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• Siege of Daraa (Syria)

  15 April 2013 ( #Ba'ath Party, #Syria, #Bashar al-Assad, #Jordan, #Assad, #Deir Ezzor, #Maher al-Assad, #Daraa )

  On 25 April 2011, during the Syrian uprising, the Syrian military launched a large operation in the Syrian city of Daraa. The government said it was targeting terrorist groups, while the Syrian opposition called it a crackdown on pro-democracy protesters....

• The London Tube

  01 May 2013 ( #Transport for London, #Emirates Air Line, #Jubilee line, #Metropolitan District Railway, #London Underground, #UNDERGROUND, #London Passenger Transport Board, #London )

  Entrance to Waterloo tube station from the eastern side of Waterloo railway station The London Underground (otherwise known as the Underground or the Tube) is a metro system serving a large part of Greater London and parts of Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire...

• Mike Tyson

  28 April 2013 ( #Bruce Seldon, #Tony Tucker, #Tyson, #World Boxing Association, #Evander Holyfield, #WBA, #Michael Spinks, #Mike Tyson )

  Mike Tyson at SXSW 2011 Michael Gerard " Mike " Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American professional boxer . Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC , WBA and IBF...

• Westminster Abbey

  01 May 2013 ( #Westminster, #Edward the Confessor, #Westminster Abbey, #Saint Peter, #Royal Peculiar, #Dunstan, #Chapter Clerk, #London )

  West view of Westminster Abbey The Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, popularly known as Westminster Abbey, is a large, mainly Gothic church, in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is the...

• People lose faith in political parties in Pakistan

  08 May 2013 ( #Pakistan Muslim League (N), #Muttahida Qaumi Movement, #MQM, #Awami National Party, #Pakistan, #Karachi, #Pakistan Peoples Party, #Black Day )

  עברית: מוכר תבלינים בפקיסטן Pakistan is seeing its worst violence ahead of its general elections. Most people have little hope and interest in present elections because of the poor performance of political parties in the past. The two leading parties,...

• The Royal Albert Hall London

  01 May 2013 ( #Kensington Gore, #Prince Albert, #Francis Fowke, #Queen Victoria, #Great Exhibition, #England, #Royal Albert Hall, #London )

  The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941. Since its opening by Queen Victoria in 1871, the world's...

• Guantanamo Bay hunger strike

  30 April 2013 ( #David Remes, #David H. Remes, #United States Armed Forces, #Detention (imprisonment), #Hunger strike, #Guantanamo Bay, #Guantánamo Bay, #Human rights )

  A human rights lawyer says a growing number of inmates at Guantanamo Bay have joined a hunger strike. David Remes says out of 166 prisoners, around 130 are now on strike, in protest against conditions and indefinite confinement. He says the U.S. military...

• Mohammad Najibullah

  10 April 2013 ( #Boris Ponomarev, #Babrak Karmal, #Soviet, #Hafizullah Amin, #Najibullah, #Mikhail Gorbachev, #Afghanistan, #Soviet war in Afghanistan )

  Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (Pashto: محمد نجيب الله ; August 6, 1947 – September 27, 1996), [1] better known mononymously as Najibullah orNajib, was President of Afghanistan from 1987 until 1992 when the mujahideen took over Kabul. He had previously...

• What happening in Venezuela

  18 April 2013 ( #United States, #Hugo Chávez, #Nicolás Maduro, #Henrique Capriles Radonski, #Maduro, #President-elect, #Venezuela, #Associated Press )

  Tensions are rising in Venezuela three days after voters elected Nicolás Maduro, the chosen successor of late President Hugo Chávez, to serve out the remainder ... of Chávez’s term. Venezuela’s National Electoral Council has certified Maduro’s victory...

• Capriles Radonski

  15 April 2013 ( #Capriles, #Puerto La Cruz, #Miranda, #Nicolás Maduro, #Henrique Capriles Radonski, #Caracas, #Venezuela, #Diosdado Cabello )

  Henrique Capriles Radonski (Spanish pronunciation: [enˈrike kaˈpɾiles raˈðonski] , born 11 July 1972) is a Venezuelan politician and lawyer. From 2000 until 2008, Capriles was the mayor of Baruta Municipality of Caracas. In November 2008, Capriles was...

• Pervez Musharraf is remanded in judicial custody

  20 April 2013 ( #Islamabad, #All Pakistan Muslim League, #Detention (imprisonment), #Pervez Musharraf, #Anti Terrorism Court of Pakistan, #State of emergency, #Pakistan, #Benazir Bhutto )

  Pakistan’s former military ruler Pervez Musharraf is remanded in judicial custody for two weeks over a crackdown on the judiciary during his time in office. He is also accused of conspiracy to murder opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in 2007 and of treason...

• The Nuremberg principles

  18 April 2013 ( #Nuremberg Trials, #United Nations, #Nuremberg principles, #War crime, #World War II, #Nazi, #International law, #Law )

  Nuremberg The Nuremberg principles were a set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime . The document was created by the International Law Commission of the United Nations to codify the legal principles underlying the Nuremberg Trials...

• 25 percent of Denmark is now powered exclusively by wind

  14 April 2013 ( #Wind power, #Wind farm, #Wind, #Energy, #Denmark, #Wind turbine, #Watt, #Percentage )

  Denmark is no stranger to green energy, but this latest news is something special. With its latest 3.6... megawatt offshore wind turbine up and running, Denmark has just stepped over the one gigawatt wind energy threshold. That's almost enough power to...

