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The Long War Reaches Mali Huffington Post Despite withdrawals of our combat troops, the United States has ensnared itself in a self-perpetuating Long War now spreading to Mali. North Africa currently is the "central focus" in the War on Terror, according to Bloomberg. (July 31) Al Qaeda in the ... See all stories on this topic »

War Drives Businesses of Aleppo Into Exile New York Times ISTANBUL — In an unheated apartment in Istanbul, Mohammed Sahsoun, a businessman who fled the fighting in Syria, has set up a tiny garment factory. Here, on a chilly day, Mr. Sahsoun and the other proprietors of the shop welcomed a 32-year-old exiled ... See all stories on this topic »

Clooney: Village burnings in Sudan a war crime Yahoo! News (blog) The American actor and activist said Thursday that destroying a village is a war crime and that the international community must counter and create consequences for such crimes. The Satellite Sentinel Project, which Clooney helped found, said satellite ... See all stories on this topic »

The Theatre: "A Civil War Christmas" New Yorker (blog) If pressed to describe what happens during "A Civil War Christmas" (at the New York Theatre Workshop), I couldn't really say. But if asked to relate what the two-and-half-hour production was like, I could go on about the narcotizing effect that ... See all stories on this topic » New Yorker (blog)

Positioning for the Next War Huffington Post (blog) George Orwell, one of the intellectual giants of the last century, wrote in his masterpiece 1984 that "the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war." Rarely has this been as true as in Operation Pillar of ... See all stories on this topic »

Instagram, Twitter lob grenades in war over value ... CNET If you think that's not at least as true online as it is offline, you haven't been paying attention to the explosive machinations in the war for digital real estate going on in Silicon Valley over the last year or so. Today, the tech world is all ... See all stories on this topic »

States Thumb Their Noses at the Drug War Huffington Post (blog) Colorado and Washington voters legalized recreational marijuana and now Obama must decide: will he be remembered as the president who let states pursue drug reform, or who desperately enforced an unpopular and futile policy against the will of the ... See all stories on this topic »

Syrian civil war spills into Lebanon USA TODAY 2012 - BEIRUT — The civil war in Syria spilled into northern Lebanon on Wednesday, where gunmen loyal to opposing sides went at each other for a third straight day. Seven Lebanese have been killed and 57 others wounded since the violence began ... See all stories on this topic »

Amputee actors help soldiers prepare for war CNN San Diego (CNN) -- When a car slammed into their motorcycle, June and Ted DiStefano knew the horrific accident would change their lives forever. They didn't realize it would give them the power to help others. Both were severely injured in the hit-and ... See all stories on this topic »

Just try and guess Total War: Rome 2's first revealed faction Joystiq Just try and guess Total War Rome 2's first revealed faction. We'll give you thirty seconds to formulate an educated guess as to what faction Creative Assembly has revealed as the first confirmed group of soldier dudes in Total War: Rome 2. Okay, ready ... See all stories on this topic »

Chemical Weapons And The Syrian Civil War NPR Chemical Weapons And The Syrian Civil War. December 5, 2012. Listen to the Story. Talk of the Nation. [30 min 18 sec]. Add to Playlist; Download. Guests. Tom Bowman, Pentagon correspondent, NPR Leonard Spector, deputy director of the Monterey ... See all stories on this topic »

With SelectQuote move, Kansas scores a border war victory Kansas City Star The latest round in the metropolitan economic border war is going for short yardage, with an insurance marketing company receiving $5 million in incentives to skip just a mile from Kansas City to Leawood. SelectQuote Senior Insurance Services at 9200 ... See all stories on this topic » Kansas City Star

Syrian civil war spills over into Lebanon DAWN.com TRIPOLI: The families of Lebanese men killed in Syria last week say their relatives were more interested in nice clothes and vacations than fighting a civil war. Yet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime branded them foreign jihadists – and their ... See all stories on this topic » DAWN.com

China's Communists Declare War ... On Boring Meetings NPR (blog) But this could be a thing of the past, since the new Communist leadership has declared war on boring meetings. And no, it's not a fake news report from The Onion. None other than the state mouthpiece, Xinhua, ran an official statement issued after the ... See all stories on this topic » NPR (blog)

World War II-era carrier pigeon found in chimney CBS News Martin told the experts at Britain's main war museum about it, but they weren't interested. These things were common, they said. But lately, the people at Bletchley Park, now also a museum -- but where they know about wartime codes -- said they'd never ... See all stories on this topic »

The first social media war between Israel and Gaza The Guardian (blog) But the social media war had many other participants. Unlike any other war in the past, the Israeli-Gaza conflict has been characterised by the mass virtual participation of ordinary people via social media. Civilians from both sides of the conflict ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Mexican War Streets expansion approved Pittsburgh Post Gazette Pittsburgh's Historic Review Commission on Wednesday approved an expansion of the Mexican War Streets' historic boundaries to reflect those designated by the National Park Service in 2008. The change would more than double the roughly nine square ... See all stories on this topic »

