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Iraqis rally to cheer end of US forces
Mexico City News.Net
Tens of thousands of people have attended a mass rally in Iraq to cheer the cessation of US troop movements in the country.
The celebration rally was organized by Iraq's Hezbollah movement to ... Washington police close camp near President
Mexico City News.Net
Police in Washington have closed down a large camping area containing members of the "Occupy" movement.
The encampment, one of the biggest protest areas in the United States, was only a few ... Putin shows he has his own cheer squad
Mexico City News.Net
A conspicuous show of support has been made for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Around 140,000 people attended a rally on Saturday in which placards were raised announcing Putin as a man ... Suspected drug lord in Mexican police custody
Mexico City News.Net
Mexican police have arrested Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, who is alleged to have masterminded drug exportation and murders.
Marrufo, the supposed head of a Sinaloa drug cartel, has been accused ... Five cops among seven killed in Afghan attack
Mexico City News.Net
Five policemen and two civilians, including a child, died in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan's Kandahar city Sunday.
"A car bomb (attack) carried out by the enemies and hit Kandahar city at noon ... Blind doctor can see again
Jerusalem Post
A retired Kaplan Medical Center pediatrician who became blind last year can see again thanks to a donated cornea transplanted into his right eye by his colleagues in the Rehovot hospital.Dr. ... 10-year sentence is stretched to ‘indefinite’
Jerusalem Post
The supreme rabbinical court of appeals upheld a life sentence handed down to a man who has refused for ten years to give his wife a bill of divorce.Meir Gorodetzki was imprisoned by the Jerusalem ... NGOs petition High Court over air pollution program
Jerusalem Post
Adam Teva V'Din (Israel Union for Environmental Defense) and the Coalition for Public Health submitted a petition to the High Court on Sunday morning to compel the government to confirm the ... KKL-JNF launches ‘social forest’ for Tu Bishvat
Jerusalem Post
In honor of Tu Bishvat, as well as Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund's 110th anniversary, the organization is launching the world's first-ever "social forest."The ... Australian town evacuated amid flood
IOL
Sydney - The east-coast Australian town of St George was deserted on Monday as the river that runs through it reached record levels and floodwaters threatened to overwhelm its ... Obama says no Israel decision on Iran attack
Channel News Asia
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama said Sunday he did not think Israel had made a decision on whether to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran's nuclear installations, a threat that has ... Obama says he "deserves second term"
Channel News Asia
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said Sunday that he deserved to be re-elected because the US economy is adding jobs and recovering, in stark contrast to the bleak monthly unemployment hikes he ... Reluctant Greeks agree €3.3bn cuts to secure bailout
The Independent
An announcement from Prime Minister Lucas Papademos' office said socialist George Papandreou, Antonis Samaras of conservative New Democracy and Giorgos Karatzaferis of the rightist Popular ... Conservative group funnels money to super PAC
USA Today
FreedomWorks, a non-profit group that does not have to publicly disclose its donors, provided nearly half the money its affiliated super PAC, FreedomWorks For America, collected last year, as it ... Colorado Seeks 'Roadless Rule' for National Forests
International Herald Tribune
DENVER - A road into the piney woods can be fraught with consequences. That was the premise, more than a decade ago, behind a Clinton administration rule that restricted road building on millions of ... Gingrich vows to take fight to "timid" Romney
Reuters
1 of 16. U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaks at a news conference after the Nevada caucus in Las Vegas, Nevada February 4, ... As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue
Reuters
(Reuters) - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then ... Queen celebrates 60 years on throne
CBS News
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, centre, and her husband Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 3rd right, accompanied by an unidentified member of the clergy , 2nd left, arrive with others at the ... Helping the disabled in Haiti
CBS News
(CBS News) More than two years after the deadly earthquake in Haiti, the long road to recovery continues for those who are injured. CBS News correspondent Whit Johnson has this example of one victim ... Brady sets Super Bowl mark in completions
CBS News
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady reacts after passing to Danny Woodhead for a touchdown during the first half of the NFL Super Bowl XLVI football game against the New York Giants, Sunday, ... Super rich prop up super PACs
CBS News
(CBS News) NEW YORK (CBS) -- Sixteen billionaires on the "Forbes 400," the business magazine's list of the richest Americans have given to "super PACs," according to a CBS ... Katharine Hepburn at her best
CBS News
Plenty of great women have been profiled on "60 Minutes" over the years. But you've never seen anything like Morley Safer's 1979 interview with Katharine ... India's love affair with Charles Dickens
BBC
Nearly 65 years since the end of British colonial rule in India, the works of Charles Dickens continue to be read, loved and taught from generation to generation across the sub-continent. The ... Syria Steps Up Crackdown After Failed U.N. Motion
International Herald Tribune
BEIRUT, Lebanon - The collapse of diplomatic efforts to mediate Syria's uprising reverberated across the country Sunday, emboldening a government that pressed on with a crackdown in the capital's ... Occupy movement at crossroads
USA Today
But Friday night, in a sign of the protest movement's burgeoning identity crisis, police moved in and dismantled the Occupy Austin encampment at City Hall. The city said it no longer could afford ... Death toll continues to rise in football riot fallout
New Zealand Herald
The death toll continued to rise as protesters and police clashed for a fourth consecutive day in the Egyptian capital on Sunday, following the death of more than 70 people at a football game in the ... Israelis face growing threats in Middle East
USA Today
"We try not to think about politics too much," said Nikhama Prat, pushing her 3-year-old son in a carriage along the wood-planked walkway. "There is always something happening with Israel. We're ... Washington Deeply Concerned Over NGO Case In Egypt
RadioFreeEurope
Washington says it is "deeply concerned" over reports that Egypt plans to move ahead with plans to put on trial more than 40 employees of U.S.-funded NGOs. State Department spokeswoman ... Service for Minn. couple missing in cruise disaster
USA Today
Jerry and Barbara Heil, of White Bear Lake, are the only Americans missing in the Jan. 13 wreck. Italian authorities called off the search for victims early last week due to the danger to rescue ... HRW: Policy on Palestinian residency ‘arbitrary'
Jerusalem Post
Israeli government policies regarding Palestinian residency have stripped thousands of Palestinians of the ability to live in the West Bank or Gaza with their families, and severely restricted ... Joint drill with US to be held after delay
Jerusalem Post
postponed Austere Challenge missile-defense exercise before the end of the year, likely in October or November.Senior American military officers from the European Command are scheduled to arrive ...
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