News outside the USA of importance. Information about recent events or happenings, especially as reported by newspapers, periodicals, radio, or television or a presentation of such information, as in a newspaper or on a newscast.
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News China Warns Australia - Choose Between us or the United States
05-23-2012
OIlprice.com
What has been rattling the Chinese leadership are recent remarks by the Obama administration that the Pentagon will shift its focus to Asia. Last month the first contingent of 2,500 U.S. Marines to be deployed in the country arrived in the northern c
News Pakistani who helped US sentenced to prison
05-23-2012
The Associated Press
A Pakistani doctor who helped the Central Intelligence Agency pin down Osama bin Laden's location under cover of a vaccination drive was convicted on Wednesday of treason and sentenced to 33 years in prison.
News Egypt's first free election will be a 'lively race'
05-23-2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Telegraph correspondent Richard Spencer reports from Cairo as Egyptians cast their votes in an election that pits Islamists against men who served under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak.
News At Least 20 US Special Forces Troops Are On The Ground In Yemen
05-21-2012
http://www.businessinsider.com, Michael Kelley
A group of around 20 U.S. special operations forces are on the ground in Yemen, reports the Los Angeles Times.
News World's Largest Solar Eclipse Party Draws Thousands to Stadium
05-21-2012
http://www.space.com, by Stephanie Pappas
Thousands of people turned their eyes to the sky at the University of Colorado's Folsom Field football stadium here Sunday (May 20) to watch the moon slip in front of the sun to create a spectacular "crescent sun."
News Bomb blast hits Italian school: at least 1 dead
05-19-2012
http://www.rt.com
A Bomb blast has struck a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, killing at least one student and injuring several others.
News Hollande to unveil cabinet after gender-equal pledge
05-16-2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk,
France's new prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault began work today as President Francois Hollande was set to unveil his entire government and keep his promise of dividing cabinet posts equally between men and women.
News Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial
05-16-2012
reuters.com, By Anthony Deutsch and Ivana Sekulara
Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic taunted Srebrenica survivors on Wednesday at the start of his trial for genocide, running his hand across his throat in a gesture of defiance to relatives of the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two.
News Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You Have Been Told What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
05-14-2012
Farm Wars
The reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. How to protect from contamination by taking large doses of vitamin C.
News This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - Sunday May 13th 2012
05-13-2012
LewRockwell.com
Be of Good Cheer: the Keynesian Welfare State Is Doomed - More College, More Debt, More Unemployment - It's Just as Critical as Your Bug-Out Bag - 2 Reliable, Time-Tested Rifles, Arm yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse
News Chavez gives speech and sings after treatment
05-13-2012
http://www.aljazeera.com, Agencies
Venezuelan president gives rousing performance on his return home after latest round of radiotherapy for cancer in Cuba.
News France's Hollande: Sarkozy underplayed budget woes
05-11-2012
http://news.yahoo.com, Associated Press
French President-elect Francois Hollande suggested Friday that the government of outgoing leader Nicolas Sarkozy underestimated the country's budget problems and wants a new audit of France's books.
News Ecuador law would forgive debt on defaulted mortgages of first-time buyers
05-10-2012
washingtonpost.com, By Associated Press
Ecuadors legislature has passed a bill that would require banks to forgive any outstanding debt on mortgages for first-time home buyers of properties worth up to $146,000 if they default and forfeit the home.
News Chief executive of GAVI wants to 'immunize every kid on earth'
05-08-2012
http://www.naturalnews.com, by: Ethan A. Huff
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-backed group Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI) is on a mission to forcibly vaccinate every single child on the planet against every single known "preventable disease."
News Putin pledges unity on return to Kremlin, protesters held
05-07-2012
Reuters
Vladimir Putin took the oath as Russia's president on Monday with a ringing appeal for unity at the start of a six-year term in which he faces growing dissent, economic problems and bitter political rivalries.
Parliament is expected to approve to
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News Be afraid, exultant Greek neo-Nazis warn rivals
05-07-2012
Agence France Presse
Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn warned rivals and reformers Sunday that "the time for fear has come" after exit polls showed them securing their entry in parliament for the first time in nearly 40 years.
News Many Jews Prepare to Leave France For Israel
05-07-2012
Breitbart.com
Immigration from France to Israel has increased significantly over the past several years, largely due to upticks in perceived anti-Semitic feeling in the country.
News Greek Voters Punish 2 Main Parties for Collapse
05-06-2012
New York Times
Greece was plunged into political uncertainty on Sunday after voters bolstered the far left and neo-Nazi right in a wave of protest that saw the crushing defeat of the dominant political parties they blame for Greeces economic collapse.
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News Sarkozy Voted Out in France
05-06-2012
Lew Rockwell blog
Nicolas Sarkozy, toadie to the United States government and reliable ally in keeping the empire going through debt, war, and crony capitalism, has been voted out and replaced by Socialist Francois Hollande. Sarkozy was among the most craven and oppor
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News Deadly blast hits northwestern Pakistan
05-04-2012
http://www.aljazeera.com
Taliban claim responsibility for suicide bomb attack targeting police, that killed at least 20 people in Bajur.
News Spanish Second Conquest backfiring in Latin America?
05-04-2012
http://rt.com
Bolivia has announced the seizure of a Spanish energy company, hot on the heels of Argentinas expropriation of YPF.
News Bolivian Soldiers Walked Into This Spanish Power Company, Hung A Flag And Seized Control
05-02-2012
www.businessinsider.com
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) President Evo Morales announced Tuesday that his government is completing the nationalization of Bolivia's electricity sector by seizing control of its main power grid from a Spanish-owned company.
Headlines: Bolivian Soldiers Walked Into This Spanish Power Company, Hung A Flag And Seized Control
-- Spanish Second Conquest backfiring in Latin America? -- Deadly blast hits northwestern Pakistan -- Sarkozy Voted Out in France -- Greek Voters Punish 2 Main Parties for Collapse -- Many Jews Prepare to Leave France For Israel -- Be afraid, exultant Greek neo-Nazis warn rivals -- SPAIN FOR RON PAUL *Original Video* -- Putin pledges unity on return to Kremlin, protesters held -- Chief executive of GAVI wants to 'immunize every kid on earth' -- Ecuador law would forgive debt on defaulted mortgages of first-time buyers -- France's Hollande: Sarkozy underplayed budget woes -- Chavez gives speech and sings after treatment -- This Weekend on LewRockwell.com - Sunday May 13th 2012 -- Fukushima Radiation Release is Worse than You Have Been Told What You Can Do to Protect Yourself -- Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial
-- Hollande to unveil cabinet after gender-equal pledge -- Bomb blast hits Italian school: at least 1 dead -- World's Largest Solar Eclipse Party Draws Thousands to Stadium -- At Least 20 US Special Forces Troops Are On The Ground In Yemen -- Egypt's first free election will be a 'lively race' -- Pakistani who helped US sentenced to prison -- China Warns Australia - Choose Between us or the United States --