* Syria rebels say arms imports being routed through National Coalition

* Britain, France discuss lifting EU ban on arming rebels
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]]> The huge tornado which tore through the suburbs of Oklahoma city has been upgraded to the most powerful type of storm.
Winds reached around 200 mph (320 km/h) and left swathes of the suburb of
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]]> Hezbollah has been aiding Syrian forces in the country's civil war, prompting an EU motion to label them a terrorist group.
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]]> A British soldier was hacked to death by two men shouting Islamic slogans in a south London street on Wednesday, in what the government said appeared to be a terrorist attack.
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]]> Urge them to act quickly to raise the minimum marriage age to 18, put an end to the male guardianship system, and ensure appropriate safeguards to guarantee that a woman has a real choice in the timing of her marriage and the selection of her spouse.
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]]> Sign the petition urging Secretary of State John Kerry to make ending gender-based violence a centerpiece of the United States' foreign assistance
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]]> Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of Britain's civil emergency committee on Thursday, looking for answers in the aftermath of the daylight hacking death of a man thought to be a British soldier.
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]]> Former UN secretary-general urges David Cameron to use Britain's G8 chairmanship to push for change
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]]> Mohammed Morsi may be the president of Egypt, but it's the Muslim Brotherhood that appears to be calling the shots. The Islamist group waited decades for a shot at power in the country and it isn't about to yield without a fight.
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]]> At least 51 people have been confirmed dead, two elementary schools have been flattened and scores of students could be trapped under the rubble after a two mile-wide tornado touched down in a highly-populated suburb of Oklahoma City in
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]]> They call them “twisters” in tornado alley and know that these devastating storms can smash houses and uproot lives. On Monday, May 20, the tornado that touched down in Moore, OK, left nearly a mile wide path of destruction,
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]]> Your click supports disaster relief efforts, providing food, care, and comfort to those left hurting by the devastating tornadoes that struck south of Oklahoma City.
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]]> At least one person is reported dead and several others injured in a series of tornadoes that have torn through the US state of Oklahoma.
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]]> Following the recent passage of a law dubbed derisively by its critics as the 'Monsanto Protection Act', environmentalists and legislators are standing up against the biotech giant and their "dictatorship over seeds, over life, over food
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]]> The loss of life and stunning devastation in Oklahoma City suburbs after a monster tornado ripped through the area are heart-wrenching. But within hours, relief organizations were getting out the message on how to help.
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]]> So before you go and blame the poor person for killing 4 people; before you go and judge the person for being insane; before you hate the person for doing such a thing understand one thing
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]]> President Barack Obama urged the president of Myanmar on Monday to halt violence against a Muslim minority but praised economic and political reforms in the formerly pariah nation that is emerging as a U.S. ally in China's backyard.
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]]> Blacks in the S.A. of old experienced real discrimination, real hardships, and to see the system used to oppress them so disingenuously used against the Jewish state in order to politically malign and demonize them on the international level, is a gros
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]]> It comes as officers in the North of England are preparing to bust the biggest paedophile network ever seen in the country, with police set to swoop within days. Our disturbing figures can be revealed after reporters contacted every force across England
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]]> Syrian troops pushed into a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border on Sunday, fighting house-to-house and bombing from the air as President Bashar Assad tried to strengthen his grip on a strategic strip of land running from the capital to the Mediterran
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]]> Last month, 154 nations voted to adopt the first-ever international Arms Trade Treaty to help control the flow of arms and ammunition across borders – saving lives, preventing armed conflicts and protecting human rights.
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]]> The United Nations will renew its fight for equality for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people, according to a video released Tuesday by the UN Human Rights Commission.
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]]> WWF's reforestation programs help preserve our most precious wildlife and empower locals
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]]> Increased trade setting the stage for defense and security arrangements.
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]]> Leaders from 11 Native American tribes from South Dakota to Oklahoma walked out of a meeting with federal officials in Rapid City on Thursday to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. They then issued a direct challenge to President Obama:
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]]> Tonight, chances are a senior in your community will go to bed hungry.
And your neighbor isn't the only one suffering: millions of older Americans were unable to afford a meal today. Without enough to eat, seniors struggling with
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]]> Children are mentioned only twice in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children. - Is this a Right for the Child or the Parent?
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]]> Over 10 million senior households struggle to meet basic needs and may not be able to afford their rent or utilities. One out of every three seniors is living below or near the poverty line. Nearly 9 million older Americans are at risk of hunger.
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]]> By us accepting the fact that we are only part of a Nation and not of the Human Group as a Whole, we tacitly agree to be either well supported like some first world countries in the European Union or be absolutely disenfranchised from our living rights
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]]> Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews protested in Jerusalem on Thursday against plans to enlist men from their community into the military, a proposal supported by the secular majority pushing for a more equal share of the burden on Israeli society.
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]]> Two Tuareg girls are playing at Goudebo Refugee Camp in Burkina Faso. In the refugee camps, many Malian children have already missed crucial weeks and months of schooling
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]]> It’s time for a global food revolution. It’s time to save millions of lives. Add your name now.


