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AP: In addition to success stories, "US wasted billions in rebuilding Iraq "

Posted by kluciole at 8/29/2010 5:48 PM | Add Comment

'Pregnant nun' ice cream ad faces ban in Catholic outcry

Posted by kluciole at 8/28/2010 5:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

U.S. vows help in fight against Congo sexual violence

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 1:49 AM | Add Comment

My dad was a Marine. We used to go to this base often; we were stationed nearby. "Marines pour resources into mental health care"

Posted by kluciole at 8/26/2010 1:38 AM | Add Comment

Some 200 women (and at least four male babies, one only a month old) gang-raped near Congo UN base

Posted by kluciole at 8/24/2010 9:35 AM | Add Comment

Why Do 20% of Americans Think Obama Is Muslim?

Posted by kluciole at 8/20/2010 12:22 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Author Jonathan Schneer traces lead-up to "The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict"

Posted by kluciole at 8/11/2010 11:48 AM | Add Comment

Israeli art show's portrayal of FM as a pig sparks protests

Posted by kluciole at 8/9/2010 7:39 PM | Add Comment

TIME article: "Argentina Belatedly Celebrates a Journalist Hero"

Posted by kluciole at 8/1/2010 5:18 AM | Add Comment

Rare 3D film shows Warsaw devastated after WWII

Posted by kluciole at 7/29/2010 3:04 AM | Add Comment

NY Times article -- "Inside the Fog of War: Reports From the Ground in Afghanistan"

Posted by kluciole at 7/26/2010 1:20 AM | Add Comment

Gadget makers forced to look at links to Congo war

Posted by kluciole at 7/25/2010 5:42 AM | Add Comment

Former inmates of Auschwitz, a Catholic Pole recalls daring escape to save his Jewish girlfriend

Posted by kluciole at 7/21/2010 4:28 AM | Add Comment

Promises, Promises: US fails to punish Sudan

Posted by kluciole at 7/13/2010 12:51 AM | Add Comment

Two articles: "Iran to review woman's stoning verdict" and "How can a nation that could soon be a nuclear power still legally stone women to death for adultery?"

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:06 AM | Add Comment

Presbyterians: End Israel aid over settlements. "Israel's peace will not come until they seek peace with Palestinians"

Posted by kluciole at 7/10/2010 12:00 AM | Add Comment

'Help us save our mother': Pleas from children of Iranian woman convicted of adultery, who faces death by stoning

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:48 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a amiling refugee Afghan boy looks through a window in Kabul

Posted by kluciole at 7/1/2010 11:45 PM | Add Comment

Funniest reason given for why someone could not be a Russian spy

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:56 PM | Add Comment

Thousands of French Nazi collaborators revealed as official reports are published online

Posted by kluciole at 6/29/2010 2:44 PM | Add Comment

Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children

Posted by kluciole at 6/28/2010 3:02 PM | Add Comment

Documents show vast cleanup of Plum Island, New York "since 2000 to remove vast amounts of waste and contaminants at site of top-secret Army germ warfare research"

Posted by kluciole at 6/27/2010 3:56 PM | Add Comment

Source tells Washington Post that Rolling Stone violated interview ground rules in McChrystal profile; did the reporter "essentially take run-of-the-mill complaining and turn it into a direct challenge to presidential authority"?

Posted by kluciole at 6/25/2010 6:50 PM | Add Comment

Oglala Lakota code talker Clarence Wolf Guts laid to rest

Posted by kluciole at 6/24/2010 6:27 AM | Add Comment

WWII nurse in iconic Times Square kissing photo dies; Edith Shain was 91

Posted by kluciole at 6/23/2010 5:16 PM | Add Comment

Only known photographs of French Resistance fighters facing Nazi firing squad shown for first time

Posted by kluciole at 6/22/2010 12:18 AM | Add Comment

HBO works to get film on Iranian dissident Neda Agha Soltan seen by as many people as possible within Iran as anniversary of her death approaches

Posted by kluciole at 6/19/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan worsens; Uzbeks allege rapes, say troops let violence occur

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 4:49 PM | Add Comment

Israel agrees to ease Gaza land blockade

Posted by kluciole at 6/17/2010 9:18 AM | Add Comment

Bloody Sunday report blames British soldiers fully; Cameron offers apology

Posted by kluciole at 6/15/2010 3:00 PM | Add Comment

More than 12 million are modern slaves — trapped in forced labor, bonded labor or forced prostitution

Posted by kluciole at 6/14/2010 5:05 PM | Add Comment

Hispanics abandon Arizona, fleeing economy, immigration law

Posted by kluciole at 6/11/2010 9:06 AM | Add Comment

Rare photo of slave children found in NC attic

Posted by kluciole at 6/10/2010 5:49 PM | Add Comment

Chinese farmer uses homemade cannon to fight eviction; "China has witnessed a surge of violent confrontations triggered by land seizures as officials and businesses seek to cash in by evicting residents"

