Monday, 31 October 2011

What the World Looked Like with 3 Billion People (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - The United Nations and its population counter estimates the population of the planet reached 7 billion people today despite it recording declining fertility rates in recent years. The population reached 1 billion in 1801 and later in the 20th century alone, it grew from 1.65 billion to 6 billion. With this in mind, let's look at the year that the world's population reached 3 billion.


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AP - The U.N. Security Council urged Libyan authorities on Monday to prevent thousands of shoulder-fired missiles and other weapons purchased by Moammar Gadhafi from getting into the hands of armed groups and terrorists following the country's eight-month conflict.


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What the World Looked Like with 5 Billion People (ContributorNetwork)

ContributorNetwork - Today is a milestone in human history. Named 7 Billion Day by the United Nations, the world's population reached 7 billion people at 1:50 p.m. EDT, according to Worldometers, which bases its real-time population counter on previous United Nations numbers and estimates. At the time the counter reached the mark, there were 209,040 births recorded in the world. With this in mind, let's look at what the world looked like when there were 5 billion people in it.


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AP - An uncle of an Iraq War veteran injured when anti-Wall Street protesters clashed with police in Oakland, Calif., said he was appalled by officers' action.


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Park honors fallen soldier, beloved canine comrade (AP)

AP - Cpl. Kory Wiens was so fond of Cooper, the military dog he worked with, that he planned to stay in the Army long enough to adopt him when the Labrador retriever's bomb-sniffing career was over.


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Vegas man gets 5 years for Iraq weapon conspiracy (AP)

AP - A Las Vegas man who helped federal prosecutors convict an active-duty Navy SEAL of selling war weapons and machine guns from Iraq in the U.S. was sentenced Friday to five years in prison.


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Reuters - Iraq's defense chief has said his military will not be fully ready to defend Iraq from external threats until 2020 to 2024, according to a U.S. inspector's report released on Sunday.


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U.S. Gulf buildup would be imprudent: Iran foreign minister (Reuters)

Reuters - Any buildup of U.S. forces in the Gulf after their withdrawal from Iraq would be imprudent, Iran's foreign minister said on Monday, urging all nations to tread cautiously in a troubled region.


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UNESCO to vote on Palestinian membership Monday (AP)

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Saudi royal offers bounty to catch Israeli soldier (AP)

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Israeli leader threatens Gaza militants (AP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during the opening session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 31, 2011. With rockets falling on southern Israel, Netanyahu on Monday issued a tough warning to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, saying that those who attack his country are risking their lives. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)AP - With rockets falling on southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday issued a tough warning to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, saying that those who attack his country are risking their lives.



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Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Peres defends Abbas after Israeli foreign minister's attack (Reuters)

Children affected by an earthquake sit in their make-shift tent in Guvecli, a village 35 kilometres from the eastern Turkish city of Van, October 25, 2011. Israel said on Tuesday it has instructed its military to send help to Turkey to cope with an earthquake that has killed more than 400 and made tens of thousands homeless, following a request from Ankara. Israel first offered help on Sunday, when the earthquake struck, as a humanitarian step also seen as possibly easing strains over Israel's killing of nine Turks on board a Gaza-bound flotilla last year. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)Reuters - Israeli President Shimon Peres came to the defense of Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday after Israel's far-right foreign minister called the Palestinian president an obstacle to peace.



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Saturday, 22 October 2011

Failed bomber: Struggle against Israel must go on (AP)

AP - A failed Palestinian suicide bomber released in a prisoner swap with Israel said Wednesday she has told well-wishers, including children from the neighborhood, that Palestinians must continue "on the path of struggle and resistance."


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Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Asylum seekers up 17 percent in rich countries: U.N. (Reuters)

Reuters - The total of people seeking asylum in industrialized countries rose by 17 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same period in 2010, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday.


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U.N. torture sleuth urges end to long solitary terms (Reuters)

Reuters - The U.N. torture investigator called on nations on Tuesday to end lengthy solitary confinement in prisons, saying it could cause serious mental and physical damage and amount to torture.


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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,478 (AP)

AP - As of Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, at least 4,478 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.


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Shy Shalit a haunting symbol for Israelis (Reuters)

Reuters - A brief biography on the website of a campaign for his freedom was all many Israelis knew of the life of Gilad Shalit until he appeared, gaunt and tired, on television on Tuesday after Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers freed him from five years' captivity.


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Tuesday, 18 October 2011

Gilad Shalit deal boosts Hamas in West Bank as Fatah clings to support (The Christian Science Monitor)

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Monday, 17 October 2011

NTC forces celebrate capture of Gaddafi bastion Bani Walid (Reuters)

An anti-Gaddafi fighter fires a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) during clashes with Gaddafi forces at the front line in the center of Sirte October 16, 2011. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniReuters - Fighters with Libya's interim government have captured the town of Bani Walid, firing their guns into the air and hoisting the country's new flag over the center of one of the final bastions of Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists.



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Annan, Adams urge Basque group ETA to end violence (AP)

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan  third right to left, listens the speech of  former Irish Primer Minister Bertie Ahern, 3rd left him, at the end of the International Conference in San Sebastian, northern Spain Monday Oct. 17, 2011. From left the other delegates are Northern Ireland's  Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams,  former  Norwegian Primer Minister Gro Harlem Brutland, Ahern, Annan. France's Pierre Joxe and  Britain's Jonathan Powell. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)AP - Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and other delegates to a conference on the decades-old conflict in Spain's Basque region on Monday urged the armed separatist group ETA to renounce violence.



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Israelis petition Supreme Court to stop Gilad Shalit deal (The Christian Science Monitor)

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Sunday, 16 October 2011

Afghan provincial intel chief targeted in bombing (AP)

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US and Philippine marines hold drill near Spratlys (AP)

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Stricken New Zealand ship may break apart or sink (AP)

A rescue worker dries a little blue penguin after it swam in a water pool during a cleaning session to get rid of fuel oil from its body at the wildlife facility in Tauranga, New Zealand, Friday, Oct. 14, 2011. The penguin was rescued from the sea polluted by oil leaked from the Liberia-flagged container ship Rena that has already spilled hundreds of tons of oil  since it ran aground Oct. 5 on Astrolabe Reef, 14 miles (22 kilometers) from Tauranga Harbour on New Zealand's North Island. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)AP - Salvage crews raced Monday to pump oil from a stricken ship teetering on a reef off the New Zealand coast, while also preparing for the worst: Authorities believe the vessel will break apart or sink soon.



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Circus elephant tramples Vietnamese girl to death (AP)

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Woman gets $4 compensation for Korean War killing (Reuters)

Reuters - A South Korean woman has been offered a little over $4 in government compensation for the death of her brother during the 1950-53 Korean War, embarrassing officials who say they were bound by an out-dated law.


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