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Fighting Kills 39 People in Kenya: 39
people, many of them children, were killed and scores of others were
seriously injured on Friday in renewed attacks along the coastal Tana
River delta, Kenyan police officials said.
http://is.gd/ueipyq
Four die after Benghazi protest turns violent: Four
people were killed on Thursday when a protest outside a base for
security forces in eastern Libya turned violent less than a week after
suspected militants killed four policemen at the same compound.
http://is.gd/lRB02V
Blackwater Wins the Battle of Benghazi: U.S. embassy security in the post-Benghazi era is shaping up to be a financial bonanza for security contractors.
http://is.gd/5SKYKD
AFRICOM announces it will have rapid reaction force: . In
response to a question during a recent speech at George Washington
University, AFRICOM boss Gen. Carter Ham said his command is now
outfitted with a new capability.
http://is.gd/V1tYKi
4 killed after UN helicopter shot down in South Sudan: South Sudan's armed forces shot down a U.N. helicopter on Friday and all four crew on board died, the United Nations said.
http://is.gd/WS5JqF
UN approves military force to combat Islamist terrorists in Mali: The
UN Security Council has given the green light for the use of military
force to combat Islamist terrorists in northern Mali. The Council said
that the 3,300 troops will use "all necessary measures" to pacify the
northern territories
http://rt.com/news/mali-un-intervention-council-534/
Rebels in Central African Republic take 7th town: Rebels
in Central African Republic seized another town in their rapid
offensive Thursday, residents said, moving to within about 400
kilometers (250 miles) of the capital as the rebels said they were ready
for negotiations with the government.
http://is.gd/bYB8ki
Violence erupts at rally in Egypt: An
Islamic rally outside a mosque in Alexandria, Egypt, turned violent
Friday and police used tear gas to break up rival groups. Some people
were injured.
http://is.gd/jl28uV
11 killed near Pak-Iran border: At least
eleven people have been killed near Pakistan-Iran border in
Balochistan's Gawadar district while trying to illegally cross into
neighbouring Iran in two vehicles , Geo News reported Saturday.
http://is.gd/VOam4M
US Kills 4 People in Pakistan : A house
was targeted in the Hisukhel area of Mir Ali -- about 15.5 miles east
of Miramshah, the main town in North Waziristan, Dawn News reported.
http://is.gd/rWCY2K
Revealed: U.S. carried out 333 drone strikes in Afghanistan this year alone: The
United States carried out more drone strikes in Afghanistan this year
than it has done in all the years put together in Pakistan since it
launched the covert air war there eight years ago, it has been
revealed.
http://is.gd/bWbB9t
Insider attacks and public rejection, these are the reasons the UK is withdrawing from Afghanistan: Op-Ed: An
Afghanistan veteran who refused a second tour says maybe now our
politicians can accept this war is lost - and its cost, as ever, too
high
http://is.gd/kLb87Y
US Marine reduced to lower rank and fined for urinating on dead Afghans: Staff
Sgt Joseph W. Chamblin pleaded guilty to charges of wrongful
desecration, failure to properly supervise junior Marines and posing
for photographs with battlefield casualties.
http://is.gd/8eGt4F
Iraqi army kill Al-Qaeda''s . Baghdad commander: The
Iraqi army killed Al-Qaeda commander in southern Baghdad in an
operation carried out in the city of Mosul, northern Iraq, a military
officer said Friday.
http://is.gd/29QfFx
Iraqi finance minister's guards arrested for 'terrorism': Nine
of the Iraqi finance minister's guards are being held on terrorism
charges, a judicial spokesman said yesterday, after the minister
demanded the premier's resignation following their arrest.
http://is.gd/aHdGvl
Reports Calls Conflict in Syria Mostly Sectarian: A
report released by a committee from the United Nations Human Rights
Council claims that the conflict has spun so far out of control since
March 2011 that it is now "overtly sectarian in nature."
http://is.gd/rbUblW
Syrian rebel infighting could take dangerous turn if Assad falls: If
President Bashar al-Assad falls and the disparate Syrian opposition
groups lose their common enemy, their ranks will likely fracture -
perhaps violently.
