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August 12, 2011 Clinton: Syrias Assad Facing Crescendo of Condemnation Suzanne Presto | Washington Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says there has been a crescendo of condemnation as Syrian President Bashar al-Assads government continues its ... Communist East Germany moved to close its border on 13 August 1961, dividing Berlin for more than 28 years. The now German capital will observe a minute of silence at noon on Saturday in memory of those who died trying to cross to the West. Yesterday, Prime Minister David Cameron visited a supermarket in Salford that was looted and set on fire. (Jon Super/Reuters/Pool) By Jill Lawless Associated Press / August 13, 2011 LONDON - Thousands of extra police officers were stationed on ... The New York Police Department has formed Facebook and Twitter units in order to track down and monitor criminals and criminal behavior on social media sites. BENGHAZI, Libya—Rebel officials here, amid signs of disarray in their leadership, have ramped up preparations for governing Libya after the fall of Col. A man has been charged with robbing a Malaysian student who fell victim to thieves pretending to help him during the riots in London. Everyday American travelers, forbidden for years from visiting Cuba legally, can now go, with restrictions. Inaugural people-to-people trips, banned in 2003, reauthorized by the Obama administration in January and ... The June killing of 17-year-old Sarfraz Shah was caught on video and caused unprecedented anger after it was broadcast widely in Pakistan. A Palestinian boy carted food aid he had received at a UN distribution center at the Shatie refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip last month. (CNN) -- An American was kidnapped Saturday from his residence in eastern Pakistan, a US Embassy spokesman told CNN. The American has been identified as Warren Weinstein, said spokesman Alberto Rodriguez. The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton on the Grazia cover on 9 May (left) and the original image (right). Photograph: Grazia/Getty Images Grazia has admitted that it inadvertently slimmed down the waist of the Duchess of Cambridge by digitally ... ELIZABETH JACKSON: By almost every index that exists the Somali capital Mogadishu rates as the most dangerous place on earth. It is also in the grip of famine and every day scores of people are dying not from violence but from hunger caused by a ... In July 2002 a small group of Israeli and Palestinian economists sat down for a rare meeting in the idyllic French village of Aix-en-Provence. Ijaz Muhammad/AP Pakistani villagers carried the casket of a person reportedly killed by a US drone attack in a Pakistani tribal area, during his funeral in Bannu in 2010. Last Saturday, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets of a Middle Eastern city. Demanding change, they were fed up with the ruling elite and said their government was no longer listening to its people. AP / August 13, 2011 KABUL - Eight NATO service members have been killed in the past two days of fighting in Afghanistan, where the US-led coalition is still mourning the deaths of 30 American personnel and eight Afghans killed when their Chinook ... Norway has appointed nine people to an independent commission that will investigate the terrorist attacks that killed 77 people last month. AP / August 13, 2011 AMSTERDAM - A Dutch court sent two Somalis to jail for up to seven years yesterday for hijacking a South African yacht last year and seizing a South African couple who are still missing. Seoul (CNN) -- South Korea has returned home four North Korean fishermen rescued from two sinking boats in the Yellow Sea near the maritime border, the semiofficial Yonhap News Agency reported.
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