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]]> Woefully insufficient amounts going on social protection, gender equality and climate change, according to Oxfam report
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]]> If we are to break the cycle of poverty and hunger by 2015, as established by the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, this year's G8 Summit will need to put much of its focus on how to combat rising rates of malnutrition and indigence.


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]]> The Magical Thinking that beat up on the poor. Educate yourself so that you do not fall in the trap of magical thinking as that is only supporting the corporate state and ensure the blame to shift to the poor. Be a responsible human and drop the ego
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]]> Nigeria declared a state of emergency in three northeastern states in response to increasingly violent attacks by Islamic rebel group Boko Haram.
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]]> A video which appears to show a Syrian rebel taking a bite from the heart of a dead soldier has been widely condemned.
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]]> ontractors in Belize have destroyed a Mayan pyramid that was constructed in approximately 250 B.C.E. The contractors plan on using the limestone to build roads throughout the country
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]]> Latest news from APN including; Stop Ignoring How Routine the Occupation Has Become; Clinging to a Virtual Reality; APN Condemns Murder of Israeli West Bank Settler, Calls on Israel to Prevent Revenge Attacks and Happy Shavuot.




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]]> The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom: “The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it’s increasing year by year.” In our lifetime alone “Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan, & Egypt"
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]]> Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday to talk Syria crisis.
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]]> In an unusual bid to stop a series of dams that will flood their rainforest home, a group of tribesmen in Borneo are urging King Harald V of Norway to call one of his subjects home.
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]]> Ríos Montt was convicted of overseeing the slaughter of more than 1,700 people in Guatemala’s Ixil region.
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]]> Your actions have already helped stop two Minuteman III tests: one on the International Day of Peace in 2011, and the other on March 1, 2012, the anniversary of the Castle Bravo nuclear test, the biggest ever nuclear explosion conducted by the US.
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]]> The Peruvian Government is yet again failing to protect the rights of its Indigenous citizens, and if history is anything to go by it is no wonder that the Matses tribe fear for themselves and other nearby tribal peoples
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]]> Around 800,000 people in Niger face food insecurity in coming months, according to the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
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]]> Under President Obama’s new budget proposal, more local women around the world will be able to access resources directly to help their neighbors, empowering women and girls and building more sustainable local food economies.


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]]> Chris Hadfield of the International Space Station does a rad video of 'Space Oddity' song. Goes viral, over a million YouTube hits.
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]]> he request follows a December 2012 report by the U.S. Department of Labor that highlighted labor issues stemming from the Government of Bahrain's response to civil unrest in early 2011 in Bahrain and recommended actions to address those issues.
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]]> Today Mexicans mark Mother's Day, a sacred moment on the calendar. So why are so many moms protesting?
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