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Eurozone crisis live: EU heading for showdown over growth
Full Article The Guardian
David Cameron has warned that the Greek election is a referendum on the country's euro membership, after last weekend's G8 summit made little progress towards solving the eurozone crisis UK prime minister David Cameron: Greek election is a choice between meeting commitments to the eurozone... or choosing to leave. Photograph: Nigel Roddis/REUTERS...
Eurozone crisis live: EU heading for showdown over growth
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UK rules out further Lockerbie inquiries after Al-Megrahi's death
Full Article Mail Guardian South Africa
The prime minister said the court case, which convicted Megrahi, was properly conducted and news of his death on Sunday should “be a time to remember the 270 people who lost their lives in what was an appalling terrorist act”. Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond, whose government took the decision to release the former Libyan...
In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 file photo Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing but recently released from his Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, is seen below a portrait of Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, as he is visited by a group of African parliamentarians, not pictured, at Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya.
photo: AP / Abdel Magid Al Fergany

Hard days ahead in Afghanistan: Obama
Full Article The Siasat Daily
Washington, May 21: US President Barack Obama claims that NATO remains united on Afghanistan but warns that there will be “hard days” ahead for the Western alliance. “Just as we've sacrificed together for our common security, we will stand united in our determination to complete this mission,” Obama said in Chicago on Sunday, The Associated Press...
President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, during their meeting at the NATO Summit in Chicago, Sunday, May 20, 2012.
photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Serb rightist wins presidency, backs EU path
Full Article Daily Press
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to keep the former Yugoslav republic moving towards the European Union. In a major upset, rightist Nikolic narrowly defeated liberal leader Boris Tadic, ending his eight...
Tomislav Nikolic, center, the nationalist Serbian Progressive Party leader and presidential candidate, talks to members of the media after claiming victory at the presidential runoff elections in Belgrade, Serbia, Sunday, May 20, 2012, with his wife, Dragica at left.
photo: AP / Marko Drobnjakovic

Taliban: NATO nations should leave Afghanistan now
Full Article Atlanta Journal
KABUL, AfghanistanThe Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. Election 2012: Across the nation Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio's past? Gay marriage could be big voting issue in Colorado Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?...
U.S. Army Pfc. Jeffery Penning, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Task Force Red Warrior, along with an Afghan Security Guard member pull security during a roving patrol on Observation Post Mustang, Kunar province, Afghanistan, May 3, 2012.
photo: US Army / Spc. Jenny Lui

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60
Full Article The New York Times
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died in Libya, family members told news agencies on Sunday, three years after Scotland released him on humanitarian grounds, citing evidence that he was near death with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 60. . Enlarge...
Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, top left, is hugged by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

G8 expresses concerns over North Korea, Iran
Full Article Newstrack India
Washington, May 20 (IANS) The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised nations have expressed "deep" and "grave" concern over the actions of North Korea and Iran, and urged both countries to come out clean on all outstanding issues related to their controversial nuclear programmes. "We continue to have deep concerns about...
	G8 expresses concerns over North Korea, Iran
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Growth, jobs are priority for Group of Eight leaders
Full Article Denver Post
President Barack Obama leads a Group of Eight summit session Saturday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. The European debt crisis dominated the talks, with the U.S. promoting a balance between austerity and growth. (Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images) CAMP DAVID, md. — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them...
Growth, jobs are priority for Group of Eight leaders
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Operation Serve and Tell: Servicemembers encouraged to blog
Full Article Stars and Stripes
U.S. troops are invading the blogosphere in increasing numbers to speak their minds about everything from the most mundane topics to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Web site www.milblogging.com links to blogs originating in 43 countries. The majority are created by Americans and 1,550 links come from the U.S. Iraq is a distant second with...
Operation Serve and Tell: Servicemembers encouraged to blog
photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod

Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
Full Article The Times of India
SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the two countries. Chen escaped from house arrest in northeastern China last month and...
Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York.
photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams


CHICAGO (AP) — As President Barack Obama and fellow NATO leaders herald the coming end of the...
There are much tougher tests to come but the G8 summit at Camp David was a quiet success for...
If Greece were a man, he would have aged decades in the past two weeks. The grey hairs would be...

