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Breaking News Thu, 17 May 2012
Chinese Vice Premier LI Keqiang, right, and LIu Yunshan, left, Director of Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda Department, clap while Zhou Yongkang, center, member of Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Commitee, is introduced during a conference to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of Chinese Communist Youth League at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Friday, May 4, 2012.
China   Communism   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Zhou Yongkang
 Al Jazeera 
Chinese in bold call for official's removal
Thu 17 May 2012
A group of Communist Party veterans has written a daring open letter calling for the removal of China's top security official, in the latest sign of disunity ahead of Beijing's leadership transition.... (photo: AP / Alexander F. Yuan)
President Barack Obama addresses audience members during a posthumous Medal of Honor ceremony for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert J. Miller in the East Room of the White House Oct. 6, 2010.
Photos   Qaeda   Washington   Wikipedia: 2011–2012 Yemeni revolution   Yemen
 Daily Press 
U.S. sends warning to Saleh backers in Yemen
Thu 17 May 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States warned supporters of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Wednesday it may freeze their assets if they hamper the transfer of power in the Gulf... (photo: US Army / D. Myles Cullen)
Germany to give $190 mln to Afghanistan after 2014  The Siasat Daily  Wed 16 May 2012
Germany to give $190 mn to Afghanistan after 2014
Berlin, May 16: Germany will give 150 million euros ($190 million) worth of cash aid to Afghanistan a year after international peacekeeping forces pull out on schedule in 2014 as part of an agreement... (photo: DOD / Public Domain)
Afghanistan   Berlin   Germany   Photos   War   Wikipedia: Afghanistan
Soldiers stand guard outside the presidential palace after a military coup in Bamako, Mali, Friday, March 23, 2012.  Al Jazeera  Wed 16 May 2012
Amnesty cites rights abuses in northern Mali
Amnesty International has accused armed Tuaregs and groups fighting to impose Sharia law in northern Mali of carrying out grave rights abuses such as rape, murder and using child soldiers. A report... (photo: AP / Harouna Traore)
Human Rights   Mali   Military   Photos   Wikipedia: 2012 Malian coup d'état
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Pakistan president to attend NATO summit Al Jazeera Wed 16 May 2012
Pakistan president to attend NATO summit
Pakistan has confirmed its president will attend a summit of NATO leaders this weekend in Chicago as negotiations with US to reopen supply lines into... (photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
Afghan   Nato   Pakistan   Photos   Wikipedia: NATO logistics in the Afghan War
Libya former rebels' Tripoli military commander Abdel Hakim Belhaj, second left, speaks with Libya fighters prior to the arrival of Libyan Transitional National Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil at Metiga airport in Tripoli, Libya, Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. The Daily Telegraph Tue 15 May 2012
'Rendition' Libyan commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj to form his own party
Abdel Hakim Belhadj, a prominent Islamist commander suing MI6 over his alleged rendition by the CIA in 2004, is poised to emerge as a powerful political force in Libya... (photo: AP / Francois Mori)
Islamist   Libya   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Libyan civil war
Ali Jamali Fashi, center, attends his trial, at the revolutionary court in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011. Jamali has been charged with the killing last year of a Tehran physicist, an assassination that Iranian authorities blamed on Israel's Mossad spy agency. BBC News Tue 15 May 2012
Iran hangs 'Israel spy' over nuclear scientist killing
A man convicted of killing an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran two years ago has been hanged, Iran's state media report. Majid Jamali Fashi, 24, was convicted of... (photo: AP / Vahid Salemi)
Crime   Iran   Israel   Photos   Wikipedia: Masoud Alimohammadi
A soldier keeps an eye on the movements at Gurez, about 180 kilometers (113 miles) north of Srinagar, India, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. Indian troops in Kashmir fought a deadly gunbattle with suspected rebels crossing the military Line of Control from Pakistani-controlled territory Saturday, the army said. One soldier and 11 suspected rebels were killed, army spokesman Lt. Col. J.S. Brar said, but only six suspected rebels' bodies were recovered. He said the other five bodies were lost when they fell into a river during the fighting in the disputed Himalayan region. The Siasat Daily Tue 15 May 2012
India may move troops to peacetime positions on Pakistan border
May 15: India is likely to thin-out troops from wartime positions on the border with Pakistan, where they were deployed after the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, according... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
India   Pakistan   Photos   Troops   Wikipedia: Troop
In this photo taken on a government organized tour, soldiers and civilians gather in front of a burning official building following an airstrike in Tripoli, Libya, early Tuesday, May 17, 2011. The Independent Tue 15 May 2012
Nato defends its role over civilian deaths in Libya
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published evidence that scores of ordinary civilians, many of them women and children, were wrongly targeted in a series of missile attacks... (photo: AP / Darko Bandic)
Human Rights   Libya   Nato   Photos   Wikipedia: 2011 military intervention in Libya
Soldiers operate their Bradley armored fighting vehicle during an operation to search for weapons and munitions in areas of anti-Coalition activity along the Iraq-Syria border. The troopers are assigned to 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment. U.S. Otago Daily Times Mon 14 May 2012
Fighting kills 32 as Syria peace plan falters
Fighting in Syria has killed at least 32 people, activists said, and Saudi Arabia said stubborn violence was shredding the credibility of a U.N.-Arab League peace plan... (photo: U.S. Army/Staff Sgt. Joseph Roberts)
Government   Photos   Politics   Syria   Wikipedia: Syria


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