25,b'Goldstone Gaza Report: Col. Richard Kemp Testifies at U.N. Emergency Session'
2009-10-25,b'Bosnia on brink of new civil war '
2009-10-25,"b""Former left-wing guerrilla, Jose Mujica, has taken a commanding lead in several exit polls from Uruguay's presidential election"""
2009-10-25,"b""Israel's blockade of goods entering the Gaza strip means that more than 170 schools damaged by the bombings in the first weeks of 2009 may not be repaired before winter, exposing Palestinian students to the cold and dark."""
2009-10-25,"b""The Kremlin's chief political strategist has warned that Russia risks collapsing into chaos if officials tinker with the political system by flirting with liberal reforms."""
2009-10-25,b'Palestinians Behind Bars with No Recourse to Justice'
2009-10-25,b'Sixteen Americans dead as 3 helicopters crash in Afghan raids'
2009-10-25,"b'Radovan Karadzic boycotts opening of war crimes trial - ""needs more time to prepare defence""'"
2009-10-25,b'German on trial for Muslim murder.  How much coverage will this get compared to the original outrage?'
2009-10-25,"b""Germany's New Government to U.S.: Take Away Your Nukes!"""
2009-10-25,b'Two car bomb attacks just killed over 130 people in Iraq. :('
2009-10-25,"b'Exxon executive overseeing $15 billion gas project, stomped by a mob of 50 people in Papua New Guinea in dispute over landowner contracts'"
2009-10-25,b'The Ethiopian government has asked the international community for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people.'
2009-10-25,"b""America's largest solar plant set to go live in Florida"""
2009-10-25,"b'Twin car bombings near Baghdad government offices kill 136, injure nearly 600'"
2009-10-25,"b'Australia faces famine, expert warns'"
2009-10-25,"b'""But they use them to investigate reports of noise pollution & people who do not clean up their dogs waste. Local governments use them to catch people who fail to recycle, people who put their trash out too early, people who sell fireworks without licenses, people whose dogs bark too loudly""'"
2009-10-25,b'Iran arrests 12 accused of promoting satanism through underground music and production of blasphemous video clips'
2009-10-25,b'Afghan police open fire after protesters burn effigy of Barack Obama'
2009-10-25,"b""It's 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and Karl Marx, grandfather of communism, is being rehabilitated. Looking back on the unravelling of the Soviet system and the unlikely staying power of a once-ridiculed worldview"""
2009-10-25,b'British pilot drowned after saving the lives of nine passengers by ditching his plane into the sea when one of his engines failed'
2009-10-25,b'A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage.'
2009-10-25,"b""Obama's Afghan war policy hinges on debate over which enemy to fight - Taliban or al-Qaida"""
2009-10-25,"b'Another US backed dictator in the \r\nMiddle East is about to get reelected \r\ntoday, ballots results are already \r\nknown to everyone, %96 said yes for \r\nhim'"
2009-10-25,b'Saudi female TV journalist gets 60 lashes'
2009-10-25,b'Inspectors see Iran uranium facility'
2009-10-25,b'A World War II codebreaker has told how she was so afraid of giving away secrets by talking in her sleep that she was worried about going to bed.'
2009-10-25,"b'The Nasa people of Northern Cauca in South Western Colombia, have become a symbol of resistance and an example of dignity.'"
2009-10-25,"b""Afghans torch Obama effigy over 'Koran abuse' claims"""
2009-10-25,b'Rumor sparks anti-American protests - A Koran-burning incident in Afghanistan prompts demonstrations in Kabul'
2009-10-25,b'Gunmen kill Ingushetia opposition leader'
2009-10-25,"b""Sydney's first Breakfast on the Bridge (with Grass, cows and live bands) has been hailed a success"""
2009-10-25,"b'Finally, a major paper has bothered to deconstruct the mythical numbers that are bandied about to justify the UK governments idiotic conflation of sex work with sex trafficking.'"
2009-10-25,b'Italy pulls out'
2009-10-24,"b""You should know: 1/4 of China's territory has been cut off from Internet and rest of the world for 15 weeks now."""
2009-10-24,"b'Constant Surveillance Rankles Britons: spying on ""people who fail to recycle, people who put their trash out too early, people who sell fireworks without licenses, people whose dogs bark too loudly and people who illegally operate taxicabs.""'"
2009-10-24,"b'Hundreds of people threw shoes, shouted ""Terrorist!"" and burned him in effigy as George Bush spoke in Montreal'"
2009-10-24,b'Man trying to flag down a cab is beaten then run over for touching a passing SUV'
2009-10-24,"b""Europe's New Tactic with Asylum Seekers: Send Them Home"""
2009-10-24,"b'Rapists, hunger and hyenas stalk displaced Somali women'"
2009-10-24,"b'[ UK ] Former Government adviser: Labour threw open Britain\'s borders to mass immigration to help socially engineer a ""truly multicultural"" country'"
2009-10-24,b'The UK is in the longest recession since records began.'
2009-10-24,"b'""poll done for BBC Newsnight on Thursday 22nd October showed that twice as many people sympathise with postal workers rather than the Royal Mail management in the postal dispute""'"
2009-10-24,b'The Geopolitics Behind the Phoney U.S. War in Afghanistan'
2009-10-24,"b'With the economy tanking, wars to fight, unemployment up, and a multitude of other very pressing things to deal with, the government decides to take on cyclists '"
2009-10-24,"b'All that really remains for the Lisbon Treaty to become the law of Europe is the signature of one man, Czech President Vclav Klaus'"
2009-10-24,"b'The Palestinian president signed a decree on Friday calling for presidential and parliamentary elections on Jan. 24, a move likely to deepen the rift with the rival militant Hamas movement that rules the Gaza Strip. (AP)'"
2009-10-24,"b'[Video] Iranian students chant ""death to you"" (marg bar to) and ""my deceased brother, I will get your vote back!"" to former minister in Ahmadinejad\'s administration. Apparently a shoe was thrown as well.'"
2009-10-24,b'A female journalist in Saudi Arabia has been sentenced to 60 lashes over a TV show in which a Saudi man described his extra-marital sex life.\r\n\r\n'
2009-10-24,"b""Female Saudi journalist to get 60 lashes - Program on Lebanese cable TV dealt with man's frank sex talk"""
2009-10-24,"b""Purple blooms in Harare mask the rot in Mugabe's capital. Zimbabwe has burgeoned from 5 million to 12 million in a generation. Every nook and cranny is now occupied as rural folk drift to towns to seek, if not their fortunes, then jobs and subsistence."""
2009-10-24,"b""When you call on a journalist for professional medical opinions and info, he'll mistake H1N1 (Swine Flu) vaccines for smallpox vaccines"""
2009-10-24,b'Iran misses a deadline for responding to an offer for others to enrich its uranium'
2009-10-24,"b""John DeTitta -  My mind pulls me right all the time that's we I am spinning in circles"""
2009-10-24,b'AFP: Top Iran officials question nuclear deal'
2009-10-24,b'Friendship: U.S. warns Japan of serious consequences if it reneges on military package'
2009-10-24,b'Immigration to drive huge rise in Wales population'
2009-10-24,"b'Thousands of Muslims have been traveling to Russia \r\nhoping to see verses from the Qur\'an appear on the \r\nskin of a ""miracle baby.""'"
2009-10-24,"b""This is what real refugee camps look like - even if their Muslim inhabitants aren't Arab enough to evoke the sympathy of co-religionists elsewhere."""
2009-10-23,"b'""I have never seen this in 30 years,"" Calder said. ""I haven\'t heard Japanese talking back to American diplomats that often, especially not publicly. The Americans usually say, \'We have a deal,\' and the Japanese respond, \'Ah soo desu ka,\' -- we have a deal -- and it\'s over. This is new."" '"
2009-10-23,"b""UK: Police officers armed with submachine guns are to be deployed on routine patrol of Britain's streets for the first time."""
2009-10-23,b'Drought pushes 23 million Africans to brink of starvation. '
2009-10-23,"b'British National Party leader Nick Griffin has used his Question Time appearance to criticise Islam and defend a past head of the Ku Klux Klan. He also told a largely hostile audience that Winston Churchill would be a BNP supporter if he were alive, and at one stage referred to gay men as ""creepy"".'"
2009-10-23,b'Aid agency Oxfam is now saying that food aid is trapping Ethiopia in a cycle of dependence on the West and that donations could be better spent.'
2009-10-23,"b""The UK's intelligence and law enforcement agencies fear the government's anti-illegal filesharing plans will lead to a rise in encryption, scuppering their own efforts to monitor the internet"""
2009-10-23,"b'Don\'t Shop at Chinese WalMart - Five WalMart workers beat middle aged woman to death on suspicion of shop lifting even as her family was ""kneeling at the scene begging"" them to stop. They only stopped when police arrived.'"
2009-10-23,"b'Russian circus bear kills manager. Animal cruelty: bear was on ice skates, trained to play hockey - you can not make this up.'"
2009-10-23,"b'Nigeria aims to crack down on 419 scams, fails to comprehend the concept of futility'"
2009-10-23,"b'Senior EU official: Israel out of the loop on Iran talks. ""You do not understand the extent to which you are not in the picture. You do not know how much you do not know and what is happening in Iran.""'"
2009-10-23,b'Israel asks Germany for two warships free of cost'
2009-10-23,b'We all live in a cocaine submarine: $200 million of cocaine found in a makeshift submarine'
2009-10-23,b'Bomb hits outside suspected Pakistani nuclear-weapons site'
2009-10-23,"b""Still think it was a good idea to try to keep Nick Griffin off the air? He absolutely went down in flames tonight. If he wasn't Nazi scum, you'd feel sorry for him."""
2009-10-23,"b'Water to cost more - Population growth and dwindling underground water reserves, along with climate change, mean that Bahrain must find solutions to meet the rising demand for water.'"
2009-10-23,b'Star Fades for Blair in EU Role: The odds against former British Prime Minister Tony Blair becoming the first president of the European Union appear to have lengthened.'
2009-10-23,"b'France warns on Iran nuclear deal - France says Iran does not seem to be responding positively to a proposed UN deal on its nuclear plans, as a deadline looms.'"
2009-10-23,b'Where is the revulsion at David Cameron becoming partners with men who cheer those who fought for Hitler and against Churchill? '
2009-10-23,"b""A top Indonesian official says Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plan to pay Indonesia to intercept asylum seekers will top $50 million."""
2009-10-23,b'Explosion hits Gulf facility in Puerto Rico'
2009-10-23,b'Israeli military strike more likely after Iran misses nuclear deadline'
2009-10-23,"b""Fake Viagra, and more, in Bangkok - Pharmo-piracy sweeps Thailand, and the rest of Southeast Asia. It's a deadly problem."""
2009-10-23,"b""Four minutes of devastation, thirty seconds of brilliance: The simplest thing I don't even think about at a hospital is killing people elsewhere:  The Devestating Toll of Syringe Re-Use [TED Talk VIDEO]"""
2009-10-23,b'US-backed uranium plan rejected by Iran'
2009-10-23,b'Philippine government asks for typhoon relief goods then lets them rot.'
2009-10-22,"b""British Columbia cops stomp on guy's head, kick him in the ribs during arrest. Caught on video and posted to YouTube. """
2009-10-22,"b'She loves you  yeah, yeah, yeah, the Taliban sang, with Kalashnikovs lying on the floor around them. (Also, they sleep beneath bedsheets emblazoned with Hannah Montana.)'"
2009-10-22,b'Russia vs. The United States: A visual comparison from mint.com.  (images)'
2009-10-22,"b'They decapitate, torture, and extort. Then they pray, and donate to charity.'"
2009-10-22,"b'"" Shanghai has been running on ultracapacitors for the past three years, and today that technology is coming to the Washington, DC, for a one-day demonstration."" China! Now more advanced than America!'"
2009-10-22,b'Coincidence? - Two British nuclear experts fall to their deaths from the same building in 4 months. '
2009-10-22,"b""Fifty to 70 percent of the worlds supply of lithium is contained in just one place -- Bolivias Uyuni salt flats. What will the global battery boom mean for the future of South America's poorest country?"""
2009-10-22,b'President Hugo Chavez called on Venezuelans on Wednesday to stop singing in the shower and to wash in three minutes because the oil-exporting nation is having problems supplying water and electricity.'
2009-10-22,"b""Goldstone: If they don't have a good faith internal investigation, this thing is not going to lie down and die ... it's going to continue."""
2009-10-22,"b""Over the years, the U.S. has unloaded massive amounts of aid to Pakistan, including $7.5 billion more earlier this month. But the money doesn't always wind up where it's supposed to."""
2009-10-22,"b'BBC is right to allow BNP on Question Time, says Mark Thompson'"
2009-10-22,b'A small rural town in New Zealand has been forced to cancel one of the highlights on its social calendar - a rabbit-throwing contest'
2009-10-22,b'Sharia Banking Comes to Germany'
2009-10-22,b'Colombian drug lord once responsible for 60 percent of the cocaine exported from Colombia to the U.S. gets 45 years in U.S. prison'
2009-10-22,"b'Husseini\'s ""so-called honor killings"": ""...a horrific case of a 16-year-old girl called Kifaya, who was killed because she was raped by her brother and the family blamed her for tarnishing their honour.""'"
2009-10-22,"b'According to reporters without borders Israel ranks 150th in press freedom. Below Sudan, Congo, Iraq, Egypt etc.'"
2009-10-22,"b""Swine flu doctors 'unnerved' by patients' decline"""
2009-10-22,b'8 years on and Afghan smack is as prevalent as ever. So why are they blaming the Taliban?'
2009-10-22,"b'CEO pay in India: ""Vulgar and indecent""'"
2009-10-22,"b""Yemen rebels 'fight Saudi forces' """
2009-10-22,"b""UK's nuclear industry funds special police force that carries out covert intelligence operations against anti-nuclear protesters"""
2009-10-22,b'Olive Grove Wars: The olive harvest brings violence between Palestinian farmers and Israeli settlers'
2009-10-22,b'Swine flu cases in England double in one week'
2009-10-22,"b""Ghana's Foreign Ministry building has been largely destroyed in a fire police suspect was started deliberately -- the third fire at the ministry this year."""
2009-10-22,"b'Ex-IDF chief\'s widow rejects naming East Jerusalem street after him, ""I don\'t think this is a street that belongs to us. I don\'t think we need to be there and therefore I objected""'"
2009-10-21,b'Kuwaiti women will be able to obtain their own passport without the consent of their husbands'
2009-10-21,b'Tony Blair heckled in Hebron: You are a terrorist'
2009-10-21,"b'""As the founder of Human Rights Watch, its active chairman for 20 years and now founding chairman emeritus, I must do something that I never anticipated: I must publicly join the groups critics.""'"
2009-10-21,"b'UN puts Iran deal on the table: Exporting uranium has been seen as a way for Iran to get the fuel it needs, while giving guarantees to the West that it will not be used for nuclear weapons.'"
2009-10-21,"b'White South African farmers have gained access to 200,000 hectares of state land in the Congo Republic, as part of a deal designed to improve food production in the poverty-stricken central African state'"
2009-10-21,"b""Holy Shit: Yemen could become first nation to run out of water... And it's likely due to the inhabitants' strong addiction to a drug."""
2009-10-21,"b'I did not anticipate that the IDF would have \r\ntargeted the economic infrastructure of Gaza \r\nincluding its agricultural lands, industrial factories, \r\nwater supply and sanitation works. These are not \r\nmilitary targets. '"
2009-10-21,"b'Diplomats from Iran, the U.S., Russia and France agreed Wednesday to a draft proposal that would see Iran ship about 75 percent of its enriched uranium to Russia by the end of this year.'"
2009-10-21,"b'Australian Government to allow hunting of native animals (kangaroos, cockatoos etc.) in National Parks in sleazy deal with Shooters Party.'"
2009-10-21,"b""Mentally ill Briton 'could be executed within days'"""
2009-10-21,b'Calls for nuclear weapons in South Korea'
2009-10-21,b'The women of Kuwait can now travel with their passport without their husbands permission'
2009-10-21,b'Father accused of abducting fugitive man convicted of killing his daughter'
2009-10-21,"b'Karzai, dignitaries announce runoff - Two months after Afghanistans flawed presidential elections, the stalemate is over'"
2009-10-21,"b'The mother of an alleged schoolgirl ""honour killing"" victim wept today as she described finding her tied up the day before she was said to have been murdered. '"
2009-10-21,"b""UK Govt's CO2 Climate Change Ad 'Bedtime Story' Prompts Viewer Complaints"""
2009-10-21,"b""The latest target of Cuba's totalitarian government is Yoani Snchez, a 34-year-old Cuban blogger. Last week, she became the first blogger to win a Maria Moors Cabot Prize given by Columbia University for journalism, but the Cuban government wouldn't let her out of the country to accept the award."""
2009-10-21,"b'These dramatic videos, released today by the Ontario Superior court, tell the tale of an al-Qaeda inspired cell of homegrown Canadian terrorists.'"
2009-10-21,"b'Ex-IDF chief\'s widow rejects naming East Jerusalem street after him,""I don\'t think this is a street that belongs to us. I don\'t think we need to be there ...""'"
2009-10-21,"b""Denmark Approves Russian Baltic Pipeline - Eastern Europe Fears Of It's Use As A Political Weapon"""
2009-10-21,"b'People living in a shanty town in the Algerian capital have clashed with police for a second night in a row over housing conditions. ""Some young boys spend all the night outside taking drugs so that their brothers and sisters can sleep. We will not stop the riot.""'"
2009-10-21,b'Maoist brutality continues in Jharkhand'
2009-10-21,b'Iran ignored appeals by Hillary Rodham Clinton and even rock star Sting and sentenced an Iranian-American academic to 12 years in prison for protesting'
2009-10-21,"b'Shocking Report: Livestock Emissions Grossly Underestimated ""recent analysis...finds that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions"" 51%!!'"
2009-10-21,b'Poland signs up to new US shield - Polish Prime Minister has declared his country ready to take part in a revised US missile defence plan.'
2009-10-20,"b'""Legalize it"" lobby grows. Mexico and other Latin American countries move toward drug decriminalization.'"
2009-10-20,"b""The Yes Men hold a fake Chamber of Commerce Press Conference saying they've changed their views on Global Warming and get caught out!"""
2009-10-20,b'Anglicans who are pissed off that their church has become more accepting of gay priests have decided to join a church that have been more accepting of pedophile priests.'
2009-10-20,b'Water on moon scientist accused by US of trying to spy for Israel\n'
2009-10-20,b'An off-duty US Air Force sergeant who filmed fuel seeping from a passenger jet wing has been credited with saving the lives of some 300 people.'
2009-10-20,b'Wow! Look at the new ship used by the Sea \r\nShepherd to disrupt the Japanese Whale fleet in \r\nAntarctica.  '
2009-10-20,"b""The British National Party is bracing itself for potentially fresh embarrassment tomorrow when details of the party's rank and file UK membership are expected to be posted on the Internet."""
2009-10-20,b'Israel wants to change the rules of war after UN report proves that Israel has committed war crimes. '
2009-10-20,b'The Mo Ibrahim Prize--an annual prize given for good governance in Africa--could not find anyone to award this year.'
2009-10-20,"b""The president of Kyrgyzstan calls for reform; the entire government resigns. Now that's what I call results."""
2009-10-20,b'This graphic novel explains what happened in Honduras'
2009-10-20,"b""Turkish journalists investigating an alleged conspiracy in the country's military are all ending up arrested"""
2009-10-20,"b""Earth's precious metals are from space: study"""
2009-10-20,"b""Asylum-seeker deported from UK: 'They gave me $100 and told me to fend for myself in Baghdad'"""
2009-10-20,"b'Striking Discovery in Germany: Archaeologists Excavate 4,000-Year-Old Skeletons '"
2009-10-20,"b'Two blasts rock Islamabad university, 7 dead - Pakistan'"
2009-10-20,"b""Fury at Berlusconi 'sexist' jibe"""
2009-10-20,"b""This is a very short but striking Graphic Novel that tells the story of the Honduran Coup, what really happened and who did what. It's a lot better than the lies told by the corporate media. """
2009-10-20,b'Chinese ship hijacked in Indian Ocean'
2009-10-20,"b'""The popular opinion is that we are being sold to America piece by piece. Our national integrity is at risk. I am scared of the fact that I might see the end of Pakistan in my lifetime.""'"
2009-10-20,"b""Right wing MP rubbishes human link to climate change in address to 'environment' group"""
2009-10-20,b'Suicide blasts hit Islamabad university'
2009-10-20,b'How our senior libel judge stamps on free speech  all over the world '
2009-10-20,"b""Gearing Up for Post-Lisbon Brussels: In The Running To Be Europe's Next Top Politician """
2009-10-20,b'How Britain Became the Center of the World'
2009-10-19,b'A Lithuanian dad shot dead a judge and a senior politician because they molested his three-year old daughter. '
2009-10-19,"b'Bullied, attacked and racially-abused more than 50 times in eight weeks. That was the experience of two British Muslim reporters posing undercover as a couple in Bristol over the summer.'"
2009-10-19,"b""The only two Westerners living on their own in \r\nKandahar have been bombed, ambushed, and \r\nnearly sold to kidnappers. Here's what they've \r\nlearned about the country where war just won't end."""
2009-10-19,"b'In Norway, even murders and rapists have a shot at landing in ""open prison.""'"
2009-10-19,b'A British mining company is facing a multi-million pound claim for damages after group of protesters were detained and allegedly tortured at open copper plant mine. '
2009-10-19,"b""Karzai 'stripped of outright win' - could now face a second round against main rival Abdullah Abdullah."""
2009-10-19,"b'Charity fundraisers carry disabled man halfway up mountain in his wheelchair...then leave him there because they\'re ""too tired"" to carry him down again.'"
2009-10-19,"b'Six Senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commanders Killed in Suicide Bombing, Iran Blames US and Pakistan'"
2009-10-19,"b""For the past two years, Sudanese-born cellphone magnate Mo Ibrahim has given out $5 million prizes to outstanding African presidents who had served their country with good sense. Today, Mr. Ibrahim announced that his team was unable to agree on a candidate for this year's prize."""
2009-10-19,b'Fury after a Berlusconi-owned TV channel secretly \r\nfilmed a judge who ruled against him in a bribery \r\ncase.'
2009-10-19,b'Brazil deploy thousands of extra troops on the streets of Rio de Janeiro after violent clashes with gang members where at least 12 died'
2009-10-19,b'Rights of Labor in the US:   FDRs New Deal and the natural political evolution that grew out of that movement has done much to help working people but much of that natural evolution was later retarded by the rise of the conservative forces in the country... (follow the link to read on...)'
2009-10-19,"b""Gordon Brown, Britian's Prime Minister, said his government would be taking extensive action to reform the whole culture of the financial sector via a windfall tax on profits. All UK banks will be affected."""
2009-10-19,b'Hillary Clinton up to her old tricks again of making up past events at her visit to Northern Ireland'
2009-10-19,"b""Maldives President holds (world's first) cabinet meeting under water to raise awareness to the threat global warming and rising sea levels has for his Island nation."""
2009-10-19,"b""You don't have to be mad to stay here but it helps: Nasa hacker Gary McKinnon gets a stay of execution from extradition to US while UK government checks his mental health!  """
2009-10-19,"b""It isn't a big deal until you make it a big deal"""
2009-10-19,"b'With co-workers like this....well, I guess that depends on your taste.'"
2009-10-19,"b'""Faced with an Israeli blockade, the Palestinian zookeepers were unable to bring in real zebras. Their solution...""'"
2009-10-19,b'Home Office climbs down over keeping DNA records on innocent'
2009-10-19,"b'Jordan King: ""The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the most serious threat to the stability of the region, if Israel doesn\'t believe in the two-state solution, the possibility of a future Palestinian state will disappear because of geographic reasons: already the land is fragmented into cantons""'"
2009-10-19,"b""Uk Govt has secret plans to tax electricity consumers to subsidise construction of UK's first new nuclear reactors for more than 20 years"""
2009-10-19,b'Zionists bury Palestinians alive In Gaza'
2009-10-19,"b""Pakistan pushes into Taliban stronghold - \n'Sixty militants' killed as troops backed by warplanes and artillery face fierce resistance in South Waziristan"""
2009-10-19,"b""A lot of you won't know who this is, but for those that do: the author Ludovic Kennedy has died. """
2009-10-18,b'Children in Africa are being accused of witchcraft and are getting tortured and killed in Africa by Evangelical Christians.'
2009-10-18,"b""BREAKING: Several top commanders in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard have been attacked and killed in the volatile south-east of the country, reports say."""
2009-10-18,"b'US intelligence reports: 90% of the insurgents battling US and NATO troops in Afghanistan are not religiously motivated Taliban and Al Qaeda warriors, but a new generation of tribal fighters vying for control of territory, mineral wealth, and smuggling routes,'"
2009-10-18,"b'North Korea holds more than 150,000 political prisoners in six prison camps across the country, a South Korean MP says.'"
2009-10-18,"b'""The government should be spying on Muslims even if they are not suspected of committing crimes"" - Is it OK to consider UK a racist country?'"
2009-10-18,b'The chief of an endangered Amazon tribe will unveil today the product of an unusual partnership with Google Inc. that pairs high tech with indigenous knowledge in an effort to rescue ancient rain forests and a dying culture.'
2009-10-18,b'Iran blames west for deadly suicide bombing'
2009-10-18,b'The End of East: West German Secret Service Opens GDR Files '
2009-10-18,"b""Suicide bomber attacks Sunni - Shiite reconciliation meeting in Iran, kills 31.  Seriously, we can't get a break, can we?"""
2009-10-18,b'The trembling hand of Thatcher points  Tories find something left that isnt nailed down'
2009-10-18,"b""70 years on - Nefertiti's bust will be back in the Neues Museum, finally reopened today after being destroyed in WW2"""
2009-10-18,"b'Leftist Latin American leaders agree on a new regional currency, the Sucre, to scale back the use of the US dollar'"
2009-10-18,b'Twelve dead and police helicopter downed as Rio de Janeiro drug gangs go to war.'
2009-10-18,b'Iran accuses Pakistan over attack '
2009-10-18,"b'In India, plagiarism is on the rise'"
2009-10-18,b'Europe does not need President Blair'
2009-10-18,"b'In November 2008, New York Times reporter David Rohde was kidnapped in an attempt to interview a Taliban commander. He spent seven months being held by them in Pakistan with two colleagues, his driver Asad and an Afghan journalist, Tahir. This is the first in a five-part series of his captivity.'"
2009-10-18,"b'Security staff at Manchester Airport have been banned from using new ""see-through"" security scanners for children'"
2009-10-18,"b'China Russia Axis Iran Offers SCO Alternative To U.S. Control Of World Resources. ""Iran has offered to enhance its role as an energy provider and transit route for Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states.""'"
2009-10-18,b'Australias population growth continues to surge ahead despite the world economic slowdown and a reduction in skilled migration.'
2009-10-18,"b'Cancer sufferers in Iraq have risen by almost tenfold in just 3 years. DU the likely culprit. In this part of Iraq 500 cases of cancer were diagnosed in 2004. This year, there have so far been more than 9,000 new cases ... and the number is rising.'"
2009-10-18,b'Rio police die as helicopter hit'
2009-10-18,"b""Big anti-abortion rally in Spain: More than a million people are said to have taken part in a march in Madrid to oppose government plans to liberalise Spain's abortion law."""
2009-10-18,b'Alone at Sea: Australian Teen Girl Starts Bid to Sail Around World\n'
2009-10-18,"b'Indonesia Endangered, Population Exploding'"
2009-10-17,b'US embassy found involved in importing weapons to Pakistan'
2009-10-17,"b'In September 2009, Fallujah General Hospital had 170 new born babies, 24% of whom were dead within the first seven days, a staggering 75% of the dead babies were classified as deformed.'"
2009-10-17,b'A study proving Jewish and Islamic methods of slaughtering animals are painful has led to renewed calls for a ban in Britain'
2009-10-17,"b'Peasants Worldwide Rise up Against Monsanto, GMOs: La Via Campesina is mobilizing globally along with allies in an overwhelming expression of outright rejection of Monsanto and GMOs, in the name of food sovereignty'"
2009-10-17,"b'As the secret Anti-Counterfeiting (actually anti-piracy) Trade Agreement rolls forward, it\'s clear that some kind of Internet ""enforcement"" will end up in the text; but what kind? Thirty-eight corporate lawyers and 4 public interest lawyers are the only ones with a say.'"
2009-10-17,b'China sentences Guo Quan to 10 years in prison for \r\nadvocating multi-party democracy'
2009-10-17,"b'Brazil - Rio gangs shoot down police chopper, set 3 buses on fire. 2 cops and 3 civilians dead'"
2009-10-17,"b'Why do they keep trying to hide shit like this? When they eventually have to give up, they just end up looking like even bigger douchebags for trying to cover it up in the first place.'"
2009-10-17,"b""Canada's military peers into future, and it's scary: \nIn the worst-case scenarios, oil prices quadruple, drones patrol the skies, global wars spill into cities"""
2009-10-17,b'Dead man slumped on balcony mistaken for Halloween decoration'
2009-10-17,"b'Maldives government holds a cabinet meeting underwater, in scuba gear.  The president then continues with a press conference, still in water, highlighting the threat of global warming to the nation.'"
2009-10-17,"b""Ottawa police finds Bishop Lahey's laptop contains porn files, many showing young males involved in sexual acts"""
2009-10-17,b'Ever hear of the Maoists in India? Now the Indian Air Force will bomb tribal villages in an escalating civil war.'
2009-10-17,"b""The Good Rabbi forced to resign over City protest.\nThe rabbi of Britain's oldest synagogue has stood down after a row over his part in a demonstration against the role of banks in the financial crisis.\n\n"""
2009-10-17,b'Ayers Rock to Be Closed for Religious Reasons?'
2009-10-17,"b""African churches accuse thousands of children as \r\n'witches,' many tortured and killed"""
2009-10-17,b'Maldives holds worlds first underwater cabinet meeting'
2009-10-17,b'EU Lisbon Treaty to become law within weeks after Czech president concedes defeat'
2009-10-17,"b'Zimbabwe\'s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said his MDC party has ""disengaged"" from the unity government over the treatment of his senior aide.'"
2009-10-17,b'Leftist Latin American leaders have agreed on the creation of a regional currency to scale back on the use of the US dollar as well as economic sanctions against Honduran coup leaders.'
2009-10-17,"b'Trafigura offers deal to 31,000 Africans over dumped waste to avoid lengthy, costly and highly embarrassing court action that was due to begin at the High Court in London in Oct 2009'"
2009-10-17,"b""Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero wants to introduce abortion on demand and allow 16-yr-olds to have an abortion without their parents' knowledge"""
2009-10-17,b'What prize do you get if you win a quiz in Somalia?\r\n'
2009-10-17,"b'Collection of news articles, when pieced together, suggest that Senegal tried to set up an IMF worker.'"
2009-10-17,b'PAKISTAN: Police illegally remove the court-ordered protection of a torture victim'
2009-10-16,"b""Blackwater used 'child prostitutes in Iraq'"""
2009-10-16,"b""Uruguay has become the first country to provide a laptop for every child attending state primary school. And they're running Linux."""
2009-10-16,"b""Africa's Atrocities in Pictures [Graphic NSFW]"""
2009-10-16,"b'A Russian academic investigating the fate of ethnic Germans deported by Stalin during World War II was arrested and ordered to remain silent by the FSB, who seized his research.'"
2009-10-16,b'On a date in Tehran'
2009-10-16,"b""Canadian health care  it's their right: In contrast to the US, where health care is a commodity, Canada has, so far, treated it like a human right."""
2009-10-16,b'Baby survives being run over by a train (video) [potentially quite distressing]'
2009-10-16,"b""Charlie Brooker: Why there was nothing 'human' about Jan Moir's column on the death of Stephen Gately"""
2009-10-16,"b""Israel's PM: If UN backs war crimes accusations there will be no chance of peace in Middle East\n"""
2009-10-16,"b'A Russian survey shows that more than 40% favor a leader with ""an iron fist"" to democracy.'"
2009-10-16,"b""Twitter storm over 'vile' Daily Mail column on gay singers death. Press Complaints Council approaches record number of complaints."""
2009-10-16,"b""Bosnia's war crimes court gives former Serb officer Milorad Trbic 30 years for killing dozens and taking part in the persecution and detention of thousands during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of some 8,000 Muslims, but acquits him of genocide charges due to lack of evidence"""
2009-10-16,b'Jan Moir - possibly the most hated journalist in the UK right now? Read the comments...'
2009-10-16,"b'Chavez: Hilton owners were cheeky, so we seized hotel (Not onion)'"
2009-10-16,"b""The Pakistani military is setting its sights on the Taliban's remote sanctuary after nearly two weeks of big bombings across the country, as hundreds flee the Afghan border region each day before what promises to be the army's riskiest offensive yet."""
2009-10-16,"b'Britain, the US, and Torture: David Miliband is Still a Liar'"
2009-10-16,b'UK: Carter-Ruck in new move to stop Trafigura debate in parliament.'
2009-10-16,b'British court orders release of U.S. intelligence details on torture allegations'
2009-10-16,"b'One in six of world\'s population is now going hungry: ""At a time when there are more hungry people in the world than ever before, there is less food aid than we have seen in living memory.""'"
2009-10-16,"b'""Sri Lanka refugees, we have lived in forest for one month. Please, sir, please take us to a country. It\'s OK if it is not Australia... We can\'t live in Sri Lanka,"" said a nine-year-old girl, Brinda, who is moored with more than 250 Tamil asylum seekers. Australia\'s PM is not impressed.'"
2009-10-16,"b'South Sudan has achieved a breakthrough in talks with the north over terms for a referendum. It would now only need a simply majority with two-thirds voting, instead of the 75% in favor previously insisted upon by the north.'"
2009-10-16,"b""With friends like the US, Pakistan doesn't need enemies..."""
2009-10-16,"b'Venezuela - After ""the firing\nof 17 prosecutors, the attempted kidnapping of a judge\'s children, and the\nfull bore effort of the state to fake a case against an innocent man,"" the court asks for Eligio Cedeo\' immediate release.'"
2009-10-16,b'UN rights council endorses damning Gaza report'
2009-10-16,"b""Iraq: After the mosque's imam began to speak, the attacker pulled out a gun and shot him, then set off a belt full of explosives as other worshipers tried to tackle him; 12 killed, 67 wounded"""
2009-10-15,"b'More than 80 Israeli students have announced their refusal to serve in the Israeli military: ""the occupation is a violent, racist, inhumane, illegal, undemocratic, immoral and an extreme condition that presents a mortal danger to both peoples""'"
2009-10-15,"b'Canadian trucker fined for smoking in the workplace. That being, of course, the cab of his truck. Which he owns.'"
2009-10-15,"b'Moscow to ban snow this winter.  Moscow Mayor, ""This winter in Moscow, snow will not fall on you.""'"
2009-10-15,b'Fascism joins the 21st century: British National Party leader Nick Girffin has agreed to ask his party to allow non-white people to join.'
2009-10-15,b'New Zealand moves towards becoming a police state'
2009-10-15,"b'Israeli Member of Paliament: ""Deporting foreign children preserves Israel\'s Jewish identity""'"
2009-10-15,"b'Israel gets angry when this happens on TV series, but pretty satisfied when done in Real Life.'"
2009-10-15,"b""Iranian Bloggers and tweeters: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, 'is dead'"""
2009-10-15,"b'Between 1999 and 2003, medical researchers randomly purchased artesunate (anti-malaria) from pharmacies in Cambodia, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. The volume of fake pills rose from 38 percent to 53 percent. These fake drugs may account for 200,000 deaths a year. \n\n'"
2009-10-15,"b'""Ayatollah Khamenei in coma"" says Michael Ledeen an Iranian expert'"
2009-10-15,"b'Pakistan Police Offices attacked in Lahore, More than 7 Killed'"
2009-10-15,b'British Harrier pilot diverted bomb mid-flight to save civilians. Awesome video footage.'
2009-10-15,"b""Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has halted a cabinet meeting and cancelled appointments in protest at the jailing of one of his aides -- accused of plotting the assassination of President Robert Mugabe."""
2009-10-15,b'Filipino Army seeks help from MILF rebels to free Irish priest'
2009-10-15,"b'Mexican government closes electric utility, sacks 44,000 workers. ""The government of President Felipe Caldern had decreed the liquidation of the publicly owned firm that provides electricity for Mexico City and surrounding states in central Mexico, and the firing of its more than 40,000 workers...""'"
2009-10-15,"b'Pakistan continues to destabilize. Today, the following were attacked: the Federal Investigation Agency and 2 police stations.'"
2009-10-15,b'Former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander \r\nDowner: Obama should give back Nobel Prize'
2009-10-15,"b'UK MP bills 100,000 in ""expenses"" to his own company [Telegraph]'"
2009-10-15,"b'To try and show faith and science are compatible, Vatican to open Galileo exhibit (you know, because they were so instrumental to his discoveries)'"
2009-10-15,b'German Intelligence agency warns of Iranian spies'
2009-10-15,b'Bands of militants and suicide bombers hit 4 sites in Pakistan; 37 Die'
2009-10-15,"b'Multiple attacks on federal buildings in Lahore.  I used to think that Pakistan had a weak, incompetent democracy and a overly powerful, competent military that actually ran things.  I guess was wishful thinking.'"
2009-10-15,"b'For the first time in Australian legal history, a major trial is to be televised.\n\nDr Jayant Patel will face manslaughter charges in a Brisbane court over his time as a surgeon in Bundaberg.\n'"
2009-10-15,"b""It is unacceptable in the 21st century that almost one in six of the world's population (1 billion) is now going hungry: UN"""
2009-10-15,b'It is impossible for any city in the world to improve infrastructure to keep pace with the rise in vehicular population.'
2009-10-14,"b'Fingerprint unmasks new Da Vinci painting, sold for $19,000 at auction as a 19th century German work. Swedish collector used multispectral digital imaging to peer through layers of pigment, discovering a fingerprint that proved the painting is a Da Vinvi worth $160 million.'"
2009-10-14,b'NOT an Onion article: Saudis Seek Payments for Any Drop in Oil Revenue '
2009-10-14,"b'Colombian hitmen reveal horror of the kill. ""People need to eat and there\'s a lot of hunger. We don\'t just want the crumbs. That\'s the big problem. There\'s a lot of idle hands around here and many people think they have a chance if they have a gun in their hand.""'"
2009-10-14,"b'Israel must end unfair jailing - Israel holds hundreds of Palestinians without trial or any way to clear their names, say two Israeli rights groups which urge an end to such detentions.'"
2009-10-14,b'Russia insist that it has the right to launch pre-emptive nuclear strikes'
2009-10-14,b'Mussolini was paid by MI5 to be a warmonger'
2009-10-14,"b'Restrictive abortion laws do not prevent abortion: ""The most recent data available, for 2003, show that a woman is as likely to have an abortion in regions where it is broadly legal as in regions where it is highly restricted."" [chart]'"
2009-10-14,b'A second attempt to stop oil pouring into Australian waters after a rig accident in the Timor Sea has failed.'
2009-10-14,b'India has rejected a demand by the Albanian government for the return of the remains of Nobel laureate Mother Teresa'
2009-10-14,b'Thousands of overseas students unable to enter UK'
2009-10-14,"b'Palestinians say hopes in Obama ""evaporated"" and that he ""couldn\'t withstand the pressure of the Zionist lobby""'"
2009-10-14,"b""Youth 'cannot live' without web"""
2009-10-14,"b""Italian dictator Benito Mussolini 'was recruited by MI5' """
2009-10-14,b'Admin: Can we put a flag next to articles in the worldnews sub-reddit to show what country an article is about?'
2009-10-14,"b'BBCs Former Director General:  The BBC Is Part Of A ""Conspiracy"" Preventing The ""Radical Changes"" Needed To UK Democracy  '"
2009-10-14,"b'Military Records Banner Recruiting Year, because the job market is so bad.'"
2009-10-14,"b""Strange alliance: The Philippines government has asked the country's largest Muslim separatist group to help find and free an Irish Catholic priest from pirates. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has apparently vowed to help. """
2009-10-14,b'Iranian officials have sentenced to death three protesters who participated in demonstrations following the nations disputed presidential election in June.'
2009-10-14,"b'When Palestinians turn to peaceful demonstrations, the occupation forces start shooting to kill them before anybody knows it'"
2009-10-14,"b'Iraq report: 85,000 Iraqis killed from 2004-08'"
2009-10-14,"b""World's smallest man reveals 18th birthday wish: to find a wife """
2009-10-14,"b""Israel - and only Israel - will decide whether to attack Iran's nukes"""
2009-10-14,b'Germanys Policy of Avoidance: How Blunt Can One Be about Integration?'
2009-10-14,b'Russia reserves pre-emptive nuclear strike right'
2009-10-14,"b""Britain faces looming threat of terror from 'neo-Nazis' out to kill black people, Jews and gays\n"""
2009-10-13,b'The report and question that The Guardian is being gagged for - wikileaks to the rescue.'
2009-10-13,b'Guardian gagged from reporting parliament |\n\t\t\t\tMedia |\n\t\t\t\tThe Guardian'
2009-10-13,b'Last surviving members of an ancient Amazonian tribe are a tragic testament to greed and genocide\n'
2009-10-13,"b'1. claim to be a law firm, 2. threaten people to sue over copyright/filesharing unless they submit 500, 3. send out lots of mails, 4. ???, 5. profit.'"
2009-10-13,"b'41 killed, 45 hurt as bombings continue in Pakistan'"
2009-10-13,"b'Black youth worker arrested for watching police wins compensation - \nBritish Transport Police to pay 22,000 to man handcuffed and held for four hours after witnessing teenager being detained'"
2009-10-13,b'UK approve cigarette vending machine ban '
2009-10-13,"b""Food production will have to increase by 70% over the next 40 years to feed the world's growing population,"""
2009-10-13,"b'Carter-Ruck the man who\'s firm tried to gag the Guardian: ""...he did for freedom of speech what the Boston Strangler did for door-to-door salesmen.""'"
2009-10-13,b'Global homicide: murder rates around the world'
2009-10-13,"b""Al-Qaeda 'faces funding crisis'"""
2009-10-13,b'British pilot diverts pathfinder bomb away from Taleban target and  into desert to save Afghan civilians [vid]'
2009-10-13,b'Romania plunged deeper into political turmoil: govt falls on no confidence vote'
2009-10-13,"b'260 asylum seekers from Sri Lanka board a boat headed for Australia.  Aussie PM Kevin Rudd makes a personal plea to Indonesia to intercept the boat. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to West Java.'"
2009-10-13,b'Indian Govt says Arunachal integral part of India after Chinese protest'
2009-10-13,"b'Iranian Journalists Flee, Fearing Retribution for Covering Protests'"
2009-10-13,"b""Afghan leader accused of meddling in fraud probe. Karzai's man Barakzai resigned from the Electoral Complaints Commission to discredit their findings."""
2009-10-13,"b""Sri Lanka has announced that it will hold its presidential election two years ahead of schedule. The president and parliament are banking on their popularity in the wake of the LTTE's defeat, and may use that popularity to remove term limits from their constitution."""
2009-10-13,"b'""Nuclear weapons [...] are weapons of the weak.""'"
2009-10-13,"b""Russia and the US have pledged to work together to ensure Iran's nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes"""
2009-10-13,b'Amazing picture of an unusual ring that has mysteriously appeared over Moscow'
2009-10-13,b'Zionazism made easy in 4 steps'
2009-10-13,"b'A UN-backed offensive to destroy a Hutu rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has had disastrous humanitarian consequences, with more than 1,000 civilians killed, 7,000 raped, and 900,000 forced from their homes.'"
2009-10-13,"b""Russian FM: Threats of Iran sanctions won't work"""
2009-10-13,b'Musician Changes Tone of Impoverished Village '
2009-10-12,"b'""Police forces across Canada... are immediately changing their Taser use policy after the manufacturer issued a directive that officers should not aim the weapon at a suspect\'s chest.""'"
2009-10-12,b'Charlie Brooker on the aging process.'
2009-10-12,"b'Berlusconi: ""I am the best prime minister ever ... I am absolutely the politician most persecuted by prosecutors in the entire history of the world throughout the ages.""'"
2009-10-12,"b""Welcome to Debt City: Expats who took out loans during Dubai's good times now flee or face jail"""
2009-10-12,"b'Turns out the conspiracy theorists were right: ""Interpol and the United Nations are poised to become partners in fighting crime by jointly grooming a global police force that would be deployed as peacekeepers among rogue nations riven by war and organized crime""'"
2009-10-12,"b""'Embarrassing' Incident in Gulf of Suez: German Ship Transporting Arms for Iran"""
2009-10-12,b'Russians gripped by YouTube video claims of government role in hedge fund scam'
2009-10-12,"b""Research by the Royal Melbourne Children's Hospital suggests children under the age of two should not watch any TV at all."""
2009-10-12,"b""No one will ever know how Afghans voted in their \r\ncountry's presidential elections on Aug. 20, 2009. \r\nSeven weeks after the polling, the U.N.-backed \r\nElectoral Complaints Commission (ECC) is still \r\ntrying to separate fraudulent tallies from ballots. """
2009-10-12,"b'One year since banking collapse, Icelands crisis deepens '"
2009-10-12,"b""Child labour is illegal in Bolivia, but almost  320,000 of the country's children and adolescents in extreme conditions, in the mines, Brazil nut plantations and sugar cane field, earning less than $5 a day"""
2009-10-12,"b""Turkey has postponed a joint air force drill after opposing Israel's participation because of the war in Gaza."""
2009-10-12,"b""The U.S. announces plans to send the USS George Washington to the South Korean port of Busan on Tuesday; North Korea fires five short-range missiles off its coast and declared a 'no sail' zone in the area from October 10-20. Probably just a coincidence."""
2009-10-12,"b'""I don\'t think it\'s nice to have diversity anywhere, myself."" BNP wives - a 46-minute documentary on the British right-wing'"
2009-10-12,b'Jordan is one of the most water-scarce countries in the world. High population growth and the depletion of groundwater reserves are threatening to aggravate this situation in the future.'
2009-10-12,"b'Zhanglidong, China  Visitors can smell this village long before they see it'"
2009-10-12,b'China to continue birth control policy: vice premier'
2009-10-12,"b""N Korea 'test-fires two missiles' """
2009-10-12,b'The Top 3 -Isms in the Middle East'
2009-10-12,"b'Benefits of Piracy in Somalia: Scared international fishing trawlers avoid region and as a result, local fishing thriving'"
2009-10-12,"b'Study suggests many of the Canadians who died or hospitalised earlier this year with H1N1 virus were young adults, female and aboriginal'"
2009-10-12,"b""Afghanistan: Interview with Malalai Joya -- The occupation is `a war on the Afghan people'"""
2009-10-12,"b""'Crumbs instead of Cake' - Germany's New \r\nGovernment Faces Reality Check"""
2009-10-12,"b'40 years later, man arrested for New York plane hijacking '"
2009-10-12,b'Amazon To Charge Oz Kindle Users 40 Percent Extra Per Book '
2009-10-11,b'Man donates rape reward to victim'
2009-10-11,b'CERN physicist from LHC team admits links with al-Qaida'
2009-10-11,"b'France: Why Telecom workers kill themselves - In their suicide notes, some 24 French victims blame workplace climate.'"
2009-10-11,b'Turkey has canceled an annual NATO drill that was to have taken place this week because it opposed Israeli participation'
2009-10-11,b'Mexicos LyFC ( company that supplies electric power to four central states and the capital ) is disappeared and installations raided  by federal police.Problems with union ahead.'
2009-10-11,"b'Militants dead, arrested as Pakistan Army HQ siege ends'"
2009-10-11,b'Pakistani security forces rescue hostages held by militants.'
2009-10-11,b'Mexican Mayor Latest Drug War Casualty'
2009-10-11,b'Turkey and Armenia sign accords to normalize relations'
2009-10-11,"b'In Afghanistan, more women are driving'"
2009-10-11,"b""Israel to Palestinians: If you don't want to be collectively punished, forget supporting a UN investigation of Gaza war collective punishment   """
2009-10-11,b'Colombia renames their disgraced intelligence agency to Central Intelligence Agency.  I guess they no longer feel compelled to maintain their facade of sovereignty.'
2009-10-11,"b""Damage to UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's eye raises questions about his future - is he preparing the ground for an exit strategy"""
2009-10-11,"b""Sick soldier dies of cancer after being given smoker's lungs in transplant. Lungs had cancer before implanted. """
2009-10-11,b'IRAQ Bomb attack on Sunni Imam: killed because he criticized Al-Qaeda'
2009-10-11,"b'CHINA Death sentence for a Chinese Han, at the origin of Xinjiang clashes'"
2009-10-11,"b'UN Charter: Members shall refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state... The Sec Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken'"
2009-10-11,b'Turkey and Armenia to Re-Establish Diplomatic Ties Today: Historic accord signed following last minute intervention from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.'
2009-10-11,"b""For all the Russian nationalism in last night's Russia vs. Germany World Cup qualifier, the Russian team was sponsored by Volkswagen"""
2009-10-11,b'No Afghan Involved In 9/11 Attacks: Afghan Warlord'
2009-10-11,b'Chinese Dissidents Disappointed By Obamas Nobel Peace Prize'
2009-10-11,b'Afghan Hezbollah?  An alternative Approach'
2009-10-11,"b' Islam, Israel and the United States '"
2009-10-11,b'Clinton: terrorists increasing threat to Pakistan'
2009-10-11,"b""South Africa: ANC's coup in Kennedy Road; Shack dwellers: `Our movement is under attack!'"""
2009-10-10,b'China detects deadly nerve gas at border with NKorea: report'
2009-10-10,b'Quiz: Can you name all the countries of the world in 15 minutes? '
2009-10-10,b'This is where Russian gas comes from: Yamal peninsula native Nenets people will see their nomadic lifestyle destroyed by oil and gas industry'
2009-10-10,"b""Director of rightwing lobby group the Taxpayer's Alliance lives in France and doesn't pay British tax"""
2009-10-10,b'Iran - Three sentenced to death over election protests'
2009-10-10,"b'Landowners in Honduras hired Colombian paramilitaries, UN says'"
2009-10-10,"b'South Africa drug kingpin gave top cop, one-time \r\nInterpol president, gifts as ""friend"".'"
2009-10-10,b'Civilian deaths are down this year in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and residents face fewer disruptions. The secret? Counterinsurgency tactics imported from Iraq that emphasize building up living conditions over simply hunting down militants.'
2009-10-10,"b'German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised the efforts of Google to build a massive digital library, saying the Internet should not be exempt from copyright laws.\r\n'"
2009-10-10,"b"" Samples of ancient air extracted from deep inside the Antarctic and Greenland ice caps make it clear that CO2 is scarce in the atmosphere during ice ages and relatively abundant during warmer interglacial periods  like the one we're in now.\r\n\r\n"""
2009-10-10,"b'Washington Post: Instead Of Obama, The Nobel Peace Prize Should Go To Neda Of Iran'"
2009-10-10,b'Senate and Congress Helps DoD Hide Torture Photos. Stash the illegal activity in an appropriations bill. '
2009-10-10,b'A Brazilian TV presenter and politician accused of \r\nordering killings to popularise his own television \r\nshow has handed himself in to police to face \r\ncharges.'
2009-10-10,b'Israeli Cabinet minister warns Iran will be destroyed if it attacks Israel'
2009-10-10,b'Two-year-old with same IQ as Einstein'
2009-10-10,b'Feeding the world: which countries are most at risk?'
2009-10-10,b'Kremlin accused of fixing Russian vote: \nOpposition charges voting for Moscow city council is rigged in advance.'
2009-10-10,b'Yahoo vigorously denies charges that it turned over user names to Iran'
2009-10-10,"b'Nobel Peace Prize fully exposes the illusion that is Barack Obama""'"
2009-10-10,b'All indigenous peoples of the world have the United \r\nNations-endorsed right not to be colonised'
2009-10-10,b'French marines on trawlers repel pirates in Indian Ocean'
2009-10-10,b'Gunmen attack Pakistani army HQ and take hostages'
2009-10-10,"b""Pretoria Metro cop 'leads' robbery gang."""
2009-10-10,b'Ethiopia: Just too many babies'
2009-10-09,"b'Yahoo provided Iran with the names of 200,000 users'"
2009-10-09,"b'Peter Brierley, whose 28-year-old son Shaun died in March 2003, refused to shake Blair\'s hand when he offered it, telling the ex premier: ""I\'m not shaking your hand, you\'ve got blood on it.""'"
2009-10-09,b'France has arrested a CERN researcher with suspected al-Qaeda links'
2009-10-09,b'French President Sarkozy accused of nepotism after handing top post to 23-year-old son'
2009-10-09,b'Global Muslim population hits 1.57 billion: nearly 1 in 4 people in the world practice Islam.'
2009-10-09,b'What a bizarre microcosm view of the global financial crisis: Hamas is bailing out speculators who went from boom to bust when Israeli warplanes blew up their smuggling tunnels into Egypt.'
2009-10-09,b'Stop nuclear proliferation in the Middle East - disarm Israel already!'
2009-10-09,b'Israeli media mogul looking to buy 50% of Al-Jazeera'
2009-10-09,"b""Moldova, where Lenin still stands - How the Communist Party has held on to Moldovans' votes"""
2009-10-09,"b""Less than a month ago, South Africa's President Jacob Zuma set up an anti-corruption hotline.  On its first day it took 27,000 calls and had in its first three hours received some 7,300 complaints from frustrated citizens. Overwhelmed, no one seems able to get through."""
2009-10-09,"b'Debt Moratorium in Iceland. ""A leading member of the Icelandic parliament called Monday night for the country to declare a debt moratorium and stop attempting to pay the $6 billion which the British and Netherlands governments are seeking to extort from Iceland...""'"
2009-10-09,b'Iraqis Question Merit of Peace-Prize.'
2009-10-09,"b'A court in Vietnam has sentenced six democracy activists to up to six years in prison for ""spreading propaganda"" against the government. (Article includes creepy Big Brother-esque pics)'"
2009-10-09,"b'Egypt says the Louvre must return ""stolen"" artifacts or forget about ever exhibiting our historical treasures again.  The Louvre says, ""Yes, sir; right away, sir!""'"
2009-10-09,"b'According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, there are currently 2.1 billion Christians, 1.57 billion Muslims, 900 million Hindus and 14 million Jews worldwide.'"
2009-10-09,"b'Pakistan: Suicide car bomb kills 41, wounds 100, gov left with ""no other option"" but to launch an offensive in the militant stronghold of South Waziristan'"
2009-10-09,"b""Residents of Kabul, Baghdad and Jerusalem voice reservations at US president's award."""
2009-10-09,b'Nearly 1 in 4 people worldwide is Muslim.'
2009-10-09,"b'The latest sign that Democracy and Capitalism have \r\ntriumphed in Iraq: ""I\'ve seen mothers haggle with \r\nagents over the price of their daughters""'"
2009-10-09,"b'Energy bills could rise 60%, UK customers warned'"
2009-10-09,b'Czech president Klaus makes last move to stop Lisbon Treaty '
2009-10-09,"b'Obama: ""surprised and deeply humbled"" to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and ""calls to action""'"
2009-10-09,"b'""No other country in the world would so readily offer its citizens to the US as sacrificial lambs merely to safeguard a \'special political relationship\'.""'"
2009-10-09,b'Israeli FM says anyone who expects Israel to make peace with Palestinians is Delusional.'
2009-10-09,b'The war in Sri Lanka ended months ago. So why does the Sri Lankan military need another $300 million to get it through the year?'
2009-10-08,"b""Oh wow. Joseph Stalin's grandson, Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, has launched a court action claiming a liberal Russian newspaper has defamed the former Soviet dictator by claiming Stalin ordered the deaths of Soviet citizens."""
2009-10-08,"b""berlusconi immunity 'overturned'"""
2009-10-08,"b'French culture minister, Frdric Mitterrand, faced calls for his resignation over an autobiography in which he described paying ""young boys"" for sex while abroad'"
2009-10-08,b'American soldiers serving in Afghanistan are depressed and deeply disillusioned'
2009-10-08,"b"" 'Mass Slaughter Is a Systemic Problem of the Modern World' - The political scientist Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has never been one to shy away from controversy. In his new book, he argues that state leaders who propagate genocide should be killed outright."""
2009-10-08,"b""Amazon Kindle Goes International: I still don't get it. What's the appeal of a connected device that won't let you browse decently, won't accept many etext formats, and tries to lock you in in so many ways?"""
2009-10-08,"b'EU backs UN Gaza report, disappointing Israel'"
2009-10-08,"b'This will affect the whole food chain, the one you are at the top of.\r\n'"
2009-10-08,b'A recent poll found that more than half of Israeli Jews believed intermarriage should be equated with national treason'
2009-10-08,b'Saudis ask for aid if world cuts dependence on oil'
2009-10-08,b'Tehran claims U.S. played a role in the disappearance of an Iranian nuclear scientist.'
2009-10-08,"b'Romania unveiled a new Holocaust memorial in Bucharest today, saying the nation was now facing up to its role in the killing of Jews and Gypsies during World War Two after decades of official denial.'"
2009-10-08,"b'Nigeria offers a two-month period in which militants can surrender with amnesty.  Over 8,000 militants turn themselves in, surrendering 5,000 weapons and 18 gunboats.'"
2009-10-08,"b""German author Herta Mueller won the 2009 Nobel Literature Prize for her work inspired by her life under Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship in Romania"""
2009-10-08,"b""EU draws up plans to establish itself as 'world power'"""
2009-10-08,b'Muslims form quarter of world population'
2009-10-08,b'Saudis ask for aid if world cuts dependence on oil'
2009-10-08,"b'Israel\'s FM Avigdor Lieberman: Peace is an Illusion ""learn to live with it""'"
2009-10-08,"b'Ahead of the change of law, limiting Spains laws of universal jurisdiction, a legal case was filed at the Audiencia Nacional against four United States presidents and four United Kingdom prime ministers for war crimes.'"
2009-10-08,b'Israel FM to tell U.S. envoy no peace deal possible'
2009-10-08,"b'Taliban suicide bomber has attacked the Indian embassy in Kabul, killing at least 17'"
2009-10-08,"b'In Macedonia, a new national encyclopaedia has sparked a row worthy of the 19th century, with furious denunciations, forced resignations, hurried political intervention and appeals to outsiders to join in the condemnation of insulting entries.'"
2009-10-08,b'Taliban claim they pose no threat to west. Statement on known Taliban website may indicate that leaders are retreating from alliance with al-Qaida'
2009-10-08,b'Tsunami alert issued after huge quake rocks Pacific'
2009-10-08,"b""Raise R&D spending in Europe to a gargantuan 5% of GDP by 2030. Triple the share of the European Union's budget spent on science, and triple national outlays on higher education within Europe as well. And while we're at it: Double the percentage of the E.U. population with a tertiary education"""
2009-10-07,"b'The great energy rip-off in UK: Utility companies put up power prices by 42% last year, or 382 per household. Since then, the wholesale cost of gas and electricity has halved but bills have fallen by only 4%...wtf?!'"
2009-10-07,"b""Piracy: You're doing it wrong"""
2009-10-07,b'[Classic War Nerd] The French'
2009-10-07,b'Latvia pushes back against the IMF and EU - by threatening to bail out their mortgage holders instead of European banks'
2009-10-07,"b'Four RCMP officers lied, Polish lawyer tells Taser inquiry into the death of Robert Dziekanski in incident at Vancouver airport'"
2009-10-07,"b""For all the recent uproar over Iran's nuclear program, little attention has been paid to the fact that the country which first provided Tehran with nuclear equipment was the US"""
2009-10-07,b'Italian MPs to consider ban on full Islamic dress for women'
2009-10-07,b'Bahai Cemetery Ruined for the 18th Time'
2009-10-07,"b'Teenage girl goes Rambo on homewrecking terrorists - kills leader with a hatchet, steals his gun, and sends his cronies running. '"
2009-10-07,b'Everyone is dead: Four villages in Indonesia may be declared mass graves after earthquake'
2009-10-07,"b""Canada's prostitution laws are puzzling, ill-conceived and contribute to horrific violence against sex workers; calls for prostitution to be decriminalized"""
2009-10-07,"b""Iran's Revolutionary Guards have bought a controlling stake in the country's telecommunications company, fuelling suspicions that the organisation is quietly staging a military takeover."""
2009-10-07,b'Somali pirates launch terrifying attack on lone ship in the Indian ocean with Kalashnikov assault rifles. Unfortunately for them it happened to be a French warship'
2009-10-07,b'An Israeli cabinet minister has cancelled a visit to \r\nBritain for fear he might be arrested on allegations \r\nhe committed war crimes.'
2009-10-07,"b""Gore Vidal's United States of fury"""
2009-10-07,b'Sugar becomes the new oil as prices soar: The price of sugar on global commodity markets has doubled since the beginning of the year and is close to 28-yr high!'
2009-10-07,"b""Obama's paradox: admits Afghanistan war is doomed to fail without a transparent, corruption-free gov't in place, but can't dodge the fact Karzai's regime is incredibly corrupt, nor explain how to fix it."""
2009-10-07,"b'Our data in their hands, nowhere near safe. The ID card comedy show trundles on. Security in this country is a joke!'"
2009-10-07,"b""At a demonstration against Guinea's Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara on Sept. 28, witnesses said soldiers opened fire on the crowds and raped and sexually assaulted female protesters. Now the U.S. is insisting Camara take responsibility for the abuses."""
2009-10-07,"b'UK doctors pay some psychiatric patients to make them take their medication: In trial, 68 patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia will get 15 for every jab of anti-psychotic drug'"
2009-10-07,b'Hamas bans Gaza motorcyclists from giving women rides '
2009-10-07,b'Louvre museum accused of buying stolen archeological pieces'
2009-10-07,"b'Obama administration forces Palestinian Authority to drop Demand for Vote on Gaza Report - ""This report would have finally eliminated the impunity Israel enjoys in international law and would have held them accountable for the war crimes that took place in Gaza.'"
2009-10-07,b'NATO seeks more Russian help in Afghanistan'
2009-10-07,"b""The plan to de-dollarise the oil market, denied by Saudi Arabia being, as expected  reflects a growing resentment in the Middle East, Europe and in China at America's decades-long political as well as economic world dominance."""
2009-10-06,b'Italian prosecutor states CIA kidnapping case too grave to cover up'
2009-10-06,"b""I guess they didn't ask Reddit..."""
2009-10-06,b'One of the most-wanted suspects in the Rwandan genocide has been arrested '
2009-10-06,"b'Banks which helped Madoff skim billions set salary limits, non rich people need not apply for accounts'"
2009-10-06,b'The G-7 Abandons The Dollar - Forbes.com'
2009-10-06,"b'The plight of 400,000 refugees no one has ever heard of'"
2009-10-06,"b'Cellphone snapshots show that women were the particular targets of Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium last week, with victims and witnesses describing rapes, beatings and acts of intentional humiliation.'"
2009-10-06,"b'Tony Morgan, who set up the site, said: This could turn out to be the best crime prevention weapon theres ever been. I wanted to combine the serious business of stopping crime with the incentive of winning money. '"
2009-10-06,"b""When the army's in the dock, - How British war crimes in Iraq were covered up| George Monbiot in the Guardian"""
2009-10-06,b'Irish voters say yes to Lisbon treaty (With some explanation of what this means)'
2009-10-06,"b'Convicted pedophile awarded $93k after being assaulted in prison. Says ""I don\'t  want her finding out because she\'s going to go me for it""'"
2009-10-06,b'North Korea finds out its starving population is about to freeze to death.'
2009-10-06,"b'Leaked IAEA paper: ""Project 110"" is the code name of Iran\'s secret effort to produce a nuclear warhead capable of fitting inside the nose cone of a Shahab 3 missile. '"
2009-10-06,b'Remote villages in Sumatra have been severely hit by the quake but are hard to reach. A report from the ground.'
2009-10-06,"b""Britain's The Independent newspaper says Gulf Arab states are in secret talks with Russia, China, Japan and France to replace the US dollar with a basket of currencies in the trading of oil."""
2009-10-06,b'More sex leads to less AIDS according to MIT economists.'
2009-10-06,"b'Summary of Goldstone report: Generally OK to shoot at civilians while hiding behind civilians, but a horrible war crime to try and prevent it. Terrorists of the world, rejoice.'"
2009-10-06,"b'The Independent Fact Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia is more than good: in a field generally characterised by mediocrity, it is a rare gem. It suggests, among other things, the need for more clarity on what, if any, are the agreed rules for the making, breaking and interaction of states.'"
2009-10-06,b'New Zealanders can now make online submissions to parliamentary committees'
2009-10-06,"b'Something is afoot in central Africa and we are dropping the ball. On a visit to the region in 2007, a deep source at the UN told me that his/her expectation was that violence and genocide could erupt again and that the epicenter would be Burundi.'"
2009-10-06,"b""Egypt's top cleric to ban veils in schools"""
2009-10-06,"b'After being forced from their monastery last week, 354 followers of exiled monk Thich Nhat Hanh face new police pressure to leave the temple where they sought refuge. ""We see clearly that they don\'t want our young nuns and monks to stay together and practice as a community.""'"
2009-10-06,b'A senior Israeli cabinet minister has blamed local human rights groups for hindering travel abroad by some leading officials concerned that they might faces war crimes charges.'
2009-10-06,"b'Parma Returns to the Philippines - It is indeed Strike Three as Parma again made landfall in the Philippines, this time on the northern tip of Ilocos Norte in extreme Northern Luzon'"
2009-10-06,"b'Top Palestinian Negotiator: ""Israel is lighting matches in hopes of igniting a big fire""'"
2009-10-05,b'A European-led revolution in chemical regulation that requires that thousands of chemicals finally be assessed for their potentially toxic effects on human beings and the environment signals the end of American industrys ability to withhold critical data from the public. '
2009-10-05,"b""Egypt cleric 'to ban full veils': The Egyptian newspaper al-Masri al-Yom quoted him expressing surprise at the girl's attire and telling her it was merely a tradition, with no connection to religion or the Koran."""
2009-10-05,b'10 million people rendered homeless and nearly 2 million houses destroyed in flooding caused by heavy rains across southern India.'
2009-10-05,"b""Norway has retained its status as the world's most desirable country to live """
2009-10-05,"b""Israel's former military chief, now a government minister, cancels a visit to London fearing arrest for alleged war crimes."""
2009-10-05,"b'Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei said that ""Israel is number one threat to Middle East"" with its nuclear arms'"
2009-10-05,"b'IAEA:  ""With respect to a recent media report, the IAEA reiterates that it has no concrete proof that there is or has been a nuclear weapon programme in Iran.""\r\n'"
2009-10-05,"b""Socialists win in Greece defeating the center-right government of Karamanlis; 'hard work' ahead, Papandreou says"""
2009-10-05,"b""On maps, Crimea is Ukrainian territory, but when court bailiffs tried to serve papers at a lighthouse here last month, they suddenly found themselves surrounded by armed troops from Russia's Black Sea Fleet who delivered them to police as if they were trespassing teenagers. """
2009-10-05,"b'Ahmadenijad Jewish ? As I Suspected, Too Good To Be True'"
2009-10-05,b'The financial derivatives market is 8.5 x the entire global GDP. Someone explain to me how that is possible. Or is Goldman-Sachs playing with Monopoly money?'
2009-10-05,b'Suicide Bomb Blast at UN Office in Pakistani Capital'
2009-10-05,"b""McDonald's restaurants to open at the Louvre """
2009-10-05,"b'Colombian teachers face highest rates of political violence: ""political violence against educators cannot, and should not, be separated from an understanding of... a highly unequal development model favouring a small minority of wealthy elites at the expense of the vast majority of the population""'"
2009-10-05,"b""Family planning is a divisive issue in Uganda, but Amref's approach to encouraging more people in Katine to use contraceptives is paying off"""
2009-10-05,b'Australia is the 2nd best place to live - after Norway???'
2009-10-05,"b'Greece: After killing Alexandros Grigoropoulos last year, ruling right-wing regime loses by 10 percentage points'"
2009-10-05,b'Honduras: The threat of a Haiti-style foreign military occupation'
2009-10-05,"b""Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri accused Libya of torturing to death a militant whose confession was used to justify the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq."""
2009-10-05,b'Ex-(drunk) Finance Minister Nakagawa Found Dead At Tokyo Home'
2009-10-05,"b'Baby mammoth yields secrets after 40,000 years in Siberian tundra '"
2009-10-05,"b'Germans re-elected Angela Merkel, but how well do they know her? '"
2009-10-05,"b""The niqab, a full veil worn by some devout Muslim women which covers the entire body except for the eyes, has come under fire in several countries, but this isn't exactly the first place you'd expect to find it banned from schools."""
2009-10-05,"b'Ten years after a nuclear accident killed two plant workers and shattered the ""safety myth"" surrounding atomic power generation, Japan still has much work to do in improving responses to cases of radiation exposure'"
2009-10-05,"b""Outrageous behavior by Islamic Movement: inflaming Muslims to storm Al-Aqsa on Jewish holiday. Invents conspiracy that Jews are taking over their mosque although it's a traditional week of Jewish gathering at the Western Wall. Hamas calls for Intifada, and Jordan warns Israeli ambassador."""
2009-10-04,"b'""So I wonder what the voting recording on the this two-state solution everyone is talking about!HOLY SHIT!""\n'"
2009-10-04,"b'Roman Polanski in 1979: ""If I had killed somebody, it wouldnt have had so much appeal to the press, you see? But fing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f young girls. Juries want to f young girls. Everyone wants to f young girls!""'"
2009-10-04,"b'I was ordered to cover up President Karzai election fraud, sacked UN envoy says'"
2009-10-04,b'London challenges bottled water industry by installing drinking machines at rail and bus stations to benefit commuters'
2009-10-04,b'Overseas students are better at English than the British'
2009-10-04,"b""Ninety percent of the Afghan army can't read """
2009-10-04,"b'Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, often called ""The voice of Latin America"", dies aged 74'"
2009-10-04,b'Italians rally for press freedom'
2009-10-04,"b""Why is the country so short of money that we can't even rebuild the London\nTube? Because we allow the banks a monopoly to create it, and they charge\nthe earth."""
2009-10-04,"b'Sea of blood: Every year, thousands of dolphins are herded into a tranquil cove in Japan where some are captured for sale to marine parks, the rest slaughtered for their meat'"
2009-10-04,b'Silvio Berlusconi firm to pay 690m compensation for bribing judge'
2009-10-04,b'The West is trying to make it seem like Iran did something wrong in regards to their second uranium enrichment site. That may not be the case.'
2009-10-04,b'US economic power is declining'
2009-10-04,b'North Korean ship detained by Indian Navy'
2009-10-04,"b'WTF!?? Air India pilots, crew come to blows in the cockpit at 30,000 ft, endangering the lives of passengers and grossly violating safety norms '"
2009-10-04,b'Palestinians blackmailed by America \r\nnot to endorse the UN resolution to \r\ncharge Israel with war crimes  '
2009-10-04,"b""Afghanistan: Soldiers accused of using 'dum-dum' bullets. (Dum-dum bullets have been illegal under the Geneva Conventions since just after WWI.) Illegal ammunition found in possession of Danish soldiers in Afghanistan  accused face severe penalties."""
2009-10-04,b'UN nuclear watchdog praises Iran for setting date to open its newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant to international inspection.'
2009-10-04,b'I think that cancer will become a disease that is not a major cause of death. '
2009-10-04,b'Israel security forces have closed off the al-Aqsa \r\nmosque compound in Jersualem as more than 200 \r\nPalestinians stage a sit-in at the site - Al Jazeera'
2009-10-04,b'Japan - Postwar defense aide was CIA mole'
2009-10-04,"b'Irans nuclear threat is a lie. Obama\'s ""showdown"" with Iran has another agenda. The media have been tasked with preparing the public for endless war.'"
2009-10-04,b'Socialists trounce conservatives in Greek election.'
2009-10-04,"b'Natasha has, unfortunately, over the past two decades become a byword for a Russian prostitute'"
2009-10-04,"b""'They were sucked deep into the earth'"""
2009-10-03,b'Rio de Janeiro WON!!! Rio Olympics 2016'
2009-10-03,b'Palestinians pressured by America not to endorse the UN resolution to charge Israel with war crimes'
2009-10-03,b'Tens of thousands rally on the streets of Rome against Berlusconi for his attacks on press freedom'
2009-10-03,"b'Does anyone else find it strange that the Fox News was so horrified about the Olympics taking place in Chicago due to fears of gang violence? In 2008, Chicago had 510 murders. Rio had 5,700.'"
2009-10-03,"b'Up to 4,000 buried in Indonesian quake rubble'"
2009-10-03,b'Think terrorists only grow on one side of the fence? An event pivotal to the beginning of the mass exodus of Palestinians was that of an incident of terrorism by Zionist groups: the massacre of the village of Deir Yassin in 1948'
2009-10-03,"b""Sumatra quake 'levelled villages' - Thousands of people may have died"""
2009-10-03,b'Report: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was born a Jew'
2009-10-03,b'Mahmoud Ahmadinejad revealed to have Jewish past'
2009-10-03,"b'Venezuela: Peasants training to protect one another after shootings. ""It\'s like one\'s life is worth nothing, like the life of the person with money is the one with value.""'"
2009-10-03,"b'When all his upper teeth were bashed out, he was 61. The guards refused to let him get dentures for eight years, leaving him to gum his food.'"
2009-10-03,"b'Growing recognition in Europe and North America that religious illiteracy is creating serious barriers between cultures, say scholars.'"
2009-10-03,b'Chaos as almost all transatlantic flights between Britain and North America have been grounded by a major air traffic control failure'
2009-10-03,b'Disasters in Asia: International Red Cross Red Crescent appeals for close to 7.75 million US dollars to respond to emergencies in the Philippines and Viet Nam. '
2009-10-03,"b'US paid reward to Lockerbie witness, legal papers claim'"
2009-10-03,b'Italy: Berlusconi braces for protest in defence of press freedom'
2009-10-03,b'Afghan soldier shoots dead two American troops'
2009-10-03,b'Britain must grow up and stop believing Europhobe nonsense'
2009-10-03,"b'In Indonesian villages, nearly all residents feared buried in rubble | UstaadKhan Blogs'"
2009-10-03,"b'A story of politics, hopes and dreams, difficulties and Beer: ""Taybeh"", The first and only Palestinian Beer.'"
2009-10-03,b'Surprise: Pro-Chavez Candidates Win in Venezuela Oil Industry Union Elections'
2009-10-03,"b'Population, famine and fate in Ethiopia'"
2009-10-03,b'Blame it on Rio'
2009-10-03,b'Photos of dogs at MCACC West as of 1 October 2009'
2009-10-03,b'IMF confident about Iraq loan'
2009-10-02,b'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind : true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk'
2009-10-02,b'Romania government collapses'
2009-10-02,"b""EU's food agency threw out every one of the 180 claims that probiotic ingredients improve health. Now 220m-a-year 'dairy shots' industry in disarray following EU scientists' ruling """
2009-10-02,b'Australian town ban commercially-bottled water:  Drinking fountains replace shop-bought mineral water in environmental initiative'
2009-10-02,"b'No English please, We are in Germany here'"
2009-10-02,b'Man who accidentally cut off his arm with a chainsaw has had it re-attached and is now working normally'
2009-10-02,"b""Police in bras and stockings? With 10 others, I have been charged with impersonating a police officer, punishable by six months' jail, for a G20 protest. Why?"""
2009-10-02,"b""Tomorrow, 4,000,000 people will vote (again) on behalf of 496,000,000  -  Ireland and the EU's Lisbon Treaty."""
2009-10-02,b'BBC admits al qaeda never existed'
2009-10-02,"b'A quarter of Iceland\'s population may refuse to pay mortgages: ""People are very angry because we feel the banks were gambling with the economy, with the currency, stealing, stealing our properties.""'"
2009-10-02,b'Video shows Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit well; Palestinian prisoners freed.'
2009-10-02,"b""Tony Blair Set To Become Europe's First President"""
2009-10-02,b'IPCC sticks to Menezes decision: The police who shot and killed a Brazilian plumber in London will face no disciplinary action.'
2009-10-02,"b'Stung by a damning U.N. report alleging war \r\ncrimes in Gaza, Israel is trying to dodge overseas \r\nprosecution.'"
2009-10-02,"b'Farm of fear: Between 1922 and 1967 up to 10,000 children migrated from Britain to Australia under officially-approved schemes, thinking they were heading for a better life. While some remember the experience fondly, others became victims of beatings and sexual abuse'"
2009-10-02,b'Police have shut down an enormous cocaine \r\nsmuggling network involving senior Israeli \r\ncriminals and Panamanian mobsters.'
2009-10-02,"b""Three days of blood-soaked butchery in the unfamiliar forests of Germany culminated in one of the Roman Empire's darkest moments, and may have helped shape the Europe of today"""
2009-10-02,b'Ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has been sentenced to six years in jail for corruption by a court in Lima'
2009-10-02,"b""Colombia's spy scandal - The intelligence agency has been spying on Colombians, but most don't care if it means they're safer from guerrillas"""
2009-10-02,"b'California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger waded into the Roman Polanski case Thursday, saying that while he admires the Oscar-winning director\'s work, he would not treat his ""situation any differently than everyone else.""'"
2009-10-02,"b""Peru's Northern Amazon -- Blighted By The Toxic Legacy of Oil: 35 years of oil production in Block 1AB in the northern Amazon has left indigenous peoples, who have lived in the area since time immemorial, suffering malnutrition, sickness and social disruption"""
2009-10-02,b'Indicted War Criminal Ratko Mladic protected by Americans.'
2009-10-02,"b""Does anyone else think something radical happened when they see Government 'collapses' or 'dissolves', and then realize it is simply parliamentary machinations? """
2009-10-02,"b'""56% of American Jews think U.S. should strike Iran.""  66% think Israel should. '"
2009-10-02,b'Ecuador: Police battled Amazon Indians protesting against laws they believe will threaten their lands.'
2009-10-01,b'Roman Catholic Nova Scotia bishop busted at \r\nCanadian airport with a laptop full of child porn.  \r\nThe real kicker: he is the one who previously \r\nhelped broker a $15-million settlement with people \r\nsexually abused by other priests in the diocese.'
2009-10-01,b'Catholic Church: Only 5% of clergy involved in child sex abuse'
2009-10-01,"b""Stephen Hawking gives up prestigious position as Cambridge's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics"""
2009-10-01,b'Israeli diplomat expelled from Russia (accused of espionage)'
2009-10-01,b'Philippines raises alert for new super typhoon less than a week after an earlier storm killed 277'
2009-10-01,"b'As a confidence building measure Iran is shipping 1,200 kg of enriched uranium to Russia so it will no longer have enough to build a bomb'"
2009-10-01,"b'China\'s air force deployed a ""magic-like"" range of chemicals and technology to clear Beijing\'s smoggy air for a grand parade marking the 60th anniversary'"
2009-10-01,b'Italian prosecutor wants jail for US spies in rendition trial'
2009-10-01,b'The magnitude 8.0 earthquake that occurred near Samoa may have triggered the magnitude 7.6 quake that struck hours later off the coast of Indonesia.'
2009-10-01,b'The European Court of Human Rights has ruled a Russian ban on the Church of Scientology illegal.'
2009-10-01,"b'IMF Director Almost Shoed: ""A female student then tried to unfurl a banner but was surrounded by security officials""'"
2009-10-01,"b""Here's how Israel would destroy Iran's nuclear program """
2009-10-01,"b""Afghanistan's drug economy is as pervasive as its poppy fields, linking impoverished farmers, heroin traffickers, and the Taliban [pics]"""
2009-10-01,"b'Some kids call in a bomb threat, some pull the fire alarm...'"
2009-10-01,b'Germany: Using Giants to Celebrate Reunification [pics]'
2009-10-01,b'First face to face discussion between Iran and the United States over the nuclear issue'
2009-10-01,b'Indonesia quake toll soars past 400. I do not recommend living in Indonesia.'
2009-10-01,b'Is Bagram the new Guantanamo?  A cogent and civil discussion with great points from both sides of the issue (without anyone screaming at each other)'
2009-10-01,b'Red Cross: we need a global strategy to deal with natural disasters'
2009-10-01,"b""Indonesia's latest earthquake disaster - A correspondent on the ground in Sumatra weighs in on fear, folklore and desperate rescue efforts"""
2009-10-01,"b""Israel releases teenager Bara'a el-Malki, 15, 1st prisoner in captive IDF soldier Gilad Schalit deal """
2009-10-01,b'Court order served over Twitter o_O'
2009-10-01,b'Naval intel agent caught spying on famous Philippine artist'
2009-10-01,"b""America's sound cannon has nothing on the UK's plan to arm cops with pain rays."""
2009-10-01,b'Google executives in Italy may go to jail because a YouTube user uploaded an offensive video'
2009-09-30,"b""Don't mess with the farmer's daughter. Holy crap."""
2009-09-30,b'Slovenia raises taxes on executive bonuses to 90% for companies receiving bailout money'
2009-09-30,b'Chinese dwarves set up their own village\r\nA community of dwarves has set up its own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people. \r\n\r\n'
2009-09-30,b'BBC News acquired amateur footage of a tsunami wave coming ashore Samoa'
2009-09-30,"b'In historic move, Turkey and Armenia to formally establish diplomatic ties'"
2009-09-30,"b'Earlier this week, about 150 local residents and plainclothes police used violence to force as many monks from a monastery run by followers of Buddhist exile Thich Nhat Hanh. ""The Vietnamese government has won,"" said Sister Dang Nghiem. ""Everything is smashed.""'"
2009-09-30,b'Asteroid Strikes Pacific Ocean - Creates Rogue Wave over 100ft tall??? '
2009-09-30,"b""Food Wars?: In the next 50 years the world's population will eat as much food as it has consumed over human history."""
2009-09-30,"b""'No. Come on. Stop it.' Polanski's rape of 13 year old was not 'statutory' rape but his fellow elite still give him a pass"""
2009-09-30,"b""Guinea junta troops 'killed and raped hundreds at democracy rally'"""
2009-09-30,"b'The Islamificafion of Gaza: new rules prohibit topless MEN from bathing at the beach, wearing shorts on own balcony'"
2009-09-30,"b'Here we go again. Another major Earthquake, another Tsunami warning. 7.9 Earthquake rocks Indonesia.'"
2009-09-30,b'EU investigation blames Georgia for starting war with Russia in 2008'
2009-09-30,b'Eyewitness: On air filmed the second wave hitting the harbour when tsunami hit Samoa (W/Video)'
2009-09-30,"b'Israel Takes Delivery of 2 German-Built U212 Subs. ""The submarines, called U212s, can launch cruise missiles carrying nuclear warheads, although when it confirmed the sale in 2006 the German government said the two vessels were not equipped to carry nuclear weapons.""'"
2009-09-30,b'Decapitation: School fete turns violent'
2009-09-30,"b""Population: Europe's problems will grow as it shrinks"""
2009-09-30,"b'Nothing in war is safe, not even leaflets. Young girl is killed by RAF leaflet drop in Afghanistan'"
2009-09-30,"b""Juan Cole: Is the media exaggerating the Iranian nuke threat? If Iran is open to U.N. inspections, it's probably not constructing nuclear weapons"""
2009-09-30,"b""Iranians students haven't been cowed by this summer's violence and subsequent crackdown - they started the school year by protesting Ahmadinejad in spite of the risks they faced from doing so"""
2009-09-30,b'An earthquake of magnitude 7.9 has struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra.'
2009-09-30,b'French unease at telecom suicides'
2009-09-30,b'Japans government plans to submit legislation to allow married women to keep their maiden names'
2009-09-30,"b'By 2050, 25m more children will go hungry as climate change leads to food crisis'"
2009-09-30,"b'France Records 13% Rise in Arms Sales. ""The United States led with 52.3 percent of the world market, followed by Britain with 13.7 percent, and Russia 8.2 percent. Israel is the fifth-largest arms exporter with a 5 percent share.""'"
2009-09-29,"b'Women working on Chiquitas plantations in Honduras work from 6:30 a.m. until 7 at night, their hands burning up inside rubber gloves.  Some workers are as young as 14'"
2009-09-29,b'Duct tape cat: US teen arrested on animal cruelty charges!'
2009-09-29,"b'Guy goes to Japan to rescue his abducted children, is thrown in jail.'"
2009-09-29,"b'The absurd war on drugs. Decades of fighting all over the world, thousands of deaths and no results. But a senseless and unwinnable war may be much easier than addressing the real problems '"
2009-09-29,"b'Boycot campaign against Chiquita, who\n""behind the scenes, is supporting those responsible for the coup"" in Honduras'"
2009-09-29,"b'""Chinese Develop Special \'Kill Weapon\' to Destroy US Aircraft Carriers.""'"
2009-09-29,"b'Israel\'s 130 West Bank settlements are illegal under international law, including Article 49; In addition, various UN resolutions condemned Israel\'s settlement building by declaring they have ""no legal validity"" to exist. Yet they do and continue expanding in reckless disregard of the law.'"
2009-09-29,"b'US, NATO reach ""consensus"" to sanction rigged election in Afghanistan. ""The...countries involved in the occupation of Afghanistan have signaled their willingness to recognize the re-election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai despite evidence of massive ballot-stuffing and fraud in the...elections.""'"
2009-09-29,b'Deaths have been reported across Samoa after a powerful 8.3-magnitude quake sparked a tsunami and sent residents fleeing to higher ground across the region this morning.'
2009-09-29,"b'Death toll up to at least 157 in Guinea Massacre, with Human Rights groups reporting soldiers bayoneting people and women being stripped and raped in the streets'"
2009-09-29,b'Lead singer of the official band for the Danish neo-Nazi political party accused of pedophilia\n'
2009-09-29,b'Forget about Iraq. Forget about Palestine. Forget about Iran. The Middle Easts next great threat will come from Yemen  an ancient south Arabian state that is currently on the verge of collapse.'
2009-09-29,b'Taiwanese boy gets even with his father after years of physical abuse.'
2009-09-29,"b'Honduran regime ""shooting bullets at people\'s bodies, without restraint... police even beating those passing by to buy provisions""'"
2009-09-29,b'Muslim women protest harsh sharia law in Indonesian province'
2009-09-29,"b'Tsunami Update: At least 14 dead, 50 injured, due \r\nto tsunami in Samoa.  ""[The] number of casualties \r\nis expected to rise as the injured arrive from \r\ncoastal areas.""'"
2009-09-29,b'Nearly 70 percent of Argentine forests lost in a century'
2009-09-29,"b'The oft-delayed European Union report on the August 2008 Russo-Georgian War is finally nearing release, according to officials, and it will conclude what a myriad of other reports in the interim have already concluded: that Georgia indeed fired the first shot.'"
2009-09-29,b'Herbie held captive!! DVLA denies selling millions of registration and vehicle records to Castrol  '
2009-09-29,"b""APF (American Police Force) In Hardin, Montana. Paramilitary police in Montana. I'd like to be one of the first to point out this is how it (the takeover) began in pre-nazi Germany."""
2009-09-29,b'Pirate Party fires broadside at German political establishment'
2009-09-29,b'Tsunami alert after Samoa quake'
2009-09-29,b'US soldiers killed in Philippines'
2009-09-29,"b'I dont know what kind of stuff you have in New York, Mr. Dong said. But people could strap all sorts of minibombs to pigeon legs.'"
2009-09-29,b'Kazakhstan Remains Ready to House Nuclear Fuel Bank'
2009-09-28,b'Philippine man loses own life after saving 30'
2009-09-28,b'As of now the Pirate Party won 2.1% of votes in the German federal election'
2009-09-28,"b""HIV-positive travelers can't enter the USA, one of only 15 countries to ban HIV-positive travelers from entry"""
2009-09-28,"b""Hey Reddit, the Pirates got 2% of all votes in Germany's elections last night! """
2009-09-28,"b""Why the French Are Outraged Over Roman Polanski's Arrest"""
2009-09-28,b'Looks like Pirates took 2% in German elections. Arr.'
2009-09-28,"b'They repeatedly rejected conventional medical treatment and instead opted for homeopathic remedies.\n\nThen, against doctors\' orders, they took the baby girl to India where her condition deteriorated.\n\nJudge Peter Johnson concluded it was the ""most serious case of manslaughter by criminal negligence"".'"
2009-09-28,"b'Your Internet freedom will be decided over lamb korma tonight. That means you are less important than sheep. Citizens of the EU, prepare to lose your rights. '"
2009-09-28,"b'US issues threat to Pakistan that it may attack Quetta, a major city (pop. 760,000) and provincial capital.'"
2009-09-28,b'Forbes accidentally publishes insider notes on Polanski arrest'
2009-09-28,b'France proposes law that would require photoshopped images carry warnings to viewers'
2009-09-28,"b""Silvio Berlusconi targets Michelle Obama in new 'suntan' gibe"""
2009-09-28,b'Welcome to the New Germany'
2009-09-28,b'Two Guantnamo detainees resettle in Ireland'
2009-09-28,b'Guinea protests turn deady.  At least 58 dead.'
2009-09-28,"b'""For years, I have made the joke about Richard Reid: \'Just be glad that he wasn\'t the underwear bomber.\' Now, sadly, we have an example of one.""'"
2009-09-28,b'Iran launches medium-range missiles.'
2009-09-28,"b'Rather than communicating with the general public, protesters so isolated become engaged in a rehearsed ritual of confrontations with the police that the police will win.'"
2009-09-28,"b""Two Honduran media organisations that have been critical of the country's interim government have been closed and authorities issued a state of emergency suspending key civil liberties for 45 days. """
2009-09-28,b'Honduras Suspends Civil Liberties'
2009-09-28,b'Cuba Pins Hopes on New For-Profit Farms'
2009-09-28,"b""Outcry over Polanski's detention"""
2009-09-28,"b'Ghanas Kayayo girls, striving for a better life'"
2009-09-28,"b'A Journalist is suing the soon-to-be new Egyptian dictator, Jamal Mubarak for embezzlement of Billions of pounds '"
2009-09-28,"b'Honduras suspends civil liberties, closes media stations'"
2009-09-27,"b""There's a huge flood in Manila, Philippines. Had no clue about it... Decided to spread the news to Reddit."""
2009-09-27,"b'No shame: Israel demands PA drop war crimes suit at The Hague, or else it would not permit a second cellular telephone provider to operate'"
2009-09-27,"b'""Dead"" baby wakes up for his funeral wake'"
2009-09-27,b'Iranian Protester Flees Country After Telling of Rape and Torture in Prison '
2009-09-27,"b'""When Obama announced that \'Iran is breaking rules that all nations must follow\', he is technically and legally wrong.""'"
2009-09-27,"b'Spontaneous order in action: Holland slashes traffic regulations, laws, eliminates stop lights; rate of traffic accidents plummet.'"
2009-09-27,b'Germans are set to vote in a general election in which Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking a second term'
2009-09-27,"b'typhoon victims in Philippines in dire need of food/clothing. Call the American Red Cross to help 1-800-435-7669. PLEASE REPOST on your twitter, plurk, and facebook to reach as many people as possible. Thanks Reddit!'"
2009-09-27,b'Iceland plans huge export of whalemeat to Japan'
2009-09-27,"b'British victims of the credit crunch are offering to sell their kidneys for 25,000 or more to help pay debts'"
2009-09-27,"b'Jerusalem ""is solely \'an Arab and Islamic city and it has always been so...\' Jews have never lived there, the Temple never existed, and Israeli archaeologists have admitted as much.""'"
2009-09-27,"b'First projections: Merkel Wins German Election, Has \r\nSlim Majority for Center-Right Government'"
2009-09-27,b'Roman Polanski arrested in Switzerland over sex with underage girl - Telegraph'
2009-09-27,b'Over 100 children in China diagnosed with lead poisoning'
2009-09-27,b'Venezuela bans Family Guy cartoon because it promotes the use of marijuana'
2009-09-27,"b""Saudis will allow Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear site"""
2009-09-27,b'Swiss ministry says Polanski to be extradited'
2009-09-27,b'Email communications interception on the rise in South Korea'
2009-09-27,b'Xinjiang authorities ban online separatist talk'
2009-09-27,"b""Israel the hypocrite: Israel's Dimona Nuclear Weapons Factory In 3D"""
2009-09-27,b'Costa Rica prepares for Nicoya Peninsula earthquake'
2009-09-27,"b'Aussie politico attacks social media-savvy Prime Minister for ""spamming everyone on Facebook"" and the premier for ""tweeting with the energy of a 12yo with Tourettes.""'"
2009-09-27,b'Ahmadinejong-il Redux : Iran tests short-range missiles'
2009-09-27,b'Terror laws could be used to force everyone in the UK to carry a passport just to travel around Britain'
2009-09-27,b'US threatens airstrikes in Pakistan'
2009-09-26,b'Poland okays forcible castration for pedophiles'
2009-09-26,"b'Colombian hitman: 2,500 paramilitary in Venezuela with goal of taking down Chavez'"
2009-09-26,b'Mexican journalist shot to death in newsroom'
2009-09-26,"b'Iran Denies Violating IAEA Rules: ""It is not a secret facility. If it was, why did we inform the IAEA a year ahead of time?""'"
2009-09-26,"b'So. What did we accomplish by shutting down my city, closing my university, beating my friends and neighbors, and turning the streets into a scene from a dystopian horror film? Oh. And some people from far away were here too.'"
2009-09-26,"b""Malalai Joya: Don't be fooled by this democratic faade  the people are betrayed"""
2009-09-26,"b'Surreal drama at UN General Assembly - Ahmadinejad, Gadhafi act out on world stage, while a journalist asks questions about Iran.'"
2009-09-26,"b""It's the tribes, stupid. - An interesting 2006 article about the real enemy in the middle east."""
2009-09-26,b'Israel kills three Islamic Jihad members who may or may not have been preparing to launch rockets.'
2009-09-26,"b'""Has Iran actually violated any specific international obligations here?""'"
2009-09-26,b'Aids Vaccine?'
2009-09-26,"b'See the way Pittsburgh students, people and protesters are treated? Want it to stop? Vote.'"
2009-09-26,"b'""Should any Iraq lessons be applied to Iran? The claims about Iran raise more questions than they answer. Virtually none is being asked by America\'s media""'"
2009-09-26,"b'Getting gay-married in Canada is easy, getting gay-divorced is not so easy'"
2009-09-26,"b""Explosives 'inside' suicide bomber foil security detectors"""
2009-09-26,b'Gorbachev: Nixing the missile defense system is \r\ngood for global security. Obama approval from a \r\nguy with black belt in nuclear threat reduction.'
2009-09-26,b'Vietnam: Government Rejects UN Proposals to Improve its Rights Record'
2009-09-26,"b'Suicide bombs kill 16, wound 150 in Pakistan'"
2009-09-26,b'Wives of Arctic Sea crew demand release of their men'
2009-09-26,b'All students in Pakistans schools required to study Islam'
2009-09-26,"b""Iran shouldn't be condemned for their hidden nuclear program because it is all Israel's fault."""
2009-09-26,"b""How secrecy over Iran's Qom nuclear facility was finally blown away"""
2009-09-26,b'Try not to throw up.'
2009-09-25,"b'Armored Police Seize University of Pittsburgh Campus, Attack Students, Then Claim They Were Stopping Anarchists @ G20'"
2009-09-25,b'A group of 50 French politicians want a new law stating published images must have bold printed notice stating they have been digitally enhanced.'
2009-09-25,"b'Cut off aid to Africa, or at least to their corrupt governments.  ""Most of Africa is actually poorer today than it was a few decades ago, when aid dollars began to increase.""'"
2009-09-25,"b' ""Most governments in the United States in a hundred years have not respected the peoples of Latin America,"" Chavez told King. ""They have sponsored coup d\'etats, assassinations. It\'s enough. We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality.""'"
2009-09-25,"b'Young Canadians greener, better travelled, more educated than young Americans, says a new study. Take that, eh!'"
2009-09-25,"b'Priceless: The Danish Military tries to stop elite soldier\'s autobiography, and fail. Then they try to stir up a controversy by leaking a ""discovered"" Arabic translation to the press. Not only is the translation a useless machine translation, it was made by... the Military!'"
2009-09-25,b'Democracy Now! reports from Pittsburgh G-20 protests: police use tear gas and sound cannon on peaceful protesters'
2009-09-25,b'Here are videos and photos of the police action on protesters at the G20 in Pittsburgh.  Chemical and Sonic(!) weaponry was wielded.'
2009-09-25,"b'In May a homeless man saved a drowning teen. Fast forward to now, same place, hanging out with 2 friends who end up in the river. Man has to choose who to save and who to let go of.'"
2009-09-25,"b'Venezuela to fine networks that air \'Family Guy\' ""because it promotes the use of marijuana""'"
2009-09-25,"b'""The G20 group of leading and emerging economies will take on a new role as a permanent body co-ordinating the world economy,"" a US official has said.'"
2009-09-25,"b'A Saudi fatwa allows girls to restore their hymens in order to save themselves from possible ""honor killings"" right before they are married.'"
2009-09-25,"b'Honduras: Two secret detention centers opened, hundreds of detainees, many taken from their houses, hospitals. Neither lawyers nor food contributions permitted inside these centers. Among arrested are children, pregnant women. Hooded men with firearms ""hunting"" people in area surrounding Embassy.'"
2009-09-25,b'Obama strikes a tough tone on Iran'
2009-09-25,b'BNP politician caught out inventing murders to spread fear.'
2009-09-25,b'What a shame: Number of military veterans in jail has more than doubled in six years in UK'
2009-09-25,b'UNEP: Climate worse than we thought. - A lot worse.'
2009-09-25,b'Bias allegations mount in Pirate Bay case'
2009-09-25,"b""Hong Kong: The World's Most Expensive Housing Market?"""
2009-09-25,b'Only Biscuits for Zelaya'
2009-09-25,b'Iran has been holding out on us... they have a second Nuclear plant so what was the time line for when they get the bomb again... Becouse ahh hmmm'
2009-09-25,b'Benjamin Netanyahu provides proof of the holocaust at the UN and calls Hamas Nazis. '
2009-09-25,b'N.Korean Poster Seems to Confirm Succession'
2009-09-25,b'Pakistan among most corrupt nations in the world'
2009-09-25,b'Sourth Korea: Right-wing government tries to prevent employees from joining more radical union'
2009-09-24,"b'Honduras: curfew extended to 50 hours. power, water, food cut to Brazillian Embassy(act of war!) Barrios barracaded, police evicted. the **** has hit the fan...'"
2009-09-24,"b""Leonard Cohen plays a concert in Israel; comes under fire for breaking a boycott over Israel's latest invasion of Gaza. In response, Cohen offers to play the West Bank and donate the proceeds to Israeli-Palestinian peace organizations."""
2009-09-24,"b'Canada walks out on Ahmadinejad\'s UN speech: PM Stephen Harper says Ahmadinejad\'s ""absolutely repugnant remarks"" about the Holocaust are reason enough for Canadian officials to boycott the Iranian president\'s address'"
2009-09-24,"b'He tore up a copy of the UN charter.. accused the security council of being an al-Qaida like terrorist body, called for George Bush and Tony Blair to be put on trial for the Iraq war.'"
2009-09-24,"b'FBI holds records of 1.5billion people worldwide. How this was mined and is kept is secret, and there is no input from privacy and civil liberty groups. This contravenes several EU laws. '"
2009-09-24,b'Busted spy ring in Lebanon was Israels top network in the Arab world'
2009-09-24,"b'Shining a light on Israeli aggression in Gaza. ""Now, no less an authority than Richard Goldstone, former chief prosecutor with the war crimes tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, says that the ... Israeli onslaught ... amounted to \'war crimes and possibly ... crimes against humanity.\'""'"
2009-09-24,"b""What special relationship? Obama turns down Gordon Brown's request for a meeting - five times."""
2009-09-24,b'Head for the hills! The Flu is coming!'
2009-09-24,b'the small acts of personal viciousness and humiliation make up the practice of domination in an occupied land'
2009-09-24,b'One step closer to the apocalypse? Hipsters are wearing fake glasses to look smart and get jobs'
2009-09-24,"b""Remember the freighter Arctic Sea, allegedly hijacked in the Baltic? Russia still claims that's what happened, but the truth looks much more murky..."""
2009-09-24,"b""Water discovered on the moon, which moon is the \r\nquestion. News.com.au fails at recognising Earth's \r\nmoon."""
2009-09-24,"b""Three sentenced to hang for murder of an African 'ghost': Landmark court ruling in Tanzania offers protection for albinos threatened by trade in 'magical' body parts"""
2009-09-24,"b'Honduras: Hospital Escuela states a thousand people coming in, with bullet wounds, cigarette burns from torture. Barricades in many Tegucigalpa neighborhoods. Some settlements of country not even army able to enter.'"
2009-09-24,"b'It\'s been 89 days since Manuel Zelaya was booted from power. He\'s sleeping on chairs, and he claims his throat is sore from toxic gases and ""Israeli mercenaries\'\' are torturing him with high-frequency radiation.'"
2009-09-24,"b""Honda shows small light 'personal mobility' device... Not to be confused with a unicycle."""
2009-09-24,"b""Spoiling Manuel Zelaya's homecoming: The US should not stand by while the coup government in Honduras brutally cracks down on Manuel Zelaya's supporters."""
2009-09-24,"b'War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. - Smedley Butler'"
2009-09-24,b'Pro-life club tests U of C resolve with renewed campaign'
2009-09-24,b'Spain contest bans Israeli academic team affiliated with college located in an Israeli settlement in the Palestinian territories.'
2009-09-24,"b'20,000 in Guinea demo against coup leader'"
2009-09-24,b'Cardinal Zen calls on China to release imprisoned bishops on its 60th anniversary'
2009-09-24,"b'Mr. Stiller works as a Grillwalker, a one-man mobile sausage-cooking machine.'"
2009-09-24,"b'""Israeli embassy says boycott will harm \'Jew and Arab alike\' and calls for TUC to \'hang its head in shame\'"" (Aww, it makes you want to feel sympathy for the ethnic cleansing war criminals, doesn\'t it?!)'"
2009-09-23,"b""Girl's Refusal to Be Child Bride Inspires Nation\r\n"""
2009-09-23,"b'Robbers in Sweden use stolen chopper & dynamite in cash depot theft; Police unable to pursue, because the only police chopper in Sweden were disabled with explosives.'"
2009-09-23,"b'Robbers used a stolen helicopter and explosives to engineer a spectacular raid on a cash depot in Stockholm on Wednesday, breaking into the building through the roof and flying off with bags of cash.'"
2009-09-23,"b'In Kenya: ""The last long rains [in April] failed completely, and we haven\'t had a proper wet season for at least three years. If the rains fail in October and November, we\'ll go into total crisis. I can\'t even begin to imagine how awful that would be.""'"
2009-09-23,b'North Koreas corn yield to drop by 40 per cent'
2009-09-23,"b'Honduras: Hundreds of heavily armed agents of coup regime attacked the 5,000 people outside Brazilian embassy. Army has cut off electricity and water supply to many areas.'"
2009-09-23,"b""Experts say a huge orange dust storm rolling through Australia's east coast is lining up to become one of the largest on record."""
2009-09-23,"b""Khaddafy demands democracy at UN general assembly meeting; he wants to do away with the veto process.  Equates the security counsel with terrorism. Ahh irony.  If these ideas weren't coming from a dictator that supported terrorism they might actually get traction."""
2009-09-23,"b'Echoes of Chilean National Stadium: Honduras - ""Chochi Sosa Stadium turned into massive detention center. Internet and radio broadcasts cut off in Tegucigalpa."" Only pro-coup media available.'"
2009-09-23,"b""As long as they need the bomb, they will lick your balls. As soon as you have delivered the bomb, they will kick your balls. Pakistan, China and Iran's nuclear nexus revealed in a purloined letter."""
2009-09-23,"b""Puppetry of the Politicians .... Kenya follows in the Daily Show's footsteps with a puppet-based satire that has politicians up in arms."""
2009-09-23,"b'Collapsing milk prices threaten bankruptcy for tens of thousands of European producers. Since 2007, milk prices have in some countries more than halved. Today, Spanish farmers have dumped 60,000 litres of milk in protest.'"
2009-09-23,b'Swedish TV program claims top Vatican officials knew that an ultraconservative British bishop was a Holocaust-denier when his excommunication was lifted in January'
2009-09-23,"b'In UN speech, Gaddafi suggests Israel behind JFK assassination'"
2009-09-23,"b""Tent set up in New York suburbs for Ghadafi. Why does everybody in America seem to hate this guy?  I have to agree on Hunter S. Thompson on this one - at least he's entertaining."""
2009-09-23,"b'The difference between U.S. and Canada: Canadians are happy to suspend civil liberties in a pandemic, says a new survey'"
2009-09-23,"b'Well, this is one small step for them, a good start indeed'"
2009-09-23,b'France is thinking of imposing a health warning on photoshopped images\n'
2009-09-23,b'Hoteliers charged after row with guest '
2009-09-23,"b'Israel in April on US settlement pressure: ""Believe me, America accepts all our decisions.""  U.S. in September: ""OK, you win, Israel.""'"
2009-09-23,b'Iranian police now demanding that store mannequins wear the hijab'
2009-09-23,b'Couple of days late for talk like a pirate day.//The Defence Department says an Australian Navy ship has helped foil an attack by Somalian pirates off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.'
2009-09-23,"b'Gaddafi in his first ever U.N speech, blasts the big powers, the U.N, and tosses a copy of the U.N Charter over his shoulder!'"
2009-09-23,"b'In other news, thieves use helicopter in awesome heist in Sweden'"
2009-09-23,"b""Morocco arrests 24 in 'terrorist network' crackdown"""
2009-09-22,"b""On November 18, 1992, more than 1,600 scientists, including 104 Nobel laureates, from around the world endorsed a warning. Here's what they said.\n"""
2009-09-22,"b'A new report says investing in girls is one of the best ways to end poverty, because women who are educated are likely to reinvest up to 90 per cent of their income in their family.'"
2009-09-22,"b""In dead of night, U.S. flew 24 nuclear bombs' worth of uranium out of Kazakhstan"""
2009-09-22,"b""Did you wonder about the soldier's autobiographical book about the war in Afghanistan that the Danish Gov't tried to supress? Well, here you go (Google Translated)"""
2009-09-22,"b""Gang-rape killer of lesbian footballer gets life. 'Corrective rape' in South Africa."""
2009-09-22,"b""As if going on a plane isn't a crappy experience already....."""
2009-09-22,"b""Thanks to the BBC, the missile defense debate can be greatly simplified. Here's what former President George W. Bush proposed and what the insane neoconservatives are hyperventilating over..."""
2009-09-22,b'Police in Honduras break up protests caused by the return of Zelaya'
2009-09-22,"b'Police raid house in drug bust, see that the resident has a wii, then... drop everything and play wii bowling for hours on end.[vid]'"
2009-09-22,b'How Israel silenced its Gaza war protesters'
2009-09-22,b'Australian Quadriplegic dies after winning right to starve'
2009-09-22,"b'French riot police have evacuated at least 150 Afghan boys and men from the ""jungle"", a makeshift migrant camp on the Channel coast.'"
2009-09-22,b'The death of the greatest human being who ever lived'
2009-09-22,"b'100 cops outside, 100 cops inside, 100 or so bouncers, 3 bulletproof cars, and a chopper to guard her. Well fuck you Julia Roberts you aint Obama so stop the showoff bitch'"
2009-09-22,"b""Fearing persecution and violence, Jamaica's gays worship in secret churches"""
2009-09-22,b'Obama in three-way talks with Israel and Palestine leaders'
2009-09-22,"b'Torture techniques used on suspected terrorists by the Bush administration may have failed to get to the truth, researchers say.'"
2009-09-22,b'Teacher jailed for sex with pupil --- Would the female teacher have been jailed if the sex had been with a boy?'
2009-09-22,b'Besieged Zelaya surrounded by Honduran soldiers'
2009-09-22,"b'""Suspect Arrested In Relation To FarmVille Murders"" sounds like an Onion headline... but is not.'"
2009-09-22,b'Chinese president says to further integrate actions on climate change into economic development'
2009-09-22,b'The Australia Defence Association has backed a proposal that would see hundreds of Defence properties scattered around the country merged to form super bases.'
2009-09-22,b'U.S. sees hand of elite Iranian unit in Afghanistan'
2009-09-22,"b""MI6 to train Gadhafi's guards - Libyan strongman claims he's target for al-Qaida"""
2009-09-22,b'Justine Henin comes out of retirement!!!'
2009-09-21,"b'Gaza\'s Water Supply Near Collapse. ""The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that Gaza\'s access to safe supply of drinking water could cease at any time.""'"
2009-09-21,b'One of the greatest rivalries in the history of chess is due to resume as Garry Kasparov takes on Anatoly Karpov in the Spanish city of Valencia.'
2009-09-21,"b'""Secret Service agents found Yeltsin clad only in his underwear, standing alone on Pennsylvania Avenue and trying to hail a cab. He wanted a pizza, he told them, his words slurring.""'"
2009-09-21,"b""Israelis really don't like Obama. Bonus: Racism caught on tape"""
2009-09-21,"b'The top US Commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, says without more troops on the ground there, the international mission will most likely result in failure.'"
2009-09-21,b'Bear mauls nine at bus stop'
2009-09-21,"b'Muslims mass-producing children to take over Africa, says Archbishop Nicholas Okoh of Nigeria'"
2009-09-21,"b'Canadian dad leaves kids in hot car while he goes drinking at the Fat Pig Saloon. Cops pull kids, who are drenched in sweat and screaming, from car. No charges laid.'"
2009-09-21,"b'""Until recently, the man running Press TVs Web site was an American who fled the United States in 1980 after carrying out a political assassination in the Washington suburbs on behalf of the Iranian government.""'"
2009-09-21,b'Irish school fingerprints pupils to monitor absenteeism'
2009-09-21,"b""In 2006-2008, 14,100 new residents of West Bank settlements were registered annually. To Palestinians, it means an expansion of the occupation. To Israelis, it's beginning to look like little more than suburbanization."""
2009-09-21,b'Ousted Honduran President Zelaya takes refuge at Brazilian embassy IN Honduras \n'
2009-09-21,"b'More than 35 million people have Alzheimers and Dementia worldwide, according to new report'"
2009-09-21,"b'Ayalon: Military option against Iran is still on the table: ""I don\'t think that, with all due respect, the Russian president is authorized to speak for Israel and certainly we have not taken any option off the table.""'"
2009-09-21,b'China adoption: Some Chinese parents say their babies were stolen for adoption '
2009-09-21,"b'UK army rotten, Iraq probe told'"
2009-09-21,"b""Canada's health minister orders investigation after body bags were sent to aboriginal reserves as part of supplies to deal with swine flu"""
2009-09-21,b'US-CUBA: Five Decades of an Admittedly Failed Policy'
2009-09-21,b'How to Fix An Election: Manipulating election results may not be as hard as previously thought.'
2009-09-21,b'Rogue nuclear scientist Dr A Q Khan has sensationally disclosed it was former prime minister Benazir Bhutto who had asked him to hand over the countrys nuclear know-how to Iran and North Korea!'
2009-09-21,b'AFP: Somalia faces worst food crisis in 18 years'
2009-09-21,b'Ousted President Zelaya in Brazil embassy in Honduras'
2009-09-21,"b""Kashmir's Water Wars"""
2009-09-21,b'A German Jihad Colony: Islamists in Pakistan Recruit Entire Families from Europe'
2009-09-21,b'83 names on Pak list of most-wanted'
2009-09-20,"b' Japans death penalty effectively scrapped with arrival of Keiko Chiba, a left-wing justice minister who is an outspoken opponent of the countrys controversial system of secret executions'"
2009-09-20,"b""Iran TV's live football coverage censored because sections of the crowd were chanting anti-government slogans and waving green emblems in support of the country's political opposition"""
2009-09-20,"b'EU funding \'Orwellian\' artificial intelligence plan to monitor public for ""abnormal behaviour""'"
2009-09-20,b'Helping terminally ill and incurably disabled patients to commit suicide to be decriminalised in Britain'
2009-09-20,b'PAKISTAN: Police severely beat members of a Christian family after accusing a man of urinating on the Quran'
2009-09-20,b'Indian man gambles daughter away'
2009-09-20,b'Two people trying to help bring food and medicine into Gaza are slain by the pilot of an Israeli jet who fired an air-to-surface missile at them.'
2009-09-20,"b""India's China Panic: Seeing a 'Red Peril' on Land and Sea """
2009-09-20,"b'Belatedly, Egypt Spots Flaws in Wiping Out All of their Pigs '"
2009-09-20,"b'Al Jazeera exposes Iraqs booming, endemic drug trade'"
2009-09-20,b'The UK drugs debate: Is legislation the way forward?'
2009-09-20,"b'Thousands of angry Canadian taxpayers rallied against harmonized sales tax (HST) throughout BC: ""The HST is a cruel tax. It takes from the people, particularly... the seniors, students, the people that can least afford to pay yet another tax and it\'s giving to the big corporations.""'"
2009-09-20,b'Mounting Afghan follies give U.S. a way out By GWYNNE DYER'
2009-09-20,b'Worlds biggest prison for journalists eight years after September 2001 round-ups'
2009-09-20,b'Chinese Communists flirt with democracy to infuse fresh blood'
2009-09-20,b'Turkish Investigators Wiretapped Turkish Daily without Court Consent'
2009-09-20,b'Yemen: more guns than people'
2009-09-20,b'The Federal Government has detected another boatload of asylum seekers off the north-west coast of Australia.'
2009-09-20,"b""Yemen army 'kills 140' as rebels launch attack"""
2009-09-20,b'U.N. probes use of its vehicles in Somalia bombing'
2009-09-20,b'Pakistan will Cry for Water'
2009-09-20,"b'Terrorists use UN Trucks as suicide bombs against UN ""peace keepers.""  And we think these guys are qualified to oversee cap and trade?  They can\'t even keep up with their own trucks.'"
2009-09-20,b'Social Bookmarking Service'
2009-09-19,b'UK labor unions approve Israeli goods boycott in response to the offensive in Gaza'
2009-09-19,"b""Russia says it won't deploy missiles near Poland """
2009-09-19,b'A Moroccan man campaigning to change the law banning eating in public during the Muslim Ramadan fast says he has received 100 death threats this week.'
2009-09-19,"b'Why are over 80,000 UK residents being denied the right to vote?'"
2009-09-19,b'Lockerbie bomber puts documents online that he claims prove his innocence'
2009-09-19,b'Credit crunch signals end of The World for Dubais multi-billion dollar property deal'
2009-09-19,b'CIA Adding Bases in Afghanistan as Taliban Gains'
2009-09-19,b'Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of phone bill rebates coming for Canadian after Supreme Court ruling'
2009-09-19,b'Courage in Iran'
2009-09-19,b'Nairobi Kenya begins clearing out its Kibera slum of 1 million people'
2009-09-19,"b""Lockerbie bomber publishes his evidence for innocence.  Is this true or can the net prove it's a lie?"""
2009-09-19,b'Gurkhas to declare independent state in India'
2009-09-19,"b""Lab tech is charged with Le's murder, still no clear reason for the murder whatsoever"""
2009-09-19,"b'It is not everyday that a plane full of Australians land in central Russia, but when the passengers are dairy cows, it is seen as history making.'"
2009-09-19,"b'Bolivia - Extremism causes right-wing candidates to drop below 10% support: ""the right-wing opposition has been weakened since violent incidents last year... at least 15 indigenous people were shot to death when a group of Morales supporters were ambushed""'"
2009-09-19,"b""Vaccine could be 'more dangerous than swine flu'"""
2009-09-19,"b""Military gets mowed down by bullets by their own police force.  Where's the news coverage?!"""
2009-09-19,"b'Political tensions are on the rise again in Thailand, with tens of thousands of anti-government protesters expected to take to the streets of Bangkok to mark the third anniversary of the military coup which ousted their leader.'"
2009-09-19,b'China warns of stability threat from H1N1 flu'
2009-09-19,b'Anonymous Blogging guide now available in Arabic'
2009-09-19,b'Arctic Sea saga  sources of speculation'
2009-09-19,"b""Tax man twists Maradona's ears"""
2009-09-19,"b'At emergency meeting in Venezuela, IAPA pushes for press freedom'"
2009-09-18,b'Young Jewish men in Israel have created a volunteer group which patrol malls and other public places to break up interracial dates (eg. Jewish-Arab dates.)'
2009-09-18,"b'Shocking news: large corporation murders people, tries to get away with it'"
2009-09-18,"b'The founder of the Jedi religion in Wales may file a religious discrimination lawsuit after being ejected from a supermarket for refusing to remove his hood. Mgmt fights nerdy: ""Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all appeared hoodless without ever going over to the Dark Side.""'"
2009-09-18,"b""Talk about Get Out of Jail Free: Monopoly's Hidden Maps Help World War II POWs Escape"""
2009-09-18,b'Thousands defy Iranian rally ban'
2009-09-18,"b'Why I threw the shoe: ""I am no hero. I just acted as an Iraqi who witnessed the pain and bloodshed of too many innocents""'"
2009-09-18,"b'Iran broadcasts soccer game in black-and-white, without sound, just to hide protesters...'"
2009-09-18,"b'""The U.S. intelligence community is reporting to the White House that Iran has not restarted its nuclear-weapons development program."" Somehow, Israel read this as ""nukes in one week.""'"
2009-09-18,"b""Denmark's dirty secret: State-owned Dong Energy trades on its green image at home while outsourcing the dirty end of its energy portfolio with coal-fired power stations elsewhere in Europe"""
2009-09-18,"b""Trafigura's attempts to gag the media prove that Britain's libel laws should be repealed"""
2009-09-18,b'A group of prison guards dubbed the Facebook Five has gone to an Australian court to fight for the right to complain about their boss on the Internet'
2009-09-18,"b""A number of people in Azerbaijan were questioned by police after voting for a song by neighbouring Armenia in this year's Eurovision song contest."""
2009-09-18,b'Protests have started - The Latest from Iran (18 September): Qods Day'
2009-09-18,"b""World's shortest man shuns limelight"""
2009-09-18,b'Man accused of supplying prostitutes for Berlusconi parties is arrested in Italy'
2009-09-18,"b'Scotland: Management tries to force drivers to cross picket lines, suspends pay when they refuse. Night shift walks out, early shift walks out, unofficial strike then ""spread like wildfire"" to over 2000 employees.'"
2009-09-18,"b'Moving home is always a hassle, but for a monstrous Darwin crocodile it has caused more of a headache than usual.'"
2009-09-18,b'The nomadic pastoralists who live in the arid scrubland on the Kenya-Somalia border are being forced out of their traditional way of living by a succession of worsening droughts'
2009-09-18,b' India in touch with Israel over new attack tipoff'
2009-09-18,b'This will be good: Rod Blagojevich is going to be on The Daily Show next Thursday'
2009-09-18,b'Rising threat to aid agencies in Afghanistan'
2009-09-18,b'Nato chief reaches out to Russia '
2009-09-18,b'One in Seven Germans Want Berlin Wall Back'
2009-09-18,b'banking bonus bubble'
2009-09-18,b'Silvio Berlusconi e il virus della escort.'
2009-09-17,"b'They promised each other that if one died, the other would wear a lime-green dress to the funeral.  On September 15th, Kevin Elliot died in Afghanistan -- and his friend kept his promise.'"
2009-09-17,"b'District 9 highlights South Africa housing crisis - Movie shows shacks for aliens, where many blacks still live 15 years after apartheid.'"
2009-09-17,b'The Suicide Terrorism Database in Australia holds information on 90 per cent of all suicide attacks between 1981 and 2006. Analysis of that information yields some interesting clues: It is politics more than religious fanaticism that has led terrorists to blow themselves up.\n'
2009-09-17,"b""Iraqi shoe-thrower Muntazer al-Zaidi 'was waterboarded'"""
2009-09-17,"b""Israel on Wednesday rejected a U.N. panel's call to open an independent inquiry into its wartime conduct in the Gaza Strip and launched a diplomatic campaign to thwart any prosecution of its soldiers in an international tribunal"""
2009-09-17,"b""UK Tories vow to remove surveillance state if they are voted in. I don't believe them, and neither should you. """
2009-09-17,"b'Australian man kept daughter prisoner, raped daily her for 30 years and fathered four children with her - Could be worse than Fritzl'"
2009-09-17,b'The Gay Sons of Allah: Wave of Homophobia Sweeps the Muslim World (Good article on the extent and the roots of the growing persecution of gays)'
2009-09-17,"b'China\'s ""cancer villages"" bear witness to economic boom'"
2009-09-17,b'Airstrike in Yemen Said to Kill 80'
2009-09-17,b'Mohammed is now the most popular name for baby boys in London'
2009-09-17,"b'Gunmen burst into a drug treatment center in the northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and shot to death 10 people, the second such mass killing this month'"
2009-09-17,"b'4, 15, 23, 24, 35, and 42: Winning numbers in Bulgaria in Sep 6 and again in Sep 10. What are the odds? Eyebrows raised'"
2009-09-17,b'China in huge Venezuela oil deal'
2009-09-17,b'The US will abandon its plan to develop a missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic'
2009-09-17,b'The Unsolved Killings of 17 Journalists in Russia'
2009-09-17,"b'For the first time [after] 21 years of dictatorship and the 18 years of chaos that followed, Somalias leader has both widespread grass-roots support and extensive help from outside nations'"
2009-09-17,"b""'The Day Afghanistan Was Lost'"""
2009-09-17,"b""Aussie Basement Dad: Victorian father 'raped daughter for 30 years', had 4 children all with birth defects"""
2009-09-17,"b""Netanyahu builds on Obama's weakness - Obama's hesitation on Israeli settlements could put the US in danger."""
2009-09-17,"b'A Christian man detained on blasphemy charges was found dead in his jail cell on Tuesday in eastern Pakistan. Human rights groups here said he appeared to have been killed, perhaps in collusion with the authorities.'"
2009-09-17,b'27 Years After the Massacre ~~ the Horrors of the Pogrom Live on at Sabra and Shatila'
2009-09-17,"b'Juan Cole: Russia helps the U.S. in Afghanistan - As \r\nU.S. allies look for the exit, Russia, perhaps \r\nbecause of problems with Afghan heroin at home, \r\ngets in deeper.'"
2009-09-17,b'2nd Attack on a German school this year. This one with Molotov cocktails and an axe.'
2009-09-17,b'Tokyo police launch anti-groping week: Not even a tentacle?'
2009-09-16,"b""Europe now richer than America: North America's wealth has now fallen the most out of any other region in the world, allowing Europe to step up to the plate as the world's richest continent"""
2009-09-16,"b'The ORIGINAL execution video of Sri Lankan soldiers executing Tamil civilians. As the ground around them lay drenched in blood, civilian is shot on after the other [NSFW-UNCENSORED-GRAPHIC]'"
2009-09-16,b'Banana sex cult leader splits after raid'
2009-09-16,"b'New UN Report Released Today: ""The Israeli military operation [in Gaza] was directed at the people of Gaza as a whole, in furtherance of an overall and continuing policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population, and in a deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed at the civilian population.""'"
2009-09-16,b'A UN mission concludes that war crimes were \r\ncommitted in Gaza'
2009-09-16,b'IAEA Conceals Evidence Iran Nuclear Documents Provided by the CIA Were Forged'
2009-09-16,"b""Israel readies for diplomatic war over 'biased' UN Gaza report  - Haaretz"""
2009-09-16,"b""Israel moves to discredit 'war crimes' report"""
2009-09-16,"b'Cat reunited with family, 3 years and 3,800km later'"
2009-09-16,"b'Recession Ghost Fleet: The biggest and most secretive gathering of ships in maritime history lies at anchor east of Singapore.  It is bigger than the U.S. and British navies combined but has no crew, no cargo and no destination.'"
2009-09-16,"b'US govt warns to weigh laptop when going to china - (Chinese hacking makes your laptop heavier, all those extra electrons)'"
2009-09-16,"b'Working-class gay men, police stand off in Guangzhou'"
2009-09-16,b'Today we celebrate 199 years of independence in Mexico.'
2009-09-16,"b'Jane Fonda: ""...it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians""'"
2009-09-16,"b'UN claims ""grave breaches of the laws of war"" against Israel in Gaza Inquiry; Israel responds by attacking the findings as being ""Conceived in Sin"" - instead of answering to them.'"
2009-09-16,b'Human Rights Watch analyst suspended over Nazi memorabilia'
2009-09-16,"b'U.S. raid in Somalia could win valuable intelligence, however, the attack could inflame anti-Western opinion.  Lack of civilian casualties seen as boost for military.'"
2009-09-16,"b'UK motorists with uninsured cars face 1,000 fines even if they are locked away in a garage or kept on a driveway'"
2009-09-16,"b'Change we can believe in: Obama fulfilling his vow to ""regain America\'s moral stature in the world"" by extending PATRIOT ACT, giving Bagram detainees even fewer rights than the ones at Gitmo'"
2009-09-16,"b""Nepal's capital city, Kathmandu, has run out of goats to sacrifice just days before the country's biggest religious festival of the year"""
2009-09-16,b'Argentine Government Fast-Tracking Controversial Media Law'
2009-09-16,b'EU farmers in white heat over milk prices'
2009-09-16,b'Cuban police arrest editor of independent digital newspaper'
2009-09-16,b'Damn it CNN if your are going to cover a press conference with the Canadian PM have someone that can translate the French.'
2009-09-16,"b'Unable to voice their opposition in the streets of Tehran, some Iranians have expanded their online efforts to venues like Second Life.'"
2009-09-15,"b'The Church of Scientology won\'t be dissolved in France, due to a ""typo"" in an obscure law voted two weeks before the Church went to trial, which explicitly prevents this.'"
2009-09-15,b'New virus from rats can kill 80 per cent of human victims'
2009-09-15,"b'The gruesome spectacle of dolphins being slaughtered for profit has returned to Taiji, Japan despite growing international condemnation'"
2009-09-15,"b'The End of Innocence in Afghanistan: \'The German Air Strike Has Changed Everything\' - ""The incident has given a black eye to a country whose politicians have never been shy of telling others what\'s best in Afghanistan.""'"
2009-09-15,b'France approves Internet piracy bill'
2009-09-15,"b'The Rural Doctors Association says right now there is a shortfall of 1,800 doctors across regional Australia.\n\nBut medical recruiters say even when qualified doctors from overseas want to work here, they are being held up by a bureaucratic delay.'"
2009-09-15,b'Al Jazeera English - Africa - Shabab to avenge US raid in Somalia'
2009-09-15,"b""How Sri Lanka governs through detentions - Sri Lankan officials defend the country's post-war use of anti-terrorism rules."""
2009-09-15,"b'Two months after the Pakistani Army wrested control of the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, a new campaign of fear has taken hold, with scores, perhaps hundreds, of bodies dumped on the streets in what human rights advocates and local residents say is the work of the military'"
2009-09-15,b'N. Korean cargo ship repels pirates off Somali coast: official'
2009-09-15,"b'Canada: Stephen Harper attempts to prop up regime that ""has authorized its intelligence service to spy on and intimidate human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers and even magistrates from the Supreme Court who have been investigating political scandals.""'"
2009-09-15,b'New geological data provides hope for claims by Denmark and Greenland to maritime areas in the Arctic Ocean'
2009-09-15,b'Ukraine set to block Elton John adoption because gay union is not a marriage and because he is too old'
2009-09-15,b'German plane makes emergency landing'
2009-09-15,b'Street artist catches chief of the Israeli army with his pants down'
2009-09-15,"b'In an equine echo of the controversy surrounding South African athlete Caster Semenya, authorities ordered hormone tests for the four-year-old Newcastle mare Tuscan Abbe after she staged a convincing race meet win.'"
2009-09-15,b'UPDATE: 5-New York homes raided in terrorism probe'
2009-09-15,b'Population Growth Impeding Progress on the MDGs?'
2009-09-15,b'Global Population to Reach 7 Billion by 2011'
2009-09-15,b'Government Funded Feminist Porn '
2009-09-15,b'Can someone enlighten me re:Holy Land disputes?'
2009-09-15,b'Human Rights Watch official suspended for collecting Nazi memorabilia'
2009-09-14,"b'in Canada the drug czar slams Harper gov\'t as he exits. ""...war-on-drugs approach has utterly failed over the past 40 years and must come to an end. The emperor truly has no clothes in this case,"" said his e-mail.'"
2009-09-14,"b""Remember that 'brave' attractive looking Danish woman who was using YouTube to find the father of her kid? Turns out it was just viral marketting aimed at getting more tourists to go to Denmark."""
2009-09-14,"b""I'll Love you forever, I'll like you for always, as long as I'm living my baby you'll be!. ---Robert Munsch get on to the Canada Walk of Fame! Anyone else love this book when they were little?"""
2009-09-14,"b""Sweden's Pirate Party Makes The Web A Political Cause: Objects to two laws -- one allows \nauthorities to monitor phone, fax and e-mail traffic \ncrossing the country's borders. The other, a European Union directive allows copyright holders to find out the Internet addresses of file sharers"""
2009-09-14,"b""The Danish Military seeks to censor Elite Soldier's tell-all book that contains information about special operations even the Danish Parliament was not privy to"""
2009-09-14,b'Russia agrees to lend Venezuela $2bn to buy weapons -- 100 tanks and a series of anti-aircraft rocket systems from Russia'
2009-09-14,b'US puts Europeans on alert to provide more troops for Afghan campaign'
2009-09-14,"b'New UK rules effective next month: Human tissue can be taken for human-animal hybrid embryo experiments without donors\' consent; ethics experts, patients\' groups and churches consider change as ""absolutely frightening"" '"
2009-09-14,"b""China broke ground on its fourth space center Monday, highlighting the country's soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first man into orbit."""
2009-09-14,b'Foreign troops raid south Somalia village: witnesses'
2009-09-14,"b""Israeli paper thinks its impossible to remove half a million Israeli settlers behind the 1967 borders because it will cost too much. Funny, I don't remember the French being compensated for evacuating Algeria"""
2009-09-14,"b'Amnesty International: Authorities in Serbia have failed to protect human rights and gay activists. Physical attacks and threats to the lives and property of human rights activists are seldom promptly and impartially investigated by the authorities and few perpetrators are brought to justice.""'"
2009-09-14,b'Israel discovers new way to anger world Jews - Fears that Jew numbers will soon decline are behind an ad campaign that raised hackles of the American Jewish community.'
2009-09-14,"b'""Although the cause of her death was lack of medical care, the real case was the lack of education in Yemen and the fact that child marriages keep happening,""'"
2009-09-14,"b'the Islamic population remains vibrant in India whereas the Hindu population is in freefall in both Bangladesh and Pakistan because of the nature of Islam and its theory of superiority, dhimmitude, and inequality in law which is sanctioned by Islamic Sharia law.'"
2009-09-14,"b'The U.N. Environment Programme says that underground water supplies shared by Egypt, Israel and -- most vulnerably -- Gaza, could collapse due to years of over-use and contamination worsened by conflict.  ""... damage could take centuries to reverse.""'"
2009-09-14,b'How many posts per day is it allowed to submit in the worldnews subreddit? What is the number before considering such act as flooding?'
2009-09-14,b'Italy: City of Naples hires ex-cons to escort tourists through crime-plagued Italian city - A case of putting the fox in charge of the henhouse?'
2009-09-14,b'Venezuela gets $2.2 billion in credit for Russian arms '
2009-09-14,"b'""Vestas refused to allow anyone to deliver food to us... I lost almost 20 kg and someone else had to go to hospital because of low blood-sugar levels... Activists of various tendencies were found there, even UNICEF supported us, due to the fact that we were not receiving food.""'"
2009-09-14,"b""Osama bin Laden justifies 9/11 attacks in address to the American people: but bin Laden losing support among Muslims, and why the hell can't we find Osama with $25 million reward - CIA will tell ya - its hard when Pakistan approves every move."""
2009-09-14,"b'When Barack Obama became president and retained many of the Bush administration\'s military leaders, such as Defence Secretary Robert Gates, ""reasonable people knew that Obama is a powerless man who will not be able to end the war as he promised,"" said Osama bin Laden.'"
2009-09-14,"b'Breaking: Under new legislative reform, Scientology cannot be banned from France even if it is found guilty of fraud in the current trial. '"
2009-09-14,b'World Population Growth.'
2009-09-14,b'Airline plot trio get life terms'
2009-09-13,"b""Remember those 'map of the world' islands in Dubai? They're now just a collection of deserted sandy blots that are a shipping hazard."""
2009-09-13,"b'Far from protecting us and our children, the war on drugs is making the world a much more dangerous place...legalise drugs!'"
2009-09-13,b'Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years - and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror?'
2009-09-13,"b'A British study which examined the records of 600,000 patients has cast doubt on the supposed link between cannabis use and schizophrenia'"
2009-09-13,"b""How Islamist gangs use internet to track, torture and kill Iraq's gays"""
2009-09-13,"b'Deformed fish are being landed and served as sightseers flock to view toxic WWII munitions raised from the floor of Lake Thun, Switzerland'"
2009-09-13,"b'When Cocaine and Monsanto\'s Pesticide, ""Roundup"" Collide'"
2009-09-13,"b'Venezuela Invests Surplus Oil Dollars in Education, Housing, and Industry  '"
2009-09-13,b'Australia: Labor MP calls for population control'
2009-09-13,"b'UK govt pressured to scale back plans for a ""big brother"" child protection database which will force millions of parents to undergo paedophile and criminal checks'"
2009-09-13,"b'Indian detention of UAE plane a case of spying, says Chinese expert'"
2009-09-13,"b""'I told the US to talk to the Taliban. They jailed me' - He was the man they called the mullah with a human face, the internet mullah, or the Rudolph Hess of the Taliban. """
2009-09-13,"b""Farmers wage turf battle with Japan air force: Antiwar farmers near an air base northeast of Tokyo have infiltrated the base by working plots of land and have surrounded it with 'peace parks.' The government seeks to buy them out, but in vain"""
2009-09-13,"b""North Korea 'planning third nuke test'"""
2009-09-13,b'Suspects named on United Nations terror list living free in Britain'
2009-09-13,b'Tensions flare in Lebanon'
2009-09-13,b'Hundreds arrested in deadly Uganda riots'
2009-09-13,b'Afghan official promises to obey recount order'
2009-09-13,b'Moments of terror as Emirates flight disappears from radar'
2009-09-13,b'NATO fighter jets violate Pak airspace over Khyber agency'
2009-09-13,b'Afghan election: Pressure grows for Hamid Karzai to strike a deal'
2009-09-13,b'MI5 warns that young Brits heading for terrorist training Somalia soaring'
2009-09-13,b'Campaign for male participation in family planning breaks ground in Dumaguete'
2009-09-13,"b'COHA Report, Haiti and Global Family Planning'"
2009-09-12,b'Anonymous Declares War on Australia'
2009-09-12,"b'Two German freighters have successfully navigated the North East Passage along the northern coast of Russia. This is the first time it has been this ice-free in 5,000-7,000 years.'"
2009-09-12,"b'UN: ""The world is over-armed and peace is under-funded"" with global military spending estimated at over $1 trillion ""and rising every day""'"
2009-09-12,"b'For a Bounced Check in Dubai, the Penalty Can Be Years in Jail '"
2009-09-12,b'China uses fear to hush up poisoned children'
2009-09-12,"b'Heart wrenching documentary about the Children of North Korea: ""Children of the Secret State.""'"
2009-09-12,b'Ukraine President claims Kremlin is shielding his would-be killers'
2009-09-12,"b""Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has announced that the country will soon take delivery of Russian missiles with a range of 300km """
2009-09-12,"b""Cousin had to retrieve Afghan reporter's body after raid"""
2009-09-12,"b""The Arctic Monopoly: Taking Stock of North Pole Riches - Oil and natural gas are luring the major powers to the Arctic. More information is available today than ever before about the location and abundance of the region's riches."""
2009-09-12,"b""The seductive lure of Mexico's drug lords"""
2009-09-12,"b""Hundreds of tax inspectors raid Argentina's largest newspaper"""
2009-09-12,"b'British police to investigate MI6, the secret intelligence service, over alleged complicity in torture'"
2009-09-12,"b'Vladimir Putin, Russias prime minister, dropped his strongest hint so far on Friday that he might try to return to the Kremlin and run in the 2012 presidential election.'"
2009-09-12,b'Fidel Castro loses his right-hand-man as Juan Almeida Bosque dies from fatal heart attack'
2009-09-12,b'Colombia shows videos of hostages held 11 years'
2009-09-12,b'Harrow Mosque Muslim Riot'
2009-09-12,b'Samoa just became the first country since the 1970s to switch to driving on the opposite side of the road.'
2009-09-12,b'Iran signals no compromise on nuclear issue'
2009-09-12,"b""Canada scrambles at UN to save 'super-agency' for women"""
2009-09-12,"b""Bolivia's vice-president defends MAS governments record"""
2009-09-12,b'Haiti and global family planning - The Birth of Global Family Planning'
2009-09-12,"b""Israeli war film 'Lebanon' wins Golden Lion in Venice"""
2009-09-12,"b'Before your read this article, please consider that only three percent of those at Abu Gharib were detained by American intelligence: The rest were reported by corrupted Iraqi and Afghani groups. The burning for Abu-Gharib is a victory for freedom, not the other way around.'"
2009-09-11,"b'8.7 million North Koreans are starving: ""There are no farm animals, virtually no machinery. You know there\'s a problem when people have eaten all the livestock."" '"
2009-09-11,"b""Raped and beaten for daring to question President Ahmadinejad's election - Times Online"""
2009-09-11,"b""Iraq shoe thrower, Muntadar al-Zaidi's release to be Celebrated on Monday"""
2009-09-11,"b'Thatcher in secret meeting with Gorby ""The reunification of Germany is not in the interests of Britain and Western Europe.""...""We do not want a united Germany.""'"
2009-09-11,"b'""What\'s problematic for me is it really humanises the guy"". Wait, what? Isn\'t the point that even terrorists are human, and that we should be aware that humans are capable of evil? Dehumanizing them just makes the problem tougher to tackle.'"
2009-09-11,b'Australian teenager faces 7 years in jail for organising her own home abortion in the first such prosecution in Australia in over 50 years'
2009-09-11,b'Thatcher told Gorbachev Britain did not want German reunification - Times Online'
2009-09-11,"b'This rewriting of history is spreading Europe\'s poison. ""Blaming the USSR for the second world war is not only absurd  it boosts the heirs of the Nazis\' wartime collaborators""'"
2009-09-11,"b'MOSCOW  For hundreds of years, mariners have dreamed of an Arctic shortcut that would allow them to speed trade between Asia and the West. Two German ships are poised to complete that transit for the first time, aided by the retreat of Arctic ice that scientists have linked to global warming.\n'"
2009-09-11,b'Putin warns against Iran attack'
2009-09-11,"b""Slovenia says it is ready to lift its block on Croatia's bid to join the European Union"""
2009-09-11,"b'UK could face blackouts by 2016.  Public wants to maintain current lifestyle while opposing wind farms, nukes and energy imports.'"
2009-09-11,"b'Paul Hill: I was charged with seven counts of murder and was sentenced in October 1975 to life in prison. In 1989, I was freed because Scotland Yard\'s anti-terrorist police seriously misled the court, ""in fact they must have lied in their doctoring and manufacturing of evidence,\'\' said the judge'"
2009-09-11,b'David Miliband: MI6 is being investigated by the police over allegations of torture for the first time. It follows a similar investigation already launched into MI5\n'
2009-09-11,"b'Hacker infiltrates the Sky News website and tampered with a petition to support the proposed television debate between the main party leaders, renaming it ""The Windbag Debate Petition"". '"
2009-09-11,"b""Berlusconi Says He Won't Resign Over Sex Scandal"""
2009-09-11,"b'Chen Shui-bian, the former president of Taiwan who had been on trial since March for corruption, and his wife Wu Shu-chen have been fined $15 million and sentenced to life in prison.'"
2009-09-11,"b""Mexico's growing obesity problem. """
2009-09-11,"b'Under the cloak of nightfall, dozens of freshly hatched sea turtles beat tiny flippers against the wet sands of Miami Beach, inching their way toward the ocean and a life aquatic'"
2009-09-11,b'Nanny State? Police checks for people taking children to sports games.'
2009-09-11,"b'MI6 officers facing torture claims (""We can confirm that the Attorney General asked the Metropolitan Police to investigate a case that was a referral from the Secret Intelligence Service"")'"
2009-09-11,b'Taliban Control Spreads in Afghanistan'
2009-09-11,b'Former President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) sentenced to life imprisonment'
2009-09-11,"b'They stalked Pepe through the backlands of Colombia for three days in June before executing him in a clearing about 60 miles from here with shots to his head and heart. But after a snapshot emerged of soldiers posing over his carcass, the group suddenly found itself on the defensive.'"
2009-09-11,"b'Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, who released the Lockerbie bomber, has a brother who is an energy-industry exec and who has worked at firms that have pitched for oil business in Libya'"
2009-09-10,"b'Decades of inbreeding is causing immense suffering for pedigree dogs, who are plagued by painful and deadly genetic diseases as a result of breeding for appearance, a UK investigation has found.'"
2009-09-10,b'U R Gay - Uruguay becomes the first Latin American country to legalize gay marriage'
2009-09-10,"b'Stephen Harper secretly recorded - ""If we do not win a majority, this country will have a liberal government propped up by the socialists and the separatists.""'"
2009-09-10,"b""Well This Isn't Scary - 60th Anniversary of People's Republic of China Celebration Page Looks Like It Was Made By the Onion, But Its Real"""
2009-09-10,b'It turns out that South African gold-medallist Semenya is a hermaphrodite.\n'
2009-09-10,b'MYANMAR About 5 billion dollars from Total and Chevron flow into juntas secret accounts'
2009-09-10,b'Australia Solves Doctor Shortage With Caffeine'
2009-09-10,"b'The mystery of Chernobyl: The abandoned town of Pripyat has become a wildlife haven. There have been sightings of wolves, bears and moose wandering through the deserted streets, and swifts swoop round abandoned office blocks'"
2009-09-10,b'Businessman at the heart of the sex scandals surrounding Berlusconi told prosecutors he supplied 30 women for parties hosted by the Prime Minister...'
2009-09-10,"b'WTF: Big Oil fills the coffers of Myanmar junta to the tune of $5bn for a controversial gas pipeline, and deprive the country of vital income by depositing the money in offshore bank accounts'"
2009-09-10,"b'""Last year, while the U.S. government was spending nearly $100 million a day on military efforts in Afghanistan, an Oxfam report put the total amount of humanitarian aid to the country from all sources at just $7 million per day. Not much has changed since then.""'"
2009-09-10,"b""Poll asks Americans which countries the US should protect if they're attacked. Canada tops the list, followed by Great Britain, Mexico, Israel and Freedonia"""
2009-09-10,"b""Hermaphrodite: South Africa's Caster Semenya has male and female sexual organs."""
2009-09-10,"b'Hugo Chvez: Venezuela is joining in recognition of the independence of the republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Dmitri Medvedev: ""We will supply Venezuela with all the weapons that they request.""'"
2009-09-10,"b'During WWII the pro-Nazi Vichy regime of France stole a John Constable painting from a Jewish family, eventually making its way to a Swiss museum. Now a relative of the original owner wants it back in the family, but the Swiss legal system says no.'"
2009-09-10,"b'A Helsinki District Court has fined a member of the City Council EUR 330 for ""violating the sanctity of religion"".  Jussi Halla-aho, the defendant, has called Islam ""the religion of paedophilia"".'"
2009-09-10,"b""The IDF 'investigates' the number killed during Operation 'Cast Lead' and they conclude more Hamas killed than not. Human rights organization: Nope, you have it the other way around, by a long shot. The 'most moral army in the world' trying to cover up the truth? Perish the thought!"""
2009-09-10,b'French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans for a new carbon tax'
2009-09-10,"b""Video - The War on Democracy - Coup d'etat in Venezuela in 2002."""
2009-09-10,"b""The use of child soldiers is rightfully condemned worldwide. But when teens take on the Taliban, they're termed 'voluntary militias' and celebrated."""
2009-09-10,"b"" The last work of New York Times' Sultan Munadi, abducted by Taliban,  killed in the Nato-led raid that freed his British Colleague.\n\t"""
2009-09-10,"b'Alan Turing:  Gordon Brown issues an apology on the treatment of the father of computer science, after being petitioned.'"
2009-09-10,b'Colombia is excavating its civil war dead for the first time  sometimes by going into active war zones'
2009-09-10,b'Haiti and Global Family Planning'
2009-09-10,b'Soaring Population May Swamp Anti-Poverty Goals'
2009-09-09,b'British nurse who was struck off the register for secretly filming the lack of care for the elderly at a Brighton hospital has been nominated for a national award'
2009-09-09,b'Denmark will foot the bill for the Maldives to attend climate conference.'
2009-09-09,b'Teenage Solo Yachtswoman: A teenage girl about to embark on a circumnavigation... crashes into a ship on her first day at sea.'
2009-09-09,b'British commando dies in raid to free NYT reporter'
2009-09-09,b'Walmart employees in China beat woman to death for shoplifting.'
2009-09-09,b'Blackwater Mercenaries in Pakistan [VIDEO]'
2009-09-09,"b'Repeat drunk driver given life sentence, in order to protect the public.'"
2009-09-09,b'Israeli war on Gaza killed 252 children: report'
2009-09-09,"b'Vietnam: By 2035, the surplus of adult men would be 10 percent or more of the female population'"
2009-09-09,"b""Aeromexico's hijacked plane lands in Mexico City. Hijacker demands to talk with mexico's president."""
2009-09-09,"b'""The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They\'re doing it openly. What was it, if not genocide?""'"
2009-09-09,b'The destruction of hundreds of schools during fighting between the Pakistani army and Taliban militants has left more than half a million children with little hope of education'
2009-09-09,b'Skull find rewrites the history of man'
2009-09-09,"b'Dozens killed as devastating floods hit Turkey - ""The amount of rain that has fallen in two days roughly equals what normally falls in six months in the Turkish province""'"
2009-09-09,b'How much more a graduate earns over a lifetime [chart]'
2009-09-09,"b""The Japanese publisher East Press has sold 45,000 copies of the manga version of Adolf Hitler's manifesto Mein Kampf"""
2009-09-09,b'Scientists Isolate Antibodies That Stop HIV From Turning Into AIDS'
2009-09-09,b'The first urban train network in the Gulf opens  in Dubai -- longest driverless train system in the world'
2009-09-09,"b""In a bid to control political dissent, offices of Ahmadinejad's opposition leaders have been raided. """
2009-09-09,b'Dutch authorities to prosecute Arab European League for showing cartoon that discriminates against Jews on its website; it shows two men in suits discussing how to boost the number of people killed during the holocaust'
2009-09-09,b'Behind the Veil lives a thriving Muslim Sexuality'
2009-09-09,"b'Canada to set off bombs in Washington. ""The Canadian government will set off several fake bombs at its Washington embassy compound this month to demonstrate its NATO combat role in Afghanistan.""'"
2009-09-09,"b'Sumit Purdani, a Sydney student from Delhi, tells Nick Bryant that many of his Indian friends in Australia have, like him, been the victim of racist attacks'"
2009-09-09,"b'From sexy to Godwin\'s Law in 30 seconds -- ""AIDS is a Mass Murderer"" ads hit German newspapers and TV'"
2009-09-09,"b""South of the Border - Oliver Stone's Documentary on Hugo Chavez and the Emerging Political Order in South America"""
2009-09-08,"b'Israel\'s army is changing. Once proudly secular, its combat units are now filling with those who believe Israel\'s wars are ""God\'s wars"".'"
2009-09-08,b'Iceland kills 93 endangered fin whales'
2009-09-08,b'The Maldives (very much under threat by global warming) does not have the money to send its president to a climate summit -- is looking for someone to pay for the trip.'
2009-09-08,b'Spanish judge resumes torture case against six senior Bush lawyers'
2009-09-08,"b""Based largely on one informant's assessment, the commander ordered a 500-pound, satellite-guided bomb to be dropped on each truck. The vehicles exploded in a fireball that lit up the night sky for miles, incinerating many of those standing nearby"""
2009-09-08,"b'Dozens of filmmakers, artists and activists have signed on to a campaign denouncing the Toronto International Film Festival for celebrating the films of Tel Aviv seen as part of Israeli Propaganda Machine.'"
2009-09-08,b'A leading Saudi cleric has called on Muslims not to pray for the destruction of unbelievers. And the rest of the world says thanks.'
2009-09-08,b'Good news for harried travellers who resent having to remove their shoes at Canadian airport security checkpoints: Now you can just say no'
2009-09-08,"b'Two Norwegians being condemned to death live (French, English and Norwegian)'"
2009-09-08,b'CNN: Two former Norwegian soldiers sentenced to death in Congo'
2009-09-08,b'Vietnamese and US officials meet in Hanoi to discuss further funding efforts to help those affected by the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War'
2009-09-08,"b'""Arctic Sea"" Iran arms link would make an excellent script for a James Bond movie, with journalists fleeing their country, the FSB, Mossad, Iran, MI5, etc.'"
2009-09-08,"b'Israeli Transport Minister promises to invest millions in Jewish Hebron. For the record, Hebron has a total of 500 Israeli (mostly right-wing) settlers fighting to displace 250,000 Palestinians.'"
2009-09-08,"b'Samoa switches to driving on the left, becoming the first country since the 1970s to change the side of the road on which cars are driven.'"
2009-09-08,b'We were seen as less than human in those days. We were less than the flora and the fauna..'
2009-09-08,b'Large earthquake strikes nation of Georgia'
2009-09-08,"b""Gabon's First Lady lives on food stamps"""
2009-09-08,b'AFP: Brazil set to buy 36 hi-tech French fighter jets'
2009-09-08,"b'AP BEIJING -- Two employees of a Wal-Mart store in eastern China were arrested after a woman was beaten outside the store on suspicion of being a shoplifter and died, a state-owned newspaper reported Tuesday.'"
2009-09-08,"b'Sri Lankan doctors have been freed from jail, though they may not yet be free to speak openly'"
2009-09-08,"b""Three guilty of airline bomb plot to rival 9/11. That's Better Than the US Record even with Gitmo."""
2009-09-08,"b'""I have no reason to call him the devil...With Obama we can talk, we are almost from the same generation, one can\'t deny that he is different (from Bush). He\'s intelligent, he has good intentions and we have to help him.""'"
2009-09-08,"b""China's web sites complying with secret government orders, require new users log on under their true identities to post comments"""
2009-09-08,b'Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday he hoped to be able to work more closely with President Barack Obama.'
2009-09-08,b'Romania busts Israeli human egg-trafficking ring'
2009-09-07,"b'""North Korea unleashed walls of water from one or more of its dams on Sunday, sending a flash flood roaring through the heavily armed border with South Korea and sweeping away six South Koreans""'"
2009-09-07,"b'Swedish charity-run hospital in Afghanistan says \r\nU.S. troops tied up staff, searched female wards \r\nand toilets '"
2009-09-07,b'Hemp Ethanol will Only Cost 50 cents per Gallon'
2009-09-07,b'She faced up to 40 lashes for wearing pants considered too tight'
2009-09-07,"b'Saskatchewan gets first new cities in almost a century. For those who have never been to Saskatchewan, a ""city"" is a place where the gas station and restaurant are in separate buildings'"
2009-09-07,"b""North Korea: 'Worst building in the history of mankind' gets a face lift - 16 years late the 105 story Ryugyong Hotel gets glass."""
2009-09-07,b'U.S. leads world in foreign weapons sales: report'
2009-09-07,b'Europe bans incandescent bulbs'
2009-09-07,"b""Prisoner 1447523's name is Rosalio Reta. He was born and raised in Texas. By the age of 13 he was an assassin for one of Mexico's drug cartels. """
2009-09-07,"b'US boosts its share of arms sales, increasing its share to more than two-thirds of all foreign armaments deals'"
2009-09-07,b'Strikes and occupations spread across Ireland as the government gives billions to the wealthy and shifts the burden of the economic crisis onto the backs of working people.'
2009-09-07,"b'Official abducted in front of 2,000 people in Mexico'"
2009-09-07,"b'Karzai: ""It is in no-one\'s interest to have an Afghan president who has become an American puppet...As far as the elections are concerned, there was fraud in 2004, there is today, there will be tomorrow""'"
2009-09-07,"b'It was an unprecedented surveillance operation involving hundreds of police officers, and a plot that prosecutors said was unparalleled in its terrible ambition'"
2009-09-07,"b""Japan's next leader has promised a big cut in greenhouse gas emissions, saying he will aim for a 25% reduction by 2020 compared to 1990 levels"""
2009-09-07,b'Iran - Mousavis Facebook page claims staff office attacked'
2009-09-07,b'Accusation fly at IAEA over Iran '
2009-09-07,"b'""Venezuela\'s Chavez stars at Venice filmfest."" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was the star of the Venice film festival Monday as he turned up for the screening of veteran US director Oliver Stone\'s documentary on his ""peaceful revolution"".'"
2009-09-07,"b""Finland's NBI: no knowledge of alleged weapons cargo on Arctic Sea - Sunday Times says ship carried missiles stolen from Russian military"""
2009-09-07,b'Anti-nuclear tractor rally in Berlin [vid]'
2009-09-07,"b'fake arabs vs iranians (iranians are not arab) arabs have invaded iran more than 10 times looking for food,job,water and land..many of them stayed '"
2009-09-07,"b'Protests grows among Filmmakers in the Toronto International Film Festival for celebrating Israel by the spotlight on Tel-Aviv without mentioning the suffering of Palestinians when they were kicked out their lands to create this ""modern city"" (as portrayed in the films\' selection).'"
2009-09-07,"b'In Italy, An Offended Berlusconi Goes on the Offensive'"
2009-09-07,"b'Sudan - Lubna Hussein Convicted, Ordered to Pay 146 or Go to Prison for a Month, in Infamous Trousers Trial Case'"
2009-09-07,"b'There are 23,574 nuclear weapons in the world'"
2009-09-06,"b'In an act of publishing cowardice, Cond Nast has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent Russians from reading a GQ article criticizing Vladimir Putin.'"
2009-09-06,b'Irish Same-Sex Marriage Ad a Surprise Hit on YouTube'
2009-09-06,b'Is America ready to admit defeat in its 40-year war on drugs?'
2009-09-06,b'Cargo ship that vanished in the Channel was carrying arms to Iran and was being tracked by Mossad'
2009-09-06,b'Nicaraguan police hand over MS-13 boss to Interpol in Managua'
2009-09-06,"b""'Massive' ancient wall uncovered in Jerusalem"""
2009-09-06,"b'Mother fights off cougar during attack on son, 5- using a water bottle.'"
2009-09-06,"b""China's polluters are protected by a 'black box' of secrecy as local governments withhold information"""
2009-09-06,"b'As Anne tried to record the protest, against the opening of a municipal carpark on the Jewish Sabbath, the mob spat on her repeatedly.'"
2009-09-06,"b""Arctic Sea ghost ship 'was carrying weapons to Iran' """
2009-09-06,"b""Canadian legal history could be made this week when a Quebec man finds out whether he will become this country's first drunk driver to be declared a dangerous offender."""
2009-09-06,b'Cigarette makers sue over tobacco law'
2009-09-06,b'China Web Sites Seeking Users Names'
2009-09-06,"b""Mother comes out against Dutch girl's solo sail trip"""
2009-09-06,b'China warning to syringe stabbers'
2009-09-06,b'IMF provides $510m loan for Zimbabwe - its first to the country in a decade'
2009-09-06,b'US plotted Zia-ul-Haqs plane crash: Ex-Pak IB chief'
2009-09-06,b'Hong Kong voices concerns over beating up of journalists in Urumqi'
2009-09-06,b'Ghana: Senior UN official calls for urgent measures to mitigate impact of landslides'
2009-09-06,b'North Korea says uranium program near completion'
2009-09-06,"b'Gun control laws. No use to carry a weapon when someone pulls up to you and unloads an AK-47 rifle before you can even say: ""FUUUUUUUUUUUUU...""'"
2009-09-06,b'Afghan officials disqualify votes from 450 polling places'
2009-09-06,b'Vietnam: Nations population soars to 85.8m'
2009-09-06,"b'When will it stop being cool to hate the United States, Israel, and Republicans, and instead hate on the real bad guys out there: Mugabe, Al Bashir, al-Qaddafi, Than Shwe, etc.'"
2009-09-06,b'China: Syringe-wielding assailants may face death'
2009-09-05,"b""Banksy is ruined by mistake - The building's owner was in tears as she begged workmen to stop."""
2009-09-05,b'Toddler wanders away from wilderness campsite in the Yukon. Found safe but thirsty 25 hours later with a new friend.'
2009-09-05,"b'Israeli army fires tear gas directly at media crew. Cursing and tear gas canister dodging reporter, caught on tape.'"
2009-09-05,"b'Chavez: ""The state of Israel has become a murderous lackey at the service of imperialism. It\'s a genocidal government. I condemn that Zionist government that persecutes the heroic Palestinian people."" '"
2009-09-05,"b'A firm of Saudi lawyers, claiming to act on behalf of descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, has demanded printed and multi-lingual apologies from Danish newspapers who re-printed cartoons of Muhammad, and that all pictures on the Internet be removed permanently'"
2009-09-05,"b'China powers ahead as it seizes the green energy crown from Europe. ""China is running away with the green technology prize. It has conquered a\nthird of the world market for solar cells and is on a breakneck course to\nbuild 100 gigawatts of wind turbines by 2020...""'"
2009-09-05,"b""Violent clashes on the streets of the UK's 2nd biggest city as anti-Islamist protesters clash with Muslims and their supporters"""
2009-09-05,b'Italian tourist faces jail in Brazil for kissing his daughter on a public beach'
2009-09-05,b'AN air strike in northern Afghanistan that killed up to 90 people hit at the heart of plans for a tactical change in the Western military strategy against Taliban-linked insurgents.'
2009-09-05,b'How the dolphins being massacred to satisfy a food fetish are poisoning the Japanese who eat them'
2009-09-05,"b""Josef Stalin 'returns' to Moscow metro"""
2009-09-05,b'Venezuela Killing Goes on as 451 Slain in Caracas'
2009-09-05,b'Bolivian Press Slams Brutal Police Aggression'
2009-09-05,b'China Fires Urumqi Communist Party Chief'
2009-09-05,"b""China's southern province installs 1 mln cameras to monitor crimes"""
2009-09-05,b'Colombian Authorities Seize 2 Tons of Cocaine'
2009-09-05,b'Thieves invade Brazilian radio station and rob announcer on the air'
2009-09-05,"b'A Billion Teenagers, for Better or Worse'"
2009-09-05,b'Suffering and struggle in rural China'
2009-09-05,b'Hizbullah silent over report that group got chemical weapons'
2009-09-05,b'Brown urges G20 to keep spending to avoid prolonging recession'
2009-09-05,b'Ngilu: Kenya the most water-poor nation'
2009-09-05,b'World population will excede 9 billion by 2050 '
2009-09-05,"b'World population to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, report says'"
2009-09-04,"b'A six-year-old girl has become a media darling in China on her first day of school by expressing her aspiration to become a ""corrupt official"" when she grows up'"
2009-09-04,b'Antibodies found that prevent HIV from causing severe AIDS'
2009-09-04,b'South African man commits suicide after bureaucrat \r\nripped up ID papers needed for a job'
2009-09-04,"b'The war on drugs is immoral idiocy: While Latin American countries decriminalise narcotics, Britain persists in prohibition that causes vast human suffering'"
2009-09-04,"b'Chinas Muslim Uyghurs Forbidden to Fast During \r\nRamadan, Face Severe Oppression'"
2009-09-04,b'French filmmaker who did documentary about a violent street gang in El Salvador was shot dead '
2009-09-04,"b'6th largest hydroelectric dam in the world, Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam, explosion. '"
2009-09-04,"b'While the movie rakes it in at the box office, the inhabitants of the real District 9 are facing forced relocation'"
2009-09-04,b'Musicians push back against Record Labels in UK going after file sharers.'
2009-09-04,"b""Now Colonel Gaddafi wants to 'abolish' Switzerland: Dictator files bizarre motion with the U.N."""
2009-09-04,"b'Mehdi Karroubi: One of the victims of rape in Iranian prisons has disappeared, and that ""former Tehran general prosecutor and his representatives are responsible for any unfortunate event that may happen to him or his family.""  '"
2009-09-04,"b""The latest target of Mexico's drug violence: rehab centers.  18 recovering addicts were lined up against a wall and gunned down yesterday."""
2009-09-04,"b""North Korea announces to the UN it is 'enriching uranium for second arsenal of nuclear weapons' in a new provocation to the international community"""
2009-09-04,b'The woman who blew the whistle on convicted paedophile and former New South Wales minister Milton Orkopoulos has asked the Queen to intervene in what she calls her pursuit for justice.\n\nThe incident put Ms Sneddon out of a job'
2009-09-04,b'North Korea Close To Finalising Nuclear Enrichment'
2009-09-04,"b""Young men spray hoses in a car-washing contest and play pool. Children make paper crowns in an art class, while their parents have a picnic. This is Islamic summer camp, and it's part of Saudi Arabia's campaign to eliminate al-Qaida. This is not an Onion article."""
2009-09-04,b'Al-Shabab Leader Threatens Somaliland'
2009-09-04,b'CHINA Police patrolling Urumqi as conflict between Han and Uyghurs becomes a real possibility'
2009-09-04,b'Could this be what the euphoria of hypocrisy feels like?'
2009-09-04,b'Security chief arrested in Mexico'
2009-09-04,b'Qaddafi proposes abolishing Switzerland'
2009-09-04,b'North Korea said it is weaponizing plutonium and enriching uranium and told the United Nations to choose between talks or imposing sanctions over its nuclear program.'
2009-09-04,b'Australia is in a high population growth phase and has been for much of this decade.'
2009-09-04,"b""Critics from the left and the right are making sharper and sharper attacks on Obama's policies toward Sudan and Darfur."""
2009-09-04,b'Turkey-Armenia Peace Talks: A Thaw in a Century-Old Feud? '
2009-09-03,"b""World's Chief Nuclear Inspector Calls Iranian Threat 'Hyped'"""
2009-09-03,"b""Norway's pension fund drops Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. for ethical reasons as the company supplies surveillance equipment used to monitor the separation wall between Israel and the West Bank"""
2009-09-03,b'Not one penny of the $5bn pledged to the Palestinians has reached Gaza'
2009-09-03,b'Azerbaijan jails two kids for making funny YouTube video critical of government'
2009-09-03,b'Remember the ship that was hijacked andthen not hijacked before being rescued by the Russian navy? Well the editor who suggested it might have been carrying illegal arms has been threatened and has had to flee Russia'
2009-09-03,b'The US has halted all non-humanitarian aid ($200m) to Honduras in the wake of the coup there in June'
2009-09-03,b'Bristol puts the decision to keep or erase graffiti in the hands of the internet. This can only end well.'
2009-09-03,"b'""On one occasion we had it reported to us that at least one member of that family was seen to pick up ducklings in the park and kill them by throwing them against trees."" '"
2009-09-03,b'CHINA Chinese police arrest parents protesting blood lead poisoning in their children'
2009-09-03,"b""Mormon missionaries kicked out of Guyana, LDS \r\nhas previously collaborated with Guyana's main \r\npolitical opposition """
2009-09-03,b'China: Urumqi quiets down after protest against syringe attacks'
2009-09-03,b'A controversial Kiwi mayor is being accused of bullying a group of primary school children after he sent them a letter urging them to sack their teacher.'
2009-09-03,b'What if they were Muslims?'
2009-09-03,"b'Needle stabbings lead to protests in China - ""Fifteen people have been detained for allegedly stabbing people with tainted syringes in ethnically motivated attacks ...""'"
2009-09-03,b'Forty people killed in drug-related Mexico violence'
2009-09-03,b'US commanders report paves way for military escalation in Afghanistan!'
2009-09-03,b'Arguments due in high school football death trial'
2009-09-03,b'Canadian Government appeals asylum ruling for South African'
2009-09-03,b'Australia has experienced its warmest August on record amid soaring winter temperatures.'
2009-09-03,"b'Indonesia quake death toll at 46, likely to rise'"
2009-09-03,b'Outspoken Arctic Sea ship commentator flees Russia'
2009-09-03,b'Thailand: Time for democracy movement to be clear about how to fight'
2009-09-03,"b'A Korean camera crew in Gaza documented one of the most heroic actions we have ever seen. It is also a video of some hope. Her courageous action seems, at least, momentarily successful.'"
2009-09-03,"b""Don't speculate about what the Arctic Sea was carrying when it was 'hijackes' in the Baltic, if you live on Russia"""
2009-09-03,b'China is buying the equivalent of $50 billion of the first bond sale by the International Monetary Fund.'
2009-09-02,b'Dutch prosecutors will charge Arab cultural group under hate speech laws for publishing a cartoon that suggests the death of 6 million Jews during World War II is a fabrication '
2009-09-02,b'Slovakian government passes law making it illegal for the Hungarian minority to speak their own language in public'
2009-09-02,b'% of Women Who Believe Its OK for Husbands to Hit Them'
2009-09-02,b'Drunks raping women at HIV/AIDS refuge in Papua New Guinea western highlands'
2009-09-02,"b'Former Ontario AG kills a man that was hanging onto his car door by accelerating, swiping him against a mailbox, and running him over. Seriously.'"
2009-09-02,b'A sense of vengeance is the only thing that keeps me alive.'
2009-09-02,b'How Gypsy gangs use child thieves'
2009-09-02,"b'Strong Indonesia quake kills 15, toll may soar '"
2009-09-02,"b""25 year old Iranian protester was allegedly 'killed in prison'"""
2009-09-02,b'Secret spy plane used to rescue lost politician.'
2009-09-02,"b""Ali gets hero's welcome in Ireland"""
2009-09-02,"b'In the Congo, midwives need the means to accomplish their noble goal of saving women through direct intervention, HIV/AIDS counseling, and nutrition. This is truly a grassroots effort with a humble beginning that literally transforms grass and roots into life-supporting energy.'"
2009-09-02,"b'Two car bombs explode in Athens and Salonika, damaging the Athens Stock Exchange and lightly wounding one woman.'"
