Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Voice of America: Egyptian Riot Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters

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Egyptian Riot Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters
Dec 4th 2012, 21:59

Egyptian riot police on Tuesday fired tear gas outside the presidential palace in Cairo as tens of thousands of protesters marched against President Mohamed Morsi. Police tried to stop the crowd from storming the palace where Morsi was inside conducting business. The police soon retreated and let the marchers through a barrier and up to the palace walls. Many of the marchers chanted the same anti-government slogans used in the uprising that toppled former authoritarian president Hosni ...

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Voice of America: Plane Incident Highlights Tensions Between Iraq, Turkey

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Plane Incident Highlights Tensions Between Iraq, Turkey
Dec 4th 2012, 20:53

Iraqi authorities have denied entry to a plane carrying the Turkish energy minister Taner Yildiz en route to Erbil, the capital of Iraq's largely-autonomous northern Kurdish region. The incident comes as tensions continue to grow between Baghdad and Ankara. Speaking to reporters, Yildiz explained the situation. He said they left Istanbul Tuesday to go to northern Iraq for an international energy and natural gas meeting, on a plane provided by the Turkish prime minister's office. He ...

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Voice of America: Plane Incident Highlights Tensions Between Iraq, Turkey

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Plane Incident Highlights Tensions Between Iraq, Turkey
Dec 4th 2012, 20:53

Iraqi authorities have denied entry to a plane carrying the Turkish energy minister Taner Yildiz en route to Erbil, the capital of Iraq's largely-autonomous northern Kurdish region. The incident comes as tensions continue to grow between Baghdad and Ankara. Speaking to reporters, Yildiz explained the situation. He said they left Istanbul Tuesday to go to northern Iraq for an international energy and natural gas meeting, on a plane provided by the Turkish prime minister's office. He ...

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Voice of America: Plane Incident Highlights Tensions Between Iraq, Turkey

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Plane Incident Highlights Tensions Between Iraq, Turkey
Dec 4th 2012, 20:53

Iraqi authorities have denied entry to a plane carrying the Turkish energy minister Taner Yildiz en route to Erbil, the capital of Iraq's largely-autonomous northern Kurdish region. The incident comes as tensions continue to grow between Baghdad and Ankara. Speaking to reporters, Yildiz explained the situation. He said they left Istanbul Tuesday to go to northern Iraq for an international energy and natural gas meeting, on a plane provided by the Turkish prime minister's office. He ...

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Voice of America: Plane Incident Highlights Tensions Between Iraq, Turkey

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Plane Incident Highlights Tensions Between Iraq, Turkey
Dec 4th 2012, 20:53

Iraqi authorities have denied entry to a plane carrying the Turkish energy minister Taner Yildiz en route to Erbil, the capital of Iraq's largely-autonomous northern Kurdish region. The incident comes as tensions continue to grow between Baghdad and Ankara. Speaking to reporters, Yildiz explained the situation. He said they left Istanbul Tuesday to go to northern Iraq for an international energy and natural gas meeting, on a plane provided by the Turkish prime minister's office. He ...

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Voice of America: Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups

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Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups
Dec 4th 2012, 18:26

Mali is holding its first direct talks with two rebel groups that seized control in the country's north, in a bid to resolve the country's political crisis. Top government officials gathered Tuesday for the preliminary talks with delegates from the MNLA Tuareg separatist group and the radical Islamist group Ansar Dine. The meeting is being hosted by Burkina Faso. Mali was once considered one of West Africa's most stable countries, but it plunged into chaos after soldiers ...

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Voice of America: International Olympic Committee Suspends India

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International Olympic Committee Suspends India
Dec 4th 2012, 18:16

The International Olympic Committee has suspended India, citing concerns about the election of tainted officials to the national committee. Sources close to the IOC said it is expected to announce its official decision later Tuesday during a meeting at the world body's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The ban means the Indian Olympic Association will no longer receive funding from the IOC and its officials will not be allowed to attend Olympic meetings and events. Indian athletes ...

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Voice of America: UN War Crimes Court Upholds Bosnian Serb Convictions

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UN War Crimes Court Upholds Bosnian Serb Convictions
Dec 4th 2012, 18:56

A United Nations war crimes court has upheld the convictions of two Bosnian Serbs accused of killing more than 100 people during the Balkans conflict of the 1990s. The appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the life sentence of Milan Lukic, a founding member of a group known as the White Eagles, or the Avengers, which worked with police and military units to murder, torture and terrorize Muslim communities. Judges upheld Lukic's 2009 conviction for crimes including the burning deaths of more ...