UN war tribunals making progress but still face challenges, officials tell ... UN News Centre 5 December 2012 – The United Nations war crimes tribunals set up in the wake of the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s and the 1994 genocide in Rwanda are making progress in completing their work, but still face a myriad of challenges that will require ... See all stories on this topic » UN News Centre

Letters | End Afghanistan war, McClanahan, Royals Kansas City Star Sorry Israel, Afghanistan and South Korea, but I sincerely doubt China and/or Russia would allow a nuclear or significant war to start, especially in their backyard (North and South Korea) or the Middle East. An extra $50 billion and more a year would ... See all stories on this topic »

Amazon And Google At War Over Cloud Storage Prices Forbes Amazon and Google seem to be at war over cloud storage prices as both the companies aggressively cut prices last week. Google made the first move cutting prices of its standard Google Cloud Storage by 20% and then followed it up with another 10% cut ... See all stories on this topic »

The war on Christmas is finished. Time for Bill O'Reilly to stop fighting The Guardian (blog) By now, I assume, all rational, fact-loving people understand that there never was a "War on Christmas", despite howling protestations from "anti-PC" crusaders on both sides of the Atlantic. In Britain, Birmingham city council never did replace ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

Australian girl brings second world war grenade to school - video The Guardian A school in Newcastle, Australia, is evacuated after one of its pupils brought a second world war grenade to class. The 11-year-old girl brought the grenade into Hunter Christian school thinking it was a money box. Australia's department of defence ... See all stories on this topic »

Instagram and Twitter wrestle as social network war reaches new level The Guardian The move marks another in the tit-for-tat wars being fought between Twitter and a number of other social networks over the use of tweets and user details in their services, and the use of media created in other social networks in Twitter. It's a ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Song Contest for Kids, Geopolitical Proxy War for Adults The Atlantic Even as the missiles dropped, Gardosh Santo knew the show had to go on. Her team continued to drum up publicity for the group throughout the conflict, and, given the sensitive nature of taking children away from their families during a war, arranged ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Drugs and Politics Stoke Ireland Gang War New York Times (blog) LONDON — The gangland killing of a prominent Dublin crime boss on Tuesday marked the latest escalation in an underworld war involving drug dealers, disaffected Irish Republicans and contract killers. The Irish police, the Garda Síochána, were ... See all stories on this topic »

Terror Skyrocketing in Face of US War on Terror Antiwar.com As with most of the times when the US has declared "war on" something in the past few decades, that something is becoming a dramatically bigger and worse problem than when the war was originally announced. This time it's the "War of Terror," which in ... See all stories on this topic » Antiwar.com

West making big money from war threats Press TV Then, of course, a concerted effort soon followed, as though Barak had never existed, threats to bomb Iran, even orders to expand Pentagon exercises to create greater war threats in the region. The basis? More cash, as newspapers raised the ... See all stories on this topic » Press TV

All is fair in love and war Two women fight over a man DAWN.com ISLAMABAD, Dec 5: A complicated love-triangle, gone out of control, has spilled into the public domain. A woman, a government servant by profession, fell in love with the taxi driver that used to regularly pick and drop her from the office. The driver ... See all stories on this topic »

In 'war on cars,' Seattle has some catching up to do The Seattle Times (blog) I hadn't realized that the so-called war on cars was a "Seattle thing" until I heard a broadcast about it on NPR earlier this year. Although the war on cars controversy has popped up in cities around North America, Seattle is one of just four — along ... See all stories on this topic »

Afghanistan: a long war, and still in search of a strategy Reuters Blogs (blog) The late Richard Holbrooke's widow, Kati Marton, once recalled that by the summer of 2010 the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan had worked out how the United States might settle the Afghan war. "He said, 'I think I've got it. I think ... See all stories on this topic » Reuters Blogs (blog)

US Aircraft Carrier's Arrival Near Syria Sparks War Fears Antiwar.com The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower has reportedly arrived off the coast of Syria in recent days, having passed through the Suez Canal and joined a team of other ships loitering off the coast in the event President Obama orders a US invasion of Syria ... See all stories on this topic » Antiwar.com

NEW EMPLOYEE: K-9 War Vet Casey Starts WHOTV.com NEW EMPLOYEE: K-9 War Vet Casey Starts. Posted on: 4:11 am, December 6, 2012, by Staff Writer. casey k9. The Iowa Department of Public Safety welcomed a new employee this fall. Casey is a specially trained canine that can detect bombs. She will work ... See all stories on this topic » WHOTV.com