Posted by kluciole at 6/9/2010 9:39 AM | Add Comment

El Paso Border Patrol shooting murky; both sides alledge misconduct in shooting of 15-year-old Mexican by U.S. Border Patrol agent

Posted by kluciole at 6/8/2010 3:09 PM | Add Comment

Prescott, Arizona elementary school to 'whiten' image of child in mural

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2010 5:29 PM | Add Comment

Autopsy shows Gaza activists were hit 30 times at close range

Posted by kluciole at 6/4/2010 5:26 PM | Add Comment

Head of large Congo human rights group found dead. Floribert Chebeya Bahizire was head of Voix des Sans Voix, or Voice of the Voiceless

Posted by kluciole at 6/3/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Egypt opens Gaza border -- for those already cleared (pre-cleared patients with medical emergencies and students with visas to study abroad)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:51 PM | Add Comment

The Code of Hammurabi (1795-1750 BCE)

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 9:10 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Blair: Gaza blockade counterproductive but hard to ease

Posted by kluciole at 6/2/2010 8:56 AM | Add Comment

Activists send new boat to challenge Gaza blockade as Egypt lifts its side of blockade for aid

Posted by kluciole at 6/1/2010 5:24 AM | Add Comment

Links to the Guardian's news coverage of Israel and the Gaza flotilla; the 600 passengers of the flotilla included a Nobel Peace Laureate

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:34 PM | Add Comment

Q&A: Aid and Israel's Gaza blockade

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:27 PM | Add Comment

Bloody Israeli raid on flotilla sparks crisis

Posted by kluciole at 5/31/2010 3:16 PM | Add Comment

Al-Jazeera anchorwomen 'quit in clothing spat'

Posted by kluciole at 5/30/2010 8:17 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Catch "Special Relationship" on HBO if you can; just watched it and enjoyed it. Much food for thought.

Posted by kluciole at 5/29/2010 10:20 PM | Add Comment

Heartbreaking photo: a young heron lays dying amidst oil underneath mangrove on an island in Barataria Bay, the coast of Lousiana

Posted by kluciole at 5/26/2010 8:35 PM | Add Comment

In Photos: Haunting images of the gulf oil disaster

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:50 PM | Add Comment

The Batavian Rebellion and Quintus Petillius Cerialis (between 69-70 CE. Cerialis was made Governor of Britannia from 71 to 74 CE)

Posted by kluciole at 5/24/2010 11:27 PM | Add Comment

Vietnam, US still in conflict over Agent Orange

Posted by kluciole at 5/23/2010 4:58 PM | Add Comment

Muslim anger prompts Pakistan to block Facebook amid anger over page encouraging users to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad

Posted by kluciole at 5/19/2010 4:00 PM | Add Comment

Photo: painting by Bartolome Esteban Murillo, entitled Saint Rufina, c. 1665 (among the millions of artworks Nazis Germany stole from Jewish families)

Posted by kluciole at 5/14/2010 5:46 PM | Add Comment

Brothel owners transported women around British suburbs in a cage

Posted by kluciole at 5/13/2010 6:48 AM | Add Comment

Thieves take controversial Mojave Desert cross

Posted by kluciole at 5/11/2010 12:25 PM | Add Comment

Jury acquits man of rape charge, ruling that "the victim must have helped remove her skinny jeans, as he could not do it alone"

Posted by kluciole at 5/1/2010 11:11 AM | Add Comment

Austria's 'Reich Mother' presidential candidate Barbara Rosenkranz caught singing SS anthem

Posted by kluciole at 4/24/2010 3:54 PM | Add Comment

Muslim group warns 'South Park' creators could face violent retribution for depicting the prophet Muhammad in a bear suit

Posted by kluciole at 4/21/2010 4:32 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

TIME article -- School Bullying Prevention: Teach Empathy at Young Age

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 11:10 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Iranian cleric: "women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes"

Posted by kluciole at 4/20/2010 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Oklahoma tea parties and lawmakers envision militia: "to help defend against what they believe are improper federal infringements on state sovereignty"

Posted by kluciole at 4/12/2010 6:52 PM | Add Comment

13-year-old Yemeni bride dies of internal bleeding, "injuries to her genitals four days after a family-arranged marriage"

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2010 2:26 AM | Add Comment

President Obama questions Sarah Palin's nuclear acumen

Posted by kluciole at 4/9/2010 2:10 AM | Add Comment

Photo: an Afghan woman and girl approach soldiers from the U.S. Army's 20th Battalion, in Kandahar, Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:38 AM | Add Comment

Thousands of vets missing out on better benefits

Posted by kluciole at 4/3/2010 1:27 AM | Add Comment

Photo: US Marines feed a stray puppy in northern Marjah, Helmand province in Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 3/29/2010 12:19 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Indian military to weaponize world's hottest chili