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Voice of America: Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups

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Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups
Dec 4th 2012, 18:26

Mali is holding its first direct talks with two rebel groups that seized control in the country's north, in a bid to resolve the country's political crisis. Top government officials gathered Tuesday for the preliminary talks with delegates from the MNLA Tuareg separatist group and the radical Islamist group Ansar Dine. The meeting is being hosted by Burkina Faso. Mali was once considered one of West Africa's most stable countries, but it plunged into chaos after soldiers ...

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Voice of America: International Olympic Committee Suspends India

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International Olympic Committee Suspends India
Dec 4th 2012, 18:16

The International Olympic Committee has suspended India, citing concerns about the election of tainted officials to the national committee. Sources close to the IOC said it is expected to announce its official decision later Tuesday during a meeting at the world body's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The ban means the Indian Olympic Association will no longer receive funding from the IOC and its officials will not be allowed to attend Olympic meetings and events. Indian athletes ...

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Voice of America: UN War Crimes Court Upholds Bosnian Serb Convictions

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UN War Crimes Court Upholds Bosnian Serb Convictions
Dec 4th 2012, 18:56

A United Nations war crimes court has upheld the convictions of two Bosnian Serbs accused of killing more than 100 people during the Balkans conflict of the 1990s. The appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the life sentence of Milan Lukic, a founding member of a group known as the White Eagles, or the Avengers, which worked with police and military units to murder, torture and terrorize Muslim communities. Judges upheld Lukic's 2009 conviction for crimes including the burning deaths of more ...

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Voice of America: Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups

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Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups
Dec 4th 2012, 18:26

Mali is holding its first direct talks with two rebel groups that seized control in the country's north, in a bid to resolve the country's political crisis. Top government officials gathered Tuesday for the preliminary talks with delegates from the MNLA Tuareg separatist group and the radical Islamist group Ansar Dine. The meeting is being hosted by Burkina Faso. Mali was once considered one of West Africa's most stable countries, but it plunged into chaos after soldiers ...

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Voice of America: International Olympic Committee Suspends India

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International Olympic Committee Suspends India
Dec 4th 2012, 18:16

The International Olympic Committee has suspended India, citing concerns about the election of tainted officials to the national committee. Sources close to the IOC said it is expected to announce its official decision later Tuesday during a meeting at the world body's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The ban means the Indian Olympic Association will no longer receive funding from the IOC and its officials will not be allowed to attend Olympic meetings and events. Indian athletes ...

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Voice of America: Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups

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Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups
Dec 4th 2012, 18:26

Mali is holding its first direct talks with two rebel groups that seized control in the country's north, in a bid to resolve the country's political crisis. Top government officials gathered Tuesday for the preliminary talks with delegates from the MNLA Tuareg separatist group and the radical Islamist group Ansar Dine. The meeting is being hosted by Burkina Faso. Mali was once considered one of West Africa's most stable countries, but it plunged into chaos after soldiers ...

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Voice of America: UN War Crimes Court Upholds Bosnian Serb Convictions

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UN War Crimes Court Upholds Bosnian Serb Convictions
Dec 4th 2012, 18:56

A United Nations war crimes court has upheld the convictions of two Bosnian Serbs accused of killing more than 100 people during the Balkans conflict of the 1990s. The appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the life sentence of Milan Lukic, a founding member of a group known as the White Eagles, or the Avengers, which worked with police and military units to murder, torture and terrorize Muslim communities. Judges upheld Lukic's 2009 conviction for crimes including the burning deaths of more ...

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Voice of America: Labor Dispute at Key US Cargo Port Enters Week 2

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Labor Dispute at Key US Cargo Port Enters Week 2
Dec 4th 2012, 18:14

Negotiations to end a strike at the biggest cargo port complex in the United States are continuing Tuesday, as the dispute enters its second week. Unionized clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in California walked off the job last Tuesday, claiming that shippers who operate out of the twin ports want to outsource jobs overseas. The group representing the shippers and terminal operators say they merely want the right to hire the people they need. Port of Los Angeles ...

