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World Opinion Sat, 19 May 2012
Facebook - Mobile Phone - Wi-Fi
Facebook   Internet   Photos   Technology   Wikipedia: Facebook  
Facebook: is it really worth $100bn?
Facebook has 70 per cent of the world’s internet users signed up, but can it justify such a high flotation? | Because he’s worth it: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in New York, where he wooed Wa... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
The Daily Telegraph
Veterans Deserve to Be Economically Empowered
Afghanistan   Defence   Photos   Security   War   Wikipedia: Afghanistan  
Veterans Deserve to Be Economically Empowered
| Sergeant Adam Widner had just finished nine months of personal-security detail in Afghanistan, where he was constantly on alert for those seeking to harm or kill him and others. | When he returned s... (photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod)
Huffington Post
Afghanistan: A bridge too far Afghanistan: A bridge too far
| WASHINGTON β€” Realism is the idea of throwing a U.S. security blanket over Afghanistan for another 10 years after the last U.S. and NATO units leave at the end of 2014. It is a reflection of realit... (photo: US Army / Michael J. MacLeod) Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Afghanistan   Photos   Security   US   Washington   Wikipedia: Afghanistan  
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union Party, CDU, and Christian Democrats Secretary General Ronald Pofalla, right, are seen after the German general elections in Berlin, Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009. Germany's Merkel faces test in key state election
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) are facing a tough task to avoid defeat in a key state election on Sunday. | Opinion polls in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia sugge... (photo: AP / Jens Meyer) BBC News
Election   Germany   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Angela Merkel  
General Opinion
President Barack Obama his fists in the air when he stopped in his chief of staff's office to monitor the staff's progress in lobbying members of Congress to vote for the bill. Obama caught up in pastor smear campaign
| Barack Obama ... a "metrosexual black Abe Lincoln". Photo: AP | The Wrap | It is not often you get to see inside a political smear campaign before it is... (photo: Public Domain / The White House from Washington, DC) Canberra Times
Government   Obama   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
A cow milk bag of 1 litter - dairy product - healthy food Mechanical milking may be more trouble than triumph
Milking time: A scene in the daily round of a dairy farmer's life. - Otago Witness, 15.5.1912. | The indictment which is brought against milking machines constitutes an i... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Otago Daily Times
Dairy   Farmer   Food   Health   Photos   Wikipedia: Milking  
The marble statue of ancient Greek philosopher Socrates stands in front of the headquarters of Bank of Greece, in central Athens, on Friday, July 23, 2010. Fitch downgrades Greece on euro exit fears
| Fitch, a leading credit ratings agency, has downgraded Greece a notch to CCC "vulnerable to default" rating, citing the heightened risk that the country might have to l... (photo: AP / Petros Giannakouris) Al Jazeera
Economy   Eurozone   Greece   Photos   Wikipedia: Greek government-debt crisis  
U.S. Rep. Mark Neumann hugs his wife, Sue, as he takes to the podium early Wednesday morning, Nov. 6, 1996, in Burlington, Wis., to claim his victory in the hotly contested 1st Congressional District seat. Neumann's assets could be as high as $16.38 million
| In his financial disclosure form filed with the Senate Ethics Committee, former congressman Mark Neumann lists a salary of $68,000 as vice president and director of Neu... (photo: AP / Andy Manis) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Business   Finance   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Mark Neumann  
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron walk to Marine One on the Ellipse in Washington, Tuesday, March 13, 2012. David Cameron: it is 'make or break' for the euro
David Cameron has warned eurozone leaders it is now “make or break” for the single currency as the financial turmoil threatens to cause another global meltdow... (photo: AP / Susan Walsh) The Daily Telegraph
Currency   Eurozone   Photos   UK   Wikipedia: European sovereign-debt crisis  
North America Europe
Traveler say he is penniless β€” and likes it that way
Some cabdrivers say no to working NATO weekend
Officials: 3 dead, 3 critically hurt in Little Village crash
Iran, Syria among top for G-8 and NATO
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, gestures while speaking to reporters on the tarmac after arriving in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, May 17, 2012.
Rivals ready to let slip the dogs of war
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Let's not make Germany angry
Britain could be plunged into credit crunch II... and this t
Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reali
Spain crisis rocks Europe as Moody's downgrades banks in
The marble statue of ancient Greek philosopher Socrates stands in front of the headquarters of Bank of Greece, in central Athens, on Friday, July 23, 2010.
Fitch downgrades Greece on euro exit fears
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Asia Middle East
Cyber security: U.S. mulls blocking China Mobile license
HP CEO Whitman: We are proud to be a hardware company
China drops a hint about a Pacific cold war
HP conducts 7 Days Without Printer experiment in Bangalore
Picture must be drawn up for V-shaped business recovery
Picture must be drawn up for V-shaped business recovery
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Nakba Day events geared at vengeance, not reconciliation
The Palestinian day of vengeance and retribution
Anatomy of a Massacre
Video - Nakba Day: Return to Palestine
Israeli border police scuffle with a demonstrator during a protest calling for the release of prisoners jailed in Israel outside the Ofer military prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday May 1, 2012.
Israel: Profile of a Police State
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South America Africa
Oil Wars on the Horizon
Global plan for sustainable development
Lots of Exciting News This Week in Venezuela!
Latin America Delivers a Swift Kick
In this Tuesday, April 24, 2012 photo, Sudanese workers inspect burnt out oil pipes at the oil-rich border town of Heglig, Sudan.
Oil Wars on the Horizon
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Time the Continent Sets Up Own Crimes Court
Scaling up the Fight Against Poverty and Hunger in Africa
COPAC Process a National Disaster
Mugabe Film Misses Crux of the Matter
In this Tuesday, April 24, 2012 photo, Sudanese workers inspect burnt out oil pipes at the oil-rich border town of Heglig, Sudan.
Oil Wars on the Horizon
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Australia Caribbean
When the Concert Party ruled politics
Global crisis as shares crash
Carr 'way out' on call for Taliban to get seat in co
Popularity of an Assange run for Senate could leave Greens w
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Guantanamo: Obama's Ongoing Hypocrisy in Cuba
Tommy Castro & the Painkillers coming to the Old Rock House
How to reach achieve real political reform in Cuba
Negotiate exchange with Cuba
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