2009-09-02,"b'Once limited in the Mediterranean sea, now government-backed Israel Piracy is expanding to European Waters'"
2009-09-02,"b'Japan\'s new First Lady: ""I rode to Venus on a UFO""'"
2009-09-02,b'Pakistan population time bomb'
2009-09-02,"b'Gov\'t Contractors - Are they all either wackos and/or greedy SOBs?  ""Lord of the Flies environment"" at US Embassy Afghanistan'"
2009-09-02,b'Ten Years Of Freedom In East Timor'
2009-09-02,b'Lockerbie bomber paper trail leads to Gordon Brown'
2009-09-02,b'Teen heroin addiction out of control'
2009-09-02,"b'Population Growth Expected to Cause a Food, Water and Energy Crisis by 2030'"
2009-09-02,b'Olympic Committee Report Finds No Clear Front Runner For 2016 Games'
2009-09-02,"b'Radio program, ""Magic Touch,"" uses Entertainment Education to promote social change at a local level'"
2009-09-02,"b""The president's cousin Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades."""
2009-09-02,"b""`Amanzi Ngawethu' (water is ours) -- Health and environmental victories for South African activists (with great video)"""
2009-09-01,"b""In a backlash against the US 'war on drugs', Latin America turns to a more liberal policy"""
2009-09-01,"b""Pilot to control tower, ''Come on, I know you're down there, ... where the bloody hell have you hidden yourself?''"""
2009-09-01,b'North Korea reopens regular border crossing with the South '
2009-09-01,"b""72 year old Olympic medalist (Dawn Fraser, Gold 1956 in 100m freestyle swimming) attacks teenaged intruder at her home in Australia.   Knee'd him in the groin with her titanium knee."""
2009-09-01,"b'Young teenagers in the UK are more likely to get drunk than anywhere else in the industrial world, shows an international survey.'"
2009-09-01,"b""New ID cards linked to criminal records - privacy in the UK - It doesn't exist."""
2009-09-01,"b'In the eyes of Saudi Arabian conservatives, the land where Islam was founded and the Prophet Muhammad was born must remain purely Muslim.  Saudi Arabia bans public displays of crosses and churches. '"
2009-09-01,"b'Ex-Ontario Attorney General held in cyclist\'s death: ""Burrows would not confirm witness reports the cyclist jumped on the car... and began fighting with the driver of a black Saab.""'"
2009-09-01,"b""Spiderman scales one of the world's tallest buildings, the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, on his third attempt"""
2009-09-01,b'North and South Korea have restored regular access across their heavily fortified border for traffic to and from a jointly-run industrial park.'
2009-09-01,"b'Israeli maxim: Occupy a country and then make the people pay a price to get part of it back. When they object, accuse them of refusing to take advantage of opportunities for peace.'"
2009-09-01,b'Fund-raising appeal to save Romanian lions from being shot'
2009-09-01,"b'Kahanist-American kids go to Israel, prepare to take on the Israeli army if theres any order to clear Jewish settlements. Expulsion orders for Arabs? Still cool with them.'"
2009-09-01,b'Lesbian couples in England and Wales who start a family through fertility treatment can now place both their names on the birth certificate'
2009-09-01,b'Poland and Germany remember the start of WWII (video report)'
2009-09-01,b'Boycott: An Israeli peace activist on Apartheid in South Africa and whether a boycott will work for Israel.'
2009-09-01,b'Hamas has resisted suggestions that Palestinian children should be taught about the Holocaust in UN-run schools.'
2009-09-01,b'Protesters in the South Pacific nation of Samoa have lost a legal bid to stop a change in road rules that will force motorists to drive on the left.'
2009-09-01,b'Saddams Military Planes Found in Serbia'
2009-09-01,b'Hamas: Holocaust is a Zionist Lie'
2009-09-01,b'France: Repeated attacks on Christians and Christian churches. Silence in the mainstream media.'
2009-09-01,"b""Chevron accuses Ecuadorean judge of taking bribes in mammoth Tort case against the company by indigenous residents of the country's Amazon Basin"""
2009-09-01,"b'The problem is fundamental: Founding a modern state on a single ethnic or religious identity in a territory that is ethnically and religiously diverse leads inexorably either to politics of exclusion or to wholesale ethnic cleansing. Put simply, the problem is Zionism.'"
2009-09-01,"b""Fiji has been suspended from the Commonwealth after the South Pacific island nation's military government failed to respond to a demand to begin restoring democracy."""
2009-09-01,b' Access to The Pirate Bay is denied by Irish ISP'
2009-08-31,b'Thousands call for Turing apology'
2009-08-31,"b'""Nearly 60% of black and African people living in Russia\'s capital Moscow have been physically assaulted in racially motivated attacks, says a new study.""'"
2009-08-31,"b'In Australia, when a political figure goes missing while hiking in the mountains, he actually is missing -- in the mountains'"
2009-08-31,b'Lesbians given equal birth rights'
2009-08-31,"b'Australia closed a chapter in its military history today when the bodies of the last two Australian servicemen missing in Vietnam were returned home, nearly 40 years after their last wartime mission.'"
2009-08-31,"b'We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction  Sen. Ted Kennedy, September 27, 2002'"
2009-08-31,"b""Fly ash pollution from coal-fired power stations: Tests on children living in areas around India's power stations show high levels of uranium in their bodies...ground water show that levels of uranium around the plants are up to 15 times the WHO maximum safe limits"""
2009-08-31,b'A report by the top US general in Afghanistan is expected to admit the current strategy is not working'
2009-08-31,"b'Effective today, police and councils in U.K. can impose Drinking Banning Orders - dubbed ""booze Asbos"" - on anyone who behave anti-socially while drunk'"
2009-08-31,b'An al-Qaeda terrorist captured in Iraq has confessed to being trained by Syria'
2009-08-31,"b'A court in Sri Lanka sentences prominent Tamil journalist to 20 years in prison for ""causing communal disharmony"".'"
2009-08-31,b'Federal Reserve Made $14 Billion on Turmoil Loans'
2009-08-31,b'Hamas leader denies Nazi genocide of Jews'
2009-08-31,"b'""And I think there is nothing that can\'t be done if it is fundamentally reasonable.""'"
2009-08-31,b'B.C. town rallies to stop toxic waste plant'
2009-08-31,"b""\n\nOur thanks go out to John Yettaw, Burma Junta says..\n\nBurma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi plans to renovate her crumbling lakeside home to keep out trespassers, her lawyer says."""
2009-08-31,"b""City officials in Tehran have agreed to investigate claims that bodies of protesters were secretly buried in the nation's largest cemetery"""
2009-08-31,b'A five-day-old wildfire burning out of control in the Los Angeles foothills and forest has claimed its first victims - two firefighters whose vehicle plummeted off the side of a road.'
2009-08-31,b'Why did Scotland really release Libyan Lockerbie bomber?'
2009-08-31,b'How Shifts To Smaller Family Sizes Contributed To The Asian Miracle'
2009-08-31,"b'Crazy UK government now allows people who aren\'t parents to be named as parents on a baby\'s birth certificate.  ""Are you really my dad?"" they may ask when they grow up.'"
2009-08-31,"b'Claims of Peace in Darfur Disputed by Rebels, Officials'"
2009-08-31,"b'""Honour"" killings and brutal murders of gay men on the rise in Iraq, as Iraqi authorities look the other way'"
2009-08-31,b'Increasing Accounts of Fraud Cloud Afghan Vote'
2009-08-31,"b""Gabon casts first votes after dictator's death """
2009-08-30,b'One of the reasons why no one watches TV on TV anymore.'
2009-08-30,b'Early release for Iraqi shoe-thrower after his sentence was reduced for good behavior.'
2009-08-30,b'Oil tanker split in two before it sank near the Red Sea entrance to the Suez Canal; Egyptian officials trying to contain the oil spill'
2009-08-30,b'Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert indicted -- the first criminal indictment ever filed against a current or past Israeli prime minister'
2009-08-30,b'Opposition wins in Japan election - Ruling party officials set to resign after apparent crushing defeat at polls.'
2009-08-30,"b""Poll: 89% of Pakistanis believe the US should be declared a hostile state.  And they are still pissed that the US substituted wheat for F-16's that were\r\nalready paid for."""
2009-08-30,b'Japan goes to the polls as the Liberal Democratic Party looks set to fall after 50 years of near-uninterrupted rule'
2009-08-30,"b""Al Jazeera English - Pakistan 'modified US missiles'"""
2009-08-30,"b'The 2,000th anniversary of the battle that founded a nation. For most countries it would be a reason for parades and flag waving. But not this one. '"
2009-08-30,b'Bank officials on the run in Nigeria after giving $5.Billion worth of bad loans'
2009-08-30,b'Taiwan police clash with Dalai Lama opponents '
2009-08-30,b'Afghan Resistance Statement. The decisive and complete boycott of the Afghan people with the August 20 election showed once again that the Afghans could not be trapped through conspiracies and wiles of the invaders and their surrogates'
2009-08-30,b'The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil'
2009-08-30,"b""Universities and Student Unions to pay legal fee's for Tamil Protester that was arrested. (Btw I'm the one waving the flag)"""
2009-08-30,b'China Says One Child Policy Will Be Strictly Enforced For Decades'
2009-08-30,"b'Lockerbie bomber release linked to oil deal: Britain agreed to include Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset al-Megrahi in a prisoner transfer deal with Libya because of ""overwhelming interests"" shortly before an oil deal was sealed with Tripoli.'"
2009-08-30,"b'Water Scarcity Looms as Population, Temperature Rise'"
2009-08-30,"b""The affair has been dubbed 'Bloodgate'. In the dying moments of a crucial match, a Harlequins player faked a blood injury so he could be replaced by a goal kicker who could win the game."""
2009-08-30,b'India to reduce population growth 80% via electricity...'
2009-08-30,"b'Simon Dee, one of the biggest stars on British TV and radio in the Swinging Sixties, dies of cancer at the age of 74.'"
2009-08-30,b'Hot Asians Show Up at Chinese film awards'
2009-08-30,b'Belorussian Su-27 crash on Radom Air Show (Poland)'
2009-08-30,"b'Iraqi military repo men comb world for missing fighter jets, ships stashed by Saddam'"
2009-08-30,"b""Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party defeated in a landslide."""
2009-08-30,b'The Nations That Gave Up on Nuclear Bombs'
2009-08-29,"b'Japan now has 2nd largest communist party in G8; only the Russian Communist Party bigger. 42-year-old worker from Tokyo-based transport company: ""Companies are only interested in their profits and protecting their management. They do not care about their staff. They see us as disposable.""'"
2009-08-29,"b'Boy is arrested, raped and tortured, released, was to be arrested again but he kills himself first...'"
2009-08-29,"b'For what its worth: The son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch has called the British Broadcasting Corp. a threat to independent journalism. ""the expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision, which are so important for our democracy,"" '"
2009-08-29,b'The United Arab Emirates has seized a cargo ship earlier this month bound for Iran with a cache of banned arms from North Korea'
2009-08-29,"b""Bar staff in Scotland to be banned from asking \r\n'Same again?' in drinks crackdown"""
2009-08-29,"b'After nearly 50 years in consecutive power, Japan looks to dump the conservatives.'"
2009-08-29,b'Jewish groups syphon 84% of the cash from Canada federal funding program for groups at risk.'
2009-08-29,"b'\nHeavy debt often paired with obesity: People who are heavily in debt are more likely to be heavy themselves, too, according to new research from Germany.'"
2009-08-29,"b""Norway's centre-left govt may lose majority to far right party in the upcoming election """
2009-08-29,"b""Lockerbie bomber 'set free for oil'"""
2009-08-29,"b'Giant Burn Scar in Athens, Greece ""Since the burned land reflects more shortwave-infrared light than water or plant-covered land do, it is bright red."" [satellite false color image]'"
2009-08-29,b'IAEA: Iran has slowed nuclear work '
2009-08-29,b'Taliban expanding into Northern Afghanistan to counter new NATO supply route.'
2009-08-29,b'The disease is spreading: BNP support up to 15% in local elections'
2009-08-29,b'SBA Studies Say Franchises More Likely to Fail than Small Businesses'
2009-08-29,"b'Erm, I started reading this article thinking it was about a particular person....'"
2009-08-29,b'El primer refugiado digital de la historia'
2009-08-29,b'Census: Counting Human Population Growth'
2009-08-29,b'Unilever Pakistan Kills a Young Boy in their Lame Stunt TV Show'
2009-08-29,b'Fears of increasingly ageing UK population fall as birthrate rises'
2009-08-29,"b'In Somalia, African Union soldiers contend with a vague and underfunded mission with no cease-fire to enforce. Among the troops who have died, some apparently succumbed to illness due to malnutrition.'"
2009-08-29,"b""This is reality. A fairly commonplace occurrence you'll never see on your TV, but might see in real life. It's healthy to be reminded once in a while [NSFW, probably disturbing] """
2009-08-29,b'Should China promote a two-child policy?'
2009-08-29,"b""How a Detainee Became An Asset - Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding (The Post article about KSM that uses unidentified sources to back up some of Cheney's claims)"""
2009-08-29,"b'Mossad targets CIA in Gaza killing four. The CIA personnel were traveling in 3 cars, escorted by military vehicles on the main road in Gaza.. The first two cars passed, then the third car was targeted by a massive remote control bomb. Four CIA agents were killed in the bombing. '"
2009-08-28,"b'Courts put 13-year-old girl in state care, blocking her from being the youngest person to sail around the world'"
2009-08-28,b'There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History '
2009-08-28,"b'Gelato in hand, youre strolling down a street in Italy, when suddenly, an attractive woman starts arguing with a street vendor. A crowd gathers as he accuses her of shoplifting. To prove her innocence, she starts to strip...'"
2009-08-28,"b'First case of ""Digital rape"" in Sweden; 33 year old man sentenced to 8 years in prison for forcing 65 girls (mostly underaged) to undress on webcam, threatening to kill victims family if not complying'"
2009-08-28,"b""WTF?  Iceland to cut public spending by 30% over next 3 years; Meanwhile the Icelandic gov't announced today that its public will be reimbursing the EU for losses sustained from investments in private Icelandic banks."""
2009-08-28,b'Manufacturer of Taser sparks new controversy with commercial launch of long-range version that can be fired from a 12-bore shotgun'
2009-08-28,"b'Italian newspaper ask 10 questions to Berlusconi. Berlusconi, instead of giving answers, sue the newspaper.'"
2009-08-28,b'In Soviet Russia... Belarus leader rigged vote to lower his margin '
2009-08-28,"b""Thai activist sentenced to 18 years for 'insulting the monarchy'"""
2009-08-28,b'Senior Iranian cleric calls ruling system a dictatorship'
2009-08-28,"b'The Pirate Party UK: Equating the freedom to share files non-commercially with freedom from excessive surveillance, freedom of speech and information'"
2009-08-28,"b'By 2012, every traveler entering the United States who is part of the visa-waiver program must have a biometric passport or be forced to apply for a visa'"
2009-08-28,"b'State Department staff have recommended that the ouster of President Manuel Zelaya be declared a ""military coup,"" which could cut off as much as $150 million in U.S. funding to Honduras.'"
2009-08-28,b'Fins accepting Russian gas pipe through their territory - in exchange for Karelia which they ceded to Soviet half a century ago'
2009-08-28,b'Al-Qaeda claims Saudi prince attack '
2009-08-28,"b'South African soldiers form union and march on government buildings. Ruling regime refuses to recognize union, orders police to attack them, and accuses them of violence.'"
2009-08-28,"b'When she fled to the American embassy, the Marines would bring me back home every time, she recalls. I was the wife of a foreign national.'"
2009-08-28,"b'""Lockerbie is history... There is no reason for people to be angry. Why be so angry?"" - Seif al-Islam al-Qaddafi'"
2009-08-28,"b'""If the army, probably the key component of the state, is politicised or at least neutralised, this deals a serious blow to the security of the ruling class. This is why the commanders of the Nepal Army and the rich minority whose interests it serves are so strongly opposed to army integration.""'"
2009-08-28,"b""Dutch court takes custody of 13-year-old sailor: She wanted to sail the world solo... so the court has taken her from her family for 2 months to 'assess' her..."""
2009-08-28,"b""Archbishop Tutu to Israeli Newspaper: Arabs paying for Germany's crimes"""
2009-08-28,"b""Berlusconi To Sue Every European Newspaper He Doesn't Own """
2009-08-28,b'Refugees Flee as Fighting Breaks Out in Myanmars North'
2009-08-28,"b""A Brief History of China's One-Child Policy"""
2009-08-28,"b'Saudi prince injured by militant: Claimed to be giving himself up, and then detonated a suicide bomb.'"
2009-08-27,b'French hostage kills 3 and escapes'
2009-08-27,"b'A naked, blindfolded man crouches on the ground, as a uniformed soldier kicks him in the head then abruptly ends his life with a point- blank rifle shot. Other bodies lie nearby, their blood staining the earth around them.'"
2009-08-27,b'Looks like that Russian ship was carrying missiles to Iran via Algeria'
2009-08-27,b'CHINA: Human rights lawyer arrested on tax evasion charges -- Bet this story will be retracted quick smart! Surprised it even got published.'
2009-08-27,"b'Angry French lorry drivers at struggling company threaten to pour 8,000 litres of toxic fuel additive into Parisian river unless their demands for redundancy pay-offs are met'"
2009-08-27,b'Sri Lankan Journalist Ahimsha Wickrematunge wrote an editorial only to be release upon his death. He was murdered in January. This is his story.'
2009-08-27,"b'UK Gov fails at privacy, loses 377K of private data on a memory stick!'"
2009-08-27,"b""Mali's parliament passes a law stating that women do not have to obey their husbands and can inherit property. Muslims flip out. Malian president refuses to sign the law."""
2009-08-27,b'Son of newly appointed Nigerian Ambassador to the US charged with rape'
2009-08-27,b'New Zealand is running out of space for its burgeoning prison population and has decided to start using shipping containers to house its inmates.'
2009-08-27,"b'London\'s ambassador to Kabul said Wednesday he expects Britain\'s presence in Afghanistan will last at least ""a generation,""'"
2009-08-27,"b'American\'s leaving London in droves, ""We are fed up with all the stealth taxes, the non-doms levy, and now the 50 percent tax rate. Will ""the City"" ever be the same?'"
2009-08-27,b'Crazy prison escapes in Belgium'
2009-08-27,b'In a 1987 meeting with US analysts the KGB foresaw and warned of the rise of terrorism from radical Islam-- A look at the untapped potential of greater cooperation of US and Russia.'
2009-08-27,"b""Bernanke Victimized by Identity Fraud Ring, they swiped his wife's purseincluding the couple's joint check book."""
2009-08-27,b'Swedish woman in porn flakes breakfast shock. Yes the headline reads porn flakes.'
2009-08-27,"b""Khamenei: 'Opposition not stooges for Western powers'"""
2009-08-27,"b'Iranian opposition leaders on  trial for wanting a legitimate goverment, or, apparently, ""attempting a coup.""'"
2009-08-27,"b'American songwriter Ellie Greenwich, who penned River Deep, Mountain High and other hits, has died, aged 68.'"
2009-08-27,"b""Iran's supreme leader says he has seen no proof that opposition leaders blamed for the post-election unrest were agents of foreign powers"""
2009-08-27,"b'China has criticised an invitation from Taiwan to the Dalai Lama, calling him a separatist who wants to sabotage improving cross-strait relations.'"
2009-08-27,"b'Black Hair, Still Tangled in Politics '"
2009-08-27,b'Netanyahu states that Israeli ethnic cleansing/settlements must continue.'
2009-08-27,"b'""Netanyahus peace is a cynical evasion""'"
2009-08-27,"b""India's population to rise to 1.53 Billion by 2050"""
2009-08-26,b'Argentina Decriminalizes Personal Drug Consumption.'
2009-08-26,b'The supreme court in Argentina has ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish people for using marijuana for personal consumption.'
2009-08-26,b'U.S. is 15 years behind South Korea in Internet \r\nspeed'
2009-08-26,"b'Kidnapped French agent kills captors, escapes in Somalia - in a good mood at presidential palace after fleeing militants.'"
2009-08-26,"b""Thirty Palestinians killed. Missiles fired at a Mosque. Muslim prisoners 'executed' in cold blood. International outrage and demonstrations? Nope. Why? Because unless Israelis are to blame, people don't care."""
2009-08-26,b'China admits death row organ use '
2009-08-26,"b'ISP that cut off Pirate Bay hit hard, site is back \r\nonline in hours'"
2009-08-26,"b""Channel 4 news reporting about a video of Tamil men stripped, bound and shot in the head by Sri Lankan Army. It's not terrorism if you're the government."""
2009-08-26,b'Lets not forget about Iran quite yet..'
2009-08-26,b'Swine Flu Ancestor Born on U.S. Factory Farms '
2009-08-26,b'The FSA ignored pesticides (the main health issue) in its report on organic food'
2009-08-26,b'Argentina rules on marijuana use  Its just not right to punish people for marjuana'
2009-08-26,"b'Wave of protest greets Israeli PM. ""Hundreds of peace and solidarity campaigners have gathered at Downing Street to protest at Prime Minister Gordon Brown\'s cosy meeting with far-right Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu.""'"
2009-08-26,b'There Are More Slaves Today Than Any Time in Human History'
2009-08-26,b'The Unbalanced Triangle. What Chinese-Russian Relations Mean for the United States '
2009-08-26,"b'Vereeniging, South Africa,""People LITERALLY DIE waiting in line to see a doctor since the lines are endless and the nursing staff just don\'t care.""'"
2009-08-26,b'Israel opens door to West Bank compromise'
2009-08-26,"b'Deaths, Missing Detainees Still Blacked Out in New CIA Report '"
2009-08-26,b'Brazilian Girl Admits to Killing 30 Men'
2009-08-26,b'Journalist Stabbed to Death in Democratic Republic of Congo'
2009-08-26,"b""'Mexican drug cartels now recruiting hit men from U.S. military'"""
2009-08-26,b'A Shocking Look Inside Chinese Fur Farms'
2009-08-26,"b""China' Young Men"""
2009-08-26,"b""Tuberculosis is on the rise in Russia, and only 9% of the country's TB hospitals meets basic hygiene standards"""
2009-08-26,b'A horrible return of hooliganism and violence returned to English Football last night.'
2009-08-25,"b'""Every American should be forced to read and learn this in order to know what was done in their names.""'"
2009-08-25,b'Is Yemen Chewing Itself to Death?'
2009-08-25,b'Swedish court rules The Pirate Bay admins too broke to pay damages'
2009-08-25,"b'Girl, 13, told to delay solo sailing voyage by courts'"
2009-08-25,b'Red Army troops raped even Russian women as they freed them from camps at the end of WWII'
2009-08-25,"b'""Why The World Must Boycott Israel"", An Excellent Article Written By An Israeli Professor'"
2009-08-25,b'Police may be issued with new high-power Taser'
2009-08-25,"b""London's CCTVs solve only one crime in a 1,000"""
2009-08-25,b'Violations of human rights: Coup protestor gang-raped by Honduran police'
2009-08-25,"b'He has been captured by bank surveillance cameras in eight states, sneering and holding a pistol sideways during heists. '"
2009-08-25,"b'1,000 CCTV cameras to solve just one crime, Met Police admits'"
2009-08-25,b'There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History'
2009-08-25,"b'Britain allows tax-payer funded organizations/universities to ban common words and phrases that could possibly be construed as racist or sexist,  for example, ""black mark,"" ""right hand man,"" and ""gentleman\'s agreement.""  Ridiculous.'"
2009-08-25,"b""Saving the World's Women: How changing the lives of women and girls in the developing world can change everything"""
2009-08-25,b'Remember the Torture-Slaying of the University of Tennessee students from 2007?  The first of the four defendants has been found guilty.'
2009-08-25,b'Former Labour MP Tam Dalyell and Edinburgh law professor Robert Black urge the Scottish and UK governments to answer allegations that Lockerbie suspect Abu Nidal was a US agent.'
2009-08-25,"b'UK Royal Mail is to phase out nearly all of the 25,000 bikes used by postmen and women across the country.'"
2009-08-25,"b'A Roma (Gypsy) community has been living on a dump in Clug, Romania, for two generations. '"
2009-08-25,b'Its kinda like a fun-sized version of imperialism...(new interactive map)'
2009-08-25,b'Evidence Reveals Libyan Convicted of Lockerbie Bombing Innocent: Corporate media in U.S. ignores story that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi is innocent. '
2009-08-25,b'What are some good/decent news websites that I can read regularly that is not too biased?'
2009-08-25,b'China: First armed police law set to pass'
2009-08-25,b'Canadian program aims to get mentally ill off streets'
2009-08-25,"b'Japan, out of recession  is it over?'"
2009-08-25,"b'Honduran Supreme Court Denies Zelayas Return, Keeping Political Crisis Alive'"
2009-08-24,"b""Over my dead body! UK trying to make plastic pint 'glasses' compulsory. Where will the nanny state end?"""
2009-08-24,b'McGill professor caught in ghost writing scandal where articles paid for by drug giant Wyeth Pharmaceuticals'
2009-08-24,"b'If you happen to find yourself in Samoa on September 7th, DO NOT get on the roads - the government is switching the side of the street that cars drive on'"
2009-08-24,b'British firefighters call for boycott of Israel.'
2009-08-24,"b'""The men came on three motorcycles, each one carrying a driver and a man on back. They wore masks. Each of the men riding on back carried a small container filled with battery acid. The masked men circled for several minutes as the girls streamed to school. Then they moved in.""'"
2009-08-24,"b'When someone uncovers an organ trafficking network, the easiest way to reject the claims is to accuse him of Antisemitism.'"
2009-08-24,"b'Tens of thousands have watched this video produced by an Iranian filmmaker/activist, where a woman tells how she was tortured and raped in prison.'"
2009-08-24,"b'In the midst of its drug war, Mexico has taken a bold step: Decriminalising the possession of small amounts of drugs, including cocaine and heroin.'"
2009-08-24,"b""Pirate Bay sale looking uncertain as Swedish stock market suspends trading in 'Global Gaming Factory' shares"""
2009-08-24,"b'""AN AMERICAN citizen is to be named by the Lockerbie bomber as the man who really carried out the terrorist attack on Pan Am Flight 103.""'"
2009-08-24,"b'UK to share fingerprints with Canada, Australia'"
2009-08-24,b'Is there anything this man can not do???'
2009-08-24,"b'Former Scotsman editor confirms government and CIA influence over Lockerbie investigation. ""...UK Government and intelligence services influenced coverage of the Lockerbie inquiry to implicate Iran and Syria.""'"
2009-08-24,"b""Israelis Restrict Palestinians' Water Supply: Israelis have access to four times as much water as Palestinians due to restrictions"""
2009-08-24,b'The eighth largest oil field in the world will be dead by the end of next year.'
2009-08-24,"b'UK to share fingerprint data with other countries including US. They say it will lead to more criminals being caught, or is just another intrusion in human rights? '"
2009-08-24,b'Tens of thousands flee wildfires in Greece'
2009-08-24,"b'Academic freedom, Israeli style: Education Minister slams Israeli lecturer\'s \'apartheid\' op-ed; Ben-Gurion University president suggests finding another ""personal or professional"" home.'"
2009-08-24,"b'Contractors made presentations for ""nano-size"" drones the size of moths that can flit into buildings to gather intelligence'"
2009-08-24,b'Could we finally see a thawing of relations with North Korea? '
2009-08-24,"b'It was Abu Nidal, a U.S. intelligence asset, who was responsible for the Lockerbie bombing, not the Libyan patsy Abdel Baset al-Megrahi.'"
2009-08-24,"b""Maoists kill five policemen in India's Bihar"""
2009-08-24,b'Trials may begin this week for more than 200 people charged with crimes after riots last month in Chinas far-western Xinjiang region'
2009-08-24,b'Malaysia: Woman scheduled to be caned for drinking beer'
2009-08-24,b'Israelis harvest Palestinian organs: Israel and Sweden in row over report in media'
2009-08-23,b'Scotland needs no lessons in matters of fairness from a country that has been routinely waterboarding suspects in Guantnamo Bay.'
2009-08-23,"b""Will somebody please remind the Americans that all of the British victim's families believe Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi had nothing whatsoever to do with the Lockerbie bombing. [Video interview with spokesman for 'UK Families Flight 103']"""
2009-08-23,"b'Australia passed law demanding that 20% of its electricity comes from renewable sources by 2020, matching European targets'"
2009-08-23,"b'""Chile confirms swine flu in turkeys."" Too much food in that headline...'"
2009-08-23,"b'$10,000 bribe got Iraq bombers past security checkpoints'"
2009-08-23,"b""Russians allege Mossad connection to 'Arctic Sea' seajacking  """
2009-08-23,"b""Paper's organ harvesting article causes Israel-Sweden rift"""
2009-08-23,b'Nigeria is the largest African source of trafficked women to Europe and Asia'
2009-08-23,b'Dial 999 at Heathrow airport and you can expect to be treated by a paramedic on a push bike loaded with life saving equipment'
2009-08-23,"b'A federal judge has ruled that the legal team for a Pakistani prisoner at Gitmo can seek to challenge his detention by questioning an alleged 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.'"
2009-08-23,b'A leaking Australian oil well is likely to pour oil into the Timor Sea for nearly two months before it can be stopped'
2009-08-23,b'Kurdish magazine urges Jews to return to Iraq - to make room for Palestinians'
2009-08-23,b'Population growth sustains poverty in Africa '
2009-08-23,"b""Medvedev's War on Russians' Love for Alcohol """
2009-08-23,"b""100,000 people in Yemen, many of them children, have been driven from their homes due to fighting between government troops and Shi'ite rebels"""
2009-08-23,b'Food writer Joanna Blythman calls for Israeli boycott '
2009-08-23,"b'Chinese police catch 15,000 drunk-drivers in a week'"
2009-08-23,"b'Pakistan Taliban commander vows Afghan fight - ""President Obama and his allies are our enemy No 1""'"
2009-08-23,"b'Samoans revolt against driving on the left, may drive in the middle instead? '"
2009-08-23,"b'Greece Fire!  Wildfires approach Athens, hospitals evacuated.'"
2009-08-23,b'Scotland defends Lockerbie bomber release'
2009-08-23,"b""Medvedev's War on Russians' Love for Alcohol"""
2009-08-23,"b'When asked whether he would adopt the 2 states solution, Netanyahu\'s information minister, answered that if Palestinians wanted to call the fragments left to them ""a state,"" that was fine: Or they could call them ""fried chicken.""'"
2009-08-23,"b'In Iran, report of secret burials brings call for inquiry'"
2009-08-23,b'Gordon Brown in new storm over freed Lockerbie bomber'
2009-08-22,b'Black Site in Lithuania?: CIA Accused of Third Torture Prison in Europe - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International'
2009-08-22,b'Controversial Mohammed cartoon images omitted from book by Yale '
2009-08-22,"b""It's amazing what people will do for love. A Palestinian woman has braved the threat of Israeli bombs by crawling more than one kilometre through a dangerous underground tunnel between Egypt and Gaza just to marry her sweetheart."""
2009-08-22,"b""South Africa's statutory research body does an academic study that finds Israel is practicing apartheid and colonialism in Occupied Palestinian Territories."""
2009-08-22,b'Iranian boy who defied Tehran hardliners tells of prison rape ordeal'
2009-08-22,b'How can a graph be so very wrong? Predicting population change is tricky.'
2009-08-22,"b""America's Most Wanted -- The Top 50 US War Criminals. These are men and women who helped to launch wars of aggression or who have been complicit in lesser war crimes.  These are the makers of those policies."""
2009-08-22,"b'In row over parking space, Cypriot man aims shotgun at thugs but accidentally shoots his wife. He is beaten up as she lay dying. Police charge him with premeditated murder.'"
2009-08-22,"b'Rival accuses Karzai of rigging vote - President dismisses charges of cheating, ballot stuffing in election'"
2009-08-22,"b'Afghanistan: ""Go tell the world about our fake election .""'"
2009-08-22,"b""His alleged crime? Bribery.  A human rights activist calls the case 'bizarre.' """
2009-08-22,"b'The US army officer convicted for his part in the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War has offered his first public apology, a US report says'"
2009-08-22,"b'John Yettaw, just back from his Burmese prison odyssey, explains how he unwittingly created an international diplomatic crisis'"
2009-08-22,b'Former spy Herve Jaubert tells of James Bond-style escape after torture threats'
2009-08-22,"b'Uganda: Massive Deforestation Fuelling Drought, Famine in Kibaale'"
2009-08-22,"b""Facts on world's water shortage"""
2009-08-22,"b'Robert Fisk: For the truth, look to Tehran and \r\nDamascus  not Tripoli '"
2009-08-22,"b'Global: Less money, less food, more hungry'"
2009-08-22,b'Addressing population problem with greater urgency'
2009-08-22,b'Britain under pressure amid Lockerbie release'
2009-08-22,"b'For the truth about the Lockerbie bombing, look to Tehran and Damascus  not Tripoli'"
2009-08-22,b'Af-Pak Masquerade: The Untold Truths of War'
2009-08-22,"b""A little detail from the dustbin of history: The Soviets were Hitler's best friends until he attacked them and they initially took part in WWII on the Axis side."""
2009-08-22,"b""Over 5 billion of the world's population expected to live in urban areas by 2030"""
2009-08-22,b'FBI Director Robert Mueller  rips release of Lockerbie bomber '
2009-08-21,"b'Effective today, Mexico decriminalizes possession of small amounts of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and other drugs'"
2009-08-21,"b'Australian woman, residing in Japan was a victim of a violent rape by American servicemen. Japanese police made no attempt to preserve urine sample, sperm or DNA on her body. Why?... because in 1953, Japan agreed not to exercise primary right of jurisdiction over members of the U.S. armed forces'"
2009-08-21,b'Sweden has turned down a demand that it condemn the recent publication of an article that links Israeli soldiers to the death of Palestinian civilians with the motive of obtaining their organs.'
2009-08-21,b'The head of the Polish army has resigned after a dispute in which he accused the government of failing to properly equip troops in Afghanistan.'
2009-08-21,b'Iran to allow UN inspectors to visit heavy water reactor.  '
2009-08-21,b'A suspected victim of a notorious US serial killer has been found alive and well more than 50 years after her supposed death.'
2009-08-21,"b'Norwegian Towns Sue Citigroup over Subprime Loss. ""In some of the towns, services including schooling, care for the elderly and even a municipal pool in the frozen north of Scandinavia have all been cut. '"
2009-08-21,"b'Honduras: ""A Chilean photojournalist said about 20 police surrounded him, demanded his camera and beat him when he refused""'"
2009-08-21,"b'Now the government has released Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, the appeal he had filed will never be heard by a judge. Was he released to preempt government embarrassment over an insecure conviction?'"
2009-08-21,b'The Xinjiang riots have rattled China so much that they are implementing extra security measures in Inner Mongolia where there is no separatist movement to speak of'
2009-08-21,"b'Sign petition to free Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari, imprisoned in Iran since June 21 in the wake of mass protests. Bahari has not been allowed to meet with a lawyer, and has not been afforded proper legal representation in court.'"
2009-08-21,b'Mexico decriminalizes small-scale drug possession'
2009-08-21,b'The IDF: Israels Organ Grinder'
2009-08-21,"b'Press chokes on ""bitter pill"" of Libyan apology'"
2009-08-21,b'Power hungry Latin American President Pushes Through Constitutional Referendum To Allow Him To Run For 3rd Term'
2009-08-21,"b'The US and UK have reacted angrily to the welcome given in Libya to the Lockerbie bomber, freed from prison on compassionate grounds.'"
2009-08-21,b'The latest British soldier to die during the elections in Afghanistan was the son of the SAS hero who led the raid during the Iranian Embassy siege'
2009-08-21,b'Russia dismisses Chechen dam blast claim'
2009-08-21,"b'2nd Lead Poisoning Case Hits China, 1,300 Sick'"
2009-08-21,"b'Police were stunned when a 17 year old girl confessed to a serial killing spree that started when she was 15 and has resulted in the death of 30 men  that she has admitted to...she started targeting men in her home of San Paulo, Brazil, for money, revenge and justice.'"
2009-08-21,b'Hamid Karzai and Warlords Mount Massive Vote Fraud Scheme in Afghanistan'
2009-08-21,"b'""Some people fear the full truth about the Lockerbie bombing will never emerge... \nMegrahi: \'A convenient scapegoat?\'""\n'"
2009-08-21,"b'""Obedient"" wife\'s evidence in triple murder trial:  ""In 25 years of marriage being assaulted 50 times is not a big deal."" '"
2009-08-21,b'This is how the people of Libya greet the murderer of 270 people..'
2009-08-21,"b'Despite the urgent need for family planning, expenditure on global provision continues to fall, which may make the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) difficult or impossible to achieve.'"
2009-08-20,"b""UK Government says no to a show and tell from the guy who cloned the UK ID card in just 12 minutes. Haven't they got something to learn? """
2009-08-20,"b'Orthodox Islamic school treats Dutch teachers who are not Muslims as inferior beings. They have to have their meals separately, cannot be greeted in the same way as Muslims, and must teach that Christianity will be abolished.'"
2009-08-20,"b""Lockerbie bomber's release agreed"""
2009-08-20,"b'The Blind Pakistani Cricket team have been denied visas to the UK, after being invited by the English Cricket Council to defend their championship.'"
2009-08-20,"b""Is she really a HE? Women's 800m gold medal favorite told to take gender test hours before World Championship race."""
2009-08-20,b'Switzerland expands border into Italy as glaciers melt'
2009-08-20,"b'If you live in France, chances are you work the least.  If you live in Switzerland, chances are you earn the most.'"
2009-08-20,"b""UK 'can't find' $13bn in military hardware"""
2009-08-20,"b'After leaving HM Prison Greenock after being released on compassionate grounds, Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi released the following statement:'"
2009-08-20,b'Iran Allows IAEA Officials to Inspect Nuclear Reactor'
2009-08-20,"b""Blackwater 'hired for CIA plan'"""
2009-08-20,"b'Is history catching up with Blair? ""The chairman of the Iraq war whitewash - sorry, inquiry - Sir John Chilcot announced this week that the panel will not publish its findings until after the general election.""'"
2009-08-20,"b'1,300 Chinese children near smelter suffer lead poisoning'"
2009-08-20,b'Gadhafi wins apology over sons arrest - Swiss president says sorry after Libya removes $5 billion from banks'
2009-08-20,b'UK minister pressed over Afghan wife-starving law - Is this what our soldiers are dying for? [vid]'
2009-08-20,"b'""It does not matter if they are American, French or British,"" she told The Associated Press. ""If they are residents of the (Palestinian) territories, then we regard them first and foremost as local residents."" :: What she really means to say is that they are second class citizens.  '"
2009-08-20,"b""Students brutalized by security forces during protest against Philippine's president [pics]"""
2009-08-20,"b""Secretary Clinton's uncompromising condemnation of perpetrators of sexual violence has not been thoroughly emphasized or analyzed, but sniping has already begun about AFRICOM's involvement in her initiative."""
2009-08-20,"b""'The godfather of instruction manuals'"""
2009-08-20,"b"" The US is not going to stop the production of drugs in Afghanistan as it covers the costs of their military presence there, says Gen. Mahmut Gareev, a former commander during the USSR's operations in Afghanistan."""
2009-08-20,"b'Camp Ashraf, Iraq - refugees still not allowed to bury the dead, lawyers barred from obtaining visas, American military witnesses silent'"
2009-08-20,"b'Boy, 8, beats wing-walking record [vid]'"
2009-08-20,b'A top Chinese general criticized the U.S. on Thursday for selling arms to Taiwan and accused Washington of only being cooperative when it needs help with international campaigns.'
2009-08-20,b'German Terror Plot Emerges as Secret Service Game'
2009-08-20,b'Analysis: Lockerbie bomber .... UK and America have different views on release.'
2009-08-19,"b'""We had some Australians; they stayed here for four days. They would take turns sleeping and the only time they left was to go to the ATM,"" -World\'s First Cocaine Bar in Bolivia '"
2009-08-19,"b""Bill Clinton's visit to North Korea revealed more about the nation than intelligence has been able to uncover for decades"""
2009-08-19,b'At least 95 people were killed and 563 wounded in a series of truck bombings and other attacks on Wednesday that rocked areas around official buildings in central Baghdad'
2009-08-19,b'Dawkins calls for official apology for Alan Turing - the code-breaking genius and father of the modern computer who committed suicide after being prosecuted for being gay\n'
2009-08-19,b'UK defends NHS against stateside attacks. [vid]'
2009-08-19,b'Chinese scientist with Stanford PhD now drives a taxi.'
2009-08-19,"b'It may make great headlines but to my mind this is child abuse and irresponsible parenting. And anyway what faith can you have in a father who changes his name to ""Happy birthday""'"
2009-08-19,"b'Sweden report shows that Apartheid Israel steal organs from Palestinian to Sell them later and make profit ... Israel respond: ""Anti-semite""!'"
2009-08-19,"b'""The Arctic Sea was carrying something, not timber and not from Finland, that necessitated some major work on the ship,"" she wrote in the Moscow Times newspaper on Wednesday.'"
2009-08-19,"b'Aleksei Etmanov\'s visit to Brazil: ""he saw that the conditions of car workers there were significantly better than those on Russia. He also saw how trade unionists participated in political struggle.""'"
2009-08-19,"b'""They ask me if my mom wore a burka,\'\' said Amri, who is writing a book about Afghanistan\'s food and cultural heritage. ""I tell them she wore a miniskirt.""'"
2009-08-19,b'Weapon mock-ups loaded on the second Sukhoi Su-35 prototype on display at MAKS 2009 give an indication of the future air-to-surface weapons the aircraft could carry in Russian service.'
2009-08-19,b'Iraq: Islamists are conducting a campaign of torture and murder against men suspected of homosexual activity'
2009-08-19,"b'Israelis Sour to Rahm Emanuel.  Once ""Attack \r\nDog, Policy Wonk, Committed Jew.""  Now a ""Self-Hating Jew.""  '"
2009-08-19,"b'""They beat us if we raised our heads; they beat us when they were getting us into the police cars,"" '"
2009-08-19,"b'Buran, from space shuttle to fairground ride'"
2009-08-19,b'Buddhas Savage Peace '
2009-08-19,"b'Divisions over Bahamas\'s marital rape bill. ""Anti"" arguments are interesting.'"
2009-08-19,"b""If you've read the novel 'White Tiger', Dharana is a village in 'the darkness'. In 'the darkness' education barely exists, sanitation is non-existent and a light bulb is as high tech as it gets. """
2009-08-19,"b'Theres a saying in Iceland now, Oh, thats so 2007! meaning that something is excessively grand, over the top or just plain, old splash a lot of cash.'"
2009-08-19,"b'It\'s beginning to look a lot like the bad old days in Iraq. ""Although the attacks were all confined to the capital and the north, while the rest of the country remained relatively calm, they demonstrated a degree of sophistication that U.S. officials thought the insurgents could no longer muster.""'"
2009-08-19,b'Italian banks may take ham and wine as collateral'
2009-08-19,b'Bookie pays out 2 mil on tiger to early and suffers for it'
2009-08-19,b'A cable fault that caused a major blackout of internet services across West Africa has been repaired.'
2009-08-19,"b""Gaza's tunnel economy: Eric Ruder looks at the lengths to which desperate Gazans--starved and deprived by Israel's punishing blockade--are going to in order to keep food and other necessities coming in."""
2009-08-18,"b'Huckabee: there is no room for a Palestinian state ""in the middle of the Jewish homeland"" and Israel should be able to build settlements wherever it wants. (AIPAC take out your 2012 checkbooks)'"
2009-08-18,"b'Cheeky Ontario residents protest U.S. surveillance balloon. ""About 300 people dropped their drawers Saturday to give a balloon with a surveillance camera trolling the Canada-U.S. border a piece of their derriere.""'"
2009-08-18,"b'Right to rape: is that what the British Army is fighting for? To allow Afghan men to continue unpleasant habits such as withholding food from their wives, insisting on sex and imprisoning them in their own home?'"
2009-08-18,b'Car Seizure Law Used to Take Bike from Little Girl'
2009-08-18,b'Scientists show that DNA evidence can be fabricated'
2009-08-18,b'9 year old girl who lost her purse on a Ryanair flight is forced to give away a quarter of her pocket money for its return - miserable bastards!'
2009-08-18,"b""'The Israeli side of the wall is painted with the image of the countryside beyond   but without the Palestinian town, depicting just nature, grass and trees. Is this not ethnic cleansing at its purest?' - Slavoj Zizek"""
2009-08-18,"b""The Secrets of China's Economy: The Government Owns the Banks rather than the Reverse"""
2009-08-18,b'Azerbaijanis in Eurovision probe  A number of people in Azerbaijan who voted for a song by neighbouring Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest have been questioned by the police.'
2009-08-18,b'Lance Armstrong has brought Scottish traffic to a standstill after more than 200 cyclists answered his Twitter invitation for a casual bike ride.'
2009-08-18,b'Mike Huckabee said Tuesday there should be no Palestinian state in the West Bank and endorsed Israeli settlements there...'
2009-08-18,b'U.S. troops could be forced by Iraqi voters to withdraw a year ahead of schedule under a referendum the Iraqi government backed Monday.'
2009-08-18,"b""Nigeria nearing 'a failed state'"""
2009-08-18,"b""Hundreds of gay men have been tortured and killed in Iraq in recent months, some by the nation's security forces, Human Rights Watch said today."""
2009-08-18,"b'South Korea launching first satellite with Russian help. Interestingly, the US tried to prevent the Russians from sharing rocket technology with S. Korea.'"
2009-08-18,"b'Afghanistan: Growing resistance to the 40-year war...The US military has admitted that the Afghan resistance is spreading across the country. The US military is now demanding an extra 45,000 troops, on top of the 62,000 it currently has in Afghanistan.'"
2009-08-18,b'The Khan airport story was a fabrication to promote his upcoming movie about profiling of muslims.'
2009-08-18,b'Russian navy arrests 8 in ship hijacking'
2009-08-18,b'Former South Korean President and Nobel Prize Winner Kim Dae-Jung dies today at the age of 85'
2009-08-18,"b'How banks make money from you\n\nBanks and building societies are posting record profit margins on mortgages, loans and overdraft interest rates, hitting consumers at a time they can afford it the least. '"
2009-08-18,"b'The recent closure of 32 privately owned radio stations and a proposed law to punish ""media crimes"" are signs that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is moving to quash criticism of his government.'"
2009-08-18,"b""Deadly accident at Russia's largest hydroelectric power plant"""
2009-08-18,b'Pimp My Ostrich--sustainability through wildlife ranching'
2009-08-18,b'Talibans latest threat: cutting off noses and ears to anyone who dares voting'
2009-08-18,b'Former S Korea President Kim dies at 83'
2009-08-17,b'A campaign to make the UK government officially apologize for castrating and driving to suicide Alan Turing - the man who helped break Nazi codes and revolutionize computing - just because he was a homosexual'
2009-08-17,"b'3 Points for Germany! Random German tourists find my wallet and cellphone in Central Park, return to NYPD. Everything, incl. $180 cash, untouched.'"
2009-08-17,"b""UK Sharia courts have ruled that a man may have up to 4 wives; that a wife has no property rights in the event of divorce; that a woman may not leave her home without her husband's consent; and that a woman cannot marry without the presence and permission of a male guardian."""
2009-08-17,"b""Nowhere in Fiji Water's marketing will you find reference to the typhoid outbreaks that plague Fijians; the corporate entities that they've set up in tax havens like the Cayman Islands; or  mention of the military junta for which Fiji Water is a major source of global recognition and legitimacy."""
2009-08-17,"b""Remember the radio stunt that revealed the rape of a 12 year old girl? The radio host broke the promise to donate money to a disabled boy's family."""
2009-08-17,b'Chinese villagers storm lead plant responsible for the poisoning of over 600 children'
2009-08-17,b'North Korea to Reopen Its Border to the South'
2009-08-17,"b'Wedding fire in Kuwait kills 43 and wounds 90, was done deliberately by angry ex-wife'"
2009-08-17,"b""Talk about awkward. Rafsanjani sitting 1 seat away from Ahmadenijad.  What's the official protocol on this? [pics]"""
2009-08-17,"b'Under the rules, swimmers  including non-Muslims  are barred from entering the pool in normal swimming attire.'"
2009-08-17,"b'""the president had heard in a dream that witches had come to kill her and now they must pay the price""'"
2009-08-17,"b'Mexico has replaced more than 1,000 customs agents at airports and border crossings with newly trained inspectors in a major crackdown on corruption.'"
2009-08-17,b'Afghan women fight for rights\n'
2009-08-17,"b'US State Department refusing to pay more than 3 million in London congestion charge fines, citing diplomatic immunity to taxation.'"
2009-08-17,"b""Oops: Did a math error doom FutureGen, the world's first clean-coal plant?"""
2009-08-17,b'Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka says Nigeria is becoming a Failed State'
2009-08-17,b'Oz: No-warrant terrorism raids proposed'
2009-08-17,"b'Iraqi gays tortured, murdered: rights group'"
2009-08-17,b'Canadian court orders government to demand the release of a Canadian citizen being held at Guantanamo Bay'
2009-08-17,b'US prosecutors charge a man with carrying out what they say is the largest case of identity theft in American history'
2009-08-17,"b'Credit card, gun, stolen from IDF Chief of Staff and sold to illegal arms dealers... and more army tragicomedy'"
2009-08-17,b'Higher risk of cancer amongst redditors?'
2009-08-17,b'Asia faces an unprecedented food crisis and huge social unrest unless hundreds of billions of dollars are invested in better irrigation systems to grow crops for its burgeoning population'
2009-08-17,b'There is probably no more hostile environment to \r\nmental health treatment than the military.'
2009-08-17,"b'Samoa to change from driving on the right to driving on the left, - yes they will have 2 days to practice when they will probably drive in the middle '"
2009-08-16,"b'It sounds like a communist utopia, but a basic income program pioneered by German aid workers has helped alleviate poverty in a Nambian village. Crime is down and children can finally attend school. Only the local white farmers are unhappy.'"
2009-08-16,"b'To punish filesharers, Britain considers criminalizing \r\nup to 7 million citizens, with penalties including \r\ninternet restrictions and fines of up to 50,000'"
2009-08-16,b'First Jew is elected to Palestinian liberation movement Fatah - M&C'
2009-08-16,"b'A motto for worldnews reddit: ""Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source."" - Ron Nesen'"
2009-08-16,"b""Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shiite men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands' sexual demands"""
2009-08-16,"b'New Zealand government decides saving sea lions from extinction is ""too radical""'"
2009-08-16,b'11-year-old girl leaps from car and survives just seconds before it plunges over the edge of a cliff'
2009-08-16,"b'According to international law, Israel holds the property of more than 4 million Palestinian refugees in custodianship, until a final peace deal determines whether some or all of them will be allowed back to their 400+ destroyed villages or compensated for their loss. Well, Israel started selling.'"
2009-08-16,"b""The world's largest democracy sets its sights on universal free education"""
2009-08-16,"b'Two years after an earthquake shattered lives in Peru, people are still living in tents'"
2009-08-16,"b'Quebec\'s ""baptized pagans"": Neither practising nor believing, but Catholic even so '"
2009-08-16,"b'Ecuador: ""There are tiny groups here with huge economic power that at a given point could undermine the government. We may have a lot of popular support, but if we don\'t have people that take to the streets to defend their government, we could easily be destabilized.""'"
2009-08-16,"b'Burmese government releases American who swam uninvited to visit Aung San Suu Kyi, after sentencing him to seven years of hard labour'"
2009-08-16,"b'""What elections? All of this is a show. The people of Afghanistan have nothing to do with the process... [Karzai] is America\'s man in Afghanistan. Why should they get rid of him?""'"
2009-08-16,b'Vietnamese government expands internet censorship to block Catholic websites'
2009-08-16,b'North Korea softens border restrictions'
2009-08-16,"b""On closer examination, there's very little evidence of election fraud in the recent Iranian election."""
2009-08-16,"b'Communist North Korea denounced impending joint military exercises by South Korea and the United States, and said it would ""wipe them out"" with nuclear weapons if they threatened it'"
2009-08-16,b'New British homes less than half the size of new homes in Australia and the USA'
2009-08-16,"b""Vast tracts of Israeli agricultural land in north Israel's Galilee area have been bought up by Arabs with financial backing from the Gulf."""
2009-08-16,b'Dozens die in Kuwait wedding fire'
2009-08-16,b'19 die in gang-related prison riot in Mexico'
2009-08-16,b'New Secretary General discusses possibility of reducing NATO presence in Kosovo'
2009-08-16,"b'Flying taxi crashes on test flight, killing its UK inventor'"
2009-08-16,"b'Israeli commandos in Honduras? ""There are paramilitary structures that are working in coordination with the armed forces, says the undisputed leader of the human rights struggle in Honduras, Andrs Pavn, in regard to the latest casualty of the dictatorship of the Honduran putschists.""'"
2009-08-15,"b'Why is this not getting more attention? Hamas vs Al-Qaeda in Gaza - 13 dead, 85 injured.'"
2009-08-15,"b'Sounds familiar - Iraq, a nation that once had a robust farming sector is becoming dependent on imports and oil to sustain itself.'"
2009-08-15,"b'Hamas assault on Gaza mosque leaves 24 Palestinians dead, including an 11-year old girl, 150 wounded'"
2009-08-15,b'Iceland: what ugly secrets are waiting to be exposed in the meltdown?'
2009-08-15,"b""UK Government's statement that ID card has not been hacked proves that it really is just another useless bit of plastic"""
2009-08-15,"b""Taser International launches court action to quash inquiry's recommendations for preventing taser deaths."""
2009-08-15,"b""Germany's Jews are showing strong resolve against evil by calling on the government to allow the publication of Mein Kampf"""
2009-08-15,"b'American white supremacist, Preston Wiginton, prevented from entering Britain to attend fascist BNP festival '"
2009-08-15,"b'Ireland: Employees occupy superstore. ""Thomas Cook occupation may be spark. Mitchelstown has history of worker\'s taking control""'"
2009-08-15,b'Ransom demand received for cargo ship mysteriously missing since July 30th'
2009-08-15,b'American who visited Suu Kyi to be freed from Myanmar'
2009-08-15,b'Taiwan typhoon death toll increases'
2009-08-15,b'Israel financing and promoting repression in Brazil and Latin America.'
2009-08-15,b'A judge in Australia gave a man who became a quadriplegic after a road accident the legal right to starve to death while watching TV.'
2009-08-15,b'Huge blast at Nato base in Kabul'
2009-08-15,"b'LAMPANG, Thailand  Motola, a female elephant who stepped on a land mine 10 years ago and endured painful operations, was fitted Saturday in Thailand for a permanent artificial leg.'"
2009-08-15,b'Daventry District Council may shift blame for 8 million deposit in Iceland banks'
2009-08-15,b'British defend their healthcare system'
2009-08-15,"b'After an 8-hour standoff, cops finally get the Nut Head who sent a threat to the White House he was planning to blow it up. '"
2009-08-15,"b""World's oldest student dies at 90, entered primary school at 84"""
2009-08-15,"b""Daily Mail goes all-out cat claws on Baby P's mum (one of the worst child abuse cases in Britain's history)."""
2009-08-15,b'Hamas security forces killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired group in the Gaza Strip Saturday in a shootout that claimed the lives of 22 people'
2009-08-15,b'Hamas fighting an extremist Islamic group'
2009-08-15,"b'Abdel Latif Moussa, the leader of the Jund Ansar Allah, triggered the violent clashes after he said Hamas is insufficiently Islamic and created an Islamic emirate, or state, in Rafah which would eventually spread throughout the Palestinian territories.'"
2009-08-15,b'Jerusalem-born Jew elected to Fatah Revolutionary Council '
2009-08-14,"b'Americans pay $635.85 on cell phone service, compared to $131.44 per year in the Netherlands or $137.94 per year in Sweden.'"
2009-08-14,b'Who is funding the Afghan Taliban? You dont want to know... (but maybe you should)'
2009-08-14,"b""New Afgan law: husbands can deny food to wives who don't submit to their sexual demands."""
2009-08-14,b'WTF: Britain sleepwalked into a surveillance society -- there is a request to snoop on the public every 60 secs'
2009-08-14,"b'An enormous system of caves, chambers and tunnels lies hidden beneath the Pyramids of Giza, according to a British explorer who claims to have found the lost underworld of the pharaohs.'"
2009-08-14,b'A woman with a prosthetic arm wins her case for \r\ndiscrimination against clothing firm Abercrombie \r\nand Fitch.'
2009-08-14,b'Solution to Israel/Palestine conflict at hand: 85% of Palestinians said to have Jewish ancestry; Can they return home now?'
2009-08-14,"b'Britons, from all sides of the political spectrum, defend against US attacks on UK public healthcare system (NHS)'"
2009-08-14,"b'Thousands of people are flocking to a remote and mountainous village in Nepal to see a malformed baby which many are now worshiping as a god, leaving him offerings of money, food and clothes.'"
2009-08-14,"b""The Madness of Japan's Happiness Party which advocates cutting taxes, encouraging women to have more than three babies, doubling the population to 300 million and attacking North Korea. """
2009-08-14,"b'School pupil, 90, dies in Kenya'"
2009-08-14,"b""Iran's defeated opposition presidential candidate has said that some protesters held after last month's disputed poll were tortured to death in prison."""
2009-08-14,b'UN rights chief slams Israel over Gaza violations\n| Reuters'
2009-08-14,"b'""One rabbi told soldiers in a pep talk during the Gaza war that their holiness would preserve them in the battle between the \'children of light\' and the \'children of darkness.\'""'"
2009-08-14,b'UK imposes Turks and Caicos rule'
2009-08-14,"b'Manson ""family"" member released'"
2009-08-14,"b""Antarctic glacier 'thinning fast'"""
2009-08-14,b'Man accused of raping woman he met on couchsurfing.com website'
2009-08-14,"b'Tories say earning in the 99.9th percentile is ""chicken feed"", while out in the real world the average debt is greater than the median wage'"
2009-08-14,"b'A wounded pirate, found on a beach with machete wounds, said the crew attacked him and his colleagues with tools and then seized their weapons'"
2009-08-14,"b""Deadly game of Kenya's gem trade"""
2009-08-14,b'Israeli police have launched a major security operation following a report that a soldier has been kidnapped.'
2009-08-14,"b""NHS attack by right wing MEP on US TV 'unpatriotic'; MEP rebuked by party leader"""
2009-08-14,"b""Crews 'overpower Somali pirates'"""
2009-08-14,"b'Mosque gun battle rages in Gaza, hundreds of Hamas fighters and policemen surrounded then raided a mosque where followers of a radical Islamist cleric were holed up'"
2009-08-13,"b'An American living in France: ""I was recently diagnosed with breast cancer and I\'ve just gotten a letter from one of those ""death"" panels. They are called Medical Councils here and they determine whether someone is eligible or not for 100 percent medical coverage provided by the state...""'"
2009-08-13,"b'In five of the seven incidents, Israeli soldiers shot at civilians who were walking down the street with white flags, trying to leave the areas of fighting, USA Based Human Rights Watch Rights group  said.'"
2009-08-13,b'Iceland is being blackmailed'
2009-08-13,"b'And now, the Pirate Party UK'"
2009-08-13,"b'Company pays entire lawsuit settlement in coins as way of showing disapproval of verdict. Woman who won the trial, now stuck with huge sack of coins, not happy'"
2009-08-13,b'A ship passing through the English Channel has disappeared.'
2009-08-13,"b""Stephen Hawking lie causes British bloggers to weigh in on health-care. Don't attack our NHS!"""
2009-08-13,b'U.S. Hatred of Europe is on the Rise'
2009-08-13,"b""Icelanders are angry but will make sacrifices - Iceland's Prime Minister blasts UK and Netherlands governments"""
2009-08-13,"b'In Slovakia, speaking Hungarian in public can be \r\npunished after September 1. Prime minister Fico says \r\n""the real problem were those wanting to bully Slovaks \r\ninto learning Hungarian.""'"
2009-08-13,b'Some clues as to how Rupert Murdoch intends to begin charging for online news content in just under\r\na year from now. '
2009-08-13,b'R.I.P Les Paul dies at the age of 94 1915-2009'
2009-08-13,b'DNA tests in China will help parents determine the future of their children.'
2009-08-13,b'So when is the movie coming out about the recent\r\njewelley heist in Britain?  Suspects hired a makeup\r\nartist to apply latex masks as a disguise.'
2009-08-13,"b'A leading Scottish gemstone expert has been killed in Kenya by a gang armed with clubs, spears, bows and arrows.'"
2009-08-13,"b'The body of the guy Andrew Jackson shot in a duel in Kentucky has been located! The thousands of Indians he killed remain, for the most part, at large.'"
2009-08-13,b'Requiem for Archbishop Oscar Romero - R.I.P'
2009-08-13,b'Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya clashed with soldiers and police for a second day on Wednesday as street protests over the June 28 army coup turned rowdy'
2009-08-13,b'Police in standoff with suspect who made threats against White House; Westwood apartment buildings evacuated'
2009-08-13,"b""... the 43-year-old woman, who police said suffocated under the pile of some 1,000 books, was the first confirmed fatality of early Tuesday's quake."""
2009-08-13,"b'The Blackwater Crusaders that undertook a ritual of Genocide in Iraq are now doing the same in Afghanistan, under the name of XE Crusaders'"
2009-08-13,b'Taliban chiefs agree ceasefire deals for Afghan presidential election'
2009-08-13,"b""Don't feel so bad USA , the UK elects some bizarre idiots too , listen to the recently elected Doncaster Mayor in this building car crash radio interview ( quicktime mp3)"""
2009-08-13,b'Russian warships are scouring the Atlantic for a freighter with 15 Russian crew last spotted more than two weeks ago steaming through the English Channel'
2009-08-13,b'British MEP Dan Hannan Goes On Fox News To Trash The UK Health Care System'
2009-08-12,b'Message To The Australian Government From Anonymous'
2009-08-12,b'Costa Rican president has swine flu... no word on whether Madagascar has closed its port yet'
2009-08-12,b'Brazil TV host ordered killings to get rid of rivals and boost ratings.'
2009-08-12,"b""German Jews back campaign to reprint Hitler's 'Mein Kampf'  """
2009-08-12,"b'Today the Geneva Conventions turn 60 years old. Despite the fact that 194 states have ratified them, it still faces a struggle for respect.'"
2009-08-12,b'London jewel thieves make off with $66 million worth of diamonds in broad daylight.'
2009-08-12,b'Australian government proposes legislation to allow no-warrant anti-terrorism raids'
2009-08-12,"b""Paris swimming pool denies Muslim woman entrance for wearing a 'Burqini'"""
2009-08-12,b'Sibel Edmonds offers details of Turkeys covert operations in U.S.'
2009-08-12,"b'Wild salmon are returning to the French capital for the first time in almost a century, scientists say.'"
2009-08-12,b'Salmon back in the Seine as Paris river cleans up its act  '
2009-08-12,"b""China's military launched war games Tuesday aimed at deploying forces at long distances."""
2009-08-12,"b'Gem expert Campbell Bridges killed by Kenyan mob armed with knives, clubs, spears and even bows and arrows.'"
2009-08-12,"b'Hundreds of children in northern Uganda have been affected by a rare and unexplained ""nodding disease""'"
2009-08-12,b'Meet the new boss... -- A decision by the Iraqi government to screen imported books and plans for Internet filters are being seen by intellectuals as a sign that the years of freer expression ushered in by the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam could be coming to an end.'
2009-08-12,"b'Heckuva job, Ma Ying-jeou. Heckuva job. '"
2009-08-12,b'Pirates in European waters'
2009-08-12,"b'29 Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives will visit Israel next Thursday,  fully sponsored by AIPAC, America\'s only pro-Israel lobby, for a huge slice of ""American Tax Dollars""'"
2009-08-12,b'Video Retrospective: The 77-Day Ssangyong (Korea) Factory Workers Occupation. Story Ignored in US.\n'
2009-08-12,"b'""DPJ chief hits at US-led globalism"" The wind of populism blows in Japan, in rhetoric if not in policy, raising a hope of finally putting an end to the world\'s longest-standing one-party state.'"
2009-08-12,b'Earthquake jolts Bangladesh for second consecutive day'
2009-08-12,"b'UK Government May be Leaning Away from Microsoft, Towards Free Software'"
2009-08-12,b'Iran speaker denies prisoner rape'
2009-08-12,b'Another jolt to democracy in Burma'
2009-08-12,b'Fact Checking Lobbyist Lanny Davis on Honduras'
2009-08-11,b'Two convicted for refusal to decrypt data'
2009-08-11,b'China plans universal health care'
2009-08-11,"b'Mom throws away Gundam figures, son burns down house.'"
2009-08-11,"b'Melbourne Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart told a woman who had been sexually abused by a priest to ""go to hell, bitch""'"
2009-08-11,b'Tough times in the porn industry'
2009-08-11,"b'A reformist candidate defeated in the Iranian presidential election has claimed that arrested protesters have been ""savagely raped"" while in custody.'"
2009-08-11,b'The head of a Russian charity and her husband are found dead in Chechnya a day after being abducted'
2009-08-11,b'A man dies impaled on a large shard of glass after throwing a woman through a shop window. '
2009-08-11,b'Burma: Suu Kyi house arrest extended 18 months... American who swam to meet her... 7 years hard labour.'
2009-08-11,b'Dispelling the tired myth of Eurabia'
2009-08-11,"b""In the 21st century your worst nightmare will soon be a sky filled with flying robot bombs that will kill or maim everyone within about a quarter mile of their target.  Hope you're OK with this."""
2009-08-11,"b""My husband is not the secretary of state, I am. You ask my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I'm not going to channel my husband."""
2009-08-11,"b'A Thai court has rejected a US request for the extradition of Viktor Bout, an alleged Russian arms dealer dubbed the ""Merchant of Death"".'"
2009-08-11,"b""Afghan War: NATO Builds History's First Global Army. Never before have soldiers from so many states served in the same war theater"""
2009-08-11,b'Hillary gets a bit snippy when asked what her husband thinks.'
2009-08-11,"b'Why Corporations, Emerging Powers and Petro-States Are Snapping Up Huge Chunks of Farmland in the Developing World: In the past six months, big players in the global economy have grabbed 50 million acres of arable land, from Africa to Southeast Asia. '"
2009-08-11,"b'Israel, war crimes and the media'"
2009-08-11,"b""Congo's Rape Epidemic Worsens During U.S.-Backed Military Operation"""
2009-08-11,b'Punishment for 1944 Massacre: German Court Sentences 90-Year-Old War Criminal to Life '
2009-08-11,b'Aung San Suu Kyi sentenced to keep her out of elections.'
2009-08-11,b'40m jewels stolen in biggest gems heist in British history'
2009-08-11,"b""Dapper robbers pull off Britain's biggest gem heist ($68 million)"""
2009-08-11,b'18 Mth House Arrest for Suu Kyi'
2009-08-11,b'Exiled Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer has thanked Australia for standing up to Chinese pressure and allowing her to champion the cause of her people.'
2009-08-11,"b""Is Hubris Back in the City of London?\r\nAs bank stocks rise and profits return, there are signs that London's financial center is returning to its pre-crash mentalityand resisting further reform. \r\n"""
2009-08-10,"b""Malaysia's brain-damaged government declares \r\nH1N1 flu is caused by masturbation and \r\nhomosexuality."""
2009-08-10,"b""Congo is a tragedy for reasons that many know well -- 5 million have died since 1998, thousands gang-raped, and nearly 2 million displaced. It's also a vast, organized scam. If Clinton doesn't address the scam, the suffering will not end."""
2009-08-10,"b'If it prevents sheep from dying, why the protest over mulesing? Yes I had to google mulesing.'"
2009-08-10,"b""Major Quake (7.6) Hits Off India's Andaman Islands Triggering Tsunami Watches for India, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, and Bangladesh."""
2009-08-10,"b""Refuting statistics - BBC explains the real numbers behind YouTube's popular 'Muslim Demographics' video."""
2009-08-10,"b'Hugo Chavez claims Columbian army crossed into Venezuela, calls troops to the border'"
2009-08-10,b'Iran admits election demonstrators were tortured'
2009-08-10,"b'Haiti: 10,000 employees occupy sweatshops and march on Parliament. ""The bosses fled the factory in a panic through the back door.""'"
2009-08-10,"b""President Hugo Chavez told his military to be prepared for a possible confrontation with Colombia, warning that Bogota's plans to increase the U.S. military presence at its bases poses a threat to Venezuela."""
2009-08-10,"b'Saying ""no"" is bad for your career in Iran. Ahmadinejad is purging senior officials who disagreed with the crackdown on the opposition after the disputed presidential election.'"
2009-08-10,"b'Two Quakes Rock Indian Ocean, Japan Less Than 15 Minutes Apart....Triggering a Tsunami Warning.'"
2009-08-10,b'The Death of Photojournalism'
2009-08-10,b'A 29-year-old convert to Islam confessed in court to plotting devastating bombings against US soldiers and diplomats stationed in Germany'
2009-08-10,b'Gaza militants launched mortar shells at a border crossing between Gaza and Israel just as Palestinian patients were being transferred into Israel for medical treatment'
2009-08-10,b'The Afghan woman who refuses to be silenced'
2009-08-10,b'Taiwan: Hotel Falls down in the River cause of the Typhoon Morakot\n\n'
2009-08-10,b'Burma -- a bloody history'
2009-08-10,"b'The farce. Show trials in Iran against opponents, embassies employees and tourists to spread the stupid fable of a ""foreign conspiracy"", while the regime murderers and torturers will never pay'"
2009-08-10,"b""Why was Jerusalem's mayor attacked by Orthodox Jews yesterday? Because he approved the opening of a parking lot near their enclave that stays open through the Sabbath. Seems fair..."""
2009-08-10,b'World food: an analysis of imminent issues on the worlds food supply'
2009-08-10,b'Sugar price reaches 28-year high'
2009-08-10,"b'In 2060 we will have a France of 108 million inhabitants, composed of 55 million persons belonging to black, Arab and Asian ethnicities and 53 million Europeans. Well before this date Europeans under the age of 40 will be a minority in relation to the Third Worlders of the same age group.'"
2009-08-10,"b""China's state secrets agency: Rio Tinto spied on Chinese steel mills for six years, resulting in the mills overpaying $102 billion for iron ore, Rio Tinto's biggest earner"""
2009-08-10,b'Taiwan mudslide leaves up to 600 missing - Check out this pic of a six-storey hotel collapsing into a river'
2009-08-10,b'The Jeddah offices of a Lebanon-based TV station which broadcast an interview with a Saudi man boasting about his sexual conquests have been closed.'
2009-08-09,"b""A 'democratic' country is now banning people from using the road based on their ancestry. Which one is it? Yep, Israel."""
2009-08-09,"b""Article: Amnesty International report slams Israel's actions during fighting in Gaza - And now read the comments: Israel's cyber-trolls at work."""
2009-08-09,b'Settlers will never be evicted: Israel PM'
2009-08-09,"b""Reuters Happy to Take Traffic the AP Doesn't want"""
2009-08-09,"b'Iceland: Lessons to be Learned from The Economic Meltdown: ""Gordon Brown is wrong when he says that he and his government have no responsibility in the matter.""'"
2009-08-09,b'Breaking: Plane hijacked in China'
2009-08-09,b'The poll suggests that more than a million Iraqis have died from the conflict resulting from the U.S. invasion and occupation.'
2009-08-09,"b""Female sexual abuse: The untold story of society's last taboo: The story of Sharon, who is now 40: From as far back as she can remember until the day she left home at the age of 16, Sharon, an only child, was sexually abused by her mother.\n\n\n\n"""
2009-08-09,"b""You often see Palestinian children throwing rocks at the IDF. What you won't see so often is Israeli children throwing rocks at Palestinians while the IDF stands by in armed guard, here an IDF soldier attempts to enforce Israeli law by censoring a video."""
2009-08-09,"b'NEW Bomb Blast Hits Bar In Mallorca, Spain'"
2009-08-09,"b'Today: Palestinians fire mortars at Gaza border crossing, while an ambulance carrying a Palestinian cardiac patient to Israel passes through [link to bad translation]'"
2009-08-09,b'Human trafficking plagues UAE'
2009-08-09,b'I Will Kill Muslim Per Day '
2009-08-09,b'New Undersea Cables to Expand Broadband in Africa'
2009-08-09,"b'the target of the [twitter and facebook] attack appears to have been a single person, a 34 year old economics professor and refugee activist from the Republic of Georgia'"
2009-08-09,b'Iranian chief of police admits prisoner abuse'
2009-08-09,b'A Cold War Ghost Reappears in Honduras'
2009-08-09,b'EU hits out at Tehran over trial: European nations have strongly criticized the latest trials in Iran over the unrest that followed the disputed presidential election.'
2009-08-09,b'The Torrid Romantic Life of Kim Jong-il'
2009-08-09,b'Briton in Iraqi custody after contractor killings '
2009-08-09,"b'Damaging Israeli misquote finally corrected: ""The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people,"" the Israeli officer said  or is said to have said.'"
2009-08-09,b'Baitullah Mehsud said to be alive but Taliban commanders are killing each other to replace him!'
2009-08-09,"b'Kadky, Turkey told to disown Greek sister city by both the Turkish Interior and Foreign ministries'"
2009-08-09,b'One dead as Typhoon Morakot slams into China '
2009-08-09,"b""A top al Qaeda bomb maker blamed for last month's bombings of two U.S. hotels in Jakarta was believed captured or killed in a gunfight with police."""
2009-08-08,b'From the CIA - a country by country comparison of account balances. Guess where the USA is...'
2009-08-08,"b'According the the CIA, Israel account balance is +$1,893,000,000 while US balance is -$568,800,000,000 , yet Israel is the country who benefits the most of US foreign aid, plus another approved $30 billion over the next ten years.'"
2009-08-08,"b'""...Nothing less than a full moratorium on fishing in the Mediterranean can save the stocks now."" - Tuna Trouble in Europe'"
2009-08-08,"b'Funny or Frightening - Kim Jong-il played his first ever round of golf ... and, according to the state media, completed all 18 holes in a mere 34 shots, a score some 25 shots lower than the next best round in history.'"
2009-08-08,"b'Now-departed President Bush is a religious \r\ncrackpot, an ex-drunk of small intellect who got \r\nsaved. He never should have been entrusted with \r\nthe power to start wars.'"
2009-08-08,"b""After almost 14 years of construction work and $460 million spent, Berlin opens the world's shortest metro line (1.1 mile)."""
2009-08-08,"b'A dark day for Chinese liberals: ""What we are witnessing now is a systematic campaign unparalleled since the beginning of the Open Policy in 1978.""'"
2009-08-08,b'Majority of world population face water shortages unless action taken (UNNews)'
2009-08-08,b'Holy Crap! Recession-hit Cuba running out of toilet paper'
2009-08-08,"b""Pictures show daylight 'killing' of suspect by Indian police"""
2009-08-08,b'Terrorism chief causes bomb scare with briefcase'
2009-08-08,"b""A close associate of Pakistan's most wanted man, Baitullah Mehsud, who was reportedly killed in a US drone attack, has told the BBC he is alive."""
2009-08-08,"b'Blogger targeted possibly by Russian government for blogging on Twitter, Facebook, Google, et al;  ""We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."" Benjamin Franklin '"
2009-08-08,"b'Iran claims West fomented revolt by providing Twitter, Facebook and translation software. Perhaps this explains the Denial of Service attack on Twitter and Facebook this past week?'"
2009-08-08,"b""Iran puts French woman on trial accused of 'collecting information and provoking rioters'"""
2009-08-08,b'China leads in global green jobs race '
2009-08-08,b'Pro- and Anti-Immigration Forces Fight Rise of Immigrants in Israel'
2009-08-08,"b'Global population, estimates and projections (billions)'"
2009-08-08,b'Taliban rivals in deadly shootout - Potential successor to slain leader may have been killed'
2009-08-08,"b""tehran times :  Iran's 'innovative weaponry' to surprise invaders: commander -- I think it is a giant goatse sign """
2009-08-08,b'Police Seize $2 Million in Counterfeit Currency in Ecuador'
2009-08-08,b'The Case for Leaving Iraq - NOW'
2009-08-08,"b""NORAD's alternate command center illustrated"""
2009-08-08,b'The Irreversible Decline of the Arab (and Muslim) World'
2009-08-08,b'Iran Resumes Mass Trial of Activists and Protesters'
2009-08-07,"b'Unbelievable hypocrisy: Islamic hate preacher from the Saudi dictatorship is allowed into the UK (Jews are descendants of ""rats and pigs"", and so on) while elected Dutch anti-Islamist parliamentarian from a fellow EU member state is refused entry.'"
2009-08-07,"b""I... I think I was just goatse'd by The Economist."""
2009-08-07,b'US Kills Five Afghan Cucumber Farmers in Air Strike '
2009-08-07,b'USA: Sends Investment Defrauder Bernie Madoff to Jail. China: Executes Investment Defrauders.'
2009-08-07,"b'a friend of mine was threatened with arrest for \r\nhaving a picnic in Parliament Square, her offence \r\nwas the pink icing on her cake which spelt the word \r\n""peace"".'"
2009-08-07,b'A police officer who was renowned for his work against London drug dealers was found dead in his flat from a heroin overdose'
2009-08-07,b'Not The Onion: China lawyer who fought unfair arrest is arrested'
2009-08-07,b'UK Government claims that the story about the ID card being hacked in 12 minutes is absolute rubbish '
2009-08-07,"b'In kingdom, Saudi prince\'s coup \'fails\'. ""Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the kingdom\'s former ambassador to the United States, is reportedly under house arrest over a conspiracy against the monarch.""'"
2009-08-07,b'Clinton deal lowers HIV drug cost in poor nations'
2009-08-07,b'How Nixon helped Israel seal its nuclear ambiguity'
2009-08-07,"b'Heavy metals scandal, Beijing arrests journalists rather than help the sick'"
2009-08-07,"b""'Hero' Greek woman sets fire to drunken Briton's genitals  - Telegraph"""
2009-08-07,"b'Malaysia examines Internet filter, tougher controls'"
2009-08-07,"b'""We\'re talking about the Yankees, the most aggressive nation in human history."" '"
2009-08-07,"b'Journalists Entered North Korea, Sister Says'"
2009-08-07,b'White House says policy toward North Korea unchanged\n'
2009-08-07,b'Rights group: Hamas may have committed war crimes'
2009-08-07,"b'There has long been a split on the left between rationalists and relativists, between those who are willing to stand up for liberty in all circumstances and those who hide behind cultural relativism and a ""who are we to judge"" mentality to avoid doing so'"
2009-08-07,b'Israel arrests leader of Bilin non-violent protests - part of ongoing Israeli efforts to end the nonviolent resistance'
2009-08-07,b'Attack on Christians a further crisis for Pakistan\n'
2009-08-07,b'Rehabilitated: Nobel Prize winner who fell for Hitler'
2009-08-07,"b'Divisions rock Palestinian Fatah conference: first Fatah party conference in 20 years has been extended amid infighting between delegates, some reformists walked out'"
2009-08-07,"b'South Korea: Class war in midst of economic crisis -- Ssangyong workers occupy plant, win partial victory'"
2009-08-07,"b'A remote, little-known people are at the center of Chinas worst ethnic violence in decades.'"
2009-08-06,"b'""I am a terrorist, shoot on sight"": New British ID card, supposedly unhackable and containing very personal information, cloned and modified in minutes'"
2009-08-06,"b'Italy approved the use of RU-486, the abortion drug. The Vatican warned of immediate excommunication for doctors prescribing the pill and for women taking it!!'"
2009-08-06,b'The Israeli government insists that these photos of Bibi Netanyahu visiting the Dimona nuclear plant are not photos of Bibi Netanyahu visting the Dimona nuclear plant'
2009-08-06,"b""Remember the four Uighars prisoners released from Gitmo to Bermuda after 7 years of captivity? They've scored jobs at the seaside Port Royal course which will host the PGA Grand Slam of Golf in October. Article has photo of them free and happy piloting a golf cart."""
2009-08-06,b'Remember the Israeli group that a few weeks ago presented testimony from soldiers detailing their abuse of civilians in the Gaza conflict? Israel is putting pressure on donors and governments to stop supporting them.'
2009-08-06,"b'Lying about Iraq made me quit, British Ministry of Defence press officer claims'"
2009-08-06,"b'Bhopal gas disaster\'s legacy lives on 25 years later - ""The company, Sarangi alleges, did not want the drug to be used, because its effectiveness would demonstrate that the poison had gone into the bloodstream. The clinic was quickly closed down by the police. ""'"
2009-08-06,"b""More than 50 Muslim leaders repeatedly called Nigeria's police, local authorities and state security to urge them to take action against Boko Haram sect militants but their pleas were ignored."""
2009-08-06,"b'Air France found a problem with reading light wiring on Airbus A340s that could cause an inflight fire, which prompted EASA to release a proposed airworthiness directive today.'"
2009-08-06,"b""If Rupert Murdoch is to make a success of charging for all his papers' content online, expect more attacks on the BBC"""
2009-08-06,b'Remember when the Israeli FM said the US would accept Israeli decision on settlements?  He was right. '
2009-08-06,b'Kurds turn up the heat on Baghdad '
2009-08-06,b'WTF? The U.S. is going to finance oil drilling off the coast of Brazil?'
2009-08-06,b'Indonesia may slip to starvation within 5 years: Report'
2009-08-06,"b'Nigeria offers amnesty and a stipend to oil militants willing to give up their weapons and retrain.  The country\'s main militant groups says, ""No, thanks.""'"
2009-08-06,b'China seals off plague town'
2009-08-06,"b""Clinton's high drama Korean mission"""
2009-08-06,b'Sayed Kashua tells the BBC what it is like to being an Israeli Arab and why his own Arab community is finding it hard to laugh at his jokes.'
2009-08-06,b'Hong Kong triad boss run down and hacked to bits in front of luxury hotel'
2009-08-06,b'Global alert on Mumbai terror suspects'
2009-08-06,"b'Fox News gives voice to the Journalists shouldnt be in North Korea, caught ones should sit out there sentence in jail and perhaps never come back to America side of the debate.'"
2009-08-06,b'People trying to flee China plague town'
2009-08-06,"b'Death by Hanging for two men and a woman convicted of bomb attacks in 2003 at Mumbai, India  '"
2009-08-06,b'Baghdad to remove blast walls around neighborhoods '
2009-08-06,"b'Major new development -- ""Kremlin City"" -- planned for Moscow island'"
2009-08-05,"b""North Korea's Kim releases U.S. journalists"""
2009-08-05,b'Zambian reporter sends pictures of woman giving birth without medical assistance to health minister. Now she is being accused of distributing porn? WTF?'
2009-08-05,"b""US Gov't demands the names of 52,000 citizens with secret Swiss bank accounts.  Gets 5000 after threat of nothing at all from Swiss Gov't."""
2009-08-05,b'Hiroshima - 64 years ago tomorrow'
2009-08-05,"b'Male rape cases and castrations increasing in Congo, though most go unreported due to severe humiliation.'"
2009-08-05,"b'Iran executes 24 in one of largest mass executions in three decades. Iran uses slow hanging to prolong suffering. This is how ""holy"" men run a country?'"
2009-08-05,b'The Israeli government is desperately trying to censor IDF soldiers who are contradicting the governments official story of the Gaza Massacre'
2009-08-05,b'Police used teargas to disperse protesters rallying in support of a Sudanese woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public '
2009-08-05,"b'President of Toyota: We are fast approaching peak oil when the demand for oil exceeds supply, '"
2009-08-05,b'Chinese teenager beaten to death in internet addiction clinic'
2009-08-05,"b'Losing Patience with Israel: Having sacrificed so much in the Middle East, America will not think twice about asking its friendsespecially the one it bankrolls, and which is occupying densely Arab-populated landto sacrifice, too'"
2009-08-05,"b'Tortured, then Murdered: Journalist Found in Shallow Grave near Acapulco, Mexico'"
2009-08-05,b'World Leaders Refuse to Congratulate Ahmadinejad\r\n'
2009-08-05,b'Brazilians Urged to Urinate in Shower'
2009-08-05,b'Blackwater Employees Speak Out'
2009-08-05,"b""'Muhammad Knows Nothing About Football': Muslims Angered by Verse in German Soccer Club Song"""
2009-08-05,"b""A Milton Keynes mother was fined 80 for overstaying her baby's funeral by ten minutes"""
2009-08-05,"b'$2,000 for Shiite-Sunni couples who marry, as Iraqi government program seeks to mix sects'"
2009-08-05,"b'Israelis have created a homegrown mafia that can give the Russians, Chinese and Albanians a run for the money'"
2009-08-05,b'Kim Jong Il has pardoned and released two U.S. journalists after meeting with former U.S. President Clinton. Clinton rocks :-)'
2009-08-05,b'Web site tracks world online censorship reports '
2009-08-05,b'Chinese survey finds prostitutes more trusted than officials'
2009-08-05,b'Ahmadinejad is sworn in as Iranian president.'
2009-08-05,"b'Ex-Employees Link Blackwater Founder Eric Prince to Murder, Threats'"
2009-08-05,b'Football Song Written in 1924 in Germany Rouses Protest From Muslims Today '
2009-08-04,"b""Australian Idol judge fired after teenager's rape revelation live on radio"""
2009-08-04,"b'Bill Clinton in North Korea, meets Kim Jong-il.'"
2009-08-04,b'Hamas Again Accepts a Palestinian State on the \r\n1967 Lines'
2009-08-04,b'U.S. hunters aim for open season of threatened polar bears - Powerful lobby is suing to overturn the listing under the Endangered Species Act. '
2009-08-04,b'Erik Prince of Xe (Blackwater) Implicated in Killing of Cooperative Govt Witnesses [DKos until org story stabilizes]'
2009-08-04,b'Mother and Daughter severely ill after their E Coli was contaminated with British food'
2009-08-04,"b'Paco, a smokable drug made from bits of cocaine residue mixed with industrial solvents is quickly becoming a problem in Argentina.'"
2009-08-04,"b'This morning, Israeli bulldozers removing electrical poles from small Palestinian village; electricity from project supported by Quartet envoy Tony Blair'"
2009-08-04,b'The Economist forced to back down over lies on Venezuela and Bolivia'
2009-08-04,b'Bill Clinton in North Korea to Seek Release of U.S. Reporters'
2009-08-04,"b'An Algerian shop owner punches a Chinese migrant worker in the face.  30 minutes later, 100 Algerian residents and Chinese workers clash, armed with knives and rods.'"
2009-08-04,b'Army of bloggers invading reddit?'
2009-08-04,"b'Buzz Aldrin reveals that there is a monolith on Phobos, a moon of Mars.  '"
2009-08-04,"b'Home Office says immigrants need to contribute to UK\'s ""democratic life"", but anti-war activism could count against you'"
2009-08-04,b'Trial by jury returns to Japan'
2009-08-04,"b'The level of health in a country: Singapore - 1st; over 40 countries ahead of the US including many European states, Canada and Cuba; Angola - last'"
2009-08-04,b'Texan Zionist Christian says that God sent him to seek oil in Israel and this oil-digger believes that God would not give Israel anything less than Arabs have.  John Brown says he is on a divine mission to find oil in the land of milk and honey.'
2009-08-04,"b""The US is quietly pressing Iraq not to close a camp that holds more than 3,000 members of an Iranian opposition group that served as Saddam Hussein's shock troops."""
2009-08-04,"b""WTF ethics: Church of England under pressure over revelation that Vedenta supplies sacred mountain bauxite for India's nuclear missile programme"""
2009-08-04,b'Saudi man could face death for talking sex on TV'
2009-08-04,b'Police beat women opposing Sudan dress code trial'
2009-08-04,"b'Associated Press a Humiliation to So-Called ""IP"" ~~ AP Charges $12.50 To Quote 5 Words '"
2009-08-04,b'Assisted suicide law will apply to deaths in Britain and abroad'
2009-08-04,b'Mafia boss says Italian government involved with 1992 assassination of anti-Mob magistrate.'
2009-08-04,"b""Moscow's Troubles in the Caucasus: ongoing ethnic and political tensions between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea are becoming a threat to the leadership in Moscow. """
2009-08-03,"b'Chavez shuts down 34 radio stations - says stations and radio waves no longer belong to the ""bourgeoisie""'"
2009-08-03,"b'CIA Documents from the US embassy in Iran were shredded into thin strips and Iranians managed to piece them back together. In 1983 they were published in 54 volumes titled ""Documents From the U.S. Espionage Den""'"
2009-08-03,b'Woman set to be flogged for wearing pants in Sudan fights back. Her hearing is tomorrow!'
2009-08-03,"b'Saturday morning in a Christian village in Pakistan, ""Muslims marched [in] to avenge what they believed was the desecration of a Koran one week earlier. When it was over, dozens of houses were torched... two villagers were shot dead... Five others, including two children, burned alive.""'"
2009-08-03,b'New HIV strain discovered in woman from Cameroon'
2009-08-03,b'The Amazing Unseen Hitler Films just found and have not been digitized'
2009-08-03,"b'The five (US) horsemen of the global financial Apocalypse finally revealed: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, and Morgan Stanley hold 80% of all derivatives risk, and 96% of all business exposure to credit derivatives.'"
2009-08-03,b'Pneumonic plague outbreak in China'
2009-08-03,"b""Berlin's luxury car arsonists use slow-burning fuses to torch an average of one luxury car per day. More than 170 cars have been destroyed and police confirm conservatively that 93 were politically motivated attacks."""
2009-08-03,"b'Instead of stopping Jewish settlements within the potential Palestinian State, Israeli police evicted two Palestinian families in east Jerusalem on Sunday, then allowed Jewish settlers to move into their homes.'"
2009-08-03,"b'Former Irish president Mary Robinson \'bullied\' by pro-Israel lobbyists: ""There\'s a lot of bullying by certain elements of the Jewish community. They bully people who try to address the severe situation in Gaza and the West Bank. Archbishop Desmond Tutu gets the same criticism.""\n'"
2009-08-03,"b'NHS stops giving painkillers to back pain patients to save money, now recommending ""acupuncture or osteopathy"" instead. Result: Thousands just have to live with pain.'"
2009-08-03,b'Eric Cantor (R-VA) sounds more like a PR man for Israel than an American congressman'
2009-08-03,"b""Iraqi Vice President's guards arrested for $4.8M \r\nbank robbery."""
2009-08-03,b'Israeli Police Urge Indictment of Foreign Minister Lieberman in Corruption Case'
2009-08-03,b'Al Qaeda offers ceasefire in exchange for withdrawal from Afghanistan'
2009-08-03,"b'Liberia\'s deputy ambassador will travel to Phoenix in hopes of meeting with the 8-year old who was raped by minors then abandoned by her parents. ""Liberians all over the world are very much outraged and don\'t want to be stigmatized by this.""'"
2009-08-03,b'Half of the fresh fruit and veg sold across the UK is contaminated with toxic pesticides'
2009-08-03,"b""Georgia has accused Russia of trying to seize more of its territory as the anniversary of last year's brief war between the two countries approaches."""
2009-08-03,"b'Ahmadinejad and Khamenei kiss and make up at swearing-in ceremony, but dozens of parliamentarians and members of the influential Assembly of Experts neglect to attend, signaling their intent to continue protesting.'"
2009-08-03,b'Plague Kills Second Man in Northwest China as Town Quarantined - Bloomberg.com'
2009-08-03,b'Photos show a mystery building in Burma near its Russian-constructed nuclear reactor site; is the junta going go break out with the bomb?'
2009-08-03,"b'If any Israeli citizen refuses to see his or her country embracing fascism any further, let he or she speak out, speak out loud, and speak out now, without waiting for the next elections'"
2009-08-03,"b'Magnitude 6.9 quake shakes Mexico and California, part of a ""quake swarm""; more to come?'"
2009-08-03,"b""Iran is ready to build an N-bomb - it is just waiting for the Ayatollah's order - says Western Intelligence source."""
2009-08-02,b'SOS from Iceland!'
2009-08-02,"b""Wikileaks publishes Kaupthing bank's loan information right before Iceland's economic meltdown last October"""
2009-08-02,"b'Israel and Palestine: Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinians nearly 94% of the West Bank as the basis of their would-be state, plus Israeli territory to make up the remaining 6%, plus a safe-passage road-corridor to link Gaza with the West Bank and to internationalise the sovereignty of Jerusalem'"
2009-08-02,"b""Two families, totalling 55 people are kicked out of their homes so Israeli land thieves can move in and take more control of East Jerusalem.  Netanyahu chimed in by saying 'Israels sovereignty over the entire city cannot be challenged. '"""
2009-08-02,"b'A homophobic attack in a gay teen gathering in Tel-Aviv. 2 dead, 10 wounded.'"
2009-08-02,b'Black riot gear clad Israeli police have evicted nine Palestinian families living in two houses (some for over 50 years) in occupied East Jerusalem.  Jewish settlers moved into the houses almost immediately.'
2009-08-02,"b""Israel evicts Palestinian families who've been living in their East Jerusalem home since 1956 to build a hotel."""
2009-08-02,"b""The body of Capt. Michael 'Scott' Speicher, the first American lost in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, found in Iraq. \r\n"""
2009-08-02,"b""Putin dives to bottom of world's deepest lake"""
2009-08-02,"b'U.S. demands autistic hacker from the U.K. British lawmakers plead with Obama to end this ""shameful episode.""'"
2009-08-02,"b'US now ""Coalition of the One""'"
2009-08-02,"b'Club-wielding Israeli riot police evicts 53 Palestinians from their old Jerusalem homes to Jewish settlers who claim they have title deeds for the properties, despite UN and Palestinian denials.'"
2009-08-02,"b""Poisoning Africans so you can buy cheaper Gap and Levi's jeans"""
2009-08-02,"b""Former Iranian president Khatami has denounced the trial of around 100 people accused of rioting in the wake of the country's disputed elections"""
2009-08-02,b'A very moving BBC story about North Korean refugees.'
2009-08-02,b'Ireland Welcomes Stranded American Troops '
2009-08-02,b'Jewish association claims ownership rights over property in East Jerusalem based on a forged Ottoman era deed. This is upheld by Israeli courts and Palestinian families are evicted.'
2009-08-02,"b'He said skills such as reading a person\'s mood and body language were in decline, and that exclusive use of electronic information had a ""dehumanising"" effect on community life.'"
2009-08-02,"b'Homeless in Poland, Men Dream of Odyssey '"
2009-08-02,b'Fiji On Edge of Banishment From Commonwealth'
2009-08-02,b'Pakistan: Funny SMSs may land Pakistanis in for a fourteen year prison sentence'
2009-08-02,b'Gap Factory a Danger to African Children: Illegally Dumping Chemical Waste'
2009-08-02,"b'Cuban president vows to defend socialism: ""They didn\'t elect me president to restore capitalism in Cuba, nor to surrender the revolution,"" Castro said to loud applause. ""I was elected to defend, maintain and continue perfecting socialism, not to destroy it.""'"
2009-08-02,"b""Johnson 'can't stop extradition': Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said he would be breaking the law if he blocked hacker Gary McKinnon's extradition."""
2009-08-02,"b'Black-clad, masked gunman stormed into the Tel Aviv Gay and Lesbian Association building and opened fire on a teenage support group. Two killed. Eight wounded. Mostly minors. '"
2009-08-01,"b'""Anyone with an interest in China, its economy, its place in the world, or the kind of future it will fashion, please take note: This is a big deal.""'"
2009-08-01,"b'An Indian court issued a warrant Friday for the arrest of the former head of the American chemical company responsible for a gas leak that killed at least 10,000 people in Bhopal '"
2009-08-01,"b'Poll shows Americans are more supportive of, or less opposed to, torture than countries such as China, Egypt and Iran.'"
2009-08-01,"b'In South Africa, Lesbians Are ""Corrected"" Of Their Homosexuality By Being Gang Raped By Over 30 Men'"
2009-08-01,b'Colombian soldiers jailed for killing civilians and trying to pass them off as rebel combatants'
2009-08-01,"b'Six Christians killed over Quran claims - In eastern Pakistan, homes torched over allegations holy book was defiled'"
2009-08-01,b'WSJ: Leader of Hamas said his organization is prepared to cooperate with the U.S. in promoting a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict if the White House can secure an Israeli settlement freeze and a lifting of the economic and military blockade of the Gaza Strip.'
2009-08-01,"b""On August 1st, 2009, Danzan Ravjaa's treasure chests buried in the Gobi will be unearthed. These treasures were hidden in the Gobi desert  seventy years ago, following the socialist purge in the 1930's."""
2009-08-01,"b'Cuba: Air conditioners are shut off in the dead heat. Factories close at peak hours, and workers go without their government-subsidized lunches.\r\n'"
2009-08-01,"b'Riot police tackle protestors in Kuala Lumpur\nTear gas used on crowd of 5,000 led by Anwar Ibrahim demonstrating at laws allowing the government to imprison without trial.'"
2009-08-01,b'Melbourne Film Festival showing Film by Zhao Liang plight of thousands of Chinese - site targeted by DoS attack of Chinese Origin - Coincidence?'
2009-08-01,b'Malaysian police fire tear gas and water cannons and arrest dozens of people during a street protest against a law allowing detention without trial'
2009-08-01,b'Nigeria on the brink: The killing of an Islamist leader and his followers will not end violence. Only better government can stop the country becoming a failed state'
2009-08-01,b'Revered ex-Philippines president Cory Aquino dies '
2009-08-01,b'Yemen: Gitmo inmate died of asphyxiation'
2009-08-01,"b'Restaurant patrons ordered not to smoke cigarettes, smoked the owner instead'"
2009-08-01,b'UK broadband customers are being sold super-fast connections that their ISP are unable to achieve; users are struggling with speeds of less than half the rate they signed up to'
2009-08-01,"b'Vae Victis (Woe to the vanquished). Italy belongs to a economical, political and mafia lobby that never answers to the people for its actions '"
2009-08-01,b'Chinese hackers attack film festival site - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)'
2009-08-01,"b'Employees assume control at London children\'s home: ""Raythorne said he and his colleagues were prepared to face a police stand-off if necessary""'"
2009-08-01,"b'Swedes are also among those that spend the least amount of time at work each week, almost an hour below the EU average. '"
2009-08-01,b'Pakistani Christians Killed in Religious Unrest'
2009-08-01,"b'Census: Worlds older population will triple by 2050, adding stress to government programs'"
2009-08-01,b'Fearing the Moonwalk Revolution: East German Stasi Spied on Michael Jackson'
2009-08-01,"b""Lonesome George in his Nineties, has finally come out of his shell and will be a Daddy, ol' timers do have fun."""
2009-07-31,b'Bolivia bans all circus animals - New law defines use of animals in circus an act of cruelty. This is the first law of its kind anywhere in the world.'
2009-07-31,b'Israel admits white phosphorus use'
2009-07-31,"b'UK to ban all private transplants of organs: ""... private payments may unfairly influence access to transplant, so they must be banned.""'"
2009-07-31,"b'Arab lack of industrialization partly due to reforms ""pushed by the World Bank and IMF. In fact, today, Arab countries are less industrialized than they were in 1970.""...Holy Crap!'"
2009-07-31,"b'Christians in Egypt Are Being Kidnapped and Forcibly Converted to Islam. The Government, Mosques and Muslim Businessmen Are Guilty of Carrying Out And Funding This Modern Slave Trade.'"
2009-07-31,"b'A woman who passed national security information to UK authorities spent six months in fear for her life, after Tiscali published her phone number and address in public directories, despite repeated requests to keep the information secret'"
2009-07-31,b'Drugmaker Pfizer reached a $75m settlement with Nigeria over trials of meningitis drug Trovan on 200 children that led to the deaths of 11'
2009-07-31,b'List of 49 items of information that could be recorded on UK national ID card. '
2009-07-31,"b'Doctor Death: I dare police to prosecute me; vowed to highlight the ""hypocritical British system"" surrounding euthanasia '"
2009-07-31,"b""Report: Land mine contamination vast in Vietnam. Nearly 35 years after the war's end, Vietnamese civilians are still routinely killed and maimed by leftover mines and other explosives. Vietnam estimates that more than 42,000 people have been killed in such accidents since 1975."""
2009-07-31,b'Italy to allow RU-486 abortion drug '
2009-07-31,"b'Changes in global CO2 emissions since 2006 - courtesy of Google. Well done to the UK, not bad to the US, condolences to Canada...'"
2009-07-31,"b""Your family herds water buffalo. You eat no meat, and live by selling milk. It's a tradition your people have carried on for at least 1,500 years. And now the government is saying you're a threat to the environment. Meet the Van Gujjar."""
2009-07-31,b'A glimpse of the Irish Recession 2009 - some 500 people queuing for a sales assistant job.'
2009-07-31,b'Hostages to pay the bill after being rescued'
2009-07-31,b'Journalist who was arrested in Iran tells of crude jails used to warehouse protesters'
2009-07-31,"b""He was so hot he 'phfizzed' when firefighters put him in water  and then poked his head out. """
2009-07-31,b'Head of  Nigerian Taliban killed in Police custody'
2009-07-31,"b'""Its an extremely complex, explosive situation."" See Chad through the eyes of UNICEF Ambassador Ralph Fiennes. '"
2009-07-31,b'Protest against sex-tourism in Ukraine'
2009-07-31,b'Governments in Asia and Another City Hall Embrace Free Software'
2009-07-31,b'Hacker Loses Bid to Avoid Extradition to U.S.'
2009-07-31,"b""Aung Sang Suu Kyi verdict postponed: The Burmese junta has kept the 64-year-old Ms Suu Kyi in detention for nearly 14 of the past 20 years, ever since it refused to recognise the NLD's landslide victory in elections in 1990. - Times Online."""
2009-07-31,b'German party to start a Nazi-style training center'
2009-07-31,b'UK hacker loses extradition fight'
2009-07-30,"b""I'm surprised this hasn't made it higher up on Reddit today... The scale of this bomb that went off in Spain today is incredible! [youtube]"""
2009-07-30,"b'1,200 factory workers in China fall violently ill after a chemical plant opens down the street; Chinese government dubs it ""mass hysteria"", forces local doctors to stop treatment.'"
2009-07-30,"b'TV as Birth Control: ""If there is electricity in every village, then people will watch TV till late at night and then fall asleep. They wont get a chance to produce children"" ~ India\'s Health and Family Welfare Minister'"
2009-07-30,"b'Iranian police have fired tear gas and beat anti-government protesters with batons to disperse thousands attending a memorial at the graveside of Neda Agha Soltan, a young woman who was shot to death at a June 20 to protest the disputed presidential election.'"
2009-07-30,"b'Off duty cop kicks shit out of delivery man (with two other cops). When Khan called for help to bystanders and asked them to call police, Klassen allegedly said: ""We are the police.""\n\n'"
2009-07-30,b'Canadians cry foul over U.S. healthcare attacks'
2009-07-30,b'British Foreign Secretary:  Clinton threatened to cut-off intelligence-sharing if torture evidence is disclosed'
2009-07-30,b'Beluga whale carries struggling diver to surface'
2009-07-30,b'The Israeli settlement problem in the West Bank can be solved by making the settlers Palestinian citizens'
2009-07-30,"b'Another car bomb kills two police in Mallorca, Spain; government rep. says ETA is ""getting ever more desperate and more dangerous.""'"
2009-07-30,b'Iran security forces retreat as huge numbers of mourners gather at cemetery'
2009-07-30,"b'Swedish embassy in Germany hosts luncheon for sufferers of celiac disease, which makes you allergic to most wheat products. Would anyone like to hazard a guess what they served?'"
2009-07-30,b'Malalai Joya: The woman who will not be silenced'
2009-07-30,b'Witness says Iranian police beat mourners for Neda'
2009-07-30,"b'Christian evangelist group ""Hillsong"" enters public and private schools in Australia, instructing girls as young as 10 to wear make-up and concern themselves solely with their appearance.  ""...their ultimate aim is to recruit members to the church.""'"
2009-07-30,b'Russian mafia godfather Vyacheslav Ivankov shot in Moscow'
2009-07-30,"b'Russia is to begin oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, after signing a deal with Cuba.'"
2009-07-30,b'Neda Memorial: Iranian Mourners Arrested'
2009-07-30,b'Tehran Braces for Another Day of Street Battles'
2009-07-30,b'Nigerian security forces storm mosque where islamists bent on overthrowing the government and imposing sharia law have been hiding out.'
2009-07-30,"b'Some rare happiness in Gaza: More than 5,000 children gathered on a beach to break a world record on the number of kites flown simultaneously in the same place'"
2009-07-30,"b'Remember the bomb that went off in Spain just yesterday, 200kg of explosive, no deaths?  Well the same fucktards are at it again; second bomb in 24hrs, 2 agents dead.  I am struggling to stay civil.'"
2009-07-30,b'Police in Northern Ireland to go on patrol wearing cameras'
2009-07-30,b'Mexican Authorities to Allow Mobile Phone Calls on \r\nFlight'
2009-07-30,b'By the end of the book Einstein has become a strong proponent of a binational state in historic Palestine out of the belief that a system of unequality between Jews and Arabs will only lead to unending conflict.'
2009-07-29,"b'Mum drags daughter onto faux lie detector test on live radio, to ask her if she has skipped school/had sex. She reveals to Australia previous rape experience at 12 years old. '"
2009-07-29,"b""WTF. Albino children are being hunted. I couldn't get through this without crying (The Big Picture-Boston.com)"""
2009-07-29,"b'2/3 Swedish physicians consider neonatal circumcision an assault: ""The opposing doctors said they did not perform circumcisions unless the procedure was deemed medically necessary. Otherwise, they viewed the procedure as barbaric and akin to unnecessary female circumcision""'"
2009-07-29,"b'Contrary to what you may have heard, Islam is not going to take over the Netherlands. The number of Muslims has declined by 25.000 in 3 year. Only 35% of them visit the Mosque at least once a month, as opposed to 47% in 1998.'"
2009-07-29,"b'Jewish group urges Ontario to review ""anti-semite"" online postings - all while Israel recruits army of bloggers to flood anti-war websites with hateful views & comments. Bigotry at its best: Selective freedom of speech is no freedom of speech at all.'"
2009-07-29,"b'The big lie of Afghanistan: ""So far, Obama has pursued the same policy as Bush in Afghanistan. My country hasn\'t been liberated: it\'s still under the warlords\' control, and Nato occupation only reinforces their power.""'"
2009-07-29,"b'Death toll in Iran protests may be in hundreds, as battered bodies are released to families.  Even conservatives angry.'"
2009-07-29,"b'10,000 Uighurs disappeared during unrest in China, exiled leader claims'"
2009-07-29,"b'One of their ""mischievous acts"" was to test how long a Palestinian who was being choked could survive without breathing.'"
2009-07-29,"b'With the country neck-deep in a recession, young Japanese women are increasingly turning to ""hostessing"".'"
2009-07-29,b'Brazilian soccer player Ronaldo will take part in a film about a Palestinian girl who hoped to meet him but was killed by a land mine before she could fulfill her dream'
2009-07-29,b'Bribery and fraud at heart of defense contracting work in Iraq and Afghanistan'
2009-07-29,b'Australian racist kills Chinese person who ?? looked Indian (picture included). '
2009-07-29,b'Calls to downsize chocolate bars (your ration has been increased!)'
2009-07-29,"b""Chavez 'will freeze' ties with Colombia and withdraw his nation's ambassador from Bogota"""
2009-07-29,"b'A Man who allegedly bilked his clients out of 50 million dollars in a ponzi scheme, released from custody on a $30,000 bail.  Yeah, that should keep him in Canada.  Justice Canadian style! '"
2009-07-29,"b'""All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing"" - NZ National Party votes against ban on slave labour imports'"
2009-07-29,b'US envoy fails to ensure Israel settlement freeze'
2009-07-29,b'15 year old girl used sexual blackmail to get her 17 year old boyfriend to murder a 14 year old girl that she was jealous of and who she had never met.  '
2009-07-29,b'22 killed by heavy rain in China'
2009-07-29,"b'Car Bomb Explodes in Spanish City of Burgos, Official Says; 40 People Hurt '"
2009-07-29,"b'Vyacheslav Ivankov, who has been named by the United States as a senior Russian mobster, was shot in the stomach by a sniper as he left a Thai restaurant on Tuesday after apparently mediating between two rival criminal groups.'"
2009-07-29,"b""Honduras: US revokes de facto government's visas"""
2009-07-29,"b'The number of people killed by those with a mental illness increased between 1997 and 2005, official figures show.'"
2009-07-29,b'A law firm in Salt Lake City has been charged with conducting...'
2009-07-28,"b'British police wants DNA database of everyone who has been arrested, but not convicted of a crime. They argue that innocent people who have been arrested are as likely to commit crimes in the future as guilty people...WTF!?'"
2009-07-28,"b'""The lives of women are secondary"": in Nicaragua there is a total ban on abortion.  Women and girls are denied treatments for cancer, malaria, pregnancy complications, HIV, etc that may harm their fetus.  Rape victims must carry pregnancies to term.  Ban disproportionately affects the poor.'"
2009-07-28,"b""For the first time in its history British Army magazine features openly gay soldier on cover next to word 'Pride'"""
2009-07-28,"b""Greece prevented it from joining the United Nations, imposed an economic blockade that nearly strangled the fledgling country, vetoed the country's bid to join NATO last year and is blocking its admission to the European Union until it changes its name."""
2009-07-28,b'17 year old girl given life sentence in Canada (tried as an adult) for ordering stabbing death of 15 year old girl. '
2009-07-28,b'FOXNews: Egypt annexes Iraq'
2009-07-28,"b'Female British police issued headscarves, so as to not offend muslims. Sigh. '"
2009-07-28,"b'Nigerian Taliban kill 200 since Sunday in their fight to stop the spread of western ideas ""Like saying the world is a sphere""'"
2009-07-28,"b'German brothels learn something from all-you-can-eat restaurants, offering customers the chance to sleep with as many prostitutes as they like for a single fee.'"
2009-07-28,b'The unprecedented trial without jury of four men for armed robbery will begin in January'
2009-07-28,b'Video of the 19 year old shot in Honduras during unarmed protests [GRAPHIC] [NSFW] '
2009-07-28,"b'In Havana, U.S. turns off sign critical of Cuban government '"
2009-07-28,b'Iran supreme leader closes prison over alleged abuses of post-election detainees'
2009-07-28,"b'Reprieve, a British-based legal rights group, has begun legal action against the UK government for allowing the illegal transfer of a terrorism suspect from Indonesia to Egypt where they say he was tortured for three months before being moved to Gitmo.'"
2009-07-28,"b""Oh, so that's how you keep your job..."""
2009-07-28,b'Apparently that free milk you had in school was actually very good for you..'
2009-07-28,"b""There are different kinds of victims. People love crime news, but italian media don't speak very much of mafia murders. And that's exactly what mobsters need to continue their work"""
2009-07-28,"b'Britain to withdraw last forces from Iraq - Iraqi parliament fails to pass deal for troops to protect oil, help in training'"
2009-07-28,b'Fox News redraws the map of the Middle East.'
2009-07-28,"b""MoD seeks to cut soldiers' payout, sick, sick, sick mindset un-fucking-real!"""
2009-07-28,b'400 killed in Nigerian violence'
2009-07-28,b'A father and his two sons who made up to 7m from a pirate DVD scam have been jailed for six years each'
2009-07-28,b'The Pirate Bay gets sued. Again.'
2009-07-28,b'Cheesemakers in space flight bid'
2009-07-28,"b""Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the closure of a jail holding protesters detained after last month's disputed presidential election; officials say the authorities are still holding about 300 out of a total of up to 2,000 protesters, political activists and journalists arrested."""
2009-07-27,"b'To fool the parents of the victims, the children were taken away on ""school trips"" and their parents were later told the x-rays were a treatment for the scourge of scalpal ringworm. 6,000 of the children died shortly after...?'"
2009-07-27,"b'After being kidnapped at the age of 16 by a group of thugs and enduring a year of rapes and beatings, Assiya Rafiq was delivered to the police and thought her problems were over.\n\nThen, she said, four police officers took turns raping her.'"
2009-07-27,"b'The future Iran. The protest continues and the regime seems more and more weak. But whatever will happen, the demonstrations changed forever western opinion of the country'"
2009-07-27,"b'Private steel manufacturer in China decides to take a stake in a state manufacturer. An executive announces that 25,000 jobs will be cut. Protesters promptly beat him to death.'"
2009-07-27,"b""An African nation of 3 million people successfully breaks up Al Qaeda cells. Not through wars, but police work. Who'd have thought?"""
2009-07-27,b'The Death of Handwriting'
2009-07-27,"b'Rabbi Rosenbaum was the US broker for an international organ trafficking network - he would threaten ""donors"" with a pistol if they tried to back out'"
2009-07-27,b'College degrees/grades are stolen and sold to underachievers seeking new identities and better job prospects in China.'
2009-07-27,"b'The limits of freedom: In theory we are free to say \r\nwhat we like in Israel, but the reality can be quite \r\ndifferent'"
2009-07-27,"b""So I noticed Barry Chamish's wacky five year old ringworm conspiracy theory hit the front page to much acclaim, well, here is another jewel of his."""
2009-07-27,b'Northern Nigeria: 150 have been killed in two days by Islamist militants.'
2009-07-27,b'Poor students with good grades get identities stolen and lives ruined in China'
2009-07-27,b'Germany closes two brothels that offered unlimited sex for one low flat-rate due to poor hygiene & sanitary standards'
2009-07-27,"b'China Plans To Take Over The World: China owns $2.2 trillion in Treasuries and other foreign paper, uses these to buy companies, land, natural resources, etc. '"
2009-07-27,b'Iranians have to sort out their problems on their own'
2009-07-27,b'Honduras: Micheletti appoints death squad veteran'
2009-07-27,b'A Saudi man who boasted about his sexual conquests on an Arabic TV station has tearfully apologised as calls mounted for him to be punished.'
2009-07-27,"b""The women who clear Sudan's minefields"""
2009-07-27,b'Palestinian Martyrs Threaten Bruno'
2009-07-27,"b""US to increase funding for 'hacktivists' aiding Iran"""
2009-07-27,b'Israeli Settlers Rally: Obama racist; his regime will fall '
2009-07-27,b'Oh the irony: Jews protest Arab construction in Israel'
2009-07-27,b'Russian Serious With Action Against Convicted Monopolist Microsoft'
2009-07-27,b'One Sixth of Humanity Is Hungry - UN'
2009-07-27,"b""Skype singled out as threat to Russia's security\n"""
2009-07-26,b'Ferrari F1 Driver Felipe Massa in critical condition after this accident [see coil enter shot at ~0:29 of video]'
2009-07-26,b'23yrs old Saudi Arabian to be executed for talking about sex. '
2009-07-26,b'India launches nuclear submarine '
2009-07-26,b'World hunger reaches the 1 billion people mark'
2009-07-26,b'Vitiligo - black man turning white'
2009-07-26,b'Meet all 188 British forces personnel killed in Afghanistan '
2009-07-26,b'Torture  new claim of secret UK complicity'
2009-07-26,"b'In Afghanistan, Marines are bracing for a fight against guerrillas who, they discovered in June, are surprisingly proficient at tactics the Marines themselves learned in infantry school.'"
2009-07-26,b'Cruise ship enters Vancouver port with a whale stuck under its bow.'
2009-07-26,"b'Iran\'s Opposition Calls Crackdown ""Immoral""'"
2009-07-26,"b""Iran vows to hit Israel's atomic sites if attacked"""
2009-07-26,b'Honduran police join general strike against current regime'
2009-07-26,"b'Thousands of Chinese steel workers riot, beating one manager to death'"
2009-07-26,"b""The strange psychedelic adventure of Radovan Karadzic, the world's most hunted war criminal"""
2009-07-26,b'Universal Healthcare is not a panacea control of costs is still needed. Status in Australia. '
2009-07-26,"b""Palestinians ask Canada to seize Dead Sea Scrolls: The exhibition at the ROM contains artifacts 'illegally acquired' by Israel when it annexed East Jerusalem in the 1967 war."""
2009-07-26,"b'Can a child soldier be a refugee? Child soldiers from Liberia rape another Liberian child in Phoenix, 14 year old to be tried as an adult.'"
2009-07-26,b'Americans doing more harm than good in Pakistan'
2009-07-26,b'Wildfires on Mediterranean coast (pictures)'
2009-07-26,b'Last British WW1 veteran dies - World'
2009-07-26,"b'Millionaire peer claimed over 20,000 in allowances by saying that a small rented flat occupied by his brother is his main home. Last week he could not even remember its address'"
2009-07-26,b'Pakistan arrests influential pro-Taliban cleric - His arrest is a sign the government will no longer negotiate with militants'
2009-07-26,b'Obama administration steps up diplomatic push to \r\nrevive Middle East peace process'
2009-07-26,b'Billions in marijuana and ecstasy flow across Canadian border.'
2009-07-26,"b""Israel-UN spat over Syria 'bias'"""
2009-07-25,"b""It's OK for Israel to compare Iran to Nazi Germany, but if you compare Zionists to Nazis you could go to jail"""
2009-07-25,b'North Korea is stepping up executions of Christians with some killings taking place in public.'
2009-07-25,"b'\r\n\r\nRi Hyon Ok, mother of three, Publicly Executed in North Korea for Distributing Bible'"
2009-07-25,"b'The film Israel does not want you to see - ""Rachel""'"
2009-07-25,b'Family learned over Internet that son was killed'
2009-07-25,"b""Ireland's largest ISP to punish its own customers \r\nwith throttling and disconnections. They will \r\nsubsequently lose these customers to competing \r\nISPs that have refused to engage in such tactics."""
2009-07-25,"b'Honduras: Employers force employees to join pro-coup marches, then order them to work an extra day to make up for lost time'"
2009-07-25,b'A great man has died'
2009-07-25,b'Turkish navy commandos capture five pirates off Somalia '
2009-07-25,b'Israel has handed control over much of a key Palestinian area... to hardline settler groups in a creeping takeover kept away from public scrutiny'
2009-07-25,b'China launches Arabic TV channel'
2009-07-25,b'South Korea wants to gag the noisy internet rabble'
2009-07-25,b'India: At least 100 boys or girls every year are being murdered or forced to commit suicide due to love affairs in the state. '
2009-07-25,b'China Allows Second Child As Shanghai Tweaks One-Child Policy'
2009-07-25,"b'Living deep in the forest with no transportation and little money, he noted, We dont have a way to go to the grocery store for rice and beans to supplement what is missing.'"
2009-07-25,b'Indian Scientists Debunk Global Warming: Refuse to cut emissions.'
2009-07-25,"b""Mexico's organized crime offensive against law enforcement agents and government officials reached a new high Friday after armed gangs killed 26 people, including police and other officials."""
2009-07-25,"b'Governments in the US, EU, and Canada Talk About Digital Freedom'"
2009-07-25,b'North Korea publicly executes Christian woman for distributing the Bible.'
2009-07-25,b'One person has been sentenced to life in prison and eight others to jail in Burundi over the murder of over a dozen albinos whose remains were sold for witchcraft.'
2009-07-25,b'Indonesians flock to illegal gold mines'
2009-07-25,b'North Korea & Burma: Axis of Weasels'
2009-07-25,b'Catacombs could house flu victims. It looks like the Exeter City Council has never seen a horror movie before.'
2009-07-25,b'Audi stop development on a diesel supercar... because americans are too dumb to buy diesels. '
2009-07-25,"b""Naked girls plow fields for rain to 'annoy' the gods. I think they'd be rather pleased."""
2009-07-24,b'26/11 Mumbai Attacks - Documentary footage with never before seen video. The world MUST see this.'
2009-07-24,"b""Blind rescue dog has 'guide dog'"""
2009-07-24,"b""Netanyahu, battling Obama, says that everyone in Israel has the right to live in Jerusalem.  But Israeli Court ruled otherwise - Arab can't rent on ruins of his family home, because that's not the 'Arab' part of town.  """
2009-07-24,b'North Korea accused of testing biological / chemical weapons on children'
2009-07-24,b'WikiLeaks victorious over corruption report gag order'
2009-07-24,"b'Archaeologists have found five well-preserved Roman shipwrecks deep under the sea off a small Mediterranean island, with their cargo of vases, pots and other objects largely intact.'"
2009-07-24,"b'One of the incriminating tapes of Italy\'s PM Silvio Berlusconi may claim that an artificial lake on his Sardinian estate was built over ""30 Phoenician tombs from 300 BCE"". A necropolis under the estate would be evidence of Phoenician settlement in an area where none was thought to have taken place.'"
2009-07-24,b'Two new Mozart works discovered by foundation'
2009-07-24,"b'Russian telecom executives testify that Skype, which coincidentally provides competitive services at a lower rate than traditional telecom businesses, is a national security threat to Russia. '"
2009-07-24,"b""Sex offender register breaches paedophiles' human rights, say judges!"""
2009-07-24,b'Now government urges Chinese   to have second child '
2009-07-24,"b""Iranian Supreme Leader orders dismissal of Ahmadinejad's choice for VP"""
2009-07-24,"b""Momentum Shifts to Iran's Reformers.  Let not forget the peoples continuing struggle only because a revolution didn't happen in days."""
2009-07-24,b'North Korea Executes Christian For Distributing Bible'
2009-07-24,"b""Israel's foreign minister uses Hitler photo to link Palestinians and Nazis"""
2009-07-24,"b'Ahmadinejad caves to hard-liners, drops VP'"
2009-07-24,b'Israeli Arabs struggle for land - Does this prove the Israel is a racist state?'
2009-07-24,"b'More than 40 people, including politicians, officials and several rabbis have been arrested in a major FBI operation in the US.\r\n\r\n'"
2009-07-24,"b'In Russia, the Skype is Falling - Robert Amsterdam'"
2009-07-24,"b""All parents to sign 'behaviour contracts'"""
2009-07-24,"b'Hamas grows up,Shifts From Rockets to Culture War, Israel should be very worried, Gaza War may be worst mistake in History of Israel.'"
2009-07-24,"b'Iceland formally applies for EU membership, hopes to join within 3 years'"
2009-07-24,"b""Drug-Dealing for Jesus: Mexico's Evangelical Narcos"""
2009-07-24,"b'After Israel\'s housing minister called on Jews to move to the north of the country to stop what he described as ""the spread of Arabs"" there, the BBC\'s Katya Adler reports on the struggle for land in the area.'"
2009-07-24,"b'Female police hottie named Alison Minards had an all night sex orgy with 4 fellow police officers and it was all captured on cell phone cameras, UK media say.'"
2009-07-23,b'New Jersey mayors and rabbis arrested for involvement in international money-laundering conspiracy'
2009-07-23,"b'South Korean unions prepare for general strike: ""If media is controlled by large conglomerates and capital, then there is no hope for democracy in the South Korea.""'"
2009-07-23,"b""Four-year-old Samar Abed Rabbu was paralyzed and lost her two sisters during Israel's offensive in Gaza last December and January. Her family claims to have been waving a white flag while IDF shot at them."""
2009-07-23,b'Swine flu:  Country by Country'
2009-07-23,"b""One cleric's legacy of peace"""
2009-07-23,b'Dutch return severed head of Ghana chief'
2009-07-23,"b""The new Nepalese government has announced its intent to award $1270 to couples in inter-caste marriages, and $635 to couples when a widow remarries, a plan that has been welcomed by some caste activists, but opposed by women's rights groups."""
2009-07-23,b'Iceland submits EU membership bid'
2009-07-23,"b""Israel on 'collision course' with Washington - report"""
2009-07-23,b'BRUSSELS  Belgian authorities say three inmates made a dramatic escape from prison by helicopter.'
2009-07-23,"b'North Korea calls Clinton vulgar, unintelligent'"
2009-07-23,"b""Israel bans the word nakba from Arab children's textbooks. """
2009-07-23,b'Palestinian arrested [by Israel] after testifying in Geneva'
2009-07-23,b'Gaza Graffiti | The Sitch'
2009-07-23,b'Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels officially recognised'
2009-07-23,"b""Violence in South Africa's townships has spread as residents protest about what they say is a lack of basic services, such as water and housing."""
2009-07-23,b'Tokelau aims for 100% renewable energy'
2009-07-23,"b""Paralysed girl's story reflects Gaza's plight"""
2009-07-23,"b'Radio has pushed conflict and genocide in Bosnia, Kenya, Pakistan and -- most notably -- Rwanda, where Radio Mille Collines urged on massacres with phrases like killing the cockroaches. But as anybody with experience of the problem confirms, neutralising hate radio is not so simple.'"
2009-07-23,b'Moscow under redevelopment - shame about the architectural heritage'
2009-07-23,"b""One of Osama Bin Laden's sons is believed to have been killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan earlier this year"""
2009-07-23,"b'Murders, rapes and major internal displacement in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been linked to a number of multinational companies ...'"
2009-07-23,b'12 Israelis nabbed for US lottery fraud'
2009-07-23,b'Big turnout expected in hotly contested Iraqi Kurdistan vote'
2009-07-23,"b'About 100,000 people caught swine flu in England \r\nlast week - government information website \r\noverwhelmed'"
2009-07-22,b'Israeli cell phone ad shows friendly game of Israeli-Palestinian football over the Wall.  Palestinians test it out; kick ball over wall.  Salvo of tear gas grenades fired in return.   Includes video.   LOL. '
2009-07-22,"b""Chevron getting hit with $27B fine for destroying Ecuador's rain forest: Chevron has no plans to pay it"""
2009-07-22,"b'Human rights activist Natalia Estemirova was the conscience of Chechnya. Tuesday morning, as she walked out of her house, she was dragged into an unmarked white Lada, screaming vainly for help.'"
2009-07-22,"b""Israel cuts 1948 'catastrophe' from Arabic textbooks"""
2009-07-22,b'Darkness envelops Asia during total eclipse'
2009-07-22,"b'Amnesty: Saudi Arabia is holding more than 3,000 people in secret detention and has used torture to extract confessions'"
2009-07-22,"b""Because of ethnocentric Israeli land ownership \r\nlaws, most Arabs can't buy most homes in West \r\nJerusalem, despite Netanyahu's claims to the \r\ncontrary, made in response to the U.S. request to \r\nhalt a Jewish construction project in East Jerusalem."""
2009-07-22,b'Amnesty International has strongly criticised Saudi Arabia over abuses allegedly committed under its counter-terrorism program.'
2009-07-22,b'France has summoned the Israeli ambassador in Paris to demand a halt of Jewish settlement in east Jerusalem'
2009-07-22,"b'""Israel leaves the inhabitants of the West bank thirsty"" while on the other side of the fences Palestinians see ""green lawns and sprinklers irrigating the whole day""'"
2009-07-22,b'The longest solar eclipse of the century - The Big Picture - Boston.com'
2009-07-22,b'Iran VP pick too friendly toward Israel?  Supreme leader orders President Ahmadinejad to dismiss his deputy.'
2009-07-22,"b""The boy was afraid. He was standing in front of his grandmother's house when police took him to the CID. After three hours he contacted us..."""
2009-07-22,b'Brazil Official\nReportedly Calls\nIsraeli Foreign\nMinister a Fascist'
2009-07-22,"b""Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reaffirmed his government's five foundations for peacemaking with the Palestinians in a speech to parliament.  Here are the five."""
2009-07-22,b'No more Namibia: China blocks search results for entire country'
2009-07-22,b'Israel to declare as state property West Bank land that has emerged as a result of Dead Sea shrinkage'
2009-07-22,b'Quake moves New Zealand towards Australia'
2009-07-22,"b'Georgy Gongadze, an outspoken critic of the Ukrainian government, was kidnapped in September 2000. His decapitated body was found near Kiev two weeks later. Now, a former top Ukrainian interior ministry official has confessed to the crime and implicated other senior Ukrainian officials.'"
2009-07-22,"b'US to escalate military presence in Colombia causing increases in tension with neighbors such as Venezuela, Ecuador, etc.'"
2009-07-22,b'Israel to use Hitler shot for PR'
2009-07-22,"b'They want to turn these guys into assassins, a former high-level intelligence officer told me. They want to go on rumorsnot factsand go for political effect, and thats what the Special Forces Command is really afraid of.""'"
2009-07-22,"b'Clinton urges irreversible steps from N. Korea - Pyongyang is told to dismantle main reactor, surrender plutonium stockpile'"
2009-07-22,b'Ahmadinejad creating a rift with Supreme Leader over in-law vice president'
2009-07-22,b'Study: Mexican immigration to U.S. drops '
2009-07-21,"b""'Hello mum, this is going to be hard for you to read ...'"""
2009-07-21,"b""Columbus wasn't the first; Experts confirm that Medieval map depicting America is authentic"""
2009-07-21,"b""22 year old alcoholic in england is refused liver transplant. This a good thing. A line has to be drawn somewhere. I draw it here and I'm not going to feel bad about my lack of sympathy."""
2009-07-21,b'Iran protests continue: citizens trigger blackouts by turning on appliances all at once.'
2009-07-21,b'Israel to demolish 23 illegal settlements in one day'
2009-07-21,b'UAE tries to spy on its own residents - using an unauthorised Blackberry update from the state owned telecommunications provider!'
2009-07-21,b'Rapes by children under spotlight: Police in Scotland have brought almost 500 rape charges against children and teenagers under the age of 18 in the past five years.'
2009-07-21,b'Who is really running Russia?'
2009-07-21,b'Man bursts into flames after being shot by police with a taser'
2009-07-21,"b'International journalists arrested & clubbed for filming seal slaughter in Namibia, still being detained... '"
2009-07-21,"b'When is a vote too dangerous to exercise?  The UN urges Iraqi Kurds not to push for a referendum on whether the Kirkuk oil area should be part of their northern enclave, saying such a vote would ignite conflict.'"
2009-07-21,b'Western mineral firms fuel violence in Congo by failing to check the source of the metals that go to their smelters'
2009-07-21,b'Population of older people set to surpass number of children'
2009-07-21,"b'Jordan, Russia renew rejection of Israeli settlement'"
2009-07-21,"b'Denying the facts. The problem of Berlusconi now is to hide the evidence. Italian televisions do the job quite well, for the last free newspapers and the web soon a law will be done to silence them.'"
2009-07-21,b'Not-quite fairytale romance: Malay prince sues Indonesian wife'
2009-07-21,"b'A U.N. tribunal convicted two Serb cousins Monday of having burned alive more than 100 Muslims in what the presiding judge called a part of the ""wretched history of man\'s inhumanity to man.""'"
2009-07-21,"b'Biggest Diamond Heist: ""If you cant prove that the diamonds are stolen, then you would logically have to give them back.""'"
2009-07-21,b'Oldest UK television discovered '
2009-07-21,"b""Ali Khamenei warns of 'collapse' after Iran referendum calls"""
2009-07-21,"b""US teen pregnancy and syphilis rates rose sharply during George Bush's presidency, Centres for Disease Control finds |\r\n\t\t\t\tWorld news |\r\n\t\t\t\tguardian.co.uk"""
2009-07-21,"b'""Riot police are taking dozens of protesters into their cars and they are taking them away.""'"
2009-07-21,b'Leszek Kolakowski dies at 81; exiled Polish philosopher '
2009-07-21,b'When You Are Really Hungry You Eat Anything You Get - These Videos are the proof of it'
2009-07-21,b'Uruguay is going Green! '
2009-07-20,"b'Dear FSM, this is fucking terrible [sad]'"
2009-07-20,"b""Sordid reality behind Dubai's gilded facade: Construction halted, westerners jailed for adultery - but prostitutes do well """
2009-07-20,b'Tourists warned of Thailand airport scam '
2009-07-20,"b'Ariel Sharon got on Israeli radio and urged Israelis to settle more land fast. ""Grab the hilltops, and stake your claim,"" he said. ""Everything we don\'t grab will go to them.""'"
2009-07-20,"b'The high cost of discount counterfeits: In a sweatshop in Thailand, children were ""found assembling leather purses. Horrifyingly, their limbs had been deliberately broken to keep them from escaping.""'"
2009-07-20,b'Bosnian Serb cousins convicted of burning 119 Muslims alive'
2009-07-20,"b""What democracy looks like? Not that I like those Taliban chaps, but dude, I think you're doing it wrong."""
2009-07-20,"b'July bloodiest month for US-led troops. What are we really doing in Afghanistan, can anyone give me a reason !'"
2009-07-20,"b'while Nazi leader Adolf Hitler operated from headquarters encased in layers of concrete, Churchill and his staff were sleeping in rooms only 10 feet below ground'"
2009-07-20,b'The Onion has been sold to the Chinese Government.'
2009-07-20,"b""Last Friday the Chinese government confiscated the computers of lawyers at the Open Constitution Initiative, best known for its pro bono work on behalf of the victims of last year's tainted milk scandal."""
2009-07-20,b'French Interior Ministry requests news blackout as violence in the suburbs reaches record levels'
2009-07-20,"b""Iran's supreme leader warns Iran's elite to back down """
2009-07-20,b'Poll: Pirates close in on Riksdag;  Pirate Party gaining traction in Sweden'
2009-07-20,"b'The terrorist threat to the UK has been lowered from ""severe"" to ""substantial"", the lowest level for three years.'"
2009-07-20,"b'Questioning the ""Good War"": Is Obama\'s Afghan strategy realistic?'"
2009-07-20,b'Dear reddit: The recession was not caused by a spectacular failure of capitalism or economics. Just though you should know.'
2009-07-20,b'Bill outlawing anti-Israel protest nears approval\n'
2009-07-20,b'The Neo-Nazis of Mongolia: Swastikas Against China'
2009-07-20,"b'Of more concern to South Korea is the kidnapping by North Korea of one of its businessmen in March. North Korea claims that the man, identified only as Mr Yu, tried to lure a North Korean female worker to the south and insulted the North Korean regime.'"
2009-07-20,b'259-Car Autobahn Pile-Up Largest In German History - with video'
2009-07-20,b'A US military review is to recommend an overhaul of the entire Afghan prison and judicial systems'
2009-07-20,"b""Vatican launches inquiry into 'abusive' religious order"""
2009-07-20,b'Orthodox Jews riot as mother is accused of starving her child - Times Online'
2009-07-20,b'Massive motorway crash in Germany'
2009-07-19,"b'War Crimes? ""There were 300 of us in my container. By the time we arrived in Sheberghan, only ten of us were alive"" ""they shot into the containers [to make air holes]. Blood came pouring out"" ""get rid of them [the bodies] before satellite pictures could be taken""'"
2009-07-19,"b""The Rape of Taraneh:  Prison Abuse of Iran's Protesters"""
2009-07-19,b'Israel backs East Jerusalem housing construction despite U.S. opposition - Netanyahu says Jews have the right to build in East Jerusalem. Palestinians consider the land part of their future state.'
2009-07-19,b'$10 billion Saudi fraud claim - A respected business family claims it has fallen victim to a spectacular swindle '
2009-07-19,"b'[In Pictures] 6 months after the war ended, the population in Gaza is dying slowly because of the blockade imposed by Apartheid Israel.'"
2009-07-19,"b'U.N. is not going to name the culprits in the Bhutto Assassination, which many respected researchers say was the work of the CIA assassination units run by Cheney'"
2009-07-19,b'Ten Mexican police officers have been detained in connection with the torture and murder of 12 federal agents during a major escalation in the drug war'
2009-07-19,b'Starbucks to Start Selling Beer: Can I have a Venti?'
2009-07-19,b'This is rich! A US military spokesman in Kabul condemned the video as propaganda and a breach of the rules of war.'
2009-07-19,"b'IDF booklet: ""Every real Arab, deep inside, is kind of a fan of the Nazis.""'"
2009-07-19,b'Could Dick Cheney go to prison?'
2009-07-19,"b""China's security forces admit to killing Uighurs in riot """
2009-07-19,b'Most Germans want grand coalition to end; 56 percent have had enough CDU/SPD'
2009-07-19,"b'\nLife in Israel is just peachy, thank you, and who wants to think about peace, negotiations, withdrawals, the ""price"" to be paid and all the unnecessary mess? '"
2009-07-19,b'Israel defies US over settlement'
2009-07-19,b'Mandela Day launched as anti-apartheid icon turns 91'
2009-07-19,"b""Iran's hard-liners still doing the only thing they know what to do - round-up the opposition """
2009-07-19,"b'""During my previous tenure I built thousands of housing units in the [East] Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, and I went against the world. Therefore, it is clear that in the present situation I will not cave in.""'"
2009-07-19,b'Jewish Doctor in LA using bingo money taken from impoverished Americans to fund settlers who steal land from Palestinians....'
2009-07-19,"b'Basiji militia member: ""I wed the girls before their execution""'"
2009-07-19,"b'North Cyprus celebrates peace, calls for solution - Hrriyet Daily News and Economic Review'"
2009-07-19,b'Extreme jigsaw: Police putting together a severed head to identify bombing suspect'
2009-07-19,b'Israel Rejects U.S. Call on East Jerusalem Development'
2009-07-19,b'At least 16 civilians have been killed and five wounded after a helicopter crashed near a military base in southern Afghanistan'
2009-07-19,b'Passing Oceania'
2009-07-18,b'Protests reignited as 1 million people return to the streets of Tehran'
2009-07-18,b'Walter Cronkite died today at the age of 92'
2009-07-18,b'Oldest WWI veteran dies aged 113 '
2009-07-18,"b""Indian Prime minister can't sleep at night because rich boys Ferraris screaming up and down the roads outside."""
2009-07-18,b'The Xinjiang Riots: Not since the dying days of the Manchu Qing empire has China witnessed this sort of spontaneous ethnically-based violence'
2009-07-18,"b'Zelaya planned to raise minimum wage. COHEP (Honduran National Business Council) opposes higher minimum wage. Zelaya removed. COHEP now opposes trade sanctions against current regime ""because it will hurt the poor"", but still opposes minimum wage rise in nation with 70% living in poverty.'"
2009-07-18,"b'Oldest living man, 113 year old WW1 veteran. He attributes his longevity to ""cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women  and a sense of humour""'"
2009-07-18,b'Belgian tax agency using facebook (among others) to see who needs investigating for spending more than they say they earn'
2009-07-18,b'Thailand needs a better rice policy to help their own farmers'
2009-07-18,b'Too much American news spam on the World news reddit'
2009-07-18,b'A SWAZI man was stoned to death by a mob of schoolchildren after he stabbed a 13-year-old girl to death with a spear and wounded 12 others at their school.'
2009-07-18,b'West still silent over Falun Gong 10-year persecution'
2009-07-18,b'Calling Jews Nazis may be criminalised'
2009-07-18,b'First commercial pig farm worker in Britain contracts swine flu - Worldnews.com'
2009-07-18,"b'Israeli Settlers Rebuilding Evacuated Settlement, Naming it After Obama....Even better, they compare him to the Biblical Pharaoh of the book of Exodus who kept the Jewish people in bondage......'"
2009-07-18,b'Update from Switzerland Regarding the Illegal Government Contract with Microsoft'
2009-07-18,b'Powerful Iranian cleric says country in crisis'
2009-07-18,"b'Mauritania has suffered 5 military coups in the last 50 years, but some see upcoming elections as chance to break the cycle: Its about putting an end to 30 years of illegal occupation of power by the military""'"
2009-07-18,"b'Four Indonesian airlines allowed back into Europe; Zambia, Kazakhstan banned'"
2009-07-18,"b'Arab summer camp kids forced by Israeli police to remove their camp t-shirts, visit holy site shirtless, and find out that only in movies do the scrappy camp underdogs overcome superior finances and arrogant elitism'"
2009-07-18,"b""Iran hardliners turn on critical cleric - Rafsanjani accused of 'sowing discord' by questioning election results"""
2009-07-18,b'Human rights lawyer detained as Iran unrest spirals'
2009-07-18,"b'Prayers answered, as Kenyan mosque jams mobile phone signal to stop interruptions.'"
2009-07-18,b'France Surrenders to Ahmadinejad'
2009-07-18,"b""Nelson Mandela's 91st birthday party - text and video"""
2009-07-17,"b'US troops and contractors caused substantial damage to the archeological site at Babylon, a city considered as one of the first civilizations on earth.'"
2009-07-17,"b'Kill IE6, for the sake of the web: expert'"
2009-07-17,"b'Rafsanjani - ""Don\'t let our enemies laugh at us by putting people in prison""'"
2009-07-17,"b'The World Health Organisation said on Friday that the H1N1 flu pandemic is moving around the globe at an ""unprecedented"" speed as it stopped giving figures on numbers affected.'"
2009-07-17,b'Retirement homes planned for Swiss junkies'
2009-07-17,"b'A white supremacist whose plot to bomb ""non-British"" people included shrapnel bombs disguised as tennis balls was found guilty of terrorism in London'"
2009-07-17,"b""Tehran's streets erupt after a key cleric speaks"""
2009-07-17,"b'AFGHANISTAN: Opium eases my pain, keeps my children quiet'"
2009-07-17,b'Olmert gives his prescription for how the US can ensure lasting peace between Israel and Palestine: Stop paying attention to the settlements.'
2009-07-17,b'The high cost of sex work in southern Africa'
2009-07-17,b'Islam Times - Hamas PM Haniyeh: Jews are not our enemy'
2009-07-17,"b'The number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails reached up to 9,600, including 345 children and 85 women, a Palestinian researcher said in a statistical report on Wednesday.'"
2009-07-17,"b'US military silent on Bagram jail protest. ""The prisoners at the largest US prison in Afghanistan have refused to leave their cells for the past two weeks to shower or exercise to protest against their indefinite imprisonment.""'"
2009-07-17,b'CIA: Israel will fall in 20 years'
2009-07-17,b'Britain backs call for Israeli settlement freeze\n'
2009-07-17,b'Iranian police tear-gas protesters during prayer'
2009-07-17,"b'After one of their top men was arrested last weekend, gunmen from Mexico\'s La Familia cartel went on a rampage, shooting up police stations and leaving 12 federal officers in a pile alongside a highway. Now it\'s offering a truce, but the Mexican government says, ""No thanks.""'"
2009-07-17,"b""Iran's defeated presidential candidate Karroubi attacked on way to prayers by plainclothed men"""
2009-07-17,b'Security Forces Fire Tear Gas at protesters in Iran'
2009-07-17,b'Brit Police again show what kind of clueless fascists they are: Minority Report and Precrime arrives via a Facebook events page - for a BBQ'
2009-07-17,b'$5000 Recycled Paper House comes complete with plumbing and basic facilities. '
2009-07-17,"b""Afghanistan: 'We are fighting ghost soldiers' """
2009-07-17,b'How does a developed country like Germany have a poverty rate of over 30%!!! '
2009-07-17,b'CTV.ca | Vaccine may teach body to fight off lung cancer | world trials now for Canadian invented vaccine'
2009-07-17,"b""(Afghanistan) How many more will die in vain before we withdraw? The attempt to exploit soldiers' deaths to win support for the shameful war in Afghanistan thankfully isn't working."""
2009-07-16,b'Professional snipers have been brought in to guard a vulnerable colony of penguins in Australia.'
2009-07-16,"b'Natalia Estemirova, a lifelong human rights campaigner, was kidnapped from her home yesterday morning.  Today she was found dead, left on a road with bullet wounds to the head and chest.'"
2009-07-16,"b'DOJ Pressured to probe why Bush White House blocked three different probes into war crimes in Afghanistan where as many as 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks and then buried in a mass grave by Afghan and U.S. forces.'"
2009-07-16,b'Iceland votes to join EU.'
2009-07-16,b'The second life of a US Army deserter who switched to the North Korean side'
2009-07-16,"b'New Zealand gov\'t proposes a new ""3 strikes"" process for P2P users after its first attempt failed; invites public comment'"
2009-07-16,b'91% of Chinese citizens worth 100 million yuan ($14.6 million) or more are children of high-level Communist Party officials.'
2009-07-16,"b""If you work with kids you must pay a fine for being a 'potential pedophile'. Whatever your occupation, from being a school teacher to a bus driver you are a Potential Pedophile (tm)"""
2009-07-16,"b""Indian tiger park 'has no tigers'"""
2009-07-16,"b""Kids TV praises Gaza mom's suicide bombing"""
2009-07-16,b'Human rights activist Natalya Estemirova abducted and shot to death in Chechnya'
2009-07-16,"b'Often on drugs, wearing fetishes they believed made them impervious to bullets, and garbed in costumes ranging from novelty-store fright masks to wigs and womens bathrobes, these murderous adolescents raped, pillaged, and slaughtered at will.'"
2009-07-16,"b""Al Jazeera shows how it's done. Again. Both sides of the story and no pandering to the Israelis. Western news services could learn a thing or hundred about how keeping Israelis on message weakens their propaganda."""
2009-07-16,"b'With the war over, Sri Lanka\'s government could have claimed the moral high ground. Instead it has clamped down hard. Around 300,000 civilians remain interned without trial in ""welfare centres"" that are concentration camps in all but name.'"
2009-07-16,b'Potter actor admits drug charge ... police found shots of [cannabis] plants ... after he was arrested for taking a picture of officers ...'
2009-07-16,"b""Iran plane black boxes 'damaged'"""
2009-07-16,b'(New translation; more info) Honduras coup made in USA -- the evidence'
2009-07-16,"b""A mysterious glob of unknown material up to 12 miles long has appeared off Alaska's northern coast. \r\n"""
2009-07-16,b'The Man Behind The Massacre at Shibarghan'
2009-07-16,b'Dog wet nurse saves panda cubs in China '
2009-07-16,b'Tony Blair would be an awful EU president'
2009-07-16,b'Kremlin-backed Chechen president blamed for kidnapping and murder of Award Winning Activist'
2009-07-16,b'Mexico rejects peace deal with cartels '
2009-07-16,b'Iceland will apply to join the EU'
2009-07-16,b'Moon Walkers - The 40th Anniversary of the Moon Landing'
2009-07-15,b'Earthquake M7.8 off West coast of South Island New Zealand - Tsunami warning'
2009-07-15,"b'Incredible! The Israel Project, a non-profit with headquarters in D.C., has issued a ""Global Language Dictionary"" (authored by Republican pollster Frank Luntz) that tells journalists how to talk about the Israel-Palestine conflict. Newspeak much?'"
2009-07-15,b'Testimonies: An Israeli sniper killed a Palestinian \r\nman in order to mark a score with his gun. \r\nSoldiers fired at houses out of boredom. A \r\ncommander expressed satisfaction that Gaza \r\nhospitals were full.'
2009-07-15,"b"" Russian activist 'found murdered'"""
2009-07-15,"b""Israel drops charges against an Israeli settler caught on film shooting at two Palestinians in the West Bank.  Reason: Prosecution may result in harm Israel's security."""
2009-07-15,b'Israel soldiers speak out on Gaza conflict'
2009-07-15,b'Israeli soldiers reveal the brutal truth of Gaza \r\nattack '
2009-07-15,b'Israeli soldiers admit widespread abuses were committed by the army against civilians during the assualt on Gaza'
2009-07-15,"b'Not only has China ended its dependence on food aid, but almost overnight it has become the worlds third largest food aid donor!'"
2009-07-15,"b""'Open fire and don't ask questions' - Human rights \r\ngroup Breaking the Silence hears Israeli soldiers \r\ndescribe human shield and 'shoot first' policies \r\nduring the recent conflict in Gaza"""
2009-07-15,b'Ex-Israel troops: Army used reckless force in Gaza'
2009-07-15,"b'Former Liberian president and blood diamond profiteer facing war crimes court for murder, rape, terrorism: ""I fought corruption""'"
2009-07-15,b'India to issue 1.2 billion new biometric ID cards'
2009-07-15,b'Russia murders another human rights activist'
2009-07-15,"b'""Everyone is your enemy,"" Israeli soldiers in Gaza told;  admit Palestinians forced to serve as human shields '"
2009-07-15,b'Mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination Alert'
2009-07-15,b'Debate in Iceland on whether or not to join the EU rages on'
2009-07-15,"b""Tony Blair backed to be Europe's first president"""
2009-07-15,b'A poster promoting Israel as a tourist venue has been banned in the UK after it appeared to suggest areas such as the Gaza Strip were internationally recognised as part of its territory'
2009-07-15,"b'Israel troops speak out on Gaza war:\nSoldiers were ordered to ""shoot first and worry later"". '"
2009-07-15,"b'Gaza war order was shoot first, some Israeli troops say'"
2009-07-15,b'ICRC: Israel Traps Gazans in Deprivation and Despair'
2009-07-15,b'UK Government aims to decrease illegal filesharing by 80% by 2011'
2009-07-15,b'168 Feared Dead After Plane Crashes in Iran...'
2009-07-15,b'Tsunami alert after NZ earthquake'
2009-07-14,"b""A new line of bottled water - this time not from the melting Alps, but rather from the contaminated ground near the site of the 1984 Bhopal catastrophe - scared Dow Chemical's London management team into hiding today."""
2009-07-14,b'Hindus criticize Pope for being harsh on atheists'
2009-07-14,b'Israelis set fire and destroy 37 Acres of Palestinian owned land in southern West Bank'
2009-07-14,"b'12 Mexican military officials tortured, killed'"
2009-07-14,b'Al Qaeda vows revenge on China after riots'
2009-07-14,"b'Lieutenant Mark Evison, who died in May from wounds received in Afghanistan, kept a remarkable journal - published here for the first time - about the harsh realities of fighting in Helmand.'"
2009-07-14,b'Site tells you what you should be scared of today (according to the media)'
2009-07-14,"b""Israel's commandeering of the Spirit last week shares a lot in common with the acts of piracy: the Spirit's unarmed passengers traveled on the high seas, uncertain if they would live or die when the Israeli navy surrounded them & took them prisoners. But do Israel's actions constitute piracy? Yes."""
2009-07-14,b'Mainstream Chinese Viewpoint - Uighur Riots'
2009-07-14,b'Egyptian jailed for three years for insulting President Hosni Mubarak in a poem'
2009-07-14,b'Double standard.  Egypt stops Gaza-bound aid convoy.  Nobody except the Iranians care'
2009-07-14,b'Spanish nobles rebel over inheritance law that will allow Women to claim titles from male relatives'
2009-07-14,b'Why US diplomats are visiting Israeli settlers'
2009-07-14,b'Life on Planet Uighur (Photos) '
2009-07-14,"b'Rich Cause the Crisis, Workers Get the Blame'"
2009-07-14,"b'Bermuda, with its pastel-coloured homes overlooking the turquoise waters of the Atlantic Ocean, is now home to 4 Chinese Uighurs who were released from Guantanamo Bay after 7 years inside'"
2009-07-14,"b'Two Israeli warships have sailed through the Suez Canal; Israeli media described the passage of the two Saar class missile boats as a ""message"" to Iran. '"
2009-07-14,b'The disaster of (American) Indian health care'
2009-07-14,b'Lithuania backs bill  to restrict information to children'
2009-07-14,"b'Demjanjuk Charged with 27,900 Murders'"
2009-07-14,b'C.I.A. Had Plan to Assassinate Qaeda Leaders'
2009-07-14,b'Iran Hangs 13 Members of Rebel Sunni Muslim Group'
2009-07-14,"b""Report: After brutal police rule, Taliban 'welcomed as liberators'"""
2009-07-14,b'Love and candy: Hamas says Israel distributing aphrodisiac gum in Gaza'
2009-07-14,b'Iran reform leader to set up political front'
2009-07-13,"b""Water wars break out in India. Bhopal (pop. 1.8 million) has been rationed to 30 minutes of water supply once every three days. Indore is half an hour's supply every seven days."""
2009-07-13,b'UK cuts Israel weapons contracts  because of the indiscriminate killing of the civilians during the war on Gaza.'
2009-07-13,"b""Kim Jong Il 'has pancreatic cancer'"""
2009-07-13,"b'This is not a joke: Iran condemns ""Italy\'s use of force to repress demonstrations against G8""'"
2009-07-13,b'In 2007 an Israeli company backed with 2 million dollars in funding set up a system to game social networking sites such as Reddit and Digg.'
2009-07-13,b'A NHS doctor from London who was held captive in a Bangladeshi psychiatric hospital and forced to marry someone she had never met.'
2009-07-13,b'Israel and EU Clash Over Settlements'
2009-07-13,b'How the state (UK) crushed the early 90s free party scene '
2009-07-13,b'UK cuts Israel weapons contracts. At fucking last.\n'
2009-07-13,b'Top Iranian cleric Montazeri: Khamenei is illegitimate'
2009-07-13,b'Russia wants Israel to buy the S-300s sold to Iran \r\nif it wants to stop the deal.Pentagon advisor Dan \r\nGoure says the purchase would effectively rule \r\nout any strike against Iran(a last resort in case \r\nnegotiations over nuclear program are \r\nunsuccessful)'
2009-07-13,"b'A video of a British soldier screaming obscenities and abuse at hooded Iraqi detainees was shown today at the opening session of a public inquiry into how the hotel receptionist, Baha Mousa, was killed while in British custody.'"
2009-07-13,"b'A group of Sudanese women flogged for dressing ""indecently"" - they were wearing trousers'"
2009-07-13,"b'Chinese artist looks into Sichuan earthquake deaths. ""He began his own investigation, collecting names of the children who died. He had reached more than 5,000 names before his blog was shut down last month.'"
2009-07-13,"b'N. Ireland: More than 1,000 Orangemen and their accompanying bandsmen eventually did march down the main road past Ardoyne to the beat of a lone drum  but only after riot police fought an hourlong street battle backed by a surveillance helicopter and three massive mobile water cannons.'"
2009-07-13,"b""African Obama Frenzy: 'We want him to rule all African countries'"""
2009-07-13,"b""Iran's Terrifying Facebook PoliceTraveller's Facebook Page is Accessed by Iranian Immigration Agent and All Her Friends' Names are Recorded."""
2009-07-13,b'Grand Ayatollah Montazeris Fatwa: The Supreme Leader is Illegitimate'
2009-07-13,"b""Most expensive US jet ever can outfly anything else in the sky-- so long as it doesn't have to do it for longer than one hour and 42 minutes. After that, it can become a sitting duck."""
2009-07-13,"b'In 2006, the big joke among Israeli leaders was \r\nputting Gaza on a ""diet"" (get it?). They\'re still \r\nlaughing.'"
2009-07-13,b'Two Uyghurs shot dead by Chinese police'
2009-07-13,b'Seven religious minority members face execution in Iran'
2009-07-13,b'Sudanese girls to get 10 lashes for wearing trousers.'
2009-07-13,"b'Torture and Massacre of 2,000 at Afghan Prison May Have US Ties.  Obama Calls for Probe.  (Vid)'"
2009-07-13,b'Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer according to South Korean TV'
2009-07-12,"b'Obama tells Africans to take responsibility, not aid'"
2009-07-12,b'Israel plans to expand its online presence by giving money to trolls.'
2009-07-12,b'The death of Government scientist David Kelly returned to haunt Labour today as a group of doctors announced that they were mounting a legal challenge to overturn the finding of suicide.'
2009-07-12,"b'Big pharma \'delaying\' cheaper drugs. ""European patients, taxpayers and national treasuries are being fleeced of billions of euros because of the big pharmaceutical companies\' elaborate campaigns to delay the marketing of cheaper generic drugs, the European commission said.""'"
2009-07-12,"b""What it's like to eat in Gaza"""
2009-07-12,"b'Iran creates Stasi corps to clamp down on dissent, makes transition to police state.'"
2009-07-12,b'BOMBSHELL: Cheney linked to secrecy of CIA program'
2009-07-12,"b'New Orleans police proudly announce that the number of rapes is sharply down.  This herculean feat police work was accomplished by reclassifying many rapes as ""noncriminal complaints""'"
2009-07-12,b'Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pulls new world currency from his pocket'
2009-07-12,"b""Australia's outback is being overrun by wild camels"""
2009-07-12,b'Criticism of Afghan War Is on the Rise in Britain'
2009-07-12,"b""Iran's uprising is not about protesting kids - it's a struggle between factions in the 'Old Guard'"""
2009-07-12,b'Hundreds of ultra-orthodox Jews have clashed with police in Jerusalem for a third consecutive Saturday over a car park which opens on the Sabbath'
2009-07-12,b'Bosnia buries Srebrenica victims 14 years AFTER the massacre. \n'
2009-07-12,b'Most Xinjiang dead Han Chinese'
2009-07-12,b'Saudi Religious Police Blamed for Honor Killings'
2009-07-12,"b'Injured toll from China riots raised to 1,680'"
2009-07-12,"b'His pants sagged, but never too much. He spoke of ""homeboys"" and used the ""n"" word, but gave careful regard to the schools rules. ""Youre not black, his peers taunted. Go back to Africa.""'"
2009-07-12,"b'Elderly, Kids Urged to Skip Hajj Over Swine Flu - ABC News'"
2009-07-12,"b'Demjanjuk Nazi Trial To Break Legal Ground - ""For the first time, a person who was low on the chain of command is to be indicted, even though there is no proof of his having committed a specific offence.""'"
2009-07-12,b'Two Cameroonians and a Nigerian have been lynched in Taraba State in Nigeria for allegedly engaging in acts that causes people to lose their genital organs.'
2009-07-12,b'Coal miners rescued after surviving 25 days underground'
2009-07-12,"b'Honduran coup leaders referring to ""little black man"", ""little black boy who knows nothing about nothing"". I wonder who they\'re referring to... '"
2009-07-12,"b""John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet"""
2009-07-12,b'Gunmen launch deadly raids in Mexico'
2009-07-11,b'Unsuccessful Basiji hitting cameraman...unsuccessful because the video has been uploaded to youtube and I was able to submit it to reddit!!!'
2009-07-11,b'German parliament passes Internet censorship bill '
2009-07-11,"b'Turkey attacks China ""genocide."" Turkish apparently lacks a word for ""irony.""'"
2009-07-11,"b'Irish blasphemy law is not sinister new law, but an amendment to an unenforceable old one to make it even less viable.'"
2009-07-11,"b""Australia's net filtering a $33m waste: child groups"""
2009-07-11,b'Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New World Currency at G-8'
2009-07-11,b'8 British Soldiers Died in the Last 24 Hours in\nAfghanistan. 15 British Soldiers in the Last 10\nDays! More killed in Afghanistan since 2001\nthan in Iraq!'
2009-07-11,"b'French controversial ""3 strikes"" online copyright infringement bill aimed at taking repeat offenders offline returns, now with judicial oversight!'"
2009-07-11,b'Obama tells pope he wants to reduce abortions in U.S.\n'
2009-07-11,b'Abu Ghraib Italy. Too many strange deaths in italian prisons. The fight of some families and mothers against media silence'
2009-07-11,b'10 Cases of American Intervention in \r\nLatin America (Balanced historic \r\nperspective to explain anti-U.S. \r\nsentiment in the region.)'
2009-07-11,"b'Amazing PBS documentary: ""Heart of Jenin"" - A Palestinian boy\'s tragic death gives five Israelis the gift of life (full video available at link)'"
2009-07-11,"b'Ethnic conflict in China escalates, 138 Hans, 46 Muslim Uighurs dead.'"
2009-07-11,"b'Robert Stevens, chief executive of Lockheed Martin Corp, told reporters at a media dinner that the very definition of global security was expanding to include things such as access to clean drinking water, secure transportation, and alternative energy sources.'"
2009-07-11,"b'Honduras - Minister of Culture Rodolfo Pastro Fasquell: ""The world must know that what has passed is a plot by business people from corporations who wanted to maintain their privileges... Honduras has the highest and most monstrous rates of poverty in Latin America.""'"
2009-07-11,"b""A piece of paper. G8 doesn't care much about Human Rights in the world. But maybe the web will eventually change something"""
2009-07-11,"b'Stateless earth creature burns Social Security card, proclaims love for all humankind'"
2009-07-11,"b""Released European journalist tells his story about being jailed in Iran for 'espionage'"""
2009-07-11,"b""China's Ethnic Fault Lines - WSJ.com"""
2009-07-11,b'Venezuelan Coupist in Honduras'
2009-07-11,b'Executed for becoming a Christian.'
2009-07-11,b'One Honest Palestinian Journalist'
2009-07-11,"b'A US company has apologised after featuring a Welsh couple murdered on their Caribbean honeymoon as ""happy customers""'"
2009-07-11,"b'Iran is preparing a new package of ""political, security and international"" issues to put to the West'"
2009-07-11,b'TIME - Afghanistan'
2009-07-10,"b'It\'s Official, Ireland Makes Blasphemy Illegal.  Seriously.  Passed Wednesday, legislation making blasphemy illegal, with a 25,000-Euro fine.  Police may also enter homes and confiscate ""blasphemous materials"" including books, artwork, cartoons of Mohammed . . . whatever!  Book burnings next?'"
2009-07-10,b'Swine Flu only kills Fat people'
2009-07-10,"b""'Rude' French are worst tourists"""
2009-07-10,"b""Murdoch (yes, he's the owner of Fox) paid 1m to cover up illegal phone jacking"""
2009-07-10,b'How the Irish Government manipulated the system to make sure the Blasphemy Bill would get through.'
2009-07-10,"b'Canada, #7 on the list of top carbon emitters, refuses to change climate change plan despite fact that it falls short of the new G8 agreement. Canada now takes US\'s old position among ""Bad Boy"" Nations.'"
2009-07-10,"b'Right-wing Jewish group: trying to stop Israeli settlement building in the West Bank is equivalent to ""ethnic cleansing.""'"
2009-07-10,"b'The Manik Farm was meant to house the largest number of the 300,000 mainly Tamil civilians forced to flee as army forces mounted an offensive against the LTTE.  Now that the war is over, the weekly death toll at the Manik Farm averages 1,400.'"
2009-07-10,b'Law will let Afghan husbands starve wives who withhold sex.'
2009-07-10,b'Tehran MD: They have covered up the deaths\r\n'
2009-07-10,"b'The dirty truth about China\'s ethnic minorities: Labeling Uighurs as ""terrorists"" ignores history'"
2009-07-10,b'Air Raid Victim Tells Obama to Leave Afghanistan at Once'
2009-07-10,b'Umberto Eco: Blame the Italians'
2009-07-10,"b'""I do believe that Fundamentalism behaves in the same way across all religions."" -- Roya Hakakian discusses Iran on Fresh Air 7/9/2009 '"
2009-07-10,b'Turkish Prime Minister calls Xinjiang killings genocide'
2009-07-10,b'New Demonstrations in Iran Bring Hundreds to the Streets '
2009-07-10,b'South Korean Web Sites Disrupted in Third Round of Attacks'
2009-07-10,b'China bans Urumqi mosque prayers'
2009-07-10,"b'An angry mob petrol-bombed homes and threw acid over Christian women, after mosque loudspeakers accused the Christians of blasphemy.'"
2009-07-10,"b""Swat Taliban chief 'near death'"""
2009-07-10,b'SKorea says attackers use IP address in 16 nations'
2009-07-10,"b'G8: Britain could cut nuclear stockpile, Gordon Brown says '"
2009-07-10,"b'Report: China quake destroys 10,000 homes'"
2009-07-10,"b'Rape Rampant In Afghanistan; a full one-third of the rapists are government officials who can sexually assault women with impunity. This is, remember, a government that is supported and even lauded by the United States.'"
2009-07-10,"b""Mass people's resistance in Honduras -- In their own words"""
2009-07-09,"b'Australia town bans the sale of bottled water, first community in the world to do so'"
2009-07-09,"b'She is fifteen. He is sixteen. She lures him into an ambush. Prepared by his rival. He is stabbed and beaten with baseball bats. He dies. The girl and the boy trot off, she carrying his hoodie and a bloody purse.'"
2009-07-09,"b""Pictures from those uighar-han riots we've been reading about (graphic)"""
2009-07-09,b'Iran Erupts Again'
2009-07-09,"b""Swiss unions demand six - that's right, six - weeks vacation for all"""
2009-07-09,"b'""Drones kill X amount of people in country Y"" (I see this headlines so often I have become numb to the fact that unmanned machines are killing humans). Its like we are in a 1980\'s sci-fi film or something...'"
2009-07-09,b'Fox News owner under phone hacking investigation - breaking live.'
2009-07-09,b'Censordyne because Internet censorship is FUN. PS Fuck you Kevin Rudd'
2009-07-09,b'Charged with espionage for taking mobile pics in Iran '
2009-07-09,b'An attempt by Hamas police to detain a young woman walking with a man along the Gaza beach has raised alarms that the Islamic militant group is seeking to match its political control of the coastal territory with a strict enforcement of Islamic law.'
2009-07-09,b'BNP leader: sink boats with African migrants on board'
2009-07-09,b'Violent clashes erupt between Iranian protesters and security forces\r\n'
2009-07-09,"b""Russia 'shot down its own planes' """
2009-07-09,b'Iranian dissident blows the whistle on former militia colleagues who committed violent acts against protesters in recent weeks'
2009-07-09,"b'Thousands protest, defy crackdown in Iran -- crowds chant death to the dictator'"
2009-07-09,b'Crowd enjoyed watching a rape attack in public until this decent man stopped it'
2009-07-09,b'3-Year-Old Girl Killed with Acid...'
2009-07-09,b'The Israel Project: Ending Settlements = Ethnic Cleansing'
2009-07-09,"b'Accused of returning to terrorism, former Gitmo detainee a respected Afghan politician'"
2009-07-09,"b'Remember those two US journalists arrested and jailed for ""grave"" crimes in N. Korea? Don\'t worry, not many people do but they\'re still in prison'"
2009-07-09,"b""'Four JDL members trashed Paris bookstore' | Jewish News | Jerusalem Post"""
2009-07-09,b'More Than $600 Billion And Counting: Iraq War Lies Revisited'
2009-07-09,"b""Sink immigrants' boats, says BNP Member of European Parliament."""
2009-07-09,"b""Pirate Bay's anonymous web surfing  service 'Ipredator' set for launch."""
2009-07-09,"b'Tens of thousands of South Korean computers set to ""self-destruct"" on Friday, North Korea suspected.'"
2009-07-08,b'Woman who falsely cried rape jailed for 1 year '
2009-07-08,"b'A man is found guilty of insulting and abusing a muslim woman by calling her a ""terrorist"" and an ""Islamist whore"". During an appeal court hearing, he stabs her 18 times to death. Her husband gets shot while trying to save her and it turns out that she was three months pregnant. '"
2009-07-08,"b""MP uses his parliamentary immunity to break through the secret act: Britain outsources Torture. British Reddits, please read his statement - I can't think of anything more important to do today than read this and then writetothem(.org)"""
2009-07-08,"b""Rupert Murdoch's newspapers try to bury evidence of their phone tapping and hacking of British politicians."""
2009-07-08,"b""A forest of steel pillars was unveiled in London's Hyde Park today honouring the victims of the July 7th, 2005 attacks on the city's transit system."""
2009-07-08,b'G8 - India is willing to discuss proposals to replace the US dollar as the global reserve currency'
2009-07-08,"b'Rape a ""huge problem"" in Afghanistan, U.N. says. Families will often resort to the traditional and religious practices of ""baad"" and ""zina"" to save face, either by insisting the victim marry the rapist or prosecuting her for sexual relations outside of marriage.'"
2009-07-08,"b'A 31-year old, headscarf-wearing Egyptian Muslim woman, Marwa Al-Sherbini, who was about four months pregnant, takes her German neighbor to court for calling her a terrorist. Now, in the courtroom, the neighbor, Alex W., stabs her 18 times right in front of her 3-year old son.'"