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Voice of America: Labor Dispute at Key US Cargo Port Enters Week 2

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Labor Dispute at Key US Cargo Port Enters Week 2
Dec 4th 2012, 18:14

Negotiations to end a strike at the biggest cargo port complex in the United States are continuing Tuesday, as the dispute enters its second week. Unionized clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in California walked off the job last Tuesday, claiming that shippers who operate out of the twin ports want to outsource jobs overseas. The group representing the shippers and terminal operators say they merely want the right to hire the people they need. Port of Los Angeles ...

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Voice of America: UN War Crimes Court Upholds Bosnian Serb Convictions

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UN War Crimes Court Upholds Bosnian Serb Convictions
Dec 4th 2012, 18:56

A United Nations war crimes court has upheld the convictions of two Bosnian Serbs accused of killing more than 100 people during the Balkans conflict of the 1990s. The appeals court on Tuesday affirmed the life sentence of Milan Lukic, a founding member of a group known as the White Eagles, or the Avengers, which worked with police and military units to murder, torture and terrorize Muslim communities. Judges upheld Lukic's 2009 conviction for crimes including the burning deaths of more ...

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Voice of America: Amid Gloomy Climate News, Doha Talks Enter Final Week

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Amid Gloomy Climate News, Doha Talks Enter Final Week
Dec 4th 2012, 19:16

High level officials from more than 200 countries are in Doha, Qatar, for talks that began last week on the next steps after the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N. climate change treaty expires this year.  The ministers arrive in the face of bad news for the planet. A spate of new scientific studies finds worldwide greenhouse gas emissions rising and ice sheets melting rapidly, and predicts a planetary warming of as much as five degrees Celsius by the end of this century unless nations act ...

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Voice of America: International Olympic Committee Suspends India

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International Olympic Committee Suspends India
Dec 4th 2012, 18:16

The International Olympic Committee has suspended India, citing concerns about the election of tainted officials to the national committee. Sources close to the IOC said it is expected to announce its official decision later Tuesday during a meeting at the world body's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The ban means the Indian Olympic Association will no longer receive funding from the IOC and its officials will not be allowed to attend Olympic meetings and events. Indian athletes ...

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Voice of America: Amid Gloomy Climate News, Doha Talks Enter Final Week

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Amid Gloomy Climate News, Doha Talks Enter Final Week
Dec 4th 2012, 19:16

High level officials from more than 200 countries are in Doha, Qatar, for talks that began last week on the next steps after the Kyoto Protocol, the U.N. climate change treaty expires this year.  The ministers arrive in the face of bad news for the planet. A spate of new scientific studies finds worldwide greenhouse gas emissions rising and ice sheets melting rapidly, and predicts a planetary warming of as much as five degrees Celsius by the end of this century unless nations act ...

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Voice of America: Labor Dispute at Key US Cargo Port Enters Week 2

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Labor Dispute at Key US Cargo Port Enters Week 2
Dec 4th 2012, 18:14

Negotiations to end a strike at the biggest cargo port complex in the United States are continuing Tuesday, as the dispute enters its second week. Unionized clerical workers at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports in California walked off the job last Tuesday, claiming that shippers who operate out of the twin ports want to outsource jobs overseas. The group representing the shippers and terminal operators say they merely want the right to hire the people they need. Port of Los Angeles ...

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Voice of America: International Olympic Committee Suspends India

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International Olympic Committee Suspends India
Dec 4th 2012, 18:16

The International Olympic Committee has suspended India, citing concerns about the election of tainted officials to the national committee. Sources close to the IOC said it is expected to announce its official decision later Tuesday during a meeting at the world body's headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. The ban means the Indian Olympic Association will no longer receive funding from the IOC and its officials will not be allowed to attend Olympic meetings and events. Indian athletes ...

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Voice of America: Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups

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Mali Government Meets with Key Rebel Groups
Dec 4th 2012, 18:26

Mali is holding its first direct talks with two rebel groups that seized control in the country's north, in a bid to resolve the country's political crisis. Top government officials gathered Tuesday for the preliminary talks with delegates from the MNLA Tuareg separatist group and the radical Islamist group Ansar Dine. The meeting is being hosted by Burkina Faso. Mali was once considered one of West Africa's most stable countries, but it plunged into chaos after soldiers ...

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