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2010 1:03 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Rep. Randy Neugebauer "apologizes for 'baby killer' remark during health care debate, but turns moment into a campaign fundraiser"

Posted by kluciole at 3/24/2010 12:58 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Late Mass. monk Ly Van Aggadipo's poems recall Khmer Rouge horrors; one Cambodian refugee says "I think my own children don't believe what we went through to get here"

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2010 7:32 PM | Add Comment

Stop this insanity -- Tea party protesters shout racial and gay slurs at Rep. John Lewis and Rep. Barney Frank

Posted by kluciole at 3/20/2010 7:27 PM | Add Comment

Book makes new claims about Anne Frank; Bergen Belsen survivor Berthe Meijer says Frank distracted younger children from horrors of Nazi concentration camp by telling them fairy tales

Posted by kluciole at 3/18/2010 3:28 AM | Add Comment

Picasso's "Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto," once center of dispute, for sale

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:19 AM | Add Comment

Women and girls (as young as 2 years old) are often rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath

Posted by kluciole at 3/17/2010 3:13 AM | Add Comment

Culture clash: European art provokes Muslims

Posted by kluciole at 3/14/2010 6:20 PM | Add Comment

Female WWII aviators honored with gold medal

Posted by kluciole at 3/10/2010 7:07 PM | Add Comment

Palin Crossed Border For Canadian Health Care: "And I think now, isn't that ironic?"

Posted by kluciole at 3/9/2010 3:17 PM | Add Comment

Gendercide in Asia: Massive rise in abortion of female fetuses

Posted by kluciole at 3/7/2010 12:59 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Painting: "Witch Hill," or "The Salem Martyr" -- Oil painting by New York artist Thomas Slatterwhite Noble, 1869

Posted by kluciole at 3/6/2010 6:45 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Important: Report on Marines' water at Camp Lejeune omitted cancer causing chemical benzene. The environmental contamination is extreme!

Posted by kluciole at 2/17/2010 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Disillusioned Sen. Bayh advocates electoral “shock” to broken system, encourages voters to remove Congressional incumbents in mass

Posted by kluciole at 2/16/2010 2:35 PM | Add Comment

US refuses to cancel Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama

Posted by kluciole at 2/13/2010 12:50 AM | Add Comment

Dramatic images of World Trade Center collapse on 9/11 released for first time

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 1:46 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Human Trafficking Report: American children, immigrants forced into slavery, sex trade in Ohio

Posted by kluciole at 2/11/2010 1:33 AM | Add Comment

Anti-whalers, Japanese fleet fire water cannons at each other in latest clash over whale hunting

Posted by kluciole at 2/9/2010 4:01 AM | Add Comment

Rep. John Murtha, Iraq war critic, dies at 77

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 2:01 PM | Add Comment

Saudi Arabia's human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:46 PM | Add Comment

Photo: Anti-whaling ship Bob Barker collides with Japanese harpoon ship Yushin Maru No. 3 in Antarctic waters

Posted by kluciole at 2/8/2010 1:43 PM | Add Comment

Photo: a US army helicopter flies over the stepped Ziggurat temple, which dates back to 2113 BC, in the ancient city of Ur

Posted by kluciole at 2/6/2010 2:42 AM | Add Comment

14-year-old Reginald Earnshaw confirmed as UK's youngest WWII death

Posted by kluciole at 2/5/2010 2:48 PM | Add Comment

Shoshana Johnson, the nation's first female black POW (captured along with Jessica Lynch), speaks out

Posted by kluciole at 2/3/2010 6:13 PM | Add Comment

'Dogs of war' saving lives in Afghanistan

Posted by kluciole at 1/28/2010 11:35 AM | Add Comment

Miep Gies, who helped hide Anne Frank, dies at 100

Posted by kluciole at 1/12/2010 12:56 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

TIME article -- Bicentennial Anxiety: Why Mexicans Are Wary of 2010

Posted by kluciole at 1/1/2010 6:04 AM | Add Comment

Incredible photos from Iran as reform protesters clash with police, who are accused of firing on the demonstrators

Posted by kluciole at 12/29/2009 10:18 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Skin whitening cream finds new popularity among Palestinian women

Posted by kluciole at 12/28/2009 9:14 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Esther Chavez, a women's rights activist who denounced Juarez border killings and founded Casa Amiga, has died

Posted by kluciole at 12/26/2009 7:05 PM | Add Comment

Slaying of drug war hero's family shocks Mexico

Posted by kluciole at 12/23/2009 12:07 AM | Add Comment

Photo: a U.S. Marine from Camp Lejeune lights up a cigarette during an operation at dusk in Helmand Province

Posted by kluciole at 12/22/2009 3:25 AM | Add Comment

Fear of violence grows in mountaintop strip mining fight

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 3:28 PM | Add Comment

Photos: Afghan children, refugees in Pakistan, play in their neighborhood of Rawalpindi

Posted by kluciole at 12/19/2009 4:06 AM | Add Comment
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