2009-07-08,b'Catholic priest pleads guilty to 29 sex offences '
2009-07-08,"b'Iranians arrested during election protests are being subjected to harsh interrogations, beatings, sleep deprivation, and threats of torture to extract false confessions stating that they were supported by foreign powers and aimed at overthrowing the government: HRW'"
2009-07-08,"b'Israeli Housing Minister: Jews, Arabs should not live together.  Arabs ""buy apartments in places with a Jewish nature, which causes unwanted friction.""  He also complained about ""the expansion of [the Arab] population that doesn\'t love the state of Israel.""'"
2009-07-08,b'Police give anti-social behaviour warning to two-year-old - Telegraph'
2009-07-08,"b""Afghanistan's only pig escapes"""
2009-07-08,"b'""They are basically importing cheap labour, for cooking, cleaning and driving cabs, in the guise of education."" Costly lesson for Indians in Australia.'"
2009-07-08,"b'Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the Iran\'s supreme leader, has taken control of the militia being used to crush the protest movement, according to a senior Iranian source. ""This game has not finished. The game has only just started.""'"
2009-07-08,b'South Korea says the major websites including government agencies and banks have been paralyzed due to a suspected cyber attack.'
2009-07-08,"b""BNP advocates sinking illegal immigrant's boats at sea"""
2009-07-08,b'Revealed  the secret torture evidence MI5 tried to suppress'
2009-07-08,"b'Honduras: Teachers and workers are on strike since Monday for an unlimited period of time, condemn the military coup, reject the de-facto government'"
2009-07-08,b'North Korea attacks! (US Treasury department and Secret Service web sites.)'
2009-07-08,"b'As Iraq Stabilizes, China Bids on Its Oil Fields'"
2009-07-08,b'A Letter from an Israeli jail'
2009-07-08,b'Homeschooled Inuit Ready to Graduate from US College at 16'
2009-07-08,b'Tories give $400K to Toronto Gay Pride Parade; Harper not gay about it.'
2009-07-08,"b'Hey Reddit: Want to better understand the recent violence in China\'s Xinjiang region?  Here\'s Human Rights Watch\'s report on ""the complex architecture of law, regulation, and policy in Xinjiang that denies Uighurs religious freedom, and by extension freedom of association, assembly, and expression.""'"
2009-07-07,"b""My friend in Honduras just sent me an email with videos and pictures of the military firing on peaceful protesters. I uploaded his eyewitness account for everyone to see. Please don't let this disappear, because no one else is reporting it."""
2009-07-07,b'Watch this: Israeli TV Footage of Settlers Attacking \r\nPeace Now Activists and TV Crew'
2009-07-07,b'Iran: 34 people hanged in less than a week'
2009-07-07,b'Girls: He Tricked Us Into Sex With Tarot Card'
2009-07-07,"b'Iranian Reformists Planning Strike: ""Please let them know that if they are watching, fewer of us will be killed. It is when America stops paying attention that the regime loses all restraint.""'"
2009-07-07,"b'Mir Hossein Moussavi, Mehdi Karroubi & Mohammad Khatami joint statement'"
2009-07-07,"b'Iranian opposition leaders have criticized what they describe as the ""security state"".  They are asking for all those arrested to be released.'"
2009-07-07,b'Official: Internet cut in Xinjiang to prevent riot from spreading'
2009-07-07,b'Her name is Hiyam. Remember her! A Gaza teenager killed by Israelis as she offered aid.'
2009-07-07,"b'Israeli Supreme Court extends restrictions on nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu for another 6 months. Vanunu is prohibited from leaving the country, speaking with foreigners, or approaching foreign embassies.'"
2009-07-07,b'UK weapons inspector David Kelly was writing a book exposing highly damaging government secrets before his mysterious death'
2009-07-07,"b'Han Chinese, backed by police, now retaliating against Uighur protests and violence in Chinese northwest. This could get very ugly very fast.'"
2009-07-07,b'G20 police authorised to use force minutes before \r\nIan Tomlinson died'
2009-07-07,b'RICO Violations Leveled Against Blackwater Over Baghdad Massacre'
2009-07-07,b'Han Chinese protesters seek Muslim Uighur targets '
2009-07-07,b'UN experts gravely concerned\nby mass arrests in Iran'
2009-07-07,"b'Robert McNamara, Vietnam war engineer who that sent thousands of young people to their utterly pointless deaths'"
2009-07-07,"b'China arrests 1,434 after deadly Xinjiang riots'"
2009-07-07,b'A curfew has been imposed on the city of Urumqi in western China for a second night after ethnic riots on Sunday which left 156 people dead.'
2009-07-07,b'Pakistan: Taliban buying children for suicide attacks'
2009-07-07,b'Nico Pitney: Iran Uprising Blogging (Tuesday July 7)'
2009-07-07,"b'Ahmadinejad: ""Iran election was world\'s freest."" ok, sure. if Khomenei\'s sock puppet says so, it must be true...'"
2009-07-07,b'Man blows himself up while fishing with dynamite'
2009-07-07,"b""Polar bear expert barred by global warmists - Mitchell Taylor, who has studied the animals for 30 years, was told his views 'are extremely unhelpful"""
2009-07-07,"b""Gaza conflict: Residents' Views on Hamas' Standing \r\nAfter the Israeli Incursion Last January"""
2009-07-06,b'Uganda to outlaw female circumcision '
2009-07-06,"b'BREAKING NEWS: 129 killed in Muslim riots in western China, state media report'"
2009-07-06,"b""Iran's Revolutionary Guard takes command (and ownership of the country)"""
2009-07-06,"b""Weapons inspector who died of 'suicide' in '03 was writing expose on Iraq's lack of WMD's """
2009-07-06,"b""At least 140 people killed in Uighur-Han riots in Western China's Xinjiang region"""
2009-07-06,b'How to stop basiji bikers'
2009-07-06,b'China riots: worst outbreak of ethnic violence in 33 years'
2009-07-06,b'Israeli settlers attack peace activists and a news crew'
2009-07-06,"b'As Marwa wrapped up her statement to the court, the accused man lunged at her with a knife he had brought with him. In front of her child, Marwa was stabbed eighteen times in less than 30 seconds.'"
2009-07-06,b'Israeli Minister calls for Jewish takeover of Palestinian areas in Israel  '
2009-07-06,b'Think White Supremacy and Racism is Dead?  Think Again.  '
2009-07-06,b'Deadly Clashes in Honduras as Ex-Presidents Return Blocked '
2009-07-06,"b'It\'s Been a Bad Week for Israel - ""Israel no longer \r\nenjoys its traditional \'immunity\' from criticism""'"
2009-07-06,b'Ethnic Rioting In China - Twitter Blocked | Techgeist'
2009-07-06,"b""Afghanistan's only pig released from quarantine"""
2009-07-06,b'Programmer Steals Software That Runs Goldman Sachs Automated Trading Systems'
2009-07-06,"b""I know the translation is horrible, but the gist of it is this: on July 4, the government of Iran changed their statement, saying that the BBC and CNN faked Neda's death, and that no one actually died."""
2009-07-06,"b'Boeing 757 breaks down? No problem, find a passenger who can fix it.'"
2009-07-06,b'Iran to prosecute satellite TV contributors'
2009-07-06,"b'McKinney released, returning to United States'"
2009-07-06,"b'Honduras: Riot police fire live rounds at protesters. 10-year-old boy killed. ""Honduran emergency services confirmed that a child had been killed and a Red Cross spokesman said it was treating about 30 people for injuries.""'"
2009-07-06,"b""Christian MP got taxpayers to pay for 68 hotel 'pay-to-view movies' """
2009-07-06,b'140 killed in China riots  - [Video]'
2009-07-06,"b""Britain's most popular zoo was evacuated on Sunday after 30 chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure."""
2009-07-06,"b""Hondurans pour into the streets -- `We are more determined than ever to overthrow this terrible coup'"""
2009-07-05,"b'Whats been happening in Iran since everyone stopped paying attention?  A first hand account, Vice Magazine style.'"
2009-07-05,"b'Cynthia McKinney Refuses Israel\'s Offer of Release - ""McKinney refused the offer because she would have been required to sign an admission of guilt that she violated Israel\'s blockade.""'"
2009-07-05,"b'iranian protesters beating up the police, july 3rd'"
2009-07-05,b'Canadian gas pipeline hit by 6th bomb '
2009-07-05,b'New cyber sword coming to the help of Iranians'
2009-07-05,"b'Honduras\'s new de facto chancellor: ""Obama is a little black man who knows nothing.""'"
2009-07-05,b'Ukraine Outlaws Possession of Porn: But Medical Purposes OK'
2009-07-05,b'Smokers may have to cough up $20 for a pack of cigarettes'
2009-07-05,"b'German officials move to ban flat-rate bordellos. Also, German news is hilarious.'"
2009-07-05,b'Israel is hijacking the voice of Jewish people'
2009-07-05,"b'Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country on the planet, UK comes in at 74 and the US at 114 out of 143 countries'"
2009-07-05,b'Leading Clerics Defy Ayatollah on Disputed Iran Election'
2009-07-05,"b'Jordanian police Sunday arrested 11 people, including trade union leaders, to break up a demonstration against fruit and vegetable imports from Israel, protest organizers said.'"
2009-07-05,b'Ahmadinejad says he wants public talks with Obama '
2009-07-05,b'Iran clerics defy election ruling'
2009-07-05,"b""You Tube, Twitter, and Blog: Israel, Like Iran, Can't Control How the World Sees Inside It"""
2009-07-05,b'The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam (NSFW)'
2009-07-05,"b'Syria mends US, Arab ties as ally Iran in turmoil'"
2009-07-05,b'Clerical Group Defies Leader on Disputed Iran Election \r\n'
2009-07-05,"b'When Americans do it, it\'s ""enhanced interrogation""; when Iranians do it, it\'s ""torture"".'"
2009-07-05,b'Philippines church bomb blast kills five'
2009-07-05,b'Obama seeks thaw in US-Russia ties'
2009-07-05,"b'En vivo lo que sucede en #Honduras. Live, the military coup is firing upon the Honduran people awaiting the arrival of President Zelaya.'"
2009-07-05,"b'""Right to food"" law in India proposed '"
2009-07-05,"b'Zionists are furious, Canadians are allowed to watch Al Jazeera, Fox News biggest loser '"
2009-07-04,"b'Hey Reddit, I have a 1947 world altas. I wonder if it can teach us anything about peace in the Middle East? [pic]'"
2009-07-04,"b""Israel has taken everything away from the Palestinians, now in a new PR move they're claiming the White House is being unfair asking them to end settlement expansion claiming the Palestinians are not making any concessions, what concessions could they possibly make?"""
2009-07-04,b'North Korea Launches 7 Missiles Off Its East Coast'
2009-07-04,"b'Operation Ore may have left a scar on British justice: Scores of the men caught may not be paedophiles, but victims of identity theft'"
2009-07-04,"b""Armed Israeli 'settlers' take over Mosque in Hebron for 'half hour of Jewish prayers'. The IDF (most moral army in the world) fearing for the safety of these armed thugs stood by in guard."""
2009-07-04,"b'Witness: Overwhelmed Iranian hopsital staff, Iranian police confiscating bodies in trucks'"
2009-07-04,b'McKinney refuses to sign document to win release'
2009-07-04,b'This is Cynthia McKinney and Im speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle '
2009-07-04,b'IRAN- Protests in Kashan University '
2009-07-04,b'Help Protesters in Iran: Run a TOR Bridge or a TOR Relay!'
2009-07-04,b'Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S.'
2009-07-04,b'US-backed Colombian soldiers execute innocent for cash'
2009-07-04,b'NKorea fires 3 missiles off east coast'
2009-07-04,"b'""We did it in Saddam\'s palace and I can think of nothing better. That S.O.B. is rolling over in his grave right now,"" Biden said of the former Iraqi dictator during a naturalization ceremony for U.S. troops in Iraq. '"
2009-07-04,b'AIPAC propagandist Dennis Ross moves over to the National Security Council'
2009-07-04,b'G8 Protest Turns Violent'
2009-07-04,"b'Iran election ""crisis"": Much ado about nothing?'"
2009-07-04,b'Russia to allow US arms shipments to Afghanistan'
2009-07-04,b'EU resolve hardens as British workers face Iran show trial after the regime said that they had admitted conspiring against the Islamic Republic'
2009-07-04,b'Yup - Bahrain did make a state visit to Israel '
2009-07-04,b'Interview with Adie Mormech of Free Gaza from \r\nIsrael Prison'
2009-07-04,b'Iran hangs 20 drug traffickers in one day - IRNA | Herald Sun'
2009-07-04,"b""Jordan's identity crisis \r\nAn important article was published in Al Quds this week, reprinted from Al Jazeera, that uncovers the problems that Jordan has with its Palestinian Arab population that rarely gets any Western coverage. Here is my translation:\r\n \r\n"""
2009-07-04,"b""Welcome to an inhuman country. Church, intellectuals and human rights organizations against the racist security decree in Italy, but Berlusconi government doesn't care"""
2009-07-04,b'African leaders denounce International Criminal Court'
2009-07-03,"b'Corpses for cash: US-backed soldiers in Colombia are killing innocent people, dressing them up as FARC rebels, and collecting cash rewards.'"
2009-07-03,"b""Six people were hanged in Tehran's Evin prison today (July 1st) - Iran Human Rights"""
2009-07-03,b'The EU decided today to summon all Iranian ambassadors in capitals across Europe in a co-ordinated protest over the detention of UK embassy staff.'
2009-07-03,b'Iran Hangs Protesters'
2009-07-03,"b""Iran's 'informant' hotline revealed"""
2009-07-03,"b""IRAN: Ten days of anguish, abuse inside Tehran's prison archipelago"""
2009-07-03,b'Amnesty: Israel Used Children as Human Shields in Gaza-- Amnesty accused Israeli forces of using children as human shields and conducting wanton attacks on civilians. '
2009-07-03,b'Red Cross Report on Israeli Action in Gaza Should NOT be Forgotten!'
2009-07-03,b'Giant Naked Goddess to be Carved in Hillside'
2009-07-03,"b""Iran regime has become a 'naked dictatorship'"""
2009-07-03,b'Six people were executed in Qom. 29 people scheduled to be executed in Tehran. - Iran Human Rights (July 3)'
2009-07-03,b'new movement from iranians to boycott nokia'
2009-07-03,b'British embassy staff in Iran to go on trial for election protests.'
2009-07-03,b'Torture In Iran'
2009-07-03,"b""Video interviews with two Palestinians who have won international scholarships, but aren't allowed by Israel to accept them."""
2009-07-03,"b'""We were on our way home from a funeral when he was pulled out of the car and arrested."" Iran'"
2009-07-03,b'Missile experts see Soviet parts in NKorean rocket'
2009-07-03,b'Why Iraq is Now the Most Corrupt Country on the Planet '
2009-07-03,b'Iran Cleric Says British Embassy Staff to Stand Trial'
2009-07-03,b'17 die in US missile strike in Pakistan '
2009-07-03,b'Saddam Hussein Clears Things Up To The FBI '
2009-07-03,b'Iranian blogger who claimed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has Jewish roots is being detained by Iranian authorities'
2009-07-03,b'Defense Department Releases Previously Secret Torture Documents'
2009-07-03,b'Iraq: Sanaas cry for her missing husband '
2009-07-03,b'Aid workers in Darfur are in impossible situation'
2009-07-02,"b""Scientology's Viral Marketing"""
2009-07-02,"b'In China, Web Users Made a Stand for Freedom of Expression, and Won -- Web Filter Launch Postponed, No New Deadline'"
2009-07-02,b'Survivors of torture joined human rights activists in the streets of Washington DC to demand prosecution of those involved in planning and implementing U.S. torture policies'
2009-07-02,"b""Saddam Hussein's FBI Interviews Revealed"""
2009-07-02,b'Amnesty accuses Israel of using human shields in Gaza'
2009-07-02,b'ACLU: Obama Admin. Relying On Tortured Confession In Habeas Case'
2009-07-02,b'UN expert says Israeli seizure of aid ship a crime'
2009-07-02,b'The US media and govt are GETTING IT WRONG AGAIN. The people of Honduras are desperately trying to hold on to their democracy. **PLEASE** read this letter from an American humanitarian who has lived in Honduras for 30 years.'
2009-07-02,b'North Korea test fires two missiles. Test chaos ensues.'
2009-07-02,"b""UK Government bans former anti-terror chief's tell-all book"""
2009-07-02,"b'The Great American Bubble Machine by The Rolling \r\nStone Magazine - Something, that every person on \r\nthis planet should read. [via SA-Forum (!)]'"
2009-07-02,b'Honduras Coup Leaders Suspend Constitutional Guarantees'
2009-07-02,b'Civil War is unfolding in Niger'
2009-07-02,"b""Operation Ore, Britain's biggest internet paedophile operation, may be investigated for miscarriages of justice"""
2009-07-02,"b""Carradine's death 'not suicide'"""
2009-07-02,"b""FBI says Saddam's weapons bluff aimed at Iran"""
2009-07-02,"b""FBI says Saddam's weapons bluff aimed at Iran\n| Saddam told FBI he faked WMDs to bluff Iran\n| Reuters"""
2009-07-02,"b""US opens 'major Afghan offensive'"""
2009-07-02,"b""Croatia's Prime Minister resigns without any explanation 19 months after winning his second election"""
2009-07-02,b'Italians plan to gather in Vicenza to take nonviolent action aimed at freeing Italy from U.S. occupation and opposing the proposed construction of an enormous new U.S. military base'
2009-07-02,"b'Crisis in Honduras, June-July 2009: Coup if it is rightist, revolution if it is leftist'"
2009-07-02,b'Israeli troops seize aid ship'
2009-07-02,"b""Why President Zelaya's Actions in Honduras Were Legal and Constitutional"""
2009-07-02,"b""Israel 'wantonly destroyed Gaza'"""
2009-07-02,"b""Honduras' Coup Congress Erases Five Basic Liberties"""
2009-07-01,b'Happy Canada Day!'
2009-07-01,"b""Israel's naval blockade devastating key Gazan \r\nindustry and source of food: fishing. Oslo accord \r\nlimit was 20 nautical miles - Israel unilaterally \r\nreduced to 3 nautical miles"""
2009-07-01,"b""Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion"""
2009-07-01,"b'Now police say the man who died at April\'s G20 demonstrations in London may have been assaulted by a ""police impersonator""'"
2009-07-01,b'Here we go again:  Israel planning to expropriate another 2% of West Bank land '
2009-07-01,b'The new owners of The Pirate Bay say users will be paid for sharing files.'
2009-07-01,"b""Iran's Mousavi says new government illegitimate"""
2009-07-01,b'Six Mousavi supporters reportedly hanged in Iran'
2009-07-01,"b""China's Marlboro Country: The strange, underground world of Chinese counterfeit cigarettes."""
2009-07-01,b'North Korea vs. USS John McCain.  North Korea blinks. '
2009-07-01,"b""ID cards 'will never be compulsory' for Britons. Yay!"""
2009-07-01,b'Italian People: Not another US base on our soil!  A local referendum voted 95 percent against the base.  A leader of the opposition to the base has been elected to the local government.  An Italian prime minister has been temporarily thrown out of power.  '
2009-07-01,"b""What's next for Iceland?"""
2009-07-01,"b""Croatia's PM Sanader steps down """
2009-07-01,"b'""Goldman Sachs: \'Engineering Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression\'"" - Rolling Stone'"
2009-07-01,b'Israeli navy takes control of activist ship to Gaza'
2009-07-01,b'No cure for the human condition ... suicide rates are up in the one country where the happiness of people is the cornerstone of the government policy.'
2009-07-01,b'Al-Qaeda threatens France with revenge over burka stance'
2009-07-01,b'Darkness over Iran. Censorship strangle the iranian web but in the world the attention is still high'
2009-07-01,"b'Naomi Klein: Oppose the state of Israel, not the \r\npeople'"
2009-07-01,"b""Two boys, ages 5 and 6, are caught in SNAFU in \r\nGaza because Israel won't allow them to go to \r\nJerusalem to renew their U.S. passports - \r\nNaturally, Israel blames Hamas"""
2009-07-01,"b'A garden party in east Beijing billed as a protest against Green Dam, a controversial web filtering software, turned into a celebration after the programme was postponed'"
2009-07-01,b'Airbus Again: Teenage girl sole survivor of Comoros jet crash with 153 aboard'
2009-07-01,b'Sentencing will take place this week in the first federal cyber bullying case in the US which was brought to trial after a teenage girl took her own life.'
2009-07-01,"b'In the wake of yesterdays crash of Yemenia Flight IY626, European Union Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani is urging for an expansion of the EUs aviation blacklist.'"
2009-06-30,b'Iraq currently holding giant GTFO party'
2009-06-30,b'Yemeni airliner crashes in Indian Ocean - 150 people reportedly on board; fate unknown'
2009-06-30,"b'BREAKING - Israel attacks Gaza Freedom Boat, kidnaps human rights workers, steals medicines and toys.'"
2009-06-30,"b'Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. '"
2009-06-30,"b'Israel to steal the largest section of Palestinian land since 1967 (nearly 34,345 acres, includes Dead Sea beachside tourist area) '"
2009-06-30,"b'100,000 Hondurans strike: ""We don\'t recognize this new government imposed by the oligarchy""'"
2009-06-30,b'Report: Israeli Drones Killed 29 Civilians in Gaza War'
2009-06-30,b'URGENT ALERT - Israeli Navy surrounding Free \r\nGaza ship and threatening to open fire'
2009-06-30,"b""Shell has *perpetrated* a 'human rights tragedy' in the Niger Delta"""
2009-06-30,b'Business as usual: Peru approves massive oil project just days after Amazons Tiananmen'
2009-06-30,b'Jewish Americans surprised they were beaten up in Israel by law abiding god fearing typical Israelis'
2009-06-30,"b""Canadian Mint 'loses' $15 million in Gold - not an accounting error...."""
2009-06-30,b'Cynthia McKinney Reportedly Taken Captive By Israeli Navy'
2009-06-30,b'EPA Comes Clean with List of 44 Coal Ash Facilities'
2009-06-30,"b'The Complicated Case of Honduras, a detailed post explaining the current situation in Honduras, unbiased.'"
2009-06-30,"b'ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS; CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES'"
2009-06-30,b'Israeli settlers attack two Nablus villages'
2009-06-30,"b""U.K. court: Jewish school's entry policy is racist"""
2009-06-30,b'Israel along with friends like these the US is screwed big time'
2009-06-30,"b'The Honduran military is effectively a subsidiary of the United States government. Honduras, as a whole, if any Latin American country is fully owned by the United States, its Honduras.'"
2009-06-30,"b'Over the course of several days in April last year, the boy says he was moved from an army camp to a prison, where he was crammed into a cell with five other children, cursed at and humiliated by the guards and beaten by his interrogator until he confessed to stone-throwing.'"
2009-06-30,"b'Honduras: ""Protests outside the presidential palace grew from hundreds to thousands""'"
2009-06-30,b'Australia broadcaster apologizes to an Israel lobby group for Israel report that is 90% correct'
2009-06-30,b'Free Gaza ship sets sail from Larnaca'
2009-06-30,b'Former CIA officer charged in Algiers rape'
2009-06-29,b'I am from Honduras: It was NOT a COUP!'
2009-06-29,"b""Israel: Privately run checkpoint stops Palestinians with 'too much food' """
2009-06-29,"b'Israel tries to pull one on Obama: Plans to build 1,450 houses in settlement as compensation for evacuating 50 houses.'"
2009-06-29,b'India to repeal 150 year old law against homosexuality'
2009-06-29,"b'They are still crying ""Allah akbar"" in Tehran every night. There were more clashes on the street yesterday after police beat an elderly woman. This crisis is far from over.'"
2009-06-29,"b'Honduran ""coup"" not a coup at all.  Any President who proposes to change their constitution to allow for another term ""will immediately cease carrying out their positions"".'"
2009-06-29,b'Red Cross: Israel trapping 1.5m Gazans in despair'
2009-06-29,b'US Air Force Test Fires ICBM Off California Coast -- Possible Warning To North Korea '
2009-06-29,b'Bernard Madoff has been given a prison sentence of 150 years for masterminding a massive fraud that robbed investors of $65bn (40bn).'
2009-06-29,b'Chavez threatens to invade as Honduran army stages coup'
2009-06-29,"b""The military coup that took place in Honduras this morning (Sunday, June 28), was led by School of the Americas graduate Romeo Vasquez.  Obama's statement fell short of calling for the reinstatement of Zelaya as the legitimate president.  Do you still think the CIA was not involved?"""
2009-06-29,"b'Red Cross: Six months after Israel launched its three-week attack on Gaza, Gazans still cannot rebuild their lives'"
2009-06-29,b'Israel approves 50 settler homes on the West Bank'
2009-06-29,b'Bolivia Condemns Honduran Coup'
2009-06-29,"b""Honduras' Opinion Poll on changing the constitution exposes the timing and the motive for the coup."""
2009-06-29,b'Iran Council confirms Ahmadinejad election victory'
2009-06-29,b'Drug-resistant swine flu seen in Danish patient '
2009-06-29,"b'New Honduran ""president"" sworn in'"
2009-06-29,b'Afghan leader: U.S. guards killed police chief'
2009-06-29,"b""Ahmadinejad: Neda's death is 'suspicious'"""
2009-06-29,b'A provincial police chief and at least six other police have been killed in a clash with US-trained Afghan guards in Kandahar'
2009-06-29,b'Fireworks in Baghdad as U.S. troops leave- msnbc.com'
2009-06-29,b'Israel plans three-month settlement freeze - reports'
2009-06-29,b'NASA finds missing Moon landing tapes.'
2009-06-29,b'A former civil servant who wrote an internet blog imagining the kidnap and murder of the pop group Girls Aloud has been cleared of obscenity.'
2009-06-28,"b'In Tehran, a Mood of Melancholy Descends: People are depressed, and they feel they have been lied to, robbed of their rights and now are being insulted. It is not just a lie; its a huge one. And it doesnt end.'"
2009-06-28,"b'""While most of the world\'s attention is focused on thebeatings in the streets of Iran during the day, the Basijis are carrying outbrutal raids on people\'s apartments during the night,""'"
2009-06-28,b'Israel adopts Iranian tactics - peace activists brutally beaten by the army while extremist right wing militia burns Palestinian fields.'
2009-06-28,b'Ayatollah Rafsanjani is plotting to undermine the power of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei; seeks constitutional change that would replace Khamenei as the supreme leader with a small committee of senior ayatollahs'
2009-06-28,b'Iran detains British embassy staff'
2009-06-28,"b'One of the wounded commented: ""If the Taliban are bombing the mosques and America is bombing the funerals, what is the difference between them? We are stuck between Taliban and US attacks and when we are killed, not only no one cries for us, but also we are dubbed militants.""'"
2009-06-28,b'Iranian Leaders telling the public that the CIA killed Neda'
2009-06-28,b'Arrest of entire Iranian newspaper staff condemned'
2009-06-28,b'Robert Baer said on CNN that the IRG has effectively staged a coup in Iran. Here he discusses the Iranian situation at length.'
2009-06-28,"b' ""We are scared and depressed. You can see the depression on the faces of the people. But there are jokes doing the rounds too. That\'s how we have borne the last thirty years - by laughing at the mullahs. '"
2009-06-28,b'Iranian protesters avoid censorship with Navy technology'
2009-06-28,b'Troops arrest Honduran president'
2009-06-28,b'UK embassy staff arrested in Iran'
2009-06-28,b'Why did the world forget Neda to remember Jacko?'
2009-06-28,b'Ahmadinejad regime plots purge after Iran election protests: Supporters of Mousavi fear that he could become another Aung San Suu Kyi'
2009-06-28,"b'Jailed Iranian reformists have been tortured in an attempt to force them into TV ""confessions"" of a foreign-led plot against the Islamic regime.'"
2009-06-28,"b'Neda Agha-Soltan was denied mourning rites by Iranian authorities desperate to stifle the anger at her killing. Due to the internet, they failed!'"
2009-06-28,b'Level-headed article on the coup in Honduras'
2009-06-28,b'Parents separated from baby after transfer to US hospital because they lack passports'
2009-06-28,b'The death penalty: a case for its prohibition around the world'
2009-06-28,"b'Military Coup in Honduras, Soldiers arrest Honduran president'"
2009-06-28,b'Coup underway in Honduras - The military have arrested President Jose Manuel Zelaya'
2009-06-28,"b""Iran 'must free UK embassy staff'"""
2009-06-28,b'Now they want democracy in Myanmar!'
2009-06-28,"b""Iran 'arrests UK embassy staff'"""
2009-06-27,b'Venezuela banned Coke Zero with aspartame and acesulfame K; Letter to President Hugo Chavez\n'
2009-06-27,"b""N.Korean Cargo Ship 'Approaching Moment of Truth'"""
2009-06-27,b'How can a revolution kill its children?'
2009-06-27,"b'Protests in Iran may not be working, but protests in Peru did; logging and damning in Amazon rain forest will be avoided.'"
2009-06-27,"b""ID cards planned for India's 1.1 billion"""
2009-06-27,"b'Ethnic clash in Chinese factory kills 2, hurts 118'"
2009-06-27,b'Red Crystal to Replace Red Cross and Red Crescent'
2009-06-27,"b"" Iran militia raids 'target homes'"""
2009-06-27,b'Saad Hariri named Lebanese prime minister'
2009-06-27,b'Author Naomi Klein calls for boycott of Israel'
2009-06-27,b'Syria threatens to take back Golan by force'
2009-06-27,"b'How are potentially lethal Molotov cocktails that different from rocket attacks? Can the Palestinians destroy the homes of the settlers responsible for this, just as the Israelis bulldoze Palestinian homes?'"
2009-06-27,"b'Palestinian Violence Overstated, Israeli Violence Understated'"
2009-06-27,"b'Norwegian girl hit by truck, then car, then dragged 4 km under car  lives'"
2009-06-27,b'German court upholds ban on words with Nazi link'
2009-06-27,b'Workers groups in Iran appreciate international solidarity day'
2009-06-27,"b'""Nazis"" disperse ultra-orthodox Jews protesting car park'"
2009-06-27,b'Dozens of journalists jailed in Iran'
2009-06-27,"b""Iran's Guardian Council to set up special commission for election report"""
2009-06-27,"b'For years prior to the June 2009 protests, Iran had already been undergoing a quiet but rapidly growing sexual revolution where young people, women, and gays have been speaking back to the regime with their bodies, behaviors and dress.\n\n'"
2009-06-27,b'North Korea threatens to shoot down Japanese surveillance planes  '
2009-06-27,b'Karim Sadjadpour: The crowds have gone but \r\nTehran has changed forever'
2009-06-27,b'Mousavi rejects Iran vote recount proposal'
2009-06-27,"b'Zimbabwes Diamond Fields Enrich Ruling Party, Report Says '"
2009-06-27,b'Ayatollah: Rioters are enemies of God'
2009-06-26,"b'Screw You, Ahmadinejad! [pic]'"
2009-06-26,b'Iranian cleric says rioters should be executed'
2009-06-26,"b'New Iran video, protester shot in the head at Baharstan Square.'"
2009-06-26,b'An Australian in North Korea - an unexpected perspective on the rogue state'
2009-06-26,"b""Everyone's scared. There are stories going around of people arrested just because they were emailing people outside the country about what's happening in Iran, and they frighten people."""
2009-06-26,"b'Iranian cleric says ""rioters"" should be executed to teach a lesson to the thousands who have protested'"
2009-06-26,"b""Working in Dubai, one man's story of the ugliness and treachery behind the P.R. mask"""
2009-06-26,"b'Representatives from 80 countries have gathered in Berlin to discuss progress of treaty banning cluster bombs. U.S., Israel, Russia, and China are not in attendance. '"
2009-06-26,"b""Iran doctor tells of Neda's death"""
2009-06-26,b'United Nations Urged to Help Rendition Victim Kidnapped by the CIA in Italy and Tortured in Morroco '
2009-06-26,"b'Christopher - Hitchens. No pleasing Mullahs, so why \r\neven try?'"
2009-06-26,b'Alcohol blamed for millions of Russian deaths '
2009-06-26,b'China argues to replace US dollar'
2009-06-26,"b'""Butcher Of The Press"" To Probe Iran Protesters - Iran\'s ruling regime has put the country\'s most feared, hard-line prosecutor in charge of interrogating arrested protesters and journalists.'"
2009-06-26,b'The Persian Lioness: Iranian Women in History'
2009-06-26,"b""AEG live is out of pocket to the tune of 300 million as they self insured all 50 of Michael Jackson's UK concerts."""
2009-06-26,"b'Jailed Iranian reformists tortured to force them into TV ""confessions"" of a foreign-led plot against the Islamic regime, and aimed at implicating Mousavi'"
2009-06-26,b'Japan Could Be Offered $290 Million F-22'
2009-06-26,b'Jewish groups and representatives of 49 countries are gathering in Prague for talks on returning art and possessions stolen by the Nazis.'
2009-06-26,b'Copyfraud: Poisoning the public domain-- How web giants are stealing the future of knowledge (from all of humanity)'
2009-06-26,"b""Awaiting an End to Injustice: Rendition Victim's Wife Speaks About Accountability and Torture (by Nahal Zamani)"""
2009-06-26,b'Honduran leader defies top court'
2009-06-26,"b'June 24th footage of the Baharestan protests that left many Mousavi supporters dead (Tehran, Iran)'"
2009-06-26,b'Ireland grants rights to same-sex partnerships'
2009-06-26,"b""In order to fight a movement powered by blogs & Twitter, Iranian gov't offers Lord of the Rings marathon to keep protesters at home"""
2009-06-25,b'Unimaginable Horror In Tehran Today'
2009-06-25,"b""The mass protests in Iran would not be allowed in the US either. And they weren't allowed in the US under Bush-Cheney."""
2009-06-25,b'Waterboarding used on marijuana suspects in London'
2009-06-25,b'IRAN: In Baharestan we saw militia with axe choping people like meat - blood everywhere - like butcher (Pic at bottom is VERY GRAPHIC)'
2009-06-25,b'Hamas accepts 2 state solution'
2009-06-25,"b'Women in Malmo, Sweden win right to go to the pool topless. Anyone else love sweden?'"
2009-06-25,"b""Jewish settlers 'want all of Jerusalem'"""
2009-06-25,"b""N. Korea warns of 'dark clouds of nuclear war'"""
2009-06-25,b'The last uncontacted tribe on Earth'
2009-06-25,b'Canadian bill allow authorities to access personal information of ISP subscribers without a warrant'
2009-06-25,"b""Pensioners kidnapped and tortured a financial advisor because he lost 2million of their savings. The angry pensioners, aged between 60 and 79, had apparently invested 2.4m euros (2m) in Mr Amburn's company, which he used to buy property in Florida."""
2009-06-25,"b'Bowing to pressure from Washington, Israel granted U.S.-trained Palestinian security forces greater autonomy in four major West Bank cities'"
2009-06-25,"b'""He decided it was time to start running when the police were coming. He turned back and saw some women still standing, These women are not afraid.""'"
2009-06-25,b'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'
2009-06-25,b'Reddit - 150 civilians have died in suicide attacks Iraq in the last week. One-hundred and fifty. Why does it seem that nobody in the media really cares?'
2009-06-25,b'More people getting shot in the streets today :('
2009-06-25,"b""United Nations praised drug decriminalization in its annual report on the state of global drug policy, especially Portugal's radical drug policy in 2001"""
2009-06-25,"b'Perfect example of political projection: Israel\'s JPost, cheering supporters of Gaza killings, condemns world for not intervening in Iran- ""while brave men and women fought a hopeless battle against the brutal repression of the security forces...no one lifted a finger to help them""'"
2009-06-25,"b'British government warns of cyber-warfare attacks by Al Qaida, China and Russia - guess we can kiss our internet freedoms like real life ones goodbye'"
2009-06-25,b'Free Gaza ship sets sail today [Thursday] to break \r\nthe Israeli siege and deliver tons of cement. \r\nPassengers include Cynthia McKinney who was also \r\nonboard the Dignity which was rammed by the \r\nIsraeli navy.'
2009-06-25,"b""Forgive my naivete, but we thought Iraq had WMD and invaded them and N. Korea is pretty much saying they have them and they will start a war with them, why don't we invade N. Korea then?"""
2009-06-25,b'11 bodies found inside abandoned car in Mexico'
2009-06-25,"b'""You have urinated on my jacket!"" - A Monkey urinates on Zambian leader'"
2009-06-25,"b'Al-Qaeda planning cyber war against Britain, warns Lord West'"
2009-06-25,"b""Best summary of the financial crisis that I've seen"""
2009-06-24,b'Iranian footballers who wore green armbands to support protesters forced to retire by hardline regime'
2009-06-24,"b'Iranian Clerics Defy Ayatollah, Take to the Streets to Join the Protests'"
2009-06-24,"b""Iranian football stars 'retired' after match protest"""
2009-06-24,b'North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days.'
2009-06-24,"b'Protesters beaten and shot as 10,000 police launch brutal crackdown in Iran'"
2009-06-24,"b'Remember the ""OMG! Fraud in Iran"" graph that circulated? Well it was propaganda, as the same trend can be found within real time US Election data.'"
2009-06-24,b'The original purpose of the Iraq War finally coming to fruition:  Big oil back in Iraq'
2009-06-24,b'A 17-year-old tells the story of his torture in Iran -- with photos'
2009-06-24,b'Riot in China this week overshadowed in media by Iran (scroll down for pics/vid of police clash)'
2009-06-24,"b'It seems to me that if your government is shooting and beating you, you no longer need to worry about your protests being ""peaceful""'"
2009-06-24,"b'Drug use should be treated more as an illness than a crime, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime said as he claimed a decline in the production of cocaine and heroin worldwide.'"
2009-06-24,"b""Witnesses report clashes around Iran's parliament, many shouting 'Death to the Dictator!'"""
2009-06-24,"b'Overnight, Palestinians Livelihood Destroyed by Israeli Settlers'"
2009-06-24,"b'""They did things that you would not do against animals, let alone to humans,"" said one former detainee, identifed as Dr. Khandan, while another described having a gun put to his head and being threatened with death.'"
2009-06-24,"b'The BNP faces legal action over its ""apartheid-style"" \r\nmembership policy that bars membership to black, \r\nAsian and Jewish people'"
2009-06-24,"b'Protester shot in Iran, June 24th'"
2009-06-24,b'Ghana: Digital E-Waste Dumping Ground'
2009-06-24,b'Detainees Were Also Mudered At Bagram in Afghanistan'
2009-06-24,"b'Iraq to mark U.S. pullback with holiday.  PM calls June 30 withdrawal of American troops from cities a ""great victory.""'"
2009-06-24,"b""What you didn't know about Iran's history, and why it may repeat itself"""
2009-06-24,"b'REPOST----- U.S media is ignoring this story.---- Homeland Security, Air Marshals compromised.   '"
2009-06-24,b'There is a minority in Israel that is willing to risk life and limb to stand up to the occupation at its core.'
2009-06-24,"b'While you were busy gazing at one dead woman in Iran, the USA killed 83 people in Pakistan.'"
2009-06-24,b'A 1m British Labour Govt. scheme to help failed asylum seekers and their children return home resulted in just one family leaving Britain!'
2009-06-24,b'UN World Drug Report 2009'
2009-06-23,b'URGENT New Video: MANY students shot & killed by Basiji gun fire in Iran'
2009-06-23,"b""Iranian authorities scramble to negate Neda Soltan 'martyrdom': tell family to take down mourning posters, ban a public funeral or wake, stop gatherings in her name and media not to mention her death"""
2009-06-23,b'Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away'
2009-06-23,b'Police Medic [pic]'
2009-06-23,"b""A commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has been arrested for refusing to use force on protesters and defying Khamenei's orders"""
2009-06-23,b'Girl with 56 stars tattooed on face admits lying - Update '
2009-06-23,"b""General Ali Fazli, commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, has been arrested for refusing to obey Iran's Supreme Leader"""
2009-06-23,"b'A US drone strike killed least 45 people, that were  \r\nattending a funeral for others killed in a US drone \r\nstrike earlier on Tuesday.'"
2009-06-23,b'Meanwhile in China: Tens of thousands fight the police.  200+ injured.'
2009-06-23,b'Four Iranian players hit with lifetime ban for wearing green wristbands'
2009-06-23,"b'All the fudge that allowed a modern society to coexist with a theocracy inspired by an imam occulted in the 9th century has been swept away, leaving two Irans at war.'"
2009-06-23,"b""Iranian security forbids Neda's family from putting up traditional black mourning banners on their home and forbids memorial service."""
2009-06-23,"b'Do as we say not as we do: U.S. troops opened fire at former Iraqi soldiers demonstrating to demand back wages outside the American headquarters in Baghdad Wednesday, killing two protesters during a chaotic, rock-throwing melee.'"
2009-06-23,b'Iran: Rafsanjani Poised to Outlflan Supreme Leader Khamenei'
2009-06-23,b'Canadian Firms Sued For Investing in Israeli Settlements'
2009-06-23,"b""Iranian Regime Now Claiming Neda's Death Was Staged."""
2009-06-23,"b""Israel stunned by Obama's tough love - no longer more equal than others"""
2009-06-23,b'[Unconfirmed] [Need Translation] The Smoking Gun in Iran?  Video shows Ahmadi admitting to the rigged election?  '
2009-06-23,"b'The Truth Rundown:High-ranking defectors provide an unprecedented inside look at the \nChurch of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige. '"
2009-06-23,"b'The Peruvian Amazon Explodes, But Is Anyone Watching?'"
2009-06-23,b'Man digs 50ft hole to fish - in his kitchen'
2009-06-23,b'Iran says courts will teach protesters a lesson'
2009-06-23,b'U.S. Missile Strike Kills at Least 60 in Pakistan '
2009-06-23,b'[Pics & Vids] Iranian police smash property & blame it on protesters'
2009-06-23,b'Top Clerics in Iran Considering Removing Khamenei and Ahmadinejad'
2009-06-22,b'Another site showing pictures of protesters for Identification by the Basij! Help bring it down!'
2009-06-22,b'Israel Sells Palestinian homes That Were Held In Trust'
2009-06-22,"b'This Site is posting photos of opposition figures (protestors) in Iran, asking people to turn in information about them. What can we do about this, Reddit?'"
2009-06-22,"b'""At 1am on June 19, police and funeral cars arrived at the hotel, wanting to take the body away. 2,000 Shishou residents blocked the hotel entrance to protect Xu\'s corpse."" '"
2009-06-22,"b'""Suck on Our Yachts"": Goldman Sachs Issues Non-Apology for Destroying the World Economy-- Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein says he\'s sorry, then proceeds to brag about screwing us all. '"
2009-06-22,"b""Iran's Guardian Council, a top review panel with responsibility for overseeing the June 12 presidential election, said it had uncovered some irregularities in the polls, finding the number of votes in 50 districts exceeded the number of voters."""
2009-06-22,b'Bahrain has ordered the closure of a prominent newspaper after it printed an article critical of political leaders in its powerful Gulf neighbour Iran.'
2009-06-22,b'US Drug War Money Funded Peru Indigenous Massacre'
2009-06-22,"b' The number of trucks entering the Gaza Strip is very close to the absolute minimum required for basic sustenance, as determined by the IDF itself.'"
2009-06-22,b'Iran Admits Discrepancies in 3 Million Votes'
2009-06-22,"b""A U.N. court trying masterminds of Rwanda's 1994 genocide Monday gave a 30-year jail sentence to a former interior minister accused of tricking thousands of people to hide on a hill before they were killed. """
2009-06-22,"b'Iranians can draw on a rich culture of resistance to authority, going back to the countrys first experiments with constitutional rule, a hundred years ago.'"
2009-06-22,b'Iran asks BBC reporter to leave '
2009-06-22,b'French President Nicolas Sarkozy has spoken out strongly against the wearing of the burka by Muslim women in France'
2009-06-22,b'The president of the southern Russian republic of Ingushetia has survived an assassination attempt'
2009-06-22,"b""Iranian forces ready to clear country of 'hooligans'"""
2009-06-22,b'Iranian leaders will always believe Anglo-Saxons are plotting against them - Christopher Hitchens'
2009-06-22,b'The war of gold against humanity. Many of the evils of the world are still the result of the greed of a few'
2009-06-22,b'Modern Iranian Culture for Dummies'
2009-06-22,b'Want to see which countries are pulling their weight for humanity? Rank them by their Nobel Laureates per capita.'
2009-06-22,b'Split deepens between Iranian reformist and conservative clerics'
2009-06-22,b'Greenland assumes self-rule'
2009-06-22,"b'Researchers compared official Iranian election results with those from the 2005 election, and say that what they found ""raises questions"", a euphemism for ""makes no sense"".'"
2009-06-22,"b'Increasingly casual use of blinding lasers by US forces is proving dangerous to its own troops, as well as innocent foreign civilians under their occupation.'"
2009-06-22,b'Israel speaks out in favor of Iranian people...interesting'
2009-06-21,"b'Woman killed in protests (Iran) *shocking, nsfw.'"
2009-06-21,b'Fuck Yeah! Basij headquarters in Tehran has been destroyed [Video]'
2009-06-21,"b'Seed monopolies lead to harvest of suicides. ""[S]eeds are transformed from being a common good into the\n\'intellectual property\' of companies such as Monsanto, for ... farmers, this means deeper debts.""'"
2009-06-21,b'UK Police arrest protesters for challenging officer with no badge number'
2009-06-21,b'Her name was Neda'
2009-06-21,b'Riot in central China [ViDEO]'
2009-06-21,b'Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number [VID]'
2009-06-21,"b""100,000 Flood the Streets of London, in Protests of Sri Lanka's Concentration Camps. Yes A few people have died in Iran, over 80,000 People and Children have been slaughtered by the Sri Lankan Government! """
2009-06-21,"b'(CNN) -- ""RIP NEDA, The World cries seeing your last breath, you didn\'t die in vain. We remember you.""  The name of the girl who died on camera becomes international rallying cry.'"
2009-06-21,"b'Prime Minister of Zimbabwe visits London to give speech to exiled Zimbabweans, tells them all to come back home.  Crowd drifts from uncontrollable laughter to booing to chanting ""Ass-Hole!""'"
2009-06-21,b'Report: More votes than voters in Iran'
2009-06-21,b'Parallels of Iran today and the 1979 revolution. By a BBC reporter who is present for both.'
2009-06-21,b'Mousavi Defies Khamenei;\nPolice Attack Protesters at Inqilab Square;\nDowntown Tehran Burning '
2009-06-21,"b'The Arctic island of Greenland is assuming self-rule, in the latest step towards independence from Denmark.'"
2009-06-21,"b""The US Wants To Police Everyone Else's Nukes Yet Can't Even Keep Track of Their Own"""
2009-06-21,b'A Deeper Look at The Iranian Firewall'
2009-06-21,"b'All together, all together, dont be scared (call me crazy, but I broke out in tears when I read that)'"
2009-06-21,"b'Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated ""Color Revolution?""'"
2009-06-21,"b""'Neda' becomes rallying cry for Iranian protests"""
2009-06-21,"b'In Tehran, an eerie calm as death toll jumps to 17\n'"
2009-06-21,b'A Supreme Leader Loses His Aura as Iranians Flock to the Streets '
2009-06-21,b'10 killed after violence erupts in Iran - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)'
2009-06-21,b'Arrests of Rafsanjani kin show Iran clerics split'
2009-06-21,b'BBC correspondent in Tehran is expelled from country'
2009-06-21,"b'State TV report said 10 killed and more than 100 wounded in clashes between police and ""terrorist groups"" in Tehran\n\n'"
2009-06-20,b'World has new oldest man. This guy fought in WWI and was 73 when Neil Armstrong landed on the moon.'
2009-06-20,"b'Moussavi supported the Iran hostage situation, defended the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie and was complicit in the execution of anti-establishment ""dissidents"".  Then he quit politics for 20 years and everyone forgot.'"
2009-06-20,b'Crooks in Parliament - More than 50 MPs have claimed expenses for council tax they have not paid - will they be charged with criminal fraud? '
2009-06-20,b'Tehran Street Photos -- On the Brink...'
2009-06-20,"b'Iranian Blogger gets ready for tomorrow\'s protest expecting not to come back alive. Writes down what maybe his last words. ""I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow.  Maybe they will turn violent.  Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed...""'"
2009-06-20,b'A New York Times reporter who was kidnapped by the Taliban has escaped and made his way to freedom after more than seven months of captivity in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan.'
2009-06-20,"b'Breaking - street fighting in Tehran, cars on fire, gun shot at people from roofs [BBC Persian Video]'"
2009-06-20,"b""[video] Teheran today. There's a huge number of people on the streets!"""
2009-06-20,"b'The UK has made it clear to an Iranian diplomat that Ayatollah Khamenei\'s description of the British government as ""evil"" is unacceptable.'"
2009-06-20,"b'Iran opposition defies ayatollah, schedules protests on Saturday (huge potential for violence)'"
2009-06-20,b'Anti-free speech? UK courts now discredited the world over'
2009-06-20,b'Violent clashes in Tehran as Iranian protesters defy Supreme Leader - Telegraph'
2009-06-20,b'Gunman firing down indiscriminately into the crowds of protesters in Tehran'
2009-06-20,"b'Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: ""The outstanding diplomats of some western countries who have talked to us with diplomatic courtesy up to now... are showing their true image. They are showing their true enmity towards the Iranian Islamic state and the most evil of them is the British government.""'"
2009-06-20,b'My small piece: I turned my server into an anonymity server to help my Iranian friends to have net access. '
2009-06-20,"b'Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: End protests or risk ""bloodshed""'"
2009-06-20,b'Andrew Sullivan Live-Blogging the Crisis in Iran'
2009-06-20,b'The Situation in Iran: Ongoing NY Times Updates'
2009-06-20,b'Witnesses report fierce clashes on Tehran streets: Police beat protesters and fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands\n'
2009-06-20,"b'Sam Imam, Do You Like Green Protest Plans? [great comic]'"
2009-06-20,"b""Bomb Blast Strikes Near Shrine of Iran's Revolutionary Founder, Iranian TV Reports """
2009-06-20,b'Iran protesters blocked from Tehran square - UPI.com'
2009-06-20,"b'Iran: If Ron Paul Is The Only Member Of Congress With His Head Screwed On Right, We Are Really In Trouble'"
2009-06-20,"b""Google is denying ads to pro Palestine web sites, censoring Israeli war crime videos, and refusing to let the Israeli lobby be exposed on campus. Don't be evil? Don't be Google."""
2009-06-20,b'The German Pirate Party may soon have a MP.'
2009-06-19,"b'Mistaken for a protester in Tehran, an officer grabbed me, pinned my arm behind my back and led me into the bowels of the Interior Ministry headquarters'"
2009-06-19,b' Department of Defense maps of probable Soviet World War III plans'
2009-06-19,"b'""Israeli troops humiliate Palestinians - and put it on YouTube"" [Actual Israeli newspaper headline]'"
2009-06-19,b'Australia considering taking legal action against Japan to stop it killing whales'
2009-06-19,"b'""It\'s important to understand that although there is amazing ferment taking place in Iran, that the difference between Ahmadinejad and Moussavi in terms of their actual policies may not be as great as has been advertised,"" Obama told CNBC'"
2009-06-19,b'First of several upcoming gifts for North Korea'
2009-06-19,"b'Iranian soldiers break into dorms, destroy property of sleeping women they call ""rioters""'"
2009-06-19,"b'Israeli human rights organizations call for investigation after two IDF commanders testify about extensive and routine use of violence and injurious, even lethal means, against Palestinians. Complaints such as this have been filed in the past, but denied. Can Israel ignore the evidence this time?'"
2009-06-19,"b""Responding to protests from indigenous groups, Peru's congress has overturned two presidential decrees that would have opened the Peruvian Amazon to logging, dams and oil drilling by American companies."""
2009-06-19,b'A report in Japans Yomiuri newspaper says Pyongyang is planning to fire a long-range ballistic missile at Hawaii on July 4. '
2009-06-19,b'Anonymous Joins Fight Against Tyranny In Iran'
2009-06-19,"b""Iran's Supreme Leader gives the green light to Basij to crack down hard on peaceful demonstrators."""
2009-06-19,b'Google adds Persian to its translator.  Now you can keep even closer tabs on Iran.'
2009-06-19,"b'Under these conditions, it is essentially no more difficult to steal a thousand votes than one, a million than a thousand, or 11 million than one million.'"
2009-06-19,"b""Iran says it will not be held responsible for 'bloodshed' on the streets"""
2009-06-19,b'FUCK YES --- Anonymous and Pirate Bay Unite to help Iranian democracy activists !!'
2009-06-19,"b""For only the second time in footballing history one of the world's most isolated countries has won itself an invite to the sport's biggest party."""
2009-06-19,"b'Man dies after being tasered 28 times. \r\nTaser gun: The 50,000 volt shock can cause injury, heart attacks and lead to fatalities.'"
2009-06-19,b'A 1990 article by an eyewitness to the 1989 Tiananmen massacre'
2009-06-19,b'Swine Flu Mutation Found in Brazil'
2009-06-19,"b'Ayatollah Ali Khamenei strongly backs Ahmadinejad, declares that the election was ""over"" and that there was ""no cheating"". '"
2009-06-19,"b'Khamenei condemns protests, attacks Great Britain as ""most treacherous"" power in the West... '"
2009-06-19,"b'Stanford CEO Indicted On Fraud, Obstruction Charges in $7 Billion Alleged Ponzi Scheme'"
2009-06-19,"b""Australia questions China's support for Fiji"""
2009-06-19,b'Will France Impose a Ban on the Burqa?'
2009-06-18,"b""It's the law and it's official. Vancouver, site of the 2010 Winter Olympics, has forbidden police to seize cameras unless part of an arrest, or a warrant has been issued."""
2009-06-18,b'1 Out Of 4 Men In South Africa Have Commited Rape. 1 Out Of 10 SA Men Have Been Raped By Other Men.'
2009-06-18,b'They broke the door and entered the dormitory. I saw today all the doors had been broken. They hit my friends while they were asleep. They brought them to the yard and hit them again. They arrested about 200  five or six were killed.'
2009-06-18,"b'2,000 indigenous people from the Association for the Development of the Peruvian Jungle gathered to protest plans for the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.  At least 50 are dead and 100s missing after Peruvian police used helicopters and ground troops to suppress the demonstration.'"
2009-06-18,"b'FiveThirtyEight, one of the best election and polling analysis sites, is doubtful of the statistical evidence of vote fraud in Iran'"
2009-06-18,"b""News from Iran live-blog: Microsoft continues to block its internet messaging service in Iran (see 3:00pm update) Who's side are they on???"""
2009-06-18,"b""Peru's President Alan Garcia has Finally Admitted that the Government Has Made Mistakes and Did not Properly Consult Amazonian Tribes in Regard to Several Laws that Would Allow Oil Exploration and Affect Their Lands-- He is Now Asking Congress to Repeal Those Laws-- Peru is Moving Forward"""
2009-06-18,b'The Pirate Bay is now The Persian Bay - Another site supporting Iran'
2009-06-18,"b""The Iranian protesters are effective because they're nonviolent... and there are women and children involved. The regime doesn't now how to handle this."""
2009-06-18,"b'Protestors hold children, photos of murdered students, quotes by Gandhi, signs like ""we are the nation, not rabble"" '"
2009-06-18,b'Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is about to issue warning of severe consequences if protests continue'
2009-06-18,"b'Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has almost no support among Kurds whatsoever. Claiming he won 70 percent in Kermanshah is as outlandish as Dick Cheney winning San Francisco and Berkeley in a landslide.""'"
2009-06-18,b'UK is doing away with fundamental rights! First trial without jury approved'
2009-06-18,"b'Ebrahim Yazdi, Irans former foreign minister, thrown in jail'"
2009-06-18,"b'War Nerd: Irans Cedar Show, A.K.A. Dont Get Excited, the Protestors Are Just Letting Off Some Steam - By Gary Brecher - The eXiled'"
2009-06-18,"b'After half time they removed their Green bands, knowing that they would have to fly back toTehran after the game'"
2009-06-18,"b""Twitter won't bring down Ahmadinejad |Twitter won't bring down Ahmadinejad. The real action in Iran is in the streets. Social media is documenting the revolution - not leading it"""
2009-06-18,"b""Iran's Supreme Leader to Give Sermon on Friday at Tehran University, Site of Crackdown on Democracy Protestors"""
2009-06-18,b'National anthem will be played daily in some Canadian schools. Canada emulating US patriotic facade'
2009-06-18,"b'Irans Election Chaos. Iran braced for a fourth day of massive protests Thursday by opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. ""We support our revolution"". Most of people are with green flags supporting the opposition. + Good video inside'"
2009-06-18,b'Tony Blair knew of secret policy on terror interrogations | Politics | The Guardian'
2009-06-18,b'Shocking statistic: One in four South African men questioned in a survey said they had raped someone and nearly half admitted having attacked more than one victim.'
2009-06-18,"b'Italian Minister of Tourism doing the ""Fascist Salute"" over the National Anthem - She\'s the one in pink [VID]'"
2009-06-18,b'Wrecked the house after the bank auctioned it off - Iceland'
2009-06-18,"b'Borderline Bigots - Mexico Tells Immigrants: No Way, Jos'"
2009-06-17,b'The man who leaked the real election results from the Interior Ministry - the ones showing Ahmadinejad coming third - was killed in a suspicious car accident (11:00am Posting)'
2009-06-17,"b""A Chinese waitress who stabbed a gov't official to death when he tried to sexually assault her has been freed at the start of her trial """
2009-06-17,"b'Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Iran\'s most senior Islamic cleric threw his weight behind opposition charges that Ahmadinejad\'s re-election was rigged: ""A government not respecting people\'s vote has no religious or political legitimacy,"" '"
2009-06-17,"b""Turnouts of more than 100% were recorded in at least 30 Iranian towns in last week's disputed presidential election, opposition sources have claimed."""
2009-06-17,b'China+Russia+India+Brazil form bloc intended to challenge US dominance'
2009-06-17,"b'""They made signs like they wanted to cut my brother\'s baby\'s throat,. They said they wanted to kill us.""  More than 100 Romanian Gypsies chased out of their Belfast homes by thugs armed with bottles and Nazi salutes.'"
2009-06-17,b'Iranian soccer players wear green for live televised game.'
2009-06-17,b'Turnouts above 100% in 30 Iranian towns'
2009-06-17,b'Green Hope of the Iranian Opposition - Incredible Pics from the People of Iran'
2009-06-17,"b""Graphic Picture Warning! 21+ A protester slaughtered in the hands of Ahmadinejad's zombies"""
2009-06-17,"b'Essential quote from the protests in Iran: ""140 characters is a novel when youre being shot at.""'"
2009-06-17,b'Iranians warned not to use sites such as Twitter'
2009-06-17,b'Iran vs USA [comic]'
2009-06-17,"b""The nano home: India's cheap housing boom. (Builders are constucting flats outside of the cities - where land is expensive - and selling living units for as little as US$4,500)"""
2009-06-17,b'Beijing stipulates that $586 billion in stimulus funds be spent only on Chinese goods'
2009-06-17,b'Iranian protesters report that imported Hamas thugs are helping crush dissent'
2009-06-17,b'Cyberwar guide for Iran elections'
2009-06-17,"b'A Brutally Honest Film About The Killing of 23,000 Dolphins'"
2009-06-17,b'Mass dolphin stranding linked to navy exercises'
2009-06-17,b'Iran widens jamming of BBC as Revolutionary Guard cautions bloggers'
2009-06-17,b'Ahmadinejad Lying Again With Photoshop'
2009-06-17,"b""Why hasn't the Iranian govt. blocked Twitter in Iran?  If they can't, why not?  Or is it because they haven't tried?"""
2009-06-17,"b""Attention Iranian Redditors! Help the Iranian bloggers: spoof your MAC address and tunnel through an SSH account to mask your IP so it looks like you're not in TEHRAN. Security forces hunting for bloggers using IP and MAC searches. If you are all h@x0rz it's much harder to find you."""
2009-06-17,b'Memo which proves the fix in Iran? (need translation)'
2009-06-17,b'British Airways asks staff to work for nothing - [NOT Onion]'
2009-06-16,b'Yall wanna see feminism? Patriotism? There you go. [Iranian Woman]'
2009-06-16,b'2 MILLION protesters fill the streets of Tehran [pics]'
2009-06-16,b'North Korean heir tries to assassinate his elder brother'
2009-06-16,b'Comprehensive breakdown of the current situation in Iran (please add so we can keep this up-to-date and accurate)'
2009-06-16,"b'Masked ""police"" brutality in Iran (as captured on video) reaches new heights. :( :('"
2009-06-16,"b'Somali navy chief: World\'s worst job? ""He has neither boats nor equipment and admits he has not been to sea for 23 years.""'"
2009-06-16,b'Iran: 12 students reported killed in crackdown after violent clashes'
2009-06-16,"b'Former US President Jimmy Carter has said he had to ""hold back tears"" while viewing destruction on a visit to Gaza.'"
2009-06-16,"b'Hamas says Jimmy Carter ""is the messenger that we trust  and that the world community trusts.""'"
2009-06-16,b'Blood runs in the streets of Tehran as technology becomes the enemy of the state along with protesters'
2009-06-16,"b'""All violent video games to be banned in Germany"" - ""The law would result in no Call of Duty, no God of War, no Crysis, no World of Warcraft, no BioShock, no Uncharted, and no Grand Theft Auto.""'"
2009-06-16,b'U.S. journalists confessed to illegally entering N. Korea (They video taped their crossing)'
2009-06-16,"b'Massive protests in Isfahan, Iran now'"
2009-06-16,"b' UPDATE 11:55 a.m.:  Mass opposition rally in Northern Tehran, a stronghold of the opposition. Mir Hossein Mousavi had told supporters not to assemble, but they merely changed the venue.'"
2009-06-16,"b'""turban warfare"" wtf'"
2009-06-16,"b""Carter says Palestinians being treated 'like animals'"""
2009-06-16,"b'""If that area were covered in solar thermal power plants, it could produce enough electricity to meet world demand"": Europe\'s 400 billion investment in renewable energy'"
2009-06-16,b'KBR Complains Abiding By U.S. Laws Puts Company at a Competitive Disadvantage'
2009-06-16,"b'Top Israeli minister calls a cop ""Dirty Arab"". Minister later apologizes and says that it does not ""reflect his worldview"". I\'m sure it doesn\'t (/s). Why isn\'t this in the news?'"
2009-06-16,b'Grand Ayatollah Montazeri Takes A Stand'
2009-06-16,b'Free Anonymous VPN For All Iranians and Journalists to protect Free Speech. Help Spread the Word'
2009-06-16,b'Iranian Election Recount'
2009-06-16,b'Gaza police deny report of failed Carter assassination attempt (See comment for original report)'
2009-06-16,b'Cruise and Travolta got me fired'
2009-06-16,"b'ISP spying begins in UK, as Universal, Virgin ink a deal'"
2009-06-15,"b""'TV pictures from Tehran delivered a stark reminder that Iran is not a backward country of medieval fanatics, but a modern nation with 70 million people, two thirds of whom are under 30 and have the same interests and aspirations as their Western counterparts'"""
2009-06-15,"b'Message from Mousavi: ""I AM UNDER EXTREME PRESSURE TO ACCEPT THE RESULTS OF THE SHAM ELECTION. THEY HAVE CUT ME OFF FROM ANY COMMUNICATION WITH PEOPLE AND AM UNDER SURVEILLANCE. I ASK THE PEOPLE TO STAY IN THE STREETS BUT AVOID VIOLENCE""'"
2009-06-15,b'Iran protest cancelled as leaked election results show Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came third'
2009-06-15,b'They have started to kill Iranian demonstrators.'
2009-06-15,b'[IRAN] Woman fighting 3 cops'
2009-06-15,b'North Korea threatens to launch pre-emptive strike against U.S.'
2009-06-15,b'Breaking: Iran TV says shooting at pro-Mousavi rally'
2009-06-15,"b'Whatever happens in the days ahead, the world has now seen the tyranny raw. The least we owe the protestors is not to look away.'"
2009-06-15,b'[TIME poll on Iran election]: Does Iowa know something that the rest of the country doesnt?'
2009-06-15,b' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei orders inquiry into vote-rigging claims'
2009-06-15,"b""Christopher Hitchens: Don't call what happened in Iran last week an election"""
2009-06-15,b'Nate Silver weighs in on the Iranian election and pre-election polling.'
2009-06-15,b'Reddit seems to be the only place where I can read about the riots in Iran...Are all the other major news networks on holidays?'
2009-06-15,b'Unrest in Iran Deepens as Leading Critics Are Detained'
2009-06-15,"b'""Either way, have no doubt, the IRI, the Islamic Republic of Iran, is over.""'"
2009-06-15,"b'""Most iranians believe that a lot of the ""commandos"" on the bikes are Hezbollah arabs brought in to do to the citizens what a Persian cop would refuse to do""'"
2009-06-15,"b""Reddit, Twitter's service provider (Verio) is planning an outage this evening. Spread the word to convince them to delay the downtime. Iran needs Twitter tonight!"""
2009-06-15,"b'Globe and Mail freelancer detained, beaten, let go in Tehran -- ""Seven officers ran up to join in the slapping, and one punched me in the head. A large officer, about 6 foot 4 and dressed in camouflage, grabbed me by the neck, pinching my jugular but not my wind pipe.""'"
2009-06-15,b'Iran supreme leader orders probe of vote fraud'
2009-06-15,b'How to setup a proxy for Iran citizens (for Windows!)'
2009-06-15,"b'1.5 to 2 million people (AFP) demonstrate in Iran as one of the biggest signs of resistance to Iranian government. Meanwhile, student dorms at Sharif University destroyed, students killed, and over 100 professors have resigned.'"
2009-06-15,"b'Iran Election: They did not permit the candidates to supervise the election or the counting of the ballots at the polling places. The minister of the interior supervised the final count in his office, at the ministry, with only two aides present.'"
2009-06-15,"b""Man 'cooked' to death in Australian prison van. Coroner will ask for criminal charges."""
2009-06-15,"b""Hackers worldwide launch DDOS attacks on Iranian government websites in support of demonstrators; some activists warn that this could backfire by excusing Iran's own cyber warfare."""
2009-06-15,"b""Iran's Disputed Election - The Big Picture"""
2009-06-14,b'CNN takes a hit in the PR Department with the lack of Iran Riot coverage'
2009-06-14,b'Letter from Mousavi (in English) on the rigged elections in Iran'
2009-06-14,b'Watch what those BRUTAL Iranian people did to this riot police officer after they caught him'
2009-06-14,"b'Hossein Moussavi was told yesterday that he had won the Iranian elections.  Hours later, the Ministry inexplicably reversed itself. Until we know what happened, the international community should withhold recognition.'"
2009-06-14,"b'Mousavi Arrested, Rafsanjani Resigns, Iranian Police Fleeing from Demonstrators'"
2009-06-14,b'Stop the blocking now'
2009-06-14,b'YouTube - Iranian riot police on motorbikes drives into protesters'
2009-06-14,b'Best part of the Iranian protests: dancing with the opposite sex'
2009-06-14,"b'How serious do you think the situation in Iran is? Will it all just blow over, or will this be a full scale revolution?'"
2009-06-14,"b""Iran closes Al Arabiya's offices in Tehran"""
2009-06-14,b'video of cops in motorcycles bullrushing a peaceful crowd'
2009-06-14,b'North Korea warns of nuclear war.'
2009-06-14,"b""A 'time bomb' for world wheat crop"""
2009-06-14,"b""While we're bashing CNN - what's the point of having a 24 hour news station when you're always 'running out of time'?"""
2009-06-14,b'Dutch politician Geert Wilders seriously considers deportation of milions of European muslims and robbing them of their nationality.'
2009-06-14,b'Amazing slideshow of most recent Iran photos on Flickr'
2009-06-14,b'BBC - Protest against Iran election results'
2009-06-14,b'YouTube - Esfehan after iranian election. Riot police running away'
2009-06-14,"b'Shit hits the fan in Iran, Ahmadinejad defiant'"
2009-06-14,"b""A Closer Look at Iran's State of Internet, Strange Transit Changes in Wake of Controversial Election"""
2009-06-14,"b""China's College Entrance Exam"""
2009-06-14,b'YouTube - Iranian Election Riots 2009 [Raw Video]'
2009-06-14,b'Iranian election: an attempted coup | '
2009-06-14,"b""Secret papers 'show how Shell targeted Nigeria oil protests' by providing Nigerian police and military with logistical support, and aided security sweeps of the oil-rich Niger Delta"""
2009-06-14,"b""Up to 100 members of Iranian reformist groups are arrested on suspicion of orchestrating violence after President Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election."""
2009-06-13,b'The BBC explains how Iran is ruled (with a helpful chart)'
2009-06-13,b'YouTube - mass demonstration against Iranian government and Election fraud'
2009-06-13,"b'Muslim cleric condemns suicide attacks and denounces Taliban as murderers, in response gets mudered by the Taliban in a sucide attack.'"
2009-06-13,b'Media Misreports on Biased Pirate Bay Judge - New York Times claim appeal was denied'
2009-06-13,"b'N. Korea to treat U.S. attempt to impose blockade as ""act of war""'"
2009-06-13,"b'Ahmadinejad wins the iranian ellections, some people are doubting the results here in Iran. Here is a video I took, more info in comments'"
2009-06-13,b'Iranian protesters stopping a policeman'
2009-06-13,"b'WORLD: Please read, ""Confessions of an Economic Hit Man"" and ""The Secret History of the American Empire"" by John Perkins (Former EHM)'"
2009-06-13,b'Chinese sub collides with sonar array towed by U.S. Navy ship '
2009-06-13,"b""Apparently Iran's election results were declared invalid - does that mean a do-over?"""
2009-06-13,b'Latest protest videos from Iran'
2009-06-13,b'Robert Mugabe in 1962'
2009-06-13,"b""Iran elections: revolt as crowds protest at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's 'rigged' victory"""
2009-06-13,"b'Occasional Taliban: I am just fighting for the money [about $20/week], he said. If I find another job, Ill leave this one as soon as possible.'"
2009-06-13,b'North Korea says it will weaponize its plutonium stocks in response to sanctions from the UN.  '
2009-06-13,b'People in Iran have gone out to streets to protest the results of Ahmedinejad winning and chanting Dictator (People are angry) [Pics]'
2009-06-13,"b""Iran's suspicious election data not so suspicious"""
2009-06-13,"b""'Settler' gets away with shooting Palestinians, video evidence against him is being withheld because apparently it would harm 'state security'"""
2009-06-13,b'Riots in Iran. A civil war in the making? [video]'
2009-06-13,b'Iran: Ahmadinejad had 65.9 percent and Mousavi had 31.1 percent with 68 percent counted - Both delare victory amid fraud charges'
2009-06-13,"b'First polls for Iranian election give Ahmadinejad commanding lead. His challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi, is claiming irregularities. Police moved quickly to quell small protests.'"
2009-06-13,"b'Iran Live blogging: Protests Erupt, Riot Police Launch Crackdown. '"
2009-06-13,"b""Iran's Presidential Election (Big Picture photos)"""
2009-06-13,"b""It's police vs. police in Mexican drug war"""
2009-06-13,b'Top French court rips heart out of Sarkozy internet law'
2009-06-12,"b""Darkness falls. Berlusconi decree on wiretapping is the end of justice, press freedom and blogs in Italy. It's the night of democracy and too many are asleep"""
2009-06-12,b'A ghettoized Gaza bears striking similarities to the Warsaw ghetto.'
2009-06-12,b'Iran rivals BOTH declare victory in elections.'
2009-06-12,b'Hidden Truth --- Women are abusers too.'
2009-06-12,b'Two japanese citizens were detained in Italy after allegedly attempting to take $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds over the border into Switzerland. '
2009-06-12,b'Bosses at the bakery in Valencia are accused of dumping him 100m (330 feet) from the hospital entrance and throwing the severed limb in a garbage bin.'
2009-06-12,"b'""They (Amazon indigenous) are not first class citizens."" Alan Garcia  President  of Peru'"
2009-06-12,b' U.S. student at Italian murder trial says police beat her'
2009-06-12,b'Italy - Customs Finds $134 Billion in a Suitcase'
2009-06-12,"b""Natural Growth Means Whatever the Israeli Government Wants it To Mean : Just ask the Israeli Arabs or Palestinians.  If you're the wrong demographic no housing for you"""
2009-06-12,"b""Iran's old guard are poised to crush any hope of revolution."""
2009-06-12,"b""Sad plight of Pakistan's displaced"""
2009-06-12,b'To the Iranian redditors: Who do you think is gonna win today? Will it be rigged or does the oppostion have a real chance?'
2009-06-12,"b""'We were scared and crying, we didn't know where we were or what was happening'"""
2009-06-12,b'Finding a solution to Australian racism attacks on Indian students!'
2009-06-12,"b""Ahmadinejad loses Iran's presidential election according to Mousavi"""
2009-06-12,"b'D.C. manicurist raised more than $250,000 to build school in native Ethiopia'"
2009-06-12,b'Mexican State Confiscates Rifles from Local Cops'
2009-06-12,b'Iran Presidential debate - Mousavi - Ahmadinejad'
2009-06-12,"b'Starving Gaza: items banned from entering Gaza: Halva, tea, juice powder.'"
2009-06-12,b'Gay Israelis prepare for their big day'
2009-06-12,"b'""In the end, though, no matter how and why Europeans voted last week, they appear convinced that their economic fate will not be decided in Paris or Berlinlet alone in Brussels or Strasbourgbut in Washington, D.C.""'"
2009-06-12,"b""Dem's Draft of Helth-Care Bill to Include $600 Billion Tax Increase...cost over $1 Trillion"""
2009-06-12,b'Palestine / Israel : Police discover the corpse of a 15 year old Palestinian boy who had been tortured and then hanged.'
2009-06-12,b'<BREAKING> Iran rivals claim poll victory '
2009-06-11,"b'""When Frank McGarahan saw a homeless man being beaten up, he stepped in - and paid for his courage with his life.""'"
2009-06-11,b'This is what Canadas government is doing: Money earmarked to support wind energy producers was diverted to research and development in the oil patch in backroom budget wrangling  lets bring down these SOBs '
2009-06-11,"b'The Generation Born of Rape during the Rwandan Genocide - ""I must be honest with you: I never loved this child""'"
2009-06-11,"b'Damn, this is cruel, even for the Middle East: Palestinians with critically ill babies denied treatment unless they collaborate with Israeli intelligence '"
2009-06-11,"b""Iran's elections are a few hours away- LA Times had a good piece this morning on the current climate in Iran"""
2009-06-11,b'Sports car maker Koenigsegg buys Saab'
2009-06-11,"b'I wandered in a sea of green ribbons, hats, banners and bandannas to a rally at which Ahmadinejad was mocked as a midget and Moussavis wife, Zahra Rahnavard, sporting a floral hijab that taunted grey-black officialdom, warned the president that: If there is vote rigging, Iran will rise up.'"
2009-06-11,"b""Shell brutality not restricted to Nigerians - troublesome Irish fisherman's boat sunk by masked Shell security personnel"""
2009-06-11,"b""It is getting harder to hide the superiority complexity of the settler movement: I don't believe in western morality, i.e. don't kill civilians or children ... don't shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral"""
2009-06-11,b'2 Japanese arrested after trying to smuggle $134 bil worth of U.S. bonds into Switzerland - WTF?'
2009-06-11,"b'Gaddafi: ""It is not a piracy, it is self defense. It is defending the Somalia children\'s food!\'\''"
2009-06-11,b'A 72-year-old great-grandmother in Texas has threatened to sue police after an officer tased her.'
2009-06-11,"b'Venezuela bans Coke Zero, cites ""danger to health""'"
2009-06-11,"b'The global economic meltdown has claimed an unexpected victim: North Koreas chain of restaurants in Southeast Asia. Though staunchly socialist at home, the North Korean government has been quite successful in running capitalist enterprises abroad.'"
2009-06-11,b'European election: 60% abstain; big gains for the right; revolutionary left wins seats in Portugal and Ireland'
2009-06-11,b'WHO declares pandemic level 6. Fearmongering to continue at levels not seen since 1968.'
2009-06-11,b'Who Is Winning the Arctic Game of Monopoly?'
2009-06-11,b'Police count the cost of migrants'
2009-06-11,b'Free Wi-fi internet for Romanians '
2009-06-11,b'WHO: World now at the start of 2009 influenza pandemic'
2009-06-11,"b'""In the Name of Mine"". El Salvador\'s civil war, 1980\'s. American-backed death squads terrorize the countryside. Several brave journalists spent weeks with the FMLN resistance, filming their fight for justice. Part 1 of 8.'"
2009-06-11,b'Peled proposes Israeli sanctions on US'
2009-06-11,b'Canada to stop producing medical isotopes.'
2009-06-11,"b'Indian Prostitutes Learn Karate To Fight Johns, Pimps'"
2009-06-11,"b""India lodges protest against Chinese drugs with fake 'Made in India' tag"""
2009-06-10,"b'WTF: UK police are teaching children to spot terrorists -- More than 2,000 10 and 11-year-olds will see a short film, which urges them to tell the police, their parents or a teacher if they hear anyone expressing extremist views!'"
2009-06-10,"b""Election fever as Iran prepares to vote - 'Ahmadinejad bye bye - they shout'"""
2009-06-10,"b'Hello reddit, Here is a couple of pictures I took yesterday in Tehran, Iran. There was a large rally everywhere against Ahmadinejad before the Presidential Elections.'"
2009-06-10,"b""Chinese state media praise Shanghai's gay pride festival in a sign of new official acceptance of homosexuality."""
2009-06-10,"b""We don't need no CCTV in our classroom: Our school's installation of TV cameras to watch our lessons is an insult  a fact many adults failed to grasp when we protested"""
2009-06-10,b'Canada introduces mandatory minimum sentencing for marijuana in spite of the fact that the majority of Canadians believe the consumption of cannabis should be legalized. [Apologies for cross-posting Reddit but I cant even begin to explain how Fucked Up this is] '
2009-06-10,"b'French ""3 strikes and your out"" against illegal downloading declared unconstitutional by the highest constitutional authority in France '"
2009-06-10,b'French Three-Strikes Law Ruled Unconstitutional'
2009-06-10,b'Think the US waterboarding terrorist suspects is bad? In the UK our COPS waterboard people accused of DRUG offences!'
2009-06-10,b'The first panicky retreat in the war on free speech in the UK has begun'
2009-06-10,"b""The president of Afghanistan's brother is a high-level player in the Afghan heorin trade"""
2009-06-10,b'Girls of Pyongyang: The Unknowns in the Case of Lee & Ling'
2009-06-10,b'Israeli military developing battlefield robot snake '
2009-06-10,b'60 die in Peru rainforest protest; Clashes between police and indigenous protesters over drilling for oil and gas in rain forest'
2009-06-10,"b'Macedonia says France will say ""THE ALIENS ARE HERE!""'"
2009-06-10,b'Laid-off workers to revive old Polaroid factory'
2009-06-10,"b'Hezbollah says it\'s willing to turn a new page and ""behave in a highly positive manner and cooperate with the other side... If it decides on a programme, a vision and a method that is different from the past and that opens new horizons, they will find us by their side.""  Here\'s to hoping.'"
2009-06-10,b'Could North Korea Provoke a New Korean War?'
2009-06-10,"b'A customer relations officer from Ellesmere Port has been electronically tagged for two months, given a curfew and ordered to pay 2,440.66 in costs for leaving a 15-week-old kitten alone for two days. Politicians and bankers walk away scott free'"
2009-06-10,b'Palau to take Guantanamo Uighurs'
2009-06-10,b'France will disclose ET presence on earth Friday June 12 2009'
2009-06-10,"b'War criminal who killed tens of thousands of people, drinking coffe in the Belgrade downtown'"
2009-06-10,b'Israeli Minister proposes Israeli sanctions on US'
2009-06-10,"b'If China can do it  why cant the US, UK, EU?'"
2009-06-10,"b'Prehistoric Complex Including Two 6,000 Y.O Tombs Discovered'"
2009-06-09,"b""Won't see this on CNN... Reddit what do you think about this?"""
2009-06-09,b'The puzzling crash of Air Frances Flight 447 killed two of the worlds most prominent illegal arms trade and international drug trafficking foes.'
2009-06-09,"b""The world's biggest military spenders by population [chart]"""
2009-06-09,b'Economist magazines annual liveability index:  Australian and Canadian cities at the top... American cities slide.'
2009-06-09,"b'24 bodies, tail part recovered in Air France crash'"
2009-06-09,"b'Prestigious university in Tokyo has become a battleground in a war over freedom of political expression. Illegal arrests, forced expulsions, ""kidnappings"" by security police and  beatings by hired thugs. No, it\'s not another dispatch from a violent  banana republic.'"
2009-06-09,b'Netanyahu is an idiot.  The US should respond to his statements by cutting off funds to Israel.'
2009-06-09,"b'North Korea would use nuclear weapons in a ""merciless offensive""'"
2009-06-09,b'China moves to censor home computers'
2009-06-09,b'The End of the Taliban?'
2009-06-09,"b""Will Iran's 'Marriage Crisis' Bring Down Ahmadinejad? - TIME"""
2009-06-09,b'Air France 447: The Coffin Corner and a Mesoscale Maw'
2009-06-09,"b'Royal Dutch Shell settles suit over hanging Nigerian protesters, still denies involvement.'"
2009-06-09,"b""World Health Organization is on verge of declaring H1N1 flu a pandemic, but doesn't want everyone to panic"""
2009-06-09,"b'Mom left her eight children for more than a week in ""life-threatening"" squalor for internet lover'"
2009-06-09,"b'China, Russia, Iran and Venezuela upping foreign aid to poor countries'"
2009-06-09,b'English villagers try to save struggling pubs'
2009-06-09,b'Pakistan hotel shattered by blast'
2009-06-09,"b'30,000 Pregnant Women a Year Lose Their Jobs'"
2009-06-09,b'North Korea threatens nuclear response'
2009-06-09,b'The Fritzl fiasco ... Or how the police can be useless as hell when it come to saving people (like it is supposed to do)'
2009-06-09,b'Map of North Korean Prison Camps'
2009-06-09,b'24 hurt after a bottle of acid is tossed off the top of a building in Hong Kong.  Third acid attack there in 6 months.'
2009-06-09,"b'Shell settles human rights suit for $15.5m; acknowledges no wrongdoing in the 1995 hanging deaths of six people, including  Ken Saro-Wiwa'"
2009-06-09,"b""Khmer Rouge chief says babies were 'smashed to death'"""
2009-06-08,b'Pirate Party Wins and Enters The European Parliament | Torre'
2009-06-08,"b'From their own website: ""The BNP is an ethno-nationalist party. We do not have, and will not have, any non-white or Muslim members.""'"
2009-06-08,"b'Becoming a soldier in Croatia will now give you the right to smoke marijuana - ""War veterans can smoke pot in Croatia""'"
2009-06-08,"b'$134.5 billion in US government securities seized from Japanese nationals, not clear whether real or fake'"
2009-06-08,"b'Somali Islamists have taken to desecrating the graves of Sufi muslims, calling them idolatrous,  and now some Sufis are taking up arms against ""a foreign idealogy""'"
2009-06-08,"b'Khmer Rouge prison chief admits his staff murdered babies by smashing them against trees at a ""killing field""'"
2009-06-08,b'Hizbullah defeated in Lebanon parliamentary elections'
2009-06-08,"b'Sophisticated Europeans, Obese Americans? - Are the Differences Between Europe and America Really That Large?'"
2009-06-08,b'American journalists sentenced to 12 years hard labor in North Korea'
2009-06-08,"b""North Korea's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists, and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison"""
2009-06-08,b'How Pirates Shook European Politics'
2009-06-08,b'North Korea bans ships off east coast amid fears of missile launch '
2009-06-08,b'UK:  Labour has suffered its worst post-war election result as it was beaten into third place by UKIP and saw the BNP gain its first seats at Brussels.'
2009-06-08,"b""China is now the world's No. 2 arms spender. Still, the U.S. is far ahead in first place with 42% of total world arms expenditures."""
2009-06-08,"b""Sweden's Pirate Party captures Euro seat"""
2009-06-08,b'Body of American mountain climber found in SW China; search continues for two other climbers'
2009-06-08,b'IDF kills 4 Gaza gunmen; Karni crossing closed to fuel and goods'
2009-06-08,b'David Carradine was killed because he was investigating kung fu crime lords'
2009-06-08,"b""Drudge Retort: 'Europe Isn't Afraid of Cleared Gitmo Detainees'"""
2009-06-08,b'Pirate Bay Nemesis Has Name Changed By Pranksters'
2009-06-08,b'N. Korea Sentences 2 U.S. Journalists to 12 Years of Hard Labor '
2009-06-08,b'Real IRA chief to blame for Omagh'
2009-06-08,b'Fascism Returns to Europe (check out those uniforms)'
2009-06-08,"b'Not happy with the results of the election? Tinker with the election system. Changes are being proposed to the European Parliament elections that would ""bring some stability into the system"".'"
2009-06-08,"b'Listen to the head of the BNP defending his party, really quite disgusting'"
2009-06-07,"b'ISP head - Illegal downloading cannot be stopped. ""We need to be careful that politicians do not get talked into putting legislation in place that, in the end, ends up looking stupid""'"
2009-06-07,"b""A Man died after a driver and technician from my local ambulance station took a detour on the way to hospital because the technician's shift had ended"""
2009-06-07,"b""'When anti-narcotics agents first heard that drug cartels were building an armada of submarines to transport cocaine, they thought it was a joke. ..'"""
2009-06-07,"b""UK's Labour party suffers wipeout in its worst local election results"""
2009-06-07,b'WikiLeaks wins Amnesty International 2009 Media Award'
2009-06-07,b'Parents of the children trapped in a burning Mexican day care center rammed their vehicles into the building to try to free the trapped children'
2009-06-07,"b""When a 'Chosen' Tibetan Lama Says No Thanks - TIME"""
2009-06-07,b'The European elections results 2009 website will open on June 7 at 18.00 CET.'
2009-06-07,b'Pakistani villagers rise up against Taliban'
2009-06-07,"b"" Wikipedia 'sentinel' quits after using alias to alter entries"""
2009-06-07,b'UK elects first fascist MEP. Whatever happened to harmless protest votes?'
2009-06-07,b'Tourist clings on for dear life as on train journey in Australia.  '
2009-06-07,b'On the fourth day of settler violence: How long before Israeli Civil War?'
2009-06-07,"b""Chomsky on Obama's Cairo speech."""
2009-06-07,b'The eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il tells Japanese TV he believes his younger brother is leader-in-waiting.'
2009-06-07,"b'The wife of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Ahmadinejads main rival in upcoming election has threatened to sue Ahmadinejad over his remarks'"
2009-06-07,b'Deadly gun battle rocks Acapulco'
2009-06-07,b'Tibetans are only as oppressed as all Chinese are.'
2009-06-07,"b'Eighteen people, including two soldiers, were killed Saturday in a gunbattle between the Mexican army and organized-crime suspects in the Mexican resort town of Acapulco'"
2009-06-07,"b""UK 'must log' phone and web use, says former spy chief"""
2009-06-07,b'Indians Shot from Helicopters for Peru Free Trade Oil '
2009-06-07,"b""Journalism in Russia: The most dangerous thing right now is not to criticize the authorities, It's to criticize people who can kill you. The people Kanev writes about can kill. That is his problem."""
2009-06-07,b'Swing right in Europe'
2009-06-07,b'Villagers in northwest Pakistan have attacked Taliban militants killing seven of them in revenge for a bomb attack on a mosque that killed at least 40 people'
2009-06-07,b'The Barbarians at the Gate - Why has policing in Britain gone so mad? '
2009-06-06,b'Philippines capture MILF base'
2009-06-06,"b'The youngest girl I ever came across was a day-old baby who was raped,""'"
2009-06-06,"b""General Eisenhower's Message to the Troops just before D-Day - 65 Years ago America, along with our trusty allies the Brits and Canucks, led one of the greatest Invasions the World has ever seen.  June 6th is my Memorial Day."""
2009-06-06,b'At least 31 people have died in clashes in Peru between the security forces and indigenous people in the Amazon region'
2009-06-06,"b'Peruvian government committed massacre with the murder of at least 20 indigenous where 2,000 have been blockading the highway to protest'"
2009-06-06,"b'The sexual violence in Congo is the worst in the world.. the sheer numbers, the wholesale brutality, the culture of impunity  its appalling.'"
2009-06-06,"b'Chinas rare earth monopoly threatens global suppliers, rival producers claim'"
2009-06-06,"b""Cuban spy caught -- he'd been giving up secrets for 30 years!"""
2009-06-06,b'Documents Offer New Revelations of Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program'
2009-06-06,"b'French Nuclear Sub and Mini-Sub ""Nautile"" that found the Titanic sent to look for Air France 447 as no traces of the plane have been seen'"
2009-06-06,"b""The United Nations terrorist list, which includes a Canadian who the government won't let back into the country, is not 100 per cent reliable, a UN official says."""
2009-06-06,b'Today marks the 42nd anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank.'
2009-06-06,"b'British Cabinet Reshuffle as Another Minister Resigns accusing PM Brown of running a ""two-tier"" government and treating her and other women ministers as ""little more than female window dressing""'"
2009-06-06,b'German radio is reporting that the Great Anglo-American invasion has begun. We are denying these reports as German propaganda. Nonetheless here is what they say. (Archival Audio)'
2009-06-06,b'The shot that changed Germany'
2009-06-06,b'Pakistan - One Ahmadi trader killed while another escapes from attempted beheading by fundamentalists'
2009-06-06,"b'At least 29 children have been killed in a fire that swept through a state-run daycare centre in north-western Mexico, officials say'"
2009-06-06,"b""S.Korea says no compromise against North's threats"""
2009-06-06,b'Ambush kills aides to pro-Taliban Pakistani cleric'
2009-06-06,b'This is what defeat looks like'
2009-06-06,b'The Icesave contract to be signed tonight - Icelandic news in English'
2009-06-06,b'Brown waits on reshuffle response'
2009-06-06,b'North Korea pledges to retaliate against South Korea for joining PSI'
2009-06-06,b'Peruvian police captives killed'
2009-06-06,b'Rescuers search for dozens missing in China landslide'
2009-06-05,"b""Warning: Sir Richard Dearlove is concerned about the loss of liberties in 'Big Brother' Britain The former head of MI6 has hit out at 'striking and disturbing' invasions of privacy by the Big Brother state. """
2009-06-05,"b""Jewish communities in Galilee: We're not racist, we just don't want Arabs to move in."""
2009-06-05,b'Surplus of Bachelors Spurs Scam in China - WSJ.com'
2009-06-05,"b'One more reason to remember June 4th, 1989'"
2009-06-05,"b'British Government ""falling apart"" after the third resignation by a cabinet minister in three days'"
2009-06-05,b'Peace index ranks New Zealand the safest country in the world'
2009-06-05,"b""Netherlands' Anti-Muslim party the big winner of European Parliament elections. I'm so fucking embarassed to be Dutch today."""
2009-06-05,"b""Dutch far-right 'gain' in EU poll"""
2009-06-05,b' Record turnout at Hong Kong Tiananmen candlelight vigil'
2009-06-05,"b""Nationalisation and workers' control in Venezuela: When the working class roars, capitalists tremble"""
2009-06-05,"b'British Government ""falling apart"": PM Gordon Brown told to go as third minister quits'"
2009-06-05,b'Canada refuses U.S. request to accept Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo'
2009-06-05,"b'Remembering Tiananmen, 20 years later (PICS) '"
2009-06-05,"b""UN: Israeli buffer zone eats up 30 percent of Gaza's arable land"""
2009-06-05,"b'Iran\'s Supreme Leader Responds to Obama\'s Cairo Speech, ""Muslims Will Continue to Hate America, Beautiful Speeches Won\'t Change That"".....'"
2009-06-05,"b'Another Palestinian protester dies from ""rubber bullet"".  Witnesses said Israeli troops fired tear gas, rubber bullets and possibly live rounds at rock-throwing demonstrators in the village.'"
2009-06-05,b'This kind of thing makes you wonder why we even bother to keep secrets from other countries.'
2009-06-05,b'How Tiananmen shook Europe'
2009-06-05,b'Debris found in Atlantic not from missing Air France plane'
2009-06-05,"b'Recovered debris not from Air France jet, Brazilian officials say '"
2009-06-05,b'Is Gordon Brown Still Prime Minister?'
2009-06-05,"b'""Everything that is happening in politics and economics in China today has some connection with Tiananmen""'"
2009-06-05,"b""They still haven't found a trace of that Air France jet yet."""
2009-06-05,"b'Under foreign pressure to reach a truce, the Sri Lankan government decided to achieve a speedy victory over the Tamil rebels by relying more on shelling, which caused more civilian casualties. Way to go, world!'"
2009-06-05,"b'Companies hire ""shipriders"" against Somali pirates'"
2009-06-04,b'David Carradine Found Dead in Bangkok'
2009-06-04,"b'Never before published photo, before shown only to friends, shows ""Tank Man"" from street level in the distance at left, framed by two tree trunks, on the verge of the confrontation with the tanks in the distance right. [PIC]'"
2009-06-04,"b""Mitsubishi corners 40% of the world market in bluefin tuna - one of the world's most endangered fish - freezing them for future sale in several years' time for astronomical sums when they become commercially extinct"""
2009-06-04,b'Chinese authorities on Tiananmen square use their umbrellas to cover the view whenever CNN tries to film something. Subtle. [video]'
2009-06-04,b'Chinese Police Armed With Umbrellas [vid]'
2009-06-04,"b'""Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children,"" wrote Rabbi Manis Friedman who now claims the quote was ""misleading"" because they were the answer to a different question !'"
2009-06-04,"b""Another girls' school blown up in Pakistan"""
2009-06-04,b'Tank Man. Great Frontline Documentary about the Tiananmen Square protests that happened 20 years ago today.'
2009-06-04,b'International Media being blocked from filming in Tiananmen Square due to ridiculous and hilarious censorship method'
2009-06-04,"b'PM Gordon Brown faces growing pressure to quit: European, British polls, rebel MPs and Ministerial resignations'"
2009-06-04,"b""The US president paid tribute to Islam's influence on religion, culture and civilisation, and started with the traditional Arabic greeting assalaamu alaykum  peace be upon you  to thunderous applause."""
2009-06-04,b'Chinese govt use umbrellas to stop foreign journalists recording around Tiananmen Square'
2009-06-04,"b'Eddie Izzard says vote for anyone , even mice , not the BNP .Less than an hour to fight racists UK.'"
2009-06-04,b'Infant formulas purchased from stores in Canada show widespread tainting with traces of melamine'
2009-06-04,"b'A Turkish shopkeeper in Brighton, East Sussex, has been banned from selling alcohol until he learns to speak English well enough to ask customers their age. '"
2009-06-04,b'President Obama Speaks to the Muslim World from Cairo (VIDEO)'
2009-06-04,b'Iran first ever live TV presidential elections debate shows hard-hitting encounter between Ahmadinejad and opponents'
2009-06-04,b'Slate.com has a great gallery remembering the Tiananmen Square protest and massacre'
2009-06-04,"b'China ""ready to pounce"" on Tiananmen protests'"
2009-06-04,b'Thinking of voting BNP ?'
2009-06-04,b'Boris falls into river'
2009-06-04,b'Appeals court reinstates lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell PLC unit over the 1995 deaths of Nigerian activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and others'
2009-06-04,"b""Actually, where I'm from June, 4th 1989 is celebrated as the day freedom finally triumphed after 50 long years"""
2009-06-04,"b""The BNP want national service and a gun in every home . Refuse conscription and lose the right to vote , education and training . See page 52 ( google html version , it's that or a PDF)"""
2009-06-04,"b""Air France Flight 447 'may have stalled at 35,000ft'"""
2009-06-03,"b'June 4th, 1989'"
2009-06-03,b'Undercover With BNP Campaigners'
2009-06-03,"b'How did this slip by?  ""US Army Confirms Israeli Nukes""'"
2009-06-03,"b'Scores of Israelis rallied in front of the American Consulate in Jerusalem, labeled Barack Obama the most anti-Semitic American president.'"
2009-06-03,"b'Air France Flight A447: The Last 4 Minutes. ""The last message received was an advisory regarding cabin vertical speed.""'"
2009-06-03,"b""Cuba's 47-year suspension from the Organization of American States lifted without conditions"""
2009-06-03,b'Yemeni Prisoner Dies At Guantanamo of Apparent Suicide'
2009-06-03,"b'Hummer, now owned by the Chinese '"
2009-06-03,b'Australia staves off recession'
2009-06-03,"b'How the BNP has not changed . North West European candidate Nick Griffin speaking beside David Duke , KKK leader'"
2009-06-03,b'Was the crash of  Air France 447 caused by a programming error?'
2009-06-03,"b'Chinas government censors have begun to block access to the Internet services Twitter, Flickr, Hotmail and Live.com, broadening an already extraordinary effort to shield its citizens from any hint of Thursdays 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement.'"
2009-06-03,"b""Canadian Mint Can't Account for Missing Gold"""
2009-06-03,b'Problems much greater than anyone could have imagined |  The financial crisis in Iceland'
2009-06-03,b'North Korea will test the ICBM and mid-range missiles in a few weeks.'
2009-06-03,"b'Air France crash: plane may have broken up in mid-air and likely ""exploded at high altitude""'"
2009-06-03,b'Both China and the West have distorted the truth about the Tiananmen Square protests and the massacre that followed'
2009-06-03,"b'Uk Redditors - before you vote tomorrow, learn about the real BNP'"
2009-06-03,"b""The BNP in Manchester came with loudhailers  playing 'Rule Britannia'  to picket .... a cathedral  service."""
2009-06-03,"b'A 250m-long crop circle of a jellyfish has appeared on farmland causing up to 600,000 worth of damage.'"
2009-06-03,"b""New Zealand named world's most peaceful country"""
2009-06-03,"b'U.S. Report Finds Airstrike Errors in Afghan Deaths. ""The Afghan government concluded that about 140 civilians had been killed in the attacks."" '"
2009-06-03,"b""The World Bank decides to invest $121 million in helping Haiti develop; Bill Clinton named special envoy to the Western Hemisphere's poorest country."""
2009-06-03,b'Hazel Blears resigns from cabinet'
2009-06-03,b'Footage of Taliban bombing of security offices in Lahore'
2009-06-02,"b'Jaqui Smith finally fucking off, civil rights has a small respite and breathes a sigh of relief'"
2009-06-02,b'Life expectancy Vs Income/person across the world over 2 centuries [map]'
2009-06-02,"b""To understand how North Korea has come up with the money to finance its missile-and-nuclear-weapons program, it's important to realize that Koreans haven't been living in caves for the past 2 decades."""
2009-06-02,"b'Dutch journalist is kidnapped by Talibans who rape her repeatedly. Her comments about the Taliban: ""They also respected me"", ""They are not monsters"", ""... could not control his testosterone"". A story about Stockholm syndrome and the politically correct.'"
2009-06-02,"b'Why the Air France plane crashed: Salon\'s ""Ask the Pilot"" explains the possibilities'"
2009-06-02,b'A quick fix for up to half of all child deaths?'
2009-06-02,b'Mexico detains 25 police officers for alleged ties to drug traffickers'
2009-06-02,"b'Kazakhstan\'s former head of state nuclear power agency ""stole"" over 60% of the countries Uranium!'"
2009-06-02,b'Public believe politicians are corrupt. In other news: Bears shit in woods'
2009-06-02,b'Brazil Defense Minister confirms that the debris found belong to the missing Air France plane'
2009-06-02,b'Zimbabwe may replace worthless currency with South African rand'
2009-06-02,b'Rape Crisis in East Congo Tied to Mining Activity'
2009-06-02,"b'Denmark finishes first, US 28th, on Global Competitive Stress Test'"
2009-06-02,b'Red-faced police crack mystery'
2009-06-02,b'Kim Jong Il names successor'
2009-06-02,"b""There's a new world out there, countries where economic growth continues to power ahead, gov'ts aren't buried under a mountain of debt and citizens remain remarkably optimistic about their future."""
2009-06-02,b'Wreckage found for AirFrance flight 447'
2009-06-02,"b""Pakistan's Victories Over the Taliban: Less Than Meets the Eye - TIME"""
2009-06-02,b'Israel rejects US demands for settlement freeze: I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews should live in Jerusalem. - Israeli Government Press Director '
2009-06-02,"b'A thoughtful obituary for Roh Moo-hyun, former president of South Korea. ""Before he left the house, and before he jumped from a high cliff into a ravine, he had left a note to his family on his computer. He said he had \'made the life of too many people difficult.\'""'"
2009-06-02,"b'Obama pledges new realism in ties with Israel  warning the Jewish state of ""profoundly negative trends in the region, not only for Israeli interests but also US interests,""'"
2009-06-02,"b'Netanyahu: Obama Call For Settlement Freeze ""Unreasonable""'"
2009-06-02,b'Hardline Pakistani cleric linked to Mumbai attacks released by Pakistani high court'
2009-06-02,b'The Dark Side of Plan Colombia: How the U.S. is Subsidizing Death and Drug Trafficking on Stolen Lands'
2009-06-02,b'Google Earth guide to the palaces of North Korea:  Amateur spies put North Korea on the map'
2009-06-01,b'An Air France aircraft carrying 215 people has disappeared off the radar in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil'
2009-06-01,b'Can you tell the difference between an Israeli and a Palestinian? '
2009-06-01,"b'Former German MP/Judge offers $1m reward for prosecution of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Blair'"
2009-06-01,b'North Korea starts landing exercises using amphibious vessels - may be planning attack on South Korean island'
2009-06-01,b'President of El Salvador sends son to France to escape the violence of his native El Salvador. Son is stabbed to death with an awl on a Parisian bridge in a random act of violence with no apparent motive.'
2009-06-01,"b'Indonesian model that married Malaysian prince says she was kidnapped, drugged and sexually abused by the royal family, escapes with help of Singaporean police'"
2009-06-01,"b'""The Attack on the LIBERTY: The Untold Story of Israel\'s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship"":A Book Review and More'"
2009-06-01,"b""El Salvador's first leftist president takes power - Hillary Clinton attended the inauguration"""
2009-06-01,"b""Thousands of Indian farmers switching back to organic from Agribusiness' genetic engineered crops"""
2009-06-01,"b'several hundred students are missing, maybe kidnapped in Pakistan'"
2009-06-01,b'North Korea prepares for more missile tests'
2009-06-01,"b""Zimbabwe's Destitute Britons Repatriated"""
2009-06-01,"b""China, USA or Russia - Where is cybercrime's heart of darkness?"""
2009-06-01,b'Russian police makes first ever bittorrent raid'
2009-06-01,"b""Today's the day that Canada and the US officially become separate countries"""
2009-06-01,b'Australian tax payers to fund obesity surgery!'
2009-06-01,b'Fears mount that North Korea is preparing to attack the South'
2009-06-01,"b'Stay at least 1,000 feet from the border, the May 25 pamphlets advised Palestinians, or risk being shot by the IDF. The UN says the Israeli buffer zone eats up 30 percent of Gaza\'s arable land. ""The Israeli soldiers, they shoot at everything  dogs, sheep.""'"
2009-06-01,b'Millions in Europe sink into unemployment and poverty'
2009-06-01,b'Israel stages Biggest-ever War drill'
2009-06-01,b'The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment?'
2009-06-01,"b""Tiananmen Square survivor pleads: Don't forget the truth"""
2009-06-01,b'[breaking] Air France aeroplane goes missing off the coast of Brasil with 215 on board'
2009-06-01,"b'Escaping North Korea-  Defection is daunting. So is starting a new, free life.'"
2009-06-01,b'Special Report: Combating Piracy - Piracy is on the rise; so are efforts to stop it '
2009-05-31,"b'Dear United States, Please stop selling North Korea nuclear material. Thanks. Rest of the world.'"
2009-05-31,b'Thousands Protest in Hong Kong to Mark Tiananmen Anniversary'
2009-05-31,"b'Bomb found, defused aboard Iranian jet '"
2009-05-31,"b""French gov't report charge religious cults - including Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientology, Mormons - with having a growing influence in the United Nations"""
2009-05-31,b'How GM seeds (Bt GM wonder seeds with customized herbicides) killed more Indians than World War II'
2009-05-31,b'Berlusconi tries to block publication of photos of topless young women taken at his villa'
2009-05-31,"b'Convicted killer beheaded, put on display in Saudi Arabia - CNN.com'"
2009-05-31,b'Why Are They Trying To Gag A Top British Science Writer?'
2009-05-31,b'The most authoritative map of North Korea on Google Earth'
2009-05-31,"b'North West England is the last hope of the BNP getting a Euro MP . One candidate there states his hobbies as ""devising slow and terrible ways of paying back the Guardian-reading cunts who have betrayed the British people into poverty and slavery. I AM NOT JOKING.""'"
2009-05-31,"b'Conference Board of Canada admits that its publicly funded, plagiarized, biased copyright ""research"" is junk'"
2009-05-31,b'Dying man cashes in by not cashing in his chips'
2009-05-31,"b"" After Tiananmen, China dissidents bide time against Party.  Instead of crumbling, China's Communist Party has strengthened its hold on power since the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters."""
2009-05-31,b'As the gory details of what the Tamil population of northern Sri Lanka have been subjected in recent weeks emerge - bit by bloody bit - there is need for a full accounting of every act of barbarity committed against them by the Sri Lankan government.'
2009-05-31,"b""Italy's Berlusconi blocks publication of party photos"""
2009-05-31,"b""Israeli Arabs defiant on 'loyalty laws' plan"""
2009-05-31,b'An Egyptian Cabinet minister who offered to burn Hebrew books last year enters the final straight as favourite for leadership of Unesco'
2009-05-31,b'Palestine vs Palestine: Six Palestinians die in shootout between Hamas and Fatah'
2009-05-31,b'Senior Labour MPs have discussed defecting to the Liberal Democrats if the party loses the election.'
2009-05-31,"b'Oops... Iraqi Trade Minister is corrupt and non-representative..  Arrested while trying to flee the country from charges of embezzlement and fraud. There are arrest warrants for 997 officials from various government offices, in addition to 387 warrants already served. '"
2009-05-31,"b""Tamil children as young as 11 were forced at gunpoint to fight for the Tigers in Sri Lanka's civil war. Survivors talk of their ordeal."""
2009-05-31,"b""Record numbers of Britons are queueing up for assisted suicide at Swiss clinic; Lords will hear plea to overturn law that criminalises anyone who aids, abets, counsels or procures someone else's suicide"""
2009-05-31,"b'The BNP legal adviser Lee Barnes - ""The beating of Rodney King still makes me laugh."" ...merely a reflection of his belief that the police should have more powers to punish perpetrators of crime by ""giving them a good thrashing"".'"
2009-05-31,b'The war on women in Darfur'
2009-05-31,"b'""This is not the first time caste tensions in India burst into bloody violence in Europe. Similar incidents have happened in the United Kingdom and even in the United States'"
2009-05-30,b'Nazis unwind at Auschwitz. Reminder: Ordinary people were capable of the atrocities there'
2009-05-30,"b'British town of Luton, members of the Muslim community confronted extremists and drove them from the streets.'"
2009-05-30,b'Israeli Spy Networks in Lebanon are Falling Apart: A Major Strategic Blow To Israel. '
2009-05-30,b'Russia begins destroying Cold War WMDs.  New $1.45-billion facility in Siberia will eliminate huge stockpile of chemical weapons.'
2009-05-30,b'Time lapse videos of the Earth impacted by human driven change'
2009-05-30,b'Saudi Arabia puts executed man on a cross for display'
2009-05-30,"b'""US slams recent attacks in Iran"", but the group responsible for it has ties to US ...'"
2009-05-30,"b""Pakistan army 'regains' Swat city"""
2009-05-30,b'Russian human rights activist seeks asylum in Finland'
2009-05-30,b'Now Germany is cracking down on executive pay too'
2009-05-30,b'North Korea believed to be preparing for ICBM launch: source'
2009-05-30,"b'""I thought I was helping the state of Israel without harming the United States.'"
2009-05-30,"b'Hundreds of demonstrators were trussed and tossed into trucks, where 85 died of suffocation'"
2009-05-30,"b""Slumdog stars 'to get new homes'"""
2009-05-30,b'Amnesty International Report 2009: Middle East And North Africa (note what it says about Gaza)'
2009-05-30,b'North Korea could opt for devastating land assault - '
2009-05-30,b'The Wall of sound is going to be quiet for 19 years..'
2009-05-30,b'Irans Presidential Elections: The Hard-Liners in a Panic'
2009-05-30,b'Berlusconi Moves to Block Publication of Photos'
2009-05-30,b'Iran executes trio for mosque bombing'
2009-05-30,b'Iran blames US for preelection violence'
2009-05-30,"b""US 'Dilettantism' in Opel Negotiations?"""
2009-05-30,"b'Malaria vaccine trial begins in Africa on 16,000 people'"
2009-05-30,"b""Video films made by the Taliban in Pakistan's troubled Swat valley show teenage boys being groomed as suicide bombers for revenge attacks against local security forces"""
2009-05-30,b'In pictures: China spouse market'
2009-05-29,"b'The hidden massacre: More than 20,000 Tamil civilians were killed in the final throes of the Sri Lankan civil war, most as a result of government shelling'"
2009-05-29,"b'You got to love it - ""One of Canada\'s most respected research organizations has a black eye after being forced to withdraw three reports on copyright and intellectual property because they contained plagiarized information""'"
2009-05-29,b'Scientology on Trial in France: Can a Religion Be Banned?'
2009-05-29,"b""Canada's Governor General defends her decision to eat raw seal heart"""
2009-05-29,"b'At the same time as Bush officials were accusing Iran of harboring Al Qaeda terrorists, Iran was secretly helping the U.S. bomb taliban units and find Al Qaeda operatives'"
2009-05-29,b'The slaves next door: Domestic slavery is alive and well in the world'
2009-05-29,"b'An Iranian official talks about yesterday\'s mosque bombing that killed 20 people: ""The terrorists, who were equipped by America in one of our neighbouring countries, carried out this criminal act in their efforts to create religious conflict and fear and to influence the presidential election.""'"
2009-05-29,"b'""Chinese fishing boats operating near the Northern Limit Line (NLL) began withdrawing yesterday,"" - ""Now that there\'s talk of... an all-out war, we fishermen are worried."" '"
2009-05-29,"b'Two British men have been arrested in France after customs officers found a record 684kg (1,507lbs) of cocaine inside their lorry'"
2009-05-29,b'Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology : Wikioperating Thetan Level Zero'
2009-05-29,"b""Despite the fact that half the world menstruates, most people overlook the serious repercussions of a lack of affordable sanitary supplies in developing countries. The reason? Most people don't know that it is a problem."""
2009-05-29,b'North Korea fires short-range missile off east coast'
2009-05-29,"b""The most expensive American public diplomacy effort in decades, a U.S. funded Arab network that has cost us $500M+ since 2004, now has a viewership of 0.5 percent, below the poll's margin of error. Yet Its budget keeps increasing."""
2009-05-29,b'This bird should definately win mother of the year 2009'
2009-05-29,b'Chinese ships shunning waters near Korea amid tensions'
2009-05-29,b'Heavy rainfall causes dam burst in Brazilian state of Piaui'
2009-05-29,b'The memoirs of Zhao Ziyang provide insight into what China would be like today if the 1989 democracy movement had prevailed.'
2009-05-29,b'Iran official blames U.S. in deadly mosque bombing'
2009-05-29,b'1968 Revisited: The Truth about the Gunshot that Changed Germany'
2009-05-29,b'The Inuit may be more at risk than seals'
2009-05-29,b'Swedish companies uses crisis as pretext to shed poor performers'
2009-05-29,"b""Chances are, you live in one of the 14 nations with armed forces known to have used cluster munitions, categorically prohibited by the Oslo Process.  Here's the full report."""
2009-05-29,b'The harsh necessity of child labour'
2009-05-29,"b""'Kidnapped son' found on Facebook"""
2009-05-29,"b""Sully's passengers reunited with items they thought gone forever"""
2009-05-28,b'16 year old Iraqi Immigrant cracks centuries-old mathematical puzzle'
2009-05-28,b'The Palestinian Archipelago [Map]'
2009-05-28,"b'Israel to continue construction in West Bank despite US calls for a freeze on its work.  Also, will continue accepting money from US taxpayers'"
2009-05-28,"b""SIBEL EDMONDS: Announcing 'Project Expose MSM' | Whistleblowers set to name names, turn tables on media who've betrayed our trust | Newsweek reporters named in 'real-life' case example of new project..."""
2009-05-28,"b'Israelis get four times more water than Palestinians, says World Bank report'"
2009-05-28,b'Italian Prime Minister is having an affair with an 18 year old girl.'
2009-05-28,b'High school athlete convicted of manslaughter in rugby death'
2009-05-28,"b'After 14 years, pipeline deal agreed.  Good news for Iran, Pakistan,Russia, China.  Bad news for Afghanistan, Europe, USA.'"
2009-05-28,"b'From Bangkok to Berlin, Hard Times Hit the Sex Trade'"
2009-05-28,"b'Italy sinks closer to criminal rule as cash-rich Mafia tightens its grip on the country, defying Berlusconi'"
2009-05-28,b'UN brushes aside calls to investigate Sri Lanka war crimes'
2009-05-28,b'Countries that are Least Affected by Recession'
2009-05-28,b'Nowadays we know that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine was an orchestrated operation that was planned well in advance.'
2009-05-28,"b'""Evening Standard are happy to sell newspapers in this way? Even though one of their own vendors was f*****g KILLED during this trouble?""'"
2009-05-28,b'Argentina - Supreme Court orders reopening of AMIA probe: 85 people died in 1994 bombing of Jewish centre'
2009-05-28,b'Palestinians declared that an Israeli return to the 1948 borders would solve the problems'
2009-05-28,b'U.N. command rejects N. Korean nullification of Korean War truce  '
2009-05-28,"b'First there was the Nakba law, then the loyalty oath, now the Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would institute a one year jail sentence for anyone who speaks ""against Israel\'s existence as a Jewish and democratic state."" '"
2009-05-28,b'Defending Israeli War Crimes'
2009-05-28,b'Australia sends money to dead people'
2009-05-28,"b'Proposed Israeli law to outlaw expressions of grief or mourning on the anniversary of Israel\'s independence is a ""Zionist and patriotic bill""'"
2009-05-28,b'China guts budding civil rights movement'
2009-05-28,"b'U.S., South Korea raise military alert on North'"
2009-05-28,"b""Well there's a bloody surprise!"""
2009-05-28,b'Roxana Saberi On Her Imprisonment In Iran'
2009-05-27,"b'Fuck: N Korea warns of possible military strike   -- ""No longer bound by the 1953 armistice""'"
2009-05-27,b'Australian government admits less than 32% of secret censorship list is related to underage images'
2009-05-27,b'Deng Yujiao was an unknown 21-year-old worker in a Chinese provincial town: one of millions quietly scraping a living. Now she is an unwilling hero to tens of thousands of compatriots after stabbing to death an official who she says tried to rape her when she rejected his advances.'
2009-05-27,"b'Wiwa vs Shell Oil trial postponed. Ken Saro-Wiwa, an acclaimed writer and leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), was hanged along with eight other Ogoni leaders'"
2009-05-27,"b'Twenty years after Tiananmen, China erases the incident by buying off scholars and giving students something to dream about.'"
2009-05-27,"b'EU sues Sweden, demands law requiring ISPs to retain data'"
2009-05-27,"b'Israeli Knesset Approves Initial Bill That Would Make Denial of ""Jewish State"" a Crime Punishable by a Year In Prison'"
2009-05-27,b'Netherlands to Close Prisons: Not Enough Criminals'
2009-05-27,"b'Alien found in Lahore, Pakistan....killed by children.....WTF!!!'"
2009-05-27,b'Home Secretary to be sued over MI5 torture allegation'
2009-05-27,"b'Chevron, Shell and the True Cost of Oil: It is very clear that Chevron, just like Shell, uses the military to protect its oil activities. They drill and they kill.'"
2009-05-27,"b""UK journalist Suzanne Breen: 'I'll go to jail rather than give up source' """
2009-05-27,b'North Korea threatens to attack South if ships searched'
2009-05-27,b'Poll: Hugo Chavez is the most popular leader in the Arab world'
2009-05-27,b'Aung San Suu Kyi allowed one witness at trial in Burma'
2009-05-27,b'North Korea: No longer bound by 1953 truce'
2009-05-27,"b'Huge explosions rock city of Lahore, Pakistan'"
2009-05-27,b'UK in the middle of a butterfly invasion - arriving at 50 a minute'
2009-05-27,b'North Korea preparing to fire missiles from west coast'
2009-05-27,"b""'He would have found bin Laden' - CNN.com"""
2009-05-27,"b""Russia fears Korea conflict could go nuclear - taking 'precautionary measures'"""
2009-05-27,b'Climate conference sex boom-Copenhagens sex trade did brisk business during the recent business climate conference. '
2009-05-27,"b""Canada's governor general, Michaelle Jean, helped butcher and eat seal's heart  as an act of solidarity with hunters"""
2009-05-27,b'North Korea warns it will attack South if ships are intercepted'
2009-05-27,"b""N Korea threatens military action after South Korea joined anti-proliferation exercise to search the North's ships"""
2009-05-26,"b'European Parliament in for a shock from The Pirate Party: ""Our politicians are digital illiterates ""'"
2009-05-26,b'Putin to the West: Hands Off Ukraine'
2009-05-26,b'Pirate Bay Money Squeeze Rejected by Court - The request from four major record labels to fine the Pirate Bay operators for every day the site remains up and running was declined by the Swedish District Court'
2009-05-26,"b""Russia: Has a 26yo gymnast just given birth to Vladimir Putin's illegitimate son?"""
2009-05-26,b'Crooks in Parliament - How British MPs defrauded the taxpayers and are getting away with it!'
2009-05-26,"b""N. Korea's nuclear blast showed up on seismographs with the punch of a magnitude 4.7 earthquake, or 10 to 20 kilotons, on par with Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs"""
2009-05-26,b'Fraud trial against Scientologists threatens to drive Scientology out of France'
2009-05-26,"b'United Nations officials in Afghanistan are attempting to create a ""flood of drugs"" in the country intended to destroy the value of opium and force poppy farmers to switch to legal crops such as wheat.'"
2009-05-26,b'Town of the damned: 18 children all with the same terrible birth defects. Coincidence - or victims of a poisonous past?'
2009-05-26,"b'North Korea has test-fired two more missiles, hours after the UN Security Council unanimously condemned its nuclear test, South Korean reports say.'"
2009-05-26,b'Mexico: 10 mayors arrested in a drug trafficking operation'
2009-05-26,b'Iran has sent 6 warships and logistic vessels to the Gulf of Aden and the surrounding international waters'
2009-05-26,"b'In Brazil, they use model helicopters to sneak mobile phones into jail.  Beats using a balloon to smuggle it on your persons.'"
2009-05-26,b'The United Nations special tribunal investigating the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri has reached surprising new conclusions -- and it is keeping them secret. Investigators now believe Hezbollah was behind the Hariri murder.'
2009-05-26,"b""(Africa) Donors are now focusing less on charity and more on the continent's small entrepreneurs"""
2009-05-26,"b""Unbelievable hypocrisy of far right leader, Nick Griffin. He claims to be a patriot when he has a history of praising the courage of Hitler's SS and accusing Britain's RAF of mass murder"""
2009-05-26,b'Israeli party proposes loyalty bill which would force Arabic community to swear allegiance to Jewish state'
2009-05-26,"b""We'll dismantle wildcat West Bank settlements - but only if 'legal' ones can stay, claim Israelis"""
2009-05-26,b'Dubai suffers biggest house price slump in the world'
2009-05-26,b'Russia Military now following US with Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles?'
2009-05-26,"b'Zimbabwe cholera close to 100,000 and over 4000 deaths'"
2009-05-26,b'Israel Willing To Reign In Settlements In Exchange For Hostility with Iran '
2009-05-26,b'North Korea fires two more missiles'
2009-05-26,"b'Scientology Trial Could Ban the ""Church"" in France'"
2009-05-26,b'Traces of cocaine found in Red Bull. '
2009-05-25,"b""C'est magnifique!  The Church of Scientology is set to go on trial in France, accused of organised fraud."""
2009-05-25,b'Netherlands to close prisons for lack of criminals'
2009-05-25,b'North Korea has conducted a nuclear test'
2009-05-25,b'Blow Back: Cocaine Traces Found in Red Bull Cola'
2009-05-25,b'2.4 million Pakistanis have become internally displaced since May 2'
2009-05-25,"b""USGS seismic data from today's North Korean nuclear test: Magnitude 4.7"""
2009-05-25,"b""This is why you don't update your Facebook status while drunk: Police on the trail of the $10million theives"""
2009-05-25,b'MP wants to brand 43% of population'
2009-05-25,"b""Hard-line Israeliparty (of Avigdor Lieberman) to introduce two bills: one to force Israeli Arabs to swear loyalty to the Jewish state or risk severe punishment, the other to make it illegal to mourn the Nakba (the Palestinian exile upon Israel's founding)"""
2009-05-25,b'Less than 50 percent of Africans want democracy '
2009-05-25,b'Nearly 100 human skulls found in pond in northern India'
2009-05-25,"b""North Korea conducted a second and far more powerful nuclear test on Monday, triggering an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on the hermit state's defiant act"""
2009-05-25,b'Canadian multiculturalism is in rude health and has licked the kinds of problems that crop up in other countries. Haroon Siddiqui explains how. | May 2009 | New Internationalist'
2009-05-25,"b'Pictured: The ruined wasteland of Sri Lanka as 300,000 people are displaced after war with Tamil Tigers'"
2009-05-25,"b'""Ants crawled out of neglected girl\'s mouth""'"
2009-05-25,"b""Gender issues worsen Iraq's medical woes - A man would prefer his wife die in labor than be touched by man"""
2009-05-25,b'Burma -- Aung San Suu Kyi will testify in her trial tomorrow (Tuesday)'
2009-05-25,b'11 crushed by unlucky Rabat feet.'
2009-05-25,b'Iran: Political Prisoners Life in Danger '
2009-05-25,b'North Korea Conducts Second Nuclear Test'
2009-05-25,"b'Iran\'s Ahmadinejad rejects Western nuclear proposal for it to ""freeze"" its nuclear work in return for no new sanctions.'"
2009-05-25,"b""India air force chief says wary of China's military"""
2009-05-25,b'Swaziland suggests branding the buttocks of HIV sufferers to promote safe sex?'
2009-05-25,b'Elevated roadway collapses in China [w/pics]'
2009-05-25,"b'Nurse shortage: Free German lessons, five weeks of vacation, and a range of plastic-surgery options, including complimentary silicone-enhanced breasts. If Plastic Surgery Wont Convince You, What Will?'"
2009-05-24,"b'Everything you know about Iran is wrong. (Not you, reddit)'"
2009-05-24,"b'Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya\'alon: We will not let the US threaten us; we will not yield to U.S. demands, we will not halt settlement construction""'"
2009-05-24,"b'Spanish judges invoke universal jurisdiction which gives them authority to prosecute high-ranking government officials in the U.S., China and Israel for torture, genocide and crimes against humanity'"
2009-05-24,"b""Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels have admitted for the first time that their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead."""
2009-05-24,"b'Israel Moves Closer to Banning Any ""Nakba Day"" Events - Wants to Imprison Any Palestinians that Publicly Mourn Their Losses of 1948'"
2009-05-24,b'Netanyahu says settlements can expand'
2009-05-24,b'Armed Israeli police close theatre on first night of Palestinian festival'
2009-05-24,b'Israeli tourism ministry puts up posters of Palestinian occupied territories as Israel - 342 complaints!'
2009-05-24,b'Mongolians vote in presidential election'
2009-05-24,"b'UN chief visits Sri Lanka\'s biggest refugee camp and sees ""raw agony""'"
2009-05-24,b'Remembering the old Swat that was like paradise on earth'
2009-05-24,b'Pakistan: Love marriage greeted by the torture of a family; one girl is abducted by a Punjab MP'
2009-05-24,"b'Pakistan: 1095 terrorists killed, security forces storm into Mingora'"
2009-05-24,b'Iran bans Facebook'
2009-05-24,b'Former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun jumped to his death after being hounded for weeks in a widening corruption scandal.'
2009-05-24,b'Would-be suicide jumper pushed off bridge'
2009-05-24,b'Iranian authorities say a woman accused of being a serial killer took her ideas from the novels of crime writer Agatha Christie.'
2009-05-24,b'Spanish Intelligence Agents Expelled From Cuba'
2009-05-24,"b'U.N. seeks full access to Sri Lankan refugee camps (Ban Ki-Moon: Ban Ki-moon says camp contains ""the most appalling scenes I have seen."")'"
2009-05-24,"b'Curfew in Jalandhar, India after shoot-out in Sikh temple in Vienna, Austria'"
2009-05-24,b'Malaysia police raid opposition headquarters'
2009-05-24,b'Important International Moving Tips '
2009-05-24,"b'Prepare for WAR! he biggest financial bubble in history is being inflated in plain sight, said Gerald Celente, Director of The Trends Research Institute. ""This is the Mother of All Bubbles, and when it explodes,"" Celente warns'"
2009-05-24,b'Tamil self-determination and the LTTE: Some lessons for the struggle'
2009-05-24,b'The state of palestine quiz'
2009-05-23,"b'Former South Korean president kills himself because he\'s ""in debt to too many people"".'"
2009-05-23,b'Greece - Muslim immigrants clash with police for a second day over Koran incident'
2009-05-23,b'Jelly Dildos Cause Autism'
2009-05-23,b'Swat Valley: Pakistan Claims New Gains Against the Taliban'
2009-05-23,b'Moscow mayor offers to host world counter-terrorist center'
2009-05-23,"b""Initially welcomed, the mullahs controlled Mingora with burnings and beheadings. Now Pakistan's army could expel them"""
2009-05-23,b'Royal Navy warships dispatched as Spanish invade seas around Gibraltar'
2009-05-23,"b""Former leader's apparent suicide stuns South Korea"""
2009-05-23,b'New photographs that show British soldiers on their way to the Somme. But who took them? And who were these Tommies marching off to die? '
2009-05-23,b'Poll 30% of Israelis Would Flee Homes if Iran Goes Nuclear...'
2009-05-23,b'Fighting rages between Pakistan army and terrorist militants'
2009-05-23,b'Palestinian officials said no political plan for peace in the region will be accepted without the right of Palestinians to return to their homelands'
2009-05-23,"b""Pakistan army 'in Taliban city' """
2009-05-23,"b'Former South Korean president commits suicide by leaping off cliff. Take a hint, George.'"
2009-05-23,b'GM cuts ties with four Ottawa dealerships'
2009-05-23,b'Former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun died on Saturday after falling into a ravine while climbing a mountain.'
2009-05-23,b'French Turn to Cows as Alternative Investments'
2009-05-23,b'Communist leader elected Nepal PM'
2009-05-23,b'Double the number of Australians now being treated for heroin addiction'
2009-05-23,"b""(Greece) Muslim 'Immigrants' in Second Day of Rioting..."""
2009-05-23,"b'Wales, UK, plans for energy self-sufficiency with renewables in 20 years'"
2009-05-23,b'Egypt arrests Al Qaeda terror attack suspects'
2009-05-23,"b""Alaska's Naitve's struggling to survive while Palin hands out cookies"""
2009-05-23,"b'""My revenge will be the laughter of my children in the new homeland"" - ex-IRA man talks to British Tamil girl'"
2009-05-23,b'Report: Lebanon arrests three Israeli spies'
2009-05-22,b'Tiananmen anniversary unimportant to Chinese youth :('
2009-05-22,"b""Full text of letter police psychologist wrote to mother of Robert Dziekanski, who died after an altercation with RCMP officers at Vancouver's airport in 2007"""
2009-05-22,"b""The Dark Continent: Hitler's European Holocaust Helpers (Interesting Spiegel Cover Story That Causes 'A Wave of Outrage' in Poland)"""
2009-05-22,b'Police retention of photographs of protesters ruled illegal'
2009-05-22,"b'""Some 98 percent of Denmark\'s 7,500 Jews survived World War II. By contrast, only nine percent of the Dutch Jews survived.""'"
2009-05-22,"b'Far-right Czech party in trouble over airing campeign commercial called for ""a final solution to the Gypsy issue"".'"
2009-05-22,b'Anti-drug effort in Afghanistan a failure: US admiral'
2009-05-22,b'Russia Moves to Ban Criticism of WWII Win'
2009-05-22,b' Brazilian prison'
2009-05-22,b'Royal Dutch Shell faces charges of crimes against humanity'
2009-05-22,b'UK: Camera grid to log number plates (will be in place within months)'
2009-05-22,"b'Bush: ""It\'s liberating to be out of office.""'"
2009-05-22,"b'The disease referred to as a contagious cancer, Devil Facial Tumor Disease, is decimating the population of Tasmanian Devils, leading experts to predict the extinction of the species in as little as 20 years.'"
2009-05-22,"b'Public millions fail to provide wells, schools and clinics in Afghanistan'"
2009-05-22,"b'Venezuela\'s Chavez raids last remaining opposition media, for having too many Toyotas. ""The owners of the residence will have to explain what these vehicles are doing there and why they aren\'t in a dealership,"" said Police chief  Wilmer Trossel'"
2009-05-22,b'German Pirate Party Sets Course For European Parliament'
2009-05-22,"b'The broker in the British MP\'s expences scandal comes forward, claims he was motivated by ""[Goverment] want to know everything about us, I think we\'re entitled to know about them"". Doesn\'t reveal if he was paid, or how much'"
2009-05-22,b'Spain reinstates charges against 3 US soldiers over the death of Spanish journalist'
2009-05-22,"b'Achtung! Papers Please! Canadian musician, Allison Crowe, ""barred from entry"" into England because of some obscure new anti-immigration, anti-terrorist rule'"
2009-05-22,"b""Muslim Publics Oppose Al Qaeda's Terrorism, But Agree With Its Goal of Driving US Forces Out"""
2009-05-22,"b""Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide:   Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil - WSJ.com"""
2009-05-22,b'Officials in Serbia are investigating an Orthodox Church-run rehabilitation centre where drug addicts have allegedly been filmed being beaten'
2009-05-22,"b'When Pigs Fly-and Scold: Brits Lecturing Sri Lanka! (""Whats sick about this is that the British establishment destroyed the Sinhalese people completely."")'"
2009-05-22,"b""The news is confusing, misleading, fragmented and sometimes, frightening, so we've asked two informed observers of that region, both of whom have lived in Pakistan to try to help us sort it out."""
2009-05-22,"b'Libya: Libyan Dissident, Long Imprisoned, Is Dead'"
2009-05-21,"b'The Nigerian military has been accused of killing hundreds, maybe thousands, of civilians in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The military offensive began eight days ago but has received little international attention'"
2009-05-21,b'Couple do a runner after bank error sees $10m transferred into their account '
2009-05-21,b'Work for us or we will say you are a terrorist'
2009-05-21,"b'A 15-year-old girl has been charged with cultivating cannabis valued at 750,000'"
2009-05-21,"b""How fox news' sister channel, sky news, dealt with the discovery of a missing link"""
2009-05-21,b'Vancouver 2010 Olympic torch is...uniquely Canadian.'
2009-05-21,"b""UN Gaza inquiry 'to proceed despite Israel' """
2009-05-21,b' First Italian restaurant opens in Pyongyang [PICS]'
2009-05-21,b'A flock of ravens kill 14 calves in central Sweden'
2009-05-21,"b""'Settlers' assault two elderly men, 'five settlers attacked me and knocked me to the ground', 'When I was about ten meters from Abdullah and the settlers, my brother fell to the ground and started to bleed. Then, he got up and ran from the settlers, who continued to throw stones at us'"""
2009-05-21,"b'""Violence can be fought with jobs ..."" The Diary of a Mexican Drug Lord'"
2009-05-21,b'China says rich nations must cut emissions by 40%'
2009-05-21,b'Israeli bulldozers roll through the West Bank 3 days after Obama meets with Netanyahu in Washington.'
2009-05-21,b'Apple Under Fire in Taiwan '
2009-05-21,"b""Russian economy drives unemployed to eat dogs, take over mayor's office"""
2009-05-21,b'North Korea executes official favourable to dialogue with South'
2009-05-21,"b'Rotterdam, Eurabia'"
2009-05-21,b'Voice of Mickey Mouse dies at 62'
2009-05-21,"b'The Poor Get Poorer: While Americans are worried about dips in their 401Ks, Asians are increasingly worried about more important things, like feeding their families.'"
2009-05-21,"b'Burma bars international observers from the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after allowing them in.'"
2009-05-21,b'Movie and music industry appeals Pirate Bay case - damages were too low'
2009-05-21,b'Lucky couple - Gone missing after bank mistakenly give them millions of $'
2009-05-21,b'Immigrants hurt in Greek violence'
2009-05-21,"b""US intruder said Suu Kyi 'scared'"""
2009-05-21,b'Thousands raped and abused in Catholic schools'
2009-05-20,"b""'Endemic' rape and abuse of Irish children in Catholic care, inquiry finds"""
2009-05-20,b'Catholic Church was aware long-term sex offenders were repeatedly abusing children for over 50 years in Irish schools.'
2009-05-20,"b'""The world has ignored our warnings."" Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency talks about being wiretapped by the Bush administration, whose ""arrogance and ignorance"" turned the Middle East into ""a giant mess.""'"
2009-05-20,"b'Thousands beaten, raped in Irish reform schools'"
2009-05-20,b'Thousands Rally Against President Colom in Guatemala'
2009-05-20,"b'Netanyahu aide call\'s Obama\'s 2-state plan ""stupid and childish""'"
2009-05-20,b'Quarter of a million Sri Lankans face two years in camps'
2009-05-20,b'Owls and kestrels are being employed as agricultural pest controllers in the Middle East.'
2009-05-20,"b""China has lost its position as the world's lowest-cost components manufacturer"""
2009-05-20,"b'An inquiry into child abuse at Catholic institutions in Ireland has found that sexual abuse was ""endemic"" in boys\' institutions'"
2009-05-20,"b'Silvio Berlusconi bribed British lawyer, say Italian judges'"
2009-05-20,"b'Eleven charged with the murder for smuggling human albino body parts out of Burundi into Tanzania, to be used in witchcraft'"
2009-05-20,b'Saudi Arabias brief and limited experiment with electoral democracy suffered another setback on Monday - elections pushed back two years'
2009-05-20,"b""Disabled prisoner unwashed for 6 months because staff wouldn't push wheelchairs unless they were trained"""
2009-05-20,"b""Hundreds of Irish Catholic priests 'to be implicated in child abuse report'"""
2009-05-20,"b'Irish brace for Catholic abuse report.  Investigation into sexual, physical and emotional damage was long delayed.'"
2009-05-20,b'Former England cricketer Chris Lewis has been found guilty of smuggling cocaine into Britain'
2009-05-20,b'Unemployed graduates in China to reach 3 million (out of 7.8 mil.) in 2009'
2009-05-20,"b'Iran test-fired a new advanced missile Wednesday with a range of about 1,200 miles, far enough to strike Israel and southeastern Europe'"
2009-05-20,"b'Silvio Berlusconi, ""Basically, we just don\'t want Arab-Africans in Italy. End of Story.""'"
2009-05-20,b'Sri Lanka crisis deepens as Red Cross suspends aid'
2009-05-20,b'Spanish lawmakers move to curb foreign human rights probes'
2009-05-20,b'Sri Lanka on brink of catastrophe as UN aid is blocked'
2009-05-20,b'Myanmar to let diplomats meet with Suu Kyi'
2009-05-20,"b'Anti-Semitic protestors in Argentina give protestors against the Israeli state a bad name, and make it easier for Zionists to conflate the two.'"
2009-05-19,b'The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled.'
2009-05-19,"b""Charlie Brooker: The BNP represents Britain's workers? They don't even represent basic British craftsmanship"""
2009-05-19,"b'Excessive cola consumption can lead to anything from mild weakness to profound muscle paralysis, doctors are warning.'"
2009-05-19,"b""'Ghost airports' - South Korea's new airports fail to take off"""
2009-05-19,"b'At least 153 of the newly-elected MPs in India are charged in criminal cases, says a study by civil society groups.'"
2009-05-19,"b'Gordon Brown announces any MP who ""defied the rules"" on expenses will not be allowed to stand at next election. In other news, proposed cabinet at next election made of cats.'"
2009-05-19,b'Sri Lanka: Chronology of the key dates in the conflict'
2009-05-19,b'Media coverage comparison of the conflicts in DR Congo and Darfur. If only the country with more violence had more gorillas.'
2009-05-19,b'Catholic priest jailed in 2004 for pocketing millions from his church granted full restoration of his priestly duties by the head of the Catholic Church in Singapore.'
2009-05-19,"b'  In a deft bit of science diplomacy active since 2001, Syracuse University has been engaging with a North Korean counterpart to bring a bit of knowledge  and some trust  to the Hermit Kingdom.'"
2009-05-19,b'Bride and groom batter a man to death the morning after their wedding'
2009-05-19,b'Red Alert: Brazil and China eye plan to axe dollar'
2009-05-19,b'Chances to prevent 7/7 attacks were missed'
2009-05-19,"b""This is appalling - it's a sentence you'd expect from an ayatollah: Cell phone nets TDCJ inmate 60 more years """
2009-05-19,"b""Inquiry into 7/7 Branded 'Whitewash' by Victims"""
2009-05-19,"b""Over 40% of Israel's Arab citizens say the Holocaust never happened (up from 28% in 2006)"""
2009-05-19,b'Hurrah and Boo!: UK told to prepare for oncoming heatwave [BBC]'
2009-05-19,"b""Israel's prime minister tells Obama he wants to restart peace talks"""
2009-05-19,b'Leader of the Tamil Tigers killed. It really is over. '
2009-05-19,b'Ethiopian military forces have crossed back into Somalia'
2009-05-19,"b'Careful, sober analysis of situation in Guatemala'"
2009-05-19,"b""Sri Lanka leader hails 'victory'"""
2009-05-19,b'Young Pakistanis Take One Problem Into Their Own Hands  (a little bit of good news)'
2009-05-19,b'Thailand:  Tourist faces between 2 and 5 years in jail for stealing a beer mat.  Makes Dubai sound good...'
2009-05-19,b'MPs on all sides tell the Speaker Michael Martin he must go'
2009-05-18,"b'The leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, Velupillai Prabhakaran, is dead'"
2009-05-18,"b'Former Mexican President Vicente Fox urges the decriminalization of marijuana in both Mexico and the US, saying ""it cant be that the only way is for the state to use force.'"
2009-05-18,"b""Water is becoming privatized and may soon be on the open market as a commodity. The world is running out of water and we need to spread the word and take action. Watch this Documentary called Flow: For the Love of Water and see the Truth behind the World's Water Supply"""
2009-05-18,b'Canadian detectives beer knowledge leads to jail for U.S. pedophile'
2009-05-18,b'I give it 72 hours tops before 4chan has hacked and ripped this entire database.'
2009-05-18,b'Banks like Citigroup-owned Banamex get away with charging Mexican credit account-holders usurious interest rates of up to 100 percent. '
2009-05-18,"b"" Sabotage hits Britain's biggest cycle race"""
2009-05-18,b'Leading Muslim Scholars in Pakistan Denounce the Taliban'
2009-05-18,"b""Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi on trial """
2009-05-18,b'(UK) Rise in use of drug tests to sack staff without redundancy pay'
2009-05-18,"b""Maoists Storm Nepal's Parliament"""
2009-05-18,b'Lithuania gets first woman head of state'
2009-05-18,b'Thousands Displaced By War In Pakistan'
2009-05-18,"b'Pakistan Is Rapidly Adding Nuclear Arms, U.S. Say'"
2009-05-18,"b""Iran's spiritual leader discourages electing a pro-Western president"""
2009-05-18,b'150 newly elected MPs in India have criminal records'
2009-05-18,"b'""Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country""'"
2009-05-18,"b""A Philippine Navy Lieutenant is currently in hiding out fear for her life after exposing her country's military embezzling of millions of dollars in US aid intended to fight Islamic fundamentalist terrorism in the region"""
2009-05-18,b'Australian topless bathing ban urged'
2009-05-18,b'Guatemala: Thousands protest over allegations president had lawyer murdered'
2009-05-18,"b'James Lull, Ponzi Scammer, Drives Truck Off Cliff The Day Of His Sentencing'"
2009-05-18,b'Darfur rebel leader surrenders to war crimes court; Sudanese president continues to refuse cooperation'
2009-05-18,"b'Woman, 66, defends right to have baby!'"
2009-05-18,b'Indian markets surge on Congress win'
2009-05-18,b'The hijacking of merchant ships by Somali pirates has forced the world to take notice of a country thats been in a violent downward spiral for decades. Is there any hope for Somalia?'
2009-05-17,"b'Tamil tigers concede, 25 year civil war comes to an end'"
2009-05-17,"b'Soylent Green was...  Neanderthals, apparently...'"
2009-05-17,b'France to Declassify Transsexuality as a Mental Illness'
2009-05-17,"b""Norway's Nat. Pension Fund, the world's largest, to consider divesting from Israel, pursuant to West Bank ethics tour."""
2009-05-17,"b'Montreal cop cuffs, busts and fines student $450 for not holding escalator rail in subway.'"
2009-05-17,"b'Gay Parades ""Satanic"": Moscow Mayor'"
2009-05-17,b'Further demonstration of how Israel tries to dehumanize the Gaza Strip'
2009-05-17,"b""We're all the pirate bay"""
2009-05-17,"b'Armed security officials have maintained the secretive Bilderberg Group session in an atmosphere of almost hysterical paranoia, to keep all media out'"
2009-05-17,"b""Kuwait has elected its first female MPs following the oil-rich country's third general election in three years"""
2009-05-17,b'Suu Kyi to protest innocence at trial'
2009-05-17,b'Kuwaiti women win first Parliamentary seats'
2009-05-17,b'When photos lie - winning sympathy for the LTTE and outrage towards the Sri Lankan government'
2009-05-17,b'The Berlin Airlift'
2009-05-17,b'Thousands of civilians flee as Islamists prepare to seize Somalia capital'
2009-05-17,b'What Would Drug Legalization Look Like In Colombia?'
2009-05-17,"b""Cuba's Undersea Oil Could Help Thaw Trade With U.S."""
2009-05-17,"b'UK Gov\'t lies exposed: Spy visited Binyam Mohamed in Morocco..""and that person was back in the UK while the razor blades were still being taken to Mohameds genitals.'"
2009-05-17,"b'Inside: Eurovision, the campest show on earth. Outside: riot police round up Moscows gays'"
2009-05-17,b'Burma bars lawyer for Suu Kyi'
2009-05-17,b'Uruguay lifts ban on gays serving openly in the military. '
2009-05-17,"b'Feeling the heat: A short humorous account of a BBC reporter on election time in India- If you ever wondered how hot it can get in India, this little gem helps in getting an idea..'"
2009-05-17,"b""Australia's Economic CPR"""
2009-05-17,"b'ISAF: Afghan war statistics show 55% increase in Western troop deaths, April 2009 - Wikileaks'"
2009-05-17,b'First women elected to Kuwait parliament'
2009-05-16,b'Congress wins Indian elections: Dr.Manmohan Singh first Primeminister to retun to office after a full term since Jawaharlal Nehru'
2009-05-16,b'Moscow police violently break up gay pride rally '
2009-05-16,"b'Landmark study finds that Israel ""has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid'"
2009-05-16,"b""Hong Kong 'acid attack' hurts 30"""
2009-05-16,b'Phony cops break 59 drug gang members from Mexico prison'
2009-05-16,b'Sri Lanka army declares victory in civil war over Tamil Tiger rebels'
2009-05-16,b'Spectre of Mass Suicide as Tamil Tigers Face Final Battle'
2009-05-16,b'Venezuela seizes US pasta company'
2009-05-16,"b'Some pornstar named Laura Perego was in Rome or is from Rome and decided to get political, so she hit up the Embassy of Afghanistan, got naked and protested the whole law allowing men to rape their wives'"
2009-05-16,b'Gay protest broken up in Moscow'
2009-05-16,"b'Rabbi asked Pope to remove or at least cover his cross when visiting the Western Wall, and other Jewish Israeli attitudes towards Christians'"
2009-05-16,b'Sri Lankan troops closed in for what they said would be the last hours of their 25-year war '
2009-05-16,b'RAND Report Highlights Jihadism in European Prisons.....The UK being the worst......'
2009-05-16,b'49% of Americans believe that if Israel attacks Iran then the US should help Israel'
2009-05-16,b'Ready to Inhale: France Legalizes Poppers'
2009-05-16,b'Intel Could Face Civil Charges in Europe'
2009-05-16,"b""China's first sex park stirs up controversy"""
2009-05-16,b'Fears of mass suicide as Tamil Tigers face final defeat'
2009-05-16,b'Slashdot | YouTube Video Sends Guatemala Into Crisis'
2009-05-16,"b'""...where I spent most of my days / Chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool...""'"
2009-05-16,"b""Video: What's behind the latest NATO / USA aggression in the Caucasus?"""
2009-05-16,"b'Love and Truth in a Material World: The Weakerthans, None of the Above'"
2009-05-16,b'Russian police violently break up mosscow gay rights march'
2009-05-16,"b'Undercover Mosque producer David Henshaw makes Galloway squirm, heaps ridicule during interview on Press TV.'"
2009-05-16,b'Pakistan to attack Taliban in Bin Ladens lair - Times Online'
2009-05-15,b' Unsung hero : The only reason we know anything about all those claims for light bulbs and moat cleaning is that campaigning journalist Heather Brooke has spent the last five years fighting tooth and nail for MPs to come clean about their expenses ...'
2009-05-15,"b""Noticed an unusual, strong burst of pro-israel comments? Here's why..."""
2009-05-15,"b'The world elite meets again for Bilderberg: ""Nothing. Nothing is happening here. Nothing to report. There\'s none. Not a single member of the mainstream press.""'"
2009-05-15,b' Boycott Israel campaign starts to bite'
2009-05-15,"b'""If you are watching this message, it is because I was assassinated by President Alvaro Colom...""'"
2009-05-15,"b'Muslim famous for predicting a totally Islamified Britain, has resigned in disgrace after being revealed as the biggest swindler of them all, ripping off taxpayers more than any other single member of parliament.'"
2009-05-15,"b'Australian immigration authorities told a detainee they were taking his daughter ""shopping"" before they sent her back to Iran '"
2009-05-15,b'Guatemala arrests Twitter user for inciting financial panic'
2009-05-15,"b'Our man at Bilderberg: Close, but still no cabal'"
2009-05-15,"b""Our man at Bilderberg: in pursuit of the world's most powerful cabal<br />"""
2009-05-15,"b""'Slumdog' (Salim) child star's home torn down"""
2009-05-15,b'Author Dan Brown feels the wrath of Catholics'
2009-05-15,b'Sweden wants to force ISPs to save user data'
2009-05-15,b'German government has predicted the economy will shrink 6% this year'
2009-05-15,b'Bishop of Baghdad worried that Christianity would become extinct in the Middle East'
2009-05-15,b'Piratebay DDo$ attack site (http://internetavgift.se/) has been reported to the police'
2009-05-15,b'Thousands flee Pakistan fighting'
2009-05-15,"b'Polica Nacional del Per: Gay Sex ""Tarnishes"" the Badge'"
2009-05-15,"b""Shadowy Bilderberg group meet in Greece--and here's their address"""
2009-05-15,b'Vietnam veteran on spiritual quest lands Aung San Suu Kyi in prison '
2009-05-15,b'Avigdor Lieberman - To ban Israeli Arabs from marking the anniversary of the Nakba'
2009-05-15,b'Paul Craig Roberts on the Global Anti-Semitism Review Act'
2009-05-15,"b'The rich, shadowy Bilderberg group'"
2009-05-15,"b""The World's Best Illusion: The Secret of the Curve Ball"""
2009-05-15,"b""Defining 'Success' Down"""
2009-05-14,"b'""I was murdered by president Alvaro Colom""'"
2009-05-14,"b'""Everyone is very angry with this wretched American. He is the cause of all these problems. He\'s a fool.""  Way to really blow it for Suu Kyi, dude.  '"
2009-05-14,"b'Israel moves on plan to annex Palestinian land, cut West Bank in two.'"
2009-05-14,"b""Russia warns of war within a decade over Arctic oil and gas riches as 'nations struggle for control of the worlds dwindling energy reserves.'"""
2009-05-14,"b'40,000-year-old figurine thought to be the oldest example of human representation - Clearly carved by a breast man '"
2009-05-14,b'Gaza man: Israeli troops forced me to drink urine '
2009-05-14,b'Russia warns of war over Arctic resources'
2009-05-14,"b""Gordon Brown's government has repeatedly blamed Iceland for its own financial failures. It's time to set the record straight."""
2009-05-14,b'Ailing Suu Kyi taken to prison: reports'
2009-05-14,"b""It's a bird, it's a plane. No, no, it's cocaine - Spanish study shows cocaine in the air in Madrid and Barcelona."""
2009-05-14,b'Poll: 59% of Venezuelans back Chavez'
2009-05-14,"b'EU Slaps Intel with $1.43B Antitrust Fine, AMD Reprieved'"
2009-05-14,b'The Seal Men of Korea'
2009-05-14,"b'Pakistans religious minorities live in terror, ""Long live Taliban! Death to infidels!,"" Christians flee for their lives.'"
2009-05-14,"b'The number of Arab Christians has plummeted across the Mideast in recent years as increasing numbers seek to move to the West, saying they feel increasingly unwelcome in the Middle East'"
2009-05-14,"b""Israeli Politician Jokes About Starving Children: 'The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them of hunger'"""
2009-05-14,b'Prominent Civil Rights Lawyer Arrested in Zimbabwe'
2009-05-14,"b""Burma's Suu Kyi 'to be charged'"""
2009-05-14,"b'British Association for Adoption and Fostering: ""Critics of gay parenting are \'retarded homophobes\'. ""'"
2009-05-14,b'Finland ignored warnings of prisoner prostitution in Afghanistan'
2009-05-14,"b'Men should hold onto dongs... [Seriously, this belongs in world news]'"
2009-05-14,"b'Obsession with Naked Women Dates Back 35,000 Years'"
2009-05-14,"b""Burma's bad ass ruling military junta: They want jail Suu Kyi for upto five years for being nice to an US citizen."""
2009-05-14,"b""Saudi Judge Causes Uproar For Saying It's Okay For Men To Beat Their Wives"""
2009-05-14,"b'Swine flu infected Mexico\'s relations with ""friendly"" countries'"
2009-05-13,b'Swedish Bank to Freeze Accounts of The Pirate Bay Admins'
2009-05-13,"b'Guess who back in the TED house? Hans Rosling, with awesome new statistics! [VIDEO]'"
2009-05-13,b'UK ISPs refuse to play Internet copyright cops'
2009-05-13,"b'Pope demands independent Palestinian state: The Holy See supports the right of your people to a sovereign Palestinian homeland in the land of your forefathers...""'"
2009-05-13,b'Five men beheaded in Saudi Arabia after grossly unfair trials; their crimes amounted to corruption on earth'
2009-05-13,b'The Vatican made a surprise denial today that the German pontiff had ever been a member of the Hitler Youth. '
2009-05-13,"b""Sri Lanka has written off thousands of its own citizens as collateral damage in its war against the LTTE.  As many as 1,000 died over the weekend; at least 50 more died today when shells struck the only hospital in the country's northern war zone."""
2009-05-13,b'Guatemalan president accused of murder in video left by victim'
2009-05-13,"b""90 Afghan Schoolgirls Poisoned in 'Taliban Gas Attack', the third attack on a girls' school in three weeks, raising fears about increasingly vicious methods to terrorize girls."""
2009-05-13,b'Measurable amounts of cocaine found in the air of Madrid and Barcelona'
2009-05-13,b'The reported suicide of a prisoner who falsely linked Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda surprises human-rights workers and lawyers for other top terror detainees.'
2009-05-13,b'BBC Map shows only 38% of NWFP under Pak Govt control'
2009-05-13,"b""Eyewitness Sri Lanka: 'This is too much to take. Why is the world not helping?'"""
2009-05-13,"b'Pope tell Palestinians: ""The wall that intrudes into your territories, separating neighbors and dividing familiesthey can be taken down""'"
2009-05-13,"b'""We\'re facing an almost united front against the United States regarding Cuba. Every country, even those with whom we are closest, is just saying you\'ve got to change."" Hillary Clinton...(Good article about a multi-polar world)'"
2009-05-13,b'Holocaust Denier goes free '
2009-05-13,b'Russia views U.S. as top security threat: document'
2009-05-13,"b'Why did the Irish Shareholder throw eggs at his Banks Chairman? Security Guard leading him out: ""Because he likes chickens."" Shareholder: ""Because I can\'t throw my shoes!""'"
2009-05-13,"b""Roxana Saberi, the journalist recently released from an Iranian prison, was convicted of spying because she had obtained a confidential report on the US war in Iraq prepared by Iran's Centre for Strategic Research."""
2009-05-13,"b'Pope tells Palestinians: ""the wall that intrudes into your territories, separating neighbors and dividing families...can be taken down""'"
2009-05-13,"b'Kremlin: Battles over energy may lead to wars - ""The international policy in the long run will be focused on getting hold of energy sources, including in the Middle East, the Barents Sea shelf and other Arctic regions, the Caspian and Central Asia"" '"
2009-05-13,b'MDC activist dies from ZANU-PF militia torture injuries in Zimbabwe'
2009-05-13,"b'Somalia:  Islamist fighters poised to topple the weak government, have government forces surrounded '"
2009-05-13,b'Data-Mining Predicted Swine Flu 18 Days before WHO'
2009-05-13,"b""Scientists in Bolivia say that one of the country's most famous glaciers has almost disappeared as a result of climate change."""
2009-05-12,"b'The PirateBay launches a D-DO$ attack. Wonderful, let us all join in and send a few dimes...'"
2009-05-12,"b'Israeli academics on the problems with Wikipedia. ""Furthermore, the Wikipedia entry on January\'s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza describes it as an ""intense bombardment"" by Israel on a civilian population.""  Cause thats what it FUCKING WAS!'"
2009-05-12,"b""Change:  China overtakes the US as Brazil's largest trading partner"""
2009-05-12,b'Legalising Drugs: Lessons From Portugal'
2009-05-12,b'Video of a Guatemalan lawyer filmed the day before he was assassinated and uploaded to Youtube accuses Guatemalan president Alvaro Colom as his killer'
2009-05-12,b'The World Health Organization is investigating an Australian researchers claim that the swine flu virus circling the globe may have been created as a result of human error.'
2009-05-12,"b'Cocaine Purity down, Prices up'"
2009-05-12,"b'Guatemala: In YouTube Video Shot Before His Death, Attorney Blames President for His Assasination (With transcript in English)'"
2009-05-12,"b'Russian intelligence sources, however, point to a more credible cause of death linked to the fact that Kellermann appeared to have discovered that Freddie Mac had syphoned over 50 billion dollars to Zionist and Israeli interests and organizations, and he was about to become a whistleblower'"
2009-05-12,"b""'torture tape' sheikh arrested but will probably only get a slap on the wrist"""
2009-05-12,"b'Hersh: Children sodomized at Abu Ghraib, on tape'"
2009-05-12,b'Inquirer defends the indefensible: A monthly column by torture architect John Yoo'
2009-05-12,b'Taliban suspected as 86 Afghan girls are hospitalised following THIRD school poisoning'
2009-05-12,b'Released pre recorded video of assassinated guatemalan Lawyer blaming the President of Guatemala for his death (in spanish)'
2009-05-12,b'4 days of fierce battles between Islamic Militant Groups and forces loyal to the Transitional Somali Government in Mogadishu (Somalia)'
2009-05-12,"b'It pays to be married ,Where being single costs you most.'"
2009-05-12,"b'Tamil Tigers have been surrounded by Sri Lanka Army and today, this is the new map of New Safe Zone'"
2009-05-12,"b""OECD report: World's Happiest Places -- Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands rated tops"""
2009-05-12,b'Sri Lankan government forces shells hospital - at least 45 dead'
2009-05-12,"b""The man Netanyahu plans to make Israel's new ambassador to the US believes that Israel should unilaterally withdraw from the West Bank and evacuate the settlements."""
2009-05-12,b'Doctor says 49 killed in Sri Lanka hospital attack'
2009-05-12,b'49 killed in Sri Lanka hospital attack'
2009-05-12,"b""This is London  the capital of Somali pirates' secret intelligence operation"""
2009-05-12,"b'Russia holds Victory Day celebration: rows of tanks and missiles parade through Red Square in ""largest display of military might since Soviet times""'"
2009-05-12,b'Torture: It Was Never Just Sleep Deprivation'
2009-05-11,"b'Afghanistan passes law making it ""illegal for a Shia Muslim woman to refuse to have sex with her husband, to leave the house without his permission or have custody of children."" No wonder Canada is doubting whether the sacrifice of its soldiers lives is worth it.'"
2009-05-11,"b'If Israel is important because they receive American aid money, then pay some attention to Pakistan.  This situation is going from bad to batshit insane.'"
2009-05-11,b'Pakistani president: Osama bin Laden is dead'
2009-05-11,"b'Reddit, I spent the morning writing you a brief history of the conflict in Sri Lanka and suggesting what it might be able to teach us.  I hope it encourages debate.'"
2009-05-11,"b'""What police seem to have achieved is to search and seize first, and then place the onus on the individual to prove they have acted lawfully.""'"
2009-05-11,"b'Roxana Saberi Free: Not only was the case against her suspended by Iranian judges, the Iranian government has decided to free her immediately.'"
2009-05-11,b'Tamil protesters block downtown Toronto highway '
2009-05-11,"b""PR Fail: Chevron hires a reporter to do a video puff piece to counter a 60 Minutes story about how Chevron is accused of poisoning the rain forest. 60 Min. has 12 million viewers. Chevron's Youtube video has 2,000."""
2009-05-11,"b'Two Israeli citizens filed a criminal complaint against the Pope, for possesion of stolen artifacts from the Jewish Temple, destroyed in 70AD.'"
2009-05-11,"b'Men who were grossly overweight at the age of 18 had nearly 50 percent less chance of being married by their 30s and 40s, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam on Thursday.'"
2009-05-11,"b'Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on the Taliban: ""They\'re kind of a cancer created by both of us, Pakistan and America and the world.  We got together, we created this cancer to fight the superpower and then we went away--rather, you went away without finding a cure for it.""'"
2009-05-11,"b""UN decries Sri Lanka 'bloodbath;' 106 children die"""
2009-05-11,b'and the blind shall see. 50 people in India damage their eyes looking at the Sun hoping to see the Virgin Mary.'
2009-05-11,"b'Muslim  cleric speaks in turn during meeting with pope.  Pope doesn\'t ""walk out"" but leaves meeting on schedule - shaking cleric\'s hand as he does so.'"
2009-05-11,"b'""I can, for example, publish an order that no material can be published. I can close a newspaper or shut down a station. I can do almost anything,"" - guess which country?'"
2009-05-11,b'Jordanian King: new Middle East peace proposal imminent'
2009-05-11,b'At least 133 Brit servicewomen have been sent home from Afghanistan and Iraq after getting pregnant. '
2009-05-11,b'Iran to Release Jailed US Journalist'
2009-05-11,"b""When I went to school I remember there was only 1 'fat' kid, today 62% of Australians are overweight!"""
2009-05-11,b'Somali Pirates are now Better Financed than the Regional Government: Thanks to Ransom Payments'
2009-05-11,"b""'You probably think I'm a monster'"""
2009-05-11,"b'According to the President of Pakistan, the CIA and ISI Together Created the Taliban'"
2009-05-11,b'Australia Will Build Up Its Forces as China Rises'
2009-05-11,b'(UK) Tories next to feel heat on expenses'
2009-05-11,b'Lost boys of Swat flee for their lives as fighting rages'
2009-05-10,"b""Sri Lanka and not Israel kills 378 civilians - Reddit doesn't give a fuck!"""
2009-05-10,"b'""If you are pro-Palestinian or pro-Israel you are not helping us [Israelis and Palestinians],"" said <Israeli whose son was killed by Palestinians>. ""You are just feeling good about yourself.""'"
2009-05-10,b'Running Scared: Disgraced British Parliament threatens police inquiry into leaks of their expense accounts. Perhaps there should be a police inquiry into their theft and corruption instead. '
2009-05-10,"b'In Ireland, a person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding 100,000'"
2009-05-10,"b""Chevron is Evil. There's no other way to encapsulate this... """
2009-05-10,b'Venezuela nationalizes 60 oil service companies'
2009-05-10,"b'Mia Farrow ends her 12-day fast for Darfur. Why isn\'t the plight of  ""over 1 million people at life-threatening risk"" in Darfur getting more press coverage?!'"
2009-05-10,b'More than 250 killed and hundreds of hurt between civilians in 24 hours in fights between Tamil Tigers and Sri Lanka Army'
2009-05-10,b'The silent wave of desertification in western China'
2009-05-10,"b'Pakistan: Urging Residents to Flee, Prime Minister - ""fight for the survival of the country""'"
2009-05-10,b'A day in Jerusalem: New sexually segregated public bus lines -- not just sending women to the back of the bus but on separate lines'
2009-05-10,b'Venezuela says 4 suspected terrorists detained'
2009-05-10,"b""'Say you weren't raped in jail and we'll let you live', pregnant British woman told in Laos prison"""
2009-05-10,b'Afghan president Karzai in move to share power with warlord wanted by US'
2009-05-10,"b""Saudi judge: It's OK to slap spendthrift wives - CNN.com"""
2009-05-10,"b'Sri Lanka Artillery Barrage Kills 378, Doctor Says - ABC News'"
2009-05-10,"b'1200 Bodies counted, 106 of them...children. The aftermath of a Sri Lankan Offensive on Tamil Civilians Last night [WARNING : GRAPHIC PICTURES!]'"
2009-05-10,b'NATO War Games In Georgia: Threat Of New Caucasus War'
2009-05-10,b'Man swears to protect his city from injustice!'
2009-05-10,b'Local government officials in China have been ordered to smoke nearly a quarter of a million packs of cigarettes in a move to boost the local economy during the global financial crisis.'
2009-05-10,b'Sri Lankan Barrage Kills Hundreds As Offensive Continues'
2009-05-10,"b'Uribe\'s Colombia: Kill the Poor - ""poor, young men had been recruited from the slums of Bogota, promised well-paying jobs, then murdered in cold blood and presented as having been killed in combat.""'"
2009-05-10,b'countries that spend more time eating have lower obesity rates'
2009-05-10,"b'Iran to Reduce Number of ""Unnecessary Excecutions"".  Funny way to put it, but still to be applauded, I guess.'"
2009-05-10,b'How the Family of a Dissident Fled the Republic'
2009-05-09,"b""Australian Gov't broke new records for web censorship by requiring the takedown not just of a page containing harmful content, nor even a page linking to harmful content, but a page linking to a link to allegedly harmful content."""
2009-05-09,"b'""Jacqui Smith ... has been making up for it ever since with a series of blunders so blatant that you could be forgiven for assuming she is in the pay of a far-east betting syndicate.""'"
2009-05-09,"b'UK banned Michael Savage for allegedly hateful comments about Muslims, but an Islamic group he had previously maligned came to his defense -- on free speech grounds!'"
2009-05-09,"b""Forty years ago, I was enraptured by Israel's courageous sense of mission. For me today, as for many, that idealism has palled"""
2009-05-09,b'Chavez seizes oil service firms'
2009-05-09,"b'Pope: ""We pray for the children of Gaza who have died or have been left orphans and live in misery and fear.""'"
2009-05-09,"b'Alcohol, the new Crack!'"
2009-05-09,"b'Sex-starved Kenyan sues over boycott.  James Kimondo said the seven-day sex ban, which ended this week, resulted in stress, mental anguish, backaches and lack of sleep.'"
2009-05-09,"b'Russia  Issues Stern Warning To  Countries Considering  ""Military Adventures"" '"
2009-05-09,b'Relatives of murdered Iraqi girl demand execution of US soldier'
2009-05-09,"b""EU wants 'Internet G12' to govern cyberspace"""
2009-05-09,b'In pictures: Life in Hongsibao'
2009-05-09,b'Million displaced as battles with Taliban intensify in Pakistan'
2009-05-09,"b'Karzai Says US Airstrikes ""Not Acceptable""'"
2009-05-09,"b'The ""Internet of Things"", a digital representation of real world objects and people tagged with RFID chips, and increased censorship are two main themes for the future of the web.'"
2009-05-09,b'Half a million flee Swat valley as Pakistan faces months of fighting'
2009-05-09,b'Police Dismantle Huge Cocaine Lab in Eastern Bolivia'
2009-05-09,b'North Korea - three men put to death for bad management'
2009-05-09,b'Leaked 1955 Bilderberg Docs Outline Plan For Single European Currency - Global elite spoke of agenda to create Euro nearly 40 years before it was first codified in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty'
2009-05-09,b'Gunships and planes strike Pakistan Taliban in Swat'
2009-05-09,"b'Warrant of Arrest for Zimbabwe Independent Editor, Reporter'"
2009-05-09,"b'Taliban a threat to the whole country, Pakistan PM says'"
2009-05-09,"b""Yemeni Islamist leader warns of 'foreign plans' to divide Yemen"""
2009-05-09,b'Sri Lankans arrest UK news team '
2009-05-09,b'Pepe Escobar: Killing them softly with air strikes--Warning--This video may contain images depicting the reality and horror of war/violence and should only be viewed by a mature audience.'
2009-05-08,b'Eric Arthur Blair  aka George Orwell must be proud:  Thought police muscle up in Britain'
2009-05-08,b'British Muslim Immigrants More Strongly Identify With Being British Than The Rest of the Population'
2009-05-08,"b""Irish student's fake quote on the Wikipedia is been used in newspaper obituaries around the world"""
2009-05-08,"b""EU wants 'Internet G12' to govern cyberspace. (Too much information and free speech makes the ruling classes nervous?)"""
2009-05-08,"b""India's Election: how democracy may turn the caste system upside down."""
2009-05-08,"b'Dr. Kamal Labwani, a prominent political and human rights activist, is serving a 12 year sentence in Syria after an unfair trial'"
2009-05-08,"b'""We want to leave the city, but we cannot go out because of the fighting.  We will be killed, our children will be killed, our women will be killed and these Taliban will escape.""'"
