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Organizations: Students win Noon Lion poster contest
Burbank Noon Lions recently recognized local level competition winners in the annual Lions Clubs International Peace Poster Contest during an awards presentation on Nov. 22 at the Burbank Central Library. First-level winners are Tnick Trivimol, Jordan...Tags: San Francisco, International Relations, The Salvation Army, United Nations, Dining and Drinking
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Venezuela pulls out as facilitator of Colombian peace talks
BOGOTA, Colombia – Venezuela recalled its ambassador and ended its participation in peace talks Wednesday after Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos met with the losing opposition candidate in Venezuela’s recent presidential election....Tags: Venezuela, Bogota (Colombia), Nicolas Maduro, Hugo Chavez, Alvaro Uribe
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Diplomat killed in Afghanistan 'had a great worldview'
Tribune reportersAs strangers lined up for white ribbons and American flags to show their support, family and friends of Anne Smedinghoff mourned the loss of a young diplomat who was determined to see the world — and possibly beyond. Her brother, Mark, recalled...Tags: International Relations, Kabul (Afghanistan), Family, Politics, Afghanistan
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A sensible caution, poorly stated
WASHINGTON -- People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign punishment for...Tags: Barack Obama, Colin Powell, Biological and Chemical Weapons, International Relations, Iraq
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Column: President's caution sensible, but poorly stated
WASHINGTON — People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and President Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign...Tags: Colin Powell, Barack Obama, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Iraq, International Relations
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A Russian 'frenemy'
The White House is trying to revive the "reset" with Vladimir Putin's Russia. It is likely to be a wasted effort. The reset is dead not because of someone's ill will or mistakes. It is because Washington and Moscow have reached the limit of...
Tags: Barack Obama, Camp David, Russia, Summits, Moscow (Russia)
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Philippines challenges Chinese claims to waters through tribunal
The Philippines is taking a feud with China to an international tribunal, it announced Tuesday, the latest turn in the simmering dispute over a string of rocky outcroppings in the South China Sea. In a claim shared Tuesday with the Chinese ambassador,...
Tags: Arbitration, Barack Obama, Environmental Issues, Conservation, International Relations
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World of woe, little hope of relief, await U.N. General Assembly
World NowGlobal Focus: When 120 world leaders and thousands in their entourages gather at the United Nations next week, the woes of the world will be on stage in all their tragic detail: a civil war in Syria, the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, reignited ethnic... -
Sources: Obama Authorized Secret Support for Syrian Rebels
CNNWASHINGTON, DC -- President Barack Obama has signed a covert directive authorizing U.S. support for Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces, U.S. officials told CNN on Wednesday. The secret order, referred to as an intelligence...Tags: Human Rights Watch, Turkey, Murder, Political Dissent, Demonstration
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Towson's Will Adams beating worst enemy yet
Will Adams, freshman basketball player at Towson University, could be mad at the world about all the misfortune life dumped at his Philadelphia doorstep.
There was the woman, his birth mother, who abandoned him to a series of foster homes at 3. There was...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Colonial Athletic Association, Chemotherapy, Oncology, Chills
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Putin returns, and so does a Cold War mentality
Now that Vladimir Putin is Russia's president once again, the result of still another fraudulent election, we should expect ever more hostile relations with Moscow. Mr. Putin, a vain and vulgar man, was born and bred to despise the United States. And...
Tags: Barack Obama, Russia, Camp David, Summits, Moscow (Russia)
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