ARCHIV: Der Musiker Robin Gibb singt als Stargast in Frankfurt am Main beim Deutschen Opernball in der Alten Oper (Foto vom 26.02.11).
London, May 21 (ANI): Fellow musicians and fans have been remembering Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb, who died on Sunday after his long battle with colon and liver cancer. The singer was 62 when he died and had provided decades of chart hits with the...
photo: AP / Mario Vedder/dapd
Alibaba.com Chief Executive Officer Jack Ma gestures during a news conference to launch the software called ALISOFT Monday, Jan. 8, 2007 in Shanghai, China. Alibaba Group, China's largest e-commerce company, on Monday launched a new Web-based business software targeting its 18 million users.
HONG KONGYahoo reaches agreement to sell half of its stake in Alibaba for about $7.1 billion. ___ May 20, 2012 10:56 PM EDT Copyright 2012, The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten...
photo: AP / Eugene Hoshiko
The Earth casts its shadow across the moon's surface during a lunar eclipse in Rafah, in the southern of Gaza Strip on Dec. 10, 2011. This is the second total lunar eclipse of the year and the last until 2014. Photo by AHMED DEEB/ WN
If you live in a band across the southwestern United States, twilight likely seemed to come early this afternoon, well before the sun actually sets....
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
File - Turkey's President Abdullah Gul, left, and Chief of Staff Gen. Isik Kosaner, front center, watch the Youth and Sports Day celebrations in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, May 19, 2011.
President Abdullah Gül said in a message that May 19 has become the symbol of national progress. President Gül’s message reads as follows: "Never having conceded on the will to live free and independent, our nation has never accepted the...
photo: AP / Burhan Ozbilici
The opening of the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in the mountain Mokattam in Cairo Egypt,Saturday, May 21, 2011.
CAIRO - Sixty years after their country came under military dictatorship, Egyptians are for the first time freely electing their president. The voting that begins Wednesday is the greatest prize won by the multitudes who took to the streets to...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb
Libyans in Tripoli, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, hold a poster showing Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
David Cameron has reacted to the death of the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing by saying he should not have been released. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60, has died at his home in Libya. His prostate cancer had led to his 2009...
photo: AP / Amr Nabil
U.S. President Barack Obama listens to remarks during the plenary session of the Nuclear Security Summit at the Coex Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
US President Barack Obama, wrapping up the G8 summit hosted at Camp David, says the euro zone crisis is threatening the world economy, but welcomes Europe's new focus on jobs and growth as a potential remedy. 560 315 TelegraphPlayer_9277904...
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G8 leaders Cameron, Obama and Merkel relax by watching Chelsea victory; updated 20 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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G8 leaders Cameron, Obama and Merkel relax by watching Chelsea victory
The Guardian 21 May 2012, David Cameron has warned that the Greek election is a referendum on the country's euro membership, after last weekend's G8 summit made little progress towards solving the eurozone crisis UK prime minister David Cameron: Greek election is a choice between meeting commitments to the eurozone... or choosing to leave. Photograph: Nigel Roddis/REUTERS...

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Lockerbie Bombing - BBC Breakfast Time; updated 14 Mar 2012; published 07 Sep 2008
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Lockerbie Bombing - BBC Breakfast Time
Mail Guardian South Africa 21 May 2012, The prime minister said the court case, which convicted Megrahi, was properly conducted and news of his death on Sunday should “be a time to remember the 270 people who lost their lives in what was an appalling terrorist act”. Scotland’s first minister Alex Salmond, whose government took the decision to release the former Libyan...

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Chicago prepares for NATO summit; updated 20 May 2012; published 18 May 2012
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Chicago prepares for NATO summit
The Siasat Daily 21 May 2012, Washington, May 21: US President Barack Obama claims that NATO remains united on Afghanistan but warns that there will be “hard days” ahead for the Western alliance. “Just as we've sacrificed together for our common security, we will stand united in our determination to complete this mission,” Obama said in Chicago on Sunday, The Associated Press...

