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Samoa Earthquake, Tsunami VIDEO: Watch Amateur Footage

Huffington Post | Posted 11.30.2009 | World

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A massive tsunami triggered by an earthquake swept through Samoa on Tuesday, flattening villages and sweeping cars out to sea. Over a hundred people ...

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Hundreds Of Korean Families Separated For More Than 50 Years Reunite

AP | KWANG-TAE KIM | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

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SEOUL, South Korea — Lee Dong-un cried and held the hands of his 60-year-old North Korean daughter Saturday during their first meeting in more t...

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Ahmadinejad Kicks Diversion Efforts into High Gear

Melody Moezzi | Posted 11.23.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Un Gaza, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Quds Day, Islam, Khamenei, Hypocrisy, UN General Assembly, Iran Election, World, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, World News, Un General Assembly 2009, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Opposition, Ahmadinejad, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iranian Election, Israel, Zionism, Un, Iran Protests, Mousavi, Iranian Election 2009, World News
Melody Moezzi

In the lead-up to his speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Wednesday, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is up to his old tricks. And sadly, the global community seems to be falling for them.

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Obama at the UN: Will He Sound the Trumpet for Human Rights?

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Anti-Semitism, World News, United Nations, Gorbachev, Obama, China, Myanmar, Palestinians, Japan, Iran, Ronald Reagan, Venezuela, Tehran, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Chavez, North Korea, Politics News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

What an opportunity for Obama, after a tumultuous eight months in office, to announce at the UN an auspicious new beginning for his Administration by sounding America's trumpet as the champion of human rights.

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9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.

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Iranian Regime Faces Worst Enemy Yet: Itself

Melody Moezzi | Posted 11.19.2009 | World

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Melody Moezzi

Iranians could empathize with Palestinians Friday more than ever, but not in the way that Iran's self-proclaimed President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, wanted them to.

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Ahmadinejad's Genocidal Rosh Hashana Speech Dashes Obama's Hopes for Breakthrough Talks

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, World News, Ahmadinejad, Gaza, Jerusalem, Holocaust Denial, Genocide, UN General Assembly, Twitter, Israel, Palestine, Obama, Hamas, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

The fact that Ahmadinejad launched his tirade on the eve of Rosh Hashana, surrounded by the leaders from Gaza, is an uncomfortable reminder to President Obama and other world leaders.

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Guantanamo Envoy: U.S. Should Have Taken Cleared Prisoners; Some Should Never Have Been Held

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

To my mind, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to bring 17 Uighur prisoners to the U.S. in his early days in office.

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Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Geneva Conventions, Us Constitution, World, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Guantanamo, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Rendition, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Bush Administration, U.S. Court of Appeals, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, CIA Rendition, Bagram Detainees, Cia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Breaking Politics News, New York Times, Bagram Habeas Corpus, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Leon Panetta, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.

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No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, 9/11 Anniversary, President Obama, Judge James Robertson, 9/11, Guantanamo, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Taliban, Judge Ellen Huvelle, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Kandahar, Mohammed Al-Adahi, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Closing Guantanamo, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Salim Hamdan, Yemeni Detainees Guantanamo, US District Court, Kuwaiti Detainees Guantanamo, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Bush Administration, Judge Richard Leon, Adham Mohammed Ali Awad, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Tora Bora, Al-Farouq, Cuba, Guantanamo Files, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.

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Russia's Migrant Scapegoats

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

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Reporters Uncensored

Most immigrants in Russia come from Central Asian countries, where the money they send home accounts for nearly 10% of the country's GDP. But as new populations form enclaves, ethnic Russians have backlashed violently.

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Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

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Why Diane Sawyer Should Reject The "World News" Anchor Job

Slate Magazine | Jack Shafer | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

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Why the 63-year-old Sawyer would want to enter this dying news genre confounds reason--unless she's simply weary of rising in the early a.m. to appear...

