NPR 2011-12-27

As Arab League observer group arrived in Syria today as government continued violence crackdown against disinter. Activists say 13 people were killed in Homs today.BBC Jim Muir reports video shows dispel in the rage residents pleading for the world t

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NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has ruled out implementing a no-fly zone across parts or all of Libya. Speaking at a Brussels press conference, he told reporters a U.N. resolution would be needed to make a no-fly zone a legal course of action. Howev

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A group of 55 non-governmental organizations published a letter Monday calling for a new Paris Peace Conference because of a severe deterioration in the state of human rights and democracy in Cambodia. The letter was released on the 26th anniversary

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NPR 2011-06-10

From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh. The top staff of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign have resigned en masse. As NPR's Mara Liasson reports, their departure raises the question of whether the Gingrich campaign, rocky from the start,

NPR 2011-07-17

Despite objections raised by China, President Obama welcomed the Dalai Lama to the White House today. China had warned meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader could damage US-Chinese relations. Administration officials say the visit shows the presi

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Certain aspects of the United States government are unique, none more so that the law of the land, the United States Constitution. Drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1789, it is the oldest such written document in continual use, and one that has influen

NPR 2011-04-05

Confronted with significant political opposition, the Obama administration plans to refer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-declared 9/11 mastermind, to a military tribunal at Guantanamo rather than a civilian court in New York. Attorney General Eric

NPR 2011-03-16

Japan's Transportation Ministry has imposed a no-fly zone over a 20-mile radius around the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. A military spokesman says the fears of more radioactive particles leaking from the complex after a fire in three

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PARIS, Sept. 26 (Xinhua) -- French Sports Minister Chantal Jouanno announced Monday her resignation from the centre-right government after winning a seat in the country's upper house of parliament. A day after being elected as senator of Paris, Jouan

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