How the War on Drugs Caused the Fake Pot Problem Mother Jones (blog) Yesterday, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration published a "first-of-its-kind report" finding that synthetic marijuana, commonly sold as "herbal incense" with names like K2 and Spice, was linked to more than 11,400 drug ... See all stories on this topic » Mother Jones (blog)

Instagram Declares War on Twitter, Social Media Loses Mashable "Sometimes you need an axe." That was the caption on one of the last photos that Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom posted to Twitter, this summer, before his company's acquisition by Facebook. (He hasn't tweeted since.) Systrom never explained his particular ... See all stories on this topic »

War on Shore matchups delicious SunHerald.com The matchups for the War on the Shore -- which will take place on Saturday, Dec. 15 -- are looking better and better. For instance, the lone girls matchup at 10:30 a.m. pits the undefeated Bay High Lady Tigers against the once-beaten Gulfport Lady ... See all stories on this topic »

Social war: Facebook's Instagram disables feature on Twitter Los Angeles Times Is Facebook starting a proxy war with Twitter? It sure seems like it after Instagram, Facebook's photo-sharing social network, announced it will no longer support a feature that allows its photos to show up on Twitter. The announcement came after ... See all stories on this topic »

How to Read Like a War Reporter New York Times (blog) How to Read Like a War Reporter. By LUKE MOGELSON. Luke Mogelson, a contributing writer based in Kabul, last wrote for the magazine about Nimruz, an isolated province in Afghanistan where there is more than one war going on. Book I'm reading now: ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times (blog)

Bogus war hero sentenced to 30 days in federal prison Fox News A Texas man who embellished his military record to appear as a highly-decorated war hero has been sentenced to 30 days in federal prison, authorities said. Paul A. Schroeder, 41, of Shenandoah, was convicted of altering a military or naval discharge ... See all stories on this topic »

Pinoy war vets still hoping for compensation from US GMA News Filipino veterans of the Second World War who were denied compensation for their war-time services have not completely given up hope that their sacrifices would be recognized and compensated by the United States. In a statement issued by the Philippine ... See all stories on this topic »

Minorities in Lebanon Are Wary of Syrian War New York Times BEIRUT — As the 20-month-long conflict in Syria continues to aggravate the frictions between Sunni and Shiite Muslim groups in Lebanon, other sectarian groups, and notably the country's Christian and Druze minorities, are trying to distance themselves ... See all stories on this topic »

Remembering Civil War history during the holidays nwitimes.com How you can help? Anyone can sponsor a Christmas wreath for a region Civil War veteran's grave by sending a tax-deductible $12 donation, payable to South Shore Promotions Inc. Write "Civil War" in the memo portion of the check and mail donations to: ... See all stories on this topic »

Marquez: Fourth Pacquiao fight will be 'another war' Crave Online (blog) "I want to be in another great fight. The most important thing in this is that for this fight, Manny Pacquiao knows me, and I know him," said Marquez. "This fight will be another war. Everybody is going to watch another war because he knows me and I ... See all stories on this topic »

Total War: Rome II reveals first playable faction. But who could it be? PC Gamer Magazine Creative Assembly are using the Total War Wiki to roll out info on the factions that will appear in the upcoming Total War: Rome II. See if you can guess who they've unveiled as Rome II's first faction. No hints. Definitely don't go peeking at the ... See all stories on this topic »

Reporting The Revolutionary War WBUR That issue of the New Hampshire Gazette was the only newspaper in the colonies to put what we think of now as a headline over the news of the battle on Lexington Green, the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The headline reads "Bloody News." A ... See all stories on this topic » WBUR

Anti-war activists report on Pakistan trip, attack drones Workers World 2 to hear eyewitness reports of a visit to Pakistan in October by a delegation of 34 U.S. anti-war activists. They had met with anti-drone activists and relatives of the 760 civilians murdered by U.S. drones. Speaking at today's meeting were Joe ... See all stories on this topic »

Veterans' Advocate to Congress: Reconstruct Missing War Records ProPublica U.S. soldiers on a patrol in July 2011 in Iskandariya, Babil Province, Iraq. A House subcommittee on veterans' affairs heard from veterans groups after a ProPublica-Seattle Times investigation found that dozens of Army units had failed to keep ... See all stories on this topic » ProPublica

Letter of the Day: The longest war Santa Rosa Press Democrat EDITOR: As we approach the fiscal cliff, losing more confidence every day that those in Washington will be able to accomplish anything, I reflect on the longest war America has actively been engaged in. No, I don't mean Iraq or Afghanistan. I mean the ... See all stories on this topic »

Stern and Popovich at war; Wizards finally win; and Hornets look to change The Guardian Welcome to week five of the NBA, where an argument about resting players briefly turned the entire sport into a subplot of a "Grumpy Old Men" movie, Rajon Rondo's assist streak ended in fisticuffs and LeBron James's best year ever got even better. All ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

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