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Alleged Tibetan immolation photos show man ablaze

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
BEIJING (AP) -- A Tibetan writer posted photos online Friday allegedly showing scenes from two self-immolations in Lhasa, the latest in a series of anti-government suicide protests but the first in the tightly guarded regional capital....

AP 'napalm girl' photo from Vietnam War turns 40

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
TRANG BANG, Vietnam (AP) -- In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village....

Bilderberg 2012: Are Bankers Still “All For Obama” Like They Were in ’08?

TruthNews.US - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
Jurriaan Maessen | One of the many questions arising from the Bilderberg meeting starting today is whether the bankers who gather are still “all for Obama”.

UK lawmakers kick up a stink over smelly restrooms

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
LONDON (AP) -- British lawmakers are kicking up a stink about the odor and lack of cleanliness inside restrooms at the House of Commons....

Spain borrowing cost crisis: Rate at euro-era high

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
MADRID (AP) -- Spain's benchmark borrowing rate hit its highest level Tuesday since the country adopted the euro currency, after ratings agency Fitch downgraded 18 banks on Tuesday and investors continued to find more questions than answers in the country's decision to seek help for its ailing bank sector by tapping a (EURO)100 billion ($125 billion) eurozone bailout fund....

Suu Kyi calls for 'healthy skepticism' on Myanmar

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
BANGKOK (AP) -- Myanmar's opposition leader and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi urged the international community Friday to exercise "healthy skepticism" toward her country's reform process as it sheds a half-century of military rule....

Europeans want war crimes probe of Houla massacre

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
GENEVA (AP) -- European countries want the U.N.'s top human rights body to propose a war crimes probe into last week's killing of over 100 people in Syria....

German exports rise 5.8 percent in Q1

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
BERLIN (AP) -- New figures show German exports up 5.8 percent in 2012's first quarter over the same period last year, but slowing within the key European Union market and dropping sharply in those European nations worst hit by the financial crisis....

Diamond Jubilee: Britain marks Queen's reign

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
LONDON (AP) -- The patriotic bunting is ready, the golden carriage on standby, the boats freshly painted, the shops filled with royals souvenirs....

Lebanese action film takes on Israel-Hezbollah war

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
BEIRUT (AP) -- The villain in Lebanon's new hit war movie: a cigar-smoking Israeli army colonel who sports a cowboy hat and a handlebar mustache and repeatedly orders troops to shell Lebanese villages. The heroes: residents of one such village who band together to fight Israeli troops....

UN observers in Syria attacked near besieged town

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
BEIRUT (AP) -- The U.S. accused Russia of escalating the Syrian conflict by sending attack helicopters to President Bashar Assad's regime, and U.N. observers were attacked Tuesday with stones, metal rods and gunfire that blocked them from a besieged rebel-held town where civilians were feared trapped by government shelling....

Bulletin Board 201206

NoNAIS - News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49

Use the comments of this post during this month if you have things you would like to bring to people’s attention and are not sure where else to post them. I’ll make a new Bulletin Board each month for free posting.

Have at it, communicate and keep up the good fight!

Cheers,

-WalterJ

AP 'napalm girl' photo from Vietnam War turns 40

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
TRANG BANG, Vietnam (AP) -- In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village....

AP 'napalm girl' photo from Vietnam War turns 40

AP - World News - Thu, 2024-11-28 13:49
TRANG BANG, Vietnam (AP) -- In the picture, the girl will always be 9 years old and wailing "Too hot! Too hot!" as she runs down the road away from her burning Vietnamese village....
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