2009-05-08,b'Afghanistan: NATO Should Come Clean on White Phosphorus'
2009-05-08,b'South Korea NIS raids 19 places related to the unification movement'
2009-05-08,"b'WTF! British law requires every schoolchild to participate in ""an act of collective worship"" every 24 hours, irrespective of what the child thinks or believes...""'"
2009-05-08,"b""'Go back and die in Gaza'"""
2009-05-08,"b'""Roughly 8,000 people caught the disease, about 10% of them died and a large number of survivors were maimed by frantic, emergency treatments. The regional economy, and many businesses, got hammered.""'"
2009-05-08,b'Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis flee fighting'
2009-05-08,"b""Ghana 'prayer camps' cast out demons, chain mentally ill [video]"""
2009-05-08,b'North Korea vows to bolster nuclear arsenal'
2009-05-08,b'From Bangladesh to Darfur: How internalised racism has permitted lighter skinned- Muslims to slaughter their darker skinned co-religionists.'
2009-05-08,b'Toronto Man Charged with Attempted Murder for Unsafe Sex'
2009-05-08,b'Palestinians struggling to cope with the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the trauma of war are turning to painkillers and tranquillizers at a rate that risks triggering a wave of addiction.'
2009-05-08,"b""1 million people now displaced by fighting in Pakistan's northwest"""
2009-05-08,b'Sikh police in Britain push for bulletproof turbans'
2009-05-08,b'Gunmen kill Darfur peacekeeper during carjacking'
2009-05-08,b'Saudi beauty queen: Veiled face and judged on morals'
2009-05-08,b'Sierra Leone child miners: Legacy of conflict '
2009-05-08,"b'CODEPINK Mothers Day 2009: ""I will not raise my children to kill another mother\'s child""'"
2009-05-08,"b'Gunman shoots three police, holed up in house for past 24 hours, has heaps of guns , large stocks of ammunition, and explosives. Police sending in Bull Dozer.......'"
2009-05-07,"b'The ""Most Moral Army in the World (TM)"" shoots peaceful protestor point blank on camera... and they still say the IDF does not intentionally target civilians'"
2009-05-07,"b'Web designer opposes France\'s ""3 strikes"" law, loses job'"
2009-05-07,b'Reward for not shooting rockets: Settlement expansions in westbank seeing biggest boost since 2003. '
2009-05-07,b'EU lawmakers vote to introduce net neutrality.'
2009-05-07,"b'Canada\'s Olympic uniforms to be made of seal skin ... Plans to use Vancouver Winter Games to ""promote seal products""'"
2009-05-07,b'Germany to outlaw paintball and lasertag games'
2009-05-07,b'DNA profiles of innocent to be kept for 12 years despite European ruling  (UK)'
2009-05-07,"b'EU kills ""3-strikes"" Internet rule, affirms Internet is a fundamental right'"
2009-05-07,"b'Evil megalomaniac Rupert Murdoch will try his hardest to destroy the internet. ""The current days of the Internet will soon be over""'"
2009-05-07,b'Mystery of Brit soldiers on Auschwitz list'
2009-05-07,"b""'Troops and rebels clash' in Chad"""
2009-05-07,b'Foreign journalists trying to conduct interviews in the Sichuan earthquake zone in western China are being attacked and detained '
2009-05-07,"b'Pakistan\'s PM says he has ordered the army to ""eliminate militants and terrorists"", apparently referring to operations against the Taleban'"
2009-05-07,b'Loss of nuclear monopoly - an Israeli nightmare'
2009-05-07,b'The Italian navy has transferred more than 200 migrants picked up in waters off the island of Malta to Tripoli under a new agreement with Libya.'
2009-05-07,"b'Canada solves Swine Flu - ""This is a world first and a real validation of Canada\'s scientific excellence,"" says Federal Health Minister. Finally, Canada!'"
2009-05-07,"b'Bolivias Chacaltaya Glacier, once known as the worlds highest ski run at 17,388 feet, has completely melted away'"
2009-05-07,"b""'We have never seen so many hungry people in the world', warns U.N. chief"""
2009-05-07,b'How pissed would you be if you were shot while protesting air strikes that killed up to 100 civilians?'
2009-05-07,b'Nato war exercises begin in Georgia amid heightened tension between Moscow and Tbilisi.'
2009-05-07,b'Rupert Murdoch thinks the future of news websites lies in paid subscriptions'
2009-05-07,"b'Canadian, Belgian astronauts pass final tests for ISS mission'"
2009-05-07,b'York Regional Police Chief Armand La Barge urges crown to drop charges in Korean Kid school fight: police were too hasty in laying the charge.'
2009-05-07,b'Couple Gets Turned Away At Prom For Marijuana Odor'
2009-05-07,"b""Why are foreigners dying at one of Thailand's most famous beaches?"""
2009-05-06,b'The Pirate Party becomes the third biggest party in Sweden by membership count'
2009-05-06,b'New male contraceptive injection 99 per cent effective! '
2009-05-06,b'Pilots refuse to take part in national identity card trials (UK)'
2009-05-06,b'Israeli human rights activist Ezra Nawi will most likely be sent to jail. Only international attention can help him now.'
2009-05-06,"b'Russian elites (including the chief environment minster) killed while hunting endangered goats.  Oligarchs:0, Goats:7'"
2009-05-06,"b'Eight men arrested over yesterday\'s killing of 44 people at a Turkish wedding were all members of state-backed ""Village Guard"" units set up to help combat Kurdish separatists in Turkey\'s southeast.'"
2009-05-06,b'TPB judge accused of bias in another case'
2009-05-06,"b""For an 'army' which claims it doesn't target civilians the IDF has a proporsionally impressive record of killing civilians, unmatched by any other developed nation on Earth. Former IDF soldiers reveal there's a difference between what Israel says and what Israel expects of its soldiers"""
2009-05-06,b'Romania risks getting a 700 million Euro fine from the EU'
2009-05-06,b'Could this be considered progress?  Man stoned to death in Iran for adultery'
2009-05-06,b'Where are the most people imprisoned? [chart]'
2009-05-06,b'Giant spiders invade Australian Outback town'
2009-05-06,"b""Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear"""
2009-05-06,b'UN demands access to secret Israeli torture jail + UN probe finds Israel guilty of war crimes'
2009-05-06,"b""'Up to 100 dead' in Afghan raid, largest loss of civilian life in a single incident since US-led forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001"""
2009-05-06,b'Eighteen Zimbabwean Activists Released On Bail After False Terror Charges'
2009-05-06,"b""Talkshow host says Koran is 'book of hate'. UK bans him from entering. Sues"""
2009-05-06,b'Michael Savage and Others Banned from UK'
2009-05-06,b'Alleged war crimes committed during the Gaza war - the full UN investigation report.'
2009-05-06,"b'Pirates Seize German Cargo Ship, Again'"
2009-05-06,"b'""Inside is a landscape of extraordinary human wreckage. The rooms resemble catacombs; lightless and fetid and crammed with dozens, even hundreds, of bodies, each one clinging to his bit of space, his bit of elixir.""'"
2009-05-06,b'Is There a Save Darfur Industrial Complex?'
2009-05-06,b'Russia investigates the use of helicopters to hunt endangered goats'
2009-05-06,b'Anonymous Supports Blue Heart Campaign Against Human Trafficking'
2009-05-06,b'Demolitions build Jerusalem tension'
2009-05-05,"b'Brazilian cattle ranching company wants permission from the Paraguayan government to destroy the forest where the Ayoreo-Totobiegosode Indians live, one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world'"
2009-05-05,"b""'Hero' boy, 15, saves six in fire"""
2009-05-05,"b'""The cops told us right from the start: we know you didn\'t do the bombs. We\'ve got you. That\'s good enough. And as far as you\'re concerned...you\'re going to jail""'"
2009-05-05,"b'Tribal War - Armed with bows and arrows, Massai warriors clash with members of the Kalenjin tribe in the Kapune hill on March 1, 2008'"
2009-05-05,b'UN report accuses Israeli military of negligence in Gaza war'
2009-05-05,"b'Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time, Study Shows'"
2009-05-05,b'Georgian tank batallion mutanies ahead of NATO war games'
2009-05-05,b'EU accuses British ISP of invading web privacy '
2009-05-05,b'Up to half a million Pakistanis living in the Swat valley could be forced flee amid fierce fighting between Taliban fighters and the military'
2009-05-05,b'THE worlds biggest rabbit suddenly dropped dead  just hours before she was to star on a television show.'
2009-05-05,"b'Roma Seeking Asylum in Canada: Around 250,000 Roma live in the Czech Republic. Their problems include poverty, lack of education, centuries of prejudice and, now, attacks by far-right extremists'"
2009-05-05,b'Chinese Officials Urge More Cigarette Smoking to Boost Economy'
2009-05-05,b'Israeli Air Force Prepare for Airstrike on Iran'
2009-05-05,b'Ferrero accused in hazelnut fraud '
2009-05-05,b'France Beats U.S. at Eating and Sleeping'
2009-05-05,"b'KBR Connected to the vast majority"" of suspected combat-zone fraud cases'"
2009-05-05,b'The UN chief accused Israel today of lying about attacks on United Nations schools and other facilities during the Gaza military campaign  including one reported to have killed more than 40 people  and formally demanded compensation.'
2009-05-05,"b""Art historians claim Van Gogh's ear 'cut off by Gauguin'"""
2009-05-05,"b'Homosexuality An ""Unnatural Act"": says Miss Botswana'"
2009-05-05,"b'Britain Publishes Blacklist of Those Not Allowed to Visit Country, Including Michael Savage!?'"
2009-05-05,b' Netanyahu says ready for peace talks right away '
2009-05-05,"b""Israel blasts 'biased' UN report on Gaza war"""
2009-05-05,b'German triple-barrelled ban holds'
2009-05-05,"b""Wife of Kenyan PM Joins 'Sex Boycott'"""
2009-05-05,"b'""Larios public call for divorce followed days of drama in which she criticized Berlusconis shamelessly trashy choice to run a slate of female TV stars and models for European Parliament and accused him of cavorting with the barely-18 Noemi Letizia.""'"
2009-05-04,b'Saudi Arabia to consider banning marriage of girls under 18'
2009-05-04,"b'Pregnant woman miscarries after traffic accident that wasn\'t her fault. Dubai\'s traffic court ordered the bereaved mother to pay US$5,450 in blood money and fined her for ""unintentional homicide"".'"
2009-05-04,"b'In four past pandemics, a mild spring outbreak was followed by virulent fall sickness. '"
2009-05-04,b'20 year old pregnant woman faces mandatory death sentence; video link at bottom.'
2009-05-04,"b""Without a Moral Leg to Stand On; United Arab Emirates' torture scandal sparks outrage in the US """
2009-05-04,"b""Meet Noemi Letizia, the 18 year old hottie behind Italian PM Berlusconi's divorce"""
2009-05-04,"b'So while everyone was fearing the Swine Flu (N1H1), drugs legalization made huge strides in Mexico.'"
2009-05-04,"b'Defense Minister Ehud Barak said he would call on the Spanish government to prevent the investigation, reiterating Israel\'s stance that the Israel Defense Forces is the most ""moral"" army in the world. '"
2009-05-04,b'Russia to build floating Arctic nuclear stations What could possibly go wrong?'
2009-05-04,b'Candidate for Iranian Presidency Wanted for 1994 Bombing of Jewish Center in Argentina That Killed 85 People....'
2009-05-04,"b'Sri Lankan army shells hospital, kills 64 civilians'"
2009-05-04,b'3 men file complaint against RCMP after raid'
2009-05-04,"b""Haaretz poll: 66% of Israeli Jews favor attack on Iran. 'Israel is a nation of peace loving people' my ass."""
2009-05-04,b'Iran Launches Airstrikes on Iraqi Villages'
2009-05-04,b'Israeli troops set fire to wheat and barley fields in Gaza'
2009-05-04,b'Apartheid Israel systematically question Gaza patients in an attempt to recruit Palestinians as collaborators'
2009-05-04,"b""One million candidates, 44 parties, running for up to 50,000 seats: Indonesia's election"""
2009-05-04,"b""Give me your expertise, Worldnews:  I'm teaching an EU course this summer -- I need good ideas for country-specific newspapers"""
2009-05-04,b'An interview with a jailed Somali pirate leader'
2009-05-04,"b'Delara Darabi: ""Oh mother, I see the hangman\'s noose in front of me."" Prison official: ""We will easily execute your daughter and there\'s nothing you can do about it."" Then, with a chilling click, the line went dead '"
2009-05-04,b'SARS sleuth attacks WHO for being worthless at doing their job'
2009-05-04,"b'Targeted by Taliban, Sikhs flee Pak region; India concerned '"
2009-05-04,"b'Israel Faces a Hard Sell: ""The American, European and Arab response is that for Iran to be checked, every nation needs to do its part, and Israels part is to work toward ending the occupation, stopping settlement construction and fostering the creation of a Palestinian state.""'"
2009-05-04,b'French Navy said they seized 11 pirates Sunday after they apparently mistook a French military vessel for a commercial ship and made a run at it.'
2009-05-04,"b'More Gaza patients quizzed at crossings, pressed to collaborate, held for undisclosed periods of time - Israeli charity'"
2009-05-03,"b'""This guy wearing a white coat walked slowly towards the wounded saying to the soldiers, \'Don\'t kill me, I\'m a doctor.\' They shot him dead. It was truly terrible.'"
2009-05-03,"b'UK Police will destroy DNA profiles of 800,000 innocent people, plans to delete all physical DNA samples on the database, including mouth swabs, hair and blood'"
2009-05-03,b'Quality of Living global city rankings 2009  Mercer survey'
2009-05-03,"b'""Despite the worsening of the world and regional economy, the left keeps winning in Latin America.""'"
2009-05-03,"b'Michael Oren, US-born academic, has just been appointed Israel\'s ambassador to the US.  Here\'s his view on Israel\'s victorous assualt on Gaza: the attack was necessary in order to ""satisfy Palestinian aspirations"" for a two-state solution.  '"
2009-05-03,"b'Until the border is open to trade and materials, it will be impossible to rebuild Gaza'"
2009-05-03,b'French forces capture 11 pirates with boatload of Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers '
2009-05-03,b'Cairo pig-cull protests turn voilent'
2009-05-03,"b""UK to store even more communications data - but it's taking on an impossible task"""
2009-05-03,"b""Sri Lankan civilians trapped by Tamil Tigers 'last stand'"""
2009-05-03,"b'Berlusconi, King of Fascist Italy, gets what he deserves'"
2009-05-03,b'Iraqi police arrest high-ranking member of U.S.-allied movement'
2009-05-03,"b""Veronica Laro, wife of Silvio Berlusconi, 'seeks divorce'"""
2009-05-03,b'Israeli calls up missile reservists'
2009-05-03,b'Albanian opposition lawmaker assassinated'
2009-05-03,"b""Nepal's prime minister fired the army chief Sunday after a struggle over admitting former Maoist rebel fighters to the military, sparking mass protests and jeopardizing the survival of the country's first elected government."""
2009-05-03,b'Berlin rioters held for attempted murder of German police'
2009-05-03,b'Israel Strikes Gaza Weapons Tunnels in response to Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli communities'
2009-05-03,b'Hospitals are also overflowing as doctors work round the clock to treat civilians emerging from the conflict area with horrific blast injuries'
2009-05-03,"b""Let's play a game!  Type in the title(s)  you would see on Reddit if..."""
2009-05-03,"b""Israel's controversial foreign minister leaves for Europe on Sunday, in the first official visit abroad by a member of the new right-wing government"""
2009-05-03,b'Google puts top-secret Brit nuke base on map'
2009-05-03,b'Freedom in the World 2009 Survey'
2009-05-03,"b'Any predator looks for a vulnerable prey. Malawi, after the drought, was just the kind of prey predator companies like Monsanto look for'"
2009-05-03,b'Pandemic alert likely to be raised to highest level'
2009-05-02,"b'On July 1, 2001, Portugal decriminalized all drugs, including cocaine and heroin. Judged by virtually every metric, the Portuguese decriminalization framework has been a resounding success'"
2009-05-02,"b""List of the worst countries for religious intolerance released - funny, where's Israel?"""
2009-05-02,"b""Pregnant Briton 'faces execution'"""
2009-05-02,"b'Iran secretly hanged a juvenile offender early today despite a flawed trial, a stay of execution and an unequivocal international ban on such executions'"
2009-05-02,"b""It's the PAX!"""
2009-05-02,b'Chinese billions in Sri Lanka fund battle against Tamil Tigers: China is building a $1 billion port as a refuelling and docking station for its navy '
2009-05-02,"b""Australia's rarest mammal, the Christmas Island pipistrelle bat, is months away from extinction and the Aussie gov't is failing to take action to save them"""
2009-05-02,"b'Taliban terror holds 2,000 villagers as human shields'"
2009-05-02,b'Brazilian Supreme Court Strikes Down Dictatorship-Era Press Law'
2009-05-02,b'Pakistani Writer Says Taliban Should Face Full Might of the State'
2009-05-02,b'Metal Injections Make A Spider Silk that Spiderman Would Envy | 80beats | Discover Magazine'
2009-05-02,"b""Hospital 'hit by Sri Lankan army'"""
2009-05-02,b'Nations with worst religious tolerance named'
2009-05-02,"b'There are no concentration camps or gulags but there are thought police with unprecedented powers to dictate ways of thinking and sniff out heresy, and there can be harsh punishments for dissent.'"
2009-05-02,b'Watch the Spread of Swine Flu on this Nifty Map (not Google)'
2009-05-02,b'Monthly Iraq death toll highest for year'
2009-05-02,"b'Pakistan Says It Kills 50 Taliban in Buner, but Residents Tell of Civilian Deaths '"
2009-05-02,"b""Scientists starting to believe swine flu outbreak won't be so bad"""
2009-05-02,"b""Current Editorial on Swineflu: 30,000 Americans dying yearly from the regular flu. Why don't you put that on the news?!"""
2009-05-02,"b'Disease threatens survivors of Burma cyclone - storm killed 22,500, another 41,000 missing'"
2009-05-02,b'Occidental Petroleum and Death in Arauca: Oxy must decide whether to put higher value on profit or human life; the rest of us need to ask about the cost of energy measured in peoples blood.'
2009-05-02,"b""Denmark: Government Delays Freedom of Speech Conference so Muslims Aren't Offended by Geert Wilders Attendance...."""
2009-05-02,b'First Female British Poet Laureate Named'
2009-05-02,b'United Arab Emirates -- Where torture and censorship reign supreme! Why is the US going to give them nuclear fuel?'
2009-05-02,"b'British Airline BMI accidentially leaves Israel off inflight map, Israel : BMI is trying to hide the existence of Israel, they wiped it off the map...WTF'"
2009-05-01,"b'""But a remarkable thing happened this week. On Monday, 400 of his fellow students, wearing black in solidarity and carrying signs of support, walked out of Keswick High School to rally in protest in front of their school.""'"
2009-05-01,"b""Remember that Policeman driving at 90mph in a 30 zone with no sirens who hit & killed the girl? Well, he's in prison now."""
2009-05-01,"b'""Eco-fascism"" - Israeli settlers and factories pumping polluted water onto palestinian farmland'"
2009-05-01,"b'She was allowed to be forced to marry before reaching puberty. Now, at the ripe old age of 8, she successfully divorced her 50 year old husband.'"
2009-05-01,"b'""The four policemen threw Abu Hamdiya from a jeep moving at high speed after they had abducted, beaten, and abused him"", all four policemen were sentenced to serve only between 4.5 to 8.5 years in jail'"
2009-05-01,"b'With the help of software written by a Tiennamen Square veteran, Iranians beat Internet Censorship'"
2009-05-01,"b'Crazy person goes on shooting rampage at university in Baku, Azerbaijan. 12 killed, 13 injured. Bacon Lung news clogging the news outlets obscured this info from yesterday.'"
2009-05-01,"b'So much for full withdrawal: ""Britain wants to get involved in protecting oil supplies from Iraq after its combat role there comes to an end, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said.""'"
2009-05-01,"b'When you hear about the H1N1 virus (Swine flu), does it make anyone else want to play Pandemic 2?'"
2009-05-01,"b""Israel 'warns' EU to tone down its criticism"""
2009-05-01,"b""The San people of southern Africa is the world's most ancient race"""
2009-05-01,b'Worlds Largest Solar Power Tower Starts Generating in Spain'
2009-05-01,b'Surprise: Around 50% of surveyed Christians believe torture can be somehow justified.'
2009-05-01,b'We all pray this remains sensitive to antivirals. We all hope that vaccines will be developed. The virus doesnt grow very well in eggs.'
2009-05-01,b'Killing Women and Children is only a Re-Branding issue in Apartheid Israel'
2009-05-01,"b'Jewish Holocaust museum in Palestine: ""Our message to the Jewish people all over the world is that having been victims of such a brutal genocide, we expect you to be messengers of all the principles of justice, mercy and humanity,""'"
2009-05-01,"b'Images leaked from the U.N. show that the Sri Lankan military shelled a no-fire zone where over 50,000 civilians are trapped.'"
2009-05-01,"b'Is Oil Worth More Than Blood In Nigeria? The suit seeks to hold Shell accountable for summary executions, crimes against humanity, TORTURE, inhuman treatment and the arbitrary arrest and detention of Nigerians.'"
2009-05-01,b'Ben Goldacre on Swine Flu and the Media Coverage'
2009-05-01,b'A Virologists Perspective on Influenza A(H1N1)'
2009-05-01,"b'End Palestinian demolitions in Jerusalem, UN tells Israel'"
2009-05-01,b'Palestinian sets record for longest imprisonment'
2009-05-01,"b'Ethiopia has arrested 40 members of ""May 15th"", an opposition group led by an Ethiopian-American professor of economics at Bucknell University; the government says they had planned to assassinate officials and blow up public utilities in a plot to topple the government.'"
2009-05-01,"b'Artwork rejected by the New York Times, including ""A rather mild portrait of Idi Amin deemed \'too severe\' an indictment of the Ugandan tyrant\'s mass murders of his own people"" '"
2009-05-01,b'Donkey suicide bombing is latest tactic against patrols'
2009-04-30,"b'BREAKING NEWS: Attack on Dutch Royal family, car tries to hit royal bus at high speed, hits public'"
2009-04-30,"b""The truth behind Egypt's swine killings"""
2009-04-30,b'The real victims of swine flu - Every other important story in the world'
2009-04-30,"b'124,687 people were stopped and searched by police under anti-terror laws in 2007/2008. Less than 0.06% were arrested for terror offences (UK).'"
2009-04-30,b'Scientists are baffled by what theyre seeing on the Suns surface '
2009-04-30,"b""The Ontario government wants to end Ticketmaster's practice of re-selling high-priced tickets through its subsidiary TicketsNow."""
2009-04-30,b'Jewish prof. equates Israel with Nazis--slammed for anti-Semitism'
2009-04-30,"b""North Korea 's concentration camps can be seen on Google"""
2009-04-30,"b""The engineer who foiled an attempt to assassinate one of India's richest men has been found, dead."""
2009-04-30,b'British forces will formally end combat operations in Iraq today'
2009-04-30,"b'200 incidents of police brutality at G20, London law firm swamped by complaints. At least 10 cases involve the beating of women.'"
2009-04-30,b'The recording industry is no longer targeting pirates - they are actually trying to hijack the very fabric of the Internetz.'
2009-04-30,b'Swedish Pirate Party gets 5.1% in latest EU poll'
2009-04-30,b'Ireland proposes a blasphemy law  '
2009-04-30,"b'Three months after Israels war ended, life for Gazans is still dismal'"
2009-04-30,"b'Poor Egyptian Christians farmers riot after swine flu cull -- decision criticised as a ""real mistake"" by UN food expert'"
2009-04-30,"b'response to swine flu talking heads: ""Yuck. I feel like I have to wash my brain out with bleach.""'"
2009-04-30,"b'WHO:  As of 18:00 GMT, 29 April 2009, nine countries have officially reported 148 cases of swine influenza A/H1N1 infection'"
2009-04-30,b'Britain Ends Combat Operations in Iraq'
2009-04-30,b'Mexico shuts down government in flu fight as WHO warns of pandemic'
2009-04-30,b'People try to portray the bridge jumping nonsense as a tradition that goes back for decades.This kind of thing has only been going on for the last 20 to 30 years.'
2009-04-30,b'IMF predicts US economy worse than world economy in 2010'
2009-04-30,b'Ex-Tiananmen convicts still struggling to survive'
2009-04-30,"b'[VIDEO] Queensday celebrations in Holland disrupted by violent carcrash, Queen is safe.'"
2009-04-30,"b'France reintroduces three-strikes law, clash with EU likely'"
2009-04-29,"b'While everybody its talking about the flu, Mexico will legalize Drugs for personal use'"
2009-04-29,"b'Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs - roughly between 300,000-350,000 - over swine flu.'"
2009-04-29,"b'CNN:  patient zero has been found, and he likes ice cream'"
2009-04-29,"b'Blasphemy to possibly become punishable by up to 100,000 in Ireland; Amendment to Defamation Bill proposed by Justice Minister Dermot Ahern'"
2009-04-29,"b""Now Russia's in the game -- warship captures captures Somali vessel with 29 on board"""
2009-04-29,"b'With no $10 laptop in sight, India buys 250,000 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) laptops'"
2009-04-29,b'China to Let Taiwan Participate in UN Body - Step Towards Greater Recognition of Taiwan'
2009-04-29,b'North Korea threatens Missile Test if Security Council does not apologize for Condemnation of last Missile Test'
2009-04-29,b'Boliva is the Saudi Arabia of Lithium. You can literally scrape it off the ground. [PBS VIDEO]'
2009-04-29,"b""Cannabis Ain't A Crime - a British High Court challenge to drug law"""
2009-04-29,b'1948 - Head of German Gestapo hired by...  CIA'
2009-04-29,b'1:10 Scale Saturn V Rocket Succesful Launch '
2009-04-29,"b'WHO raises pandemic alert level 5, saying ""all of humanity is under threat"". '"
2009-04-29,b'Spain Opens Inquiry on Guantnamo '
2009-04-29,"b""U.S. planning to cut off Talibans main source of money, the countrys multimillion-dollar opium crop, by pouring thousands of troops into provinces that bankroll the group's operations."""
2009-04-29,b'World Bank finds Israels water policy hard to swallow - The National Newspaper'
2009-04-29,"b'""Hey nice biceps!""...When the teenager realised it was ""Purple Aki"", he ran away very frightened and very shaken'"
2009-04-29,b'Network which used pensioners to smuggle drugs on cruise ships broken up in Spain'
2009-04-29,"b'Deep in the Amazonian jungle, a rare Indian tribe extends this maternal instinct beyond its own species. In a remote village, shaded by giant trees, the breasts of female humans also feed the urgent lips of hungry baby monkeys.'"
2009-04-29,b'Aporkalypse Now: more swine flu cases reported in New Zealand'
2009-04-29,b'They found the kid who licked the pig'
2009-04-29,b'Police in the Russian city of St Petersburg were today searching for a rare missing leopard which was stolen yesterday when thieves ambushed a TV producer and drove off in his luxury Mercedes 4x4.'
2009-04-29,b'SKorean experts claim to have cloned glowing dogs'
2009-04-29,b'Palestinian Embassy was inaugurated in Venezuela'
2009-04-29,b'A Palestinian military court condemns a man to death by hanging for treason for selling land to Israelis.'
2009-04-28,"b""Muslims dont care about Swine Flu being called Swine Flu.  The Israeli minister doesn't speak for us."""
2009-04-28,"b""Mexico outbreak traced to 'manure lagoons' at pig farm"""
2009-04-28,"b""Canada: Cops can now 'take all your stuff'"""
2009-04-28,"b""Mexico's Senate has approved a bill decriminalizing possession of small amounts of narcotics for personal use, in order to free resources to fight violent drug cartels."""
2009-04-28,"b'Why is the news freaking out about the Swine flu? 30-40,000 people die from the regular flu in the US each year and 300-500,000 worldwide'"
2009-04-28,b'A clear message must be sent to Israel: The sanctions against this settlement builder should be the start of a wider boycott of all who profit from the enforced acquisition of Palestinian land.'
2009-04-28,"b'Baxter Healthcare - The company contracted to make a swine flu vaccine, ""accidentally"" shipped LIVE bird flu in a vaccine'"
2009-04-28,"b'Any news channel passing off infotainment as news should be required, by law, to have a highly visable and and scrolly message that read, ""This information is for entertainment purposes only and may not be factual"".'"
2009-04-28,"b' Ex-soldier bragged about Iraqi rape, deaths: lawyer'"
2009-04-28,"b'Lithuania\'s economy shrinks 12.6%, ""Our economy is falling into deep hole, and I see no positive signs in the nearest future,"" says financial analyst in Vilnius.'"
2009-04-28,b'Britain: Another terror scare revealed as baseless'
2009-04-28,b'Pakistani fighter jets bomb Taliban in an effort to halt advance on Islamabad'
2009-04-28,b'Chinese students register US based website to complain'
2009-04-28,b'Swastika priest - A priest has shocked parishioners by welcoming them to church wearing a swastika armband'
2009-04-28,"b""Dubai property prices 'fall 41%' in 3 months"""
2009-04-28,"b""1976: Swine flu 'debacle' Triggeres an Enduring Public Backlash Against Flu Vaccinations"""
2009-04-28,b'Three men have been cleared of helping to plan the 7/7 London suicide attacks with an alleged reconnaissance mission'
2009-04-28,b'Swine Flu Container Explodes on Train in Switzerland'
2009-04-28,"b""A population control pressure group has issued a call for the Australian government to institute a one-child policy to ensure the continent's environmental and economic sustainability."""
2009-04-28,b' Israel renames unkosher swine flu'
2009-04-28,b'Stonehenge pagan ordered to end 10-month protest'
2009-04-28,b'Putting things into perspective: How many people die of flu every year? How many died of swineflu?'
2009-04-28,b'World-renowned pianist declares he will not return to U.S.'
2009-04-28,"b'""The United States, this fabled land of immigrants, has fallen dismally far behind countries like Australia and Canada in openness to immigration.""'"
2009-04-28,b'Map of Swine Flu cases; updated in real-time as reports come in.  Last week this was just a few dots in Mexico'
2009-04-27,"b'The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed ""Mexican"" influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.'"
2009-04-27,"b""'Panic Can Spread More Quickly Than Swine Flu'"""
2009-04-27,"b'First the swine flu, now an earthquake. Mexico City is doomed!'"
2009-04-27,b'British Government Plan to monitor all internet use - We are watching you'
2009-04-27,b'How an FBI agent got Abu Zubaydah to talk without Torture.'
2009-04-27,b'Peering into North Korea'
2009-04-27,"b'Sweden has the highest incidence of reported rapes in Europe - twice as many as ""runner up"" the UK, a new study shows.'"
2009-04-27,b'Map showing the spread of the swine virus'
2009-04-27,"b""Israel's secret plan for West Bank expansion - Middle East, World - The Independent"""
2009-04-27,"b""This will end well: Jerusalem settlement 'extended'"""
2009-04-27,b'Give us back our private lives - UK government unveils plans to monitor every one of our phone calls and emails'
2009-04-27,"b""Poland's Secret CIA Prison"""
2009-04-27,b'Europes first case of swine flu confirmed in Spain'
2009-04-27,b'WHO raises pandemic alert to phase 4.'
2009-04-27,"b'Peaceful Palestinian demonstrations met with Israeli teargas, stun grenades & live ammunition'"
2009-04-27,b'First lesbian prime minister wins Iceland election under left-wing coalition'
2009-04-27,"b""EU warning: Don't travel to U.S., Mexico.  Warning comes as Spain reports first confirmed case of swine flu in Europe."""
2009-04-27,b'British nuclear subs repeatedly leaked radioactive material'
2009-04-27,"b'The arms trade has expanded by more than 20% worldwide in the past five years, with the Middle East and Asian countries accounting for most of the increase. The US was by far the largest arms supplier, accounting for 31% of global weapons exports, with over a third going to the Middle East.'"
2009-04-27,b'Iran arms ship bound for Gaza downed near Sudan'
2009-04-27,b'The likely next leader of North Korea has been chosen'
2009-04-27,b'Four-year-old could hold key in search for source of swine flu outbreak'
2009-04-27,b'The worlds climate scientists in both public and private are admitting the same thing  defeat.  Global warming won.  Humans lost.'
2009-04-27,"b'UK government scrap plans for the goverment run internet database, draw up plans to require ISPs to log the data'"
2009-04-27,"b'Over 100 dead in Mexico flu outbreak, markets jittery'"
2009-04-26,"b'""I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from ""under control""'"
2009-04-26,"b'London Cop\'s Facebook: ""Rob Ward can\'t wait to bash some long haired hippys up @ the G20.""  Twenty minutes later another Facebook user posted a reply that said: ""Dats bad but good in da same way lol [laugh out loud]."" '"
2009-04-26,"b'WHY is Mexico Citys international airport, which handles about 70,000 passengers each day, operating normally???'"
2009-04-26,b'Cruise ship fends off pirate attack with gunfire.  Israeli private security forces exchange fire with bandits and drive them off'
2009-04-26,"b""Forced back to their last 5 square miles of territory, the Tamil Tiger's offer a cease-fire on humanitarian grounds. Sri Lanka insists they surrender."""
2009-04-26,"b'The outbreak coincided with the President Barack Obamas trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexicos anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu'"
2009-04-26,b'Norway given more Continental Shelf by the UN'
2009-04-26,b'swine flu map'
2009-04-26,"b'Lost Wallets: ""People who have experienced deprivation tend to be more generous than the very wealthy."" '"
2009-04-26,b'Swine-flu outbreak linked to Smithfield factory farms'
2009-04-26,b'US created Taliban and abandoned Pakistan: Clinton'
2009-04-26,"b""No more Bonuses at UBS after bail-out? Then We''ll Raise our Salaries by 15-20% ..."""
2009-04-26,b'Rwanda bans BBC local broadcasts '
2009-04-26,b'British MI6 agent throws war against drug traffickers into chaos by leaving top secret information about covert operations on a bus in South America'
2009-04-26,b'Somali pirates attack German cruise liner with 1200 passengers on board. Gun-toting security of the ship successfully fights them off.'
2009-04-26,b'Looks like the Flu Is Spreading'
2009-04-26,"b""Mexico gov't decrees special powers in flu crisis"""
2009-04-26,b'Swine flu tracker - wash your hands says CDC!'
2009-04-26,b'Baxter (the company that  sent contaminated seasonal flu product contained live bird flu virus) is working on vaccine to stop swine flu outbreak in Mexico.'
2009-04-26,"b""Was Israel Planning To Destroy Iran's Airforce?"""
2009-04-26,b'13 kids killed by bomb disguised as toy in Pakistan'
2009-04-26,b'Hey Reddit ... You want peace in the Middle East?  This is the only way that will happen.'
2009-04-26,b'Keeping track of swine flu with a worldwide map showing infections by country. (courtersy of Wikimedia Commons)'
2009-04-26,b'Press release: FluForecast warning was issued a year before the recent Mexico and California H1N1 pig flu cases. Hope this is a good thing.'
2009-04-26,"b'Yukihisa Fujita, a member of the Upper House of the Japanese Parliament has recently published a book:  Fujita claims that 9/11 as the main reason for the ""War on Terror"" needs to be newly investigated in order to find peaceful solutions.'"
2009-04-25,"b'Snow Patrol lead singer defends Pirate Bay founders and says: ""If you want to download music - just fucking go for it!""'"
2009-04-25,"b'Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Stated On Thursday There Will Be No Freeze Of The Construction And Expansion Of Settlements In The West Bank'"
2009-04-25,"b'Mexico City .- This evening the Senate approved the opinion of the legislative initiative to combat drug trafficking, which allows the carrying of small doses of drugs, marijuana, cocaine and crystal, among others.'"
2009-04-25,b'Apartheid Israel Destroys more Palestinian Homes in Jerusalem'
2009-04-25,"b'Irish reject e-voting, go back to paper - Ars Technica'"
2009-04-25,"b'Eight Scientists Find Active Nano-thermite in 9/11 WTC Dust -- April 6, 2009'"
2009-04-25,b'Killer flu: Mexico City shuts down'
2009-04-25,"b'OK, Who Brought The Israeli Oranges Into Iran?'"
2009-04-25,"b'Today Iceland, the first casualty of the financial crisis, votes a new legislator and government. Will it make a difference?'"
2009-04-25,"b""$$$ behind Fearmongering Of Pakistan's Demise"""
2009-04-25,b'Interpol seeks arrest of Venezuelan opposition leader'
2009-04-25,"b'""The worlds longest running failed state."" Also: pirates.'"
2009-04-25,"b'There are almost 200,000 private contractors in Iraq (more than US soldiers) and Obama is continuing to use mercenaries there and in Afghanistan and Israel/Palestine.'"
2009-04-25,"b""Spain's jobless rate rose sharply, to 17.36% with 4 million people out of work; more than double the European Union average"""
2009-04-25,"b""World Health Organization: Mexico swine flu has 'pandemic potential'"""
2009-04-25,b'How To Protest Corruption In Zimbabwe: Activists Make Posters And Placards Out Of Trillion Dollar Notes To Protest Against Mugabe [cool pics]'
2009-04-25,b'Transcript: Interview with U.N. torture official Manfred Novak'
2009-04-25,b'Media fee to replace Finland TV licence '
2009-04-25,b'Live updates from the elections in Iceland by the blogger in Iceland - Surviving Iceland'
2009-04-25,b'Mexico: All public events suspended - Se suspenden todos los eventos pblicos '
2009-04-25,"b'Aussie troops strike Taliban heartland, 80 dead'"
2009-04-25,b'Swine Flu Deaths Raise Fears Of Global Pandemic'
2009-04-25,"b'2,800 organised criminal gangs, British law enforcement is ill-equipped to deal with the threat that they pose'"
2009-04-25,"b""Is Pakistan going to crumble? Pakistan's Taliban dilemma and why a partition may be imminent"""
2009-04-25,"b'""The amazing thing is not that you have cases of suicider students but the amazing thing is that the bulk of them try to carry on in the middle of this mess as if life is normal, they want to celebrate their graduation and they want to build their life...""'"
2009-04-24,b'I think more people need to understand what waterboarding is. [VIDEO]'
2009-04-24,"b'Poland ""to ban"" Che Guevara image and other materials that incite ""fascism and totalitarian systems""'"
2009-04-24,"b'""We may need to seek them out and destroy them where they live,"". Vioxx maker Merck and Co drew up doctor hit list.'"
2009-04-24,b'Israel admits to having used white phosphorus in Gaza.'
2009-04-24,"b'Key Tamil Tigers leadership surrender, Sri Lanka within days of ending a 25 year civil war.'"
2009-04-24,"b'Taxing the rich, chart of income tax rates for the wealthiest in various countries.'"
2009-04-24,"b""G20 police officer said he wanted to 'beat up hippies' on Facebook """
2009-04-24,b'Pirate Bay lawyer wants a retrial'
2009-04-24,"b""Dick Cheney's death squad killed Lebanese former prime minister Rafik Hariri"""
2009-04-24,b'Tens of thousands of Armenians march through the capital to commemorate the 94th anniversary of the Armenian genocide'
2009-04-24,b'Pedophile Priest Hires Private Detectives to Harass His Victims'
2009-04-24,b'Islamic insurgents advance closer to Pakistani capital'
2009-04-24,b'60 dead in Mexico flu outbreak'
2009-04-24,"b'80 people died in Iraq and 120 others were injured thursday in three bombings, one by a female suicide bomber that held a young childs hand as she set off her explosives among a group of women and children receiving emergency food aid'"
2009-04-24,"b""Spain's jobless rate soars to 17.4%, doubling over the past 12 months"""
2009-04-24,"b'Israeli FM Lieberman: ""World leaders must drop \'land for peace\' and \'two-state solution\' slogans, the obstacle to any solution is not Israel. It is not the Palestinians. It\'s the Iranians.""'"
2009-04-24,"b'Bank wants 40,000 pounds from G20 girl 17 '"
2009-04-24,"b""Attorney General: If you were just following orders, then you're good. Seems strangely familiar..."""
2009-04-24,b'Fatal swine flu breaks out in Mexico'
2009-04-24,b'Twin-track talks in Burma raise peace hopes'
2009-04-24,b'Report: Reporters to be tried in N. Korea'
2009-04-24,b'Cops taser naked man at arts festival (with video)'
2009-04-24,"b""Sweden spied on CIA 'terror flights'"""
2009-04-24,b'Former KKK leader David Duke has been detained by police in the Czech Republic on suspicion of denying the Holocaust.'
2009-04-24,"b""Nobel laureate accuses Israel of 'ethnic cleansing'"""
2009-04-23,"b'Five men decide a 19 year-old is a coward, so they take him into a tent, strip him down, handcuff and hold him down, and indecently assault him while video and photographing the scene.  This setting is Afghanistan, but the players are all British soldiers.'"
2009-04-23,b'Swedish Pirate Party Doubles in Size After Bay Verdict '
2009-04-23,b'Israeli Soldiers Shoot American Between The Eyes With Tear Gas At Anti-Demolition/Settlement Protest In The West Bank [WARNING: Graphic Video]'
2009-04-23,b'[ThePirateBay] The judge that sentenced Piratebay founders is a member of antipiracy organizations'
2009-04-23,"b'10 Days after imposing Sharia Law, Taliban militants have now taken control of Brunei the strategically important district just 70 miles from the capital. Honestly, how long does Pakistan have?'"
2009-04-23,"b'Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias, Calls for a Retrial'"
2009-04-23,"b'If Lieberman had turned up to speak, would western delegates and ambassadors have staged a walkout? '"
2009-04-23,b'Thailand - Army Bullets Used in Assassination Attempt'
2009-04-23,b'Netanyahu: No Peace Talks With the Palestinians Until Obama Does Something About Iran.....'
2009-04-23,b'Do Palestinians Really Want a State? - the psychology of the Middle East conflict'
2009-04-23,"b""British troops 'breached human rights laws'; captives were [allegedly] tortured, murdered and their bodies mutilated. """
2009-04-23,"b'Oh, btw, your general works for me....'"
2009-04-23,"b'Olmert, Livni and Ehud Barak charged with war crimes by a group of Norwegian lawyers. New law in Norway allows foreigners to face charges against war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity.'"
2009-04-23,b'Baghdad:  A suicide bomber killed at least 28 people - detonating a belt of explosives as police distributed aid to a crowd of homeless families.'
2009-04-23,"b'Czech Soldiers in Afghanistan: ""We\'re Not Going to Fight, it\'s Dangerous""....'"
2009-04-23,b'The Inventor of the Web Opposes to Online Spying'
2009-04-23,b'I feel good today because of this video: Stand By Me performed by street musicians across the world & spliced/mixed together. Excellent.'
2009-04-23,"b'Bolivian President Evo Morales on Wednesday accused the World Bank of trying to ""blackmail"" his country several years ago by demanding free-market reforms in exchange for aid loans'"
2009-04-23,b'Israel defies US and destroys Palestinian home'
2009-04-23,b'Taliban Seize Vital Pakistan Area Closer to the Capital'
2009-04-23,"b""The Japanese government is offering to pay the air fair for hundreds of thousands of blue-collar Latin American immigrants and their families if they'll sign an agreement promising never to work in Japan again."""
2009-04-23,b'China Unveils New Fleet of Nuclear Submarines'
2009-04-23,"b""The good news: Somalia's most powerful Islamist is back to stabilize the country. The bad news: Somalia's most powerful Islamist is back to stabilize the country."""
2009-04-23,"b'Criminal duress got skipped for distractionary conversations of torture how?  Remember Valerie Plame sacrificed during spy shortage?  Why not!  How did we get her name, anyway?'"
2009-04-23,b'Independent journalist fined for taking video of Belarus KGB officer'
2009-04-22,"b'Israeli FM: ""Believe me, America accepts all our decisions. The Obama Admin will put forth new peace initiatives only if Israel wants it to.""'"
2009-04-22,"b""Video shows UAE royal setting man's testicles on fire, running him over with an SUV. Welcome to Dubai, have a pleasant stay!"""
2009-04-22,b'China wants citizens with unique names to change them under new ID system'
2009-04-22,b'US Freddie Mac chief found dead'
2009-04-22,"b""Full Text of President Ahmadinejad's Remarks at U.N. Conference on Racism"""
2009-04-22,"b'The results indicate that 74% of Palestinians and 78% of Israelis are willing to accept a two-state solution on an option range from ""tolerable"" to ""essential"", while 59% of Palestinians and 66% of Israelis find a single bi-national state ""unacceptable"".'"
2009-04-22,"b'European Prosecutors Are Likely To Investigate CIA And Bush Administration Officials On Suspicion Of Violating An International Ban On Torture If They Are Not Held Legally Accountable At Home, According To U.N. Officials And Human Rights Lawyers.'"
2009-04-22,"b'70-euro admission charge for unlimited food, drink and sex between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m'"
2009-04-22,b'All of 12 men arrested over a suspected bomb plot in the UK two weeks ago have now been released without charge.'
2009-04-22,"b'Torture tape implicates UAE Royal Sheik; victim is whipped, beaten, electrocuted, run over by SUV: Viewer Discretion is Advised '"
2009-04-22,"b""WTF?! France trying to pass harsh new law that would cut off internet access for people who download pirated music and films. Gov't agency called HADOPI will police the intrnet on behalf of copyright owners"""
2009-04-22,"b'""The world attends to Palestinian grievances but not Chechen ones for the sole reason that Palestinians are, uniquely, the perceived victims of the Jewish state.""'"
2009-04-22,b'DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Says 9/11 Hijackers Came From Canada....'
2009-04-22,b'Britian unveils plans for 50% tax bracket '
2009-04-22,b'Russian SWAT in action while capturing bank robbers! Most viral video in Russia! [VIDEO]'
2009-04-22,b'Netanyahu again attempts to dictate US foreign policy'
2009-04-22,b'Hugo Chvez gives to Barack Obama an island to be transformed into an environmental reserve'
2009-04-22,"b""Finally, I'm in America!!!"""
2009-04-22,"b""Save Steve Irwins Place! Australian Govt allowing Bauxite mine to be built next door. Sign the Petition pls..or I'll get my thumb and...."""
2009-04-22,"b""Covert Mexican drug agents 'dead'"""
2009-04-22,b'A Workers Paradise Found Off Japans Coast'
2009-04-22,"b'Earthlike planet ""Gliese 581 e"" discovered, a rocky mass of 1.9 Earth masses!'"
2009-04-22,b'Kiwis confused about the proper names of their islands'
2009-04-22,b'Old Europe investigates whether to pursue Bush officials on torture'
2009-04-22,b'Q&A: Sri Lanka crisis '
2009-04-21,b'Redditors awarded for being homo heroes'
2009-04-21,b'The Pirate Bay FTW!'
2009-04-21,"b'European Internet users, rejoice! Amandement 138 was voted again and the European Internet has been saved. For now.'"
2009-04-21,b'14 videos showing footage of British police tactics during G20 protests - Bloody disgrace!'
2009-04-21,"b""British police respond to 'trial by media'"""
2009-04-21,"b'Israeli President: ""We all want a world that is clean of nuclear bombs, but the problem is that those holding the bombs are religious fanatics, extremists, that do not cringe from all methods of killing""'"
2009-04-21,b'Memberhistory for the Swedish Pirate Party'
2009-04-21,b'Kuwait state arrests candidate for .. criticizing the ruling family'
2009-04-21,"b""New Video Shows Police At G-20's Protest Beating People With Batons And Shields [video]"""
2009-04-21,"b'China plans to build 93,000-ton atomic-powered aircraft carrier'"
2009-04-21,b'Iraqi militia torturing gay men by glueing their anus'
2009-04-21,b'Mossad agent attempts to derail the prosecution of two AIPAC spies by suborning a member of Congress and promising her the chairmanship of the Intelligence Committee'
2009-04-21,b'State of Emergency extended in Thailand'
2009-04-21,"b'After victory in the Swat Valley, the Taliban are moving into the next region.  100km from Islamabad.  How long until US troops deploy to Pakistan?'"
2009-04-21,b'Internet radicals ready themselves for European Parliament'
2009-04-21,"b""Teen pirate came under flag of truce. He should've used flag of parley."""
2009-04-21,"b'60 years ago - the Zionist 9/11 that failed: ""A group of Jewish terrorists who planned to drop leaflets and bombs on London fall into a police trap""'"
2009-04-21,b'China will display its nuclear submarines for the first time in history'
2009-04-21,b'Sri Lanka army accused of carnage'
2009-04-21,"b'63,000 Tamils refugees flee from LTTE territory in Sri Lanka'"
2009-04-21,"b""The story of 8 year old quadriplegic  Maria Aman and what it says about the Israeli government's attitude towards Palestinians"""
2009-04-21,"b""Any idea that Chavez is some sort of threat to the United States is absurd. It's hard to see his fiery anti-American rhetoric as anything more than performance art"""
2009-04-21,"b'Ahmadinejad dropped language describing the Holocaust as ""ambiguous and dubious"" from a prepared speech'"
2009-04-21,b'Second woman says Paraguay president fathered kid out of wedlock when he was a Roman Catholic bishop'
2009-04-21,"b""Ahmadinejad's speech at the UN Conference on racism: full text"""
2009-04-20,"b'Israel decides to build a ""Museum of Tolerance"" atop a Muslim cemetery'"
2009-04-20,"b'Israeli Legislator Writes Letter To Rahm Emanuel, Reminding Him That He Needs To Be Loyal To Jewish People And Israel Only, Not America'"
2009-04-20,b'The public are fast losing patience with thuggish policing'
2009-04-20,"b'A survey 16 copyright regimes around the world found the United Kingdom is the worst, a ""blessed plot"" which makes it illegal to rip CDs, doesn\'t protect parody and satire, and puts a copyright on government documents.'"
2009-04-20,"b'Ahmadinejad says Israel is run by a racist government, western diplomats stage walkout at UN conference'"
2009-04-20,"b'IDF thugs beating women and teenagers, forcing a teens arm out and hitting the elbow with a brick in an attempt to break it'"
2009-04-20,b'Cult author JG Ballard dead at 78'
2009-04-20,"b""Red Cross 'worn out' in Sri Lanka (Horrifying picture included)"""
2009-04-20,b'Hamas accused of extra-judicial killings of Palestinians in Gaza'
2009-04-20,"b""International condoms 'too big' for Indian men"""
2009-04-20,"b""Turkey's scheming in Strasbourg shows it doesn't belong in the European Union. - By Christopher Hitchens"""
2009-04-20,b'Swiss president ignores Israel lobby and proceeds to meet with his Iranian counterpart on the eve of the anti-racism Durban Review Conference being held in Geneva.'
2009-04-20,"b""Britain walks out of conference as Ahmadinejad calls Israel 'racist'"""
2009-04-20,"b'Father denies Slumdog child sale -- He was tempted, he rejecteed the offer, then he was blatantly slandered'"
2009-04-20,"b'China: Late last year, the government cut to 1 percent its tax on family vehicles with fuel-sipping engines no larger than 1.6 liters, while raising the levies to as much as 40 percent on cars, minivans and sport utility vehicles with larger engines.'"
2009-04-20,"b""According to reports, the European Commission will soon begin an investigation into the British government's use of Internet surveillance"""
2009-04-20,b'Swedes demonstrate in support of Pirate Bay'
2009-04-20,"b""Hamas directed gunmen to eliminate political opponents and suspected collaborators under the cover of Israel's military offensive in Gaza"""
2009-04-20,b'Lets Get The Somali Pirates To Patrol The Seas. It Would Save Money And All The Hassle'
2009-04-20,"b""Torture Victim Turns Tables on Libya at 'Racism' Conference..."""
2009-04-20,b'Amnesty International: Fiji Develops Culture of Fear Under Military Rule'
2009-04-20,"b""Somalia's Godfathers: Ransom-Rich Pirates"""
2009-04-20,"b'While White-listing Syria, Linkedin Keeps Sudans Internet Users Blocked!'"
2009-04-20,"b""Prince Charles told: don't interfere on planning decisions ** Leading architects complain that prince abuses position to 'skew' planning decisions"""
2009-04-20,"b'Muslim Cleric participates in ""Rabbis and Imams for peace"" conference, then goes on TV and declares that ""Jews are inherently evil"" and that ""no Jew or Zionist will be left on the face of this earth""'"
2009-04-19,"b""Taliban execute couple for 'illicit relationship'"""
2009-04-19,b'Head of Independent Police Board Slams G20 Police Violence and Dishonesty'
2009-04-19,b'Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urges full defense for US reporter'
2009-04-19,b'Pirate Party Swells After Spectrial Verdict'
2009-04-19,b'Jackie Chan: Chinese people need to be controlled'
2009-04-19,b'11-year-old girl dies after being punished by teacher'
2009-04-19,"b"" Schools turn to bouncers for 'crowd control' during absent teachers' lessons"""
2009-04-19,"b""Tamil civilians slaughtered as army shells 'no-fire zone'"""
2009-04-19,"b""Could someone explain to me why so many Americans hate Hugo Chavez so much? He might be a bit pompous and have a slight authoritarian streak, but he's a truly democratically elected leader who honestly seems to care about his people."""
2009-04-19,"b""Headlines Africa - Dig 'may reveal' Cleopatra's tomb"""
2009-04-19,"b'""Cut aid to Africa"" - Dead Aid, By Dambisa Moyo'"
2009-04-19,"b""Palestinians mourn demonstrator's death"""
2009-04-19,"b""UAE arrests suspect in Lebanon's Hariri murder"""
2009-04-19,"b""5 Ways People Are Trying to Save the World (That Don't Work)"""
2009-04-19,"b'Palestinians waiting, waiting for a solution, while Israel continues to talk peace while waging war. Are they waiting for Godot?'"
2009-04-19,b'Iran breaks agreement to stop shelling Kurds'
2009-04-19,"b""Chavez 'to restore US ambassador'"""
2009-04-19,b'IMF warns over parallels to Great Depression'
2009-04-19,"b""`Capitalism is putting an end to humanity and the planet' -- ALBA countries' document for the 5th Summit of the Americas"""
2009-04-19,b'Gunmen kidnap two foreign aid workers in Somalia'
2009-04-19,"b""Solution to global financial crisis, Tasmania's wombat poo"""
2009-04-19,b'Fifty Years of Terror: ETA Timeline'
2009-04-19,"b""British MI5 Seeks a Real 'Q'"""
2009-04-19,"b'8 basic instructions for owners of Internet Cafes in Saudi Arabia (including censorship, secret cameras)'"
2009-04-19,"b'History of Staged Terrorism - ""The trails lead back into the 1950s - NATO is still blocking the facts.""'"
2009-04-18,b'The police officer caught on film attacking Ian Tomlinson during the G20 protests could face manslaughter charges after a second postmortem concluded that the newspaper vendor died from internal bleeding and not a heart attack.'
2009-04-18,"b'Officer assaults woman with a baton at a memorial protest for Ian Tomlinson, a G20 victim [vid]'"
2009-04-18,b'Israel ready to bomb Iran - Get ready for a Russian smackdown'
2009-04-18,b'AIPAC in action: US to boycott a UN forum on racism to protect Apartheid Israel'
2009-04-18,b'Iran convicts American journalist on spying charges'
2009-04-18,b'US plans to boycott UN racism conference.'
2009-04-18,b'Fox business interviews the Icelandic Minister of business Affairs and show clips of massive rioting...IN LATVIA!'
2009-04-18,"b""At least 83 children lost both parents and 2,200 lost at least one during apartheid Israel's recent war on Gaza."""
2009-04-18,b'French capture Eta Military Chief'
2009-04-18,"b""Rahm is talking tough against Israel however if the Bill Clinton era is anything to go by little action will result from this, the 'settler' population in the West Bank will increase and so will funding"""
2009-04-18,"b""True stories of US soldiers abused in Iraq ... Oh, by the way, they're women."""
2009-04-18,b'Beijing: state control over the press is insufficient and will be increased'
2009-04-18,b'A Taste of AFRICOM: Somalia did find peace and tried to stop piracy until the US bombed the shit out of it in 2006 '
2009-04-18,b'Shami Chakrabarti (of Liberty fame) was target in police search in Damian Green arrest'
2009-04-18,"b'You might be Canadian!! No, Really!! Take this quiz to see!!!'"
2009-04-18,b'Iran jails journalist as US spy'
2009-04-18,"b""Afghanistan's controversial law emboldens women's rights activists | csmonitor.com"""
2009-04-18,"b'Chavez reportedly greeted Obama by saying, ""with this very hand I greeted President Bush. I want to be your friend.""'"
2009-04-18,b'Justice for the Uighurs'
2009-04-18,"b""'60 Minutes , Scott Pelley Talks about Cold Fusion Report"""
2009-04-18,b'Israelis feel chill as US sets out new ground rules'
2009-04-18,b'Shootout Leaves 16 Dead in Mexico - Drug War'
2009-04-18,b'Disappearing World: Global warming Claims Tropical Island '
2009-04-18,b'North Korea: Sanctions a declaration of war'
2009-04-18,"b""Bolivia international terror gang 'also targetted Cardinal'"""
2009-04-17,"b'A poll of 60,000 Swedes showed that 89 per cent believed that the Pirate Bay founders should have been acquitted'"
2009-04-17,"b""The Pirate Bay: Don't worry - we're from the internets. It's going to be alright. :-)"""
2009-04-17,b'Did you know there are 4 varieties of Bengal Tiger? A beautiful photo shoot of over a dozen Bengals.'
2009-04-17,"b""G20 - Ian Tomlinson's death was NOT heart attack second post mortem suggests"""
2009-04-17,b'PIRATE BAY FOUND GUILTY!'
2009-04-17,b'Hong Kong Students Vote to Condemn Tiananmen Square Violence'
2009-04-17,"b'Vatican ""bewildered"" by Belgian condemnation and official resolution against the pope\'s comments on the use of condoms.'"
2009-04-17,"b'U.S. experts: Pakistan on course to become an Islamic state; ""It\'s a disaster in the making on the scale of the Iranian revolution,"" U.S. intelligence official says.'"
2009-04-17,"b'1,500 Indian Farmers Commit Mass Suicide'"
2009-04-17,"b'The Torture Colony: In a remote part of Chile, an evil German evangelist built a utopia whose members helped the Pinochet regime perform its foulest deeds'"
2009-04-17,"b'London G20 protestor died from an abdominal haemorrhage and NOT ""natural causes"", like orginally claimed'"
2009-04-17,b'Tragic.  Over 1500 farmers in India commit suicide after crop failure.'
2009-04-17,b'CNN: African Villages Denounce Female Circumcision'
2009-04-17,"b"" Dubai Police confirm plan to block internet 'smut' """
2009-04-17,"b""Russia deploys 22 ships from Black Sea Fleet, is another war with Georgia looming? Where there's smoke..."""
2009-04-17,b'Top 10 Free Secure Online Tools to avoid Pirate Bay Verdict'
2009-04-17,"b'Spanish court says torture charges against Bush officials can continue, despite AG opposition.'"
2009-04-17,"b'The Piratebay founders found guilty, one year in jail each and a 30 million SEK fine'"
2009-04-17,"b'Man Killed at G20 Died of Internal Bleeding, New Autopsy Reveals '"
2009-04-17,"b'""Police \'stop attempt on Morales\' "" - Press downplaying Assasination Attempt?'"
2009-04-17,"b""Chechnya: Russia declares 'mission accomplished' in strong-man state"""
2009-04-17,b'Russian Forces Deploying for Possible Action in Georgia'
2009-04-17,"b' Ancient, frozen ecosystem produces blood-red ice flows'"
2009-04-17,"b'Headlines Africa - Former child soldiers, sex slaves recover from Liberias war'"
2009-04-17,"b""Ral Castro: Cuba ready 'to discuss everything' with U.S."""
2009-04-16,"b'London police are now deleting tourists\' photos because ""photographing anything to do with transport is strictly forbidden."" '"
2009-04-16,"b""Schoolboy gets sarcasm instead of help when calling Australian '911'-  Dies as a result"""
2009-04-16,"b""In the Indian election, 700m voters, 28 days, 250,000 police: world's biggest democratic poll begins"""
2009-04-16,"b'Afghan Women Stoned During Protest of Rape Law, Make Cowards of Their Men'"
2009-04-16,b'Police brutality: The camera is mightier than the sword'
2009-04-16,b'Robert Fisk: How can you trust the cowardly BBC?'
2009-04-16,b'Pirate Bay Trial Update - Verdict Comes Friday'
2009-04-16,b'Russia ends war with Chechnya'
2009-04-16,"b'Hundreds gathered on Wednesday in front of the European Union patent office in Munich to protest a patent for a test to check pigs for a gene that makes them produce more meat, arguing that the process opens the door to further commercial exploitation of biological processes and weakens farmers.'"
2009-04-16,b'Video: Police threaten photographers at G20 protest with arrest '
2009-04-16,b'Man Gets on Bus -- Fiji Daily'
2009-04-16,"b""One round of dialysis in hospitals costs 3x the average Chinese farmer's yearly income-- Co-op clinic had provided its patients with dialysis for 1% of the hospital cost, until Chinese health officials shut it down this month. Patients now refusing to leave Beijing until they receive a settlement."""
2009-04-16,"b'President Medvedev: ""Russia needs more political competition and a greater freedom to protest.""'"
2009-04-16,b'Britain: Police make mass preemptive arrest of protesters in Nottingham'
2009-04-16,"b""New Human Rights Watch report: Eritrea becoming 'a giant prison' , is one of the most closed and repressive states in the world,"""
2009-04-16,"b'300 Afghan women protesting Afghanistan\'s new rape-condoning laws are chased by groups 3x larger than their own comprised mostly of men; the women are threatened with death, called ""whores,"" and attacked.'"
2009-04-16,"b""Iranian scientists cloned a goat; the effort is part of Iran's quest to become a leader in science and medicine."""
2009-04-16,"b""Oslo Police: 'Non-Westerners' Behind Most Sexual Assaults..."""
2009-04-16,b'Spanish Prosecutor: Drop case against Bush officials'
2009-04-16,b'Starving Zimbabweans poaching wild animals'
2009-04-16,"b""Eritrea 'like a giant prison', claims human rights group"""
2009-04-16,b'Crazy stories from Dubai... Modern day slavery'
2009-04-16,b'Stories of UK police paranoia getting more absurd - UK police force Austrian tourists to delete bus photos.'
2009-04-16,"b'A limited UN-led investigation of 90 people in one jail found evidence of severe beatings and inhuman conditions. The corpse of Valeriu Boboc, a 23-year-old protester, was returned to his parents covered in bruises; the authorities say he was poisoned.'"
2009-04-16,b'Russia Ends Operation in Chechnya '
2009-04-15,b'Monsanto Uprooted: Germany Bans Cultivation of GM Corn'
2009-04-15,b'Headlines Africa - Niger villages say No to female genital mutilation'
2009-04-15,"b'Saudia Arabia to enter the 14th century and ""regulate"" child brides'"
2009-04-15,b'Video: Woman smacked and beaten by cop at G20 protests '
2009-04-15,b'Go the French! - French Warship Captures Pirates. Pirates wanted to kill the crew and destroy the last US ship they attacked.'
2009-04-15,b'Fears that Britain is slipping into a surveillance society have been heightened by Brussels initiating legal action'
2009-04-15,b'Somali Pirates Hijack 4 More Ships'
2009-04-15,"b""Israel does not plan to cooperate with a U.N. agency's investigation into alleged war crimes by Israeli troops and Hamas militants during fighting in Gaza."""
2009-04-15,b'Fijian newspapers are turning into the Onion'
2009-04-15,"b'The Mizrahis, Jewish migrants from Arab countries, are still stunned at the level of ignorance and prejudice that greeted them in the new Israel. Zionism, the ideology that built the Jewish state, was conceived in Europe and was, inevitably, set to a European tune.'"
2009-04-15,"b""Britain's failure to protect its citizens from secret surveillance on the internet is to be investigated by the European Commission."""
2009-04-15,b'Free speech is nothing but trouble.'
2009-04-15,b'Afghan Feminists Beaten With Rocks Today'
2009-04-15,"b'Bolivian President Evo Morales ends hunger strike. ""If the oligarchy insults me, if they attack me, it means that I am doing my job. It means that I am defending the people""'"
2009-04-15,b'G20 protest videos: Growing catalogue of evidence against police'
2009-04-15,"b'Genocide and crimes against humanity have become coded jargon. You end up arguing whether a particular outrage is an act of genocide or not, and not whether what happened was reprehensible or not.'"
2009-04-15,"b""The police should take note: little brother's watching you"""
2009-04-15,b'Women hit by stones at rally against law that critics say legalizes marital rape.'
2009-04-15,b'Somalia says let us handle the pirates'
2009-04-15,b'A great tool.  Tracks world shipping and ship locations.  Liberty Sun is now off Somolia and was attacked.  '
2009-04-15,b'London Police officer suspended after video surfaces of brutality at vigil [Video]'
2009-04-15,"b""No winners in Thailand's crisis"""
2009-04-15,"b""Vatican 'vetoes' US envoy names"""
2009-04-15,b'Mexico Begins Legislative Debate On Legalizing Marijuana'
2009-04-15,b'Taliban execute eloping young lovers in Afghanistan'
2009-04-14,b'Overfishing to wipe out bluefin tuna: WWF'
2009-04-14,"b'In the last few weeks, 25 boys and men are reported to have been killed in Baghdad because they were, or were perceived to be, gay'"
2009-04-14,b'North Korea responds to UN Security Council condemnation of its rocket launch by quitting negotations and resuming production of nuclear weapons'
2009-04-14,b'North Korea orders UN inspectors out'
2009-04-14,b'Ronald Reagan Was An FBI Informant'
2009-04-14,b'UK:  Police raid dozens of homes as climate change activists arrested'
2009-04-14,"b'Egypt accuses Hezbollah of plotting attacks on its soil, labels the group a ""terrorist organization"" for the first time '"
2009-04-14,"b'The decline in Israel\'s reputation ""is a structurally inbuilt logic of an occupation that becomes increasingly aggressive, in order to maintain itself and a settler population that is increasingly radicalised. ""'"
2009-04-14,"b""Dear shipping companies: Haven't you ever heard of traveling in convoys? Ships did it in WWII. Check it out. Sincerely, the taxpayers who are rescuing your asses from pirates"""
2009-04-14,b'China: Concentration Camps Are Exposed'
2009-04-14,"b'""We have decided to kill U.S. and French sailors if they happen to be among our future hostages""'"
2009-04-14,b'Apartheid Israel to Encage Christian Village'
2009-04-14,"b'Charity is calling for a campaign to protect the UK\'s mental health, describing a ""culture of fear"" in which the media and politicians fuel a sense of unease.'"
2009-04-14,b'Urine spray man gets nine years '
2009-04-14,"b'\tIAEA Chief: ""Israel would be utterly crazy to attack Iran. If you bomb, you will turn the region into a ball of fire and put Iran on a crash course for nuclear weapons with the support of the whole Muslim world.""'"
2009-04-14,b'Single shots killed Somali pirates: the snipers were able to make the shot at night in rolling waters.'
2009-04-14,"b' ""The [British] government does not feel the need to hold contingency plans specifically for the eventuality of crude oil supplies peaking between now and 2020.""'"
2009-04-14,"b""Real IRA 'will carry out attacks on mainland Britain'"""
2009-04-14,"b'N. Korea vows to restart nuclear reactor, end talks'"
2009-04-14,"b"" Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels say they are ready to negotiate a permanent ceasefire with the government forces"""
2009-04-14,b'Tony Blair claims that Binyamin Netanyahu will build a Palestinian nation - With these two Palestinians have no chance'
2009-04-14,b'Define Brave:   President of Fiji Law Society speaks out from jail cell'
2009-04-14,b'Untold Stories about Somalia Pirates - European ships dump Nuclear Waste into Somalia Ocean'
2009-04-14,b'Pirates seize two ships off Somalia'
2009-04-14,b'Is the west thwarting Arab plans for reform?'
2009-04-13,b'The film-maker Sir David Attenborough becomes a patron of a group seeking to cut the growth in human population. '
2009-04-13,"b'American captain rescued, pirates killed'"
2009-04-13,"b'SEALs parachuted into water in dark, later slid down tow line to lifeboat'"
2009-04-13,"b'During Gaza offensive, soldier steals ATM card from Gaza resident, withdraws money in Israel'"
2009-04-13,"b'WTF? Why Is This Merely A Side Note? ""Various gangs along Somalia\'s coast are holding 18 foreign ships  including five taken this week  and more than 250 hostages.""'"
2009-04-13,"b'Why I Know Weapons Expert Dr David Kelly Was Murdered, by the MP Who Spent a Year Investigating His Death'"
2009-04-13,"b'New Zealand: Locked out union employees fight back with ""lock in""'"
2009-04-13,"b'Obama To Allow Travel, Money Transfers To Cuba'"
2009-04-13,"b'Now pirates vow to kill future US, French hostages.'"
2009-04-13,"b""In case you didn't know, Fiji is going down the crapper"""
2009-04-13,b'You are being lied to about pirates'
2009-04-13,"b'Vatican blocks Caroline Kennedy appointment as US ambassador because of her support for abortion, you know'"
2009-04-13,b'Warning that Pakistan is in danger of collapse within months'
2009-04-13,b'British and mainland Europeans have known for more than a year: new leather sofas from China are a hotbed of allergens'
2009-04-13,"b'European subsidies are responsible for large-scale unemployment and poverty among farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America'"
2009-04-13,"b' Over 150,000 Gazans still without tap water'"
2009-04-13,"b""The coronation of Bhutan's Dragon King, and what it means for the worlds last Himalayan kingdom"""
2009-04-13,b'Obama says the US seeks to halt piracy on the high seas'
2009-04-13,b'U.S. Military Considers Attacks on Somali Pirates Land Bases '
2009-04-13,"b""(UK) Police investigate shocking video of 17 drunken soldiers 'roasting' underage girl"""
2009-04-13,b'The Two Piracies in Somalia'
2009-04-13,b'Wikileaks.de taken offline by German registrar'
2009-04-13,b'Iran offers to train Afghan police '
2009-04-13,b'Georgia protesters move to oust president'
2009-04-13,b'No one dared report the accident because the owner was so powerful. Graft in China Covers Up Toll of Coal Mines '
2009-04-12,b'You are being lied to about pirates.'
2009-04-12,"b'American captain Richard Phillips rescued, 3 pirates killed, 1 taken into custody'"
2009-04-12,b'Darwinism award candidate makes her debut at the Berlin Zoo.'
2009-04-12,"b'A douchebag from Harvard :""Palestinian civilians could be culpable for suicide bombings by supporting them""'"
2009-04-12,b'What the US learnt from Iraq  and the Arab world didnt'
2009-04-12,"b""Thailand's ousted prime minister called for a revolution Sunday after rioting erupted in the capital, with protesters commandeering public buses and swarming triumphantly over military vehicles in unchecked defiance after the government declared a state of emergency."""
2009-04-12,b'Ian Tomlinson: three-year wait for G20 death verdict'
2009-04-12,"b'Americans invade home, massacre Afghan woman, her three children & brother-in-law, let their God Sort It Out. '"
2009-04-12,b'We suddenly had so many women coming in with post-rape lesions and injuries I could never have imagined. Our minds just couldnt take in what these women had suffered.'
2009-04-12,"b""I've watched the police for 30 years and I still despair"""
2009-04-12,"b""The policeman who 'killed' a G20 protestor claims he was 'protecting him' and forcibly shoved him to the ground for 'his own safety'"""
2009-04-12,"b'State of emergency in Bangkok: 10,000 anti-government protesters are at the gates of Government House and several hundred are marching toward police headquarters'"
2009-04-12,"b""Am I the only person who wants an online micropayment system for newspapers? I don't want to see decent papers go under and 0.001 means nothing to me."""
2009-04-12,b'UK encourages yet more personal debt at environments expense'
2009-04-12,b'Two thousand Poles are currently in prison for riding a bicycle whilst under the influence of alcohol. '
2009-04-12,b'Hypocrisy in all its splendor'
2009-04-12,b'A second Jewish state'
2009-04-12,b'The disappearing male gender.  '
2009-04-12,b'US court allows apartheid cases '
2009-04-12,"b'Sri Lanka to suspend offensives against rebels to enable tens of thousands of trapped civilians to leave the war zone, if the Tamil Tigers will let them.'"
2009-04-12,"b""Saudi judge refuses to annul 8-year-old's marriage"""
2009-04-12,b'Lost everything when the Icelandic banks collapsed'
2009-04-12,b'Tamil protesters vent their fury'
2009-04-12,"b'MI5 hires little old ladies, moms pushing strollers for tailing suspects'"
2009-04-12,"b'Russia, Iraq call for fair new world order - Gee, I thought that was what Obama and Brown were calling for'"
2009-04-11,"b'""How to spot a lame, lame argument"" - author of ""The Dark Side of Dubai"" responds to Arab criticism'"
2009-04-11,"b""While his shocking gaffes make news abroad, the Italian PM's stranglehold on TV and newspapers keeps his nation clueless. What is the difference between the government controlling the media and one family controlling it all?"""
2009-04-11,"b""2/3 of French soldiers during WWII were not white, so they weren't allowed to be in the victory parades """
2009-04-11,b'Hostage killed as French storm yacht held by Somali pirates'
2009-04-11,"b'Thursday, Leon Panetta, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), issued a memo declaring the Obama administrations policy of amnesty for torturers. The US corporate mass media ignored the topic.'"
2009-04-11,b'French subway beating - This is a brutal video the French government has worked hard to suppress.'
2009-04-11,"b'Palestinians:  Israel Must Back Two-State Solution and Abide by Previous Agreements, Including the Halting of All Settlement Activity, If Peace Talks are to Resume'"
2009-04-11,"b'Four Afghani civilians killed in raid by US military, including a mother and her children, with a baby dying afterwards.  They are described as ""combatants"" in the intitial report.  '"
2009-04-11,b'Unethical Marketing by drug company surfaces'
2009-04-11,b'Measles Outbreak'
2009-04-11,b'Toxic scandal in Somalia gave birth to new piracy'
2009-04-11,b'Death By the Numbers: Pakistan Counts the Toll of the Bush-Obama Drone War'
2009-04-11,"b'Beck imitates Obama pouring gasoline on ""average American"" '"
2009-04-11,"b'Somali ""Pirates"" are just avenging all the nuclear waste dumped on their coast'"
2009-04-11,b'Metropolitan police chiefs ordered to justify tactics at G20 protests'
2009-04-11,b'Russian Rocket Forces tell about plans for 2009'
2009-04-11,"b""China Gender Gap: ''If you've got highly sexed young men, there is a concern that they will all get together and, with high levels of testosterone, there may be a real risk, that they will go out and commit crimes''"""
2009-04-11,"b'Ah, Easter.  Chocolate bunnies, coloring eggs, and.. WTF'"
2009-04-11,b'The Kremlin Wins a Round in Moldova'
2009-04-11,"b""China's guy problems only getting worse"""
2009-04-11,"b'""We have no interest in building a nuclear weapon.  The world should fear those who have built nuclear weapons in secret and who shun the IAEA.""'"
2009-04-11,"b""Robber's heart-attack ploy works only once"""
2009-04-11,b'Pirates holding a German cargo ship returned to port Saturday after failing to reach a lifeboat containing four pirates and their American hostage'
2009-04-11,b'Educating Our Kids : The Sarva Shiiksha Abhiyan | GroundReport'
2009-04-11,"b'WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-Bus Driver Accused of Using Bus to Discipline'"
2009-04-10,b'French president humiliated when French Parliment rejects his proposed law that would allow the recording and movie industry to cut off Internet for accused illegal downloaders'
2009-04-10,"b'Google Street View Cameraman: ""Dont you take pictures of me, mate.""'"
2009-04-10,b'Republican Lawmaker Suggests Asians Adopt Easier-to-Pronounce Names'
2009-04-10,"b'""UK, if you think Dubai is bad, just look at your own country""'"
2009-04-10,b'The One-Child Policy in action: There are 32 million more mainland Chinese males under the age of 20 than females'
2009-04-10,"b'Photographer Steve Back, whose picture of the UK\'s antiterror chief holding a clearly visible secret document led to his resignation yesterday: ""Ive told Downing Street before that the quality of lenses means that we can read ministerial papers""'"
2009-04-10,"b'Israel threatens to prevent Northern Ireland leader Gerry Adams from travelling to Gaza.  He goes anyway, and meets with Hamas leaders.'"
2009-04-10,b'Swedish civil servants surfing porn to chase taxable income.'
2009-04-10,"b""Russia's cosmonauts prepare for letdown"""
2009-04-10,"b'Israel Cries Wolf - on Iran - again. Roger Cohen, NY Times'"
2009-04-10,b'Iraq suicide bombing kills five U.S. soldiers'
2009-04-10,b'Somali pirates surrounded by FBI and US warships in Indian Ocean stand-off'
2009-04-10,b'Obama asks Congress for extra $83.4 bln for military funding in Iraq and Afghanistan.. ALL money would be spent by SEPTEMBER'
2009-04-10,b'A Taste of AFRICOM: Somalia did find peace and tried to stop piracy before the US bombed the shit out of it in 2006 '
2009-04-10,"b""Activist Charged for Inciting 'Twitter Revolution' (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com"""
2009-04-10,b'Underdogs of War: 6 Tiny Nations that Kicked Ass'
2009-04-10,"b""Interview with Iranian President Ahmadinejad: 'We Are Neither Obstinate nor Gullible' - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International"""
2009-04-10,"b'Lost of  ""hope"" in Gaza aftermath......this is what the war was really out to accomplish.'"
2009-04-10,b'Yay! Obama seeks extra funds for wars '
2009-04-10,"b'""U.S. Negotiations With Somali Pirates Continue"" -- I thought it was US policy NOT to negotiate with terrorists. Can someone explain?'"
2009-04-10,b'Democracy loses in Fiji! President abrogates constitution!'
2009-04-10,"b'In the 3rd Poorest Place on the Planet. We have $200m of Reward Money Outstanding, incl. $50m for Osama & No-One has Come Forward to Take a Cent.'"
2009-04-10,b'Bolivian president Evo Morales is on a hunger strike for constitutional reform'
2009-04-10,b'Gunman on Mich Community college campus; gunshot reported'
2009-04-10,b'Russia blamed for pipeline blast '
2009-04-09,b'Anti-government protesters in Tibet sentenced to death'
2009-04-09,"b""BREAKING!!: In total upset Kim 're-elected' as N Korea leader!!"""
2009-04-09,b'CIA shuts down its secret prisons'
2009-04-09,"b""a quarter of oil-rich Saudi's population is below poverty line, all oil money goes to ruling princes"""
2009-04-09,"b'The UK police officer who assaulted Ian Tomlinson has come forward, will be questioned by investigators today'"
2009-04-09,b'After twenty years of US placing bounties on Pakistanis and Afghanis (pashtuns) no one has ever turned anyone in for the money..........this is why.'
2009-04-09,"b'""European and Asian countries sent their commercial fleets to fish in Somali waters. Other European countries sent drums of nuclear waste, to be dumped at sea."" And we wonder why they hijack boats...'"
2009-04-09,b'Click on any country to see U.S. military involvement (interactive map)'
2009-04-09,b'Bastard tried to flee the minivan too...RIP Angels Pitcher Adenhart'
2009-04-09,b'Israeli forces detain ten Gazan fishermen and seize their boats'
2009-04-09,"b'A week after a largely right-wing Israeli government took power, differences are emerging with main ally Washington over Middle East peace efforts that could develop into an all-out confrontation.'"
2009-04-09,"b'this Israeli government, like its predecessors, has little interest in complying with its obligations'"
2009-04-09,"b""Making up anti-Semitism: 'Jerusalem Post' admits it was duped by hoaxer on report of anti-Semitism"""
2009-04-09,"b""Refugees killed on the final battlefield between Sri Lanka's army and the Tamil Tigers; U.N. chief says both sides may be guilty of war crimes"""
2009-04-09,"b'UK Police - Unaccountable, Secretive and Out of Control'"
2009-04-09,"b""How to lose your security clearance in 5 seconds: Britain's top counter-terrorism officer, Bob Quick, resigned after he accidently revealed a secret document to photographers. """
2009-04-09,"b""Kurt Cobain's estate swindled out of MILLIONS of dollars!!"""
2009-04-09,"b'""Focus on the Family"" child molester busted for attempted rape'"
2009-04-09,"b'The Case Against Shell: Landmark human rights trial on April 29, 2009 (Wiwa v. Shell) --  for its role in the repression of the Ogoni people and the executions of the ""Ogoni Nine""'"
2009-04-09,"b""At least 20 people were killed and nearly 300 injured yesterday when a hospital in the last area of Sri Lanka held by the Tamil Tigers was shelled in what one doctor described as the worst day of bloodshed since the start of the military campaign.  Why doesn't reddit care?"""
2009-04-09,b'FBI joins effort in hostage standoff with pirates'
2009-04-09,b'French lawmakers reject Internet piracy bill'
2009-04-09,b'Mum executes her own son at shooting range'
2009-04-09,b'Four Tibetans sentenced to death for starting fires during unrest in Lhasa'
2009-04-09,"b'50,000+ hold protest against president in Georgia (the country)'"
2009-04-08,"b'Mexican President Calderon: ""It is impossible to pass tons of drugs to the US without some complicity of American authorities""'"
2009-04-08,"b""Portugal's drug decriminalization policy shows positive results: Five years later, street drugrelated deaths from overdoses drop and the rate of HIV cases crashes"""
2009-04-08,b'More on the success of drug decriminalization in Portugal'
2009-04-08,b'Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA! Go Radiohead!'
2009-04-08,b'Oil tankers anchor off British coast waiting for oil prices to rise '
2009-04-08,b'french cops throwing rocks at the protesters during NATO summit. talk about police provocation'
2009-04-08,b'America Fuck Yeah!'
2009-04-08,"b'""What is fragile should break early while it is still small. Nothing should ever become too big to fail."" (author of Black Swan)'"
2009-04-08,b'Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori sentenced to 25 years'
2009-04-08,b'G20 death shows systemic problems in the police '
2009-04-08,"b""Police forced to launch massive terror raids in UK 'months early' after their own boss accidentally shows photographers a top secret briefing document on the surveillance operation"""
2009-04-08,b'Chinese unemploymentWhere will all the students go?'
2009-04-08,"b""Germany's Sense of Order; relating Germany's economic actions to their culture"""
2009-04-08,"b'Winery in Japan employs more than 100 Autistic workers. Except for the part where ""employs"" means ""pays them, but confiscates their wages and then charges their families for \'tuition.\'""'"
2009-04-08,"b'Tony Blair, who is a Roman Catholic, challenges  the entrenched attitudes of the Pope on homosexuality, argues it is time for him to rethink his views'"
2009-04-08,b'Russia is drinking herself to death.'
2009-04-08,b'Three Accused of Mass Murder/Genocide in Rwanda Win Extradition Appeal and Walk Free'
2009-04-08,b'Ten Arrested after Counter Terrorism Officer Reveals Confidential Document'
2009-04-08,"b""Last embrace: Baby survives Baghdad car bombing in slain mother's lap"""
2009-04-08,b'Greece Teeters on the Verge of Bankruptcy'
2009-04-08,b'Spies Penetrate U.S. Electrical Grid'
2009-04-08,b'Jewish settlers rampage through West Bank village'
2009-04-08,"b'Mother executes Son at firing range, in plain sight of security cameras [PICS]'"
2009-04-08,b'Jewish settlers rampage through West Bank village smashing car windows and damaging homes'
2009-04-08,"b""Dubai's Slave Labor, a Documentary Short by Journalist Ben Anderson"""
2009-04-07,b'The dark side of Dubai'
2009-04-07,b'Hundreds of photographers have staged a protest outside Scotland Yard against a new law which they say could stop them taking pictures of the police.'
2009-04-07,"b'Israeli Physicians for Human Rights: Israel created ""terror without mercy"" in Gaza'"
2009-04-07,"b""If waterboarding was a war crime when the Japanese did it to my father, why isn't it a war crime anymore?..."""
2009-04-07,"b""Iraqi shoe-thrower's sentence cut to one year."""
2009-04-07,"b'Cop hits man at G20, man later dies of ""natural causes"" [VID]'"
2009-04-07,b'OMG WTF is wrong with these people?  Video of Witches being burned in Kenya NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED'
2009-04-07,"b""Students in Moldova have attacked the country's parliament in protest at the victory of the governing Communist Party in Sunday's general election."""
2009-04-07,"b'Obama renewes support for the Annapolis agreement but an Israeli Minister responds: ""Israel does not take orders from Obama"" '"
2009-04-07,b'Students use Twitter to storm presidency in Moldova '
2009-04-07,b'Iceland said to be one of the five most dangerous countries in the world'
2009-04-07,b'Pfizer to pay $75m after deaths of Nigerian children in drug trial experiment'
2009-04-07,"b'Palestinian, acting alone, kills three Israelis. Off duty police officer shoots him dead. To teach a lesson, they tear down his house against the appeals of his family. Meanwhile, they shoot dead another Palestinian who drives at them during this!'"
2009-04-07,"b'25 years in prison for ex-president of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, guilty of murder and kidnapping for death squad activities (How many for Cheney, Bush?)'"
2009-04-07,"b'Dollar as the world reserve currency system is ""coming to an end"": Soros'"
2009-04-07,b'Last Saturday a 75-year-old retired university professor was severely beaten in a cemetery as part of what rights groups are saying is a concerted effort by the Chinese government to head off any efforts to memorialize the deaths of hundreds of Tiananmen Square protestors.'
2009-04-07,b'Indian journalist throws a shoe at top minister - the shoe protest craze continues'
2009-04-07,b'Violent Protests Erupt in Moldova '
2009-04-07,b'India bans mining of asbestos but not its import and usage. Canada regulates usage of asbestos but allows mining and export. Pop quiz: Where does Canada sell asbestos?'
2009-04-07,"b""Al Jazeera's take on Obama's address to the Turkish parliament"""
2009-04-07,b'Indian shoe thrower released!!'
2009-04-07,b'Sexting: Should Teens be Prosecuted? at BettyConfidential.com'
2009-04-07,"b""Schindler's actual list turns up in Australia"""
2009-04-07,b'Moldova students raid parliament'
2009-04-07,"b""Swiss slide into deflation signals the next chapter of this global crisis:  Watch Switzerland closely. It is tipping into deflation, the first Western country to succumb to Japan's disease."""
2009-04-06,b'Dubai: How Not to Build a City'
2009-04-06,b'Scientology being sued over human trafficking and coerced abortions'
2009-04-06,b'Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake '
2009-04-06,b'Former US diplomat exposes Israeli assasinations of US officials'
2009-04-06,b'Dark side of the Dubai dream'
2009-04-06,b'Riot Cops Killed Newspaper Seller At G20 -- Multiple eyewitnesses say man was attacked after media initially reported death was accidental'
2009-04-06,"b'Israeli police to charge FM Lieberman on money laundering, bribery, fraud and breach of trust'"
2009-04-06,b'Telling the truth about the Armenian genocide. - By Christopher Hitchens'
2009-04-06,b'Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups said Monday they have collected evidence that Israeli troops attacked Palestinian medical workers and delayed the evacuation of wounded people during the recent offensive in Gaza.'
2009-04-06,"b'At least 90 dead and over 30,000 people lost their homes in an earthquake in Italy'"
2009-04-06,b'Strong 6.3 earthquake rocks central Italy'
2009-04-06,"b'Criminal charges against Jacob Zuma  the man almost certain to become South Africas president  were withdrawn by prosecutors today. Hundreds of A.N.C. members began celebrating in downtown Johannesburg, dancing and singing Mr. Zumas trademark anthem, Bring Me My Machine Gun.'"
2009-04-06,b'BILDERBERG TO MEET IN GREECE IN MAY 2009'
2009-04-06,b'Israels racist and fascist foreign minister the real power in government - Uri Avnery'
2009-04-06,b'Top-level government corruption emerges in China - President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao involved - Communist Party of China furious'
2009-04-06,"b""Why G20 Leaders Won't Fulfill Promises to Follow the Free Trade Model..."""
2009-04-06,b'Palestinian doctor who lost three kids in Gaza op tapped for Nobel Prize'
2009-04-06,"b'At least 20 dead in Italy by earthquake 6.3 magnitude, buildings collapse and thousands left homeless'"
2009-04-06,b'Dozens dead as quake hits Italy'
2009-04-06,"b'Children, 10 and 11, questioned over vicious knife attack on two boys in UK'"
2009-04-06,b'Taliban blamed for mosque blast'
2009-04-06,b'PM Brown plays down expenses row'
2009-04-06,b'Youve got to be kidding. What a horrifying poll result: 57% of Americans Back Military Response to N. Korea'
2009-04-06,b'Syrian man tries to assassinate President Obama with a knife. Possibly never heard of the secret service.'
2009-04-06,"b'Ever wanted to scrawl graffiti onto the West Bank separation wall? Indirectly, now you can.'"
2009-04-05,b'Obama to call for elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world.'
2009-04-05,b'President will be able to shut down the internet - No President should have this power'
2009-04-05,"b""Police 'assaulted' bystander who died during G20 protests"""
2009-04-05,b'Danish cartoonist who drew Muhammad in 2006 comes out of hiding'
2009-04-05,"b""North Korea 'has launched rocket'"""
2009-04-05,"b""Mexican President: US authorities 'complicit' in drug trafficking """
2009-04-05,"b""Tsvangirai grandson dies in pool, this man can't catch a break :("""
2009-04-05,b'Six gay men shot to death in Iraq'
2009-04-05,b'British complicity in rendition and torture pre-dates 9/11'
2009-04-05,"b'In a country with appetites for strange foods like cats, dogs, turtles, etc., maybe it\'s not such a good idea to start a headline with ""Chinese hunger for sons""'"
2009-04-05,b'Why family planning must become a global priority'
2009-04-05,"b'Afghanistan reviews its ""marital rape"" law under international pressure.'"
2009-04-05,"b'Yeah, I think we get it: North Korea launched a missle.'"
2009-04-05,"b""To the shock of no one, North Korean rocket 'failed to send satellite into space'"""
2009-04-05,b'Japanese media reports that North Korea raunched a locket.'
2009-04-05,"b""Blair steps up fight to be crowned first 'President of EU' - Europe, World - The Independent"""
2009-04-05,b'Berlusconi: - as understated as Elvis | FaceJolt'
2009-04-05,b'Possible response to N. Korean missile launch'
2009-04-05,b'A Thai citizen has been sentenced to 10 years in jail for violating strict laws against insulting the monarchy.'
2009-04-05,b'Obama to call for nuclear-free world'
2009-04-05,b'N. Korea defiantly launches rocket over Pacific - USATODAY.com'
2009-04-05,"b'LiveLeak.com - (documentary) ""Welcome to North Korea"" (2003) (Part 1/2)'"
2009-04-05,b'Economic Nationalism is Complicating the Crisis.'
2009-04-05,"b'Hey, Check Out the Genocide Going on in Darfur'"
2009-04-05,b'Monaco hunts for dictators stashes '
2009-04-04,b'Video of screaming woman being flogged shakes Pakistan as officials yield to Taliban'
2009-04-04,"b'""How did so many millions of decent Canadians come to be ruled by such a weird government""'"
2009-04-04,"b""Outcry in Pakistan after video of a 17-yr-old girl's flogging by the Taliban is shown on TV"""
2009-04-04,b'Israeli settlers take over Palestinian residence in Jerusalems old city'
2009-04-04,"b""So which country doctors cabinet images to remove females from it? No not Pakistan or the Saudi's, yes, Israel...."""
2009-04-04,b'US blocks extradition of war crimes suspect (concentration camp guard) to Germany for prosecution'
2009-04-04,b'The Trillion Dollar Ad Campaign: Anti-Mugabe Forces In Zimbabwe Are Using Worthless Currency To Protest Against Dictatorship [pics]'
2009-04-04,"b'BBC released Gaza death toll long time ago:""1,300 Gazans were killed, about a third of them civilians"" meaning all Palestinian males are not counted as civilians ... Impartiality indeed!'"
2009-04-04,"b""A year ago he was Russia's richest oligarch. Now he's a warning to the others."""
2009-04-04,b'China keeps getting dinged for poor health & safety management. Mutants keep showing up on farms. Coincidence?'
2009-04-04,b'Wife of Guatemalan Human Rights Officer kidnapped and tortured -- action alert'
2009-04-04,b'Danish Prime Minister appointed as the next Secretary General of NATO'
2009-04-04,"b'Isn\'t he like ""Dumb and Dumber"" ? So stupid it\'s ridiculous.'"
2009-04-04,"b' Israels pious press blots out female ministers...WTF is it about the poonanny that makes the religiously afflicted want to cover it up, photoshop it out of existance, cover it up in a Burka, dress it up in non-revealing pastel colors...whats up?  Antiwar Newswire '"
2009-04-04,"b'NWFP govt, Taliban term video release conspiracy...sounds not unlike other constant complainers in the region...to these people, exposing the truth is a conscious conspiracy.'"
2009-04-04,b'Danish PM to head Nato'
2009-04-04,b'Pakistani Taliban chief claims U.S. shooting'
2009-04-04,b'fixed wing airborne magnetic and radiometric geophysical survey commissioned by the Company over the Cerro Solo claim block has yielded an interpretive map showing locations of surface uranium anomalies and subsurface faults. Cerro Solo is located in southern Argentina within the Province of Chubut.'
2009-04-04,"b""the worst case of human trafficking i've ever read...100 locked in an airtight container...43 of them died from suffocation"""
2009-04-04,"b'Need help:  Of news sources available online, what are your top 3?'"
2009-04-04,"b""Tragedy hits Zimbabwe's prime minister anew with death of grandson"""
2009-04-04,b'Israel Anticipated a Stronger Hamas in Gaza War'
2009-04-04,b'Mumbai attacker Kasab shifted to bomb-proof prison cell'
2009-04-04,b'China Is Gearing Up For A Summer Of Discontent'
2009-04-04,b'Reading this story will restrict your freedom to blog'
2009-04-03,b'Newspaper in Mideastern nation photoshops women out of photograph of government cabinet'
2009-04-03,"b'""People thinking about embarking on demonstrations in the future may have to decide whether they want to be effectively locked up for eight hours without food or water and, when leaving, to be photographed and identified.""'"
2009-04-03,b'Did the handling of the G20 protests reveal the future of policing?'
2009-04-03,"b'New foreign minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman, and his threats to wipe off the map Egypt and Palestine'"
2009-04-03,b'A video of the first known public flogging of a woman in Swat has outraged Pakistanis and raised questions once again about the governments decision to enter into a peace deal in February that effectively ceded Swat to the Taliban and allowed them to impose Islamic law.'
2009-04-03,"b""Mayans: We're Not Leaving Even If We Have To Die"""
2009-04-03,b'Israel is feeling the heat from boycotts'
2009-04-03,"b""First test of Netanyahu's influence on Obama administration. Will the US give a visa to Mossad director implicated by FBI in espionage on US."""
2009-04-03,b'Orthodox paper photoshops women out of Israeli cabinet'
2009-04-03,b'Police have been ordered to release footage of the July 7 bombers after a three-year freedom of information battle.'
2009-04-03,b'Is it the beginning of a new world economic order? '
2009-04-03,b'UN appoints Jewish Judge to head  Gaza war-crimes team '
2009-04-03,b'Bangladesh bans beggars'
2009-04-03,"b""I shouted after her but she is a bit deaf. I couldn't chase her as I've had a triple heart bypass."""
2009-04-03,"b'South Africa\'s ruling ANC party has condemned Archbishop Desmond Tutu\'s criticism of the organisation, describing it as ""sacrilege"".'"
2009-04-03,b'The Arabs of Palestine - an article from 1961'
2009-04-03,"b""Critics assail Afghan law that 'legalizes rape'"""
2009-04-03,"b'Two people were killed and eight wounded late on Friday when a bomb exploded outside a restaurant in the troubled southern Philippines, police said.'"
2009-04-03,"b""Army lied about how my son died in Iraq: Friendly-fire victim was 'misidentified' as enemy gunman"""
2009-04-03,"b'""No one gave any credence to the possibility of such a huge political plan, because... there had never been a forced displacement of an entire nationality. But as we will unfortunately see, that which had seemed impossible to everyone at that time... became possible during the world war.""'"
2009-04-03,"b""Italian 'Apartheid' bus service to be launched"""
2009-04-03,b'Everything you need to know about the G20 deal'
2009-04-03,"b""Children aren't pets:  Malawi court rejects Madonna adoption bid"""
2009-04-03,b'UN judge to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza'
2009-04-03,b'Joe Klein: Netanyahu Unhinged'
2009-04-02,"b""Spaniards grateful to Bill O'Reilly for promising not to visit Spain anymore."""
2009-04-02,"b'\'Settlers\' assault 14-year old on his familys land and kidnap him, ""Then they told me to run in front of them to the settlement. I ran and they followed me on their motorcycles. One of them kept hitting me in the foot. I cried the whole way""'"
2009-04-02,"b'Man Dies After Collapsing at G-20 Protest in London, police trying to help the man are getting bottles thrown at them.'"
2009-04-02,b'Sweden votes in favor of legalizing gay marriage'
2009-04-02,b'Ax-wielding Palestinian militant kills 13-year-old Israeli in the West Bank'
2009-04-02,"b'G-20 Protesters Gone Wild:  Thousands clash with police, shout ""Abolish money!"", break into Bank of Scotland [PICS]'"
2009-04-02,"b'Lieberman, questioned by police for at least seven hours over corruption allegations'"
2009-04-02,"b""Privacy Not a Human Right? - Sweden's Piracy Law Violates Human Rights"""
2009-04-02,"b""It's official: An embryo is not only as valued as a human, it's worth MORE than the life of a 9-year old girl. So sayeth the (Catholic) Lord."""
2009-04-02,"b'G-20 to give $1 TRILLION to IMF, World Bank'"
2009-04-02,"b'Oppression and poverty push Shiite leaders in Saudi Arabia to threaten  secession of the Eastern Province""  '"
2009-04-02,b'FBI called in over Wolverine leak on the web'
2009-04-02,"b'This is the only reason we are not seeing food lines like in the great depression, they did not have food stamps or welfare'"
2009-04-02,b'Should Israel Be Boycotted?'
2009-04-02,b'Social Media Madness (featuring Zaibatsu)'
2009-04-02,b'Police Lob Teargas at Hundreds of NATO Protesters'
2009-04-02,b'Islamic Jihad kills Israeli child in West Bank'
2009-04-02,b'Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to beat back a crowd of several hundred anti-NATO protesters in Strasbourg on Thursday'
2009-04-02,b'The single best argument against Israel? Maps...'
2009-04-02,b'Amnesty International is accusing the French authorities of failing to investigate alleged violence by security forces.'
2009-04-02,"b""Uri Avnery: Israel's Deception Tango"""
2009-04-02,"b'Israeli terrorist fires rubber bullet at handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian [video]'"
2009-04-02,b'China restricts online video after YouTube police beating Tibetan'
2009-04-02,b'Sweden passes same-sex marriage law |  CNN.com'
2009-04-02,b'13-Year-Old Boy Axed to Death in Israeli Settlement'
2009-04-01,b'I can see PALIN from my REDDIT!'
2009-04-01,b'Police car travelling at 90mph in a 30mph zone at night without sirens on hit and kills a young girl'
2009-04-01,"b'Canadian hitman admits 28 deaths. In other news, there are hitmen in Canada.'"
2009-04-01,b'What rich countries gave in foreign aid last year [chart]'
2009-04-01,"b'Japan pays jobless foreigners money to go home, they must promise to not return'"
2009-04-01,"b'""Facing mounting U.S. opposition behind the scenes, Israel still plans to continue a covert operation to delay Iran\'s nuclear program by assassinating key Iranian scientists""'"
2009-04-01,b'New Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Wednesday that Israel was not bound by understandings on the creation of a Palestinian state reached at a U.S.-sponsored conference at Annapolis in November 2007.'
2009-04-01,b'New Afghan Law to Force Women to Have Sex'
2009-04-01,b'Tea prices are surging. Is your mug next?'
2009-04-01,b'Teacher in trouble over thong'
2009-04-01,"b""North Korea: We'll shoot a rocket! U.S.: We'll shoot down your rocket! North Korea: We'll shoot down your rocket shoot-downers!"""
2009-04-01,"b""Israel Not Obligated to Seek Two-State Solution, Foreign Minister Says (Do they have April Fool's in the Middle East?)"""
2009-04-01,b'Israel rejects US sponsored peace deal with Palenstine'
2009-04-01,b'Is it legally apartheid? - the Palestine conundrum'
2009-04-01,b'Shocker: BMW AG PURCHASES HARLEY-DAVIDSON'
2009-04-01,"b""Earth population 'exceeds limits'"""
2009-04-01,b'Somali pirates pick on the wrong ship'
2009-04-01,b'G20 Terrorist Plot Exposed As Teenagers With Plastic Guns And Fireworks '
2009-04-01,b'Foreign minister says Israel not bound to follow two-state path'
2009-04-01,"b'Russia and US renew nuclear talks, The discussions will be the first such talks for more than a decade.'"
2009-04-01,"b""U.S. Must Draw the Line on Israel's Settlements"""
2009-04-01,b'Sudan leader on Mecca pilgrimage'
2009-04-01,b' Sex workers rally against new crime bill'
2009-04-01,"b'The ""War on Terror"" being phased out - Not enough people convinced, back to older excuses to pass Security Legislation'"
2009-04-01,b'This sign at the G20 protest in London says it all!'
2009-03-31,"b""If we don't kill them they'll die; the morbidly absurd prosecution of child pornography laws against teenage kids where the only possible victim was themselves"""
2009-03-31,b'Schoolgirl rapist kneecapped by vigilantes'
2009-03-31,b'Photographs of White Phosphorus use.'
2009-03-31,"b""On the eve of the G20 summit, the entire network of central London's wireless CCTV cameras will have to be turned off because of a legal ruling (the reason being they don't fully meet the resolution standards required). """
2009-03-31,"b""'Worse than the Taliban' - new law rolls back rights for Afghan women | World news | The Guardian"""
2009-03-31,"b'Libya\'s Gadhafi storms out of Arab League summit. ""I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam (leader) of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.""'"
2009-03-31,"b'Netanyahu To Obama: Stop Iran, Or I Will'"
2009-03-31,b'Spanish Court to Consider Torture Investigation of 6 Bush Officials'
2009-03-31,"b'Israel closes probe of Gaza incidents, denies they happened'"
2009-03-31,"b""China says GhostNet is fake because the Canadian research was commissioned by the Dalai Lama's office"""
2009-03-31,b'France is threatening G20 walkout'
2009-03-31,b'Kucinich to probe $3.6 billion in bonuses at Merrill Lynch'
2009-03-31,"b""Hundreds of French workers at Caterpillar take their bosses hostage after they're told of layoffs"""
2009-03-31,"b'Should enemy combatants be given legal representation? Lawyers, and political parties, in India dont think so.'"
2009-03-31,"b'European-wide car tracking system planned, creating a system of almost total road surveillance. '"
2009-03-31,"b'No, this is how the stock market really behaves , (and the fact that it is more than 14 months old does it credit)'"
2009-03-31,"b""Muammar Gaddafi accuses Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah of lying at Arab summit"""
2009-03-31,"b""Filmmaker's group makes an awarded movie about Nigerian Scam with only $180"""
2009-03-31,"b'""What is big, loud, unnecessary, and costs $75 million?"" A Group of 20 summit.'"
2009-03-31,b'Monsanto GM-corn harvest fails massively in South Africa.'
2009-03-31,"b""People often question the testimonies Palestinians give about how cruely they are treated by the IDF (which so definitely doesn't target civilians), it would be hard to deny Ghada Abu Halima's version of events, given she died as a result of them"""
2009-03-31,"b""The Taliban in Afghanistan are often portrayed as a single, monolithic entity. They're not"""
2009-03-31,b'The CIA Recruits Spies on the Radio'
2009-03-31,"b'""Should Japan dare recklessly to intercept the DPRKs satellite, its army will consider this as the start of Japans war of reinvasion more than six decades after the Second World War,"" the official Korean Central News Agency said today.'"
2009-03-31,"b""Here is The People of Freedom, Italy's new conservative party"""
2009-03-30,b'Western internet censorship: The beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?'
2009-03-30,b'In case you were wondering | The Israeli Military finished its investigation of itself and finds no misconduct in Gaza War'
2009-03-30,"b'Canada To Bush: Yall Dont Come Back Soon! | A few weeks ago, George W. Bush slunk into Calgary, Alberta where he was paid a reported $50,000 to address a group of oil men. Canadians were none too happy.'"
2009-03-30,b'Mapping the fall of communism'
2009-03-30,b'A group of pirates got a nasty surprise when they attacked a merchant ship - that turned out to be a German naval vessel.'
2009-03-30,b'Morocco has expelled five European missionaries for attempting to convert local Muslims to Christianity'
2009-03-30,b'At least 19 people have died in a crush at a football stadium during a World Cup qualifier in Ivory Coast.'
2009-03-30,b'Israeli Railways fires Arab workers'
2009-03-30,"b'A group of researchers from the University of Toronto-based Monk Centre for International Studies have discovered a massive spy system infiltrating more than 1,200 computer systems worldwide, including those of the offices of the Dalai Lama.'"
2009-03-30,b'Gaza cannot remain an open-air prison forever'
2009-03-30,"b'One end of the ""tunnel"" emerges next to Tower Bridge on the banks of the Thames in London - the other is next to Brooklyn Bridge on the banks of New York\'s East River.  It looks like something HG Wells might have imagined. '"
2009-03-30,"b'Man takes a disco ball to North Korea: ""I wanted to get a feeling of how far one can go without offending anyone""'"
2009-03-30,b'Countries who are censoring the internet now'
2009-03-30,"b'Not just Bay of Pigs and Nicaragua: CIA did the nasty in London, UK'"
2009-03-30,b'Chinese Police Brutality In Tibet'
2009-03-30,"b'Obama visits London with an entourage of 500, an armor-plated limousine and a fleet of decoy helicopters'"
2009-03-30,b'Gunmen storm Pakistan police academy'
2009-03-30,b'Israel in PR drive to deflect criticism over Gaza deaths'
2009-03-30,"b'""...the main problem Iran poses to the U.S. is not its nuclear program, but the difficulty of integrating Iran into the web of relationships the U.S. maintains with Irans neighbors and U.S. strategic partners in the region.""'"
2009-03-30,b'How Russia Made Draft Dodging a Million-Dollar Industry'
2009-03-30,b'BBC NEWS- Pakistan police academy attacked'
2009-03-30,b'US reporters face North Korea trial'
2009-03-30,"b'Pakistan:  20 dead, 25 hurt in Lahore police training school attack'"
2009-03-30,b'AUS says stay away from Bali'
2009-03-30,"b'Anarchists in the UK: \'Contrary to mainstream and corporate media unsubstantiated scaremongering campaign claiming the usual ""anarchist groups bound for violence"", the demo passed completely peacefully\' [PICS]'"
2009-03-28,"b""Jacqui Smith, the destroyer of UK civil liberties, Well I'm glad her husband also finds her repulsive."""
2009-03-28,b'Stem Cells To Grow Bigger Breasts'
2009-03-28,b'Chinese immigrants found living under pavement in Milan'
2009-03-28,b'Palestinian youth orchestra disbanded after playing for Holocaust survivors'
2009-03-28,b'Criminal proceedings have begun in Spain against six senior officials in the Bush administration for the use of torture against detainees in Guantnamo Bay. '
2009-03-28,"b""A mysterious illness is causing calves to bleed to death on German farms. Veterinarians are stumped over what is causing the deaths: vaccines, genetically modified feed or perhaps even the first mother's milk?"""
2009-03-28,"b""Jewish writer raises a storm in America with his report from a 'tolerant' Iran"""
2009-03-28,b'PETA Kills 95% of Adoptable Pets in its Care During 2008'
2009-03-28,b'Spain considering investigation of Bush officials because they violated international law by condoning torture'
2009-03-28,"b'Canadians upset at Fox News ""red eye"" program, Canadian prime minister snubs Canadian press in favour of Fox News'"
2009-03-28,"b""'Most religious leaders are fools'"""
2009-03-28,"b""The danger of the Dalai Lama, or why South Africa couldn't let him in..."""
2009-03-28,"b' Porn star strips at Milan stock exchange to protest financial crisis, traders immediately go long'"
2009-03-28,b'Report: Israel used unmanned drones to attack Sudan convoys'
2009-03-28,"b'""GhostNet"" spy ring linked to China'"
2009-03-28,b'Judge has ordered prosecutors to investigate whether key Bush aides should be charged with crimes over the Guantanamo Bay detention center'
2009-03-28,b'MI5 and MI6 admit fears over 15 new torture cases'
2009-03-28,"b'Without explanation, China on Tuesday locked down access to the popular video-sharing site, according to Scott Rubin, a spokesman for YouTubes parent-company, Google.'"
2009-03-28,b'Iranian missile experts in North Korea'
2009-03-28,b'Bankers urged to disguise themselves for G20 protests'
2009-03-28,b'Spanish Court opens inquiry on torture for 6 Bush admin officials '
2009-03-28,b'Western Media Bias - Palestine and Israel'
2009-03-28,b'European Protesters March in G20 Rallies'
2009-03-28,b'How Would You Respond to an RIAA/MPAA Warning?'
2009-03-28,b'Spanish judges have agreed to consider charging six former US officials with providing legal justification for alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay.'
2009-03-27,"b'Israeli lie machine goes into overdrive -- Israeli soldiers didn\'t actually shoot a woman and kids that went the wrong way, ""warning shots"" were exaggerated by other soldiers.  Does Israel actually think anybody anywhere buys this crap?'"
2009-03-27,"b""Madoff's wife took $2m from London office before collapse"""
2009-03-27,"b'200 children, some as young as 13, identified as terrorists by British police'"
2009-03-27,"b'WTF?!! UK police uses drastic tactics to identify 200 school children as potential terrorists: ""We are targeting criminals and would-be terrorists who happen to be cloaking themselves in Islamic rhetoric. That is not the same as targeting the Muslim community.""'"
2009-03-27,"b'Iraqi  journalist, ""Shoe Thrower"" selected as one of the top influential people in the Middle East '"
2009-03-27,b'Cadburys dairy milk have gone fairtrade!'
2009-03-27,"b""UK police trying to 'smear' peaceful G20 protests"""
2009-03-27,b'Police officers disguised as Palestinians were attacked by Jewish settlers in the West Bank'
2009-03-27,b'The Pirate Party Makes a Bid for the European Parliament'
2009-03-27,b'China celebrates Tibetan liberation.  Is this how history is re-written? '
2009-03-27,b'The Associated Press: UN body OKs call to curb religious criticism- more junk from the UN Human Rights Council'
2009-03-27,b'The Lancet has accused Pope Benedict XVI of distorting scientific evidence to promote Catholic doctrine following his remarks about condom use and HIV.'
2009-03-27,"b""'Italian Fritzl' and son held for raping daughters: An Italian man and his son have been arrested for raping their own daughters """
2009-03-27,b'Spokesperson for Israeli and Jewish causes is jailed for lying to police'
2009-03-27,"b'Brazilian President Lula de Silva blames ""blue-eyed, white people,"" makes Gordon Brown uncomfortable'"
2009-03-27,b'US and Iran open Afghanistan peace talks'
2009-03-27,b'Jews Against Zionism'
2009-03-27,b'Madagascar protesters tear-gassed for third day'
2009-03-27,b'Czech prime minister blames AC/DC rock concert for his critical comment of Obama'
2009-03-27,"b'For first time, CNN in third place in prime time '"
2009-03-27,b'Egypt releases detained blogger: Secretly held for 7 weeks.'
2009-03-27,"b""Suburban 'tsunami' kills 77 in Jakarta"""
2009-03-27,"b'Earth Hour 2009 - the Good, the Bad and the Real Point of it All'"
2009-03-27,b'Harvard researchers agree with Pope Benedict on condoms in Africa'
2009-03-27,b'Hamas frees rival Fatah leaders in Gaza'
2009-03-26,"b'Defamation of ""Religion"" is now a Human Rights Violation'"
2009-03-26,"b'French riot police officer suspended after listing his favorite interests on Facebook as Crusades, Arab-bashing, Nationalism and the Vichy motto'"
2009-03-26,"b'We have more toilets, less shame among women and less disease.....The results of the No Toilet, No Bride campaign.. '"
2009-03-26,b'International torch relays ahead of the Olympics have been scrapped by the International Olympic Committee'
2009-03-26,"b""As Turkey cracks down on 'honour killings', women are now told to commit suicide"""
2009-03-26,b'Swiss banks ban top exec travel in case they are detained as part of a global crackdown on bank secrecy'
2009-03-26,b'Girl of 14 accused of child pornography and may be forced to register as a sex offender '
2009-03-26,"b'Bomb at Pakistani mosque, at least 48 dead.'"
2009-03-26,b'British resident who claims he was tortured says senior figures within government must be held to account '
2009-03-26,b'Israel suspected in Sudan air strikes'
2009-03-26,b'Russia sends army to frozen north to claim Arctic resources'
2009-03-26,"b""Leading medical journal accuses Pope of 'distorting condom science'"""
2009-03-26,b'U.S. destroyers on move as North Korea prepares rocket launch'
2009-03-26,b'Noted Author Jared Diamond Predicts 49 Percent Chance of Civilization Collapse'
2009-03-26,b'Iran and Nato end 30-year impasse '
2009-03-26,"b""They'll be telling us next that we'll get cancer unless we stop eating and drinking completely."""
2009-03-26,b'Israel bombs civilian convoy in Sudan in order to maintain illegal occupation of Palestine. '
2009-03-26,"b""OK England... why don't you raise your kids properly instead of pulling off shit like this?"""
2009-03-26,"b'U.S., Japan mobilize for N. Korean launch - CNN.com'"
2009-03-26,b' Sudan air strike blamed on Israel'
2009-03-26,b'The End of Excess: Is This Crisis Good for America?'
2009-03-26,"b'President Barack Obama plans to send 4,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.'"
2009-03-26,b'Indian Army fears China attack by 2017 '
2009-03-26,"b'Gordon Brown and Buckingham Palace have discussed plans to change the rules of succession to the throne, including giving women equal rights.'"
2009-03-26,"b""Afghanistan exit strategy: more troops and a 'civilian surge'"""
2009-03-25,"b""Mexico's drug war [pics]"""
2009-03-25,"b'An illegal settlement being built, illegal even under Israeli law .'"
2009-03-25,"b'In response to national anger at the death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski in the Vancouver airport, the RCMP was urged to curb Taser use by its officers  but instead removed an existing restriction from its policy - ""It\'s unacceptable it\'s actually moving backwards.""'"
2009-03-25,"b'Pirates have seized two European-owned tankers off the coast of Somalia in the past day, officials have said.'"
2009-03-25,b'Teacher who exposed school violence is banned from the classroom '
2009-03-25,b'Trade in organs from living donors legalized in Singapore'
2009-03-25,b'Jews Burn Israeli Flag in NY'
2009-03-25,"b'French workers burned tires, held a manager of 3M hostage as anger mounted over job cuts and executive bonuses'"
2009-03-25,b'Iran accepts U.S. invitation to Afghanistan meeting'
2009-03-25,"b'Hillary Clinton - ""Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade""'"
2009-03-25,"b'North Korea has placed a long-range missile on a launch pad before a test that the United States, Japan and South Korea said would violate a United Nations Security Council resolution'"
2009-03-25,"b""Israel accused of 'reckless' use of white phosphorus"""
2009-03-25,"b'Gordon Brown gets the roasting he deserves. ""The devalued Prime Minister of a devalued government.""'"
2009-03-25,"b""Iraqi women are suffering a 'silent emergency', trapped in a downward spiral of poverty, desperation and personal insecurity"""
2009-03-25,b'Thai government set to fall again as thousands rally against prime minister'
2009-03-25,"b""Gordon Brown, British PM, Pushing Rothschild's Vision Of Global Economy"""
2009-03-25,b'Top Durban businessmen have been linked to a child prostitution syndicate'
2009-03-25,b'Cameras film police in Mexico during a drugs shootout where three men were arrested as cocaine and dozens of weapons were seized'
2009-03-25,"b""Don't attach a saber saw to a sex toy and turn it on near your wifes vagina.  Darwin Award Candidate"""
2009-03-25,b'Help! My owner is trying to eat me....Britons tempted to eat pets as recession bites'
2009-03-25,"b""Mother Nature's might seen in Mount Redoubt: Redoubt erupts in major explosive event. Highest aviation warning issued after ash spews 65,000 feet into the air"""
2009-03-25,"b""Outrage in aftermath of China's YouTube censorship"""
2009-03-25,b'Racist Crime in Russia '
2009-03-25,b'One of the men convicted over a milk contamination scandal in China has lost his appeal against the death sentence.'
2009-03-25,"b""Afghanistan: Manager of private TV network arrested over dancer's skimpy costume """
2009-03-24,b'China bans Youtube.'
2009-03-24,"b""Canada is pissed off: Doug Benson, the guy who made fun of the Canadian military on Fox News' Red Eye has to cancel appearance in Edmonton after receiving death threats"""
2009-03-24,b'Very Interesting Perspective: Letter of Resignation From An Executive Vice President at AIG'
2009-03-24,"b'How to be Jason Bourne - tips on getting multiple passports, getting a swiss bank account and crossing borders'"
2009-03-24,b'Where the death penalty was used most last year'
2009-03-24,"b'THIS NEEDS MORE ATTENTION: Baxter International caught sending mass amounts of deadly, higly virulent live viruses around the world'"
2009-03-24,b'Crash pilot who paused to pray is convicted'
2009-03-24,b'Home of former Royal Bank of Scotland boss Sir Fred Goodwin was attacked by vandals overnight.'
2009-03-24,"b'Benjamin Netanyahu has struck a secret deal with one of his coalition partners, pledging to expand settlements in a highly-contentious area of the West Bank.'"
2009-03-24,"b""Police beat people with sticks....people decide to fight back...see the look on cop's face as he runs like hell"""
2009-03-24,b'Oldest Woman in world discovered in Kazakhstan'
2009-03-24,"b'""President Barack Obama is building a road to hell"" - President of the European Union'"
2009-03-24,b'Christopher Hitchens: Jewish Fundamentalism Is On The Verge Of Taking Over The Middle East'
2009-03-24,"b'China says video footage that purportedly shows Chinese security personnel violently beating Tibetans last year is ""a lie"".'"
2009-03-24,"b'""Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade"" - Hillary Clinton on Mexican drug violence'"
2009-03-24,b'Riot ensues as right-wing Jewish group marches through the majority Israeli Arab city of Umm al-Fahm demanding that Arab citizens of Israel pledge loyalty to Israel as a Jewish state.'
2009-03-24,"b'The Israeli army unlawfully fired white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip during its recent offensive, needlessly killing and injuring civilians'"
2009-03-24,b'Palestinian youth orchestra plays concert for Holocaust survivors in Israel'
2009-03-24,b'Serbia remembers Nato bombing campaign with air raid sirens'
2009-03-24,"b""It's not only Madoff and the US where sharks with no scruples ruin lives. Millions in Colombia were recently screwed by Ponzi schemers."""
2009-03-24,b'Feds Charge Hacker With Stealing $10 Million From Banks'
2009-03-24,b'The leadership of the European Union was plunged into disarray last night when the Government holding the rotating presidency collapsed after losing a vote of no confidence in the Czech parliament. '
2009-03-24,b'French workers take manager hostage over job cuts -- again'
2009-03-24,b'Chinese bloggers protest blocking of YouTube'
2009-03-24,"b'Zealot Israeli settlers are establishing an army within the IDF so Iif the Israeli govt decides to withdraw from the settlements, there will be enough army fundies and rabbis to refuse to obey'"
2009-03-23,"b'Doesnt it seem ironic that in a country with thousands of CCTV cameras, they want to shut down Google Street View because of privacy concerns?'"
2009-03-23,"b'""I find it ironic that on one hand you put [Saddam Hussein] on trial for using biological warfare, but in another country where you sprayed chemicals for warfare, you neglect your responsibility,""'"
2009-03-23,"b""I'm Brit and I'm terrified of my Government's new 'terror strategy'. Someone please get rid of Jacqui Smith"""
2009-03-23,b'Austria and Hungary reaffirm their sovereign right to ban GM crops'
2009-03-23,b'Italian court rules that a shepherd smoking marijuana could be justified because he only has sheep for company'
2009-03-23,b'South Africa denies Dalai Lama visa to attend peace conference. Nobel peace prize winners and committee pull out.'
2009-03-23,b'Dubai prison mother loses custody'
2009-03-23,b'Rockefeller Declares War on Free Internet'
2009-03-23,b'Japanese man  becomes the first person to be certified as a survivor of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings '
2009-03-23,"b""China suggests switch from dollar. China's central bank has called for a new global reserve currency run by the IMF to replace the US dollar."""
2009-03-23,b'Blackwater sued in US court over alleged cover-up (AFP)'
2009-03-23,b'China blasts video claiming Tibet violence'
2009-03-23,"b""Death penalty 'closer to demise'"""
2009-03-23,b'China bans YouTube'
2009-03-23,b'U.N. report condemns Israel for Gaza operation'
2009-03-23,"b'Israel could be guilty of a ""new crime against humanity"" - apparently even Hitler and Pol Pot didn\'t think of that one.'"
2009-03-23,"b'UN accuses Israeli troops of using boy, 11, as human shield'"
2009-03-23,"b""China is calling for a new global currency in place of the dollar ''to achieve the objective of safeguarding global economic and financial stability.''"""
2009-03-23,"b'The number of executions worldwide nearly doubled last year compared to 2007, according to Amnesty International, and China put to death far more people than any other nation. In the Americas, only one state  the United States  consistently executes.'"
2009-03-23,"b'""And that\'s when I proceeded to hit him with the shovel.""'"
2009-03-23,b'Today we are witnessing the beginning of the US falling from a world superpower'
2009-03-23,b'Fighting for Life: American Activist Shot by Israelis'
2009-03-23,"b""The Big Takeover: The global economic crisis isn't about money - it's about power. How Wall Street insiders are using the bailout to stage a revolution"""
2009-03-23,b'A bit like Northern Ireland: Right-wing Jewish National Front to march through the Arab Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm.'
2009-03-23,b'At Least 32 Die in a Wave of Violence Across Iraq '
2009-03-22,b'Sweden Says No to Saving Saab '
2009-03-22,"b'A quarter of all UK government databases are illegal and should be scrapped or redesigned, a report has claimed.'"
2009-03-22,b'Israel steals Palestinians water to pollute it and sell it back to them'
2009-03-22,"b""Right to privacy broken by a quarter of UK's public databases. The national DNA database and the Contactpoint index of all children should be immediately scrapped"""
2009-03-22,b'Chinas Brutality in Tibet Exposed'
2009-03-22,"b""The US government had extensive evidence about Guatemala's Death Squads. Why has it taken so long to make it public?"""
2009-03-22,b'Former South African MP exposed as murderer of Dublin teenage girl'
2009-03-22,b'Canada becomes the first country in the world to ban British MP George Galloway '
2009-03-22,"b""Israel's army violated codes of ethics and international law during the war in Gaza by attacking medics and refusing to allow the treatment of wounded, a human rights group charged on Monday."""
2009-03-22,b'South Africa Bars Dalai Lama from Peace Conference'
2009-03-22,b'What does one HUNDRED TRILLION dollars look like?'
2009-03-22,b'The UK Government is now considering the mass surveillance of all user communications on social-networking sites.'
2009-03-22,b'Finally: real evidence of war crimes in Gaza'
2009-03-22,b'Senior Fatah official killed in south Lebanon'
2009-03-22,b'VIDEO: Israeli soldiers using Palestinian kids as human shields'
2009-03-22,b' Afghans call for end to US occupation'
2009-03-22,"b'Israel nabs 20 Hamas officials to pressure for Shalits release. You know, the guy that was nabbed to help pressure Israel to free prisoners - and then Israel leveled half of Lebanon to retaliate.'"
2009-03-22,b'North Korea to Close Air Routes for Rocket Launch'
2009-03-22,b'How some military rabbis are trying to radicalize Israeli soldiers by Christopher Hitchens'
2009-03-22,"b'No women on TV, Saudi clerics demand'"
2009-03-22,"b'Dalai Lama denied visa for South Africa peace conference, said it was not in their best interest'"
2009-03-22,b'Japanese military to assume more global role'
2009-03-22,b'Israel prime suspect for bomb blast at refugee camp in Lebanon in which at least 4 killed'
2009-03-22,b'China Detains Almost 100 Tibetan Monks After Riot at Police Station'
2009-03-22,b'South Africa bars Dalai Lama from peace conference'
2009-03-21,"b""I said, 'Hi, I'm a guy from Canada. There is someone about to set fire to a school."""
2009-03-21,b'The Apartheid State of Israel Bans Palestinians Cultural Events'
2009-03-21,"b""Monsanto's Bt Cotton Kills the Soil as Well as Farmers"""
2009-03-21,b'A Quiet Revolution Grows in the Muslim World'
2009-03-21,b'Death Squad Leader Was Top Cia Agent (from Sunday Herald)'
2009-03-21,b'South Africa bans Dalai Lama from peace conference'
2009-03-21,b'Racist Attacks on Arabs in Israel increased ten-fold in 2008'
2009-03-21,b'UN: Privatising Water is Denying People a Human Right'
2009-03-21,b'AIG warns staff to travel in pairs after death threats over bonuses'
2009-03-21,"b""After the Gaza assault and right-wing election win, Israel is rebranding itself to improve its image. Because Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation"""
2009-03-21,b'Gaza war crime claims gather pace as more troops speak out'
2009-03-21,"b'Tibetans attack police station, 93 monks arrested'"
2009-03-21,b' Israeli Troops Admit Gaza Abuses '
2009-03-21,"b""Muslim man suffered 'gross brutality' during terrorism raid, court told"""
2009-03-21,b'When DJs Ruled The World'
2009-03-21,b'Someone even managed to defecate into the photocopier '
2009-03-21,"b'The authorities impose a regime intentionally and openly based on the ""separation principle"", the result of which is legal and physical segregation between the Israeli settlers and the Palestinian majority - in Hebron, a city which is supposed to be Palestinian controlled'"
2009-03-21,b'Turns out AIG execs were paid more than previously thought...'
2009-03-21,"b'Remembering the 1999 NATO led War on Yugoslavia: Kosovo ""Freedom Fighters"" Financed by Organized Crime'"
2009-03-21,"b""US will appoint Afghan 'prime minister' to bypass Hamid Karzai and his Corrupt Government"""
2009-03-21,b'British PM to take war on terror to a whole new level'
2009-03-21,"b'Israeli officials unconcerned about U.S. \'fury\' over Israel\'s demolition of East Jerusalem homes.  ""This issue will lead to nothing"", said a senior government official.'"
2009-03-21,b'America floats plan to tempt Taliban into peace process'
2009-03-21,"b'Cut your name in to someone Predator-style, get a two-year community sentence.'"
2009-03-21,"b'Car bomb defused in Haifa, Israel'"
2009-03-20,"b'[pic] Israeli tshirt: kill pregnant women, that way you kill two in one shot'"
2009-03-20,"b""Wow: Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defense have a map of the battle against the Tamil Tigers with photos and timelines... """
2009-03-20,b'North Korea confirms American journalists have been arrested'
2009-03-20,b'Israeli Soldier Says Military Rabbis Framed Gaza Mission as Religious'
2009-03-20,"b""Israel's 'right of return' applies to all Jews, even ones who don't have ancestors who might have been in Israel from a thousand years ago, yet Israel is the only developed nation on earth which denies refugees 'right of return'"""
2009-03-20,"b""REUTERS: Rabbi's pushed 'religious war against the Gentiles' """
2009-03-20,"b""India has the world's highest rate of road fatalities. 70% of those killed are pedestrians and bicyclists. 25% drive motorized two-wheelers."""
2009-03-20,b'Billions of pounds of toxic sub-prime mortgages were bought by Royal Bank of Scotland traders in a spree that was not disclosed to the banks board. '
2009-03-20,b'Israeli Army T-Shirts Mock Killing Palestinian Women And Children During Gaza Offensive'
2009-03-20,"b""An increasingly disturbing picture of the Israeli army's conduct in the Gaza war emerged Friday, as new witness accounts from Israeli troops described wanton vandalism to Palestinian homes, humiliation of civilians and loose rules of engagement that resulted in unnecessary civilian deaths."""
2009-03-20,"b""George Galloway replies: 'Canada can't muzzle me. To ban me from the country for my views on Afghanistan is absurd, hypocritical, and in vain'"""
2009-03-20,"b'Afghanistan is on the brink of chaos: That is the stark message from local leaders, the US military and development workers in the troubled country.'"
2009-03-20,b'Dubai will one day be seen as a punctuation mark on the architectural follies of the past half century'
2009-03-20,"b""Israelis told to fight 'holy war' in Gaza"""
2009-03-20,b'New video and photos provide irrefutable proof of Chinese brutality in Tibet says Tibetan Govt. in-exile'
2009-03-20,"b""The shadow banking system in Europe isn't so much dead as being kept on life support by banks and central banks in what amounts to a risky attempt to avoid the reckoning."""
2009-03-20,"b""Tamil Tigers 'finished', says former leader"""
2009-03-20,"b""UK govt's 'sexy' condom campaign -to encourage young women to carry condoms-sparks row"""
2009-03-20,"b""While the modern logical world keeps spinning, the Pope talks about sorcery, spirits, and witchcraft as if it's the 13th century"""
2009-03-20,"b""Israel soldier calls order during Gaza assault 'murder'"""
2009-03-20,"b""North Korea:  Two journalists from Al Gore's Current TV have been detained in North Korea."""
2009-03-20,b'Hungary PM to step down'
2009-03-20,"b'US efforts to eradicate opium poppy crops in Afghanistan have been ""wasteful and ineffective"", the US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan says.'"
2009-03-20,b'Over one million workers protest across France'
2009-03-20,"b'""Israeli troops admit abuses in Gaza"" TheRealNews'"
2009-03-19,"b'""In a crowded civilian city, there are all sorts of people who cannot run away: the elderly, the disabled, the pregnant, the terrified. This soldier was told to kill them.""'"
2009-03-19,b'Obama address the Iranian People'
2009-03-19,b'Depression-era law lets Iowa turkey farm pay mentally retarded workers 37 cents an hour'
2009-03-19,"b'Another soldier, describing how a mother and her children were shot dead by a sniper after they turned the wrong way out of a house, says the ""atmosphere"" among troops was that the lives of Palestinians were ""very, very less important than the lives of our soldiers.""'"
2009-03-19,b'George Galloway banned from Canada'
2009-03-19,"b""'Don't wear anything that says AIG on it': Under-fire insurer gives employees security tips as fury over bonuses grows"""
2009-03-19,b'U.N. rights envoy sees Israeli war crimes in Gaza'
2009-03-19,b'Slaughter of the seals in Russia is stopped by Vladimir Putin'
2009-03-19,"b'1,417 Gaza war dead named by rights group: Says two-thirds of those killed were civilians; Israel disputes figures'"
2009-03-19,"b'Somalia is a state governed only by anarchy. A graveyard of foreign-policy failures, it has known just six months of peace in the past two decades. Now, as the countrys endless chaos threatens to engulf an entire region, the world again simply watches it burn.'"
2009-03-19,b'Whistleblower: Barclays makes 1bn a year by tax avoidance.'
2009-03-19,b'Israel to investigate killings of civilians in Gaza operation...Any guesses how this will turn out?'
2009-03-19,"b'Japanese ""Suicide Forest""'"
2009-03-19,"b""Sarkozy under Pressure as 'Millions' Take to Streets"""
2009-03-19,b'You thought the Daily Mail was bad...'
2009-03-19,"b'Blogger jailed in Iran is dead, lawyer says - CNN.com'"
2009-03-19,"b'nicholas kristof: ""theres pretty good evidence that we generally dont truly want good information  but rather information that confirms our prejudices""'"
2009-03-19,"b""Israel's chief of staff comes home early after doors close in Obama's Washington """
2009-03-19,b'The Last Eunuch'
2009-03-19,b'English takes over at Dutch universities'
2009-03-19,b'A Perfect Heist'
2009-03-19,b'Russian planes again fly over U.S. Navy ships'
2009-03-19,"b'FBI planting spies in U.S. mosques, Muslim groups say'"
2009-03-19,b'Symantec Overseas credit card scam exposed'
2009-03-19,b'Thousands of Iraqis held by U.S. to go free'
2009-03-18,b'Scenes from the recession'
2009-03-18,"b""China's last eunuch spills secrets"""
2009-03-18,b'Israeli soldiers break ranks over Gaza war'
2009-03-18,b'Last white Zimbabwean farmers to be evicted'
2009-03-18,"b'A headteacher whose health and career were ruined by false accusations of racism and religious discrimination at a primary school dominated by Muslims has won 400,000 in damages. '"
2009-03-18,b'Pope tells Muslims that true religion rejects violence'
2009-03-18,"b""Bedouin villages in Israel don't get electricity because they are unrecognized. Illegal Jewish outposts do get electricity. How is this not Apartheid? """
2009-03-18,"b"" How I got my genes deleted  I've had my DNA struck from police records - now it's over to the rest of you 799,999 innocents"""
2009-03-18,b'Israeli soldiers break ranks over Gaza war'
2009-03-18,"b""Can Israel dismiss its own troops' stories from Gaza?"""
2009-03-18,b'Former Nazi guard living in Wisconsin deported'
2009-03-18,"b'Nine-in-ten consumers in France, Germany and the UK want unrestricted Internet access to all websites and services online'"
2009-03-18,"b""Vatican insiders declare the Pope a 'disaster' Pope Benedict's repeated gaffes and the Vatican's inability to manage his message in the internet era are threatening to undermine his papacy, Vatican insiders have said. """
2009-03-18,b'Israeli soldiers admit shooting civilians dead during Gaza war'
2009-03-18,b'Millions take to the streets of France in protest'
2009-03-18,"b""North Korea 'holds US reporters'"""
2009-03-18,b'U.N. rights envoy sees Israeli war crimes in Gaza'
2009-03-18,b'Why the Pope opposes condoms'
2009-03-18,b'Iranian Blogger Dies In Prison Under Suspicious Circumstances '
2009-03-18,b'Israel troops admit Gaza abuses'
2009-03-18,"b""Have Humans Created a New Epoch in Earth's History?"""
2009-03-18,"b'Political leaders have to ""do God"" if they are to engage properly with the modern world, even if they personally have no religious faith, former prime minister Tony Blair said today.'"
2009-03-18,b'A cruel trade across Vietnams border with China -- kidnapping Hmong women'
2009-03-18,b'Life of kidnapped Canadian woman journalist in danger'
2009-03-18,"b'Up to 1,000 Gambians have been kidnapped by ""witch hunters"" and forced to drink hallucinogenic potions at secret government detention centres, according to Amnesty International.'"
2009-03-17,b'Australian Government adds Wikileaks to banned website list '
2009-03-17,b'A man who spent 27 years in jail for the murder of a barmaid in Southampton had his conviction quashed at the Court of Appeal today after DNA tests proved that he could not have been the killer'
2009-03-17,b'Israeli soldiers reveal true extent of Gaza war crimes'
2009-03-17,b'Why Lieberman is the worst thing that could happen to the Middle East '
2009-03-17,"b""The quote goes something like 'We will push them out into the ocean!', it has been attributed to every major Palestinian leader since Ben Gurion claimed it was said, not once has it been verified... Lieberman of Israel has suggested drowning Palestinians"""
2009-03-17,b'Why a tiny language spoken off the coast of South America might make a good universal second language'
2009-03-17,"b""The long and sadistic history behind the CIA's torture techniques."""
2009-03-17,"b'After Gaza, Israel Grapples With Crisis of Isolation'"
2009-03-17,"b""Pope's attack on condoms sickens Aids campaigners"""
2009-03-17,b'Israel to Worsen Prisoner Conditions to Pressure Hamas'
2009-03-17,b'Israeli army hires P.I.s to spy on and blackmail women who claim religious exemption to military service'
2009-03-17,b'U.S. weighs expanded covert war in Pakistan'
2009-03-17,"b""Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar. Turns out, he was repeating the speech President Barack Obama had just given."""
2009-03-17,"b'A terror suspect awaiting extradition to the United States won 60,000 in damages from Scotland Yard yesterday after being beaten and assaulted by the officers who arrested him. '"
2009-03-17,b'Sean Hodgson who spent 27 years in jail for murder has been released.'
2009-03-17,"b'On the contrary: Obama takes the ""war on terror"" up a notch'"
2009-03-17,b'Reports: Russia Confirms Iran Missile Contract'
2009-03-17,"b""France condemns Pope's remarks on condoms in Africa"""
2009-03-17,b'For sale -- an English village'
2009-03-17,"b""Pope's condom stance under fire"""
2009-03-17,b'Unmarried Childbirths in U.S. Reach Record Levels'
2009-03-17,"b""Protests greet Bush's first speech as ex-president"""
2009-03-17,b' The Pope Is Wrong on Condoms'
2009-03-17,"b'France chastises Pope on condoms (The French foreign ministry has voiced ""sharp concern"" following the Pope\'s rejection of condom use to fight Aids.)'"
2009-03-17,"b'""What made you change your mind so suddenly?"" asked the judge, Andrea Hummer. - ""The video testimony of my daughter Elisabeth,"" Fritzl replied in a gruff voice. ""I accept my guilt in all the charges presented."" '"
2009-03-16,b'Hello Wikileaks?  Huge UK Bank gags newspaper from revealing multi-million pound tax rort.'
2009-03-16,"b'Pakistan is not about to explode, Islamic militants are not going to take power, nuclear weapons are not trafficked to Al-Qaida, the army is not about to send the Taliban to invade India, a civil war is unlikely'"
2009-03-16,"b""It's the end of the road for Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange. US court refuses to hear final appeal by Vietnamese plaintiffs against chemical giants Dow and Monsanto"""
2009-03-16,b'Over 200 arrested in Montreal protest against policy brutality'
2009-03-16,"b'""Pope says condoms not the answer to fighting AIDS"" - in fact they make the problem worse. People actually listen to this fossil?'"
2009-03-16,b'Smart kids are more likely to become heavy drinkers'
2009-03-16,b' Nestle India seeks permanent ban on workers freedom of assembly'
2009-03-16,"b'Founding a modern state on a single ethnic or religious identity in a territory that is ethnically and religiously diverse leads inexorably either to politics of exclusion or to wholesale ethnic cleansing. Put simply, the problem is Zionism.'"
2009-03-16,"b'""Her only option was a temporary career change: she became a prostitute"". New Zealand\'s liberal attitude to the sex trade'"
2009-03-16,"b""More Mexican troops arrive in Jurez as part of 'Operation Chihuahua'"""
2009-03-16,b'Asylum-seeker sent back home by Britain. Executed in Darfur by Sudan security officials'
2009-03-16,b'Languages are rapidly disappearing [chart]'
2009-03-16,"b'""We\'re not winning the battle,"" Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard told lawmakers. ""The violence that we see in Mexico is fueled 65 to 70 percent by the trade in one drug: marijuana.""'"
2009-03-16,b'Chinese firms sign 3 billion dollar natural gas deal with Iran'
2009-03-16,b'Europe is suddenly having second thoughts about resettling Gitmo detainees '
2009-03-16,"b""In Provence winemakers are up in arms and warning that the whole art-de-vivre and economy of the south of France is under threat from the European Commission's proposal to allow producers in all member states to make ros by simply mixing red and white wine."""
2009-03-16,b'World Food Program: Turkey has gone from an aid recipient to a giver of aid in 10 years'
2009-03-16,"b""Airlines around the world 'mishandled' 42 million bags in 2007 and irretrievably lost more than a million of them, a pressure group has said."""
2009-03-16,b'The Barclays Bank Whistleblower: inside the strange world of the Barclays tax-avoidance office'
2009-03-16,"b'Pope in Africa reaffirms ""no condoms"" against AIDS (Reuters)'"
2009-03-16,b'Great Aussie firewall claims first victim'
2009-03-16,"b""Hundreds of patients 'died unnecessarily' at flagship UK hospital"""
2009-03-16,"b""Critics attack Pope for his 'myopic' views on condoms"""
2009-03-16,"b""Israel's national security aide barred from U.S. --  Former Israeli spy linked to Pentagon leak"""
2009-03-16,"b'Madagascar president quits, hands over power'"
2009-03-15,"b'Taliban\'s new ""constitution"" -- will execute foreign aid workers as spies; won\'t allow girls to go to schools'"
2009-03-15,"b""MEXICO UNDER SIEGE - - - Drug cartels' new weaponry means war"""
2009-03-15,"b""Gunfire has broken out in the centre of Madagascar's capital Antananarivo as the army entered a residence of President Marc Ravalomanana"""
2009-03-15,b'Pakistan reinstates sacked Supreme Court chief justice:  Independent judiciary restored after countrywide protests'
2009-03-15,b'Left-winger wins El Salvador poll'
2009-03-15,b'Dungeon rape case dad pleads guilty to incest '
2009-03-15,b'Far right joins Israel coalition. Wonderful.'
2009-03-15,"b'UK Baroness: ""The constant accusation of Anti-Semitism to silence Israels critics is vindictive"" - YouTube'"
2009-03-15,"b"" Iranian drone 'shot down in Iraq'"""
2009-03-15,"b""Ending America's Imperial Foreign Policy - Fareed Zakaria"""
2009-03-15,"b'Vindicated: An Ex-Scientologists Account of Escape, Rebirth and Justice'"
2009-03-15,"b'Yakko Warner sings the names of all the countries of the world, including yours!  [vid]'"
2009-03-15,"b'Zamuda Sikujuwa shuffles to a bench in the sunshine, pushes apart her thighs with a grimace of pain and pumps her fist up and down in a lewd-looking gesture to show how the militiamen shoved an automatic rifle inside her'"
2009-03-15,"b""'Likud lobby' stifling debate, says diplomat"""
2009-03-15,"b'Isreali CEO of the company that has been spying on NSA, defrauded American investors can not be extradited'"
2009-03-15,b'The New McCarthyism'
2009-03-15,"b""Al Jazeera English - Middle East - Lieberman 'to be new Israel FM'"""
2009-03-15,"b'Gordon Brown rejects call to set minimum prices for drinks, says he wants to protect ""sensible majority of moderate drinkers"".  '"
2009-03-15,b'Foreign workers and students to be charged 50 to enter UK'
2009-03-15,b'Red Cross: Torture Committed At CIA Sites - CBS News'
2009-03-15,b'Claims of British collusion in torture spread to Egypt'
2009-03-15,b'Sudanese president wants all foreign aid groups out within a year'
2009-03-15,"b'Switzerland agrees to assist in the pursuit of tax cheats. This is a blow to UBS, accused of helping international investors avoid taxes from their home countries'"
2009-03-15,b'Protest Against the Global Drug War - 11.03.2009'
2009-03-15,"b""Having taken Chas Freeman's scalp, the neoconservatives, GOP hardliners, and the Israel lobby are looking for fresh blood, and they might feel emboldened enough to start taking the the whole of Barack Obama's foreign policy."""
2009-03-14,"b'Holding hands in public, dancing, kissing and playing loud music in public are now considered inappropriate behaviour in Dubai'"
2009-03-14,b'The worlds wealthiest individuals 2008 vs 2009 (chart)'
2009-03-14,b'Taiwanese boat caught with 1.6 tons of Shark fins off South African Coast'
2009-03-14,b'Israeli troops wound protesting American citizen'
2009-03-14,b'Uganda gets more money by sending mercenaries to Iraq than from its chief export'
2009-03-14,"b""Riots erupt in Northern Ireland, police are petrol-bombed as top republican is held over soldiers' murders"""
2009-03-14,b'Pakistan president under pressure after minister quits'
2009-03-14,"b""Police lose evidence in 'racist' professor probe"""
2009-03-14,b'Bolivia passes land from rich to poor'
2009-03-14,b'Government of Brazil aims to have Spanish in secondary schools by 2010'
2009-03-14,b'Taliban threaten to kill aid workers as spies'
2009-03-14,"b'Economic crisis could kill 400,000 children, warns Margaret Chan '"
2009-03-14,b'Pakistan police battle protesters as crisis grows'
2009-03-14,b'Lesbian women in South Africa are being raped by men who believe it will cure them of their sexual orientation'
2009-03-14,b'Rioting follows arrests in N. Ireland soldier killings - CNN.com'
2009-03-14,"b""As Chinese troops seal off Tibet, Dalai Lama warns Tibetan identity 'near extinction'"""
2009-03-14,"b""Now Coca-Cola feels force of Chvez and Venezuela's socialist revolution"""
2009-03-14,"b'After holding huge protests, Pakistanis force government to restore independent judiciary. '"
2009-03-14,"b"" France's rendezvous with history"""
2009-03-14,"b""Luton's Muslim extremists defy public anger"""
2009-03-14,"b""Social networks 'are new email'"""
2009-03-14,b'Did Bangladesh Prevent Another Mumbai?'
2009-03-14,"b'Should the Chinese decide not to lend the trillions of dollars the U.S. is begging for, the U.S. economy will implode, plummeting onto itself in a World Trade Center-like collapse that will leave dust clouds circling the planet for decades.'"
2009-03-14,b'Pakistani ex-PM Nawaz Sharif held'
2009-03-14,b'Pakistani opposition leader defies house arrest'
2009-03-13,"b""What will Americans do when it's not an Arab woman wailing over a stricken figure, but an American woman?  Graphic video of the shooting of a 37-year-old Californian by an Israeli soldier during nonviolent protests yesterday."""
2009-03-13,"b""IDF fire tear gas canister at the head of an American protesting against the Israeli occupation, seriously injured: ''He had a large hole in the front of his head, and his brain was visible.''"""
2009-03-13,b'The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal'
2009-03-13,"b'""Rape Trees"" Found Along Southern US Border'"
2009-03-13,b'The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal - IDPC evaluation of results (PDF)'
2009-03-13,"b""Israel's new defence minister accused of war crime - Times Online"""
2009-03-13,b'Iran unblocks Facebook'
2009-03-13,b'Australian man pleads guilty to downloading Simpsons & Pokemon porn. Convicted & fined. '
2009-03-13,b'Fake US passports still easy to get 8 years after 911'
2009-03-13,"b'""very serious situation,""  Australian oil spill bigger than estimated...owner of freighter failed to report size of the spill '"
2009-03-13,"b""China 'worried' about US Treasury holdings"""
2009-03-13,b'Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling'
2009-03-13,"b""WTF?! All travellers departing the UK will have their trip recorded on a Gov't database for a decade"""
2009-03-13,"b'Apartheid Israel now had a new military doctrine: ""go nuts""'"
2009-03-13,"b'The Obama administration stopped calling Guantanamo inmates ""enemy combatants"" and incorporated international law as its basis for holding the prisoners while it works to close the facility.'"
2009-03-13,b'Singapore sues another Wall Street Journal editor: report'
2009-03-13,b'Concern Grows in the U.S. That the Drug War Is Destablizing Mexico'
2009-03-13,"b'I checked my sprint bill recently, and beware.  3rd party companies can charge your phone bill.'"
2009-03-13,"b'""Why Do You Live There? You\'re White!"" Singapore expats force to give up luxurious life as times get tough.'"
2009-03-13,b'This is the end for tax havens'
2009-03-13,b'Pakistan on edge as Zardari arouses rebellion'
2009-03-13,"b'Hassan Nasrallah: ""Hezbollah will never recognize Israel\'s right to exist."" At least he\'s consistent.'"
2009-03-13,b'Russian strategic bombers may be based in Cuba in the future'
2009-03-13,"b'Woman meets ""modelling agent"" on social networking site ... you can guess the rest.'"
2009-03-13,"b""Darfur aid hostages 'not freed'"""
2009-03-12,"b""Israel's 22-day offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip killed 1,434 people, including 960 civilians, 239 police officers and 235 fighters"""
2009-03-12,b'Madagascar: Soldiers ignore orders to shoot protestors. Prepare to defend people. '
2009-03-12,b'The chief executive of Sony France is being held hostage by factory workers angry at their severance packages.'
2009-03-12,b'A Handy Guide To What the Hell Just Happened in Darfur'
2009-03-12,b'An American Pastime: Smoking Pot'
2009-03-12,b'Potential conflict brewing: U.S. warships head for South China Sea after standoff between China and U.S. over the weekend'
2009-03-12,"b'""Vampire"" unearthed in Venice plague grave (Reuters)'"
2009-03-12,b'British Intelligence thought Iraq weapons claims were laughable'
2009-03-12,b'Dutch judge orders teens to visit Anne Frank House museum after finding them guilty of discrimination for insulting Jews at a rally'
2009-03-12,"b'List of goods Israel is blocking from Gaza continues to grow; now includes toilet paper, soap, toothpaste, and the primary ingredient for hummus, chickpeas'"
2009-03-12,b'Doctors Without Borders exit Darfur'
2009-03-12,b'Man dressed as Batman character the Joker shot dead by police'
2009-03-12,"b""Sinn Fein leaders attend shot policeman's funeral -- the first time party members attend the funeral of a security forces officer killed by a republican group"""
2009-03-12,"b'Gitmo Detainees No Longer ""Enemy Combatants""'"
2009-03-12,"b""U.S. disagrees with British decision to engage Lebanon's Hezbollah"""
2009-03-12,b'Obama Considers Moving Troops to Mexico Border'
2009-03-12,b'Chavez takes over transport links'
2009-03-12,b'Japan threat to shoot down N. Korean satellite'
2009-03-12,b'Sea volcano blows its top 300km off New Zealand coast'
2009-03-12,"b'Switzerland eases banking secrecy for the first time. UBS might have to provide details of 52,000 American account holders to the IRS!'"
2009-03-12,b'New UK Memos Support Sexed Up Iraq Dossier Claim'
2009-03-12,b'German police gets trolled by krautchan.net-tard on amok run'
2009-03-12,b'Salam Pax (Iraqi blogger): The pen is mightier than the shoe'
2009-03-12,"b'No more ""enemy combatant"" status for Git-mo detainees...IS the US going legit?'"
2009-03-12,b'Does this tattoo make me look like an assassin?'
2009-03-11,b'Iraqi jailed for 3 years for Bush shoe attack (could have been 15)'
2009-03-11,"b'""Seeing BBC.co.uk with ads is like seeing your dad giving Satan a reacharound""'"
2009-03-11,b'Italy formally abolishes the death penalty for all purposes'
2009-03-11,b'Muslim Woman Asked to Leave Line at Credit Union Because of  Head Scarf'
2009-03-11,"b'The grass-mud horse is an example of something that, in Chinas authoritarian system, passes as subversive behavior. Conceived as an impish protest against censorship, the foul-named little horse has made government censors look ridiculous.'"
2009-03-11,"b""Raped and killed for being a lesbian: South Africa ignores 'corrective' attacks"""
2009-03-11,b'Hamas issues rare criticism of Gaza rocket fire'
2009-03-11,"b""DNA proves Bolsheviks killed all of Russian czar's children """
2009-03-11,b'LONG LIVE IRAQ - man who threw shoe at Bush jailed for three years'
2009-03-11,b'Potential ecological disaster off the coast of Brisbane as tanker loses containers of ammonium nitrate and 20 tonnes of fuel into the sea'
2009-03-11,b'\t  Italy drops CIA rendition case: High Court threw out evidence because it was classified information.'
2009-03-11,"b""Iran's 'illegal' rappers want cultural revolution"""
2009-03-11,b'UK Police race to stop Real IRA bomb plot'
2009-03-11,b'A Dirty Pun Tweaks Chinas Online Censors'
2009-03-11,b'Defense Secretary Robert Gates says U.S. will be more cautious before starting pre-emptive wars'
2009-03-11,b'Chas Freeman speaks out on his lynching by AIPAC'
2009-03-11,b'Madoff faces life in prison after expected guilty plea'
2009-03-11,b'Pakistani government making preemptive arrests before anti-gov rally...how much can one country take at one time?'
2009-03-11,b'Madagascar on the brink of civil war'
2009-03-11,b'Sensational new Mayan archaeological find at El Mirador in Guatemala'
2009-03-11,b'Muslim preacher mocks fallen British soldiers'
2009-03-11,b'Germany school killer gave warning in online chatroom'
2009-03-11,b'Someone explain the UK newsprints? Tabloids or Real News.'
2009-03-11,b'Angola rabies outbreak kills 83 children'
2009-03-11,"b""Beth Israel Hospital avoids layoffs by everyone's contributions"""
2009-03-10,"b""UK would like to force the EU to end net neutrality. Can't you guys in Britain get your MPs under control?"""
2009-03-10,"b'10 dead after teen shooting rampage at German school (according to german sources, 13)'"
2009-03-10,b'Bolivia expels second US diplomat for having CIA links'
2009-03-10,b'Military to use new gel that stops bullets '
2009-03-10,"b'The global drug charade: Flying in the face of all the evidence, the UN is about to recommit to the tried and FAILED approach'"
2009-03-10,"b'"" Just this past week in the East Jerusalem area, 88 homes in al-Bustan, 55 homes in Shufat refugee camp, 35 Bedouin homes on the Jerusalem-Jericho Road, and 66 homes in al-Isawiyya were slated for destruction, affecting more than 2,000 Palestinians, most of whom have lived there for generations.""'"
2009-03-10,b'The Economist: The Only Way To Stop The Failed Global Drug War Is To Legalize All Drugs'
2009-03-10,"b'Madoff Charged With 11 Felonies, Faces 150 Years in Prison'"
2009-03-10,"b""Tariq Aziz, for many years the public face of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime, has been jailed for 15 years for his role in the execution of 42 merchants."""
2009-03-10,"b""Secret message in Abraham Lincoln's watch revealed"""
2009-03-10,b'Al-Jazeeras coverage of dictators is more honest than APs'
2009-03-10,b'France ends four-decade NATO rift'
2009-03-10,b'BBC NEWS | World | Europe | France ends four-decade Nato rift'
2009-03-10,b'US Congress eases curbs on Cuba'
2009-03-10,"b""Putin curbs 'bloody' seal hunt; Whitecoat pups and parents to be protected, Russian PM says"""
2009-03-10,"b""China's Navy flexes it's muscles over US sub hunting ship in South China Sea"""
2009-03-10,b'Gunman Massacres At Least Seven in Alabama '
2009-03-10,b'Pakistan - Swat Valley: Sharia implemented on 16 March'
2009-03-10,b'Northern Ireland: back to the past?'
2009-03-10,b'British Troops Jeered by Muslim Protesters at Homecoming Parade - Video 3/10/09'
2009-03-10,"b""Gunman's day of bloodshed leaves at least 10 dead in south Alabama - Breaking News"""
2009-03-10,"b""Detroit's Beautiful, Horrible Decline [pics]"""
2009-03-10,b'Teen gunman dead after killing 15 at German school'
2009-03-10,b'School massacre in Germany latest: 17-year-old gunman on the run in city centre'
2009-03-10,b'Chas Freeman withdrew his nomination. Israel lobby smear campaign a success.'
2009-03-09,"b'Kim Jong-Il wins re-election with 99.9% of the vote. In other news, 0.1% of North Koreans put into labor camps.'"
2009-03-09,b'The Norton Antivirus cover-up: A mysterious program known as pifts.exe associated with the AV program is attempting to contact a server in Africa. Symantec is hush-hush. '
2009-03-09,"b""Indias New Face:  Meet the pro-business anti-Muslim extremist who could be the next leader of the world's largest democracy"""
2009-03-09,"b""Dalai Lama warns Tibetans are 'near extinction' at 50th anniversary of exile"""
2009-03-09,"b'Official Website of North Korea: ""Is North Korea a dictatorship? No, the DPRK is a single-united-party constitutional democracy guaranteeing freedom of speech and assembly to all citizens.""'"
2009-03-09,"b'Israel at it again, this time pillaging resources of the lands it occupies leaving nothing for the real owners, the palestinians'"
2009-03-09,b'Pirate Party Politician Fired for His Political Views'
2009-03-09,"b"" Dalai Lama: China makes life 'hell on Earth' for Tibetans"""
2009-03-09,"b'New Zealand\'s RIAA tries to justifiy new ""Guilty until proven Innocent""'"
2009-03-09,"b'""Under President Obamas plan, up to 50,000 US troops would remain in Iraq through 2011.""'"
2009-03-09,"b'Heroin use is killing Russia, most of heroin comes from Afghanistan, much less under Taliban'"
2009-03-09,b'Chinese attempt to instigate collision with U.S. Naval Surveillance Ship'
2009-03-09,b'Mideast: Home Demolitions Threaten Peace Talks'
2009-03-09,b'Policeman killed in third fatal shooting in Northern Ireland'
2009-03-09,"b'Astounding story about the obstaclesthugs, secret prisons, beatingsChinese citizens face to lodge a complaint about the government.'"
2009-03-09,b'Chile and Argentina unite against UK Antarctic claim'
2009-03-09,b'The legitimacy of International Criminal Court is questioned over Sudan; some states might withdraw as members'
2009-03-09,b'Mexico police find severed heads'
2009-03-09,b'Palestinians launch unity talks'
2009-03-09,b'YouTube has exterminated all legally uploaded music videos viewable to British users'
2009-03-09,"b""Zimbabwe premier: 'No foul play' in fatal crash"""
2009-03-09,b'Planning on starting a family in less than 10 years? Well Austria want to give you free land!'
2009-03-09,b'Zimbabwe power-sharing under fire'
2009-03-09,"b'While the world looks the other way, the colonization of the West Bank continues'"
2009-03-09,b'Tokyo is the most expensive city in the world'
2009-03-08,b'Victim will get to blind the man who blinded her - Update '
2009-03-08,b'Police to track abusive men and warn the women who date them'
2009-03-08,b'WORST PUN EVER'
2009-03-08,b'8 Women Sentenced to Death by Stoning in Iran'
2009-03-08,b'Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling'
2009-03-08,b'The Apartheid State of Israel Illegally Mining in the West Bank'
2009-03-08,b'Iran: Amnesty campaign for eight women at risk of being stoned to death'
2009-03-08,b'Psychiatric Drugging of Children Intolerable-Betrayal of Innocence'
2009-03-08,b'A Muslim asks why others in the Islamic world are going to bat for a war criminal whose victims were innocent Muslims'
2009-03-08,b'What happens when somebody actually bothers investigating the Israel-Palestine Conflict.'
2009-03-08,b'Jihad against Joy  -  The attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team is part of a larger pattern. '
2009-03-08,"b""Chinese ships 'harass' US vessel [BBC]"""
2009-03-08,"b'""There is no such nation as Afghanistan"": The former Soviet ambassador to Afghanistan says more troops won\'t help where tribal and ethnic groups stand in the place of centralized government.'"
2009-03-08,b'YouTube is blocking UK music videos'
2009-03-08,b'Zimbabwe Prime Minister Denies Assassin Allegations'
2009-03-08,"b'Visualising 1,400,000 gravestones [pic]'"
2009-03-08,"b'75-year-old Widow sentenced to 40 lashes, four months in jail for meeting young men'"
2009-03-08,b'Surge in cocaine production unleashes wave of violence in Latin America'
2009-03-08,b'Homemade bombs blast police and fire vehicles in Western China one day before the 50th anniversary of the failed revolt that sent the Dalai Lama into exile.'
2009-03-08,"b'Tensions with China? Five 5 Chinese ships ""aggressively maneuvered"" and shadowed a U.S. Navy surveillance ship'"
2009-03-08,b'China imposes lock down on Tibetans'
2009-03-08,"b""British MPs demand a judicial inquiry into a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's claims that MI5 was complicit in his torture"""
2009-03-08,"b'North Korea cuts contact with South, orders troops to be combat ready ahead of joint U.S.-South Korea military drills'"
2009-03-08,b'Disrepair in South Ossetia Dims Hopes After Georgia War - NYTimes.com'
2009-03-08,b'Israel believes Iran can build nuclear weapons'
2009-03-07,"b'US President Barack Obama has said the US is not winning in Afghanistan, saying it is more complex than Iraq.'"
2009-03-07,"b'In the UK, Protest Israeli Occupation of Palestine and Face Racism Charge in Court'"
2009-03-07,"b'U.S. Army document describes Israel as \'a nuclear power\' - ""In a rare breach of official American adherence to Israel\'s policy of nuclear ambiguity ...""'"
2009-03-07,b'Egypt: Violent Clash Erupts Between International Leftists Led by British MP George Galloway and Egyptian Security Forces on Gaza Border....'
2009-03-07,"b'Losses on subprime mortgages in the United States have already caused a Depression-like banking collapse. Well, believe it or not, Europes current crisis is scarier.'"
2009-03-07,"b'UNs Anti-Blasphemy Resolution restricts free speech, promotes Islam'"
2009-03-07,"b'Swedes Claim They\'ve Killed the Source of The Pirate Bay\'s Power With ""Biggest Ever"" Raid'"
2009-03-07,b'Israel Helps Settlers to Take Over Palestinian Homes'
2009-03-07,b'Taliban militants shot down a suspected drone aircraft in a Pakistani tribal area'
2009-03-07,"b'The Russian Oligarchs are Falling, and Falling Hard.'"
2009-03-07,b'Two soldiers dead in attack on British Army base in Northern Ireland'
2009-03-07,b'Israel launches airstrikes into Gaza '
2009-03-07,b'A Dublin-based newspaper has received a call supposedly from the Real IRA which claimed responsibility for the attack at Masserene army base.'
2009-03-07,"b'For the Zionists who gain comfort from believing the video was faked: ""Palestinians who approach Gaza fence will be shot, says IDF""'"
2009-03-07,b'Whole English village put up for sale for 22 million '
2009-03-07,b'Ohio school gets 700 applicants for janitorial job'
2009-03-07,"b""Soliders were killed 'execution-style' as they lay on ground in Ulster attack"""
2009-03-07,b'School bus driver takes passengers to police station | The Courier-Mail'
2009-03-07,b'Woman Attacks Ex-Fiance Who Wanted Ring Back'
2009-03-07,b'Vatican defends excommunication in Brazil of the mother and doctors of young rape victim who had an abortion '
2009-03-07,b'Superpower Collapse: Comparing the United States & USSR '
2009-03-07,b'British soldiers shot dead at army base in Northern Ireland by gunmen dressed as pizza delivery men'
2009-03-07,b'Pakistan claims a victory over the Taliban'
2009-03-07,b'Georgia inmate arrested trying to get back in jail'
2009-03-07,"b""Israel moves to the right : Netanyahu yields to Lieberman's demands for government posts"""
2009-03-06,"b'The Economist: ""... the war on drugs has been a disaster.... the least bad policy is to legalise drugs""'"
2009-03-06,"b""SAS commander: Afghan operation is 'worthless' """
2009-03-06,"b""Morgan Tsvangirai's wife 'killed by US aid truck'"""
2009-03-06,"b'Fighting in the Field: Monsanto\'s Uphill Battle in Germany - ""A colorful alliance of beekeepers, anti-capitalism protestors and conservative politicians are in the process of chasing the global market leader out of the country.""'"
2009-03-06,b'Human rights investigators say Israeli forces engaged in wanton destruction of Palestinian homes during the conflict in Gaza.'
2009-03-06,b'Israeli Soldiers Leave their Shit in Gaza Fridges... Literally. '
2009-03-06,b'This American Life does the banking crisis. Insightful as usual. '
2009-03-06,b'Top 10 Endangered Languages in the World'
2009-03-06,b'Kenyan human rights activists killed after accusing the Kenyan police of running death squads '
2009-03-06,"b""NY 'mafia cops' get life in jail """
2009-03-06,b'Outrage in France over plight of boy locked away for seven years by his parents'
2009-03-06,"b""Fatal Tsvangirai crash 'was not accident', says MDC"""
2009-03-06,"b'Burning Conscience: Israeli soldiers speak out about their experiences as self-described ""brutal occupiers of a disputed land."" '"
2009-03-06,b'Must Jews always see themselves as victims?'
2009-03-06,"b'Sufi shrine bombed, in push to ""Talibanize"" Pakistan'"
2009-03-06,b'Anti-Israel protest turns violent - The Davis cup game between Sweden and Israel is being played without an audience'
2009-03-06,b'Solar Power For $2 A Day'
2009-03-06,b'UK police target thousands of political campaigners in surveillance operations and storing their details on a database for at least 7 years'
2009-03-06,"b'Russia pushes for new strategic arms pact with U.S. -""""We are prepared, as was suggested by our American partners, to ""reset"" our relations ... ""'"
2009-03-06,"b'Tamil family proud of son\'s \'sacrifice\' - ""The UK-based family of a young Tamil man who set himself on fire in protest at the treatment of his countrymen in Sri Lanka have said they are proud of his actions.""'"
2009-03-06,"b""Barack Obama 'too tired' to give proper welcome to Gordon Brown"""
2009-03-06,"b""China wants case against Sudan's president Bashir suspended"""
2009-03-06,"b'Zimbabwe : a truck crossed into the lane in which Zimbabwes PM, a long time rival of President Mugabe, 4x4 was travelling and side-swiped his vehicle, causing it to roll over three times.'"
2009-03-06,"b""Google Shared Some Users' Docs Without Permission"""
2009-03-06,b'Morocco cuts diplomatic relations with Iran'
2009-03-05,b'Stop Bill C-15: Say No To Mandatory Jail Terms For Marijuana'
2009-03-05,"b""Yay, religion: A Roman Catholic archbishop says the abortion of twins carried by a 9-year-old girl who allegedly was raped by her stepfather means excommunication for the girl's mother and her doctors."""
2009-03-05,"b'Some 665 million Indians practice open defecation, more than half the global total - this is impeding economic growth'"
2009-03-05,"b""Obama's pick for National Intelligence Council chief is taking fire from the pro-Israel lobby and neocons over his foreign ties and criticism of Israel."""
2009-03-05,"b'Wife of Zimbabwe Prime Minister killed in car crash, couple was hit by truck with apparently sleeping driver.'"
2009-03-05,b'Lib Dems pledge to axe 20 laws that attack civil liberties'
2009-03-05,"b'This what I get when I go to YouTube: ""Dear Valued Customer: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (www.pta.gov.pk) has directed all service providers of the country to block access to some blasphemous web content/movies. This content would remain blocked till the further orders from PTA.""'"
2009-03-05,"b""US officer 'stole Iraq aid funds'"""
2009-03-05,"b'Clinton: ""Israeli government plans to demolish dozens of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem, calling the actions ""unhelpful"" and a violation of international obligations."" '"
2009-03-05,"b'In the U.S., ""Bushvilles"" (Camps for the Homeless) Are Springing Up'"
2009-03-05,"b""Zimbabwe PM and wife 'in crash'"""
2009-03-05,"b""Mauritania 'shuts' Israeli embassy"""
2009-03-05,"b'Pots of urine, feces in the refrigerator - how IDF troops defiled Gaza homes'"
2009-03-05,"b""Bank of England makes drastic move to 'print' 75 billion of new money as it cuts rate close to zero limit"""
2009-03-05,b'UK restores links with Hezbollah'
2009-03-05,b'Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 countries by the American company Baxter were part of a conspiracy to provoke a pandemic.'