http://is.gd/plIe1u
Amman warns: Jihadists hijacking Syria revolution, may target Israel, Jordan next: In
Jordan there has been heavy criticism of another neighbor of Syria -
Turkey, which has allowed fanatics to accumulate strength and
ammunition at the expense of moderate and secular rebel groups.
http://is.gd/e2GqvV
Syrian rebels denounce peace initiative:
Syria's
main opposition group denounced on Friday an Iranian peace initiative
for the war-torn country as a last-ditch bid save the regime of
President Bashar al-Assad.
http://is.gd/DhhhLt
Iran's six-point plan to help resolve the Syrian crisis: Iran's
proposed plan calls for an immediate end to violence and a start of
the national dialogue.: The third step is to create a reconciliation
government and provide humanitarian aid to the people of Syria. The
next step is releasing prisoners, who have not committed a crime against
Syrians. And the final point is to allow media's full access to
Syria.
http://en.trend.az/regions/iran/2101893.html
Britain gives more aid to Syrians, might arm opposition: official: UK's
assistance to Syria so far has been non-lethal but it is pushing for a
relaxation of an EU arms embargo that could allow for weapons to be
sent to opposition groups in Syria.
http://is.gd/uamBol
Anti-Nato protest marches in fear of turning 'Turkey into a battlefield': "The
occupation by murderous Nato has started," the Union of Turkish Youths
(TGB), the youth arm of the nationalist Workers' Party, a small
Turkish party, said.
http://is.gd/lt1WrH
Palestinian refugees reclaim Syrian camp: Palestinian
refugees streamed back into their camp in Damascus on Friday after a
reported deal to keep it out of Syria's conflict, following fierce
clashes earlier this week.
http://is.gd/vQao1G
Five Palestinians wounded by IDF in occupied Gaza : Israel
Occupation Force troops patrolling the fence with the Gaza strip on
Friday shot and wounded five Palestinians who were in an area on the
Gaza side which Israel deems off limits, the IDF and Gaza medics
said.
http://is.gd/XJmLb3
Palestinian officials say they plan to isolate Israel: A
number of Palestinian officials say they are planning to take tough
steps including filing war crimes charges against Israeli officials,
staging West Bank demonstrations, and encouraging sanctions after
elections in January.
http://is.gd/f0NlQv
66% of Israelis oppose Palestinian state in occupied W. Bank: poll: Just
over half -- or 51 percent -- said they would support building new
illegal settler homes in a highly sensitive area of the West Bank
called E1, which lies between occupied east Jerusalem and the nearby
Maaleh Adumim settlement.
http://is.gd/jEvw4M
AIPAC Wins:
Obama nominates John Kerry as next secretary of state: Massachusetts senator to replace outgoing Hillary Clinton as head of State Department
http://is.gd/TQxaNO
U.S. House approves sweeping $633 billion defense war spending bill: The
bill also stripped out an amendment sponsored by Democratic Senator
Dianne Feinstein and Republican Mike Lee that was designed to limit the
president's power to indefinitely detain US citizens as terror
suspects.
http://is.gd/oKesAB
Russia: Duma gives first nod on foreign property ban for state officials and their families: Russia's
Lower House approved the first reading of a bill that forbids a broad
circle of civil servants and state officials as well as their spouses
and underage children to own property abroad.
http://is.gd/mxS5ee
Public fury over New Delhi gang rape sparks protest across India:" The
23-year-old woman is battling for her life in hospital after she was
beaten, gang-raped for almost an hour and thrown out of a moving bus on
a busy street of the capital last Sunday.
http://is.gd/OPf23h
Facebook to sell access to your inbox for a dollar at a time: The
social networking website has introduced a fee, believed to be $1, to
guarantee that messages are routed to a recipient's 'inbox' and not
their 'other' folder, where they are likely to be ignored.
http://is.gd/bsPMwN
Millions Face a Hit if Fix for Minimum Tax Fails to Pass: Buried
within the mass of tax and spending provisions known as the fiscal
cliff is a problem that could cause grief for taxpayers and the
Internal Revenue Service.
http://is.gd/LCdJTn
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Tom Feeley
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