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Runoff expected in Serbian presidential race; updated 15 May 2012; published 06 May 2012
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Runoff expected in Serbian presidential race
Daily Press 21 May 2012, BELGRADE (Reuters) - Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic, last in power when Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia was bombed by NATO in 1999, was elected president on Sunday and pledged to keep the former Yugoslav republic moving towards the European Union. In a major upset, rightist Nikolic narrowly defeated liberal leader Boris Tadic, ending his eight...

NATO Chief: 'No Rush for Exits' in Afghanistan.; updated 21 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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NATO Chief: 'No Rush for Exits' in Afghanistan.
Atlanta Journal 20 May 2012, KABUL, AfghanistanThe Taliban is urging all NATO nations in Afghanistan to follow France's lead and pull their international forces from the war this year. Election 2012: Across the nation Political vulnerabilities in Sen. Rubio's past? Gay marriage could be big voting issue in Colorado Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?...

Lockerbie bomber dies; updated 21 May 2012; published 21 May 2012
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Lockerbie bomber dies
The New York Times 20 May 2012, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died in Libya, family members told news agencies on Sunday, three years after Scotland released him on humanitarian grounds, citing evidence that he was near death with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 60. . Enlarge...

Obama: G8 Unified in Stance on Iran, Syria; updated 20 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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Obama: G8 Unified in Stance on Iran, Syria
Newstrack India 20 May 2012, Washington, May 20 (IANS) The leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) major industrialised nations have expressed "deep" and "grave" concern over the actions of North Korea and Iran, and urged both countries to come out clean on all outstanding issues related to their controversial nuclear programmes. "We continue to have deep concerns about...

President Obama welcomes G8 leaders to summit at Camp David.; updated 20 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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President Obama welcomes G8 leaders to summit at Camp David.
Denver Post 20 May 2012, President Barack Obama leads a Group of Eight summit session Saturday at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. The European debt crisis dominated the talks, with the U.S. promoting a balance between austerity and growth. (Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images) CAMP DAVID, md. — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them...

101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan; updated 30 Dec 2011; published 29 May 2010
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101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan
Stars and Stripes 20 May 2012, U.S. troops are invading the blogosphere in increasing numbers to speak their minds about everything from the most mundane topics to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Web site www.milblogging.com links to blogs originating in 43 countries. The majority are created by Americans and 1,550 links come from the U.S. Iraq is a distant second with...

Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in New York; updated 20 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng arrives in New York
The Times of India 20 May 2012, SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the two countries. Chen escaped from house arrest in northeastern China last month and...

Obama hosts world leaders for G8 summit; updated 20 May 2012; published 19 May 2012
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Obama hosts world leaders for G8 summit
BBC News 20 May 2012, US President Barack Obama has said there is an "emerging consensus" that European countries must now focus on jobs and growth. Speaking after the G8 summit of some of the world's leading economies, he said the US is confident that Europe can meet its challenges. President Obama said leaders had made good progress on a range of...

Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest; updated 20 May 2012; published 27 Apr 2012
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Chinese Dissident Chen Guangcheng Releases Video Shortly After Escaping House Arrest
BBC News 19 May 2012, Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng - who was at the centre of a diplomatic crisis with the US - says he is at Beijing's airport, where he expects to leave to go to the US. The blind activist told reporters he did not have a passport, but believed he was going to New York. Mr Chen recently spent six days in the US embassy in Beijing after...

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Victory Speech (English); updated 20 May 2012; published 02 Apr 2012
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's Victory Speech (English)
The Star 19 May 2012, WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the rare honour of addressing both houses of Britain's parliament when she makes her first trip outside Myanmar in 24 years next month, British officials said on Saturday. The Nobel peace laureate has accepted Prime Minister David Cameron's invitation to visit Britain and...

Sri Lanka: reconciliation and justice; updated 20 May 2012; published 17 May 2012
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Sri Lanka: reconciliation and justice
Jakarta Post 19 May 2012, Sri Lanka says it will conduct its own investigation into rights abuses during the final months of the island nation's civil war when thousands of civilians reportedly died, dismissing the need for an international tribunal. Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.M. Peiris spoke Friday after meeting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and presenting...





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