• Suiside attacks in Pakistan

  03 March 2013 ( #Lal Masjid, #Suicide attack, #Sakhi Sarwar, #Waziristan, #Death, #Pakistan, #alqaeda, #Suicide )

  “All I was thinking was that I had to detonate myself near as many people as possible. When I decided it was the right time, it was a moment of happiness for me,” chilling words from a 14 year old suicide bomber who was involved in a suicide attack in...

• Kim Jong-un

  14 April 2013 ( #First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, #Supreme People's Assembly, #Korean People's Army, #North Korea, #Kim Jong, #Kim Jong-il, #Kim, #Kim Jong-un )

  Kim Jong-un [4] Korean pronunciation: [kimdʑʌŋɯn] (born 8 January 1983 or 1984) [5] —also romanised as Kim Jong-eun, Kim Jong Un or Kim Jung-eun [6] —is the supreme leader of North Korea, the son of Kim Jong-il (1941–2011) and the grandson of Kim Il-sung...

• Sir David Frost

  14 April 2013 ( #Frost, #Richard Nixon, #Week That Was, #Nottingham Forest F.C, #Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, #David Frost, #P. J. Kavanagh, #Cambridge )

  Sir David Paradine Frost, Kt., OBE (born 7 April 1939) is an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and daytime TV game show host best known for his two decades as host of Through the Keyhole and serious interviews with various political...

• The Associated Press

  13 April 2013 ( #United States, #Xinhua News Agency, #News agency, #Washington Post, #Newspaper Guild, #Burma, #Associated Press, #New York City )

  Logo on the former AP Building in New York City The Associated Press is a multinational non-profit news agency based in New York City. The AP is a nonprofit cooperative owned by its contributingnewspapers, radio, and television stations in the United...

• Boston Bombing Suspect Is in Police Custody

  20 April 2013 ( #Friday, #Boston Marathon, #Greater Boston, #Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, #Mass (liturgy), #Law Enforcement, #Law, #Boston )

  The teenage suspect in the marathon bombings, whose flight from the police after a furious gunfight early Friday morning sparked an intense manhunt that virtually shut down the entire Boston metropolitan area all day, was taken into custody Friday night...

• Al Jazeera English

  14 April 2013 ( #Los Angeles, #Doha, #AlJazeera, #Qatar, #Al Jazeera English, #Adel Iskandar, #Arabic language, #Middle East )

  Al_Jazeera_English_Doha_Newsroom Al Jazeera English (AJE) is an international 24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel headquartered in Doha, Qatar. It is the sister channel of the Arabic-language Al Jazeera. The station broadcasts...

• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  27 March 2013 ( #Office for Strengthening Unity, #Tehran, #Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, #United States, #President of Iran, #Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, #Iran, #Mohammad Khatami )

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Persian: محمود احمدی نژاد , Mahmūd Ahmadinezhād [mæhˈmuːd(-e) æhmædiːneˈʒɒːd] ( listen), [2] [3] [4] born 28 October 1956) [5] [6] is the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the main political leader of...

• 20m in West Africa at risk of food crisis

  25 February 2013 ( #Somalia, #Sahel, #Burkina Faso, #Drought, #Al-Shabaab, #Kenya, #World Food Programme, #West Africa )

  THE World Food Programme has warned that 20 million people across West Africa are still at risk of a food crisis. Things can be worse between August and December. Dried weather, lack of rains, poor harvests, lack of food and increased food prices are...

• improvised explosive device (IED) Main Casue of Civilain Deahts in Afghanistan

  04 May 2013 ( #War in Afghanistan (2001–present), #Iraq, #Iraq War, #Warfare and Conflict, #Asia, #Sri Lanka, #Afghanistan, #Improvised explosive device )

  An improvised explosive device (IED) is a homemade bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery round, attached to a detonating mechanism....

• A Pakistani court has ordered the arrest of former president Pervez Musharraf

  18 April 2013 ( #Islamabad, #Islamabad High Court, #All Pakistan Muslim League, #Musharraf, #Pervez Musharraf, #Pakistan, #Benazir Bhutto, #Supreme Court )

  A Pakistani court has ordered the arrest of former president Pervez Musharraf in connection with charges relating to his showdown with the judiciary in 2007 when he was still in power, his spokesperson has said. Islamabad High Court on Thursday ordered...

• Tony Cozier

  04 April 2013 ( #Test Match Special, #Ottawa, #Bridgetown, #Caribbean, #Carleton University, #Tony Cozier, #BBC, #Barbados )

  Cover of Tony Cozier's 1978 book: The West Indies: Fifty years of Test Cricket (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Anthony "Tony" Cozier (born 10 July 1940 in Bridgetown, Barbados) has been a cricket writer and commentator for West Indian cricket since 1958. Cozier...

• Boris Becker

  10 April 2013 ( #Grand Slam Cup, #Becker, #Kevin Curren, #Wimbledon, #Queen's Club, #Ivan Lendl, #Tennis, #Boris Becker )

  Boris Franz Becker (born 22 November 1967) is a former World No. 1 professional tennis player from Germany. He is a six-time Grand Slam singles champion, an Olympic gold medalist in doubles, and the youngest-ever winner of the men's singles title at Wimbledon...