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A supporter of President Barack Obama uses a digital camera to snap a picture during a fundraiser at Southern Maine Community College, Friday, March, 30, 2012 in Portland, Maine.
Guantanamo   Photos   USA   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp   Yemen		  The New York Times 
Obama Lifts Ban on Guantanamo Transfers to Yemen
Thu 23 May 2013
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is lifting his self-imposed ban on transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, where a leadership upheaval has improved the country's security but not... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
U.S. academic and polemicist Noam Chomsky, left, speaks at Jordan's University in Amman, Tuesday, May 18, 2010, during an online lecture with Bir Zeit University in the West Bank.
Dirty Wars   Jeremy Scahill   Noam Chomsky   Photos   United States   Wikipedia: Anti-Americanism		  Democracy Now 
Video: Jeremy Scahill & Noam Chomsky on Secret U.S. Dirty Wars From Laos to Yemen to Pakistan
Thu 23 May 2013
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill and author Noam Chomsky recently sat down together at Harvard University to discuss Scahill’s groundbreaking new book, "Dirty Wars: The World is a... (photo: AP / Mohammad Abu Ghosh)
File - A portrait of Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan, during the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit’s meeting on Afghanistan in Lisbon, Portugal, 20 November, 2010.  The New York Times  Thu 23 May 2013
Afghanistan’s Karzai Says ‘No Circumstances’ Allow Him to Seek Another Term
NEW DELHI — Seeking to dispel widespread rumors that he will find a way to cling to power beyond the end of his second term next year, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said Wednesday that there... (photo: UN / Evan Schneider)
Business   Election   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Hamid Karzai
File - Children at play at the Yida settlement in Unity state, in northern South Sudan, 12 March, 2013. Opened in 2011, Yida has over 70,000 refugees.  Voa News  Thu 23 May 2013
Amnesty: Growing Danger for Refugees
Amnesty International says the world is growing more dangerous for refugees and migrants. The organization’s annual report says the rights of millions of people who have escaped conflict and... (photo: UN / Martine Perret)
Human Rights   Photos   Refugee   War   Wikipedia: Refugee
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The Hon Barack Obama and the Prime Minister of Denmark Kansas City Star Thu 23 May 2013
Obama to address drones, Gitmo in security speech
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to address some of the thornier aspects of national security policy, including drone strikes, the prison... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh and the President of Afghanistan, Mr. Hamid Karzai exchanging the singed documents of an agreement on Strategic Partnership between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Republic of India, in New Delhi on October 04, 2011. Mining Weekly Thu 23 May 2013
India-Afghanistan mining collaboration: exuberance to reality checks
KOLKATA (miningweekly.com) - The exuberance over India and Afghanistan collaborating in the minerals and metals industries was giving way to a reality check as revealed... (photo: PIB of India / PHOTODIVISION )
Afghanistan   India   Mining   Wikipedia: Afghanistan–India relations   Photos
Police and forensic officers near the scene of an attack which has left one man confirmed dead and two people injured near Woolwich barracks in London Wednesday, May, 22, 2013. CNN Thu 23 May 2013
London attack: Terrorists targeting soldiers at home again?
May 23, 2013 -- Updated 0227 GMT (1027 HKT) London (CNN) -- Security experts are starting to analyze events leading up to the horrific cleaver attack of a man believed to... (photo: AP / Alastair Grant)
Crime   London   Photos   Terrorism   Wikipedia: 2013 Woolwich attack
A bus carrying Palestinian passengers arrive from the Egyptian side as Egyptian soldiers guard at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2013. Egypt re-opened the border crossing on Wednesday five days after they sealed it of the abduction of seven security personnel. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN CNTV Thu 23 May 2013
Egypt reopens Gaza border crossing after soldiers released
GAZA, May 22 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian authorities reopened the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip Wednesday after seven kidnapped Egyptian soldiers were released. "The... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
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A bus carrying Palestinian passengers arrive from the Egyptian side as Egyptian soldiers guard at the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on May 22, 2013. Egypt re-opened the border crossing on Wednesday five days after they sealed it of the abduction of seven security personnel. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN The Guardian Thu 23 May 2013
Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release
SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press= CAIRO (AP) — The safe release Wednesday of seven conscripts kidnapped by suspected militants in Sinai brought a victory for Egypt's... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Egypt   Military   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Mohamed Morsi


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A Bahraini anti-government protester throws a stone toward riot police, unseen, as others run during clashes in Jidhafs, Bahrain, on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Police Clash With Protesters Ahead of Bahrain F1 Race Jakarta Globe
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is seen during a photo opportunity in his office at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt Egypt's Morsi plans to reshuffle cabinet Al Jazeera
Protesters in Bahrain denouncing the film. Youths and police skirmish in Bahrain before Grand Prix Daily Press
The International Monetary Fund headquarters is seen in Washington, Sunday, May 2, 2010. A senior International Monetary Fund official says the IMF's executive board is meeting in Washington to consider how much aid to grant Athens under a massive rescue loan package. Egypt-IMF loan talks end without deal Middle East Online
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Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) wave the group's red flag, the Syrian flag, and the Palestinian flag as they holds poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally on May 7,2013. Against Israeli attack on Syria in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel is not getting involved in Syria's civil war, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said just days after two Israeli air strikes near Damascus sent regional tensions soaring. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Hezbollah 'perpetuating Assad's campaign of terror' BBC News
Israeli soldiers work on top of a tank in a position in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, on the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. Israel warns Syria of 'consequences' if Golan fire continues The Siasat Daily
An Iraqi woman, who sells milk, passes by the scene of a car bomb attack in the Kamaliyah neighborhood, a predominantly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, May 20, 2013. Sectarian attacks in Iraq stoked by spillover from Syrian war The Guardian
Threat from within: U.S. military braced for surge in Taliban ‘insider’ attacks Threat from within: U.S. military braced for surge in Taliban ‘insider’ attacks The Washington Times
An X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator conducts a touch and go landing on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), marking the first time any unmanned aircraft has completed a touch and go landing at sea, 17 May, 2013. Justice in the Age of Drone Terror WorldNews.com
Palestinian supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) wave the group's red flag, the Syrian flag, and the Palestinian flag as they holds poster of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, during a rally on May 7,2013. Against Israeli attack on Syria in Khan Yunis town in the southern Gaza Strip. Israel is not getting involved in Syria's civil war, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said just days after two Israeli air strikes near Damascus sent regional tensions soaring. Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Hezbollah pulled more deeply into Syria civil war The Guardian
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