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File - An MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft prepares for takeoff in support of operations in Southwest Asia.
Defence   Pakistan   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Drone attacks in Pakistan   		 The Examiner 
The horror of Obama's Predator drone program
| Glenn Greenwald's recent piece for Salon details how US Predator drones are deliberately targeting those who show up at the scene of an attack and those mourning at the funerals ... (photo: USAF / Senior Airman Julianne Showalter)
Opposition supporters confront police as they protest against the arrest of Criminal Court Chief Justice Abdulla Mohamed in Male, Maldives, Monday, Jan. 23, 2012. The Maldives asked the United Nations on Sunday to send a group of international jurists to resolve what it calls a judicial system failure that has resulted in the military's detention of the senior judge. (AP Photo/Sinan Hussain)
Maldives   Photos   Police   Protest   Wikipedia: Maldives   		 The Guardian 
Maldives soldiers fire rubber bullets at police
| MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives soldiers on Tuesday fired rubber bullets and clashed with police officers who were defying a presidential order to end a protest against what they perceive as illega... (photo: AP / Sinan Hussain)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and Donald Trump, arrive for a news in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, where Trump endorsed Romney.  WorldNews.com 
Romney Should be Concerned about Poverty, Especially His Own
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. | "Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?", asked Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Jesus answered, "You know the commandmen... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
Election   Photos   Politics   US   Wikipedia: Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012  
A protester reacts while Brazilian Army soldiers try to control the situation during a police strike, in Salvador, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Murder rates in the northeastern city of Salvador have more than doubled since the start of a police strike, media reports said Sunday. Salvador is renown for its Carnival celebrations, and some commentators have voiced fears that this week's violence could scare away tourists _ a major source of income(AP Photo/Lucio Tavora-Agencia A Tarde)  Newsday 
Brazil: Standoff between striking police, soldiers
Photos | SAO PAULO - (AP) -- Soldiers clashed with supporters of striking police in Brazil's third-largest city on Monday, firing tear gas and rubber bullets at the feet of people trying to join offic... (photo: AP / Lucio Tavora-Agencia A Tarde)
Brazil   Photos   Police   Strike   Wikipedia: Brazil  
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President Barack Obama smiles while walking to greet a small crowd of supporters after arriving at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Detroit news
Obama: U.S. has 'very good' intelligence on Iran
By Julie Pace Associated Press Comments Melba Conway, an activist with the ANSWER Coalition, holds a stack of signs during a demonstration outside of the White House on S... (photo: AP / Paul Beaty)
Government   Obama   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
FILE- In this April 8, 2008, file photo released by the Iranian President's Office, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, listens to a technician during his visit of the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility some 200 miles (322 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran. For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over the Iranian nuclear program, it appears that world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent, an action that many fear might trigger war, terrorism and global economic havoc. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidents office, File) Middle East Online
What Israel Really Fears about Iran
| As we all know only too well, the United States and Israel would hate to see Iran possessing nuclear weapons. Being “the only nuclear power in the Middle East” is a gre... (photo: AP / Iranian Presidents office, File)
Iran   Israel   Mideast   Photos   Wikipedia: Israel  
Palestinian children fill plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp on September 23, 201. (Photo by Ahmed Deeb/wn) Al Jazeera
Co-operation in a world of scarce resources
| From competition among hunter-gatherers for wild game to imperialist wars over precious minerals, resource wars have been fought throughout history; today, however, the... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Climate   Development   Environment   Photos   Wikipedia: Natural resource  
Jennifer Joanna Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an American actress, film director and producer. She gained worldwide recognition in the 1990s for portraying Rachel Green in the television sitcom Friends, a role which earned her an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. The Times Of India
Hollywood stalkers
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweetJennifer Aniston | Hollywood celebrites are in no way immune to stalkers. In fact, on any given day tabloids are flooded with reports of celebs ... (photo: Creative Commons / Angela George)
