Liberating Memorial Day
WorldNews.com
WorldNews.com
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Immediately after the American Civil War, thousands of schoolchildren and teachers, black Freedmen and Union troops, and black and white ministers and members of mutual aid societies, all of which had a variety of differing views and experiences and...
Tuareg, Islamists join forces to run north Mali
France24
France24
AFP - Tuareg rebels and the Islamist rebel group Ansar Dine announced they are joining forces and creating a body to rule northern Mali as an independent Islamic state. "The Ansar Dine movement and the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (Tuareg MNLA) proclaim their dissolution in Azawad...
Over 92 killed in Syria attack, 32 of them children - U.N.
The Star
The Star
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Saturday that more than 92 people were killed in what activists described as an artillery barrage by government forces in the worst violence since the start of a U.N. peace plan to slow the flow of blood in Syria's uprising. A child with a Syrian...
Vatican in chaos after butler arrested for leaks
STL Today
STL Today
An already sordid scandal over leaked Vatican documents took a Hollywood-like turn Saturday with confirmation that the pope's own butler had been arrested after documents he had no business having were found in his Vatican City apartment. The detention of butler Paolo Gabriele, one of the few...
Syria: ‘Massacre' in Homs, at least 50 killed
Zeenews
Zeenews
Zeenews Bureau Beirut: At least 50 civilians, including 13 children, were killed on Friday in central Syria in what opposition activists say was a "massacre". The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees activist groups said Syrian troops using tanks,...
IMF Boss Lagarde Slams Greeks Over Poverty
Skynews
Skynews
The IMF's Christine Lagarde said bailout terms would not be eased for Greece The head of the International Monetary Fund has said she has more sympathy for deprived children in Africa than she does for the people of Greece facing poverty. Managing director Christine Lagarde complained of...
Spain’s Bankia asks for $24B in state aid
The Washington Post
The Washington Post
MADRID — The troubled lender Bankia asked the Spanish government for $24 billion in financial support on Friday, the same day that a leading credit-rating agency downgraded the bank to junk status. Jose Ignacio Goirigolzarri, the bank’s president, said late Friday that the bailout would...
Nato’s endgame in Afghanistan
Gulf News
Gulf News
The 28-member North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) during its recent Chicago summit confirmed plans to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and to leave behind a training mission. Plans for handing over command of all combat missions to Afghan security forces by the middle...
Egypt election: Bigger fight ahead for presidential rivals
BBC News
BBC News
Egyptians are beginning to get used to democracy. Since the fall of Hosni Mubarak, they have had a constitutional referendum, four rounds of voting in the parliamentary elections, and now the first round of the first free presidential election in the country's history. That may explain the...
France's Hollande makes unannounced Afghanistan trip
The Star
The Star
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Friday to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year and meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom he saw briefly last week in Chicago. Hollande, making a whirl of...
U.S. senators penalize Pakistan for jailing CIA helper
The Star
The Star
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators scandalized by Pakistan's jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million (21 million pounds) -- one million for each year in the doctor's sentence. "It's arbitrary, but the hope is that...
Activist Chen urges China to prosecute "lawless officials"
Reuters
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng urged authorities in Beijing on Thursday to prosecute "lawless" local officials who harassed and abused the self-taught lawyer, his family and supporters, saying such prosecutions could help China establish the rule of law. In one of his...
Egypt's open presidential race polarizes nation
The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe
CAIRO-Egypt's wide-open presidential election, which was in its second day of voting Thursday, is showing how deeply polarized the nation has become, with backers of rival Islamists and former regime figures each vowing they cannot let the other rule. The impact of their rivalry goes beyond the key...