2009-03-05,"b""Man charged with impersonating Dead Sea Scroll experts in order to further his father's views on the 2,000-year-old documents"""
2009-03-05,"b'This morning, a Reddit Moderator removed this #1 story from /r/worldnews.  Why should one Redditor get to override 300+ upmods?'"
2009-03-05,b'Thailand police arrest political website editor over comments posted by readers who criticized the monarchy'
2009-03-05,"b'Australian police are getting powers to search a property WITHOUT telling the owner for up to three years. Relation to drugs, computer crimes, firearms, homicide, kidnapping.'"
2009-03-05,b'WTF?!! Foreign drivers to pay on-the-spot fines of up to 900 if they flout UK traffic laws from 1st April'
2009-03-05,b'Amazing Vanity Fair article about the rise and fall of Iceland.'
2009-03-05,b'Greyhound knife murderer found Not Criminally Responsible by reason of Insanity.'
2009-03-05,b'Wife of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai killed in auto accident. '
2009-03-05,b'Zimbabwe: Middle-Aged Women Keeping Economy Afloat'
2009-03-04,"b""Bigoted parents don't want to see disabled people on the telly"""
2009-03-04,"b'Cambodian torturer claims Nazi defense of ""just following orders"" as he is prosecuted, while US hypocritically shields American torturers with a defense of ""just following orders"".'"
2009-03-04,"b'To defend Israel six brave IDF soldiers ganged up on elderly man then cuffed, gagged and tortured him | Video'"
2009-03-04,"b'""For God\'s sake, please stop this terrorism and let this nation breathe a sigh of relief""'"
2009-03-04,"b""Followup on the Iranian acid attack victim who wanted her attacker blinded: He has been sentenced to be blinded in one eye because one man is worth two women in Iran. But if she pays $25,000, they'll blind him in both eyes."""
2009-03-04,"b""'Israel seriously considering Iran military op'"""
2009-03-04,"b'Pakistan declares: \'We are at war\' - ""Pakistan declared that it was in a ""state of war"" after masked gunmen ambushed the Sri Lankan cricket team ...""'"
2009-03-04,b'Brilliant Israeli Animation on Gaza Horrors'
2009-03-04,b'Trouble brewing? Israeli ambassador to Washington resigns'
2009-03-04,b'Israelis react with fury to British boycott call'
2009-03-04,b'A new bill intruduced to ban headwear in license photos'
2009-03-04,"b""Guinea-Bissau's army chief discovered a 200-kilogramme cocaine stash a week before his assassination, which preceded the murder of the country's president"""
2009-03-04,b'Support Blackout Ireland as the music industry tries to censor their internet access!'
2009-03-04,b'Russian general says U.S. may have planned satellite collision'
2009-03-04,b'Italy pulls out of UN racism conference'
2009-03-04,b'Petrol station sells petrol at 40% the normal price for 1 hour. Traffic chaos ensues.'
2009-03-04,"b'On ammo, we dont ask...Its politically incorrect, like youre calling them a spic.'"
2009-03-04,b'Putin Threatens to Cut Ukraine Gas Flow in Two Days '
2009-03-04,"b""Palestinian health care 'ailing'"""
2009-03-04,"b'French boy, 7, caged for years'"
2009-03-04,b'Gaddafi: Israel behind Darfur crisis '
2009-03-04,b' Footage raises new questions about Pakistan attack'
2009-03-04,"b'The European Central Bank (ECB) has cut its key interest rate to 1.5%, the lowest since it started setting euro rates in January 1999.'"
2009-03-04,b'Two U.K. Citizens Charged with Bribing Nigerian Officials to Obtain Contracts'
2009-03-04,b'Sudanese army deserter describes Darfur village raid | World news | guardian.co.uk'
2009-03-03,"b""The worst 'good luck' card ever? """
2009-03-03,"b'Iranian police arrest porn stars, women face death penalty'"
2009-03-03,"b""ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. """
2009-03-03,"b'After the Gaza assault, Google decided to host a ""Tech Talk"" providing the Palestinian perspective '"
2009-03-03,"b'Israel orders US: ""Any US dialogue with Iran must be both preceded by and accompanied by harsher sanctions"" (In other words, sticks before, sticks durings and sticks after, so as to make sure Iran doesn\'t mistake a stick for a carrot)'"
2009-03-03,b'Private Joe Dresnock defected from the US Army to North Korea in 1962. How has everything worked out since?'
2009-03-03,b'Recall that guy who beheaded and cannibalized a sleeping greyhound passenger? -Guess what he pleaded in court today'
2009-03-03,"b""This is why most Israelis can't stand ultra-orthodox Jews ... these are the same parties that are making it difficult for Israel to stop settlements in the West Bank."""
2009-03-03,"b'In Darfur, street protests over Bashir arrest warrant'"
2009-03-03,"b'100,000 foot soldiers in Mexican cartels'"
2009-03-03,b'Two state solution | Israel wants Palestine to be emasculated.'
2009-03-03,"b'A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said.'"
2009-03-03,b'U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize criticism of Islam'
2009-03-03,b'More on the Iran-Somalia-Gaza Weapons Route'
2009-03-03,b'Iran plans to start up its first atomic power plant this summer'
2009-03-03,b'International court issues warrant for Sudanese president'
2009-03-03,b'Obama has proclaimed March as Irish-American heritage month.  Sounds pretty stupid to me.'
2009-03-03,"b'US senator Ted Kennedy, 77, is to be awarded an honorary knighthood'"
2009-03-03,b'Commander says Iran missiles can reach Israel atom sites'
2009-03-03,b'Time running out for US vision on Middle East'
2009-03-03,b'Spain Disconnecting Pre-Paid Phones in November Unless Users Identify Themselves [Rights]'
2009-03-03,"b""Sudan soldier: 'They told me to kill, to rape children'"""
2009-03-03,"b'Iranian-American journalist is thrown in jail: An Iranian judiciary spokesman said she had been arrested on the orders of the revolutionary court, but he did not know what the charges were.'"
2009-03-03,b'Israel opens fire on a Mural in Lebanon'
2009-03-03,b'Common ingredient offers AIDS protection'
2009-03-02,b'Last night an asteroid (discovered only days ago) the size of a 10 story building moving 12 miles per second buzzed pass earth within 1/5 the distance to the moon.'
2009-03-02,b'Sri Lankan Cricketers seriously injured when their bus was ambushed by terrorists in Pakistan'
2009-03-02,"b'Wow - NY Times columnist says ""Hamas and Hezbollah have evolved into broad political movements widely seen as resisting an Israel over-ready to use crushing force. It is essential to think again about them.""'"
2009-03-02,"b""Israel to present Clinton with 'red lines' on talks with Iran, i.e., Israeli-approved parameters within which any US dialogue with Iran may take place. Who's the superpower here?"""
2009-03-02,b'Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos'
2009-03-02,b'Yahoo Fined For Refusing To Give Up Email Account Info'
2009-03-02,b'Judges Plead Guilty in Scheme to Jail Youths for Profit'
2009-03-02,b'Israel uses aid as a weapon'
2009-03-02,b'Avian Flu Released to General Population by Major Pharma for SECOND TIME'
2009-03-02,"b'This is Chicago, the fake Arab town built by Israel in the middle of the Negev desert to train its military forces in urban warfare.'"
2009-03-02,b'Israel Boycott Movement Gains Momentum'
2009-03-02,b'Sri Lankan International cricketers ambushed and injured in terrorist attack in Pakistan'
2009-03-02,b'US homegrown terrorist attempts to build a dirty bomb. Investigations reveal he is not Muslim. Everyone relieved. '
2009-03-02,b'Wall Street on the Tundra [Iceland]'
2009-03-02,b'China crashes lunar probe into moon'
2009-03-02,b'Top 9 Hardest Languages in the World'
2009-03-02,"b'Pakistan: Jihadists Launch ""Mumbai-Style"" Attack on Sri Lankan Cricket Team, 7 Killed...(Update) All 14 Attackers Escaped.....'"
2009-03-02,b'China and Tibet: Another year of the Iron Fist'
2009-03-02,b'Mystery of Anastasia -- Daughter of the Last Czar -- Solved'
2009-03-02,b'Donors pledge 3.2 billion to rebuild Gaza'
2009-03-02,b'What Happens When a Language Dies?'
2009-03-02,"b'Japan is a major force in global business, culture and technologyyet in some ways it is governed like a banana republic. Why?'"
2009-03-02,b'Fish numbers outpace human population'
2009-03-02,b'German Official Wants DNA Testing of Dog Shit'
2009-03-02,b' U.S.-Russia missile deal could be a setback for Czechs'
2009-03-01,b'Soldiers assassinate Guinea-Bissau president'
2009-03-01,"b'Many in Afghanistan oppose troop buildup plans; ""Send us 30,000 scholars instead. Or 30,000 engineers. But don\'t send more troops  it will just bring more violence.""'"
2009-03-01,"b'Canada backs Israeli attack on Iran? ""In his harshest rhetoric so far, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed steadfast support for Israel and claimed that the Iranian government has ""evil"" purposes for its technological achievements.""'"
2009-03-01,"b'Israel: Settlements to be doubled, Palestinian territory torn in half.'"
2009-03-01,"b'UK government blocks the release of cabinet minutes related to the invasion of Iraq because ""it would undermine democratic decision-making"". If I were a Brit, that would be insulting my intelligence.'"
2009-03-01,"b'German woman steals $1.65 and loses her job. Bankers steal millions and get bonuses, pensions, and new jobs.'"
2009-03-01,b'A side of Cancun not seen during spring break'
2009-03-01,b'The Obama administration might actually change US stance on Israel'
2009-03-01,"b'Chinese businessman buys up all chinese artifacts from Paris auction, then stiffs them on the $20million price.'"
2009-03-01,b'Almost 200 whales beached on Australian island'
2009-03-01,"b""To politicians, we're little more than meaningless blobs on a monitor. Bring on the summer of rage"""
2009-03-01,"b'The Hague trial: Serbian spy Jovica Stanisic accused of setting up genocidal death squads but he was also the CIA\'s main man in Belgrade: The agency\'s doc says ""that this allegedly evil person did a whole lot of good."" '"
2009-03-01,b'Global economic downturn: In graphics'
2009-03-01,"b""Islamic banks 'better in crisis'"""
2009-03-01,b'Israel may face war crimes trials over Gaza'
2009-03-01,b'Israeli soldiers harass Palestinian in Mufaqara'
2009-03-01,"b""New 'Iron Curtain' will split EU's rich and poor """
2009-03-01,b'The Dictionary of American Empire-Speak'
2009-03-01,b'Top secret contingency plans have been drawn up to counter the threat posed by a summer of discontent in Britain.'
2009-03-01,"b""Mullen: Iran has fissile materials for bomb... we think... maybe... we don't really know"""
2009-03-01,"b""Why hasn't al Queda sent sniper teams thru Mexico, or forest fire starters?  They'd be cheap, easy, impossible to stop, and effective.  Something doesn't add up."""
2009-03-01,b'Car Thief Nabbed After Calling 911 To Brag '
2009-03-01,b'Is Marijuana Prohibition Americas Berlin Wall?'
2009-03-01,b'Bangladeshi army pursuing fugitive paramilitaries'
2009-03-01,b'Cuban shake-up claims key figures'
2009-02-28,"b'In Denmark, the word God is one of the most embarrassing words you can say. You would rather go naked through the city than talk about God.'"
2009-02-28,"b'Liberty groups unite to defend UK rights: \'The govt and courts are collaborating in slicing away freedoms and pushing Britain to the brink of becoming a ""database"" police state\''"
2009-02-28,"b""National Geographic slams Alberta's oil sands - Canadian politicians pissed!"""
2009-02-28,"b""Israel has plans to demolish Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem to make way for a tourist site. Activists say it's a demographic play that amounts to ethnic cleansing"""
2009-02-28,"b""He wants to harass ordinary people with tough copyright laws. But now he's being sued for copyright infringement. French President Sarkozy revealed as total hypocrite"""
2009-02-28,"b""Mexico's On The Brink Of Chaos"""
2009-02-28,"b'Guilty: Britain admits collusion, new torture claims emerge'"
2009-02-28,b'Chinese lunar satellite has crashed into the moon. Beijing called it a controlled collision.'
2009-02-28,"b""REVEALED: 'There was no Cabinet debate in run-up to war,' says Short as UK Government refuses to release minutes"""
2009-02-28,b'Father sues Turkish Education Ministry for forcing his 11-yr-old daughter to watch racist and disturbing film countering claims that Ottoman Turks committed genocide against Armenians in 1915'
2009-02-28,b'Movie about lebanese gang violence canned after outbreak of gang violence at screening'
2009-02-28,"b""Israel's death squads: Former member of an Israeli assassination squad breaks his silence for the first time; tells of his role in botched ambush that killed two Palestinian bystanders and the two militants targeted"""
2009-02-28,"b'Dubai Property Miracle:  Now 13 Aussies arrested in Dubai collapse, can be held indefinitely'"
2009-02-28,"b""Olmert vows 'severe' response to Gaza rockets"""
2009-02-28,"b'So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen: is it game over for Swiss banks?'"
2009-02-28,b'Video of alleged US teen assault'
2009-02-28,"b'Chechen leader imposes strict brand of Islam, honor killings ensue'"
2009-02-28,"b"" Iran Stands by Amputations: 'Better Punishment than Prison'... """
2009-02-28,b'Drug Trafficker: How I Escaped a Bankok Jail'
2009-02-28,"b'Iraqi police get ""motivational"" speech from US serviceman - winning hearts and minds'"
2009-02-28,"b'Ahmadinejad Adviser Tells Visiting Hollywood Delegation to Apologize for ""Insults and Slanders"" Directed at Iranians..... '"
2009-02-28,b'Ugandas epidemic of child sacrifice'
2009-02-28,b'Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have reportedly fired five rockets over the border into Israeli territory but there is no indication of casualties.'
2009-02-28,"b'Bangladesh mutineers could face gallows - ""They started unjustified killing,"" one angry colonel said. ""Now they will see what justified killing is."" '"
2009-02-28,"b'The United States believes Iran has stockpiled enough nuclear fuel to make a bomb, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said on Sunday.'"
2009-02-27,b'The United States has decided to boycott an upcoming UN conference on racism unless its final document is changed to drop all references to Israel'
2009-02-27,"b""Bullied teen gives up waiting for the school system to do something, and involves the media. It's about time."""
2009-02-27,b'American Jewish Leaders blast Hillary Clinton over her request that Israel allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.'
2009-02-27,b'Wikileaks has cracked the encryption to a key document relating to the war in Afghanistan.'
2009-02-27,"b"" As President Obama was visiting Canada last week, a Russian bomber approached America's polite neighbor to the north. But Canadian fighters intercepted the bomber and told it to go on home, eh"""
2009-02-27,b'TMZ Story Forces Bank to Return $1.6 Billion!!!!'
2009-02-27,"b'Mugabe wants Zimbabwe\'s white farmers out, land seizures continue: ""The few remaining white farmers should quickly vacate their farms as they have no place there.""'"
2009-02-27,"b""British Government 'using fear as a weapon to erode civil liberties'.  Britain on brink of becoming database police state, speakers tell Convention on Modern Liberty"""
2009-02-27,"b'Taliban murders schoolchildren on bus, their crime: being Shia'"
2009-02-27,b'French professor sacked over 9/11 conspiracy theory'
2009-02-27,b'The Untouchables of Asia - amazing photo essay'
2009-02-27,"b""Protesters witness Tibetan monk being 'shot' while on fire"""
2009-02-27,b'Tibetan monk sets himself on fire and then gets shot by police. Can anyone explain that last half to me?'
2009-02-27,"b'Surveillance powers employed to fight terrorism have been misused by UK civil servants in undercover ""spying"" operations'"
2009-02-27,b'Appeal for Afghan Convicted of Saying Men & Women are Equal...'
2009-02-27,"b""A former Nun's memoirs rock India's Catholic Church"""
2009-02-27,b'100 Churches In Burma Ordered To Close'
2009-02-27,"b""Harper: 'We will defend our airspace' - Canada will not tolerate Russian intrusions"""
2009-02-27,b'Canada has become the No. 1 source of ecstasy south of the border'
2009-02-27,b'Inside the world of trafficked indentured servants and the visa violators who care for our old.'
2009-02-27,b'Why did the Washington Post censor todays Doonesbury comic strip?'
2009-02-27,b'Pic of Romanian plane just as it makes crash landing'
2009-02-27,"b""Mugabe says he'll seize more white farms"""
2009-02-27,"b""90 year old guy takes drive of death on mobility scooter and survives. Police won't prosecute"""
2009-02-27,"b""'Old-fashioned' Scottish bank shrugs off economic crisis"""
2009-02-26,"b'Israel blocks pasta shipment to Gaza: ""Is someone going to kill you with a piece of macaroni?"" '"
2009-02-26,b'Russian man dies of Viagra overdose after two women challenge him to 24 hour sex orgy.'
2009-02-26,"b'Congrats: Israel expected to be labelled an Apartheid Country for the second time on a row, but still getting U.S. support.'"
2009-02-26,"b'Israel okays plans for thousands of West Bank settlement homes, despite formal commitments not to do so.'"
2009-02-26,b'Reconstruction of Hudson River plane crash done with CG and actual flight audio'
2009-02-26,"b'Breaking news: NATO documents about Afghanistan have been cracked, Jordan is secretly still involved in the war, Russian troops in Afghanistan is ""out of the question""'"
2009-02-26,"b""Stay Classy: Chinese police 'shot burning monk before putting him out'"""
2009-02-26,"b'90,000 Seeds Added to Doomsday Vault on its first Birthday'"
2009-02-26,"b""Coordinated assault against one of Obama's intelligence picks inspired by his critical stance to Israel."""
2009-02-26,"b'""If you think that Slumdog Millionaire movie did not show india as a developed country - you may have to step outside your opulent bungalow and have a look at how most people in india live - they live in villages and slums ignored by the government, celebrities and \'bollywood\' filmmakers""'"
2009-02-26,b'French professor sacked over 9/11 conspiracy theory'
2009-02-26,"b'Monk prays in same place every day, leaves footprints in solid timber.'"
2009-02-26,b'Wikileaks Cracks Password on NATO Afghanistan Document'
2009-02-26,b'DNA details of over 1 million UK children are now on the national database -- half of them have no criminal convictions'
2009-02-26,"b'50,000 combat troops to remain in Iraq after ""withdrawal""'"
2009-02-26,b'US tax dollars are used to train Latin American soldiers how to oppress their own people'
2009-02-26,"b""World turns into 'gangsta paradise' as crisis continues to aggravate"""
2009-02-26,"b""Radioactive' paedophile on the run """
2009-02-26,"b""The UK government is planning to get around a European court ruling that condemned Britain's retention of the DNA profiles of more than 800,000 innocent people by keeping the original samples used to create the database."""
2009-02-26,"b'Argentina calls CIA comment irresponsible -""Argentina on Thursday blasted the head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency for saying the country, along with Ecuador and Venezuela, could be pushed into instability by the global economic crisis ...""'"
2009-02-26,b'Airline considers charging passengers to use toilet'
2009-02-26,b'Britain: Senior police officer warns of summer of rage'
2009-02-26,b'The US economy shrank by 6.2% in the last three months of 2008'
2009-02-26,b'Former Rwandan priest convicted of genocide'
2009-02-26,b'Pelosi Tosses Cold Water On Reviving Assualt Weapons Ban'
2009-02-25,"b'Man survives 10 days in ski mountain, spouse dies. Neither police nor search and rescue teams began ground searches until Tuesday, despite helicopter pilots twice reporting they saw an SOS symbol carved into the snow.'"
2009-02-25,b'India names Pakistani colonel in connection with Mumbai terror attacks '
2009-02-25,b'Toga party turns into rampage in New Zealand'
2009-02-25,b'The Chinese navy saves Italian merchant ship from Somalian pirates'
2009-02-25,b'Dutch to Muslims: Do you really want to settle here?'
2009-02-25,b'Diamonds may be forever but diamond stores are not - Zales closing 115 stores'
2009-02-25,"b'Binyam Mohamed, recently released from Guantanamo, issues a statement.'"
2009-02-25,"b'Mexico is in Freefall - With cartels taking over cities and killing all anti-drug officials, the country is crying out for help  but is unlikely to get it from the US'"
2009-02-25,"b""French President uses music without permission - band threaten to sue - offered 1 euro as a 'symbolic gesture'"""
2009-02-25,"b'Mr. Mohan, a Hindu, Became a Muslim to Marry His Mistress; Then Things Got Messy'"
2009-02-25,b'Las Vegas running out of water!?'
2009-02-25,b'Why Do You Kill Zaid?.. A look into why young Iraqis are joining the resistance movement in Iraq. A must watch.'
2009-02-25,b'50 people are reported to have been killed in Bangladesh after border guards stage armed mutiny'
2009-02-25,b'Government admits Britain handed suspects to US for rendition '
2009-02-25,"b'In the state of Zacatecas, residents of Villanueva demanded that the military take over. The soldiers came, but drug war violence got worse.'"
2009-02-25,b'Troubled Swiss bank UBS placed $31 billion wrong order -- the biggest in monetary terms in the history of the Tokyo Stock Exchange'
2009-02-25,"b'Mexico sending 5,000 troops to besieged border city'"
2009-02-25,b'John Hutton admits terror suspects were handed over for rendition'
2009-02-25,"b""We're on the brink of disaster: Economic instability may lead to civil unrest, ethnic strife and even war"""
2009-02-25,"b'Opinion: Pakistan - Failed state in the making, or the new war zone?'"
2009-02-25,"b""The Israelis said macaroni is banned because they don't consider it an essential food item."""
2009-02-25,"b""Oscars' mentions of gays & lesbians censored in Asia ..."""
2009-02-25,b'CON-MISSION: Wonderful retort by a detainee during his hearing at Guantanamo'
2009-02-25,"b""Japan's trade figures signal depression"""
2009-02-25,"b'UK admits handing over two terror suspects to US authorities in Afghanistan, sparking claims of collusion in extraordinary rendition'"
2009-02-24,b'The Anti-Bono: Please No More African Aid'
2009-02-24,"b""Israeli terror victims want to sell ancient persian relics and take the money as 'compensation' for Irans complicity in suicide bombing attacks - they've 'won' a 412 million dollar settlement in US courts"""
2009-02-24,b'Turkish plane crashes at Amsterdam airport'
2009-02-24,b'Australian government trying to bankrupt woman found innocent of all charges - woman has won all multiple cases against the government - please help her plight get attention'
2009-02-24,b'How long did it take for the stock market to recover after 1929?  Oh only 25 long years!!! [Chart]'
2009-02-24,"b'Hollywood to make 30 anti-Iranian movies - ""Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Hassan Qashqavi, has said that Hollywood film makers have thirty anti-Iranian movies in the offing ...""'"
2009-02-24,"b'criminalization: it does nothing! Despite being illegal in Mexico, abortion rates higher than US'"
2009-02-24,"b""Japan's exports plunged more than 45% in January compared to a year ago to hit the lowest figure ever recorded."""
2009-02-24,b'Saudi lingerie trade in a twist'
2009-02-24,b'Palestinian olive oil bucks UK recession - Sales expected to double this year after Gaza conflict'
2009-02-24,b'Army is fighting British jihadists in Afghanistan'
2009-02-24,"b'Three Ring Legal Circus Goes On: The Pirate Bay Trial, Day 7'"
2009-02-24,b'A major global drugs kingpin has agreed a plea bargain in the United States after admitting conspiracy to distribute millions of dollars worth of ecstasy. But who is this man of mystery who faces spending 10 years in jail?'
2009-02-24,b'Iran tests its first nuclear power plant'
2009-02-24,"b""The world's newspapers, put your mouse on a city and the newspaper headlines pop up, COOL!"""
2009-02-24,b'The controversial conservationst who braved the US bombing to rescue the starving lions of Baghdad zoo'
2009-02-24,"b'Amnesty International Calls For Arms Embargo Against Israel, Cites U.S.-Made White Phosphorus'"
2009-02-24,b'IDF still preventing human rights groups from investigating war crime allegations'
2009-02-24,b'Border guards pissed off about pay storm their headquarters and kill their superiors.. Prime minister pardons all of them - WTF?'
2009-02-24,"b""Tracking Down Gaza War's Deadly, Mysterious Cubes"""
2009-02-24,"b""Mother sets fire to her daughter's gloating rapist"""
2009-02-24,"b'Gaddafi: Israel, not Sudan, to blame for crisis in Darfur '"
2009-02-24,"b'West urged to give Pakistan $5bn. ""If we fail, we face a truly frightening prospect: terrorist sanctuary, economic meltdown, and spiralling radicalism, all in a nation with 170 million inhabitants and a full arsenal of nuclear weapons,""'"
2009-02-24,b'Pakistan turns into a greater tinderbox: The Supreme Court rules that opposition leader Nawaz Sharif cannot hold office'
2009-02-24,b'Rights Group Calls for Israel/Hamas Arms Embargo'
2009-02-23,b'Legalize It: Ammiano to Introduce Legislation Monday to Allow Pot -- and Tax It'
2009-02-23,"b""Who's Buying What? (World Map Infographic) """
2009-02-23,"b'Obnoxious: Rich person refuses to pay lawful reward, offers to give to charity instead'"
2009-02-23,b'Mexico: Indigenous Rights leaders found dead'
2009-02-23,"b""US does it again - 'Secret U.S. unit trains commandos in Pakistan'"""
2009-02-23,b'Niall Ferguson: we may be looking at a Lost Decade.'
2009-02-23,b'(still very bloody)diamonds'
2009-02-23,"b""Israel & Hamas 'guilty of war crimes'"""
2009-02-23,"b""Uk's Justice Secretary Jack Straw has vetoed the publication of minutes of key Cabinet meetings held in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003."""
2009-02-23,b'WTF!!? British taxpayers may become liable for 500 billion worth of bad loans and investments made by RBS and Lloyds Banking Group'
2009-02-23,b'Iceland Defense Agency to Be Shut Down?'
2009-02-23,b'Israel was tracking  Hizbollah vehicles for four years through GPS devices installed on those vehicles.'
2009-02-23,b'UK blocks publications of Iraq war discussions'
2009-02-23,b'Official: US aid to Gaza to top $900 million'
2009-02-23,b'War hero defeated by NHS after hospital stay left him with three infections and fractured pelvis'
2009-02-23,"b'Turkish lawmaker gives speech in Kurdish, Turks lose it. The last time this happened, a woman went to jail for 10 years.'"
2009-02-23,"b""Most Of World's Spam Email Comes From Nation Of Koy4goff"""
2009-02-23,b'US to give $900m in Gaza aid '
2009-02-23,"b""Canada is now on some Afghans' shit list, and here's why"""
2009-02-23,"b'Sex, Drugs and Islam  The Islamic Revolution in Iran has been disastrous for everyone except the Mullahs in charge.'"
2009-02-23,b'Just when you thought there was an end to the Iraqi quagmire...'
2009-02-23,b'FBI arrests 44 in Chicago on child prostitution charges '
2009-02-23,"b'According to refugees, Tamil Tigers are forcibly conscripting civilians & keeping tens of thousands of others as human shields.'"
2009-02-23,b'Iran Set for Initial Test of First Nuclear Plant'
2009-02-23,"b'a decade of planting with GM cotton, or any GM crop with Bt genes in it, could lead to total destruction of soil organisms, leaving dead soil unable to produce food.'"
2009-02-22,b'Justice: UK politician who advocated neighbor-snitching ratted out by neighbors'
2009-02-22,b'Confirmed: The white phosphorus used on Gaza was supplied by the US of A'
2009-02-22,"b""Mugabe 'blow quadrillions of Zimbabwe dollars' on his 85th birthday with a sumptuous banquet; demands cattle and money from his starving people to pay for the surreal party. Meanwhile thousands die from cholera, students are not attending schools and teachers are not paid. """
2009-02-22,"b'""It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, and tortured in medieval ways  all orchestrated by the United States government.""'"
2009-02-22,b'China prepares to buy up foreign oil and gas companies with its huge currency reserves'
2009-02-22,"b""Scores of white-owned farms 'confiscated' in Zimbabwe"""
2009-02-22,b'Cairo Is Hit By Deadly Bomb Blast'
2009-02-22,"b'Once You See What Truly Happened in Gaza, It Will Change You Forever'"
2009-02-22,"b'Turks are xenophobic, socially conservative people who rarely read books, relegate women to second-class status and harbour ambivalent views about democracy, contentious new research has revealed.'"
2009-02-22,"b""World's First Trash-Powered Electric Garbage Truck Now In The UK"""
2009-02-22,"b""Police Bracing Themselves for 'Summer of Rage' Against Economic Crisis"""
2009-02-22,b'Captain Kirk wants to command Canada to go where no country has gone before!'
2009-02-22,"b'Should AIPAC Decide What\'s Classified? ""America may witness the final stage in AIPAC\'s long-term drive to essentially declassify or classify U.S. government secrets at will""'"
2009-02-22,b'Surveillance Video of The Attack at McDonalds.'
2009-02-22,b'Something U.S. Media wont show: The Palestinian Perspective'
2009-02-22,"b""'What we have in Lieberman is the final proof that we are, indeed, living in Bizarro World, and reality has been turned on its head. Because what we are seeing in Israel today is the rise to power of a Jewish Hitler'."""
2009-02-22,"b'To the citizens of the UK, you are about to go into lockdown: Birth of fascism in real time '"
2009-02-22,"b'War Criminals, Including Their Lawyers, Must Be Prosecuted: When the US ratified the Convention Against Torture, we promised to extradite or prosecute those who commit, or are complicit in the commission, of torture. '"
2009-02-22,"b""Goodbye Dubai -- 'a place for the shallow and fickle.'"""
2009-02-22,b'Egypt opens Gaza border'
2009-02-22,b'Police warn that Britain faces summer of rage due to recession |'
2009-02-22,b'Israel-Hamas arms embargo urged'
2009-02-22,"b'Former head of Greenpeace: MORE nuclear power, please!'"
2009-02-22,b'Iran Nukes--Weapons of Mass Deception Again'
2009-02-22,b'DEATHWATCH: The End of Second Life'
2009-02-21,b'Iran: the friendliest people in the world'
2009-02-21,"b'Prison Break Greek Style: Second helicopter escape in three years, police once again ridiculed'"
2009-02-21,"b""Don't let Slumdog Millionaire fool you: there are no fairy-tale endings for most of India's street kids. I was one of them myself."""
2009-02-21,b'International Atomic Energy Agency: Iran NOT producing weapon-grade uranium!'
2009-02-21,b'A Series of Suicides Unnerves West Point'
2009-02-21,"b'Bankers Laugh In the Face Of Recession...by spending 43,000 pounds on champagne.  And another 5 grand on the tip.'"
2009-02-21,"b'120,000 protesters in recession-hit Ireland brought Dublin city centre to a standstill'"
2009-02-21,b'Iran to begin operation of 1st nuclear power plant'
2009-02-21,"b""Revealed: full horror of Gitmo inmate's beatings"""
2009-02-21,"b'The United Arab Emirates is considering legislation that would criminalize publication of anything that would ""harm the economy.""'"
2009-02-21,"b'According to CIA Study, Israels survival in its present form beyond the next  20 years is doubtful'"
2009-02-21,"b'National Day of Mourning in Australia.  Church bells across Australia tolled at 11:00am Sunday as a show of solidarity, support and mourning for victims of the nations recent bushfires.'"
2009-02-21,"b""IDF: War crime charges over Gaza offensive are 'legal terror'"""
2009-02-21,"b""China's artificially induced snow closes 12 highways """
2009-02-21,"b'With his approval ratings at a low, President Sarkozy now faces a general strike and, potentially, a wave of social panic. '"
2009-02-21,"b'""You can\'t sweep unlawful activities under the table""'"
2009-02-21,b'Free Silva'
2009-02-21,b'Storm brews between US and Israel '
2009-02-21,b'Just like in old times during the Cod War. -- Iceland Says'
2009-02-21,"b'Zambian economist Deborah Solomon: Stop sending aid to Africa ""There are a billion Chinese who are living in substandard conditions. Do you know anybody who feels sorry for China? Nobody.""'"
2009-02-21,"b""UK agents 'colluded with torture in Pakistan'"""
2009-02-21,"b'Kidnap on Britain\'s streets - ""I\'ve heard of innocent girlfriends and sisters being abducted off the streets and sexually assaulted""'"
2009-02-21,b'George W  Bush turns down job in a hardware store !'
2009-02-21,b'Who can probe Gaza war crimes claims? '
2009-02-21,"b""Beijing's Olympic building boom becomes a bust."""
2009-02-20,b'Graph of historic financial collapses puts current crisis into perspective'
2009-02-20,"b'Swiss law strictly prohibits UBS from disclosing to the IRS the account information of 52,000 American customers '"
2009-02-20,"b'Ex-nun writes explosive book alleging sexual abuse of nuns, illicit affairs in an year of suicides in the Catholic Church in India'"
2009-02-20,b'Latvias Government Collapses'
2009-02-20,b'Zogby Poll: US Weed Legalization Support Grows'
2009-02-20,"b'100,000 protest over Irish economy'"
2009-02-20,b'Mexican Gangs Kill Cops to Force Ouster of Chief'
2009-02-20,b'Ecuador says expelled U.S. official was CIA operative'
2009-02-20,"b'North Korean propaganda artist flees to the West, makes satirical propaganda'"
2009-02-20,"b'With Help From Sympathetic Judge, Chicago Law Firm Bullies Internet Startup'"
2009-02-20,"b'Chinese government has closed Tibet to outside observers, poured security forces into the region and vowed to ""crush"" supporters of the Dalai Lama'"
2009-02-20,"b'""International justice is a farce while those in the west who sided with Pol Pot\'s murders escape trial"" - Jon Pilger'"
2009-02-20,"b'TYT: Israel is never asked to be non-violent, only Gaza is.'"
2009-02-20,b'Dumped in Africa: Britains toxic waste'
2009-02-20,"b'Four Israeli rockets have landed in south Lebanon after a rocket fired from the country hit northern Israel, Israeli and Lebanese army says. '"
2009-02-20,"b""Rights?  You have no rights.  I'm The Decider   -- Barack Obama"""
2009-02-20,b'Twenty million Chinese workers have lost their jobs in one province alone!'
2009-02-20,b'That other Guantanamo: Inmates at Bagram in Afghanistan are still denied rights'
2009-02-20,b'Czech president compares EU to Soviet Union'
2009-02-20,b'Vatican protests Israeli TV show'
2009-02-20,b'Dumped in Africa: Britains toxic waste'
2009-02-20,b'Change we can believe in: Obama administration keeps Bush view on Afghanistan detainees'
2009-02-20,"b'US torture prison Abu Ghraib, reopens with cleaner image'"
2009-02-20,"b'""Emiratis should be protected through legislation during such hard times. I find it strange that we should lose jobs in our own country.""'"
2009-02-20,b'US asks for meeting with Syrian ambassador'
2009-02-19,b'Israel at it again: They just seized 425 acres of Palestinian land to build a settlement for 2500 homes. They seriously are not interested in peace.'
2009-02-19,"b'By NOT purchasing Israeli products and services, we can each help NOT keep the Israeli economy vibrant and growing.'"
2009-02-19,b'Is it a crime to take pictures?'
2009-02-19,b'Binyamin Netanyahu targets Iran after he is appointed Prime Minister'
2009-02-19,b'Paranoid Britain Tops US To Become #1 Police State'
2009-02-19,b'Obama Reverses U.S. Position on LGBT Issues at the UN'
2009-02-19,b'What a freaking outrage - child stars of $100 million Slumdog movie still live in slums'
2009-02-19,"b'Massive revolt brewing- 67361 responses, 91% support  to fight the Obama $275 B mortgage bailout'"
2009-02-19,b'Road to riches ends for 20 million Chinese '
2009-02-19,b'Argentina expels British bishop who denies the Holocaust'
2009-02-19,b'Camembert Clash: The French Cheese Wars'
2009-02-19,"b'Iran has enough fuel for a nuclear bomb, report says | LA Times (VERY misleading headline)'"
2009-02-19,"b""Miss Atom 2009: Russia's Nuclear Bombshells"""
2009-02-19,b'US ready to up pay for Kyrgyz base'
2009-02-19,"b'Iran Has a Third More Enriched Uranium Than Thought, Inspectors Say'"
2009-02-19,b'Iran and Israel: Case of Nuclear Mirage and Nuclear Blindness'
2009-02-19,b'North Korea - Still Crazy After All These Years'
2009-02-19,"b""Filmmakers 'using Holocaust as Oscars bait'"""
2009-02-19,"b""Two Tamil Tiger planes raid on Sri Lanka's capital Colombo"""
2009-02-19,"b""Britain's government apologized Thursday for endorsing a lesson plan which asked students to think like suicide bombers."""
2009-02-19,b'Iranian Authorities Destroy Sufi Holy Site In Isfahan'
2009-02-19,"b' \tUS Congressmen in the Gaza Strip: ""The amount of physical destruction and the depth of human suffering here is staggering""'"
2009-02-19,b'UK : Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary calls for people who get drunk to be flogged '
2009-02-19,"b'French, German Visits Could Herald New Era Of EU Engagement With Iraq'"
2009-02-19,"b'New Yorkers to Boycott NY Post Over ""racist"" Cartoon.....'"
2009-02-18,"b'We are all extremists now - ""The government is criminalising legitimate dissent under the guise of fighting \'extremism\', a word for which it has no definition.""'"
2009-02-18,"b'Oh, Canada. When statements are said that God probably does not exist, this is an implied statement of hatred towards all those who do believe that God exists.'"
2009-02-18,b'Giant rat caught in China '
2009-02-18,b'Cousin of 9/11 Hijacker Arrested as Israeli Spy'
2009-02-18,"b""Liberty's death by a thousand cuts."""
2009-02-18,b'Laid-Off Foreigners Flee as Dubai Spirals Down'
2009-02-18,b'Dolphins ask for human help.'
2009-02-18,"b'Grade 4 assignment: Imagine you have three spaces in a rocket ship and you have to decide which person to save: an Acadian francophone, a Chinese person, a black African, an English person and an aboriginal person.'"
2009-02-18,b'Cousin of 9/11 hijacker arrested spying for Israel'
2009-02-18,"b""The mystery of Ireland's worst driver"""
2009-02-18,b'US congressmen express shock at Gaza devastation'
2009-02-18,"b""Iraqi shoe thrower's trial begins with cheers"""
2009-02-18,b'A woman who had steel plates inserted into her back managed to smuggle a gun and explosives into a maximum security prison to help two inmates escape.'
2009-02-18,b'Poll: Swedes say no bailout for Saab'
2009-02-18,b'Israel Says It Will Unseal Gaza Only if Soldier Is Freed '
2009-02-18,"b'Sweden Warns Israeli Taekwondo Team to Stay Home Because 10,000 Muslims Have Threatened to Attack Them.....'"
2009-02-18,b'European cocaine prices dropping like a stone '
2009-02-18,b'Zimbabwe starts paying soldiers and other government workers in US dollars'
2009-02-18,"b'""The people who stayed here did not immigrate here. This is our country. This state came here and was enforced on the ruins of my nation."" -Azmi Bishara, an Arab Israeli and former member of the Knesset'"
2009-02-18,b'Israel:  Police want to question Israeli extremist and future government minister Lieberman over alleged massive fraud.'
2009-02-18,b'Sweden accepts ex-Guantanamo inmate'
2009-02-18,"b""GM Says It's the End for Saturn"""
2009-02-18,"b""Saudi Arabia cabinet reshuffle. Norah al-Faiz becomes first female minister. She still can't drive to work, though."""
2009-02-18,"b""AIDS becomes China's deadliest infectious disease"""
2009-02-18,b'China concerned after Russia fires on ship'
2009-02-17,"b'Mexico just discovered oil ""3.8 times its present known reserves, and half that of the Saudis"" There goes your Electric vehicle progress.'"
2009-02-17,"b'UK: It is now illegal to photograph the police, despite the fact that they use increasingly aggressive techniques to record citizens'"
2009-02-17,b'Israel launches air strikes on Gaza'
2009-02-17,b'China closes Tibet to foreigners'
2009-02-17,b'Two US missile strikes in Pakistan in three days kill more than 60'
2009-02-17,"b'Maddow: graphic warning, Gitmo Guard, I feel Ashamed of What I Did'"
2009-02-17,b'Former UK politician convicted to jail over accepting bribes from Berlusconi - Berlusconi in no trouble because he enacted a law to give himself immunity'
2009-02-17,b'Pakistan Gives Up Swat Valley to Taliban'
2009-02-17,"b'Tonnes of toxic waste from municipal dumps in the West are being dumped illegally in countries like Nigeria and Ghana, an investigation has found.'"
2009-02-17,b'Italy unmoved by Berlusconi bribe case '
2009-02-17,b'Dubai Real Estate Crash. Lindsey Williams was Right !!'
2009-02-17,b'What is Israel up to?  Sudanese rebel leader meets with Israeli spies'
2009-02-17,"b""AIDS was the leading cause of death in the People's Republic of China last year amongst infectious disease"""
2009-02-17,b'Stop religious persecution in Iran'
2009-02-17,b'Israel is covertly at war with Iran!'
2009-02-17,b'Hundreds of Mexicans blocked roads and bridges into US in protest of army operations against drug gangs'
2009-02-17,b'Medea Benjamin:  The Photo from Gaza that Haunts Me'
2009-02-17,"b""Bush's Billion dollar aid to Pakistan to fight Taliban and al qaeda goes down in drain. They are now more powerful."""
2009-02-17,"b""Bristol Palin: abstinence-only teaching doesn't work"""
2009-02-17,b'Bleak outlook for bombed Gaza Zoo'
2009-02-17,b'Clerics urge new jihad over Gaza'
2009-02-17,"b'Hezbollah Murdering Rivals in Lebanon Check-Mate, Lebanon has no future. '"
2009-02-17,b'Border crossings to Mexico closed by protests'
2009-02-17,"b""Guatemala has apologised to Cuba for his country's role in the failed US-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs in 1961"""
2009-02-17,b'Louisiana passes a bill that may allow creationism to be taught in public schools.  Result: a major bio conference boycotts New Orleans.'
2009-02-16,"b'Former presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil called Wednesday for the decriminalization of marijuana for personal use and a change in tactics on the war on drugs'"
2009-02-16,b'Woman politician quits over nude photos'
2009-02-16,b'A former head of MI5 has accused the government of exploiting the fear of terrorism and trying to bring in laws that restrict civil liberties. '
2009-02-16,b'Israel seizes West Bank land '
2009-02-16,b'Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran: report'
2009-02-16,"b""Against Guilt by Association - NZ's new copyright law would allow the copyright mafia to kick you off the net without any proof of wrongdoing"""
2009-02-16,"b""Not your favourite employer: You're on a business trip, end up in a plane crash, in freezing water, survive, and then your employer asks you to pay for the flight because you didn't make your business meeting..."""
2009-02-16,b'France admits it sent Jews to the gas chambers during Second World War'
2009-02-16,"b'Another Ponzi Scheme: The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Robert Allen Stanford and three of his companies for orchestrating a fraudulent, multi-billion dollar investment scheme centering on an $8 billion CD program'"
2009-02-16,"b'Russian Gen. Makhmut Gareyev ""Nothing can be done in Afghanistan using military means,"" he says. ""If the Americans go on with the policy they have now, it will be useless.""'"
2009-02-16,"b'Anger and pain of survivors at trial of Pol Pot\'s ""Killing Fields"" chief torturer'"
2009-02-16,"b""If you get a ton of explosives fired at you, and they don't explode, it doesn't belong to you: A large stockpile of unexploded Israeli ordnance has disappeared in Gaza - Hamas accused of theft!"""
2009-02-16,b'Wikileaks releases NATO report on civilian deaths'
2009-02-16,b'Monsanto and EU Foiled'
2009-02-16,b'Britain: Police will not be prosecuted for Jean Charles de Menezes killing'
2009-02-16,b'Entire South African Airways Crew Arrested For Drug Smuggling Twice In One Month'
2009-02-16,b'Afghan civilian casualty rate at highest since Taliban rule'
2009-02-16,b'Man dedicates his life to stopping the killing of albinos in Tanzania'
2009-02-16,b'Israel engaged in covert war inside Iran: report'
2009-02-16,b' U.N.: Tamil Tiger rebels are recruiting child soldiers in Sri Lanka'
2009-02-16,b'High Price of Illegal Ivory in Viet Nam Threatens the Few Surviving Elephants in Indochina'
2009-02-16,"b""Anti-terror tactics 'weaken law'"""
2009-02-16,b'UN: Afghan civilian deaths a record high in 2008'
2009-02-16,b'Another U.S. Sponsored Catastrophe: The Nightmare in Somalia'
2009-02-16,"b'Mexican Drug Gangs Terrorize Town, Police Force'"
2009-02-15,b'Chavez wins reform to the constitution of Venezuela - No more term limits for presidents'
2009-02-15,"b'Octopus escapes, survives 5 days on the run. '"
2009-02-15,"b""In a direct challenge to Obama's wishes, Israel confiscates land of a Palestinian plumber to expand Israeli Settlements."""
2009-02-15,b'Borat Would be Proud!  Scientology Banned in Kazakhstan'
2009-02-15,"b""Crude oil is getting cheaper  so why isn't gas?"""
2009-02-15,b'Pakistan government agrees to implement Taliban law across a large swath of northwest Pakistan.'
2009-02-15,b'Theft of our freedom to grow our own food - infuriating'
2009-02-15,b'Japanese economy crashes: worst contraction since 1974'
2009-02-15,"b""Who's your daddy? 13-year-old 'dad' might not be the dad - as it turns out the mother is the village bike - everyone's had a ride"""
2009-02-15,"b""South Africa's best and brightest are leaving in growing numbers"""
2009-02-15,b'Nuclear submarines collide in ocean'
2009-02-15,b'Pirate Bay copyright test case begins in Sweden'
2009-02-15,"b'Former Gitmo Guard Talks - (Please share your thoughts on there, I think there is censoring in the comments section) '"
2009-02-15,b'Nuclear submarines collide in the Atlantic'
2009-02-15,"b""Gaza population 'rising rapidly'. Again. Still."""
2009-02-15,b'Honeybees under attack on all fronts'
2009-02-15,b'UK: New fight to stop mass fluoridation. Should an entire nation be medicated to help a few?'
2009-02-15,"b""North Korea has celebrated the 67th birthday of its 'heaven-made commander' Kim Jong-il. """
2009-02-15,"b'Saudi Arabia appoints its first female minister, moves away from ultra-conservatism'"
2009-02-15,b'Airstrike Kills 31 in Pakistan'
2009-02-15,b'Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas rejects renewal of peace talks until Israel halts illegal settlement activities'
2009-02-15,b'Iranian bioweapon researcher dies suspiciously'
2009-02-15,b'Mexico police buy Israeli air surveillance systems'
2009-02-15,"b'Satellite debris possibly falling over Texas: sonic booms, fireballs'"
2009-02-15,b'Israel takes control of more West Bank land'
2009-02-14,"b'Houston we have a problem... The crash of two satellites has generated an estimated tens of thousands of pieces of space junk that could circle Earth and threaten other satellites for the next 10,000 years'"
2009-02-14,"b'""Yes, I know that the Jews of Europe had no Hamas to provide the Nazis with an excuse for their deaths. But a Palestinian woman and her child are as worthy of life as a Jewish woman and her child on the back of a lorry in Auschwitz.""'"
2009-02-14,b'Toronto: Middle-aged man randomly shove teens into oncoming subway train'
2009-02-14,"b""'Post-War Myths': The Logic Behind the Destruction of Dresden"""
2009-02-14,b'Insane Hindu zealots attack innocent couples enjoying their Valentines Day in India.'
2009-02-14,"b'The maverick MP George Galloway knows how to get attention. This time, however, he is doing it by leading a mile-long convoy of aid trucks all the way from London to Gaza.'"
2009-02-14,b'Dubai crash is real - stock exchange down 75%'
2009-02-14,b'People are now more afraid of their financial adviser than of al-Qaida.'
2009-02-14,"b'""Iran is unknown and misunderstood""'"
2009-02-14,b'UK Police sell 60p criminal records for 70 each!  18Million/year RACKET.'
2009-02-14,b'Saudi king appoints first woman to a ministerial post'
2009-02-14,"b'Dissident blogger Xu Lai, aka ProState in Flames, is stabbed in Beijing'"
2009-02-14,"b'Swiss ""Hate Crime"" on Brazilian A Hoax: Police'"
2009-02-14,"b""Hamburg Man Convicted of 'Honor' Killing of Sister: Said he objected to the schoolgirl's way of life, clothes, attempts to escape her family."""
2009-02-14,b'Israel puts terms on Gaza truce'
2009-02-14,"b'Three decades after the fall of Pol Pot, the first trial of the leaders of his genocidal Khmer Rouge regime is to begin Tuesday before a U.N.-backed tribunal'"
2009-02-14,"b'They were stuffing cash in pizza boxes and making payoffs by filling paper sacks scattered in ""dead drops"" in the Green Zone'"
2009-02-14,b'Anne Frank guardian Miep Gies turns 100'
2009-02-14,b'Found: Robert Mugabes secret bolthole in the Far East'
2009-02-14,b'Mystery cop saved 200 lives from Victoria fires'
2009-02-14,b'  \t  Shahar Peer denied entry to Dubai '
2009-02-14,b'Drug firm GSK vows to do less evil and to help the developing world.'
2009-02-14,b'Pakistan embassy in Washington says no foreign bases in country'
2009-02-14,b'74-year-old Army doc deployed to Afghanistan'
2009-02-14,b'South Korea to complete missile defence by 2012'
2009-02-13,"b""Are you a bad enough dude to have the Russian government send afghan war veterans to hunt you down, and almost win if it wasn't for a godly sniper who shot you in the head while you were running through trees and smoke?"""
2009-02-13,"b'""It was decided and carried out: they washed her, cut her hair, raped her and killed her,""'"
2009-02-13,"b""Drug giant pledges cheap medicine for world's poor, shocks industry with challenge to other 'big pharma' companies"""
2009-02-13,b'US using British atomic weapons factory for its nuclear program'
2009-02-13,b'Israel & US said Iranian ship was carrying weapons... Cyprus searches it and finds none.'
2009-02-13,b'Naked British Idiocy'
2009-02-13,b'Can anyone recall what we put in our nuclear dump?'
2009-02-13,"b'Calif., N.J. Utilities Unveil Solar Power Plans'"
2009-02-13,"b'In a  landmark move, first US campus divests from Israel!'"
2009-02-13,b'Israel rules out Gaza truce unless soldier freed'
2009-02-13,"b'In Romania, bribery is a health problem.'"
2009-02-13,b'US Congress passes stimulus plan '
2009-02-13,"b""Doubts grow over skinhead 'knife attack' on Brazilian woman"""
2009-02-13,b'Venezuela expels Spanish deputy '
2009-02-13,"b""My Letter to Middle East Envoy George Mitchell, Asking Him to Speak with Gaza Women: As an American Jew, I'm deeply ashamed of Israel. I hold no allegiance to a nation that engages in ethnic cleansing."""
2009-02-13,"b""BBC distortion: We can't work with foreigners because we're segregated => (edit) => We can't work with foreigners. [+ page 3 girls]"""
2009-02-13,"b""Female FBI officer 'tortured Mumbai terror attacks suspect with sex' """
2009-02-13,"b'""President McKinley decided we ought to keep the Philippines in order to Christianize the natives. When reminded that the Filipinos were already Roman Catholics, the President responded, \'Exactly.\'""'"
2009-02-13,b'The Japanese government  orders parents of a 13 year old Filipina to leave the country within two weeks'
2009-02-13,b'Rise in jobless poses threat to stability worldwide '
2009-02-13,b'We are the knights who say XE!'
2009-02-13,b'Europe sinks even deeper into recession than the United States'
2009-02-13,"b'Israel lurches into fascism. We we must escalate the international civil society campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions to force Israelis to choose a saner path '"
2009-02-13,b'Rose Trade and the Environment - Please be aware of what you encourage'
2009-02-13,b'Charlotte in same predicament as Wall Street'
2009-02-12,b'A teenage thief picked on the wrong victim when she tried to run off with a bag belonging to pensioner Jean Hirst - a former championship sprinter. '
2009-02-12,b'US intel confirms Iran not developing nukes'
2009-02-12,b'Revolt is in the air'
2009-02-12,b'U.S. judges accused of jailing kids for cash'
2009-02-12,"b""Zimbabwe's PM: world needs to get over Robert Mugabe"""
2009-02-12,"b'Ted Rall: ""In America, a French clich goes, people are afraid of the government. In France, the government is afraid of the people...It Couldn\'t Happen Here. Could It?""'"
2009-02-12,"b""UK Government's Former Chief Scientific Adviser Says Iraq War Was About Oil, Not Weapons Of Mass Destruction"""
2009-02-12,b'Plane Crashes in Buffalo'
2009-02-12,"b'Authorities charged a man Friday with lighting one of the wildfires that killed a total of more than 180 people in Australia, and whisked him into protective custody to guard him from public fury.'"
2009-02-12,"b'Pregnant Brazilian woman attacked and cut by Swiss Neo Nazis, miscarriages'"
2009-02-12,"b""18 YearOld Having Sex with 14 Year Old Girl gets 10 days in jail...No Sex Offender Regsitry.. Why, He's Connected!"""
2009-02-12,b'Jean Charles de Menezes was executed by UK police. No cops will face prosecution. Menezes-family enraged.'
2009-02-12,"b'Great, Even South America thinks our ""war on drugs"" is worthless'"
2009-02-12,b'Peanut Executives REFUSE to EAT THEIR OWN PRODUCT! Are you kidding me??'
2009-02-12,"b""The 'Asia Produces / US Consumes' Model has Crashed"""
2009-02-12,b'Widow of 9-11 victim dies in Buffalo Flight 3407'
2009-02-12,b'Officials from the Palestinian group Hamas have said that an 18-month ceasefire with Israel will be announced within three days.'
2009-02-12,"b'Yemen takes a tentative step towards social justice, outlaws child brides'"
2009-02-12,"b""Intel wants to save the economy, why isn't the media taking notice?"""
2009-02-12,"b""Latin American Leaders Say 'No' to U.S. Drug War"""
2009-02-12,"b'Beverly Eckert, widow of 9/11 victim, was aboard Flight 3407'"
2009-02-12,b'Beating ploughshares into swords: Hamas makes grenades out of medicine bottles from Israeli aid'
2009-02-12,b' Australian man charged with arson'
2009-02-12,b'Plane crashes in New York state '
2009-02-12,b'Russia to help U.S. in Afghanistan for a price'
2009-02-11,b'Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them '
2009-02-11,"b""Israeli high court rules that village in the supposedly Palestinian controlled West Bank be demolished, 'settlements' are to be developed in the area"""
2009-02-11,b'Israeli forces are carrying out a policy of shooting at the legs of peaceful demonstrators. Defense minister Yitzak Rabin ordered his soldiers to break the bones of young protesters.'
2009-02-11,b'Tens of thousands of U.S. guns missing in Afghanistan'
2009-02-11,"b'Luo Ping, a director-general at the China Banking Regulatory Commission, ""We hate you guys. Once you start issuing $1 trillion-$2 trillion. . .we know the dollar is going to depreciate, so we hate you guys but there is nothing much we can do.'"
2009-02-11,"b'Aussie films house burning down, says ""I lost everything, but I saved me dog and that\'s all I was worried about"" and sets off to help his neighbours'"
2009-02-11,b'Dutch MP and anti-Islam filmmaker banned from entering UK'
2009-02-11,"b'3 women kidnap, gangrape man for 4 days in Karachi, Pakistan'"
2009-02-11,b'Amazon selling rape game'
2009-02-11,"b""Belief in evolution: In 2008 14% of people agreed that 'man evolved over millions of years', up from 9% in 1982. Only Turkey is less accepting of the theory than USA. """
2009-02-11,b'$550 Billion Dollar Bank Run - Collapse Of The Entire World Economy In 24 hours'
2009-02-11,"b""Venezuela's Chavez reports attempted Coup against his palace - he says - by the U.S"""
2009-02-11,"b'Putin warns US about socialism: ""Excessive intervention in economic activity and blind faith in the state\'s omnipotence is another possible mistake.""'"
2009-02-11,"b'A Dutch MP who called the Koran a ""fascist book"" is to be sent back to the Netherlands after attempting to defy a ban on entering the UK. '"
2009-02-11,"b""Pakistan has admitted for the first time that the November attacks on India's financial hub Mumbai, in which 179 people died, were partly planned in Pakistan."""
2009-02-11,b'Key ingredients of Thai food declared Hazardous'
2009-02-11,b'Spirit of Sixties revived as student protests at links with Israel spread - The Scotsman'
2009-02-11,b'Pakistan acknowledged for the first time that the Mumbai terrorist attacks were launched from its shores'
2009-02-11,b'Hampshire College Becomes First College In The United States To Divest from the Israeli Occupation!'
2009-02-11,b'Israeli Election: U.S. Declares Support For Any Israeli Government Formed'
2009-02-11,b'Out of control Russian satellite collides with US communications satellite; debris pose possible threat to ISS and other satellites'
2009-02-11,"b""Sexual violence during the Armenian genocide: The Turks cut off their victims' genitals, made them march naked, or circumcised Armenian men they had forcibly converted to Islam"""
2009-02-11,b'Pakistan admits India attack link'
2009-02-11,b'Scientists studying the DNA of Neanderthals say they can find no evidence that this ancient species ever interbred with modern humans'
2009-02-11,b'US military faulted on weapons tracking. One third of all US arms to Afghanistan are at serious risk of theft or loss.'
2009-02-10,b'Saudi judge sentences pregnant gang-rape victim to 100 lashes for committing adultery'
2009-02-10,"b'Ukraine: Give the workers wages, and control of the factory, We no longer expect miracles, well take over the factory ourselves [with Pics]'"
2009-02-10,b'Drug Found to Block HIV In Monkeys: 83% effective in preventing HIV when taken 24 hours prior to infection.'
2009-02-10,b'Fascist candidate number 1 edges out Fascist candidate number 2 in Israeli elections'
2009-02-10,"b""Israel's Enemy Within (PBS Frontline Video)"""
2009-02-10,"b""Jennifer Figge did NOT swim across the Atlantic! Figge swam only a fraction of the 2,100-mile journey. The rest of the time, she rested on her crew's westward-sailing catamaran."""
2009-02-10,"b'US marine convicted of raping Filipina should be detained in a Philippine-run facility, not the US Embassy.'"
2009-02-10,"b""'Toxic' EU bank assets total 16.3 trillion"""
2009-02-10,b'WHAT?!?:  Jordanian gets only 6 months in prison for double murder honor killing'
2009-02-10,"b""Israeli Arab reporters banned from campaign meet of Lieberman's far-right party (Jewish and foreign journalists who had not been invited were allowed to enter and cover the event)"""
2009-02-10,b'UK Students are revolting: The spirit of 68 is reawakening'
2009-02-10,b'Azerbaijan air force head killed'
2009-02-10,b'Stunning & Depressing Israeli Election'
2009-02-10,b'Iranian mob attacks moderate ex-president Mohammed Khatami on anniversary'
2009-02-10,b'Clinton Suggests US Could Abandon Europe Missile Defense System'
2009-02-10,"b""Chilli, turmeric, ginger branded 'hazardous' ?"""
2009-02-10,b'India to Launch Cow Urine as Soft Drink '
2009-02-10,b'Japan Pledges To Halt Production Of Weirdo Porn'
2009-02-10,b'Australian films his home burning'
2009-02-10,"b'Pedophile upset that victim\'s family would ""likely not think kind thoughts"" about him anymore. Awwww, shucks.'"
2009-02-10,"b""Nearly half of those polled said that Jews were more loyal to Israel than to their home country. 23% said that their opinion of Jews was influenced by Israel's military and political activities."""
2009-02-10,b'Wilders denied entrance to UK'
2009-02-10,b'Dutch MP banned from entering UK'
2009-02-10,"b""'Bush is dead' broadcast in South Africa"""
2009-02-10,b'AP goofs and says woman swam across the Atlantic...she only swam about 250 miles'
2009-02-09,b'Fires in Australia from The Big Picture'
2009-02-09,b'Amnesty international: Hamas kills two dozen of its opponents'
2009-02-09,"b""Biggest darned fire I've seen in my life. Unfinished highrise hotel currently burning in Bejing. (video)"""
2009-02-09,"b'Remember that crazy looking building being build in Bejing? Well, it just burnt to the ground from fireworks.'"
2009-02-09,"b'BREAKING NEWS: Oil tanker with 30,000 tons of oil on board exploded and burning after collision with cargo ship'"
2009-02-09,b'Texas officials are working on a plan to respond to a potential collapse of the Mexican government and the specter of thousands fleeing north in fear for their lives after recent reports indicated the country could be on the verge of chaos.'
2009-02-09,b'The Financial Crisis Is Driving Hordes of Americans to Suicide'
2009-02-09,b'Governments under Pressure: Popular Rage Grows as Global Crisis Worsens'
2009-02-09,b'Israeli elections: Be afraid. Be very afraid'
2009-02-09,"b'Tale of Horror:  500 bottles Johnny W Blue, 8,000 lobsters, 4,000 portions caviar, 3,000 cakes ...   '"
2009-02-09,b'Pratchett Becomes A Real Knight'
2009-02-09,"b'BullHunter Donates $10,000 To Victorian Bushfire Appeal'"
2009-02-09,"b""Putin's worst nightmare"""
2009-02-09,b'Inside the Gaza tunnels'
2009-02-09,"b'Evan Harris: ""What\'s the future for scientific independence if she [Jacqui Smith] asks that scientists apologise for their views?"" '"
2009-02-09,b'Christian loon blames Australian bushfires on abortion'
2009-02-09,"b""Ahead of 2010, South Africa's water supply a ticking time bomb"""
2009-02-09,"b'British jobs for British workers was whipped up by the capitalist media. As Phil Willis said: I have more in common with workers in Latvia, Poland and Italy than any employer.'"
2009-02-09,"b'This is serious Reddit: ""They argue that women drivers will be free to leave home alone, will unduly expose their eyes while driving and will interact with male strangers, such as traffic police and mechanics.""'"
2009-02-09,b'New Hampshire Fires First Shot Of Civil War'
2009-02-09,b'Australian PM: Wildfire arson is mass murder'
2009-02-09,b'Hundreds of dolphins beached in Philippines!'
2009-02-09,"b'If I have to suffer, it\'s better to suffer in Guatemala with my family""  - illegal immigrants reconsider US because of economy'"
2009-02-09,b'Families want answers from man who says he dissolved 300 people'
2009-02-09,"b""South Africa TV station announces that George W. Bush is dead (he's not)"""
2009-02-08,b'Jews tell Vatican: Holocaust denial is a crime'
2009-02-08,"b""Mexico 'to fingerprint all mobile phone users'"""
2009-02-08,"b'Who knew that ""financial stimulus package"" actually means ""sodomise the poor, and pay the rich more money""'"
2009-02-08,b'Hamas returns stolen aid.'
2009-02-08,"b'Eluana Englaro, the Italian woman at the centre of a right-to-die debate, has died.'"
2009-02-08,"b'Support the Iranian people, oppose Tehrans clerical fascism'"
2009-02-08,b'Extreme right wing poised to win Israeli elections'
2009-02-08,"b'National Lawyers Guild says one Israel soldier shot three sisters, executing the 2- and 7-year-old, and paralyzing the 4-year-old'"
2009-02-08,b'David Oddsson refuses to quit as Icelandic bank chief'
2009-02-08,b'UK Government Plans to Keep 10-Year Travel Database of Citizens'
2009-02-08,"b'Mexican criminals use police radio frequencies to taunt the police and to play ""narcocorrido"" music.'"
2009-02-08,b'Suicide challenged. A British multiple sclerosis sufferer is attempting to clarify the law on assisted suicide'
2009-02-08,"b'In the swimming pool of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, with George Tenet, the former director of central intelligence'"
2009-02-08,"b""Shepard Fairey, the street artist who designed the red, white and blue 'Hope' poster of Barack Obama, has been arrested on suspicion of defacing property with graffiti. """
2009-02-08,b'Families destroyed by Gaza conflict'
2009-02-08,b'Official: Israel-Turkey trade severely damaged'
2009-02-08,b'Israeli warplanes strike Gaza'
2009-02-08,b'Woman in Italy euthanasia debate dies '
2009-02-08,"b'Wow, Bishop Who Denied Holocaust Ousted'"
2009-02-08,b'Female suicide bomber kills 24 in Sri Lanka'
2009-02-08,"b'Class struggle at the Morning Star (a socialist UK newspaper) - ""You are putting your interests ahead of those of your class as a whole""'"
2009-02-08,"b'Israel defeats the terrorists, one tree at a time (VIDEO)'"
2009-02-08,b'British diplomat arrested for yelling at a television'
2009-02-08,b'Australian firestorms prompt call to return to Aboriginal bush control'
2009-02-08,"b""'The Jewish majority should be afraid'"""
2009-02-07,b'CIA warns Barack Obama that British terrorists are the biggest threat to the US'
2009-02-07,"b'Bankers at RBS, a bank saved from bankruptcy by 20bn of tax money, looking at 1bn of bonuses'"
2009-02-07,b'Halliburton Unit to Plead Guilty to Massive Cheney-Era Bribery Scheme'
2009-02-07,"b""It is illegal for a company in the US to boycott Israel and the punishment for this 'crime' is a $50,000 fine or five times the value of the exports involved, whichever is greater"""
2009-02-07,"b""Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami has ended months of speculation by announcing that he will run in June's presidential election. """
2009-02-07,b'Whalers pelt activists with bleeding chunks of blubber'
2009-02-07,b'Blood flows in Madagascar streets (WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS)'
2009-02-07,b'At least 84 dead in Victorian bushfires'
2009-02-07,"b"" 'Unknown sources' helped post ex-BART cop's $3 million bail"""
2009-02-07,b'Israeli Arabs fear a Gaza backlash as far right prepares for power role'
2009-02-07,b'35+ die in bushfire carnage in Australia as country-towns are wiped off the map'
2009-02-07,"b""Australia's worst bushfire disaster: Death toll still climbing."""
2009-02-07,"b""NATO to participate in escalation in Afghanistan under the pretense of fighting the 'war on drugs' and the assumption that the Taliban doesn't have popular support"""
2009-02-07,b'Blaze in Australia most deadly since 1983'
2009-02-07,b'Notice a trend here?'
2009-02-07,b'Hamas negotiators caught leaving Egypt with million stuffed into suitcases'
2009-02-07,b'No more taking pictures of people in public in Europe anymore'
2009-02-07,b'Toxic French aircraft carrier to be dismantled in UK'
2009-02-07,b'India wants Pakistan declared a terrorist state'
2009-02-07,"b""Area size of Rhode Island burnt in Australia's largest bush fires ever."""
2009-02-07,"b""Iran's Khatami to run for office """
2009-02-07,b'Bathing 13 Centuries Ago'
2009-02-07,b'NZ spy agency spied on MP'
2009-02-07,b'US diplomat expelled from Ecuador'
2009-02-07,b'Anti-semitism (not anti-Israelism) rises in the UK'
2009-02-06,b'Why Canada may be the financial capital of the world here shortly. '
2009-02-06,"b'Yahya says he used to go to university and wanted to be a teacher one day. ""Now I will have a life of hospitals. I know I will just need medical care forever.""As we left the room, we found Yahya\'s elder brother outside, wiping away tears.  '"
2009-02-06,b'Israel trying to make Obama its bitch. Will he stand up to them?'
2009-02-06,b'Police Seize UK Indymedia Server'
2009-02-06,"b""Ecuador's President Rafael Correa on Saturday ordered the expulsion of a US official from the country, accusing him of treating the country like a colony."""
2009-02-06,"b'The American military helped plan and pay for a recent attack on a notorious Ugandan rebel group, but the offensive went awry, scattering fighters who carried out a wave of massacres as they fled, killing as many as 900 civilians.'"
2009-02-06,b'Johann Hari: The nightmare of Netanyahu returns'
2009-02-06,"b'""I want a man like Putin""'"
2009-02-06,"b""Man avoids execution because court can't tell which twin is which"""
2009-02-06,"b""The medieval price an author pays for insulting Thailand's monarchy"""
2009-02-06,b'Putin denies dancing to Abba hits'
2009-02-06,"b""Taliban fighters beheaded a Polish hostage in Pakistan Saturday, according to a spokesman for the militants who said the body wouldn't be handed over until some captured Taliban were released."""
2009-02-06,"b'Arrests over Israel boycott in Tesco\'s (video) ""The two filled their trollies with dates, fresh herbs, fruit and salads. The trollies, full of produce were up-turned at the supermarket entrance and covered in fake blood to represent the lives lost in Gaza.""'"
2009-02-06,"b'BBC World Poll results: ""As was the case last year, Iran, Israel and Pakistan are the three countries rated most negatively."" [pdf]'"
2009-02-06,b'US Helped Plan And Finance Failed Rout Of Ugandan Rebels That Led To Massacre of 900+ Civilians'
2009-02-06,"b""Police 'kill many' in Madagascar"""
2009-02-06,"b'As Sri Lanka Fighting Seems Near an End, Fears Rise Over What Comes Next'"
2009-02-06,b'Is Japan actually in worse financial shape than everyone except Iceland and Eastern European countries?'
2009-02-06,"b'Never forget: Obama is doubling troop levels in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban, a regime the United States helped create and take over Afghanistan in the first place.'"
2009-02-06,"b'Startled Iraqis welcome,sort of, their first tourist'"
2009-02-06,b'Italian tourist visits Falluja'
2009-02-06,b'Flashmob of ATM crooks scores $9 million in 49 cities '
2009-02-06,b'Media: 14 killed in Australian wildfires '
2009-02-06,b'Hidden Truth for Every One!!Burning of the Unarmed Civilians in Gaza'
2009-02-06,b'Kissinger held secret talks in Russia'
2009-02-05,b'UK House of Lords:  British Surveillance Greatest Threat to Democracy since Hitler'
2009-02-05,"b""Irish long-distance runner makes history as the world's first athlete to run seven consecutive marathons on seven continents in less than seven days."""
2009-02-05,b'School bully picks on kid one too many times. Receives multiple stab wounds for his trouble.'
2009-02-05,"b'""UK\'s huge rise in surveillance and data collection by the state and other organisations risks undermining the long-standing traditions of privacy and individual freedom which are vital for democracy,"" '"
2009-02-05,"b'Electronic surveillance and collection of personal data are ""pervasive"" in British society and threaten to undermine democracy, peers have warned.'"
2009-02-05,b'Letters Prove US Warning to Cut Off Intel to England If the UK Discloses Torture Info'
2009-02-05,"b'Vladimir Putin wants world banks to wipe out $500b in Russian company debt. Garry Kasparav says they shouldn\'t: ""By rejecting Putin\'s agenda, the world can send a clear signal to Russia\'s elites not to bet on the old regime. That would improve the chances for a peaceful transition."" '"
2009-02-05,b'Detailed accounts of Israelis using Gazan civilians as human shields '
2009-02-05,"b'In Paris, an anti-advertising insurgency grows'"
2009-02-05,"b'Neoconservatism, in large part, is simply about enabling the most irredentist elements in Israel and sustaining a permanent war against anyone or any country who disagrees with the Israeli right'"
2009-02-05,b'Texas U.S. Congressman says the Republican party will have to be come an insurgency and added that the Taliban can serve as a model'
2009-02-05,"b""George Mitchell and the end of the two-state solution: Israel's settlement growth means we have to find a different plan"""
2009-02-05,b'Jewish settlers terrorising arabs at their door'
2009-02-05,b'High Tech Misery in China: The Dehumanization of Young Workers Producing Our Computer Keyboards'
2009-02-05,b'Professor at French Defense Intelligence College fired for 9/11 opinions'
2009-02-05,b'Sweden lifts 30-yr ban on nuclear power  '
2009-02-05,"b""UN halts Gaza aid over 'thefts'"""
2009-02-05,"b'No kissing please, we are Indians'"
2009-02-05,"b'Kyrgyzstan says its decision to close a US base that serves as a vital supply route for US and Nato operations in Afghanistan is ""final"". '"
2009-02-05,"b'As US combat deaths fall, record numbers of soldiers take their own lives'"
2009-02-05,b'Afghanistan threatening to align with Russia?'
2009-02-05,"b""Days Before Israel's Election: Uber Nationalistic, Far Right Party Joining Frontrunners."""
2009-02-05,b'Islamic Countries use UN Human Rights Council to Attack Canada.....'
2009-02-05,b'Influx of Big Content lawyers at DoJ: cause for concern?'
2009-02-05,b'Recordings show pilot stayed cool before Hudson landing'
2009-02-04,b'India shocked as moral police beat girls out of pub'
2009-02-04,b'A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.'
2009-02-04,b'Israel seizes Gaza-bound aid ship'
2009-02-04,b'AP: The US Sold The White Phosphorous Israel Used In Gaza'
2009-02-04,b'Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians ( for inconvenient factual info )'
2009-02-04,"b""US has far lower acceptance of Evolution than other 'developed' nations"""
2009-02-04,"b' Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd--- ""There is no reason only poor people should be infected.""'"
2009-02-04,"b'Hamas steals UN aid, distributes it only to people who support them'"
2009-02-04,"b'Claiming Sovereignty: AZ, HI, MI, MO, MT, NH, OK, & WA'"
2009-02-04,b'Israel  Clamps Down On Only News Network That Was Reporting From Gaza During Operation Cast Lead'
2009-02-04,"b'I had already been chilled by the docility of the peopleunlike other countries in the Third World, no one approached me as I walked the streets. (The only place where I had felt a similar pattern of fear was North Korea)'"
2009-02-04,b'The Hasbara Handbook: A manual for pro-Israeli propaganda. '
2009-02-04,"b'Despite 1,300 dead, majority of Palestinians still back Hamas rocket attacks'"
2009-02-04,b'Israel censors names of soldiers who participated in the Gaza war to protect them against war crime lawsuits.'
2009-02-04,"b""Israeli army says shelling of house where girls died was 'reasonable'"""
2009-02-04,"b'Nobody PANICcccccc, but the USAF just failed a Nuclear Inspection tests.'"
2009-02-04,b'India china submarine stand off in somalia'
2009-02-04,b'International Criminal Court to Consider Gaza Investigation'
2009-02-04,"b""Well here's 1 reason I would not want to be the top anti-drug official in Mexico...wow"""
2009-02-04,b'Ireland: Soldiers do not want to be used to break strikes'
2009-02-04,"b'Since 2004, U.S. taxpayers have paid to supply over 500 million gallons of refined oil products -- worth about $1.1 billion - to the Israeli militaryS'"
2009-02-04,b'Take Action: DIRECTV Censors Our Gaza Strip TV Ad!'
2009-02-04,b'When Will The Vatican Recant Their Lies And Misdeeds'
2009-02-04,b'Israel hands over $43 million to help rebuild Gaza'
2009-02-04,b'Europe: Police Cooperation With Israel Challenged'
2009-02-03,"b""Israel admits to killing peace activist Doctor's daughters with tank fire but claims their actions were 'reasonable' """
2009-02-03,"b""6-foot-4, schooled in the martial arts, able to speak 6 Arabic dialects, and a convert to Islam, Andrew Warren seemed the perfect spy for the war on terror. Then they discovered he's a serial rapist."""
2009-02-03,b'Controversial Bestseller Shakes the Foundation of the Israeli State'
2009-02-03,b'UN says Hamas seized Gaza food aid and blankets'
2009-02-03,b'Israel to build a new settlement on West bank'
2009-02-03,"b'""Israeli Jews\' consciousness is characterized by a sense of victimization, a siege mentality, blind patriotism, belligerence, self-righteousness, dehumanization of the Palestinians and insensitivity to their suffering.""'"
2009-02-03,"b""The state of Israel is not Jews; Jews are not the state of Israel.  Don't attack synagogues for what Israel does; don't fail to critisize Israel out of guild for Holocaust."""
2009-02-03,b'BREAKING: Shoe-attack on Israeli ambassador during lecture at Stockholm University'
2009-02-03,b'Why is the BBC obsessed with making working-class people seem racist?'
2009-02-03,"b'Tehran enters the space age, '"
2009-02-03,"b""EU envoy: Israel must ease aid restrictions on 'hell-like' Gaza - Haaretz"""
2009-02-03,b'UN: Hamas police seized food aid and blankets from needy Gazans'
2009-02-03,"b'Today, Kyrgyzstan began moves to close a U.S. military air base which is vital for supplying U.S.-led troops fighting in Afghanistan.'"
2009-02-03,b'Sri Lankan hospital shelled for ninth time'
2009-02-03,"b""Megaphone: Israel's other sicko war weapon"""
2009-02-03,b'Judge allows medicinal pot plots'
2009-02-03,b'Benjamin Netanyahu: no territory concession to Palestinians'
2009-02-03,"b'Extremist rabbis and their followers, bent on waging holy war against the Palestinians, are taking over the Israeli army by stealth'"
2009-02-03,b'Passengers Revolt Against Drunk Aeroflot Pilot on Flight to NYC  Panic Ensues '
2009-02-03,"b'Art in Africa that only ""Google Earth"" can see'"
2009-02-03,b'Could the United States Be Kicked Out of Kyrgyz Air Base?'
2009-02-03,"b""In Afghanistan, as in Vietnam, we may win every battle but still not win the war. The nation is a deeply-divided, semi-failed state, with an incompetent, corrupt gov't held to be illegitimate by a large portion of its population. """
2009-02-03,"b'Documentary on the Most Dangerous Area in Afghanistan - ""The War is Not Over""'"
2009-02-03,b'Military court: Egyptian Islamist politician faces trial for crossing Gaza tunnel'
2009-02-03,b'IDF strikes Hamas targets after Grad hits Ashkelon '
2009-02-02,"b'A protester has thrown a shoe at Wen Jiabao during a speech at Cambridge University and called the Chinese prime minister a ""dictator"".'"
2009-02-02,"b'My case proves that holding an American citizenship does not mean that I am treated as one. I am only a citizen when my rights are protected and this cannot happen in an environment of fear and tyranny under the name of national security,'"
2009-02-02,b'B.C. Supreme Court rules in favour of medical marijuana'
2009-02-02,b'Jailed  the judge who refused to say sorry'
2009-02-02,b'Iran has successfully sent its first domestically made satellite into orbit [NPR]'
2009-02-02,b'Icelands PM to Sack Central Bank Governors'
2009-02-02,b'Woman saves life of boss ... then fired'
2009-02-02,b'German politicians sharply criticize Pope Benedict XVI'
2009-02-02,b'Iran makes first satellite launch'
2009-02-02,"b""'Father of Playmobil' Hans Beck dies aged 79"""
2009-02-02,b'Long-Range Rocket From Gaza Hits Israel'
2009-02-02,b'Global recession is hitting Chinas workers hard'
2009-02-02,"b""Israeli government to impose sanctions on Al Jazeera's Israel operations"""
2009-02-02,"b'Blair flip-flops, risking the anger of Israel by suggesting its time to talk to the Palestinian militant group Hamas""'"
2009-02-02,"b""Frustrated with some of his Western allies, in particular the United States, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has begun to reach out to Afghanistan's giant northern neighbour Russia"""
2009-02-02,"b'Chavez: The United States needs petroleum like air, like oxygen to live, to survive'"
2009-02-02,b'Israel calls for Palestinian tunnel linking Gaza with West Bank'
2009-02-02,b'Netanyahu promises to topple Hamas regime in Gaza if elected'
2009-02-02,b'Did shock therapy in Russia cause millions of early deaths?'
2009-02-02,"b'The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor in The Hague has launched a ""preliminary analysis"" to establish whether Israel committed war crimes in its offensive in the Gaza Strip'"
2009-02-02,b'A court in India has dismissed criminal proceedings against a married couple charged with obscenity for allegedly kissing in public in the capital.'
2009-02-02,"b'Big Blue offers to help laid-off U.S. employees relocate to India, China or Brazil, according to an internal document.'"
2009-02-02,b'From Gaza to Jerusalem: the impact of war on the Israeli election.'
2009-02-02,b'NKorea preparing long-range missile test'
2009-02-02,"b'US spending in Iraq, Afghanistan full of waste and fraud'"
2009-02-01,"b""New UK law comes into effect on 16th Feb: Arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of police officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism' """
2009-02-01,"b'Canadian woman held against her will in Saudi Arabia by her husband -- ""under Saudi law, she is his property""'"
2009-02-01,b'The Aral Sea - is it too late to change a man-made disaster?'
2009-02-01,"b'Japanese whaling fleet now armed with anti-boarding nets, acoustic weapons, and steel spikes.'"
2009-02-01,"b'The ""me first"" society and aggressive pursuit of personal success by adults is now the ""greatest threat"" to the wellbeing and happiness of children'"
2009-02-01,b'Volcano erupts in Japan! Tokyo covered in ash!'
2009-02-01,"b'Chinese earthquake may have been man-made, say scientists '"
2009-02-01,b'Sweden set to legalise same-sex marriage'
2009-02-01,"b'Everyone was outraged when the IDF bombed a Gazan hospital, how come no-one seems to care when the Sri Lankan govt does the same?'"
2009-02-01,"b'Muammar al-Qaddafi, who became leader of Libya in a military coup nearly 40 years ago, has been elected chairman of the African Union and promises to pursue the formation of a United States of Africa.'"
2009-02-01,"b""Iraq's Shocking Human Toll: About 1 Million Killed, 4.5 Million Displaced, 1-2 Million Widows, 5 Million Orphans"""
2009-02-01,b'Shoe throwing now firmly established as a new form of political expression'
2009-02-01,"b'""The Jewish internet defence forces.""  Divisions split into the Cheetos Cavalry, and 101 Keyboard Commandos, with a few special squads of Internet Tough Guys. '"
2009-02-01,"b""Israeli Officers Could Be Prosecuted For Gaza 'War Crimes'"""
2009-02-01,"b""Iranian woman activist jailed for taking part in a protest demanding more women's rights"""
2009-02-01,"b'Meanwhile in India, sperm thefts rise 100%.'"
2009-02-01,b'BT wants to monitor all your online activities'
2009-02-01,b'Hamas Accepts One-year Truce With Israel'
2009-02-01,b'Director of Wiesenthal Center Calls for the Starving of Palestinians Children'
2009-02-01,b'Petraeus and Gates Seek to Reverse Obama Withdrawal Decision'
2009-02-01,"b""Pope promotes to Bishop man who said Hurricane Katrina was God's revenge on New Orleans for being too gay-friendly"""
2009-02-01,b'Student Withdraws From School Over CCTV Cameras In Toilets'
2009-02-01,b'Redlight Camera Operator Arrested For Scam Involving Shortening Yellow Light Timing'
2009-02-01,"b""U.S. partner, not Hamas, firing rockets into Israel. While terrorists promise cease-fire, American 'allies' provoke violence"""
2009-02-01,b'International court prosecutor looks to put Israeli officers on trial for Gaza war crimes'
2009-01-31,b'Where did all the money go? The global financial pyramid scheme explained.'
2009-01-31,b'Israeli officially accidentally says in front of reporter that invasion of Gaza was a prelude to attacking Iran'
2009-01-31,"b'Total lunacy - when a petrol tanker overturned in Kenya people rushed to scoop up the petrol, even drilling holes in the tanker to syphon more out - then someone lit a cigarette!'"
2009-01-31,"b'When he found himself in danger of becoming a millionaire, he set up a foundation and gave it half his personal fortune.'"
2009-01-31,"b'The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.'"
2009-01-31,"b'Not only in America: Half of Britons reject evolution, survey finds'"
2009-01-31,"b""A young idealist's journey to save the world ends tragically in New Orleans."""
2009-01-31,b'Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland '
2009-01-31,b'Nokia threatens to leave Finland if constitutional rights not revoked'
2009-01-31,"b""'Mommy, don't': girl's last words as mother strangles her to death to keep boyfriend."""
2009-01-31,"b' Israeli Ambassador slips up about Iran, Saying there will be war within next month. (vid)'"
2009-01-31,"b'Number of homicides per 100,000 males in 2005 in the UK: 0.6. The US? 9.7! I knew it would be higher, but wtf?!'"
2009-01-31,"b'Hamas Leader\'s Message to Olmert on the EVE of the 22 day offensive: We\'ll ""Recognise Israel."" '"
2009-01-31,b'Israel to pay out 2 million dollars to drop prosecution of murderous soldiers'
2009-01-31,"b""In Gaza officials warn of 'destruction of all means of life' after the three-week conflict leaves agriculture in the region in ruins"""
2009-01-31,b'Japanese dare to ask: Do we really need an emperor?'
2009-01-31,"b'Jews are forbidden to use, or are restricted in their use of, more than 300 kilometers of roads in Germany. Germans are free to use these roads with no restriction.'"
2009-01-31,b'Vladimir Putin faces signs of mutiny in own government as protests break out in east'
2009-01-31,"b'Carter says Hamas demand for ceasefire was to open borders for food, water, medicine to enter Gaza.  Israel reneged on deal and then bombs them on Election Day.'"
2009-01-31,b'Israel hopes to colonize parts of Iraq as Greater Israel'
2009-01-31,"b'Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has vowed a ""disproportionate"" response to rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza'"
2009-01-31,"b'Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel\'s leading candidate for prime minister, said Saturday that Iran ""will not be armed with a nuclear weapon.""'"
2009-01-31,b'Sudan expels US aid group in Darfur region after officials found thousands of Arabic-language bibles in its office'
2009-01-31,"b""Despite Odds, Women's Movement Persists In Iran"""
2009-01-31,"b'The word went out on the web: every skilled man should strike - ""Fifteen minutes later, at 6.30am, 400 men began to gather outside the Wilton chemical complex on Teesside behind a banner demanding British jobs 4 British workers""'"
2009-01-30,b'...and I am to Blame?'
2009-01-30,b'Italy bans kebabs and foreign food from cities'
2009-01-30,b'Israel has refused to allow a French-made water purification system into Gaza amid a drinking water crisis in the Palestinian strip'
2009-01-30,"b'Palestinians are forbidden from crossing the road or traveling on the road by foot, animal or automobile'"
2009-01-30,b'Israeli ambassador to Australia slips up and discloses possible action against Iran in a month'
2009-01-30,b'Leaked report on Jewish settlements in the West Bank shows that the Israeli government was complicit in illegal construction on land owned by Palestinians'
2009-01-30,b'France says Israel blocks water equipment for Gaza'
2009-01-30,b'Jews are not Zionists!'
2009-01-30,b'Were Europeans once cannibals?  - You bet!'
2009-01-30,b'Israel denies Gaza access to clean water'
2009-01-30,"b""Britain and Germany want International Financial Watchdog so America can't fuck up the world ... again."""
2009-01-30,"b""Spain opens investigation of Israel under it's universal jurisdiction law for crimes against humanity in case of 2002 Israeli bombing in Gaza which killed 14 innocent civilians"""
2009-01-30,"b'All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says.'"
2009-01-30,b'Can Countries Really Go Bankrupt?'
2009-01-30,"b""DEA quits Bolivia on Morales' order"""
2009-01-30,"b""Thousands protest across Russia demanding Putin's resignation"""
2009-01-30,"b""Mafia business 'equal' to 9% of Italian GDP"""
2009-01-30,"b'""The military should close its torture school. I know because I graduated from it.""'"
2009-01-30,"b'We are on the brink of war with the South, says North Korea'"
2009-01-30,b'Governments across Europe tremble as angry people take to the streets'
2009-01-30,"b""Fake pharmacies plague Iraq: There is no oversight to ensure drugs aren't counterfeit or contaminated."""
2009-01-30,"b'Israeli Ambassador to Australia Says Will ""Deal With"" Iran\'s Nuclear Program Within a Month [vid]'"
2009-01-30,b'Turkish PM hailed as a hero'
2009-01-30,b'Testimony of a man who trained child soldiers in DR Congo'
2009-01-30,b'Database implicates Israeli government in settlement land grab'
2009-01-29,b'This is a picture of Gaza students back to school after the bombings. The cards mention the names [and ages] of the students who are not there anymore.'
2009-01-29,"b'Russia to ""present evidence to the United Nations that the North Pole belongs to the Russians."" - ""If these rights are not recognized, Russia will withdraw from the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.""'"
2009-01-29,b'Shoe monument that Iraqi orphans helped to build removed 1 day after it was erected.'
2009-01-29,"b""Turkey's PM arrived home to a tumultuous reception of cheering crowds early today after storming out of a debate in Davos over Israel's recent offensive in Gaza"""
2009-01-29,b'Horrific New Evidence of China Organ Harvesting Revealed'
2009-01-29,b'Spain opens investigation into whether crimes against humanity were committed in Gaza'
2009-01-29,b'The Israeli defence ministry has concealed information about the extent of illegal settlement-building in the West Bank'
2009-01-29,"b""Hero's welcome for Turkish leader after Davos walkout"""
2009-01-29,"b'Blackwater banned from Iraq - Founded in 1996 by Erik Prince, who had ties within the Republican Party, Blackwater Worldwide soon became the largest private army in the world with 21,000 men and a budget over $1 billion under the Bush administration.'"
2009-01-29,"b'300,000 protest in Paris [with pics]'"
2009-01-29,b'Papua New Guinea - Where Violence Against Women is Rampant'
2009-01-29,b'Naked ramblers face Swiss fines'
2009-01-29,b'Iceland to be fast-tracked into the EU to avert financial collapse'
2009-01-29,b'Swiss police find massive marijuana farm on Google Earth'
2009-01-29,"b'You are Killing People, Erdogan tells Peres, Walks Off Stage'"
2009-01-29,"b'In Gaza: They are definitely testing weapons on us"" ""We found computer chips, magnetic pieces and transistors in wounds. Sometimes there are only minute pin-point punctures to the abdomen and chest.""'"
2009-01-29,"b'""Please Stop, we really need to get people to dinner""   the whole 1h Erdogan-Peres discussion that led the first to abandon Davos -permanently '"
2009-01-29,b'44 Killed in a day in Srilankan army artillery'
2009-01-29,b'Giant shoe sculpture unveiled in Iraq'
2009-01-29,b'SOLE-FUL TRIBUTE TO BUSH SHOE-THROWER'
2009-01-29,b'Official: U.S. will not renew Iraq contract with Blackwater'
2009-01-29,b'Norway to raise sunk German submarine carrying plans for new jet fighter and industrial grade mercury. '
2009-01-29,b'First evidence of damage to Gazas cultural sites emerges.'
2009-01-29,b'This video will be shown some day at the Holocaust Memorial. It is the voice of an Israeli woman pleading with Obama to force Israel to end the occupation. '
2009-01-29,"b""Rove announces he has no intention of obeying Conyers' subpoena """
2009-01-28,b'Dubai in Deep Doo-Doo'
2009-01-28,"b'""You are killing people."" Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has stormed off the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos after an argument with Israel\'s president. '"
2009-01-28,b'World gets its first gay head of state'
2009-01-28,b'Zimbabwe abandons its currency'
2009-01-28,"b'""The operating permission for the firm Blackwater will not be renewed. Its chance is zero,"" said Alaa al-Taie, head of the press department at Iraq\'s Interior Ministry.'"
2009-01-28,b'Soleful tribute: Bush shoe-throwing now a work of art'
2009-01-28,b'The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public'
2009-01-28,b'NATO top commander issues instruction to kill drug suspects without evidence of link to insurgency. Generals refuse.'
2009-01-28,b'CBS runs an (shock!) impartial documentary on Israel'
2009-01-28,b'Israeli Government-Organized Bloggers Fight Propaganda War'
2009-01-28,"b'U.S. professors call for academic, cultural boycott of Israel for first time '"
2009-01-28,b' Turkish PM storms off in Gaza row '
2009-01-28,"b'Israel feels left out by financial crisis, tries to warn us about Iran. How pathetic.'"
2009-01-28,b'Ahmadinejad: Obama Must Allow Investigation of 9/11....'
2009-01-28,b'Switzerland is prepared to consider accepting prisoners released from Guantnamo'
2009-01-28,b'Israel Still Blocking Humanitarian Aid into Gaza: The Genocide Continues'
2009-01-28,"b'Russia And China Slam U.S. Economic System, Blaming It For Financial Crisis'"
2009-01-28,"b"" Iceland appoints world's first openly lesbian PM"""
2009-01-28,b'Criminalising dissent: France loses distinction between terrorism and sabotage.'
2009-01-28,"b'Erdogan, ""The last ethical politicain"", stormed out of a heated debate in Davos over Gaza;  '"
2009-01-28,"b'Britain faces worst year since 1930s, warns IMF'"
2009-01-28,b'Britain has unveiled plans to provide universal broadband access.'
2009-01-28,b'Peace Recedes as Israeli Settlements Expand'
2009-01-28,b'Latest entry from our redditor in Somalia'
2009-01-28,b'Israel kidnaps more civilians in West Bank  '
2009-01-27,"b'Dear Reddit, please give this some attention: Conflict and humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo have taken the lives of 5.4 million people since 1998 and continue to leave as many as 45,000 dead every month'"
2009-01-27,"b""Russia scraps plan to deploy nuclear-capable missiles in Kaliningrad. Move comes after Barack Obama administration says it will review Pentagon's proposed defence shield in central Europe """
2009-01-27,b'5 countries on the verge of following Iceland to economic ruin'
2009-01-27,"b""Brainwashed: Don't Trust U.S. Mainstream News"""
2009-01-27,b'Israeli settlements expanded faster in 2008'
2009-01-27,"b'""Israeli troops killed Gaza children carrying white flag, witnesses say"" '"
2009-01-27,b'A federal judge says being a cook for the Taliban is reason enough for the U.S. military to hold a Yemen man as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay.'
2009-01-27,b'Peanut Processor Knowingly Sold Tainted Products: It Found Salmonella 12 Times in the last 2 years alone.'
2009-01-27,b'Ministers Have Been Ordered To Release Minutes Of The Cabinet Meetings Which Discussed The 2003 Invasion Of Iraq'
2009-01-27,"b""Obama's $30 Billion Pledge to Israel at AIPAC"""
2009-01-27,b'Footage of Gaza villages literally wiped off the map.'
2009-01-27,"b'Obama, come to Israel. Be a true friend. Save us from ourselves! ... Touching message from an Israeli woman to Obama '"
2009-01-27,"b""Israeli soldiers leave racist graffiti on Gaza homes: 'Death to Arabs,' 'One down, 999,999 to go,' 'Make war not peace,' 'Die you all.'"""
2009-01-27,"b'Iranian leader Ahmadinejad demands US apology for past US ""crimes""'"
2009-01-27,b'CIA Station Chief In Algeria Accused Of Raping At Least 2 Muslim Women'
2009-01-27,"b""UN official urges an investigation into Israel's apparent contraventions of international law, including direct attacks on U.N. personnel and facilities"""
2009-01-27,"b'3,000 Dead As Cholera Crisis In Zimbabwe Worsens'"
2009-01-27,"b'At border crossing, drivers and truckloads of aid for Gaza go nowhere.  '"
2009-01-27,b'UK Government must release cabinet minutes on lead-up to Iraq war'
2009-01-27,"b""'We are farmers. We are not resistance' And 29 were killed. """
2009-01-27,"b'""We never used to accept that our foreign policy ever had any effect on terrorism,"" he said. ""Well, that was clearly bollocks.""'"
2009-01-27,b' LA Jews Shut Down Israeli Consulate to Protest Siege on Gaza: jan 14 2009 '
2009-01-27,b'Stephen Hawking talks about Gaza solution '
2009-01-27,"b""ICRC: 'Crisis unfolding' in Sri Lanka"""
2009-01-27,b'Israeli strikes leave Blair project with 140m repairs'
2009-01-26,b'David Attenborough reveals creationist hate mail for not crediting God'
2009-01-26,b'Israel admits to using White Phosphorus in Gaza'
2009-01-26,"b""Bolivians yesterday approved a new constitution granting more power to the country's indigenous majority and rolling back half a millennium of colonialism, discrimination and humiliation."""
2009-01-26,"b"" Israeli army rabbi 'gave out hate leaflet to troops entering Gaza'"""
2009-01-26,b'Leningrad Siege: Now and Then [PIC]'
2009-01-26,"b'Jacques Monin: The British are obsessed with money, drowning in debt and morally bankrupt'"
2009-01-26,"b'U.N.: At least 230,000 civilians are trapped ""directly in the path of the fighting"" in Sri Lanka\'s campaign against the Tamil Tigers.'"
2009-01-26,"b""Hundreds of ciitzens killed in warzone, but unable to leave as army attacks.  This isn't Gaza so who cares?"""
2009-01-26,b'Rumor: The word on the street here in Iceland is that Jhanna Sigurardttir will be appointed the next prime minister. If so she will become the first openly homosexual head of government. '
2009-01-26,"b""60 Minutes: Is Israel's free ride almost over? | The Smirking Chimp"""
2009-01-26,b'Gaza Horror: Updated Large Photo Gallery of Gaza Massacre by Israel '
2009-01-26,b'The UN Crime and Drug Watchdog Has Indications That Money Made in Illicit Drug Trade Has Been Used to Keep Banks Afloat in the Global Financial Crisis'
2009-01-26,"b'Proposed U.K. Legislation ""wipe out the personal privacy of everyone in Britain at a single stroke""'"
2009-01-26,"b'War on Gaza is pushing the Mid East, from the Israelis to the Saudis, to extremes. Saudis and Iranians are considering allying in response to the strikes'"
2009-01-26,"b""The Torture Ban that Doesn't Ban Torture"""
2009-01-26,b'London Police Running from Muslim Protesters'
2009-01-26,"b'Border Bombing, Air Strikes Mar Gaza Truce'"
2009-01-26,"b""'Two killed' in Gaza border clash"""
2009-01-26,"b""i'm not sure if i'm more surprised that 1b people are using the internet or that the other 5b aren't"""
2009-01-26,"b'Left to die: ""Thai army was operating a dump-at-sea policy"" - one Thai military source, after extensive questioning, on treatment of refugees.'"
2009-01-26,"b'Dont get taken alive, Israeli soldiers told'"
2009-01-26,b'Auschwitz decays -- Former death camp crumbling away for lack of funding'
2009-01-26,b'Four generations of an Icelandic family had lost everything and wanted help to build a gallows in front of the parliament building so a member of the family could hang himself in public'
2009-01-26,b'Gaza fund donations double after TV channels broadcast appeal'
2009-01-26,"b""Susan Solomon, one of the world's top climate scientists, finds in her new study that global warming is now irreversible"""
2009-01-25,"b'Amazing \'60 Minutes\' piece gives Israel 3 options: ethnic cleansing, apartheid, or democracy. ""The two state solution is dead"".'"
2009-01-25,b'Two more critics of Vladimir Putin take bullets in the head.'
2009-01-25,b'Israeli troops shot and killed zoo animals'
2009-01-25,"b""It's time we face the bitter truth: Israel is not a free country but a militant state overrun by religious extremists not too dissimilar to other countries in the Middle East"""
2009-01-25,"b""British actress Samanta Morton: I won't work for BBC again after their refusal to broadcast Gaza appeal"""
2009-01-25,b'Ongoing protests continue as BBC still refusing to air a charity appeal for aid to Gaza.'
2009-01-25,"b'Single woman in Morocco, a ""moderate"" Muslim country'"
2009-01-25,b'Netanyahu would let West Bank settlements expand'
2009-01-25,"b'""I have covered earthquakes, hurricanes, and the tsunami and what has happened here is as bad or worse than anything I\'ve seen in any of those. And this was done by Israeli bulldozers.""'"
2009-01-25,b'Extreme porn becomes illegal in the UK'
2009-01-25,b'New Zealand dude buys US Army secrets at thrift shop in Oklahoma.'
2009-01-25,b'Bolivia: Evo nationalizes foreign gas company on eve of constitutional vote'
2009-01-25,b'American viewership of Al-Jazeera English rose dramatically during the Israel-Hamas war'
2009-01-25,b'Gaza appeal the BBC refused to air'
2009-01-25,"b'""We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that that this will happen before Israel goes under.'"
2009-01-25,b'YouTube - Not so cool facts about Israel - RELOADED'
2009-01-25,"b'Now go, attack Gaza and totally destroy everything. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.\' ""'"
2009-01-25,b'Sky News Joins BBC in Refusal to Broadcast Gaza Appeal'
2009-01-25,"b""If Israel wants to weaken Hamas' popularity in Gaza, it's going to have to do something to match the $52 million Hamas is handing out to bereaved Palestinians."""
2009-01-25,"b""The Thai government is towing Burmese refugee boats out to sea and abandoning them. Since it's a crime to insult the King of Thailand, here's a felony for you: Fuck off King of Thailand!"""
2009-01-25,"b""Israeli human rights group Yesh Din calls for the dismissal of Israel's chief military chaplain for distributing a booklet that may have encouraged soldiers to break international law."""
2009-01-25,"b""Not the first time the military rabbis have shown true colors: 'The best of the Gentiles you should kill.', Rabbi Abraham Avidan, 1973"""
2009-01-25,b'Pakistan Warns Obama to Halt Attacks'
2009-01-25,b'BBC chief Mark Thompson holds talks in Jerusalem with Ariel Sharon 2005.  Impartial?'
2009-01-25,"b""Iceland's government has formally collapsed."""
2009-01-24,b'Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes will be given state protection from prosecution overseas'
2009-01-24,"b'Unseen Gaza - new British Channel-4 documentary, with John Snow. Will be of interest to reddit [vid]'"
2009-01-24,"b'""A US citizen caused delays to a Turkish Airlines flight between Istanbul and New York after complaining that there were Arab-types on board."" '"
2009-01-24,b'Can someone please tell me why the people of Darfur matter less than the people of Gaza?'
2009-01-24,"b""Vatican condems Obama's move to restore US funding for family planning clinics abroad that give advice on or carry out abortions"""
2009-01-24,"b'Embedded with Gaza medics.  ""We get shot on our way to rescue people."" (France 24 news) [Video]'"
2009-01-24,b'Descriptions of a few messed up civilian police killings due to the war on drugs.'
2009-01-24,b'Smuggler Caught With Heads of 353 African Gray Parrots'
2009-01-24,b'US TV crew in Gaza: One had to wonder what reception a TV crew from an Arabic network (al-Jazeera for example) would find if they entered an American home blown apart by an Islamic army'
2009-01-24,"b'France will offer all 18-year-olds a free daily copy of the newspaper of their choice,'"
2009-01-24,b'Any Israeli soldiers accused of war crimes in the Gaza Strip will be given state protection ... said Israeli PM'
2009-01-24,b'Tony Benn sneaks in an appeal for Gaza on the BBC - Thank you Tony Benn!'
2009-01-24,"b""Hamas to pay out money to victims of Gaza war.  What were Israel's goals here?  Because it seems to me that Hamas is just gaining more support."""
2009-01-24,"b'Red Cross: Nightmare scenario unfolding in cholera-stricken Zimbabwe -- 50,000 cases and 3,000 deaths!'"
2009-01-24,b'Not So Cool Facts About Israel'
2009-01-24,"b'Scenes from Gaza ... ""Palestinian Rawan Abu Taber, 4, wounded during the Israeli military operations, screams in pain as doctors change bandages to her severe burns""'"
2009-01-24,b'News Blackout: Iranian weapons ship in US control'
2009-01-24,b'Israel to shield Gaza war soldiers'
2009-01-24,b'Icelandic Minister of Commerce steps down - effective immediately'
2009-01-24,b'Mexico: Man admits dissolving 300 bodies '
2009-01-24,b'New lingua franca upsets French'
2009-01-24,b'The conflict in northern Pakistan: Why we are bombing the hell out of them.'
2009-01-24,"b'Protests escalating again in Iceland, now against the Central Bank'"
2009-01-24,b'Mugabes troops close schools'
2009-01-24,b'More change: Obama administration warns public to expect rise in US casualties'
2009-01-23,"b'UN human rights official Richard Falk (who is Jewish): Gaza evokes memories of Warsaw Ghetto; dismisses Israel\'s argument that the assault was for self-defense. Israel labels him ""Israel hater"".'"
2009-01-23,b'Israeli forces arrest seven children in West Bank for throwing stones at the separation barrier.  Two of the children are only 12 years old; two are 13; two are aged 15; and the seventh is 17.'
2009-01-23,b'Indian children are having limbs cut off to make money for evil gangs who deliberately cripple children for profit !'
2009-01-23,"b'Israel Has Fewer Friends Than Ever, Even In America'"
2009-01-23,b'Danish mother of African origin charged with genital mutilation in the female circumcision of two daughters'
2009-01-23,b'Brazilian amputee model dead at 20'
2009-01-23,"b""Why I'm boycotting Israeli produce"""
2009-01-23,"b""Soldiers told Gaza mother she had to choose five of her children to 'give as a gift to Israel.'"""
2009-01-23,b'Fairly Traded Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Palestine'
2009-01-23,b'Israeli Right Wing Set to Win Elections on Back of War'
2009-01-23,"b'""ITV breaks with BBC in Gaza row"" - BBC reporting their own unwillingness to run Gaza appeal'"
2009-01-23,b'Angry and Illegal: Facebook users leak names of accused underage murderers'
2009-01-23,b'INDIA: Father and Son Convicted in Honor Killing of 5-Month-Pregnant Teen'
2009-01-23,b'Pakistan declares murder to protect a womans honour as no crime. '
2009-01-23,b'Ebola may have passed from a pig to a human!'
2009-01-23,b'Children of Gaza: stories of those who died and the trauma for those who survived'
2009-01-23,b'Pak urges Obama to halt missile attacks on al-Qaida strongholds-Pakistan-World-The Times of India'
2009-01-23,b'Pakistan-Women in every third household face domestic violence'
2009-01-23,b'Security experts skeptical on Gitmo detainee report.'
2009-01-23,"b""An Israeli air strike flattened one of Gaza's best private educational institutions, the American International School """
2009-01-23,b'Iceland: Angry protests over economy force early elections'
2009-01-23,"b""EU broadens sanctions on allies of Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe"""
2009-01-23,b'Second Danish bank bailout in four months'
2009-01-23,b'Stephen Shalom - Q and A on Gaza MUST READ!'
2009-01-23,"b""Cholera spreads in Zimbabwe. Didn't Mugabe have this under control?"""
2009-01-22,b'No bailout - Russians get cheaper vodka instead. Government to cut alcohol taxes in half to help ease the citizens pain.'
2009-01-22,"b""the other holocaust: Where's the gypsies' country?"""
2009-01-22,b'BBC refuses airtime to Gaza aid appeal'
2009-01-22,"b""Fidel Castro: I don't expect to last beyond Barack Obama's first term"""
2009-01-22,"b""President Obama 'orders Pakistan drone attacks'"""
2009-01-22,b'Unbelieveable.  Israeli PM Olmert says he wept after hearing a Palestinian father call for help after his children were killed in the Gaza offensive.'
2009-01-22,"b'""New York, once the financial capital of the world, is no longer even the financial capital of the U.S. That honor [now] falls on Washington D.C."" -Nouriel Roubini'"
2009-01-22,"b'Colorado\'s highest paid police officer: ""Didn\'t I tell you guys that sometimes the police lie? Didn\'t I tell you guys that? If I didn\'t, there you go.""'"
2009-01-22,b'British broadcasters refuse to air Gaza charity appeal'
2009-01-22,b'Suspected U.S. Missile Strikes Kill at Least 20 in Pakistan'
2009-01-22,"b""Israel's new natural gas bonanza - a massive estimated 3 trillion cubic feet. But no so fast. Lebanon is staking its claim, saying that the natural gas reserve also belongs to them"""
2009-01-22,b'Rumors: U.S. to Nationalize Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp'
2009-01-22,b'Israel withdraws from Gaza as evidence of war crimes emerges'
2009-01-22,"b""If You Seek Amy...F-U-C-K Me - Britney Spears' clever attempt to piss people off is working"""
2009-01-22,b'UN shocked by destruction of Gaza'
2009-01-22,b'Palestinian Rival Says It Is Under Attack by Hamas'
2009-01-22,"b'Gaza - Map of Bombing Intensity & Casualties, Dec. 27 -12 Jan, 2009 [PIC+PDF]'"
2009-01-22,b'Icelandic PM steps down - elections in May'
2009-01-22,b'UK is now in recession for the first time since 1991.'
2009-01-22,b'Iceland to hold early election after prime minister quits'
2009-01-22,"b'""Marking the Jewish Holocaust while a Palestinian Holocaust is taking place is not right""'"
2009-01-22,b'Kuwait orders nuclear emergency pills'
2009-01-22,b'The story of Maria Aman: Court denies residency to Palestinian Child paralyzed in Israeli attack that killed three members of her family'
2009-01-22,"b'Congo, Rwanda Forces Arrest Congo Rebel Leader Nkunda'"
2009-01-22,"b""as if Britain didn't have enough problems - now council chiefs are sending heat detector vans out... to snoop on 'heat wasters' !"""
2009-01-21,"b'Huh? The NYTimes publishes an Op-Ed by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi.  Strangely, it actually makes sense:  ""The One-State Solution""'"
2009-01-21,b'Outcry Erupts Over Reports That Israel Used Phosphorus Arms on Gazans'
2009-01-21,b'Israeli court overturns ban on Arab political parties. Bigots struggle with outcome'
2009-01-21,b'Naomi Klein responds to criticism of her call for a boycott of Israel'
2009-01-21,"b'Two young girls shot dead; a third - 4 years old - shot and suffered critical spinal injuries, may never walk again. One by one, slowly. This is the Israeli army in action.'"
2009-01-21,b'Heartwarming video of 7/7 survivor speaking on the erosion of UK civil liberties'
2009-01-21,"b'Zionism is not merely a political movement, but in its essence represents a deeply disturbed view of the world, which is a reflection of a terrible disease of the mind.'"
2009-01-21,b'Israeli soldier shot dead my two little daughters after ordering them to leave their home'
2009-01-21,b'Phosphorus shells hit Gaza UN school'
2009-01-21,"b'I certainly believe that the Jews deserve their own state. But my feelings are about a hundred times stronger that Native Americans deserve THEIR own state, too.'"
2009-01-21,b'Olbermann Bushed:Bush and Rumsfeld investigated by UN for torture'
2009-01-21,"b'Greece: Relatively conservative local residents of Larissa form human shield, preventing riot police charge on demonstrators.'"
2009-01-21,b'Death penalty over Chinese milk scandal!!'
2009-01-21,b'Greenwald schools Atlantic writer and Glenn (Instapundit) Reynolds on the basics about Guantanamo legal issues'
2009-01-21,b'Children Buried Alive in the Amazon'
2009-01-21,b'Obama orders Guantanamo closure'
2009-01-21,"b""Chinese Don't Fuck Around: Death Sentences in Chinese Milk Case"""
2009-01-21,b'Teargas released at Austurvollur - first time since 1949 that teargas is released in Iceland'
2009-01-21,"b'Britain will go bankrupt - learn Chinese and move to China, says investment guru'"
2009-01-21,"b'Israelis donate food, clothes to Gazans'"
2009-01-21,b'21 Must-Know Facts about Iraq + Map'
2009-01-21,b'Congress Stops Second Bailout:  Where was Congress in the last 8 Years.'
2009-01-21,"b'We were not expecting such a quick call from President Obama, but we knew how serious he is about the Palestinian problem,'"
2009-01-21,b'9/11 Families Outraged by Obama Call to Suspend Guantanamo War Crimes Trials -- FOXNEWS up to no good -- '
2009-01-21,b'British squatters new home - 30million Park Lane mansions !'
2009-01-20,b'Top Israeli officers warned against traveling in Europe because of the danger they might be arrested for war crimes. '
2009-01-20,"b""Father: 'I watched an Israeli soldier shoot dead my two little girls'"""
2009-01-20,"b'Riots in Iceland this very moment, live translations'"
2009-01-20,b'International arrest warrants published for alleged Israeli war criminals'
2009-01-20,b'Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza'
2009-01-20,"b'If Israel ignores the U.N. laws on weapons use, then should the world ignore the U.N. laws that created Israel?'"
2009-01-20,b'Israel admits troops may have used phosphorus shells in Gaza'
2009-01-20,b'Should the US Pull the Plug on Israel?'
2009-01-20,b'UN torture investigator calls on Obama to charge Bush for Guantanamo abuses'
2009-01-20,"b'Collective Punishment (A War Crime) Continues: Israel Denies Medical Teams, Food Supplies Entry to Gaza'"
2009-01-20,b'Israeli High Court Overturns Ban on Arab Parties'
2009-01-20,b'Exposed Aftermath in Gaza Massacre - Aljazeera'
2009-01-20,b'Chomsky on Gaza'
2009-01-20,"b'Israeli Bombs Meant to ""Send Gaza Back Decades""'"
2009-01-20,b'Bush gets booed as he hears Hail to the Chief one last time for him!  Priceless!'
2009-01-20,"b'Israel used Gaza as a testing ground for a new, ""extremely nasty"" type of explosive '"
2009-01-20,"b'Blind and burnt: Mahmoud, 14, young victim of banned white phosphorus shelling'"
2009-01-20,b'Starbucks smashed and looted as anti-Israel protests turn to violence - Telegraph'
2009-01-20,b'They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud...pieces of the bombs exploded into large fires that continued to burn on the skin even after people dumped water on the burns'
2009-01-20,"b'Company Constructing Israel Light Rail Loses Swedish Contract: ""This is clearly another sign of the importance for commercial actors not to have their brand associated to unethical behaviour""'"
2009-01-20,"b'""... no serious injuries or significant property damage ... Not a single arrest ..."" USA! USA!'"
2009-01-20,b'Israeli soldiers abduct four Palestinians near Nablus'
2009-01-20,b'Terror cell might have wiped itself out with black death'
2009-01-20,b'Sweden to allow gay marriage in May'
2009-01-20,"b'Overseas, Expectations Build for Torture Prosecutions'"
2009-01-19,"b'Graffiti by Israeli soldiers in Gaza:  ""Arabs need 2 die"", ""Die you all"", ""Make war not peace"", ""1 is down, 999,999 to go"", and scrawled on an image of a gravestone the words: ""Arabs 1948-2009"".'"
2009-01-19,"b'[PIC] who wants to ""wipe off the face of the earth"" whom'"
2009-01-19,b'Amnesty International accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza'
2009-01-19,b'Vigilante groups in Mexico vow to end the life of a criminal every 24 hours. '
2009-01-19,"b""Just when you think it couldn't get worse.... Traces of depleted uranium have been found in Palestinian victims."""
2009-01-19,"b""Obama's Chief of Staff is a former Israeli soldier and son of a member of a militant Zionist group.  No softening of the US Pro-Israel line in the new administration, then?"""
2009-01-19,"b""BBC: Gaza 'looks like an earthquake zone.'  Over 50K now homeless, 40K without running water."""
2009-01-19,"b'Pro Israeli group CPT disseminating defamatory and unsubstantiated accusations about Boston Muslim community members, who are raising money for humanitarian aid to Gaza.'"
2009-01-19,b'China says will expand its military reach around the Globe'
2009-01-19,"b'2 Myanmar fisherman, sunk in Thai fishing boat, found floating in fridge off AUS after 25 days at sea'"
2009-01-19,"b""Most senior burns sugeon in Gaza says 60-70 patients in his unit have died of burns unlike anything he's seen before.  Plus, video of apparent white phosphorus in Gaza."""
2009-01-19,b'Reports reveal devastation wreaked by Israeli military in Gaza'
2009-01-19,b'Gaza Strip Damage Assessments from Satellite Images'
2009-01-19,b'Israel seeks to control reconstruction of war-torn Gaza '
2009-01-19,"b'Do not be confused by the ceasefire, the siege of Gaza continues'"
2009-01-19,"b'Philippines: Peasant leaders, environmental campaigners and student activists are being murdered by mysterious death squads who appear to have close links to the army.'"
2009-01-19,"b""Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army has reportedly torched a church crowded with worshippers holding a prayer vigil in the Democratic Republic of Congo."""
2009-01-19,b'Full scale civil war is underway in Mexico'
2009-01-19,b'Israel PM Olmert brags about ordering Bush around'
2009-01-19,b'Israle massacre in Gaza; 27 of same family die in Israeli house demolition'
2009-01-19,b'More Evidence Israel Was Founded By Ruthless Racists-  The Israeli Government Deliberately Exposed Sephardic Children To Massive Doses Of Radiation'
2009-01-19,b'Jail for man who raped daughters'
2009-01-19,b'An Israeli woman sends an open video letter to Obama'
2009-01-19,"b""America's first gay president reflects on end of 8 year term."""
2009-01-19,b'Holocaust: Back then vs. Now'
2009-01-18,b'Saudi Arabia to donate $1 billion to rebuild Gaza'
2009-01-18,"b'Amnesty Said A Fact-Finding Team Found ""Indisputable Evidence Of The Widespread Use Of White Phosphorus"" In Crowded Residential Areas Of Gaza City And Elsewhere In The Territory.'"
2009-01-18,"b""Australian jailed for three years for 'insulting' the Thai monarchy in a novel which has sold seven copies."""
2009-01-18,"b'In NPR interview, ex-CIA operative Bob Baer declares that ""Of course Bin-Laden is dead"".  Starts at 34:18. [audio]'"
2009-01-18,"b""Eight identical letters to the editor, cheering Israel's side.  Four different authors. One place of employment. """
2009-01-18,"b""Robert Fisk: So, I asked the UN secretary general, isn't it time for a war crimes tribunal for Israel?"""
2009-01-18,"b'Olmert boasts about ordering Bush, Rice to vote against U.N. 1860'"
2009-01-18,b'A consumer guide to Israeli products in the US. Use this site to identify Israeli products likely to be available in retail stores in your market area.'
2009-01-18,"b'Israel forms \'army of bloggers\' to combat anti-Zionist Websites and represent Israel in ""anti-Zionist blogs"" in English, French, Spanish and German'"
2009-01-18,b'Norman Finkelstein: Photos from Holocaust Juxtaposed with Photos from Gaza'
2009-01-18,b'Norwegian doctor: Some Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip were wounded by a new type of weapon that even doctors with previous experience in war zones do not recognize '
2009-01-18,b'Boycott Israel! Irish find creative way to rebrand Starbucks'
2009-01-18,b'Amazing genetic map of Europe; genes correspond extremely well to geographic location'
2009-01-18,b'If Americans Knew: What Every American Needs to Know about Israel/Palestine'
2009-01-18,"b'Israel Admits: ""No Hamas Rockets Were Fired During Ceasefire""  [vid]'"
2009-01-18,b'How Palestine Became Israel'
2009-01-18,"b'British Prime Minister Gordon Brown: ""Israel killed ""too many"" civilians"" - How many\'s too many, Brownie? Twenty? Twenty-two? Just so Israel knows, you know, for next time. '"
2009-01-18,b'A human-rights lawyer in prominent Chechnya cases shot dead in Moscow'
2009-01-18,b'Who Will Save the Palestinians? ( Excellent article by Mark Levine )'
2009-01-18,"b'Israeli AF Pilot: ""I would rate the success of our missions very highly in terms of the results and effects of the strikes. [Gaza] isn\'t a war; in terms of air power, it\'s not even an operation"" '"
2009-01-18,b'How American News Media Works in Favor of Israel ( 2 of 3 )'
2009-01-18,"b'White phosphorus: ""The patient came back smoking""'"
2009-01-18,"b""By now, any Palestinian knows that it doesn't matter what you do, Israel will try to kill you [Gaza]"""
2009-01-18,"b'UK MP Sir Gerald Kaufman, son of holocaust survivors: ""Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza"" [vid]'"
2009-01-18,"b""Black Death 'kills al-Qaeda operatives in Algeria'"""
2009-01-17,"b""Abe Foxman calls Bill Moyers an 'anti-Semite' for criticizing the Israeli attack on Gaza.   Bill Moyers then owns him."""
2009-01-17,b'BREAKING NEWS: Israel declares ceasefire in Gaza '
2009-01-17,"b"" 'Tungsten bombs' leave Israel's victims with mystery wounds. As it declares a unilateral ceasefire, Jerusalem faces a UN call for a war crimes investigation"""
2009-01-17,b'Mrs Mugabe assaults our photographer outside her luxury Hong Kong hotel'
2009-01-17,"b'""The only road left is to boycott Israeli goods and institutions"" a  group of 540 Israelis say in an appeal. Birmingham (England), Athens (Greece), and Cambridge (MA) are on board.'"
2009-01-17,b'Israels attack on an entrapped population: A 21st century war crime?'
2009-01-17,b'Israel violates its fake ceasefire '
2009-01-17,"b'""For a whole hour, the father hushed his cries of pain as he watched the Israeli soldiers compete in sniping on his dead son\'s body.""'"
2009-01-17,b'Sleeping with Strangers - The art of couchsurfing'
2009-01-17,"b'Kyrgystan will order the closure of a US military airbase used to support operations in Afghanistan ""in a matter of days"" under pressure from Russia'"
2009-01-17,"b""Victorious, but vilified: Israel has 'destroyed its image and its soul'."""
2009-01-17,"b'Israel\'s ""Ceasefire"": One dead by Israeli fire - Medical crews report the most horrifying scenes, and that most dead bodies being uncovered have been found in pieces - at least 1,246 dead'"
2009-01-17,b'Doctors operating the only brain-scanning machine at an Egyptian hospital near Gaza have been almost overwhelmed by the number of Palestinian children arriving with bullet wounds to the head. '
2009-01-17,"b""Red Cross says Gaza humanitarian situation 'shocking'"""
2009-01-17,b'British Jews attacked for pro-Gaza solidarity'
2009-01-17,"b'  \t  Report: Russia plans navy bases in Libya, Syria,Yemen'"
2009-01-17,"b""Tzipi Livni Meets The American Press Club, When Reporters Interrupt Her Use Of The Press Club As A Platform To Spout Israeli Propaganda With Actual Questions, THEY CUT THE REPORTER'S MICS OFF"""
2009-01-17,b'Israel expects army officers to be prosecuted for war crimes  '
2009-01-17,"b""Gaza rockets hit Israel.  Israel says it accomplished it's objectives.   What were Israel's objective?"""
2009-01-17,"b""Hertz withdraws from Israeli airline deal: Free car rental offered to customers who show 'solidarity' with Gaza action."""
2009-01-17,"b""US journalists call Livni a 'terrorist'"""
2009-01-17,"b'Kuwaiti MP says Venezuela\'s Chavez ""more Arab than some Arabs"".'"
2009-01-17,b'China confirms toddler infected with bird flu'
2009-01-17,"b""Gaza's Baffling Burnt Organs, Torn Tissues"""
2009-01-17,b'India says hundreds feared dead asThai Navy is accused of towing boatloads of refugees out  to sea and leaving them to their fate'
2009-01-16,b'Israeli farmers beginning to feel the sting of worldwide boycott.'
2009-01-16,"b'Iraq / Shoes: ""he was very happy when he heard that all the Iraqis support him. He even cried when he heard that there were demonstrations on his behalf even in the United States""'"
2009-01-16,b'The Dutch have Started Boycotting Israeli Products!'
2009-01-16,"b'Video: extraordinary scenes at Israeli newscast as a Palestinian doctor, a Hebrew-speaking physician who spoke regularly on Israeli television, said three of his children were killed in a tank strike '"
2009-01-16,"b'Israeli Chief Rabbi: ""If they don\'t stop after we kill 100, then we must kill 1,000. If they don\'t stop after 1,000 then we must kill 10,000, 100,000, even a million.""'"
2009-01-16,b'My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home and shot her dead in her bed. She did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza'
2009-01-16,b'Gaza - What it looks like to have white phosphorus raining down on you.  [PIC]'
2009-01-16,"b""The Israelis are bombing and attacking all around the hospital. We can't get out. There's fire, and we're trapped inside. The water has been cut off"""
2009-01-16,"b'Dr. Izz el-Deen Aboul Aish, who gave frequent interviews to the Israeli media, was minutes away from giving another when he called anchorman Shlomi Eldar, hysterical with grief.'"
2009-01-16,b'Israelis targeting of journalists results in calls of boycott  by the foreign press.'
2009-01-16,b'Israeli Anchorwoman blamed for empathizing with people in Gaza'
2009-01-16,"b'In Iowa, a 32-year-old man may spend 20 years in prison for possession of Japanese manga and will face penalties under the PROTECT Act (18 U.S.C. Section 1466A). '"
2009-01-16,b'Once again: Israel shells *ANOTHER* UN school in Gaza '
2009-01-16,"b""Journalists call Israeli foreign minister Livni 'terrorist' during Washington, D.C. press conference on Gaza attack"""
2009-01-16,b'UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza'
2009-01-16,"b'Israeli military action in Gaza is comparable to that of German soldiers during the Holocaust, a Jewish UK lawmaker whose family suffered at the hands of the Nazis has claimed'"
2009-01-16,"b""  \t  US journalists call Livni a 'terrorist'"""
2009-01-16,"b""The Palestinians say: 'This is a war of extermination'"""
2009-01-16,b'An Israeli airstrike has killed a woman and child sheltering in a UN-run school in northern Gaza'
2009-01-16,"b'Israel attacks U.N. school, kills six'"
2009-01-16,b'UN: Gaza Conflict Will Have Long-Lasting Psychological Impact on Children'
2009-01-16,b'Israeli television broadcast desperate cries for help from a Hebrew speaking Palestinian doctor on Friday after his children were killed in an Israeli attack '
2009-01-16,b'Germany IS About To Have Its Worst Recession Since WWII'
2009-01-16,b'Jewish British MP Gerald Kaufman compares Israel to the Nazis & accuses them of exploiting Holocaust '
2009-01-16,b'Palestinian Astrophysicist in US Recounts How His 11-Year-Old Son Died When Israeli Warplanes Bombed His Familys House'
2009-01-15,b'Vatican reveals list of worst sins. Desecrating the eucharist outranks genocide. That says it all.'
2009-01-15,"b'BBC\'s Paxman vs. Israeli spokesman:  ""You were told this was a UN facility""'"
2009-01-15,"b'Israel in Gaza increasingly seen as Rogue State by EU, Red Cross, Lancet. As of Thursday morning, the Israelis have now killed 1038 and wounded 4850 Palestinians. '"
2009-01-15,"b"" Israel's free ride ends - As Israel pulverises Gaza, questions about Israeli policy becoming more prominent in American media"""
2009-01-15,"b""More government corruption - 'Arrogant' MPs pass new law (in 24 hours) to keep details of expenses secret"""
2009-01-15,"b"" Israel 'breaking law' with Gaza war  """
2009-01-15,"b""Israeli 'phosphorous shells' incinerate 1,000s of tons of UN food as Gaza starves"""
2009-01-15,"b'President of Israel Shimon Peres: The goal of the Gaza operation ""was to provide a strong blow to the **people** of Gaza.""'"
2009-01-15,b'Did you know?  Israeli Government used to love Hamas because it weakened the Secular Palestinians.'
2009-01-15,"b""Turkey's Prime Minister has called for Israel to be barred from the UN as long as it ignores international calls to stop war on Gaza."""
2009-01-15,"b'Killed by Israel, Eaten by Dogs -""The emergency doctor could not believe himself seeing the remains of what was days back Shahd, a full-fleshed 4-year-old Palestinian girl.""'"
2009-01-15,b'Israeli parlament disqualifies two Arab parties from running in elections.'
2009-01-15,b'A politician with balls tells the truth about Gaza: The West has double standards when it comes to Israel'
2009-01-15,b'Jeremy Paxman Grills Israeli Ambassador To The UK'
2009-01-15,b'Gazans including 5 month baby ran over by Israelis driving a 70 ton tanks'
2009-01-15,"b'UN says IDF shelled three hospitals yesterday, one of them twice'"
2009-01-15,"b'Rights group: Israeli fire ""indiscriminate""'"
2009-01-15,b'When Israel expelled Palestinians'
2009-01-15,b'Eighty-six percent of those killed in Gaza were civilians'
2009-01-15,"b'""They\'re wiping out entire families""'"
2009-01-15,"b'NY Times ""fears the assault on Gaza has passed the point of diminishing returns""!  [Gee, no surprise that the comments are running 7 to 1 against the Times and against Israel]'"
2009-01-15,"b""UK's Trident nuclear missiles are 20bn waste of money, say generals"""
2009-01-15,"b""Congolese villagers are forming self-defence groups to protect homes and families from Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels"""
2009-01-15,b'An open letter from 20 British Muslims leaders'
2009-01-15,b'Inquiries Support Olmerts Version of Rice-Shaming Incident | News From Antiwar.com'
2009-01-14,"b""UN headquarters in Gaza hit by Israeli 'white phosphorus' shells"""
2009-01-14,"b'The Darfur situation is bad, but the situation in Congo is chilling: 5.4 million dead'"
2009-01-14,"b""250,000 Spaniards denounce Israel's bloodshed"""
2009-01-14,b'Israel Threatens to Shoot Unarmed Civilians aboard Mercy Ship - Tons of humanitarian aid stopped.'
2009-01-14,"b'Israel\'s No. 1 Paper: ""Don\'t pity the Palestinians ... Just as a crying baby who only elicits pity will continue to cry, the citizens of Gaza will continue to cry out to the world""'"
2009-01-14,b'Over 300 children slaughtered by Israel - worse than Beslan'
2009-01-14,b'NSAs Wiretapping of Americans being Outsourced to Israeli Companies [vid]'
2009-01-14,b'Israel hits UN refugee agency in Gaza'
2009-01-14,"b'Israel shelled the UN headquarters in Gaza, burning the compound and a warehouse containing thousands of pounds of food and humanitarian supplies intended for Palestinian refugees.'"
2009-01-14,b'Human rights groups accuse Israelis of war crimes'
2009-01-14,"b'44% of Americans blame Hamas; 14% blame Israel; 57% think Hamas has used ""excessive"" force; whereas 44% think Israel has used ""appropriate"" force'"
2009-01-14,b'CNN Confirms Israel Use Of White Phosphorus'
2009-01-14,"b""BBC reports that Israel Defense Forces 'shot at fleeing Gazans'"""
2009-01-14,b'315 children have died in Gaza in the last 19 days.'
2009-01-14,b'Child Porn Laws Used Against Kids Who Photograph Themselves'
2009-01-14,"b'Before the Olympics, China designated three legal protest zones and required would-be protestors to apply for permission. Ji Sizun did, and has now been sentenced to 3 years.'"
2009-01-14,"b'Jew attacks three anarchists holding a ""Stop the slaughter in Gaza"" transparent during the ""Righteous among the Nations"" ceremony in Poznan.'"
2009-01-14,"b'Indian government to poverty stricken citizens: ""If you won\'t stop being poor, we can at least make you homeless""'"
2009-01-14,"b'Three Israeli tank shells have smashed into a United Nations compound in Gaza City, wounding three UN workers'"
2009-01-14,"b""Israel Massacare in Gaza; Children suffer in Israel's war on Gaza"""
2009-01-14,b'The Truth About the 2009 Gaza Massacre'
2009-01-14,b'Israeli ground forces shell hospital and UN relief building in Gaza'
2009-01-14,"b'Among the sites hit yesterday was Sheikh Radwan cemetery. Thirty graves were destroyed, spreading rotting flesh over a wide area. The army said it was targeting a nearby weapons cache.'"
2009-01-14,b'UN: Israelis hit our headquarters in Gaza with white phosphorus shells'
2009-01-14,b'The United Nations tries to outlaw criticism of Islam'
2009-01-13,b'Greece hinders US arms delivery to Israel'
2009-01-13,"b""Canada: We're the only one of 47 nations on UN rights panel to refuse to condemn military offensive in Gaza"""
2009-01-13,"b'Israeli newspaper: ""Palestinian doctor killed by IDF while treating Gaza wounded.""'"
2009-01-13,"b'Bodies are ""piled up like logs"" in Zimbabwe\'s cholera crisis'"
2009-01-13,"b'We the undersigned are all of Jewish origin: ""The time for appeasing Israel is long past""'"
2009-01-13,"b""Former Israeli Foreign Minister Appears On UK TV, Says Israeli Intelligence 'Inventing Facts'."""
2009-01-13,"b'Pro-Israel Rally For Attacking Gaza, NYC, 1-11-09 - ""Wipe them all out!"" - including prominent politicians supporting the rally.'"
2009-01-13,"b""Pro-Israel Rally Attended by Big-Time NY Dems Descends into Calls for 'Wiping Out' Palestinians """
2009-01-13,"b'Canada\'s ""Liberal"" leader: ""Israel has been attacked from Gaza, not just last year, but for almost 10 years. They evacuated from Gaza so there is no occupation in Gaza.""'"
2009-01-13,b'Israeli Troops Ordered to Shoot Rather Than Ask Questions'
2009-01-13,b'Bolivia breaks ties with Israel'
2009-01-13,b'Sri Lankan death squads kill editor and ransack TV station'
2009-01-13,b'Experts say that claims the internet and social networking services pose a threat to children are overblown'
2009-01-13,b'Nine Jewish Israeli human rights groups called for an investigation into whether the IDF had committed war crimes in Gaza.'
2009-01-13,"b'If you want to understand the mindset of Israel watch this ... its called the ""break the bones"" strategy from the first intifada ... kinda graphic.'"
2009-01-13,b'Israel may face UN court ruling on legality of Gaza conflict'
2009-01-13,b'Crisis Worsens for Civilians in Gaza'
2009-01-13,b'UN finds 217 sex abuse claims against blue helmets'
2009-01-13,"b'Egyptian Government Daily: Hamas, Syria, Iran - The New Axis of Evil'"
2009-01-13,b'Israeli navy refuses to let an Iranian aid ship dock in Gaza.'
2009-01-13,"b'More than 1,000 killed in Gaza - When will this end?'"
2009-01-13,b'Stunning photos capture Israeli bombs falling on Gaza (series of photos)'
2009-01-13,b'China to Pass Germany as Worlds Top Exporter in 08'
2009-01-13,"b'Czech EU art stokes controversy: displays France as country on strike, Bulgaria as toilet, Romania as Dracula theme park ...'"
2009-01-13,"b""What's All The Fighting For, And Where? [Infographic]"""
2009-01-12,"b""The video the Israeli Army didn't want you to see """
2009-01-12,b'Momentum growing for Israeli war crimes investigation'
2009-01-12,"b'Israeli Sightseers Flock to Border to Watch Gaza Killings - ""They come with binoculars. They bring their families and take pictures. They rationalize away the deaths of hundreds of children ...""'"
2009-01-12,b'Kucinich: 50 Percent of the Population of Gaza Under 14 Years of Age!'
2009-01-12,b'Palestinians call to Greek people: Block the shipment of US arms to Israel through Greek ports'
2009-01-12,"b""Let me say it loud and clear. I do not believe in Israel's right to exist. It is a militarised, evil entity founded on a racist premise and a lot of religious hokum - Craig Murray, Former UK diplomat"""
2009-01-12,"b'Construction workers in Poland found a WW2-era mass grave containing what are believed to be the bodies of 1,800 German men, women and children who disappeared during the Soviet march to Berlin'"
2009-01-12,"b""Israel's claim to be a bastion of democracy in the Middle East is now in jeopardy with its crackdown on its Arab citizens"""
2009-01-12,b'I never knew Sky News was so biased. George Galloway making the news caster earn her wage!'
2009-01-12,"b'Israeli President said, ""Yes, that\'s true, there are many palestinain children and very few Israeli children casualtieies, but that is because ""we take care of our children.""'"
2009-01-12,"b'""I hope my murder will be seen not as a defeat of freedom but an inspiration""'"
2009-01-12,"b""Red Cross: Israel's use of white phosphorus not illegal"""
2009-01-12,b'Israeli soldiers reportedly shot woman waving white flag'
2009-01-12,b'Any Palestinians on reddit?  Come on in and give us your own view on the Gaza conflict.'
2009-01-12,"b'The USSR built power plants, dams and factories in Afghanistan. The US can barely keep the lights on or water running there. Who were the bad guys again?'"
2009-01-12,"b'Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza City from two directions early Tuesday after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on both sides in the conflict to just stop""'"
2009-01-12,"b'""The BBC, which we call the Bush and Blair Corporation..."" British MP George Galloway on the Palestinian Situation. Amazing.'"
2009-01-12,b'Unusually Large U.S. Weapons Shipment to Israel: Are the US and Israel Planning a Broader Middle East War?'
2009-01-12,b'Who thinks Israel is helping America head towards another 9/11?'
2009-01-12,b'New Face Recognition Technology Should Worry British Citizens. '
2009-01-12,b'Poland: Workers find WWII mass grave of Germans'
2009-01-12,b'Israel losing PR war'
2009-01-12,b'Rabbi against Zionism.'
2009-01-12,b'The Times Online: No room for more graves in Gaza cemeteries'
2009-01-12,b'German Protestors Compare Gaza to the Holocaust.'
2009-01-11,"b'Israeli lady watching attacks on Gaza: ""I think they should just take the city off the ground (...) yeah I\'m a little bit fascist""'"
2009-01-11,b'Israel has blocked cell phone signals from leaving Gaza!!'
2009-01-11,b'Only terrorists use human shields'
2009-01-11,"b'Rabbi Yisrael Rosen, director of the Tsomet Institute in the West Bank: ""All of the Palestinians must be killed; men, women, infants, and even their beasts.""'"
2009-01-11,"b'Who\'s in charge in DC? Israeli PM Olmert: ""I said get me President Bush on the phone,  told him the United States could not vote in favour, He immediately called Rice"", and ...'"
2009-01-11,"b'Israeli Newspaper - 05/30/07: Chief Rabbi says ""absolutely no moral prohibition against the indiscriminate killing of civilians during a potential massive military offensive on Gaza""'"
2009-01-11,b'Beating off a great white shark while it has your leg in its jaws. Incredible!'
2009-01-11,"b'""When Jews and Palestinians were sitting on the beaches side by side it hurt the business of the surrounding yishuvim."" - Palestinians barred from Dead Sea beaches to \'appease Israeli settlers\''"
2009-01-11,"b""So that's where the 100 billion went! A freedom of information campaign by journalists across Europe has paid off in spectacular fashion."""
2009-01-11,b'European Union to ban plasma televisions '
2009-01-11,"b""Over 70 Prominent British Jews Sign Letter Condemning Israel's Actions In Gaza"""
2009-01-11,b'Rice was going to vote for ceasefire in Gaza but Olmert called Bush and forced him to tell her to stop'
2009-01-11,"b'Continuity We Can Believe In: Obama: Sorry. No gitmo closure within the first 100 days; there will be no clean break from Bush policies; Cheney gives ""pretty good advice"" ...'"
2009-01-11,"b'Kucinichm Moore, Paul, Rahall,Water only representatives who voted NO on Resolution 34 :: Israels right to defend'"
2009-01-11,"b'Red Cross spokesman in Gaza: medical personnel recover charred bodies of three Palestinian children, including a toddler - the toddler\'s body had been ""eaten by wild dogs from the street.""'"
2009-01-11,"b'Israeli Newspaper - Oct 5, 2008: ""IDF plans to use disproportionate force in next war"" - (they got that right)'"
2009-01-11,b'Israeli deputy defence minister promised a holocaust in Gaza'
2009-01-11,"b""Israel's War an Gaza galvanizes suport for Hamas in West Bank.   Honest question: How is this war not making the situation worse for everyone?"""
2009-01-11,"b""Bin Laden's ex-driver a free man """
2009-01-11,b'Jews protest against Israel and Zionism.'
2009-01-11,"b'""The commanders said kill as many people as possible ... Gaza was considered a playground for sharpshooters.""  ""Rafi,"" member of elite Israeli military unit, 2005'"
2009-01-11,b'American Children Attacked in Israel'
2009-01-11,b'Rights Group: Israel Used Incendiary Bombs. Human Rights Watch Says Chemical White Phosphorus Used In Gaza Strip Military Campaign'
2009-01-11,"b""Israeli border guard's views on Palestinians"""
2009-01-11,b'Travelling to the US? Think you can just sign that green visa waiver form on the plane? Not any more.'
2009-01-10,"b'Hamas Prime Minister, September 2008: We are willing to accept Palestinian state with 1967 borders. ""Our conflict is not with the Jews, our problem is with the occupation."" '"
2009-01-10,b'An Israeli is more likely to be struck by lightening than killed by a Hamas rocket'
2009-01-10,b'President Bush has rejected several Israeli requests to attack Iran '
2009-01-10,b'Washington Post - COVER BLOWN: Iran Buying Bomb Parts from U.S. through Fronts'
2009-01-10,"b'250,000 people gather in Madrid to protest the Israeli aggression towards Gaza (in Spanish)'"
2009-01-10,"b""Leading British Jews call on Israel to halt 'horror' of Gaza"""
2009-01-10,"b'AIPAC Goes Ballistic: Says It Is ""Outraged"" & Blasts Bush for Supporting Ceasefire'"
2009-01-10,b'University Professors: Israels bombardment of Gaza is not self-defense  its a war crime'
2009-01-10,b'Thousands of demonstrators have marched through London to call for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza.'
2009-01-10,"b""Israel tells Gazans to brace for war escalation (i.e. we haven't killed enough yet; expect a whole lot more before we're satisfied)."""
2009-01-10,b'More Than 1/3 of Overall Palestinian Deaths and Injuries Are Children'
2009-01-10,b'Channel 4 - Gazan 5 month baby ran over by a 70 ton Israeli tank'
2009-01-10,"b""FREE GAZA TO ISRAEL: ''WE ARE COMING IN ON TUESDAY''"""
2009-01-10,b'U.S. Thwarted Israeli Plan to Bomb Iranian Nuclear Facility - rejected Israeli request to provide deep-penetration bombs & rebuffed plan to fly through U.S.-controlled Iraqi airspace'
2009-01-10,b'Reuters Cameras Hit: May 2008 Cameraman recieves direct hit from Israeli Tank.'
2009-01-10,b'Media barred from Gaza'
2009-01-10,b'Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims'
2009-01-10,b'Balance your world-view:  33 Newspaper links for world news '
2009-01-10,b'The Facts about Hamas and the War on Gaza by Norman Finkelstein'
2009-01-10,b'Who will save Israel from Itself?'
2009-01-10,b'why Palestinians are launching rockets...'
2009-01-10,"b""Scotland on course to being the third most state-dependent country in world. Only Cuba and Iraq spend more taxpayers' money on public service..."""
2009-01-10,b'Flashback:The Israeli poison gas attacks'
2009-01-10,"b'Despite the horrific injuries, children in Gaza defy the massacres with a smile ?! ... [Graphic]'"
2009-01-10,"b""Israeli troops 'shot at from Syria'."""
2009-01-09,"b""Enough. It's time for a boycott"""
2009-01-09,"b'Norway Leads: 40 000 people gathered in Oslo for Gaza Thursday, 8th January 2009. Thursday ALL trains in the whole of Norway, and all trams and subways in Oslo, will stand still for two minutes.'"
2009-01-09,"b'Eco Activist Buys Drilling Rights for 22,000 Acres - Refuses to Drill'"
2009-01-09,"b""Israel Is Committing War Crimes - Hamas's violations are no justification for Israel's actions. (from WSJ)"""
2009-01-09,"b'Despite Israeli denial, newly found photographic evidence proves that Israel has used controversial white phosphorus shells on Gazans. '"
2009-01-09,b'U.S. seeks ship to move arms to Israel'
2009-01-09,"b'Thousands of demonstrators in Barcelona, Spain call for an immediate ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza'"
2009-01-09,"b""Israeli Spokesman is Silenced by Alex Thompson of UK's Channel 4 regarding the IDF and the Red Cross"""
2009-01-09,b'New Orleans cops shoot man 12 times - in the back'
2009-01-09,"b'LET GAZA LIVE!  D. C. Protest Saturday, January 10 - Assemble at the White House (north side) at 1:00 PM'"
2009-01-09,b'U.S. says arms shipment to Israel not linked to Gaza. US also says that Elvis is still alive.'
2009-01-09,b'Israel Is Committing War Crimes '
2009-01-09,"b""'I Would Join a Terror Organization': Current Israeli Defense Minister explained in 1998 what he would have done if born Palestinian."""
2009-01-09,b'Former [Israeli] pilot: Israel committing war crimes in Gaza'
2009-01-09,b'Real Journalism : The way questions should be asked - Dennis Kucinich vs. Eliot Engel'
2009-01-09,b'Hugo Chavez Expells Israeli Ambassador to Venezuela'
2009-01-09,"b""Iraq Veterans Against the War - Why we're against the war"""
2009-01-09,b'Jimmy Carter - An Unnecessary War (in reference to the Gaza crisis)'
2009-01-09,b'Nowhere to run: More than 260 children killed in Gaza'
2009-01-09,b'Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized'
2009-01-09,"b'Many may think that the current economic fiascoes are the results of bungling politicians and bureaucrats. FDR once said, In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet... '"
2009-01-09,"b'India shows the way! sends CEO, COO and CFO of Satyam who scammed a billion dollars to the slammer!'"
2009-01-09,"b'US In Massive ""Rare"" Arms Supply to Israel Days Before Obama Inauguration'"
2009-01-09,b'There have been no rockets fired from the West Bank for several years. The result? A record number of new settlments built.'
2009-01-09,"b'""Pandas are actually bears, not cats."" Chinese Panda Attacks Third Idiot'"
2009-01-08,b'Vatican: Gaza is a giant concentration camp'
2009-01-08,b'Israel shelled Gaza house crowded with civilians: witnesses'
2009-01-08,"b'Red Cross: Israel breaking international law, letting children starve in Gaza'"
2009-01-08,"b'Israeli army ordered 70 persons of extended family to gather in one building. The next morning the same army bombed the building, Killing and injuring dozens.'"
2009-01-08,b'Israel Faces Mounting Outcry on Gaza War - NYTimes.com'
2009-01-08,"b'Israel bombs a shelter, kills 30 civilians'"
2009-01-08,b'Israel accused of delaying medical access to injured'
2009-01-08,b'Israel to continue offensive despite UN resolution '
2009-01-08,"b""The Army's Newest Recruitment Technique is aimed directly at gamers. """
2009-01-08,"b""Atheist Bus Campaign is 'offensive', say 50 complainants"""
2009-01-08,"b'""The IDF is investigating"": just another way Israel says \'fuck you\' to humanity'"
2009-01-08,b'Few speak up for Palestinians in U.S. Congress'
2009-01-08,"b""Early Globes 'winner' was a mistake """
2009-01-08,b'Israel keeps tight leash on media'
2009-01-08,b'Relief workers found starving children next to corpses in a neighbourhood of Gaza City which Israel had denied them access to for days'
2009-01-08,b'And why the problem in the Middle East will never get solved: US congress votes to back Israel: 390 to 5'
2009-01-08,"b'Gaza: Palestinian journalist, his wife and mother-in-law killed by Israeli artillery'"
2009-01-08,"b'Israel shelled Gaza Palestinians after evacuating them, UN says'"
2009-01-08,"b'Israel deliberately shells a UN convoy carrying aid into Gaza after giving them permission to go through...Israel, the ultimate terrorist nation'"
2009-01-08,b'Emergency workers said they rescued 100 more trapped survivors Thursday and found 40 - 50 corpses in a devastated residential block south of Gaza that the IDF had kept off-limits to the RC for 4 days'
2009-01-08,b'Israeli attacks are rallying Palestinians to Hamas'
2009-01-08,"b'The penalty for underfeeding thousands for years to make a $200K profit? One day in jail and a pledge to ""do better.""   '"
2009-01-08,"b'Large portion of Washington State underwater, buried by avalanches, or washed away by mudslides.   Thousands told to evacuate.'"
2009-01-08,b'I Am Opposed to Violence by Jewish Fundamentalists OR by Islamic Fundamentalists OR by Christian Fundamentalists OR Hindu Fundamentalists'
2009-01-08,b'Hamas has failed  it is time they stepped down - The National Newspaper (Abu Dhabi)'
2009-01-07,b'You are being lied to about pirates'
2009-01-07,b'Rockets hit Israel from Lebanon'
2009-01-07,"b'I arrived in Israel 40 years ago. It took me many years to understand that the very existence of my country, as it is today, is based on an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.'"
2009-01-07,"b'Red Cross finds four small children in Gaza, huddling next to their dead mothers, too weak to stand up ... ""Israel has failed to meet its obligation under international humanitarian law""'"
2009-01-07,b'UN: Israel kills driver on aid mission to Gaza'
2009-01-07,b'Israel kills driver of UN truck on aid mission to Gaza'
2009-01-07,"b'These photos, taken in Gaza in 2006, show the impact of the DIME bombs the Israelis are allegedly using there (warning: extremely graphic)'"
2009-01-07,"b""The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act"""
2009-01-07,"b""TED: Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen"""
2009-01-07,b'Gaza is full-blown humanitarian crisis'
2009-01-07,b'The Red Cross has accused Israel of failing to fulfil its obligation to help wounded civilians in Gaza'
2009-01-07,"b""Canada extradites another American war resister. This one's a mother of three who has a six-week old child. Stay classy Canada!"""
2009-01-07,"b'Sri Lankan newspaper editor ""meticulously collected the facts, which was why so many politicians feared him."" He was shot dead today by unidentified gunmen.'"
2009-01-07,"b'UN: ""Israel knew they were bombing a school"" [vid]'"
2009-01-07,"b'Extremists on each side sustain the other, and the excessive Israeli ground assault in Gaza is likely to create more terrorists in the long run'"
2009-01-07,b'U.N. suspends all relief work in Gaza; says Israeli soldiers fired on a marked U.N. vehicle DURING the ceasefire.'
2009-01-07,"b""Red Cross finds starving children with 12 corpses in Gaza 'house of horrors' """
2009-01-07,b'Kucinich stands against the use of US arms against innocents in Gaza'
2009-01-07,"b'The IDF has been dropping leaflets in Gaza with a phone number to call to report on ""terrorists"". Here\'s one of the calls (with translation).'"
2009-01-07,b'South Korea tested whores so they were disease-free for U.S. soldiers'
2009-01-07,"b'Bush: ""Eighteen months ago, Hamas took over the Gaza Strip in a coup"" And people suggest there isn\'t a ridiculous Israeli bias amongst US polticians?'"
2009-01-07,"b'While the world watches Gaza, Israelis are shooting protestors in the West Bank'"
2009-01-07,b'China Losing Taste for Debt From U.S. '
2009-01-07,b'Rockets fired from Lebanon into Israel and Israel fires back'
2009-01-07,"b'More than a thousand Afghans signed up to go and fight Israel in the Gaza, many of them blaming the US which has some 30,000 troops in Afghanistan, for supporting the Jewish state.'"
2009-01-06,b'Anyone know if this is true?'
2009-01-06,"b""British Gov't wants private firms to build $12b super database for tracking every citizen's Internet usage, phone call,  text message, and other transactions"""
2009-01-06,b'Israeli Tank fire kills dozens at UN School. Tank fire. School.'
2009-01-06,"b'Bush Aides: ""Historians will judge Bush."" Redditors and the rest of the world: ""The Hague War Crimes Tribunal will judge Bush""'"
2009-01-06,"b""Russia has cut off all Europe's gas supplies, says Ukraine"""
2009-01-06,"b'""Israel, not the Palestinians, has opposed international UN monitors in the conflict since Oslo""'"
2009-01-06,b'Venezuela expels Israel envoy over Gaza attacks'
2009-01-06,b'This is what happens on the streets of Israel if your not a jew. They obviously love Americans.'
2009-01-06,b'Israeli soldiers entered their building and told them to evacuate to another building. They evacuted and moved to another place for shelter.  Israel bombs their shelter.'
2009-01-06,"b'""Almost a third of the 689 Palestinians killed in Israel\'s Gaza offensive are children"" ... Meanwhile, Israel\'s Foreign Minister Livni says that ""there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza""'"
2009-01-06,b'UN: No Hamas Fighters in Bombed Gaza School'
2009-01-06,b'Red Crescent ambulanceman killed and two others wounded as ambulances come under Israeli fire in Gaza:  International Red Cross '
2009-01-06,b'Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto'
2009-01-06,b'Digg vs. Reddit prespective on Israel Gaza conflict'
2009-01-06,"b""Obama's comments on Gaza not being reported in the US media?"""
2009-01-06,"b'""We cannot promote a fuel anymore which is used as a weapon by some countries and certain corporations against consumers.""'"
2009-01-06,b'Gazprom Halts Gas Supply to Europe Via Ukraine Pipes'
2009-01-06,"b'As temperatures fall to below freezing, Russia cuts off gas supply to Europe'"
2009-01-06,b'Middle East observers felt a sense of dja vu as Israeli tank shells slammed into a United Nations school near Gaza City'
2009-01-06,b'Financial Fraud in Satyam Computers Brings its Shares as low as Rupees 30.70/share'
2009-01-06,"b'While we merrily sip their water, a third of Fijians have no clean water at all'"
2009-01-06,b'At least someone has balls. I hope it is the start.'
2009-01-06,b'Temperatures in Germany fell as low as minus 25 degrees Celsius on Monday night and the weather is expected to remain Arctic for several days.'
2009-01-06,"b'Time to stfu and listen: Infowars predicted financial meltdown long before you could scream ""tinfoil hat""'"
2009-01-06,b'Sarkozy says Israel and the Palestinian Authority have accepted a truce plan for Gaza announced by Egypt on Tuesday.'
2009-01-05,b'Palestine Girl stands up to Israel Soldier '
2009-01-05,b'Israeli Strike Kills 40 at U.N. run School in Gaza '
2009-01-05,"b'Norwegian doctor in Gaza: ""This is an all-out war against Civilians""'"
2009-01-05,"b'Between 600,000 and 700,000 Gazans have no water, some of them going on a week. About one million have no electricity, raw sewage is running in the streets in some places.'"
2009-01-05,"b'Ron Paul: ""No one mentions the tragedy in Gaza.  I view it (Gaza) as a concentration camp.""'"
2009-01-05,b'UK police have been given the power to hack into PCs without a court warrant'
2009-01-05,"b""Strike on Gaza school 'kills 40'"""
2009-01-05,"b""GAZA PIC's. WARNING :VERY GRAPHIC!!!!!!!!!"""
2009-01-05,"b'""We are wading in death, blood, and amputees. Many children. A pregnant woman. I have never experienced anything so terrible.""  Mads Gilbert, Norwegian doctor in Gaza'"
2009-01-05,b'Several European countries say they have suffered major disruption to their Russian gas supplies after Moscow cut deliveries to Ukraine'
2009-01-05,"b'Israel using new deadly weapons in Gaza: Dense Inert Metal Explosives. Appeal of Mads Gilbert, Norwegian doctor in Gaza to Israeli doctors'"
2009-01-05,b'Venezuela expels Israeli ambassador'
2009-01-05,"b'Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian doctor in Gaza, tells CBS News that the number of civilians injured and killed in Gaza proves that Israel is deliberately attacking the population [Vid]'"
2009-01-05,b'Israeli forces hit UN school... on purpose.'
2009-01-05,b'Where does U.S. oil come from? (cool interactive map)'
2009-01-05,b'Whenever I read a story like this I think of my little boys and become enraged with the state of affairs in Gaza'
2009-01-05,"b""'As I ran I saw three of my children. All dead'"""
2009-01-05,b'IDF routinely attacks medical crews trying to evacuate civilian casualties'
2009-01-05,b'U.N. Official Says Gaza School Hit by Israelis was Clearly Marked'
2009-01-05,"b'""Working on this issue for six Secretaries of State, I cant recall one meeting where we had a discussion with an Israeli PM about the damage that settlement activity does to the peacemaking process.""'"
2009-01-05,b'The Raw Story | Norwegian doctor: Israel intentionally targeting civilians'
2009-01-05,"b""Madoff apparently still hasn't got the message that its not 'his' money"""
2009-01-05,"b""Norway's sovereign wealth fund to stop investing in Israel?"""
2009-01-05,b'The brutal collective punishment inflicted on Gaza will likely strengthen Hamas and reverse any hopes of a Middle East peace in the coming years. '
2009-01-05,b'Reporter reports on father killed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza'
2009-01-04,"b'Surprise surprise!  ""The United States late Saturday blocked approval of a U.N. Security Council statement calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip ...""'"
2009-01-04,b'Maps of what used to be Palistine '
2009-01-04,"b""Amway's thinks that the heat's off and they can revitalize their brand. As a sibling of someone who was victimized by this company, I say over my dead body."""
2009-01-04,b'Raul Castro lifts ban on Cubans building their own homes'
2009-01-04,b'Excellent Haaretz (Israeli) op-ed slams Israeli government for its inhumanity'
2009-01-04,"b'PROBLEM: Oil prices too low for oil producing countries to make a profit. SOLUTION: OPEC reduces production, FAILED. SOLUTION: Mideast violence to cause stability concerns in oil producing countries.'"
2009-01-04,b'Rights groups calls for Saudi Arabia to create a written system of criminal law instead of arbitrarily prosecuting people'
2009-01-04,"b'I keep hearing ""When Israel is being targeted, Israel is going to retaliate"" and fair enough. But I never hear ""When Gaza is being targeted, Gaza is going to retaliate"".'"
2009-01-04,b'The brave and valiant Israeli military kills another dangerous terrorist'
2009-01-04,b'Gaza: The death and life of my father'
2009-01-04,b'A senior Israeli military official...said it is highly unlikely Israel will succeed in stopping the rocket fire entirely.'
2009-01-04,b'If the army knows there are civilians in the area it is about to bomb then no matter what it is a breach of international humanitarian law to bomb that area'
2009-01-04,b'War Crime du Jour: Israel Deploys White Phosphorus Shells'
2009-01-04,"b'..the house had been hit three times, one right after the other. Some of my family was hurt in the first strike and while others tried to help them, the house was hit again and others were injured.'"
2009-01-04,b'Haniyeh: Hamas willing to accept Palestinian state with 1967 borders - Haaretz - Israel News'
2009-01-04,"b'Orwell, blinding tribalism, selective Terrorism, and Israel/Gaza - Glenn Greenwald'"
2009-01-04,b'Video: Civilian casualties escalate in Gaza'
2009-01-04,b'A History of Ethnic Cleansing'
2009-01-04,"b""1 in 10 young people feel life's not worth living."""
2009-01-04,b'Indias 3G auction looks scuttled as government eyes a doubling of reserve price'
2009-01-04,"b'Iran claims 70,000 have volunteered to be suicide bombers against Israel'"
2009-01-04,"b'""leaked"" Gaza bombings apparently showing the recent bombing of a Gaza market was 4 YEARS OLD! and not perpetrated by Israel. '"
2009-01-04,b'Suicide bomber strikes in Pakistan killing 7 and wounding 25.'
2009-01-04,"b""In addition to an overwhelming influx of the wounded, Gaza's hospitals are facing a new problem: They are rapidly running out of fuel for the generators they depend on for power."""
2009-01-04,"b""Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the maker of classic china and crystal since 1759 has collapsed. While much of production was offshore the crystal plant was one of Ireland's top tourist attractions."""
2009-01-03,"b'Just A Reminder: Early in 2008, Vanity Fair Uncovered The Plot Paid For By The US State Department For Fatah To Create A Civil War In Gaza With Hamas'"
2009-01-03,"b""Hamas executes 35 Fatah members in Gaza, shoots 75 in legs, breaks others' hands"""
2009-01-03,b'Israel and the ignored UN Resolutions - Israel is in violation of 35 UN Resolutions.  Here is a list.'
2009-01-03,"b""Iran Threatens to Break Israel's Gaza Blockade!!"""
2009-01-03,b'Depleted uranium found in Gaza victims: Norwegian Medics'
2009-01-03,"b'UN: Stop Israeli \'monstrosity\' in Gaza - ""The United States has so far vetoed over 40 anti-Israel resolutions at the UN.""'"
2009-01-03,b'Israel Attacks America  (1967)'
2009-01-03,"b'Israeli forces bisect Gaza, surround biggest city - Yahoo! News'"
2009-01-03,b' Cuba offers direct talks with US '
2009-01-03,"b'The French government insists a new generation of leftist extremists will soon launch a wave of sabotage and bombings. (And if the left wont do it, covert ops will.)'"
2009-01-03,b'US blocks UN statement calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and southern Israel'
2009-01-03,"b""'She's Home From Jail, But Lynddie England Can't Escape Abu Ghraib'"""
2009-01-03,b'U.S. blocks a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza strip:'
2009-01-03,b'Gaza footage that was blocked in the US'
2009-01-03,b'New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is heading to Israel to show support for massacre of Palestinians'
2009-01-03,"b""Passport photograph of girl's bare shoulders rejected 'as it may offend'"""
2009-01-03,b'Hamas ready for bitter urban battle '
2009-01-03,b'China rattled by Sun King attack'
2009-01-03,b'More home PCs expected to be hacked into by the police'
2009-01-03,b'Indonesia rocked by 7.6 magnitude quake'
2009-01-03,"b'Hamas Profile, I wish people read it before saying they support it'"
2009-01-03,b'Whatever happened to avian flu?'
2009-01-03,"b'""Future historians will note that American society peaked in the late 1960s""'"
2009-01-03,"b'What a joke: After 400+ deaths, 2000+ wounded, Gaza in ruins, US tells Israel ""to be mindful of the potential consequences to civilians""!'"
2009-01-03,b'Israel Newspaper Haaretz Calls for Diplomacy and Humanitarian Cease-Fire'
2009-01-02,b'Australia refuses Bush administration request to house Guantanamo detainees'
2009-01-02,b'Propaganda war: trusting what we see?'
2009-01-02,"b""CNN: US weapons 'killing innocent civilians' in Gaza"""
2009-01-02,"b'""Let us not forget that it was Israel, which in fact created Hamas"" Historian at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem'"
2009-01-02,"b""Northern Ireland man discovers 'secret of invisibility'"""
2009-01-02,b'Lynndie England: Life after Abu Ghraib'
2009-01-02,b'Zimbabwean lawyer: Law has broken down - CNN.com'
2009-01-02,b'Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi of Iran is threatened at her home '
2009-01-02,"b'Beijing moves to stifle reform calls, called the most significant of its kind for at least a decade and possibly since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. '"
2009-01-02,"b'Israels Goal - Ending Hamas Rule, Rocket Fire, or Both '"
2009-01-02,"b""Memo to Israel: Dropping Leaflets and Sending Text Messages Won't Abosolve You of War Crimes"""
2009-01-02,b'Gang rapes lesbian'
2009-01-02,b'The Cost of Governing Afghanistan'
2009-01-02,b'Israel expels UN rights envoy Richard Falk - Dec 17 08'
2009-01-02,b'Who Gets U.S. Foreign Aid'
2009-01-02,b'Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh at war with Israel  and his own rivals'
2009-01-02,"b'Police have dispersed crowds of demonstrators who gathered near the Israeli embassy in London, following a day of protests across the UK.'"
2009-01-02,b'Sri Lanka bombs Tigers in north after fall of HQ'
2009-01-02,b'Israel bombs market in Gaza (warning: graphic)'
2009-01-02,"b""'We Believe This was a Legitimate Target' - IDF Kills 8 Civilians, 4 Under the Age of 18"""
2009-01-02,b'Queen goes green as her 10million Bentleys are converted to run on biofuel'
2009-01-02,b'Living in fear in Gaza City!'
2009-01-02,b'Israeli Troops Launch Attack on Gaza'
2009-01-02,"b'Shut down al-Jazeera - ""The situation on the ground is directly affected by the nature of al-Jazeera reports."" [Ynet Opinion Piece]'"
2009-01-02,b'Why is Israel so brutal in a nutshell - from The Independent'
2009-01-01,"b'Israel kills Hamas leader and his wife, children and anyone else  in the neighbourhood by dropping a one-tonne bomb on his house'"
2009-01-01,"b'Kept afloat by billions of dollars of American money, the government of Afghanistan is shot through with corruption and graft.'"
2009-01-01,b'Obama Moves to Counter China in Space With Pentagon-NASA Link '
2009-01-01,b'Media Banned From Gaza as Humanitarian Crisis Escalates'
2009-01-01,"b'The Gaza Strip, where  some have to eat grass just to stay alive, is sandwiched between an apartheid state and a  brutal dictatorship, both funded and sustained by the  United States taxpayer'"
2009-01-01,"b""Arab governments question Hamas' actions"""
2009-01-01,"b'Israel is now bombing the refugees it created in 1948, having never paid reparations'"
2009-01-01,"b""Trusting shopkeeper leaves his store open unattended on Boxing Day:  nothing gets stolen, customers place money in 'honesty box'"""
2009-01-01,b'Home intruder interrupted by Thor'
2009-01-01,"b'Israel, a nation that was born out of Zionist terrorism, is using terrorism again. '"
2009-01-01,b'Israel believes its has won broad international support in the media for its actions in Gaza thanks to its PR strategy to stifle pictures of victims and to dominate the press. '
2009-01-01,"b""Car found in dead uncle's garage expected to fetch millions"""
2009-01-01,b'Australia says considering Guantanamo prison intake '
2009-01-01,b'All boys and men in Uganda will be mobilised for free circumcision beginning next year'
2009-01-01,"b'For Afghans, a Price for Everything, and Anything for a Price. Tale of Overwhelming Corruption'"
2009-01-01,b'Cuba marks 50 years of revolution'
2009-01-01,"b""100 cars set on fire, sportshall burned down, police attacked with bottles and fireworks. Headline FAIL: New Year festivities 'largely peaceful'"""
2009-01-01,b'World protests over Gaza raids [video] - (Go Annie Lennox!) '
2009-01-01,b'Russia cuts off gas deliveries to Ukraine'
2009-01-01,b'IAF steps up Gaza Strip air strikes | Israel | Jerusalem Post'
2009-01-01,b'Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: <em> Is That A Snuff Film The Israeli Air Force Has Posted On YouTube?</em>'
2009-01-01,"b'India, US and Pakistan : Tale of a choatic democracy, a super power and a rogue nation'"
2009-01-01,"b""Gaza facing 'critical emergency' """
2009-01-01,"b'Israel destroys Hamas homes, flattens Gaza mosque'"
2009-01-01,b'China Undercutting Price Of Military Hardware To Capture Markets In Africa From Russia / Chinas Tanks Aircraft Challenge Russian Sales In Africa'
2008-12-31,b'Former Army Employee Pleads Guilty to Acting as Israeli Spy'
2008-12-31,b'Graphic pictures of what the Israeli war machine does to Palestinians.'
2008-12-31,"b""Icelandic TV program featuring PM forced off the air when a torch-wielding crowd stormed Reykjavik's Hotel Borg in an attempt to get to the studio. A torch-wielding crowd. Sweet."""