Celebs   Fact   Hollywood   Photos   Wikipedia/Jennifer Aniston  
The seed emergency: The threat to food and democracy Al Jazeera
The seed emergency: The threat to food and democracy
| The seed is the first link in the food chain - and seed sovereignty is the foundation of food sovereignty. If farmers do not have their own seeds or access to open... (photo: WN / Marzena Jazowska)
Agriculture   Democracy   Emergency   Food   Photos   Wikipedia: Agriculture  
Egyptian anti-government activists run for a cover from the tear gaz during clashes with the riot- police in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Al Jazeera
Protesters continue to battle police in Egypt
| Clashes have continued in Egypt with police firing tear gas at demonstrators hurling rocks and broken tiles, as the protesters demanded swift presidential election and ... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis)
Egypt   Photos   Police   Protesters   Wikipedia: 2011 Egyptian revolution  
File - A Syrian army defector stand guards in front of closed shops at the mountain resort town of Zabadani, Syria, near the Lebanese border, on Friday Jan. 20, 2012. Al Jazeera
Syrian army 'steps up Homs offensive'
| The Syrian army has stepped up its attacks on opposition fighters in Homs, activists and witnesses have said, a day after a UN Security Council resolution aimed at... (photo: AP)
Human Rights   Photos   Syria   UN   Wikipedia: 20112012 Syrian uprising  
Media Crimes
Brazil's poor seem left behind in growth spurt, observers say Brazil's poor seem left behind in growth spurt, observers say The Los Angeles Times
Backdropped by Egyptian riot police, two men ask protestors not to throw stones during clashes near the Interior Ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Feb. 4, 2012. Was football riot orchestrated to inflame Egypt? The Independent
More good weather seen for Sunday, Monday More good weather seen for Sunday, Monday Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Policemen place a Brazilian flag at a top point of the Complexo do Alemao slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2010. Rio's most dangerous slum that was the backbone of the city's biggest drug gang was taken by 2,600 police and soldiers Sunday, an unprecedented accomplishment by authorities in their fight to secure this seaside metropolis that will host the 2016 Olympics. Murders soar in Brazil city as police strike Al Jazeera
War Crimes
Members of the United Nations Security Council speak with the media at the end of their second day in Khartoum, Sudan. From left Susan Rice (United States), Gerard Araud (France), Vitaly Churkin (Russian Federation). Russia, China veto U.N. plan for Syria The Star
Pro-Syrian regime protesters hold a rally in support of President Bashar Assad, pictured in the large banner, in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. Syrian forces killed at least six people - including two children - as they fired on anti-government demonstrations across the country on Friday Syria "massacre" puts pressure on Moscow to back U.N. The Star
Opposition demonstrators carry a banner reading "Dissenters' march" during an anti-Kremlin protest in Moscow, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2008. Police thwarted an anti-Kremlin protest organized by chess great Garry Kasparov's opposition group Sunday, seizing demonstrators and shoving them into trucks. Later About 50 protesters, one with a banner of Kasparov's group United Civil Front, which is part of Other Russia, gathered at another site in central Moscow and marched about 1 kilometer (half a mile) along a major street, shouting slogans such as "Russia without Putin!" before they disper Rival Putin rallies hold protests in Moscow Al Jazeera
A foreign journalist takes a photo of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, also known as Duch, on a screen at a court press center during the U.N.-backed tribunal Monday, April 6, 2009, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Khmer Rouge chief jailer gets life in prison Zeenews
Technology Crimes
File - Occupy Wall Street protestors wearing Guy Fawkes masks commonly associated with the hacker group Anonymous wait for their turn to step off at the 39th annual Village Halloween Parade, Monday, Oct. 31st, 2011, in New York. Anonymous 'intercepts FBI, Scotland Yard call' Digital Spy
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos holds a copy of "Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies" by Douglas Hofstadter -- the first book sold on-line by Amazon.com -- as he stands Friday, June 17, 2005 at the company's headquarters in Seattle next to a table that shows only a small sampling of non-book items currently available on Amazon.com including boxing gloves, a heart defibrillator, kitchen and electronics equipment, and clothing items. Amazon.com launched on the web ten years ago on July 16th, Amazon Has Tried Everything to Make Shopping Easier. Except This. The New York Times
Google EU: Google should ‘pause’ privacy changes The Daily Telegraph
Demonstration in front of Sydney Town Hall in support of Julian Assange, 2010, December 10. Precedent warning as Assange extradition case ends The Himalayan
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Full StoryAmanda Knox lawyer appeals slander conviction
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