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World leaders gathered for debate at the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly. As protests continued across the Muslim world over an online video mocking the prophet Mohammed, Barack Obama spoke More...
Conflict Diamonds: A Girl’s Best Friend and Liberia’s Worst Enemy
Mercedes D. Carter-Cone LocalOzarks News Group Member “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend,” is a common expression made popular by Marilyn Monroe in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, where a story is set that More...
Ecuador grants asylum to WikiLeaks’ Assange
RAISSA IOUSSOUF,Associated Press RAPHAEL SATTER,Associated Press Ecuador's Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino, right, gives a news conference where he announced that Ecuador would grant asylum to WikiLeaks' More...
Prince Philip goes to hospital
LONDON (AP) — The British queen’s husband, Prince Philip, has been taken to a Scottish hospital as “a precautionary measure,” Buckingham palace said Wednesday. The palace says the 91-year-old More...
Kissing protest follows arrest in northern Mexico
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The arrest of a man after a woman objected to him kissing his female companion in public has prompted a “kiss-in” protest in a conservative Mexico city. An official of the northern More...
China’s politics reign in trial of Bo Xilai’s wife
GILLIAN WONG,Associated Press In this July 30, 2012 file photo, books on Gu Kailai , ousted Chinese politician Bo Xilai's wife who was accused of murdering British businessman Neil Heywood, with her portrait More...
Hillary Clinton visits Nelson Mandela at home
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with former South Africa President Nelson Mandela, 94, and his wife Graca Machel at his home in Qunu, South Africa, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, More...
America’s uneasy Gulf allies adding to arsenals
BRIAN MURPHY,Associated Press In this Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, file photo, U.S. Army heavy battle tanks are seen during a military parade commemorating the 20th anniversary of the liberation of Kuwait from the More...
al-Qaida attacks in Iraq bring deadliest day in 2 years
LARA JAKES,Associated Press People gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, July 23, 2012. An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed scores of people More...
New iPad goes on sale in China after suit settled
Customers walk in an Apple Store to purchase new iPad tablet computers Friday, July 20, 2012 in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) BEIJING (AP) — Apple released its newest iPad in China on Friday after More...
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Child Trafficking: Looking at the Republic of the Congo Through an Open Lens
Mercedes D. Carter-Cone LocalOzarks News Group Member When she was fifteen, Lucie was sent from Benin to Poto-Poto, Republic of the Congo by her parents to live with her aunt. When interviewed in 2008, she told More...
Biden accuses Romney of corporate agenda
Wednesday in Ohio, Vice President Joe Biden accuses Republican candidate Mit Romney of pursuing a corporate political agenda. He claims Romney intends to steer commerce towards profit without regard for workers. Today More...
$119.9M Art Piece, “The Scream,” Sold at NYC auction
The bar was set for the world’s most expensive art purchase today. $119,922,500 bought Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” in an auction at Sotheby’s. Writing about ‘The Scream,’ Munch said, “I More...
US Army releases data for soldiers’ suicide in March
This week the US army released its suicide data for March. Last month 28 US Army soldiers died due to causes that appear to be self-inflicted. For active duty soldiers there were 18 possible suicides, with 3 confirmed, More...
Zimbabwe’s Costs for the Freedom of Expression
Mercedes D. Carter-Cone LocalOzarks News Group Member In her New York Times exposition, “Exhibit Rouses Ghosts of Zimbabwe’s Past,” Celia W. Dugger addresses the general and political public by illustrating More...
Syria, ‘Very Fragile’ ceasefire could have UN observers on ground in days
Bashar al-Assad yet to withdraw forces from cities, says Kofi Annan, as both sides accuse the other of breaking truce posted in The Guardian The Syrian city of Homs has seen of some of the fierce attacks by pro-government More...
Is our military failing its warriors’ emotions?
Bruce Allan West Military Corespondent LocalOzarks News Group Member Last week in Kandahar, Afghanistan a US soldier allegedly left base alone More...
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the Army
Bruce Allan West Military Corespondent LocalOzarks News Group Member PTSD in the Army Last week in Kandahar, Afghanistan a US soldier allegedly left base alone and killed 16 civilians – including women and More...