2008-12-31,"b""Gazprom cuts off Ukraine's gas supply."""
2008-12-31,"b'IDF Claims to have Hit Hamas Truck, Human Rights Group Finds 8 Civilians Dead and No Hamas'"
2008-12-31,"b""Daniel Barenboim: If Hamas is destroyed, a more radical group will replace it. Israel's security depends on wiser action"""
2008-12-31,b'Israel and Gaza - Pictures'
2008-12-31,b'Greece: The left is full of puppet organizations that defer and defend the right and the existing order. The Greek people have no alternative but starting from scratch. '
2008-12-31,"b'""The land is fertile, the rain is falling, but the agricultural system has been destroyed by Robert Mugabe""'"
2008-12-31,b'UK telecom firm severs ties with Israeli company due to Gaza attacks'
2008-12-31,"b""Gaza's tunnel economy collapses in bombing raids"""
2008-12-31,b'Rotten state of Egypt too powerless and corrupt to act'
2008-12-31,b'No wonder it burnt to the ground - Cellphone footage shows hundreds of sparklers inside Bangkok club minutes before Deadly fire'
2008-12-31,b'In Pictures: Massacre of Gazan Children '
2008-12-31,b'New Norway law bans buying of sex '
2008-12-31,b'Israel stifles free press covering Gaza'
2008-12-31,b'Extreme seismic conditions return to yellowstone - Could be a big big bang for the new year!'
2008-12-31,"b'Israel kills top Hamas figure, escalating campaign'"
2008-12-31,b'*warning: may contain shocking images* Full Footage of the fire at Bangkok Nightclub Santika'
2008-12-31,"b'Israelis, Hamas continue bombing reddit. Cease-fire demanded.'"
2008-12-31,b'Nothing like a fresh Israeli offensive to bring out the Jew in me'
2008-12-31,b'Russia prepares to halt gas supplies to Ukraine'
2008-12-31,b'Vanity Fair: An Oral History of the Bush White House - an amazing collection of interviews'
2008-12-31,"b'Israel Rejects Cease-Fire, but Offers Gaza Aid'"
2008-12-31,"b'The Arab Conscience: A 40 minute song performed by many major Arab pop singers. ""The Woodstock of this generation in the Arab world"", according to Juan Cole.'"
2008-12-30,"b'Greece: Union activist loses her eye in acid attack. Her supporters blockade company. Riot police ""forced to run leaving shields, helmets and even shoes behind.""'"
2008-12-30,"b'Israel has been in violation of international law since 1967, protected by the United States veto of UN Resolutions condemning Israel for its violent, inhumane, barbaric, and illegal acts.'"
2008-12-30,"b'Zbigniew Brzezinski to Joe Scarborough on Gaza: ""You know, you have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it\'s almost embarrassing to listen to you.""'"
2008-12-30,b'Iceland after the fall'
2008-12-30,"b'Russia is to shut off gas supplies to Ukraine, raising fears of European energy shortages'"
2008-12-30,b'Video about living conditions in Gaza (from 2007)'
2008-12-30,"b'""Here is a simple, stone cold fact. You cannot read or hear the truth about what is happening in Gaza from any corporate media in the United States.""'"
2008-12-30,b'MP wins support to ban topless sunbathing on Aussie beaches'
2008-12-30,"b""The IL Gov scandal is wrong, but almost EVERY election/bill/decision victory is directly correlated to the amount of money spent.  So, what ISN'T for sale?"""
2008-12-30,"b""While everyone was focusing on Israel and Hamas, a terrorist organization elsewhere killed 189. Is a Palestinian's life more noteworthy than these people's?"""
2008-12-30,b'Christmas Massacres - Ugandan rebels kill 400 in DR Congo'
2008-12-30,b'Sex offenders must hand over online passwords'
2008-12-30,"b""Some Myths about Israel's Attacks on Gaza"""
2008-12-30,b'Does anybody really think Israel would be a peaceful nation even if the Palestinians gave all of their land to Israel?'
2008-12-30,b'This Sun Times story was censored for political reasons. No shit. Go ahead. Try to find the original. '
2008-12-30,"b'The original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.'"
2008-12-30,b'The Emperor IS Naked - The story behind the Gaza initiative'
2008-12-30,"b""Iran shuts down leading reformist newspaper for criticizing Hamas' attacks and human shield use"""
2008-12-30,b'Volunteer suicide bombers seek to attack Israel'
2008-12-30,"b'Over 70,000 deaths, and over 1 million disabilities among American soldiers attributed to Iraq Wars'"
2008-12-30,"b'Brigitte Bardot\'s ""Hate Crime"" Against Islam - Freedom of speach abolished in France (and in most of Europe)'"
2008-12-30,b'Israel calls Gazans to warn them to flee for their safety'
2008-12-30,"b'Israel: If this is how the Children of God act, what are the Children of the Devil,'"
2008-12-30,b'ABC News: All (Illegal Immigrants) Aboard ICE Air'
2008-12-30,"b""Polygamy in the UK : Woman didn't know new husband was already married."""
2008-12-29,"b'Today Israel takes down an entire apt building of civilians to kill the family of one man. In Canada, we call that  terrorism.'"
2008-12-29,"b""Australia's topless ban to protect Muslims and Asians"""
2008-12-29,b'Israeli warship collides with boat carrying medical volunteers bound for Gaza'
2008-12-29,b'wife takes final pics of her husband in ER waiting room where he was told to wait while a virus ravaged his organs'
2008-12-29,b'It has started: Protests around the world against US and Israel'
2008-12-29,b'Israel pounds Gaza for fourth day - The massacre continues'
2008-12-29,b'Israel attacks a ship containing medical supplies'
2008-12-29,"b'If they are the greatest ally of the United States, why did they need to know about our missile defense system?'"
2008-12-29,b'Unacceptable! [News Photo]'
2008-12-29,b'Why America Needs to Stop Supporting Israel'
2008-12-29,"b""Holocaust 'greatest' love story a hoax"""
2008-12-29,b'Israel has banned reporters from the Gaza Strip -- only reporting from behind Israel lines is now allowed.'
2008-12-29,b'Ski jumper with the best distance record barred from Olympics.  For being female.'
2008-12-29,"b""Taliban militants beheading and burning their way through Pakistan's Swat Valley"""
2008-12-29,b'Israeli Navy Attacking Civilian Mercy Ship! '
2008-12-29,b'Hundreds of demonstrators marched through the Swedish capital on Monday and set fire to an Israeli flag painted with a swastika'
2008-12-29,b'Crippled accounting standards: the cause of the economic crisis?'
2008-12-29,"b""Asian governments roundly condemn Israel's 'crimes' in Gaza Strip """
2008-12-29,b'Chaos fear after President Abdullahi Yusuf of Somalia resigns'
2008-12-29,b'Israeli terrorists bomb a Pharmacy'
2008-12-29,b'Corruption taints every facet of life in China.'
2008-12-29,"b'Israeli warship orders boat carrying medical volunteers and supplies - with CNN reporter on board - to turn back to Cyprus, accusing the vessel of terrorist activity'"
2008-12-29,"b'Hamas official blames rockets on ""Collaborators""'"
2008-12-29,"b'Israel prepares for ""long weeks of action"" '"
2008-12-29,"b""Ayatollah Sistani, whom Paul Wolfowitz lauded for 'the first pro-American fatwa', Calls on Muslims to take practical steps against Israel"""
2008-12-28,b'Today I end my support of Israel'
2008-12-28,b'Israel bombs university in Gaza'
2008-12-28,"b'Over the weekend, I mapped the spread of Walmart using Modest Maps. It starts slow and then spreads like wildfire in the southeast and makes its way towards the west coast'"
2008-12-28,b'In pictures: Gaza Massacre (Graphic!  possibly NSFW)'
2008-12-28,"b""2008: How weird a year was it? Here's how weird:"""
2008-12-28,"b'""An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,"" Gandhi said.  What\'s going on in Gaza right now is not just an eye for an eye. It\'s a hundred eyes for an eye'"
2008-12-28,"b'""Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israeli Army to prepare for the operation over 6 months ago, even as Israel was beginning to negotiate a ceasefire with Hamas.""'"
2008-12-28,"b'Teen, snatched in a Florida suburb, recounts horror of sex slavery'"
2008-12-28,"b'Gaza Update: A little later I called my mother, only to hear her crying on the phone. ""The planes are overhead"" she cried ""the planes are overhead"". '"
2008-12-28,b'Egyptan Security forces shoot Palestinians'
2008-12-28,b'Washington once again used its veto powers on Sunday to block a resolution calling for an end to the massive ongoing Israeli attacks against the Gaza Strip. '
2008-12-28,"b""Perhaps when the IDF stops the air strikes the Israeli's who supported the slaughter could be made to walk through Gaza, like how Germans were forced to walk through concentration camps after WWII"""
2008-12-28,"b""Robert Fisk: We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care any more  providing we don't offend the Israelis """
2008-12-28,b'Secret of the Lusitania: Arms find challenges Allied claims it was solely a passenger ship'
2008-12-28,"b""Gaza Update: The longest night of my life. Israeli warships rocketed Gaza's only sea port only moments ago; 15 missiles exploded, destroying boats and parts of the port."""
2008-12-28,"b'""What makes this attack worse is that for the past 18 months we have been living with little electricity, water and food. For the children it is like living in hell.""'"
2008-12-28,"b'Most Gaza casualties were non-combatants, civilians '"
2008-12-28,b'Israel has been planning this carnage all the way through the supposed truce. So much for wanting peace.'
2008-12-28,"b""Israel's self harm"""
2008-12-28,b'Video: 28th December attack on Gaza Strip - bombing in Rafah'
2008-12-28,b'Middle East politics spilled onto the streets in cities across Canada on Sunday as pro-Palestinian protesters denounced the bloody Israeli attacks on Gaza and blasted Israel as a terrorist state.'
2008-12-28,b'Anti-Defamation League claims Israel has a right to massacre civilians'
2008-12-28,b'Benjamin Netanyahu is still a fascist'
2008-12-28,"b'Amos Oz, Israeli founder of Peace Now, releases statement on Gaza airstrikes: ""Israel must defend its citizens""'"
2008-12-28,b'45 people killed in Congo church'
2008-12-27,b'Mexico: Suggestion that all lawmakers take drug test sets off stampede for the door'
2008-12-27,"b'275 are dead so far, the world is silent, Hamas calls for a third Intidfada, and Israel is just starting.'"
2008-12-27,"b'Cops in disguise like anarchists are burning and breaking shops in athens.In the video you can see the ""anarchists"" talking with other cops in uniforms'"
2008-12-27,"b'An Israeli woman reacts to the horrors in Gaza: ""What\'s been happening in Gaza is fantastic."" '"
2008-12-27,"b'Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing at least 229 people in one of the bloodiest days for the Palestinians in 60 years of conflict with the Jewish state.'"
2008-12-27,"b'BBC\'s guy in Gaza: ""Some of my balcony was damaged and my kid was injured.""'"
2008-12-27,"b""Israeli Gov't okays draft of thousands of reservists"""
2008-12-27,"b'According to Saudi, American, and Israeli media, Israeli terrorism targets Hamas ""security men."" Here is one of them. She is very high up in the Hamas command structure. Don\'t be fooled.'"
2008-12-27,"b'Israel, wrong.'"
2008-12-27,"b'As Taliban Nears Kabul, Shadow Goverment Takes Hold '"
2008-12-27,"b""Robert Fisks World: How can anyone believe there is 'progress' in the Middle East?"""
2008-12-27,"b'Israeli Jew: ""Yes, when G-d says kill the babies, we kill the babies."" (Fuck these people)'"
2008-12-27,"b'50 targets, 60 warplanes, 200 people, 1 day. All very sanitary. Very sleek. Neatly packaged: war in a gift-box. ""There is a funeral passing every minute. The bodies are piling up.""'"
2008-12-27,"b'Venezuela to seize gold concessions as oil falls, Chavez says ""We are taking back...permits are still held by some rich people""'"
2008-12-27,"b""Britain's culture minister says websites should be rated the way films are to protect children from offensive material."""
2008-12-27,b'The Most Outrageous News Stories of 2008'
2008-12-27,b'The first annual Man O War OWardz to commemorate the people who are trying to make the world a better place through war.'
2008-12-27,"b'""The death of one Israeli victim justifies the killing of a 100 Palestinians.  One Israeli life is worth 100 Palestinian lives. This is what Israeli and world media more or less mindlessly repeat.""'"
2008-12-27,"b""Behave at school and you'll be given a PlayStation or plasma TV, pupils are told"""
2008-12-27,"b'Anybody know a good, unbiased book about the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict?'"
2008-12-27,b'Four scary words: Egypt after Hosni Mubarek '
2008-12-27,"b'From 19 June until yesterday, there was not one Israeli fatality from a Hamas attack, and life was improving in border cities like Sderot.'"
2008-12-27,"b""As Taliban nears Kabul, shadow gov't takes hold"""
2008-12-27,"b'230 Palestinians killed & 700 wounded by Israeli warplanes in a single day in Gaza. Israel: ""...now the time has come to fight""'"
2008-12-27,"b'European Court Refuses to Intevene to prevent euthanasia of Italian ""Terri Schiavo""'"
2008-12-26,b'120 reportedly killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza'
2008-12-26,b'Just a reminder that in November 2007 the US Government ordered Firefighters to Spy on Americans: Fahrenheit 451 is not make-believe any more'
2008-12-26,b'Nokia Maps show Kashmir as part of Pakistan; Hindu nationalist mobs riot and burn down Nokia shops'
2008-12-26,b'Britain and US refuse to demand end to Israeli airstrikes on Gaza'
2008-12-26,"b""It's not rape if she is my daughter. In Mexico, incest is considered a crime against the family, not the victim and the underage victim is initially considered as much a criminal as the rapist."""
2008-12-26,"b""'Israeli air strikes' target Gaza: Residents in the Gaza Strip say Israeli F-16 bombers have launched a series of air strikes into the territory."""
2008-12-26,"b'UK continues down path of 1984, wanting to censor all English language pages on the internet and exempt parents from responsibility.'"
2008-12-26,"b'Do not forget, that s Israel is killing hundreds, supposedly to protect itself from Hamas, Israel created Hamas in the first place'"
2008-12-26,b'The BBC takes a look inside Gaza.  Finds malnutrition and shortages '
2008-12-26,b'More than 150 Palestinians Killed and Hundreds Injured in Israeli Air Raid'
2008-12-26,"b""A woman found bound in the trunk of her own car may have been there for well over a week.  The good news:  She's ALIVE!"""
2008-12-26,b'Israel Set for Gaza Invasion After Rocket Barrage'
2008-12-26,"b""Canada, U.S. agree to use each other's troops in civil emergencies"""
2008-12-26,b'Harold Pinter on US hubris and bullying'
2008-12-26,b'Israeli air strikes in Gaza Strip kill 155'
2008-12-26,"b'AFP: Casulties in Gaza are at least 225, more than 700 wounded. '"
2008-12-26,b'When War breaks out between India and Pakistan who would win?'
2008-12-26,"b""Saudi Human Rights Council Launches Women's Rights Campaign"""
2008-12-26,b'Eurosceptic and climate change sceptic becomes EU President'
2008-12-26,"b""As Taliban nears Kabul, shadow gov't takes hold"""
2008-12-26,"b'Destroy all terrorist camps in Pakistan, Indian Muslims urge Indian Govt'"
2008-12-26,"b'Saudi Columnist Calls for End of Religious Police, Newspaper Fires Him'"
2008-12-26,"b""What's going on here?  Condi Rice gets over $300,000 worth of jewels from Arab leaders."""
2008-12-26,b'Samuel Huntington dies. '
2008-12-26,"b'Main stream media vs. corporate media , a distinction and a difference'"
2008-12-25,b'CIA uses Viagra to gain information from Afghan warlords'
2008-12-25,"b'In Egypt, 2008 was The Year of The Woman: First woman allowed to officiate marriages, first woman mayor, new laws regarding sexual harrassment, outlawing Female Genital Mutilation'"
2008-12-25,"b'A secret UK court hearing, with secret participants, produce a secret order to secretly gag the population, the terms of which are secret and the revelation is punishable by up to 15 years'"
2008-12-25,b'China to allow freer yuan trades'
2008-12-25,"b""McDonald's admits to paying 1,000 people to stand in line"""
2008-12-25,b'BREAKING! Pakistan Massing Troops on Indian Border'
2008-12-25,"b'Daylight Watergate - On the orders of the government the police, without a warrant. went through the opposition parties papers and arrested an opposition front bencher'"
2008-12-25,b'Russia will sell missiles to 7 countries'
2008-12-25,b'CIA Trades Viagra for Information'
2008-12-25,"b'""The Israelis are like a guy who sets fire to his hair and then tries to put it out by hitting it with a hammer. They do more to incite and sustain terrorism than curb it""'"
2008-12-25,"b'No, THIS is hell on Earth. Payatas, the Philippines'"
2008-12-25,b'Czechs may give EU a bumpy ride'
2008-12-25,b'Satan Now Buying Human Souls Online in Russia'
2008-12-25,b'Criminals and fatties: come and join the British Army'
2008-12-25,b'Pakistan moves troops toward Indian border'
2008-12-25,b'Palestinian rocket attack kills 2 Gaza girls '
2008-12-25,b'Bolivia: plot to assassinate Evo Morales?'
2008-12-25,"b"" Ninth body found in ruins of 'Santa massacre' home"""
2008-12-25,b'Iranians join Bush shoe protest'
2008-12-25,b'6 Chinese go on trial for selling melamine'
2008-12-25,b'Yemen to build ghetto for Jews'
2008-12-25,b'China begins anti-piracy mission '
2008-12-25,b'Israel opens Gaza border for humanitarian aid'
2008-12-25,b'Palestinians Brace For Israeli Attack After Militants Ignore Warnings'
2008-12-25,b'Wolf captured near tourist part of Great Wall'
2008-12-24,"b'Hell on Earth, this is a city of ShipBreakers. '"
2008-12-24,"b""Full text of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Christmas message"""
2008-12-24,"b'The economic crisis, right wing government and riots push Greece to the edge. There is talk of revolution and even the old-fashioned Communist Party of Greece (KKE) is stirring. '"
2008-12-24,b'The Right To Food'
2008-12-24,b'Love and Support: A relative living and working in the UK supports eight families back in Somalia with the money he makes'
2008-12-24,"b""Israel warns Hamas will pay 'heavy price'"""
2008-12-24,"b'Merry Christmas to the United Kingdom Redditors, and all others in the GMT timezone!'"
2008-12-24,"b""The full text of a Christmas message from Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad"""
2008-12-24,"b'Mission Accomplished: For first time, Christmas official holiday in Iraq'"
2008-12-24,b'Merry Christmas From After Hours Friends'
2008-12-24,"b'""Man accused of smuggling mummies""'"
2008-12-24,"b'""Das Kapital"" manga reaches Japanese bookstores: ""chronicles factory run by son who rebels against his father\'s socialist principles and becomes a slave driver""'"
2008-12-24,"b""Dozens held over 'Tibet rumours'"""
2008-12-24,b'suigle not google ! a new search engine for houses'
2008-12-24,b'Britons admit sedition charges'
2008-12-24,"b'Ahmadinejad\'s ""Queen for a day"" message'"
2008-12-24,"b'Mormon and former Utah state trooper apparently committed a series of roadway shootings before attempting suicide; He also allegedly shot liquid at woman, temporarily blinding her'"
2008-12-24,b'Sometimes Blogs Are a Good Thing'
2008-12-24,b'IDF preparing for Gaza op'
2008-12-24,b'Is war with Pakistan the only option?'
2008-12-24,b' Guinea coup leaders tighten grip '
2008-12-24,"b'In the midst of the Madoff debacle, ""Hamas"" attacks Israel and the ADL whines that the world must support Israel'"
2008-12-24,b'Pakistan: Joint left demonstration against India-Pakistan war drive'
2008-12-24,b'IJF Condemns Death Threats Against Pakistani Journalist Ansar Abbasi'
2008-12-24,"b""Israel's Aerial Weapon against Hamas {VIDEO}"""
2008-12-23,"b'American Express gets $3.39 Billion, Capital One gets $3.6 Billion, DIscover gets $1.2 Billion...Lets have the intrest rate for this money at 22.99% compounded monthly and with a $3 million late fee.'"
2008-12-23,"b""Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused South Africa of losing the moral high ground by failing to stand up to Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe. """
2008-12-23,b'Mexican Beauty Queen Arrested In Gun-Filled Truck (PHOTOS)'
2008-12-23,b'Japan Considers Sending Ships to Fight Pirates'
2008-12-23,"b'AS  SEEN ON REDDIT: Please help Sergio Lopez Family, fire victim, 3 kids, house burned, lost his wife, and job... '"
2008-12-23,b'Drug Trafficking : One of the Most Serious Challenges Faced By the Nations Worldwide'
2008-12-23,"b'CO2 Emissions ""Not a Factor"" When Approving Coal Plants, EPA Administrator Says'"
2008-12-23,"b'England - 60,000 households to pay tax at 90%'"
2008-12-23,b'Marijuana Ring that Smuggled 900 TONS of Weed into Arizona gets busted'
2008-12-23,"b""Press Association: Police 'secretly taped Damian Green arrest'"""
2008-12-23,b'Ahmadinejad to give festive speech'
2008-12-23,b'U.S. and Afghans Plan to Recruit Local Militias '
2008-12-23,b'Only 137 trucks of food were allowed into Gaza in November. This means that an average of 4.6 trucks per day entered the strip compared to an average of 123 in October and 564 in December 2005.'
2008-12-23,b'Chinese seek to pull cats from the menu'
2008-12-23,"b""Coup declared in Guinea after dictator's death"""
2008-12-23,b'Undersea cable cut disrupts Mideast and India communications'
2008-12-23,b'Behold the most depressing deer hunting video since Bambi'
2008-12-23,b' Report: Egypt ready to host Palestinian talks '
2008-12-23,b'Virgin Media ups broadband access ante to 50 Mbps'
2008-12-23,"b'U.S. recession deepens, countries boost spending'"
2008-12-23,"b'Mugabe responds to US and UK calls for his resignation. Calls them ""Stupid and Foolish"" [Video]'"
2008-12-23,b'Saudi girl (8) must remain married to man (47) says judge.'
2008-12-23,b'David Shepherd Named Man of the Year 2009!    UNNreports.com'
2008-12-23,"b""France: New Anti-Capitalist Party `a very exciting initiative'"""
2008-12-23,"b'Fed Up, Ordinary Guatemalans Turn To Vigilantism'"
2008-12-22,b'Man threatened with arrest under the Australian Anti-Terrorism Act for videoing police performing a search in public.'
2008-12-22,b'German intelligence head threatens Wikileaks site. Threat triggered by an article about the arrest of German agents on suspicion of throwing explosives at an EU office in Kosovo.'
2008-12-22,"b""Top Notch Journalism, NY Times admits to publishing fake letter purporting to be from the mayor of Paris that attacked Caroline Kennedy's bid for a Senate seat"""
2008-12-22,b'Gordon Brown wants loans to the poor to have 27% interest rate.  Labour MPs Revolt. '
2008-12-22,b'GOP consultant killed in plane crash was warned of sabotage'
2008-12-22,"b'Iran is shipping missile parts to Syria in Venezuelan planes, to avoid UN sanctions '"
2008-12-22,b'Protests in Iceland may escalate'
2008-12-22,"b""Lesbian's brutal gang rape investigated in California"""
2008-12-22,b'UK: Homeowners who have not missed a mortgage payment could be threatened with repossession by lenders using an emergency clause to demand that the entire loan be repaid at short notice.'
2008-12-22,b'Pakistani Jets Scramble As India Hardens Tone'
2008-12-22,b'Oligarchs go cap in hand to the Kremlin as their vast empires begin to crumble'
2008-12-22,b'As Brazil destroys the Amazon jungle hundreds of eco-warriors trying to protect the environment are at risk of assassination'
2008-12-22,b'Blix may testify against Iraq war makers'
2008-12-22,"b""Brazil's Tough New Drunken-Driving Law -- Blow a .02 and lose your license for a year"""
2008-12-22,"b'Russian oligarchs are lining up for $78 billion of Kremlin loans, giving Putin the opportunity to increase government control of the nations biggest companies.'"
2008-12-22,b'Russians protest plan to raise taxes on imported cars'
2008-12-22,"b""Looking back over China's last 30 years - CNN.com"""
2008-12-22,"b""Mexico's drug war: Soldiers decapitated heads stuffed in a plastic bag and left outside a shopping center."""
2008-12-22,b'FDNY Lieutenant Admitted Plan To Take Down WTC 7'
2008-12-22,b'British police failing to investigate 40% of crimes - because they are too hard to solve'
2008-12-22,b'Interpol slams India for lack of cooperation'
2008-12-22,b'Playing politics:  India reluctant to turn over evidence while demanding that Pakistan crack down on the militant group suspected of hatching the plot'
2008-12-22,"b""Bush 'shoe maker' hit by demand """
2008-12-22,b'The Odd Couple ATT and Apple'
2008-12-22,"b""The pope has sparked controversy by saying defending heterosexuality is as important as saving the world's rainforests from destruction."""
2008-12-21,"b'Shoe thrower expected to be shot after throwing first shoe. ""\'that gave me time to throw the second. If the clock were turned back, I\'d do the same thing over again."" Trial set for 12/31'"
2008-12-21,b'Bailiffs for private firms can now force their way into homes to seize property to pay off credit cards and loans and can restrain or pin down householders.'
2008-12-21,b'UN says criticizing a religion or belief is *not* permissible expression'
2008-12-21,b'Pope says saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction'
2008-12-21,"b'A French ship has begun repairing two undersea cables in the Mediterranean that were severed on Friday, disrupting internet and phone communications.'"
2008-12-21,b'Australian Internet filtering plan may extend to peer-to-peer traffic.'
2008-12-21,"b'Mexican drug lords gain notoriety and fame by having the most gruesome killing methods, including dissolving bodies in lye'"
2008-12-21,"b""Saudi Arabian eight-year-old daughter's divorce plea is denied"""
2008-12-21,b'Companies blacklisted in US for allegedly backing Mugabe operate freely in UK'
2008-12-21,b'Northern Ireland cashes in on the recession Big Time!'
2008-12-21,"b'Fighter jets of the Pakistan Air Force thundered over the capital, Rawalpindi and Lahore all of Monday afternoon, heightening peoples fears that a war was about to break out any minute with India.'"
2008-12-21,"b'Iranian gov\'t shuts down human rights org for "" illegal activities such as publishing statements, writing letters to international organizations, and holding press conferences""'"
2008-12-21,"b"" Inventor's 2020 vision: to help 1bn of the world's poorest see - with liquid specs"""
2008-12-21,b'German spy chief threatens Wikileaks'
2008-12-21,b'Archbishop of Canterbury warns recession Britain must learn lessons from Nazi Germany.'
2008-12-21,"b""New Zealand's foreign debt has soared to a dangerous level."""
2008-12-21,b'Sabre-rattling by India as military chiefs brief PM.'
2008-12-21,b'Weak economy forces many North Americans to give up pets'
2008-12-21,"b'...a message was found next to the nine heads warning, ""For each one of us they kill, we\'ll kill 10 of them.""'"
2008-12-21,"b'The Submarine cable that was recently cut, led me to find this article, The Eight Wonder of the World, an overview of the laying of the first Atlantic Cables.'"
2008-12-21,b'Pakistan air force enhances vigilance'
2008-12-21,"b""it is especially painful for me, as aJew, to portray the ongoing and intensifying abuse of the Palestinian people by Israel through a reliance on such an inflammatory metaphor as 'holocaust'"""
2008-12-21,b'Social Media Begins Forcing the Totally Transparent Layoff'
2008-12-21,b'2 1/2 tons of marijuana found in Afghan school'
2008-12-21,b'A monster out of control: Pakistan secret agents tell of militant links'
2008-12-20,"b'Chinese Banker tells the American People, ""You need someone to tell you the truth""'"
2008-12-20,b'FBI moving agents off terrorism-related cases to financial fraud ones '
2008-12-20,b'Saudi Family Values: Saudi court rejects divorce plea from EIGHT-year-old girl married to 58-year-old man'
2008-12-20,b'Iraqi shoe-thrower: I would do it again'
2008-12-20,"b'2 1/2 tons of pot found in Afghan school.  As U.S. coalition tries to stamp out opium, farmers turning to pot.'"
2008-12-20,b'Egyptian teacher to stand trial for murdering 11-year-old pupil whose homework was late'
2008-12-20,"b'High Court teaches meaning of ""public domain"" to heirs of author.'"
2008-12-20,b'Rape victims convicted of Zina (adultery) and sentenced to death by stoning under sharia law'
2008-12-20,b'Syria claims UN gay rights declaration would lead to sex crimes against children.....'
2008-12-20,b'Lashkar-e-Taiba denies involvement in Mumbai attacks'
2008-12-20,"b""Saudi court rejects plea to annul 8-year-old girl's marriage to 58-year-old man"""
2008-12-20,b'Eight major undersea Internet communication cables cut in 2008: We most definitely do live in interesting times'
2008-12-20,"b'Afghanistan: ""The opposite of everything we consider to be democracy"" (w vid)'"
2008-12-20,b'Russian police kick and detain people amid auto tariff protests'
2008-12-20,"b'How is Bush\'s shoe thrower evidence of a ""free Iraq"" when he\'s in jail?'"
2008-12-20,"b""Sweden's most notorious serial killer might merely be a serial confessor"""
2008-12-20,"b""It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas (in Amsterdam, with p)c) Did I mention the Drag Virgin Mary?"""
2008-12-20,"b""Israeli blockade 'forces Palestinians to search rubbish dumps for food'"""
2008-12-20,"b""'Deaths from Mumbai Policy Enforcement error'"""
2008-12-20,"b'""Zimbabwe is mine"" says Mugabe'"
2008-12-20,"b""Saudi Arabia 'may allow' cinemas after three-decade ban"""
2008-12-20,b'Dont let this sickness spread any further '
2008-12-20,"b'Baghdad celebrates first public ""commercial"" Christmas, w/ ballons, etc. Sponsored by Iraqi Death Squads.'"
2008-12-20,b'Disregarded Historian Saved by Archaeology and DNA Evidence?'
2008-12-20,"b'Russian ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, who danced for decades at the Bolshoi Theater and captured the attention of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, died on Saturday at the age of 92.'"
2008-12-19,b'Scientist repeat 1962 Milgram test: More than 80% of people torture others when told to do so by an authority figure. Have we learned nothing?'
2008-12-19,"b'""I loved her. I tried to approach her many times, but she rejected me. But since I became a pirate, she has tried nine times to get with me.""'"
2008-12-19,"b'Submarine cables cut again: internet and phone links between Middle East, South Asia and Europe lose 65%-90% capacity'"
2008-12-19,b'Belgian government offers resignation'
2008-12-19,"b'Bush Won\'t Condemn Countries That Jail Gays: ""It\'s disappointing,"" said Rama Yade, France\'s human rights minister  b/c of America\'s long tradition as a defender of human rights.'"
2008-12-19,b'Germany: Use anti-child pornography software or be denied access to the Internet.'
2008-12-19,b'Three undersea internet cables in the Mediterranean were severed within minutes of each other. Again.'
2008-12-19,"b""Belgium's government collapsed on Friday after a top court found signs that it had sought to sway a legal ruling on the future of stricken bank Fortis."""
2008-12-19,b'China blocks Internet access to New York Times'
2008-12-19,"b'In Zimbabwe, $100 million buys a bus ticket'"
2008-12-19,b'Dark side of Argentine sex city'
2008-12-19,b'An undersea lake of oil may transform Brazils economy forever'
2008-12-19,b'The Greek Riots in Pictures'
2008-12-19,"b""Anonymous notes posted outside schools in Mexican city threatening to kidnap pupils if teachers don't give them their end-of-year bonuses -- give them to who? They're anonymous!"""
2008-12-19,"b'Robert Mugabe says Zimbabwe is mine, while the central bank unveils a new 10 billion Zimbabwe dollar bank note.'"
2008-12-19,b'Police stripped woman and left her naked for 6 hours'
2008-12-19,b'Tragedy at Christmas show as actress plunges 25ft to her death in front of horrified audience'
2008-12-19,"b'Japanese whale ""researchers"" are at it again.'"
2008-12-19,b'China blocks Internet access to New York Times'
2008-12-19,b'Amnesty International slams Indian anti-terror law'
2008-12-19,b'China to deploy ships off Somalia'
2008-12-19,b'Swedish city hit by youth riots'
2008-12-19,b'Shoe Throwing Reporter Offered A Palestinian Bride'
2008-12-19,b'Electric Motorcycles Bouy Hondas Hope for Financial Future'
2008-12-19,b'AFP: Iran urges Pakistani clampdown on terrorism'
2008-12-18,b'Chinese ship uses Molotov cocktails to fight off Somali pirates'
2008-12-18,"b""Tree man's roots begin to grow back """
2008-12-18,"b'Heartbreaking that many hundreds of families in Iceland are in need for food, families hurt, the rich seem to walk away with ease'"
2008-12-18,b' UN split over homosexuality laws : Sixty-six countries at the United Nations have called for homosexuality to be decriminalised. '
2008-12-18,"b'Mark Felt, the former FBI official who revealed himself to be Deep Throat, the source that exposed the Nixon-era Watergate scandal, has died.'"
2008-12-18,"b'Man repays 5 debt, 39 years on! (One of those aaaw nice stories)'"
2008-12-18,"b'White couple, black man battle for claim to South Africa farm'"
2008-12-18,b'Belgian Government Collapses Over Bank Affair'
2008-12-18,"b'Man viciously beaten in an unprovoked attack is left paralysed - forgives attacker - ""Why should somebody else\'s life be ruined?""'"
2008-12-18,"b'Here We Go Again: Mediterranean Fiber Optic Cables Cut, Disrupting Middle East Communications'"
2008-12-18,b'Rwandan genocide mastermind jailed for life'
2008-12-18,b'Hamas declares Israel truce over '
2008-12-18,"b""It's terrorism, pure and simple: Suicide mice in cat attack"""
2008-12-18,"b""'Thousands made slaves' in Darfur"""
2008-12-18,"b'""The US government on Wednesday launched steps to seize a 36-storey New York office tower allegedly part-owned by the Iranian government in violation of sanctions against Tehran.""'"
2008-12-18,"b'Severed cables bring down phone lines linking Europe, Asia, Mideast'"
2008-12-18,b'Chinese ships will fight pirates'
2008-12-18,"b'After 30 Years, Economic Perils on Chinas Path - NYTimes.com'"
2008-12-18,b'Just How Big is Asias Largest Railway Station? Beijing South'
2008-12-18,"b'Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged.'"
2008-12-18,b'Aston Martin designs new London Bus!'
2008-12-18,b'Charities lose billions following what is perhaps the largest ever pyramid scheme collapse in history'
2008-12-18,b'Nobel Prize jurors under investigation for bribery'
2008-12-18,b'Giant squids are mating with undersea sub-cables again...'
2008-12-18,b'Iraqi judge: Shoe-tossing reporter was beaten'
2008-12-17,"b""Man applauds `shoe-ing' of Bush, arrested"""
2008-12-17,"b""A Hero who took a stand against torture, murder and abuse of power. Too bad he isn't American."""
2008-12-17,"b""More Government Control: Journalists Worry 'Big Brother Law' Will Kill Press Freedom"""
2008-12-17,b'Israel blocks UN rights official'
2008-12-17,b'Iraqi journalist broken and now said to be sorry for shoe-throwing. Shoes destroyed. '
2008-12-17,b'Looks like Iraq is doing the whole McCarthyism  thing now: Over 30 Iraq Interior Ministers Arrested'
2008-12-17,b'Give them more guns: China to send warships to fight Somalia piracy'
2008-12-17,b'Free speech in peril: Jacob Zuma sues South African cartoonist'
2008-12-17,"b'Muntadhar al-Zeidi: Man of the Year; ""A small act that represents so much""'"
2008-12-17,b'Nigerian babies fed antifreeze - dozens killed.'
2008-12-17,"b""Shoe-thrower faces 15 years in prison (where he'll be treated like a king)"""
2008-12-17,b'South Korea apparently has the most dedicated opposition party ever'
2008-12-17,b'Castro says could release prisoners for U.S. talks'
2008-12-17,b'Russian warships to visit Cuba'
2008-12-17,b'South Korean Lawmakers Brawl over U.S Free Trade Pact!  - [And throw in some Furniture Barricades and Construction Tools Too].'
2008-12-17,b'Australian ATMs *continuously* targetted and blown up with gas.'
2008-12-17,"b'But the first step is ADMITTING you\'re an imperialist: ""U.S. can no longer fund its unofficial empire"" [VIDEO]'"
2008-12-17,b'Warning for asthmatics  dont go and watch a fireworks display on a snowy night'
2008-12-17,b'India : The monster in the mirror'
2008-12-17,b'I was still holding my grandsons hand but the rest of him was gone'
2008-12-17,b'Oil Under $40; More Oil Stored on Ships at Sea Than at Any Time in The Last twenty Years'
2008-12-17,"b""Gondola Tower Snaps at Canada's Whistler ski resort"""
2008-12-17,"b""Pakistan's President Zardari Attempts the Impossible"""
2008-12-17,"b""Up to 25 Iraq government officials have been arrested on allegations that they were plotting to revive Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party"""
2008-12-17,b'Credit card crackdown coming soon'
2008-12-16,"b'Shoe-thrower faces up to 7yrs for ""offending the head of a foreign state""'"
2008-12-16,b'Spectacular Images of 2008 '
2008-12-16,b'*CBC Probe* -Tasers Tested Fire Stonger Current than Company Says'
2008-12-16,b'Man kidnaps child and trains him to kill black people.'
2008-12-16,"b'Icelandic government preparing a lawsuit on the British government, what will  the reactions of Britain be??  Did Britain cause the enormous bank collapse in Iceland?'"
2008-12-16,"b'Washington on the dead US soldiers who served in Iraq: ""It is regrettable that they had to die,"" Gaffney said, ""but I believe they did have to die""'"
2008-12-16,b'Greek youths hang protest banners from Acropolis'
2008-12-16,b'Russia provides 10 MiG fighter jets to Lebanon for free'
2008-12-16,b'Al-Zaidi faces up to 15 years in prison for hurling shoes at Bush'
2008-12-16,b'U.N.: Militaries can pursue Somali pirates on land'
2008-12-16,"b""we're now at 200+ banks bailed out"""
2008-12-16,"b'Awww, now I feel bad for being a pirate'"
2008-12-16,b'I thought GM needed money from the government?  Why are they building in China!?!'
2008-12-16,"b'Sarkozy concerned about spread of Greek uprising: ""The French love it when I\'m in a carriage with Carla, but at the same time they\'ve guillotined a king.""'"
2008-12-16,"b'Interview with Nikos R., friend of Alexandros Grigoropoulos'"
2008-12-16,"b'""Resistance"" - Greek protestors on Parthenon (pic)'"
2008-12-16,b'Greek protesters unfurl banners at the Acropolis as riot damages reach $1.3 billion.'
2008-12-16,"b""Israel's Army says Gaza militants fire 9 rockets at Israel"""
2008-12-16,"b'A Dutch dictionary company says Web visitors have voted ""swaffelen"" -- an English slang verb meaning to swing one\'s exposed penis -- as the word of the year. '"
2008-12-16,b'Minnesota to Somalia: The Kinkos Crusade [Warnerd]'
2008-12-16,"b""The Armenian Genocide: (Video) This is a compelling documentary which focuses as much on Turkey's remarkable efforts to deny the massacre - which includes killing those who speak of it even today. """
2008-12-16,"b""Out With the Coal & Oil, In With the Geothermal in East Africa's Rift Valley"""
2008-12-16,b'SEC Missing In Action on Financial Crisis Had Knowledge of Madoff Wrongdoing 9 Years Ago'
2008-12-16,b'SAfrica refuses to join growing calls for Mugabe to quit'
2008-12-16,b'US Military and Western Mainstream Media try to conceal War Crimes in Fallujah '
2008-12-15,b'Turks apologize for Armenian massacres'
2008-12-15,"b'Greek youths break into state TV center, take over'"
2008-12-15,"b""Iraqi journalist who threw shoes at George Bush had 'arm broken' by police"""
2008-12-15,"b'""A superpower never has allies. It only has agents.""'"
2008-12-15,b'Turkish Academics To Apologize For Armenian Genocide'
2008-12-15,b'Greece: Protester uses a laser pointer to show where a riot cop is.'
2008-12-15,"b""Does anyone else think two thrown shoes have already become the symbol by which history will understand Iraq's rebuke of the Bush campaign? Al-Zaidi's brother gives context."""
2008-12-15,b'BBC/Arab media: Iraqi shoe-thrower is being tortured'
2008-12-15,"b'Shoe thrower hates both US, Iran role'"
2008-12-15,b'Arabs hail shoe attack as Bushs farewell gift'
2008-12-15,"b'When I wrote this, they called me a conspiracy theorist. (A Review of a Financial Times Op-Ed)'"
2008-12-15,"b'Cameras, cameras everywhere, and not a person to watch them'"
2008-12-15,b'Scientology Implicated in Reed Slatkin $50bn Ponzai Scheme'
2008-12-15,b'Online poker billionaire Mr Dikshit ordered to pay US authorities $300 million'
2008-12-15,"b""UK: Blind man's guide dog barred from restaurant for offending Muslims"""
2008-12-15,b'The man behind the Narco Submarine'
2008-12-15,b'Brave Iraqi reporter withstands beating by guards - refuses to name co-conspirator who supplied him with the shoes.  U.S. may send him to Guantanamo for enhanced interrogation to keep America safe'
2008-12-15,b'Official: Shoe-thrower in Iraqi military custody'
2008-12-15,"b'Act now, or Congo could be Rwanda all over again'"
2008-12-15,"b'Hackers responsible for deforesation in Amazon, says Greenpeace'"
2008-12-15,"b""'I was still holding my grandson's hand - the rest was gone'"""
2008-12-15,"b""'Explosives found' in Paris store"""
2008-12-15,b'Obama Plans to Give a Major Speech In an Islamic Country Soon After Taking Office'
2008-12-15,b'UN commits to preserving mass grave sites in Afghanistan'
2008-12-15,"b'In Mexico, we Kidnap your Anti-Kidnap Experts'"
2008-12-14,b'Free him!  Iraq rally for Bush shoe attacker'
2008-12-14,b'Oh my! I was doing some research on whether the mentally retarded are allowed to vote and stumbled on THIS gem of a page!'
2008-12-14,b'Aussie Protesters wear gags to rally against national Internet filtering (pics)'
2008-12-14,b'China on the verge of unemployment explosion'
2008-12-14,"b'Man gets laid off, crashes Christmas party and kills the CEO.'"
2008-12-14,b'Grrrreat. This is all we need. India prepared to attack Pakistan.'
2008-12-14,"b'The Bush shoe attack may appear to be just an amusing incident to those in the West, but to the majority of the world it is a symbol of what Bush and the US administration represent, filth.'"
2008-12-14,b' $ 1 Million Offered for the Shoe that was Thrown to hit BUSH in IRAQ '
2008-12-14,"b'New wave of riots expected as 100,000 face sack in Greece'"
2008-12-14,b'Israel: UN Human Rights Council rapporteur denied entry to Israel'
2008-12-14,b'Iraqi shoe-throwing reporter becomes the talk of Iraq'
2008-12-14,"b""Over 5,300 people have been killed in Mexico's drug war this year alone because of President Caldern's decision to dismantle drug trafficking organizations"""
2008-12-14,"b""World Health Organization: Cancer To Be World's Top Killer By 2010"""
2008-12-14,b'Irish minister held hostage at gunpoint'
2008-12-14,b'Army Riots Escalate Zimbabwe Crisis'
2008-12-14,"b'""now it is very difficult for people to invest in things that are meant to be regulated in America""'"
2008-12-14,b'Israel Urged to Ease Pressure on Palestinian Banks '
2008-12-14,b'That Was No Small War in Georgia -- It Was the Beginning of the End of the American Empire'
2008-12-14,b'The most racist site youll see today'
2008-12-14,b'New Thai prime minister elected '
2008-12-14,"b""GREECE'S MAELSTROM OF VIOLENCE - The Revolt of a Disappointed Generation"""
2008-12-14,b'Israel frees 224 Palestinian prisoners'
2008-12-14,"b""Pakistan's president speaks out on Mumbai, terrorism and the ISI"""
2008-12-14,b'Amazon Deforestation On The Rise'
2008-12-14,b'US anti-kidnapping expert kidnapped in Mexico'
2008-12-13,"b""WTF! At inquest into death of Brazilian shot dead by UK police in 2005, judge instructs jury not to even contemplate a verdict of unlawful killing. Shouldn't the jury have been left to decide that?"""
2008-12-13,"b'In Athens, middle-class rioters are buying rocks at three stones a euro!'"
2008-12-13,b'Greek police run out of tear gas as rioting continues for a seventh day'
2008-12-13,b'Rome declares state of emergency'
2008-12-13,b'President of UN General Assembly urges Israel to be recognized as an Apartheid state'
2008-12-13,"b""The oligarch who gave it all up - oil will be worthless, metals will be worthless . . . I'v got sheep, a horse, cows, poultry and goats.  """
2008-12-13,"b'Just so we\'re clear, the Greeks are STILL rioting and ""copy cat"" incidents are happening across Europe.'"
2008-12-13,"b""Good to see something actually being done about forced marriages, even if it's only a start..."""
2008-12-13,b'Iranian to be blinded with acid for doing same to woman'
2008-12-13,b'Indian fighter jets violate Pakistan air space; Possibly related blasts heard'
2008-12-13,"b'U.N. confirmed Friday that a mass grave in northern Afghanistan has been disturbed, raising the possibility that evidence supporting allegations of a massacre seven years ago may have been removed.'"
2008-12-13,"b""'The BBC cannot see the difference between a criminal and a terrorist'"""
2008-12-13,"b'Scam victims out of $50bn, get fined $5m?'"
2008-12-13,b'Acid attack burns 46 shoppers'
2008-12-13,"b'Kurdish and Arab leaders gather at Kirkuk restaurant to talk peace: suicide bomber shows up, killing 55 '"
2008-12-13,b'Police thwart anti-Kremlin rally'
2008-12-13,b'Greek militants warn of new protests after an attack on an Athens police station in the latest clashes over the police killing of a teenager.'
2008-12-13,b'Forced Marriage Doctor: Woman tricked into returning to Bangladesh and held captive by her parents is being allowed to return to the UK. '
2008-12-13,b'Ebola in Philippine!'
2008-12-13,b'Violent protests resume in Greece'
2008-12-13,b'52 Egyptians were killed when their bus plunged into a canal south of Cairo on Sunday in the deadliest road accident in Egypt in two decades'
2008-12-13,b'Cancer jab leaves girl paralysed from waist down '
2008-12-13,b'Police in Russia supress Anti-Kremlin rally! Arrest more than 100 people!'
2008-12-13,"b'Mugabe Blames ""Racist Britain"" For Cholera'"
2008-12-13,b'Would you get your tan in a Nazi holiday camp?'
2008-12-12,"b""President Mugabe, you are under arrest on charges of torture. Mugabe's jaw dropped. His face was contorted with fear."""
2008-12-12,b'Shocking pictures of a policeman on fire after a petrol bomb was thrown at him'
2008-12-12,b'UK Home Secretary : Time to tackle the non-violent extremists'
2008-12-12,"b'SEC warned, ""Madoff Securities is the world\'s largest Ponzi Scheme."" In 1999.'"
2008-12-12,"b""Office of lawyer defending Greek boy's killers ransacked"""
2008-12-12,b'Russian MPs vote to scrap juries for terror and treason cases'
2008-12-12,"b'Russia has scrapped the right to trial by jury for people accused of organising violent crime, terrorism and civil unrest.'"
2008-12-12,"b'Zimbabwe blames cholera on British ""biological weapon""'"
2008-12-12,"b'Indian navy foils a hijack attemp on a merchant vessel by Somali pirates, this time the pirates avoid being blown up.'"
2008-12-12,b'Christmas Party Death:  Canadian shoots and kills former boss'
2008-12-12,b'800 dogs die in kennel flood'
2008-12-12,"b'Navy:1 and Pirates:0. CNN:Indian navy captures 23 pirates,their ship,7 AK-47s and prevents 1 hijacking.'"
2008-12-12,"b""First the UK, now Germany:  German Internet Watchdog To Remove URLs To 'Virgin Killer' From Search Engines"""
2008-12-12,b'Mugabe: Cholera is biological attack by west. '
2008-12-12,"b'A loose global network of battle-hardened former soldiers and their relatives, the Pink Panthers, have been organizing diamond heists around the world.'"
2008-12-12,b'Deep in the land of the Taliban'
2008-12-12,b'Her limbs were found at the home of a witch doctor  who fled cops following a tip-off'
2008-12-12,b'Guitarist stabbed 50 times by bandmates in Italy'
2008-12-12,b'Ecuador defaults on foreign debt '
2008-12-12,b'Pentagon May Have Mixed Propaganda With PR?'
2008-12-12,"b'Arundhati Roy: On a day when the newspapers were full of moving obituaries by beautiful people about the hotel rooms they stayed in, hunger in India got only a small box in the corner. '"
2008-12-12,b'6 alleged Islamic extremists charged in Belgium'
2008-12-12,b'Jellyfish gone wild ruin international tourist destinations'
2008-12-12,"b""Muslim lawyer Anjem Choudary brands Christmas 'evil'"""
2008-12-12,b'A crash as historic as the end of communism'
2008-12-11,"b'The unrest that has gripped Greece is spilling over into the rest of Europe, raising concerns the clashes could be a trigger for opponents of globalization, disaffected youth and others ...'"
2008-12-11,"b""Look up tonight to catch the biggest moon we've seen for 15 years"""
2008-12-11,"b""World's Friendliest Countries: Canada, Germany and Australia on top.  United Arab Emirates at the bottom."""
2008-12-11,b'The EU is treating Ireland like some naughty schoolboy'
2008-12-11,b'Greek embassy in Berlin occupied by ANARCHISTS!'
2008-12-11,"b""China builds 'psychedelic' pedestrian crossings to really confuse drivers """
2008-12-11,"b""Mugabe : Cholera denial was 'sarcasm'"""
2008-12-11,"b'Manitoba 5 yeard old ""She was beaten, forced to eat her own vomit, locked in the basement without clothing, shot with a BB gun. Nearly every bone broken""'"
2008-12-11,"b""UK:  Form 696, which was promoted by Sir Ian Blair, demands that public venues define 'the ethnicity of their audience'."""
2008-12-11,"b'Does Russia face massive social unrest? - ""Russian industrial towns might face social unrest and violence as companies plan massive layoffs, a Russian sociologist says.""'"
2008-12-11,b'[Confirmed] North Korean leader had a stroke: French doctor'
2008-12-11,"b'No charges will be laid in connection with the death of Robert Dziekanski, the polish immigrant who died at the Vancouver Airport last year, after being Tasered by police. [video]'"
2008-12-11,b'Moscow mayor: Freedom of assembly? Not for gay people'
2008-12-11,b'GM in final death throes.'
2008-12-11,b'China accuses Dalai Lama of ordering assassinations'
2008-12-11,"b""Mugabe claims Cholera crisis is over while thousands in Zimbabwe suffer and die. Isn't it time for the world to act????"""
2008-12-11,"b'Greek Consulate in Berlin Is Occupied by Protesters, Police Say'"
2008-12-11,b'The Most Dangerous Woman in the World - Aafia Siddiqui'
2008-12-11,"b'Poorer nations inflated vaccination numbers: Only half as many children as claimed received shots, study finds'"
2008-12-11,b'Arundhati Roy: Mumbai was not our 9/11'
2008-12-11,b'Can anyone explain the origin and history behind the Greek Riots?'
2008-12-11,b'Militant Organization of Russian Nationalists takes claim for a Tajik migrant worker found decapitated in Moscow.'
2008-12-11,b'New Deal Will Allow Shell to Develop One Quarter of Jordan for Oil Shale Exploration'
2008-12-11,"b'Raw Video - At least 47 killed, 93 injured in Iraqi restaurant blast'"
2008-12-11,"b""Pompeii family's final hours reconstructed"""
2008-12-10,b'Escapee Tells of Horrors in North Korean Prison Camp'
2008-12-10,"b'""Indian police have arrested a man for writing a book blaming Hindus for deadly anti-Christian violence in the country\'s east earlier this year...""'"
2008-12-10,b'Violent unrest grows:  Greek-inspired protests spread across Europe'
2008-12-10,b'European democracy: Ireland who rejected the Lisbon treaty in 2008 will have to vote for it again in 2009 and again and again and again until they do exactly what Brussels tells them to do'
2008-12-10,b'Countries Ranked by Political Corruption'
2008-12-10,b'Bodies pile up as Mugabe wages war on diamond miners'
2008-12-10,b'Russia May Join OPEC??'
2008-12-10,b'Kick Ass Retired Marine Corps General who has repeatedly beaten the U.S. Navy in wargames lays out his strategy for defeating the pirates'
2008-12-10,"b""World's most valuable resource, a curse for most Nigerians. Though Nigeria is one of world's richest oil states; people are among poorest in world"""
2008-12-10,b'GREEK UNREST SPREADS - Solidarity Protests Across Europe Turn Violent'
2008-12-10,"b""'There is no cholera in this country' - Mugabe"""
2008-12-10,"b'A Chain Reaction of Proliferation: How each country got its bombs, visualized.'"
2008-12-10,b'Strike Cripples Riot Torn Greece - Government Hangs by Fraying Threads'
2008-12-10,b' Blast at Iraq restaurant kills 47 '
2008-12-10,b'Study Reports Anal Sex on Rise Among Teens.  Go teens go! '
2008-12-10,b'A Terrorist Gets the Judicial Middle Finger'
2008-12-10,b'Mumbai attacks: honest Mumbai ex police officer exposes the corruption and lack of motivation in the police force. Swifter action and better equipment could have prevented attack'
2008-12-10,"b""Think that Zimbabwe's problems are all caused by Mugabe, with the West as innocent bystander? Think again"""
2008-12-10,"b""Caylee's skeletal remains found - Now will Nancy Grace shut up?"""
2008-12-10,b'India unveils plans for new FBI-style security service'
2008-12-10,b'Jamaica: Gangs oust 200 people from homes'
2008-12-10,b'Pakistan police detain founder of group blamed for Mumbai terror'
2008-12-10,b'Lawyers march as more dissidents are snatched in Zimbabwe'
2008-12-10,b'The priceless expressions of an Australian family that ate some poo.'
2008-12-10,"b""Wal-Mart Takes Accident Victim's Legal Winnings"""
2008-12-09,b'Canada: Wal-Mart tries to prevent employee unionization. Wal-Mart tries to go to Supreme Court. Wal-Mart loses.'
2008-12-09,"b""After suffering a financial meltdown, 60-70% of Iceland's fishing stock is infected by a parasite, making it nearly impossible to sell. Fishing accounts for half of Iceland's exports."""
2008-12-09,"b'Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), has withdrawn its objection to a Wikipedia page that contained an image of a naked girl.'"
2008-12-09,"b""Hitler was the perfect boss: Former maid breaks her silence on the 'charming' dictator"""
2008-12-09,"b'Mugabe finally admits massive cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe.  Add this to starvation, riots, and 231,000,000% inflation.  It is time for Mugabe to step down.'"
2008-12-09,"b'Greece: ""Police using fascists and policemen in plain clothes, with rocks and sticks, pretending to be demonstrators, targeting either the demonstrators or vandalizing small shops and houses"" [PICS]'"
2008-12-09,"b""It's official: China is the world's biggest polluter"""
2008-12-09,"b""Dubai's solution to sewage problems: Dig a hole in the desert and dump it."""
2008-12-09,b'Somali pirates have received US$3.5 million ransom for the release of the Ukrainian freighter'
2008-12-09,b'Iraqis applaud charges against Blackwater guards'
2008-12-09,"b'Spains ruling elite tries to ignore the fate of 300,000 murdered by Francos fascists, the 500,000 people they imprisoned and the 500,000 they forced into exile.'"
2008-12-09,b'Global oil demand will collapse next year and commodities will not return to the highs they reached this summer in the foreseeable future'
2008-12-09,b'U.S. declines to free Reuters photographer in Iraq (Reuters)'
2008-12-09,"b'10,000 bone fragments found in an Argentinian detention center shows that bodies were thrown into a pit, shot, and burned along with tires.'"
2008-12-09,"b'Mumbai massacre gunmen identified, and guess which country they ALL belong to..'"
2008-12-09,b'UK: 90% of Private Pension Plans In Red Over $300B'
2008-12-09,b'Japanese recession much worse than first predicted'
2008-12-09,b'Greece Braces for General Strike'
2008-12-09,"b'Strikes cripple Greece, shaken by riots'"
2008-12-09,"b""How Burma's opposition lost its fear"""
2008-12-09,b'Out by June: UK plans Iraq withdrawal'
2008-12-09,"b'Strike shuts down Greece, more violence feared'"
2008-12-09,"b""Sustained speculative attack sends pound to record low against euro. As a Brit i'm fucking pissed off, I hope we don't adopt the Euro."""
2008-12-09,b'Riots in Greece [video]'
2008-12-09,b'Mumbai cop took bullets to help nab one terrorist alive.'
2008-12-08,"b""Chinese girl gets 'kiss of deaf'"""
2008-12-08,"b'Israeli PM Ehud Olmert: ""The sight of Jews standing with guns and shooting at innocent Palestinian civilians can only be called a pogrom.""'"
2008-12-08,b'Japan: America entrapped Japan into carrying out Pearl Harbor -- Japan never waged a war of aggression'
2008-12-08,"b'What the ""no"" day means on Greece and why student anger erupted across Greece over Saturday\'s fatal police shooting of a teenage boy.'"
2008-12-08,"b'Former ISI chief tells Fareed Zakaria on CNN that 9/11 and Mumbai were ""inside jobs""--Zakaria, member of the Trilateral Comission, offers big fat disclaimer'"
2008-12-08,"b'The Taliban movement ""now holds a permanent presence in 72 percent of Afghanistan, up from 54 percent a year ago.""'"
2008-12-08,b'UK: RIP Oliver Postgate - creator of Bagpuss and the clangers'
2008-12-08,b'[VIDEO] Greece: Police chases protester. Police beats protester.  Other protesters protect first protester.'
2008-12-08,"b'In order to sustain global auto-mania, we require overwhelming self-delusion.'"
2008-12-08,b'UN Agency: Nearly 1 Billion Hungry'
2008-12-08,b'The 7 Dumbest Things Ever Done by Airport Security | Cracked.com'
2008-12-08,"b""Two Pilots survive 18 hours on an ice floe in -20C after crash-landing in Canada's far north."""
2008-12-08,"b'Sony to cut plants and 8,000 jobs'"
2008-12-08,b'UK: Schoolgirl with learning difficulties gang-raped and scarred with acid'
2008-12-08,b'Video of Massive Riots in Greece - In response to the murder of 15 year old boy by policeman'
2008-12-08,b'Pakistan ex-spy chief: U.S. wants him on terror list'
2008-12-08,b' Who are the protesters in Greece?  '
2008-12-08,b'France fined for delaying EU laws'
2008-12-08,b'Military jet crash in San Diego kills 3 on ground'
2008-12-08,"b""Pakistan won't hand suspects to India"""
2008-12-08,"b'Gallup: ""Venezuelans more satisfied than other Latin Americans"" but ""ranked just below North America and Western Europe""'"
2008-12-08,b'Financial Times writer speculates on the pitfalls of world government'
2008-12-08,b'Athens riots: live video coverage'
2008-12-08,b'India releases details of nine dead Mumbai gunmen'
2008-12-08,b'Homeless dog risks life to rescue pal'
2008-12-07,"b'Cartoon porn kids are people, judge says in Simpsons porn case'"
2008-12-07,b'Pakistan raid seizes Mumbai attack ringleader (unconfirmed)'
2008-12-07,"b'You have to be crazy to criticize the Chinese government; or rather, criticize the Chinese government, and expect to be hospitalized for psychiatric disorders.'"
2008-12-07,b'Rioting in Greece Continues for Third Day '
2008-12-07,"b""500 Muslim Soldiers' Tombs Desecrated In France"""
2008-12-07,b'Hitler was the perfect boss: Former maid breaks her silence on the charming dictator'
2008-12-07,"b""Killing Babies to End a War? Women in Papua New Guinea Killing Male Babies to 'End Violence'"""
2008-12-07,b'Drunk driver who killed a father and son was masturbating at the wheel moments before the fatal crash'
2008-12-07,b'60 Minutes Airs 24-Minute Infomercial for Saudi Aramco'
2008-12-07,b'Russia may be capitalizing on the economic crisis to take major industries back out of private hands.'
2008-12-07,b'Fresh riots erupt for THIRD day over many Greek cities after police killing of a teenager. [with VIDEO]'
2008-12-07,b'Fears of Unrest Prompt Bailout Of China Exporters'
2008-12-07,b'Pakistan arrests suspected Mumbai planner'
2008-12-07,b'Russia is moving into Africa in a big way ... with an eye on winning even greater leverage over the global energy market.'
2008-12-07,b'A brief history of the Western Saharan peoples struggle for freedom'
2008-12-07,"b'As financial crisis hits, people stuff themselve with McDonalds to feel better'"
2008-12-07,b'Demonstrators on the balcony of the Greek consulate in Berlin waved a black and red flag and threw leaflets.'
2008-12-07,"b'Mexican Drug War has claimed nearly 7,000 lives since 2007'"
2008-12-07,b'Police Shooting Sparks Riots in Greece'
2008-12-07,b'Atheist Group Posts Winter Solstice Sign in Springfield'
2008-12-07,b'The weirdest legal cases of 2008'
2008-12-07,b'NY Times: Pakistans Spies Aided Group Tied to Mumbai Siege'
2008-12-07,"b""Lebanese man finds world's 'heaviest' potato"""
2008-12-07,b'A 25-year-old woman with no arms has become the first pilot ever to fly a plane using only her feet.'
2008-12-07,b'Derek Acorah Exposed As A Fraud - The Original Kreed Kafer Expos'
2008-12-06,"b'The Saudi ask permission to build mosque in Moscow. The Russians demand reciprocity, an orthodox church in Saudi Arabia.'"
2008-12-06,"b'Occupy, resist, produce: Workers in Argentina taking over dead factories and running them democratically'"
2008-12-06,b'Women attempts to sue Mormon Church over abuse claims; She says church failed to report the abuse to police'
2008-12-06,b'Brown urged not to allow extradition of UK hacker to US'
2008-12-06,b'Police shooting sparks riots in Greece'
2008-12-06,"b""Mumbai terrorist came from Pakistan, local villagers confirm. Caught terrorist's parents name found in Pakistan's electoral list and national id. cards."""
2008-12-06,b'UK ISPs begin censoring the internet'
2008-12-06,b'More Than 160 U.S. and NATO Vehicles Burned in Pakistan'
2008-12-06,"b'Taliban succesfully attack a NATO/US supply terminal in Pakistan and burn a lot of lorrys, humvees and supply for Afghanistan.'"
2008-12-06,b'Police shoot and kill 15 year old boy in Greece'
2008-12-06,"b""Fuck the Children of God:  Revoking Israel's UN Membership - The Gaza Strip is now the largest concentration camp in the world."""
2008-12-06,b'Pakistani militants destroy Western army vehicles'
2008-12-06,b'UK Helped Israel Get Nuclear Bomb - U.S. Had no Idea?'
2008-12-06,b'Rioting across Greece after police shoot boy dead'
2008-12-06,"b""Olmert (Israel's Prime Minister) accuses Jewish settlers of Pogrom."""
2008-12-06,"b""What oppressed people need isn't democracy but respect for individual rights, as an Afghani man's death sentence for supporting women's rights shows."""
2008-12-06,b'India denies Pakistan alert call'
2008-12-06,"b""From Barack Obama's Blackberry In box, the subject: Israel-Palestine."""
2008-12-06,b'German Police Arrest More Than 40 At Neo-Nazi March.'
2008-12-06,"b""Ovi's Person/Event of the Year: Vote now """
2008-12-06,b'Stein Bagger - Danish fugitive wanted for an alleged $170-million scam - has turned himself in to LAPD'
2008-12-06,b'Hyperinflation Forces Zimbabwe To Print $200 Million Notes'
2008-12-06,"b""Inside the world's most annoying economic crisis"""
2008-12-06,"b'Home loans and other loans to become cheaper, fixed deposit rates also maybe cut'"
2008-12-06,b'Hebron shooters turn themselves in'
2008-12-05,b'False Flag?  One of the men arrested for illegally buying mobile phone cards used by gunmen in Mumbai attacks is a counter-insurgency police officer'
2008-12-05,b'Doctors Without Borders: 75% of rapes they deal with are from the DR of Congo'
2008-12-05,b'Rape at epidemic proportions: Victims range from infants to 90 yr olds.'
2008-12-05,b' Jewish settlers set fire to Palestinian home'
2008-12-05,"b'Canadian and Australian Prime Ministers give exact same speech, word for word, in run-up to Iraq War. We know who the puppets are, but who are the masters?'"
2008-12-05,"b'""Danish Special Forces capture Somali pirate boat""'"
2008-12-05,"b'Hoax call to Zardari ""put Pakistan on war alert""'"
2008-12-05,b'Russian ship enters Panama Canal for the first time since World War II'
2008-12-05,b'Another fake WMD report from Debka douchebags'
2008-12-05,b'US Wants Four Ex-ISI Officials Declared Terrorists'
2008-12-05,"b'""Zimbabweans are reduced to plucking undigested corn kernels from cow dung... That could be tonight\'s supper.""'"
2008-12-05,"b""Europe's Scandal of the Year? - German Billlionaire Blackmailed by Swiss Gigolo, Prosecutors Say."""
2008-12-05,"b""Nuclear war for the lulz? Hoax India call 'put Pakistan on high alert'"""
2008-12-05,"b'CEO of top Swiss bank dies suddenly, sparking rumours of suicide'"
2008-12-05,b'What will become of Canada?'
2008-12-05,"b'Hoax call fuels Pakistan-Indian tensions - ""A man pretending to be India\'s foreign minister called Pakistan\'s president and talked in a ""threatening"" manner during the Mumbai terror attacks""'"
2008-12-05,b'29 killed after car bomb explodes in Pakistan'
2008-12-05,"b'Jordanian man strangles 16-year-old married sister after she visited a female friend because he had to ""cleanse family honour"".'"
2008-12-05,b'US backing for India fuels tensions with Pakistan'
2008-12-05,b'Canada halts parliament amid row'
2008-12-05,b'At Least 22 Dead in Pakistan Blast'
2008-12-05,b'Germany introduces health care services catering specifically to aging homosexuals'
2008-12-05,b'5 Blackwater guards charged in shooting'
2008-12-05,b'Carter Center: Guinea worm disease at all-time low. Pushing toward eradication.'
2008-12-05,"b""The Vatican's Policy of 'Cover-up' on Clergy Sex Abuse"""
2008-12-04,b'Canadian Conservatives Suspend Parliament to Avoid Facing a Non-Confidence Vote '
2008-12-04,"b'DNA samples of more than 857,000 innocent citizens now face deletion from the national DNA database after a landmark ruling by the European court of human rights in Strasbourg.'"
2008-12-04,"b""Reddit Headline: Sperm Donor Gets Sued. Reality:Guy has Sex with Lesbian, Demands to be called Dad for 4 years, has ANOTHER Kid with said Lesbian, get's Bored with Kids and Takes Off. Gets Sued."""
2008-12-04,"b'Romania removes theory of evolution from school curriculum. Also removed Voltaire, Camus and Nietzsche from the philosophy curriculum. Way to keep the population ignorant!'"
2008-12-04,b'Evicted Israeli settlers terrorize Palestinians.  '
2008-12-04,b'The extent of the suffering in Zimbabwe has reached Auschwitz proportions'
2008-12-04,b'Video: Jews shoot Palestinian men'
2008-12-04,b'Sperm donor ordered to pay child support'
2008-12-04,b'Japan Extends Citizenship To Out-Of-Wedlock Babies'
2008-12-04,b'The captured pakistani terrorist sings like a canary'
2008-12-04,b'Oil falls below $44. Down 70% from its peak in July.'
2008-12-04,"b""Arab states slam Israel's human rights record at UN forum """
2008-12-04,"b'Nanny haunted by guilt despite heroism: ""No one thinks of dying with a baby in their arms""'"
2008-12-04,b'Born and raised in a North Korean concentration camp [Google Tech Talks]'
2008-12-04,b'The sex ed revolution '
2008-12-04,b'Supreme Court to review case of enemy combatant on US soil'
2008-12-04,b'Reports: Pakistan army had hand in Mumbai attacks'
2008-12-04,b'Israeli paper - Hebron settler riots were out and out pogroms '
2008-12-04,b'Stay classy KBR.'
2008-12-04,"b'Patriarch Alexy II, head of Russian Orthodox Church, dies'"
2008-12-04,b'Blogging barmaid booted by Brussels'
2008-12-04,b'Japan: Stop All Support for War'
2008-12-04,b'Terrorist suspect arrested in February had Mumbai attack plans'
2008-12-04,b'Dog Risks Life To Save Injured Friend'
2008-12-04,"b'Christiane Amanpour: O. J. Simpson trial coverage helped the Rwandan Genocide to occur (excellent, depressing interview on genocide)'"
2008-12-03,"b'""I fell in love with a female assassin...""'"
2008-12-03,b'The Lie We Love: Healthy babies adopted from the developing world are usually not orphans at all.'
2008-12-03,b'European court ruling : the DNA of innocents may not be kept on file'
2008-12-03,b'Benazir Bhutto: Bin Laden was Murdered (she was killed a little over a month after saying this)'
2008-12-03,b'Jewish settlers turn TERRORIST. Rampage/Riots after forced removal from illegally occupied home.'
2008-12-03,"b'The only surviving suspect in the deadly attacks on Mumbai told investigators that he shot a small boy and, because he was crying, ""He shot him again, and killed him, to shut him up.""'"
2008-12-03,"b""There Goes the Conservative's Argument... Bloc part of secret coalition plot in 2000 with Canadian Alliance"""
2008-12-03,"b'""I know there is a God because in Rwanda I shook hands with the devil.""'"
2008-12-03,"b'""Niggers don\'t expel Jews! This isn\'t what we brought you to Israel for!"" are just some of the degrading slurs Border Guard officers reported hearing from masked settlers'"
2008-12-03,"b""Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to 'regulate the internet'"""
2008-12-03,b'Those pirates who attacked a cruise liner - were actually fishermen'
2008-12-03,"b'Venezuelans occupy car parts plant: ""too many people are waiting for president Chvez to solve their problems... the people have to push the revolution forward""'"
2008-12-03,"b""Pakistani TV: 'Hindu Zionists' and Mossad Behind Mumbai Massacre"""
2008-12-03,b'Zimbabwe: Civilisation in reverse'
2008-12-03,b'Canadian Prime Minister has Suspended Parliament to Stop a No Confidence Vote ... Abuse of Power Much??'
2008-12-03,"b""If You Think the Neo-Con Warmongers are Gone You're Wrong. They Are Waiting to Attack Iran """
2008-12-03,b'Calling all Pakistanis - Article by Thomas L. Friedman NYT'
2008-12-03,b'Neocon coup in Canada. Harper to suspend Parliament to forestall ouster by majority opposition bloc.'
2008-12-03,"b'  FBI Seized Gold and Silver ""Coins"" from the Office of Liberty Dollar  '"
2008-12-03,b'Mumbai Gunman Promised Cash for Family'
2008-12-03,b'Saudi to help Israel bomb Iran'
2008-12-03,b'The lineage of the terrorists who attacked Bombay is better traced to those vicious acts of 20th and 21st century terror which feature self styled protagonists of all the faiths and ideologies...'
2008-12-03,b'Hebron settlers evicted by force'
2008-12-03,"b""Mumbai gunmen took coke? Plausible. Mumbai gunmen injected LSD? I'd say this reporter has never taken acid."""
2008-12-03,b'Russia to Send Warship Through Panama Canal (flexing muscles?)'
2008-12-02,b'Brazil Announces Plan to Slow Amazon Deforestation by 70%'
2008-12-02,b'Big brother police to get power to stop you in the street to demand ID  (UK - of course)'
2008-12-02,b'CCTV footage of cops fighting Bombay terrorists. Mob got him in the end.'
2008-12-02,"b'The Daily Show on the Mumbai Tragedy: ""There have always been motherfuckers, there will always be motherfuckers, but what we can\'t do, is let them control our motherfucking lives.""'"
2008-12-02,"b'The Vatican on gays: ""Better dead than married!""'"
2008-12-02,"b'People over 60s are the fastest-growing group of criminals in Japan, with more arrests than teenagers in many areas'"
2008-12-02,b'Live Earth Concert Cancelled Due to Terrorist Attacks'
2008-12-02,b'UK government sneaking in mandatory ID cards'
2008-12-02,"b'Until last week, no one in the U.K. had dared search Parliament since 1642, when such an act led to the beheading of King Charles I.'"
2008-12-02,"b""First oil was expensive and we were told to be afraid, now it's very cheap and we're told to be afraid"""
2008-12-02,"b'As Rwandan genocide raged, a Canadian general\'s pleas for help were ignored  ""Hundreds of thousands"" could have been saved'"
2008-12-02,b'Italian judge suspends trial of CIA agents'
2008-12-02,"b""The world's most successful tennis player, Pete Sampras, became bored with retirement so he is back in London to play competitively again"""
2008-12-02,"b""Argentina's President Vetoes Law that would have Protected Glaciers"""
2008-12-02,"b'Europe Should Not Appease China, Says Dalai Lama'"
2008-12-02,"b'Abdel Bari Atwan on the Mumbai attacks: ""Today India is seen as moving closer to Israel in business ties as well as importing weapons from Israel.""'"
2008-12-02,"b'The Associated Press Trivializes Iraqi Death Toll, Amplifies Censorship and The New York Times Adds Unique Twist in Censoring Genocidal Numbers.'"
2008-12-02,b'Iran has recently executed an IT expert who confessed of being an Israeli spy for at least three years'
2008-12-02,"b""Doctors: Terrorists Torture of Jewish Victims in Mumbai 'Beyond Words'.   Why hasn't the US MSM reported this?"""
2008-12-02,"b'Nations to sign cluster bomb ban treaty: United States, China, Russia, Israel, Pakistan and India reject ban'"
2008-12-02,b'Nations sign cluster bomb treaty'
2008-12-02,b'Key Chavez opponent faces charges'
2008-12-02,"b'Venezuela: ""All those companies where the employers exploit the workers, or where it has become indebted and cannot pay its workers, well, they have to be recovered, nationalised, taken over"".'"
2008-12-02,"b'I killed 110 Children, Claims Witchdoctor'"
2008-12-02,"b'How do you pay a pirate\'s ransom? ""what goes on would be worthy of a Hollywood action movie script.""'"
2008-12-01,"b'The U.K. will make it an offence, punishable by up to ten years imprisonment, to publish or elicit information about any police constable'"
2008-12-01,"b""'No-one in our house works'"""
2008-12-01,"b'US Cruise Ship Carrying Over 1,000 People Chased, Shot At By Pirates Off Somalia.'"
2008-12-01,"b'Icelandic banking system collapses, hundreds storm the central bank'"
2008-12-01,b'Australians organise protests in backlash against internet censorship'
2008-12-01,"b'The Guardian reports that, Tony Blair helped Murdoch overcome an official investigation which was jeopardising one of his big investments...'"
2008-12-01,"b'With tail between the legs, Pakistan finally accepts the terrorists were from Pakistan that rocked Mumbai'"
2008-12-01,"b'China reveals 300,000 children were made ill by tainted milk '"
2008-12-01,b'Mob runs riot as Zimbabwe runs out of water'
2008-12-01,"b'Thailand gets even weirder: Court dissolves ruling party, bans PM'"
2008-12-01,"b"" Mumbai: Surviving militant says team took orders from 'command in Pakistan'"""
2008-12-01,b'For those following the events in Canada: An explanation of how and why the neocons are being removed from power '
2008-12-01,b'BP to Help Commercialize Clean Energy in China With a Joint $73 Million Investment '
2008-12-01,b'Mumbai Police Believe Pakistan-Based Militant Masterminded Attacks'
2008-12-01,"b""China's Wacky Weed"""
2008-12-01,"b'South Korea officially ends reconstruction mission in Iraq, calls troops home after 5 years'"
2008-12-01,b'Arab World Trails Shamefully Behind'
2008-12-01,b'US stands by refusal to sign cluster bomb ban'
2008-12-01,b'Five Mumbai Terrorists May Have Escaped Capture'
2008-12-01,"b""Robert Mugabe 'should be removed by force, and South Africa must help'"""
2008-12-01,b'How free is free speech in Latvia? Not very.'
2008-12-01,b'Condoleezza Rice played a private piano recital for the Queen at Buckingham Palace during a visit to London.'
2008-12-01,b' Switzerland pays price for isolationism'
2008-12-01,"b'Biological terror attack likely by 2013, panel says'"
2008-12-01,"b""After 17 Years Schoolgirl's Murderer Finally Brought To Justice."""
2008-11-30,b'Muslims refuse to bury militants'
2008-11-30,"b""The figure on the left is a human woman, still alive.  Kristof is right; womens' rights should be a central focus of international social justice and development efforts."""
2008-11-30,b'The Brit that rescued 150 Mumbai hostages'
2008-11-30,"b'How free is the French press? Last Friday the former publisher of Libration was arrested before dawn, told that he was ""worse than scum"" and subjected to an unnecessary ""body cavity"" search.'"
2008-11-30,b'Mumbai Hostages Were Tortured'
2008-11-30,"b'Israeli Navy turns away a Libyan ship carrying 3,000 tons of humanitarian aide to Gaza.'"
2008-11-30,"b'Mumbai cop, left for dead, rides with gunmen'"
2008-11-30,b'Protesters in Iceland storm the Central bank. Video in Icelandic.'
2008-11-30,b'No place for dead terrorists in sacred Mother India: Muslim group'
2008-11-30,"b'The Indian government raised the country\'s security to a ""war level"" yesterday saying it had certain proof of a Pakistani link to the Mumbai attacks.'"
2008-11-30,b'Venice under five feet of water as the city suffers its worst floods in 22 years'
2008-11-30,"b'Pakistans president, made an urgent appeal to India not to punish his country for the terror unleashed on Mumbai last week, warning that militants had the power to precipitate a war in the region.'"
2008-11-30,"b'If the word ""terrorist"" doesn\'t show up, Reddit won\'t care. Ask yourself why this hasn\'t hit front page yet - it\'s worse than Mumbai.'"
2008-11-30,b'Missing Egyptian Blogger Mohamed Adel has disappeared and it is feared that he is being tortured in state security hadquarters'
2008-11-30,"b'Kafka has a rival. Today, the Foreign Office lectures us on human rights.'"
2008-11-30,b'Chavez renews reelection ambition'
2008-11-30,b'Iran claims arrest of Israeli Mossad spies'
2008-11-30,"b'Al-Qaeda\'s Mumbai boon: ""They are saying that if Pakistan has to choose between fighting India and fighting the militants, then it will fight India.""'"
2008-11-30,"b""How China's taking over Africa, and why the West should be very worried """
2008-11-30,b'India moves to war level as concern gows at border buildup'
2008-11-30,"b'Israel at it again, blocks another aid ship from reaching Gaza'"
2008-11-30,b'Muslim cemetery denies burial to Mumbai killers'
2008-11-30,b'Pirates attack cruise ship off Somali coast  '
2008-11-30,b'India demands Pakistan act decisively on Mumbai attack'
2008-11-30,"b'Swiss drug vote: any narcotic for the medecine/research  YES, prescription heroin  YES, marijuana for everyone  NO. Go fugure...'"
2008-11-29,b'Soldier returns from Afghanistan to be beaten up by police - caught on CCTV'
2008-11-29,"b'Seven of the terrorists who brought carnage to Mumbai are British, Indian government sources claimed yesterday.'"
2008-11-29,"b'Taj Mahal hotel owner: ""We had warning""'"
2008-11-29,"b""At 5am I found a bottle of vintage Cristal champagne. 'No, no!' cried the head waiter, 'Those are the wrong glasses' """
2008-11-29,b'Just ten trained terrorists created Mumbai carnage'
2008-11-29,"b'Girl raised by American family ordered to be returned to birth parents. They move back to China, divorce, now girl is in a boarding school.'"
2008-11-29,b'Basra hitmen charge $100 for killing women and fathers and husbands openly hire assassins on the streets. All go unpunished as women are driven into the ground. Saddam was better than this. '
2008-11-29,b'Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil resigns over Mumbai attacks '
2008-11-29,b'Swiss Approve Legal Heroin Program'
2008-11-29,b'Mumbai attacks: surviving terrorist says he belonged to Pakistan militant group'
2008-11-29,"b'Swiss voters decide on heroin, canabis, pensions, paedophile crimes and plans to curb powers of green groups'"
2008-11-29,b'Indians claim to have proof that terrorists took orders from Pakistan'
2008-11-29,b'The two villages where mothers killed EVERY baby born a boy for ten years'
2008-11-29,"b""Pirates 'to release Ukraine ship' that is carrying 33 tanks, grenade launchers and ammunition."""
2008-11-29,b'Shock as top Indian Army officer arrested over bomb attack'
2008-11-29,b'Mumbai siege: 300 feared dead as full horror of the terrorist attacks emerges  - Telegraph'
2008-11-29,"b'Indian sources said some of the gang were from Leeds and Bradford, where Londons 7/7 bombers lived'"
2008-11-29,"b""British soldiers attacked by furious mob in Kabul after American troops 'ram minibus off road killing one'"""
2008-11-29,b'Culture Change - Overextension: our American way of life is not sustainable'
2008-11-29,b'Beginning of end for Guantanamo?'
2008-11-29,"b""Switzerland set to approve prescription heroin as 'safe alternative' for addicts"""
2008-11-29,b' Bugging scandal in British parliament'
2008-11-29,b'Five Former Slaves Who Are Changing the World'
2008-11-29,b'Crisis May Shift Indias Political Landscape.'
2008-11-29,b'Mumbai: Behind the attacks lies a story of youth twisted by hate'
2008-11-28,"b""Mumbai photographer: I wish I'd had a gun, not a camera. Armed police would not fire back"""
2008-11-28,"b""Let's try not to panic... (Pic)"""
2008-11-28,b'Hemp: Swiss citizens vote tomorrow to legalize it'
2008-11-28,"b""What Happens To You After You Get Caught Spying For Israel Against The US-  You Get Hired By A Washington 'Thinktank'"""
2008-11-28,b'Mumbai terrorists recruited with promise of escape'
2008-11-28,"b'Japanese Told to Work Less, Have More Sex '"
2008-11-28,b'India uncovers Hindu terror group that carried out bombings blamed on Islamists'
2008-11-28,"b'Deepak Chopra agrees: Washington, not Al-Qaeda, is responsible for the Mumbai attacks'"
2008-11-28,"b""Iceland: A portent of the future. When the global debt bubble bursts, will the people rise up' in anger as they did in France in the 1780's? As they are in Iceland today. """
2008-11-28,b'Police declare Mumbai siege over'
2008-11-28,b'Switzerland Likely To Approve Prescription Heroin'
2008-11-28,"b""Pictures of the Iranian man who threw acid on the woman's face during the reading of his punishment. His punishment, to have acid dripped onto his eyes until he goes blind"""
2008-11-28,"b'Thanks reddit, for making the reddit icon with Indian flag. I appreciate your support. The incident however made me feel ashamed and wretched as an Indian...'"
2008-11-28,"b'Pirates on speedial - ""They are under P for pirates.""'"
2008-11-28,"b'The U.S. general commanding NATO forces in Afghanistan has ordered a merger of the office that releases news with ""Psy Ops,"" which deals with propaganda'"
2008-11-28,b'Conservative Canadian Government May Fall'
2008-11-28,b'President Zardari: Theres a little bit of India in every Pakistani and a little bit of Pakistan in every Indian. I do not know whether it is the Indian or the Pakistani in me that is talking today'
2008-11-28,"b""Inadequate Sex Blamed for Increased Crime Among China's Workers"""
2008-11-28,"b'""What They Hate About Mumbai"" - a Mumbaikar\'s view'"
2008-11-28,b' Patrick Cockburn: Pakistan is the root of the problem'
2008-11-28,b'Indian force kill last gunman in Mumbai'
2008-11-28,b'Chinese internet giant sacks staff over paid for search listings'
2008-11-28,"b'Dutch ban on ""magic"" mushrooms to take effect'"
2008-11-28,"b'How to Deal with Pirates: ""We shall offer them liberal and enlightened terms, dictated at the mouths of our cannons.""'"
2008-11-28,b'The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public.'
2008-11-27,b'It has begun: Italian judge rules the internet is illegal'
2008-11-27,b'Is it going to rain?'
2008-11-27,"b'Washington state teen turns in $10,000 he found at store'"
2008-11-27,"b'UK opposition MP arrested in ""stalinesque"" op after exposing Govt. cover-up'"
2008-11-27,"b""Who's Behind the Mumbai Massacre?"""
2008-11-27,"b""Dutch turn their backs on 'shrooms"""
2008-11-27,"b""'Honor' killing comes to the US - The Boston Globe"""
2008-11-27,b'All the technology in the world yet Somali pirates seize another tanker '
2008-11-27,"b""China executes researcher for spying. U.S. 'deeply disturbed,' says trial fell 'far short' of international standards."""
2008-11-27,b'Japanese government  expected to pass a bill forcing married people to work less so that they can procreate.'
2008-11-27,"b'Then, the ""foreign looking, fair skinned"" men, as Mr Mishra remembers them, simply carried on killing. '"
2008-11-27,"b""Will the UK follow Iceland's path?"""
2008-11-27,"b'If your Army base is next door to two schools, make very sure you know which way the wind is blowing before you start the gas attack drills'"
2008-11-27,b'A motorway in the UK is shut down due to marshmallows and beer spilling across the road'
2008-11-27,b'Indian troops retake Jewish Center'
2008-11-27,"b'President Chvez is enhancing democracy, not undermining it'"
2008-11-27,"b""Half of prostitutes in Bejing unaware of condoms' benefits"""
2008-11-27,"b""Indiana woman dies at 115 as world's oldest person"""
2008-11-27,b'Mapping an occupation - the West Bank barrier'
2008-11-27,"b'New York Times article, almost exactly three years to the day before 9/11, about Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism. Chillingly prescient.'"
2008-11-27,b'Drug Firms Block Cheap Medicine'
2008-11-27,b'Ethiopia to withdraw from Somalia by end of year'
2008-11-27,b'Hostages said dead in Mumbai Jewish center'
2008-11-27,b'Opium overdose seems the only escape for some Afghan women'
2008-11-27,"b""What's with These Stupid War Pundits Telling U.S. Allies to Commit National Suicide?"""
2008-11-26,b'Live updates on Mumbai Blasts'
2008-11-26,b'Johan Franzen scores the Goal of the Year [VID]'
2008-11-26,b'Israeli forces destroy Palestinian greenhouses and farms in Gaza '
2008-11-26,b'Experts doubt Al Qaeda link in Mumbai attacks'
2008-11-26,"b'Israeli Occupation Firces troops fire at children, Israeli Occupation Army demolish two homes in Old Jerusalem'"
2008-11-26,b'The US has requested that Israel refrain from embarking on any large-scale operations during the last weeks of the George W. Bush administration'
2008-11-26,b'Finally!  A Lego illustrated bible'
2008-11-26,b'Full Text: PM Manmohan Singh Address to Indian People Regarding Terrorist Attacks in Mumbai'
2008-11-26,b'Google Map of Mumbai Attacks'
2008-11-26,"b"" 'Hostages freed' at Mumbai hotel - BBC News"""
2008-11-26,"b'""I know that in 1954 Israeli agents pretending to be Muslims blew up American targets in Cairo in the hopes of prompting the US to attack Egypt. ""'"
2008-11-26,b'Airbus A320 Crashes Into Mediterranean Sea'
2008-11-26,"b'Both airports in Bangkok, Thailand closed due to anti-government riots'"
2008-11-26,"b""Official: Siege ends at Mumbai's Taj hotel"""
2008-11-26,b'Mumbai: Exporting Pakistans Resources [Warnerd]'
2008-11-26,"b'Huge explosion at Taj again, 9 rescued from Trident'"
2008-11-26,"b'Gunmen in Mumbai Leave 101 Dead, Hostages Taken'"
2008-11-26,b'France finally agrees to pay damages to nuclear test victims'
2008-11-26,b'Activists dump 5 tons of coal outside a meeting organized to block action to reduce CO2 emissions at the upcoming climate talks in Poland next week.'
2008-11-26,b'Mumbai Is Attacked By Terrorists in a scene of coordinated attacks that eerily resembles 9/11'
2008-11-26,"b""Charities can't keep up with deepening poverty"""
2008-11-26,b'Toxic waste causes Somali piracy'
2008-11-26,"b'Regarding the events in India: The only question we should be asking ourselves, by Arundhati Roy '"
2008-11-26,b'Indian Commandos Free Mumbai Hostages. '
2008-11-26,b'Airbus A320 crashes during test flight off the French coast'
2008-11-25,"b'RIP Brenden Foster, the 11-year-old whose last wish was to feed the homeless.'"
2008-11-25,b'Georgian ambassador admits that they started it.'
2008-11-25,b'How Canada honours our war dead sends shivers down my spine... seeing it in person is beyond breathtaking'
2008-11-25,"b'Turns out Indian Navy actually sank Thai fishing boat, not pirate mothership. Embarassing...'"
2008-11-25,"b'Mumbai under attack. Bomb blast and firefights in South Mumbai. Blasts and gun flights in Oberoi, Taj and Trident Hotels. A lot of Chaos, nothing is clear at the moment. '"
2008-11-25,"b'South Africa President Mbekis denial of the well-established scientific consensus about the viral cause of AIDS and the essential role of antiretroviral drugs led to the death of 365,000 people'"
2008-11-25,"b'""Pirate Boat"" Indian Navy Sank Was Thai Trawler.'"
2008-11-25,b'Mumbai rocked by deadly shootings '
2008-11-25,b'Evidence Suggests British Liquid Bomb Plot was Directed by UK/Pakistan/US Intelligence '
2008-11-25,b'Greenland votes for self-rule'
2008-11-25,"b""Divers Find Ammunition on Lusitania,  so much for 'innocent passanger ship'."""
2008-11-25,b'Quixtar and Amway are scams - Spread the word.'
2008-11-25,"b""Following in China's footsteps, US baby formula manufacturers add melamine!"""
2008-11-25,b'Mumbai attacked by terrorists'
2008-11-25,"b' 3,000 dead from cholera in Zimbabwe, Local Government takes action to conceal the scale of this deadly epidemic'"
2008-11-25,"b""One-third of China's Yellow River is Heavily Polluted with Industrial Discharge"""
2008-11-25,"b'Everest and Himalayan Glaciers Could Vanish By 2035, Imperiling a Billion People'"
2008-11-25,b'Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday he would bring down U.S. planes bombing villages if he could'
2008-11-25,b'Chinese villege may have Roman Ancestry - unusual numbers of western faces among chinese brethren...'
2008-11-25,b'Muslim clerics cancel fatwa against... yoga'
2008-11-25,b'Man Who Killed 6 Cops with a Knife is Executed '
2008-11-25,b'Thai crisis exposes class struggle '
2008-11-25,"b""Palestinian Children Teargassed Protesting 'Annexation Wall'"""
2008-11-25,b'Official: Russians want to search for oil off Cuba.'
2008-11-25,b'Intimidation and murder in Coca-Colas Colombian factories'
2008-11-24,"b'London Police boycott tasers ""because of their potential to cause fear and damage public confidence""'"
2008-11-24,"b'Reddit upvoted the original story, why not this one? Muslims arrest those involved in acid attack against schoolgirls in afghanistan'"
2008-11-24,b'Greenlanders go to the polls in referendum on self-rule'
2008-11-24,"b""Sunken 'pirate ship' was actually Thai trawler, owner says """
2008-11-24,"b'Seventy-two percent of the Israeli public rated the general level of corruption in the Israeli government as ""high to very high""'"
2008-11-24,b'The freedom of historical debate is under attack by the memory police'
2008-11-24,"b'US intelligence kept a file of personal nature on Tony Blair while he was Prime Minister, in violation of an agreement between Britain and the US not to spy on each others leaders'"
2008-11-24,"b""Food Bank in Seattle, Washington. C'mon Reddit--Let's Donate In Brenden Foster's name."""
2008-11-24,"b""Hey, Arab lady, you don't like it that we destroyed your homes?  Here's a headbut for you, and one for your Arab friend, too!  Now you're all under arrest."""
2008-11-24,b'10 Taliban arrested in acid attack on schoolgirls'
2008-11-24,"b'UN General Assembly President Accuses Israel of Apartheid and Calls for a Campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel'"
2008-11-24,b'First pics of Indian navy sinking pirate ship'
2008-11-24,b'The end of the cafe/bar culture?'
2008-11-24,"b""Somali Pirate 'Mothership' sinking a mistake? """
2008-11-24,b'Russia sues Ukraine over gas debt'
2008-11-24,"b'""Between September and October property prices have plummeted by as much as 49% in some parts of Dubai""'"
2008-11-24,"b""The Czech Republic's Vaclav Klaus is next in the rotation as president of the European Union, a fact that makes some in the Union very nervous."""
2008-11-24,b'Blast kills 3 outside Russia subway station'
2008-11-24,"b""Oops, Sunken 'pirate ship' was actually Thai trawler, owner says """
2008-11-24,b'Russian warships cruise into US back yard to make power point'
2008-11-24,b'Wal-Mart to Give 90 Million lbs Food to Help Combat Hunger '
2008-11-24,"b'Zimbabwe Health Crisis ""A Disaster of Unimaginable Proportions""'"
2008-11-24,b'Nobody every seems to give a shit about the Congo'
2008-11-24,b'Kim Jong-Il Apparently Healthy.'
2008-11-24,b'Zimbabwe on brink of collapse as outbreak of cholera spreads'
2008-11-23,"b""Jacques Vergs, 83, is probably the world's most notorious criminal attorney"""
2008-11-23,"b'China fails at irony, bans ""Chinese Democracy""'"
2008-11-23,"b'Japan turns to the left, especially the young, and the communist party grows as more people realize todays injustices mirror those of Imperial/Capitalist Japan.  '"
2008-11-23,b'Russian analyst predicts decline and breakup of U.S.'
2008-11-23,"b'We are not the moral people we pretend to be, not as long as we allow the Israelis to commit these war crimes.'"
2008-11-23,"b""Don't mess with these chicks or you'll be sari"""
2008-11-23,"b'British police to be issued 10,000 Taser guns - What happened to these being a weapon of last resort used by specalist officers?'"
2008-11-23,"b""Pink Sari Gang: India's Bad Ass Vigilante Group"""
2008-11-23,"b'""Despite being declared the largest labour rights offender in the world, Colombia has signed a free trade deal with Canada.""'"
2008-11-23,"b'Bullying is not a joke, no seriously..'"
2008-11-23,"b""Taser plan suffers blow after UK Met Police Authority's rejection"""
2008-11-23,b'Just killed an old man and put his wife in a critical condition? Time for McDonalds! '
2008-11-23,"b""A list of 25 pretty good date ideas that don't even cost a Quarter ... """
2008-11-23,"b""Tony Blair's private life spied on by US intelligence agency"""
2008-11-23,b'The last feudal state in the Western world is soon to become a democracy'
2008-11-23,"b""Who was behind the theft of South Africa's weapons-grade nuclear material?"""
2008-11-23,b'Photo Essay: Gazas (Literal) Underground Economy'
2008-11-23,"b'""They didn\'t accept HIV-positive people ... they shot them and burned the bodies""'"
2008-11-23,"b'Police to get 10,000 Taser guns -- Because More Tasers for Authority equals More Freedom and Safety for Us, i guess.'"
2008-11-23,"b""Georgian officials: shots fired at president's motorcade"""
2008-11-23,b'Recession has hit UK middle classes so hard that many are forced to pull their children out of private schools'
2008-11-23,b'Dubai bowed to international pressure and for the first time revealed the level of debt it has racked up during one of the biggest building sprees the world has ever seen'
2008-11-23,b'Crisis forces Russians to cut back vodka drinking'
2008-11-23,b'Wicked flood has thousands homeless in Brazil'
2008-11-23,b'Police examine culpability of those who encouaged internet suicide'
2008-11-22,b'Government Protests Turn Nasty in Iceland'
2008-11-22,"b'Swiss to UBS bosses: ""give us our money back, or we\'ll feed you to the crocodiles."" '"
2008-11-22,"b""TED: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen"""
2008-11-22,b'Warships from all Russian Navy fleets to fight piracy off Somalia'
2008-11-22,b'Presidents of Georgia and Poland fired upon in Georgia - facts very unclear...'
2008-11-22,"b'Smoking ban final nail in the coffin to French cafes ... the French are starting to ""eat like Americans"".  How sad.'"
2008-11-22,"b""Dozens injured as army open fire at Children's Day rally"""
2008-11-22,b'52 whales die in mass stranding in Australia.'
2008-11-22,b'Germans held in Kosovo over blast'
2008-11-22,b'Islamist fighters warn pirates to free Saudi tanker'
2008-11-22,b'Plitvice Lakes in Croatia | amazing pics'
2008-11-22,b'Argentine man kills himself on live TV'
2008-11-22,"b""Spain's fascists hold rally"""
2008-11-22,b'Beheadings in Guatemala jail riot'
2008-11-22,b'Avast Ye Privateers'
2008-11-22,"b""Jaguar in secret plea for 1bn gov't loan just months after being bought by Tata, the Indian conglomerate"""
2008-11-22,"b""'This may be the most thought-provoking film I've seen all year,' Israeli animated documentary about the Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1982"""
2008-11-22,b'Ministers to hold summit on church closure crisis'
2008-11-22,b'Pro-American Iraqi Defense Minister Threatens Parliament: Defense minister tells country: Keep U.S. Forces or Face Martial Law'
2008-11-22,b'Migration (hijra) in Islam - the plan of conquering the west through immigration'
2008-11-22,b'U.S. Army Investing $50 Million in Video Games'
2008-11-22,"b""Jabotinsky's grandson joins Likud"""
2008-11-22,b'Chavez tested in Venezuelan polls'
2008-11-22,"b""Obama's Mideast peace platform is coming into focus """
2008-11-22,b' Olmert in U.S. to bid farewell to Bush '
2008-11-21,b'Swiss Army bans vegetarians from fighting '
2008-11-21,b'Kofi Annan and Jimmy Carter barred from visiting Zimbabwe to assess the humanitarian crisis'
2008-11-21,"b'Former police chief in Argentina, wanted for alleged crimes against human rights, has shot himself dead on live TV.'"
2008-11-21,"b'Progressive, tolerant Malaysia issues a fatwa...on yoga'"
2008-11-21,"b'1,000 penalties for out-of-date ID details'"
2008-11-21,"b'Icelanders demand PM resignation, clash with police'"
2008-11-21,b'In this year so far 24 missile attacks have taken place killing 344 civilians. The number of so-called militants does not exceed ten.'
2008-11-21,"b'Daryl Hannah Helps Stop Japanese Whaling By Joining The Sea Shepherd, The Ship Stopped $70M In Whaling By Japanese Last Year'"
2008-11-21,b'Situation in Pakistan more dire than Afghanistan: expert'
2008-11-21,b'Mugabe tries to hide cholera death toll'
2008-11-21,"b'Perth Mint (AU) is overloaded with demand for gold, suspends taking orders until JAN 09'"
2008-11-21,"b'Refusal to declare Lisbon dead \'treason\', ""It is a simple question: will you respect the Irish vote?""'"
2008-11-21,b'Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan to get anti-sniper device that can pinpoint the position of the shooter within a fraction of a second'
2008-11-21,b' Iran executes man in Israeli spy case'
2008-11-21,b'Michael Jackson Converted To Islam'
2008-11-21,"b""China stole files related to NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that detailed the space vehicle's propulsion system, solar panels, and fuel tanks"""
2008-11-21,"b""Australia's Sex Party takes on 'nanny state'"""
2008-11-21,b'Paraguay reports 2nd cross-border raid by Brazilian troops'
2008-11-21,b'Is Mexico Finally Cleaning Up Corruption? Mexico Arrests Ex-Chief of Antidrug Agency '
2008-11-21,b'Britain colder than Moscow as blizzards sweep in from the Arctic'
2008-11-21,"b""Afghanistan's struggle to tap wind energy"""
2008-11-21,b' Iran hangs Iranian convicted of spying for Israel'
2008-11-21,"b'HIV/AIDS spreading fast in Russia despite more funding to fight it, AIDS coordinator says'"
2008-11-21,b'The God Delusion = Judas Priest = D&D'
2008-11-21,"b'A former police chief in Argentina, wanted for alleged crimes against human rights, has shot himself dead in front of television cameras. (video)  '"
2008-11-20,b'Denmark considers outlawing male circumcision on minors.'
2008-11-20,"b'Russian scholar: ""Our people are much more nationalistic, much more chauvanistic, and anti-democratic than Putin himself, so the current regime is by no means the worst that we could have."" (AUDIO)'"
2008-11-20,b'Family makes 200K a year and gives most of it away'
2008-11-20,b'Week End Picnic: Families Slaughtered by Israel on Gaza Beach'
2008-11-20,"b'Children are dying in Haiti, victims of food crisis'"
2008-11-20,"b""Radio host shocked as woman admits eating 'little black girls'"""
2008-11-20,b'The U.S. Department of Energys National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Petrleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) to Commercialize Biofuels'
2008-11-20,"b""More Than 1/3 of China's Land is Being Scoured by Erosion! Food Supplies at Risk!"""
2008-11-20,"b""What's the most generous nation in humanitarian donations in relation to GNP?  Surprise! It's Saudi Arabia.  US and England don't even hit the top 5."""
2008-11-20,b' Russian parliament approves extension of presidential term'
2008-11-20,b'Al-Jazeera editorial wonders why Western diplomats are such slow learners'
2008-11-20,"b'Russian Duma passes reform to extend presidency to 6 years. Welcome back, Comrade Putin?'"
2008-11-20,b'Germany Drops Attempt to Ban Scientology'
2008-11-20,b' French Socialists in run-off vote'
2008-11-20,b'Poland: Picketing hospital workers call for turning hospitals into cooperatives instead of traditional privatization'
2008-11-20,b'Russia set to extend presidential term'
2008-11-20,"b""US global dominance 'set to wane'"""
2008-11-20,b'UN should suspend Israel membership: Nobel Laureate Maguire'
2008-11-20,b'World struggles to take on plague of Somali piracy'
2008-11-20,"b""Slump in stockmarkets wipes out two-thirds of China's billionaires"""
2008-11-20,b'Cholera outbreak strikes Zimbabwe'
2008-11-20,b'What is the value of 500 Rs for different people in India or rather the World'
2008-11-20,b'billionaires body stolen'
2008-11-20,b'How the Allied multinationals supplied Nazi Germany throughout World War II'
2008-11-20,b'ATTN: RIAA/MPAA: This is piracy.'
2008-11-19,b'Bush ignored by the other world leaders at the G20 meeting'
2008-11-19,"b'Israel Bans International Media from Gaza, Arrests Human Rights Activists'"
2008-11-19,"b'Somali Pirates: We dont consider ourselves sea bandits, he said. We consider sea bandits those who illegally fish in our seas and dump waste in our seas and carry weapons in our seas.""'"
2008-11-19,"b'Teenage Indian boy was thrashed, paraded through the streets with his head shaved and then thrown under a train for daring to write a love letter to a girl from a different caste. '"
2008-11-19,b'Russia to build nuclear reactor for Chvez'
2008-11-19,b'The $23 Million Ceiling at UN European headquarters in Geneva'
2008-11-19,"b'Man, the Dutch have it good [PIC]'"
2008-11-19,b'IMF finally approves $2.1B loan to Iceland'
2008-11-19,b'Afghanistan drug production up 150% since 2001'
2008-11-19,b'Hebrew papers told of Arab plan'
2008-11-19,b'India praised for sinking pirates'
2008-11-19,"b""Under Iraq Troop Pact , US Can't Leave Any Forces (Military or Civilian Contractors) Behind"""
2008-11-19,b'Crisis in paradise: Meltdown leaves ghost resorts.'
2008-11-19,"b""U.S. Missile Strikes beyond Pakistan's Tribal Belt"""
2008-11-19,"b""Experts say the Smithsonian's Hope Diamond once belonged to Louis XIV and was looted during the French Revolution."""
2008-11-19,b'S Africa to cut aid to Zimbabwe'
2008-11-19,b'Easyjet puts chokehold on windpipe op'
2008-11-19,b'Syria Claims Israel Planted Uranium (UN Listens)'
2008-11-19,b'Tokyo War Crimes indictment against George W. Bush'
2008-11-19,b'International Space Station celebrates decade in space'
2008-11-19,"b""Hungry in Zimbabwe: 'If you rest, you starve'"""
2008-11-19,"b""The World's Most Powerful Eating Strategies"""
2008-11-19,b'UN agrees DR Congo troop increase'
2008-11-19,b'Oil price drops below $50 a barrel'
2008-11-19,b'Man banned from all churches in England and Wales'
2008-11-18,b'India sinks Somali pirate ship'
2008-11-18,"b'New prostitution laws in the UK mean men who pay to have sex with trafficked women may face rape charges, and ignorance is no defense.'"
2008-11-18,"b'Finally someone steps up to Somali pirates: INDIA sinks pirate ""mother ship""'"
2008-11-18,"b'Israel boycotts UN racism conference, claims bias'"
2008-11-18,"b""Egypt and Israel were at war. Anwar Sadat, Egypt's President, flew to Jerusalem to make peace. His plane door opened. Israel stood still. Israeli buglers sounded the salute. An unforgettable moment."""
2008-11-18,"b'After a mere four years, Ireland plans to reinstate a ban on handguns.'"
2008-11-18,"b'With no money, Pakistan moms abandon kids'"
2008-11-18,b'Somali pirates transform villages into boomtowns - building sprawling stone McMansions'
2008-11-18,b'British and American military secrets may have been passed to the Russians by a double agent -- biggest spy scandal since CIA traitor Aldrich Ames'
2008-11-18,b'Israel slams UN call to end blockade'
2008-11-18,"b""Forget Red vs. Blue -- It's the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda"""
2008-11-18,"b'The Government of Israel continues to act recklessly, and with utter disregard for the human rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to life and safety.'"
2008-11-18,b'A 26-year-old flight student is dead after a propeller accident'
2008-11-18,b'The British National Party (BNP) membership list which has been published online by an ex-member can be found here'
2008-11-18,b'IRAQ WAR ENDS'
2008-11-18,b'UN Calls For End To Israeli Blockade Of Gaza Strip'
2008-11-18,b'IAEA: Bombed Syrian site had features like a nuclear reactor'
2008-11-18,"b'""Today we have around 1.8 million (reported) cases of Police Torture Each Year in India. Those Tortured are generally the (Low-Caste) Dalits, the Tribals and the Muslims.'"
2008-11-18,"b'Well, well.  Blackwater wants to fight pirates now.  How unexpected.'"
2008-11-18,b'early thaw in the coming cold war?  Moscow reaches out to Obama on missiles'
2008-11-18,"b'Pirates strike again, seize Hong Kong grain ship bound for Iran'"
2008-11-18,b'More challenges to secret copyright treaty'
2008-11-18,b'WTF? Barack Obama Faces Charges in Memphis '
2008-11-18,"b""spy called 'The Spaniard' may have betrayed British and U.S. secrets to Russia for more than a decade"""
2008-11-18,b'UK government unveils plan for sex trade crackdown'
2008-11-17,b'Haitians are so desperate for food that many mothers wait to name their newborns because so many infants die of malnourishment'
2008-11-17,b'Israeli Tanks Storm Into Gaza Strip'
2008-11-17,"b'Hillary Clinton will be the next Secretary of State. In Westchester/NYC, Bill is saying ""Sweet! Yeah! Off to foreign lands! Have fun!"" In Albany, Paterson is saying ""This is my ticket out!""'"
2008-11-17,b'China says no to sending troops to Afghanistan'
2008-11-17,b'Australian navy given two months off for Christmas'
2008-11-17,b'Afghan article says US Bin-Ladin hunt phoney '
2008-11-17,b'60 Journos Arrested at Sudan censorship rally'
2008-11-17,b'Congo - a picture that changed a life'
2008-11-17,b'ETA chief arrested in southern France '
2008-11-17,b'Tibetan Exiles Meet to Ponder Strategy'
2008-11-17,"b'Child refugees make up 60% of the 250,000 fleeing in Congo - Pictures'"
2008-11-17,"b""Iraq invasion 'serious violation of international law'"""
2008-11-17,b'CNNs Michael Ware on Iraq withdrawal agreement: Tehran was in the room.'
2008-11-17,b'Russia to build nuclear reactor for Venezuela'
2008-11-17,b'Somali Pirates Holding 14 Ships With 250+ Men Hostage'
2008-11-17,b'Hijacked oil tanker nears Somalia '
2008-11-17,b'British airline pilots threaten strike over ID card plan'
2008-11-17,b'Former MIT Student now a Terrorism Suspect is Not Mentally Competent and Unfit for Trial.'
2008-11-17,b'Iranian grain ship seized as Somali pirates hold world to ransom'
2008-11-17,b'Single Sex Schools to Make a Comeback...How Realistic Is the Thought?'
2008-11-17,b'BBC: Seized tanker anchors off Somalia'
2008-11-17,b'Stage set for Indo-Russia nuke pact '
2008-11-17,b'Israel supports direct talks with Iran.  Says global financial crisis should delay war with Iran.'
2008-11-17,b'Obama Meets With McCain in Chicago '
2008-11-17,b'The Japanese comic version of Das Kapital joins a collection of increasingly fierce literary critiques of the global capitalist system.'
2008-11-16,"b""Pirates hijack Saudi 'super tanker'"""
2008-11-16,b'German intelligence scrubs European records after Wikileaks exposure'
2008-11-16,"b'Zoo cleaner commits suicide by feeding himself to three white tigers... Wow, what a way to go...'"
2008-11-16,b'Anti-Scientology book pulled in UK'
2008-11-16,b'UK Officials Plan To Grow Genetically-Modified Crops In Top Secret Military Locations In Order To Thwart Angry Anti-GM Extremists.'
2008-11-16,"b""UK society 'condemning' children"""
2008-11-16,"b""How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power"""
2008-11-16,b'It Looks As If Putin is Carrying Out a Constitutional Junta.'
2008-11-16,b'McClellan: George W. Bush Outed CIA Agent Valerie Plame watch! '
2008-11-16,"b'Former senior law lord, Lord Bingham, says Britain broke international law by invading Iraq'"
2008-11-16,b'Ethnic riot erupts in Czech town'
2008-11-16,"b""Japan, the world's second-largest economy, tumbles into recession"""
2008-11-16,"b'No Wonder They Want To Bomb Iran: The government is now reportedly holding gold as its reserves, as versus one fiat currency or another.'"
2008-11-16,b'Chavez Spies on Rivals In Election - plays tapped conversation in TV comercial'
2008-11-16,"b""Russia may use 'overkill' missiles to counter U.S. shield"""
2008-11-16,b'Japan firm recalls US water - Smelled like medicine or pesticide'
2008-11-16,b'Suspected ETA commando leader arrested in France'
2008-11-16,"b""Donor 'opt-out' proposal rejected"""
2008-11-16,"b""India's Richest Lost $200 BILLION"""
2008-11-16,b'Iran navy tightens grip on Persian Gulf'
2008-11-16,"b'Archaeoastronomy dynamically counts down the days, hours and minutes until equinoxes, solstices and cross quarters'"
2008-11-16,"b""[Australia] Alleged burglar critical after citizen's arrest (resident reportedly sat on him)"""
2008-11-16,b'Japan firm recalls 8 million bottles of U.S. mineral water '
2008-11-16,b'Suspected ETA military chief arrested in France'
2008-11-16,"b'The current economic rescue plan, in a comic [PIC]'"
2008-11-15,b'Israel prevents 15 truckloads of medicine from entering Gaza'
2008-11-15,b'Wikipedia blocked in Germany by leftwinged gay politician Lutz Heilmann. '
2008-11-15,"b'Policeman Beats and Kills Unarmed Man in Custody, is Convicted of Manslaughter and Given One Year Prison'"
2008-11-15,b'Chronic malnutrition in Gaza blamed on Israel'
2008-11-15,"b""Where tax goes up to 60 per cent, and everybody's happy paying it! In Sweden high rates underpin a very successful society"""
2008-11-15,"b""Isolated Paraguayan Tribe Wins Wins Lawsuit They Didn't File"""
2008-11-15,b'Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs'
2008-11-15,"b'Gordon Brown wants to turn all British citizens into organ donors, willy nilly, unless they individually opt out. WTF!'"
2008-11-15,b'World Leaders Agree to Act Together on Financial Crisis'
2008-11-15,b'Powerful 7.5 quake recorded in Indonesia'
2008-11-15,b'Less than 20% of Brits trust newspapers'
2008-11-15,b'Russian spy in Nato could have passed on missile defence and cyber-war secrets'
2008-11-15,b'Albino Africans Live In Fear Of Cannibal Witch Doctors'
2008-11-15,"b""The Earth's 6th Great Mass Extinction is Occurring as You Read This"""
2008-11-15,b'Japanese ship seized by Somali pirates'
2008-11-15,b'Somali pirates hijacked Japanese cargo ship'
2008-11-15,"b""It's five minutes to midnight."""
2008-11-15,"b'UK awash in donated Aussie sperm: Come again, Aussie backpackers told'"
2008-11-15,b'U.N. Agency in Gaza Runs Out of Food'
2008-11-15,"b'Seventh foot, shod in a New Balance trainer, washes up as mystery deepen'"
2008-11-15,b'Limerick rival clans show no sign of ending conflict'
2008-11-15,"b""A bitter harvest - The West Bank's olive harvest is in full swing, and so are the settlers' clubs and the soldiers' batons"""
2008-11-15,b'EU-Russia Summit: Brussels and Moscow Rediscover Friendship'
2008-11-15,b'How Hindu extremists in India killed two birds with one stone'
2008-11-15,"b""Tony Blair's Iraq adviser wins 50,000 U.S. defence job"""
2008-11-14,"b'Putin: ""I am going to hang Saakashvili by the balls. Why not? The Americans hanged Saddam Hussein."" Sarkozy: ""Yes, but do you want to end up like Bush?"" Putin: ""You have a point""'"
2008-11-14,"b'Jewish Settlers throw rocks at palestinians, IDF tries to force human rights worker recording the events to turn his camera off'"
2008-11-14,"b""Surprise surprise, now clueless UK politicians think they can regulate the internet through 'league tables' and 'age identity cards'"""
2008-11-14,"b""Woman reaches US army's top rank"""
2008-11-14,b'Child protection register failed to communicate more than 80% of the abuse cases!'
2008-11-14,b'Russia Set To Change Constitution To Allow Vladimir Putin To Become President Again'
2008-11-14,b'Israel for blocking entry of journalists into Gaza'
2008-11-14,b'Did Michelangelo Have a Hidden Agenda?'
2008-11-14,"b""Must Read If You Haven't Already: 'The Israel Lobby' By Professors Mearsheimer and Walt"""
2008-11-14,b'Vandals blew up a statue of Lenin in Ryazan'
2008-11-14,b'Taliban urge world to block Afghan executions'
2008-11-14,"b'British Couple Divorce Over Second Life: ""I looked at the computer screen and could see his character having sex with a female character. It\'s cheating as far as I\'m concerned""'"
2008-11-14,b'Must Watch Documentary: The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy'
2008-11-14,"b'Egyptian doctor sentenced to fifteen years jail, 1,500 lashes in Saudi Arabia'"
2008-11-14,b'U.N Reports Accuse Israel of Human Rights Abuses Against Palestinians'
2008-11-14,b'Ron Paul on the up and coming G20 Summit'
2008-11-14,b'Curly Cukes to be Decriminalised'
2008-11-14,b'Canada Alert: Rumour has it that a massive computer fraud has hit the PC Bank'
2008-11-14,"b'Britain passes out pedometers to battle obesity and create nine ""healthy"" towns.'"
2008-11-14,b'Hong Kong finds melamine in fish feed from mainland China'
2008-11-14,b'Sri Lanka Seizes Tamil Stronghold '
2008-11-14,b'Croat government bans Christmas'
2008-11-14,"b'Up to 50 nuclear warheads are believed to have gone missing during the Cold War, and not all of them are in unpopulated areas.'"
2008-11-14,"b'UN closes Gaza aid centers, citing lack of food'"
2008-11-14,b'Car Bombing in Iraq Kills at Least 7 '
2008-11-13,"b'Russia ""Ready to buy Iceland for good money"".'"
2008-11-13,"b""RUSSIA'S parliament will rush through a constitutional amendment that could see Vladimir Putin return to the presidency within weeks."""
2008-11-13,"b'Dubai: What goes up, up, up...must come down. Only 5% of GDP comes from oil, leaving them poised for a big fall.'"
2008-11-13,b'Taliban sprays Afghan girls with acid for not wearing burqas'
2008-11-13,"b'Paulson in 2007: ""I have no interest in bailing out lenders or property speculators.""'"
2008-11-13,b'Indian probe touches down on Moon '
2008-11-13,"b""What's really happening in the Middle East: Iran and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a Cold War that is playing out in both Iraq and Afghanistan."""
2008-11-13,"b'Sarkozy urges US, Russia to shelve missile plans'"
2008-11-13,b'Taliban kill mullah critical of suicide attacks.  Religious leader slain days after preaching against oft-used tactic.'
2008-11-13,"b'India suffering ""disease of affluence""'"
2008-11-13,"b'Australia is preparing to block public access to 10,000 websites deemed to carry ""unwanted content"".'"
2008-11-13,b'US drone strike kills 12 in Pakistan'
2008-11-13,b'Israeli troops face abuse trial'
2008-11-13,b'British troops out of Iraq by end of 2009: Iraqi official'
2008-11-13,b'Sarkozy to Putin: Do you want to end up like Bush? '
2008-11-13,"b'U.N. says thick brown clouds of soot, particles and chemicals stretching from the Persian Gulf to Asia threaten health and food supplies in the world'"
2008-11-13,"b""Obama aide in 'anti-Arab' row """
2008-11-13,b'Are we just going to let this shit happen? These fuckers are robbing us in plain sight !'
2008-11-13,"b""Local council spends $150,000 of taxpayers' cash....in bid to save taxpayers' cash """
2008-11-13,"b'Vetting blunders label 12,000 innocent Britons as paedophiles, violent thugs and thieves'"
2008-11-13,b'Russian leader Medvedev heading to Cuba & Venezuela '
2008-11-13,b'Junk mail levels drop by 70% all because of the closure of one web hosting company'
2008-11-13,b'Egypt halts doctor visas to Saudi'
2008-11-13,b' Martin Kettle: Tabloid irresponsibility means readers get most of their political information from newspapers no one trusts | Comment is free | The Guardian '
2008-11-13,b'EU unveils plan to weaken Russian grip on gas supply'
2008-11-12,"b'""Now for being stupid and believing in witchcraft you will have to work much harder to recoup the money you gave us."" Note left by Pyramid scheme operators to taunt angry victims.'"
2008-11-12,b'Slapped Iraqi soldier shoots dead two US troops'
2008-11-12,b'Over a Million Liters of Alcohol for Thirsty German Soldiers in Afghanistan'
2008-11-12,b'More human rights abuses by Israel: Gaza shut to fuel and journalists'
2008-11-12,"b'Gaza Again Plunged into Darkness, Hunger as Israel Blocks Fuel, Food to Suffering Population'"
2008-11-12,"b""Russian girl learns she's an African princess"""
2008-11-12,"b'Man with HIV gets bone marrow transplant for his leukemia, is free of HIV infections two years on.'"
2008-11-12,"b'Mitch Mitchell, Hendrix Drummer, Found Dead'"
2008-11-12,b'Two girls blinded in Afghan acid attack'
2008-11-12,"b""Hamas willing to accept a Palestinian state within 1967 borders and offer Israel ceasefire; meanwhile, UN running out of Gaza food aid as a result of Israel's blockade"""
2008-11-12,b'Dick waving in full swing: US Rejects Russian Offer to Scrap European Missiles'
2008-11-12,"b'UK falsely brands 12,000 as criminals'"
2008-11-12,b'Does anyone have any decent pictures or footage of the fighting in DR Congo? All I can find is pics of refugees and a few interviews'
2008-11-12,"b'""Output from the world\'s oilfields is declining faster than previously thought, the first authoritative public study of the biggest fields shows.""'"
2008-11-12,b'Germany in recession'
2008-11-12,b'The failed suicide bomber who changed the war on terror in Afghanistan'
2008-11-12,b'Maldives President wants to relocate his entire sinking country!'
2008-11-12,b'Every Major Terrorist Threat Has Ties to Pakistan'
2008-11-12,b'Commandos operating from a warship of the Indian navy have prevented an attempt by pirates to hijack a ship in the Gulf of Aden'
2008-11-12,b'Gunmen kidnapped an Iranian diplomat in Pakistan after killing his guard  '
2008-11-12,b'Baron Rothschild: There is a New World Order.Banks will Deleverage and there will be a new form of global governance. '
2008-11-12,"b'Interpol raids net illegal internet drug peddlers in nine countries, including England, Canada and the US.'"
2008-11-12,b'Turkey may send six youths between the ages of 13 and 14 to prison for up to 23 years for participating in pro-PKK demonstrations.'
2008-11-12,"b'Somali pirate stand-off: Tanks, but No Tanks'"
2008-11-12,b'It was only a matter of time before this happened.'
2008-11-11,"b""Sudan's President has announced an immediate ceasefire in Darfur."""
2008-11-11,b'Former boxer who killed pedophile wins prosecutors hearts'
2008-11-11,b'Israel blocks the flow of food into gaza.  The mormons should baptize those palestenians before they starve to death.'
2008-11-11,b'Afghan schoolgirls burned by acid in attack by men on motorcycle'
2008-11-11,"b'The United Nations Is Worthless, Exhibit A'"
2008-11-11,b'Japan was not the aggressor?!?'
2008-11-11,"b""Italian Minister of Employment: 'My whole country is full of lazy fuckers'"""
2008-11-11,"b""In Depth Interview of Gareth Porter  Broke the Story About Fabricated 'Iran Working on Nukes' Evidence"""
2008-11-11,"b""Second Class Citizens:  Israel's 'deliberate and insufferable' discrimination of Arabs Israelis."""
2008-11-11,b'Tony Blair bodyguard fires gun in Israeli airport'
2008-11-11,"b""Iran Claims to Test Missile Within Israel's Reach """
2008-11-11,"b""5,000 of taxpayers' money spent on training caviar inspectors as Britain nears recession"""
2008-11-11,"b'Reports of looting, rapes as Congo peace fades '"
2008-11-11,b'When religion goes horribly wrong'
2008-11-11,b'Acid Attack on Afghan Schoolgirls'
2008-11-11,b'Schoolgirls sprayed with acid in Afghanistan (Islamic Burqa protects some victims on their way to school)'
2008-11-11,"b""British people banned from using the word 'British' in case it upsets ethnic minorities """
2008-11-11,b'Can you spare $500? Nigerian scammers turn to Facebook'
2008-11-11,"b' Iran test-fires new missile, Israel within reach'"
2008-11-11,"b'India gives life sentences to the two men, one a Communist leader, who raped and killed the 18 year old girl who led protests that ultimately forced Tata Motors to relocate its Nano factory.'"
2008-11-11,b'For the first time India announces the arrest of 9 Hindu terrorists accused of anti-Muslim violence.'
2008-11-11,"b'Afghan Insurgency Stronger Than Ever, Taliban Training Extremely Young Soldiers (VIDEO)'"
2008-11-11,b'Greenpeace Activists Detain Palm Oil Tanker: Where Do Readers Stand on Direct Action?'
2008-11-11,b'UK recession bites. Jobless numbers at 11-year high.'
2008-11-11,"b'Angered over the French indictment of a presidential aide, Rwanda threatens to arrest French nationals in retaliation.'"
2008-11-10,b'IAEA: Documents linking Iran to nuclear weapons push may have been fabricated'
2008-11-10,"b'The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968, a BBC investigation has found.'"
2008-11-10,b'Holocaust survivors to Mormons: Stop baptisms of dead Jews'
2008-11-10,b'How good is your Northern African/Middle East Geography?'
2008-11-10,b'Obama has reportedly told Poland that there is no guarantee the proposed anti-missile shield for Eastern Europe will be built.'
2008-11-10,"b'Largest Australian ISP agrees to a live test of the Great Firewall they called ""ridiculous""'"
2008-11-10,b'Blogger Jailed for 20 Years Over Poem that Mocked Burmese Dictator'
2008-11-10,b'A court in Burma has sentenced at least 14 members of a well-known pro-democracy group to 65 years in prison.'
2008-11-10,b' World recalls end of World War I'
2008-11-10,"b'Lest we forget, hell on earth... in memory of those who perished in the Great War.'"
2008-11-10,"b'False-Flag anyone? Osama bin Laden is planning an attack against the United States that will ""outdo by far"" September 11'"
2008-11-10,"b""Baby 'used as punchbag' died despite 60 visits from social services"""
2008-11-10,b'A look around WWI battle sites'
2008-11-10,"b'""In occupied Hebron, the abnormal has become normal.""'"
2008-11-10,b'Protests urged as Myanamr jails blogger for 20 years'
2008-11-10,b'Israel allows some fuel into Gaza '
2008-11-10,"b'Burma prison court sentences blogger to 20 years, poet to two years'"
2008-11-10,b'Killing in Edmonton stuns Dexter producer'
2008-11-10,b'Kim Jong-Ill-er? Reports Kim Jong-Il had second stroke'
2008-11-10,b'Masked gunmen in Pakistan hijak a convoy delivering military vehicles and other supplies to US troops in Afghanistan.'
2008-11-10,"b'Meet the single mother-of-five who lives like a Queen in a $2,000,000 home...courtesy of the taxpayer'"
2008-11-10,b'Pakistan aims to recapture trucks stolen in Khyber'
2008-11-10,"b""BBC host replaced in 'racism' row"""
2008-11-10,b'How cells take out biological trash to prevent diseases'
2008-11-10,b'UN warns over Gaza food blockade'
2008-11-09,b'Digital forensics expert determines recent Kim Jong-Il photo was NOT manipulated.'
2008-11-09,"b"" Inspired by Barack Obama, the French say 'Yes, we can!' too, to ending racism"""
2008-11-09,b'Secret order lets U.S. attack what it considered to be Al Qaeda anywhere in the world.'
2008-11-09,"b""Maldives' government will start saving to buy a new homeland in case global warming causes the country to disappear into the sea."""
2008-11-09,b'UK judge bans youth from wearing hoodie.  Upheld by high court.'
2008-11-09,"b'New rules might force British universities to ""spy"" on and police the activities of foreign students.'"
2008-11-09,"b""What's wrong in Britain today - Daily Mail, anyone?  Paul Dacre should be shot."""
2008-11-09,b'Fist Fight!  Rival monks slug it out in Jerusalem.'
2008-11-09,"b'Ushahidi, a crowdsourcing tool to map incidents of violence in a region, just launched in the Democratic Republic of the Congo'"
2008-11-09,b'MPs seek to censor the media '
2008-11-09,"b'""the United States and Europe are key to forging a new world order."" UK prime Minister'"
2008-11-09,b'Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries - NYTimes.com'
2008-11-09,b'Dozens of Italian footballers fall prey to fatal disease'
2008-11-09,"b'China\'s ""human flesh search engine"" allows citizens to track down wanted criminals, but is justice or witch-hunting?'"
2008-11-09,"b""After solving all their problems: Pakistan Declares Death Penalty for 'Cyber Terror'"""
2008-11-09,b'Report: Al-Qaida planning Britain strikes. Scare tactics or real threat?'
2008-11-09,b'Maldives plans to buy new homeland as insurance policy against global warming'
2008-11-09,b'Marine census leads to discovery of more than 200 new species'
2008-11-09,b'Gordon Brown calls for new world order to beat recession '
2008-11-09,b'German rape victims mother withdraws complaint'
2008-11-09,b'Cambodian police chief dies in helicopter crash'
2008-11-09,b'Italy next to bail out banks'
2008-11-09,b'China Unveils $586 Billion Stimulus Package'
2008-11-09,b'German state legislator under fire for Obama slurs'
2008-11-09,b'Gobekli Tepe: The Worlds First Temple? | Smithsonian Magazine'
2008-11-08,"b'6,000 Muslim clerics from around India approved a fatwa against terrorism.'"
2008-11-08,b'Report: Georgia May Have Sparked War With Russia - Washington Post Investigations'
2008-11-08,"b'Georgia fired first shot, say UK monitors'"
2008-11-08,b'Stunned Icelanders Struggle After Economys Fall'
2008-11-08,b'China to bailout own citizens rather than banks'
2008-11-08,b'Student detained after refusing to shake hands with Israeli President'
2008-11-08,b'Blasphemy law ditched by the Dutch'
2008-11-08,"b""Michael Woodward was a priest who was brutally tortured by Pinochet's regime before being shot in the chest and buried in an unmarked grave - now his kidnappers face justice """
2008-11-08,b'Bush Adm Tries To Block Release Of Prisoner Abuse Photos '
2008-11-08,b'U.S. military admits killing 37 Afghan civilians in battling militants'
2008-11-08,b'A man who police believe was shot and killed by his 8-year-old son had consulted a Roman Catholic priest about whether the boy should handle guns and had taught him how to use a rifle'
2008-11-08,"b'Cyprus Elects Communist President. The 61-year-old Soviet-educated history professor won 53%. He now describes himself as a ""progressive socialist"" who supports some free market policies.'"
2008-11-08,b'Christian Monks Brawl at Jerusalem Shrine'
2008-11-08,"b'While US bails out banks and failed auto makers, China is spending $568 billion on infrastructure and social welfare'"
2008-11-08,"b'How Merrill Lynch failed: even after insurers stopped insuring their crazy mortgage deals, ML kept making them'"
2008-11-08,b'The page that says  Palin blamed by the US Secret service is missing'
2008-11-08,b'Artifacts believed to be from Kristallnacht: An Israeli writer believes objects in a dump near Berlin are related to the 1938 pogrom considered by many to be the start of the Holocaust.'
2008-11-08,b'Israeli authorities reject the claims that the black Hebrews are authentic Jews'
2008-11-08,b'The 6million squatters: Artist gang flies the black flag of  anarchy over Mayfair mansion (Daily Mail)'
2008-11-08,"b""'Child-witches' of Nigeria seek refuge"""
2008-11-08,b'Voting for Reproductive Freedom'
2008-11-08,"b""Egypt kicks out bin Laden's son"""
2008-11-08,b'Russian navy: sub accident kills more than 20'
2008-11-08,"b'Mexico Under Seige: For Tijuana children, drug war gore is part of their school day '"
2008-11-08,b'Russia to Deploy Missiles Only If U.S. Builds Shield '
2008-11-07,"b""UK Judge asks media whether to release Guantanamo Bay 'torture' evidence"""
2008-11-07,"b""Conservatives take New Zealand: John Key says NZ election win a 'vote for change'"""
2008-11-07,b'Blueprints for Auschwitz camp found in Germany'
2008-11-07,"b'One million Cubans evacuate as Hurricane Paloma,  now Cat 4, aims for Cuba'"
2008-11-07,"b'Israeli Supreme Court rules it\'s fine to build a build a ""Museum of Tolerance"" on top of a centuries-old Muslim cemetery'"
2008-11-07,"b""Iran slams Obama's tough language on nukes - 'A step in the wrong direction'"""
2008-11-07,b'New Zealand votes. The world holds its breath.'
2008-11-07,b'Report in US undercuts Georgian claim of how war started'
2008-11-07,"b""Russia's Putin may return as president in 2009 """
2008-11-07,b'US State Department admits Georgia erred in August attack on South Ossetia'
2008-11-07,b'Pakistani militants kill 2 alleged U.S. spies.  Warnings are found pinned to bodies dumped in volatile border region.'
2008-11-07,b'Israel Developing Nuke-Hunting Drone'
2008-11-07,b'Stonewall: Bigots of the Year or Government Stooges?'
2008-11-07,b'PM faces tough battle as NZ votes '
2008-11-07,"b'Arizona boy, 8, accused of killing 2, including dad'"
2008-11-07,"b'After five years of appeals, 3 are finally executed for Bali Bombings.'"
2008-11-07,b'China aims at higher nuclear power capacity - 70 million kilowatts by 2020'
2008-11-07,"b""A light unto nations - Israel army studies 'abuse video'"""
2008-11-07,b'Multimillionaire takes control of New Zealand'
2008-11-07,"b""Druglord's house raided. hundreds of high powered weapons, grenades and rocket launchers secured in Mexico"""
2008-11-07,b'Bali bombers executed by firing squad'
2008-11-07,b'Third deadly Hurricane in this year over Cuba - Fidel Castro'
2008-11-07,b'Dozens Dead in Hatian School Collapse (AP Footage)'
2008-11-07,"b'Megan Megan suicide letter found. Her bragging that her daddy would be president, allegedly made all her friends sick she said it ad nauseum.'"
2008-11-07,b'Russias new nuclear attack submarine starts sea trials'
2008-11-06,"b'""People \'can\'t wait for ID cards\'"" - WTF?  Why would anyone  (even if indifferent to the scheme) actually WANT an ID card?'"
2008-11-06,"b""Kim Jong Il Photoshop Error Betrays Leader's Health Problems? (PHOTOS)"""
2008-11-06,"b'NYTimes: ""Newly available accounts raise questions about the accuracy and honesty of Georgias insistence that it acted defensively against Russian aggression.""'"
2008-11-06,b'Iran Response to Obama Victory'
2008-11-06,"b'Israel seems to have little time for the irony that a modern Jewish shrine to ""coexistence and tolerance"" is being built on the graves of the city\'s Muslim forefathers.'"
2008-11-06,b'Woman Guilty of Unlawful Sex With 14yo Student'
2008-11-06,b'Read the blogs of students quarantined in a Chinese University as a cholera epidemic unfolds'
2008-11-06,b'Oil strikes 21-month low under $US58'
2008-11-06,"b'Huge Protests in Georgia, the people demand an explanation from the government for the mistakes of the war, which Saakashvili launched an offense to reclaim separatist South Ossetia'"
2008-11-06,b'UK Loses Billions in Renewables Installation Because of US Tax Rebates - BP expects to have one gigawatt of US wind power installed by 2008 and to have trebled that amount by 2010.'
2008-11-06,b'Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question '
2008-11-06,"b'U.S. Missile Kills 10 in Pakistan.  Has anyone else noticed that since the U.S. accelerated the air war, civilian deaths are far outweighing Taliban deaths?'"
2008-11-06,b'US Imposes Banking Sanctions on Iran'
2008-11-06,b'Stu Rasmussen becomes the first openly transgender mayor in the United States. First are happening! Keep the firsts going people!'
2008-11-06,"b'Kashmir city ""has now become a prison, every second day they impose a curfew without announcing it""'"
2008-11-06,"b""Scott Pelley: '60 Minutes' Crew Attacked in China While Reporting"""
2008-11-06,b'Putin er...Medvedev orders missiles deployed in Europe'
2008-11-06,"b'South Asian nations agree to build 243,000-tonne grain reserve'"
2008-11-06,b'60 Minutes crew attacked by angry Chinese'
2008-11-06,"b""Father Sold Drugs in Nightclubs to Find Daughter's Rapists"""
2008-11-06,"b'Aussie milk contaminated, says China'"
2008-11-06,"b' IMF bails out Ukraine - Business News, Business - The Independent'"
2008-11-06,b'GM Opens $300 Million Russian Plant to Boost Sales'
2008-11-06,"b'Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the youngest king crowned'"
2008-11-06,"b""Oil's stunning retreat: How long can it last?"""
2008-11-05,b'London: Smokers to be banned from fostering children'
2008-11-05,"b'""Suddenly, It May Be Cool To Be American Again""'"
2008-11-05,b' Pirate pride in Sweden as Pirate Bay hits 22 million peers '
2008-11-05,b'Want to help third world countries improve in the long term but kind of a tight ass? Try Kiva'
2008-11-05,"b""Supermarkets to be asked to take people's fingerprints for ID Card scheme."""
2008-11-05,b'Internet freedom under threat from governments'
2008-11-05,b'Morales says US anti-drug DEA killed Bolivian farmers'
2008-11-05,"b'Jacqui ""ID Cards\'"" Smith has had her fingerprints ""borrowed"" - no need to pop to the supermarket for her now!'"
2008-11-05,"b'Rice: Mideast peace pact unlikely by end of year - I hate to be cynical, but we really expected this to happen?'"
2008-11-05,b'Son of Osama bin Laden loses asylum bid in Spain '
2008-11-05,"b'Up here in Canada, we love the USA today. We were NEVER anti-American ... only anti-neocon!'"
2008-11-05,"b""Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's government says it is taking over one of the world's largest gold deposits."""
2008-11-05,b'A Nepali teacher has finally turned his dream into reality by connecting his remote mountain community to the internet.'
2008-11-05,"b""28-year-old Oxford grad becomes Bhutan's new king and world's youngest monarch"""
2008-11-05,b'Russia Warns of Missile Deployment '
2008-11-05,"b""Ireland's head-shops raided for selling herbal ecstacy"""
2008-11-05,"b""Italy's internet usage is one of the lowest in Europe.  Does that make it backwards?"""
2008-11-05,b'Suicide bomber hits Pakistan tribal elders'
2008-11-05,b'Mexican Hitmen Finish off Victim During Surgery '
2008-11-05,b'UK passport fees to jump by a third to more than 100 to pay for fingerprinting'
2008-11-05,"b'UN High Commissioner for Human Rights told the BBC she was taken aback by the ""terrible"" conditions in Gaza on a recent visit'"
2008-11-05,b'French magazine banned over Islam cover'
2008-11-05,b'ZIMBABWE: Hunting for good garbage to eat'
2008-11-05,b'UK interest rates slashed by 1.5% to 3% - lowest since 1955!'
2008-11-05,"b'NYTimes: Georgia Fired Inaccurate Cluster Bombs, Often Bombing Their Own Cities And Killing Their Own Civilians'"
2008-11-04,b'Kenya declares holiday for Obama'
2008-11-04,b'The Western media has recently outdone itself in censoring important stories - stories which contradict the policies and interests the media seeks to uphold...'
2008-11-04,b'Does it seem like every other US bomb dropped in Afghanistan hits a wedding party?'
2008-11-04,b'Plane crashes in centre of Mexico City'
2008-11-04,b'Half of the Zimbabwe population faces starvation'
2008-11-04,b'Woman drives sleeping rapist to police station'
2008-11-04,b'At least 38 civilians dead in another strike on a wedding party in Afghanistan...'
2008-11-04,"b'Newspaper frontpages around the world this morning. Thanks, USA!'"
2008-11-04,b'Kidnappers Kill Five Year Old Boy By Injecting Acid Into his Heart'
2008-11-04,"b""Russian Pres Dmitry Medvedev: 'Presidential term should be extended'"""
2008-11-04,"b'Russian President in State of the Nation address says that when Barack Obama becomes U.S. President, the relaions between the two countries will get a second wind.'"
2008-11-04,b'McCain loses with class'
2008-11-04,b'Poll reveals Germans would like return to nationalisation'
2008-11-04,b'Israel Launches Deadly Airstrike in Gaza. ah shit!'
2008-11-04,"b'Riot/celebration at White House - crowd shouting ""Bush out"" - anyone nearby have any updates? (saw this breaking on CBC TV)'"
2008-11-04,b'Mexican Interior Minister dies in plane crash.  CIA not suspected.'
2008-11-04,"b'Hamas militants pounded southern Israel with a barrage of rockets Wednesday, hours after Israeli forces killed six gunmen in a fresh bout of violence'"
2008-11-04,b'Russia will deploy short-range missiles in the Baltic Sea region near the border with Poland in response to plans by the United States to build an anti-missile system in Europe.'
2008-11-04,b'Artificial hair on submarines may help them overcome turbulence'
2008-11-04,b'Human Rights Watch says more cluster munitions than previously reported were used by both sides in S. Ossetia war.'
2008-11-04,"b""If you're ever accused of war crimes, hiding out near the Hague may not be the best idea.  Bosnian war crimes supect arrested in Netherlands."""
2008-11-04,"b""Mexico's interior secretary killed in plane crash"""
2008-11-04,"b'Kim Jong Il Said to Visit Military Units, Despite Health Rumors'"
2008-11-04,b'Russian President to Increase Presidential Term to 6 Years'
2008-11-04,"b""Jamie Oliver says the British don't know how to cook"""
2008-11-03,"b'Every MP to receive a copy of Orwell\'s ""Nineteen Eighty-Four""'"
2008-11-03,"b'Scientists conclude a mud volcano that displaced 36,000 Indonesians was caused by exploratory drilling for natural gas.'"
2008-11-03,b'A bill proposed in Dutch parliament would force women deemed unfit mothers to take contraception for two years.  Fail to comply and the state takes the newborn into custody.'
2008-11-03,b'Those New Photos of a Healthy Kim Jong-Il suppplied by North Korea..they have no shadows'
2008-11-03,b'Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops '
2008-11-03,b'Man dies in hospital after Calgary police use Taser during arrest on weekend'
2008-11-03,"b'Conflict in Congo, refugees on the move [ Pictures ] '"
2008-11-03,"b'Government to Chinese kids: run at least 1km a day to fight obesity, celebrate Communist party'"
2008-11-03,b'Modern day little red riding hood: UN reports that Somali woman executed for adultery was instead a raped teen.'
2008-11-03,"b""German doc moves to Australia to help during doctor shortage; two years later, he's told he can't stay b/c his son has Down's Syndrome"""
2008-11-03,b'Greenpeace calls off annual harrassment of Japanese whaling ships to concentrate on clearing the reputations of two activists accused of stealing whale meat.'
2008-11-03,b'At least two bomb blasts have injured more than 60 people in Thailand'
2008-11-03,b'Dominican migrant: We ate flesh to survive being stranded in the ocean '
2008-11-03,b'Israeli troops destroy West Bank settler structures'
2008-11-03,b'UN finds three internal displacement camps emptied and destroyed in Congo; tens of thousands missing; cholera outbreak possible.'
2008-11-03,"b'Singapore brings contempt of court case against Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Publishing.'"
2008-11-03,b'Guantanamo Jury Sentences Bin Laden Aide to Life'
2008-11-03,"b""South Korea facing 'kimchi deficit'"""
2008-11-03,"b""Dalai Lama says talks a failure, Tibet 'now dying'"""
2008-11-03,b'Pakistanis give Gen. Petraeus an earful on his first visit'
2008-11-03,"b""For sale: Saddam Hussein's luxury yacht"""
2008-11-03,b'Crisis Creates a New German Politics'
2008-11-03,"b'Talk or I restart war, Congo rebel tells government'"
2008-11-03,b'Rebel leader says he will continue fighting towards the Congo capital unless the government agrees to public talks.'
2008-11-03,"b'Two top state police officers slain in Mexico, where 12 officers have been killed in five days'"
2008-11-02,"b'The Israeli government has announced it will cut off all funding for ""illegal"" Jewish settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank'"
2008-11-02,b'Israeli troops destroy West Bank settler outposts'
2008-11-02,b'Thousands of Indian farmers are committing suicide after using genetically modified crops'
2008-11-02,b'Wedding Party Turned Into Tragedy [vid]'
2008-11-02,b'Pakistan warns Petraeus against missile strikes'
2008-11-02,b'Some owners deserting factories in China'
2008-11-02,"b""Japanese official fired for essay stating Japan's wartime agression was a positive thing"""
2008-11-02,"b'""I would learn that religion was actually being used as a weapon against these prisoners to break them ... that was something that went against the fundamental American value of religious freedom"" '"
2008-11-02,b' UK To Hire Foreign Soldiers As Police?'
2008-11-02,"b'Serbia failed to protect minorities after Kosovo declared independence, and to prosecute Serbians who targeted them, says Human Rights Watch report.'"
2008-11-02,"b'UK Secretary of State for Work and Pensions James Purnell loses Cabinet ministerial ""red box"" correspondence on a train'"
2008-11-02,b'Pakistan Warns Petraeus About the Downside of Raining Missiles on Its Citizens'
2008-11-02,"b""Gary McKinnon, who has Asperger's, admitted to hacking into numerous military and NASA mainframes.  Now British politicians struggle to ensure that he is repatriated if convincted by US courts."""
2008-11-02,b'Chinese in Taiwan for first talks since 1949'
2008-11-02,b' Vatican reintroduces clocking in'
2008-11-02,b'Space junk falls harmlessly in South Pacific'
2008-11-02,b'Aid Group Says Zimbabwe Government Misused $7.3 Million'
2008-11-02,b'Moscow Denies Pentagon Claims of Stolen Russian Nuclear Weapons'
2008-11-02,b'BBC: France To Cut Off Internet Access For Software Pirates'
2008-11-02,b'Sixty corpses of refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia washed up on beach'
2008-11-02,b'What Countries Does the New York Times Cover?'
2008-11-02,"b""Protesters close India's Assam after deadly blasts"""
2008-11-02,b'French software pirates soon to be cut-off from the internets'
2008-11-02,"b""Increasing kidnapping cases worsen Afghanistan's already chaotic situation"""
2008-11-02,b'British Airways staff slam smelly and annoying passengers on Facebook'
2008-11-01,b'BBC: New Bolivian President Suspends Indefinitely US-Led Drug Enforcement Operations'
2008-11-01,"b'The thirteen-year old girl was stoned to death on October 27 by dozens of men in a stadium packed with 1,000 spectators '"
2008-11-01,"b'Shipping industry in crisis due to global downturn: ""The daily rental rates for Capesize big ships have dropped $234,000 to $7,340 in weeks""'"
2008-11-01,"b'Syria\'s foreign minister says his country may resort to more ""painful"" measures if the United States doesn\'t give an official explanation for a deadly cross-border raid.'"
2008-11-01,b'Gordon Brown says your data will never be completely safe with the Government'
2008-11-01,"b'Third in a series of of pipline explosions hits BC, Canada'"
2008-11-01,b'Tax website shut down as memory stick with secret personal data of 12million is found in a pub car park'
2008-11-01,"b'Turkey has banned 850 websites this year, including YouTube and Blogger.'"
2008-11-01,b'Record-high interest internationally in U.S. election'
2008-11-01,b'U.N. says Colombian military executing civilians'
2008-11-01,b'DEA barred from Bolivia for supporting anti-government groups'
2008-11-01,"b'Murdoch: China, India will reshape the world'"
2008-11-01,"b""More than 1,000 Icelanders took to the streets of the capital Reykjavik to demonstrate against their government's handling of the banking crisis."""
2008-11-01,b'Japan struggles with WWII legacy '
2008-11-01,"b""Saddam Hussein's yacht up for sale"""
2008-11-01,"b""China's contaminated food scandal widens"""
2008-11-01,b'Radical muslims in Germany advocating the killing of Jews'
2008-11-01,b'Pakistani quake surviors beg for shelter from cold'
2008-11-01,"b'Warning about the current financial crisis, from more than a year ago'"
2008-11-01,b'Dalai Lama says his faith in China is shrinking'
2008-11-01,b'Maliki to Show US/Iraq Troops Pact to Neighbors - Comic'
2008-11-01,b'Israel spy chief fears Jewish extremist plot'
2008-11-01,b'the lambocop--almost reason enough to become a police officer in italy!'
2008-11-01,"b""North Korea releases photo of 'ill' Kim"""
2008-11-01,b'Did Georgia commit crimes in South Ossetia?'
2008-10-31,b'British police ask for camera license!'
2008-10-31,b'Beheaded after trying for asylum in Australia'
2008-10-31,b'March of the dustbin Stasi: Half of councils use UK anti-terror laws to watch people putting rubbish out on the wrong day'
2008-10-31,"b'Amnesty: Somali rape victim, 13, stoned to death, AF '"
2008-10-31,b'Japanese Air chief sacked over WWII denial'
2008-10-31,"b""Australian ISPs speak out against government's Great Firewall mandatory content filter"""
2008-10-31,"b""SAS chief quits over 'gross negligence' that killed his troops"""
2008-10-31,b'Syrians protest against US attack '
2008-10-31,"b'""1 million people flee"" fighting in Congo, U.N. says'"
2008-10-31,b'US airstrikes kill (another) 20 in Pakistani villages'
2008-10-31,b'Syria has denounced a US strike on its territory but sources say Damascus secretly backed the raid'
2008-10-31,b'Rescued Royal Bank of  Scotland to pay millions in bonuses'
2008-10-31,b'GAMBIA: Sex tourists exploiting children'
2008-10-31,"b'Prostitution: which Approach works - Legalization, or Criminalization?'"
2008-10-31,b'Banks seek help to forgive some credit card debt'
2008-10-31,b'Tories pledge to stop UK surveillance powers abuse'
2008-10-31,"b""Roberte Mugabe supporters grab one of Zimbabwe's last white-run farms"""
2008-10-31,b'Telling the Truth About Rape in Congo'
2008-10-31,b'New right-wing Swiss party to enter political arena'
2008-10-31,b'Christmas Slowly Losing Popularity'
2008-10-31,b'Mercy Politics: Refugees: The Dire Consequence of Wars and Conflicts.'
2008-10-31,b'Huge Piece Space station trash plunging to Earth'
2008-10-31,b'Marriage dowry is major cause of poverty'
2008-10-31,b'Saddam Hussein the martyr  inside tyrants tomb'
2008-10-31,"b'Somalia: Rape victim, 13, stoned to death'"
2008-10-30,b'Out-of-office reply ends up on bilingual road sign in Wales'
2008-10-30,b' CIA officers could face trial in Britain over torture allegations '
2008-10-30,b'teens attack 75 year old blind flamingo - what is wrong with our world?'
2008-10-30,b'Exxon Posts Largest Ever Profit of $14.83 Billion in a Quarter!'
2008-10-30,"b""I Know We've Got This Election in US To Worry, But I Wanted To Help Shine More Light On Our Afgani Friends Ongoing 'Us Killing Them' Problem. Let's Keep That In The Spotlight Too!"""
2008-10-30,"b""Priests to face 'sex drive tests'; Pope looks like Sith Lord in photos."""
2008-10-30,"b'Is the Taliban Stockpiling Opium? And If So, Why? '"
2008-10-30,"b""Berlusconi Guts Italys School System, It's Going From one of Europe's Best to one of Its Worst. """
2008-10-30,b'The truth about South Ossetia'
2008-10-30,"b""Johann Hari: How we fuel Africa's bloodiest war"""
2008-10-30,"b""Worst Terrorist Attack in India's Northeast - 12 separate blasts, with police saying nearly 70 people have died"""
2008-10-30,b'Australia denies residency to doctor because his son has down syndrome'
2008-10-30,b'France: Imam arrested for illegal marriages'
2008-10-30,b'Japan general fired over WWII essay critical of US'
2008-10-30,b'Suspected US missile strike kills 20 in Pakistan'
2008-10-30,"b'Police halt wedding of boy, seven, to girl aged five'"
2008-10-30,b'Syria cut off contacts with Iraq and reduce its forces on the border'
2008-10-30,"b'Japanese air force chief of staff says the idea that Japan was an aggressor in WWII ""mind control"".  In his view, it was the US that forced Japan into war.'"
2008-10-30,"b'Pakistani police break up the marriage of a 7 and 4 year old, reportedly arranged to end a long-standing family feud.'"
2008-10-30,b'UK drug abuse worst in Europe'
2008-10-30,b'Libya has paid $1.5bn into a compensation fund for relatives of US victims of terror attacks blamed on Tripoli.'
2008-10-30,b'Pirates are back - Seize Boat Crew Off Cameroon '
2008-10-30,"b'3000 Year Old ""Spider God"" Temple Found in Peru'"
2008-10-30,"b'Brit becomes Mayor of Spanish town, because every other ruling councillor is arrested for corruption'"
2008-10-30,b'UK Centre for Social Cohesion press release - The UK government to work with extremist Muslim students'
2008-10-29,"b""I Know We've Got This Election in US To Worry, But I Wanted To Help Shine More Light On Our Australian Friends Potential 'Internet Filter' Problem. Let's Keep That In The Spotlight Too!"""
2008-10-29,"b""I can picture in my mind a world without War, a world without Hate. and I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. -Jack Handey"""
2008-10-29,b'British home secretary launches investigation into CIA and MI5 torture which could lead to a criminal prosecution.'
2008-10-29,"b'Not as important as the US election or aussie internet censorship.. but.. 215 dead, up to 50,000 people may be homeless in Pakistan, following earthquake..'"
2008-10-29,b'Australia to implement mandatory internet censorship'
2008-10-29,b'British cave explorers find worlds deepest cave. 1 km. That shit is deep!'
2008-10-29,"b'Iceland: ""Britain has devastated our economy""'"
2008-10-29,b'Israeli meseum of tolerance being built on a Muslim graveyard'
2008-10-29,b'Chinese News reports on RAND proposal for an American war to save the American Economy'
2008-10-29,b'Jordan woman stabbed to death over sex images'
2008-10-29,b'Dutch 2008 Commemorative coin (Netherlands and Architecture): beautiful and wonderfully creative'
2008-10-29,b'(pics) Battles rage in Congo'
2008-10-29,"b'Losing Afghanistan: After 7 Years of War, the Taliban Attacks the Culture Ministry in Heart of Kabul'"
2008-10-29,"b""And the winner of Bayer's 17th International Childrens Painting Competition is...you guessed it..."""
2008-10-29,b'China to Talk with Dalai Lama Envoys - Comic'
2008-10-29,b'War Refugees: Christians On the Run in Iraq'
2008-10-29,b'Global Fund revokes $10M in anti-AIDS funding and $2M in anti-malaria funding to Uganda over allegations of mismanagement.'
2008-10-29,b'Not Even Getting Hosed Down Can Stop A Band Of Somalian Pirates'
2008-10-29,b'Listen online to live audio of CNN TV'
2008-10-29,b'Scores dead in nine Indian explosions'
2008-10-29,b'If Walter Cronkite says World Government it must be true'
2008-10-29,b'Graffiti on a wall between Israel and Palestina'
2008-10-29,"b""Meanwhile, in the UK, Lesley Douglas, BBC Radio 2 controller, resigns over the Brand/Ross prank call 'scandal'"""
2008-10-29,b'Israeli army to defend Palestinians from..............Israeli settlers'
2008-10-29,b'Bomb attacks in India kill at least 67'
2008-10-28,"b'Finnish e-voting system loses 2% of votes, has no paper trail'"
2008-10-28,"b'One dead, thousands without power and the first October snow in London in 74 YEARS as Arctic blast sweeps across UK'"
2008-10-28,"b'Gordon Brown\'s terror claims for ID cards are ""bunkum"" says GCHQ expert'"
2008-10-28,"b""mental midgets at tsa will eventually re-allow us to bring our non-explosive liquids back on planes! now if they'll just stop stealing our crap"""
2008-10-28,"b'Over 1,000 foreign soldiers killed in Afghanistan since 2001'"
2008-10-28,"b""Report: N. Korea's Kim suffers `serious' setback"""
2008-10-28,"b'UK doctors warned ""we\'ll report you to MI5"" over IT security'"
2008-10-28,"b'UK will face peak oil crisis within five years, report warns'"
2008-10-28,"b'Five synchronized suicide bombings hit Somalian targets, including a UN building and the Ethiopian embassy.'"
2008-10-28,"b'""The stench went through my nostrils""  - Pub chefs accused of serving human excrement in gelato to a family complaining about noise during a football match. '"
2008-10-28,b'Israeli biometric database bill passes first vote'
2008-10-28,b'World Conservation Congress: biodiversity underpins the well-being of human societies and their economies'
2008-10-28,b'Net giants create code to defend online freedoms'
2008-10-28,b'UK database guru warns over breaches'
2008-10-28,"b'This is the Zlin-143, the plane commonly used by the Tamil Tigers\' ""Air Wing"" which today dropped aerial bombs on a Columbo power station and escaped a Sri Lankan air force dragnet.'"
2008-10-28,"b""Venezuela gets its own Satellite! Let's try to find out what it can do!"""
2008-10-28,b'Young dodge the internet censors'
2008-10-28,"b""Livni's brave stand"""
2008-10-28,b'U.S. embassy in Syria says may close to public'
2008-10-28,b'Extremists face tougher UK entry'
2008-10-28,b'MI5 targets Irelands al-Qaeda cells'
2008-10-28,b'Ludmilla Radchenko For The Art Of Being A Woman'
2008-10-28,b'Scores dead after Pakistan quake'
2008-10-28,"b""If you guys don't elect Obama, can we have him?"""
2008-10-28,b'Cops: Centipedes are dangerous weapons'
2008-10-27,b'BBC: Rampant Evidence That Georgia Committed War Crimes During Conflict With Russia'
2008-10-27,b'Is Britain on its way to becoming a surveillance society. Or has it already arrived?'
2008-10-27,b'Extremists to be barred from UK'
2008-10-27,"b'1000 Congolese citizens hurl rocks at a UN compound, ""angry that a 17,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping force has been unable to protect them from a rebel attack just 25 miles north of the city.""'"
2008-10-27,b'Happy Diwali '
2008-10-27,b'UK parents to be fingerprinted by nursery schools'
2008-10-27,b'Europe on the brink of currency crisis meltdown '
2008-10-27,"b'Defectors describe executions, torture in North Korea'"
2008-10-27,"b'The 255th death due to lack of medical treatment resulting from the seige on Gaza passed away, Monday'"
2008-10-27,b'How then did a Victorian working class family with four children enjoy a nutritious if unsophisticated diet on a budget of less than 2 per week?'
2008-10-27,"b""A news story that's remarkable for giving a much rounder than usual picture of civilian responses to the Islamist stoning of a woman accused of adultery."""
2008-10-27,"b""North Korea's military threatened to use everything in its arsenal to reduce South Korea to rubble unless Seoul stops civic groups from sending anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the communist state."""
2008-10-27,b'A woman in Somalia has been stoned to death after an Islamic Sharia law court found her guilty of adultery'
2008-10-27,"b""Chile's torture colony -  Colonia Dignidad """
2008-10-27,b'Right By My Side Where You Supposed To Be:  We might be on the verge of a major breakthrough with the Taliban'
2008-10-27,b'Italy: mega-march against Berlusconi'
2008-10-27,b'Iraq demands all US troops out by 2011'
2008-10-27,"b'IMF may need to ""print money"" as crisis spreads '"
2008-10-27,"b""Refugees Australia rejected 'killed by Taliban'"""
2008-10-27,"b""'Bush's Way of Waving Goodbye to Syria?'"""
2008-10-27,b'UN atomic energy chief warns of nuclear theft '
2008-10-27,b'China May Lend Russia $25 Billion as Part of Oil Deal '
2008-10-27,"b'Q&A: Why is Congo in the news, and what role is the UN playing?'"
2008-10-27,"b""I don't get it? Are people who insist on warring against the WRONG Country stubborn, or stupid, or evil?"""
2008-10-27,"b""Iranian general admits supplying weapons to 'liberation' fighters in middle east"""
2008-10-26,b'It begins: Australian net filters may block porn and gambling sites as well.'
2008-10-26,b'Sharia rulings on divorces and disputes to be rubber-stamped by English courts despite women being treated like second-class citizens. When will suffrage be repealed?'
2008-10-26,"b""Japan's fastest-growing class: the working poor"""
2008-10-26,"b'Soldiers Speak Out is a powerful, first-hand testament to the reality of the military experience'"
2008-10-26,b'Report: Iranian president has fallen ill'
2008-10-26,b'Muslim sex abuse victims have a religious obligation not to report their abusers'
2008-10-26,b'Man has arm sucked down a vacuum toilet on a train'
2008-10-26,"b'West African court orders the Nigerian state to pay $19,030 in damages and interest for failing to protect a child from being sold into slavery.'"
2008-10-26,"b""Dutch towns 'swamped by drug tourists' - planning to close coffee shops"""
2008-10-26,b'Iran Cabinet Minister Facing Impeachment after his supposed Oxford University law degree turned out to be a fake.'
2008-10-26,"b""Britain's police state steams ahead: Police will use new device to take fingerprints in street"""
2008-10-26,b'Pakistani girl charged with immorality is chased by dogs then shot dead; father says a land dispute is the real motive.'
2008-10-26,"b""Nun 'attacked and gang-raped by 40 men' in anti-Christian violence in India"""
2008-10-26,b'West ganging up on Russia | The Japan Times Online'
2008-10-26,b'Syrian witness reacts to US raid'
2008-10-26,b'Illegal Horse Fighting Festival Begins'
2008-10-26,b'Worried Japanese parents try to marry off adult children '
2008-10-26,b'Syria accuses US of deadly raid'
2008-10-26,"b""Iran: US military raid 'unacceptable' """
2008-10-26,b'An Inside Look into Bribery in China'
2008-10-26,b'A special ops surge in Afghanistan'
2008-10-26,"b'Yen gains, Nikkei hits 26-yr low as markets suffer'"
2008-10-26,b'US special forces launch rare attack inside Syria (October Surprise?)'
2008-10-26,"b""Japan's burgeoning class: Working Poor"""
2008-10-26,"b""Someone has to take the fall: Georgia's PM fired by president"""
2008-10-26,b'Is the Rudd government about to erect a Great Firewall of Australia?'
2008-10-26,b'Russian historian Boris Borisov asks what became of over seven million American citizens who disappeared from US population records in the 1930s.'
2008-10-26,"b'A 24-year-old woman who spent her life as a slave has taken the Niger government to court, claiming it failed her by ignoring its own laws.'"
2008-10-26,b'Israeli best seller breaks national taboo - Israeli academic and historian says Jewish Nation myth '
2008-10-26,"b""Abu Nidal, notorious Palestinian mercenary, 'was a US spy'"""
2008-10-26,b'Our MPs barely earn a crust'
2008-10-26,b'Italians flood Rome in anti-Berlusconi protest'
2008-10-26,b'Dalai Lama Gives Up On China Talks'
2008-10-26,b'Iranian president has fallen ill'
2008-10-26,b'Hundreds of thousands march through Rome to protest against the right-wing government of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi'
2008-10-26,b'German movie puts world war II rapes in focus'
2008-10-26,"b'38 people dead and as many as 30,000 homeless in Eastern India as Christians face growing attacks'"
2008-10-26,"b'""I hate the gooks"" - John McCain'"
2008-10-26,b'Hong Kong Extends Melamine Testing After Finding Chemical In Chinese Eggs'
2008-10-26,b'Mushroom: The Most Powerful Symbol of Life and Death'
2008-10-26,b'Armed assailants attacked a man and gouged out his eyes in front of his family during a gruesome assault in southern Afghanistan'
2008-10-26,"b""Remembering the UK's last recession"""
2008-10-26,"b""Tourism? It's just national prostitution, says Prince Philip"""
2008-10-26,b'Landmark Berlin Squat Battles Eviction'
2008-10-26,b'Livni calls for early Israeli election'
2008-10-26,"b'Basque demonstrators take to the streets, demanding the right to a referendum on independence from Spain'"
2008-10-26,b'Melamine found in eggs from China'
2008-10-26,b'Betancourt compares her ordeal to Austria dungeon crimes'
2008-10-26,b'Daring $1m mid-day heist in Milan '
2008-10-26,b'Iran Says OPEC May Decrease Production Further'
2008-10-25,b'Imprisoned Chinese Human Rights Activist Hu Jia Receives Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought'
2008-10-25,b'Time and Money Running Out for Pakistan'
2008-10-25,"b'EU Calls For ""New World Governance"" (video) '"
2008-10-25,b'Eastern European economies face bankruptcy '
2008-10-25,"b""Pakistan rejects 'America's war' on extremists"""
2008-10-25,b'Sign the petition to stop Australian Internet censorship'
2008-10-25,b'Stephen Hawking to retire from prestigious post'
2008-10-25,"b'In Russia, Calm Despite Plunging Stocks and Shaky Banks'"
2008-10-25,"b'Afghan authorities have arrested 13 people, including employees of DHL courier service, after a shooting killed two foreign nationals and a security guard in Kabul Saturday.'"
2008-10-25,b'Kenya readies for Obama tourist boom'
2008-10-25,b'UN aids Iraqi Christians chased from Mosul (AP)'
2008-10-25,"b'Yemen floods leave 46 dead, 20,000 without shelter'"
2008-10-25,b'Explosion Destroys Key Bridge in Georgia'
2008-10-25,b'Passenger hijacks Russian internal flight: report | International | Reuters'
2008-10-25,b'Europes largest mosque opens in Chechnya'
2008-10-25,b'Switzerland rallies for nuclear disarmament'
2008-10-25,b'Pakistan and Afghanistan Forecast: Stormy with a Couple Hurricanes on the Way'
2008-10-25,b' Time and Money Running Out for Pakistan'
2008-10-25,"b'The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday that virtually no medical supplies were reaching Gaza, putting the lives of several hundred seriously ill patients at stake'"
2008-10-25,b'Hindu extremists held over deadly bombings'
2008-10-25,"b'Cold War Stories: Baykonur, Two Generations Ago '"
2008-10-25,b'Future of the press: useful or just shallow?'
2008-10-25,b'Israel may turn to right as coalition talks crumble'
2008-10-25,b'US Govt Helping Rid Iraqis of Dangerous Economic Surplus'
2008-10-25,b'Guantanamo guards struggle with hunger striker '
2008-10-24,b'EU formally renews ties with Cuba '
2008-10-24,b'Terrorism laws can be abused to stifle dissent: UN rights expert'
2008-10-24,b'Colombia: Half a million people on strike in the nation that kills more union members than the rest of the world combined.'