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Can Womenomics Ease the Stress of Work/Life Balance?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Stress, Womenomics, Michelle Obama, Mommy Track, Workplace, Opt-Out Revolution, Katty Kay, Working Women, Calire Shipman, Work-Life Balance, Lisa Belkin, Family Life, Professional Women, Stress Reduction, Family, World News, Bbc, Living News
Marcia G. Yerman

A whopping 87 percent of women would like more equilibrium between the competing areas of their lives. Two professionals have entered the conversation with a new book.

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Charlie Gibson "Livid" Over Choice Of Diane Sawyer As Replacement: Report

Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

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The Daily Beast's Rebecca Dana reports that Charlie Gibson is "livid" over the choice of Diane Sawyer as his replacement on ABC's "World News." Dana ...

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Who Are the Two Syrians Released From Guantanamo to Portugal?

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.

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Charlie Gibson's Announcement E-Mail: "I Love This News Department...To The Depths Of My Soul"

Posted 10.18.2009 | Media

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Below is the text of the e-mail Charlie Gibson sent to colleagues at ABC's "World News" announcing his departure from the program. He will retire in ...

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The World Is Moving Forward Without Us

Dr. Seth Berkley | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Developing Countries, AIDS Vaccine, Iavi, Sabin Vaccine Institute, International Health, World News, HIV/AIDS, Foreign Aid, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Science Research, Pneumococcal Vaccine, Science, Seth Berkley, Advance Market Commitment, Orin Levine, Amc, World News
Dr. Seth Berkley

Advance Market Commitment (AMC) is a new market-based financing mechanism that accelerates the delivery of life-saving vaccines for children worldwide.

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India's Deterrent Logic

Pinaki Bhattacharya | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Indian Hydrogen Bomb, Nda, R Chidambaram, APJ Abdul Kalam, K Santhanam, Atal Behari Vajpayee, India's Nuclear Deterrent, World News, World News
Pinaki Bhattacharya

The policy establishment in New Delhi has watched with rising apprehension the appointment of some members of the nonproliferation crowd.

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The Free Press Defense: Sweden, Aftonbladet and What Wallenberg Would Think

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 10.17.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Blood Libel, Foreign Minister Bildt, Sweden, Red Cross, European Union, Congressman Hastings, Palestinians, World News, Iran, Eichmann, Israel, Senator Cardin, Wallenberg, Budapest, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

A country's leading newspaper publishes a lurid attack, and no-one less than the Foreign Minister invokes 'freedom of speech' to protect the newspaper and its reporter. Iran? No. Sweden.

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What Is Justice for Lockerbie?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Justice, Abdelbaset Ali Al-Megrahi, Lockerbie Bomber Released, Gordon Brown, Libya, Jon Corzine, Qaddafi, Scotland, Hillary Clinton, World News, Politics News
Deepak Chopra

As bystanders to tragedies like the Lockerbie disaster, you and I have no moral weight; we are outsiders. But we aren't outsiders in our own lives, where we face moral choices just as tangled.

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Lockerbie Outrage Continues: Just follow the Stench of Oil

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Gordon Brown, Al-Megrahi, Pan Am 103, Scotland, Libya, Lockerbie, Khadafi, Times of London, Terrorism, World News, World News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Another media report from Scotland raises the question as to whether doctors who promoted release of the mass murderer may have been paid by the Libyans.

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Reigniting America's Human Rights Mojo

Rabbi Abraham Cooper | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ronald Reagan, United Nations, Congress, Stars and Stripes, Aung San Suu Ki, Hitler, Cold War, Soviet Union, Simon Wiesenthal, Barack Obama, World News, George Shultz, Iran, Lech Walesa, George Bush Bill Clinton, Cairo, Jimmy Carter, Roosevelt, Sharansky, Sakharov, Mauthausen, Khmoeini, Brezhnev, Politics News
Rabbi Abraham Cooper

In Cairo, President Obama rightly said that the U.S. should not be in the business of imposing democracy, but can we be indifferent to those who seek to embrace it?

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World In Photos: August 25, 2009

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2009 | World

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Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

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World In Photos: August 24, 2009

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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Here is the HuffPost's selection of photos of today's news and events from every corner of the globe. Check back Monday through Friday for this HuffPo...

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