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US Congressmen demand justification for drone strikes

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
Express Tribune News | Twenty-six US Congressmen have sent a letter to President Barack Obama “demanding a legal justification from the White House for signature drone strikes.”

Iraq pilgrimage security tight after bombs kill 72

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
BAGHDAD (AP) -- Iraqi authorities banned motorcycles from Baghdad's streets and dispatched tens of thousands of security forces to guard a Shiite pilgrimage Thursday after coordinated car bombings targeted processions across the country the day before, killing 72 people in one of the worst attacks since the U.S. troops withdrawal....

Suu Kyi urges care as world reaches out to Myanmar

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
GENEVA (AP) -- Foreign investment must help - not hurt - Myanmar's goal of moving toward full democracy, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Thursday as she welcomed efforts to reach out to her country as it emerges from decades of isolation under military rule....

Russian investigator denies threatening reporter

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's top investigator denied Thursday that he threatened to kill an investigative reporter over a story that lambasted his agency....

Farage: “The Euro Titanic Has Now Hit The Iceberg”

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
Zero Hedge | In an epic rant, trumping Biderman, UKIP's Nigel Farage appears to have reached the limit of his frustration with his 'peers' in the European Parliament after the Spanish bailout.

UN warns of global collapse due to pesticides; Agenda 21 is pushed as solution

TruthNews.US - News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
Ethan A. Huff | In correctly identifying pesticides and other chemicals as one of the primary causes, however, the U.N. also tacks on the global warming myth in an attempt to push for a centralized, world government.

Australia creates largest area of marine reserves

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia has created the world's largest network of marine reserves and will restrict fishing as well as oil and gas exploration in a major step to safeguard the environment and access to food....

Italian borrowing rates skyrocket in bond sale

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
MILAN, Italy (AP) -- Italy's borrowing costs on its three-year bonds skyrocketed Thursday to their highest level since December, as concerns about Spain and the state of Europe's economy continued to pummel the country's financial markets....

Myanmar conflict spurs hatred for Asia's outcasts

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
BANGKOK (AP) -- They have been called ogres and animals, terrorists and much worse - when their existence is even acknowledged....

Merkel firmly behind euro, but will she act?

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted repeatedly that "if the euro fails, Europe fails."...

Merkel firmly behind euro, but will she act?

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has insisted repeatedly that "if the euro fails, Europe fails."...

Suu Kyi: Nobel Peace Prize shattered my isolation

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi declared Saturday that the Nobel Peace Prize she won while under house arrest 21 years ago helped to shatter her sense of isolation and ensured that the world would demand democracy in her military-controlled homeland....

Suu Kyi welcomes world reaching out to Myanmar

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
GENEVA (AP) -- Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has welcomed steps by the international community to reach out to her country, long isolated because of its military dictatorship....

US envoy: North Korean isolation hides suffering

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news of the wider world, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korean human rights said Thursday....

US envoy: North Korean isolation hides suffering

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- The United States is working to break an "information blockade" that allows North Korea to hide its rights abuses and keep its people away from news of the wider world, President Barack Obama's envoy on North Korean human rights said Thursday....

Merkel says euro crisis will dominate G20 summit

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
BERLIN (AP) -- Germany's chancellor says Europe's lingering sovereign debt crisis will likely dominate this weekend's summit of the world's 20 most important economies in Mexico....

Ex-Israeli soldier seeks Palestinian citizenship

AP - World News - Wed, 2024-11-27 00:24
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- In an odd twist to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian saga, a former Israeli soldier has embarked on a new fight: He wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank....
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