2008-10-24,b'Australia uses accusations of child abuse to take land from Aborigines for uranium mines'
2008-10-24,"b"" Aussie govt: Don't criticize our (terrible) 'Net filters"""
2008-10-24,b'German banks wants bonus repayment repayed from former managers.  Nice lead Germany'
2008-10-24,b' Oil falls nearly $5 as OPEC cut fails to halt slide '
2008-10-24,b'U.S. Student Jailed In Iran'
2008-10-24,b'Resurgence of anti-semitism in Germany'
2008-10-24,"b""The United States has plundered global wealth by exploiting the dollar's dominance, and the world urgently needs other currencies to take its place: China paper"""
2008-10-24,"b'North Korea faces worst food crisis in decade - Millions of people in the country are facing ""severe deprivations"" not seen since the mid-1990s'"
2008-10-24,"b""Airport Striptease: Germany Shies Away From 'Peeping Tom' Airport Scanners"""
2008-10-24,b'Russian default risk tops Iceland as crisis deepens'
2008-10-24,b'EU defies Beijing warning to award Chinese dissident human rights prize'
2008-10-24,"b'Deputy Governor of the Bank of England: ""This is a once-in-a-lifetime crisis and possibly the largest financial crisis of its kind in human history"" '"
2008-10-24,b'Eastern European economies face bankruptcy'
2008-10-24,"b""Stephen Hawking to retire as Cambridge's Professor of Mathematics"""
2008-10-24,"b'The arrest of Pinochet -- 10 years later. 30,000+ victims, 38 convictions.'"
2008-10-24,"b'""I\'m in search of Gandhi in the land of Gandhi,"" he added. ""I\'ve failed to find him.""'"
2008-10-24,"b""Russia's financial crisis is escalating with lightning speed as foreigners pull funds from the country and the debt markets start to price a serious risk of sovereign default."""
2008-10-24,b'North Korea clamps down on mobile phones to stop news of food crisis'
2008-10-24,b'Iran holding American student in prison'
2008-10-24,"b""UK's highest court has criticised Islamic law for discriminating against women following a case in which a mother was forced to flee to the UK from the Middle East"""
2008-10-24,"b""Iran accuses US of 'pillaging' Iraq """
2008-10-24,"b""Rumors flurry about Ahmadinejad's health following event cancellations."""
2008-10-23,"b'Argentina nationalizes private pensions and acknowledges that they were an ""enormous error\'\'. Argentina takes action to protect workers and retirees instead of banks. '"
2008-10-23,b'How people of other religions are treated in Muslim countries: Amazing facts.'
2008-10-23,"b'Baby rape a cure for AIDS - How can this be sick belief be common in a developed country? over 1500 new infections daily, over 20,000 rapes a year'"
2008-10-23,b'UN says wealth gap creating a social time bomb - Growing inequality in US cities could lead to widespread social unrest and increased mortality.'
2008-10-23,b'Another war? Bosnia in real danger of collapse'
2008-10-23,b'Israeli Revealed as owner of South Sudan bound weapons ship'
2008-10-23,"b'EU awards its Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to jailed Chinese dissident Hu Jia.  China\'s Foreign Ministry calls it meddling but ""too trivial to dwell on.""'"
2008-10-23,b'Mexican Government Covers Up Murder of Journalist'
2008-10-23,b'Pakistan stares into the abyss'
2008-10-23,b'Massive Secret Uranium Shipment Revealed'
2008-10-23,b'Pakistan Will Give Arms to Tribal Militias.  What could go wrong?'
2008-10-23,b'Pakistan: 8 Students Die in Suspected US Missile Strike on School'
2008-10-23,b'Russians told all is well as economy sinks'
2008-10-23,b'Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were working on a Big Brother-style cable television propaganda industry to be broadcast across Germany'
2008-10-23,b'Far-right Austrian leader sacked for revealing gay affair with Jrg Haider'
2008-10-23,b'US airstrike kills 9 Afghan soldiers at checkpoint'
2008-10-23,"b'US, British ex-diplomats warn Bosnia in danger of collapse'"
2008-10-23,b'UN warns of mass starvation in North Korea'
2008-10-23,b'Horrific Flashback From My Soviet Childhood'
2008-10-23,b'Pakistan takes $5bn IMF bail-out after allies refuse funds'
2008-10-23,b'Russia Backs Keeping U.S. Force in Iraq'
2008-10-23,"b'GOP Donors Critical of Palin\'s Pricey Threads; Some Want Money Back (""..like to think they were successful enough to [get] their wardrobe with their own money"")'"
2008-10-23,b'India Launches Moon Mission'
2008-10-23,b'Mobile biometric scanners for all UK police'
2008-10-23,"b'""V"", ""U"" or ""L"" shaped - the shape of the coming global recession [Hint: L shaped is bad]'"
2008-10-22,"b'US falls to 119th out of around 160 countries ranked by press freedoms outside its own territory, says Reporters Without Borders.'"
2008-10-22,"b""Austria in shock as leader of far right Alliance for the Future of Austria reveals he's gay - and was having a long-term affair with Jorg Haider, the former leader"""
2008-10-22,"b""BBC: India successfully launches the unmanned Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft - the country's first mission to the Moon"""
2008-10-22,b'Moon rocket at an Indian price: Just 80 million dollars to the moon'
2008-10-22,"b'Despite intense U.S. pressure, Pakistan refuses to buy the ""with us or against us"" worldview and are edging closer to talks with the Taliban, saying, ""What\'s wrong with talking?""'"
2008-10-22,"b'Kristallnacht remnants finally unearthed near Berlin, close to 70 years on'"
2008-10-22,"b'Surprisingly enough, Chagos Islanders lose the latest round in their battle to return to their home, stolen from them by the UK'"
2008-10-22,"b'Russia, Iran and Qatar announce an OPEC-style ""big gas troika"" that will control 60% of the world\'s gas supplies.'"
2008-10-22,"b""Women who switched roles to live lives as men. Last of Albania's 'sworn virgins'"""
2008-10-22,"b'Chinese call Microsoft the ""biggest hacker in China, with its intrusion into users\' computer systems without their agreement or any judicial authority"".'"
2008-10-22,b'Dutch police official on coffeeshops and the meshing of legal and illegal drug trade'
2008-10-22,b'A skyscraper in Mecca catches fire. Does anyone have more on this?'
2008-10-22,b'Ouch! Wachovia Reports $23.9 Billion Loss for Third Quarter'
2008-10-22,"b'Dear Mr. Brown, we are not terrorists'"
2008-10-22,"b""Chagos Islanders, comprehensively screwed over by the UK and US governments, may have a chance of returning to their stolen homeland (but don't hold your breath)"""
2008-10-22,b'It is more important to be attractive than to be right'
2008-10-22,b'Civilian deaths from US/Nato air strikes in Afghanistan are not accidents or mistakes  they are calculated and predicted'
2008-10-22,b'UK Government tied in knots by bondage protest'
2008-10-22,"b'Nicolas Sarkozy threatens to sue over ""voodoo doll"" that tells people to stick pins into his body'"
2008-10-22,b'Jamaica beach vanishes in crime wave'
2008-10-22,b'Economic downturn likely to cause British recession: Brown'
2008-10-22,b'35 Taliban reported killed in Afghan battle....Just how many of these f*ckers are there?'
2008-10-22,b'Mexico arrests suspected major cocaine trafficker after shootout'
2008-10-22,b'Donors pledge 4.5 billion dollars to Georgia'
2008-10-22,b'Mountain range that rivals the Alps may prove that Antartica was once part of Western U.S.'
2008-10-21,"b""Britain's freedoms under threat from 'Big Brother security state', warns Director of Public Prosecutions"""
2008-10-21,"b""Centuries of freedoms being broken by security state, says England's top prosecutor"""
2008-10-21,b'Newly declassified documents: Stalin was ready to send over a million Soviet troops to the German border in order to preempt Nazi aggression. This could have prevented the outbreak of the World War II'
2008-10-21,b'Providing micronutrients for 80% of the 140 million poorest children in the form of vitamin A and zinc would cost $60 million/year. This action holds benefits of more than $1 billion/year.'
2008-10-21,"b'China accuses US of ""widespread human rights abuses on its own territory"" and hypocrisy in criticizing others'"
2008-10-21,"b""A Photo Essay on Vietnam's Forest Pygmies: Only discovered in the 1980s, this is Vietnam's Smallest Indigenous Minority (in both senses of the word)"""
2008-10-21,"b""'More inequality' in rich nations"""
2008-10-21,b'Terrorism Act'
2008-10-21,b'Bali bombers to be shot dead after losing court appeal to be beheaded'
2008-10-21,"b'1917 Baron Rothschild was the addressee of the Balfour Declaration, which committed the British government to the establishment in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people.'"
2008-10-21,b'Somalia frees hijacked cargo ship'
2008-10-21,b'What are the Japanese doing right now? Minute by minute graphs from the best census keeper on earth'
2008-10-21,b'Bali bombers to be shot to death'
2008-10-21,b'Canada had role in torture of its nationals: probe'
2008-10-21,"b""Mobile's missed calls that reveal 'terrorists tried to detonate car bombs 15 times in central London'"""
2008-10-21,"b""Lloyd's of London, the world's biggest insurance market, said Tuesday that Hurricanes Gustav and Ike will cost it at least $2.34 billion in damages claims."""
2008-10-21,"b""Amnesty International says Nigeria's criminal justice system is so flawed, it's calling for a moratorium on executions to avoid the deaths of innocents."""
2008-10-21,"b""Mao Zedong's only grandson leads Maoist revival"""
2008-10-21,b'Counter-Terrorism Bill clause 83 reminder - chilling effect on reporting or speculation about military or intelligence service or police personnel ?'
2008-10-21,"b'In Algeria, death sentences follow fugitives thick and fast'"
2008-10-21,b'French Bistros File Record Bankruptcies as French surrender their culinary pride to Le Big Mac'
2008-10-21,"b'Botswana brides: Buy now, pay later'"
2008-10-21,"b""ANC call on SA land redistribution described as 'reckless'"""
2008-10-21,"b""Army scientists 'deployed in UK'"""
2008-10-21,"b""Sarkozy pushes eurozone 'economic government'"""
2008-10-20,b'Coke Dealers Badass Party House w/ Private Zoo'
2008-10-20,"b'Japan: 44 per cent of country\'s workforce are part-time only. Communist-themed ""manga"" comics are enjoying soaring success.'"
2008-10-20,"b'Seriously, what\'s going on in China that would cause melamine in everything from milk to dogfood... and now chocolate and strawberry flavored ""willy spread""?'"
2008-10-20,b'Fascinating Pictures of Russian Trains '
2008-10-20,b'Activists celebrate Irans ban on juvenile executions'
2008-10-20,"b'New Security Scanners Called ""Virtual Strip Search"" at Melbourne Airport Will Show Genitals!'"
2008-10-20,b'Beijing Olympic Official gets the Death Sentence.'
2008-10-20,b'Rwanda abandons French language'
2008-10-20,"b'Convert or we will kill you, Hindu lynch mobs tell fleeing Christians'"
2008-10-20,b'A split in Belgium?'
2008-10-20,b'Pakistan facing bankruptcy as world financial crisis deepens'
2008-10-20,b'Trial of 86 nationalist hardliners accused of using assassination and bombings in an attempt to overthrow the Islamist-leaning Turkish government is postponed when supporters flood the courtroom.'
2008-10-20,"b""Burros carry one man's library to Colombian villagers"""
2008-10-20,b'UK borrowing at 60-year high'
2008-10-20,b'Did a Gulf of Tonkin Incident Just Happen In Iranian Waters?'
2008-10-20,b'Vietnamese Security Police Again Active in Poland'
2008-10-20,b'Really? Iran Security Forces arrest pigeons working for imperialists equipped with metal rings and invisible strings near Natanz nuclear facility'
2008-10-20,"b'China to Allow Land Leasing, Transfer. New Law Is Part of Project Aimed at Doubling Rural Incomes'"
2008-10-20,b'Sri Lanka MoD says 33 troops died fighting Tiger rebels over the weekend. Here are some govt. videos.'
2008-10-20,"b""Muslim fanatic prisoners to be 'de-programmed' using controversial techniques to 'cure' them of beliefs"""
2008-10-20,b'Bank hackers steal from French President Sarkozy'
2008-10-20,"b""Drug violence traumatizes Mexico's children."""
2008-10-20,b'Almost 200 UFO files will be made available by the MoD over the next four years.'
2008-10-20,b'Israel Considering Saudi Peace Deal'
2008-10-20,"b""British spinster jailed after breaking neighbour's arm with spade"""
2008-10-19,"b'Japan yesterday ordered retailers to pull frozen beans from China off the shelves after a woman fell ill eating a product which had 34,500 times the legal limit of pesticide'"
2008-10-19,b'Passports will be needed to buy mobile phones - Times Online'
2008-10-19,b'How We Lost the War We Won: A journey into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan (by Nir Rosen)'
2008-10-19,"b'Brazen UK domestic ""Media Operations"" policy leaked - Wikileaks'"
2008-10-19,b'New law to allow police to collect DNA in secret '
2008-10-19,b'UK-Commissioned Report Urges Regulated Market to Replace Cannabis Prohibition'
2008-10-19,"b""Muslim fanatic prisoners to be 'de-programmed' in UK using controversial techniques to 'cure' them of beliefs"""
2008-10-19,b'Hackers withdraw from Sarkozys bank account '
2008-10-19,b'Jewish settlers attack Palestinians during harvest'
2008-10-19,"b'North Korea will make an ""important announcement"" on Monday amid speculation over the health of its leader Kim Jong Il'"
2008-10-19,b'NATO warships arrive to deter Somali pirates'
2008-10-19,"b'The Economists Global Electoral College: Obama is currently winning 8,897 to 38'"
2008-10-19,b'Jewish Settlers Attack Palestinian Man Taking Photographs of Olive Farmers'
2008-10-19,b'An 11yo girl was set on fire by a relative in Indias northern city of Jaipur for wearing lipstick and being inappropriately dressed'
2008-10-19,"b'In Iraq, The Doctors Are Out'"
2008-10-19,b'Jamaican police looking for stolen beach'
2008-10-19,b'Shiite bloc holds off OK to US-Iraq pact'
2008-10-19,b'Is Kim Jong Il dead?'
2008-10-19,"b'In a Baghdad District, Scars of Sectarian Violence Run Deep'"
2008-10-19,b'India : Girl set alight for wearing lipstick'
2008-10-19,b'U.S. Pact Hits Snag as Iraq Shiites Seek Changes'
2008-10-19,b'Has the EU been watching too much Lou Dobbs?'
2008-10-19,"b'As the Price of Crude Plunges, Venezuela Is Poised to Face a Lot of Pain'"
2008-10-19,b'Accusation Against Writer Reopens Traumas of Czech Past '
2008-10-19,b'Young Midland Muslims support suicide bombings new poll reveals'
2008-10-18,"b""Prepare for 'Important Message', North Korea diplomats have been told."""
2008-10-18,"b""Response to 9/11 was 'huge overreaction' - ex-MI5 chief"""
2008-10-18,"b'Their Own Worst Enemy: In its quest to become a world power, China faces one big obstacle: The sheer stupidity of its leadership'"
2008-10-18,b'Thousands march in Baghdad against U.S. pact'
2008-10-18,b'Austrian Fascist Spent Final Hours at Gay Nightclub'
2008-10-18,"b""British couple defends son's Swiss suicide """
2008-10-18,b'Malaysians warned not to question Islam'
2008-10-18,b'China to make Olympics press freedoms standard'
2008-10-18,b'Pakistan charges American with illegal entry and possession of a weapon in Waziristan'
2008-10-18,b'Here Comes Trouble . . . Muqtada Al Sadr urges followers to reject US-Iraq pact'
2008-10-18,b'Thousands of followers of anti-American cleric al-Sadr took to the streets on Saturday in a demonstration against a pact that would allow U.S. forces to stay in Iraq for 3 more years.'
2008-10-18,b'Austrian Right-Winger Was In Gay Bar Before He Died In DUI Crash '
2008-10-18,"b'The global financial crisis has also started to hit countries once thought to be immune from it, like China, Russia and the Gulf States. '"
2008-10-18,b'Europe Contemplating A New Financial Order After the Credit Crisis'
2008-10-18,b'Thousands of Iraqis protest U.S. security pact'
2008-10-18,b'Russia troops launch Caucasus crackdown after attack'
2008-10-18,"b'If you want to change the world, you have two days left.'"
2008-10-18,b'Nir Rosen: How We Lost the War We Won'
2008-10-18,"b""Checehnya opens Europe's biggest mosque constructed by Turkish builders"""
2008-10-18,b'China to help Pakistan build two more nuclear power plants '
2008-10-18,"b'With the help of an international community, Congo is finally starting to deal with its horrendous rape problem- ""the worst sexual violence in the world"". '"
2008-10-18,b'Rome workers uncover city of dead'
2008-10-18,b'A Russian military convoy has been attacked by rebels in its volatile southern region of Ingushetia'
2008-10-18,b'Britain to cut immigration due to weak economy: minister'
2008-10-18,"b""Luc Pierre-Charles Jr VS James Pieper...His parents found out he had befriended black kids who carry guns at school. He's dead now and Luc Pierre-Charles isn't getting the Bragging Rights? WTF?"""
2008-10-17,b'The Other Man On The Podium'
2008-10-17,"b'Dutch non-profit reproductive health organization sails ship around the world, anchoring in international waters to provide abortions to women in countries where abortion is banned'"
2008-10-17,"b""Grand Ayatollah Issues Decree Calling Muslims to Defend Iraq's Christians"""
2008-10-17,b'Marx Das Kapital sales soar among young Germans '
2008-10-17,"b'A man in England killed his wife because she changed her Facebook relationship status to ""single""'"
2008-10-17,"b'Georgia Used Cluster Bombs in August War, Too'"
2008-10-17,b'Arctic Temperatures Break All-Time Recorded High'
2008-10-17,"b'Reddit, please send help, (UK) politicians insane. Apparently not monitoring mobile and web records would be ""giving a licence to terrorists to kill people""'"
2008-10-17,"b'Wow. ""Secret coded messages are being embedded into child pornographic images, and paedophile websites are being exploited as a secure way of passing information between terrorists.""'"
2008-10-17,b'England to run out of honey before Christmas after catastrophic honeybee decline '
2008-10-17,b' Iran to stop executing youths'
2008-10-17,b'China watches over internet caf customers in web crackdown '
2008-10-17,"b'China\'s media ""freedoms"" are reduced. New measures include cameras in internet cafes and pictures taken of all users'"
2008-10-17,b'Bali bombing - new suspects'
2008-10-17,b'Hindu American Foundation petitions the NY Times to focus as much on the activities of Christian missionaries in India as it does on anti-Christian violence.'
2008-10-17,b'A quick overview of how Islamic terror organizations get their funding.'
2008-10-17,b'Last Titantic Survivor to Auction Off Mementos to Pay for Nursing Home - We can do better!'
2008-10-17,b'Hungary Gets $6.7B Loan to Avert Meltdown '
2008-10-17,"b'Sao Paolo : Hundreds of black-clad military police fired teargas, stun grenades and rubber bullets at striking civilian officers seeking a 15 percent pay raise'"
2008-10-17,b'Austrailian historian arrested for Holocaust denial'
2008-10-17,b'Defense Secretary Gates said he is prepared for reconciliation with Taliban as part of the political outcome in Afghanistan'
2008-10-17,"b'Is Switzerland the next Iceland?  ""Switzerland was forced to take emergency measures yesterday to shore up its two biggest lenders to prevent a collapse in confidence in the country\'s banking system.""'"
2008-10-17,b'Police battle police in Sao Paulo'
2008-10-17,b'25 more civilians killed in NATO air strike in Afghanistan: villagers'
2008-10-17,b'The West Is at a Loss in Afghanistan'
2008-10-16,b'Iceland has food stocks for about 3 to 5 weeks'
2008-10-16,b'Israeli Bestseller Breaks National Taboo - Dr Shlomo argues that the idea of a Jewish nation is a myth invented little more than a century ago.'
2008-10-16,b'CNN anchorwoman actually takes on Israeli spokeswoman [VID]'
2008-10-16,"b'Ever wondered what a dead city looks like? Watch this BBC report from inside Mogadishu, Somalia'"
2008-10-16,b'Italian PM Berlusconi wants Russia to join EU '
2008-10-16,"b'Three months in jail if you have premarital sex in Dubai. You know, that place with the massive architecture everyone thinks is just so cool'"
2008-10-16,"b'The Communications Data Bill (2008) will lead to the creation of a single, centralized database containing records of all e-mails sent, websites visited and mobile phones used by UK citizens.'"
2008-10-16,b'Pinochet-era death squad members jailed'
2008-10-16,"b""European Union to Stick to Tough Climate Targets Despite Poorer Countries' Attempt to Block Moving Forward"""
2008-10-16,b'Russia ends decades-old border dispute and gives territory to China '
2008-10-16,b'The Queen visits Google'
2008-10-16,"b""Norway police charge Microsoft's Fast with fraud"""
2008-10-16,"b'Britain, in alliance with Poland, Sweden and the Baltic States, has narrowly prevented the European Union from reopening trade and aid talks with Moscow'"
2008-10-16,"b'Last Titanic survivor, 96, sells mementos to help pay nursing home fees in England'"
2008-10-16,b'Friendly fire in Iraq -- and a coverup'
2008-10-16,"b'Iraqi negotiators are reviewing a revised draft of a long-delayed security agreement to govern the conduct of American forces in Iraq, an Iraqi government spokesman announced Wednesday. '"
2008-10-16,"b""United Nations declare Gaza smuggling 'an industry' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)"""
2008-10-16,b'Five Afghanistan scholars visiting the University of Washington reported missing'
2008-10-16,"b'BBC in ""its last stages"": budget cuts will make it increasingly difficult to maintain standards'"
2008-10-16,"b""Intelligence report: U.S. antiterror ally Pakistan 'on the edge' """
2008-10-16,b'Sarkozy: Arabic Is the Language of the Future'
2008-10-16,b'World sharemarkets slump on recession fears'
2008-10-16,"b'Tactical calculations in Afghanistan make ""nonsense of US and British claims that their civilian victims are accidental \'collateral damage\'...""'"
2008-10-16,"b""Don't Laugh at the Bear"""
2008-10-16,"b'U.S. travel alert adds Nogales, Mexico'"
2008-10-15,"b'On behalf of the 64% of Canadians who did not vote for our new Conservative government, I apologize for what our country has done.'"
2008-10-15,"b""China will be a democracy by 2020, according to one of the country's most influential reformers. """
2008-10-15,"b""Iceland: Britain's unlikely new enemy"""
2008-10-15,b'CFR Member Calls For New Global Monetary Authority'
2008-10-15,b'How to engineer a financial catastrophe.'
2008-10-15,b'Suicide spurs bid to regulate the Internet in South Korea'
2008-10-15,b'Australia: Muslim Students Group Outraged After Having to Share Prayer Room With Infidels'
2008-10-15,b'President of Honduras Calls for Drug Legalization'
2008-10-15,"b'Conservative government re-elected, CBC projects'"
2008-10-15,"b""Rabbits Overrun Nelson Mandela's Jail of 18 Years"""
2008-10-15,"b'Thai and Cambodian soldiers fire bullets and rocket-propelled grenades at one another over disputed border two days after Cambodia warned of potential ""large-scale conflict"".'"
2008-10-15,b'CNN: Re-election Projected for Canadian PM Stephen Harper'
2008-10-15,b'Brazil saves penguins. Yay for penguins!'
2008-10-15,"b""Muslim convert Joseph Thomas took ticket, cash from al-Qa'ida: court"""
2008-10-15,"b""Canada's vote against change"""
2008-10-15,b'...a Saudi woman initiated a boycott campaign against lingerie stores aiming to put pressure on shop owners to replace salesmen with women.'
2008-10-15,b'Iceland receiving assistance from Nordic countries | from the hip'
2008-10-15,b'Supreme Court Rejects Execution Appeal - NYTimes.com'
2008-10-15,"b'I revealed myself to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as l Shaddi, but was NOT known to them by my name Yahweh.'"
2008-10-15,"b""Italians are up on arms over France's refusal to extradite for trial Marina Petrella, a former member of the communist terrorist group Brigate Rosse."""
2008-10-15,b'UK Says Rich Nations Should Pay Billions Every Year for Rainforest'
2008-10-15,b'What does the rehabilitation of Bill Ayers tells us about the war on terrorism?'
2008-10-15,b'Why No Outrage Over Persecuted Hindus? How many millions of Hindus do Muslims have to kill or displace before the world takes notice? '
2008-10-15,b'Attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen Linked to Mossad'
2008-10-15,"b""French authorities investigate the alleged posioning of a prominent Russian human rights lawyer, raising the spectre of ex-KGB officer's poisoning two years ago."""
2008-10-14,b'Russian Lawyer Who Defended Journalists Is Poisoned In France'
2008-10-14,"b'Daughter of Mossad chief sent to military prison for refusing to enlist. Stay classy, Israel!'"
2008-10-14,b'US Surrenders Power to Appoint World Bank President '
2008-10-14,b'India gets a new view of US: Collection agents at call centers hear tales of woe from a land whose lifestyles they once idealized.'
2008-10-14,"b'I was tortured and sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia. As a westerner, I was eventually released, but others are not so lucky'"
2008-10-14,"b""Redditors in Canada: don't forget to get out and vote today!"""
2008-10-14,b'Friendly-Fire Cover Up Revealed by New Video'
2008-10-14,"b""Farrakhan To Announce 'A New Beginning' Oct. 19th - Nation of Islam leader to make major statement at mosque dedication"""
2008-10-14,"b""How Did GOP Get $8 Million from Wachovia?  (Was It Before or After They Were 'Bailed Out?'... If That Even Matters)"""
2008-10-14,b'N. Korea defectors drop leaflets condemning leader '
2008-10-14,b'Protests in London Against the Financial Bailout Plan for Banks (videos)'
2008-10-14,"b'Syria, Lebanon establish diplomatic ties'"
2008-10-14,"b'PDF: Amnesty International reports a sharp increase in beheadings in Saudi Arabia, with migrants and the poor bearing the brunt'"
2008-10-14,"b'UK ""Shariah TV"" Episode 5 asks ""How can you be a Muslim in the Land of the Great Satan?""'"
2008-10-14,"b'Some of my best friends are gay: Pete Mullen apologizes and explains his suggestion that homosexuals have ""sodomy warnings"" tattooed on their bodies.'"
2008-10-14,b'Unexploded Bombs in Germany: The Lethal Legacy of World War II'
2008-10-14,"b'Global Economic Crisis Likely To Have Profound Consequences For US Politics, World Relations'"
2008-10-14,"b""Among the 64 Israelis arrested in the wake of Acre's 4 days of riots, the Arab man who started it all by driving his car during Yom Kippur."""
2008-10-14,b'My eight-year-old daughter - who has kidney problems - was dragged by her hair and one man tried to push her through the railings on the windows.'
2008-10-14,"b'Stephen Harper has been a terrible Prime Minister and has run perhaps the poorest campaign, despite his millions, of all the major parties'"
2008-10-14,"b'A photo-timeline of the Darfur conflict, now in its fifth year, by Doctors Without Borders'"
2008-10-14,b'Bush Blinks on North Korean Nukes. Again.'
2008-10-14,"b""Who knows what disasters lurk within the world's scattered lands? The Hungarians know."""
2008-10-14,b'Science Based Approach to HIV/AIDS Returns to South Africa'
2008-10-14,"b'UK: Church of England Signs Pact With Radical Sunni Sect Responsible for the Taliban, Equates Terrorism With the ""Excesses of Western Foreign Policy""'"
2008-10-13,b'EU Bans the Incandescent Light Bulb'
2008-10-13,b'AFP: Paul Krugman wins Nobel Economics Prize'
2008-10-13,"b'Europe to U.S.: You messed up the rescue, too'"
2008-10-13,b'Hindu Threat to Christians: Convert or Flee'
2008-10-13,"b'Europe puts $2.3 trillion on line for banks, almost 3 times the USA bailout'"
2008-10-13,b'Congratulations on your Nobel Prize in Economics Paul Krugman!'
2008-10-13,"b""When can we get some damn privacy? Governments lose data! Up to 1.7m people's data missing"""
2008-10-13,b'AFRICA: Sexually-transmitted grades kills quality education'
2008-10-13,"b'New Beijing Traffic Laws Take 800,000 Cars Off the Road in China'"
2008-10-13,"b'A Jamaican lottery scam draws in millions of US dollars every day, providing Jamaican gangs with high-calibre weapons.'"
2008-10-13,b'Terror bill: 42-day detention rejected'
2008-10-13,"b""Ringo 'too busy' for autographs"""
2008-10-13,b'EU warns youth: turn your MP3 players down!'
2008-10-13,"b'For three decades the Free Aceh Movement fought for independence from Indonesia, settling finally for autonomy.  Now its founder, long in exile, comes home.'"
2008-10-13,b' North Korea restores U.N. monitoring of atom site-diplomats'
2008-10-13,"b""Aids in Africa: The power of the pulpit's message"""
2008-10-13,"b'AskReddit: Out of all the significant world events that you have experienced in your lifetime, where would you rank the current financial crisis ? '"
2008-10-13,b'A different spin on textbook controversy: rewriting history in the interest of peace'
2008-10-13,"b'The Soleckshaw, a new solar powered rickshaw, has been unveiled this month in Delhi, and is being touted as a solution to traffic jams, pollution woes, and backbreaking human labor.'"
2008-10-13,"b""Venezuela shuts down McDonald's"""
2008-10-13,b'Children of the black dust'
2008-10-13,b'UK banks receive 37bn bail-out'
2008-10-13,b'Bank shares fall despite bail-out'
2008-10-13,b'Fighting the Financial Crisis: Stocks Surge As EU Nations Unveil Bailout Packages'
2008-10-13,"b'EU to ban traditional light bulbs, despite dangers of CFLs to health and the environment'"
2008-10-12,b'Iranian man awaits execution - for being a Christian'
2008-10-12,b'Interest in gold means that many of the worlds mints are struggling to keep up'
2008-10-12,"b""Official: 3,000 Christians flee bombings by Islamic extremists in Iraq's Mosul (AP) - The surge has been a success?"""
2008-10-12,b'Taliban leader killed by SAS was Pakistan officer'
2008-10-12,b'Financial crisis: Countries at risk of bankruptcy from Pakistan to Baltics '
2008-10-12,b'Irans Jews feel very much at home'
2008-10-12,"b""America's opponents in the Middle East are gloating over the financial meltdown in the US, painting it as divine retribution for past misdeeds against Muslims and the last gasps of a dying empire"""
2008-10-12,b'Russia in fresh missile launches'
2008-10-12,b'Give Me Liberty or Give Me Sex? '
2008-10-12,b'Biological warfare: US controls bird flu vaccines over bioweapon fears'
2008-10-12,b'German Bailout Likely to Be Over $400 Billion'
2008-10-12,b'The well known Israeli drug store chain AM:PM fired their CEO after it was made public that he allowed for Jewish security guards to work on Yom Kippur'
2008-10-12,"b""1,000 Christian families flee a campaign of liquidation in Iraq's northern city of Mosul"""
2008-10-12,"b""Missing Hard Drive Had British Troops' Private Information"""
2008-10-12,"b'Israeli Jews, Arabs clash in fourth straight night'"
2008-10-12,b'Nobel Peace Prize 2008 goes to Martti Ahtisaari'
2008-10-12,"b'An atheist, is just as STUPID, as a religious person who knows that god TRULY exists.'"
2008-10-12,"b'Christians flee Iraqi city after killings, threats, officials say '"
2008-10-12,b'Brown urges eurozone to copy UK. Because...?'
2008-10-12,b'In Before Media Watch'
2008-10-12,"b'North Korea will comply with U.S. nuclear inspections, Gets Removed from Terror List'"
2008-10-12,"b'Christians flee Iraqi city after killings, threats'"
2008-10-12,b'Flaherty reassures Canada about its economic growth after White House meeting'
2008-10-12,b'U.S. soldiers explain how they were told to carry drop guns to cover up  murder of Iraqi citizens as  Informal military policy'
2008-10-12,b'I think youll find more ecological wisdom in our average primary school than youll find round your Cabinet table'
2008-10-11,"b'While the world watches the 2008 US elections, Canada fights for its survival. On 14 October 2008 Canada will hold its most important elections since its creation - no hype, no exaggeration.'"
2008-10-11,"b""'US missile' hits Pakistan town"""
2008-10-11,"b""Iceland's Krona Currency Trading Halts - Last trade made at 340 krona per euro - Kaupthing Bank seized by the government"""
2008-10-11,b'Breaking The Silence - Truth and Lies in the War on Terror ... '
2008-10-11,b'N. Korea off U.S. Terror List : : '
2008-10-11,b'Israel grants rare entry to cancer-stricken Iranian boy '
2008-10-11,b'Austrian politician Joerg Haider dies in car accident'
2008-10-11,"b""Dubai is the 'hole in the net' of sanctions on Iran """
2008-10-11,b'Water agency kept uranium contamination at desert site Secret !!!'
2008-10-11,b'World financial crisis leads to auto industry layoffs across Europe'
2008-10-11,"b'Pictured: The horrific moment a hot air balloon exploded, leaving one dead and another injured'"
2008-10-11,"b'A new dawn for Iran: the insolvency of the dollar-based global financial requires a new global settlement - a Bretton Woods II - a new asset-based energy dollar or ""carbon dollar""'"
2008-10-11,b'Hacker quits school to avoid punishment'
2008-10-11,b'Notes on a Milk Scandal'
2008-10-11,b'Local Residents in Japanese City Go To Court to Evict Yakuza HQ'
2008-10-11,b'Austrian far-right politician Joerg Haider has been killed in a road accident in the Austrian province of Carinthia. '
2008-10-11,b'Morgentaler receives Order of Canada'
2008-10-11,b'North Korea dropped from terrorism blacklist '
2008-10-11,b'NASA presses ahead for Mars rover launch in 2009 - Yahoo! News'
2008-10-11,b'U.S. takes North Korea off terror list'
2008-10-11,b'World Leaders to Act in Concert to Stem Financial Crisis  News Coverage'
2008-10-11,"b""A sign on the door leading out of US Marines' Combat Operations Center says: Have a Plan to Kill Everyone You Meet!"""
2008-10-11,b'Dog dies after saving man in Trinidad from fire - Boston.com'
2008-10-11,b'Buffett boosts wealth to top Gates on Forbes list '
2008-10-11,"b""Parenting: You're Doing It Wrong!"""
2008-10-10,"b'Icelandic Currency (ISK) loses 73% of its value in a single day. Yesterday, 1 USD = 92 ISK. Today, 1 USD = 418 ISK. '"
2008-10-10,b'Iceland has gone bankrupt. They are likely going to ask the International Monetary Fund for help and ditch the krona.'
2008-10-10,b'French President Nicolas Sarkozy: Lets put things clearly. There was a Georgian military aggression. That was a mistake. But the Russian armys reaction was disproportionate'
2008-10-10,b'Nobel peace price for 2008 to Martti Ahtisaari'
2008-10-10,"b'Oops! ""Jewish People"" is a Myth, says Jewish Historian '"
2008-10-10,b'Yom Kippur: Jews Riot in Acre Over Arab Driving A Car '
2008-10-10,"b'Equipped with knives, sticks and clubs, they all had one purpose: to do harm to Arabs for being Arabs.'"
2008-10-10,"b""Iran's 'Nuclear Detonators' Are A CIA Fake"""
2008-10-10,b'UK accuses Iceland of economic terrorism: Seizes assets'
2008-10-10,b'Asian stock markets prunge over 10 percent on news that the sky is falling'
2008-10-10,"b'Police faced off against hundreds of Jewish rioters chanting ""death to Arabs"" and trying to block the city\'s main thoroughfare'"
2008-10-10,"b""Nature loss 'dwarfs bank crisis'"""
2008-10-10,"b""Two of this week's Nobel Prize winners talk about how the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki changed their lives."""
2008-10-10,b'Banned from Sumo for life for smoking marijuana? Japan even more uptight about pot than US'
2008-10-10,b'FTSE plunges 440pts in 10 minutes as markets around the world go into freefall again'
2008-10-10,"b'""Sources inside the (World ) bank confirm that servers in the institution\'s highly-restricted treasury unit were deeply penetrated with spy software last April.""'"
2008-10-10,b'Oh My! Whatever Will The Oil Barons & Ministers Do? We need a rally for OPEC!!'
2008-10-10,"b'Meanwhile, shares on the Tehran stock exchange have increased in value by 20% during the year.  (Of course, the majority of their eggs are in the oil basket....)'"
2008-10-10,"b'Libya is to withdraw all its assets from Swiss banks, estimated at $7bn'"
2008-10-10,b'Rioting between Jews in Arabs has resumed in Akko after a Yom Kippur filled with violence in the racially mixed city'
2008-10-10,b'Inflammatory Republican rallies raise concerns'
2008-10-10,b'Congressional leaders Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi urged President Bush Thursday to call an emergency meeting with the G8 to address international financial instability.'
2008-10-10,b'Mullah Omar: U.S. Should Withdraw Now Or Meet The Same Fate As The Soviets'
2008-10-10,b'Bulgarian roses will be planted in France'
2008-10-10,b'Pakistan in crisis on mission for US funding'
2008-10-09,b'The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the worlds poorest women in Africa.'
2008-10-09,b'A 14 year old schoolboy posed as a female British secret service spy in an internet chatroom to persuade a 16 year old friend to try to murder him'
2008-10-09,"b'Mexico: Government agents killed 4 to 6 people in Chiapas, 3 of them mafia execution-style. Residents respond by briefly capturing 77 government agents.'"
2008-10-09,b'U.K. Uses Anti-Terrorism Law to Seize Icelandic Bank Assets  '
2008-10-09,b'Enraged neighbors briefly captured 77 police officers using nothing but sticks and traditional machetes.'
2008-10-09,b'Russian president Dmitry Medvedev calls on European leaders to create a new world order that minimises the role of the US'
2008-10-09,"b'""Sovietology, like paranoia, is a very dangerous disease, and it is a pity that part of the U.S. administration still suffers from it,"" Medvedev said.'"
2008-10-09,b'Icelandic Regulator Takes Control of Kaupthing Bank '
2008-10-09,b'Prior to the tyrannical theft of Palestine  via the Balfour Declaration issued to Lord Rothschild  the Middle East had been a relatively peaceful area.'
2008-10-09,"b'Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land, most of todays Jews have no historical connection to ""Israel""; the only political solution to conflict with the Palestinians is to abolish the Jewish state.'"
2008-10-09,"b'China milk victims may have doubled to over 90,000'"
2008-10-09,"b'From Germany to Guantanamo: The Career of Prisoner No. 760 believed to have provided aid to the Sept. 11 attackers, and the confessions extracted from him by torture could collapse in court. '"
2008-10-09,"b""Why Iceland's economy collapsed"""
2008-10-09,b'Military Justifies Attack That Killed at Least 33 Afghan Civilians (including 12 children)'
2008-10-09,"b""Britain 'could be mining landfill for gold in a decade'"""
2008-10-09,b'UK uses anti-terror laws against Icelandic bank'
2008-10-09,"b'New World Order: Global co-operation, nationalisation and state intervention - all in one day'"
2008-10-09,b'Terror law used for Iceland deposits'
2008-10-09,b'German law professor who almost stopped the EU: Elite wants world government '
2008-10-09,b'Russia Pulls Out From Georgia Buffer Zones'
2008-10-09,b'U.S. report warns of crisis in Afghanistan'
2008-10-09,b'You too can stranglehold your opponents like Vladimir Putin ...'
2008-10-09,b'Blast rocks Pakistan capital: At least 12 people are feared dead in a suspected car bombing at police headquarters'
2008-10-09,b' North Korea said to be deploying missiles'
2008-10-09,b'IMF: World on Brink of Recession'
2008-10-08,b'Modern slavery in Dubai'
2008-10-08,"b'Brazil and Argentina, two biggest economies in South America, Monday launched a new payment system of bilateral transaction with their local currencies, aimed at eliminating the U.S. dollar '"
2008-10-08,"b""The British government's plan for teachers to monitor their pupils for signs of potential extremism only stifles debate and encourages secrecy."""
2008-10-08,b'Attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen Linked to Israeli Mossad'
2008-10-08,b'Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has started his own video blog '
2008-10-08,"b""China's super-wealthy lose a third of their wealth over night"""
2008-10-08,b'Chinese Space Walk Filmed in Water'
2008-10-08,b'UK announces 50bn ($88bn) rescue plan'
2008-10-08,b'14-year-old Iowa girl abandoned under Nebraska law'
2008-10-08,b'NYTimes: U.S. Inquiry Is Said to Conclude 30 Civilians Died in Afghan Raid '
2008-10-08,b' The Matrix of Death. A New Dossier on the (Im)Precision of U.S Bombing and the (Under)Valuation of an Afghan Life'
2008-10-08,b'Russia to cut military personnel to 1 mln by 2012'
2008-10-08,"b'World economic crisis deepens: Nikkei sinks 9%, Russian exchange was shut down after a huge decline at the open, U.K. bailing out banks'"
2008-10-08,"b'The assassination of Salvador Vergara Cruz, mayor of a Mexican resort town, may represent a turning point in how Mexico deals with its drug trafficking problem.'"
2008-10-08,b'Why are Afghan criminal networks secretly stockpiling enough heroin to supply every junkie on the planet? And where is it?'
2008-10-08,b'The latest conflict simmering between Lebanon and Israel is all about food: Lebanese businessmen accusing Israel of stealing traditional Middle Eastern dishes like hummus'
2008-10-08,b'UK banks are now part nationalised as Government injects 500 billion'
2008-10-08,"b""English woman fights to use dead husband's sperm"""
2008-10-08,b'China: No more Western religious music in concert halls.'
2008-10-08,b'There Will Be No Lasting Peace without the Taliban'
2008-10-08,"b""Hindu mobs in Indian province burning and killing Christians and Muslims...why isn't this in the news?"""
2008-10-08,b'China reluctant to reveal tainted milk figures'
2008-10-08,b'Is CNN Biased In This Presidential Race? I have been watching and testing'
2008-10-08,"b""Anger over Baader-Meinhof Biopic: Victims' Families in Uproar over New German Terrorism Film"""
2008-10-08,b'A bunch of multinationals have figured out how to make their pollution-based businesses seem like the solution to the climate crisis.'
2008-10-07,"b'(Russia) ""You won\'t buy our version of the war in Georgia? Fine, we won\'t buy your version of 9/11.""'"
2008-10-07,b'U.S. Security Firm Indicted for Fraud in Afghanistan'
2008-10-07,b'The government of Iceland getting a 4 bn loan from Russia in exchange for a 99-year lease on the airport at Keflavik - a former American air base'
2008-10-07,b'Recent scenes from North Korea'
2008-10-07,b'Iran says it forced down Western plane.  U.S. denies initial Iranian reports that aircraft was American'
2008-10-07,b'An Iranian news agency said on Tuesday that a U.S. military aircraft had violated Iranian territory unintentionally and had been forced to land in Iran.'
2008-10-07,b'The Western World Needs to Rethink its Rush to Biofuels '
2008-10-07,b'The West has completely failed the people of Somalia'
2008-10-07,b'Nepal declares girl new living goddess.  3-year-old will be worshipped as incarnation of the Hindu deity Taleju'
2008-10-07,"b""50 dead in seven days in Mexico's drugs war"""
2008-10-07,"b""China's Reputation On Product Safety Reaches a New Low"""
2008-10-07,"b'Pakistan Faces Bankruptcy, Wants $100 Billion Handout'"
2008-10-07,b'Russia says Georgia trying to provoke new conflict'
2008-10-07,b'Taliban split with al Qaeda and seek peace with Afghan government'
2008-10-07,"b'Al-Qaeda is dwindling, but ""recent military strikes by the Americans in Pakistan\'s tribal areas are unifying the different radical Islamic groups""'"
2008-10-07,"b""A novel about the Prophet Muhammad's child bride has been published in the US ahead of schedule after the office of the British publisher was attacked."""
2008-10-07,"b'Yahoo employee was head of ""media terror cell"" for Islamic Mujahideen'"
2008-10-07,b'Terror as Iceland faces economic collapse'
2008-10-07,b'Russia is moving back to hair-trigger alert testing for its strategic nuclear bombers and cruise missiles for the first time since the closing years of the Cold War'
2008-10-07,b'The PEPCON disaster'
2008-10-07,"b'Putin Releases Video ""Learn Judo With Vladimir Putin""'"
2008-10-07,"b""It's 12:40 Pm Pacific Time, and the DJIA is Down 393 Points and Plummeting!"""
2008-10-07,"b'UN Says at Least 5,000 Flee Violence in Congo - NYTimes.com'"
2008-10-07,b'Australian jet plunge injures 40 '
2008-10-07,b'US supports Taliban return to power'
2008-10-06,"b""Iceland. Sept 5/08 : UN's Best Country to Live '07.  Oct 5/08: Food hoarding begins, Currency rated just above Zimbabwe"""
2008-10-06,b'The dark side of Dubai'
2008-10-06,b'China cancels military contacts with US in protest '
2008-10-06,b'Pirates die mysteriously on captured ship'
2008-10-06,b'Pakistan facing bankruptcy '
2008-10-06,"b'Taliban split with al Qaeda, seek peace !'"
2008-10-06,"b""Teacher's Union calls for Legalization of Teacher-Student Sex"""
2008-10-06,b'Duality of man: Is anyone kind of relieved that the other economic boot is dropping even though they are shitting their pants?'
2008-10-06,"b""Female fighters: We won't stand for male dominance"""
2008-10-06,b'Biggest ever fall in UK stocks'
2008-10-06,b'CNN: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia recently hosted talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban militant group'
2008-10-06,b'Germany to allow domestic military deployment'
2008-10-06,b'Moscow Says U.S. Leadership Era Is Ending '
2008-10-06,b'The Impact Of Global Insolvency: Pakistani Government Is About To Go Bankrupt'
2008-10-06,"b'Markets need morals, says Brown.'"
2008-10-06,b'Chinese lawyers seeking redress for the infant victims of poisoned milk are facing Official Government pressure to abandon their efforts. '
2008-10-06,"b'AIDS, cancer scientists scoop medicine Nobel '"
2008-10-06,"b""Europe's economic super power, Germany, agrees to 50 billion bail out"""
2008-10-06,b'France urges Israel not to attack Iran'
2008-10-06,b'Attackers in the Congo shot and hacked to death six workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross'
2008-10-06,b'17 year old Girl has 7 Kids '
2008-10-06,"b""Iceland's Economy on Verge of Collapse"""
2008-10-06,b'Europe joins the bailout game'
2008-10-06,b'Iraq: The Surge Is Not Working'
2008-10-06,b'Strange Creature Found On Russian Coastline Baffles Locals'
2008-10-05,"b'Jewish ""Modesty Patrols"" Sow Fear In Israel'"
2008-10-05,b'Anyone notice Iceland falling apart at the seams?'
2008-10-05,b'When Europeans were slaves: Research suggests white slavery was much more common than previously believed.'
2008-10-05,b'Minimum vacation time around the world'
2008-10-05,"b'Behind the Bluster, Russia Is Collapsing'"
2008-10-05,b'Drug violence kills at least 49 in Tijuana (Mexico) this week'
2008-10-05,b'Israel criticized indirectly for refusing review of atomic program'
2008-10-05,b'Suspected US Missile Strike Kills 20 in Pakistan'
2008-10-05,b'United States Cuts Condom Funding In Africa'
2008-10-05,b'Russia Accuses Georgia On Bomb Blast.'
2008-10-05,b'Two High-Ranking McCain Campaign Officials Lobbied For Companies At Center of Sex-For-Oil Scandal'
2008-10-05,"b""'Jesus was a Palestinian,' claims U.S. history text"""
2008-10-05,b'Somali Pirates'
2008-10-05,b'Blair advised Mandelson on return'
2008-10-05,b'Iraqi Air Force Receives U.S. Manufactured Advanced Surveillance Planes'
2008-10-05,b'Crisis talks to save German bank'
2008-10-05,b'Russia starts pull-back from Georgian war zones'
2008-10-05,"b""British Bullshitting Corporation's (BBC) lies on WTC 7 torn apart by WeAreChange.Org on Ground Zero"""
2008-10-05,b'Reports Link Karzais Brother to Heroin Trade'
2008-10-05,b'Europe: Full savings protection soon?'
2008-10-05,b'US embassy in London to relocate'
2008-10-05,"b""'High level of melamine' in two Cadbury products"""
2008-10-05,b'Turkish troops bomb northern Iraq after PKK clashes'
2008-10-05,"b'""Modesty Patrols"" Sow Fear In Israel, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, On Campaign For Purity, Allegedly Stone Women For Wearing Red Blouses'"
2008-10-05,"b'""India has never been a threat to Pakistan"" says new Pakistani President'"
2008-10-04,b'The European Commission has proposed extending fully-paid maternity leave from 14 weeks to 18 weeks'
2008-10-04,b'Stephen Harper admitted Thursday that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq was a mistake'
2008-10-04,b'Derbyshire: Bystanders and passersby urge 17 year old to jump to his death: disgusted police chief speaks out [BBC]'
2008-10-04,b'Stephen Harper accepted at least 20 000$ of gifts from Bush'
2008-10-04,"b'A New Cold War? Hardly. Behind the bluster, Russia is collapsing'"
2008-10-04,"b'While the USA seeks $700bn for large banks, the UK has just put in proposals for a 12bn fund to keep small businesses afloat... [BBC]'"
2008-10-04,"b'Israel would use ""disproportionate"" force to destroy Lebanese villages from which Hezbollah guerrillas fired rockets at its cities in any future war'"
2008-10-04,b'Bonkers Boris backs barmy booze-buying ban: worth reading for the crass invective directed at unscrupolous politicians'
2008-10-04,"b'British Ambassador: Best Solution For Afghanistan Is An ""Acceptable Dictator""'"
2008-10-04,b'Syria rebuffs nuclear inspectors'
2008-10-04,"b'British Ambassador: Best Solution For Afghanistan Is An ""Acceptable Dictator""'"
2008-10-04,"b""Kurdish rebels have killed 15 Turkish soldiers in fighting in the country's south-east"""
2008-10-04,b'Police in Austria arrest a 48-year-old man on suspicion of killing his elderly in-laws with a flame-thrower'
2008-10-04,b'Kim Jong Il Makes First Public Appearance Since Illness'
2008-10-04,b'British government planned chilling tapes for BBC broadcast in event of nuclear war'
2008-10-04,"b""why are americans acting like they know the dynamics of Afghanistan and Waziristan, when they couldn't mention one thing about either locale that isn't on wikipedia?"""
2008-10-04,b'Chinese Capitalists Sell Out Mao To Make Way For A Parking Lot (well his plane anyway)'
2008-10-04,b'Ukraine: No arms sales in Georgian war'
2008-10-04,b'EU heads hold bank crisis talks'
2008-10-04,b'Gaza tunnel collapses making life hard for Palestinian smugglers'
2008-10-04,b'Millions to die in China from lung disease'
2008-10-04,"b""Palin's Apocalypse: A Video with Pertinent Questions"""
2008-10-04,b'Israel says North Korea has helped arm 6 Mideast nations'
2008-10-04,"b'Israeli settlements ""failure monument""'"
2008-10-04,b'The biggest bank robbery in Icelandic history '
2008-10-03,"b""US strikes 'kill 20 in Pakistan'"""
2008-10-03,b'A script written by the BBC and the government to be broadcast in the event of a nuclear attack has been published.'
2008-10-03,"b'Jewish settlers trying to stop olive harvest, opposed by ""Rabbis for Human Rights""'"
2008-10-03,"b""Medvedev : The U.S. financial crisis should be taken as a sign that America's global economic leadership is on the wane"""
2008-10-03,"b""Cokie Roberts Once Again Proves She Doesn't Belong Within 100 Miles of a News Studio"""
2008-10-03,"b'""How symbolic that Chinese astronauts take a spacewalk while the US Treasury Secretary is on his knees."" '"
2008-10-03,"b""Life in Somalia's pirate town"""
2008-10-03,b'Britain: Forty percent of children live in poverty'
2008-10-03,b'How they see us: A dangerous juncture in Afghanistan'
2008-10-03,b'Young immigrant females age 11 - 26 now required to get the highly controversial HPV vaccine before becoming citizens.'
2008-10-03,"b'Shocking: China monitors Skype users for mention of Taiwan, dissident groups, democracy. NSA helpfully points out that it would be easier to just monitor everything.'"
2008-10-03,b'What a surge will do for Afghanistan...'
2008-10-03,"b""Is the African National Congress, South Africa's Ruling Party, About to Split?"""
2008-10-03,b'Religious fundamentalists are waging a ruthless campaign to eliminate women who have taken up high-profile jobs'
2008-10-03,b'Tonight these pictures will be projected in some 50 cities all over the world.  We wanted you to see them first.'
2008-10-03,b'Bangkok Sex Tycoon Runs For Governor'
2008-10-03,"b""Signs of a pending depression? The Economist's D-word index"""
2008-10-03,b'The Jewel of Medina - out on Monday'
2008-10-03,"b""Phallic charms, buffalo amulets at heart of plans by Thailand's new culture minister"""
2008-10-03,b'An explosion in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali on Friday killed nine Russian peacekeepers and wounded three others'
2008-10-03,"b""Kenya's wild and dangerous west"""
2008-10-03,b'The Forgotten Wars: less than 1% of people knows there is a war in Sudan and Somalia'
2008-10-03,b'Israeli settlers turn on their own soldiers. '
2008-10-03,"b""Development Doesn't Require Big Government~Poor countries are learning the wrong lessons from the crisis."""
2008-10-03,b'The Bailing Out Continues in Europe- Belgium is bailing out a large bank that just went under'
2008-10-02,b'Mexican Farm Leader Dies After Lighting Himself on Fire in Protest'
2008-10-02,b'Surveillance of Skype messages found in China '
2008-10-02,"b""Russia: 'US economic dominance over', World needs 'more just' financial system"""
2008-10-02,"b""'Hundreds join' settler violence"""
2008-10-02,"b'After a few cryptic reports in the European media over the Summer, the story of the two influenza biochemistry researchers who were brutally killed in London June 29, 2008 '"
2008-10-02,b'The United Nations is raising its security level in Pakistan and ordering children of international staff to leave the country.'
2008-10-02,"b'Amid the chaos on Wall Street, the question looms  who wins? Increasingly, eyes are flickering towards China'"
2008-10-02,"b'Alternative to German bank crisis: The transformation of the banks into public utilities, their democratic control by the people, and their subordination to the interests of society as a whole.'"
2008-10-02,"b'UK university probes ""Nazi"" initiation video '"
2008-10-02,b'The Atlas of the Real World '
2008-10-02,b'Reserve Bank of India deputy general manager jumps to death from his office at BKC.'
2008-10-02,b'Hikers May Have Found Fossett Items '
2008-10-02,"b""Israel's latest crowd control weapon: super stink bomb"""
2008-10-02,b'New Bosnian biodiesel factory shows just how far Bosnia has come after ethnic cleansin'
2008-10-02,b'Freedom Not Fear 2008 - Stoppt die Vorratsdatenspeicherung!'
2008-10-02,b'US approves Indian nuclear trade deal'
2008-10-02,b'Retailers Need to Realign Wall Street Reporting Practices with Cross-Channel Reality'
2008-10-02,"b'Even after war, many Georgians revere Stalin - International Herald Tribune'"
2008-10-02,b'Putin accuses Ukraine of aiding Georgia during war'
2008-10-02,"b'US Senate approves Indo-US nuclear deal, ends the three-decade ban on US nuclear trade with India '"
2008-10-02,b'Murder Capitals of the World'
2008-10-02,b' Russia to deploy new nuclear missile'
2008-10-02,b'Capturing the database state: community photocall'
2008-10-02,"b'Life in Zimbabwe... "" a teachers monthly pay was not even enough to buy two bottles of cooking oil.""'"
2008-10-02,b'A Canadian Explains Why The American Election Is So Important To The Rest Of The World [incredible read]'
2008-10-01,"b'""Fucking hell ... it\'s fucking Great Britain. It\'s 2008. I\'ve been to Soweto and I\'ve seen Aids orphans eating better than that.""'"
2008-10-01,"b'Brian Haw, Britains most loved peace protester, beaten to pulp by police'"
2008-10-01,"b'Suicidal teenager urged to Jump by crowd, so he did'"
2008-10-01,"b'British envoy says mission in Afghanistan is doomed, according to leaked memo '"
2008-10-01,"b'More Blowback:  The U.S.-backed Ethiopian military has secreted away scores of ""suspects"" -- including pregnant women and children -- and fueled anti-American rancor in Africa.'"
2008-10-01,b'The Atlas of the Real World'
2008-10-01,b'Should Germany prosecute Holocaust deniers like Gerald Toben?  Should England extradite them?'
2008-10-01,b'US navy happy to extend blockade of pirate ship'
2008-10-01,b'Sources: Man blamed for Bhutto killing is dead'
2008-10-01,"b'""In Bolivia, we nationalized for the people to have money, while the United States wants to nationalize debt and a crisis of the wealthy.""'"
2008-10-01,"b'The New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada is standing by candidate Bev Collins over beliefs about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.'"
2008-10-01,b'Voter Turnout: A Global Survey.'
2008-10-01,b'Somalia: World can use force against the pirates. Things are going to get interesting....'
2008-10-01,"b""After being accused of Flirting with Sarah Palin, Fatwah Is Issued Against Pakistani Prime Minister For 'Indecent Behavior For A Muslim' """
2008-10-01,b'Trio of warlords blamed for surge in Afghanistan violence'
2008-10-01,b'Cost of massive unemployment in Iraq could be paid in blood'
2008-10-01,b'Somali pirates deny fatal onboard shoot-out'
2008-10-01,b'168 Hindu pilgrims die in stampede at temple'
2008-10-01,"b'MI6 secrets found on camera sold on eBay: Newspaper says info includes names, school records of al-Qaida suspects'"
2008-10-01,b'Security Analyst Warns of Rise of Organized Crime in Zimbabwe PART 5 of 5'
2008-10-01,b'For you you to call my God INVISIBLE is a call for action.  My country will wipe you and your kind from this earth very soon. Islam is a foolish cult. America hates you and will see you destroyed.'
2008-10-01,"b'A Palestinian 20 years, kept their children in the basement'"
2008-10-01,"b""Pakistani Taliban Leader Dead Or Dying?, Baitullah Mehsud Very Ill, Officials Say Group Scrambling For New Leaders, Taliban Says He's Getting Better"""
2008-10-01,b'Canada:  CBC National News covers 9/11 Truth'
2008-10-01,b'Dusty Foggo Gets Green Light for Green Badge'
2008-09-30,b'Gorbachev forms new Russian party opposing Putin'
2008-09-30,"b""Ahmadinijad's willingness to accept Israel - why do we always here the other side of the story?"""
2008-09-30,"b""Olmert Says Israel Must Withdraw From 'Almost All' of Occupied Territories"""
2008-09-30,"b""Mexican Violence Forcing Families to Migrate: Extreme poverty isn't the only reason people are fleeing Mexico these days"""
2008-09-30,b'America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role'
2008-09-30,b'French Muslims Find Haven in Catholic Schools '
2008-09-30,"b""Meanwhile There's A War Going On... Remember Iraq?"""
2008-09-30,b'Scores die in India temple crush'
2008-09-30,"b""REAL Somalian pirate story, ship was not iranian, but ukranian, and was not carrying WMD's"""
2008-09-30,b'Venezuela to build nuclear technology with Russia '
2008-09-30,"b'Bus collides with milk tanker, 35 dead in Pakistan '"
2008-09-30,b'Moscow already has a Trophy Museum of the Georgian War'
2008-09-30,b'A stampede at a hill-top temple in western India killed more than 147 people and wounded 55 others who had gathered to celebrate the start of a religious holiday.'
2008-09-30,b'197 dead in temple stampede in India'
2008-09-30,b'ZIMBABWE: Farm animals bartered to stave off hunger'
2008-09-30,b'Pakistani Refugees Pour Into Afghanistan'
2008-09-30,"b""Pakistan's Taliban chief possibly dead from kidney failure."""
2008-09-30,b'Good News: Gurkhas win right to stay in UK '
2008-09-30,b'Petraeus: Pakistan Facing Existential Threat'
2008-09-30,b'Nearly 150 Die in India Temple Stampede'
2008-09-30,b'Rich Flanders seeks more autonomy'
2008-09-30,b'Chinese-made cookies with elevated levels of melamine found in the Netherlands'
2008-09-30,"b'China is Trying a Policy of Engagement with Rogue America, to Help Moderate U.S. Behavior'"
2008-09-30,"b'Olmert disavows ""Greater Israel""'"
2008-09-30,b'Voters in Ecuador Approve New Constitution'
2008-09-29,b'The Power Of Nightmares - BBC (Part 1)'
2008-09-29,"b""Japan makes cars. Saudi Arabia pumps oil. China supplies socks and flat-screen TVs. What's America's No.1 export? Debt"""
2008-09-29,b'Chinese officials called it a separatist attack; new photos show Chinese officers attacking other Chinese officers.. with machetes'
2008-09-29,"b""Huge European bank and iinsurance giant fails -- bailout of 11.2 billion euro ($16.4 billion) by 3 separate gov'ts"""
2008-09-29,b'111-year-old woman murdered after being accused of witchcraft. Belief in witchcraft is NOT just a harmless quirk.'
2008-09-29,b'British children as young as nine are being forced into marriage by their families'
2008-09-29,"b'nucking futs... Israeli settlers threaten to kill British film crew, curse Jesus  Video of an Israeli settler threatening a British film crew. '"
2008-09-29,b'Sniper shoots dead a prisoner INSIDE French jail before he could be quizzed by police over a murder'
2008-09-29,b'Al Qaeda -- the Database'
2008-09-29,b'Extreme right emerges as strong force in Austria'
2008-09-29,"b'""The Taliban have been engaged in secret talks about ending the conflict in Afghanistan in a wide-ranging \'peace process\' sponsored by Saudi Arabia and supported by Britain""'"
2008-09-29,b'Hurricane hits canada.'
2008-09-29,b'New Security Organization Will Try to Prevent Nuclear Theft'
2008-09-29,b'Olmert: Israel Needs to Leave West Bank'
2008-09-29,b'Chavez says Venezuela will develop nuclear power'
2008-09-29,"b'Post-Ramadan crowd greeted with bombs of the car, suicide variety'"
2008-09-29,b'Militias Assassinate Gay Iraqi Leaders'
2008-09-29,b' Japan transport minister quits over gaffes'
2008-09-29,b'Venezuela wants to work with Russia on nuclear energy: Chavez '
2008-09-29,b'Aspiring chef dies hours after making ultra-hot sauce for chilli-eating contest'
2008-09-29,b'American pressure on the Gulf-States to save Wall Street'
2008-09-29,b'Powerful earthquake reported north of New Zealand'
2008-09-29,b'LTTE has launched a nerve-gas attack against Sri-Lankan troops'
2008-09-29,b'China running out of IP addresses '
2008-09-29,b'EU bans food imports from China'
2008-09-28,b'Muslim said he is suing Supermarket giant Tesco for religious discrimination because he was asked to handle crates of alcohol in a warehouse.'
2008-09-28,b'PETER HITCHENS: How China has created a new slave empire in Africa'
2008-09-28,b'German leader warns U.S. superpower era is over'
2008-09-28,b'How China has created a new slave empire in Africa'
2008-09-28,b'Americans deploy advanced radar system to Israel'
2008-09-28,"b'Report: Taliban, Afghans in secret peace talks'"
2008-09-28,"b'Russia has called for a revival of the global anti-terrorism coalition that formed after Sept. 11, 2001'"
2008-09-28,b'The Banker Suicides Have Begun'
2008-09-28,b'Austrian voters support party that wants to bring back Nazi symbols'
2008-09-28,b'Now Brits could be forced to apply for a visa before travelling to America'
2008-09-28,b'Top Afghan policewoman shot dead'
2008-09-28,"b'China\'s State News Agency Publishes Article Describing The Taikonauts First Night In Space Before They Had Even Left Earth And Blame It On A ""Technical Error""'"
2008-09-28,b'Official Story Of Pakistan Truck Bombing Is A Lie'
2008-09-28,"b'Blast in Delhi again, two killed'"
2008-09-28,b'Austrian Elections: The Populist and His Protg'
2008-09-28,b'Lawyers for China milk victims pressed to quit'
2008-09-28,"b'Sunni cleric Yusuf Qaradawi calls Shiites heretics trying to invade Sunni nations, tapping into anti-Iran anxieties. Shiites express dismay at the remarks amid Iraq war and efforts to forge unity.'"
2008-09-28,b'Violence Increases as Settlers Begin Challenging Israel'
2008-09-28,b'Revealed: secret Taliban peace bid'
2008-09-28,"b""China's Tainted-Milk Crisis Grows Despite Official Claims """
2008-09-28,b' Confusion looms over ownership of seized Ukrainian military cargo '
2008-09-28,b'Islamist plunder weapons from hijacked ship in Somalia'
2008-09-28,b'Chavez says crisis-hit U.S. needs new constitution'
2008-09-28,"b'Darren Meade, is Being the Change he Wants to See in the World.'"
2008-09-28,b'Credit crunch banker leaps to his death in front of express train'
2008-09-27,b'Venezuela and China Sign a New Oil Deal'
2008-09-27,"b'India: 13 year-old boy attempts to return a bag. The bag was the bomb. Terror strikes Delhi again, on Saturday.'"
2008-09-27,"b""Iraqi progress: Baghdad's best medical facility cannot even keep their elevators operating"""
2008-09-27,b'Democracy Now: Ahmadinejad Interview Part 1'
2008-09-27,"b""IAEA's Syrian Contact Assassinated, Stalling Nuclear Probe"""
2008-09-27,b'Canadian Pol Dumps Candidate Over 9/11 Remarks '
2008-09-27,b'End of road for driver with $1.9 million in fines'
2008-09-27,"b'China, Pakistan to further enhance military ties'"
2008-09-27,"b""International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor will continue to push for Sudan's leader to be charged with war crimes"""
2008-09-27,"b'the attack Thursday evening on the Faina, a Ukrainian vessel bringing military equipment to Kenya, has provoked the wrath of two of the most powerful militaries on the planet'"
2008-09-27,b'Russia Aims to Upgrade Nuclear Arsenal'
2008-09-27,b'Finnish ISP thinks W3C.org is a child-porn site'
2008-09-27,b'Global Warming Pollution Increases 3 Percent: Chinese Greenhouse Gas Pollution Largely Responsible for Bringing CO2 Emissions to Record High'
2008-09-27,"b""'Holy' Airliner Hijacking Thwarted in the Netherlands"""
2008-09-27,b'Director of a British company who bribed a Ugandan official escapes jail | World news | The Guardian'
2008-09-27,b'Sir Alex Fergusan: Berbatov can bring us the title'
2008-09-27,"b'Iraq Signs Billion Dollar Power Deals with GE, Siemens'"
2008-09-27,b'NKorea may already have nuclear warheads: ex-CIA official'
2008-09-27,b'Paul Newman Dead'
2008-09-27,"b""Zimbabwe's food crisis is escalating"""
2008-09-27,b'Bush says bail-out will be passed'
2008-09-27,b'British Army Demands the Right to be British: Race Gestapo Upset '
2008-09-27,"b""From 'straight talk' to smear campaign... The Straight Talk Express has taken a nasty turn into the gutter"""
2008-09-27,b'Pictured: How China gets its troops to stand to attention - pins in their collars and crosses on their backs'
2008-09-27,"b""In other elections ... honestly I didn't know whether to put this in the  World News, Funny or WTF reddit"""
2008-09-26,"b'Japanese space tourist paid Space Adventures $21M to go to the ISS. They bumped him, sent one of their investors instead, and kept his money'"
2008-09-26,"b""France's top diplomat said Thursday that many European nations have decided to wait out the Bush administration"""
2008-09-26,b'Xinhua Runs Spacewalk Story Before Astronauts Leave Earth'
2008-09-26,"b""Somali pirates 'seize 30 tanks'...where are the ninjas when you need them?"""
2008-09-26,"b""New Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela"""
2008-09-26,b'The Swedish government says it is proposing measures to soften an eavesdropping law after widespread public protests'
2008-09-26,"b""Pakistan 'kills 1,000 militants'"""
2008-09-26,b'BBCNews: US military says its troops have exchanged gunfire with Pakistani forces across the border with Afghanistan. '
2008-09-26,"b""1st anniversary of Burma's bloody Saffron Revolution"""
2008-09-26,b'Jewish extremists suspected in attack on Israeli peace activist'
2008-09-26,b'BBC: World leaders and philanthropists pledge nearly $3 billion to fight malaria'
2008-09-26,b'Gay leader assassinated in Baghdad. Militia run Islamic courts sentencing gays to death.'
2008-09-26,"b'90 School Children Abducted by Uganda Rebel, LRA'"
2008-09-26,"b""Over half of Europe's amphibians face extinction by 2050 | Environment | The Guardian"""
2008-09-26,"b""Carbon dioxide emissions in '07 outpaced researchers' most dire projections"""
2008-09-26,b'Pakistani and American Troops Exchange Fire'
2008-09-26,b'Iran Sinking as Groundwater Resources Disappear'
2008-09-26,b'Russia to ban Simpsons and South Park'
2008-09-26,b'Tehran - A tale of two cities?'
2008-09-26,b'2 Terrorism Suspects Arrested on KLM Flight'
2008-09-26,b'Fusionman crosses the English Channel using his jet wing! [article and vid]'
2008-09-26,"b'Pakistan warned US troops not to intrude on its territory Friday, after the two anti-terror allies traded fire along the volatile border with Afghanistan'"
2008-09-26,"b""China's astronauts in orbit, prepare for spacewalk"""
2008-09-26,b'Government questionnaires stir unease about ethnic cleansing in a Baghdad enclave'
2008-09-26,b'Harper Hunt'
2008-09-25,b'Russian woman caught red-handed drinking orange juice in Dubai'
2008-09-25,b'Russia to loan Chavez $US 1 billion  to buy arms'
2008-09-25,"b'Henry Rollins in Israel. ""Your kids will inherit the war you did not stop."" Amazing video.'"
2008-09-25,"b'Stopping a Financial Crisis, the Swedish Way'"
2008-09-25,b'Pakistani troops fire at US helicopters on border'
2008-09-25,"b""Ahmadinejad: 'American Empire' Nearing its End"""
2008-09-25,"b'Internet will run out of IP addresses by 2010, warns Vint Cerf'"
2008-09-25,"b""Pakistan 'fires on Nato aircraft' """
2008-09-25,"b""Zardari Says U.S. Raids Harm Pakistan's Anti-Extremist Campaign  """
2008-09-25,b' US finds emboldened Russia holding the cards'
2008-09-25,b'Venezuela: Enchilada of Evil'
2008-09-25,"b'Green Knives Bide Their Time For Gordon Brown : Red, Green, and Blue'"
2008-09-25,"b'N.Korea ousts U.N. monitors, to restart atom bomb plant '"
2008-09-25,"b'Iraq passes election laws that US and Iraq officials call ""crucial"" for the nation to heal its political and religious fissures.'"
2008-09-25,b'Fred Reed throws his hat in the presidential ring'
2008-09-25,b'Senior White House officials were central in discussions on using harsh interrogation techniques'
2008-09-25,b'Shots fired in US-Pakistan clash'
2008-09-25,b'The suspense is killing me'
2008-09-25,b'Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in New York  '
2008-09-25,"b'A McCain-Palin ad claims Obama has been ""mum"" on the economic crisis. That\'s false.'"
2008-09-25,b'Finnish gunman burnt bodies after massacre'
2008-09-25,b'Bistros going out of business as French diners stay home or turn to fast food'
2008-09-25,"b""Venezuela's Chavez sees America as a 'sinking ship'"""
2008-09-25,b'Indonesia cleaning up corruption'
2008-09-25,b'Do you drink enough water? '
2008-09-24,"b""Iran leader says 'American empire' near collapse"""
2008-09-24,"b'Global corruption index: Somalia most, Denmark least corrupt country'"
2008-09-24,"b""All Systems Go for China's Manned Space Launch"""
2008-09-24,"b'The wreckage of a suspected US spy plane has been found near the Afghan border by the Pakistani army, but it has denied claims it was shot down'"
2008-09-24,"b'Children are targets of Nigerian witch hunt | Children and babies branded as evil are being abused, abandoned and even murdered while the (Christian Evangelical) preachers make money out of the fear'"
2008-09-24,"b""N Korea nuclear seals 'removed' """
2008-09-24,b'North Korea expels IAEA monitors from atom bomb plant'
2008-09-24,"b""Amid milk scare, China's elite get special food"""
2008-09-24,b'Aid groups: Tony Blair faces imminent failure in Middle East '
2008-09-24,"b""Iran's Ahmadinejad: US 'empire' nears collapse"""
2008-09-24,b'Pakistanis shoot down suspected U.S. military drone'
2008-09-24,b'English Tutor flees the country after swindling 5 billion.'
2008-09-24,b'.S. navy tanker under apparent pirate attack off Somalia '
2008-09-24,b'Hurricanes Shift Debate On Embargo Against Cuba '
2008-09-24,b'Soldiers accidentally kill Sunni leader in Iraq'
2008-09-24,b'Astronomers detect an interplanetary collision. Worldnews?'
2008-09-24,"b'Fears grow in Lebanon as 10,000 Syrian troops arrive on the border'"
2008-09-24,b'They further stated that from here on the IAEA inspectors will have no further access to the reprocessing plant.'
2008-09-24,b'Admiral Mullen Pleads For Co-operation With Russia'
2008-09-24,b'Russia Refuses To Meet With U.S. on Iranian Nuclear Program'
2008-09-24,"b'Krugman on the bailout: All the signs I look at, declared Paulson in April 2007, show the housing market is at or near a bottom. Umm, yeah, and we should trust your judgment now?'"
2008-09-24,"b'Pittsburgh students cannot get less than 50% in assignments, tests and other work.'"
2008-09-24,b'Four fallacies about the Russo-Georgian conflict'
2008-09-24,"b""Georgia's president announces government overhaul"""
2008-09-24,b'Does the Cold War Have Lessons for Today?'
2008-09-23,"b'$US 13 billion of the money allocated for reconstruction projects in Iraq was wasted or stolen, with some of it ending up in al-Qaedas coffers'"
2008-09-23,"b""[Breaking] 'Shooting' at school in Finland"""
2008-09-23,b'Noida CEO beaten to death by sacked employees'
2008-09-23,"b""Japan starts work on $9B 'space elevator' to replace rockets """
2008-09-23,b'Venezuela Welcomes Russian Warships and Chinese Fighter Jets'
2008-09-23,b'Scenes from India (pics)'
2008-09-23,"b""Methane 'escaping' from Arctic sea bed"""
2008-09-23,"b""22 year old story, submitted as news, reaches reddit's front page."""
2008-09-23,"b"" 'Grim' Afghanistan Report To Be Kept Secret by US """
2008-09-23,b'Colin Powell On Russia/Georgia Conflict: Georgia Started It'
2008-09-23,b'School shooting in finland'
2008-09-23,"b'Millions of tonnes of methane, bubbling to surface of Arctic sea, could accelerate global warming'"
2008-09-23,b'Critics Question Ability Of Missile Defense System'
2008-09-23,"b""Iran president blames Wall Street turmoil on U.S. 'military engagement'"""
2008-09-23,b'Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the US military intervention abroad is partly to blame for the economic turmoil on Wall Street.'
2008-09-23,b'Sarkozy calls for those behind the market crisis to be punished'
2008-09-23,"b""Russia engages in 'gangland' diplomacy as it sends warship to the Caribbean"""
2008-09-23,"b""EU patent office on strike: 'the organisation is decentralising and focusing on granting as many patents as possible to gain financially from fees generated.'"""
2008-09-23,b'Mystery surrounds hijacked Iranian ship'
2008-09-23,b' U.S.-led wars behind Wall Street crisis: Ahmadinejad'
2008-09-23,b'Pakistan blames US raids for hotel bombing'
2008-09-23,b'Double Darwin Award? A couple having sex on a railway track have been killed by a train'
2008-09-23,b'Tourists Taken Hostage in Egypt - Relocated to Sudan'
2008-09-23,"b'Bush, Ahmadinejad To Speak At UN '"
2008-09-23,b'Workers Allegedly Beat CEO To Death In India'
2008-09-22,b'Russian navy sails to Venezuela '
2008-09-22,b'Oil prices shoot up over $25 a barrel - the biggest 1-day rise ever - as anxiety over US bailout weighs on dollar '
2008-09-22,"b'Russia has successfully fired a new intercontinental ballistic missile. The Bulava missile has a range of 10,000 kilometers and can carry six individually targeted nuclear warheads.'"
2008-09-22,"b""Pakistan's top leaders were to have been in the Islamabad Marriott hotel when it was bombed - but changed venue at the last minute"""
2008-09-22,"b""After a 20 year ban, Italy's Prime Minister has vowed to return nuclear power to the country"""
2008-09-22,"b'Nearly 53,000 Chinese children sick from milk - Yahoo! News'"
2008-09-22,"b'""Mariam Ayyad, 57, attempted to block Israeli soldiers from arresting university students in her building ... was beaten and pushed and she fell down the stairs.""'"
2008-09-22,b'Sex with trafficked women to be criminalised'
2008-09-22,"b'That Syrian ""Nuclear Facility"" that Israel bombed last year?  The IAEA found no trace of radiation nor graphite in the remains.'"
2008-09-22,"b""Another 'W'  Foreign Policy Failure - Russia and Venezuela to Conduct Joint Naval Excercises in Caribbean """
2008-09-22,"b'Iraqi Lawmaker Faces Prosecution For Visiting Israel, Advocating Peace'"
2008-09-22,b'Pakistani troops fire on invading U.S. choppers'
2008-09-22,"b""Pakistan troops 'repel US raid'"""
2008-09-22,"b'Breaking: Pakistani Troops, Tribesmen Fire On US Helicopters'"
2008-09-22,b'Pakistani forces fire at US choppers: officials. The incident happened late on Sunday near Lwara Mundi village in the North Waziristan district'
2008-09-22,"b""All We are Saying is GIve Peace a Chance - UN: 'Guns Fall Silent' in Afghanistan on Peace Day"""
2008-09-22,b'Dig pinpoints Stonehenge origins'
2008-09-22,"b'Almost 13,000 Chinese children sickened by tainted milk '"
2008-09-22,"b""Pakistan's rulers were supposed to be in Hotele during bomb attack """
2008-09-22,"b'Turkey scared to admit Armenian genocide, says historian'"
2008-09-22,"b""Change in dinner plans saved Pakistan's rulers from hotel bomb attack"""
2008-09-22,b'Pakistani troops fire on intruding U.S. choppers'
2008-09-22,b'Heads are starting to role in China as the tainted diary products scandal deepens. '
2008-09-22,b'Russian ambassador: Czechs selling security for radar'
2008-09-22,"b""Merchant of Death appears in Thai court, no it's not Nic Cage"""
2008-09-21,"b'US marines were seen transporting metal crates inside the Marriot Hotel the day before, security personnel was not allowed to know for what purpose'"
2008-09-21,"b""Czech Republic's ambassador is among those killed in Pakistan Marriot Hotel attack"""
2008-09-21,b'Quebec Man Changes Name To Avoid No-Fly List'
2008-09-21,"b'For the past month, the risk of a war between the United States and Pakistan has quietly grown.'"
2008-09-21,b'Israel troops kill 14yo near settlement '
2008-09-21,"b'The U.S. Army has just awarded a $4 million contract to begin developing ""thought helmets"" that would harness silent brain waves for secure communication among troops.'"
2008-09-21,"b'Massive suicide bombing at Mariott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. They used a bomb filled truck and rammed it into the building. '"
2008-09-21,"b'Church of England admits ""by getting our first reaction (to Darwin\'s Theory of Evolution) wrong, encouraging others to misunderstand still.""'"
2008-09-21,b'Explosion in Pakistan causes 33 foot deep crater'
2008-09-21,b'Terror chief tipped to head MI6'
2008-09-21,b'UK Police Federation set to demand right to strike'
2008-09-21,"b'15 killed, 30 injured attempting to steal fuel from train in India '"
2008-09-21,b'Chavez says Latin America needs Russia'
2008-09-21,b'South African President Mbeki formally resigns'
2008-09-21,b'Warning in Israel & Palestine:  We must be ready to use force against Hamas to take control of Gaza'
2008-09-21,"b""Could this be the world's largest diamond? Huge uncut gem discovered in African mine"""
2008-09-21,b'Israeli PM Olmert declares intent to resign - CNN.com'
2008-09-21,b' Scandal-hit Olmert to resign formally Sunday'
2008-09-21,b'REPOSSESSED? Millionaire spooked from mansion'
2008-09-21,b' Rescuers comb Pakistan bomb hotel'
2008-09-21,b'Diplomats: Syria passes 1st test of nuclear probe'
2008-09-21,b'Man lives for ten months without cash'
2008-09-21,b'Explosion At Pakistan Marriott Hotel Kills at least 40.'
2008-09-21,b'Ebay warning ahead of All-Ireland'
2008-09-21,b'Pakistani president tells foreign troops to keep out'
2008-09-20,b'On This Day: Witold Pilecki Allows Himself to be Captured by the Nazis'
2008-09-20,b'While claiming to be non-partisan and not for profit MEMRI uses US tax payer money to mistranslate Arab news media to further a pro-Israel agenda'
2008-09-20,b'Suicide bomb explodes outside Islamabad hotel  - many dead'
2008-09-20,b'Protest turns violent as thousands of Germans take to the streets to counter anti-Islamic right-wing demonstration'
2008-09-20,"b""Pakistan in sovereignty warning: Pakistani President Asif said he will not allow Pakistan's territory to be violated by terrorists or foreign powers fighting th"""
2008-09-20,"b'Why is a massive terrorist attack on Pakistan, blasting a huge crater in the earth and rocking buildings up to two miles away, *not* the biggest story on reddit?'"
2008-09-20,b'Breaking News: South African President Mbeki to quit'
2008-09-20,"b'Russia, France put aside Georgia war differences. The US Snarls.'"
2008-09-20,"b""India's moon mission unveiled"""
2008-09-20,"b'Repression of religious freedom in some parts of China has intensified over the past year, the US government says.'"
2008-09-20,b'Deadly blast targets Marriott Hotel in Islamabad'
2008-09-20,"b""China's tainted milk scandal has worsened, with tests now showing liquid milk is also affected"""
2008-09-20,b'Three year cover up in China milk scandal '
2008-09-20,b'How the woman set to be Israels new Prime Minister was an agent  in an elite spy unit'
2008-09-20,"b' A ""terrorist"" being questioned'"
2008-09-20,b'Apocalypse Now?: New world order could have devastating implications for Western nations'
2008-09-20,b'Pakistan Warns Against Violation of Sovereignty'
2008-09-20,b'Russia to build space launch site in Cuba'
2008-09-20,"b""Bill Maher Video Replaces Top Iraqi Ayatollah's Website In Hacking Stunt [video]"""
2008-09-20,"b""(UK) Man Praises Qur'an, Stabs Woman in Head with Screwdriver"""
2008-09-20,b'Hadron Collider forced to halt '
2008-09-20,"b'Bomb Explodes at Hotel in Pakistans Capital, Killing at Least 40'"
2008-09-20,b'Mexico plans anti-kidnap police'
2008-09-20,b'Big bailout: Where things stand '
2008-09-20,b'A Closer Look at Recent Violence in Bolivia'
2008-09-19,b'Brits take a stand - ban short-selling of financial stocks'
2008-09-19,b'Scientology could be banned in France if they lose fraud lawsuit. '
2008-09-19,"b""Spain's media in uproar over McCain's comments regarding Prime Minister Zapatero"""
2008-09-19,"b""Arabs across the ideological spectrum are denouncing cleric's fatwa on 'immoral' TV"""
2008-09-19,b' Bitter Asians wag the finger at U.S. bank bailouts'
2008-09-19,"b""Rome's Ban On Skimpy Clothing Leads Prostitutes To Dress As Nuns"""
2008-09-19,"b""UCLA study of satellite imagery casts doubt on surge's success in Baghdad"""
2008-09-19,b'China Blames Wall Street Meltdown On Federal Reserve Overissuance Of Currency '
2008-09-19,b'Unknown piece of music by Mozart found in France'
2008-09-19,b'Interesting Places: Shibam: Manhattan of the Desert [pics]'
2008-09-19,b'UK Teenager sentenced to jail for two years for downloading a guide to making naplam'
2008-09-19,"b'Why are people worried about short selling (Alex, financial cartoon)'"
2008-09-19,b'US air raid kills Iraq civilians'
2008-09-19,b'Russian minister says war with the United States not possible'
2008-09-19,b'North Korea Preparing to Restart Nuclear Facility'
2008-09-19,b'America continues to lose world influence as Russia sells weapons to Iran and  Venezuela'
2008-09-19,b'Rice says U.S. will resist Russian moves against its neighbors'
2008-09-19,b'14 men rob a coca cola factory - shoot out with security - wtf!! '
2008-09-19,"b'South Ossetia information warfare, two sides presented in one talk show'"
2008-09-19,b'North Korea preparing to restart nuclear reactor'
2008-09-19,b' Venezuela expels U.S. rights group for criticism'
2008-09-19,b'Chavez expells Human Rights Watch from Venezuela for criticizing govt.'
2008-09-19,b'Euthanasia advocate takes her own life.'
2008-09-19,"b""The complete list of the world's billionaires"""
2008-09-19,"b""Swaziland's HIV/AIDS treatment crisis goes critical"""
2008-09-18,"b'6,200 babies sick: Milk scandal spreading '"
2008-09-18,b'Afghan farmers are pulling up poppies for wheat'
2008-09-18,b'Venezuela Says U.S. Uses Anti-Drug List as Weapon of Domination'
2008-09-18,b'6 more people die in another US missile strike in Pakistan'
2008-09-18,b'U.S. may use Georgian air bases to strike at Iran'
2008-09-18,b'Russia may sell more air defense systems to Iran'
2008-09-18,b'Russian President Threatens Arctic Annexation'
2008-09-18,b'China accuses US of financial Weapon of Mass Destruction'
2008-09-18,b'Terror on the high seas: the brutal return of piracy'
2008-09-18,"b'Israel Takes Step Toward Electing Woman PM, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Wins Kadima Party Primary; In Good Position To Become First Female Leader In 34 Years'"
2008-09-18,"b""Bush: U.S. Embassy attack a reminder nation 'at war'.  Does anybody still listen to this guy?"""
2008-09-18,"b'China Blames US for Tainted Dairy Products, 100 children Sick'"
2008-09-18,"b'In a world first, women in the majority in Rwanda legislature'"
2008-09-18,b'Blogger Posts Malaysian Flag Upside Down; Arrested For Sedition'
2008-09-18,b'How the economy tanked for dummies'
2008-09-18,"b'Iraqis kills 3 contractors, city Fallujah is razed. U.S. soldier kills 4 bounded Iraqs, gets 7 months.'"
2008-09-18,b'CIA Chief Speaks of Trying to Provoke Terrorists as Latest Drone Strike Kills Seven in South Waziristan'
2008-09-18,"b'German Authorities Wiretap Skype, Raid Homes of Whistleblowers.'"
2008-09-18,"b'In Yemen, a Planned Massacre of Americans Is Averted'"
2008-09-18,b'Livni sweeps Kadima race; Olmert pledges cooperation '
2008-09-18,b'Rising prices tip another 75 million towards starvation'
2008-09-18,"b""Sri Lanka's navy says it has fought a sea battle with Tamil rebels, a day after what the military described as the heaviest day of fighting in weeks."""
2008-09-18,b'official poverty rates of 51.8% in Gaza and 19.1% in the West Bank soar to 79.4% and 45.7%'
2008-09-18,b'India deploys planes with Nuclear Capability in Kashmir '
2008-09-18,b'Tariq Ali: Has the U.S. Invasion of Pakistan Begun?'
2008-09-17,b'Attack on US embassy in Yemen leaves 16 dead'
2008-09-17,b'100 groups demand to see secret anticounterfeiting treaty'
2008-09-17,b' Suspected U.S. missiles hit Pakistani village'
2008-09-17,b'Zimbabwe: Loaf of bread now costs $10 trillion'
2008-09-17,"b'Russian stock exchanges halt trades, drop 60% since May'"
2008-09-17,"b""Government drug advisers begin review of ecstasy's class A status"""
2008-09-17,"b'Blasts, gunfire near U.S. Embassy in Yemen'"
2008-09-17,b'Yesterday:  US Military leaders tell Pakistan we respect their soverignity.  A few hours ago:  Suspected US missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan '
2008-09-17,"b""'Japan's Hillary' makes bid for prime minister """
2008-09-17,b'Confidential data on millions of Norwegians sent to media by mistake.'
2008-09-17,b'We must find who did this and punish them!!!'
2008-09-17,b'Suspected US missile strike kills 6 in Pakistan'
2008-09-17,b'Fast Lane to the Future: A new superhighway linking its four major cities is bringing old and new India into jarring proximity.'
2008-09-17,b'Arctic ice begins regrowth'
2008-09-17,b'Opportunity knocks in Canada for U.S. immigrants'
2008-09-17,"b"" Thaksin's brother-in-law is elected as Thai prime minister"""
2008-09-17,b'1st anniversary of the beginning of the Saffron Revolution'
2008-09-17,b'Russian stock market falls 17%'
2008-09-17,b'Car bombs at U.S. embassy in Yemen kill 16'
2008-09-17,"b""CIA: Bin Laden doesn't oversee day-to-day al Qaeda operations """
2008-09-17,b'WTF? Six Brazilian politicians legally change their names to Barack Obama'
2008-09-17,b'Tony Blair to appear on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'
2008-09-17,"b'At least 100 rapes in Karachi,Pakistan a day'"
2008-09-17,b'US footage of attack that killed Pakistani soldiers'
2008-09-17,"b""Potential HBOS- Lloyds merger 'bad news for consumers'"""
2008-09-16,"b""Pakistani Tribesmen Representing Half A Million People Vowed To Switch Sides & Join the Taliban If Americans Don't Stop Raids into Pakistan"""
2008-09-16,b'Italy: Berlusconi government seeks to rehabilitate fascism'
2008-09-16,"b'A chemical blamed for killing two infants in China has been found in 69 brands of baby milk powder nationwide, state television said on Tuesday, in a potential dramatic escalation of the scandal'"
2008-09-16,b'Pakistan Orders Troops to Open Fire on U.S. Forces to Stop Raids'
2008-09-16,"b'Aquaflow Strikes Oil with ""Green Crude"" from Algae'"
2008-09-16,"b'Afghan civilian casualties soar. The UN says that from January to August 1,445 civilians were killed - a rise of 39% on the same period last year. '"
2008-09-16,b'Pakistan orders troops to open fire if US launches air or ground raid across Afghan border'
2008-09-16,b'Suicide bombing kills 22 in Iraq'
2008-09-16,"b'South Ossetia says finds 500 of 1,600 civilian dead | International | Reuters'"
2008-09-16,b'Canadians among happiest in world'
2008-09-16,b'Goths arrested on suspicion of murdering and eating teenagers in Satanic ritual'
2008-09-16,"b'On the Day Pakistani Military Promised to Respond to US attacks, Pakistan Closed Torkham Border Crossing (Khyber Pass), Which is the Route for  70% of NATO Supplies.'"
2008-09-16,b'Genetically engineered Merck Cancer Vaccine Made Mandatory For Immigrants: Controversial shot now required if you want to live the American dream '
2008-09-16,"b""Russia's Medvedev: Attack on Iran will endanger entire world"""
2008-09-16,"b""Nigeria militants 'raze' Shell oil complex """
2008-09-16,"b'Chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, makes unannounced visit to Pakistan'"
2008-09-16,b'Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan'
2008-09-16,b'Pakistan Allegedly Fires Warning Shots at US Troops'
2008-09-16,b'Remember the McDonalds theory of war?  The Russia vs Georgia war has conclusively disproved it.'
2008-09-16,"b""Petraeus leaves Iraq, Odierno takes command. You've done a heckofa job, Davie."""
2008-09-16,"b""Witchcraft ISN'T REAL: Deadly Congo soccer riot sparked by witchcraft rumor"""
2008-09-16,b'Thousands flee heavy Darfur fighting'
2008-09-16,"b'Many more U.S. troops needed in Afghan war: general (""We\'re in a pretty tough fight here ... and I think we\'re going to be here for a while...."")'"
2008-09-16,b'A fatwa against Mickey Mouse'
2008-09-16,b'Mideast leaders to meet amid doubts of a deal'
2008-09-15,b'Did Saakashvili Lie?: The West Begins to Doubt Georgian Leader'
2008-09-15,"b'Indian Newspapers after Terrorist Attack on Delhi: ""..some of the liberties that we take for granted might have to be curbed to ensure that terrorists are effectively restrained,""'"
2008-09-15,b'EU Stocks plunge!'
2008-09-15,"b""Israel raid 'could be war crime'"""
2008-09-15,b'Venezuela Joins Bolivia in Expelling U.S. Ambassador - washingtonpost.com'
2008-09-15,b'US Killed Civilians in Afghanistan After a False Tip From a Rival Tribe'
2008-09-15,b'BBC News Declining due to Mistreating of Stringers'
2008-09-15,"b""If there's no such thing as Al Qaeda, how do you explain this?"""
2008-09-15,b'U.S. Selling Bunker-Busting Smart Bombs to Israel . . . Hmmmm'
2008-09-15,"b""Pakistan soldiers 'confront US'"""
2008-09-15,b'A Global Poll Shows That Only 53 Percent Of Americans Are Opposed To Torture (In Between Azerbaijan at 54% and Russia at 49%)'
2008-09-15,b'Portal song with typography'
2008-09-15,b'Russian Television Broadcasted a 9/11 Truth Documentary To 30 million People'
2008-09-15,"b""Europe Shuns U.S.-Style `Active Role' in Boosting Economy, Bank Bailouts"""
2008-09-15,b'Nigeria militants warn of oil war '
2008-09-15,b'Telling Georgia to keep attacking Russia is like telling a 98-pound weakling to rematch with the hulking thug who just put him on the floor.'
2008-09-15,b'Israeli security forces black performer to dance to prove his identity'
2008-09-15,"b""Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has signed a historic power-sharing deal with his long-time rival, opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai."""
2008-09-15,"b'North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, who is reportedly recovering from a stroke, began losing consciousness at work in April and could not properly govern as his health worsened'"
2008-09-15,"b'Burma: Doctor met Aung San Suu Kyi, but refused to gave details on her healh'"
2008-09-15,b'Canadian destroyer helps save Italian freighter from Somali pirates'
2008-09-15,"b'World Bank poverty statistics questioned, additional 400 million people acknowledged living in poverty'"
2008-09-15,b'Islamic Terrorists in Australia: Guilty verdicts in terror trial'
2008-09-15,"b""Minister 'set to quit' over Brown"""
2008-09-15,"b""Bono - retire from public life and we'll donate a ton of money to fight AIDS"""
2008-09-14,b'Scottish activist films Israeli navy shooting at Gaza fishermen'
2008-09-14,b'The most senior judge in Saudi Arabia has said it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV channels which broadcast immoral programmes'
2008-09-14,"b'""There is no such organisation as Al Qaeda. The spooks know this, Cabinet Ministers know this and so do the security correspondents""'"
2008-09-14,"b'""About 60 countries get annual military aid from the United States, $4.5 billion a year, to help them buy American weapons""'"
2008-09-14,"b""Chile's precocious teens cast aside sexual taboos"""
2008-09-14,b'Medvedev: I dont want a militarised country sheltering behind an iron curtain. I lived in such a country and it was uninteresting and tedious.Russia has quite different values from the Soviet Union'
2008-09-14,"b'Within a matter of days, events on the Afghan border seem to be creating a perfect storm of mistrust and conflict between the United States and Pakistan'"
2008-09-14,"b'Israeli settlers on a killing spree ... Israel does nothing to stop it, esp since its a common phenomenon,'"
2008-09-14,b'Afghanistan: U.S. killed 90 civilians after false tip'
2008-09-14,b'Intelligence officer claims CIA was complicit in torture in Uzbekistan'
2008-09-14,"b'Germany: Stern.de exposes CIA link to ""Islamic"" terror plot'"
2008-09-14,"b'Bolivia: Paramilitary Death Squadrons Kill Men, Women and Children'"
2008-09-14,b'Plane Crashes in Russia with 87 on Board'
2008-09-14,b'Belfast child to end police Taser use in the UK?'
2008-09-14,"b'20 police officers have just been shot dead in Ashkhabad, Turkmenistan...'"
2008-09-14,"b""Israeli Gov't might actually kick out Jewish settlers"""
2008-09-14,"b'Saakashvili had long planned a military strike to seize back the breakaway region of South Ossetia but executed it poorly, making it easy for Russia to retaliate, his former defence minister said.'"
2008-09-14,b'Iran: American investors can invest in all areas of our country'
2008-09-14,b'China: 432 babies now sick from tainted milk'
2008-09-14,"b""Islamic sharia courts in Britain are now 'legally binding'"""
2008-09-14,b'Muslim preacher : Have more babies and Muslims can take over the UK'
2008-09-14,b'Bolivian government confirms 16 deaths in regional rebellion '
2008-09-14,b'Risking Armageddon for cash'
2008-09-14,b'The New Audi Q7 V12 TDI is set to Launch [Pics]'
2008-09-14,b'Those who argue that the West should be bolder in its response to a newly assertive Russia are trying to use their memories of the past'
2008-09-13,b'Pakistan order to kill US invaders. Bush is starting another war before he leaves.'
2008-09-13,b'A series of tit-for-tat expulsions has left the US without ambassadors in three Latin American countries'
2008-09-13,b'Pakistani Army Given Green Light to Retaliate Against U.S. Forces.'
2008-09-13,"b""Five suspected bomb blasts have been reported within minutes of each other in markets in India's capital, Delhi."""
2008-09-13,"b""Pope condemns 'pagan' love of money, power, while riding in his $500,000 Pope mobile and giving orders to the largest religious org in the world."""
2008-09-13,"b'Invading Pakistan, Expanding the War'"
2008-09-13,"b""Mugabe finally cedes power. The deal to be signed on Monday in theory ends Mugabe's absolute rule over Zimbabwe"""
2008-09-13,b'$35 million dollars worth of Marijuana found and destroyed in Redwood National Park'
2008-09-13,b'Hallucinogenic chocolates doom Berlin sweet shop'
2008-09-13,"b'US Missile Attack in Pakistan Kills 14 - The strike, near the town of Miranshah, was the first since a recent surge in tension between Pakistan and the United States'"
2008-09-13,"b""The REAL Face of War -- The images that the media won't show you. (graphic pic warning)"""
2008-09-13,b'Iranian Parliament Passes Death Penalty for Apostasy'
2008-09-13,b'New Delhi hit by serial blasts'
2008-09-13,"b'Saudi OKs Killing ""Immoral"" TV Execs'"
2008-09-13,"b"" 'One million homeless' in Haiti"""
2008-09-13,"b'Bomb kills Afghan governor, 3 others'"
2008-09-13,"b'Australian minister resigns over semi-naked dance, three days after being sworn in'"
2008-09-13,b'Media guilty as fog of war clears in Caucasus'
2008-09-13,b'The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Venezuelan officials it accused of helping Colombian rebels smuggle drugs'
2008-09-13,"b'Hugo Chavez Rants Against ""Shithead Yankees""'"
2008-09-13,"b""Pakistan army pledges to 'protect territorial integrity' from U.S. incursions"""
2008-09-13,b'EU plans cross border database of rogue motorists'
2008-09-13,b'Gunmen kill 4 Iraqi TV staff in Mosul | Reuters'
2008-09-13,b'Pakistan has ordered its jet fighters to confront any attack by the US-led coalition forces'
2008-09-13,"b'Palin Takes Hard Line on National Security, Softens Stance on Global Warming'"
2008-09-12,"b""OPEC finished??  Saudi Arabia says 'LATER!'"""
2008-09-12,b'Putin may strip CNN of its Russian broadcasting rights'
2008-09-12,"b'Putin on Georgia: ""What did you want us to do? Wave our penknives in the air and wipe the bloody snot off our noses?""'"
2008-09-12,"b'Chavez said the U.S. ambassador has 72 hours to leave Venezuela - ""That\'s enough *#@! from you, Yankees""'"
2008-09-12,b'87 000 British tourists trapped abroad after UK tour operator collapses'
2008-09-12,"b""'Who the **** are you to lecture me?': Russian minister's extraordinary rant at Britain's FM"""
2008-09-12,b'President Hugo Chavez ordered the U.S. ambassador to leave Venezuela in 72 hours and said he was immediately withdrawing his ambassador from Washington. '
2008-09-12,b'Russian Poll: 84% Say Truth About 9/11 Being Deliberately Hidden '
2008-09-12,"b"" Venezuela's Chavez expels U.S. ambassador"""
2008-09-12,b'Israeli Settlers have crossed red line (now attacking IDF)'
2008-09-12,"b""Britain's new class structure: wealth and power have been consolidated in a tiny new class at the top."""
2008-09-12,"b'""We do not want people here who conspire against democracy,"" says Bolivian President ordering US Ambassador out  \t '"
2008-09-12,b'War Is A Racket'
2008-09-12,b'Venezuela throws out US ambassador as tensions soar'
2008-09-12,b' Hallucinogenic chocolates doom Berlin sweet shop'
2008-09-12,"b'""It is embarrassing to say, but we have a long history in this country of violent expansion and I think not only do most people in other countries [not] know this, most Americans don\'t know this.""'"
2008-09-12,"b""Catholic priests accuse UK's Channel 4 of having a pro-Muslim bias"""
2008-09-12,"b""Behind Chavez's Anti-US Rant: Venezuela government insists it has proof of Bush Administration involvement in an alleged coup plot. """
2008-09-12,b'Venezuela has thrown out US ambassador and threatened to cut off oil supplies to US'
2008-09-12,"b'End Of The World? - Large Hadron Collider: Oct 21, 2008'"
2008-09-12,b'Hurricane Ike: Galveston Live Web Cams'
2008-09-12,b'US kicks out Venezuelan envoy in diplomatic clash.'
2008-09-12,b'Chavez Picks a Fight With U.S. --Venezuela orders out the U.S. ambassador on the same day that it welcomes long-range Russian bombers for military exercises '
2008-09-12,b'Chinese economists warn of the biggest adjustment in 30 years'
2008-09-12,"b'holiday Firm Collapses, thousands stranded and more firms to follow '"
2008-09-11,b'American intelligence confirms that the latest military actions in South Ossetia were started by Georgia and Russias position in the conflict was correct'
2008-09-11,"b'""The Russians are right! We\'re wrong! Georgia started it, the Russians ended it,"" Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, a California Republican, said'"
2008-09-11,b'Russian bombers arrive in Venezuela for training'
2008-09-11,"b'Bolivia asks U.S. ambassador to leave, protests mount'"
2008-09-11,b' Indian girl kills self over the Large Hadron Collider Big Bang fear'
2008-09-11,b'Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has accused the United States of emboldening Georgia to start a war'
2008-09-11,b'Three dead in fight over size of genitals'
2008-09-11,b'Walmart Sets Up Unions for its Employees (in China)'
2008-09-11,b'Russian bombers fly to Venezuela'
2008-09-11,b'Two Russian bombers land in Venezuela'
2008-09-11,b'Satellite finds N. Korea missile site'
2008-09-11,b'Putin defends Georgia offensive'
2008-09-11,b'President Bush secretly approved orders in July that allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government'
2008-09-11,b'Criminalizing Criticism of Islam  '
2008-09-11,b'Most succinct story ever'
2008-09-11,b'Earth quakes of magnitude 6.9 hit Japan and Indonesia'
2008-09-11,"b'Amid Growing Unrest, Bolivia Orders U.S. Ambassador to Leave'"
2008-09-11,b'Official: Bush ordered raids into Pakistan'
2008-09-11,"b'After Spying Revelations, Arab Newspapers Say Bush'"
2008-09-11,b'Deadly earthquake strikes Iran'
2008-09-11,b'Syria: U.S. policy post 9/11 has increased terrorism'
2008-09-11,b'Russian nuclear battleships arrive in Venezuela for joint exercises'
2008-09-11,b'BREAKING: Tsunami Alerts - Japan & Indonesia after 7.6 magnitued quakes'
2008-09-11,b'Elizabeth Smart Is Paranoid Kidnappers Will Come After Her Again'
2008-09-11,"b""Earthquake Hits Iran's South, Measures 6.1 On The Richter Scale"""
2008-09-10,b'Dutch to ban burkas when picking children up from school'
2008-09-10,"b""For 21 years a British man has refused to bury his sons body, claiming authorities covered-up the real cause of the child's death"""
2008-09-10,b'War Nerd - Ossetia: all over but the whining'
2008-09-10,b'North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il is Confirmed to be Ill'
2008-09-10,b'Polish PM Wants Child Abusers Castrated'
2008-09-10,b'Russian bombers land in Venezuela'
2008-09-10,b'Devastating Landslide Kills 56 in China'
2008-09-10,"b'Iran demands UN investigate Israeli ""threats"" to kidnap Ahmadinejad'"
2008-09-10,"b'2 Israeli Human Right Groups: Israel is forcibly transfering Palestinians from West Bank to Gaza, splitting families, in violation of international law.'"
2008-09-10,"b'125,000 Gorillas Find Haven in Mud Swamp But Still Face Extinction'"
2008-09-10,"b'Moroccan blogger insults King, King jails insulting blogger'"
2008-09-10,"b'Ralph Peters, the retired US army colonel whom you may know for his plans for redrawing the Middle East, now argues for funding muslim terrorists in Russia.'"
2008-09-10,"b""US 'not winning' in Afghanistan"""
2008-09-10,b'Earth Policy Institute: Increasing Equality by Educating Every Child'
2008-09-10,"b""Israel 'dividing up Palestinians'"""
2008-09-10,"b'Iran Being Supported by Shell Oil, OMV and Many Others'"
2008-09-10,b'Russia sends warplanes on Venezuela training mission'
2008-09-10,b'Satellite Images Reveal Exact Nature of Destruction in Georgia'
2008-09-10,b'Obama win preferred'
2008-09-10,"b'Across Haiti, a Scene of Devastation'"
2008-09-10,b'Google Satellites Aim to Bring High-Speed Internet to All of Africa | 80beats | Discover Magazine'
2008-09-10,b'Hindus highlight plight of Roma people in Europe'
2008-09-10,"b'Australia Criticized for Setting ""Weak"" Carbon Emission Goals'"
2008-09-10,"b'This is why the Taliban are pissed, and so would you be if this were you [video]'"
2008-09-10,b'Islam in Europe: Balkan youth'
2008-09-09,b'I love the world: Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej was forced to resign after a court said he had violated the Constitution by hosting a cooking show. Seriously.'
2008-09-09,"b""French revolt over Edvige: Nicolas Sarkozy's Big Brother spy computer"""
2008-09-09,"b'Terrorists Fail! ""Time to Carry Liquids on Planes"" - Virgin'"
2008-09-09,"b""If you think 9/11 was an inside job, you'll find company in Cairo."""
2008-09-09,"b""The Dalai Lama's brother has died--pretty interesting article"""
2008-09-09,"b""North Korea's Kim Jong Il may have had a stroke, U.S. intelligence official says"""
2008-09-09,"b""How the KGB (and friends) took over Russia's economy"""
2008-09-09,b'80% of artists would get <30/year from copyright extension'
2008-09-09,b'US officials think Kim Jong Il may be gravely ill'
2008-09-09,b'Church of Scientology faces fraud trial in France'
2008-09-09,"b'Liquid Bomb Terror Plot Collapses In Court -- None of suspects charged with headline-grabbing plan to blow up airlines, alleged ringleader completely acquitted'"
2008-09-09,b'Artist offends members of a faith: Has forced himself into self-exile due to numerous legal cases against him. I wonder what country and religion that could be...'
2008-09-09,b'U.S. Backs Off Civilian Nuclear Pact With Russia - NYTimes.com'
2008-09-09,b'British park wardens ordered to stop and quiz adults spotted without children'
2008-09-09,b'How to Spot a Terrorist on the Fly - washingtonpost.com'
2008-09-09,"b""3 Accused U.K. Airline 'Liquid Bomb' Plotters Found Guilty"""
2008-09-09,"b'First official sharia law court in Warwickshire (UK) operating for a year now. Still no stonings. Maybe ""Alternative Dispute Resolution"" isn\'t such a bad thing after all.'"
2008-09-09,b'Abu Haris Al Qaeda chief in Pakistan killed by US missle strike'
2008-09-09,b'Ultimate Frisbee at the highest level: You had no idea it was this freaking cool [video]'
2008-09-09,b'Scientology members to stand trial in French court'
2008-09-09,b'GAME OVER: Russia starts diplomatic relations with South Ossetia and Abkhazia'
2008-09-09,"b'George W. Bush plans to withdraw 4,000 troops from Iraq before the end of his presidency as the Pentagon starts to shift its focus to Afghanistan.'"
2008-09-09,"b'North Korean Leader Is Very Ill, may have had a stroke, American Official Says'"
2008-09-09,b'Al-Qaida new tape blasts Iran for working with US'
2008-09-09,"b""Russian troops to remain in Georgia 'for a long time'"""
2008-09-08,b'A French judge has ordered two branches of Scientologists and their leaders to stand trial for fraud '
2008-09-08,b' Russia in legal bid to ban South Park'
2008-09-08,"b""'60 Minutes' Cut Ahmadinejad's Statement, 'Solution Is Democracy' in Israel/Palestine"""
2008-09-08,b'U.S. drones kill 13 in missile attack in Pakistan'
2008-09-08,"b'Screw You, TSA: No Conviction on Key Charges in Liquid-Bomb Trial in London'"
2008-09-08,b'Scientology on trial for fraud in France!'
2008-09-08,b'An EU ban on ads with sexist overtones? Another quasi-fictional piece of translucent flimflam'
2008-09-08,b'Film Backs Afghans Claims of US Killings [of 90+ civilians]'
2008-09-08,b'Giant Buddha found at Afghan site.'
2008-09-08,b'After denying strenously the US reopens inquiry into Afghan attack that may have killed upto 90 civilians'
2008-09-08,"b'Videos surface showing dead Afghan children after US raid, sparking a new investigation'"
2008-09-08,"b'""Consortium"" of Media Execs to Canadian Green Party:  You can\'t participate in debate because the other parties don\'t want you there.'"
2008-09-08,b'Everything going wrong in the world .. in one convenient graphical display. '
2008-09-08,b'Until yesterday the US military had insisted that only seven civilians were killed in Nawabad on the night of August 21 - the actual number is closer to 92 (Vid)'
2008-09-08,b'Father rescues his toddler daughter after she is sucked down 150ft flooded drain.'
2008-09-08,b'Greenpeace Mexico Scores Big with Green Sex Guide'
2008-09-08,b'Afghanistan: Civilian Deaths From Airstrikes on the Rise'
2008-09-08,"b""Harrowing video film backs Afghan villagers' claims of carnage caused by US troops"""
2008-09-08,"b""1 in 4 'facing fuel poverty'"""
2008-09-08,b'Russian warships are headed to the Caribbean'
2008-09-08,b'Interrogating Human Rights and Climate Change'
2008-09-08,b'Revealed: Shocking footage that could prove 90 Afghans - not seven - died in U.S. airstrike'
2008-09-08,"b'The Afghan government, human rights officials, and a U.N. investigation back up the account of villagers who say 90 civilians were killed in a U.S. airstrike.'"
2008-09-08,b'Germany Discovers a War in Afghanistan'
2008-09-08,b'Afghanistan - UN has video of U.S. airstrike aftermath'
2008-09-07,b'Israel PM Olmert: Israel must prepare now for the evacuation of Israeli settlers from the West Bank.'
2008-09-07,"b'Children as young as eight have been recruited by councils to ""snoop"" on their neighbours and report petty offences such as littering, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. '"
2008-09-07,b'Leading historian issues warning of a new cold war'
2008-09-07,b'Putin: there are grounds to suspect that some people in the United States created this conflict deliberately'
2008-09-07,b'Pakistan Condemns U.S. Attack on Its Soil'
2008-09-07,b'Top EU trade official accused of leaking secrets to Chinese businessmen'
2008-09-07,b'MP calls for new Kelly death probe after MoS revelations cast doubt on whether he was able to kill himself  | Mail Online'
2008-09-07,b'Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital'
2008-09-07,b'USA may have to turn keys to ISS over to Russians by 2012'
2008-09-07,"b""Council use anti-terror laws to spy on binmen accused of strawberry pop 'bribe'"""
2008-09-07,"b"" Canada's PM dissolves Parliament, calls early elections"""
2008-09-07,"b'Yet Another UK Data Loss: Details on 5000 Justice System Employees lost July 2007, not reported for a whole Year'"
2008-09-07,b'Poles call for referendum on U.S. missile base'
2008-09-07,b'Solar Trees Blend Art and Alternative Energy in Europe'
2008-09-07,b'Dick Cheney: Another gem in the crown of irony'
2008-09-07,"b""Terror groups developing 'dirty bomb', say security chiefs"""
2008-09-07,b'Iran set to hold large-scale war games with air defense drills'
2008-09-07,b'MP calls for new Dr. David Kelly death probe after latest revelations'
2008-09-07,b'Bad French prolongs Russia-Georgia conflict'
2008-09-07,"b""Israeli cabinet debates motion to limit Supreme Court's authority"""
2008-09-07,b' Hurricane Ike sends folks packing'
2008-09-07,b'IRA intelligence passed to MI5'
2008-09-07,"b'Egypt rock slide toll rises to 31, others buried'"
2008-09-07,b'US suspends economic sanctions against Belarus'
2008-09-07,b'Nuclear Suppliers Group Backs U.S.-India Atomic-Trade Deal'
2008-09-06,b'Mexico Supreme Court orders Wal-Mart to stop paying workers in store vouchers'
2008-09-06,b'Polish intelligence confirms secret CIA prison facility on Polish soil - BBC'
2008-09-06,b'Venezuela refuses renewed Drug War cooperation'
2008-09-06,b' UN to demand Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion. Think they will pay?'
2008-09-06,b'The US military provided combat training to 80 Georgian special forces commandos only months prior to Georgias army assault in South Ossetia.'
2008-09-06,"b'China\'s central bank has been on a buying binge in the United States over the last seven years - ""It is as if China has made a gift to the United States Navy of 200 brand new aircraft carriers.""'"
2008-09-06,"b'U.K. Environment Minister describing climate change view as a ""hysterical psuedo-religion""'"
2008-09-06,b'UK anti-terrorism laws used to spy on noisy children'
2008-09-06,"b'For young Gazans, whats on satellite television and the Internet, on tapes and compact discs, is a window to the world beyond the armored checkpoints and a link to the West. '"
2008-09-06,b'Kremlin-watchers warn of direct U.S.-Russia clash'
2008-09-06,"b""Bhutto Widower Elected Pakistan's President"""
2008-09-06,b'Russia accuses West of warship provocation'
2008-09-06,b'War on Iran: The Perfect Storm from Hell or Kiss your Ass Goodbye'
2008-09-06,b'US attack inside Pakistan threatens dangerous new war'
2008-09-06,b'Window on Eurasia: Moscow Wins a Major Victory on Pipelines'
2008-09-06,b'Iran rejects French warning of Israeli strike risk'
2008-09-06,b' Iran rejects French warning it risks Israeli strike'
2008-09-06,"b""Australia's $1.2B Desalination Plant Nears Completion"""
2008-09-06,"b"" Sudan army 'attacks Darfur towns'"""
2008-09-06,"b'Chalabi uninjured in suicide car bomb attack on his convoy, 6 others killed'"
2008-09-06,"b""Russia angry at US ship, Cheney sees 'threat' from Moscow"""
2008-09-06,"b""AFP: Mexico drug plane used for US 'rendition' flights"""
2008-09-06,b'Woman locked in cabin for nine years'
2008-09-06,"b""Call for 'blacks only' schools in the UK"""
2008-09-06,b'6 ex-Soviet neighbors back Russia over Georgia'
2008-09-05,"b'In Jordan, the honor killings that are not: Women are murdered for other reasons, but when caught the guilty claim it is an honor killing to obtain lenient sentencing.'"
2008-09-05,b'U.S. Navy Ship Arrives at Georgian Port Where Russia Has Troops  '
2008-09-05,"b""At least five people have been killed in another suspected US missile strike on militant targets in Pakistan's border region, Pakistani officials say."""
2008-09-05,b'Polish prosecutors probe possible CIA jail | Reuters'
2008-09-05,b'Russian Lawmaker Says Moscow to Deploy Weapons Near Poland'
2008-09-05,b' Petraeus says Qaeda still undefeated in Iraq'
2008-09-05,b'Storm-hit Haitians starve on rooftops.'
2008-09-05,b'French Government to store personal information on people as young as 13'
2008-09-05,"b'Among many bald statements, one stuck out: Israel is now ready to destroy three or four nuclear sites out of 12 in Iran.'"
2008-09-05,b'Euro Parliament ruling means Britons could be convicted in absence'
2008-09-05,b'Russian archaeologists find long-lost Jewish capital.'
2008-09-05,b'Iran says again it has no plans to possess nuclear weapons'
2008-09-05,"b""Syria: Israel must respect '67 border"""
2008-09-05,b'CIA Prisons in Poland: a Story of Revelation'
2008-09-05,"b""Lavrov rejects Cheney's attack on Russia"""
2008-09-05,"b'On Monday I received my Palestinian citizenship, on Tuesday I was already in an Israeli jail.'"
2008-09-05,b'Taliban trophy photos horrify France'
2008-09-05,"b""Free gas creates 'chaos' - an EA marketing ploy. I think they need to do it more"""
2008-09-05,"b""France stunned at photos of Taliban fighters with 'trophies' taken from 10 French soldiers killed in Afghanistan"""
2008-09-05,b'Pakistan Parliament calls for action against future military incursions - repel such attacks in the future with full force.'
2008-09-05,b'NYC School Teacher Missing--please read and pass along!'
2008-09-05,"b""'Commandos nearly exposed in Syria'"""
2008-09-05,b'The number of girls in poor countries who marry before the age of 18 will double to 100 million in the next decade'
2008-09-05,"b""Okay, so it looks like we're moving increasingly into WWIII territory, but does the worldnews subreddit logo have to imply that all world news is about war and violence? """
2008-09-05,b' Jim Crow alive and well in Hebron'
2008-09-04,"b'Security guards beat man at soccer (football) game, fans and players charge the field and beat them.'"
2008-09-04,"b'U.S. Troops cross border into FUCKING Pakistan!! U.S. confirms ground assault against Taliban inside Pakistan. Sept 03, 1:28am'"
2008-09-04,"b'Syria has made an official proposal to Israel for direct peace talks, Assad says.  ""We are awaiting Israel\'s response.""  The two countries have been at war for 60 years'"
2008-09-04,b'Pakistan condemns US over raid'
2008-09-04,"b'""I could never have imagined that they would bomb my wedding party. They killed my entire family. I will never forgive them.""'"
2008-09-04,b'Japan: Anti-terrorism Law Serves U.S. Interests'
2008-09-04,"b'Israeli warplanes violate Lebanese airspace, break sound barrier twice over Tyre'"
2008-09-04,b'Abramoff jailed for corruption'
2008-09-04,"b""Pakistan reacts with fury after up to 20 die in 'American' attack on its soil"""
2008-09-04,"b'Before hauling parts of its mothballed nuclear reactor out of storage this week, North Korea notified the United States that it intended to reassemble the nuclear plant'"
2008-09-04,"b""US' Somalia Policy Likely to Bring Blowback"""
2008-09-04,b'Pakistan protests to U.S. envoy over border raid'
2008-09-04,"b'""Zionism was there to transform the Bible from a spiritual text into a land registry.""'"
2008-09-04,b'Will Business Ever Take Human Rights Seriously?'
2008-09-04,b'Syria makes peace proposal to Israel'
2008-09-04,b'London brothels offer sex for 15GBP'
2008-09-04,b'Israel continues to be a favorite destination for the trafficking of women for the sex industry - also known as the white slave trade'
2008-09-04,"b""Pakistan reacts with fury after up to 20 die in 'American' attack on its soil"""
2008-09-04,b'The Second Cold War and Corporate Security (Stratfor Report)'
2008-09-04,"b'Analysis: Increasingly, Hamas is gaining acceptance in the Arab world'"
2008-09-04,b'U.S. general reassures Japan over nuclear carrier'
2008-09-04,b'Junkie elephant gets weaned off the smack after undergoing a detox programme'
2008-09-04,b'Fears for Ukraine as pro-west coalition fails'
2008-09-04,b'Rallies in support of elections boycott held by Belarusian expat community'
2008-09-04,b'Pakistan ground assault marks new strategy'
2008-09-03,b'Poland Legalization of Marijuana - two majour steps in the right direction'
2008-09-03,"b""What's REALLY happening between Russia and the U.S."""
2008-09-03,"b'As Brazil begins to tap its immense oil reserves, it is bucking the tradition of giving all the profits to the upper-class.'"
2008-09-03,"b'""Surveillance in a Box"": Siemens has developed software to pool and sort data from telephone calls, email and internet activity, bank transactions and insurance records. '"
2008-09-03,"b""US confronts Russia as Cheney flags 'deep' interest in ex-Soviet zones"""
2008-09-03,b'Spanish judge seeks information on civil war dead'
2008-09-03,b'US gives $1bn to rebuild Georgia'
2008-09-03,b'Oil prices likely to drop below $100 due to falling demand and stronger dollar - according to Reuters'
2008-09-03,"b""Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has threatened to dissolve parliament and call elections after the collapse of the country's ruling coalition."""
2008-09-03,b'$75B Spent By Evil Saudis To Spread Islam Globally'
2008-09-03,b'Second Russian journalist in three days killed '
2008-09-03,"b""Gov't Triggers Official Inquiry into Alleged CIA Prisons in Poland"""
2008-09-03,b'Sudden death after arrest may be new syndrome (nothing to do with tasers or beatings of course)'
2008-09-03,b'The French Ban TV for Children Under Three'
2008-09-03,b'Third US Navy ship heads for Georgia'
2008-09-03,b'The Medvedev Doctrine and American Strategy (Stratfor) - Russia Makes Clear Its Intentions'
2008-09-03,"b'3 More Canadian Soldiers Die, 5 Wounded'"
2008-09-03,"b""Britian's [Big Brother] CCTV system proves to be a waste!"""
2008-09-03,b'Scotland Could Boost UK Hydropower by 50%'
2008-09-03,b'Tensions between Russia and U.S. threaten space station'
2008-09-03,b' North Korea begins reassembling nuclear facility'
2008-09-03,b'Iraq: Iraqi army readies for showdown with Kurds | World news | The Guardian'
2008-09-03,b'Persia: Ancient Soul of Iran -- '
2008-09-03,"b""In Iran, women's rights activists score victory on marriage legislation"""
2008-09-03,"b""Vladimir Putin picked as world's most influential person """
2008-09-02,"b""A girl filmed Israeli soldiers' brutality. Since then, her family has been the victim of revenge attacks.  """
2008-09-02,b'The Dutch have recalled a spy from Iran citing a U.S. plan to attack Iran with unmanned aircraft within a few weeks.  An Israeli news source confirmed preparations for a military strike against Iran.'
2008-09-02,"b'Japanese wives hire ""professional seducers"" to set up hubby for divorce. (File under: ""It just ain\'t fair"")'"
2008-09-02,b'Japans Prime Minister Resigns'
2008-09-02,b'State of emergency declared in Bangkok'
2008-09-02,b'Judge Says Human Rights Case Against ExxonMobil Can Move Forward'
2008-09-02,b'Israelis guilty of Hebron killing'
2008-09-02,"b'""Thirst"", a presentation about water shortage is the World\'s Best Presentation for 2008 on SlideShare.'"
2008-09-02,b'Russia Says US May Have Sent Weapons To Georgia'
2008-09-02,b'Dutch intel: US to strike Iran in coming weeks | Iran news | Jerusalem Post'
2008-09-02,"b'Gareth Porter notes how the US has easily applied a double standard to condemn Russia.""'"
2008-09-02,b'Israeli army targets family over brutality film'
2008-09-02,"b""While we debate over offshore drilling and lifting gas taxes, China is planning to build the world's fastest train at 236mph. """
2008-09-02,b'Nabucco Pipeline suddenly given a lot of importance by Turkey et al. after conflicts in Georgia'
2008-09-02,"b'1.2 Million Homeless, Approx. 3 Million Affected After Floods in Bahir, India'"
2008-09-02,"b""Thailand's prime minister calls state of emergency """
2008-09-02,"b'According to the NIC-CIA,  Pakistan is slated to become a ""failed state"" by 2015, ""as it would be affected by civil war, complete Talibanisation and struggle for control of its nuclear weapons"".'"
2008-09-02,"b""WAR WARNING-Russia Warns Rothschild's European Union-NAYO Super Power"""
2008-09-02,b'Mexico: Supreme Court upholds abortion law'
2008-09-02,"b""Death Penalty Campaign: Neo-Nazis Exploit Public Anger Over Girl's Murder (Germany)"""
2008-09-02,"b'""From East Africa to South Asia, the US is disengaging in the former hot spots of the War on Terror. Its a quiet admission that Bushs foreign policy has failed.""'"
2008-09-02,"b""BBC NEWS | Europe | Police 'break up Ingush protest'"""
2008-09-02,"b""One man's fetid open sewer is another man's gold mine"""
2008-09-02,b'Lula suspends Brazil spy chiefs over phone taps'
2008-09-02,"b""Apprently a 49 Game Losing Streak ain't THAT bad......"""
2008-09-01,b'Teenage girls buried alive for trying to choose their own husbands'
2008-09-01,b'Anti-Kremlin website owner shot dead in police custody | The Register'
2008-09-01,b'A Pakistani politician has defended a decision to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands.'
2008-09-01,b'Brits encouraged to spy on their neighbours'
2008-09-01,"b'1984 is Reality in Chinese City with More Than 200,000 Surveillance Cameras'"
2008-09-01,"b'""Can sound money really bring about peace? Actually, it plays a big part in peaceful international relationships.""'"
2008-09-01,"b""David Kelly's closest female confidante on why he COULDN'T have killed himself"""
2008-09-01,b'Group: Georgia admits to dropping cluster bombs'
2008-09-01,"b"" Papua hikers find 'World War 2 airman'"""
2008-09-01,b'Anti-Christian violence: Churches burnt in ...? (see if you can guess the place)'
2008-09-01,"b'Al Qaida has free movement in Pakistan, top official concedes'"
2008-09-01,"b'Bombing Afghanistan, Afghan President Tells 60 Minutes That Too Many Civilians Are Being Killed - CBS News'"
2008-09-01,b'Happy Ramadan!'
2008-09-01,b'New Russian world order: the five principles'
2008-09-01,"b""UK Home Office predicts 'anarchy' in leaked memo"""
2008-09-01,"b'Putin pwns tiger, saves television crew.'"
2008-09-01,b' Invasion of Iran would trigger World War III'
2008-09-01,"b""Putin, Proving himself to be the manliest PM alive, tranqs tigers. Thinks EU should mind it's own damn business. """
2008-09-01,b'Putin saves TV crew from Siberian tiger'
2008-09-01,"b""Eiffel Tower's lights are to go out"""
2008-09-01,"b""Possible Russia-Iran Alliance to counter 'unfriendly' U.S. moves"""
2008-09-01,b'Japan Forced to Pay Damages For Sailors Suicide'
2008-09-01,"b'Holland jumps on the ""US will bomb Iran"" bus'"
2008-09-01,"b""Neo-Nazi forum hacked by German anti-fascist hackers. Police won't do anything with the information, because the data was gathered illegally"""
2008-09-01,b'Mexicos Supreme Court voted to uphold legal abortion in Mexico City'
2008-08-31,b'Australian pastor who inspired hundreds of thousands of people with his fight against terminal cancer has admitted he faked his illness to hide an addiction to porn.'
2008-08-31,b'Russia: Website owner and government critic arrested and executed'
2008-08-31,"b""Iraq has signed its first major oil deal since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. $3 billion oil deal with......................................................China. """
2008-08-31,"b""5 Women Buried Alive is Defended as 'Tradition'"""
2008-08-31,"b'Life is visibly improving for Dalit communities in India, who were once known as untouchables'"
2008-08-31,b'Georgia quarrel derails US-Russian cooperation on Iran issue -- Moscow will finish building Irans nuclear reactor in Bushehr by year-end'
2008-08-31,"b"" Iran warns any attack would start 'world war'"""
2008-08-31,b'The time has come to say Britain is full'
2008-08-31,"b""Don't Go There: The whole world has the travel bug. And it's ravaging the planet."""
2008-08-31,b'American Delta Force and British SAS collaborate on an Operation Phoenix assassination program in Iraq'
2008-08-31,"b""Preachers of separatism at work inside Britain's mosques"""
2008-08-31,"b""During WW2 amateur diplomat proposed dividing world between Nazi's and Britain"""
2008-08-31,"b'Relief agencies decry military role in Georgia. Militarization of humanitarian operations puts them at risk, will forever shatter the concept of impartiality.'"
2008-08-31,"b'""Iraq has signed its first major oil deal with a foreign company"" What? What happened with Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total, and Chevron?'"
2008-08-31,b'The week that buried the new world order'
2008-08-31,b'Agreement on U.S. withdrawal from Iraq said to be in peril as Maliki ousts negotiators.'
2008-08-31,b'New Data Show 1.4 BILLION Live On Less Than $1.25 A Day'
2008-08-31,b'Italy to pay Libya $5 billion to crack down on illegal immigration'
2008-08-31,b'Amateur diplomat sought Nazi pact'
2008-08-31,b'Wheres next in Vladimir Putins sights?'
2008-08-31,"b""Children in Gaza: we're training to kill Jews"""
2008-08-31,"b""Ask Worldnews: As a current events junkie, what're the best online news sources out there?"""
2008-08-31,b'Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans protest crime '
2008-08-31,b'Malaysian man gets nut stuck around penis: report'
2008-08-31,b'Treating Iraqi Children For PTSD'
2008-08-30,"b""Russia threatens to supply Iran with top new missile system as 'cold war' escalates"""
2008-08-30,b'South Ossetia says it will join North Ossetia-Alania as a federal subject of Russia'
2008-08-30,"b'Russia says recognition of S.Ossetia, Abkhazia irreversible'"
2008-08-30,"b'Canada\'s ""slave trade,"" workers packed into filthy accommodations, denied pay and threatened with deportation'"
2008-08-30,"b""Now it's the citizen snoopers: British councils recruit unpaid volunteers to spy on their neighbours"""
2008-08-30,"b'40,000+ Passengers left stranded by the collapse of the long-haul budget airline in Britain and Canada'"
2008-08-30,"b'South Ossetian police tell Georgians to take a Russian passport, or leave their homes'"
2008-08-30,b'Russia calls for more observers in Georgia'
2008-08-30,b'Unemployment and poverty on the rise in Berlin'
2008-08-30,"b'Despite mounting anti-government protests, Thai PM Samak refuses to resign'"
2008-08-30,b'Drug Violence Alters the Flow of Life in Mexico '
2008-08-30,"b'""The operation ... was halted recently in connection with plans for an impending US air attack on Iraq."" writes the Netherlands\' biggest newspaper. [Non-Linked-Jacked]'"
2008-08-30,b'Georgia quits Moscow 1994 ceasefire agreement'
2008-08-30,b'During the month of August they (hitmen) killed eight US citizens and injured five more in the Mexico border city of Ciudad Juarez '
2008-08-30,"b"" Russia's propaganda warfare"""
2008-08-30,b'US and Russian airliners narrowly avoid mid-air collision over the Atlantic.'
2008-08-30,"b' Southwest China quake kills 15, scores injured'"
2008-08-30,b'Georgia: The truth slowly surfaces'
2008-08-30,b'Italy plans major Libya investment to turn page on colonial era'
2008-08-30,"b'Russian  intelligence: Israeli jets, flying from an airbase in Georgia, to bomb Tehran with munitions armed with weapons grade anthrax. '"
2008-08-30,b'Are Moldova and Ukraine at Risk?: Ex-Soviet States Fear Russian Aggression'
2008-08-30,b'Under the guise of true heroism: Gaza blockade-busting boats planning a second voyage'
2008-08-30,"b' Tibetans fast for peace, Dalai Lama still in hospital'"
2008-08-30,"b'Economy at 60-year low, says Darling. And it will get worse.'"
2008-08-30,b'Azerbaijan to transport some oil through Iran instead of Georgia: one example of how Iran benefits slightly from the war'
2008-08-29,"b'Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the US of provoking the conflict in Georgia, possibly for domestic election purposes. '"
2008-08-29,"b'who is: ""Michael Lee White, a resident of Houston, born in 1967""?'"
2008-08-29,"b""Georgia has decided to cut diplomatic ties with Russia, days after Moscow recognised the independence of Georgia's two breakaway regions."""
2008-08-29,"b""Mexico City's abortion-rights law is upheld"""
2008-08-29,"b'Things are getting rough south of the border. Mexicans are chipping themselves, using GPS tracking and bullet-proofing everything for security purposes.'"
2008-08-29,b'Bosnia Overcomes Ancient Ethnic and Religious Divisions to Unite in Anger Against Gay Festival'
2008-08-29,b'Guerrilla Gardening: Vigilante Green Thumbs Illegally Plant in Public Places'
2008-08-29,b'Dwindling Army Applications: Afghanistan Puts Germans Off Military Career'
2008-08-29,"b""India's Floods: a Manmade Disaster?"""
2008-08-29,"b'UK: Private security workers and local government officials have police powers to stop and fine people for littering, dog crap, and other minor offenses!'"
2008-08-29,b'11 headless bodies discovered by Mexican farmer in Yucatan'
2008-08-29,b'Putin: U.S. Created Georgia Conflict'
2008-08-29,"b""S Ossetia 'will become Russian'"""
2008-08-29,b'U.S. Citizen A Georgian Commando'
2008-08-29,b'Return of the apartheid party (In South Africa)'
2008-08-29,b' Somali pirates a growing threat to shipping'
2008-08-29,"b'Sadr Announces Suspension of Mahdi Army ""Indefinitely""'"
2008-08-29,"b"" Iraq's Palestinians still live in fear"""
2008-08-29,b'Russia to sign accord for bases in South Ossetia: report'
2008-08-29,b'Hugo Chavez supports independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia'
2008-08-29,"b""China refuses to endorse Russia's move on Goergian Seperatists"""
2008-08-29,b'Source: Israel ready to stop Iranian nukes'
2008-08-29,b'A blogger takes office in Malaysia'
2008-08-29,"b'Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic refused to enter a plea Friday before the UN war crimes tribunal, which he dismissed as ""a court of NATO"".'"
2008-08-29,b'Cuba to try anti-Castro punk rocker Gorki Aguila '
2008-08-28,"b""Military help for Georgia is a 'declaration of war', says Moscow"""
2008-08-28,b'Western Media Mislead Public on Georgia-Russia Conflict [VIDEO]'
2008-08-28,b'Conservative foreign affairs magazine: the US should cooperate with Iran on energy to balance Russian influence'
2008-08-28,b' Dalai Lama admitted to hospital'
2008-08-28,"b""British journalism student gang-raped by asylum seekers in Calais squatter camp they call 'The Jungle'"""
2008-08-28,"b""Russia: Military help for Georgia is a 'declaration of war'"""
2008-08-28,b'Airline removes life vests to lower weight -- save on fuel'
2008-08-28,"b'In Defiance of the US, Israel Pushes Ahead with Settlement Expansion'"
2008-08-28,b'Test of Russian New Long Range TOPOL Missile That Evades Defensive Anti-missile Defense Systems Successfully Done'
2008-08-28,b'Russia wins backing from China and Central Asia over Georgia'
2008-08-28,"b""Baby's life saved by e-mail"""
2008-08-28,b'Diplomat: Russia plans to raise navy presence in Syria'
2008-08-28,b'Embarrasing Public Rift in US State Department Sparks International Furor'
2008-08-28,b'Russia: Texan may have been helping Georgia'
2008-08-28,b'Germany : Man Arrested for Kidnapping Daughter to Stop Marriage to Non-Muslim'
2008-08-28,"b'Relief agencies criticize US military ""humanitarians""'"
2008-08-28,b'The History Channel For Adults '
2008-08-28,b'Poor struggle as rat meat prices soar'
2008-08-28,b'Iran condemned for surge of youth hangings'
2008-08-28,b'The Economist is now publishing anti-Russia propaganda.'
2008-08-28,b'British paedophiles can opt for chemical castration.'
2008-08-28,b'Two headed baby dies in Bangladesh after developing breathnig complications'
2008-08-28,"b""Pentagon OK's Missile Sale to Taiwan"""
2008-08-28,b'Poti: the hottest place in the new cold war '
2008-08-28,b'Disabled Russian Journalist Jailed for Beating Cops'
2008-08-27,b'Photos of a 15-year-old Iraqi suicide bomber who gave herself up  '
2008-08-27,"b""London Olympics: 'Tacky' 2012 handover show attacked by British bloggers"""
2008-08-27,b'Fascist close to taking over Thailand. They want to replace the democracy with a system that would be dominated by appointees from the bureaucracy and the military. '
2008-08-27,b'Iraq says U.S. sought troop presence to 2015'
2008-08-27,b'Indian state erupts in violence after Hindu shot'
2008-08-27,b'A majority of Russians back the Putin-Medvedev government and are excited about the return of Russia as a superpower. '
2008-08-27,"b""US ''doves'' bring to Georgia Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles"""
2008-08-27,b'Russia cruiser to test weapons in crowded Black Sea'
2008-08-27,"b'N. Korea Angered By US Non-Commitment of Promise, Flashes Its Plutonium Capability Trump Card.'"
2008-08-27,"b""One man's China crusade"""
2008-08-27,"b""World Bank: One-Third of World's Poor in India (42% of India's population live Below Poverty Line ($1.25/day); 75.65% live on less than $2/day..which is more than Sub-Saharan Africa) """
2008-08-27,b'The Free Gaza Movement forced the Israeli government to issue a fundamental policy change regarding their military and economic blockade of Gaza.'
2008-08-27,b'U.S. soldiers say they executed Iraqis on riverbank'
2008-08-27,b'BBC denies interference in al-Qaida coverage'
2008-08-27,"b""Three drug hitmen die in attack on Mexican army  - when hitman are going after the army, there's a problem..."""
2008-08-27,b'Must We Help Georgia?'
2008-08-27,"b'BBC:West condemns Russia over Georgia ,  WEST == U.S. OF A. ??'"
2008-08-27,"b'Archaeologists unearth 1,300-year-old mummy in Peruvian capital'"
2008-08-27,b'Ossetian leader accuses US of genocide'
2008-08-27,b'Egypt urges end to Israel threats'
2008-08-27,"b""7.0 Quake strikes Russia's Siberian region"""
2008-08-27,b'Backgrounder: Basic facts about Abkhazia'
2008-08-27,b'Sudan hijackers free passengers in Libya'
2008-08-27,b'Black Sea Fleet ships start tracking NATO guests'
2008-08-27,b'UK makes Atlantic sea bed claim'
2008-08-26,b'North Korea halts denuclearisation after US fails to remove them from list of states sponsoring terrorism.'
2008-08-26,b'60 Children Among Dead in US Airstrike in Afghanistan'
2008-08-26,b'The Russian Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to officially recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia'
2008-08-26,b'Violent animal rights activists set fire to scientist home - very little protection available for scientists'
2008-08-26,"b'NBC censored that Olympic champion, Matthew Mitcham, is gay'"
2008-08-26,"b'UN says ""convincing evidence"" shows US airstrike in Afghanistan killed 90 people, including 60 children'"
2008-08-26,b'Italy tries to outlaw Islam'
2008-08-26,b'Mystery virus kills 160'
2008-08-26,"b'Israeli group ""Peace Now"" says settlement construction in the occupied West Bank has nearly doubled since last year'"
2008-08-26,"b""Revealed: Britain's secret propaganda war against al-Qaida"""
2008-08-26,b' Israel settlement surge draws Rice criticism'
2008-08-26,"b'Solar Powered, Carbon Neutral Pyramid to House 1 Million People in Dubai'"
2008-08-26,b'Russia claims Proof of Genocide'
2008-08-26,b'How NATO transformed from a military alliance into a quasi-United Nations'
2008-08-26,b'Cartwheeling Banned in School'
2008-08-26,"b'Philly-area activists released by China; Jeff said he was slapped around and threatend, with them saying, Do you want your head cut off or do you want to be shot?'"
2008-08-26,"b""Vatican describes Hindu attack on Christian orphanage as a 'sin against God'"""
2008-08-26,"b'Protesters tell tales of Beijing detention- sleep deprivation, threats oh my'"
2008-08-26,b'Python kills zookeeper'
2008-08-26,b'Kelly was Murdered Says UK Intelligence Insider'
2008-08-26,"b""Fury as image of Myra Hindley appears in 'Best of British' film at 2012 Olympics party"""
2008-08-26,b' North Korea to suspend nuclear disablement'
2008-08-26,b'Germans suspect Bayer pesticide in beehive collapse'
2008-08-26,b'Research on terrorism is invaluable - but we do it under fear of arrest'
2008-08-26,b'Top US diplomat escapes gun attack in Pakistan'
2008-08-25,"b""N Korea's Kim died in 2003; replaced by lookalike, says Waseda professor"""
2008-08-25,b'Secret prison on Diego Garcia confirmed'
2008-08-25,"b'Israel claims allowing an aid ship to reach Palestine is ""a dangerous precedent"" & will use deadly force, a response out of proportion to the threat."" What dangerous precedent could this create?'"
2008-08-25,b'Pedophile attempts to assault and kidnap child; Mother beats pedophile on head with pipe.  Nobody upset.'
2008-08-25,"b'Wealthy Mexicans, terrified of soaring kidnapping rates, are spending thousands of dollars to implant tiny transmitters under their skin'"
2008-08-25,"b'""If the weapon states are not prepared to rid themselves of nuclear weapons, why would other states continue to deny themselves the kind of leverage that these weapons bring?""'"
2008-08-25,b'Israeli Report: Guards regularly abuse inmates'
2008-08-25,"b""Flashback: Naked, drunk, surrounded by sex toys - it's the Israeli ambassador"""
2008-08-25,b'Russia to recognize Georgia rebel regions!'
2008-08-25,b'Iraqi Teenage Girl Wearing Explosives Turns Self in to Police'
2008-08-25,"b""Iceland's Armed Forces Unveils Mecha-Bjrk [PIC]"""
2008-08-25,"b'Swiss engineers, a nuclear black market and the CIA'"
2008-08-25,b' Israel releases 198 Palestinian prisoners'
2008-08-25,"b'Let\'s rewrite history :  A new historical concept - Stalin\'s terror was ""a development tool""'"
2008-08-25,b'The Puppet Masters Behind Georgia President Saakashvili '
2008-08-25,"b""Gold Farming Comparable In $$ To India's Entire Outsourcing Industry"""
2008-08-25,"b""SHOCK! Amsterdam's Smoking Ban Doesn't Apply to Weed..."""
2008-08-25,b'Refugee camp in Darfur under direct attack'
2008-08-25,b'2008 Globally the Coldest Year of the Century So Far'
2008-08-25,"b'Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas leader, becomes a Christian '"
2008-08-25,"b'Victims Of ""Nigerian Scams"" Giving Nigeria A Bad Name Claims Nigerian Official'"
2008-08-25,b'Russia accused of violating ceasefire deal'
2008-08-25,b'Four killed in Kashmir protests'
2008-08-25,b'When Islamic terrorist organization donates...'
2008-08-25,"b""UK child protection database 'will be used to prosecute young people'"""
2008-08-24,b'Portal to Maya Underworld Found in Mexico?'
2008-08-24,b'Boeing 737 Passenger jet crashes in Kyrgyzstan'
2008-08-24,"b""UK town councils accused of spying on residents' sex lives"""
2008-08-24,b'Ten Year Old Locked In Iron Cage for Giving Falun Gong Brochure '
2008-08-24,"b'Gerhard Schroeder has been told he should ""keep his mouth shut"" after appearing to support Russia\'s invasion of Georgia. '"
2008-08-24,b'US warship docks in Georgia port'
2008-08-24,b'$50 million per medal'
2008-08-24,b'The Georgia Fiasco and the Military Industrial Complex'
2008-08-24,b'Pirates attack Iranian ships: sailors held hostage! '
2008-08-24,"b'Former Aussie PM: ""Lasting peace depends on a new world order""'"
2008-08-24,"b""Afghan president 'pardoned rapists'"""
2008-08-24,"b""New China? Bird's Nest replaces Mao on yuan"""
2008-08-24,"b""Afghanistan's Helmand province yields a bumper opium harvest"""
2008-08-24,"b'SCO vs NATO, WWIII?'"
2008-08-24,"b""Pakistan's ruling coalition on verge of collapse"""
2008-08-24,b'Iraqis desperate for water. '
2008-08-24,b'John Pilger - Freedom Next Time'
2008-08-24,b'Activist boats reach Gaza Strip'
2008-08-24,"b""Peace ships break through Israel's blockade of Gaza."""
2008-08-24,b'The New Rulers of The World by John Pilger'
2008-08-24,"b'The Georgian military felt there was only a low probability of a massive Russian counter-attack, despite the bloody way in which Russia destroyed Chechnya'"
2008-08-24,b' Baghdad bombs kill 4 and wound 15'
2008-08-24,b'Huge fire as Georgian train hits landmine'
2008-08-24,b'Pressure grows on Nicolas Sarkozy for Afghanistan pullout'
2008-08-24,b'The Death of a Pop Princess'
2008-08-23,"b""Olympics Athletes' Village Is a 'Sex-Fest' """
2008-08-23,"b'Hes easily the most hated man in Toronto. What exactly was he planning to do with 2,865 bicycles?'"
2008-08-23,b'US kills 70+ civilians in Afghanistan... this is not how you win hearts and minds against the Taliban.'
2008-08-23,"b'Company that lost computer stick with data of 84,000 prisoners gets new 240million government contract'"
2008-08-23,b'Olmert threatened Syria that Israel will destroy any weapons they buy from Russia telling the Syrians that it would be a loss for Syria to pay money for arms that Israel will work to destroy.'
2008-08-23,b'Drug companies accused of spending millions on conference trips for doctors '
2008-08-23,b'Deconstructing Brzezinskis Russia'
2008-08-23,"b'British mother-of-two faces being \'""detained without trial"" in China after participating in Free Tibet protest'"
2008-08-23,"b""LAOS:  Film Reveals CIA's 'Most Secret Place on Earth'"""
2008-08-23,b'A tragic waste of a young life '
2008-08-23,"b""Remember that little 'earthquake' in China nobody seems to mention anymore? (pics)"""
2008-08-23,"b""ISI, Pakistan's 'rogue' military intelligence agency"""
2008-08-23,b' Long wait for Spain crash answers'
2008-08-23,"b'Rockets, guile and the lessons of history: the Taleban besiege Kabul'"
2008-08-23,b'Extras hired to form a line for iPhone launch in Poland'
2008-08-23,"b""Banks 'use credit crunch to milk borrowers of 3bn'"""
2008-08-23,b'Iraq 5 Years on: The Killing Fields'
2008-08-23,b'Village Officials Say Scores of Civilians Died in US-Afghan Attack'
2008-08-23,b'Poking The Bear With A Blunt Stick'
2008-08-23,b'Italy puts Moroccan MP under house arrest pending appeal'
2008-08-23,b'Why did a heat-seeking helicopter fly over the exact spot where David Kellys body was found - and detect nothing?'
2008-08-23,"b""UK spooks forced to hand Gitmo files to suspect's lawyers"""
2008-08-23,b'Foreign journalists abducted in Somalia'
2008-08-23,"b""Because One of McCain's Ranches Includes SIX HOMES, Does It Count Only As One House?  What About Two Condos Combined Into a Single 6,000 Sq. Ft. Palace?"""
2008-08-23,b'The Bin Laden Bridge: A Vision to Connect Africa and Asia'
2008-08-22,b'Syria says its ready to put a Russian missile system on its soil as a counterweight to U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic'
2008-08-22,"b'""Superclass""- new book - over the past several decades a ""global elite"" has emerged whose connections to each other have become more significant than their ties to their home nations and governments.'"
2008-08-22,"b'Georgia did not believe Russia would respond to its offensive in South Ossetia and was completely unprepared for the counter-attack, the deputy defence minister has admitted.'"
2008-08-22,b'Ossetian leader admits conducting ethnic cleansing'
2008-08-22,b'Report: Push for Iraq War Preceded Intelligence FIndings'
2008-08-22,"b""Russia Capitalizes on Bush's New World Disorder"""
2008-08-22,b'Americans including James Powerderly arrested at Olympics as China Clamp Downs on Pro-Tibetan Groups--'
2008-08-22,b'Prohibited Places FOIA request refused by UK Ministry of Justice on the grounds of cost / time'
2008-08-22,b'An acute water shortage in the West Bank has become so severe that most families are too poor to buy water'
2008-08-22,b'Australian Privacy Awareness Week'
2008-08-22,b'British Government Stole a Entire Island and Gave it to the U.S. '
2008-08-22,b'Son of leading Iraqi Sunni politician charged with planting a bomb in a house belonging to a Shiite family'
2008-08-22,b'How educational is a Chinese re-education camp? Not very.'
2008-08-22,"b'""peacekeeping"" troops with armoured cars and helicopters would remain inside Georgia for the foreseeable future'"
2008-08-22,"b""It's Something About Denmark: Why Danes Are the World's Happiest People"""
2008-08-22,b'The Chinese Women Gymnasts May Lose Their Gold Medals'
2008-08-22,b' U.S.-led coalition kills 76 Afghan civilians'
2008-08-22,b'China to Overtake UK on Renewable Energy Production'
2008-08-22,"b""Pakistan's Ruling Party Nominates Slain Bhutto's Husband for President"""
2008-08-22,b'Three men held in terror probe linked to threats to kill Gordon Brown'
2008-08-22,b' The U.S. hands over military secrets  to Moscow'
2008-08-22,b'Fire Marshal Handcuffs Woman for Swearing'
2008-08-22,b'UK economy comes to a standstill '
2008-08-22,b'26 year old boy discovered The Meaning of Life'
2008-08-22,b'Olympics Medal time line 1896 at 2008  '
2008-08-21,"b""British resident held in Guantanamo Bay wins legal battle to force Foreign Office to reveal 'torture' evidence"""
2008-08-21,b'Chinese may have killed 140 Tibetans this week: Dalai Lama'
2008-08-21,b'U.S. Navy Ships Head to Georgia'
2008-08-21,b'Hacker uncovers Chinese olympic fraud'
2008-08-21,"b""If you've ever wondered what Kim Jong Il was like in grade school, here you go. Yes, he was quite ronery. Also, ordered his former teacher's whole family killed."""
2008-08-21,"b""Russia's Nuclear Threat Is More Than Words"""
2008-08-21,"b'Czech President: ""I must protest aloud against the incorrect interpretation of the situation in the Caucasus.""'"
2008-08-21,b'50% Of All Food Produced Is Wasted Before It Gets Used'
2008-08-21,"b""China sentences Alive in Baghdad blogger, GRL's James Powderly & 4 other citizen journalists to 10 days in jail for covering Tibet protests during the Olympics"""
2008-08-21,"b'""Go ahead and let Georgia declare war between NATO and Russia. Now, any half-wit small-country leader gets to audition for the role of Archduke Ferdinand""'"
2008-08-21,b'Cafferty: Georgia Started War with Russia [vid]'
2008-08-21,"b'Kazakhstan is considering diverting its oil exports away from the BTC pipeline that runs through Georgia, and using Russia instead. The reason?'"
2008-08-21,"b""Russia threatens sale of offensive weapons to Israel's enemies"""
2008-08-21,b'Belfast Police Confiscate Boardgame In Terrorist Crackdown'
2008-08-21,"b""World's Oldest Man Dies At The Age Of 138"""
2008-08-21,b'Russia condemns US missile deal'
2008-08-21,b'NATOs decision to freeze relations with Moscow and Washingtons inept handling of Pakistan are strategic foreign policy mistakes.'
2008-08-21,"b'Sweet Sixteen or Fraudulent Fourteen,  Hackers unearth more underage gymnast allegations '"
2008-08-21,"b'If Russias feeling churlish, they can pretty much bring to a grinding halt any kind of coercive actions'"
2008-08-21,"b'Chinese Gymnasts 14, Official Document Shows'"
2008-08-21,b'Suicide attack kills at least 50 at Pakistan arms factory'
2008-08-21,b'The Abkhazian Parliament has approved an official appeal to Russia to recognise its independence'
2008-08-21,"b'Georgia, Bulgaria and the Second Balkan War | afoe | A Fistful of Euros | European Opinion'"
2008-08-21,"b""Terrorist reveals Pak's sinister designs on India"""
2008-08-21,"b""International Olympic Committee launches probe into He Kexin's age"""
2008-08-20,b'Two elderly Chinese women have been sentenced to a year of re-education through labor after they sought a permit to demonstrate in an official Olympic protest area.'
2008-08-20,b'The Power of Islam: The Human Rights Council at the United Nations has now banned any criticism regarding Sharia Law and human rights in the Islamic World'
2008-08-20,"b""We had 55 times more military soldiers in the first Gulf War than contractors. In the current Iraq war, the ratio's 1:1."""
2008-08-20,"b'""I live here on less than a dollar a month"" -- Obama\'s brother, Kenya shanty town '"
2008-08-20,b'Russia sends aircraft carrier to Syria.'
2008-08-20,b'The American people should be eternally grateful to Old Europe for having spiked the Bush-McCain plan to bring Georgia into NATO.'
2008-08-20,b'Abkhazia officially appeals to Russia for independence'
2008-08-20,"b'Russia warns of response ""beyond diplomacy"" against US missile shield'"
2008-08-20,b'India Sets Aside 40% of Regional Wasteland for Jatropha Biodiesel Production'
2008-08-20,b'Elderly Chinese Women Sentenced to Labor Re-education After Applying for Permission to Protest at the Olympics'
2008-08-20,b'Plane skids off runway in Madrid'
2008-08-20,b'Taliban mount ferocious assaults on allied targets'
2008-08-20,b'150 Feared Dead In Spanair Plane Crash In Madrid '
2008-08-20,b'Was Western Intelligence involved in terrorist attacks in India? A westerners computer Internet connection was used to send terror e-mail minutes before Ahmedabad blasts. '
2008-08-20,b'Spanish Freedom of Speech Dies an Ignoble Death so that Spanish Parasites Will Not be Offended. '
2008-08-20,b'Grote Markt [PIC]'
2008-08-20,b'Russia has informed Norway that it plans to cut all military ties with NATO'
2008-08-20,"b""'What Are the Aims of this War?': French Opposition Demands Rethink of Afghanistan Mission"""
2008-08-20,b'Bush Covered up Musharraf Ties with Al Qaeda'
2008-08-20,b'Mikhail Gorbachev: Russia Never Wanted a War'
2008-08-20,b'Germans urge tougher laws after new privacy scandal '
2008-08-20,b'The Time of the Wimps: Dialogue with Russia Is the Only Choice'
2008-08-20,b'1998 Missile Strikes on Bin Laden May Have Backfired'
2008-08-20,"b""For a moment let's forget everything else and pay homage to these unsung heroes"""
2008-08-20,b'The First Solar Radio Station in Argentina'
2008-08-19,"b""Man arrested and locked up for five hours after taking photo of police van ignoring 'no entry' sign"""
2008-08-19,b'The US missile defence system is the magic pudding that will never run out'
2008-08-19,b'Schrder lambasted for blaming Russian conflict on Georgia'
2008-08-19,b'Officials: 10 French soldiers killed near Kabul '
2008-08-19,b'These ten laws make China a totalitarian wasteland'
2008-08-19,b'Russia seizes US vehicles'
2008-08-19,"b""Muslims are only 4% of Denmark's 5.4 million people but make up a majority of the country's convicted rapists. Practically all the female victims are non-Muslim."""
2008-08-19,b'Taliban Forces Kill 10 French Soldiers and Raid U.S. Base'
2008-08-19,"b'Assaults, kidnappings and killings of humanitarian aid workers have more than doubled in the past five years'"
2008-08-19,"b""South Ossetia Isn't Kosovo"""
2008-08-19,"b'Finally, an Olympic image to take your mind off Michael Phelps ... [pic]'"
2008-08-19,b'New York laser graffiti artist detained indefinitely in Beijing for Tibet Protest art'
2008-08-19,b'US left isolated over Nato plans to maintain relations with Russia'
2008-08-19,"b""Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road"""
2008-08-19,b' NATO freezes Russian ties over Georgia'
2008-08-19,b'Brazil Will Play Military War Game to Defend Recently Discovered Offshore Oil'
2008-08-19,"b'16,000 fine for British woman caught sharing game online'"
2008-08-19,b'102-year-old grandma is oldest person on Facebook'
2008-08-19,b'Today 5 years ago - August 19th 2003. Bombing of the UN headquarters in Iraq'
2008-08-19,"b'US national Ken Haywood, whose computer was found to send threat emails after serial bomb blasts in India, flees the country.'"
2008-08-19,b' Taliban kill 10 French troops near Afghan capital'
2008-08-19,b'Not Everybody Loves Offshore Wind Power in Spain'
2008-08-19,b'Taliban Forces Kill 10 French Soldiers and Raid U.S. Base '
2008-08-19,b'Pakistan is more democratic than America. '
2008-08-19,b'Blaze engulfs Egyptian parliament'
2008-08-18,"b'In an Afghan prison, the majority of female prisoners are serving 20-year sentences for being victims of rape '"
2008-08-18,"b""Little girl, you're not ugly; they are"""
2008-08-18,"b""Pakistan's Musharraf to Resign, Leave the Country"""
2008-08-18,"b'Tornado throws a bus in Poland, captured by one of the passengers'"
2008-08-18,"b""Britain's terror laws have left me and my family shattered"""
2008-08-18,"b""Iran 'fires satellite into space'"""
2008-08-18,b'Rights of Non-Muslims restricted by new Maldives constitution'
2008-08-18,b'Tour of Tskhinvali undercuts Russian version of fighting'
2008-08-18,"b'The Great Resource War is already underway, mainly in the Middle East, but also in smaller skirmishes scattered areas around the world, disguised to many as the Global War on Terror. '"
2008-08-18,"b'Over 190,000 US contractors working in Iraq'"
2008-08-18,b'Russia moves SS-21 missiles into Georgia: US defense official'
2008-08-18,"b'a President says he is resigning ""to avoid an impeachment battle that would harm the nation\'s interests""'"
2008-08-18,"b'""Democratic"" Georgia shuts down an opposition TV channel owned by Russians'"
2008-08-18,b'New Cold War is an option -- Russian parliamentarian '
2008-08-18,"b'Georgian Situation Continues the Quest for The Prize of Oil, Money and Power'"
2008-08-18,b'MI5 seeks gay spies'
2008-08-18,b' New porn channel lets Canadians strut their stuff'
2008-08-18,b'The Dangerous Neighbor: Vladimir Putin Takes on a Powerless West'
2008-08-18,b'Israel opinion page: Russians are saner.'
2008-08-18,"b""NATO's Hour"""
2008-08-18,b'Georgian President Saakashvili Eats His Tie on Live TV'
2008-08-18,b'No Chicken Left Behind: Animal RFID Surveillance Arrives in Force'
2008-08-18,b'Putin has given us an order that everyone must leave or be shot'
2008-08-18,b'National DNA database grows on the genes of the innocent'
2008-08-18,b'Mayor Asks Ugly Women To Visit His Town'
2008-08-17,"b'In an ever-growing surveillance society, the average Briton is being recorded 3,000 times a week. '"
2008-08-17,"b'Sir Ian Blair, Metropolitan Police commissioner, had his rival bugged'"
2008-08-17,b'Israel approves release of 200 jailed Palestinians (AP)'
2008-08-17,"b'Georgia Crushed, US Humiliated, NATO and Europe Split: It Was a Good Week for McCain'"
2008-08-17,"b'573,639: The disturbing number of Britons with no criminal record but now registered on Labours DNA database'"
2008-08-17,"b'Georgia, Israel, the CIA, the US and Russia. Its all about the oil. '"
2008-08-17,b'Russia may arm Baltic fleet with nuclear warheads'
2008-08-17,"b""Ukraine offers West radar warning--(It's getting kind of 'chilly' around here all of a sudden.)"""
2008-08-17,b'Taliban issues ultimatum to Canada'
2008-08-17,b'Ossetians collect evidence of Georgian genocide'
2008-08-17,"b""Russian forces 'advancing on Tbilisi' """
2008-08-17,b'Iranian Olympian forbidden from NBA  '
2008-08-17,b'The links between various arms of the USA establishment and Mr Sarkozy are much closer than imagined. Now the CIA has a puppet in power in France. '
2008-08-17,b'Solar Air Conditioner Production to Ramp Up in China'
2008-08-17,"b""War between FBI and US drug enforcers left Taliban's leader at large"""
2008-08-17,b'Baby joy for couple whose children were stolen by social workers'
2008-08-17,b'Teachers fear hidden CCTV cameras in schools'
2008-08-17,"b""New Chinese Olympic Fake: 'Cardboard Piano'"""
2008-08-17,b'NATO Gives Membership Green Light to Albania and Croatia'
2008-08-17,b'Turkish Bloggers collectively fight back against censorship'
2008-08-17,b' Iran says it launched satellite into space'
2008-08-17,"b""Russia 'distributing passports in the Crimea'"""
2008-08-17,"b'Georgia NATO membership yes, Merkel meets Saakashvili, russian troops start withdrawal'"
2008-08-17,"b""If It's War We Want, McCain Will Deliver"""
2008-08-17,b'OPEC official says output cuts may be needed'
2008-08-16,"b'Twelve Year Old Girl Shocks Fox News -- Says Georgia was the Aggressor, Not Russia'"
2008-08-16,b'The 12 year old girl who got cut off by Fox News speaks out on the event'
2008-08-16,"b""UK drugs policy 'has no impact on supply'"""
2008-08-16,b'The War on Terror Brings Mass Surveillance -- In Sweden'
2008-08-16,"b""The Big Question: Is the 'war on drugs' really making the problem worse?"""
2008-08-16,"b'British government admits national DNA database holds records of 40,000 INNOCENT children '"
2008-08-16,"b'One group of about two dozen [ethnic Georgians] was escorted through the streets by armed Ossetians and a Russian officer. ""Labor even turns monkeys into humans,"" the Russian officer said.'"
2008-08-16,"b""Danish Cartoonist Charged in Jordan: 'I Don't Allow Fanatics to Intimidate Me'"""
2008-08-16,b'Is Not Western Hypocrisy Astonishing?  Pat Buchanan on Georgian-neocon aggression'
2008-08-16,"b""US must share power in new world order, says Turkey's controversial president"""
2008-08-16,"b""Make sure to ask the right questions to our manipulated media or you'll get cut [VID]"""
2008-08-16,"b""Iranian minister's Oxford degree 'a fake'"""
2008-08-16,b'How the US Military use Hollywood to turn out Blockbuster Propaganda [vid]'
2008-08-16,"b""The Dollar's record comeback last week... Just set another record... whats going on?"""
2008-08-16,"b""Salman Rushdie attacks 'censorship by fear' over The Jewel of Medina"""
2008-08-16,"b'Gori: Russian soldier shoots at Israeli reporter, loots his car'"
2008-08-16,b'Secret Israeli military material went unguarded in Georgia'
2008-08-16,b' Georgia accuses Russia of blowing up a key railway bridge'
2008-08-16,"b""The 21 edicts from the Chinese Government's propaganda unit"""
2008-08-16,"b""The War We Don't Know"""
2008-08-16,"b""Call to replace 'embarrassing' British national anthem before 2012 Olympics"""
2008-08-16,"b""Neo-Nazis march into Germany's property market to buy place in the future"""
2008-08-16,b'Georgians still hoping that U.S. military will arrive'
2008-08-16,"b""The EU's 170,000-strong army of bureaucrats"""
2008-08-16,"b""Italy's illegal immigration soars"""
2008-08-15,"b""Mom of missing gay man: Too bad he's not a 21-year-old cheerleader, then they'd still be looking for him"""
2008-08-15,"b""Russia: U.S. Poland Missile Deal Won't Go 'Unpunished'"""
2008-08-15,"b""The government has been accused of creating laws that have a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the UK in a critical report from the UN's committee on human rights"""
2008-08-15,b'The Italian government has lashed out at an influential Catholic magazine which suggested fascism might be resurfacing within the government.'
2008-08-15,b'Gorbachev: Georgia started conflict in S. Ossetia'
2008-08-15,"b""China fakes more than your girlfriend; 'Ethnic minority' children at Olympics ceremony were fake too!"""
2008-08-15,"b""The UN's criticism of freedom of expression in the UK are valid"""
2008-08-15,b'Russian general threatens nuclear strike on Poland as Bush demands Moscow withdraws from Georgia'
2008-08-15,b'Russia can inspect Polish missile defence site'
2008-08-15,b'Russia-Georgia Conflict Fueled by Rush to Control Caspian Energy Resources'
2008-08-15,"b""Business Week: Victory in Georgia gives Russia the edge in the struggle over access to the Caspian's 35 billion barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of gas"""
2008-08-15,"b""Under Soviet rule we didn't believe a word of our own propaganda... But we have learnt... that the West has its own propaganda and... is more powerful because people believe it."""
2008-08-15,"b'Ministers have been accused of building a national DNA database ""by stealth"" by retaining profiles of nearly 40,000 children never convicted of a crime.'"
2008-08-15,"b""Russia: Georgia can 'forget' regaining provinces"""
2008-08-15,"b""Russians 'Seize US Weapons Depot' in Georgia"""
2008-08-15,"b'Why are redditors generally supportive of Russias invasion of Georgia, but critical of Americas in Iraq?'"
2008-08-15,b'Johann Hari: We need to stop being such cowards about Islam'
2008-08-15,b'US officials have said that their military presence in Georgia will now become permanent'
2008-08-15,b'Israel clears troops who killed Reuters cameraman'
2008-08-15,b'Unenforceable laws encourage cops to escalate their tactics -- until tragedy occurs'
2008-08-15,b'What Chinese pollution really looks like'
2008-08-15,"b'Hacker Kidnaps and Tortures Informant, Posts Picture as a Warning to Others'"
2008-08-15,b'Bush Tells Putin: This Aggression Will Not Stand'
2008-08-15,b'Georgia is all about the oil pipelines'
2008-08-15,b'Rivals say they plan to remove Georgian president'
2008-08-14,b'All the experts admit that we should legalise drugs '
2008-08-14,b'War in South Osetia - 89 pictures made by a Russian soldier.'
2008-08-14,b'Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian throws away medal in Olympic hissy fit '
2008-08-14,"b'Russia exaggerated the death toll in South Ossetia. Now only 44 were originally killed compared to 2,000.'"
2008-08-14,b'Missile That Killed 9 Inside Pakistan May Have Been Launched by the CIA'
2008-08-14,"b""Rushdie Condemns Random House's Refusal to Publish Novel for Fear of Muslim Retaliation"""
2008-08-14,b'Poland and US agree to missle defense deal. Interesting timing!'
2008-08-14,"b'Will the Russians conquer Tblisi? Bet on it, no seriously you can BET on it'"
2008-08-14,"b'Russia exaggerating South Ossetian death toll, says human rights group'"
2008-08-14,b' Musharraf expected to resign rather than face impeachment'
2008-08-14,b'Moscow Made Plans Months Ago to Invade Georgia'
2008-08-14,b'Why Russias response to Georgia was right'
2008-08-14,b'Nigeria has handed over the potentially oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon.'
2008-08-14,b'The US and Poland have agreed a preliminary deal on plans for the controversial US defence shield'
2008-08-14,b'Russia apparently is sabotaging infrastructure to cripple the already battered Georgian military.'
2008-08-14,b'Bank analyst forecast Georgian crisis 2 days early'
2008-08-14,"b""Georgia confict could set back Russia's US relations 'for years' | World news | guardian.co.uk"""
2008-08-14,b'War in the Caucasus is as much the product of an American imperial drive as local conflicts.'
2008-08-14,"b'""Non-media"" photos of South Ossetia/Georgia conflict.'"
2008-08-14,b'Georgian TV reporter shot by Russian sniper during live broadcast [video]'
2008-08-14,b'Saudi Arabia: Mother moves to block child marriage'
2008-08-14,b'Taliban wages war on humanitarian aid workers'
2008-08-14,"b'Russia: World  ""can forget about"" Georgia\'s territorial integrity'"
2008-08-14,b'Darfur rebels accuse Sudan of mounting major attack'
2008-08-14,b'Philippines : Peace Advocate say Muslims need assurance Christians not out to convert them'
2008-08-13,b' U.S. refuses Israel weapons to attack Iran: report'
2008-08-13,"b""When the president ordered to attack Tskhinvali [the capital of South Ossetia], we knew then we were doomed. How come he didn't realize that?"""
2008-08-13,b' Israel clears troops who killed Reuters cameraman'
2008-08-13,"b'Britain\'s policy of being tough on drugs is ""pointless"", says a former civil servant who once ran the Cabinet\'s anti-drugs unit.'"
2008-08-13,"b'Body of 14 year old found in trunk; Latest (ransom paid) kidnapping victim in Mexico. Head cop quits, Prez dissolves suspect elite task force'"
2008-08-13,b'China has moved 10 *million* quake survivors into prefab homes'
2008-08-13,"b""Bush announces Operation Get All Up In Russia's Grill. Yeah, this will end well."""
2008-08-13,b'Russian forces sink Georgian ships '
2008-08-13,"b""The commander of a Navy air reconnaissance squadron that provides the President and the defense secretary the airborne ability to command the nation's nuclear weapons has been relieved of duty"""
2008-08-13,"b""92% of CNN readers: Russia's actions in Georgia - justified!"""
2008-08-13,"b'USA to send fleet into Black Sea to help Georgia, send troops in ""humanitarian aid exercise""'"
2008-08-13,"b""US warns against Israeli plan to strike against Iran's nuclear facilities"""
2008-08-13,"b""In an intriguing cyberalliance, two Estonian computer experts are heading to Georgia to keep the country's networks running amid an intense military confrontation with Russia"""
2008-08-13,b'The CNN Effect: Georgia Schools Russia in Information Warfare'
2008-08-13,b'Why Russias response to Georgia was right'
2008-08-13,b'Elephants extinct by 2020?'
2008-08-13,b'US humanitarian missions soon in Georgia - if Russia hits the US - WWIII?'
2008-08-13,"b""Georgia's DDOS came from US sources"""
2008-08-13,"b'Russian convoy heads into Georgia, violating truce'"
2008-08-13,b'Israeli defence minister: US against strike on Iran'
2008-08-13,b'Gorbachev: We Had No Choice'
2008-08-13,b'Witness: Russian forces head towards Tbilisi in breach of ceasefire agreement'
2008-08-13,b' Quarter of Russians blame U.S. for conflict: poll'
2008-08-13,b'Georgian president  says US military will take control of seaports and airports - Pentagon denies'
2008-08-13,"b'2006: Nobel laureate Aleksander Solzhenitsyn accuses U.S., NATO of encircling Russia'"
2008-08-12,"b'Remember that adorable 9-year-old who sang at the opening ceremonies? That was fake, too.'"
2008-08-12,"b""Russia 'ends Georgia operation'"""
2008-08-12,"b'""If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children...""'"
2008-08-12,"b""Al-Qa'eda is losing support in Iraq because of a brutal crackdown on activities it regards as un-Islamic - including women buying cucumbers"""
2008-08-12,b'Ceasefire in Georgia: Putin Outmaneuvers the West'
2008-08-12,b'Why Microsoft and Intel tried to kill the XO $100 laptop'
2008-08-12,b'Stratfor: The Russo-Georgian War and the Balance of Power   '
2008-08-12,"b""I'm Trying to Get a Sense of This Whole Georgia-Russia War: Vote Up If You Think Georgia Started It, Or Down If you Think Russia Did"""
2008-08-12,"b""The US military was surprised by the timing and swiftness of the Russian military's move into South Ossetia and is still trying to sort out what happened, a US defense official said Monday"""
2008-08-12,b'U.S. Beats War Drum as Iran Dumps the Dollar'
2008-08-12,"b'Gorbachev: ""Georgian military attacked the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali with multiple rocket launchers designed to devastate large areas""'"
2008-08-12,b'CNN use footage of Tskhinvali ruins to cover Georgian report [VIDEO]'
2008-08-12,b'Beginning a war as the Olympics were opening violates the ancient tradition of a truce to conflict during the Games.  The IOC could respond by taking the 2014 games away from Russia.'
2008-08-12,b'55 pyramids as large as the Luxor stacked into a mega-city pyramid in Tokyo Bay'
2008-08-12,b'The 11 Top Party Cities in the World'
2008-08-12,b'U.S. troops still in Georgia (did you know they were in Georgia in the first place?)'
2008-08-12,b'Why Russias response to Georgia was right'
2008-08-12,"b'Gorbachev accuses U.S. of making a ""serious blunder"" in pursuing its interest in the Caucasus region'"
2008-08-12,"b'Russia, Georgia, and NATO: Cold War Two'"
2008-08-12,"b'Remember that adorable 62-year-old who led your country into war based on evidence? That was fake, too.'"
2008-08-12,b'War in Georgia: The Israeli connection'
2008-08-12,b'All signs point to the US encouraging Georgia to invade South Ossetia. Goddamnit Bush.'
2008-08-12,b'Christopher King argues that the US and NATO are behind the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia but have misjudged Russian resolve. '
2008-08-12,b'America: The New Mexico?'
2008-08-12,"b""BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Extinction 'by man not climate'"""
2008-08-11,"b'Why wont America and Nato help us? If they wont help us now, why did we help them in Iraq?'"
2008-08-11,b'Bush puts foot down on Georgian conflict'
2008-08-11,"b""Jewish Georgian minister: Thanks to Israeli training, we're fending off Russia """
2008-08-11,b'Georgian army flees in disarray as Russians advance - Gori abandoned to Russia without a shot fired'
2008-08-11,"b""Olympic opening ceremony fireworks 'faked'"""
2008-08-11,b'What were the Mossad with fraudulent New Zealand Passports doing in Iraq?'
2008-08-11,b'Russia angered by Israeli military sale to Georgia'
2008-08-11,b'An American citizen living in S.Ossetia blames U.S. and Georgian leaders for the genocide of innocent people'
2008-08-11,b'Welcome To World War IV! Now In High Definition!'
2008-08-11,"b""Georgia's move, a mistake of monumental proportions """
2008-08-11,b'Russia presses deeper into Georgia; U.S. says regime change is goal'
2008-08-11,b'Abhinav Bindra wins first ever Individual Olympic Gold Medal for India'
2008-08-11,b' U.S. ship heads for Arctic to define territory'
2008-08-11,b'Drivers in a Jerusalem taxi station threaten to quit rather than work for their new boss - an Arab'
2008-08-11,b'The French Team is Stunned by Phelps and the 4x100m Relay Team'
2008-08-11,b'Israel and the US behind the Georgian aggression?'
2008-08-11,"b'""Do not believe TV, neither Russian nor Georgian. There are much more victims""'"
2008-08-11,b'Riots are still going on in Montreal (Canada) because police murdered a boy on Saturday.'
2008-08-11,b'China to overtake US as largest manufacturer'
2008-08-11,b'War in South Ossetia [PICS]'
2008-08-11,b'Israeli Physicians Group Condemns State Torture'
2008-08-11,b' Russia has just beaten the United States over the head with Peak Oil'
2008-08-11,b'Perhaps *the* question about the Georgia - Russia conflict '
2008-08-11,b'Russia is so much better at war'
2008-08-11,"b""So this is what it's come to: trading sex for food."""
2008-08-10,b'Spanish shopkeeper finds Homer Simpson euro '
2008-08-10,b'Explosions rock western China'
2008-08-10,"b'Women in Egypt beginning to feel conflicted regarding Female Circumcision. ""I hear that girls suffer"" but ""I don\'t want my daughters to have uncontrollable demands for sex""'"
2008-08-10,"b'Staged propoganda photos of the Russia/Georgia conflict, courtesy of Reuters'"
2008-08-10,"b""Denmark's Energy Independence -- This is How It's Done!"""
2008-08-10,b'Japan gets serious about immigration'
2008-08-10,"b'As many as 2,000 people may have been killed and 30,000 made homeless as the chaotic conflict between Georgian and Russian forces in the pro-Moscow enclave of South Ossetia'"
2008-08-10,b'Breastfeeding mums fill Vancouver H&M store. Protesters say breastfeeding deserves more respect as a human right.'
2008-08-10,"b'South Ossetia conflict - ""probably the confrontation between..., Moscow and the entire West..."" - highly enlightening article on conflict'"
2008-08-10,b'(PICS) Unrest in Georgia'
2008-08-10,"b'While reddit was distracted by the Olympics, the Georgian Russian war, Bernie Mac, and the resurgance of the US dollar, the world DID NOT end thanks to the Large Haddron Collider'"
2008-08-10,"b'Iranian Olympic swimmer refuses to race against Israeli swimmer.  ""There\'s no place for this kind of behavior in the Olympic movement and it\'s a shame it continues."" '"
2008-08-10,b'Massive fire at Toronto propane depot forces thousands to flee.'
2008-08-10,"b'Russian Troops are Advancing towards Gori, invading Georgia proper.'"
2008-08-10,"b""If Georgia falls, Europe's hopes of energy independence from Russia fall too."""
2008-08-10,"b'Though he is Muslim, Ahmed said he saw no difficulty working in a kosher meatpacking plant where most of his bosses are rabbis.'"
2008-08-10,"b""Russia 'prepares to invade Georgia'"""
2008-08-10,"b'Iraq demands ""very clear"" U.S. troop timeline'"
2008-08-10,b'Tring to make some sense of the Georgia Russian war'
2008-08-10,b' Iraq demands very clear U.S. troop timeline'
2008-08-10,b'Watch live TV covering the Russia/Georgia war.'
2008-08-10,"b""The truth about South Ossetia War, Georgia attack, and Russia's response"""
2008-08-10,b'Two journalists die in S. Ossetia.'
2008-08-10,"b'Russia, Georgia, and the Western Alliance'"
2008-08-10,"b'US has invested huge sums and organized to put its own despot, Mikhail Saakashvili, in the presidency in order to close a nuclear NATO iron ring around Russia'"
2008-08-09,b'American Killed By Chinese Man at The Olympics'
2008-08-09,b'Russia v. Georgia: The Oil & Gas Implications - Georgia just so happens to be channeling 1m barrels/day of Caspian oil for the West through its territory'
2008-08-09,b' Did Invisible Hands Turn Beijings Staging Upside Down?'
2008-08-09,"b'Russian FM: NATO encouraged Georgia - ""it is necessary to pay attention to massive arms purchasing by Georgia ... special troops who had been trained by foreign specialists are used '"
2008-08-09,"b'""Everyone is hiding in basements. No one is taking care of the bodies. There are snipers everywhere.""'"
2008-08-09,b'38 dead after being bitten by vampire bats'
2008-08-09,"b""Georgia's oil pipeline is key to U.S. support"""
2008-08-09,"b""Mark Almond: It's simplistic to cast Russia as sole villain in South Ossetia clashes"""
2008-08-09,b'Georgia declares state of war with Russia. '
2008-08-09,b'Activist tries to show Tibetan flag at Olympic venue'
2008-08-09,"b'August 1, 2008: International Large-Scale Military Exercise Immediate Response 2008 - ""American soldiers are very proud to serve alongside Georgian soldiers.""'"
2008-08-09,"b""German minister says Georgia breaking international law'"""
2008-08-09,b'Georgia to remove all troops in Iraq to fight in breakaway South Ossetia'
2008-08-09,"b""German woman spends decade in Palma's airport """
2008-08-09,b'BBC: Iraqi Militias to Disarm If US Sets Withdraw Timetable'
2008-08-09,b'Israeli and Palestinian Trade Unions Reach Historic Agreement'
2008-08-09,"b' Georgia parliament approves a ""state of war""'"
2008-08-09,"b'1,500 dead as Russian troops raid Georgian town'"
2008-08-09,b'Bagpipes in Beijing: The amazed amateur Scottish band asked to play at Olympics ceremony'
2008-08-09,b'Olympic Message to Some in Beijing Is Please Leave'
2008-08-09,b'Freak Czech Train Crash Kills Seven After Hitting Collapsed Bridge'
2008-08-09,b'Protests occur worldwide as Beijing Olympics begin [pics]'
2008-08-09,b'Georgia & Russia -- Lessons of the Ossetian War: Dont Bait the Bear and Stop Making a Fetish Out of Borders'
2008-08-09,b'Russia behind Georgia cyberwar?'
2008-08-09,"b'""The US military has had a longstanding program to train Georgian troops for deployments in Iraq, where there are currently about 2,000 troops ...""'"
2008-08-08,"b""Georgia 'downs two Russian warplanes' as countries move to brink of war"""
2008-08-08,b'BREAKING: Musharraf to be impeached.'
2008-08-08,b'Russia Today: Columns of troops roll into South Ossetia; footage from fighting (YouTube)'
2008-08-08,"b'Russian tanks are moving towards the capital of South Ossetia, which has reportedly been completely destroyed by Georgian artillery fire'"
2008-08-08,"b""Afghan children raped with 'impunity,' U.N. official says - this is sick, a three year old was raped and they do nothing"""
2008-08-08,b'150 Russian tanks have entered South Ossetia whilst Georgia shoots down two Russian jets.'
2008-08-08,"b""Breaking: Georgia invades South Ossetia, Russia warned it would intervene on SO's side"""
2008-08-08,"b""The 'enemy combatent' trials are nothing but a sham: Salim Haman has been sentenced to 5 1/2 years, but will be kept longer anyway just because they feel like it."""
2008-08-08,"b'Georgian troops retreat from S. Osettain capital, presumably leaving several hundred people killed. [VIDEO]'"
2008-08-08,b'Did the U.S. Prep Georgia for War with Russia?'
2008-08-08,b'Rice Gives Green Light for Israel to Attack Iran: Says U.S. has no veto over Israeli military ops'
2008-08-08,b'Announcing:Class Action Lawsuit on Behalf of American Public Against the FBI'
2008-08-08,"b""So---Russia and Georgia are at war and the NYT's top story is opening ceremonies of the Olympics?  What a fucking disgrace and yet further proof of the decline of journalism."""
2008-08-08,"b""China tells Bush to stay out of other countries' affairs"""
2008-08-08,b'Did World War III start today?'
2008-08-08,"b'Georgia Invades South Ossetia - if Russia gets involved, will NATO absorb Georgia and unleash a full scale war?'"
2008-08-08,b'Al-Qaeda Faces Islamist Backlash'
2008-08-08,"b'Condoleezza Rice: ""The US would not act to prevent an Israeli strike on Iran."" Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak: ""Israel is prepared for uncompromising victory in the case of military hostilities.""'"
2008-08-08,b'This is a busy day:  The European Union has approved new sanctions against Iran in protest at its nuclear programme.'
2008-08-08,"b""Georgia will withdraw 1,000 soldiers from Iraq to help fight off Russian forces in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia"""
2008-08-08,b'Why the Pentagon Thinks Attacking Iran is a Bad Idea - US News & World Report'
2008-08-08,b'Caucasus in crisis: Georgia invades South Ossetia'
2008-08-08,"b'Indian shoe manufactory  - And again in a series of ""you do not like your work?""'"
2008-08-08,b'Visitors Suffering from Mental Illnesses Banned from Olympics'
2008-08-08,"b""No Help for Mexico's Kidnapping Surge"""
2008-08-07,b'Ridiculous: U.S. Olympic Cyclists had to apologize for wearing smog masks'
2008-08-07,"b'Secret EU security draft calls for Europe-wide police access to personal info, video- and unmanned aerial surveillance drones, giving all data to US government'"
2008-08-07,"b""A quick-thinking air traffic controller's texting saved an aircraft with five people on board which had lost all it's communications and electrical power"""
2008-08-07,b'Over 200 Israelis assaulted Palestinian and International worshippers who were holding a Christian prayer service at the site where a Palestinian Childrens Hospital will be built.'
2008-08-07,b'Russia and Georgia on Brink of War'
2008-08-07,"b""Overweight children in Britain should not be labelled 'obese' because it's offensive, UK says."""
2008-08-07,"b'Skull of a European woman, who died 260 years ago, found in New Zealand, raising serious concerns about the fact that Captain James Cook was NOT the first European to step on the shores of the island.'"
2008-08-07,"b""Your Tax Dollars At Play: Drug Bust Snags 56 Gov't Employees, Including Police"""
2008-08-07,b'And it starts: Britons held in Beijing for protests over Tibet'
2008-08-07,b'Intense fighting in Georgia as South Ossetian cease fire collapses'
2008-08-07,b'Who killed the spirit of the Olympics? [Pic]'
2008-08-07,b'OxyContin bust nets 56 Miami-Dade government employees'
2008-08-07,"b'Israeli human rights groups slam IDF over minor charge of ""inappropriate behavior"" for shooting of bound Palestinian'"
2008-08-07,b'Italian government imposes national state of emergency: Maronis real plan is to incarcerate the largest possible number of refugees in the shortest period of time'
2008-08-07,"b'Australian State legalises ""Industrial Hemp""'"
2008-08-07,"b""Researchers at Durham University have drawn up the first ever 'Arctic Map' to show the disputed territories that states might lay claim to in the future."""
2008-08-07,b'Censorship here is pervasive. It blankets all modes of public communication. Newspapers receive daily bulletins on what is not to be covered; TV is the mouth of the state.'
2008-08-07,b'Story of Dr Rene Haller: Swiss Who Turned an African Wasteland into a Green Paradise'
2008-08-07,b'Olympic relay reaches Great Wall'
2008-08-07,b' Pakistan rulers agree to begin Musharraf impeachment'
2008-08-07,"b'Pininfarina, Italian Car Designer, Dies in Turin Accident Today  '"
2008-08-07,b'Venezuelas Chavez Pushes for New World Financial System in Argentina'
2008-08-07,b'Stalinism Was Just as Bad as Nazism'
2008-08-07,b'Anti-War Website Operator Threatened By Armed Thugs'
2008-08-07,"b""Police fear Maddie 'stolen to order'"""
2008-08-06,"b""Masked US cyclists apologize to Olympic organizers. Health be damned! We wouldn't want to offend the delicate sensibilities of the caring and compassionate Chinese government."""
2008-08-06,b'Brazil On The Brink Of Civil War as rice farmers try to steal Indian reservation. Sad. Happening again. Kill the Indians. Steal their land. Give it to farmers who cut down all the trees. '
2008-08-06,"b'Texas Defies World Court, Executes Mexican Rapist'"
2008-08-06,"b'Penguins Dying in Record Numbers, Washing Up Closer to Equator'"
2008-08-06,"b""Protesters Detained for 'Free Tibet' Banner at Olympic Site (with pic)"""
2008-08-06,"b'Bush says North Korea still ""axis of evil"" member'"
2008-08-06,b'Bombshell report accuses French government of planning and helping to initiate the Tutsi genocide'
2008-08-06,b'UFO sightings - Its time for an official inquiry - Bedford Today'
2008-08-06,"b'Malaysia, Indonesia Will Pump Out 40% More Palm Oil Biodiesel'"
2008-08-06,"b'The Lies of Hiroshima Live On, Props in the War Crimes of the 20th Century'"
2008-08-06,b'Beijing Olympics Stadium Being Monitored for Structural Health'
2008-08-06,b'Italian government imposes national state of emergency'
2008-08-06,"b""The high-profile arrest of Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman suspected of Al Qaeda links, brings attention to the 'disappeared' issue in Pakistan - Los Angeles Times"""
2008-08-06,b'Every Taxi in Beijing Bugged With GPS-Tagging Microphone For Instant Surveillance'
2008-08-06,b'Iran to scrap death by stoning '
2008-08-06,"b""Mauritanian army overthrows democratically elected government in coup d'etat"""
2008-08-06,b'A relative of Hitler is now Jewish and living in Israel. So is the son of a Waffen-SS man. Tanya Gold talks to the descendants of Nazis who have embraced Judaism'
2008-08-06,b'They hunt cats in Switzerland'
2008-08-06,b'Rappeller hurt in plunge at pre-Olympics protest in S.F.  Demonstrators claim rope was cut.'
2008-08-06,"b""Rep. Mark Kirk condemns persecution of Baha'is in Iran on House floor (H.Res. 1008)"""
2008-08-06,"b""Coffee  Does Fair Trade Really Mean You're Trading Fairly?"""
2008-08-06,"b'Honoring Staff Sgt. Matthew Bumpus, U.S. Army who recently died from Iraq Radiation Exposure'"
2008-08-06,b'Sudanese refugee chosen as USA flagbearer at 2008 Olympics'
2008-08-06,b'Broad backing for Denmark in EU immigration tiff'
2008-08-06,b'Egyptian border patrol in open hunt for African refugees'
2008-08-05,b'Shunned Starbucks in Aussie exit'
2008-08-05,"b'We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do it....Yet another subtle step towards dictatorship.'"
2008-08-05,b'One in four Italian couples indulge in wife swapping'
2008-08-05,"b""Journalists 'beaten for reporting China police attack'"""
2008-08-05,b'Argentine president calls for decriminalization of personal drug use'
2008-08-05,b'France accused in Rwanda genocide '
2008-08-05,b'Iran threatens to close Persian Gulf to oil tankers '
2008-08-05,b'Japanese municipal workers killed by a tide of shit'
2008-08-05,b'Iraqi government expected to have $79 billion surplus.'
2008-08-05,"b""Alaska's Waters Quietly Reopen To Drilling"""
2008-08-05,b'Malnutrition getting worse in India'
2008-08-05,"b'France played an active role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, a report unveiled Tuesday by the Rwandan government said, naming French political and military officials it says should be prosecuted.'"
2008-08-05,"b""Karadzic 'was under US protection until 2000' """
2008-08-05,"b""Silvio Berlusconi covers up 'distracting' breasts in painting """
2008-08-05,"b' Iran hands over letter to big powers.  European diplomat said the contents of the letter were ""laughable""'"
2008-08-05,b'Should We Send More Troops to Afghanistan? 8 Things To Consider'
2008-08-05,b'Law Professor: Counter Terrorism Czar Told Me There Is Going To Be An i-9/11 And An i-Patriot Act'
2008-08-05,"b'In Zimbabwe, Low Cost Technology Saves Poor Farmers'"
2008-08-05,b'France took part in genocide: Rwandan report - Breaking News'
2008-08-05,b'Journalist hanged in eastern Iran'
2008-08-05,"b'Sex for food: Rising food prices around the world are likely to drive poor women to trade sex for basic goods like fish and cooking oil, raising the risk of new AIDS infections.'"
2008-08-05,"b""Germany hails 'bullet-proof bra' """
2008-08-05,b'Iran to Respond to Offer of Incentives for Suspending Program'
2008-08-05,b'Knights Templar to Vatican: Give us back our 100bn'
2008-08-05,b'Iraqis Want an End to the Occupation'
2008-08-04,b'Italian mayor bans gatherings of three or more people as soldiers hit streets '
2008-08-04,b'Man Decapitates Girlfriend And Walks Around Streets With Head'
2008-08-04,b'Ukrainian girls protest against a spree of sex tourism in Ukraine. Eager to draw public attention they choose sexy clothes and performed scenes depicting prostitutes abused by lecherous Casanovas '
2008-08-04,"b'US$ 50 mil scam: www.beijing-tickets2008.com and www .beijingticketing.com, websites linked to a fraud'"
2008-08-04,"b""War Criminal Karadzic 'lived under protectionof CIA agents until he broke deal'"""
2008-08-04,"b'Iran claims testing of new weapon, warns of closing the Strait of Hormuz '"
2008-08-04,"b""Israel's secret police are pressuring Palestinians in Gaza to spy on their community in exchange for urgent medical treatment"""
2008-08-04,"b'Bomb Hidden in Trash Pile Kills 20 Somalis, at least 47 wounded'"
2008-08-04,b'Nobel prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn dies aged 89'
2008-08-04,b'Sick Palestinians told that they need to become informers for Israel if they want access to medical treatment.'
2008-08-04,b'Iran threatens to shut Gulf shipping lanes'
2008-08-04,b'Nazi bunkers hidden for 50 years revealed by storm'
2008-08-04,"b'Iran\'s president says he is open to nuclear talks - one day after he said he would not retreat ""one iota"" on the issue.'"
2008-08-04,"b""Mexico's Drug Cartels Take Barbarous Turn: Targeting Bystanders"""
2008-08-04,b'Knights Templar to Vatican: Give us back our assets'
2008-08-04,"b""Israeli deputy Prime Minister: Iran Wants to 'Holocaust' us AGAIN !!"""
2008-08-04,"b'CIA veteran rips Agency, tests limits of right to publish without permission'"
2008-08-04,b'Attack in China Kills 16 Border Patrol Officers'
2008-08-04,b'Phone records reveal network of unholy alliances'
2008-08-04,b'Looks like decapitation is all the rage these days... [WTF]'
2008-08-04,"b'""They are Arabs, they must die"" - Israeli'"
2008-08-04,b'Housing Defaults Trend [PIC]'
2008-08-04,b'Saudi Shariah court judge arrested in Dubai for possessing hashish'
2008-08-04,"b""Smog obscures Beijing's Olympic 2008 stadium"""
2008-08-04,b'Clan warfare in Gaza'
2008-08-03,"b""Five days to go and Beijing skies FINALLY clear as China rehearses the world's most spectacular fireworks display"""
2008-08-03,b'Calls in Yemen to end child marriage. Welcome to 21st century'
2008-08-03,"b""An unknown gunman has assassinated the Syrian president's security advisor"""
2008-08-03,"b'Saudi vice squad member accused of having six wives, two more than the maximum allowed'"
2008-08-03,b'Leaky toilet exposes corrupt China official'
2008-08-03,b'Iraq arms sales request worth over nine billion dollars: Pentagon'
2008-08-03,"b""Syrian President Bashar Assad's top aide and adviser, General Mohammed Suleiman, was assassinated on Friday by a sniper. """
2008-08-03,b'Hundreds Of Thousands Are Fleeing London'
2008-08-03,"b'""when people are chewing qat, they don\'t ask awkward questions about where Yemen\'s oil revenues are going."" '"
2008-08-03,"b'Pakistan admits its spy agency is helping the Taliban and there were ""probably"" Taliban sympathisers within the ranks of its powerful intelligence establishment.'"
2008-08-03,b'Finland considers legalizing male circumcision'
2008-08-03,b'Terrorists responsible for the bombing in Istanbul arrested'
2008-08-03,b'A member of the Saudi religious police has been accused of having six wives at the same time - two more than allowed under religious laws'
2008-08-03,b'United in the name of tolerance'
2008-08-03,b'Harvesting body parts in Tanzania: Sexual organs of male and female albinos are particularly sought '
2008-08-03,b'The Electronic Frontier Foundations releases Switzerland a tool to detect violations of Net Neutrality'
2008-08-03,"b'Nine killed, 90 wounded in Hamas-Fatah clashes in Gaza'"
2008-08-03,b' Texas set to defy World Court with execution'
2008-08-03,"b'Dear World, Please Confront America'"
2008-08-03,"b'Maverick oil analyst Ed Morse predicts oil prices will keep tumbling, and would not be surprised if prices dip below $100 in Nov'"
2008-08-03,b'Hamas and Fatah Clash Escaletes Palestinian Conflict in Gaza Strip: 9 dead and dozens of Fatah man that escaped to Israel were returned and arrested by Hamas'
2008-08-03,b'68 dead in temple stampede in north India'
2008-08-03,b'Iran Rejects Deadline Over Nuclear Proposal'
2008-08-03,"b""Bush's War On Terror Doesn't Include... Certain Terrorists"""
2008-08-03,"b""France's Wine Terrorists"""
2008-08-02,b'Covert CIA Detention Center on British Soil Revealed'
2008-08-02,"b""U.S. Protects War Criminals: Karadzic was protected by the United States until a CIA phone bug caught him breaking the terms of his 'deal.'"""
2008-08-02,"b'""Muslims can\'t say it, but it\'s clear they don\'t accept us. Here no one can speak the truth on this issue, so everybody\'s feelings are kept inside.""'"
2008-08-02,"b'Is it just me, or do the olympics just not matter to anyone anymore?'"
2008-08-02,"b'French gays are worried about a newly created French intelligence database (EDVIGE) that will contain personal details on law-abiding citizens, including sexual orientation and HIV status.'"
2008-08-02,"b""The Struggle Against Jerusalem's Quiet Ethnic Cleansing"""
2008-08-02,"b'Deported Palestinian refugee shot dead in Gaza.  He claimed asylum with a bullet wound, and warned he would be killed if he returned.'"
2008-08-02,"b""The Israelis 'congratulate' a Palestinian journalist on his winning of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism."""
2008-08-02,"b""Why 'cotton wool' children face risk of mental problems"""
2008-08-02,"b' More than 10,000 detainees released in Iraq'"
2008-08-02,"b""Candidate who wants Olmert's job once 'sought deaths of 70 Palestinians a day'"""
2008-08-02,"b'Al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda no. 2, possibly dead'"
2008-08-02,b'Why Pakistan is unlikely to crack down on Islamic militants'
2008-08-02,b'Israel and Middle East approaches a stark existential choice: a nuclear holocaust or a nuclear-free Middle East'
2008-08-02,"b""Mugabe's Storm Troopers Walk The Streets In Fear"""
2008-08-02,"b""'Rat people' forced to beg on Pakistan's streets [pics]"""
2008-08-02,b'Karzai says terrorism gaining deep roots in Pakistan'
2008-08-02,"b""Thailand's Ousted Prime Minister's Wife, Sentenced to 3 Years' Jail By Its Supreme Court."""
2008-08-02,b'ISRAEL will almost surely attack Irans nuclear sites in the next four to seven months'
2008-08-02,b'U.S. submarine radiation leak raises concern in Japan'
2008-08-02,"b'New 3.2Gbps FireWire spec approved, not as fast as USB 3.0'"
2008-08-02,b'Hawaii man accused of helping China design missile '
2008-08-02,b'CBS: al-Zawahiri might be dying'
2008-08-02,b'Anti-semitism'
2008-08-02,"b'Israel: Power struggle leads to Netanyahu, hard man in a tough neighbourhood'"
2008-08-01,b'CIA recorded Pakistani intelligence officers helping to plan the bombing of the Indian embassy in Kabul (54 dead).'
2008-08-01,"b""Today's Honour Killing:  Man kills slutty sister in Jordan, may face 6 months in Jail.  Examination reveals she was  a virgin."""
2008-08-01,b'India Vindicated by CIA Pakistan Charge'
2008-08-01,"b'WTF Russia?!  ""\'If we had no sexual harassment we would have no children,\' the judge ruled.""'"
2008-08-01,b'Persian (Farsi) is waaaay easier than languages like Arabic. Consider learning it instead if interested in working in Middle East intelligence gathering / foreign affairs'
2008-08-01,b'Israeli Military Shoots 10 Year Old in the Head (includes graphic image)'
2008-08-01,b'There are 1.7 million rapes a year in South Africa. 75% are gang rapes.'
2008-08-01,b'China drops heavy Internet censorship  at least for now'
2008-08-01,"b""Man Who Assisted in Burning Girlfriend's Ex-Lover Wins Appeal"""
2008-08-01,b'A dozen academic instutions from around the world are now working frantically to save and evaluate the crumbling documents in Timbuktu'
2008-08-01,b'A Guide to the Shadowy Organizations That Rule the World'
2008-08-01,b'Afghanistan: Not a Good War'
2008-08-01,b'Chinese woman jailed 18 months in US espionage case'
2008-08-01,"b""CIA fucks India with Pakistan's dick and blames Taliban"""
2008-08-01,"b""British girl's Brazilian lover murdered her, went to a party afterwards, then took pictures as he decapitated her and chopped up her body"""
2008-08-01,"b'Friends identify man stabbed, beheaded on Greyhound bus'"
2008-08-01,"b'9,000 Couples to Marry on Lucky 8/8/08'"
2008-08-01,b' Mofaz says Iran heading toward nuclear breakthrough'
2008-08-01,b'Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee Bans Professional Camera Equipment For Non-Press Visitors'
2008-08-01,b'Explosion at Turkish School Dormitory Kills 17 Girls'
2008-08-01,"b'Since Sunday, more than 40 illegal immigrants from countries like Morocco, Algeria, Rwanda and the Congo have been climbing cranes around the city'"
2008-08-01,"b""World's heaviest man goes on diet"""
2008-08-01,"b'Pakistanis Aided Attack in Kabul, U.S. Officials Say'"
2008-08-01,b'Reports on the finer points of a rectal examination.. make other sex scandals that once shocked people here - such as Monica Lewinsky and her blue dress - seem almost Victorian.'
2008-08-01,b'Pakistan denies spies behind Indian embassy attack '
2008-07-31,"b""The International Olympic Committee agreed to website censorship. Critics decry Olympic committee's 'spineless' move of caving into the Olympic Games' authoritarian hosts."""
2008-07-31,"b""How Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar muscled Tony Blair into silence."""
2008-07-31,"b'Son of Hamas leader converts to Christianity, denounces Islam'"
2008-07-31,b' Reuters seeks evidence on why cameraman held in Iraq'
2008-07-31,b'Pentagon Attempted To Cover-Up KBRs Negligence In Electrocution Of U.S. Soldier'
2008-07-31,"b'Mexico, like Switzerland, is fast becoming one of the recommended destinations for so-called death tourists'"
2008-07-31,b'Body of ballooning priest found at sea'
2008-07-31,b'Bush Administration Demands Japan Shoulder War Costs'
2008-07-31,b'China accuses US of trying to sabotage Olympics'
2008-07-31,b'UK: CCTV Cameras installed in cinemas.. watching you watching'
2008-07-31,b'Korean TV Leaks the Olympics opening ceremony to YouTube (VIDEO)'
2008-07-31,"b""Radovan Karadzic tells UN court 'US tried to kill me' """
2008-07-31,b'Beer Tourism'
2008-07-31,b'One year of labor for posting photos. No charge. No trial. No appeals.'
2008-07-31,"b'Unidentified disease with Ebola like symptoms kills 3, Chinese officials say ""there was some influenza""'"
2008-07-31,"b""British girl's remains found in suitcase in Brazil"""
2008-07-31,"b""Israel's Olmert to Step Aside Amid Corruption Probes"""
2008-07-31,b'Man Decapitated on Greyhound bus'
2008-07-31,"b""China lashes out at U.S. for 'politicizing Beijing Olympics'"""
2008-07-31,b'World leaders trade blame as WTO talks fail'
2008-07-31,"b'Love, blackmail and rape  how al-Qaeda grooms women as perfect weapons'"
2008-07-31,b'An online hoax becomes a source about Karadzic'
2008-07-31,"b'Robert Jensen: ""Universal Patterns within Cultural Diversity - Patriarchy Makes Men Crazy and Stupid""'"
2008-07-31,b'China to Limit Web Access During Olympic Games'
2008-07-31,b'5 Most Famous Cases of Gender Issues at the Olympics'
2008-07-30,b'Palestinians capture violence of Israeli occupation on video '
2008-07-30,"b'One million innocent Britons ""criminalized,"" '"
2008-07-30,b'UK : To beat extremism we must dissolve religious groups'
2008-07-30,"b'Palestinian boy, 10, dies as Israeli troops fire on demonstrators - victim was shot through the forehead'"
2008-07-30,"b""Baikal:  The gun of choice for Britain's gangland """
2008-07-30,b'Israeli troops kill young child in West Bank barrier demonstration'
2008-07-30,"b""Innocents' DNA 'should be erased'"""
2008-07-30,"b""Saudi Arabia: Academic gets 600 lashes for 'phone relationship' with female pupil"""
2008-07-30,b'Iran: Her heroin addict husband beat her and forced her into prostitution. The man who murdered her husband served 8 years in prison and is now free. But she is about to be stoned to death. '
2008-07-30,b'Microsoft Prepares for End of Windows With Midori '
2008-07-30,"b'UK: 3,000 Blank Passports and Visas Stolen from Security Van'"
2008-07-30,b'Knoxville Tragedy Redeemed By Heroism'
2008-07-30,"b'Israel as a Strategic Threat to Russia and the U.S. Israel is thought to have more nukes than Britain, China, India and Pakistan, and probably more than France. '"
2008-07-30,b'Starting August 9th George Orwells diaries will be posted online daily in blog form. What will we see in the Orwell diaries?'
2008-07-30,b'Karadzic Turned Over to UN War Crimes Tribunal'
2008-07-30,"b'Mohawk community looks for answers weekend of violence in Quebec, Canada'"
2008-07-30,b'The Internet Is Shit.'
2008-07-30,b'Emirates Airlines received the first Airbus A380  '
2008-07-30,b'Zimbabwe to introduce new currency in order to combat hyperinflation'
2008-07-30,b'Protestors put on mouth gags in a demonstration against censorship during Olympic Games [pic]'
2008-07-30,b'IDF kills young Palestinian boy. Potentially NSFW.'
2008-07-30,b'Poles (heh) upset about bordering German nude beach'
2008-07-30,b'Malaysia : Call to teach journalism students proper reporting of Islam'
2008-07-30,b'China Using Olympics As Pretext For Crackdown: Amnesty'
2008-07-30,b'Iran: Sixteen Christian converts arrested'
2008-07-29,b'Acid attacks are on the rise in India. Acid attacks are a form of gender violence; they are intended to silence women who stand up for themselves.'
2008-07-29,b'Farmers in third-world countries are being hauled into court - for breeding their own seeds.'
2008-07-29,b'Crocodile Cage of Death '
2008-07-29,"b'Monday: 87 Iraqis Killed, 288 Wounded '"
2008-07-29,"b""The world's biggest arms exporters - JUST five countries supplied 80% of global arms exports between 2003 and 2007,"""
2008-07-29,"b'Asian Bug Killing Ash Trees are now in Ottawa, Canada'"
2008-07-29,b' Iran tells developing states to fight world-power bias'
2008-07-29,b'UK: A Report Commissioned By Gordon Brown  Says Military Cadet Forces Should Be Set Up In Schools To Restore Discipline And Control Unruly Pupils '
2008-07-29,b'10 Ways to prevent Cyber Bullying'
2008-07-29,b'Iraqi athletes will head to Beijing after all'
2008-07-29,b'The War Between the United States and Iran is on by Scott Ritter'
2008-07-29,"b""Ex-Mossad chief says strike on Iran could 'affect us for 100 years'"""
2008-07-29,"b""Hijackers made off with boxes of blank British passports worth a fortune on the black market in a raid on a delivery van, police said, in the latest blow to the government's record on security."""
2008-07-29,b'How the illegal cigarette trade fed the Yugoslav wars'
2008-07-29,b'China continues to persecute those who speak out for human rights'
2008-07-29,b'Peace Movement Thwarts Iran Blockade'
2008-07-29,b'New report shows Palestinians being tortured in jail.'
2008-07-29,b'WTO talks collapse amid farm stand-off '
2008-07-29,b'Grim News From IMF: No End In Sights On Credit Crisis.'
2008-07-29,b'Report: China human rights have not improved'
2008-07-29,"b'Thus I was astonished to read, in a Reuters report on the bombing, reproduced yesterday in the Washington Post without comment or challenge, that The PKK usually does not target civilians.'"
2008-07-29,"b'Peruvian model faces a criminal investigation after posing nude on a horse, using Perus national flag as a saddle'"
2008-07-29,b'Malaysia : Four transvestites arrested in raid on beauty pageant appeal one-week jail sentence'
2008-07-29,b'Pakistan : Death threat for editor Najam Sethi over Islamic cartoon'
2008-07-29,"b'Abu Khabab al-Masri, Al Qaeda ""Master of Terror,"" Killed... Maybe'"
2008-07-28,b'New Swedish telecommunications law is turning the famously liberal country into a big brother state. Most Swedes hate it.'
2008-07-28,b'Life outside of civilization...'
2008-07-28,"b'Villagers in western India burned a Dow Chemical building site. Dow is synonymous with deaths of 3,800 people in the catastrophic industrial accident in Bhopal. It is still hated. '"
2008-07-28,b'All passengers flying from British airports with departure lounges used by both domestic and international travellers face being fingerprinted from next year.'
2008-07-28,"b'From January 2004 to March 2007, the death toll from terrorist attacks in India was 3,674, second only to that in Iraq during the same period.'"
2008-07-28,b'Brain Can Change Itself'
2008-07-28,b'Muslims attack Christian school in Indonesia'
2008-07-28,b'Suspected US missiles kill six in Pakistan'
2008-07-28,"b'Hacker Obtains NASA UFO Photos, Faces Prison'"
2008-07-28,"b""Britain's Fuel Costs: Who's Really to Blame?"""
2008-07-28,"b""Al-Qaeda chemical expert 'killed'"""
2008-07-28,"b""'Women' bombers kill 25 Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad"""
2008-07-28,b'Scientists may study sinister fault by drilling hole into it'
2008-07-28,b'Deadly blasts rock Istanbul - At least 16 people killed and more than 150 hurt as two bombs explode on busy shopping street.'
2008-07-28,"b'48 killed, 249 wounded in Iraq bombings'"
2008-07-28,b'BBC banned but pornography for sale in Olympic village'
2008-07-28,b'British Police Confirm Unusual Aircraft'
2008-07-28,"b""The Taliban's dazzlingly modern insurrection"""
2008-07-28,b'Rebels claim sabotage on Shell pipeline in Nigeria'
2008-07-28,b'Iraq profiles: Social worker'
2008-07-28,b'Fatah and Hamas conflict ready to burst open- Roadblock to reconciliation and negotiations with Israel.'
2008-07-28,b'The Government Did It'
2008-07-28,b'A yearn to kern: Fonts are the clothes that words wear'
2008-07-28,"b'The e-mail\'s subject line said ""Await 5 minutes for the revenge of Gujarat,"" '"
2008-07-28,b'US Warns Israel Against Staging A False-Flag Attack To Draw US Into War With Iran'
2008-07-27,"b""[BREAKING] India on terror high alert: 14 blasts rock western city of Ahmedabad, while the country stills reels under yesterday's blasts in Bangalore"""
2008-07-27,b'This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain on Cell Phones: Dr. R Heberman -- director of Univ of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute -- sent memo warning staff on cell phone use.'
2008-07-27,b'BBC NEWS: Thirteen die in Istanbul blasts'
2008-07-27,"b'Iran hangs 29 drug traffickers, murderers, rapists'"
2008-07-27,b'A leading member of one of the most notorious clans of the Naples mafia has been arrested while shopping in Rome.'
2008-07-27,b'South Africa tells Robert Mugabe to surrender'
2008-07-27,"b"" Turkey's military said its fighter jets hit 12 Kurdish separatist targets in northern Iraq"""
2008-07-27,b'EU court overturns Irish ban on non-EU spouses'
2008-07-27,"b""A modest proposal for the ADL: We won't deny your holocaust if you won't deny this ongoing one."""
2008-07-27,b'Painter fined for smoking a cigarette in his own van'
2008-07-27,"b""'Mini-Katrina' needs attention - Cedar Rapids Iowa 7 weeks after the Flood"""
2008-07-27,b'Hearing on Limits of Executive Power: Robert Wexler'
2008-07-27,"b""A third of British Muslim students think religious killings are justified: Don't we have any more of those rusty Boeings, to take them where they would feel more at home?"""
2008-07-27,"b'""Feel the terror of Death,"" e-mail threatens minutes before a series of bombings kill at least 45 '"
2008-07-27,b'62% of Egyptian men regularly harass women'
2008-07-27,b'Hizbullah fans in Lebannon (SFW) [Pic] [Warning: Complicated & Not-Black-&-White polictiacl Understanding  Ahead]'
2008-07-27,"b'Istanbul bombs kill 13, at least 100 wounded'"
2008-07-27,b'Inmates sleep in toilets at overcrowded prison'
2008-07-27,"b""Palestinian 'Che' Blindfolded and Shot """
2008-07-27,b'Global Forces Converge To Drive Up Oil Prices'
2008-07-27,b'Hamas and Fatah clash in Gaza'
2008-07-27,b'Myanmar : DVB website attacked by pro-military hacker'
2008-07-27,b'Let Them Eat Free Markets -   How deregulation fuels the global food crisis.'
2008-07-27,b'India Arrests Dozens In Bombings That Killed 45'
2008-07-27,"b""India's president and prime minister have appealed for calm after a series of explosions killed at least 45 people in the western city of Ahmedabad"""
2008-07-26,"b""Sex slave: 'Every day we were raped'"""
2008-07-26,"b'Israeli writer calls B\'Tselem human rights group, who brought recent IDF shooting of bound and blindfolded Palestinian man to light, ""despicable...enemy collaborators""'"
2008-07-26,"b'After all those years of ""success"" as dictator of Zimbabwe, Mugabe may finally see his regime collapse because of the loss of a few software licenses and a paper contract.  '"
2008-07-26,"b'Uranium leaks into French river, tarnishing nuke power image'"
2008-07-26,"b'Iran announces nuclear expansion - Ahmadinejad has said Iran now possesses 6,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium'"
2008-07-26,b'Denmark : Nationalist party threatens to withdraw support from government if government cedes to EU demands on immigration'
2008-07-26,b'Mexicos leaders to allow its oil to be stolen. Go Neocons. Calderon insists that his reforms are necessary for the very survival of the country. So it doesnt end up like Iraq?'
2008-07-26,b'More bomb blasts in India - 3 explosions reported from Ahmedabad'
2008-07-26,"b'Indian City of Ahmedabad rocked by 17 Bomb Blasts within 70 minutes. 15 Dead, 100 Wounded.'"
2008-07-26,"b'Saudi schoolbooks teach piety, hate'"
2008-07-26,b'A plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany after two British women tried to open a cabin door mid-flight'
2008-07-26,b'Iran Moves to Expand Uranium Enrichment Program Against Western Pleading'
2008-07-26,b'Russian expert : 80% of Islamic literature in Russian offers wahabi ideas'
2008-07-26,"b'Britain told by UN, treat Muslims better'"
2008-07-26,"b'Iran to hang 30 for murder, other crimes'"
2008-07-26,b'Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood goes on-line on Facebook'
2008-07-26,"b""Obama's Private Prayer 'Leaked'"""
2008-07-26,b'Iraq banned from Olympics'
2008-07-26,"b'Shape up in two months or go, Gordon Brown warned '"
2008-07-26,b'Islam to become Russias predominant religion by 2050?'
2008-07-26,b'Olympics: Protesters will be kept in pens during games'
2008-07-26,"b""Iraqi's banned from the olympics because of the government, while China with its human rights record is occupying multiple countries"""
2008-07-26,"b'AP Analysis: U.S. Winning Iraq War. Iraq and its American partners are now winning the war that seemed lost two years ago, says AP Chief'"
2008-07-26,b' Fire causes mass evacuations from Greek resorts'
2008-07-26,"b' Bosnian Serbs pray for Karadzic, say charges unjust'"
2008-07-25,b'More UK insanity. An 82- year old woman was told she could not take pictures of an empty pool because she might be a pedophile. '
2008-07-25,"b'Iraqi sprinter after news of Olympic ban: ""In this horrible situation, who can say I\'ll even be alive in 2012?""'"
2008-07-25,"b'Lev Leviev, Israels richest man, buying blood diamonds, funding illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank, undermining the prospects for Middle East peace'"
2008-07-25,b'Iran ends all cooperation with IAEA'
2008-07-25,"b""Vladimir Putin's comments drive a company's stock down $6 billion"""
2008-07-25,b'Hole forces Qantas plane to land'
2008-07-25,"b'As soon as Chinese officials noticed, they ordered the removal of the paper from the news-stands and part of its website was blocked.'"
2008-07-25,b'Oil Prices Bring Sailing Back: The first commercial cargo of French wine to be transported by sailboat in the modern era is due to arrive in Dublin this week'
2008-07-25,"b""Try the Kalashnikovs. they're delicious and come with a serving of grenade"""
2008-07-25,"b""At least seven low-intensity blasts tore through India's high-tech hub of Bangalore"""
2008-07-25,"b'Bangalore hit by serial blasts, at least 1 dead'"
2008-07-25,"b""UK: Limit families to two children 'to combat climate change'. Exactly who in the UK is having a lot of kids?"""
2008-07-25,b'China now has more web-surfers than U.S.'
2008-07-25,b'European nations planning to harvest the Sahara desert sun in Africa to provide clean electricity for the whole of Europe. There is no mention of how this will benefit Africa. '
2008-07-25,b'Fugitive spammer dies in murder-suicide'
2008-07-25,"b""Beijing's Air Pollution Index Rises Despite City's Efforts"""
2008-07-25,b'Russia considers banning Czech beer. The reason? Objections over Czech plans to host a United States radar station.'
2008-07-25,b'Russian Navy prioritizes construction of nuclear submarines'
2008-07-25,"b'""Kids in Congo were being sent down mines to die so that kids in Europe and America could kill imaginary aliens in their living rooms""'"
2008-07-25,"b""The people of Berlin experienced the full range of Barack Obama's charisma on Thursday evening."""
2008-07-25,b'Painter fined for smoking in van '
2008-07-25,"b'7 Bomb Blasts serially in Bangalore (Bengaluru), IT capital of India '"
2008-07-25,b'A 73-year-old Dutch man was astonished to learn from police that the begonias he had lovingly tended on his doorstep concealed a secret marijuana plantation.'
2008-07-25,b'Afghan government accused of shielding opium trade'
2008-07-25,"b""Russia 'may use Cuba to refuel nuclear bombers'"""
2008-07-24,b'Key Benazir Bhutto assassination witness shot dead'
2008-07-24,"b""Six of the UK's biggest net providers have agreed a plan with the music industry to tackle piracy online."""
2008-07-24,b'UK Police extinguish buring knifeman. With their own bodies...'
2008-07-24,b'Sarkozy government implements police state measures. These changes are designed to curb mass resistance and political opposition to him and his programs. '
2008-07-24,b'The International Olympic Committee has banned Iraq from competing in the Beijing Olympic Games'
2008-07-24,b'Iranian military convoy rocked by mystery explosion'
2008-07-24,b'WTF! The IOC bans Iraq from competing in the Beijing Games -- a major blow to seven Iraqi athletes'
2008-07-24,b'Navy official: 9/11 Flight 93 was shot down'
2008-07-24,b'Emo and goth to be made illegal in Russia'
2008-07-24,b'How is it not gay to rape someone and do them up the butt?'
2008-07-24,b'Turkish Man Believes His Ant Farms Can Predict Earthquakes'
2008-07-24,b'Parents lose custody of girl for naming her Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii'
2008-07-24,b'Iraq banned from Beijing Olympics because of government interference'
2008-07-24,b'Iran ends cooperation with UN nuclear arms probe '
2008-07-24,b' British study links IMF loans to tuberculosis'
2008-07-24,b'US soldiers charged with conspiracy to murder Iraqis'
2008-07-24,"b""China's mobile phone users top 600 million"""
2008-07-24,b'Canada Enraged After European Union Announces a Potential Ban on Imports of Seal Products'
2008-07-24,b'US War on Drugs FAIL - in Afghanistan'
2008-07-24,b'Long Term US Presence in Northern Iraq is Moving Forward'
2008-07-24,"b'FOIA request yeilds photos of U.S. ""prisoner boxes"" used in Iraq '"
2008-07-24,"b'Joke of the day - Iran introduces ""Islamic human rights day"" - oh wait, it\'s not a joke after all'"
2008-07-24,b'Two Italians rescued from Pakistani mountain'
2008-07-24,"b'oil market investigation, regulators bring lawsuit against dutch firm for ""19 separate attempts at market manipulation in March 2007""'"
2008-07-24,b'Myanmar: Religion cannot be separated from politics; what did the Buddha say about Political Involvement?'
2008-07-23,"b""That's one small step for a parliament, one giant leap towards dictatorship."""
2008-07-23,b'Russia to station nuclear bombers in Cuba?'
2008-07-23,b'Protester glues himself to British PM'
2008-07-23,"b'Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, has called for a strategic relationship with Russia to counter aggression from the United States.'"
2008-07-23,b'Racist cop uses UK Terrorism Act to detain mixed-race family and take away their disabled child'
2008-07-23,"b'Zimbabweans Battle Money Shortages as Collectors Buy 100,000,000,000 Notes on eBay'"
2008-07-23,b'WTF Gas In Venezuela Is $0.12 per Gallon?! 97% Less Than USA - Worlds Highest And Lowest Gas Prices'
2008-07-23,"b""In solitary confinement in China, prisoner tells relatives he's so desperate for sunlight and human contact he'll go anywhere, including a forced labor camp"""
2008-07-23,"b'Angry at Bush, Russia considers closer Venezuela, Cuba ties'"
2008-07-23,"b'Cambodia standoff with Thailand continues, ""an imminent state of war, says Cambodia'"
2008-07-23,b'Samsung to Invest $1.63 Billion in Indonesian Biodiesel Project . Current rate of deforestation before the project: 380 US football fields an hour.'
2008-07-23,"b'Pakistans intelligence agencies and police have disappeared hundreds of Pakistanis, including children as young as 9.  '"
2008-07-23,b'British study links IMF loans to tuberculosis. IMF demands responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. '
2008-07-23,b'Magnitude 6.8 quake hits Japan'
2008-07-23,"b'UK: Official surveillance requests for details of telephone and internet records have surged to 1,400 a day'"
2008-07-23,b'Karadzic Backers Riot in Belgrade'
2008-07-23,b'UK: Water bills set to soar under compulsory meters. Average bills will rise up to 300 per cent.'
2008-07-23,b'French President Nicolas Sarkozy wins constitution battle by single vote '
2008-07-23,b'Secret life of fugitive Radovan Karadzic '
2008-07-23,b'Chavez Visit to Russia Intended to Send Message to US '
2008-07-23,b'Myanmar: How many of us have to die for your diplomatic game?'
2008-07-23,b'British Troops To Pull Out Of Iraq Next Year'
2008-07-23,"b""Sixteen year old girl told that she doesn't exist by UK [WTF] [BBC]"""
2008-07-23,"b'Navy Prosecutor In Gitmo Case says flight 93 ""shot down""'"
2008-07-23,b'USA arms war-torn Africa under the guise of humanitarian aid'
2008-07-22,b'The picture that shames Italy'
2008-07-22,b'Karadzic Arrested! How come none of these links are in the top 10 on Reddit?!'
2008-07-22,"b""European Union says it won't support military action against Iran"""
2008-07-22,b'A 64-year-old London man who took photos of teenagers raising a ruckus in front of his apartment could be charged with assault. What is WRONG with the UK these days?'
2008-07-22,"b'Israel is trying to suppress a forthcoming ""scathing"" US report on its policies in the Palestinian territories.'"
2008-07-22,"b'If You Believe Attacking Iran Is A Good Idea, Listen To This!'"
2008-07-22,b'Chavez says Venezuela needs Russia for protection'
2008-07-22,b'Singapore Mulls Legal Kidney Trading '
2008-07-22,"b""Bosnian Serb wartime president Radovan Karadzic, one of the world's most wanted men for his part in civilian massacres, has been arrested."""
2008-07-22,"b'The minute I saw him turn over the first car, I knew it was a terror attack.'"
2008-07-22,"b'Mexican Resorts Destroying Mangroves, Dooming Fisheries'"
2008-07-22,b'Top war crimes suspect Karadzic arrested in Serbia'
2008-07-22,b'US general warns Russia on nuclear bombers in Cuba'
2008-07-22,"b""Canada's spreading cannabis crop"""
2008-07-22,"b'Thanks To U.S. And Russia, The End Of The World Inches Closer'"
2008-07-22,b'Blackwater to Shift Business Plan'
2008-07-22,"b'Karadzic, one of the most wanted men in the world, finally caught'"
2008-07-22,"b""Inflation 'to hit Asian growth'"""
2008-07-22,"b'Interesting British military document; Expects collapse of China, use of neutron bombs for ethnic cleansing, emergence of a small-super rich elite who will be able to afford life extention'"
2008-07-22,"b'Letters from Afghanistan - dogs, general, and orphans'"
2008-07-22,"b'Israeli filmed shooting prisoner, causing outrage--who is the hypocrite? (Video)'"
2008-07-22,"b""Hamdan: Guantanamo's Mystery Man"""
2008-07-22,b'UGANDA: Poverty driving child sex abuse in the north'
2008-07-22,b'Chinas Olympic security measures reveal a regime under siege'
2008-07-22,b'Nigerian Muslims hail meat which spells Allah'
2008-07-21,"b'Experts Confirm that Iran\'s President did NOT Call for Israel to be ""wiped off the map""'"
2008-07-21,b' US troops kill son of Iraqi governor'
2008-07-21,b'Radovan Karadzic arrested!'
2008-07-21,"b'Nearly one in five UK 16 and 17-year-olds is a Neet - neither in employment, education or training'"
2008-07-21,b'Serbia captures fugitive war crimes suspect Karadzic'
2008-07-21,"b""It feels like the summer of 1931. The world's two biggest financial institutions have had a heart attack. The global currency system is breaking down. No world leader has a solution."""
2008-07-21,b'Human-to-Human Transmission of Bird Flu Discovered in China'
2008-07-21,"b'Aging and ailing people seeking a quick and painless way to die say there is no easier place on earth than Mexico to obtain pentobarbital, a barbiturate commonly known as Nembutal.'"
2008-07-21,"b'Two people were killed Monday in deliberately set explosions aboard two public buses in a major Chinese city, police said, heightening security concerns less than three weeks before the Olympics.'"
2008-07-21,b'Widespread protests against Swedish wire-tapping law'
2008-07-21,b'RUSSIA is considering aiming nuclear weapons at western Europe for the first time since the end of the Cold War'
2008-07-21,b'Palestinians: Israel uses rats to drive out Jerusalem Arabs'
2008-07-21,"b'Why Saddam and Iraq really had to be destroyed and who was really protected: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, etc. They were protected from democracy and progress. '"
2008-07-21,"b'War Criminal Radovan Karadi Arrested:  The man responsible for 7,500 dead in Srebrenica to face justice'"
2008-07-21,b'Gaza on Brink of Humanitarian Catastrophe'
2008-07-21,"b'Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future'"
2008-07-21,b'Islamic insurgents target foreign aid workers in Somalia'
2008-07-21,"b'Poland Spring attempts to privatize 500,000 gallons of water per day ... Water activists prevail.'"
2008-07-21,b'9 Iranians set to be stoned to death'
2008-07-21,"b'Despite pressure from White House and an International court order, Texas will execute 5 Mexicans on schedule'"
2008-07-21,b'Japan Bans in Vitro Fertilization for Couples in Which Both Partners are Infected With HIV'
2008-07-21,"b'Benny Morris, writing in Friday\'s New York Times argues for Nuclear Genocide against Iran: Israel will eventually have to launch ""a preemptive nuclear strike.""'"
2008-07-21,b'Atheletes Who Offend China will be thrown out of the Olympics by the International Olympic Committee!'
2008-07-21,b'The world is failing to guard against the inevitable spread of a devastating flu pandemic which could kill 50 million people and wreak massive disruption around the globe'
2008-07-21,b'The Israeli army invades a charitable institution and a kindergarden in Jericho City'
2008-07-20,b'Leopard kills crocodile. This does not happen every day'
2008-07-20,"b'Two-thirds of Egyptian men: ""Yep, we harass women.""'"
2008-07-20,"b""Bjrk's protest song forces China's Ministry of Culture to review musicians who 'threaten national unity' or 'violate religious policy or cultural norms'  """
2008-07-20,b'Saudi Arabia is doing something US never tried to; talking the radicals out of it!...do you really need me to tell you if it worked?'
2008-07-20,"b""Brazil's foreign minister said rich countries' deception in trade talks reminded him of tactics used by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels."""
2008-07-20,"b'10 people reveal why cocaine, skunk and ketamine do it for them '"
2008-07-20,"b""Gangs have made Dublin 'like Chicago in the 1920s'"""
2008-07-20,b'Nine policemen were killed in Afghanistan Sunday in international military air strikes called in when police and troops clashed after mistaking each other for Taliban'
2008-07-20,b'Finally!  White House incompetence is making the world a better place'
2008-07-20,b'61 lbs of plastic explosives  and detonators are missing from a site in southeastern France. '
2008-07-20,b'Somalis kill infidel aid workers'
2008-07-20,"b'At least eight women, whose ages range from 27 to 43, and one man, a 50-year-old music teacher, convicted of illegal sex with a student, have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran.'"
2008-07-20,"b""One of Turkey's lead gay advocates murdered after returning from international gay gathering"""
2008-07-20,b'UK: State school students may be taught Islamic traditions as part of compulsory citizenship lessons'
2008-07-20,b'Amsterdam Moves To Cut Prostitution'
2008-07-20,b'Colombian military misuses Red Cross symbol in hostage rescue'
2008-07-20,"b'No progress in Iran talks, so Europe, U.S. renew threats'"
2008-07-20,b'UK: Teenagers attack police officers who asked girl to pick up litter'
2008-07-20,"b""The world's top Nazi-hunter says he's closing in on 94-year-old 'Dr. Death'"""
2008-07-20,b'Saudis Are Bailing Out On The Bush Regime'
2008-07-20,b'More than 15 incuding commander killed as two militant Taliban groups clash in Mohmand Agency'
2008-07-20,b'U.S. Troops Kill Son And Cousin Of Iraqi Governor.'
2008-07-20,"b""NASA eyes buying Japan's cargo spacecraft to replace shuttle"""
2008-07-20,"b""After nuclear talk with UN & EU officials, Iran remains 'silent'"""
2008-07-20,b'New Hampshire To Accept Free Oil From Venezuela'
2008-07-19,"b'Pakistan : Muslim ""judge"" rules kidnapped Christian girls ""converted to Islam and cannot return home""'"
2008-07-19,b'The WORST building in the world!'
2008-07-19,"b'China Is Growing Unfriendly to Foreigners, Visitors Say'"
2008-07-19,"b'Polio resurfaces in region of Pakistan where militants campaigned against vaccination,'"
2008-07-19,"b'History of the modern Canadian flag, eh?'"
2008-07-19,b'Iraq: Beginning to smell like fried chicken'
2008-07-19,b'Egypt:Women are targets for harassment whether they are fully covered or not'
2008-07-19,"b'China arrests human rights campaigner for ""possession of state secrets"" after he offered help to parents of children killed in the region\'s massive earthquake'"
2008-07-19,b' China arrests quake critic on secrets charge'
2008-07-19,b'Magnitude 7.0 quake hits east coast of Japan'
2008-07-19,b'Buying America on the Cheap! A Close Look at Sovereign Wealth Funds'
2008-07-19,"b""Saudi Arabia's state-produced textbooks still refer to Jews and Christians as apes and swine, claim Jews conspire to take over the world and on Judgment Day Muslims will be called to kill the Jews"""
2008-07-19,b'Iraqi PM: Obama troop withdrawl plan is great'
2008-07-19,b'ABC foreign correspondent arrested on ice charges faces 20 years in prison and a brutal arse caning'
2008-07-19,b'Asia Stocks Fall for Fifth Week in Six on Global Growth Concern '
2008-07-19,"b'Jack Sparrow Yarr Not. The New Face Of Sea Pirates... Satellite Equipment, Powerful Boats, And Motherships'"
2008-07-19,"b""How China's taking over Africa, and why the West should be VERY worried"""
2008-07-19,b'China quake zone govt to sell luxury HQ after outcry'
2008-07-19,"b"" Phil Gramm steps down after 'whiners' comment"""
2008-07-19,"b'A powerful earthquake has struck off the eastern coast of Japan, with officials warning that some regions could be hit by a small tsunami.'"
2008-07-19,b' Iran rules out enrichment freeze at nuclear talks'
2008-07-19,b'...rounding up dozens of black men -- reportedly including the son of a Caribbean ambassador -- and beating many of them in public during a drug raid'
2008-07-19,b'Baby Penguins Washing Up Dead in Brazil'
2008-07-19,b'Guantanamo Bay Interrogation Video - Complete'
2008-07-19,b'Victim told to stay away from mall so child sex fiend can do his shopping'
2008-07-18,"b""Amidst all the squawking being done by the MPAA and the RIAA, I'd like to point out that there's actual piracy taking place every day in this world."""
2008-07-18,b'Venezuela to Give Energy-Saving Light Bulbs to Low-Income U.S. Communities'
2008-07-18,b'Dubai Detains Foreigners Accused Of Being Gay'
2008-07-18,b'World Court orders U.S. to stop executions of 5 Mexicans'
2008-07-18,"b'Somalia is in flames, it just topped a list of the worlds most unstable countries by Foreign Policy magazine, and the United Nations has declared the humanitarian situation there worse than Darfur'"
2008-07-18,b'Hundreds of Super Rich Under Investigation'
2008-07-18,"b""Russia to 'neutralise' US missile defence threat"""
2008-07-18,b'In a recent interview in Yemen a Gitmo attorney dropped his pants to show how Gitmo prisoners are humiliated several times a day. '
2008-07-18,b'Belgian King Rejects Resignation Offer of the Prime Minister'
2008-07-18,b'Are Iran and the US ALREADY Meeting in Turkey?'
2008-07-18,"b""Zimbabwe 'running out of paper to print money on'"""
2008-07-18,b'Nelson Mandela uses 90th birthday to warn South Africans not to forget the poor'
2008-07-18,b' Pakistani Investors Stone Karachi Exchange as Stocks Plunge'
2008-07-18,"b""Salafi Jihadists in Gaza: 'Compared to Us, Hamas Is Islamism Lite'"""
2008-07-18,b'Al Qaeda Expanding Recruitment Of Children'
2008-07-18,b' U.S. seeks asset freeze on al Qaeda-linked Algerians'
2008-07-18,b'The missile defense scheme and the sharpening of US-Russian geopolitical tensions'
2008-07-18,b' Israel makes arrests in alleged plot against Bush'
2008-07-18,b'NATO just bombed Pakistan because of an unconfirmed allegation... where do we draw the line?'
2008-07-18,"b""Iran's Missiles May Target Canadians"""
2008-07-18,b'Canada deports U.S. war resister'
2008-07-18,b'Avoid Public Toilets! An Olympic Visitors Guide to China'
2008-07-18,b'Childrens Choir Director Still Wanted By Turkish Authorities For Making Terrorist Propaganda'
2008-07-18,"b""Bush, Maliki agree 'time horizon' for US draw-down"""
2008-07-18,"b'Nearly a quarter of all Americans obese, 600 miles away many Haitians are eating mud '"
2008-07-17,b'Mosques increasingly not welcome. Europeans increasingly lashing out at construction of mosques feeding anti-Muslim sentiment across the continent.'
2008-07-17,"b""Scientology's Crushing Defeat:A previously unpublished saga of an $8 million check """
2008-07-17,b'The bloody battle of Genoa; Was there something more sinister at play?'
2008-07-17,"b'British intelligence allegedly ""outsourced"" torture of British citizens to Pakistani security agencies'"
2008-07-17,"b' European recession looms as Spain crumbles. ""Spain is now spiralling into the worst crisis since the Franco dictatorship. ""The economy is in dire straits.""'"
2008-07-17,b'Only Little War Criminals Get Punished'
2008-07-17,"b'Mosques and  Minarets? Not in My Backyard, Say an Increasing Number of Germans'"
2008-07-17,b' Bush warned he might send U.S. troops to Darfur'
2008-07-17,b'Almost half of Egyptian women are sexually harassed on a daily basis with more than half of Egyptian men admitting lewd behaviour'
2008-07-17,b'US judge OKs first Guantanamo Bay detainee trial '
2008-07-17,b'U.S. Finally Talking With Iran'
2008-07-17,b'Pakistani Investors Stone Exchange as Stocks Plunge. People complain that despite many losing their life savings in a few days neither the government nor regulators have done anything to help.'
2008-07-17,"b'Dear reddit-worldnews subscribers, we need your help: please read this self.post and vote in the comments'"
2008-07-17,b'A Dark Day for Press Freedom'
2008-07-17,b'SLIDING INTO RECESSION~Economic Tempest Overtakes Europe'
2008-07-17,b'Great Britain on verge of banning knives. Can forks be far behind?'
2008-07-17,"b'Over 300.000 people rally in Buenos Aires, Argentina over farm export tax.'"
2008-07-17,b'Hezbollah prisoners freed in exchange for dead Israeli soldiers'
2008-07-17,b'Democracy in action: Amazing display of courage in Argentina over export tax. People win this one!'
2008-07-17,b'muslim barbie '
2008-07-17,"b'Pope says young inheriting scarred, squandered earth'"
2008-07-17,b'New sodomy charge for Malaysian opposition figure'
2008-07-17,"b""U.S. experts say Russia 'is winning the Arctic race'"""
2008-07-17,b'Report: U.S. to station diplomats in Iran for first time since 1979'
2008-07-17,"b'Pope assails moral relativism; rest of the world says ""well that\'s just, like, your opinion, man""'"
2008-07-16,b'Super Rich Tax Cheats Outed by Liechtenstein Bank Clerk'
2008-07-16,"b'Despite being a mass murderer: Russians pick Stalin as their ""Face of the Nation""'"
2008-07-16,b'John Pilger - How Britain wages war'
2008-07-16,"b"" 'I lost the best years of my life'"""
2008-07-16,"b""If You Try To Pull A False Flag Operation, We're Not Going to Believe You"""
2008-07-16,"b""Here's a graph that is wrong"""
2008-07-16,b'Saudis offer Moscow billions to break with Tehran.'
2008-07-16,b' Oil prices continue to fall'
2008-07-16,"b""Former Iranian President Bani-Sadr: 'Tehran Responsible for Lockerbie -- not Libya'"""
2008-07-16,"b""MI5 officers 'outsourced the torture of British nationals to Pakistani agencies'"""
2008-07-16,"b'UK: Teachers will be allowed by law to search children for drugs, alcohol and cigarettes. So they are more like cops than teachers now?'"
2008-07-16,b'Pressure mounting to scrap speed cameras'
2008-07-16,"b'More than a dozen Italian police officers, prison guards and doctors have been given prison sentences after being found guilty of brutality at a G8 summit in 2001. None will serve any time.'"
2008-07-16,"b""Big Brother database recording all our calls, texts and e-mails will 'ruin British way of life' """
2008-07-16,"b"" 'I'm so glad he died at home'"""
2008-07-16,b'Israel trades a member of a 1979 raid - later convicted of murder - for the corpses of 2 soldiers captured by Hezbollah last year.'
2008-07-16,"b""If you haven't heard about the first death since the truce took hold, it's because he's Palestinian"""
2008-07-16,b'Saving the slaves:  International groups of Good Samaritans travel to the Sudan-Darfur region to offer help to slaves who now have nowhere else to go.'
2008-07-16,b'Hezbollah returns Israeli soldiers bodies.'
2008-07-16,b'Saudi Kids Learn the Darndest Things About Killing Jews and Gays'
2008-07-16,b' Hezbollah gives coffins to Israel in prisoner swap'
2008-07-16,"b'UK:  Family food bills rise by 1,100 in 12 months '"
2008-07-16,"b""The new 'Obama advisor' problem: Senator Chuck Hagel """
2008-07-16,b'How the Greening of the World Bank Affects the Poor'
2008-07-16,b'Swedish theme park ride collapses'
2008-07-15,b'How the hell can this possibly not be suspicious?'
2008-07-15,"b""'First Guantanamo video' released """
2008-07-15,b'Russia announced Monday that it is sending warships to patrol Arctic waters for the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union.'
2008-07-15,b'Overpopulation and Oil: What the Talking Heads Dont Talk About'
2008-07-15,"b""Bilderberg group meets to decide fate of world and media doesn't even blink to report it!"""
2008-07-15,"b'Belgium government collapses, King holds talks'"
2008-07-15,b'How Germany Is Dismantling Civil Rights amid Terror Fears'
2008-07-15,b'Mugabe has hired foreign mercenaries to do his dirty work'
2008-07-15,b' Sydney overturns Pope protest law'
2008-07-15,b'Mugabe running out of Monopoly money'
2008-07-15,"b'Dutch Defence whistle blower, who disclosed the truth about defective landmines, is still being harrassed by the government after 24 years'"
2008-07-15,"b'In recent months, the army has also closed down an orphanage, a bakery and other institutions in Hebron, which Israel believes are associated with Hamas.'"
2008-07-15,b'Imagine what the main stream media would have said if these were Palestinian children.'
2008-07-15,b'Six MILLION Ethiopian children in danger due to drought.'
2008-07-15,"b""Robert Fisk: 'Europe has a duty to educate the US about Middle East'"""
2008-07-15,b'Sudanese president charged with genocide '
2008-07-15,"b"" Britain's secretive S&M scene"""
2008-07-15,"b'Sibel Edmonds Case: The Central Asia Islamization Cocktail: Mosques, Madrassas, Heroin & Terrorism'"
2008-07-15,b'Bomb explodes in Sydney - seems minor'
2008-07-15,"b""I had sex with my brother but I don't feel guilty"""
2008-07-15,b'Judge lets off teenage hacker despite admission of guilt | Technology | guardian.co.uk'
2008-07-15,b'Revealed: how UK restaurant chains pocket your tips'
2008-07-15,"b"" Tree worth 500,000 'discovered'"""
2008-07-15,b'Israelis Gripped By New Photos of Missing Airman '
2008-07-15,b'Belgian PM to offer resignation'
2008-07-14,b'Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas'
2008-07-14,b'Federal Judge Ruling: George W. Bush is a Felon'
2008-07-14,b'Iraq handing out cash to people on the streets. They get up to $8000. We got $600. '
2008-07-14,b'Babies born in Fallujah are showing illnesses and deformities on a scale never seen before'
2008-07-14,b'9 women arrested in oral sex competition'
2008-07-14,b'Budweiser is now a Belgian Beer'
2008-07-14,b'President of Sudan charged with genocide. He is the first sitting head of state to be charged by the International Criminal Court. '
2008-07-14,"b""Iran attack would hurt U.S. and Israel: Syria's Assad"""
2008-07-14,"b'In Japan, Buddhism May Be Dying Out'"
2008-07-14,b'US investigators probing allegations of torture at an Iraqi-run juvenile prison found clear evidence earlier this year that Sunni children had been murdered by their Shiite captors'
2008-07-14,b'Warm meals for elderly and disabled cut back because volunteer drivers cannot afford gas. '
2008-07-14,"b'Teachers win right to frisk pupils for drink, drugs and cigarettes'"
2008-07-14,"b'British soldiers accused of sickening sex assault on Iraqi boy, 14'"
2008-07-14,"b""Venezuela's Chavez says oil could reach $300"""
2008-07-14,"b'Despite all the sabre-rattling, it looks as if Tehran wants to talk.'"
2008-07-14,"b'""The people of Iran have chosen the path of reform"" -- Shirin Ebadi'"
2008-07-14,"b'""The best thing that could happen to the country is if no oil is found""'"
2008-07-14,b'When Human Rights Extend to Nonhumans'
2008-07-14,b'Drug cartels threaten Mexican democracy'
2008-07-14,b'Turkish Islamist government cracks down on secularist group'
2008-07-14,b'$150 Billion for a Beer in Zimbabwe'
2008-07-14,"b'Myanmar: After Buddhist monks, bloggers are second helpful in Burma'"
2008-07-14,"b' Defying U.S., Hezbollah stronger than ever'"
2008-07-14,b'This recession could easily tip into a depression. Remembering the 30s and salaries of 1.50 a week.'
2008-07-14,b'Now official: Sudanese president is charged by ICC'
2008-07-13,"b""The BBC has found the first evidence that China is currently helping Sudan's government militarily in Darfur."""
2008-07-13,"b'France: The Enslavement of Women Not Allowed. "" ""Religion"" is not an excuse and should never have been an excuse for the abuse of women and the denial of basic human rights.'"
2008-07-13,"b""Bush gives Israel tentative 'OK' to strike Iran"""
2008-07-13,b'Google backed out from releasing private YouTube user data to Viacom.'
2008-07-13,"b'French court denies citizenship to woman from Morocco, ruling that her practice of radical Islam is incompatible with French values'"
2008-07-13,"b""What is happening with Italy? Fingerprinting Roma (gypsies), Rome's mayor bans food, drink and singing on the streets and the story of a man who failed his driving test because he was gay"""
2008-07-13,"b'13,000 Japanese protest against the permanent basing of a nuclear-powered U.S. warship near Tokyo, saying a recent onboard fire made it unsafe.'"
2008-07-13,"b""Canadians don't want to be the 'melting pot' that the US boasts"""
2008-07-13,b'Europe faces Russian nuclear missile threat'
2008-07-13,b'Austria allows cannabis for medical purposes'
2008-07-13,"b""China 'is fuelling war in Darfur'"""
2008-07-13,b'Quelle Surprise! E-Voting Fails in France Too!'
2008-07-13,"b'England\'s Times: ""President George W Bush backs Israeli plan for strike on Iran""'"
2008-07-13,b'Nouri al-Maliki ready to oust US from Iraq green zone'
2008-07-13,"b""Syria, Lebanon to open embassies at eachother's capitals"""
2008-07-13,b' Nine U.S. troops killed in Afghan fighting'
2008-07-13,b'How is protesting supposed to help fuel prices?'
2008-07-13,b'Official says Iran would destroy Israel if attacked'
2008-07-13,b'Sudanese President Wanted For Crimes Against Humanity? What About Bush?'
2008-07-13,b'UK pubs to be forced to search customers'
2008-07-13,"b""Deadly street culture: Lethal posers of Britain's Bebo generation"""
2008-07-13,"b""Loose Change 2nd Edition Broadcast on Norway's Largest Commercial TV Station"""
2008-07-13,b'Fuel theft crime wave sweeps Scotland as petrol prices soar'
2008-07-13,b'Japan: Workers Sue American Airlines Over Outsourcing'
2008-07-13,b'Massive ice shelf collapses in midwinter. '
2008-07-12,b'Tony Snow is Dead'
2008-07-12,b'Not Only Were Iran Missiles Photoshopped ... They Were OLD '
2008-07-12,b'Israeli warplanes have been flying over Iraq and landing at US bases there -- in preparation for an attack on Iran?'
2008-07-12,b'International Committee of Red Cross Proposes War Crimes Charges'
2008-07-12,"b'In England, knife crime claims 60 victims a day.'"
2008-07-12,"b'Afghan Warlords, Formerly Backed By the CIA, Now Turn Their Guns On U.S. Troops'"
2008-07-12,b'Global Fascism Grows as  MPs pass Berlusconi immunity bill. There is no longer a pretense of a government of laws not of men. '
2008-07-12,b'Iron Plate found in Great Pyramid... back in 1837'
2008-07-12,"b""Weak dollar sends Vatican into the red (Why didn't God warn them?)"""
2008-07-12,b'Ex-Pentagon worker sentenced in China spy case'
2008-07-12,"b'France has denied citizenship to a Muslim woman who wears a burkha and lives in ""total submission to her male relatives""on the grounds of ""insufficient assimilation"" into France. '"
2008-07-12,b'Time: Israelis Blocking Medical Care in Gaza'
2008-07-12,b'Georgia says will down Russian jets: Georgia threatens to shoot down Russian planes amid rising tensions.'
2008-07-12,"b""Iran to target '32 US bases' if attacked"""
2008-07-12,b'Czechs See Oil Flow Fall and Suspect Russian Ire on Missile System'
2008-07-12,b'1 in 10 British youths do absolutely nothing. Interesting.'
2008-07-12,"b'No drugs in cookies Watauga man gave Lake Worth police, lab finds'"
2008-07-12,"b'A request to [worldnews] users -- (see comment, for I couldn\'t be ""more succinct than that""...)'"
2008-07-12,"b""Women Left for Dead and the Man Who's Saving Them"""
2008-07-12,b'Pope to Apologise for Sexual Abuse of Children by Priests'
2008-07-12,"b"" World Bank's Zoellick says food prices high until 2012"""
2008-07-12,b'4 Israelis arrested for allegedly selling weapons to Palestinians'
2008-07-12,b'Bullet Blockers: Why sales of bulletproof cars are rocketing in Brazil '
2008-07-12,"b""Russia and China don't think that Mugabe is illegitimate enough"""
2008-07-12,"b""China and Russia wield Security Council veto. No one's surprised. """
2008-07-11,"b'A US air strike in Afghanistan on Sunday killed 47 civilians, 39 of them women and children'"
2008-07-11,b'Fascism [PIC]'
2008-07-11,b'Swiss pot legalization referendum '
2008-07-11,"b'UK voters send a ""stunning message to the government"" as Davis is elected with 72% of the vote'"
2008-07-11,b'Israel denies water to Palestinians in the West Bank'
2008-07-11,"b'The Russian-Israeli Mafia: Off-limits to FBI, US intelligence'"
2008-07-11,b'Argentina Will Produce Massive Wind Power Turbines'
2008-07-11,"b'Iran no better than the US, it turns out'"
2008-07-11,"b'In Soviet Russia, Jokes Destroy Communism!'"
2008-07-11,"b"" Weak US dollar hits papal profits [How naive of me, I didn't even realise the Vatican was suppose to make profits]"""
2008-07-11,"b""How Russia's baby-boosting policies are hurting the population."""
2008-07-11,"b'""For the record, I\'m Muslim. Trust me, we don\'t have an issue with puppies.""'"
2008-07-11,"b""Abu Dhabi buys 90% of New York City's Chrysler Building """
2008-07-11,b'UN sanctions resolution on Zimbabwe fails in security council'
2008-07-11,b'Companies that gain from the India - US Nuke Deal'
2008-07-11,b'Beijing takes dog off the menu for Olympics'
2008-07-11,"b""Giuliani: Obama's Support Of Bilingualism is Anti-American"""
2008-07-11,"b'9 British soliders wounded by ""friendly fire"".  With friends like that...'"
2008-07-11,b'Russians are house shopping and buying in costly U.S. cities'
2008-07-11,b'ICC Seeks to Charge Leader of Sudan With Charges of Genocide'
2008-07-11,b'The US has sanctions against Iran. Exports to Iran have almost increased tenfold since Bush came to power. Are they trying to get the best of both worlds?'
2008-07-11,"b'Andrew Bolt asks Age art critic Robert Nelson seven questions about his decision to let Art Monthly Australia publish photographs of his naked daughter, then aged no more than six. '"
2008-07-11,"b'6,700 Tons of Radioactive Debris Shipped From Kuwait to Idaho '"
2008-07-11,b'Zimbabwe sanctions vetoed at UN'
2008-07-11,b'Dungeon dad hates being cooped up (2 Words Come to Mind: Boo + Hoo)'
2008-07-10,b'How to buy a child in 10 hours'
2008-07-10,b'Ahmadinejad rules out war against the U.S. or Israel '
2008-07-10,"b'Better bring a book: To save fuel, US Airways will remove movie systems from domestic flights'"
2008-07-10,b'Mexican cops tape torture training'
2008-07-10,"b""Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Thursday brushed off evidence that U.S. interrogators had abused a Canadian terrorism suspect in Guantanamo Bay, saying the man's trial should go ahead anyway."""
2008-07-10,b'Nazi hunters may have found their most wanted fugitive in Chile'
2008-07-10,b'Mother prevented from taking own son to school because of criminal record checks'
2008-07-10,b'Japanese Zero Emissions Home'
2008-07-10,b'Mexican comic-book character called racist'
2008-07-10,"b""Russians say no to 'cola-nization'"""
2008-07-10,b'US may have sold mass surveillance gear to Chavez'
2008-07-10,b'World leaders avoid setting greenhouse target'
2008-07-10,"b""Earthquake Destroyed China's Largest Military Armory and nuclear facilities including several nuclear warheads.  A nuclear explosion might have occurred at the epicenter. """
2008-07-10,"b'""Goodbye from the world\'s biggest polluter"" - George Bush at the latest G8 summit'"
2008-07-10,b'45-Year Old Man Dies From Working Too Hard'
2008-07-10,b'Israeli troops kill Gaza man in first truce fatality'
2008-07-10,b'Ecuador government siezes TV stations and nearly 200 other businesses'
2008-07-10,b'Hamas Places Rocket Squad Under Arrest'
2008-07-10,b'The only sex shop in Martinez has closed'
2008-07-10,b'River use banned after French uranium leak'
2008-07-10,"b'Enough Sabre Rattling in the Middle East, Please'"
2008-07-10,b'Now we got fucking IRAMs (sorta like FIEDs)'
2008-07-10,"b'Iran claims it was threatened, tests missiles'"
2008-07-10,"b""Forgiveness hard to find for some after peer's inadvertent 'nigger in the woodpile' remark """
2008-07-10,b'Taiwan Declares Peace on China'
2008-07-09,b'Iranian shelling reported in northern Iraq'
2008-07-09,b'Iran test fires long and medium range missiles'
2008-07-09,b'Turkey: 4 killed in battle outside U.S. consulate '
2008-07-09,"b""Toyota's top car engineer worked himself to death."""
2008-07-09,"b""Iran blames West for 'artificially' raising oil prices, says war threat is a 'joke'"""
2008-07-09,b'Grave implications of witness ruling'
2008-07-09,b'small bat fits big bra'
2008-07-09,b'Yobs threw rocks at his house for years. But the father who fought back is arrested  | Mail Online'
2008-07-09,b'Canadas Latest Fail: We Charge for incoming texts now'
2008-07-09,"b'Toyota Camry engineer died from overwork at 45 ... death from overworking is called ""karoshi."" '"
2008-07-09,b'Iranian shelling reported in Northern Iraq.'
2008-07-09,"b""Former Columbian law maker, Yidis Medina, poses naked for a men's magazine"""
2008-07-09,"b""Italian man sentenced to 10 days in jail for... get this... staring at a woman... Sometimes, you can't make even make this shit up!"""
2008-07-09,b'Canada to deport Nigerian woman who claims to be bisexual. She had been tortured and fears she will be stoned to death.'
2008-07-09,b'A revolution in Quebec. Yellow margarine soon to be legal.'
2008-07-09,b'Sunday afternoon at the marriage mart. Chinese oldsters determined to get their kids married. '
2008-07-09,b'Anti-terrorism exercises in China (photo gallery).'
2008-07-09,"b""Nazi SS medical officer 'Dr Death' believed to be living in Chile"""
2008-07-09,b'Amateur Attack on US Embassy in Istanbul??'
2008-07-09,b'UK criminal record checks: More often wrong than right'
2008-07-09,b'British woman faces jail for sex on Dubai beach'
2008-07-09,b'The surfer who kept his cool in the face of a volcano'
2008-07-09,b'Attack kills Darfur peacekeepers '
2008-07-09,"b'Naked man walks into convenience store...eats, drinks, accost a female, retreats...'"
2008-07-09,"b'Ramseys cleared in murder of JonBenet (breaking, seriously, in July 2008)'"
2008-07-08,b'Iraq insists on withdrawal timetable for US troops'
2008-07-08,b'Do US Internment Camps Really Exist?'
2008-07-08,b'Monsanto has to Accept Full Responsibility for Genetic Contamination'
2008-07-08,b'Just two of the 19 dishes on the dinner menu at the G8 food shortages summit'
2008-07-08,b'Businessman who grabbed a thug for smashing a window is charged with assault'
2008-07-08,"b'Suddenly, prayer rooms are essential at work'"
2008-07-08,b'The 26-year-old receptionist had suffered 93 identifiable injuries at the hands of British soldiers and died after being subjected to 36 hours of beatings and abusive treatment'
2008-07-08,"b'Bush Quietly Declared a National State of Emergency on June 26, 2008'"
2008-07-08,b' World stocks at 21-month low as banks plunge'
2008-07-08,"b""Where's All the World's Food? Its the worst crisis of its kind in more than 30 years."""
2008-07-08,b'Russian Blogger Gets Jail Sentence for Criticizing Police'
2008-07-08,b' Ex-congressman finds second career as international arms trader'
2008-07-08,b'Researchers demonstrate that oil prices are due to speculators and not suppy/demand'
2008-07-08,b'Most Obnoxious Tourists? The French'
2008-07-08,"b""Remember the daring rescue of Ingrid Betancourt? Turns out it wasn't so daring after all."""
2008-07-08,"b'Terrorist mastermind collects $100,000 a day on fundraising tour of US while wife and kid live on welfare in the UK'"
2008-07-08,b'Bigot weeps after being forced to give women equal rights (is it really 2008?)'
2008-07-08,b'EU vote forces ISPs to disconnect pirates'
2008-07-08,"b'Iran : ""Tel Aviv and the US fleet in the Persian Gulf would be the targets that would be set on fire""'"
2008-07-08,b' Iraq insists on U.S. withdrawal timetable: official'
2008-07-08,b'Australian Cyclists Save Millions in Health Care'
2008-07-08,"b'Polls rate Dutch health system best, U.S. worst  '"
2008-07-08,b'Russia Threat over Missile Shield'
2008-07-08,b'Israel has successfully tested a new defence system designed to intercept rockets fired from southern Lebanon and the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip'
2008-07-08,b'Swedes Massively Protest Wiretap Law'
2008-07-07,"b'It is obvious they will come door to door. If they see you don\'t have ink, they will know you are M.D.C.""'"
2008-07-07,"b'Censoring Iraq: This week US forces censored an award winning photojournalist, Zoriah continuing the efforts to make certain we do not see the real results of our actions in Iraq. '"
2008-07-07,"b'Spy chief in coma was found slumped unconscious with ""blood everywhere"". Government sources insist there is no evidence of suspicious circumstances. Yard denies assassination claims. '"
2008-07-07,b'Dane Who Blew Whistle on Iraq Lies Has Been Imprisoned'
2008-07-07,b'Straight pride parade to hit New York City'
2008-07-07,"b'Anyone caught carrying a knife without a good excuse should be sent to prison - David Cameron, UK Conservative Party Leader'"
2008-07-07,b'More Mexicans leaving U.S. under duress'
2008-07-07,"b""British UFO sightings at 'bizarre' levels"""
2008-07-07,"b""Computer games experts have devised a way to beat the pirates who cost their industry a fortune.  [I just don't see this one happening]"""
2008-07-07,b'Hell on Earth: Welcome to North Korea'
2008-07-07,b'US and EU urged to cut biofuels and grow food instead'
2008-07-07,b'Shed roof nearly damaged in North England'
2008-07-07,"b""Husband uses fireman's lift to get disabled wife onto Ryanair flight after staff refuse to help on health and safety grounds"""
2008-07-07,b'Oil price shock means China is at risk of blowing up'
2008-07-07,b' Israel and Hezbollah sign prisoner swap deal'
2008-07-07,"b'Karachi, Pakistan hit by 5 bombs and no news has reported it yet!'"
2008-07-07,"b'Even Twenty-Five Years Later, the Destructive Force of the Bhopal Disaster Remains'"
2008-07-07,"b'Indian Embassy Destroyed in Afghanistan, 41 Dead by Suicide Car Bomb'"
2008-07-07,b'Protests and repression in Japan on eve of G8 summit'
2008-07-07,"b""Don't envy us, Saudis say, as inflation leaves them feeling poorer despite huge oil boom"""
2008-07-07,b'The Worlds 10 Youngest Leaders'
2008-07-07,b'Myths of the Cuban Missile Crisis'
2008-07-07,"b""Children as young as three should be reported for 'racism'"""
2008-07-07,"b'One killed, 50 injured in series of blasts in Karachi'"
2008-07-07,"b'Jewish Klansmen tie Palestinian to power pole, beat him savagely'"
2008-07-06,"b'A mob of Israelis attacked a Palestinian teacher from a West Bank village, dragged him to a nearby settlement, tied him to an electricity pole and beat him with clubs.'"
2008-07-06,"b""'I practically told the jury to find him guilty' recalls Judge, but the jurors simply refused,"""
2008-07-06,b'US Colonel Admits He Sanctioned Mass Killings in South Korea'
2008-07-06,b'The big firms that prop up Zimbabwe'
2008-07-06,"b'US Embassy ban on mobile phones brings 1,000 a day windfall to local chemist'"
2008-07-06,b'US Contractor Leads Torture Training in Mexico'
2008-07-06,"b' Saudi man, woman face flogging for research work'"
2008-07-06,"b'17-Year-Old Boy is Tied to Tree, Forced to Drink Gas... Then Set Ablaze'"
2008-07-06,b'Top Secret Memo Leaked: The Israeli foreign ministry admits that the Palestinian Occupation Is Illegal'
2008-07-06,"b""With Rupert Murdock's slanted Fox News, can you trust his 174 other media outlets like the WSJ, which are also 7% owned by a Saudi prince?"""
2008-07-06,"b'Where Muslims object, officers will be obliged to use sniffer dogs only in exceptional cases. Where dogs are used, they will have to wear bootees with rubber soles.'"
2008-07-06,"b""Roman Abramovich, the billionaire, has admitted paying billions of dollars for political favours and protection fees to get his hands on the former Soviet Union's mineral wealth."""
2008-07-06,"b""Teenage girls raped at Robert Mugabe's torture camps"""
2008-07-06,"b""One of literature's most coveted treasures to be uncovered"""
2008-07-06,"b""US Pentagon doubts Israeli intelligence over Iran's nuclear programme """
2008-07-06,"b""According to South African intelligence sources, convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was a long-time intelligence asset for South Africa's apartheid era security services. """
2008-07-06,b' U.S. and Czechs to sign radar deal despite opposition'
2008-07-06,b'Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into a U.S.-led coalition air strike that local officials say killed 15 civilians'
2008-07-06,"b""Before the G-8 Summit: Merkel Warns Food Crisis Could 'Destabilize Nations'"""
2008-07-06,b'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED'
2008-07-06,b'South African Thieves Shoot Down Police Helicopter'
2008-07-06,b'Palestinian Sources Say Israel Still Preventing Sick From Leaving Gaza'
2008-07-06,b'Germ warfare fear over African monkeys taken to Iran: Dealers supplying large numbers to labs across world...'
2008-07-06,"b""Russian oligarch 'tipped off' about assassination"""
2008-07-06,b' Israel locks down West Bank village'
2008-07-05,b'EUROPEANS! You have until MONDAY to contact your MEP and save the EU from a three-strikes copyright rule!'
2008-07-05,b'For the first time Poland says NO to U.S.: Rejects missile shield offer aimed to counter possible threats from Iran'
2008-07-05,b'First footage to show ballot-rigging actually taking place in Zimbabwe'
2008-07-05,"b'22 civilians killed by U.S. helicopters airstrike, Afghan governor says'"
2008-07-05,b'U.S. Deserters Could Qualify as Refugees in Canada Rules Federal Court'
2008-07-05,b'Eight dead as canoeists sucked into turbines'
2008-07-05,b' Man rips head from Hitler wax figure in Berlin'
2008-07-05,"b'NYT: Iraqi woman becoming suicide bombers becouse they lose a husband, a brother, a son or because they were detained by American Military'"
2008-07-05,"b""Prayer refusal pupils 'disciplined'"""
2008-07-05,"b'This is the first time that ""ordinary"" Chinese citizens will be allowed to visit Taiwan as tourists'"
2008-07-05,b'Expose the Mafia and live in fear'
2008-07-05,"b""Your Laptop's Dirty Little Secret: E-Waste: Dumping on the Poor (Video)"""
2008-07-05,b'Venezuelan fights US asset freeze'
2008-07-05,b' World must brace for oil beyond $150'
2008-07-05,b'China has ordered the closure of 40 factories in a city close to Beijing in the run-up to the Olympics Games.'
2008-07-05,b'AP Exclusive: Uranium Stockpile Removed From Iraq in Secret U.S. Mission'
2008-07-05,b'Man Tears Head Off Hitler Wax Figure in a Symbolic Protest at New Madame Tussauds in Berlin'
2008-07-05,"b""Russia rated UK's biggest threat after al-Qaeda and Iran"""
2008-07-05,b'Iran: death penalty for corrupt weblogs'
2008-07-05,b'World Bank report: Biofuels force food prices rise by 75%'
2008-07-05,b'Colombia foils bomb plot after rescue '
2008-07-05,b'Find your MEP (For Brits)'
2008-07-05,"b'""for me, this will be the the image I remember forever from the Iraq war.""'"
2008-07-05,"b'""South Korea used to be a big market for US beef, but suspended imports in 2003 after a ""mad cow disease"" outbreak.""'"
2008-07-05,"b'Israelis fire rockets, Israelis blame Palestinians, Israelis punish Palestianians.  What else is new?'"
2008-07-04,b'Iran says any attack on its nuclear sites means war'
2008-07-04,"b""Naomi Klein: Big Oil's Iraq deals are the greatest stick-up in history"""
2008-07-04,"b'Report: US and Colombians paid $20 million for the hostages freedom, the whole operation afterwards was a set-up'"
2008-07-04,"b'A net-neutrality activist group has uncovered plans for the demise of the free Internet by 2010 in Canada. By 2012, the group says, the trend will be global.'"
2008-07-04,"b'Iraq is being forced to give foreign firms 75% of the value of their oil leaving just 25% for the Iraqis. How were they forced to do this? By torture, suffering and death. '"
2008-07-04,b'Biofuels behind food price hikes: leaked World Bank report'
2008-07-04,b'Colombian FARC leaders were paid millions to free hostages: Swiss radio'
2008-07-04,"b'Israeli PM Olmert wants the house of the Palestinianr who killed 3 Israelis in a bulldozer rampage destroyed so the 20 people, including children, who live there will be punished '"
2008-07-04,b'Official Says Iran Accepts Western Talks Proposal '
2008-07-04,b'Biofuels are prime cause of food crisis - leaked World Bank report'
2008-07-04,"b'A 16-year-old Jordanian boy has been charged with murder for stabbing his his 23-year-old sister to death in an apparent ""honour"" killing. It is the 7th honour killing this year in Jordan. '"
2008-07-04,"b'From the ""No Shit"" file: World must brace for oil beyond $150 '"
2008-07-04,b'Israeli Report: Iran will halt enrichment if West removes sanctions'
2008-07-04,b'Why Is The Philippines Poor?'
2008-07-04,b'Top British intelligence official in coma in London hospital amid poisoning fears'
2008-07-04,b'More than 200 people have gathered outside the US embassy in Zimbabwe seeking refuge or assistance'
2008-07-04,b'Support the NO2ID Nine who were arrested in Edinburgh'
2008-07-04,b' Admiral Mike Mullen warns the West over military strike against Iran'
2008-07-04,"b""Iran 'responds to nuclear offer'"""
2008-07-04,b'Liberal Democrats : Google ruling very worrying for UK consumers - Foster'
2008-07-04,b'Assisted suicide of healthy 79-year-old renews German debate on right to die'
2008-07-04,b'Poland holds out over US missile missile shield proposal'
2008-07-04,"b""Uranium enrichment: Iran's leadership sends out mixed signals over its nuclear programme"""
2008-07-04,b'Largest UK Trafficking Operation Sees 500 Arrests'
2008-07-04,"b'Happy Liberation Day, Rwanda'"
2008-07-03,b'28 Billion Bottles of Water [PIC]'
2008-07-03,b'BBC explains how they mistakenly reported WTC7 collapsed before it did'
2008-07-03,"b""If you haven't read the story of the FARC hostage rescure, read it now.  It's an absolutely incredible story."""
2008-07-03,b'10-year-old subjected to torture by Israeli soldiers'
2008-07-03,"b'Mother saves baby, killed seconds later'"
2008-07-03,b'Iran to introduce death penalty for blogging'
2008-07-03,"b""Euro May Be Poised for `Explosive Breakout,' Citigroup Says """
2008-07-03,b'Scientists find libido increasing ingredient in watermelon rinds'
2008-07-03,"b""The shame of a Mugabe torturer: 'I am being forced to kill someone' """
2008-07-03,"b""Israeli's Vice Premier wants home of bulldozer attacker demolished and his WHOLE TOWN cut off from Jerusalem."""
2008-07-03,b'Private Contractors in Iraq to Lose Immunity'
2008-07-03,b'U.S. Arms Dealer Tests Legal Bounds in Middle East Arms Bazaar'
2008-07-03,b'Breaking Iraq and Blaming Iran - British Black Ops and the Terror Campaign in Basra'
2008-07-03,"b'Chavez congratulates Uribe, calls upon FARC to surrender: ""The time for rifles is gone, it is a time for the peoples""'"
2008-07-03,"b'Hundreds of Aboriginal men from across Australia have issued a historic apology to their women for the ""pain, hurt and suffering"" indigenous men have caused them.'"
2008-07-03,"b'Victims were bound, stabbed multiple times in head, neck, torso, and back'"
2008-07-03,"b'Former Colombian Presidental candidate Betancourt, U.S. contractors rescued from FARC.  Six years as a prisoner at an end. '"
2008-07-03,"b""Experts Say China's Wind Energy Could Grow 1667% by 2020"""
2008-07-03,"b'Barrack gets sold out, G-8 meeting was useless, fascism is creeping forward, strategies for protection, DHS surveillance, talk of a coming war with Iran'"
2008-07-03,b'Risk to U.S. troops seen if Israel strikes Iran'
2008-07-03,b'Kidnapped Ingrid Betancourt rescued after 6 years captivity in Colombia'
2008-07-03,b'Ingrid Betancourt freed after 6 years of kidnap'
2008-07-03,"b'Iran weighs new nuclear offer, considers suspending nucler program!'"
2008-07-03,b'British Judge Says YES To Sharia Law In Britain'
2008-07-03,b'Jereusalem: Madman goes on insane rampage in front-end loader'
2008-07-02,"b'Starbucks To Close 600 Stores, Halves 2009 Expansion Plans'"
2008-07-02,"b""German company stops providing paper for Zimbabwe's bank notes"""
2008-07-02,"b'Italy\'s highest court rules that it\'s okay to discriminate against Roma (Gypsies) because ""the fact that all the Gypsies are thieves""'"
2008-07-02,"b""Innocent dad of three 'beaten by two police out hunting joyrider'"""
2008-07-02,b'Ingrid Betancourt rescued in Colombia!'
2008-07-02,b'Dj vu? U.S. funding terror groups in Iran'
2008-07-02,b'Democrats Back Covert US Attacks On Iran'
2008-07-02,b'Mahatma Gandhi only ever made 2 public speeches in English. This one was almost lost for the last 60 years'
2008-07-02,"b""London Mayoral vote can't be verified due to e-voting irregularities"""
2008-07-02,b'Soldiers patrol Mongolian capital amid state of emergency'
2008-07-02,b'U.S. spies on Iraqi army. Satellites are allegedly being used to track the American-backed force after breakdowns in trust and coordination.'
2008-07-02,"b""Survey: Denmark 'happiest' country in the world"""
2008-07-02,b'Israel reassures West: No Iran attack in 2008. Israel plans to wait until Sarkozy assumes the presidency of EU and can be expected to lead a European drive to expand sanctions on Teheran.'
2008-07-02,"b'""Google Earth is part of propaganda war, which Israel is losing""'"
2008-07-02,"b'Economic downturn brings out Athenian ""Robin Hoods"" - ""Everything is stolen. Everything is ours""'"
2008-07-02,b'Betancourt rescued from FARC kidnappers'
2008-07-02,b'Video Show US Advisors Teaching Torture Techniques to Mexican Police'
2008-07-02,b'Mexico struggles to eliminate torture in law enforcement. Now US advisers are teaching them to torture. (Is there no end to our shame?)'
2008-07-02,"b'The figures demonstrating improvement in Iraq may (or may not) be real. This cannot end well. Not for the U.S. military. Not for Americans. And, above all, not for Iraqis.'"
2008-07-02,b'Want to know if waterboarding is torture? Ask Christopher Hitchens'
2008-07-02,b'Iran ready to consider allowing U.S. diplomatic presence'
2008-07-02,"b'An explosion has ripped through a 12-storey apartment block in the Russian olympic resort city of Sochi, killing at least two people and leaving around 30 others injured'"
2008-07-02,b'28 Billion Bottles of Water [PIC]'
2008-07-02,b'U.S. Agrees to Lift Immunity for Contractors in Iraq'
2008-07-02,b'Closer to war with Iran than anyone knows?'
2008-07-01,b'        '
2008-07-01,"b""Think Mugabe is Africa's Worst Dictator? Think Again"""
2008-07-01,"b'All the defendants convicted in the attack on the USS Cole, which killed 17 sailors, have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials.'"
2008-07-01,b'Nearly every GM food in the U.S. is completely untested for safety. Every other nation besides the U.S. tests all GM/GE food before they are put into the food chain.'
2008-07-01,b'Police to ban alcohol sales in entire town as Facebook hordes plan massive beach party'
2008-07-01,"b""Sciences 'a whole grade harder' than arts subjects at A-level"""
2008-07-01,b'Americans Lead The World In Drug Use'
2008-07-01,"b'UFOs spotted by Navy engineer above the M5 motorway. It was unlike anything I\'ve ever seen in my life. It really did look like the alien aircraft in films.""'"
2008-07-01,b'Pentagon Official Warns of Israeli Attack on Iran '
2008-07-01,b'Putin to Ukraine: Join NATO and pay the price!'
2008-07-01,"b""New pact would give EU citizens' data to US"""
2008-07-01,"b' Iraq fails to sign contracts with global oil majors because oil companies refused to offer consultancy based on fees, as they wanted a share of the oil'"
2008-07-01,b'Iraqis say NO to profit sharing with big oil'
2008-07-01,"b'Amsterdam Bans Smoking in Public Places, Excluding Pot'"
2008-07-01,"b'World Values Survey: Denmark the most happy, Zimbabwe the least happy'"
2008-07-01,b'Masked Gunmen Attack Amazon Tribe'
2008-07-01,b'Israeli reporter wins prize for revealing Israeli involvement in Gitmo rendition'
2008-07-01,b'Dutch judiciary will not prosecute Geert Wilders for anti-Islamic statements'
2008-07-01,b'Mission Accomplished! (cartoon)'
2008-07-01,"b""Mexico's drug war: It is more dangerous to be a policeman in Mexico, than a soldier fighting the war in Iraq."""
2008-07-01,b'Mile-long Gas Lines in Iraq'
2008-07-01,b'Polish president throws the EU into new crisis as he declares: The Lisbon treaty is pointless'
2008-07-01,b'Mugabe hailed as a hero by African leaders'
2008-07-01,b'IMF to investigate the US Federal reserve?'
2008-07-01,"b'Dutch smoking ban: No tobacco in your joints, cafes ordered '"
2008-06-30,b'President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have rejected findings from U.S. intelligence agencies that Iran has halted a clandestine effort to build a nuclear bomb'
2008-06-30,b'House Resolution Calls for Naval Blockade against Iran. The measures called for in the resolutions amount to an act of war.'
2008-06-30,b'Spain wins Euro 2008.'
2008-06-30,"b'Food Prices 2007-2008: In one year, beans increase 64%, lentils 147%, wheat 80%, celery 106%, eggs 28%, etc.'"
2008-06-30,b'Cop Body Slams 44-Year-Old Woman'
2008-06-30,b'Israeli spy caught and sentenced in Iran'
2008-06-30,b'EU Constitution author says referendums can be ignored. He also admitted that the Lisbon EU Treaty had been carefully crafted to confuse the public. '
2008-06-30,b'Not a Surprise: U.S. Advisors to the Iraqi Oil Minitry played an integratal part in the new oil contracts about to be awarded to Western companies.'
2008-06-30,"b'Shooting demo in France uses real bullets instead of blanks, injures 16'"
2008-06-30,b'US-NATO Deaths Higher in Afghanistan Than in Iraq During June'
2008-06-30,"b'Brazil Raids Illegal Ranches, Gives Cattle To Poor'"
2008-06-30,b'Lloyds gives credit cards to children without telling the parents: You dont need chains these days to tell the masters from the slaves (You only need Mastercard)'
2008-06-30,b'Is White House Blocking Search for Bin Laden?'
2008-06-30,"b""Israel swaps Samir Kuntar (and other prisoners) for soldiers' remains"""
2008-06-30,b'Operation Cannonball: Details about the hunt for Bin Laden and the debate inside the Bush Administration.'
2008-06-30,"b'A military shooting demonstration in south east France has left 16 people wounded, after real bullets were used instead of blanks.'"
2008-06-30,"b'Sy Hersh: US has been ""preparing the battlefield"" in Iran with clandestine operations for months'"
2008-06-30,b'Oil prices pass $143 a barrel; US gas hits high'
2008-06-30,b'Beijing Pressures Taiwan To Restrict Falun Gong Activities'
2008-06-30,b'The Army admits to faulty Iraq planning'
2008-06-30,b'Study: World Gets Happier '
2008-06-30,b'Olympic nightmare: A red tide in yellow sea'
2008-06-30,b'Someone attempted to kill Irans President Ahmadinejad with high-intensity X-ray radiation during his recent trip to Italy'
2008-06-30,"b'""A police investigation concluded that if the tiger had been real it would have been only 27 centimetres long.""'"
2008-06-30,"b""Iran hands down death sentence to 'Israeli spy'"""
2008-06-29,"b""Eight-year old boy doesn't invite 2 classmates to his party.  Is reported by his school to the Swedish parliament for violating their rights."""
2008-06-29,"b""10,000 people riot in China over alleged police coverup of young girl's death"""
2008-06-29,b'U.S. Escalating Covert Operations Against Iran - Report'
2008-06-29,"b"" China's One-Child Policy Leads to Nation of Angry Men"""
2008-06-29,b'Seymour Hersh: The Bush Administration steps up its secret moves against Iran.'
2008-06-29,b'UK: Parents banned from ferrying children to sports matches unless they have had criminal records checks'
2008-06-29,"b'The birthrate in European countries drops well below the ""replacement rate""  that is, an average of 2.1 children born to every woman  the declining population will first be felt in the playgrounds.'"
2008-06-29,"b'US special forces raided a Shite town on Friday killing a relative of Iraqi PM Maliki, the resulting diplomatic crisis is growing.'"
2008-06-29,b'Rural British gangs move into the oil business. Tankers tailed by petrol thieves.'
2008-06-29,b'Public relations gone wrong: French soldiers fire real bullets into crowd'
2008-06-29,"b'Israeli Soldiers Assault, Abuse and Torture Palestinian Journalist. Award Winning Omer Arrives in Gaza Unable to Speak'"
2008-06-29,"b'Mexicans plant 400,000 trees to protest border fence'"
2008-06-29,b'Robert Mugabe henchmen backed by Barclays'
2008-06-29,b'West Bank torturers funded by Britain'
2008-06-29,"b""U.S. sailor stationed at Sasebo faces arrest for raping fellow serviceman's wife (Sasebo is near Nagasaki, Japan)"""
2008-06-29,b'Gay pride marches in Europe marred by homophobia'
2008-06-29,"b""As a result of pollution, algae has overtaken the sailing venue for this summer's Olympic Games"""
2008-06-29,b'For Nelson Mandela it takes an act of Congress to remove terror label'
2008-06-29,"b'President Mugabe wins run-off, sworn in'"
2008-06-29,"b'Iran is digging 320,000 graves to allow for the burial of enemy soldiers in the event of any attack on its territory'"
2008-06-29,"b'Canadian governmental study group: Let foriegn companies own domestic ones, and turn Canada into another Mexico'"
2008-06-29,b'How the global food crisis was created'
2008-06-29,b'Occitania - the Languedoc region - the country that never was'
2008-06-29,b'Hopeline - 1.800.SUICIDE'
2008-06-29,"b'Schoolboy stabbed to death, England\'s 32nd teenage murder victim this year. Surge in extreme violence called a ""health emergency.""'"
2008-06-28,"b'11 year old girl allowed abortion after being raped by uncle, while Christian fundamentalists threaten against it. What kind of sick fucks want an 11 year old to bear a child forced onto her?'"
2008-06-28,b'Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq. US efforts to force Iraqis to swallow permanent vassal status and give up control of their oil echoes British imperial history'
2008-06-28,"b'Former Dutch prime minister accuses Israel of terrorism, of brutal treatment of the Palestinians, violating international law and implementing racist policies.'"
2008-06-28,"b""1,000 people suffer horrific burns from 'toxic' leather sofas  (from China)"""
2008-06-28,"b'India ready to nail it\'s last hallmark of quality, the ""Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).""  The faculty for IIT will be appointed based on caste rather than qualification.'"
2008-06-28,"b'OPEC: ""There is more than enough oil in the market to meet the international demand"", devaluation of Dollar is the problem, and prepare to ""$170 a barrel before the end of the year""'"
2008-06-28,"b'Why does ""democracy"" take priority over ""freedom""?  Mugabe illustrates the difference'"
2008-06-28,"b""Rioters torched a police building and vehicles in southwest China on Saturday, in unrest triggered by allegations of a cover-up over a girl's death"""
2008-06-28,"b""'We Could Do it Today': Israel Prepared to Use Force Against Iran"""
2008-06-28,b'The Ultimate Iranian Weapon Against U.S.'
2008-06-28,"b'In a world with too many people Italy is paying some of them $15,000 to have babies but in some places the birthrate is so low that the population will be halved in 45 years. '"
2008-06-28,b'Info on animal rights arrests in Austria where the state is trying to destroy a very successful animal rights movement by locking up the leaders without evidence and using anti-terrorist laws. '
2008-06-28,b'European press leaks US military reports on nuclear weapons safety'
2008-06-28,"b""Iraqi officials outraged by U.S. raid in prime minister's hometown"""
2008-06-28,b'Class Struggle and Resistance in Zimbabwe'
2008-06-28,"b'In Yemen girls are married at 8 or younger, influenced by Mohammeds marriage to a 9-year-old. Finally there is some movement against forcing little girls into marriage to pedophile husbands. '"
2008-06-28,b'As more people grow their own produce in response to the credit crisis the food in their gardens is being stolen.'
2008-06-28,b'This US Barbecue Restaurant Owner Serves as Unofficial Liaison to North Korea'
2008-06-28,b'Human costs of new India rail link'
2008-06-28,b'Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil: LATIMES'
2008-06-28,"b""Dad of Serb goon's punk pal brags feds will never nab jock for brutal beatdown"""
2008-06-28,b'Russia joins the war in Afghanistan (Why now?)'
2008-06-28,b'Israelis Beat & Torture Gellhorn Prize Winning Journalist'
2008-06-28,"b'World Powers Say One-Man Zimbabwe Vote a ""Sham"" '"
2008-06-28,b'Jailed and Tortured Fighting for Free Speech'
2008-06-27,"b'Lebanon: ""No food, no water, no sleep, no toilet, until we signed a confession. They used electrical torture, water torture and they tied our hands behind our backs and lifted us.""'"
2008-06-27,b'N.Y. millionaire gets 11 years prison for enslaving workers'
2008-06-27,b'Italy: It has been proposed that all gypsies be fingerprinted. Berlusconis government has targeted them and their camps have been raided by police and attacked and burnt by vigilante mobs. '
2008-06-27,b' North Korea blows up nuclear reactor tower'
2008-06-27,"b""An Indian man who rescued an abandoned bear cub to help his daughter overcome her mother's death has been jailed for it. The bear, put in a zoo, refuses to eat. """
2008-06-27,b'Echoes of Great Depression as Dow takes another dive. OPEC says that oil could hit $170 a barrel over the summer. '
2008-06-27,"b'Nearly 7,500 people have died in official custody in India over the past five years, according to a report by a human rights group. Nearly all the deaths, it says, were the result of torture.'"
2008-06-27,"b""The Fruit Police Strike Again - Market trader's kiwi fruits are 1/25th inch too small and must be destroyed."""
2008-06-27,"b'Sarkozy tightens his grip on France declaring he will appoint the head of French state TV. He already has TV baron friends who lean on, censor or even sack journalists who displease him.'"
2008-06-27,"b'Tsvangirai rejects \'sham\' ballot - Zimbabwe election ""an exercise in mass intimidation"". '"
2008-06-27,"b'""Citizenship law makes Israel an apatheid state""'"
2008-06-27,"b'MPS say: no to genital mutilation, 18 is minimum marriage age, juveniles cannot be punished as adults'"
2008-06-27,"b'Taliban slit throats of ""U.S. spies"" in Pakistan'"
2008-06-27,b'The Queen and the Royal Family have cost the UK taxpayers 40m (~$80m) during the last financial year - up 2m on the previous 12 months.'
2008-06-27,b'10 of the Most Important Economic Events of the Last 10 Years: Collapsing the Economy in the Buildup to World War III'
2008-06-27,"b""Undersea Trafficking: Colombia's Cocaine Cartels Learn a New Trick"""
2008-06-27,b'Revolution: From Prisoner to the Worlds Moral Authority -- Nelson Mandela'
2008-06-27,"b'""One of Mr. Tsvangirais most senior aides, Tendai Biti, was freed Thursday on bail of a trillion Zimbabwean dollars, or about $90.""'"
2008-06-27,"b'London Mayor Boris Johnson drops ""London United Against Racism"" tagline from Europe\'s biggest anti-racism festival. The man is an idiot.'"
2008-06-27,"b""EU forces market trader to pulp thousands of kiwi fruit because they're ONE MILLIMETRE too small"""
2008-06-27,"b'Air India pilots hit snooze button, overfly destination '"
2008-06-27,b'MI5: revealing areas at mercy of collapsing dams is a terror threat'
2008-06-27,b'Rogers Canada releases the worst plans ever created for the iphone'
2008-06-27,b'Oil tops $140 a barrel'
2008-06-27,"b""Zimbabweans refuse to vote and spoil ballot papers, despite Robert Mugabe's violent threats."""
2008-06-26,"b""Zimbabwe's President Mugabe stripped of knighthood"""
2008-06-26,b'Bush asks congress to lift key North Korea sanctions and remove it from the U.S. terrorism blacklist.'
2008-06-26,"b'US wars have bred a generation of ""angry young men"" fuelling al-Qu\'eda, according to new report'"
2008-06-26,b'US removes its nuclear arms from Britain'
2008-06-26,"b""Nelson Mandela ends silence, blasts Zimbabwe's Mugabe"""
2008-06-26,b'Whole Iraqi family of six wiped out by a US air strike.'
2008-06-26,b'Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council'
2008-06-26,"b'The government plans to test 25% of the adult population for paedophilia: Yet another cynical, New Labour ploy to pretend they are dealing with a problem, when they are not'"
2008-06-26,b'Blackwater affiliate company urges use of Sharia law in American court'
2008-06-26,"b'""The U.S.-led war on drugs in Southern Afghanistan is undermining the war on terror. It\'s absolutely conclusive,"" McDonald said. In a shocking turn of events, the war on plants is failing.'"
2008-06-26,"b""The Vatican today angrily rejected the accusation that a former official was behind the kidnap and murder of a 15-year-old girl who was killed and 'thrown into cement mixer'"""
2008-06-26,b'Military facing $100B in equipment repairs'
2008-06-26,"b'State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq. Shining Light on the ""Black World""'"
2008-06-26,b'Russian Cheerleaders (or maybe hookers on a basketball court) [pictures]'
2008-06-26,b'Bloody Day in Iraq: Bombs kills 40 and this suggest that Al Qaeda is not a spent force'
2008-06-26,b'Tiny Luxembourg community produces 90% of its own energy [video]'
2008-06-26,"b'Mexican Soldiers in tac gear, armed with assault rifles, were hired by drug cartels to perform assassinations in US and admit they were prepared to kill Phoenix police, but ran out of ammo'"
2008-06-26,b'After 3-2 Victory for Germany: Turks and Germans Party Side-by-Side'
2008-06-26,"b""Women can't stand one-night stands"""
2008-06-26,b'Exxon WINS...a lesson to American Oil Consumers...our demand causes this!'
2008-06-26,"b""Mandela condemns Mugabe 'failure'"""
2008-06-26,b'Law enforcement flexes its Web-snooping muscle as a quartet of teen rapists is brought to justice.'
2008-06-26,b'North Korea Hands Over Accounting of Nuclear Work. U.S. to Takes Them Off Terror List'
2008-06-26,b'Mexican Government Forced Men to Have Vasectomies '
2008-06-26,b'From Canada: Court ruling said that four Canadian officials appear to have violated international human-rights laws regarding the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay '
2008-06-25,"b""Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe's militia burn opponent's wife alive"""
2008-06-25,b'12 Underage partygoers die trampled as cops block only exit in a Mexico City club. Cops appear on video beating up anyone who tried to leave. (YTVideo)'
2008-06-25,b'Poll: 77% of Israeli Arabs would rather live in Israel than in any other country in the world'
2008-06-25,b'Could Britain become a dictatorship?'
2008-06-25,"b'""For centuries, in the closed-off and conservative society of rural northern Albania, swapping genders was considered a practical solution for a family with a shortage of men.""'"
2008-06-25,b'Iranian commander says Shock and Awe awaits attackers'
2008-06-25,b'Australias Muslim community demands that polygamous marriages be legalized. For the sake of women. '
2008-06-25,b'More Mad Cow in Canadian Beef. (I wonder how many they miss. They never find any in US beef. Cause they make sure not to test it.)  '
2008-06-25,"b'Darfur Activists: It\'s ""Embarrassing"" the US Doesn\'t Outlaw Crimes Against Humanity'"
2008-06-25,b'Another Canadian man executed by Taser. Because he was a combative male.  '
2008-06-25,"b""Here's that Brilliant Documentary about How Monsanto is Screwing Everybody!"""
2008-06-25,b'Man is accused of terrorism and pedophilia - because he took pictures of buses'
2008-06-25,"b""USA says it will ignore the result of Friday's presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe"""
2008-06-25,"b'Sex-abuse suit claims that Catholic Church, under instructions from the Pope, had a policy to keep sex-abuse allegations against priests secret, with ex-communication as the penalty.'"
2008-06-25,b'Ahmadinejad pledges to prove U.S. planned to assassinate him'
2008-06-25,"b""Ha'aretz reports that anti-Christianity toward messianic Christians in Israel is now so intense they can't worship safely without armed protection. """
2008-06-25,b'12 year old boy rescues 2 year old girl from 200 foot deep crevice in Nepal'
2008-06-25,b'Tsvangirai: Send in the UN peacekeepers now'
2008-06-25,"b'In an arabic language interview, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBarade publicly stated for the first time that Iran is ""six months to a year"" away from the ability to produce an atomic weapon.  '"
2008-06-25,b'Global suicide rates have increased by 60% in the past 45 years'
2008-06-25,"b'You wont see most of this on TV: Bombs Iraq, US troops killed, political violence'"
2008-06-25,b'CBS Video: Israel Rehearses Iran Attack '
2008-06-25,b'Pictures of Mugabe Election Violence [warning: disturbing]'
2008-06-25,b'Iranian General: Armed forces is equipped with cutting-edge military warfare enabling it to instantly respond any attack against the countrys nuclear facilities'
2008-06-25,"b""Zimbabwe socialists: `Only united mass action will defeat Mugabe!'"""
2008-06-24,b'A Gloucester bus-spotter is forced to abandon his 40-year-old hobby of snapping pictures of busses and trams because security kooks keep calling him a terrorist and even a pedophile.'
2008-06-24,b'The Best Cure for Anxiety Disorder...... Marijuana!'
2008-06-24,"b'Palestinians fire mortars, violate truce'"
2008-06-24,b'Macedonia: crime reporter who covered a mysterious series of murders turns to be the killer himself'
2008-06-24,b'Police rape of Afghan boys ignored'
2008-06-24,b' China Demolishes Mosque for NOT Supporting the Olympics'
2008-06-24,b'The UK has one CCTV camera for every 14 people. Now new intelligent cameras will be able to pick up conversations.'
2008-06-24,"b""Girl missing since 1983 was kidnapped on Vatican archbishop's orders, police told"""
2008-06-24,b'Israel uproots centuries old olive trees in the Bethlehem region to construct the separation wall.'
2008-06-24,b'Gangs out of control'
2008-06-24,b'Israeli soldier kills himself during farewell ceremony for Sarkozy'
2008-06-24,"b'BBC Interview with McCains Vietnamese captor: ""But I can confirm to you that we never tortured him. We never tortured any prisoners.""'"
2008-06-24,b'NASA warming scientist: This is the last chance...'
2008-06-24,"b'Iraq: Kidnappings, torture, and arbitrary detentions pervade the daily lives of Iraqis. Violence against women and girls, including rapes and killings in honor crimes, is on the rise.'"
2008-06-24,"b'The Failed States Index 2008 - Ranking, Map, The best and the Worst, etc'"
2008-06-24,b' Bomb kills 4 Americans at Baghdad council meeting'
2008-06-24,b'Malaysian city bans lipstick for Muslim women'
2008-06-24,"b""A child's words still ring true 16 years later. A 12 year old entreats the UN to change their ways in this moving speech [vid]"""
2008-06-24,b'US Broadcaster Fails To Reach Arab Audiences:  Have we failed at winning the Mindshare or we have not tried hard enough?'
2008-06-24,b'Grim scene: Rescue divers found many decomposing corpses floating inside the capzised ferry in Philippines'
2008-06-24,"b""Obama's Speech to AIPAC"""
2008-06-24,b'Is Your City Going to Be Bottled Water-Free? A new resolution from leading U.S. mayors shows that more cities may be ditching the bottled stuff in favor of tap. '
2008-06-24,b'Russia may be willing to go to war to stop Georgia NATO bid'
2008-06-24,b'Update on the people of the Former Soviet Union: Kids are increasingly not learning Russian and choose to learn English instead.'
2008-06-24,b'US may open diplomatic outpost in Iran'
2008-06-23,"b'The Real State of Iraq: American television is little interested in the massive disaster inflicted upon Iraq by Washington. If You Are, Read this.'"
2008-06-23,"b'Sunday: 46 Iraqis Killed, 79 Wounded'"
2008-06-23,b'Russia plans railroad link to Japan'
2008-06-23,"b""Howard Zinn: An illustrated people's history of the US empire"""
2008-06-23,"b""'Mugabe has declared war - we will not be part of that war' | Opposition candidate in Zimbawe pulls out of presidential election saying he is not prepared to ask people to die by voting for him."""
2008-06-23,b'Pirate Bay looks to disrupt new Swedish law'
2008-06-23,"b'Former UN Ambassador John Bolton: Israel will strike Iran after the US election, but before inauguration.  Predicts Arab states will be ""delighted.""'"
2008-06-23,"b'Border Patrol agents are checking the citizenship status of travelers passing through by bus and train every day in New York, deporting immigrants.'"
2008-06-23,"b'The fear instilled in me by the army all but dissipated once I was simply a tourist strolling through the town.. the more weaponry and protective gear I carried, the more terrifying the place became..'"
2008-06-23,b'New sanctions on Iran'
2008-06-23,"b'Pele gets robbed, reveals his identity to the robbers. they give back some of his stuff'"
2008-06-23,b'Federal Air Marshals Face Criminal Charges'
2008-06-23,"b""Nation's Spies: Climate Change Could Spark War"""
2008-06-23,"b'Can`t we submit positive news? Roadside bombs decline in Iraq by almost 90% over the last year: Helped by 7,000 new heavily armored vehicles and thousands of ex-insurgents contracted by Iraq forces'"
2008-06-23,b'U.N.: Year ahead looks bleak for Darfur'
2008-06-23,"b""Why U.S. foreign policy is hatred in Mideast: The Imperial 'Justice' of the Haditha Massacre is like mafia`s organized crime"""
2008-06-23,"b'French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for an end to Jewish settlement construction on Palestinian land, in an address to Israeli MPs. '"
2008-06-23,"b""Jesus in China: Christianity's rapid rise is reshaping the officially atheist nation, its politics and the way many Chinese view the world."""
2008-06-23,"b'Record corn prices mean more expensive meat, dairy'"
2008-06-23,b'Pele robbed of his jewellery at gunpoint by street gang'
2008-06-23,b'Burka wearing weatherwoman stirs huge controversy in Belgium'
2008-06-23,"b'Kite flying is banned in Pakistan because.of cultural, religious and safety reasons. '"
2008-06-23,b'They outdid German Nazi and Italian fascists'
2008-06-23,b'Swedish government adopts invasive wire-tapping measures'
2008-06-23,"b""Military abuses rise in Mexican drug war. The US Senate votes this week on a $465 million aid package that includes oversight of Mexico's military and courts."""
2008-06-22,b' Mugabe rival quits election race '
2008-06-22,b'Tiny Shetland island declares independence'
2008-06-22,"b'War Against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia resulting in immense hatred for the US army and America, hatred that penetrates all classes of society '"
2008-06-22,"b'""The Doomsday Code"": Scary British documentary examines Christian end-timers and their growing political influence.'"
2008-06-22,b'AP - Everything seemingly is spinning out of control'
2008-06-22,b'Why China is trying to colonise Africa'
2008-06-22,b'Newsweek: The Booze Is Back in Baghdad; men are shaving their beards; women are wearing jeans and taking off their headscarves; couples are holding hands in public'
2008-06-22,"b'The ugly truth behind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars finally has emerged:  These Wars Are About Oil, Not Democracy'"
2008-06-22,"b""Palestinians Angered Over Obama's Opinions on Jerusalem - Palestinian leaders reject his call for Jerusalem to be Israeli capitol"""
2008-06-22,"b""Secret of the 'lost' tribe that wasn't: Tribal guardian admits the Amazon Indians' existence was already known, but he hoped the publicity would lift the threat of logging"""
2008-06-22,"b'Iran says an attack by Israel is ""Impossible"" while ElBaradei claims it would turn the region ""into a fireball""'"
2008-06-22,b'Italian Court Blocks Construction of U.S. Military Base'
2008-06-22,b'NATO General: We need 6000 more troops to gain trust among the Afghan population or the situation will get worse'
2008-06-22,"b""Journalist 'reported own murders'"""
2008-06-22,"b"" Israel 'committing memorycide'"""
2008-06-22,"b'Blackwater Demands  its contractors in Afghanistan be tried under Islamic Sharia lawyou know, the legal code of the Taliban.'"
2008-06-22,"b'Mugabe, in cunning play for worst government of all time medal, assassinating Zimbabwean grassroots leaders.'"
2008-06-22,b'Israeli troops accused of abuse'
2008-06-22,"b""The body of the wife of Harare's newly chosen mayor was found Wednesday, her face so badly bashed in that even her own brother only recognized her by her brown corduroy skirt and plaited hair"""
2008-06-22,"b'Philippine Titanic: Sunk in 15 minutes, hundreds dead, only four survivors'"
2008-06-22,"b""Is Al Qa'ida in pieces? """
2008-06-22,b'Zimbabwe opposition to pull out.'
2008-06-22,b'Mideast could burn if Iran attacked '
2008-06-22,"b'""The Long Emergency"": James Kunstler predicts the current global gas crunch in this insightful and sometimes hilarious 2005 interview.'"
2008-06-22,b'Attacks in Nigeria force oil companies to suspend production'
2008-06-21,"b""History Channel's documentary on Echelon, the NSA's top secret, worldwide, warrantless spy system that has been around for decades"""
2008-06-21,b'U.K. to Begin Microchipping Prisoners'
2008-06-21,"b""Pensioner, 81, ordered to remove flat cap as he has a quiet pint - because it's a security risk"""
2008-06-21,"b""Mugabe's men bring rape and torture to Harare suburbs"""
2008-06-21,b'Vietnam: Lingering effects of Agent Orange'
2008-06-21,b'The Lisbon Treaty and the massive contempt of the ruling class for British voters'
2008-06-21,b'Venezuela Threatens to Cease Oil Sales to EU'
2008-06-21,"b""UN warns attack on Iran will spark 'fireball' in Middle East """
2008-06-21,b'UNICEF severs ties with Israeli mogul over his funding of settlement building in the Palestinian territories.'
2008-06-21,b'UK Freedom Of Information: A third of all Freedom of Information requests rejected'
2008-06-21,"b""The US has lost its throne as the world's fattest nation..."""
2008-06-21,b' Iran says Israel a dangerous regime'
2008-06-21,"b'Israeli jet exercise is warning to Iran over nuclear facilities, Pentagon says'"
2008-06-21,"b""Israelis 'rehearse Iran attack'"""
2008-06-21,b'Thai PM to face no-confidence vote'
2008-06-21,b'Nigerian rebels ask foreign workers to leave oil installations'
2008-06-21,"b""Aboriginal leaders have threatened to ban tourists from one of Australia's top landmarks in protest at what they describe as racist government policies"""
2008-06-21,"b""Israeli warplanes have conducted what U.S. intelligence analysts say was a dress rehearsal for a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities"""
2008-06-21,"b""UK tops world table of weapons sales - Controversial deal with Saudi Arabia catapults Britain to top of last year's world arms export league"""
2008-06-21,"b'The \'Surgical Re-Virgin\': Retrofitting women to make them sexually attractive and ""marriageable"" is more than a Hollywood fad. It\'s life or death for many.'"
2008-06-21,b'Turkey: Thousands demonstrate against bid to ban ruling party which has been accused of trying to install an Islamist regime'
2008-06-21,b'12 dead in stampede in Mexico '
2008-06-21,"b""Judge's statement halts Euro treaty ratification in UK"""
2008-06-21,"b'This is your captain speaking: there will be a three-hour delay in our arrival in New Delhi because the runway is invested with meter-long lizards, antelope and hyenas'"
2008-06-21,"b""Militias Rule Nigeria's Oil Output; President Yar'Adua Speculates on Nuclear Energy"""
2008-06-20,"b'Defying U.S., EU scraps Cuba sanctions'"
2008-06-20,b'7 Terrible Abuses Suffered By Women Around The World'
2008-06-20,"b'Dad reports son to police when he finds bullets, wanted son to go to prison for 2 years.'"
2008-06-20,"b""Dear Israel, Please don't attack Iran.  Thanks, An American Jew"""
2008-06-20,b'How Iran would retaliate if it comes to war'
2008-06-20,b'US: Israeli military carried out Iran war practice drill'
2008-06-20,b'Martha Stewart denied Visa to Vist Britain'
2008-06-20,b'The UN Security Council has voted unanimously in favour of a resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war'
2008-06-20,b'Story of pure evil: seven-year-old boy eaten by cannibal relatives'
2008-06-20,b'EU Lifts Sanctions on Cuba'
2008-06-20,"b'""Harrased"" Iran Student Arrested: A female Iranian student who alleged she was sexually harassed by her university\'s vice-chancellor is herself arrested.'"
2008-06-20,b'Highland Sword dance ban due to new legislation designed to control the carrying of knives (France was like that before the revolution.)'
2008-06-20,"b'Anglican Church Splits Over Gays, African Church Leaves Main Body'"
2008-06-20,b'Pakistan: Man sentenced to death for insulting Islam'
2008-06-20,b'Fattest nation in the world: Australia'
2008-06-20,"b'Israeli maltreatment of Palestinian captives and political prisoners has reached unprecedented levels of brutality, according to lawyers, human rights groups and newly-released prisoners.'"
2008-06-20,b' Ahmadinejad says enemies tried to kill him in Iraq'
2008-06-20,b'ISRAEL MILITARY EXERCISE DIRECTED AT IRAN...'
2008-06-20,b'UN denounces rape as weapon of war'
2008-06-20,b'Chavez threatens to stop oil exports to Europe over treatment of immigrants'
2008-06-20,"b""Japan gripped by 'poison gas' suicide epidemic..."""
2008-06-20,"b""China's athletes pushing themselves to limit causing some to risk HEALTH..."""
2008-06-20,b'Park Manager in Peru Claims That Uncontacted Amazon Tribe is Not Threatened By Logging and Is Not Peruvian'
2008-06-20,"b""IAF's Bombing Rehearsal On Iran, Reported."""
2008-06-20,b'THAILAND: Condom use not catching on among youth'
2008-06-19,b'Sounds of Silence - Islamic countries have found the ideal forum to muzzle free speech: the U.N. '
2008-06-19,"b'Chinese people now classified as ""black""'"
2008-06-19,b'AP shocked Iran sentenced 177 juveniles to death during the past decade...ignores the fact that the US currently has 78 juveniles on death row'
2008-06-19,b'European Union agrees to lift sanctions on Cuba'
2008-06-19,"b'Finally, the U.S. Mega-Bases in Iraq Make the News'"
2008-06-19,b'House Resolution Calls for Naval Blockade against Iran'
2008-06-19,"b'Amnesty: More than 1,000 unaccounted for in Tibet after demonstrations against Chinese rule'"
2008-06-19,b'Fragile ceasefire begins between Israel and Hamas but Islamic Jihad fires 40 rockets and mortars from Gaza'
2008-06-19,"b'Four oil giants to return to Iraq: Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP'"
2008-06-19,b'Latest Canadian foot was a hoax'
2008-06-19,b'One-third of people shot by Taser need medical attention'
2008-06-19,b'Japanese warship on first postwar China visit'
2008-06-19,b'Swiss TV in German anthem blunder'
2008-06-19,b'World Population to Hit 7 Billion in 2012 But Growth Slowing'
2008-06-19,b'Egyptian troops keep murdering African refugees '
2008-06-19,"b'Ex-State Dept. official: Hundreds of detainees died in U.S. custody in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gitmo, Etc., at least 25 murdered'"
2008-06-19,"b""Nigerian rebels attack deepwater oil facility, stopping 10% of Nigeria's oil output. They also capture US Capt. Jack Stone of a Tidex oil ship. """
2008-06-19,b'UK is the world largest arms dealer. Suck it USA'
2008-06-19,b'Mexico freezes prices on 150 food items becouse of rising inflation and civil discontent'
2008-06-19,b'Hundreds of Taliban killed in Afghan battle: Kandahar governor'
2008-06-19,"b'The young men were told the winter camping trip was part of a Muslim religious retreat, not a terror training exercise as the Crown has alleged in documents submitted to court'"
2008-06-19,b'UK and Danish Rules of Engagement for Iraq 2006 - Wikileaks'
2008-06-19,"b'The Chinese have over $1.5 trillion in U.S. dollar reserves, and when China talks, the U.S. better start listening'"
2008-06-19,b'European Union voted to allow undocumented migrants to be held in detention centers for up to 18 months and banned from territory for five years'
2008-06-19,b'Sweden deals a crushing blow to the right to privacy. Where are my secrets safe anymore? '
2008-06-18,b'Norway passes law approving gay marriage'
2008-06-18,"b'Saddam Hussein succesor surfaces, gives interview despite the $10 million U.S. bounty on his head and outlines the resistance strategy'"
2008-06-18,"b'Wikileaks Gets Hold of US Counterinsurgency Manual that advocates detainment without charge, suspension of habeas corpus, employing terrorists, and false flag operations '"
2008-06-18,b'When Trains are Faster than Airplanes'
2008-06-18,"b""Zimbabwe's voters told: choose Mugabe or you face a bullet"""
2008-06-18,b'Am I a Torturer? a soldier asks himself'
2008-06-18,"b'Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show'"
2008-06-18,"b'Way To Go, White House:  Gitmo Now a Terrorist Networking Spot'"
2008-06-18,"b'Muslim man insults prophet Muhammed, sentenced to death in Pakistan'"
2008-06-18,b'MEDICAL examinations of former terrorism suspects held at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders'
2008-06-18,"b'Kuwait wants to outlaw Xboxes and ban Christmas, do away with the Arab world\'s version of ""American Idol,"" and keep female drivers off the roads. Then what, U.S. military bases too?'"
2008-06-18,b'Japan Times: Member of Japanese Parliament Takes 9/11 Doubts Global'
2008-06-18,"b'NYT Exposes Fraud of Bushs ""Generous Offer"" to Iran'"
2008-06-18,b'South Africa has ruled that Chinese South Africans are to be reclassified as black people'
2008-06-18,b'Petrol strike: UK garages start to run out of fuel'
2008-06-18,b'Three doctors resign over keeping 84 year old man alive'
2008-06-18,b'Man gets death sentence for blasphemy against Prophet Mohammad'
2008-06-18,b'Now Bono is Challenging Sarkozy for failing to live up to commitments'
2008-06-18,b'Indian army chief calls for development of Military Space Command to counter China'
2008-06-18,"b'The son of former UK PM Margaret Thatcher help organize an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea. The plot was approved by the CIA, big oil, South Africa and Spain. '"
2008-06-18,"b""Bush goes to UK and they release Bin Laden's right-hand man. Is this coincidence?"""
2008-06-18,b'Russian Military Tests Weather Manipulation: seeding clouds...'
2008-06-18,"b'Iran in defiance says will ""never"" suspend its enrichment of uranium'"
2008-06-18,b'Indian-origin man jailed for illegal tech export'
2008-06-18,"b'Wiretapping Bill Passes Swedish Parliament, 143 to 138'"
2008-06-17,b'Poll:  World trusts Ahmadinejad more than Bush to do the right thing regarding world affairs.'
2008-06-17,"b'Egypt achieves truce between Israel and Hamas leaders, will go into effect within three days'"
2008-06-17,"b'New Amsterdam smoking ban doesnt apply to marijuana, you will be breaking the law if you smoke a tobacco-based joint '"
2008-06-17,b'Swedes take to the street to fight domestic spying'
2008-06-17,b'Guantnamo has proved a useful distraction from the secret detention camps run by the US around the world'
2008-06-17,b'London Police Attack Bush Protesters with Truncheons'
2008-06-17,b'Fifth severed foot found on Canadian coast'
2008-06-17,"b""Hamas Says It's Reached Cease-Fire Truce With Israel"""
2008-06-17,b'Undercover BBC reporter in Zimbabwe encounters feared Mugabe supporter'
2008-06-17,b'Report: U.S. Gave Green Light For Taliban Prison Attack'
2008-06-17,"b""West Bank 'attackers' arrested"""
2008-06-17,b'Vibrant London demonstration against George Bush attacked by police'
2008-06-17,b'Top 5 - Worlds Smallest Cars'
2008-06-17,b'So much for not talking to terrorists'
2008-06-17,b'Wind Power Blows into Peru and Brightens Future'
2008-06-17,b'Israel and Hamas agree to Gaza truce'
2008-06-17,"b""Shame on US: Refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan Make Up Half the World's Total Reports UN"""
2008-06-17,b'Ahmadinejad to OPEC: Dump weak dollar'
2008-06-17,b'Fifth severed foot found on the British Columbia shoreline!!'
2008-06-17,"b'A backlash is brewing against Beckham and his fellow band of famous Lakers fans, whose prime seats cost up to $20,000 each'"
2008-06-17,b'Time travel could be possible in months'
2008-06-17,b'Iran Attack More Likely as Bush Pretends to Use Diplomacy?'
2008-06-17,b'BREAKING: Car bomb kills more than 50 Iraqis in crowded marketplace'
2008-06-17,b'Iran Withdraws $75B from European Banks to Prevent Seizure'
2008-06-17,"b""Serbia rejects Kosovo's constitution"""
2008-06-16,b' Iran withdraws $75 billion from Europe'
2008-06-16,"b'Lithuania has rejected the idea of sending Germany an invoice for occupying the country during WW II. Instead, Lithuania is demanding cash from Russia for forcing it into the Soviet Union in 1940'"
2008-06-16,b'Israel pressed to reveal why army killed cameraman'
2008-06-16,"b'""People were understandably annoyed at being smashed over the head in their own country at the request of a foreign security service""'"
2008-06-16,b'Russia: Father identifies missing son in neo-Nazi beheading video'
2008-06-16,b'Guantanamo routinely held the wrong men.'
2008-06-16,b'What you dont see on CNN: IOF Shoot Live Ammunition on Peaceful Protest'
2008-06-16,b'Repressive governments are arresting record numbers of bloggers for speaking out online'
2008-06-16,b'Weird:  Bin Ladens son aspires to be peace activist'
2008-06-16,b'RED ALERT: Talibans on the offensive have taken control of eight villages and are marching toward Kandahar city.'
2008-06-16,"b""Blueprint for nuclear warhead found on smugglers' computers"""
2008-06-16,b'17 Reasons Why Bicycles Are the Most Popular Vehicle in the World Today'
2008-06-16,"b'We are very happy with the food crisis. Why? Because we produce a lot of food, and our problem has been the market. (WTF?)'"
2008-06-16,b'RFK Jr. warns Canadians about corporate media'
2008-06-16,"b'Protesters chant ""George Bush terrorist"" and ""Arrest George Bush"" as Bush dines with rupert Murdoch'"
2008-06-16,"b'Satellites Document War, Destruction From Outer Space'"
2008-06-16,b'Who leaked the details of a CIA-Mossad plot against Iran?'
2008-06-16,b' Iraq takes a turn towards Tehran'
2008-06-16,"b""Russia's 7 wonders announced"""
2008-06-16,b'Why Americans Are No Longer the Tallest People in the World'
2008-06-16,b'Man gunned down as he stomps a toddler to death'
2008-06-16,b'Want to understand the conflict in Central Asia?  Cute chibi countries can help!'
2008-06-16,b'Out of Panic Grows Muddled Thinking - the US Airlines Industry | from the hip'
2008-06-16,"b'Refugee forcibly deported from Australia to China is tortured, then commits suicide.'"
2008-06-16,b'Austrian cellar wife returns to dungeon '
2008-06-15,"b'How is impeachment a front page story in Le Monde, while barely being covered in the top tier main stream media of the US? A great Gore Vidal article with some excellent comments.'"
2008-06-15,"b'Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush'"
2008-06-15,b'Bill Moyers Journal: The National Intelligence Agency is issuing a contract to spy on players of massive multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft and Second Life.'
2008-06-15,"b'In May, more US and allied troops were killed by guerrillas in Afghanistan than in Iraq'"
2008-06-15,b'Ireland Punishes the EU for Constitution Trick (They should add a Bill of Rights. That is what it took to get the US Constitution approved.)'
2008-06-15,"b'Congressman Nadler: ""Senior American officials ought to go to jail for this""'"
2008-06-15,b'Maliki calls U.S. demands unacceptable'
2008-06-15,b'Americas Prison For Terrorists Often Held The Wrong Men'
2008-06-15,b'Now they can lock you up indefinitely'
2008-06-15,b'Pair of reporters interview 66 former Guantanamo detainees'
2008-06-15,"b""Britain's military says soldiers can wear their uniforms in London's gay pride march"""
2008-06-15,"b'Nuclear Weapons Blueprint shared with the ""Axis of Evil"" by Pakistani Scientist. Is this Bush`s smoking gun? '"
2008-06-15,"b""Saudi Arabia's oil minister on Sunday will address reports that the world's largest oil-producing country is set to raise production by about 500,000 barrels per day."""
2008-06-15,b'2 US Professors speak in Israel: The pro-Israel lobby in the US is leading the charge for attacking Iran and damaging US interests.'
2008-06-15,"b""World's Most Expensive Real Estate Markets: #1 is London and #8 is Manhattan..."""
2008-06-15,"b'If Bin Laden is Still Alive and Still a Threat, and if Bush is All About Winning the ""War on Terror"", Why is Bush Only NOW Showing Re-Found Interest in Killing Him?'"
2008-06-15,b'Experts astounded at the high rate of imprisonment in New Zealand--almost twice that of most western European countries'
2008-06-15,b'President of Afghanistan threatened Sunday to send troops to Pakistan to fight Talibans for the prison operation that liberated hundreds of fighters'
2008-06-15,b'Covering the Beijing Games? Expect to be Censored'
2008-06-15,b'The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania'
2008-06-15,b'Afghanistan threatens to invade Pakistan.'
2008-06-15,"b'Real people 1, Eurocrats 0 (after extra time)'"
2008-06-15,b'Drugs cartel led by woman turns Mexican town into shooting gallery'
2008-06-15,b'Bush urges British PM Brown not to set Iraq pullout timetable'
2008-06-15,b'Karzai Threatens to Send Forces Into Pakistan'
2008-06-14,"b'McCain Slams Supreme Court\'s Guantanamo Ruling, Calling It ""One of the Worst"" in History'"
2008-06-14,b'What women find erotic: Looking at a naked man walking on the beach is about as exciting as looking at landscapes. Women find naked women more arousing. '
2008-06-14,"b""Palestinians barred from Dead Sea beaches to 'appease Israeli settlers'"""
2008-06-14,b'A jury in Quebec has acquitted a man of first-degree murder in the deadly shooting of a Laval police officer who raided his home last year.'
2008-06-14,b'The Times makes 200 years of newspapers online available'
2008-06-14,b'Japanese are now required to have their waistlines measured and must be below 35 inches. What if this happened in America?'
2008-06-14,b'EU Dictators May Ram Through Lisbon Treaty Despite Irish Rejection'
2008-06-14,b'Tiny teenager from India is smallest girl in the world-1ft tall only!'
2008-06-14,"b'""We don\'t have a clue where he is or even may be, the Western analyst said. We have had NO credible intelligence on Osama bin Laden since 2001.""'"
2008-06-14,"b""German Papers Say 'Many Have Lost Faith in America' Because of Bush"""
2008-06-14,b'So Much for Improvement in Iraq: Militia Leader al-Sadr Calls For New Offensive Against US Forces'
2008-06-14,b'Ukrainian female students stripped off in protest over hot water'
2008-06-14,b'EU referendum: Czech president says Lisbon Treaty project is over'
2008-06-14,"b'In Canada, the government will take your children if you hold unpopular beliefs'"
2008-06-14,b'See for Yourself: Eyewitness Testimony from 9/11 [vid]'
2008-06-14,b'Mugabe vows the opposition will never lead Zimbabwe and threatens civil war. Meanwhile his rival for the presidency is rearrested. '
2008-06-14,"b""Prostitution - Unheard of During the Taliban's Rule - Is Now Common in Afghanistan"""
2008-06-14,b'340 Taliban militants escape after Kandahar prison is attacked with car bomb and rockets'
2008-06-14,b'Popularity of palm oil pushing orangutans towards extinction? Producers resist movement to force food manufacturers to list palm oil on product labels'
2008-06-14,b'EU leaders vow to press on with treaty after defeat'
2008-06-14,b'6.9 earthquake rattles Japan '
2008-06-14,b'Bill Presses Iraq to Recognize Israel'
2008-06-14,"b""President of Jewish National Fund's Florida zone arrested on prostitution charges in connection with a Craigslist sting"""
2008-06-14,"b""New Israeli homes are 'unlawful' - Palestinian leaders have criticised Israeli plans to build more than 1,000 new Jewish homes on occupied land in East Jerusalem. """
2008-06-14,b'European Lobbying Transparency Cyber Action'
2008-06-13,b'it only took two planned attacks in Germany to persuade a majority of the population to support a massive dismantling of civil rights'
2008-06-13,"b""UK MP Resigns to launch a one-man crusade against the Government's plan for suspected terrorists to be detained for 42 days without charge."""
2008-06-13,"b""German Papers Say 'Many Have Lost Faith in America' Because of Bush"""
2008-06-13,"b""'Jewish settler attack' on film. Footage from a video camera handed out by an Israeli human rights group appears to show Jewish settlers beating up Palestinians in the West Bank."""
2008-06-13,b'US Army fraudulently alters armor test results!'
2008-06-13,b'Zimbabwe is going to shit even more - Opposition leaders arrested.'
2008-06-13,b'Fallujah Babies Suffer Unprecedented Deformities'
2008-06-13,"b""A sign of things to come?  Spain's trucker strike cripples the nation."""
2008-06-13,b'Comparison of how many days you can be held without charge in seven different countries. Way to go UK!'
2008-06-13,"b""Mexico and Spain Presidents Reject Embargo Against Cuba and say in joint conference it hasn't worked"""
2008-06-13,b'Mugabe stripped of US degree'
2008-06-13,"b'Insurgent attack frees hundreds from Kandahar prison. 1,710 Taliban now roaming the streets of Kandahar City. '"
2008-06-13,b'Hundreds of Taliban militants escape from prison in Afghanistan'
2008-06-13,"b'While Bush Admin is insisting on Abstinence-only sex ed, Iran -  yep, the one with the so called Mullahs - has been distributing free condoms & needles to fight AIDS for years now!'"
2008-06-13,b'..it is Mugabe who is finding it difficult to come to terms with the reality that he is no longer popular - this is why he is now threatening war.'
2008-06-13,"b'Textbooks at a private Islamic school in northern Virginia teach students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to a federal investigation '"
2008-06-13,"b""'If you want to help Iran, don't attack' - interview with the Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, who was the country's first female judge"""
2008-06-13,b'U.S. Media Blackout On Bilderberg 2008'
2008-06-13,b'Written on the Bodies of Children: The Reality of War (Caution - disturbing images)'
2008-06-13,"b'Drought in Ethiopia has caused food shortages, killed livestock and more than doubled the number of people needing urgent humanitarian aid to 5 million'"
2008-06-13,b'Lisbon Treaty (European Constituion) rejected in Ireland - Tallies indicate No victory in Lisbon vote'
2008-06-13,"b'Israeli settlers throw stones at Palestinian boy, then steal his donkey. Compassion Zionist style'"
2008-06-13,b'Gadhafi: Obama fears Israel will assassinate him like it did JFK'
2008-06-13,"b'""the nuclear powers including the United States, France and Britain - should prepare to use nuclear weapons [...] to prevent the acquisition of nuclear weapons by a non-nuclear state""'"
2008-06-13,"b""E.U.'s New Rules Forcing Changes By U.S. Firms and require companies to demonstrate that a chemical is safe before it enters commerce -- the opposite of policies in the United States"""
2008-06-12,"b'Did US attack Pakistan last night? ""Pakistan fury at deadly US strike ""'"
2008-06-12,"b'If U.S. or Israel drops a bomb on Iran, it will shut down Gulf oil exports by launching a barrage of missiles on tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and Arab oil facilities'"
2008-06-12,"b""Top Secret documents on Al-Qaeda left on a train by a 'very senior intelligence official working in the Cabinet Office'.  Documents found by passer-by and handed to the BBC"""
2008-06-12,b'Seoul protest that started over allowing possible mad cow (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) in beef threatens to topple government. (Why dont WE care?)'
2008-06-12,"b""'Jewish settler attack' on film """
2008-06-12,b'Cult of Scientology has disabled man from Plymouth arrested (Stuart Wyatt)'
2008-06-12,"b'No one knows the long-term carrying capacity of planet Earth for humans, absent cheap fossil fuels, but its likely a lot fewer than 7 billion. The implication is not just sobering; its paralyzing.'"
2008-06-12,"b'Robert Mugabe is stealing food aid from the hands of children, and giving it to political supporters. Does this guy have any semblance of humanity left?'"
2008-06-12,"b'Huh, the American establishment has a LONG history of being incredible dicks to enemy combatants (dating back to WW2)'"
2008-06-12,"b'Marine ""Mean Motari"" gets expelled, another punished over puppy throwing video'"
2008-06-12,b'American Aid Is Seized in Zimbabwe'
2008-06-12,b'US offers pledge of $10.6bn for Afghanistan'
2008-06-12,b'What a great country.'
2008-06-12,b'United Airlines to Charge for Checked Bags'
2008-06-12,"b""Zimbabwe's military is actively involved in running Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign."""
2008-06-12,"b'Chinese are naming children ""Olympic Games""'"
2008-06-12,b'Pentagon released video of a controversial air strike in Pakistan'
2008-06-12,"b'4 dead, 40 hurt as tornado hits Boy Scout camp'"
2008-06-12,"b""Islamic Cleric Issues Fatwa Condemning Gambian President's Gay Genocide"""
2008-06-12,b'Footage of deadly US airstrike'
2008-06-12,"b'British MP to resign, seek-relection in defence of civil liberties!'"
2008-06-12,"b""John McCain believes that it would be a good thing to have a long-term military presence in Iraq as long as casualties are down. Wouldn't that make us conquerors or occupiers?"""
2008-06-12,b'China & Taiwan reopen talks'
2008-06-12,"b'Estonian parliament approves EU Lisbon Treaty, Still Waiting on Ireland'"
2008-06-12,b'Ukranian Women Strip in Protest'
2008-06-11,b'BBC uncovers lost Iraq billions'
2008-06-11,b'War Criminal George W. Bush not Welcome in the U.K.'
2008-06-11,"b'Offensive Speech: US says it\'s ""free"", others disagree'"
2008-06-11,"b'Bush/Cheney Plan Demands 58 US Bases In Iraq, immunity from prosecution for U.S. troops and private military contractors, and will allow U.S. troops to remain in the country indefinitely.'"
2008-06-11,b'Grocery refuses to sell Jack Daniels barbecue sauce (2% alcohol) to 25-year-old without ID'
2008-06-11,b'On farewell tour of Europe: Bush steps up threats against Iran'
2008-06-11,"b""Pakistan Blames U.S. Coalition for Troops' Deaths"""
2008-06-11,"b'Senior intelligence officer leaves top secret terrorist files on train: If Al Qaeda truly were as dangerous as our lying leaders paint them, we would be so fucked...'"
2008-06-11,"b'Food for schoolchildren was ordered to be given to backers of President Robert Mugabe, the U.S. ambassador said.'"
2008-06-11,"b""Cuba's City Gardens Flourish and 70% Of Vegetables And Herbs Are Organic. """
2008-06-11,"b'The European Commission has pledged to support open standards and promote interoperability, to avoid vendor lock-in of European governments to any one technology'"
2008-06-11,"b""China's list of Olympic don'ts"""
2008-06-11,b'Blogging in Singapore: a hazardous business'
2008-06-11,b'Iraqis Denounces American Demands for 60 Military Bases'
2008-06-11,"b'Africa: World Leaders Begin Debate On Crop Use for Biofuels, Food'"
2008-06-11,b'Iran 1st in Middle East stem cell research'
2008-06-11,"b' Set a Guinness World Record, Enjoy a Better Web'"
2008-06-11,"b'France blocks online child porn, terrorism, racism'"
2008-06-11,"b'""Race for Life"" coming to Czech Republic'"
2008-06-11,"b""They're Killing Us Darling. They Really Are. Since the people running the show have been found to be lying, merciless psychopaths then there are no limits to the evil they will do."""
2008-06-11,b'OPEC Supports Saudi-Backed Oil Summit'
2008-06-11,b'A major and twelve Pakistani soldiers martyred'
2008-06-11,b'Turkish PM: court must explain headscarf ruling'
2008-06-11,b'crazy fitness tools from 1860  '
2008-06-11,b'2 US Lawmakers say computers compromised by Chinese '
2008-06-10,"b'Oil shortage a myth, says industry insider'"
2008-06-10,"b""Israel launches 'Iran Command' for war"""
2008-06-10,"b""Petition Calling for an Investigation into 9/11 was Read Into Record of Canada's Parliament Today"""
2008-06-10,b'Canadian HRC Tribunal forces pastor to publicly renounce his religious beleifs'
2008-06-10,b'US and EU threaten to freeze Iranian assets unless uranium enrichment program is halted'
2008-06-10,b'Thousands of UK homeowners face negative equity'
2008-06-10,b'31 year old beats 3 year old to death: worst case of abuse'
2008-06-10,"b'White House Saying Senate Doesn\'t Get to Vote About Permanent Iraq Bases because its a ""Treaty"" ... A Treaty with WHO - Iraq\'s U.S. Installed, Occupied, Puppet Regime?!'"
2008-06-10,b'Man escapes North Korea after 33 years'
2008-06-10,b'The 14-year-old Afghan suicide bomber'
2008-06-10,"b""Zimbabwe 'run by military junta'"""
2008-06-10,"b'Former British Prime Minister: Falsely Linking Iraq to 9/11 was ""Misinformation""... ""We do have something to fear - the total loss of privacy to an intrusive state with authoritarian tendencies""'"
2008-06-10,b'College Drinking and Heart Problems'
2008-06-10,b'What? Tens of Thousands Protest Sale of US Beef in S. Korea for Fear of Mad Cow Disease?'
2008-06-10,b'Bush: U.S. and EU must bond to press Iran on nukes'
2008-06-10,b'Shanghai Composite tumbles 7.7 percent '
2008-06-10,b'Olmert Hints That U.S. Attack On Iran Is Near'
2008-06-10,b'Is Israel planning on using nukes in its next war? '
2008-06-10,b'USS Liberty -- New Revelations in Attack on American Spy Ship'
2008-06-10,"b""World's first church unearthed in Jordan """
2008-06-10,b'Corruption in Ukraine allows epidemic to reach crisis point'
2008-06-10,b'Bush Discusses Iran Sanctions With EU Leaders'
2008-06-10,"b""Tibet and the Olympic `tradition'"""
2008-06-10,b'Saddam tribe leader murdered in Iraq'
2008-06-10,b'Law creates underclass of child criminals'
2008-06-09,b'United States quits Human Rights Council'
2008-06-09,"b""Pentagon blocked Cheney's attack on Iran"""
2008-06-09,"b""'J Street,' a new liberal Jewish organization, hopes to challenge AIPAC's influence over U.S.-Israeli affairs"""
2008-06-09,"b'Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson: ""[The U.S. Military is] proselytizing not on behalf of the Constitution of the United States . . . but rather on behalf of some sort of fanatical view of end times""'"
2008-06-09,"b'EU leaders anxiously await Irish verdict on Lisbon Treaty. Ireland, the only country allowed a referendum will vote on June 12th. '"
2008-06-09,"b"" 17 Hit or Stabbed, 7 Confirmed Dead in Tokyo's Akihabara"""
2008-06-09,b'Treaty tensions mount as Iraq tells the US it wants all troops back in barracks'
2008-06-09,"b""Council paints over street artist Banksy's graffiti murals - worth a fortune!"""
2008-06-09,"b'""Finders keepers"" can get complicated when half a billion dollars and lawyers are involved'"
2008-06-09,"b'Chew Qat: In Yemen, 72 per cent of men and 32 per cent of women chew qat for two to six hours a day'"
2008-06-09,b'One of UKs most experienced and decorated special forces soldiers has quit the army after criticising the government for risking soldiers lives by failing to fund troops and equipment.'
2008-06-09,b'A bitter struggle between two powerful Beltway terrorism analysts has broken out as to whether Al Qaeda is still alive and well.'
2008-06-09,b'Jailers at Guantanamo urged to destroy interrogation notes: lawyer'
2008-06-09,"b'80% UK Laws Now Made In Brussels and the UK Parliament has no power to reject or amend them. Few voters realize how many powers have been, or are about to be, transferred elsewhere.'"
2008-06-09,b'Virgin Media UK working with record industry to spy on and threaten downloaders'
2008-06-09,b'35 Ukraine miners trapped underground - threat of rising water'
2008-06-09,b'Bilderberg attendee Geithner calls for global bank framework'
2008-06-09,"b'Jos Manuel Barroso bullies the Irish, saying that there will be a price to pay if Ireland rejects the Lisbon Treaty.'"
2008-06-09,"b""Don't worry everyone, AIDS is officially over!"""
2008-06-09,b'What if Bush Attacks Iran on His Way Out of Office?'
2008-06-09,b'Future of the United States of Europe in the Hands of Ireland '
2008-06-09,"b""'Military coup' in Zimbabwe as Mugabe is forced to cede power to generals """
2008-06-09,b'Rising Oil Prices Spark Strikes in Spain and a Saudi Call to Meet'
2008-06-09,"b'Chvez to FARC: Asks to end armed strugle, ""The guerrilla war is history"" and that ""time has come to free all of the hostages""'"
2008-06-09,b'Fliers in for pain as airlines pack it in'
2008-06-08,b'Nim Chimpsky: The tragedy of the chimp who thought he was a boy (and proved that humans were not humane)'
2008-06-08,"b""Canada: Beware slippery slope' to censorship, hearing told """
2008-06-08,"b'EU Vice-President Luisa Morgantini and the Irish Nobel laureate, Mairead Corrigan, have been tear gased and injured by the IDF while attending the ""International Conference on Non-violent Resistance""'"
2008-06-08,"b""Israeli minister: Israel will attack Iran if it doesn't abandon its nuclear program"""
2008-06-08,"b'Albino Killings in Tanzania. At least 19 albinos, including several young children, have been killed in Tanzania in the past year. [video] '"
2008-06-08,"b'Chiapas: army occupies Zapatista communities in ""anti-drug"" ops'"
2008-06-08,"b'Polar bear swims 200 miles, is shot dead upon arrival'"
2008-06-08,"b'News is a contraband item in Pakistan now, and it is being sold on the black market,'"
2008-06-08,"b'Albinos, Long Shunned, Face Threat in Tanzania where witch doctors are now marketing albino skin, bones and hair as ingredients in potions that are promised to make people rich.'"
2008-06-08,b'Town in Britain Plans to Start its Own Currency'
2008-06-08,b'BBC reporter among 16 dead in Afghanistan'
2008-06-08,b'Lebanese women still vulnerable to violence: existing legal framework violates international human rights law because it fails to protect women from domestic violence'
2008-06-08,b'Police release chilling images of man left for dead by hit-and-run driver'
2008-06-08,"b""Iceland opens Europe's largest national park. The 15.000 square kilometer (5792 square mile) Vatnajkull National Park. """
2008-06-08,b'Citizens fighting Blackwater Potrero. Was the location chosen so they can train cheap Mexican soldiers or so they can perform extraordinary rendition from a partner facility in Mexico'
2008-06-08,"b""S. Korean protesters, police clash in beef rallies--don't want US beef..."""
2008-06-08,"b""Oil reserves 'will last decades' - a BBC Scotland investigation has been told"""
2008-06-08,b'Cameras designed to detect terrorist facial expressions'
2008-06-08,b'Israeli peace activists protest 41 years of occupation'
2008-06-08,"b""A 5.1 earthquake hits China's Southern Qinghai province."""
2008-06-08,"b'Man goes berzerk in Akihabara and stabs everyone nearby: 6 dead, 12 injured '"
2008-06-08,"b'Threat of world AIDS pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits'"
2008-06-08,b'Angst in Ankara: Turkey Steers into a Dangerous Identity Crisis'
2008-06-08,"b""UK: Identity cards 'could be used to spy on people' and a new children's database may be used to identify likely future criminals. Has covert surveillance gone too far?"""
2008-06-08,"b'Marriage, they said, was reduced to the status of a commercial transaction in which women could be discarded by husbands claiming to have discovered hidden defects in them.'"